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  Co-founders of the AEON Collective, Princess Noura Turki Al Saud and Princess Mashael Saud Al Shalan and Tony Chan, professor and president at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at the AEON headquarters in Riyadh earlier this week.  The MoU comes as a move establish a mutual understanding of the willingness of both parties, to work collaboratively to support the acceleration of sustainable development both nationally and internationally, in line with Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 and the kingdom’s Global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). AEON Collective is an inter-disciplinary Waqf (A Non Profit Endowment Fund) that is dedicated to sustainability around the globe. The AEON Collective produces, curates and disseminates fact-based & culturally informed knowledge around sustainability, and actively build capacities for “knowledge communities” through multiple activities and initiatives. Princess Noura Al S...

  On Oct. 28, 1939, country performer Bill Monroe joined the Grand Ole Opry. In 1950, “The Jack Benny Program” debuted on CBS. In 1956, Elvis Presley made his second appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show.” He sang several songs, including “Don’t Be Cruel” and “Hound Dog.” In 1972, the United States Council for World Affairs announced that it adopted The Who song “Join Together” as its theme. In 1977, the Sex Pistols released their album “Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols” in the U.S. It was released in the U.K. four days later. Also in 1977, Steve Perry joined Journey for their first public concert together, in San Francisco. In 1981, Metallica were formed, five months after singer James Hetfield answered an ad in a Los Angeles newspaper placed by drummer Lars Ulrich. In 1986, Marie Osmond married for the second time, to record producer Brian Blosil. She had divorced Steve Craig a year earlier. In 1992, singer Sinead (shuh-NAYD’) O’Connor was quoted by a British music m...

  Join us with guest artist Mikhael Tara Garver, an Immersive and Experiential Creative Director at Walt Disney Imagineering and the Director of Immersive Performance for Disney’s 2 day, 3 night groundbreaking Galactic Starcruiser, the most ambitious storytelling immersive experience in the world. Mikhael Tara Garver has been a pioneer in original experiential and immersive entertainment for over two decades. She has created innovative immersive work combining digital and physical across theaters, brands, non-profits, corporations, start-ups, social justice organizations, and civic spaces. She has received some of the first large-scale immersive commissions by national arts organizations like the American Repertory Theater, The Kennedy Center, The Goodman Theater, RiverLA, Montclair New Work Initiative, The United Nations, National Park Services, and The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, The United Nations, The Public Theater, The New York Public Library, among others. She was...

    Nigerian soldiers march during 62nd anniversary celebrations of Nigerian independence, in Abuja, Nigeria, Oct. 1, 2022. The State Department has ordered the families of U.S. embassy staffers in the Nigerian capital to leave due to heightened fears of a terrorist attack. The State Department on Thursday ordered the families of U.S. embassy staffers in the Nigerian capital to leave due to heightened fears of a terrorist attack as it repeated a warning for all Americans to reconsider traveling to any part of the country and not to visit Abuja at all. The announcement came just two days after the department said it would allow nonessential personnel at the embassy in Abuja to depart voluntarily due to elevated security concerns. It did not provide details but the change suggested the U.S. has indications that an attack may be imminent. “The department (has) ordered the departure of family members of U.S. government employees from Abuja due to the heightened risk of terror...

  Nigeria spent $710.25 million on agricultural products from the U.S., and of that total, wheat alone gulped $503.63 million. Wheat and ethanol topped the list of agricultural items Nigeria imported from the United States of America in 2021. This is according to data by the United State Department of Agriculture. The data shows wheat, alongside ethanol and food preparation topped the list with a total value of $626.59 million. Other items were wine and related products, fish and seafood, intermediate products, essential oils, dairy products, tobacco and distilled spirits. According to the report, the value of the agricultural commodities exported by the U.S. to Nigeria rose 45 per cent between 2020 and 2021. In 2020, Nigeria spent $487 million on U.S. agricultural products, less than $653.27 million recorded in 2019. The amount rose to $710.25 million in 2021. Of that total, wheat alone gulped $503.63 million, representing the amount paid to import 1.6 million metric tonnes of the...

 SZA   has delivered her new song “Shirt.” Released alongside a cinematic Dave Meyers-directed video co-starring  Atlanta ’s LaKeith Stanfield, “Shirt” is the TDE signee’s first new solo song since she dropped “I Hate U” last year. In an interview with Aria Hughes for a Complex cover story, SZA said “Shirt” marked her fulfilling a long-held dream to work with producer Rodney Jerkins, a.k.a. Darkchild. The track is expected to show up on the long-awaited follow-up to her 2017 debut  Ctrl , which was reissued back in June with a deluxe edition. Earlier this month SZA gave fans a much-wanted update on the project, saying the rollout would start “any day.” When asked how much material she had recorded, she said she had a total of 100 songs in the can. “Maybe, like, I don’t even know actually,” she clarified. “Five years of material.”

  Today rapper  Killer Mike  shared “Talk’n That Shit!” which is his second single of 2022, the pair of songs which are his first solo releases since 2012’s  R.A.P. Music . Featuring a dense, morphing production from DJ Paul (Three 6 Mafia) and TWhy Xclusive, the single arrives paired with a video directed by seck. that demonstrates Killer Mike’s standing as a community pillar, featuring cameos from a range of groups and organizations meaningfully connected to him, including PAW Kids, Bass Reeves Gun Club, Next Level Boys Academy, Youth Build, New Georgia Project and more. Talk’n That Shit!” follows in the wake of his recent “Run” single, which marked his first solo release in ten years and yielded immediate widespread acclaim from the likes of  Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, TheGuardian, Pitchfork, Complex , in addition to a moving performance on  The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon that featured a stirring opening recitation from Tony Award Winner and poet ...

  A federal judge has lifted a decade-long federal consent decree governing a youth jail in Mississippi’s capital city. The original court order was handed down in 2012 and extended several times. In an Oct. 13 ruling, U.S. District Court Judge Daniel P. Jordan agreed to Hinds County’s request to terminate the consent decree on the Henley-Young Patton Juvenile Justice Center in Jackson. The decree, which ordered the jail to improve its conditions, stemmed from a 2011 class action lawsuit filed by the Southern Poverty Law Center and Disability Rights Mississippi. The suit alleged “inhuman and unconstitutional practices” at the facility, “including regularly isolating children in small cells for 20-23 hours a day and subjecting them to sensory deprivation.” JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI, RESIDENTS FILE LAWSUIT OVER WATER CRISIS Children “languished in their cells, receiving sporadic access to educational services and counseling services,” according to court records. The suit also alleged...

  HYDERABAD:  In the final phase of her campaign for the Munugode election, Congress candidate Palvai Sravanthi held door-to-door visits in Marrigadda mandal on Thursday, appealing to women voters that her win would symbolise women's empowerment and would lead to their betterment. She said, “Women are normally considered weak in electoral politics. They get few opportunities like party tickets or big positions. Major political parties usually prefer a male candidate over a woman in difficult situations like the one in Munugode. But the Congress trusted my capabilities and nominated me. My victory in the byelection will set a new benchmark and will become a symbol of women empowerment.” Sravanthi, who is set to end her campaign with a ‘Mahila Garjana’ on November 1, said, “I've received overwhelming response from all voters, especially women and youth, during my campaign. I'm confident that Mahila Garjana will be a grand success.” She also took aim at TRS candidate K. Prabha...

  an innovative market-leading online entertainment service in   China , held its second iQIYI Hack Day competition from Sep.5 to   Oct. 22 , cementing iQIYI's commitment of tech-empowered entertainment. Themed "Launching the Future of Entertainment," this year's iQIYI Hack Day concluded just ahead of   China's   Programmers' Day on   Oct. 24 . Creating a platform to champion tech-enabled innovation and application   The iQIYI Hack Day is unique in that it requires all contestants to submit a specific product application or demo of their creative ideas, which potentially lead to real-life applications. LIU Wenfeng, Chief Technology Officer of iQIYI, said: "iQIYI Hack Day aims to provide a platform for tech enthusiasts to leverage expertise from across technical fields and propose practical implementation of innovative ideas. I am deeply impressed and encouraged by this year's entries as the projects not only showed ambitious thinking on turning in...

  The Governor of Anambra State,  Charles Soludo   has warned politicians against gifting foodstuffs to the people in the name of empowering them. The Governor narrated that sharing foodstuff is not the same thing as empowering the people as the given foodstuff would finish and the people will be back to square one. Instead, he advocated training and entrepreneurial programmes that can make the people work for themselves and earn for survival. According to him, teaching people how to fish is better than giving them fish. “Politicians and some other people are doing what I call phantom charity; sharing bags of rice to youths is not empowerment but rather, giving them food for the day because the next day, they will be hungry. “We will give you the skill and training. Our agenda is to have one youth with at least two skills. That is the future of Anambra, Nigeria and Africa.” We Will Allocate More Funds For Training Soludo promised that his government will make more funds a...

  “Call Jane” is a good example of how a few questionable choices can muddle an otherwise-powerful story, with the recent HBO documentary version of these events,  “The Janes,”  outshining this fictionalized dramatic account. The portrait of an underground abortion network pre-Roe v. Wade is obviously timely, but its slightly askew focus blunts the overall impact. Part of that has to do with making Elizabeth Banks’ Joy, a privileged housewife living in Chicago in 1968, the film’s centerpiece, introducing her as being somewhat oblivious to the tumult of the times. With a teenage daughter, she and her lawyer husband (Chris Messina) are expecting a later-in-life baby, before a health scare reveals a heart condition that makes giving birth especially dangerous for her. Joy initially applies to the hospital board for permission to terminate the pregnancy, only to have her petition dismissively denied by the all-male panel. That leads her to a clandestine abortion network, and ...

  World Wrestling Entertainment (NYSE:   WWE ) declared a quarterly dividend of $0.12 per share, or $0.48 annualized. The dividend will be payable on December 27, 2022, to stockholders of record on December 15, 2022, with an ex-dividend date of December 14, 2022. The annual yield on the dividend is 0.6 percent. For a dividend history and other dividend-related data on World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE)

  Step will empower youth, strengthen rural economy To strengthen rural economy and empower the youth and women by direct and indirect employment opportunities, Government of Jammu and Kashmir has identified 181 villages having picturesque beauty and cultural significance for transformation into tourist destinations under Tourist Villages Development Program (TVDP). Under Mission Youth’s initiative, registered youth and Self Help Groups are provided opportunity to be a part of the Government’s endeavour to boost rural tourism in J&K. The youth-led sustainable tourism initiative will strengthen rural economy and community entrepreneurship, empowering youth and women by providing direct and indirect employment opportunities. This step will showcase the landscapes, indigenous knowledge systems, cultural diversity and heritage, local values and traditions, besides encouraging film shooting and offering financial incentives as well as ensuring a digital platform to all these village...