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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Drake Maye received a nice ovation from the Gillette Stadium crowd when he returned to Saturday’s game after it appeared the New England Patriots had lost their rookie quarterback to another head injury. By the fourth quarter, those fans who chose to stick around until the end of a 40-7 lopsided loss to the Los Angeles Chargers chose to voice their displeasure in a season in which very little has gone right for the former NFL powerhouse. Chants of “Fire Mayo!” reverberated throughout the stadium, which was a quarter full by game’s end. “You hear those things. At the same time, they paid to sit in the seats, and we’ve got to play better. If we play better, we don’t have to hear that stuff,” head coach Jerod Mayo said after the Patriots dropped their sixth straight game. Instead of building off last week’s strong effort at Buffalo, New England took another series of steps backward in the season’s penultimate game. With another game against the Bills on tap next weekend, questions concerning the future of Mayo and several assistant coaches – mostly notably offensive coordinator Alex Van Pelt and defensive coordinator DeMarcus Covington – figure to intensify. “I’m always under pressure and it’s been that way for a very long time, not just when I became the head coach of the Patriots. I’m okay. Look, I always do what’s best for the team,” Mayo said. “I have full confidence in the staff. I have full confidence in the players in (the locker room). I think again, it just comes down to being consistent across the board.” Remember, the Patriots parted ways with six-time Super Bowl winner Bill Belichick following last year’s dismal 4-13 record. The coaching change didn’t produce the desired upward swing, with New England staring at the possibility of producing fewer wins in Mayo’s first season. “I’m just tired of losing. I’m trying to be in the playoffs and have a winning season,” said second-year receiver DeMario Douglas, who connected with Maye for New England’s lone touchdown. The most important asset in the Patriots’ rebuilding efforts, Maye was questionable to return with a head injury after taking a blow to the helmet in the first quarter. The No. 3 overall pick from this spring’s NFL draft scrambled near the sideline on third down of the Patriots’ first possession when he was hit by Chargers cornerback Cam Hart. Maye stayed down on the turf for several seconds before eventually getting up and jogging off the field. He briefly sat on the bench before going to the medical tent for evaluation. He was replaced by backup Jacoby Brissett, but for only one series that ended with a three-and-out. After further evaluation in the locker room, Maye returned to the game for the Patriots’ third series at the 10:15 mark of the second quarter. The 22-year-old was knocked out of the Patriots’ Week 8 win over the New York Jets after he suffered a blow to the back of his head. “Just kind of got my bell rung on the first drive. I feel good, I still feel good, and then I was good to go,” Maye said afterward. To his teammates, it wasn't a shock to see Maye re-enter the game after taking a blow to the head. On his first play back under center, Maye took off for a 9-yard run and drew an unnecessary roughness penalty. “He didn’t have to come back, but he did. That gave everyone a lot of confidence,” Patriots wide receiver Kayshon Boutte said. Maye set a Patriots rookie franchise record for touchdown passes in consecutive games (eight) when he connected with Douglas on a play on which the Chargers called for defensive offsides. He also turned the ball over for the eighth straight game – a fumble on a pitch attempt to Douglas that Los Angeles turned into points to make it 17-0 in the second quarter. “I’ve got to give him a better ball to catch. That falls back on me,” Maye said. It appears the Patriots dodged a bullet with respect to Maye and his health. Now, the focus shifts back to Mayo and what his 2025 status. “I think the biggest thing was you don’t see those guys quitting. I think the score may not tell that today, but I feel like the guys are still wanting to win. We’re still leaving it out there every week, and I think that was kind of my message to the team,” Maye said. AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/nflCarbon capture technology, like what is being developed at Squamish's , is critical in the fight against the forces of climate change, according to a Simon Fraser University professor. "It's essential because we are in such uncharted territory when it comes to climate change, with all of the effects that we're seeing with these severe weather events, it is incontrovertible that this is happening because of these high [carbon dioxide] levels in our atmosphere," said , who has toured his students around the Carbon Engineering (CE) Innovation Centre. (Squamish is the home of CE’s Direct Air Capture research and development and demonstration plant.) Khan teaches both undergraduate and graduate carbon capture engineering courses. While carbon capture has been around for a while—according to the , carbon dioxide capture technology has been used since the 1920s to separate marketable gases from the rest—why it is useful may still be unfamiliar to many. Khan asks his students to think about the processes at play when cooking at home. "Cooking indoors is the process that releases toxic gasses. So we have a kitchen vent that can safely capture all of it and reduce the amount of those toxic gasses in the household," he said, adding that while household plants also help clean the air, they aren't enough. "Let's say this vent stops working, ... then toxic smoke is going to build up in the household. The carbon monoxide alarm is going to start running. So then we have to open the doors and hope that all of this escapes out. So all of this is an analogy for carbon capture." Human behaviour has been contributing to significant emissions and carbon dioxide, which is toxic, clogging our "house" with toxins. "So now cleaning that up is an important technological challenge of our generation," he said. Carbon capture is one way to do that. "We also have to clean up where it is persisting, and that's where direct air capture comes so removing CO2 both from the atmosphere, but also directly from the sources where CO2 is being released, is a nutshell of carbon capture." Carbon Engineering spokesperson Cameron Lust notes that major scientific assessments—including those from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – conclude that billions of tonnes of carbon removal will be needed to limit warming and mitigate the impacts of climate change. “Direct Air Capture is a technology that captures carbon dioxide, the primary greenhouse gas contributing to climate change, directly from the air. When paired with safe, secure storage (DAC+S), it enables a highly scalable, measurable, and verifiable form of carbon removal,” Lust said. [See how Direct Air Capture works in the video below.] “DAC is a different but complementary solution to point-source carbon capture that can help hard-to-abate industries—like aviation—address their residual emissions from any place by decoupling the point of capture from the source of emission. For industries like aviation, we believe DAC+S offers a practical and cost-effective solution today for organizations advancing decarbonization goals with measurable, verifiable solutions.” In other words, Direct Air Capture extracts CO2 from the atmosphere at any location, while carbon capture is generally done at the point where emissions are made, like at an industrial plant. “The CO2 can be permanently stored in deep geological formations or used for a variety of applications,” reads the on carbon capture technologies. With carbon capture associated with scrubbing carbon from the atmosphere created by power plants, natural gas processing facilities and other industrial processes, wouldn't it be better to just switch to cleaner processes? Khan says even that wouldn't be enough at this point. "If today, everything was running on clean energy, we still have the problem that the CO2 levels in the atmosphere are too high. There are pre-industrial emission levels, which are commonly said to have been 280 parts per million (ppm). Currently, we're way over that at [ ppm as of 2023], and we know that that's causing these effects of climate change. So that's CO2 that is now in the atmosphere. It has to be removed, and it has to go somewhere where it's all going to re-emerge and cause the same effects again. And that is why I say [carbon capture] is critical." The fact that big oil and gas companies are investing heavily in this technology doesn't mean that investment isn't useful, Khan suggests. "The interest from different groups, including oil and gas, the momentum that it's providing is essentially advancement of carbon capture, where it can become cost-effective, it can be safer, and then [we can] really target the big problem," he said. "What I tell students is all momentum, all awareness, all interest in carbon capture is good interest. It's taking it in the right direction," he said. And while some may argue investing in carbon capture is a way for Big Oil to continue to expand, Khan points to government policy as the solution to that concern. "This is where policy comes in, right? Good policy frameworks. You can control the development of new oil and gas while ensuring that carbon capture is really meeting the intended needs that it has set out to do." The cost of Direct Air Capture is still something that needs to be overcome. "It's a fair concern because there's energy that's needed to run at a space that's needed, but you know, engineers have come to the rescue many times for our generations. And this is also what we teach here at SFU Sustainable Energy Engineering," he said. "There is an optimization problem here, which can be solved in the next 10 years ... or even faster, where costs start to go down. These systems are powered by renewable energy systems. And by these systems, I mean carbon capture systems, so that sweet middle ground where it's operating without causing more environmental issues, while being effective in terms of costs—it's there on the horizon." Khan stresses that carbon capture technologies aren’t working in competition with other clean tech options. "It's complementary to clean energy systems but working in parallel. Khan said there is a misunderstanding about the storage of carbon dioxide in terms of the safety of pumping it to be stored underground. "There are studies that if the facilities are designed in areas where geological risks are considered and the safe, long-term storage possible," he said. Khan sees two areas of advancement that are next for carbon capture technology. The first area is research and development. There are new materials and ways to make the process faster and reduce the energy needed. Though already fairly evolved, another advancement he sees coming is in capturing the CO2 at the source. "There's room there for innovation [there]," he said, noting that recently, in his graduate carbon capture class, students looked at how they could capture CO2 from a bioenergy plant using some of the wood that was damaged by the wood beetle. "It's a great source of energy, but also, you don't want to put the CO2 in the atmosphere, so this is where you can deploy some of the existing technologies to make it more efficient." Asked what ideally he would like to see in 10 years, Khan said widespread use of carbon capture technology deployed at the sources—factories or plants— of products we currently don't have great replacements for. "The fossil fuel-driven energy systems to power these sectors," he explained. "Our society still needs steel. We need concrete. These basic needs are going to be necessary for decades ahead. So that's where targeted deployed carbon capture, right at these facilities, right at the point where the CO2 is being emitted, and capturing it and converting it or storing it is going to be very important, and it's already growing." He noted that the carbon dioxide that is captured in the process, doesn't have to go to waste. It can be used and converted into products that could be polymers or fuels, but that is not all. There are also carbon-neutral processes for its use. One of his students recently designed a way to convert captured CO2 into urea, a fertilizer that works well for corn, grasses, or soil that is deficient in nitrogen. Asked if technologies like carbon capture may be less focused on given the global swing toward more right-wing governments, who may not prioritize environmental protection, Khan said the science is clear to all. "Irrespective of the political spectrum and viewpoints, the science is clear. Climate change is being caused by greenhouse gasses, and reducing those levels is key to preserving a sustainable future." Khan's will be offered in the summer of 2025. Carbon Engineering, which currently employs 185 people, about 70% of whom live in Squamish, has purchased another local property in the Business Park. Lust said as soon as that deal was done, the company began progressing through the design work for the planned facility. “We continue to work closely with the District of Squamish on the project and will be able to share more information as we progress through engineering,’ he said. Meanwhile, in regards to the company’s planned direct air capture facility in the Permian Basin, in Texas, construction for that first facility to use the company’s technology—named STRATOS—is nearing completion, with commercial operations slated to begin in mid-2025, according to Lust.After delay, Trump signs agreement with Biden White House to begin formal transition handoff
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This body butter features a unisex scent anyone can wear.A dispute has been intensifying over the bill introduced by the main opposition party aimed at revising South Korea’s commercial law as top officials voice conflicting views and the business community expresses strong opposition to the proposed amendment. The controversy started early this year as President Yoon Suk Yeol said that the government would push for an amendment to the law so that “boards of directors can reflect the interests of minority shareholders in a responsible way.” At the heart of the issue is the Korean Commercial Act, which currently stipulates that directors must perform their duties in good faith in the interests of the company. The revision will expand the fiduciary duty of directors from the company to shareholders. The proposed inclusion of shareholders’ interest in the clause of the Commercial Act may appear logical and reasonable. Executives are supposed to act in a way that protects and boosts the interests of shareholders, whether they are major or minor -- a sort of common sense in the global business community. But it is not a simple issue in South Korea, where large family-controlled conglomerates have often conducted business focused entirely on the interests of a small number of controlling shareholders. As a result, minority shareholders have been impacted by unilateral business decisions on mergers, spinoffs and contracts made in the name of “the company.” Such practices, linked to opaque corporate governance at Korean firms, are naturally cited as a key reason for the undervaluation of Korean stocks, known as the “Korea Discount.” The Yoon administration has sought to address this chronic problem as part of its “Corporate Value-Up” program to shore up the Korean stock market. But not all government officials support the idea. A striking example is the comment made Sunday on a TV program by Kim Byung-hwan, chairman of the Financial Services Commission. Kim said corporate governance should be made more transparent, but more discussions are needed to see whether the revision to the Commercial Act should be implemented. In outlining the potential drawbacks anticipated from the proposed amendments to the Commercial Act, Kim expressed several concerns: the potential for an increase in frivolous lawsuits by minority shareholders, delays and heightened uncertainty in corporate decision-making, excessive demands and hostile moves from foreign speculative capital, and the likely waste of company resources in defending against such threats. As an alternative to revising the Commercial Act, Kim proposed amendments to the Capital Markets Act to better achieve shareholder protection. He said, “Governance issues have been raised in the context of mergers and demergers, and we need to address these through tailored institutional improvements.” Kim clearly has a point, but the problem is that his perspective is not aligned with Lee Bok-hyun, the governor of the Financial Supervisory Service, who has called for the revision to the Commercial Act on many occasions. Given that the two financial authorities represented by Kim and Lee are supposed to work together and voice a unified position on key issues, Kim’s latest remark suggests a split in opinion even among key financial policymakers on the revision led by the main opposition Democratic Party of Korea. In a related development, the presidents of 16 major companies issued a joint statement on Thursday opposing the proposed revision of the Commercial Act. In the statement, they claimed that the changes would hinder the operations of boards of directors, citing an increase in lawsuits and attacks from foreign speculative investors. Critics, however, countered that if directors refrain from acting solely in the interests of controlling shareholders at the expense of minority shareholders, lawsuits are unlikely to arise in the first place. Given the potential impact of the revision, the Yoon administration has to address conflicting views within the financial authorities, gather more opinions and seek cooperation with the main opposition party.Mega Millions jackpot soars over $1 billion as drawing announced for Friday
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