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- Coronavirus: Xi sends a message on economy and getting back to business - South China Morning Post
- Actress Rose McGowan blasts Natalie Portman's Oscars cape - The Times of Israel
- Mobile World Congress Is Canceled Over Coronavirus Fears - WIRED
- Two wounded during gunfight inside Walmart in Mobile - FOX10 News
- Mobile World Congress Canceled: Why You Should Care - Forbes
- Boys hockey: Jack Keefe's overtime goal extends Edward Little's win streak to five - Lewiston Sun Journal
- Mobile World Congress in Barcelona called off over coronavirus fears - Reuters
- Fabian Ruiz's Goal Leads Napoli Past Inter in Coppa Italia Semi-Final Leg 1 - Bleacher Report
- Coronavirus Cases Seemed to Be Leveling Off. Not Anymore. - The New York Times
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- World's biggest mobile technology fair canceled over coronavirus fears | TheHill - The Hill
- Coronavirus live updates: China's Hubei reports 14,840 new cases, 242 additional deaths - CNBC
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- Mobile World Congress Trade Show In Barcelona Cancelled Over Coronavirus Fears - NPR
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| Coronavirus: Xi sends a message on economy and getting back to business - South China Morning Post Posted: 12 Feb 2020 10:10 PM PST [unable to retrieve full-text content] Coronavirus: Xi sends a message on economy and getting back to business South China Morning PostView Full coverage on Google NewsTop stories - Google News February 12, 2020 at 06:53AM https://ift.tt/3bBasI7 Coronavirus: Xi sends a message on economy and getting back to business - South China Morning Post Top stories - Google News https://ift.tt/2FLTecc Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  |
| Actress Rose McGowan blasts Natalie Portman's Oscars cape - The Times of Israel Posted: 12 Feb 2020 09:29 PM PST LOS ANGELES — US actress and #MeToo activist Rose McGowan has dismissed as a "fraud" Natalie Portman's Oscar dress embroidered with the names of female filmmakers overlooked for best director nominations. In a post on Facebook, the actress said she found Portman's red carpet Oscar protest "deeply offensive to those of us who actually do the work." "I'm not writing this out of bitterness," she added. "I am writing this out of disgust." McGowan said that while the black Dior cape stitched with the names of the snubbed directors got "rave reviews from the mainstream media" it was nothing more than "an actress acting the part of someone who cares." "Natalie, you have worked with two female directors in your very long career — one of them was you," McGowan wrote. "You have a production company that has hired exactly one female director — you."  Actor Rose McGowan is hugged at a news conference outside a Manhattan courthouse after the arrival of Harvey Weinstein, Monday, Jan. 6, 2020, in New York. Weinstein is on trial on charges of rape and sexual assault, more than two years after a torrent of women began accusing him of misconduct. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) In a statement to AFP, Portman agreed with McGowan that she didn't deserve to be called brave. "I agree with Ms McGowan that it is inaccurate to call me 'brave' for wearing a garment with women's names on it," Portman said. "Brave is a term I more strongly associate with actions like those of the women who have been testifying against Harvey Weinstein the last few weeks, under incredible pressure," she added in a reference to the disgraced Hollywood mogul on trial in New York charged with predatory sexual assault. She also acknowledged that she hasn't worked with as many female directors as she would have liked and pointed out the challenges films directed by women and minorities were up against. McGowan is among the many women who have accused Weinstein of sexual assault. McGowan said in her post that while Portman and other actresses have spoken out against the underrepresentation of women in the movie industry, they did little to effect change. "Until you and your fellow actresses get real, do us all a favor and hang up your embroidered activist cloak, it doesn't hang right," she said. "Actress" - Google News February 12, 2020 at 08:21PM https://ift.tt/39vP8SA Actress Rose McGowan blasts Natalie Portman's Oscars cape - The Times of Israel "Actress" - Google News https://ift.tt/31HZgDn Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  |
| Mobile World Congress Is Canceled Over Coronavirus Fears - WIRED Posted: 12 Feb 2020 09:18 PM PST [unable to retrieve full-text content]
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| Two wounded during gunfight inside Walmart in Mobile - FOX10 News Posted: 12 Feb 2020 08:48 PM PST [unable to retrieve full-text content]
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| Mobile World Congress Canceled: Why You Should Care - Forbes Posted: 12 Feb 2020 08:48 PM PST [unable to retrieve full-text content]
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| Posted: 12 Feb 2020 08:37 PM PST AUBURN — The Edward Little boys hockey team entered its contest against Bangor having played nine one-goal games. The Red Eddies played their 10th Wednesday, and extended their winning streak to five games by defeating the Rams 1-0 in overtime at Norway Savings Bank Arena. After a season that has been riddled with close losses, the Eddies are now 3-7 in one-goal games. All three of those wins have come during the five-game win streak, which has lifted Edward Little (6-10) from 12th to ninth in the Class A Heal point standings. Jack Keefe was the hero in overtime for the Red Eddies. Reed Chapman fed him a pass in the slot and Keefe beat Bangor goalie Jake Hirsch with 2:18 remaining in the overtime. The shot was the Red Eddies' 28th of the game, and the only one to get past Hirsch, who finished with 27 saves. "We weren't putting the pucks in the net," Keefe said. "Everyone was working hard, but weren't putting puck in the net." Another hero, besides Keefe and Chapman, for the Red Eddies was freshman goaltender Gage Ducharme, who made three of his 18 saves in overtime, as Bangor (7-8) controlled play in the EL zone early in the extra frame. Ducharme's biggest moment of the game came right before overtime began. Bangor was awarded a penalty shot as time expired at the end of the third period when the officials said Ducharme threw his stick. Ducharme waited patiently Bangor sophomore forward Daniel McCarthy to make his move. McCarthy beat Ducharme, but the puck hit the post to send the game in overtime. Ducharme said it's difficult to prepare for a penalty shot on the fly since they so rarely happen. He said he did face a penalty shot in youth hockey last season. "Not really, you have to do your best and stop the puck," Ducharme said. Bangor coach Quinn Paradi said the Rams were in a similar boat because they don't necessarily practice taking penalty shots. "We don't practice a lot of penalty shots, but we do some one-on-one stuff for goalies just to give them some breakaway work," Paradis said. "It's one of those things where its uncommon and with the minimal ice time you get, it's something you don't work on." Edward Little coach Norm Gagne said that in his 49 years of coaching Maine high school hockey, Wednesday is the first time he saw a penalty shot at the end of regulation. "No, I haven't, and I wasn't too happy with it, either," Gagne said with a laugh. "When they said someone threw their stick, I said, 'Oh, my God.' If he would have scored, what a way to end the game like that." Both teams had chances on the power play in the game, but EL went 0-for-4 and Bangor was 0-for-3. The problem for both teams was they often shot themselves in the foot by taking a penalty during power play opportunities. "I got a little worried on that four-minute penalty (in the first period)," Gagne said. "Then we took a couple of tough ones, and then we had to fight through that." Cassidy Campbell was perpetrator on that four-minute penalty, being called for a cross check and an unsportsmanlike conduct. At the end of the second period, Dylan Campbell took a two-minute minor 14 seconds into a Red Eddies power play. Paradis said he was proud of how his guys bounced back in their second game in 24 hours, the first a 9-1 home loss to Lewiston on Tuesday night. "Hey, we played well. I got to tip my hat to EL, they played a good game," Paradis said. "I am happy with my guys with how well we played today, even if the scoreboard doesn't show the success of the team." Comments are not available on this story. filed under: Related Stories  Latest Articles "Goal" - Google News February 12, 2020 at 05:09PM https://ift.tt/2HhzGxg Boys hockey: Jack Keefe's overtime goal extends Edward Little's win streak to five - Lewiston Sun Journal "Goal" - Google News https://ift.tt/35TEe8t Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  |
| Mobile World Congress in Barcelona called off over coronavirus fears - Reuters Posted: 12 Feb 2020 08:18 PM PST BARCELONA/BERLIN/PARIS (Reuters) - The Mobile World Congress (MWC), the annual telecoms industry gathering that draws more than 100,000 visitors to Barcelona, was canceled on Wednesday after a mass exodus by exhibitors due to fears over the coronavirus outbreak. An employee eats next to the Logo of MWC20 (Mobile World Congress) in Barcelona, Spain February 12, 2020. REUTERS/Nacho Doce Bowing to the inevitable, the GSMA telecoms association that hosts the get-together said it had canceled the Feb. 24-27 event despite assurances from local and national health officials that it would have been safe to hold it. "The GSMA has canceled MWC Barcelona 2020 because the global concern regarding the coronavirus outbreak, travel concern and other circumstances, make it impossible for the GSMA to hold the event," John Hoffman, the CEO of organizer GSMA, said in a statement. The announcement followed a crisis meeting of the GSMA board, after its hand was forced by the pullout of anchor European members including Deutsche Telekom (DTEGn.DE), Vodafone (VOD.L), BT (BT.L) and Nokia (NOKIA.HE). Spain's Telefonica, one of the biggest telecom operators not to have announced it was pulling out, said on Wednesday evening it "understands the GSMA's decision to cancel the Mobile World Congress 2020 due to the situation generated by coronavirus." It said it would always support Barcelona as host city of the Mobile World Congress. Barcelona's mayor, Ada Colau, said earlier she wanted to send a "message of calm," insisting the city was ready to host the event, while Spanish health officials reiterated that there was no reason to call off MWC. The World Health Organisation, a UN agency leading the coronavirus crisis response, had also called in vain for calm. "There is no evidence at present to suggest that there is community spread outside China, so WHO is not currently requesting that large gatherings are canceled," WHO spokesman Tarik Jasarevic told Reuters in Geneva. That failed, however, to alleviate concerns among major exhibitors that the precautions would be insufficient to halt the virus, which has spread beyond China's borders to two dozen countries. "To bring people together and connect them: That is what Telekom stands for. This is also what the Mobile World Congress, the 'class reunion' of our industry, stands for," Deutsche Telekom CEO Tim Hoettges posted on LinkedIn. But he said that large gatherings of people with many international guests posed a particular risk: "To take this risk would be irresponsible." The Chinese contingent at MWC has numbered 5,000-6,000 in recent years, making the event particularly vulnerable given the outbreak of the virus that has killed more than 1,100 people on the Chinese mainland. The GSMA said the host cities and partners respected and understood its decision, adding that they would "continue to be working in unison" towards staging next year's event. Hoffman and Colau are to hold a joint press conference on Thursday. Due to the sheer scale of MWC, with delegates packing out Barcelona's hotels and restaurants and causing the city's trade fair grounds to burst at the seams, postponement was never a realistic option, sources said. ON THE HOOKA final decision was made harder by the terms under which any events insurance taken out by the GSMA would pay out, industry sources and insurance experts said. This would be unlikely to kick in unless restrictions are imposed on public gatherings in the country on health grounds. "Where there is no ban and businesses make their own commercial decision, I cannot see the market paying out," Edel Ryan, who is on the Special Risks team at broker Marsh JLT Specialty, said before the GSMA's decision. Major Chinese exhibitors, led by Huawei, had stuck to plans to attend to the very last, ordering at-risk staff to isolate themselves in advance and drafting in replacements from elsewhere to run event stands and host clients. The GSMA had banned attendees from China's Hubei province, where the coronavirus outbreak began, and required others to prove that they had been outside the country for at least two weeks prior to the event. Coronavirus has proved to be contagious even when people who have caught it are asymptomatic, meaning that people attending might not even realize that they could infect others at MWC. Tracking the meetings and movements across the Fira trade grounds and the city of Barcelona of anyone who later tests positive would be a difficult task. Writing by Douglas Busvine, Additional reporting by Jessica Jones, Isla Binnie, Supantha Mukherjee, Joan Faus, Can Sezer, Tarmo Virki, Stephanie Nebehay, Carolyn Cohn and Noor Zainab Hussein; editing by Chizu Nomiyama, Kirsten Donovan and Leslie Adler Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles. "Mobile" - Google News February 12, 2020 at 03:13AM https://ift.tt/38nbqWJ Mobile World Congress in Barcelona called off over coronavirus fears - Reuters "Mobile" - Google News https://ift.tt/2P9t7Cg Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  |
| Fabian Ruiz's Goal Leads Napoli Past Inter in Coppa Italia Semi-Final Leg 1 - Bleacher Report Posted: 12 Feb 2020 07:37 PM PST  Fabian Ruiz fired Napoli to a 1-0 win over Inter Milan in the first leg of their Coppa Italia semi-final on Wednesday at the San Siro. A tight first half produced few chances for either side. Inter's Marcelo Brozovic fired a tame shot straight at David Ospina, while Lautaro Martinez headed Cristiano Biraghi's cross over the bar. Napoli's best chance of the opening 45 minutes fell to Dries Mertens, but the Belgium international could only blaze over after good work from Jose Callejon. The Naples club stunned the hosts by scoring the only goal on 57 minutes to give Gennaro Gattuso's side the advantage going into the second leg at the Stadio San Paolo. Ruiz swapped passes with Giovanni Di Lorenzo on the edge of the penalty area, and the midfielder curled an effort past the dive of goalkeeper Daniele Padelli. Antonio Conte made five changes to his starting XI, bringing in Martinez, Stefano Sensi, Alessandro Bastoni, Victor Moses and Biraghi. Gattuso also shuffled his pack and handed starts to Mertens, Callejon, Fabian, Elif Elmas and Kostas Manolas. Inter headed into the match fresh from a 4-2 derby win over AC Milan that moved the Nerazzurri top of Serie A, but they did not cause Napoli too many problems despite dominating possession throughout. Ospina was rarely tested otherwise in the first half. Martinez could have got a better connection on his header from a Biraghi cross, while the winger also curled a free-kick over the wall and wide of target. Padelli was forced into action on the half hour. He parried an effort from Elmas at his near post and will have been relieved to see Napoli had no one close enough to knock in the rebound. Eurosport journalist Siavoush Fallahi offered his thoughts on Inter's struggles: Siavoush Fallahi @SiavoushF The hosts made a change at half-time, sending on Danilo D'Ambrosio for Milan Skriniar, and continued to see plenty of the ball in the early stages of the second half. However, Fabian stunned the home crowd by curling the opener past a diving Padelli to open the scoring in some style (UK video only): Football on BT Sport @btsportfootball Conte sent on Christian Eriksen for Sensi on 65 minutes and then found himself booked for dissent minutes later for an angry outburst after Napoli were awarded a free-kick when Brozovic clashed with Mertens. Alexis Sanchez was the next attacking player to be thrown on by Conte, and Inter came close to an equaliser after a good run from Martinez. The striker managed to cut the ball back to Romelu Lukaku, but the Belgian somehow could not convert from close range. Inter pressed in the closing stages but to no avail. Eriksen hammered a low shot wide of the target, while D'Ambrosio appealed for a penalty after a push by Elmas. His claims were waved away. Ospina was forced into action deep into stoppage time to preserve the win. The Colombian blocked an effort from D'Ambrosio and claimed the rebound ahead of Eriksen, leaving Napoli in a strong position to reach the final. The second leg is at the San Paolo Stadium on March 5.
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| Coronavirus Cases Seemed to Be Leveling Off. Not Anymore. - The New York Times Posted: 12 Feb 2020 07:10 PM PST  The news seemed to be positive: The number of new coronavirus cases reported in China over the past week suggested that the outbreak might be slowing — that containment efforts were working. Stocks ticked upward in the United States, as some analysts declared it safe again to invest in companies that depend on China. But on Thursday, officials added more than 14,840 new cases to the tally of the infected in Hubei Province alone, bringing the total number to 48,206 — the largest one-day increase so far recorded. The death toll in the province rose to 1,310, including 242 new deaths. The sharp rise in reported cases illustrates how hard it still is to grasp the extent and severity of the coronavirus outbreak in China, particularly inside the epicenter, where thousands of sick people remain untested for the illness. The authorities were confronted by so many people with symptoms — and such a shortage of kits to test officially for the virus — that they had to change the way the illness is diagnosed. Hospitals in Wuhan, China — the largest city in Hubei Province and the center of the epidemic — have struggled to diagnose infections with scarce and complicated tests that detect the virus's genetic signature directly. Officials now seem to be including infections observed on lung scans alone. This shortcut will help get more patients into needed care, provincial officials said, but it also shows the enormous number of people who are sick and have not been counted in the official tally of the outbreak. The few experts to learn of the new numbers on Wednesday night were startled. "We're in unknown territory," said Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease specialist at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. Doctors in China probably don't have the chemicals necessary to perform complicated testing, and perhaps insufficient numbers of technicians, he speculated. But lung scans are a perilous means to diagnose patients. Even patients with seasonal flu may develop pneumonia visible on a lung scan. "They're talking about using this as another diagnostic test, but we haven't seen it validated by data," Dr. Schaffner said. A social media campaign started by a physician in Wuhan last week called for using CT scans to simplify the screening of patients suspected of having the coronavirus and accelerate their hospitalization and treatment, instead of waiting for test results. CT scans produce immediate results, she said, and Wuhan was running short of testing kits. The change in diagnosis may make it harder to track the epidemic, said Dr. Peter Rabinowitz, co-director of the University of Washington MetaCenter for Pandemic Preparedness and Global Health Security. "It makes it really confusing right now if they're changing the whole way they screen and detect," he said. Now estimating the scale of the epidemic "is a moving target." The news is the latest in a set of confusing data points suggesting the epidemic is far from contained. The new coronavirus is highly transmissible and will be difficult to squelch. Even before now, epidemiological information from China has been incomplete, and in any event, outbreaks like this one may advance fitfully, receding and then roaring back. "This outbreak could still go in any direction," Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization, said on Wednesday. It is not uncommon for scientists to refine diagnostic criteria as their understanding of a new disease changes. But when the criteria are changed, experts said, it makes little sense to continue to make week-over-week comparisons. "It sounds simplistic, but it's so very important — what numbers are you counting?" said Dr. Schaffner, the infectious disease specialist. Scientists have been wary of the notion that the epidemic has peaked for other reasons, as well. Unlike MERS and SARS, both diseases caused by coronaviruses, the virus spreading from China appears to be highly transmissible, though it is probably less often fatal. Epidemics of highly transmissible agents, such as influenza, require constant containment efforts. A single infected "super-spreader" can infect dozens of others. Outbreaks can seem to recede, only to rebound in short order, as the weather or conditions change. Clusters of cases that have emerged in an apartment building in Hong Kong, a ski chalet in France and a department store in eastern China suggest the new coronavirus spreads quickly and in ways that are not entirely understood. [Like the Science Times page on Facebook. | Sign up for the Science Times newsletter.] In Hong Kong, people living 10 floors apart were infected, and an unsealed pipe was blamed. A British citizen apparently infected 10 people, including some at the ski chalet, before he even knew he was sick. In Tianjin, China, at least 33 of 102 confirmed patients had a connection of some sort with a large department store. It is more difficult for public health officials to track a rapidly moving epidemic. Scientists often describe these epidemics as a sort of iceberg — their girth and true shape hidden below the surface. In China, health officials have been under exceptional strain. Hospitals are overwhelmed, and huge new shelters are being erected to warehouse patients. Diagnostic tests and other medical resources are in short supply. It's never been clear who is being tested. Health workers have gone door to door in Wuhan to check people for symptoms. The prospect of forced isolation may be deterring some people with respiratory illnesses from presenting themselves at health facilities to seek health care, some experts say, making the dimensions of the epidemic even less clear. Chaos makes tracking patients and keeping tallies still more difficult. "You have to be sick, the authorities need to find you, or you find them, and they need to test you," said Dr. Arthur Reingold, an epidemiologist at the University of California, Berkeley. But an accurate grasp of the situation within China is necessary for the safety of the rest of the world, noted Dr. Tedros of the W.H.O. The country is so central to the world economy that it can easily "seed" epidemics everywhere. "Our greatest fear remains the damage this coronavirus could do in a country like D.R.C.," he said, referring to the Democratic Republic of Congo, which has been struggling with outbreaks of Ebola and measles. "It's a huge task to manage a response effectively," said Dr. Christine Kreuder Johnson, a professor of epidemiology at the University of California, Davis. "This would be true for any country." "We're in the dark in terms of knowing what to expect next." Reporting was contributed by Vivian Wang. Top stories - Google News February 12, 2020 at 05:33PM https://ift.tt/2Snp86o Coronavirus Cases Seemed to Be Leveling Off. Not Anymore. - The New York Times Top stories - Google News https://ift.tt/2FLTecc Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  |
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| World's biggest mobile technology fair canceled over coronavirus fears | TheHill - The Hill Posted: 12 Feb 2020 06:18 PM PST  The organizers of the Mobile World Congress, the world's largest mobile technology exposition, have canceled the event after dozens of tech and wireless firms pulled out over fears around the novel coronavirus outbreak. "Global concern regarding the coronavirus outbreak, travel concern and other circumstances, make it impossible for the GSMA to hold the event," John Hoffman, head of the GSMA organizing body, said in a statement Wednesday, The Associated Press reported. After an initial wave of withdrawals including Ericsson, Sony, Amazon, Intel and LG, several more dropped out Wednesday, including Nokia, Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom and Britain's BT, citing health and safety concerns. ADVERTISEMENT Nokia said Wednesday it would withdraw following a "full assessment of the risks related to a fast-moving situation," and that "the health and well-being of employees was a primary focus." Ericsson's and Nokia's withdrawals left China's Huawei as the only remaining major network gear manufacturer planning to attend, and the Chinese company had planned to send a delegation of European staff to the show, with its chairman conducting a video briefing because he would not have enough time to both travel to Spain and undergo a two-week self-quarantine. The event in Barcelona, scheduled for Feb. 24-27, was initially projected to draw more than 100,000 visitors, including up to 6,000 from China. Tim Bajarin, president of consultancy at Creative Strategies, said cancellation was the best option amid uncertainty about how the virus spreads. Catalan's regional health chief, Alba Vergés, said there remained a "very low risk of the coronavirus" in the Catalonia region and that there have been four suspected cases, all of which have tested negative. "There is no public health reason to cancel any event in Catalonia or Barcelona, including the Mobile World Congress," Vergés said, according to the AP. "If the companies make their own decision, we have to respect that, but we are here to explain this from a public health perspective." "Mobile" - Google News February 12, 2020 at 01:08PM https://ift.tt/38npcbF World's biggest mobile technology fair canceled over coronavirus fears | TheHill - The Hill "Mobile" - Google News https://ift.tt/2P9t7Cg Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  |
| Coronavirus live updates: China's Hubei reports 14,840 new cases, 242 additional deaths - CNBC Posted: 12 Feb 2020 06:10 PM PST  This is a live blog. Please check back for updates. All times below are in Beijing time. 9:40 am: United Airlines extends China cancellations until late AprilUnited Airlines on Wednesday said it would extend cancellations of its China service until at least April 24, about a month later than the carrier previously planned, as coronavirus cases continue to climb. United normally operates 12 flights a day from its U.S. hubs to Beijing, Chengdu, Shanghai and Hong Kong and the carrier has more service to China than any other U.S. airline. The extension follows a similar step American took a day earlier. "We will continue to monitor the situation in China and evaluate our schedule as we remain in close contact with the CDC and other public health experts around the globe," United said in a statement. — Josephs 9:20 am: Shunned cruise ship finally docks in CambodiaA cruise ship which was turned away by five countries on fears that someone aboard might be infected, was finally accepted by Cambodia. It landed in the country on Thursday, according to Reuters citing ship tracking data. The MS Westerdam was rejected by Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, the Philippines and Guam, and has spent around two weeks at sea. The case of the Diamond Princess cruise ship, where thousands have been quarantined, had stoked fears. Diamond Princess is currently quarantined off the coast of Japan, and more than 170 people onboard have been found to be infected as of Feb. 12. 8:55 am: 14th coronavirus case in US confirmedThe CDC confirmed a new case in California, taking the total number of cases in the U.S. to 14. The patient is among a group under quarantine after they returned to the U.S. on a chartered flight from Hubei. 7:55 am: Hubei province reports 14,840 new casesChina's Hubei province reported an additional 242 deaths and 14,840 new cases as of Feb. 12 — a sharp increase from the previous day. The province said it is starting to include "clinically diagnosed" cases in its figures and that 13,332 of the new cases fall under that classification. The government said that a total of 1,310 people have died in the province and that 48,206 people have been infected in the region. 7:41 am: Singapore cases hit 50, one of the highest outside ChinaSingapore's health ministry said as of Feb. 12, noon, the total number of confirmed infection cases hit 50, with three additional ones reported. Next to China and Japan, which is treating more than a hundred people who contracted the disease onboard a cruise ship, the city-state has one of the highest number of reported cases of the virus. The health ministry said contact tracing for the confirmed cases is ongoing and that test results for 125 suspected cases are pending. Of the confirmed cases, more than half are a result of local transmissions where the affected individuals did not have any travel history or links to China. Singapore in recent days saw a surge in panic buying of groceries and other essential household items. —Roy Choudhury All times below are in Eastern time. 2:12 pm: Mobile World Congress canceled after major tech companies pull outOrganizers of Mobile World Congress, the world's largest trade show for the mobile phone industry, have canceled the conference slated to start in Barcelona in less than two weeks. Facebook and other major companies have pulled out of MWC in recent days amid growing fears over the outbreak. "With due regard to the safe and healthy environment in Barcelona and the host country today, the GSMA has cancelled MWC Barcelona 2020 because the global concern regarding the coronavirus outbreak, travel concern and other circumstances, make it impossible for the GSMA to hold the event," GSMA said in a statement. — Browne 12:29 pm: IMF chief says coronavirus 'clearly more impactful' on global growth than SARSIMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva told CNBC's Sara Eisen on Wednesday the new coronavirus that started in China is "clearly more impactful" on the world economy than the 2002-2003 SARS epidemic. "China was different [then], the world was different," said Georgieva, in an interview with Ivanka Trump from a State Department event on economic empowerment for women. During the SARS outbreak, China was only 8% of the global economy, Georgieva pointed out. "Today, China manufactures 28%, with possible impact through value chains on other countries." — Belvedere 11:50 am: CDC prepares for community outbreaks in USThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is preparing for the coronavirus, named COVID-19, to "take a foothold in the U.S.," Dr. Nancy Messonnier, director of the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, told reporters. "At some point, we are likely to see community spread in the U.S. or in other countries," said Messonnier. "This will trigger a change in our response strategy." — Lovelace Read CNBC's coverage from the U.S. overnight: Mobile World Congress canceled, CDC prepares for outbreak in US. — CNBC's Leslie Josephs, Saheli Roy Choudhury, and Berkeley Lovelace Jr. contributed to this report. Top stories - Google News February 12, 2020 at 03:59PM https://ift.tt/31NgYHo Coronavirus live updates: China's Hubei reports 14,840 new cases, 242 additional deaths - CNBC Top stories - Google News https://ift.tt/2FLTecc Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  |
| Quarantined Cruise Passengers Have Many Questions. Japan Has Few Answers. - The New York Times Posted: 12 Feb 2020 06:10 PM PST TOKYO — The 3,600 people aboard the Diamond Princess, locked down for more than a week and desperate for information, have been reduced to peering out windows as hazmat-suited workers take away the newest coronavirus patients and mysterious buses, their interiors shrouded by curtains, come and go from the port. They have Wi-Fi, but it is spotty, and even if it were not, they might search in vain for information about their plight from tight-lipped Japanese authorities. Experts in crisis management said the government was offering a textbook example of how not to handle a public health crisis. "Repeatedly explain what is known, and what is unknown, and when people can get more information about what remains unknown," said Dr. Hana Hayashi, a public health strategist at McCann Healthcare Worldwide Japan. "It sounds very simple, but by continuing to do this, people's concerns will be reduced." With 174 of their number known to be infected — the most cases anywhere outside China — one of the biggest questions for those stuck on the Diamond Princess off Yokohama is: Why won't Japan test everyone on board for the virus? As of Tuesday, only 439 had been tested, and the Japanese authorities have sent mixed messages. For days, officials have said the country simply does not have the ability to test everyone on the ship. But on Tuesday, as demands grew, Dr. Masami Sakoi, an assistant health minister, said at a news briefing that the health ministry was considering expanding its testing capacity. Japan's insistence that it is an issue of practicality has been met with some skepticism. Critics of the government's handling of the outbreak say that officials simply are not explaining enough of their thinking as they face an epidemiological challenge with no easy playbook. The government's communications strategy has undermined trust, and speculation has sometimes filled the void, including about whether there could be alternatives to keeping so many people locked inside a contaminated vessel. "Here you have people locked down on a pseudo prison on a cruise ship," said Kyle Cleveland, a professor of sociology at the Tokyo campus of Temple University who has studied Japan's response to another crisis, the Fukushima nuclear meltdowns. "Is it really a matter of not having enough tests?" In China, after all, where more than 44,000 people have been infected and deaths have surpassed 1,100, health officials are performing thousands of coronavirus tests a day. Unlike Japan, China has been confronting the outbreak since December, and has had time to produce test kits. Even so, it is contending with a shortage. Some passengers say that if it were just a matter of logistics, Japan could look for outside help. "I'd prefer if our countries pitch in and help test everyone," said Vera Koslova-Fu, an Australian on the ship. Still, there is far from universal agreement that Japan should test everyone on board the Diamond Princess, even if it could.  Olivia Lawe-Davies, a spokeswoman for the World Health Organization, said that its experts agreed with the way Japan was handling the quarantine. "No country or entity has had to manage this novel coronavirus, for which there are still many unknowns, on an international conveyance with this many people," she said. "The most important thing is to ensure that people who are ill receive proper treatment, which the Japanese authorities are doing." Some infectious disease experts questioned whether testing everyone on board would in fact be effective. "In reality, people are in the incubation period right now," said Mitsuyoshi Urashima, a professor of molecular epidemiology at Jikei University Hospital in Tokyo. "The tests are not absolutely always right." (Proof of that came from a different set of coronavirus patients on Tuesday. The health ministry announced that two Japanese citizens who had previously tested negative after leaving Wuhan, China, where the epidemic began, were now infected.) The tests themselves pose their own obstacles. They are not simple throat swabs, but instead require cells from hard-to-reach parts of the respiratory tract. The simplest test, a nasopharyngeal swab, "is not surgery, but it comes close," said Dr. William Schaffner, a professor of preventive medicine and infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville. "It's an aggressive medical procedure." The alternative requires pumping saline solution deep into the lungs. "You could not do it on healthy people by the thousands, or just go from cabin to cabin doing it," Dr. Schaffner said. Both procedures are risky for the medical personnel doing them, because they can send the patient into a retching or coughing fit, spewing out virus. And even then, he said, concerns would remain. "I'm sure a lot of people on board think, 'If I'm negative, I'm cleared,'" Dr. Schaffner said. "It's not that — you could be positive tomorrow." Even if the tests are not scientifically warranted, some public health experts said, they might help calm anxious people on the ship. "If it puts people's minds at ease, it has merit," said Eiji Kusumi, a doctor specializing in infectious diseases at Navitas Clinic in Tokyo. "We're dealing with people who are operating out of emotion." One passenger, Sarah Arana, a 52-year-old medical social worker from Paso Robles, Calif., said, "I think it would provide peace of mind." Peace of mind has been hard to come by for many passengers, in no small part because of the Japanese government's limited communications. Passengers isolated in their cabins have been checking their phones for news updates and social media posts, while their families back home are frantically pressing for information. By failing to hold regular and timely news briefings and doling out cryptic information, the government "has made the problem seem much larger than it looks," said Hiromi Murakami, an expert on health policy at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo. "It's mostly bureaucrats who have to deal with a lot of things, and they don't know how to respond sometimes," Ms. Murakami said. "They're not used to dealing with questions. They don't know how to answer them, and they think if they can't answer them, what's the purpose of having a press conference. So they avoid these situations." That may soon prove harder to do. Experts say the Diamond Princess may be only the beginning of Japan's challenges with the coronavirus. "Probably it's a tiny portion of our problem in Japan," said Hitoshi Oshitani, a professor of virology at Tohoku University. "If we have a few hundred cases in Japan and there are probably thousands of contacts around these few hundred, the numbers will increase every day." The government has been saying little. On Sunday and Monday, it waited hours to confirm that there were new infections on board, even as the captain of the Diamond Princess announced them to the ship. By Wednesday, Japanese officials moved more quickly to say that 39 additional passengers had tested positive and that a health ministry employee had also been diagnosed with the illness after administering a survey to those aboard the ship. Still, rumors abound. Early Tuesday, Japanese news outlets reported that the health authorities were considering taking some elderly passengers off the ship, but officials refused to comment. Passengers on the ship could see that at least two buses, their windows covered in curtains, had pulled up to the port, and claims spread that some people were being allowed to leave. In the absence of official communication, some have found their own way to communicate: Japanese passengers, who make up about half of the 2,666 guests on board, unfurled cloth signs off their balconies. "Serious lack of medicine, lack of information," read one. Reporting was contributed by Makiko Inoue, Hisako Ueno and Eimi Yamamitsu from Tokyo, and Donald G. McNeil Jr. from New York. Top stories - Google News February 11, 2020 at 03:53PM https://ift.tt/2ONNXpJ Quarantined Cruise Passengers Have Many Questions. Japan Has Few Answers. - The New York Times Top stories - Google News https://ift.tt/2FLTecc Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  |
| Mobile World Congress Trade Show In Barcelona Cancelled Over Coronavirus Fears - NPR Posted: 12 Feb 2020 05:48 PM PST  Organziers of the Mobile World Congress had resisted calls to cancel the event, but reversed course after major companies pulled out over coronavirus fears. Lluis Gene/AFP via Getty Images hide caption One of the world's biggest trade shows has been cancelled as mounting concerns over the coronavirus outbreak ripple across the business world. Organizers called off the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, after big-name participants pulled out. The annual conference, scheduled to kick off on Feb. 24, is a marquee event for the city of Barcelona and for the mobile phone industry. It typically attracts more than 100,000 attendees each year who come to check out the latest in smartphone technology. But in recent days, companies from Sony and Intel to Amazon and Facebook said they would stay away because of worries about the safety of their employees. The conference organizer, GSMA, initially resisted calls to cancel. It said it would put in place health precautions including scanning body temperatures, and advised attendees against shaking hands. Still, companies kept pulling out, and on Wednesday, GSMA reversed course. "The global concern regarding the coronavirus outbreak, travel concern and other circumstances, make it impossible for the GSMA to hold the event," the group's CEO, John Hoffman, said in a statement. Other trade shows and business events have also been affected by the outbreak. More than two dozen industry conferences in Asia have been postponed, Reuters reported. Watchmaker Swatch canceled an event in Zurich planned for late February. "Mobile" - Google News February 12, 2020 at 01:49PM https://ift.tt/3bxn0QX Mobile World Congress Trade Show In Barcelona Cancelled Over Coronavirus Fears - NPR "Mobile" - Google News https://ift.tt/2P9t7Cg Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  |
| How the T-Mobile and Sprint Merger Will Affect You - NBC 7 San Diego Posted: 12 Feb 2020 05:48 PM PST  The landscape is changing for wireless companies as T-Mobile and Sprint get closer to completing their $26 Billion merger, and it could cause a new price war. On Tuesday, a federal judge cleared the way for the merger. The attorney generals from several states continue to fight, claiming the merger would limit competition and cause higher prices. The California Public Utilities Commission still has to approve the deal. "Some in the industry argue the merger of Sprint and T-Mobile will create a faster path to 5G," said Scott Peterson, an analyst for Gap Intelligence. "Time and time again [we see] that when we reduce the players in an industry, we see that cost and price go up and ultimately doesn't benefit the consumers." Peterson said the merger of the third and fourth-largest cell carriers will shake the industry. "Sprint and T-Mobile combined will create a very powerful third player that AT&T and Verizon will have to take notice of," Peterson said. "It may increase competition in the very short term, but I have serious worries about the ramifications of this deal."
In a statement, T-Mobile said the ruling "validates our view that this merger is in the best interests of the U.S. economy and American consumers." Peterson said the only way prices will not rise in the long run is if DISH Network becomes a major wireless company and is able to compete with the other major carriers. "For this merger to work in the way they argued for consumers, we really need DISH Network to emerge as a hero," Peterson said. "We really need to hold these carriers accountable for all the promises they're making in this initial phase." Some industry experts think Sprint was forced into this merger because it was unable to compete with the emergence of 5G technology. "At some point, Sprint would likely have gone out of business and that would not have been good," said SDSU Marketing Professor Miro Copic. "Then you would've had two big players and one player that would have been third place by a long shot." California Attorney General Xavier Beccera led the states' efforts against the deal and released a statement after the judge's ruling in favor of the merger. "Even in the face of powerful opposition, we won't hesitate to stand up for consumers who deserve choice and fair prices. We'll stand on the side of competition over megamergers, every time. And our coalition is prepared to fight as long as necessary to protect innovation and competitive costs," said Attorney General Becerra. "I fear for the future after all of [T-Mobile's] magenta dust settles," Peterson said. "Will consumers see higher prices and more hoops to jump through and more rigmarole with their wireless bills? I'm afraid the answer is going to be yes." "Mobile" - Google News February 12, 2020 at 04:45PM https://ift.tt/3buY3pg How the T-Mobile and Sprint Merger Will Affect You - NBC 7 San Diego "Mobile" - Google News https://ift.tt/2P9t7Cg Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  |
| Six-goal PSG into French Cup semi-finals as Lyon knock out Marseille - Yahoo Sports Posted: 12 Feb 2020 05:37 PM PST  Senou Coulibaly could do nothing as Mbappe's cross flicked off his thigh and into his own net (AFP Photo/JEFF PACHOUD) Paris (AFP) - Paris Saint-Germain cruised into the semi-finals of the French Cup on Wednesday after thumping Dijon 6-1 in a match that saw the French champions benefit again from comical own goals. PSG were ahead just 47 seconds after kick off thanks to Wesley Lautoa shanking Mitchel Bakker's low cross into his own net to the bemusement of his teammates. It was the second own goal in a week to be scored for PSG, who also saw Lyon's Fernando Marcal slam a stunning effort past his own goalkeeper at the weekend. However the hosts were level in the 13th minute thanks to a impressive low curling effort from Mounir Chouiar, which squeezed past Kaylor Navas. While the away side were far from full strength, with Angel Di Maria and Mauro Icardi on the bench and Neymar not even in the squad, Thomas Tuchel's team did include Kylian Mbappe and Edinson Cavani, who was making his first start in over a month after nearly moving to Atletico Madrid in January. The Uruguayan was left waiting his 200th goal for the club in the 21st minute when he turned home Thomas Meunier's cross, only for the strike to be ruled out for handball by the Belgian after a VAR check. "It's not that bad because he can score his 200th goal on Saturday (against Amiens) or Tuesday (against Borussia Dortmund). I can feel he's there," said Tuchel. On the match, he added: "I'm happy because we deserved the victory. It's a huge performance." Mbappe put PSG ahead a minute before the break, punishing Jhonder Cadiz's miss when clean through seconds before by clinically slotting home a similar chance. Thiago Silva added a third four minutes after the break with a header from a corner before Pablo Sarabia ended Dijon's resistance by pushing home his 11th of the season on the rebound. Senou Coulibaly watched on in horror with five minutes left when Mbappe's cross looped off his thigh over helpless stopper Runar Alex Runarsson, before Sarabia tapped home his second in stoppage time from another Mbappe centre. Later, Lyon coach Rudi Garcia knocked his former side Marseille out as Houssem Aouar scored an 81st minute winner. The winning goal came 10 minutes after Lyon's Moussa Dembele had a penalty -- awarded when Hiroki Sakai handled a shot from Karl Toko Ekambi -- saved by Yohan Pele in the Marseille goal. It was the third time this season that Dembele had missed from the spot for Lyon. On Thursday, fourth division side Epinal -- last 16 conquerers of Lille -- will look to continue their stunning cup run going when they host Saint-Etienne. They will try to succeed where fellow fourth-tier outfit Belfort failed following their 3-0 defeat to holder Rennes on Tuesday. "Goal" - Google News February 12, 2020 at 02:54PM https://ift.tt/38oVsv0 Six-goal PSG into French Cup semi-finals as Lyon knock out Marseille - Yahoo Sports "Goal" - Google News https://ift.tt/35TEe8t Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  |
| 歌手K.Will、STARSHIPエンターテインメントと再契約（WoW!Korea） - Yahoo!ニュース Posted: 12 Feb 2020 05:32 PM PST  韓国歌手K.WillがSTARSHIPエンターテインメントと再契約を締結した。 所属事務所STARSHIPエンターテインメント（以下、STARSHIP）側は12日「K.Willが最近、深い信頼をもとに再契約を締結した」と明らかにした。 K.WillはSTARSHIPの創立から共にした創立メンバーで、2007年デビュー以来、これまで長い時間、固い縁を結んできた。特に互いを応援する同伴者として、パートナーシップを堅固にしたK.WillとSTARSHIPは2015年に一度再契約したのに続き、2回目の再契約を結び、13年間の絆を守ることになった。 STARSHIPは「K.Willは『Love119』から『Beautiful Moment』まで様々なヒット曲を発表し、人気ドラマOST（オリジナル・サウンドトラック）を披露して、"信じて聞く歌手"として地位を築いた」とし「全国ツアーや小劇場公演など、過去10年間披露したコンサートをはじめ、ミュージカル『ノートルダム・ド・パリ』では主人公カジモド役を担い、ミュージカル俳優として優れた力量を誇るなど音楽ファンの目と耳を魅了するアーティストとして、絶えず成長している」と伝えた。 続けて「このような成功的な歩みに続き、K.Willが今後展開していく活動にも力を加えることができ非常にうれしい」とし「音楽やミュージカル、コンサートなど多様な分野で活躍しているK.Willが多くの方々に良い姿をお見せできるよう、全幅的な支援を惜しまない」と誓った。 Copyrights(C) OSEN wowkorea.jp 【関連記事】 "エンターテインメント" - Google ニュース February 12, 2020 at 02:50PM https://ift.tt/3bASKo8 歌手K.Will、STARSHIPエンターテインメントと再契約（WoW!Korea） - Yahoo!ニュース "エンターテインメント" - Google ニュース https://ift.tt/2W81riD Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  |
| Japan's cruise ship quarantine enabling coronavirus, expert says - UPI News Posted: 12 Feb 2020 05:10 PM PST  Feb. 10 (UPI) -- More passengers aboard the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship in Yokohama, Japan, have tested positive for the deadly coronavirus since last week, raising questions about whether Japanese authorities are doing enough for the people on board. Infections may be spreading quickly among elderly passengers; nearly 80 percent of coronavirus patients aboard the ship are in their 60s or older, Japanese television network NHK reported. Japan ordered the quarantine last week, after a guest from Hong Kong tested positive for coronavirus on Feb. 1. A few days later, 10 passengers on the Diamond Princess were diagnosed with 2019-nCoV. As of Tuesday, 135 people have tested positive, according to reports. Japan's health authorities have responded in part by evacuating 91 patients from the ship on Tuesday, after initially enforcing a two-week isolation period, effective until Feb. 19, to contain the virus on a ship that includes more than 3,600 passengers and crew. Health authorities in Japan have been slow to respond to the needs of the passengers stranded on the ship. In the past week, only 439 out of the more than 3,600 people on board have received 2019-nCoV tests, South Korean network JTBC's Tokyo correspondent reported Tuesday. The government's decision to run tests exclusively at state-run public health labs is creating bottlenecks at a time of a global health crisis, according to the report. Japan is currently reporting the highest number of infections after China, the origin of the outbreak. On Monday, as Japan's health ministry confirmed another 65 coronavirus patients, frustration is growing among local experts. Masahiro Kami, head of the Medical Governance Research Institute, a Japanese nonprofit, said the quarantine may be posing grave problems for uninfected passengers on the ship. "Since the infections began in an enclosed space, if this continues, [the number of patients] will steadily increase," Kami said. "One minor error and I think a person [on board] can become infected." A total of 25 Americans on the ship are confirmed for the virus, according to Japan's health ministry. Kyodo News reported Tuesday elderly passengers on the ship suffer from chronic health problems. A passenger who spoke to the Japanese news agency said full medical care is not reaching the ship though there are "many people whose health is deteriorating." Top stories - Google News February 11, 2020 at 08:59AM https://ift.tt/2UQvVHd Japan's cruise ship quarantine enabling coronavirus, expert says - UPI News Top stories - Google News https://ift.tt/2FLTecc Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  |
| 歌手K.Will、STARSHIPエンターテインメントと再契約 - WOW! Korea Posted: 12 Feb 2020 05:02 PM PST  2020/02/13 07:50配信 韓国歌手K.WillがSTARSHIPエンターテインメントと再契約を締結した。 【動画】[MV] K. will - Beautiful Moment 所属事務所STARSHIPエンターテインメント（以下、STARSHIP）側は12日「K.Willが最近、深い信頼をもとに再契約を締結した」と明らかにした。 K.WillはSTARSHIPの創立から共にした創立メンバーで、2007年デビュー以来、これまで長い時間、固い縁を結んできた。特に互いを応援する同伴者として、パートナーシップを堅固にしたK.WillとSTARSHIPは2015年に一度再契約したのに続き、2回目の再契約を結び、13年間の絆を守ることになった。 STARSHIPは「K.Willは『Love119』から『Beautiful Moment』まで様々なヒット曲を発表し、人気ドラマOST（オリジナル・サウンドトラック）を披露して、"信じて聞く歌手"として地位を築いた」とし「全国ツアーや小劇場公演など、過去10年間披露したコンサートをはじめ、ミュージカル『ノートルダム・ド・パリ』では主人公カジモド役を担い、ミュージカル俳優として優れた力量を誇るなど音楽ファンの目と耳を魅了するアーティストとして、絶えず成長している」と伝えた。 続けて「このような成功的な歩みに続き、K.Willが今後展開していく活動にも力を加えることができ非常にうれしい」とし「音楽やミュージカル、コンサートなど多様な分野で活躍しているK.Willが多くの方々に良い姿をお見せできるよう、全幅的な支援を惜しまない」と誓った。 "エンターテインメント" - Google ニュース February 12, 2020 at 02:50PM https://ift.tt/3bBlPQn 歌手K.Will、STARSHIPエンターテインメントと再契約 - WOW! Korea "エンターテインメント" - Google ニュース https://ift.tt/2W81riD Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  |
| Indonesia says nothing to hide after no coronavirus cases detected - Reuters Posted: 12 Feb 2020 04:40 PM PST JAKARTA/BOGOR, Indonesia (Reuters) - Indonesia is not hiding anything over the coronavirus, the health minister said on Tuesday, after some medical researchers expressed concern that cases may have gone undetected in the world's fourth most populous country. Journalists wear protective suits inside an elevator as they prepare for a media visit to Indonesian Health Ministry's Laboratorium for Research on Infectious-Diseases, following the outbreak of the new coronavirus in China, in Jakarta, Indonesia, January February 11, 2020. REUTERS/Willy Kurniawan While the virus has quickly spread from China throughout much of the rest of the region and beyond, the sprawling Southeast Asian country of more than 260 million people has not recorded any cases so far. Dozens of cases have been recorded in other regional countries including Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam and the Philippines, where one person has died, raising suspicions on social media in particular over a potential lack of vigilance in Indonesia. Researchers at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, in the United States, then said in a study last week that Indonesia should rapidly strengthen outbreak surveillance and control - especially given that it had direct flights from the central Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicentre of the virus. The Harvard team said that Indonesia's lack of confirmed cases "may suggest the potential for undetected cases" as air travel may contribute to cases being exported from China. The virus has killed over 1,000, with more than 42,000 confirmed cases in China and 319 cases in 24 other countries. Many of the cases outside China have been in people who have a history of travelling to the country. "We have the kits to check coronavirus and they're certified ... Nothing is concealed," Health Minister Terawan Agus Putranto said after a cabinet meeting at the Bogor presidential palace outside Jakarta, in response to the concerns. Indonesia has tested 64 samples from suspected coronavirus infections - 62 of which were declared negative with two still being tested, health ministry Research and development agency head Siswanto said during a tour of its laboratory in Jakarta. Navaratnasamy Paranietharan, the WHO's Indonesia representative, told a conference on Tuesday: "Indonesia has taken concrete measures and the World Health Organization is quite confident that Indonesia is ready to be able to respond to this situation." Indonesia has barred entry to visitors who have been in China for 14 days and stopped all flights to and from there. Vivi Setiawaty, another health ministry official, said it was unclear why Indonesia had not seen any cases but said authorities were better prepared since facing H5N1 avian influenza from 2005. "We remain cautious," she told reporters. Indonesia has readied 100 hospitals across the archipelago including three in Jakarta and has also quarantined more than 240 of its citizens evacuated from Hubei province, home to Wuhan, to the island of Natuna, north of Borneo. The WHO's Paranietharan said it appeared unlikely, as some have suggested, that the hot tropical climate could be a factor in curbing cases though more data would be required to be sure. "It doesn't make sense at this point whether that could be the reason why we don't have coronavirus cases in Indonesia," Paranietharan said. Additional reporting by Nilufar Rizki; Editing by Ed Davies and Alison Williams Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles. Top stories - Google News February 11, 2020 at 04:44AM https://ift.tt/2HkqJDC Indonesia says nothing to hide after no coronavirus cases detected - Reuters Top stories - Google News https://ift.tt/2FLTecc Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  |
| 「佐久間宣行の東京ドリームエンターテインメント」第2弾ゲストで秋元康、春日俊彰、飯塚悟志らが電撃参戦！ - ザテレビジョン Posted: 12 Feb 2020 04:32 PM PST 2月18日(火)～21日(金)の4日間、ニッポン放送にて生放送される特別番組「佐久間宣行の東京ドリームエンターテインメント」。このほど、番組の第2弾ゲストが発表された。  2月18日(火)～21日(金)、ニッポン放送で生放送される「佐久間宣行の東京ドリームエンターテインメント」に豪華ゲストが参戦！ テレビ東京・佐久間宣行プロデューサーが、今気になるエンタメ、お笑い、バラエティーについて熱く語るスペシャルプログラムである同番組。 佐久間Pは、毎週水曜放送の「佐久間宣行のオールナイトニッポン0(ZERO)」を担当しているが、深夜3:00からの生放送にも関わらずエンタメ感度の高いリスナーから熱い支持を集めており、今回満を持してのゴールデンタイム帯番組のオファーとなった。  「青春高校3年C組」(テレビ東京)でタッグを組む秋元康が、佐久間Pとどんなエンタメ論を語る!? 先日、極楽とんぼ、東野幸治のゲスト出演が発表され大きな話題を集めていたが、このほど第2弾のゲスト出演者が発表。今回明らかになったのは、19日(水)に出演の秋元康と飯塚悟志(東京03)、21日(金)に出演の春日俊彰(オードリー)。 佐久間Pは、さまざまなテレビ番組や企画の中で、それぞれのゲストと出演者及び制作者として向き合っており、ラジオのブースを挟んでどのようなトークが展開されるのか注目だ。 また、これらの大物ゲストに加え、佐久間P自身が注目するお笑い芸人も各曜日に出演することが決定。18日(火)にはEXIT、19日(水)にはハナコ、20日(木)にはティモンディ、21日(金)にはフワちゃん、森本晋太郎(トンツカタン)という、話題の芸人たち登場する。 佐久間Pをして「死角なし」と語るほどの見事なブッキングで、2020年のエンタメ、お笑い、バラエティーの"今"を描き出す同番組。若手と大物がどんな融合を見せるのかにも期待しよう。 なお、2月19日(水)には同番組に加え、「佐久間宣行のオールナイトニッポン0(ZERO)」も放送。スペシャルウィークとなるこの日は、ゲストに金田哲(はんにゃ)、村上健志(フルーツポンチ)が登場。最近何かといじられることの多い二人とのトークも聞き逃し厳禁だ。 "エンターテインメント" - Google ニュース February 12, 2020 at 11:30AM https://ift.tt/31Q7vPE 「佐久間宣行の東京ドリームエンターテインメント」第2弾ゲストで秋元康、春日俊彰、飯塚悟志らが電撃参戦！ - ザテレビジョン "エンターテインメント" - Google ニュース https://ift.tt/2W81riD Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  |
| Actress Patricia Heaton slams Dems' 'barbaric platform' on abortion - Fox News Posted: 12 Feb 2020 04:28 PM PST  Actress Patricia Heaton has denounced the Democratic Party's platform for including what she called a "barbaric" position on abortion. "I don't understand why pro-life people want to know if they are 'welcome' to join the democrat party [sic]," the "Everybody Loves Raymond" co-star tweeted Wednesday. "Why would any civilized person want to support a barbaric platform that champions abortion for any reason through all nine months funded by taxpayers?" The issue has resurfaced in recent weeks after Kristen Day, who leads Democrats for Life, asked former South Bend, Ind. Mayor Pete Buttigieg about whether the party included room for her. During a Jan. 26 Fox News town hall with Buttigieg, Day specifically took issue with the language in the party's platform. "The Democratic platform contains language that basically says, 'We don't belong, we have no part in the party because it says abortion should be legal up to nine months, the government should pay for it,'" Day told Buttigieg, who supported his party's position. Pro-life leaders also blasted former Buttigieg after he seemed to back away from answering whether he supported infanticide. "I just know that I trust her and her decision medically or morally isn't going to be any better because the government is commanding her to do it in a certain way." he told "The View" co-host Meghan McCain. Live Action Founder Lila Rose interpreted Buttigieg's answer as a pass for partial-birth abortion. "He said as long as a mother wants to abort a baby, at any age, she should be able to [e]ven if that means partially delivering a full-grown, 7 lb infant, who can recognize her mother's voice, & then stabbing her neck & suctioning out her brain," she tweeted. Second trimester surgical abortions also involve dismembering a fetus and crushing its skull. More from MediaThe Democratic platform reiterates the party's interest in protecting abortion access but doesn't specify any time periods for potential restrictions. "We believe unequivocally, like the majority of Americans, that every woman should have access to quality reproductive health care services, including safe and legal abortion—regardless of where she lives, how much money she makes, or how she is insured," it reads. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., another 2020 candidate, indicated on Tuesday that she wanted to build a "big tent" for pro-life Democrats like Day. In a comment to Fox News, Day responded: "We are appreciative of her acknowledgment, but we do need to talk more specifically about the platform language, litmus test currently being applied against pro-life Democrats and the stranglehold by the abortion lobby." "Actress" - Google News February 12, 2020 at 03:24PM https://ift.tt/31Q5CT4 Actress Patricia Heaton slams Dems' 'barbaric platform' on abortion - Fox News "Actress" - Google News https://ift.tt/31HZgDn Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  |
| Sprint-T-Mobile Merger: Creating Long-Term Shareholder Value - Yahoo Finance Posted: 12 Feb 2020 04:18 PM PST  In April 2018, John Legere, the CEO of T-Mobile (NASDAQ:TMUS), made the long-expected announcement that T-Mobile and Sprint (NYSE:S) had reached an agreement to merge in a $26 billion all-stock deal. Before the deal could be completed, however, 14 state attorneys general sued to block the merger from happening, arguing that reducing the number of U.S. nationwide telecommunications companies from three to four would result in less competitive pricing, driving up phone prices for everyone in the country.
On Feb. 11, U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero delivered his final ruling on the case, clearing the last hurdle out of the way for the merger to proceed. The court stated the following:
The longer the final ruling on the case dragged on, the more Sprint's stock price declined, as the market expected the deal to be blocked. Approximately 24 hours after the news that the merger would be allowed after all, T-Mobile's stock price was up 1.65% to $96.05, while the price of Sprint shares skyrocketed 82.70% to trade around $8.77. c6d7879e1c6b6880e092a69a9b825f80.png Who's getting the better deal? Now the last steps for the merger need to be hammered out. The all-stock deal was originally valued around $26 billion for Sprint's 4.11 billion shares outstanding, and the current terms offer 0.10256 T-Mobile shares for each Sprint share. It's undeniable that owners of Sprint shares before Feb. 10 won the day, since their shares nearly doubled in a short amount of time. However, Sprint now has a market cap of $35.89 billion. At this point, would it be better to buy T-Mobile or Sprint to benefit the most from the merger? Let's do the math. At 0.10256 T-Mobile shares for each Sprint share, the total amount of Sprint's shares outstanding will translate to 421.66 million T-Mobile shares. T-Mobile has 856.93 million shares outstanding, so the deal will give Sprint control of approximately a third of the combined company. At a price of $96.05 per share, each Sprint share is worth $9.85. Thus, as long as T-Mobile share prices do not decline, a price below $9.85 for each Sprint share would have the best potential for investors to take advantage of the deal. What will happen to phone plan prices? Competition tends to result in lower prices for goods and services, which is why regulators often block corporate actions that combine top companies in the same space. In 1914, the Clayton Trust Act outlawed mergers and acquisitions that "substantially lessen competition" in an industry, so if the court rules that a merger or acquisition would violate the act, then it is not allowed to proceed. The ruling on this case holds that the merger will not reduce competition. In fact, the court seemed to agree with Legere that the merger will increase competition against rivals Verizon (NYSE:VZ) and AT&T (NYSE:T), while at the same time allowing Dish Network (NASDAQ:DISH) to take the place of the "fourth U.S. telecommunications giant." As T-Mobile proposed, Sprint will sell its Boost Mobile and Virgin Mobile assets to Dish and allow customers of the new Dish mobile plans to piggy-back on T-Mobile's network for seven years while it built out its own wireless 5G network. However, some analysts are skeptical on whether Dish will actually do this, or if it will take the (potentially) safer route of monetizing the assets it receives from Sprint and eating the regulatory penalty. Dish founder Charlie Ergen replied, "If we didn't" build out the 5G network, we'd be writing off $12 billion in assets and subject to $2 billion in fines. It would be financial suicide." Some analysts hold that Dish will never be able to compete, and that the reduced competition is inevitable. According to former Federal Communications Commission commissioner Gigi Sohn:
However, T-Mobile has promised to leave phone bills alone for the time being, at least for the next three years. There are several good reasons for the company to stick to this promise. In order to gain the most (both for the company and the shareholders), the combined company cannot afford to raise prices for consumers, at least not in the short term. Creating long-term value for shareholders Large-scale mergers like this one can create powerful tailwinds for companies and their shareholders, driven by investor optimism for potential synergies and greater production capacity. T-Mobile will gain a valuable scale advantage from the merger, but it is also taking on most of a set of assets that has seen negative net income during most quarters in recent years (see below). Thus, while it may be tempting to raise prices, doing so would counteract the very same advantage that the company is hoping to achieve here. In other words, it would defeat the whole point; if T-Mobile were to start raising prices, it might end up acquiring Sprint only to lose just as many customers to its competitors. 637f32cb40a306840e9c8efc4646eeea.png In the long term, T-Mobile's growth prospects lie in not trying to push up prices. As of June 2019, Verizon has 151.5 million customers, AT&T has 153 million and the combined total of Sprint and T-Mobile's customers is 138.5 million. The combined company will have the largest 5G network in the U.S., so if it wants to ride the momentum from the merger and gain as many customers as possible, it would not be beneficial to try and establish itself as a higher-priced company. Disclosure: Author owns no shares in any of the stocks mentioned. The mention of stocks in this article does not at any point constitute an investment recommendation. Investors should always conduct their own careful research and/or consult registered investment advisors before taking action in the stock market. Read more here:
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