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☆ Retailers say organized theft is biting into profits, but internal issues may really be to blame
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-10 | by ( Gabrielle Fonrouge | In Gabrielle-Fonrouge | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +8 min

In this article TGTFL Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNTThis is part two of a three-part series on organized retail crime. "If there's an occurrence of external theft they would steal let's say 10 bucks worth of merchandise, but if it's internal theft, it'd be 40 bucks." Internal theft also happens at warehouses and in aisles where online orders are prepared, one of the people said. However, he thinks internal theft is now "second place" to external theft. Shrink references reach a 'fever pitch'Retailers started to blame organized theft for lower profits as the industry's performance started to suffer.

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☆ South Africa's joy at Women's World Cup win brings hope of change
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-02 | by ( Nick Said | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

South Africa's president Cyril Ramaphosa said on the messaging platform X, formerly known as Twitter. South Africa's domestic women’s league is an amateur competition while its male equivalent is cash-rich with many players earning more than they would receive in several European nations. It has been a thorny issue for SAFA, who have battled to attract significant corporate sponsorship to take the women's league professional. "Professionalising the women’s league is in order. South Africa are up against Brazil plus joint bids from Mexico and the United States, and Belgium, Netherlands and Germany.

Persons: Kgatlana, Amanda Perobelli, Banyana, Cyril Ramaphosa, SAFA, Janine van Wyk, Tumi Dlamini, Nick Said, Clare Fallon Organizations: Soccer Football, FIFA, Wellington Regional, Italy, Sunday, South African Football Association, South, Wednesday’s, Thomson Locations: New Zealand, South Africa, Italy, Wellington , New Zealand, Amanda Perobelli CAPE, Netherlands, France, South, Wellington, Sydney, Africa, Brazil, Mexico, United States, Belgium, Germany

There have been 195 ACL injuries across women soccer’s top leagues, according to the ACL Women Football Club. “It’s not a coincidence I think that you get Leah and Beth injured after the Euros last summer,” said Arsenal star Miedema. Miedema believes this was an issue that world soccer’s governing body FIFA must address. A British Journal of Sports Medicine study found women to be three to six times more likely to experience an ACL injury than men. European soccer’s governing body, UEFA, referenced to CNN the Women’s Health Expert Panel it established, which has a “high priority” researching ACL injuries.

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☆ 6 Paris Bistros to Try Now
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-06 | by ( Alexander Lobrano | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Paris has recovered its scents, and the city is suddenly ravenous. The whiffs of shallots sautéing in butter, bread baking, meat roasting and bouillon simmering that invisibly punctuate any stroll in this food-loving city are back. “I think it’s a carpe diem thing,” said Ezéchiel Zérah, the Paris-based editor of two popular French food publications. Some of them are pointedly traditional — the delightful Bistrot des Tournelles in the Marais, for example — while others offer a refined contemporary take on bistro cooking, notably the just opened Géosmine in the 11th Arrondissement. “No wants tweezer cooking anymore,” said Thibault Sizun, the owner of Janine, an excellent new modern bistro in Les Batignolles, a neighborhood in the 17th Arrondissement.

Persons: bouillon, ”, Ezéchiel Zérah, “, Thibault Sizun, Janine Locations: Paris, Marais, 11th, Les Batignolles, 17th Arrondissement

☆ The best new shows of 2023, halfway into a strike-disrupted year
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-04 | by ( Brian Lowry | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

‘Bill Russell: Legend’ (Netflix) and ‘The Luckiest Guy in the World’ (ESPN)Bill Russell in 'Bill Russell: Legend.' ‘Daisy Jones & the Six’ (Amazon’s Prime Video)Riley Keough as Daisy Jones in "Daisy Jones & the Six." ‘The Night Agent’ (Netflix) and ‘Hijack’ (Apple TV+)Luciane Buchanan as Rose Larkin, Gabriel Basso as Peter Sutherland in episode 'The Night Agent.' ‘Beef’ (Netflix)Steven Yeun and Ali Wong in the Netflix series "Beef." ‘A Small Light’ (NatGeo/Disney+)Margot Frank, played by Ashley Brooke, and Miep Gies, played by Bel Powley in 'A Small Light.'

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☆ World Cup women's soccer players 'at risk' from poor pitches
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-20 | by ( Amy Tennery | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

June 20 (Reuters) - Women representing their nations to qualify for the soccer World Cup are risking their safety on poor quality pitches, and many are playing for no pay, according to a poll released on Tuesday by the global body that represents players. Nearly 30% of international women soccer players polled for the FIFPRO report said that they have been playing for nothing, while two-thirds said they had to take unpaid leave from their jobs to represent their country in confederation championships. "FIFPRO firmly calls on the industry to take a closer look at the qualification processes in each of the six Confederations." FIFPRO also called for all six confederations to hold separate qualifying matches for the Women's World Cup. Reporting by Amy Tennery in New York Editing by Peter Graff Editing by Peter GraffOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: FIFPRO, Mallory Swanson, Janine Beckie, Leah Williamson, Amy Tennery, Peter Graff Organizations: Confederations, UEFA, Thomson Locations: Australia, New Zealand, England, New York

☆ Consumer spending trailing consumer sentiment lower. Look at Home Depot
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( Bob Pisani | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Recent consumer sentiment reports have been poor, so it's reasonable to assume the consumer spending backdrop has softened. The company is cutting guidance due to the weaker lumber prices, weather and is also citing "further softening of demand relative to our expectations, and continued uncertainty regarding consumer demand." If we are on the side of the American consumer (I am), then lower lumber prices are good, right? Running shoes are hot. Second case in point: On Holding (ONON), which makes the trendy ON running shoes, is up 94% YTD.

☆ CEOs thought the return to office debate was over. It looks like they were wrong
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-13 | by ( Cheryl Winokur Munk | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

Other companies, too, could see reverberations if they enact similar policies, especially if the mandates feel arbitrary, human resources professionals say. That's why companies that want to bring workers back to the office need to focus on reconfiguring workspaces to foster additional collaboration. If your company hasn't yet, maybe don't 'mandate'Many companies are still ironing out their return-to-office policies. JustAnswer, an online source for professional information, has seen a 49% increase in questions related to return-to-office mandates and/or policies in its Employment Law category compared with May 2022. Companies should also evaluate whether across-the-board policies make sense, or whether in-office mandates should be implemented for certain functions only, Kogut said.

☆ Arsenal's Wienroither latest to suffer ACL injury in women's game
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-04 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

LONDON, May 4 (Reuters) - Arsenal's Austria defender Laura Wienroither is the latest player in the women's game to rupture an anterior cruciate ligament after the club confirmed her injury on Thursday. Wienroither, 24, sustained the injury in the second leg of the Champions League semi-final defeat by Wolfsburg on Monday. She is the fourth Arsenal player to rupture an ACL this season after England captain Leah Williamson, England forward Beth Mead and Netherlands striker Vivianne Miedema. Studies have found women in sports that involve sudden deceleration or changing direction such as soccer are up to six times more likely to suffer an ACL injury than men. The prevalence of injuries in women's soccer in recent times has led to calls for better research.

☆ The Full Guest List for Biden’s State Dinner With South Korea
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Chris Cameron | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

The White House invited more than 180 guests to the state dinner hosted by President Biden for President Yoon Suk Yeol of South Korea on Wednesday night, including government officials, athletes, business leaders and prominent Asian Americans. Here is the full list of those invited as provided by the White House. THE PRESIDENT AND DR. BIDENHIS EXCELLENCY YOON SUK YEOL, PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA AND MRS. KIM KEON HEEMichael ArdenLloyd J. Austin III, secretary of defense, and Charlene AustinJoe Bae and Janice BaeCharlie Baker, former governor of MassachusettsStephen K. Benjamin, senior adviser to the president for public engagement, and DeAndrea BenjaminRepresentative Ami Bera, Democrat of California, and Dr. Janine Bera

☆ Britain seeks to boost banking services from fintechs
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-17 | by ( Huw Jones | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

"While significant progress has been made, there is more to be done to deliver the full benefits of open banking within retail banking markets, and beyond," the statement said. The recommendations from regulators will keep up momentum in open banking and extend its benefits to other sectors, said Marion King, chair of Open Banking Limited, which checks on whether the nine banks comply with open banking rules on customer data. Britain is keen to push open banking to the next stage following Brexit to attract more fintechs to set up in Britain as the European Union is poised to compete with its own version of open banking. The data protection draft law, now going through parliament, will be used to put open banking on a sustainable footing, Griffith said. "We now need to see proportionate regulation," said Janine Hirt, CEO of Innovate Finance, the UK fintech industry body.

☆ Opinion: How the battle for Bakhmut exposed Russia’s ‘meat-grinder’
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-14 | by ( Michael Bociurkiw | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

It will also be recorded in history as a battle that exposed more than anywhere the meat-grinder approach of Russian fighting. Taking Bakhmut would be the first Russian gain since it captured (and later lost) the key southern Ukrainian city of Kherson in November. That Ukrainian forces have demonstrated such endurance in the battle for Bakhmut should come as little surprise. Like the current battle for Bakhmut, it too became emblematic of Ukraine’s tenaciousness to defend itself against Russia’s aggression – particularly considering the Ukrainian Armed Forces were far less prepared and equipped. “The battle for Bakhmut in winter-spring 2023 will surely enter the history books as the bloodiest battle in Europe since World War II,” said Masliychuk.

☆ Depleted Canada team a 'massive' chance for World Cup hopefuls-coach
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-10 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

April 10 (Reuters) - The absence of many first-choice players has presented a "massive opportunity" for others to stake their claim in Canada's World Cup squad, coach Bev Priestman said as the Olympic champions prepare to face France in a friendly on Tuesday. "There's a massive opportunity for anybody that gets on the pitch. And, you know, to get that one camp away from your World Cup squad being announced and, you know, going into that World Cup squad, I think I have to look at the opportunity in it and see the bigger picture." "I don't think it's a World Cup injury, but it's not a 'she'll be ready, you know, this week' type injury," said Priestman. Herve Renard took the reins late last month after leading Saudi Arabia to a shock group-stage win over eventual champions Argentina in last year's men's World Cup.

LONDON, March 31 (Reuters) - Britain's digital banks will need support over the next few weeks and months to help them cope with the market fallout from the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, a trade body representing UK fintechs said on Friday. A neobank, or digital bank, is a bank whose services are accessed via an app or website as opposed to having physical branches. He said that challenger banks - lenders which are usually smaller and newer than the big high-street banks - in Britain could be at risk. Hirt said that Innovate Finance has been offering "close support" to challenger banks to help them navigate the "turbulence" in the sector. BoE governor Andrew Bailey told lawmakers this week that the central bank was on alert amid the global turmoil, but added that Britain was not experiencing stress linked to the demise of Silicon Valley Bank.

☆ ‘Swarm’ Review: Donald Glover Creates a Murderous Megafan
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-16 | by ( John Anderson | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Created by “Atlanta” alums Donald Glover and Janine Nabers , “Swarm” is the kind of show dubbed “risky” and in which most of the risks are misfires. There are reasons why homicidal maniacs aren’t made the protagonists of seven-episode series, chief among them the fact that there’s no emotional tension in madness: The mentally imbalanced killer, like the thinly veiled Beyoncé superfan who dominates virtually every moment of “Swarm,” acts on impulses that are not just foreign to the average viewer but impenetrable. We watch, we cringe, we can’t relate, and in the end it is not just meaningless but a bloody bore.

☆ Player revolts plunge Women's World Cup buildup into turmoil
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-28 | by ( Lori Ewing | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Canada's women's team have vowed to boycott a pre-World Cup camp next month over equal pay and support, while Le Graet faced allegations of harassment. A government ministry audit concluded the 81-year-old Le Graet did not have the "necessary legitimacy" for the position. Canada are the reigning Olympic women's champions, while France topped their group in World Cup qualifying. Forward Janine Beckie, who was in Qatar for last year's men's World Cup as part of Canada's broadcast crew, saw the "disgusting" discrepancy between the two programmes. (This story has been corrected to change the World Cup start date in paragraph 6)Reporting by Lori Ewing Editing by Toby DavisOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Canada women's team threaten to boycott next team camp over pay equity
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-14 | by ( Lori Ewing | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Feb 14 (Reuters) - Canada's women's team will play at this month's SheBelieves Cup under protest but the Olympic champions say their fight is far from over and have vowed future boycotts if their demands over pay equity are not met. "So (playing this tournament under protest) is a short-term solution," added the forward. The players said the "disgusting" discrepancy between the Canada men’s and women’s soccer programmes became obvious last year in Qatar, where Canada's men made their first World Cup appearance in 37 years in November. And as national team players, it’s one we’re determined to win.”The CSA spent $11 million on the men’s programme in 2021, and $5.1 million on the women. Japan, the 2011 world champions, and Brazil round out the field for the SheBelieves Cup, which takes place in Orlando, Florida, Nashville, Tennessee and Frisco, Texas.

☆ 6 red flags a company isn't what it seems — and you probably shouldn't take the job
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-26 | by ( Susan Johnston Taylor | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Several experts told Insider what red flags indicate a company may not be great to work for. No matter how appealing a job sounds on paper, if you come across these six red flags when interviewing at a company, it might be best to pass it over for a better opportunity. The job description is vagueEven for a brand-new role, the hiring manager should have a clear picture of what it entails. They're being cagey or defensive around compensationThe last thing any job seeker wants is to interview multiple times for a job without knowing if the pay meets their expectations. "If a company won't accommodate, that's also a red flag," Monaghan said.

☆ 'The Handmaid's Tale' Season 5 finale recap: 'Safe' signals it's time to begin chugging toward the show's end
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-09 | by ( Review Brian Lowry | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers about “The Handmaid’s Tale” Season 5 finale, “Safe.”CNN —“The Handmaid’s Tale” certainly doesn’t suffer from a lack of media exposure or cultural capital, with recent turns in the battle over abortion rights generating regular references in progressive circles to the threat of America becoming Gilead, the repressive patriarchal society featured in Margaret Atwood’s novel. Appropriately, the finale wrapped up aboard a train, because while the show didn’t quite go off the rails, it at times seemed to come perilously close. Ultimately, the last episode, “Safe,” reunited the two characters whose bond — forged in pain and hatred — completely defined Season 5. A gruesome attack on June and botched military operation to recover the lost girls, underscored that this is indeed a war, with casualties as the inevitable byproduct. “And then it was too f**kin’ late.”In that moment, anyway, “The Handmaid’s Tale” offered a riveting reminder of what made the series such an Emmy-winning sensation when it began.

☆ Factbox: How Wall St and billionaires have donated to U.S. elections
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-08 | by ( John Mccrank | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Prior to the U.S. Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United ruling, which struck down limits on political contributions by corporations or unions, political contributions of billionaires made up around 3% of overall political contributions, she said. Griffin said in a statement: "I hope that my political engagement will help to protect the American Dream. * Crypto-billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried of FTX was the sixth-largest donor, at $39.8 million with the vast majority going to help Democrats. * Elliott Management founder Paul Singer spent $19.7 million to support Republicans, making him the 15th-largest donor. * Renaissance Technologies founder Jim Simons, together with Marilyn Simons, were the 20th-largest donors, spending nearly $16 million to help Democrats.

☆ Inside BlackRock's long journey toward crypto adoption
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-08 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

BlackRock's crypto quest. The culmination, and perhaps biggest step, in BlackRock's crypto journey came this summer, when it announced a partnership with Coinbase. Insider's Rebecca Ungarino and Morgan Chittum mapped out Blackrock's long journey toward crypto acceptance, which essentially dates back to an initial memo in 2015. Which is why mapping out BlackRock's journey is so interesting, Rebecca told me. Industry insiders detail a difficult week for the tech industry that saw thousands lose their jobs.

☆ Fact Check-Preventing transmission never required for COVID vaccines’ initial approval; Pfizer vax did reduce transmission of early variants
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-14 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +11 min

To get emergency approval, companies needed to show that the vaccines were safe and prevented vaccinated people from getting ill. They did not have to show that the vaccine would also prevent people from spreading the virus to others. Pfizer ‘vaccine’ wasn’t intended to prevent transmission. The newest family of Omicron variants has further eroded vaccine effectiveness against infection and transmission (here) . But even Omicron does not escape vaccine protection completely.

☆ Silicon Valley's not-so-secret thing for turning everyone into millionaires is angel investing. Here's how they do it.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-11 | by ( Darius Rafieyan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Once only for the superrich, angel investing is now open to anyone with a few thousand dollars. With an estimated 360,000 active angel investors, it's become a favorite pastime in Silicon Valley. "It felt like gambling," David Spreng, a veteran venture-debt investor who's been angel investing as a side hustle for more than a decade, said. He wrote his first angel check shortly thereafter, a $1,000 investment in an electric-aircraft maker. The currency of Silicon Valley"Your currency, for lack of a better term, in Silicon Valley is you either started a company or you angel invest, right?"

☆ Pfizer exec denies CEO negotiated EU COVID vaccine contract via text message
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-10 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

FRANKFURT, Oct 10 (Reuters) - A Pfizer (PFE.N) executive with a lead role in negotiating a COVID-19 vaccine bulk supply agreement with the European Commission "categorically" ruled out that the U.S. drugmaker's chief executive agreed the contract via mobile phone text messages. She added that such talks involve far too many people on both sides and take far too long to be conducted via mobile phone texts. The Commission said in June this year that it no longer had the texts, which later drew criticism from the European Union's ombudswoman. The contract signed last year was the biggest ever sealed for COVID-19 vaccines, with the EU committing to buy 900 million Pfizer-BioNTech (22UAy.DE) shots, with an option to buy another 900 million. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterReporting by Ludwig Burger; Editing by Jan Harvey and Susan FentonOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Analysis: 'Abbott Elementary' is back in session
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-24 | by ( Lisa Respers France | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Three things to watch‘Abbott Elementary’ Season 2(From left) Quinta Brunson, Janelle James, Lisa Ann Walter, Tyler James Williams, Chris Perfetti and Sheryl Lee Ralph in a scene from "Abbott Elementary." Gilles Mingasson/ABCNot enough great things can be said about “Abbott Elementary” creator Quinta Brunson. “Abbott Elementary” airs Wednesday nights on ABC; episodes will also be available to stream the following day on Hulu. ‘Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story’Evan Peters stars as Jeffrey Dahmer in "Dahmer -- Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story." ‘The Kardashians’ Season 2Kim Kardashian in a scene from the second season of Hulu's "The Kardashians."

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