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Walmart has this mega-sized 75-inch 4K UltraHD Roku TV on sale for less than $480 in a huge holiday dealWESTCHESTER, Ill., Dec. 13, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, the board of directors of Ingredion Incorporated (NYSE: INGR) declared a quarterly dividend of $0.80 per share on the Company’s common stock. The dividend is payable on Jan. 21, 2025, to stockholders of record at the close of business on Jan. 2, 2025. About the Company Ingredion Incorporated (NYSE: INGR), headquartered in the suburbs of Chicago, is a leading global ingredient solutions provider serving customers in nearly 120 countries. With 2023 annual net sales of approximately $8 billion, the Company turns grains, fruits, vegetables, and other plant-based materials into value-added ingredient solutions for the food, beverage, animal nutrition, brewing and industrial markets. With Ingredion Idea Labs ® innovation centers located around the world and more than 12,000 employees, the Company co-creates with customers and fulfills its purpose of bringing the potential of people, nature, and technology together to make life better. Visit ingredion.com for more information and the latest Company news.SALT LAKE CITY – As if Kirill Kaprizov didn’t do enough during his league-leading seventh three-point game Friday night in Anaheim to again take over the NHL scoring lead, the Wild superstar and early favorite to win the Hart Trophy then showed, in Yakov Trenin ’s words, his heart five minutes after helping the Wild become the first team to hit 40 points this season. Advertisement After first acknowledging Reese Johnson ’s Wild debut in his postgame speech, Kaprizov passed along the HARD “Hero of the Game” chain to Trenin – “the Russian Machine” — for scoring his first goal in 26 games with the Wild into an empty net from 110 feet away. It was also Trenin’s first point in 21 games. When producing points comes as easy to a player like Kaprizov, it would be easy take for granted the hardship a long drought could pose for a teammate. But Kaprizov knew how much it had been weighing on his countryman, which is why he was pumping his arms excitedly on the bench after Trenin scored. “It’s first goal for him. It’s always exciting,” Kaprizov said. “It’s nice it happens. It’s hard when you don’t score in how many games, 25, and then you score — it should be a big deal.” you thought we’d keep this one away for you?? ⛓️ pic.twitter.com/t1DPni8mtS — Minnesota Wild (@mnwild) December 7, 2024 Trenin, who then registered his first goal streak with the Wild the next night in L.A., was touched how excited all his teammates were for him. The bench was jubilant, with players hugging each other, pumping their fists and Marco Rossi giving Trenin a water bottle shower during his celebratory fly-by. “Everybody was so happy to give me knuckles,” Trenin said. “It’s so special.” trenin goal!! first for the wild and the bench is celebrating!!! pic.twitter.com/egTPhMsGMk — nikki ☽ (@kingfleury29) December 7, 2024 In coach John Hynes’ mind, when your best player shows that much awareness, it speaks volumes about Kaprizov’s character. “He really is down to earth,” Hynes said. “He’s a great player, a competitor, but he’s a team guy. He’s involved in all the team. You can tell his teammates love him because he treats everyone the right way. “You go on the road and guys go to dinner or guys go out on their night off. He’s right in the mix with everybody else. That does bring a team together when you have a star player like that that’s just one of the guys. Off the ice he’s one of the guys.” GO DEEPER The story behind the Wild victory chain: 'Choose your hard,' Hartzy's workshop and a new team attitude On a team that doesn’t generate a ton of chances (the Wild rank 25th in expected five-on-five goals for, according to MoneyPuck) but still ranks 13th in goals per game (3.19), Kaprizov has scored or had an assist on 42 of the Wild’s 86 goals. Kaprizov, 27, who has rewritten the Wild record book in his five seasons, has 372 points in 304 games. That’s fifth on the Wild all-time. If he keeps his current pace, he could actually pass Marian Gaborik’s 437 points (502 games) for second this season. Advertisement Kaprizov is currently tied for first in league scoring with 42 points and ranks first in points per game (1.62), even-strength points (32) and points on the road (10-18-28). He’s tied for first with 14 multi-point games, tied for fourth with 17 goals and seventh with 25 assists. He’s fourth among NHL forwards in average ice time per game (22:22). He has factored in on 10 game-winning goals (four goals, six assists), most in the NHL. SECONDS AFTER BOESER HIT THE POST, KIRILL KAPRIZOV WINS IT FOR THE WILD IN OT! #mnwild pic.twitter.com/2Rm2MDT2zF — Hockey Daily 365 l NHL Highlights & News (@HockeyDaily365) December 4, 2024 The definition of the Hart Trophy is “most valuable to his team.” Considering how many hockey writers predicted the Wild to not make the playoffs, if they do and he keeps up this 54-goal, 132-point pace, Kaprizov will be right in the mix for the Hart Trophy come voting in April. “Guys like (Kaprizov), they have the ‘it’ factor,” defenseman Zach Bogosian said. “I think what makes Kirill so impressive is how hard he competes on pucks. He wins a lot of stick battles, and you gotta realize too he’s playing against every single night the other team’s top pair that are trying to shut him down, and generally more defensive forwards that are trying to shut him down, and that line down. “And just to see how he can create offense against guys that are defensive minded, that’s impressive.” Hynes has seen Hart Trophy seasons up close and personal. He was in New Jersey when the Devils traded Adam Larsson to the Oilers for Taylor Hall . During his second season in Newark, Hall scored 39 goals and 93 points to lead the Devils into the playoffs, just edging Nathan MacKinnon for the Hart. “When Taylor won that year, it was very similar to Kirill in the sense of the way they practice, there’s a mission in practice and the way they come into every game, just the competitive level, the drive that they play with and the consistency level,” Hynes said. “To get to that level, to be the MVP, it’s the consistency of your play at a high, high level, and that year he was like that. Advertisement “We were a semi-rebuilding team and no one picked us for playoffs. ... But he was almost ... at times he was like unstoppable. He just found different ways every night. It would be off the rush. It would be net-front goals, power-play goals, similar to what’s going on (with Kaprizov). But to me what stands out is the level of consistency that he was able to play with.” Even with sidekick Mats Zuccarello injured, Kaprizov’s showing he’s not solely dependent on Zuccarello. He’s produced with Marco Rossi or Joel Eriksson Ek at center or Matt Boldy on his wing. “It’s so much fun,” Rossi, who has nine goals and 23 points in 27 games, said of playing with Kaprizov. “(Boldy and I) know he’s on a heater right now, so we just try to support him.” He’s also been double-shifted a lot in games with the third and fourth lines depending on circumstance and situations. In the last 10 games without Zuccarello, Kaprizov has seven goals and 12 points. “He can drive the line, whatever line he’s on,” Hynes said. “Kind of with Taylor that year and then looking at Kirill, they can play on any line. It’s not just like he needs someone to get him the puck. He can play with Zuccy and they have that chemistry. He can play with Ekky and Bolds and they have chemistry. Then I can throw him out with Marco and Bolds or you can put him out with ( Marat Khusnutdinov and Devin) Shore because he plays the game — he plays all aspects of the game. “He can forecheck. He can play in the O-zone. He can attack off the rush. He can score at the net front. So it’s not like he needs a particular style of player to play with. Whatever the game is, he can play it and that’s I think another component of being able to be that consistent.” Like his partner in crime, Zuccarello, Kaprizov is often self-deprecating when self-assessing. In Anaheim, the Kaprizov-Rossi-Boldy line combined for four goals and nine points. As Trenin said hilariously, “It was too fast for my brain. Probably the same for Anaheim. Boom, boom, backdoor, backdoor.” Wild goals never get old #EastToCelebrate x @budlight pic.twitter.com/93BTO7nenN — Minnesota Wild (@mnwild) December 7, 2024 But Kaprizov said, “With Zuccy and Ekky out now, we just try and put us together. We play before a couple shifts sometimes in different games, but today we play whole game together. I feel like Marco fast, Bolds fast. I’m a little bit fast and just feel each other a little bit, just try and create offense and enjoy playing together.” Advertisement And, frankly, that’s the key with Kaprizov right now. Hart Trophy-level or not, the Wild are winning routinely. In fact, Tuesday night in their first-ever trip to Utah, they’ll try to avoid losing consecutive games in regulation for the first time this season. But the vibes are great inside the Wild room right now. As Bogosian said, “Winning does that for teams and cultures,” and you can just see the joy on Kaprizov’s face every time he walks into the rink and certainly when he walked out after another productive night. “It’s just team, you know?” Kaprizov said when asked how he maintains the level he’s playing at. “Team keep winning, and it’s easy to play myself and it’s easy to play for the whole team and just love to come to the rink. Everybody’s smiling, joking around, and have some fun and same you go in the game you jump on the ice and you just try to show your best. That’s it.” (Photo of Yakov Trenin celebrating his goal: Gary A. Vasquez / Imagn Images)Namibia will have its first female leader after VP wins presidential election for the ruling party
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Trump promises to end birthright citizenship: What is it and could he do it?Jimmy Carter, the 39th president and a Nobel Peace Prize recipient, has died at 100A 7-year-old rivalry between tech leaders Elon Musk and Sam Altman over who should run OpenAI and prevent an artificial intelligence "dictatorship" is now heading to a federal judge as Musk seeks to halt the ChatGPT maker's ongoing shift into a for-profit company. Musk, an early OpenAI investor and board member, sued the artificial intelligence company earlier this year alleging it had betrayed its founding aims as a nonprofit research lab benefiting the public good rather than pursuing profits. Musk has since escalated the dispute, adding new claims and asking for a court order that would stop OpenAI’s plans to convert itself into a for-profit business more fully. The world's richest man, whose companies include Tesla, SpaceX and social media platform X, last year started his own rival AI company, xAI. Musk says it faces unfair competition from OpenAI and its close business partner Microsoft, which has supplied the huge computing resources needed to build AI systems such as ChatGPT. “OpenAI and Microsoft together exploiting Musk’s donations so they can build a for-profit monopoly, one now specifically targeting xAI, is just too much,” says Musk's filing that alleges the companies are violating the terms of Musk’s foundational contributions to the charity. OpenAI is filing a response Friday opposing Musk’s requested order, saying it would cripple OpenAI’s business and mission to the advantage of Musk and his own AI company. A hearing is set for January before U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in Oakland. At the heart of the dispute is a 2017 internal power struggle at the fledgling startup that led to Altman becoming OpenAI's CEO. Musk also sought to be CEO and in an email outlined a plan where he would “unequivocally have initial control of the company” but said that would be temporary. He grew frustrated after two other OpenAI co-founders said he would hold too much power as a major shareholder and chief executive if the startup succeeded in its goal to achieve better-than-human AI known as artificial general intelligence , or AGI. Musk has long voiced concerns about how advanced forms of AI could threaten humanity. “The current structure provides you with a path where you end up with unilateral absolute control over the AGI," said a 2017 email to Musk from co-founders Ilya Sutskever and Greg Brockman. “You stated that you don't want to control the final AGI, but during this negotiation, you've shown to us that absolute control is extremely important to you.” In the same email, titled “Honest Thoughts,” Sutskever and Brockman also voiced concerns about Altman's desire to be CEO and whether he was motivated by “political goals.” Altman eventually succeeded in becoming CEO, and has remained so except for a period last year when he was fired and then reinstated days later after the board that ousted him was replaced. OpenAI published the messages Friday in a blog post meant to show its side of the story, particularly Musk's early support for the idea of making OpenAI a for-profit business so it could raise money for the hardware and computer power that AI needs. It was Musk, through his wealth manager Jared Birchall, who first registered “Open Artificial Technologies Technologies, Inc.”, a public benefit corporation, in September 2017. Then came the “Honest Thoughts” email that Musk described as the “final straw.” “Either go do something on your own or continue with OpenAI as a nonprofit,” Musk wrote back. OpenAI said Musk later proposed merging the startup into Tesla before resigning as the co-chair of OpenAI's board in early 2018. Musk didn't immediately respond to emailed requests for comment sent to his companies Friday. Asked about his frayed relationship with Musk at a New York Times conference last week, Altman said he felt “tremendously sad” but also characterized Musk’s legal fight as one about business competition. “He’s a competitor and we’re doing well,” Altman said. He also said at the conference that he is “not that worried” about the Tesla CEO’s influence with President-elect Donald Trump. OpenAI said Friday that Altman plans to make a $1 million personal donation to Trump’s inauguration fund, joining a number of tech companies and executives who are working to improve their relationships with the incoming administration. —————————— The Associated Press and OpenAI have a licensing and technology agreement allowing OpenAI access to part of the AP’s text archives.