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The Artemis 1 moon rocket and the Orion spacecraft are sitting poised on Launch Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Red Huber/Getty Images hide caption
The Artemis 1 moon rocket and the Orion spacecraft are sitting poised on Launch Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
NASA is once again counting down to the first flight test of its new 32-story-tall Artemis rocket, the one the agency hopes will carry astronauts back to the moon in just a few years.
The space agency has been struggling to get the multi-billion-dollar rocket off the ground so that it can send a capsule — without a crew on board — around the moon and back, allowing managers to perform critical tests of its systems. Lift-off is now targeted for a two-hour window that opens at 1:04 am EST, Wednesday, Nov. 16, and weather at the launch site in Florida looks promising.
NASA is airing coverage on NASA TV. You can also watch the rocket launch on the livestream below.
NASA’s Artemis moon rocket is slated for lift-off early on Wednesday, Nov. 16. The two-hour launch window starts at 1:04 a.m.
Jeremy Parsons, deputy program manager for Exploration Ground Systems at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, told reporters on Monday evening that “countdown so far is proceeding very well and we are on schedule.”
“So far, so good,” NASA launch commentator Derrol Nail said on Tuesday, around sunset, as workers carefully filled the rocket’s fuel tanks with liquid oxygen and hydrogen.
But before too long, the team faced a leak of hydrogen fuel — the same kind of problem that stopped a previous effort to launch this rocket in September.
This time around, mission managers sent “red crew” of three workers out to the launch pad, to the bottom of the dangerous, fully-fueled rocket. They tightened some bolts on a valve that apparently may have been “visibly loose,” according to part of an exchange captured on a hot mic, and solved the problem.
The bedeviled team then learned that a critical radar site had suffered a loss of signal. The problem was traced to a faulty Ethernet switch, and this needed fixing as well.
A successful launch would be a key milestone for NASA’s Artemis program, which aims to put the first woman and first person of color on the lunar surface. The agency has not launched a space vehicle designed to send astronauts to the moon since 1972.
The Artemis rocket’s initial launch attempt, in August, got called off because of a faulty engine sensor. After that, leaks of hydrogen fuel required the agency to make repairs. Next, Hurricane Ian rolled in and forced the rocket to roll back to its hangar, which Parsons called “a bit of a let-down.”
And once the massive rocket returned to its launch pad on the Florida coast, it got blasted by Hurricane Nicole, which proved to be a stronger storm than officials had expected.
Mission managers have spent much time discussing hurricane damage to a thin strip of caulking material that fills in a small gap at the top of the rocket, up where the Orion crew capsule sits. Some of this material has torn away, and it’s too high up to be repaired.
One concern was that more bits might get dislodged during lift-off and strike other parts of the rocket. But NASA’s Mike Sarafin, the Artemis I mission manager, says engineers have analyzed the situation extensively and feel it’s OK to fly.
This close-up view of the rocket shows damage from Hurricane Nicole. Some caulking material, which appears as a bright white strip just above the thin black line, got torn off in the winds. NASA hide caption
This close-up view of the rocket shows damage from Hurricane Nicole. Some caulking material, which appears as a bright white strip just above the thin black line, got torn off in the winds.
“We went through that today and we closed that action item,” Sarafin told reporters during a conference call on Monday. “I asked if there were any dissenting opinions, there were none, and we accepted that flight rationale.”
He says because the Artemis team has persevered through all of these recent setbacks, “that gives me comfort that we’re going to be ready when it’s our time to fly.”
“Our time is coming. And we hope that that is on Wednesday,” Sarafin says. “But if Wednesday is not the right day, we will take that next hurdle, that next trial, and persevere through that.”
Some spaceflight experts have criticized NASA’s new rocket, saying it’s far too expensive to be sustainable — the first three flights are expected to cost more than $4 billion each.
And this rocket won’t fly all that often. The next flight, to send astronauts around the moon, won’t happen for another couple of years. A lunar landing won’t happen until at 2025 at the earliest.
But building this big rocket has been a major focus of NASA’s human spaceflight program since it stopped flying the space shuttles in 2011.
To focus on the moon and deep space, the agency off-loaded routine trips to the International Space Station to commercial providers. Space capsules operated by the private company SpaceX, founded by wealthy entrepreneur Elon Musk, have been carrying up cargo and operating as space taxis for astronauts.
NASA selected SpaceX to build the lunar lander that will take astronauts from a capsule in orbit around the moon down to the surface. And SpaceX also has a large rocket in development called Starship, which is designed to be reusable and less expensive than NASA’s Artemis rocket.
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Everyone needs a hobby, right? And chances are you know at least one person on your holiday shopping list who fancies themselves a musician. Whether they’re a casual guitarist, a former piano prodigy or a bedroom producer of electronic music we’ve got some recommendations. Some of these even make a great gift for music lovers who haven’t quite made the jump yet. Perhaps getting a synthesizer tinker toy will inspire your loved one to go from a consumer to a maker.
If you know someone who believes there’s music all around, if you can just train yourself to listen for it, I have the perfect gift for them. The is sort of like a microphone. But not one that you sing into. Instead, it picks up electromagnetic interference and radiation from across the entire spectrum from Hertz to Gigahertz. Soma likes to refer to it as an anti-radio since it doesn’t tune into one frequency, it tunes into all the frequencies. With the Ether your sound-loving giftee can eavesdrop on neon signs and sample the silent whine of an AC adapter. It’s literally a gateway to an invisible world of electromagnetic waves. And the particularly adventurous can even wield it as a live instrument.

Modular synthesis has been enjoying a revival over the past few years. But getting into Eurorack can be intimidating and very expensive. So a number of companies have been working to lower the barrier to entry. If there’s someone on your list that has been itching to dip their toes in, the West Pest and East Beast from Cre8audio are an excellent starting point. They’re self-contained semi-modular synths, so they don’t need any extra gear to start experimenting. But they’re Eurorack compatible, and can be removed from their cases and mounted in a larger system if they wind up going deeper down that rabbit hole.
We like the West Pest in particular because, in addition to being perhaps the most affordable Eurorack compatible semi-modular synth out there, it explores the more experimental world of west coast synthesis. As the music gear experts at Reverb note “the combination of Wavefolding with the Dynamics Controller (a take on the low-pass gate) gives the synth its bold, unique and adventurous sound.”
Every music lover and music maker needs a good pair of headphones. There are so many amazing sets out there to choose from, but I remain a dedicated fan of Sony’s affordable workhorse the MDR-7506. They’ve been a studio mainstay for decades for good reason. They’re natural sounding, light and comfortable enough to wear for hours, and reasonably priced. The MDR-7506s are equally at home monitoring a podcast, mixing a club banger or just listening to some vinyl. In short, they’re a great practical gift even if you’re operating under a tight budget.
The original Orba is a phenomenal fidget toy and an interesting MIDI controller. The Orba 2 is both those things and a sampler. Adding sampling to this little musical grapefruit greatly expands its flexibility. If you know someone who’s constantly tapping out rhythms or humming little melodies to themselves, they’ll probably love an Orba.
Cheap and portable synths are a dime a dozen these days. Korg really kicked off something of revolution with its Volca line. But one thing we’d yet to see until Roland launched its Aira Compact line, was a portable and affordable box dedicated to vocal effects. The E-4 Voice Tweaker combines pitch correction, a harmonizer, a vocoder, plus pitch and formant shifting, and a looper. There’s also delay, reverb and chorus effects, not to mention Roland’s signature Scatter, which it turns out is much better on vocals than drums. If there’s anyone on your list who’s been trying to turn themselves into the next Bon Iver or late ‘70s Herbie Hancock, this will at least get them part of the way there.
Where to begin with the Habit? It’s a delay pedal – which almost every musician can use. But it’s so much more. It’s a looper, sort of. Chase Bliss calls it a musical sketchpad, and that can be true too. It does all of those things, plus it has a selection of unique modifiers that can chop up sounds in rhythmic ways, mimic the warble of a tape machine, or spit out what can only be described as unicorn sparkles. In short, there’s almost nothing else like it out there. If there’s a guitarist or a synth player on your list with a taste for the esoteric (and you don’t mind splurging), they’ll probably love the strange collection of sounds that Habit puts at their feet.
The 1010Music Nanoboxes are probably the smallest full-featured hardware synths out there. But the Lemon Drop also has the distinction of being one of the only dedicated granular synths on the market. If your giftee is into ambient music or oddball textures they will almost certainly love the Lemon Drop. It has a robust granular sound engine (meaning it chops up sound files into tiny bits and spits them back out) with up to 16 granulators per voice and four voice polyphony. Plus it doubles as an effects processor for live audio with an expressive X/Y pad mode for changing parameters. And it can easily fit in a jacket pocket.
The Mavis is the cheapest way to give someone the gift of a real-deal Moog synthesizer. It’s a $350, pseudo-DIY, semi-modular, monophonic synth and, in a rarity for the company, it’s fully Eurorack compatible. It’s capable of getting that classic Moog sound with thick square and saw waves shaped by resonant lowpass filter. Its 24-point patchbay is an impressive collection of utility and sound-shaping tools that is not only great for learning the art of synthesis but also expanding the potential of a larger modular setup. Lastly, the Mavis is the first time Moog has dipped its toes into the rival world of West Coast synthesis by including a wavefolder. It’s a great gift whether it’s someone’s first synth of fiftieth.
Part of the fun of holiday shopping is finding fun weird things that you know someone would appreciate, but are so impractical they’d never buy it themselves. That’s basically the Rainger FX Minibar in a nutshell. It’s a distortion pedal, and also an endless supply of different distortion pedals. See, on its own it doesn’t do anything. The “Liquid Analyzer” part of the name comes from the fact that there’s a tiny container on top that you need to fill to complete the circuit. And, the sound will change based on what you put in there. Water will have an obviously different effect than say, beer, or soda, or – if you’re metal enough – blood. The folks at Reverb love it because “the Minibar is easy to incorporate into musicians’ small pedalboards… meaning folks can experiment without too much of a space commitment.”
I firmly believe that every guitarist should have an amp sim in their arsenal. They’re handy for quietly practicing late at night, recording direct to a DAW, or building a lightweight live rig that connects to a venue’s PA. Universal Audio’s are among the best amp sims I’ve ever used. They’re not cheap at $400, but if there’s a person on your list you want to splurge on, these are a worthy consideration. While all three of the models are excellent, and my personal favorite seems to change from week to week, it’s probably the that has spent the most time on my board.
The Ruby is an emulation of the classic Vox AC30 which has been used by everyone from the Beatles, to U2, to REM, to Queen. Reverb’s experts love that it “delivers choirboy cleans, complex overdrive, and classic vibrato to mimic a classic British tube amp.” Plus you can tweak the Ruby’s sound by turning on popular mods or switching in different speaker emulations.
The Century Collection is another splurge, but it’s the gift that keeps on giving. For $400 your giftee will receive every sample pack, virtual instrument and effect plugin that Pure Magnetic makes for the next 100 years. On day one they’ll get access to around 100 sample packs covering everything from vintage synth pads, to circuit bent toys, to early digital drum machines.
But perhaps even more interesting are the 39 VST plugins that range from lo-fi keys to absolutely out of this world effects. The creative delays and strange micro loopers are highlights and perfect for the person who’s into more ambient and experimental music. Then there’s , an “advanced sound design workstation” that’s updated on a monthly basis with new features and effects. Even if someone manages to outlive the length of their Century Collection membership, they’ll probably never be able to fully explore it all.
Anyone who practices some sort of creative art – be it music, painting or writing – hits a block at some point. There’s tons of advice out there on how to overcome these hurdles, but one of the most famous is easily the Oblique Strategies deck. Developed by Peter Schmidt and Brian Eno in 1975, each card contains an action or a way of thinking designed to shake up your approach to a thorny creative problem. “Use an unacceptable colour,” “Make a sudden, destructive unpredictable action; incorporate” and “Emphasize the flaws,” are the sorts of vague instructions you can expect. And how someone interprets the prompts will produce different results for each person. If you’re shopping for anyone with a creative streak, they’ll find a use for this deck.
If you’re gift shopping for a music producer I can almost guarantee you they’re fans of J Dilla. He was a singular force in hip-hop, and has even had his MPC displayed at the Smithsonian. Dilla Time by Dan Charnas chronicles not just the life of Dilla (James DeWitt Yancey), but his legacy and the history of rhythm in America. In addition, there are graphics that help illustrate the concepts behind Dilla’s unique beats and what made him so special. It’s part biography, part history lesson and part practical music production guide.
If there’s an aspiring songwriter on your list, consider picking them up a copy of How to Write One Song. Written by Jeff Tweedy of Wilco, this tome breaks down the process from beginning to end and encourages readers to start small; don’t try to become a “songwriter” just try to write a song. But this isn’t a rote how-to book, that sort of thing is only so helpful when it comes to mastering an artistic craft. It’s about building creativity into your everyday life. And just like any other skill, being creative requires practice.
A turntable is almost a necessity for any music lover or music maker. For one, it’s a way to listen to the artists they love. Whether that’s for pure enjoyment or for inspiration. And while there are plenty who think that vinyl just “sounds better,” I think the real reason it beats out streaming from Spotify: It’s tangible. There’s nothing quite like physically holding a piece of music, placing the needle in a groove and looking at the large cover art, or reading the liner notes. It connects a person to the art more and forces them to be a more active participant in its consumption.
Now, the AT-LP120XUSB is not the highest-end turntable in the world. And it might not even be the best bang for your gift-giving dollar. But it is excellent sounding and reasonably priced. And the USB port makes it easy for any aspiring music producers to sample straight to their DAW. Maybe, just maybe, it will inspire a life-long love of crate digging.

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An earnings boost from wider margins helped push up shares of EQ Bank owner Equitable Group Inc. by more than 12 per cent Wednesday.
The jump came as the bank reported record third quarter earnings of $77.6 million, up from $72.5 million for the same quarter last year.
Earnings got a boost from a adjusted net interest margin of 1.94 per cent that was higher than any quarter in the bank’s history and 0.13 of a percentage point higher than the last quarter.
The jump was also well ahead of the bank’s 2022 guidance of flat to moderate growth.
“I think perhaps we were a touch cautious in projecting that to the Street until we actually saw it manifest,” said Andrew Moor, chief executive, on an earnings call.
The bank benefited on the margins with a strategy of being more nimble and responsive to rising interest rates, he said.
“It’s been a good management approach to take very little interest rate position.”
The bank, which last week closed a $495 million takeover of Concentra Bank, saw its share close up $5.55, or 12.24 per cent, to $50.88 on the Toronto Stock Exchange on a day that saw markets generally down.
Earnings for the quarter ending Sept. 30 worked out to $2.22 per diluted share, up from $2.07 per share last year, while adjusted diluted earnings were $2.35 per share. 
Analysts had been expecting adjusted earnings of $2.11 per diluted share, according to financial markets data form Refinitiv.
Scotiabank analyst Meny Grauman said in a note that while markdowns on Equitable’s fintech investment portfolio did weight, it was more than cancelled out by margin expansion.
“While that charge did indeed come in as we had expected, it was overwhelmed by very significant sequential margin expansion and elevated securitization revenue that completely took us by surprise.”
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We all love to watch our favourite musicians – who have entered our hearts through tunes they created – perform live before us. Nevertheless, these performances are made memorable experiences not just by the stars of rhythms, but also by a group of technical experts – live sound engineers; they sit in front of many computers and other equipment, between the artists and the spirited audience. They are the ones responsible for making the tunes presented live by the musicians pleasing to our ears and hearts.
Raghu Ramankutty is one such live sound engineer, one among the few Keralites who have gained skill and expertise in this field. Raghu was among the live sound engineers for Yuvan Shankar Raja’s recent live music programme which enthralled Chennai. He shares his experiences of working with legendary musicians including A R Rahman…
 
First learnt to play flute
I had learnt to play the flute and Mridangam when in school. Since my parents were fond of these percussion instruments, they sent me and my elder brother to learn it. My career today is designed by that decision taken by my parents. Even as I learnt percussion instruments, music programmes started becoming a passion for me. After some time, I too started doing some small stage performances. I developed a kind of curiosity and interest in those who arrange sound while doing music concerts (Kacheri).

It was during that period that I realized the importance of sound engineering – be it a live music performance or a studio recording. Initially, I did not know that it was highly demanding work or about the creative aspect of it. But then, I knew that my path was music and decided that my career would be related to music. Whatever my decision was, my family insisted on getting an undergraduate degree. I pursued B Com privately and completed it.
During that time, my focus was to learn music. It was in the final year of my course that I realized ‘Sound Engineering’ was the course that I was looking for. I decided to learn sound engineering wholeheartedly. It was then that a cousin told me about Stephen Devassy Chettan’s Muzik Lounge. I reached as one of the students in the first batch at that academy. That was the start.
 
The world of music … Sound.com
I pursued a one-and-a-half-year-long course at Muzik Lounge. Perhaps because it was the first batch, the students and the tutors shared a great friendship. The studio was just being set up there. So, we could also be part of the process. Those would remain experiences for a lifetime.

While studying sound engineering, we learn the different segments – sound mixing in films, recording in music, mixing, mastering, live sound engineering and all such aspects. As I used to perform concerts, I was more interested in live sound engineering. Those days, we would get opportunities to intern for live programmes in Chennai through Stephen Chettan (brother – fondly called in Malayalam). That was how I became part of a company called Sound.com. After an internship, I got an offer to work for them too. I relocated to Mumbai. Then, life journeyed through cities where music programmes happened; travel, music and nights became part of life.
 
The heaven in the midst of a crowd
Sound engineering is generally considered the technicality of recording a tune forever when it is created and regulating sound by arranging the microphone and the speakers. It is not just technical work. Instead, it is a blend of creative and technical aspects.

We can’t be sound engineers by merely having a mechanical blend. The sound engineer has a major role in creating a mood and maintaining it during a live music programme. We are to execute the basic thought of the audience to be able to listen to the music well, the wish of the singers and the instrumentalists that their voice (or that of the instruments) to be heard as they want, and ensure that the stage show director’s concept reaches the audience.
There are no retakes during a live programme like in the studio. One should have good music sense and good sound engineering skills at the same time. While doing live shows, we should blend both without wasting seconds. Sometimes it thrills, and sometimes it turns out to be the opposite
Each music programme is of different aptitudes. Some may be of Carnatic music while others may be of the highs and lows of flowing Sufi music with a spiritual impression. Sometimes it could be the fervour of popularity created by film music. Certain other times, it could be the highly enthralling tones of rock and metal. The greatest live sound engineering is arranging a sound system to aptly suit each of the genres.
It extends from setting up speakers for a small Carnatic concert to sound system at the legendary level live music shows of celebrity musicians with lakhs of audience.
Based on how big the programme is, the extent of preparations becomes higher. Considering whether it is an open space or a closed auditorium, the age group of the majority who are to attend the programme, whether it is during the day or at night, the preparations may extend for up to one week. Today, we have many software which can help in the live sound arrangement. Such software has helped sound engineering these days.
Any minor lapse may affect the artist, so each live programme comes with a little tension too. Every engineer listens to the song that is going to be presented many times before the programme. Similarly, sound checking is also carried out. Without these two, one cannot be a sound engineer for a live performance.
Take A R Rahman for instance. He presents his song on the stage entirely different from the original composition. If it’s a tour of the music programme, the song will be different on each stage. It is difficult to remember the tunes that have been recreated for so many songs.
 
Friendship is everything…
In the world of cinema and music, friendship presents ideas and opportunities. Here also it is the same. The friends whom I met during my internship times at Chennai invited me to Yuvan Shankar Raja’s recent live programme. I also invite them to several programmes.

Though music programmes are all about joy, security is important while working amid a crowd. Earlier, the crowd during a metallic band concert scared me a bit. The music itself is out of this world. Though we – the sound engineering team of 4 to 5 members- stood with barricades around us, sometimes certain crowds pose a threat to our safety.
Still, if we are working alongside those who are friendly, we will get over it. Most programmes finish around midnight or during the wee hours. In the initial days, it affects our daily routine and health. Then, that is the only way to move forward until it becomes a habit in the enthusiasm the job provides, keeping aside all health problems. It is when we work with good friends that we would be able to blend and effectively present our creativity and engineering skills without hurdles.
 
Times have changed, and so has sound
The time when people had to be told what sound engineering is all about has long gone. Now, many live music programmes are staged in Kerala also. I reached for Indiegaga’s programme in Kerala recently.

Today, people purchase tickets to watch live programmes, much like films, all over India. There would be no dearth of opportunities for the talented among those who learn live sound engineering. Mumbai, where I live, is a hub for such programmes. There are trustworthy organisers too. There would not be any compromise about remuneration and safety in Mumbai. Just that we should be ready to work hard and have a mind to change according to times.
 
Rahman sir is particular about the type of sound needed
We can say Rahman Sir started to include the names of the sound engineers in the credit without fail. He has particular specifications about the type of sound needed, and how its modulation should be presented, even in the case of instruments. Communication with the performing artist is crucial. It has been 10 years since I have been in the field. It is a very small period when it comes to a live sound engineer. However, I realised the significance of this communication from Rahman sir. During the earlier times, he does not talk much. That was his nature. If we do well, he won’t say anything. We would be happy if he does not utter a word. If not, the conversation with him would be a study class.

If the artists are well-versed in sound engineering, it would be a great help to us. Rahman sir is an expert in it. I have been able to work with many celebrities including Sivamani, Amit Trivedi, Yuvan Shankar Raja and Ranjith Barret. They all had a clear idea about live sound designing.
 
‘It is not time, but passion that is important’
Many approach me and say they had wished to learn sound engineering in their young days, but they could not during their studies. They say they are working now and ask whether they can still learn sound engineering. It is a definite yes. Sound engineering is a course, not bound by time. We only need patience and skill. We must have a mind prepared to study continuously and a willingness to take risks.

Women’s presence in the field of live sound engineering is minimal, perhaps because of the time schedule. Hope that would be changed soon as people are getting attracted to the field.
 
‘They are my energy and enthusiasm’
My house is at Panangad, in Ernakulam. Ramankutty, my father was a bank employee. Mother Malika was a college professor. They were my support and encouragement to pursue art along with music and later, to choose my career path. They only told me to get an undergraduate degree. My brother Madhu is a violinist although he works in the IT field. My wife Anitha has completed her M Ed.

So far, all who have worked with me – my seniors, contemporaries, and those who came later – have all helped, shared knowledge, and supported me in growing my career. They have stood by me. That is what I can never forget in this journey. They are the ones who boost my passion for the profession.
There are many sound engineers from Kerala here. Of them, Jayakrishnan Nalinakumar, Tennyson Chinnappan and Francis Kollanur are known to me from my school days. Their knowledge and experience are always an inspiration.
The founder of the company I work for, Warren D Souza, himself is a very zestful person. This is a place where a group of good people work tirelessly to achieve recognition for sound engineers and sound engineering.
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Four of the musical’s cast members bring superstar K-pop experience in their Broadway debuts.
While Broadway debuts can often be daunting, KPOP‘s Luna, Min, BoHyung, and Kevin Woo may have a bit of an advantage as they step into their roles as fictional K-pop superstars. All four actors first began their careers onstage as teen singers in real-life K-pop music groups. 
KPOP brings the music and world of Korean pop music and culture to Broadway through the storylines of one solo artist and two music groups brought together for a one-night-only concert. The performance, however, comes at a price as the characters risk everything and face personal struggles that threaten their careers.
Check out some of the famous cast’s K-pop tracks in the videos below. 
Originally discovered by talent agents at 13-years-old in 2006, Luna started her K-pop music career as lead singer of girl group f(x) in 2009. The group released four albums and two extended plays by 2016, and was among the first K-pop groups to perform at South by Southwest. “4 Walls,” the title track from f(x)’s fourth studio album of the same name, is one of the group’s most popular hits. In 2016, f(x) halted group promotions in favor of embarking on individual careers. Now Luna make hers Broadway debut as MwE, KPOP‘s solo artist battling industry executives. 

f(x)’s “4 Walls”

KPOP‘s fictional girl group RTMIS stars BoHyung, who has been on the K-pop scene for 10 years and counting. She got her start in 2012 with SPICA, and remained a part of the group until it broke up in 2016. With another former SPICA member, BoA, BoHyung formed new duo KEEMBO in 2020, though there has been speculation of a future reunion of SPICA, whose most popular track on Spotify is “Tonight.” BoHyung makes her theatrical debut as Tiny in the Broadway musical.
SPICA’s “Tonight”
Born and raised in California, Kevin Woo moved to South Korea at 15 after being discovered by a South Korean entertainment agency. He then performed for almost a decade from 2008 to 2017 as part of K-pop boy band U-KISS, best known for their hit “330.” Following his departure, Woo began a solo career in Japan before returning to the United States, and has previously starred in multiple musicals. He makes his Broadway debut as Jun Hyuk, a member of KPOP‘s fictional boy band F8.
U-KISS’ “330”
Min completes the group of four K-pop stars making their Broadway debuts in the musical. Her music career began with a debut as part of K-pop girl group miss A in 2010. The group’s debut single “Bad Girl, Good Girl” made history as the first time a group’s debut single topped the Gaon Digital Chart, the Korean equivalent of the Billboard charts. Min departed the group in 2017, following which she made her theatrical debut in the Korean adaptation of Boys Over Flowers The Musical. She makes her Broadway debut as Riya alongside BoHyung in KPOP‘s fictional girl group RTMIS. 

miss A’s “Bad Girl, Good Girl”
The musical will open at Circle in the Square Theatre November 20. Conceived by Jason Kim and the Woodshed Collective, KPOP features a book by Kim with music, lyrics, as well as music, lyrics, music production and arrangements by Helen Park, and music and lyrics by Max Vernon. Director Teddy Bergman helms the production, which features choreography by Jennifer Weber, music direction by Sujin Kim-Ramsey, scenic design by Gabriel Hainer Evansohn, costume design by Clint Ramos and Sophia Choi, lighting designer Jiyoun Chang, sound designers Peter Fitzgerald and Andrew Keister, projection design by Peter Nigrini, hair and wig design by Mia M. Neal, and makeup designer Suki Tsujimoto.
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Old Dominion University has joined an Eastern Virginia Medical School Early Assurance Program (EAP) for the EVMS master of physician assistant (MPA) degree. Though the degree program is competitive, many students with aspirations to become a PA find the benefits too good to be true. 
To apply, students must be in their junior year with one year left to complete their undergraduate education at ODU, and these students must meet with their advisor early and often to be sure they check all the boxes. In addition to having a 3.25 GPA or higher, students must have completed seven of eight prerequisite courses, volunteer experience and 500 patient care hours.
How does one complete 500 patient care hours as an undergraduate?
“There are lots of options,” said Leslie Hoglund, program director for the B.S. in Public Health program at ODU and an advisor for EAP. “Several students get their EMT certification and get their hours that way, but there are other options such as becoming a phlebotomist, EKG tech or a certified medical assistant. We have a certified medical assistant program here at ODU.”
Clinical majors at ODU include nursing and nuclear medicine technology.
The College of Health Sciences will hold an information session about the EAP at 3 p.m. Nov. 16 in the College of Health Sciences building, room 2000. It is open to students of all majors.
Aaron Morse, a senior biology major, will be the first ODU student to matriculate into the EVMS MPA program through the EAP. He will graduate in May 2023 and start the PA program in January 2024. 
“I am so grateful for the opportunity because it allows me to focus on what’s important, like my grades and working full time,” Morse said.
Morse’s path has been long and winding but being accepted into the program means he does not have to spend his senior year applying for jobs or graduate school. He started at another institution on a baseball scholarship but left during the pandemic and decided to go to Tidewater Community College to get his EMT certification before transferring to the biology program at ODU. He also works full time at Sentara Norfolk General. Between graduation and beginning the MPA program, he can continue to work to help pay for his education.
Ella Davies is a junior psychology major with a biology minor. She is involved in Kappa Delta, Phi Eta Sigma and the pre-health club. She also works night shifts at Chesapeake Regional as a care partner, plans to apply to an EMT program and volunteers with Adaptive Gymnastics, an EVMS community-engaged learning initiative at Excalibur Gymnastics in Virginia Beach. 
“I love EVMS – everyone there has been so nice,” Davies said. Her parents work at EVMS, and she is eager to join the physician assistant program. She has even done some job shadowing, which she recommends to other undergraduates.
“I did a job shadow at the ER, and when my time was up, I didn’t want to leave!” she said. “I saw another patient come in and really wanted to find out how they were going to be treated.”
Davies said she liked the idea of working in an ER or urgent care, but is also interested in pediatrics and obstetrics. She and Morse both said what they found appealing about the PA program as opposed to an M.D. was the flexibility in choosing a specialty. 
“With the M.D. program, you really have to choose your path and go into that residency program and maybe even a fellowship,” Morse said, “but with the PA program you have flexibility to move around in different specialties.”
Kayli Hence, a sophomore nuclear medicine technology major, echoed that sentiment. 
“I knew I wanted to go into the M.D. or PA program, but I am leaning toward that PA program because of the flexibility in specialty,” she said.
Hence switched from finance to health care because she likes being active and working with people rather than sitting at a desk – and especially since many finance jobs have become remote. She became a certified EMT in Virginia Beach to gain her patient care hours.
“Working toward getting into the program is a great way to build rapport with professors and advisors,” Hence said.
Leaders from ODU and EVMS, in coordination with Sentara Healthcare, are working on an integration plan to create an academic health center, to seek enhanced and consistent funding of EVMS from the commonwealth and community partners, and to explore ways to better address health-care disparities in Hampton Roads.
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The Collin County district attorney strongly denied claims of sexual harassment brought by current and former employees, but an attorney for the plaintiffs says there are questions he still hasn’t answered.
MCKINNEY, Texas – The Collin County district attorney came out swinging against a lawsuit accusing him of sexual harassment.
Flanked by staff members and his family, he presented "evidence" he said is proof the allegations are false.
This case has not yet gone to court, instead, the district attorney called a news conference to defend himself to the public.
In the courthouse where his office prosecutes cases, Collin County District Attorney Greg Willis presented evidence of a different sorts.
"I have been unfairly attacked, and Jill and I feel compelled to set the record straight," he said.
Flanked by his wife, as well as female staff and prosecutors, Willis responded to a lawsuit filed late last month in which several current and former employees accused him of sexual harassment.
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The lawsuit also said his first assistant attorney, Bill Wirskye, created a toxic workplace.
"These accusations are false, the things they allege, simply did not happen. The truth is that the citizens of Collin County deserve better," Willis said.
Although the lawsuit is 75 pages, Willis focused on a handful of specific allegations, including a former prosecutor, who said during an exit interview that Willis "…proceeded to give her a full-frontal hug while her arms were stiff beside her body. He rubbed her lower back with his hands and pressed her breasts against him."
Willis played audio he recorded of the meeting, that he claimed shows the woman asked for the hug.
"Can I give you a hug?" she said.
"Oh, of course," Willis responded.
"Ah, you are so wonderful. Thank you so much. And I will see you around," she added.
"The truth is now clear for all to see, what she said in this lawsuit did not happen. It is a lie. It is false," Willis said Wednesday. "And now everyone can just see how false, defamatory and outrageous this claims truly are."
Willis also shared letters written by some of the plaintiffs, which he said were unsolicited, that praise him. 
And his representatives published a website called collincountytruthfiles.com with those letters and the audio.
"So are we to believe in the same year where I harassed her three different times, at the end of that year, she says that I served as an inspiration to her and helped her to be the best version of herself every day?" Willis asked.
Susan Hutchison is an attorney for the plaintiffs.
"That is actually something that we have pleaded in the complaint was that he required them. He required incessant flattery and gratitude and that he berated those who wouldn't give it to them," Hutchison said.
Hutchison said the evidence presented proves nothing.
"I thought it was very bizarre that he would take the stance that he's cleared his name by cherry picking out a couple of paragraphs when there are over 150 paragraphs of allegations and six different people, several of whom he didn't even address," she added.
Hutchison also pointed to the full audio posted to Willis’ website, but not played at the news conference.
It features the employee telling Willis about sexual harassment and abuse she experienced while working in the district attorney’s office.
"I just don’t want to leave on this very sour note, but there are many examples, and not just from me. I think everyone’s just kind of afraid to say anything," the woman said in the audio recording.
Willis did not answer questions at his news conference.
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Vermont Business Magazine At recent meetings, the Vermont Housing & Conservation Board awarded $31.96 million in state and federal funds for construction and rehabilitation of 244 homes serving households in Hartford, Morrisville, Newport City and Newport Center, Windsor, South Burlington, and Burlington. Federal funding commitments totaling $30.33 million were matched with $1.62 million in state funds. A loan program for repairs to farmworker housing will be recapitalized, helping improve housing for farmworkers around the state.
VHCB Executive Director Gus Seelig said, “VHCB is pleased to support partners around the state who have responded to the shortage of affordable housing in their communities. These awards will leverage significant private investment through the Low Income Tax Credit Program to construct and rehabilitate housing for working families, older Vermonters and persons living with disabilities. We anticipate further requests for hundreds more units in the coming months from all corners of Vermont.”
Hartford – Twin Pines Housing and Evernorth – Riverwalk Apartments
Twin Pines and Evernorth will purchase a four-story building with 42 apartments to be constructed by DEW Braverman LLC at the corner of Maple and Prospect Streets. Studio, one-, two-, and three-bedroom apartments will serve a variety of households. The location is within easy walking distance to public transportation, grocery stores, schools, parks, and services. Construction is expected to begin in late 2022, with completion and occupancy in early 2024. VHCB awarded $6.6M in state, American Rescue Plan Act, and HUD HOME Program funds for the $15.7M development.
Morrisville – Lamoille Housing Partnership and Evernorth – Gordon Lane Apartments
Private developer Graham Mink will sell 25 apartments in two buildings to the Lamoille Housing Partnership and Evernorth.  Located one-half mile from the village center, off of Route 100, the apartments will be permanently affordable to households at a range of incomes. Four homes will be reserved for households at risk of homelessness, working with the Lamoille Valley Housing and Homeless Coalition. A VHCB award of $1.3M in state funds for acquisition, construction and related expenses will be matched with $3.36M in federal funding.
Newport Center and Newport City – RuralEdge – Newport Crossing
With $8.65M in federal funds awarded by VHCB, RuralEdge will bring 43 new and rehabilitated apartments on three sites to the area. In Newport Center, they will acquire and redevelop two blighted buildings and in Newport City they will purchase and undertake moderate rehabilitation of a three-unit building on Main Street and begin redevelopment of the former Sacred Heart campus, to be known as Four Founders Circle. The Four Founders Circle component consists of 26 new homes at the former convent, along with a community room and an office for on-site services including SASH. Over time, RuralEdge envisions this site to be built out to include condominiums in the vacant high school building as well as additional homes with a mix of rental and homeownership opportunities on the former playing fields.
 
Windsor – Windham & Windsor Housing Trust and Evernorth – Central & Main
A community and economic redevelopment effort in downtown Windsor will result in new housing on a long-vacant parcel donated by the Windsor Improvement Corporation (WIC). With $3M in federal funds from the American Rescue Plan Act and the National Housing Trust Fund, the Windham & Windsor Housing Trust and Evernorth will develop a 3-story residential building with apartments and shared community space. Several apartments will be rented to households that have experienced homelessness with services provided by the Springfield Supportive Housing Program. Environmental clean-up, infrastructure, and roadwork to be completed on the site will allow WIC to develop a mixed commercial and residential development in a second phase.
Burlington –Champlain Housing Trust  and Evernorth – Post Apartments
The Champlain Housing Trust  and Evernorth will redevelop the Howard Plant VFW site to create Post Apartments, using $7.33M in federal funding from the American Rescue Plan Act and the National Housing Trust Fund. The concept is to redevelop the Howard Plant VFW site and construct a new, 5-story building with 38 apartments on the upper floors. Office space on the first floor will be occupied by two nonprofit commercial entities. Ten apartments will have federal rental assistance and eight apartments will be designated for households transitioning from homelessness, with five of those prioritized for veterans. A staff person will provide support services to residents. Located in downtown Burlington, the site is within walking distance to services and public transportation. Construction is expected to begin in 2023 and be completed in late 2024.
South Burlington – Summit Properties – Hillside at O’Brien Farm
Summit Properties will construct two 5-story apartment buildings with 94 homes, 71 of which will be affordable to low- and moderate-income households. The development is located 1.5 miles from the South Burlington Town Center, close to a bus stop and the bike path that links to the library, City Hall, shops, and the elementary and high schools. Twenty homes will be reserved for households moving out of homelessness with support services provided. VHCB made a supplemental award of $1.7M in American Rescue Plan Act funds to fill a financing gap and allow construction to begin in late 2022, with  occupancy expected in 2024. The awards are in addition to $4.85M in American Rescue Plan Act funds awarded by VHCB in May 2022.
Statewide – Champlain Housing Trust – Farmworker Housing Repair Loan Program
A loan fund to finance the repair and improvement of farmworker housing will be recapitalized with $906,000 and a pilot program for new construction of farmworker housing will be developed with $620,000 awarded by VHCB. Since it was launched earlier this spring, the Champlain Housing Trust has committed $500,000 in loan capital to improve 21 farmworker housing projects housing more than 100 farmworkers living and working on farms in Vermont. UVM Extension Service is acting as a partner with CHT in helping with outreach to farmers about the new program.

 
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KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 15): The prosecution in the 1Malaysia Development Bhd-Tanore (1MDB-Tanore) has sought to admit audio recordings to rebut former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s defence that monies at the heart of the charges he is facing were donations.
In making his oral submissions on Tuesday (Nov 15), lead prosecutor Datuk Seri Gopal Sri Ram said that the audio recording of an alleged conversation between Najib and a Middle Eastern leader was “highly relevant” to refute Najib’s defence.
“We say that the contents of the tape and transcript will go to some extent, if not the whole length, to rebut the defence that the accused received a donation and that he thought he was dealing with monies that were donated to him.
“I have to meet that defence and I have to rebut that defence, for that purpose this evidence is highly relevant,” he said.
Sri Ram had introduced the recording during Monday’s proceedings as he wanted prosecution witness former Treasury secretary general Tan Sri Mohd Irwan Serigar Abdullah to identify the voices in the audio.
However, lead defence counsel Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah had objected to the audio being admitted and alluded that the recording may have been illegally obtained.
Sri Ram said on Tuesday that he wants to admit the audio for identification only.
He argued that the recording should be admissible under Section 41(A) of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) Act and that it is a “special provision” which takes precedence over Section 65 of the Evidence Act which deals with documentary evidence.
“For that purpose, we also submit that a tape recording, a recording of this nature, is a document,” he said.
He also said that even if the audio was obtained “irregularly or illegally”, it will still be admissible.
Section 41(A) of the MACC Act states that where any document or a copy of any document is obtained by the MACC under this Act, such document shall be admissible in evidence in any proceedings under this Act, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any other written law.
Earlier on Tuesday, Sri Ram told the court he would proceed with oral submissions and will file written submissions later. In turn, Muhammad Shafee informed the court that he will reply to Sri Ram’s submission on another date.
The claim that the monies that went into Najib’s account were donations has been repeated by the defence from the start of this trial — as well as throughout the SRC International Sdn Bhd case, for which Najib has been found guilty of all seven graft charges in relation to the former 1MDB unit’s funds.
The trial before High Court judge Datuk Collin Lawrence Sequerah resumes on Wednesday afternoon. In this trial, Najib is charged with four counts of abuse of power and 21 counts of money laundering involving RM2.28 billion of 1MDB funds.
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GUNTERSVILLE, Ala (AP) — A man convicted of killing three people, including a 7-year-old boy, in robberies that netted $600 was sentenced to death on Monday by a judge who called him “a reason for the death penalty to exist.”
A judge handed down the death sentence to Jimmy O’Neal Spencer in accordance with the jury’s decision last month, news outlets reported. Spencer, who had been on parole at the time of the killings, was found guilty of capital murder in the 2018 deaths of Martha Dell Reliford, 65; Marie Kitchens Martin, 74; and Martin’s great-grandson, Colton Ryan Lee, 7.
The women were killed in separate robberies that netted about $600, prosecutors said, and the boy was killed because he was a witness.
“It’s ordered and judged by this court that you be sentenced to death and you deserve death. If there ever was a reason for the death penalty to exist in this state, you’re it,” Marshall County Circuit Judge Tim Riley told Spencer, according to WHNT.
The judge was bound to the jury’s death sentence decision because lawmakers in 2017 ended the ability of a judge to override a jury’s sentence recommendation in capital murder cases. Spencer and the victims’ families spoke to the court before the death sentence was pronounced.
“He belongs in hell,” Nellie Wray, Reliford’s sister, said, according to al.com. “He killed a baby and two innocent women.”
Spencer had been paroled eight months before the slayings. He was released after serving 28 years of a life sentence for a variety of convictions including burglary and assault. Evidence over four days of trial showed Spencer did well initially after being released from prison but returned to crime after losing a job.
Politicians cited Spencer’s case in pushing to make the state’s parole process tougher, and the rate of paroles has dropped sharply since then.
Spencer told the court he would would go back and change what happened if he could.
“I am sorry about what happened. There’s no way I can change it. If I could I would.”
During the trial, investigators played an audio recording of Spencer saying he went to the houses in July 2018 to steal money and committed the killings to avoid leaving witnesses.
He first went to the home of Reliford, whom he had met through a relative, and hit her in the head with a hatchet, authorities said. Worried the woman wasn’t dead, Spencer cut her throat with a kitchen knife before fleeing with about $600.
Days later, after the money ran out, he went to the home of Martin, Reliford’s neighbor, and strangled her with a dog leash before cutting her throat, authorities said. Spencer bashed the child’s head with a hammer to prevent the boy from identifying him and left with $13, authorities said.
While the defense challenge Spencer’s mental competency, a judge ruled he was able to stand trial.

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The British archaeologist who led the excavation into King Tut’s tomb a century ago may have illegally taken some jewelry, which a researcher is now tracking down in museums in the U.S. and U.K.Tutankhamun’s tomb, discovered a century ago on Nov. 4, 1922, contained many fantastic artifacts. But some of the pharaoh’s jewelry has gone missing in the century since it was discovered, despite laws specifying that the artifacts in the tomb belong to Egypt. 
Some of this jewelry may have been taken out of Egypt by Howard Carter, the British archaeologist who led the excavation that uncovered the tomb. In research that will be presented at a conference in Luxor between Nov. 4 and 6, Marc Gabolde (opens in new tab), an Egyptology professor at Paul-Valéry University of Montpellier in France, identified some of this lost jewelry and where it might be. He examined images that photographer Harry Burton snapped of finds from Tutankhamun’s tomb in the 1920s and compared them to pieces found in museums and auction sites. 
Gabolde’s research allowed him to virtually reconstruct a broad collar that was on Tutankhamun’s chest but is now in multiple pieces and locations, some of which are unknown. According to Gabolde, parts of the collar were taken by Carter and are in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri, while some of the beads on the collar appear to have been restrung into a necklace that is now owned by anonymous owners who have tried, unsuccessfully, to sell them at auction — most recently, in 2015 at Christie’s. Gabolde compared images of the collar taken by Burton to images from the museum and auction site and found that they appear to be the same. The Nelson-Atkins Museum agrees and has noted this on their website (opens in new tab). 
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Another example of lost jewelry from Tutankahmun’s tomb that was taken by Carter consists of beads from a headdress. Gabolde found that the beads appear to have been restrung into a necklace that is now in the Saint Louis Art Museum. On their website the St Louis Art Museum acknowledges (opens in new tab) that this could be from the tomb. 
Yet another example of restrung beads from Tut‘s tomb is a necklace that is now in the British Museum in London, Gabolde noted; The beads would also have been taken by Carter. Another piece of jewelry stolen from the tomb is a faience (glazed ceramic) broad collar that was in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York but was returned to Egypt in 2011. It had also been stolen by Carter.
In a 1934 letter, British Egyptologist Sir Alan Gardiner criticized Carter for stealing from Tutankhamun’s tomb. Carter had given Gardiner an inscribed amulet, claiming that it was not from the tomb, but Gardiner later found that it was because it matched others from Tut’s tomb that had been made from the same mold. Gardiner had gotten Rex Engelbach, an Egyptolologist and engineer, to make the identification. Gardiner wrote to Carter, telling him that the amulet was “undoubtedly stolen from the tomb of Tutankhamun” and that “I deeply regret having been placed in so awkward a position” and noting that he had not told others about Carter’s theft. Egyptologist Bob Brier recently published the letter in his book “Tutankhamun and the Tomb that Changed the World (opens in new tab)” (Oxford University Press, 2022). Gardiner did not tell anyone else, not even Engelbach, about Carter’s theft and he was never charged. 
Why Carter stole the artifacts is not certain. Documents in the Nelson-Atkins Museum indicate that Carter gave parts of the collar that are now in the museum to a surgeon named Berkeley Moynihan. 
Aidan Dodson (opens in new tab), an Egyptology professor at the University of Bristol in the U.K., told Live Science that he doubted that financial gain was a motivation. It’s likely that Carter saw some of the pieces as being of little significance and thought that he should be allowed to give them to friends, Dodson noted. In some cases, Carter may have brought them back to England for repair or analysis. He had “a rather ‘free and easy’ attitude consistent with someone who had started his career in the 1890s, when archaeological morals were rather different,” Dodson told Live Science in an email.
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Carter may have intended to repair or analyze some of the jewelry but died before he could complete his work, but regardless of his motivations, his actions were “illegal,” Gabolde said. Egypt had passed laws prohibiting taking artifacts from the tomb outside of the country without permission from the government. The laws also stated that the artifacts belonged to Egypt — which meant that Carter could not have given them to anyone legally.
Although the Metropolitan Museum of Art repatriated the Tut jewelry in 2011, it’s unclear if future repatriations from other institutions will take place. 
The Nelson-Atkins Museum would have to receive a claim from the Egyptian government. “In terms of repatriation of any objects in our collection, we have a policy in place for that procedure when we receive claims,” Kathleen Leighton, a spokesperson for the Nelson-Atkins Museum, told Live Science in an email. 
The British Museum, the Saint Louis Art Museum and Christie’s did not respond to requests for comment.
Owen Jarus is a regular contributor to Live Science who writes about archaeology and humans’ past. He has also written for The Independent (UK), The Canadian Press (CP) and The Associated Press (AP), among others. Owen has a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Toronto and a journalism degree from Ryerson University. 
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