Gan Zhiou, a standing committee member of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, has been appointed as the Vice Governor of Shanxi Province, marking a significant milestone in his political career.TORONTO, Dec. 23, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Blockmate Ventures Inc. (TSX.V: MATE) (OTCQB: MATEF) (FSE: 8MH1) (“ Blockmate ” or the “ Company ”) is pleased to announce that it has closed its strategic investment (the “ Offering ”) involving a group of strategic investors led by Antanas Guoga (Tony G) for gross proceeds of $1,400,000. This strategic funding supports Blockmate’s pursuit of industry leadership in blockchain innovation and underscores our commitment to sustainable and transformative technology. In connection with completion of the Offering, the Company has issued 14,000,000 units (each, a “ Unit ”) at a price of $0.10 per Unit. Each Unit consists of one common share, and one common share purchase warrant exercisable to acquire a further common share at a price of $0.50 until December 23, 2027. All securities issued in connection with the Offering are subject to statutory restrictions on resale until April 24, 2025, in accordance with applicable securities laws. In addition, Tony G has voluntarily agreed to restrict resale of the 10,000,000 Units he acquired in the Offering until December 23, 2025. No finders’ fees or commissions were paid by the Company in connection with completion of the Offering. Incentive Grant The Company also announces that it has granted 5,275,000 incentive stock options (the “ Options ”), 1,200,000 restricted share units (the “ RSUs ”) and 5,000,000 deferred share units (the “ DSUs ”) in accordance with its omnibus incentive plan (the “ Incentive Plan ”) adopted by shareholders at the annual general and special meeting held on November 23, 2023. 625,000 of the Options vest immediately and are exercisable at a price of $0.21 for a period of thirty-six months. The remaining 5,000,000 Options vest quarterly over a twenty-four month period, and are exercisable at a price of $0.21 for a period of forty-eight months. The RSUs vest and will be settled in common shares of the Company after twelve months. The DSUs vest after twelve months but will only be settled in common shares of the Company upon the departure of the holder from the Company. 2,725,000 of the Options and all of the DSUs exceed the available room under the Incentive Plan. The Company intends to seek approval of shareholders to increase the size of the Incentive Plan at the next annual general meeting and will at that time seek ratification from shareholders for the additional Options and the DSUs. Until such time as shareholder ratification has been received, the additional Options and DSUs will not vest and will not be eligible for exercise or settlement. In the event shareholders elect not to ratify the grant, and room within the Incentive Plan is not available at the time, the additional Options and DSUs will be cancelled. Early Warning Disclosure In connection with the incentive grant, Domenic Carosa, a director of the Company, has been issued 5,000,000 Options and 5,000,000 DSUs. Prior to the grant, Mr. Carosa controlled 17,252,400 common shares, 1,500,000 incentive stock options, and 3,000,000 common share purchase warrants, of the Company, all of which are held by Carosa Corporation B.V., a holding company controlled by Domenic Carosa. The common shares controlled by Mr. Carosa prior to the grant represent approximately 15.1% of the issued and outstanding common shares of the Company. Following the grant, Mr. Carosa has control and direction over 17,252,400 common shares, 6,500,000 Options, 3,000,000 common share purchase warrants and 5,000,000 DSUs of the Company. Assuming the exercise and conversion of all of the Options, share purchase warrants and DSUs controlled by Mr. Carosa, he would have control and direction over 31,752,400 common shares of the Company representing approximately 19.8% of the then outstanding common shares of the Company. Mr. Carosa has acquired the securities for investment purposes and in connection with his compensation as a director of the Company and, as disclosed in the accompanying Early Warning Report, may in the future acquire or dispose of securities of the Company, through the market, privately or otherwise, as circumstances or market conditions warrant. A copy of the Early Warning Report filed with the applicable securities regulators regarding the above acquisition will be available under the profile for the Company on SEDAR+ ( www.sedarplus.ca ). About Blockmate Ventures Inc. Blockmate is a venture creator focussing on building fast-growing technology businesses relating to cutting edge sectors such as blockchain and renewable energy. Working with prospective founders, projects in incubation can benefit from the Blockmate ecosystem that offers tech, services, integrations and advice to accelerate the incubation of projects towards monetization. Recent projects include Hivello (download our free passive income app at www.hivello.com ) and Sunified, digitising solar energy. The leadership team at Blockmate have successfully founded successful tech companies from the Dotcom era through to the social media era. Learn more about being a Blockmate at: www.blockmate.com/ . Blockmate welcomes investors to join the Company’s mailing list for the latest updates and industry research by subscribing at https://www.blockmate.com/subscribe . ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS Justin Rosenberg, Chief Executive Officer Blockmate Ventures Inc. justin@blockmate.com (+1-580-262-6130) Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release Forward-Looking Information This news release contains “forward-looking statements” or “forward-looking information” (collectively, “forward-looking statements”) within the meaning of applicable securities legislation. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, are forward-looking statements and are based on the assumptions, expectations, estimates and projections as of the date of this news release. Forward-looking statements are subject to a variety of known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual events or results to differ from those expressed or implied by forward-looking statements contained herein. There can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Raindrop disclaims any obligation to update any forward-looking statements, whether because of new information, future events or otherwise, except as may be required by applicable securities laws. Readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements.
In conclusion, the news of the first Medicine Valley patient’s deteriorating condition and the rising death toll of 30 individuals serve as a stark reminder of the gravity of the current health crisis. It is a call to action for all stakeholders to come together, collaborate, and find effective solutions to combat the spread of the illness and prevent further loss of life. Only through unity, transparency, and swift action can we hope to overcome the challenges that lie ahead.4. Kylian Mbappe (Paris Saint-Germain)
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By JILL COLVIN NEW YORK (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump wants to turn the lights out on daylight saving time. In a post on his social media site Friday, Trump said his party would try to end the practice when he returns to office. “The Republican Party will use its best efforts to eliminate Daylight Saving Time, which has a small but strong constituency, but shouldn’t! Daylight Saving Time is inconvenient, and very costly to our Nation,” he wrote. Setting clocks forward one hour in the spring and back an hour in the fall is intended to maximize daylight during summer months, but has long been subject to scrutiny. Daylight saving time was first adopted as a wartime measure in 1942. Lawmakers have occasionally proposed getting rid of the time change altogether. The most prominent recent attempt, a now-stalled bipartisan bill named the Sunshine Protection Act , had proposed making daylight saving time permanent. The measure was sponsored by Florida Sen. Marco Rubio , whom Trump has tapped to helm the State Department. Related Articles National Politics | Ruling by a conservative Supreme Court could help blue states resist Trump policies National Politics | A nonprofit leader, a social worker: Here are the stories of the people on Biden’s clemency list National Politics | Nancy Pelosi hospitalized after she ‘sustained an injury’ on official trip to Luxembourg National Politics | Veteran Daniel Penny, acquitted in NYC subway chokehold, will join Trump’s suite at football game National Politics | About 3 in 10 are highly confident in Trump on Cabinet, spending or military oversight: AP-NORC poll “Changing the clock twice a year is outdated and unnecessary,” Republican Sen. Rick Scott of Florida said as the Senate voted in favor of the measure. Health experts have said that lawmakers have it backward and that standard time should be made permanent. Some health groups , including the American Medical Association and American Academy of Sleep Medicine, have said that it’s time to do away with time switches and that sticking with standard time aligns better with the sun — and human biology. Most countries do not observe daylight saving time. For those that do, the date that clocks are changed varies, creating a complicated tapestry of changing time differences. Arizona and Hawaii don’t change their clocks at all.
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In a tragic turn of events, the first patient who was reported to have recovered at the renowned Medicine Valley has now taken a turn for the worse, with reports indicating that they are now in critical condition. This news comes amidst a rising death toll, with the number of fatalities climbing to a staggering 30 individuals.As Ukraine's allies gathered in Halifax on Friday for the International Security Forum, president Peter Van Praagh acknowledged the foreboding many felt following the election of Donald Trump. "Judging from today's reports and traditional and social media, we might be forgiven for believing that Ukraine can no longer win the war against Russian aggression," he said. "This widespread forecast is not true." "It was not true when all the experts said the same thing on February 24, 2022, the date Putin invaded, and it is not true now," he added, promising a conference that would "change this doom-and-gloom narrative." The meeting represents one of the best chances for those still committed to Ukrainian victory against Russia to try to find ways to stymie Trump's declared intention of pushing Ukraine into peace talks that almost certainly would end with the loss of a large part of its territory. Those allies face a difficult, perhaps insurmountable, task. But already, some of Trump's predictions about how the world and the war would respond to his election victory are turning out differently than he expected. President-elect Donald Trump arrives to speak at a meeting of the House GOP conference on Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024, in Washington. (AP/Alex Brandon) One of Trump's campaign promises was that he would end the Ukraine war before taking the oath of office. "I will get it settled before I even become president," Trump claimed with Vice President Kamala Harris. "If I win, when I'm president-elect, what I'll do is I'll speak to one, I'll speak to the other. "They respect me. They don't respect [President Joe] Biden." He in an interview on the podcast PMD: "I think the world's going to behave, and I think I will settle Russia-Ukraine while I'm president-elect." But peace has not broken out. Instead, there has been a wave of escalation. Far from quailing at the prospect of a Trump presidency, Russian President Vladimir Putin authorized the use of a new nuclear-capable intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) called Oreshnik ('the hazel") in response to a Ukrainian missile attack on Russia. Russian President Vladimir Putin makes a televised address in Moscow on November 21, 2024. (Kremlin.ru/Reuters) Putin also went on national television to tell Russians that "a regional conflict in Ukraine previously provoked by the West has acquired elements of a global character," and marked the 1000th day since Russia's full-scale invasion by signing , lowering the threshold for the use of nuclear weapons. The escalation has not surprised observers of this war, or of wars generally, said former Canadian defence official Andrew Rasoulis, now with the Canadian Global Affairs Institute. "It's very predictable," he told CBC News. "As often is the case before wars come to an end and negotiations set in, the fighting sometimes can be heaviest at that point as both sides try to strengthen their positions before they actually sit down. "Everyone is now doing positional fighting to strengthen their hand at these inevitable negotiations." At the APEC and G20 summits in South America, Prime Minister Trudeau said Canada continues to see Ukrainian victory as the only acceptable outcome. "Any victory on that issue by Russia, any demonstration that if you have a bigger army that you get to redraw lines on a map, would have devastating consequences, not just for Ukraine ... but for the entire world," he said. "How many countries have a neighbour that has a historical claim over this corner across the river where their citizens used to live, or that got rejigged a hundred years ago? How many conflicts have been averted because the world has agreed that you may not like the borders where they are, but they are where they are, and they hold? "That is why it is so important that Ukraine wins this conflict, and that Russia loses." U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer brought a to South America. "We need to double down on shoring up our support for Ukraine and that's top of my agenda," he said in Rio de Janeiro. He didn't reveal that he had already given Kyiv the green light to fire British-supplied Storm Shadow missiles into Russia. In Lima for the APEC conference, Trudeau conceded that if the incoming Trump administration is determined to abandon Ukraine, Kyiv's other allies will struggle. "Let's also be very blunt — all of the allies in the world would not be able to replace a complete withdrawal from supporting Ukraine by the United States," he said. But in Rio three days later for the G20, Trudeau said Canada remains determined to try. "We're very aware of potential challenges with President Trump coming in, but we're not going to panic," he said. "We're going to continue to stay focused on getting the support to Ukraine to win this war." If money were the only issue, the remaining allies could probably find a way to outspend Russia — a country with a nominal GDP smaller than any of the G7 nations, including Canada. But dollars and euros do not easily convert into modern, sophisticated heavy weapons systems of the kind Ukraine needs to fight a military superpower such as Russia. As Canadians know well, modern military procurement is a multi-year process, which makes modern warfare something of a come-as-you-are affair. Countries burn through weapons faster than they can produce new ones. In a military handout photo, serviceman of 24th Mechanized brigade fires a 2s5 "Hyacinth-s" self-propelled howitzer towards Russian troops at a front line, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, near the town of Chasiv Yar in Donetsk region, Ukraine November 18, 2024. (Oleg Petrasiuk/Ukrainian Armed Forces/Reuters) While Canada has given generously to Ukraine, about two-thirds of its assistance has been in the form of money, loan guarantees, technical assistance, training and humanitarian aid. Two-thirds of U.S. assistance, on the other hand, has been in the form of military hardware. Europe's assistance, too, has skewed more to the financial side, but European allies have also contributed collectively even more military assistance than the U.S. Can they keep that up? Will it be enough? The U.S. defence industry is vastly larger than that of any other western country. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, left, is watched by Rich Hansen, the commander's representative for the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant, while signing military ordnance in Scranton, Pa., on Sunday, Sept. 22, 2024. (Office of the Ukrainian Presidency via AP) Money earmarked for Ukraine has flowed to arms production facilities , where it buys equipment like the , or the 155mm shells made at a plant in Scranton, Pennsylvania that Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited in September. Ukraine's other allies also make arms, but Europe has had to rely heavily on its retired and surplus stocks to arm Ukraine. Those stocks are not yet exhausted. Many European countries of stockpiled or retired armoured vehicles that could be refurbished and sent to Ukraine. On Thursday, at the Commons defence committee, Defence Minister Bill Blair announced that Canada had delivered new air defence equipment to Ukraine that it ordered in 2022, the first year of the conflict. Canada purchased the National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System (NASAMS) from U.S. manufacturer Raytheon for about $400 million. "We have been able to deliver, at long last," he told committee members, "and I think it's going to make a difference because it will enable them to protect communities." That deal with Raytheon points to ways other countries might continue to leverage the capacity of the U.S. defence industry, even if the Trump administration itself is determined not to chip in. Blair spoke more about how the NASAMS deal came together on Friday, at the Halifax International Security Forum. "We put the money on the table and said, 'OK, we'll do this'. We went to industry, they told us to get in line and it would probably take four or even five years to deliver on those systems. "Fortunately, the United States stepped up and said, 'We have bigger buying power and perhaps a more advantageous position in the contract.' They said, 'Join us.' "And it still took two years." Blair said western leaders will have to lean on their defence industries to scale up and speed up. "All of us recognize that we need to work more closely, more effectively with industry to make sure that we can meet the moment," he said. There is also the possibility that, as the U.S. departs the scene, new players — albeit smaller ones — might step up. One example is South Korea. South Korea has been building up its defence industry for years, with the goal of becoming a world player. Its strategic decision to focus on armoured vehicles was sometimes derided as outmoded, but the rush of international orders following the Ukraine invasion has silenced the critics. Until now, South Korea has adhered to a strict policy of not supplying arms to countries involved in active conflicts, including Ukraine. South Korea's defence and foreign ministers visited their Canadian counterparts in Ottawa this month. South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol met with Trudeau in Peru last week. A South Korean K1A2 tank fires during a joint live fire exercise at a military training field in Pocheon on Thursday, March 14, 2024. South Korea views North Korea's military intervention on Russia's behalf as a clear threat to its security. (Jung Yeon-je/Associated Press) Canadian officials privy to those meetings say that North Korea's decision to send troops to fight on Russia's behalf has been received in Seoul as an almost existential threat to South Korea's own security. South Korea is it could soon be ready to supply Ukraine directly. Japan also fears the effect that exposure to modern Russian training and doctrine could have on the North Korean military, and dreads the possible quid pro quo Moscow might give Kim Jong-un in return for its intervention. Japan, like South Korea, has so far given only money and humanitarian aid to Ukraine. While these nations could never replace the U.S. as a source of weapons, they could theoretically help to mitigate the loss of American support. Finally, there's Ukraine's own defence industry, an antiquated Soviet relic that has modernized and shown a since the 2022 invasion. This week, 12 European countries joined with Ukraine in a new defence cooperation group focused on promoting that industry and linking it more closely to defence industries throughout northern Europe. Denmark this week held the first meeting of a new all-European Northern Group defence alliance that aims to arm Ukraine without US assistance. Ukraine's defence minister, Rustem Umerov, is fifth from left. (Rustem Umerov Facebook account) The includes Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Iceland, the Baltic countries, the U.K., Germany, the Netherlands and Poland. Canada is also pursuing initiatives to grow Ukraine's domestic industry, Blair said Friday. "This is a critical moment in the Ukrainian-Russian war," he said. "We have to make sure that we remain united and strong in our support of Ukraine to achieve the appropriate, right outcome for the Ukrainian people, which is victory."KBC Group NV Acquires Shares of 1,214 Astrana Health, Inc. (NASDAQ:ASTH)Exciting news for fans of the "Fatal Misstep" film series! The highly anticipated third installment, aptly titled "Fatal Misstep 3," has officially announced that popular actor Yin Ziwei will be making a special guest appearance in the film.
For the first time in 18 years, Lionel Messi has failed to make the cut for the prestigious annual best XI team. This shocking development has sent shockwaves through the football world, as fans and analysts alike have grown accustomed to seeing the Argentine maestro included in the team year after year. Messi's absence from the lineup marks the end of an era, signaling a shift in the landscape of the beautiful game.
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