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Improbably, one of the great viral hits of the 2000s has returned this holiday season: Charlie the Unicorn. Created by Jason Steele of FilmCow, the original “ Charlie the Unicorn ” Flash animation short was released on Newgrounds in 2005 and slammed in to the cultural vernacular of terminally online millennials. Steele’s Charlie shorts had a tight formula featuring a pink and blue pair of tooth-erodingly saccharine unicorns who would relentlessly bother the skeptical and foul-mouthed Charlie into traveling with them on ceaselessly capricious adventures stocked with classic mid-aughts random humor. At the climax of each short, Charlie would, despite himself, give in to their relentless cheerfulness and start to enjoy himself — at which point they would conk him on the head and traffic one of his organs. When you write it all out like that it really does make you think: You know what? Skibidi Toilet is fine. Steele followed up with some sequels, parodies, and spinoffs throughout the ’00s and early teens, eventually culminating in a Charlie “finale” in 2021. But lo, on the second day of Christmas my YouTube algorithm gave to me “Charlie the Unicorn Enjoys a Moment of Peace.” And, spoilers, but, the title is accurate. In the new vid, nothing bad happens to Charlie at all, and he is allowed to engage earnestly with a moment of true whimsy without any negative consequences. I’m happy for him. I wish that for you as well, reader, and for all of us, in this holiday season and the new year to come. Animation Entertainment Fantasy Special Issues Yuletide YouTubeSkobalj's 19 help UIC down La Salle 96-83

Larry Hogan slams parties for ‘dividing’ Americans in first post-election speechMidland, Texas, Dec. 16, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Natural Gas Services Group, Inc. ("NGS" or the "Company") NGS , a leading provider of natural gas compression equipment, technology, and services to the energy industry, announced today that David Bradshaw has retired and resigned from its Board of Directors, effective as of December 10, 2024. Mr. Bradshaw's decision to retire and resign from the Board was not the result of any disagreement with the Company or the Board. "The Board and I wanted to formally recognize and thank David for his thirteen years of service to NGS as a Director," said Stephen Taylor, Chairman of the Board of NGS. "His knowledge of the oil and gas industry along with his significant operating experience provided unparalleled value to the Company and management over his tenure. His insight and advice will be missed by the Board. We wish him well in his future endeavors." "I want to thank Steve for inviting me on to the Board more than a decade ago," stated Mr. Bradshaw. "NGS and its Board are in a very strong place and this gave me great comfort in my decision to retire. I wish the Company, the Board, and the management team well and I am confident they will continue to deliver for shareholders." About Natural Gas Services Group, Inc. (NGS): NGS is a leading provider of natural gas compression equipment, technology and services to the energy industry. We rent, design, sell, install, service and maintain natural gas compressors for oil and natural gas production and processing facilities, generally using equipment from third-party fabricators and OEM suppliers along with limited in-house assembly. We are headquartered in Midland, Texas, with an assembly facility located in Tulsa, Oklahoma, a rebuild shop located in Midland, Texas, and service facilities located in major oil and natural gas producing basins in the U.S. Additional information can be found at www.ngsgi.com. Forward-Looking Statements This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Forward-looking statements involve a wide variety of risks and uncertainties, and include, without limitations, statements with respect to the Company's strategy and prospects. Such statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties which are disclosed in the Company's reports filed with the SEC, including its Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023 and its other filings with the SEC. Readers and investors are cautioned that the Company's actual results may differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements due to a number of factors, including, but not limited to, fundamentals of the compression industry and related oil and gas industry, compressor demand assumptions, overall industry outlook, the ability of the Company to capitalize on any potential opportunities and general economic conditions. For More Information, Contact: Anna Delgado, Investor Relations (432) 262-2700 ir@ngsgi.com www.ngsgi.com © 2024 Benzinga.com. Benzinga does not provide investment advice. All rights reserved.

A last-minute appeal by a San Jose State University women’s volleyball player to get her transgender teammate banned from a regional championship series starting Wednesday has been denied. A two-judge panel in Colorado federal appeals court on Tuesday morning rejected the emergency appeal by San Jose co-captain Brooke Slusser and others to prevent a transgender woman from playing for the Spartans in the Mountain West Conference tournament starting tomorrow. On November 13, San Jose State Spartans women’s volleyball co-captain Brooke Slusser, along with former Spartan volleyball players Alyssa Sugai and Elle Patterson, San Jose State associate head coach Melissa Batie-Smoose and eight players from four schools that have forfeited games against the Spartans sued three school officials, the Mountain West Conference and the Cal State system over the presence of the transgender player on the San Jose team. Two days later, they sought an emergency injunction to bar the player from the six-team Mountain West finals, and scrap the conference’s policy allowing transgender players who meet certain testosterone thresholds. They also wanted Spartan wins from forfeits canceled, with a recalculation of conference standings. On Monday, Colorado federal court judge S. Kato Crews denied the injunction , saying Slusser and her co-plaintiffs waited too long to ask for it. Slusser and the others appealed Crews’ decision late Monday to the 10th Circuit appeals court in Denver, arguing that the judge “erroneously” ruled that federal Title IX anti-discrimination education law “protects men who identify as transgender more than biological women.” The appeal asked the court to reorder the conference standings, take away the Spartans’ first-round bye and give it to Utah State, and make the transgender Spartan ineligible for the tournament. The two appeals court judges, in their ruling Tuesday about 20 hours after the emergency appeal was filed, said they agreed with Crews that Slusser and the others waited too long to ask for changes affecting the Mountain West championship series when the event was just two weeks away. The measures requested in the appeal would have been “highly prejudicial and harmful to the defendants,” judges Nancy Moritz and Carlos Lucero wrote. Like Crews, Moritz and Lucero noted the transgender player had been on the Spartan team since 2022, with news of their presence surfacing this spring, and forfeits starting in September. By delaying the request for emergency changes, Slusser and the others “clearly failed” to show “irreparable harm” would occur if their request were denied, the judges wrote. However, Moritz and Lucero stated that the claims by Slusser and her co-plaintiffs “appear to present a substantial question and may have merit.” The lawsuit continues in Colorado U.S. District Court, with both sides ordered by a judge to submit a proposed schedule for the case by Jan. 6. The Spartans over the weekend secured the No. 2 seed spot in the tournament, with a bye in the first round. Then they are scheduled to face the winner of a match between Utah State and Boise State — two of the five teams that have forfeited against San Jose State. Presence on the Spartan team of the transgender player — whom this news organization is not naming because they have not publicly declared their status — has launched San Jose State into a nation-wide firestorm of controversy over the rights of transgender people. Starting about a decade ago with disputes over who can use which bathrooms, the furor has expanded across many areas of America’s culture wars, with arguments particularly volatile on the matter of transgender women playing women’s sports. Proponents of transgender rights claim banning transgender athletes from women’s sports violates Title IX, while opponents claim allowing them violates the law by discriminating against women athletes. The Mountain West Conference, part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, applies the NCAA’s policy allowing transgender women to play women’s sports after a year of testosterone-suppression drugs if their levels of the hormone stay below certain thresholds. The California Community College Athletic Association governing the state’s community college teams lets athletes compete under their gender identity without testosterone reduction. But the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, governing smaller mostly private and faith-based colleges’ programs, bans transgender women from women’s sports. ©2024 MediaNews Group, Inc. Visit at mercurynews.com . Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

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