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We selected Capital One 360, Synovus Bank, Regions Bank, Delta Community Credit Union, and Credit Union of Atlanta as the best banks and credit unions in Georgia. These financial institutions have savings account rates that are lower than the average savings account. Delta Community Credit Union members will need to open the Delta Community Credit Union Personal Savings Account. Robins Financial Credit Union (Federally insured by the NCUA): Robins Financial Credit Union has a free checking account, but our top credit union has lower minimum opening deposits. We reviewed the 10 biggest banks and credit unions in the state, plus any financial institutions featured in our Black-owned banks and credit unions guide and Hispanic American-owned banks and credit unions guide.

☆ 'The Walking Dead' series finale review: Episode 24 of the extended 11th season finally comes to an end, after biting off more than it could chew (SPOILERS)
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-21 | by ( Review Brian Lowry | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers about “The Walking Dead” series finale, “Rest in Peace,” which premiered November 20. CNN —Forgive AMC, at least a little bit, for almost drunkenly celebrating “The Walking Dead” in its heyday by feeding audiences as much content related to the zombie drama as they possibly could. In its early seasons, “The Walking Dead” excelled in part because of its unpredictability, as the montage of characters who had died reminded the audience. Those plans later morphed into a limited series, but the sense that “The Walking Dead” was no longer the priority in AMC’s “Dead” universe had been pretty well cemented. Television is always hungry for another hit, and at its height “The Walking Dead” was the TV equivalent of a supernova.

☆ 3 key takeaways for the future of online sports betting after California voted against it
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-09 | by ( Colin Salao | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

California rejected on Tuesday two ballot propositions that would have legalized sports betting. California voters rejected on Tuesday two ballot measures that would have legalized sports betting in the state in 2023. Sports betting is legal in some capacity in 33 states, but California is unlike any other state in the country. "This outcome is a sign that there's going to need to be far more consensus among gambling stakeholders to get sports betting done in California," Grove said. The company had invested $17 million to try to legalize sports betting in California.

☆ Law firms that make billions fighting injuries and frauds are very hush-hush about what they pay. Here are the starting salaries at 19 firms from Altshuler to Wigdor.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-08 | by ( Jack Newsham | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Many plaintiffs' firms pay somewhere in between. Despite more law firms increasingly paying their top earners like professional athletes, many law school grads only make between $50,000 and $80,000 a year. Things do appear to be changing as more plaintiffs firms seek to compete with Big Law firm talent. But firms like Edelson that pay as much as Big Law firms are the exception. For more information on how these law firms pay, see our table below:Do you have more information on how plaintiffs' firms pay their lawyers?

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Mattress Mack's record-breaking $75 million payout on a wager that the Houston Astros would win the World Series will cost Caesars and Penn Entertainment big in their digital businesses this quarter. With the Astros' second-ever World Series win on Saturday, McIngvale clinched a $75 million payout. "I think if Mattress Mack doesn't hit, we'll be profitable in Q4," Snowden said then. We just wrote the biggest check in sports betting history to Mattress Mack for $30,000,000. "My real interest is making sure the customers win because the customers will be happy and thrilled and smiling," he said.

☆ Rep. Sanford Bishop faces off against Republican Chris West in Georgia's 2nd Congressional District election
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-05 | by ( Hanna Kang | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Rep. Sanford Bishop is running against Republican Chris West in Georgia's 2nd Congressional District. The 2nd District encompasses Georgia's southwestern corner, including Albany. Georgia's longest serving congressman, Rep. Sanford Bishop, looks to fend off Republican Chris West in Georgia's 2nd Congressional District. Georgia's 2nd Congressional District candidatesBishop, first elected to Congress in 1992, hasn't faced much competition in the past. Voting history for Georgia's 2nd Congressional DistrictGeorgia's 2nd Congressional District encompasses Georgia's southwestern corner, including Albany and parts of Macon, Columbus, and Warner Robins.

☆ DraftKings shares tumble after monthly users fall short of estimates
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-04 | by ( Stefan Sykes | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Shares of DraftKings closed down 28% on Friday after the sports betting company reported slower monthly customer growth in the third quarter that fell short of estimates. The company raised its revenue guidance for the year, however, after revenue for the quarter came in above Wall Street expectations. For the quarter ended Sept. 30, DraftKings said its monthly unique paying customers increased to 1.6 million, up about 22% from 1.3 million a year ago. DraftKings said the expansion of its online Sportsbook product, launched in September, will help drive customer acquisition, engagement and retention. Revenue for the period rose to $502 million, which was higher than the $437 million Wall Street expected.

☆ DraftKings shares tumbles after monthly users fall short of estimates
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-04 | by ( Stefan Sykes | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Shares of DraftKings were down 26% Friday after the sport betting company reported slower monthly customer growth in the third quarter that fell short of estimates. The company raised its revenue guidance for the year, however, after revenue for the quarter came in above Wall Street expectations. For the quarter ended Sept. 30, DraftKings said its monthly unique paying customers increased to 1.6 million, up about 22% from 1.3 million a year ago. DraftKings said the expansion of its online Sportsbook product, launched in September, will help drive customer acquisition, engagement and retention. Revenue for the period rose to $502 million, which was higher than the $437 million Wall Street expected.

☆ These 15 people are shaping the office of the future, designing meeting pods, hologram calls, and buildings that actually make workers healthier
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-24 | by ( Robert Davis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +27 min

These 15 power players are just a handful of the people designing workplaces to balance productivity, interaction, and employee well-being through indoor-air-quality monitoring systems, building amenities, holographic meeting spaces, and more. AftershipCities like Austin, Texas; Nashville, Tennessee; and Raleigh, North Carolina, began offering business-relocation incentives during the pandemic to boost their workforces and help increase occupancy in office buildings. Room's office suite includes a phone booth, a meeting room, an open meeting room, and a focus room. Room also makes a soundproof meeting room that fits two people, a more open meeting booth, and a focus room designed for quiet concentration. "The future of office work needs to be guided by a new, genuine form of flexibility in which the work, not the workers themselves, become even more malleable," Petersen writes.

☆ Sports betting salaries: Pay data reveal how much DraftKings, FanDuel, and other companies offer employees for tech and other jobs
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-18 | by ( Colin Salao | Ashley Rodriguez | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

The data are limited to base salaries and US-based jobs for visa-seeking employees. Still, sports betting is as much about sports as it is gambling and tech — growing industries known for high-paying jobs. The data included five US sports betting companies: BetMGM, DraftKings, FanDuel, Penn Interactive, and Rush Street Interactive. It included salaries for jobs such as a data engineer at DraftKings that would make $97,000 per year or more and a sports trading senior manager at FanDuel that would earn $130,000. A FanDuel software engineer based in New York would make $128,440, which is in the range of what TikTok has offered software engineers, the data shows.

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☆ Former day care workers at Air Force base accused of spraying children in the face with cleaning liquid
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-13 | by ( Julianne Mcshane | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

A federal grand jury handed down a 30-count indictment alleging that former Robins Air Force Base day care employees Zhanay Kiana Flynn, 27, and Antanesha Mone Fritz, 29, abused children in their care in January and February 2021. The indictment charged Flynn, Fritz and former day care director Latona Mae Lambert, 51, with one count each of failing to report suspected child abuse. “Properly caring for our Airmen and their families is of utmost importance," a spokesperson for Robins Air Force Base said in a statement. We are fully supporting the ongoing investigation and reviewing processes to ensure the appropriate measures are in place to safeguard our children.”An investigation into the allegations is ongoing by the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations and Air Force Security Forces, with support from the FBI, according to the Justice Department. According to the Department of Defense, child care centers on military bases are randomly inspected at least four times a year and receive accreditation from the National Association for the Education of Young Children or a similar body.

☆ Stellantis's good-bye special edition Chysler 300 could have had 707 horse
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-19 | by ( Peter Valdes-Dapena | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —As the big Chrysler 300 sedan, with its trademark large square grille, approaches the end of an 18-year production run, the brand unveiled a special edition model in Detroit last Tuesday night. This special edition will be the most powerful 300 offered by a wide margin. The bigger, more powerful 6.2-liter engine used in the limited edition 300C is used in the sportier Dodge Charger R/T Scat Pack, which is not a limited edition model. But the Dodge Charger and the closely related Challenger are offered with those far more powerful supercharged engines. Those models are using all the supercharged engines the Mexican factory can make, said Elshoff.

That makes me hugely happy, but I'm struggling to help them understand their privilege and appreciate the value of a dollar. You asked me if the answer is teaching your kids to understand their luck or if it's getting over your own hang-ups. You mention helping your children understand their privilege and I think that's a really important part of this conversation. The propensity for developing an attitude of entitlement is true for anyone with privilege, and since privilege is relative, most kids have at least some. But teaching our kids to recognize their privilege is different than teaching them to feel guilty about their privilege.

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☆ Cold weather testing: Airplanes endure punishing extremes
▼ + stars: | 2014-02-04 | by ( Yenni Kwok For Cnn | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —With extremely cold temperatures gripping much of the United States, travelers may be wondering how their planes are made safe for flying. Their mission was to see how their test plane, a long-range A350 XWB, withstood extreme cold. From cold to hotNew plane models undergo testing under extreme conditions before they're put into service. The cold-weather tests in Canada came only days after the MSN3 test plane completed high-altitude test in Bolivia. This kind of weather has made it an ideal spot to test aircraft.

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