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(Reuters) – A 21-year-old worker at the Yellowstone National Park plunged to her death early on Friday from the edge of a canyon while socializing with colleagues, park officials said.
Estefania Liset Mosquera Alcivar, a concession employee, was with a small group of coworkers at the rim of the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone shortly after 3:15 a.m. when she fell, according to accounts by her companions, the park’s public affairs office said in a statement.
Her body was recovered about four hours later and the incident remains under investigation, the officials said. Alvicar is from Quito, Ecuador.
The incident along with three major wildfires burning in Yellowstone come at the height of the summer tourist season and as officials in both parks prepare for celebrations set for Thursday marking the 100th anniversary of the creation of the National Park Service.
The fires have prompted authorities to close the south entrance to the park, which last month saw an average of more than 2,400 vehicles per day.
Yellowstone, which occupies the northwestern corner of Wyoming and spills over into Idaho and Montana, was the first national park established in the United States and remains one of its most popular.
(Reporting by Dan Whitcomb; Editing by Sandra Maler)
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When we partnered with Levi Strauss & Co. to seek out and support young environmental leaders for a second year (read more about how the program works here), we knew that our team of grant makers would each connect us to extraordinary young people fighting for a better future for our planet. What we didn’t anticipate was the diversity of the solutions that they would uncover.
For the past 4 months across 5 countries, our team has held community meetings, worked the phones, had countless conversations, and traveled miles to find and support young environmental heroes. And the news is good!
Working on issues like local food production and food security, clean water access, protecting biodiversity with indigenous seeds and plants, and raising the next generation of youth environmental leaders- our latest Youth Environmental Grants paint a picture of young leaders re-imagining what it takes to build resilient and sustainable communities from the grassroots up.
Stay tuned – our team is still out there making grants as you read this!
Elson-n Auquel, Agri-venture Savanette
After seeing sustainable agriculture replaced by commercially driven mono-cropping in his native Haiti, Elson-n Auquel recognized that the health of both the people and the land of Haiti were being destroyed by these practices. Determined to reconnect young people to the land by showing them how they can revitalize the health of their communities and Haiti’s fertile soils together, he and his team founded WHYFARM. An interactive, innovative, and fun 2 month ‘agri-venture’ camp, WHYFARM teaches young people how to produce sustainable, healthy food, while also making growing crops cool again!
Valeria Monserrath Ortega Salazar and Lia Deside Villa Salazar, MONLIB, Reworking Trash To Help Marine Life
Although so young that they do not yet have a bank account, Valeria and Lia can already see that the thousand tons of trash produced daily by their Metropolitan community in Guadalajara, Mexico has serious implications for the health of our oceans. Working in community centers and involving their peers, they created MONLIB, an organization which seeks to reduce the future impact of waste by educating young people about reducing and reusing, while also addressing the current situation with imaginative recycling projects which involve producing jewelry and other crafts from trash.
M. Iwan Kurniawan, Conservation of Native Herb and Spice Plants to Preserve Acehnese Traditional Culinary
In the lush Northern region of Sumatera in Indonesia, one of the last primary rainforests on earth is facing the threat of deforestation. As the forests are destroyed, so to is the culture of the people who have called them home for generations. Recognizing the deep interconnection between these cultural and environmental catastrophes, biology major M. Iwan Kurniawan came up with a plan that incorporates local knowledge preservation with the conservation of biodiversity within the forests. Seeds will be collected and preserved, and traditional food and medical preparations of plants will be archived and shared on a website so that these precious species and knowledge will not be lost.
Irma Patricia Espinoza Magaña, Eduación Ambiental para Todxs/ Environmental Education for All
In the neighborhood of Santa Margarita, in the city of Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico, four passionate women are working to change their streets and schools by inspiring youth to protect and care for the environment. Working with young people who receive little environmental education, The Environmental Education Project for All is teaching young people environmental stewardship through community gardening, and giving them the skills to carry out an environmental impact assessment of their school – laying the foundation for them to incorporate an environmental perspective throughout the rest of their personal and professional lives
Peninah Wangithi Wanjohi, Dagoretti Market Bio-Latrine Water Kiosk
After successfully revitalizing a public meeting space, Peninah and her team are now set on turning it into a touchstone for environmentally sensitive community driven development in urban Kenya. Through the construction of a latrine block which will produce biogas, and the installation of a water kiosk, they will be bringing essential services and providing clean water to hundreds of people each day who are currently forced to drink dirty and contaminated water from dubious sources. Youth from the community will staff these facilities, providing much needed income and demonstrating that it is possible to lift up communities economically while caring for the environment.
Talia Schmitt and Mashaba Rashid, Eco-Schools Leadership Initiative
In Virginia the Eco–Schools Leadership Initiative is taking a hands-on approach to environmental education in communities who often do not receive exposure to these kinds of lessons. Recognizing that getting kids engaged in problem-solving is the best way to produce young leaders, ESLI partners elementary school students with high school and college mentors to solve environmental problems facing their communities – including things like water sampling and run off reduction. These partnerships are a win-win: the program skillfully weaves the education of very young children with the creation of an emerging cohort of environmental educators.
Lucky Mwachi, Join the Pipe
It’s hard to imagine 400,000 people using a single park on a daily basis. Yet in Uhuru park in Nairobi, this is far from extraordinary. However, until recently people using the park were forced to either drink contaminated water, or, if they were wealthy enough, to purchase bottled water. The Join The Pipe project is changing that with the installation of a drinking water station which will provide clean and safe water that is affordable for everyone while also reducing the plastic bottle waste which plagues the park. It is projects like this that will bring clean water to the 56% of people in Kenya who currently lack access.
Samuel Cadet and Winter Luc, Plantons pour le futur!
Following the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, the sprawling slum of Cité Soleil was badly afflicted by cholera, and remains heavily polluted and lacking essential infrastructure. Politically and socially marginalized, youth in this urban neighborhood often struggle to connect with the natural world. Partnering their community garden and school programs, Samuel and Winter seek to rebuild and inspired and connected community of young people who will ensure a better and healthier future for themselves and their country.
Dejah Powell, Get Them to the Green
Get Them to the Green is an organization in Chicago which inspires students from diverse communities to be changemakers and leaders within their communities and beyond. G2G founder Dejah Powell believes that if we want children to protect the planet in the future, then it is essential that they learn to love the environment from an early age. To engage these young environmentalists, G2G runs summer camps and partners with schools to connect them to the beauty of the natural world while showing them how environmental science is taking place all around us.
Along with our partners at Levi Strauss & Co., and our global team of grassroots grantmakers, we are so proud to fund these innovative young leaders.
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The 2016 MTV Video Music Awards are only days away, so why don’t we ready ourselves for the glitz, glam and Godney with a quick refresher course on what to expect Sunday night?
Much like the changing winds of Britney Spears’ career, this award show is famous for its unpredictability — but there are a few things we can confirm about the actual ceremony.
Before the VMAs kick off at 9 p.m. ET, Snapchat impresario DJ Khaled will serve as the pre-show host alongside MTV2’s Charlamagne Tha God and MTV’s “Wonderland” Host Lizzo. Major pre-show key? VMA newbies Alessia Cara, Jidenna and Lukas Graham are all set to perform.
A host for the award show, if there is one, has yet to be announced (Miley, what’s good?), but Spears is confirmed to perform her hit single “Make Me” featuring rapper G-Eazy. This will be the pop star’s first appearance on the VMAs stage since she stumbled ― in more ways than one ― through her disastrous 2007 performance. And yet, the VMAs wanted more, announcing her comeback in a Britney-themed video on Tuesday.
Rihanna is the distinguished honoree of the evening, accepting the prestigious Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award, which recognizes musicians who have contributed significantly to MTV culture. Past honorees include Justin Timberlake, Beyoncé and Kanye West. She is rumored to perform multiple times throughout the show, so fingers crossed for a surprise Drake appearance.
Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj are also set to take the stage for the first time since their 2014 all-female “Bang Bang” team-up with Jessie J. Remember? A wardrobe malfunction forced Minaj to hold her dress together during the number to keep her from flashing the crowd. The duo will most likely perform the threesome anthem of the century, “Side to Side,” off Grande’s new album “Dangerous Woman.” Someone bring safety pins.
Future and Nick Jonas will have their moment in the sun as well with highly anticipated performances of their own. The former boy bander will serve up his curiously titled single “Bacon” featuring Ty Dolla $ign for the audience, while the rapper’s song selection remains unconfirmed. To round out the performances, the Chainsmokers and Halsey will treat all watching to their song of the summer, “Closer.”
On the awards front, Beyoncé and Adele lead the pack with a respective 11 and eight nominations each, so ready your mind, body and soul to be routinely over-slayed over the course of the almost three-hour show. Bey is also rumored to perform, but we’ll just have to wait until Sunday to see whether our incessant tweeting at MTV paid off.
MTV has also confirmed a bevy of celebrity presenters, including Kim Kardashian, Alicia Keys, Ansel Elgort, Jaden Smith and Jimmy Fallon. Gold-medal-winning gymnasts Simone Biles, Gabby Douglas, Laurie Hernandez, Madison Kocian and Aly Raisman are all set to make appearances at the ceremony, as is Michael Phelps because, well — what else is he doing now?
And last but not least, Kanye West will indeed be in the building. Brace yourselves.
Tune in on Sunday at 9 p.m. to catch all the VMAs goodness.
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Who doesn’t love a good game of Monopoly especially a real life one? Large swaths of the Atlantic Boardwalk are changing hands. Philadelphia developer Bart Blatstein is buying up practically everything that is for sale on the boardwalk. Bruce Kaye, the CEO of Fantsea Resorts, found this out the hard way. Blatstein outbid him for the plot of land next door to his Flagship Resorts in the inlet. It is interesting to note that all this activity is taken place while there is still a possibility of the New Jersey legislature authorizing casinos in North Jersey.
Kaye, who is based in Miami, is a charismatic entrepreneur that had a long storied career in real estate before he entered the timeshare business. He previously owned the world renowned Fontainbleau Hotel and developed the 140 store Miami International Mall. His company, Fantsea Resorts, currently owns three properties in the Atlantic City Area-the Flagship located in the inlet, Atlantic Palace on the boardwalk, and La Sammana Resort in Brigantine. The properties are in high demand with 45,000 vacation owners for the approximately 900 rooms. More importantly for Atlantic City, he attracts tourists who want to spend money in the region not just at the gaming tables.
The high demand for units is attributable to his ability to put out a good product at a fair price. Fantsea Resort rooms are larger than average hotel rooms and include mini-kitchens, making longer stays more affordable and easier for families. The Atlantic Palace includes a pool, hot tub, member’s lounge, and gym.
All the rooms at the Flagship have a balcony with an ocean view. The Flagship, which is in the midst of renovations, will feature a lobby bar, pool, hot tub, grill, children’s play room, movie theater, gym that offers classes, full service spa and large outdoor deck over the ocean perfect for weddings and parties.Their restaurant, the Blue Water Grille, has the best views in Atlantic City. One could be forgiven for thinking they were in the South of France as boats sail by at they eat their expertly cooked branzino or surf and turf. The Flagship property will get an even bigger boast when the boardwalk in front of the property is finally refurbished next year. This will be the first time the boardwalk is completely walkable for possibly the first time in 25 years.
Kaye wants his timeshare owners to think of his properties as “their home away from home.” The resorts enjoy a 40% occupancy rate in the off-season months, which is an higher than average percentage for Atlantic City off season. He explained, “I do not want them just to come for their week of vacation. I want them return even for shorter breaks whenever they can. We offer special member rates all year round to encourage them to return. We charge them $60 a night for weeknights and $110 for weekends. We are working on a weekday $99 special that will include dinner.”
Kaye is seeing such great demand in Atlantic City that he would love to take over 12 of the unfinished floors of the Revel Casino and convert them to timeshares. The problem is that he and Revel owner Glenn Straub are far away on price and terms. Besides their 50% price differential, Kaye doesn’t want the purchase finalized until the casino is open while Straub insists the purchase not be contingent on the opening of the casino. Kaye so covets the property that he has expressed a willingness to purchase an equity stake and run the entire operation including the casino for Straub. The one disadvantage of a timeshare deal at the Revel would be the casino would not be able to use those rooms for gamblers. That might not matter because the casino operator chosen by Straub is a small outfit from Connecticut that might not have a large rolodex of gamblers.
The timeshare industry has been rightfully criticized in the past for some shoddy practices. It appears to have cleaned its act. The industry has grown 7% annually since 2011 with $8.6 billion in sales for 2015. Kaye was honest about the industries past reputational problems by indicating that there were some bad apples in the business previously. He explained, “The timeshare owners experience depends on the financial strength of the operator. We are strong.” A cursory glance at the company’s financial records revealed 96% of the timeshare owners are paying their mortgage on time, which indicates a high degree of satisfaction with their property. Approximately 15% of the owners become repeat customers and buy more units.
While the casinos, correctly or incorrectly, have been accuses of only taking from Atlantic City, Kaye seems intent on giving back. The gregarious mogul treats his employees, many of whom have been with him a long time, as extended family. He serves 3 meals a day to more than 500 employees at the Flagship. When his son declined to enter the business, he established an ESOP to sell the company to his employees with the share price rising appreciably since inception.
While Kaye has been in Atlantic City for over 25 years, Blatstein is a new entrant into the Atlantic City market buying his first commercial property last year. He explained his rapaciousness in Atlantic City, which still attracted more than 24 million people visitors last year despite the closing of 4 casinos in 2014. He said, “Property on the boardwalk in Atlantic City is going for $30 a square foot. In nearby Margate and Ventnor, it’s going for $1000 square foot. When I go into an area, I buy critical mass. I welcome other developers to come in.”
He has thrown out the idea that if Atlantic City could attract celebrities it would become “hot”. So it would not be surprising if when the Showboat re-opens next summer, after a major overhaul this winter, there is a celebrity living there. Let’s hope it’s not Kanye and Kim Kardashian West. Or he could go the entirely opposite way in developing Atlantic City. He has proposed to New Jersey legislators that they declare Atlantic City an Opportunity Zone which does not levy state and local taxes on senior citizens. While Florida never has to feel threatened that Atlantic City will become more popular for the elderly, it certainly could become a viable alternative for many in the Northeast that want to stay more involved with their grandchildren and are fearful of the Zika virus. Blatstein, ever the showman, likes to do the big reveal so he is keeping details close to the vest for now.
He is also in talks with investor Carl Ichan to take over the currently closed Trump Plaza. Unfortunately, his 2015 lease/purchase of the Pier Shops at Caesar’s, now called the Playground, did not include any parking, which has prevented its rebound.The Plaza acquisition would give him the much needed parking capacity. He has big plans for the property including a walkway which would connect the Tangers Outlet to the boardwalk. He pointed out that “shoppers currently have to use narrow alleyways to get to the outdoor mall from the boardwalk”.
The Showboat’s controversial neighbor to the right, Straub, has proven to be toxic to everyone-the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority (CRDA), politicians, and fellow developers. He is no closer after 2 years of ownership to opening the property. Unfortunately, this is modus operandi. After he bought the Palm Beach Polo Golf and Country Club, the Palm Beach Post labeled him “The Man Wellington Loves to Hate” after home owners at the property complained about him.
On my last visit, there will signs of life at the Revel. There were about 15 male executives, possibly from the Connecticut casino operator that he has contracted with or the E sports fantasy company that is considering making the Revel their national headquarters, working in the office. Straub seems almost prisoner of the palace that he bought on the cheap. He is no longer living on his yacht, the Triumphant Lady, but in a makeshift bedroom smack in the middle of his offices. On the day we met to discuss his plans for the casino, he was rambling, for some reason, about bringing up 2800 horses from Florida to house at the currently closed Atlantic City racetrack. Although he bought a casino property, he clearly wants to be in any other business but gambling. One idea that he has thrown out is to house one of the leaders of the E sports fantasy industry in the Revel. He dreams of holding their competitions at Boardwalk Hall.
The cantankerous developer blames his problems on NJ politicians. He complains to anyone who will listen that “no one from the governor’s office or the state legislature has come to see me.” Meanwhile his neighbor on the boardwalk, Bart Blatstein, was able to partially open the Showboat in 5 weeks. Although he has threatened to leave Atlantic City, I suspect his bizarre threats are just a cry for attention since he has told me in several interviews, “I am stubborn and never give up.” He also has no reason to sell. Straub said, “I bought for $89 million a building that was built for over $2 billion, the power plant next door for $50 million, and my carrying costs so far have been $24 million ($1 million for 24 months). That is a total of $150 million for a building that cost over $2 billion to build. I can afford to hold on.”
Could 2017 be the year that Atlantic City finally rebounds? Those of us that are nostalgic about the ocean resort have been saying next year is the year for decades. But the energy in the city seems more can do than it has in ages.
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Rebels supported by Turkey fought Kurdish-backed forces in north Syria on Saturday, as Ankara ratcheted up its cross-border offensive by saying it had launched air strikes against both Kurdish forces and Islamic State.
Turkey’s government, which is fighting a Kurdish insurgency at home, has said the Syrian campaign it opened this week is as much about targeting Islamic State as it is about preventing Kurdish forces filling the vacuum left when Islamists withdraw.
Turkey wants to stop Kurdish forces gaining control of a continuous stretch of Syrian territory on its frontier, which Ankara fears could be used to support the Kurdish militant group PKK as it wages its three-decade insurgency on Turkish soil.
Turkish security sources said two F-16 jets bombed a site controlled by the Kurdish YPG militia, which is part of the broader U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) coalition. The sources also said the jets hit six Islamic State targets.
Turkish military sources said one of its soldiers was killed and three others wounded when a tank was hit by a rocket that they said was fired from territory held by the Kurdish YPG. The sources said the army shelled the area in response.
Syrian rebels opposed to Ankara’s incursion said Turkish forces had targeted forces allied to the YPG and no Kurdish forces were in the area.
On the ground, Turkish-backed Syrian rebels fought forces aligned with the SDF near the frontier town of Jarablus. Forces opposed to Ankara said Turkish tanks were deployed, a charge denied by Turkey’s rebel allies.
Turkey’s offensive into Syria began on Wednesday, supporting its rebel allies with Turkish special forces, tanks and warplanes. It seized control of Jarablus from Islamic State seeking to stop any Kurdish forces moving in first.
Saturday’s use of warplanes against what Turkey said was a Kurdish YPG militia target highlights its determination to prevent any Kurdish territorial expansion in north Syria.
Any action against Kurdish forces in Syria puts Turkey at odds with its NATO ally the United States, which backs the SDF and YPG, seeing them as the most reliable and effective ally in the fight against Islamic State in Syria.
It adds complexity to the Syrian conflict that erupted five years ago with an uprising against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and has since drawn in regional states and world powers.
“DANGEROUS ESCALATION”
The Jarablus Military Council, part of the SDF, had said earlier on Saturday that Turkish planes hit the village of al-Amarna south of Jarablus, causing civilian casualties. It called the action “a dangerous escalation”.
The Kurdish-led administration that controls parts of northern Syria said Turkish tanks advanced on al-Amarna and clashed with forces of the Jarablus Military Council. But the Kurdish administration said no Kurdish forces were involved.
However, the leader of one Turkey-backed rebel group gave a rival account. He told Reuters the rebels battled the Kurdish YPG around al-Amarna and denied any Turkish tanks took part.
Turkish security forces simply said Turkish-backed forces had extended their control to five villages beyond Jarablus.
A video released by Turkey’s military showed the Turkish Red Crescent distributing food and aid to people in Jarablus, with the help of Turkish troops. It also showed what appeared to be Turkish-backed rebels flicking v-for-victory signs in the town.
The newly formed Jarablus Military Council has said it was made up of people from the area with the aim of capturing the town and the surrounding region from Islamic State militants. However, the Turkish-backed rebels seized Jarablus first.
Several militias under the SDF banner pledged support to Jarablus Military Council after it reported the Turkish bombing.
The Northern Sun Battalion, an SDF faction, said in a statement it was heading to “Jarablus fronts” to help the council against “threats made by factions belonging to Turkey”.
Tension has mounted in Syria’s Aleppo region in the past year between the U.S-backed Kurdish YPG force and its allies on one hand and Turkish-backed rebel groups on the other. The two sides have clashed on several occasions.
(Additional reporting by Ece Toksabay and Orhan Coskun in Ankara and Tom Perry in Beirut; Writing by Edmund Blair; Editing by Ros Russell)
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If you thought the Juno probe’s first photos of Jupiter were tantalizing, you’re in for a treat. The spacecraft just completed the closest approach it will take during its primary mission around the gas giant, passing a mere 2,600 miles above the su…
Conservationists are accusing the Australian government of “signing the death warrant” for around 200 koalas whose habitat will be devastated by planned highway construction in the state of New South Wales.
“Unfortunately a Population Viability Study conducted in July 2014, indicated that if the road went ahead, this population of koalas will likely go extinct within the next 20-25 years,” Rebecca Thompson-Jones, a spokeswoman for the International Fund for Animal Welfare, told The Huffington Post in an email.
She was referring to research done by Stephen Phillips, an ecologist who has tried in vain to get the government to alter the planned route.
Australian environment minister Josh Frydenburg approved the construction on July 19, the same day that he assumed office. However, the decision only became public on Aug. 22, to the dismay of animal protection groups like IFAW and Friends of the Koala.
The construction is part of a 96-mile upgrade of the Pacific Highway between the towns of Woolgooga and Ballina. Specifically, animal advocates and environmentalists are opposed to Section 10 of the highway, a four-lane, eight-mile expanse planned to run between the towns of Wardell and Ballina, Thompson-Jones said. That’s because this portion of the route will cut directly through the middle of the habitat of around 200 koalas, known as “Ballina’s koalas.”
Clearing for the construction will destroy half of the koala’s food trees, Phillips told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in April. But food source destruction isn’t the only peril the highway will bring. The commotion caused by cutting down the trees, as well as the highway construction, could have fatal consequences.
“Koalas often get panicked and stressed and will not move, sometimes dying as a result of the stress or getting ill or starving,” Thompson-Jones said. “Some of these koalas will be separated from their social group of koalas and have to find each other.”
Stress also reduces how much koalas reproduce and makes them more susceptible to the effects of illnesses like retrovirus, chlamydia and pneumonia, she said. And on the ground, searching for new trees to live in, they’re more vulnerable to attacks from predators. And finally, both the construction itself and the existence of the highway will increase the risk of vehicle strikes — a major source of deaths for koalas around the country.
However, New South Wales’ Roads and Maritime Services Department contends that activists are overblowing the concerns and the koalas will be fine. They conducted their own analysis, released in February, and found that the highway would reduce the koala population by less than 10 percent, News.com.au reported. The department also stated that the koalas are already dying off, with or without a highway.
Plans to offset damage done to the koalas include fencing to keep them off the roadway, wildlife crossings to provide a safe way for animals to get across the road and the planting of about half a square mile of revegetation to make up for the trees lost, according to an RMS statement.
But activists say that’s not going to cut it. For one thing, koalas are highly territorial: It’s unlikely many of them will move to a new area of their own accord, Thompson-Jones said.
She called the revegetation strategy “misleading,” noting that it includes plants which studies have shown the local koala population rarely eat, and one variety that’s not local. On top of that, the plantings will take between four to seven years before they’re even viable for the koalas to eat, she said.
And none of the RMS’ plans will mitigate the stress and immediate disturbance the construction will cause.
While cute and iconic koalas have grabbed most of the media attention surrounding the the road, they aren’t the only species potentially threatened.
“Section 10 of the highway is currently known to be home to over 30 state and-or nationally threatened species,” Thompson-Jones said. In particular, conservationists have voiced concern for the long-nosed potoroo, a native marsupial that thrives in what is now the highway’s path.
“The area where the Highway is going through,” Thompson-Jones said, “is a tranquil paradise.”
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In May 2013, a bridge spanning the Skagit River along Interstate 5 in Washington state catastrophically collapsed, after an oversized trailer clipped one of the bridge’s cross beams. A new analysis by engineers at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign confirms the many factors that contributed to the collapse, and offers recommendations for how to prevent similar failures in the future.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation executed a search warrant on the home of Manuel Alfaro, former executive director of assessment design and development at the College Board, which develops the SAT, an aptitude test for college bound high schoolers, according to a report by Reuters.
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