NEW YORK, NY — July 1, 2026 — (NOTICIAS NEWSWIRE) — Magical summer moments – road trips, pool days and warm evenings in the backyard – don’t happen by accident.

In fact, making that magic happen may feel like hard work for parents, according to a survey of American parents commissioned by Borden Cheese that discovered the pressure on adults during the summer months is higher than ever. Between scheduling activities, packing endless meals and keeping the family happy, the pressure to create memorable summer moments can quickly drain all the fun out of it.

A majority of respondents (72%) feel summers used to be simpler in terms of activities and expectations, while 89% of that group said it’s important for their children to experience simple summers.

“Summer is the time for enjoying the sunshine, fresh air, endless day time and quality time with family and friends,” said Jenny Mehlman, senior director of marketing, cheese, taste and flavors at Dairy Farmers of America. “Sometimes we get so caught up in the daily hustle, we forget to slow down and enjoy the little moments. Borden Cheese wants to help parents drop the high expectations, embrace a little bit of the mess and remember how good a simple, relaxed summer can feel.”

It’s clear parents are looking for more relaxing summer breaks, both for their children and themselves. Reclaiming family time can start with hacks that simplify summers, a tactic 81% of parents surveyed said they plan to use. Consider these top suggestions from respondents.

Allow More Flexibility with Children’s Routines

Summer offers a welcome break from the rigid schedules of the school year, and nearly half of respondents (45%) are embracing that opportunity by allowing more flexibility in their children’s routines. This might include later bedtimes, slower mornings or less structured playtime, giving families more room to explore, be creative and enjoy spontaneous adventures – the type that many parents remember from their own childhoods.

Prioritize Fun Over Perfection

The pressure to create a picture-perfect summer can become overwhelming. Instead of striving for elaborate vacations or curated calendars, 39% of parents said they plan to be more lenient with the expectations they place on themselves. This “fun over perfection” mindset allows families to focus on connection as parents spend less time worrying about details and more time enjoying simple pleasures from picnics and pool time to game nights at home.

Plan Simpler Meals

One-third of respondents plan to make simpler meals a regular part of their menu, and the majority of parents (84%) said they rely on quick, reliable meal and snack solutions like mac and cheese, deli meat wraps and simple cheese and cracker boards at least once per week during summer months. That’s why Borden Cheese Individually Wrapped Singles are unwrapping the simple, stress-free summer that parents need with family-friendly recipes, easy meal hacks and nostalgia-inducing weekly giveaways designed to give them a well-deserved break. For example, these Juicy Lucy Cheeseburger Sliders can feel a little “extra” without all the extra work. Beware: They’ll disappear fast.

So relax your expectations, embrace the mess and make space for real, carefree fun again. Visit BordenCheese.com/SimpleSummerFun to find more easy, cheesy meal ideas and learn how to participate in weekly giveaways.

Juicy Lucy Cheeseburger Sliders

Prep time: 10 minutes
Cook time: 8-10 minutes
Servings: 4 (2 sliders per serving)

1 pound ground beef
4 slices Borden American Melts, quartered
2 tablespoons finely chopped onion
1 tablespoon steakhouse seasoning
8 slider buns, toasted

Toppings (optional):
burger sauce
caramelized onions
pickle chips

Preheat grill or skillet to medium heat.

Divide beef into 16 balls and flatten into approximately 3-inch patties.

Place two cheese squares and onions on eight patties then top with remaining patties and press together. Season with steakhouse seasoning.

Cook sliders 4-5 minutes per side, until cooked through.

Place on buns and add burger sauce, caramelized onions and pickle chips, as desired. Serve warm.

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BROOKLYN, NY — July 1, 2026 — (NOTICIAS NEWSWIRE) — Hispanic Information and Telecommunication Network, Inc. (HITN), the leading Spanish-language public media network in the United States, is joining the nationwide commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence with a three-part celebration: a landmark broadcast event, a first-of-its-kind interactive digital experience, and an original promotional campaign — all designed to invite Hispanic audiences across the country to discover and connect with the nation they call home.

«Through this campaign, HITN seeks to strengthen the sense of belonging among Hispanic communities across the country, while remaining true to our mission of educating and entertaining audiences,» said Michael D. Nieves, President and CEO of HITN.

A weekend marathon Tribute on Television

HITN will broadcast the acclaimed Smithsonian Channel documentary series Aerial America — kicking off with 50 States in 50 Hours, a marathon airing all day on Saturday, July 4th, and Sunday, July 5th — giving Spanish-speaking viewers a breathtaking aerial journey across the country.

Aerial America is an award-winning series that takes viewers on sweeping helicopter flyovers of all 50 U.S. states — from the towering peaks of Alaska and the volcanic landscapes of Hawaii, to the colonial harbors of New England and the rolling prairies of the Great Plains — revealing historic landmarks, national parks, and hidden natural treasures from a perspective most viewers have never experienced. Expert narration weaves in the history, culture, and character of each state, making every episode as educational as it is visually spectacular. Rated TV-G, it stands as the most extensive aerial television project ever produced about the United States.

America 250: An Original Campaign Celebrating the Nation’s Icons

Rounding out HITN’s anniversary programming is America 250, an original series of short-form segments airing throughout HITN’s regular broadcast schedule all summer long. The campaign showcases the beauty and significance of iconic landmarks and historic sites across the country, highlighting the diverse regions and the places that embody the heritage, values, and identity of the American people.

The video series was directed by Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Cody Williams, produced by Ordinary Sunday, and features an original score arranged and produced by Grammy and Tony Award-winning musician Bryan Carter. The America 250 segments will also be available on the HITN GO streaming app, giving audiences free and unrestricted access at any time.

Broadcast Schedule

July 4–5, 2026 (Saturday-Sunday): 50 States in 50 Hours all-day marathon broadcast of Aerial America on HITN in celebration of the 250th Anniversary of U.S. Independence.

Starting Monday, July 6, two back-to-back episodes of Aerial America will continue airing daily at 1:00 and 2:00 PM EDT/PDT on HITN, extending the celebration throughout the summer.

Starting Saturday, July 4, Aerial America will be available on demand on HITNGo. The America 250 short-form segments will stream for free on the app.

Explore America State by State — Online

Complementing the broadcast, HITN is launching an interactive digital experience at hitn.tv/aniversario-250/ that brings the journey to life beyond the screen. The hub features an interactive U.S. map where visitors can discover fascinating facts and figures about each state, paired with a short video clip drawn from that state’s Aerial America episode. As users explore each state, they earn a virtual sticker that fills a collectible digital album — turning the 250th anniversary into a nationwide adventure audiences can experience at their own pace, from any device.

About HITN-TV
HITN-TV is the leading Spanish-language media company that offers educational and cultural programming for the whole family. It reaches more than 35 million homes in the United States and Puerto Rico through DIRECTV, DIRECTV NOW, AT&T U-verse, AT&T TV, AT&T TV Now, DISH Network, Verizon FiOS TV, Comcast Xfinity, Charter Spectrum, Mediacom, CenturyLink Prism, and Altice, Liberty Cable and Claro (Puerto Rico). Download the HITN GO app available on Apple, Android, Apple TV, and Roku® with a subscription.

For more information:
Corporate Webpage: HITN.org
TV Webpage: hitn.tv
LinkedIn: @HITN
Facebook: @HITNtv
X: @hitn
Instagram: @HITNtv
YouTube: @HITNTelevision

About Ordinary Sunday
Ordinary Sunday is an Emmy Award-winning production company. The company creates documentary, branded, and cultural storytelling for clients, including PBS, Amazon, General Mills, Macy’s, The Broadway League, TDF, and Reading Is Fundamental. Recent projects include the feature-length documentary Whipple’s World, which premiered at the Tribeca Festival, and Stagebound, a PBS Great Performances series spotlighting Broadway artists.

SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO — June 26, 2026 — (NOTICIAS NEWSWIRE) — Five years to the day after the catastrophic collapse of Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Florida claimed 98 lives, federal investigators have confirmed what many in the structural engineering and building safety community long suspected: the building did not fail without warning. It failed slowly, visibly, and measurably, over a period of weeks, while no system existed to read those signals.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released its final investigative report on June 23, 2026, finding that two connections between garage columns and the pool deck began failing in early June 2021, nearly three weeks before the building gave way at 1:22 a.m. on June 24. Investigators documented visible cracking in planter walls, accelerating water infiltration in the parking garage, and a pool-deck section that had fully detached from the slab in the hours before the collapse.

The building’s structural inadequacy, NIST found, was present from construction: in some locations, the design provided less than half of the required code-level strength.

Forty years of salt-air corrosion, water intrusion, and deferred maintenance compounded those original deficiencies until the structure had no margin left.

What continuous monitoring would have seen

Estructura, a structural intelligence company headquartered in San Juan, Puerto Rico, with offices in Miami and Lima, says the Surfside tragedy illustrates precisely why continuous, AI-powered structural monitoring is no longer a luxury; it is a life-safety necessity.

The company deploys what it describes as the only vertically integrated combination of its kind: GeoSIG precision ground sensors paired with the GeoSMART AI-based software platform, and TerraIntel satellite InSAR (Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar) imaging that detects millimeter-scale ground deformation and subsidence invisible to on-site inspection.

Applied to Champlain Towers South, that combination would have produced a cascade of alerts weeks before the collapse. TerraIntel’s satellite imaging would have tracked differential subsidence of the pool deck slab as reinforcing steel corroded and structural connections weakened beneath it, changes detectable at the millimeter level from orbit. GeoSIG’s on-premise sensor network would have registered anomalous micro-vibrations, deflection patterns, and load redistribution across the garage columns, precisely the structural behavior NIST now confirms was occurring in the weeks prior to collapse. GeoSMART’s AI trend analysis would have flagged both data streams as anomalous and triggered automated early-warning alerts.

The result: building managers, engineers and residents would have had days or weeks to act.

Surfside was one scenario. Buildings Face Four

Estructura emphasizes that the structural design failures documented at Champlain Towers South — original code deficiencies, material deterioration, and decades of deferred maintenance — represent only one of four categories of risk that can push any building toward catastrophic failure:

• Design flaws and construction deficiencies. As Surfside demonstrated, a structure can be vulnerable from day one. Substandard design, code non-compliance, and construction that diverges from engineered drawings create hidden fault lines that only manifest — catastrophically — decades later.
• Wear, aging, and deferred maintenance. Even well-built structures degrade. Corrosion, water intrusion, carbonation of concrete, and decades of load cycling steadily erode safety margins. The combination of original deficiency and aging maintenance is what NIST identifies as the final mechanism at Surfside.
• Seismic events. In earthquake-prone regions across the Americas — from Puerto Rico and the Caribbean to the Pacific coasts of Mexico, Colombia, Peru, and Chile — buildings face repeated ground-motion stress that accumulates damage invisibly between events. A structure that survives a 6.0 magnitude earthquake may be weakened for the next one.
• Extreme climate events. Hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, wildfires, and sustained heat waves are intensifying in frequency and severity. Each event imposes structural loads and environmental stresses that can compromise a building’s long-term integrity, often in ways that standard post-event visual inspections miss entirely.

Estructura’s monitoring platform is designed to detect the structural signatures of all four risk categories, before small deviations become irreversible failures.

The technology: An EKG for any structure

Estructura was founded as a division of Dorado Services, a U.S. engineering firm and federal contractor to the Army Corps of Engineers and FEMA since 1999. That heritage — grounded in emergency response, disaster management, and hands-on structural assessment — is what the company says distinguishes it from pure-technology vendors.

«We understand what happens when structures fail,» said a Julio Miranda, Estructura Vice President and co-founder. «We’ve built our company around preventing it.»

The company integrates two world-class technologies into a single monitoring solution:

• GeoSIG + GeoSMART: The Swiss-based global leader in structural and seismic monitoring for over 30 years, GeoSIG provides precision on-premise sensors and the GeoSMART software platform, a real-time «Black Box» for any structure, powered by AI-based trend analysis and anomaly detection.
• TerraIntel Satellite InSAR: Satellite-based intelligence that tracks ground deformation, subsidence, and environmental risks at scales invisible to ground-level sensors, providing a second, independent layer of structural intelligence.

The combined system is deployable in any structure type — high-rises, apartment complexes, bridges, hospitals, stadiums, airports, dams, and critical public infrastructure — anywhere on the planet. Estructura’s geographic focus is the Americas, served from offices in San Juan, Miami, and Lima, with full bilingual English-Spanish capability.

The company reports that clients typically recover their full monitoring investment within one to two years through the combined benefits of predictive maintenance savings, disaster mitigation, reduced insurance premiums, and enhanced property value.

A lesson that must not be lost

The NIST findings arrive five years after the Surfside collapse prompted Florida to pass landmark legislation requiring condominium associations to maintain adequate reserves for major structural repairs. But Estructura notes that regulation alone is insufficient without the means to continuously verify structural condition.

«A reserve fund is only useful if you know what you need to repair, and when,» Miranda added. «The Surfside building gave weeks of warning that no one had the technology to read. Every building owner and manager in a coastal city, a seismic zone, or a hurricane corridor should ask themselves the same question: if my building were failing right now, would I know?»

Estructura’s mission — to make structures safer, smarter, and more resilient through AI-powered monitoring technology — is grounded in exactly that question. Its vision: a built world where every structure is intelligent, protected, and resilient.

To learn more about Estructura’s structural intelligence platform, visit estructura.tech.

About Estructura

Estructura deploys intelligent technologies that give structures a voice, and the people responsible for them the data to act. Founded as a division of Dorado Services — a U.S. engineering firm and federal contractor to the Army Corps of Engineers and FEMA since 1999 — Estructura integrates GeoSIG precision sensors, the GeoSMART AI monitoring platform, and TerraIntel satellite InSAR imaging into the only vertically integrated structural monitoring solution of its kind. The company serves the Americas from offices in San Juan, Miami, and Lima. estructure.tech

CONTACT:
Yolanda Torres Cuesta
ARCO Relations
787-525-3652
yolanda.torres@arcopublicidad.com

NUEVA YORK, NY y DENVER, CO — 25 de junio de 2026 — (NOTICIAS NEWSWIRE) — Total Wireless, proveedor de servicios inalámbricos de rápido crecimiento y sin contrato, impulsado por la red 5G de Verizon. Hoy, anunció una asociación oficial con Western Union para ofrecer, por primera vez en la industria, un beneficio de transferencias de dinero para sus clientes móviles. A partir de hoy, los clientes con los planes Total Wireless MAX 5G BYO, MAX 5G y ALL ACCESS recibirán una transferencia de dinero mensual sin costo. Con la posibilidad de enviar fondos a más de 200 países y territorios a través de la red global de Western Union, los clientes pueden mantenerse conectados de más de una manera.

Esta asociación establece un hito en la industria. Total Wireless es hoy el único proveedor inalámbrico en Estados Unidos que ofrece una transferencia de dinero mensual como parte de sus planes. El beneficio cubre la tarifa de la transacción, brindando valor real a la base de clientes de ambas marcas. Es también un nuevo capítulo para las telecomunicaciones, construido en torno a las realidades financieras de las comunidades que históricamente han sido desatendidas.

Diseñado para la manera en que los clientes se mantienen conectados
Millones de personas en los Estados Unidos envían dinero al exterior cada año, con un promedio de más de 12 transacciones anuales. Con Total Wireless, las familias ahorran en comisiones de transferencia para que cada dólar llegue más