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| Mobile ad blocking in U.S. sees significant growth: PageFair - AdAge.com Posted: 06 Feb 2020 01:03 AM PST  Ad blocking on mobile had previously been written off as something only tech-savvy users deployed, but that's no longer the case; new entrants in the browser arena are offering mobile ad blocking as a baked-in feature to lure consumers away from Google Chrome, according to a report released Wednesday by PageFair and parent company Blockthrough. The report, the first from PageFair in three years, says more than 527 million people globally are blocking ads on mobile, up 64 percent since 2016. Desktop, meanwhile, has fallen 16 percent to about 236 million for the same time period, the report says. Globally and in emerging markets such as India, many users are experiencing the mobile web for the first time, but without ads, according to the report. Meanwhile, in the U.S., where mobile represents nearly 70 percent of all digital ad spend, ad blocking is up from 1 percent in 2016 to 3 percent in 2019, says Marty Katz, co-founder and CEO at Blockthrough. Users running blockers on mobile represent about 4 percent of all U.S. traffic, as they consume more media than people who don't use ad blockers, says Katz. Katz says that the number of U.S. users running ad blockers on mobile will double to about 6 percent by 2022. He adds that Microsoft Edge, Mozilla FireFox, Brave and Safari are the most popular U.S. browsers offering ad-blocking features. Chrome does not offer browser extensions in mobile as it does for desktop, because it can't, says Katz. "Google is usually five steps ahead of everyone, but they're handcuffed when it comes to blockers for their mobile browser," he says. "They've done what they can to improve ads through things like AMP, but ad blocking on mobile is somewhere they can't really go." Publishers give in to Ad Block Plus: reportThe report says 56 of the Comscore top 100 publishers mitigate ad-block users; 49 through Acceptable Ads; and 7 through circumvention, which is the practice of shoehorning ads on top of blocked ads. The remainder essentially either do nothing at all, or lock their content for users running ad blockers. Those publishers who adopt Acceptable Ads are paying one of the world's largest providers of ad blockers, Ad Block Plus-parent company Eyeo GmbH, which receives a cut from companies who adopt its format. Google, Microsoft, Criteo and Amazon have all adopted the Acceptable Ads format. The figures suggest that industry efforts such as The Coalition for Better Ads have done little to curtail the use of ad blockers. "There are different buckets of ad block users," Katz says. "There are some who use the most scorched-earth-type blockers where, no matter what, they hate ads. Then there are those who are OK with ad experiences, as long as they are done right." "And, of course, there are those who just don't care," he adds. Blockthrough, which acquired PageFair in 2018, sells publishers tech so they can generate revenue through Acceptable Ads. "Mobile" - Google News February 05, 2020 at 09:01PM https://ift.tt/2vUvgdw Mobile ad blocking in U.S. sees significant growth: PageFair - AdAge.com "Mobile" - Google News https://ift.tt/2P9t7Cg Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  | ||||||||||||
| Charlie McAvoy’s first goal lifts Bruins over Blackhawks in OT - Boston Herald Posted: 06 Feb 2020 12:06 AM PST  CHICAGO — Charlie McAvoy got rid of the zero next to his name in fine fashion on Wednesday night. The Bruins' standout defenseman scored his first goal of the season at 1:19 of overtime to beat the Chicago Blackhawks, 2-1, at the United Center, taking a pretty pass from Jake DeBrusk and scoring on a tap-in past a helpless goalie Robin Lehner. With his goal-less status weighing on McAvoy far more than he was willing to let on – and his teammates surely knowing that – the formerly snakebitten blueliner found himself on the bottom of a joyous pigpile behind the Chicago net. "They wouldn't let me up," said the grinning McAvoy. "After about 30 seconds, I was like 'I guess we're just staying in Chicago tonight.'" The goal capped off a rather wild final seven minutes or so after much of the game was a tad dull. With 5:19 left in regulation and the score tied 1-1, Chris Wagner took a slashing penalty on a Kirby Dach partial breakaway. The B's did a strong job of killing that off and then had their own chance to get the go-ahead goal after Zach Smith was called for giving Torey Krug a check to the head. But the B's not only could not score on the PP, Krug took a penalty in the neutral zone on a Blackhawks' shorthanded bid. The result could have been much worse, for it appeared for an instant that the Blackhawks had taken the lead on the delayed call on Krug with 1:05 left in regulation. Drake Caggiula took the puck from Olli Maatta in the neutral zone, gained the blue line and beat Jaroslav Halak with a high wrister. It was immediately waived off, however, because of a whistle. Maatta appeared to have played the puck up to Caggiula with a hand pass, essentially killing the play. While the whistle most likely was correct — there is a slight chance that the puck grazed Maatta's stick, which would have kept the play alive — some of the Hawks were under the impression that the refs simply blew the call. "Yeah they made a mistake, blew the whistle. Not much you can say after that. It's done," said Hawks' coach Jeremy Colliton. It was the second night in a row that the B's benefited from a ref"s call on a goal. This one at least appeared to be the right call (perhaps unwittingly), not that coach Bruce Cassidy or anyone else in the building had any idea why. "We heard the whistle on bench. If they had counted it, we would have been, 'Wait a minute.' But there was definitely a whistle when they had the puck in the neutral zone," said Cassidy. The B's dodged that one, but still had to kill off 55 seconds of 4-on-3 power-play time at the start of OT, which they were able to do. After getting Krug back and still playing 4-on-4, the B's went back on the attack. First Krug, fresh out of the box, was turned away by Lehner on a breakaway. But then, after retrieving the puck deep in his own end, McAvoy started a rush and jumped into the play, catching the Hawks napping to create a 3-on-1. He dished it in the middle to David Krejci, who moved it to DeBrusk on the left wing. With McAvoy charging down the right side, DeBrusk hit him in stride with a perfect pass and the defenseman redirected past Lehner for the winner. "He's had a little tough luck. Sometimes he's over-passed at times as well. Tonight, he had no chance on that one. He had to shoot it," said Cassidy. The B's dominated the first period, outhsooting the Hawks, 16-5, but Lehner (38 saves) kept Chicago in it and the Hawks took a 1-0 lead on an Alex DeBrincat power-play goal at 6:50 of the second thanks to a Brad Marchand turnover. Marchand, a staple on the B's PK for years, would not take his turn on his turn on the next Bruin kill. But the B's tied it up before the period was up, on a hard-working goal by the resurgent Sean Kuraly. It stayed deadlocked until 1:19 of OT, when McAvoy heaved the 800-pound gorilla ff his back. "It's nice," said McAvoy. "As much as you don't want to say, you think about it with you're confidence and everything. You feel like you can contribute a set amount and sometimes when it's not there it takes a bit of a hit. What I said to these guys is 'Thanks for keeping my confidence up.' They all do. Everyone was saying 'it's coming, it's coming.' Their response there was pretty neat. They were all busting my chops. Hopefully from there I'll have a little more confidence and hopefully see a few more things go in for me. But as a team that was a big win for us." "Goal" - Google News February 05, 2020 at 07:51PM https://ift.tt/39fBdjF Charlie McAvoy's first goal lifts Bruins over Blackhawks in OT - Boston Herald "Goal" - Google News https://ift.tt/35TEe8t Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  | ||||||||||||
| Community outbreak of deadly coronavirus declared in Hong Kong - South China Morning Post Posted: 06 Feb 2020 12:01 AM PST [unable to retrieve full-text content]
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| Pep: Something's going on at Madrid if Hazard isn't playing well - Goal.com Posted: 05 Feb 2020 11:06 PM PST  Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has questioned Real Madrid's role in Eden Hazard's difficulties to settle in La Liga. Hazard secured a dream move to Los Blancos from Chelsea in June last year for a reported fee of €100 million (£90m/$110m). After questions were raised over the 29-year-old's fitness in pre-season, Hazard has struggled to perform strongly for Real to date, with a string of injuries not helping his cause. Currently recovering from a foot injury, the Belgian has one goal and four assists to show from his first 13 appearances for his new club. Having seen Hazard up close in the Premier League, Guardiola believes the player's quality can't be questioned and any dip in form is down to Los Blancos. "If he's not playing well, something's going on at Madrid because he is really good," Guardiola said on Post United in an interview with YouTuber 'DjMaRiiO'. "Not a top player, another level above. What we saw in England... he is world class. But the whole world knows that you need a period of adaptation." Hazard was in line to play his first match of 2020 on Thursday when Real Madrid tackle Real Sociedad in their Copa del Rey quarter-final but he has failed to make Zinedine Zidane's match day squad. The French manager is eager to exploit the Belgian attacker in seasons to come but is clearly cautious about rushing his return to action. "We are happy to have Eden Hazard. He had a bad injury and as time has gone he has got better," Zidane said on Wednesday. "We are happy to have a player like Eden and we will try to make the most of him during the many years he will be with us. The Madridistas are very happy too." While somewhat critical of Real Madrid's handling of Hazard to date, former Barcelona boss Guardiola admits he misses taking the club on in El Clasicos. "A little bit, yes. Every year it was the game of the century," Guardiola said of the great rivalry. "Here it is very different. In terms of the media, it's totally different." The Manchester City manager will get the chance to return to the Santiago Bernabeu in late February when his side tackles Zidane's men in the first leg of their Champions League Round of 16 clash. "Goal" - Google News February 05, 2020 at 03:21PM https://ift.tt/2uoZZif Pep: Something's going on at Madrid if Hazard isn't playing well - Goal.com "Goal" - Google News https://ift.tt/35TEe8t Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  | ||||||||||||
| Mobile preschooler passes away due to apparent flu complications - NBC 15 WPMI Posted: 05 Feb 2020 11:03 PM PST [unable to retrieve full-text content] Mobile preschooler passes away due to apparent flu complications NBC 15 WPMI"Mobile" - Google News February 05, 2020 at 12:06PM https://ift.tt/2OwVn0v Mobile preschooler passes away due to apparent flu complications - NBC 15 WPMI "Mobile" - Google News https://ift.tt/2P9t7Cg Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  | ||||||||||||
| China Clamps Down on Coronavirus Coverage as Cases Surge - The New York Times Posted: 05 Feb 2020 11:01 PM PST  SHANGHAI — As the number of coronavirus infections in China continues to surge, the Communist government has clamped down on the news media and the internet, signaling an effort to control the narrative about a crisis that has become a once-in-a-generation challenge for leaders in Beijing. Chinese health officials said Thursday that 563 people had died from the virus, up from 490 people the day before, and that there were 28,018 confirmed cases of infection. Thousands more cases are being reported every day, and many Chinese fear that the virus's spread is not being adequately controlled. With frustrations running high across the country, China's leaders appear to be strengthening information controls after a brief spell in which news organizations were able to report thoroughly on the crisis, and many negative comments about the official response were left uncensored online. In recent days, both state-run news media and more commercially minded outlets have been told to focus on positive stories about virus relief efforts, according to three people at Chinese news organizations who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal directives. Internet platforms have removed a range of articles that suggest shortcomings in the Chinese government's response or are otherwise negative about the outbreak. Local officials have also cracked down on what they call online "rumors" about the virus. China's public security ministry this week lauded such efforts, which have continued even after one person who was reprimanded for spreading rumors turned out to be a doctor sounding the alarm about early cases of the illness. The Chinese government has shifted its strategy for information control in response to the changing nature of the public's discontent, said King-wa Fu, an associate professor at the Journalism and Media Studies Center at the University of Hong Kong. In the early days of the crisis, online vitriol had largely been directed at the local authorities. Now, more of the anger is being aimed at higher-level leadership, and there seems to be more of it over all, he said. Late last month, for instance, after The New England Journal of Medicine published a research paper about early cases of the virus, Chinese web users pounced on the fact that several of the authors worked for the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, saying they should have been informing the public, not furthering their research careers. "Now I understand," one person wrote on the social platform Weibo. "The C.D.C.'s purpose all along was to publish research papers." "I'm so mad that I'm speechless," wrote another. The researchers later said that all their information about the infections had already been made public before the paper was written. At this point, Professor Fu said, more censorship "wouldn't stop the public frustration." The rapidly rising number of infections and deaths from the new virus has put renewed pressure on the senior leadership in China. Hospitals near the center of the epidemic have been overwhelmed, and people with flulike symptoms have been turned away. Many cases have not been diagnosed because of a shortage of testing kits. Still, the number of people in China who are recovering is rising, as well. And on Wednesday, a senior Chinese health expert attributed the large rise in the number of confirmed cases to the fact that hospitals had been able to diagnose the virus more quickly. The number of suspected cases has dropped for the same reason, the expert, Li Xingwang, said at an official news briefing. The new curbs on information appeared to have been set in motion earlier this week, when China's leader, Xi Jinping, and other senior officials said at a meeting that they would "strengthen control over online media" as one of several measures to maintain social stability. The leaders said that the government's propaganda efforts should focus on "vividly conveying the stirring achievements from the front lines of epidemic prevention" and "showing the Chinese people's unity and spirit of pulling together in difficult times," according to Xinhua, the official news agency. After the meeting, a top official at China's central propaganda department told the state broadcaster CCTV that his department had dispatched more than 300 journalists to the epidemic's front lines in Wuhan and its surrounding province, Hubei. The official, Zhang Xiaoguo, said the department would make publicizing the government's prevention-and-control campaign its "highest priority." It was unclear whether the 300 journalists included those who were already reporting in Hubei, or whether they would be new arrivals. It was also unclear what news organizations they would represent. A spokeswoman for the propaganda department declined to comment. The effort has been met with some sarcasm on social media. "Positive energy is coming at last," one user wrote on Weibo, using the Chinese government's term for the kind of boosterish, uncritical tone it prefers to see in news coverage. The post was liked more than 27,000 times. But all the comments below the post were eventually deleted, and new comments have been forbidden. Employees at Chinese news organizations this week described a mandatory change of tone in their stories and fresh orders to hew to the official line. Journalists at the Xinhua news agency, for example, have been told to keep their coverage of the virus positive, according to internal instructions seen by The New York Times. They were ordered not to continue mentioning the fact that the World Health Organization had declared a global health emergency and not to cover every infection discovered overseas. "Only cover what needs to be covered," the instructions said. Across the rest of China's news landscape, articles on a broad range of themes have been blocked or deleted online in recent days. They include a report in the financial newsmagazine Caijing about deaths in Wuhan that might not have been counted in the official tally; a firsthand account of a funeral home in Wuhan; and even an interview with the head of a popular restaurant chain who said that he might be out of cash in a few months if the virus were not contained. Beijing is moving to tighten up its management of the epidemic as governments worldwide continue cutting themselves off from China to stop coronavirus cases from being imported. Hong Kong, a semiautonomous Chinese territory, said on Wednesday that it would begin requiring all people who arrive from mainland China to undergo a mandatory 14-day quarantine. Hong Kong has 21 confirmed cases of the coronavirus, including three that were transmitted locally. Carrie Lam, the city's top official, has resisted demands from some lawmakers and medical workers to close the border completely, calling it discriminatory and not in line with W.H.O. guidelines. But she has enacted a series of measures, including closing all but three border crossings, that have resulted in a sharp drop in entries from the mainland. The United States and other countries have also imposed entry restrictions on visitors from China. Such measures have thrown the global travel industry into disarray. Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio of Italy said in an interview with The Associated Press that Italy's flight ban on commercial flights to and from China, put into place on Jan. 30, could ease soon now that thermal scanners are being installed at airports throughout Italy and taking the temperatures of arriving passengers from all foreign flights. Cathay Pacific, the Hong Kong-based international airline, has asked its 27,000 employees to take three weeks of unpaid leave. The carrier has already cut nearly all flights to and from mainland China and has said it would pare back flights across its network as it faces its biggest emergency since the depths of the financial crisis in 2009. Twenty people on a cruise ship carrying 2,666 passengers and 1,045 crew members and quarantined in Yokohama, Japan, have tested positive for the coronavirus, the cruise line, Princess Cruises, said on Wednesday. And another 170 people who may have been exposed have yet to be tested. The ship arrived in Yokohama on Tuesday, but the authorities did not allow anyone off. An 80-year-old Hong Kong resident who had disembarked earlier in his home city was found to be infected. On Wednesday, hundreds of Americans who had been in Wuhan as the outbreak worsened arrived in California on two evacuation flights arranged by the United States government. The 12th case of the coronavirus in the United States was confirmed on Wednesday. Amid all the gloom, scientists in China provided a glimmer of hope this week. Chinese researchers reported preliminary success with a new approach for treating the coronavirus. The researchers combined Arbidol, an antiviral drug used in Russia and China for treating influenza, with Darunavir, the anti-H.I.V. drug, for treating patients with the coronavirus, according to Changjiang News, a state-backed newspaper in Wuhan. The researchers did not say how many patients had been treated with the combination therapy, and it could be too soon to assess its effectiveness. The findings have not been reviewed by outside experts. Reporting was contributed by Austin Ramzy, Elaine Yu and Alexandra Stevenson from Hong Kong, and Sui-Lee Wee from Singapore. Wang Yiwei and Amber Wang contributed research. 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| Man’s fake coronavirus claim shows how desperate people are to go viral: experts - Global News Posted: 05 Feb 2020 10:23 PM PST A Vaughan, Ont. man who falsely claimed he had coronavirus, causing a Toronto-to-Jamaica WestJet flight to return to the airport, says he just wanted to go viral. "I had my camera with me. I was looking to get a viral video. I was looking to get it up on all the social media platforms," James Potok, 28, previously told Global News. "It seemed to me like this was in poor taste, in retrospect. What I did, I stood up, I said, 'Can I have everybody's attention? I just came back from Hunan Province — and that was it."
WestJet said Flight 2702, with 243 passengers on board, was on its way to Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay on Monday when it was disrupted by an "unruly guest." The airline said the plane returned to Toronto, where law enforcement and paramedics were waiting.  Potok was assessed upon landing back in Toronto and was deemed symptom-free. He was later charged with mischief and is due in Ontario court in March. Given the prominence of social media and the fame that can come as a result of going viral, Josh Klapow isn't surprised by Potok's story. He's a clinical professor of public health at The University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is, however, surprised by Potok's motive for making the claim.  "Some people want to go viral just because they want to be famous, but this guy … gave us a rationale that was more business-minded," said Klapow. "It presents a little bit more of a logical rationale than what a lot of people are doing when they're filming videos to go viral." This incident is interesting, said Klapow, because it could signal a new use for social media. READ MORE: 'Fire challenge' leaves 12-year-old boy with 2nd degree burns "I think it's a little scary that this was a self-marketing attempt," said Klapow. "What we may be seeing [more of] is a broader array of people taking less than well-thought-out measures to self-promote, promote a product or drive traffic." This marketing model could be easily adaptable for brands and PR companies, filling the online space with "more noise," Klapow said.  "When there's more web-based noise, [that] means we have to do more extreme things in order to not get lost in the noise … which means you're going to get more people like [Potok]," he said. Regardless of a person's motive, going viral ensures one thing: hundreds and millions of 'likes' online. It's arguably one of the easiest ways to get a quick hit of dopamine, which is a brain chemical that makes us feel good. Doing it for the dopamine hitDopamine is a neurotransmitter, also known as a chemical in the brain which transports information, and it can explain why people are willing to risk a lot for 'likes' online. "Dopamine affects our brain's reward system, and doing something which our brain finds pleasurable leads to more dopamine being released, and increased desire to repeat that activity," said registered psychotherapist Renee Raymond. "Social media is such an integral part of many people's lives and it's hard to ignore the demand to want to be liked." READ MORE: Saskatchewan health officials warn against coronavirus hoaxes Social media stunts or pranks are a quick and easy way to get a lot of likes in a short amount of time. "There are many YouTube and Instagram stars which have gained followers and likes for their stunts, which reinforces the desire to engage in these types of activities," said Raymond. Unfortunately, dopamine is "indiscriminate" when it comes to good and bad behaviour — you can feel it when you do something good and when you do something dangerous. "For some, the consequences of chasing things which are pleasurable might be ignored because of how desirable the intended outcome is," Raymond said. "We see this with gamblers, they chase the 'high' of winning and may spend several dollars chasing that feeling." In this case, Potok likely ignored the potential consequences in his chase for 'likes' and the subsequent dopamine hit. Taking the moments to slow downWhen it comes to social media, Raymond said using mindfulness is critical. "[It] can help with slowing down our impulses and giving us time to process our choices," she said. "Mindfulness is simply being more aware and engaged in the present."
READ MORE: Health officials urge Canadians to get coronavirus information from credible sources The next time you're trying to decide if you should do something that could have risky consequences, take a few moments to slow down. "Consider if the feeling you're about to chase and its consequences are worth the decision," she said. "Asking yourself what alternate choices you can make can also help with deciding if something you want to do for fame and attention is a good decision." When in doubt, ask a few responsible people you're close to, like your parents, friends or colleagues, if the choice you're about to make is a good one. —With files from Nick Westoll © 2020 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc. "viral" - Google News February 05, 2020 at 01:42PM https://ift.tt/3bfUGCr Man's fake coronavirus claim shows how desperate people are to go viral: experts - Global News "viral" - Google News https://ift.tt/2BCxygM Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  | ||||||||||||
| Posted: 05 Feb 2020 09:50 PM PST  CINCINNATI — Fourteen-year-old Walnut Hills honor student Diana Hutchinson will become the first-ever black actress to play "Annie" in the Children's Theatre of Cincinnati's production of the classic musical. It's a role that's close to Hutchinson's heart, she said Wednesday. She's grown up performing in church plays, watching her older sister act and admiring Broadway actresses Sutton Foster and Idina Menzel, but "Annie" is special. When she was younger, "my grandma would do my hair and we would watch old movies, and one that was on repeat was 'Annie,'" she said. She knew she needed to audition as soon as her drama teacher told her Children's Theatre would be staging it in spring 2020. With help from her teacher, she sent in a video audition, attended a live callback and — a week later — got the good news. She was a natural fit, director and choreographer Eric Byrd said. "One of the best things about my job is when we discover new talent in the city that we didn't know were around and out there, and that is truly the case for Diana," he said. "We wanted to make sure we saw everyone in town who had the chops to do it, and when she walked in, she just blew us all away with her vocals and her maturity and her professionalism." The show opens Feb. 29. In the meantime, Hutchinson will attend 18 hours of rehearsal each week, stay on top of her homework and (hopefully) find time to hang out with her friends. "It's been a hard time to balance, but I've noticed that I can actually do it," she said. She's excited to be the first black actress playing the role on the Taft Theatre's stage, she added. Although she's loved musical theater all her life, Hutchinson said she's noticed a lack of color even in her favorite shows. The first professional-level production she saw with a large number of black performers was "Ragtime," in which her older sister performed five years ago. "It really changed my whole perspective on what I can do and what I can't do," she said. "Because seeing my sister up there on the stage really put something in me to know I can also do it. I can be the on the stage and change lives." She hopes other children in the audience will be inspired when they spot an Annie with a head of dark curls. "I just want them to know that someone that looks like them is doing it," she said. "At such a young age, I get the chance to do that for them and I'm just so proud and honored to do be able to do this role for them." Anyone interested in attending a performance of "Annie," which will run on weekends Feb. 29 - March 8, can learn more and purchase tickets via the Children's Theatre. "Actress" - Google News February 05, 2020 at 08:54PM https://ift.tt/31veoWl Meet the first black actress to star in 'Annie' at the Children's Theatre of Cincinnati - WCPO Cincinnati "Actress" - Google News https://ift.tt/31HZgDn Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  | ||||||||||||
| 凸版印刷と、ラッセル・マインドフルネス・エンターテインメントが代理店契約を締結 - PR TIMES Posted: 05 Feb 2020 09:22 PM PST Press Release 2020年2月6日 凸版印刷と、ラッセル・マインドフルネス・エンターテインメントが代理店契約を締結 ラッセル・マインドフルネス・エンターテインメント・ジャパン株式会社（本社：東京都渋谷区、代表取締役CEO：大西茂久、以下ラッセル）は、凸版印刷株式会社（本社：東京都千代田区、代表取締役社長：麿 秀晴、以下 凸版印刷）と代理店契約を締結いたしましたのでお知らせいたします。
本契約に先立ち、東急不動産ホールディングス株式会社（本社：東京都渋谷区、代表取締役社長：大隈 郁仁、以下 東急不動産HD）本社（渋谷ソラスタ内）にて、2019年11月上旬から約2週間、社員の働き方改革の可視化を目的とした実証実験を、脳神経外科医で菅原脳神経外科クリニック院長の菅原道仁医師の監修の下実施し、被験者のリラックス効果や疲労度の減少などが確認され、有効性が実証されました。 ■東急不動産HDにおける実証実験の概要と結果
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| After Gio Reyna's stunner, ranking the top 10 goals by Americans in Europe - MLSsoccer.com Posted: 05 Feb 2020 09:06 PM PST  Reuters/Action Images On Tuesday night, teen Borussia Dortmund talent Gio Reyna bagged arguably one of the snazziest goals ever scored in Europe by an American, curling home a spectacular solo effort. We're here to stoke that exact debate by listing our version of the best strikes by an American export after MLSsoccer.com's Matt Doyle started it.
Show-stopping skill was the primary basis for ranking these memorable bell-ringers, but a few of them got ties broken in their favor due to an added gloss of high-occasion importance. There were numerous highlight reel strikes close enough in quality to the top 10 to merit honorable mentions: Jozy Altidore vs. Ajax (2012), Jozy Altidore vs. RKC Waalwijk (2013), DaMarcus Beasley v. Rosenborg (2004), Clint Dempsey v. Sunderland (2012), Brad Friedel v. Charlton (2004), Julian Green v. Fortuna Duesseldorf (2016), Clint Mathis v. Hamburg (2004), Josh Sargent v. Augsburg (2019) and Bobby Wood v. Karlsruhe (2015). No. 10: Eddie Lewis vs Preston North End (2006)Time to rally from a 1-0 deficit was running out for Leeds United in the home opener of their Championship promotion semifinal tie, when Lewis stepped up to a free kick against his former teammates. It's no small feat to get a dead ball up and over the wall on the short side, but Lewis got enough mustard on it to freeze the 'keeper and find the top corner.
No. 9: Brian McBride vs. West Ham (2007)The Fulham striker was most admired for his aerial game, but he was also nimble. Early in the first half of a deadlocked derby match, McBride chested down a Carlos Bocanegra long ball to tee himself up for a twisting half-volley missile that left West Ham goalkeeper Roy Carroll with no chance. No. 8: DaMarcus Beasley vs. Feyenoord (2005)I could not find a clip for this doozy, so we'll just have to paint the picture. With just over a minute left in the Amstel Cup semifinal, PSV were trailing 1-0. Beasley received the ball at the far right corner and stopped to survey the scene. He checked a few runners, but couldn't make a decision. Feyenoord were too slow to close Beasley down, so he simply tucked a pillow soft lob into the far-side netting. PSV took the game on spot kicks and then won the final to snap a 19-year Dutch Cup drought. No. 7: Giovanni Reyna vs. Werder Bremen (2020)You know when a young prodigy gets called up to the first team and soon after scores a goal that has everyone salivating over his potential ceiling? We got one of those on Tuesday night. It was only a consolation tally in a 3-2 defeat, but Reyna gave Borussia Dortmund late hope against DfB-Pokal third-round hosts Werder Bremen. The 17-year-old attacker got loose from a few defenders to bury a picturesque far-corner curler.
No. 6: John O'Brien vs. Vitesse (2001)The Los Angeles native didn't score many goals during his Ajax tenure, but one of them was worthy of acclaim. As the Amsterdammers made their way to the Eredivisie title, O'Brien swooped onto the scene to net the primary insurance goal in a 5-1 rout of Vitesse. He flew onto a knocked-down cross and lashed home an unstoppable, arcing shot. No. 5: Mix Diskerud vs. Legia Warsaw (2012)Rosenborg's gripping Europa League playoff round tussle with Legia Warsaw looked as if it was headed to extratime with the teams deadlocked at 2-2 on aggregate. Then, the hosts sent a long ball toward the Legia area that resulted in a weak looping clearance. Diskerud raced in to rocket a confident volley into the near side and earn a big continental win. No. 4: Fabian Johnson vs. Hannover 96 (2012)In some American-on-American crime, the then-Hoffenheim winger used his wheels and his wits to make good ol' Steve Cherundolo suffer. Johnson cushioned a long serve and executed a Dennis Bergkamp-esque over-the-top backheel flick to jet past the Mayor of Hannover into the box. His slicing finish was also top-notch, but it pales in comparison to the way he got into shooting position. No. 3: John Harkes vs. Derby County (1990)Everyone bust out your best Dr. Evil voice, because this Harkes strike was a shark with a frickin' laser beam on its head. The Sheffield Wednesday midfielder collected out in space on the right, took one dribble to build up speed and uncorked a shot from nearly 40 yards that bested England goalkeeping legend Peter Shilton. The blast even earned Harkes the Goal of the Season. No. 2: Roy Wegerle vs. Leeds United (1990)Wegerle garnered the Goal of the Season prize from broadcast partner ITV for this highlight-reel job during his magical season for QPR. The American forward scored 17 times that term to finish third in the top-flight goal chart, but none was as entertaining as the Leeds humiliation job you see below. No. 1: Clint Dempsey vs. Juventus (2010)Things appeared grim for Fulham in their Europa League Round of 16 tie capper, since Juventus held a 4-1 aggregate lead. However, the gutsy hosts clawed back to level with three goals, setting the stage for Deuce to cut loose late. With eight minutes left, Dempsey conjured a magical goal out of nothing, perfectly chipping across his body on the diagonal to put Fulham firmly on the road to their first continental final. "Goal" - Google News February 05, 2020 at 08:49AM https://ift.tt/2UAc2nT After Gio Reyna's stunner, ranking the top 10 goals by Americans in Europe - MLSsoccer.com "Goal" - Google News https://ift.tt/35TEe8t Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  | ||||||||||||
| Wild should stick with South St. Paul native Alex Stalock in goal - Duluth News Tribune Posted: 05 Feb 2020 08:36 PM PST That's exactly what backup goaltender Alex Stalock did Tuesday night, Feb. 4, at Xcel Energy Center. Though the 32-year-old South St. Paul native gave up a pair of late goals before the Wild ultimately prevailed with a 3-2 overtime win over the Chicago Blackhawks, he injected life into a lifeless bunch, making a handful of crucial saves in the most critical moments. That performance was reason enough for the Wild to roll keep Stalock in goal instead of longtime starter Devan Dubnyk for the foreseeable future. Just look at the numbers. They speak for themselves.  Stalock already has made a career-high 24 starts this season, boasting a 12-8-3 record, 2.88 goals-against average and .904 save percentage. Meanwhile, Dubnyk, who has spent the bulk of the season dealing with his wife's medical issues, is on pace for his fewest starts since arriving in the Twin Cities, and has struggled with a 9-13-2 record, 3.40 goals-against average and .890 save percentage. "We are going to play whoever's playing the best," Boudreau said. "It's not like preseason where we can experiment." That would explain why he went with Stalock over Dubnyk for the must-win game against the Blackhawks. Asked about his decisions, Boudreau responded, "Why not go back to him? We are hoping to find lightning in a bottle from somebody. Maybe he can give us a spark." In that respect, it's hard to imagine Boudreau not starting Stalock against the Vancouver Canucks on Thursday night at the Xcel Energy Center. He has emerged as the best goaltender on the roster as of late and likely gives the Wild their best chance to chase down a playoff spot in the gridlocked Western Conference. If the numbers aren't enough — and Stalock is outperforming Dubnyk in pretty much every metric imaginable — there's something to be said about the much less scientific eye test. There have been countless times this season when Stalock has come up with a big save — whether it's robbing a Grade-A scoring chance or thwarting a breakaway attempt — and the Wild have immediately gone down and scored on the other end. That's exactly what happened against the Blackhawks when Stalock denied center Ryan Carpenter on a breakaway on one end and Kevin Fiala scored for the Wild on the ensuing sequence. "It's so much fun," Stalock said. "You make a big save as a goalie and they go down and score, and it feels good because maybe I chipped in on the scoring chance." It's clear that Stalock is up for the challenge of being the guy the Wild lean on, though he doesn't want it to necessarily come at the expense of Dubnyk. "In our positions, there are two of us, and both of us want to win games," Stalock said. "That's what it is. Just being a competitor, every chance we get to go and get two points, obviously that's the ultimate goal. We know how good it feels in the locker room when we earn it." "Goal" - Google News February 05, 2020 at 02:00PM https://ift.tt/3bdpeEV Wild should stick with South St. Paul native Alex Stalock in goal - Duluth News Tribune "Goal" - Google News https://ift.tt/35TEe8t Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  | ||||||||||||
| WHO says coronavirus cases surge: 'Most cases in a single day' - CNBC Posted: 05 Feb 2020 08:31 PM PST  Disinfection workers wearing protective gears and prepare to disinfect against the novel coronavirus in Daerim Central Market, a neighbourhood with one of the largest Chinese population on February 05, 2020 in Seoul, South Korea. Chung Sung-Jun | Getty Images The number of cases for the flu-like coronavirus surged in the last day, with more than 3,100 new patients confirmed in China, World Health Organization officials said Wednesday. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a news conference that the reported cases are "the most cases in a single day since the outbreak started" Dec. 31. Just 191 of the total cases are outside mainland China, and 80% of those cases are concentrated in Hubei province where the virus was first detected in the city of Wuhan, he said. Of the cases outside of China, 31 spread through human-to-human contact, mostly from close friends or relatives who had recently been to China. Tedros issued a warning for countries monitoring the outbreak and pleaded for funding: "Invest today or pay more later." "Our greatest concern is about the potential for spread in other countries with weaker health systems and who lack the capacity to detect and diagnose the virus," he said. "We're only as strong as the weakest link." "We cannot defeat this outbreak without solidarity. Political solidarity, technical solidarity, and financial solidarity," he continued. Tedros has been urging the WHO's 196 member countries to "invest in preparedness," not "panic." He said that funding for outbreak preparedness in surrounding countries "has remained grossly inadequate" in the past. The WHO has tapped $9 million of funding from its contingency fund for emergencies, Tedros said Wednesday. He said the organization has sent medical supplies such as masks, gloves, gowns and diagnostic tests around the world. He also announced that the WHO is launching a "strategy preparedness and response plan." The WHO is requesting $675 million to fund the plan for the next three months, he said, adding that $60 million of that would fund WHO operations and the rest for country support. Infectious disease specialists and scientists say the virus may be more contagious than current data shows. Data on the virus is changing by the day, and some infectious disease specialists say it will take weeks before they can see just how contagious it is. The respiratory illness is not yet considered a pandemic. A pandemic is "an epidemic occurring worldwide, or over a very wide area, crossing international boundaries and usually affecting a large number of people," according to WHO. Top stories - Google News February 05, 2020 at 08:20AM https://ift.tt/3bhfysX WHO says coronavirus cases surge: 'Most cases in a single day' - CNBC Top stories - Google News https://ift.tt/2FLTecc Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  | ||||||||||||
| When Your Used Car is a Little Too 'Mobile' - Krebs on Security Posted: 05 Feb 2020 08:03 PM PST Many modern vehicles let owners use the Internet or a mobile device to control the car's locks, track location and performance data, and start the engine. But who exactly owns that control is not always clear when these smart cars are sold or leased anew. Here's the story of one former electric vehicle owner who discovered he could still gain remote, online access to his old automobile years after his lease ended. Mathew Marulla began leasing a Ford Focus electric vehicle in 2013, but turned the car back in to Ford at the end of his lease in 2016. So Marulla was surprised when he recently received an email from Ford.com stating that the clock in his car was set incorrectly.
Out of curiosity, Marulla decided to check if his old MyFordMobile.com credentials from 2016 still worked. They did, and Marulla was presented with an online dashboard showing the current location of his old ride and its mileage statistics. The dashboard also allowed him to remotely start the vehicle, as well as lock and unlock its doors.  Mathew Marulla turned in his leased Ford EV to Ford 4 years ago, so he is no longer the legal owner of the car. But he can still remotely track its location and usage, lock and unlock it, and start the engine. "It was a three-year lease from Ford and I turned it in to Ford four years ago, so Ford definitely knows I am no longer the owner," Marulla said, noting that the dashboard also included historic records showing where the Focus had been driven in days prior. "I can track its movements, see where it plugs in," he said. "Now I know where the current owner likely lives, and if I watch it tomorrow I can probably figure out where he works. I have not been the owner of this vehicle for four years, Ford knows this, yet they took no action whatsoever to remove me as the owner in this application." Asked to comment on Marulla's experience, a spokesperson for Ford said all Ford dealerships are supposed to perform a "master reset" as part of their used car checklist prior to the resale of a vehicle. A master reset (carried out via the vehicle's SYNC infotainment screen by a customer or dealer) disassociates the vehicle from all current accounts. "A master reset cleans phone data and removes previous Ford Pass and My Ford Mobile connections," the company said in a statement released to KrebsOnSecurity. "Once complete, a previous owner will no longer be able to connect to the vehicle when they log in to My Ford Mobile or Ford Pass." As Marulla's experience shows, if you're in the market for a used car you should probably check whether it's possible to reset the previous owner's control and/or information before purchasing it, or at least ask the dealership to help you ensure this gets done once the purchase is made. And if you're thinking of selling your car, it's a good idea to clear your personal data from the vehicle first. As the U.S. Federal Trade Commission advises, some cars have a factory reset option that will return the settings and data to their original state. "But even after a factory reset, you may still have work to do," reads an FTC consumer privacy notice from 2018. "For example, your old car may still be connected to subscription services like satellite radio, mobile Wi-Fi hotspots, and data services. You need to cancel these services or have them transferred to your new vehicle." By the way, this issue of de-provisioning is something of a sticky wicket, and it potentially extends well beyond vehicles to a number of other "smart" devices that end up being resold or refurbished. This is doubly so for Internet-connected/capable devices whose design may give the previous owner a modicum of access to or control over the device in question regardless of what steps the new owner takes to limit such access (particularly some types of security cameras). Tags: Focus EV, Ford, Mathew Marulla, MyFordMobile.com, U.S. Federal Trade Commission "Mobile" - Google News February 05, 2020 at 07:33PM https://ift.tt/2OtVKZE When Your Used Car is a Little Too 'Mobile' - Krebs on Security "Mobile" - Google News https://ift.tt/2P9t7Cg Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  | ||||||||||||
| US can't keep coronavirus 'out of our border,' NYC has 2 new 'patients under investigation' - CNBC Posted: 05 Feb 2020 08:01 PM PST  The coverage on this live blog has ended — but for up-to-the-minute coverage on the coronavirus, visit the live blog from CNBC's Asia-Pacific team. Total cases: More than 24,600 as of Wednesday morning. 5:10 pm: Yum China temporarily closes 30% of China stores, could see lossesYum China Holdings, which operates Pizza Hut and KFC in China, has temporarily closed more than 30% of its stores there. Same-store sales for the locations that stayed open plunged by up to 50% since the Chinese New Year holiday, the company said, adding that it can't say when its locations may reopen or whether it will need to close more. "Looking into 2020, the coronavirus outbreak is a major public health situation in China," CEO Joey Wat said in a statement, adding that the safety of employees and customers was a priority. The outbreak will have a "material impact" on its 2020 sales and profit — possibly even see a quarterly or annual loss, depending on the course of the outbreak, the company said. -- Rogers 4:07 pm: New York City tests 5 people for potential coronavirusThe New York City Department of Health said it now has five "patients under investigation" for the virus and is awaiting test results on four of them from the CDC. "This means they had recently been in China and presented with fever and cough or shortness of breath without another common cause, like influenza and other respiratory viruses, identified through testing," the agency said in a statement. The two new potential patients are both under 40. One has been hospitalized and the other is under isolation with daily monitoring by the health department. The specimen from the first suspected case sent to the CDC was negative, the department previously said. 3:40 pm: Consumers start to worry about impact on economyAs the coronavirus continues to spread, concerns among U.S. consumers about the economic impact of the outbreak have risen slightly, according to recent polling by Morning Consult. The opinion research firm said its Index of Consumer Sentiment fell slightly last week, based in part on worries about the spread of the disease. Among those surveyed, Americans are more concerned about the virus' effects on the global and U.S. economies than on their own local economies. — Schoen 3:12 pm: Epidemiologist warns lawmakers: US can't keep coronavirus 'out of our border'U.S. travel restrictions implemented in recent days to keep a fast-moving virus that has crippled much of China from spreading across America won't work, a top epidemiologist told U.S. lawmakers. "I have never seen instances where that has worked when we are talking about a virus at this scale," epidemiologist Jennifer Nuzzo, a senior scholar at Johns Hopkins University's Center for Health Security, testified before the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee. Respiratory viruses, like the one that's sickened more than 24,300 across the globe and killed at least 490 in China, "they just move quickly. They are hard to spot because they look like many other diseases," she said. 2:31 pm: Life under quarantine. Civil rights activists criticize lockdownsJarred Evans spent his fourth night of quarantine on the March Air Reserve Base with the 194 other Americans he was evacuated with last week from Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak. Evans and the other Americans at the base in Riverside, California were the first U.S. citizens to be quarantined by the federal government since the 1960s, health officials said last week. American Civil Liberties Union senior policy analyst Jay Stanley said the move is an escalation by the Trump administration that tests the balance of public health and individual liberty. "Quarantining somebody is an extraordinary deprivation of their liberties," he said. "There's a burden on the government to determine that it's really using the least restrictive alternative." - Feuer 2:25 pm Wisconsin confirms first case of virusA Wisconsin resident who recently traveled to China has been infected with the coronavirus, state health officials said at a news conference. The patient is currently "doing well" and in isolation at home, they said. Health officials said there is no immediate danger and the risk to the broader public is "low." - Lovelace 2:13 pm: US House panel holds hearing on the outbreakThe U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Foreign Affairs is holding a hearing on the outbreak scheduled to begin at 2 p.m. ET. Witnesses include senior scholar at Johns Hopkins University's Center for Health Security Jennifer Nuzzo, senior policy researcher at the RAND Corporation Jennifer Bouey and former White House Ebola response coordinator Ron Klain. Congressman Ami Bera, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, and Nonproliferation, announced the hearing last week. Watch the live hearing here. 1:50 pm: UPS strikes deal with union over flights to ChinaAs the coronavirus spreads, the union that represents UPS pilots has struck a deal with shipping giant to make flying to China "voluntary." "This joint effort addresses crewmember concerns over safety during the coronavirus health crisis," the union said in a statement. More than a dozen airlines, including Delta, United and American have suspended service to mainland China and to Hong Kong, citing a sharp drop in demand because of the outbreak. Others have significantly scaled back service. - Josephs 1:40 pm: Defense Department clears another quarantine siteThe Department of Defense has cleared the way for Camp Ashland in Ashland, Nebraska to be used to house as many as 75 people who may need to be quarantined upon arrival from overseas travel due to the coronavirus. The authorization extends through the end of February. - Macias 1:27 pm: A look at virus-fighting robots that can be used to disinfect hospitals12:29 pm: US is accepting four new planes carrying Americans from WuhanThe U.S. is accepting four new planes carrying Americans being evacuated from Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the outbreak, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. The Americans will be quarantined at four different military bases across the U.S.: Camp Ashland in Ashland, Nebraska; Travis Air Force Base in California; Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego and Lackland Air Force Base in Texas. "This could be the beginning of what could be a long response," said Dr. Nancy Messonnier, the director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, said on a conference call with reporters. - Feuer This item was updated to correct the name and location of one of the military bases. It's Camp Ashland near Ashland, Nebraska. 12:18 pm: CDC holds media briefingThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention scheduled a media briefing at 12:15 p.m. ET to update the public on the latest developments in the U.S. Dr. Nancy Messonnier, the director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, and Rear Admiral Denise Hinton, chief scientist for the Food and Drug Administration are scheduled to speak. 11:38 am: Oil jumps more than 3% on media reports of coronavirus drug hopesOil prices rose on Wednesday following reports of progress on a coronavirus drug, although the World Health Organization did say that there is still no known treatment. U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude rose more than 4% at its session high, touching $51.81 per barrel, for its first positive session in six days. Prices also got a boost as officials from OPEC+ kicked off a second day of meetings in Vienna to discuss potentially deeper production cuts as the coronavirus roils markets. WTI has slipped into bear market territory as traders fear that a slowdown in China's economy will hit crude demand. -Stevens 11:22 am: WHO calls for more fundingWHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is requesting additional funding to combat the virus. "We are requesting $675 million (in) U.S. dollars to fund the plan for the next 3 months," he said on a call with reporters, adding that $60 million of that will fund WHO operations while the rest will go toward supporting countries grappling to contain the virus. "Our message to the international community is invest today or pay more later." The WHO has already tapped $9 million of funding from its contingency fund for emergencies, Tedros said. -Feuer 10:45 am: WHO says new cases surged in last 24 hoursThere were more than 3,100 new cases confirmed in China over the last 24 hours, bringing the total to 24,363 in China and 490 deaths as of 6 a.m. Geneva time, World Health Organization officials said. "In the last 24 hours we had the most cases in a single day since the outbreak started," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a press conference. Just 191 of the total cases are outside mainland China and 80% of those cases are concentrated in the Hubei province where the virus was first detected in the city of Wuhan, he said. Of the cases outside of China, 31 of them spread through human-to-human contact, mostly from close friends or relatives who had recently been to China, he said. 10:03 am: WHO schedules media updateThe World Health Organization scheduled a media briefing at 10 a.m. ET as the number of cases rises above 24,000 across the globe, most of them contained in China. Watch the live press conference here. 9:57 am: Adidas getting hit by outbreakAdidas confirmed that it has closed a significant number of stores in China because of the coronavirus. The company is currently operating less than 500 stores in China, 4% of the 12,000 locations it has there, including franchise stores. In a statement to CNBC, the company said it is too early to assess the magnitude of the virus' impact. - Miller 9:35 am: Coronavirus infects six-month-old baby in SingaporeSingapore's health ministry confirmed four more coronavirus cases, including a six-month-old baby. Both parents of the infant, a Singapore citizen, have also been infected, the ministry said. On Tuesday, Singapore reported its first cases of citizens and residents who had contracted the virus without recent travel to China, where the outbreak first surfaced in late December. - Reuters 9:30 am: Retailer Capri Holdings takes a hitMichael Kors owner Capri Holdings said it has taken a $100 million hit to revenue because of the coronavirus. Capri closed 150 of its 225 stores in mainland China and has seen a significantly drop in foot traffic. The company warned that travel restrictions on visitors from China could also put pressure on sales in other regions. "This is going to be a very tough period for luxury brands," said Ben Cavender, managing director at China Market Research Group in Shanghai. "There is going to be a negative long-term effect as well, as many corporate offices are shut down or barely functioning and this is a key time period for planning future seasons." - Miller 9:05 am: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation commits $100 millionThe Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation said it will spend up to $100 million to improve detection, isolation and treatment efforts for the new coronavirus. It also hopes to accelerate the development of vaccines, drugs and diagnostics. "Multilateral organizations, national governments, the private sector and philanthropies must work together to slow the pace of the outbreak, help countries protect their most vulnerable citizens and accelerate the development of the tools to bring this epidemic under control," Gates Foundation CEO Mark Suzman said. - Feuer 9 am: Princess Cruises says one person from the US among 10 diagnosed on shipPrincess Cruises confirmed to CNBC that one of the people in its ship near Japan who tested positive for the coronavirus is from the United States. Of the 9 others, there are two passengers from Australia, three from Japan and three from Hong Kong and one Filipino crew member. The 3,700 people on the ship will remain in quarantine for 14 days in total. - Feuer 8 am: ECB chief says outbreak 'adds a new layer of uncertainty' to global growthThe president of the European Central Bank expressed concern that China's coronavirus outbreak is fueling global economic uncertainty. "The short-term uncertainties are mainly related to global risks — trade, geopolitical and now the outbreak of the coronavirus and its potential effect on global growth," Christine Lagarde said during a speech in Paris, according to Reuters. "While the threat of a trade war between the United States and China appears to have receded, the coronavirus adds a new layer of uncertainty." 7:25 am: WHO says there are 'no known' effective drug treatments against coronavirusThe World Health Organization played down reports of a drug breakthrough against the coronavirus. "There are no known effective therapeutics against this 2019-nCoV and WHO recommends enrollment into a randomized controlled trial to test efficacy and safety," WHO said Wednesday. "A master global clinical trial protocol for research and prioritization of therapeutics is ongoing at the WHO." Earlier in the day, Reuters said a Chinese TV media outlet had reported that a research team at Zhejiang University had found an effective drug to treat people with the new coronavirus. The news agency, citing traders, suggested this was a reason for the move higher in stocks. Separately, Sky News reported Wednesday that a scientist from Imperial College London had made a significant breakthrough in the race to develop a vaccine. CNBC has not been able to verify the media reports. 6:20 am: China's Xi says the country must crack down on coronavirus misinformationChinese President Xi Jinping said the government will crack down on misinformation about the coronavirus, Xinhua news agency reported. He said the world's second-largest economy must report information about the virus in a timely and accurate manner with the outbreak at a crucial stage. Xi's comments come as the World Health Organization continues to warn against fast-spreading online rumors. Read CNBC's coverage from our Asia-Pacific team overnight: Coronavirus live updates: US futures, oil prices jump on reports of drug breakthrough -- Reuters and CNBC's Kate Rogers, John Schoen, Leslie Josephs, Amanda Macias, Hannah Miller, Sam Meredith, Weizhen Tan, Joanna Tan, Pippa Stevens and Evelyn Cheng contributed to this report. All times above are in Eastern time. Top stories - Google News February 05, 2020 at 05:34AM https://ift.tt/36XYzsf US can't keep coronavirus 'out of our border,' NYC has 2 new 'patients under investigation' - CNBC Top stories - Google News https://ift.tt/2FLTecc Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  | ||||||||||||
| Viral economy downside - The Jakarta Post - Jakarta Post Posted: 05 Feb 2020 07:23 PM PST  The global economy kicked off 2020 with a little more hope from the signing of a first-phase trade deal between the United States and China, the two world's largest economies and whose trade feud has roiled countries worldwide. But weeks into the start of the year, the rapidly spreading 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak that began in Wuhan, China, has sent shockwaves throughout the world economy. The death toll has risen to 492 — all but two in China — and cases reported reached nearly 25,000 as of Wednesday. From mask hoarders to stock sell-offs, the instant reaction has been panic. Nearly US$400 billion was wiped off the benchmark Shanghai stock market, triggering China's central bank to announce a $173 billion injection to boost liquidity in the banking system and currency market. Stock markets, especially in Asia, saw red, including the Jakarta Composite Index, which lost nearly 6 percent from Jan. 17, with an around Rp 3 trillion ($219.14 million) net sell from foreign investors. Read also: Coronavirus can depress Indonesian economy by 0.29 percent: Minister Factories are closing in China and mutiple countries including Indonesia have issued travel warnings to and from the mainland. Economists are estimating that the coronavirus outbreak will slash 1 percentage point from China's economic growth, which at 6.1 percent in 2019 was already the lowest in almost three decades. The World Bank has estimated that every 1 percentage point of drop in China's growth will cut Indonesia's growth by 0.3 percentage point. Southeast Asia's largest economy expanded by 5.02 percent in 2019, the weakest in four years, Statistics Indonesia announced on Wednesday. Coordinating Economic Minister Airlangga Hartarto has said that Indonesia's economic growth could lose 0.1 to 0.29 percentage points because of the new coronavirus. Uncertainties surrounding vaccines will continue to add downside risks to the global economy, which is facing challenges from climate change, US economic stagnation, public discontent around the world and conflicts in the Middle East. Economic reform is imminent for Indonesia's survival through 2020. With trade under extreme pressure from global economic risks, the government will have to rely on investment, consumer spending and government spending. After all, the latest data shows that consumer spending contributes 56 percent to gross domestic product, followed by investment at 32 percent. Government spending's contribution, meanwhile, continued to decline to 8.75 percent in 2019. Read also: Indonesian tourism could lose US$4 million amid coronavirus outbreak: Wishnutama The omnibus bills can serve as avenues to boost investment, increase jobs and spur economic growth. However, consulting relevant stakeholders and public scrutiny must be ensured to achieve well-targeted policy-making. Beyond that, economic diversification, providing legal certainty for investors and cutting red tape to ease doing business needs to be prioritized. Opening up is key at uncertain times, and the last thing the government should do is restrict unnecessary economic activities. Therefore, vigilance is important in the handling of the new coronavirus, but over-restriction should be avoided. The recent temporary ban on travel and live animal trade with China is appreciated. But beyond that, especially limiting imports of processed foods, beverages and other products, would simply be a case of overreaction and will do more harm than good to the Indonesian economy. "viral" - Google News February 05, 2020 at 05:39PM https://ift.tt/39cwGhL Viral economy downside - The Jakarta Post - Jakarta Post "viral" - Google News https://ift.tt/2BCxygM Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  | ||||||||||||
| Shoddy Coronavirus Studies Are Going Viral And Stoking Panic - BuzzFeed News Posted: 05 Feb 2020 07:23 PM PST  Last Friday morning, after a week in which the coronavirus outbreak had been declared a global public health emergency, a group of scientists from India posted a paper online. A handful of genetic sequences in the new coronavirus matched those found in HIV, they reported, suggesting that this "uncanny similarity" meant the two diseases were linked. A scientist in India blasted out the provocative finding to his more than 200,000 Twitter followers: "They hint at the possibility that this Chinese virus was designed ['not fortuitous']. Scary if true." A Harvard researcher with tens of thousands of followers called it "very intriguing." The official-looking, highly technical paper whipped dozens of onlookers into a frenzy, declaring on Twitter and at least one blog that it showed the virus was "man-made" and "not natural" and "prob. not random." But that day and throughout the weekend, an army of scientists also tore apart its claims and pointed out there was no proof the matches were anything but a meaningless coincidence. For the second time in as many weeks, a segment of social media was freaking out over a coronavirus study that hadn't been reviewed by experts or published in a journal. It was a "preprint," or a preliminary draft, published on BioRxiv (pronounced "bio-archive"), a free repository that hosts thousands of unvetted papers about the biological sciences. Preprint servers bypass the long, arduous timelines of traditional, peer-reviewed scientific publishing, and can lead to lightning-speed information sharing during outbreaks like this one. But the coronavirus is also bringing to light the pitfalls of this new system for the first time, as everyone from bad actors to naive ones grasp for new information in a panic-driven climate. The "uncanny" paper was withdrawn by its authors on Sunday, putting an end to an undeniably messy situation that spread misinformation about a little-understood virus that has so far sickened upward of 20,600 people and killed more than 420, the vast majority near the outbreak's epicenter in Wuhan, China. Yet it was also a case of new research being shared, debated, and corrected in real time — something that many scientists have long wanted to see happen. Many still say that the benefits of instant scientific publishing far outweigh its downsides. "This is exactly what BioRxiv is intended to do — it's intended to be a place for timely discussion of results," Russell Neches, a postdoctoral researcher who studies viral ecology at the Joint Genome Institute in Berkeley, California, told BuzzFeed News. An advocate for what's called "open science," where studies are freely accessible instead of hidden behind paywalls, Neches put a call out on Twitter over the weekend, asking scientists to give feedback on preprints about the new coronavirus, now numbered at more than 300 and increasing by the day. Since the "uncanny" preprint went up, a swarm of researchers have left critiques in its comment section, posted comments on other preprints, and tweeted out their observations about the findings. Neches has been gratified to watch the corrections to the "uncanny" preprint happen but also wishes more experts had responded in the immediate hours after it went live. "Part of what made the conspiracy theories really grow legs is the amount of time that passed where that preprint was up and getting a lot of attention, but still had no comments on it from scientists," Neches said. If the article had been immediately debunked, people "probably wouldn't have gotten so excited about it." The short-lived but fierce furor underscores how all research about the coronavirus right now — whether it takes the form of a preprint or not — is rapidly evolving. Last week, an article in one of the world's most prestigious journals, the New England Journal of Medicine, made waves with its findings that someone with no symptoms can still be contagious. Fearing that the virus could be spread more widely than previously thought, US health officials cited it when declaring a national public health emergency last Friday. But within days, major flaws in the study became apparent. Science is always subject to ongoing debate, something scientists proudly hold up as a feature, not a bug. But in an outbreak that's playing out in unprecedented ways online, preliminary findings — some of which don't stand up to scrutiny — can suddenly find a huge audience. Traditional scientific publishing moves slowly. Researchers submit their findings one by one to journals. Then the manuscript goes to a handful of outside experts who give feedback and sometimes ask for more experiments. If the final draft is accepted, it goes to press, usually appearing online first — albeit behind a paywall, making it inaccessible to many. A lot of scientists complain about the process being too long, sometimes biased, and riddled with inefficiencies. Peer review is notoriously inconsistent at catching errors, and retracting flawed studies can take months, even years. BioRxiv, founded in 2013, is trying to significantly speed things up. Scientists submit their early drafts to the website, where an in-house team weeds out "obvious spam and clear garbage," as well as submissions that aren't scientific in nature, according to cofounder Richard Sever. All the papers that go up have disclaimers about how they're not peer-reviewed and shouldn't be treated as definitive. A newer repository, MedRxiv, operates similarly, although with a few more hurdles to posting given the higher risks of publishing information about people's health. Scientists must declare they have patient consent and approval from an independent ethics board. And, Sever says, MedRxiv staff screen out more studies that they believe should go through peer review first — for instance, a study that suggests that vaccines are dangerous and could be weaponized by anti-vaccine groups. Preprints have only been around for a few years, but their benefits to the scientific community are already becoming clear. In 2017, after a cancer researcher spotted a preprint and contacted the scientist leading it, the pair started doing experiments together and published their results — seven months earlier than if they'd waited until the original study appeared in a journal. And in the case of the coronavirus outbreak, preprints have helped get the word out about existing drugs that might be effective for treating patients. But the nature of an outbreak unfolding live on social media means that all results, especially the most sensational ones, can go viral before they're vetted. One such preprint appeared on Jan. 24 on MedRxiv. It estimated that the coronavirus's contagiousness, as measured by a variable called R0, was 3.8. That meant that — absent any interventions like quarantines or hospitalizations — every person who caught the disease could give it to almost four other people. That statistic went viral after Eric Feigl-Ding, a health economist affiliated with the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, tweeted about the preprint. "HOLY MOTHER OF GOD — the new coronavirus is a 3.8!!!" he tweeted. "How bad is that reproductive R0 value? It is thermonuclear pandemic level bad — never seen an actual virality coefficient outside of Twitter in my entire career. I'm not exaggerating." Meanwhile, many other scientists on Twitter — including virology experts, which Feigl-Ding is not — called out the study's clear methodological issues and missing context, as well as Feigl-Ding's sensationalist and inaccurate tweets. They pointed out that R0 is also not the final word on how dangerous a virus is, but rather a snapshot in time that changes as measures are taken to limit its spread. And by the time Feigl-Ding started tweeting, unknown to him, the researchers were already revising the R0 paper to have a lower estimate. Then, on Friday, a group of scientists in New Delhi, India, uploaded to BioRxiv their preprint suggesting that the virus was linked to HIV. Once again, Feigl-Ding, who by this point had accumulated tens of thousands of followers in a matter of weeks, tweeted out the sensational findings. In nine tweets that reverberated around the internet, he quoted extensively from the study, noting that it was "not peer reviewed": "Let's not draw conclusions yet." At the same time, he called the findings "very intriguing" and "bold." The HIV-coronavirus paper, too, drew swift criticism. Matthew Frieman, of the University of Maryland School of Medicine, told BuzzFeed News that the overlapping gene sequences the study's authors linked to HIV are found in all kinds of viruses. And Amesh Adalja, of the Infectious Disease Society of America, said that even if the sequences look similar to ones in HIV, "that doesn't tell us anything new about this coronavirus." Feigl-Ding deleted both of his tweet threads about the studies, though not before they were retweeted thousands of times. And the results had quickly spread to other parts of the internet, too. The blog ZeroHedge cited the HIV preprint, as well as Feigl-Ding's tweets about it, to advance a conspiracy theory that the coronavirus might be an "artificially created bioweapon." (The site was recently kicked off Twitter for, according to the social network, "violating our platform manipulation policy.") During fast-moving outbreaks like this one, critics say that traditional gatekeepers — like peer review or journals or the press — can get in the way of giving people the up-to-date information they need. In an interview, Feigl-Ding said he views social media as a crucial way to explain science to laypeople who don't read, or believe, traditional news sources. "There's a whole confluence of different reasons that we need to explore alternative ways of communicating directly with the public," he said. The events of the last week have made Feigl-Ding come up with a new social media policy, he said, one that identifies preprints as the problem. "I'm not going to tweet about preprints going forward, until someone else who's an expert has tweeted about it," he said, adding, "There's lots of things in life you wish you could take back." (A Harvard spokesperson declined to comment on Feigl-Ding's tweets.) Maia Majumder, a biostatistician and epidemiologist at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital, said that now that the public is showing interest in preprints, scientists could take steps to proactively manage the conversation. For example, preprint pages could be covered with large watermarks saying that they're preliminary, rather than just having a disclaimer at the top. And if study authors share their preprints on Twitter, "I believe that myself and my colleagues have an obligation to frame the research in a way that is accessible to the audience at hand," Majumder said by email. Steven Salzberg, a professor of biomedical engineering, computer science, and biostatistics at Johns Hopkins University, was among the critics of the HIV paper. That evening, he tweeted: "and the conspiracy theorists have now learned to post papers on @biorxivpreprint … great." But even he thought "that this event is a terrific illustration of the value of preprint servers," Salzberg said by email on Monday, after the study was retracted. "The paper was written too quickly, to respond to a crisis, and the authors submitted it without giving it the kind of scrutiny it needed," he wrote. "If they'd gone to a journal, they would have waited months to learn about the flaws." Online, he pointed out, the correction process wrapped up in just a few days. Just because scientists may consider the matter to be settled, though, doesn't mean the public does. Even after the preprint was withdrawn, it's continued to circulate on Twitter. On Monday night, one user directed their 18,000 followers to it: "Why is the MSM trying to downplay this information about how the Wu Flu was made in a lab for sure…" Dan Vergano contributed to this story. "viral" - Google News February 04, 2020 at 02:34PM https://ift.tt/31p59XT Shoddy Coronavirus Studies Are Going Viral And Stoking Panic - BuzzFeed News "viral" - Google News https://ift.tt/2BCxygM Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  | ||||||||||||
| States Blocking T-Mobile's Deal Would Disrupt U.S. Merger Policy, DOJ Says - Bloomberg Posted: 05 Feb 2020 07:03 PM PST [unable to retrieve full-text content] States Blocking T-Mobile's Deal Would Disrupt U.S. Merger Policy, DOJ Says Bloomberg"Mobile" - Google News February 05, 2020 at 12:15PM https://ift.tt/3845Qbk States Blocking T-Mobile's Deal Would Disrupt U.S. Merger Policy, DOJ Says - Bloomberg "Mobile" - Google News https://ift.tt/2P9t7Cg Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  | ||||||||||||
| Facebook will shut down Facebook Audience Network’s mobile web arm - Digiday Posted: 05 Feb 2020 05:33 PM PST Facebook is planning to shut down the mobile web arm of its Audience Network starting on April 11, the company confirmed on Wednesday. The exact rationale for the move is unclear, but sources said the decision was likely fueled by browser companies' recent changes to throttle cookies in the mobile web environment, plus the internal resources required to keep on top of potential negative impacts from new data regulations and brand safety issues. "We make business decisions based on where we see growing demand from our partners, and that's in other formats across mobile apps," said a Facebook spokesman. "We're focusing our resources there moving forward." Facebook launched its Audience Network in 2014, offering advertisers a way to extend their Facebook ad campaigns to a network of third-party apps. In 2016 Facebook expanded the network to include mobile websites. Its clients include big app developers including TikTok, Tinder, Activision and Pandora. The company has not recently disclosed separate financial figures for its Audience Network, but its revenue appears to be in the multibillions of dollars. Based on available estimates and sources, the revenue for the Audience Network for the mobile web likely represents only a very small slice of Facebook's overall $70.7 billion in revenue for the fiscal year that ended on Dec. 31 2019. Facebook's Audience Network paid more than $1.5 billion to publishers and developers in 2018, according to the Audience Network by Facebook website. In 2015's fourth quarter, when it was just catering to mobile apps, Audience Network had a "$1B revenue run rate in ad spend," Facebook said, but it hasn't provided an updated figure since. Anthony DiClemente, a former Nomura analyst, estimated that Audience Network would add $2 billion to Facebook's revenue in 2016. The U.K.'s Competition and Markets Authority estimated that from from July 2018 and June 2019, Facebook's Audience Network had a 5% to 15% share of the U.K. supply side platform market behind Google's AdMob (with 10% to 20%) and Google's AdX (25% to 35%). The revenue split between Audience Network's web and app arms is unclear, although sources suggested the app segment is responsible for a much larger proportion. The latest move will not affect publishers' ability to insert Audience Network ads into their Instant Articles.  An exclusive, inside look at what's actually happening in the video industry, including original reporting, analysis of important stories and interviews with interesting executives and other newsmakers. The open web environment outside Facebook's properties has changed significantly in the years since its Audience Network launched. The majority of browsers have now turned off third-party web tracking by default. And Google, whose web browser commands the largest market share, indicated last month that it plans to switch off support for third-party cookies within two years. That move would likely hamper Facebook's Audience Network. The open real-time bidding environment is also under increasing scrutiny from regulators, particularly in Europe where the U.K.'s data protection authority has repeatedly called on ad tech companies to clean up their act or else face penalties under Europe's General Data Protection Regulation. On a call with analysts last month, Facebook CFO Dave Wehner said his company expects to see a targeting "headwind" with the rollout of California's Consumer Privacy Act and with changes in operating systems and browsers. Facebook has ramped up its own privacy settings, such as last week introducing its Off-Facebook Activity tool, which allows users to disconnect from their Facebook account information that companies have shared about them. Audience Network's retrenchment calls to memory similar moves by Facebook to cease earlier efforts to place ads on third-party sites and apps. In 2016, Facebook shut LiveRail, the video ad exchange and ad server it had purchased for a reported $400 million to $500 million just two years earlier, citing ad fraud and viewability issues. That same year it also discontinued FBX, the desktop ad exchange it had built in-house. And later that year, Facebook began winding down the Atlas ad tech platform it had acquired from Microsoft in 2013. In 2019, Facebook shut down the Audience Network's connected-TV service. "Facebook has a lot of owned-and-operated inventory they would undoubtedly prefer to monetize," said Brian Wieser, GroupM's global president of business intelligence. "Selling ads on other properties is generally less lucrative because of the revenue-sharing agreements they would have to enter into." Instead, Instagram has turned out to be a better "hedge" to the core Facebook product, at least relative to what the company had likely anticipated during the period when it was more focused on Audience Network, Wieser said. Facebook does not disclose Instagram's financials in its earnings, but earlier this week Bloomberg reported the photo-sharing app generated about $20 billion in ad revenue in 2019, citing people familiar with the matter. The closure of Audience Network's mobile web arm was a "fairly solid move," said a marketer who declined to be named in this article. "The web part is the riskiest — brand safety, ad fraud, viewability concerns — and also a space where Google and others are so dominant," said the marketer. "Plus it somewhat undermines their core offering by implying that it's like for like to have a random banner ad versus a Facebook placement." Facebook's app portfolio has long been a leader in social networking and messaging. "By having a [software development kit] in top gaming, dating and music apps, Facebook is able to share its vast performance-advertiser demand with the titles where users spend the bulk of the rest of the time on their mobile device," said Matt Barash, AdColony'a head of strategy and business development. "No analogous comparison exists in a web-based environment: Time spent is completely bifurcated," added Barash, whose company is a mobile-focused ad tech firm. "Mobile" - Google News February 05, 2020 at 06:53AM https://ift.tt/382ZCbI Facebook will shut down Facebook Audience Network's mobile web arm - Digiday "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 says death toll hits 563 as confirmed cases top 28,000 - CNBC Posted: 05 Feb 2020 05:31 PM PST  This is a live blog. Please check back for updates. All times below are in Beijing time. 8:51 am: Millions of chickens in China could be wiped outHundreds of millions of chickens in China are at risk of being wiped out as the shutdowns have hit supply chains. Transport restrictions are preventing much-needed animal feed such as soybean meal from getting delivered to poultry farms, according to analysts and Chinese state media. There are over 300 million chickens in the virus epicenter of Hubei alone putting farmers in a dire situation, a local poultry association said. 8:12 am: 10 more coronavirus cases aboard quarantined cruise ship in Japan7:33 am: China reports 563 total deaths, and 28,018 confirmed casesChina's National Health Commission said that as of Wednesday night, a total of 28,018 cases have been confirmed and 563 people have died in the country. There were 3,694 new confirmed cases. There were 73 additional deaths, with most of them in Hubei province. 7:04 am: Hubei reports an additional 70 deathsChina's Hubei province reported an additional 70 deaths and 2,987 new confirmed cases related to the fast-spreading coronavirus as of the end of Wednesday. The Hubei Provincial Health Committee said that 549 people have died in the region and a total of 19,665 cases have been confirmed thus far. The province, where the pneumonia-like virus was first detected, has accounted for most of the deaths related to the new coronavirus. All times below are in Eastern time. 5:10 pm: Yum China temporarily closes 30% of China stores, could see lossesYum China Holdings, which operates Pizza Hut and KFC in China, has temporarily closed more than 30% of its stores there. Same-store sales for the locations that stayed open plunged by up to 50% since the Chinese New Year holiday, the company said, adding that it can't say when its locations may reopen or whether it will need to close more. "Looking into 2020, the coronavirus outbreak is a major public health situation in China," CEO Joey Wat said in a statement, adding that the safety of employees and customers was a priority. The outbreak will have a "material impact" on its 2020 sales and profit — possibly even see a quarterly or annual loss, depending on the course of the outbreak, the company said. — Rogers 4:07 pm: New York City tests 5 people for potential coronavirusThe New York City Department of Health said it now has five "patients under investigation" for the virus and is awaiting test results on four of them from the CDC. "This means they had recently been in China and presented with fever and cough or shortness of breath without another common cause, like influenza and other respiratory viruses, identified through testing," the agency said in a statement. The two new potential patients are both under 40. One has been hospitalized and the other is under isolation with daily monitoring by the health department. The specimen from the first suspected case sent to the CDC was negative, the department previously said. Read CNBC's coverage from the U.S. overnight: US can't keep virus 'out of our border,' NYC has 2 new 'patients under investigation' — CNBC's Kate Rogers, Berkeley Lovelace Jr. and William Feuer contributed to this report. Top stories - Google News February 05, 2020 at 03:20PM https://ift.tt/3baVw3z Coronavirus live updates: China says death toll hits 563 as confirmed cases top 28,000 - CNBC Top stories - Google News https://ift.tt/2FLTecc Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  | ||||||||||||
| The viral effect - Investors Chronicle Posted: 05 Feb 2020 05:23 PM PST  Here's a useful little exercise you can do – maybe should do – with your own equity portfolio. For each holding, calculate the proportion of the group's revenues that are generated outside the UK and compare that with its share price performance since 17 January, the day the financial markets became aware that a new strain of coronavirus was getting its genomes out. You won't need to do much digging to assemble the data points that indicate the extent to which the weight of overseas revenues in a company's mix is linked to falling share prices since mid-January. Obviously, we are looking to see whether those companies with the heaviest overseas reliance have suffered the deepest drop in their share price. If so, their shares could remain vulnerable if the Wuhan variant turns out to be a nasty so-and-so. And if your guess is that the so-called '2019-nCoV' will become a turbo-charged version of Sars, then there could still be a case for selling to avoid further punishment. The complementary thought is to question the widely accepted notion – including by Bearbull – that a meaningful exposure to dynamic overseas economies is a necessity for equity portfolios; better, perhaps, to scurry to the comparative security of shares in companies that barely take a peek outside the developed world. The first observation is to note how calmly financial markets have responded to 2019-nCoV, at least so far. From 17 January to the end of the month, the FTSE All-Share index dropped 4.7 per cent. Had that figure been the fall for the whole month (although January's actual fall was just 3.3 per cent), it would not have been particularly exceptional. Based on variations around the All-Share index's average monthly returns since 1990 – and assuming a 'normal distribution' of returns – a drop of that scale could be expected to occur more than once a year anyway. Reality has matched theory – it has happened 38 times, or about once every 10 months. In contrast, when Sars struck in September 2002, the All-Share dropped 12 per cent during the month – an event that could be expected to occur once every 15 years – and fell 16 per cent in the five months to end-January 2003. Meanwhile, within the Bearbull Income Fund, January did show a link between the proportion of a company's sales coming from abroad and poor performance by its shares, but it was not strong. Of the fund's equity holdings, the only stock to produce a month-on-month gain was Topps Tiles (TPT), whose exposure outside the UK is zero. Others with nil overseas sales – Henry Boot (BOOT), Hollywood Bowl (BOWL) and Empiric Student Property (ESP) – all recorded just nominal share price falls. The big falls came from Zytronic (ZYT), Elementis (ELM) and Air Partner (AIR). All these have substantial overseas exposure – over 90 per cent in the case of Zytronic and Elementis; 51 per cent for Air Partner. However, any correlation is made fuzzier because Elementis and Air Partner both managed to dish up profit warnings in January, so their share prices were holed before the Wuhan virus took hold. The regularity with which these two disappoint the market is becoming tiresome – especially in the case of the speciality chemicals supplier Elementis. Again, its bosses have shown they are better at talking than delivering. Having gee-ed up investors with increasingly positive noises through the second half of 2019 – and seen the share price rise 40 per cent as a result – early last month they told the market that, actually, underlying operating profits for 2019 will be about $123m, much the same as 2017 but $10m down on 2018's $133m. At 129p, the share price is now 30 per cent below its January peak. Put data for the 12 relevant income-fund holdings into a linear regression and fact just about follows theory. As the proportion of companies' sales coming from overseas rose, share price performance did fall, but not by a lot and the fit of the data points to the regression line was also loose. A borderline result was fine because I would be reluctant to dump the notion that it's necessary to have a substantial part of an equity portfolio's earnings – say, 40 per cent minimum – coming from abroad; for what it's worth, the current proportion in the Bearbull fund is 50 per cent. Data showing the source of global growth reminds me why. In round terms – and in nominal US dollars – the global economy added about $5 trillion-worth of growth in 2018 (2019's figures aren't yet available). One-third of that growth came from East Asia's emerging economies, with China contributing almost 90 per cent of it. Neither of the globe's two other major economic blocks – the US and the EU – came close to matching that. Helped by the euro's weakness against the dollar, the EU contributed 28 per cent of the growth; the US's share was 21 per cent. Of course, this is what we have come to expect from East Asia. Granted, the effects of the Wuhan virus might test that record in 2020 and even now the year's growth will have been dented. My brother-in-law in Shanghai – now 15 years in China – reports of a city he's never seen before, so empty you might expect to see tumbleweed blowing along the Bund. But, even if a black swan glides down the Huangpu River, in the wider scheme of things it will cause barely a ripple. "viral" - Google News February 05, 2020 at 04:24AM https://ift.tt/384wReK The viral effect - Investors Chronicle "viral" - Google News https://ift.tt/2BCxygM Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  | ||||||||||||
| C-NS junior becomes first girl to score goal in program history - syracuse.com Posted: 05 Feb 2020 04:36 PM PST  Cicero, N.Y. — Ava Fields cemented herself in history Tuesday night and became the first female Cicero-North Syracuse ice hockey player to score a goal during the Northstars' 8-2 win over Mohawk Valley. Northstars captain Matt Cramer started a fast-break midway through the second period and passed to Fields, who was able to put the puck right past the goalie. She was met with cheers from her teammates on the ice, the bench and the crowd. To ensure that she'd never forget such a special moment, Fields was given the puck from her first career goal after the victory. "Everyone went crazy, they were pretty excited," said C-NS coach Dan Jones, who realized it was the first goal scored by a girl in program history as the team walked off the ice after the second period ended. "She's been such a great team player this whole season. She works really hard in practice and always has a smile on her face." C-NS improved to 6-12 on the season and will host Liverpool on Friday at 6 p.m. Contact Mike Curtis anytime at mcurtis@syracuse.com or find him on Twitter at @MikeACurtis2. More high school sports coverage: Thanks for visiting Syracuse.com. Quality local journalism has never been more important, and your subscription matters. Not a subscriber yet? Please consider supporting our work. "Goal" - Google News February 05, 2020 at 10:48AM https://ift.tt/382PEr1 C-NS junior becomes first girl to score goal in program history - syracuse.com "Goal" - Google News https://ift.tt/35TEe8t Shoes Man Tutorial Pos News Update Meme Update Korean Entertainment News Japan News Update  | ||||||||||||
| OVA「Re:ゼロから始める異世界生活 Memory Snow」を地上波で初放送 - ナタリー Posted: 05 Feb 2020 08:31 AM PST OVA「Re:ゼロから始める異世界生活 Memory Snow」を地上波で初放送 - ナタリー  劇場公開OVA「 2018年10月に公開された「Re:ゼロから始める異世界生活 Memory Snow」は、TVアニメ11話と12話の間を描く物語。第11話で魔獣ウルガルムを打ち倒し、アーラム村の子供たちを救った後のスバルたちの賑やかな日常が切り取られている。 AT-X、TOKYO MX、BS11ほかにて放送中の「Re:ゼロから始める異世界生活」新編集版は、新規カットを追加し、1時間番組として再編集を行ったもの。「Re:ゼロから始める異世界生活」第2期は4月に放送スタートする。 (c)長月達平・株式会社 KADOKAWA 刊／Re:ゼロから始める異世界生活製作委員会 2020-02-05 15:30:00Z https://news.google.com/__i/rss/rd/articles/CBMiJGh0dHBzOi8vbmF0YWxpZS5tdS9jb21pYy9uZXdzLzM2NjA5OdIBKGh0dHBzOi8vYW1wLm5hdGFsaWUubXUvY29taWMvbmV3cy8zNjYwOTk?oc=5  | ||||||||||||
| 日向坂46、初のドキュメンタリー映画 輝きの裏の涙と試練の記録 タイトルは未定 - oricon Posted: 05 Feb 2020 08:01 AM PST 日向坂46、初のドキュメンタリー映画 輝きの裏の涙と試練の記録 タイトルは未定 - oricon 2020-02-05 12:00:10Z https://news.google.com/__i/rss/rd/articles/CBMiK2h0dHBzOi8vd3d3LnlvdXR1YmUuY29tL3dhdGNoP3Y9UkM0eDVsZFRpenfSAQA?oc=5  | ||||||||||||
| 「ヒプノシスマイク」4thライブがBD/DVD化、5thのゲストでZeebraら参戦（動画あり） - ナタリー Posted: 05 Feb 2020 05:01 AM PST 「ヒプノシスマイク」4thライブがBD/DVD化、5thのゲストでZeebraら参戦（動画あり） - ナタリー  「ヒプノシスマイク -Division Rap Battle-」より、2019年9月7・8日に大阪・大阪城ホールで行われた「ヒプノシスマイク-Division Rap Battle- 4th LIVE@オオサカ《Welcome to our Hood》」のBlu-ray / DVD化が決定した。 映像パッケージには初日の「Playground」と、翌日の「Battleground」で披露された全楽曲を収録。 なお3月28日・29日に埼玉・メットライフドームで開催される「ヒプノシスマイク -Division Rap Battle- 5th LIVE＠サイタマ《SIX SHOTS TO THE DOME》」の新情報も公開。ゲストとしてシンジュク・ディビジョン"麻天狼"「The Champion」の楽曲制作を手がけた さらに全国156館の映画館に加え、香港、台湾、韓国、タイ、シンガポールでも両日のライブビューイングが行われることが決定。チケットのプレリクエストは、2月10日10時にスタートする。 2020-02-05 12:00:00Z https://news.google.com/__i/rss/rd/articles/CBMiJGh0dHBzOi8vbmF0YWxpZS5tdS9jb21pYy9uZXdzLzM2NjA4OdIBKGh0dHBzOi8vYW1wLm5hdGFsaWUubXUvY29taWMvbmV3cy8zNjYwODk?oc=5  | ||||||||||||
| Kobe Bryant Sneakers Are Selling At High Prices But Not Everybody's Cashing In - NPR Posted: 05 Feb 2020 04:18 AM PST Kobe Bryant Sneakers Are Selling At High Prices But Not Everybody's Cashing In - NPR  Davon Artis holds a pair of Kobe 6 Grinch shoes, released in 2010. The shoes more than doubled in value within hours of Bryant's death. Austin Cross/KPCC hide caption  Davon Artis holds a pair of Kobe 6 Grinch shoes, released in 2010. The shoes more than doubled in value within hours of Bryant's death. Austin Cross/KPCCThe death of basketball star Kobe Bryant is rippling through the memorabilia market, with buyers and sellers alike storming stores and online markets hoping to snag one last piece of his legacy. The sneaker market spiked particularly quickly. "Pretty much the same day that he passed, everything we had available was just gone," said Candace Gray, a salesperson at Shoe Palace on Melrose Avenue in mid-city Los Angeles. "That following morning we got hit very hard with a lot of people hoping to grab what they could as far as remembrance," she said. But while some shoppers were in it for the sentiment, others were just looking to make a quick buck by flipping the shoes online. On one website, shoes made famous by Bryant began selling for well over double what they were just hours before. Not uncommon, says Robert Digisi at the Wharton School.  "When a celebrity dies, whether it be sports, a musician, an actor, an actress, whatever that might be, there is certainly a lot of human sentiment involved and that will spike demand," he said. "And the market isn't necessarily ready for that." That spike can lead to higher prices on a range of items, from jerseys to t-shirts, and posters to trading cards. But Digisi says the spike is just that — prices level out over time. That means both dealers and fans must choose whether to sell now or hold on. Honoring Kobe's memory At secondhand sneaker shop Cool Kicks, also in mid-city, co-owners Adeel Shams and Davon Artis chose to hold onto them. The store stocked several models, released over Bryant's career. Minutes after news of Bryant's death, the two pulled them from the shelves. "We felt like all the resellers would hurry up and come to the store and take all of the items and try to make money off his name and we were opposed to that," Shams said. Artis says they pulled the shoes just in time. "After we took everything off the shelf, everyone wants to come in either looking for an item or they wanna sell an item they have to profit off because [they] see a market that's going increasingly crazy now too," he said.  Davon Artis and Adeel Shams show off a pair of Kobe 1 Protro DeMar DeRozan shoes. The shoes are now worth thousands to collectors. Austin Cross/KPCC hide caption  Davon Artis and Adeel Shams show off a pair of Kobe 1 Protro DeMar DeRozan shoes. The shoes are now worth thousands to collectors. Austin Cross/KPCCShams and Artis say they have more than 100 pairs of Kobe Bryant-associated shoes at the shop. Bryant's fanbase in China and Europe made him an international figure. That translates to a world of collectors and fans hoping to get their hands on a dwindling number of relics — now priced out of reach for the average sneakerhead. Shams points to a red pair of Kobe 1 Protros. "We had it reselling at $750, and now that I'm looking at it, the closest shoe in this size is a 9-and-a-half going for $12,000," he said. But Shams and Artis don't plan to sell anytime soon. When they do, they say they'll likely donate their profits to the Mamba on Three fund, which was founded in the wake of Bryant's death by his wife, Vanessa. The two aren't the only ones putting passion over profit. Candace Gray, at Shoe Palace, doesn't just sell Kobe gear: she collects it herself. She doesn't plan to sell her collection of shoes and jerseys either. "They are going to go into glass," she said. "I don't want to have to worry about not having something that my kids can have tangible to be able to explain the magnitude of who Kobe Bryant was." 2020-02-05 10:01:00Z https://www.npr.org/2020/02/05/802622438/kobe-bryant-merchandise-increases-in-value-but-not-everyone-is-cashing-in  |
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