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At the Beto O’Rourke event in Midland last week, “Nino America” again made his presence felt.
Nino America is alter ego of Nino Rodriguez, a born and raised Midlander. Nino has a presence on social media – including thousands of followers on Twitter and 269,000 likes on TikTok. The so-called “MAGA mullet” embraces all things Trump and will call out those on the wrong side of the political or social aisle.
Midlanders got their first look at Nino America when a protest of the George Floyd death took place in 2020 at Midland Park Mall. “Here comes the Christians” was how he made his entrance. On that late spring day, he counter protested the Black Lives Matter rally with a “Make a America Great Again” flag and red hat.
Some also may remember when Nino brought his show to a Midland ISD meeting when masks were on the agenda (he spoke out against masks). He also has protested the Reporter-Telegram, spoke out against the renaming of the former Lee High School and preached Christianity at gay pride events.
The self-professed born-again Christian wears his faith on his sleeve just like his loyalty to President Trump. He told the Reporter-Telegram last week he believes there isn’t a Republican that measures up to Trump in 2024. “If it isn’t Trump, it is not right,” Nino said.
Things weren’t always Trump and the bible for Nino. He said he is a changed man, “no drugs and drinking and no gangs. … God put something in me.”
Nino said he runs a trucking company and that he and his wife have three children -- age 19, 17 and 10.
“My community in southside Midland loves me,” Nino said. “My people are grateful for what I did. It is a public event. This is my city. I’m going to take a stand.”
At the O’Rourke event, Nino and others involved in protesting were escorted out by police. Nino said afterward police he was “illegally detained” for 45 minutes after he was “falsely accused by a Beto supporter” of being physical inside the Martin Luther King Jr. Center. It was hard to see any contact initiated by Nino during the packed event from his social media videos. An MPD spokesperson said they didn’t have any information on the incident, and Nino ultimately wasn’t arrested.
Interestingly, in a news video from the event, O’Rourke, the Democratic Party’s candidate for governor, is seen asking for Nino to come up and say what he wanted to say. O’Rourke has been in Nino’s shoes, interrupting a press event in Uvalde with state and community leaders before being asked to leave.
Nino said his intention at O’Rourke’s event or elsewhere isn’t to go viral but to be “bold for Jesus.”
Nino America doesn’t hide the fact he is brash, loud, in your face and that he probably makes those in the political battles a little uncomfortable. He knows he’s not going to liked even by those who agree with his politics or stance on a particular issue, and that doesn’t bother him
As a social media influencer, that is part of the game. As a self-professed Christian, he is more than OK with rattling those he believes lack faith.
“Oh, I don’t consider myself nothing but an American,” he said at the Midland Park Mall rally. “I do not like labels. I’m not a minority. I’m not a Mexican. I am an American. And it’s not very hard for me (to protest) because I’m a born-again Christian. I have a loud mouth, and the Lord Jesus Christ is my Savior. I don’t fear the ’rona (coronavirus). I don’t fear Black Lives Matter. I don’t fear Antifa. I only fear God.” | https://www.mrt.com/news/local/article/Loud-and-proud-That-s-Nino-America-17330158.php | 2022-07-27T04:31:10Z | https://www.mrt.com/news/local/article/Loud-and-proud-That-s-Nino-America-17330158.php | true |
REHOBOTH BEACH, De - After several years of working through several legal and local government roadblocks, the Clear Space Theatre Company says there are ending the project for a new facility on Rehoboth Ave.
Executive Director Wesley Paulson said the board met on Monday night and made that decision. "Clear Space has spent years working on this project, and it is not easy to see it end," Paulson said in a statement posted on the Company's Facebook page. "We believe it is more important than ever for our loyal patrons and supporters to remember our mission to inspire audiences, artists, and students by providing high-quality performances and educational experiences; and our vision to be a leader in the vibrant arts community in Southern Delaware."
Clear Space Theatre will continue to work out of Celebration Hall Theatre on Baltimore Ave. It is land that is leased.
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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian inflation rose farther, according to new data released on Wednesday that increases the likelihood of the central bank next week hiking interest rates for a fourth consecutive month.
Inflation in the year through June was 6.1%, up from 5.1% in the year through March, the Australian Bureau of Statistics said. Inflation only rose by 3.5% during the last calendar year.
Economist Angela Jackson, from the consultancy Impact Economics and Policy, predicted the Reserve Bank of Australia will lift the cash rate by half a percentage point to 1.85% at its next monthly board meeting Aug. 2.
The bank made rises of that size in its July and June meetings. The rate rose by a quarter of a percentage point in May, the first rate hike in more than 11 years.
“In terms of the headline figure at 6.1, it is still very high … and it means interest rates will probably go up again next month,” Jackson told Australian Broadcasting Corp.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers warned that inflation would rise further.
“We are not surprised to see inflation north of 6%, but it’s still confronting,” Chalmers said. “Inflation is high and rising. It will get tougher before it starts to ease."
The center-left Labor Party government was elected in May and Parliament resumed Tuesday for the first time under the new administration.
Chalmers intends on Thursday to outline to Parliament Australia's deteriorating economic outlook since the previous government announced its economic plan in March.
In March, Australia’s gross debt as a share of the economy was forecast to peak in mid-2025 at 44.9%, or 1.117 trillion Australian dollars ($773.2 billion). Net debt — gross debt less the value of selected financial assets — was predicted to peak at 33.1% of GDP, or 864.7 billion Australian dollars ($598.5 billion) a year later.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The week before the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, Missouri's Josh Hawley became the first Republican senator to announce he would object to the certification of the 2020 election.
Texas' Ted Cruz came next, dashing off his own plan on a flight from Houston to Washington days before the joint session of Congress to certify the election results.
In all, a dozen GOP senators initially planned to challenge Joe Biden's victory. But unlike their House GOP counterparts who have been subpoenaed for testimony before the Jan. 6 committee, the Republican senators have largely escaped the reach of the investigation.
While the committee did share highlights about the senators, including Hawley's raised-fist salute to the rioters that day — an image seared in history, and now on coffee mugs the senator sells — it has made the surprising, if pragmatic, decision not to call the senators for testimony. One dramatic video showed Hawley sprinting from the Senate chamber later that day as rioters swarmed.
Amid wider public scrutiny of Jan. 6, the senators have been left to explain their actions on their own terms, and have often done so defiantly.
“I do not regret it,” Hawley said to applause at Turning Point USA’s Student Action Summit in Tampa, Florida, after he strode to the stage Friday to a standing ovation.
As the summer hearings of the Jan. 6 committee come to a close, Chairman Bennie Thompson has indicated that the panel is looking elsewhere. As work continues, the investigation is moving closer to the top ranks of the White House and the defeated president’s inner circle.
“We continue to receive new information every day,” Thompson, D-Miss., said last week, announcing the next round of hearings in September. “We are pursuing many additional witnesses for testimony.”
The House committee is investigating not only the grisly attack on the Capitol, but Trump's extraordinary effort to overturn the presidential election by submitting “fake” slates of electors from the battleground states to vote for him, not Biden, when Congress convened Jan. 6 to tally the 2020 presidential election results.
The senators could provide information about the run-up to Jan. 6, including any conversations they may have had with Trump and his lawyers who were putting together the plan for the fake electors, said Norm Eisen, a senior fellow at Brookings and former top adviser to Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee.
In one dramatic screenshot of a text exchange, the committee told the story of how a top aide for GOP Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin attempted to hand off a slate of false, pro-Trump electors to then-Vice President Mike Pence as he was presiding in his ceremonial role of certifying the election. Johnson has said he was not involved in that effort.
But having interviewed more than 1,000 witnesses and having issued rare subpoenas to fellow House lawmakers, Eisen said the panel is trying to preserve its political capital by declining to compel senators to testify in what would be seen as an unusual House challenge to the upper chamber.
The Jan. 6 committee’s decision to issue subpoenas to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California and Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio, Scott Perry of Pennsylvania, Andy Biggs of Arizona and Mo Brooks of Alabama was a show of force by the nine-member panel. And it came after much deliberation among the lawmakers, who for weeks considered whether taking the unprecedented step of subpoenaing members of their own chamber would be worth further inflaming partisan tensions over the 2021 attack.
“They only have so much committee time,” said Eisen.
Cruz declined to say Tuesday if he would have appeared had the Jan. 6 panel asked for his testimony. Hawley's office has similarly said he wouldn't want to address a hypothetical situation.
But in recent conversations, the Republicans have stood by their efforts to challenge Biden's victory.
“This country would have been much better off” if Congress had taken up his plan, Cruz recently told The Associated Press.
Cruz had proposed forming a commission to audit voter fraud in the disputed states, even though Trump's own Justice Department said there was no voter fraud on a scale that could have tipped the 2020 election. Dozens of court cases claiming fraud had been rejected or gone unheard.
Cruz said he did not recall conversations with Trump ally John Eastman, the conservative lawyer who was the architect of the alternative electors plan. Last month, federal authorities seized Eastman's phone and issued subpoenas to electors in states nationwide allegedly involved in the scheme.
“I wrestled for a long time with what was the best approach to take with regard to the certification on Jan. 6,” Cruz said. He said he alone drafted the statement he put out with 11 senators, which he said he dashed off on the flight back to Washington.
Hawley has brushed off questions about the committee's work, and declined last month to comment about Eastman's plans for the alternative electors.
One police officer testified to the committee that Hawley’s raised fist on Jan. 6 “riled up the crowd” that day, said Rep. Elaine Luria, D-Va. During last week's hearing, she played the video showing how Hawley “fled after those protesters he helped to rile up stormed the Capitol.”
Johnson has downplayed his aide's attempt to pass a fake slate of electors to Pence. The handoff never took place, but the moment showed how close the plan came to fruition. If it had been successful, the electoral votes for Michigan and Wisconsin could have gone to Trump, not Biden, the rightful winner in those states.
After police cleared the Capitol of rioters that night, seven Republican senators led by Cruz and Hawley stuck with the plan to challenge the election results. Several of the other GOP senators who had initially signed on backed out.
At least one Republican who voted to challenge the election results after the rioting, Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama, said Tuesday he would talk to the committee if they asked for his testimony,
“I'd go,” said Tuberville, who took a phone call from Trump as senators were being swept to safety. Tuberville was also among senators who had received a voicemail from Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani that night, the committee has said.
Tuberville said he hasn't been watching the hearings. “There’s nothing, anything, that I’ve seen that would change my mind on anything that I’ve voted on," he said.
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Associated Press writer Jill Colvin in Tampa, Florida, contributed to this report.
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MANILA, Philippines -- A strong earthquake shook the northern Philippines on Wednesday, injuring at least one person, damaging buildings and prompting many people in the capital to run outdoors.
The 7 magnitude quake was centered around Abra province in a mountainous area, said Renato Solidum, the head of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology.
"The ground shook like I was on a swing and the lights suddenly went out. We rushed out of the office, and I heard screams and some of my companions were in tears," said Michael Brillantes, a safety officer of the Abra town of Lagangilang, near the epicenter.
"It was the most powerful quake I've felt and I thought the ground would open up," Brillantes told The Associated Press by cellphone.
At least one elderly villager suffered a cut in her foot and was treated in a clinic, Brillantes said, adding many houses and building had cracked walls, including some which collapsed.
Authorities were checking if damage or landslides had occurred in mountainside villages in the northern fringes of Abra, a landlocked agricultural province.
The quake's strength was lowered from the initial 7.3 magnitude after further analysis. The quake was set off by movement in a local fault at a depth of 25 kilometers (15 miles), the institute said, adding it expected damage and more aftershocks.
The U.S. Geological Survey measured the quake's strength at 7.0 and depth at 10 kilometers (6 miles). Shallower quakes tend to cause more damage.
The Philippines lies along the Pacific "Ring of Fire," an arc of faults around the Pacific Ocean where most of the world's earthquakes occur. It is also lashed by about 20 typhoons and tropical storms each year, making it one of the world's most disaster-prone countries.
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Alfaro gets key 10th-inning hit as Padres beat Tigers
Jorge Alfaro capped San Diego's three-run 10th inning with a two-run single, and the Padres beat the Detroit Tigers 6-4 on Tuesday night.
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DETROIT (AP) — Jorge Alfaro capped San Diego's three-run 10th inning with a two-run single, and the Padres beat the Detroit Tigers 6-4 on Tuesday night.
Luke Voit finished with three RBIs for San Diego after he was hit by a bases-loaded pitch from All-Star Gregory Soto (2-5) in the 10th. After Matthew Batten struck out swinging for the second out, Alfaro drove in Jake Cronenworth and Manny Machado with a single to right.
Cronenworth was hit by a pitch leading off the inning, and Machado reached on shortstop Javier Báez's throwing error.
Detroit got one back on Jeimer Candelario's RBI double in the bottom half. But Nick Martinez retired Willi Castro on a fly ball to center, earning his fourth save.
The big 10th helped end San Diego’s 38-year quest to win a game in Detroit. The Padres lost the final three games of the 1984 World Series at Tiger Stadium, were swept in a three-game series at Comerica Park in 2007 and lost 12-4 on Monday.
Candelario finished with two hits and three RBIs. Rookie Riley Greene, All-Star Miguel Cabrera and Harold Castro also had two hits in Detroit's 12th loss in 15 games.
The Tigers trailed 3-0 before rallying in the seventh. Cabrera hit a leadoff double ahead of Candelario's 10th homer, a drive to right against Mike Clevinger.
Castro led off the Detroit ninth with a base hit against Padres closer Taylor Rogers, but Jurickson Profar made a diving catch of Jonathan Schoop’s foul fly to left for the first out. Pinch-hitter Eric Haase, who hit a grand slam in Monday’s win, struck out, but Robbie Grossman walked.
Greene fell behind 0-2 before tying the game with a single to left, but Rogers (1-4) struck out Báez to force extra innings.
The Padres got good news before the game when Fernando Tatis, Jr. took batting practice for the first time since hurting his wrist in March. Tatis could start a minor league rehab assignment within a week.
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Cabrera's seventh-inning double was No. 606 for his career, tying Paul Waner for 14th place.
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As the Tigers struggled through the 10th, fans broke into the Pistons’ trademark chant of “Detroit Basketball!” as well as “Let’s Go Red Wings.”
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ATLANTA (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the "Mega Millions" game were:
07-29-60-63-66, Mega Ball: 15, Megaplier: 3
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MILFORD — The Franklin baseball team had not scored in five innings while watching Milford turn a 6-1 deficit into an extra-innings ballgame in the Massachusetts American Legion Senior Baseball Tournament. Two outs into the bottom of the eighth, it had seen six pitches and struck out twice. Up came Luke Sidwell.
Franklin’s rising senior wasted no time, placing a bunt down the third base line on the first pitch. After a hit batter, Jack Marino stepped up to the plate, and his plate-protecting swing lofted a soft liner into left, falling in front of Scott Pagliuca and sealing the 7-6 victory at Milford’s Fino Field (Franklin was the home team, as decided by a coin toss).
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“Right as I was touching home I saw it land and immediately I jumped up and down with excitement,” Sidwell said. “I took one second and then sprinted out to get Marino. Top ten most exciting moments of my life right there.”
The victory leaves Franklin as the only undefeated team left in the double-elimination tournament, with finals on Thursday.
“It’s really just a credit to them, they’re a resilient bunch,” said Franklin coach Tyler Pasquarosa. “They come out every night and play as hard as possible, do everything they’re asked.”
Down 1-0 in the bottom of the second, Franklin scored six runs with Jacob Jette, Christopher Goode, Tyler Bellan, and Jase Lyons (2) driving in runs.
James Kuczmiec pitched well with the lead, giving up three runs in five innings, but was pulled with the bases loaded and no outs in the sixth. One inherited runner scored off King Phillip graduate John Silveria, the only non-Franklin High member of the team.
“He’s a bulldog,” Milford coach Steve DiVitto said. “I think he just lost it a bit at the end. We wanted to attack them a little bit more and I think we gave them too good pitches for them to jump on.”
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Though Silveria held Milford escaped the jam allowing just one run, he blew the save in the next inning. Dexter Southfield rising senior Dante Pavone, who’d allowed the six earlier runs, doubled in a run, then scored on Nipmuc graduate Noah Curley’s double to tie the game.
Hopedale graduate Sean Ryan and Hopkinton’s Nicholas Poharik had combined to keep Franklin scoreless after the second inning, but Poharik couldn’t get the third out in the eighth.
“It was great,” Marino said. “I saw [the outfielders] pretty deep and [my hit] was up there pretty good off the end of the bat. It wasn’t a great piece, but I was running down first, took a look and it looked pretty good.”
Greenfield, Leominster, and Milford (all with one loss), and Franklin remain vying for the championship. All four play tomorrow, but only Franklin is guaranteed to make it to the finals on Thursday. Milford will send Hopkinton’s Andrew Gaughan to the mound.
Greenfield stayed alive with its second consecutive seventh-inning comeback and walkoff victory, 3-2, over Beverly. Mike Bassett singled home Kyle Barnes with no outs to tie the game, before David Carey’s two-out single plated fellow Greenfield alum Jacob Sak.
A seven-run fifth inning propelled Leominster past Rockland, 11-2. Sean Dutton, a 2021 Leominster graduate, scored the first two runs before Fitchburg junior Declan Bourgault and Lunenburg graduate Nicholas Ouellette got the fifth-inning rally started with singles. Every Leominster starter scored in the dominating victory.
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Meet DeLand's 3 mayoral candidates: Chris Cloudman, Buz Nesbit and Reggie Williams
As longtime DeLand Mayor Bob Apgar's time in office nears an end, three familiar faces hope to fill his shoes.
And while residents may decide in the Aug. 23 primary who should wear them next, that individual won't lace up until after the general election on Nov. 8.
Chris Cloudman, Buz Nesbit and Reggie Williams are on the citywide ballot next month, each hoping for the chance to serve as the figurehead of Volusia County's fastest-growing city.
Data from the 2020 Census shows DeLand gained 10,000 residents within 10 years, bringing the total population to 37,351.
It's plausible to say the area's rate of growth and development — and its impacts on the availability of services — is a top concern among residents as officials work to balance the legal rights of property owners versus the rights of the city.
Following the release of the census data last year, Apgar told The News-Journal that proposed developments were drawing greater scrutiny from both the public and officials.
"I think the (City Commission) is taking a harder look at the densities of proposed projects to mitigate some of those concerns," Apgar said. "But how that will play out over the next several years, I don't know."
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If none of the candidates receives more than 50% of the vote, the two candidates with the most votes go head to head in November.
The DeLand mayor chairs City Commission meetings and serves as a figurehead. The term is four years with an annual salary of $16,302.
Meet the candidates
Cloudman, 44, has lived in DeLand since 2008 and served as a city commissioner since 2014. He works as an energy specialist for Cenergistic.
He was appointed to and served on the city's planning board from 2010-14. In 2014 he also served on the charter review committee.
Cloudman currently sits on multiple boards, including the River of Lakes Heritage Corridor Management Entity; Take Stock in Children Advisory Board; Florida League of Cities Legislative Policy Committee; River to Sea Transportation Planning Organization; East Central Florida Regional Planning Council; Central Florida Metropolitan Planning Organization Alliance; Florida Municipal Pension Trust Fund Board of Trustees; and the Florida Metropolitan Planning Organization Advisory Council Governing Board.
His top priorities include:
- Advocate for local entrepreneurs and business owners, prioritizing their meaningful projects that add value to the community.
- Continue working toward providing housing options for all income levels.
- Keep recruiting companies that provide additional jobs and higher salaries.
Nesbit, 66, has lived in DeLand since the late 1990s and served on the city's planning board since his appointment in 2017. He was previously appointed to the city's historic preservation board where he served from 2015-17.
In the mid- to late-1970s, Nesbit worked as a staffer for the Legislature in Tennessee and then in Memphis' division of public services.
Nesbit became a realtor in 2014 after working for more than 30 years in telecommunications.
His top priorities include:
- Provide the community and developers with clear standards for land development, and develop a strategy for annexation of interior enclaves that will improve quality of life in currently underserved areas.
- Encourage citizen participation on boards and task forces to establish stronger municipal strategies, including exploring and facilitating affordable housing options from current property owners and developers.
- Provide citizens with ongoing metrics to demonstrate the value of city government.
Williams, 71, has lived in DeLand since 1971. Before retiring, he spent nearly 25 years working for Volusia County in the following roles: community development director; community development/community action agency director; community assistance/services director; and director of community services.
Williams then spent six years working with the Florida Department of Children and Families in an administrative role. For six years after that, Williams worked in local leadership roles within nonprofits including The Children's Advocacy Center and Neighbor to Family.
His top priorities include:
- Control growth and development.
- Protect the environment and water resources.
- Listen to citizen concerns and be a voice for them.
Candidates comment
The following questions were posed to each candidate with a request to limit responses to 100 words. Answers are presented as they were submitted, save for minor corrections to punctuation.
In your opinion, what is DeLand's most pressing issue, and what efforts would you make to address it?
Cloudman: Preserving our sense of identity during a time of growth and change is imperative to protecting what we love most about the city and what attracts so many visitors and new residents. We must support events that promote community fellowship, recognize our amazing local businesses and organizations, keep traditions alive and focus on new initiatives that build upon the community spirit that makes us "Delightful DeLand."
Nesbit: Citizens are frustrated with uncontrolled development. After soliciting input from community members, not just city staff, about different zoning frameworks and community planning goals, we would establish a strategy that we clearly communicate to developers of new projects. We should require higher building quality standards and more diverse sizes of homes built in neighborhoods with preserved green space and active recreational opportunities that promote the health and well-being of our residents and protect our water and other natural resources. We must update our land development codes to make these standards clear.
Williams: I believe the most pressing issue for the City of DeLand is to get a handle on growth and development. A review of its land development regulations and comprehensive plan is needed. When home-rule authority allows, change rules to minimize clear-cutting and protect more historic trees. Also, I believe collaboration with the county and other local governments is needed to help manage or control growth outcomes.
In your opinion, what is DeLand's best feature, and how can it be expanded on?
Cloudman: DeLand is full of people and groups that continuously make this the most amazing place to live. While the national trend shows service organizations declining in membership, our volunteerism rates in the city continue to grow. Local entrepreneurs have launched new unique businesses and have helped revitalize once dormant areas. We must embrace what makes our city special and continue to support the momentum that has created a thriving, culturally rich community that is welcoming to everyone.
Nesbit: In DeLand's earliest years, Henry DeLand recognized that this community's character was grounded in its strong educational institutions, natural and architectural beauty, and rich culture just like Athens, Greece, so he coined it "The Athens of Florida." Today, DeLand continues to be the jewel of Central Florida as it retains that vibrant cultural base. Downtown DeLand's numerous cultural events, including performances at The Athens Theater, holiday parades, and various festivals and events are our main attractions! A thriving Stetson University continues to be an educational and cultural resource, and diverse neighborhood districts contribute community vibrancy.
Williams: I think DeLand's best feature is its small-town feel. DeLand is a great place to live and has and is expanding the number of parks, trails and recreational facilities. It has a vibrant downtown that hosts lots of events. Supporting initiatives to maintain that vitality are important. Investigating ways to bring patrons from the SunRail station to downtown should continue.
Why should someone choose you over your opponent(s)?
Cloudman: I serve the people of DeLand as an active member of the community, as a Rotarian, an involved parent/mentor in the schools, a fellow board member, a volunteer, a neighbor, a supporter of the arts, a frequent customer of local businesses, and a dedicated public servant who enjoys giving back all year round. I have spent the last several years providing a voice for DeLand at the local, regional and state level, gaining invaluable knowledge and experience. I am passionate about our community and will continue to serve with the highest integrity.
Nesbit: Wouldn’t it be nice to have a mayor with proven experience to lead DeLand into a vibrant future? My experience leading complex and rapidly growing businesses distinguishes me from my opponents as DeLand grows from a small town to a medium-sized city. DeLand needs a leader who can inspire citizens to co-create a new vision for our city, and who has experience overseeing negotiations, marketing, technology, communications, budgeting, strategic planning, and crisis management. DeLand already provides its citizens with an exceptional quality of life, but leaders must ensure the city's infrastructure and public services keep pace with growth and rapidly changing technologies.
Williams: I believe having grown up in West Volusia County and living in DeLand since 1971 gives me a unique perspective about the community. Working in county government gave me the opportunity to learn government from the inside, to think and process issues strategically, how to interact with other local governments, community agencies, other stakeholders and how to relate to people on their level. Working in state government helped me to hone these skills to be more compassionate in addressing citizen concerns. My love for DeLand and desire to use my experience to benefit the city and its citizens make me the best candidate. | https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/local/2022/07/26/election-2022-deland-mayoral-race-meet-3-candidates-cloudman-nesbit-williams/10131981002/ | 2022-07-27T04:50:14Z | https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/local/2022/07/26/election-2022-deland-mayoral-race-meet-3-candidates-cloudman-nesbit-williams/10131981002/ | false |
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What are the best New Balance skate shoes?
Skate shoes are popular with both skaters and non-skaters alike for their unique style. But besides looking cool, they are as essential to the sport as having a great board to ride on. Skate shoes are designed to strengthen your grip on the deck and to be durable enough to take a beating while you’re practicing ollies and kickflips.
New Balance is a leading manufacturer of athletic shoes, including a colorful line of skate shoes. For its pro design and premium comfort, the best New Balance skate shoes are the New Balance Numeric Tiago Lemos 1010.
What to know before you buy New Balance skate shoes
Skate shoe cuts
There are three main cuts for skate shoes, and New Balance offers all three:
- Low-tops resemble traditional sneakers. They are lightweight and have padded insoles to compensate for the support that is lost around the ankles.
- Mid-tops are cut just below the ankle. They provide a medium level of ankle support but allow your foot to breathe.
- High-tops cradle the ankle and prevent it from rolling. They are heavier and not as breathable as low-top and mid-top cuts.
Materials
There are three primary materials used in making skate shoe uppers:
- Suede is the material of choice for boarders. It is soft but tough. It withstands heavy use and breathes. It also stretches which makes it ideal for tricks and turns.
- Canvas is made from natural fibers that allow your feet to breathe. It is lightweight and constructed from one solid piece. Canvas does not last as long as other materials.
- Leather looks stylish and can be worn in casual settings. Leather skate shoes are more of a fashion statement than a functional shoe because they are heavier and can easily scuff if used skateboarding.
Types of insoles
There are two primary insoles for skate shoes:
- Vulcanized soles are made from high temperature rubber that is immediately pressed into the shoe. They are softer and provide a better grip on the board, but they are more easily punctured.
- Cupsoles are thicker and either glued or sewn into the shoe. They allow more room for padding, but they don’t provide the close feeling to the board like vulcanized soles.
What to look for in quality New Balance skate shoes
Padding
New Balance is known for comfort and places its foam padding in the midsoles and insoles to wrap around your foot but not restrict your movement.
Heel support
Some skate shoes have New Balance’s C-CAP wedge in the heel for added support. It absorbs shock from jumps and delivers premium comfort for all sizes of skaters or anyone who has had a heel injury.
Laces
Shoelaces take a beating in skate shoes. Leather and wax shoelaces last longer than other fabrics. Some shoes include a flap that covers the eyelets to protect the shoelaces where they intertwine.
How much you can expect to spend on New Balance skate shoes
Inexpensive New Balance skate shoes, which feature low-cut designs with synthetic uppers and basic color schemes, cost $65-$80. Mid-priced skate shoes cost $80-$100, with mid-cut shoes and suede uppers typically found in this range. Expensive New Balance skate shoes are priced at $100 and higher. Leather uppers, high-top cuts and shoes designed in conjunction with professional skateboarders are included in this range.
New Balance skate shoe FAQ
What does a toe cap do?
A. Toe caps provide extra support at the top of the shoe and prevent holes from forming. Boarders that skate transition and slide on knee pads should consider shoes with toe caps.
Are their New Balance skate shoes for women?
A. All of New Balance’s skate shoes are unisex and designed for both men and women. Sizes are combined between men and women, such as Men’s 10/Women’s 11.5.
How do you protect your skate shoe’s stitching?
A. Over time, the stitching on skate shoes will begin to unravel from the constant twisting and turning. A popular remedy is to cover the stitches with super glue. The glue reinforces the stitches and makes them last longer.
What are the best New Balance skate shoes to buy?
Top New Balance skate shoes
New Balance Numeric Tiago Lemos 1010
What you need to know: This skate shoe has retro style and is modeled after Brazilian professional boarder Tiago Lemos.
What you’ll love: Featuring a suede and mesh upper with no-sew overlays, this shoe has a crisp look and feel. The FuelCell midsole provides extra cushion, and the rubber cup outsole grips firmly. It has a lace-up closure, and each shoe weighs less than one pound.
What you should consider: They are the most expensive skate shoes sold by New Balance.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top New Balance skate shoes for the money
What you need to know: This basic court style skate shoe is the affordable option for maintaining a chic look with functionality.
What you’ll love: A one-piece suede and synthetic upper provides reliable support. There is toe reinforcement and a C-CAP wedge in the heel. The shoes come in core colors that simplify matching.
What you should consider: The sizes run slightly narrow for some boarders.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
New Balance Numeric Jamie Foy 306 Laceless
What you need to know: These skate shoes are an updated version of the traditional vulcanized 306 version with a slip-on laceless style.
What you’ll love: The suede upper is built for heavy use. It features mesh panels for breathability. The rubber underlay is designed to last and made from New Balance’s gum rubber N-durance for superior traction.
What you should consider: The sides absorb extra stress compared to laced shoes.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Louisiana Lottery's "Pick 5" game were:
1-3-9-3-7
(one, three, nine, three, seven)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Louisiana Lottery's "Pick 5" game were:
1-3-9-3-7
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A congressional candidate whose compelling personal story of military valor and unfathomable loss helped him win former President Donald Trump’s support has connections to right-wing extremists, including a campaign consultant who was a member of the Proud Boys.
Republican Joe Kent, who is challenging U.S. Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler in Washington state in the Aug. 2 primary, has also courted prominent white nationalists and posed recently for a photograph with a media personality who has previously described Adolf Hitler as a “complicated historical figure” who “many people misunderstand.”
An Associated Press review of internet postings, court records and campaign finance disclosures depict a candidate with a more complicated biography than the compelling personal story that turned the 42-year-old Kent into a favorite of conservative media.
Square-jawed with wavy black hair, the former Green Beret served 11 combat deployments before retiring to join the CIA. He also endured unspeakable tragedy: His wife, Shannon, a Navy cryptologist, was killed by a suicide bomber in 2019 in Syria, leaving him to raise their two young sons alone.
Taken broadly, Kent’s recent relationships and activities reinforce concerns about the GOP’s ties to extremist groups. The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol has drawn attention to the role such organizations, particularly the Proud Boys, played in the effort to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power after Trump’s reelection loss in 2020.
"Many (Republican) politicians play footsie with it. Kent is just unabashed,” said Dave Neiwert, an author and journalist who has covered right-wing extremism in the Pacific Northwest for decades
Kent’s campaign declined to make him available for an interview.
“Joe Kent’s platform of inclusive populism rejects racism and bigotry and invites all Americans to support his aggressive America First agenda,” Matt Braynard, a Kent strategist, said in a statement.
Ahead of the final slate of primaries that unfold in August, Kent is not the only House candidate worrying some Republicans.
In Michigan, John Gibbs, a former Trump administration official challenging Republican Rep. Peter Meijer, once spread false claims that Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign chairman participated in a satanic ritual.
In New York, Carl Paladino, a GOP House candidate, praised Hitler last year as “the kind of leader we need today." And former Trump administration official Max Miller, the Republican nominee for an Ohio congressional seat, was accused of physical abuse by his ex-girlfriend. Miller denies the allegations.
But of those soon facing elections, Kent stands out for the breadth of his ties to a deep-seated extremist fringe that has long existed in the Pacific Northwest.
Campaign finance disclosures reveal Kent recently paid $11,375 for “consulting” over the past four months to Graham Jorgensen, who was identified as a Proud Boy in a law enforcement report and was charged with cyber stalking his ex-girlfriend in 2018. The charges were dismissed. But a judge in Vancouver, Washington, issued an order of protection requiring Jorgensen to stay away from her, records show.
Kent’s campaign said Jorgensen was a low-level worker and denied he has any current affiliation with “outside organizations.” They declined to make Jorgensen available for an interview.
Kent is also a close political ally of Joey Gibson, the founder of the Christian nationalist group Patriot Prayer. Gibson has organized demonstrations in Portland, as well as the city’s Washington state suburbs, where he and his followers have clashed with left-wing groups. Many of the demonstrations were coordinated with the Proud Boys.
The often violent rallies drew anti-government activists, extremists as well as white supremacists to unite in common cause — namely fighting left-wing activists.
Photos from the events archived online demonstrate how in some cases Kent’s allies have associated with people who have expressed white supremacist views. In numerous instances, Gibson as well as Jorgensen, the Proud Boy on Kent’s payroll, were recorded standing next to Jacob Von Ott, who has posted racist and antisemitic views online.
Von Ott did not respond to a request for comment, but he has previously denied that he’s a white supremacist.
Gibson spoke at a Kent fundraiser last year. When it was Kent’s turn to speak at the event, he praised Gibson, explaining that he “defended this community when our community was under assault from antifa.” Gibson was acquitted last week on felony riot charges after an altercation with left-wing activists at a Portland bar
Kent’s ties to extremism aren’t limited to the Pacific Northwest.
Braynard, one of Kent’s top advisers, was the architect of a Washington, D.C., rally last year that sought to build sympathy for those arrested during the insurrection by rebranding them as “political prisoners.” Kent spoke at the rally.
And his candidacy is endorsed by far-right Arizona state lawmaker Wendy Rogers, who has identified herself as a member of the Oath Keepers, a far-right militia group that played an outsize role in the storming of the U.S. Capitol.
Kent has also sought support from figures associated with the white nationalist “Groyper” movement led by Nick Fuentes, an internet personality who has promoted white supremacist beliefs and was at the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol.
Kent has acknowledged that a political consultant set up a call early in his campaign that Fuentes was part of, where expanding his campaign’s reach on social media was discussed. But he denied that there was any sort of formal arrangement and distanced himself from Fuentes in March after their affiliation became broadly known, tweeting that he did not want “want Fuentes’s endorsement due his focus on race/religion.”
After the rebuke, however, Kent appeared on a far-right YouTube channel where he echoed sentiments similar to those held by many white nationalists.
“I don’t think there’s anything wrong with there being a white people special interest group,” Kent said during an interview hosted by a group called the American Populist Union.
In April, Kent was photographed at a fundraiser giving a thumbs-up with Greyson Arnold, who identifies as a “Christian American Nationalist.” Like Fuentes, Arnold was also at the U.S. Capitol during the insurrection.
Arnold has shared memes online that refer to Nazis as a “pure race” and has called Hitler a “complicated” and “misunderstood” historical figure. He did not respond to an email seeking comment.
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OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Washington Lottery's "Keno" game were:
04-05-10-19-21-22-30-32-35-37-41-42-44-48-50-52-57-71-75-80
(four, five, ten, nineteen, twenty-one, twenty-two, thirty, thirty-two, thirty-five, thirty-seven, forty-one, forty-two, forty-four, forty-eight, fifty, fifty-two, fifty-seven, seventy-one, seventy-five, eighty) | https://www.seattlepi.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Keno-game-17331364.php | 2022-07-27T05:10:34Z | https://www.seattlepi.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Keno-game-17331364.php | false |
Lovlina Borgohain Says "Thank You" After Boxer's Coach Gets CWG 2022 Approval
Earlier, the Indian boxing squad had reached the Games Village in Birmingham on Sunday night after a training stint in Ireland but Lovlina's personal coach Gurung failed to enter the Village as she did not have the accreditation.
- NDTV Sports Desk
- Updated: July 27, 2022 10:07 AM IST
Lovlina Borgohain confirmed on Wednesday that her coach Sandhya Gurung has got the accreditation for the 2022 Commonwealth Games, starting July 28 in Birmingham. The development comes a day after the boxer's viral social media post regarding the issue. The Tokyo Olympics bronze medallist had on Monday claimed that she has faced "mental harassment" due to the constant removal of her coaches, who helped her win an Olympic medal, from her training process and were later allowed entry after several requests. She added that her coach Sandhya Gurung had not been allowed entry into the Commonwealth Games Village.
While NDTV had confirmed through its sources about Gurung getting her accreditation on Tuesday, Lovlina also informed about the same late night. She took to Twitter to thank India's sports minister Anurag Thakur and the other governing bodies that were involved in facilitating the coach's accreditation.
"truly thank @ianuragthakur sir and @IndiaSports, and @Media_SAI for the prompt and rapid action to Include my Coach Sandhya Gurung's name in CWG acred. also grateful for SAl for constant support for my training since my youth. Thank you once again to all who have truly helped me," said Lovlina.
truly thank@ianuragthakur sir and @IndiaSports, and @Media_SAI for the prompt and
— Lovlina Borgohain (@LovlinaBorgohai) July 26, 2022
rapid action to Include my
Coach Sandhya Gurung's
name in CWG acred.also grateful for SAl for
constant support for my
training since my youth.
Thank you once again to all
who have truly helped me
The Indian boxing squad had reached the Games Village in Birmingham on Sunday night after a training stint in Ireland but Lovlina's personal coach Gurung failed to enter the Village as she did not have the accreditation.
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Caught on camera: Woman steals puppy from pet store
LAKE WORTH, Fla. (WPBF) - A pet shop owner in Florida is asking the public to help identify a woman who stole a puppy from her store in a theft caught on surveillance video.
Susan Minix is the owner of West Kisses Pet Company, a pet store in Lake Worth. She got a call from her employees last Saturday that a 9-week-old Peketese, or Pekingese-Maltese mix, puppy was stolen from the store.
“I was crying. I was so upset. We really, really love our puppies,” Minix said.
Surveillance video shows the suspect going back and forth in the store’s playpen area for about 20 minutes before taking the puppy with her a little after 4 p.m.
“She was playing with the puppy here in this area, and she then was out of the area, was told by a staff person to put the puppy back in the playpen, which she didn’t. She put the puppy underneath her jacket and walked out the door,” Minix said.
Staff members are concerned the puppy won’t survive because she is so young and needs special care.
“If they don’t eat, if they get stressed out, which, of course, a situation like this is going to stress the dog out, then if they don’t eat, they can have hypoglycemia. They can actually go into shock and die from that,” Minix said.
The puppy has been microchipped, and animal control, as well as all veterinarians in a 15-mile radius, are aware of the situation.
“Please bring our baby back. It’s a baby dog, and it needs special care. We want to be able to take care of it. We want to know that it’s safe,” Minix said.
To prevent something like this happening again, Minix says she will be putting enclosed Plexiglas in the playpen area and having anyone who would like to look at the puppies show their driver’s license.
Anyone with information on the case is encouraged to contact the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office.
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Outdoors Gear The 9 Best GPS Watches of 2022 We tested and researched GPS watches and like Garmin's fenix 6 Pro Solar best By Alex Temblador Alex Temblador University of Central Oklahoma and University of Louisiana at Monroe Alex Temblador is a freelance journalist specializing in travel, the outdoors, and arts/culture. TripSavvy's editorial guidelines Updated on 07/26/22 Share Pin Email We independently research, test, review, and recommend the best products—learn more about our process. If you buy something through our links, we may earn a commission. Getty Images TripSavvy's Picks You’ll want to go with the Garmin fenix 6 Pro Solar for the best all-around GPS watch. It’s thorough in its measurements of your fitness and outdoor activities and even has solar charging capabilities. Plus, it’s more affordable than our second favorite, the fenix 7x Solar. The Suunto 9 Peak—with its attractive style, touchscreen, and numerous activity profiles—is a great GPS watch for folks who want to track their daily workouts. Those who want something durable and rugged may want to go with the Coros Apex Pro or Polar Grit X Pro. First introduced in 1999, GPS watches have come a long way. As more and more people become interested in their health or hit the outdoors in search of adventurous experiences, GPS watches continue to grow in popularity. People seek out these watches for various reasons. Some purchase a GPS watch to track their endurance as they run, while others use them for mapping out their hiking route, keeping an eye on weather conditions while backcountry skiing, or letting their loved ones follow their movements while mountain biking in a remote place. We’ve gathered all the necessary information—from style to specs and sports modes—and laid it out below. Read on to discover which GPS watch is a fit for you. The Rundown Best Overall: Garmin fēnix 6 Pro Solar at Amazon Jump to Review Best Budget: Fitbit Charge 5 at Amazon Jump to Review Best Multisport: Suunto 9 Peak Watch at Moosejaw.com Jump to Review Best Trail to Office: Amazfit GTR 3 Pro at Amazon Jump to Review Best Endurance: Garmin Enduro at Amazon Jump to Review Best for Golfing: SkyCaddie LX5 GPS Golf Watch at Amazon Jump to Review Best for Running: Garmin Forerunner 945 at Amazon Jump to Review Best for Hiking: Polar Grit X Pro at Amazon Jump to Review Best for Kids: TickTalk 4 Kids Smartwatch at Amazon Jump to Review Best Splurge: Garmin fenix 7X at Amazon Jump to Review Table of contents Expand Our Picks What to Look For Why Trust TripSavvy Best Overall: Garmin fēnix 6 Pro Solar Amazon View On Amazon View On Garmin.com View On Moosejaw.com What We Like Solar charging capabilities A wide range of sports modes TopoActive maps What We Don't Like Buttons and interface can take time to figure out Garmin is a leader in wearable technology and GPS navigation, so perhaps it’s no surprise that our favorite GPS watch is the fenix 6 Pro Solar. This rugged and waterproof watch accesses GPS, GLONASS, and Galileo satellite systems to track your movements better when participating in sports and outdoor activities. It may take a bit of time to figure out how to navigate the TopoActive maps with the side buttons of the watch, but once you do, it’s a great tool to use when doing things like skiing or hiking in the wilderness. And with round-trip route and turn-by-turn navigation features, you’re less likely to get lost. The fenix 6 Pro Solar features 48 sports and exercise activities like golf, running, and hiking, as well as extreme sports like skiing, mountain biking, surfing, and more. If you prefer to use the fenix 6 Pro Solar for exercises, you’ll enjoy the animated workout sessions that are downloadable with the watch. But perhaps the best aspect of the fenix 6 pro solar is the safety features. Upon starting an activity, like hiking or mountain biking in the mountains, you can have your movements tracked in real-time by loved ones. And if the watch senses you’ve had an accident or injury, it will send your location to emergency contacts for immediate assistance. We love that the fenix 6 Pro Solar is that it has solar charging capabilities. Garmin advertises that with solar charging, you can get 9 to 10.5 days of battery life when in smartwatch mode. In GPS mode, you only get 25 hours indoors and 28 hours with solar charging. We've typically used the fenix 6 Pro Solar in the smartwatch mode and do about one to two daily activities. The watch typically lasts 4 to 5 days on one charge. In low-power mode, which uses a low-power GPS, we could get a few weeks on one charge, which would be suitable for camping or hiking in remote places for a week or two. The watch tracks your sleep, pulse, breathing, and heart rate 24 hours a day and allows you to record hydration and menstrual cycles. With smartwatch features, you can receive text messages and emails (and make quick, pre-set responses), be notified of calls, manage music, and pay with a contactless payment solution. Average Battery Life: 5 to 10 days | Display Size: 42 millimeters | Water-Resistance Depth: 100 meters TripSavvy / Nathan Allen. Best Budget: Fitbit Charge 5 REI View On Amazon View On Fitbit.com View On REI What We Like Affordable Heart health and stress tracking Tracks activity when you leave phone at home What We Don't Like Only 20 activity modes Need premium membership to get features included in other watches The Fitbit Charge 5 is perfect for those who only need a GPS watch to track basic fitness activities and personal health features like stress, heart health, sleep, and oxygen saturation. The price reflects that there are only 20 exercise modes and a water-resistance depth of 50 meters. The built-in GPS will track your pace and distance while doing an exercise. You can leave your phone at home, and your metrics will sync to the Fitbit app when you return. The watch will automatically recognize and record your workout if you forget to start your exercise on the Fitbit Charger 5. Android users can take advantage of quick setup, pairing, and pre-set replies to text messages. Fitbit says you can get up to seven days of battery life, but with notifications and consistent workouts, you’ll most likely get four days of charge. Average Battery Life: Up to 7 days, average 3 days | Display Size: 0.58 x 1.04 inches | Water-Resistance Depth: 50 meters Best Multisport: Suunto 9 Peak Watch Moosejaw View On Moosejaw.com View On REI What We Like Touchscreen Long battery life Good style What We Don't Like No safety notification or live tracking Digital compass has difficulty calibrating The Suunto 9 Peak is the lightest, thinnest, and most durable watch that Suunto has created—and it’s stylish, too. (We've received more compliments on the aesthetics of this watch than any other on the list.) The touchscreen is scratch-resistant, making it a perfect watch to wear when engaging in sports. With over 80 different sports modes, the Suunto 9 Peak is the ideal multisport watch. It has typical sports activities like running and cycling and less common activities like roller skating, paragliding, rugby, softball, table tennis, windsurfing, soccer, and parkour. What the watch records depend on the activity you’re doing. So, for instance, if you’re swimming, it’ll record your stroke rate, count, and type. However, no matter the sport, Suunto 9 Peak will record your heart rate, speed, distance, and calories burned and let you track intervals. The Suunto 9 Peak’s GPS features can track your movements and help you find your way back to your starting point with the “Find Back” function. If you prefer, you can create routes in the app and upload them to the Peak 9. Whether you choose a pre-set route or create your own, you may want to notate points of interest, like camping spots, caves, bathrooms, or animal markings, along a route. One of the most impressive features of this watch is its battery capability. After three weeks of testing (which meant I was receiving smartwatch notifications, doing activities one to two times a day, and undergoing 24/7 tracking), I only had to charge the watch two times as the battery lasted about ten days. Average Battery Life: 7 days | Display Size: 43 millimeters| Water-Resistance Depth: 100 meters TripSavvy / Nathan Allen. Best Trail to Office: Amazfit GTR 3 Pro Amazon photo. Amazon View On Amazon View On Amazfit.com What We Like Sleek and stylish Over 150 sport modes Good battery life What We Don't Like Not the most user-friendly to set up, but good once you do it If you plan on wearing your watch straight from your activity to work, if you don't like the typical bulky and rugged look of most GPS watches, or you want a watch to double as your fitness tracker and everyday watch, the Amazfit GTR 3 Pro is a good bet. There's a lot of functionality to like about this watch beyond its impressive 150+ sport modes. It pairs with your Alexa device, can make Bluetooth phone calls, has navigation, and tracks health measures like blood oxygen and stress levels, heart rate, and menstrual cycles. We also love that this is a bit more of a budget watch and provides an excellent value for what it does. The upshot: If you're looking for an everyday GPS watch that you could wear in more formal settings, this is the best we've seen. Bonus: You won't necessarily have to break the bank to wear it. Average Battery Life: 12 days of regular use | Display Size: 1.45 inches | Water-Resistance Depth: 50 meters TripSavvy / Nathan Allen. Best Endurance: Garmin Enduro Amazon photo. Amazon View On Amazon View On Garmin.com View On REI What We Like Great battery life Solar charging capabilities Awesome trail running-specific trackers and features What We Don't Like Expensive Heavy Garmin's Enduro is built for long days outside. This high-end GPS watch features unique aspects for endurance athletes, trail runners, and anyone looking to spend extended time doing activities. It's got loads of features, but some of our favorites are the solar charging capabilities, a trail run-specific VO2 max tracker, a ClimbPro feature, which gives you real-time updates on current and upcoming climbs, head and altitude acclimation trackers, and a recover advisor. Yes, this watch is costly. And we think it's a bit heavy. But if you are an ultrarunner, trail runner, thru-hiker, mountain biker, or anyone else that wants a high-quality watch to last extended amounts of time outside while tracking some unique and cool features, this is a good pick. Average Battery Life: 80 hours in GPS mode | Display Size: 1.4 inches | Water-Resistance Depth: 100 meters TripSavvy / Nathan Allen. Best for Golfing: SkyCaddie LX5 GPS Golf Watch Amazon View On Amazon View On Best Buy What We Like Touchscreen with colorful HD graphics Pre-loaded with 35,000 SkyGolf maps What We Don't Like Battery lasts for up to two rounds Must sign up for a 1–3-year membership for full access to all features Although some watches on this list will track your fitness while golfing, they don’t provide detailed insights into a golf game that SkyCaddie LX5 does. This Bluetooth and Wi-Fi-enabled watch come with 35,000 pre-loaded SkyGolf maps of golf courses worldwide, allowing you to reference the most detailed map of a golf course while you play. With a touchscreen, you can zoom in on the fairway, see hazards, rotate a green to find the best shot, determine the distance of a shot needed, and choose the best club to use based on yardage arcs. In effect, this watch lets you play golf in a ‘smart’ way by providing precise insights about the greens. You can keep score on the SkyCaddie LX5 and track each shot you play by choosing which club you used and how far you hit with it. Other features include step tracking, heart rate, a stopwatch, and a timer. Perhaps the biggest drawback of this watch is that the battery life is only suitable for up to two rounds of golf. Not to mention, if you want access to all the features, you’ll have to sign up for a plan after a 30-day free trial. Otherwise, with the ‘no annual fee’ option, you’ll only get access to the green's limited front, center, and back information. Average Battery Life: Up to two rounds of golf | Display Size: 1.39-inch | Water-Resistance Depth: 30 meters Best for Running: Garmin Forerunner 945 4.3 Amazon View On Amazon View On Best Buy View On Garmin.com What We Like Holds up to 500 songs Tracks running specs like cadence, stride length, ground contact, etc. What We Don't Like Average battery While the lightweight Forerunner 945 has activity modes like skiing, hiking, and golfing, it was designed specifically for runners, especially those who like to participate in triathlons and running events. While in GPS mode, you can get up to ten hours of charge time. (In regular mode, you can get about seven days of battery life). In addition to measuring and tracking VO2 max, heart rate, and pulse oxygen saturation, the Forerunner 945 tracks specific running measurements like cadence, stride length, ground contact time, balance, and more. With full-color maps, you can easily navigate a route, though if you want assistance, the Forerunner 945 is equipped with a round-trip routing feature and has turn-by-turn navigation when you follow a pre-set route or course. For runners who don’t want to bring their phone along on the run, the Forerunner 945 holds up to 500 songs and allows users to sync playlists from Spotify, Deezer, and Amazon. And as with any Garmin GPS watch, you can take advantage of GarminPay and safety and live track features. This model continues to be the favorite among our running-centric testers. Average Battery Life: 1 week | Display Size: 1.2 inches | Water-Resistance Depth: 50 meters The 9 Best Golf GPS Watches of 2022 Best for Hiking: Polar Grit X Pro Amazon View On Amazon What We Like Sapphire glass for maximum durability Fuelwise provides insightful reminders to refuel What We Don't Like Touchscreen isn’t as responsive; navigate mostly with buttons Sapphire glass, which is tough and scratch-resistant, is typically an add-on or upgrade feature, so you’ll be glad to know that the Polar Grit X Pro comes with this durable screen material. On top of that, Polar claims the watch will withstand temperatures of -68 degrees up to 122 degrees F so you can stay connected on hikes in even the most extreme places in the world. Serious hikers on multi-day hiking trips can get up to 40 hours of battery power or 100 hours in power saver mode. Otherwise, expect five to seven days of battery life on a regular day-to-day basis. The Polar Grit X Pro has elevation profiles and a trackback feature that ensure you never get lost. You can sync a route to your watch for turn-by-turn guidance if you prefer. The dashboard is equipped with a compass and notates sunrise and sunset times, weather, and barometric altitude. We’re fans of the Fuelwise feature, which notifies you when to hydrate and eat carbs during long hikes or activities. Like many other watches on this list, the Polar Grit X Pro can receive text and email notifications, has music controls, and monitors your sleep. It comes pre-loaded with 14 sport modes; however, it can hold up to 20 sport profiles. Average Battery Life: up to 7 days | Display Size: 1.2 inches | Water-Resistance Depth: 100 meters Best for Kids: TickTalk 4 Kids Smartwatch TickTalk View On Amazon What We Like Video chat and text message kids GPS tracking SOS alert button What We Don't Like Short battery life Requires a monthly pay-as-you-go plan A cellphone may be too much responsibility for kids under 12 years old, which is where the TickTalk 4 comes in. This durable children’s watch has fun perks—like activity trackers, step goals, and free kid-friendly music and podcast streaming. However, what makes the watch special is that parents can always remain connected with their kids. With GPS location tracking, guardians can monitor their children’s whereabouts on an app. And anytime they want to see or speak to their child, they can two-way message or video call on the watch’s 2X HD 5-megapixel cameras (which can also take photos and videos). The watch doesn’t have internet, games, or social media, and with 20+ parental controls, parents can rest assured that their kids are safely using the watch to stay in touch with their family. The most assuring feature of the watch is the SOS Calling. When kids hold the red button, the TickTalk 4 automatically calls a pre-set cell phone number of your choice. Remember that to access all these features; parents must set up a pay-as-you-go plan (as low as $10) with the provided free SIM card. Average Battery Life: 62 hours | Display Size: 16 millimeters | Water-Resistance Depth: 1 meter, IP67 The 8 Best Kids’ Luggage Pieces for Easy and Fun Travel Best Splurge: Garmin fenix 7X Amazon View On Amazon View On Best Buy What We Like Solar charging capability for up to 5 days in GPS mode Hands-free multi-LED flashlight What We Don't Like Pricey If the fenix 7x Solar wasn’t so expensive, we’d have chosen it as our favorite GPS watch. It pulls out all the stops with a touchscreen and five-button interface so you can easily look through topographical maps when doing an outdoor activity. The fenix 7x Solar has solar charging capabilities that give it a battery life of up to five days in GPS mode and five weeks in smartwatch mode. One of the unique features of this watch is the multi-LED flashlight. Red and white lights can illuminate a campground or be set as a strobe light while running and cycling for extra visibility. Garmin uses multiple GPS systems to provide the best location readings, but the fenix 7x Solar also utilizes L5 frequency for boosted accuracy. You’ll enjoy pre-loaded SkiView maps and 42,000 golf courses, a 1,000-song storage capability, and an ‘up ahead’ feature that provides insights on POIs (like first aid, food, or a finish line) found ‘up ahead’ on a trail. If you’re familiar with Garmin, you know that it tracks your health measurements 24/7, has an almost endless number of activity modes, and peace-of-mind safety and tracking features. Garmin added other tools to the fenix 7x Solar like a daily workout suggestion, a visual race predictor (that provides race completion measurements), and a real-stamina tool to amplify your workouts and outdoor lets you track your exertion levels during runs and cycling activities. Average Battery Life: 5 days | Display Size: 1.4 inches| Water-Resistance Depth: 100 meters Best Battery Life: Coros APEX Premium Multisport GPS Watch Moosejaw View On Moosejaw.com What We Like Colorful daytime display and night mode 14 percent increase in battery life compared to APEX What We Don't Consider No workout mode for walking Dial can be cumbersome to figure out Can’t sync via Wi-Fi; Bluetooth only People love the Coros brand for its battery life capability, and with the Coros Apex Pro, you get 14 percent more battery life than the Apex when in full GPS mode. That’s about 40 hours of battery life. You could get 100 hours in UltraMax mode or 30 days if you use the watch in regular mode. One of the most significant drawbacks to the watch is that it only has 26 supported sports activities—which doesn’t include a walking mode. But with these 26 sports, you can create and upload training sessions and routes from the app to the watch and utilize features like a barometric altimeter, heart rate monitor, accelerometer, and gyroscope. Note that the Coros Apex Pro has a 24/7 pulse oximeter; however, it only starts monitoring oxygen saturation levels at high altitudes to suggest when it may be necessary to descend. We like the colorful daytime display and the night mode, which makes it easier to see the screen when working out at night. Although equipped with a touchscreen, it only works for specific actions like scrolling through metric views. You’ll have to defer to buttons and a dial to do most functions, like zoom in and out of a map. Unfortunately, the Apex Pro can only connect to the app through Bluetooth (rather than Wi-Fi), which can sometimes be a bit tricky. This also means that you can’t manage music on the watch. Remember—too many features can run down the battery life, and the one thing that the Apex Pro does extremely well provides a long-lasting battery. Average Battery Life: 30 days of regular use, 40 hours full GPS mode, 100 hours in UltraMax mode | Display Size: 13.4 millimeters | Water-Resistance Depth: 100 meters Best Outdoor Subscription Boxes of 2022 TripSavvy / Nathan Allen. What to Look for in GPS Watches Ease of Use The most important aspect to consider when shopping for a GPS watch is how easy it is to use. GPS watches tend to have two different types of interfaces. Perhaps the easiest to use are touchscreen GPS watches because of our familiarity with touchscreen smartphones. Most GPS watches with touchscreens allow you to use your finger and buttons to maneuver through different settings and activities. GPS watches with touchscreens are relatively new, so issues like lagging, battery draining, and limited touchscreen capabilities have been reported. Many watches still do not have a touchscreen; in that case, the watch has buttons on the sides that allow you to navigate. This type of setup can be tricky for some, but once you figure it out, you’ll see the benefit of this design. Finally, make sure you do a deep dive into the GPS watch’s app. You should like how the app is set up and understand how it provides additional features, like storing activities. Comfort It should be comfortable if you wear a GPS watch when you’re exercising or doing an outdoor activity. These days, GPS watches come in various styles—like rugged and durable or sleek and stylish. Some companies offer interchangeable bands to provide the utmost comfort or style to fit your activity. Consider bandwidth and material when thinking about comfort. You don’t want something that cuts into your wrist or rubs your skin raw when you’re rowing or running. Activities Most GPS watches will have hiking, running, and walking activities, but you’ll find that the higher quality GPS watches include a wider diversity of activities, like kayaking, open water swimming, bouldering, cycling, skiing, snowboarding, paddle boarding, and surfing. Some watches may be more fitness-specific in that they’ll focus on exercise activities like yoga, pilates, cardio, weightlifting, treadmill or track runs, indoor bikes, pool swims, triathlon training, indoor rowing, ellipticals, and stair masters. You can even find GPS watches that track traditional sports like tennis, golf, softball, and pickleball, and even more obscure activities like boating, scuba diving, and sky diving. Price GPS watches are an investment. Our budget pick is about $150, and our splurge GPS watch costs $900. The more expensive the watch, the more likely you’ll have a broader range of activities, better GPS capabilities, safety measures, solar charging, and higher quality materials that can handle extreme outdoor sports like deep sea diving. If you’re primarily interested in a GPS watch for daily fitness activities or the occasional hike, you don’t need to spend more than $200-$300 (in fact, you could probably spend less). Frequently Asked Questions How accurate is the heart rate monitor on GPS watches? Many people seek out GPS watches for their heart rate monitoring capabilities, but you should be aware that they’re not 100 percent accurate. Studies have found that chest strap monitors may be slightly more accurate than GPS watches, and this is because of various factors.To get an accurate reading, a GPS watch’s heart rate sensor must always be in contact with your skin, which may not be possible during certain activities. Everything from a dirty sensor to skin tone, tattoos, and chilly weather (or water) can affect the accuracy of a heart rate reading.If heart rate is a crucial part of your fitness or training, we suggest investing in a heart rate monitor that is compatible with your GPS watch. Many brands, like Garmin, make chest-strap heart rate monitors compatible with their GPS watches. Can I extend the battery life of a GPS watch? The battery life of a GPS watch is determined by how many programs are running at once. So, the more you do activities for multiple hours at a time, the faster your battery will drain. Many GPS watches have power save modes, but this will disable most apps and notifications so that you only get basic features. You can manually turn off certain apps or notifications if you want to save battery life without being in power save mode. Dimming the watch’s screen and changing the watch face design may also help save battery, as can turning off the Bluetooth or Wi-Fi syncing feature. If the watch has wrist gestures, turn this off, too, to extend the battery life. Of course, one of the best ways to passively charge a GPS watch is to invest in one with solar charging. Anytime you go outside, the sun charges the watch, stretching the battery life by hours or days. Why Trust TripSavvy? Alex Temblador is an outdoor and travel journalist who lives in Texas. In addition to working out—running, lifting, hiking, kayaking, and more—at least five days a week, Alex seeks out adventurous travels all around the world. Throughout her career as an outdoor and travel journalist, she has rappelled in Jalisco, kayaked in Puerto Rico, skied in Telluride, hiked in Thailand, surfed in Zihuatanejo, scuba dived in Bonaire, and completed a one-day, 100-mile cycling event in 100-degree weather in North Texas. Nathan Allen is TripSavvy's Outdoor Gear Editor and also contributed testing insights. He uses a GPS watch daily to track trail runs, mountain biking and cycling, and paddle boarding. He also uses a GPS watch to track other activities like hiking, backpacking, and ski touring. Right now, Nathan uses Garmin's fenix 6 Pro Solar and Suunto's 9 Peak the most. Was this page helpful? Thanks for letting us know! Share Pin Email Tell us why! Submit Continue to 5 of 11 below. Continue to 9 of 11 below. | https://www.tripsavvy.com/best-gps-watches-5248810 | 2022-07-27T05:22:23Z | https://www.tripsavvy.com/best-gps-watches-5248810 | false |
July’s heatwave was a shock for many as temperatures reached unprecedented highs.
Extreme heat was experienced across the country, with records being broken in Scotland, and large swathes of England baking in never-before-seen temperatures.
The National Fire Chiefs Council has now warned UK cities they need to prepare for wildfires after dozens of “unprecedented” blazes broke out during last week’s heatwave.
A total of 16 homes were lost in the large fire in Wennington, east London, and fire crews had to fight to save the fire station itself, located nearby, from the flames last week.
In a statement carried by the BBC, National Fire Chiefs Council (NFCC) tactical adviser David Swallow said “services need to recognise the risk they’ve now got”.
But when might there be another heatwave? Here’s everything you need to know.
When is the next heatwave?
It can be hard to predict the next heatwave, but it is thought there could be one as early as next week.
Of course this does not necessarily mean a return to the 40°C temperatures we saw last week, so there is no need to panic.
Stephen Dixon, Met Office spokesperson told Sky News that next week could be “bringing above average temperatures for many.”
“However, whether this would be classed as an official Met Office heatwave is still open to some uncertainty as there’s a big range in possible temperatures for next week,” he added.
Mr Dixon told The Mirror: “Early next week the signals from our models is that a warming trend will continue.
“We can expect above average temperatures for much country early next week – in the mid 20s to low 30s in London.
“There’s a small chance some parts of the country will have a heatwave.”
What is a heatwave?
According to the Met Office a UK heatwave is when somewhere records at least three consecutive days with daily maximum temperatures meeting or exceeding the heatwave temperature threshold.
The temperature threshold is different depending on where you are in the country.
The Met Office changes its threshold earlier this year to reflect increasing temperatures.
It wrote: “The Met Office heatwave threshold has been updated ahead of summer 2022. The initial heatwave thresholds were calculated based on the 1981-2010 climatology of daily maximum temperature at the mid-point of the meteorological summer (15 July). The revised thresholds will use the 1991-2020 averaging period introduced in January 2022. The geographical differences reflect the differences in climate across the UK.”
What is the Met Office weather forecast?
Today:
Most parts dry with variable amounts of cloud and some sunshine, sunniest in the west and southwest, especially coastal areas. Scattered mainly light showers, mostly across Scotland, northern and eastern England. Lighter winds, so feeling reasonably warm in sunny spells.
Tonight:
Odd evening showers fading, nearly all parts becoming dry. Clear spells leading to a slightly chilly night in parts of the west and north, whereas some southeastern areas stay cloudier.
Wednesday:
Most areas remaining dry with some sunshine at times and light winds, leading to a reasonably warm feel. Perhaps just an odd light shower possible in the north or east.
Outlook for Thursday to Saturday:
Sunshine and showers Thursday and Friday. Cloud and rain arrives from the west Saturday, possibly turning heavy and thundery in northwest. Cooler in the north, rather warm in the south.
What is the long range forecast?
The Met Office says: “After a largely settled week, more changeable conditions return over the weekend, with the northwest in particular seeing outbreaks of rain and strong winds at times.
“Further south, it is likely to remain drier with clear, sunny spells, although there is a chance of some thicker cloud and rain reaching central areas. For the far southeast, while it may turn cloudier at times, remaining mainly dry with just some isolated showers at times.
“By the end of the period, unsettled conditions likely to prevail in the northwest, with dry and settled conditions dominating in the south.
“In northern parts of the UK temperatures are expected to remain near normal, but are trending above average elsewhere, and there is the -potential for some locally hot weather in the South-East.” | https://inews.co.uk/news/heatwave-when-next-uk-hot-weather-another-how-long-temperature-forecast-1762280 | 2022-07-27T05:24:34Z | https://inews.co.uk/news/heatwave-when-next-uk-hot-weather-another-how-long-temperature-forecast-1762280 | false |
5 things to do this week: Ski show, music and family events
Published 9:00 pm Tuesday, July 26, 2022
By Marissa Hanson
1
Jump and swivel ski competition
The public is invited to view the Midwest Regional Show Ski Championship and cheer on the local Bayside Water Ski team. The competition starts on Friday and ends on Sunday. On Friday is the individual competition, which starts at 1 p.m. and will feature 60 individuals showing off their swivels, strap doubles, freestyle jumps and team jumps. On Saturday and Sunday is the team competition, which starts at 8 a.m. Albert Leas Bayside Skiers will perform on Saturday at 9 a.m. at Edgewater Park.
Spectators are encouraged to park in the areas near the bandshell and east pavilion. The lot at the Edgewater Bay pavilion will be reserved for participants. There will be no parking at the event area.
The event is slated to bring hundreds of people to town.
2
Thursdays on Fountain
Brett Feist will perform from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Thursday during Thursdays on Fountain at the Fountain Lake Gazebo for this week’s free concert.
3
The Health of Freeborn County
Sue Yost, director of Freeborn County Public Health, will speak from 7 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the Albert Lea Art Center about the county’s response to COVID-19. She will also speak about where the county is today and what has been learned, as well as the impact of the baby formula shortage.
4
Party in the Park
Hope Church will host Party in the Park from 4 to 7 p.m. Saturday at Memorial Park. After a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic they are excited to host this once again. There will be games, food, prizes and bounce houses. Come together with your community and spend an evening in Memorial Park.
5
Super Kids in the Park
Assembly of God Church will host Super Kids in the Park at 2 p.m. Saturday at Eberhardt Park, 1502 Eberhardt St. Join in for puppets, stories, crafts, balloons, snacks and more.
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Louisiana Lottery's "Pick 3" game were:
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Canaries try to escape AA West Division basement with win at Kansas City
Birds travel to KC to play high-powered Monarchs
KANSAS CITY, MO (Dakota News Now) -The Sioux Falls Canaries have dropped back into last place in the American Association West Division starting play Tuesday night after losing 7 of the last 10 games.
The Birds played at Kansas City against the high-powered offense of the Kansas City Monarchs (40-22) just a half game back of Sioux City and 4.5 behind Lincoln for the final playoff spot in the division.
David Thompson scored on an RBI sacrifice fly in the fifth inning and that would prove to be all the scoring in Tuesday night’s contest as Kansas City dealt Sioux Falls a 1-0 loss at Legends Field.
The Monarchs loaded the bases with two outs in the second inning but Neil Lang struck out Darnell Sweeney to end the threat.
Thompson drew a one-out walk in the fifth frame and reached third base on a Matt Adams single. Casey Gillaspie then delivered a sacrifice fly to plate Thompson and that would be more than enough run support for Matt Hall. The former big leaguer allowed three hits over six shutout innings and struckout seven.
Sioux Falls’ best scoring chance came in the fourth inning, putting runners at the corners with two outs before a strikeout ended the threat. The Canaries would get just two runners into scoring position the rest of the way.
Lang allowed a run on six hits in six innings and struck out four in a 117-pitch outing. Five different Canaries recorded a hit as Sioux Falls drops to 24-37 overall. The two teams will rematch Wednesday night at 7:00pm.
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For the second year now, veteran motorcyclists in Orange County have been roaring into schools to mobilize youth to better themselves, their community, and their country through service-learning.
The riders, teamed up with the Orange County Youth Bureau, are helping schools teach teenagers the meaning and value of service to others – first at an hour-long service-learning seminar and then at a service-learning fair. The impetus for this comes from the National Service Ride project, a community-based initiative that leverages motorcycling’s appeal to freedom, adventure, and moving forward together to promote citizenship and service, starting right at home.
Using adult role models and peer examples, the seminar mobilizes interest by explaining why we serve others: how, for example “the best way to thank a veteran is to make this a country worth their sacrifice;” how “serving your community is serving your country;” and how “service doesn’t require a uniform, a good grade point average, or a change of address.”
In support of the New York State Seal of Civic Readiness Program, the Orange County Youth Bureau helps schools identify community service and veterans’ organizations, volunteer and charity groups, and local businesses for the school-run fairs. In cooperation with the United Way of the Dutchess-Orange Region, it provides a virtual portal for youth to find community service-learning opportunities after school, over the summer, or beyond graduation to build their resumes. The schools, in turn, can track and certify their service-learning hours and gather data on curriculum outcomes.
Doing good work and solving common problems also grows leadership, teambuilding, problem-solving, and other interpersonal skills vital to economic livelihood and social viability in the 21st century. To meet growing service-learning requirements, schools are finding how the project’s “one-stop” delivery method and adaptable, low-cost, high-return platform extends curriculum and helps students efficiently and effectively find service-learning opportunities best for them – enhancing civics-type educational outcomes to produce more well-rounded young citizens.
So far, eight Orange County high schools have signed up for events for the 2022-23 school year. Is yours one of them?
At the same time, military veterans, police, firefighters, first responders, medical services, etc. are finding better connection with their communities in a positive and meaningful way. The project’s mass and social media-friendly platform also helps these organizations raise public visibility and awareness, with impacts on branding, membership, volunteerism, and fundraising.
By passing the baton of generational leadership this way, we give our youth a better chance to go forward together in a complex and challenging world. We veteran riders begin every school ride at the Orange County Veterans Memorial Cemetery, reminding us that our mission is really not complete until we have passed on to our youth what we’ve learned about service so they make their way through the future, just as we did from those who went before us.
Working with veteran riders groups, the County Youth Bureau, Veterans Service Agency, and Veterans Coalition, as well as the Hudson Valley Veterans Task Force, the National Service Ride is looking to scale up the project both statewide and nationally – beginning right here in Orange County.
Christopher Holshek, Colonel, U.S. Army (Ret.), founder of the National Service Ride project.
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Climate change and vanishing islands threaten brown pelicans
Raccoon Island, a barrier isle an hour's boat ride off the coast of Louisiana, is one of the few remaining breeding refuges for the iconic brown pelicans
Climate change and vanishing islands threaten brown pelicans
Show all 16Sliding off the side of her small boat, seabird biologist Bonnie Slaton wades through waist-high water, brown pelicans soaring overhead, until she reaches the shores of Raccoon Island.
During seabird breeding season, the place is a raucous symphony of noise and motion — and one of the few remaining refuges for the iconic pelicans.
The crescent-shaped island is the final sliver of land separating Louisiana from the Gulf of Mexico — a natural speed bump against storms that roll in from the sea. An hour’s boat ride from the mainland, the barrier island's remoteness allows birds to nest on mangroves and sandy beaches a safe distance from most predators.
A dozen years ago, there were around 15 low-lying islands with nesting colonies of Louisiana’s state bird. But today, only about six islands in southeastern Louisiana harbor brown pelican nests — the rest have disappeared underwater.
“Louisiana is rapidly losing land,” said Slaton, a researcher at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. “Subsidence and sea level rise are a double whammy.”
The vanishing islands threaten one of the last century’s most celebrated conservation success stories — the decades-long effort to bring the pelicans back from the edge of extinction.
On land, brown pelicans are clumsy-looking birds, their huge beaks and wings lending them what Slaton calls a “goofy” air. But soaring low over the ocean, their wingtips skimming the water, pelicans are streamlined and majestic.
The same forces swallowing up these coastal islands are also causing southern Louisiana’s saltwater marshes to disappear faster than anywhere else in the country. Scientists estimate Louisiana loses one football field worth of ground every 60 to 90 minutes.
“We’re on the front lines of climate change. It’s all happening here,” said University of Louisiana at Lafayette ecologist Jimmy Nelson.
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Visiting a seabird colony is like entering the hustle and bustle of a busy city, with neighborhoods of birds loosely grouped by species — pelicans, terns, egrets, spoonbills and gulls, all ferrying meals to chicks.
As Slaton and two other biologists walk along Raccoon Island’s shoreline, the birds alight. The swirling, swooping cacophony of feathered life announces the intruders. The calls of a thousand laughing gulls are loud enough to drown out human thought.
As Slaton treks sand dunes to change out batteries and memory cards for 10 trail cameras on poles, her T-shirt becomes speckled in white bird droppings.
The motion-activated cameras are set up to observe pelican nests in varied habitats. Some of the circular nests of smooth cordgrass are built atop mangrove stands, others on grassy hillocks.
The early birds snatch up mangrove penthouses, where nests have a better chance of surviving storms, Slaton explains. “The late nesters are on the ground, which is riskier.”
Camera data has shown that in recent years the main threat is flooding — which can wash away entire nests, as happened in April 2021.
Passing one ground nest, Slaton bends to watch as two tiny featherless gray and pink pelican chicks squirm, eyes still closed. She figures they hatched overnight or earlier that day.
Within a week, chicks are covered in downy white and gray feathers. When parents are off the nest, the older chicks stand guard, swaying and hissing at perceived threats.
Watching a seabird colony reveals at once the promise and fragility of new life. Then suddenly the biologists are wiping white dribbles from their foreheads again.
They don't resent the aerial assaults. After all, the copious bird droppings act as natural fertilizer that helps shrubs and grass grow from the island’s sand and stones. Their roots slow erosion.
Without seabirds, the land would disappear much faster.
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When Mike Carloss was a child in Louisiana in the 1960s, he never saw brown pelicans.
The large coastal birds were among the first species declared endangered in the U.S. in 1970. Like bald eagles, their populations had been decimated by widespread DDT pesticide use, which thinned eggshells and prevented healthy chicks from hatching.
The beloved pelicans were completely gone from Louisiana, where their likeness remained only on the state flag. But a long-running effort to bring them back led to one of the country’s most inspiring comeback stories.
After the U.S. DDT ban in 1972, biologists brought pelican chicks from Florida to repopulate empty islands across the Gulf of Mexico. More than 1,200 were released in southeastern Louisiana over 13 years.
One location was Raccoon Island, where Carloss, then a teenage field assistant at the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, remembers tossing fish from the beach to feed chicks, as a sort of surrogate parent.
"I babysat these young pelicans out on a remote island," he recalled. “Somebody had to hand-feed them essentially.”
As a state wildlife biologist for more than two decades, Carloss later oversaw multiple restoration projects on the island. But now he fears that if islands keep disappearing, “we would be back to the days of the sixties, and not because of poisoning.”
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Protecting what’s left depends on continuous human intervention.
Today one side of Raccoon Island is ringed by granite breakwaters that divert tides. Sand has been pumped in to refill small lagoons beginning to form.
Erosion is a natural process, and over the course of thousands of years, most barrier islands rise and fall. Unlike volcanic islands, there is no bedrock, only layers of silt washed down the Mississippi Delta.
Barrier islands, as environmental historian Jack Davis once wrote, “are impermanent, precarious places, at the mercy of wind and washing water – making, shaping and destroying them.”
But rising seas and increased storm frequency and intensity linked to climate change accelerate the pace. And the islands have been starved of new sediment from the Mississippi because the river’s course has been controlled since the 1940s with levees to prevent flooding and aid shipping.
“That stops sediment from reaching areas that are fast sinking,” said Jaap Nienhuis, who studies erosion at Utrecht University in the Netherlands and previously conducted research in Louisiana. “Coastal Louisiana is losing land at perhaps the highest rate in the world.”
Every few years, government agencies undertake work to restore and maintain some of the barrier islands, an unending labor. The money comes, for now, from a legal settlement after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill that killed hundreds of thousands of marine animals.
But it won’t last forever — and many sinking islands aren’t restored at all.
On another day, the biologists steer their aluminum boat past an unrestored island called Philo Brice. Mangroves grow on low inundated land, and pelicans nest in the upper branches, chicks craning as parents land with meals of fish.
It’s still a decent breeding habitat, as long as the soil holds and plants remain above water. “In five or 10 years, it may or may not be here. It’s that rapid,” said Slaton.
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Flying in a small plane at 500 feet (152 meters), low enough to see the heads of pelicans poking from mangroves, the difference between Raccoon Island and unrestored Philo Brice is stark: One is solid land, the other like soft bread dissolving in a soup of blue.
When the biologist Juita Martinez conducted research in coastal Louisiana between 2018 and 2021, she found the number of pelicans on another unrestored and flooded island, Felicity, dropped from 500 to about 20.
“In the last decade or two, we've lost so many pelican nesting sites,” she said.
Brown pelicans can live more than 20 years, and in long-lived seabirds the impact of breeding troubles takes time to become clear.
For now, pelicans are still common in coastal Louisiana, and their likenesses are everywhere — license plates, mugs, T-shirts, restaurant signs and university seals.
At the Bayou Boogaloo music and arts fair, pelican artwork often sells out first, said New Orleans painter Patrick Henry, standing with his brightly colored bird portraits.
The brown pelican “is a symbol of Louisiana, just like the eagle is a symbol of America,” said Rue McNeil, executive director of the Northlake Nature Center in Mandeville, Louisiana. “It was put on the state flag because that particular bird represents a lot of strength.”
And “sacrifice,” she added.
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The disappearing islands aren't only a problem for the birds.
One recent afternoon, Theresa Dardar calls out to neighbors as she and her husband Donald take their small boat down the Pointe-au-Chien Bayou in southeastern Louisiana.
Everyone knows everyone here in the close-knit community of the Pointe-au-Chien Indian Tribe. But their world is fast changing.
“This bayou, I used to ride down it with my grandfather. I could reach out and pull the grass on the land on either side of the boat,” Dardar recalls. “But look how wide the water is now — all that land is gone."
The boat passes a single white cross on a low bank — marking one of the tribe's eight cemeteries on the bayou. The community is worried that rising seas and storm waves will wash away their ancestors, memories and culture.
Dardar supports efforts to restore the islands. “I’m glad that they’re doing that for the pelicans, but also they need to do it for the humans as well," she said.
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JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s Antiquities Authority said Monday it has discovered a rare 1,850-year-old bronze zodiac coin during an underwater survey off the coastal city of Haifa.
The coin bears the image of the zodiac sign Cancer behind a depiction of the moon goddess Luna.
Experts say the coin was minted in Alexandria, Egypt, under the rule of the Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius, who ruled between the years 138–161 A.D. It is part of a series of 13 coins depicting the 12 zodiac signs and one of the entire zodiac wheel.
The antiquities authority said it was the first time such a coin has been found off the Israeli coast.
“These finds, which were lost at sea and disappeared from sight for hundreds and thousands of years, have been remarkably well preserved,” said Jacob Sharvit, director of the Israel Antiquities Authority Maritime Archaeology Unit. He said some of these discoveries are rare and complete “parts of the historical puzzle of the country’s past.” | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/in-a-first-coin-bearing-zodiac-found-off-israels-coast/ | 2022-07-27T05:43:22Z | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/in-a-first-coin-bearing-zodiac-found-off-israels-coast/ | true |
BAGHDAD (AP) — A retired British geologist sentenced to 15 years for antiquities smuggling in Iraq may soon go free after a Baghdad court overturned his conviction, his family and lawyer said on Tuesday.
Baghdad’s Court of Cassation, or appeals court, overturned the verdict against Jim Fitton, 66, last month, his lawyer Thair Soud told the Associated Press. The decision was made on the basis of an appeal filed by Soud shortly after Fitton was convicted.
Fitton’s release date was not immediately known, but Soud said pending paperwork, he should be freed soon.
The court “agreed with the justifications we drove in the memo against the sentence and how it was based on mistakes in the application of the law, and further, in the assessment of the evidence,” Soud told The Associated Press.
Fitton drew international attention last month after the conviction for picking up shards of pottery from an archeological site in southern Iraq. Many feared the incident would deter tourists from visiting Iraq, where the government hopes to grow the nascent tourism sector.
Some of the pieces he picked up were no larger than a fingernail, he later told the criminal court. He was arrested in March at Baghdad Airport and sentenced in June.
Documents posted to the judiciary website said the appeals court found that Fitton’s trial judges had made mistakes and that key circumstantial evidence had been overlooked, including Fitton’s unfamiliarity with local laws. It also pointed out that the areas where he had picked up the pieces were unguarded.
The court noted that Fitton had made no attempt to hide the items at the airport. The shards were clearly visible when airport staff checked his luggage. Based on this, court found that Fitton harbored no criminal intent to smuggle antiquities and ordered his immediate release, according to the document.
The decision was a “a real win,” said Soud.
Fitton’s family said they were “over the moon” but that “we still have no idea what the timeline looks like and do not want to do any formal interviews until Jim is safely home with us,” his son-in-law, Sam Tasker, told the AP.
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There is no provision to accommodate or transfer medical students from any foreign medical institutes to Indian medical colleges, the Parliament was told on Tuesday.
"There are no such provisions in Indian Medical Council Act 1956 & National Medical Commission Act, 2019 as well as the regulations to accommodate or transfer medical students from any foreign medical institutes to Indian medical colleges," Minister of State for Health & Family Welfare Bharti Pravin Pawar told the Rajya Sabha in a written reply to a question of the delay in accommodating those medical students.
Pawar also said that the permission has not been given by the NMC to transfer or accommodate any foreign medical students in any Indian medical institute or university.
On a question of the total numbers of such students, she said that as per information received from the Ministry of External Affairs, about 20,000 Indian students returned from Ukraine.
"As per information received from MEA, Indian Embassy in Kyiv has communicated with all the concerned universities in Ukraine for providing transcript and other documents in a smooth manner to the students," Pawar told the house on the question of assistance provided by the government to students. | https://www.ibtimes.co.in/no-provision-accommodate-medical-students-foreign-institutes-centre-850794 | 2022-07-27T05:44:42Z | https://www.ibtimes.co.in/no-provision-accommodate-medical-students-foreign-institutes-centre-850794 | false |
INDIANAPOLIS – Indiana will enter the season with a defined starter at quarterback, coach Tom Allen said Tuesday at Big Ten Media Days. The Hoosiers just don’t yet know whom that starter will be.
During his turn at the podium on the first day of the preseason interview extravaganza, Allen squashed any thoughts of the Hoosiers running a platoon system under center once the season starts.
“We’ll have a starter named before the opener (against Illinois on Sept. 2), but the bottom line is that, once that person is named, he’ll be the starter,” said Allen, who is entering his sixth season leading the program. “I’m not expecting a dual situation.
“By design we came out of spring football and felt like there wasn’t a clear guy to name, so we didn’t do that. But I love the competition piece to the process and to be able to have to prove it every single day all summer long now into fall camp.”
The frontrunners for the starting job are veteran Jack Tuttle, a former four-star recruit who has played 14 games over the last three seasons for the Hoosiers, and 2020 SEC co-Freshman of the Year Connor Bazelak, who transferred from Missouri in January after throwing 16 touchdowns and 11 interceptions last season.
A wild card in the competition is redshirt sophomore Dexter Williams II, who missed all of last season after tearing his ACL in spring practice.
“I feel like, no matter who we put out there, they’ll do a great job,” Hoosiers tight end AJ Barner said. “Connor is a guy who’s played a lot of football, has tremendous arm strength; Tuttle is a guy who can move around in the pocket and he’s really transformed his body this year and he’s a really good player too; and then we also have Dexter Williams ... another extremely talented player. He’s an extremely hard worker, too.”
Allen wants his quarterback to take care of the ball – the Hoosiers threw 15 interceptions against nine touchdown passes last season – and have command of the offense, but he also wants an emotional leader.
“You’ve got to win that locker room,” Allen said. “That’s what it comes down to. Even though nobody really huddles anymore, when you talk about the idea of stepping in the huddle, no matter how much time is on the clock, if that guy is in that huddle, we know we’ve got a chance to go win the game with him as our leader. To me, that’s what I want our team to feel from that guy, and that’s their individual responsibility to earn the position.”
McCulley moves to receiver
Not among those battling for Indiana’s starting quarterback spot is sophomore Donaven McCulley, a four-star quarterback in the 2021 recruiting class who started four games at the position last season.
The 6-foot-5, 210-pound McCulley, a former Lawrence North standout, moved to wide receiver this offseason, Allen confirmed Tuesday.
McCulley came to Allen with the idea, the coach said, and has responded well to the tutelage of new receivers coach Adam Henry, who previously held the same position with the NFL’s Dallas Cowboys, Browns, New York Giants and San Francisco 49ers.
“He’s a highly competitive young man and one of the best athletes on our football team, and he wants to be on the field,” Allen said of McCulley.
Snider grad tabbed to step up
The Hoosiers are looking for improvement along their offensive line, which ranked 81st in the country in sacks surrendered last season and blocked for a run game that picked up only 3.3 yards per carry.
In response, Indiana, under new offensive coordinator Walt Bell, tried to simplify its protections this offseason so the linemen are freer to play with physicality.
Allen mentioned returning starting left guard Mike Katic, starting left tackle Luke Haggard, right guard Zach Carpenter, West Texas A&M transfer Parker Hanna and true freshman Carter Smith as players who have impressed this offseason.
The coach also referenced former Snider lineman Randy Holtz, who played 11 games at guard and on special teams as a redshirt freshman last season.
“He’s a guy with a big old body,” Allen said of the 6-foot-7, 365-pound Holtz.
Warren not ruling out expansion
The Big Ten’s additions of USC and UCLA in June – the newcomers will arrive in 2024 – set off a round of discussion about where the conference should turn next.
The Big Ten is reportedly waiting to see if it can lure Notre Dame away from its long-treasured independent status.
Commissioner Kevin Warren did not tamp down the idea the league is looking at adding further.
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CINCINNATI (AP)Pablo Lopez allowed two hits and tied his career high with 11 strikeouts over seven dominant innings and the Miami Marlins edged the Cincinnati Reds 2-1 Tuesday night.
Joey Wendle hit a two-run single off Hunter Greene as Miami for the third time in nine games.
A day after Cincinnati piled up 11 runs in a romp, Lopez turned in a stopper-like performance for the Marlins. He overcame Mike Moustakas’s solo homer to finish with a flourish, retiring his final nine batters and striking out the side in the sixth. He didn’t walk anybody while retiring 21 of his last 22 Cincinnati batters.
The Reds had won nine of their previous 13 games.
Lopez (7-5), the National League April Pitcher of the Month after going 3-0, allowed a single to the first batter he faced, Jonathan India, before retiring the next 12. Moustakas snapped that run, leading off the fifth with his sixth homer of the season.
Anthony Bass kept the streak alive with a perfect eighth. Tanner Scott closed it out with a 1-2-3 ninth for his 13th save.
Greene almost matched Lopez out-for-out, allowing three hits through the first four scoreless innings before the Marlins broke through in the fifth when Jesus Sanchez singled with one out and went to third on Luke Williams’ single. Williams stole second while Jacob Stallings was striking out, but Wendle drove in both runners with a single to right – the first of his three straight hits.
The Marlins collected nine hits and two runs in 6 1/3 innings against Greene (3-12), who struck out six and walked one. The rookie right-hander is 0-5 over his last eight starts since his last win on June 6 against Arizona.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Marlins: INF Garrett Cooper (right wrist contusion) was placed on the 10-day on Tuesday, retroactive to Sunday. Cooper was hit by a pitch on Saturday in Pittsburgh.
Reds: CF Nick Senzel seemed to jar his right shoulder making a diving catch of Bryan De La Cruz’s sinking liner leading off the fifth. After a visit from a trainer, Senzel stayed in the game.
UP NEXT
RHP Luis Castillo (3-4, 2.77), the focus of trade rumors, may be making his last start for the Reds on Wednesday. He is due to be opposed by LHP Braxton Garrett (2-3, 3.42).
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Shop price inflation rises to 4.4% in July - the highest rate since 2005
Households and businesses must prepare for a difficult period as inflationary pressures hit home, says the chief executive of the British Retail Consortium.
Wednesday 27 July 2022 04:37, UK
Shop price inflation rose to 4.4% in July, up from 3.1% in June, according to new figures.
The rise is the highest since the British Retail Consortium started its index in 2005.
Food inflation was up 7%, compared to 5.6% in June. This was partly due to a 8% rise in fresh food inflation, up from 6.2% in June.
Non-food inflation hit 3%, up from 1.9% in June - a record-high, beating the previous record of 2.2% in April.
Helen Dickinson, chief executive of the British Retail Consortium, said: "Rising production costs - from the price of animal feed and fertiliser to availability of produce, exacerbated by the war in Ukraine - coupled with exorbitant land transport costs, led food prices to rocket by 7%.
"Some of the biggest rises were seen in dairy products, including lard, cooking fats and butter. Meanwhile, non-food prices were hit by rising shipping prices, production costs and continued disruption in China.
"As inflation reaches new heights, retailers are doing all they can to absorb as much of these rising costs as possible and to look for efficiencies in their businesses and supply chain.
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"With households enduring a cost-of-living crunch, retailers are expanding their value ranges to offer the widest variety of goods to those most in need, providing discounts to vulnerable groups, and raising staff pay.
"Nevertheless, households and businesses must prepare for a difficult period as inflationary pressures hit home."
Mike Watkins, head of retailer and business insight at NielsenIQ, said: "Consumers' household budgets are coming under increasing strain and shelf price increases in both food and non-food have accelerated in recent weeks as more cost prices increases come through the supply chains.
"The grocery industry in particular is under intense pressure as retailers try to shield customers from the full impact of inflation.
"At the same time there has been an increase in competitive intensity so customer retention over the summer holiday season will be key to help stem any further fall in volumes." | https://news.sky.com/story/shop-price-inflation-rises-to-4-4-in-july-the-highest-rate-since-2005-12659691 | 2022-07-27T05:49:23Z | https://news.sky.com/story/shop-price-inflation-rises-to-4-4-in-july-the-highest-rate-since-2005-12659691 | false |
Training camps opened across the NFL and the biggest offseason question remains unanswered.
The Cleveland Browns still don’t know how many games they’ll be without Deshaun Watson, who is still waiting for retired judge Sue L. Robinson to issue a ruling following his disciplinary hearing that concluded nearly four weeks ago.
The league and the NFL Players’ Association requested a decision by the start of training camp, according to a person familiar with the process who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the discussions are private. Robinson, who was jointly appointed by the league and the union, had no obligation to meet that deadline. Representatives are hopeful a decision comes this week.
Watson was accused of sexual misconduct by 24 women and has settled 20 of the civil lawsuits. Two separate Texas grand juries declined to indict Watson on criminal complaints stemming from the allegations.
The Browns, along with 27 other teams, welcomed their veterans on Tuesday as each of the 32 teams have now kicked off camp. Watson reported to his first camp with Cleveland last week along with veteran backup Jacoby Brissett, the team’s presumed starter if there is a suspension. The Browns also signed Josh Rosen last week as more quarterback insurance.
Watson should be on the field for the team’s first full-squad practice Wednesday. There was an amusing moment on Monday when the three-time Pro Bowl quarterback was seen walking in full uniform across the street in front of the Browns’ training facility to take part in a photo shoot.
Other top questions around the NFL that still need to be addressed in training camp:
WHERE’S JIMMY G GOING? The San Francisco 49ers made it clear Trey Lance will be the starting quarterback and they’re moving on from Jimmy Garoppolo, who led them to a Super Bowl appearance following the 2019 season and nearly another one last season. The Niners have to trade or release Garoppolo before Week 1 to avoid having his $24.2 million base salary become fully guaranteed. Garoppolo would’ve been moved already if it weren’t for his offseason shoulder surgery.
“This is Trey’s team. That’s nothing against Jimmy,” 49ers coach Mike Shanahan said. “We made that decision a year ago and we’re not going to mess around with that anymore. … Jimmy understands that fully. He’s a big guy and it’s nothing against him. It’s a business decision.”
BAKER OR SAM? The Carolina Panthers acquired Baker Mayfield from the Browns earlier this month and plan to let him compete with Sam Darnold for the starting quarterback job. Mayfield, the No. 1 overall pick in 2018, has been more successful than Darnold, who was the third pick by the Jets in the same draft.
Panthers coach Matt Rhule isn’t going to rush a decision.
“Anytime you put timelines on things, you end up rushing to make bad decisions,” Rhule said. “To me this is about being in the moment but not making rash judgements. Guys are going to have good days and bad days. When we know, we know.”
WHEN DOES LAMAR GET PAID? The Baltimore Ravens still haven’t locked Lamar Jackson into a long-term contract extension but the two sides have been talking. Jackson, the 2019 NFL MVP, saw his value increase after the Cardinals gave Kyler Murray a deal worth up to $230.5 million with about $105 million guaranteed at signing and $160 million guaranteed for injury. Jackson doesn’t have an agent, which could impact negotiations. It wasn’t a factor for his rookie deal because the collective bargaining agreement predetermines the money in each draft slot. This contract is far more lucrative.
ARE THEY HEALTHY? Saints quarterback Jameis Winston, Buccaneers wide receiver Chris Godwin, Ravens running back J.K. Dobbins are among more than 50 players returning from ACL injuries. Panthers running back Christian McCaffrey played only seven games last season because of hamstring and ankle injuries. Titans star running back Derrick Henry missed nine games with a foot injury before playing in the team’s playoff loss to the Bengals. Cowboys receiver Michael Gallup, Ravens running back Gus Edwards, Titans receiver Robert Woods, Packers tight end Robert Tonyan are also coming back from ACL surgery. Saints star wideout Michael Thomas missed 2021 because of a severe ankle injury, and Vikings receiver Adam Thielen had ankle surgery in December.
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP)Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh watched his star-studded defense lead the way in winning last year’s Big Ten title.
He needs some new faces to emerge to make it two in a row – and he thinks he has the bodies.
Just four months after losing Heisman Trophy runner-up Aidan Hutchinson, defensive back Daxton Hill and linebacker David Ojabo in the NFL draft, Harbaugh returned to Indianapolis to explain what the Wolverines have in reserve.
”We had a great defense last year,” Harbaugh said Tuesday at football media days. ”People are asking how we’re going to replace those stars? The thing is I’ve been part of many teams where the no-star defense was the better defense and I’ve got a sneaky suspicion it could be even better this year, honestly.”
At least that’s the hope.
But much has changed around the Big Ten and especially in Ann Arbor since the Wolverines made their first College Football Playoff appearance.
In addition to losing Hutchinson, Hill and Ojabo, defensive coordinator Mike Macdonald rejoined the Baltimore Ravens. Then, for the second straight year, Harbaugh took the advice of his most trusted adviser, his brother and Ravens coach John Harbaugh, and hired Jesse Minter, another former Baltimore assistant.
The revamping and readapting, especially on defense, has become a league-wide routine.
Ohio State coach Ryan Day responded to his first non-title season by hiring defensive coordinator Jim Knowles from Oklahoma State. Injuries, turnovers and poor play sabotaged Indiana’s big expectations last season, so coach Tom Allen replaced both coordinators and decided to start calling defensive plays again.
”I didn’t like how it felt,” Allen said. ”That’s where I cut my teeth as a coach and how I got this job. So we created a system where I’ll be calling the plays and Chad Wilt will be the defensive coordinator. To me, it was more of a gut-feeling that I needed to do this.”
The bigger changes may be more evident in the Big Ten West, where the league’s more traditional black-and-blue image remains most prevalent.
Iowa, Wisconsin and Northwestern have combined for eight consecutive division titles and have captured 10 of 11 since the league’s format was introduced in 2011.
Each team has had its greatest success when balanced, ball-control offenses are paired with stout defenses. The model worked perfectly for Iowa last season and Northwestern in 2018 and 2020 though the Buckeyes won all three title games.
The problem: When things go awry, it can get ugly fast.
”The quickest way to lose games is to throw the ball over your head at Level 3 and we had that happen too much last year,” Northwestern coach Pat Fitzgerald said, explaining his team’s 3-9 mark with a lone Big Ten win in 2021. ”It’s really everybody but we’ve been pretty solid in that group (secondary) over the years and I think we’ll be very competitive there this year.”
There is no guarantee Wisconsin, which lost eight of its top 10 tacklers from 2021, or Iowa, which lost three key players in the secondary, will be as strong in 2022.
Michigan State was an impressive 11-2 (7-2 Big Ten) in coach Mel Tucker’s second season despite finishing 11th in the league in defensive pass efficiency.
But it’s Ohio State and Michigan that will face the most scrutiny this season after being picked to finish first and second in the East. The soaring expectations for Michigan after finally beating the Buckeyes for the first time in a decade only make the stakes that much more important for Harbaugh and his new defensive guru.
”I’d have to go back to before the 2021 season and my brother said you can have Mike Macdonald or Jesse Minter, they’re both great,” Harbaugh said. ”So I went back and talked to Jesse Minter and just felt it was the absolute best thing for the team.”
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Paper provides an overview of on-demand retail's open platform model for the first time.
A comprehensive practice guide with development path and successful cases, for retailers and brands who desire to grow in the China market.
SHENZHEN, China, July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Dada Group (Nasdaq: DADA)'s JDDJ and JD.com's Shop Now showed up at the "2022 China International Retail Innovation Summit". On-demand retail, as the megatrend in the retail industry as well as a new growth driver for retailers and brands, was the major topic and arose heated discussions among business leaders today.
At the summit, Dada Group released the "White Paper On Open On-Demand Retail Platform Model" in collaboration with China Chain Store & Franchise Association (CCFA) and JD.com's Consumption and Industry Development Research Institute. The White Paper offers a panoramic display of the open platform model of on-demand retail for the first time in industry.
Seize the Digital Opportunity
Decision makers, digital business leaders and technology providers of the industry, joined the management teams of Dada Group and JD.com to give speeches at the summit to elaborate their insights and predictions of on-demand retail.
Dr. PEI Liang, President of China Chain Store & Franchise Association, demonstrated: "On-demand retail is an important part of omni-channel retail. Not only does it leverage online traffic, but also, through the integration of existing offline resources, it enables the cooperation between platforms and offline retailers to achieve a 1+1>2 effect. Offline stores serve as the terminal for order fulfillment and the terminal for product storage, and, when empowered by the of on-demand retail model, their value can be maximized."
Philip Jiaqi KUAI, Founder, Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of Dada Group stated that from long-distance, and short distance to macro-distance, China's e-commerce has leapfrogged to set one new milestone after another. For offline stores, on-demand retail has greatly broadened the scope of their businesses; for brand owners, on-demand retail has built a digital marketing and operating ecosystem that connects online and offline channels; for consumers, on-demand retail services represent significant improvements in timing, efficiency and the shopping experience.
HE Huijian, Vice President of JD.com and Dada Group; Head of the Intra-City Business of JD.com believes that the core of retail is efficiency and experience. Emerged from both the supply side and the demand side, on-demand retail is expected to grow into a trillion-dollar market in 3 to 5 years. JDDJ and Shop Now will continue to open our capabilities to the industry to expand the model to various types of offline retailers and brands via digital upgrades, operation optimization and efficiency improvement, to bring consumers and partners a faster, better and more economical shopping experience.
Development path and successful cases
It can be seen from the discussions that the retailers and brand owners have similarities in terms of demands and challenges when adopting on-demand retail, which can be further categorized into two models – self-operated and open platform.
The White Paper finds out that players under the open platform model, are stronger in terms of breath of product categories offered, as well as technologies deployed to empower the offline retailer partners, and drive the digital transformation of the real economy.
The Report also discussed the development path under the open platform model and some successful cases. It was a valuable guide for merchants who strive to seize new growth opportunity in the Chinese market. For retailers, what is important to them is omni-channel connection and fulfillment; for brands, their focus is on interaction with the users and marketing.
Based on the number and growth rate of participating stores, the White Paper took Supermarkets, Fashion Styles and Home Appliances, and Consumer Electronics as three major examples to analyze their development paths from strive to thrive.
- The focuses for Supermarket are traffic, delivery capabilities and data integration from multiple channels. Traffic largely determines the potential size of the business, the delivery capabilities are correlated with order fulfillment, and integrate data and adopting automated management is the key to improve efficiency.
- As for Fashion Style and Home Appliance, besides traffic, the level of digitalization greatly determines how well the retailers and brands manage their stores and inventories.
- Turning to Consumer Electronics, the products are with high price tag, a long life cycle and low level of transparency, so that the consumers depend more on the shopping guide and after-sale service. Integrating marketing approaches and services on- and offline will be better satisfy customer's expectations and become the key brand differentiators in the industry.
As the pioneers and leaders in on-demand retail, JD.com and JDDJ cooperated with various well-known partners such as Walmart, vivio and Unilever, and accumulated experiences and insights from the past 8 years' practices. As the key driver for offline retailers and brands' omni-channel growth, the cooperation with JD.com and JDDJ in on-demand retail has been recognized by partners.
Xiaojing Christina ZHU, President and Chief Executive Officer of Walmart China, says: "China is one of the largest, fastest-growing and most competitive consumer markets in the world. We expect on-demand retail to remain hugely popular here in the foreseeable future because it enhances the shopping experience for customers and fits modern lifestyles. As a leading omni-channel retailer with a 'Customer First' mindset, Walmart China continues to innovate with our partners around digitalization and end-to-end efficiency. We look forward to offering more value and a seamless shopping experience so that our customers can save money and live better."
"Thanks to on-demand retail, the penetration rate and sales share in categories such as healthcare, maternal and infant, are continuing to grow," weighs in Katy CHEN, Managing Director of Kimberly-Clark China, "on-demand retail has become a channel that Kimberly-Clark attaches great importance to, we hope to further optimize and improve our performance through cooperation and innovation, to promote and lead the development of personal care and hygiene products in the on-demand retail market."
Based on the successful cases, the White Paper provides a methodological sum-up dubbed "On-demand ACE", suggesting a route to success in on-demand retail. ACE represents the ability, creativity and experiences required for merchant's development in early, evolving and breakthrough phases.
About Dada Group
Dada Group is a leading platform of local on-demand retail and delivery in China. It operates JDDJ, one of China's largest local on-demand retail platforms for retailers and brand owners, and Dada Now, a leading local on-demand delivery platform open to merchants and individual senders across various industries and product categories. The company's two platforms are inter-connected and mutually beneficial. The Dada Now platform enables improved delivery experience for participants on the JDDJ platform through its readily accessible fulfillment solutions and strong on-demand delivery infrastructure. Meanwhile, the vast volume of on-demand delivery orders from the JDDJ platform increases order volume and density for the Dada Now platform. In June 2020, Dada Group began trading on the Nasdaq Global Market, under the ticker symbol "DADA".
About China Chain Store & Franchise Association
China Chain Store & Franchise Association (CCFA) is the official representative of retailing & franchise industry in China. Currently, there are over 1200 enterprise members with over 460,000 outlets, including domestic & foreign-invested retailers, franchisers, suppliers, and relevant organizations. The total sale of CCFA retail members (franchise and food service not included) was 4.5 trillion CNY in 2020, accounting for 11.6% of the entire social consumables retail sales. CCFA functions include: participating in policy making and coordination, safeguarding the interests of industry and members, providing a series of professional trainings and industry information and data for members, and establishing platforms for exchange and cooperation.
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SEATTLE (AP) — Cal Raleigh homered in the seventh inning, lined an RBI double in the ninth and scored the winning run on Carlos Santana’s sacrifice fly, and the Seattle Mariners rallied for a 5-4 win over the Texas Rangers on Tuesday night.
J.P. Crawford led off the ninth with a single off Texas reliever Brett Martin and scored from first when Raleigh lined a shot to the wall in right-center field. Raleigh was sacrificed to third base and after Martin (0-6) issued intentional walks to Julio Rodríguez and Ty France to load the bases, Santana hit a fly ball to center field that was deep enough for Raleigh to score the winning run.
Seattle won its seventh straight over the Rangers and its ninth-straight game decided by one run. Since losing to Oakland on July 1, the Mariners are 16-3 with the only three losses coming last weekend to Houston.
Rodríguez led off the game with his 17th home run of the season in his first action since the All-Star Game sidelined by a sore left wrist. Kyle Lewis had and RBI single and Raleigh’s 14th homer in the seventh gave Seattle a 3-1 lead.
But Seattle’s bullpen sputtered late and the Rangers pulled ahead. Adolis García's two-run double in the eighth inning took an awkward bounce inside first base and pulled the Rangers even at 3-3 after reliever Paul Sewald had walked Corey Seager and Jonah Heim with two outs.
Leody Taveras led off the ninth inning with an opposite-field single off Erik Swanson on a pitch well out of the strike zone, moved to second on a sacrifice bunt and scored when Ezequiel Duran’s sinking line drive couldn’t be caught on a diving attempt by right fielder Sam Haggerty.
Seattle improved to 23-12 in one-run games, while Texas fell to 5-23.
STARTING OFF
Seattle rookie George Kirby threw five shutout innings on just 51 pitches before being lifted. Kirby was on a limited pitch count after not throwing in the majors since July 8.
Texas starter Dane Dunning threw five innings and allowed four hits in his first start following a stint on the injured list due to an ankle issue. Dunning is now winless in his past 14 starts dating to early May.
ROSTER SHUFFLE
With Dunning coming off the injured list, the Rangers optioned LHP Taylor Hearn to Triple-A Round Rock. Hearn has started a career-high 13 games this season and made 16 total appearances. Manager Chris Woodward said the Rangers will go with a five-man rotation and he sees Hearn’s best role as a length reliever out of the bullpen.
Seattle also made a roster move to bring back Kirby and optioned RHP Matt Brash to Triple-A Tacoma. But manager Scott Servais made it sound as if Brash will be back with the big league club sooner than later. Brash started the season in the rotation before being sent to the minors and working as a reliever. Brash has appeared in five games as a reliever after making five starts to begin the season.
PICK SIGNED
The Mariners signed first-round draft pick Cole Young on Tuesday. The high school infielder took part in batting practice with the team and met with manager Scott Servais. Young was selected with the No. 21 overall pick out of North Allegheny High School in Wexford, Pennsylvania.
UP NEXT
Rangers: RHP Jon Gray (7-4, 3.48) goes for his fourth straight win. Gray has been dominant of late, bringing a 13-inning scoreless streak into his 18th start of the season. Gray has struck out 14 and allowed five total hits over his past two outings.
Mariners: LHP Marco Gonzales (5-10, 3.74) has allowed five earned runs in each of his past two starts, including last Friday against Houston where he gave up three home runs to the Astros.
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WFO PENDLETON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, July 30, 2022
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EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Pendleton OR
953 PM PDT Tue Jul 26 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM PDT
SATURDAY...
* WHAT...Dangerously hot conditions with temperatures 105 to 115.
* WHERE...Portions of central, south central and southeast
Washington and central, north central and northeast Oregon.
* WHEN...Until 11 PM PDT Saturday.
* IMPACTS...Extreme heat will significantly increase the
potential for heat related illnesses, particularly for those
working or participating in outdoor activities.
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.
* WHAT...Dangerously hot conditions with temperatures up to 105.
* WHERE...East Slopes of the Washington Cascades.
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BEIJING , July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sohu.com Limited (NASDAQ: SOHU), China's leading online media, video and game business group, will report its second quarter 2022 unaudited financial results on Monday, August 8, 2022, before U.S. market hours.
Sohu's management team will host a conference call on the same day at 7:30 a.m. U.S. Eastern Time, August 8, 2022 (7:30 p.m. Beijing/Hong Kong time, August 8, 2022) following the quarterly results announcement.
Conference Call Preregistration
Participants can register for the conference call by click here, you will be led to the conference registration website. Upon registration, each participant will receive details for the conference call, including dial-in numbers and a unique access PIN. Please dial in 10 minutes before the call is scheduled to begin.
The live webcast and archive of the conference call will be available on the Investor Relations section of Sohu's website at http://investors.sohu.com/.
About Sohu.com
Sohu.com Limited (NASDAQ: SOHU) was established by Dr. Charles Zhang, one of China's internet pioneers, in the 1990s. As a mainstream media platform in China, Sohu is indispensable to the daily life of millions of Chinese, providing a network of web properties and community based products which continually offer a broad array of choices regarding information, entertainment and communication to the vast number of Sohu users. Sohu has built one of the most comprehensive matrices of Chinese language web properties, consisting of the leading online media destinations Sohu News App, mobile news portal m.sohu.com, PC portal www.sohu.com; online video website tv.sohu.com; and the online games platform www.changyou.com/en/.
Sohu provides online brand advertising services as well as multiple news, information and content services on its matrix of websites and also on its mobile platforms. Sohu's online game business, conducted by its subsidiary Changyou, develops and operates a diverse portfolio of PC and mobile games, such as Tian Long Ba Bu ("TLBB"), one of the most popular PC games in China.
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FARGO, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota’s only abortion clinic is preparing for what could be its final day of performing procedures, with a trigger ban due to take effect Thursday that will likely force patients to travel hundreds of miles to receive care pending the clinic’s relocation across the border to Minnesota.
Barring a judge’s intervention, the Red River Women’s Clinic will provide abortion services Wednesday then shut down. Owner Tammi Kromenaker is building a new clinic in Moorhead, Minnesota, with the aid of nearly $1 million raised through GoFundMe.
Kromenaker has not said when the new clinic will open and she did not respond to messages Tuesday. Planned Parenthood has said it can perform abortions at its own Moorhead facility to fill the gap if needed, but it is not clear if that will happen.
Once North Dakota’s ban takes effect, the nearest abortion clinics will be in Minneapolis and Duluth, Minnesota, a drive of about four hours from Fargo, and in Billings, Montana, which is nearly four hours from North Dakota’s western border.
Destini Spaeth, the volunteer leader of an independent group that helps fund abortions in North Dakota, is investigating temporary solutions until the Moorhead clinic opens. That could include helping to pay for trips to Minnesota and Montana.
“To have to cross state lines and to be treated like and spoken about like a criminal in your home state and forced to travel elsewhere, pleading for care, desperate for care,” said Spaeth, spokeswoman for the North Dakota Women In Need fund. “It’s got to be just so traumatic.”
Kristi Wolff, executive director of the North Dakota Women’s Network, said the women’s advocacy group still refers people to the Red River Women’s Clinic or to a physician “if that’s what’s needed.” Wolff said she has fielded numerous calls from women showing “a lot of uncertainty and despair and anger” about what’s in store.
“If there is no clinic operating within North Dakota, women will have to travel farther,” Wolff said. “In order to do that, they have to have the resources for adequate transportation, you know, gas money, child care, time off work, they need all those things. To have to do that just get to health care, that’s unacceptable.”
The clinic is suing in state court to block the trigger law, which was passed years ago to take effect if the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the Roe v. Wade precedent establishing a right to abortion. The lawsuit argues that a ban would be contrary to the state constitution. It also argues that Attorney General Drew Wrigley prematurely started the 30-day countdown for the law to take effect.
“I’m not holding my breath for an injunction,” Spaeth said. “I think we’re preparing for tomorrow to be the last clinic day in North Dakota for a while.”
The first abortion clinic in Fargo opened in 1981, in a two-story house that was more than 70 years old. It was the site of intense protests in the early 1990s sparked by a national group that locked themselves to cars, trees, street signs and other objects. The clinic moved to its current location in downtown Fargo in 1998.
While the move to Moorhead will add a couple of miles for patients from the Dakotas, it will also mean that the weekly group of anti-abortion protesters won’t be traveling much further. Some of them have called Wednesday’s planned Fargo finale bittersweet and said they will resume their posts when the new clinic opens.
McKenzie McCoy, executive director of North Dakota Right To Life, said she’s “overjoyed the clinic is closing” but isn’t blind to the fact that the clinic is reopening a few miles away.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles Dodgers fans made their feelings known as Juan Soto stepped into the batter’s box, just in case the Washington Nationals star didn’t get their message at the All-Star Game.
“Future Dodger!” the crowd of 48,647 chanted. They heartily applauded Soto in his first at-bat.
Whether he ends up in LA or not, Soto put on a show.
His two-run triple capped a four-run fifth inning and the lowly Washington Nationals defeated the NL West-leading Dodgers 4-1 on Monday night, snapping Los Angeles’ 11-game home winning streak.
“Our best player, Soto, comes up with a big hit and drove in some runs,” Nats manager Dave Martinez said. “It was a big moment for Juan to come through.”
The Nationals (33-65) brought the worst record in the majors into Dodger Stadium, where they won for the first time since the 2019 NL Division Series, against the team with baseball’s best record (64-31). The Dodgers’ season-high eight-game overall winning streak ended.
“They shut down a really good team,” Martinez said of his bullpen. “Guys played with a lot of energy.”
Soto said before the game he’s trying not to think about the trade talk swirling around him ahead of the Aug. 2 trade deadline. The chatter isn’t affecting him at the plate. Soto is batting .362 with a 1.260 OPS this month, including six homers, a triple and two doubles.
The 23-year-old All-Star right fielder left his trophy from winning last week’s Home Run Derby in the visitors’ clubhouse, knowing that he’d soon be back here. It rested on a wheeled trunk in the middle of the room with a gold link chain wrapped around it and Derby Champ spelled out in platinum.
The Nationals haven’t signaled that they’re looking to unload the left-handed hitter with a .248 average and .895 OPS. But that hasn’t stopped the growing speculation, especially after Soto turned down a long-term contract offer worth $440 million.
“We don’t need anything but I stand by any team can always get better,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said when asked about Soto before the game. “Juan is a very talented player.”
Soto finished 2 for 4 with a strikeout and a walk. He chatted up former Nats teammate Trea Turner, with whom he stays in regular contact.
The Nationals batted around in the fifth when Yadiel Hernández led off with an opposite-field solo shot over the wall in left that tied the game 1-1.
“It just created more excitement in the bullpen,” Hernández said through a translator.
After two quick outs, Tony Gonsolin (11-1) gave up four straight base hits in his first defeat of the season and his first start since taking the loss for the NL in the All-Star Game. Ehire Adrianza and Victor Robles singled back-to-back before César Hernández hit a bloop single inside the third-base line to make it 2-1.
“He still is terrific,” Martinez said of Gonsolin. “He’s got good stuff.”
Soto’s two-run triple over the first-base bag scored two runs to extend Washington’s lead to 4-1.
The Dodgers had the tying runs on base in the bottom of the inning. Max Muncy and Gavin Lux singled back-to-back off Nats starter Paolo Espino. Andres Machado (1-0) came in to strike out Cody Bellinger before walking Trayce Thompson to load the bases. Mookie Betts took a called third strike and Turner lined out to right for the third out.
“I like coming in that situation,” Machado said.
Kyle Finnegan pitched the ninth to earn his third save.
Washington loaded the bases in a messy eighth for Reyes Moronta, who threw 31 pitches and just 15 for strikes. He had two wild pitches and hit Keibert Ruiz before Robles struck out to end the threat.
The Dodgers had the potential tying run at the plate in the eighth. Turner and Jake Lamb singled before Carl Edwards Jr. struck out Muncy for the third out.
Hitting in the ninth spot, Thompson went deep with two strikes and two outs in the third for a 1-0 lead.
Turner’s ground-rule double to deep center in the fourth extended his hitting streak to 12 games. Freddie Freeman went 0 for 4 with a strikeout to end his 12-game hitting streak.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Dodgers: 3B Justin Turner (abdomen) could return Tuesday or Wednesday. … RHP Brusdar Graterol (shoulder) played catch but there’s no timetable for him to get on a mound. … OF Chris Taylor (foot) will have a rehab assignment next week. … RHP Walker Buehler (elbow) played catch for the first time since his flexor strain injury last month.
UP NEXT
Nationals: RHP Josiah Gray (7-6, 4.40 ERA) makes his second career start against his former team. He made his MLB debut at Dodger Stadium last July against the Giants.
Dodgers: RHP Mitch White (1-2, 3.78) faces the Nationals for the first time in his career.
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Drugmaker Teva announced Tuesday that it has agreed to contribute more than $4.3 billion in cash and medications to settle lawsuits in the state and local governments and Native American tribes that claimed the company contributed to the U.S. opioid epidemic.
The deal in principle would rank among the larger ones so far in a yearslong trend of companies settling the complicated lawsuits over the toll from an addiction and overdose epidemic, which has been linked to more than 500,000 deaths in the U.S. over the last two decades.
In their lawsuits, state governments and others claimed the Israel-based company promoted Actiq and Fentora, prescription opioids approved to treat cancer pain, plus generic opioids including oxycodone for use for non-cancer purposes. The states also said the company downplayed the addiction risks and encouraged doctors to continue to increase the doses they prescribed. The states claimed the company and its distributor, Anda, failed to comply with requirements on monitoring and reporting suspicious orders.
The multibillion-dollar settlement is to be paid over 13 years, with most of the money going to fight the opioid epidemic. The settlement includes providing up to $1.2 billion worth of naloxone, a drug that reverses overdoses, at no charge — although states could take a smaller amount of cash instead, if they choose. It also includes the payouts from several settlements the company has recently reached with individual states.
New York is not included in the settlement, although the parties say negotiations with that state are continuing. A jury there last year found the company liable in a trial involving claims from the state government and two counties. The trial will go to a damages phase if a settlement isn’t reached with Teva before then.
Teva said it does not expect to stand trial on any other opioid claims this year, even as cases involving claims against other companies continue to go to court.
“While the agreement will include no admission of wrongdoing, it remains in our best interest to put these cases behind us and continue to focus on the patients we serve every day,” Teva said in a statement.
North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein, one of the chief negotiators, said the settlement would help address the crisis, which has become more deadly in recent years. “Every week I meet people whose lives have been torn apart by the opioid epidemic,” Stein said in a statement. “Far too many families and friends have experienced painful loss to overdose. But I also meet inspiring people who are living happy lives in recovery — and this agreement will help thousands more North Carolinians get the treatment and support they need to free themselves of addiction.”
For the deal to be finalized, it needs approval from state and local governments and tribes.
“While this agreement is a vital step, we also recognize that this alone will not put an end to the opioid epidemic,” lead lawyers representing local governments said in a statement. “We will continue to work to hold companies up and down the opioid supply chain accountable.”
There have been more than $40 billion worth of proposed and completed settlements over opioid claims in recent years, according to an Associated Press tally.
Earlier this year, drugmaker Johnson & Johnson finalized a $5 billion settlement, and the three national drug distribution firms — AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health and McKesson — finalized one worth a total of $21 billion. OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma is trying to persuade a court to let it move ahead with a deal that could include up to $6 billion in cash from members of the Sackler family who own the company. That potential deal would also transform the company into a new entity with profits used to combat the crisis. | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/u-s-world/drugmaker-teva-latest-to-settle-opioid-lawsuits-nationally/ | 2022-07-27T06:28:00Z | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/u-s-world/drugmaker-teva-latest-to-settle-opioid-lawsuits-nationally/ | false |
BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union governments agreed Tuesday to reduce consumption of natural gas this winter to protect themselves against any further supply cuts by Russia amid its invasion of Ukraine, although the measure contains exemptions for some countries.
EU energy ministers approved a draft European law designed to lower demand for gas by 15% from August through March. The legislation entails voluntary national steps to reduce gas consumption, but if that does not yield enough savings, mandatory actions in the 27-member bloc would be triggered.
“I know that the decision was not easy, but I think, at the end, everybody understands that this sacrifice is necessary. We have to, and we will, share the pain,” Czech Industry Minister Jozef Sikela said after chairing the meeting in Brussels.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen welcomed the move, saying in a statement that “the EU has taken a decisive step to face down the threat of a full gas disruption” by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The energy ministers approved the compromise legislation a day after Russian energy corporation Gazprom said it would cut gas flows through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline to Germany to 20% of capacity starting Wednesday. Natural gas prices jumped Tuesday to their highest level since early March, according to Europe’s TTF benchmark, and more than five times what they were a year ago.
Since Russia invaded Ukraine in late February and the West moved to punish Moscow by imposing economic sanctions, 12 EU countries have faced halts to, or reductions in, their Russian gas deliveries.
Russia supplied about 40% of Europe’s natural gas before the war, but that has dropped to about 15%, sending prices through the roof and straining energy-intensive industries. Companies warn that they often can’t switch overnight to other energy sources.
The disruptions in Russian energy trade with the EU already are stoking inflation to record levels in Europe and threatening to trigger a recession just as the bloc was recovering from a pandemic-induced slump.
The energy squeeze also is reviving decades-old political challenges over policy coordination. While the EU has gained centralized authority over monetary, trade, antitrust and farm policies, national sovereignty over energy issues still largely prevails.
Under the ministerial agreement that was sealed in less than a week, the EU’s member nations are free to decide how best to meet the target of cutting 15% of their average annual gas use over the last five years.
France, for example, wants to save energy by turning down office thermostats in winter and ensuring that air conditioners in public buildings and shops are used more efficiently.
Exemptions are allowed for countries that might have specific vulnerabilities or find themselves particularly exposed to difficulties from certain cuts. The ministers diluted elements of the original proposal, including exemptions for island countries like Ireland, Cyprus and Malta, which don’t have as many energy alternatives.
The European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, can ask members to consider triggering a mandatory system of cuts if it still fears a supply shortage in the next eight months. Any five member countries could also trigger a vote if they declare a gas supply alert at the national level.
The energy ministers scrapped a provision in the draft law that would have given the European Commission the power to decide on any move from voluntary to mandatory actions. Instead, the ministers ensured any decision on mandatory steps would remain in the hands of national governments.
The legislation was based on a July 20 proposal from the commission, which is eager to maintain a common EU front over a war that shows no sign of ending. It said coordinated rationing would enable the bloc as a whole to get through the winter should Russia stop all gas deliveries.
Tuesday’s deal still marked another milestone in EU policy integration and crisis management. Past EU legislative initiatives in the area of energy often involved months or years of negotiations among national governments.
“We have a blueprint to act together in a coordinated way,” EU Energy Commissioner Kadri Simson said after the agreement was sealed. “This was a test for the unity and resolve of the union.”
Although the EU has agreed to embargo oil and coal from Russia starting later this year, the bloc has refrained from sanctioning Russian natural gas because Germany, Italy and some other member states rely heavily on imported gas.
“Germany made a strategic error in the past with its great dependency on Russian gas and faith that it would always flow constantly and cheaply,” said German Economy Minister Robert Habeck, who is also responsible for energy and serves as the country’s vice chancellor. “But it is not just a German problem.”
Russia’s Gazprom has said the Nord Stream 1 cutbacks were necessitated by delays in receiving a repaired turbine for the pipeline. The turbine, which was repaired in Canada, has not been reinstalled yet, and another is expected to go offline because it needs repairs, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Tuesday.
“The situation has been critically complicated by the restrictions and sanctions imposed on our country,” Peskov added. “If not for those restrictions, all maintenance, warranty, and service operations would have been carried out in a usual, routine, and prompt manner, without causing situations like the one we’re seeing now.”
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Ashley Bloomfield, the mild-mannered doctor who became an unlikely hero to many New Zealanders during the coronavirus pandemic, held his final media conference Wednesday after resigning as director-general of health.
Perhaps fittingly, Bloomfield, 57, ended up answering as many questions about the topic of the day — water fluoridation — as he did about the nation's COVID-19 response, which has faded as a primary concern for many people, despite a persistent and deadly omicron outbreak.
In early 2020, Bloomfield rose from relative obscurity to become a household name as he stood alongside Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern day after day to face TV cameras and talk New Zealanders through the nation's pandemic response, which began with border closures and lockdowns and later evolved to vaccination drives and containment measures.
For many New Zealanders, especially early in the pandemic, Bloomfield's measured, science-based responses to questions from reporters offered comfort during a time of spiraling uncertainty.
He was celebrated as New Zealand found initial success in eliminating the virus entirely and living life as normal while most other countries faced growing outbreaks. People wrote songs about him and emblazoned his image on coffee mugs and dish towels.
One of his most memorable moments was not something he said but his understated reaction — a slight grin and raise of his eyebrows — when then COVID-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins comically misspoke about exercising outdoors, saying people could go “spread their legs."
But as New Zealand inevitably experienced virus outbreaks, the reaction to Bloomfield became more mixed — and political. Some called for greater freedoms and an end to measures like vaccine mandates that Bloomfield had endorsed.
Bloomfield has talked publicly about the stress and anxiety he felt facing the media, especially early in the pandemic. Health officials said Wednesday's media briefing was the 307th he'd given since the pandemic began.
Bloomfield said he had no regrets about the health advice he'd given, even though it had changed as the evidence about the virus had changed, forcing officials to stay humble. He said one lesson had been that citizens were the biggest healthcare workforce.
“We tend to underestimate the capability and capacity and resourcefulness of our communities,” Bloomfield said. “And, in fact, providing them with the resources and the information to get on and do the right thing can lead to enormous success.”
Ardern said Bloomfield had achieved many successes as director-general of health but would be particularly remembered for the “incredible and important” role he played in getting New Zealanders through the pandemic. She said the government’s science-based approach had put Bloomfield in the spotlight.
“He was quite central to the response,” she said. “That may have caused him to be in the fray more than he otherwise would have been, but he handled it with such grace and professionalism.”
When asked about his plans for the future, Bloomfield was giving nothing away.
“Lunch,” he said, to laughter. "And after Saturday, a jolly good break.”
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Dr. Anthony Fauci, chief medical advisor to the president, said that now is the time to get a handle on monkeypox since it is a virus health communities are familiar with, he told NPR Tuesday.
In an interview with All Things Considered host Juana Summers, Fauci, who helped lead the battle against HIV and AIDS, said the federal government must combat any homophobic stigma associated with monkeypox by concentrating on the virus itself, not the people who are infected with it.
"You reach out to the community. You make it very easy for them to have access to testing, to treatment, and to vaccines, as opposed to making it a situation where people are afraid to come forward for those types of things," he said.
There are currently 19,188 confirmed cases of monkeypox in the current outbreak, with 3,591 cases in the U.S, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The CDC said the risk of contracting monkeypox in the U.S. is "believed to be low," but anyone who comes into close contact with an individual carrying the disease is at risk of infection.
The current outbreak is being spread through human-to-human contact. You could develop an infection from droplet respiratory particles by spending too much time face-to-face with a monkeypox carrier, the World Health Organization warned.
"Right now it's focused because it's about 99% among men who have sex with men," Fauci said. "We've got to understand the modality of transmission, the manifestations, also the risk for people like children and pregnant women. There's really a profound risk. Right now, thank goodness we have a report of only two cases in children, but they're all risk populations."
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Home Ministry gives security clearance to Air India CEO-designate Campbell Wilson
New Delhi: July 26, 2022 19:54 ISTThe decision will pave the way for Mr. Wilson to formally take charge of the airline
The Ministry of Home Affairs has granted security clearance to Air India’s CEO and MD-designate Campbell Wilson.
The decision will pave the way for Mr. Wilson to formally take charge of the airline. Mr. Wilson, a New Zelander, joined the airline on June 20.
Explained | The challenges that await the Tatas and Air India
Mr. Wilson, a New Zealander, joined the airline on June 20. Tata Sons announced Mr. Wilson’s appointment to the top position at the airline on May 12. Mr. Wilson was previous the CEO of Scoot, Singapore Airlines’ low-cost subsidiary. Mr. Wilson has also spent time at Singapore Airlines, where he was the senior vice president of sales and marketing, and oversaw pricing, distribution, e-commerce, merchandising, branding and marketing, global sales, and the airline’s overseas offices. | https://www.thehindu.com/business/Industry/home-ministry-gives-security-clearance-to-air-india-ceo-designate-campbell-wilson/article65686381.ece/amp/ | 2022-07-27T06:37:00Z | https://www.thehindu.com/business/Industry/home-ministry-gives-security-clearance-to-air-india-ceo-designate-campbell-wilson/article65686381.ece/amp/ | true |
New York coach Sandy Brondello isn’t scoreboard watching with the Liberty two games out of a playoff spot — and may not have too.
There are eight postseason berths in the WNBA and New York (10-17) is 10th in the standings heading into Tuesday night games with nine contests remaining.
But the good news for the Liberty is that eight of those nine games are against Dallas, Phoenix, Los Angeles and Atlanta — teams they trail by two wins. New York is still in the playoff race despite dropping seven of their last nine games.
“We control our own destiny,” Brondello said Monday after practice. “We are just going to take it one game at a time and see where we end up.”
New York was in a very similar position last year and the Liberty earned a playoff spot on the final day of the regular season. The Liberty close out this season with a home-and-home with the Dream, who are battling for a postseason berth themselves.
The Liberty also are in 10th in the AP WNBA power poll this week.
This week’s WNBA poll:
1. Chicago (21-7): The Sky had their six-game winning streak end in New York, but now will have Courtney Vandersloot back in the lineup after clearing concussion protocol. Her presence will give them a lift down the stretch.
2. Las Vegas (20-8): The Aces will be tested with their next five games on the road. The trip begins Tuesday night in Chicago for the Commissioner’s Cup championship.
3. Connecticut (19-9): The Sun are 5-1 since the All-Star break, but lost recent acquisition Bria Hartley to a knee injury in their last game.
4. Seattle (18-10): Tina Charles had the best game since signing with the Storm in a win over Atlanta. She can provide a huge lift as a third scoring option for Seattle. The 33-year-old Charles became the fourth player in league history to reach 7,000 points last week.
5. Washington (17-11): The Mystics begin a busy week with a trip to Dallas that Elena Delle Donne will most likely skip before playing consecutive home games against Seattle. She’s averaged 23.4 points the last five games.
6. Atlanta (12-16): The Dream return home for four straight games. That homestand will go a long way in determining whether they can make the playoffs for the first time since 2018.
7. Los Angeles (12-15): The Sparks need to find consistent offensive help for Nneka Ogwumike to make a run at the playoffs. She’s averaging 18.7 points — third most in her career.
8. Dallas (12-15): The Wings lately have gotten solid production from Teaira McCowan, who has provided an inside presence to pair with Arike Ogunbowale on the outside.
9. Phoenix (12-16): The Mercury still have no inside threat on offense that demands a double-team. Their wins usually come when Skylar Diggins-Smith, Diana Taurasi and Sophie Cunningham play well.
10. New York (10-17): The Liberty have rarely had their full team together this season because of injuries and still are missing Betnijah Laney (knee). Han Xu has been a bright spot for the team all season as the 6-foot-10 Chinese center continues to develop.
11. Minnesota (10-19): The Lynx have dropped four out of their last five and are in jeopardy of missing the postseason for the first time since 2010.
12. Indiana (5-25): There have been few bright spots for the Fever in terms of wins this season, but Indiana has gotten another strong year from guard Kelsey Mitchell, who is averaging a career-best 18.6 points.
PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Alyssa Thomas of Connecticut was voted the AP Player of the Week. She averaged 16 points, 11 rebounds and 7.3 assists and had the first triple-double of her career to help the Sun win all three of their games. Skylar Diggins-Smith of Phoenix, Nneka Ogwumike of Los Angeles, Candace Parker of Chicago and A’ja Wilson of Las Vegas also received votes.
ANOTHER DIVORCE
The Los Angeles Sparks announced Tuesday that they have agreed to a contract divorce with Liz Cambage. It’s the second time this season a team has done that with a player as Phoenix and Tina Charles parted ways last month the same way.
The 30-year-old Cambage signed with Los Angeles on Feb. 15 as a free agent. She averaged 13.0 points, 6.4 rebounds and 1.6 blocks in 25 games this season.
GAME OF THE WEEK:
Seattle at Washington, Saturday and Sunday. These two games may go a long way to figuring out who gets homecourt advantage if these two teams — currently in fourth and fifth place in the standings — meet in the playoffs.
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Kerala High Court calls for status report of SIA of K-Rail
KOCHI: July 26, 2022 20:35 ISTCourt says Centre stated that it has no role in project implementation
The Kerala High Court has asked the government to inform the court of the present stage of the social impact assessment (SIA) survey being conducted for the SilverLine project.
Justice Devan Ramachandran passed the order when a batch of writ petitions against the survey came up for hearing. The court orally observed that the Central government had simply washed its hands of now, stating that it had no role to play in the implementation of the project.
The court observed that the importance of the statement by the Centre could not be lost sight of. The Centre had said in a statement that if the Kerala Railway Development Corporation Limited (K-Rail) was involved in the SIA survey and spent its own funds for it, such involvement and expenditure would be at its own risk and responsibility.
The Centre had submitted that the Railway Board had neither approved nor concurred with the SIA survey being conducted by the State government under the provision of the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in the Land Acquisition Act.
As per the Act, when a State government was conducting an SIA, the Centre had no role in it. It also added that the Railways had not approved the project and, therefore, any action for acquisition of land taken by any authority was premature.
The court orally observed that projects of the magnitude of SilverLine could not be hurried or completed on war cries. The government should have been taken the people into confidence. The project was one that the State needed. However, K-Rail had acted in a hasty manner.
Muhammed Shah, counsel for one of the petitioners, said no further SIA could be taken forward since the six-month period of the notifications for the SIA had expired.
The court also recorded the undertaking of the government that large survey stones had not been used for the survey and that any activities with respect to the SIA, even if it continued, were being done only through geo-tagging.
The court also made it clear that the court had neither permitted nor stopped the SIA in any manner. | https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/kerala-high-court-calls-for-status-report-of-sia-of-k-rail/article65686323.ece/amp/ | 2022-07-27T06:37:40Z | https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/kerala-high-court-calls-for-status-report-of-sia-of-k-rail/article65686323.ece/amp/ | true |
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ISLAMABAD (AP) — The lives of Afghan women and girls are being destroyed by a “suffocating” crackdown by the Taliban since they took power nearly a year ago, Amnesty International said in a report released Wednesday.
After they captured the capital, Kabul, in August 2021 and ousted the internationally backed government, the Taliban presented themselves as having moderated since their first time in power, in the 1990s. Initially, Taliban officials spoke of allowing women to continue to work and girls to continue their education.
Instead, they have banned girls from attending school from seventh grade, imposed all-covering dress that leaves only the eyes visible and restricted women's access to work.
Amnesty said the Taliban have also decimated protections for those suffering domestic violence, detained women and girls for minor violations and contributed to a surge in child marriages. The report also documented torture and abuse of women arrested by the Taliban for protesting against restrictions.
“Taken together, these policies form a system of repression that discriminates against women and girls in almost every aspect of their lives,” the report said. “This suffocating crackdown against Afghanistan’s female population is increasing day by day.”
The group's researchers visited Afghanistan in March as part of a nine-month-long investigation conducted from September 2021 to June 2022. They interviewed 90 women and 11 girls, between 14 and 74 years-old, across Afghanistan.
Among them were women who were detained for protests and described torture at the hands of their Taliban guards, including beatings and threats to kill them or their families.
One university student who was detained said she was electrically shocked on her shoulder, face, neck and elsewhere, while the Taliban shouted insults at her. One held a gun at her and told her, “I will kill you, and no one will be able to find your body.”
Another woman told Amnesty that the guards beat her and other women on the breasts and between the legs, “so that we couldn’t show the world.” She said one told her, “I can kill you right now, and no one would say anything.”
The report said rates of child, early and forced marriage in Afghanistan are surging under Taliban rule.
The increase is fueled by Afghanistan’s economic and humanitarian crisis and the lack of educational and job prospects for women and girls, it said. The report said it also documented cases of forced marriages of women and girls to Taliban members — under pressure by the Taliban member or by the women’s families.
One woman from a central province of Afghanistan told Amnesty that the economic collapse compelled her to marry off her 13-year-old daughter to a 30-year-old neighbor in exchange for 60,000 Afghanis (around US$670). She said she felt relieved because her daughter “won’t be hungry anymore.”
She said she was also considering the same for her 10-year-old daughter but was holding off in hopes the girl could get an education and eventually secure a job to support the family. “Of course, if they don’t open the school, I will have to marry her off,” she added.
“You have a patriarchal government, war, poverty, drought, girls out of school. With all of these factors combined … we knew child marriage was going to go through the roof,” said Stephanie Sinclair, director of Too Young to Wed, who was quoted in the report.
The Taliban seized Kabul as U.S. and NATO forces were withdrawing from Afghanistan, ending a nearly 20-year war against the Taliban’s insurgency. The world has refused to recognize the Taliban's rule, demanding it respect human rights and show tolerance for other groups. The U.S. and its allies have cut off billions in development funds that kept the government afloat, as well as froze billions in Afghan national assets.
This sent the already shattered economy into freefall, increasing poverty dramatically and creating one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises. Millions, struggling to feed their families, are kept alive by a massive U.N.-led relief effort.
Amnesty called on the international community to take action to protect Afghan women and girls.
“Less than one year after the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan, their draconian policies are depriving millions of women and girls of their right to lead safe, free and fulfilling lives,” said Agnès Callamard, Amnesty secretary general.
“If the international community fails to act, it will be abandoning women and girls in Afghanistan, and undermining human rights everywhere,” she said. | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/Amnesty-Taliban-crackdown-on-rights-is-17331477.php | 2022-07-27T06:42:20Z | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/Amnesty-Taliban-crackdown-on-rights-is-17331477.php | true |
National Press Club blasts LIV Golf event as ‘attempt to minimize the grisly bone-saw’ murder of WaPo columnist
By Oliver Darcy, CNN Business
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The LIV Golf event that is set to commence at Donald Trump’s Bedminster club on Friday is generating more controversy by the day. On Tuesday, the National Press Club added its voice to the mix, saying in a no-holds-barred statement that it is “revolted” by the forthcoming affair and hopes that it fails.
A quick recap for those who might need it: LIV is the Saudi-backed golf league that has upended the sport by challenging the PGA’s dominance. It has lured in athletes to participate in its events with huge paydays. But it has been the subject of significant controversy given that it is funded by the Saudis who have an atrocious record on human rights.
“We call on all Americans to see this unsavory attempt to minimize the grisly bone-saw attack on Washington Post opinion writer Jamal Khashoggi for what it is — an attempt to sweep under the rug a brutal state-sponsored murder,” the National Press Club said in its blistering statement. “We call on people of conscience to reject this tournament. Do not attend. Do not watch it on television. Let it fail.”
The National Press Club blasted Trump for hosting the event at Bedminster. It said that Trump’s role managed to make the event “even more revolting” because it reminded the group that the former President worked to downplay Khashoggi’s killing.
The journalism advocacy organization continued, “We note that at one of LIV’s first news conferences their officials shouted down a question from an AP reporter and escorted him from the room saying that he was being rude. That is how the LIV episode started. They silenced the press. Again.”
And the National Press Club concluded its statement discouraging PR firms from doing business with LIV Golf. “We note that LIV is currently seeking representation by a public relations firm to make the slaughter of a journalist more acceptable to the American public through golf,” the org said. “We call on public relations firms, many of whom employ former journalists, to reject this blood money. We understand that clients need representation, but it seems reasonable to draw the line at clients that use a bone saw on a journalist. We hope the prospective PR firm thinks very carefully before agreeing to work for LIV.”
9/11 families “appalled”
On Tuesday, a group of 9/11 survivors blasted the tour, saying in a press conference that they are “appalled” by the “offensive, disrespectful, and hurtful” event taking place at Bedminster. 9/11 Families United chair Terry Strada said that LIV Golf “is not about sports or good competition among worthy competitors.” Instead, Strada said that at its heart “it is a multibillion-dollar public relations stunt bought and paid for by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.” CNN’s Liam Reilly and Ben Morse have more here…
Trump: Interest in Khashoggi has “totally died down”
In an interview published by The Wall Street Journal Tuesday, Trump said that he believed the public had lost interest in the death of Khashoggi. “I can say that from the standpoint of Khashoggi, that has died down so much,” Trump told the newspaper. “It really seems to have totally died down.”
“Nobody has asked me that question in months,” Trump added.
Trump said, however, that he believes LIV has generated “great publicity for Saudi Arabia.” He said in his estimation that the country “deserves that” publicity “for what they’re doing” with the LIV Golf league “because it’s become very exciting.” Trump said he thinks the PR has been “worth billions of dollars…”
What LIV is saying
I checked in with LIV on Tuesday evening to see if it had any comment on the National Press Club’s statement. I didn’t hear back. But a spokesperson for LIV told CNN, in regards to criticism from 9/11 survivors, “As we have said all along, these families have our deepest sympathy. While some may not agree, we believe golf is a force for good around the world.” 9/11 families are planning to protest in Bedminster this week…
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Strong earthquake kills two, injures dozens in northern Philippines
Patients and medical personnel were evacuated from at least two hospitals in Manila, about 300KM south of Lagangilang, but were later told to return after engineers found only a few minor cracks on walls.
A strong earthquake left at least two people dead and injured dozens in the northern Philippines on July 27, where the temblor set off small landslides and damaged buildings and churches and prompted terrified crowds and hospital patients in the capital to rush outdoors.
The 7-magnitude quake was centred in the hard-hit province of Abra in a mountainous area, said Renato Solidum, the head of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology.
“The ground shook like I was on a swing and the lights suddenly went out. We rushed out of the office, and I heard screams and some of my companions were in tears,” said Michael Brillantes, a safety officer of the Abra town of Lagangilang, near the epicentre.
“It was the most powerful quake I’ve felt and I thought the ground would open up,” Mr. Brillantes told The Associated Press over the phone.
“A villager died when he was hit by falling cement slabs in his house in Abra, where at least 25 others were injured and were mostly admitted to hospitals,” officials said.
A construction worker was hit by debris and died in the strawberry-growing mountain town of La Trinidad in Benguet province, where some roads were shut by landslides and boulders. Five people were injured when rocks and debris pummelled their SUV and a truck on a hillside road in Mountain Province near Benguet, officials said.
Many houses and buildings had cracked walls, including some that collapsed in Abra, where new President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., who took office less than a month ago, planned to travel to meet victims and local officials.
The Red Cross issued a picture of a small three-storey building precariously leaning toward a debris-covered road in Abra. A video taken by a panicking witness showed parts of an old stone church tower being peeled off, then falling in a cloud of dust on a hilltop.
Patients, some in wheelchairs, and medical personnel were evacuated from at least two hospitals in Manila, about 300KM (200 miles) south of Lagangilang, but were later told to return after engineers found only a few minor cracks on walls.
The quake’s strength was lowered from the initial 7.3 magnitude after further analysis. The quake was set off by movement in a local fault at a depth of 25KM (15 miles), the institute said, adding it expected damage and more aftershocks.
The U.S. Geological Survey measured the quake’s strength at 7.0 and depth at 10KM (6 miles). Shallower quakes tend to cause more damage.
The Philippines lies along the Pacific “Ring of Fire,” an arc of faults around the Pacific Ocean where most of the world’s earthquakes occur. It is also lashed by about 20 typhoons and tropical storms each year, making it one of the world’s most disaster-prone countries. A magnitude 7.7 quake killed nearly 2,000 people in the northern Philippines in 1990.
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Bert J. Hoogewerf
March 2, 1960 - February 11, 2022
SOUTH BEND - Bert Hoogewerf of South Bend, age 61, passed away on February 11, 2022.
He is survived by his mother, Letha Hoogewerf; brother, Dirk Hoogewerf; and longtime girlfriend, Caroline Cooper; and six nieces; and one nephew.
Bert was preceded in death by his father, Jacob Hoogewerf; sister, Rita Holevinsky.
Come join us for a celebration of life luncheon on July 30th, 2022, at 12:00 p.m. at Bethel Church, 10202 Broadway, Crown Point, IN 46307.
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YOKOHAMA, Japan, July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Japan Wind Energy 2022 Conference & Exhibition (JWE2022), organized by Leader Associates, will be held on 11th-12th Oct. 2022 in Yokohama, Japan, co-locating with 5th edition Solar Energy Future Japan 2022 & 2nd edition Connecting Green Hydrogen Japan 2022.
In the context that Japan aims to expand the country's offshore wind power installed capacity to 10 GW in 2030 and 30-45 GW in 2040, the two-day conference will mainly focus on Offshore Wind.
Based on the success of Japan Wind Energy 2021 Conference & Exhibition, the organizer Leader Associates continue the mission that to be a premium information change and business networking platform between public and private stakeholders in the country's wind value chain. It is estimated that JWE2022 will attract 500+ wind industrial stakeholders, representing Japan central and prefecture governments, global developers, investors & financiers, EPCs, as well as key equipment and solution providers. This year, JWE2022 creates new partnership opportunities with key stakeholders through various networking opportunities including 1-1 networking meetings & Energy Sustainable Night cocktail party.
Until now, JWE2022 has had the attendance of 70+ corporations and 40+ speakers who are the key-decision makers from the global onshore & offshore wind market and ready to share insights in perspective of policy, market, investment and project construction.
With three months to go until JWE2022, we will try our best to provide customers with better meeting services. Look forward to seeing you in October.
About Leader Associates
Leader Associates is an international event organizer in the field of clean energy. Leader Associates is committed to clean energy and stands at the forefront of environmental sustainability. We put faith in our work to make renewable energy available and affordable through practical business platforms and non-business programs. Setting sail from Perth, Western Australia in 2015, Leader Associates has successfully hosted over 100 clean energy events across 5 continents and in over 20 countries worldwide.
For more information about Leader Associates, visit https://www.leader-associates.com/
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A joint report named "What Does the Future Hold for Crypto Exchanges?" published by Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Bitget, and Foresight Ventures in July this year showed that despite the recent crypto market slowdown, the crypto economy is here to stay.
"The top 20 coins today look very different from just 5 years ago. Among these is Layer 1 tokens, which can validate and finalize transactions without the need for another network. Overall, the crypto ecosystem has matured significantly, with around 10,000 applications today, compared to 800 in 2017," said the report.
In addition, the report pointed out that institutional money has poured into the asset class, leading to lower volatility and a maturing market profile. Citing Coinbase's annual company filing, the BCG report noted that the institutional trading volume of the crypto exchange increased from 20 per cent in Q1 of 2018 to 68 per cent by the end of 2021.
Sluggish First Half of 2022
The market has not witnessed any major rebound this year. The prices of Bitcoin and Ethereum have fallen by more than 50% from their all-time highs in late 2021. Despite some minor gains in recent weeks, the cryptocurrency market generally remained stagnant. In the first half of 2022, the crypto market saw several hurdles, including 30 per cent taxation by the Indian government on VDAs (Virtual Digital Assets). Additionally, 1 per cent TDS (Tax Deducted at Source) may have broken the backbone of crypto exchanges.
According to data provided to Outlook Money by crypto research and consulting firm CREBACO, the trading volume at WazirX was down by over 82 per cent on July 3, compared to June 30, while the decline on CoinDCX and ZebPay was almost 70 per cent and 76 per cent, respectively, in the same timeframe, the situation has not changed much so far.
How Stable Will Cryptos Be In H2 2022?
On the point of the crypto market’s future in the second half of 2022, some experts think that market volatility is likely to remain high in the second half as it was in the first. "Relief rallies are also likely. Many tokens with inherently flawed or valueless tokenomics may not survive 2022. The industry will continue its march towards ever-increasing maturity," says Ajeet Khurana, founder of Reflexical, a Web 3.0 company.
However, BCG has estimated that just 0.3 per cent of individual wealth is currently held in crypto assets, in contrast to the 25 per cent held in equities. Relatively shallow penetration indicates that there is headroom for growth. "Crypto adoption is rising among both retail and institutions. However, adoption is still low compared to traditional investment assets such as equities, payment technologies, and private equity allocation by institutions," said the report.
Kumar Gaurav, founder and CEO of crypto bank Cashaa, said that most of the gains in the crypto market in 2021 were eroded by the bearish sentiments that started this spring. The stock market suffered a dip due to inflation, the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, new regulations, and other factors. "It's hard to predict what will happen exactly in the next few months of the year, but as of now, we are looking at a small rise of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. The bull market can start any moment by the end of the year as Blockchain developers are looking on long-term crypto plans," he said.
Crypto and blockchain enthusiast Jayjit Biswas believes that the crypto market will continue to struggle because of the US Federal Reserve’s aggressive monetary policies to calm inflation and recession fears. Investors will have to wait for cues from global trends before taking informed decisions about their future investments in cryptos. "In India, exchanges have to find a way out with government to ease out the trading activities but at this moment GOI is not ready to do so but they are waiting for some directions from G20 or US about the stance on crypto," he said.
Interestingly, amid the negative sentiments in the crypto market, some experts gave a positive outlook for cryptocurrencies. "Looking at global cues, the markets are expected to stabilize later this year. Projects and companies that have had stronger fundamentals and have been focusing on their tech in the bearish markets will launch new and innovative products that will drive positivity. Plus, there are a lot of expectations with the upcoming upgrade of the Ethereum network," said Anshul Dhir, co-founder and COO (chief operating officer) of EasyFi, a decentralized finance blockchain company.
Sathvik Vishwanath, co-founder and CEO of Unocoin crypto exchange, said that given the sentiment towards crypto was not strong enough during the first half, it has appeared to be the start of a stable market. "The present involvement of corporates has not let the industry get into the bear market. I am anticipating the second half of this year to be more stable than being bullish unless there is an unreasonable trigger to push it back to the bull market like last year," he said. | https://www.outlookindia.com/business/how-will-crypto-market-perform-in-the-second-half-of-2022--news-212200 | 2022-07-27T07:01:09Z | https://www.outlookindia.com/business/how-will-crypto-market-perform-in-the-second-half-of-2022--news-212200 | true |
Presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping will speak Thursday, according to a US official, their first conversation in four months coming amid new tension between Washington and Beijing over China's claims on Taiwan.
The planned talks between the two leaders — the fifth in a series of regular check-ins — have been in the works for weeks. But the possibility of a visit to Taiwan by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the top congressional Democrat and second in line of succession to the presidency, has added fresh strain to the complicated relationship.
Beijing is warning that it will take “forceful measures” should Pelosi visit the self-ruled island of Taiwan that China claims as part of its territory.
The U.S. official declined to be identified ahead of the public announcement. The schedule was first reported by Bloomberg.
Pelosi hasn't confirmed plans to visit Taiwan, but Biden last week told reporters that U.S. military officials believed it was “not a good idea” for the speaker to visit the island at the moment. Biden's comments came after the Financial Times reported last week that Pelosi planned to visit Taiwan in August, a trip she had originally planned to make in April but postponed after she tested positive for COVID-19.
The speaker has declined to comment on whether she plans to visit Taiwan, citing security protocol on her travel. But she said Biden's comment stemmed from military brass being "afraid our plane would get shot down, or something like that, by the Chinese.” She would be the highest-ranking U.S. elected official to visit Taiwan since Republican Newt Gingrich visited the island in 1997 when he served as House speaker.
“It's important for us to show support for Taiwan,” Pelosi said. “None of us have ever said we're for independence when it comes to Taiwan. That's up to Taiwan to decide.”
Administration officials have privately stressed to Pelosi that traveling to Taiwan could further complicate a delicate status quo.
Chinese officials aren't mincing words, sending a message that a visit by Pelosi would be viewed as a change in U.S. policy and treated as a provocation.
“If the U.S. insists on going its own way, China will take forceful measures to resolutely respond and counter it, and we will do what we say,” said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin.
The U.S. has a longstanding commitment to the “One China” policy that recognizes Beijing as the government of China but allows informal relations and defense ties with Taipei. China has stepped up its military provocations against Taiwan in recent years, and there are fears that it's trying to intimidate the island into accepting Beijing's demands to unify with the communist mainland.
The talks between Biden and Xi could also include discussion of North Korea's nuclear program, differences between Beijing and Washington over Russia's war in Ukraine, efforts by the Biden administration to revive the Iran nuclear deal and the status of the U.S. administration's review of tough tariffs imposed on China by the Trump administration.
“There are issues of tension in this relationship,” John Kirby, a national security spokesperson for the White House, said Tuesday. “But there's also issues where we believe cooperation is not only possible, but mandatory, for instance on climate change, which affects us greatly.”
Long-simmering differences over Taiwan have come into intense focus in the aftermath of Russia's invasion and ongoing efforts to annex swaths of eastern Ukraine.
As the U.S. scrambled to assemble a global coalition to hit the Russian economy with heavy sanctions following Vladimir Putin's ordered invasion of Ukraine, Biden warned allies — particularly those in the Indo-Pacific — that Beijing would be watching closely how democracies responded as it considers its next steps on Taiwan.
White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said Friday he fears that Beijing might be gleaning some “concerning” takeaways from the five-month-old war in eastern Europe. But he suggested the moment has also led to careful reflection in Taipei.
“Not as many people ask Is Taiwan learning lessons from Ukraine?' and you can bet they are,” Sullivan said during an appearance at the Aspen Security Forum. “They're learning lessons about citizen mobilization and territorial defense. They're learning lessons about information warfare, and how to set the information space. And they're learning lessons about how to prepare for a potential contingency involving China and they're working rapidly at that.”
Taiwan was a central topic during Biden and Xi's last call in March, about three weeks after Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine.
China has repeatedly threatened to assert its claim to Taiwan by force, and has dispatched hundreds of sorties in Taiwanese airspace since Biden took office 18 months ago. The U.S. is legally obligated to ensure the self-governing island democracy can defend itself and treats threats to it with grave concern.
The conversation also comes as Biden's national security and economic aides near the completion of a review of U.S. tariff policy and prepare to make recommendations to the president.
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Birmingham 2022: Anger over Commonwealth Games tickets resale block
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People with tickets for the Commonwealth Games have contacted the BBC angry at the closure of the official resale site.
Tickets for Birmingham 2022 have proved popular, with the Games set to be the best-attended on record.
However, some people who can no longer make events say they have been unable to sell tickets on since the official resale site closed on 4 July.
Birmingham 2022 has said ticket-holders can transfer them to friends or family.
Michael Thomas, from Shrewsbury, Shropshire, has £300 of tickets, including cycling events held in London on Saturday, and was planning to make a T20 cricket match on the same evening at Edgbaston.
A train drivers' strike on Saturday means that is no longer possible and he has chosen not to travel to the velodrome.
"There is no way of reselling the tickets unless they reopen their resale site... which they are not going to do," he said.
"They are still selling tickets [for the cycling] so why can't we be able to resell out tickets to people that can make it?"
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Matthew Canning, from Bristol, is planning to stay with his family in Lichfield, Staffordshire, to make a number of events and holds £500 of tickets.
He is no stranger to big sporting competitions, having attended the Rugby World Cup, Cricket World Cup, London Olympics and the Glasgow Commonwealth Games.
"With ballots you never know what you're going to get, so the safest thing to do is over-egg it and then sell what you don't want via the resale site," he said.
"With the Rugby World Cup in 2015, I got semi-finals tickets. But the week before, when I saw who got through the quarter-finals, I decided not to go and sold them on the resale site.
"We fans know how these events work, but the organisers [of Birmingham 2022] don't seem to."
Mr Canning said he supported the need for official sites to prevent touting, but added it was unusual for a resale site to close so early.
The Women's Euros adopted a similar approach to Birmingham 2022, but without introducing legislation. It is unclear how widespread the practice is.
"Interestingly many of the tickets I've got are for events that tickets are no longer available [for], or not at that price anyway," he said.
"So I think there's a good chance they would have sold."
Instead, the seats will remain empty unless friends can make it instead of him.
They include £65 tickets for the closing ceremony and £80 tickets for an athletics session that includes the 1500m men's final - an event won by Britain's Jake Wightman at the recent World Championships.
Mr Canning said he believed Birmingham 2022 organisers were trying to sell their own tickets, but had been "underhand" in their dealings with existing ticket-holders.
"I can find no mention that the resale site was going to close on 4 July - they should have made it clear when you were purchasing them," he said.
He said organisers had cited a similar approach used by other events, but he had yet to receive a response after asking which events they were referring to.
Birmingham 2022 said the official resale platform was open for a five-week period between 31 May and 4 July.
"Anyone who was unsuccessful in reselling tickets, or who wasn't considering selling their tickets until after the platform had closed, is able to transfer any unusable tickets to a friend or family member through their ticketing account," it added.
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ISLAMABAD – The lives of Afghan women and girls are being destroyed by a “suffocating” crackdown by the Taliban since they took power nearly a year ago, Amnesty International said in a report released Wednesday.
After they captured the capital, Kabul, in August 2021 and ousted the internationally backed government, the Taliban presented themselves as having moderated since their first time in power, in the 1990s. Initially, Taliban officials spoke of allowing women to continue to work and girls to continue their education.
Instead, they formed an all-male government stacked with veterans of their hard-line rule that has banned girls from attending school from seventh grade, imposed all-covering dress that leaves only the eyes visible and restricted women's access to work.
Amnesty said the Taliban have also decimated protections for those facing domestic violence, detained women and girls for minor violations and contributed to a surge in child marriages. The report also documented the torture and abuse of women arrested by the Taliban for protesting against restrictions.
“Taken together, these policies form a system of repression that discriminates against women and girls in almost every aspect of their lives,” the report said. “This suffocating crackdown against Afghanistan’s female population is increasing day by day.”
The group's researchers visited Afghanistan in March as part of a nine-month-long investigation conducted from September 2021 to June 2022. They interviewed 90 women and 11 girls, between 14 and 74 years-old, across Afghanistan.
Among them were women detained for protesting who described torture at the hands of Taliban guards, including beatings and threats of death.
One woman told Amnesty that guards beat her and other women on the breasts and between the legs, “so that we couldn’t show the world.” She said one told her, “I can kill you right now, and no one would say anything.”
A university student who was detained said she was electrically shocked on her shoulder, face, neck and elsewhere, while the Taliban shouted insults at her. One held a gun at her and told her, “I will kill you, and no one will be able to find your body.”
The report said rates of child, early and forced marriage in Afghanistan are surging under Taliban rule.
The increase, Amnesty said, is fueled by Afghanistan’s economic and humanitarian crisis and the lack of education and job prospects for women and girls. The report documented cases of forced marriages of women and girls to Taliban members — under pressure by the Taliban member or by the women’s families.
One woman from a central province of Afghanistan told Amnesty that she was compelled her to marry off her 13-year-old daughter to a 30-year-old neighbor in exchange for 60,000 Afghanis (around US$670). She said she felt relieved because her daughter “won’t be hungry anymore.”
She said she was also considering the same for her 10-year-old daughter but was holding off in hopes the girl could get an education and eventually secure a job to support the family. “Of course, if they don’t open the school, I will have to marry her off,” she added.
“You have a patriarchal government, war, poverty, drought, girls out of school. With all of these factors combined … we knew child marriage was going to go through the roof,” said Stephanie Sinclair, director of Too Young to Wed, who was quoted in the report.
The Taliban seized Kabul as U.S. and NATO forces were withdrawing from Afghanistan, ending a nearly 20-year war against the Taliban’s insurgency. The world has refused to recognize the Taliban's rule, demanding it respect human rights and show tolerance for other groups. The U.S. and its allies have cut off billions in development funds that kept the government afloat, as well as froze billions in Afghan national assets.
This sent the already shattered economy into freefall, increasing poverty dramatically and creating one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises. Millions, struggling to feed their families, are kept alive by a massive U.N.-led relief effort.
Amnesty called on the international community to take action to protect Afghan women and girls.
“Less than one year after the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan, their draconian policies are depriving millions of women and girls of their right to lead safe, free and fulfilling lives,” said Agnès Callamard, Amnesty secretary general.
“If the international community fails to act, it will be abandoning women and girls in Afghanistan, and undermining human rights everywhere,” she said. | https://www.wsls.com/news/world/2022/07/27/amnesty-taliban-crackdown-on-rights-is-suffocating-women/ | 2022-07-27T07:06:41Z | https://www.wsls.com/news/world/2022/07/27/amnesty-taliban-crackdown-on-rights-is-suffocating-women/ | true |
The adjustment of the weight of assets in portfolios of commercial banks has seen credit to the private sector approach pre-pandemic levels, rising by 33.7 percent at the end of June, against 6.8 percent during the comparable period of 2021, the Bank of Ghana (BoG) disclosed.
In value terms, the total new advances for the period under consideration was GH¢24.6billion, a 54 percent increase year-on-year (YoY) over the GH¢15.9billion – 1 percent growth – recorded for the same period of 2021.
The new advances were extended by 20 out of the 23 commercial banks despite rising concerns over headwinds from gloomy macroeconomic developments, Governor of the Bank, Dr. Ernest Addison, stated during a press conference at the conclusion of the 107th meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC).
“The latest credit conditions survey of banks revealed tightened credit stance on loans to enterprises and households. Notwithstanding these tight credit conditions across the industry, banks’ credit extension improved during the review period,” he explained.
Despite the industry’s non-performing loans ratio also improving by 2.9 percentage points to close the period at 14.1 percent compared with 17.0 percent in June 2021, there are rising concerns about credit sustainability from lenders and borrowers alike.
Customer confidence, however, appears to be waning in no small part due to the rising cost of input including credit as the average lending rates of banks jumped to 24.27 percent in June, from 20.04 percent in December 2021.
This was primarily a result of the domino effect of the BoG’s consistent hike of its benchmark policy rate by 5.5 percent since the end of last year. This has driven the Interbank Weighted Average Rate (IWAR) to 19.92 percent in June 2022 from 12.68 percent at the end of last year, the Governor indicated.
Industry resilience
In spite of prevailing tightening economic conditions, the banking industry has maintained the resilience it first demonstrated at the height of the pandemic with growth in key metrics.
In the period under review, total assets of the industry hit GH¢200billion, representing a 22.8 percent annual growth. Conversely, the value of deposits grew to GH¢131.3billion at 19.1 percent, lower than the 22.5 recorded in 2021.
The banking industry saw its pre-tax profit rise to GH¢4.4billion, a 21.6 percent YoY growth, remaining lower than the 32.1 percent growth from the corresponding year while operating expenses also rose to 22.9 percent from 7.3 percent.
“Net interest income grew at 12.4 percent, compared with 19.4 percent a year ago. Net fees and commissions, however, grew by 29.2 percent, compared to 19.6 percent in the previous year, reflecting a rebound in trade finance-related business,” Dr. Addison stated.
The Capital Adequacy Ratio (CAR) across the industry was 19.4 percent, above the regulatory minimum of 13.0 percent. Similarly, the ratio of core liquid assets to short-term liabilities improved to 30.2 percent versus 27.5 percent the year before. Consequently, operating income across the board rose to 23 percent.
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Damon Arnette, the troubled cornerback who attended St. Thomas Aquinas, was a first-round pick of the Las Vegas Raiders in 2020, and spent a brief time on the Dolphins’ practice squad late last season, was arrested Tuesday morning on Miami Beach, according to a report.
Arnette, a 25-year-old free agent, was arrested for possession of a controlled substance, among other charges, and was pulled over twice by Miami Beach police between Monday night and Tuesday morning, according to TMZ.com.
Arnette was pulled over at 8:56 p.m. Monday night in his gray Dodge Charger and issued a citation for driving with a suspended license. Police allowed another “licensed driver” in the car to drive after the traffic stop, according to the report.
A few hours later, about 12:45 a.m. Tuesday, police noticed the same car and Arnette driving, so they made another traffic stop.
Arnette was arrested for knowingly driving with a suspended license.
When police searched Arnette during the arrest, the report said, they found a baggie with a “white powdery substance” in his pants pocket. Police also said they found a straw cut “into a small piece resembling a device that is common for cocaine usage.”
The Miami Beach incident was the latest in a line of issues for Arnette, who was released by the Raiders in November after a video surfaced of him appearing to threaten to kill someone with a gun.
Arnette signed with Kansas City after his time with the Dolphins ended but was released by the Chiefs in January after he was arrested in Las Vegas for assault with a deadly weapon. Multiple reports say he won’t face charges for that incident.
Arnette was facing a lawsuit from an incident in which he allegedly had a run-in with a valet at a Las Vegas hotel.
Arnette was also facing a lawsuit from a woman who claimed he crashed into her car in October 2020 while he was on his way to practice for the Raiders.
Arnette made seven starts as a rookie in 2020, but spent most of last season battling a groin injury he sustained early in the season. In two NFL seasons he’s totaled 13 games played, seven starts, 29 tackles and four passes defended.
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UPS revenue up 5.7% in 2Q2022
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S. Korea to open 1st hydrogen production base in metropolitan area
SEOUL, July 27 (Yonhap) -- South Korea held a ceremony to mark the completion of a new hydrogen production plant in the city of Pyeongtaek, the first such facility in the metropolitan area, the industry ministry said Wednesday.
The base in Pyeongtaek, some 70 kilometers south of Seoul, is the country's second hydrogen production plant following the first one in the southeastern city of Changwon, which has been in operation since the end of last year.
The Pyeongtaek plant is expected to be put into operation next month after necessary tests. It will be able to produce up to 7 tons of hydrogen per day, which can produce fuel for 430,000 hydrogen vehicles per year, according to the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy.
"The envisioned operation of the new plant is expected to cut distribution costs of the fuel and to boost the competitiveness of the country's hydrogen industry," the ministry said in a release.
Currently, Seoul and the surrounding metropolitan area have 33 hydrogen fueling stations.
South Korea has been pushing to set up a total of seven smaller-scale hydrogen production bases across the nation by the end of this year, as it is seeking to boost the hydrogen economy as a new growth engine.
A hydrogen fuel cell electric car only releases water vapor as it converts stored hydrogen into electricity to turn the motor.
Global carmakers have been racing to go eco-friendly amid tightened regulations on emissions of greenhouse gases, which scientists say are to blame for global warming.
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HANGZHOU, China, July. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BEST Inc. (NYSE: BEST) ("BEST" or the "Company"), a leading integrated smart supply chain solutions and logistics services provider in China and Southeast Asia, today announced that it will release its unaudited financial results for the second quarter ended June 30 2022, after the U.S. market closes on Wednesday, August 17, 2022.
The Company will hold a conference call to discuss the financial results at 9:00pm U.S. Eastern Time on Wednesday, August 17, 2022, or 09:00am Beijing Time on Thursday, August 18, 2022.
Participants may access the call by dialling the following numbers:
A replay of the conference call will be accessible through Aug.24, 2022 by dialling the following numbers:
Please visit the Company's investor relations website http://ir.best-inc.com/ to view the earnings release prior to the conference call. A live and archived webcast of the conference call and a presentation will also be available at the same site.
ABOUT BEST INC.
BEST Inc. (NYSE: BEST) is a leading integrated smart supply chain solutions and logistics services provider in China and Southeast Asia. Through its proprietary technology platform and extensive networks, BEST offers a comprehensive set of logistics and value-add services, including express and freight delivery, supply chain management and last-mile services, truckload service brokerage, international logistics and financial services. BEST's mission is to create a smarter, more efficient supply chain in the new retail era by leveraging technology and business model innovation. For more information, please visit: http://www.best-inc.com/en/.
INVESTOR AND MEDIA CONTACTS
BEST Inc.
Investor Relations Team
E-mail: ir@best-inc.com
The Piacente Group, Inc.
Yang Song
Tel: +86-10-6508-0677
E-mail: best@tpg-ir.com
The Piacente Group, Inc.
Brandi Piacente
Tel: +1-212-481-2050
E-mail: best@tpg-ir.com
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Paper provides an overview of on-demand retail's open platform model for the first time.
A comprehensive practice guide with development path and successful cases, for retailers and brands who desire to grow in the China market.
SHENZHEN, China, July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Dada Group (Nasdaq: DADA)'s JDDJ and JD.com's Shop Now showed up at the "2022 China International Retail Innovation Summit". On-demand retail, as the megatrend in the retail industry as well as a new growth driver for retailers and brands, was the major topic and arose heated discussions among business leaders today.
At the summit, Dada Group released the "White Paper On Open On-Demand Retail Platform Model" in collaboration with China Chain Store & Franchise Association (CCFA) and JD.com's Consumption and Industry Development Research Institute. The White Paper offers a panoramic display of the open platform model of on-demand retail for the first time in industry.
Seize the Digital Opportunity
Decision makers, digital business leaders and technology providers of the industry, joined the management teams of Dada Group and JD.com to give speeches at the summit to elaborate their insights and predictions of on-demand retail.
Dr. PEI Liang, President of China Chain Store & Franchise Association, demonstrated: "On-demand retail is an important part of omni-channel retail. Not only does it leverage online traffic, but also, through the integration of existing offline resources, it enables the cooperation between platforms and offline retailers to achieve a 1+1>2 effect. Offline stores serve as the terminal for order fulfillment and the terminal for product storage, and, when empowered by the of on-demand retail model, their value can be maximized."
Philip Jiaqi KUAI, Founder, Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of Dada Group stated that from long-distance, and short distance to macro-distance, China's e-commerce has leapfrogged to set one new milestone after another. For offline stores, on-demand retail has greatly broadened the scope of their businesses; for brand owners, on-demand retail has built a digital marketing and operating ecosystem that connects online and offline channels; for consumers, on-demand retail services represent significant improvements in timing, efficiency and the shopping experience.
HE Huijian, Vice President of JD.com and Dada Group; Head of the Intra-City Business of JD.com believes that the core of retail is efficiency and experience. Emerged from both the supply side and the demand side, on-demand retail is expected to grow into a trillion-dollar market in 3 to 5 years. JDDJ and Shop Now will continue to open our capabilities to the industry to expand the model to various types of offline retailers and brands via digital upgrades, operation optimization and efficiency improvement, to bring consumers and partners a faster, better and more economical shopping experience.
Development path and successful cases
It can be seen from the discussions that the retailers and brand owners have similarities in terms of demands and challenges when adopting on-demand retail, which can be further categorized into two models – self-operated and open platform.
The White Paper finds out that players under the open platform model, are stronger in terms of breath of product categories offered, as well as technologies deployed to empower the offline retailer partners, and drive the digital transformation of the real economy.
The Report also discussed the development path under the open platform model and some successful cases. It was a valuable guide for merchants who strive to seize new growth opportunity in the Chinese market. For retailers, what is important to them is omni-channel connection and fulfillment; for brands, their focus is on interaction with the users and marketing.
Based on the number and growth rate of participating stores, the White Paper took Supermarkets, Fashion Styles and Home Appliances, and Consumer Electronics as three major examples to analyze their development paths from strive to thrive.
- The focuses for Supermarket are traffic, delivery capabilities and data integration from multiple channels. Traffic largely determines the potential size of the business, the delivery capabilities are correlated with order fulfillment, and integrate data and adopting automated management is the key to improve efficiency.
- As for Fashion Style and Home Appliance, besides traffic, the level of digitalization greatly determines how well the retailers and brands manage their stores and inventories.
- Turning to Consumer Electronics, the products are with high price tag, a long life cycle and low level of transparency, so that the consumers depend more on the shopping guide and after-sale service. Integrating marketing approaches and services on- and offline will be better satisfy customer's expectations and become the key brand differentiators in the industry.
As the pioneers and leaders in on-demand retail, JD.com and JDDJ cooperated with various well-known partners such as Walmart, vivio and Unilever, and accumulated experiences and insights from the past 8 years' practices. As the key driver for offline retailers and brands' omni-channel growth, the cooperation with JD.com and JDDJ in on-demand retail has been recognized by partners.
Xiaojing Christina ZHU, President and Chief Executive Officer of Walmart China, says: "China is one of the largest, fastest-growing and most competitive consumer markets in the world. We expect on-demand retail to remain hugely popular here in the foreseeable future because it enhances the shopping experience for customers and fits modern lifestyles. As a leading omni-channel retailer with a 'Customer First' mindset, Walmart China continues to innovate with our partners around digitalization and end-to-end efficiency. We look forward to offering more value and a seamless shopping experience so that our customers can save money and live better."
"Thanks to on-demand retail, the penetration rate and sales share in categories such as healthcare, maternal and infant, are continuing to grow," weighs in Katy CHEN, Managing Director of Kimberly-Clark China, "on-demand retail has become a channel that Kimberly-Clark attaches great importance to, we hope to further optimize and improve our performance through cooperation and innovation, to promote and lead the development of personal care and hygiene products in the on-demand retail market."
Based on the successful cases, the White Paper provides a methodological sum-up dubbed "On-demand ACE", suggesting a route to success in on-demand retail. ACE represents the ability, creativity and experiences required for merchant's development in early, evolving and breakthrough phases.
About Dada Group
Dada Group is a leading platform of local on-demand retail and delivery in China. It operates JDDJ, one of China's largest local on-demand retail platforms for retailers and brand owners, and Dada Now, a leading local on-demand delivery platform open to merchants and individual senders across various industries and product categories. The company's two platforms are inter-connected and mutually beneficial. The Dada Now platform enables improved delivery experience for participants on the JDDJ platform through its readily accessible fulfillment solutions and strong on-demand delivery infrastructure. Meanwhile, the vast volume of on-demand delivery orders from the JDDJ platform increases order volume and density for the Dada Now platform. In June 2020, Dada Group began trading on the Nasdaq Global Market, under the ticker symbol "DADA".
About China Chain Store & Franchise Association
China Chain Store & Franchise Association (CCFA) is the official representative of retailing & franchise industry in China. Currently, there are over 1200 enterprise members with over 460,000 outlets, including domestic & foreign-invested retailers, franchisers, suppliers, and relevant organizations. The total sale of CCFA retail members (franchise and food service not included) was 4.5 trillion CNY in 2020, accounting for 11.6% of the entire social consumables retail sales. CCFA functions include: participating in policy making and coordination, safeguarding the interests of industry and members, providing a series of professional trainings and industry information and data for members, and establishing platforms for exchange and cooperation.
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TX Houston/Galveston TX Zone Forecast for Tuesday, July 26, 2022
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Zone Forecast Product for Southeast Texas
National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX
142 AM CDT Wed Jul 27 2022
TXZ211-280900-
Austin-
Including the cities of Sealy and Bellville
142 AM CDT Wed Jul 27 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy with scattered showers with
isolated thunderstorms. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. Lows in
the mid 70s. South winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
Heat index values up to 105.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 106.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100. South winds
10 to 15 mph. Heat index values up to 108.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. Heat
index values up to 105.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s. Heat index
values up to 105.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s. Heat index
values up to 105.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100. Heat index
values up to 110.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning. Hot with highs around
100.
$$
TXZ237-280900-
Inland Brazoria-
Including the cities of Pearland, Alvin, and Angleton
142 AM CDT Wed Jul 27 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy with scattered showers with
isolated thunderstorms. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. Lows in
the upper 70s. South winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain
40 percent. Heat index values up to 105.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. South
winds 10 to 15 mph. Heat index values up to 106.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Humid with lows in the upper 70s.
South winds 10 to 15 mph, diminishing to around 5 mph after
midnight.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. South winds 10 to
15 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent. Heat index values up to 107.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Humid with lows in the upper 70s.
South winds 10 to 15 mph, diminishing to around 5 mph after
midnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. Heat
index values up to 105.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. Heat index
values up to 105.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. Heat index
values up to 105.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. Heat
index values up to 105.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing.
Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning. Hot with highs in the
mid 90s.
$$
TXZ196-280900-
Brazos-
Including the cities of College Station and Bryan
142 AM CDT Wed Jul 27 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy with isolated showers. Hot with
highs around 100. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
Chance of rain 20 percent. Heat index values up to 105.
.THURSDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 101. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 102. South winds 10 to
15 mph. Heat index values up to 109.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100. Heat index
values up to 105.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. Heat index values up
to 105.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. Heat index values up
to 105.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning. Hot with highs around
100.
$$
TXZ195-280900-
Burleson-
Including the cities of Caldwell and Somerville
142 AM CDT Wed Jul 27 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy with isolated showers. Hot with
highs around 100. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
Chance of rain 20 percent. Heat index values up to 105.
.THURSDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 101. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 102. South winds 10 to
15 mph. Heat index values up to 109.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds
10 to 15 mph. Heat index values up to 105 early in the evening.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. Heat index values up
to 110.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning. Hot with highs around
100.
$$
TXZ214-280900-
Chambers-
Including the cities of Winnie, Mont Belvieu, Anahuac, Stowell,
and Old River-Winfree
142 AM CDT Wed Jul 27 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy with scattered showers with
isolated thunderstorms. Humid with highs in the lower 90s. Lows
in the upper 70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to
20 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Humid with highs in the lower 90s. South winds
10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent. Heat index values up to
106.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Humid with lows around 80. South
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Humid with highs in the lower 90s. South winds
10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent. Heat index values up to
105.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Humid with lows in the upper 70s.
South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
Heat index values up to 105.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 80.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Heat index
values up to 105.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows around 80.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning. Highs in the lower 90s.
$$
TXZ210-280900-
Colorado-
Including the cities of Columbus, Eagle Lake, and Weimar
142 AM CDT Wed Jul 27 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy with scattered showers with
isolated thunderstorms. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. Lows in
the mid 70s. South winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
Heat index values up to 105.
.THURSDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds
10 to 15 mph. Heat index values up to 105.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South
winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph, diminishing to around
5 mph after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds
10 to 15 mph. Heat index values up to 107.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts
up to 25 mph, diminishing to around 5 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. Heat
index values up to 105.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100. Heat index
values up to 105.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning. Hot with highs around
100.
$$
TXZ227-280900-
Fort Bend-
Including the cities of Missouri City, Mission Bend, Sugar Land,
Rosenberg, First Colony, and Pecan Grove
142 AM CDT Wed Jul 27 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy with scattered showers with
isolated thunderstorms. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. Lows in
the mid 70s. South winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
Heat index values up to 105.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent. Heat index values up to
107.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Humid with lows in the upper 70s.
South winds 10 to 15 mph, diminishing to around 5 mph after
midnight.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds 5 to
10 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent. Heat index values up to 108.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds
10 to 15 mph, diminishing to around 5 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. Heat
index values up to 105.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. Heat
index values up to 105.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. Heat
index values up to 105.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. Heat
index values up to 110.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. Heat index values up to
105 early in the evening.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning. Hot with highs in the
upper 90s.
$$
TXZ238-280900-
Inland Galveston-
Including the cities of League City and Friendswood
142 AM CDT Wed Jul 27 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy with scattered showers with
isolated thunderstorms. Humid with highs in the lower 90s. Lows
in the upper 70s. South winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Humid with highs in the mid 90s. South winds 10 to
15 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent. Heat index values up to 107.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Humid with lows around 80. South
winds 10 to 15 mph, diminishing to around 5 mph after midnight.
Heat index values up to 105 early in the evening.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Humid with highs in the mid 90s. South winds 10 to
15 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent. Heat index values up to 107.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Humid with lows in the upper 70s.
South winds 10 to 15 mph, diminishing to around 5 mph after
midnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. Heat index values
up to 105.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 80.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Heat index values
up to 105.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 80.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
Heat index values up to 105.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 80. Heat index values
up to 105 early in the evening.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. Heat index values
up to 105.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows around 80. Heat index values up to 105 early
in the evening.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning. Highs in the mid 90s.
$$
TXZ198-280900-
Grimes-
Including the city of Navasota
142 AM CDT Wed Jul 27 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy with isolated showers and
thunderstorms. Hot with highs around 100. Lows in the mid 70s.
South winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent. Heat index
values up to 105.
.THURSDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. South winds 5 to
10 mph. Heat index values up to 107.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 101. South winds 10 to
15 mph. Heat index values up to 109.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds
10 to 15 mph. Heat index values up to 105 early in the evening.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. Heat
index values up to 105.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. Heat index values up
to 105.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. Heat index values up
to 105.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning. Hot with highs around
100.
$$
TXZ213-280900-
Inland Harris-
Including the city of Houston
142 AM CDT Wed Jul 27 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy with scattered showers with
isolated thunderstorms. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. Lows in
the upper 70s. South winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain
50 percent. Heat index values up to 105.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent. Heat index values up to
108.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Humid with lows in the upper 70s.
South winds 10 to 15 mph. Heat index values up to 105 early in
the evening.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds 10 to
15 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent. Heat index values up to 109.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Humid with lows in the upper 70s.
South winds 10 to 15 mph, diminishing to around 5 mph after
midnight. Heat index values up to 106 early in the evening.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. Chance of rain
30 percent. Heat index values up to 105.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. Heat
index values up to 105.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. Chance of rain
30 percent. Heat index values up to 105.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. Heat index values up to
105 early in the evening.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. Heat
index values up to 110.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. Heat index values up to
105 early in the evening.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning. Hot with highs in the
upper 90s.
$$
TXZ163-280900-
Houston-
Including the city of Crockett
142 AM CDT Wed Jul 27 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Isolated showers. Hot with highs
in the upper 90s. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph
with gusts up to 20 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent. Heat index
values up to 105.
.THURSDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 106.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 101. South winds 5 to
10 mph. Heat index values up to 107.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. Heat
index values up to 105.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. Heat
index values up to 105.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s. Heat index
values up to 105.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning. Hot with highs in the
upper 90s.
$$
TXZ235-280900-
Inland Jackson-
Including the cities of Edna and Ganado
142 AM CDT Wed Jul 27 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy with scattered showers with
isolated thunderstorms. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. Lows in
the upper 70s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to
25 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent. Heat index values up to 105.
.THURSDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the mid 90s. South winds
15 to 20 mph. Heat index values up to 106.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Humid with lows in the upper 70s.
Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph, becoming
south 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds 15 to
20 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent. Heat index values up to 108.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Humid with lows in the upper 70s. South winds 15 to
20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph, diminishing to 5 to 10 mph after
midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the mid 90s. Heat index
values up to 105.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s. Heat index
values up to 105.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. Heat
index values up to 105.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s. Heat index
values up to 110.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. Heat index
values up to 105 early in the evening.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning. Hot with highs in the
upper 90s.
$$
TXZ200-280900-
Northern Liberty-
Including the cities of Liberty, Cleveland, and Dayton
142 AM CDT Wed Jul 27 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy with scattered showers with
isolated thunderstorms. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. Lows in
the mid 70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
Heat index values up to 105.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent. Heat index values up to
106.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Humid with lows in the upper 70s.
South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds 5 to
10 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent. Heat index values up to 107.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Humid with lows in the mid 70s.
South winds 5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 105 early in the
evening.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. Chance of rain
30 percent. Heat index values up to 105.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. Heat
index values up to 105.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. Chance of rain
30 percent. Heat index values up to 105.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. Heat
index values up to 105.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning. Hot with highs in the
upper 90s.
$$
TXZ176-280900-
Madison-
Including the city of Madisonville
142 AM CDT Wed Jul 27 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Isolated showers. Hot with highs
around 100. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance
of rain 20 percent. Heat index values up to 105.
.THURSDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. South winds 5 to
10 mph. Heat index values up to 107.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 101. South winds 5 to
10 mph. Heat index values up to 108.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. Heat
index values up to 105.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. Heat index values up
to 105.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning. Hot with highs around
100.
$$
TXZ236-280900-
Inland Matagorda-
Including the city of Bay City
142 AM CDT Wed Jul 27 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy with scattered showers with
isolated thunderstorms. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. Lows in
the upper 70s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. South
winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Heat index values up
to 105.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Humid with lows in the upper 70s.
South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. South winds 10 to 15 mph
with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent. Heat index
values up to 105.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Humid with lows in the upper 70s. South winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph, diminishing to around 5 mph after
midnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the mid 90s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the mid 90s. Heat index values
up to 105.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. Heat index
values up to 105.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the mid 90s. Heat index
values up to 105.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning. Hot with highs in the
mid 90s.
$$
TXZ199-280900-
Montgomery-
Including the cities of Conroe and The Woodlands
142 AM CDT Wed Jul 27 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy with scattered showers with
isolated thunderstorms. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. Lows in
the mid 70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
Heat index values up to 105.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent. Heat index values up to
107.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 105 early in the
evening.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds 5 to
10 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent. Heat index values up to 108.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 106 early in the evening.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. Heat
index values up to 105.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. Heat
index values up to 105.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. Heat
index values up to 105.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s. Heat index
values up to 110.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. Heat index
values up to 105 early in the evening.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning. Hot with highs in the
upper 90s.
$$
TXZ179-280900-
Polk-
Including the cities of Livingston and Corrigan
142 AM CDT Wed Jul 27 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy with scattered showers with
isolated thunderstorms. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. Lows in
the mid 70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
Heat index values up to 105.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 107.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds 5 to
10 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent. Heat index values up to 108.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 105 early in the evening.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. Heat
index values up to 105.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. Heat
index values up to 105.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. Heat
index values up to 105.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning. Hot with highs in the
upper 90s.
$$
TXZ178-280900-
San Jacinto-
Including the cities of Shepherd and Coldspring
142 AM CDT Wed Jul 27 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy with scattered showers with
isolated thunderstorms. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. Lows in
the mid 70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
Chance of rain 40 percent. Heat index values up to 105.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 106.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 108.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 105 early in the evening.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. Heat
index values up to 105.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. Heat
index values up to 105.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s. Heat index
values up to 105.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning. Hot with highs in the
upper 90s.
$$
TXZ164-280900-
Trinity-
Including the cities of Trinity and Groveton
142 AM CDT Wed Jul 27 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy with isolated showers. Hot with
highs in the upper 90s. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent. Heat
index values up to 105.
.THURSDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 107.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. South winds 5 to
10 mph. Heat index values up to 108.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. Heat
index values up to 105.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. Heat
index values up to 105.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s. Heat index
values up to 105.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning. Hot with highs in the
upper 90s.
$$
TXZ177-280900-
Walker-
Including the city of Huntsville
142 AM CDT Wed Jul 27 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy with isolated showers and
thunderstorms. Hot with highs around 100. Lows in the upper 70s.
South winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph. Chance of rain
20 percent. Heat index values up to 105.
.THURSDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. South winds 5 to
10 mph. Heat index values up to 108.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 105 early in the evening.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. Heat
index values up to 105.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. Heat index values up
to 105.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning. Hot with highs around
100.
$$
TXZ212-280900-
Waller-
Including the cities of Hempstead, Prairie View, Brookshire,
and Waller
142 AM CDT Wed Jul 27 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy with scattered showers with
isolated thunderstorms. Hot with highs around 100. Lows in the
mid 70s. South winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
Heat index values up to 110.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 107.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Hot with highs around 100. South winds 10 to
15 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent. Heat index values up to 110.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds
10 to 15 mph, diminishing to around 5 mph after midnight. Heat
index values up to 106 early in the evening.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. Heat
index values up to 105.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s. Heat index
values up to 105.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s. Heat index
values up to 105.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100. Heat index
values up to 110.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. Heat index
values up to 105 early in the evening.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning. Hot with highs around
100.
$$
TXZ197-280900-
Washington-
Including the city of Brenham
142 AM CDT Wed Jul 27 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy with isolated showers and
thunderstorms. Hot with highs around 100. Lows in the mid 70s.
South winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent. Heat index
values up to 105.
.THURSDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. South winds 5 to
10 mph. Heat index values up to 106.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 101. South winds 10 to
15 mph. Heat index values up to 109.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds
10 to 15 mph. Heat index values up to 105 early in the evening.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. Heat
index values up to 105.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s. Heat index
values up to 105.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. Heat index values up
to 105.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning. Hot with highs around
100.
$$
TXZ226-280900-
Wharton-
Including the cities of El Campo and Wharton
142 AM CDT Wed Jul 27 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy with scattered showers with
isolated thunderstorms. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. Lows in
the mid 70s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain
40 percent. Heat index values up to 105.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent. Heat
index values up to 106.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Humid with lows in the upper 70s.
South winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph, diminishing to
around 5 mph after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent. Heat
index values up to 106.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Humid with lows in the upper 70s. South winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph, diminishing to around 5 mph after
midnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s. Heat index
values up to 105.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. Heat
index values up to 105.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s. Heat index
values up to 110.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. Heat index
values up to 105 early in the evening.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning. Hot with highs in the
upper 90s.
$$
TXZ300-280900-
Southern Liberty-
Including the city of Devers
142 AM CDT Wed Jul 27 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy with scattered showers with
isolated thunderstorms. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. Lows in
the upper 70s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. South winds 5 to
10 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent. Heat index values up to 105.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Humid with lows in the upper 70s.
South winds 10 to 15 mph, diminishing to around 5 mph after
midnight.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. South winds 10 to
15 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent. Heat index values up to 106.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Humid with lows in the upper 70s.
South winds 10 to 15 mph, diminishing to around 5 mph after
midnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. Chance of rain
30 percent. Heat index values up to 105.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the mid 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. Chance of rain
30 percent. Heat index values up to 105.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. Heat
index values up to 105.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning. Hot with highs in the
mid 90s.
$$
TXZ313-280900-
Coastal Harris-
Including the cities of Pasadena and Baytown
142 AM CDT Wed Jul 27 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy with scattered showers with
isolated thunderstorms. Humid with highs in the mid 90s. Lows in
the upper 70s. South winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. South winds
10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent. Heat index values up to
107.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Humid with lows around 80. South
winds 10 to 15 mph, diminishing to around 5 mph after midnight.
Heat index values up to 105 early in the evening.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. South winds 10 to
15 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent. Heat index values up to 108.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Humid with lows in the upper 70s.
South winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph, diminishing to
around 5 mph after midnight. Heat index values up to 105 early in
the evening.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. Heat
index values up to 105.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. Heat index values
up to 105.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 80.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. Chance of rain
30 percent. Heat index values up to 105.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 80. Heat index values
up to 105 early in the evening.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. Heat
index values up to 105.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows around 80. Heat index values up to 105 early
in the evening.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning. Hot with highs in the
mid 90s.
$$
TXZ338-280900-
Coastal Galveston-
Including the cities of Texas City, Dickinson, and La Marque
142 AM CDT Wed Jul 27 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy with scattered showers with
isolated thunderstorms. Humid with highs in the lower 90s. Lows
in the upper 70s. South winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain
40 percent. Heat index values up to 105.
.THURSDAY...Sunny with highs in the lower 90s. South winds 10 to
15 mph. Heat index values up to 107.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Humid with lows in the lower 80s.
South winds 10 to 15 mph. Heat index values up to 105 early in
the evening.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the morning. Humid with highs in the lower 90s. South winds 10 to
15 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent. Heat index values up to 106.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Humid with lows in the upper 70s.
South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 80s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 80s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Heat index values
up to 105.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 80s. Heat index
values up to 105 early.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Heat index
values up to 105.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the lower 80s. Heat index values up to
105 early.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning. Highs in the lower 90s.
$$
TXZ337-280900-
Coastal Brazoria-
Including the cities of Lake Jackson, Freeport, and Clute
142 AM CDT Wed Jul 27 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy with scattered showers with
isolated thunderstorms. Humid with highs in the lower 90s. Lows
in the upper 70s. South winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Humid with highs in the lower 90s.
South winds 10 to 15 mph. Heat index values up to 105.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Humid with lows around 80. South
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Humid with highs in the lower 90s. South winds
10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Humid with lows in the upper 70s.
South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 80.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 80s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Heat index values
up to 105.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 80.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Heat index
values up to 105.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny in the morning. Highs in the lower 90s.
$$
TXZ336-280900-
Coastal Matagorda-
Including the city of Palacios
142 AM CDT Wed Jul 27 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy with scattered showers with
isolated thunderstorms. Humid with highs in the lower 90s. Lows
around 80. South winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Humid with highs in the lower 90s.
South winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Humid with lows in the lower 80s. South winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Humid with highs in the lower 90s. South winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Humid with lows in the lower 80s. South winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 80s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 80s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the lower 80s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny in the morning. Highs in the lower 90s.
$$
TXZ335-280900-
Coastal Jackson-
142 AM CDT Wed Jul 27 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Scattered showers with isolated
thunderstorms. Humid with highs in the mid 90s. Lows in the upper
70s. South winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY...Sunny with highs in the lower 90s. South winds 15 to
20 mph. Heat index values up to 106.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Humid with lows around 80.
Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph, becoming south 5 to 10 mph after
midnight.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Humid with highs in the mid 90s. South
winds 15 to 20 mph. Heat index values up to 106.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Humid with lows in the upper 70s. South winds 15 to
20 mph, diminishing to 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 80.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. Heat index values up to
105.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 80s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. Heat index values
up to 105.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 80. Heat index values
up to 105 early in the evening.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. Heat index values up to
105.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows around 80. Heat index values up to 105 early
in the evening.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning. Highs in the mid 90s.
$$
TXZ436-280900-
Matagorda Islands-
142 AM CDT Wed Jul 27 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy with scattered showers with
isolated thunderstorms. Humid with highs in the upper 80s. Lows
in the lower 80s. South winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to
25 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Humid with highs in the upper 80s.
South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Humid. Near steady temperature
in the mid 80s. South winds 15 to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny with highs in the upper 80s. South winds 10 to
15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Humid. Near steady temperature in the mid 80s. South
winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 80s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Near steady temperature in the mid
80s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Near steady temperature in the mid 80s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Near steady temperature in the mid 80s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning. Highs in the upper 80s.
$$
TXZ437-280900-
Brazoria Islands-
Including the city of Surfside Beach
142 AM CDT Wed Jul 27 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy with scattered showers with
isolated thunderstorms. Humid with highs in the upper 80s. Lows
in the lower 80s. South winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.THURSDAY...Sunny with highs in the upper 80s. South winds 10 to
15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Humid with lows in the mid 80s. South winds 10 to
15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the morning. Humid with highs in the upper 80s. South winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Humid with lows in the lower 80s.
South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 80s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 80s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 80s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the mid 80s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny in the morning. Highs in the upper 80s.
$$
TXZ438-280900-
Galveston Island-
Including the city of Galveston
142 AM CDT Wed Jul 27 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy with scattered showers with
isolated thunderstorms. Humid with highs in the lower 90s. Lows
in the mid 80s. South winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain
40 percent. Heat index values up to 105.
.THURSDAY...Sunny with highs in the lower 90s. South winds 10 to
15 mph. Heat index values up to 109.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Humid with lows in the mid 80s. South winds 10 to
15 mph. Heat index values up to 107 early.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the morning. Humid with highs in the lower 90s. South winds 10 to
15 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent. Heat index values up to 109.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Humid with lows in the mid 80s.
South winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Heat index
values up to 107 early.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Heat index
values up to 105.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 80s. Heat index
values up to 105 early.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Heat index values up to
110.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 80s. Heat index
values up to 105 early.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Heat index values
up to 110.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 80s. Heat index
values up to 105 early.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Heat index
values up to 110.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the mid 80s. Heat index values up to
105 early.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning. Highs in the lower 90s.
$$
TXZ439-280900-
Bolivar Peninsula-
142 AM CDT Wed Jul 27 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy with scattered showers with
isolated thunderstorms. Humid with highs in the lower 90s. Lows
in the mid 80s. South winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain
50 percent. Heat index values up to 105.
.THURSDAY...Sunny with highs around 90. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
Heat index values up to 105.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Humid with lows in the lower 80s.
South winds 10 to 15 mph. Heat index values up to 105 early.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the morning. Humid with highs around 90. South winds 10 to
15 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent. Heat index values up to 106.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Humid with lows in the lower 80s.
South winds 10 to 15 mph. Heat index values up to 105 early.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 90.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 80s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Heat index values up to
105.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 80s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Heat index values
up to 105.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 80s. Heat index
values up to 105 early.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 90. Heat index values up to
105.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning. Highs around 90.
$$
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BUSINESS LIVE: Russian exit costs BAT £957m; Rio Tinto profits slide on low iron prices; Lloyds profits dip as bank boosts reserves
The FTSE 100 will open at 8am. Among UK companies with reports and updates are BAT, GSK, Rio Tinto, Reckitt Benckiser, Wizz Air and Lloyds Banking Group. Read the Wednesday 27 July Business Live blog below.
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Richard Hunter, head of markets at interactive investor:
'Despite an increasingly challenging economic backdrop in the UK, Lloyds has made an impressive start to the year on most metrics.
'At the headline level, the reduction in profits can be almost solely attributed to further credit impairment provisions, as the group positions for the potential of credit deterioration.
'This is not yet being seen, with many customers showing some resilience and actually increasing savings, but the provision of £377 million for the half-year compares with a release of £734 million in the corresponding period last year and this £1.1 billion swing has inevitably punched a hole in profits.
'Excluding the provision, underlying profit has increased by 34%, showing the strength of the business model. In particular, net income for the half-year has increased by 12%, including a second-quarter contribution of £4.3 billion against an expected £4.1 billion. For the second quarter, pre-tax profit was virtually flat year on year, but nonetheless came in ahead of expectations.
'Rising interest rates remain low by historical standards, but have made a positive impact, with the Net Interest Margin number rising to almost 2.8%, and Net Interest Income 13% higher. The cost/income ratio remains the one to beat in the sector, currently standing at 51.2% versus 59.2% last year.
'The capital strength and cash generation has also enabled an increase to the dividend, which now stands on a projected yield of 4.9%. quite apart from being a show of confidence by management, the yield is comfortably in excess of the average for the FTSE100 and provides significant attraction to income-starved investors.
'Further investment in the business, especially the Wealth offering, and a determined drive towards a more digital future should lead to higher income and lower costs in due course, and Lloyds continues to make this progress on an incremental basis. In the meantime, the group has upped its guidance for the rest of the year, with notable increases to its Net Interest Margin and return on Tangible Equity projections.
'The share price has struggled to keep pace with this progress, partly given the fact that it is often seen as a barometer of the UK economy. The shares have dropped by 6.5% over the last year, as compared to a gain of 4.4% for the wider FTSE100, although the fact that the bank has increased its guidance should engender stronger confidence, as evidenced by the initial price reaction to the numbers.
'Indeed, and without exception, the market consensus of UK banks is currently positive. Lloyds may no longer be the pick of the bunch given lingering concerns around the state of the UK economy, but the general view of the shares as a buy reflects confidence in the bank’s ability to keep a firm hand on the tiller.”
The merger of a British satellite firm with a French rival faced a backlash last night as a former science minister claimed it handed technology to Europe on the cheap.
London-based OneWeb – which is backed by the UK Government after being rescued by taxpayers from bankruptcy two years ago –agreed to join forces with France’s Eutelsat yesterday.
The deal is expected to be completed by the middle of next year.
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SÃO PAULO, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Zenvia Inc. (NASDAQ: ZENV), the leading cloud-based CX communications platform in Latin America, empowering companies to transform their existing communications with end-customers along their life cycle, has held its first Investor Day event in New York today.
A detailed overview of Zenvia's strategy, market positioning, and long-term growth plans were presented, and while the supporting materials are already available at the Investor Relations website (investors.zenvia.com), the event's full replay will be available within the next 48 hours.
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ZENVIA is driven by the purpose of empowering companies to create unique experiences for customer communications through its unified end-to-end platform. ZENVIA empowers companies to transform their existing customer communications from non-scalable, physical and impersonal interactions into highly scalable, digital-first and hyper-contextualized experiences across the customer journey. ZENVIA's unified end-to-end CX communications platform provides a combination of (i) SaaS focused on campaigns, sales teams, customer service and engagement, (ii) tools, such as software application programming interfaces, or APIs, chatbots, single customer views, journey designers, documents composer and authentication and (iii) channels, such as SMS, Voice, WhatsApp, Instagram and Webchat. Its comprehensive platform assists customers across multiple use cases, including marketing campaigns, customer acquisition, customer onboarding, warnings, customer services, fraud control, cross-selling and customer retention, among others. ZENVIA's shares are traded on Nasdaq, under the ticker ZENV.
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Personal trainer reveals her go-to workout for banishing 'saddle bags' FAST - as she shares the biggest fat burning mistake everyone makes
- Personal trainer Rachael Attard has shared simple moves to get rid of sandbags
- Posting on Instagram she started on all fours and moving one leg out to the side
- Gold Coast based star said you can add ankle weights for an extra challenge
One of Australia's top personal trainers has revealed her go-to workout for banishing 'saddle bags' using a simple series of exercises you can do at home.
Rachael Attard, the Gold Coast-based founder of the Lean Legs Program, shared a video to Instagram showing the five simple moves to target muscle of the outer thigh.
'Do each exercise for 30 seconds and do all exercises on one side before moving to the other. Complete 2-3 rounds in total,' she explained.
She begins by starting on all fours and moving one leg out to the side and back in.
Next, she repeats the move but straightens her leg after pushing it out to the side.
While still on all fours, she moves her knee to her elbow before stretching her leg behind her and straightening her arms so her whole body moves backwards.
She begins by starting on all fours and moving one leg out to the side and back in. Next, she repeats the move but straightens her leg after pushing it out to the side.
For the next move, she straightens her leg out and diagonally behind her, before moving it up and down.
Finally, she straightens her leg behind her before bending it and moving into a lunge position - while her arms are out in the air.
'For extra challenge you can add ankle weights, like I did here, but you can also do this workout without any equipment,' she added.
Thirdly, while still on all fours, she moves her knee to her elbow before stretching her leg behind her and straightening her arms so her whole body moves backwards. For the next move, she straightens her leg out and diagonally behind her, before moving it up and down.
Finally, she straightens her leg behind her before bending it and moving into a lunge position - while her arms are out in the air.
Rachael often shares weight loss and healthy living tips to her Instagram and blog, and recently revealed that high intensity cardio at 100 per cent of your maximum heart rate is not the secret to effective fat burning.
'When you work out, most people think that you need to give the workout all the energy you have and to work out as hard as you can,' Rachael, a sports nutritionist, said.
'However, the fat burning zone theory says that you shouldn't push your body all the way to 100. Instead, you'll burn the most fat when you working at 60 to 70 per cent of your maximum heart rate.'
Doing high intensity cardio at 100 per cent of your heart rate is not the secret to effective fat burning, Rachael said previously
Rachael Attard, the Gold Coast-based founder of the Lean Legs Program, prides herself in helping clients lose extra body fat and weight in the most efficient way; to do this she teaches them the 'fat burning zone'
Rachael explains that fat burning takes place when carbs and fat are turned into energy called adenosine triphosphate (ATP).
The body needs oxygen to convert fat into ATP and when you're doing low to moderate-intensity exercise, you're able to breathe easier so your body gets more oxygen than when you're doing high intensity training.
'The most efficient thing your body can do during lower and moderate forms of exercise is to turn to your stored fat into energy,' she said.
'The most efficient thing your body can do during lower and moderate forms of exercise is to turn to your stored fat into energy,' she said
'So according to the fat burning theory, you should do long low-intensity exercises in order to use up fat storage and to burn enough calories in order to see weight loss.'
Rachael added that during high intensity training the body is more likely to burn carbs (glycogen) rather than fat as it doesn't have enough energy to burn fat.
'When you do a high-intensity workout, your body burns through your glycogen stores and may eventually turn back to fat burning depending on the length of the workout, and your body’s amount of stored carbs,' she added.
'But if you eat before doing a high-intensity workout (and especially if your diet is high in carbs), your body will most probably burn way more carbs than fat.'
'So according to the fat burning theory, you should do long low-intensity exercises in order to use up fat storage and to burn enough calories in order to see weight loss,' she said
This explains why walking is Rachael's top exercise recommendation - and the one she says is the key to lean, toned legs.
'Walking is the best type of exercise for lean legs. It will help get rid of excess fat on your legs and lean them out,' she said previously.
'The longer you exercise, the more fat your body will burn. So, by doing longer power walks, your body will burn more fat and it will help you get lean legs,' she said.
Rachael said she tried 'every single workout under the sun' but found 'nothing is as effective in getting thinner thighs and legs overall as walking'.
'Through my years of working as a PT with girls that had the same goal (specifically to get skinny legs), this has always been the best method,' she added.
Rachael added that a walk first thing in the morning will lead to better results.
'If you do cardio before you eat in the morning you will have less stored glycogen, and your body will, therefore, burn more fat and muscle,' Rachael said.
'Less fat and less muscle size equals slimmer legs but for this to work, you need to eat low carb (try not to eat carbs for dinner the night before so your glycogen levels are already low) and you need to do cardio for a fairly long period of time (over 60-90 minutes).'
Bottom line is there are three main steps to reducing muscle size and sculpting slim, toned legs: learning your body type, doing the right type of cardio (walking) and eating at a slight calorie deficit with low carbs.
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch farmers resumed protests at government plans to reduce nitrogen emissions Wednesday by dumping manure and garbage on highways and setting fires alongside roads.
Traffic authorities said several roads in the central and eastern Netherlands were completely or partially blocked by the early morning blockades and fire services rushed to clear roads as traffic built up.
The latest demonstrations in a summer of discontent came a day after a government-appointed mediator sent invitations to farmers' organizations to discuss with the country's ruling coalition ways of reducing nitrogen emissions.
“I see the talks as a turning point: breaking the deadlock together,” mediator Johan Remkes said. “The cabinet has assured me that there is room and joint solutions are possible.”
Some farmers have rejected the appointment of Remkes as an independent mediator because he is a member of Prime Minister Mark Rutte's center-right political party and a former deputy prime minister.
The farmers are angry at government targets for reining in emissions of nitrogen oxide and ammonia that they say threatens to wreck their agricultural way of life and put them out of business.
The government says emissions of nitrogen oxide and ammonia, which livestock produce, must be drastically reduced close to nature areas that are part of a network of protected habitats for endangered plants and wildlife stretching across the 27-nation European Union.
The ruling coalition wants to cut emissions of pollutants by 50% nationwide by 2030, calling the measure an “unavoidable transition” to improve soil, air and water quality in a nation known for its intensive farming practices. It has called on provincial authorities to draw up plans to reduce emissions and earmarked an extra 24.3 billion euros ($24.6 billion) to fund the changes.
Farmers argue that they are being unfairly targeted while other industries, such as aviation, construction and transport, also are contributing to emissions and face less far-reaching rules. They also say the government is not giving them a clear picture of their futures amid the proposed reforms.
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Did you know it's entirely possible for a rock to come to life? No, we're not talking about the newest season of Stranger Things, your latest nightmare or some Scandinavian tale. Introducing: lithops, or "living stones."
Lithops don't just camouflage well, they also survive with little to no water and can live up to 50 years
Lithops, also known as living stones or pebble plants, are little succulent plants that blend in with rocks to avoid being eaten. They're basically the world's most camouflaged plant and have evolved to look like the pebbles and rocks of their native habitats in southern Africa.
Their deep resemblance to stones also gave them their name, lithops. It derives from the two Greek words, lithos, meaning stone, and opsis, meaning resemblance.
These tiny stone resembling plants consist of two leaves and an almost non-existent stem; the leaves are more or less buried in the soil with only the upper surfaces visible. And their skin is so thick that insects can't eat them.
It's the fleshy part of the plant which absorbs water and nutrients. The leaves do not, which is why they take on a stone-like appearance. They look so much like stones that you wouldn't be able to spot them in a gravel pit. Plus, lithops spread sideways, so one plant can have the appearance of several pairs of stones.
Lithops were first discovered by William John Burchell, an English explorer, in South Africa in 1811. But because of their incredible camouflage abilities, new lithops species continue to be discovered, with the latest discovery as recent as 2006.
So far we know of at least 37 species of lithops and 145 varieties, which come in all different colors and shapes – some look like a pebble, other more like a jellybean. Some are grey, others green or pink.
But they are all tan to brown in direct sunlight to blend into the environment even more. They also have a vast variation in lines, patches, and dots on the upper surface, which help them blend in by hiding most of the leaf surface. Camouflage game: 10 out of 10.
What's also fascinating about these plants is that they survive with little to no water and can live up to 50 years, even in extreme conditions.
Beneath the soil is their stem and fairly long roots. The plants are known to hug the ground and grow extremely slowly.
Lithops only bloom when the sun is shining the brightest; if it’s too dark, they close up their leaves to prevent water loss
It can take up to three years for them to flower. But eventually lithops produce an often sweet-smelling flower that grows out of the fissure between the leaves. Most Lithops flower during fall and early winter. Their flowers are daisy-like yellow, light orange or white. They open at noon when the sun is shining the brightest and close again in the late afternoon.
If it's too dark, they will simply close up their leaves to prevent water loss. And because of this unique ability, they can even survive in deserts as they are able to store water for months.
And they're edible! They actually taste like green pepper. You just have to spot them.
In their natural habitats in Namibia, Botswana, South Africa, and some bordering regions of Angola, lithops blend in so well with the rocky, desert environment that they can be challenging to locate even for people with years of experience.
But once they are spotted, they are often used as a source of food and herbal medicine.
Edited by: Sarah Steffen | https://www.dw.com/en/biodiversity-plants-that-look-like-rocks/a-62528185 | 2022-07-27T07:34:27Z | https://www.dw.com/en/biodiversity-plants-that-look-like-rocks/a-62528185 | false |
TX Amarillo TX Zone Forecast for Tuesday, July 26, 2022
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699 FPUS54 KAMA 270556
ZFPAMA
Zone Forecast Product for The Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles
National Weather Service Amarillo TX
1255 AM CDT Wed Jul 27 2022
TXZ012-017-271200-
Potter-Randall-
Including the cities of Amarillo, Bushland, Buffalo Lake, Canyon,
and Umbarger
1255 AM CDT Wed Jul 27 2022
.OVERNIGHT...Mostly clear with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. West
winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming south in the afternoon. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers
and thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy after
midnight. Lows around 70. South winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Southwest
winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming southeast in the afternoon. Chance
of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 60s. East winds 10 to 15 mph
with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Highs around 90. Lows in the mid 60s. Chance
of rain 50 percent.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the upper 60s. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the upper 60s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 90s.
Lows around 70.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
$$
TXZ317-271200-
Palo Duro Canyon-
Including the city of Palo Duro Canyon State Park
1255 AM CDT Wed Jul 27 2022
.OVERNIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds
around 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs around 102. Southwest winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the lower 70s. South winds
10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 60s. East winds 10 to 15 mph
with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s. Lows in the upper 60s.
Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight
chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 90s. Lows
in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 90s.
Lows in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
$$
TXZ002-271200-
Sherman-
Including the city of Stratford
1255 AM CDT Wed Jul 27 2022
.OVERNIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 60s. Northeast winds around
10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. North winds
10 to 15 mph, becoming east in the afternoon. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 60s. East winds 10 to 15 mph with
gusts up to 25 mph, becoming west around 5 mph after midnight.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the morning, then showers and thunderstorms likely in the
afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. North winds 10 to 15 mph,
becoming northeast in the afternoon. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Thunderstorms likely. Showers likely. Lows in
the lower 60s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to
25 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with showers and
thunderstorms likely. Highs in the mid 80s. Lows in the lower
60s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs around 90. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then mostly cloudy with a slight
chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the
mid 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the mid 60s. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Breezy. Lows in the
upper 60s. Highs in the upper 90s.
$$
TXZ007-271200-
Moore-
Including the cities of Dumas, Four Way, and Masterson
1255 AM CDT Wed Jul 27 2022
.OVERNIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 60s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. North
winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming east 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the upper 60s. Southeast
winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph, becoming southwest
around 5 mph after midnight. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then showers and thunderstorms
likely in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Northwest winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming northeast 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Showers and thunderstorms likely
in the evening, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after
midnight. Lows in the mid 60s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph with
gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the morning, then showers and thunderstorms likely in the
afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms. A
chance of showers. Lows in the lower 60s. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the upper 60s. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 90s. Lows in the mid 60s.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 90s.
Lows in the upper 60s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
$$
TXZ003-271200-
Hansford-
Including the cities of Spearman and Gruver
1255 AM CDT Wed Jul 27 2022
.OVERNIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 60s. Northeast winds 10 to
15 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. Northeast
winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 60s. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph, becoming south around 5 mph after
midnight. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the morning, then showers and thunderstorms likely in the
afternoon. Highs around 90. North winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming
northeast in the afternoon. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Showers and thunderstorms likely. Lows in the
mid 60s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
Chance of rain 70 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the morning, then showers and thunderstorms likely in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Showers and thunderstorms likely
in the evening, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after
midnight. Lows in the lower 60s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs around 90. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then mostly cloudy with a slight
chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the
upper 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 90s. Lows in the mid
60s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s.
Highs in the upper 90s.
$$
TXZ008-271200-
Hutchinson-
Including the city of Borger
1255 AM CDT Wed Jul 27 2022
.OVERNIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs around 101. North winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming east in the afternoon. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows around 70. Southeast winds
10 to 15 mph, becoming south 5 to 10 mph after midnight. Chance
of rain 30 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. West winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming northeast 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to
25 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Showers and thunderstorms likely
in the evening, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after
midnight. Lows in the mid 60s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph with
gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the morning, then showers and thunderstorms likely in the
afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms. A
chance of showers. Lows in the mid 60s. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then mostly cloudy with a slight
chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the
upper 60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 90s. Lows in the
upper 60s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 90s.
Lows in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
$$
TXZ004-271200-
Ochiltree-
Including the cities of Farnsworth, Perryton, Wolf Creek Park,
and Waka
1255 AM CDT Wed Jul 27 2022
.OVERNIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 60s. Northeast winds 10 to
15 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. East
winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 60s. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph, becoming south 5 to 10 mph after
midnight. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms. A
chance of showers. Highs around 90. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph
with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Showers and thunderstorms likely. Lows in the
mid 60s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
Chance of rain 70 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the morning, then showers and thunderstorms likely in the
afternoon. Highs in the lower 80s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 60s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s. Lows in the
upper 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 90s. Lows in the
upper 60s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s.
Highs in the upper 90s.
$$
TXZ009-271200-
Roberts-
Including the cities of Codman, Lora, and Miami
1255 AM CDT Wed Jul 27 2022
.OVERNIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. East winds 10 to 15 mph.
Chance of rain less than 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs around 100. Northwest winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming southeast 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows around 70. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. West winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming northeast 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to
25 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Showers and thunderstorms likely
in the evening, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after
midnight. Lows in the mid 60s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph with
gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s. Lows in the mid 60s.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Highs around 90. Lows in the upper
60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 90s. Lows in the
upper 60s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 90s.
Lows in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
$$
TXZ005-271200-
Lipscomb-
Including the cities of Booker, Higgins, and Follett
1255 AM CDT Wed Jul 27 2022
.OVERNIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. East winds 10 to 15 mph.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. East
winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows around 70. South winds 10 to
15 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms. A
chance of showers. Highs in the lower 90s. Northeast winds 10 to
15 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Thunderstorms likely. Showers likely. Lows in
the mid 60s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to
25 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the morning, then showers and thunderstorms likely in the
afternoon. Highs in the lower 80s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 60s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s. Lows in the
upper 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 90s. Lows in the
upper 60s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
Highs in the upper 90s.
$$
TXZ010-271200-
Hemphill-
Including the cities of Canadian, Glazier, and Lake Marvin
1255 AM CDT Wed Jul 27 2022
.OVERNIGHT...Mostly clear with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds 10 to
15 mph. Chance of rain less than 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs around 100. South winds
10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. South winds 10 to
15 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. West winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming northeast 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to
25 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 60s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph
with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 80s. Lows in the mid 60s.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows
in the upper 60s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
lower 70s. Highs in the mid 90s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
$$
TXZ011-271200-
Oldham-
Including the cities of Vega, Wildorado, and Boys Ranch
1255 AM CDT Wed Jul 27 2022
.OVERNIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows around 70. North winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. North
winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming southeast 10 to 15 mph in the
afternoon. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight.
Lows in the upper 60s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up
to 25 mph, becoming southwest 5 to 10 mph after midnight. Chance
of rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Southwest
winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming southeast 10 to 15 mph in the
afternoon. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Showers and thunderstorms likely
in the evening, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after
midnight. Lows in the mid 60s. East winds 10 to 20 mph. Chance of
rain 70 percent.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s. Lows in the mid 60s.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy with a slight
chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the
upper 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight.
Lows in the upper 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 90s. Lows in the
upper 60s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
$$
TXZ016-271200-
Deaf Smith-
Including the cities of Dawn, Hereford, and Bootleg
1255 AM CDT Wed Jul 27 2022
.OVERNIGHT...Mostly clear with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 60s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. West
winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming south in the afternoon. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers
and thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy after
midnight. Lows in the upper 60s. South winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance
of rain 20 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 60s. East winds 10 to 15 mph with
gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Highs around 90. Lows in the mid 60s. Chance
of rain 50 percent.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the upper 60s. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. 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 chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the mid 60s. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
Highs in the mid 90s.
$$
TXZ013-271200-
Carson-
Including the cities of Panhandle, Pantex, White Deer,
and Skellytown
1255 AM CDT Wed Jul 27 2022
.OVERNIGHT...Mostly clear with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph. Chance of rain less than 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. Southwest
winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows
in the lower 70s. South winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Southwest
winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming northeast in the afternoon. Chance
of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 60s. East winds 10 to 15 mph
with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s. Lows in the mid 60s.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the upper 60s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 90s. Lows in the
upper 60s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 90s.
Lows around 70.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
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TXZ018-271200-
Armstrong-
Including the cities of Claude, Washburn, Wayside, and Goodnight
1255 AM CDT Wed Jul 27 2022
.OVERNIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 10 to
15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 101. Southwest winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the lower 70s. South winds
10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 60s. East winds 10 to 15 mph
with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of
rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the upper 60s. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance
of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 90s. Lows around
70. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Highs around 100. Lows around 70.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 90s.
Lows in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
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TXZ014-271200-
Gray-
Including the cities of Kingsmill and Pampa
1255 AM CDT Wed Jul 27 2022
.OVERNIGHT...Mostly clear with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
Chance of rain less than 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs around 100. Southwest winds
10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the lower 70s. South winds
10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. West winds
10 to 15 mph, becoming east in the afternoon. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 60s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph
with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs around 90. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a
slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the upper
60s. Highs in the upper 90s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 90s.
Lows in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
$$
TXZ019-271200-
Donley-
Including the city of Clarendon
1255 AM CDT Wed Jul 27 2022
.OVERNIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 101. Southwest winds
10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. South
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 60s. Northeast winds 10 to
15 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of
rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the upper 60s. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance
of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s. Lows around
70. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
lower 70s. Highs in the upper 90s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
$$
TXZ015-271200-
Wheeler-
Including the cities of Briscoe, Wheeler, Lela, Shamrock,
and Twitty
1255 AM CDT Wed Jul 27 2022
.OVERNIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 102. South winds 10 to
15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. South
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming south in the afternoon. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 60s. Northeast winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs around 90. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers
and thunderstorms in the evening, then mostly cloudy after
midnight. Lows in the upper 60s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
lower 70s. Highs in the upper 90s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
$$
TXZ020-271200-
Collingsworth-
Including the cities of Lutie, Wellington, Dozier, and Samnorwood
1255 AM CDT Wed Jul 27 2022
.OVERNIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 103. South winds 10 to
15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. South
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Highs around 100. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
Chance of rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 60s. Northeast winds 10 to
15 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s. Lows in the upper 60s.
Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance
of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 90s. Lows around
70. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs around 100.
Lows in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 100.
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BERLIN (AP) — More than 1,000 Lufthansa flights were canceled Wednesday because of a one-day strike by the airline’s German ground staff, affecting tens of thousands of passengers in the latest travel turmoil to hit Europe.
About 134,000 passengers had to change their travel plans or cancel them altogether. At least 47 connections had already been canceled on Tuesday, German news agency dpa reported.
Lufthansa’s main hubs in Frankfurt and Munich were most affected, but flights were also canceled in Duesseldorf, Hamburg, Berlin, Bremen, Hannover, Stuttgart and Cologne.
The airline advised affected passengers not to come to the airports because most of the counters there would not be staffed anyway.
Lufthansa spokesman Martin Leutke criticized the strikes as harmful.
“People who wanted to travel, who planned vacations for a long time, who waited for vacations, had these vacation dreams unfortunately postponed … maybe even destroyed by the strike,” Leutke told reporters in Frankfurt. “This strike is completely unnecessary, it is also completely exaggerated.”
At Frankfurt airport, 725 of 1,160 scheduled flights were canceled for the day, according to a spokesman for airport operator Fraport. Flights operated by other airlines, which are usually supported by Lufthansa ground staff, were also affected, dpa reported. Lufthansa itself had given the number of 646 strike-related flight cancellations for Wednesday.
The ver.di service workers’ union announced the strike on Monday as it seeks to raise pressure on Lufthansa in negotiations on pay for about 20,000 employees of logistical, technical and cargo subsidiaries of the airline.
The walkout comes at a time when airports in Germany and across Europe already are seeing disruption and long lines for security checks because of staff shortages and soaring travel demand.
As inflation soars, strikes for higher pay by airport crews in France and Scandinavian Airlines pilots in Sweden, Norway and Denmark have deepened the chaos for travelers who have faced last-minute cancellations, lengthy delays, lost luggage or long waits for bags in airports across Europe.
Travel is booming this summer after two years of COVID-19 restrictions, swamping airlines and airports that don’t have enough workers after pandemic-era layoffs. Airports like London’s Heathrow and Amsterdam’s Schiphol have limited daily flights or passenger numbers.
The Lufthansa strike started early Wednesday at 3:45 a.m. local time and is set to end early Thursday. Such “warning strikes” are a common tactic in German labor negotiations and typically last from several hours to a day or two.
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'This is history' - England Women have achieved goal to 'inspire the nation' after reaching Euros final, says Wiegman
England manager Sarina Wiegman feels that her troops have created "history" after reaching the Euro 2022 final while achieving their pre-tournament goal to "inspire the nation". The Lionesses outclassed Sweden 4-0 at Bramall Lane to reach their first major final since 2009.
Beth Mead, Lucy Bronze, Alessia Russo and Fran Kirby were on target for the hosts to cap off a stunning victory against the second-ranked side in the world.
What did Sarina Weigman say about her triumphant Lionesses?
Wiegman was ecstatic after the win as England will now have a shot at the European Championship trophy against either Germany or France on July 31 at Wembley. She thinks that the convincing victory at such a crucial stage of the tournament will not only be an inspiration to the country but also a statement to their main rivals.
"We said before the tournament and throughout that, we want to inspire the nation, I think that's what we're doing and making a difference. The whole country is proud of us and even more girls and boys will want to play football," she stated after the win.
"We have confidence in this team, our players stay calm and stick with the plan. We spoke about scenarios and sometimes things go well and sometimes things don't. We can count on each other and our task and then come back into the team. "You [asked] are you ready to write history. This is history."
England extended their unbeaten run to 19 games under Wiegman with their triumph over Sweden.
"When you come in, you hope things will go well and you connect with the staff, the FA and then the players and it all works," she added.
"From the beginning, there was a click and you can tell. It takes hard work too, but you feel the energy and people believe in how we want to work. We ask players how they feel and their experience.
"The results have been good and very nice. We made it to the final but we know how tight the game against Spain was. It's nice and I hope we can do it even better on Sunday."
Wiegman hails Russo's 'courage'
Substitute Russo's individual brilliance came to the forefront for England's third goal. Her initial shot was saved by Sweden's keeper Hedvig Lindahl. But she latched on to the rebound and produced an instinctive back heel which nutmegged the keeper to score one of the finest goals of the tournament.
"She came on and impacted the game again very well. She had so much courage to do such an unpredictable and phenomenal thing like that. It was nice to watch, then it was 3-0 and we wanted to finish the game," Wiegman said of Russo's contribution.
Russo's performance has given the manager a selection headache and she hinted that the player might get to start in the final.
"She could start, but I think the starting team that has started has done well too. We'll see how we go from here," said the Dutch tactician.
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- Geek+ delivers four types of autonomous mobile robots in Siemens Switchgear's Shanghai warehouse to create end-to-end system.
- New robots power Siemens Switchgear's Plan For Every Part (PFEP) logistics model, which fully automates both picking and production line distribution.
SHANGHAI, July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Geekplus, the global leader in autonomous mobile robots, has expanded collaboration with electronic components manufacturer Siemens Switchgear Ltd., Shanghai with the second phase of a smart manufacturing automation project. The expansion introduces more of Geekplus's goods-to-person picking and materials handling robots to the multi-robot configuration and opens up a further 3000m2 of automated warehousing space. The system achieved a delivery accuracy rate of 100%, with materials accuracy of over 99.98% in the production line.
Siemens Switchgear Ltd., Shanghai first joined forces with Geekplus in 2019 and successfully built a full-process flexible automated intelligent logistics factory using four types of Geekplus robots: P800R goods-to-person picking robots, MP1000R moving robots, RS2 tote-to-person robots, and X-series four-way shuttles for high-density storage. The entire manufacturing process is now automated with robots, from inbound receiving, to in-store stock management, outbound stock collection, and production line delivery.
Junzhe Yang, Vice President of China Region at Geekplus, said: "We are very proud of this end-to-end automation success with Siemens Switchgear Ltd., Shanghai. The company makes cutting-edge electronics technology, and Geekplus uses robotics technology to power their operations. The result is a beautiful example of how well smart intralogistics can function."
With the growth of Siemens Switchgear's business, new demands for storage capacity, material informatization, distribution timeliness, and accuracy have arisen. The implementation of a Plan For Every Part (PFEP) logistics model is a key step for Siemens Switchgear Ltd., Shanghai to react to this new reality. Entrusting the running of the site to Geekplus's smart technology and sophisticated software provides the 360° inventory oversight that this strategy requires. Geekplus has created a fully automated, flexible, multi-robot solution that represents a breathrough in intelligent manufacturing.
In this second phase of the project, Geekplus added more MP1000R moving robots equipped with laser-guided simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) capabilities to the production line without interrupting operations. Managed by Geekplus's warehouse management system, these robots autonomously carry out on-time delivery of raw materials to where they are needed in the production line. This precise matching of required materials and delivery times reduces line side warehouse space requirements by half and yields a material handling accuracy rate of over 99.98%.
In realizing this expansion, Geekplus engineers listened to Siemens Switchgear's experiences with the first-phase configuration. To better meet the client's needs, the Geekplus team optimized the paths layout of the four-way shuttle storage system and the layout of the picking workstations. The outbound throughput rate has increased from 500 pallets per day to 1000 pallets per day. They also added a steel platform to create a second storage level operated by the original P800R fleet, with a new cluster of P800Rs equipped with square pallet docking with low-level hoists in the materials receiving area on the ground floor. These additions, along with more MP1000R moving robots, have been seamlessly integrated into Siemens Switchgear's fully automated facility and freed up an additional 3000m2 of storage space.
Geekplus and Siemens Switchgear Ltd., Shanghai will further deepen their cooperation, expand application scenarios, explore innovative solutions, and continue to lead the intelligent transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry.
About Geek+
Geek+ is a global technology company leading the intelligent logistics revolution. We apply advanced robotics and AI technologies to realize flexible, reliable, and highly efficient solutions for warehouses and supply chain management. Geek+ is trusted by over 500 global industry leaders and has been recognized as the world leader in autonomous mobile robots. Founded in 2015, Geek+ has over 1500 employees, with offices in Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States, Japan, South Korea, Mainland China, Hong Kong SAR, and Singapore.
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DOUALA, Cameroon (AP) — Off the coast of West Africa, the Trondheim is a familiar sight: a soccer field-sized ship, plying the waters from Nigeria to Mauritania as it pulls in tons of mackerel and sardines — and flying the red, yellow and green flag of Cameroon.
But aside from the flag, there is almost nothing about the Trondheim that is Cameroonian.
Once, it operated under the name of the King Fisher and sailed under the flag of the Caribbean nation St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Then it switched to Georgia, the former Soviet republic. It was only in 2019 that it began flying the banner of Cameroon.
The Trondheim is one of several vessels reflagged under Cameroon’s growing fishing fleet that have changed names and been accused of illicit activities at sea. Currently, an investigation by The Associated Press found, 14 of these vessels are owned or managed by companies based in European Union member states: Belgium, Malta, Latvia and Cyprus.
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The AP examined over 80 ship profiles on MarineTraffic, a maritime analytics provider, and matched them with company records through IHS Maritime & Trade and the International Maritime Organization or IMO.
“They’re interested in the flag. They’re not interested in Cameroon,” said Beatrice Gorez, coordinator for the Coalition for Fair Fisheries Arrangements, a group of organizations highlighting the impacts of EU-African fisheries arrangements that identified the recent connection between companies in EU member states and the Cameroon fleet.
Each of the vessels changed flags to Cameroon between 2019 and 2021, though they had no obvious link to the country and did not fish in its waters. The Trondheim and at least five others have a history of illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing, according to a report by the environmental group Greenpeace. Both the vessels and their owners conceal what they catch, where it goes and who is financially benefiting from it, maritime and company records show.
In recent years, Cameroon has emerged as one of several go-to countries for the widely criticized “flags of convenience” system, under which companies can — for a fee — register their ships in a foreign country even though there is no link between the vessel and the nation whose flag it flies.
The ships are supposed to abide by that nation’s fishing agreements with other countries. But experts say weak oversight and enforcement of fishing fleets by countries with open registries like Cameroon offer shipping companies a veil of secrecy that allows them to mask their operations.
That secrecy, the experts say, also undermines global attempts to sustainably manage fisheries and threatens the livelihoods of millions of people in regions like West Africa. Cameroonian officials say all the ships that fly its flag are legally registered and abide by all of its laws. But regulators in Europe recently warned the country that its inability to provide oversight of its fishing fleet could lead to a ban on fish from the country.
Cameroon’s flagged fishing fleet is minuscule compared to countries such as Liberia, Panama or the Marshall Islands. But the rapid adoption of the country’s flag by some shipping companies accused of illegal fishing is raising alarm.
“This is a big issue,” said Aristide Takoukam, a biologist and founder of the African Marine Mammal Conservation Organization, a non-profit based in Cameroon that monitors illegal fishing. “I don’t think Cameroon is able to monitor these vessels that are flying Cameroon flags outside its waters.”
A HISTORY OF LAX OVERSIGHT
Cameroon has long been criticized for lax oversight of its fishing fleet. A study published last year in the journal African Security documented deep-rooted corruption in the ministries that oversee the fishing industry. In that same year, the European Commission issued a “yellow card” to the country, warning it to step up its actions against illegal fishing.
The commission identified a series of shortcomings, including that the country had registered several fishing vessels — some of them accused of illegal fishing — under its flag in the past few years, raising concerns about the nation’s ability to control and monitor the activities of its fleet.
If Cameroon does not comply after its initial warning, the commission can issue a “red card,” effectively listing them as a non-cooperating country. And it can ban their fish products from entering EU markets.
The commission’s report named a dozen fishing vessels registered between 2019 and 2020 whose names were not provided to them by Cameroonian authorities. At least eight of the 12 identified vessels are managed or owned by European companies. The AP found six more vessels not included in the EU report.
The European Commission did not respond to the AP’s requests for comment.
Data from two maritime intelligence companies, Windward and Lloyd’s List Intelligence, reveals an accelerated growth in the number of vessels that sail under the Cameroonian flag in the past four years, from 14 vessels in 2018 to more than 129 in 2022. According to the Environmental Justice Foundation, Cameroon’s fishing capacity is now nine times larger than it was before 2018.
While the number of flagged ships has grown, the resources to monitor them have not kept pace, a review of budget documents show. The documents show that the budget for the Ministry of Livestock, Fisheries and Animal Industries’ control and supervision of fisheries declined 32 percent from 2019 to last year.
While countries have a right to allow vessels to adopt their nationality and fly their flag, Article 91 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea requires a “genuine link” to be established between a vessel and its flag state.
Despite this, foreign vessels in countries with open registries often have little to no relationship with their flag states. The responsibility falls on the flagged country to control operations of the vessels in their fleet, including any illegal activity caused in other nations’ waters or on the high seas.
“The very point of flags of convenience is that it’s easy, it’s cheap, you can do it quickly, and they are not necessarily looking at your history of compliance,” said Julien Daudu, senior campaigner at the Environmental Justice Foundation, a British NGO focusing on environmental and human rights issues.
Paul Nkesi, a representative of the agency that oversees fisheries, the Ministry of Livestock, Fisheries and Animal Industries, says that although the government recognizes the need to step up its surveillance of industrial trawlers, all vessels are registered lawfully in Cameroon.
All of the 14 EU-linked vessels registered to Cameroon are massive trawler ships at least 100 meters long; none operate in Cameroonian waters. Tracking data show the ships journeying between ports in Mauritania, Angola, South Africa, and Namibia.
Still, for the local fishermen who already compete with the Chinese-owned vessels in their waters, the pressure of a growing fleet is creating concerns that Cameroon will be completely overpowered by foreign-owned vessels.
“Their business is only fishing; they can fish more than 1,000 local boats. If those bigger (international) vessels enter here, we’ll be really affected,” said Simeon Oviri, a local fisherman in Youpwe, a coastal area near Douala, Cameroon’s largest city.
Maurice Beseng, a research associate at the University of Sheffield’s Institute for Sustainable Development and visiting fellow in maritime security at Coventry University, said ships operating the flags of convenience appear to be using the system to circumvent the limits on fishing imposed by the European Union.
DIFFERING SETS OF RULES
The EU has fishing agreements with numerous countries, and EU-flagged vessels are subject to stricter fishing restrictions around the world, including in West Africa. But ships flagged to other countries outside the union are not subject to the same fishing limits.
For example, data from Global Fishing Watch, which uses satellite data and machine learning to monitor activity at sea, shows most of the EU-affiliated, Cameroonian-flagged trawlers appear to be fishing in Mauritania, a country that has one of the most robust fishing agreements with the EU.
Under this agreement, trawlers fishing with an EU flag have a total fishing capacity of 225,000 tons for a maximum of 19 vessels. Once that quota is met, all fishing activity has to stop.
But foreign vessels not under any agreement can fish in Mauritania under a free license. For the Cameroon-flagged trawlers, this means they can go above the EU limit without having to land their catches in Mauritania.
The same goes for Gambia, where industrial fishing vessels flagged to Cameroon may fish for any species outside the 7-mile nautical limit. However, if the vessel is flagged to an EU member state, the vessel can only fish for tuna and hake, according to current sustainable fisheries partnership agreements between the small West African country and the EU.
“They are able to use that as a loophole to go beyond the agreements,” said Charles Kilgour, director of fisheries analysis for Global Fishing Watch.
The trawler vessels catch small fish species, including horse mackerel, sardinella and anchovy, which recent stock assessments have shown are overfished along the Atlantic coast of West Africa.
These species are a lucrative and vital food source across the region, with an estimated 6.7 million people dependent directly on them. Sardinella in particular are locally consumed in the region as an affordable source of protein and nutrients. Currently, the Food and Agriculture Organization lists most of the targeted species as either fully exploited or overexploited.
Although it’s unclear where the fish goes after being unloaded in ports, Beseng notes that the fish targeted by these vessels commonly enter EU markets to be used as fish meal and fish oil.
“Their impact is huge. These are species that the local population depend on,” Beseng said. “The increase in catch has increased food security challenges for coastal communities.”
While environmental and maritime security experts applauded the EU for issuing the yellow card to Cameroon for the lax oversight of its fishing fleet, they say not enough is being done to target the EU-based companies that are the culprits.
“If you have European companies that are working under this flag,” Daudu said, “you should also demonstrate exemplary behavior by going after your own nationals.”
But just finding the trail can be a daunting — and sometimes insurmountable — challenge. “It’s really like an ink bottle. You can get so far, and then at some point it becomes completely opaque,” Gorez said. “It makes it really difficult to find information on who owns these vessels.”
THE COMPANIES
The AP tracked the 14 vessels ultimately to four active companies: Ocean Whale Co. Ltd in Malta, INOK NV in Belgium, Sundborn Management Ltd in Cyprus and Baltreids SIA in Latvia.
— Ocean Whale operates several former Soviet trawlers, including a ship formerly known as the Coral that has changed the flag under which it operates seven times since 2005. Recently, it switched to the Cameroon flag after two months under the Russian flag.
Other ships in the company’s fleet were involved in a 2010-12 fishing license scandal in Senegal. Under an agreement that was neither allowed by law nor publicly disclosed, the fisheries ministry granted several of its vessels licenses to catch small fish that were in danger of being overfished. The company and the minister denied wrongdoing.
The company did not respond to the AP’s requests for comment.
On its website, the Ocean Whale Co. said it catches fish in Mauritania, Guinea-Bissau, Angola, Namibia, and that “the company is only engaged in legal fishing activities under the licenses issued by the coastal States and strictly adheres to all applicable environmental regulations.”
— Another group of ships registered to EU companies and recently flagged to Cameroon were also named in the Senegalese fishing scandal. Data from the IMO, the Maritime & Trade database and the Russian maritime register of shipping identifies the fleet’s owners as various companies in Cyprus and Belgium, with each ultimately managed by Sundborn Management Ltd, a company registered in Cyprus and INOK NV, a company registered in Belgium.
Both INOK and Sundborn Management offer vessel registration services. Among them: choosing a “flag of convenience and a ship register for a vessel,” in Malta, Cyprus, Panama, Belize and other countries.
Neither company responded to requests for comments from the AP.
Belgium’s Department of Agriculture and Fisheries said it has been contacted by the European Commission about vessels managed by INOK that have reflagged to Cameroon between 2019 and 2020 but said it couldn’t comment on ongoing investigations.
— Baltreids Ltd, a Latvian fishing company established in 1998, manages five Cameroon-flagged vessels. The company structure includes two other holdings listed as official owners of the vessels in 2021, Limmat Inter SA, based in the Seychelles, and Oceanic Fisheries NB Ltd, based in Canada.
Baltreids has been accused of a number of suspicious activities, including insurance fraud and illegal fishing in the Atlantic Ocean. A 2020 Canadian Broadcasting Corp. investigation found that Oceanic Fisheries N.B., was flagged by global banks for more than $31 million in suspicious money transfers, according to documents shared with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and other news organizations as part of the FinCEN Files.
When trying to track down a physical presence of the company in Canada, the CBC hit a dead end.
The Latvian IUU Single Liaison Office, the team that works with the EU Commission to regulate IUU fishing in Latvia, told the AP that the Marshal Vasilevskiy was excluded from the Latvian Ship Register in November 2019, when the ship reflagged to Cameroon, and the Kaptian Rusak was never registered under the Latvian flag. Instead, the vessel is listed as owned by Fishing Company SA, a company based in the British Virgin Islands.
IMO data lists ownership of the five Cameroon-flagged vessels owned by either Baltreids Ltd, Limmat Inter SA or Oceanic Fisheries NB Ltd, effective between 2019 and 2021. The New Brunswick corporate register indicates that Oceanic Fisheries N.B. has been inactive since October 2021.
Baltreids denied ever having links to Oceanic Fisheries N.B. or to engaging in any illegal fishing or money laundering to the CBC. In response to the AP, the company said it presently owns two vessels registered in Latvia.
UPPING THE ACCOUNTABILITY
According to Gorez, the timing of the ships’ reflagging to Cameroon in recent years seem to correspond with the 2017 adoption of the Sustainable Management of External Fishing Fleets , a regulation adopted by the European Parliament aimed to monitor EU vessels that operate outside EU waters.
The regulation requires fishing vessels to provide information regarding their operations’ sustainability and legality before their EU member state can issue them an authorization to fish in the waters of third countries.
“This regulation is really trying to catch these guys, but as soon as it becomes too complicated, then the easy way out is to change the flag,” Gorez said. “It’s like when you try to catch soap with your hands. It slips and goes somewhere else.”
Since 2010, the EU has incorporated other provisions to make its nationals more accountable for fisheries operations, regardless of country or vessel flags — most notably by penalizing EU nationals who engage in or support illegal or unregulated fishing anywhere in the world, under any flag.
But it’s up to the member states to address the issue. Gorez says the states involved in this matter — Latvia, Malta, Belgium and Cyprus — have so far shown little interest.
“We can see the duplicity of the EU in terms of their effort to fight IUU fishing. They’ve come up with good regulations, but when you go deep into how this is implemented in practice, you see that there are a lot of loopholes,” Beseng said.
Part of the SMEFF regulation is to maintain a database including information on the beneficial owners of operations by vessels flagged in an EU member state. As of now, the information remains confidential.
“How can you expect an official in a remote country that sees a vessel coming to be able to easily retrace the whole history of the vessel by himself if the former flag state does not put that information online?” said Daudu. “It would cost a lot of time. It would take a lot of verification. Sometimes it’s so well concealed that you can’t even find information.”
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BEIJING, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- It has been one year since "Quanzhou: Emporium of the World in Song-Yuan China" was added to the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage List, and Quanzhou, a coastal city in east China's Fujian Province, has made great efforts throughout the year to build itself into a model in world heritage site protection and utilization.
Quanzhou was one of the world's largest ports along the historic Maritime Silk Road, particularly in ancient China's Song Dynasty (960-1279) and Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368). The "Quanzhou: Emporium of the World in Song-Yuan China" serial property includes 22 sites of administrative buildings and structures, religious buildings, and statues.
Over the year, to strengthen the protection and utilization of cultural heritages, the city has made a lot of efforts.
At the beginning of the year, Quanzhou issued the "Quanzhou: Emporium of the World in Song-Yuan China" world heritage protection and management measures. The Quanzhou historical and cultural city protection regulations was also formally implemented this year, providing legal support for long-term and sound protection and utilization of world heritages.
The city has also built an information management platform for immovable cultural relics and set up a "legal protection base for cultural heritages".
"Successful application for the world heritage is not the end, but a new starting point," said Tang Hongjie, head of the Quanzhou Cultural Relics and Archaeology Research Institute, noting that long-term and sustained archaeological work is necessary for protecting and utilizing world heritages, publicizing and demonstrating their value, and telling the stories of China.
By taking the opportunity of winning UNESCO World Cultural Heritage status, Quanzhou has given priority to the construction of provincial archaeological site parks. Besides, it has preliminarily formed the 2021-2035 Quanzhou world cultural heritage archaeological research plan.
To bring cultural relics to life, Quanzhou has built various exhibition halls featuring immersive experience at the heritage sites, helping the audience understand the heritage stories and the history of Quanzhou with the unique language of the exhibits.
The city has also leveraged short-video platforms and other social media platforms to display Quanzhou from tourism, cultural creation, explanation and other dimensions. Celebrities in the local culture and art circles also contribute greatly to the promotion of Quanzhou.
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July 27 — Malaysia is notorious for coming up with the most stupendous plans but fumbles when it comes to execution. Beautiful blueprints and reams of colourful charts of project proposals often fail to translate into reality precisely because not enough thought has gone into the nuts and bolts of making things work.
We’d do better if we can model our ideas against best practices of other countries (hence the popularity of lawatan sambil belajar among technocrats and policy-makers). But if asked to re-invent the wheel, those who’ve been around long enough know that a major mis-step in execution is not a matter of if, but when.
Take the Health Ministry’s ambitious Generational End Game (GEG) project to curb the smoking habit. It’s no doubt a noble undertaking as the health hazards of smoking are well-documented.
But for a plan as ambitious as this, Malaysia is practically flying blind, save for reference to New Zealand, the first country to introduce a law to create a smoke-free generation. The bill was tabled in its Parliament this week.
Coming up with a law is one thing, and executing it is another. And by the looks of it, Malaysia is ill-prepared not just in the latter, but quite possibly the former too. For example, Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin this week announced that under the Bill, which was tabled in Parliament today, tobacco, tobacco products and its alternatives like vape cannot be sold to those born starting 2007. Under GEG’s initial proposal, the ban was to start among those born starting 2005.
That the minister has to announce the delay by two years, literally hours before the Bill will see the light of day in the legislature, does not inspire confidence. It also raises alarming questions about just how prepared the Ministry is in rolling out GEG, considering that Khairy first mooted the idea in January and the Bill is set to be tabled next week.
Is seven months enough for a bill as bold as this to pass muster? Has enough engagement been made with the relevant stakeholders like health experts, the local council, coffeeshop owners, the police, schools, the Customs, tobacco companies and even smokers themselves?
Based on the hue and cry from these stakeholders, it would appear that MoH did not do enough to harvest feedback from the stakeholders. In fact, one can be forgiven for thinking that the bill was cobbled together in a rushed fashion that typifies poorly thought-out Malaysian projects waiting to implode.
It’s not just stakeholders having doubts about MoH’s readiness in GEG. Even MPs have reservations. In a poll conducted by health portal Code Blue on 40 federal lawmakers, only 12 said they would vote for the Tobacco and Smoking Control Bill.
Even Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim called on the government not to bulldoze the legislation.
The reasons for the reservations of these MPs are arguments we are already quite familiar with: poor enforcement, flourishing black market, loss of revenue to government, being denied access to tobacco replacement therapy and impact on small businesses, just to cite a few.
For example, take the penalty for individuals and businesses found selling cigarettes to those born in and after 2007. Offenders are liable to a minimum fine of RM20,000 and up to RM300,000 for the first offence. That’s a colossal amount for small-time coffeeshop owners. Many will go bust if asked to fork out the sum. Were these operators consulted before?
There’s really no need to rush things through. If we can’t even effectively implement the ban on smoking in eateries, how can we possibly execute an even more ambitious plan to introduce a generational ban on smoking, that has not yet been done anywhere else in the world?
At the risk of coming across as a tobacco advocate, I wish to clearly state that I am all for curbing smoking for health reasons. What I am against is a rushed job that is not properly thought out, which can blow up in our face in time to come.
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- Released consolidated financial position of the company based on its full acquisition of Samsung Bioepis completed on April 20, 2022
- Achieved record-high semi-annual revenue exceeding KRW 1 trillion
- Recorded Q2'22 revenue of KRW 503.7 billion for the company's CDMO business
- Recorded Q2'22 revenue of KRW 232.8 billion for Samsung Bioepis's biosimilars business
- Business operations remain stable with expanded base for future growth
INCHEON, South Korea, July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Samsung Biologics (KRX: 207940.KS), the world's leading contract development and manufacturing organization, today announced strong financial results for the second quarter of fiscal year 2022.
John Rim, CEO of Samsung Biologics, stated, "Samsung Biologics delivered another strong quarterly performance ahead of our guidance with our revenue exceeding KRW 1 trillion for the first half of the year. Operations are seamless across all our plants, and the partial completion of Plant 4 is just around the corner, scheduled to commence operations in October this year. We completed a deal to fully acquire Samsung Bioepis, expanding and diversifying our revenue base and business portfolio. More recently, we have officially signed an agreement to purchase land for Bio campus II. All these factors signal that we have a strong momentum going, and that we are well on track in our expansion plans to serve the increasing market demands."
SECOND QUARTER 2022 RESULTS
Samsung Biologics demonstrated strong operational excellence and business agility in the second quarter with earnings exceeding initial projections.
Reporting under the consolidated approach for the first time since the acquisition in April, Samsung Biologics and Samsung Bioepis in the second fiscal quarter recorded a revenue of KRW 651.4 billion, operating profit of KRW 169.7 billion, and net profit of KRW 152 billion with EBITDA margin of 39.7%.
On a standalone basis, the second quarter 2022 revenue for Samsung Biologics was KRW 503.7 billion, an increase of 22.2% from KRW 412.2 billion reported for the second quarter in the previous year, due to efficiency in operations despite a scheduled slow-down of Plant 2, and attributable to the expansion of product sales.
Samsung Biologics also reported an operating profit of KRW 171.9 billion, 3.18% higher than the prior-year period, and a net profit of KRW 101.8 billion with an operating profit margin of 34.1% for the same quarter.
On a standalone basis, Samsung Bioepis earned KRW 232.8 billion in revenue, 24.2% higher than the prior-year period attributable to the increase in sales of its biosimilar products in global markets including the US and Europe. Samsung Bioepis's operating profit increased significantly by 95.7% compared to the prior-year period, at KRW 58.5 billion.
FISCAL YEAR 2022 OUTLOOK
The construction of Samsung Biologics Plant 4 is on schedule with 6 X 10KL production capacity expected to commence operations in October. The company has secured a number of large scale manufacturing contracts with active presales activities for Plant 4, and at the close of Q2, in the first half of 2022 alone, the company had secured over USD 7.9 billion in sales backlog including deals with Janssen, Merck, GSK, Lilly, and Novartis to name a few.
Earlier this month, Samsung Biologics secured additional land sized at 357,366 ㎡ and approximately 30% larger than its current site, to support the build out of its second campus. At the newly acquired site, the company will host additional large-scale manufacturing facilities as well as an open innovation facility.
Samsung Biologics also published its second annual ESG Report this month, reflecting the company's latest sustainability efforts to address a wide range of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) activities related to its business. The company aims to build an eco-friendly business environment and achieve net zero GHG emissions in its operations, and continue to enhance its social contribution activities that strive to support the health of its local communities.
Samsung Bioepis has a total of six biosimilar products approved and commercially available in different markets[1], and its revenue has steadily grown driven by increases in global product sales and milestone payments.
Of the six products, SB4, a biosimilar to Enbrel (etanercept), which was launched in Europe in 2016, has surpassed its originator's sales in Europe by overtaking the majority of the market share, and the company recently launched SB11, a biosimilar to Lucentis (ranibizumab), in June 2022 in the US. With four additional biosimilar candidates in late stage development, Samsung Bioepis is solidifying its position as a leading company in the biosimilars industry.
For more details on performance and financials, please refer to the Earnings Release.
About Samsung Biologics Co., Ltd.
Samsung Biologics (KRX: 207940.KS) is a fully integrated CDMO offering state-of-the-art contract development and manufacturing services. With proven regulatory approvals, the largest capacity, and the fastest throughput, Samsung Biologics is an award-winning partner of choice and is uniquely able to support the development and manufacturing of biologics products at every stage of the process while meeting the evolving needs of biopharmaceutical companies worldwide. For more information, visit samsungbiologics.com.
[1] The number of launched products varies by countries.
Samsung Biologics Contact:
Claire Kim
Senior Director of Global Marketing Communications
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CT Albany NY Zone Forecast for Tuesday, July 26, 2022
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.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
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Some thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall in the afternoon.
Humid with highs in the lower 80s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
Chance of rain 60 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Humid with lows in the mid 60s. West
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.FRIDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. A chance of
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Humid with highs in the upper 70s.
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.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
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.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the lower 80s.
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.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
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.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Hot with highs in the mid 80s. South winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of
rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Humid with lows in the upper 60s.
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.FRIDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then becoming mostly cloudy.
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If you follow comedian and writer Alison Leiby or pastry chef Natasha Pickowicz on Instagram, you've seen it: A sandwich fat as a softball, an explosion of green leaves and sprouts, with a stripe of beige (usually turkey and cheese), a few slices of avocado, and maybe some cucumber or something else with lots of crunch. It's a salad in sandwich form, and it's a signature of their long-lasting friendship.
It was late summer 2002 at Cornell University when the two first met on their way to a crew event. "Rowing brought us together, but after that one conversation, I just knew, OK, this person is going to be one of my best friends," Leiby says.
A year later, when they were both unceremoniously cut from Cornell's rowing team, they soon realized they had a lot more in common than a desire to speed through water at a steady clip. They shared a major (English), an itch to compare "mundane" details of their lives ("We always know what the other person is having for every meal of every day," Pickowicz says), and a sandwich style.
They started meeting up for lunch at a campus cafe called Cascadeli, where the sandwiches were big, thick, full of crunchy vegetables and wrapped in white butcher paper before being sliced in half. "It was the kind of sandwich where you could have half for lunch, and it would stay nice and crisp so you could have the other half for dinner," Pickowicz says.
The two share a dislike for soggy sandwiches, sandwich spreads — "we are not mayonnaise or mustard people," Leiby says — bread that's too strongly flavored or textured, and sandwiches with too much meat and cheese.
These sandwich preferences helped strengthen their relationship over the years. From freshman year on, they'd make their ideal sandwich — a bit of thinly sliced turkey, a little cheese, ripe avocado and a mountain of greens — in dorm and group house kitchens. After college, they both eventually ended up in New York, and kept the sandwich tradition alive in tiny apartment kitchens, always sharing photos and notes on where to get the "good turkey" and the "right bread."
Today, they meet for picnics on the beach or in the park, in a backyard or on a rooftop to share food, and often it's this sandwich, the Friendship Sandwich, that's the star of the menu. When they're apart, they share photos of their sandwiches with each other. Pickowicz even has a photo album on her phone called "friendship sandwich."
"I always know if Natasha is making anything, but especially a sandwich, I'm going to like it," Leiby says, "It's just our style."
Today, almost 20 years to the day since they first met, the sandwich keeps them close. The two both frequently travel for work and life. When they're on the road, the sandwich makes appearances on Instagram, with each of them tagging the other in photos and Instagram stories of it, letting the world get a little taste of their friendship, too.
Like a relationship that you need to tend to, this is a sandwich that requires care. It only contains a few ingredients, so the texture and flavor of each matters. Look for roasted turkey that hasn't been soaked in a salt solution. Seek out soft rye or semolina bread, so you don't have to struggle to take the first bite. Layer on the freshest arugula or lettuce, for maximum crunch. Don't skimp on the avocado, so the sandwich has just a touch of creaminess. Season it as you build the sandwich to ensure every bite has good flavor. Finally, make a second sandwich, so there's one for you and one for a dear friend.
Arugula and Avocado Sandwich With Turkey (Friendship Sandwich)
- 4 thin slices Jewish rye bread, semolina bread or other soft, but sturdy sandwich bread
- 1 ripe avocado, pitted, peeled and sliced
- 2 ounces thinly sliced roasted turkey breast
- Fine salt and ground black pepper, to taste
- 2 large handfuls arugula, spinach, butter lettuce or a combination
- 1 ounce alfalfa sprouts
- 1 small seedless cucumber, thinly sliced on a bias
- 2 ounces sharp cheddar cheese, thinly sliced
- Pickles, for serving (optional)
- Chips, preferably potato, for serving (optional)
On a cutting board, lay the bread out. Top one slice with a few slices of avocado. Top the avocado with half of the turkey and lightly season with salt and pepper. Layer on half of the greens, sprouts, cucumber, and lightly season with more salt and pepper. Top with slices of cheddar. Place another slice of bread atop the cheddar, and press down gently to help secure the bread to the fillings. Repeat with remaining ingredients to make the second sandwich.
Slice each sandwich in half and serve, with pickles and chips on the side, if desired.
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Severe Weather Alert Day: Showers and storms stick around, Flood Watch continues
HAZARD, Ky. (WYMT) - Wednesday is a Severe Weather Alert Day as more showers and storms will be possible. A Flood Watch remains in effect.
Today and Tonight
Grab the umbrella before you walk out the door because more scattered showers and thunderstorms are likely today. A strong storm or two is possible, but the overall threat is low. A Level 1 Marginal risk is in place for the entire region. However, our focus will be on heavy rainfall that could lead to high water in some spots.
A Flood Watch is in effect until 8 p.m. for the entire area, but I expect this to be extended further as rain chances continue into the weekend.
A Level 3 Moderate risk of Excessive Rainfall is also in place for much of the region. Be sure to stay weather aware, and have a way to receive warnings. Heavy rain could lead to dangerous flooding in some areas. We are going to keep a close eye on it.
High temperatures on Wednesday top out in the mid-80s.
Scattered showers and storms stick around into tonight. Another mild and muggy night is in store. Low temperatures only fall into the lower-70s.
End of the Work Week
Rain chances continue for Thursday and Friday.
Another Level 3 Moderate risk of Excessive Rainfall is in place for most of us on Thursday as scattered showers and storms stick around. Again, stay weather aware! High temperatures reach the lower-80s.
Into Friday... you guessed it... more showers and storms are likely. Highs top out in the upper-70s and lower-80s with lows falling into the mid-60s.
This Weekend
Models are hinting at possibly some drier air on Saturday. Is it going to be 100% dry? No, probably not, but I am cautiously optimistic that rain chances will be lower. Again, highs reach the upper-70s and lower-80s with lows falling into the mid-60s.
More showers and storms are possible on Sunday. Temperatures stay in the upper-70s, and overnight lows fall into the upper-60s.
Extended Forecast
The beginning of next week looks soggy. Showers and storms will be possible on Monday. Highs top out in the upper-70s and lower-80s.
Rain chances start to decrease by Tuesday, but the heat begins to increase. An isolated shower or storm is possible under a mix of Sun and clouds. High temperatures reach the mid-80s with lows falling into the lower-70s.
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5,25,997 Covid deaths reported in India till Jul 23: Govt
Pawar said the government maintains data of total cases and deaths due to COVID -19 as reported by states and Union Territories. "Disaggregated data on deaths due to COVID-19 by profession or otherwise is not maintained centrally," she said in a written reply.
New Delhi: A total of 5,25,997 deaths due to COVID-19, including those of doctors and healthcare workers, have been reported in the country till July 23, Minister of State for Health Bharati Pravin Pawar informed Rajya Sabha on Tuesday. Responding to a question, Pawar said the government maintains data of total cases and deaths due to COVID -19 as reported by states and Union Territories.
"As on July 23, 2022, a total of 5,25,997 deaths due to COVID-19 (including those of doctors and healthcare workers) have been reported in the country.
"Disaggregated data on deaths due to COVID-19 by profession or otherwise is not maintained centrally," she said in a written reply.
Under the 'Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Package (PMGKP): Insurance Scheme for Health Care Workers Fighting COVID-19', the government has provided insurance of Rs 50 lakhs to health care providers, including community and private health workers, who may have been in direct contact of Covid patients and may be at risk of being impacted by this or due to accidental death on account of Covid-related duty, the minister said.
The minister said private hospital staff/retired/ volunteer/local urban bodies/contract/daily wage/ad-hoc/outsourced staff requisitioned by states/central hospitals/autonomous hospitals of central/states/UTs, AIIMS & Institute of National Importance (INI)/hospitals of central ministries specifically drafted for care of COVID-19 patients are also covered under the PMGKP.
The implementation of the schemes is primarily coordinated at state level, Pawar said.
The PMGKP insurance scheme has been extended. Further, in pursuance of the Supreme Court Judgement dated June 30, 2021, the government through the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has issued guidelines to provide for ex-gratia assistance to kin of the deceased of Covid, the minister said.
NDMA has recommended an amount of Rs 50,000 as ex-gratia, subject to cause of death certified as COVID-19. The ex-gratia assistance is provided by states from the State Disaster Response Fund, she said in the written reply. | https://health.economictimes.indiatimes.com/amp/news/policy/525997-covid-deaths-reported-in-india-till-jul-23-govt/93152904 | 2022-07-27T08:13:09Z | https://health.economictimes.indiatimes.com/amp/news/policy/525997-covid-deaths-reported-in-india-till-jul-23-govt/93152904 | true |
A medical chopper responding Tuesday to the scene of a fatal car accident in southern Ohio crashed while attempting to land, authorities said.
First responders learned just after 4 a.m. Tuesday that two vehicles collided in Milford Township, the Butler County Sheriff's Office said in a statement.
A passenger in the rear of a Silverado, a 69-year-old woman, was declared dead and at least three others injured were pulled from the vehicle, according to the sheriff's department. The driver of the other vehicle was its only occupant and was not injured, police say.
When a CareFlight helicopter arrived to pick up a 43-year-old woman who was seriously injured, it "crashed while attempting to land at the scene," authorities said.
The three passengers in the helicopter were transported to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, the sheriff's office said. The county is working with the Federal Aviation Administration to investigate the helicopter crash.
A CareFlight representative told CNN affiliate WXIX in a statement that the helicopter "contacted wires" and described the incident as "a hard landing."
"Two of the three crew members onboard the CareFlight helicopter have been treated for their injuries and released. A third is being evaluated. Air Methods has contacted the National Transportation Safety Board and Federal Aviation Administration and will be working through the investigation process with these agencies," the statement said. "The safety of patients and crew is of the utmost importance to us. We are grateful that no one was seriously injured in this incident."
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Amnesty: Taliban crackdown on rights is ‘suffocating’ women
By RAHIM FAIEZ
Associated Press
ISLAMABAD (AP) — The lives of Afghan women and girls are being destroyed by a “suffocating” crackdown by the Taliban since they took power nearly a year ago, Amnesty International said in a report released Wednesday.
After they captured the capital, Kabul, in August 2021 and ousted the internationally backed government, the Taliban presented themselves as having moderated since their first time in power, in the 1990s. Initially, Taliban officials spoke of allowing women to continue to work and girls to continue their education.
Instead, they formed an all-male government stacked with veterans of their hard-line rule that has banned girls from attending school from seventh grade, imposed all-covering dress that leaves only the eyes visible and restricted women’s access to work.
Amnesty said the Taliban have also decimated protections for those facing domestic violence, detained women and girls for minor violations and contributed to a surge in child marriages. The report also documented the torture and abuse of women arrested by the Taliban for protesting against restrictions.
“Taken together, these policies form a system of repression that discriminates against women and girls in almost every aspect of their lives,” the report said. “This suffocating crackdown against Afghanistan’s female population is increasing day by day.”
The group’s researchers visited Afghanistan in March as part of a nine-month-long investigation conducted from September 2021 to June 2022. They interviewed 90 women and 11 girls, between 14 and 74 years-old, across Afghanistan.
Among them were women detained for protesting who described torture at the hands of Taliban guards, including beatings and threats of death.
One woman told Amnesty that guards beat her and other women on the breasts and between the legs, “so that we couldn’t show the world.” She said one told her, “I can kill you right now, and no one would say anything.”
A university student who was detained said she was electrically shocked on her shoulder, face, neck and elsewhere, while the Taliban shouted insults at her. One held a gun at her and told her, “I will kill you, and no one will be able to find your body.”
The report said rates of child, early and forced marriage in Afghanistan are surging under Taliban rule.
The increase, Amnesty said, is fueled by Afghanistan’s economic and humanitarian crisis and the lack of education and job prospects for women and girls. The report documented cases of forced marriages of women and girls to Taliban members — under pressure by the Taliban member or by the women’s families.
One woman from a central province of Afghanistan told Amnesty that she was compelled her to marry off her 13-year-old daughter to a 30-year-old neighbor in exchange for 60,000 Afghanis (around US$670). She said she felt relieved because her daughter “won’t be hungry anymore.”
She said she was also considering the same for her 10-year-old daughter but was holding off in hopes the girl could get an education and eventually secure a job to support the family. “Of course, if they don’t open the school, I will have to marry her off,” she added.
“You have a patriarchal government, war, poverty, drought, girls out of school. With all of these factors combined … we knew child marriage was going to go through the roof,” said Stephanie Sinclair, director of Too Young to Wed, who was quoted in the report.
The Taliban seized Kabul as U.S. and NATO forces were withdrawing from Afghanistan, ending a nearly 20-year war against the Taliban’s insurgency. The world has refused to recognize the Taliban’s rule, demanding it respect human rights and show tolerance for other groups. The U.S. and its allies have cut off billions in development funds that kept the government afloat, as well as froze billions in Afghan national assets.
This sent the already shattered economy into freefall, increasing poverty dramatically and creating one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises. Millions, struggling to feed their families, are kept alive by a massive U.N.-led relief effort.
Amnesty called on the international community to take action to protect Afghan women and girls.
“Less than one year after the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan, their draconian policies are depriving millions of women and girls of their right to lead safe, free and fulfilling lives,” said Agnès Callamard, Amnesty secretary general.
“If the international community fails to act, it will be abandoning women and girls in Afghanistan, and undermining human rights everywhere,” she said. | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2022/07/26/amnesty-taliban-crackdown-on-rights-is-suffocating-women/ | 2022-07-27T08:17:22Z | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2022/07/26/amnesty-taliban-crackdown-on-rights-is-suffocating-women/ | true |
Dear Annie: I've been reading your column for a long time, and I admire how reasonable and nonjudgmental your advice seems to be.
My husband and I were childhood sweethearts. We are currently separated, and I am concerned that this might lead to divorce.
This is my second marriage. We have two children. Our first child was born in February 2016, and my husband decided to quit his job of 17 years to stay home with the baby and me while I healed. We were married a few months later, in June 2016. I returned to work that September, but not my husband. He hasn't worked a real job -- meaning, any work situation longer than three months -- since the birth of our first child. Our second child was born in May 2019. Then the pandemic hit.
We started living in separate homes in September 2020, and we are still both in New York but each living separately with our mothers. The children live with me and visit him every other weekend.
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Hubby had a history of alcoholism. He's been sober over nine months now. I bought a house in December 2021, but he refuses to live with me and my mom. I completely understand that.
I have no interest in being in another intimate relationship with someone else, but I dislike catering to him as a wife and not getting 100% of the benefits of having a husband. No Social Security is building up in his account. I pay for every date night or family trip. I don't even have the pleasure or luxury of waking up to Hubby's face in the morning.
My question is -- how much longer should I wait for him to get a job? Is our separation leading to divorce? -- Anxiously Separated Wife
Dear Anxiously Separated Wife: Whether your separation is leading to divorce is a question you need to ask your husband, and if you don't get a straight answer from him, a therapist. If your husband continues to be evasive, talk to a lawyer.
It is entirely possible that his withdrawal -- from his family and work -- is nothing more complicated than the disease of alcoholism rearing its ugly head again in his life. You might profit by checking out Al-Anon.
Regardless of what is going on, if he doesn't want to reach out to you, then you can't force him. But what you can do is take care of yourself and your babies. Continue to focus on that, and remember that your husband has not earned the endearing term "hubby" because he is acting the opposite of kind toward his family. He is acting selfish and entitled. He either ships up and gets help, or ships out, and then it would be time for you time move on. | https://bismarcktribune.com/news/dear-annie/article_d33b485e-0bb9-11ed-817c-23bce79f91dc.html | 2022-07-27T08:23:32Z | https://bismarcktribune.com/news/dear-annie/article_d33b485e-0bb9-11ed-817c-23bce79f91dc.html | false |
US military making plans in case Pelosi travels to Taiwan
SYDNEY (AP) — U.S. officials say they have little fear that China would attack Nancy Pelosi’s plane if she flies to Taiwan. But the U.S. House Speaker would be entering one of the world’s hottest spots where a mishap, misstep or misunderstanding could endanger her safety. So the Pentagon is developing plans for any contingency. Officials tell The Associated Press that if Pelosi goes to Taiwan, the military would increase its movement of forces and assets in the Indo-Pacific region. They say fighter jets, ships, surveillance assets and other military systems would likely be used to provide overlapping rings of protection.
Biden, Xi to hold talks amid new tensions over Taiwan
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. President Joe Biden plans to speak to Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday, according to a U.S. official. It's their first conversation in four months, and it's scheduled to take place amid new tension between Washington and Beijing over China’s claims on Taiwan. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reportedly plans to visit the island, which governs itself even though China considers it part of its territory. Besides Taiwan, other topics of conversation could include North Korea’s nuclear program, Russia’s war in Ukraine, efforts to revive the Iran nuclear deal and U.S. tariffs imposed on China.
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Ukraine forces strike key bridge in Russian-occupied south
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian troops have struck a strategic bridge essential for Moscow to supply its forces occupying the country’s south. The deputy head of the Moscow-appointed administration for the Kherson region, Kirill Stremousov, said the Ukrainian military struck the Antonivskyi Bridge across the Dnieper River late Tuesday. He said the bridge remained standing but its surface was pierced with holes, forcing a halt to traffic. The 1.4-kilometer (0.9-mile) bridge sustained serious damage in the previous Ukrainian shelling last week when it received multiple hits. It was closed for trucks but had remained open for passenger vehicles until the strike late Tuesday.
The AP Interview: Japan minister says women 'underestimated'
TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s minister for gender equality called the country’s dangerously low births and plunging population a national crisis and blamed “indifference and ignorance” in the male-dominated Japanese parliament. In an interview with The Associated Press, Seiko Noda couched the steadily dwindling number of children born in Japan as an existential threat. She says the nation won’t have enough troops, police or firefighters in coming decades if it continues. Japan is the world’s third biggest economy but it has struggled to make the society more inclusive. There are concerns both within Japan and abroad about how the country will reverse what critics call a deep-seated history of male chauvinism that has contributed to the low birthrate.
Cameroon becomes a go-to country for foreign fishing vessels
DOUALA, Cameroon (AP) — Cameroon has emerged as one of several go-to countries for the widely criticized “flags of convenience” system, under which companies can -- for a fee -- register their ships in a foreign country even though there is no link between the vessel and the nation whose flag it flies. The ships are supposed to abide by that nation’s fishing agreements with other countries. But experts say weak oversight and enforcement of fishing fleets by counties with open registries like Cameroon offer shipping companies a veil of secrecy that allows them to mask their operations. Regulators in Europe recently warned the country that its inability to provide oversight of its fishing fleet could lead to a ban on fish from the country.
AP Exclusive: Philippines scraps Russian chopper deal
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine officials say the government has scrapped a deal to purchase 16 Russian military transport helicopters due to fears of possible U.S. sanctions. Former Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana told The Associated Press Tuesday night that he canceled the 12.7-billion-peso ($227 million) deal to acquire the Mi-17 helicopters in a decision that was approved by then-President Rodrigo Duterte before his six-year term ended on June 30. Lorenzana said Washington could express its displeasure in many ways if the Philippines proceeded with the deal due to America’s worsening conflict with Russia and that “we could face sanctions.” He said American security officials were aware of Manila’s decision and could offer similar heavy-lift helicopters for Philippine military use.
Hawley, Cruz escape Jan. 6 probe, have no regrets over role
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans Josh Hawley of Missouri and Ted Cruz of Texas led the Senate challenge on Jan. 6, 2021, to Joe Biden's victory. But the senators have largely escaped the House panel's investigation into the Capitol attack. In all, a dozen GOP senators initially planned to challenge Donald Trump’s defeat. But unlike their House GOP counterparts, the Republican senators have not been called to testify. That's left senators to explain themselves on their own terms. Hawley, for one, says he doesn't regret his actions. Neither Hawley nor Cruz will say whether he would appear before the committee if called.
Amnesty: Taliban crackdown on rights is 'suffocating' women
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Amnesty International says the Taliban's “suffocating” crackdown on the rights of Afghan women and girls is destroying their lives. The London-based watchdog said in a new report that since the Taliban took control of the country nearly a year ago, they have violated women’s and girls’ rights. The Taliban have banned girls from attending school from seventh grade, imposed all-covering dress that leaves only the eyes visible and restricted women’s access to work. The report released Wednesday reveals how women who peacefully protested these oppressive rules have been threatened, arrested, detained, tortured, and forcibly disappeared. The report says rates of early and forced marriage are surging under Taliban rule.
No one wins U.S. Mega Millions, jackpot now over $1B
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A giant Mega Millions lottery jackpot ballooned to $1.02 billion after no one matched all six numbers and won the top prize. After no winner on Tuesday, the estimated jackpot for Friday’s drawing will be the nation’s fourth-largest lottery prize. The jackpot has grown so large because there have been 29 consecutive drawings without anyone winning the top prize. Tuesday’s numbers were: 07-29-60-63-66, with a Mega Ball of 15. The $1.02 billion prize is for winners who choose the annuity option, paid annually over 30 years. Most winners opt for the cash option, which for the next drawing is an estimated $602.5 million.
Argentines yearn for Evita, 70 years after her death
BUENOS AIRES (AP) — Argentines have gathered to mourn iconic Argentine leader María Eva Duarte de Perón, 70 years after her death. The late leader commonly known as Evita continues to awaken passions in Argentina as some of her followers believe her legacy is more relevant than ever at a time when poverty and inequality are rising as the economy remains stagnated amid galloping inflation. Evita has been the subject of countless books, movies, TV shows and even a Broadway musical, but for some of her oldest, most ardent followers the connection with the actress-turned-political leader is much more personal as they remember how she touched their lives. | https://wcfcourier.com/news/national/ap-news-summary-at-3-52-a-m-edt/article_883099e2-0f0a-5695-9e0c-706e8070499e.html | 2022-07-27T08:25:22Z | https://wcfcourier.com/news/national/ap-news-summary-at-3-52-a-m-edt/article_883099e2-0f0a-5695-9e0c-706e8070499e.html | false |
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Tens of thousands of people serving punishments for felony convictions in North Carolina but who aren’t behind bars can now register to vote and cast ballots following an appeals court ruling.
Expanding the scope of those able to register and vote began on Wednesday, the State Board of Elections said. It came the day after local elections were held in more than a dozen localities.
The change proceeds from litigation that challenges a 1973 law that prevents someone convicted of a felony from having voting rights restored while they are still on probation, parole or post-release supervision.
A panel of trial judges struck down the law in March, declaring it violates the state constitution largely because it discriminates against Black residents.
The state Supreme Court agreed in May to hear an appeal of that decision, and the case remains pending.
But the justices didn’t touch a Court of Appeals ruling that prevented registration requests from the felons who weren’t in prison or jail from being fulfilled only through Tuesday. So these applicants — for now and unless the Supreme Court reverses the trial court ruling — will be able to vote, starting with the November general election.
More than 56,000 people in North Carolina were prevented from registering under the challenged law, according to evidence cited in a 2021 trial. There are more than 7.3 million registered voters in North Carolina.
Voting rights advocates scheduled an event for downtown Raleigh late Wednesday to draw attention to the changes, and begin an effort to reach out to these offenders and help them register. Speakers include the Rev. William Barber of Goldsboro, co-chair of the national Poor People’s Campaign, and representative of groups that initially challenged the law in 2019. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Thousands-of-N-Carolina-offenders-can-now-17331552.php | 2022-07-27T08:26:36Z | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Thousands-of-N-Carolina-offenders-can-now-17331552.php | false |
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission has awarded a license for a new facility with plans to offer quarter horse racing in the state.
Revolutionary Racing will build in Ashland, Kentucky and feature an American quarter horse “sprint racing” track and a historical horse racing facility, Gov. Andy Beshear's administration said Tuesday.
Historical racing machines allow people to bet on randomly generated, past horse races. The games typically show video of condensed horse races.
Revolutionary Racing obtained the last available racing license in Kentucky, according to state officials. The project invests $55 million and creates 200 jobs, Beshear said.
The application included a request to build a quarter horse race track in Boyd County. Phase one includes construction of the sprint race track, the historical horse racing facility, paddock with offices and walking ring, two racing barns with 88 stalls each, a test barn and parking.
The construction project is expected to be completed in 2024. | https://www.expressnews.com/sports/article/Kentucky-awards-license-for-quarter-horse-track-17331550.php | 2022-07-27T08:27:36Z | https://www.expressnews.com/sports/article/Kentucky-awards-license-for-quarter-horse-track-17331550.php | false |
Stories go viral, to use an old term that’s less appealing by the week, for different reasons. Big events leave people hungry for hot takes. There’s celebrity news. Oddly evocative news.
We recently watched a Monitor essay by the wonderful Murr Brewster ring up 780,000 page views in its first week online. That’s a very eye-catching number for us.
Maybe you read Murr’s first-person story about a skilled fence builder she’d coaxed out of retirement with a job he saw as being too hard for anyone else to do right. “A simple piece,” Murr says.
It’s also great storytelling. A chunk of its reach came via Google Discover, which “searches the web for ... engaging and interesting content ... likely to provide a good user experience.” Murr chortles at that during a call from her home in the Pacific Northwest.
“That’s me,” she crows. “I’m a ‘content provider’!”
Besides the numbers, the biggest for Murr since her story about knitting rippled through a community of hobbyists, her essay brought heartfelt responses. Murr cites an email in which a grateful reader went on for 1,300 words “about how important it was to do a good job at a fair price, and how nobody does that anymore.”
Had she tapped into a universal interest in integrity?
“I didn’t set out to highlight that,” says Murr, “but that is absolutely the theme.”
Readers asked Murr for fence builder recommendations. For a follow-up on how to build a fence properly. Some already had what they needed. One comment to the Monitor: “It is a pleasure, in this world of self-destruction and evil, to read a nice story about a nice man.”
“Perspective and joy show up in an awful lot of my pieces,” says Murr. “People are engineering distrust, and we’re all suffering for it. A little joy and a little hope is good for them.” | https://www.csmonitor.com/Daily/2022/20220725/She-found-integrity-and-shared-the-joy-of-its-discovery | 2022-07-27T08:35:34Z | https://www.csmonitor.com/Daily/2022/20220725/She-found-integrity-and-shared-the-joy-of-its-discovery | true |
U.S. officials say they have little fear that China would attack Nancy Pelosi’s plane if she flies to Taiwan. But the U.S. House speaker would be entering one of the world’s hottest spots where a mishap, misstep or misunderstanding could endanger her safety. So the Pentagon is developing plans for any contingency.
Officials told The Associated Press that if Pelosi goes to Taiwan — still an uncertainty — the military would increase its movement of forces and assets in the Indo-Pacific region. They declined to provide details, but said that fighter jets, ships, surveillance assets and other military systems would likely be used to provide overlapping rings of protection for her flight to Taiwan and any time on the ground there.
Any foreign travel by a senior U.S. leader requires additional security. But officials said this week that a visit to Taiwan by Pelosi — she would be the highest-ranking U.S. elected official to visit Taiwan since 1997 — would go beyond the usual safety precautions for trips to less risky destinations.
Asked about planned military steps to protect Pelosi in the event of a visit, U.S. Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Wednesday that discussion of any specific travel is premature. But, he added, “if there’s a decision made that Speaker Pelosi or anyone else is going to travel and they asked for military support, we will do what is necessary to ensure a safe conduct of their visit. And I’ll just leave it at that.”
China considers self-ruling Taiwan its own territory and has raised the prospect of annexing it by force. The U.S. maintains informal relations and defense ties with Taiwan even as it recognizes Beijing as the government of China.
The trip is being considered at a time when China has escalated what the U.S. and its allies in the Pacific describe as risky one-on-one confrontations with other militaries to assert its sweeping territorial claims. The incidents have included dangerously close fly-bys that force other pilots to swerve to avoid collisions, or harassment or obstruction of air and ship crews, including with blinding lasers or water cannon.
Dozens of such maneuvers have occurred this year alone, Ely Ratner, U.S. assistant defense secretary, said Tuesday at a South China Sea forum by the Center for Strategic and International Studies. China denies the incidents.
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The U.S. officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive security issues, described the need to create buffer zones around the speaker and her plane. The U.S. already has substantial forces spread across the region, so any increased security could largely be handled by assets already in place.
The military would also have to be prepared for any incident — even an accident either in the air or on the ground. They said the U.S. would need to have rescue capabilities nearby and suggested that could include helicopters on ships already in the area.
Pelosi, D-Calif., has not publicly confirmed any new plans for a trip to Taiwan. She was going to go in April, but she postponed the trip after testing positive for COVID-19.
The White House on Monday declined to weigh in directly on the matter, noting she had not confirmed the trip. But President Joe Biden last week raised concerns about it, telling reporters that the military thinks her trip is “not a good idea right now.”
A Pelosi trip may well loom over a call planned for Thursday between Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping, their first conversation in four months. A U.S. official confirmed plans for the call to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity ahead of the formal announcement.
U.S. officials have said the administration doubts that China would take direct action against Pelosi herself or try to sabotage the visit. But they don’t rule out the possibility that China could escalate provocative overflights of military aircraft in or near Taiwanese airspace and naval patrols in the Taiwan Strait should the trip take place. And they don’t preclude Chinese actions elsewhere in the region as a show of strength.
Security analysts were divided Tuesday about the extent of any threat during a trip and the need for any additional military protection.
The biggest risk during Pelosi's trip is of some Chinese show of force “gone awry, or some type of accident that comes out of a demonstration of provocative action,” said Mark Cozad, acting associate director of the International Security and Defense Policy Center at the Rand Corp. “So it could be an air collision. It could be some sort of missile test, and, again, when you’re doing those types of things, you know, there is always the possibility that something could go wrong.”
Barry Pavel, director of the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security at the Atlantic Council, scoffed at U.S. officials' reported consideration of aircraft carriers and warplanes to secure the speaker's safety. “Obviously, the White House does not want the speaker to go and I think that's why you're getting some of these suggestions.”
“She's not going to go with an armada,” Pavel said.
They also said that a stepped-up U.S. military presence to safeguard Pelosi risked raising tensions.
“It is very possible that ... our attempts to deter actually send a much different signal than the one we intend to send,” Cozad said. “And so you get into ... some sort of an escalatory spiral, where our attempts to deter are actually seen as increasingly provocative and vice versa. And that can be a very dangerous dynamic.”
On Monday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said Beijing had repeatedly expressed its “solemn position” over a potential Pelosi visit. He told reporters that China is prepared to “take firm and strong measures to defend national sovereignty and territorial integrity.”
Milley said this week that the number of intercepts by Chinese aircraft and ships in the Pacific region with U.S. and other partner forces has increased significantly over the past five years. He said Beijing’s military has become far more aggressive and dangerous, and that the number of unsafe interactions has risen by similar proportions.
Those include reports of Chinese fighter jets flying so close to a Canadian air security patrol last month that the Canadian pilot had to swerve to avoid collision, and another close call with an Australian surveillance flight in late May in which the Chinese crew released a flurry of metal scraps that were sucked into the other plane’s engine.
U.S. officials say that the prospects of an intercept or show of force by Chinese aircraft near Pelosi’s flight raises concerns, prompting the need for American aircraft and other assets to be nearby.
The U.S. aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan and its strike group is currently operating in the western Pacific, and made a port call in Singapore over the weekend. The strike group involves at least two other Navy ships and Carrier Air Wing 5, which includes F/A-18 fighter jets, helicopters and surveillance aircraft.
Prior to pulling into port in Singapore, the strike group was operating in the South China Sea. In addition, another Navy ship, the USS Benfold, a destroyer, has been conducting freedom of navigation operations in the region, including a passage through the Taiwan Strait last week. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/national-international/us-military-planning-for-possible-pelosi-visit-to-taiwan/3032558/ | 2022-07-27T08:53:42Z | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/national-international/us-military-planning-for-possible-pelosi-visit-to-taiwan/3032558/ | false |
Florida gymnastics’ Trinity Thomas adds another accolade to her extensive list of awards and accomplishments after being named co-winner of the 2022 SEC Woman of the Year Award.
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Thomas shares the honor with Georgia track star Samantha Drop. The two represent the Southeastern Conference as nominees for the 2022 NCAA Woman of the Year. Thomas and Drop were chosen from 20 female student-athletes nominated by SEC programs. Thomas is one of 10 gymnasts nominated, and one of five nominees to be a Honda Award winner for their respective sport or division.
About the Award
The SEC Woman of the Year Award honors a senior female athlete with a distinguished collegiate career, including their academic and athletic achievements, along with service and leadership excellence. Thomas made the cut from 577 to 156 nominees in contention for the NCAA Woman of the Year. She is one of 53 remaining NCAA Division I student-athletes. The NCAA Woman of the Year committee will narrow the list to 30 nominees, selecting 10 from each division. Three finalists for each division create the nine finalists. The committee will declare one of the nine finalists the 2022 NCAA Woman of the Year in January. The convention will also celebrate the Top 30 honorees. A Florida Gator has never been name the NCAA Woman of the Year since its inception in 1991.
Congrats to the 151 nominees submitted by conference offices for the 2022 NCAA Woman of the Year award!https://t.co/gYNcpM00mX | #NCAAWOTY pic.twitter.com/8jxGF7my2p
— NCAA (@NCAA) July 25, 2022
Trinity Thomas Expands Her Trophy Case
Thomas earned her latest accolade just one month ago as a top three Honda Cup finalist when she also announced her return to Gator gymnastics for her fifth and final season. In April, she graduated cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in Applied Physiology & Kinesiology – Fitness Wellness. She’s a 27-time All-American, the 2022 NCAA all-around, bars and floor champion, the 2020 and 2022 SEC Gymnast of the Year and has made the SEC Academic Honor Roll three consecutive years. Thomas’ collegiate bests include perfect tens on all apparatuses a minimum of three times. She’s proved to be dominant on the floor with a perfect mark earned 10 times. This includes a 10 on each floor exercise she performed in the 2022 post-season. | https://www.wruf.com/headlines/2022/07/26/trinity-thomas-named-co-winner-of-2022-sec-woman-of-the-year-award/ | 2022-07-27T08:55:53Z | https://www.wruf.com/headlines/2022/07/26/trinity-thomas-named-co-winner-of-2022-sec-woman-of-the-year-award/ | true |
LOS ANGELES — The parents of a 14-year-old girl killed by Los Angeles police in a clothing store last year have filed a lawsuit against the department and the officer whose rifle round pierced a dressing room wall.
Valentina Orellana Peralta and her mother were shopping for Christmas clothes on Dec. 23 at a Burlington store in the San Fernando Valley’s North Hollywood neighborhood. They were inside a dressing room when they heard screams and Orellana Peralta locked the door.
Elsewhere in the store, 24-year-old Daniel Elena Lopez was behaving erratically and wielding a bike lock. He brutally attacked two women, including one who fell to the floor before he dragged her by her feet through the store’s aisles as she tried to crawl away.
Following 911 calls, Los Angeles police walked through the store in a formation, body-camera video shows. Officer William Dorsey Jones Jr., wielding a rifle, pushed to the front of the pack even as other officers repeatedly said “slow down” and “slow it down.”
The officers saw a woman crawling on the blood-stained floor and Lopez on the other side of the aisle, according to the video footage. “Hold up! Hold up!” another officer screamed just before Jones fired three shots.
One of the bullets went through the dressing room wall and fatally struck Orellana Peralta as her mother, Soledad Peralta, held her. Peralta “felt her daughter’s body go limp and watched helplessly as her daughter died while still in her arms,” the lawsuit states.
Police ordered Peralta to leave the dressing room and wait for “what seemed like an eternity," according to the lawsuit. She was not told that her daughter had died.
Her family, who had left Chile to get away from violence and injustice in search of a better life in the U.S., remembered Orellana Peralta as a happy teen with many friends who loved sports, adored animals and excelled in school.
Her father, Juan Pablo Orellana Larenas, and Peralta allege that LAPD failed to adequately train and supervise the responding officers and "fostered an environment that allowed and permitted this shooting to occur,” the lawsuit states.
“Filing this lawsuit is the first step for Soledad and Juan Pablo in seeking the transparency and justice promised to them by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti following the fatal shooting of their daughter, Valentina," the family's attorney, Rahul Ravipudi, said in a statement Tuesday.
Ravipudi added: "It is their deepest hope that those responsible for her death will be held accountable and that changes will be made to LAPD policies, practices, and standards for using deadly force that will prevent yet another senseless tragedy at the hands of law enforcement.”
Lopez was also shot and killed by police. An autopsy report showed he was on methamphetamine at the time of his death.
The lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on July 14, alleges wrongful death and negligence, as well as negligent infliction of emotional distress, and seeks a jury trial and unspecified damages. In addition to the LAPD and Jones, the lawsuit also names the city of Los Angeles and Burlington Stores Inc. as defendants.
LAPD Chief Michel Moore on Tuesday offered his condolences to Orellana Peralta's family.
“The loss of her life is tragic,” he said. “It remains a point of grief for us as well.”
The lawsuit alleges that Burlington Stores Inc. staff failed to use the store's intercom and “made no effort to address his increasingly violent and erratic behavior or warn any of the customers inside the store that they may be in danger.”
The company declined to comment on the litigation Tuesday but said in a statement that “our customers’ safety and well-being is of paramount importance to us.”
It was not immediately clear whether Jones had an attorney who could speak on his behalf. The city attorney's office said it was reviewing the complaint.
The California Department of Justice is investigating the shooting, as is the LAPD. | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/nation-world/family-of-teen-shot-by-lapd-lawsuit/507-e22f7c64-1337-4645-95f6-e104ebb3700e | 2022-07-27T09:00:28Z | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/nation-world/family-of-teen-shot-by-lapd-lawsuit/507-e22f7c64-1337-4645-95f6-e104ebb3700e | true |
TX Shreveport LA Zone Forecast for Tuesday, July 26, 2022
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National Weather Service Shreveport LA
250 AM CDT Wed Jul 27 2022
TXZ096-272115-
Red River-
Including the cities of Clarksville and Bogata
250 AM CDT Wed Jul 27 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 103. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Gusts up to 25 mph this morning. Heat index values
up to 108 this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Heat index values up to 105 early
in the evening.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 102. Southwest
winds 5 to 10 mph. Gusts up to 25 mph in the morning.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds 5 to
10 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Hot. Lows in the mid 70s. Highs in the
lower 90s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
cloudy. Hot with highs in the mid 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Lows in the
mid 70s. Highs in the upper 90s. Heat index values up to 105.
$$
TXZ108-272115-
Franklin-
Including the city of Mount Vernon
250 AM CDT Wed Jul 27 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 103. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Gusts up to 25 mph this morning. Heat index values
up to 108 this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Heat index values up to 105 early
in the evening.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 102. Southwest
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds 5 to
10 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Partly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Hot. Lows in the mid 70s. Highs in the
mid 90s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot. Lows in the mid
70s. Highs in the upper 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Lows in the
mid 70s. Highs around 100.
$$
TXZ109-272115-
Titus-
Including the city of Mount Pleasant
250 AM CDT Wed Jul 27 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 102. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 108 this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Heat index values up to 105 early
in the evening.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 101. Southwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds 5 to
10 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Partly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Hot. Lows in the mid 70s. Highs in the
mid 90s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot. Lows in the mid
70s. Highs in the mid 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Lows in the
mid 70s. Highs in the upper 90s. Heat index values up to 105.
$$
TXZ111-272115-
Morris-
Including the cities of Daingerfield, Lone Star, Naples,
and Omaha
250 AM CDT Wed Jul 27 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 101. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 108 this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 101. Southwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds 5 to
10 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Partly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Hot. Lows in the mid 70s. Highs in the
mid 90s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot. Lows in the mid
70s. Highs in the mid 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Lows in the
mid 70s. Highs in the upper 90s.
$$
TXZ110-272115-
Camp-
Including the city of Pittsburg
250 AM CDT Wed Jul 27 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 101. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 108 this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100. Southwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Gusts up to 20 mph after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds 5 to
10 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Partly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Hot. Lows in the mid 70s. Highs in the
mid 90s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot. Lows in the mid
70s. Highs in the mid 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Lows in the
mid 70s. Highs in the upper 90s.
$$
TXZ112-272115-
Cass-
Including the cities of Atlanta, Linden, Hughes Springs,
and Queen City
250 AM CDT Wed Jul 27 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 101. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 109 this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Heat index values up to 104 early
in the evening.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100. Southwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds 5 to
10 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the mid 70s. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Hot with highs in
the lower 90s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot with highs in the mid 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Lows in the
mid 70s. Highs in the upper 90s. Heat index values up to 105.
$$
TXZ126-272115-
Marion-
Including the city of Jefferson
250 AM CDT Wed Jul 27 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 108 this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100. Southwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. Southwest winds
5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Partly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Hot. Lows in the mid 70s. Highs in the
mid 90s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot. Lows in the
lower 70s. Highs in the mid 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Lows in the mid
70s. Highs in the upper 90s.
$$
TXZ125-272115-
Upshur-
Including the cities of Gilmer and Big Sandy
250 AM CDT Wed Jul 27 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 101. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 108 this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Heat index values up to 104 early
in the evening.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100. Southwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds 5 to
10 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot. Lows in the mid
70s. Highs in the mid 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Lows in the
mid 70s. Highs in the upper 90s.
$$
TXZ124-272115-
Wood-
Including the cities of Mineola, Winnsboro, Quitman, and Hawkins
250 AM CDT Wed Jul 27 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 101. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 108 this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Heat index values up to 104 early
in the evening.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 101. Southwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph. Heat index values up
to 104 early in the evening.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 104.
.FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot. Lows in the
mid 70s. Highs in the upper 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Lows in the
mid 70s. Highs in the upper 90s. Heat index values up to 105.
$$
TXZ136-272115-
Smith-
Including the city of Tyler
250 AM CDT Wed Jul 27 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 101. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 107 this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph. Heat index values up
to 104 early in the evening.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot. Lows in the
mid 70s. Highs in the upper 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Lows in the
mid 70s. Highs in the upper 90s. Heat index values up to 105.
$$
TXZ137-272115-
Gregg-
Including the city of Longview
250 AM CDT Wed Jul 27 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 107 this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100. Southwest
winds 5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 104.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot. Lows in the mid
70s. Highs in the mid 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Lows in the
mid 70s. Highs in the upper 90s.
$$
TXZ138-272115-
Harrison-
Including the city of Marshall
250 AM CDT Wed Jul 27 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 107.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100. Southwest
winds 5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 104.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. Southwest winds
5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Partly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Hot. Lows in the mid 70s. Highs in the
mid 90s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot. Lows in the
lower 70s. Highs in the mid 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Lows in the mid
70s. Highs in the upper 90s.
$$
TXZ151-272115-
Panola-
Including the city of Carthage
250 AM CDT Wed Jul 27 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms this afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
South winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent. Heat index
values up to 105.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 104.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot. Lows in the mid
70s. Highs in the mid 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Lows in the
mid 70s. Highs in the upper 90s.
$$
TXZ150-272115-
Rusk-
Including the city of Henderson
250 AM CDT Wed Jul 27 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms this afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
South winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent. Heat index
values up to 105.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 10 to
15 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot. Lows in the
mid 70s. Highs in the mid 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Lows in the
mid 70s. Highs in the upper 90s.
$$
TXZ149-272115-
Cherokee-
Including the cities of Jacksonville and Rusk
250 AM CDT Wed Jul 27 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms this afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
South winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent. Heat index
values up to 105.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 104.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph. Heat index values up to
104 early in the evening.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot. Lows in the
mid 70s. Highs in the upper 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Lows in the
mid 70s. Highs in the upper 90s. Heat index values up to 105.
$$
TXZ165-272115-
Angelina-
Including the city of Lufkin
250 AM CDT Wed Jul 27 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
this afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds 5 to
10 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent. Heat index values up to 107.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot with highs around 100. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 107.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Humid with lows in the mid 70s.
South winds 5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 105 early in the
evening.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 106.
.FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Hot. Lows
in the mid 70s. Highs in the upper 90s. Heat index values up to
105.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Hot. Highs in the upper
90s. Lows in the mid 70s. Heat index values up to 105.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot. Highs in the upper
90s. Lows in the mid 70s. Heat index values up to 105.
$$
TXZ152-272115-
Nacogdoches-
Including the city of Nacogdoches
250 AM CDT Wed Jul 27 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms this afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
South winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent. Heat index
values up to 107.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 106.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 106 early in the evening.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 105.
.FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot. Lows in the
mid 70s. Highs in the upper 90s. Heat index values up to 105.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. Heat
index values up to 105.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. Heat
index values up to 105.
$$
TXZ153-272115-
Shelby-
Including the city of Center
250 AM CDT Wed Jul 27 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms this afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
South winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent. Heat index
values up to 107.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 105.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 104 early in the evening.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 105.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot. Lows in the mid
70s. Highs in the upper 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. Heat
index values up to 105.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. Heat
index values up to 105.
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San Augustine-
Including the city of San Augustine
250 AM CDT Wed Jul 27 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
this afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds 5 to
10 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent. Heat index values up to 108.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot with highs around 99. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 108.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 105 early in the evening.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 106.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. Chance of rain
30 percent. Heat index values up to 105.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot. Lows in the mid
70s. Highs in the upper 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot. Highs in the upper
90s. Lows in the mid 70s. Heat index values up to 105.
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250 AM CDT Wed Jul 27 2022
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.TODAY...Mostly sunny this morning, then mostly cloudy with a
chance of showers and thunderstorms this afternoon. Hot with
highs in the upper 90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain
40 percent. Heat index values up to 107.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 107.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. Southwest winds
5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent. Heat index values up to
105.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot. Lows in the mid
70s. Highs in the upper 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot. Highs in the upper
90s. Lows in the mid 70s. Heat index values up to 105.
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Including the cities of Shreveport and Bossier City
250 AM CDT Wed Jul 27 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 108.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds 10 to
15 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100. Southwest
winds 5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 104.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. Southwest winds
5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent. Heat index values up to
105.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the mid 70s. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Hot with highs in
the mid 90s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot. Lows in the mid
70s. Highs in the mid 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. Heat
index values up to 105.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Lows in the upper
70s. Highs in the upper 90s. Heat index values up to 105.
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Far from being a dog's life, this gig would mean living the dream for one special pooch.
Applications are now open for arguably, the dog job of a lifetime: to be the Canine Critic for 2022, travelling the UK reviewing dog-friendly holidays.
Now in its fifth year, the annual Canine Critics competition gets tougher as time goes on, with tens of thousands of entries vying to be top dog.
The judges for 2022 include Channel 5’s The Dogfather, Graeme Hall; Battersea’s head of canine behaviour and star of ITV’s Paul O’Grady: For the Love of Dogs, Ali Taylor; and Pets at Home's director of proposition, Madeline Shaw.
“I can’t tell you how excited I am to be a Canine Critics judge this year,” said Graeme Hall. “What an honour. So, what makes your pet perfect for the position? We’re looking for characterful, adventure-loving dogs of all shapes, ages and sizes. I can’t wait to hear your stories.”
In 2021, 10 top dogs were crowned the winners but this year sees the competition get even tougher, with just one dog job up for grabs.
The winner will get to take £4,000 worth of holidays and win a doggy bag full of treats.
The successful dog will be championed across the Canine Cottages website and appear regularly on its social media channels.
Emma Crowe, head of customer marketing for Canine Cottages, said: “We’re thrilled to be launching Canine Critics for its fifth year in 2022 and cannot wait to paw through the entries and learn more about the amazing dogs we have all across the UK.
“It’s always been difficult to pick the top 10 dogs, so it’s going to be the most difficult year yet to pick just one dog from thousands of applicants.
"That’s why we’ve ensured that our judging panel is up to scratch with a mixture of specialisms.
"Best of luck to all applicants, we can't wait to hear your stories.”
Full details can be found on the Canine Cottages website: https://www.caninecottages.co.uk/.
You don’t need to have travelled with Canine Cottages previously to apply.
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By LISA MASCARO and FARNOUSH AMIRI
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The week before the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, Missouri’s Josh Hawley became the first Republican senator to announce he would object to the certification of the 2020 election.
Texas’ Ted Cruz came next, dashing off his own plan on a flight from Houston to Washington days before the joint session of Congress to certify the election results.
In all, a dozen GOP senators initially planned to challenge Joe Biden’s victory. But unlike their House GOP counterparts who have been subpoenaed for testimony before the Jan. 6 committee, the Republican senators have largely escaped the reach of the investigation.
While the committee did share highlights about the senators, including Hawley’s raised-fist salute to the rioters that day — an image seared in history, and now on coffee mugs the senator sells — it has made the surprising, if pragmatic, decision not to call the senators for testimony. One dramatic video showed Hawley sprinting from the Senate chamber later that day as rioters swarmed.
Amid wider public scrutiny of Jan. 6, the senators have been left to explain their actions on their own terms, and have often done so defiantly.
“I do not regret it,” Hawley said to applause at Turning Point USA’s Student Action Summit in Tampa, Florida, after he strode to the stage Friday to a standing ovation.
As the summer hearings of the Jan. 6 committee come to a close, Chairman Bennie Thompson has indicated that the panel is looking elsewhere. As work continues, the investigation is moving closer to the top ranks of the White House and the defeated president’s inner circle.
“We continue to receive new information every day,” Thompson, D-Miss., said last week, announcing the next round of hearings in September. “We are pursuing many additional witnesses for testimony.”
The House committee is investigating not only the grisly attack on the Capitol, but Trump’s extraordinary effort to overturn the presidential election by submitting “fake” slates of electors from the battleground states to vote for him, not Biden, when Congress convened Jan. 6 to tally the 2020 presidential election results.
The senators could provide information about the run-up to Jan. 6, including any conversations they may have had with Trump and his lawyers who were putting together the plan for the fake electors, said Norm Eisen, a senior fellow at Brookings and former top adviser to Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee.
In one dramatic screenshot of a text exchange, the committee told the story of how a top aide for GOP Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin attempted to hand off a slate of false, pro-Trump electors to then-Vice President Mike Pence as he was presiding in his ceremonial role of certifying the election. Johnson has said he was not involved in that effort.
But having interviewed more than 1,000 witnesses and having issued rare subpoenas to fellow House lawmakers, Eisen said the panel is trying to preserve its political capital by declining to compel senators to testify in what would be seen as an unusual House challenge to the upper chamber.
The Jan. 6 committee’s decision to issue subpoenas to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California and Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio, Scott Perry of Pennsylvania, Andy Biggs of Arizona and Mo Brooks of Alabama was a show of force by the nine-member panel. And it came after much deliberation among the lawmakers, who for weeks considered whether taking the unprecedented step of subpoenaing members of their own chamber would be worth further inflaming partisan tensions over the 2021 attack.
“They only have so much committee time,” said Eisen.
Cruz declined to say Tuesday if he would have appeared had the Jan. 6 panel asked for his testimony. Hawley’s office has similarly said he wouldn’t want to address a hypothetical situation.
But in recent conversations, the Republicans have stood by their efforts to challenge Biden’s victory.
“This country would have been much better off” if Congress had taken up his plan, Cruz recently told The Associated Press.
Cruz had proposed forming a commission to audit voter fraud in the disputed states, even though Trump’s own Justice Department said there was no voter fraud on a scale that could have tipped the 2020 election. Dozens of court cases claiming fraud had been rejected or gone unheard.
Cruz said he did not recall conversations with Trump ally John Eastman, the conservative lawyer who was the architect of the alternative electors plan. Last month, federal authorities seized Eastman’s phone and issued subpoenas to electors in states nationwide allegedly involved in the scheme.
“I wrestled for a long time with what was the best approach to take with regard to the certification on Jan. 6,” Cruz said. He said he alone drafted the statement he put out with 11 senators, which he said he dashed off on the flight back to Washington.
Hawley has brushed off questions about the committee’s work, and declined last month to comment about Eastman’s plans for the alternative electors.
One police officer testified to the committee that Hawley’s raised fist on Jan. 6 “riled up the crowd” that day, said Rep. Elaine Luria, D-Va. During last week’s hearing, she played the video showing how Hawley “fled after those protesters he helped to rile up stormed the Capitol.”
Johnson has downplayed his aide’s attempt to pass a fake slate of electors to Pence. The handoff never took place, but the moment showed how close the plan came to fruition. If it had been successful, the electoral votes for Michigan and Wisconsin could have gone to Trump, not Biden, the rightful winner in those states.
After police cleared the Capitol of rioters that night, seven Republican senators led by Cruz and Hawley stuck with the plan to challenge the election results. Several of the other GOP senators who had initially signed on backed out.
At least one Republican who voted to challenge the election results after the rioting, Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama, said Tuesday he would talk to the committee if they asked for his testimony,
“I’d go,” said Tuberville, who took a phone call from Trump as senators were being swept to safety. Tuberville was also among senators who had received a voicemail from Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani that night, the committee has said.
Tuberville said he hasn’t been watching the hearings. “There’s nothing, anything, that I’ve seen that would change my mind on anything that I’ve voted on,” he said.
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Associated Press writer Jill Colvin in Tampa, Florida, contributed to this report.
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BEIJING, July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the vivo Communications Research Institute released its third 6G white paper, "6G Services, Capabilities and Enabling Technologies". The report explores the 6G framework and enabling technologies that vivo experts believe will shape people's lives beyond 2030.
"As one of the world's leading smartphone vendors, we are dedicated to empowering consumers by making cutting-edge 5G smartphones affordable and accessible. At the same time, we have set our sights on the future - 6G," said Qin Fei, President of vivo Communications Research Institute. "At the forefront of R&D, we continue to explore what a 6G world might look like and what technologies we need to develop to get there."
Over the past two years, the industry has been gradually forming a consensus on the services that may be provided by 6G and the key capability indicators that need to be achieved. The research and development of related key enabling technologies is also gaining momentum. The vivo Communications Research Institute has been actively contributing to shaping the future of 6G with in-depth analysis and evaluation of 6G business models and drivers, application scenarios, system architecture, and enabling technologies.
vivo's latest white paper on 6G builds on two earlier works released in 2020, including 'Digital Life 2030+', which provides insights into some of the many potential 6G digital scenarios for the next decade, and '6G Vision, Requirements and Challenges', which outlines vivo's vision for 6G, namely that 6G will enable convergence of the digital and physical worlds.
Services and Capabilities
The white paper proposes that 6G will provide super communication, information, and converged computing services, becoming a base for an interconnected and converged physical and digital world. According to the analysis, 6G will converge communication, computation, and sensing in a single system. An integrated 6G network will not only connect humans to humans, but it will also connect humans to machines and machines to machines, helping create a whole new digital world. It can be expected that hundreds of billions of devices will be connected by 2030.
"6G will allow us to bring the next generation of connectivity into every aspect of people's lives. It will integrate more access technologies, cover a larger physical space, and provide better core capabilities, supporting more services," said Rakesh Tamrakar, 5G and 6G Standards Expert at vivo. "By seamlessly connecting industries, transportation, workspace, and homes, 6G will contribute greatly to society - from the democratization of professional talent to the enhancement of emergency and disaster response."
6G will expand basic telecom services to support completely new experiences, such as immersive mixed reality and holographic and multi-sensory communication. 6G mobile data connectivity services will continue to improve in capacity, data rate, latency, reliability, and many other aspects. This will broaden the range of customers and increase the value of services, with more end-to-end flexibility and adaptability to meet the needs of individuals and industries.
This means that every performance indicator, such as data rate, including peak data rate and user experienced data rate, communication delay, and area traffic capacity, will need to be improved several folds or more compared with 5G.
6G service capability definition requires careful consideration of demand, technology and cost, balancing performance metrics and efficiency indicators.
Enabling Technologies
New network functions need to be introduced to support the new 6G services and achieve integration of sensing and communication. 6G will converge mobile network and computing, cross-domain data interaction, and native AI network. Therefore, it requires a brand-new system architecture design.
Integrating sensing and communication taps into a new area of opportunity in cellular wireless networks - 6G native AI would improve network and air interface efficiency, enhance system flexibility and reduce cost. The introduction of an end-to-end cross-layer data plane is essential to support intelligent and basic information services. Extremely low-power communication reduces the barrier to terminal access, enabling truly ubiquitous connectivity. Currently, the Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) evolution, Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) technology and new waveforms are some of the exciting research areas, paving the way towards a more efficient and more flexible network that can support more application scenarios, and offer more advanced sensing functions.
The research and development of 6G technology standards is still in the early stage. The vivo Communications Research Institute is dedicated to continuing to refine 6G scenario use cases and technical indicators, carry out in-depth research and experimental verification of potential 6G technologies, and contribute to the development of a globally unified 6G technology standard.
Established in 2016, the vivo Communications Research Institute focuses on 5G technology research and standardization. To date, the Institute has submitted over 8,000 5G proposals to the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), leading to 15 technical features and three technical projects being approved.
To download vivo's 6G white papers released in 2020, please visit the following links:
About vivo
vivo is a technology company that creates great products based on a design-driven value, with smart devices and intelligent services as its core. The company aims to build a bridge between humans and the digital world. Through unique creativity, vivo provides users with an increasingly convenient mobile and digital life. Following the company's core values, which include Benfen*, user-orientation, design-driven value, continuous learning and team spirit, vivo has implemented a sustainable development strategy with the vision of developing into a healthier, more sustainable world-class corporation.
While bringing together and developing the best local talents to deliver excellence, vivo is supported by a network of R&D centers in Shenzhen, Dongguan, Nanjing, Beijing, Hangzhou, Shanghai and Xi'an, focusing on the development of state-of-the-art consumer technologies, including 5G, artificial intelligence, industrial design, imaging system and other up-and-coming technologies. vivo has also set up an intelligent manufacturing network (including those authorized by vivo), with an annual production capacity of nearly 200 million smartphones. As of now, vivo has branched out its sales network across more than 60 countries and regions, and is loved by more than 400 million users worldwide.
*"Benfen" is a term describing the attitude on doing the right things and doing things right - which is the ideal description of vivo's mission to create value for society.
Stay informed of latest vivo news at https://www.vivo.com/en/about-vivo/news
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Bumblebees CAN feel pain: Study shows insects can suppress their withdrawal reflexes in exchange for a sweet treat - suggesting they experience discomfort and 'should be included in animal welfare laws'
- Vertebrates can feel pain, but whether invertebrates do has been unclear
- Bees were given the choice between an unheated feeder or one heated to 55°C
- When sugar levels were equal, the bees chose to visit the unheated feeder
- But when sugar was higher in the heated one, they experienced pain to visit it
- Findings suggest bees should be 'included in animal welfare laws'
While the idea of getting stung isn't exactly appealing, a new study may have you thinking twice before swatting away any pesky bees.
Researchers from Queen Mary University of London have revealed that bumblebees can feel pain.
In the study, the team showed that bumblebees can modify their response to 'noxious' (painful) stimuli in a similar way to other animals that are known to feel pain.
'If insects can feel pain, humans have an ethical obligation not to cause them unnecessary suffering,' said Matilda Gibbons, first author of the study.
'But the UK's animal welfare laws don't protect insects - our study shows that perhaps they should.'
While the idea of getting stung isn't exactly appealing, a new study may have you thinking twice before killing any pesky bees
Researchers from Queen Mary University of London have revealed that bumblebees can feel pain
While previous studies have shown that all vertebrates (animals with backbones) can feel pain, until now it's been unclear whether invertebrates (animals without backbones) can feel pain.
'Scientists traditionally viewed insects as unfeeling robots, which avoid injury with simple reflexes,' Ms Gibbons explained.
'We've discovered bumblebees respond to harm non-reflexively, in ways that suggest they feel pain.'
In their study, the team used a 'motivational trade-off paradigm', in which animals must flexibly trade-off two competing motivations.
In this case, the bees were given the choice between either a feeder that was unheated, or one that was heated to 55°C – noxiously hot.
The feeders contained different concentrations of sucrose and were marked with different colours.
When both feeders contained high concentrations of sucrose and one of them was heated, the bees tended to opt for the unheated feeder.
But when the heated feeder contained a higher concentration of sucrose, bees were more likely to visit it.
The researchers also ensured that the trade-off relied on cues (colours), which the bees had learned to associate with a higher sugar reward.
Because the bees used learnt colour cues for their decisions, the trade-off was processed in the brain, rather than peripherally.
The researchers also ensured that the trade-off relied on cues (colours), which the bees had learned to associate with a higher sugar reward. Because the bees used learnt colour cues for their decisions, the trad-off was processed in the brain, rather than peripherally
In other words, the bees made the decision to undergo some pain in order to get a higher sugar reward.
Professor Lars Chittka, who led the research, said: 'Insects used to be regarded as simple reflex automatons, responding to damaging stimuli only by withdrawal reflexes.
Based on the findings, the researchers suggest that insects should be be included in animal welfare laws
'Our new work shows that bees' responses are more flexible and that they can suppress such reflexes when it suits them, for example if there is an extra-sweet treat to be had.
'Such flexibility is consistent with the capacity of a subjective experience of pain.'
Based on the findings, the researchers suggest that insects should be included in animal welfare laws.
'Insects (unlike vertebrates) are not currently protected by any legislation regarding their treatment in research laboratories and in the growing industry that produces insects for human consumption or as food for conventional livestock,' Professor Chittka added.
'The legal framework for the ethical treatment of animals may have to be expanded.
'The increasing evidence for some form of sentience in insects places on us an obligation to conserve the environments that have shaped their unique and seemingly alien minds.
'We humans are only one of many species capable of enjoyment and suffering, including pain-like states.
'Even miniature creatures such as insects deserve our respect and ethical treatment and a duty to minimise suffering where it is in our power to do so.' | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-11053185/Bumblebees-feel-pain-included-animal-welfare-laws-study-claims.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-07-27T09:09:23Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-11053185/Bumblebees-feel-pain-included-animal-welfare-laws-study-claims.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true |
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian troops have struck a strategic bridge essential for Moscow to supply its forces occupying the country's south, as Russia pounded several areas in Ukraine with rocket and artillery strikes.
The Ukrainian military struck the Antonivskyi Bridge across the Dnieper River late Tuesday, the deputy head of the Moscow-appointed administration for the Kherson region, Kirill Stremousov, said.
He said the bridge was still standing but its deck was pierced with holes, stopping vehicles from crossing.
The 1.4-kilometer (0.9-mile) bridge sustained serious damage in Ukrainian shelling last week, when it took multiple hits. It was closed for trucks but had remained open for passenger vehicles until the strike late Tuesday.
Ukrainian forces used the U.S.-supplied HIMARS multiple rocket launchers to hit the bridge, Stremousov said.
The bridge is the main crossing across the Dnieper River in the Kherson region. The only other option is a dam at the hydroelectric plant in Kakhovka, which also came under Ukrainian fire last week but has remained open for traffic.
Knocking the crossings out would make it hard for the Russian military to keep supplying its forces in the region amid repeated Ukrainian attacks.
Early in the war, Russian troops quickly overran the Kherson region just north of the Crimean Peninsula that Russia annexed in 2014. They have faced Ukrainian counterattacks, but have largely held their ground.
The Ukrainian attacks on the bridge in Kherson come as the bulk of the Russian forces are stuck in the fighting in Ukraine’s eastern industrial heartland of Donbas where they have made slow gains in the face of ferocious Ukrainian resistance. Supplies of U.S. weapons such as HIMARS have helped slow the Russian advances.
Russian forces kept up their artillery barrage in the eastern Donetsk region, targeting towns and villages, according to regional governor Pavlo Kyrylenko.
In Bakhmut, a key city on the front line of the Russian offensive, the shelling damaged a hotel and caused casualties, Kyrylenko said. A rescue operation was under way.
Amid Moscow’s push to take full control of the eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions, Russian have gained marginal ground northeast of Bakhmut, according to a Washington D.C.-based think tank.
Russian forces, however, are unlikely to occupy significant additional territory in Ukraine “before the early autumn,” the Institute for the Study of War said.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy claimed that Russian military losses have climbed to nearly 40,000, adding that tens of thousands more were wounded and maimed. His claim couldn't be independently verified.
The Russian military last reported its losses in March, when it said that 1,351 troops were killed in action and 3,825 were wounded.
In other developments:
— The governor of Dnipropetrovsk, in the central eastern area of Ukraine, said that the Russian forces have struck two regions with artillery. Gov. Valentyn Reznichenko said that in the town of Marhanets, a woman was wounded and several apartment buildings, a hospital and a school were damaged by the shelling.
— Six people were wounded when the city of Kharkiv, in the northeast, came under shelling overnight, according to the city mayor, Ihor Terekhov.
— British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Tuesday presented Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy with the Sir Winston Churchill Leadership Award, drawing comparisons between the two leaders in times of crises. Zelenskyy accepted the award by video link during a ceremony at Johnson’s London office that was attended by members of the Churchill family, Ukrainian Ambassador Vadym Prystaiko and Ukrainians who have received training from British soldiers.
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Geminis should take inspiration from FKA Twigs this week.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): It’s always advisable for you Leos to carry on a close personal relationship with mirrors. I’m speaking both literally and metaphorically. For the sake of your mental health, you need to be knowledgeable about your image and monitor its ever-shifting nuances. And according to my analysis of the astrological omens, you are now authorized to deepen your intimate connection with mirrors. I believe you will thrive by undertaking an intense phase of introspective explorations and creative self-inquiry. Please keep it all tender and kind, though. You’re not allowed to bad-mouth yourself. Put a special emphasis on identifying aspects of your beauty that have been obscured or neglected. By the way, Leo, I also recommend you seek compassionate feedback from people you trust. Now is an excellent time to get reflections about your quest to become an even more amazing human.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): At your best, you are a flexible purist, an adaptable stickler for detail, and a disciplined yet supple thinker. Maybe more than any other sign of the zodiac, you can be focused and resilient, intense and agile, attentive and graceful. And all of us non-Virgos will greatly appreciate it if you provide these talents in abundance during the coming weeks. We need you to be our humble, understated leader. Please be a role model who demonstrates your finely crafted, well-balanced approach to being healthy.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In my Astrological Book of Life, your life purposes as a Libra may include the following: No. 1, to be beautiful in the smartest ways you can imagine and smart in the most beautiful ways you can imagine; No. 2, to always see at least two sides of the story, and preferably more; No. 3, to serve as an intermediary between disparate elements; No. 4, to lubricate and facilitate conversations between people who might not otherwise understand each other; No. 5, to find common ground between apparent contradictions; No. 6, to weave confusing paradoxes into invigorating amalgamations; No. 7, to never give up on finding the most elegant way to understand a problem. P.S.: In the coming weeks, I hope you will make extra efforts to call on the capacities I just named.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Author Clive James loved the Latin term
gazofilacium, meaning “treasure chamber.” He said that the related Italian word,
gazofilacio, referred to the stash of beloved poems that he memorized and kept in a special place in his mind. In accordance with astrological omens, Scorpio, now would be an excellent time to begin creating your own personal
gazofilacium: a storehouse of wonderful images and thoughts and memories that will serve as a beacon of joy and vitality for the rest of your long life. Here’s your homework: Identify 10 items you will store in your
gazofilacium.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Tips to get the most out of the next three weeks: No. 1: Keep your interesting options open. Let your mediocre options shrivel and expire. No. 2: Have no regrets and make no apologies about doing what you love. No. 3: Keep in mind that every action you perform reverberates far beyond your immediate sphere. No. 4: Give your fears ridiculous names like “Gaffe” and “Wheezy” and “Lumpy.” No. 5: Be honest to the point of frankness but not to the point of rudeness. No. 6: Don’t just run. Gallop.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Capricorn poet Richard Hugo wrote, “It doesn’t bother me that the word ‘stone’ appears more than 30 times in my third book, or that ‘wind’ and ‘gray’ appear over and over in my poems to the disdain of some reviewers.” Hugo celebrated his obsessions. He treated them as riches because focusing on them enabled him to identify his deepest feelings and discover who he really was. In accordance with astrological omens, I recommend a similar approach to you in the coming weeks. Cultivate and honor and love the specific fascinations at the core of your destiny.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Author Violet Trefusis (1894–1972) and author Vita Sackville-West (1892–1962) loved each other. In one letter, Violet told Vita, “I want you hungrily, frenziedly, passionately. I am starving for you. Not only the physical you, but your fellowship, your sympathy, the innumerable points of view we share. I can’t exist without you; you are my affinity.” In the coming weeks, dear Aquarius, I invite you to use florid language like that in addressing your beloved allies. I also invite you to request such messages. According to my reading of the planetary omens, you are due for eruptions of articulate passion.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I’d like to honor and pay homage to a past disappointment that helped transform you into a beautiful soul. I know it didn’t feel good for you when it happened, but it has generated results that have blessed you and the people whose lives you’ve touched. Would you consider performing a ritual of gratitude for all it taught you? Now is an excellent time to express your appreciation because doing so will lead to even further redemption.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Fiction writer John Banville tells us, “There are moments when the past has a force so strong it seems one might be annihilated by it.” I suspect that’s sometimes true for many of us. But it won’t apply to you Aries anytime soon. In fact, just the opposite situation will be in effect during the coming months: You will have more power to render the past irrelevant than maybe you’ve ever had. You will wield an almost indomitable capacity to launch new trends without having to answer to history. Take full advantage, please!
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Researchers have proved that lullabies enhance the health of premature babies being cared for in hospitals. The soft, emotionally rich songs also promote the well-being of the babies’ families. I bring this to your attention because I believe you should call on lullaby therapy yourself in the coming weeks. Listening to and singing those tunes will soothe and heal your inner child. And that, in my astrological opinion, is one of your top needs right now. For extra boosts, read fairy tales, eat food with your hands, make mud pies, and play on swings, seesaws and merry-go-rounds.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Dancer and singer-songwriter FKA Twigs has taken dance lessons since she was a child. In 2017, she added a new form of physical training, the Chinese martial art of
wushu. Doing so made her realize a key truth about herself: She loves to learn and practice new skills. Of all life’s activities, this gives her the most pleasure and activates her most vibrant energy. She feels at home in the world when she does them. I suspect you may have similar inclinations in the coming months. Your appetite for mastering new skills will be at an all-time high. You will find it natural and even exhilarating to undertake disciplined practice. Gathering knowledge will be even more exciting than it usually is.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Cancerian author Laurie Sheck writes, “So much of life is invisible, inscrutable: layers of thoughts, feelings and outward events entwined with secrecies, ambiguities, ambivalences, obscurities, darknesses.” While that’s an experience we all have, especially you Cancerians, it will be far less pressing for you in the coming weeks. I foresee you embarking on a phase when clarity will be the rule, not the exception. Hidden parts of the world will reveal themselves to you. The mood will be brighter and lighter than usual. The chronic fuzziness of life will give way to a delightful acuity. I suspect you will see things that you have never or rarely
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