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ALPINE, Texas (AP) — Three U.S. Army soldiers at Fort Cavazos, Texas, have been arrested on human smuggling charges, U.S. Attorney Jaime Esparza for the Western District of Texas said Thursday. Soldiers Emilio Mendoza Lopez, Angel Palma, 20, and Enrique Jauregui, 25, were arrested after a vehicle allegedly driven by Palma and carrying Mendoza Lopez, a Mexican national and two Guatemalan nationals was stopped Nov. 27 by law enforcement in Presidio along the border with Mexico, about 500 miles (805 kilometers) southwest of Dallas. Mike Lahrman, a spokesman for Esparza, said he did not know the soldier’s ranks or whether action had been taken against them by the military. A spokesman for Fort Cavazos did not immediately respond to a request for comment. “Mendoza Lopez and Palma allegedly traveled from Fort Cavazos to Presidio for the purpose of picking up and transporting undocumented noncitizens,” Esparza said in a statement. “Jauregui is alleged to be the recruiter and facilitator of the human smuggling conspiracy,” according to Esparza. “Data extracted from Palma’s phone through a search warrant revealed messages between the three soldiers indicating collaboration in the smuggling operation.” Related Articles National News | Memphis police use excessive force and discriminate against Black people, Justice Department finds National News | Legendary Medellin cartel drug lord released from US prison after serving 25 years National News | Two children wounded and gunman dead after shooting at Northern California school National News | Abandoned mines in the US pose dangers to people and property when land gives way National News | Dog food recalled in 7 states for salmonella risk after puppy litter gets sick, FDA says Mendoza Lopez was arrested at the scene of the Nov. 27 traffic stop while Palma, who prosecutors said fled the scene of the traffic stop, and Jauregui were arrested Tuesday at Fort Cavazos, about 125 miles (201 kilometers) south of Dallas, Lahrman said. Mendoza Lopez’s attorney, Shane Chriesman, said he is awaiting more information, known as discovery, from prosecutors on the charge. “Once I get discovery and have a chance to assess the case we’ll develop a plan of attack” and will try to get a bond set for Mendoza Lopez, who is currently jailed without bail, Chriesman said. No attorneys are listed in jail records who could speak for for Palma and Jauregui, who are awaiting their first court appearance on Friday, according to Esparza.Soludo partners Meta for technological advancement of Anambra
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Scottie Scheffler has had enough of seemingly endless debates around money in men’s professional golf. Watch every round of the PGA Tour LIVE & Exclusive on Fox Sports, available on Kayo. New to Kayo? Get your first month for just $1. Limited time offer. The world number was speaking ahead of the Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas, where he is the defending champion, and took the chance to make light of the current financial state of the game. The tournament is hosted by Tiger Woods, and serves as a benefit for the 15-time major winner’s foundation, and when Scheffler was asked what he and Woods discussed when playing together during the pro-am, his response was incredibly tongue-in-cheek. “I think most of the time we just talk about money and how the purses need to be bigger. Today we really grinded on the Ryder Cup and how it’s just such BS that we’ve never gotten paid,” Scheffler said with a laugh. “Tiger was really frustrated, he feels like he hasn’t made enough money in his career. I feel the same way, I feel like last year I didn’t get paid enough for what I did. Mostly that, just a bunch of griping.” Scheffler, who has pocketed US$29.2 million from 19 PGA Tour events this year, was probed earlier in the press conference about the news from last month that the American team will be paid for the first time at next year’s Ryder Cup. The change has created a divide in perception between the Europeans and Americans. Luke Donald’s team displayed immense passion when they triumphed in Rome last year, and were quick to dispel any notion that they would receive payment for representing their continent. Rory McIlroy even declared that he would “pay for the privilege to play in the Ryder Cup”. Scheffler said that the Americans would do the same but the idea of doing so would be “a little bit silly for a tournament that makes hundreds of millions of dollars”. Tensions reached fever pitch at Marco Simone when Patrick Cantlay did not don a US team a cap, which was believed to be in protest to not being paid, and the European crowd jeered and taunted the Americans in response. Scheffler believes the stigma that the Americans are greedy and money-hungry is unfair one, as he insists that the change to be paid by the PGA of America for their Ryder Cup efforts - for which each US players will receive US$400,000 - is simply a welcome bonus. “As far as I’m concerned, I think all of us on the American side are more than willing to play in the Ryder Cup for free. We’ve been playing in the Ryder Cup for free for a long time,” Scheffler said. “If they want to pay us to play in the tournament, that’s great. I mean, as far as how much or what it should be, I mean, the tournament seems to make a good amount of money. “And it’s funny, I feel like a lot of the time in the golf media people are trying to talk less and less about money, but every week I sit here and get asked about money so you can’t really have both there. “As far as I’m concerned, if somebody has a problem with us getting paid, I’m more than happy to -- I mean, I don’t have a problem with it at all. I think there’s -- the last few years they’ve given us some money that we can give to charity, and if someone doesn’t want to take the money for themselves or if you want to give to charity, do whatever, but I don’t think there’s any problem with guys getting paid to play in the Ryder Cup. “I don’t think it takes away from the competition at all.” Woods had earlier been asked for his view on the payment saga, and was clear with his response. “I hope they get $5 million each and donate it all to charity,” Woods said. The 48-year-old has been at the centre of the ongoing debate around Ryder Cup payments since he voiced his preference in 1999. The PGA of America have always donated US$200,000 per player at each Ryder Cup, with half of that money going towards the development of junior golf, and the other half going to a charity of the players’ choice. Woods argued 25 years ago that the players should get the choice themselves with what they would do with the money, and insisted that he would give it all to charity. Clarifying those comments this week, Woods said that his standpoint had been misconstrued over the years. “We didn’t want to get paid. We wanted to give more money to charity. And then the media spun it around and said we wanted to get paid,” Wood said. “It’s never really been about getting paid, it’s about allocating funds to help our sport.” As for Scheffler, he is tired of the talk about money. He has plenty of it - he has made an eye-watering US$71.7 million on the PGA Tour - so it is of little concern to him, but he wants to return to a landscape where the focus is more heavily on golf than finances. “As far as I’m concerned, I don’t play golf for money. I’ve been playing golf my whole life for free and the money’s just a bonus,” he said. “If somebody wants to pay us to come out here and play golf, that’s great, I’m not going to say no to it. I’m going to do the best I can in my community to steward that money well. “If we’re getting paid to play -- should we be getting paid the money we get paid to play in these tournaments now? We get paid pretty dang well to play in golf tournaments. I want to win just as bad for zero dollars as I do for whatever millions of dollars it is. “The money’s not my motivation, it’s not something I think about, it’s just a bonus that happens when you’re out here playing tournaments. It’s a very nice thing to have.”
THE Golden Square Bowls Club is more than 100 years old, yet still finding ways to come up with first-time initiatives. or signup to continue reading The latest is the club's first foray into pennant bowls under lights on a Friday night. Golden Square and Bendigo will get round seven of Bendigo premier league lawn bowls with a Friday night game. It will be the first Friday night pennant game played under lights at Golden Square - . The clash is being dubbed 'The Battle of the Cathedral' given the iconic Bendigo landmark is located between the two clubs. It will be a loaded Golden Square side that takes to rink with all four of its metropolitan permit players lining up - Bryce Young and Ben Fearn from Melbourne and Dylan Fisher and Alex Skilton from Moonee Valley. The inclusion of Fisher gives Golden Square two members of the Victorian state team lining up along with Andrew Brown. It's a clash that pits top against third. Bendigo heads the ladder with four wins, a loss and a draw from the first six rounds, while Golden Square has made an encouraging start as it strives to finally end its finals drought. Golden Square - which last played finals in 2015-16 - is third on the ladder with three wins, two losses and one draw and showed just how damaging a side it can be in its last start when it thumped South Bendigo by 40 shots. Friday night's Battle of the Cathedral between Golden Square and Bendigo begins at 6pm. John Berry, Lachlan Darroch, Brad Campbell, Bryce Young (s); Guenther Ebenwaldner, Gary Beckham, Ben Fearn, Andrew Brown (s); Alan Eddy, Neville Bowland, Garri Conforti, Alex Skilton (s); Wayne Robins, Daryl Cheeseman, Jacob Croft, Dylan Fisher (s). Stephanie Priest, Troy Magnusson, Ian Ross, Brayden Byrne (s); Charlie Manning, Mark Anderson, Grant Woodward, Brad Marron (s); Luke Nemeth, Taylah Marron, Taylor Stewart, Tim Arnold (s); Gary Downie, Nick Rowley, Josh Matthews, Luke Hoskin (s). 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"I was staying in a big Las Vegas casino hotel when I noticed a slot machine that paid out a collectible coin. Watching people play the machine, I realized it paid off every second time. What most people didn't notice, though, was that at the bottom of the machine, it said in small letters that each coin had a face value of $14.95. So, I started playing the machine, collected an entire bucket of collectible coins, then went to the exchange cage and told the lady I wanted to cash in my coins. She said, 'Oh, no. Most people don't do that. These are collectibles.' I said, 'They're worth $14.95 according to the machine,' so, after discussing it with her manager, she paid me 1,000 bucks!" "I happily went about my business, and then later that day, when I went to hit up the machine again, it was gone. I guess after all these years, I was the first person to actually read the outside of the machine." —Anonymous 2. "Starbucks used to have a holiday special: Purchase a thermos in December for about $35, and enjoy one free coffee a day in January by presenting the thermos. So, in January, I would go to three different Starbucks a day, seven days a week, and get free coffee (of course, I would always tip). One cup of coffee at $3.00 x three cups = $9.00 a day, $63.00 a week, and $252 for one month. Bwahahahaha!" —Anonymous 3. "I had a small food-based business and participated in farmers' markets four days a week for 10 years. When you show up at a market, you need a tent for obvious reasons. I bought a tent from Dick's Sporting Goods and, for an additional $10, got the extended warranty which was good for a year; the warranty also included wear and tear. Every year I would go back to Dick's with my tent from the previous year and show them the 'wear and tear.' They would give me a new tent, and I would purchase an additional extended warranty for another $10. This went on for 10 years! New tents were close to $100, and I managed to spend no more than that for 10 new tents. That was the only time I remember an extended warranty really paying off!" — marvelouspony48 4. "When comedian Dick Gregory campaigned for president in 1968, he passed out 'Dick Gregory for President' lookalike dollar bills. They were the size of US currency and had his image instead of George Washington's. I got a stack of them at one of his appearances at Temple University and found that the campus bill changers would accept them and dispense four quarters! I ate well that semester. Fast-forward to 1982. I was driving taxis in Boston when Mr. Gregory got in my cab at the Copley Plaza Hotel. I told him the story, and he was astonished, laughed, and said he had no idea!" —Anonymous 5. "I worked at a 7-Eleven store in the 1980s, and back then, the Sunday newspaper routinely had coupons for $5.00 off a carton of cigarettes. The store was next to a busy interstate exit in a state with the lowest cigarette taxes in the country, so it was common for people to see the low prices for a carton of cigarettes and buy all we had on the shelf. When working on a Sunday, we would go to the newspaper rack outside the store, feed it 50 cents, and pull out all of the cigarette coupons. For the rest of the day, we would hold on to the unwanted receipts for the sale of cartons of cigarettes, staple the coupon to it, and pull the $5 from the register. We easily tripled our hourly rate on those days!" —Anonymous 6. "Panera has a beverage club where you can get unlimited coffee, tea, and fountain drinks for free for the first two months (then $14.99 per month after that). I would sign up and use it for almost two months, then cancel before my card was charged. Then I would get an email saying, 'We miss you,' and if you sign up for two more months, it will cost you nothing or maybe $3–$4, I can't remember. So I'd sign up again and cancel again right before the free trial ended and get the same email again. That worked for a couple of years." —Anonymous 7. "Decades ago, during our first quarter at a state university, my best friend and I lived in a dorm room. As part of our contract, we were required to buy four coupon books worth $40 each, with tearaway tickets in various denominations, for our cafeteria meals. It was $160 for food over a three-month quarter...as I said, decades ago. Late in the quarter, we noticed ads on the dorm bulletin boards where students (who were obviously eating out instead of at the cafeteria) were selling unused coupon books for prices as low as $10. The coupon books could be used for the entire school year. That gave me an idea." "We bought as many books as cheaply as possible, then went home on holiday break. While there, we each went to our family doctor and told them we had stomach issues, which we thought might have been the result of the cafeteria food. The docs wrote letters on our behalf to present to the university, which meant the school had to let us out of our $160 per quarter coupon purchase requirements. We then ate at the cafeteria for perhaps 25% of what we would have been charged. We did this for the two years we lived in the dorms (school requirement at the time). Granted, it was cafeteria food, but it was cheap, and we were never hungry." —Anonymous 8. "Movie theater popcorn — it has unlimited refills if you buy a large one. There is no restriction on when the refill happens, so I go to the theater, buy popcorn, and don’t even watch a movie. So far, I have refilled it over 12 times for free. It only works if you live near the theater; I am within two miles. And I LOVE movie theater popcorn!!!" —Anonymous 9. "ASDA Groceries in the UK used to do a price match promise. You took your receipt home, input the barcode on their website, and if there was a price discrepancy between the other supermarkets they checked against, you'd get a voucher for 2x the amount of difference. It didn't need to be YOUR receipt, of course. Did someone leave a receipt in the carrier bag? Take it home and check it. Receipt lying on the ground? Take it home and check it. I was unemployed at the time, and always took home whatever receipts I found." "I found one around Christmas with about £10 of a difference, so I ended up with a £20 voucher. The checkout people were supposed to mark your receipt to show it had been used, but if it didn't get marked, you could use it again and again until it was. This was exceedingly helpful during those lean weeks when you had to decide between the choice to 'heat or eat.' ASDA stopped doing it after a while, though." — teeldubya 10. "When I was 10, my parents signed me and my younger siblings up for the Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Kids Birthday Club. I gave Krispy Kreme my address and birth month, and they were supposed to send me a coupon for a free dozen doughnuts every year on my birth month until I aged out of their Kids Club at age 12 — because it was just for kids, right? But Krispy Kreme forgot to ask for the year in my birthday. They had no clue how old I was. So that's how, at 29, I'd been a member of the Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Kids Birthday Club for 19 years." "That's 228 free doughnuts for me, plus another 228 for my sister and 228 for my brother, who signed up at the same time as me. 684 free doughnuts. Our family barely purchased donuts in years. Krispy Kreme has since closed the loophole to new signups. First, they made people list their full birthday down to the year to join the Krispy Kreme Kids club ( which they temporarily and unfortunately called "KKK " , no joke), and now they don't even offer it. Adults can sign up to get one single donut on their birthday and some special days (Tax Day, Halloween, National Doughnut Day), but that's it. But the fun continued for me...until it finally ended in 2023. I am now forced to buy my own birthday donuts. Hooray for adulthood." — McKayla K. , Quora 11. "My Dad's Lexus was stolen right out from his carport, so he reported it as stolen to the police and insurance company. After two weeks, when the car never turned up, the insurance company paid him for the car. Another week goes by, and he gets a call from the police saying they found his car parked two towns away. There wasn't a single scratch on it, and not a lot of miles had been put on it either. So now the insurance company owns the car, and they put it up for auction. My dad goes to the auction and bids on his car to get it back. He won the bid with $10,000 to spare. So he drove home in his car with an extra $10,000 in his pocket." — Pam W.H. , Quora 12. "I'm not sure how widespread this 'trick' was, but a close childhood friend taught it to me. This was back in the day when public pay phones were all over the place. He showed me that if you dialed '10ATT1' on a pay phone, you would get another dial tone and could dial out for free. We placed many 'free' calls back in the day. This method also allowed me to make long-distance calls, and even to call those 976-CHAT numbers (normally $1.99 a minute)." "One evening, a bunch of friends and I hit all the pay phones in a shopping center, and each called the line. Other people were on the line, and we all acted like we were 'regulars' and knew each other through the chat line. I have no idea where my friend learned this trick. I figured he had a relative who worked for the phone company." — Taylor P. , Quora 13. "Every year, I purchased McDonald's Trick or Treat books. These books sold for $1 each and had coupons for 12 'free' items, such as ice cream, burgers, apple slices, yogurt, and fries. The idea was to give one of the coupons to each trick-or-treater who showed up at your door. The coupons were good until December of that year. About 10 years ago, I purchased my customary 10 books and noticed that they did not have an expiration date that year! I went back and purchased an additional 50 or 100 books (I forget how many), but the store was sold out of them when I got done." "We used those books for YEARS! I still have a couple of coupons left, waiting to be used. There was NO AGE RESTRICTION and NO EXPIRATION! The missing expiration date meant that ALL McDonald's had to honor them no matter the month or YEAR. I presented some to one location that had never even SEEN these coupons." — Christine K. , Quora 14. "Instead of paying for Netflix, I profited. I accidentally discovered this loophole when I wanted to upgrade my account from Basic (€8 a month) to Standard (€11 a month). A few weeks later, I changed my mind and downgraded to Basic — exactly one day before I was supposed to get charged like every month. Since I had used the Standard account for most of the month, I assumed I would be charged €11. However, I was surprised to find out that they had charged only €8. I thought it might have been a glitch, and I was curious to find out if it would work every time, so I upgraded my account again and then downgraded it one day before I was supposed to pay. Again, they charged only €8." "I knew I had found a loophole, so I continued to exploit it. After three months of using a Standard account, I decided to try if it would also work if I got Premium. I have three siblings who also like watching Netflix, so Premium would be great. Guess what? It worked. So, for the next five months, I would share a Premium account with my siblings, and we would pay only €8 for it. But here's the most evil thing: I didn't tell my siblings about the loophole. They believed I had to pay €14. Since we had agreed that each of us would pay €3.50, I received €10.50 from them. And I had to give only €8 of that to Netflix. So, not only did I get Netflix for free, but I also profited €2.50 every month. And all I had to do was downgrade my account back to Basic just before I got charged (which was at the exact same time every month) and then upgrade it to Premium right after. It worked great for a few months, but then I started to feel a little guilty. My siblings watched a lot less Netflix than me, but they were the ones who had to pay for it. Around the same time, I also read an article that said Netflix was losing millions every year because people didn't pay for it. This was too much, so I stopped using this loophole. I still have a Premium account with my siblings, but we're paying the full €14. I'm from the Netherlands, so I don't know if this works in other countries. It might be fixed by now. It also might have been a glitch that only worked for my account. Who knows. I don't recommend using it." — Marie G. , Quora 15. "I’m currently attending a large university in the US. My minor has simple requirements: I must pass at least 4 of 10 offered classes. As it turns out, 4 of the 10 classes are taught by the same professor. He teaches two in the fall and two in the spring. By chance, I took him once. I’ve taken him three more times and have earned my minor, getting A’s in every single one of his classes. And I guarantee you I couldn’t pass a basic class with any other professor. This professor gives weekly quizzes and monthly tests in person, but via the computer. We sign into a special software that doesn’t allow us to search the internet, and take the test with him there. Everything was multiple-choice. But here’s where it gets interesting..." "Many of his questions had more than one answer. So, he set the test so you could check as many answers as you wanted. For example, we could select both A and B because the answer could be both. But the test never counted how many answers we selected. It only made sure you checked the right box, not if you checked a wrong box. So, if the answer was A and B, and I checked A,B, and C, it would count as right. So what’d I do? I checked A, B, C, D, and E for almost every single question. The software would see that I checked the right answer (because I checked every answer) and mark the question right. Sometimes, to maintain realism, I’d purposefully check only one box for a few questions to get them wrong. My average scores stood between 95%–100% the entire semester. And quizzes and tests made up 75% of his grading, the other 25% being just menial homework. These classes boosted my GPA noticeably, and now I have a particularly impressive minor to put on my résumé." — Anonymous , Quora 16. "I was accepted by Harvard Medical School without all the prerequisites and without taking the MCAT. It was the fall of my junior year at MIT. I was studying/hanging out with a girl I had a crush on (a senior), and she was upset that her MCAT scores were not good enough. I was flipping through the brochure for Harvard Medical School and saw what I thought might be a major loophole. I told her not to give them the MCAT scores, as they were not really an admissions requirement. Of course, she didn’t believe me and challenged me to apply and see if that 'loophole' worked. So I did." "I sent in my application on the very last day applications were accepted, despite being a junior and not having all the prerequisites, finishing my application at 4 a.m. after studying for a couple exams and doing a problem set or two. Not surprisingly, a few weeks later, I received a letter from the Dean of Admissions for Harvard Medical School informing me that there was no record of me having taken the MCATs, so unless their information was incorrect, they would have to withdraw my application. I called the admissions office, and after several tries was finally able to speak to the Dean: 'Dean Paul, I received a letter telling me that you would have to withdraw my application because I haven’t taken the MCAT.' 'I understand. Is that incorrect; have you taken the MCAT?' 'No, I haven’t.' 'Well, I’m sorry, but we will have to withdraw your application; the MCAT is an admission requirement for Harvard Medical School.' 'With all due respect, sir, I beg to differ. The MCAT is not an admission requirement for Harvard Medical School.' 'Wait, you’re telling me, the Dean of Admissions, what the admission requirements are?' 'Yes, sir. I believe you are referring to the paragraph on page 29 that lists the entrance requirements for Harvard Medical School and includes the MCAT.' 'Yes, exactly.' 'Well, it clearly states that the MCAT is an entrance requirement; it doesn’t state that the MCAT is an admission requirement. So if you admit me in April, I will gladly take the MCAT over the summer and have it for you by the time I enter in September.' 'Ah, I don’t think that’s what it means.' 'I realize it may not be what you intended, but I’ve checked with two of my linguistics professors, including a Nobel Prize winner, and they agree that is what the paragraph means.' 'Hmmm. Well, I’ll talk to the members of the committee and get back to you.' A couple of days later, he called me back and told me that the committee had discussed the matter, and that while it was not what they intended, they agreed that it did indeed mean just that, so they would not withdraw my application. At first, I was very pleased, but then I realized that all that meant was that they were not going to officially withdraw my application, but they could still just unofficially withdraw it, i.e., ignore it and reject me. So I really didn’t think about it much until I got a call to come in for an interview (that’s a whole different story!). April rolled around, and a thick envelope arrived with my acceptance letter. A couple of weeks later, I received another letter reminding me that I had not yet fulfilled all the entrance requirements, including the English and Biology requirements and the MCAT, and asking me to let them know when I would. Of course, the next year, the language in the brochure was changed to close this loophole!" — David M.J., Quora 17. "In high school, I had a part-time job in a local chain supermarket store. I did the usual: stocking shelves, helping in the butcher shop, cleaning floors, and bagging groceries. The store began running a promotion where, for every $100 in receipts, you could get a free dish in a set of 'fine' china. It was kind of silly; the reality was that most people would never accumulate enough receipts for a place setting, let alone an entire set." "But in my tenure as a bag boy, I noticed several things: 1.) People often just put the receipt in the trash can on the way out; 2.) They often told the cashier they did not want the receipt, and she put it in the trash can under the register; and 3.) If I was helping people, especially the older ladies, take the groceries to their car and asked them for their receipts, explaining I was trying to get my ma a set of dishes, they usually gave them to me. So I became the most willing volunteer to bag groceries, the most diligent emptier of trash cans, and the most solicitous helper to people who needed assistance getting groceries to their car. A week before the promotion ended, I presented thousands of dollars in receipts to my ma and explained what she had to do, omitting to the store, of course, that she had a relative employed there. That is how we got the 'fine' china that is still used by my ma to this day — complete with soup tureen and gravy boat — and the highly sought after 'Giant Serving Platter.'" — James V.D. , Quora 18. "I'm sure you're familiar with Starbucks Coffee. Starbucks offers membership cards that cost about $5. These cards aren't super useful at first glance. It's putting your money on a card that can ONLY be used to buy coffee, after all. Why do that when you can just use actual money? Well, there's more to it than meets the eye — for us cheapskates. You see, being a member and getting your own card means that you get a free drink once a year for your birthday. And you don't have to show your birth certificate for them to determine your birthday. You simply fill out all that information when you first buy the card. Now, this is technically illegal, but if one HYPOTHETICALLY bought 365 cards and set a different birthdate for each of them — one for each day of the year, of course — then they could get a free coffee. Every day. For the rest of their life." — Gabren , Quora 19. "Many years ago in Canada, I lived in an apartment shared with a couple of other students. Canada is cold. As students, we each had a room and a central kitchen. Heating was included in the rent, which was great. We just set the kitchen heat control thermostat to 72oC (21oC). This was great in September, even October. Into November and onwards, we enjoyed the comfortable ambient temperature you would expect for a heated apartment. Sometime in late November or early December, the landlord began to complain that his heating costs were too high. He asked if we would mind setting the heat to 60oF (15oC) while we were on campus in classes and overnight sleeping and 70oF (20oC) when we were there during the evenings. Sure. No problem. Reasonable. We complied." "In January, the landlord complained again about heating costs being too high. We thought we had been flexible enough. We were doing his reasonable austerity measures, and were paying the same rent as we had in September–November. Heat was supposed to be included in the rent. The landlord asked if we would do 50oF (10oC) for days and 60oF (10oC) for evenings and overnight. We declined. Not reasonable. We were paying for heat. There was a discussion and some negotiation. Then, that landlord made a strategic blunder. One day, he said he would be doing maintenance while we were in class. When we came home, we discovered he'd put a locked plastic box over the thermostat and set it for 50oF (10oC). Colder than cool. It was frigid in both the rooms and the kitchen. Doing that while we were out for class had been a mean and dirty trick. Not to be outdone, we got a plain old bucket. Canada, as you might expect, has snow from sometime in December until mid–late April. Our standard practice became for the first person going into the house from class and the last person going out for the day to hang a bucket packed with snow on that locked thermostat box. The landlord just couldn't figure out why his costs went up and why we stopped complaining. That bucket of snow kept that heat-controlling thermostat thinking it was FREEZING in the apartment, and it kept the furnace running just fine. It took a while to get the right amount of snow to get a comfortable temperature. Soon, we were warm and cozy. The landlord had to give us a day's notice for any inspections, and the bucket was always standing in the corner with a mop in it by the time he arrived. He'd always find the apartment a frigid 50oF (10oC) during his inspections. We used that bucket for the rest of the lease. It wasn't a paper loophole but a technical one. And we exploited it to the fullest." — Ian S ., Quora 20. "In a discussion with a Luxor Casino host, she mentioned that my fiancé had done 'very well' during her last visit. She hadn't actually done all that well, so we suspected that her record had been crossed with somebody with far more money. We decided to see just how far we could push that." "We scheduled our wedding at the Luxor wedding chapel and demanded a suite. What we got was five nights in one of the four VIP suites in the penthouses of the two towers, reserved for high rollers and celebrities. It was easily big enough for our wedding reception with a bar, dance floor, and disc jockey. They tried to stop us from bringing outside liquor into the building, but after a short discussion, they relented. Luxor management even brought us a wedding cake. When we checked out, we expected to see a bill for a few grand to cover all the food and amenities. Instead, we were shocked when they told us that everything was complimentary. We laughed all the way to the cruise ship for our honeymoon. Over the next few years, we returned to Luxor for a few more complimentary stays until they eventually figured out that we weren't big gamblers." — Wiley W. , Quora 21. "When I lived in Tempe, Arizona, I lived in the back of my apartment complex and got my own little sheltered parking spot for my Toyota. Unfortunately, it was not uncommon for people to park in my designated spot or block it with their cars. Being as polite as I could, I would go around and knock on doors to try and get that person to move their car. Often, I would be late for class. One day, I was looking through the tenants' rights of Maricopa County, Arizona, and I found a clause that stated that the tenant had the right to remove an illegally parked vehicle." "The clause then defined 'an illegally parked vehicle' to mean a car that is parked in such a way that it hinders the tenant from entering or exiting their designated parking space. The clause also said that the owner of the illegally parked vehicle is responsible for fixing any damage caused by the removal of the vehicle. The clause never stated HOW the tenant might do that, however. The county legislators probably thought that 99.99% of people would call a towing company, but I had places to be and was honestly fed up with these illegal parkers, so I was part of that other 0.01% group. I bought towing straps on my way home from class one day, and I didn't even have to wait a full night. Parked in my space — a space I was paying rent for — was a black Tesla. I hooked it up to my Toyota diesel pickup and dragged it out of there, tires squealing. I left it in the middle of the street, and the next morning, the owner came out and stood perplexed at the new positioning of his car. A few days later, there was a Prius parked in front of my truck. I had to get to class but couldn't. So, I gently pushed the Prius out of the way with my bull-bar and left it in the middle of the street. The Prius sustained a minor dent in its passenger side, and that evening when I got back from college, there were several police officers on the scene. The owner of the Prius tried to charge me with a hit and run, but after I showed the officers the picture that I took of the Prius blocking my truck in, the clause from the tenant's rights document, and the lease proving that I was the rightful occupant of the parking spot, they determined that the Prius owner was at fault and responsible for the damages. Several more times this happened, and eventually, word got around that my parking spot was not safe to park in front of. Everyone could tell if there was a newbie in town because they would park in front of my spot and subsequently get yanked. Thanks, Maricopa County!" — Dave S. , Quora 22. "Pizza Hut used to have a guarantee at lunch that you would have your personal pan pizza in five minutes, or your next one was free. The 'scam' was that if they didn't have the pizzas made and waiting to be served, they wouldn't take your order (which started the clock). So I walked in and placed my order 'to go' at the register. Since I wasn't sitting at a table, they couldn't delay taking my order. I also knew the manager worked weekends and took Tuesdays off, making Tuesdays rather chaotic. So, on Tuesdays, I would order my two pizzas and get two coupons for a free one next time, which would give me two more. Of course, there were times when they would make the five minutes, and I'd have to pay the next time. My record: I bought two pizzas, got 14 free." — James O. , Quora 23. "In a month and a half, I would have had 20 years with my company and become fully vested in the retirement system. But then I received notification that I was being terminated in four weeks. They gave a couple of reasons for it, but I knew the real reason. The new president of the company used to be the general manager of an operating unit for which I'd been called in to fix a production issue (I worked for corporate as a 'firefighter'). I fixed the issue in three days and gave him a full report. He offered me a job. Now, remember, I was part of the corporate staff, but he was offering me a position in an operating unit. It was kind of a step down, and only a 4% raise was involved. I respectfully declined the offer — and my corporate boss was so happy that I was staying that I got a 22% raise!" "Well, the general manager was named president, and he went through his list of people who had crossed him. I was way down on his list, but I was still on the list. So was my boss. But my boss was old enough to retire comfortably. I was 45 and nowhere near retirement age, and now it seemed like I was going to be screwed out of my pension. A friend who happened to have some HR experience heard I was being let go and gave me some pointers. I called the head of HR and asked if my position was being eliminated or if I was being terminated. I was told that the position was being eliminated. That was very important information because, according to the law of my state, a person being terminated must be given two to four weeks' notice. However, if the position is being eliminated, then the person must be given no less than eight weeks' notice. Hmmmm. Apparently, HR realized what I was asking, did some research, and called me back, saying that they were giving me those eight weeks, which meant I would reach 20 years and collect my full pension. Fortunately, I was in good standing with HR. After all, we worked in the same office for many years. I was also given a year's severance pay. Cool, I could now coast for a year." — Tom C ., Quora 24. "Back in my college days, there was a place in town where someone put a needle in your arm, removed the blood from your body, harvested the plasma, and then returned the blood to your body. It was easy money — $20 for your first visit in a week and $30 for your second visit. It was good money for what it was back then. I had been doing this for about a year when the plasma place sent out a mass mailing to all the dorm buildings on campus. The mailing contained a coupon for a new donor special that entitled you to an extra $5 if you brought the mailer along. As I watched nearly everyone dispose of the mailer in the recycling bin, I struck upon an idea. I dumpster-dived the recycling bin, retrieving every single discarded mailer." "When I was done, I had a huge stack, and I took one with me every time I visited the plasma place, increasing my weekly payout by 20%. But all good things must come to an end. One day, the attendant there told me that the mailer was for new donors only, and since I had already been going, I was ineligible to use the mailer to get the extra $5. That was the end of that." — Matthew R. , Quora 25. "United used to overbook flights from Portland to San Francisco all the time, so anytime I needed to fly to San Francisco, I would ALWAYS book the earliest flight out the day before and then volunteer to take the bump over and over again. I would then take the last flight out with my coworkers who booked that flight in the first place. I picked up two or three vouchers a day, and if they didn't have a bump, which was rare, I just got to SF early and crashed in the hotel. Later in the year, I used the vouchers to fly the whole family to Hawaii." — William E ., Quora (Entries have been edited for length and/or clarity.) Did you ever exploit a loophole like these folks? If so, let us know in the comments below or via this anonymous form . 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Hong Kong, Nov. 22, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Click Holdings Limited (“Click Holdings” or “we” or “us”, NASDAQ: CLIK) and its subsidiaries (collectively, the “Company”), a human resources solutions provider based in Hong Kong, announced its unaudited financial results for the six months ended June 30, 2024. In the first half of 2024, total revenue increased by approximately 14.3% We achieved steady growth over the past six months and continued to consolidate its market position in the human resources solutions sector. In the first half of 2024, the Company achieved total revenue of approximately $3.2 million. In the first half of 2024, net income increased by approximately 25.0% We have realized an improvement in our gross profit margin within our business. During the first half of 2024, the Company reported a net income of approximately $0.5 million, marking a notable increase of approximately 25.0% compared to that of approximately $0.4 million for the same period in 2023. Updates on principal sectors Professional solution services: This sector contributed approximately 31.7% of the Company’s total revenue, amounting to approximately $1.0 million. The services provided by us include (i) the secondment of senior executives such as chief financial officers and company secretaries to perform compliance, financial reporting and financial management functions for customers; (ii) the provision of accounting and audit professionals to perform audit work under the instruction of Certified Public Accountant firms; and (iii) the provision of corporate finance experts to assist in drafting of documents including circulars, announcements and others for Hong Kong listed companies and listing documents for private companies planning to go public. Nursing solution services: This sector generated approximately $0.7 million in revenue, representing approximately 21.3% of the Company’s total revenue. We provide human resources solutions to social service organizations and nursing homes by matching both temporary and permanent vacancies with candidates in our extensive talent pool. Logistics and other solution services: This sector brought in approximately $1.5 million in revenue, representing approximately 47.0% of the Company’s total revenue. We provide human resources solutions by matching workers such as packaging staff and movers from our talent pool with both temporary and permanent vacancies offered by our customers. The strong growth in revenue from this sector of approximately 72.6% reflected the rapid expansion of this sector during the six months ended June 30, 2024 in particular the additional demand for placement of works from a major customer starting in April 2024. Outlook Amid a challenging but promising market environment in Hong Kong, we will continue to focus on enhancing service quality and fulfillment capabilities to meet the ever-changing needs of our customers. Furthermore, we will actively pursue fresh business prospects to extend its market presence. Moving forward, our management holds a positive outlook on the long-term potential of the Company. About Click Holdings Limited We are a human resources solutions provider, specializing in offering comprehensive human resources solutions in three principal sectors, namely (i) professional solution services, (ii) nursing solution services, and (iii) logistics and other solution services. We are primarily focused on talent sourcing and the provision of temporary and permanent personnel to customers. Our primary market is in Hong Kong and our diverse clientele includes accounting and professional firms, Hong Kong listed companies, nursing homes, individual patients, logistics companies and warehouses. For more information on the Company and its filings, which are available for review at www.sec.gov . Safe Harbor Statement Certain statements in this announcement are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties and are based on the Company’s current expectations and projections about future events that the Company believes may affect its financial condition, results of operations, business strategy and financial needs. Investors can identify these forward-looking statements by words or phrases such as “may,” “will,” “expect,” “anticipate,” “aim,” “estimate,” “intend,” “plan,” “believe,” “is/are likely to,” “potential,” “continue” or other similar expressions. The Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise publicly any forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent occurring events or circumstances, or changes in its expectations, except as may be required by law. Although the Company believes that the expectations expressed in these forward-looking statements are reasonable, it cannot assure you that such expectations will turn out to be correct, and the Company cautions investors that actual results may differ materially from the anticipated results and encourages investors to review other factors that may affect its future results in the Company’s registration statement and other filings with the SEC, which are available for review at www.sec.gov . For enquiry, please contact: Click Holdings Limited Unit 709, 7/F., Ocean Centre 5 Canton Road Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon Hong Kong Email: admin@clickholdings.com.hk Phone: +852 2691 8200A s I write, there’s a window on my laptop screen that is providing a live view of a stampede. It’s logging the numbers of people joining the social network Bluesky . At the moment, the number of registered users is 20.5 million. By the time you read this there will be more than 30 million of them, judging by the rate that people are currently joining. The proximate cause of it is the role that Elon Musk, owner of X (née Twitter), played in the election of Donald Trump, when a significant proportion of the platform’s 200 million-plus users realised that they’d been had – that they had, in effect, been useful idiots for Musk on his path to the centre of political power. There had been an “Xodus” once before – in October 2022, when Musk took over Twitter – as people fled to a new, open-source network called Mastodon , but it was on a much smaller scale. At its peak in November 2022 it had 2.5 million users, but that number has dropped to just under 1 million now. The stampede to Bluesky is on an altogether bigger scale. The puzzle, in a way, is why it took so long for the penny to drop; after all, many X users have been hostile to Musk for quite a while. The answer, in a nutshell, was network effects. They may not have liked the platform, but that’s where everyone was. “Twitter was the place people in my business had to be,” wrote the Nobel laureate and economist Paul Krugman. “What I used Twitter for was to learn from and interact with people possessing real expertise, sometimes in areas I know pretty well, sometimes in areas I don’t, like international relations and climate policy.” But now Krugman is on Bluesky because, he says, it has suddenly “reached critical mass, in the sense that most of the people I want to hear from are now posting there. The raw number of users is still far smaller than X’s, but as far as I can tell, Bluesky is now the place to find smart, useful analysis.” I stopped using Twitter when Musk bought it, tried Mastodon (and was unimpressed) and only recently joined Bluesky. At the moment, it feels eerily like Twitter in its very early days, when the platform enabled one to plug straight into the thought-streams of people one admired. “For now,” as web veteran Ian Bogost put it last week, “Bluesky invokes the feeling of carefree earnestness that once – really and truly – blanketed the internet as a whole.” It does. What’s distinctive about it? Four things. Unlike Mastodon, it’s as easy as Twitter to use. There’s no overall algorithmic curation – you can “roll your own feed”, as someone put it – decide who you want to hear from. Every user is entitled to “free speech” but nobody gets “free reach” via a profit-driven algorithm. And finally, it runs on an open technical protocol that’s accessible to anyone; the underlying philosophy is that social networking is too important for any one company to control it. So anyone with the requisite technical smarts could set up their own network using the protocol. This doesn’t mean that network effects lose their power, but it could be that the momentum of the stampede away from X, plus the power of an open protocol, means that we are seeing the beginning of the “splintering of social media ”. If this has the effect of eroding the monopolistic grip on people’s attention currently enjoyed by Meta, X, LinkedIn and TikTok, then it’ll be a welcome development. At least people will then be freer to choose their favourite hypnotist. But it won’t solve the bigger problem – which is what social media is doing to us and to our societies. The technology is at worst toxic and at best disabling for a democracy’s public sphere. Humans are a social species, but – as Robin Dunbar pointed out aeons ago – there’s a cognitive limit (about 150) to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships, and it mostly boils down to around 15 souls with whom one has meaningful exchanges. As a species, we didn’t evolve to be constantly talking to everyone. Addiction to social media, though – as Ian Bogost points out – means that we have to pay attention to the multitudes that turn up in our algorithmically curated feeds. Bluesky may make those feeds more congenial, but it won’t change the fact that we are still reduced to communicating in channels with a bandwidth not much wider than that of smoke signals. Here’s where we went wrong Voters to Elites: Do You See Me Now? Interesting New York Times column by David Brooks. It’s a conservative’s apologia pro vita sua . What Decca did next Jessica Mitford’s Escape from Fascism. A nice essay by Noah McCormack in the New Republic on Mitford’s book Hons and Rebels . Things to come What the future looks like from here. Dave Karpf’s perceptive and realistic list of the consequences of Trump’s victory.
Get ahead of the market by subscribing to Seeking Alpha's Wall Street Week Ahead, a preview of key events scheduled for the coming week. The newsletter keeps you informed of the biggest stories set to make headlines, including upcoming IPOs, investor days, earnings reports, and conference presentations. Investors next week will see a rush of economic indicators ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday in the US on Thursday, including the second estimate of Q3 GDP and durable goods orders for November. Also scheduled is data on new home sales in October and regional economic readings from the Fed’s branches in Chicago, Dallas, and Richmond. In the holiday shortened week, some higher-profile tech names are scheduled to replace their latest quarterly results, including Dell Technologies ( DELL ), CrowdStrike Holdings ( CRWD ), Autodesk ( ADSK ), Zoom Video Communications ( ZM ), and Analog Devices ( ADI ). Earnings spotlight: Monday, November 25 - Agilent Technologies ( A ), Zoom Video Communications ( ZM ), Woodward ( WWD ), Bath & Body Works ( BBWI ), and Semtech ( SMTC ). See the full earnings calendar . Earnings spotlight: Tuesday, November 26 - Analog Devices ( ADI ), Dell Technologies ( DELL ), CrowdStrike Holdings ( CRWD ), Guess? ( GES ), Manchester United ( MANU ), Workday ( WDAY ), and Autodesk ( ADSK ). See the full earnings calendar . Earnings spotlight: Wednesday, November 27 - Patterson Companies ( PDCO ), and Zuora ( ZUO ). See the full earnings calendar . Earnings spotlight: Friday, November 29 - MINISO Group Holding ( MNSO ) and Frontline ( FRO ). See the full earnings calendar . Volatility watch: MicroStrategy ( MSTR ) heads the list of options trading with high implied volatility amid bankruptcy speculation. The most overbought stocks per their 14-day relative strength index include Zion Oil ( OTCQB:ZNOG ), Honest Company ( HNST ), and AppLovin ( APP ). The most oversold stocks per their 14-day Relative Strength Index include Juniper ( JNPR ), Celanese ( CE ), and Regeneron ( REGN ). Short interest is elevated on Immunitybio ( IBRX ) and Enovix ( ENVX ). IPO watch: Youxin Technology (
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The Ducks will ring in December by hosting the Ottawa Senators on Sunday in a matchup of teams that are an eyelash under .500 with designs on gaining some upward momentum. They’ll enter the clash with identical .477 points percentages that situate them near the bottom of their respective divisions but not far behind a crowded pack of middling clubs. The Ducks have had more of a defensive inclination while the Senators have shown more scoring pop to date. Ducks coach Greg Cronin said his team hadn’t “had too many stinkers” of late, and that’s been reflected by their 5-3-1 record across their past nine games, with four of their five-plus-goal games this season arriving in that span. “Since we got back from that New York trip, I think we’ve been on a pretty good path in terms of playing with an identity and competing,” Cronin said. They had to grind hard on Black Friday, when they played what Cronin described as something of a postseason-style game against the Kings at Honda Center. Though they fell 2-1 to what veteran forward Ryan Strome described as a “mature, veteran team” that they couldn’t quite edge past despite playing a “disciplined, structured and north-south” game, the Ducks still felt they carried forward some positive indicators from their recent play. “It was a good hockey game. We competed hard. I thought we dictated a lot of the game. We played similar to the way we’ve been playing,” Strome said. Kings coach Jim Hiller concurred. With teams frequently playing the Southern California franchises back to back, he and Cronin get constant looks at one another’s teams during pre-scouts, and Hiller assessed the Ducks’ performance quite favorably. “I thought – we’ve played them this year, I’ve scouted them this year – I thought that’s the best game they’ve played this year. I thought they played very well,” Hiller said. Time will tell if Sunday’s match elicits similar plaudits from Ottawa coach Travis Green, who spent parts of two seasons with the Ducks as a player and is in his first year as the Sens’ head coach after previously guiding the Vancouver Canucks and New Jersey Devils briefly. Though Brock McGinn has made some progress in his return, he and Robby Fabbri remained unavailable. So, too, did Leo Carlsson, whose upper-body injury has kept him out of the Ducks’ past two matches. Cam Fowler will be a game-time decision. Related Articles Troy Terry has four points across his three-game scoring streak, while Trevor Zegras just snapped a four-gamer that saw him compile six points. For Ottawa, forwards Tim Stützle and Drake Batherson each have seven points in the Sens’ past five outings. Captain Brady Tkachuk, whom Cronin suggested could be a model for his own power forward Mason McTavish, has racked up five points during a three-game surge. Those are the three Senators scoring above a point per game this season, with Stützle’s 28 points in 22 games leading the way. When: 5 p.m. Sunday Where: Honda Center How to watch: Victory+Ohtani wins third MVP, while Judge takes his second
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