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Ghost Adventures host Zak Bagans is staying in business with discovery+. The paranormal investigator, executive producer and filmmaker has signed a new three-year deal with the streaming platform. Under the pact, Bagans will star in and produce over 100 hours of supernatural and horror content for the discovery+ portfolio, including new seasons of the hit series Ghost Adventures , semi-scripted series The Haunted Museum , along with additional specials and untitled creative projects in the works. Ghost Adventures debuted as a self-titled documentary, following Bagans and his team of paranormal investigators as they search for evidence of the afterlife. It was commissioned into a series for Travel Channel in 2008 and quickly rose as the network’s highest-rated show spawning a number of specials and miniseries. The series launched on discovery+ in January 2021 and has consistently trended as a top five franchise on the platform. Bagans also recently teamed with filmmaker Eli Roth ...

Twitter’s board of directors has adopted a “poison pill” to thwart Tesla founder Elon Musk’s bid for a hostile takeover. The board has adopted a “limited duration shareholder rights plan,” which gives Twitter’s existing shareholders, except Musk, time to purchase additional shares at a discount, Axios reported Friday. The desired effect is clearly to dilute Musk’s holding in the company, and make the cost of a takeover higher or even prohibitive. “A poison pill, devised by law firms in the 1980s to protect companies from corporate raiders, essentially lets a takeover target flood the market with new shares or allow existing shareholders other than the bidder to buy them at a discount,” The New York Times explained . “That means anyone trying to acquire the company must negotiate directly with the board.” The pill will be activated “once any individual or a group of people working together buy 15 percent or more of Twitter’s shares,” the Times noted. Musk owns about 9% in the co...

Musk acquired a 9.2% stake in Twitter. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images Unregulated data collection about user behavior means the social media industry holds incredible sway over real-world events. “This is a disaster, and it’s not only about Elon Musk, but he kind of puts it on steroids,” she said. Elon Musk’s plans to privatize Twitter have spurred concern among privacy experts and social media researchers, including one former Harvard professor who told The Washington Post that having one person in control of the social platform “is a disaster” for user privacy.  The former professor and author of “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism,” Shoshana Zuboff, said huge ad revenues and unregulated data collection about user behavior have changed the social media industry, which now holds incredible sway over real-world events. Because content on social media platforms can influence public opinion and lead to changed behaviors , she said, the people in control of the sites ...

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) faced criticism over the weekend regarding a tweet about Christians who were singing worship music during a flight. The exact details of the flight, including whether it was a chartered flight, when the flight happened, and the travel itinerary for flight are not clear. “I think my family and I should have a prayer session next time I am on a plane,” Omar wrote on the video, which she tweeted out to her 3 million followers on the platform. “How do you think it will end?” I think my family and I should have a prayer session next time I am on a plane. How do you think it will end? pic.twitter.com/5696Erwsl5 — Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) April 17, 2022 Notable responses on Twitter included: Shant Mesrobian , writer: “A member of Congress is supposed to have the restraint and maturity to not post a stupid, random, old video that for some reason is going viral right now as a way to score religious culture war points on a holy day for millions of people around the...

Why NOW is the best time to become a real estate agent The best time for a long time to be an estate agent! While pent up demand has activated the rise in property transactions, financial pressure due to Covid related interference on many homeowners will provide a continuous flow of real estate activities through 2021. If ever there was a time to consider building a business in real estate, it is now. With the best training in the industry and a model that has seen Keller Williams grown to be the largest real estate company in the world, the excitement in South Africa of the brand is supported by the outstanding growth of the company locally. Add to that the world class technology that Keller Williams provides, it is clear to see that this company is at the forefront of what the tech-enabled estate agent is about.  To look back at the response of the housing market leaves one with a total lack of understanding of how the real estate market responded to the Covid induced lockd...

As Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, is seeking to buy Twitter, he announced that if his bid succeeds and he takes over ownership of the social media giant, board members will not be paid anything. “Board salary will be $0 if my bid succeeds, so that’s ~$3M/year saved right there,” Musk wrote in a Twitter post Monday. Board salary will be $0 if my bid succeeds, so that’s ~$3M/year saved right there — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 18, 2022 Advertisement - story continues below This comes in the midst of Musk’s fight to acquire Twitter after buying the largest single share of the company. Currently, Twitter spends about $2.9 million in cash and stock awards to board members, according to an SEC filing rep0rted by CNBC News . Musk l aunched his effort to purchase Twitter after turning down a position on Twitter’s board since it came with the stipulation that he would have to cap out his shareholding at 14.9 percent, PBS News reported. Advertisement - story continues below Mu...

Elon Musk pinned a drop in Netflix’s share prices on the “woke mind virus” — which makes the streaming service “unwatchable” — on Tuesday night. Netflix reported on Tuesday that it lost 200,000 subscribers in the first quarter of 2022 while bracing for 2 million lost subscribers in the second quarter. Shares of the company dropped more than 20% in after-hours trading.  Replying to a Slashdot report about Netflix’s woes posted to Twitter, Musk commented that “the woke mind virus is making Netflix unwatchable.” When machine learning engineer Pranay Pathole in turn argued that the “woke mind virus is the biggest threat to the civilization,” Musk replied with a simple “yes.” The woke mind virus is making Netflix unwatchable — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 20, 2022 As The Daily Wire has repeatedly covered, Netflix has garnered backlash from viewers on numerous occasions due to its bend toward woke politics and sexually explicit content. Boston University academic and Critical R...

Wildly popular Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis and self-made Billionaire and entrepreneur Elon Musk are teaming up to take on one of the world’s most powerful social media platforms. Musk’s recently announced he would be attempting to purchase 100 percent of Twitter in a bid to create a true free-speech platform. Musk offered to buy Twitter in its entirety at $54.20 per share, a 54 percent premium on the shares’ actual value. Twitter’s board of directors — which has led the company to adopt numerous left-wing-biased censorship policies — has fought back by initiating a “ poison pill ,” a method of diluting Musk’s shares in order to weaken his current standing. Recent yet-to-be-confirmed reporting indicates that Musk is about to launch a countermove by teaming up with various additional investors. As it turns out, however, Musk already has allies in ownership. The state of Florida is a shareholder in the company through the state’s pension fund, and DeSantis is currently looking int...

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk joining Twitter’s board of directors and buying a 9.2% stake in the behemoth social media is a victory for freedom of speech, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) says. This content was originally published here . from Tumblr https://ift.tt/C82jXus via IFTTT

Tesla CEO Elon Musk unveiled a new manufacturing facility in Austin, Texas, with a blockbuster party. Musk arrived on stage at the “Cyber Rodeo” in a Tesla Roadster wearing a black cowboy hat. According to The Wall Street Journal , the entrepreneur gave new details about the Cybertruck — which Musk said would be built at the site beginning in 2023 — as well as the new Roadster and semi-truck. “We are really entering a new phase of Tesla’s future,” Musk proclaimed. Musk also said that Giga Texas is the largest factory in the world by volume. As he described, it is “equivalent to three Pentagons; when a building is measured in units of Pentagon, you know it is quite large.” Giga Texas is the largest factory building in the world by volume. According to our calculations, you could fit a 194 billion hamsters in this building” – @elonmusk pic.twitter.com/i0nu8O2wML — Tesla Owners Silicon Valley (@teslaownersSV) April 8, 2022 “According to our calculations, you could fit 194 billi...

Experiencing Burnout? These Eight Mindset Resets Can Help Feeling overwhelmed at work is completely normal, regardless of the industry you’re in. Last year has been a difficult one as businesses have navigated COVID-19. In the real estate industry in particular, low interest rates and remote work have exponentially increased demand, having some agents busier than ever, and, consequently, more stressed. “We’re seeing more burnout in the last 14 months or so. It’s been where people are seeking to control things that are out of their control,” KW MAPS Coach John Vander Gheynst says. In those moments of stress and burnout, there is good news. There are plenty of techniques you can use to ground yourself, shifting your mindset and refocusing on positivity to reach your full potential. Burnout can happen for a number of reasons, says Vander Gheynst, who has years of experience working with high-performing agents. One reason is when agents forget to consistently implement the 80/20 Princi...

PROVIDENCE, RI – Governor Dan McKee, joined by state, local, and federal leaders, the Rhode Island Foundation, and the High Rock Development team came together to announce a historic rehabilitation of Providence’s Industrial Trust Building, commonly referred to as the “Superman Building.” The $220 million project announced today will convert the long-vacant, yet iconic, tower into 285 residential apartments, 20 percent of which will be affordable to low- and moderate-income Rhode Islanders, 8,000 square feet of commercial office space, and a mix of retail, event, and community uses in the 26,000-square foot banking hall. Today’s historic announcement is possible because of collaboration between the State of Rhode Island guided by the Executive Office of Commerce, the City of Providence, Rhode Island Housing, the Rhode Island Foundation, and the project’s development team led by the building’s owner, David Sweetser, and Zachary Darrow of Darrow Everett, LLP. Commerce Secretary Stefan ...

Jada Pinkett Smith confessed that she “really didn’t want to get married” to Will Smith.  In fact, the “Matrix” actress — now on the roasting spit of Smith’s infamous Oscars smack-down of Chris Rock and the Academy’s decision Friday to ban him from the ceremony for 10 years — admitted to “crying down the freaking aisle” before tying the knot with the “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” star on New Year’s Eve in 1997.  “I was under so much pressure, you know, being a young actress, being young, and I was just, like, pregnant and I just didn’t know what to do,” declared Pinkett Smith , 50, in a freshly exhumed snippet from her “Red Table Talk” Facebook series. “I never wanted to be married.” In the clip from 2018 — which has resurfaced amid renewed controversy around her louche “ entanglement ” with R&B singer August Alsina, 29 — Pinkett Smith candidly recalls her mother, Adrienne Banfield-Norris, also known as “Gammy,” 68, forcing her and Smith to wed after she became pregnant ...

Aerorozvidka’s R-18 drone (L), destroyed Russian tank ®. Aerorozvidka (L), Anatolii Stepanov / AFP via Getty Images ® Aerorozvidka is an elite Ukrainian drone unit founded by volunteer IT experts. The unit custom-builds or modifies off-the-shelf consumer drones to bomb Russian tanks and armor. The unit is a key part of the Ukrainian resistance against invading Russian forces. An elite Ukrainian drone unit founded by volunteer IT experts is becoming a crucial part of the resistance against invading Russian forces. Aerorozvidka custom-builds or modifies off-the-shelf consumer drones to work in a military context and drop bombs on Russian vehicles under the cover of night. “Now, we are all soldiers, but our roots are very different,” Mykhailo, a board member and head of communications for Aerorozvidka, told Insider. “Some of us have PhDs. Some have masters. Some are from the IT industry and many other industries. The main thing which unites us is a desire to win this war.” ...

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) charged in an op-ed Friday that the Florida legislature should end Disney’s $600 million tax cheat loophole. Gaetz explained in an op-ed that Walt Disney Corporation benefits from a Florida tax code loophole that has allowed Disney to potentially skirt around hundreds of millions of dollars in state corporate income taxes. To fix this loophole, Gaetz, a former Florida House chairman of Finance and Tax, wrote that Florida should join the majority of states in adopting combined reporting of state corporate income taxes. The Florida conservative  explained : This allows Florida to fully realize Disney’s corporate income taxes from as a proportion of their overall, or “combined” reported income. The nonpartisan Florida Revenue Estimating Conference says that this measure would have a recurring impact of $591.7 million on Florida’s budget. That’s $591.7 million that Florida Man and Florida Woman have to shoulder because Disney has fancy lawyers, lobbyists and ...

When Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp announced the £36million signing of Sadio Mane from Southampton in June 2016, eyebrows were raised. “I think we’ve paid far too much for him,” said club legend Phil Thompson - and he wasn’t the only critic to question the fee. After all, the Senegal international’s move came 12 months before Neymar’s £200m switch to Paris Saint-Germain inflated the transfer market. Mane became Liverpool’s most expensive player - taking the honour from Andy Carroll - and was expected to improve on his 11-goal Premier League tally from the previous season. He wouldn’t let them down - becoming the signing that kick-started Klopp’s Anfield dynasty. Chasing his dream Image: AFP via Getty Images) Mane was born in the village of Bambali in Senegal on April 10, 1992. He was undoubtedly the finest footballer in his community, yet his family weren’t keen the idea of him becoming a professional footballer - wanting him to focus on his education instead. The teenage...