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U.S. weekly jobless claims rose much more than expected last week

July 22, 2021 Admin Leave a comment

Weekly jobless claims unexpected moved higher last week despite hopes that the U.S. labor market is poised for a strong recovery heading into the fall.

Initial filings for unemployment insurance totaled 419,000 for the week ended July 17, well above the 350,000 Dow Jones estimate and more than the upwardly revised 368,000 from the previous period, the Labor Department reported Thursday.

The news sent stock market futures off their highs for the morning, with Wall Street pointing to a slightly negative open. Government bond yields also endged lower.

The total was the highest weekly count since May 15 and comes amid expectations that the jobs picture will improve markedly as enhanced unemployment benefits end and companies get more aggressive about filling vacant positions.

On the positive side, continuing claims, which run a week behind the headline number, declined by 126,000 to 3.24 million, a fresh pandemic low. The total was last higher on March 14, 2020, just after the Covid-19 pandemic declaration and as governments across the U.S. ordered businesses to close, sending more than 22 million to the unemployment line.

The total of those receiving benefits under all government programs also declined, falling by 372,279 to 13.84 million. A year ago at this time, there were 30.6 million collecting benefits.

Last week’s surprise increase in claims comes as fears grow over the relatively new delta variant of the coronavirus. Case counts and hospitalizations are rising, primarily among unvaccinated parts of the population, raising the specter that another wave of the disease is hitting the U.S. and the world.

New cases and hospitalizations are around the levels they were in mid-May though they remain a fraction of where they were during the winter outbreak.

Despite the surprise jump in claims last week, multiple factors point to strong potential for labor gains ahead.

Job placement site Indeed estimates that there were about 9.8 million job openings as of July 16. That compares to the 9.48 million workers that the Labor Department counted as unemployed through June, indicating plenty of opportunity for aggressive hiring ahead.

Businesses shuttered during the pandemic also are coming back at a brisk pace.

In the April-to-June period, 60,502 businesses reopened, the highest volume of the past year, according to Yelp. That total included 38,725 reopenings just in April, the quickest monthly pace since May 2020.

Of those returns, restaurants and retail businesses make up the highest portion, with more than 36,000 in that second-quarter period.

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Weekly Love Horoscope For July 19 To July 25, 2021

July 18, 2021 Admin Leave a comment

Your zodiac sign’s weekly love horoscope is here with an astrology prediction that starts July 19th and lasts through July 25, 2021.

This week just after the Sun leaves the zodiac sign of Cancer to enter Leo, we will come in with a buildup of energy as we near the first of two Full Moons in Aquarius and will have us moving back and forth between enjoying the one we love-yet still planning to come.

Leo brings passion into the present, and it’s said that couples are the happiest when men can leave the past behind, and women no longer worry about the future which allows them to meet in the present moment.

This is what the theme of your love horoscope this week is because as much as there is a future to contend with life right now can be amazing, if we allow ourselves to see it.

Learning to balance thinking ahead so that we’re making strides to a destined goal with enjoy what we’ve already created can be challenging, but it also steals our happiness, our joy and even our love.

Tomorrow will always come, that is a given, but no matter what we do or don’t do we can’t control how it will arrive.

So, to stay focused on that only steals away the love from the present moment.

If you’ve been going through a stressful period in your relationship that has had you anxious about what will happen, try to relax into the unknowing this week.

Instead of being worried if it will all work out, envision that it already has.

Sometimes we end up making plans only once we realize how good the moment that we’re in feels which opens our eyes to new ways of being and living.

The energy this week will feel fast paced like we’re being moved from one chapter to another quickly, but the breath of fresh air will arrive with the Full Moon when we realize that we already are exactly where we’re meant to be.

Planet transits that affect your weekly love horoscope, July 19 to July 25, 2021

Monday July 19th: Vesta moves into the zodiac sign Libra

A two-month transit ending on September 20th that will pull the focus into home, family and committed relationships.

This isn’t just about enhancing or bringing more of that into our lives but to work together, to compromise more and to work cooperatively to bring about changes and growth in those areas of our lives over the next few months.

Tuesday July 20th: Mercury in Cancer sextile Uranus in Taurus

A one day transit that will bring exciting and unexpected conversations or news.

Specifically with Mercury in Cancer, conversations about what home means to us or how to better create that feeling in our lives.

Wednesday July 21st: Venus enters the Virgo zodiac sign

Lasting until August 16th this transit not only is all about the love, but the plans that we put in place to make it happen.

Rather than being focused on the practical though, this is about how to bring healing and growth to what we have recently been through or learned.

A great transit for planning the next steps of a separation or new relationship, also favorable for engagements as it denotes a long and stable life together.

Thursday July 22nd: Sun enters Leo

The start of Leo season which has us thinking and acting bold.

Following our hearts and passions become the name of the game under this transit and we can find ourselves more easily moving through obstacles or roadblocks that had previously seemed too overwhelming to deal with.

While this season can help us speak our truth, we may find that we end up roaring it instead. If this is the case, be gentle with yourself as sometimes we are only truly heard when we do.

Venus in Virgo opposite Jupiter in Pisces

A one day transit that will have us feeling very social ready to relax or head out on vacation.

If that’s not possible try to give yourself extra time to get things done or extend any big projects that are more work intensive such as moving into a new home.

Because this transit is all about pleasure and relaxation it’s also a great one for relationships as we will be feeling more affection with one another.

Friday July 23rd: Full Moon in Aquarius

This is the first of two back to back Aquarius full moons this summer, the second arriving in August.

While this isn’t usually the norm to have two full moons within the same sign, it is occurring for a very divine reason.

Aquarius is all about freedom, independence and being able to create a life that we love.

Consider this the first act of something that is going to need to continue to play out in August.

Any relationships we’ve been struggling to free ourselves from will find closure during this time and any new relationships started will have a strong sense of respect and independence as their foundation.

Saturday July 24th: Mercury in Cancer trine Neptune in Pisces

A one day transit that will help us see the positivity that’s present in looking at things from the bigger picture.

It’s possible as well that this will help begin any important conversations that we may have around our relationships and dreams so that we can decide for how to make them a reality.

Sunday July 25th: Mercury in Cancer opposite Pluto in Capricorn

Power struggles could ensue with this one-day transit especially in family relationships or those that are amid separation or divorce.

While it’s normal for everyone to want to be right, try to focus on only the fights that are worth participating in so that when you do, you’ll be sure to come out on top.

Weekly love horoscope for July 19 to July 25, 2021:

Aries (March 21 – April 19)

Even though it’s often pointless to tell you as an Aries to not worry how things will turn out, that’s precisely what you should be doing this week.

Often because of your impetuous nature you tend to overthink things, especially those that trigger an old wound or way of relating to those closest to you.

In this moment you’re going to have to learn to trust your heart and be okay with taking things step by step.

Taurus (April 20 – May 20)

Things could feel a little challenging this week as you are forced from your comfort zone to look at your relationship differently.

It’s not enough to just have a solid foundation but we also need to be able to have the room for our wings to fly.

Try incorporating more spontaneity into your love life and even committed relationship.

Trust blindly and look for the joy within any newfound freedom you may be experiencing.

Gemini (May 21 – June 20)

This week is going to ask you to take a long hard look at yourself in terms of your beliefs about love or a specific relationship. If you’re lying or deceiving yourself.

This may be believing that a particular connection is more than it is, or even discounting someone because they seem all wrong or not what you had pictured for your partner.

Even though knowing ourselves and our needs are always a priority, we must make sure that knowledge is based on truth.

Cancer (June 21 – July 22)

You’re still moving through a very active time where you’re being asked to do a lot of deep reflecting and processing of what you’ve recently moved through.

Big shifts in awareness and your physical state of reality are the current theme for you but rather than rushing ahead and trying to find closure, instead just simply feel what this moment has to offer.

If you don’t allow yourself to feel it now, then it won’t matter how good it all may look from the outside.

Leo (July 23 – August 22)

This is the calm before the storm for you. The moment where you’re starting to get clearer on what it is you want and all the ways you’ve previously given up on your dreams.

Try to not be hard on yourself or get stuck in the thought process of how you would do it all differently and instead try to find acceptance.

This goes for the relationships that didn’t last, the decisions or actions you look back on and cringe and the general path that your life has taken up until this point.

The more peace you can create for yourself, the less any person or relationship will be able to steal that from you.

Virgo (August 23 – September 22)

Love takes center stage this week as you remember what it feels like to surrender to things just being good.

But like with the general theme this week, it’s about balance too.

This means that as good as you may be feeling in this moment, you also aren’t precisely where you want to be so plans will need to be made.

Instead of trying to get this sorted with lists and practical ideas, try to look for signs from the universe instead.

See what you’re meant to do or where you’re meant to go and then trust that the person that is meant to be in your life will show up for you.

Libra (September 23 – October 22)

While others may be scrambling this week, you will wonder what all the fuss is about.

Usually if you aren’t in a fear-based mindset you are able to balance the bigger picture with the details that are present in this moment.

This means that this week should feel like the energies of the universe have finally matched yours and because of this it will feel like you’re receiving various confirmations that you are indeed on the right path.

The only thing you must watch for is whether you’re living out of fear of the past repeating itself, which will ultimately always be up to you and the choices that you make in this moment.

Scorpio (October 23 – November 21)

It’s time to dust yourself off and look around you. If they aren’t with you, if they aren’t showing up, if you’re not feeling supported by them, then they aren’t your person.

Let it me that simple this week. You don’t need to spend time thinking of those who aren’t thinking of you especially because all it does is take you away from what is happening right now in front of you.

The number one mistake we make in love is getting fixed on attaching our happiness to someone who isn’t there while ignoring the one standing right in front of us.

Pick your head up and look around, you may realize that it’s been right in front of you all along.

Sagittarius (November 22 – December 21)

It’s all come down to this as a feeling of fruition and destiny reign over your life this week.

It’s that magic of finally seeing that every decision we’ve ever made has led us to where we are right now, no matter how dark some of them may seemed.

For you though, the balance in question comes with whether you allow yourself to see that or if you are determined to exist in what no longer is.

Whatever you’ve been through in your life has brought you to this moment, but it doesn’t mean that it or even that version of you still exists now.

Recognize when certain chapters are closed so that you can enjoy the ones that are just beginning.

Capricorn (December 22 – January 19)

You may have a challenging week ahead of you as you realize that there’s certain areas of your life you feel stuck in.

Likely your romantic sector at this point and the influence you feel like they ultimately have over you and the decisions you’re beginning to see that you need to make for yourself.

Realizing this can be scary but what’s even scarier is pretending that you haven’t become aware of it and expecting your life to be able to just continue.

We become aware of truths in the moment that we’re meant to, so this week try to stay aware of what the present moment is showing you.

Aquarius (January 20 – February 18)

This will be a week of wings stretched and feeling like you’re ready to soar. You’ve done so much to get to this moment make sure that you stop to realize that future you’ve been dreaming of has arrived.

The you a few years ago would likely not even recognize you and isn’t that a beautiful thing because it means we grew even further than our own expectations for ourselves.

While there’s not any obvious red flags for you to watch for this week, there may be a situation in which you will be tested to see just how far you’ve grown. Don’t even bother blinking an eye, you’ve got this.

Pisces (February 19 – March 20)

If we’re still holding onto how, we dreamed it would look we’re going to miss how it does.

While especially for you speaking up and making sure your needs are met, it’s equally important for you to not idealize those dreams you have about love because they’ll have you miss the very real way it shows up for you.

Love can be better than we even dreamed up but first we must let go of the pictures that only limit us.

This can be hard though especially when their based on the emotional safety that we try to build for ourselves yet when we realize that love itself is more than enough to keep us safe, we’re also able to let go and see how amazingly beautiful life and love can be when it’s not a dream at all-but reality.

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Kate Rose is an artist, writer, passionate yogi, spiritual astrologist, relationship and life coach, and motivational speaker. As a spiritual intuitive, she practices the religion of astrology and love. For more of her work, visit her website.

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‘Manifest’ Fans Swarm Netflix, Help Show Dominate Weekly Nielsen Streaming Ratings – Deadline

July 16, 2021 Admin Leave a comment

Nielsen said Thursday that Manifest on Netflix ran away as the most streamed program for the week of June 14-20 — the same week it was canceled by NBC after three seasons. The cult hit sci-fi drama drew almost 2.5 billion viewing minutes for the two seasons currently available on the streamer that week, swamping everything in its way.

Disney+’s animated movie Luca, which bowed streaming-only on June 13, was a distant No. 2 overall with 1.57B viewing minutes in its debut on the chart.

Manifest at 2.49 billion minutes ballooned from 1.11B viewing minutes the previous week, an increase likely to be noted by Netflix, which eventually opted not to order a fourth season following the show’s NBC ax. The missing plane drama had long been conceived by creator Jeff Rake as a six-season series, and fans had been pushing it to the top of Netflix’s rankings since it recently began airing Season 1 and Season 2.

Nielsen said Manifest‘s showing the week of June 14-20 was the highest single-title total on the Nielsen SVOD Ratings chart since the December 2020 highs of Netflix’s Bridgerton and Cobra Kai.

Luca, in its first week, was part of a 1-2 Disney+ punch that included the first two episodes of Marvel’s Loki, which were watched for 886M minutes, a big jump from the previous week and good for No. 4 on the overall chart behind Netflix’s six seasons of Downton Abbey (1.26B minutes).

Loki, which wrapped its six-episode run July 14 and has already been renewed for Season 2, was the top original streaming program for the week of June 14-20, ahead of Netflix’s Lucifer (703M minutes) at No. 2 and Sweet Tooth (626M minutes) at No. 3.

Among movies, Luca was followed in the rankings by the debut of Netflix’s Kevin Hart drama Fatherhood which bowed June 18 and was watched for 877M minutes — all at the tail end of the reporting period.

Here’s the Top 10 streaming programs for the week of June 14-20:

1. Manifest (Netflix) – 29 episodes, 2.493 billion minutes of viewing

2. Luca (Disney+) – 1 episode, 1,573B minutes

3. Downton Abbey (Netflix) – 50 episodes, 1.259B minutes

4. Loki (Disney+) – 2 episodes, 886M minutes

5. Fatherhood (Netflix) – 1 episode, 877M minutes

6. CoComelon (Netflix) – 12 episodes, 776M minutes

7. Lucifer (Netflix) – 83 episodes, 703M minutes

8. Grey’s Anatomy (Netflix) – 375 episodes, 671M minutes

9. Sweet Tooth (Netflix) – 8 episodes, 626M minutes

10. Raya and the Last Dragon (Disney+) – 1 episode, 576M minutes

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Oregon reports 2 more COVID-19 related deaths, 212 new cases; weekly report shows case decline

July 8, 2021 Admin Leave a comment

(Update: Adding OHA weekly report shows fewer cases, hospitalizations; deaths increase)

PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — There are two new COVID-19 related deaths in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll at 2,790, the Oregon Health Authority reported Thursday.

OHA also reported 212 new confirmed and presumptive cases of COVID-19 as of 12:01 a.m. Thursday, bringing the state total to 209,973.

Vaccinations in Oregon

OHA reported Thursday that 10,824 new doses of COVID-19 vaccinations were added to the state immunization registry. Of this total, 7,482 doses were administered on Wednesday and 3,396 were administered on previous days but were entered into the vaccine registry on Wednesday.

The seven-day running average is now 5,406 doses per day.

Oregon has now administered 2,564,438 first and second doses of Pfizer, 1,752,116 first and second doses of Moderna and 172,177 single doses of Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines.

As of Thursday, 2,421,075 people have had at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine and 2,217,891 people have completed a COVID-19 vaccine series.

Cumulative daily totals can take several days to finalize because providers have 72 hours to report doses administered and technical challenges have caused many providers to lag in their reporting. OHA has been providing technical support to vaccination sites to improve the timeliness of their data entry into the state’s ALERT Immunization Information System (IIS).

To date, 2,965,545 doses of Pfizer, 2,245,440 doses of Moderna and 299,100 doses of Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines have been delivered to sites across Oregon.

These data are preliminary and subject to change.

Updated vaccination data are provided on Oregon’s COVID-19 data dashboards and have been updated Thursday.

COVID-19 hospitalizations

The number of hospitalized patients with COVID-19 across Oregon is 100. which is six fewer than Wednesday. There are 28 COVID-19 patients in intensive care unit (ICU) beds, which is three fewer than Wednesday.

The total number of patients in hospital beds may fluctuate between report times. The numbers do not reflect admissions per day, nor the length of hospital stay. Staffing limitations are not captured in this data and may further limit bed capacity.

More information about hospital capacity can be found here.

St. Charles Bend reported seven COVID-19 patients as of early Thursday, one in the ICU and on a ventilator.

COVID-19 weekly cases and hospitalizations continue to fall

The Oregon Health Authority’s COVID-19 Weekly Report, released Thursday, shows a continued decrease in daily cases and hospitalizations.

OHA reported 1,189 new daily cases of COVID-19 during the week of Monday, June 28, through Sunday, July 4. That represents a 13% decrease over the previous week.

New COVID-19 related hospitalizations declined by 40%, to 66, from 110 the previous week.

There were 19 reported COVID-19 related deaths, up from seven reported the previous week.

There were 62,307 tests for COVID-19 for the week of June 27 through July 3. The percentage of positive tests was 2.9%.

People 70 years of age and older have accounted for 38% of COVID-19 related hospitalizations and 74% of COVID-19 related deaths.

Thursday’s COVID-19 Weekly Outbreak Report shows 22 active COVID-19 outbreaks in senior living communities and congregate living settings, with three or more confirmed cases and one or more COVID-19 related deaths.

Reaching out to forestry workers for COVID-19 vaccinations in Jackson County

With over 20 reforestation companies in the Medford area, Jackson County worked with local and state partners to contact local forestry companies about offering vaccination services to their employees and set up clinics at easily accessible locations. The workers are mostly young men who come from Mexico with temporary visas.

“We are very happy to report that we served over 250 forestry workers over several weekends,” said Angelica Ruppe. “We had bilingual and bicultural volunteers. Attendees were surprised to receive a food box and a gift certificate provided by Rogue Food Unites and tacos from “Tacos de Volada” truck. We saw a lot of smiles and heard many jokes”.

Learn more about this effort on the Oregon Vaccine News blog. To volunteer with a vaccination effort, visit Medical Reserve Corps or SERV-OR.

Cases and deaths

The new confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases reported Thursday are in the following counties: Benton (4), Clackamas (23), Columbia (4), Crook (2), Deschutes (10), Douglas (5), Jackson (18), Josephine (15), Klamath (8), Lane (7), Lincoln (4), Linn (13), Malheur (3), Marion (23), Morrow (1), Multnomah (13), Polk (2), Tillamook (7), Umatilla (21), Union (2), Washington (17), Yamhill (10).

Oregon’s 2,789th COVID-19 death is a 66-year-old man from Multnomah County who tested positive on June 22 and died on July 6 at Legacy Emanuel Medical Center. Presence of underlying conditions is being confirmed.

Oregon’s 2,790th COVID-19 death is a 72-year-old man from Klamath County who tested positive on June 23 and died on July 6 at Sky Lakes Medical Center. He had underlying conditions.

Learn more about COVID-19 vaccinations

To learn more about the COVID-19 vaccine situation in Oregon, visit OHA’s webpage (English or Spanish), which has a breakdown of distribution and other information.

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U.S. weekly jobless claims unexpectedly rise to 373,000, as job growth slows

July 8, 2021 Admin Leave a comment

Initial filings for unemployment insurance unexpectedly rose last week, a possible hint that the rapid job growth seen the first half of 2021 could face hurdles in the months ahead, the Labor Department reported Thursday.

First-time jobless claims totaled 373,000 for the week ended July 3, compared with the 350,000 Dow Jones estimate. The previous week’s level was revised up by 7,000 from 364,000 to 371,000.

The level of continuing claims, the measure of ongoing benefits, decreased to 3.34 million, down 145,000 from the previous week’s revised level.

Despite the uptick in first-time applicants, the decreased number of continuing claims represented the lowest level for insured unemployment since March 2020. The four-week moving average for continuing claims, which smooths weekly volatility, fell by 44,500 to 3.44 million, also the lowest since March 2020.

“While the pace of firings is still above the 200k range we saw pre Covid, it actually is only slightly above the average seen in the expansion in the mid [2000s] where from ’03-’08 it averaged 335k,” wrote Peter Boockvar, chief investment officer at Bleakley Advisory Group.

“Continuing claims continue to fall as about half the states have gotten rid of expanded benefits and there is clearly a large amount of job openings for the taking with companies utilizing more enticements such as hiring bonuses to bring people back,” he added.

The jobless claims report came less than a week after the government published its much-anticipated June 2021 jobs report, the latest iteration in its monthly updates on the broader U.S. labor market.

Though that report showed nonfarm employers added a better-than-expected 850,000 last month, it also revealed that the U.S. unemployment rate ticked higher to 5.9% compared with the 5.6% estimate.

Federal enhanced benefit programs expire in September, and many states already have halted their own programs as Covid-19 vaccines are distributed and businesses resume normal activity. However, there are still more than 10 million Americans enrolled in pandemic-related programs.

The total of those receiving benefits through all programs fell by 449,642 to 14.2 million, according to data that runs two weeks behind.

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248% Weekly Gains — Baby Doge Coin Continues to Rally While Most Crypto Asset Markets Slump – Markets and Prices Bitcoin News

July 5, 2021 Admin Leave a comment

Four days ago, the crypto community and mainstream audiences caught a whiff of a new meme-based crypto asset called baby doge. The coin got a lot more attention when Tesla’s Elon Musk tweeted about baby doge and almost immediately after the tweet, the asset’s value skyrocketed. Musk hasn’t said anything about baby doge since then, but the crypto asset has continued to climb higher in value.

Weekly Stats Show Baby Doge Outshines Most Crypto Asset Market Performances

Last week, Bitcoin.com News reported on the cryptocurrency called baby doge (BABYDOGE) after the CEO of Tesla tweeted about the coin. At that time, baby doge jumped 228.3% during a 24 hour period on July 1, and during the last few days, the digital currency continues to gather gains.

Ever since the CEO of Tesla, Elon Musk, mentioned baby doge coin (BABYDOGE) on Twitter, the crypto asset has seen mainstream media reports about it and the currency has doubled in value in four days. The picture above is a meme shared by the Twitter handle @babydogecoin which has 109,200 Twitter followers on July 5, 2021.

The following Monday morning (EDT), baby doge dropped a touch over 2% but seven-day statistics show BABYDOGE is still up 248.9%. Over the last two weeks, baby doge has captured a mammoth-sized 723% gain.

Baby doge has gathered mainstream media (MSM) attention after the Musk tweet, as many publications followed Bitcoin.com News’ lead and reported on the baby doge situation. Fool.com, a subsidiary publication owned by the Motley Fool asked: “Should You (or Anyone) Buy Baby Doge Coin?” Baby doge was also featured in articles published by newsdesks like the Indian Times, Futurism, Republic World, Benzinga, Gamerevolution, Techstory, Business Insider, Toysmatrix, and more.

Baby doge coin has rallied during the last week gathering 248% in seven days and 723% in fourteen days.

The New York Post gave the public an introduction to baby doge in an article called: “Baby Doge? What to know about the Dogecoin spinoff that Elon Musk is hyping.” Since July 1, the number of trading platforms listing baby doge has increased by three centralized exchanges after it was initially available on Pancakeswap.

The meme-based crypto asset is available on Pancakeswap, MEXC Global, XT.com, and Lbank. Pancakeswap version one shows baby doge has lots of liquidity with $71 million in 24 hour swaps and the protocol’s version two shows more than $3 million.

Top Meme Tokens Coins by Market Capitalization List Shows Other Doge-Like and Musk-Related Meme Coins on the Rise

During our last report, baby doge coin was swapping for $0.000000002014 per unit and it’s doubled since then at $0.000000004585 per BABYDOGE. Every time a baby doge transaction happens, people must pay a 10% fee but the 5% of the fee is redistributed to every baby doge holder.

The other 5% taken from the fee is added to the BABYDOGE/BNB liquidity pool hosted on Pancakeswap. According to Coingecko’s “Top Meme Tokens Coins by Market Capitalization” list, dogecoin (DOGE) hasn’t done as well as baby doge in recent times. DOGE is down 11.4% during the last seven days compared to baby doge’s 248% rise.

There are all kinds of dogecoin-like and Musk-related meme coins these days, as there’s tokens like Dogelon Mars, Polydoge, Dogefi, SHIBA BSC, and many more. Some of the dogecoin-like and Musk-related meme coins have seen double-digit gains this past week.

Now shiba inu (SHIB) is up 7.4% today and a few other DOGE-like tokens have seen decent weekly gains. A crypto-asset called dogelon mars (ELON) jumped 31% this week and another one called elon doge token (EDOGE) jumped over 20%. Baby doge doesn’t have the amount of trade volume seen by its predecessors SHIB and DOGE, but it’s rising fast. Today, dogecoin (DOGE) captures $1.3 billion in trade volume while SHIB has over $400 million.

Collective baby doge trade volume during the trailing 24 hours has been around $103 million. Baby doge coin holds the 31st position among the dozens of meme-coins listed on Coingecko’s aggregation site. Most crypto coin aggregation sites don’t say what baby doge’s market cap is today but four hundred twenty quadrillion multiplied by $0.000000004585 is approximately $1.925 billion.

What do you think about the Baby Doge project and the coin’s rise this week? Let us know what you think about this subject in the comments section below.

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Kids make up growing share of new weekly cases. What to know.

July 3, 2021 Admin Leave a comment

Children make up a growing share of new coronavirus cases per week as overall infections decline with the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, but infection and hospitalization rates among children remain stable.

In March 2020, children only accounted for about 2% of new infections. By the end of May, children made up more than 24% new weekly infections even though they only account for 16% of the population, according to data by the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Health experts say it’s a sign more adults and adolescents need to get vaccinated to avoid bringing the virus home and spreading it to children that aren’t yet eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine.

“The virus is an equal opportunity infector. It doesn’t care if you’re young or old,” said Dr. Robert Frenck, professor of pediatrics and director of the Center for Vaccine Research at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, who presented the data at a Johns Hopkins University-University of Washington symposium Wednesday called “Covid-19 and Kids: Impacts, Uncertainties and the Role of Vaccines.”

More than 4 million children have tested positive for COVID-19 in the US, 18,500 were hospitalized and 336 have died from the disease, according to the AAP. About 4,000 kids have been hospitalized with multisystem inflammatory syndrome children or MIS-C – a rare, but dangerous condition the CDC says is associated with COVID-19.

Although nearly 55% of Americans have received at least one vaccine dose as of Friday, health experts say vaccination rates are not uniform across the U.S. leaving room for outbreaks and childhood infections.

“There are some places where vaccinations rates are as low as 20%,” Frenck said. “It’s not ‘if,’ but ‘when.’ (Outbreaks) will happen, and unfortunately, people will be surprised and that’s what we’ve been trying to tell people.”

Health experts say it’s especially crucial to increase vaccination rates as the Delta variant continues to spread throughout the U.S. On Wednesday, Texas Children’s Hospital reported several of the country’s first pediatric infections – all occurring in children under 12.

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It’s too early to tell if the Delta variant causes more severe disease in children, but experts say the variant seems to be causing more symptomatic infections than the original virus.

“Because it’s the most highly contagious variant to date based on all the data we’ve accumulated so far, we expect to see more rapid transmission of this virus from adults and adolescents to children,” said Dr. James Versalovic, pathologist-in-chief and interim pediatrician-in-chief at Texas Children’s Hospital.

In the meantime, scientists are doubling their efforts to finish clinical trials so the Food and Drug Administration can authorize the vaccine for younger children as soon as possible.

Pediatric hospitals are working closely with vaccine developers like Pfizer and Moderna to combine Phase 2 and 3 trials, expediting the process during the summer months to submit data by early fall.

“Early in the next school year, we hope to have emergency use authorization for these COVID vaccines for children under 12 by early to mid-fall,” Versalovic said. “That remains a top priority and has now added urgency with the rapid spread of the Delta variant.”

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As housing boom begins to fizzle, weekly mortgage demand falls

June 30, 2021 Admin Leave a comment

Record high home price appreciation is sidelining ever more buyers and finally taking the bang out of the pandemic-induced housing boom. Weekly mortgage demand is falling along with it, down 6.9% for the week according to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s seasonally adjusted index. That is the lowest level in almost a year and a half.

Mortgage applications to purchase a home dropped 5% for the week and were 17% lower annually. That is the slowest pace since the start of May 2020, when lockdowns were in full force.

Demand is now slumping due to weakening affordability, especially at the lower end of the market where demand is strongest. Home prices rose more than 14% in April year over year, according to the latest S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller national price index released Tuesday. Craig Lazzara of S&P Dow Jones Indices called the unprecedented jump, “Truly extraordinary.”

Both the types and size of loans for which borrowers are now applying also point to an overheating in the homebuying market.

“Purchase applications for conventional loans declined last week to the lowest level since last May,” said Michael Fratantoni, chief economist at the Mortgage Bankers Association. “The average loan size for total purchase applications increased, indicating that first-time homebuyers, who typically get smaller loans, are likely getting squeezed out of the market due to the lack of entry-level homes for sale.”

Housing demand took off a year ago, as stay-at-home orders due to Covid-19 had more Americans seeking more space in larger homes, especially in suburban areas. Mortgage rates also set more than a dozen record lows last year, giving buyers more purchasing power and helping to inflate home prices.

Now higher mortgage rates are doing just the opposite for buyers. The average contract interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages with conforming loan balances ($548,250 or less) increased to 3.20% from 3.18%, with points decreasing to 0.39 from 0.48 (including the origination fee) for loans with a 20% down payment. At the start of this year that rate was around 2.85%.

The increase in rates caused an 8% weekly drop in applications to refinance a home loan. Refinance volume is now 15% lower than the same week one year ago.

“Mortgage rates were volatile last week, as investors tried to gauge upcoming moves by the Federal Reserve amidst several divergent signals, including rising inflation, mixed job market data, strong consumer spending, and a supply-constrained housing market that has led to rapid home-price growth,” added Fratantoni.

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Weekly jobless claims higher than expected despite signs of labor gains

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First-time claims for jobless benefits were higher than expected last week, with 719,000 more workers heading to the unemployment line, the Labor Department reported Thursday.

The total compared with the 675,000 estimate from Dow Jones and was above last week’s downwardly revised 658,000.

While the number of weekly claims remains inordinately high by historical measures, the trend is falling now that the U.S. economy continues to reopen and nearly 3 million Americans are receiving vaccinations each day for Covid-19.

Continuing claims, which run a week behind the headline number, fell by 46,000 to just below 3.8 million.

“Taking the two weeks together it’s clear that the trend in claims is falling,” wrote Ian Shepherdson, chief economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics. “We expect a sustained sharp decline in the second quarter as the economy reopens, making it easier for businesses under financial stress to hold onto employees.”

In another sign of the declining unemployment trend, the four-week moving average of claims dropped to 719,000, the lowest since March 14, 2020, just as the pandemic started.

The total of those receiving benefits also dropped sharply, declining by 1.5 million to 18.2 million, due largely to a decrease in those receiving pandemic-related benefits. That data runs two weeks behind.

At the state level, Virginia (+30,696), Kentucky (15,869), Georgia (11,862) and California (9,628) reported the largest gains, according to unadjusted data.

The report comes a day ahead of the government’s nonfarm payrolls count for March, which is expected to show a gain of 675,000, to follow on February’s 379,000. Ohio (-15,718) and Massachusetts (-12,755) reported the largest declines.

Along with the efforts to combat the virus, the Biden Administration continues to shovel money to boost an economy that is showing signs of solid growth. The president put forth a $2 trillion spending plan Wednesday that will build on more than $5 trillion of stimulus either already spent or announced on programs aimed at pulling the nation out of the crisis slump.

While the pace of job gains slowed in the early part of the winter, recent indications are that hiring has picked up.

Payroll processing firm ADP estimated that the companies added 517,000 workers in March, the fastest pace since September. Recent manufacturing reports also show plans ahead for more hiring, and job gains appear to be strongest in the battered hospitality sector, which took the worst of the losses due to social distancing and government-imposed restrictions.

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Bungie Changes Destiny 2 Weekly Bounties, Cancels Crimson Days Next Season

January 29, 2021 Admin Leave a comment

Bungie is making a number of changes to Destiny 2 starting in its upcoming season, adjusting how content will be dished out and how you’ll earn rewards when you log in. Starting in the next content season, Bungie is doing away with its weekly bounty system that requires players to sign in and complete certain objectives within a week in order to gain certain rewards, including premium currency.

The latest This Week At Bungie blog runs down how Destiny 2 will change starting with the next content season, which kicks off on February 9. Currently, players can log in each week and pick up weekly bounties from various in-game vendors, which reward experience points and Bright Dust, one of Destiny 2’s premium currencies, upon completion. You only have a week to knock out those bounties once you have them, and if you want to maximize both your XP gains (which controls your climb to rewards on Destiny 2’s season pass) and your Bright Dust gains, you need to play every week.

Bungie is changing out that system for a new one called Seasonal Challenges. New challenges unlock each week through the first 10 weeks of a new season, giving players objectives to chase across a variety of activities. Instead of expiring each week, however, the challenges pile up and last until the end of the season, so you can skip a week or two (or more) and still come back to the game and earn your rewards.

We previously heard about how Bungie is changing its seasonal activities this year to reduce “FOMO,” or fear of missing out, among players who might leave the game and come back after long stretches. In the last two years, Destiny 2’s seasonal model added new activities to the game every few months, but those activities would only persist in the game until the next season started. That ends this year, when new events will kick off with every new season, but they won’t be removed from the game when a new season ends–at least, not until the next expansion is released in November.

The reward changes for seasons are also aimed at combatting FOMO and making it easier for players who aren’t able to log in each week. Bungie also said the seasonal challenge model is meant to give players who only have one character in Destiny 2 equal footing as those who have three. Seasonal challenges cover all characters on an account, so you won’t need to log in with each of three characters every week to complete the same bounties to earn full rewards.

While seasonal challenges will persist throughout a season and some will continue to be available as long as their corresponding seasonal activities are still in the game, you’ll still have to claim your challenges before the end of a given content season. So you won’t be able to get experience or Bright Dust from challenges from the previous season once a new one starts.

While seasonal activities will hang around long-term, there’s at least one thing that won’t be back this year; that’s Crimson Days, Destiny 2’s Valentine’s Day holiday event. The event usually features a special Doubles Crucible mode, in which teams made up of two players take each other on, as well as some Valentine’s-themed rewards. Bungie wrote that the quality of Crimson Days hasn’t been up to its standards in recent years, and so the holiday event is going into its “Content Vault” for the time being.

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Weekly Love Horoscope For July 19 To July 25, 2021

This is what the theme of your love horoscope this week is because as much as there is a future to contend with life right now can be amazing, if we allow ourselves to see it.

Planet transits that affect your weekly love horoscope, July 19 to July 25, 2021

Monday July 19th: Vesta moves into the zodiac sign Libra

Tuesday July 20th: Mercury in Cancer sextile Uranus in Taurus

Wednesday July 21st: Venus enters the Virgo zodiac sign

Thursday July 22nd: Sun enters Leo

Venus in Virgo opposite Jupiter in Pisces

Friday July 23rd: Full Moon in Aquarius

Saturday July 24th: Mercury in Cancer trine Neptune in Pisces

Sunday July 25th: Mercury in Cancer opposite Pluto in Capricorn

Weekly love horoscope for July 19 to July 25, 2021:

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Cancer (June 21 – July 22)

Leo (July 23 – August 22)

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Scorpio (October 23 – November 21)

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Capricorn (December 22 – January 19)

Aquarius (January 20 – February 18)

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This is what the theme of your love horoscope this week is because as much as there is a future to contend with life right now can be amazing, if we allow ourselves to see it.

Planet transits that affect your weekly love horoscope, July 19 to July 25, 2021

Monday July 19th: Vesta moves into the zodiac sign Libra

Tuesday July 20th: Mercury in Cancer sextile Uranus in Taurus

Wednesday July 21st: Venus enters the Virgo zodiac sign

Thursday July 22nd: Sun enters Leo

Venus in Virgo opposite Jupiter in Pisces

Friday July 23rd: Full Moon in Aquarius

Saturday July 24th: Mercury in Cancer trine Neptune in Pisces

Sunday July 25th: Mercury in Cancer opposite Pluto in Capricorn

Weekly love horoscope for July 19 to July 25, 2021:

Aries (March 21 – April 19)

Taurus (April 20 – May 20)

Gemini (May 21 – June 20)

Cancer (June 21 – July 22)

Leo (July 23 – August 22)

Virgo (August 23 – September 22)

Libra (September 23 – October 22)

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