Udinese have won for the first time since October, their 2-1 victory over lowly Monza ending a five-game winless run and moving them into ninth spot in Italy's top-tier Serie A. Lorenzo Lucca put Udinese ahead after six minutes, but Greek defender Giorgos Kyriakopoulos equalised for the home side two minutes into the second half. However, Slovenian Jaka Bijol gave Udinese the 70th-minute winner. The result was harsh on Monza, who dominated for long spells of the game, especially in the first half. It was Udinese's first victory since October 25 and lifted them one point above Empoli. Meanwhile, Monza's misery extended to an eighth straight winless game. Only one Serie A team has scored fewer goals. - with ReutersShares of Vanguard S&P Mid-Cap 400 ETF ( NYSEARCA:IVOO – Get Free Report ) saw unusually-high trading volume on Thursday . Approximately 29,547 shares traded hands during trading, a decline of 51% from the previous session’s volume of 59,876 shares.The stock last traded at $106.53 and had previously closed at $106.74. Vanguard S&P Mid-Cap 400 ETF Price Performance The firm has a 50-day moving average of $109.56 and a 200 day moving average of $104.80. The company has a market capitalization of $2.08 billion, a PE ratio of 7.55 and a beta of 1.11. Institutional Trading of Vanguard S&P Mid-Cap 400 ETF Large investors have recently made changes to their positions in the stock. International Assets Investment Management LLC boosted its holdings in Vanguard S&P Mid-Cap 400 ETF by 147,691.7% in the third quarter. International Assets Investment Management LLC now owns 768,517 shares of the company’s stock worth $81,178,000 after purchasing an additional 767,997 shares during the last quarter. Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co. boosted its stake in shares of Vanguard S&P Mid-Cap 400 ETF by 4.4% in the 2nd quarter. Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co. now owns 368,093 shares of the company’s stock worth $36,481,000 after buying an additional 15,439 shares during the last quarter. LPL Financial LLC grew its holdings in shares of Vanguard S&P Mid-Cap 400 ETF by 0.4% in the second quarter. LPL Financial LLC now owns 313,602 shares of the company’s stock worth $31,081,000 after acquiring an additional 1,290 shares during the period. Envestnet Asset Management Inc. increased its position in Vanguard S&P Mid-Cap 400 ETF by 2.1% during the second quarter. Envestnet Asset Management Inc. now owns 259,203 shares of the company’s stock valued at $25,690,000 after acquiring an additional 5,273 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Raymond James & Associates lifted its holdings in Vanguard S&P Mid-Cap 400 ETF by 7.5% in the third quarter. Raymond James & Associates now owns 192,080 shares of the company’s stock valued at $20,289,000 after acquiring an additional 13,456 shares during the period. About Vanguard S&P Mid-Cap 400 ETF The Vanguard S&P Mid-Cap 400 ETF (IVOO) is an exchange-traded fund that is based on the S&P Mid Cap 400 index. The fund tracks a market cap-weighted index of mid-cap US companies. IVOO was launched on Sep 9, 2010 and is managed by Vanguard. Featured Stories Receive News & Ratings for Vanguard S&P Mid-Cap 400 ETF Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for Vanguard S&P Mid-Cap 400 ETF and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter .In conclusion, the launch of the CloudSky EduPro represents a significant milestone in the world of educational technology, ushering in a new era of personalized and interactive learning experiences for students around the world. With Dr. LuKa's visionary leadership and CloudSky's commitment to excellence, the future of education looks brighter than ever before.
When Vivian Perez was growing up in the suburbs of Chicago as a first-generation Mexican American, sledding was the extent of her winter sports experience. Her parents weren’t raised with snow, so they couldn’t teach her skiing or snowboarding. Perez didn’t even entertain those activities as possibilities during her youth, which revolved around academics and helping her parents support her brother, who has nonverbal autism. “Our focus was elsewhere,” Perez said. “It was more like, when are we visiting family in Mexico? Who is picking up my brother? Who is taking me to my extracurricular activities?” But this winter, she will hit the slopes for the first time — thanks to an annual program that provides more than two dozen women of color with a free Ikon Pass, season-long ski or snowboard rentals, and a half-day lesson. Winter sports enthusiasts tend to be overwhelmingly white, with that group making up 88% of participants, according to this year’s demographic study by the National Ski Areas Association. The second-largest groups are Latinos and a combined population of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders — both at 6%. African Americans represent 1% of participants. (Those surveyed had the option to choose more than one ethnicity.) Downhill snow sports participants are also still mostly male, at 62%, the study reports. But changes are afoot in Colorado’s ski towns. In recent years, Vail Resorts has set the intention of elevating women into leadership roles at the corporate and executive levels, as well as at resorts statewide. Organizations like the BIPOC Mountain Collective and the National Brotherhood of Skiers are welcoming people of color to the mountains. And SheJumps , a Salt Lake City-based nonprofit group, is seeking to do the same through its Ikon Pass Scholarship for Women of Color . Perez, 32, first came across an Instagram ad for the program while making content for her herbal apothecary, Magia Botanica . With tempered expectations, she applied. “I don’t have these opportunities often — or at all,” the Denver resident said. “I just want to see what everyone’s raving about.” Once Perez was chosen as a scholarship recipient, preparations for the upcoming ski season soon began. Last month, she visited Christy Sports in Denver’s Cherry Creek neighborhood to pick up her Burton snowboard rental for the season. While shopping, “complete imposter syndrome just sets in,” she said. “I was just (a) deer in the headlights.” Still, Perez is ready to start learning. She even convinced a friend to join her — as she put it, “I’m already motivating others to try things that maybe they didn’t think they would ever want to try.” Perez hopes to overcome her fear and get comfortable on her snowboard by next spring. “I still remember my little-kid self, who didn’t know what sledding was,” she said. “And now here I am, 32 years old, saying: ‘You know what, let’s go snowboarding.’ “ Drawing people into new outdoor experiences SheJumps helps more than 4,000 women and girls, along with nonbinary people, through its outdoor programs each year. The Ikon Pass program awards 30 annual scholarships while drawing hundreds of applications. This year, seven Colorado residents were among those chosen. Claire Smallwood, the executive director and co-founder of SheJumps, has made it her mission to diversify the slopes. The 17-year-old nonprofit started the Ikon scholarship program in 2019 after receiving a private donation of eight passes. “We could give those passes to anyone we wanted, and we thought: ‘Well, who’s the most excluded from the demographic of people that are going skiing?’ ” said Smallwood, 39. “With our mission focus, we decided it was women of color.” SheJumps now works institutionally with Alterra Mountain Co., which owns the Ikon Pass, on the initiative. In total, 106 scholarships have been awarded. In Colorado Springs, the nonprofit Blackpackers aims to serve underrepresented communities by teaching outdoor skills like wilderness first aid, providing low-cost or free gear and excursions, and creating networking opportunities in the outdoor industry. Among its programs, the group has partnered with Arapahoe Basin for four years to extend free lift tickets, half-day lessons, gear and clothing to participants in ski and ride days. Between 300 and 400 people sign up every year, though Blackpackers can take only up to 70 per day. The organization planned to host ski and ride days on Dec. 21 and April 12. Blackpackers is the brainchild of executive director Patricia Cameron, who founded it as a club in 2017 after her first backpacking trip. She invited friends on adventures, but they couldn’t afford the gear. So Cameron saved her overtime pay as an EMT to build up a collection of used gear. “I created it to fill a need and be a part of my community,” she said. Growing up as a Black woman in Maryland, the outdoors were familiar to her. She recalls family reunions hosted outside with food and activities. But she notes that the definition of “outdoorsy” has shifted over the years. “We’ve always been going outdoors, especially recreating,” Cameron said. “Outdoor adventure is where most people kind of draw the barrier.” For the broader Black community, one hurdle in trying winter sports is tied to the historic challenge of accessing wealth, such as loans, at the same rate as their white counterparts, Cameron said. This systemic wealth gap doesn’t encourage Black people to shell out hundreds of dollars to attempt skiing or snowboarding for the first time, Cameron said. And they still face discrimination, even in the wilderness. Sometimes, it’s in the form of microaggressions, and, at other times, it’s overt racism, Cameron said. For example, when hiking the Pacific Crest Trail in 2022, Cameron was told by a stranger that she didn’t belong there. “That’s what can make the experience so tough,” Cameron said. “Historically excluded from these sports” Mma Ikwut-Ukwa, 26, didn’t spend her youth in Pennsylvania doing outdoor activities with her family. It wasn’t until her undergraduate years as an astrophysics major at Harvard University that she went camping for the first time. The experience inspired her to join a backpacking club and start leading trips herself. Ikwut-Ukwa moved west after college to work in the outdoor industry. Now on a break from her doctorate program in planetary science at the California Institute of Technology, she’s made Colorado her home for over a year, working backpacking trips and teaching wilderness medicine. She learned about SheJumps’ Ikon Pass program on Instagram and applied. Earlier in the fall, Ikwut-Ukwa was selected. “I’ve been wanting to learn how to ski or snowboard for so long, but it’s just so hard to get into,” said Ikwut-Ukwa, who lives in Estes Park. “The scholarship breaks down a lot of the main barriers to doing it.” She highlighted major challenges including the staggering costs associated with snowboarding and the lack of mentorship available to marginalized people on the mountains, including herself as a Black woman. People of color — “having been historically excluded from these sports,” Ikwut-Ukwa said — often don’t have the easy access that can be facilitated by friends who lend gear and offer tips. But now she can put the money she’s saved through the scholarship toward more lessons. Since picking up her GNU-brand snowboard rental last month, Ikwut-Ukwa has already hit the slopes at Eldora Mountain Resort. Her free snowboarding lesson is booked at Winter Park, and she hopes to make the trek to Steamboat Ski Resort — also on the Ikon Pass. She’s looking forward to making progress and spending time with friends. Her long-term goal is to master backcountry skiing or splitboarding, which involves using a halved snowboard to climb uphill, then reattaching the halves to ride downhill. Ikwut-Ukwa is excited — and keeping her schedule open for shredding. “I have so many days that I can get out and go skiing this season,” she said. Want more sports news? Sign up for the Sports Omelette to get all our analysis on Denver’s teams.7. "Post-Exam Purge":
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Dating apps are a nice ego boost and a good way to kill time, but how often do you actually meet someone from there? Aisekiya are the middleman between dating IRL and dating via your phone. Today is the age of online everything—online shopping, entertainment, research simple things like that? We’re human beings and I think it would be hard to argue that human beings are not social creatures. Our ability to express our thoughts, feelings and emotions through verbal communication is one of the unique characteristics that set us apart from every other animal on this planet. That and opposable thumbs. So why are we limiting this basic human skill to mere digital messaging where our words are oftentimes misinterpreted anyway? I’ll tell you why: We’ve become so used to digital communication that a face-to-face conversation is now scary and uncomfortable. So am I doomed in my search to via photoshopped pics on my phone? That’s when my roommate told me all about . is a combination of the words, 相席 ( ; “sharing tables”) and 屋 ( ; “shop”). and throw them into a 居酒屋 ( ; “Japanese bar”), and you’ve got yourself one Aisekiya. Walk inside and you’ll see a dimly-lit restaurant filled with table booths. However, the main purpose of these booths isn’t to order a meal. It’s so you can chat it up with your assigned pair. And the bonus is that a buffet and drinks are available as well. #score! If you’ve ever heard of 合コン ( , joint dating party), this is very similar to that group dating concept, but Aisekiya is different in that the pairs meeting each other are totally random and have no connections whatsoever. , , ight. No need to set up a reservation here! You do have the option to download the Aisekiya app (new male customers can receive a discount on their first reservation), but as this is a more casual way of meeting new people, most people go without one. The first thing you’ll be asked is how many people you’re with (most people will go as pairs) and then wait to be seated in a booth. While you’re waiting, the waiter will ask for your photo ID (no one under the age of 20 is allowed in) and what you’d like to drink. For the ladies, you’ll be handed a red card (blue for boys) with a letter on it—this is like your group ID card. Once a booth has opened up, you’ll be seated in an empty booth to await your pairs or be seated in a booth with a pair of guys already sitting down. Grouping is done according to the time that you enter Aisekiya. If there are a couple of guys who enter right before/after you, chances are that they are the guys you’ll be paired up with. Keep in mind, this is group dating so if you go alone, you won’t be able to get in (go to one of “ ” locations instead.) If you go in a group of three or four, they will try to group you with another group similar in numbers. That being said, pairs are the most common so I recommend going with just one bestie linked to your arm. Something worth mentioning is that I was the only foreigner in the entire izakaya. If your Japanese is a bit rusty, I highly recommend going with one of your Japanese friends. Chances are the men you’ll be paired with are Japanese, so this is a great opportunity to practice your language skills! Here’s where the Tinder aspect comes into play: although you can’t literally “swipe left” the moment someone you’re uninterested in sits down, you do have the power to change partners whenever you want. Unlike Tinder, however, the people you don’t want to talk to anymore are sitting right in front of you, so you can’t just be a savage and yell, “Next!” Aisekiya requires you to be a little sneaky in your tactics: “Go to the bathroom” or “get yourself another drink” and while you’re up, secretly hand your group ID card to a waiter. Within 5-10 minutes, the waiter will come to your table and say that it’s time to switch and voila! You’ve successfully swiped left. Another reminder that you’re no longer staring at a five-inch phone screen. You’re conversing with your male counterparts in real life, so you won’t have time to think about some fancy line that makes you sound way cooler than you actually are (embrace the dorkiness within you). Sometimes, the conversation won’t flow so easily, and there can be awkward moments of silence. Luckily, Aisekiya is prepared for that! The waiters will come around periodically with quick card games to spark some liveliness in your group—and they’re surprisingly effective. The time that I went, we were lucky enough to have a magician come over and perform close-up magic tricks. Talk about working that Aisekiya magic! You didn’t think Aisekiya came without any rules, did you? Attention all: While waiting to be seated with others, the all-you-can-eat buffet and drinks are free for everyone to enjoy. However, once you’re paired up, the prices are the following: I know what some of you must be thinking. While it’s understandable why a girl would want to go (I mean, everything is free), why would a guy choose to spend money to go? My Japanese roommate gave me this insight: While Aisekiya doesn’t have as much of a “hook-up” vibe as Tinder might, definitely don’t walk in here with the expectation that you’re going to meet your future hubby. The harsh reality is that some of these men are just looking for a one-night stand or already have a significant other back home (disgusting, I know). Just be smart, cautious and careful, my friends. Savage boys still be running rampant on the streets of Tokyo. All that being said, if you’re looking for a break from the casual digital dating world or aren’t quite ready to take off your dating training wheels, this is a great way to mix things up! If you meet someone worth your time, great! If not, you’ll have some fun . Aisekiya is a fun and exciting way to meet new people—with someone you totally trust right by your side—and now you can do it the (somewhat) old-fashioned way! Multiple locations, check for one close to you Most open at 5 p.m. (check the above link for details) anyone sick of swiping, a fun night with your bestie