10jili casino login LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec 22, 2024-- Faraday Future Intelligent Electric Inc. (Nasdaq: FFIE) (“FF”, “Faraday Future”, or “Company”), a California-based technology company specializing in artificial intelligence electric vehicles (AIEV), announced that it has secured approximately $30 million in cash financing commitments. The funds will be used to accelerate the Company’s growth and the development of Faraday X (FX), FF’s strategy of launching affordable high performance AIEV equipped vehicles with cutting edge technology, filling the U.S. market gap in this segment, and for general corporate purposes. Targeting the mainstream EV market in the U.S., FF is expected to have its first two FX prototype mules arrive in Los Angeles later this month, with product development and testing scheduled to begin at FF’s manufacturing facility in Hanford, CA. As part of their delivery journey, the two prototype mules will stop in Las Vegas from January 5 to 7, 2025, where the Company will provide updates on its FX strategy. The $30 million financing commitment includes a pre-funded $7.5 million, which was received in the fourth quarter of this year, and $22.5 million in new cash commitments (the “Financing”), structured in the form of unsecured convertible notes (“Convertible Notes”) and warrants to acquire additional shares of the Company’s common stock (“Warrants”). The conversion price for the Convertible Notes and exercise price for the Warrants are $1.16 and $1.392 per share, respectively, subject to adjustment as set forth therein. The shares of common stock underlying the Convertible Notes and Warrants issued in the Financing are currently unregistered, subject to trading restrictions, and not immediately tradable. The Financing is subject to customary closing conditions. For additional information regarding the material terms relating to the Financing, please see the Company’s Form 8-K to be filed with the SEC on December 23, 2024. “The new funding lays a solid foundation for both FF and its new brand as the Company approaches the end of 2024 and enters the new year,” said Matthias Aydt, Global CEO of FF “I am optimistic about the opportunities that this new funding will bring, including supporting the ongoing production of our FF 91 2.0 and the growth of the FX brand,” Aydt explained. “We are pleased to have supported FF in successfully completing this round of financing,” said Jerry Wang, President of FF Global Partners and Head of Corporate Development, FFIE (Consultant), “We are enthusiastic about the promising opportunities ahead for the FX brand, and we firmly believe in FF's ability to execute its strategy effectively and deliver significant value in the process.” The Convertible Notes, along with the Warrants, were offered and sold in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), pursuant to the exemption for transactions by an issuer not involving any public offering under Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act and Rule 506 of Regulation D of the Securities Act and in reliance on similar exemptions under applicable state laws. Accordingly, the Convertible Notes, Warrants and underlying shares of common stock issuable upon conversion of the Convertible Notes and exercise of the Warrants may not be offered or sold in the United States except pursuant to an effective registration statement or an applicable exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and such applicable state securities laws. The Company has agreed to file one or more registration statements with the Securities and Exchange Commission registering the resale of the shares of common stock issuable upon conversion of the Convertible Notes and exercise of the Warrants issued in connection with the Financing. This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy the convertible notes, nor shall it constitute an offer, solicitation or sale in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale is unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction. ABOUT FARADAY FUTURE Faraday Future is the pioneer of the Ultimate AI TechLuxury market amidst the global trend of EVs. Luxury is just one of the key factors reflecting FF’s achievements in reshaping the EV industry. The company is dedicated to establishing an ever-evolving, interactive in-car software and operating system powered by artificial intelligence and user-generated data, optimizing the experience for each individual within an ecosystem of worldwide users who are also contributors to the innovative FF model. 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These forward-looking statements, which include statements regarding the closing of the Convertible Notes financing, the Faraday X (FX) strategy and plans for the FX brand, the delivery of two prototype mules, and anticipated use of funds from the Convertible Notes financing, are not guarantees of future performance, conditions or results, and involve a number of known and unknown risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other important factors, many of which are outside the Company’s control, that could cause actual results or outcomes to differ materially from those discussed in the forward-looking statements. Important factors, among others, that may affect actual results or outcomes include, among others: that the closing of the Financing could be delayed or not occur at all; the timing for the two prototype mules to clear U.S. customs; the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern and improve its liquidity and financial position; the Company’s ability to pay its outstanding obligations; the Company's ability to remediate its material weaknesses in internal control over financial reporting and the risks related to the restatement of previously issued consolidated financial statements; the Company’s limited operating history and the significant barriers to growth it faces; the Company’s history of losses and expectation of continued losses; the success of the Company’s payroll expense reduction plan; the Company’s ability to execute on its plans to develop and market its vehicles and the timing of these development programs; the Company’s estimates of the size of the markets for its vehicles and cost to bring those vehicles to market; the rate and degree of market acceptance of the Company’s vehicles; the Company’s ability to cover future warrant claims; the success of other competing manufacturers; the performance and security of the Company’s vehicles; current and potential litigation involving the Company; the Company’s ability to receive funds from, satisfy the conditions precedent of and close on the various financings described elsewhere by the Company; the result of future financing efforts, the failure of any of which could result in the Company seeking protection under the Bankruptcy Code; the Company’s indebtedness; the Company’s ability to cover future warranty claims; the Company’s ability to use its “at-the-market” program; insurance coverage; general economic and market conditions impacting demand for the Company’s products; potential negative impacts of a reverse stock split; potential cost, headcount and salary reduction actions may not be sufficient or may not achieve their expected results; circumstances outside of the Company's control, such as natural disasters, climate change, health epidemics and pandemics, terrorist attacks, and civil unrest; risks related to the Company's operations in China; the success of the Company's remedial measures taken in response to the Special Committee findings; the Company’s dependence on its suppliers and contract manufacturer; the Company's ability to develop and protect its technologies; the Company's ability to protect against cybersecurity risks; and the ability of the Company to attract and retain employees, any adverse developments in existing legal proceedings or the initiation of new legal proceedings, and volatility of the Company’s stock price. 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Christian Krüeger on the hole where his son, Filip, died in April. michael bamberger Do you remember the second Saturday in April this year? Saturday, April 13, 2024. It was exceptional and ordinary, as most days are. The third round of the 2024 Masters was played on that Saturday. That would place it for many golf fans, and maybe jog the memory for some others, even if they are who not. By sunset at Augusta on that Saturday, Scottie Scheffler had a one-shot lead in the tourney. Tiger Woods made the 36-hole cut but, spent by Friday’s fierce winds, shot a third-round 82. Ludvig Åberg , a promising 24-year-old Swedish golfer in his first Masters, had a showy tee time for Saturday afternoon, 2:15, and shot 70. Fantastisk! On it goes, that Saturday. So fantastic and ordinary and everything else. Maybe you played that day. Maybe you watched the tournament. Maybe you cleaned the garage. In Sweden, a golf fan named Christian Krüeger, in his late 50s, was organizing his day so he could watch Åberg on the Swedish telecast, even though it would be late at night in Gothenburg, where Christian was playing in a national tennis tournament for senior amateur players. Christian’s wife, Susanne, at their home in Stockholm, was less likely to watch it. She was drawn to more aerobic sports. When their three kids were young, Christian, a finance executive, had a three-year plan to get down to a single-digit handicap. He would rise in the predawn darkness to practice and play. “Keep this up,” Susanne told him, “and you’ll be a single-digit golfer — and a single father.” Christian took a leave from golf. Whatever sports their two sons and daughter played, Susanne and Christian played, too. The Krüeger fivesome was always playing. They skied and skated; they played tennis and squash; they swam and biked. They climbed mountains. Outdoor activity was a way of life for them. What else would you expect? They’re Swedish! The middle child, Filip Krüeger, was 4,000 miles from his parents on that Saturday. He had left Sweden for Philadelphia in 2018 to play squash at Drexel. In his five years at the university — his eligibility extended by the pandemic — he was the team captain four times. He had graduated from Drexel and was living in an apartment in downtown Philadelphia with his girlfriend. He was starting a career in finance, like his father, like his mother. He was loaded with promise and half-broke, in that just-out-of-college way. His family was affluent, in that unassuming Swedish way. A rustic country house, high-tech cold-weather coats. In Philadelphia, that Saturday morning in mid-April was windy, cool and gray. Filip and his friends were on for golf, off for golf, then on again. There was a small posse of them, Drexel squash players from different countries who, since the pandemic, had fallen deep into the rabbit hole of golf. Their text chain made the rounds, four guys raised their hands, and off they went, by car, to a nearby course, Filip and three of his buddies, heading out to the Melrose Country Club, just outside the city limits. The course was once private and pristine and was now public and run down, but it was fine for them. They were regulars. The price was right — $50, mandatory cart — and it was seldom crowded. Some of its holes were originals by Perry Maxwell, a Golden Age design legend, but that meant nothing to Filip and his golf pals. It had what they wanted: 18 holes of fresh air, outdoor golf. That Saturday had turned into a lovely spring day in Philadelphia. By afternoon, the clouds had lifted and Melrose was awash in spring sunlight. It was about 3 p.m. when the four squash-playing golfers reached the ninth tee. The rest of the day and weekend was shaping up nicely for Filip. He’d play the back nine, watch the last hour of the Masters telecast. He’d catch up with Hatti, his girlfriend, who was with work colleagues in Connecticut. Maybe he’d play squash Sunday morning, watch the fourth round of the Masters Sunday afternoon, do some prep Sunday night to get ready for the workweek. He was always doing something. *** MELROSE’S NINTH HOLE IS A PAR-4, about 330 yards long. A pretty ordinary hole, really. To the far left, you can see the traffic on Tookany Creek Parkway. Between the parkway and the fairway, there’s a large swath of scraggly rough. In the rough, there’s a cluster of tall, tangled trees. One of the trees, a red oak, about 200 yards off the tee and about 100 feet tall, was right on the edge of the fairway. Right on the edge of the fairway, with an odd and pronounced lean toward the fairway — and limbs that stretched far over it. Nobody’s favorite tree. But you could say that of the whole left side of the hole. It was a bogey waiting to happen. Bogey or worse. Best to avoid the entire region. But, as is often the case in golf, this ninth hole at Melrose offered more appealing options, too. All you had to do was orient yourself to its right side, where there were fewer trees in play, manageable rough and a welcoming fairway. On the Saturday in mid-April when Filip and his friends were playing Melrose, the ninth fairway was the picture of spring, practically dancing in the sunlight. If you were on the hunt for beauty, you could find it on that hole, as you can find it most anywhere. The feminine sweep of its fairway. The modest hill leading to its simple, elevated table-top green. The wide open up-the-middle entrance to the green, but its gatekeepers, too: a trap on its right side, a severe hill on its left. You see holes like this throughout rural Scotland, on courses way off the tourist trail. Nobody would call the ninth at Melrose postcard-ready. But it did have a certain something. As he stood on the ninth tee, Filip Krüeger took a photo on his phone. One of his partners is on the tee in the foreground. On the left side you can see the rough with its hodgepodge of trees. And, to the right of the rightmost tree, a broad stretch of fairway, its grass green and inviting, like the GO light on a traffic signal. *** THIS SATURDAY AFTERNOON IN MID-APRIL is going too fast. Can we slow down the clock here, go to four corners, do something ? Along those same lines: this paint-by-words portrait of Filip Krüeger is inadequate. For starters, the four-time captain thing. Nobody at Drexel can recall anything like that happening before. He graduated from Drexel . True, but insufficient: He had a joint degree in engineering and finance. You don’t ChatGBT your way to that degree. Yes, Filip was, as noted,starting a career in finance in Philadelphia. But nobody thought Philadelphia would be able to contain him, and neither would a career in finance. Filip had, through squash, friends from all over the world and, traveling in that college-kid bare-bones way, had already seen a lot of it, with a notion to see the rest. As for his girlfriend, Hatti. Hatti Specter. She was more than Filip’s girlfriend. She and Filip met through squash at Drexel, and they were a committed couple. Flying to Stockholm during the dark days of the pandemic they pretended to be married, to ease the entry requirements. It didn’t take much pretending. They were beshert , to use a Yiddish word Hatti’s family has known forever, and the Krüeger had come to know: destined, fated. Meant to be. *** SQAUSH RUNS THROUGH THE SPECTER FAMILY. Arlen Specter, the longtime Pennsylvania senator, played a lot squash, almost to his final days. His son Shanin, a Pennsylvania trial lawyer, is a serious squash player with a court at home. Shanin’s wife, Tracey, a triathlete, life coach and cook, played college and adult competitive squash. Shanin and Tracey have four daughters, and for Hatti, the youngest, squash has been a lifelong passion. The gleaming, public Arlen Specter U.S. Squash Center, the national home for American squash, is on the Drexel campus. The Drexel team plays across the street, on courts named for Shanin’s law firm, the Kline & Specter Squash Center, on Market Street in the University City section of West Philadelphia. The firm’s office is a mile away, across the Schuylkill River, on Locust Street in downtown Philadelphia, near the Racquet Club. Shanin is never far from squash. He’s also, at work, never far from City Hall and its courtrooms, and never far from Philadelphia’s federal court buildings. When Shanin was a kid, his father was Philadelphia’s district attorney. Later, Shanin’s mother, Joan Specter, was a Philadelphia city council member. When she died in June, at age 90, her life in politics was discussed prominently at her funeral, but so was her earlier career, as a commercial baker of apple pies. She owned cooking schools and wrote a food column. She was a foodie, a stylish and slender one. Nobody left the post-service spread at Mrs. Specter’s funeral hungry. I’m really speaking for myself, but I do think it had to be true for everybody there. Now would be a good time to point out that my wife and I have counted Shanin and Tracey as friends for years. Christine and I are drawn to the Specter home for any number of reasons. I could start with Tracey’s own cooking but it goes far deeper than that. *** BACK TO MID-APRIL. On that Saturday night in Augusta, I had planned to have dinner with my friend Ryan French, but it didn’t come together, a victim of the no-phones policy at the Masters. On Sunday, Scottie Scheffler won the tournament and I wrote-up the broadcaster Verne Lundquist, descending from the CBS booth at 16 for a final time. On Monday, I took a colleague with a car problem to the Hertz office at the Augusta airport, played the six-hole First Tee course in Augusta, got lunch and started a leisurely drive home. I spent Monday night at the Fairfield Inn in Roanoke Rapids, N.C. I’m stalling here, reciting all this mundane activity, hoping it might trigger something for you. Your Saturday. Your Sunday. Your Monday. Your any day. There’s a new version of Our Town on Broadway now. Maybe you know the play. In the third act, Emily, the protagonist, is dead, but through the magic of Thornton Wilder’s writing and his omnipotent creation, the Stage Manager, she is able to relive her 12th birthday, in all its majesty and ordinariness. Emily: Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?—every, every minute? STAGE MANAGER: No. (Pause.) The saints and poets, maybe—they do some. On Tuesday, April 16, while driving on I-95 near Baltimore, a luscious song came on the car radio. Mine Forever, by Lord Huron, an indie-folkie rock band with a big following on some college campuses and pockets of popularity beyond that. I knew the band but not the song. About six years ago, Christine and I had heard Lord Huron when Shanin and Tracey hired the band for a big-bash family-and-friends party, for Shanin’s 60th. By text, cruising north on I-95, I told Shanin that Lord Huron had just made a rare radio appearance. I signed off with, “Hope you’re well.” “Unfortunately, not well,” Shanin wrote back. He briefly described a freakish accident involving Hatti’s boyfriend, on a golf course in suburban Philadelphia, three days earlier. “Devastating,” Shanin wrote in a text, “and very difficult to comprehend.” *** FILIP SNAPPED THAT PHOTO ON Melrose’s ninth tee, put his ball on a peg, made a big swing with a driver . . . and hit a ground-ball duff that went nowhere. It happens. But then he crushed a high, drawing 5-iron, as pure as could be. It might have reached the base of the hill that leads to the green, but the shot nicked a tree — a limb, actually, jutting out from that 100-foot-tall red oak and stretching over the fairway. The shot got knocked down. Filip got in the passenger seat of the cart. His friend José López, a former Drexel squash player and a civil engineer from El Salvador, got behind the wheel. José drove down the left side of the hole on the half-crumbling cart path, but they weren’t thinking about that. They were heading to their shots and planning their next ones. That’s golf. Your ball is like a dictator. It tells you where to go. But the golfer is a dictator, too, trying to boss that golf ball around. They were just about to pass the tall red oak with the odd lean and the protruding limb when, without warning, it gave way. No wind burst, no anything, just a 90-year-old tree collapsing, as if a sniper had hit it. It’s hard to imagine: 50 tons of tree, 100,000 pounds, standing one second, crashing into ground the next. The tree fell suddenly, violently, with terrifying speed, exposing its root system as the tree’s base was ripped out of the ground. A part of the tree landed on the passenger side of the cart, crushing it. The other two playing partners, slightly ahead of José and Filip and on the other side of the fairway, called 9-1-1. All manner of emergency medical professionals came racing down Tookany Creek Parkway. EMTs and firefighters and police officers were on the scene in minutes. José was walking around in shock, unaware that he was bleeding profusely from a laceration on his arm. Filip’s death, in all likelihood, was immediate. *** THE AFTERMATH OF A QUICK and inexplicable death triggers a storm of its own. Investigations are set in motion. Professionals from different fields step in, to document and report, to conduct tests, collect samples, take statements. There are dozens of people who need to be called. There are protocols, standard operating procedures, in place. There’s a book. But every quick and inexplicable death has a preamble that is all its own. How did this tragic perfect storm, one that leads to unimaginable sorrow, come to be in the first place? What preceded it? And as you dive into that preamble, something extraordinary happens. The mundane becomes beautiful. What was meaningless is suddenly stamped FOREVER. Filip’s final photo, final scorecard, final drive, even if it was a duff. His final 5-iron, right on the sweet spot, a shot that looked so good, until it ticked that tree on the left. Filip started the round 5-7-4, then went 5-5-6. (Golf loves threes, doesn’t it?) Followed by a miracle, a par on 7, and a return to earth, a double on 8. Eight holes, 11 over par. Filip was always taking photos. The last one he took captured the tree that claimed his life. That 100-foot-tall red oak, with its old-age lean and its outstretched arm. What are the chances? What are the chances that a tree would fall on a moving golf cart and result in a death? Hard to get your arms around it. Filip’s final scorecard: 1. 5 2. 7 3. 4 4. 5 5. 5 6. 6 7. 4 8. 5 The box for 9 remains empty. *** IN HIS ALMOST 26 YEARS, Filip had lived a rich, rich life, as a squash player, team captain, student, world traveler, son, brother, friend, work colleague, golfer with the bug, boyfriend. Twenty-five years, 10 months, six full days and most of a seventh. That final Saturday afternoon in mid-April. *** I KNOW FILIP. I didn’t in fact, but I feel like I do. I watched a video of his memorial service, from late April, organized by Hatti and held in a large auditorium on the Drexel campus. (Christine and I were at a family wedding.) At a court-naming ceremony in Filip’s honor at the Drexel squash courts in November, attended by a hundred or more people, I was bowled over by the spirit of the event, the presence of the former Drexel president, Susanne Krüeger’s ability to comfort others , the quality of the Swedish treats on catering tables against a back wall. Over the past half-year or so, I have had the chance to talk about Filip with Susanne and Christian Krüeger; Tracey and Shanin Specter; his friend and golf partner José López; Noel Heaton, a former Drexel squash player and Filip’s closest friend; and Hatti. Most especially Hatti. You can sense Filip’s energy, playfulness and intelligence when you hear Hatti and others talk about him. You get a sense of his presence, his charisma. He was tall, lean and fit, with blue eyes, a mop of thick reddish hair and a half-goofy smile. When he played squash with Shanin, the question was not who would win. The question, at least for Filip, was how long he should stretch the points out so Shanin could get a workout without collapsing on the court. Shanin described their matches as “charitable events.” Filip’s long arms, in concert with his competitive desire, helped him get to almost any shot while playing squash. He used those long arms to hug sweaty opponents in victory and defeat. But they were bad for his golf — they looped around, trying to do too much. He was working on it. He played golf casually — mulligans, improved lies, gimmes — but he was serious about getting better. Filip and Noel often went to Five Iron Golf, an indoor range a short walk from the apartment Filip shared with Hatti. Before that, all through his five years at Drexel, Filip lived with Noel, a Canadian, along with two other Drexel squash players, one from Colombia, the other from India. They called their apartment the U.N. Filip traveled easily and well, and no matter where he went, in the U.S. or anywhere else, he was attuned to the world around him. In Mumbai, Filip stopped to listen to the call for prayer from minarets, considered the lives in the city’s vast slums, engaged his shoeless caddie in conversation. Filip was open, curious and empathetic. Those qualities were in his bones. Hatti studied public health at Drexel. She’s 24 and graduated Drexel last year. In the wake of Filip’s death, Hatti has thrown herself into her work, first as a campaign aid and now as a legislative aid to Sarah McBride of Delaware, an incoming member of the U.S. House of Representatives and the first openly transgender person elected to the House or Senate. Hatti was at a fundraiser for McBride in Connecticut, where McBride’s brother lives, when Filip died. One of Hatti’s sisters and a cousin drove from Philadelphia to Connecticut to tell Hatti the news. NOOOOOO! No-no-no-no-no. That cannot be true. When Hatti speaks of Filip, tears can drop from her eyes and run down her cheeks like a dripping faucet on a sink. But the crying has no effect on her breathing, no effect on her ability to say exactly what she wants to say. In the days immediately after Filip’s death, she wrote down what she did, who she called, what she thought. She’s loaded with emotion and precision, an uncommon combination. It’s some one-two punch. The morning after the accident, early on that Sunday, Hatti was at the Montgomery County coroner’s office. She was there before it opened. She wanted to see her Filip’s body. An officer there advised against it. Hatti was insistent. The officer was, too: “It’s not the way you want to see him for the last time.” Hatti, strong-willed by nature, relented. In his work life, as a trial lawyer, Shanin Specter has seen a lot of catastrophic death. In his private life, he has not. The phrase Act of God is used often when insurance claims and the legal system collide under freakish circumstances. We’re not going down that road here, owner culpability, case law in accidental death, insurance riders, Act-of-God standards. We’re here to honor Filip and his love of sport, life, people. No lawsuit has been filed in the matter. There likely will be a private settlement. Shanin said a Melrose owner told him, “Take the keys to the course.” “We don’t want the course,” Shanin said in response, as he recounted the conversation. (The managing owner of the course did not respond to interview requests, one by email, one by phone, both received.) “What we want is to make sure nothing like this happens again.” Shanin would like to see course operators be required to release annual public reports assessing the health of the trees on the courses they run. By one 12-year study, falling trees kill an estimated 30 to 40 people annually in the United States. A small percentage of those deaths occur on golf courses, but there is no known number. Most of these deaths are caused by an ill-fated meeting of extreme wind with a tree suffering from a decaying root system or disease. There is no established national standard for what constitutes reasonable golf-course care, or what constitutes negligence, for that matter. Tree maintenance is a fundamental part of course safety. Filip’s parents are leaving the matter of the settlement to Shanin. A payment will change nothing. “Whatever the family gets, they would pay that for 10 more minutes with their son,” Shanin said. *** YOU LIKELY HAVE THE BIG PICTURE, for Filip as a young man and for Filip and Hatti as a young couple. They had been together for almost five years when Filip went out for golf that day and Hatti went to Connecticut for a fundraiser, and they were bound for — we can all guess. Hatti went to Sweden for a memorial service for Filip in May and is planning a trip this winter to visit Filip’s parents. The families are linked forever. Tracey and Shanin offered this to Susanne and Christian: You lost a son but gained a daughter. *** JOSÉ TOLD ME THAT THE 5-IRON, the one Filip used to play his final shot, was in the back of the cart when the tree fell and, astoundingly, the club was not damaged at all. It’s still in play. Over the course of a round, different players from the Drexel squash-and-golf crowd will take shots with it. They’ll say, “Four hands on that shot.” Noel, a low-handicap golfer and now a squash pro at the Philadelphia Cricket Club, had no interest in golf in the aftermath of Filip’s death. Another squash pro at the Cricket Club redirected Noel’s thinking: “If Filip knew you had stopped playing, he would be so disappointed.” Noel returned to golf, with purpose. *** ON A SATURDAY IN MID-NOVEMBER, seven months after Filip’s death, the Krüeger family came from Sweden to Philadelphia and the Drexel squash center to attend the court-naming ceremony for their middle child. It was a moving event, more joyful than solemn. Susanne and Christian and their children, Victor and Frida, greeted Filip’s friends, posed for photographs, spoke publicly and privately, rooted for Drexel in a squash match. As the day was wrapping up, I asked Christian if he had any interest in making a trip to Melrose. He did. The following morning, the Specter and Krüeger families had brunch together in a downtown apartment, part of a hotel, where the Krüegers were staying. In the afternoon, I picked up Christian there and we drove to Melrose. Neither of us had been there before. The course is in Cheltenham township just over the border from a sprawling section of Philadelphia sometimes called the Great Northeast. During the drive, Christian talked about his experiences as an exchange student for a year in a North Carolina high school. About the great Swedish tennis player Björn Borg and the golfer Jesper Parnevik’s father, a Swedish comedian. He talked about his company’s investment in a popular London show based on the music of the Swedish band Abba. The conversation was easy and genial. We turned off Tookany Creek Parkway and into the Melrose driveway. Its parking lots were in poor condition and nearly empty. The massive mustard-colored clubhouse, surely once elegant, was now hulking and uninviting, fading. We had not called ahead to make arrangements of any sort. The afternoon was mild but also dank. There wasn’t much sunlight left. We saw an older man putting his clubs in his car and asked him to point us toward the ninth hole. He told us that the front nine was on the other side of parkway. He then talked about the course and how its condition had deteriorated over time. He said that the Melrose owners were closing the course, for good, in a couple of weeks, at the end of November. He had played there for years but expressed all this in a what-are-you-gonna-do manner. “I’ll find somewhere else to play,” he said. Christian and I walked through a tunnel that takes you under the parkway and to the front nine. Once there, we made a guess about direction and walked with purpose. The course was almost empty. We hiked up a hill and reached its modest summit. We stopped, looked around, and found ourselves taking deep breaths of the fall air. It was invigorating. We figured out that we were on the fourth tee. We walked from there to nine. Christian had told me that he and Susanne had experienced moments and days when they were hounded by despair and sorrow. But he also said he had never felt the need or desire to see a therapist, minister or medical professional. He knew many people in the shackles of grief did, but he did not. He said he found peace by being with, and talking, to his wife, his children, his friends, the Specters, his work colleagues, Filip’s friends and teammates and coaches — and Hatti. His mental health, he said, required talking openly, expressing everything, being active and engaged. It required remembering, sharing, mourning, celebrating. He did not allow himself to consider the bizarre confluence of events. They had happened, and they could not be changed. Regret was a waste of time, and time is precious. Christian stood on the ninth tee. For a long moment, he was still and silent, absorbed by all the surrounded him, all that had happened there. The tee was dry and baked out, with more bare spots than grass. Then, the moment over, Christian began reenacting Filip’s last movements, the shots he played, the photos he took, the friends he was with, the views he saw. There was nothing compulsive about it. He was just putting pieces together, as one puts together pieces from a puzzle. He took that last photo here. The duffed drive probably went there. Then the 5-iron. He and José got in the cart. We walked down the fairway, the cart path to our left. A lone golfer finished the hole and began the drive to the other side of the course, where the clubhouse is located. Since Filip’s death many trees had been removed from the course. But as Christian and I walked up the ninth hole and looked left, the tangled hodgepodge of trees was still there, minus one. The tree that claimed Filip’s life was gone, with a blanket of sawdust and a grassy hump marking where it had been. In the vicinity, we saw yellow caution tape laying sloppily on the ground. Christian noted that, how nobody had even bothered to collect the yellow tape . He walked around, looked around, absorbing, collecting. He was in the place where son had spent the final moments of his life, this patch of tired golf course. The father offered a valedictory: “There is something beautiful about it.” There was no false cheer in his voice. More like acceptance and appreciation, tempered by sorrow. *** A FEW DAYS LATER I LEARNED that the Melrose owners had filed plans with Cheltenham township, seeking to build 300 townhomes on the property’s 116 acres, for a 55-and-over community. There was a news story about the proposed development in a local paper in early April, two weeks before Filip died. The plan to shutter the course at the end of the 2024 season was already in place. Course maintenance was not a high priority — the online reviews will tell you that. The newspaper story said the development plans called for 40 acres of open space. *** TWO SONGS FROM THE SOUNDTRACK. Track 1. The young people like to play music while they play golf, and there was music playing in the cart Filip shared with José throughout their round on that Saturday in mid-April. It was at a low volume, in the background, but that round, like all their rounds, had a soundtrack. On their eighth and ninth holes they were playing music by a German musician and DJ named Adam Port and a group called Keinemusick. José selected the music but he and Filip both enjoyed it. It falls into no simple category. Techno house music with beats and instruments that bring to mind Africa or Berlin or Portugal or all three. A reviewer somewhere on the web wrote that Port’s music “makes time fade into insignificance.” An interesting take. Filip and his friends — their whole generation, really — grew up with the world at their fingertips, via the internet. For Filip, it was a starting point but that’s all it was. He always had his passport handy. *** Track 2. I met Hatti several times on the Drexel campus in University City, to talk about Filip. Lord Huron, the band that played at the big-bash party the Specters threw when Shanin turned 60, came up in our conversation at least once. On one occasion, after an interview on a warm mid-summer day, I gave Hatti a lift downtown, where she was meeting friends. While we drove, I played the Lord Huron song I heard while driving home from Augusta, Mine Forever. It opens with a demand and segues into a request and there’s no clock on either: If you ever wanna see my face again, I wanna know; If you ever get lonely, please let me know. Near the song’s end, there’s a short, powerful refrain: In my mind you’re mine forever; in my mind you’re mine forever; in my mind you’re . . . The song concludes, hauntingly, with 15 seconds of whispered French: Je ne t’oublierai pas. Je te laisserai dans la lumière déclinante. Vivre jusqu’à ta mort. Je te verrai dans une autre vie. A translation: I won’t forget you. I’ll leave you in the fading light. Live until you die— I will see you in another life. We arrived at Rittenhouse Square, bustling with life, draped by beautiful manicured trees, some with peeling bark in the summer heat. Hatti had not heard the song before. “I like it,” she said. She grabbed her backpack, hopped out of the car and into the sunshine, another person in the afternoon crowd. The author welcomes your comments at Michael.Bamberger@Golf.com . Suggested listening : Track 1 (Lord Huron) | Track 2 (Adam Port) Latest In News Golf.com Contributor Michael Bamberger writes for GOLF Magazine and GOLF.com. Before that, he spent nearly 23 years as senior writer for Sports Illustrated . 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Recalled D Nikolas Matinpalo from Belleville (AHL). WINNIPEG JETS — Placed F Daniel Torgersson on waivers. COLLEGE UCONN — Signed football head coach Jim Mora to a two-year contract extension.The far-right Dasna temple head Yati Narsinghanand yet again made a hate speech at the World’s Religion Parliament in Haridwar on Friday, December 20, repeating his pattern of inflammatory rhetoric against the Muslim community of India. In a video that has surfaced on social media the saffron-clad Narsinghanand is seen addressing an audience accompanied by some right-wing members on stage. During the event, he delivered a threatening statement suggesting violence, stating “If the police move away for 15 minutes, this person asking and lecturing for time will not survive,” cryptically referring to All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) leader Akbaruddin Owaisi’s controversial speech. It is pertinent to mention here that Owaisi delivered the speech in 2012 while addressing a rally in Telangana’s Adilabad district where he allegedly made an open challenge stating “If the police were to be removed for 15 minutes the Muslim community could show its strength”. Amid applause and sloganeering of “Har Har Mahadev from the audience, Narsinghanand is further heard declaring his willingness to sacrifice his entire family for the “Sanatan Dharma” cause. अगर पुलिस बीच में से हट जाए तो ये 15 मिनट का टाइम मांगने वाला जीवित नहीं बचेगा : यति नरसिंहानंद गिरी हरिद्वार में विश्व धर्म संसद में 20 दिसंबर, 2024 को बयान दिया, सुनिए 👇 pic.twitter.com/W4X2zbFGmr The 58-year-old priest has a history of hate speech and communally charged statements, particularly targeting the Muslim community and famous Muslim personalities like former president APJ Abdul Kalam. Earlier in October, he made derogatory remarks against the Prophet of Islam stating that, “If you have to burn effigies on every Dussehra, then burn the effigies of Muhammad.” Last year, he said “Akhand Hindu Rashtra was the dream of Veer Savarkar and Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj. This dream should not be limited to Afghanistan; we should strive until Hindutva reaches Makkah and Kaaba.” He further claimed that a Shiv temple lies beneath the Kaaba, Islam’s holiest site. Following unrest in Israel in 2023, the priest declared that he, along with 1,000 supporters, wishes to settle in Israel and contribute to the war effort free of charge. Due to his repeated hate speech, he has been booked across multiple states, with FIRs filed in Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Telangana. However, despite facing numerous legal challenges, he continues to make provocative statements without facing any legal repercussions. The Uttar Pradesh police have often been accused of allowing Narsinghanand to be scot-free despite being a history-sheeter. Critics have pointed out the apparent double standards in handling such cases stating marginalized groups and independent journalists who report these hate crimes are stamped down immediately, and those spewing hate speech remain outside the law. On Thursday, December 19, the Supreme Court refused to hear a complaint alleging that the Uttar Pradesh administration and police failed to take action against far-right Dasna temple head priest Yati Narsinghanand’s Dharam Sansad which is being organised between December 17 and December 21. However, the Supreme Court directed the UP administration to follow the guidelines on hate speech. “Please keep track of what is happening, recordings of the event be there, the mere fact that we are not entertaining doesn’t mean there should be violations,” the CJI told additional solicitor general KM Nataraj representing the state. A team of former civil servants and activists, including retired IAS and IFS officers Aruna Roy, Ashok Kumar Sharma, Deb Mukarji and Navrekha Sharma as well as former member planning commission and NCW chief Syeda Hameed and social researcher and policy analyst Vijayan MJ, filed a contempt petition stating such events which include hate speeches could lead to communal disharmony in the region. They pointed at the Dharam Sansad advertisements which explicitly mention anti-Muslim speeches.

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