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Rivian Automotive (RIVN) Stock Sinks As Market Gains: What You Should Know

Rivian Automotive (RIVN) Stock Sinks As Market Gains: What You Should Know

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Sunday Seminoles Summary: Softball and Beach Volleyball rolling, Baseball imploding and other FSU sports news

Sunday Seminoles Summary: Softball and Beach Volleyball rolling, Baseball imploding and other FSU sports news

Just in case you missed the last ‘TN Triple-S’ coverage of Florida State Seminoles athletics, here is the recap: Sunday Seminoles Summary: Softball and Baseball roll, Basketball done, Beach Volleyball hot, and other FSU sports news

This was another busy week in many of the Florida State Seminole sports that don’t start with the letter “Football,” and once again there was a mixed bag of results across the board.

  • The Softball team will be trying to win the rubber game of the weekend series against the Duke Blue Devils this afternoon.
  • The Beach Volleyball team is still undefeated at home and are looking good with a 18-2 season record so far.
  • The baseball team imploded this week, they’ve lost 5 games in a row, and will be trying to avoid being swept by the Virginia Cavaliers this afternoon. A loss today will put them at .500 for the season.
  • FSU Womens basketball star, Ta’Niya Latson, is looking for a carpenter to build her a bigger trophy case.
  • Other sports and cool stuff.

Tomahawk Nation is committed to keeping you up to date on all of the Florida State sports information that we are able to source, AND NEVER BEHIND A PAYWALL.

Feel free to include any other FSU related news of any kind that we may have missed in the comment section.

Most of the summaries below are courtesy of FSU SID, Tomahawk Nation, and the Twitters.

The rubber match will be Sunday March 26th at 12 pm EST on ACCNX.

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After taking game one yesterday against the Duke Blue Devils, Florida State softball continued their Durham road series against the ACC foe.

In the first inning, both Cassidy Curd for Duke and Allison Royalty for FSU, produced 1-2-3 innings. And after Curd kept the ‘Noles off the bases in the 2nd, Royalty struggled a bit more....continued

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For the first game of the series, and the first ever at Duke softball stadium, Florida State softball started off facing Jala Wright, while the Blue Devils faced Kathryn Sandercock.

The Seminoles left Devyn Flaherty on base in the top of the first, after she pushed her stolen bases to a perfect 19-19. Defensively, Sandercock started her day with a 1-2-3 inning to the Blue Devils offense.

In the top of the 2nd, the bottom half of the lineup continued to produce for FSU....continued

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  • FSU softball stands at No. 1 in the nation with 136 walks on the season.

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Florida State softball looked to complete the sweep of Syracuse on Sunday, after taking the first two games against the Orange.

Seminole starter Ali DuBois worked around a one out hit by pitch in her first outing. On the other side, Syracuse starter Lindsey Hendrix had a harder time, with the ‘Noles loading the bases, but worked out of the jam herself....continued

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  • The Noles receive their first spring season “Pair of the Week” after Makenna Wolfe and Alexis Durish take down two Top 10 opponents in their 5-0 run.
  • Florida State at Virginia How to watch, starting pitchers

Sunday 1:00 PM

Watch: ACC Network Extra

Listen: Seminoles Radio Network

FSU: TBA

UVA: RHP Jack O’Connor (1-1, 2.73 ERA)

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Saturday: Seminoles fall apart late in series loss

The Florida State Seminoles and Virginia Cavaliers battled back and forth throughout their Saturday afternoon matchup before FSU imploded late to drop the series. The Seminoles would give up six runs in the seventh inning on their way to a 12-4 loss.

For the second straight game, the Seminoles jumped out to the lead in the top of the first. A James Tibbs double followed by back-to-back singles from Jaime Ferrer and Treyton Rank gave FSU the early 1-0 lead. The Hoos struck back with a run of their own in the bottom frame after starter Ryan Denison walked back-to-back batters before allowing a single to tie the game....continued

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  • Friday: Seminoles squander multiple leads in loss to Virginia

The Florida State offense started with a solid first inning against the Hoos. DeAmez Ross led off with a walk and quickly moved to second on a Jaime Ferrer single. The inning took a scary turn as James Tibbs lined a ball up the middle and hit Virginia pitcher Nick Parker in the head, removing him from the game....continued

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Once again the Florida Gators (19-4, 2-1) topped the Florida State Seminoles (12-9, 3-3) 9-5. FSU had a late lead but couldn’t hold onto against the barrage of hitters that Florida brought. At the plate FSU looked good early but had no response for anybody but the Florida starter. The difference in talent was just too much....continued

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Florida State started the year and Link Jarrett era off very hot, finding themselves in the top 25 after an impressive series win over then-No. 8 TCU.

Since that 6-1 start to the season, injuries and in-game issues have begun to pile up, leaving the Seminoles at 12-8 (3-3 ACC) and looking for answers to newly arisen questions....continued

  • When one of the greatest players of all time takes time out of their day to shout you out then you’re probably doing something that’s exceptional:

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  • Ta’Niya Latson continues to bring in the hardware, currently named as a finalist for the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association, seen with some of the top players in the country.

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  • Another major accolade for Ta’Niya Latson, who was named the 2022-23 Tamika Catchings Award as the U.S. Basketball Writers Association’s National Freshman Player of the Year.

From FSU Sports Info:

Latson will receive the award at the USBWA College Basketball Awards Banquet in St. Louis on April 12, which is hosted by the Missouri Athletic Club.

The Miami, Fla., native recorded one of the best freshman seasons in collegiate basketball history, averaging 21.3 points, 4.5 rebounds, shooting 45.5 percent overall and 36.2 percent from 3-point range. Latson became the first freshman ever to lead the ACC in scoring and set the single-season scoring average record by a freshman in the conference with 659 total points.

Latson also shot 85.9 percent (171-of-199) from the free throw line, the second-most free throws made in a season at FSU and the most since Carla Williams’ record-setting 189 made free throws in the 1995-96 season.

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  • Alumni: Scottie Barnes was mic’d up:

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Robert Johnson went to the crossroads and sold his soul to the devil, but unless you know something I don’t, that’s probably not an option for FSU basketball. The ‘Noles will stay earthbound, and likely tie the record for most losses in program history...continued *FOR FREE

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This is the place we’ve set up for our members to discuss the Florida State Seminoles men’s basketball for any breaking news, recruiting, players eligible for the NBA Draft, and any other basketball related news you may want to bring up for discussion….Continued *FOR FREE

  • Frederik Kjettrup has been a countrywide superstar this spring, placing first at the Watersound Invitational and second in two other collegiate events.

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  • Heck of a save here from Hank Lebioda to avoid the bogey:

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From FSU Sports Info:

Florida State shot rounds of 1-under (287), 3-under (285), and 4-over (292) to win the annual tournament by 25 strokes, with Augusta falling in second place at 25-over par. This was Florida State’s fourth time winning the tournament in its 10 year history.

The Seminoles’ own, Lottie Woad, won her second tournament of the season with an individual title claim at the Match-Up after totaling 4-under par with rounds of 68-69-75 (212).

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It has been about two weeks since Florida State fell to North Carolina in the first national semifinal game. Therefore enough time has passed to allow us to evaluate the season a bit more dispassionately. We will also discuss the (very) early prospects for next season.

These are real questions posed by real people in the sense that they are actual questions (they end in a question mark) and I am a real person. I have written all of the questions….continued

  • Jeremiah Davis has received the honor of “Indoor Field Performer of the Year.

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  • Florida State distance runner Patrick Donnelly was named the Atlantic Coast Conference Men’s Track Performer of the Week after leading a 53-man field in the 5000 meters with a time of 14:15.81 at the River City Spring Break Classic hosted by North Florida.

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  • FLORIDA STATE DISTANCE GROUP FINISHES RALEIGH INVITATIONAL

While the annual FSU Relays were being held in Tallahassee, Fla., Friday, a group of Seminole distance runners headed to North Carolina’s capital city to race in the Raleigh Relays.

The Seminoles had already made big news in Raleigh on Thursday when sophomore David Mullarkey ran the third fastest 5,000 meters in school history and the fastest in the NCAA this year with a personal best time of 13:37.88.

On Friday, a select group competed in the distance events led by Alyson Churchill’s ninth-place finish in the women’s 5,000 meters with a time of 15:46.30. Freshman Emmy Van Den Berg’s time of 16:22.13 placed her among the Top 25 finishers in the event.

Senior Yasmine Abbes was Florida State’s top finisher in the women’s 1,500 meters. She finished in 18th place with a time of 4:21.53. Bieke Schipperen’s time of 4:26.59 was good for a Top 45 finish in the highly competitive field.

The Seminole track and field teams will travel to Gainesville Friday and Saturday to participate in the Pepsi Relays at the University of Florida.

From FSU Sports Info:

Antoine Cornut-Chauvinc and Joshua Dous-Karpenschif gave FSU its first doubles win after their 6-1 win on court No. 2, and then Maks Silagy and Barnaby Smith’s 6-3 victory on court No. 3 clinched the doubles point for the Seminoles.

Youcef Rihane earned the first singles point for Florida State after he won eight straight games to clinch his first set 7-5, and to win the second set on court No. 3 6-0 to put the Noles up 2-0.

Despite being down 3-1 in the first set on court No. 6, Jaime Connel battled back, winning five straight games to win 6-3 in the first set. Connel’s 6-3, 6-2 straight-set victory gave Florida State its third point of the afternoon.

The match was clinched on court No. 5 by Andreja Petrovic, with his 6-2, 6-2 victory giving the Seminoles a 4-0 lead.

Dous-Karpenschif capped off his undefeated weekend with a 6-3, 6-4 win at No. 5.

Cornut-Chauvinc’s 7-6 (4), 6-4 win over No. 43 Sebastien Dominko was his eighth ranked win of the season and made the match score 6-0 in favor of Florida State.

The final point of the match was won by Loris Pourroy on court No. 2, with a 6-3, 4-6, 6-0 win giving the Seminoles the 7-0 sweep.

TALLAHASSEE– The Florida State women’s tennis team (10-6, 3-3 ACC) defeated Virginia Tech 5-2 on Friday.

“Winning matches in the ACC is tough and to start the weekend off with a 5-2 win is important,” head coach Jennifer Hyde said. “We found ways to fight through adversity and it was a battle.”

The match began with Anna Arkadianou and Ellie Schoppe winning 6-2 at No. 1 doubles. Kristyna Lavickova and Olympe Lancelot followed with a 7-5 win at No. 3 to clinch the doubles point, giving the Seminoles the early 1-0 lead. Vic Allen and Kianah Motosono finished their match at No. 2 and won 7-6 (4).

The Seminoles continued their hot start through singles when freshman Lavickova, a freshman from Prague, Czech Republic, won 6-3, 6-2 at No. 5 singles to extend the lead to 2-0. Arkadianou followed with a 6-2, 6-2 win at No. 2 singles to put Florida State one point away from victory.

The Hokies responded with a win at No. 3 singles to make the match 3-1.

Florida State’s Alice Amendola was able to clinch the match with a 6-2, 7-5 victory at No. 6 singles. Graduate student Mila Saric finished her match and was able to come back from dropping her first set and win in a tiebreaker 1-6, 6-1, 7-6 (5).

Florida State returns to action Sunday against ninth-ranked Virginia. Live stats and video will be available on Seminoles.com.

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  • Yanchev Smashes Career Best to Close NCAAs

Minneapolis, Minn. – The No.22 Florida State men’s swimming and diving closed out the 2023 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships on Saturday at the Jean K. Freeman Aquatic Center.

Yordan Yanchev turned in the highlight of the day, clocking a new personal best by almost 12 seconds in the 1650 free at 14:56.18. Yanchev swam down Alex Zettle of Texas in the final 100 yards to claim the heat one win by just under two-tenths of a second. He finished 25th overall.

Yanchev secured the third-fastest time in FSU history, after swimming the eighth at the ACC Championships (15:08.13) this season.

“That was a big swim by Yordan,” FSU head coach Neal Studd said. “Nearly dropping 12 seconds after he swam his best mile just about a month ago was a big highlight of the meet. I am very proud of our guys. I thought we had a good meet overall.”

Arijus Pavlidi led off prelims by clocking 1:42.70 in the 200 back, finishing 33rd.

Peter Varjasi was just off his career best in the 100 free (42.32), touching with a time of 42.47 for 29th place, moving up in seed.

Tazman Abramowicz closed out his collegiate career by competing in the men’s 10-meter platform. Abramowicz performed four dives from the 10-meter platform despite being unable to train or compete at the distance since the start of the season.

Abramowicz received marks between 6.5-7.0 on two of those 10-meter dives, finishing 33rd with a total of 309.20.

“This is the part of this job, the end part, when you watch their last dive, I will never get used to,” FSU head diving coach John Proctor said. “It’s sad and beautiful at the same time. I am so proud of Taz for what he’s managed to pull through. There is a lot behind the scenes, but he’s a mountain climber. I’m blessed to have had the opportunity to get to know such an amazing young man,

“Fortunately, this isn’t goodbye since he’s been accepted to the sports psych master’s program,” Proctor added. “I’m truly grateful for everything he did this year for our team.”

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The recent announcement that Florida State will open the 2024 season vs Georgia Tech in Ireland has garnered some intense reactions from FSU fans; ranging from excitement at a once in a lifetime opportunity for fans and the program to frustration that a game originally scheduled to be played in FSU’s largest alumni base outside of Florida is now getting moved half a world away. On the surface this feels like yet another early season neutral site game that has clogged FSU’s schedules for the last decade. Rather, this is a part of a strategy FSU has employed since the earliest days of the Bobby Bowden era and…continued

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“You’re talking about a Top 20 public institution in America and now we’re going to showcase everything — not only the city but what this institution and program have to offer the whole world.

“I can’t tell you how excited we are to get to Dublin.”

Joined by head coach Mike Norvell, Aer Lingus College Football Classic officials, FSU athletes and others, Florida State athletic director Michael Alford helped officially kick off the countdown to FSU football’s international debut in 2024 on Tuesday….continued

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Booths lined the first three levels of the Capitol Rotunda, showcasing FSU’s world-class colleges and programs and the university’s high-achieving students and faculty.

Jeff Culhane, the voice for Florida State football and men’s basketball, hosted an outdoor pep rally featuring music by the FSU pep band Seminole Sound and performances from the FSU Cheerleaders and Flying High Circus.

Members of the Florida Legislature’s Seminole Caucus joined FSU officials, Head Women’s Basketball Coach Brooke Wyckoff and members of the Board of Trustees for the festivities.

Florida Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis, an FSU alumnus, spoke about the rising demand for a Florida State University education, noting the university’s more than 70,000 applications for fall admission.

President Richard McCullough built on Patronis’ remarks, highlighting the university’s advancements throughout his tenure, including an increase of research and fundraising totals along with student success and graduation rates.

McCullough lauded the university’s record 99{515baef3fee8ea94d67a98a2b336e0215adf67d225b0e21a4f5c9b13e8fbd502} of first-year undergraduates who started at FSU last fall and returned for the spring semester, one of the best rates in the country and another indicator of FSU’s national leadership in student success.

“We are competing on and off the field at the highest levels for a Top 20 university,” McCullough said. “Our retention rate for freshmen this semester so far is 99{515baef3fee8ea94d67a98a2b336e0215adf67d225b0e21a4f5c9b13e8fbd502} — that’s incredible and off the charts. Florida State University has the ingredients to continue to drive forward and be one of the greatest universities in this nation.”

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From FSU:

Yuan Li, an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering who is leading the project, and her team are developing lightweight, compact inverters for solar power plants. The inverters, which convert direct current to alternating current, help regulate the flow of electricity from power plants to the electric grid. They are small enough that a team of two people can set them up without heavy equipment, allowing solar power plants to quickly restore electricity in the wake of disruptions, such as the hurricanes that batter Florida during the summer. This inverter will have identical modules that handle different sections of a solar power plant. If severe weather damages part of the inverter, the remaining modules will continue functioning. The technology also allows workers to replace the failed part while the rest of the inverter system is generating power.

The Tomahawk Nation podcast channel, presented by SB Nation, features insider Seminoles recruiting, football, basketball, baseball, softball, and soccer analysis and commentary, featuring shows hosted by staff writers Tim Alumbaugh, Matt Minnick, Michael Rogner, Brian Pellerin, and Ben Meyerson, featuring contributions by Joshua Pick, David Stout, Jon Marchant, Max Escarpio and the entire Tomahawk Nation staff, produced by managing editor Perry Kostidakis.…continued

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Commercial real estate is in trouble. A bank crisis makes it worse.

Commercial real estate is in trouble. A bank crisis makes it worse.

If there is everything industrial genuine estate entrepreneurs really do not need to have proper now, it’s a banking disaster.

Big homeowners of assets close to the country have been presently underneath stress from the Federal Reserve’s intense campaign to raise interest prices, which raised borrowing expenses and decreased setting up values. They also had loads of house continue to sitting down vacant in city facilities as a end result of much more hybrid and distant work arrangements resulting from the pandemic.

Now they deal with the prospect that beleaguered banks, particularly scaled-down ones, could get far more aggressive with lending arrangements, providing landlords even less area to breathe as they try to refinance a mountain of financial loans coming due. This yr, approximately $270 billion in business home loans held by banking companies are established to expire, according to Trepp, and $1.4 trillion about the future 5 a long time.

“There were being by now liquidity problems. There have been much less discounts finding completed,” Xander Snyder, Very first American senior professional serious estate economist, advised Yahoo Finance in an interview. “Access to money was having scarcer, and this banking crisis is nearly definitely gonna compound that.”

Most of the banking institutions that maintain commercial genuine estate mortgages are little to mid-sized establishments that are experiencing the most tension all through the existing disaster, which began this thirty day period with the large-profile failures of regional loan providers Silicon Valley Lender and Signature Bank. The pressure on regional banking companies continued Friday, stoked by intensifying investor stress on German loan provider Deutsche Financial institution as the expense to insure from default on its debt soared.

Lesser financial institutions began ramping up their exposure to professional real estate in the aftermath of the 2008 monetary disaster, which was activated by a housing bust, and stuck with it even right after the pandemic emptied out numerous city-centre qualities and other varieties of borrowing presented by commercial mortgage loan backed securities and lifestyle insurers dried up.

Signature was amongst the banks that manufactured some of these bets, turning into an aggressive financial institution in New York Metropolis to business towers and multifamily properties. By the close of 2022 it had amassed nearly $36 billion in industrial actual estate financial loans, half of which have been to residences. That portfolio comprised just about a single-3rd of its $110 billion in property.

More than 80{515baef3fee8ea94d67a98a2b336e0215adf67d225b0e21a4f5c9b13e8fbd502} of all commercial actual estate financial loans are now held by banks with fewer than $250 billion in assets, in accordance to a report by Goldman Sachs economists Manuel Abecasis and David Mericle. These loans now comprise the highest share of business loan portfolios in 13 yrs, according to John Velis of BNY Mellon.

“There’s a whole lot of professional genuine estate which is been financed about the very last handful of several years,” BlackRock World-wide Mounted Money CIO Rick Rieder instructed Yahoo Finance on Wednesday. “When you increase costs this quickly, the interest-sensitive parts of the economic climate, and significantly where you will find financing or leverage connected to it, then that’s where by you make strain. That’s not likely away tomorrow.” Commercial genuine estate, he additional, does not signify the very same type of systematic possibility to the economic system as housing did during the 2008 fiscal disaster but there are “isolated pockets that can lead to contagion chance.”

Two early warnings of the threat that rising curiosity prices pose to industrial real estate arrived final month. Big landlord Columbia Assets Have confidence in defaulted on $1.7 billion in floating-rate financial loans tied to 7 structures in New York, San Francisco, Boston and Jersey City, N.J. That followed a default by huge revenue supervisor Brookfield Asset Administration on a lot more than $750 million in financial debt backing two 52-story towers in Los Angeles.

. Leaders of the Senate's banking committee on Thursday, March 23, warned former chief executive officers at Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank that they expect them to testify before the panel, saying in a letter to each: “you must answer for the bank's downfall.” (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Signature Lender was a huge industrial serious estate lender in New York Metropolis. It was seized by regulators before this month. (AP Photograph/Seth Wenig, File)

Forced income of more trophy structures at large discounts are envisioned in the coming years as entrepreneurs struggle to refinance at economical charges. “Sellers will want the value that absolutely everyone was finding [back] in December 2021, and prospective buyers are variety of even worried to obtain one thing appropriate now trigger they don’t even know what the selling price of these structures are,” Snyder stated.

Banking companies were already squeezing phrases on industrial actual estate financial loans in advance of this month’s chaos. In accordance to the Federal Reserve’s newest senior mortgage officer feeling study, practically 60 per cent of financial institutions described tighter lending criteria in January for nonresidential and multifamily home financial loans.

“Bank lending specifications experienced now tightened substantially in excess of the past couple of quarters to degrees earlier unseen outside the house of recessions, presumably mainly because a lot of financial institution chance divisions shared the economic downturn fears that have been popular in economic marketplaces,” in accordance to a be aware final 7 days from Goldman Sachs. A lot more tightening of lending benchmarks envisioned as a end result of new lender stresses could slow economic development this year, Goldman stated.

Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome Powell arrives to speak at a news conference at the Federal Reserve, Wednesday, March 22, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome Powell arrives at a news conference on Wednesday in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Fed chair Jerome Powell agreed with that look at at a Wednesday push meeting adhering to the announcement of another level hike. He stated he also anticipates a tightening of credit history problems as financial institutions pull back again, which will assist interesting the financial system. “We’re wondering about that as proficiently accomplishing the exact issues that amount hikes do,” he reported.

But he said regional banking institutions with high quantities of industrial estate financial loans were not probably to come to be the up coming Silicon Valley Bank.

“We’re very well conscious of the concentrations folks have in professional genuine estate,” he stated. “I genuinely don’t imagine it really is equivalent to this. The banking procedure is robust. It is audio. It is resilient. It’s perfectly-capitalized.”

The larger sized commercial real estate entire world is however absorbing the shock of the Fed’s aggressive campaign, according to Marcus & Millichap CEO Hessam Nadji. The results may possibly not pose a systemic chance, he added, but they will incorporate to the industry’s lots of challenges.

“Commercial true estate has been as a result of a pandemic, incredibly speedy recovery, then substantial tightening of financial disorders in contrast to anything at all we’ve noticed in modern day historical past,” he explained to Yahoo Finance Thursday. “The past 3 yrs have moved the field as a result of a important rollercoaster.”

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Afghanistan school year starts without millions of teenage girls | Education News

Afghanistan school year starts without millions of teenage girls | Education News

Afghanistan’s schools have reopened for the new educational 12 months, but hundreds of hundreds of teenage women continue being barred from attending courses as Taliban authorities ban their attendance in secondary university.

Education Minister Habibullah Agha verified in a statement that schools up to quality six “will currently be open up for girls”, correctly retaining a ban on substantial faculty for feminine learners.

Madrassas, or Islamic faculties, are the only schooling centres open up for women of all ages. Yalda, a ninth grader in Kabul, instructed Al Jazeera that the madrassa was superior for boosting her awareness of religion.

But “the madrassa simply cannot aid me become a health care provider, mainly because which is accomplished in school”, she reported.

Tenth grader Sara explained she daydreamed of universities reopening “all the time”.

“Maybe someday educational institutions will reopen and my education will progress even further. I will in no way shed hope,” she mentioned.

Taliban authorities have imposed an austere interpretation of Islam considering the fact that storming back again to electric power in August 2021 following the withdrawal of United States-led overseas forces that backed the past governments.

The ban on girls’ secondary education came into effect in March past 12 months, just hrs soon after the education and learning ministry reopened universities for both equally women and boys. No Muslim-vast majority place bans women’s schooling.

Taliban leaders, who also banned women from university training in December, have continuously claimed they will reopen secondary educational institutions for women once “conditions” have been achieved, together with remodelling the syllabus along Islamic strains.

Taliban officers have justified the university ban and curbs on women’s flexibility because of to a lack of a “safe environment”. Some senior Taliban leaders, nonetheless, stated that Islam granted females legal rights to education and learning and perform.

Similar assurances were being manufactured all through the Taliban’s initially stint in electrical power involving 1996 and 2001, but women remained banned from superior universities through their five-yr rule.

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Catherine Russell, govt director of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), advised Al Jazeera that the problem was “absolutely crushing”.

The ban “takes absent their means to participate in their community in a way where by they can eventually have careers, come to be physicians or teachers”, she explained.

In switch, that has a negative impact on the country’s financial system and on a range of sectors wherever females experienced been making a distinction.

“The wellbeing process relies on ladies. Nurses, physicians, need to have to be educated so that they can just take a distinguished area in the state,” Russell stated. “The sensible impact is devastating, and it’s also so crushing for these women who have dreams.”

Afghanistan is the only nation in the entire world where by women are prohibited from likely to secondary university.

Gals have also been efficiently squeezed out of general public existence, taken off from most govt work opportunities or compensated a portion of their previous salaries to continue to be at household.

They are also barred from heading to parks, fairs, fitness centers and general public baths, and have to protect up in community.

The United Nations stated Afghanistan less than the Taliban federal government is the “most repressive region in the world” for women’s legal rights.

The UN Help Mission to Afghanistan (UNAMA) urged the authorities on Tuesday to lift the ban on girls’ education and learning.

“UNAMA reiterates its simply call to de facto authorities to reverse all discriminatory guidelines towards girls and women,” the mission mentioned on Twitter.

“They not only impede the aspirations of 50 {515baef3fee8ea94d67a98a2b336e0215adf67d225b0e21a4f5c9b13e8fbd502} of the inhabitants but are triggering good problems to Afghanistan.”

The ban halts two decades of progress through which literacy charges among women of all ages almost doubled. The quantity of women in college enhanced nearly 20 moments considering that 2001, from just 5,000 to extra than 100,000 in 2021.

Haroun Rahimi, assistant professor of law at the American College of Afghanistan, wrote in an Al Jazeera op-ed that the ban was “causing incalculable harm to the Afghan youth and the upcoming of the country”.

“However, the Taliban have been having to pay the wage of woman schoolteachers for now. Remarkably, enrolment numbers in major educational facilities for both of those boys and ladies have increased in some regions of the state as protection has enhanced,” he claimed.

In accordance to UNICEF’s Russell, the Taliban is “not a monolithic organisation”, and some amongst its ranks “understood that the state will by no means prosper and do nicely if 50 percent of the population is not in a position to participate”.

“They are primarily stating that for now they are not able to go to college, and I would argue to them that these ladies are human beings, that they have a appropriate to healthcare, they have a ideal to an education and learning and individuals legal rights have to have to be highly regarded,” Russell mentioned.

The global group has made the appropriate to schooling for women a essential situation in negotiations over support and recognition of the recent Taliban authorities.

No nation has so significantly officially recognised the Taliban as Afghanistan’s legitimate rulers.

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The EU’s New Greenwashing Rules, Explained

The EU’s New Greenwashing Rules, Explained

The EU is stepping up its crackdown on greenwashing. Trade teams and environmental advocates say it is not going far adequate.

On Wednesday, the European Fee published a draft of new policies meant to stamp out fluffy and deceptive eco-marketing and advertising of products and solutions which includes garments and cosmetics.

The proposed regulation normally takes aim at a booming current market for “green” merchandise whose environmental qualifications are, more normally than not, hollow. It lays out baseline needs for brand names to again up any statements with strong and confirmed information and facts or chance sizeable fines.

The lengthy-awaited draft rules come amid a broader greenwashing crackdown that is now changing how brand names industry products, pushing phrases like “green” and “conscious” out of fashion.

It is a large-stakes topic, with the UN issuing a past-possibility warning on local weather motion this week and the reputational and regulatory challenges affiliated with sustainability marketing and advertising increasing.

But the EU’s proposed restrictions don’t deal with the thorniest challenges of all, remaining imprecise on the technical information of how manufacturers ought to substantiate their promises. That leaves the marketplace with elevated legal possibility, but with no coherent, strong and comparable criteria, irritating both of those trade teams and environmental campaigners.

“It definitely operates the possibility that things will get quite, pretty baffling,” said George Harding-Rolls, campaign manager at environmental marketing campaign group Switching Markets Basis. “We’re heading to see ‘green hushing.’ We’re likely to see a great deal of trend brand names and businesses throughout sectors using a even though to digest this and in that vacuum in all probability generating considerably much less green statements.”

The New Policies of ‘Green’ Internet marketing

At the core of the EU’s proposed policies is a necessity models again up any environmental claims with large good quality, scientific proof which is been confirmed by a third celebration.

At the second, more than 50 {515baef3fee8ea94d67a98a2b336e0215adf67d225b0e21a4f5c9b13e8fbd502} of statements in the EU are obscure, complicated or unfounded, according to a 2020 analyze by the Fee. The sector is awash with a lot more than 200 eco labels, a lot of of which are unverified and misleading, according to the draft regulation.

Beneath the proposed procedures, any environmental claim will have to have to consider the entire lifecycle of a product or service and go over all appropriate environmental impacts, relatively than cherry finding 1 situation and disregarding other individuals. “Self-certified” environmental labels with no 3rd-celebration verification or frequent monitoring will be banned.

Firms will require to be transparent about any trade offs involved with their eco promises. For occasion, the draft principles highlighted ambiguity all-around the rewards of outfits manufactured from recycled polyester, since these are commonly created from repurposed plastic bottles which are not able to be recycled once more.

The proposed regulation also normally takes goal at “carbon neutral” and “climate neutral” claims, which it explained are especially most likely to be misleading. Any local weather-similar promises must reveal how a great deal makes are relying on offsets, somewhat than cutting down their footprint. And in which offsets are used, there must be apparent and substantiated evidence of their effects, the draft reported.

The penalties for greenwashing are not absolutely defined, but could total to at the very least 4 per cent of once-a-year turnover in the international locations where brands are found to have employed misleading marketing and advertising, the draft said.

“The 1st line has been drawn in the sand,” mentioned Dalena White, secretary common of the Intercontinental Wool Textile Organisation and a spokesperson for foyer team Make the Label Depend. “It’s not just a totally free sport of let’s choose [a sustainability claim] and this is our marketing for the up coming year.”

From Greenwashing to ‘Green Hushing’

Even though the new regulation is meant to push ambiguity out of sustainability advertising, some marketplace watchers wading by means of the 80-site document this 7 days said they had been still missing clarity.

Models navigating the shifting regulatory landscape around the very last 12 months have been hunting to the EU to provide typical, agreed on specifications for how they need to back again up environmentally friendly statements. As a substitute, the high-level guidelines go away the discipline open up for companies to decide on and choose the methodologies they want and for the rules to differ from current market to marketplace, sector watchers stated.

“It’s a minimal baseline that leaves a good deal of regulations open up to interpretation and does not supply any lawful certainty,” reported Baptiste Carriere-Pradal co-founder and director of public affairs consultancy 2B Plan and chair of fashion business advocacy team Plan Hub. “It completely fails to produce the clarity persons desired.”

The regulatory uncertainty is previously leading some providers to end chatting about their environmental attempts. Which is not automatically a trouble according to environmental advocates, but industry reps argue that companies will have no incentive to commit in weather motion if they cannot talk about it to buyers.

There’s however room for refinement. The draft procedures want to go as a result of the European Parliament and it will very likely be decades prior to they are executed as regulation. In the meantime, they do mail a immediate sign that greenwashing is out of fashion.

“If just about anything is apparent from this, it’s that substantiation, primary data and the extra data manufacturers can offer, the better,” reported Harding-Rolls. “And if they’re not accomplishing that previously, they in all probability are greenwashing.”