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In February, when the USGA announced that Ally would become the presenting sponsor for the U.S. Women’s Open, USGA CEO Mike Whan revealed that the overall purse for this year’s championship at Lancaster (Pa.) Country Club would jump from $11 million to $12 million—keeping it as the richest women’s golf tournament in the world. But on the eve of the championship proper, Whan offered a little wrinkle to the prize money payout this week, noting that the winner would take home $2.4 million. Not only is that a 20 percent bump from the $2 million Allisen Corpuz earned for winning…

HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach Newswire – 30 May 2024 – LOFTER GROUP (“LOFTER” or “the Group”), a Hong Kong-based property developer, is pleased to announce the official naming of the new modern industrial development as ‘TWO BEDFORD PLACE’. The marketing suite of TWO BEDFORD PLACE showcases the development’s strategic location near Olympian business district, trendy building design and unique advantages and market positioning. Located at Bedford Road, West Kowloon, TWO BEDFORD PLACE is close to the Olympian business district, with proximity to well-established residential hubs, banks, and restaurants, as well as the traditional core districts, like Mong Kok…

Whoever wins the general election, one potential headache for the new administration will be Thames Water. The current government has already drawn up contingency plans, known as Project Timber, for the possible collapse of a company currently saddled with debt of £15.4bn. The scenario also features strongly on a dossier of potential crises compiled by Sue Gray, Sir Keir Starmer’s chief of staff, that an incoming Labour government would face. Talk of a potential collapse has moved up the agenda because Thames Water’s owners, which include the Canadian pensions giant Omers, the Universities Superannuation Scheme, a unit of the Abu…

I have been told on occasion by readers of this blog that “Freelance Christianity” is an oxymoron. I don’t bother to tell such folks that the other contender for the name of this blog over a decade ago was “Agnostic Christianity” (which fortunately Jeanne talked me out of). Recently, though, a commenter who seemed sincere asked me to explain what the difference between freelance and traditional Christianity might be. My sense was that his question was not a bait-and-switch effort to get me to commit to something for which he wanted to condemn me to hell in his next comment…

Eugene Mymrin/Getty ImagesKnow what floats my boat? Charts and graphs.Give me a cool chart to dig into and I’m unreasonably happy. I love watching the news on election nights, not for the vote count, but for all the great charts. I switch between channels all evening to see every possible way that each network finds to present numerical data.  Is that weird? I don’t think so.Also: The moment I realized ChatGPT Plus was a game-changer for my businessAs it turns out, ChatGPT does a great job making charts and tables. And given that this ubiquitous generative AI chatbot can synthesize a…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.UBS has shaken up its executive board and split responsibility for its all-important wealth management business between two of the managers most likely to succeed chief executive Sergio Ermotti.Under the changes announced on Thursday, wealth management head Iqbal Khan will move to Asia and become head of Asia-Pacific, while investment bank head Rob Karofsky will become head of the Americas.Both men will share responsibility for the wealth management unit as co-presidents.The Financial Times reported this week that UBS was planning to change…

With all the controversy surrounding visual artists being ripped off by AI, it seems like these are difficult and confusing days for creators. Now, a London-based startup hopes to use AI to help artists take back control.  Exactly.ai says it uses generative AI to help artists retain legal ownership of their art and gives them the ability to reproduce their designs much faster and at scale. It’s now raised $4.3 million in a seed funding round led by Speedinvest, with InReach Ventures, Cornerstone VC, GuruDev Capital, and a few angel investors also participating. The startup claims to have 40,000 registered…

A North East High School team is headed to the NCF-Envirothon international competition this summer after winning local and state titles.The five-member team won Envirothon competitions in Erie County and Pennsylvania in May to advance to the big event. A program of the National Conservation Foundation, the Envirothon is an international environmental and natural resource problem-solving competition. Envirothon programs are located in the United States, Canada, China and Singapore, according to the competition website.What is Envirothon?At the local and state level, the Envirothon is an all-day competition at which teams demonstrate their knowledge of environmental resources, their interrelationships and the…

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NEW YORK — The jury in Donald Trump’s hush money trial is to resume deliberations Thursday after asking to rehear potentially crucial testimony about the alleged hush money scheme at the heart of the history-making case.The 12-person jury deliberated for about 4 1/2 hours on Wednesday without reaching a verdict.Besides asking to rehear testimony from a tabloid publisher and Trump’s former lawyer and personal fixer, the jury also requested to revisit at least part of the judge’s hourlong instructions that were meant to guide them on the law.It’s unclear how long the deliberations will last. A guilty verdict would deliver…