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LINCOLN — Nebraska produced a touchdown and field goal in a 15-second span to end the first half to extend its lead over Wisconsin to 24-10 into intermission on Saturday. The Huskers produced three offensive touchdowns in all including one with 17 seconds left. Dylan Raiola lofted a pass to Jahmal Banks, who got a foot inbounds in the back of the end zone for a 5-yard score set up by a Wisconsin pass-interference call. UW running back Tawee Walker then ran the ball with 16 seconds left — Ty Robinson forced a fumble and Stefon Thompson recovered. John Hohl tacked on a 37-yard field goal as Nebraska added to its lead against a Big Ten foe it hasn’t beaten in a dozen years. The Huskers opened the game with perhaps their crispest offensive drive in more than a month set up by a season-long kickoff return of 45 yards from Jacory Barney. An Emmett Johnson 15-yard dart up the middle and an intermediate toss to Banks over the middle for 21 yards — Raiola got the ball out just ahead of a blitzer — provided the chunk gains. Heinrich Haarberg came on for a keeper on second and goal from the 5, bowling over multiple Badgers on the right side for his first touchdown of the season. Wisconsin countered immediately with its own score across six plays and 82 yards. Receiver Vinny Anthony shed a tackle for a 42-yard catch-and-run to flip the field and two plays later caught a fade from Braedyn Locke over Marques Buford in the back right corner of the end zone. NU challenged the call — Anthony lost the ball after he landed out of bounds — but officials upheld the ruling. Two offenses that have struggled in the Big Ten looked the part for a stretch from there. Nebraska went three plays and punted. Wisconsin managed one first down and stalled, with Willis McGahee IV forcing one incompletion by reaching Locke and Javin Wright generating another on a third-down deflection to the sideline. A Nebraska disaster followed as Raiola faked a pitch left and rolled right for an underhanded throw to Janiran Bonner, who fumbled the ball into the arms of defensive lineman Ben Barten. But the Badgers moved backward and kicker Nathanial Vakos hooked a 34-yard field goal wide left. The Huskers swung the momentum further their way as Johnson immediately picked up 27 yards on a screen and Barney snagged a shovel pass and live-wired his way downfield for 21 more. An 11-yard completion to Jahmal Banks on a third-and-9 comebacker kept the drive going and Dante Dowdell soon after crossed the goal line untouched from 12 yards out up the middle. Nebraska’s 14-7 lead was short lived thanks on part to an unsportsmanlike conduct flag against offensive lineman Micah Mazzccua for spiking the ball after the score. The penalty help set up the Badgers near midfield and they eventually settled for a 33-yard field goal after a 19-yard run from Tawee Walker. The Husker offense stalled quickly, with punter Brian Buschini pinning UW at its own 3-yard line with a 47-yard boot out of bounds. Wisconsin moved downfield — a 27-yard pass to a wide-open Chris Brooks on the left sideline here, a shovel pass to Trech Kekahuna for 22 there — but ultimately fizzled and Vakos missed well left on a 41-yard attempt. NU rode Johnson again in the final minutes including runs of 14 and 7 yards while Raiola found Banks and Luke Lindenmeyer for 15 and 8, respectively. The march ended with the touchdown pass to Banks and a 21-10 lead. Get local news delivered to your inbox!(Bloomberg) -- Human plasma is a protein-rich compound made by spinning blood so fast that the heavier red blood cells are flung aside like clothes on the side of a washing machine, leaving behind a straw-colored liquid. It is also the basis of CSL Ltd.’s $88 billion health-care empire. Australia’s largest biotechnology company delivered a 750% return for investors in the decade before the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic by dominating the global market for the critical substance. However, since the start of 2020, the stock has plateaued for the longest period since its listing. The firm first had difficulty getting people to both sell and gather blood from which to make plasma during lockdowns and then struggled with its largest-ever acquisition. Chief Executive Paul McKenzie, who is a year and a half in the job, needs to find a way to boost profits from CSL’s 2022 purchase of Switzerland-based Vifor to revive the shares. The $11.7 billion acquisition was designed to diversify the company’s portfolio by adding treatments for iron deficiency and kidney disease. However, generic competition in the European Union has eroded margins for Vifor’s best-selling medication and slashed returns on invested capital, convincing some investors that CSL overpaid for the business. Still, the acquisition has catapulted CSL into the position of the world’s largest provider of iron therapies. One in four people globally don’t have enough of the mineral, which is essential to transport oxygen in the blood and make muscles work. Demand for iron supplements will help boost the unit’s sales over the next five years, according to McKenzie. In particular, he expects iron infusions to provide plenty of opportunities for growth by treating various ailments. “There are so many things that iron could benefit,” said McKenzie in an interview in Melbourne. “Heart failure we believe is a big one. Anemia is a big one. Women’s health is a big one.” He has yet to convince the market. Since the deal closed in August 2022, the company’s shares have dropped 5.5% compared with a 20% gain for the broader ASX200 index, weighed down by disappointment in the Vifor acquisition. CSL “absolutely paid too much,” said Jun Bei Liu, a portfolio manager at Tribeca Investment Partners. “In time, they will generate a return. It’s just they should have done their due diligence a bit better. For such a large acquisition, investors put a lot of faith in the management.” She said the purchase made strategic sense. The company’s move into iron supplements was spurred in part by a growing need for the treatments. The World Health Organization estimates that in 2021, anemia affected roughly 2 billion people, with the vast majority of cases attributed to iron deficiency. Children and women of reproductive age suffer at the highest rates. That same year, the WHO began urging hospitals to screen for anemia and optimize iron levels in patients ahead of planned surgeries, aiming to reduce the reliance on higher-risk blood transfusions. A study published this month highlighted the growing importance of this approach, finding that a single intravenous iron treatment reduces hospitalization risk by 17% for anemic heart failure patients. Plasma is still the company’s biggest business, accounting for about 72% of sales and 66% of profit. It is ubiquitous in hospitals’ operating rooms globally and is used for bleeding disorders and burns. Plasma is also the basis for immunoglobulin, which is used to treat autoimmune diseases, such as Stiff Person Syndrome, which affects Canadian-born singer Celine Dion. With almost 350 plasma collection centers in the US, Europe and China, CSL is one of the world’s largest and most efficient producers of the material. The company is also the world’s second-largest maker of flu vaccines. Its success in plasma stems from a series of acquisitions orchestrated by former CEO and current chairman Brian McNamee. Over the course of a 23-year career, he snapped up rivals including businesses founded by Switzerland’s Red Cross and German Nobel laureate Emil von Behring, the father of serum therapy. CSL traces its roots to 1916, when the Australian government set up Commonwealth Serum Laboratories in response to World War I cutting off the country’s access to life-saving medicines from overseas. It was listed in 1994 as part of a wave of initial public offerings of state-owned companies that included Qantas Airways Ltd., Telstra Group Ltd. and the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. “There was a lot of skepticism for an ex-government group, that it would be very fat and very lazy,” said Michael Glenane, who was an analyst for McIntosh Securities, the lead manager on the CSL listing. “At that stage there was very limited understanding of what the actual company did.” Some forward-looking investors could see CSL was “a cash machine because of high depreciation charges and pretty lucrative government contracts,” said Glenane. That turned it into a favorite for both retail and institutional investors. Australia’s A$4 trillion ($2.6 trillion) pension industry poured into the stock with some of the largest funds among the top 10 owners. So did small individual investors, drawn to CSL’s capital appreciation. “It has an incredibly loyal retail shareholder base,” said Michael Muntisov, who has monitored the company for five years for the Australian Shareholders Association, which represents thousands of individual investors. “And you see that at the AGM, when it can sometimes resemble a love fest.” The love was lacking this year. At the company’s AGM in October, frustrated with the company’s performance more than 26% of shareholders opposed the pay package for top management. Under Australia’s corporate governance rules, this is termed a “first strike”. This is important because if a quarter or more of shareholders vote against executives’ pay the following year, it will trigger a subsequent vote on whether the board should be dissolved. “We will go back and look in detail and say, ‘look, are there further things that we can modify that would satisfy people?’” said Chairman McNamee. “But do I ever think we're going to get a hundred percent support for remuneration? No.” Vifor’s top seller is Ferinject, a treatment for anemia that is infused rather than swallowed. Putting iron compounds straight into the bloodstream makes it easier for the body to absorb them. In the EU, Ferinject faces increased competition from generics and has had to cut prices in response. In the US, the company has been hit by what’s known as step edits, a way in which insurers prioritize less expensive medicines. This has held sales below the company’s initial expectations. While the business has not been as profitable as anticipated, CSL defends the acquisition, arguing that the long-term outlook for iron treatments makes it an attractive market to be involved in. “There’s no doubt that we underestimated some of the competitive challenges,’’ said McNamee, citing the competition from generics and US step edits as examples. “But that doesn’t mean the categories in which (Vifor) operates aren’t ones in which we want to compete in.” The company’s specialized treatments for people with kidney disease took a hit from Covid, which has been particularly deadly for people on dialysis. Some studies have suggested that GLP-1 weight-loss drugs, such as Wegovy, could also curb kidney disease. McKenzie said CSL is monitoring the development of those medicines but does not currently see them as a threat. The US is the company’s largest market and CSL does not expect the incoming Trump administration to have a significant impact on its business in the country. Even if vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is confirmed as Secretary of Health, the company anticipates continued demand for its products. “At the end of the day, Americans care about people being well and healthy and I really don’t have any significant concern for our life-saving drugs and our life-saving vaccines being impacted,” McNamee said. While CSL’s expansion into iron treatments has not gone to plan, it is still expanding the business. The company recently started selling Ferinject in Canada and has started operations in China. CEO McKenzie calls the market for iron treatments “underserved” and says demand for the element’s medicinal uses will eventually offset Vifor’s lower-than-expected earnings. Some of the company’s long-term investors back his assessment. “CSL has an outstanding track record over the long term,” said David Grace of the Australian Foundation Investment Company, which owns about A$629 million of the company’s shares and has been invested since at least 2005. “We haven’t seen that in Vifor yet, but we’re confident we will.” More stories like this are available on bloomberg.com ©2024 Bloomberg L.P.
Bitcoin Depot Continues Mission of Bringing Bitcoin to the Masses as Bitcoin Surges Past ...49ers QB Brock Purdy remains severely limited by injury to his throwing shoulderODM embraces consensus and polls to get new party officialsKANNUR: Muslim League state secretary KM Shaji alleged that Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, the CPM and the state government tried to destroy him by politically hunting him and his family. Shaji was speaking to Kerala Kaumudi after the Supreme Court quashed the bribery and money laundering cases against him. Q. What is the reason behind CPM's animosity towards KM Shaji? Shaji: I have been at loggerheads with the CPM since my student politics days. They created this case to destroy me. CPM's grudge began when I won twice in Azhikode in Kannur, which is their stronghold. The animosity intensified when I exposed the mafia connections of the government and the Chief Minister. CPM should apologise for politically hunting me. Q. Did they hunt your family as well? Shaji: What mistake did my family commit? Modi government's ED joined hands with the Pinarayi government to hunt me down. They even tried to confiscate my house claiming that I accumulated unaccounted assets. They raided my house for several days. In the end, all their plans fell apart. Q. Was the complainant a local CPM leader? Although former Kannur block panchayat president and CPM leader Kuduvan Padmanabhan was the complainant, Pinarayi Vijayan was behind the complaint. It was alleged that I had accepted a bribe of Rs 25 lakhs for sanctioning a Plus Two batch in a school in Azhikode. However, neither the complainant nor the government was able to produce any evidence against me. In 2020, Vigilance registered a case against me, violating legal advice. The ED registered the case on the basis of this case. However, the High Court acquitted me in the case on June 19, 2022. The Pinarayi government and the ED then filed a plea against the High Court order in the Supreme Court. The government did not have an answer when the Supreme Court judges asked if they could show even a single statement alleging that Shaji had demanded a bribe. Q. Are you saying that the Modi-Pinarayi governments joined hands against you? It was Additional Solicitor General Raju who appeared for the ED in the Supreme Court. He was the one who approached the Supreme Court for the Centre against Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. However, the Indian Constitution and the courts still remain a beacon of hope. I was confident that I would get justice.
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ASUNCION, Paraguay (AP) — Gaston Martirena and Adrian Martinez scored first-half goals as Argentina's Racing won its first Copa Sudamericana championship by beating Brazil's Cruzeiro 3-1 in the final on Saturday. Martirena opened the scoring in the 15th minute and Martinez added a goal five minutes later to give “La Academia” its first international title since 1988 when it won the Supercopa Sudamericana. “Maravilla” Martinez scored 10 goals in 13 matches and finished as the top scorer in the competition. Roger Martinez sealed the victory with a goal in the 90th. Kaio Jorge scored in the 52nd for Cruzeiro. ___ AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccer The Associated Press
The Redmi A4 5G recently launched in India as one of the most affordable 5G smartphones, bringing next-gen connectivity to a wider audience. Powered by the Snapdragon 4s Gen 2 chipset, the device is designed to deliver solid performance on a budget. However, a significant limitation has surfaced: the Redmi A4 5G does not support Airtel’s 5G network in India. Instead, it is exclusively compatible with Jio’s 5G network. Here’s a detailed look at the issue and its implications for potential buyers. Why Redmi A4 5G doesn’t support Airtel 5G? Redmi’s product page reveals that the Redmi A4 5G supports only SA (Standalone) 5G networks and lacks compatibility with NSA (Non-Standalone) networks. This is the primary reason it cannot connect to Airtel’s 5G, which currently uses NSA architecture. To explain further, Standalone (SA) 5G uses dedicated 5G network bands and entirely new radio technologies for a more advanced deployment. Non-Standalone (NSA) 5G, on the other hand, leverages existing 4G LTE infrastructure, sharing some frequency bands with 4G. This approach makes it more cost-effective and easier to deploy. While SA 5G is considered technically superior, both architectures are capable of delivering similar user experiences, including speeds of up to 1Gbps. Airtel has announced plans to roll out SA 5G in India, with tests currently underway in select locations like Bhubaneswar, Rewari, and Chennai. However, a nationwide deployment is still some time away, leaving Redmi A4 5G buyers with Jio as the only viable network for 5G connectivity. So those unwilling to switch to Jio should skip the Redmi A4 5G as well, as it loses its biggest highlight, 5G, when connected to Airtel (as of now). What else does the Redmi A4 5G offer? Display: A 6.88-inch HD+ LCD panel with a 120Hz refresh rate and 600 nits of peak brightness. Battery: A massive 5,160mAh battery with 18W fast charging support. Storage Options: Two variants—4GB/64GB for ₹8,499 and 4GB/128GB for ₹9,499. The device goes on sale starting November 27 via Amazon, Mi.com, and offline stores, making it an appealing choice for budget-conscious buyers looking to experience 5G on Jio’s network. ( Source ) TAGS Redmi Redmi A4 5G Redmi K80 Pro might be the most expensive in the series yet Redmi K80 Pro spotted on Geekbench & 3DMark showcasing Snapdragon 8 Elite’s performance What to expect from Redmi Buds 6 Pro?
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By JOSH BOAK WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump loved to use tariffs on foreign goods during his first presidency. But their impact was barely noticeable in the overall economy, even if their aftershocks were clear in specific industries. The data show they never fully delivered on his promised factory jobs. Nor did they provoke the avalanche of inflation that critics feared. This time, though, his tariff threats might be different . The president-elect is talking about going much bigger — on a potential scale that creates more uncertainty about whether he’ll do what he says and what the consequences could be. “There’s going to be a lot more tariffs, I mean, he’s pretty clear,” said Michael Stumo, the CEO of Coalition for a Prosperous America, a group that has supported import taxes to help domestic manufacturing. The president-elect posted on social media Monday that on his first day in office he would impose 25% tariffs on all goods imported from Mexico and Canada until those countries satisfactorily stop illegal immigration and the flow of illegal drugs such as fentanyl into the United States. Those tariffs could essentially blow up the North American trade pact that Trump’s team negotiated during his initial term. Chinese imports would face additional tariffs of 10% until Beijing cracks down on the production of materials used in making fentanyl, Trump posted. Business groups were quick to warn about rapidly escalating inflation , while Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said she would counter the move with tariffs on U.S. products. House Democrats put together legislation to strip a president’s ability to unilaterally apply tariffs this drastic, warning that they would likely lead to higher prices for autos, shoes, housing and groceries. Sheinbaum said Wednesday that her administration is already working up a list of possible retaliatory tariffs “if the situation comes to that.” “The economy department is preparing it,” Sheinbaum said. “If there are tariffs, Mexico would increase tariffs, it is a technical task about what would also benefit Mexico,” she said, suggesting her country would impose targeted import duties on U.S. goods in sensitive areas. Related Articles House Democrats on Tuesday introduced a bill that would require congressional approval for a president to impose tariffs due to claims of a national emergency, a largely symbolic action given Republicans’ coming control of both the House and Senate. “This legislation would enable Congress to limit this sweeping emergency authority and put in place the necessary Congressional oversight before any president – Democrat or Republican – could indiscriminately raise costs on the American people through tariffs,” said Rep. Suzan DelBene, D-Wash. But for Trump, tariffs are now a tested tool that seems less politically controversial even if the mandate he received in November’s election largely involved restraining inflation. The tariffs he imposed on China in his first term were continued by President Joe Biden, a Democrat who even expanded tariffs and restrictions on the world’s second largest economy. Biden administration officials looked at removing Trump’s tariffs in order to bring down inflationary pressures, only to find they were unlikely to help significantly. Tariffs were “so new and unique that it freaked everybody out in 2017,” said Stumo, but they were ultimately somewhat modest. Trump imposed tariffs on solar panels and washing machines at the start of 2018, moves that might have pushed up prices in those sectors even though they also overlapped with plans to open washing machine plants in Tennessee and South Carolina. His administration also levied tariffs on steel and aluminum, including against allies. He then increased tariffs on China, leading to a trade conflict and a limited 2020 agreement that failed to produce the promised Chinese purchases of U.S. goods. Still, the dispute changed relations with China as more U.S. companies looked for alternative suppliers in other countries. Economic research also found the United States may have sacrificed some of its “soft power” as the Chinese population began to watch fewer American movies. The Federal Reserve kept inflation roughly on target, but factory construction spending never jumped in a way that suggested a lasting gain in manufacturing jobs. Separate economic research found the tariff war with China did nothing economically for the communities hurt by offshoring, but it did help Trump and Republicans in those communities politically. When Trump first became president in 2017, the federal government collected $34.6 billion in customs, duties and fees. That sum more than doubled under Trump to $70.8 billion in 2019, according to Office of Management and Budget records. While that sum might seem meaningful, it was relatively small compared to the overall economy. America’s gross domestic product is now $29.3 trillion, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis. The total tariffs collected in the United States would equal less than 0.3% of GDP. The new tariffs being floated by Trump now are dramatically larger and there could be far more significant impacts. If Mexico, Canada, and China faced the additional tariffs proposed by Trump on all goods imported to the United States, that could be roughly equal to $266 billion in tax collections, a number that does not assume any disruptions in trade or retaliatory moves by other countries. The cost of those taxes would likely be borne by U.S. families, importers and domestic and foreign companies in the form of higher prices or lower profits. Former Biden administration officials said they worried that companies could piggyback on Trump’s tariffs — if they’re imposed — as a rationale to raise their prices, just as many companies after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 boosted food and energy costs and gave several major companies the space to raise prices, according to their own earnings calls with investors. But what Trump didn’t really spell out is what might cause him to back down on tariffs and declare a victory. What he is creating instead with his tariff threats is a sense of uncertainty as companies and countries await the details to figure out what all of this could mean. “We know the key economic policy priorities of the incoming Trump administration, but we don’t know how or when they will be addressed,” said Greg Daco, chief U.S. economist at EY-Parthenon. AP writer Mark Stevenson contributed to this report from Mexico City.As U.S. goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher looked ahead to the next Women's World Cup in 2027, she calculated what that would look like at her age. Now 36, she already has a World Cup title and won an Olympic gold medal this year in France. She considered the mental, physical and emotional toll of a new cycle and decided it was time to step away . “Honestly, I think I’ve been somebody that has given everything I’ve had to this team. I don’t do anything halfway. It’s kind of, if you can give 100% to it, then keep going," she said. “With that in mind, I kind of just felt like this was the right time coming off of the Olympics, having the year that we had, entering into a new cycle, a new stage for this team.” Naeher is the latest veteran to announce she's stepping down from the national team as the next generation takes over under coach Emma Hayes. Among those who have wrapped up their soccer careers in the past couple of years include World Cup winners Megan Rapinoe, Alex Morgan, Kelley O'Hara and Ali Krieger. Naeher will be with the team for two more matches in the coming week. The Americans play England at Wembley Stadium on Saturday and then the Netherlands in The Hague on Tuesday. Naeher said she's excited about the next generation of goalkeepers. In addition to Naeher, Mandy Haught of the Utah Royals and Phallon Tullis-Joyce of Manchester United are on the roster for the upcoming matches. Other goalkeepers who have been on recent rosters include Casey Murphy and Jane Campbell. “I think the beauty of goalkeeping is that it’s not really a one-size-fits-all kind of position," she said. "The more that you can understand — that's going to be the challenge any young goalkeeper coming up, is really taking the time to understand what your strengths are and make them really, really elite and separate yourself.” Naeher spoke on Wednesday from London after announcing her retirement on social media Monday . Naeher made her senior debut with the national team in 2014 and was a backup to Hope Solo at the 2015 World Cup, which the United States won. She became the team’s regular starter following the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics and was on the squad that repeated as World Cup winners in 2019. Naeher won a bronze medal at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 before the U.S. earned gold this year in Paris. She made a key one-handed save in stoppage time to preserve the Americans’ 1-0 victory over Brazil in the Olympic final. For her career, Naeher has appeared 113 games with 110 starts, 88 wins and 68 shutouts. She had four shutouts over the course of the Olympic tournament in France. While she's leaving the national team, she'll play one more year for her club team, the Chicago Red Stars in the National Women's Soccer League. “I hope that I can be remembered as a good teammate, as a competitor, as somebody that was looked on as someone that could be relied upon on the field and supported those players around me,” she said. “I think it’s just been a really special team to be a part of. And I’m very proud of what we have been able to accomplish over the years.” AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccerThe one big thing Jameis Winston refuses to let his interceptions do: Mary Kay Cabot
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