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THE XLII ITALIAN BOWL FINALISTS ARE SET: PARMA AND FLORENCE LOOK FOR STORYBOOK SEASON ENDINGS IN TOLEDO, OHIO JULY 1ST

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Monday, June 26, 2023

For the teams, the XLII Italian Bowl will offer total immersion in the unique atmosphere only the United States can create around championship football.

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  • For the teams, the XLII Italian Bowl will offer total immersion in the unique atmosphere only the United States can create around championship football.
  • While Guelfi leads the teams’ all-time matchup 9 wins to 3, the Panthers delivered Firenze their sole loss during the 2023 season.
  • John Grisham, who will be in attendance this Saturday, famously featured the Parma Panthers in his novel, Playing for Pizza.
  • Guelfi Firenze are looking to repeat as champions after their 2022 Italian Bowl victory over the Seamen of Milan.

Bad art friends – Jen Craig may be the best Australian writer you've never heard of

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Wednesday, June 21, 2023

Review: Wall – Jen Craig (Puncher & Wattmann) Wall is the third short novel Craig has published over the past 13 years.

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  • Review: Wall – Jen Craig (Puncher & Wattmann) Wall is the third short novel Craig has published over the past 13 years.
  • I only managed to get a copy when her agent Martin Shaw noted on Twitter that Craig herself would individually mail copies to interested readers.
  • Craig even managed to secure an interview on Michael Silverblat’s KCRW radio show Bookworm – the on-air Valhalla of contemporary experimental novelists.
  • Read more:
    In Bon and Lesley, Shaun Prescott has written an Australian horror story of uniquely local proportions

Whirling monologue

    • The unnamed narrator is an Australian artist,
      who moved to London in the late 1980s to escape her difficult, estranged family in Sydney.
    • Teun holds strongly critical views – at least, in the narrator’s account – of her family and old friends.
    • The plot is more complex than it seems at first, because virtually all of its major events occur in the background and are reported second-hand in the narrator’s anxiously whirling monologue.
    • She ultimately protests a public lecture by Lord, staging a “splattered body intervention”, which seems to be a decades-delayed response to the undergraduate happening.
    • Read more:
      Enraged, tragic and hopeful: Alexis Wright's new novel Praiseworthy explores Aboriginal sovereignty in the shadow of the anthropocene

Trans-generational effects

    • Craig’s exegetical writing on her own work is about anorexia, trauma, and trauma’s durational and trans-generational effects.
    • For these characters, past trauma lives in the present and can only be repeated and responded to.
    • This becomes clear when Eileen (yet another punning name) disappears and the narrator visits her family to track her down.
    • It also invokes material that recalls, but does not quite replicate, the key scenario of Since the Accident.

If humans went extinct, what would the Earth look like one year later?

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Monday, June 12, 2023

If humans went extinct, what would the Earth look like one year later?

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  • If humans went extinct, what would the Earth look like one year later?
  • – Essie, age 11, Michigan
    If humans went extinct, what would the Earth look like one year later?
  • – Essie, age 11, Michigan Have you ever wondered what the world would be like if everyone suddenly disappeared?

So much silence

    • Our buildings are noisy.
    • Our sky is noisy.
    • The wind and the rain would scrub clean the surface of the Earth; all the smog and dust that humans make would be gone.

Home sweet home

    • Go inside your house – and hope you’re not thirsty, because no water would be in your faucets.
    • If no one’s at the public water supply to manage the machines that pump water, then there’s no water.
    • Power plants would stop working because no one would monitor them and maintain a supply of fuel.
    • And as you move through the rooms in your house, you keep dust on the move too.
    • But once all that stops, the air inside your house would be still and the dust would settle all over.

On the street where you live

    • That last one might surprise you, but North America was once rich with beavers.
    • Lightning might strike a tree or a field and set brush on fire, or hit the houses and buildings.
    • Without people to put them out, those fires would keeping going until they burned themselves out.

Around your city

    • After just one year, the concrete stuff – roads, highways, bridges and buildings – would look about the same.
    • Come back, say, a decade later, and cracks in them would have appeared, with little plants wiggling up through them.
    • With this motion comes pressure, and with this pressure come cracks.
    • Eventually, the roads would crack so much they would look like broken glass, and even trees would grow through them.

Like ancient Rome

    • Some things would remain; it would depend on the materials they were made of, the climate they’re in, and just plain luck.
    • An apartment building here, a movie theater there, or a crumbling shopping mall would stand as monuments to a lost civilization.
    • The Roman Empire collapsed more than 1,500 years ago, yet you can see some remnants even today.
    • If nothing else, humans’ suddenly vanishing from the world would reveal something about the way we treated the Earth.

Carolina Panthers Sign TicketManager as Official Corporate Ticket Management Partner

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Tuesday, June 6, 2023

Committed to delivering full value to corporate partners and corporate ticket holders, the Carolina Panthers today announced a partnership with TicketManager that will ensure those brands and businesses can achieve maximum return on investment.

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  • Committed to delivering full value to corporate partners and corporate ticket holders, the Carolina Panthers today announced a partnership with TicketManager that will ensure those brands and businesses can achieve maximum return on investment.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230606005093/en/
    Proud Partner of the Carolina Panthers for Ticket Management and Corporate Ticket Re-Sale (Graphic: Business Wire)
    Panthers corporate customers can now use TicketManager’s convenient and easy-to-use technology to centralize their ticket inventory—including tickets for all other teams and events throughout North Carolina and South Carolina—seamlessly managing requests, distributing tickets to staff and guests, and tracking usage in real-time through reports on which tickets were transferred, to whom and whether they were utilized.
  • “Having TicketManager, a leader in helping companies manage tickets, sponsorship assets, and client entertainment, as a partner does just that.
  • TicketManager provides our corporate partners with the best tools and technology to get the most out of their tickets and suites.

Nium enhances global payroll payments solution, offers transparent Foreign Exchange (FX) rates for more predictable payroll

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Wednesday, May 31, 2023

SAN FRANCISCO and SINGAPORE, May 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Nium, the leader in real-time global payments, has enhanced its market-leading payroll payments solution to support the complex needs of payroll platforms worldwide. Nium's payroll solution simplifies global growth for a majority of payroll platforms, including Panther, a provider of global employment, payroll, benefits, and contractor software that can be integrated with an HR tech stack.

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  • SAN FRANCISCO and SINGAPORE, May 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Nium, the leader in real-time global payments, has enhanced its market-leading payroll payments solution to support the complex needs of payroll platforms worldwide.
  • Nium's payroll solution simplifies global growth for a majority of payroll platforms, including Panther , a provider of global employment, payroll, benefits, and contractor software that can be integrated with an HR tech stack.
  • The global payroll outsourcing market was pegged at $9.9 billion in 2021, according to U.S.-based Allied Market Research .
  • Specifically, 80% of companies believe that transparent foreign exchange rates are important for payroll providers.

FIU celebrates Kenneth A. Jessell's investiture as sixth university president

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Thursday, May 18, 2023

MIAMI, May 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today FIU celebrated the ascension of Kenneth A. Jessell to the office of president at an investiture ceremony held at the university.

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  • MIAMI, May 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today FIU celebrated the ascension of Kenneth A. Jessell to the office of president at an investiture ceremony held at the university.
  • "I humbly serve as the sixth president of this great institution, with an overwhelming sense of optimism for what is possible for FIU in this new era," Jessell said.
  • The future of FIU is indeed bright and part of that is in great tribute to the leadership of Dr. Kenneth Jessell."
  • The FIU Board of Trustees named Jessell the sixth president of FIU on Oct. 17, 2022.

Signify scores LED and connected lighting upgrade for the National Hockey League's Florida Panthers at home venue FLA Live Arena

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Thursday, May 18, 2023

"Curating a world-class fan experience continues to be a driving mission of our franchise," said Rob Stevenson, Executive Vice President, People and Facilities, Florida Panthers.

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  • "Curating a world-class fan experience continues to be a driving mission of our franchise," said Rob Stevenson, Executive Vice President, People and Facilities, Florida Panthers.
  • "Signify's cutting-edge lighting solutions not only provide us with the enhanced flexibility to bring FLA Live Arena to life in ways that were never before possible, but also notably increase the building's energy efficiency."
  • Signify and the Panthers also replaced its existing, high-maintenance High Pressure Sodium fixtures in the parking lot with Lumec RoadFocus Plus LED luminaires .
  • NGU Sports Lighting partnered with Signify on the sports lighting installation at FLA Live Arena.

Plastic rats and playoff beards: Superstitious behaviours in hockey fans and players increase during the playoffs

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Wednesday, May 10, 2023

As the Toronto Maple Leafs recently limped to a third straight defeat to the Florida Panthers, Leafs fans experienced the dreaded rat trick.

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  • As the Toronto Maple Leafs recently limped to a third straight defeat to the Florida Panthers, Leafs fans experienced the dreaded rat trick.
  • In this ritual, Panthers fans throw plastic rats onto the ice to summon the energy of past, unexpected successes.
  • Read more:
    Leafs and Oilers in the NHL playoffs: Can I cheer on a team I usually hate?

The superstitious athlete

    • Although all sports have their share of superstitious participants, hockey players have certainly earned their reputation for being at the high end of the range.
    • As I alluded to earlier, playoff beards become ubiquitous among players at this time of year.
    • Baseball players are certainly not to be outdone as a superstitious group — for example, it’s taboo to talk about a no-hitter.

Fan superstitions

    • These superstitions can be group-based — like the rat trick — or personal.
    • But if we can understand why athletes succumb to superstition based on actual benefits, how can we justify these behaviours among fans?

Handling uncertainty

    • In general, humans don’t handle uncertainty very well.
    • In the absence of concrete answers, we start to make up explanations of our own — these are known as attributions.
    • We especially tend to attribute sporting success to factors that are under our control, like player and coach performance or fan involvement.
    • Spectator sport is one of the most unpredictable things in the world, so we have a desire to combat this uncertainty and control what’s happening by any means possible, rational or otherwise.

During playoff time, be kind

    • Sport superstitions make very little sense to non-sport fans, because they haven’t experienced the intensity of emotions and mental gymnastics that come with being a highly identified fan.
    • It’s more than a pastime, it’s a big part of who we are and how we see ourselves.

FLEETCOR Reports First Quarter 2023 Financial Results

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Wednesday, May 3, 2023

FLEETCOR Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: FLT), a leading global business payments company, today reported financial results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2023.

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  • FLEETCOR Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: FLT), a leading global business payments company, today reported financial results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2023.
  • “Our first quarter performance is a great start to the year, and we are raising our guidance as a result of this over performance.”
    Financial Results for First Quarter of 2023:
    Revenues increased 14% to $901.3 million in the first quarter of 2023, compared to $789.2 million in the first quarter of 2022.
  • Net income per diluted share increased 5% to $2.88 in the first quarter of 2023, compared to $2.75 per diluted share in the first quarter of 2022.
  • Adjusted net income1 decreased 2% to $283.1 million in the first quarter of 2023, compared to $289.7 million in the first quarter of 2022.

Crestwood Announces First Quarter 2023 Financial and Operating Results

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Tuesday, May 2, 2023

Crestwood Equity Partners LP (NYSE: CEQP) (“Crestwood”) reported today its financial and operating results for the three months ended March 31, 2023.

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  • Crestwood Equity Partners LP (NYSE: CEQP) (“Crestwood”) reported today its financial and operating results for the three months ended March 31, 2023.
  • On April 3, 2023, Crestwood and Brookfield Infrastructure (“Brookfield”) closed the previously announced divestiture of Tres Palacios Gas Storage LLC (“Tres Palacios”).
  • Financially, Crestwood delivered first quarter 2023 Adjusted EBITDA of $193 million, distributable cash flow of $104 million, and a coverage ratio of 1.5x, all metrics meeting or exceeding our internal estimates.
  • On January 17, 2023, Crestwood Midstream Partners LP (“CMLP”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Crestwood, issued $600 million of 7.375% senior unsecured notes due 2031.