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BEIJING (AP) — A Chinse spokesperson on Thursday accused Canada of acting in a “condescending manner" following a testy exchange between President Xi Jinping and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that underscores the depths to which the bilateral relationship has fallen.
Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning's comments came after Xi chastised Trudeau at the G-20 summit on Wednesday over media reports on an earlier meeting during which Trudeau expressed concern about Chinese interference in Canada's internal affairs. The apparently spontaneous exchange with a translator present was captured on video.
Mao denied China had ever interfered in the internal affairs of other nations and said Canada was responsible for the downturn in ties.
“Canada should take concrete actions to create conditions for the improvement of China-Canada relations," she said at a daily briefing. The conversation was “quite normal and should not be interpreted as President Xi criticizing or blaming anyone."
Mao added that there had been a clear lack of respect from the Canadian side.
“China has no problem at all with having a candid dialogue with other countries," she said. “But we hope such a candid dialogue will be based on equal treatment and mutual respect, rather than criticizing the other in a condescending manner."
In his comments to Trudeau, Xi said, “Everything we discussed has been leaked to the paper; that’s not appropriate.”
“And that’s not ... the way the conversation was conducted, if there is sincerity on your part,” Xi said, at which point Trudeau interrupted and stepped toward Xi.
“In Canada, we believe in free and open and frank dialogue and that is what we will continue to have,” Trudeau said. “We will continue to look to work constructively together, but there will be things we will disagree on.”
“Let’s create the conditions first,” Xi responded. The two shook hands after the brief encounter.
Mao said nothing Xi said should be interpreted as a threat.
“As you can see from the video, I think it is quite normal for the two heads of state to have a brief conversation during the G-20 summit. The two sides were just stating their respective positions," she said.
Trudeau first spoke with Xi at the G-20 last Tuesday. A senior Canadian government official said the two spoke about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, North Korea and climate change, and that Trudeau also raised “our serious concerns around interference activities in Canada.” The official spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to speak publicly about the matter.
Asked later at a news conference about the confrontation, Trudeau said, “not every conversation is always going to be easy, but it’s extremely important that we continue to stand up for the things that are important for Canadians.”
Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly also said she discussed Chinese interference with her Chinese counterpart at the G-20.
Joly remarked last week that China is an increasingly disruptive global power and warned businesses against deepening their ties, saying there were “geopolitical risks.”
China-Canada ties nosedived after China jailed two Canadians shortly after Canada arrested Meng Wanzhou, chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies and the daughter of the company’s founder, on a U.S. extradition request in December 2018.
They were sent back to Canada last year, the same day Meng returned to China after reaching a deal with U.S. authorities in her case, leading many to label China’s action “hostage politics.”
Canada has banned wireless carriers from installing Huawei equipment in its high-speed 5G networks, joining allies in shunning the company that has close links with the ruling Communist Party and its military wing, the People’s Liberation Army. China has described the charges against Huawei and Meng as a politically motivated attempt to hold back China’s economic and technological development.
More recently, Canadian police charged a Hydro-Québec employee on Monday with espionage for allegedly sending trade secrets to China.
Earlier this month, Canadian public broadcaster CBC closed its China bureau after applications to base a new reporter in Beijing were met with what it called “monthslong silence from Chinese officials.”
The apparently unscripted remarks from Xi marked a rare display of public candor from the usually highly composed veteran politician. Known as an ardent nationalist who has vowed to always put China's interests first, Xi recently had himself granted a third five-year term as leader of the ruling Communist Party, while packing top bodies with loyalists.
In one earlier such incident during a visit to Mexico in 2009 while serving as vice president, China told Chinese students that, “There are a few foreigners, with full bellies, who have nothing better to do than try to point fingers at our country.”
“China does not export revolution, hunger or poverty. Nor does China cause you headaches. Just what else do you want?,” Xi said in remarks caught on camera. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/After-exchange-China-calls-Canada-s-manner-17591416.php | 2022-11-17T11:39:53 | en | 0.978283 |
MIGDAL HAEMEK, Israel (AP) _ Camtek Ltd. (CAMT) on Thursday reported third-quarter net income of $20.7 million.
On a per-share basis, the Migdal Haemek, Israel-based company said it had net income of 43 cents. Earnings, adjusted for stock option expense, came to 48 cents per share.
The results beat Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of four analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 47 cents per share.
The maker of automatic optical inspection and process enhancement systems posted revenue of $82 million in the period, missing Street forecasts. Three analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $82.3 million.
Camtek shares have dropped 46% since the beginning of the year. The stock has decreased 48% in the last 12 months.
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SANTIAGO CHILE, Chile (AP) _ Sociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile SA (SQM) on Wednesday reported third-quarter earnings of $1.1 billion.
The Santiago Chile, Chile-based company said it had net income of $3.85 per share.
The results exceeded Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of four analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $3.40 per share.
The chemicals company posted revenue of $2.96 billion in the period, also surpassing Street forecasts. Three analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $2.83 billion.
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NUSA DUA, Indonesia (AP) — China and India, after months of refusing to condemn Russia’s war in Ukraine, did not stand in the way of the release this week of a statement by the world’s leading economies that strongly criticizes Moscow.
Could this, at last, signal a bold new policy change by Beijing and New Delhi to align themselves with what the United States and its allies believe is the best way to end a war that has brought death and misery to Ukraine and disrupted millions of lives as food and energy prices soar and economies crack?
There's certainly an eagerness by a world weary of war to see it as the beginning of a shift by the burgeoning global powers.
Look close enough, however, and there’s enough subtlety, not to mention spots of vagueness, in both the official statement released at the end of the Group of 20 summit in Bali, Indonesia, and in actions from China and India themselves, to raise questions about whether a real change is underway.
Their positions will become clearer in coming weeks, but for now both nations, which have significant trade ties with Russia and have so far stopped short of outright criticism of the war, may simply be looking out for their own interests and keeping future options open.
Figuring out what exactly happened in Bali matters because there’s growing worry that without political and diplomatic pressure by China and India, Russia will be far less likely to end its war.
The conflict in Ukraine loomed large over the two-day summit on Bali, which was attended by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. News early Wednesday of an explosion that rocked eastern Poland prompted U.S. President Joe Biden to hastily arrange an emergency meeting with Group of Seven and NATO members at the summit.
The backroom wrangling at the G-20 over how to address Russia’s invasion in its statement was “very, very tough,” summit host Indonesian President Joko Widodo said.
“Most members strongly condemned the war in Ukraine and stressed it is causing immense human suffering and exacerbating existing fragilities in the global economy,” the statement said.
The less-than-universal language — “most members” — signals the presence of dissent, as does an acknowledgement that “there were other views and different assessments” and that the G-20 is “not the forum to resolve security issues.”
The final product, however, was seen by some as a strong rebuke of a war that has killed thousands, heightened global security tensions and disrupted the world economy.
The public statement used language from a March U.N. resolution that deplored “in the strongest terms the aggression by the Russian Federation against Ukraine” and demanded “its complete and unconditional withdrawal” from Ukrainian territory.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said the G-20 summit’s “surprisingly clear words” on Ukraine “wouldn’t have been possible if important countries hadn’t helped us to come together this way — that includes India and it also includes, for example, South Africa.”
“This is something which shows that there are many in the world who don’t think this war is right, who condemn it, even if they abstained in the votes at the United Nations for various reasons,” Scholz said. “And I am sure that this is one of the results of this summit: the Russian president stands almost alone in the world with his policy.”
John Kirton, director of the G-20 Research Group, called it a “big breakthrough” and an “active shift” by China and India in which they joined the “democratic side of the great immediate geopolitical divide.”
Privately, however, some diplomats were wary about declaring that China has shifted its stance on Russia.
Chinese President Xi Jinping may have simply made a decision to not be seen as a spoiler or outlier during face-to-face meetings with other leaders in Bali. The statement also allows China to avoid going all-in with a Russia that is looking more and more isolated as it increases attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure.
What Beijing hasn’t done is change — or even publicly question — its fundamental relations with Russia.
China has closely aligned its foreign policy with Russia in recent years, as pipeline projects and natural gas sales have brought them closer economically.
It has refused to publicly criticize Russia’s aggression or even refer to it as an invasion, while criticizing sanctions and accusing the United States and NATO of provoking Putin, although it has warned against allowing the conflict to go nuclear.
Just weeks before Moscow's invasion, the Russian and Chinese leaders met in Beijing, where they signed a joint statement affirming that their bilateral relationship had “no” limits.
It was unclear whether China pushed for the softening language in the G-20 statement acknowledging “other views and different assessments” and that the G-20 is “not the forum to resolve security issues,” but Shi Yinhong, professor of international relations at Beijing’s Renmin University, said it has pushed for such phrases on other occasions.
For India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has also avoided criticism of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Modi, however, indicated for the first time in public India’s discomfort with the attack when he met Putin in September.
“I know that today’s era is not of war,” Modi told Putin.
That message "resonated very deeply across all the delegations and helped to bridge the gap across different parties and contributed to the successful outcome of the document” in Bali, Indian Foreign Secretary Vinay Kwatra told reporters.
Navdeep Suri, a retired Indian diplomat, said he sees a subtle shift in India’s position in dealing with Russia.
China, however, may be “in a far more awkward position than India because China is the one that promised unlimited support to Russia a few days before the invasion,” Suri said. "China has (now) gone along with such tough language, including the unconditional and complete withdrawal of Russian forces from Ukraine.”
Dilip Sinha, another retired Indian diplomat, noted that India continues to buy oil, to trade with Russia and to abstain from U.N. resolutions critical of Russia.
"There is a feeling of bravado in India that it has its way. I don’t see any change at all in India’s policy on Russia on the war in Ukraine,” Sinha said.
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Foster Klug, AP’s news director for the Koreas, Japan, Australia and the South Pacific, has covered Asia since 2005.
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SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — As international climate talks in the Egyptian desert go into their final days, negotiators are trying to move key countries’ lines in the sand on multiple issues, including compensation for climate disasters, phasing down all fossil fuel use and additional financial help for poor nations.
The final document from the annual U.N. climate gathering, known as COP27, is required to be unanimous. There are at least half a dozen instances where nations are “taking negotiations hostage” by taking hardline, seemingly inflexible stances, said Alden Meyer, a long-time negotiations observer at the think tank E3G.
And poor nations are about to complain publicly about the Egyptian presidency of the gathering and its “inaction” in a press conference early Thursday afternoon.
Spoilers have emerged on multiple fronts, including the U.S., Saudi Arabia and China, resisting reforms called for by developed and developing nations.
On the all-consuming question of providing money to countries hit by climate-related catastrophes — referred to as “loss and damage” in negotiators’ parlance — the United States is resisting any suggestion that this should be labeled as compensation, let alone reparations, for decades of greenhouse gas emissions by industrialized nations.
Yet small island nations are talking about killing any deal if they don’t get cash for the climate disasters they argue were brought on on by rich polluters.
Another big point of contention is who pays. European countries have backed calls by island nations for a “mosaic” of financial arrangements drawing on public and private sources of money. But there are big differences among negotiators over whether all big emitters should pay; heavy polluters China and India are arguing they should not have to contribute because they are still officially considered developing nations.
The issue of loss and damage is one of three financial aid pots discussed. Rich nations agreed in past conferences to spend $100 billion a year to help poorer countries for developing cleaner energy systems and adapting to prevent future disasters — though they have lagged in giving the funds.
Loss and damage is about paying the cost of climate impacts that are already inevitable, such as extreme weather events and rising sea levels. The 2015 Paris accord stated that the issue “does not involve or provide a basis for any liability or compensation,” but that option remains open under the broader U.N. climate framework that the annual negotiations take place in.
Some insiders say they are worried about not getting any kind of consensus on the issue, but aren’t ready to give up hope.
Meanwhile, a “Lula lovefest” continued in Sharm el-Sheikh, as Brazilian President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who in his past term made great strides in fighting deforestation, grabbed more attention during a session about youth activism and participation in government.
On Wednesday, crowds cheered him on, criticizing rich nations and calling for the climate summit to come to the Amazon. His predecessor is often criticized for lack of action on climate change.
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MED-EL Presents: ideas4ears and calls for child inventors to aim high for people living with hearing loss
Global children's contest launched on World Inventors Day to raise awareness of hearing loss and the benefits of treatment
INNSBRUCK, Austria, Nov. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MED-EL, a leading provider and inventor of hearing implant systems, today launched its annual worldwide search for inventions of the future through a global children's contest, ideas4ears.
The contest invites children aged 6-12 years old from around the world to create an invention to improve the quality of life for people with hearing loss. Entries can be sent via a video, drawing, or sculpture, but the most important factor is for young people to think big and channel their ideas to support those who cannot hear.
The inspiration behind ideas4ears and the Head Judge of the contest is Geoffrey Ball. Geoffrey has an extraordinary life story, when he became deaf as a toddler, he then went on to invent a revolutionary middle ear implant to treat his own hearing loss.
"Inventing is often a process of elimination. In the case of the VIBRANT SOUNDBRIDGE, I had to build and test many devices that didn't work well enough or didn't work at all until I finally arrived at the design that was perfect. When I was inventing the components for the middle ear implant back at Stanford University, people would tell me 100 reasons why my invention wouldn't work, but I only needed one reason why it would." said Geoffrey Ball, Chief Technical Officer at MED-EL and inventor of the VIBRANT SOUNDBRIDGE middle ear implant.
As an accomplished inventor, with over 100 patent filings to his name and many medical device products developed, Geoffrey has used his life experiences to act as a source of encouragement to the young ideas4ears inventors, many of whom are users of hearing implants themselves.
"To all the children out there who have hearing loss and want to find a better solution for themselves, I say never give up inventing, believe in yourself, keep trying, go for your dreams, and as Winston Churchill said never give up, never, never!" Geoffrey said.
The ideas4ears contest celebrates children's creativity and aims to improve understanding of the challenges associated with hearing loss as well as the benefits of treatment. Parents interested should visit www.ideas4ears.org/enter to submit their child's entry. The closing date for entries is midnight on 17 January 2023.
Win fabulous prizes! There's a chance to win a trip to Innsbruck, Austria and some fabulous prize packs.
All ideas are welcome; the only criteria are that the inventions need to have the potential to help improve the lives of people with hearing loss at any age. Follow the ideas4ears Facebook page to be kept up to date on the contest.
About MED-EL
MED-EL Medical Electronics, a leader in implantable hearing solutions, is driven by a mission to overcome hearing loss as a barrier to communication and quality of life. The Austrian-based, privately owned business was co-founded by industry pioneers Ingeborg and Erwin Hochmair, whose ground-breaking research led to the development of the world's first micro-electronic multi-channel cochlear implant (CI), which was successfully implanted in 1977 and was the basis for what is known as the modern CI today. This laid the foundation for the successful growth of the company in 1990, when they hired their first employees. To date, MED-EL has more than 2,400 employees from around 80 nations and 30 locations worldwide.
The company offers the widest range of implantable and non-implantable solutions to treat all types of hearing loss, enabling people in 134 countries enjoy the gift of hearing with the help of a MED-EL device. MED-EL's hearing solutions include cochlear and middle ear implant systems, a combined electric acoustic stimulation hearing implant system, auditory brainstem implants as well as surgical and non-surgical bone conduction devices. www.medel.com
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) _ Despegar.com Corp. (DESP) on Thursday reported a loss of $9.3 million in its third quarter.
The Buenos Aires, Argentina-based company said it had a loss of 21 cents per share.
The online travel company posted revenue of $145.6 million in the period.
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SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — The Marshall Islands’ climate envoy said small island nations don’t want the COP27 meeting to end without an agreement on loss and damage funding.
“Waiting for the next COP or even COP29 is not an option for us. We’re not walking away without this fund,” Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijiner said at a press panel. “We’ve been really clear. We need the fund now and it needs to be a fund.”
She said momentum is gaining around the idea of a funding mechanism for loss and damage suffered by developing countries bearing the brunt of climate change. “We’re doing our best to keep holding the line and pushing the ambition.”
The Marshall Islands are a chain of islands between Hawaii and the Philippines, most of which are no more than two meters (6.5 feet) above sea level.
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Sherry Rehman, climate minister for Pakistan, said developing countries would continue to press hard for a deal on the issue of ‘loss and damage’ at this year’s U.N. climate talks in Egypt.
Rehman told reporters Thursday that the group of countries she chairs, known as G77 and China, wants “at the very least a political announcement of intent” on rich polluters providing new financial aid to poor nations for the effects of global warming.
She made clear that she didn’t not expect “a slew of finance” to result from the meeting in Sharm el-Sheikh but added that “if this continues to be kicked down the road we will see it as a climate justice denied.”
Rehman said she was aware that some countries “are anxious about liabilities and judicial proceedings.”
“I think we can work around all those anxieties,” she said. “The idea here is not to make any one country or group of countries uncomfortable or put them in an adversarial position.”
But she said the recent devastating floods in her own country, causing tens of billions of dollars in damage, showed how people who have done little to cause climate change are being hit hard.
“That dystopia that came to our doorstep will come to everyone’s,” she said. “So before it comes to that point, let’s learn to work together and bring some focus and real ambition for climate justice and delivery on joint goals.”
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Senior western officials have met with the Egyptian diplomat chairing this year’s U.N. climate talks amid concerns that negotiators may not be able to reach an agreement.
Alok Sharma, the British official who chaired last year’s talks in Glasgow, the EU’s climate chief Frans Timmermans and Canada’s Climate Minister Steven Guilbeault told Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry that “there are still lot of gaps remaining” in the draft decisions.
Sharma’s office said the three officials told Shoukry that the recent pledge made by the Group of 20 major developed and emerging economies in Bali “should be the baseline and not a ceiling” at the climate talks, known as COP27.
“The last thing anyone wants is for this COP to end without consensus,” they said, according to Sharma’s office.
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A draft decision proposed by host Egypt for this year’s U.N. climate talks has surprised negotiators who say it includes ideas never previously discussed at the two-week talks.
This includes a call for developed countries to achieve “net-negative carbon emissions by 2030” — a far tougher target than any major nation has so far committed to and which would be very hard to achieve.
Diplomats, speaking on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the issue, say the 20-page draft released early Thursday is far more bloated than what would normally have been expected at this stage of negotiations.
The talks are due to wrap up on Friday but it is not unusual for the annual meeting to go into overtime.
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A federal judge on Friday will decide whether disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes should serve a lengthy prison sentence for duping investors and endangering patients while peddling a bogus blood-testing technology.
Holmes’ sentencing in the same San Jose, California, courtroom where she was convicted on four counts of investor fraud and conspiracy in January marks a climactic moment in a saga that has been dissected in an HBO documentary and an award-winning Hulu TV series about her meteoric rise and mortifying downfall.
U.S. District Judge Edward Davila will take center stage as he weighs the federal government’s recommendation to send Holmes, 38, to federal prison for 15 years. That’s slightly less than the maximum sentence of 20 years she could face, but far longer than her legal team's attempt to limit her incarceration to no more than 18 months, preferably served in home confinement. Her lawyers have argued that Holmes deserves more lenient treatment as a well-meaning entrepreneur who is now a devoted mother with another child on the way.
Prosecutors also want Holmes to pay $804 million in restitution. The amount covers most of the nearly $1 billion that Holmes raised from a list of sophisticated investors that included software magnate Larry Ellison, media mogul Rupert Murdoch, and the Walton family behind Walmart.
While wooing investors, Holmes leveraged a high-powered Theranos board that included former U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis, who testified against her during her trial, and two former U.S. Secretaries of State, Henry Kissinger and the late George Shultz, whose son submitted a statement blasting Holmes for concocting a scheme that played Shultz "for the fool.”
Davila’s judgment – and Holmes' reporting date for a potential stint in prison -- could be affected by the former entrepreneur's second pregnancy in two years. After giving birth to a son shortly before her trial started last year, Holmes became pregnant at some point while free on bail this year.
Although her lawyers didn’t mention the pregnancy in a 82-page memo submitted to Davila last week, the pregnancy was confirmed in a letter from her current partner, William “Billy” Evans, that urged the judge to be merciful.
In that 12-page letter, which included pictures of Holmes doting on their 1-year-old son, Evans mentioned that Holmes participated in a Golden Gate Bridge swimming event earlier this year while pregnant. He also noted Holmes suffered through a case of COVID in August while pregnant. Evans didn’t disclose Holmes’ due date in his letter.
Duncan Levin, a former federal prosecutor who is now a defense attorney, predicted that Davila’s sentencing decision won’t be swayed by the pregnancy, but expects the judge to allow her to remain free until after the baby is born.
“She will be no more of a flight risk after she is sentenced that she was while awaiting sentencing,” Levin said. “We have to temper our sentences with some measure of humanity.”
The pregnancy makes it more likely Davila will be criticized no matter what sentence he imposes, predicted Amanda Kramer, another former federal prosecutor.
“There is a pretty healthy debate about what kind of sentence is needed to effect general deterrence to send a message to others who are thinking of crossing that line from sharp salesmanship into material misrepresentation,” Kramer said.
Federal prosecutor Robert Leach emphatically declared Holmes deserves a severe punishment for engineering a scam that he described as one of the most egregious white-collar crimes ever committed in Silicon Valley. In a scathing 46-page memo, Leach told the judge he has an opportunity to send a message that curbs the hubris and hyperbole unleashed by the tech boom of the past decade.
Holmes “preyed on hopes of her investors that a young, dynamic entrepreneur had changed healthcare,” Leach wrote. "And through her deceit, she attained spectacular fame, adoration, and billions of dollars of wealth.”
Even though Holmes was acquitted by a jury on four counts of fraud and conspiracy tied to patients who took Theranos blood tests, Leach also asked Davila to factor in the health threats posed by Holmes’ conduct.
Holmes’ lawyer Kevin Downey painted her as a selfless visionary who spent 14 years of her life trying to revolutionize health care with a technology that was supposed to be able to scan for hundreds of diseases and other aliments with just a few drops of blood.
Although evidence submitted during her trial showed the tests produced wildly unreliable results that could have steered patients in the wrong direction, her lawyers asserted Holmes never stopped trying to perfect the technology until Theranos collapsed in 2018. They also pointed out that Holmes never sold any of her Theranos shares — a stake valued at $4.5 billion in 2014 when Holmes was being hailed as the next Steve Jobs on the covers of business magazines.
Defending herself against criminal charges has left Holmes with “substantial debt from which she is unlikely to recover,” Downey wrote, suggesting that she is unlikely ever to pay any restitution that Davila might order as part of her sentence.
“Holmes is not a danger to society,” Downey wrote.
Downey also asked Davila to consider the alleged sexual and emotional abuse Holmes suffered while she was romantically with Ramesh “Sunny" Balwani, who became a Theranos investor, top executive and eventually an accomplice in her crimes. Balwani, 57, is scheduled to be sentenced Dec. 7 after being convicted in a July trial on 12 counts of fraud and conspiracy. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Elizabeth-Holmes-faces-judgment-day-for-her-17591488.php | 2022-11-17T11:40:05 | en | 0.976708 |
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian airstrikes inflicted more damage on Ukraine on Thursday, with the latest barrage smashing into energy infrastructure, apartment buildings and an industrial site.
At least four people were killed and more than a dozen others wounded in drone and missile strikes around the country, authorities said.
Separately, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres announced an extension of a four-month-old deal to ensure the safe delivery of export of grain, foodstuffs and fertilizers from Ukraine through the Black Sea just days before it was set to expire.
Guterres said in a statement the United Nations is also “fully committed” to removing obstacles that have impeded the export of food and fertilizer from Russia, which is one of two agreements struck between the two countries and Turkey in July. The deals signed in Istanbul are aimed to help bring down prices of food and fertilizer and avoid a global food crisis.
There was no immediate confirmation of the agreement from Russia.
Air raid sirens sounded all across Ukraine early Thursday amid fears that Moscow was unleashing its latest large-scale missile attack as the war approaches its nine-month milestone.
In Kyiv, the city’s military administration said air defenses shot down at least two cruise missiles and five Iranian-made exploding drones.
With the Kremlin’s forces on the ground being pushed back, Russia has increasingly resorted in recent weeks to aerial onslaughts aimed at energy infrastructure and other civilian targets in parts of Ukraine it doesn’t hold.
Ukrainian air defenses this week appear to have had far higher rates of successful shoot-downs than during previous barrages last month, analysts say. The improvement results in part from Western-supplied air defense systems.
But some missiles and drones still get through.
The Russian strikes hit Dnipro and Ukraine’s southern Odesa region for the first time in weeks. Valentyn Reznichenko, governor of the eastern Dnipropetrovsk region, said a large fire erupted in Dnipro after the strikes on the city hit an industrial target.
The attack wounded at least 14 people, among them a teenage girl, and all were being treated in city hospitals, Reznichenko said.
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy posted on Telegram a video that he said was one of the blasts in Dnipro. The video from a vehicle dashcam shows a fiery blast engulfing a rainy road.
“This is another confirmation from Dnipro of how terrorists want peace,” Zelenskyy wrote, referring to the Kremlin’s forces. “The peaceful city and people’s wish to live their accustomed lives. Going to work, to their affairs. A rocket attack!”
Elsewhere, a Russian strike that hit a residential building killed at least four people overnight in Vilnia in the Zaporizhzhia region. Rescuers were combing the rubble for any other victims, according to Kyrylo Tymoshenko, a senior official in the Ukrainian presidential office.
Critical infrastructure was also hit in the northeast Kharkiv region, in the area of Izyum, wounding three workers, the regional administration said.
Dnipro mayor Borys Filatov said in a Facebook post that one of his staff was among the wounded and showed a photo of what he said was her coat pierced by a piece of shrapnel.
An infrastructure target was hit on the Odesa region, Gov. Maksym Marchenko said on Telegram, warning about the threat of a “massive missile barrage on the entire territory of Ukraine.”
Officials in the Poltava, Kharkiv, Khmelnytskyi and Rivne regions urged residents to stay in bomb shelters.
Thursday’s blasts followed the huge barrage of Russian strikes on Tuesday. That was the biggest attack to date on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure that also resulted in a missile hitting Poland.
Russia has increasingly targeted Ukraine’s power grid as winter approaches. The most recent barrage followed days of euphoria in Ukraine sparked by one of its biggest military successes — the retaking last week of the southern city of Kherson.
The head of Ukraine’s presidential office, Andriy Yermak, called the strikes on energy targets “naive tactics of cowardly losers” in a Telegram post on Thursday.
“Ukraine has already withstood extremely difficult strikes by the enemy, which did not lead to results the Russian cowards hoped for,” Yermak wrote, urging Ukrainians not to ignore air raid sirens.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called the extension of the grain deal a “key decision in the global fight against the food crisis.”
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Jamey Keaten in Geneva, and Suzan Fraser in Ankara, Turkey, contributed to this report.
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MED-EL Presents: ideas4ears and calls for child inventors to aim high for people living with hearing loss
Global children's contest launched on World Inventors Day to raise awareness of hearing loss and the benefits of treatment
INNSBRUCK, Austria, Nov. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MED-EL, a leading provider and inventor of hearing implant systems, today launched its annual worldwide search for inventions of the future through a global children's contest, ideas4ears.
The contest invites children aged 6-12 years old from around the world to create an invention to improve the quality of life for people with hearing loss. Entries can be sent via a video, drawing, or sculpture, but the most important factor is for young people to think big and channel their ideas to support those who cannot hear.
The inspiration behind ideas4ears and the Head Judge of the contest is Geoffrey Ball. Geoffrey has an extraordinary life story, when he became deaf as a toddler, he then went on to invent a revolutionary middle ear implant to treat his own hearing loss.
"Inventing is often a process of elimination. In the case of the VIBRANT SOUNDBRIDGE, I had to build and test many devices that didn't work well enough or didn't work at all until I finally arrived at the design that was perfect. When I was inventing the components for the middle ear implant back at Stanford University, people would tell me 100 reasons why my invention wouldn't work, but I only needed one reason why it would." said Geoffrey Ball, Chief Technical Officer at MED-EL and inventor of the VIBRANT SOUNDBRIDGE middle ear implant.
As an accomplished inventor, with over 100 patent filings to his name and many medical device products developed, Geoffrey has used his life experiences to act as a source of encouragement to the young ideas4ears inventors, many of whom are users of hearing implants themselves.
"To all the children out there who have hearing loss and want to find a better solution for themselves, I say never give up inventing, believe in yourself, keep trying, go for your dreams, and as Winston Churchill said never give up, never, never!" Geoffrey said.
The ideas4ears contest celebrates children's creativity and aims to improve understanding of the challenges associated with hearing loss as well as the benefits of treatment. Parents interested should visit www.ideas4ears.org/enter to submit their child's entry. The closing date for entries is midnight on 17 January 2023.
Win fabulous prizes! There's a chance to win a trip to Innsbruck, Austria and some fabulous prize packs.
All ideas are welcome; the only criteria are that the inventions need to have the potential to help improve the lives of people with hearing loss at any age. Follow the ideas4ears Facebook page to be kept up to date on the contest.
About MED-EL
MED-EL Medical Electronics, a leader in implantable hearing solutions, is driven by a mission to overcome hearing loss as a barrier to communication and quality of life. The Austrian-based, privately owned business was co-founded by industry pioneers Ingeborg and Erwin Hochmair, whose ground-breaking research led to the development of the world's first micro-electronic multi-channel cochlear implant (CI), which was successfully implanted in 1977 and was the basis for what is known as the modern CI today. This laid the foundation for the successful growth of the company in 1990, when they hired their first employees. To date, MED-EL has more than 2,400 employees from around 80 nations and 30 locations worldwide.
The company offers the widest range of implantable and non-implantable solutions to treat all types of hearing loss, enabling people in 134 countries enjoy the gift of hearing with the help of a MED-EL device. MED-EL's hearing solutions include cochlear and middle ear implant systems, a combined electric acoustic stimulation hearing implant system, auditory brainstem implants as well as surgical and non-surgical bone conduction devices. www.medel.com
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DUBLIN (AP) _ Dole PLC (DOLE) on Thursday reported third-quarter net income of $39.8 million, after reporting a loss in the same period a year earlier.
The Dublin-based company said it had profit of 42 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, were 14 cents per share.
The fresh fruit and vegetable company posted revenue of $2.27 billion in the period.
Dole expects full-year revenue in the range of $9.1 billion to $9.4 billion.
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KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — The head of Africa's top public health institute is urging authorities across the continent to step up COVID-19 testing amid a concerning rise in new cases in some countries.
The continent of 1.3 billion people saw a 37% rise in new cases over the past week, Ahmed Ogwell, acting director of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Thursday.
Over the last four weeks there's been an 11% rise in new cases, he said.
“COVID is still very much here with us and, in fact, when we look at the numbers we see that there are some member states that are actually going into a new wave and we are monitoring that closely," he said. "When we have a clear analysis, next week we will be able to report to you if the new waves are holding or if those have been quickly brought under control.”
He did not mention which countries face a new wave of infections, but South Africa is one of them. Africa's most advanced economy has been the most affected by COVID-19, the source of the bulk of confirmed cases and deaths.
COVID-19 has infected 12.1 million people across Africa's 54 nations, accounting for 2% of cases globally, and at least 256,000 have died, according to figures from the Africa CDC.
Vaccination rates in Africa continue to be low, largely because of short supplies and also in part because of hesitancy among some. Only 25% of Africa's people are fully vaccinated and under 3% have received booster doses.
Amid “this phenomenon we are seeing of numbers going up,” Ogwell said, national health authorities should focus on testing more people for COVID-19.
“When we see the numbers rising and the testing relatively low, it is an indication that we need to be careful in public,” he said. “And also we need to get ourselves vaccinated to avoid serious illness and even death when one is exposed to COVID. We know what we need to do.” | https://www.theheraldreview.com/news/article/Africa-CDC-chief-urges-more-COVID-19-testing-as-17591516.php | 2022-11-17T11:40:09 | en | 0.975443 |
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — The Marshall Islands’ climate envoy said small island nations don’t want the COP27 meeting to end without an agreement on loss and damage funding.
“Waiting for the next COP or even COP29 is not an option for us. We’re not walking away without this fund,” Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijiner said at a press panel. “We’ve been really clear. We need the fund now and it needs to be a fund.”
She said momentum is gaining around the idea of a funding mechanism for loss and damage suffered by developing countries bearing the brunt of climate change. “We’re doing our best to keep holding the line and pushing the ambition.”
The Marshall Islands are a chain of islands between Hawaii and the Philippines, most of which are no more than two meters (6.5 feet) above sea level.
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KEY DEVELOPMENTS:
— Lines in the sand need redrawing to reach climate deal
— Women lead climate talks’ toughest topic: reparations
— Scientists try to bolster Great Barrier Reef in warmer world
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Sherry Rehman, climate minister for Pakistan, said developing countries would continue to press hard for a deal on the issue of ‘loss and damage’ at this year’s U.N. climate talks in Egypt.
Rehman told reporters Thursday that the group of countries she chairs, known as G77 and China, wants “at the very least a political announcement of intent” on rich polluters providing new financial aid to poor nations for the effects of global warming.
She made clear that she didn’t not expect “a slew of finance” to result from the meeting in Sharm el-Sheikh but added that “if this continues to be kicked down the road we will see it as a climate justice denied.”
Rehman said she was aware that some countries “are anxious about liabilities and judicial proceedings.”
“I think we can work around all those anxieties,” she said. “The idea here is not to make any one country or group of countries uncomfortable or put them in an adversarial position.”
But she said the recent devastating floods in her own country, causing tens of billions of dollars in damage, showed how people who have done little to cause climate change are being hit hard.
“That dystopia that came to our doorstep will come to everyone’s,” she said. “So before it comes to that point, let’s learn to work together and bring some focus and real ambition for climate justice and delivery on joint goals.”
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Senior western officials have met with the Egyptian diplomat chairing this year’s U.N. climate talks amid concerns that negotiators may not be able to reach an agreement.
Alok Sharma, the British official who chaired last year’s talks in Glasgow, the EU’s climate chief Frans Timmermans and Canada’s Climate Minister Steven Guilbeault told Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry that “there are still lot of gaps remaining” in the draft decisions.
Sharma’s office said the three officials told Shoukry that the recent pledge made by the Group of 20 major developed and emerging economies in Bali “should be the baseline and not a ceiling” at the climate talks, known as COP27.
“The last thing anyone wants is for this COP to end without consensus,” they said, according to Sharma’s office.
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A draft decision proposed by host Egypt for this year’s U.N. climate talks has surprised negotiators who say it includes ideas never previously discussed at the two-week talks.
This includes a call for developed countries to achieve “net-negative carbon emissions by 2030” — a far tougher target than any major nation has so far committed to and which would be very hard to achieve.
Diplomats, speaking on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the issue, say the 20-page draft released early Thursday is far more bloated than what would normally have been expected at this stage of negotiations.
The talks are due to wrap up on Friday but it is not unusual for the annual meeting to go into overtime.
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HANGZHOU, China (AP) _ NetEase Inc. (NTES) on Thursday reported third-quarter earnings of $941.8 million.
The Hangzhou, China-based company said it had net income of $1.43 per share. Earnings, adjusted for stock option expense, came to $1.59 per share.
The internet technology company posted revenue of $3.43 billion in the period.
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A federal judge on Friday will decide whether disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes should serve a lengthy prison sentence for duping investors and endangering patients while peddling a bogus blood-testing technology.
Holmes’ sentencing in the same San Jose, California, courtroom where she was convicted on four counts of investor fraud and conspiracy in January marks a climactic moment in a saga that has been dissected in an HBO documentary and an award-winning Hulu TV series about her meteoric rise and mortifying downfall.
U.S. District Judge Edward Davila will take center stage as he weighs the federal government’s recommendation to send Holmes, 38, to federal prison for 15 years. That’s slightly less than the maximum sentence of 20 years she could face, but far longer than her legal team's attempt to limit her incarceration to no more than 18 months, preferably served in home confinement. Her lawyers have argued that Holmes deserves more lenient treatment as a well-meaning entrepreneur who is now a devoted mother with another child on the way.
Prosecutors also want Holmes to pay $804 million in restitution. The amount covers most of the nearly $1 billion that Holmes raised from a list of sophisticated investors that included software magnate Larry Ellison, media mogul Rupert Murdoch, and the Walton family behind Walmart.
While wooing investors, Holmes leveraged a high-powered Theranos board that included former U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis, who testified against her during her trial, and two former U.S. Secretaries of State, Henry Kissinger and the late George Shultz, whose son submitted a statement blasting Holmes for concocting a scheme that played Shultz "for the fool.”
Davila’s judgment – and Holmes' reporting date for a potential stint in prison -- could be affected by the former entrepreneur's second pregnancy in two years. After giving birth to a son shortly before her trial started last year, Holmes became pregnant at some point while free on bail this year.
Although her lawyers didn’t mention the pregnancy in a 82-page memo submitted to Davila last week, the pregnancy was confirmed in a letter from her current partner, William “Billy” Evans, that urged the judge to be merciful.
In that 12-page letter, which included pictures of Holmes doting on their 1-year-old son, Evans mentioned that Holmes participated in a Golden Gate Bridge swimming event earlier this year while pregnant. He also noted Holmes suffered through a case of COVID in August while pregnant. Evans didn’t disclose Holmes’ due date in his letter.
Duncan Levin, a former federal prosecutor who is now a defense attorney, predicted that Davila’s sentencing decision won’t be swayed by the pregnancy, but expects the judge to allow her to remain free until after the baby is born.
“She will be no more of a flight risk after she is sentenced that she was while awaiting sentencing,” Levin said. “We have to temper our sentences with some measure of humanity.”
The pregnancy makes it more likely Davila will be criticized no matter what sentence he imposes, predicted Amanda Kramer, another former federal prosecutor.
“There is a pretty healthy debate about what kind of sentence is needed to effect general deterrence to send a message to others who are thinking of crossing that line from sharp salesmanship into material misrepresentation,” Kramer said.
Federal prosecutor Robert Leach emphatically declared Holmes deserves a severe punishment for engineering a scam that he described as one of the most egregious white-collar crimes ever committed in Silicon Valley. In a scathing 46-page memo, Leach told the judge he has an opportunity to send a message that curbs the hubris and hyperbole unleashed by the tech boom of the past decade.
Holmes “preyed on hopes of her investors that a young, dynamic entrepreneur had changed healthcare,” Leach wrote. "And through her deceit, she attained spectacular fame, adoration, and billions of dollars of wealth.”
Even though Holmes was acquitted by a jury on four counts of fraud and conspiracy tied to patients who took Theranos blood tests, Leach also asked Davila to factor in the health threats posed by Holmes’ conduct.
Holmes’ lawyer Kevin Downey painted her as a selfless visionary who spent 14 years of her life trying to revolutionize health care with a technology that was supposed to be able to scan for hundreds of diseases and other aliments with just a few drops of blood.
Although evidence submitted during her trial showed the tests produced wildly unreliable results that could have steered patients in the wrong direction, her lawyers asserted Holmes never stopped trying to perfect the technology until Theranos collapsed in 2018. They also pointed out that Holmes never sold any of her Theranos shares — a stake valued at $4.5 billion in 2014 when Holmes was being hailed as the next Steve Jobs on the covers of business magazines.
Defending herself against criminal charges has left Holmes with “substantial debt from which she is unlikely to recover,” Downey wrote, suggesting that she is unlikely ever to pay any restitution that Davila might order as part of her sentence.
“Holmes is not a danger to society,” Downey wrote.
Downey also asked Davila to consider the alleged sexual and emotional abuse Holmes suffered while she was romantically with Ramesh “Sunny" Balwani, who became a Theranos investor, top executive and eventually an accomplice in her crimes. Balwani, 57, is scheduled to be sentenced Dec. 7 after being convicted in a July trial on 12 counts of fraud and conspiracy. | https://www.theheraldreview.com/news/article/Elizabeth-Holmes-faces-judgment-day-for-her-17591488.php | 2022-11-17T11:40:15 | en | 0.976708 |
U.S. home births increased slightly in the pandemic’s second year, rising to the highest level in decades, according to a government report published Thursday.
Among almost 4 million births in 2021, nearly 52,000 occurred at home, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report showed. That’s up about 12% from 2020, following a 22% rise from 2019 to 2020.
Increases were seen across races and ethnicities, although home births were much less common among Hispanic women than others.
Elizabeth Gregory, the report’s lead author, said reasons for the increases are unknown, but they occurred when COVID-19 rates were high and vaccinations were either unavailable or not widely used. Other reports have shown that many people avoided hospital and doctor visits early in the pandemic.
Other possible reasons: Women lacked health insurance or lived far from a hospital and couldn’t make it there in time. Previous research suggests that about 1 in 4 home births are unplanned.
Jade Godbolt, of Dallas, had her second child at a birthing center in 2021, partly to avoid hospital risks of COVID-19 and to experience a more natural environment. The experience went so well that she and her husband chose a home birth for their third, a son born last month. They’d been working with a midwife but labor went so fast that the baby came before she arrived.
Godbolt, a 31-year-old beauty and lifestyle online content creator, says there were no complications and she and her son are doing well.
“I believed that my body could do what it was made to do and I wanted to be in the comfort of my home to do that,” she said.
Home births and other out-of-hospital births have been rising since around 2004, when they numbered close to 36,000, other data show. The increase coincided with a rise in non-hospital birthing centers.
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists notes that while home births typically involve fewer medical procedures than hospital births, they’re riskier. It advises against home births for certain situations including multiple births and among women who previously delivered via cesarean section.
“Hospitals and accredited birth centers are the safest places to give birth, because although serious complications associated with labor and delivery are rare, they can be catastrophic,’’ said Dr. Jeffrey Ecker, a former chair of the group’s committee on obstetric practice and chief of obstetrics and gynecology at Massachusetts General Hospital.
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Know-how Critical to Project's 3D-IC EDA Tool Set
ROME, Nov. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MZ Technologies, the marketing arm of Monozukuri S.p.A., today announced that it has joined Europe Horizon's NibleAI Research Initiative.
MZ Technologies brings to NimbleAI the first European EDA software tools and solutions for 3D design. The company, along with several partners, will support a 3D physical design feasibility study covering architecture exploration, system interconnect optimization and development of new functionalities related to timing/power/thermal analysis. The study will demonstrate the manufacturability of a 3D stacked neuromorphic sensing solution.
NibleAI leverages energy-efficient visual sensing and processing to build upon the latest advances in integrated circuit technology and 3D stacked silicon integration, and create an integral sensing-processing neuromorphic architecture that efficiently and accurately runs computer vision algorithms in resource and area-constrained endpoint chips.
Part of the NimbleAI project is the development of EDA tools that will design the next-generation neuromorhic devices. Monozukuri's task will be to explore currently existing methodologies for designing 3D stacked ICs and identify existing gaps and limitations. MZ will then add new functionalities to its existing baseline 3D co-design EDA tool that already delivers what-if analysis and system exploration techniques to support integration with simulation and emulation tools along with pre-manufacturing checks.
"It is a singular recognition that NimbleAI would choose MZ technologies for this very critical task, rather than rely on more well-known, traditional EDA companies. We look forward to demonstrating the visionary capabilities of our IP/chiplet co-design technology," said Anna Fontanelli, MZ Technologies' CEO and Founder.
Monozukuri's mission is to conquer 2.5D & 3D design challenges for next generation electronic products by delivering innovative, ground-breaking EDA software solutions and methodologies. The technology redefines the co-design of heterogeneous microelectronic systems by providing an improved level of automation in three-dimensional interconnect optimization.
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SANTIAGO CHILE, Chile (AP) _ Sociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile SA (SQM) on Wednesday reported third-quarter earnings of $1.1 billion.
The Santiago Chile, Chile-based company said it had net income of $3.85 per share.
The results exceeded Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of four analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $3.40 per share.
The chemicals company posted revenue of $2.96 billion in the period, also surpassing Street forecasts. Three analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $2.83 billion.
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VATICAN CITY (AP) — Italy’s Catholic bishops on Thursday provided their first-ever accounting of clergy sexual abuse, but Italy's main survivor advocate said it was “shamefully” inadequate given it only covered reports to church authorities over the last two years and omitted documentary research into church archives.
The report, which found 89 presumed victims and some 68 people accused, was never meant to provide an accurate or historic look at the clergy abuse problem in Italy. The country's bishops never authorized such research despite demands from survivors for a full accounting, which some other Catholic Churches in Europe have published.
Instead, the Italian bishops limited the scope of their report to evaluate the work of “listening centers” that were set up in dioceses since 2019 to receive complaints from victims. Organizers said during a news conference Thursday that the report provided a “first photograph” of the problem and the bishops planned to release annual reports from now on.
The report said 89 people had made reports in the past two years and identified 68 abusers. It found most victims were between ages 15-18 when the abuse took place, though 16 were adults whom the church considered “vulnerable.” Most of the claims involved inappropriate language or behavior and touching.
The numbers paled in comparison to the tally of known cases kept by Italy’s main survivors’ group, Rete L’Abuso, which estimates some 1 million victims in the overwhelmingly Roman Catholic country. The group has identified some 178 accused priests, 165 priests who were convicted by Italian law enforcement and some 218 new cases.
Nevertheless, the numbers reported by the Italian bishops even in these two past years were significant, said Francesco Zanardi, the head of Rete l’Abuso.
“If in two years they received 89 complaints, that means the problem is there and it’s big,” he said in a telephone interview.
Zanardi noted that an unusually high percentage of the accused were lay church workers – some 34%, compared to the 66% of priests or religious brothers. He noted that lay abusers often find it easier to access potential victims in Italy’s vast church-run volunteer programs since background checks are less stringent.
Monsignor Lorenzo Ghizzoni, who is head of the Italian church’s national child protection service, said the numbers were significant given the reporting period covered a time when church activities were either shuttered or reduced due to COVID-19.
“These are just a few, but they’re a lot,” especially for a system to receive complaints that had just been started, Ghizzoni said.
From the start, the scope of the Italian report was far more limited than the approach taken by the Catholic hierarchy in many European countries to try to respond to clamoring for accountability about clergy sexual abuse.
When he announced the planned report in May, the head of the Italian bishops' conference, Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, insisted the study's scope and the compressed, six-month time frame for its release would enable researchers to provide a more “accurate and accountable” tally.
Whether by government mandate, parliamentary investigation or church initiation, such reports in Ireland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Portugal and France identified systematic problems that allowed thousands of children to be abused by Catholic priests.
In France, a panel of independent experts estimated that 330,000 children were sexually abused over 70 years by some 3,000 priests and church personnel, and that the crimes were covered up “systematically” by the church hierarchy. That report, and a spate of revelations about high-ranking abusers, has sparked a crisis of confidence in the French Catholic Church.
Zanardi alleged the Italian report was clearly an attempt to “minimize” and cover up the scope of clergy sex abuse in Italy. “It’s shameful. It’s partial and you don’t really know what it’s for,” he said.
A consortium of survivor advocacy groups, under the hashtag #ItalyChurchToo, has sought to identify why the problem remains so hushed-up in Italy. The alliance's members said the church’s continued political, social and cultural influence has made prosecutors reluctant to investigate clergy abuse cases and resulted in a refusal by lawmakers to back parliamentary inquiries and disinterest by the Italian public | https://www.theheraldreview.com/news/article/Italy-church-releases-abuse-accounting-but-only-17591495.php | 2022-11-17T11:40:21 | en | 0.978455 |
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VATICAN CITY (AP) — Italy’s Catholic bishops on Thursday provided their first-ever accounting of clergy sexual abuse, but Italy's main survivor advocate said it was “shamefully” inadequate given it only covered reports to church authorities over the last two years and omitted documentary research into church archives.
The report, which found 89 presumed victims and some 68 people accused, was never meant to provide an accurate or historic look at the clergy abuse problem in Italy. The country's bishops never authorized such research despite demands from survivors for a full accounting, which some other Catholic Churches in Europe have published.
Instead, the Italian bishops limited the scope of their report to evaluate the work of “listening centers” that were set up in dioceses since 2019 to receive complaints from victims. Organizers said during a news conference Thursday that the report provided a “first photograph” of the problem and the bishops planned to release annual reports from now on.
The report said 89 people had made reports in the past two years and identified 68 abusers. It found most victims were between ages 15-18 when the abuse took place, though 16 were adults whom the church considered “vulnerable.” Most of the claims involved inappropriate language or behavior and touching.
The numbers paled in comparison to the tally of known cases kept by Italy’s main survivors’ group, Rete L’Abuso, which estimates some 1 million victims in the overwhelmingly Roman Catholic country. The group has identified some 178 accused priests, 165 priests who were convicted by Italian law enforcement and some 218 new cases.
Nevertheless, the numbers reported by the Italian bishops even in these two past years were significant, said Francesco Zanardi, the head of Rete l’Abuso.
“If in two years they received 89 complaints, that means the problem is there and it’s big,” he said in a telephone interview.
Zanardi noted that an unusually high percentage of the accused were lay church workers – some 34%, compared to the 66% of priests or religious brothers. He noted that lay abusers often find it easier to access potential victims in Italy’s vast church-run volunteer programs since background checks are less stringent.
Monsignor Lorenzo Ghizzoni, who is head of the Italian church’s national child protection service, said the numbers were significant given the reporting period covered a time when church activities were either shuttered or reduced due to COVID-19.
“These are just a few, but they’re a lot,” especially for a system to receive complaints that had just been started, Ghizzoni said.
From the start, the scope of the Italian report was far more limited than the approach taken by the Catholic hierarchy in many European countries to try to respond to clamoring for accountability about clergy sexual abuse.
When he announced the planned report in May, the head of the Italian bishops' conference, Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, insisted the study's scope and the compressed, six-month time frame for its release would enable researchers to provide a more “accurate and accountable” tally.
Whether by government mandate, parliamentary investigation or church initiation, such reports in Ireland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Portugal and France identified systematic problems that allowed thousands of children to be abused by Catholic priests.
In France, a panel of independent experts estimated that 330,000 children were sexually abused over 70 years by some 3,000 priests and church personnel, and that the crimes were covered up “systematically” by the church hierarchy. That report, and a spate of revelations about high-ranking abusers, has sparked a crisis of confidence in the French Catholic Church.
Zanardi alleged the Italian report was clearly an attempt to “minimize” and cover up the scope of clergy sex abuse in Italy. “It’s shameful. It’s partial and you don’t really know what it’s for,” he said.
A consortium of survivor advocacy groups, under the hashtag #ItalyChurchToo, has sought to identify why the problem remains so hushed-up in Italy. The alliance's members said the church’s continued political, social and cultural influence has made prosecutors reluctant to investigate clergy abuse cases and resulted in a refusal by lawmakers to back parliamentary inquiries and disinterest by the Italian public | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Italy-church-releases-abuse-accounting-but-only-17591495.php | 2022-11-17T11:40:24 | en | 0.978007 |
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — Men usually outnumber and outrank women negotiators in climate talks, except when it comes to global warming’s thorniest diplomatic issue this year — reparations for climate disasters.
The issue of polluting nations paying vulnerable countries is handed over to women, who got the issue on the agenda after 30 years. Whether this year’s United Nations climate talks in Egypt succeed or fail mostly will come down to the issue called loss and damage in international negotiations, officials and experts say. It’s an issue that intertwines equity and economics, balancing the needs of those hurt and those who would pay.
Nearly all of the key players are women and they and others say better gender representation could yield better results.
“I think what we need at this crucial time is empathy … We need to think about our world in the sense of taking care of our world,” said Chilean Environment Minister Maisa Rojas. “Maybe culturally, historically, they are seen as feminine values.”
Rojas, a climate scientist, and Germany special climate envoy Jennifer Morgan engineered a last-minute deal that got the issue of loss and damage on the agenda for the first time in 27 climate summits.
Now that it’s on the agenda, the top people trying to get something meaningful done are women. And that provides hope, a top United Nations official said.
“At times, at least in negotiations, women are able to find a pathway forward where maybe high testosterone does not yield itself well to that,” United Nations Environment Programme Director Inger Andersen said in an interview with The Associated Press.
Milagros De Camps, vice minister of international cooperation for the Dominican Republic, said women simply get better results.
“There are better results because women tend to be better in conflict resolution,” De Camps said. “They tend to be better in terms of reaching agreements, better in developing stricter policies that tend to be more sustainable.”
Overall, in the climate talks, men still dominate, both in their total numbers and in holding top positions. The summit’s president, the United Nations’ climate chief, the U.N. secretary-general and the top climate envoys for the United States, China and India are men, as are the overwhelming majority of heads of government who took the stage in the first week.
Christiana Figueres, who was a driving force behind the 2015 Paris agreement as the United Nation’s climate chief, said that, while every generality has exceptions, women tend to be more long-term thinkers, more inclusive, and more concerned with justice than men are.
“We have a deeper sense of human justice and this is very much a justice issue,” Figueres said in a Zoom interview Wednesday. “So I’m not surprised that it is women who are taking the lead on both the political negotiations as well as the thought leadership on loss and damages.”
“Women are on the cutting edge of the climate crisis,” said German special climate envoy Morgan, a veteran of negotiations as an environmental advocate and former head of Greenpeace. “We understand how we need to work together with others to find a solution. Especially the most vulnerable.”
For women “it’s not about egos, it is about finding the solution,” said Preety Bhandari, a senior adviser on climate finance at the World Resources Institute.
It’s not just behind the scenes. The public faces of climate reparations are often female.
Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley, who is promoting her Bridgetown Initiative that expands the idea with reform of multinational development banks, and Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon “have been fearless” in pushing for some kind of compensation system, said Bhandari.
Many of the youth advocates who push negotiators further with their criticism of inaction — including Vanessa Nakate and Greta Thunberg — are female.
“(Legislatures) around the world that have more women, have stronger climate action,” said Katharine Hayhoe, The Nature Conservancy’s chief scientist. “They did a study on it.”
But it’s not enough.
A United Nations report said that women made up 37% of countries’ delegations, and 26% of leaders of delegations, in last year’s summit in Glasgow. But among those younger than 26, 64% were female.In the groupd of those aged 26 to 35, it was nearly half women.
Maldives Environment Aminauth Shauna said she noticed that, when all the heads of state gathered at the beginning for pictures, called the family photo, they were nearly all male. But when it came to the people doing the work, that was more women and young people, like most of her delegation, she said.
“I hope all of us women here can make a difference here this time,” Shauna said.
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Wanjohi Kabukuru contributed to this report.
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Leading Nonprofit Highlights the Importance of Early Detection on World Pancreatic Cancer Day
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LOS ANGELES, Nov. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A new survey commissioned by the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network (PanCAN) found that most adults (83%) are unaware of the signs or symptoms of pancreatic cancer—one of the deadliest diseases that has no standard early detection test and limited treatment options. The survey also found that older adults are least likely to believe they possess this knowledge—troubling news given the fact that 90% of patients diagnosed with the disease are ages 55 and older.
Pancreatic cancer is the third leading cause of cancer-related death in the United States and is on track to become the second leading cause. The five-year survival rate is just 11%. The disease is typically diagnosed late when it has spread. With no standard early detection test, it is important to recognize the common signs and symptoms, especially for those individuals with a family history and other risk factors of the disease. This may lead to earlier diagnosis, providing more treatment options such as surgery.
The survey, conducted by an independent research firm, included online interviews with 1,045 respondents in early October to determine whether U.S. adults are aware of the signs and symptoms of pancreatic cancer and to identify those signs and symptoms. Another key finding was that fewer than half identified the most common symptoms of pancreatic cancer— abdominal or back pain, weight loss/loss of appetite, and digestive problems.
On World Pancreatic Cancer Day, November 17, PanCAN is educating the public about these and other common symptoms such as jaundice (yellowing of the skin and eyes), a change in stool (oily or watery) and new onset diabetes by providing a free, downloadable conversation guide. PanCAN is encouraging anyone who may experience these symptoms, especially older Americans, to download and complete this guide and bring it to their healthcare provider for a discussion.
"Pancreatic cancer symptoms are vague and can be confused with many other abdominal or gastrointestinal issues. Understanding these symptoms along with certain risk factors and your own family history can provide confidence," said Julie Fleshman, JD, MBA, president and CEO of PanCAN. "We know it can be difficult speaking to your doctor about pancreatic cancer, so we want to empower everyone to be their best health advocate with this new tool."
November is Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month and PanCAN wants the public to get involved in the fight against pancreatic cancer. All month long, PanCAN is sharing inspiring stories which highlight the urgent need for more research and asking that people donate to PanCAN to support pancreatic cancer patients and their families, honoring those we've lost, giving hope to patients fighting now and changing the course of pancreatic cancer for everyone in the future.
PanCAN leads the way in accelerating progress for this disease by funding leading-edge research that is getting us closer to new discoveries. In the past two decades, PanCAN has invested $174 million in groundbreaking research. This past year alone, PanCAN awarded more than $10.5 million in research grants as part of the largest-ever, single year total research investment of $25 million. The overall research investment includes funding more than 200 grants cumulatively to scientists across the country and large-scale research initiatives such as PanCAN's Precision Promise℠ clinical trial, which seeks to accelerate the approval of new treatment options for pancreatic cancer patients and PanCAN's Early Detection Initiative, with a goal of developing a strategy to diagnose pancreatic cancer early when surgery is still possible.
People can support the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network by visiting pancan.org. They can also participate in a free, virtual event today, on World Pancreatic Cancer Day (Nov. 17), when survivors, caregivers, and researchers will bring to life some of the incredible stories about the impact pancreatic cancer research and PanCAN has made on their lives. To register for free, go to pancan.org/WPCD2022.
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WASHINGTON — There is a pretty good chance you or a loved one have questions involving federal student loans right now.
Will forgiveness actually happen? Will student loan payments begin in January as planned?
UPDATE TO WHITE HOUSE PLAN
It's no secret that learning is expensive.
In fact, $29,719 was the total amount, on average, college graduates who took out loans last year borrowed.
President Biden had plans to erase some of that debt with a recent executive order.
His plan calls for ten thousand dollars to be forgiven for most Americans who make under $125,000 per year.
Up to twenty thousand dollars would be forgiven for recipients of a Pell Grant.
However, the actual erasing of student debt by President Biden hasn't gone as smoothly as he would have liked.
In fact, the entire program is on hold right now creating questions for millions of Americans.
First off, you need to know that six states — Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and South Carolina — have filed a lawsuit to block forgiveness.
In court documents, leaders in those states have argued the president can't do it.
So far they've convinced the courts they are right.
Missouri, for instance, has argued that the Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority, which services many federal loans, will lose money if forgiveness happens, indirectly impacting tax revenues in states.
The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals has agreed writing that forgiveness "presents a threatened financial harm to the State of Missouri."
The 8th Circuit's current ruling, as well as separate legal challenges, is why if you go to Studentaid.gov right now you receive an urgent message informing you that you can't apply for any forgiveness.
As for what happens next, the Biden administration is appealing to the United States Supreme Court.
Lawyers representing the White House will argue President Biden can legally issue forgiveness.
Lawyers are first fighting to end an injunction. They will likely soon argue for justices to take up the case entirely.
TIMELINE CONFUSION
Needless to say, all of this is going to take time, perhaps months, which is putting an increased focus on the calendar.
Remember, January 1st is when federal student loan payments are set to begin for the first time since March 2020.
President Biden said there would be no more extensions.
However, in the last few days that has become less certain with the possibility emerging that payments could be delayed again while the legal debate continues.
Many student advocacy groups are actively lobbying for another delay.
So for now, the reality is that federal student loan payments as well as forgiveness remain in limbo.
Debt cancelation would cost taxpayers around $400 billion according to estimates from Congress. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national-politics/will-student-loan-payments-actually-resume-in-january | 2022-11-17T11:40:27 | en | 0.977564 |
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SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — The Marshall Islands’ climate envoy said small island nations don’t want the COP27 meeting to end without an agreement on loss and damage funding.
“Waiting for the next COP or even COP29 is not an option for us. We’re not walking away without this fund,” Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijiner said at a press panel. “We’ve been really clear. We need the fund now and it needs to be a fund.”
She said momentum is gaining around the idea of a funding mechanism for loss and damage suffered by developing countries bearing the brunt of climate change. “We’re doing our best to keep holding the line and pushing the ambition.”
The Marshall Islands are a chain of islands between Hawaii and the Philippines, most of which are no more than two meters (6.5 feet) above sea level.
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KEY DEVELOPMENTS:
— Lines in the sand need redrawing to reach climate deal
— Women lead climate talks’ toughest topic: reparations
— Scientists try to bolster Great Barrier Reef in warmer world
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Sherry Rehman, climate minister for Pakistan, said developing countries would continue to press hard for a deal on the issue of ‘loss and damage’ at this year’s U.N. climate talks in Egypt.
Rehman told reporters Thursday that the group of countries she chairs, known as G77 and China, wants “at the very least a political announcement of intent” on rich polluters providing new financial aid to poor nations for the effects of global warming.
She made clear that she didn’t not expect “a slew of finance” to result from the meeting in Sharm el-Sheikh but added that “if this continues to be kicked down the road we will see it as a climate justice denied.”
Rehman said she was aware that some countries “are anxious about liabilities and judicial proceedings.”
“I think we can work around all those anxieties,” she said. “The idea here is not to make any one country or group of countries uncomfortable or put them in an adversarial position.”
But she said the recent devastating floods in her own country, causing tens of billions of dollars in damage, showed how people who have done little to cause climate change are being hit hard.
“That dystopia that came to our doorstep will come to everyone’s,” she said. “So before it comes to that point, let’s learn to work together and bring some focus and real ambition for climate justice and delivery on joint goals.”
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Senior western officials have met with the Egyptian diplomat chairing this year’s U.N. climate talks amid concerns that negotiators may not be able to reach an agreement.
Alok Sharma, the British official who chaired last year’s talks in Glasgow, the EU’s climate chief Frans Timmermans and Canada’s Climate Minister Steven Guilbeault told Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry that “there are still lot of gaps remaining” in the draft decisions.
Sharma’s office said the three officials told Shoukry that the recent pledge made by the Group of 20 major developed and emerging economies in Bali “should be the baseline and not a ceiling” at the climate talks, known as COP27.
“The last thing anyone wants is for this COP to end without consensus,” they said, according to Sharma’s office.
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A draft decision proposed by host Egypt for this year’s U.N. climate talks has surprised negotiators who say it includes ideas never previously discussed at the two-week talks.
This includes a call for developed countries to achieve “net-negative carbon emissions by 2030” — a far tougher target than any major nation has so far committed to and which would be very hard to achieve.
Diplomats, speaking on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the issue, say the 20-page draft released early Thursday is far more bloated than what would normally have been expected at this stage of negotiations.
The talks are due to wrap up on Friday but it is not unusual for the annual meeting to go into overtime.
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MILAN (AP) — Italian police issued 18 arrest warrants Thursday for Italians and Tunisians accused of operating a migrant-trafficking route on high-speed boats between Tunisia's coast and Sicilian ports.
The suspects are alleged to have demanded payment of 3,000-5,000 euros ($3,100-$5,200) in cash per person, packed the boats with 10 to 30 passengers at a time, and pocketed 30,000-70,000 euros for each four-hour journey, police said in a statement.
The investigation was launched in February 2019 after a fisherman in Sicily's port of Gela noticed a 10-meter glass fiber boat with two 200-horsepower motors. Investigators discovered the boat had been stolen 10 days previously in Catania, Sicily.
Arrest warrants were issued for 11 Tunisians and seven Italians. They face charges of illegal cross-border trafficking of more than five people, with the aggravating circumstance of inhuman treatment and endangering the lives of migrants and committing crimes for profit.
A Tunisian couple already jailed on a people-trafficking conviction were identified as the presumed masterminds of the scheme.
Two Tunisians based in Sicily were accused of having managed the money, while five Italians allegedly organized housing for the migrants and transfer of the traffickers to and from ports.
The warrants also target four other alleged traffickers, one Italian and three Tunisians, and four Tunisians who made connections with the migrants in northern Africa.
Also sought is the owner of a small farm with a private airfield that allegedly functioned as a base for the operation. The farmer was accused of providing employment documents for some of the Tunisian operatives to legitimize their presence in Italy.
While the new Italian government has cracked down on humanitarian rescue ships that pick up migrants departing Libya in the central Mediterranean Sea, the majority of migrants arriving in Italy travel along routes from Tunisia.
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MILAN (AP) — Italian police issued 18 arrest warrants Thursday for Italians and Tunisians accused of operating a migrant-trafficking route on high-speed boats between Tunisia's coast and Sicilian ports.
The suspects are alleged to have demanded payment of 3,000-5,000 euros ($3,100-$5,200) in cash per person, packed the boats with 10 to 30 passengers at a time, and pocketed 30,000-70,000 euros for each four-hour journey, police said in a statement.
The investigation was launched in February 2019 after a fisherman in Sicily's port of Gela noticed a 10-meter glass fiber boat with two 200-horsepower motors. Investigators discovered the boat had been stolen 10 days previously in Catania, Sicily.
Arrest warrants were issued for 11 Tunisians and seven Italians. They face charges of illegal cross-border trafficking of more than five people, with the aggravating circumstance of inhuman treatment and endangering the lives of migrants and committing crimes for profit.
A Tunisian couple already jailed on a people-trafficking conviction were identified as the presumed masterminds of the scheme.
Two Tunisians based in Sicily were accused of having managed the money, while five Italians allegedly organized housing for the migrants and transfer of the traffickers to and from ports.
The warrants also target four other alleged traffickers, one Italian and three Tunisians, and four Tunisians who made connections with the migrants in northern Africa.
Also sought is the owner of a small farm with a private airfield that allegedly functioned as a base for the operation. The farmer was accused of providing employment documents for some of the Tunisian operatives to legitimize their presence in Italy.
While the new Italian government has cracked down on humanitarian rescue ships that pick up migrants departing Libya in the central Mediterranean Sea, the majority of migrants arriving in Italy travel along routes from Tunisia.
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- Rising incidence of vision impairment worldwide is expected to result into notable growth opportunities in the global myopia and presbyopia treatment market during 2022-2032
- Increase in prevalence of myopia and presbyopia in people from North America is projected fuel the market growth in the region
WILMINGTOM, Del., Nov. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A research report by Transparency Market Research (TMR) finds that the global myopia and presbyopia treatment market is estimated to advance at a CAGR of 9.5% during the forecast period, 2022-2032.
The market in North America is expected to maintain its dominance and expand at a CAGR of 9.7% during the forecast period. The North America market growth is ascribed to rise in prevalence of myopia and presbyopia and rise in the demand for contact lenses and surgeries in the region.
Key market players are focusing on the expansion of their businesses through varied strategies including FDA approvals, collaborations, technological advancements, and new product launches. Besides this, several enterprises are increasing R&Ds in order to incorporate innovations and improve the effectiveness of their treatment solutions. Such factors, in turn, are driving the growth avenues in the market.
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- Blindness and vision loss are some of the key health issues mostly present in the older population. Due to technological advancements in the healthcare industry, there has been improvement in the overall life span of people worldwide over the past 50 years. Hence, there has been increase in the number of older population globally. This number is set to show twofold increase in the span of upcoming 20 years. Hence, a rise in the older population is expected to generate lucrative prospects in the market in the near future.
- At present, over 2 billion people are living with different types of vision impairments. The report by World Health Organization (WHO) notes that approximately 1 billion people are suffering from varied eye-related health issues including glaucoma, cataracts, and short and far sightedness. Hence, the need for various myopia and presbyopia treatment types is being rising globally. This, in turn, is likely to create prominent business opportunities in the market, note analysts of a TMR review.
- According to the statistics, around 1.1 Bn population was suffering from untreated presbyopia or farsightedness in 2020. Moreover, there has been increase in the prevalence of lifestyle-related diseases such as diabetes globally. These factors are foreseen to boost the demand for myopia and presbyopia treatment solutions in the upcoming years.
- Due to adverse effects of several vision correction techniques such as special drugs or surgeries, major patient population is inclining toward wearing contacts or glasses. This aside, LASIK surgery options are not being approved by FDA for children below age of 18. Hence, there has been a surge in the demand for vision correction through contact lenses and glasses worldwide, notes a TMR assessment.
Myopia and Presbyopia Treatment Market: Growth Boosters
- Rise in the prevalence of vision impairment is projected to lead to high avenues of demand in market of myopia and presbyopia treatment
- Increase in the number of diabetic people across the globe is anticipated to drive the sales growth in the market during the forecast period
- Surge in the number of older people globally is fueling the sales growth in the market
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- Orasis Pharmaceuticals,
- Topcon Corporation
- Haag-Streit UK
- Sydnexis
- AbbVie
- The Cooper Companies Inc
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KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — The head of Africa's top public health institute is urging authorities across the continent to step up COVID-19 testing amid a concerning rise in new cases in some countries.
The continent of 1.3 billion people saw a 37% rise in new cases over the past week, Ahmed Ogwell, acting director of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Thursday.
Over the last four weeks there's been an 11% rise in new cases, he said.
“COVID is still very much here with us and, in fact, when we look at the numbers we see that there are some member states that are actually going into a new wave and we are monitoring that closely," he said. "When we have a clear analysis, next week we will be able to report to you if the new waves are holding or if those have been quickly brought under control.”
He did not mention which countries face a new wave of infections, but South Africa is one of them. Africa's most advanced economy has been the most affected by COVID-19, the source of the bulk of confirmed cases and deaths.
COVID-19 has infected 12.1 million people across Africa's 54 nations, accounting for 2% of cases globally, and at least 256,000 have died, according to figures from the Africa CDC.
Vaccination rates in Africa continue to be low, largely because of short supplies and also in part because of hesitancy among some. Only 25% of Africa's people are fully vaccinated and under 3% have received booster doses.
Amid “this phenomenon we are seeing of numbers going up,” Ogwell said, national health authorities should focus on testing more people for COVID-19.
“When we see the numbers rising and the testing relatively low, it is an indication that we need to be careful in public,” he said. “And also we need to get ourselves vaccinated to avoid serious illness and even death when one is exposed to COVID. We know what we need to do.” | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/Africa-CDC-chief-urges-more-COVID-19-testing-as-17591516.php | 2022-11-17T11:40:33 | en | 0.975443 |
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — As international climate talks in the Egyptian desert go into their final days, negotiators are trying to move key countries’ lines in the sand on multiple issues, including compensation for climate disasters, phasing down all fossil fuel use and additional financial help for poor nations.
The final document from the annual U.N. climate gathering, known as COP27, is required to be unanimous. There are at least half a dozen instances where nations are “taking negotiations hostage” by taking hardline, seemingly inflexible stances, said Alden Meyer, a long-time negotiations observer at the think tank E3G.
And poor nations are about to complain publicly about the Egyptian presidency of the gathering and its “inaction” in a press conference early Thursday afternoon.
Spoilers have emerged on multiple fronts, including the U.S., Saudi Arabia and China, resisting reforms called for by developed and developing nations.
On the all-consuming question of providing money to countries hit by climate-related catastrophes — referred to as “loss and damage” in negotiators' parlance — the United States is resisting any suggestion that this should be labeled as compensation, let alone reparations, for decades of greenhouse gas emissions by industrialized nations.
Yet small island nations are talking about killing any deal if they don't get cash for the climate disasters they argue were brought on on by rich polluters.
Another big point of contention is who pays. European countries have backed calls by island nations for a “mosaic” of financial arrangements drawing on public and private sources of money. But there are big differences among negotiators over whether all big emitters should pay; heavy polluters China and India are arguing they should not have to contribute because they are still officially considered developing nations.
The issue of loss and damage is one of three financial aid pots discussed. Rich nations agreed in past conferences to spend $100 billion a year to help poorer countries for developing cleaner energy systems and adapting to prevent future disasters — though they have lagged in giving the funds.
Loss and damage is about paying the cost of climate impacts that are already inevitable, such as extreme weather events and rising sea levels. The 2015 Paris accord stated that the issue “does not involve or provide a basis for any liability or compensation,” but that option remains open under the broader U.N. climate framework that the annual negotiations take place in.
Some insiders say they are worried about not getting any kind of consensus on the issue, but aren't ready to give up hope.
Meanwhile, a “Lula lovefest” continued in Sharm el-Sheikh, as Brazilian President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who in his past term made great strides in fighting deforestation, grabbed more attention during a session about youth activism and participation in government.
On Wednesday, crowds cheered him on, criticizing rich nations and calling for the climate summit to come to the Amazon. His predecessor is often criticized for lack of action on climate change.
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SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — As international climate talks in the Egyptian desert go into their final days, negotiators are trying to move key countries’ lines in the sand on multiple issues, including compensation for climate disasters, phasing down all fossil fuel use and additional financial help for poor nations.
The final document from the annual U.N. climate gathering, known as COP27, is required to be unanimous. There are at least half a dozen instances where nations are “taking negotiations hostage” by taking hardline, seemingly inflexible stances, said Alden Meyer, a long-time negotiations observer at the think tank E3G.
And poor nations are about to complain publicly about the Egyptian presidency of the gathering and its “inaction” in a press conference early Thursday afternoon.
Spoilers have emerged on multiple fronts, including the U.S., Saudi Arabia and China, resisting reforms called for by developed and developing nations.
On the all-consuming question of providing money to countries hit by climate-related catastrophes — referred to as “loss and damage” in negotiators' parlance — the United States is resisting any suggestion that this should be labeled as compensation, let alone reparations, for decades of greenhouse gas emissions by industrialized nations.
Yet small island nations are talking about killing any deal if they don't get cash for the climate disasters they argue were brought on on by rich polluters.
Another big point of contention is who pays. European countries have backed calls by island nations for a “mosaic” of financial arrangements drawing on public and private sources of money. But there are big differences among negotiators over whether all big emitters should pay; heavy polluters China and India are arguing they should not have to contribute because they are still officially considered developing nations.
The issue of loss and damage is one of three financial aid pots discussed. Rich nations agreed in past conferences to spend $100 billion a year to help poorer countries for developing cleaner energy systems and adapting to prevent future disasters — though they have lagged in giving the funds.
Loss and damage is about paying the cost of climate impacts that are already inevitable, such as extreme weather events and rising sea levels. The 2015 Paris accord stated that the issue “does not involve or provide a basis for any liability or compensation,” but that option remains open under the broader U.N. climate framework that the annual negotiations take place in.
Some insiders say they are worried about not getting any kind of consensus on the issue, but aren't ready to give up hope.
Meanwhile, a “Lula lovefest” continued in Sharm el-Sheikh, as Brazilian President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who in his past term made great strides in fighting deforestation, grabbed more attention during a session about youth activism and participation in government.
On Wednesday, crowds cheered him on, criticizing rich nations and calling for the climate summit to come to the Amazon. His predecessor is often criticized for lack of action on climate change.
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If the estimate holds true, Thanksgiving 2022 will be the deadliest since 2007
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Holidays are traditionally a time of travel for families across the United States, and the Thanksgiving holiday is no different. Many people choose to travel by car to visit family and loved ones, but unfortunately, that mode of transportation is one of the most dangerous. According to National Safety Council estimates, from Wednesday, Nov. 23 through Sunday, Nov. 27, 518 people may lose their life in a preventable car crash. If this estimate holds true, this will be the deadliest Thanksgiving since 2007.
"We hear it all the time, but if a loved one tells you to 'drive safe,' even out of habit, please do," said Mark Chung, executive vice president of roadway practice at NSC. "As America's leading nonprofit safety advocate, the National Safety Council cannot stress enough the importance of taking safety personally, especially on the roads during the holidays."
This year, Thanksgiving falls just days after the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims. Observed the third Sunday of November each year, the World Day of Remembrance is a global commemoration for the millions who have been killed and seriously injured on the world's roads and acknowledges the suffering of all affected victims, families and communities. In the United States, local advocates, safety organizations, community leaders, elected officials and others are joining together to call for safer streets and prevent these tragedies while honoring the tens of thousands who are killed by traffic violence in our country each year. These tragedies require evaluation of all the ways to improve safety, including the design of America's roads. National Safety Council President and CEO Lorraine Martin, U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Co-founder of Families for Safe Streets Amy Cohen gathered together this week to discuss mobility safety in America and what must be done across public and private sectors to put safety first and save lives. When available, a video of the discussion can be found here.
"The United States loses far too many people to traffic violence, and it must stop," said Chung. "As a country, we need to stop accepting that someone we know, someone we love, may not make it to that family gathering safely, or may not make it home at all."
NSC and its partners continue to address longer-term change through strategies included in the Safe System approach and urge all road users to travel safely. For safe driving tips, including designating a sober driver, slowing down and buckling up, visit nsc.org/saferoads. Review supplemental information about the Thanksgiving Day holiday fatality estimates, and additional motor vehicle data and research at injuryfacts.nsc.org.
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A federal judge on Friday will decide whether disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes should serve a lengthy prison sentence for duping investors and endangering patients while peddling a bogus blood-testing technology.
Holmes’ sentencing in the same San Jose, California, courtroom where she was convicted on four counts of investor fraud and conspiracy in January marks a climactic moment in a saga that has been dissected in an HBO documentary and an award-winning Hulu TV series about her meteoric rise and mortifying downfall.
U.S. District Judge Edward Davila will take center stage as he weighs the federal government’s recommendation to send Holmes, 38, to federal prison for 15 years. That’s slightly less than the maximum sentence of 20 years she could face, but far longer than her legal team's attempt to limit her incarceration to no more than 18 months, preferably served in home confinement. Her lawyers have argued that Holmes deserves more lenient treatment as a well-meaning entrepreneur who is now a devoted mother with another child on the way.
Prosecutors also want Holmes to pay $804 million in restitution. The amount covers most of the nearly $1 billion that Holmes raised from a list of sophisticated investors that included software magnate Larry Ellison, media mogul Rupert Murdoch, and the Walton family behind Walmart.
While wooing investors, Holmes leveraged a high-powered Theranos board that included former U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis, who testified against her during her trial, and two former U.S. Secretaries of State, Henry Kissinger and the late George Shultz, whose son submitted a statement blasting Holmes for concocting a scheme that played Shultz "for the fool.”
Davila’s judgment – and Holmes' reporting date for a potential stint in prison -- could be affected by the former entrepreneur's second pregnancy in two years. After giving birth to a son shortly before her trial started last year, Holmes became pregnant at some point while free on bail this year.
Although her lawyers didn’t mention the pregnancy in a 82-page memo submitted to Davila last week, the pregnancy was confirmed in a letter from her current partner, William “Billy” Evans, that urged the judge to be merciful.
In that 12-page letter, which included pictures of Holmes doting on their 1-year-old son, Evans mentioned that Holmes participated in a Golden Gate Bridge swimming event earlier this year while pregnant. He also noted Holmes suffered through a case of COVID in August while pregnant. Evans didn’t disclose Holmes’ due date in his letter.
Duncan Levin, a former federal prosecutor who is now a defense attorney, predicted that Davila’s sentencing decision won’t be swayed by the pregnancy, but expects the judge to allow her to remain free until after the baby is born.
“She will be no more of a flight risk after she is sentenced that she was while awaiting sentencing,” Levin said. “We have to temper our sentences with some measure of humanity.”
The pregnancy makes it more likely Davila will be criticized no matter what sentence he imposes, predicted Amanda Kramer, another former federal prosecutor.
“There is a pretty healthy debate about what kind of sentence is needed to effect general deterrence to send a message to others who are thinking of crossing that line from sharp salesmanship into material misrepresentation,” Kramer said.
Federal prosecutor Robert Leach emphatically declared Holmes deserves a severe punishment for engineering a scam that he described as one of the most egregious white-collar crimes ever committed in Silicon Valley. In a scathing 46-page memo, Leach told the judge he has an opportunity to send a message that curbs the hubris and hyperbole unleashed by the tech boom of the past decade.
Holmes “preyed on hopes of her investors that a young, dynamic entrepreneur had changed healthcare,” Leach wrote. "And through her deceit, she attained spectacular fame, adoration, and billions of dollars of wealth.”
Even though Holmes was acquitted by a jury on four counts of fraud and conspiracy tied to patients who took Theranos blood tests, Leach also asked Davila to factor in the health threats posed by Holmes’ conduct.
Holmes’ lawyer Kevin Downey painted her as a selfless visionary who spent 14 years of her life trying to revolutionize health care with a technology that was supposed to be able to scan for hundreds of diseases and other aliments with just a few drops of blood.
Although evidence submitted during her trial showed the tests produced wildly unreliable results that could have steered patients in the wrong direction, her lawyers asserted Holmes never stopped trying to perfect the technology until Theranos collapsed in 2018. They also pointed out that Holmes never sold any of her Theranos shares — a stake valued at $4.5 billion in 2014 when Holmes was being hailed as the next Steve Jobs on the covers of business magazines.
Defending herself against criminal charges has left Holmes with “substantial debt from which she is unlikely to recover,” Downey wrote, suggesting that she is unlikely ever to pay any restitution that Davila might order as part of her sentence.
“Holmes is not a danger to society,” Downey wrote.
Downey also asked Davila to consider the alleged sexual and emotional abuse Holmes suffered while she was romantically with Ramesh “Sunny" Balwani, who became a Theranos investor, top executive and eventually an accomplice in her crimes. Balwani, 57, is scheduled to be sentenced Dec. 7 after being convicted in a July trial on 12 counts of fraud and conspiracy. | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/Elizabeth-Holmes-faces-judgment-day-for-her-17591488.php | 2022-11-17T11:40:39 | en | 0.976708 |
SCHIPHOL, Netherlands (AP) — A Dutch court is passing judgment Thursday on three Russians and a Ukrainian charged in the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over Ukraine and the deaths of all 298 passengers and crew on board.
The verdict comes more than eight years after the Boeing 777 flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was blown out of the sky on July 17, 2014, amid a conflict between pro-Russia rebels and Ukrainian forces, scattering wreckage and bodies over farmland and fields of sunflowers.
None of the suspects appeared for the trial that began in March 2020 and if they are convicted, it's unlikely they will serve any sentence anytime soon. Prosecutors have sought life sentences for all four. Prosecutors and the suspects have two weeks to file an appeal.
The Hague District Court, sitting at a high-security courtroom at Schiphol Airport, is passing judgment against a backdrop of global geopolitical upheaval caused by Russia's full-blown invasion of Ukraine in February and the nearly nine-month war it triggered.
Hundreds of family members of people killed traveled to the court to hear the verdict, bringing them back to the airport their loved ones left on the fateful day MH17 was shot down.
Dutch prosecutors say the missile launcher came from the 53rd Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade, a unit of the Russian armed forces based in the Russian city of Kursk and was driven back there after MH17 was shot down.
The suspects aren't accused of firing the missile but of working together to get it to the field where it was fired. They are accused of bringing down the plane and the murder of all those on board.
The most senior defendant is Igor Girkin, a 51-year-old former colonel in Russia's Federal Security Service, or FSB. At the time of the downing, he was defense minister and commander of the armed forces of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic — the region where the plane was shot down. Girkin reportedly is currently involved in Russia’s war on Ukraine.
Also on trial are Girkin's subordinates, Sergey Dubinskiy, Oleg Pulatov, and Leonid Kharchenko, a Ukrainian who prosecutors say was commander of a pro-Russia rebel combat unit and took orders directly from Dubinskiy.
Pulatov is the only one of the suspects who was represented by defense lawyers at the trial. They accused prosecutors of “tunnel vision” in basing their case on the findings of an international investigation into the downing while ignoring other possible causes.
Pulatov’s defense team also sought to discredit evidence and argued he didn’t get a fair trial.
In a video recording played in court, Pulatov insisted he was innocent and told judges: “What matters to me is that the truth is revealed. It’s important for me that my country is not blamed for this tragedy.” | https://www.theheraldreview.com/news/article/MH17-judgment-day-Verdicts-due-against-4-17591436.php | 2022-11-17T11:40:40 | en | 0.97383 |
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SCHIPHOL, Netherlands (AP) — A Dutch court is passing judgment Thursday on three Russians and a Ukrainian charged in the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over Ukraine and the deaths of all 298 passengers and crew on board.
The verdict comes more than eight years after the Boeing 777 flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was blown out of the sky on July 17, 2014, amid a conflict between pro-Russia rebels and Ukrainian forces, scattering wreckage and bodies over farmland and fields of sunflowers.
None of the suspects appeared for the trial that began in March 2020 and if they are convicted, it's unlikely they will serve any sentence anytime soon. Prosecutors have sought life sentences for all four. Prosecutors and the suspects have two weeks to file an appeal.
The Hague District Court, sitting at a high-security courtroom at Schiphol Airport, is passing judgment against a backdrop of global geopolitical upheaval caused by Russia's full-blown invasion of Ukraine in February and the nearly nine-month war it triggered.
Hundreds of family members of people killed traveled to the court to hear the verdict, bringing them back to the airport their loved ones left on the fateful day MH17 was shot down.
Dutch prosecutors say the missile launcher came from the 53rd Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade, a unit of the Russian armed forces based in the Russian city of Kursk and was driven back there after MH17 was shot down.
The suspects aren't accused of firing the missile but of working together to get it to the field where it was fired. They are accused of bringing down the plane and the murder of all those on board.
The most senior defendant is Igor Girkin, a 51-year-old former colonel in Russia's Federal Security Service, or FSB. At the time of the downing, he was defense minister and commander of the armed forces of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic — the region where the plane was shot down. Girkin reportedly is currently involved in Russia’s war on Ukraine.
Also on trial are Girkin's subordinates, Sergey Dubinskiy, Oleg Pulatov, and Leonid Kharchenko, a Ukrainian who prosecutors say was commander of a pro-Russia rebel combat unit and took orders directly from Dubinskiy.
Pulatov is the only one of the suspects who was represented by defense lawyers at the trial. They accused prosecutors of “tunnel vision” in basing their case on the findings of an international investigation into the downing while ignoring other possible causes.
Pulatov’s defense team also sought to discredit evidence and argued he didn’t get a fair trial.
In a video recording played in court, Pulatov insisted he was innocent and told judges: “What matters to me is that the truth is revealed. It’s important for me that my country is not blamed for this tragedy.” | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/MH17-judgment-day-Verdicts-due-against-4-17591436.php | 2022-11-17T11:40:42 | en | 0.973095 |
Research from Ad Council Research Institute identifies messengers Americans trust to become aware of, informed about and inspire personal action on key social issues
NEW YORK, Nov. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A new report released by the Ad Council Research Institute (ACRI) finds notable differences across generational, political and geographic lines in who Americans trust for information about important social issues and what motivates them to take action. The 2022 Trusted Messenger Survey, an ongoing, annual exploration that began in 2021, offers important insights for brands, causes and civic groups working to educate and inspire the American public at all levels on these and other topics.
For the report, ACRI conducted a quantitative survey and qualitative interviews to ask Americans who they listen to and trust at each stage of the decision-making process, from becoming aware of an issue, to understanding and finding trusted information about the issue, to taking action on the issue. Overall, the results validate a key trend revealed in the 2021 survey: The closer a person is to one's inner circle, the more people tend to trust those individuals for information and decision-making.
The report also uncovered several key new findings, including:
- Members of Generation Z are more likely than older Americans to trust social media influencers and celebrities across all stages of the knowledge journey. Younger Americans, particularly Gen Z, are much more likely than older generations to trust broader influencers (social media influencers, celebrities, podcast hosts, athletes, etc.) when becoming aware of an issue, gathering more information and remaining informed/taking action.
- Trust in scientists, professionals and academics remains very low among Republicans. The 2022 study saw significant differences in the messengers Americans trust by political affiliation. For example, doctors and medical professionals are trusted by only 48% of strong Republicans (compared to 64% of strong Democrats and 53% of the general public.) In contrast, Republicans have significantly more trust in religious leaders (53%, compared to 37% of Democrats and 36% of the general public.)
- Americans in urban areas are much more trusting overall than those in other areas. Individuals living in urban areas have much more trust in all messengers than those in rural or suburban areas, especially with doctors/medical professionals, scientists, professors/academic experts and teachers/school leaders. Other than spouses and other immediate family members, the only messengers with similar levels of trust between urban and rural Americans are pastors/religious leaders.
"Our 2022 Trusted Messenger Survey offers a great preview into the minds of Americans and who they trust for key information on today's social issues," said Derrick Feldmann, lead researcher and managing director of ACRI and Ad Council Edge. "These findings validate trusted messengers and influencers as crucial components of campaign and social movement efforts to help the American public become aware, more informed and take action".
Based on these research findings, the report also includes several recommendations from Creators for Good, the Ad Council's in-house talent engagement arm that partners with celebrities, issue experts, digital creators, community and faith leaders, musicians, athletes, gamers, and more to champion social issues. In particular, Creators for Good recommends: 1) choosing messengers carefully, 2) understanding where audiences are on their knowledge journey and selecting messengers accordingly, 3) involving messengers early in the campaign and message development process and 4) using campaigns to influence audiences' inner circles, creating additional avenues for informing and motivating the campaign's primary audience.
The 2022 Trusted Messenger Survey consisted of both a quantitative and qualitative component. For the quantitative portion, ACRI conducted a 15-minute online survey in September 2022, which was offered in English, Spanish and Mandarin and completed by 2,502 U.S. adults ages 18-75. The qualitative phase included a three-day series of online qualitative interviews and a journal activity conducted in August 2022 among 40 respondents of mixed gender, race, age, income and geographic location.
Click here to learn more about the Trusted Messenger Survey and read the full report.
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From the owner’s suite to the front office to the sideline, the number of women in the NFL is steadily rising. And, they’re here to stay.
Kalen Jackson was born into football, one of three daughters for Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay. She got her introduction to the sport attending community events. Now, she has a seat at the table for owners’ meetings.
Sam Rapoport fell in love with football the first time she held a ball and threw a spiral as a 12-year-old growing up in Canada. Rapoport ended up becoming a professional quarterback in a women’s tackle football league and has spent two decades working to expand career opportunities for women in the sport.
Ashton Washington was surrounded by football as a kid in Texas, but she says she preferred playing with Barbie dolls. By high school, Washington wanted a career in football. Last year, the Chicago Bears hired her as the first full-time female scout in team history.
Katie Sylvan grew up in San Diego rooting for the Chargers. She was determined to find a job in football and applied for the NFL’s junior rotational program while in college. After nine years working for the league, Sylvan was hired by the Chargers to be the team’s director of football administration.
The overall percentage of women in the NFL’s league office is at an all-time high of 41.3% in 2022 with 319 females holding various positions. The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport said in its 2022 racial and gender report card that the league office “has been a model of diversity and inclusion for their clubs to follow.”
“To see so many things changing that weren’t this way when I was little is super exciting,” Jackson, the Colts vice chair/owner, said on the AP Pro Football Podcast last month. “Being from a family of three girls and always being told you belong here and your opinion about this matters, we definitely had a blessing to have a very passionate girl dad, as they say.”
Rapoport, the NFL’s senior director of diversity, equity and inclusion, is determined to continue opening doors for women in the league.
“I was somewhat relentless with the idea that I was put on this planet to work in football in some way,” said Rapoport,
Rapoport runs the NFL’s Women’s Forum, an annual event that connects participants working in college football with owners, general managers, head coaches and club executives. More than 225 female coaching, scouting and operations candidates have been hired since the forum started in 2017.
“We just put women in a position to impress people,” Rapoport said. “Half our fan base are women. Why aren’t they working in it? We’re working toward that.”
In June, the Cleveland Browns named Catherine Raiche assistant general manager and vice president of football operations, making her the highest-ranking female executive in the NFL. A month later, Sandra Douglass Morgan became the first Black female president of an NFL team when the Las Vegas Raiders hired her.
Kelly Klein is the executive director of football operations for the Denver Broncos. Andrea Gosper is the Buffalo Bills player personnel coordinator.
Washington first joined the Bears as an intern in 2021 after working in recruiting at the University of Illinois. She was promoted to scout — there are 33 female scouts in the NFL — later that summer. In May, she became the Bears player personnel coordinator, pro scouting.
“I feel like it’s a lot of pressure on me and other females across the league because you want to set the bar and you also want to exceed your personal expectations,” Washington said.
There are six women who are full-time coaches in the NFL, including Tampa Bay Buccaneers assistant defensive line coach Lori Locust and director of rehabilitation/performance coach Maral Javadifar. Washington Commanders assistant running backs coach Jennifer King, New York Giants offensive quality control coach Angela Baker, Cleveland Browns chief of staff/assistant wide receivers coach Callie Brownson and Philadelphia Eagles sports performance coach Autumn Lockwood are the others.
In 2020, Locust and Javadifar became the first female coaches on a team to win the Super Bowl. Sarah Thomas also made history in that game as the first woman to officiate a Super Bowl, working as the down judge.
“It was time for that door to be knocked down and allow them because they’ve been putting in time, and they’re very, very qualified,” former Bucs coach Bruce Arians said about hiring Locust and Javadifar.
There are 21 women currently working as athletic trainers in the NFL, including Allison Miner of the Chargers.
“The biggest challenge was just opportunity,” said Miner, who was one of only three women in her position when she was hired in 2015.
Another obstacle for Miner early in her career was finding a locker room to change. She would use a public bathroom in the stadium. The NFL now requires space for women at each stadium.
“It’s exciting to see the female faces,” Miner said. “There’s going to be a day where it’s not a big deal.”
For Sylvan, it’s important for women to know there are various jobs for them in the NFL. She has embraced her role working on roster management, the salary cap and player contracts.
“It’s great to see more women in these roles,” Sylvan said. “There have been women in these roles before me and there will definitely be women in these roles after me. I think that’s really the most important thing is that people understand that these opportunities exist and are out there if it’s something they’re interested in doing and pursuing.”
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From the owner’s suite to the front office to the sideline, the number of women in the NFL is steadily rising. And, they’re here to stay.
Kalen Jackson was born into football, one of three daughters for Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay. She got her introduction to the sport attending community events. Now, she has a seat at the table for owners’ meetings.
Sam Rapoport fell in love with football the first time she held a ball and threw a spiral as a 12-year-old growing up in Canada. Rapoport ended up becoming a professional quarterback in a women’s tackle football league and has spent two decades working to expand career opportunities for women in the sport.
Ashton Washington was surrounded by football as a kid in Texas, but she says she preferred playing with Barbie dolls. By high school, Washington wanted a career in football. Last year, the Chicago Bears hired her as the first full-time female scout in team history.
Katie Sylvan grew up in San Diego rooting for the Chargers. She was determined to find a job in football and applied for the NFL’s junior rotational program while in college. After nine years working for the league, Sylvan was hired by the Chargers to be the team’s director of football administration.
The overall percentage of women in the NFL’s league office is at an all-time high of 41.3% in 2022 with 319 females holding various positions. The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport said in its 2022 racial and gender report card that the league office “has been a model of diversity and inclusion for their clubs to follow.”
“To see so many things changing that weren’t this way when I was little is super exciting,” Jackson, the Colts vice chair/owner, said on the AP Pro Football Podcast last month. “Being from a family of three girls and always being told you belong here and your opinion about this matters, we definitely had a blessing to have a very passionate girl dad, as they say.”
Rapoport, the NFL’s senior director of diversity, equity and inclusion, is determined to continue opening doors for women in the league.
“I was somewhat relentless with the idea that I was put on this planet to work in football in some way,” said Rapoport,
Rapoport runs the NFL’s Women’s Forum, an annual event that connects participants working in college football with owners, general managers, head coaches and club executives. More than 225 female coaching, scouting and operations candidates have been hired since the forum started in 2017.
“We just put women in a position to impress people,” Rapoport said. “Half our fan base are women. Why aren’t they working in it? We’re working toward that.”
In June, the Cleveland Browns named Catherine Raiche assistant general manager and vice president of football operations, making her the highest-ranking female executive in the NFL. A month later, Sandra Douglass Morgan became the first Black female president of an NFL team when the Las Vegas Raiders hired her.
Kelly Klein is the executive director of football operations for the Denver Broncos. Andrea Gosper is the Buffalo Bills player personnel coordinator.
Washington first joined the Bears as an intern in 2021 after working in recruiting at the University of Illinois. She was promoted to scout — there are 33 female scouts in the NFL — later that summer. In May, she became the Bears player personnel coordinator, pro scouting.
“I feel like it’s a lot of pressure on me and other females across the league because you want to set the bar and you also want to exceed your personal expectations,” Washington said.
There are six women who are full-time coaches in the NFL, including Tampa Bay Buccaneers assistant defensive line coach Lori Locust and director of rehabilitation/performance coach Maral Javadifar. Washington Commanders assistant running backs coach Jennifer King, New York Giants offensive quality control coach Angela Baker, Cleveland Browns chief of staff/assistant wide receivers coach Callie Brownson and Philadelphia Eagles sports performance coach Autumn Lockwood are the others.
In 2020, Locust and Javadifar became the first female coaches on a team to win the Super Bowl. Sarah Thomas also made history in that game as the first woman to officiate a Super Bowl, working as the down judge.
“It was time for that door to be knocked down and allow them because they’ve been putting in time, and they’re very, very qualified,” former Bucs coach Bruce Arians said about hiring Locust and Javadifar.
There are 21 women currently working as athletic trainers in the NFL, including Allison Miner of the Chargers.
“The biggest challenge was just opportunity,” said Miner, who was one of only three women in her position when she was hired in 2015.
Another obstacle for Miner early in her career was finding a locker room to change. She would use a public bathroom in the stadium. The NFL now requires space for women at each stadium.
“It’s exciting to see the female faces,” Miner said. “There’s going to be a day where it’s not a big deal.”
For Sylvan, it’s important for women to know there are various jobs for them in the NFL. She has embraced her role working on roster management, the salary cap and player contracts.
“It’s great to see more women in these roles,” Sylvan said. “There have been women in these roles before me and there will definitely be women in these roles after me. I think that’s really the most important thing is that people understand that these opportunities exist and are out there if it’s something they’re interested in doing and pursuing.”
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New steel coalition promotes a transparent and climate-focused standard to measure and reduce carbon emissions
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- An international group of leading steel manufacturers today announced the formation of a coalition to urge the United States and European Union to adopt a global emission standard that incentivizes steelmakers to use the cleanest steel production process available.
The new coalition – the Global Steel Climate Council (GSCC) – supports a global standard that accelerates the transition to low-emission steel and recognizes the potential of the recycled, circular steel model to reduce carbon emissions.
The United States and European Union are negotiating a new emissions standard for steel production. The GSCC asserts that any agreement should focus on the amount of emissions generated, not on how steel is made. The majority of the world's steel production is extremely carbon-intensive because it primarily relies on mined and processed coal, iron ore and limestone. However, other steelmakers – including those producing over 70% of all U.S. and over 40% of all European manufactured steel today – use electric arc furnaces (EAFs) that principally input recycled scrap metal to produce steel, generating significantly lower carbon emissions.
"We have the technology to reduce carbon emissions in steel production by 70 percent today," said Leon Topalian, Chair, President & CEO of Nucor Corporation, a founding member of the Council. "The global industry needs to build on the innovation that has already led to cleaner steel production in the United States because the green and digital economies around the world are going to be built with steel, and the steel they are built with matters."
A "sliding scale" standard supported by high-emission steelmakers would set greenhouse gas emission standards ceilings up to nine times higher for extractive versus recycled products, penalizing EAF producers and permitting higher-emission steel to be erroneously labeled as "green." Under a sliding scale, two steel products could be classified as equally "green," even though one was produced by creating multiple times more carbon emissions than the other.
"Steel is essential for our economies, including the world's essential infrastructure. This new standard will accelerate the actual reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and provide key decisionmakers with accurate data to make informed decisions," said Mark D. Millett, Chairman, President, and CEO of Steel Dynamics, Chairman of the Steel Manufacturers Association, and a founding member of the Council.
"We must prevent steel producers from classifying their products as green when the same products are available on the market with significantly lower carbon emissions," said Francisco Cardona, Head of Public Affairs of CELSA Group, a leading European producer of low-emission circular steel and founding member of the Council.
The primary focus of the GSCC is to establish a standard, focusing on the following guiding principles:
- Reducing GHG emissions from the global steel industry.
- Establishing a standard that is technology/production method agnostic.
- Establishing a standard that has a system boundary that includes Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions.
- Establishing a standard that aligns with a science-based glide path to achieve a 1.5 degree scenario by the year 2050.
- Providing relevant information on sustainable steelmaking to appropriate decisionmakers.
"The GSCC single standard will encourage all producers to reduce their carbon emissions and create a level playing field for all manufacturers. The U.S.-EU negotiations should not create a double standard and a slippery slope toward a dirtier environment. We can do better," said Philip K. Bell, President of the Steel Manufacturers Association and founding member of the Council.
About the Global Steel Climate Council
The Global Steel Climate Council, Inc. (GSCC) is a nonprofit association organized to advance climate strategy by sharing best practices, establishing standards and advocating for carbon emissions reductions by members of the steel industry.
The GSCC includes more than 20 members and supporters who are steel manufacturers, trade associations, end users, scrap metal suppliers and non-governmental organizations.
GSCC's specific purposes are to focus on reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the global steel industry by supporting reduction methods that are technology agnostic, have a system boundary that includes Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions and align with a science-based glidepath to achieve a 1.5 degree Celsius scenario by 2050.
The founding members of the GSCC are: the Steel Manufacturers Association, Nucor Corporation, CELSA Group, Steel Dynamics, Inc., Commercial Metals Company and the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries.
For more information, please visit https://GlobalSteelClimateCouncil.org
CONTACT: [email protected]
SOURCE Global Steel Climate Council | https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/new-steel-coalition-promotes-a-transparent-and-climate-focused-standard-to-measure-and-reduce-carbon-emissions-301681306.html | 2022-11-17T11:40:50 | en | 0.941997 |
WASHINGTON (AP) — An Obama Foundation program that has trained hundreds of young leaders across Africa, the Asia-Pacific and Europe is being expanded to include the United States.
Former President Barack Obama is expected to announce the new program on Thursday during a two-day democracy forum the foundation is co-sponsoring in New York City.
The Obama Foundation Leaders United States program is a six-month leadership development program for emerging leaders between the ages of 24 and 45. The program will serve more than 100 leaders from the U.S. in its first year. Participants will be chosen through a competitive application process.
In remarks prepared for delivery on Thursday at the forum, Obama cites “consistently high interest” in the foundation's programs as a reason for the expansion.
“The creativity, determination and passion of these leaders are already making an impact — in lives saved, environments restored, children educated," he says. "They’re creating new models for clean energy generation and poverty alleviation. It’s remarkable and inspiring — and a little humbling, since I sure wasn’t making such an impact at their age.
“And the good news is, we’re just scratching the surface of what this next generation is capable of,” Obama says.
The Obama Foundation Leaders program has worked with more than 700 people in Africa, the Asia-Pacific and Europe since it was launched in 2018 after Obama, a Democrat, left the White House following two terms as president, according to the foundation.
Valerie Jarrett, a longtime Obama adviser, said the U.S. extension of the leaders program is a "continuation of our efforts to pay it forward by helping the next generation.”
The foundation, in partnership with Columbia University and the University of Chicago, is holding its first democracy forum in New York on Thursday and Friday. Democracy thinkers, leaders and activists from across the globe will discuss how to advance and strengthen democracy in the United States and abroad.
Obama is scheduled to close the first day of the forum with a speech and a conversation with a group of foundation leaders.
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It may have been the GIF of a chattering raccoon.
Or the cropped photo of me standing with a student and teacher after speaking at a high school, claiming I had professed my love for the "ugliest white woman [I] could find." Or the message insisting I "have to keep my white wife happy," though my marriage ended in 2015.
These messages, delivered to my virtual doorstep via Twitter after I dared to write a column criticizing comic Dave Chappelle's recent Saturday Night Live monologue, were part of a punishing deluge of responses on social media aimed at attacking me as a Black man. According to these diatribes, I was a traitor to my race, a biscuit-eating sellout, a coonish, Uncle Tom/Sambo who allowed his Jewish paymasters to dictate his writing.
All for having the gall to say I was disappointed in Chappelle's latest performance.
Of course, it's difficult to tell which of these accounts might have been bots or malicious hackers more interested in sowing division and hate than any logical argument. But some of the arguments raised in these spaces nevertheless echoed justifications and defenses I'd seen delivered by actual people – inadvertently embodying my concerns about Chappelle's original comments encouraging those who believed terrible stereotypes about Jewish people.
And, as always, it was discouraging that we seem to be having the same discussions about stereotyping and fairness which once seemed resolved years ago – reignited by a performer whose oblique and provocative comedy touches nerves without really offering any resolution.
A genius standup comic
Chappelle's superpower as a performer – something he's bragged about in the past – is his ability to control an audience, bringing laughs when he wants, stunned silence in other moments. Indeed, his SNL monologue is a masterclass in saying just enough so that fans can defend his words, while sidestepping their more provocative implications.
At issue – for me, at least – was whether Chappelle was minimizing and providing tacit cover for the antisemitic actions of Kanye West and Kyrie Irving. Chappelle dances around the issue in his monologue, noting how many Jewish people there are working in Hollywood and then saying, "you might go out to Hollywood, you might start connecting some kind of lines, and you could maybe adopt the delusion that the Jews run show business." Use of the word "delusion" in that sentence sounds appropriate.
We shouldn't expect @DaveChappelle to serve as society's moral compass, but disturbing to see @nbcsnl not just normalize but popularize #antisemitism. Why are Jewish sensitivities denied or diminished at almost every turn? Why does our trauma trigger applause?
— Jonathan Greenblatt (@JGreenblattADL) November 13, 2022
But the next moment, he says, "It's not a crazy thing to think. But it's a crazy thing to say out loud in a climate like this." Which raises the question: When is it ever a good climate to regurgitate the old prejudice that Jewish people are colluding to run major institutions in lockstep – a prejudice that has been used to justify all kinds of oppression, including the Holocaust?
Fans online insisted I wasn't being fair, noting Chappelle also joked, "There's a lot of Black people in Ferguson, Missouri. It doesn't mean we run the place." But I also paid attention to his very last joke, where he noted how difficult it is to talk about controversial subjects, adding slyly, "I hope they don't take anything away from me. Whoever they are."
Given that there was only one group of people he had been talking about who may or may not run show business, it was tough to imagine Chappelle's "they" referred to anyone else.
The monologue drew criticism from Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt, who tweeted that Chappelle had normalized and popularized antisemitism, asking, "Why does our trauma trigger applause?" That's a good question; certainly, Chappelle drew an audience, attracting the biggest ratings of the season, with nearly 5 million viewers.
But Chappelle also has a well-known defender: former Daily Show host and longtime friend Jon Stewart. Appearing on Stephen Colbert's The Late Show, Stewart, who jokes often about his own Jewish heritage, pushed back against the idea that Chappelle normalized antisemitism and seemed to criticize efforts aimed at marginalizing West and Irving.
"I don't believe that censorship and penalties are the way to end antisemitism or to gain understanding," he said. A little later, Stewart added, "Penalizing somebody for having a thought — I don't think is the way to change their minds or gain understanding."
Defenses that miss the mark
In the aftermath of my column, some classic defenses cropped up.
He's a comedian, not a journalist, some said (which I noted in my column.) But those of us who have been doing this awhile know that humor rooted in unfair and inaccurate stereotypes can become ideas that the people who are the subject of those prejudices have to live with for a very long time.
Some fans insisted that observing how many Jewish people work in show business is just stating a fact. But of course, the point of such observations is often to provide evidence of a darker conclusion: that Jewish people control show business to make it a dangerous taboo for others to criticize them.
The odd thing about this perspective, is that I have heard similar sentiments from some white people who feel there are taboos when it comes to discussing how Black people talk about racism.
In my 2012 book Race-Baiter, I describe a commentary by former Fox News Channel anchor Bill O'Reilly, who blamed civil rights activist Jesse Jackson, the liberal watchdog group Media Matters — and, um, me — for creating a climate where accusations of racism mean "millions of white Americans will no longer even think about discussing race with blacks." He called me "one of the biggest race-baiters in the country." Talk about creating a climate for constructive dialogue.
The fact is, our modern media argument culture doesn't allow a lot of space for nuanced discussion. Bringing the issue back to Chappelle, however, I thought my comments were pretty measured.
I didn't call him an antisemite. I didn't even say he wasn't funny. I did fault him for obscuring "an issue which should be cut and dried." And for that, one fan insisted I was "spewing venom," another accused me of "attacking another Black person" and a third insisted I had "Black skin and a white mind."
(There were also a few posters who seemed to use my column to unfairly paint all or most black people as antisemitic — yet another perversion of my words to serve a terrible prejudice.)
The hypocrisy is astounding. Chappelle himself said, "It shouldn't be this scary to talk about anything." But some who claim to be his fans are determined to make it scary for anyone to disagree with him. Because if you dare to go there, you must not be Black enough.
This idea can be so pervasive that the last time I wrote a major column critical of Chappelle, Bill Maher commented on it with a joke on his HBO show Real Time that left me convinced he thought a white person had written my words. (Maher talked about a "kink" he suspected some white people have for wanting to criticize themselves harshly, which he dubbed "white loathing.")
Needless to say, I disagree. Black folks, we know this: When bigotry rears its ugly visage, the last thing we need in the public space is ambiguity and both-siderism.
When police brutality against Black people rises, we must state unequivocally that Black Lives Matter. And when antisemitism emerges, even from some of the best-known Black performers in music and sports, we should denounce it without reservation.
Of course, there are tensions between Black people and Jewish people over access to white privilege, differences in oppression and a host of other issues. There is justified anger among Black folks when some people use white privilege to escape the oppression we face. But, as I pointed out in my column last year about Chappelle; just because some members of a group use their privilege in terrible ways, that's not a green light to visit unfair prejudices on everyone in that group.
These tensions are best resolved in an environment which rejects false assumptions and prejudice unambiguously on all sides. And insisting on that isn't a betrayal of anyone's race — it's just what we should expect in a free and fair society.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — An Obama Foundation program that has trained hundreds of young leaders across Africa, the Asia-Pacific and Europe is being expanded to include the United States.
Former President Barack Obama is expected to announce the new program on Thursday during a two-day democracy forum the foundation is co-sponsoring in New York City.
The Obama Foundation Leaders United States program is a six-month leadership development program for emerging leaders between the ages of 24 and 45. The program will serve more than 100 leaders from the U.S. in its first year. Participants will be chosen through a competitive application process.
In remarks prepared for delivery on Thursday at the forum, Obama cites “consistently high interest” in the foundation's programs as a reason for the expansion.
“The creativity, determination and passion of these leaders are already making an impact — in lives saved, environments restored, children educated," he says. "They’re creating new models for clean energy generation and poverty alleviation. It’s remarkable and inspiring — and a little humbling, since I sure wasn’t making such an impact at their age.
“And the good news is, we’re just scratching the surface of what this next generation is capable of,” Obama says.
The Obama Foundation Leaders program has worked with more than 700 people in Africa, the Asia-Pacific and Europe since it was launched in 2018 after Obama, a Democrat, left the White House following two terms as president, according to the foundation.
Valerie Jarrett, a longtime Obama adviser, said the U.S. extension of the leaders program is a "continuation of our efforts to pay it forward by helping the next generation.”
The foundation, in partnership with Columbia University and the University of Chicago, is holding its first democracy forum in New York on Thursday and Friday. Democracy thinkers, leaders and activists from across the globe will discuss how to advance and strengthen democracy in the United States and abroad.
Obama is scheduled to close the first day of the forum with a speech and a conversation with a group of foundation leaders.
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New steel coalition promotes a transparent and climate-focused standard to measure and reduce carbon emissions
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- An international group of leading steel manufacturers today announced the formation of a coalition to urge the United States and European Union to adopt a global emission standard that incentivizes steelmakers to use the cleanest steel production process available.
The new coalition – the Global Steel Climate Council (GSCC) – supports a global standard that accelerates the transition to low-emission steel and recognizes the potential of the recycled, circular steel model to reduce carbon emissions.
The United States and European Union are negotiating a new emissions standard for steel production. The GSCC asserts that any agreement should focus on the amount of emissions generated, not on how steel is made. The majority of the world's steel production is extremely carbon-intensive because it primarily relies on mined and processed coal, iron ore and limestone. However, other steelmakers – including those producing over 70% of all U.S. and over 40% of all European manufactured steel today – use electric arc furnaces (EAFs) that principally input recycled scrap metal to produce steel, generating significantly lower carbon emissions.
"We have the technology to reduce carbon emissions in steel production by 70 percent today," said Leon Topalian, Chair, President & CEO of Nucor Corporation, a founding member of the Council. "The global industry needs to build on the innovation that has already led to cleaner steel production in the United States because the green and digital economies around the world are going to be built with steel, and the steel they are built with matters."
A "sliding scale" standard supported by high-emission steelmakers would set greenhouse gas emission standards ceilings up to nine times higher for extractive versus recycled products, penalizing EAF producers and permitting higher-emission steel to be erroneously labeled as "green." Under a sliding scale, two steel products could be classified as equally "green," even though one was produced by creating multiple times more carbon emissions than the other.
"Steel is essential for our economies, including the world's essential infrastructure. This new standard will accelerate the actual reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and provide key decisionmakers with accurate data to make informed decisions," said Mark D. Millett, Chairman, President, and CEO of Steel Dynamics, Chairman of the Steel Manufacturers Association, and a founding member of the Council.
"We must prevent steel producers from classifying their products as green when the same products are available on the market with significantly lower carbon emissions," said Francisco Cardona, Head of Public Affairs of CELSA Group, a leading European producer of low-emission circular steel and founding member of the Council.
The primary focus of the GSCC is to establish a standard, focusing on the following guiding principles:
- Reducing GHG emissions from the global steel industry.
- Establishing a standard that is technology/production method agnostic.
- Establishing a standard that has a system boundary that includes Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions.
- Establishing a standard that aligns with a science-based glide path to achieve a 1.5 degree scenario by the year 2050.
- Providing relevant information on sustainable steelmaking to appropriate decisionmakers.
"The GSCC single standard will encourage all producers to reduce their carbon emissions and create a level playing field for all manufacturers. The U.S.-EU negotiations should not create a double standard and a slippery slope toward a dirtier environment. We can do better," said Philip K. Bell, President of the Steel Manufacturers Association and founding member of the Council.
About the Global Steel Climate Council
The Global Steel Climate Council, Inc. (GSCC) is a nonprofit association organized to advance climate strategy by sharing best practices, establishing standards and advocating for carbon emissions reductions by members of the steel industry.
The GSCC includes more than 20 members and supporters who are steel manufacturers, trade associations, end users, scrap metal suppliers and non-governmental organizations.
GSCC's specific purposes are to focus on reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the global steel industry by supporting reduction methods that are technology agnostic, have a system boundary that includes Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions and align with a science-based glidepath to achieve a 1.5 degree Celsius scenario by 2050.
The founding members of the GSCC are: the Steel Manufacturers Association, Nucor Corporation, CELSA Group, Steel Dynamics, Inc., Commercial Metals Company and the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries.
For more information, please visit https://GlobalSteelClimateCouncil.org
CONTACT: [email protected]
SOURCE Global Steel Climate Council | https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/new-steel-coalition-promotes-a-transparent-and-climate-focused-standard-to-measure-and-reduce-carbon-emissions-301681330.html | 2022-11-17T11:40:56 | en | 0.941997 |
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VATICAN CITY (AP) — Italy’s Catholic bishops on Thursday provided their first-ever accounting of clergy sexual abuse, but Italy's main survivor advocate said it was “shamefully” inadequate given it only covered reports to church authorities over the last two years and omitted documentary research into church archives.
The report, which found 89 presumed victims and some 68 people accused, was never meant to provide an accurate or historic look at the clergy abuse problem in Italy. The country's bishops never authorized such research despite demands from survivors for a full accounting, which some other Catholic Churches in Europe have published.
Instead, the Italian bishops limited the scope of their report to evaluate the work of “listening centers” that were set up in dioceses since 2019 to receive complaints from victims. Organizers said during a news conference Thursday that the report provided a “first photograph” of the problem and the bishops planned to release annual reports from now on.
The report said 89 people had made reports in the past two years and identified 68 abusers. It found most victims were between ages 15-18 when the abuse took place, though 16 were adults whom the church considered “vulnerable.” Most of the claims involved inappropriate language or behavior and touching.
The numbers paled in comparison to the tally of known cases kept by Italy’s main survivors’ group, Rete L’Abuso, which estimates some 1 million victims in the overwhelmingly Roman Catholic country. The group has identified some 178 accused priests, 165 priests who were convicted by Italian law enforcement and some 218 new cases.
Nevertheless, the numbers reported by the Italian bishops even in these two past years were significant, said Francesco Zanardi, the head of Rete l’Abuso.
“If in two years they received 89 complaints, that means the problem is there and it’s big,” he said in a telephone interview.
Zanardi noted that an unusually high percentage of the accused were lay church workers – some 34%, compared to the 66% of priests or religious brothers. He noted that lay abusers often find it easier to access potential victims in Italy’s vast church-run volunteer programs since background checks are less stringent.
Monsignor Lorenzo Ghizzoni, who is head of the Italian church’s national child protection service, said the numbers were significant given the reporting period covered a time when church activities were either shuttered or reduced due to COVID-19.
“These are just a few, but they’re a lot,” especially for a system to receive complaints that had just been started, Ghizzoni said.
From the start, the scope of the Italian report was far more limited than the approach taken by the Catholic hierarchy in many European countries to try to respond to clamoring for accountability about clergy sexual abuse.
When he announced the planned report in May, the head of the Italian bishops' conference, Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, insisted the study's scope and the compressed, six-month time frame for its release would enable researchers to provide a more “accurate and accountable” tally.
Whether by government mandate, parliamentary investigation or church initiation, such reports in Ireland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Portugal and France identified systematic problems that allowed thousands of children to be abused by Catholic priests.
In France, a panel of independent experts estimated that 330,000 children were sexually abused over 70 years by some 3,000 priests and church personnel, and that the crimes were covered up “systematically” by the church hierarchy. That report, and a spate of revelations about high-ranking abusers, has sparked a crisis of confidence in the French Catholic Church.
Zanardi alleged the Italian report was clearly an attempt to “minimize” and cover up the scope of clergy sex abuse in Italy. “It’s shameful. It’s partial and you don’t really know what it’s for,” he said.
A consortium of survivor advocacy groups, under the hashtag #ItalyChurchToo, has sought to identify why the problem remains so hushed-up in Italy. The alliance's members said the church’s continued political, social and cultural influence has made prosecutors reluctant to investigate clergy abuse cases and resulted in a refusal by lawmakers to back parliamentary inquiries and disinterest by the Italian public | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/Italy-church-releases-abuse-accounting-but-only-17591495.php | 2022-11-17T11:40:57 | en | 0.978007 |
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol hoped for greater cooperation with Saudi Arabia — including on its $500 billion futuristic desert city project — as he met the kingdom’s powerful crown prince Thursday, Seoul officials said.
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman flew to South Korea earlier Thursday for talks with Yoon and business tycoons in his first visit to South Korea since June 2019.
During talks attended by senior officials from both countries, Yoon said he hopes that South Korean companies will participate in megaprojects in Saudi Arabia such as Neom, a futuristic, carbon-free city planned along the kingdom’s Red Sea coast, Yoon’s office in a statement.
Yoon also wanted the two countries to cooperate on defense industries and the development of hydrogen and other new energies and promote tourism and cultural exchanges, the statement said. Prince Mohammed said he wants to drastically expand bilateral cooperation on the areas of infrastructure construction, energy and defense industries, Yoon’s office said.
The prince’s trip to South Korea spawned hopes that South Korean companies’ active participations in the Neom city project would greatly invigorate the country’s economy, like a previous construction boom in the Middle East backed up South Korea’s rapid economic rise in the 1970s.
“There are political and geopolitical risks in Middle East and it’s true that there are questions about the Neom city project. … But the Neom city can still be a new breakthrough for the South Korean economy,” the Maeil Business newspaper said Wednesday in an editorial. “The (South Korean) government must support a possible second Middle East boom by reforming regulations.”
The Neom project envisions flying cars and a 170-kilometer (105-mile) -long, zero-carbon emissions city that’s entirely enclosed and powered by Artificial Intelligence. In 2017, when Prince Mohammed announced plans to build the city, he said that “this will be a place for the dreamers of the world.”
Some observers say Prince Mohammed hopes the city will become a skyline-studded Saudi version of Dubai that will offer the kingdom jobs and cement a future beyond its vast crude oil reserves. It also would reframe a rule so far colored by the killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi and the kingdom’s ongoing intervention in the war in Yemen.
“Some people say the idea of the Neom city project is too utopian and doubt whether it can be really established,” said Paik Seunghoon, principal researcher at the Institute of Middle East Studies at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul. “But it’s one of the projects that Prince (Mohammed) is pushing hard so that he will try to have (the Neom project) running to some extent.”
During the prince’s visit, South Korean companies signed more than 20 memorandums of understanding with their Saudi counterparts, non-binding contracts that are mostly about South Korean investments in Saudi Arabia, according to South Korean officials.
Paik said Saudi Arabia has signed similar non-binding deals with many other foreign companies and that the South Korean announcement Thursday lacked substance. But he still viewed them as a meaningful first step in the two countries' cooperation in such projects.
“I highly appraise (today's development). It’s like we just did our first shoveling" in a construction project, Paik said. “Most importantly, the leaders of the two countries met and agreed to push forward with something. And this shouldn’t be the end.”
Joo Won, deputy director at the Seoul-based Hyundai Research Institute, noted that there have been “more negative views toward the project” than positive ones.
“It’s a matter of financial resources. Saudi Arabia needs money to build such a city. During the period of high oil prices like these days, they can afford it. But oil prices would go down one day and the project could stop,” Joo said. | https://www.theheraldreview.com/news/article/S-Korea-s-leader-discusses-megaprojects-with-17591429.php | 2022-11-17T11:40:58 | en | 0.950822 |
ISTANBUL — Russia and Ukraine have agreed to extend an agreement to allow grain exports from Ukrainian ports through a safe corridor in the Black Sea.
The deal, brokered by the U.N. and Turkey, was set to expire on Saturday, and will now continue for at least another 120 days. U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres said in a statement that he welcomed the agreement by all parties to continue the Black Sea Grain Initiative.
Nearly 11 million tons of grain and foodstuffs have been exported under the agreement, which has been a lifeline to Ukraine's crippled wartime economy and helped ease food shortages around the world.
The deal will continue with the same provisions as it did before. Ships will carry grain from three Ukrainian ports: Chornomorsk, Odesa and Yuzhny/Pivdennyi. They will travel through the humanitarian corridor set up in the Black Sea and stop in Istanbul, where they are checked by inspectors from Russia, Ukraine, Turkey and the U.N. before continuing to the final destination.
Oleksii Kubrakov, Ukraine's minister of infrastructure, on Facebook welcomed the deal. "Since August 1, the beginning of the Grain Initiative and to date, Ukraine has exported more than 11 million tons of agricultural products to 38 countries," Kubrakov said. He added however, "It's a considerable amount, but not enough." Ukraine wants to be able to move food products out of additional ports, including the port of Mykolaiv, which currently is not included under the deal.
Ukraine is one of the world's largest exporters of wheat, corn and sunflower oil. Disruptions to the country's agricultural exports due to the Russian invasion contributed to a global rise in food prices this year.
In Russia, meanwhile, the TASS news agency quoted the country's deputy foreign minister as saying Moscow is not prepared to "chop up" the Black Sea grain deal, but instead wants a relaxation of sanctions on its agricultural and fertilizer exports to be a vital part of the deal.
The agreement has largely been a success, despite the complicated logistics of operating in a war zone, including dangers of mines in the Black Sea. But there has been a backlog issue, with dozens of ships docked in Istanbul awaiting inspection, sometimes for weeks. Russia has so far refused to increase the number of inspectors to meet the demand.
Russia pulled out of the deal in October, citing Ukrainian drone attacks in the Black Sea. The move caused an immediate spike in wheat prices and was widely condemned by global leaders. Russia reversed its decision within a few days after a phone call between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and assurances that Ukraine would not use shipping corridors for military purposes.
Russia has also complained about buyers' fear of sanctions getting in the way of its own exports of grain and fertilizers, which it can do under a separate agreement with the U.N., even though there are no direct sanctions on Russian grain and fertilizers.
In his statement, Guterres added that the U.N was "fully committed to removing the remaining obstacles to exporting food and fertilizers from the Russian Federation. Both agreements signed in Istanbul three months ago are essential to bring down the prices of food and fertilizer and avoid a global food crisis."
Speaking to reporters at the G-20 summit in Bali on Wednesday, Erdogan said Ankara was pushing to extend the grain deal even further, by a year.
"As soon as we return, we will continue our talks, especially with Mr. Putin. Because the way to peace is through dialogue," Erdogan said.
Jason Beaubien and Ashley Westerman contributed to this report.
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol hoped for greater cooperation with Saudi Arabia — including on its $500 billion futuristic desert city project — as he met the kingdom’s powerful crown prince Thursday, Seoul officials said.
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman flew to South Korea earlier Thursday for talks with Yoon and business tycoons in his first visit to South Korea since June 2019.
During talks attended by senior officials from both countries, Yoon said he hopes that South Korean companies will participate in megaprojects in Saudi Arabia such as Neom, a futuristic, carbon-free city planned along the kingdom’s Red Sea coast, Yoon’s office in a statement.
Yoon also wanted the two countries to cooperate on defense industries and the development of hydrogen and other new energies and promote tourism and cultural exchanges, the statement said. Prince Mohammed said he wants to drastically expand bilateral cooperation on the areas of infrastructure construction, energy and defense industries, Yoon’s office said.
The prince’s trip to South Korea spawned hopes that South Korean companies’ active participations in the Neom city project would greatly invigorate the country’s economy, like a previous construction boom in the Middle East backed up South Korea’s rapid economic rise in the 1970s.
“There are political and geopolitical risks in Middle East and it’s true that there are questions about the Neom city project. … But the Neom city can still be a new breakthrough for the South Korean economy,” the Maeil Business newspaper said Wednesday in an editorial. “The (South Korean) government must support a possible second Middle East boom by reforming regulations.”
The Neom project envisions flying cars and a 170-kilometer (105-mile) -long, zero-carbon emissions city that’s entirely enclosed and powered by Artificial Intelligence. In 2017, when Prince Mohammed announced plans to build the city, he said that “this will be a place for the dreamers of the world.”
Some observers say Prince Mohammed hopes the city will become a skyline-studded Saudi version of Dubai that will offer the kingdom jobs and cement a future beyond its vast crude oil reserves. It also would reframe a rule so far colored by the killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi and the kingdom’s ongoing intervention in the war in Yemen.
“Some people say the idea of the Neom city project is too utopian and doubt whether it can be really established,” said Paik Seunghoon, principal researcher at the Institute of Middle East Studies at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul. “But it’s one of the projects that Prince (Mohammed) is pushing hard so that he will try to have (the Neom project) running to some extent.”
During the prince’s visit, South Korean companies signed more than 20 memorandums of understanding with their Saudi counterparts, non-binding contracts that are mostly about South Korean investments in Saudi Arabia, according to South Korean officials.
Paik said Saudi Arabia has signed similar non-binding deals with many other foreign companies and that the South Korean announcement Thursday lacked substance. But he still viewed them as a meaningful first step in the two countries' cooperation in such projects.
“I highly appraise (today's development). It’s like we just did our first shoveling" in a construction project, Paik said. “Most importantly, the leaders of the two countries met and agreed to push forward with something. And this shouldn’t be the end.”
Joo Won, deputy director at the Seoul-based Hyundai Research Institute, noted that there have been “more negative views toward the project” than positive ones.
“It’s a matter of financial resources. Saudi Arabia needs money to build such a city. During the period of high oil prices like these days, they can afford it. But oil prices would go down one day and the project could stop,” Joo said. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/S-Korea-s-leader-discusses-megaprojects-with-17591429.php | 2022-11-17T11:41:01 | en | 0.950325 |
Oizom's air quality monitors are now powered with advanced calibration capabilities
AHMEDABAD, India, Nov. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- With the expertise of 7 years and over 1500 deployments across 50 countries, Oizom is focused to provide accurate and affordable air quality data. To strengthen the data accuracy of smart air quality monitors, Oizom established an advanced calibration facility in Ahmedabad, India. This facility houses 2-stage calibration of air quality monitors. The facility was recently inaugurated at Ahmedabad Textile Industry's Research Association (ATIRA) at Ahmedabad.
The event was graced by the presence of key dignitaries across various regulatory and research organizations. The gathering was addressed by Mr Ankit Vyas - CEO of Oizom, Dr. Rajeev Gautam – Corporate Officer, HORIBA Ltd., Japan and President – HORIBA India, Ms. Deepali Plawat - Dy. Director ATIRA and Dr Dipsha Shah - Faculty of Technology CEPT University.
The advanced calibration facility has a state-of-the-art laboratory for the calibration of sensor-based air quality monitors. The recent addition to the facility is a Reference Grade Continuous Ambient Air Quality Monitoring System (CAAQMS) by Japanese manufacturer - HORIBA Ltd. This system is supplied by the Process and Environmental Division of HORIBA, Ltd., which is a global leader in air quality monitoring. The system houses precise analyzers for monitoring real-time data of gasses like NOx and SOx (oxides of nitrogen and sulfur), CO (carbon monoxide), O3 (Ozone) and Particulate Matter (PM2.5 and PM10). With this, Oizom aims to strengthen its calibration facility by collocating every monitor with the reference CAAQMS.
The facility also opens up research opportunities for academicians, researchers and industries. On the occasion, Ankit Vyas, CEO of Oizom said, "This joint effort by Oizom, ATIRA and HORIBA India Process and Environmental paves way for future research on providing hyperlocal air quality monitoring data. Such an advanced facility will be the first one in the country and we are open to research collaborations with universities."
Ayyan Karmakar, Chief Scientific Officer at Oizom added, "Accuracy is the key to actionable air quality data. The facility will ensure that Oizom's sensor-based air quality monitoring system provides data with the highest accuracy."
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MILAN (AP) — Italian police issued 18 arrest warrants Thursday for Italians and Tunisians accused of operating a migrant-trafficking route on high-speed boats between Tunisia's coast and Sicilian ports.
The suspects are alleged to have demanded payment of 3,000-5,000 euros ($3,100-$5,200) in cash per person, packed the boats with 10 to 30 passengers at a time, and pocketed 30,000-70,000 euros for each four-hour journey, police said in a statement.
The investigation was launched in February 2019 after a fisherman in Sicily's port of Gela noticed a 10-meter glass fiber boat with two 200-horsepower motors. Investigators discovered the boat had been stolen 10 days previously in Catania, Sicily.
Arrest warrants were issued for 11 Tunisians and seven Italians. They face charges of illegal cross-border trafficking of more than five people, with the aggravating circumstance of inhuman treatment and endangering the lives of migrants and committing crimes for profit.
A Tunisian couple already jailed on a people-trafficking conviction were identified as the presumed masterminds of the scheme.
Two Tunisians based in Sicily were accused of having managed the money, while five Italians allegedly organized housing for the migrants and transfer of the traffickers to and from ports.
The warrants also target four other alleged traffickers, one Italian and three Tunisians, and four Tunisians who made connections with the migrants in northern Africa.
Also sought is the owner of a small farm with a private airfield that allegedly functioned as a base for the operation. The farmer was accused of providing employment documents for some of the Tunisian operatives to legitimize their presence in Italy.
While the new Italian government has cracked down on humanitarian rescue ships that pick up migrants departing Libya in the central Mediterranean Sea, the majority of migrants arriving in Italy travel along routes from Tunisia.
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ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. (AP) — The hulking grandstand at the shuttered Arlington International Racecourse casts an eerie shadow as the sun sets on a weekday evening. It sits dormant on a tract of land that could be transformed in a major way.
With the galloping horses long gone, the Chicago Bears see 326 acres of opportunity. The Buffalo Bills also are making plans for a new home. Same for the Tennessee Titans and baseball's Kansas City Royals. Major League Soccer's Inter Miami is working on its new place, and on and on it goes.
When it comes to construction for sports, today’s economic uncertainty is nothing compared to the lucrative promise of tomorrow. Interest rates, inflation and supply chain issues factor into the plans, according to construction and financing experts, but they haven’t been standing in the way.
“The best time to build is now, not two years from now,” said Dan Wacker, director of pre-construction for Mortenson’s sports and entertainment division, which counts Minneapolis’ U.S. Bank Stadium and Las Vegas’ Allegiant Stadium among its recent major projects. “If you can make that happen.”
The key to any development is understanding what the market can bear when it comes to spending, which already factors in inflation — "a manageable risk factor,” according to Scott Zolke, a lawyer with an extensive sports background who represents the Bills in stadium talks.
“One of the things that we exhausted in our analysis of Buffalo was ‘What if?’” he said.
“What about inflation? What if we go into a recession? What if ... the supply chain is completely flipped upside down?” Zolke added. “You look at the best, worst, middle-case scenarios, do your comparisons ... and then you say, is it worth it?”
Teams continue to say yes during what looks like an imposing time for massive construction projects. Even amid a tentative easing of inflation in October, the Federal Reserve likely will continue raising interest rates to cool the economy.
While teams are taking the current economic climate into consideration, it hasn’t been a deal breaker.
“I have not yet seen decisions change on whether to do a project or not do a project because of the cost,” said Bill Mulvihill, managing director and head of the Sports Finance Group at U.S. Bank, which helped finance the Los Angeles Rams’ SoFi Stadium. “It’s just more changing how are we going to fund this, how much is it going to cost rather than changing are we going to do this or not?”
The Bears want to turn the Arlington Heights site, once a jewel of thoroughbred racing, into a different kind of gem, anchored by an enclosed stadium and bursting with year-round activity — assuming a deal with Churchill Downs Inc. to buy the land goes through.
They envision restaurants, retail and more on the plot of land some 30 miles northwest of their longtime home at Soldier Field — all for about $5 billion, with some taxpayer help.
They’re not the only team with their eyes on new digs. The Bills are finalizing a deal with state and county governments to build a $1.4 billion stadium, and the Titans recently lined up the last financing for an estimated $2.1 billion domed home.
In Buffalo, it took years of prodding, fears of relocation, numerous studies, a change in ownership and delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic to finally reach the conclusion the Bills needed a new facility to replace the stadium they’ve called home since 1973.
For the most part, when it comes to new stadiums and ballparks, owners are playing the long game, knowing they figure to profit even if prices are a bit haywire at the moment.
The costs of materials have surged 35.7% since January 2020, according to the National Association of Homebuilders. Concrete went from a 30-year low in 2009 to the largest jump and highest price this year since 1989.
The supply chain issues have led to a juggling act when it comes to choosing materials. When steel has been in short supply, for example, there’s been a run on concrete. That in turn has led to supply-and-demand issues there, said Logan Gerken, vice president and general manager of Mortenson's sports and entertainment division.
If teams are scaling back on design, they’re doing so in ways fans probably wouldn’t notice — like fewer TVs in suites, Mulvihill said. But when it comes to big-ticket items? They’re not sacrificing a retractable roof for a fixed roof or no roof at all just to save money.
“If they thought a year ago they needed a retractable roof, I think they’re going to build with a retractable roof and just take the cost increases and figure out how to fund them," Mulvihill said.
Though the framework of the Bills’ deal calls for what in March was an NFL-record $850 million taxpayer price tag (and likely to be topped by the Titans proposal), government funding can be tough to secure.
Take what’s happened in Oakland, where baseball’s Athletics could leave without a new stadium. The city, which secured $321.5 million in grant money toward a $12 billion stadium and waterfront project, was scrambling for more to help cover potential infrastructure cost overruns and keep the team in town.
The Bears plan to pay for their stadium, but want taxpayer dollars to cover infrastructure costs such as roads and sewers to develop the site.
There are differences to take into account when developing in large markets, versus smaller ones. While the development around Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium and what the Bears envision at Arlington Heights will bring in additional revenue, Buffalo’s small population base and drawing power for visitors played a major factor in the Bills’ projections and a larger reliance on public funding.
“It’s not apples to apples. It’s a completely different metric,” said Zolke, who also worked with Rams owner Stan Kroenke on the SoFi development following the team’s move from St. Louis.
“It made no sense for (Kroenke) to privately fund a project in St. Louis,” he said. “It made 100% sense to say, 'I’ll fund this thing (in L.A.), just give me some infrastructure.’”
In Nashville, the public funding commitment can be larger because the region can bank on recouping the money by creating yet another attraction to lure even more visitors to Music City, including the potential of hosting a Super Bowl.
That’s not the case in Buffalo, despite the draw of nearby Niagara Falls and being home of the chicken wing.
Top of mind when it comes to any development project, Zolke said, is teams being comfortable with the return on investment over the long-term, which to a degree de-emphasizes the impact of inflation.
“This is a long-term investment. You’re not going to cash in in five years,” Zolke said. “You’re not flipping a house.”
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ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. (AP) — The hulking grandstand at the shuttered Arlington International Racecourse casts an eerie shadow as the sun sets on a weekday evening. It sits dormant on a tract of land that could be transformed in a major way.
With the galloping horses long gone, the Chicago Bears see 326 acres of opportunity. The Buffalo Bills also are making plans for a new home. Same for the Tennessee Titans and baseball's Kansas City Royals. Major League Soccer's Inter Miami is working on its new place, and on and on it goes.
When it comes to construction for sports, today’s economic uncertainty is nothing compared to the lucrative promise of tomorrow. Interest rates, inflation and supply chain issues factor into the plans, according to construction and financing experts, but they haven’t been standing in the way.
“The best time to build is now, not two years from now,” said Dan Wacker, director of pre-construction for Mortenson’s sports and entertainment division, which counts Minneapolis’ U.S. Bank Stadium and Las Vegas’ Allegiant Stadium among its recent major projects. “If you can make that happen.”
The key to any development is understanding what the market can bear when it comes to spending, which already factors in inflation — "a manageable risk factor,” according to Scott Zolke, a lawyer with an extensive sports background who represents the Bills in stadium talks.
“One of the things that we exhausted in our analysis of Buffalo was ‘What if?’” he said.
“What about inflation? What if we go into a recession? What if ... the supply chain is completely flipped upside down?” Zolke added. “You look at the best, worst, middle-case scenarios, do your comparisons ... and then you say, is it worth it?”
Teams continue to say yes during what looks like an imposing time for massive construction projects. Even amid a tentative easing of inflation in October, the Federal Reserve likely will continue raising interest rates to cool the economy.
While teams are taking the current economic climate into consideration, it hasn’t been a deal breaker.
“I have not yet seen decisions change on whether to do a project or not do a project because of the cost,” said Bill Mulvihill, managing director and head of the Sports Finance Group at U.S. Bank, which helped finance the Los Angeles Rams’ SoFi Stadium. “It’s just more changing how are we going to fund this, how much is it going to cost rather than changing are we going to do this or not?”
The Bears want to turn the Arlington Heights site, once a jewel of thoroughbred racing, into a different kind of gem, anchored by an enclosed stadium and bursting with year-round activity — assuming a deal with Churchill Downs Inc. to buy the land goes through.
They envision restaurants, retail and more on the plot of land some 30 miles northwest of their longtime home at Soldier Field — all for about $5 billion, with some taxpayer help.
They’re not the only team with their eyes on new digs. The Bills are finalizing a deal with state and county governments to build a $1.4 billion stadium, and the Titans recently lined up the last financing for an estimated $2.1 billion domed home.
In Buffalo, it took years of prodding, fears of relocation, numerous studies, a change in ownership and delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic to finally reach the conclusion the Bills needed a new facility to replace the stadium they’ve called home since 1973.
For the most part, when it comes to new stadiums and ballparks, owners are playing the long game, knowing they figure to profit even if prices are a bit haywire at the moment.
The costs of materials have surged 35.7% since January 2020, according to the National Association of Homebuilders. Concrete went from a 30-year low in 2009 to the largest jump and highest price this year since 1989.
The supply chain issues have led to a juggling act when it comes to choosing materials. When steel has been in short supply, for example, there’s been a run on concrete. That in turn has led to supply-and-demand issues there, said Logan Gerken, vice president and general manager of Mortenson's sports and entertainment division.
If teams are scaling back on design, they’re doing so in ways fans probably wouldn’t notice — like fewer TVs in suites, Mulvihill said. But when it comes to big-ticket items? They’re not sacrificing a retractable roof for a fixed roof or no roof at all just to save money.
“If they thought a year ago they needed a retractable roof, I think they’re going to build with a retractable roof and just take the cost increases and figure out how to fund them," Mulvihill said.
Though the framework of the Bills’ deal calls for what in March was an NFL-record $850 million taxpayer price tag (and likely to be topped by the Titans proposal), government funding can be tough to secure.
Take what’s happened in Oakland, where baseball’s Athletics could leave without a new stadium. The city, which secured $321.5 million in grant money toward a $12 billion stadium and waterfront project, was scrambling for more to help cover potential infrastructure cost overruns and keep the team in town.
The Bears plan to pay for their stadium, but want taxpayer dollars to cover infrastructure costs such as roads and sewers to develop the site.
There are differences to take into account when developing in large markets, versus smaller ones. While the development around Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium and what the Bears envision at Arlington Heights will bring in additional revenue, Buffalo’s small population base and drawing power for visitors played a major factor in the Bills’ projections and a larger reliance on public funding.
“It’s not apples to apples. It’s a completely different metric,” said Zolke, who also worked with Rams owner Stan Kroenke on the SoFi development following the team’s move from St. Louis.
“It made no sense for (Kroenke) to privately fund a project in St. Louis,” he said. “It made 100% sense to say, 'I’ll fund this thing (in L.A.), just give me some infrastructure.’”
In Nashville, the public funding commitment can be larger because the region can bank on recouping the money by creating yet another attraction to lure even more visitors to Music City, including the potential of hosting a Super Bowl.
That’s not the case in Buffalo, despite the draw of nearby Niagara Falls and being home of the chicken wing.
Top of mind when it comes to any development project, Zolke said, is teams being comfortable with the return on investment over the long-term, which to a degree de-emphasizes the impact of inflation.
“This is a long-term investment. You’re not going to cash in in five years,” Zolke said. “You’re not flipping a house.”
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Wawrow reported on this story from Buffalo, New York.
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NEW YORK, Nov. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Olo Inc. ("Olo" or the "Company") (NYSE: OLO) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Olo investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud. This lawsuit is on behalf of all persons and entities that purchased shares of Olo's Class A common stock between August 11, 2021 and August 11, 2022. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
https://www.zlk.com/pslra-1/olo-inc-loss-submission-form?prid=33767&wire=4
OLO investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at [email protected] or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed that: (1) Subway was ending its contract with Olo; (2) Olo's key business metric – active locations – could not continue to grow as defendants touted due to the loss of Subway's business; and (3) as a result of the above, defendants' statements about Olo's business, operations, and prospects were false and misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Olo during the relevant time frame, you have until November 28, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
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SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — As international climate talks in the Egyptian desert go into their final days, negotiators are trying to move key countries’ lines in the sand on multiple issues, including compensation for climate disasters, phasing down all fossil fuel use and additional financial help for poor nations.
The final document from the annual U.N. climate gathering, known as COP27, is required to be unanimous. There are at least half a dozen instances where nations are “taking negotiations hostage” by taking hardline, seemingly inflexible stances, said Alden Meyer, a long-time negotiations observer at the think tank E3G.
And poor nations are about to complain publicly about the Egyptian presidency of the gathering and its “inaction” in a press conference early Thursday afternoon.
Spoilers have emerged on multiple fronts, including the U.S., Saudi Arabia and China, resisting reforms called for by developed and developing nations.
On the all-consuming question of providing money to countries hit by climate-related catastrophes — referred to as “loss and damage” in negotiators' parlance — the United States is resisting any suggestion that this should be labeled as compensation, let alone reparations, for decades of greenhouse gas emissions by industrialized nations.
Yet small island nations are talking about killing any deal if they don't get cash for the climate disasters they argue were brought on on by rich polluters.
Another big point of contention is who pays. European countries have backed calls by island nations for a “mosaic” of financial arrangements drawing on public and private sources of money. But there are big differences among negotiators over whether all big emitters should pay; heavy polluters China and India are arguing they should not have to contribute because they are still officially considered developing nations.
The issue of loss and damage is one of three financial aid pots discussed. Rich nations agreed in past conferences to spend $100 billion a year to help poorer countries for developing cleaner energy systems and adapting to prevent future disasters — though they have lagged in giving the funds.
Loss and damage is about paying the cost of climate impacts that are already inevitable, such as extreme weather events and rising sea levels. The 2015 Paris accord stated that the issue “does not involve or provide a basis for any liability or compensation,” but that option remains open under the broader U.N. climate framework that the annual negotiations take place in.
Some insiders say they are worried about not getting any kind of consensus on the issue, but aren't ready to give up hope.
Meanwhile, a “Lula lovefest” continued in Sharm el-Sheikh, as Brazilian President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who in his past term made great strides in fighting deforestation, grabbed more attention during a session about youth activism and participation in government.
On Wednesday, crowds cheered him on, criticizing rich nations and calling for the climate summit to come to the Amazon. His predecessor is often criticized for lack of action on climate change.
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Starbucks workers at more than 100 U.S. stores say they're going on strike Thursday in what would be the largest labor action since a campaign to unionize the company’s stores began late last year.
The walkouts are scheduled to coincide with Starbucks’ annual Red Cup Day, when the company gives free reusable cups to customers who order a holiday drink. Workers say it’s often one of the busiest days of the year. Starbucks declined to say how many red cups it plans to distribute.
Workers say they're seeking better pay, more consistent schedules and higher staffing levels in busy stores. Starbucks opposes the unionization effort, saying the company functions best when it works directly with employees. The Seattle coffee giant has more than 9,000 company-owned stores in the U.S.
Stores in 25 states planned to take part in the labor action, according to Starbucks Workers United, the group organizing the effort. Some workers planned to picket all day while others planned shorter walkouts. The union said the goal is to shut the stores down during the walkouts.
Willow Montana, a shift manager at a Starbucks store in Brighton, Massachusetts, planned to strike because Starbucks hasn’t begun bargaining with the store despite a successful union vote in April.
“If the company won’t bargain in good faith, why should we come to work where we are understaffed, underpaid and overworked?” Montana said.
Others, including Michelle Eisen, a union organizer at one of the first stores to organize in Buffalo, New York, said workers are angry that Starbucks promised higher pay and benefits to non-union stores. Starbucks says it is following the law and can't give union stores pay hikes without bargaining.
At least 257 Starbucks stores have voted to unionize since late last year, according to the National Labor Relations Board. Fifty-seven stores have held votes where workers opted not to unionize.
Starbucks and the union have begun contract talks at 53 stores, with 13 additional sessions scheduled, Starbucks Workers United said. No agreements have been reached so far.
The process has been contentious. Earlier this week, a regional director with the NLRB filed a request for an injunction against Starbucks in federal court, saying the company violated labor law when it fired a union organizer in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The regional director asked the court to direct Starbucks to reinstate the employee and stop interfering in the unionization campaign nationwide.
It was the fourth time the NLRB has asked a federal court to intervene. In August, a federal judge ruled that Starbucks had to reinstate seven union organizers who were fired in Memphis, Tennessee. A similar case in Buffalo has yet to be decided, while a federal judge ruled against the NLRB in a case in Phoenix.
Meanwhile, Starbucks has asked the NLRB to temporarily suspend all union elections at its U.S. stores, citing allegations from a board employee that regional officials improperly coordinated with union organizers. A decision in that case is pending. | https://www.theheraldreview.com/news/article/Starbucks-workers-plan-strikes-at-more-than-100-17591421.php | 2022-11-17T11:41:11 | en | 0.958446 |
Starbucks workers at more than 100 U.S. stores say they're going on strike Thursday in what would be the largest labor action since a campaign to unionize the company’s stores began late last year.
The walkouts are scheduled to coincide with Starbucks’ annual Red Cup Day, when the company gives free reusable cups to customers who order a holiday drink. Workers say it’s often one of the busiest days of the year. Starbucks declined to say how many red cups it plans to distribute.
Workers say they're seeking better pay, more consistent schedules and higher staffing levels in busy stores. Starbucks opposes the unionization effort, saying the company functions best when it works directly with employees. The Seattle coffee giant has more than 9,000 company-owned stores in the U.S.
Stores in 25 states planned to take part in the labor action, according to Starbucks Workers United, the group organizing the effort. Some workers planned to picket all day while others planned shorter walkouts. The union said the goal is to shut the stores down during the walkouts.
Willow Montana, a shift manager at a Starbucks store in Brighton, Massachusetts, planned to strike because Starbucks hasn’t begun bargaining with the store despite a successful union vote in April.
“If the company won’t bargain in good faith, why should we come to work where we are understaffed, underpaid and overworked?” Montana said.
Others, including Michelle Eisen, a union organizer at one of the first stores to organize in Buffalo, New York, said workers are angry that Starbucks promised higher pay and benefits to non-union stores. Starbucks says it is following the law and can't give union stores pay hikes without bargaining.
At least 257 Starbucks stores have voted to unionize since late last year, according to the National Labor Relations Board. Fifty-seven stores have held votes where workers opted not to unionize.
Starbucks and the union have begun contract talks at 53 stores, with 13 additional sessions scheduled, Starbucks Workers United said. No agreements have been reached so far.
The process has been contentious. Earlier this week, a regional director with the NLRB filed a request for an injunction against Starbucks in federal court, saying the company violated labor law when it fired a union organizer in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The regional director asked the court to direct Starbucks to reinstate the employee and stop interfering in the unionization campaign nationwide.
It was the fourth time the NLRB has asked a federal court to intervene. In August, a federal judge ruled that Starbucks had to reinstate seven union organizers who were fired in Memphis, Tennessee. A similar case in Buffalo has yet to be decided, while a federal judge ruled against the NLRB in a case in Phoenix.
Meanwhile, Starbucks has asked the NLRB to temporarily suspend all union elections at its U.S. stores, citing allegations from a board employee that regional officials improperly coordinated with union organizers. A decision in that case is pending. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Starbucks-workers-plan-strikes-at-more-than-100-17591421.php | 2022-11-17T11:41:13 | en | 0.958446 |
Omdia: LTPO-AMOLED to dominate growth in sluggish smartphone display market
LONDON, Nov. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Omdia's latest Smartphone display market tracker indicates that LTPO-AMOLED for smartphones will grow by 94% year-on-year (YoY) by the end of 2022 and will maintain growth levels of 25% YoY in 2023 in sluggish smartphone display market.
In 2022, Smartphone display demand is decreasing to 1,425 million that fall by 18% YoY due to the reaction to the excessive procurement of display in 2021 in anticipation of a post-COVID-19 market recovery, and the cooling of consumption in global inflation.
In the smartphone display market, Low-Temperature-Polycrystalline-Oxide AMOLED with Flexible substrate (LTPO-AMOLED (Flexible) is expected significantly increase to 148 million, grow 94% YoY in 2022 while total (Rigid & Flexible substrate) Low-Temperature-Polycrystalline-Silicon (LTPS) AMOLED to decline to 440 million (down 19% YoY) and total TFT LCD to decline 836 million (down 26% YoY).
According to Hiroshi Hayase, Research Manager in Omdia's Display research practice, "Strong demand for the iPhone14 Pro-series, which uses low-power consumption LTPO-AMOLED and offers added value of longer battery life and Always-On-Display, contribute to the significant growth of LTPO-AMOLED shipments."
The growth in shipments of LTPO-AMOLED, which is highly difficult for mass-production technology, has slightly widened the gap between technical-leading Korean makers and chasing Chinese makers. In terms of overall smartphone display revenue in 2021 and 2022, Samsung ranked first, BOE second, and LG Display third. The revenue share of total Korean makers is expected to increase from 58% in 2021 to 64% in 2022, while the share of total Chinese makers is expected to widen from 33% in 2021 to 29% in 2022.
The smartphone display market is expected to increase slightly to 1,462 million (grow 3% YoY) in 2023. Total TFT LCD shipment levels at 816 million (down 2% YoY) and total LTPS-AMOLED is expected to increase to 460 million (grow 4% YoY), while only LTPO-AMOLED is expected to enjoy shipment growth of 186 million and 25% growth YoY.
"Because of the tough economic situation, consumers are choosing high-value products carefully. The value of low-power consumption by LTPO-AMOLED brings to smartphones will continue to drive demand in the smartphone display market across 2023" concludes Hiroshi Hayase.
Omdia, part of Informa Tech, is a technology research and advisory group. Our deep knowledge of tech markets combined with our actionable insights empower organizations to make smart growth decisions. Fasiha Khan / T: +44 7503 666806 / E: [email protected] / W: www.omdia.com
SOURCE Omdia | https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/omdia-ltpo-amoled-to-dominate-growth-in-sluggish-smartphone-display-market-301681322.html | 2022-11-17T11:41:14 | en | 0.899104 |
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SCHIPHOL, Netherlands (AP) — A Dutch court is passing judgment Thursday on three Russians and a Ukrainian charged in the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over Ukraine and the deaths of all 298 passengers and crew on board.
The verdict comes more than eight years after the Boeing 777 flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was blown out of the sky on July 17, 2014, amid a conflict between pro-Russia rebels and Ukrainian forces, scattering wreckage and bodies over farmland and fields of sunflowers.
None of the suspects appeared for the trial that began in March 2020 and if they are convicted, it's unlikely they will serve any sentence anytime soon. Prosecutors have sought life sentences for all four. Prosecutors and the suspects have two weeks to file an appeal.
The Hague District Court, sitting at a high-security courtroom at Schiphol Airport, is passing judgment against a backdrop of global geopolitical upheaval caused by Russia's full-blown invasion of Ukraine in February and the nearly nine-month war it triggered.
Hundreds of family members of people killed traveled to the court to hear the verdict, bringing them back to the airport their loved ones left on the fateful day MH17 was shot down.
Dutch prosecutors say the missile launcher came from the 53rd Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade, a unit of the Russian armed forces based in the Russian city of Kursk and was driven back there after MH17 was shot down.
The suspects aren't accused of firing the missile but of working together to get it to the field where it was fired. They are accused of bringing down the plane and the murder of all those on board.
The most senior defendant is Igor Girkin, a 51-year-old former colonel in Russia's Federal Security Service, or FSB. At the time of the downing, he was defense minister and commander of the armed forces of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic — the region where the plane was shot down. Girkin reportedly is currently involved in Russia’s war on Ukraine.
Also on trial are Girkin's subordinates, Sergey Dubinskiy, Oleg Pulatov, and Leonid Kharchenko, a Ukrainian who prosecutors say was commander of a pro-Russia rebel combat unit and took orders directly from Dubinskiy.
Pulatov is the only one of the suspects who was represented by defense lawyers at the trial. They accused prosecutors of “tunnel vision” in basing their case on the findings of an international investigation into the downing while ignoring other possible causes.
Pulatov’s defense team also sought to discredit evidence and argued he didn’t get a fair trial.
In a video recording played in court, Pulatov insisted he was innocent and told judges: “What matters to me is that the truth is revealed. It’s important for me that my country is not blamed for this tragedy.” | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/MH17-judgment-day-Verdicts-due-against-4-17591436.php | 2022-11-17T11:41:16 | en | 0.973095 |
LONDON (AP) — The British government has blocked a Chinese-owned company’s takeover of a Wales-based microchip maker, calling it a risk to national security.
Nexperia, a Netherlands-based firm owned by China’s Wingtech, announced last year that it had acquired a 100% stake in Newport Wafer Fab, one of Britain’s biggest semiconductor manufacturers.
The government said late Wednesday that Business Secretary Grant Shapps issued an order “requiring Nexperia to sell at least 86% of Newport Wafer Fab to prevent against potential national security risks.”
Shapps said development of the Newport site by Nexperia could “undermine U.K. capabilities” in the sector.
Nexperia said it was “shocked” by the decision.
“The decision is wrong, and we will appeal to overturn this divestment order to protect the over 500 jobs at Newport,” the firm’s U.K. country manager, Toni Versluijs, said. “This decision sends a clear signal that the U.K. is closed for business.”
Britain has grappled with balancing the importance of economic ties with China and concerns about Beijing’s growing global clout and assertiveness.
The head of Britain’s MI5 intelligence agency, Ken McCallum, on Wednesday highlighted the “scale and breadth of (China’s) information acquisition, using not only intelligence officers and cyberhackers but businesspeople and researchers to steal government and commercial information alike.”
At a Group of 20 summit in Indonesia this week, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said China was “the biggest state-based threat to our economic security,” though he has also stressed the importance of ties with Beijing.
The China Research Group of U.K. Conservative lawmakers, which argues against closer ties with China, welcomed the government’s decision.
“Our long-term security relies on the resilience of our economy and that means ensuring we don’t allow strategic assets to fall into the hands of authoritarian powers for the sake of short-term advancement,” it said in a statement. | https://www.theheraldreview.com/news/article/UK-blocks-chipmaker-s-sale-to-Chinese-firm-17591458.php | 2022-11-17T11:41:17 | en | 0.951481 |
LONDON (AP) — The British government has blocked a Chinese-owned company’s takeover of a Wales-based microchip maker, calling it a risk to national security.
Nexperia, a Netherlands-based firm owned by China’s Wingtech, announced last year that it had acquired a 100% stake in Newport Wafer Fab, one of Britain’s biggest semiconductor manufacturers.
The government said late Wednesday that Business Secretary Grant Shapps issued an order “requiring Nexperia to sell at least 86% of Newport Wafer Fab to prevent against potential national security risks.”
Shapps said development of the Newport site by Nexperia could “undermine U.K. capabilities” in the sector.
Nexperia said it was “shocked” by the decision.
“The decision is wrong, and we will appeal to overturn this divestment order to protect the over 500 jobs at Newport,” the firm’s U.K. country manager, Toni Versluijs, said. “This decision sends a clear signal that the U.K. is closed for business.”
Britain has grappled with balancing the importance of economic ties with China and concerns about Beijing’s growing global clout and assertiveness.
The head of Britain’s MI5 intelligence agency, Ken McCallum, on Wednesday highlighted the “scale and breadth of (China’s) information acquisition, using not only intelligence officers and cyberhackers but businesspeople and researchers to steal government and commercial information alike.”
At a Group of 20 summit in Indonesia this week, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said China was “the biggest state-based threat to our economic security,” though he has also stressed the importance of ties with Beijing.
The China Research Group of U.K. Conservative lawmakers, which argues against closer ties with China, welcomed the government’s decision.
“Our long-term security relies on the resilience of our economy and that means ensuring we don’t allow strategic assets to fall into the hands of authoritarian powers for the sake of short-term advancement,” it said in a statement. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/UK-blocks-chipmaker-s-sale-to-Chinese-firm-17591458.php | 2022-11-17T11:41:19 | en | 0.951481 |
Omdia: LTPO-AMOLED to dominate growth in sluggish smartphone display market
LONDON, Nov. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Omdia's latest Smartphone display market tracker indicates that LTPO-AMOLED for smartphones will grow by 94% year-on-year (YoY) by the end of 2022 and will maintain growth levels of 25% YoY in 2023 in sluggish smartphone display market.
In 2022, Smartphone display demand is decreasing to 1,425 million that fall by 18% YoY due to the reaction to the excessive procurement of display in 2021 in anticipation of a post-COVID-19 market recovery, and the cooling of consumption in global inflation .
In the smartphone display market, Low-Temperature-Polycrystalline-Oxide AMOLED with Flexible substrate (LTPO-AMOLED (Flexible) is expected significantly increase to 148 million, grow 94% YoY in 2022 while total (Rigid & Flexible substrate) Low-Temperature-Polycrystalline-Silicon (LTPS) AMOLED to decline to 440 million (down 19% YoY) and total TFT LCD to decline 836 million (down 26% YoY).
According to Hiroshi Hayase, Research Manager in Omdia's Display research practice, "Strong demand for the iPhone14 Pro-series, which uses low-power consumption LTPO-AMOLED and offers added value of longer battery life and Always-On-Display, contribute to the significant growth of LTPO-AMOLED shipments."
The growth in shipments of LTPO-AMOLED, which is highly difficult for mass-production technology, has slightly widened the gap between technical-leading Korean makers and chasing Chinese makers. In terms of overall smartphone display revenue in 2021 and 2022, Samsung ranked first, BOE second, and LG Display third. The revenue share of total Korean makers is expected to increase from 58% in 2021 to 64% in 2022, while the share of total Chinese makers is expected to widen from 33% in 2021 to 29% in 2022.
The smartphone display market is expected to increase slightly to 1,462 million (grow 3% YoY) in 2023. Total TFT LCD shipment levels at 816 million (down 2% YoY) and total LTPS-AMOLED is expected to increase to 460 million (grow 4% YoY), while only LTPO-AMOLED is expected to enjoy shipment growth of 186 million and 25% growth YoY.
"Because of the tough economic situation, consumers are choosing high-value products carefully. The value of low-power consumption by LTPO-AMOLED brings to smartphones will continue to drive demand in the smartphone display market across 2023" concludes Hiroshi Hayase.
Omdia, part of Informa Tech, is a technology research and advisory group. Our deep knowledge of tech markets combined with our actionable insights empower organizations to make smart growth decisions. Fasiha Khan / T: +44 7503 666806 / E: [email protected] / W: www.omdia.com
SOURCE Omdia | https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/omdia-ltpo-amoled-to-dominate-growth-in-sluggish-smartphone-display-market-301681344.html | 2022-11-17T11:41:20 | en | 0.898504 |
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From the owner’s suite to the front office to the sideline, the number of women in the NFL is steadily rising. And, they’re here to stay.
Kalen Jackson was born into football, one of three daughters for Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay. She got her introduction to the sport attending community events. Now, she has a seat at the table for owners’ meetings.
Sam Rapoport fell in love with football the first time she held a ball and threw a spiral as a 12-year-old growing up in Canada. Rapoport ended up becoming a professional quarterback in a women’s tackle football league and has spent two decades working to expand career opportunities for women in the sport.
Ashton Washington was surrounded by football as a kid in Texas, but she says she preferred playing with Barbie dolls. By high school, Washington wanted a career in football. Last year, the Chicago Bears hired her as the first full-time female scout in team history.
Katie Sylvan grew up in San Diego rooting for the Chargers. She was determined to find a job in football and applied for the NFL’s junior rotational program while in college. After nine years working for the league, Sylvan was hired by the Chargers to be the team’s director of football administration.
The overall percentage of women in the NFL’s league office is at an all-time high of 41.3% in 2022 with 319 females holding various positions. The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport said in its 2022 racial and gender report card that the league office “has been a model of diversity and inclusion for their clubs to follow.”
“To see so many things changing that weren’t this way when I was little is super exciting,” Jackson, the Colts vice chair/owner, said on the AP Pro Football Podcast last month. “Being from a family of three girls and always being told you belong here and your opinion about this matters, we definitely had a blessing to have a very passionate girl dad, as they say.”
Rapoport, the NFL’s senior director of diversity, equity and inclusion, is determined to continue opening doors for women in the league.
“I was somewhat relentless with the idea that I was put on this planet to work in football in some way,” said Rapoport,
Rapoport runs the NFL’s Women’s Forum, an annual event that connects participants working in college football with owners, general managers, head coaches and club executives. More than 225 female coaching, scouting and operations candidates have been hired since the forum started in 2017.
“We just put women in a position to impress people,” Rapoport said. “Half our fan base are women. Why aren’t they working in it? We’re working toward that.”
In June, the Cleveland Browns named Catherine Raiche assistant general manager and vice president of football operations, making her the highest-ranking female executive in the NFL. A month later, Sandra Douglass Morgan became the first Black female president of an NFL team when the Las Vegas Raiders hired her.
Kelly Klein is the executive director of football operations for the Denver Broncos. Andrea Gosper is the Buffalo Bills player personnel coordinator.
Washington first joined the Bears as an intern in 2021 after working in recruiting at the University of Illinois. She was promoted to scout — there are 33 female scouts in the NFL — later that summer. In May, she became the Bears player personnel coordinator, pro scouting.
“I feel like it’s a lot of pressure on me and other females across the league because you want to set the bar and you also want to exceed your personal expectations,” Washington said.
There are six women who are full-time coaches in the NFL, including Tampa Bay Buccaneers assistant defensive line coach Lori Locust and director of rehabilitation/performance coach Maral Javadifar. Washington Commanders assistant running backs coach Jennifer King, New York Giants offensive quality control coach Angela Baker, Cleveland Browns chief of staff/assistant wide receivers coach Callie Brownson and Philadelphia Eagles sports performance coach Autumn Lockwood are the others.
In 2020, Locust and Javadifar became the first female coaches on a team to win the Super Bowl. Sarah Thomas also made history in that game as the first woman to officiate a Super Bowl, working as the down judge.
“It was time for that door to be knocked down and allow them because they’ve been putting in time, and they’re very, very qualified,” former Bucs coach Bruce Arians said about hiring Locust and Javadifar.
There are 21 women currently working as athletic trainers in the NFL, including Allison Miner of the Chargers.
“The biggest challenge was just opportunity,” said Miner, who was one of only three women in her position when she was hired in 2015.
Another obstacle for Miner early in her career was finding a locker room to change. She would use a public bathroom in the stadium. The NFL now requires space for women at each stadium.
“It’s exciting to see the female faces,” Miner said. “There’s going to be a day where it’s not a big deal.”
For Sylvan, it’s important for women to know there are various jobs for them in the NFL. She has embraced her role working on roster management, the salary cap and player contracts.
“It’s great to see more women in these roles,” Sylvan said. “There have been women in these roles before me and there will definitely be women in these roles after me. I think that’s really the most important thing is that people understand that these opportunities exist and are out there if it’s something they’re interested in doing and pursuing.”
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Official-looking flyers have circulated on social media describing cultural expectations for fans attending the World Cup in Qatar. Some include rules for women’s attire: Shoulders and knees must be covered.
Problem is, it’s bogus.
While the local organizing committee suggests that fans “respect the culture,” no one will be detained or barred from games in Qatar because of clothing choices. But persistent rumors swirling around appropriate garb and modesty at soccer’s biggest tournament have also drawn attention to the country’s record on equality.
Rothna Begum, a senior researcher at Human Rights Watch, has studied Qatar’s male guardianship rules and women's rights in the conservative country.
“There isn’t anyone is going to go around arresting you for this because there isn’t an official dress code," Begum said. "There isn’t a compulsory dress code and you can't get sanctioned for it. It’s just a social restriction, a social tradition.”
The local organizing committee includes a section on cultural awareness in its fan guide.
“People can generally wear their clothing of choice. Shoulders and knees should be covered when visiting public places like museums and other government buildings,” it said.
The phrase “public places” is up to interpretation.
The American Outlaws, the U.S. national team's supporters' group, produced its own fan guide.
“Fans can wear shorts and short sleeve shirts, and women are not required to cover their heads or faces. However, there are many buildings that require both men and women to cover their shoulders and knees before entering, including museums, shopping centers, and some restaurants," the guide says. "We recommend that fans carry some pants and/or a top with sleeves if they plan on entering any buildings, as they may be asked to put them on.
“In the stadiums, men and women will be required to wear tops. People will not be permitted to go shirtless during matches or in public settings."
The first World Cup in the Middle East comes at a time when there is international attention on the treatment of women in Iran. The nation, which sits across the Persian Gulf from Qatar, has been rocked by anti-hijab protests following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who died while being held by morality police for allegedly violating the country’s compulsory dress code for women. Activists have called for Iran to be expelled from the World Cup.
With Islam encouraging female modesty, most Qatari women wear headscarves and a loose cloak known as the abaya.
Begum, who wrote about Qatar and its treatment of women in a 2021 report for Human Rights Watch, said that while women have made progress in Qatar, they still face discrimination in almost every facet of their lives. Women must get permission from male guardians to marry, pursue higher education and work at certain jobs. Guardians can bar women under 25 from traveling abroad.
It's a conservative culture that has little tolerance for dissent among its own citizens, she said.
“There are no independent women’s rights organizations and that’s partly because the authorities have laws that make it difficult for you to set up associations that are in any way deemed political. You are not allowed," Begum said. “Women find it difficult to express or demand their rights offline or even online."
That's one of the reasons critics are questioning FIFA for awarding of the 2022 World Cup to Qatar. Observers certainly noticed when retired American soccer star Carli Lloyd wore a long, high-collared dress with long sleeves for the World Cup draw earlier this year.
A letter recently circulated among teams from FIFA president Gianni Infantino and secretary general Fatma Samoura asked nations not to bring political or ideological issues into the tournament.
“Please," they wrote, "let’s now focus on the football.”
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AP World Cup coverage: https://apnews.com/hub/world-cup and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | https://www.theheraldreview.com/news/article/World-Cup-draws-attention-to-equal-rights-17591437.php | 2022-11-17T11:41:23 | en | 0.96901 |
- Annual HICP in the Euro area climbed to 10.6% in October.
- EURUSD continues to trade in negative territory below 1.0400.
Annual inflation in the Euro area, as measured by the Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP), rose to 10.6% (final) in October from 9.9% in September. This reading came in slightly below the flash estimate and the market expectation of 10.7%.
The Core HICP, which excludes volatile food, energy, alcohol and tobacco prices, stood at 5% on a yearly basis in October, matching the initial estimate.
Market reaction
These figures don't seem to be having a noticeable impact on the Euro's (EUR) performance against its major rivals. As of writing, EURUSD was down 0.27% on the day at 1.0365.
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Official-looking flyers have circulated on social media describing cultural expectations for fans attending the World Cup in Qatar. Some include rules for women’s attire: Shoulders and knees must be covered.
Problem is, it’s bogus.
While the local organizing committee suggests that fans “respect the culture,” no one will be detained or barred from games in Qatar because of clothing choices. But persistent rumors swirling around appropriate garb and modesty at soccer’s biggest tournament have also drawn attention to the country’s record on equality.
Rothna Begum, a senior researcher at Human Rights Watch, has studied Qatar’s male guardianship rules and women's rights in the conservative country.
“There isn’t anyone is going to go around arresting you for this because there isn’t an official dress code," Begum said. "There isn’t a compulsory dress code and you can't get sanctioned for it. It’s just a social restriction, a social tradition.”
The local organizing committee includes a section on cultural awareness in its fan guide.
“People can generally wear their clothing of choice. Shoulders and knees should be covered when visiting public places like museums and other government buildings,” it said.
The phrase “public places” is up to interpretation.
The American Outlaws, the U.S. national team's supporters' group, produced its own fan guide.
“Fans can wear shorts and short sleeve shirts, and women are not required to cover their heads or faces. However, there are many buildings that require both men and women to cover their shoulders and knees before entering, including museums, shopping centers, and some restaurants," the guide says. "We recommend that fans carry some pants and/or a top with sleeves if they plan on entering any buildings, as they may be asked to put them on.
“In the stadiums, men and women will be required to wear tops. People will not be permitted to go shirtless during matches or in public settings."
The first World Cup in the Middle East comes at a time when there is international attention on the treatment of women in Iran. The nation, which sits across the Persian Gulf from Qatar, has been rocked by anti-hijab protests following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who died while being held by morality police for allegedly violating the country’s compulsory dress code for women. Activists have called for Iran to be expelled from the World Cup.
With Islam encouraging female modesty, most Qatari women wear headscarves and a loose cloak known as the abaya.
Begum, who wrote about Qatar and its treatment of women in a 2021 report for Human Rights Watch, said that while women have made progress in Qatar, they still face discrimination in almost every facet of their lives. Women must get permission from male guardians to marry, pursue higher education and work at certain jobs. Guardians can bar women under 25 from traveling abroad.
It's a conservative culture that has little tolerance for dissent among its own citizens, she said.
“There are no independent women’s rights organizations and that’s partly because the authorities have laws that make it difficult for you to set up associations that are in any way deemed political. You are not allowed," Begum said. “Women find it difficult to express or demand their rights offline or even online."
That's one of the reasons critics are questioning FIFA for awarding of the 2022 World Cup to Qatar. Observers certainly noticed when retired American soccer star Carli Lloyd wore a long, high-collared dress with long sleeves for the World Cup draw earlier this year.
A letter recently circulated among teams from FIFA president Gianni Infantino and secretary general Fatma Samoura asked nations not to bring political or ideological issues into the tournament.
“Please," they wrote, "let’s now focus on the football.”
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AP World Cup coverage: https://apnews.com/hub/world-cup and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/World-Cup-draws-attention-to-equal-rights-17591437.php | 2022-11-17T11:41:26 | en | 0.968474 |
NEW YORK, Nov. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Opendoor Technologies Incorporated ("Opendoor" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: OPEN) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Opendoor investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud. This lawsuit is on behalf of a class consisting of all persons and entities other than defendants that purchased or otherwise acquired: (a) Opendoor securities between December 21, 2020 and September 16, 2022, both dates inclusive and/or (b) Opendoor common stock pursuant and/or traceable to documents issued in connection with the business combination between the Company and Opendoor Labs Inc. completed on or about December 18, 2020. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
https://www.zlk.com/pslra-1/opendoor-technologies-loss-submission-form?prid=33770&wire=4
OPEN investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at [email protected] or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed that: (i) the algorithm used by the Company to make offers for homes could not accurately adjust to changing house prices across different market conditions and economic cycles; (ii) as a result, the Company was at an increased risk of sustaining significant and repeated losses due to residential real estate pricing fluctuations; (iii) accordingly, defendants overstated the purported benefits and competitive advantages of the algorithm; (iv) as a result, documents issued in connection with the merger between the Company and Opendoor Labs Inc. and defendants' public statements throughout the class period were materially false and/or misleading and failed to state information required to be stated therein.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Opendoor during the relevant time frame, you have until December 6, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
WHY LEVI & KORSINSKY: Over the past 20 years, the team at Levi & Korsinsky has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for aggrieved shareholders and built a track record of winning high-stakes cases. Our firm has extensive expertise representing investors in complex securities litigation and a team of over 70 employees to serve our clients. For seven years in a row, Levi & Korsinsky has ranked in ISS Securities Class Action Services' Top 50 Report as one of the top securities litigation firms in the United States.
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SOURCE Levi & Korsinsky, LLP | https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/open-lawsuit-alert-levi--korsinsky-notifies-opendoor-technologies-incorporated-investors-of-a-class-action-lawsuit-and-upcoming-deadline-301680936.html | 2022-11-17T11:41:26 | en | 0.940873 |
WASHINGTON (AP) — An Obama Foundation program that has trained hundreds of young leaders across Africa, the Asia-Pacific and Europe is being expanded to include the United States.
Former President Barack Obama is expected to announce the new program on Thursday during a two-day democracy forum the foundation is co-sponsoring in New York City.
The Obama Foundation Leaders United States program is a six-month leadership development program for emerging leaders between the ages of 24 and 45. The program will serve more than 100 leaders from the U.S. in its first year. Participants will be chosen through a competitive application process.
In remarks prepared for delivery on Thursday at the forum, Obama cites “consistently high interest” in the foundation's programs as a reason for the expansion.
“The creativity, determination and passion of these leaders are already making an impact — in lives saved, environments restored, children educated," he says. "They’re creating new models for clean energy generation and poverty alleviation. It’s remarkable and inspiring — and a little humbling, since I sure wasn’t making such an impact at their age.
“And the good news is, we’re just scratching the surface of what this next generation is capable of,” Obama says.
The Obama Foundation Leaders program has worked with more than 700 people in Africa, the Asia-Pacific and Europe since it was launched in 2018 after Obama, a Democrat, left the White House following two terms as president, according to the foundation.
Valerie Jarrett, a longtime Obama adviser, said the U.S. extension of the leaders program is a "continuation of our efforts to pay it forward by helping the next generation.”
The foundation, in partnership with Columbia University and the University of Chicago, is holding its first democracy forum in New York on Thursday and Friday. Democracy thinkers, leaders and activists from across the globe will discuss how to advance and strengthen democracy in the United States and abroad.
Obama is scheduled to close the first day of the forum with a speech and a conversation with a group of foundation leaders.
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Follow the AP's coverage of former President Barack Obama at https://apnews.com/hub/barack-obama. | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/Obama-to-announce-expansion-of-young-leaders-17591434.php | 2022-11-17T11:41:28 | en | 0.959216 |
PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday that “sports should not be politicized,” days after it was announced — to criticism — that he would attend the World Cup in Qatar if France reaches the semifinals.
Speaking in Bangkok, Macron said issues about Qatar’s human rights record and the environment were “questions you have to ask yourself when you award the event.”
Qatar won the hosting rights for this year's tournament in a FIFA vote in 2010.
The World Cup has sparked multiple controversies — from the living conditions of migrant workers to the impact on the environment of air-conditioned stadiums and the place of LGBTQ people, women and minorities.
The first World Cup to be held in an Arab country opens on Sunday. On Monday, the presidential Elysee said Macron will go to the Qatar if the country's national team reaches the semifinals, specifying that the French president “wrote them a message” to this effect.
Last month, the city of Paris said it will not broadcast World Cup matches on giant screens in public fan zones amid concerns about Qatar’s human rights record.
It follows similar moves by other French cities, despite France being the defending champion.
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AP World Cup coverage: https://apnews.com/hub/world-cup and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | https://www.theheraldreview.com/sports/article/Macron-says-World-Cup-in-Qatar-should-not-be-17591426.php | 2022-11-17T11:41:29 | en | 0.951948 |
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PARIS (AP) — As well as coping with injuries to key players again, France has the weight of World Cup history to contend with in Qatar.
Good luck, Les Bleus.
Not since Brazil lost the 1998 final to France has the defending champion come close to retaining the title.
Of the next five World Cup defending champions, four failed to reach the knockout stage and three finished last in their group.
As World Cup champions in 1998, many favored France to win again in 2002, especially with the front line featuring top scorers from three major European leagues.
France boasted Arsenal striker Thierry Henry, Juventus marksman David Trezeguet and rising talent Djibril Cisse in a glittering attack blending speed, skill and power. But the French flopped and, with an injured Zinedine Zidane unable to perform properly in midfield, limped out of the group stage without winning a game.
It was one of the greatest shocks in World Cup history, and the warning signs are chillingly similar this time.
Defending champion France boasts arguably the best attack in the world with Ballon d’Or winner Karim Benzema alongside 2018 World Cup star Kylian Mbappe, with either Antoine Griezmann or Olivier Giroud to support them.
Speed, skill and power.
But, like in 2002, France also has problems in midfield, with World Cup winners Paul Pogba and N’Golo Kante both out injured, depriving coach Didier Deschamps of his engine room. Central defender Raphael Varane, another mainstay from four years ago, is trying to recover from a hamstring injury.
Here’s a look at where it went wrong for France in 2002, Brazil four years later in 2006, Italy in 2010, Spain in 2014 and Germany in 2018.
FRANCE in 2002
What could go wrong for a France team with Zidane playing behind Henry, Trezeguet and Cisse in a group featuring Senegal, Uruguay and Denmark?
The first mistake coach Roger Lemerre made was picking Zidane in a warmup against South Korea five days before the tournament. He limped off with a thigh injury that ruled him out of the first two group games, and he was rushed back for the last.
France, however, still had the core of its victorious team from 1998. Youri Djorkaeff was in the midfield alongside Patrick Vieira, who had just won the Premier League and FA Cup double with Arsenal teammate Henry. There was also Emmanuel Petit, who had scored in the 3-0 win over Brazil in the last final.
But in the opening match of 2002, Papa Bouba Diop scored the lone goal for Senegal in a 1-0 win over the defending champions.
France’s hopes of bouncing back took a hit when Henry was sent off after 25 minutes for a reckless challenge in a 0-0 draw against Uruguay.
That left France needing to beat Denmark by two goals. A strapped-up Zidane did what he could but France lost 2-0 and went home in embarrassment.
BRAZIL in 2006
Brazil boasted a team packed with stars, featuring the showboating brilliance of Ronaldinho; the sharp-shooting of Ronaldo and Adriano; the marauding runs of Cafu, and the swirling long-range free kicks of Juninho. Ronaldinho even had a personalized headband with his own initial “R” written in gold.
There was a sense that Brazil might be a little overconfident in the quarterfinals against a France team featuring a rejuvenated Zidane.
And that's the way it turned out.
Zidane produced one of the most dazzling midfield performances in World Cup history. His incredible skill, balletic balance and pirouetting moves bamboozled Brazil, and his free kick set up Henry for a volley — the only goal of the match.
ITALY in 2010
Just like France in 2002, Italy finished at the bottom of its group.
At least the Italians scored — four times — but the group looked a bit easier: Paraguay, New Zealand and Slovakia.
Italy made a poor start and needed an equalizer from midfielder Daniele De Rossi to get a draw against Paraguay. Worse followed for the four-time champions: a 1-1 draw with New Zealand, which took an early lead through unheralded forward Shane Smeltz. In the final group game, Italy was in tatters and trailed 2-0 against Slovakia before losing 3-2.
Italy coach Marcello Lippi just couldn’t seem to get the balance right, unlike in 2006. His team conceded too easily even with Fabio Cannavaro and Giorgio Chiellini in central defense, and had problems up front. Vincenzo Iaquinta, Antonio Di Natale and Fabio Quagliarella did score but first-choice striker Alberto Gilardino failed to.
Gilardino had been in good form with AC Milan that season and was known for a peculiar goal celebration, sinking to his knees to play the violin.
This time, Gilardino had nothing to celebrate.
SPAIN in 2014
It was quite the rude awakening for Spain coach Vicente del Bosque after back-to-back major trophies.
European champion Spain’s opening game ended in a 5-1 loss to the Netherlands — despite a tough central defensive pairing of Sergio Ramos and Gerard Pique and a slick midfield including Barcelona greats Xavi Hernandez and Andres Iniesta.
In the next game, Spain was unable to stop conceding and lost to Chile 2-0 with both goals coming in the first half.
A 3-0 win over Australia was scant consolation for a star-studded Spain team, whose slide symbolized how two golden eras were coming to an end. Barcelona’s glory years, which centered around the passing of Xavi and Iniesta, coincided with Spain’s successes at Euro 2008, the 2010 World Cup and Euro 2012.
GERMANY in 2018
So much for ruthless Germany, the attacking machine that put seven goals past Brazil in the semifinals at the previous World Cup on the way to its fourth title.
From the outset, Germany struggled in Russia, losing a scrappy game 1-0 to Mexico and then needing a goal from midfielder Toni Kroos in the fifth minute of injury time to beat Sweden.
That should have been enough of a wake-up call.
Germany needed to beat South Korea to have a shot at advancing, but instead conceded two goals deep in stoppage time after squandering many chances to score.
The loss was met with disbelief back home, a feeling familiar to that star-studded France team 20 years ago.
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AP World Cup coverage: https://apnews.com/hub/world-cup and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | https://www.expressnews.com/sports/article/France-faces-weight-of-history-in-bid-to-retain-17591413.php | 2022-11-17T11:41:32 | en | 0.961842 |
Open Visibility Network welcomes Surge Transportation & its real-time pricing APIs
BOSTON, Nov. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Open Visibility Network (OVN) has announced that Surge Transportation, a real-time pricing and load booking solution, has joined the rapidly growing international network. Launched in collaboration between Tive, Project44, and FourKites in 2021, the OVN is a consortium of supply chain, transportation, and logistics technology providers on a mission to optimize global supply chain efficiency via open visibility and collaboration. To date, several industry leaders have joined the network, including Everstream Analytics, TransVoyant, MarineTraffic, ParkourSC, WeatherOptics, FarEye, BlueBox Systems, TextLocate, Trucker Cloud, Resilinc, Trucker Tools, and Vizion.
Since launching in 2016, Surge Transportation has been on a mission to optimize the cost of freight for shippers and carriers—in spite of changing and volatile markets. Surge provides the industry's best real-time price engine—supported by 100% tender acceptance and partnering with over 50,000 carriers. Surge provides large shippers with excess carrier capacity when it is needed most, specializing in short lead time, peak season, and overflow—for anything moving over-the-road on land. Surge's instant real-time API rating engine provides market truckload rates for origin and destination pairs across North America. By combining historical data, and predictive data into its own proprietary algorithm—while monitoring moving market scenarios— Surge returns the most accurate truckload rates available. These rates are returned into a shipper's TMS, enabling them to optimize price, capacity, and service.
Ultimately, Surge Transportation builds partnerships between shippers and motor-carriers, utilizing real-time pricing and real-time load booking – enabling end-to-end automation without sacrificing world-class experience.
OVN is the first platform that enables the stakeholders to collaborate openly via APIs exchanges and cultivate an ecosystem that strives to achieve end-to-end visibility across all shipment modes and lanes. End-to-end visibility starts with procurement and extends all the way to the shipments' delivery at the end destination. By working in collaboration, OVN members synchronize to support end-to-end shipment visibility. Additional benefits from high levels of transparency and cooperation include an optimized supply chain and access to other technology providers that value open visibility.
Open Visibility Network is excited to welcome Surge Transportation, the leader in real-time pricing and API integration into transportation management systems.
"Surge operates an open business model that supports transparency and visibility across customers, and motor carriers. We have worked hard to develop partnerships with OVN members, and are excited to support the digitization of the supply chain," says Omar Singh, founder and CEO of Surge Transportation. "Ultimately, we hope that by providing real-time market truckload rates to members they can share those with their end customers—and help to optimize supply chain and routing guides."
"Real-time pricing and load booking are critical for achieving visibility, especially during peak season or volatile times when loads do not get covered, even in the spot market," highlighted Krenar Komoni, founding member of OVN and CEO and Founder of Tive, Inc., a real-time visibility provider. " We are excited to welcome Surge Transportation and their real-time pricing APIs to the OVN. Their services will enrich the technology solutions for the OVN members during times when capacity is much needed."
OVN is in constant lookout to connect with other technology and visibility providers in the supply chains. Reach out at [email protected] or visit the website www.openvisibility.com.
About Open Visibility Network
Open Visibility Network (OVN) is an open consortium of supply chain, transportation, and logistics technology providers on a mission to optimize global supply chain efficiency via open visibility and collaboration. OVN is the first platform that enables the stakeholders to collaborate openly and while exchanging data and insights (APIs) cultivate an ecosystem that strives to achieve end-to-end visibility across all shipment modes and lanes.
About Surge Transportation
Surge Transportation builds partnerships between shippers and motor-carriers, utilizing Real-Time pricing and Real-Time load booking – enabling end-to-end automation without sacrificing world-class experience. Surge blends tradition and technology and recognizes that there is a fundamental problem with routing guide strategy in that forecasts are linear, but demand is not. The result is that sometimes priority #1 is securing capacity and loads, while at other times it is booking at the most competitive market rates. Surge solves both of those priorities by providing the industry's best Real-Time price engine, supported by 100% tender accept, partnering with our network of 50,000 carriers, while adding in 20 years of experience matching shippers with capacity when it is needed the most.
About Tive
Tive is a global leader in supply chain and logistics technology. With Tive, shippers, retailers, and logistics service providers (LSPs) have the ability to eliminate delays, avoid damage and mitigate shipment failures. Tive's solution provides insights generated by its industry-leading products for clients to actively optimize their shipments, improve customer experience, and unlock actionable data in real-time. For more information, visit www.tive.com.
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SOURCE Open Visibility Network | https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/open-visibility-network-welcomes-surge-transportation--its-real-time-pricing-apis-301679736.html | 2022-11-17T11:41:32 | en | 0.93415 |
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol hoped for greater cooperation with Saudi Arabia — including on its $500 billion futuristic desert city project — as he met the kingdom’s powerful crown prince Thursday, Seoul officials said.
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman flew to South Korea earlier Thursday for talks with Yoon and business tycoons in his first visit to South Korea since June 2019.
During talks attended by senior officials from both countries, Yoon said he hopes that South Korean companies will participate in megaprojects in Saudi Arabia such as Neom, a futuristic, carbon-free city planned along the kingdom’s Red Sea coast, Yoon’s office in a statement.
Yoon also wanted the two countries to cooperate on defense industries and the development of hydrogen and other new energies and promote tourism and cultural exchanges, the statement said. Prince Mohammed said he wants to drastically expand bilateral cooperation on the areas of infrastructure construction, energy and defense industries, Yoon’s office said.
The prince’s trip to South Korea spawned hopes that South Korean companies’ active participations in the Neom city project would greatly invigorate the country’s economy, like a previous construction boom in the Middle East backed up South Korea’s rapid economic rise in the 1970s.
“There are political and geopolitical risks in Middle East and it’s true that there are questions about the Neom city project. … But the Neom city can still be a new breakthrough for the South Korean economy,” the Maeil Business newspaper said Wednesday in an editorial. “The (South Korean) government must support a possible second Middle East boom by reforming regulations.”
The Neom project envisions flying cars and a 170-kilometer (105-mile) -long, zero-carbon emissions city that’s entirely enclosed and powered by Artificial Intelligence. In 2017, when Prince Mohammed announced plans to build the city, he said that “this will be a place for the dreamers of the world.”
Some observers say Prince Mohammed hopes the city will become a skyline-studded Saudi version of Dubai that will offer the kingdom jobs and cement a future beyond its vast crude oil reserves. It also would reframe a rule so far colored by the killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi and the kingdom’s ongoing intervention in the war in Yemen.
“Some people say the idea of the Neom city project is too utopian and doubt whether it can be really established,” said Paik Seunghoon, principal researcher at the Institute of Middle East Studies at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul. “But it’s one of the projects that Prince (Mohammed) is pushing hard so that he will try to have (the Neom project) running to some extent.”
During the prince’s visit, South Korean companies signed more than 20 memorandums of understanding with their Saudi counterparts, non-binding contracts that are mostly about South Korean investments in Saudi Arabia, according to South Korean officials.
Paik said Saudi Arabia has signed similar non-binding deals with many other foreign companies and that the South Korean announcement Thursday lacked substance. But he still viewed them as a meaningful first step in the two countries' cooperation in such projects.
“I highly appraise (today's development). It’s like we just did our first shoveling" in a construction project, Paik said. “Most importantly, the leaders of the two countries met and agreed to push forward with something. And this shouldn’t be the end.”
Joo Won, deputy director at the Seoul-based Hyundai Research Institute, noted that there have been “more negative views toward the project” than positive ones.
“It’s a matter of financial resources. Saudi Arabia needs money to build such a city. During the period of high oil prices like these days, they can afford it. But oil prices would go down one day and the project could stop,” Joo said. | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/S-Korea-s-leader-discusses-megaprojects-with-17591429.php | 2022-11-17T11:41:35 | en | 0.950325 |
Here are some things to watch this week in the Pac-12 Conference:
GAME OF THE WEEK
No. 7 USC (9-1 overall, 7-1 Pac-12, No. 7 CFP) at No. 16 UCLA (8-2, 5-2, No. 16 CFP), Saturday.
For USC, the road to the Pac-12 championship game boils down to a simple scenario: A win over the Bruins guarantees the Trojans a spot. Along with it, they get city bragging rights. There remains a path to the league’s title game for UCLA but it's not as straightforward. The crosstown showdown features two dynamic passers in USC’s Caleb Williams and UCLA’s Dorian Thompson-Robinson. Williams has thrown 31 TD passes and rushed for six. Thompson-Robinson has 20 TD passes and has run for seven more. USC enters as a 1 1/2-point favorite, according to FanDuel Sportsbook. To the winner goes the Victory Bell, which is a nearly 300-pound bell from a freight locomotive.
MATCHUP OF THE WEEK
No. 10 Utah (8-2, 6-1 Pac-12, No. 10 CFP) at No. 12 Oregon (8-2, 6-1, No. 12 CFP), Saturday
The winner will head into the last week of the regular season controlling its path to the league’s title game. The Utes beat the Ducks twice last season — once during the year (38-7) and again in the conference championship game (38-10). Oregon will be hosting a ranked team for a second straight week. The Ducks lost to No. 15 Washington (8-2, 5-2, No. 17 CFP) on Peyton Henry’s winning kick in the final minute. The Utes' last victory over the Ducks at Autzen Stadium was in 2015.
INSIDE THE NUMBERS
USC defensive lineman Tuli Tuipulotu had 2 1/2 sacks and a forced fumble against Colorado to earn the league’s defensive player of the week honors. ... The Huskies are 7-2 against Colorado (1-9, 1-6) since the Buffaloes joined the Pac-12. That includes a win in the 2016 Pac-12 championship game. ... Huskies QB Michael Penix Jr. was the conference’s offensive player of the week after throwing for 408 yards and two scores at Oregon. ... Washington lost 20-17 in Boulder last season despite outgaining the Buffaloes by a 426-183 margin. ... Stanford (3-7, 1-7) and Cal (3-7, 1-6) compete in the 125th edition of the Big Game on Saturday in Berkeley. The Cardinal lead the series 65-48-11. The inaugural Big Game was at Berkeley in 1904, with Stanford winning 18-0. ... No. 25 Oregon State (7-3, 4-3, No. 23 CFP) heads to Arizona State (3-7, 2-5) as the Beavers return to the rankings for the second time this year. ... Oregon QB Bo Nix is tied for the FBS lead with 39 total touchdowns. ... Either USC or UCLA will score 10 points toward the Crosstown Cup, which is an annual trophy given to the school that has the most successful athletic year versus the other.
PLAYER TO WATCH
Arizona linebacker Jacob Manu, who’s coming off a career-best 10-tackle performance in a win at UCLA. He also had a quarterback hurry and a pass breakup as he earned the league’s freshman of the week honors.
UPSET WATCH
Washington State (6-4, 3-4) at Arizona (4-6, 2-5), Saturday
The bowl-eligible Cougars are 3 1/2-point favorites, according to FanDuel Sportsbook, over an Arizona team riding high after a win at UCLA. The Cougars haven’t won in Tucson since 2015.
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A good chance the market has ended the counter trend correction & the bear trend resumes from here.
Emini Dow Jones futures have recovered 61.8% of the losses for 2022. Incredible! The index is only down 3000 ticks or 8% from the all time high.
3 neutral candles indicate the recovery has run out of steam.
Remember when support is broken it usually acts as resistance & vice-versa.
Daily analysis
Emini S&P December holding Fibonacci resistance at 4000/4020 yesterday starts to put bears in control. Minor support at 3970/60 has also held (as we trade sideways as predicted) but below a break below 3960 is likely today for a sell signal targeting strong support at 3925/15. A low for the day expected if test but longs need stops below 3900. A break below here is an important sell signal.
Fibonacci resistance at 4000/4020 but we also have strong resistance at 4070/80 & shorts need stops above 4090.
Nasdaq December could be nearing the end of the recovery now as we reverse from key resistance at 11850/950. Again shorts need stops above 12100. Bulls need a sustained break above 12100 for a buy signal.
Our shorts at key resistance at 11850/950 held first support at 11750/700 perfectly yesterday but a break below 11700 is expected soon for a sell signal targeting 11580/540, perhaps as far as 11400/350.
Emini Dow Jones tests resistance at 33700/800 & our shorts need stops above 34050. A break higher targets 32230/250.
Our shorts at 33700/800 target 33400/350 but we should eventually continue lower for 33200 & support at 32800/700.
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Open Visibility Network welcomes Surge Transportation & its real-time pricing APIs
BOSTON, Nov. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Open Visibility Network (OVN) has announced that Surge Transportation, a real-time pricing and load booking solution, has joined the rapidly growing international network. Launched in collaboration between Tive, Project44, and FourKites in 2021, the OVN is a consortium of supply chain, transportation, and logistics technology providers on a mission to optimize global supply chain efficiency via open visibility and collaboration. To date, several industry leaders have joined the network, including Everstream Analytics, TransVoyant, MarineTraffic, ParkourSC, WeatherOptics, FarEye, BlueBox Systems, TextLocate, Trucker Cloud, Resilinc, Trucker Tools, and Vizion.
Since launching in 2016, Surge Transportation has been on a mission to optimize the cost of freight for shippers and carriers—in spite of changing and volatile markets. Surge provides the industry's best real-time price engine—supported by 100% tender acceptance and partnering with over 50,000 carriers. Surge provides large shippers with excess carrier capacity when it is needed most, specializing in short lead time, peak season, and overflow—for anything moving over-the-road on land. Surge's instant real-time API rating engine provides market truckload rates for origin and destination pairs across North America. By combining historical data, and predictive data into its own proprietary algorithm—while monitoring moving market scenarios— Surge returns the most accurate truckload rates available. These rates are returned into a shipper's TMS, enabling them to optimize price, capacity, and service.
Ultimately, Surge Transportation builds partnerships between shippers and motor-carriers, utilizing real-time pricing and real-time load booking – enabling end-to-end automation without sacrificing world-class experience.
OVN is the first platform that enables the stakeholders to collaborate openly via APIs exchanges and cultivate an ecosystem that strives to achieve end-to-end visibility across all shipment modes and lanes. End-to-end visibility starts with procurement and extends all the way to the shipments' delivery at the end destination. By working in collaboration, OVN members synchronize to support end-to-end shipment visibility. Additional benefits from high levels of transparency and cooperation include an optimized supply chain and access to other technology providers that value open visibility.
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"Surge operates an open business model that supports transparency and visibility across customers, and motor carriers. We have worked hard to develop partnerships with OVN members, and are excited to support the digitization of the supply chain," says Omar Singh, founder and CEO of Surge Transportation. "Ultimately, we hope that by providing real-time market truckload rates to members they can share those with their end customers—and help to optimize supply chain and routing guides."
"Real-time pricing and load booking are critical for achieving visibility, especially during peak season or volatile times when loads do not get covered, even in the spot market," highlighted Krenar Komoni, founding member of OVN and CEO and Founder of Tive, Inc., a real-time visibility provider. " We are excited to welcome Surge Transportation and their real-time pricing APIs to the OVN. Their services will enrich the technology solutions for the OVN members during times when capacity is much needed."
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ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. (AP) — The hulking grandstand at the shuttered Arlington International Racecourse casts an eerie shadow as the sun sets on a weekday evening. It sits dormant on a tract of land that could be transformed in a major way.
With the galloping horses long gone, the Chicago Bears see 326 acres of opportunity. The Buffalo Bills also are making plans for a new home. Same for the Tennessee Titans and baseball's Kansas City Royals. Major League Soccer's Inter Miami is working on its new place, and on and on it goes.
When it comes to construction for sports, today’s economic uncertainty is nothing compared to the lucrative promise of tomorrow. Interest rates, inflation and supply chain issues factor into the plans, according to construction and financing experts, but they haven’t been standing in the way.
“The best time to build is now, not two years from now,” said Dan Wacker, director of pre-construction for Mortenson’s sports and entertainment division, which counts Minneapolis’ U.S. Bank Stadium and Las Vegas’ Allegiant Stadium among its recent major projects. “If you can make that happen.”
The key to any development is understanding what the market can bear when it comes to spending, which already factors in inflation — "a manageable risk factor,” according to Scott Zolke, a lawyer with an extensive sports background who represents the Bills in stadium talks.
“One of the things that we exhausted in our analysis of Buffalo was ‘What if?’” he said.
“What about inflation? What if we go into a recession? What if ... the supply chain is completely flipped upside down?” Zolke added. “You look at the best, worst, middle-case scenarios, do your comparisons ... and then you say, is it worth it?”
Teams continue to say yes during what looks like an imposing time for massive construction projects. Even amid a tentative easing of inflation in October, the Federal Reserve likely will continue raising interest rates to cool the economy.
While teams are taking the current economic climate into consideration, it hasn’t been a deal breaker.
“I have not yet seen decisions change on whether to do a project or not do a project because of the cost,” said Bill Mulvihill, managing director and head of the Sports Finance Group at U.S. Bank, which helped finance the Los Angeles Rams’ SoFi Stadium. “It’s just more changing how are we going to fund this, how much is it going to cost rather than changing are we going to do this or not?”
The Bears want to turn the Arlington Heights site, once a jewel of thoroughbred racing, into a different kind of gem, anchored by an enclosed stadium and bursting with year-round activity — assuming a deal with Churchill Downs Inc. to buy the land goes through.
They envision restaurants, retail and more on the plot of land some 30 miles northwest of their longtime home at Soldier Field — all for about $5 billion, with some taxpayer help.
They’re not the only team with their eyes on new digs. The Bills are finalizing a deal with state and county governments to build a $1.4 billion stadium, and the Titans recently lined up the last financing for an estimated $2.1 billion domed home.
In Buffalo, it took years of prodding, fears of relocation, numerous studies, a change in ownership and delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic to finally reach the conclusion the Bills needed a new facility to replace the stadium they’ve called home since 1973.
For the most part, when it comes to new stadiums and ballparks, owners are playing the long game, knowing they figure to profit even if prices are a bit haywire at the moment.
The costs of materials have surged 35.7% since January 2020, according to the National Association of Homebuilders. Concrete went from a 30-year low in 2009 to the largest jump and highest price this year since 1989.
The supply chain issues have led to a juggling act when it comes to choosing materials. When steel has been in short supply, for example, there’s been a run on concrete. That in turn has led to supply-and-demand issues there, said Logan Gerken, vice president and general manager of Mortenson's sports and entertainment division.
If teams are scaling back on design, they’re doing so in ways fans probably wouldn’t notice — like fewer TVs in suites, Mulvihill said. But when it comes to big-ticket items? They’re not sacrificing a retractable roof for a fixed roof or no roof at all just to save money.
“If they thought a year ago they needed a retractable roof, I think they’re going to build with a retractable roof and just take the cost increases and figure out how to fund them," Mulvihill said.
Though the framework of the Bills’ deal calls for what in March was an NFL-record $850 million taxpayer price tag (and likely to be topped by the Titans proposal), government funding can be tough to secure.
Take what’s happened in Oakland, where baseball’s Athletics could leave without a new stadium. The city, which secured $321.5 million in grant money toward a $12 billion stadium and waterfront project, was scrambling for more to help cover potential infrastructure cost overruns and keep the team in town.
The Bears plan to pay for their stadium, but want taxpayer dollars to cover infrastructure costs such as roads and sewers to develop the site.
There are differences to take into account when developing in large markets, versus smaller ones. While the development around Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium and what the Bears envision at Arlington Heights will bring in additional revenue, Buffalo’s small population base and drawing power for visitors played a major factor in the Bills’ projections and a larger reliance on public funding.
“It’s not apples to apples. It’s a completely different metric,” said Zolke, who also worked with Rams owner Stan Kroenke on the SoFi development following the team’s move from St. Louis.
“It made no sense for (Kroenke) to privately fund a project in St. Louis,” he said. “It made 100% sense to say, 'I’ll fund this thing (in L.A.), just give me some infrastructure.’”
In Nashville, the public funding commitment can be larger because the region can bank on recouping the money by creating yet another attraction to lure even more visitors to Music City, including the potential of hosting a Super Bowl.
That’s not the case in Buffalo, despite the draw of nearby Niagara Falls and being home of the chicken wing.
Top of mind when it comes to any development project, Zolke said, is teams being comfortable with the return on investment over the long-term, which to a degree de-emphasizes the impact of inflation.
“This is a long-term investment. You’re not going to cash in in five years,” Zolke said. “You’re not flipping a house.”
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Wawrow reported on this story from Buffalo, New York.
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SAO PAULO (AP) — When Brazil coach Tite uttered the name of veteran Dani Alves in his call for the World Cup squad, reactions around the country spanned from anger to disappointment.
The Brazil coach, who has faced little criticism in his six years on the job, described his pick in a paused, not-so-confident tone.
“The criteria for Daniel Alves is the criteria for all,” Tite said. “It is about rewarding individual skill, his fitness and his mental aspect. Just like the others.”
Alves himself, however, recognized that many didn't want him in the squad for Qatar.
“I am not here to please everyone,” he said in a video.
The rancor has nothing to do with the right back's brilliant past, but the presence of a 39-year-old player who has struggled to play for any club in the past year laid bare the lack of options Brazil has on both flanks of the defense.
Tite's most likely options to start at the World Cup are right back Danilo, who has become more of a central defender at Juventus, and Alex Sandro, a player with little background as a typical Brazilian left back that runs from box to box.
Neither Danilo nor Alex Sandro are regarded as two of the best in the world in their positions, such as predecessors Cafu, Roberto Carlos, Marcelo and the peak Alves of 10 years ago were. At the same time, the duo has not caused Brazil much defensive trouble, being part of a team that conceded only five goals in South American qualifying.
Alves and Alex Telles are expected to be on the bench in Qatar, with Eder Militão also capable of playing as a right back and midfielder Fabinho as a left back.
“They are OK,” former Brazil left back Junior, now a TV commentator, said this month about Tite's options. “They are not players who will be up front all the time. They are more cautious. But I don't see any other choices that would be better to start at this time.”
Over the last year, Tite lost another two options that could have helped.
Fagner, a 33-year-old right back who replaced an injured Alves four years ago in Russia, had a poor season at Corinthians. Former Sevilla left back Guilherme Arana picked up a knee injury in September, ruling him out of the World Cup.
Brazil's coach also found little reason to bring back Renan Lodi, who was loaned to Nottingham Forest after struggling at Atletico Madrid.
Lodi was blamed for Brazil's 1-0 loss to Argentina in the 2021 Copa America final, with goal scorer Ángel di Maria saying he knew the Brazilian “slept a little” during matches. The left back didn't find any sympathy from Tite after he missed a callup earlier in the year because he wasn't vaccinated against COVID-19.
Brazil's right back at the World Cup, whoever he may be, could also face increased pressure playing alongside 38-year-old defender Thiago Silva.
Silva has been less consistent than usual at Chelsea, highlighted by a dreadful performance in the 4-1 loss to Brighton in the Premier League last month. A right back that can also run for an aging Silva could be key to avoid conceding goals in Qatar.
Cafu, who was on Brazil's World Cup-winning team in 2002, said protecting Silva is one of the reasons why Tite will eventually use Militão as a starting right back during the World Cup. He also trusts Brazil to do well in Qatar regardless of the lack of options at the back.
“I don't know why we have this shortage of players for those positions. But it is not only for the national team, we see that in clubs, too," Cafu said in an interview last month. "Coaches are adapting midfielders to that position because they don't know how to specifically work with right and left backs.
“Also, it is unfair to compare these players with us. Anyone playing as a right or left back today has a lot of responsibility. They have to replace people who made history for Brazil.”
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Canadian Annual Consumer Price Index (CPI) stayed unchanged at 6.9% as expected. The continued risks of inflation are likely to keep the Bank of Canada busy, according to economists at Commerzbank.
Recent data on the economy, labour and property market was more robust than expected
“The overall rate remained stable at 6.9%, the core rates rose slightly as expected. The continued risks of inflation are likely to keep the Bank of Canada busy.”
“A step of at least 25 bps seems to be expected for the coming meeting in December, with some clearly expecting a bigger step. That is hardly surprising, as recent data on the economy, labour and property market was more robust than expected. The market seems to have partially priced in a 50 bps rate step.”
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Rise in the geriatric population and increase in demand for Parkinson's disease drugs drive the growth of the global Parkinson's disease drugs market.
PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Allied Market Research published a report, titled, "Parkinson's Disease Drugs Market by Drug Class (Decarboxylase Inhibitors, Dopamine Agonists, COMT Inhibitors, MAO-B Inhibitors, Others), by Route of Administration (Oral, Injection, Transdermal), by Age Group (50 or below 50, Above 50 years): Global Opportunity Analysis and Industry Forecast, 2021-2031." According to the report, the global Parkinson's disease drugs industry was estimated at $5.7 billion in 2021, and is anticipated to hit $10.4 billion by 2031, registering a CAGR of 6.2% from 2022 to 2031. The report offers an explicit analysis of the changing market trends, top segments, key investment pockets, value chains, competitive scenarios, and regional landscapes.
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Determinants of growth:
Rise in the geriatric population and increase in demand for Parkinson's disease drugs drive the growth of the global Parkinson's disease drugs market. On the other hand, certain side-effects associated with the drugs impede the growth to some extent. However, high growth potential in untapped emerging countries and increase in R&D pipeline products are expected to create lucrative opportunities in the industry.
Covid-19 scenario:
- The disrupted supply chain, restricted sales operations, marketing efforts, and customer field support, hampered the shipping and delivery of products to customers, which impacted the global Parkinson's disease drugs market negatively.
- However, since 2021, the market has again started to witness a stable growth.
The decarboxylase inhibitors segment to cite the fastest CAGR:
By drug class, the decarboxylase inhibitors segment contributed to more than two-fifths of the global Parkinson's disease drugs market share in 2021, and is expected to lead the trail by 2031, due to high adoption of decarboxylase inhibitor by population as it improves motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease. The COMT inhibitors segment, however, is expected to exhibit the fastest CAGR of 9.0% from 2022 to 2031, owing to the advantages of COMT inhibitors such as short duration time and long-lasting enzyme inhibition.
The oral segment to dominate by 2031:
By route of administration, the oral segment garnered around two-thirds of the global Parkinson's disease drugs market share in 2021, and is expected to retain its dominance by 2031. This is due to the advantages associated with oral routes such as more pre-determined doses, convenience, and patient self-administration The transdermal segment, on the other hand, would portray the fastest CAGR of 9.8% during the forecast period. Benefits such as ease of access with transdermal absorption fuel the segment growth.
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The above 50 years segment garnered the major share in 2021:
By end user, the above 50 years segment garnered around 90% of the global Parkinson's disease drugs market share in 2021, and is expected to retain its dominance by 2031. The same segment is also expected to exhibit the fastest CAGR of 6.3% from 2022 to 2031. This is due to the fact that people above 50 years are prone to the Parkinson's disease.
North America grabbed the highest share:
Based on region, North America held the major share in 2021, generating nearly half of the global Parkinson's disease drugs market, owing to presence of major key players in the countries such as the United States. The Asia-Pacific region, however, would cite the fastest CAGR of 8.8% throughout the forecast period. Growing healthcare infrastructure, low cost of treatments associated with the disease, and availability of various diagnosis services for Parkinson's disease patients drive the market growth.
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PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday that “sports should not be politicized,” days after it was announced — to criticism — that he would attend the World Cup in Qatar if France reaches the semifinals.
Speaking in Bangkok, Macron said issues about Qatar’s human rights record and the environment were “questions you have to ask yourself when you award the event.”
Qatar won the hosting rights for this year's tournament in a FIFA vote in 2010.
The World Cup has sparked multiple controversies — from the living conditions of migrant workers to the impact on the environment of air-conditioned stadiums and the place of LGBTQ people, women and minorities.
The first World Cup to be held in an Arab country opens on Sunday. On Monday, the presidential Elysee said Macron will go to the Qatar if the country's national team reaches the semifinals, specifying that the French president “wrote them a message” to this effect.
Last month, the city of Paris said it will not broadcast World Cup matches on giant screens in public fan zones amid concerns about Qatar’s human rights record.
It follows similar moves by other French cities, despite France being the defending champion.
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Starbucks workers at more than 100 U.S. stores say they're going on strike Thursday in what would be the largest labor action since a campaign to unionize the company’s stores began late last year.
The walkouts are scheduled to coincide with Starbucks’ annual Red Cup Day, when the company gives free reusable cups to customers who order a holiday drink. Workers say it’s often one of the busiest days of the year. Starbucks declined to say how many red cups it plans to distribute.
Workers say they're seeking better pay, more consistent schedules and higher staffing levels in busy stores. Starbucks opposes the unionization effort, saying the company functions best when it works directly with employees. The Seattle coffee giant has more than 9,000 company-owned stores in the U.S.
Stores in 25 states planned to take part in the labor action, according to Starbucks Workers United, the group organizing the effort. Some workers planned to picket all day while others planned shorter walkouts. The union said the goal is to shut the stores down during the walkouts.
Willow Montana, a shift manager at a Starbucks store in Brighton, Massachusetts, planned to strike because Starbucks hasn’t begun bargaining with the store despite a successful union vote in April.
“If the company won’t bargain in good faith, why should we come to work where we are understaffed, underpaid and overworked?” Montana said.
Others, including Michelle Eisen, a union organizer at one of the first stores to organize in Buffalo, New York, said workers are angry that Starbucks promised higher pay and benefits to non-union stores. Starbucks says it is following the law and can't give union stores pay hikes without bargaining.
At least 257 Starbucks stores have voted to unionize since late last year, according to the National Labor Relations Board. Fifty-seven stores have held votes where workers opted not to unionize.
Starbucks and the union have begun contract talks at 53 stores, with 13 additional sessions scheduled, Starbucks Workers United said. No agreements have been reached so far.
The process has been contentious. Earlier this week, a regional director with the NLRB filed a request for an injunction against Starbucks in federal court, saying the company violated labor law when it fired a union organizer in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The regional director asked the court to direct Starbucks to reinstate the employee and stop interfering in the unionization campaign nationwide.
It was the fourth time the NLRB has asked a federal court to intervene. In August, a federal judge ruled that Starbucks had to reinstate seven union organizers who were fired in Memphis, Tennessee. A similar case in Buffalo has yet to be decided, while a federal judge ruled against the NLRB in a case in Phoenix.
Meanwhile, Starbucks has asked the NLRB to temporarily suspend all union elections at its U.S. stores, citing allegations from a board employee that regional officials improperly coordinated with union organizers. A decision in that case is pending. | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/Starbucks-workers-plan-strikes-at-more-than-100-17591421.php | 2022-11-17T11:41:47 | en | 0.958446 |
Aaron Rodgers has hit the ground in every NFL stadium except one. And while the “frozen tundra” of Lambeau Field has delivered its share of bumps and bruises, the venues with artificial turf have been even rougher on Rodgers’ nearly 39-year-old body.
“I do think it’s time to go all grass throughout the league,” the four-time MVP said Tuesday, echoing a growing sentiment that’s become a major talking point around the NFL.
Players Association President JC Tretter called on six venues to immediately change their playing surfaces last weekend, saying the artificial turf in those stadiums results in higher injury rates when comparing non-contact injuries and lower extremity injuries like sprained ankles and torn knee ligaments.
Players from Seattle to Miami, from New England to Los Angeles, have loudly backed Tretter. Rodgers, Green Bay's 10-time Pro Bowl quarterback who has played in every stadium except Las Vegas, thinks there's a way for the league to pivot to grass quickly.
“A lot of money in this league,” he said. “It’s about cost. I don’t know how much that would cost. ... But the league’s been doing pretty well.”
Does Rodgers think it will get done?
“No, honestly,” he said. “I don’t have a lot of confidence when it comes to the league making that decision without some sort of big vote and gripes from certain owners who don’t want to spend the money. ... This would be putting your money where your mouth is if player safety is important.”
The NFL hasn't acknowledged a need for new sod. Jeff Miller, the executive vice president of communications, public affairs & policy for the NFL, said in a statement Saturday that injury rates are approximately the same on grass and turf.
The data provided by the league did not distinguish between the three types of turf used: monofilament, dual fiber and slit film. Tretter specifically took exception with the slit-film surfaces used in Cincinnati, Detroit, Indianapolis, Minnesota, New Orleans and New York.
Players parroted Tretter's plea, and even a few coaches have joined the push.
“I prefer natural grass,” Kansas City Chiefs coach Andy Reid said. “I’ve listened to all the studies, density studies, I’ve seen all the different compounds they’ve put in there. I still like grass.”
Most players do, too.
“You kind of feel the difference when you’re running,” Minnesota Vikings running back Dalvin Cook said. “If we can fix it, let’s fix it. Let’s get the safest atmosphere for us to go play in.”
Added Detroit receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown: “I do prefer playing on grass. It’s more forgiving, more natural, and it just feel it’s better. It feels better on my joints, my ankles and whatnot.”
Jacksonville Jaguars safety Rayshawn Jenkins called artificial turf the equivalent of playing in a parking lot, saying “I’m getting slammed on the concrete. It doesn’t feel good.”
Carolina Panthers tight end Tommy Tremble watched teammate Donte Jackson tear an Achilles tendon at home — the latest in a rash of season-ending injuries sustained on turf.
“Guys get terrible injuries from that stuff,” Tremble said. “I get the usability of it, but this is a billion-dollar business, and I think where we should put the money into should be for the players because if we got grass fields and can keep playing, the money keeps rolling in. You see star guys go down all of the time because of it.”
The Panthers already have urged owner David Tepper to switch to grass in the offseason. Sure, it costs more in the long run, but technology advancements have made grass fields more tolerant to every condition seen in the NFL: heat, cold, humidity and dryness. Two indoor venues — in Arizona and Las Vegas — have grass fields that can be rolled into the sun.
Fourteen of the NFL's 30 venues still use a version of synthetic turf. The Hellas Matrix Turf used in Dallas, Houston and Los Angeles is widely considered the best. It's created using a textured and twisted monofilament fiber.
Slit film, meanwhile, has sliced strands that form a honeycomb shape. It holds up well to frequent use, but the concern is whether cleats are getting caught in the honeycombs.
“They don’t have a bad field in this league, but there are better fields,” New York Giants safety Julian Love said. “There is a type of turf that has proven to be better. We happen to play on the lowest turf in the league, so you want to see those standards go up.”
Added Cincinnati Bengals nose tackle D.J. Reader: “I do know that after having surgery, and when I go out there and play on turf fields, it’s different. It’s a lot more pounding. I get a lot more achy after games."
Tretter, a longtime NFL center who played in Green Bay and Cleveland, began his anti-artificial turf campaign two years ago after San Francisco 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan and players expressed concern about the MetLife Stadium turf in New Jersey.
Defensive end Nick Bosa, quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo, defensive tackle Solomon Thomas and running backs Raheem Mostert and Tevin Coleman all suffered game-ending lower-body injuries that day.
Thomas, coincidentally, now plays for the Jets. He was among the many calling for immediate change.
“No one knows the beating that our bodies take on turf more than us — the players,” Thomas posted on Twitter. “The sport is violent enough. We shouldn’t be taking more damage from the field, too.”
All those 49ers injuries prompted a review involving representatives from the NFL, NFLPA, MetLife Stadium, the Jets, the Giants, the turf maker and an independent field inspector. They concluded that the field met all applicable standards and protocols for NFL surfaces.
Two years later, Tretter — now with players like Rodgers standing behind him — insists the standards need to be raised.
“As players, we have a simple message for the league: stop with the lip service, stop with the media spin, stop pretending you care," he said. "And if you actually do care, take the actionable steps to fix the problems our union has identified, especially those issues you actually agree with.”
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AP Sports Writers Dave Campbell, Tom Canavan, Kyle Hightower, Larry Lage, Brett Martel, Steve Megargee, Charles Odum, Steve Reed, Andrew Seligman, Dave Skretta, Mitch Stacy, Dennis Waszak and Tom Withers contributed to this report.
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- USDCAD gains traction for the second straight day and is supported by a combination of factors.
- Weaker Oil prices undermine the Loonie and act as a tailwind amid a pickup in the USD demand.
- Traders now look forward to the US macroeconomic releases and Fedspeak for a fresh impetus.
The USDCAD pair builds on the overnight goodish rebound from the 100-day SMA support and edges higher for the second successive day on Thursday. The pair maintains its bid tone through the first half of the European session and is currently trading around mid-1.3300s, just a few pips below the weekly high touched earlier today.
Crude Oil prices remain depressed near the monthly low, which, in turn, undermines the commodity-linked Loonie and acts as a tailwind for the USDCAD pair amid a modest pickup in the US Dollar demand. A new COVID-19 outbreak in China raises concerns over slowing fuel demand in the world's largest Crude Oil importer. This, to a larger extent, overshadows worries about tight global supplies and continues to weigh on the black liquid.
The USD, on the other hand, attracts some haven flows in the wake of a fresh leg down in the equity markets. Furthermore, Wednesday's upbeat US Retail Sales data might have forced investors to scale back their bets for a less aggressive policy tightening by the Fed. This is evident from an uptick in the US Treasury bond yields, which is seen as another factor benefitting the greenback and offering additional support to the USDCAD pair.
Apart from the aforementioned fundamental factors, the overnight failure near a technically significant 100-day Simple Moving Average prompts traders to lighten their bearish bets around the USDCAD pair. Bulls, however, might wait for some follow-through strength beyond the 1.3360 area before positioning for any further intraday gains. Next on tap is the US economic docket, featuring the Philly Fed Manufacturing Index and the usual Weekly Initial Jobless Claims.
Traders will further take cues from speeches by a slew of influential FOMC members. This, along with the US bond yields and the broader risk sentiment, will drive the USD demand and provide some impetus to the USDCAD pair. Apart from this, Oil price dynamics should also contribute to producing short-term trading opportunities around the major.
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Here are some things to watch this week in the Pac-12 Conference:
GAME OF THE WEEK
No. 7 USC (9-1 overall, 7-1 Pac-12, No. 7 CFP) at No. 16 UCLA (8-2, 5-2, No. 16 CFP), Saturday.
For USC, the road to the Pac-12 championship game boils down to a simple scenario: A win over the Bruins guarantees the Trojans a spot. Along with it, they get city bragging rights. There remains a path to the league’s title game for UCLA but it's not as straightforward. The crosstown showdown features two dynamic passers in USC’s Caleb Williams and UCLA’s Dorian Thompson-Robinson. Williams has thrown 31 TD passes and rushed for six. Thompson-Robinson has 20 TD passes and has run for seven more. USC enters as a 1 1/2-point favorite, according to FanDuel Sportsbook. To the winner goes the Victory Bell, which is a nearly 300-pound bell from a freight locomotive.
MATCHUP OF THE WEEK
No. 10 Utah (8-2, 6-1 Pac-12, No. 10 CFP) at No. 12 Oregon (8-2, 6-1, No. 12 CFP), Saturday
The winner will head into the last week of the regular season controlling its path to the league’s title game. The Utes beat the Ducks twice last season — once during the year (38-7) and again in the conference championship game (38-10). Oregon will be hosting a ranked team for a second straight week. The Ducks lost to No. 15 Washington (8-2, 5-2, No. 17 CFP) on Peyton Henry’s winning kick in the final minute. The Utes' last victory over the Ducks at Autzen Stadium was in 2015.
INSIDE THE NUMBERS
USC defensive lineman Tuli Tuipulotu had 2 1/2 sacks and a forced fumble against Colorado to earn the league’s defensive player of the week honors. ... The Huskies are 7-2 against Colorado (1-9, 1-6) since the Buffaloes joined the Pac-12. That includes a win in the 2016 Pac-12 championship game. ... Huskies QB Michael Penix Jr. was the conference’s offensive player of the week after throwing for 408 yards and two scores at Oregon. ... Washington lost 20-17 in Boulder last season despite outgaining the Buffaloes by a 426-183 margin. ... Stanford (3-7, 1-7) and Cal (3-7, 1-6) compete in the 125th edition of the Big Game on Saturday in Berkeley. The Cardinal lead the series 65-48-11. The inaugural Big Game was at Berkeley in 1904, with Stanford winning 18-0. ... No. 25 Oregon State (7-3, 4-3, No. 23 CFP) heads to Arizona State (3-7, 2-5) as the Beavers return to the rankings for the second time this year. ... Oregon QB Bo Nix is tied for the FBS lead with 39 total touchdowns. ... Either USC or UCLA will score 10 points toward the Crosstown Cup, which is an annual trophy given to the school that has the most successful athletic year versus the other.
PLAYER TO WATCH
Arizona linebacker Jacob Manu, who’s coming off a career-best 10-tackle performance in a win at UCLA. He also had a quarterback hurry and a pass breakup as he earned the league’s freshman of the week honors.
UPSET WATCH
Washington State (6-4, 3-4) at Arizona (4-6, 2-5), Saturday
The bowl-eligible Cougars are 3 1/2-point favorites, according to FanDuel Sportsbook, over an Arizona team riding high after a win at UCLA. The Cougars haven’t won in Tucson since 2015.
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LONDON (AP) — The British government has blocked a Chinese-owned company’s takeover of a Wales-based microchip maker, calling it a risk to national security.
Nexperia, a Netherlands-based firm owned by China’s Wingtech, announced last year that it had acquired a 100% stake in Newport Wafer Fab, one of Britain’s biggest semiconductor manufacturers.
The government said late Wednesday that Business Secretary Grant Shapps issued an order “requiring Nexperia to sell at least 86% of Newport Wafer Fab to prevent against potential national security risks.”
Shapps said development of the Newport site by Nexperia could “undermine U.K. capabilities” in the sector.
Nexperia said it was “shocked” by the decision.
“The decision is wrong, and we will appeal to overturn this divestment order to protect the over 500 jobs at Newport,” the firm’s U.K. country manager, Toni Versluijs, said. “This decision sends a clear signal that the U.K. is closed for business.”
Britain has grappled with balancing the importance of economic ties with China and concerns about Beijing’s growing global clout and assertiveness.
The head of Britain’s MI5 intelligence agency, Ken McCallum, on Wednesday highlighted the “scale and breadth of (China’s) information acquisition, using not only intelligence officers and cyberhackers but businesspeople and researchers to steal government and commercial information alike.”
At a Group of 20 summit in Indonesia this week, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said China was “the biggest state-based threat to our economic security,” though he has also stressed the importance of ties with Beijing.
The China Research Group of U.K. Conservative lawmakers, which argues against closer ties with China, welcomed the government’s decision.
“Our long-term security relies on the resilience of our economy and that means ensuring we don’t allow strategic assets to fall into the hands of authoritarian powers for the sake of short-term advancement,” it said in a statement. | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/UK-blocks-chipmaker-s-sale-to-Chinese-firm-17591458.php | 2022-11-17T11:41:53 | en | 0.951481 |
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Recent sharp appreciation trend of the Yuan against the Dollar is unlikely to be sustained in the near term, according to economists at MUFG Bank. USDCNY is set to move between the range of 7.00-7.15.
Upside risk for revaluation of CNY ahead
“COVID-19 management can be a challenging task, driving up the volatility of the Yuan in the near term, so, we see a volatile USDCNY to move in the range of 7.00-7.15.”
“With a clear determination of government in boosting Chinese economy and optimizing covid policies, we are holding a positive view for China’s medium growth (5.1% for 2023), and expect USDCNY to decline to 6.65 by the end of 2023.”
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MOSCOW (AP) — Alexander Gorshkov, who won the first ice dance gold medal at the 1976 Olympics and later became a leading official in Russian figure skating, has died. He was 76.
The Russian Figure Skating Federation said in a statement on Thursday that Gorshkov "died suddenly” without giving further details.
Skating with his wife Lyudmila Pakhomova for the Soviet Union, Gorshkov won the gold medal when ice dance made its debut on the Winter Olympic program in Innsbruck, Austria, in 1976. They were six-time world champions whose ground-breaking performances in the years leading up to 1976 helped to convince officials to make ice dance an Olympic event.
Pakhomova's and Gorshkov's Olympic win started a dynasty, with six of the next eight ice dance gold medals through 2006 awarded to skaters representing the Soviet Union, and later the post-Soviet Unified Team and Russia.
Gorshkov later became an official at the International Skating Union and was president of the Russian federation from 2010 until his death.
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This story has been corrected to show the 1976 Winter Olympics were in Innsbruck, not Montreal.
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Official-looking flyers have circulated on social media describing cultural expectations for fans attending the World Cup in Qatar. Some include rules for women’s attire: Shoulders and knees must be covered.
Problem is, it’s bogus.
While the local organizing committee suggests that fans “respect the culture,” no one will be detained or barred from games in Qatar because of clothing choices. But persistent rumors swirling around appropriate garb and modesty at soccer’s biggest tournament have also drawn attention to the country’s record on equality.
Rothna Begum, a senior researcher at Human Rights Watch, has studied Qatar’s male guardianship rules and women's rights in the conservative country.
“There isn’t anyone is going to go around arresting you for this because there isn’t an official dress code," Begum said. "There isn’t a compulsory dress code and you can't get sanctioned for it. It’s just a social restriction, a social tradition.”
The local organizing committee includes a section on cultural awareness in its fan guide.
“People can generally wear their clothing of choice. Shoulders and knees should be covered when visiting public places like museums and other government buildings,” it said.
The phrase “public places” is up to interpretation.
The American Outlaws, the U.S. national team's supporters' group, produced its own fan guide.
“Fans can wear shorts and short sleeve shirts, and women are not required to cover their heads or faces. However, there are many buildings that require both men and women to cover their shoulders and knees before entering, including museums, shopping centers, and some restaurants," the guide says. "We recommend that fans carry some pants and/or a top with sleeves if they plan on entering any buildings, as they may be asked to put them on.
“In the stadiums, men and women will be required to wear tops. People will not be permitted to go shirtless during matches or in public settings."
The first World Cup in the Middle East comes at a time when there is international attention on the treatment of women in Iran. The nation, which sits across the Persian Gulf from Qatar, has been rocked by anti-hijab protests following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who died while being held by morality police for allegedly violating the country’s compulsory dress code for women. Activists have called for Iran to be expelled from the World Cup.
With Islam encouraging female modesty, most Qatari women wear headscarves and a loose cloak known as the abaya.
Begum, who wrote about Qatar and its treatment of women in a 2021 report for Human Rights Watch, said that while women have made progress in Qatar, they still face discrimination in almost every facet of their lives. Women must get permission from male guardians to marry, pursue higher education and work at certain jobs. Guardians can bar women under 25 from traveling abroad.
It's a conservative culture that has little tolerance for dissent among its own citizens, she said.
“There are no independent women’s rights organizations and that’s partly because the authorities have laws that make it difficult for you to set up associations that are in any way deemed political. You are not allowed," Begum said. “Women find it difficult to express or demand their rights offline or even online."
That's one of the reasons critics are questioning FIFA for awarding of the 2022 World Cup to Qatar. Observers certainly noticed when retired American soccer star Carli Lloyd wore a long, high-collared dress with long sleeves for the World Cup draw earlier this year.
A letter recently circulated among teams from FIFA president Gianni Infantino and secretary general Fatma Samoura asked nations not to bring political or ideological issues into the tournament.
“Please," they wrote, "let’s now focus on the football.”
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231 AM PST Thu Nov 17 2022
...AIR STAGNATION ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM PST FRIDAY...
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower to mid 50s. East winds
around 5 mph shifting to the northeast late this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming clear. Lows
in the lower to mid 20s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 40s to lower 50s. Northeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower to mid 20s. Northeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 40s to mid 50s. East winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
mid 20s to lower 30s. Highs in the mid 40s to mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs
in the lower to mid 50s.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain.
Lows in the mid 30s to lower 40s. Highs in the mid 40s to mid
50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of
rain and snow. Lows in the lower to mid 30s. Highs in the mid 40s
to mid 50s.
$$
CAZ082-180000-
South Central Siskiyou County-
Including the cities of Mount Shasta, Dunsmuir, and McCloud
231 AM PST Thu Nov 17 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy then becoming partly cloudy early this
afternoon then becoming mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 40s to
mid 50s. North winds around 5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then clearing. Patchy
freezing fog after midnight. Lows 15 to 25. North winds 10 to
15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Patchy freezing fog in the morning. Highs in the
lower to mid 40s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 15 to 25. Northeast winds 10 to
15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 40s to lower 50s. East winds
10 to 15 mph decreasing to around 5 mph late in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
lower 20s to lower 30s. Highs in the mid 40s to mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then partly cloudy with a
chance of rain and snow in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 40s to
mid 50s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow.
Lows in the mid 20s to mid 30s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow. Highs in
the lower to mid 40s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of
rain and snow. Lows in the mid 20s to lower 30s. Highs in the
lower 40s to lower 50s.
$$
CAZ083-180000-
North Central and Southeast Siskiyou County-
Including the cities of Pondosa, Bray, and Tennant
231 AM PST Thu Nov 17 2022
...AIR STAGNATION ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM PST FRIDAY...
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 40s to lower 50s.
Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
clear. Lows 15 to 20. North winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 30s to lower 40s. Northeast
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 15 to 20. East winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 40s. East winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 20s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs in the lower 40s to lower 50s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 20s to lower
30s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then partly cloudy with a
slight chance of rain and snow in the afternoon. Highs in the mid
40s to lower 50s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow.
Lows in the mid 20s to mid 30s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow. Highs in
the lower to mid 40s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow.
Lows in the mid 20s to lower 30s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. Slight chance of rain and snow. Highs in the lower 40s to
lower 50s.
$$
CAZ084-180000-
Northeast Siskiyou and Northwest Modoc Counties-
Including the cities of Newell, Tulelake, Dorris, and Macdoel
231 AM PST Thu Nov 17 2022
...AIR STAGNATION ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM PST FRIDAY...
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower to mid 40s. East winds
around 5 mph shifting to the north in the late morning and
afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Patchy freezing fog after midnight. Lows
around 15. North winds around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Patchy freezing fog in the morning. Highs in the
mid 30s to lower 40s. North winds 5 to 10 mph shifting to the
east in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 10 to 15. East winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 40s. East winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows 10 to 20.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs in the lower to mid 40s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows 15 to 25.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then partly cloudy with a
slight chance of rain and snow in the afternoon. Highs in the mid
40s to lower 50s.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain
and snow. Lows in the mid 20s to lower 30s. Highs in the lower
40s to lower 50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow.
Lows in the mid 20s to lower 30s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Slight chance of rain and snow in the
morning, then slight chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs in
the mid 40s.
$$
CAZ085-180000-
Modoc County-
Including the cities of Day, Lookout, Adin, Alturas, Canby,
Davis Creek, and Likely
231 AM PST Thu Nov 17 2022
...AIR STAGNATION ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM PST FRIDAY...
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Patchy freezing fog this morning. Highs
in the lower to mid 40s. East winds around 5 mph shifting to the
north this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then clearing. Patchy
freezing fog after midnight. Lows 10 to 15. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Patchy freezing fog in the morning. Highs in the
lower 30s to lower 40s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph. Wind chill
readings near zero in the morning.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 5 to 15. East winds 10 to
15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 30s to lower 40s. East winds
5 to 10 mph. Wind chill readings around 5 below in the morning.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows 10 to 15.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower to
mid 40s. Lows 10 to 20.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then partly cloudy with a
slight chance of rain and snow in the afternoon. Highs in the
lower 40s to lower 50s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow. Lows in the
mid 20s to lower 30s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Chance of snow in the morning, then
chance of rain and snow in the afternoon. Highs in the lower to
mid 40s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow.
Lows in the mid 20s to lower 30s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain and snow.
Highs in the lower to mid 40s.
$$
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MADRID (AP) — Real Madrid has plans to launch its own theme park in Dubai.
The Spanish club announced a deal with Dubai Parks and Resorts on Thursday to build a Real Madrid theme park to be inaugurated “in the final quarter of 2023.”
The 14-time European club champion said the park will feature “Real Madrid-related attractions,” including “a museum, amusement rides and games of footballing skill” in addition to shops.
Fernando Eiroa, CEO of Dubai Holding Entertainment, told the club website: “We are delighted that Real Madrid has chosen Dubai Parks and Resorts as its partner in our quest to bring the best international entertainment brands to the region.”
Dubai Parks and Resorts runs a Legoland park and theme parks inspired by the Hollywood and Bollywood film industries.
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CA San Diego CA Zone Forecast for Wednesday, November 16, 2022
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186 FPUS56 KSGX 171013
ZFPSGX
Zone Forecast Product for Extreme Southwest California
National Weather Service San Diego CA
213 AM PST Thu Nov 17 2022
CAZ552-172215-
Orange County Coastal Areas-
Including the cities of Huntington Beach, Coasta Mesa,
Newport Beach, Laguna Beach, and San Clemente
213 AM PST Thu Nov 17 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Areas of winds
northeast 15 mph becoming west this afternoon. Gusts to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Areas of winds
northwest 15 mph becoming south overnight.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s at the beaches to
the upper 60s farther inland and near higher coastal terrain.
Areas of winds south 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50. Areas of winds
northeast 20 to 30 mph. Gusts to 40 mph...becoming 50 mph
overnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 70. Areas of winds
northeast 20 to 30 mph. Gusts to 50 mph...becoming 40 mph in the
afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Breezy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 70.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening...becoming partly
cloudy. Lows around 50.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning...becoming mostly sunny.
Highs in the mid 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening...becoming partly
cloudy. Lows around 50.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
$$
CAZ554-172215-
Orange County Inland Areas-
Including the cities of Santa Ana, Anaheim, Garden Grove, Irvine,
Orange, Fullerton, and Mission Viego
213 AM PST Thu Nov 17 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Areas of winds
northeast 15 to 25 mph with gusts to 40 mph becoming west 15 mph
with gusts to 30 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Light winds.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. Light winds.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Areas of
winds northeast 30 to 40 mph. Gusts to 55 mph...becoming 60 mph
overnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s towards the
coast to the upper 60s farther inland. Areas of winds northeast
30 to 40 mph with gusts to 60 mph...becoming 20 to 30 mph with
gusts to 45 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear, windy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning...becoming mostly sunny.
Highs in the upper 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening...becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
CAZ043-172215-
San Diego County Coastal Areas-
Including the cities of Oceanside, Vista, Carlsbad, Encinitas,
Chula Vista, National City, and San Diego
213 AM PST Thu Nov 17 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s near the coast to
the lower 70s inland. Areas of winds northeast 15 mph becoming
northwest this afternoon. Gusts to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s. Areas of winds
north 15 mph with gusts to 25 mph in the evening becoming light.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. Light winds.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Light winds
becoming northeast 15 to 20 mph with gusts to 35 mph overnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 70. Areas of winds
northeast 15 to 20 mph with gusts to 35 mph in the morning
becoming light.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s near the coast to
the lower 70s inland.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening...becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s near the coast to
70 inland.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning...becoming mostly sunny.
Highs in the mid 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s near the coast
to the upper 60s inland.
$$
CAZ050-172215-
San Diego County Valleys-
Including the cities of Escondido, El Cajon, San Marcos, La Mesa,
Santee, and Poway
213 AM PST Thu Nov 17 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s in the western
valleys to the upper 60s near the foothills. Areas of winds east
15 to 25 mph with gusts to 40 mph becoming west 15 mph with gusts
to 30 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s. Light winds.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s in the western
valleys to the mid 60s near the foothills. Light winds.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s. Areas of winds
east 15 to 25 mph. Gusts to 40 mph...becoming 45 mph overnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s in the western
valleys to the lower 60s near the foothills. Areas of winds east
15 to 25 mph. Gusts to 45 mph...becoming 40 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear, breezy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s in the western
valleys to the mid 60s near the foothills.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s in the western
valleys to the upper 60s near the foothills.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning...becoming mostly sunny.
Highs in the upper 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening...becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
$$
CAZ048-172215-
San Bernardino and Riverside County Valleys-The Inland Empire-
Including the cities of Riverside, San Bernardino, Ontario,
Moreno Valley, Fontana, Rancho Cucamonga, and Corona
213 AM PST Thu Nov 17 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 70. Areas of winds north
15 to 20 mph. Gusts to 40 mph...becoming 35 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s. Areas of winds east
15 mph with gusts to 25 mph in the evening becoming light.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. Light winds
becoming north 15 to 20 mph with gusts to 35 mph in the
afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s. Areas of
winds north 25 to 35 mph. Gusts to 55 mph...becoming 60 mph
overnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. Areas of winds
north 25 to 35 mph with gusts to 60 mph becoming east with gusts
to 55 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear, breezy. Lows in the lower 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning...becoming mostly sunny.
Highs in the upper 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening...becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning...becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
CAZ057-172215-
Santa Ana Mountains and Foothills-
213 AM PST Thu Nov 17 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. Areas of winds
northeast 15 to 25 mph. Gusts to 40 mph...becoming 30 mph this
afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Areas of winds
north 15 mph in the evening becoming light.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. Light winds
becoming north 15 mph with gusts to 30 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s. Areas of winds
north 25 to 35 mph. Gusts to 50 mph...becoming 60 mph overnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. Areas of winds north
25 to 35 mph. Gusts to 60 mph...becoming 45 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear, breezy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening...becoming mostly
clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening...becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning...becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
$$
CAZ055-172215-
San Bernardino County Mountains-
Including the cities of Crestline, Lake Arrowhead, Big Bear City,
Big Bear Lake, Running Springs, and Wrightwood
213 AM PST Thu Nov 17 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 40s above 6000 feet to
the mid 50s below 6000 feet. Areas of winds north 15 mph. Near
ridge tops and along desert slopes, areas of winds north 15 mph
this morning becoming light. Gusts to 30 mph...becoming 25 mph
this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 30s above 6000 feet to
40 below 6000 feet. Areas of winds west 15 to 20 mph with gusts
to 30 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 40s above 6000 feet to
the lower 50s below 6000 feet. Areas of winds north 15 to 20 mph.
Gusts to 30 mph...becoming 35 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Colder. Lows in the upper 20s.
Areas of winds northeast 15 to 25 mph with gusts to 45 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 30s above 6000 feet to the
upper 40s below 6000 feet. Areas of winds northeast 15 to 25 mph.
Gusts to 45 mph...becoming 40 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows around 30.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 40s above 6000 feet to
the lower 50s below 6000 feet.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 30s.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 40s above 6000 feet
to the lower 50s below 6000 feet.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening...becoming mostly
clear. Lows in the mid 30s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 40s above 6000 feet to
the mid 50s below 6000 feet.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening...becoming mostly
clear. Lows in the mid 30s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning...becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the lower 40s above 6000 feet to the mid 50s
below 6000 feet.
$$
CAZ056-172215-
Riverside County Mountains-
Including the city of Idyllwild-Pine Cove
213 AM PST Thu Nov 17 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 50s. Areas of winds
east 15 to 20 mph. Gusts to 35 mph...becoming 30 mph this
afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s. Light winds
becoming northwest 15 mph with gusts to 30 mph overnight.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 50. Areas of winds northwest
15 mph with gusts to 25 mph becoming northeast with gusts to
30 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s. Areas of winds
northeast 15 to 25 mph with gusts to 40 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 40s. Areas of winds northeast
15 to 25 mph. Gusts to 40 mph...becoming 35 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 30s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs around 50.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 50s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening...becoming mostly
clear. Lows in the upper 30s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening...becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning...becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the lower 50s.
$$
CAZ058-172215-
San Diego County Mountains-
Including the cities of Julian and Pine Valley
213 AM PST Thu Nov 17 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 50s. Areas of winds east
15 to 25 mph. Gusts to 45 mph...becoming 40 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s. Light winds
becoming west 15 mph with gusts to 25 mph overnight.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 50s. Areas of winds west
15 mph becoming east in the afternoon. Gusts to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s. Areas of
winds east 15 to 25 mph with gusts to 40 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs around 50. Areas of winds east 20 to
30 mph with gusts to 45 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear, windy. Lows in the upper 30s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 50s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 40.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening...becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning...becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the upper 50s.
$$
CAZ060-172215-
Apple and Lucerne Valleys-
Including the cities of Victorville, Hesperia, Apple Valley,
and Lucerne Valley
213 AM PST Thu Nov 17 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. Light winds.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s. Light winds.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. Light winds
becoming northeast 15 to 20 mph with gusts to 30 mph in the
afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s. Areas of winds
northeast 15 to 20 mph. Gusts to 35 mph...becoming 30 mph
overnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 50s. Areas of winds
northeast 15 mph. Gusts to 25 mph...becoming 30 mph in the
afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 30s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening...becoming mostly
clear. Lows around 40.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning...becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
$$
CAZ065-172215-
San Gorgonio Pass Near Banning-
213 AM PST Thu Nov 17 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 70. Areas of winds northeast
15 to 25 mph with gusts to 40 mph becoming southeast 15 mph with
gusts to 30 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Light winds.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 70. Light winds becoming
east 15 to 25 mph with gusts to 35 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Areas of
winds north 30 to 40 mph. Gusts to 50 mph...becoming 60 mph
overnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. Areas of winds north
30 to 40 mph with gusts to 60 mph becoming northeast 20 to 30 mph
with gusts to 45 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear, windy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs around 70.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs around 70.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening...becoming mostly
clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning...becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
$$
CAZ061-172215-
Coachella Valley-
Including the cities of Indio, Palm Springs, Cathedral City,
Palm Desert, Palm Desert Country, La Quinta, and Coachella
213 AM PST Thu Nov 17 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Light winds.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s. Light winds.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Light winds.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Areas of
winds northwest 20 to 30 mph. Gusts to 40 mph...becoming 50 mph
overnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. Areas of winds north
20 to 30 mph. Gusts to 50 mph...becoming 35 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning...becoming mostly sunny.
Highs in the lower 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening...becoming mostly
clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening...becoming partly
cloudy. Lows around 50.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning...becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
$$
CAZ062-172215-
San Diego County Deserts-
Including the city of Borrego Springs
213 AM PST Thu Nov 17 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 70. Light winds.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s. Light winds.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Light winds.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Areas of
winds north 15 mph with gusts to 25 mph becoming southwest with
gusts to 30 mph overnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. Areas of winds south
15 mph becoming northeast in the afternoon. Gusts to 30 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs around 70.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning...becoming mostly sunny.
Highs in the lower 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
$$
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NEW YORK, Nov. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in PayPal Holdings, Inc. ("PayPal" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: PYPL) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of PayPal investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud. This lawsuit is on behalf of all persons or entities who purchased PayPal common stock between February 3, 2021, and February 1, 2022, inclusive. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
https://www.zlk.com/pslra-1/paypal-lawsuit-loss-submission-form?prid=33769&wire=4
PYPL investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at [email protected] or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed that: (1) defendants had inflated the Company's vitally important Net New Active Accounts metric guidance through an usually large use of marketing campaigns that were easily susceptible to fraud; i.e. the creation of millions of illegitimate accounts which were created for the sole purpose of taking advantage of cash incentives for account creation; (2) defendants used these marketing campaigns and other incentives to hide the Company's true churn rate and declining levels of engagement with the platform; and (3) as a result, defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially false and misleading and /or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in PayPal during the relevant time frame, you have until December 5, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
WHY LEVI & KORSINSKY: Over the past 20 years, the team at Levi & Korsinsky has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for aggrieved shareholders and built a track record of winning high-stakes cases. Our firm has extensive expertise representing investors in complex securities litigation and a team of over 70 employees to serve our clients. For seven years in a row, Levi & Korsinsky has ranked in ISS Securities Class Action Services' Top 50 Report as one of the top securities litigation firms in the United States.
CONTACT:
Levi & Korsinsky, LLP
Joseph E. Levi, Esq.
Ed Korsinsky, Esq.
55 Broadway, 10th Floor
New York, NY 10006
[email protected]
Tel: (212) 363-7500
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SAO PAULO (AP) — When Brazil coach Tite uttered the name of veteran Dani Alves in his call for the World Cup squad, reactions around the country spanned from anger to disappointment.
The Brazil coach, who has faced little criticism in his six years on the job, described his pick in a paused, not-so-confident tone.
“The criteria for Daniel Alves is the criteria for all,” Tite said. “It is about rewarding individual skill, his fitness and his mental aspect. Just like the others.”
Alves himself, however, recognized that many didn't want him in the squad for Qatar.
“I am not here to please everyone,” he said in a video.
The rancor has nothing to do with the right back's brilliant past, but the presence of a 39-year-old player who has struggled to play for any club in the past year laid bare the lack of options Brazil has on both flanks of the defense.
Tite's most likely options to start at the World Cup are right back Danilo, who has become more of a central defender at Juventus, and Alex Sandro, a player with little background as a typical Brazilian left back that runs from box to box.
Neither Danilo nor Alex Sandro are regarded as two of the best in the world in their positions, such as predecessors Cafu, Roberto Carlos, Marcelo and the peak Alves of 10 years ago were. At the same time, the duo has not caused Brazil much defensive trouble, being part of a team that conceded only five goals in South American qualifying.
Alves and Alex Telles are expected to be on the bench in Qatar, with Eder Militão also capable of playing as a right back and midfielder Fabinho as a left back.
“They are OK,” former Brazil left back Junior, now a TV commentator, said this month about Tite's options. “They are not players who will be up front all the time. They are more cautious. But I don't see any other choices that would be better to start at this time.”
Over the last year, Tite lost another two options that could have helped.
Fagner, a 33-year-old right back who replaced an injured Alves four years ago in Russia, had a poor season at Corinthians. Former Sevilla left back Guilherme Arana picked up a knee injury in September, ruling him out of the World Cup.
Brazil's coach also found little reason to bring back Renan Lodi, who was loaned to Nottingham Forest after struggling at Atletico Madrid.
Lodi was blamed for Brazil's 1-0 loss to Argentina in the 2021 Copa America final, with goal scorer Ángel di Maria saying he knew the Brazilian “slept a little” during matches. The left back didn't find any sympathy from Tite after he missed a callup earlier in the year because he wasn't vaccinated against COVID-19.
Brazil's right back at the World Cup, whoever he may be, could also face increased pressure playing alongside 38-year-old defender Thiago Silva.
Silva has been less consistent than usual at Chelsea, highlighted by a dreadful performance in the 4-1 loss to Brighton in the Premier League last month. A right back that can also run for an aging Silva could be key to avoid conceding goals in Qatar.
Cafu, who was on Brazil's World Cup-winning team in 2002, said protecting Silva is one of the reasons why Tite will eventually use Militão as a starting right back during the World Cup. He also trusts Brazil to do well in Qatar regardless of the lack of options at the back.
“I don't know why we have this shortage of players for those positions. But it is not only for the national team, we see that in clubs, too," Cafu said in an interview last month. "Coaches are adapting midfielders to that position because they don't know how to specifically work with right and left backs.
“Also, it is unfair to compare these players with us. Anyone playing as a right or left back today has a lot of responsibility. They have to replace people who made history for Brazil.”
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PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday that “sports should not be politicized,” days after it was announced — to criticism — that he would attend the World Cup in Qatar if France reaches the semifinals.
Speaking in Bangkok, Macron said issues about Qatar’s human rights record and the environment were “questions you have to ask yourself when you award the event.”
Qatar won the hosting rights for this year's tournament in a FIFA vote in 2010.
The World Cup has sparked multiple controversies — from the living conditions of migrant workers to the impact on the environment of air-conditioned stadiums and the place of LGBTQ people, women and minorities.
The first World Cup to be held in an Arab country opens on Sunday. On Monday, the presidential Elysee said Macron will go to the Qatar if the country's national team reaches the semifinals, specifying that the French president “wrote them a message” to this effect.
Last month, the city of Paris said it will not broadcast World Cup matches on giant screens in public fan zones amid concerns about Qatar’s human rights record.
It follows similar moves by other French cities, despite France being the defending champion.
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CA San Francisco Bay Area Zone Forecast for Wednesday, November 16, 2022
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561 FPUS56 KMTR 171101
ZFPMTR
San Francisco Bay Area/Central California Zone Forecast
National Weather Service San Francisco Bay Area
301 AM PST Thu Nov 17 2022
This is an automatically generated product that provides average
values for large geographic areas. For a more site specific
forecast...please visit weather.gov/sanfrancisco
(1) Select a location from the drop down menu above the map...
-- or --
(2) Click a location on the map.
You can refine your selection by clicking on the map displayed on
the resulting page.
CAZ505-180200-
Coastal North Bay...Including Point Reyes National Seashore-
301 AM PST Thu Nov 17 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
Northeast winds around 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s. North winds around 5 mph...
becoming west in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s. Northwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs near 60. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 40. Northeast winds
5 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs around 60.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower
40s. Highs around 60.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain. Lows
in the mid 40s. Highs in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain. Lows in
the mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Point Reyes 41 60 41 60 /
$$
CAZ503-180200-
Sonoma Coastal Range-
301 AM PST Thu Nov 17 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s. East winds
around 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s. South winds around 5 mph...becoming
west in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 40. West winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. North winds 5 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 30s. Northeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower
40s. Highs in the mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain. Lows
in the mid 40s. Highs in the lower 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain. Lows in
the mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
$$
CAZ502-180200-
Marin Coastal Range-
301 AM PST Thu Nov 17 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s. North
winds around 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s. East winds 5 to 10 mph...becoming
northwest 5 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s. Northwest
winds 5 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. Northwest winds around
5 mph...becoming north 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows around 40. Northeast winds 10 to
15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs around 60.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower
40s. Highs around 60.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of rain. Lows in
the mid 40s.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of
rain. Highs in the upper 50s. Lows in the mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
$$
CAZ506-180200-
North Bay Interior Valleys-
301 AM PST Thu Nov 17 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s to upper
40s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs in the 50s to upper 60s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph...becoming southwest in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 30s to mid 40s.
Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s to lower 70s. North winds
5 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 30s to mid 40s.
Northeast winds 10 to 20 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 50s to upper 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower
30s to mid 40s. Highs in the mid 50s to upper 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain. Lows
in the 30s to upper 40s. Highs in the 50s to mid 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Patchy fog. A slight chance of
rain. Lows in the 40s to lower 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. Patchy fog. Highs in the 50s to upper 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Santa Rosa 35 66 34 68 /
San Rafael 43 65 43 69 /
Napa 39 63 38 63 /
$$
CAZ504-180200-
North Bay Interior Mountains-
301 AM PST Thu Nov 17 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the 40s. Northeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s to lower 60s. North winds 5 to
10 mph...becoming west in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s. North winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, breezy. Highs in the mid 50s to lower 60s. North
winds 20 to 30 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear, breezy. Lows in the lower 40s. North winds
20 to 30 mph decreasing to 10 to 20 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 50s to lower 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower
40s. Highs in the mid 50s to lower 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain. Lows in
the 40s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain. Highs in the 50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain. Lows in
the upper 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s to lower 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Lake Berryessa 44 63 45 61 /
$$
CAZ006-180200-
San Francisco-
301 AM PST Thu Nov 17 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid to upper 40s.
North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs in the 50s to mid 60s. North winds 5 to 10 mph...
becoming northwest 5 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s. Northwest
winds 5 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs
in the upper 50s to mid 60s. North winds 5 to 10 mph increasing
to 10 to 20 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 40s. Northeast winds 10 to
20 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid
40s. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain. Lows
in the upper 40s. Highs in the mid 50s to lower 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain. Lows in
the lower 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs in the 50s to mid 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
San Francisco 44 61 45 62 /
Ocean Beach 45 60 45 60 /
$$
CAZ509-180200-
San Francisco Peninsula Coast-
301 AM PST Thu Nov 17 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 40s.
Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs around 60. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph...becoming northwest 5 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 40s.
Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. North winds 10 to
20 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Breezy. Lows in the lower 40s.
Northeast winds 20 to 30 mph decreasing to 10 to 20 mph after
midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower
to mid 40s. Highs in the lower 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight
chance of rain. Lows in the upper 40s. Highs in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s.
$$
CAZ508-180200-
San Francisco Bay Shoreline-
301 AM PST Thu Nov 17 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s. North
winds around 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s. Northeast
winds around 5 mph...becoming northwest 5 to 15 mph in the
afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s. West winds 10 to 15 mph...
becoming northeast after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs
in the lower 60s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph...becoming north
10 to 20 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s. North
winds 5 to 10 mph...becoming northeast 10 to 20 mph after
midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower
40s. Highs in the mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain. Lows
in the upper 40s. Highs in the lower 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain. Lows in
the upper 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
SFO Airport 45 63 45 62 /
Oakland 43 63 44 63 /
Fremont 40 63 42 61 /
Redwood City 43 64 44 64 /
Mountain View 42 61 44 61 /
$$
CAZ510-180200-
East Bay Interior Valleys-
301 AM PST Thu Nov 17 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 40. Light winds.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s. North winds around 5 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 40. West winds around
5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. North winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 30s. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
Lows in the upper 30s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of rain. Lows in the
lower 40s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain. Highs in the lower
60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain. Lows in
the mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Concord 38 64 40 65 /
Livermore 40 65 39 64 /
$$
CAZ513-180200-
Santa Clara Valley...including San Jose-
301 AM PST Thu Nov 17 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s. Light
winds.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s. Northeast
winds around 5 mph...becoming northwest in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs
in the mid 60s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 30s. Northeast winds
around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
lower 40s. Highs in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs
in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. A slight chance of rain. Lows in the mid 40s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain. Highs in the
mid 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny.
Highs in the mid 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
San Jose 41 65 43 63 /
Morgan Hill 40 68 39 65 /
$$
CAZ512-180200-
Santa Cruz Mountains-
301 AM PST Thu Nov 17 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the 40s. Northeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s.
North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 50s to lower 60s. North winds 10 to
20 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows near 40. Northeast winds 10 to
20 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 40s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of rain. Lows in the mid
40s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain. Highs in the mid 50s
to lower 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain. Lows in
the mid 40s to lower 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny.
Highs in the mid 50s to lower 60s.
$$
CAZ515-180200-
East Bay Hills-
301 AM PST Thu Nov 17 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s. North
winds around 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs around 60. North winds around 5 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s. West winds
5 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs around 60. North winds 10 to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 30s. North winds 15 to
20 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Mostly clear. Lows around 40. Highs
in the upper 50s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs around 60.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of rain. Lows in the mid
40s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain. Highs in the upper
50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain. Lows in
the upper 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
$$
CAZ514-180200-
Eastern Santa Clara Hills-
301 AM PST Thu Nov 17 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s to upper
40s. West winds around 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s. South winds
around 5 mph...becoming northwest in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the 30s to mid 40s.
Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 50s. North winds 10 to
20 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the 30s to lower 40s. North winds
5 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the 30s to mid
40s. Highs in the mid 50s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the 30s to mid 40s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 50s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of rain. Lows in
the 30s to upper 40s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain. Highs in the
mid 50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the 30s to upper 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s.
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CAZ529-180200-
Northern Monterey Bay-
301 AM PST Thu Nov 17 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s. Light
winds.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s. North winds
around 5 mph...becoming west in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 40. North winds
around 5 mph in the evening...becoming light.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s. Northeast
winds around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around
40. Highs in the mid 60s.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs
in the mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of
rain. Lows in the lower 40s. Highs in the lower 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Santa Cruz 41 64 40 62 /
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CAZ530-180200-
Southern Monterey Bay and Big Sur Coast-
301 AM PST Thu Nov 17 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s to lower
50s. Light winds.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s. Northeast
winds around 5 mph increasing to northwest 10 to 20 mph in the
afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the 40s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs
around 60. Northwest winds 10 to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the 40s. East winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
40s to lower 50s. Highs in the mid 60s.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs
in the lower 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s to lower 50s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain. Highs in the
lower 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny.
Highs in the lower 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Monterey 42 63 42 59 /
Big Sur 48 65 46 64 /
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CAZ528-180200-
Northern Salinas Valley...Hollister Valley...and Carmel Valley-
301 AM PST Thu Nov 17 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s to mid
40s. East winds around 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s. East winds
5 to 10 mph...becoming northwest in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 40. West winds around
5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s to lower 40s.
East winds around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows near
40. Highs in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs
in the mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of rain. Lows in
the lower 40s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain. Highs in the
lower 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny.
Highs in the lower 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Salinas 40 66 39 60 /
Carmel Valley 45 68 42 63 /
Hollister 38 66 38 64 /
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CAZ516-180200-
Southern Salinas Valley...Arroyo Seco...and Lake San Antonio-
301 AM PST Thu Nov 17 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost. Lows in the mid
30s. Light winds.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs
in the upper 60s. Southeast winds around 5 mph...becoming
northwest in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost after midnight.
Lows in the mid 30s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph in the evening...
becoming light.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in the mid
60s. North winds 5 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Widespread frost after midnight.
Lows in the lower 30s. Northeast winds around 5 mph in the
evening...becoming light.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Widespread frost. Highs in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs
in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Areas of frost. Lows in the mid
30s.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny.
Widespread frost. Highs in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Areas of frost. Lows in the mid
30s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 40.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny.
Highs in the mid 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
King City 35 68 35 65 /
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CAZ517-180200-
Santa Lucia Mountains and Los Padres National Forest-
301 AM PST Thu Nov 17 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the 30s to upper 40s.
Southwest winds around 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s to upper 60s.
East winds around 5 mph...becoming north in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s to upper 40s.
North winds 10 to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 50s to lower 60s. North winds 5 to
15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 30s to mid 40s.
Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 50s to mid 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s to
upper 40s. Highs in the 50s to 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s to upper 40s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 50s to 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the 30s to upper 40s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. A slight chance of rain. Highs in the lower 50s to mid
60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the 40s.
Highs in the lower 50s to mid 60s.
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CAZ518-180200-
Mountains of San Benito and Interior Monterey County including
Pinnacles National Park-
301 AM PST Thu Nov 17 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the 30s to mid 40s. East
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly
cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s to upper 60s. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph...becoming northwest 5 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s to lower 40s.
North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 40s to mid 60s. North winds
10 to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the 30s. Northeast winds 10 to
15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 50s to mid 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the 30s to
lower 40s. Highs in the 50s to 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s to lower 40s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 50s to mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s to
lower 40s. Highs in the lower 50s to mid 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the 30s to mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny.
Highs in the lower 50s to mid 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Pinnacles NP 36 69 36 65 /
$$
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Aaron Rodgers has hit the ground in every NFL stadium except one. And while the “frozen tundra” of Lambeau Field has delivered its share of bumps and bruises, the venues with artificial turf have been even rougher on Rodgers’ nearly 39-year-old body.
“I do think it’s time to go all grass throughout the league,” the four-time MVP said Tuesday, echoing a growing sentiment that’s become a major talking point around the NFL.
Players Association President JC Tretter called on six venues to immediately change their playing surfaces last weekend, saying the artificial turf in those stadiums results in higher injury rates when comparing non-contact injuries and lower extremity injuries like sprained ankles and torn knee ligaments.
Players from Seattle to Miami, from New England to Los Angeles, have loudly backed Tretter. Rodgers, Green Bay's 10-time Pro Bowl quarterback who has played in every stadium except Las Vegas, thinks there's a way for the league to pivot to grass quickly.
“A lot of money in this league,” he said. “It’s about cost. I don’t know how much that would cost. ... But the league’s been doing pretty well.”
Does Rodgers think it will get done?
“No, honestly,” he said. “I don’t have a lot of confidence when it comes to the league making that decision without some sort of big vote and gripes from certain owners who don’t want to spend the money. ... This would be putting your money where your mouth is if player safety is important.”
The NFL hasn't acknowledged a need for new sod. Jeff Miller, the executive vice president of communications, public affairs & policy for the NFL, said in a statement Saturday that injury rates are approximately the same on grass and turf.
The data provided by the league did not distinguish between the three types of turf used: monofilament, dual fiber and slit film. Tretter specifically took exception with the slit-film surfaces used in Cincinnati, Detroit, Indianapolis, Minnesota, New Orleans and New York.
Players parroted Tretter's plea, and even a few coaches have joined the push.
“I prefer natural grass,” Kansas City Chiefs coach Andy Reid said. “I’ve listened to all the studies, density studies, I’ve seen all the different compounds they’ve put in there. I still like grass.”
Most players do, too.
“You kind of feel the difference when you’re running,” Minnesota Vikings running back Dalvin Cook said. “If we can fix it, let’s fix it. Let’s get the safest atmosphere for us to go play in.”
Added Detroit receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown: “I do prefer playing on grass. It’s more forgiving, more natural, and it just feel it’s better. It feels better on my joints, my ankles and whatnot.”
Jacksonville Jaguars safety Rayshawn Jenkins called artificial turf the equivalent of playing in a parking lot, saying “I’m getting slammed on the concrete. It doesn’t feel good.”
Carolina Panthers tight end Tommy Tremble watched teammate Donte Jackson tear an Achilles tendon at home — the latest in a rash of season-ending injuries sustained on turf.
“Guys get terrible injuries from that stuff,” Tremble said. “I get the usability of it, but this is a billion-dollar business, and I think where we should put the money into should be for the players because if we got grass fields and can keep playing, the money keeps rolling in. You see star guys go down all of the time because of it.”
The Panthers already have urged owner David Tepper to switch to grass in the offseason. Sure, it costs more in the long run, but technology advancements have made grass fields more tolerant to every condition seen in the NFL: heat, cold, humidity and dryness. Two indoor venues — in Arizona and Las Vegas — have grass fields that can be rolled into the sun.
Fourteen of the NFL's 30 venues still use a version of synthetic turf. The Hellas Matrix Turf used in Dallas, Houston and Los Angeles is widely considered the best. It's created using a textured and twisted monofilament fiber.
Slit film, meanwhile, has sliced strands that form a honeycomb shape. It holds up well to frequent use, but the concern is whether cleats are getting caught in the honeycombs.
“They don’t have a bad field in this league, but there are better fields,” New York Giants safety Julian Love said. “There is a type of turf that has proven to be better. We happen to play on the lowest turf in the league, so you want to see those standards go up.”
Added Cincinnati Bengals nose tackle D.J. Reader: “I do know that after having surgery, and when I go out there and play on turf fields, it’s different. It’s a lot more pounding. I get a lot more achy after games."
Tretter, a longtime NFL center who played in Green Bay and Cleveland, began his anti-artificial turf campaign two years ago after San Francisco 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan and players expressed concern about the MetLife Stadium turf in New Jersey.
Defensive end Nick Bosa, quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo, defensive tackle Solomon Thomas and running backs Raheem Mostert and Tevin Coleman all suffered game-ending lower-body injuries that day.
Thomas, coincidentally, now plays for the Jets. He was among the many calling for immediate change.
“No one knows the beating that our bodies take on turf more than us — the players,” Thomas posted on Twitter. “The sport is violent enough. We shouldn’t be taking more damage from the field, too.”
All those 49ers injuries prompted a review involving representatives from the NFL, NFLPA, MetLife Stadium, the Jets, the Giants, the turf maker and an independent field inspector. They concluded that the field met all applicable standards and protocols for NFL surfaces.
Two years later, Tretter — now with players like Rodgers standing behind him — insists the standards need to be raised.
“As players, we have a simple message for the league: stop with the lip service, stop with the media spin, stop pretending you care," he said. "And if you actually do care, take the actionable steps to fix the problems our union has identified, especially those issues you actually agree with.”
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AP Sports Writers Dave Campbell, Tom Canavan, Kyle Hightower, Larry Lage, Brett Martel, Steve Megargee, Charles Odum, Steve Reed, Andrew Seligman, Dave Skretta, Mitch Stacy, Dennis Waszak and Tom Withers contributed to this report.
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Here are some things to watch this week in the Pac-12 Conference:
GAME OF THE WEEK
No. 7 USC (9-1 overall, 7-1 Pac-12, No. 7 CFP) at No. 16 UCLA (8-2, 5-2, No. 16 CFP), Saturday.
For USC, the road to the Pac-12 championship game boils down to a simple scenario: A win over the Bruins guarantees the Trojans a spot. Along with it, they get city bragging rights. There remains a path to the league’s title game for UCLA but it's not as straightforward. The crosstown showdown features two dynamic passers in USC’s Caleb Williams and UCLA’s Dorian Thompson-Robinson. Williams has thrown 31 TD passes and rushed for six. Thompson-Robinson has 20 TD passes and has run for seven more. USC enters as a 1 1/2-point favorite, according to FanDuel Sportsbook. To the winner goes the Victory Bell, which is a nearly 300-pound bell from a freight locomotive.
MATCHUP OF THE WEEK
No. 10 Utah (8-2, 6-1 Pac-12, No. 10 CFP) at No. 12 Oregon (8-2, 6-1, No. 12 CFP), Saturday
The winner will head into the last week of the regular season controlling its path to the league’s title game. The Utes beat the Ducks twice last season — once during the year (38-7) and again in the conference championship game (38-10). Oregon will be hosting a ranked team for a second straight week. The Ducks lost to No. 15 Washington (8-2, 5-2, No. 17 CFP) on Peyton Henry’s winning kick in the final minute. The Utes' last victory over the Ducks at Autzen Stadium was in 2015.
INSIDE THE NUMBERS
USC defensive lineman Tuli Tuipulotu had 2 1/2 sacks and a forced fumble against Colorado to earn the league’s defensive player of the week honors. ... The Huskies are 7-2 against Colorado (1-9, 1-6) since the Buffaloes joined the Pac-12. That includes a win in the 2016 Pac-12 championship game. ... Huskies QB Michael Penix Jr. was the conference’s offensive player of the week after throwing for 408 yards and two scores at Oregon. ... Washington lost 20-17 in Boulder last season despite outgaining the Buffaloes by a 426-183 margin. ... Stanford (3-7, 1-7) and Cal (3-7, 1-6) compete in the 125th edition of the Big Game on Saturday in Berkeley. The Cardinal lead the series 65-48-11. The inaugural Big Game was at Berkeley in 1904, with Stanford winning 18-0. ... No. 25 Oregon State (7-3, 4-3, No. 23 CFP) heads to Arizona State (3-7, 2-5) as the Beavers return to the rankings for the second time this year. ... Oregon QB Bo Nix is tied for the FBS lead with 39 total touchdowns. ... Either USC or UCLA will score 10 points toward the Crosstown Cup, which is an annual trophy given to the school that has the most successful athletic year versus the other.
PLAYER TO WATCH
Arizona linebacker Jacob Manu, who’s coming off a career-best 10-tackle performance in a win at UCLA. He also had a quarterback hurry and a pass breakup as he earned the league’s freshman of the week honors.
UPSET WATCH
Washington State (6-4, 3-4) at Arizona (4-6, 2-5), Saturday
The bowl-eligible Cougars are 3 1/2-point favorites, according to FanDuel Sportsbook, over an Arizona team riding high after a win at UCLA. The Cougars haven’t won in Tucson since 2015.
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