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Builder Skanska flags inflation woes after narrow profit beat
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STOCKHOLM, July 21 (Reuters) - Skanska (SKAb.ST) reported on Thursday a rise in second-quarter profit that was slightly bigger than expected, and said activity was high in the construction industry but inflation would remain challenging for the market.
Operating profit at the Nordic region's largest builder, and one of the biggest in the United States, came in at 2.40 billion Swedish crowns ($235.1 million), compared with 2.34 billion crowns in a year-ago period. Analysts polled by Refinitiv had on average estimated a profit of 2.18 billion crowns.
Order bookings in Skanska's construction arm fell to 37.3 billion crowns in the quarter from 49.8 billion crowns last year, a decline of 30% from the preceding quarter adjusted for the impact of currency swings.
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While Skanska's construction order backlog remains at historically high levels, the rapid interest rate hikes and soaring inflation in countries such as the United States and Sweden has raised uncertainty about markets ahead.
"Activity is high in the construction industry, but inflation will continue to remain challenging for the market," Chief Executive Officer Anders Danielsson said in a statement.
"We continue to focus on selective bidding and commercial management."
($1 = 10.2098 Swedish crowns)
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Two men were indicted Wednesday in the case of a hot, airless tractor-trailer rig found last month with 53 dead or dying migrants in San Antonio, officials said.
A federal grand jury in San Antonio indicted Homero Zamorano Jr., 46, and Christian Martinez, 28, both of Pasadena, Texas, on counts of transporting and conspiring to transport migrants illegally resulting in death; and transporting and conspiring to transport migrants illegally resulting in serious injury.
Both remain in federal custody without bond pending trial. Martinez's attorney, David Shearer of San Antonio, declined to comment on the indictments. A message to Zamorano's attorney was not immediately returned.
Conviction on the death counts could result in life sentences, but the Attorney General's Office could authorize prosecutors to seek death penalties. The serious bodily injury counts carry sentences of up to 20 years in prison.
It was the deadliest tragedy to claim the lives of migrants smuggled across the border from Mexico. The truck had been packed with 67 people, and the dead included 27 from Mexico, 14 from Honduras, seven from Guatemala and two from El Salvador, said Francisco Garduño, chief of Mexico's National Immigration Institute.
The incident happened on a remote San Antonio back road on June 27. Arriving police officers detained Zamorano after spotting him hiding in some nearby brush, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney's Office. A search of Zamorano's cellphone revealed calls with Martinez concerning the smuggling run.
Surveillance video of the 18-wheeler passing through a Border Patrol checkpoint showed the driver matched Zamorano's description, according to the indictment. One survivor of the journey, a 20-year-old from Guatemala, told The Associated Press that smugglers had covered the trailer's floor with what she believes was powdered chicken bouillon, apparently to throw off any dogs at the checkpoint.
The tragedy occurred at a time when huge numbers of migrants have been coming to the U.S., many of them taking perilous risks to cross swift rivers and canals and scorching desert landscapes. Migrants were stopped nearly 240,000 times in May, up by one-third from a year ago.
Of the 73 people in the truck, those who died included people from the Mexican states of Guanajuato, Veracruz, Oaxaca, Mexico, Zacatecas, Queretaro, Morelos and Mexico City. Migrants from Honduras and Guatemala also were among those who died in the deadliest known smuggling attempt in the United States.
In 2017, 10 people died after being trapped inside a truck parked at a San Antonio Walmart. In 2003, the bodies of 19 migrants were found in a sweltering truck southeast of the city.
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One day after the House of Representatives passed the Respect of Marriage Act with bipartisan support, some U.S. Senate Democrats and Republicans are saying they see an opening to pass their chamber’s version of the bill providing federal protections of same-sex marriage rights nationwide
The bill is a direct response to the Supreme Court’s dismantling of Roe vs. Wade — a reversal of nearly 50 year’s of abortion rights. The conservative court determined that the original ruling was an overreach of federal power, kicking abortion back to individual states. It’s expected that abortion will soon be all but outlawed in half the states.
Many observers worried the same process could be used to target other rights, and those fears were confirmed when Justice Clarence Thomas signaled in his concurring opinion that the Court should revisit cases which established federal protections for contraception, same-sex relationships, and same-sex marriage.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said on Wednesday he was “really impressed by how much bipartisan support it got in the House.” 47 Republican representatives voted yes along with all Democratic reps; 157 Republicans voted no.
In order for the bill to pass the 50-50 Senate, Schumer would need at least 10 Republicans to vote for it.
Related: The House just made it crystal clear what it thinks of Clarence Thomas’ plan to dismantle gay rights
John Thune, the senate’s No. 2 Republican, said he thinks the bill could receive enough GOP support.
“I wouldn’t be surprised. We haven’t assessed [the vote count] at all, yet,” he told reporters. “But as a general matter, I think that is something people in the country have come to accept.”
Other Republican senators have signaled they’d support the legislation. Senator Susan Collins co-sponsored the Senate version of the House bill, and Senator Thom Tillis said on CNN that he’d “probably” vote yes.
Republican Senator Rob Portman also co-sponsored the bill and said it sends “an important message.”
Then of course, there are the obvious opponents like Republican Senator Ted Cruz, who said over the weekend that the Supreme Court was “clearly wrong” to establish federal gay marriage rights in the first place. Fellow GOP Senator Lindsey Graham has already said he would vote no, while Marco Rubio has called it a “stupid waste of time.”
Meanwhile, Republican Senator Mitt Romney is a likely no vote after he called the House bill “unnecessary.”
“I haven’t given consideration to that legislation in part because the law isn’t changing and there’s no indication that it will,” he said. He added that Justice Thomas had “opened a lot of doors that no other justices walk through.”
How nice for Mitt that he feels so secure in the future, and that his rights aren’t being openly threatened at the highest levels of power. We’ve lived through plenty of things in the last six years we never thought were possible, so a little assurance doesn’t seem like a bad thing at all.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Republicans erased regulations Wednesday allowing local election clerks to fill in missing information on absentee ballot envelopes, the latest move in the GOP’s push to tighten voting procedures in the crucial swing state.
The Wisconsin Elections Commission developed an emergency rule earlier this year that permits local clerks to fill in missing witness address information on absentee envelopes without contact the witness or the voter. The rule reflected guidance the commission issued to clerks in October 2016. The guidance was in effect during the 2020 presidential election, which saw Joe Biden narrowly defeat then-President Donald Trump.
The Republican-controlled Legislature’s rules committee voted 6-4 to suspend the emergency rule. The guidance remains in place, but it’s unclear how many clerks might follow it in light of the committee vote and a court could soon erase it as well.
The committee vote is part of a string of Republican efforts to impose tighter restrictions on voting around the country as Trump continues to spread the false claim that Biden stole the election.
Multiple reviews and court decisions have found no evidence of fraud on a scale that would have affected the outcome but Trump and his supporters keep working to convince people the election wasn’t legitimate.
According to the Brennan Center for Justice, at least 19 states enacted laws that made it harder to vote last year, including shortening the window for applying for an absentee mail ballot, stiffening voter identification requirements and limiting early voting hours.
Wisconsin’s Republican-controlled Legislature passed a sweeping package of bills earlier this year to require the rules committee to sign off on any commission guidance, to make it harder for people to declare themselves indefinitely confined in order to get an absentee ballot and to ban private groups from giving local governments money to administer elections.
Democratic Gov. Tony Evers vetoed the entire package, but Republicans won a major victory earlier this month when the conservative-controlled state Supreme Court outlawed drop boxes. The GOP has argued that the boxes aren’t secure and invite fraud.
Now GOP leaders have set their sights on the clerk guidance, arguing that state law doesn’t allow clerks to fill in blanks on ballot envelopes and if the witness doesn’t fill in the missing information the ballot doesn’t count. They demanded that the commission codify the guidance in an emergency rule, which would allow the Legislature’s Republican-controlled rules committee to erase it.
The commission complied and drafted the rule. The committee met Wednesday afternoon to block it at the request of Republican legislative leaders, including Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu.
Democrats on the committee spent an hour criticizing the move, labeling it a “disgusting” attempt to tamp down voter turnout ahead of the Aug. 9 primary and Nov. 8 general election, which includes critical races for governor and U.S. Senate.
“This is a horrible mistake but it continues the road Republicans are going down,” Rep. Gary Hebl said. “They don’t have the votes so they’ve got to cut down the number of people who can vote any way they can do it. It’s a sad time in our democracy that we have to stoop to these levels.”
GOP committee members countered that state law simply doesn’t allow clerks to fill in missing information. They stressed that clerks can attempt to return ballots with incomplete witness addresses. Hebl countered that overworked clerks will simply “chuck” incomplete envelopes in the trash.
“I care about following state law,” the committee co-chairman Sen. Steve Nass said. “No one has mentioned a state law that allows (the elections commission) to do what they’re doing. (The commission) is attempting to create a new law. That is a core legislative function.”
It’s not clear how many clerks may have acted to fix witness information during the 2020 election.
The Legislative Audit Bureau last year reviewed nearly 15,000 absentee ballot envelopes from the election across 29 municipalities and found that 1,022, or about 7%, were missing parts of witness addresses. Fifteen didn’t have any witness address at all, eight lacked a witness signature and three didn’t have a voter signature.
Auditors found evidence that clerks had corrected addresses on 66 envelopes, or 0.4% of the sample. The audit cautioned against extrapolating the findings statewide, however, noting auditors reviewed ballot envelopes from nine of the 10 municipalities with the highest proportion of absentee ballots.
Even though the rule is no more, the elections commission’s initial guidance saying clerks can correct missing information still stands but maybe not for long. The Waukesha County Republican Party filed a lawsuit earlier this month alleging the guidance is illegal.
Dane County Clerk Scott McDonell said if clerks are blocked from adding missing information on their own, they will have to track witnesses down that could be cumbersome for some offices with already heavy workloads. He said clerks may decide to mail the ballot back with a request to fill in the missing information if there’s enough time to do so before Election Day. Otherwise they may have to call or email the voter.
He said allowing clerks to add missing information on their own is a “common-sense system.” Often the witness is the voter’s spouse and clerks can confirm an address through the state voter database.
“Any fair-minded person would think this was reasonable,” he said.
Wisconsin Elections Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe said the committee vote “puts clerks in a difficult spot” since the guidance saying they can fill in witness address information remains in place, creating confusion.
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Finding the best anniversary gifts for him
There’s nothing better than seeing your partner’s face light up when they open a gift from you, and choosing that perfect gift always feels a little more important when honoring a milestone. Anniversaries are a time of celebrating the past and looking toward the future. Whether it’s your first or fiftieth anniversary, a thoughtful gift is a great way to show your partner appreciation for the years behind and excitement for the years to come.
Best anniversary gifts for him
Sometimes shopping for gifts for him can be a little tricky, but no matter your price range, there are many unique gifts available that are sure to make your partner smile. If you want something simple to send to their office on the day of your anniversary, check out our BestReviews gift baskets buying guide.
Gifts under $100
This cocktail smoker takes your partner’s mixology to the next level. The smoker is easy to use and fits right on the top of your favorite glass. You fill the mesh net with smoking chips and apply a flame. The result is a smooth, smoke-infused cocktail. Some more expensive versions of this smoker come with a torch.
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Take Your Pick Guitar Pick Set
If your partner loves to play the guitar, this set of pewter guitar picks is a fun gift idea and will make them think of you every time they play. Inscribed on the face of the picks are messages like “I Pick You” and “Don’t Fret.” They come in a custom wooden holder that allows for display.
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Mr. Beer Complete Beer Making Starter Kit
This fun kit gives the gift of the experience brewing of your own beer. A hopped malt extract makes it possible to get a batch ready to go in about 30 minutes, and it only takes 1 or 2 weeks for the batch to be ready to drink. The kit comes with everything you need, including bottles.
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TYIAUS Percussion Massager Gun
If you’re looking for a gift for an active partner, this massager gun can help relieve their aches and pains. Great for use after a long run or heavy weight lifting session, it penetrates deep into muscle tissue to improve blood flow, flexibility and motion. The rechargeable battery has 4-6 hours of working time and can be fully charged in 3-4 hours.
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Harry’s Shave Club Subscription
A subscription to Harry’s Shave Club makes a great gift for a guy who likes a pampered shave without too much hassle. Different volume shave kits are available and include a handle, blades and shaving gel.
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Stanley Adventure Easy Carry 16-Quart Outdoor Cooler
For a partner who’s the adventuring type, this cooler will keep their drinks and food cold on all their travels. It comes in either green or white and has a 21-can capacity. For longer trips, this cooler can keep food cold for over a day.
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Gifts for $100-$300
Waterford Barware Lismore Double Old Fashioned Glasses
For the partner who loves to drink their Old-Fashioneds in style, these glasses are made from beautiful Waterford crystal. The glasses come in a set of two and each hold 12 ounces. They’re perfect for a casual evening cocktail or fancy dinner party.
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Personalized Movie Marquee Photo Print
This photo print is a fun way for a movie-lover to celebrate your anniversary. Your love story is highlighted on a personalized image of a movie marquee. You customize the names, date and movie title. You can also choose which color styling you want from black and white, color or sepia. You can purchase this print with or without the frame.
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Nespresso by Breville Essenza Mini Espresso Machine
If your partner can’t live without their espresso, this is the machine for them. It’s compact, stylish and easy to use. It has an adjustable cup size, and the machine preheats the water in a mere 25 seconds for a quick brew. To save energy, it shuts off automatically after 9 minutes. A milk frother and 14 capsules are included.
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Cuisinart Soft Serve Ice Cream Maker
For a fun ice cream date, this ice cream maker can bring date night to your living room. It’s easy to use and has built-in containers that hold your favorite toppings. It produces 1.5 quarts of soft serve ice cream in 20 minutes.
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Gifts $300 and over
If your partner loves to grill but hates the mess, this electric grill from Phillips is a great gift. Infrared technology heats the grill quickly and maintains a constant, even temperature. It produces 80% less smoke than other indoor grills, has a drip tray to collect grease and has reflectors to ensure meat browns on all sides.
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If your partner likes to listen to music wherever they go, this smart speaker from Sonos will serve them well. It’s waterproof and drop-resistant and works well indoors or outdoors. The speaker is compatible with Wi-Fi or Bluetooth and can be controlled by your voice, as Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant are built-in.
Sold by Sonos
You can’t do better than this iPad Pro for your technology-obsessed partner. Its 12.9-inch screen has a brilliant liquid Retina XDR display. The battery will last all day, and the camera allows for excellent-quality photos.
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AUBAGNE, France, July 21, 2022
- Sales revenue up 22.1 percent in constant currencies, underlying EBITDA margin 35.2 percent
- 2022 outlook confirmed: Sales revenue expected to rise by 15 to 19 percent and underlying EBITDA margin projected to be more than 35 percent
- Uncertainties due to the global political and economic situation remain high
Sartorius Stedim Biotech, a leading partner of the biopharma industry, increased sales revenue and earnings with double-digit growth rates in the first half of 2022 and confirmed its full-year outlook.
"Sartorius Stedim Biotech performed well during the first half of the year in an increasingly challenging environment. We achieved significant growth and could maintain a high profit margin despite some headwinds from currencies. Since the beginning of the year, we increased our worldwide headcount by a good 1,500, and the recent acquisitions are contributing to our business development as expected. Given the healthy underlying demand in our industry and good order situation, we confirm our full-year outlook as well as our ambitious investment program, despite higher inflation and lower corona-related demand. However, the global political and economic uncertainties, the resulting strained supply chains, and thus also the uncertainties of projections and outlooks remain high," said Joachim Kreuzburg, Chairman of the Board of Directors and CEO.
Business development of the Group1
In the first half of the year, Group sales revenue rose by 22.1 percent year-over-year in constant currencies (reported: + 27.5 percent) to around 1,724 million euros. This good performance was mainly driven by organic growth, while acquisitions2 contributed around 2 percentage points to sales revenue growth. All major product segments contributed to this positive development with clear double-digit growth rates, while business with vaccine manufacturers normalized faster than expected. All three business regions – EMEA3, Americas, and Asia | Pacific – posted double-digit percentage growth in constant currencies. The restrictions in China caused by the pandemic had a relatively minor impact on growth.
Following the extraordinarily high growth rates due to the pandemic in the first half of 2021, order intake also continued to normalize and reached 1,827 million euros, which was, as expected, slightly below the prior-year figure of 1,890 million euros (in constant currencies: -7.3 percent, reported -3.3 percent).
Following the strong growth in sales revenue, underlying EBITDA rose by 24.5 percent to 607 million euros in the first half of the year. The corresponding margin reached 35.2 percent (prior-year period: 36.1 percent). The development was influenced by positive economies of scale which were offset by negative currency effects and, as planned, higher costs due to new employees and an increase in the number of business trips. Effects from price trends and adjustments on the purchasing and customer sides largely compensated each other.
Relevant net profit reached 405 million euros, up 26.0 percent from the prior-year period. Underlying earnings per share were 4.40 euros (prior-year period: 3.49 euros).
Key financial indicators
The Sartorius Stedim Biotech Group continues to have a very sound balance sheet and financial base. As of June 30, 2022, its equity ratio stood at 48.6 percent (December 31, 2021: 43.9 percent). The ratio of net debt to underlying EBITDA was 0.5 as of the reporting date, compared with 0.4 at year-end 2021. Cash flow from investing activities stood at –180 million euros, compared with -114 million euros in the first half of 2021. The ratio of capital expenditures (CAPEX) to sales revenue reached 10.4 percent (prior-year period: 8.4 percent).
Increase in the number of employees
As of June 30, 2022, Sartorius Stedim Biotech employed a total of 11,942 people worldwide, representing a headcount increase of 1,533 from the end of December 2021.
Outlook for fiscal 2022 confirmed
The management confirms its outlook for the current fiscal year. Consolidated sales revenue is expected to increase by about 15 percent to 19 percent with non-organic growth from acquisitions projected to contribute about 2 percentage points. Regarding profitability, Sartorius Stedim Biotech continues to expect its underlying EBITDA margin to reach more than 35 percent.
The CAPEX ratio is anticipated to be about 14.5 percent and net debt to underlying EBITDA to be about 0.2 at year-end. Possible further acquisitions are not included in this projection.
All forecasts are based on constant currencies, as in the past years. In addition, management points out that the dynamics and volatilities in the life science and biopharma sectors have increased over the past years and the coronavirus pandemic has further amplified these trends. Moreover, the forecasts are based on the assumption of no further deterioration in the geopolitical and global economic situation, supply chains, inflation and energy supply, and no new relevant restrictions in connection with the coronavirus pandemic. Accordingly, current forecasts show even higher uncertainties than usual.
1 Sartorius Stedim Biotech publishes alternative performance measures that are not defined by international accounting standards. These are determined with the aim of improving the comparability of business performance over time and within the industry.
- Order intake: all customer orders contractually concluded and booked during the respective reporting period
- Underlying EBITDA: earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization and adjusted for extraordinary items
- Relevant net profit: profit for the period after non-controlling interest, adjusted for extraordinary items and non-cash amortization, as well as based on the normalized financial result and the normalized tax rate
- Ratio of net debt to underlying EBITDA: quotient of net debt and underlying EBITDA over the past 12 months, including the pro forma amount contributed by acquisitions for this period
2 Acquisition of CellGenix, Xell, the Novasep chromatography division
3 EMEA = Europe, Middle East, Africa
This press release contains forward-looking statements about the future development of the Sartorius Stedim Biotech Group. Forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such statements. Sartorius Stedim Biotech assumes no liability for updating such statements in light of new information or future events. Sartorius Stedim Biotech shall not assume any liability for the correctness of this release. The original French press release is the legally binding version.
Conference call
Joachim Kreuzburg, Chairman of the Board of Directors and CEO of the Sartorius Stedim Biotech Group, will discuss the company's business results with analysts and investors in a conference call at 3.30 p.m. CEST on July 21, 2022.You may register by clicking on the following link:
Further information
Financial calendar
October 19, 2022 Publication of nine-month figures (January to September 2022)
- The figures for the reporting period 2021 were restated due to the finalization of the purchase price allocation for the acquisition of BIA Separations
- cc = in constant currencies
- According to customers' location
- Underlying EBITDA = earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, and adjusted for extraordinary items
- After non-controlling interest
- Underlying net result = net result after non-controlling interest; adjusted for extraordinary items, amortization and based on a normalized financial result and normalized tax rate
Statement of reconciliation
- The figures for the reporting period 2021 were restated due to the finalization of the purchase price allocation for the acquisition of BIA Separations.
- Financial result excluding fair value adjustments of hedging instruments and currency effects relating to financing activities and change in valuation of earn-out liability
- Normalized income tax based on the underlying profit before taxes and non-cash amortization
A profile of Sartorius Stedim Biotech
Sartorius Stedim Biotech is a leading international partner of the biopharmaceutical industry. As a total solutions provider, the company helps its customers to manufacture biotech medications safely, rapidly and economically. Headquartered in Aubagne, France, Sartorius Stedim Biotech is quoted on the Eurolist of Euronext Paris. With its own manufacturing and R&D sites in Europe, North America and Asia and an international network of sales companies, Sartorius Stedim Biotech has a global reach. The Group has been annually growing by double digits on average and has been regularly expanding its portfolio by acquisitions of complementary technologies. In 2021, the company employed more than 10,400 people, and earned sales revenue of around 2.89 billion euros.
Contact
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Head of Corporate Communications & Investor Relations
+49 (0)551 308 1686
petra.kirchhoff@sartorius.com
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Two men were indicted Wednesday in the case of a hot, airless tractor-trailer rig found last month with 53 dead or dying migrants in San Antonio, officials said.
A federal grand jury in San Antonio indicted Homero Zamorano Jr., 46, and Christian Martinez, 28, both of Pasadena, Texas, on counts of transporting and conspiring to transport migrants illegally resulting in death; and transporting and conspiring to transport migrants illegally resulting in serious injury.
Both remain in federal custody without bond pending trial. Martinez's attorney, David Shearer of San Antonio, declined to comment on the indictments. A message to Zamorano's attorney was not immediately returned.
Conviction on the death counts could result in life sentences, but the Attorney General's Office could authorize prosecutors to seek death penalties. The serious bodily injury counts carry sentences of up to 20 years in prison.
It was the deadliest tragedy to claim the lives of migrants smuggled across the border from Mexico. The truck had been packed with 67 people, and the dead included 27 from Mexico, 14 from Honduras, seven from Guatemala and two from El Salvador, said Francisco Garduño, chief of Mexico's National Immigration Institute.
The incident happened on a remote San Antonio back road on June 27. Arriving police officers detained Zamorano after spotting him hiding in some nearby brush, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney's Office. A search of Zamorano's cellphone revealed calls with Martinez concerning the smuggling run.
Surveillance video of the 18-wheeler passing through a Border Patrol checkpoint showed the driver matched Zamorano's description, according to the indictment. One survivor of the journey, a 20-year-old from Guatemala, told The Associated Press that smugglers had covered the trailer's floor with what she believes was powdered chicken bouillon, apparently to throw off any dogs at the checkpoint.
The tragedy occurred at a time when huge numbers of migrants have been coming to the U.S., many of them taking perilous risks to cross swift rivers and canals and scorching desert landscapes. Migrants were stopped nearly 240,000 times in May, up by one-third from a year ago.
Of the 73 people in the truck, those who died included people from the Mexican states of Guanajuato, Veracruz, Oaxaca, Mexico, Zacatecas, Queretaro, Morelos and Mexico City. Migrants from Honduras and Guatemala also were among those who died in the deadliest known smuggling attempt in the United States.
In 2017, 10 people died after being trapped inside a truck parked at a San Antonio Walmart. In 2003, the bodies of 19 migrants were found in a sweltering truck southeast of the city.
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Select items from the party’s Amazon Wish List, or donate new school clothes and shoes.
The event is also accepting donations for the event itself, including paper plates, bowls, nacho cheese, nacho chips, napkins, chips, drinks and door prize items, such as tablets, gift cards and gift baskets.
Drop items off at Martin Luther King Jr. Recreation Center, 1300 Wilson St., by 7 p.m. July 28.
Cafe Brazil, 501 W. University Drive, is collecting new backpacks through Aug. 4. Donors get a $10 gift card.
Backpack Boosters collection is underway at all three Kroger locations in Denton: 500 W. University Drive; 1592 S. Loop 288; and 5201 Teasley Lane.
Denton County Friends of the Family’s backpack drive needs donations. Donate cash, or drop off school supplies or backpacks stuffed with supplies by July 29 at the nonprofit’s headquarters, 4845 S. Interstate 35E in Corinth.
Stuff the Bus at Greater Denton/Wise County Association of Realtors through July 28 at 3805 W. University Drive.
Stuff the Bus at Walmart on University throughout tax-free weekend, Aug. 5-7, 2750 W. University Drive.
To donate loose school supplies or backpacks, email Denton ISD Community Engagement Specialist Courtney L. Martin at cmartin@dentonisd.org.
Sanger backpack donations
Stuff the Bus — bring cash, checks or school supplies to First United Bank–Sanger, 1403 W. Chapman Drive, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. July 28.
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STOCKHOLM, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Highlights of the second quarter of 2022
- Net sales increased to SEK 33,749m (30,303), corresponding to an organic sales growth of 0.3%. Strong price execution across all business areas and mix improvements from product launches contributed to growth, while volumes declined significantly. Market demand was down in most regions.
- Operating income amounted to SEK 560m (1,983), corresponding to a margin of 1.7% (6.5). Supply chain and labor constraints resulted in substantially lower volumes and higher costs, especially in business area North America.
- Income for the period amounted to SEK 257m (1,383) and earnings per share were SEK 0.93 (4.81).
- Operating cash flow after investments was SEK 403m (1,456).
President and CEO Jonas Samuelson's comment
In the quarter, organic sales were relatively flat, with positive price and mix execution offsetting significant production volume losses and lower consumer demand. As in the first quarter, we were impacted by significant supply chain challenges. Operating margin was 1.7%. Business areas Europe and North America were, however, disproportionally affected, while the situation improved sequentially for our other two business areas. The irregular deliveries of multiple components, mainly electronics, continued to significantly impact our volumes, cause severe production inefficiencies and increase costs for airfreight and spot buys. Through my colleagues' dedicated work, we successfully optimized the use of available components and managed to deliver solid mix improvements despite these circumstances and a weakening demand environment. However, we were still not able to fully meet the demand, particularly in laundry and premium cooking. We continue to collaborate closely with our suppliers to mitigate these supply chain constraints and expect sequential improvements from mid-2022, with continued risks of disruptions relating to the resurgence of the coronavirus as well as consequences of the war in Ukraine.
It is truly disappointing that our North American business area reported a loss in the quarter. The production output and efficiency challenges driven by supply disruptions and labor shortages caused a heavy impact on earnings. On top of this we had an issue with a critical faulty component, which was fixed in the quarter.
Through strong price execution, we offset significant cost inflation in the quarter, primarily in raw material and logistics. We remain confident to do so also for the full year, as we have done for the past four years. In an inflationary environment, price increases are more accepted in the market. This, combined with attractive products, makes us well-positioned to continue to be successful in raising prices if needed.
With inflation soaring to historically high levels, increased interest rates, global supply chain constraints, as well as uncertainty regarding the coronavirus pandemic and the war in Ukraine, the visibility for the rest of the year is limited. We maintain our regional market demand outlook for the full year 2022, with the exception of North America, which is revised to negative. However, we still estimate demand to be above pre-pandemic levels except for Latin America and Russian market's impact on Europe. We expect the main constraint for industry shipments to switch from the global supply chain situation in the first half of the year to a slowdown in consumer demand in the second half.
I am very pleased with the strong consumer demand for our new innovative products and the earnings contribution from these launches. This is our most launch-intensive year ever and we expect the strong earnings contribution from mix for the 2022 full year to a large extent compensate for the volume decline, year-over-year.
Providing relevant innovations under well-established brands to our target consumers is a key driver for profitable growth. One great example of this is how we strengthen our emerging markets' water heater offering through an improved user experience, including increased energy efficiency. A star rating of 4.89 out of 5 in the important Egyptian market really affirms this.
In volatile times as we are now experiencing, it is vital to continue on our long-term strategic journey while also being efficient and agile. Our strategic focus has so far been on better products, more targeted brands, and increased manufacturing efficiency. We now expand our scope beyond the product itself to all interactions we have with our consumers, including aftermarket. Through our new organization, as previously announced, with a dedicated Commercial & Consumer Journey team, we are ready to take our game to the next level by getting even closer to the consumer.
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Iran demands "serious" economic guarantees from U.S. in nuclear talks: spokesman
TEHRAN, July 20 (Xinhua) -- Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Nasser Kanaani said Wednesday that for the talks to save the 2015 nuclear deal, the United States should give guarantees for securing Iran's economic interests under a possible agreement, according to official IRNA news agency.
"The ground is ready for an agreement, and we believe that there is no important problem to this end," he said during his press conference.
Washington should make a political decision, Kanaani said, adding that Iran demands "serious" guarantees from the United States.
On the recent indirect talks between Iran and the United States in the Qatari capital Doha, he refuted Western reports about the "inconclusiveness" of the talks, saying that contrary to the claims "the Doha negotiations were good negotiations and opened the way for the continuation of negotiations and a nuclear agreement."
Josep Borrell, foreign policy chief of the European Union, and the Iranian side are following up on the issue to prepare the ground for the continuation of the next round of negotiations, he noted.
Since April 2021, eight rounds of talks have been held in Vienna between Iran and the remaining parties to the 2015 deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
Iran signed the JCPOA with the world powers in July 2015 accepting to put some curbs on its nuclear program in return for the removal of the sanctions on Tehran. However, former U.S. President Donald Trump pulled the United States out of the agreement in May 2018 and reimposed Washington's unilateral sanctions on Tehran, prompting Iran to reduce some of its nuclear commitments under the agreement in retaliation.
The talks, which were suspended in March, were mediated by the European Union to be continued bilaterally between Iran and the United States in Doha in June, however, the indirect talks did not bear tangible results.
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Chinese Wisdom in Xi's Words: Agriculture is a fundamental undertaking
BEIJING, July 20 (Xinhua) -- "Agriculture is a fundamental undertaking." President Xi Jinping has cited this ancient saying to emphasize the importance of agriculture to a country like China.
The line first appeared in the Discourses on Salt and Iron, a book compiled in the Western Han Dynasty about two thousand years ago.
Citing the words in 2016, Xi said for China to emerge as a strong country, its agricultural sector must be strong. China must have beautiful rural areas to be a beautiful country and must have affluent farmers to be a rich country, Xi added.
Over the years, Xi has repeatedly emphasized the importance of work related to agriculture, rural areas and rural residents.
In his article published in the Qiushi Journal on April 1 this year, Xi said resolving problems related to agriculture, rural areas and rural residents must be the top priority of the work of the Communist Party of China.
The article stressed mobilizing efforts from the whole Party and the whole society to promote rural vitalization, boost high-quality and highly efficient agriculture, build rural areas into pleasant places for life and work, and create an affluent and prosperous life for rural residents.
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April 27, 1951-July 18, 2022
FAIRBANK-Mike Harter age 71 of Fairbank was killed in a tragic automobile accident in Bremer County on July 18, 2022. He was born April 27, 1951 in Pisgah, Iowa the son of Guy and Eloise (Erixon) Harter. Mike married the love of his life Marla Sanborn on May 24th 1975 in Olin, Iowa. He is survived by his wife of 47 years, Marla, two sons; Andy (Jeni) and Ryan (partner Jasmin) five grandchildren, two brothers; Harlan Harter and Rex (Mary) Harter one sister, Patti (Mike) Crozier and a sister-in-law, Jayne Harter along with many nieces and nephews. Mike was preceded in death by his parents and two brothers, Leo and Gary and a sisters-in-law, Nancy and Vicki Harter.
A Celebration of Mike’s life will be held at 2:00 PM Friday, July 22, 2022 at the Wapsie Valley High School, 2535 Viking Avenue, Fairbank. A reception will be held at the Fairbank American Legion following the celebration of life. All those who knew and loved Mike are encouraged to come.
In lieu of flowers the family asks that donations be made in Mike’s honor. Donations will be used to establish a memorial in his honor.
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- DayDayCook and Brinc join forces to invest US$10 million over the next three years through the Good Food Accelerator Program. Applications for the next cohort open on July 21, 2022.
- DayDayCook and Brinc share a dedicated mission to tackle global food sustainability goals by developing sustainable food systems and addressing food security issues in China and Asia.
- Prominent advisors and professional mentors from the food technology industry joining this program include: Patrick Kwok (Nishimoto Wismettac Group), Alex Pestalozzi (Mueller Asia), Sonalie Figueiras (Green Queen), Chris Pipe (Nestle China), Christina Gaw (Gaw Capital) and Liu Xing (Sequoia Capital).
- DayDayCook, founded by banker-turned-entrepreneur Norma Chu, is a burgeoning, content-to-commerce innovative food brand, with 80 million active users and more than 18 million paid customers globally.
- Brinc, the global venture accelerator founded by Manav Gupta, has also invested US$500,000 in DayDayCook's pre-IPO funding round to bolster its long-term commitment to their new partnership.
HONG KONG, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Brinc, a leading venture accelerator with a global sustainability mandate, and DayDayCook, a leading content-to-commerce Asian culinary platform, announce a commitment of US$10 million to invest in food technology companies that are developing the sustainable, animal-free, global food ecosystem and scaling commercialization in Greater China and Asia. DayDayCook and Brinc will invest in and support 45 companies over the next three years through the Good Food Accelerator Program, operated by Brinc. This alliance is further bolstered by Brinc's US$500,000 investment in DayDayCook, solidifying a long-term collaborative effort to support game-changing startups.
Applications for the Good Food Accelerator Program open on July 21, 2022. Startups accepted into the program will receive an initial investment of a minimum of US$200,000 and will have access to Brinc and DayDayCook's network of later-stage investors during and post-program for potential follow-on funding.
The key investment themes of the program include Alternative Protein, Functional and Novel Ingredients, Sustainable Packaging, Food Supply Chain Innovation, and consumer Agritech solutions. Companies with commercial-ready products and services that are actively contributing toward global food sustainability goals will be prioritised.
The program will be delivered completely virtually and will accept applications from commercially-ready startups located in or looking to enter the Greater China or Asian market. Interested startups can apply online here: http://www.brinc.io/good-food-accelerator/.
The core directive of the Good Food Accelerator Program is to help food tech companies meaningfully commercialise in Greater China and Asia, leveraging the online and offline distribution channels of DayDayCook's core business as well as Brinc and DayDayCook's combined network of food corporations, hospitality groups and investors in the region. With Brinc bringing eight years of accelerator program design and operational experience to strengthen the Good Food Accelerator, selected startups will also have access to DayDayCook's commercial team during the program to explore opportunities for business collaboration.
According to GFI APAC, Asia's leading alternative-protein think tank, strong year-on-year investor growth for the APAC alt-protein market is marked by a 92% surge: from US$162 million in 2020 to US$312 million in 2021. This has concurrently paved the way for the region's startups to grow in global prominence — making them a strong force alongside North America's alt-protein companies, which have fully dominated the market this past decade. In particular, the adoption of alternative proteins will be crucial for China, where, due to the rapid increase in demand for meat, the country is expected to experience a meat deficit of more than 53 million tonnes between 2021 and 2030.
Manav Gupta, founder and CEO of Brinc, said: "China's five-year agricultural development plan sets out an agenda to establish a sustainable food supply system nationwide. Brinc's Food Tech accelerator expertise, investor and mentor network along with DayDayCook's wide reach, commercial network and distribution reach in Mainland China will take us a bold step closer towards attaining this goal. We are excited to support more founders who are looking to scale alternate protein products and deep technologies from around the globe to the world's most populous market while further developing a growing food tech ecosystem across Mainland China and the Greater Bay Area. Addressing deep-rooted inefficiencies in our regional and global food systems, creating a sustainable food supply chain, plus tackling food security issues all in all help mitigate against the growing effects of climate change — which is the need of the hour and our lifetimes."
Norma Chu, founder and CEO of DayDayCook, said: "The Good Food Accelerator Program's mission is to build a leading food tech ecosystem in Hong Kong. We are thrilled to partner with Brinc to welcome our second cohort of startups, to accelerate their growth, and to kickstart a stream of commercially-viable products and innovative solutions. By sourcing innovative startups from the Greater Bay Area, Southeast Asia and areas beyond, the program will make a global splash as it carries out Hong Kong's ambition of transforming into a key innovation hub for food tech talents worldwide."
DayDayCook launched the Good Food Accelerator Program in partnership with the incubation division of Hong Kong Cyberport in December 2021. The seven startups selected in the launch cohort included five Hong Kong companies — AllKlear Health, Breer, Farmacy, Geb Import Technology, Good Food Tech — plus 70/30 Food Science & Tech (Shanghai) and Alchemy (Singapore).
Brinc has been a key global food innovation player since launching its first food technology program in 2018 — Asia's first at the time. Today, having launched AgriFood, AgriTech and Food Tech Programs in Brazil, Hong Kong and Mainland China, Brinc has more than 50 AgriFood Tech portfolio companies all building a more sustainable food future. Highly notable examples of Brinc-accelerated startups that have impacted the global stage include Avant Meats (Hong Kong), CellX (Mainland China), Exponential Foods (Mexico), Galy (USA), Haofood (Mainland China), Orbillion Bio (USA) and Phuture Foods (Singapore).
About DayDayCook
Founded in 2012, DayDayCook is a direct-to-consumer company that focuses on innovative and healthy meal solutions with a fast-growing retail footprint in China and a strong online presence globally.
DDC has launched ready-to-heat (RTH), ready-to-cook (RTC) and plant-based food products, which bring convenience and quality food products to young food lovers. The group builds brand recognition through culinary and lifestyle content across major social media and e-commerce platforms, resulting in an aggregate of over 3 billion video views and over 10 million orders worldwide. www.daydaycook.com
About Brinc
Headquartered in Hong Kong, Brinc is a leader in global venture acceleration, operating 18 multidisciplinary accelerator programs in seven countries. Brinc accelerates startups focused on Internet of Things (IoT), blockchain technology, artificial intelligence, connected hardware, drones, robotics, clean energy and food technology, all within a sustainability mandate. Brinc's goal is to empower founders to accelerate humanity's transition to a more sustainable, inclusive and equitable future.
Brinc has a portfolio of 200+ companies with founders from more than 38 countries. Brinc also supports corporations with investment services, distributed innovation strategies, sourcing of new startups and technologies, as well as venture-building Web 3.0-enabled businesses. Global corporations (Manulife, Huawei, Schneider Electric, Puma, Batelco, Merck, Omantel, Linrun Group, Zhihui Park), government organisations (Hong Kong Science Park, MBRIF, Guangdong Soft-tech Park), tertiary institutions (HK City University, National University of Singapore) and leading venture funds (Artesian, LeverVC, Tamkeen, EDB) have all run programs with Brinc. In 2021, Brinc announced a series of venture funds to invest in high-potential early-stage companies through accelerators and provide LPs with a dedicated innovation platform and access to Series A+ co-investment opportunities.
Learn more about Brinc: www.brinc.io and Brinc's commitment to developing sustainable systems.
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BERLIN, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The hydrogen infrastructure development company LIFTE H2, head quartered in the US with a German subsidiary, and compressor manufacturer Burckhardt Compression, head quartered in Switzerland, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to develop a joint offering of Hydrogen solutions to the market.
The combination of LIFTE H2's product and project development services and Burckhardt Compression's technology and global service capability provides differentiated long-term and integrated value for our customers.
LIFTE H2 is implementing advanced product and services roadmaps, coordinated with a campaign of infrastructure projects, and a collaborative business model that provides corporate partners a higher degree of control over their future low-carbon energy needs. When coupled with Burckhardt Compression's outstanding high-pressure high-flow export compressor technology, a differentiated level of infrastructure performance, reliability and cost is deployed into hard to decarbonize applications, advancing the industry towards mass market adoption of hydrogen.
In order to manage the complexity of maturing supply chain level performance and reliability, LIFTE H2 has developed the most advanced digital platform in the hydrogen industry for asset performance management. To advance the value of this platform, Burckhardt Compression is adding their asset specific expertise, machine monitoring, and maintenance capabilities to the overall service offering.
Burckhardt Compression has gained extensive experience and know-how in hydrogen compression solutions over the last several decades, and is continuously developing compression technology for energy & mobility applications. With a history of over 178 years, Burckhardt Compression is maintaining a global manufacturing and service offering, supplying new compression solutions and supporting customers with a full range of services throughout the entire life cycle.
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About Burckhardt Compression
Burckhardt Compression is the worldwide market leader for reciprocating compressor systems, and the only manufacturer and service provider that covers a full range of reciprocating compressor technologies and services. Its customized compressor systems are used in the gas gathering and processing, gas transport and storage, refinery, chemical, petrochemical as well as in the industrial gas and hydrogen mobility and energy sectors. Burckhardt Compression's leading technology, broad portfolio of compressor components and the full range of services help customers around the world to find the optimized solution for their reciprocating compressor systems. Since 1844, its highly skilled workforce has crafted superior solutions and set the benchmark in the gas compression industry.
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About LIFTE H2
LIFTE H2 was founded in April 2021 to provide full lifecycle hydrogen infrastructure and product development solutions to energy intensive businesses that wish to take control of their hard to decarbonize energy needs. LIFTE H2 accomplishes this by developing, delivering, and operating next generation hydrogen supply chains that deliver cost, reliability, performance, and safety that scales with a comprehensive technology and services ecosystem. LIFTE H2 has deep hydrogen expertise, and a demonstrated track record of successful industry leading product and project development in the hydrogen industry.
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Minneapolis theater CANCELS sold-out Dave Chappelle show at last minute and apologizes for 'failing to be a safe space' after left-wing group threatened venue over star's 'transphobic' jokes
- Dave Chappelle's Minnesota show at First Avenue was canceled hours before he was set to hit the stage after left-wing group MnUrising called for it
- The comedian, 48, has been receiving wide criticism after his Netflix special where he was accused of making transphobic jokes
- First Avenue now apologized for the sold-out show and said it 'lost sight' of its standards at the prospect of hosting the huge comedian
- 'We know we must hold ourselves to the highest standards, and we know we let you down,' it wrote in a statement
- The show was then moved to Varsity Theater and became a 'phone-free experience,' which critics said was only to hide Chappelle's crude jokes
- However, the comedian's fans said the venue gave Chappelle 'new material' and that moving venues didn't solve anything
A Minneapolis theater canceled Dave Chappelle's sold-out show at the 11th hour after left-wing group threatened violence if the star was allowed to perform.
First Avenue, a storied Minneapolis venue, canceled the show just hours before the famous comedian, 48, was supposed to hit the stage.
'We know we must hold ourselves to the highest standards, and we know we let you down,' it wrote in a statement. 'We are not just a black box with people in it, and we understand that First Ave is not just a room, but meaningful beyond our walls.'
The venue said it 'lost sight of the impact' it would have when booking Chapelle for a show, but said it believed in providing 'diverse voices and the freedom of artistic expression' to its audience.
First Avenue was forced into the climbdown after left-wing group MnUprising encouraged its supporters to 'cover their faces and stay dangerous' to protest 'transphobe' Chappelle outside the venue on Wednesday evening.
The show has since been moved to Varsity Theater - which is not owned by First Avenue - after it released a statement apologizing to its 'staff, artists, and our community.'
First Avenue apologized for letting the community 'down' and that it 'lost sight' at the prospect of hosting the big comedian
The popular venue (pictured) canceled the show just hours before Chappelle was supposed to hit the stage in front of a sold-out crowd
Comedian Dave Chappelle, 48, had his sold-out show moved hours before the show after a far-left group called for it. The funnyman has been receiving criticism over his transphobic jokes since his recent Netflix special aired
The far-left group encouraged its participants to 'stay dangerous' and fight the transphobia
First Avenue also recognized that 'some will not agree with this decision' and encouraged feedback.
Calls for the show to be canceled came shortly after the show sold out in five minutes on Monday. Chappelle has been facing backlash since his Netflix special, where he made jokes at the expense of the transgender community.
Varsity Theater announced the move on Twitter and said it would a 'phone-free experience.'
Many critics were quick to at jump Varsity Theater for its requirement, claiming it was covering up the Ohioan's controversy jokes.
'"Phone-free experience" aka you don't want recordings of him going on a transphobic tirade in your venue,' on Twitter user wrote.
Another Twitter user name Nina criticized First Avenue, writing: 'I hope you also make a donation to a trans organization and apologize to your trans staff.'
However, many fans were irritated by the show's canceling, and said First Avenue's decision gave Chappelle a new bit.
Chappelle's fans mocked the move, saying it gave the comedian 'new material' and that far-left group were afraid of 'jokes'
'I’m sure this won’t give him any new material,' Brandon Skelding wrote.
Chris Tsotsoros wrote: 'So. Prince played there and sang songs about having sex [with] his sister. But Dave tells jokes, Nooooooooooo!!!!'
Others slammed the far-left group, branding them 'white supremacists' and said the left was doing what the right used to do.
'The fact that Dave Chappelle's sold-out show was abruptly canceled because of militant White leftists shows you how far-reaching the new Democrat brand of white supremacy has gone,' Jay Alton wrote.
The Varsity Theater announced it would be a 'phone-free experience' and critics branded the requirement as a way to hide his 'transphobic tirade'
Journalist Glenn Greenwald wrote: 'This theater in Minneapolis booked and promoted a live show by Dave Chappelle. Activists objected, demanding they cancel it because the show "harms" them and puts them in "danger." The theater capitulated and apologized for the "harm." The show will now be in a different theater.
'In the 1980s, it was the Moral Majority and social conservatives on the right who routinely objected to shows by artists and comedians, demanding that the shows be canceled or banned on the ground that they "cause harm to the community." Now it's the left that does this.'
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TOKYO, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- YOHJI YAMAMOTO Inc. launched a conceptual project, "WILDSIDE YOHJI YAMAMOTO," on Wednesday, July 20, 2022 on the online platform. WILDSIDE YOHJI YAMAMOTO, with its concept color as black -- the symbol of YOHJI YAMAMOTO, launched the collaboration in a wide range of genres, not only fashion, but also art, interior design, and lifestyle.
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WILDSIDE YOHJI YAMAMOTO: https://wildside-online.com
Special items are launched for collaboration with such Japanese brands as "NEEDLES," "NOMA t.d.," "HYSTERIC GLAMOUR," "AMBUSH," and "MINEDENIM."
An original brand by YOHJI YAMAMOTO Inc., WILDSIDE YOHJI YAMAMOTO is also launched at the same time. With military, work, and sports as keywords, elements extracted from the essence of YOHJI YAMAMOTO are re-constructed with a casual taste. This is a unisex collection that has been updated with modern customization and functionality.
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In terms of art proposals, WILDSIDE YOHJI YAMAMOTO collaborates with galleries and artists who have a close affinity with YOHJI YAMAMOTO Inc. AKIO NAGASAWA Gallery presents photographs of Tadao Ando's architecture taken by photographer TAKAY. Taka Ishii Gallery presents "Tights," a representative work by photographer Daido Moriyama, and drawings by painter Tomoo Gokita. Also, a special one-of-a-kind painting by contemporary artist Takeru Amano for WILDSIDE YOHJI YAMAMOTO will be available soon.
In addition to "Fashion" and "Art," the online platform also features a third category, "Content," which includes interviews and dialogue articles with the collaborating brands. YOHJI YAMAMOTO Inc. will be releasing content from time to time that will help people enjoy the new WILDSIDE YOHJI YAMAMOTO project even more.
WILDSIDE YOHJI YAMAMOTO plans to open a flagship store in Japan in the fall of 2022 in pursuit of omni-channel operations.
WILDSIDE YOHJI YAMAMOTO
Launch: Wednesday July 20, 2022
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Good Samaritans save 2 young girls after mom dies in crash
ALPINE, Calif. (KGTV) - A California family is in search of some good Samaritans who rescued two girls after a car crash that killed their mother.
Bonnie Baum Roth had just left home around 8:30 a.m. Friday with her daughters, 3-year-old Roxie and 9-year-old Moxie, on a trip to Long Beach for a dance competition.
“All their dance costumes, everything ready to go, they were excited,” said Cheryl Baum, Roth’s mother.
The California Highway Patrol says Roth lost control of her SUV, veered into the median, rolled down an embankment and ended up on eastbound Interstate 8. The mother was ejected from the vehicle and died at the scene.
“We’re crushed. My soul is crushed,” Baum said.
She calls her daughter a dedicated mom who was passionate about life and her faith. She was also a unique dance mom who cheered for everyone.
“She would whistle and yell for them and support them and say, ‘You get it, girl!’” Baum said.
Amid their grief, Baum and her family are in search of two good Samaritans who helped Moxie and Roxie escape after the crash. She says they rushed past speeding traffic and toward the mangled SUV, with gas spilled everywhere.
“Any moment, that car could have burst into flames,” Baum said. “I heard that it was very difficult for them to get them out. The babies were screaming. Anything could have happened to them.”
About 10 minutes before emergency crews arrived, the two Samaritans pulled the girls out of the wreck, helping them escape with only a few scrapes and stitches, Baum says.
She adds that the Samaritans and a few others also covered up her daughter’s body, shielding the girls from the sight, before tending to and comforting them.
“We’re pleading for you to come forward. You’re our heroes. You’re our champions,” Baum said. “The little girls have asked where their friends were who helped them out of the car. We want to thank you. You’re part of our family now.”
A GoFundMe set up to help the family with expenses has raised more than $55,000.
The CHP is still investigating the crash. They say neither alcohol nor drugs are believed to have been factors.
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The soundtrack of filmmaker Mohit Suri’s Ek Villain Returns has been grabbing the attention of audience for more reasons than one. Apart from the recreation of the chartbuster love ballad Galliyan, the music album of the upcoming thriller has also been making headlines for the song Shaamat, which marks actor Tara Sutaria’s singing debut in Bollywood. For the unversed, she is formally trained in western classical music and has recorded and performed concerts in different parts of the world.
The rock track, picturised on Sutaria who plays a rockstar in the film, is composed and co-sung by music composer and singer Ankit Tiwari. Ask him about his collaboration with the Student Of The Year (2019) actor and he says, “She’s a very sweet person. We spent a lot of time in the studio and she came across as a person with a very pleasant personality. I never had to give her too many suggestions. She’s someone who had the desire to do well. I think she has a done a great job with Shaamat. She worked very hard on it."
Tiwari believes that music forms a key part of Mohit Suri’s films and it was this factor that provided Sutaria the scope to put her musical chops to good use. “It [getting Tara to sing] was probably Mohit or the production house’s idea. When she was signed for the film, everyone knew that she sings very well. Music is an integral part of Mohit’s films. In Ek Villain (2014) too, there was a scope for Shraddha (Kapoor) to sing Galliyan," says the Sunn Raha Hai (Aashiqui 2; 2013) singer.
The musician shares that recording for Shaamat was a long-drawn process. “We dubbed for the song three times during which we had a lot of creative exchanges," he tells us. Tiwari further elaborates, “After we dubbed for the song the first time, it sounded very western. Tara is used to singing English songs and Shaamat is an out-and-out Bollywood composition. She listened to the song over and over again and then redubbed it. We had to make a few more corrections and then after the third dubbing session, we were very happy with the track."
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Sesame Place Will Undergo ‘Bias Training’ in Wake of Alleged Racist Interaction Between Theme Park Character and Guests
In the wake of accused racism and online backlash following a viral video of Sesame Street character Rosita seemingly ignoring Black children during a parade, Sesame Place Philadelphia will be undergoing "bias training."
In a statement, Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit that runs the Sesame Place theme park, announced the park will be undergoing a "thorough review of the ways in which they engage [with] families and guests."
"As a global nonprofit educational organization with a mission to help children grow smarter, stronger and kinder, Sesame Workshop has always stood for respect, inclusion and belonging and is committed to providing the highest quality engaging experiences for all children and families," they continued.
The viral video of a young Black girl, who was celebrating her birthday in the park, being ignored by the Rosita was originally posted by Instagram user @__jodiii__ before it made its way to Twitter, where it has amassed over 9 million views and thousands of responses expressing outrage.
In a statement shared on Instagram, Sesame Place claimed the "Rosita performer did not intentionally ignore the girls and is devastated about the misunderstanding."
They also claimed the performer was allegedly waving no to other guests who had asked for Rosita to hold their child for a photo, which is not permitted.
"I whole-heartedly feel as though that statement was released to save face," the birthday girl's mother wrote in an Instagram Story in response to the theme park's statement.
In another statement on July 18, Sesame Place wrote, "We know that it's not [okay]. We are taking actions to do better. We are committed to making this right."
Meanwhile, several other videos have since surfaced allegedly showing characters in the park ignoring Black children while acknowledging other kids. Now, it seems the original video was just the tip of the iceberg.
"While we hate to speculate and consider 'race' as the motivating factor, which would explain the performer's actions, such actions both before and after the young girls reached out only leads us to one conclusion," B'Ivory LaMarr, the lawyer representing the family from the viral video, said in a statement to ABC News.
"I also think that a lot of parents, as you can see in the other videos that are now released, have went through a similar thing and just didn't speak up about it right away. So now they have the courage to say, 'Hey, this also happened to my child' ... These are innocent children," Jodi Brown, the girl's mother, added. | https://newstalk1290.com/sesame-place-will-undergo-bias-training/ | 2022-07-21T07:13:39Z | https://newstalk1290.com/sesame-place-will-undergo-bias-training/ | false |
CHANGZHOU, China, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A TrendForce EnergyTrend report for Q2 2022 says 56 cell manufacturers, accounting for about 80% of all cell makers, can now produce 210mm cells, representing a year-on-year growth of 51%. Moreover, 23 module makers have now adopted 600W+ technology.
As the cost of polysilicon keeps growing, the need to increase efficiency, reduce costs and improve IRR on projects has become more pressing than ever. Large and ultra-high power PV products are advancing rapidly because of high power, efficiency, reliability and immense cost benefits. They now account for 80% of capacity and shipments of wafers, cells, and modules, and have thus become the mainstream of the market.
Trend: 23 businesses adopt 600W+ as high-power modules become focus of tenders
TrendForce tender figures show that the ratio of large 182 & 210mm (including 210R) modules being bought and in use has increased significantly. An analysis of the announced 89.4GW of PV module tenders indicates that about 72.2GW (77%) of them have no specific size requirements and merely want power of 530W and above. 17.2GW of tenders have specific module size requirements, of which large (182 & 210mm) variations account for 13.97GW, or 81.2%.
Large high-power modules are becoming mainstream, particularly in ground power stations. Large distributed PV products are also expected to grow rapidly in the thriving market.
Capacity of 210mm wafers rose 172%, with the share of large-sized wafers exceeding 80%
Newly established capacity during the first half of 2022 was mostly compatible with large 182 & 210mm wafers. The TrendForce EnergyTrend survey points to large wafers (182 & 210mm) reaching 422.6GW of capacity this year, a ratio of 83.1%, of which 210mm wafers accounting for 164GW (32.25%), a year-on-year increase of 172% (60.1GW in 2021). Large wafers (182 & 210mm) will have market share of 89.97% by 2023, 210mm accounting for 274.6GW, or 46.35%.
Progress made in wafer thinning has exceeded initial expectations, yielding a sizable reduction in wafer consumption. Businesses faced with stubbornly high prices of raw materials are constantly reducing their use of wafers by rapidly switching from 165μm to 160/155μm, and will continue the move toward 150μm. Wafer consumption is thus expected to drop from 2.7-2.8g/W in 2021 to about 2.6g/W.
80% of businesses can produce 210mm cells under accelerated iteration between old and new capacity
The deployment of large 182 & 210mm (including 210R) cells is steadily falling in line with business' capacity upgrades and iterations, as well as their shift in demand. According to the TrendForce study, the combined capacity of 182 & 210mm (including 210R) is now about 82.5%, while large cells (182 & 210mm) are likely to reach capacity of 593.25GW in 2023, and total capacity of 210mm cells will possibly reach 380.4GW and market share of 57.59%.
Large modules accounted for nearly 80% of shipments in Q1 2022
Major module makers generated combined shipments of 34.31GW in Q1 2022, large modules (182 & 210mm) accounting for about 27.26GW, or 79%. Falling demand for M6 and smaller modules is reflected in a pick-up in the shipment of large modules. Major modules makers are expected to ship a total of 203-230GW throughout 2022, and shipments of 210mm modules (including 210R) will rise rapidly.
210 + N-Type technology has been on the way
As PERC is reaching the cut-off point of efficiency improvement and the cost of materials, transportation and land increases, a further improvement in conversion efficiency, reduction in system costs and acceleration in iteration and upgrades for N-type technology are becoming essential for PV businesses seeking competitive advantage. Thus, 210mm products emerged, and adding up any advanced technology could be possible thanks to the openness and extensive compatibility.
Last month, Trina Solar announced capacity expansion in Xining Plant, focusing on the new N-type and 210 technology, which will enable the company to create increased value for customers as a major supplier of main materials. Module power output will be expected to reach 700W and above with the combination of N-type and 210 technology.
The collocation of large-sized products and advanced technology has opened up additional space for efficiency improvement and cost reduction. 210mm + N-type continue to optimize LCOE. It may also further increase the ratio of PV in renewable energy, and serve the cause of carbon peaking and neutrality goals.
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TOKYO — Since moving to Japan a year ago, I’ve stopped scanning large rooms the moment I enter to mentally devise an escape route in case of a shooting.
So when I saw an alert on my phone on July 8 while on my way to lunch that former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe had collapsed after two loud bangs were heard, my mind struggled to find an explanation. “Surely, it couldn’t have been a shooting,” I thought. “Maybe someone set off fireworks and he had a heart attack.” But then came alerts of bleeding and a gunman.
As I witnessed Japan grapple with the decidedly un-Japanese horror of a gunman’s attack, I realized how much my exposure to gun violence had colored my expectations of a country’s response to a shooting. The muscle memories from U.S. shootings kicked in, but I quickly learned they don’t quite apply on the other end of the spectrum of gun violence — the side where it almost never happens.
A decade ago was the first time I changed my plans because of a shooting. A gunman shot up a Colorado movie theater in 2012 during a midnight screening of the film “The Dark Knight Rises.” I had been looking forward to watching the movie in the theater but decided against it after that.
Later that year, a gunman killed elementary school students in Connecticut. Then a gunman opened fire in a church. A nightclub. A concert. A Walmart. A newsroom. Nowhere seemed safe anymore.
After extensive research, I mentally planned how I might flee a shooting. I have weighed the risks of playing dead and decided against it. I have decided I am neither brave nor strong enough to stop a gunman.
But Japan has one of the world’s lowest homicide rates. When high-profile violent attacks occur, they usually come in the form of stabbings and arson. Strict gun laws make it difficult to own and use a firearm. Ten people were shot in 2021, and eight of them were associated with the yakuza, the Japanese criminal syndicate. One person died in 2021 of a gun wound that was not self-inflicted, according to Japan’s National Police Agency. The same year in the United States, there were 20,957 people whose cause of death was homicide by firearm, according to provisional mortality data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
On top of that, there is a social contract built on the understanding that what you do affects another person, which shapes daily behaviors. Cabdrivers in Tokyo frequently warn me before they make a U-turn. I once saw a man pick up his dog’s poop, then crouch down to spray the area with a cleaner and wipe it down with a paper towel.
It doesn’t mean Japan is totally safe or pleasant, especially for women, girls and people in the LGBTQ community, who face sexual violence, harassment and discrimination. But the culture and low crime rate instill a sense of safety — especially for someone newly arrived from a country with a now-familiar cadence of mass shootings and a rise in violent attacks on Asian Americans.
The day Abe was assassinated, I learned how a country reacts when people are not constantly anticipating a shooting.
When the former leader was taken to the hospital without vital signs, I recalled covering the 2011 assassination attempt of then-Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona, who was shot in the head at a constituent event. Japanese media were using a term that indicated Abe had little chance of survival. But I was hopeful, remembering inaccurate initial reports that Giffords had died.
But Giffords survived after she was treated by a uniquely qualified surgeon who specialized in trauma care, particularly in treating gun wounds. The chances of finding a doctor with such experience at the Nara Medical University Hospital were probably near zero.
Abe was pronounced dead that afternoon, and the hospital scheduled a news conference. In the United States, it would be typical for doctors or medical examiners to detail entry and exit wounds and the bullet’s trajectory.
But at the hospital, officials struggled to describe the cause of Abe’s heart failure. One of the doctors repeatedly said the wound reached the heart, which reporters eventually deciphered was a reference to a bullet hitting a main artery in his heart, leading to massive blood loss. I wondered when the staff there had last encountered a bullet wound, and how difficult that moment must have been for them, under the pressure of the national spotlight.
In the United States, there is usually a rush to find out whether active shooter protocols were followed, which inevitably turns into a debate over gun rights and control. But because the suspect in Abe’s killing used a homemade gun, there weren’t questions about proper permits. It was clear he was an outlier in a country where there are about 192,000 licensed firearms, or one for every 651 people.
In Japan, security around politicians is relaxed because of the relative safety. Events are often held in public spaces with minimal barriers. A day before his death, Abe had attended a campaign event where he made his way through a crowd, fist-bumping and taking selfies with constituents.
Nara police admitted there were security lapses, a focus of their investigation. But what are the appropriate active shooter prevention protocols in a country where such a threat is nearly nonexistent?
In America, news outlets are often criticized for moving on too quickly or triaging coverage because there are so many shootings. Last year, a few days after I landed in Atlanta to cover the aftermath of a gunman’s attack on Asian-owned spas, the news cycle moved on to a supermarket shooting in Colorado.
While Japanese mainstream media was quick to move on the next day out of concerns that coverage of Abe’s shooting at a political rally may influence the upcoming election, there has been extensive coverage since about the shooter’s motives. More than a week later, there is still social media chatter about the collective shock.
The day after the attack, as I watched Prime Minister Fumio Kishida deliver a speech at a political rally while barricaded from constituents, I wondered whether the precautions would last. An act by a lone gunman with a personal grudge does not necessarily portend a rise in gun violence in Japan. I wondered if I would feel less safe here; although I have lost my instinct to search for an exit, I haven’t forgotten what it’s like to live in a country where anywhere could be unsafe at any time.
A week after the shooting, I took a stroll through Shibuya Scramble, one of Tokyo’s most crowded shopping areas. In perhaps a sign of Japan’s enduring perception of safety, it didn’t even cross my mind to scan for a potential attacker.
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Tokyo Olympic aftermath still being untangled a year later
By STEPHEN WADE
AP Sports Writer
TOKYO (AP) — The Tokyo Olympics survived the COVID-19 postponement, soaring expenses and some public opposition. A year later, the costs and benefits remain as difficult to untangle as the Games were to pull off.
In his speech at the closing ceremony, IOC President Thomas Bach said a major accomplishment of the Games was simply reaching the end.
“We did it,” Bach said. “We did it together,” he repeated, crediting the athletes, Japanese government officials, and deep-pocketed broadcasters for refashioning the Games despite no fans, disappointed sponsors, and no buzz around the city.
Organizers said the Games would drive tourism, showcase Japan’s technological prowess, and create memories similar to the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. The pandemic erased that.
Japan’s goal after the postponement was to get through it, mindful that Beijing was holding the Winter Olympics in China just six months after Tokyo’s close. For the International Olympic Committee, it was a priority to get the Games on television and keep big sponsors — the sources of 90% of IOC income — happy.
“I think what the Games meant more than anything else was simply not having to deal with a cancellation,” David Leheny, a political scientist at Japan’s Waseda University, told The Associated Press. “There were no public health disasters associated with it. I do think officials would like to have run a victory lap — if the public had been more enthusiastic about it.”
“If Japan had cancelled,” Leheny added, “there would have been a lot of discussion, particularly in the conservative media, about what it meant that we couldn’t pull it off.”
As a final act before legally dissolving the organizing committee on June 30, President Seiko Hashimoto and CEO Toshiro Muto said the price tag for the Tokyo Games was $13 billion — almost 60% public money. This was twice the estimated cost when the IOC awarded Tokyo the Games, but less than the $25 billion some predicted.
How to judge? Legacy or costly hangover? Is there success to celebrate, or is it simply rejoicing over not having failed?
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government, on the hook for $5.4 billion in Games expenses, has campaigned to persuade the public that a half-dozen new venues have post-Games uses. Typical is a reopening ceremony next week at the canoe-slalom venue, featuring a paddling parade for elementary-school students.
A center dedicated to the LGBTQ community was championed during the Games, and the Paralympics pushed Tokyo to improve accessibility around town.
The city government is holding a 1-year anniversary event Saturday at the $1.4 billion National Stadium to mark the date of the opening ceremony. Athletes, high school and junior high school marching bands, and cheerleaders are to appear.
Tokyo was initially billed as the “Recovery Olympics,” but this got little play after the delay. Government officials promised before the postponement that the Games would focus attention on an area of northeastern Japan devastated in 2011 by an earthquake, tsunami, and the meltdown of three nuclear reactors.
Japan’s Kyodo news agency published a survey of 4,000 people, compiled by a government agency, that showed only 29.8% said they were grateful for government reconstruction support. Many in the region believe the Olympics sapped resources from recovery efforts.
“I almost get the impression that the Olympics have come to that very quiet period where people don’t want to talk about it or even think about it,” Aki Tonami, a political economist at Japan’s University of Tsukuba, told AP. “Any analysis of what the Olympics meant is still in the symbolic phase. We don’t really have the capacity or the bandwidth to really dig down for a more long-lasting meaning.”
Kyodo has also reported this week that an executive board member of the organizing committee received $326,000 from a Games sponsor. As a quasi-civil servant, Kyodo said he was not allowed to receive such payments.
The board member, Haruyuki Takahashi, is a former director at Japanese advertising agency Dentsu, Inc, which helped land $3 billion in local sponsorship for the Tokyo Games.
Amid uncertainty, there is one clear legacy. Despite scandals, bloated costs, and lukewarm public support, Japan is pursuing the 2030 Winter Olympics for Sapporo. And it’s trying to use the Tokyo Games to drive the bid.
Sapporo places the price tag at $2.6 billion, likely an underestimate since Tokyo expenses were at least twice the initial estimate. And it’s impossible to estimate accurately eight years in advance.
“We’re already working toward that,” Seiko Hashimoto, the head of the Tokyo Games, said last month. “The significance of the Tokyo Games should be communicated thoroughly, otherwise the people in Sapporo and Hokkaido will not support this initiative.”
Sapporo is believed to be the front-running candidate competing with Vancouver and Salt Lake City. Salt Lake officials have suggested they may focus on 2034. The IOC is expected to name the host in May 2023 and IOC President Bach, in an interview with Kyodo, seemed to rule out awarding 2030 and 2034 at the same time.
Neither of the three cities requires citizens to approve the bid in a public referendum, which have consistently been rejected when tied to funding the Olympics.
“Previously, there was no question about whether it was the right thing to do to bring the Olympics to Japan,” Tonami said. “But I think what’s different now is that people are starting to ask if it’s really the right thing to do.”
Barbara Holthus, the deputy director of the German Institute for Japanese Studies in Tokyo, worked as a volunteer during the Olympics and got a feel for the street.
“People were so upset that (IOC president) Thomas Bach pushed the Olympics down everybody’s throat without consideration for Japanese sentiments,” she said. “And now they want to it again without asking the people of Sapporo, which they would have to do in Germany.”
Holthus, who grew up in Hamburg, Germany, pointed out that in 2015, local voters there turned down a referendum to hold the 2024 Olympics in the northern German city. Like Holthus, IOC President Bach is also a German.
Working as an Olympic volunteer, Holthus said she saw other volunteers decline to wear their uniforms on public transportation as they traveled to the venue during the pandemic. She said volunteers were told to wear the uniforms because there was no provision for storing street clothing at venues, but some didn’t want to be identified with Games.
She said it was different recently when volunteers gathered to clean some Tokyo beaches.
“My colleagues last year, lots of them didn’t want to be seen in their neighborhood with the uniform on. People were thinking, maybe you’ll bring the virus back to the office or into the neighborhood. But at the recent event we were asked to wear our uniform. Of course, not everybody did, but some did — and they were really proud now to wear it. So I think this bad taste of the uniform now is kind of gone.”
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STOCKHOLM, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "Strong prices and terms, together with high, stable production at our mines and zinc smelters, resulted in a record quarter for the Group despite high cost-push inflation. During the period, extensive maintenance was also carried out at the copper smelters," says Mikael Staffas, President and CEO.
The operating profit in Boliden Mines increased to SEK 2,727 m (2,192). The improvement is mainly due to a stronger USD. Lower grades were fully compensated by a higher milled volume. At the same time, costs increased due to a higher milled volume and strong cost-push inflation. Milled volumes from Aitik, Garpenberg, Tara and Kevitsa were higher than last year. Milled volumes were lower than last year in the Boliden Area, but higher grades had a positive effect. Compared to the previous quarter, metals in concentrate were higher for all main metals.
In Boliden Smelters, operating profit excluding revaluation of process inventory increased to SEK 1,404 m (789). Prices and terms had a significant positive effect, mainly thanks to a stronger USD. However, volumes had a negative effect due to more extensive maintenance measures, while higher prices for energy and consumables led to higher costs. Production in Rönnskär and Harjavalta was lower than last year due to extensive planned maintenance shutdowns. Zinc production was higher than last year in both Kokkola and Odda.
The expansion in Odda is proceeding according to the previously announced schedule. However, because of generally high cost-push inflation, the total investment is now estimated at EUR 850 m, compared to the EUR 700 m previously announced.
For further information, please contact:
Klas Nilsson, Director Group Communications, phone: +46 70-453 65 88, klas.nilsson@boliden.com
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Finnish forestry company UPM misses earnings expectations
HELSINKI, July 21 (Reuters) - Finnish forestry company UPM on Thursday reported second-quarter earnings short of analyst expectations as it recovered from industrial action, adding that it remains on track to exceed last year's annual profit.
UPM's Finnish pulp and paper plants were out of action for the first four months of the year because of a strike by workers opposed to the company's plans to switch to separate labour agreements for each of its businesses.
"This was a great achievement, taking into account that during the first half we only had one month of normal full production," Chief Executive Jussi Pesonen said in a statement.
The company also said it had been able to raise prices to offset higher costs.
UPM's April-June comparable operating profit rose 26% to 387 million euros ($395 million), short of the 400 million euros expected in a Refinitiv poll of seven analysts.
Shares in the company were down 2% in early trade. ($1 = 0.9799 euros)
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BERLIN (AP) — Natural gas started flowing through a major pipeline from Russia to Europe on Thursday after a 10-day shutdown for maintenance, the operator said. But the gas flow was expected to fall well short of full capacity.
The Nord Stream 1 pipeline to Germany had been closed since July 11 for annual maintenance work. Amid growing tensions over Russia’s war in Ukraine, German officials had feared that the pipeline — the country’s main source of Russian gas, which has accounted for around a third of Germany’s gas supplies — might not reopen at all.
Operator Nord Stream AG said that gas started flowing again Thursday morning but the flow would take a while to ramp up, German news agency dpa reported.
Deliveries were expected to fall well below the pipeline’s full capacity. Nord Stream said a similar amount of gas was expected to that seen before maintenance. The head of Germany’s network regulator, Klaus Mueller, said on Twitter that Russia’s Gazprom had notified deliveries Thursday of only about 30% of the pipeline’s capacity.
In mid-June, Russia’s state-owned Gazprom cut the flow to 40% of capacity. It cited alleged technical problems involving equipment that partner Siemens Energy sent to Canada for overhaul and couldn’t be returned because of sanctions imposed over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The Canadian government earlier this month gave permission for the turbine that powers a compressor station at the Russian end of the pipeline to be delivered to Germany.
The German government has rejected Gazprom’s technical explanation for the gas reduction, charging repeatedly that it was a pretext for a political decision to sow uncertainty and further push up energy prices. It has said that the turbine was a replacement that was only supposed to be installed in September, but that it’s doing everything to deprive Russia of the pretext to reduce supplies.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that Gazprom still hadn’t received the relevant documents for the turbine’s return — a claim repeated Wednesday by Gazprom. Putin said that Gazprom was to shut another turbine for repairs in late July, and if the one that was sent to Canada wasn’t returned by then the flow of gas would ebb even more.
The head of the European Union’s executive Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said on Wednesday that the turbine was “in transit” and there was “no pretext not to deliver” gas.
The Commission proposed that member countries cut their gas use by 15% over the coming months as the bloc braces for a possible full Russian cutoff of gas supplies.
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By HANNAH FINGERHUT
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — A majority of Americans say Congress should pass a law guaranteeing access to legal abortion nationwide, according to a new poll that finds over half say they feel at least somewhat “sad” or “angry” about the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
The high court’s decision asserted that abortion is not a constitutional right and handed states the authority to severely restrict or ban abortion. The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll shows many Americans back some restrictions on abortion, especially after the first trimester, but the most extreme measures introduced in some Republican-led states are at odds with the public — and with many of the people who live in them.
Faith Murphy, a 41-year-old in Coshocton, Ohio, said she was “quite upset” that the court overruled Roe and wants to see abortion access federally protected. While she’s voted across the aisle, Murphy considers herself a Republican and doesn’t want to see Republican leaders in her state and others push for restrictions.
“I don’t trust who we have in government here in Ohio … to keep women’s rights or the right to an abortion for any reason whatsoever intact,” Murphy said.
Polling ahead of the June 24 decision suggested that overturning Roe would be unpopular with a majority of Americans who wanted to see the court uphold the 50-year precedent. The new poll, roughly three weeks after the decision, finds 53% of U.S. adults say they disapprove of the court’s decision, while 30% say they approve. An additional 16% say they neither approve nor disapprove.
Sixty percent think Congress should pass a law guaranteeing access to legal abortion nationwide. The House last Friday voted to restore abortion rights in the U.S., though the bill will likely stall in the Senate.
Overwhelming majorities also think their state should generally allow abortion in specific cases, including if the health of the pregnant person is endangered or if the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest. Few think abortion should always be illegal, and most Americans support their state generally allowing abortion six weeks into the pregnancy.
Those patterns persist even in the 23 states in which laws banning or tightening access to abortion have taken effect, will soon take effect or are being debated in court.
Blake Jones thinks six weeks “is far too early to be able to make a decision like that,” and while he personally doesn’t approve of abortion, the 28-year-old Democrat in Athens, Georgia, said he’s pro-choice because he doesn’t believe “that my views should affect other people.”
Jones said he thinks the point of viability is more appropriate for restrictions on abortion, but even then, there should be exceptions if the pregnant person’s health is at risk or the baby would be born with a severe health issue.
Views about abortion at the 15-week mark are muddled. The poll shows Americans in states that have deepened restrictions on abortion are closely divided over abortion at 15 weeks into a pregnancy. That compares with about 6 in 10 Americans in other states saying abortion should be allowed at that point. That gap is similar on allowing abortion for “any reason.”
Support dwindles across the board at 24 weeks into the pregnancy, with only about a third saying their state should generally allow for that.
While only about a third approve of the Supreme Court’s decision, the poll finds about half of Americans think states should be responsible for establishing abortion laws.
Jeffrey Bouchelle agreed with the court because “it should’ve been a states’ rights issue in the first place.” The 57-year-old Republican in Farmers Branch, Texas, believes abortion is wrong, but as a state issue. Bouchelle accepted some states may allow abortion if that’s what the majority prefers.
“There should be access to abortion,” he said. “I just don’t think it should be in Texas.”
Overall, about a third of U.S. adults say they feel at least somewhat proud, relieved or excited about the court’s decision, a reflection that the decades-long effort to overturn Roe resonates with a sizable segment of the population.
“I’m happy with it,” Tammy Rardain said about the court’s decision. The 54-year-old Republican in Logan, Ohio, said her views on abortion are defined by her Christian faith. She wants to see a ban on abortion in Ohio at any point in the pregnancy.
More Americans — 55% — say they feel at least somewhat angry or sad about the decision, including about 4 in 10 who feel so strongly. Half say they feel at least somewhat anxious or hopeless — a sign that Democrats may struggle to turn feelings of anger into motivation to turn out to vote in this year’s midterm elections.
“I was really disappointed, and I felt as though our judicial system had failed us all,” said 41-year-old Democrat Candice Lampkin. “I truly believe that they’re infringing upon our civil rights and liberties.”
The Chicago resident said she wants abortion to be a federally protected right and is concerned about what health care, like birth control, might be targeted next. She hopes the issue will be top of mind for voters this fall.
“We have to do more during election season and make sure we hold our politicians accountable,” she said.
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The poll of 1,085 adults was conducted July 14-17 using a sample drawn from NORC’s probability-based AmeriSpeak Panel, which is designed to be representative of the U.S. population. The margin of sampling error for all respondents is plus or minus 3.9 percentage points.
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WFO BUFFALO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, July 21, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Buffalo NY
342 AM EDT Thu Jul 21 2022
...Strong thunderstorms will impact portions of Lewis and
northeastern Oswego Counties through 515 AM EDT...
At 342 AM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from 6 miles southeast of Barnes Corners to near
Camden. Movement was east at 30 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.
Locations impacted include...
Lowville, Redfield, Highmarket, Whetstone Gulf State Park, Denmark,
New Bremen, Watson, Martinsburg, Williamstown, Lyonsdale, Greig,
Copenhagen, Port Leyden, Croghan, Lyons Falls, Castorland,
Constableville, Turin, Osceola and West Leyden.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with these storms.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.
LAT...LON 4342 7554 4348 7581 4334 7588 4332 7592
4369 7583 4369 7577 4379 7579 4379 7580
4385 7579 4408 7517 4361 7511
TIME...MOT...LOC 0742Z 250DEG 25KT 4377 7571 4333 7581
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
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By BETH HARRIS
AP Sports Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Olympic swimming champion Katie Ledecky won best athlete in women’s sports at The ESPYS on Wednesday night.
NBA Finals MVP Stephen Curry hosted the show honoring the year’s top athletes and moments. He picked up a trophy, too, for best record-breaking performance, having set the mark for most 3-pointers made in league history.
“The reason I wanted to host is I thought I’d be able to present myself with the award,” Curry joked.
Ledecky earned two golds and two silvers at the Tokyo Games last year, giving her 10 career Olympic medals. She received her trophy from Maybelle Blair, the 95-year-old who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.
“I represent one of the few sports that is also a really important life skill, so I want to encourage all the parents here, anyone watching, to make sure your kids learn how to swim,” Ledecky said. “Our planet is 70% water, so it’s very important.”
Former heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko was honored with the Arthur Ashe Award for Courage, having impacted the world beyond sports. Klitschko, mayor of embattled Kyiv, Ukraine, since 2014, wasn’t present. He appeared in a pre-taped video.
Billie Jean King led off a tribute to the 50th anniversary of Title IX, the federal legislation that prohibits sex-based discrimination in schools that receive government funding.
She was joined by Lisa Leslie, Brandi Chastain, Chloe Kim, Allyson Felix, Aly Raisman and Megan Rapinoe, among others. They spoke against a background of black-and-white photos showing women athletes in action, on the field or in the streets advocating for gender equality. Their comments were interspersed with country singer Mickey Guyton performing her songs “What Are You Gonna Tell Her?” and “Remember Her Name.”
The ESPYS were criticized by South Carolina women’s basketball coach Dawn Staley for not inviting consensus player of the year Aliyah Boston to the show. Boston had hoped to attend and was disappointed not to be asked. She was issued a last-minute invitation but declined it.
ESPN said COVID-19 concerns and a smaller venue forced organizers to prioritize invitees to the show. Boston was nominated in a non-televised category that was handed out a night earlier. She lost to Oklahoma softball star Jocelyn Alo, who took part in the Title IX tribute.
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Anushka Sharma takes us inside her makeup room in Paris, gives a glimpse of her hair being done; WATCH
Anushka Sharma looks cute getting her hair done from her room in Paris.
All eyes are on Anushka Sharma as she is back in action again. After a hiatus of almost 4 years, the actress is all geared up to return to the screens with her sports biopic film Chakda Xpress. Ever since the film has been announced fans have been waiting with bated breaths to watch the diva on the big screen. Well, after wrapping up the schedule here in India, Anushka took a break with her hubby Virat Kohli and daughter Vamika. The actress is currently in Paris and today she shared pictures and videos from her makeup room and gave us all a glimpse of her makeup being done.
Taking to her Instagram stories, Anushka Sharma shared a video of her from her makeup room. Anushka is sitting in front of the mirror and can be seen shooting the video from her mobile camera. The PK actress can be seen wearing a black tee as her hair is being done by one of her team members. She then gives a glimpse of the perfect rainy view outside her room too as soothing music plays in the background.
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Coming back to her upcoming movie, Anushka Sharma has wrapped the first schedule of Chakda Xpress. Anushka shared a photo wherein she was seen holding a cricket ball in her hand and it had a message written on it that read, “It’s a schedule wrap”. Anushka captioned the post as, “SCHEDULE ONE DONE. More to follow.. #ChakdaXpress."
The actress will soon be heading to UK to continue the shoot of Chakda Xpress. As per earlier reports, Anushka and the crew are expected to fly to the UK this month for an extensive schedule. Directed by Prosit Roy, Chakda Xpress is slated to release on Netflix in 2023.
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Teenager, 17, held after sheep and lambs run over and killed
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A teenage boy has been arrested in connection with the deaths of sheep and lambs deliberately run over in a field.
The 14 sheep and lambs were struck down by a vehicle in a field near Shaftesbury in Dorset on Sunday night or Monday morning.
Dorset Police said the 17-year-old from the Verwood area was held on suspicion of inflicting unnecessary suffering to a wild mammal and criminal damage.
He has since been released under investigation.
Anyone with information is urged to contact the force.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence is becoming increasingly brazen in his willingness to counter former President Donald Trump.
The two will hold dueling events in Arizona on Friday as they stump for rival candidates who offer dramatically different visions of the Republican Party in a critical battleground state. Days later, they will once again cross paths as they deliver major speeches on the same day in Washington, D.C.
The encounters mark a more confrontational phase in the fraught relationship between the former running mates and once close confidantes who could soon find themselves competing against one another in the 2024 GOP presidential primary if they both ultimately choose to run.
“I think this is a continuation of the larger message that Pence is trying to embody here, which is the Republican Party should look to the future,” said Scott Jennings, a longtime party strategist. “This is going to be the existential question for the Republican Party: Are we going to listen to a slightly different view than Donald Trump’s? Right now, the standard-bearer for this is Mike Pence.”
That description marks a striking turnaround for Pence, who spent his four years in the White House as Trump’s most loyal defender. But Trump turned on his vice president when Pence refused to go along with his unconstitutional efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, putting Pence in the crosshairs of a violent mob on Jan. 6.
Now Pence, who has repeatedly defended his actions that day, is taking a more active effort to shape the future of the party. This week, Pence endorsed Karrin Taylor Robson in Arizona’s Republican gubernatorial primary, pitting himself against Trump, who has endorsed Kari Lake, a former newscaster who has embraced Trump’s election lies.
“As Arizona Democrats pursue the reckless Biden-Harris agenda, Karrin Taylor Robson is the only candidate for Governor that will keep Arizona’s border secure and streets safe, empower parents and create great schools, and promote conservative values,” Pence said in a statement announcing his decision.
Pence backed Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, a top Trump target who easily defeated the former president’s hand-picked challenger this spring. But Pence’s Arizona move showed a willingness to weigh in on a closer and open race in alliance with the state’s outgoing GOP governor, Doug Ducey, who also rebuffed Trump’s efforts to overturn the election.
Pence is planning to campaign with Robson in Phoenix and southern Arizona Friday — the same day that Trump is set to headline a rally for Lake in Prescott Valley that was rescheduled after the death of his first wife, Ivana Trump. Matt Benson, a Robson campaign spokesman, said Pence would be attending an event at a local employer as well as a briefing on border security while in the state.
A Trump spokesperson did not respond to requests for comment on the events.
Trump and Pence will again cross paths next week as the former president returns to the nation’s capital for the first time since leaving the White House. Pence will address the conservative Heritage Foundation on Monday evening and will speak at the Young America’s Foundation’s annual National Conservative Student Conference on Tuesday morning. That afternoon, Trump will headline a two-day summit organized by the America First Policy Institute and deliver what organizers said would be a policy-focused speech.
Pence, too, will use his speech before the Heritage Foundation to highlight the policy agenda he released earlier this year and to talk about the future of the party, according to aides. The remarks are expected to offer an implicit contrast with Trump, who has spent much of his energy since leaving office on relitigating the 2020 election.
Pence has urged Republicans to move on, even as he continues to tout the accomplishments of what he often describes as the Trump-Pence administration during his frequent appearances.
Pence also huddled privately Wednesday with the House’s Republican Study Committee, the traditionally conservative caucus he once led as a member of Congress, to discuss his policy agenda. During the meeting, Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, thanked Pence for his actions on Jan. 6, according to a person familiar with the exchange who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe the closed-door meeting. Pence also committed to helping the GOP in the midterms and in 2024, though he did not explicitly say what role he intends to play.
He then headed to South Carolina for a speech at a Baptist church in South Carolina to discuss “the post-Roe world” after the Supreme Court overturned constitutional protections for abortions — a position he has long advocated.
Pence’s efforts come as Trump is preparing to launch a third campaign for the White House as soon as this summer while he faces a flurry of investigations into his efforts to cling to power. That includes the House Jan. 6 committee, which on Thursday will hold another prime-time hearing, this time spotlighting Trump’s refusal to call off the angry mob that stormed the Capitol and sent Pence and other lawmakers into hiding.
While polls show Trump remains the overwhelming favorite in a hypothetical GOP primary, Marc Short, Pence’s former chief of staff and a top adviser, argued that even if Trump does announce a run, that doesn’t necessarily mean he’ll be on the ballot two years from now.
“As the committee winds down, I’m sure he’s looking for a reset that brings attention back on him. And an announcement does not necessarily mean a commitment at the end of that process to continue forward,” said Short. “I don’t think there’s any doubt that the president enjoys being the center of attention. And the announcement puts even additional media focus on him.”
Trump, meanwhile, has continued to slam Pence for refusing to go along with his scheme to remain in power. At a gathering of Evangelical Christians in Nashville, Tennessee, last month, Trump again said Pence “did not have the courage to act,” drawing applause.
When it comes to a potential race, Trump does not see Pence as a threat, according to allies, who are much more consumed with Ron DeSantis. The Florida governor is increasingly seen by conservatives as a natural and younger successor to Trump’s MAGA movement who can channel the same anger, but with less baggage.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday predicted Trump will face competition in 2024 if he enters the race.
“I think we’re going to have a crowded field for president,” he told reporters.
Asked if Pence should run, Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, a frequent Trump critic, said it’s up to Pence, who has said he’ll make a decision after the midterms. “The more the merrier,” Romney said.
Jennings, meanwhile, praised Pence for being willing to stand up to Trump when so many others in the party still refuse to cross him.
“What Mike Pence is doing is extremely valuable. And whether he is a viable candidate for president, I don’t know. But he’s certainly earned the right to make the case for a post-Trump future,” said Jennings.
“He may end up being John the Baptist to someone else,” he added. “Headless but remembered well.”
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When it's hot and sticky in the summer, consider it a sign that the universe is giving you an excuse to eat more ice cream. You can get instant gratification by grabbing a cone at your local scoop shop, but why not take the time to make your favorite flavor at home?
"It seems intimidating but it's really quite easy," said Jackie Cuscuna, founder of Brooklyn, New York ice cream shop The Social. Making homemade ice cream "seems like something more like alchemy. You're taking a liquid and turning it into a delectable frozen solid," she added.
This alchemy can be accomplished by any home cook, regardless of skill level. All you need are a few basic ingredients and a little imagination. Here's how to turn your kitchen into a full-scale ice cream laboratory.
First things first: You'll need an ice cream maker to churn your frozen concoctions. But you don't need to dip into your savings to get one that does the job well. "It's absolutely 100% OK to start off with a basic model -- any one will do," Cuscuna said.
The most affordable models use a bowl that needs to be pre-frozen before use, which does take up space in the freezer and requires advance planning. However, if that additional time and forethought makes sense from a cost perspective, these models are reliable and long-running. Compressor models are more expensive (and heavier) but don't require any advance freezing.
(If you're wondering what this food writer uses for her homemade ice cream, after 15 years of developing and testing recipes using a basic freezer bowl model, I switched to a compressor in 2020.)
For a challenge, you can make ice cream without electricity. Though they don't use it for the large-scale batches sold at The Social, when her family is making ice cream for fun, "we prefer to do the old school method with a hand crank ice cream churner with ice and rock salt," Cuscuna said. If you're looking for something to keep the kids busy at the beach house or lake cabin, it may be fun to stash one of these manual models there.
You don't need to use eggs
Many ice cream recipes use an egg custard base to give the finished ice cream its thick, smooth texture. "Eggs are an emulsifier," Cuscuna explained, containing both proteins and fats that help maintain the consistency of ice cream as it churns and air bubbles are whipped into the creamy base.
To start with a traditional egg-based custard, churn up a rich vanilla ice cream. Make it your own by customizing it with classic mix-ins or try new combinations like Rice Krispie Treat ice cream.
If you don't want to use eggs in your ice cream base, "you need to add something else that's going to allow it to be as creamy as it can be," Cuscuna said. Philadelphia-style ice cream, so-called because it was allegedly developed by Benjamin Franklin during the sweltering summer of 1787 to cool down his fellow Constitutional Convention delegates, uses heavy cream, milk and sugar as its base. The fats in the heavy cream help emulsify this mixture, though it can have more of a soft serve consistency than egg-based ice creams.
Other ingredients can also take the place of eggs to stabilize and emulsify the ice cream. Portland, Oregon-based ice creamery Salt & Straw uses xanthan gum, light corn syrup and dry milk powder in its eggless ice cream base, while the Jeni's Splendid Ice Cream base uses cream cheese, light corn syrup and cornstarch. For a chocolatey eggless ice cream, make some Philadelphia-style Rocky Road ice cream, which uses cocoa powder to thicken and smooth the ice cream base.
Or try The Social's method for giving their ice cream bases, all of which are egg-free, more thickness and body. "We puree the mix-ins that we're using, like brownies or ooey gooey butter cake," into the ice cream base, Cuscuna explained. Blending ingredients like cakes and cookies into the base gives it "a thicker, creamier, more resonant flavor," she said.
No-churn and no-dairy ice cream? No problem!
With so many high-quality plant- and nut-based dairy replacements now on the market, making vegan ice cream at home is much easier than it was a decade ago. Coconut milk, almond milk or cashew milk are some of the most popular swap-ins for getting that rich and creamy ice cream taste without dairy. This salted bourbon caramel ice cream uses cashews and coconut milk.
No-churn ice cream might seem like a recent trend, especially if you spend enough time on Pinterest, but the idea has been around for more than a century. The traditional Italian dessert semifreddo, for example, is made by blending whipped cream with eggs and freezing the mixture to a mousse-like consistency.
Some modern recipes ditch the eggs for sweetened condensed milk, which has a similar gooey structure to sugar-thickened egg yolks, and which can be flavored any which way under the sun. For dairy-free no-churn ice cream, full-fat coconut milk mimics the structure of heavy cream incredibly well for a thick, smooth finished product.
Where to begin?
With so many options, it's hard to decide what flavor of ice cream to make first. (I'm going with my all-time favorite: lemon crisp ice cream.)
Whatever you decide to churn, "it's never going to be bad," Cuscuna said. Experimenting with homemade ice cream is "more about the combination of flavors that are going to speak to you and resonate to that childlike sense you have," she added.
Casey Barberis a food writer, illustrator and photographer; author of "Pierogi Love: New Takes on an Old-World Comfort Food" and "Classic Snacks Made From Scratch: 70 Homemade Versions of Your Favorite Brand-Name Treats"; and editor of the websiteGood. Food. Stories.
Grilling gives these shrimp tostadas a boost of smoky flavor, and skewering the shrimp prevents them from falling through the grates while getting even char on each side.
Popcorn salad is a star at picnics and barbecues all across the Midwest. Undeniably curious in both title and texture, popcorn salad is a surprisingly delicious retro side dish whose satisfying crunch will keep you going back for more.
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Tesla sell 75% of bitcoin holding as China shutdown hits production
Tesla missed Wall Street’s sales expectations last night after China’s stringent Covid-19 restrictions knocked production as the company also revealed it has sold 75 per cent of its bitcoin holdings.
Profits at the electric carmaker were higher than anticipated, however, after price increases on some of its bestselling cars partially offset the impact of manufacturing disruption in Shanghai.
The company outlined plans for a robust recovery in the coming months, telling shareholders it was “focused on a record-breaking second half of 2022”.
Having disclosed a $1.5 billion investment in bitcoin last February, Tesla has now converted most of it back into traditional cash. The company raised $936 million by reducing its interest during the second quarter as the world’s largest cryptocurrency fell sharply.
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WASHINGTON — More than a dozen states are sending out checks to millions of people this year, hoping to provide some extra cash to consumers as inflation drives up prices on everyday items across the board.
Many states are able to send these checks because of excess revenue in their budgets. Many of the payments are officially called tax rebate checks.
The checks draw some parallels to the trio of federal stimulus checks provided to Americans by the federal government during the first two years of the coronavirus pandemic. Those checks were an attempt to help workers being kept out of their workplaces by stay-at-home measures — as well as a nationwide attempt to prevent the economy from stalling.
But this latest round of payments are coming from state governments, meaning they won't be as widespread as the last ones, and could vary in how much residents in each state are given.
However, more states appear to be embracing the cash-back plan in 2022. As of July, at least 16 states have stimulus checks that have either passed the legislature or are in the process of approving those checks.
California
About 23 million California residents will receive Inflation Relief checks of up to $1,050 under a budget deal signed by Governor Gavin Newsom in late June. Under the plan, the vast majority of Californians would receive some form of relief, from as little as $200 to as much as $1,050, depending on income level and the size of your household.
Georgia
Gov. Brian Kemp signed into law a bill to send payments to Georgians out of a state budget surplus of more than $2 billion. The Georgia payments come in three varying amounts, depending on how each household files taxes: Single tax filers or married taxpayers filing separately: $250; Head of household filers: $375; Married joint filers: $500
Maine
Maine sent out $850 relief checks to an estimated 858,000 recipients who had a federal adjusted gross income of less than $100,000 if filing single or if married and filing separately, $150,000 if filing as head of household or $200,000 for couples filing jointly.
New Mexico
New Mexico is providing multiple rebates for taxpayers in 2022, according to the state Department of Taxation and Revenue.
Colorado
In Colorado, taxpayers will receive rebates of $750 for individual filers and $1,500 for joint filers in summer 2022.
Hawaii
Hawaii is also providing refunds to its taxpayers and their dependents, Gov. David Ige’s office said. The state’s Department of Taxation anticipates that it will begin processing the refunds in late August 2022.
Single taxpayers who earn less than $100,000 per year and couples who earn less than $200,000 per year will receive $300, and single taxpayers and couples who earn more will receive $100.
Idaho
The state began sending tax rebates of $75 per taxpayer and dependent, or 12% of their income tax amount – whichever is greater – beginning in March 2022.
Illinois
Illinois is giving out one-time individual income and property tax rebates to people who meet certain requirements in 2022.
Single taxpayers will receive a $50 income tax rebate, while couples will get a $100 rebate. Families will also receive a rebate amount of up to $300 per dependents – or $100 per dependent, with a maximum of three.
New Jersey
New Jersey began mailing Middle Class Tax Rebates to eligible residents on July 2. Those who filed a 2020 income tax return and claimed at least one dependent child with a tax balance of $1 or more qualify for the tax rebate.
The rebate amount is equal to the tax paid after credits, up to a maximum amount of $500. Tax rebates will be issued as a paper check, separate from the income tax refund.
Indiana
Indiana has slowly been distributing $125-per-taxpayer payments due under an automatic refund law triggered by last year’s large surplus that was boosted by federal COVID-19 relief funding. Legislators are considering GOP Gov. Eric Holcomb’s plan for a second round of refund payments from the state government's budget surplus.
Virginia
Virginia lawmakers approved a one-time tax rebate of $250 per single taxpayer and $500 for a couple filing jointly.
Tax rebates won’t be issued until late September 2022, the state Department of Taxation said. Those who are eligible and filed their taxes before July 1 will “likely” receive their rebate in September or October.
Delaware
Delaware is sending one-time direct payments of $300 per adult resident – or $600 for married couples – to help people as they face “higher prices at the grocery store and gas pump,” the state Department of Finance said.
Massachusetts
Massachusetts has issued $500 payments to hundreds of thousands of low-income workers. The first round of payments, sent out in March 2022, went to around 480,000 people and a second round of payments went to an estimated 330,000 individuals in June.
New York
In June, New York began mailing out a homeowner tax rebate credit, which was a one-year program initiated to provide property tax relief to homeowners in 2022. The checks were originally planned to be sent out in the fall of 2022, but the state sent them out early.
South Carolina
South Carolina residents will get a one-time tax rebate of up to around $800 by the end of 2022.
Florida
Around 59,000 Florida families are receiving a one-time payment of $450 per child as part of the governor's new budget, spokeswoman Christina Pushaw explains in a tweet. The one-time payments are going out to 59,000 eligible Florida families. Foster families, adoptive families, and single parents are eligible for the payments, Casey DeSantis said during a visit last week in Tampa.
Eligibility for a tax rebate check varies by state.
Minnesota's governor has proposed sending $2,000 checks to all joint income tax filers who earn up to $273,470 per year, and single filers who make up to $164,000 annually. But the plan has yet to be approved by the state legislature.
Will there be a fourth federal stimulus check?
As of July 2022, the federal government doesn't appear to have any plans to send a fourth stimulus check to all U.S. residents. The Biden administration has not made an appeal to Congress about a fourth stimulus payment, but legislative gridlock as the 2022 midterms approach all but assures any such proposal would be dead on arrival.
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Semiconductor group ASMI posts record orders despite supply chain woes
Revenue increased 30% year on year to 559.5 million euros ($570.13 million) in the three months to June 30, at the higher end of its guided range of 540 million to 570 million euros. New orders reached 942.7 million euros, a 73% increase year on year.
Dutch semiconductor supplier ASM International on Wednesday flagged new orders at a record high as it published results in line with its forecast, despite lingering supply-chain issues.
Revenue increased 30% year on year to 559.5 million euros ($570.13 million) in the three months to June 30, at the higher end of its guided range of 540 million to 570 million euros. New orders reached 942.7 million euros, a 73% increase year on year.
ASMI has so far this year managed to navigate the ongoing difficult market environment marked by supply chain issues, thanks to robust logic/foundry demand and increased investment.
The firm, which counts Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) and Intel among its customers, forecasts third quarter revenue at 570 to 600 million euros.
"Assuming some improvement in the supply situation towards the end of the year, we expect revenue in Q4 to be higher than in Q3," it added.
The group, which makes equipment used to deposit atom-thin layers of material on computer chips during the manufacturing process, said supply chain conditions had improved at a slower pace than previously projected and were expected to remain challenging in the third quarter.
Dutch rival ASML Holding also on Wednesday beat forecasts and reported record new bookings in the second quarter, although it unexpectedly cut its 2022 outlook on an increasing number of shipment delays due to the supply-chain disruptions.
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Daily Covid cases are close to their highest level since the start of the pandemic, according to the ZOE app.
The app, which has been used to collect data on Covid throughout the pandemic, says there are currently about 335,000 new infections across the UK every day.
Cases are now starting to plateau but remain at very high levels.
ZOE data shows infections have roughly tripled since the start of June.
The increase in cases has been driven by the rapid spread of the new Omicron sub-variants BA.4 and BA.5, which are much better at evading immunity built up from vaccination and prior infection than their predecessor BA.2.
With cases so high, here’s what you need to know about Covid infection, the current isolation guidance, and how to get a test.
When are you most infectious with Covid?
For previous variants of Covid-19, such as Alpha and Delta, the World Health Organisation said symptoms could begin to develop anywhere between two days and two weeks after infection.
However, the incubation period for Omicron and its offshoots is much shorter – between three and five days.
People are at their most infectious one to two days before the onset of symptoms, and during the two to three days afterwards.
Chicago Department of Public Health commissioner Dr Allison Arwady told NBC: “As we’ve seen these new variants develop – Delta, now Omicron – what we’re seeing is everything gets sped up.
“It is taking less time from when someone is exposed to Covid to potentially develop infection. It is taking less time to develop symptoms, it is taking less time that someone may be infectious and it is, for many people, taking less time to recover. A lot of that is because many more people are vaccinated.”
Health Secretary Sajid Javid said in December, after Omicron emerged: “Recent analysis from the UK Health Security Agency suggests that the window between infection and infectiousness may be shorter for the Omicron variant than the Delta variant.”
Data shows that the majority of people are no longer infectious seven days after beginning to experience symptoms or first testing positive, particularly when vaccinated, and the vast majority are no longer infectious after 10 days.
Covid symptoms
The NHS lists the following as official Covid-19 symptoms:
- High temperature or shivering (chills) – a high temperature means you feel hot to touch on your chest or back (you do not need to measure your temperature)
- New, continuous cough – this means coughing a lot for more than an hour, or three or more coughing episodes in 24 hours
- Loss or change to your sense of smell or taste
- Shortness of breath
- Feeling tired or exhausted
- Aching body
- Headache
- Sore throat
- Blocked or runny nose
- Loss of appetite
- Diarrhoea
- Feeling sick or being sick
How long does Covid typically last?
Most people with Covid-19 will feel better within a few days, with symptoms typically not lingering for more than a couple of weeks.
People who have been triple-vaccinated are less likely to experience severe symptoms, and may also recover quicker.
However, some people will experience what is known as long Covid. The NHS says the chances of having long-term symptoms does not seem to be linked to how ill you are when you first get the virus.
Symptoms of long Covid include:
- Extreme tiredness (fatigue)
- Shortness of breath
- Chest pain or tightness
- Problems with memory and concentration (“brain fog”)
- Difficulty sleeping (insomnia)
- Heart palpitations
- Dizziness
- Pins and needles
- Joint pain
- Depression and anxiety
- Tinnitus, earaches
- Feeling sick, diarrhoea, stomach aches, loss of appetite
- A high temperature, cough, headaches, sore throat, changes to sense of smell or taste
- Rashes
Contact a GP if you continue to experience symptoms several weeks after first testing positive for Covid-19.
What should I do if I test positive for Covid?
The Covid advice differs depending on where you live in the UK.
England
Self-isolation is no longer a legal requirement in England, but the NHS advises that people infected with Covid-19 “should stay at home and avoid contact with other people” to help reduce the spread of the virus.
In particular, you should avoid being in close contact with people at higher risk from coronavirus, for example if they are elderly or have a weakened immune system, even if they have had the vaccine.
Infected people should try to work from home if they can.
“If you are unable to work from home, talk to your employer about options available to you,” Government advice states.
Positive cases should try to stay at home and avoid contact with other people for five days after the day of their test.
Scotland
The Scottish Government recommends following the advice on NHS Inform.
If you test positive, you should stay at home and avoid contact with other people for five days after the day you took your test, or from the day your symptoms started (whichever was earlier).
If you have not tested positive, you should try to stay home until you feel better.
It is also recommended you take the following steps to keep others safe:
- Work from home if you can. If you can’t work from home, talk to your employer about your options
- Avoid close contact with anyone who is at higher risk, especially individuals with a weakened immune system, for 10 days
- If you’ve been asked to attend a medical or dental appointment in person, tell them about your symptoms
- You may wish to ask friends, family or neighbours to get food and other essentials for you
Wales
Wales is continuing to offer free lateral flow tests to people who have symptoms. You can order them here.
If you display Covid symptoms, you should self-isolate and order a test. Continue to self-isolate until you get your result.
Should the test be negative, you can leave isolation immediately.
If you test positive, you are advised to isolate for five full days, starting from the day after you took the test, and then take another test.
Should that test be negative, take another test the following day. If that test is also negative you can leave isolation.
If either test is positive continue isolating until you receive negative tests two days in a row, or until day 10, whichever is sooner.
Northern Ireland
The Northern Ireland Government advises people to isolate immediately if they have Covid symptoms or have tested positive.
If you display Covid symptoms, you should self-isolate and order a test. Continue to self-isolate until you get your result.
If the test is negative you can leave isolation immediately.
If you test positive you are advised to isolate for five full days, starting from the day after you took the test, and then take another test.
If that test is negative, take another test the following day. If that test is also negative you can leave isolation.
If either test is positive, continue isolating until you receive negative tests two days in a row, or until day 10, whichever is sooner.
How can I get a Covid test?
The Government is no longer providing free lateral flow tests to the general population. You must buy them yourself.
There is a list of government-approved providers from which it is recommended you buy tests. You can find the list here.
These providers have all self-declared against the Government’s minimum standards. However, you do not have to buy a test from one of these providers, and some providers who have completed the self-declaration have opted not to be published on the government list.
Approved tests are readily available from local pharmacies, as well major high-street pharmacies such as Boots, Superdrug, and Lloyds Pharmacy.
It is also possible to buy them from some supermarkets and corner shops.
Boots is selling single lateral flow testing kits for £2. A pack of two Flowflex tests costs £3.95, four costs £7.90, five costs £9.80 and you can get a 25-pack for £49.
Lloyds is selling single tests for £1.89, or a pack of 10 costs £9.29.
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Russian soldiers are put 'on a direct path to a body bag' with only FIVE DAYS' training for recruits and some sent to Ukraine without knowing how to use a machine gun
- Russia's Defence Ministry website states that anyone who signs a contract with the Russian army must first undergo four-weeks of combined arms training
- But one soldier has said he was given just five days, with some of his comrades reaching the front lines in Ukraine not knowing how to use a machine gun
- The report is the latest sign of Russia's increasing desperation in its invasion
- Ukraine's fierce resistance has taken the Kremlin by surprise, with some estimates putting Russian losses above 30,000 - with morale reportedly low
Russian soldiers are being put 'on a direct path to a body bag,' a military analyst has said, with one soldier claiming he was given just five days of training before being sent to fight on the frontlines in Ukraine.
The soldier, named only as Ivan to protect his identity, said in some cases his comrades were being shipped off to fight without even knowing how to use a machine gun, according to The Moscow Times.
The report is the latest sign of Russia's increasing desperation to crush Ukraine's fierce resistance that has taken the Kremlin by surprise, with some estimates suggesting President Vladimir Putin has seen more than 30,000 of his troops killed.
When the invasion began on February 24, Moscow brazenly believed its forces would sweep to victory and depose Kyiv's government in a matter of days. Instead, Russia has been dragged into a protracted and costly conflict, with no end in sight.
Independent military analyst Pavel Luzin offered a damning assessment of Russia's military when told of Ivan's claim that he was given less than a week of training.
'A week [of training] is nothing — for a soldier, it is a direct path to a hospital or a body bag,' Luzin told The Moscow Times on Thursday.
Pictured: A Russian soldier, part of a demining team, is seen in Mariupol on July 13. Russian soldiers are being put 'on a direct path to a body bag,' a military analyst said, with one soldier claiming he was given just five days of training before being sent to fight on the frontlines
Russia's Defence Ministry website states that anyone who signs a contract with the Russian army must first undergo four-weeks of combined arms training.
In total, the programme takes 240 hours and includes survival training, shooting, grenade throwing and the study of military tactics.
Furthermore, under Russian law, conscripts cannot be sent into combat unless they have at least four months training.
Luzin told the newspaper that the same standards should be applied to those who sign a contract with the Russian military to fight in Ukraine.
However, the provision of minimal training to new recruits appears to be increasingly common in Russia's army, and will likely compound Russia's problems with mobilization, a lack of manpower, and morale.
Ivan, 31, who in April signed a three-month contract with the Defense Ministry, described the five-day training he received as 'intense'.
'When the special military operation started — although in fact, it is a war — I took it as a personal tragedy,' Ivan told the Moscow Times. 'I told myself that I wanted to go there and no one would stop me. I'm a patriot.'
He was quickly transferred to a military base in the western Russian of Belgorod, and within two weeks, he was on the frontlines in Ukraine.
'After all the medical check-ups, they asked me if I was ready to go to the military base the day after tomorrow,' he said. 'They trained us for five days, we waited for another five days for a force rotation and then we went to [our] positions.'
The five days of training he received came while Ivan and his fellow soldiers were waiting to be deployed. He said they undertook informal training exercises.
He said they were training from 10am to 7pm, practicing combat skills, storming buildings and 'all-round defence'. He said the training differed for each soldier, focusing on the different skills needed for their specific positions.
'Of course, it was not enough,' he told the newspaper. 'There was a soldier in our company who didn't know how a machine gun works. So I taught that guy how to disassemble and assemble a machine gun.
'I wouldn't want to be next to him in battle. How can you fight like that?' he added.
Pictured: A grab from a video showing a mass funeral for 58 Russian servicemen last week, held in the village of Vidnoye. The men were killed in the fighting for Luhansk
Other soldiers have shared similar accounts. One anonymous soldier told the BBC's Russian news service last month that he was 'shocked' at the lack of training.
'Some have not properly held a machine gun in their hands, have never seen real tanks in person, and they're leaving for the frontline in a couple of days,' he said.
A 24-year-old Russian soldier, Yevgeny Chubarin, was killed in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv after just four days of being transferred to the Belgorod military base.
A lack of knowledge of combat and limited training means soldiers are less likely to survive in a war zone, human rights activists have said.
Sergei Krivenko, the director of human rights group Citizen. Army. Law., said it appeared the proper training standards were not being met.
Krivenko, whose organisation provides legal assistance to Russian soldiers, said he had often been contacted by parents of soldiers who had signed a contract and 'ended up in Ukraine just a week later'.
The accounts paint a picture of a Russian army that is trying to bolster its numbers in its fight to push further into Ukrainian territory. However, reports have continued to circulate about low morale among Putin's forces.
The Moscow Times also reported that contract soldiers who are refusing to fight are not being allowed to return home by their commanders, and are being threatened and intimidated to get them back on to the battlefield.
The newspaper said servicemen in Russia's 11th Guards Air Assault Brigade handed in their resignations earlier this month, but their request was met with resistance.
Vladimir Budaev, co-founder of an anti-war organisation, said 78 fighters from the Brigade handed in their resignations. But after military officials intervened with intimidation tactics, this number was whittled down.
The mother of one of the soldiers said that after refusing to accept the resignations, the commanders of the brigade sent some of the men to a special detention facility in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian city of Luhansk.
Pictured: A cat looks at a Ukrainian tank that was destroyed during Russian attacks, in Hostomel, Ukraine, 19 July 2022
Pictured: A destroyed Russian tank T-72 is seen in a field near the village of Budy, in Chernihiv region, Ukraine July 5, 2022
But while cracks appear in the Russian army, the pressure Moscow's forces are putting on Ukraine's defenders is also taking its toll.
The Ukrainian military has reported indiscriminate, heavy and sometimes fatal Russian shelling amid what its says were largely failed attempts by Russian ground forces to advance in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions that make up the Donbas
'In the Luhansk region, there is probably not a single square metre of land left untouched by Russian artillery,' Serhiy Gaidai, the regional governor, said on the Telegram messaning app.
'Shelling is very intense. They stop only when the metal 'gets tired'.'
But in the previous 24 hours alone, Ukrainian forces said they had killed more than 100 Russian soldiers in the south and east and destroyed 17 vehicles, some of them armoured.
The Russian-installed administration in the partially occupied Ukrainian region of Zaporizhzhia said Ukraine had conducted a drone strike on a nuclear power station there, but the reactor was not damaged.
Multiple blasts were also heard in the Russian-controlled southern region of Kherson overnight and into Thursday, Russian news agency TASS reported.
Reuters could not independently verify the reports.
Russian President Vladimir Putin (pictured on July 20) ordered the Feb. 24 invasion while denying that Russia intended to occupy its neighbour. The war has now lasted for almost five months, with no signs of it coming to an end
Russia's invasion has killed thousands, displaced millions and flattened cities, particularly in Russian-speaking areas in the east and southeast of Ukraine.
It has also raised global energy and food prices and increased fears of famine in poorer countries as Ukraine and Russia are both major grain producers.
The United States estimates that Russian casualties in Ukraine so far have reached around 15,000 killed and perhaps 45,000 wounded, CIA Director William Burns said on Wednesday. Other estimates have put Russian fatalities over 30,000.
In a BBC television interview broadcast Sunday, the head of Britain's armed forces, Admiral Tony Radakin, estimated as many as 50,000 Russian soldiers had been killed or wounded in the invasion, with nearly 1,700 Russian tanks and some 4,000 armoured fighting vehicles destroyed.
Russia classifies military deaths as state secrets even in times of peace and has not updated its official casualty figures frequently during the war.
The US, which had said on Tuesday that it saw signs Russia was preparing to formally annex territory it has seized in Ukraine, promised that it would oppose annexation.
'Again, we've been clear that annexation by force would be a gross violation of the UN Charter, and we would not allow it to go unchallenged. We would not allow it to go unpunished,' State Department spokesperson Ned Price said at a regular daily briefing on Wednesday.
Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 and supports Russian-speaking breakaway entities - the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR) - in those provinces, together known as the Donbas.
Visitors watch military vehicles destroyed or burned, displayed as part of an outdoor exhibition of destroyed Russian military equipment close to the Church of Three Saints in the centre of the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, on July 20, 2022 amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Lavrov is the most senior figure to speak openly of Russia's war goals in territorial terms, nearly five months after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the Feb. 24 invasion while denying that Russia intended to occupy its neighbour.
Then, Putin said his aim was to demilitarise and 'denazify' Ukraine - a statement dismissed by Kyiv and the West as a pretext for an imperial-style war of expansion.
Lavrov told RIA Novosti that geographical realities had changed since Russian and Ukrainian negotiators held peace talks in Turkey in late March that failed to produce any breakthrough.
'Now the geography is different, it's far from being just the DPR and LPR, it's also Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions and a number of other territories,' he said, referring to territories well beyond the Donbas that Russian forces have wholly or partly seized.
Meanwhile, a Ukrainian counter-offensive in the direction of encircled Black Sea ports has been gaining momentum.
With the delivery of long-range precision artillery to Ukraine by its Western allies, the battlefield dynamics in the south - and in the east - have shifted, say Kyiv and observers of the conflict.
Those weapons are a key concern for Russia, and Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu during a recent troop inspection said Moscow's forces had to set about neutralising systems such as US-supplied Himars.
'Shoigu gave orders to prioritise the destruction - with high-precision weapons - of enemy artillery and long-range missiles,' the Russian defence ministry said.
With more than 20 weeks since the invasion began, Moscow said over the weekend it would step up its military operations. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11034705/Russian-soldiers-direct-path-body-bag-recruits-given-FIVE-DAYS-training.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-07-21T09:17:58Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11034705/Russian-soldiers-direct-path-body-bag-recruits-given-FIVE-DAYS-training.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true |
Turkey rejects claims of attack on civilians in Iraq's Dohuk
ANKARA, July 21 (Reuters) - Turkey has not carried out any attacks targeting civilians in Iraq's Dohuk province, where a strike killed eight and wounded 23, and Iraqi authorities must not fall for this "trap", Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Thursday.
Turkey on Wednesday rejected claims by Iraqi officials and state media that it had carried out an attack on a mountain resort in the northern Dohuk province.
Iraq summoned Ankara's ambassador to Baghdad over the attack and its state agency said the government will call back its charge d'affaires in Ankara.
Cavusoglu told state broadcaster TRT Haber the Turkish military operations in Iraq have always been against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), saying the attack on Dohuk was also carried out by what he called terrorists.
Turkey regularly carries out air strikes in northern Iraq and has sent commandos to support its offensives as part of a long-running campaign in Iraq and Syria against militants of the Kurdish PKK and the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia. Ankara regards both as terrorist groups.
Cavusoglu said reports blaming Turkey for the attack were attempts by the PKK to hinder Ankara's counter-terrorism.
"The whole world knows we would never carry out an attack on civilians," Cavusoglu said, adding the Turkish military had told his ministry that no such attack was carried out by Turkey.
"Following this attack, which we believe the (PKK) terrorist organisation carried out, we are ready to hold talks with Iraqi officials. We can cooperate for the curtain of fog to be lifted. Until that is lifted, it is not right to blame Turkey," he said.
The PKK took up arms against the Turkish state in 1984. More than 40,000 people have been killed in the conflict, which in the past was mainly focussed in southeast Turkey, where the PKK sought to create an ethnic homeland.
Dozens of Iraqis gathered on Wednesday outside the Turkish embassy in Baghdad to protest the attack. The top United Nations envoy to Iraq also condemned it and called for an investigation.
Cavusoglu said that while there were protests outside the embassy and other Turkish offices, there were no reports of damage or injuries. (Reporting by Tuvan Gumrukcu and Ece Toksabay; Editing by William Mallard) | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-11034981/Turkey-rejects-claims-attack-civilians-Iraqs-Dohuk.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-07-21T09:24:32Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-11034981/Turkey-rejects-claims-attack-civilians-Iraqs-Dohuk.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false |
Sterling hits two-week low vs euro on worsening risk appetite
By Samuel Indyk
LONDON, July 21 (Reuters) - The British pound slid against both the dollar and the euro on Thursday amid worsening risk appetite ahead of the European Central Bank rate decision and amid political turmoil in Italy.
The resumption of gas flows from the Nord Stream 1 pipeline had provided some relief but the tone soured after Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi handed in his resignation for the second time in a week.
On the domestic front, pound traders were watching the race to replace Boris Johnson as British Prime Minister, with former finance minister Rishi Sunak and foreign secretary Liz Truss making it through to the last round of the contest to become Conservative Party leader.
But analysts said price action in the pound was being affected by the market's appetite for risk.
"GBP price action looks like a function of the broader risk environment, which is currently taking cues from developments in Europe," said Simon Harvey, head of FX Analysis at Monex Europe.
Against the euro, the pound dropped 0.4%, matching a two-week low of 85.40 pence hit on Wednesday.
Sterling also dropped 0.4% against the dollar to $1.19275 but remained above the 28-month low hit last week.
Meanwhile, a surge in debt costs pushed up by soaring inflation to twice their previous monthly peak added to Britain's budget deficit in June, which was its highest since April 2021, data showed on Thursday.
(Reporting by Samuel Indyk; Editing by Edmund Klamann) | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-11035041/Sterling-hits-two-week-low-vs-euro-worsening-risk-appetite.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-07-21T09:25:41Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-11035041/Sterling-hits-two-week-low-vs-euro-worsening-risk-appetite.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true |
CA San Joaquin Valley - Hanford CA Zone Forecast for Wednesday, July 20, 2022
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.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...Clear. Lows 62 to 71. Highs
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.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 64 to 70. Northwest winds 10 to
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.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 61 to 66. Northwest winds 10 to
15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 99 to 104. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 58 to 63. Northwest winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 96 to 101. Northwest winds around 10 mph
in the morning becoming light and variable in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...Clear. Lows 59 to 65. Highs
98 to 103.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 61 to 66.
Highs 96 to 102.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Livingston 101 62 100 / 0 0 0
Merced 103 64 103 / 0 0 0
Chowchilla 103 62 102 / 0 0 0
Madera 103 64 103 / 0 0 0
Firebaugh 103 63 101 / 0 0 0
Mendota 104 64 103 / 0 0 0
=
$$
CAZ303-211000-
Planada - Le Grand - Snelling-
148 AM PDT Thu Jul 21 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 11 PM PDT THIS
EVENING...
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 101 to 106. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 64 to 69. Northwest winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 100 to 105. Northwest winds 10 to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 60 to 66. Northwest winds
10 to 20 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 97 to 102. Northwest winds up to 10 mph
in the morning becoming light and variable in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...Clear. Lows 61 to 68. Highs
99 to 104.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 62 to 68.
Highs 96 to 102.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Planada 103 66 103 / 0 0 0
Le Grand 103 65 101 / 0 0 0
=
$$
CAZ304-211000-
Coalinga - Avenal-
148 AM PDT Thu Jul 21 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 11 PM PDT THIS
EVENING...
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 103 to 108. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 69 to 74. North winds 10 to 20 mph
in the evening shifting to the southwest 10 to 15 mph after
midnight.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 103 to 108. Southeast winds up to 10 mph
in the morning shifting to the north around 10 mph in the
afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 68 to 73. Northwest winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 100 to 105. Light winds.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...Clear. Lows 66 to 72. Highs
98 to 104.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 66 to 71.
Highs 97 to 102.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Coalinga 106 71 106 / 0 0 0
Avenal 105 73 104 / 0 0 0
=
$$
CAZ305-211000-
West Side of Fresno and Kings Counties-
148 AM PDT Thu Jul 21 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 11 PM PDT THIS
EVENING...
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 103 to 108. Light winds in the morning
becoming north 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 65 to 71. Northwest winds 10 to
15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 102 to 107. Light winds in the morning
becoming north 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 63 to 69. Northwest winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 100 to 105. Light winds.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...Clear. Lows 63 to 70. Highs
99 to 105.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 65 to 70.
Highs 98 to 104.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Huron 105 67 104 / 0 0 0
Five Points 106 66 105 / 0 0 0
NAS Lemoore 105 66 104 / 0 0 0
Kettleman City 107 71 106 / 0 0 0
=
$$
CAZ306-211000-
Caruthers - San Joaquin - Selma-
148 AM PDT Thu Jul 21 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 11 PM PDT THIS
EVENING...
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 102 to 107. Light winds in the morning
becoming northwest 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 62 to 67. Northwest winds 10 to
15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 101 to 106. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 60 to 65. Northwest winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 99 to 104. Northwest winds up to 10 mph
in the morning becoming light and variable in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...Clear. Lows 61 to 67. Highs
99 to 105.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 62 to 67.
Highs 98 to 103.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Selma 105 68 105 / 0 0 0
Kingsburg 105 65 105 / 0 0 0
Sanger 105 66 104 / 0 0 0
Kerman 104 63 103 / 0 0 0
Caruthers 105 65 104 / 0 0 0
=
$$
CAZ307-211000-
Fresno-Clovis-
148 AM PDT Thu Jul 21 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 11 PM PDT THIS
EVENING...
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 103 to 108. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 66 to 72. Northwest winds 10 to
15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 102 to 107. West winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 64 to 70. Northwest winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 100 to 105. Northwest winds up to 10 mph
in the morning becoming light and variable in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...Clear. Lows 64 to 71. Highs
100 to 106.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 65 to 71.
Highs 99 to 104.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Clovis 105 71 104 / 0 0 0
Fresno 105 71 104 / 0 0 0
=
$$
CAZ308-211000-
West Side Mountains South of 198-
148 AM PDT Thu Jul 21 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 103 to 108. Southeast winds up to 10 mph in
the morning shifting to the northeast in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 71 to 76. Northwest winds 10 to
15 mph in the evening shifting to the southwest after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 102 to 107. Southeast winds up to 10 mph
in the morning shifting to the north in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 70 to 75. Northwest winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 100 to 105. Light winds.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...Clear. Lows 67 to 73. Highs
98 to 104.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 67 to 72.
Highs 97 to 102.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Livingston 101 62 100 / 0 0 0
Merced 103 64 103 / 0 0 0
Chowchilla 103 62 102 / 0 0 0
Madera 103 64 103 / 0 0 0
=
$$
CAZ309-211000-
Buttonwillow - Lost Hills - I5-
148 AM PDT Thu Jul 21 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 11 PM PDT THIS
EVENING...
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 103 to 108. Light winds in the morning
becoming north up to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 68 to 73. Northwest winds 10 to
15 mph in the evening shifting to the south after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 102 to 107. Light winds in the morning
becoming north up to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 67 to 72. Northwest winds up
to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 100 to 105. Light winds.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...Clear. Lows 66 to 71. Highs
100 to 106.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 66 to
71. Highs 98 to 103.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 98 to 103.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Lost Hills 105 69 105 / 0 0 0
Buttonwillow 105 72 104 / 0 0 0
=
$$
CAZ310-211000-
Delano-Wasco-Shafter-
148 AM PDT Thu Jul 21 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 11 PM PDT THIS
EVENING...
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 101 to 106. Light winds in the morning
becoming north around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 66 to 71. North winds 10 to 15 mph
in the evening becoming light and variable after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 101 to 106. Light winds in the morning
becoming northwest up to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 65 to 70. Northwest winds up
to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 99 to 104. Light winds.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...Clear. Lows 65 to 70. Highs
99 to 105.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 65 to
71. Highs 98 to 103.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 96 to 101.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Alpaugh 103 67 102 / 0 0 0
Allensworth 105 68 104 / 0 0 0
Wasco 104 68 103 / 0 0 0
Delano 103 70 103 / 0 0 0
McFarland 104 69 103 / 0 0 0
Shafter 105 70 103 / 0 0 0
=
$$
CAZ311-211000-
Hanford - Corcoran - Lemoore-
148 AM PDT Thu Jul 21 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 11 PM PDT THIS
EVENING...
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 101 to 106. Light winds in the morning
becoming northwest up to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 64 to 69. Northwest winds 10 to
15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 100 to 105. West winds up to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 62 to 67. Northwest winds up
to 10 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 98 to 103. Light winds.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...Clear. Lows 62 to 68. Highs
99 to 104.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 63 to 69.
Highs 97 to 102.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Lemoore 105 67 104 / 0 0 0
Hanford 105 66 104 / 0 0 0
Corcoran 105 68 104 / 0 0 0
=
$$
CAZ312-211000-
Visalia - Porterville - Reedley-
148 AM PDT Thu Jul 21 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 11 PM PDT THIS
EVENING...
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 101 to 106. Light winds in the morning
becoming west 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 64 to 70. West winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 100 to 105. West winds up to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 63 to 69. Northwest winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 98 to 103. Light winds.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...Clear. Lows 63 to 70. Highs
99 to 105.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 64 to
70. Highs 97 to 102.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 96 to 101.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Reedley 105 66 103 / 0 0 0
Dinuba 104 65 103 / 0 0 0
Visalia 103 65 102 / 0 0 0
Exeter 104 67 103 / 0 0 0
Tulare 104 69 103 / 0 0 0
Lindsay 103 68 102 / 0 0 0
Porterville 103 71 102 / 0 0 0
=
$$
CAZ313-211000-
Buena Vista-
148 AM PDT Thu Jul 21 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 11 PM PDT THIS
EVENING...
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 102 to 107. Light winds in the morning
becoming northeast up to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 73 to 78. North winds up to 10 mph
in the evening shifting to the southwest after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 101 to 106. Southeast winds up to 10 mph
in the morning shifting to the north in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 71 to 76. Northwest winds up
to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 100 to 105. Light winds.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 71 to 76.
Highs 100 to 105.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 98 to 104.
Lows 70 to 75.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 97 to 102.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Taft 103 77 102 / 0 0 0
=
$$
CAZ314-211000-
Bakersfield-
148 AM PDT Thu Jul 21 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 11 PM PDT THIS
EVENING...
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 101 to 106. South winds up to 10 mph in the
morning shifting to the northwest in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 68 to 76. Northwest winds 10 to
15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 100 to 105. North winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 67 to 75. Northwest winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 99 to 104. Light winds in the morning
becoming northwest around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 68 to 76.
Highs 101 to 106.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 99 to 104.
Lows 68 to 76.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 97 to 102.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Bakersfield 103 74 103 / 0 0 0
=
$$
CAZ315-211000-
Southeast San Joaquin Valley-
148 AM PDT Thu Jul 21 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 11 PM PDT THIS
EVENING...
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 100 to 105. Light winds in the morning
becoming northwest 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 68 to 74. Northwest winds 10 to
15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 99 to 104. North winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 66 to 72. Northwest winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 98 to 103. Light winds in the morning
becoming northwest around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 67 to 74.
Highs 99 to 104.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 97 to 103.
Lows 67 to 73.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 95 to 100.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Richgrove 103 69 102 / 0 0 0
=
$$
CAZ316-211000-
South End San Joaquin Valley-
148 AM PDT Thu Jul 21 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 11 PM PDT THIS
EVENING...
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 99 to 105. West winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 71 to 77. Northwest winds 10 to
15 mph in the evening shifting to the southwest after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 98 to 103. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 70 to 76. West winds 10 to
15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 98 to 104. Light winds in the morning
becoming northwest around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 70 to 77.
Highs 99 to 104.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 98 to 103.
Lows 70 to 76.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 95 to 100.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Arvin 104 73 103 / 0 0 0
Lamont 104 72 103 / 0 0 0
Mettler 102 74 100 / 0 0 0
=
$$
CAZ317-211000-
Mariposa Madera Foothills-
148 AM PDT Thu Jul 21 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 11 PM PDT THIS
EVENING...
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 98 to 104. West winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 68 to 74. Northwest winds 10 to
20 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 97 to 103. West winds 10 to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 65 to 71. Northwest winds
10 to 20 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 95 to 101. Light winds.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...Clear. Lows 66 to 73. Highs
96 to 102.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 66 to 73.
Highs 93 to 101.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Mariposa 97 70 96 / 0 0 0
=
$$
CAZ318-211000-
Mariposa-Madera Lower Sierra-
148 AM PDT Thu Jul 21 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 90 to 100.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 63 to 73.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 89 to 99.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 62 to 72.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 87 to 97.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...Clear. Lows 62 to 72. Highs
88 to 98.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 62 to 72.
Highs 86 to 96.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Oakhurst 100 62 100 / 0 0 0
Bass Lake 95 63 94 / 0 0 0
=
$$
CAZ319-211000-
Fresno-Tulare Foothills-
148 AM PDT Thu Jul 21 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 11 PM PDT THIS
EVENING...
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 97 to 105.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 69 to 75.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 96 to 104.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 68 to 74.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 96 to 102.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...Clear. Lows 69 to 75. Highs
96 to 103.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 68 to
75. Highs 95 to 101.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 94 to 100.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Millerton Lake 104 69 103 / 0 0 0
Three Rivers 104 72 103 / 0 0 0
Springville 97 69 96 / 0 0 0
Tule River Reservation 100 76 100 / 0 0 0
=
$$
CAZ320-211000-
Fresno-Tulare Lower Sierra-
148 AM PDT Thu Jul 21 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 89 to 99.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 67 to 77.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 88 to 98.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 66 to 76.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 87 to 97.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...Clear. Lows 66 to 76. Highs
88 to 98.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 65 to
75. Highs 85 to 95.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 84 to 94.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Auberry 99 75 98 / 0 0 0
=
$$
CAZ321-211000-
South End Sierra Foothills-
148 AM PDT Thu Jul 21 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 11 PM PDT THIS
EVENING...
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 98 to 103.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 71 to 76.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 96 to 101.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 70 to 75.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 96 to 101.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 71 to 77.
Highs 97 to 102.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 95 to 101.
Lows 70 to 76.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 93 to 98.
=
$$
CAZ322-211000-
South End of the Lower Sierra-
148 AM PDT Thu Jul 21 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 87 to 97.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 66 to 74.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 86 to 96.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 65 to 73.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 85 to 95.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 65 to 74.
Highs 87 to 97.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 85 to 95.
Lows 64 to 73.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 83 to 93.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Camp Nelson 87 63 87 / 0 0 0
=
$$
CAZ323-211000-
Yosemite NP outside of the valley-
148 AM PDT Thu Jul 21 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 87 to 92 at 5000 feet...73 to 81 at
8000 feet.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 61 to 71 at 5000 feet...51 to 61 at
8000 feet.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 86 to 91 at 5000 feet...73 to 81 at
8000 feet.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 60 to 70 at 5000 feet...49 to
59 at 8000 feet.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 84 to 90 at 5000 feet...71 to 79 at
8000 feet.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...Clear. Lows 59 to 69 at
5000 feet...49 to 59 at 8000 feet. Highs 85 to 91 at 5000 feet...
72 to 80 at 8000 feet.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 59 to 69 at
5000 feet...49 to 59 at 8000 feet. Highs 83 to 89 at 5000 feet...
70 to 79 at 8000 feet.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Tuolumne Meadows 79 45 79 / 0 0 0
Wawona 94 63 94 / 0 0 0
Hetch Hetchy 97 68 95 / 0 0 0
=
$$
CAZ324-211000-
Yosemite Valley-
148 AM PDT Thu Jul 21 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 88 to 98. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 63 to 73. Northwest winds up to
10 mph in the evening shifting to the northeast after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 87 to 97. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 61 to 71. West winds up to
10 mph in the evening shifting to the east after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 85 to 95. Light winds in the morning
becoming southwest around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...Clear. Lows 60 to 70. Highs
86 to 96.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 60 to 70.
Highs 85 to 95.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Yosemite 102 60 102 / 0 0 0
=
$$
CAZ325-211000-
San Joaquin River Canyon-
148 AM PDT Thu Jul 21 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 86 to 96. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 64 to 74. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph in the evening shifting to the north after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 85 to 95. Southwest winds 10 to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 62 to 72. Southwest winds
10 to 15 mph in the evening becoming light and variable after
midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 83 to 93. Light winds in the morning
becoming southwest around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...Clear. Lows 62 to 72. Highs
84 to 94.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 62 to 72.
Highs 82 to 92.
=
$$
CAZ326-211000-
Upper San Joaquin River-
148 AM PDT Thu Jul 21 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 70 to 80.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 51 to 61.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 70 to 80.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 49 to 59.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 69 to 79.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...Clear. Lows 48 to 58. Highs
69 to 79.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 48 to
58. Highs 68 to 78.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Slight chance of thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs 66 to 76.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Devils Postpile 79 58 80 / 0 0 0
=
$$
CAZ327-211000-
Kaiser to Rodgers Ridge-
148 AM PDT Thu Jul 21 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 82 to 89 at 5000 feet...74 to 80 at
8000 feet.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 66 to 73 at 5000 feet...53 to 61 at
8000 feet.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 82 to 88 at 5000 feet...74 to 80 at
8000 feet.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 64 to 72 at 5000 feet...51 to
59 at 8000 feet.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 81 to 86 at 5000 feet...73 to 79 at
8000 feet.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...Clear. Lows 63 to 72 at
5000 feet...50 to 59 at 8000 feet. Highs 81 to 88 at 5000 feet...
73 to 79 at 8000 feet.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 63 to
71 at 5000 feet...50 to 59 at 8000 feet. Highs 80 to 85 at
5000 feet...71 to 77 at 8000 feet.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Slight chance of thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs 78 to 85 at 5000 feet...70 to 76 at 8000 feet.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Huntington Lake 79 58 78 / 0 0 0
Shaver Lake 83 61 83 / 0 0 0
Lake Wishon 80 61 80 / 0 0 0
=
$$
CAZ328-211000-
Kings Canyon NP-
148 AM PDT Thu Jul 21 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs around 90 at 5000 feet...74 to 84 at
8000 feet.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 66 at 5000 feet...54 to
61 at 8000 feet.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs around 90 at 5000 feet...75 to 84 at
8000 feet.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 64 at 5000 feet...52 to
59 at 8000 feet.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs around 89 at 5000 feet...73 to 83 at
8000 feet.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...Clear. Lows 61 to 66 at
5000 feet...52 to 59 at 8000 feet. Highs 86 to 91 at 5000 feet...
73 to 83 at 8000 feet.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows around 63 at
5000 feet...51 to 58 at 8000 feet. Highs around 87 at 5000 feet...
72 to 80 at 8000 feet.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 63 at 5000 feet...
51 to 58 at 8000 feet.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Slight chance of thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs around 85 at 5000 feet...70 to 78 at 8000 feet.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Cedar Grove 96 63 96 / 0 0 0
=
$$
CAZ329-211000-
Grant Grove Area-
148 AM PDT Thu Jul 21 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 85 to 90 at 5000 feet...73 to 78 at
8000 feet.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 69 to 74 at 5000 feet...53 to 62 at
8000 feet.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 85 to 90 at 5000 feet...73 to 78 at
8000 feet.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 67 to 72 at 5000 feet...53 to
60 at 8000 feet.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 84 to 89 at 5000 feet...71 to 77 at
8000 feet.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...Clear. Lows 66 to 71 at
5000 feet...51 to 60 at 8000 feet. Highs 84 to 90 at 5000 feet...
71 to 77 at 8000 feet.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 66 to
71 at 5000 feet...51 to 60 at 8000 feet. Highs 82 to 87 at
5000 feet...70 to 75 at 8000 feet.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 81 to 86 at 5000 feet...69 to
74 at 8000 feet.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Grant Grove 82 62 82 / 0 0 0
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CAZ330-211000-
Sequoia NP-
148 AM PDT Thu Jul 21 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 83 to 88 at 5000 feet...70 to 80 at
8000 feet.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 65 to 70 at 5000 feet...52 to 62 at
8000 feet.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 82 to 87 at 5000 feet...70 to 80 at
8000 feet.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 63 to 68 at 5000 feet...50 to
60 at 8000 feet.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 81 to 86 at 5000 feet...69 to 79 at
8000 feet.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 63 to 68 at
5000 feet...50 to 60 at 8000 feet. Highs 82 to 87 at 5000 feet...
69 to 79 at 8000 feet.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Highs 80 to 86 at
5000 feet...67 to 77 at 8000 feet. Lows 63 to 68 at 5000 feet...
49 to 59 at 8000 feet.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows 63 to 68 at
5000 feet...49 to 59 at 8000 feet. Highs 78 to 83 at 5000 feet...
65 to 75 at 8000 feet.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Lodgepole 80 55 80 / 0 0 0
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CAZ331-211000-
South End of the Upper Sierra-
148 AM PDT Thu Jul 21 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 84 to 94 at 5000 feet...76 to 85 at
8000 feet.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 62 to 68 at 5000 feet...54 to 64 at
8000 feet. Gusts up to 40 mph after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 83 to 93 at 5000 feet...76 to 85 at
8000 feet.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 61 to 67 at 5000 feet...52 to 62 at
8000 feet.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 82 to 92 at 5000 feet...74 to 83 at
8000 feet.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 60 to 68 at
5000 feet...51 to 61 at 8000 feet. Highs 83 to 93 at 5000 feet...
75 to 83 at 8000 feet.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 82 to 92 at
5000 feet...74 to 82 at 8000 feet. Lows 60 to 67 at 5000 feet...
51 to 61 at 8000 feet.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 81 to 91 at 5000 feet...72 to
80 at 8000 feet.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 60 to 67 at 5000 feet...51 to
61 at 8000 feet.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 80 to 90 at 5000 feet...72 to
78 at 8000 feet.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Johnsondale 92 56 92 / 0 0 0
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CAZ332-211000-
Kern River Valley-
148 AM PDT Thu Jul 21 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 11 PM PDT THIS
EVENING...
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 94 to 102. West winds 10 to 20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 68 to 74. West winds 10 to 20 mph
with gusts to around 35 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, breezy. Highs 92 to 102. West winds 15 to
25 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear, breezy. Lows 67 to 73. West winds 15 to
25 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 93 to 101. West winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 67 to 73.
Highs 94 to 102.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 93 to 101. Lows
66 to 72.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 92 to 100.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 66 to 72.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 91 to 99.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Alta Sierra 82 66 82 / 0 0 0
Kernville 101 70 100 / 0 0 0
Lake Isabella 99 73 98 / 0 0 0
Weldon 101 73 100 / 0 0 0
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CAZ333-211000-
Piute Walker Basin-
148 AM PDT Thu Jul 21 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, breezy. Highs 84 to 94. West winds around 25 mph
in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 62 to 72.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, breezy. Highs 84 to 94. West winds around 25 mph
in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear, breezy. Lows 61 to 71. West winds around
25 mph with gusts to around 40 mph in the evening.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 84 to 94.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 61 to 71.
Highs 85 to 95.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 84 to 94. Lows
61 to 71.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 83 to 93.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 60 to 70.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 82 to 92.
=
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CAZ334-211000-
Tehachapi-
148 AM PDT Thu Jul 21 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, breezy. Highs 84 to 94. Northwest winds around
25 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Breezy. Lows 63 to 73. West winds around
25 mph with gusts to around 40 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, breezy. Highs 83 to 93. Northwest winds around
25 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear, breezy. Lows 61 to 71. West winds around
25 mph with gusts to around 45 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 84 to 94.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 62 to 72.
Highs 86 to 96.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 84 to 94.
Lows 62 to 72.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 82 to 92.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Bear Valley Springs 87 63 86 / 0 0 0
Tehachapi 90 65 89 / 0 0 0
Twin Oaks 95 68 93 / 0 0 0
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CAZ335-211000-
Grapevine-
148 AM PDT Thu Jul 21 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 85 to 95. North winds 10 to 20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 66 to 75. Northwest winds 10 to
20 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 84 to 94. Northwest winds 10 to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 64 to 72. Northwest winds 10 to
20 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 85 to 95. Northwest winds around 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 63 to 73.
Highs 86 to 96.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 84 to 94.
Lows 63 to 73.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 82 to 92.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Grapevine 98 75 97 / 0 0 0
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CAZ336-211000-
Frazier Mountain Communities-
148 AM PDT Thu Jul 21 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 85 to 95.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 64 to 74.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 84 to 94.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 62 to 72.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 85 to 95.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 63 to 73.
Highs 85 to 95.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 83 to 93.
Lows 62 to 72.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 81 to 91.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Pine Mountain Club 84 63 83 / 0 0 0
Frazier Park 87 58 87 / 0 0 0
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CAZ337-211000-
Indian Wells Valley-
148 AM PDT Thu Jul 21 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 102 to 111. South winds 10 to 20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 75 to 81. Southwest winds 10 to
20 mph with gusts to around 35 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 102 to 111. South winds 10 to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 75 to 80. West winds 10 to 20 mph
with gusts to around 35 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 101 to 109. Southwest winds up to
10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 72 to 78.
Highs 100 to 108.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 98 to 105. Lows
72 to 77.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 97 to 104. Lows
73 to 78.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Inyokern 108 81 108 / 0 0 0
Ridgecrest 110 78 109 / 0 0 0
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CAZ338-211000-
Mojave Desert Slopes-
148 AM PDT Thu Jul 21 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, breezy. Highs 92 to 102. Northwest winds 15 to
25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Patchy blowing dust. Windy. Lows 71 to
81. Northwest winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts to around 45 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, windy. Highs 92 to 102. Northwest winds 20 to
30 mph with gusts to around 45 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear, windy. Patchy blowing dust. Lows 69 to 79.
Northwest winds 25 to 35 mph with gusts to around 50 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 92 to 102. West winds 10 to 20 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 68 to 78.
Highs 91 to 101.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 89 to 99. Lows
67 to 77.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 88 to 98.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 67 to 77.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 88 to 98.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Mojave 103 79 101 / 0 0 0
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CAZ339-211000-
Mojave Desert-
148 AM PDT Thu Jul 21 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs 101 to 107. Southwest winds 10 to 20 mph
with gusts to around 35 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Breezy. Lows 72 to 78. Southwest winds
15 to 25 mph with gusts to around 45 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 101 to 107. Southwest winds 10 to 20 mph
with gusts to around 40 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear, breezy. Lows 70 to 76. West winds 15 to
25 mph with gusts to around 45 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 100 to 106. West winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 67 to 74.
Highs 99 to 105.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 96 to 102. Lows
68 to 73.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 96 to 102. Lows
67 to 73.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Randsburg 102 77 102 / 0 0 0
California City 105 75 105 / 0 0 0
Edwards AFB 105 73 105 / 0 0 0
Rosamond 105 73 103 / 0 0 0
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LONDON (AP) — The two candidates to become Britain’s next prime minister began a head-to-head battle on Thursday for the votes of Conservative Party members who will choose the country’s new leader.
Former Treasury chief Rishi Sunak is promising fiscal prudence, while Foreign Secretary Liz Truss is offering immediate tax cuts to the right-of-center governing party, which is divided and demoralized after three turbulent years under departing Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
Sunak and Truss were chosen Wednesday by Conservative lawmakers, from an initial field of 11, as finalists to replace Johnson, who quit as party leader on July 7 after months of ethics scandals. He remains prime minister until his successor is chosen. The result of the party leadership contest is due on Sept. 5.
Only about 180,000 Conservative Party members have a vote in choosing the country’s next leader. The rest of the U.K.’s 67 million people must watch the campaign from the sidelines, as the candidates spar in televised debates and party meetings — against a backdrop of soaring prices, growing climate extremes and war in Ukraine.
The winner of the Conservative contest will not have to face British voters until 2024, unless he or she chooses to call an early general election.
Oddsmakers say the favorite is Truss, who has led the U.K.’s response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and is running as a low-tax, small-state conservative in the mold of Margaret Thatcher.
In interviews Thursday, Truss said she had the “toughness” and “grit” to lead the country in troubled times.
“We are in very difficult times. We need to be bold,” she told the BBC. “We cannot have business as usual for the challenge we face.”
Sunak, who steered Britain’s economy through the pandemic before quitting Johnson’s government this month, also claims to wear the mantle of Thatcher, whose free-market policies transformed Britain’s economy in the 1980s. Sunak argues it would be irresponsible to slash taxes before getting inflation under control. He won the vote among party lawmakers, but his role as Britain’s chief taxman may go down less well with the Tory grassroots.
Lawmaker Robert Jenrick, a Sunak supporter, said “it is the antithesis of Thatcherism to be going around making unfunded tax pledges merely to win a leadership contest.”
Sunak also faces open hostility from allies of Johnson, who consider him a turncoat for quitting the government early this month, a move that helped bring down the prime minister.
Johnson clung to office through months of scandals over his finances and his judgment, refusing to resign when he was fined by police over government parties that broke COVID-19 lockdown rules. He finally quit after one scandal too many — appointing a politician accused of sexual misconduct — drove his ministers to resign en masse.
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Veteran politician Ranil Wickremesinghe has been sworn in as Sri Lanka’s new president to take charge of a nation bitterly angry he was chosen to handle the country’s unprecedented economic crisis.
Mr Wickremesinghe took his oath before chief justice Jayantha Jayasuriya at a ceremony held in Parliament in the capital, Colombo.
The six-time prime minister was chosen by a secret ballot of politicians on Wednesday to finish the term of former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who fled the country after protesters stormed his residence last week and resigned by email from Singapore.
While months of protests in Sri Lanka have focused on the Rajapaksa political dynasty, Mr Wickremesinghe also has drawn protesters’ ire as a perceived Rajapaksa surrogate. During demonstrations last week, crowds set his personal residence on fire and occupied his office.
Sri Lankans have taken to the street for months to demand their top leaders step down as the country spiralled into economic chaos that left its 22 million people struggling with shortages of essentials, including medicine, fuel and food.
Mr Wickremesinghe has been leading the talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) seeking a bailout for the bankrupt island nation.
He said on Monday the negotiations were near a conclusion and talks on help from other countries had also progressed. He also said the government has taken steps to resolve shortages of fuel and cooking gas.
On Wednesday, IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva told financial magazine Nikkei Asia that the organisation hoped to complete the rescue talks “as quickly as possible”. | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/uk-world/3514849/sri-lankas-newly-elected-president-sworn-into-office/ | 2022-07-21T09:31:05Z | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/uk-world/3514849/sri-lankas-newly-elected-president-sworn-into-office/ | false |
SHANGHAI, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Yum China Holdings, Inc. (the "Company" or "Yum China", NYSE: YUMC and HKEX: 9987) today announced that the Company has commenced the construction of the Yum China Supply Chain Management Center in Shanghai's Jiading district. The 61,000 square meter facility is Yum China's largest greenfield supply chain center project to date. The site is scheduled for completion in 2024 and will serve as the headquarters of the Company's supply chain operations.
"Our world-class supply chain is one of our key business enablers, and helped us mitigate the disruption impact of COVID-19. As part of our RGM strategic framework, we will continue to widen our strategic moat by investing in supply chain infrastructure to further enhance the agility and resiliency of our business," said Joey Wat, CEO of Yum China. "As our supply chain capabilities continue to go from strength to strength, we believe it will better support more stores, channels and products, while helping to drive long-term growth."
In addition to supporting Yum China's restaurants in eastern China, the new facility will serve as a key integrated cold chain transit hub for the region and support the Company's operations across the country. It will include ambient temperature storage, cold-chain storage, office space and supporting facilities. The Company will adopt modern automation solutions, three-dimensional storage technology to optimize the use of the storage space, and leverage the latest digital technologies to build a smart supply chain management platform. The Company will also deploy rooftop solar panels and wind power generation equipment to reduce carbon emissions.
Since entering China 35 years ago, Yum China has continuously invested in building a world-class supply chain management system, covering supplier and upstream management, logistics and distribution management, and restaurant management. By the end of March 2022, Yum China had 32 logistics centers serving over 12,000 restaurants covering more than 1,700 cities nationwide. The Company also announced during its 2021 Investor Day that it intended to expand its logistics network to 45 to 50 logistics centers over the next five years.
In recent years, Yum China has embarked on a journey to establish an intelligent supply chain that helps ensure food safety and quality management throughout the value chain. The Company has also developed transportation management system (TMS) to optimize route planning and vehicle loading rates. The warehouse management system (WMS) is also in place to enable product e-tracking from suppliers to logistics centers and to restaurants. Utilizing IoT and AI, Yum China's logistic centers provide real-time monitoring of products and the ambient temperature in in-transit vehicles across the country.
Yum China also utilizes the extra capacity of its logistics facilities to provide one-stop customized solutions to third parties. To do this, in 2020, the Company established Chuan Sheng Supply Chain, an entity that focuses on providing high-quality professional cold chain logistics, trunk transportation, urban distribution and related value-added services.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. We intend all forward-looking statements to be covered by the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements generally can be identified by the fact that they do not relate strictly to historical or current facts and by the use of forward-looking words such as "expect," "expectation," "believe," "anticipate," "may," "could," "intend," "belief," "aim," "plan," "estimate," "target," "predict," "project," "ambition" "likely," "will," "continue," "should," "forecast," "outlook," "look forward to" or similar terminology. These statements are based on current estimates and assumptions made by us in light of our experience and perception of historical trends, current conditions, and expected future developments, as well as other factors that we believe, are appropriate and reasonable under the circumstances, but there can be no assurance that such estimates and assumptions will prove to be correct. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of performance and are inherently subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties that are difficult to predict and could cause our actual results or events to differ materially from those indicated by those statements. We cannot assure you that any of our expectations, estimates, or assumptions will be achieved. The forward-looking statements included in this press release are only made as of the date of this press release, and we disclaim any obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statement to reflect subsequent events or circumstances, except as required by law. All forward-looking statements should be evaluated with the understanding of their inherent uncertainty. You should consult our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (including the information set forth under the captions "Risk Factors" and "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations " in our Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q) for additional detail about factors that could affect our financial and other results.
About Yum China Holdings, Inc.
Yum China Holdings, Inc. is a licensee of Yum! Brands in mainland China. It has exclusive rights in mainland China to KFC, China's leading quick-service restaurant brand, Pizza Hut, the leading casual dining restaurant brand in China, and Taco Bell, a California-based restaurant chain serving innovative Mexican-inspired food. Yum China also owns the Little Sheep, Huang Ji Huang, and COFFii & JOY concepts outright. In addition, Yum China has partnered with Lavazza to explore and develop the Lavazza coffee shop concept in China. The Company had 12,117 restaurants in over 1,700 cities at the end of March 2022.
In 2021, Yum China has been selected as a member of both Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI): World Index and Emerging Market Index. In 2022, Yum China ranked # 359 on the Fortune 500 list. The Company was also named to the Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index and was certified as a Top Employer 2022 in China by the Top Employers Institute, both for the fourth consecutive year. For more information, please visit http://ir.yumchina.com.
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Tokyo will likely report a record number of daily coronavirus cases of over 30,000 on Thursday, far exceeding the previous record logged in early February of 21,562, people familiar with the matter said.
Japan's nationwide tally climbed to a new record of 152,536 cases on Wednesday in the wake of the spread of the BA.5 Omicron subvariant.
Out of Japan's 47 prefectures, 30 reported a record number of cases the same day, with Kanagawa Prefecture, near Tokyo, and Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, reporting more than 10,000 cases.
In western Japan, Osaka Gov. Hirofumi Yoshimura had warned that the prefecture's medical system is under strain after its case count shot up to 21,976 from the previous high of 15,291.
Despite a surge in COVID-19 cases, the government has reiterated that it would not impose movement restrictions.
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SHANGHAI, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A major platform for international procurement, investment promotion, cultural exchanges and open cooperation, the China International Import Expo (CIIE) has been held successfully for four consecutive years and is widely regarded as an international public good and the multilateral trading system, as well as a pivotal carrier for building an open world economy and a community with a shared future for mankind.
Since its inception in 2018, the CIIE has been growing in scale and influence. The area of its business exhibition increased from 270,000 square meters in 2018 to 366,000 square meters in 2021. Exhibitors at the past four CIIEs launched more than 1,500 new products, technologies and services and clinched tentative deals worth over $270 billion.
The fourth CIIE attracted many manufacturers from coastal states in the South Pacific. For example, more than 50 companies from New Zealand signed up for the expo last year.
"It's a good platform for launching brands, increasing the promotion of established brands, and networking," said Rachel Maidment, chief executive of New Zealand China Council.
Over the past four editions, the CIIE has remained a magnet for companies from countries around the world. Last year, 90 enterprises from 33 LDCs attended the exhibition, and nearly 30 of them were provided with free booths.
Timor-Leste has participated in the CIIE four times and their kopi luwak coffee, also known as civet cat coffee, turned out to be one of the most popular products at the fourth CIIE.
The purchasing power of the Chinese market has also opened new avenues of income for companies in coastal states in the South Pacific.
This year, many countries have confirmed their participation in the country exhibition at the fifth CIIE, from Nov 5-10. To date, more than 80 percent of the planned business exhibition area has been reserved and more than 260 Fortune Global 500 companies and industry leaders will attend the expo.
With so many showing their interest, space will be filling up fast. Be sure to sign up for the fifth edition before time runs out! Click here to register: https://www.ciie.org/exhibition/f/book/register?locale=en.
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The House Jan. 6 committee preps for a primetime hearing. It is examining Trump's broader efforts to overturn the election. The pipeline that brings natural gas from Russia to Germany is to reopen.
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The Jan. 6 committee is holding a prime-time hearing on Thursday – the last of its planned summertime hearings. It will focus on the 187 minutes between when former President Donald Trump's Ellipse speech on Jan. 6 ended and his prerecorded video asking protesters to go home posted to Twitter later that afternoon.
According to select committee aides, it will also look at who was talking to Trump and about what, including when he was made aware of the attack on the Capitol and what aides and allies were doing.
This story will be updated throughout Thursday's 8 p.m. hearing. Watch the hearing live here:
The Jan. 6 committee is expected to piece together what the former president was doing while he was out of the public eye on Jan. 6 and will zero in on the argument that "he was the sole person that could have called off the mob but chose not to," according to committee aides.
During those 187 minutes, pressure mounted for him to call off the mob and tell rioters to stop. For the committee, which has argued that Trump welcomed the violence, what he said to aides and what he was thinking is key.
Plenty of timelines have sketched out how most of the day unfolded, but for more than 3 hours, Trump went dark as a mob attacked the U.S. Capitol. The committee has had to work to put together an account of what he was doing then because public records have been hard to come by.
Two former White House officials who served under Trump will testify at Thursday's hearing — former National Security Council member Matthew Pottinger and one-time Deputy White House Press Secretary Sarah Matthews, three sources familiar with the committee's work told NPR.
Reps. Elaine Luria, a Democrat, and Adam Kinzinger, one of two panel Republicans, are expected to take a lead at the hearing, and Rep. Bennie Thompson will chair the hearing remotely due to his COVID-19 diagnosis.
Over the last seven hearings, the Democrat-led committee has laid out its case that the former president was at the center of an election fraud conspiracy that ultimately led to the deadly insurrection at the Capitol. Witnesses, including former Trump and White House officials and staff, have appeared in person and in previously taped interviews to provide details on how the then-president knew he lost but pursued efforts to pressure state officials, lawmakers and the Justice Department to overturn the election in his favor.
Although this is the last scheduled hearing, the panel has left the door open for more. The panel had originally envisioned six hearings throughout June but extended them into July as it collected more information. The committee still hopes to publish a final report in the fall.
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When the Tour de France ends this week, another one begins — this time for the world's best female riders. For the first time in 33 years, women will compete in the most famous cycling stage race.
Copyright 2022 NPR
When the Tour de France ends this week, another one begins — this time for the world's best female riders. For the first time in 33 years, women will compete in the most famous cycling stage race.
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Ahead of a prime-time January 6th Committee hearing Thursday, a majority of Americans are paying attention and blame former President Donald Trump for what happened that day in 2021, but don't think he will be prosecuted, according to the latest NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll.
A majority of independents (55%) and 4 in 5 Democrats, but less than half of Republicans (44%), said they are paying at least some attention to the hearings.
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A majority (57%) said Trump is to blame a great deal or a good amount for the Capitol riot, including 92% of Democrats and 57% of independents, but just 18% of Republicans. The 57% overall figure is up slightly — and within the 4.1 percentage-point margin of error — from last December (53%).
Half of respondents said they think Trump should be charged with a crime, including 9 in 10 Democrats but only 10% of Republicans. Independents are split, 49% to 46%.
Six in 10 respondents said they don't think Trump will face any charges.
There has been only some, if any, movement in people's views of what happened at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Half called it an insurrection and a threat to democracy, statistically unchanged from December.
A quarter, including 40% of Republicans, described it as an unfortunate event, but one in the past, so no need to worry about it anymore.
About 1 in 5, including another 40% of Republicans, said it was a political protest protected under the First Amendment.
Notably, a majority of independents (52%) now say it was an insurrection and a threat to democracy, up 9 points from December.
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The hearings haven't seemed to budge Republicans' views, though. In December, just 10% said Jan. 6 was an insurrection and threat to democracy. Now it's 12% — statistically unchanged.
Thursday night's hearing, which the committee says is its last, at least for now, will focus on what Trump was doing — and not doing — while the Capitol was under attack.
As a voting issue, the hearings don't appear to be breaking through, either.
The top issue overall continues to be inflation, which is at its highest point in decades, with Republicans and independents overwhelmingly saying so.
For Democrats, abortion is the top motivating issue right now, with the Jan. 6 hearing second, followed by guns and health care. Inflation is fifth on the list for Democrats.
Looking to 2024
These hearings don't look like a game changer for this year's midterms, with inflation continuing to be a top concern for swing voters.
But this all might be more relevant to how people vote in the next presidential election, with Trump openly talking about running again.
In this survey, Trump is still viewed highly unfavorably. Just 38% have a favorable opinion of him, and 58% have an unfavorable one.
Biden's favorability wasn't assessed in this survey, but his is marginally better than Trump's on average in other polls.
Trump, though, sees an opening against Biden, whom he sees as weak. Biden's approval rating is just 36% in this survey, his lowest in the Marist poll since taking office. That's largely because of a lack of enthusiasm among Biden's own party.
In these polarizing times, it's hard for a candidate to do well without his base fully behind him.
For all the buzz that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has gotten, he has some work to do on his name identification — 33% viewed him favorably and 39% unfavorably, but 28% didn't have an opinion of him or didn't know who he was.
Former Vice President Mike Pence is also eyeing a potential run, but his ratings aren't much better than Trump's — just 37% viewed him favorably and 50% unfavorably.
Meanwhile, January 6th Committee Vice Chair Liz Cheney, the Republican from Wyoming, who has openly defied Trump, is viewed favorably by just 13% of Republicans, but 60% of Democrats.
She was viewed favorably overall by 34% of respondents and unfavorably by 43%, and almost a quarter weren't sure or hadn't heard of her.
The survey of 1,160 adults was conducted July 11 through 17 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.1 percentage points. Respondents were reached using live callers via cellphone and landline.
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TX Midland/Odessa TX Zone Forecast for Wednesday, July 20, 2022
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Zone Forecast Product for Texas
National Weather Service Midland/Odessa TX
322 AM CDT Thu Jul 21 2022
Zone forecast text represents an average of conditions over an
entire zone. For point-specific forecasts, please refer to the
Point Forecast Matrices product, issued by the National Weather
Service Office in Midland/Odessa, WMO header FOUS54 KMAF.
TXZ061-062-212130-
Ector-Midland-
Including the cities of Odessa and Midland
322 AM CDT Thu Jul 21 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. Isolated showers and thunderstorms this
afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. South winds 10 to 15 mph,
becoming southeast 10 to 20 mph this afternoon. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with isolated showers and thunderstorms
in the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight. Lows in the
mid 70s. Southeast winds 10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. South winds 10 to 15 mph
with gusts up to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. South winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
$$
TXZ045-046-050-051-212130-
Gaines-Dawson-Andrews-Martin-
Including the cities of Seminole, Lamesa, Andrews, and Stanton
322 AM CDT Thu Jul 21 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with isolated showers and thunderstorms.
Highs in the upper 90s. South winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming
southeast 10 to 20 mph this afternoon. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Isolated showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 70s.
Southeast winds 10 to 20 mph, diminishing to 5 to 10 mph after
midnight. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Isolated showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. South winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. South winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
$$
TXZ047-048-052-053-212130-
Borden-Scurry-Howard-Mitchell-
Including the cities of Gail, Snyder, Big Spring,
and Colorado City
322 AM CDT Thu Jul 21 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Isolated showers and thunderstorms this
morning, then scattered showers and thunderstorms this afternoon.
Highs in the upper 90s. South winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming
southeast 10 to 20 mph this afternoon. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Isolated showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the upper
70s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Isolated showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. Southeast
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. South winds 10 to
15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
$$
NMZ033-034-212130-
Central Lea County-Southern Lea County-
Including the cities of Hobbs, Lovington, Eunice, and Jal
222 AM MDT Thu Jul 21 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy with isolated showers and thunderstorms.
Highs in the upper 90s. Southeast winds 10 to 20 mph. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Isolated showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower
70s. East winds 10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Isolated showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. Southeast winds 10 to
20 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 70.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 70.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
$$
TXZ270-212130-
Guadalupe Mountains Above 7000 Feet-
Including the city of Guadalupe Mountains NP
222 AM MDT Thu Jul 21 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Isolated showers and thunderstorms this
afternoon. Cooler with highs in the lower 80s. Southeast winds
10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with isolated showers and thunderstorms.
Breezy with lows in the lower 60s. East winds 15 to 25 mph.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Isolated showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs around 80. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s. East winds
10 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Isolated showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the lower 80s. Southeast winds around 15 mph
with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs around 80. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the lower 60s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the upper 70s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the lower 60s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the upper 70s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the lower 60s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 70s. Chance of rain
20 percent.
$$
TXZ271-212130-
Guadalupe and Delaware Mountains-
Including the cities of Guadalupe Mountains NP and Pine Springs
322 AM CDT Thu Jul 21 2022 /222 AM MDT Thu Jul 21 2022/
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Isolated showers and thunderstorms this
afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. East winds 10 to 20 mph.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with isolated showers and thunderstorms.
Breezy with lows around 70. East winds 15 to 25 mph. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Isolated showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs around 90. East winds 10 to 20 mph. Chance
of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy and breezy. Lows around 70. East
winds 15 to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Isolated showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs around 90. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph with
gusts up to 30 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs around 90. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the upper 60s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the upper 60s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs around 90. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the upper 60s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs around 90. Chance of rain
20 percent.
$$
TXZ272-212130-
Van Horn and Highway 54 Corridor-
Including the city of Van Horn
322 AM CDT Thu Jul 21 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. Isolated showers and thunderstorms this
afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. East winds 5 to 10 mph,
increasing to 10 to 20 mph this afternoon. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with isolated showers and thunderstorms.
Lows in the lower 70s. East winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to
30 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Isolated showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. East winds 5 to 10 mph,
increasing to 10 to 20 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. East winds
10 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Isolated showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Southeast winds 10 to 20 mph.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 70.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
$$
TXZ273-212130-
Eastern Culberson County-
322 AM CDT Thu Jul 21 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. Isolated showers and thunderstorms this
afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. North winds 10 to 15 mph,
becoming east 10 to 20 mph this afternoon. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with isolated showers and thunderstorms.
Breezy with lows in the lower 70s. East winds 15 to 25 mph.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Isolated showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. East winds 10 to 20 mph. Chance
of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast
winds 10 to 20 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Isolated showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph
with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
$$
TXZ274-212130-
Reeves County Plains-
Including the city of Pecos
322 AM CDT Thu Jul 21 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. Isolated showers and thunderstorms this
afternoon. Hot with highs around 101. East winds 5 to 10 mph,
increasing to 10 to 20 mph this afternoon. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy with isolated showers and thunderstorms.
Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Isolated showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. Southeast winds 10 to 20 mph.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast
winds 10 to 20 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Isolated showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph
with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
$$
TXZ075-212130-
Pecos-
Including the city of Fort Stockton
322 AM CDT Thu Jul 21 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Isolated showers and thunderstorms this
afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. Southeast winds 10 to 20 mph.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds
10 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Isolated showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Southeast winds 10 to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast
winds 10 to 20 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. Southeast winds 10 to
20 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
$$
TXZ082-212130-
Terrell-
Including the cities of Dryden and Sanderson
322 AM CDT Thu Jul 21 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy this morning, then sunny with isolated
showers and thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s.
Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s. Southeast winds 10 to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. Southeast winds 10 to
20 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. Southeast
winds 10 to 20 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. Southeast winds 15 to
20 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
$$
TXZ278-212130-
Davis Mountains Foothills-
Including the city of Alpine
322 AM CDT Thu Jul 21 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. Isolated showers and thunderstorms this
afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph,
becoming east 10 to 20 mph this afternoon. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy with isolated showers and thunderstorms.
Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds 10 to 20 mph with gusts up
to 30 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Isolated showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. South winds 10 to 15 mph,
becoming southeast 10 to 20 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast
winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Isolated showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 70.
.MONDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows around 70. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
$$
TXZ277-212130-
Davis Mountains-
Including the city of Fort Davis
322 AM CDT Thu Jul 21 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 8 PM CDT
THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. Scattered showers and thunderstorms this
afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. East winds 10 to 20 mph.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with isolated showers and thunderstorms.
Lows in the upper 60s. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up
to 30 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Isolated showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Southeast winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. Southeast
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Isolated showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs around 90. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance
of rain 20 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the upper 60s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the upper 60s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny in the morning, then partly cloudy with a
slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon.
Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
$$
TXZ276-212130-
Marfa Plateau-
Including the city of Marfa
322 AM CDT Thu Jul 21 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. Scattered showers and thunderstorms this
afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming east 10 to 20 mph this afternoon. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with isolated showers and thunderstorms.
Lows in the lower 70s. East winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to
30 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Isolated showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Southeast winds 10 to
15 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. East winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Isolated showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Southeast winds 10 to
15 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the upper 60s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the upper 60s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the upper 60s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
$$
TXZ275-212130-
Chinati Mountains-
322 AM CDT Thu Jul 21 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 8 PM CDT
THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. Scattered showers and thunderstorms this
afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. East winds 10 to 20 mph. Chance
of rain 30 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with isolated showers and thunderstorms.
Breezy with lows around 70. East winds 15 to 25 mph. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Isolated showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs around 90. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. East winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Isolated showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs around 90. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph with
gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs around 90.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the mid 60s. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.MONDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs around 90. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the upper 60s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the mid 60s. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs around 90. Chance of rain
20 percent.
$$
TXZ279-212130-
Central Brewster County-
Including the cities of Big Bend NP, Panther Junction,
and Marathon
322 AM CDT Thu Jul 21 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Isolated showers and thunderstorms this
afternoon. Not as warm with highs in the upper 90s. East winds
10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy with isolated showers and thunderstorms.
Lows in the lower 70s. East winds 10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Isolated showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. East winds 10 to 20 mph. Chance
of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast
winds 10 to 20 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. Southeast winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
$$
TXZ282-212130-
Lower Brewster County-
Including the cities of Big Bend NP, Lajitas, and Castolon
322 AM CDT Thu Jul 21 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 8 PM CDT
THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Isolated showers and thunderstorms this
afternoon. Hot with highs 98 to 106. Northeast winds 10 to
20 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Isolated showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the upper
70s. East winds 10 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Isolated showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Hot with highs 97 to 103. East winds 10 to 20 mph.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s. East winds
10 to 20 mph, becoming southeast 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 97 to 103. East winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 97 to 103.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 97 to 103.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 98 to 104.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 98 to 104.
$$
TXZ280-212130-
Chisos Basin-
Including the cities of Big Bend NP and Chisos Basin
322 AM CDT Thu Jul 21 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 8 PM CDT
THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Isolated showers and thunderstorms this
afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph,
increasing to 15 to 20 mph this afternoon. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with isolated showers and thunderstorms.
Breezy with lows around 70. East winds 15 to 25 mph, becoming
southeast 10 to 20 mph after midnight. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Isolated showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 70. Southeast winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Southeast winds 10 to
15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear and breezy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy and breezy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs around 90.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 90.
$$
TXZ281-212130-
Presidio Valley-
Including the city of Presidio
322 AM CDT Thu Jul 21 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. Isolated showers and thunderstorms this
afternoon. Hot with highs around 103. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming east 10 to 20 mph this afternoon. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with isolated showers and thunderstorms.
Lows in the upper 70s. East winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to
30 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Isolated showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. East winds 10 to 15 mph.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s. East winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Isolated showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. Southeast winds 10 to
15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the mid 70s. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.MONDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the mid 70s. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the mid 70s. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
$$
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The Government has declared a national emergency in England as temperatures are expected to reach as high as 40C next week.
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) increased its heat health warning from level three to four, after the Met Office issued a red warning for extreme heat for the first time across parts of north, central and south east England for Monday and Tuesday.
Schools are set to close early on Monday and Tuesday next week, with England facing its hottest ever school day, and hospitals have started to cancel surgeries because of the extreme heat.
Officials have also advised against excessive consumption of alcohol and caffeine.
A level four heat health warning is reached “when a heatwave is so severe and/or prolonged that its effects extend outside the health and social care system… At this level, illness and death may occur among the fit and healthy, and not just in high-risk groups,” the agency said.
It is the first time a level four heat health warning has been issued since the heatwave plan for England was introduced in 2004.
The Met Office has warned that people’s lives could be at risk, as meteorologists gave an 80 per cent chance of the mercury topping the UK’s record temperature of 38.7C, set in Cambridge in 2019.
The heat level warning system
The four-level system highlights the potential health impacts of high temperatures.
Level 1 is the lowest warning and is the minimum state of vigilance used during the summer months.
Level 2, called “alert and readiness”, is triggered as soon there is a 60 per cent risk that temperature thresholds will be reached in one or more regions on at least two consecutive days and the intervening night.
Level 3, is amber and called “heatwave action”. It is “triggered when the Met Office confirms threshold temperatures for one of more regions have been reached for one day and the following night, and the forecast for the next day has a greater than 90 per cent confidence level that the day threshold temperature will be met.
“This stage requires social and healthcare services to target specific actions at high-risk groups”.
Level 4, is red and a “national emergency”. It is reached when “a heatwave is so severe and/or prolonged that its effects extend outside the health and social care system. At this level, illness and death may occur among the fit and healthy, and not just in high-risk groups”.
Penny Endersby, Met Office chief executive, said in a sombre video shared online: “The extreme heat that we’re forecasting right now is absolutely unprecedented.
“We’ve seen when climate change has driven such unprecedented severe weather events all around the world it can be difficult for people to make the best decisions in these situations because nothing in their life experience has led them to know what to expect.
“Here in the UK we’re used to treating a hot spell as a chance to go and play in the sun. This is not that sort of weather.
“Our lifestyles and our infrastructure are not adapted to what is coming.
“Please treat the warnings we are putting out as seriously as you would a red or amber warning from us for wind or snow and follow the advice.
“Stay out of the sun, keep your home cool, think about adjusting your plans for the warning period.”
The UKHSA is advising people to look out for vulnerable members of the population, especially older people, young children and babies and those with underlying health conditions.
The Met Office red warning, for Monday and Tuesday, covers an area from London up to Manchester, and up to the Vale of York.
Met Office spokesman Grahame Madge said: “If people have vulnerable relatives or neighbours, now is the time to make sure they’re putting suitable measures in place to be able to cope with the heat because if the forecast is as we think it will be in the red warning area, then people’s lives are at risk.
“This is a very serious situation.”
The Met Office has advised people to enforce “substantial changes in working practices and daily routines” next week.
How to stay safe in the extreme heat
Advice when indoors:
- Keep curtains/blinds closed in rooms that face the sun.
- Drink plenty of fluids and avoid excess alcohol and caffeine.
- Sleep with a flat sheet instead of a duvet.
- Avoid hot showers and baths.
- Place a bowl of ice in front of a fan to circulate cool air around the room.
Tips for when outdoors:
- Stay in the shade where possible.
- Apply sunscreen regularly and wear a wide brimmed hat.
- Take water with you.
- Avoid the sun between 11am and 3pm.
- Don’t leave anyone, especially young children and animals, in closed, parked vehicles.
What to do if someone shows signs of a heat related illness:
- Symptoms of heat exhaustion include a headache, dizziness and confusion, a high temperature of 38C or above.
- While heat exhaustion is not usually serious, if it develops into heatstroke it needs to be treated as an emergency.
- To cool someone down with heat exhaustion: move them to a cool place, get them to lie down and raise their feet, give them plenty of water and cool their skin with water.
- In the case of heatstroke, call 999.
Joe Harrison, chief executive of Milton Keynes University Hospital, said routine outpatient appointments and surgery would not go ahead on Monday and Tuesday to prevent patients from travelling in the extreme temperatures.
The heatwave is also expected to cause severe delays on roads as people flock to beaches, lakes and rivers to cool off.
The RAC warned that there could be an additional 1,000 daily breakdowns on Monday and Tuesday.
Rail passengers in England and Wales have been told to travel only if absolutely necessary on Monday and Tuesday.
Train companies are warning of cancellations at short notice and extended journey times due to speed restrictions.
Network Rail’s system operator group director, Jake Kelly said: “Journeys will take significantly longer and delays are likely as speed restrictions are introduced to keep passengers and railway staff safe.”
The heat can also cause heat-sensitive equipment to fail, which could lead to local power cuts, phone blackouts and water shortages.
The British Veterinary Association (BVA) has issued urgent advice on keeping pets safe from heat-related illness, which includes ensuring they have access to fresh water.
British Veterinary Association President Justine Shotton said: “Vets know that dogs in particular won’t stop enjoying themselves and exercising because it is hot, so it’s up to owners to do all they can to prevent overheating happening in this heatwave.
“This includes making sure pets aren’t walked or exercised in the middle of a hot day or left inside a hot car or conservatory for even a little while, as ‘not long’ can prove fatal.”
Vets say the best way to prevent sunburn is to avoid excessive sunlight exposure but pet-appropriate sunscreen can be applied to some animals.
An existing amber warning has been extended to cover the whole of England, Wales, and parts of Scotland from Monday.
In Wales, temperatures are expected to hit a 35C, tailing off on Tuesday.
Further north, eastern areas of Scotland could see temperatures in the high 20s in a few places, well above their average for the time of year, while Northern Ireland is expected to remain in the mid 20s.
Temperatures are expected to start to return closer to normal for the time of year from the middle of next week onwards, as cooler air pushes across the country from the west. | https://inews.co.uk/news/uk-heatwave-government-issues-level-four-national-emergency-1743950 | 2022-07-21T09:54:09Z | https://inews.co.uk/news/uk-heatwave-government-issues-level-four-national-emergency-1743950 | false |
BEIJING, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Themed "Uncertainty Navigating," the New Champion Dialogue, a virtue panel held during the World Economic Forum (WEF) started off on July 18 with the participation of some 1,100 leaders and experts from over 90 countries.
At the session of "Championing the Entrepreneurial Agenda", Perfect World CEO Dr. Robert H. Xiao shared his insights on enhancing future readiness of SMEs together with three other corporate executives.
Dr. Xiao said that Perfect World is by nature a technology company. "So the technology itself is the center of our development, and the second is content, as contents of films, games, e-sports or Metaverse all have a storyline, and telling a story well is very much to do with creativity, not exclusively in technology," as he added
What measures and changes to take to survive the recession caused by the pandemic have become a hot topic for enterprises, especially SMEs. As far as the solution is concerned, Dr. Xiao suggested that digitalization and cross-disciplinary cooperation could be a way out. "In the case of Perfect World, we put cultural symbols such as Nanjing Confucius Temple, the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, hanfu, and traditional Chinese music in our products, said Dr. Xiao. "It would enrich the contents by bringing in different scenarios and cultural symbols into the contents of our products", he added.
As Metaverse becoming a popular buzzword, Dr. Xiao shared some of his view on Metaverse. He believes that Metaverse is still in a preliminary stage and has not yet formed a market consensus. "A complete Metaverse would involve various fundamental technology platforms and a uniformed standard, so that everyone can build their own Metaverse contents on the platforms," he said.
In answering the question of how SMEs achieve sustainable development despite the potential recession caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Xiao stressed that the recession is also a test for a company to see whether it has determination and can focus in its core competences.
"Additionally to resilience and a heart for mission, SMEs must find the correct direction and focus all the resources in this direction. Furthermore, we must keep faith for the future, and stay agile to respond to changes in the market and the industry to better embrace the challenges and opportunities," said Dr. Xiao.
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Damian Green calls for new Kent reservoir amid water supply issues
- Published
An MP has called for a new reservoir to be built in Kent after water supply issues left residents without water for days in the heatwave.
Ashford MP Damian Green said plans for a reservoir in Canterbury,had been around "for many years" but regulators did not think it was necessary.
Properties in Challock and Molash have had low pressure or no water since issues began on 16 July.
South East Water has apologised for the outage.
Speaking to BBC Radio Kent, Mr Green said: "Up to now, regulators have not thought that a new reservoir was necessary and it seems to me that the events of the last few days prove, beyond doubt, that it is necessary.
"It's dreadful and I'm angry on behalf of my constituents in Challock and Molash and the surrounding areas that it's taken so long."
South East Water said the water situation in the area was "improving".
Mr Green added: "It's better than it was but it's still not great."
Following the disruption in Challock and Molash, South East Water said in a statement it had been facing "unprecedented challenges" to replenish water supplies, particularly in Kent, but it was working "around the clock" to restore supplies.
The firm's head of resources, Lee Dance, apologised and said: "It's been confirmed that the system in the Challock and Molash area is now running so customers should have started to see supplies returning last night and this morning.
"We can't guarantee the water won't go off again but it is an improving situation at the moment."
South East Water said problems with water supplies were ongoing in West Kingsdown and Kemsing due to "air locks in the system".
It said supplies should have returned to the following areas:
- Seven Mile Lane
- Wateringbury
- Bow Hill
- West & East Peckham
- Yalding Village
- Paddock Wood
- Hadlow
- Dunkirk, Faversham
The firm said bottled water stations would be available near West Kingsdown and Kemsing soon and a bottled water site at Challock Village Hall would remain open until all issues resolved.
- 18 hours ago | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-62248875 | 2022-07-21T10:00:41Z | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-62248875 | true |
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking to force nearly 20 companies that he alleges contaminated the environment with chemicals known as PFAS to reimburse the state for investigations and cleanup efforts.
The lawsuit, filed in Dane County circuit court, names 18 companies as defendants, including 3M Company, Tyco Fire Products LP, and BASF Corporation. The filing alleges the defendants knew or should have known that their products would have a dangerous impact on the public’s health and environment.
The lawsuit seeks punitive damages as well as reimbursement for the costs of investigations, cleanup and remediation.
“To this day, the State continues to take necessary actions to protect its natural resources and its residents from harm caused by PFAS contamination,” the lawsuit states. “The State and its taxpayers will need to spend billions of dollars remediating the dangerous PFAS contamination caused by Defendants’ wrongful, deceptive and tortious conduct.”
3M communications manager Sean Lynch said in a statement the company acted responsibly and will “vigorously defend its record of environmental stewardship.” Roberto Nelson, a spokesman for BASF, said the company doesn’t believe the lawsuit has merit. Tyco spokeswoman Karen Marie Tognarelli said in a statement that the company is working to clean up PFAS contamination and the lawsuit won’t stop it from “doing the right thing and leading on the PFAS clean up.”
PFAS is an abbreviation for perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances. The chemicals were developed as coatings to protect consumer goods from stains, water and corrosion. Nonstick cookware, carpets, outdoor gear and food packaging are among items that contain the chemicals. They also are an ingredient in firefighting foams.
They’re often described as “forever chemicals” because some don’t degrade naturally and are believed to be capable of lingering indefinitely in the environment. Research suggests that they may cause health problems in humans.
PFAS contamination is a widespread problem in Wisconsin. A host of communities, including Marinette, the town of Campbell on French Island, Madison and Wausau have discovered the chemicals in their water.
The state Department of Natural Resources’ policy board adopted limits on PFAS in drinking and surface water in February. The board refused to impose limits for groundwater, leaving the chemicals unregulated in wells.
Kaul, a Democrat, filed a lawsuit in Marinette County in March against Johnson Controls and Tyco Fire Productsalleging their firefighting foam led to PFAS contamination in the area. That lawsuit is still pending.
The new filing comes as Kaul faces what could be a bruising reelection bid this fall. Three Republicans — Fond du Lac County District Attorney Eric Toney, former state Rep. Adam Jarchow and attorney Karen Mueller — are looking to take his job. The GOP primary is Aug. 9 and the general election is Nov. 8.
Tyco’s Tognarelli said in her statement that the lawsuit “appears to be about politics and a fast approaching election more than it is about public health or the environment.” | https://www.wpri.com/business-news/ap-business/wisconsin-ag-sues-18-companies-over-pfas-contamination/ | 2022-07-21T10:01:24Z | https://www.wpri.com/business-news/ap-business/wisconsin-ag-sues-18-companies-over-pfas-contamination/ | false |
Pictured: Man, 23, who went missing in the River Mersey on hottest day ever after coastguard suspends search - as heatwave death toll stands at 13
- Haydn Griffiths, 23, disappeared from view after going swimming in the Mersey
- His family said they thought he could still be 'out there and fighting' in the water
- He went swimming on the hottest day ever recorded in the UK on July 19
- At least 13 people died in heatwave-related incidents in the last few weeks
The search for a man who went missing in the Mersey on the UK's hottest day in history has been called off.
Haydn Griffiths, 23, was last seen swimming with a friend in New Brighton, Merseyside around 10:30pm on Tuesday July 19.
He was swimming in the direction of nearby wind turbines when he disappeared from view and did not resurface.
A huge search was launched by the Coastguard and lifeboat volunteers but was called off around 5pm on Wednesday.
Merseyside Police are continuing enquiries into Haydn's disappearance.
Haydn Griffiths, 23, went missing while swimming in the Mersey during the heatwave on Tuesday July 19
Police and rescue services searched the water where Haydn went missing on Tuesday and Wednesday (July 19 and 20) before finally having to call off the search
Haydn had been trying to swim out to swim out towards the wind farm off New Brighton when he vanished from view
Haydn's family travelled to Merseyside to continue the search for him. His older sister, Megan Griffiths, flew into Heathrow to help look for him.
She told the Liverpool Echo she thinks her brother is still 'out there and fighting'.
Megan said: 'Maybe he washed onto a remote beach and is too injured to find help? Maybe he's still out at sea, hanging onto a buoy.
'Haydn is so strong. The RNLI coastguard have been incredible and the search party have been amazing.
'This is the most important search in the whole wide world as my incredible baby brother is out there. He is the strongest human I've ever met and I know he's out there fighting.'
She added: 'Time is precious and I hope we can find him ASAP. Anyone, everyone, please if you are anywhere near Wallasey or the surrounding areas please help with the search.
'If local sailing clubs can help, please help. I've felt completely helpless.'
Police issued a description of Haydn and said he was last seen wearing dark-coloured swimming shorts.
Haydn is white, 6ft 1in tall, of athletic build with short blonde hair and blue eyes.
At least 13 people since the heatwave began on July 9 - with Tuesday the hottest day ever recorded in Britain as temperatures soared to a peak of over 40 degrees for the first time.
Several died from drowning during the heatwave - a 14 year-old boy drowned in Richmond after getting into difficulty in the Thames, while a man in his 20s died at Cotswold Water Park, Ashton Keynes.
A 70 year-old man also drowned on the Isle of Wight despite rescue services trying to revive him for forty minutes. At least five people died during the heatwave on Monday alone.
A 21 year-old man is still missing in Clacton after five others were pulled from the water. The search for him was called off on Wednesday.
Five others also had to be rescued from the water off Clacton Pier after getting into difficulty and taken to hospital.
Officials said they regretted having to call off the search for 23 year-old Haydn Griffiths on Merseyside.
Merseyside Police said: 'We are this evening, Wednesday 20th July, continuing to carry out enquiries following reports that a 23 year-old man, Haydn Griffiths, has gone missing while swimming in the River Mersey off New Brighton at around 10.30pm last night (Tuesday).
'Haydn was last seen in the water at the Derby Pool, New Brighton, wearing dark coloured swimming shorts attempting to swim towards the windmills in the area.
'An extensive search of the river was carried out last night and today by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency but Haydn was not found and the search has now been suspended.
'Haydn is white, 6ft 1in tall, of athletic build with short blonde hair and blue eyes. Enquiries remain ongoing to find Haydn.'
After suspending the search, a spokesperson for the Maritime and Coastguard Agency said: 'We have carried out an extensive search across the area and the missing person has - sadly - not been found. The search is now being suspended.
'Our thoughts and those of all our coastguard colleagues are with the family and friends of the missing man.'
A spokesperson from the RNLI told the Liverpool Echo: 'Hoylake's Shannon class RNLI lifeboat was re-launched this afternoon to continue a search for the missing swimmer.
'The volunteer crew were paged at 2.33pm and the lifeboat searched an area around the Burbo Bank Offshore Wind Farm.
'The coastguard helicopter based at Caernarfon was also tasked. Both assets have now been stood down.' | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11034761/Man-23-went-missing-Mersey-hottest-day-coastguard-suspends-search.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490 | 2022-07-21T10:01:56Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11034761/Man-23-went-missing-Mersey-hottest-day-coastguard-suspends-search.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490 | false |
A new high-speed internet service will soon be available for Grand Valley residents.
Highline, a Michigan-based internet provider that specializes in fiber-optic internet service, is digging trenches and laying fiber networks within them in the heart of Grand Junction and will soon begin similar fiber network installation work in Fruita.
Alisha Roles, Highline’s spokesperson for the Western Slope, spoke to The Daily Sentinel about what Highline is bringing to the Grand Valley.
“Fiber-optic internet is direct to people’s homes,” Roles said. “You don’t share the network with anyone else in your neighborhood. It’s from the base to your home. There aren’t the buffering issues that you can have with other networks. It’s more stable, it’s more reliable and it’s faster.”
Highline plans to open its Grand Junction office by the end of August. The office is located at 521 Main St. as the Margery Building’s newest tenant.
Roles said supply chain issues delaying the arrival of furniture is the reason why the office isn’t open already. However, once it opens, she said that people can come in for coffee or water, chat with a customer service representative to learn about Highline’s fiber-optic internet service and try the internet service for themselves to see how fast it can be.
“Highline’s mission is to expand internet into rural areas, the smaller towns and cities that may not have a lot of internet options,” Roles said. “Grand Junction’s one of the biggest projects that Highline is doing right now. Everyone’s been super excited and welcoming about the prospect of another internet option. As a company, Highline’s very excited to be entering the Grand Junction market.”
Highline is installing fiber-optic networks throughout the Grand Valley in four phases. The first phase, now underway, is to bring this service to central Grand Junction surrounding downtown, as well as Fruita.
Fruita was formerly slated for the fourth and final phase, but the town’s enthusiasm for Highline’s arrival bumped it to the front of the installation line.
“Fruita’s also become part of that phase because it’s been such an outreach for the community,” Roles said. “They really wanted us to come to Fruita because they don’t have a lot of reliable internet out in Fruita.”
The second phase will see Highline install fiber-optic networks in western and eastern Grand Junction (including Clifton).
Phase three will include the Redlands (which will require having to dig through more rock than other areas) and Orchard Mesa.
Finally, phase four, which Highline hopes to have completed within a couple of years, will bring the fiber-optic internet service to Palisade.
Roles couldn’t provide a solid timeline of Highline’s expectations of activating its services, but she’s hopeful that Grand Valley residents won’t have to wait too long.
“Supply chain issues are affecting everyone, including us,” Roles said. “There’s certain parts we’ve been waiting on that we have to have before we can start hooking customers up.” | https://www.gjsentinel.com/news/business/highline-bringing-fiber-optic-internet-service-to-grand-valley/article_0e9bde6e-078b-11ed-b187-033629873e27.html | 2022-07-21T10:02:53Z | https://www.gjsentinel.com/news/business/highline-bringing-fiber-optic-internet-service-to-grand-valley/article_0e9bde6e-078b-11ed-b187-033629873e27.html | true |
Fourth man is charged after boxer Amir Khan was robbed at gunpoint for his £72,000 Franck Muller watch when attackers pounced on him and his wife as they left restaurant
- Ismail Mohammed, 24, of Edmonton, North London will appear in court today
- He is accused of targeting Amir Khan as he left a restaurant in east London
- Khan was with his wife, Faryal Makhdoom and a friend when the gang attacked
A fourth man has been charged over the alleged gunpoint robbery of former world boxing champion Amir Khan after the sportsman’s £72,000 watch was snatched in April.
Khan, 35, is said to have had the custom-made Franck Muller timepiece stolen in High Road, Leyton, east London, after leaving a restaurant with his wife, Faryal Makhdoom, and a friend on April 18.
Ismail Mohamed, 24, of Sheldon Road, Edmonton, north London, will attend Thames Magistrates’ Court today, accused of conspiracy to commit robbery, after being charged the same day.
Amir Khan was out with his wife Faryal Makhdoom and a friend in Leyton, east London when they were accosted by a gang of men who demanded the boxer hand over his watch
Khan was forced to hand over is £72,000 Franck Muller watch when he was threatened at gunpoint
A number of men jumped out of a car to threaten the boxer and order him to surrender his watch
He is the fourth suspect to be charged after three others appeared at the same court in June.
Ahmed Bana, 25, Nurul Amin, 24, and Dante Campbell, 20, all from north London, were remanded in custody and will appear at Snaresbrook Crown Court on August 4, the Metropolitan Police said.
A car pulled up on the street near Khan and a number of men jumped out before he was threatened with a firearm and had his watch taken, the court was told.
Bana and Campbell have also been charged with having an imitation firearm.
Campbell faces further counts of having an imitation firearm with intent to cause fear of violence, and having ammunition for a firearm without a certificate. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11035045/Ismail-Mohammeed-24-charged-robbery-boxer-Amir-Khans-Franck-Muller-watch-Leyton.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490 | 2022-07-21T10:03:20Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11035045/Ismail-Mohammeed-24-charged-robbery-boxer-Amir-Khans-Franck-Muller-watch-Leyton.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490 | false |
FIFA 23 to include women's club teams in revolutionary move as Chelsea's Sam Kerr joins Paris Saint-Germain's Kylian Mbappe in the first male and female joint cover ahead of September release date
- EA have announced the inclusion of two leading women's leagues in FIFA 23
- Both the upcoming men's and women's World Cup will be a feature on the game
- Sam Kerr joins Kylian Mbappe on FIFA's first ever joint male and female cover
- EA confirmed a September release date at the official FIFA 23 launch event
American-based video game company Electronic Arts (EA) has announced that women's club football teams will be included in FIFA 23 for the very first time.
The gaming giant revealed the news at the launch of the worldwide popular football game and added that the only two leagues included on their 2023 edition will be England's FA Women's Super League and France's Division 1 Féminine.
The two leagues in question are widely regarded as the best in Europe but EA says there are plans to include more divisions in the future.
Chelsea are the current FA Women's Super League champions and will feature on FIFA 23
Chelsea star Sam Kerr has been chosen as the first woman to feature on the cover of the game
EA also revealed another first, as both a male and female player will feature on the cover of the game.
But they didn't keep fans waiting for a big reveal as they confirmed that Paris Saint-Germain forward Kylian Mbappe would don the cover for the third-consecutive year alongside Chelsea Women's Sam Kerr.
FIFA 23 will also feature both the men's World Cup Qatar 2022 and the Women's World Cup Australia and New Zealand 2023.
The likes of Kerr and PSG duo Lieke Martens and Marie-Antoinette Katoko, as well as Lyon's Wendie Renard, will all be accessible for players when the game hits the stores in the autumn.
With the popularity of women's football continuing to rise, EA revealed they wanted to play their part in its growth.
Kylian Mbappe will also feature on the cover of the new FIFA for the third consecutive year
Gamers can choose to play with women's players including Lyon captain Wendie Renard
'We're committed to building an equitable experience and aspire to help grow women's football,' said Fifa 23 producer, Matt Lafreniere.
FIFA 23 will be officially released worldwide on Friday September 30, 2022 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, PC, Stadia, PS4, and Xbox One.
Gamers who opt to pre-order FIFA 23 Ultimate Edition will gain early access to it and will be able to start playing three-days earlier on Tuesday September 27, 2022.
FIFA 23 will be the last FIFA-branded football title after EA announced in May they would be losing the licence following disagreements over costs and exclusivity.
As a result, EA announced it would be moving to a new brand called EA SPORTS FC in 2023. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-11032901/FIFA-23-release-date-know-far.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490 | 2022-07-21T10:03:52Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-11032901/FIFA-23-release-date-know-far.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490 | false |
WFO BOSTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, July 21, 2022
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HEAT ADVISORY
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Boston/Norton MA
452 AM EDT Thu Jul 21 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...Heat index values up to 101.
* WHERE...Portions of northern Connecticut, central, eastern,
northeastern, southeastern and western Massachusetts and
northern and southern Rhode Island.
* WHEN...Until 8 PM EDT this evening.
* IMPACTS...Hot temperatures and high humidity may cause heat
illnesses to occur.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Drink plenty of fluids, stay in an air-conditioned room, stay out
of the sun, and check up on relatives and neighbors. Young
children and pets should never be left unattended in vehicles
under any circumstances.
Take extra precautions if you work or spend time outside. When
possible reschedule strenuous activities to early morning or
evening. Know the signs and symptoms of heat exhaustion and heat
stroke. Wear lightweight and loose fitting clothing when
possible. To reduce risk during outdoor work, the Occupational
Safety and Health Administration recommends scheduling frequent
rest breaks in shaded or air conditioned environments. Anyone
overcome by heat should be moved to a cool and shaded location.
Heat stroke is an emergency! Call 9 1 1.
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Copyright 2022 AccuWeather | https://www.sfgate.com/weather/article/CT-WFO-BOSTON-Warnings-Watches-and-Advisories-17318979.php | 2022-07-21T10:03:55Z | https://www.sfgate.com/weather/article/CT-WFO-BOSTON-Warnings-Watches-and-Advisories-17318979.php | true |
TX Midland/Odessa TX Zone Forecast for Wednesday, July 20, 2022
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949 FPUS54 KMAF 210822
ZFPMAF
Zone Forecast Product for Texas
National Weather Service Midland/Odessa TX
322 AM CDT Thu Jul 21 2022
Zone forecast text represents an average of conditions over an
entire zone. For point-specific forecasts, please refer to the
Point Forecast Matrices product, issued by the National Weather
Service Office in Midland/Odessa, WMO header FOUS54 KMAF.
TXZ061-062-212130-
Ector-Midland-
Including the cities of Odessa and Midland
322 AM CDT Thu Jul 21 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. Isolated showers and thunderstorms this
afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. South winds 10 to 15 mph,
becoming southeast 10 to 20 mph this afternoon. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with isolated showers and thunderstorms
in the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight. Lows in the
mid 70s. Southeast winds 10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. South winds 10 to 15 mph
with gusts up to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. South winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
$$
TXZ045-046-050-051-212130-
Gaines-Dawson-Andrews-Martin-
Including the cities of Seminole, Lamesa, Andrews, and Stanton
322 AM CDT Thu Jul 21 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with isolated showers and thunderstorms.
Highs in the upper 90s. South winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming
southeast 10 to 20 mph this afternoon. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Isolated showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 70s.
Southeast winds 10 to 20 mph, diminishing to 5 to 10 mph after
midnight. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Isolated showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. South winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. South winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
$$
TXZ047-048-052-053-212130-
Borden-Scurry-Howard-Mitchell-
Including the cities of Gail, Snyder, Big Spring,
and Colorado City
322 AM CDT Thu Jul 21 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Isolated showers and thunderstorms this
morning, then scattered showers and thunderstorms this afternoon.
Highs in the upper 90s. South winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming
southeast 10 to 20 mph this afternoon. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Isolated showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the upper
70s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Isolated showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. Southeast
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. South winds 10 to
15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
$$
NMZ033-034-212130-
Central Lea County-Southern Lea County-
Including the cities of Hobbs, Lovington, Eunice, and Jal
222 AM MDT Thu Jul 21 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy with isolated showers and thunderstorms.
Highs in the upper 90s. Southeast winds 10 to 20 mph. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Isolated showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower
70s. East winds 10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Isolated showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. Southeast winds 10 to
20 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 70.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 70.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
$$
TXZ270-212130-
Guadalupe Mountains Above 7000 Feet-
Including the city of Guadalupe Mountains NP
222 AM MDT Thu Jul 21 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Isolated showers and thunderstorms this
afternoon. Cooler with highs in the lower 80s. Southeast winds
10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with isolated showers and thunderstorms.
Breezy with lows in the lower 60s. East winds 15 to 25 mph.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Isolated showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs around 80. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s. East winds
10 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Isolated showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the lower 80s. Southeast winds around 15 mph
with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs around 80. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the lower 60s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the upper 70s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the lower 60s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the upper 70s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the lower 60s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 70s. Chance of rain
20 percent.
$$
TXZ271-212130-
Guadalupe and Delaware Mountains-
Including the cities of Guadalupe Mountains NP and Pine Springs
322 AM CDT Thu Jul 21 2022 /222 AM MDT Thu Jul 21 2022/
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Isolated showers and thunderstorms this
afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. East winds 10 to 20 mph.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with isolated showers and thunderstorms.
Breezy with lows around 70. East winds 15 to 25 mph. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Isolated showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs around 90. East winds 10 to 20 mph. Chance
of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy and breezy. Lows around 70. East
winds 15 to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Isolated showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs around 90. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph with
gusts up to 30 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs around 90. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the upper 60s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the upper 60s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs around 90. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the upper 60s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs around 90. Chance of rain
20 percent.
$$
TXZ272-212130-
Van Horn and Highway 54 Corridor-
Including the city of Van Horn
322 AM CDT Thu Jul 21 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. Isolated showers and thunderstorms this
afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. East winds 5 to 10 mph,
increasing to 10 to 20 mph this afternoon. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with isolated showers and thunderstorms.
Lows in the lower 70s. East winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to
30 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Isolated showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. East winds 5 to 10 mph,
increasing to 10 to 20 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. East winds
10 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Isolated showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Southeast winds 10 to 20 mph.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 70.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
$$
TXZ273-212130-
Eastern Culberson County-
322 AM CDT Thu Jul 21 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. Isolated showers and thunderstorms this
afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. North winds 10 to 15 mph,
becoming east 10 to 20 mph this afternoon. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with isolated showers and thunderstorms.
Breezy with lows in the lower 70s. East winds 15 to 25 mph.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Isolated showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. East winds 10 to 20 mph. Chance
of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast
winds 10 to 20 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Isolated showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph
with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
$$
TXZ274-212130-
Reeves County Plains-
Including the city of Pecos
322 AM CDT Thu Jul 21 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. Isolated showers and thunderstorms this
afternoon. Hot with highs around 101. East winds 5 to 10 mph,
increasing to 10 to 20 mph this afternoon. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy with isolated showers and thunderstorms.
Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Isolated showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. Southeast winds 10 to 20 mph.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast
winds 10 to 20 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Isolated showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph
with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
$$
TXZ075-212130-
Pecos-
Including the city of Fort Stockton
322 AM CDT Thu Jul 21 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Isolated showers and thunderstorms this
afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. Southeast winds 10 to 20 mph.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds
10 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Isolated showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Southeast winds 10 to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast
winds 10 to 20 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. Southeast winds 10 to
20 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
$$
TXZ082-212130-
Terrell-
Including the cities of Dryden and Sanderson
322 AM CDT Thu Jul 21 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy this morning, then sunny with isolated
showers and thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s.
Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s. Southeast winds 10 to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. Southeast winds 10 to
20 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. Southeast
winds 10 to 20 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. Southeast winds 15 to
20 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
$$
TXZ278-212130-
Davis Mountains Foothills-
Including the city of Alpine
322 AM CDT Thu Jul 21 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. Isolated showers and thunderstorms this
afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph,
becoming east 10 to 20 mph this afternoon. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy with isolated showers and thunderstorms.
Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds 10 to 20 mph with gusts up
to 30 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Isolated showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. South winds 10 to 15 mph,
becoming southeast 10 to 20 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast
winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Isolated showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 70.
.MONDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows around 70. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
$$
TXZ277-212130-
Davis Mountains-
Including the city of Fort Davis
322 AM CDT Thu Jul 21 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 8 PM CDT
THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. Scattered showers and thunderstorms this
afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. East winds 10 to 20 mph.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with isolated showers and thunderstorms.
Lows in the upper 60s. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up
to 30 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Isolated showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Southeast winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. Southeast
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Isolated showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs around 90. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance
of rain 20 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the upper 60s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the upper 60s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny in the morning, then partly cloudy with a
slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon.
Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
$$
TXZ276-212130-
Marfa Plateau-
Including the city of Marfa
322 AM CDT Thu Jul 21 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. Scattered showers and thunderstorms this
afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming east 10 to 20 mph this afternoon. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with isolated showers and thunderstorms.
Lows in the lower 70s. East winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to
30 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Isolated showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Southeast winds 10 to
15 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. East winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Isolated showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Southeast winds 10 to
15 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the upper 60s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the upper 60s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the upper 60s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
$$
TXZ275-212130-
Chinati Mountains-
322 AM CDT Thu Jul 21 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 8 PM CDT
THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. Scattered showers and thunderstorms this
afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. East winds 10 to 20 mph. Chance
of rain 30 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with isolated showers and thunderstorms.
Breezy with lows around 70. East winds 15 to 25 mph. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Isolated showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs around 90. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. East winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Isolated showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs around 90. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph with
gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs around 90.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the mid 60s. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.MONDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs around 90. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the upper 60s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the mid 60s. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs around 90. Chance of rain
20 percent.
$$
TXZ279-212130-
Central Brewster County-
Including the cities of Big Bend NP, Panther Junction,
and Marathon
322 AM CDT Thu Jul 21 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Isolated showers and thunderstorms this
afternoon. Not as warm with highs in the upper 90s. East winds
10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy with isolated showers and thunderstorms.
Lows in the lower 70s. East winds 10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Isolated showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. East winds 10 to 20 mph. Chance
of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast
winds 10 to 20 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. Southeast winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
$$
TXZ282-212130-
Lower Brewster County-
Including the cities of Big Bend NP, Lajitas, and Castolon
322 AM CDT Thu Jul 21 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 8 PM CDT
THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Isolated showers and thunderstorms this
afternoon. Hot with highs 98 to 106. Northeast winds 10 to
20 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Isolated showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the upper
70s. East winds 10 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Isolated showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Hot with highs 97 to 103. East winds 10 to 20 mph.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s. East winds
10 to 20 mph, becoming southeast 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 97 to 103. East winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 97 to 103.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 97 to 103.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 98 to 104.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 98 to 104.
$$
TXZ280-212130-
Chisos Basin-
Including the cities of Big Bend NP and Chisos Basin
322 AM CDT Thu Jul 21 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 8 PM CDT
THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Isolated showers and thunderstorms this
afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph,
increasing to 15 to 20 mph this afternoon. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with isolated showers and thunderstorms.
Breezy with lows around 70. East winds 15 to 25 mph, becoming
southeast 10 to 20 mph after midnight. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Isolated showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 70. Southeast winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Southeast winds 10 to
15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear and breezy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy and breezy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs around 90.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 90.
$$
TXZ281-212130-
Presidio Valley-
Including the city of Presidio
322 AM CDT Thu Jul 21 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. Isolated showers and thunderstorms this
afternoon. Hot with highs around 103. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming east 10 to 20 mph this afternoon. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with isolated showers and thunderstorms.
Lows in the upper 70s. East winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to
30 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Isolated showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. East winds 10 to 15 mph.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s. East winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Isolated showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. Southeast winds 10 to
15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the mid 70s. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.MONDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the mid 70s. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the mid 70s. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
$$
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NEW YORK, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Energy Transfer LP ("Energy Transfer" or the "Company") (NYSE: ET) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Energy Transfer investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud. This lawsuit is on behalf of persons who purchased or otherwise acquired common shares of Energy Transfer stock between April 13, 2017 and December 20, 2021, both dates inclusive. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
ET investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed that: (a) Energy Transfer had inadequate internal controls and procedures to prevent contractors from engaging in illegal conduct with regards to drilling activities, and/or failed to properly mitigate known issues related to such controls and procedures; (b) Energy Transfer, through its subsidiary Rover Pipeline, LLC, hired a third-party contractor to conduct Horizontal Directional Drilling Activities for the Rover Pipeline Project, whose conduct of adding illegal additives in the drilling mud caused severe pollution near the Tuscarawas River when a large inadvertent release took place on April 13, 2017; (c) Energy Transfer continually downplayed its potential civil liabilities when the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ("FERC") was actively investigating the Energy Transfer's wrongdoing related to the April 13 release and consistently provided it with updated information about FERC's findings on this matter.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Energy Transfer during the relevant time frame, you have until August 2, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
WHY LEVI & KORSINSKY: Over the past 20 years, the team at Levi & Korsinsky has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for aggrieved shareholders and built a track record of winning high-stakes cases. Our firm has extensive expertise representing investors in complex securities litigation and a team of over 70 employees to serve our clients. For seven years in a row, Levi & Korsinsky has ranked in ISS Securities Class Action Services' Top 50 Report as one of the top securities litigation firms in the United States.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s state TV said Thursday the country’s foreign ministry recalled its ambassador from Sweden after an Iranian citizen was sentenced to life by a Swedish court for committing war crimes and murder during the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s.
The report quoted ministry spokesman Naser Kanani as saying the ambassador took the action for some “consultation” over the life sentence for Hamid Noury earlier this month.
The Stockholm District Court said that Noury took part in severe atrocities in July and August 1988 while working as an assistant to the deputy prosecutor at the Gohardasht prison outside the Iranian city of Karaj.
The court said 61-year-old Noury participated “in the executions of many political prisoners” in Iran that summer.
Throughout the trial, Noury denied wrongdoing and Iran called the court a “show” based on political motives.
The development comes at a tense time for ties between Stockholm and Tehran. A number of Europeans were detained in Iran in recent months, including a Swedish tourist, two French citizens, a Polish scientist and others.
The detentions aroused concerns that Iran hoped to leverage the prisoners as bargaining chips to pressure the United States and European nations to grant the sanctions relief it received under its tattered 2015 nuclear accord.
Noury was arrested in November 2019 when he arrived in Stockholm on a tourist trip.
In a separate development, Iran summoned Argentine’s charge d’affaires in Tehran because of the travel ban that Buenos Aires imposed on five Iranian flight crew members after their plane landed in an airport of the south American nation in June.
Prosecutors in Argentina said they launched investigations to figure out whether the crew members — 14 Venezuelans and five Iranians — have any ties to international terrorism or other illicit activity.
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Comfortable and stylish masks, plus helpful mask accessories
It’s scientifically proven that face masks can minimize exposure to viruses, bacteria, dust and particulate matter from wildfires. Like most personal protective equipment, though, the most effective mask is the one that you’ll actually wear. By this point, everybody knows how uncomfortable masks can be, especially if you have to wear them for long periods of time. Plus, the traditional surgery masks aren’t exactly flattering. The right reusable mask should look good, filter air effectively, last a long time and be generally comfortable to wear (not necessarily in that order).
Accessories to make masks more bearable
While a lot of folks search specifically for the most comfortable masks, there are some accessories made to accompany masks, and these accessories can make a surprising difference in terms of both comfort and effectiveness.
One big problem people have with masks is that they constantly rub up against the face. This is supremely uncomfortable for a few reasons, including condensation dripping down your cheeks, fabric getting in your mouth and makeup or lipstick rubbing everywhere. These lightweight brackets keep the cloth away from your skin, which makes it more comfortable, and with a properly fitted mask, can even make for more consistent filtration.
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Have you ever taken off your mask and had to massage the backs of your ears for a few moments to relieve the soreness? If so, these flexible polypropylene straps can help. There are a few flanges to choose from, so no matter what the size your head is, they minimize ear pain and allow for more effective masking.
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If plastic mask straps get in the way of your hair or just don’t feel good or work well for you, consider one of these soft fabric lanyards. They have reliable metal clips and a well-built, spring-loaded button that makes them easy to resize. They come in a range of colors and are ideal for both adults and kids.
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NBDIB Activated Carbon Filters
The truth is that N95 masks are categorically more effective than cloth masks, but they’re also not very good looking and tend to be highly uncomfortable after a while. Many cloth masks have a sleeve for inserting a filter just like these to bring their protection level up a bit closer to that of N95 or KN95 face masks.
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Stylish and comfortable cloth masks
These are about as straightforward as they get, with a polyester outer layer and cotton inner layer. They’re black, so they should go with just about any outfit, and they’re slightly stretchy to add comfort and create an effective seal.
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This face mask offers an adjustable, pleated design that surgical masks do, but it’s made from polyester with a touch of elastic instead of that uncomfortable plastic material that most people don’t like. This mask comes in a few designs that range from understated to bright and fun, and it should hold up to a relatively high number of machine washings.
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Because variety is the spice of life, consider one of these six-packs of variously colored masks. They’re made from 100% cotton, so they’re highly durable and also pretty comfortable. Not to mention, they’re especially cost-effective.
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You can opt for the simple black model if you want, but these three-pack masks feature novel and fun designs. They also stand apart from others due to the included lanyards that help keep them snug on your face without hurting your neck or ears.
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Under Armour Adult Sports Mask
This is one of the most high-performance options around, which is no surprise considering it’s designed by a top sports equipment manufacturer for both premium filtration and impressive breathability. It comes in a variety of colors and instead of an adjustable strap, there are several fitted sizes to choose from. Also, the straps themselves are flat and a bit stretchy to minimize stress on the ears.
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Vogmask, VMC Particle Filtering Face Mask
Originally designed to combat harmful particulate matter launched out of volcanoes, the Vogmask has multiple high-tech layers that do a surprisingly good job of filtering pathogens and other foreign substances from the air. It comes in plain, solid colors as well as a number of fun and interesting designs and patterns, and there are five sizes for various ages and head shapes.
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While you can reuse many masks, this one specifically claims to offer high levels of protection for up to six months. It looks and feels like a high-end piece of apparel, thanks to its premium two-layer construction and the spring-loaded pucks that let you adjust the straps to fit you perfectly.
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These are a little different than your average fashionable face covering. They sport a clear plastic window that lets others see your lips move, so if you work in a nursing home or live with someone who’s hard of hearing, these thoughtful masks will let them use lip reading to understand you better.
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Nickelodeon Kids’ Reusable Mask SpongeBob
These fun, bright masks make it that much easier to convince your little one to put their mask on, leave it on and stop messing with it.
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Adult masks don’t work well on kids, and young boys and girls alike often love stars, planets and anything to do with space. These solar system and galaxy-themed masks give your munchkins an extra way to express themselves, hopefully making the whole mask-wearing experience considerably less stressful.
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If you’re going to an outdoor party or all-night rave, this light-up mask is one of the most eye-catching accessories you could wear. It offers several colors and various flashing patterns and transitions. It also runs on a USB-rechargeable battery and doesn’t generate any extra uncomfortable heat.
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BAR ELIAS, Lebanon (AP) — Sitting outside her tent in a camp in eastern Lebanon, a 30-year-old Syrian refugee contemplated the sunset and her worsening options.
Umm Jawad fled to Lebanon in 2011 to escape a Syrian government siege of her hometown of Homs. She managed to survive over the past decade, despite Lebanon’s devastating economic meltdown and souring attitudes toward Syrian refugees.
But now Lebanon wants to send her and a million other refugees back to Syria, claiming that much of the war-shattered country is safe. She is terrified. Life in Lebanon is difficult, but she fears returning to Syria could be fatal.
She’s considering a risky escape to Europe by sea with her husband and their children, ages 11 and six. There, she could complete her accounting degree, put the children back in school and secure a steady supply of medication for her epilepsy.
“They (the Europeans) live a better quality of life,” said Umm Jawad, who asked to be identified by her nickname, which means mother of Jawad in reference to her older son’s first name, to speak freely about her family and plans. “But here, my children, husband, and I live in a tent.”
Lebanon’s economic meltdown -– one of the worst in modern history — has pushed a growing number of Lebanese and Syrians to attempt the perilous journey by sea to Europe.
The Lebanese government’s recently announced plan to deport 15,000 refugees per month to Syria appears set to push more people to make that journey, at a time when Europe is struggling with millions of Ukrainian refugees fleeing the months-long war in their country.
The Lebanese Army and other security agencies report foiled migration attempts off the coast of the northern coasts on a weekly basis. At least seven migrants drowned following a confrontation between a boat of Lebanese and Syrian migrants and the Lebanese Army in April.
“The Lebanese are not happy with their life here and are trying to leave, so what does that mean for Syrians?” said Umm Jawad. “May God help both the Lebanese and Syrians out of this crisis.”
Umm Jawad lives in a Syrian refugee camp near Lebanon’s eastern border crossing with Syria, On a recent day, children played soccer in the camp’s labyrinth of alleys, while some residents bartered with a street vendor who passed by with his cart carrying produce. One man set up a makeshift barbershop inside a tent.
Life in the camp has been getting harder. Donor fatigue, the COVID-19 pandemic, and Lebanon’s crippling economic crisis have forced more refugees to go into debt to afford food, medicine, and rent.
Lebanon, a country of five million people, says it can no longer afford to host more than a million Syrian refugees, and is adamant to start deporting them within months, despite opposition from the United Nations and rights groups.
The Lebanese authorities have supported forced refugee returns for years but had not come up with a comprehensive plan until recently. In justifying such measures, they say Syrian officials have assured them there are now many safe areas refugees can return to.
In a Lebanese government document obtained by The Associated Press, Damascus assured Beirut in April that returnees would be able to secure identification cards, birth certificates, social services, temporary housing, and a viable infrastructure. Syrian officials also wrote that returnees would benefit from Syrian President Bashar Assad’s pardons of political opponents and military draft evaders.
In reality, the Assad government has struggled to rebuild areas it has reclaimed through devastating sieges and air raids, and Syria’s economy, like that of Lebanon, is in tatters. Western-led sanctions on Damascus following the government’s brutal crackdown on political opposition in 2011 have further exacerbated the economic downturn.
Many Syrian refugees fear for their safety if forced to return, including the oppressive omnipresence of their country’s notorious security services.
Human Rights Watch has documented cases of Syrian refugees facing detention, torture, and a host of human rights violations upon their return, even with security clearances from the Syrian government, said Lama Fakih, the Middle East and North Africa director at the watchdog group.
Umm Jawad worries her husband could be forced to return to the military. “You have check points every few hundred meters, between every neighborhood, and crime is rampant. You just can’t feel safe even in your own home,” she said.
Hassan Al-Mohammed, who works in the fields of Lebanon’s lush Bekaa Valley, along with several of his 12 children, said he dreams of going home, but that now is not the time. He said his hometown southwest of the city of Aleppo is still a frontline. “Should I flee an economic crisis just to have my family slaughtered?” he said, sitting in his tent.
At the same time, many Lebanese feel that sending the Syrians home would ease the economic crisis in Lebanon, wherethree out of four people now live in poverty.
Tensions between Lebanese and Syrians are increasingly palpable.
Al-Mohammed says bakeries would sometimes prioritize Lebanese nationals for their bundle of bread and make Syrians and non-Lebanese wait for hours. He is frustrated by claims that refugees have been benefitting economically at the expense of Lebanese. “They reduced aid, so we’re working to eat. The money we make is to buy bread,” he said.
Lebanese ministers in recent months have proposed that the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees redirect refugee aid to Syria, as a way of improving the situation there and encouraging returns.
But those calls have so far fallen on deaf ears. The U.N. refugee agency, along with Europe, the United States and several rights groups, say that Syria simply isn’t safe yet.
Lebanese officials expressed their frustration.
The U.N.’s refusal to redirect aid deters refugees from returning, Issam Charafeddine, the Cabinet minister dealing with refugee issues, said in an interview earlier this month. He also said reports of an imminent start of deportations amount to an unfounded “fear campaign.”
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As a grudge against the Moonies is established as the motive for the killing last week of the former Japanese prime minister, Shinzo Abe, a new light has been shone on Japan’s extraordinary religious life.
Murder suspect Tetsuya Yamagami was reportedly acting on a vendetta against a religious cult that he blamed for swallowing his family’s fortune. His mother has subsequently been identified as a member of the Unification Church, also referred to as the “Moonies”.
Full details have yet to emerge, but Mr Abe’s links to the church and many other obscure belief systems are not in doubt. As a leading politician, it would be the norm.
“In Japan, politics and religion go hand in hand,” says Levi McLaughlin, a professor of religious studies at North Carolina State University in the US. “Abe, like many politicians, has connections with multiple religious groups. And like others, he was happy to take advantage of their generosity and their manpower.”
This role, says Mr McLaughlin, is critical in Japanese political life to mobilise faith followers in elections and add to campaign treasuries, although voters are wary of religious affiliations.
However, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party is itself propped up by a lay Buddhist group, Komeito, whose sister organisation claims to have eight million followers, and which is also mired in controversy.
“Being associated with religious groups can be uncool and scary,” says Nobuo Sato, editor of Japan’s literary magazine, Kotoba. While freedom of religion is constitutionally guaranteed, 80 per cent of Japanese claim no personal religion, according to official figures.
But the country is deeply mired in superstitious beliefs, say observers. Where most Japanese fall under the agnostic umbrella, liminality – a belief in unseen worlds – is, in particular, widely accepted. Rituals to discourage evil spirits are common in building and engineering projects and at the launch of new enterprise.
Meanwhile, new religions and cults flourish and New Age thinking has never been more popular on the Japanese internet. Even high finance in Tokyo’s golden mile keeps offices empty around a shrine to a 1,000-year-old severed head to assuage a perceived super grudge from a vanquished warrior.
“Concerns for rituals remains very important and the belief in the mystical involves many – even Japan’s political dynasties,” said Mr McLaughlin. This, despite Japan’s constitution demanding the separation of church and state.
Mr Abe’s family, and the former leader himself, have been closely linked with colourful figures such as Ekan Ikeguchi, also known as “Parliament’s Rasputin”. He heads a highly esoteric and messianic Buddhist movement, claiming in an interview to have helped Mr Abe to recover from serious illness using “healing powers”.
“His politics align with many in nationalist circles, and it’s clear he has deep political ties. But, there are a lot of similar figures in Japan, many of whom court influential politicians,” says Mr McLaughlin. “Abe’s wife as well, very much his partner, was centre of his efforts to connect to ideologies.”
That includes permanent engagements with Shinto organisations such as the quasi religious nationalist lobbying group Nippon Kaigi and the Association of Shinto Shrines, which are affiliated with the Shinto Political League, which this month claimed “homosexuality is a mental disease or addiction”.
Such shinto shrines are institutionalised, and have always been connected to money and political power, says Jolyon Thomas, a scholar of Japanese religion, adding that the norms are “shady land deals, bloody battles over succession [and] harassment scandals”.
Unfathomable as such beliefs and affiliations may seem, the troubled nexus of woo and politics continues to thrive in modern Japan no matter how hard the Japanese push down the lid on it. | https://inews.co.uk/news/world/shinzo-abe-killing-reveals-japans-unseen-world-shadowy-cults-1740220 | 2022-07-21T10:12:17Z | https://inews.co.uk/news/world/shinzo-abe-killing-reveals-japans-unseen-world-shadowy-cults-1740220 | true |
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — On the 53rd anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing, NASA announced Wednesday it’s shooting for a late August launch of its giant, new moon rocket.
NASA will attempt the more than month-long lunar test flight with three mannequins, but no astronauts, as early as Aug. 29. There are also two launch dates in early September, before NASA would have to stand down for two weeks.
NASA’s Jim Free noted the test flight begins “our Artemis program to go back to the moon.” The space agency’s new lunar program is named Artemis after Apollo’s twin sister in Greek mythology.
The 30-story Space Launch System rocket and attached Orion capsule are currently in the hangar at Kennedy Space Center, following repairs stemming from last month’s countdown test. Fuel leaks and other technical trouble cropped up during NASA’s repeated launch rehearsals at the pad.
NASA officials assured reporters Wednesday that the problems have been resolved and that testing is almost complete. But they cautioned the launch dates could slip, depending on the volatile Florida weather and issues that might arise before the rocket is supposed to return to the pad on Aug. 18.
“We’re going to be careful,” said Free, head of exploration systems development.
At 322 feet (98 meters), the rocket and Orion capsule are taller than the Statue of Liberty.
If Orion’s trip to the moon and back goes well, astronauts could climb aboard in 2023 for a lunar loop-around and actually land in 2025.
Astronauts last explored the moon in 1972. The first of the 12 moonwalkers, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, stepped onto the dusty gray surface on July 20, 1969, while Michael Collins orbited the moon.
The 92-year-old Aldrin, the sole survivor of the three, noted the anniversary in a tweet: “Neil, Michael & I were proud to represent America as we took those giant leaps for mankind. It was a moment which united the world and America’s finest hour.”
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Retail giant Amazon is making its highly anticipated debut on the Garden State’s supermarket scene.
The company’s first Amazon Fresh grocery store in New Jersey opens at 7 a.m. on Thursday, July 21, in Paramus.
The new 50,000-square-foot store is located at 30 E. Ridgewood Ave. — the space of a former Fairway Market.
Amazon Fresh is known more as a grocery delivery service for Prime members than a brick-and-mortar store. There are more than 35 locations across the country.
The stores feature “dash carts,” which automatically scan items, and “Just Walk Out shopping,” a feature that lets customers avoid a checkout line. Instead, they are charged once they leave the store.
New Jersey is expected to get an additional three Amazon Fresh stores at some point, but details are limited. Amazon purchased a Fairway Market building in Woodland Park in 2020, with plans to open an Amazon Fresh there, as well as stores in Eatontown and Holmdel.
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Consensus college women’s basketball player of the year Aliyah Boston turned down a late invitation to the ESPYS awards show, saying the offer was even more hurtful than not being asked to attend.
Boston helped the South Carolina Gamecocks win the NCAA title by defeating Connecticut in April. She swept the national awards as the game’s top player, including the Wooden and AP awards.
Boston, voted the Final Four’s Most Outstanding Player, had hoped to attend and was disappointed when not asked.
“It hurt more to see ESPN change course and invite me only after social media caught wind of it,” Boston posted on Twitter on Wednesday. “Respectfully, I declined.”
Boston’s coach, Dawn Staley, highlighted the snub this week, musing publicly on social media how the people who planned the ESPYS decided “it was a great idea not to invite” the woman who won several national awards as one of the best players last season.
“Not one person was able to see the uproar this would cause? There’s definitely something wrong with the make up of the room,” Staley said on Twitter.
In a statement, ESPN said COVID-19 concerns and a smaller venue forced organizers to prioritize invitees to the show in Los Angeles. Boston’s award category was handed out Tuesday night at the ESPYS preview show. Boston was nominated for best college athlete in women’s sports, which went to Oklahoma softball star Jocelyn Alo.
Boston said it’s just the latest example of overlooking a Black woman’s achievements — a move that’s brushed off as a “mistake” or an “oversight.”
“Another excuse for why our milestones and accomplishments aren’t a ‘priority,’ this time, even now, 50 years after Title IX,” she said.
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On one level, it's almost impossible to put a dollar figure on lives shattered by gun violence or to try to measure the pain of having a loved one killed or seriously injured.
But researchers of two new studies using federal health care and hospital data underscore that the repercussions from firearm deaths and injuries are deeper, wider and far costlier than previously known.
In a new study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, Dr. Zirui Song and colleagues found a four-fold increase in health care spending as a direct result of a non-fatal firearm injury.
Dr. Song, an Associate Professor of Health Care Policy and Medicine at Harvard Medical School, also charts a substantial increase in other health disorders that undermine a person's health and well-being.
"In the first year after a non-fatal firearm injury, survivors experienced a 40% increase in physical pain or other forms of pain syndromes; a 50% increase in psychiatric disorders; and an 85% increase in substance use disorders," Dr. Song says, while on break from his rounds at Massachusetts General Hospital, where he practices internal medicine. He adds more research is needed as to exactly why those addiction numbers and other disorders go up so dramatically.
"These results are disturbing and we, as a research team, found them quite striking, as well," he says. "The ripple effects are quite profound and meaningful for both survivors and family members and, I would argue, clinically and economically substantial."
And those effects aren't just on those injured by bullets. The study shows family members of survivors, too, can carry massive physical and mental burdens.
"Family members on average, including parents, siblings and children, experienced a 12% increase in psychiatric disorders," he says.
The study is based largely on healthcare claims data, not hospital survey or discharge data. Dr. Song says that allows for a more detailed look at spending than previous studies based on other types of data.
"There is really an undercurrent of forgotten survivors whose own health and economic conditions are affected quite profoundly, even though they were lucky enough to survive," he tells NPR.
And the financial burden for this fallout is mostly landing on the shoulders of taxpayers and employees: Dr. Song's study shows 96% of the increase in health care spending on firearm injuries is shouldered by Medicare and U.S. employers.
"In direct costs alone, it's $2.5 billion in healthcare spending in the first year after non-fatal firearm injuries," he says. "This number is much larger if you include indirect costs of lost wages or productivity."
A study out this week by Everytown for Gun Safety delves into that larger picture and looks at a wide range of direct and indirect costs from all gun violence in America, fatal as well as gun injuries.
"This epidemic is costing our nation $557 billion annually," says Sarah Burd-Sharps, research director at the gun control advocacy group. "Looking at the economic consequence offers a wider lens for understanding just how extensive — and expensive — this crisis is."
The $557 billion figure seems astonishing. But the group says it looks at myriad direct costs associated with gun violence. Researcher Burd-Sharps notes the figures include immediate costs of a shooting, such as the police response, investigations and ambulance services all the way to the long-term health care costs. The analysis also includes estimates for a victims' lost earnings, costs incurred by the criminal justice system, the price of mental health care and more.
"Whenever you're costing these kind of injuries, you have to take into consideration that quality of life amount, which is admittedly quite large," she says.
In fact, Burd-Sharps believes the true annual figure is even higher than the estimate in the report that society loses some $1.34 billion every day for pain and suffering related to all victims of gun violence.
"This is honestly a very conservative estimate," she says. "It covers directly measurable costs. It doesn't cover things like the trauma of children who don't want to return their school. The impact on businesses or on property, you know, values and taxes. It doesn't cover any of those wider reverberations."
Burd-Sharps is scheduled to testify before two Congressional committees this week on the economic impact of gun violence.
She says she'll tell lawmakers the group is grateful for their recent federal actions on guns, which included incentives for states to pass "red flag'' laws, which temporarily remove a weapon from a person deemed dangerous, and expanded background checks for those between of the ages of 18 and 21 who wish to buy a gun.
But Burd-Sharps says she'll also tell the Congress members that "much more is needed to fight this epidemic."
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JERUSALEM — Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu testified on Thursday that he bears no responsibility for the safety gaps that led to a deadly stampede that killed 45 people last year.
“I didn’t deal with safety,” Netanyahu testified to an independent commission investigating the tragedy, saying he only stepped in because of the coronavirus pandemic. As for other safety gaps or measures, he said, “The prime minister doesn’t deal with that.”
The independent commission of inquiry launched after the disaster last year is investigating major safety lapses and overcrowding at the mountaintop site and has recommended limiting attendance and revamping safety protocols and infrastructure.
In his testimony to the state commission, Netanyahu said that ordinarily the prime minister is not involved in preparations for annual celebrations at Meron, but he said he weighed in due to the coronavirus pandemic restrictions in place at the time.
“I did more than my predecessors to deal with the issues,” Netanyahu said, when pressed about warnings there were gaps in safety regulations before the event.
In last year’s incident, hundreds of people bottlenecked in a narrow passageway descending the mountain, and a slippery slope caused people to stumble and fall. The resulting human avalanche killed 45 people and injured at least 150.
The site is believed to be the burial place of prominent second century sage Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai. The annual springtime celebrations are marked by the lighting of large bonfires, singing and dancing.
Last week, Israel Police Northern District Chief Shimon Lavi resigned, accepting responsibility for the disaster.
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EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — In one way, this race was like so many in the past for Caster Semenya. When she crossed the finish line, there wasn’t anyone near her.
This race, though, was the 5,000 meters — not her specialty, the 800 — and when Semenya crossed the line all alone, she was in 13th place.
She failed to advance through the opening heat at world championships Wednesday, an expected result for the South African who is barred from her best event because of rules that demand she take hormone-reducing drugs to enter races between 400 meters and one mile.
Semenya finished the 12 1/2-lap race — run in blistering 91-degree (32 Celsius) heat — in 15 minutes, 46.12 seconds, 54 seconds behind the winner, Gudaf Tsegay of Ethiopia. Given the circumstances, Semenya said this did not feel like defeat, and she was nowhere near giving up.
“I think it is great to be able to run here,” she said. “Just being able to finish the 5K, for me, it is a blessing. I am learning and I am willing to learn even more. It was hot, I could not keep up with the pace, I tried to stick as much as I can. But it is a part of the game.”
Semenya lost an appeal of a World Athletics regulation that made women with certain intersex condition ineligible in races between 400 meters and a mile. Since 2019, she hasn’t raced in a major 800-meter race, the event in which she has won two Olympic and three world titles.
But there’s nothing keeping her from the 5,000, and even though she had virtually no chance of winning, she came to Oregon anyway. Her personal best in the race is 15:31.50, which is outside the world-championships qualifying standard. But she moved into the race after some higher-ranked runners did not enter.
American Karissa Schweizer, who finished fifth in Semenya’s heat, said “it’s pretty inspiring that she’s making most of her effort and she’s still out here competing at a world level.”
“She’s in obviously a different situation,” Schweizer said. “She can’t control that. She has to move up to a different event and the 5K is a tough event. We just have to look it as that regard — that she’s at a world-level in a 5K.”
Semenya’s case is the most recognizable of a handful of instances involving intersex and transgender athletes in sports.
Semenya is not transgender, but her case carries strong implications for how transgender athletes are treated and classified. Semenya has never publicly identified herself as intersex or having the intersex condition called 46,XY difference in sex development (DSD). But she essentially acknowledged having the condition when she appealed the World Athletics rules.
World Athletics President Sebastian Coe, who has hinted that the rules could be updated later this year, but probably not in a way that would restore Semenya’s eligibility in the 800, said science regarding the effects of testosterone on athletes has guided all World Athletics’ decisions.
“The issue for me is very simple,” Coe said in an interview the day before Semenya’s race. “Of course, I recognize that both with DSD and with transgender, these are societal issues. I don’t have the luxury, however, of being intimately involved in that debate. My responsibility is to protect the integrity of women’s sport.”
Semenya has been an outspoken critic of the rules, most recently saying through her lawyer that they are “an affront to the spirit of the sport.”
Two Namibian 200-meter runners, Christine Mboma and Beatrice Masilingi, have a condition similar to that of Semenya, but because their races do not fall under the restrictions, they are eligible. Coe said the distance restrictions, like all else in the regulations, “are not carved in stone.”
Mboma missed worlds with an injury, while Masilingi failed to make it through Tuesday night’s semifinals. Another runner, Francine Niyonsaba, successfully moved from the 800, where she won a silver medal at the Rio Games, to the 5,000 and 10,000. She finished fifth in Tokyo in the 10K, but is out of worlds due to injury.
“Our whole approach has been about finding a navigable solution through this,” Coe said. “I didn’t come into the sport to stop people competing, I came into the sport to find a reason to allow them to compete.”
Semenya did just that.
She hung in the middle of the lead pack of the 18-woman race for about three laps, then things started stringing out. Halfway through the 5,000 meters, she had fallen to 13th — racing in a group of three runners some 80 meters behind the lead group. With about three laps to go, Semenya was in a familiar place — running all alone on the track — but she was in 13th.
There were no runners within 50 meters of her on either side when she crossed the finish line to a notable burst of applause, same as she received when she was introduced at the starting line.
While most of the runners collapsed to the track at the end, Semenya paced around, breathing heavily, with her hands on her hips.
She high-fived a few of the runners, grabbed a wet towel to put on the back of her neck, then dug around in a cooler for something to drink before heading up a set of stairs that lead away from the track.
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Coronation Street star Greg Wood is almost unrecognisable in a selfie that he shared on social media this week with his new girlfriend.
The actor, 42, is best known for playing loan shark Rick Neelan on the ITV soap, which he joined in 2009 - initially appearing for a year. He briefly returned in 2012 and 2019.
His character was killed off during his most recent stint on the show, with the repercussions of his death at the hands of Gary Windass still being felt in Weatherfield even now.
It's been three years since Greg appeared on Corrie though and he looks quite different from his on-screen role in a recent photo shared with his followers on Instagram.
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It showed Greg sporting salt and pepper hair as he smiled alongside a blonde woman, who according to the Sun, has been identified as his new girlfriend Clair Nuttall.
He wrote in the caption: "Today was a good day." He included a red heart emoji in the post, with Clair using the same emoji in the comments section in response to it.
The Corrie alum appeared to go Instagram official with the post earlier this week of himself and Clair - who is a camera operator and award-winning documentary filmmaker.
The father-of-three first appeared on Clair's account in May, after they had attended an event together - with it unknown how long the two of them have been dating.
It's understood that Greg has three children with his ex-wife. He was also in a high-profile relationship with Sheridan Smith, now 41, which reportedly ended in around 2016.
Aside from his role on Corrie, he's also known for having played villain Trevor Royle on Hollyoaks from 2013 to 2016. He'd previously had other roles on the Channel 4 soap.
His other credits include playing Terry Gibson on Brookside as well as brief appearances on Emmerdale and Casualty. He's set to appear in the next series of show Brassic.
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Ethan Hawke's documentary series about Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, called The Last Movie Stars, is an unmistakably pandemic-era project. It's full of video calls, with all of their impulsivity and informality, with director Hawke in a variety of sometimes neat and sometimes chaotic hair configurations (both facial and head). We see Hawke talking to his daughter and his wife, talking to Newman and Woodward's kids, talking about what he's learned with Vincent D'Onofrio and Laura Linney and Zoe Kazan. Most of what you will see on screen is these calls alongside hours of clips of Newman and Woodward (and occasionally other actors) working. And it all feels of its isolated moment, because it is a project perfect for a time of restless introspection about life in general, and thus about celebrity, marriage and art.
Newman laid the groundwork for the documentary
The birth of the series came, Hawke says, from a treasure trove of interview tapes with everyone from Newman's first wife, Jackie Witte, to directors George Roy Hill and Sidney Lumet — tapes that Newman commissioned for a planned memoir and then, much later, burned on what appears to have been something of an impulse. But Newman's kids (he had three with Witte and three with Woodward) later learned that there were transcripts of those tapes, and they asked Hawke if he'd like to direct a documentary using them.
Hawke's solution for making transcripts something to watch rather than to read is to gather actors to read from them as if they were scripts, usually over all those clips of decades of movies and other footage. So, for instance, George Clooney reads Newman himself; Laura Linney reads Joanne Woodward; Vincent D'Onofrio reads John Huston; and Brooks Ashmanskas has a fantastic time wrapping his voice around the words of Gore Vidal (a close friend of the couple who gave the series its name by referring to them as such).
One film, three stories
The Last Movie Stars tells three stories, really, all of them effectively. One is the history of a marriage: Newman and Woodward meeting as young actors; starting a relationship that all seem to agree was intensely carnal from practically the day they met and remained so forever; studying at the Actors Studio; growing older and seeing their careers diverge as he became a megasuperstar; staying together despite a path more rocky than their legend has sometimes left room for; finding new paths in philanthropy and television later in their lives. (Newman died in 2008; Woodward is still alive, but has Alzheimer's and didn't participate directly, although she appears in archival television interview footage.)
The second is a Hollywood history. Hawke explores how Woodward made her way through an industry that didn't celebrate her nearly as much as it did her husband. We learn how today's prestige TV series are not the first such opportunities for actresses neglected by Hollywood. We learn that Newman sank into what some considered a fallow period during his time as an established movie star and how he rebounded with The Verdict. There is even space for Vidal, from beyond the grave, to darkly muse on how the tragic death of James Dean paved the way for Newman's success.
And the third is how Hawke and his contemporaries who do voices in the series and chat with him on Zoom, some of whom you can find with their arms slung around him in old wire photos from the '90s, look on these legends who inhabited a different Hollywood than the one that they've known. Hawke, for instance, is gently led by his wife in one conversation to think about his own starstruck attachment to Newman's legend before he judges too harshly how stardom commodifies human beings. Revering Newman for being from the Actors Studio and not for having blue eyes does not, after all, make Hawke less hungry for connection to someone he didn't know.
How to have heroes
In fact, this third story may be the one that was the least likely to work and the one that feels most unusual. It's easy to understand why the story of Woodward and Newman's marriage and careers is fascinating and why examining it more closely is satisfying; they genuinely did lead extraordinary lives and leave behind great art. It's the director and his friends entering the conversation and musing to each other in video calls that could seem aimless or self-indulgent. But here, it gives the series something fresh and timeless to be about, beyond acting and beyond this industry. It becomes at some level a story about how to have heroes in the first place.
Hawke begins the series talking to these Zoom friends about how remarkable Newman and Woodward were: the art they made, the kids, the charity work — and he raced cars, too. Several times, you can see Hawke trying to figure out how to convey how massive they loom in his mind (especially now, having done all this research). Can you imagine, he keeps telling people. Can you imagine, being at the Actors Studio with James Dean and Marilyn Monroe and Marlon Brando? Can you imagine?
How to process the flaws
But it's a complicated story. You can see Hawke wrangling on camera with what Stephanie Newman, one of Newman's daughters with Jackie Witte, tells him about how agonizing the long affair and eventual storybook marriage of her father and her stepmother was for her mother, who she says also had wanted to be an actress. "She was left with three kids under the age of five," Stephanie says. "I was a baby."
Hawke is making a series about people whose careers he admires that is absolutely written as a love letter to much of what they were and did. But where does the pain they caused others live within that story? Where does Hawke, as an ardent admirer of Newman and a father himself, put the fact that Newman felt he was too much of an absent parent for too many years, and that it clearly caused pain to his kids? What role does the extraordinary privilege of having been an absurdly handsome (even he admitted this about himself, essentially) white actor in the 20th century play in contextualizing what Newman was able to accomplish? Not its role in the documentary, so much as in the shape of the reverence itself?
It's not as simple as "nobody's perfect"; making allowances is easy. The thesis of the series on this point, I think, is that you learn the most from your heroes by not excepting their faults from your admiration of them but by embracing those faults as integral to who they were and letting all that you admire coexist with all that you don't. And, in this case, paying close attention to how Newman, in particular, behaved after he made some of these errors, and what he did about feeling boundlessly lucky — a theme that comes up over and over.
A word you hear a lot about famous couples like Newman and Woodward is royalty. "Hollywood royalty." The Last Movie Stars suggests that perhaps royalty is both too much and too little of a label for anyone you admire. Too much, because it puts a dishonest polish on their flaws. Too little, because it robs them of the very things you can learn the most from, which is a thorough understanding of how they dealt with the times when they were vain or stubborn, not good to each other, not good to others, not easy to love, or not easily loving.
This is a terrific history; it is an absolute feast of film clips, full of things I didn't know, full of things a lot of people probably don't know. It is rich and thorough when it is operating as a biography. But there is something especially welcome in the moments in which it steps back and becomes a study of generations of artists and of legend itself, legend as a thing so big it can block out the sun and obscure the messy lessons of other people's lives that are, after all, the best reasons to study them.
All six episodes of The Last Movie Stars are streaming on HBO MAX.
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PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Republican Party has censured state House Speaker Rusty Bowers after his gripping public testimony to the Jan. 6 panel about Donald Trump’s relentless pressure to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
The censure Tuesday night by the state GOP’s executive committee came hours after Trump reiterated his support for Bowers’ opponent in his upcoming Republican primary for state Senate. The former president is scheduled to campaign with his favored candidates on Friday in northern Arizona.
The censure is largely symbolic, but it’s illustrative of the iron grip that Trump continues to have over the Republican Party, even after a mob of his supporters broke into the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in an effort to stop Joe Biden from becoming president.
“(Bowers) is no longer a Republican in good standing & we call on Republicans to replace him at the ballot box in the August primary,” Arizona Republican Party chair Kelli Ward tweeted Tuesday.
It’s highly unusual for a state political party to formally take sides in a contested primary, but the Arizona GOP under Ward has not been shy about boosting Trump allies in the internal struggle over the future of the Republican Party. The Arizona Republican Party last year censured other top Republicans who crossed the former president, including Gov. Doug Ducey, Cindy McCain and former Sen. Jeff Flake.
A spokesman for Bowers, Andrew Wilder, did not immediately respond to a phone call and text message seeking comment.
The censure does not specifically mention Bowers’ testimony to the House Jan. 6 committee but characterizes him as hostile to the GOP platform and activists. It cites his efforts to block election bills advanced by Trump allies and his support for a bill banning most employers from discriminating against LGBTQ people, among other measures.
Bowers is term-limited in the House and is running for the state Senate against David Farnsworth, a former Republican senator who echoes Trump’s lies about the 2020 election.
Bowers earned national acclaim with his recitation of the pressure he faced from Trump and his allies, including angry and noisy protests outside his home as his adult daughter lay dying inside from an extended illness. Bowers says he supported Trump’s campaign in 2020 but would not help the former president overturn his loss in Arizona.
In his testimony last month, Bowers walked through what started with a Trump phone call on a Sunday after he returned from church. The defeated president laid out a proposal to have the state replace its electors for Biden with others favoring Trump.
“I said, ‘Look, you’re asking me to do something that is counter to my oath, ’” Bowers testified.
Bowers insisted on seeing Trump’s evidence of voter fraud, which he said Trump’s team never produced beyond vague allegations. He recalled Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani later told him, “We’ve got lots of theories; we just don’t have the evidence.”
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In the premiere episode of the HBO Max comedy Rap Sh!t, executive producer Issa Rae's first major project post-Insecure, Shawna (Aida Osman), a socially conscious rapper, fervently announces her retirement from the rap game.
Never mind that she's a relatively unknown 20-something artist who's barely stepped foot in the game to begin with – after dropping out of college to work with a producer, she's found only fleeting, minor viral success, and that was ... two years ago. She's done. Out. Over an industry that only values female rappers who show off all their assets while putting in the "bare minimum with no originality."
To pay the bills, Shawna has been working the reception desk in a Miami hotel lobby by day while writing rhymes at night (think lyrics about "goddesses," "nurturers," and the "garden of Eden") under the stage name The Vision. In her accompanying videos, she dons a decorated face mask, a giant 'fro, and a hoodie, "because I want people to focus on my lyricism, not what I look like."
An admirable, if potentially non-lucrative, aim to have.
"Y'all say, 'I want a different type of female rapper.' ... NO YOU DON'T!" she bemoans to her handful of Instagram Live followers. "Cause you don't support me! You don't support any of us!"
She gives it another try
It's not spoiling things to say that Shawna comes out of retirement faster than Jay-Z did in the mid-'00s. After reconnecting with Mia (KaMillion), an estranged friend from high school who's now a single mother juggling multiple side hustles – makeup artistry, an OnlyFans page, and wealthy sugar daddies – Shawna rediscovers her love for rap and the two of them decide to form a rap duo. But that tension between artistry and commercialism, politics and entertainment, is a central recurring theme in this zeitgeist-y take on the current landscape of hip-hop and the music industry at large.
The show is at its freshest and funniest when this eternal struggle to strike a balance is front and center. As the one who embodies the flamboyant attitude and capitalistic ethos of many of the biggest current rappers (Meghan thee Stallion, Cardi B, and real-life analog and Rap Sh!t co-producers City Girls), Mia acts as a stand-in for the masses, pushing Shawna to loosen up a bit and think more commercially. The first time they sit down to write together, Shawna presents an expletive-laced, unintentionally silly verse where she's rapping from the perspective of student loans.
Mia, bewilderedly: "Why would I want a song to be about that?"
Shawna, sheepishly: "Everybody's affected by predatory lending."
Osman and KaMillion have strong banter and chemistry in these scenes, and their characters' dueling personalities and bonding anchor the episodes as they attempt to create and build a following on social media and within the local Miami scene. There have been plenty of shows and movies that have tapped into the absurdities and contradictions of being an aspiring rapper (Atlanta, Dave, or to go back much further, CB4), but it's refreshing to see it told from a woman's perspective, where the pathways to success are unarguably different in many ways. In this fruitful era where more female rappers than ever before are sharing space, collaborating, and finding success in the mainstream, Rap Sh!t attempts to both celebrate this progress and call into question the structural limitations that remain for women in rap through Shawna.
Clashing goals
The result can be a bit messy – does Shawna's embrace of more ratchet lyricism represent survival mode or selling out? It's not entirely clear, and only six of eight episodes were made available to critics ahead of the premiere – though perhaps that's a reflection more of the messiness of double standards than anything else. Her desire to Billie Eilish her sartorial aesthetic is treated like a punch line, and her grievances about the industry's lopsided standards and formulas for superstardom – get a man who wants to sleep with them to co-sign their aspirations, get cosmetic surgery and then flaunt it – are almost always shut down by someone else arguing "the game is the game" or that women in hip-hop are actually thriving on their own terms.
At the same time, her long-distance boyfriend Cliff (Devon Terrell), an uptight N.Y.U. law student who aims to be the next Barack Obama or Benjamin Crump, is dismissive of her aspirations and worried what they might mean for his political career. (His sexist roommates negatively refer to Mia as a "porn star" and snarkily comment that "We in a new era of women now. [Shawna] don't have to have to be Michelle, she can be Melania.") As plenty of women in hip-hop understand, no matter what you do, or don't do, misogyny will rear its ugly head from some corner or another.
A promising series
When Rap Sh!t falls back on more familiar elements, like the predictable way the relationship plays out with Cliff or a girls' night out that's nearly derailed by the imbibing of molly, it can drag a bit. And depending on how old you are, you may find the show's technique of presenting most scenes as though they were being shot on a phone for social media or via Facetime conversation to be exhausting or an accurate, immersive depiction of how so many people move and connect throughout the world. (Admittedly, I'm an aging 30-something millennial and found it unnecessary at times.)
But there's likely enough here for hip-hop fans and Insecure fans to chew on and be satisfied, while anticipating where Shawna and Mia will go next. As the latter astutely points out, we're in the middle of a "bad b---h renaissance," and these two characters are capturing (and capitalizing on) the moment.
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NEW YORK, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Wells Fargo & Company ("Wells Fargo" or the "Company") (NYSE: WFC) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Wells Fargo investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud. This lawsuit is on behalf of persons and entities that purchased or otherwise acquired Wells Fargo common stock between February 24, 2021 and June 9, 2022. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
WFC investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed that: (i) Wells Fargo had misrepresented its commitment to diversity in the Company's workplace; (ii) Wells Fargo conducted fake job interviews in order to meet its Diverse Search Requirement; (iii) the foregoing conduct subjected Wells Fargo to an increased risk of regulatory and/or governmental scrutiny and enforcement action, including criminal charges; (iv) all of the foregoing, once revealed, was likely to negatively impact Wells Fargo's reputation; and (v) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Wells Fargo during the relevant time frame, you have until August 29, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
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DENVER (AP) — Colorado’s secretary of state’s office on Wednesday said it has told two candidates who lost their Republican primary races last month that it will not conduct a recount of those races because they failed to pay the required amount by the deadline.
The office informed Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, who lost her race for the GOP nomination for secretary of state, and state Rep. Ron Hanks, who fell short in his bid for the party’s U.S. Senate nomination, that it was moving forward finalizing the results of the primary. Neither candidate paid the $236,000 that was due by July 15 for the recount.
In letters sent to the office on Tuesday, both said they wanted a hand recount rather than one done by machine. A centerpiece of their election conspiracy theory has been mistrust of voting machines.
Peters and Hanks have promoted the false claim that President Joe Biden did not actually win his election against former President Donald Trump in 2020 and also claimed widespread fraud led to their losses in the state’s June 28 GOP primary. They are part of a growing number of deniers of the outcome of the 2020 election also questioning their own primary losses.
The secretary of state’s letters said a hand recount is not allowed under the office’s regulations and dismissed the candidates’ concerns about possible fraud. It said they have one last window to pay for a recount — until July 26.
“The Secretary of State’s Office followed all statutes and rules regarding requests for recounts, and Mr. Hanks and Ms. Peters chose to not provide the certified funds as required under law,” spokeswoman Annie Orloff said. “Coloradans made their voices heard and candidates should accept the results of a secure and fair election – not spread disinformation.”
There was no response to a request for comment from an email set up for both candidates.
Meanwhile, a group representing Colorado’s county clerks said Peters sent an email to clerks early Tuesday saying she would be requesting a hand recount of ballots in certain unspecified counties. Matt Crane, executive director of the Colorado County Clerks Association, said state law did not allow such requests to be made directly to individual counties and that he feared the “improper request” could trigger more attacks on county clerks and their election staff.
“Clearly, Peters’ request is part of a larger effort to create chaos, disrupt, and cause doubt in our elections,” he said in a statement.
He noted that her race was not close: Peters lost the GOP primary to a former local clerk, Pam Anderson, by about 88,500 votes.
The request came just ahead of Wednesday’s deadline for counties to certify the election results after rechecking and auditing the vote count.
The normally routine verification of election results was subject to controversy in Nevada and New Mexico after critics raised concerns about voting machines and mail ballots.
But no problems have been reported in Colorado. All of the state’s 64 counties say they have completed their certifications or expect to by the end of the day, said Jack Todd, a spokesman for the secretary of state’s office.
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HSINCHU, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ChipMOS TECHNOLOGIES INC. ("ChipMOS" or the "Company") (Taiwan Stock Exchange: 8150 and NASDAQ: IMOS), an industry leading provider of outsourced semiconductor assembly and test services ("OSAT"), announced a US$2.876 per ADS cash dividend (or approximately US$2.252 per ADS after the Taiwan withholding tax and Citibank, N.A.'s depositary fees) will be distributed on July 27, 2022.
ADS holders are encouraged to check with their securities brokers for receipt of dividend payments. Questions may be directed to Citibank, N.A.'s Tiffany Ma (+1-973-461-5734 or tiffany.ma@citi.com).
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ChipMOS TECHNOLOGIES INC. ("ChipMOS" or the "Company") (Taiwan Stock Exchange: 8150 and NASDAQ: IMOS) (https://www.chipmos.com) is an industry leading provider of outsourced semiconductor assembly and test services. With advanced facilities in Hsinchu Science Park, Hsinchu Industrial Park and Southern Taiwan Science Park in Taiwan, ChipMOS is known for its track record of excellence and history of innovation. The Company provides end-to-end assembly and test services to leading fabless semiconductor companies, integrated device manufacturers and independent semiconductor foundries serving virtually all end markets worldwide.
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Two of the three reservoirs that serve the city are practically empty. In the long term, officials are trying to build more dams and reservoirs. The short term plan is to hope for rain.
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BEIJING, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Waterdrop Inc. ("Waterdrop", the "Company" or "we") (NYSE: WDH), a leading technology platform dedicated to insurance and healthcare service with a positive social impact, today announced that it has partnered with China United Property Insurance Company Limited ("CIC") and Yong An Insurance ("Yong An") to launch "Waterdrop Blue Ocean", a series of customized and cost-effective critical illness products with a waiver on health declarations, further expanding its user group beyond healthy customers to cover customers with pre-existing medical conditions.
The waiver on health declaration is a breakthrough in critical illness insurance
In October 2021, China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission ("CBIRC") unveiled a directive guidance on further enriching health insurance product supply, in which the regulator encourages insurance companies to appropriately relax the threshold requirements for insurance applicants, and provide reasonable coverage for the elderly with pre-existing conditions and chronic diseases.
Currently, typical health insurance products in China mainly target healthy customers while products available for customers with pre-existing conditions only cover certain categories of illnesses, or partially lower their thresholds on insurance purchase. Although people with pre-existing conditions have a stronger needs of insurance protections, their growing demand has been notably unattended.
Mr. Wei Ran, a partner of Waterdrop, commented, "To address this issue, we have been collaborating closely with our insurance partners to promote product innovation, including insurance products to customers with pre-existing conditions. Today, we are pleased to jointly launch the 'Waterdrop Blue Ocean' with CIC and Yong An, a series of cost-effective customized critical illness product with a waiver on health declarations, dedicated to customers with pre-existing medical conditions."
Mr. Shangjun Nie, vice president of China United Property Insurance and general manager of its Beijing branch, commented, "As the first of its kind in the industry, the launch of the 'Waterdrop Blue Ocean' series is a pioneering initiative and adds great significance to the development of the entire online health insurance sector."
Mr. Xiong Liu, executive vice president of Yong An, commented, "Many elderly and consumers with chronic diseases were hesitant to purchase health insurance products as they worried about an incomplete disclosure of their health conditions to the insurance company would adversely affect their future insurance claims. 'Waterdrop Blue Ocean' has waived the health declaration of customers, allowing them to enjoy a more convenient and intelligent insurance service."
The waiver on health declaration will not result in tougher claim criteria
During the development phase, Waterdrop, CIC, and Yong An Insurance have listened to users' opinions extensively. The launch of "Waterdrop Blue Ocean" has waived the health declaration of customers but ensure the risks are controllable at the same time.
Mr. Hui Teng, chief actuary of Waterdrop, commented, "The underwriting risk for consumers with pre-existing conditions could be relatively higher. However, through the expansion of the underwriting population, and the strengthening of our claims review capabilities and our actuarial estimation of insurance claims, we are capable of diversifying and minimizing the underwriting risks."
The "Waterdrop Blue Ocean" critical illness product series is available for any insured person ranging from 30 days after birth to 60 years old, and it is on a yearly renewable basis up to the age of 80. It provides extensive coverage for a total of 193 mild, moderate, and critical illnesses with a maximum of two claims on critical illnesses in the first year, and offers extended coverage such as optional benefits for ICU inpatient treatment, specific organ transplants, ECMO treatment, and off-site medical referrals. In regards to insurance claims, the criteria of the "Waterdrop Blue Ocean" series are in line with those of other critical illness products that require health declarations and the claim process remains as efficient as other critical illness products.
In terms of insurance premium, for instance, a 40-year-old male can purchase "Waterdrop Blue Ocean No. 1" at an annual premium of RMB679, with maximum benefits of RMB150,000 on critical illnesses and a maximum of two claims in the first year. Similarly, a 40-year-old female can purchase "Waterdrop Blue Ocean No.2" at an annual premium of RMB1,452, with maximum benefits of RMB300,000 on critical illnesses and a maximum of two claims in the first year.
Mr. Ran said, the launch of the new product showcases Waterdrop's commitment to the mission of "leveraging internet technologies to make insurance protection more inclusive and accessible to the public, and bring insurance and healthcare service to billions". Going forward, Waterdrop will continue co-developing more inclusive insurance products with more industry partners to satisfy the protection needs of more people.
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Waterdrop Inc. (NYSE: WDH) is a leading technology platform dedicated to insurance and healthcare service with a positive social impact. Founded in 2016, with the comprehensive coverage of Waterdrop Insurance Marketplace and Waterdrop Medical Crowdfunding, Waterdrop aims to bring insurance and healthcare service to billions through technology. For more information, please visit www.waterdrop-inc.com.
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BERLIN (AP) — Natural gas started flowing through a major pipeline from Russia to Europe on Thursday after a 10-day shutdown for maintenance — but the gas flow remained well short of full capacity and the outlook was uncertain, which leaves Europe still facing the prospect of a hard winter.
The Nord Stream 1 pipeline under the Baltic Sea to Germany had been closed since July 11 for annual maintenance work. Amid growing tensions over Russia’s war in Ukraine, German officials had feared that the pipeline — the country’s main source of Russian gas, which recently has accounted for around a third of Germany’s gas supplies — might not reopen at all.
Network data showed gas beginning to arrive through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline as scheduled after 6 a.m., and the operator said that it had “successfully completed all planned maintenance works.” But deliveries were still far below the pipeline’s full capacity, as they were for weeks before the maintenance break.
The head of Germany’s network regulator, Klaus Mueller, said Russia’s Gazprom had notified deliveries Thursday of about 30% of the pipeline’s capacity. He later tweeted that actual deliveries were above that amount and could reach the pre-maintenance level of some 40%.
That wouldn’t be enough to resolve Europe’s energy crisis. “The political uncertainty and the 60% reduction from mid-June unfortunately remain,” Mueller wrote.
When Gazprom reduced the flow last month, it cited alleged technical problems involving equipment that partner Siemens Energy sent to Canada for overhaul and couldn’t be returned because of sanctions imposed over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The Canadian government earlier this month gave permission for the turbine that powers a compressor station at the Russian end of the pipeline to be delivered to Germany.
The German government has rejected Gazprom’s technical explanation for the gas reduction, charging repeatedly that it was only a pretext for a political decision to sow uncertainty and further push up energy prices. It has said the turbine was a replacement that was only supposed to be installed in September, but that it’s doing everything to deprive Russia of the pretext to reduce supplies.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that Gazprom still hadn’t received the relevant documents for the turbine’s return, and on Wednesday questioned the quality of the repair work. Putin said that Gazprom was to shut another turbine for repairs in late July, and if the one that was sent to Canada wasn’t returned by then the flow of gas would decline even further.
The head of the European Union’s executive Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said on Wednesday that the turbine was “in transit” and there was “no pretext not to deliver” gas.
Simone Tagliapietra, an energy policy expert at the Bruegel think tank in Brussels, said that Russia was playing a “strategic game.”
“Keeping low flows going is better than cutoff. It decreases Europe’s resolve to reduce gas demand,” he said. He warned that Europe must go into crisis mode anyway “because an interruption is likely to happen in the winter. And each cubic meter of gas saved now, makes Europe more resilient in the next months.”
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said “today underlines — even if there’s an announcement that gas is flowing again — that this war isn’t only being conducted with weapons against Ukraine, but that hybrid warfare means also using energy dependency as a means of war.”
The European Commission proposed this week that member countries cut their gas use by 15% over the coming months as the bloc braces for a possible full Russian cutoff of gas supplies.
Germany and the rest of Europe are scrambling to fill gas storage in time for winter and reduce their dependence on Russian energy imports. Germany has Europe’s biggest economy; gas is important to power its industries, provide heating and, to some extent, generate electricity.
Last month, the government activated the second phase of Germany’s three-stage emergency plan for natural gas supplies, warning that Europe’s biggest economy faced a “crisis” and winter storage targets were at risk. As of Wednesday, Germany’s gas storage was 65.1% full.
To make up for shortfalls, the German government has given the green light for utility companies to fire up 10 dormant coal-fired power plants and six that are oil-fueled. Another 11 coal-fired power plants scheduled to be shut down in November will be allowed to keep operating.
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FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi’s offer to resign has sent unsettling ripples through financial markets, bringing back bad memories of Europe’s debt crisis a decade ago and complicating the European Central Bank’s job as it raises interest rates for the first time in 11 years to combat record inflation.
Draghi, a former ECB president, has pushed policies meant to keep Italy’s high levels of debt manageable and boost growth in Europe’s third-largest economy. He suggested Wednesday that he was open to staying in power, but the threat of political changes as borrowing costs increase have raised concerns that the 19-country eurozone could head into another crisis.
It’s a headache for the ECB as it seeks to return interest rates from sub-zero to more normal levels starting Thursday — without setting off bond-market chaos in a country with debt at 150% of economic output. The ECB has said it will raise rates a quarter-percentage point, though some analysts aren’t ruling out a half-point increase.
The Frankfurt-based ECB will join the U.S. Federal Reserve, Bank of England and other central banks worldwide that have already raised rates several times to tame runaway inflation. But the ECB doesn’t want jittery markets sending up the borrowing costs of some euro member countries beyond what’s justified by their economic strength.
The bank’s task is already hard enough with predictions growing of a recession next year due to exorbitant oil and natural gas prices fueled by the war in Ukraine.
So along with the rate increase, ECB President Christine Lagarde is expected to announce a financial backstop aimed at capping borrowing costs for governments and companies in eurozone countries that are less financially solid than the others.
It’s a hassle unique to the ECB because it oversees 19 countries that are in different financial shape but use one currency, which has plunged to its lowest level against the dollar in 20 years.
“The Fed and the Bank of England don’t have this problem,” said Maria Demertzis, interim director of the Bruegel think tank in Brussels. “The borrowing costs for each country when they issue debt is different, because the underlying outlook is different.”
The ECB’s goal is to avoid a replay of 2011 to 2012, when Italy’s borrowing costs spiked to around 7%, driven by a so-called bond-market death spiral, where rising borrowing costs raise fears a government won’t repay their debt, in turn raising borrowing costs even higher.
The vicious circle was broken by Draghi pledging as ECB chief to “do whatever it takes” to preserve the euro, followed with a promise that the bank would buy the bonds of countries facing excessive borrowing costs if needed. That backstop calmed the market so well that it never had to be used. But it came with tough conditions that might make it unappealing to governments.
The ECB’s new backstop will have conditions but probably less onerous ones. It would consist of a promise to buy an indebted country’s bonds, which drives down borrowing costs if market interest rates rise to unjustified levels.
In recent days, borrowing costs for Italy and other less financially solid eurozone countries such as Spain and Portugal have risen compared with financially solid Germany, the benchmark.
Italian 10-year bonds now yield 3.4%, about 2.2% higher than their German equivalent. Italy’s borrowing costs are not excessive at that level, but the idea is to keep them that way because market sentiment can turn suddenly.
Demertzis said that as interest rates go up, they’re transmitted differently to the borrowing costs of each country.
“So now that we are in the part of the interest rate cycle where rates are going to have to go up, the problem is that borrowing costs will accelerate for Italy and will not accelerate for Germany,” she said.
If Italy can’t borrow affordably, it could turn to the eurozone’s bailout fund, but it would be much harder to rescue than Greece was a decade ago because Italy is much bigger.
The trick for the ECB will be to reassure markets while not encouraging reckless spending by governments or violating legal restrictions on directly financing governments.
“Any sense that the ECB is dragging its feet, or that the final outcome won’t be effective enough, will see fragmentation concerns rush back onto the agenda, fanning the flames of an altogether more worrying fall in the euro,” wrote Neal Shearing, chief economist at Capital Economics.
“Ten years after Draghi’s pledge to do whatever it takes, Christine Lagarde risks repeating history. She must avoid drifting into another crisis that would ultimately require her to make a similar pledge to her predecessor,” he said in an analyst note.
Italy’s political crisis, playing out in Parliament after the president rejected Draghi’s offer to resign over a divide in the coalition government, follows 17 months of relative stability. Draghi rolled out an ambitious pandemic recovery program aimed at improving long-term economic growth — the real answer to keeping Italy’s debt manageable.
The 190 billion-euro plan backed by common EU borrowing will add some debt but is intended to more than make up for it because strong growth shrinks the size of debt relative to the economy.
Italy’s debt, second highest in the eurozone after Greece, fell 4.5% in 2021 because of the country’s strong growth rebound.
Greek debt is less of an issue, Demertzis said, because it’s mostly owed to public institutions after Greece’s three bailouts during the debt crisis — and therefore isn’t exposed to market selloffs.
Draghi’s government has begun passing recovery proposals like digitizing and improving government services and streamlining a cumbersome legal system criticized for years as a drag on businesses. It also plans to increase day-care slots so more women can enter the labor force, accelerate the transition to renewable energy and extend high-speed rail and internet to more areas of the country.
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Biden seeking $37B for fighting crime, hiring more police
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is proposing to spend roughly $37 billion for fighting and preventing crime, including $13 billion to help communities hire and train 100,000 police officers over five years.
Biden will outline his anti-crime program on Thursday during a visit to Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. The Democratic president will request the money from Congress as part of his latest budget proposal, according to senior administration officials who previewed the plan on the condition of anonymity ahead of the formal announcement.
Republicans are trying to gain leverage in November’s midterm elections by portraying Democrats as unwilling to confront crime problems.
As part of Biden’s plans, $3 billion would be geared toward clearing court backlogs and resolving cases involving murders and guns. The president also wants to use $15 billion to create a grant program that would fund ideas for preventing violent crime or creating a public health response to nonviolence incidents, aimed at reducing the burden on law enforcement.
The remaining $5 billion would support programs intended to stop violence before it occurs.
After speaking in Wilkes-Barre, Biden is scheduled to attend a fundraiser for the Democratic National Committee in Philadelphia. Then he’s expected to spend a long weekend in Wilmington, Delaware, where he has a home.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Ukrainian first lady Olena Zelenska long has made clear she has no personal craving for the spotlight. Yet on Wednesday, she stood in the U.S. Capitol and made the case for more U.S. air defense systems to block Russian missiles.
She showed America’s most powerful lawmakers stark images of the toll of Russian bombardment of cities on Ukraine’s children – a blood-splattered baby stroller, a small crumpled body.
For Zelenska, spouse of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the appearance capped a week in Washington that marked some of her highest-profile appearances of the five-month war. The visit was also one of the first times most Americans have laid eyes on her.
“We want no more airstrikes. No more missile strikes,” Zelenska told Republicans and Democrats Wednesday, as an overhead screen displayed the war’s youngest victims. “Is this too much to ask for?”
Zelenska, speaking to an audience that included House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell, appeared in the same congressional auditorium where her husband drew standing ovations from lawmakers three weeks into Russia’s invasion. Her husband had spoken by video.
Zelenskyy has won praise from supporters for staying in Kyiv since Russia attacked, speaking nightly by video address. Zelenska and the couple’s two children, meanwhile, went into hiding away from Zelenskyy for security reasons over the first two months of the war.
Zelenska worked as a scriptwriter for her husband, a comedian and actor before he won the presidency in 2019. They married in 2003.
Speaking to “Vogue” magazine the same year her husband was elected, Zelenska said she herself by nature was no teller of jokes, and “a non-public person.”
But as first lady, “I found for myself arguments in favor of publicity. One of them is the opportunity to draw people’s attention to important social issues,” Zelenska said then.
A visit by Jill Biden to western Ukraine in May, when the two first ladies spoke privately and sat alongside displaced children living at a school, marked the start of Zelenska’s emergence from her wartime seclusion. Ukrainian officials said it was Jill Biden who invited Zelenska to come to Washington.
The Ukrainian first lady in Washington has spoken — largely away from reporters — with Jill Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, U.S. Agency for International Development head Samantha Power and others.
She received a blue and yellow bouquet of sunflowers and hydrangea from Joe Biden on arrival at the White House for her meeting with the U.S. first lady.
Until Wednesday’s appearance before lawmakers, accounts of Zelenska’s conversations with U.S. officials this week focused on the need for mental health care for Ukrainians dealing with the trauma of the war, and a U.S. offer of rehabilitation assistance for children who’ve lost limbs in the war — humanitarian causes, not strategic or tactical.
But Zelenska also noted in a tweet she had talked with Vice President Kamala Harris’s husband, Doug Emhoff, at the White House Tuesday on how “to turn the ‘soft’ power of the first spouses into a powerful and effective tool.”
Her blunt description to lawmakers of the deaths of children turned that soft power into a blunt and forceful instrument.
She showed photographs of a smiling, paint-smeared 4-year-old girl, Liza Dmytrieva, whom the first lady had happened to meet before Christmas.
The screen next showed an overturned baby carriage with blood caking on the sidewalk beneath it, after an airstrike killed the girl and badly injured her mother last week.
“Our family represents the whole world for us, and we do everything to preserve it,” Zelenska said. “We cry when we cannot save it. And we remain completely broken when our world is destroyed by war.”
Another photo showed a girl in a pink headband, shot by Russian soldiers with her family as they tried to flee, and who screamed and cried for two hours in their car before dying herself, Zelenska said.
Another showed three generations — grandmother, mother, baby daughter — killed by a Russian airstrike in the port city of Odesa, Zelenska told lawmakers. Yet another showed a 3-year-old boy, learning how to use a prosthetic limb after another airstrike.
Zelenska noted in passing Wednesday the humanitarian needs of the war. “Maybe you expected from me to speak on those topics,” she told lawmakers, through an interpreter. “But how can I talk on all that when an unprovoked war is being waged on our country?”
Lawmakers and others gave her standing ovations before her speech. But the photos on the screen had some shaking their heads at the scenes. The unsparing account and her direct appeal to lawmakers for more arms, especially more air-defense systems, echoed her husband’s calls throughout the war for more weapons from the U.S. and other allies.
The daily hammering on the U.S. for more support has been effective, but as the war grinds on could risk resentment from government leaders, who as of the start of June have committed $4.6 billion in security assistance for Ukraine.
“We’ve seen from Ukrainian leadership their courage but also their no-nonsense direct appeal and laying out the brutal mentality of Mr. Putin,” Sen. Ben Cardin, a Maryland Democrat, said as lawmakers walked out.
Pelosi spoke before Zelenska’s address to describe U.S. lawmakers as “strong supporters of the Ukrainian people and admirers” of Zelenskyy’s and Zelenska’s leadership.
In his nightly video address in Ukraine on the event of his wife’s speech, Zelenskyy said she would be speaking to lawmakers “on behalf of all Ukrainian mothers, all Ukrainian women, and it will be an important address.”
In Kyiv this week, some Ukrainians said they had been following her U.S. visit.
“I treat her with great respect,” said one, Larysa Logvinova, 63, adding, “Oh, I’m going to cry now.”
“She’s the best,” Logvinova said. “She is fragile, intelligent, and says the right things. As for her visit to the USA, I am very positive about it. And I hope that the result of her mission will be that Ukraine will receive additional aid.”
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'Love Island, you definitely did this on purpose': Fans accuse bosses of DELIBERATELY casting Ekin-Su's TWIN Nathalia to try and cause her and Davide to split up
Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu and Davide Sanclimenti appear to have captured the nation's hearts after growing close following a rocky start to their romance.
And just when things are going well, Love Island viewers have accused show bosses of casting Ekin's twin in order to try to split them up.
While they're not actually knowingly related, viewers were convinced that new bombshell Nathalia Campos, 23, who entered the villa on Wednesday, is Ekin's sister.
'Love Island, you definitely did this on purpose': Fans accused bosses of DELIBERATELY casting Ekin-Su's TWIN Nathalia, (right) to try and cause her and Davide to split up
They took to Twitter and wrote: 'Ekin-Su and Nathalia have to be sisters.'
'When Nathalia and Ekin-Su find out their parents split up,' alongside a picture from The Parent Trap.
'Nathalia is freaking me out. She looks like Ekin-Su's little sister and came in with the same energy Ekin-Su had on her first day.'
'Nathalie is here for Davide. Why won't they let Davide and Ekin-Su rest?'
Spot the difference: Viewers took to Twitter in their droves to note the similarities between the two lovely ladies
And 'Nathalia looks too much like Ekin-Su. This was deffo done on purpose ldc #loveisland.'
Love Island fans were left fuming with Dami Hope, 26, on Wednesday after he stirred up trouble for Ekin-Su and Davide, both 27, by suggesting the Italian hunk take the new girls for a tour of the villa.
Bombshells Nathalia and Lacey made an explosive arrival into the villa alongside boys Jamie Allen and Reece Ford, with the ladies setting their eyes on the likes of Davide and Adam Collard, 26,.
And Dami's meddling didn't go down well with viewers as some branded him a 'snake', while another brutally put: 'That's why you were in the bottom two!'
Not impressed: Fans were also fuming with Dami Hope on Wednesday after he stirred up trouble for Ekin-Su Davide by suggesting the hunk take the new girls for a tour of the villa
The drama kicked off as the four new bombshells sat down to get acquainted with their housemates, with the other islanders asking questions to the newcomers.
Dami then piped up and suggested that Davide give the ladies a personal tour of their new abode, while also remarking Danica should do the same with the boys.
His action caused Ekin-Su to flash him an angry look, with Davide looking awkward before eventually accepting and proceeding to show the girls around.
Say what?! Dami suggested that Davide give the ladies a personal tour of their new abode, while also remarking Danica should do the same with the boys.
Raging: His action caused Ekin-Su to flash him an angry look, with Davide looking awkward before eventually accepting and proceeding to show the girls around
However, fans at home didn't take too kindly to him causing drama between the couple, especially as he could have suggested Deji give the tour seeing as he's the only single boy.
Taking to Twitter, one person fumed: 'Dami… babes, you recommending Davide to take the girls on a tour is why you were in the bottom two.'
While a second seethed: 'Dami is such a SNAKE. Instead of saying Deji should show the new girls around he says Davide??!'
Here they come: Bombshells Nathalia Campos and Lacey Edwards made an explosive arrival into the villa alongside boys Jamie Allen and Reece Ford
Tour guide: Davide was seen escorting the new girls around the villa, while a pensive Ekin-Su merely watched on
'What does dami have against ekin? The way he was pushing davide to give them a tour? Urghhhh can’t stand him' questioned a third watcher.
'Why did Dami also continue yet again to be a snake with the Davide thing????? Honestly wee immature boy behaviour bet you his maw still does his washing for him' wrote a fourth.
A fifth viewer asked: 'Why would Dami orchestrate Davide giving the tour when Deji is literally single. Messy for no reason.'
Reaction: However, fans at home didn't take too kindly to him causing drama between the couple, especially as he could have suggested Deji give the tour seeing as he's the only single boy
With another adding: 'The fact that Dami suggested Davide to give the girls the tour whilst knowing Davide and Ekin are in a good place is very muggy.'
However, others were quick to jump to Dami's defence, arguing that Davide is a grown man capable of making his own decisions.
One tweeted: 'I don’t even like Dami but I honestly don’t think the whole Davide taking the girls on a tour thing was as deep as people are making it out to be, it seems like he just said it and Davide could’ve easily declined.'
Opinion: However, others were quick to jump to Dami's defence, arguing that Davide is a grown man capable of making his own decisions
With another remarking: 'Everyone deflecting davide actions and words just to blame dami, man that said he wants a shirt that shows his biceps. But it's Dami's fault. It a tour not arranged marriage.'
'Y’all going very much in on dami and I dislike that man with a passion, but if davide falls for it, it wasn’t that happy of a home in the first place was it? I’m sick of y’all defending davide with no real reason as to why,' commented a third person.
With another asking: 'does davide not have a mind of his own??? why are ppl saying dami caused him to give them the tour? yall always putting the blame on anyone but davide and ekin su.'
Troublemaker: The drama kicked off as the four new bombshells sat down to get acquainted with their housemates, before Dami then made the suggestion
Worried: Jay weeks earlier. The episode ended with a pensive Ekin-Su debating whether she should be concerned about Nathalia's flirtatious behaviour with Davide, or if their romance can survive the latest test
As Davide gave the girls a tour of the villa, Ekin-Su kept her eyes fixated on her man, while Paige noted that they were 'already eyeing him up,' with Nathalia quickly asking whether she needed to 'start crawling,' in a nod to Ekin-Su's viral pursuit of Jay weeks earlier.
The episode ended with a pensive Ekin-Su debating whether she should be concerned about Nathalia's flirtatious behaviour with Davide, or if their romance can survive the latest test.
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SAN TAN VALLEY, Ariz., July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Visit www.infiniteauctions.com to bid on Michael Jordan's autographed, game worn, Chicago Bulls playoff jersey. The auction ends this Saturday, July 23rd at 10pm EST. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to Lincoln Park Community Services of Chicago who empowers individuals facing homelessness and poverty to secure stable housing and make sustainable life changes.
"This is a rare opportunity to own one of the finest Michael Jordan Bulls relics of all time, and simultaneously help the city that is home to so many Chicago Bulls fans," said Marshall Perkins, CEO at Infinite Auctions.
The red road jersey is autographed by Jordan and is photo matched to a playoff game, which featured the Chicago Bulls versus the Miami Heat on May 24, 1997 where Jordan scored 34 points on his way to his 5th NBA title. The jersey was obtained directly from the Chicago Bulls charity organization and is accompanied by a letter of origin from the Chicago Bulls along with additional game used and photo match authentication documents from both MEARS and RGU.
The auction also features Kobe Bryant's game worn sneakers from the 1998 NBA All Star game and a portion of the proceeds from this sale will be donated to The Midnight Mission in Los Angeles.
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Which surfboards are best?
Whether you’re an avid surfer or want to get into this daring sport, you need a good surfboard to help you catch some waves. The best surfboard depends on a few factors, such as your skill level and overall size. Plus, there are several types of boards, each designed for a specific purpose. Whichever one you choose should feel right for you, no matter where you’re at in your surfing journey.
Types of surfboards
Here are the four main types of surfboards:
- Shortboards: Often used by professional surfers, these have a narrow shape and are designed to gain speed quickly and make sharp turns with ease.
- Longboards: Great for both new and experienced surfers, these boards have a large surface area that provides more stability than boards with smaller profiles. They’re especially helpful for those who want to practice or hone their skills.
- Funshape: Primarily used by novice surfers, funshape boards excel when it comes to maneuverability. They have less surface area than longboards, though, so they’re a little harder to control on the waves.
- Fish: This type of board is thicker and shorter than other types, so it’s recommended for surfers who already have some experience or who are skilled with certain techniques, such as bottom turns.
Other less common types of surfboards include the Squashtail and SoftTop.
Fins
The fins on a surfboard can help keep you stable while giving you more control over your movements and speed. There are four main types of fins:
- Single: Often found in longboards, the single fin provides decent speed since it doesn’t drag in the water very much. This makes it easier to make slow, smooth turns. They’re not as stable as boards with more fins, though, making them ideal for medium or smaller waves.
- Twin: Boards with two fins offer more stability, maneuverability and speed. The main drawback is that it’s more difficult to make bottom turns with these boards. They also excel at medium or small waves.
- Thruster: Offering both mobility and stability, the thruster fin is a good option. They have three fins in a triangular formation, with the back fin toward the tail of the board. While these are easier to control, they’re usually slower due to drag.
- Quad: With four fins, this type of board offers a lot of speed and is perfect for surfers who want to make quick turns. It’s a good choice for nearly any wave.
Tails
Another form factor to consider is the surfboard’s tail. These are many types of tails that, when paired with the right placement and number of fins, can affect the amount of control, movement and speed you have while surfing. Here are the main tails:
- Square or squashed: Best for overall performance, this lets the surfer take sharp turns and maneuver through the waves with ease
- Round: With less surface area, this tail excels at turning without reducing speed
- Pin: Best for catching big waves, these provide better control and speed than other tails
- Swallow or fishtail: This V-shaped tail promotes speed when the waves are calmer
- Asymmetrical: Built for extreme surfing, this tail can handle nearly any type of turn
- Thumbtail: Rounder than the squashed tail, this design provides more stability while surfing
- Roundtail: With a pinched look toward the tail, this one is best for surfing hollow waves
Volume and size
When it comes to picking the right board, the volume and the size both are important factors to consider.
- Volume: This refers to how much buoyancy the board has. The higher the volume, the more likely you will float on the water, but also the harder it is to make turns and maneuver. Generally, a higher volume is essential for heavier surfers and beginners. Volume is measured in cubic liters and depends on the board type. For example, longboards usually have between 60 and 100 liters, while shortboards have 22 to 35 liters.
- Size: Surfboards can vary immensely in length and width. Many are around 6 feet long, though some are 7 or more feet long. On average, the width ranges from 18 to 21 inches and is between 2 and 3 inches thick. If you weigh 100 to 140 pounds, choose a board that’s around 6 feet long and 19 inches wide.
Materials
Most surfboards consist of materials such as expanded polystyrene and epoxy resin. Both of these are durable and flexible. Polyester is also common, as is fiberglass.
Design
Surfboards come in different colors and patterns, ranging from solid light colors to darker ones. Some are solid, while others are patterned or have graphic prints.
Besides this, most modern boards come with surfboard leashes and a spot to put them. This is helpful because it can prevent you from losing the board.
8 best surfboards
With a sunburst graphic, this 8-foot-long board is brightly colored with a long line of white, yellow and orange surrounded by dark blue. It has three fins and comes with a removable leash. It consists of a strong foam core and has a textured traction pad. It’s a great entry-level board.
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South Bay Board Company Big Betsy
At 5-foot 5-inches, this small board features a five-fin system, making it easy to control. It has 30.9 liters of volume and can support up to 220 pounds. It’s made from wood and has a sturdy expanded polystyrene closed-cell foam core.
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Wavestorm 9-Foot Classic Pinline Surfboard
With a strong expanded polystyrene core and a three-stringer system, this board is highly durable, making it great for novice and intermediate surfers. Since it’s 9 feet long, it’s ideal for bigger waves as it adds stability when surfing at high speeds. It comes with a textured traction pad and can support up to 200 pounds.
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Creative Army Five Sugars PU Longboard Surfboard
Available in either light blue or double stringer white, this board is made from durable polyurethane and can handle most waves. It has a full nose profile, 2+1 fin design and high volume that enhances stability, control and maneuverability.
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South Bay Board Company 8-Foot Verve
This long surfboard is a great choice for anyone new to the sport. It has three fins, 80 liters of volume and can support up to 225 pounds. Reinforcing the board is a durable fiberglass rod and two wood stringers.
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Modern Surfboards Love Child PU Surfboard
This surfboard is ideal for those transitioning from beginner to intermediate surfing. It has a low rocker profile that makes turning and moving on waves easier.
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Available in 6- to 7-foot lengths, this board has a round tail and a single fin design, which gives it great pivot control. As a mid-length cruiser, it’s a great all-around option.
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Thurso Surf Lancer Fish Soft Top Surfboard
At 5 feet, 10 inches long, this soft top, twin fin board is great for smaller surfers or children. It has a strong expanded polystyrene core and is lightweight. It also has two wood stringers and a fishtail bottom that promotes more traction.
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Alaska Air Group delivers record-breaking second quarter 2022 results
Published: Jul. 21, 2022 at 5:00 AM CDT|Updated: 45 minutes ago
Generated record quarterly revenues of $2.7 billion on improved operational performance; flew record load factor of 88% reflecting strong demand
SEATTLE, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Alaska Air Group (NYSE: ALK) today announced another quarter of improvement in its financial results for the second quarter ending June 30, 2022, and provided outlook for the third quarter ending Sept. 30, 2022.
"It's clear that travel is one of the things people have missed the most these past two years. They are excited to fly again and our team is delivering on the safe, reliable and caring experience they expect from us," said CEO Ben Minicucci. "Revenue in June topped $1 billion, the highest single month in our history. Our 14% adjusted pretax margin in Q2 is near the top of the industry, and our operation is on track in June with the #1 on-time performance and a schedule completion rate over 99%. I'm feeling so much gratitude for the people of Alaska, Horizon and McGee for pulling together. We have a strong platform for growth in 2023 and a lot to be optimistic about."
Financial Results for the Second Quarter:
Reported net income for the second quarter of 2022 under Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) of $139 million, or $1.09 per share, compared to a net income of $397 million, or $3.13 per share, in the second quarter of 2021.
Reported net income for the second quarter of 2022, excluding special items and mark-to-market fuel hedge accounting adjustments, of $280 million, or $2.19 per share, compared to a net loss, excluding special items and mark-to-market fuel hedge accounting adjustments, of $38 million, or $0.30 per share, in the second quarter of 2021.
Reported adjusted pretax margin for the second quarter of 14%.
Recorded $2.7 billion in operating revenues for the second quarter, the highest revenue-generating quarter in company history.
Balance Sheet and Liquidity:
Generated $948 million in operating cash flow for the second quarter, inclusive of $231 million in net federal income tax refunds.
Held $3.4 billion in unrestricted cash and marketable securities as of June 30, 2022.
Maintained a debt-to-capitalization ratio of 50% as of June 30, 2022, within our target range of 40% to 50%.
Operational Updates and Milestones for the Second Quarter:
Flew a record load factor for the quarter of 88%, driven by high demand on reduced capacity.
Led the industry in on-time performance for the month of June, meeting our commitment to operational reliability.
Received nine Boeing 737-9 aircraft in the second quarter, bringing the total number of 737-9s in our mainline fleet to 28.
Ratified new contracts with Alaska Airlines dispatchers and Horizon Air aircraft technicians and fleet service agents; and reached a tentative agreement with Alaska Airlines IAM represented employees.
Expanded pilot training throughput by 20% from April, and added 100 active mainline pilots in the second quarter.
Began nonstop service to Miami and Cleveland from Seattle, bringing the total nonstop destinations served from Seattle to 100.
Launched $8 flat rate satellite Wi-Fi on mainline aircraft in partnership with Intelsat.
Awards and Employee Recognition:
Ranked as one of America's Best Employers for Diversity by Forbes, recognizing our commitment to increasing diverse leadership representation and equity initiatives.
Named the Best Major Airline in North America by the Airline Passenger Experience Association, highlighting Alaska's inflight experience.
Recognized the company's workforce for their relentless commitment to caring for our guests for 90 years by giving each employee 90,000 miles redeemable for travel anywhere in the world.
Second Quarter Environmental, Social and Governance Updates:
Released our 2021 Care Report, highlighting the company's progress in various environmental, social and governance areas and outlining ongoing initiatives and future goals.
Signed agreement with Aemetis to purchase 13 million gallons of sustainable aviation fuel to be delivered over the seven-year term of the agreement.
Subsequent to quarter end, announced a partnership with Microsoft and Twelve, a carbon transformation technology company, to advance the availability of sustainable aviation fuels.
Scored 100% in our first year participating in Disability:IN's Disability Equality Index, which benchmarks companies on their disability inclusion and equality.
The following table reconciles the company's reported GAAP net income (loss) per share (EPS) for the three and six months ended June 30, 2022, and 2021 to adjusted amounts.
Statistical data, as well as a reconciliation of the reported non-GAAP financial measures, can be found in the accompanying tables. A glossary of financial terms can be found on the last page of this release.
Alaska will hold its quarterly conference call to discuss second quarter results at 8:30 a.m. PDT on July 21, 2022. A webcast of the call is available to the public at www.alaskaair.com/investors. For those unable to listen to the live broadcast, a replay will be available after the call.
Third Quarter and Full Year 2022 Outlook
For full year 2022, we expect our capacity to be down 8% to 9% versus 2019, and expect our CASMex to be up 15% to 17% versus 2019. We continue to expect our full year adjusted pre-tax margin to be between 6% and 9%.
References in this update to "Air Group," "Company," "we," "us," and "our" refer to Alaska Air Group, Inc. and its subsidiaries, unless otherwise specified.
This news release may contain forward-looking statements subject to the safe harbor protection provided by Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements relate to future events and involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties that may cause actual outcomes to be materially different from those indicated by our forward-looking statements, assumptions or beliefs. For a comprehensive discussion of potential risk factors, see Item 1A of the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021. Some of these risks include competition, labor costs, relations and availability, general economic conditions including those associated with pandemic recovery, increases in operating costs including fuel, inability to meet cost reduction, ESG and other strategic goals, seasonal fluctuations in demand and financial results, supply chain risks, events that negatively impact aviation safety and security, and changes in laws and regulations that impact our business. All of the forward-looking statements are qualified in their entirety by reference to the risk factors discussed in our most recent Form 10-K and in our subsequent SEC filings. We operate in a continually changing business environment, and new risk factors emerge from time to time. Management cannot predict such new risk factors, nor can it assess the impact, if any, of such new risk factors on our business or events described in any forward-looking statements. We expressly disclaim any obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements made today to conform them to actual results. Over time, our actual results, performance or achievements may differ from the anticipated results, performance or achievements that are expressed or implied by our forward-looking statements, assumptions or beliefs and such differences might be significant and materially adverse.
Alaska Airlines and our regional partners serve more than 120 destinations across the United States, Belize, Canada, Costa Rica and Mexico. We emphasize Next-Level Care for our guests, along with providing low fares, award-winning customer service and sustainability efforts. Alaska is a member of the oneworld global alliance. With the alliance and our additional airline partners, guests can travel to more than 1,000 destinations on more than 20 airlines while earning and redeeming miles on flights to locations around the world. Learn more about Alaska at news.alaskair.com. Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air are subsidiaries of Alaska Air Group (NYSE: ALK).
Given the unusual nature of 2021 and 2020, we believe that some analysis of specific financial and operational results compared to 2019 provides meaningful insight. The table below includes comparative results from 2022 to 2019.
Note A: Pursuant to Regulation G, we are providing reconciliations of reported non-GAAP financial measures to their most directly comparable financial measures reported on a GAAP basis. We believe that consideration of these non-GAAP financial measures may be important to investors for the following reasons:
By eliminating fuel expense and certain special items (including Payroll Support Program wage offset, fleet transition and related charges, and restructuring charges) from our unit metrics, we believe that we have better visibility into the results of operations. Our industry is highly competitive and is characterized by high fixed costs, so even a small reduction in non-fuel operating costs can result in a significant improvement in operating results. In addition, we believe that all domestic carriers are similarly impacted by changes in jet fuel costs over the long run, so it is important for management (and thus investors) to understand the impact of (and trends in) company-specific cost drivers such as labor rates and productivity, airport costs, maintenance costs, etc., which are more controllable by management.
Cost per ASM (CASM) excluding fuel and certain special items, such as Payroll Support Program wage offset, fleet transition and related charges, and restructuring charges, is one of the most important measures used by management and by the Air Group Board of Directors in assessing quarterly and annual cost performance.
Adjusted income before income tax (and other items as specified in our plan documents) is an important metric for the employee incentive plan, which covers the majority of Air Group employees.
CASM excluding fuel and certain special items is a measure commonly used by industry analysts, and we believe it is the basis by which they have historically compared our airline to others in the industry. The measure is also the subject of frequent questions from investors.
Disclosure of the individual impact of certain noted items provides investors the ability to measure and monitor performance both with and without these special items. We believe that disclosing the impact of these items as noted above. Industry analysts and investors consistently measure our performance without these items for better comparability between periods and among other airlines.
Although we disclose our passenger unit revenues, we do not (nor are we able to) evaluate unit revenues excluding the impact that changes in fuel costs have had on ticket prices. Fuel expense represents a large percentage of our total operating expenses. Fluctuations in fuel prices often drive changes in unit revenues in the mid-to-long term. Although we believe it is useful to evaluate non-fuel unit costs for the reasons noted above, we would caution readers of these financial statements not to place undue reliance on unit costs excluding fuel as a measure or predictor of future profitability because of the significant impact of fuel costs on our business.
GLOSSARY OF TERMS
Adjusted net debt - long-term debt, including current portion, plus capitalized operating leases, less cash and marketable securities
Adjusted net debt to EBITDAR - represents net adjusted debt divided by EBITDAR (trailing twelve months earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization, special items and rent)
Aircraft Utilization - block hours per day; this represents the average number of hours per day our aircraft are in transit
Aircraft Stage Length - represents the average miles flown per aircraft departure
ASMs - available seat miles, or "capacity"; represents total seats available across the fleet multiplied by the number of miles flown
CASM - operating costs per ASM, or "unit cost"; represents all operating expenses including fuel and special items
CASMex - operating costs excluding fuel and special items per ASM; this metric is used to help track progress toward reduction of non-fuel operating costs since fuel is largely out of our control
Debt-to-capitalization ratio - represents adjusted debt (long-term debt plus capitalized operating lease liabilities) divided by total equity plus adjusted debt
Diluted Earnings per Share - represents earnings per share (EPS) using fully diluted shares outstanding
Diluted Shares - represents the total number of shares that would be outstanding if all possible sources of conversion, such as stock options, were exercised
Economic Fuel - best estimate of the cash cost of fuel, net of the impact of our fuel-hedging program
Load Factor - RPMs as a percentage of ASMs; represents the number of available seats that were filled with paying passengers
Mainline - represents flying Boeing 737, Airbus 320 and Airbus 321neo family jets and all associated revenues and costs
Productivity - number of revenue passengers per full-time equivalent employee
RASM - operating revenue per ASMs, or "unit revenue"; operating revenue includes all passenger revenue, freight & mail, Mileage Plan and other ancillary revenue; represents the average total revenue for flying one seat one mile
Regional - represents capacity purchased by Alaska from Horizon and SkyWest. In this segment, Regional records actual on-board passenger revenue, less costs such as fuel, distribution costs, and payments made to Horizon and SkyWest under the respective capacity purchased arrangement (CPAs). Additionally, Regional includes an allocation of corporate overhead such as IT, finance, other administrative costs incurred by Alaska and on behalf of Horizon.
RPMs - revenue passenger miles, or "traffic"; represents the number of seats that were filled with paying passengers; one passenger traveling one mile is one RPM
Yield - passenger revenue per RPM; represents the average revenue for flying one passenger one mile
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ATLANTA (AP) — It’s no easy task to live with expectations at the top of the Southeastern Conference.
Alabama’s 2021 season has been described as a disappointment even though the Crimson Tide won the SEC title and played in the national championship game.
Georgia won its first national championship since 1980 by beating Alabama. After having 15 players selected in the NFL draft, including three defensive linemen, Georgia now faces criticisms that its time at the top will be only a one-year stay.
The Bulldogs are viewed as underdogs to the Tide in this year’s SEC race. Alabama, Ohio State and possibly others are more popular picks in early national championship projections.
Coach Kirby Smart said Wednesday he doesn’t worry about his Bulldogs getting complacent.
“I don’t think any of our guys would rest on the laurels because we don’t really have a lot of guys that have laurels to rest on,” Smart said at the SEC Media Days. “I think that’s the biggest thing because everybody keeps bringing up you won a national championship, so do you worry about complacency. Well the guys who won it, they’re mostly in NFL camps, so there’s a lot of hungry guys on our team.”
Alabama standout linebacker Will Anderson says just winning the SEC title last season wasn’t enough.
“The biggest goal of our team is always to win a national championship and we didn’t meet that goal last year,” Anderson said Tuesday. “So that season was not the successful season that we wanted, because all the blood, sweat and tears we put in, all the hard work, all the long meetings — is to get to the national championship and win it. And we got there and didn’t finish the way we wanted to finish.”
If Smart’s read on his new starters’ motivation is correct, the Bulldogs’ hunger is most prominent on defense. There were five Georgia defensive players selected in the first round of the NFL draft, including defensive end Travon Walker as the No. 1 overall pick by Jacksonville. Three more defensive players were picked later in the draft.
Georgia linebacker Nolan Smith said he attended Walker’s draft party and wasn’t worried about the impact of the draft on this season’s defense.
“It made me really happy, seeing all my friends realize their dreams,” Smith said. “There’s nothing more that a friend should ask for than to see your other friends be successful.”
Including LSU in 2019, Alabama in 2020 and Georgia, the SEC has had three different teams win the last three national championships. That can provide encouragement for coaches trying to build championship programs, including first-year Florida coach Billy Napier.
“I think we’re all aware if you can win your division, the championship here, you can be a national championship contender,” Napier said. “The path, it’s been proven. … We’re consumed with Florida right now. We’ve got a lot of grass to mow, right? It’s our grass, not anybody else’s. We’ve got a lot of work to do.”
Georgia has won the SEC East four of the last five years and is 27-2 in the division since 2017.
“I think we’re all aware there’s a large gap between Georgia and No. 2, and we’re working on closing that,” Kentucky coach Mark Stoops said.
Florida finished 6-7 overall, including 2-6 in the SEC, in 2021, leading to Dan Mullen’s firing. Even so, Florida finished first in the East in 2020 and linebacker Ventrell Miller insists the Gators can return to the top.
“How big is the gap?” Miller asked Wednesday. “I don’t feel like there’s no gap.
“We’re the University of Florida. I feel like we had a bad season last year but we’re moving on, and I feel like this season is going to be a great season.”
The 33-18 loss to Georgia provides ample motivation for Alabama, including its Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback Bryce Young.
“Coming up short obviously is really tough,” Young said. “It stings a lot. Obviously it hurt a lot losing. It’s something that we carry as fuel to the fire this offseason. It’s something that’s been fueling us, something that’s been pushing us. No one wants to feel like we felt last year, so we’re doing everything in our power to give ourselves the best chance to have the circumstances that we want to have.”
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TORONTO (AP) — Seven-time Grand Slam champion Venus Williams has been given a wild-card entry into the main draw of the National Bank Open next month.
She will compete in Toronto for the first time since 2019 and return to WTA Tour singles play for the first time since August 2021.
The former world No. 1 and five-time Wimbledon champion last played when she partnered with Jamie Murray of Britain in Wimbledon’s mixed doubles draw earlier this month. Williams is a 41-time WTA singles champion and Olympic gold medalist.
Her sister Serena Williams was on the official entry list released last week for Toronto, which would mark her first North American hard-court event in two years, and comes of the heels of her first-round exit at Wimbledon in June. Asked after that defeat whether she would play again, the 40-year-old Williams said she didn’t know.
The three-time champion in Toronto last played there in 2019, when she retired because of back spasms in the final against Bianca Andreescu of Canada. Andreescu beat Serena Williams a month later in the final at the U.S. Open, for which Toronto is considered a tuneup event.
Andreescu also received a top-20 wild card for the National Bank Open.
Three more wild cards will be distributed to Canadian players closer to the start of the tournament, which runs Aug. 6-14.
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RENO, Nev., July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - i-80 GOLD CORP. (TSX: IAU) (NYSE: IAUX) ("i-80", or the "Company") is pleased to provide an update on the underground, advanced-exploration, program at the Company's 100%‑owned McCoy-Cove Property ("McCoy-Cove" or "the Property").
The Cove Mine portal has been collared (see Figure 1 and 2) and more than 300 metres (1,000 feet) of the decline has now been constructed. The Phase 1 program, which is progressing according to plan, will include the construction of an initial level with multiple drill bays to provide access for upgrading resources. Approximately 40,000 metres of underground definition and expansion drilling is anticipated to commence in Q4-2022 followed by a Feasibility Study anticipated to be completed in 2023. The Cove Mine is one of four projects currently being advanced by i-80 and is expected to be a key component in the Company's plans to restart the Lone Tree autoclave.
"The Cove deposit represents one of North America's highest-grade, development-stage, gold deposits with grades in excess of 10 g/t Au", stated Matt Gili, President & COO of i-80. "We are in the process of advancing three high-grade underground mining projects that will ultimately be processed at the Lone Tree Complex. Cove is expected to complement our Granite Creek project, that is expected to enter commercial production later this year and contribute to our plan to be the fastest growing gold producer in Nevada."
Table 1 – McCoy Cove Resource
The McCoy-Cove Property is strategically located approximately eighty-four kilometres south (by road) of the Company's Lone Tree Complex and immediately south of Nevada Gold Mines' Phoenix Mine within the Battle Mountain-Eureka Trend (see Figure 3). The Property is accessed via all-season road from Highway 55 in Nevada.
Tim George, PE, Mine Operations Manager, reviewed the technical and scientific information contained in this press release and is a Qualified Person within the meaning of NI 43-101.
i-80 Gold Corp. is a well-financed, Nevada-focused, mining company with a goal of achieving mid-tier gold producer status through the development of multiple deposits within the Company's advanced-stage property portfolio with processing at i-80's centralized milling facility that includes an autoclave.
Certain statements in this release constitute "forward-looking statements" or "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable securities laws, including but not limited to, the expansion or mineral resources at McCoy-Cove and the potential of the McCoy-Cove Property. Such statements and information involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of the company, its projects, or industry results, to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements or information. Such statements can be identified by the use of words such as "may", "would", "could", "will", "intend", "expect", "believe", "plan", "anticipate", "estimate", "scheduled", "forecast", "predict" and other similar terminology, or state that certain actions, events or results "may", "could", "would", "might" or "will" be taken, occur or be achieved. These statements reflect the Company's current expectations regarding future events, performance and results and speak only as of the date of this release.
Forward-looking statements and information involve significant risks and uncertainties, should not be read as guarantees of future performance or results and will not necessarily be accurate indicators of whether or not such results will be achieved. A number of factors could cause actual results to differ materially from the results discussed in the forward-looking statements or information, including, but not limited to: material adverse changes, unexpected changes in laws, rules or regulations, or their enforcement by applicable authorities; the failure of parties to contracts with the company to perform as agreed; social or labour unrest; changes in commodity prices; and the failure of exploration programs or studies to deliver anticipated results or results that would justify and support continued exploration, studies, development or operations.
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NEW YORK, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Missfresh Limited ("Missfresh" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: MF) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Missfresh investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud. This lawsuit is on behalf of persons who purchased or otherwise acquired Missfresh securities pursuant and/or traceable to the registration statement and related prospectus issued in connection with Missfresh's June 2021 initial public offering. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
MF investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed that: (1) Missfresh provided false financial figures in its registration statement and related prospectus issued in connection with the Company's June 2021 initial public offering; (2) Missfresh would need to amend its financial figures; (3) Missfresh, among other things, had lesser net revenues for the quarter ended March 31, 2021; and (4) as a result, defendants' public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times and negligently prepared.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Missfresh during the relevant time frame, you have until September 12, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
WHY LEVI & KORSINSKY: Over the past 20 years, the team at Levi & Korsinsky has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for aggrieved shareholders and built a track record of winning high-stakes cases. Our firm has extensive expertise representing investors in complex securities litigation and a team of over 70 employees to serve our clients. For seven years in a row, Levi & Korsinsky has ranked in ISS Securities Class Action Services' Top 50 Report as one of the top securities litigation firms in the United States.
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NEW YORK, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Inotiv, Inc. ("Inotiv" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: NOTV) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Inotiv investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud between September 21, 2021 and June 13, 2022. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
NOTV investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed that: (1) Inotiv's acquisition, Envigo RMS, LL ("Envigo"), and Inotiv's Cumberland, Virginia facility (the "Cumberland Facility") engaged in widespread and flagrant violations of the Animal Welfare Act ("AWA"); (2) Envigo and Inotiv's Cumberland Facility continuously violated the AWA; (3) Envigo and Inotiv did not properly remedy issues with regards to animal welfare at the Cumberland Facility; (4) as a result, Inotiv was likely to face increased scrutiny and governmental action; (5) Inotiv would imminently shut down two facilities, including the Cumberland Facility; (6) Inotiv did not engage in proper due diligence; and (7) as a result, defendants' statements about its business, operations, and prospects, were materially false and misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Inotiv during the relevant time frame, you have until August 22, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
WHY LEVI & KORSINSKY: Over the past 20 years, the team at Levi & Korsinsky has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for aggrieved shareholders and built a track record of winning high-stakes cases. Our firm has extensive expertise representing investors in complex securities litigation and a team of over 70 employees to serve our clients. For seven years in a row, Levi & Korsinsky has ranked in ISS Securities Class Action Services' Top 50 Report as one of the top securities litigation firms in the United States.
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- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 20 – 24 Jan 2020
- Digi Communications N.V.: (i) launch of an offering by RCS & RDS S.A. of senior secured notes; (ii) issuance of a notice of conditional full redemption of all outstanding €550.0m 5.0% senior secured notes due 2023 issued by the Company and (iii) restatement by the Company of its unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements for the 9-month period ended 30 Sep 2019
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 13 – 17 Jan 2020
- Reporting of legal documents concluded by DIGI Communications N.V. in December 2019 or in other period but effective in December 2019, in accordance with article 82 of Law no. 24/2017 and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 6 – 10 Jan 2020
- SuitePad Announced as the Best Guest Room Tablet in the 2020 HotelTechAwards
- Wildlife Safari Vacations in Kenya Travel with Cruzeiro Safaris Kenya
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 30 Dec 2019 – 3 Jan 2020
- Axiom Prepaid Holdings Caps Off Banner Year with a Prestigious Accolade for Its CEO
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 23 and 27 December 2019
- Digi Communications N.V. Announces the publishing of the Financial Calendar for 2020
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol 16-20 Dec 2019
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 9-13 Dec 2019
- Reporting of legal documents concluded by DIGI Communications N.V. in November 2019 or in other period but effective in November 2019, in accordance with article 82 of Law no. 24/2017 and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018
- American Hemp Processing To Roll Out Mobile Extraction Units
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 2-6 Dec 2019
- Menschenrechtsverletzungen durch Zwangskonvertierungen – Ein internationales Problem
- XPAND has launched “XPAND Code Generator”, a website that automatically issues XPAND Code that can be read from 200 meters/700 feet
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 25-29 Nov 2019
- RCS & RDS S.A., Digi Communications N.V.’s subsidiary in Romania, entered into agreements to operate the telecommunications networks of the Romanian companies Digital Cable Systems S.A., AKTA Telecom S.A. and ATTP Telecommunications S.R.L
- Crafting qualifications to accelerate adoption of Additive Manufacturing
- 100,000 Graduation Ceremony of Shincheonji Theology Center Held over 112 countries
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 18 – 22 Nov 2019
- PDA GMP for APIs Education Webinar Now an "ICH Recognised Training Programme"
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 11 – 15 Nov 2019
- Reporting of legal documents concluded by DIGI Communications N.V. in October 2019 or in other period but effective in October 2019, in accordance with article 82 of Law no. 24/2017 and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018
- Digi Communications NV announces the release of the Q3 2019 Financial Results
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 4 – 8 Nov 2019
- Digi Communications NV announces Investor Call on the Financial Results for Q3 2019
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 28 Oct – 1 Nov 2019
- Medis to Launch an Innovative 4D Flow Module for Clinical Practice
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 21-25 Oct 2019
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 14-18 Oct 2019
- Reporting of legal documents concluded by DIGI Communications N.V. in September 2019 or in other period but effective in September 2019, in accordance with article 82 of Law no. 24/2017 and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 7-11 Oct 2019
- RCH to Launch WALLE 8T POS for Real-time Access to Data in the Cloud
- ASI Drives Launches Mark 600, Poised to Replace Internal Combustion Engines
- Now The Cash For Gold Is Reliable Old Gold Jewelry Buyers
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 30 Sep – 4 Oct 2019
- Il noto Brand di Prodotti Promozionali Personalizzati National Pen lancia il Nuovo Sito Italiano
- Un nouveau look pour Universal Pen relançant son site Web de produits de marque promotionnels
- First non-melanoma skin cancer patients treated with the Rhenium-SCT® in Germany
- Finalyse welcomes Dublin as a new entity to the Group
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 23-27 September 2019
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 16-20 Sep 2019
- VIAJES: LOS 5 DESTINOS MÁS BARATOS PARA ESCAPADAS URBANAS
- TRAVEL NEWS: Malaga tops the list of best value city break destinations in Spain
- Dr. Kurt Lauk, prominent business leader, former chairman of Economic Council in Germany (Wirtschaftsrat), former advisor to Angela Merkel, joins Tachyum
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 9-13 Sep 2019
- DIGI Communications N.V.: Decision regarding the participation to the auction procedure related to wireless broadband services supporting the introduction of 5G in Hungary
- Reporting of legal documents concluded by DIGI Communications N.V. in August 2019 or in other period but effective in August 2019, in accordance with article 82 of Law no. 24/2017 and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018
- Fight To Fame Expands Its Search for the Next Action Film Star to Europe
- Digi Communications N.V. Announces the availability of Investor’s presentation on the company’s website
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 19 – 23 August 2019
- All occasion personalised pens produced by specialist company Camaloon
- Nicht nur für Messen: Werbemittel Kugelschreiber
- Stylos personnalisés : Camaloon pense à tout
- Camaloon: una Penna da personalizzare per ogni occasione
- Experterna på tryck erbjuder profilerande bläckpennor för varje tillfälle
- Gepersonaliseerde pennen kiezen voor al uw behoeften
- MÁS DE 20 MILLONES DE PRODUCTOS DE PAPELERÍA SON COMPRADOS CADA DÍA
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 12 -16 August 2019
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 12 -16 August 2019
- XPAND K.K. will exhibit at the IFA 2019 as a Japanese cutting-edge IT company
- Reporting of legal documents concluded by DIGI Communications N.V. in July 2019 or in other period but effective in July 2019, in accordance with article 82 of Law no. 24/2017 and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018
- Digi Communications N.V. Announces the availability of H1 2019 Financial Report (for the six month period ended 30 June 2019)
- PDA Announces Six Regulatory Authorities Speaking at Biomanufacturing in Munich
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 5 and 9 August 2019
- Digi Communications NV Announces Investor Call on the Financial Results for the Half-year ended 30 June 2019
- Customer Data Platform Industry Grew 71% in One Year; Will Reach $1 Billion Revenue in 2019
- Central European Online Travel Agency Group Szallas.hu PLC. further strengthens its international presence
- With The Lure Of High Threadcount Sheets After A Day Trekking, Luxury Travel Blogger THE BOUTIQUE ADVENTURER Champions Chic Solo Explorations
- Digi Communications N.V. announces Syndicated facility agreement concluded between the Digi Group and a syndicate of banks
- LA SCULPTURE DE CEDRIC KOUKJIAN, « LIAISON », SERA EXPOSÉ EN PUBLIC PAR LA COMMISSION CULTURELLE DE COLOGNY, EN SUISSE
- CEDRIC KOUKJIAN’S SCULPTURE, “LIAISON” TO BE EXHIBITED IN PUBLIC BY CULTURAL COMMISSION OF COLOGNY IN SWITZERLAND
- Digi Communications N.V.: Independent Limited Assurance Report issued by the external auditor regarding the information included in the current reports under Law 24/2017 (Article 82) and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018
- Il 18° tour del lago Qinghai si conclude con la celebrazione della "maggiore età"
- La 18ª Vuelta al Lago Qinghai concluye con la celebración de su “mayoría de edad”
- 18e ‘Tour of Qinghai Lake’ wordt afgesloten met een ‘coming-of-age’-viering
- Digi Communications N.V.: Rectification of reports published on 15 Feb, 15 Mar, 15 Apr, 15 May and 14 Jun 2019 regarding legal documents in accordance with article 82 of Law no. 24/2017 and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018 published
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 22 and 26 July 2019
- GEANGO at ENSO ANGO - Summer Culture Retreat in Kyoto 2019
- DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol (15-19 July 2019)
- Nanto Cleantech Inc victorious in BYK-Altana patent opposition lawsuit
- Mono Solutions Joins Bauer Media Group to Strengthen SME Marketing Services Across the Globe
- UK Investors File Lawsuit in the Canaries Against Blue Explorers for Misleading Shareholders
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 8 – 12 July 2019
- Digi Communications N.V. announces Share transaction made by an executive director of the Company with class B shares on 11 July 2019
- OFERTA de casas vacacionales de lujo para menos de €25 por persona por noche este verano
- Noticias de Turismo: este verano sacarás más partido de tu presupuesto vacacional encontrando precios más competitivos
- TRAVEL NEWS: Your holiday spending money stretches even further this summer in Spain
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 1 – 5 July 2019, under the class B shares buy-back program approved by the GSM from 30 April 2019 and the duration of this program
- Global Software Innovator, AnyDesk, Announces Record 100 Million Downloads
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 24 and 28 June 2019
- Digi Communications N.V. announces the launch by RCS & RDS S.A., its subsidiary in Romania, of the Digi Mobil 5G Smart service
- Tauschen Sie Ihren Dripper aus und verändern Sie den Geschmack Ihres Kaffees! HARIO veröffentlicht den Double Mesh Metal Dripper.
- Change your dripper and change the flavor of your coffee! HARIO launches the Double Mesh Metal Dripper
- Matvil Corp. противостоит беспределу судебных властей Молдовы
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 17 – 21 June 2019
- Matvil Corp. Fights the Illegal Actions of the Legal System of Moldova
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 10 and 14 June 2019
- Digi Communications N.V.: Reporting of legal documents concluded by the company in May 2019 in accordance with article 82 of Law no. 24/2017 and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018 published
- DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions occurred under DIGI symbol between 3 – 7 June 2019
- PDA Explores the Transformation of Healthcare at 4th Annual European Meeting
- ASI President John Cross Named AGMA Chairman
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 27 – 31 May 2019
- Breakthrough on laser powder bed fusion technology brings effective production of larger componentscloser to mainstream
- PDA Announces All-Star Speaker Lineup for Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products Conference
- Digi Communications N.V.: Exercise of stock options by the Executive Directors of the Company
- Digi Communications N.V. announces DIGI Kft., the Hungarian subsidiary of the Company, launches mobile telephony services in Hungary
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 21 and 24 May 2019
- ZYXEL READY WITH 5G SAMPLES IN AUGUST 2019
- Digi Communications N.V. announces the initiation of the share buy-back program as authorized by the Company’s GSM on 30 April 2019
- Digi Communications N.V Q1 2019 Financial Report and the report regarding legal documents for April 2019, in accordance with article 82 of Law no. 24/2017 and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018 released
- Digi Communications N.V. announces the new date of the Conference Call for the presentation of the Q1 2019 Financial Report. Update to the Company’s 2019 Financial Calendar.
- Rhenium-SCT® (SCT= Skin Cancer Therapy) now being offered in Hanau, Germany
- Project consortium aims at driving the adoption of selective laser melting (SLM) for large scale metal parts printing
- Digi Communications N.V. announces the availability of the instructions on the 2018 share dividend payment
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 29 April 2019 – 1 May 2019, under the class B shares buy-back program
- Biodiversity Report Is Urgent Call to Action Beyond Fixes; Geneva Global Initiative Calls on World Community to Focus on Concrete Actions
- Digi Communications N.V.’s general Shareholders’ meeting resolutions from 30 Apr 2019 approving, amongst others, the 2018 Annual Accounts and the availability of the adopted Annual Financial Report for the year ended Dec 31, 2018
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions occurred under DIGI symbol, 22 – 26 April 2019
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 15 April 2019 – 19 April 2019s
- XPAND Code was successfully scanned from 200 meters/700 feet at Olympics stadium
- Wasser eingießen, Warten und Einschalten
- Digi Communications N.V.: Reporting of legal documents concluded by the company in March 2019 in accordance with article 82 of Law no. 24/2017 and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018 published
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 8 and 12 April 2019
- Snowman releases new EP
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 1 – 5 April 2019
- Streamlining adoption of high-speed and high-resolution surface texturing delivered with the Prometheus project
- Customer Data Platform Institute Launches RealCDP to Reduce CDP Confusion
- ASI Technologies Focuses on the future as ASI Drives, and New AGV Pallet Robot, FRED2500
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 25 March 2019 – 29 March 2019
- Towards a Europe of Stakeholder Nations
- Associazione Veneta Lotta alla Talassemia (AVLT) and the UK Thalassaemia Society (UKTS) Clarification on European Regulatory Status of LENTIGLOBIN™
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 19 March 2019 – 22 March 2019
- A new flagship project on Additive Manufacturing skills aims to maintain Europe leading position in industrial competitiveness
- Consultancy Partnership Revolutionizes Agile Project Management
- Jeroen Schouten Named Regional Manager, Europe of AeroGo, Inc.
- Digi Communications N.V. Convocation of the Company’s general shareholders meeting for 30 April 2019 for the approval of, among others, the 2018 Annual Report and of the 2018 Financial Statements
- España arrasa con la competencia y es nombrado como el país ideal para estudiar en el extranjero
- Xverify targets European Email Verification market with local data processing, Dublin office
- Digi Communications N.V. announces the resignation by Mr. Sambor Ryszka from his position as non-executive director of the Company
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 11 and 15 March 2019
- Digi Communications N.V.: Reporting of legal documents concluded by the company in February 2019 in accordance with article 82 of Law no. 24/2017 and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018 published
- New Services Larry Hurt income Tax Services
- Admission of Digi Communications N.V. €200,000,000 5.0% additional senior secured notes due 2023 to the listing on the Official List and trading on Irish Stock Exchange’s Main Securities Market
- Digi Communications N.V. announces the appointment of Dan Ioniță as a non-executive director of RCS & RDS S.A., the Romanian subsidiary of the Company
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 4 and 8 March 2019
- Digi Communications N.V. announces share transaction made by an executive director of the Company with class B shares on 4 march 2019
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 25 February – 1 March 2019
- Digi Communications N.V. announces share transaction made by an executive director of the Company with class B shares on 1 march 2019
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 18 and 22 February 2019
- Digi Communications N.V.: finalization and registration by the Company of the conversion of 1,200,000 A shares into an equal number of class B shares
- Digi Communications N.V.: Exercise of stock options by a PDMR in accordance with the stock option plan for the Group’s Romanian employees
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 11 and 15 February 2019
- Dearly Beloved, The Latest Single By Alternative Urbane Artist Expands Up-And-Coming ADN Lewis's Global Fan Base
- Report of legal documents concluded by DIGI Communications N.V. in January 2019 or in other period but effective in January 2019
- Digi Communications N.V. announces Availability of Preliminary Financial Report for the year ended December 31, 2018 for Digi Communications N.V. Group
- Mono Solutions launches a new interface to drive the ultimate do-it-with-me (DIWM) experience
- Digi Communications NV Announces Investor Call on the Preliminary Financial Results for the year ended 31 December 2018
- Digi Communications NV: New date of the Conference Call for the 2018 Preliminary financial results; Update to the 2019 Company’s Financial Calendar
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 4 and 8 February 2019
- R.W. Chelsea Holdings Ltd Starts To Hold Fixed Income Investor Meetings In Vienna, Zurich, Geneva and London
- Digi Communications N.V. successfully increased and priced its Offering at €200,000,000 5.0% additional senior secured notes due 2023
- Digi Communications N.V. to offer additional €125,000,000 5.0% senior secured notes due 2023; new notes will be consolidated and treated as its existing €350,000,000; adjustment on interim unaudited consolidated financial statements for the nine-month period ending September 30, 2018
- World's largest superhero statue to be built in Central Europe
- The resignation of Mr. Bendei Ioan – VP and executive director of RCS&RDS S.A., DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V.’s subsidiary in Romania
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 28 January 2019 – 1 February 2019
- RCH Group to Showcase Integrated Selling Solutions at EuroCIS
- Mono and bfound partner to expand digital offerings for small businesses in the Middle East
- Digi Communications N.V. publishes the Independent Limited Assurance Report in accordance with Law 24/2017 (Article 82) and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018
- ERRATA of the reports dated 15 Jan 2019 and 15 Oct 2018 regarding the legal acts concluded by DIGI Communications N.V. in Dec 2018 and Sep 2018
- REVEALED: Experts reveal the best dates to book your summer holiday in Spain
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 21 – 25 January 2019
- Céline Dion visite son premier concept store de vêtements CELINUNUNU à Paris
- Anytime, anywhere tailored learning opportunities for welding professionals and apprentices alike
- i5invest открива офис в България
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 14 - 18 January 2019
- Mono helps Fonecta strengthen their digital presence offering for SMBs
- The Bucharest Tribunal’s decision regarding the investigation conducted by the Romanian National Anti-corruption Directorate with respect to RCS & RDS S.A., Integrasoft S.R.L. and certain of their directors
- Digi Communications N.V.: Exercise of stock options by a PDMR in accordance with the stock option plan approved by the Company for the Romanian employees of the Group in 2017
- Report of legal acts concluded by DIGI Communications N.V. in accordance with Romanian Law no. 24/2017 and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018 for December 2018
- Digi Communications N.V.: resolution of the Board of Directors to convert class 1,200,000 A shares into an equal number of class B shares for the purpose of the ongoing employees and directors stock option plans
- CELINUNUNU OUVRE SON PREMIER POP-UP À PARIS
- DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 07 – 11 January 2019
- Digi Communications NV: Announcement of the Conference Call for the 2018 Preliminary financial results. Update to the 2019 Company’s Financial Calendar
- A new Government Emergency Ordinance imposing additional corporate taxes with impact on the telecommunications sector in Romania
- DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 31 December 2018-04 January 2019
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 24-28 Dec 2018
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 17-21 Dec 2018
- US Customer Data Platform authority David Raab to Host First CDP Workshop in Belgium
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 10-14 Dec 2018
- US-amerikanischer Customer-Data-Platform-Experte David M. Raab leitet ersten gemeinsamen CDP-Workshop mit b.telligent in München
- Arriva Designflows, la prima competizione di mobile design in Italia
- BWW 2018 – Best Wine Critics of World have been selected – Jancis Robinson MW is the Winner!
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 3-7 December 2018
- Farming by Satellite Prize is won by Teagasc from Ireland
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 26-30 Nov 2018
- Notification shares buy-back: Digi Communications N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 19-23 November 2018
- First Non-Melanocytic Skin Cancer Patients treated with Rhenium-SCT® in South Africa
- Notification shares buy-back: Digi Communications N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 12-16 November 2018
- Base Element and Cognigy Announce Strategic Partnership
- Digi Communications N.V. announces the Hungarian Competition Council’s decision to formally withdraw and reassess the Invitel merger decision on certain limited aspects
- Amerikaanse Customer Data Platform authoriteit David M. Raab leidt eerste CDP Workshop in Nederland
- Digi Communications NV announces the release of the Q3 2018 Financial Results
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 5-9 November 2018
- Cobots and RPA Gain Centerstage in Automotive Robotics Space; Labor Issues Prevail as a Key Challenge
- Digi Communications NV announces Investor Call on the Financial Results for Q3 2018
- Food Waste Recycling Machine Sales to Reach 10,890 units in 2018 on the Back of Growing Investments in Sustainable Solutions
- SMEs Accounted for Nearly 60% Share of SAP Cloud Platform Services Market in 2017, Finds New Fact.MR Study
- China’s Dominance of Pneumatic Rollers Production and Demand Continues, Finds Fact.MR Study
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 29 October-2 November 2018
- ILC Dover to Open New Production Facility in Blarney, Ireland for Added Capabilities, Capacity and Jobs
- OEMs Hold 90% Share of Automotive Switches Sales Channel, Finds Fact.MR
- US$ 3 Billion RF Power Amplifiers Market Driven by Growing Cellular Applications, Finds Fact.MR Study
- Kidney Stone Management Device Sales to Surpass 340,000 Units in 2018 with Lithotripsy Devices Leading the Rally, Finds Fact.MR
- Fact.MR Study Finds Contractor Preference Shifting from Skid Steers to Compact Track Loaders in Lucrative Markets
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 22-26 October 2018
- DB CyberTech Launches into the European Market
- Hungarian coding bootcamp opens in Prague in order to train career changers looking to enter the IT industry
- Gasoline Vehicles Accounted for 8 in 10 Automotive Fuel Injector Sales in 2018, finds Fact.MR Study
- Fact.MR Study Finds Global Demand for Crawler Cranes to Reach 3,648 Units in 2018, Greater China Leads with 30% Share
- Surplus Supply Reflects Growing Avidity in the Europe Cocoa Market – Fact.MR Study
- Fact.MR Study Shows Declining Demand for Tilapia in US Offset by Encouraging Gains in Domestic Markets
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 15-19 October 2018
- Europe Home Diagnostics Market Driven by Burgeoning Glucose Monitoring Device Sales, Consumer Demand for Non-Invasive Kits Largely Unmet – Fact.MR Study
- Europe Bicycle Parking Racks Market Driven by Consumer Focus on Sustainability and Carbon Consciousness
- Halloumi Cheese Popularity Soars in Europe as UK Maintains its Lead as the Largest Market – Fact.MR Study
- Vehicle Interior Air Quality (VIAQ) Takes Centerstage in US$ 6.5 Million Europe Automotive Headliners Market
- Report of legal acts concluded by DIGI Communications N.V. in accordance with Romanian Law no. 24/2017 and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018 for September 2018
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 8-12 Oct 2018
- Europe Emulsifier and Co-Emulsifier Market Witnessing a Shift Towards Bio-based Variants – Fact.MR Study
- Fact.MR Study on IBM Watson Services Market Lists Business Agility and Customer Service Transformation as Key Motivations to Adoption
- Europe Non-Dairy Toppings Market Riding on the Coattails of Growing Vegan Revolution, Finds a New Fact.MR Study
- Blockchain Cyber-security Firm Privus Raises $635k in Late Stage Seed Funding
- Smart Scale Co. Unveils World's First IoT Smart Scale Container, Stashaweigh™, at New West Summit
- ‘Sustainability’, ‘Functionality’ and ‘Cost-Effectiveness’ Among Key Expectations of European Consumers from Automotive Tow Bars Industry
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 1-5 Oct 2018
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 24-28 Sept 2018
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 17-21 Sept 2018
- New Study Reconfirms Effectiveness and Safety of Fotona Dynamis Laser Treatment for Minimally-Invasive Urinary Incontinence
- New study reveals that hate speech is becoming the ‘new normal’ on social media
- The launch of fixed broadband and fixed telephony services by Digi Communication N.V.’s subsidiary in Spain
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 10-14 Sept 2018
- coMakeIT appoints Durga Prakash Kone as Head of Global Sales
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 3-7 Sept 2018
- 80% Satisfaction Rate in Europe for Customer Data Platform Early Adopters
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 27-31 Aug 2018
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 20-24 Aug 2018
- DB CyberTech Launches GDPR Continuous Monitoring Solution with the First to Market Advanced Data Classification
- DATA4 Brings Pioneering Payment Systems to Kiosk Summit 2018
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A fight over when and how the U.S. Department of Education can cancel some federal student loans will soon play out in a federal courthouse on Golden Gate Avenue in San Francisco.
On Aug. 4, a federal judge will decide whether to preliminarily approve a settlement that would erase the debts of 200,000 borrowers who say they were defrauded by their colleges.
The lawsuit, Sweet v. Cardona, centers on a federal rule, known as borrower defense, that allows borrowers to ask the department to erase their student debts if a school has lied to them – about their job prospects, their credits' transferability or their likely salary after graduation.
Tens of thousands of borrowers who say they were ripped off, largely by for-profit colleges, have been in limbo, waiting years to have their claims reviewed. During the Trump administration, borrower advocates sued the department, arguing it deliberately and illegally stopped processing claims and wrongfully denied others without considering the merits of their cases.
If the settlement is approved, those 200,000 borrowers will have more than $6 billion in debts erased, and another 64,000 will have their fraud claims reconsidered on the merits.
"This momentous proposed settlement will deliver answers and certainty to borrowers who have fought long and hard for a fair resolution of their borrower defense claims after being cheated by their schools and ignored or even rejected by their government," says Eileen Connor, director of the Project on Predatory Student Lending and co-counsel for the plaintiffs.
The settlement also has its critics, who argue it's a brazen attack on dozens of largely for-profit colleges and could be used, by the department, to erase the debts of many more borrowers beyond the lawsuit.
The settlement names schools that have allegedly done wrong, but haven't been investigated
The settlement has stirred the fury of for-profit college leaders and advocates. The source of that anger is this list of 153 mostly for-profit colleges.
Borrowers who are part of the class action suit and who attended any of those 153 schools are entitled, the settlement says, to full and automatic relief from their federal student loans.
The settlement says these schools were included because of strong signs they had committed "substantial misconduct ... whether credibly alleged or in some instances proven."
Just because somebody accuses a school of fraud doesn't necessarily mean that it happened.
That doesn't sit well with some higher education experts.
"Just because somebody accuses a school of fraud doesn't necessarily mean that it happened," says Carlo Salerno, senior economist at Ellucian and a longtime industry observer. "[A school] could, for example, inadvertently list a graduation rate that was wrong. Maybe it wasn't wrong because they were trying to be deceptive as much as maybe there was a data error or a clerical error."
The settlement's critics also point out that the Education Department has investigated very few of these schools – let alone confirmed wrongdoing.
In a legal memo protesting the settlement, attorneys for Everglades College, Inc., whose schools are listed among the 153, complain that, "in most instances, all the Department has before it are unproven and yet-to-be-adjudicated allegations, but the agency is nonetheless deeming schools guilty without further process or explanation."
"This is a farce," the memo says.
In another legal protest of the proposed settlement, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology (TCSPP) "vigorously denies these accusations and is eager to submit contrary evidence and argument to this Court that the Parties plainly will not."
Many of the schools on the list have been the target of federal or state-level consumer protection inquiries, though not all. Some have settled without acknowledging wrongdoing. Most have never been the subject of enforcement by the department, or lost access to federal student loans.
"We have many concerns," says Jason Altmire, the president and CEO of Career Education Colleges and Universities (CECU), a group that represents many of the schools on the list.
"It does not appear that the department has done an individual review of each of these claims. In fact, they have themselves said that they did not do that," Altmire says.
One reason is practical: The department has an enormous backlog of complaints to process. The whole point of the lawsuit and settlement is to finally and efficiently do that.
In a statement, Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said the department was "pleased" to have reached an agreement "that will deliver billions of dollars of automatic relief to approximately 200,000 borrowers and that we believe will resolve plaintiffs' claims in a manner that is fair and equitable for all parties."
And there's no doubt, Altmire says, many of these borrowers deserve help.
"Any student who has been part of a school that has intentionally misrepresented information to that student, and the student has been harmed by that, without question, that student should be first in line to have their claims heard," says Altmire. But, "without any kind of individual review, we wonder how you can make a determination whether or not a student has been harmed."
Altmire says some of the schools on the list had no idea they were included – or that borrower defense complaints had even been filed against them.
"We see that as a problem," Altmire says, because it's causing schools "reputational damage."
Some of the schools on the list are still enrolling students
Among the still-open schools on the settlement's "substantial misconduct" list is the popular University of Phoenix, which listed its degreed enrollment in 2020 at nearly 84,000 students.
In 2019, Phoenix agreed to cancel $141 million in loans and pay $50 million back to students after the Federal Trade Commission alleged the school had used deceptive advertising.
But, by settling, the university avoided litigation. In a statement after the settlement, it said it "continues to believe it has acted appropriately and has admitted no wrongdoing."
Its inclusion in the Sweet settlement, along with other open schools, feels to Altmire like the department is using borrower defense "to weaponize against the [for-profit college] sector."
University of Phoenix did not respond to multiple NPR requests for comment.
Everglades and Keiser Universities – both part of Everglades College, Inc. – are also open. In the Everglades legal memo protesting the settlement, the organization says it didn't know students had filed claims against its schools.
"The Department's inclusion of [Everglades and Keiser] is already causing reputational harm, as third parties are treating it like a neutral finding of wrongdoing by the schools, rather than a litigation concession cooked up in a secret deal with the schools' accusers," the memo says.
Salerno, too, worries about the message this sends.
"While I'm sympathetic to the department trying to clear the decks ... there is a lot of inadvertent harm that comes from telling current students ... that, you know, your degree may be a sham, even before you've received one or tried to get employed with it."
What it looks like when a college defrauds its students
Borrower Alicia Davis wants to be clear: Her educational experience was a sham.
She remembers the Florida Metropolitan University salesperson who assured her, back in 2006, that the school was a great fit.
"She hustled me good," Davis recalls. " 'You're guaranteed to get a job!' "
But after enrolling, Davis quickly realized the school had little to offer her. And when she transferred, she was surprised to hear her credits were worthless.
"That's when I realized, I was like, 'OK, there's something really wrong with this.' "
Davis was furious and refused to pay back the federal student loans she had taken out.
She hustled me good.
"I was like, 'Take me to court, I'm not paying you a penny.' "
Ultimately, it was Davis who took the Education Department to court – as one of seven named plaintiffs in Sweet v. DeVos, now Sweet v. Cardona.
Unrelated to the case, the Biden administration finally processed and approved Davis' borrower defense claim earlier this year. In February her Florida Metropolitan debts were erased.
"I cried at the restaurant we were at with all these tourists," Davis remembers, "and they were looking at me like I was crazy. But, you know, at that moment, I realized that all my hard work and everything – I was finally free of this debt that has been haunting me for 15 years."
Davis says she hopes the Sweet settlement will be approved so the other borrowers in the lawsuit can experience the same joy, the same freedom.
The settlement may include a backdoor to broader student loan cancellation
Because this suit was triggered by the department's refusal to review claims, the settlement offers a timed guarantee to any borrower who files a claim between when the settlement was announced on June 22, 2022, and when it's finalized (if it is).
Eileen Connor, co-counsel for the plaintiffs, says these borrowers "will have a deadline" – a three-year review period. "And if the department isn't able to resolve their borrower defense applications within that time frame, their loans will be canceled."
It doesn't matter where these borrowers went to school or if they can prove they were defrauded. If the department takes more than three years to review their cases, their loans will be erased.
There's no reason to believe the department won't meet this timeline – as part of the settlement, it has committed to processing claims more efficiently. But, in its legal memo, Everglades College, Inc., suggests the department could choose to drag its feet to achieve broader loan cancellation.
"If the Department of Education encourages every loan holder in America to submit a borrower-defense application prior to this Court's final approval of the Proposed Settlement, within three years the Department of Education can unilaterally cancel ALL federal student loan debt – and refund prior payments on student debt – by simply not acting," the memo warns.
But Connor says "the suggestion that this settlement is a disguised debt-cancellation pact ... is either a deliberate misrepresentation or an embarrassing misunderstanding of basic facts."
According to a department spokesperson, as of early July, the Department had already received more than 60,000 borrower defense applications since the parties agreed to the proposed settlement.
Borrower advocates say there's still one thing missing: accountability
The Biden administration appears much more inclined than the Trump administration to cancel the debts of students who say they were defrauded.
Earlier this month, the Education Department unveiled a rewrite of the borrower defense rule – to streamline it and, in many ways, lower the burden of proof for borrowers.
What's less clear is the department's willingness to investigate bad actors and hold them accountable.
"The fact that this settlement is necessary represents a failure by the government to have actively policed these institutions better in the first place," says Dan Zibel, chief counsel and co-founder of the borrower advocacy group Student Defense.
The fact that this settlement is necessary represents a failure by the government to have actively policed these institutions better in the first place.
"We're not necessarily addressing the root of the problem," says Dominique Baker, a professor of education policy at Southern Methodist University. "If you know that an institution has done enough wrong that, if someone applies to get their student loans waived and you're going to automatically approve it, a real question is: Why would you ever allow someone to take another student loan from them?"
What's more, Connor says, there's nothing in the settlement that commits the Education Department to investigate any of the schools on its misconduct list.
Real accountability would require that the department officially investigate a school, gather evidence and make its case while also allowing the school to defend itself – a kind of due process that some for-profit college advocates and experts welcome.
"Schools deserve their day in court," Salerno says.
In response to questions from NPR about its enforcement efforts, the department, through a spokesperson, says it cannot comment on institutional oversight activities, program reviews, or investigations but that it reestablished the Federal Student Aid Office of Enforcement last fall and has filled key positions in the areas of borrower defense, strategy, and investigations.
"Our actions to date demonstrate our renewed focus on holding schools accountable for putting students' interest first," the department spokesperson tells NPR.
For proven bad actors, the department could hold executives personally liable for the costs of their fraud. It could also cut schools off from the federal student loan program – a likely death sentence for any school. Otherwise, what's to prevent more students from being defrauded?
Think of it this way, Zibel says: The Department of Education is standing at the edge of a hole, helping defrauded borrowers climb out by canceling their student debts. Meanwhile, on the other side, stand a host of potentially fraudulent schools, continuing to push more borrowers in.
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MIDLAND, Mich., July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Dow (NYSE: DOW)
- GAAP earnings per share (EPS) was $2.26; Operating EPS1 was $2.31, compared to $2.72 in the year-ago period and $2.34 in the prior quarter. Operating EPS excludes significant items in the quarter, totaling $0.05 per share, primarily related to digitalization program costs.
- Net sales were $15.7 billion, up 13% versus the year-ago period with gains in all operating segments and regions. Sequentially, sales were up 3% with gains in all regions except Asia Pacific, which was impacted by pandemic-related lockdowns in China.
- Local price increased 16% versus the year-ago period, reflecting gains in all operating segments, businesses, and regions. Currency decreased net sales by 3% year-over-year due to broad-based strength of the U.S. dollar. Sequentially, local price increased 6% with gains in all operating segments and regions.
- Volume was consistent with the year-ago period, as gains in Packaging & Specialty Plastics were primarily offset by declines in Industrial Intermediates & Infrastructure. Sequentially, volume declined 2%, driven by declines primarily in Europe and China.
- Equity earnings were $195 million, down $83 million from the year-ago period, primarily due to impacts from pandemic-related lockdowns in China. Equity earnings were up $21 million from the prior quarter, driven by gains at Sadara.
- GAAP Net Income was $1.7 billion. Operating EBIT1 was $2.4 billion, down $453 million versus the year-ago period. Gains in the Performance Materials & Coatings segment were more than offset by higher raw material and energy costs across the company as well as lower equity earnings. Sequentially, operating EBIT decreased 2%, as gains in Packaging & Specialty Plastics were more than offset by declines in Industrial Intermediates & Infrastructure.
- Cash provided by operating activities – continuing operations was $1.9 billion, down $165 million year-over-year and up $244 million compared to the prior quarter. Free cash flow1 was $1.4 billion.
- The Company's proactive actions to redeem outstanding notes totaling $750 million have delivered an annual interest expense reduction of $27 million and no substantive long-term debt maturities are due until 2027.
- Returns to shareholders totaled $1.3 billion in the quarter, comprised of $800 million in share repurchases and $505 million in dividends.
SUMMARY FINANCIAL RESULTS
- Op. Earnings Per Share, Op. EBIT, Op. EBIT Margin, Op. EBITDA, and Free Cash Flow are non-GAAP measures. See page 6 for further discussion.
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CEO QUOTE
Jim Fitterling, chairman and chief executive officer, commented on the quarter:
"Team Dow once again delivered net sales growth both year-over-year and sequentially with price increases across all operating segments and regions. Our competitive advantages and relentless focus on disciplined execution enabled us to navigate the impacts of pandemic-related lockdowns in China, continued logistics constraints, and higher energy and raw material costs. As a result, we increased our cash flow and our share buybacks sequentially.
"We continued to progress our strategy to grow our underlying earnings over the economic cycle by investing in higher-return, faster-payback projects while capitalizing on long-term growth opportunities. As part of these efforts, today we announced a series of circularity projects that will enable us to achieve approximately two thirds of our 2030 'Stop the Waste' target as we capture growth for the sustainable and circular solutions our customers are increasingly demanding."
SEGMENT HIGHLIGHTS
Packaging & Specialty Plastics
Packaging & Specialty Plastics segment net sales in the quarter were $8.2 billion, up 16% versus the year-ago period. Local price increased 14% year-over-year due to tight supply and demand balances, with gains in both businesses and in all regions. Continued strong end-market demand drove a 5% year-over-year volume increase, with gains in energy, infrastructure, and packaging applications. Currency decreased net sales by 3%. On a sequential basis, the segment delivered an 8% net sales increase, driven primarily by local price gains in both businesses and in all regions.
Equity earnings were $138 million, up $8 million compared to the year-ago period primarily due to the Sadara joint venture. On a sequential basis, equity earnings increased by $28 million on gains at Sadara and the Kuwait joint ventures.
Operating EBIT was $1.4 billion, compared to $2 billion in the year-ago period, as price increases were more than offset by rapidly rising raw material and energy costs. Sequentially, Op. EBIT was up $202 million and Op. EBIT margins increased by 120 basis points due to improved product mix and integrated margins which offset higher raw material and energy costs, primarily in the U.S. & Canada.
Packaging and Specialty Plastics business delivered a net sales increase versus the year-ago period due to both local price and volume gains. Prices increased across all key product chains, led by gains in functional polymers and volumes increased on strong demand growth in packaging end-markets and materials for renewable energy applications. Sequentially, the business increased revenue on price gains in all regions, primarily in industrial, consumer, and food packaging applications.
Hydrocarbons & Energy business delivered a net sales increase compared to the year-ago period, driven primarily by higher local prices for olefins and aromatics. Sequentially, sales increased due to higher olefin prices with gains in Europe and the U.S. & Canada.
Industrial Intermediates & Infrastructure
Industrial Intermediates & Infrastructure segment net sales were $4.4 billion, up 4% versus the year-ago period. Local price improved 14% year-over-year with gains in both businesses. Currency decreased net sales by 4%. Volume was down 6% year-over-year, as declines in Polyurethanes & Construction Chemicals were partly offset by gains in Industrial Solutions. On a sequential basis, the segment recorded a net sales decline of 3%, as lower volumes due to planned maintenance turnaround activity and third-party outages were partly offset by price gains in both businesses.
Equity earnings for the segment were $57 million, a decrease of $87 million compared to the year-ago period, driven by the impact of pandemic-related lockdowns in China. On a sequential basis, equity earnings decreased by $5 million due to lower MEG margins at the Kuwait joint ventures.
Operating EBIT was $426 million, compared to $648 million in the year-ago period and $661 million in the prior quarter, as increased planned maintenance turnaround activity along with raw material and energy costs were partly offset by higher pricing.
Polyurethanes & Construction Chemicals business net sales decreased compared to the year-ago period, as local price gains were more than offset by local currency and lower volume due to planned maintenance turnaround activity, third-party outages, and inflationary impacts on demand for consumer durables. Sequentially, net sales declined as lower volumes from planned maintenance turnaround activity and third-party outages were partly offset by higher local price.
Industrial Solutions business delivered a net sales increase compared to the year-ago period, with local price and volume gains in all regions. Volume increased year-over-year on higher supply availability and strong demand for pharmaceutical, agricultural, and oil & gas-related applications. Net sales declined sequentially as lower seasonal demand for deicing fluids was partly offset by local price gains in all regions.
Performance Materials & Coatings
Performance Materials & Coatings segment net sales in the quarter were $3 billion, up 22% versus the year-ago period. Local price increased 28% year-over-year, with gains in both businesses and all regions. Currency decreased net sales by 3%. Volume declined 3% year-over-year, primarily due to the impact of pandemic-related lockdowns in China, which were partly offset by stronger demand for silicones and coatings applications in the U.S. & Canada. On a sequential basis, net sales were down 2%, as local currency impacts and lower volume in Europe and China were partly offset by strong consumer demand in the U.S. & Canada as well as higher seasonal demand for coatings applications.
Operating EBIT was $561 million, compared to $225 million in the year-ago period, as Op. EBIT margins expanded by 960 basis points primarily due to pricing gains for both silicones and coatings applications. Sequentially, Op. EBIT declined $34 million as lower siloxane prices in Europe and China were partly offset by margin expansion in Coatings & Performance Monomers.
Consumer Solutions business delivered higher net sales versus the year-ago period, with local price gains in all regions and end-market applications. Volume declined year-over-year as strong consumer demand in the U.S. & Canada was more than offset by the impact of pandemic-related lockdowns in China. Sequentially, net sales declined as volume gains from strong demand for building and construction, infrastructure, and mobility end markets were more than offset by lower siloxane volumes and prices in Europe and China.
Coatings & Performance Monomers business delivered increased net sales compared to the year-ago period, with local price gains in all regions. Despite increased supply availability in the U.S. & Canada, volume overall declined year-over-year primarily due to pandemic-related lockdowns in China. Sequentially, net sales increased with local price gains in all regions and increased volumes driven by strong seasonal demand in the U.S. & Canada.
"Looking ahead, the long-term fundamentals driving growth across our end markets remain attractive," said Fitterling. "While near-term market conditions are dynamic, we will continue to leverage our diverse, global portfolio and flexible operating model to capitalize on attractive growth opportunities. The actions we've taken to enhance the resiliency of our business position us well to deliver value across a variety of economic environments. Our disciplined and balanced approach to capital allocation has delivered higher mid-cycle earnings, an improved credit profile, and cash generation above pre-pandemic levels. Team Dow remains well-positioned to continue advancing our "decarbonize and grow" strategy while delivering attractive shareholder remuneration."
Dow will host a live webcast of its second quarter earnings conference call with investors to discuss its results, business outlook and other matters today at 8:00 a.m. ET. The webcast and slide presentation that accompany the conference call will be posted on the events and presentations page of investors.dow.com.
Dow (NYSE: DOW) combines global breadth; asset integration and scale; focused innovation and materials science expertise; leading business positions; and environmental, social and governance (ESG) leadership to achieve profitable growth and deliver a sustainable future. The Company's ambition is to become the most innovative, customer centric, inclusive and sustainable materials science company in the world. Dow's portfolio of plastics, industrial intermediates, coatings and silicones businesses delivers a broad range of differentiated, science-based products and solutions for its customers in high-growth market segments, such as packaging, infrastructure, mobility and consumer applications. Dow operates 104 manufacturing sites in 31 countries and employs approximately 35,700 people. Dow delivered sales of approximately $55 billion in 2021. References to Dow or the Company mean Dow Inc. and its subsidiaries. For more information, please visit www.dow.com or follow @DowNewsroom on Twitter.
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Forward-looking statements are based on current assumptions and expectations of future events that are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors that are beyond Dow's control, which may cause actual results to differ materially from those projected, anticipated or implied in the forward-looking statements and speak only as of the date the statements were made. These factors include, but are not limited to: sales of Dow's products; Dow's expenses, future revenues and profitability; the continuing global and regional economic impacts of the coronavirus disease 2019 ("COVID-19") pandemic and other public health-related risks and events on Dow's business; any sanction, export restrictions, supply chain disruptions or increased economic uncertainty related to the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine; capital requirements and need for and availability of financing; unexpected barriers in the development of technology, including with respect to Dow's contemplated capital and operating projects; Dow's ability to realize its commitment to carbon neutrality on the contemplated timeframe; size of the markets for Dow's products and services and ability to compete in such markets; failure to develop and market new products and optimally manage product life cycles; the rate and degree of market acceptance of Dow's products; significant litigation and environmental matters and related contingencies and unexpected expenses; the success of competing technologies that are or may become available; the ability to protect Dow's intellectual property in the United States and abroad; developments related to contemplated restructuring activities and proposed divestitures or acquisitions such as workforce reduction, manufacturing facility and/or asset closure and related exit and disposal activities, and the benefits and costs associated with each of the foregoing; fluctuations in energy and raw material prices; management of process safety and product stewardship; changes in relationships with Dow's significant customers and suppliers; changes in consumer preferences and demand; changes in laws and regulations, political conditions or industry development; global economic and capital markets conditions, such as inflation, market uncertainty, interest and currency exchange rates, and equity and commodity prices; business or supply disruptions; security threats, such as acts of sabotage, terrorism or war including the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine; weather events and natural disasters; disruptions in Dow's information technology networks and systems; and risks related to Dow's separation from DowDuPont Inc. such as Dow's obligation to indemnify DuPont de Nemours, Inc. and/or Corteva, Inc. for certain liabilities.
Where, in any forward-looking statement, an expectation or belief as to future results or events is expressed, such expectation or belief is based on the current plans and expectations of management and expressed in good faith and believed to have a reasonable basis, but there can be no assurance that the expectation or belief will result or be achieved or accomplished. A detailed discussion of principal risks and uncertainties which may cause actual results and events to differ materially from such forward-looking statements is included in the section titled "Risk Factors" contained in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021 and the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2022. These are not the only risks and uncertainties that Dow faces. There may be other risks and uncertainties that Dow is unable to identify at this time or that Dow does not currently expect to have a material impact on its business. If any of those risks or uncertainties develops into an actual event, it could have a material adverse effect on Dow's business. Dow and TDCC assume no obligation to update or revise publicly any forward-looking statements whether because of new information, future events, or otherwise, except as required by securities and other applicable laws.
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This earnings release includes information that does not conform to U.S. GAAP and are considered non-GAAP measures. Management uses these measures internally for planning, forecasting and evaluating the performance of the Company's segments, including allocating resources. Dow's management believes that these non-GAAP measures best reflect the ongoing performance of the Company during the periods presented and provide more relevant and meaningful information to investors as they provide insight with respect to ongoing operating results of the Company and a more useful comparison of year-over-year results. These non-GAAP measures supplement the Company's U.S. GAAP disclosures and should not be viewed as alternatives to U.S. GAAP measures of performance. Furthermore, such non-GAAP measures may not be consistent with similar measures provided or used by other companies. Non-GAAP measures included in this release are defined below. Reconciliations for these non-GAAP measures to U.S. GAAP are provided in the Selected Financial Information and Non-GAAP Measures section starting on page 11. Dow does not provide forward-looking U.S. GAAP financial measures or a reconciliation of forward-looking non-GAAP financial measures to the most comparable U.S. GAAP financial measures on a forward-looking basis because the Company is unable to predict with reasonable certainty the ultimate outcome of pending litigation, unusual gains and losses, foreign currency exchange gains or losses and potential future asset impairments, as well as discrete taxable events, without unreasonable effort. These items are uncertain, depend on various factors, and could have a material impact on U.S. GAAP results for the guidance period.
Operating Earnings Per Share is defined as "Earnings per common share - diluted" excluding the after-tax impact of significant items.
Operating EBIT is defined as earnings (i.e., "Income before income taxes") before interest, excluding the impact of significant items.
Operating EBIT margin is defined as Operating EBIT as a percentage of net sales.
Operating EBITDA is defined as earnings (i.e., "Income before income taxes") before interest, depreciation and amortization, excluding the impact of significant items.
Free Cash Flow is defined as "Cash provided by operating activities - continuing operations," less capital expenditures. Under this definition, Free Cash Flow represents the cash generated by the Company from operations after investing in its asset base. Free Cash Flow, combined with cash balances and other sources of liquidity, represent the cash available to fund obligations and provide returns to shareholders. Free Cash Flow is an integral financial measure used in the Company's financial planning process.
Cash Flow Conversion is defined as "Cash provided by operating activities - continuing operations," divided by Operating EBITDA. Management believes Cash Flow Conversion is an important financial metric as it helps the Company determine how efficiently it is converting its earnings into cash flow.
Operating Return on Capital (ROC) is defined as net operating profit after tax, excluding the impact of significant items, divided by total average capital, also referred to as ROIC.
- Europe, Middle East, Africa and India.
- "Income before income taxes."
- "Net income available for Dow Inc. common stockholders." The income tax effect on significant items was calculated based upon the enacted tax laws and statutory income tax rates applicable in the tax jurisdiction(s) of the underlying non-GAAP adjustment.
- "Earnings per common share - diluted," which includes the impact of participating securities in accordance with the two-class method.
- Costs associated with implementing the Company's Digital Acceleration program.
- Restructuring charges, asset related charges and costs associated with implementing the Company's 2020 Restructuring Program.
- Primarily related to charges associated with agreements entered into with DuPont and Corteva as part of the separation and distribution which, among other matters, provides for cross-indemnities and allocations of obligations and liabilities for periods prior to, at and after the completion of the separation.
- "Income before income taxes"
- "Net income (loss) available for Dow Inc. common stockholders." The income tax effect on significant items was calculated based upon the enacted tax laws and statutory income tax rates applicable in the tax jurisdiction(s) of the underlying non-GAAP adjustment.
- "Earnings per common share - diluted," which includes the impact of participating securities in accordance with the two-class method.
- Costs associated with implementing the Company's Digital Acceleration program.
- Restructuring charges, asset related charges and costs associated with implementing the Company's 2020 Restructuring Program.
- Asset related charges including inventory write-downs, bad debt reserves and impairments of other assets related to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
- Primarily related to charges associated with agreements entered into with DuPont and Corteva as part of the separation and distribution which, among other matters, provides for cross-indemnities and allocations of obligations and liabilities for periods prior to, at and after the completion of the separation.
- "Income before income taxes"
- "Net income available for Dow Inc. common stockholders." The income tax effect on significant items was calculated based upon the enacted tax laws and statutory income tax rates applicable in the tax jurisdiction(s) of the underlying non-GAAP adjustment.
- "Earnings per common share - diluted," which includes the impact of participating securities in accordance with the two-class method.
- Costs associated with implementing the Company's Digital Acceleration program.
- Costs associated with implementing the Company's 2020 Restructuring Program.
- Asset related charges including inventory write-downs, bad debt reserves and impairments of other assets related to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
- Primarily related to charges associated with agreements entered into with DuPont and Corteva as part of the separation and distribution which, among other matters, provides for cross-indemnities and allocations of obligations and liabilities for periods prior to, at and after the completion of the separation.
- Free cash flow in the first six months of 2021 reflects a $1 billion elective pension contribution.
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