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In his guest essay, “Hey, Losers! Here’s How to Bring Baseball’s Very Boring Era to an End” Rafi Kohan makes an argument for bringing trash talk back to baseball. At the most basic level, talking trash raises the stakes of a competitive confrontation. It puts more on the line — like pride and possible humiliation — and that makes the outcome of the contest matter more than it otherwise would.
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2 years ago Read more at The New York Times

An application filed with Orange County on Tuesday revealed plans for a 409-seat entertainment venue, two hotels, and three retail locations totaling over 38,000 square feet. The plan hints that Orlando Slingshot could be leaving the park a year after the ride operator and ICON Park settled a wrongful death lawsuit with the family of Tyre Sampson.
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2 years ago Read more at Orlando Sentinel

This year, a critical agenda item for business leaders is the strategic consolidation of systems and technology stacks. At the heart of this transformative strategy lies the challenge of addressing and minimizing technical debt associated with legacy systems. This is stemming from factors including the chronic underfunding of IT infrastructure, widening discrepancies between user needs and existing technological solutions, and a depletion of critical system knowledge as the architects behind these systems retire or move on.
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2 years ago Read more at TechRadar

LaSalle St. is a family of wealth management firms encompassing independent broker-dealer and registered investment advisor (RIA) platforms. Advyzon provides a full range of services, including portfolio management, account aggregation, performance reporting, CRM, a growth suite, client portal, mobile app and secure document management. Technology Learning Center provides advisors with live and recorded webinars, white papers, podcasts and more.
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2 years ago Read more at Martechcube

Capital A is in discussions with Ant International to integrate its cross-border digital payments, payment orchestration, marketing and digitalization technology solutions to its entire business ecosystem. Ant International and Capital A Berhad have formed a strategic collaboration in various areas, exploring to integrate more local payments methods. The partnership covers collaborative initiatives between Ant International's Alipay+ trans-border payment, marketing & digitalization technologies, and other business segments.
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2 years ago Read more at Yahoo Finance

The Beautiful Game is a new movie starring Bill Nighy and Michael Ward. The movie is about a real soccer tournament called the Homeless World Cup. It’s a movie-movie (debuting on Netflix on Friday, tidily constructed)
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2 years ago Read more at The Mercury News

Encompass Health was the big winner, rising 6.5%, or $5.02, to close at a 52-week high of $82.58. It has seven hospitals across Alabama: Huntsville, Gadsden, Birmingham, Pelham, Montgomery, Phenix City and Dothan.
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2 years ago Read more at AL.com

This talk by Wendy E. Parmet will review the shift from deference to indifference during the pandemic and discuss its post-pandemic spillover. The talk will also examine the connections between the decline of deference and threats to democracy and consider what this new judicial era may augur for public health. Students, faculty and staff are invited to attend in person in Room A59 of the School of Law.
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2 years ago Read more at The Daily | Case Western Reserve University

Biden and his campaign team, by contrast, see health care as one of his best opportunities to take the offensive against Donald Trump and the GOP. But politically, it proved more burden than boon for each man. The cumulative impact of the GOP plan is breathtaking: It calls for cutting federal spending on health care by $4.5 trillion.
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2 years ago Read more at The Atlantic

Earth’s magnetic field may be a compass for young ants. The ants train partly by walking a loop near their nests for the first three days. But when the magnetic field around the nest entrance was disturbed, ant apprentices couldn’t figure out where to look. Scientists now know one way that magnetic fields can influence brain development.
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2 years ago Read more at Science News Magazine