Howard L. Petterson, Author at Talad tool

02 Feb

How the PWHL’s youngest player is adjusting to a new league — and a new language

Howard L. PettersonNews

OTTAWA — Nearly 6,000 miles away from her hometown in Hokkaido, Japan, Akane Shiga was being asked about the weather.Mike Hirshfeld, general manager of Ottawa’s PWHL team, was sitting with Shiga and coach Carla MacLeod in the team office at TD Place Arena, speaking to the 22-year-old forward and Japanese national team member through her interpreter.“She’s looking at me like, ‘What is he talking about?’” Hirshfeld said about the playful preamble to an important bit of news ahead of the PWHL’s final roster deadline.Because what Hirshfeld really wanted to know was how Shiga felt about spending the winter in Ottawa,…

02 Feb

He’s Lost His Marriage, His Followers and His Lamborghini

Howard L. PettersonNews

With its streamlined curves and glow-in-the-dark sound system, the silver Lamborghini Huracán Performante was the stuff of teenage fantasy: $350,000 of aerodynamic metals and lightweight upholstery, packed into a taut and powerful body. Ben Armstrong loved it dearly.When he started shopping for a Lamborghini, Mr. Armstrong, a cryptocurrency evangelist with more than one million YouTube subscribers, worried that he’d have to spend months searching. “I think I have to go to Italy to get the Lambo I want,” he texted a business partner. “I don’t want to compromise.” But fate smiled on him. In the fall of 2021, a car…

02 Feb

Oil Giants Pump Their Way to Bumper Profits

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Exxon Mobil and Chevron, the largest U.S. energy companies, on Friday reported sizable profits for the final quarter of last year, showing that the oil and gas industry remained robust at a time of doubts because of climate change concerns.The companies’ earnings were down from the bonanza year of 2022, when a surge in prices pushed up profits, but were otherwise the strongest in recent history.Exxon earned $7.6 billion in the fourth quarter of 2023, a 40 percent fall from a year earlier. For all of 2023, the company reported $36 billion in earnings, compared with $55.7 billion in 2022.…

01 Feb

Los mejores servicios financieros en Latinoamérica

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La industria de servicios financieros en Latinoamérica ha experimentado un crecimiento significativo en los últimos años. Con la expansión de la economía y el aumento de la clase media, la demanda de servicios financieros ha aumentado considerablemente en la región. En este artículo, exploraremos algunos de los mejores servicios financieros disponibles en Latinoamérica. Banca en línea Uno de los servicios financieros más populares en Latinoamérica es la banca en línea. Con la creciente penetración de internet en la región, cada vez más personas están optando por realizar sus transacciones bancarias en línea. Los bancos en Latinoamérica ofrecen una amplia gama…

01 Feb

Roblox, una plataforma de videojuegos con fines educativos

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En el mundo de los videojuegos, existe una plataforma que ha ganado popularidad en los últimos años: Roblox. A primera vista, podría parecer solo otro juego en línea más, pero en realidad, es mucho más que eso. Roblox es una plataforma de videojuegos con fines educativos que ha logrado captar la atención de millones de usuarios en todo el mundo. Roblox ofrece a sus usuarios la oportunidad de crear sus propios juegos y experiencias interactivas. A través de su lenguaje de programación interno, llamado "Roblox Studio", los jugadores pueden dar vida a sus ideas y construir sus propios mundos virtuales.…

01 Feb

How the Border Crisis Shattered Biden’s Immigration Hopes

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On President Biden’s first day in office, he paused nearly all deportations. He vowed to end the harsh practices of the Trump administration, show compassion toward those wishing to come to the United States and secure the southern border.For Mr. Biden, it was a matter of principle. He wanted to show the world that the United States was a humane nation, while also demonstrating to his fellow citizens that government could work again.But those early promises have largely been set aside as chaos engulfs the border and imperils Mr. Biden’s re-election hopes. The number of people crossing into the United…

01 Feb

Runner With Long Covid Creates Flagstaff’s Dream Run Camp

Howard L. PettersonHealth

Never one to waste a spare moment, Matt Fitzgerald clambered into the second row of his Mazda CX-90 on a recent weekday morning and cracked open his MacBook so that he could work on another book.Mr. Fitzgerald, 52, is many things — writer, public speaker, coach — but mostly he is prolific. He has written or co-written 34 books, most of them about running, endurance sports and nutrition. He writes early. He writes often. He writes a lot.“Sometimes I do feel like I’m doing B-plus work on a dozen things versus A-plus work on three or four,” he said. “But…

01 Feb

After Jackie Robinson statue is destroyed, Wichita rallies around a baseball league

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It was around noon last Thursday when Bob Lutz walked outside of his work and headed home before the start of his daily radio show. He looked across 17th Street in Wichita, Kan., from the offices of League 42, the nonprofit baseball league he founded in 2013. On a rainy, overcast day, he gazed over toward the Jackie Robinson statue the league had erected in 2021. The statue was a symbol of hope and resilience. Lutz, though, could not see the bronze depiction of the man who broke baseball’s color barrier.For a moment, Lutz wondered if it was covered by…

01 Feb

Senators Denounce Tech Companies Over Child Sex Abuse Online

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Lawmakers on Wednesday denounced the chief executives of Meta, TikTok, X, Snap and Discord, accusing them of creating “a crisis in America” by willfully ignoring the harmful content against children on their platforms, as concerns over the effect of technology on youths have mushroomed.In a highly charged 3.5-hour hearing, members of the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee raised their voices and repeatedly castigated the five tech leaders — who run online services that are very popular with teenagers and younger children — for prioritizing profits over the well-being of youths. Some said the companies had “blood on their hands” and that…

01 Feb

Walmart to Add 150 U.S. Stores in Five-Year Expansion Drive

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Walmart will add 150 stores in the United States over the next five years, a major expansion drive for the retail giant.The company said the move, which it announced in a statement on Wednesday, would involve millions of dollars in investment. Walmart employs roughly 1.6 million people in the United States, and said it hires hundreds of people each time it opens a new store.Walmart had just over 4,600 stores nationwide at the end of October, down from more than 4,700 a year earlier. The company has not opened a new U.S. store since late 2021.Most of the stores that…