Utah State Fairpark Summer Season Kicks off this weekend
with the car crunching action of demolition derby!
Salt Lake City – May 16, 2018 – The 2018 Utah State Fairpark summer season kicks off this weekend with the car crunching action of Stirrin’ Dirt’s legendary MAY MANIA DEMOLITION DERBY. Followed close behind is old Wild West action with the GREAT AMERICAN WILD WEST SHOW – May 25 – 26.
In our new Days of 47 Arena you will be treated to everything from spectacular engine roaring, car crunching action, to stage coaches, Wild West shoot outs, and horse riding daredevils!
Both events have media participatory opportunities that are sure to please your TV viewers.
MAY MANIA Demolition Derby is Friday and Saturday, May 18 and 19. The GREAT AMERICAN WILD WEST SHOW is Friday and Saturday, May 25 and 26. For tickets to all these events check out our website at www.utahstatefairpark.com.
The Utah State Fairpark Summer Season runs throughout the Summer and is capped with Utah’s single largest event, the Utah State Fair September 6-16. For more information and continued updates on the Fairpark and Fair, visit www.utahstatefairpark.com.
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Chris Farrell: Russia Investigation is a Political Coup
On May 15, Judicial Watch Director of Investigations and Research Chris Farrell appeared on “Lou Dobbs Tonight” on the Fox Business Network to discuss the scope of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia Investigation.
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In The Now Productions presents CANDY & DOROTHY by David Johnston
Independent Theatre Now: No One Is Responsible For Us
(OGDEN, UTAH – June 15-24, 2018) The GLAAD Award-winning play CANDY & DOROTHY by David Johnston will receive its Utah Premiere by In The Now Productions this June. The show will be presented in Ogden at Good Company Theatre at 2404 Wall Ave.
This comic fantasy finds Catholic activist Dorothy Day trapped in the afterlife with Warhol superstar Candy Darling. At the same time, a young librarian on the Lower East Side of Manhattan finds her life coming undone with booze, pills, and despair. New York City provides a backdrop to this comic tale of opposites attracting, repelling and finding common ground.
In The Now team on CANDY & DOROTHY are Tyson Baker, Latoya Cameron, Dan Cartwright, Nell Gwynn, Phillip R. Lowe, and William Richardson.
“In The Now is short for Independent Theatre Now,” says William Richardson. He and friends Morgan and Caleb Parry produced THE LAST FIVE YEARS in Northern Utah and Wyoming under the name years ago. “Nell brought us this script and things just started happening. Things fell in place for us to do this on our own.”
Nell Gwynn appeared in the Off-Broadway premiere and other regional productions of CANDY & DOROTHY and says it has always stayed with her. “The play is timely and uplifting and funny without being cloying, which is difficult. David Johnston has such a clear and unique voice, and when we all met I just wanted to share it.”
“There’s just something about these women and the wisdom and wit that they bring to the table. We don’t know if they ever really met, but what if?” asks Tyson Baker. “The things that they were talking about in their day are very much part of the conversation now.”
Good Company Theatre was the “perfect venue,” adds Richardson. “Their new space has the creative vibes of a Warhol studio, a real downtown feel.”
“People have been asking us who’s involved, who’s doing what. We are all involved in creating what the audiences will see when they come to the show,” according to Latoya Cameron. “Sets, costumes, lights, lines, you name it.”
“Like we didn’t have enough going on,” chimes in Phillip R. Lowe.
Dan Cartwright didn’t say anything.
CANDY & DOROTHY will run June 15-24, Friday and Saturdays 8pm, Sundays 4pm. In The Now Productions’ social media handle is @InTheNowShows, and tickets ($20) are available at www.inthenowshows.com.
(Audience members may wish to know that adult frank language, heterosexual kissing, and other potentially triggering behaviors may take place during the course of the play.)
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4 Unexpected Ways Blockchain
Will Transform Our World
Maybe you know all there is to know about blockchain technology.
Maybe you know nothing.
Either way, in the near future blockchain could change how you do business in numerous ways, from energy use to booking a hotel.
“Right now, if people think about blockchain at all they probably only think of its connection to cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum and DigiByte,” says Andi Simon, a corporate anthropologist and author of On the Brink: A Fresh Lens to Take Your Business to New Heights (www.andisimon.com).
“But the blockchain technology is really what people should be excited about.”
Blockchain was introduced in 2009 to serve as a database that could track and keep secure large volumes of transactions in the cryptocurrency world. Once data is recorded, it can’t be changed without the approval of most network participants.
“This process supposedly creates a fraud-proof system and essentially authenticates the information that’s exchanged,” Simon says.
That’s why it has potential to be used in numerous ways, she says, such as:
“Business owners don’t need to worry about incorporating blockchain platforms right away,” she says. “But they do need to be aware of what’s happening out there so they are prepared for how technology could change their businesses in the future.”
About Andi Simon, Ph.D.
Andi Simon, award-winning author of On the Brink: A Fresh Lens to Take Your Business to New Heights, is a corporate anthropologist and trained practitioner in Blue Ocean Strategy® (www.simonassociates.net). She is the founder and CEO of Simon Associates Management Consultants, designed over a decade ago to help companies use the tools of anthropology to better adapt to changing times. Simon also is a public speaker and an Innovation Games® facilitator and trainer. She served as a tenured professor of anthropology and American studies at Ramapo College of New Jersey, and was a visiting professor teaching entrepreneurship at Washington University in St. Louis. Simon has appeared on “Good Morning America” and has been featured in the Washington Post, Business Week, Inc., Entrepreneur, the Los Angeles Times and Forbes, and on Bloomberg Radio.
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Clinton Campaign Funneled $150,000 To Hillary Clinton’s Personal Company
Source: Daily Caller
Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign has transferred nearly $150,000 of leftover campaign funds to a company she solely owns in the months following her election defeat, according to filings with the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
Tom Fitton: Giuliani Helped Prove Mueller Investigation is Political
On May 16, Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton appeared on “Lou Dobbs Tonight” on the Fox Business Network to discuss Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani’s statement that Special Counsel Robert Mueller won’t indict President Trump.
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May 17, 2018
Judicial Watch Obtains Emails Showing Podesta Group’s Work for Pro-Russia Ukrainian Political Party
Emails show then-Obama White House Counselor John Podesta Lobbying on behalf of the Podesta Group
(Washington, DC) — Judicial Watch today released new documents from the U.S. Department of State showing the Podesta Group working on behalf of the pro-Russia Ukrainian political group “Party of Regions.” The new documents also show then-Obama White House Counsel John Podesta lobbying on behalf of his brother’s firm.
Judicial Watch obtained the documents in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the State Department filed on November 20, 2017, (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:17-cv-02489)). The lawsuit was filed after the State Department failed to respond to a September 13, 2017, FOIA request for:
A March 28, 2013, email from now-Deputy Executive Secretary in the Office of the Secretary of State Baxter Hunt shows the Podesta Group, led by Tony Podesta, a Clinton bundler and brother of Clinton’s 2016 campaign chairman John Podesta, represented the Party of Regions, a pro-Kremlin political party in Ukraine.
In the March 2013 email, to a number of officials including then-U.S. Foreign Service Officer John Tefft (who would go on to be U.S. Ambassador to Russia in 2014) and State Department director for the Office of Eastern Europe Alexander Kasanof, Hunt writes:
See below, I also stressed to them the need for GOU to take concrete steps to get new SBA with IMF and avoid PFC/loss of GSP. Podesta Group is noted among host of Ukraine lobbyists in article I’ll forward in article on low side.
The Party of Regions served as the pro-Kremlin political base for Ukraine’s former President Viktor Yanukovych, who fled to Russia in 2014.
Like Paul Manafort, who is currently under indictment in the errant special counsel Russia investigation, the Podesta Group had to retroactively file Foreign Agent Registration Act disclosures with the Justice Department for Ukrainian-related work. The filing states that the Podesta group provided for the nonprofit European Centre for a Modern Ukraine “government relations and public relations services within the United States and Europe to promote political and economic cooperation between Ukraine and the West. The [Podesta Group] conducted outreach to congressional and executive branch offices, members of the media, nongovernmental organizations and think tanks.” Unlike Manafort and his partner Rick Gates, the Mueller special counsel operation hasn’t indicted anyone from the Podesta Group.
Also, the new emails show then-Obama White House Counselor John Podesta, lobbying on behalf of the Podesta Group’s efforts to secure a maintenance facility from Jet Blue and Lufthansa for Puerto Rico.
In a June 27, 2013, email former U.S. Ambassador to Germany and current New Jersey Gov. Philip D. Murphy writes to John Podesta, Minister-Counselor for Economic Affairs at the American Embassy in Berlin Seth Winnick, and others:
Jet Blue and Lufthansa are considering 2 locations for a maintenance center – Puerto Rico or Mexico. The Governor of PR wants this badly. The question is can we get to LH at the right levels to make the case. Either John or colleague OR John’s brother Tony or colleague will get to us with more details.
Winnick then writes to John Podesta: “Washington alerted us to this advocacy issue and we are on it. Phil will try to connect in the next few days and we will follow up.”
Later that day, in an email sent to his brother Tony Podesta and Winnick, John Podesta writes: “Thanks Seth. The Governor is a friend of mine. My brother Tony represents Puerto Rico and will follow up with details.”
Winnick replies to John and Tony Podesta: “Happy to help on this one. I think we have the details we need for now from SelectUSA at Commerce but will come back if any issues arise.”
Puerto Rico was selected by the airlines for the facility to service A320s in 2014.
Judicial Watch is waiting to hear on any additional documents the State Department may produce in response to the FOIA lawsuit about the Podesta Group.
“By the standards of the Mueller special counsel operation, these emails alone would have been enough for the Podestas to have been hauled before a grand jury or worse,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “These emails are a stark reminder that the Mueller’s special counsel operation seems more interested in the alleged foreign ties of the Trump team, rather than Hillary Clinton’s (and Barack Obama’s) associates.”
GOVERNOR’S WATER CONSERVATION TEAM ANNOUNCES
NEW STATEWIDE REBATE PROGRAM
West Jordan, Utah (May 17, 2018) – Water conservation just got cheaper for Utahns. A new statewide rebate program, Utah Water Savers, is now available thanks to a $750,000 ongoing appropriation from the state legislature. Rebates can be claimed at UtahWaterSavers.com.
“Utah is committed to water and its sustainability,” stated Faye Rutishauser, water conservation coordinator at the Utah Division of Water Resources. “Because Utah has a variety of climates and a growing population, we need to do what we can to extend our current water supply. Rebates are one way the state can help Utahns make needed changes.”
Statewide rebates will be given for the purchase of smart irrigation timers that save water by automatically adjusting watering schedules based on local weather and landscape needs. Additional rebates for replacing old toilets and completing water-efficient landscaping projects will be funded on a regional basis by local water providers. Plans are in place to add additional statewide rebates in the future. To view a complete list of available rebates in each area, Utahns can create a free account on UtahWaterSavers.com.
Rick Maloy, president of the Utah Conservation Forum, said he hopes Utahns will take advantage of the new rebates and that this will be an opportunity for Utahns to change the way water is used in the state. “Too many Utahns are reactive in their approach to water conservation and only conserve when they hear about drought conditions,” Maloy said. “Water conservation isn’t only about the weather. We need to be more consistent and efficient in our efforts. As a state, we need to plan how we will meet the water needs of a growing population using a limited, finite, and unpredictable resource.”
On Thursday, May 17th at 3:30 p.m., The Governor’s Water Conservation Team (GWCT) will announce the new statewide rebate program and encourage Utah homeowners to think about the way they use their water and how they can save. Media is encouraged to arrive at Conservation Garden Park no later than 3:10 p.m. for the event. Camera and audio equipment can be brought on location. Photo opportunities will be available in the Garden.
About the Governor’s Water Conservation Team:
The Governor’s Water Conservation Team was established in 2000 to help provide for Utah’s future water needs by promoting water conservation and helping the state meet current conservation goals. The team consists of representatives from the Utah Division of Water Resources and water conservancy districts from around the state. For more information and conservation tips, visit SlowtheFlow.org. For rebate information, visit UtahWaterSavers.com
