The Need for Adopting Mass Arbitration Waivers in the Online Sports Betting Industry

FanDuel and DraftKings, two ascending corporate powerhouses, have been the driving force in online sports betting\u27s surge in popularity. Akin to other online services, both of these providers have featured/currently feature binding arbitration clauses that compel users to settle disputes through arbitration. Though their Terms of Use resemble typical consumer contracts, FanDuel and DraftKings have made a costly error in failing to account for mass copycat arbitration actions. These types of actions are avenues for large groups of consumers to individually file arbitration claims in order to force a settlement. Without the intention of actually pursuing their arbitration claims, consumers are able to overcome what are otherwise adhesive contracts because companies like FanDuel and DraftKings are unwilling to pay exorbitant amounts of money in arbitration filing fees. This Note will first broadly examine the online sports gambling industry and in Part II, examine how FanDuel and DraftKings conduct their operations. This Note will proceed to analyze certain sections of both companies\u27 user agreements in Part III. In that section, this Note will take an in-depth look at previous major lawsuits and at pending litigation involving the companies\u27 arbitration provisions. Finally, in Parts IV and V, this Note will explore the application of mass arbitration actions in the online sports betting industry, and the need for FanDuel and DraftKings to amend their terms to foreclose the possibility of future mass arbitration claims. Although the ultimate proposal to solve this problem is the implementation of altered user agreements that are far more elaborate and explicit than the agreements that currently exist, this Note still nonetheless evaluates the consumer protection ramifications of adopting such waivers in this context

A journal to my learning disorder

This thesis is in a journal style format containing information based off of journal pages from high school to college. The thesis includes imagery and videos.Purchase College SUNYSculptureBachelor of Fine ArtsOwens, Rache

Twenty-First Annual International Advocate for Peace Award, Honoring William Ury

On March 11, 2022, the Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution presented the twenty-first annual International Advocate for Peace Award to William Ury. The following is a transcript of the event\u27s speeches

Coronary Artery Calcification in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients

Objective: To assess the need of coronary artery calcium scoring (CACS) in the standardized management of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) for early identification, prevention of coronary artery obstruction and complications. Background: Worldwide, RA is a leading inflammatory arthropathy. The musculoskeletal impacts of RA are well known; however, the inflammatory nature of the disease extends beyond the joint synovium. The cardiovascular system is the most impacted and the leading cause of death. Recently, CACS has become a popular method to analyze the calcifications within the coronary vessels. Methods: A review was performed using CINHAL, OVID, EMBASE, and Web of Science. A total of 305 articles were screened, with 11 articles included. The studies were considered eligible if they conducted CT coronary angiography on RA patients with no previous cardiovascular disease and without any previous/current usage of lipid-lowering medications. Results: 1141 patients with RA, with a mean disease duration of 127.7 months. The majority of patients were females, 78.4%, with a mean age of 56.9. 59.3% of RA patients reported an elevated CAC score above 0, which indicates calcified plaque deposits in the coronary vessels and of those, 40% were found to have moderate to severe calcification. Conclusions: As medicine shifts to a preventative rather than a reactive focus, it is crucial to alter clinical practice guidelines to include monitoring for systemic impacts, especially within the cardiovascular system. These findings suggest a high prevalence of coronary artery calcification in RA patients, which underscores the need for proactive monitoring and preventive measures

On the frequency, structure, and characteristics of tropical cyclone diurnal pulses

Taking 6-h IR brightness temperature differences, Dunion et al. (2014) found that in major hurricanes, an area of cold cloud tops routinely propagated radially outward from the storm core at around 5–10 m/s over the course of each day. They defined this feature as a “diurnal pulse” and created a 24-h conceptual clock that identified at which radius the coldest cloud tops would be located based on local time (LT). Due to the inherent predictability of these pulses, this dissertation was undertaken to gain a deeper understanding of their frequency, structure, and characteristics

The effect of horizontal resolution on Indian monsoon depressions in the Met Office NWP model

Monsoon depressions are synoptic scale features that are responsible for a significant fraction of the rain over northern India during the summer monsoon season, and, as such, it is important to quantify their structure and behaviour in numerical weather prediction models. It is known that increasing model resolution is strongly correlated with improved forecasts in the short term and global circulation in the longer term, as well as better representation of tropical cyclones; here, we explore the sensitivity of depressions to changes in resolution using the Met Office Unified Model. Seven NWP case studies of depressions from 2013-15 were run at eight resolutions corresponding to equatorial grid spacing of between 16 and 208 km, and compared with data for the same events from TRMM and ERA-Interim reanalysis. We found that at the low resolution end of the spectrum, increases in resolution led to improvements in the composite structure, but with diminishing returns. The model also persistently overestimated the depression intensity, in particular the wind speed and the warm core aloft -- with the source appearing to originate in the mid-troposphere. The sensitivity of the diurnal cycle to resolution was also explored: the stratiform component was found to be very well represented by the model, whereas the convective component was described quite poorly. Improvement in most components of structure with increasing model resolution were marginal beyond N320 (63 km) and N512 (39 km) for dynamic and thermodynamic fields respectively

A genesis index for monsoon disturbances

Synoptic-scale monsoon disturbances produce the majority of continental rainfall in the monsoon regions of South Asia and Australia, yet there is little understanding of the conditions that foster development of these low pressure systems. Here a genesis index is used to associate monsoon disturbance genesis in a global domain with monthly mean, climatological environmental variables. This monsoon disturbance genesis index (MDGI) is based on four objectively selected variables: total column water vapor, low-level absolute vorticity, an approximate measure of convective available potential energy, and midtropospheric relative humidity. A Poisson regression is used to estimate the index coefficients. Unlike existing tropical cyclone genesis indices, the MDGI is defined over both land and ocean, consistent with the fact that monsoon disturbance genesis can occur over land. The index coefficients change little from their global values when estimated separately for the Asian–Australian monsoon region or the Indian monsoon region, suggesting that the conditions favorable for monsoon disturbance genesis, and perhaps the dynamics of genesis itself, are common across multiple monsoon regions. Vertical wind shear is found to be a useful predictor in some regional subdomains; although previous studies suggested that baroclinicity may foster monsoon disturbance genesis, here genesis frequency is shown to be reduced in regions of strong climatological vertical shear. The coefficients of the MDGI suggest that monsoon disturbance genesis is fostered by humid, convectively unstable environments that are rich in vorticity. Similarities with indices used to describe the distribution of tropical cyclone genesis are discussed