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CLASS ACTION ALERT: The Law Offices of Vincent Wong Remind ELMS Investors of a Lead Plaintiff Deadline of April 4, 2022
NEW YORK, March 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Attention Electric Last Mile Solutions, Inc. f/k/a Forum Merger III Corp. ("ELMS") (NASDAQ: ELMS) shareholders:
The Law Offices of Vincent Wong announce that a class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of investors who purchased between March 31, 2021 and February 1, 2022.
If you suffered a loss on your investment in ELMS, contact us about potential recovery by using the link below. There is no cost or obligation to you.
ABOUT THE ACTION: The class action against ELMS includes allegations that the Company made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) ELMS's previously issued financial statements were false and unreliable; (2) ELMS's earlier reported financial statements would need restatement; (3) certain ELMS executives and/or directors purchased equity in the Company at substantial discounts to market value without obtaining an independent valuation; (4) on November 25, 2021 (Thanksgiving), the Company's Board formed an independent Special Committee to conduct an inquiry into certain sales of equity securities made by and to individuals associated with the Company; and (5) as a result, Defendants' statements about its business, operations, and prospects, were materially false and misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
DEADLINE: April 4, 2022
Aggrieved ELMS investors only have until April 4, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. You are not required to act as a lead plaintiff in order to share in any recovery.
Vincent Wong, Esq. is an experienced attorney who has represented investors in securities litigations involving financial fraud and violations of shareholder rights. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
CONTACT:
Vincent Wong, Esq.
39 East Broadway
Suite 304
New York, NY 10002
Tel. 212.425.1140
E-Mail: [email protected]
SOURCE The Law Offices of Vincent Wong | https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/class-action-alert-the-law-offices-of-vincent-wong-remind-elms-investors-of-a-lead-plaintiff-deadline-of-april-4-2022-301501352.html | 2022-03-14T17:10:19 | en | 0.951472 |
CLASS ACTION ALERT: The Law Offices of Vincent Wong Remind Fennec Investors of a Lead Plaintiff Deadline of April 11, 2022
NEW YORK, March 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Attention Fennec Pharmaceuticals Inc. ("Fennec") (NASDAQ: FENC) shareholders:
The Law Offices of Vincent Wong announce that a class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of investors who purchased between May 28, 2021 and November 26, 2021.
If you suffered a loss on your investment in Fennec, contact us about potential recovery by using the link below. There is no cost or obligation to you.
https://www.wongesq.com/pslra-1/fennec-pharmaceuticals-inc-loss-submission-form-2?prid=24589&wire=4
ABOUT THE ACTION: The class action against Fennec includes allegations that the Company made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) Fennec had not successfully remediated, and overstated its efforts to remediate, issues with the manufacturing facility of its drug product manufacturer for PEDMARK, a new compound developed to reduce the incidence of hearing loss in children undergoing chemotherapy; (ii) as a result, the Food and Drug Administration likely to approve the Resubmitted Pedmark New Drug Application ("NDA"); (iii) accordingly, the regulatory and commercial prospects of the Resubmitted Pedmark NDA were overstated; and (iv) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
DEADLINE: April 11, 2022
Aggrieved Fennec investors only have until April 11, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. You are not required to act as a lead plaintiff in order to share in any recovery.
Vincent Wong, Esq. is an experienced attorney who has represented investors in securities litigations involving financial fraud and violations of shareholder rights. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
CONTACT:
Vincent Wong, Esq.
39 East Broadway
Suite 304
New York, NY 10002
Tel. 212.425.1140
E-Mail: [email protected]
SOURCE The Law Offices of Vincent Wong | https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/class-action-alert-the-law-offices-of-vincent-wong-remind-fennec-investors-of-a-lead-plaintiff-deadline-of-april-11-2022-301501089.html | 2022-03-14T17:10:25 | en | 0.945089 |
CLASS ACTION ALERT: The Law Offices of Vincent Wong Remind FirstCash Investors of a Lead Plaintiff Deadline of March 15, 2022
NEW YORK, March 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Attention FirstCash, Inc. ("FirstCash") (NASDAQ: FCFS) shareholders:
The Law Offices of Vincent Wong announce that a class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of investors. This lawsuit is on behalf of all persons who purchased shares of FirstCash common stock between February 1, 2018 and November 12, 2021, both dates inclusive.
If you suffered a loss on your investment in FirstCash, contact us about potential recovery by using the link below. There is no cost or obligation to you.
https://www.wongesq.com/pslra-1/firstcash-inc-loss-submission-form?prid=24579&wire=4
ABOUT THE ACTION: The class action against FirstCash includes allegations that the Company made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (a) FirstCash had made more than 3,600 loans to over 1,000 active-duty members of the military and their families at usurious interest rates above 36% – and often exceeding 200% – in violation of the Military Lending Act ("MLA") and the Consent Order Cash America had entered into with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (the "Order"); (b) FirstCash had failed to implement the remedial measures imposed by the Order; (c) FirstCash's financial results were, in substantial part, the product of the Company's violations of the MLA and the Order; and (d) as a result of the foregoing, FirstCash was exposed to a material undisclosed risk of legal, reputational and financial harm if the Company's violations of the MLA and the Order were ever publicly disclosed.
DEADLINE: March 15, 2022
Aggrieved FirstCash investors only have until March 15, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. You are not required to act as a lead plaintiff in order to share in any recovery.
Vincent Wong, Esq. is an experienced attorney who has represented investors in securities litigations involving financial fraud and violations of shareholder rights. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
CONTACT:
Vincent Wong, Esq.
39 East Broadway
Suite 304
New York, NY 10002
Tel. 212.425.1140
E-Mail: [email protected]
SOURCE The Law Offices of Vincent Wong | https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/class-action-alert-the-law-offices-of-vincent-wong-remind-firstcash-investors-of-a-lead-plaintiff-deadline-of-march-15-2022-301501116.html | 2022-03-14T17:10:32 | en | 0.953049 |
CLASS ACTION ALERT: The Law Offices of Vincent Wong Remind Gatos Investors of a Lead Plaintiff Deadline of April 25, 2022
NEW YORK, March 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Attention Gatos Silver, Inc. ("Gatos") (NYSE: GATO) shareholders:
The Law Offices of Vincent Wong announce that a class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of investors. This lawsuit is on behalf of persons and entities that purchased or otherwise acquired Gatos: (a) common stock pursuant and/or traceable to documents issued in connection with the Company's initial public offering conducted on or about October 28, 2020; and/or (b) securities between October 28, 2020 and January 25, 2022, inclusive.
If you suffered a loss on your investment in Gatos, contact us about potential recovery by using the link below. There is no cost or obligation to you.
https://www.wongesq.com/pslra-1/gatos-silver-inc-loss-submission-form?prid=24594&wire=4
ABOUT THE ACTION: The class action against Gatos includes allegations that the Company made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) the technical report for Gatos's primary mine, the Cerro Los Gatos deposit, contained certain errors; (2) among other things, the mineral reserves had been overestimated by as much as 50%; and (3) as a result of the foregoing, Defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
DEADLINE: April 25, 2022
Aggrieved Gatos investors only have until April 25, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. You are not required to act as a lead plaintiff in order to share in any recovery.
Vincent Wong, Esq. is an experienced attorney who has represented investors in securities litigations involving financial fraud and violations of shareholder rights. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
CONTACT:
Vincent Wong, Esq.
39 East Broadway
Suite 304
New York, NY 10002
Tel. 212.425.1140
E-Mail: [email protected]
SOURCE The Law Offices of Vincent Wong | https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/class-action-alert-the-law-offices-of-vincent-wong-remind-gatos-investors-of-a-lead-plaintiff-deadline-of-april-25-2022-301501210.html | 2022-03-14T17:10:38 | en | 0.944625 |
CLASS ACTION ALERT: The Law Offices of Vincent Wong Remind Meta Platforms, Inc. Investors of a Lead Plaintiff Deadline of May 9, 2022
NEW YORK, March 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Attention Meta Platforms, Inc. ("Meta Platforms, Inc.") (NASDAQ: FB) shareholders:
The Law Offices of Vincent Wong announce that a class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of investors who purchased between March 2, 2021 and February 2, 2022.
If you suffered a loss on your investment in Meta Platforms, Inc., contact us about potential recovery by using the link below. There is no cost or obligation to you.
https://www.wongesq.com/pslra-1/meta-platforms-inc-loss-submission-form?prid=24603&wire=4
ABOUT THE ACTION: The class action against Meta Platforms, Inc. includes allegations that the Company made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Apple's iOS privacy changes were having a material impact on Meta's ability to provide the kind of targeted advertising that its customers wanted and, as a result, customer ad spending was dropping precipitously; (2) Meta's mitigation efforts were either not properly implemented or ineffective; (3) measurement of ads was not accurate as mitigation efforts were failing; and (4) Meta did not have a plan in place to properly address the impact of the iOS privacy changes.
DEADLINE: May 9, 2022
Aggrieved Meta Platforms, Inc. investors only have until May 9, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. You are not required to act as a lead plaintiff in order to share in any recovery.
Vincent Wong, Esq. is an experienced attorney who has represented investors in securities litigations involving financial fraud and violations of shareholder rights. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
CONTACT:
Vincent Wong, Esq.
39 East Broadway
Suite 304
New York, NY 10002
Tel. 212.425.1140
E-Mail: [email protected]
SOURCE The Law Offices of Vincent Wong | https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/class-action-alert-the-law-offices-of-vincent-wong-remind-meta-platforms-inc-investors-of-a-lead-plaintiff-deadline-of-may-9-2022-301501219.html | 2022-03-14T17:10:44 | en | 0.950273 |
CLASS ACTION ALERT: The Law Offices of Vincent Wong Remind MP Materials Investors of a Lead Plaintiff Deadline of April 25, 2022
NEW YORK, March 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Attention MP Materials Corp. f/k/a Fortress Value Acquisition Corp. ("MP Materials") (NYSE: MP) shareholders:
The Law Offices of Vincent Wong announce that a class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of investors who purchased between May 1, 2020 and February 2, 2022.
If you suffered a loss on your investment in MP Materials, contact us about potential recovery by using the link below. There is no cost or obligation to you.
ABOUT THE ACTION: The class action against MP Materials includes allegations that the Company made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) Fortress Value Acquisition Corp. ("FVAC") had overstated its due diligence efforts and expertise with respect to identifying target companies to acquire; (ii) FVAC performed inadequate due diligence into Legacy MP Materials prior to the business combination, or else ignored significant red flags regarding, inter alia, Legacy MP Materials' management, compliance policies, and Mountain Pass's profitability; (iii) as a result, the Company's future business and financial prospects post-business combination were overstated; (iv) MP Materials engaged in an abusive transfer price manipulation scheme with a related party in the People's Republic of China to artificially inflate the Company's profits; (v) MP Materials' ore at the Mountain Pass Rare Earth Mine and Processing Facility was not economically viable to harvest for rare earth metals; and (vi) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
DEADLINE: April 25, 2022
Aggrieved MP Materials investors only have until April 25, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. You are not required to act as a lead plaintiff in order to share in any recovery.
Vincent Wong, Esq. is an experienced attorney who has represented investors in securities litigations involving financial fraud and violations of shareholder rights. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
CONTACT:
Vincent Wong, Esq.
39 East Broadway
Suite 304
New York, NY 10002
Tel. 212.425.1140
E-Mail: [email protected]
SOURCE The Law Offices of Vincent Wong | https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/class-action-alert-the-law-offices-of-vincent-wong-remind-mp-materials-investors-of-a-lead-plaintiff-deadline-of-april-25-2022-301501216.html | 2022-03-14T17:10:50 | en | 0.938333 |
CLASS ACTION ALERT: The Law Offices of Vincent Wong Remind New Oriental Investors of a Lead Plaintiff Deadline of April 5, 2022
NEW YORK, March 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Attention New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc. ("New Oriental") (NYSE: EDU) shareholders:
The Law Offices of Vincent Wong announce that a class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of investors who purchased between April 24, 2018 and July 22, 2021.
If you suffered a loss on your investment in New Oriental, contact us about potential recovery by using the link below. There is no cost or obligation to you.
ABOUT THE ACTION: The class action against New Oriental includes allegations that the Company made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (a) New Oriental's revenue and operational growth was the result of deceptive marketing tactics and abusive business practices that flouted Chinese regulations and policies and exposed the Company to an extreme risk that more draconian measures would be imposed on the Company; (b) New Oriental had engaged in misleading and fraudulent advertising practices, including the provision of false and misleading discount Information designed to obfuscate the true cost of the Company's programs to its customers; (c) New Oriental had falsified teacher qualifications and experience in order to attract customers and increase student enrollments; (d) New Oriental had defied prior government warnings against linking school enrollments with the provision of private tutoring services; (e) as a result of the foregoing, New Oriental was subject to an extreme undisclosed risk of adverse enforcement actions, regulatory fines and penalties, and the imposition of new rules and regulations adverse to the Company's business and interests; and (f) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and lacked a reasonable, factual basis.
DEADLINE: April 5, 2022
Aggrieved New Oriental investors only have until April 5, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. You are not required to act as a lead plaintiff in order to share in any recovery.
Vincent Wong, Esq. is an experienced attorney who has represented investors in securities litigations involving financial fraud and violations of shareholder rights. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
CONTACT:
Vincent Wong, Esq.
39 East Broadway
Suite 304
New York, NY 10002
Tel. 212.425.1140
E-Mail: [email protected]
SOURCE The Law Offices of Vincent Wong | https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/class-action-alert-the-law-offices-of-vincent-wong-remind-new-oriental-investors-of-a-lead-plaintiff-deadline-of-april-5-2022-301501084.html | 2022-03-14T17:10:56 | en | 0.944805 |
CLASS ACTION ALERT: The Law Offices of Vincent Wong Remind Oak Street Investors of a Lead Plaintiff Deadline of March 14, 2022
NEW YORK, March 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Attention Oak Street Health, Inc. ("Oak Street") (NYSE: OSH) shareholders:
The Law Offices of Vincent Wong announce that a class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of investors who purchased between August 6, 2020 and November 8, 2021.
If you suffered a loss on your investment in Oak Street, contact us about potential recovery by using the link below. There is no cost or obligation to you.
https://www.wongesq.com/pslra-1/oak-street-health-inc-loss-submission-form?prid=24578&wire=4
ABOUT THE ACTION: The class action against Oak Street includes allegations that the Company made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Oak Street maintained relationships with third-party marketing agents likely to provoke law enforcement scrutiny; (2) Oak Street was providing free transportation to federal health care beneficiaries in a manner that would provoke law enforcement scrutiny; (3) these activities may be violations of the False Claims Act; (4) as such, Oak Street was at heightened risk of investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice and/or other federal law enforcement agencies; (5) as a result, Oak Street was subject to adverse impacts related to defense and settlement costs and diversion of management resources; and (6) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
DEADLINE: March 14, 2022
Aggrieved Oak Street investors only have until March 14, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. You are not required to act as a lead plaintiff in order to share in any recovery.
Vincent Wong, Esq. is an experienced attorney who has represented investors in securities litigations involving financial fraud and violations of shareholder rights. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
CONTACT:
Vincent Wong, Esq.
39 East Broadway
Suite 304
New York, NY 10002
Tel. 212.425.1140
E-Mail: [email protected]
SOURCE The Law Offices of Vincent Wong | https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/class-action-alert-the-law-offices-of-vincent-wong-remind-oak-street-investors-of-a-lead-plaintiff-deadline-of-march-14-2022-301501082.html | 2022-03-14T17:11:02 | en | 0.943809 |
CLASS ACTION ALERT: The Law Offices of Vincent Wong Remind Rivian Automotive, Inc. Investors of a Lead Plaintiff Deadline of May 6, 2022
NEW YORK, March 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Attention Rivian Automotive, Inc. ("Rivian Automotive, Inc.") (NASDAQ: RIVN) shareholders:
The Law Offices of Vincent Wong announce that a class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of investors. This lawsuit is on behalf of investors that purchased or otherwise acquired Rivian common stock pursuant and/or traceable to Rivian's Initial Public Offering on November 10, 2021.
If you suffered a loss on your investment in Rivian Automotive, Inc., contact us about potential recovery by using the link below. There is no cost or obligation to you.
https://www.wongesq.com/pslra-1/rivian-automotive-inc-loss-submission-form?prid=24602&wire=4
ABOUT THE ACTION: The Registration Statement (documents issued in connection with the initial public offering) contained representations that were materially inaccurate, misleading, and/or incomplete because they failed to disclose, among other things, that the R1T electric pickup truck and R1S electric SUV were underpriced to such a degree that Rivian would have to raise prices shortly after the IPO and that these price increases would tarnish Rivian's reputation as a trustworthy and transparent company and would put a significant number of the existing backlog of 55,400 preorders, along with future preorders, in jeopardy of cancellation.
DEADLINE: May 6, 2022
Aggrieved Rivian Automotive, Inc. investors only have until May 6, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. You are not required to act as a lead plaintiff in order to share in any recovery.
Vincent Wong, Esq. is an experienced attorney who has represented investors in securities litigations involving financial fraud and violations of shareholder rights. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
CONTACT:
Vincent Wong, Esq.
39 East Broadway
Suite 304
New York, NY 10002
Tel. 212.425.1140
E-Mail: [email protected]
SOURCE The Law Offices of Vincent Wong | https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/class-action-alert-the-law-offices-of-vincent-wong-remind-rivian-automotive-inc-investors-of-a-lead-plaintiff-deadline-of-may-6-2022-301501362.html | 2022-03-14T17:11:08 | en | 0.949117 |
CLASS ACTION ALERT: The Law Offices of Vincent Wong Remind Standard Lithium Investors of a Lead Plaintiff Deadline of March 28, 2022
NEW YORK, March 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Attention Standard Lithium Ltd. ("Standard Lithium") (NYSE: SLI) shareholders:
The Law Offices of Vincent Wong announce that a class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of investors who purchased between May 19, 2020 and November 17, 2021.
If you suffered a loss on your investment in Standard Lithium, contact us about potential recovery by using the link below. There is no cost or obligation to you.
https://www.wongesq.com/pslra-1/standard-lithium-ltd-loss-submission-form?prid=24583&wire=4
ABOUT THE ACTION: The class action against Standard Lithium includes allegations that the Company made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) the LiSTR Direct Lithium Extraction technology's extraction recovery efficiencies were overstated; (ii) accordingly, the Company's final product lithium recovery percentage at the Demonstration Plant would not be as high as the Company had represented to investors; and (iii) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
DEADLINE: March 28, 2022
Aggrieved Standard Lithium investors only have until March 28, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. You are not required to act as a lead plaintiff in order to share in any recovery.
Vincent Wong, Esq. is an experienced attorney who has represented investors in securities litigations involving financial fraud and violations of shareholder rights. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
CONTACT:
Vincent Wong, Esq.
39 East Broadway
Suite 304
New York, NY 10002
Tel. 212.425.1140
E-Mail: [email protected]
SOURCE The Law Offices of Vincent Wong | https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/class-action-alert-the-law-offices-of-vincent-wong-remind-standard-lithium-investors-of-a-lead-plaintiff-deadline-of-march-28-2022-301501351.html | 2022-03-14T17:11:14 | en | 0.937639 |
CLASS ACTION ALERT: The Law Offices of Vincent Wong Remind SunPower Investors of a Lead Plaintiff Deadline of April 18, 2022
NEW YORK, March 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Attention SunPower Corporation ("SunPower") (NASDAQ: SPWR) shareholders:
The Law Offices of Vincent Wong announce that a class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of investors who purchased between August 3, 2021 and January 20, 2022.
If you suffered a loss on your investment in SunPower, contact us about potential recovery by using the link below. There is no cost or obligation to you.
https://www.wongesq.com/pslra-1/sunpower-corporation-loss-submission-form?prid=24593&wire=4
ABOUT THE ACTION: The class action against SunPower includes allegations that the Company made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) certain connectors used by SunPower suffered from cracking issues; (2) as a result, the Company was reasonably likely to incur costs to remediate the faulty connectors; (3) as a result of the foregoing, SunPower's financial results would be adversely impacted; and (4) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
DEADLINE: April 18, 2022
Aggrieved SunPower investors only have until April 18, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. You are not required to act as a lead plaintiff in order to share in any recovery.
Vincent Wong, Esq. is an experienced attorney who has represented investors in securities litigations involving financial fraud and violations of shareholder rights. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
CONTACT:
Vincent Wong, Esq.
39 East Broadway
Suite 304
New York, NY 10002
Tel. 212.425.1140
E-Mail: [email protected]
SOURCE The Law Offices of Vincent Wong | https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/class-action-alert-the-law-offices-of-vincent-wong-remind-sunpower-investors-of-a-lead-plaintiff-deadline-of-april-18-2022-301501358.html | 2022-03-14T17:11:20 | en | 0.939611 |
CLASS ACTION ALERT: The Law Offices of Vincent Wong Remind Taskus Investors of a Lead Plaintiff Deadline of April 25, 2022
NEW YORK, March 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Attention Taskus, Inc. ("Taskus") (NASDAQ: TASK) shareholders:
The Law Offices of Vincent Wong announce that a class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of investors who purchased between June 11, 2021 and January 19, 2022.
If you suffered a loss on your investment in Taskus, contact us about potential recovery by using the link below. There is no cost or obligation to you.
https://www.wongesq.com/pslra-1/taskus-inc-loss-submission-form?prid=24596&wire=4
ABOUT THE ACTION: The class action against Taskus includes allegations that the Company made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) TaskUs was experiencing severe financial strain and business challenges, particularly with its most important customer, Facebook; (2) the Content Security market was smaller than defendants represented and defendants' representations were based on outdated market data; (3) TaskUs improperly recognized revenue from certain key contracts; (4) defendants overstated the size of TaskUs' workforce as well as employee retention rates, and understated attrition rates; and (5) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially false and misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
DEADLINE: April 25, 2022
Aggrieved Taskus investors only have until April 25, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. You are not required to act as a lead plaintiff in order to share in any recovery.
Vincent Wong, Esq. is an experienced attorney who has represented investors in securities litigations involving financial fraud and violations of shareholder rights. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
CONTACT:
Vincent Wong, Esq.
39 East Broadway
Suite 304
New York, NY 10002
Tel. 212.425.1140
E-Mail: [email protected]
SOURCE The Law Offices of Vincent Wong | https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/class-action-alert-the-law-offices-of-vincent-wong-remind-taskus-investors-of-a-lead-plaintiff-deadline-of-april-25-2022-301501359.html | 2022-03-14T17:11:26 | en | 0.938467 |
CLASS ACTION ALERT: The Law Offices of Vincent Wong Remind Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson Investors of a Lead Plaintiff Deadline of May 2, 2022
NEW YORK, March 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Attention Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson ("Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson") (NASDAQ: ERIC) shareholders:
The Law Offices of Vincent Wong announce that a class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of investors who purchased between April 27, 2017 and February 25, 2022.
If you suffered a loss on your investment in Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson, contact us about potential recovery by using the link below. There is no cost or obligation to you.
ABOUT THE ACTION: The class action against Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson includes allegations that the Company made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) Ericsson overstated the extent to which it had reformed its business practices to eliminate the use of bribes to secure business in foreign countries; (ii) Ericsson had paid bribes to the terrorist group the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria to gain access to certain transport routes in Iraq; (iii) accordingly, the Company's revenues derived from its operations in Iraq were, in at least substantial part, derived from unlawful conduct and thus unsustainable; and (iv) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
DEADLINE: May 2, 2022
Aggrieved Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson investors only have until May 2, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. You are not required to act as a lead plaintiff in order to share in any recovery.
Vincent Wong, Esq. is an experienced attorney who has represented investors in securities litigations involving financial fraud and violations of shareholder rights. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
CONTACT:
Vincent Wong, Esq.
39 East Broadway
Suite 304
New York, NY 10002
Tel. 212.425.1140
E-Mail: [email protected]
SOURCE The Law Offices of Vincent Wong | https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/class-action-alert-the-law-offices-of-vincent-wong-remind-telefonaktiebolaget-lm-ericsson-investors-of-a-lead-plaintiff-deadline-of-may-2-2022-301501217.html | 2022-03-14T17:11:32 | en | 0.932889 |
CLASS ACTION ALERT: The Law Offices of Vincent Wong Remind Telos Investors of a Lead Plaintiff Deadline of April 8, 2022
NEW YORK, March 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Attention Telos Corporation ("Telos") (NASDAQ: TLS) shareholders:
The Law Offices of Vincent Wong announce that a class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of investors who purchased between November 19, 2020 and November 12, 2021.
If you suffered a loss on your investment in Telos, contact us about potential recovery by using the link below. There is no cost or obligation to you.
https://www.wongesq.com/pslra-1/telos-corporation-loss-submission-form?prid=24588&wire=4
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NEW YORK, March 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- According to the research market research study published by P&S Intelligence, the GCC color cosmetics market size, which was estimated at $1,277.2 million in 2021, is expected to increase to $2,314.5 million by 2030, at a 6.8% CAGR. Among all Gulf Cooperation Council countries, Saudi Arabia witnesses the highest sale of such products due to its large population and rising number of women in the workforce. Additionally, the disposable income in the kingdom rose from $617,848.7 million in 2016 to $658,493.5 million in 2017.
Similarly, the U.A.E. is a key user of these products because of its position as a major financial and tourist hub of the Middle East. As a result, it enjoys a high culture, which drives people's consciousness on their appearance. This is why personal care companies are pouring heavy sums in marketing their products in the country, often through social media influencers. The U.A.E. has over 1,000 such entities that review and promote cosmetics and other related products on the internet.
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Key Findings of GCC Color Cosmetics Market Report
- However, since chemical-laden cosmetics are harmful to the skin in the long run, the demand for those made from organic ingredients is rising in member countries.
- Among all products, those used for facial makeup are the most popular in GCC countries. With both men and women increasingly engaging in social obligations, they are doing more than ever to enhance their facial appearance.
- Products specifically targeted at women have dominated the GCC color cosmetics market till now. This is because compared to men, women are more conscious of their appearance, especially since many of them have entered the workforce now.
- For instance, compared to 11.5% in 2010, 16.7% of the employed people in the U.A.E. in 2017 were women, according to the World Bank. Apart from making them appearance-conscious, this is leading to an increment in their spending power, thereby driving cosmetic sales.
- Moreover, the increasing usage of Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Pinterest and rising viewership on personal beauty blogs are giving market players more ways to promote their products.
- This is also a key reason the sale of cosmetic products in the region is set to increase the fastest through online channels in the coming years.
In turn, the advancing e-commerce industry is helping drive the GCC color cosmetics market in the post-COVID-19 period. During the lockdowns, there was a major shift from offline purchases to online purchases for almost all types of goods. With people now more aware of the benefits of online shopping than before, such as the flexibility to compare products of different brands and avail of discounts, cosmetic sales through e-commerce platforms are booming.
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Hence, major GCC color cosmetics market players, including L'Oréal S.A., Unilever Group, Beiersdorf AG, The Procter & Gamble Company, Shiseido Co. Ltd., The Estée Lauder Companies Inc., LVMH Moët Hennessy-Louis Vuitton SE, Avon Products Inc., Oriflame Holding AG, Coty Inc., Guerlain SA, Revlon Inc., and MAC Cosmetics, are investing in better digital marketing technologies. For instance, Coty Inc. added AR and VR tools to its online marketing ecosystem in September 2021, while in October 2020, L'Oréal Group partnered with Sprinklr, an AI-integrated CXM platform.
GCC Color Cosmetics Market Segmentation Analysis
Product Type
- Luxury Products
- Mass Products
Product
- Nail Products
- Lip Products
- Eye Make-up Products
- Facial Make-up Products
- Hair Color Products
- Special Effects Products
Packaging
- One-Time
- Refillable
Consumer Group
- Men
- Women
- Unisex
Distribution Channel
- Grocery/Department Stores
- Supermarkets/Hypermarkets
- Multi-Brand Retail Stores
- Online
Country Analysis
- U.A.E. Market
- Saudi Arabia Market
- Qatar Market
- Kuwait Market
- Bahrain Market
- Oman Market
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Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes marries high school sweetheart Brittany Matthews
The high school sweethearts said 'I do' in Hawaii on Saturday
The high school sweethearts said 'I do' in Hawaii on Saturday
The high school sweethearts said 'I do' in Hawaii on Saturday
Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes and Brittany Matthews made it official this weekend, saying 'I do' at a destination wedding in Hawaii.
Mahomes and Matthews have been dating since their high school days in Whitehouse, Texas. Matthews is also a founder and owner of the KC Current, Kansas City's professional women's soccer team. The two were first engaged back in September of 2020.
Both the Chiefs QB and his new bride took to Instagram on Saturday to post their first pictures of the wedding.
"Mr. and Mrs. Mahomes," The album of pictures is captioned.
Since becoming engaged, the couple welcomed their first daughter, Sterling Skye Mahomes. She recently turned one.
Last month, Mahomes celebrated his bachelor party in Las Vegas.
Jackson Mahomes, the QB's brother, was chosen to be the best man for the big day.
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Dental Biomaterials Market size worth $ 12.47 Billion, Globally, by 2028 at 7.29% CAGR: Verified Market Research®
Increased dental implant penetration, rising prevalence of dental diseases, an expanding aging population, and rising disposable income in emerging nations are expected to drive the Global Dental Biomaterials Market
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Global Dental Biomaterials Market Overview
Factors such as increased dental implant penetration, rising prevalence of dental diseases, expanding older population, rising dental tourism, and increasing disposable income in emerging countries are expected to drive the Global Dental Biomaterials Market. The US is the main driver for dental tourism. In 2019, US citizens spent over USD 5 billion on dental tourism. Popular dental tourism countries include Mexico, Thailand, Indonesia, Spain, Turkey, among others. The rise in the number of dental implants, with over 5 million implants done in the US alone, is expected to drive the Dental Biomaterials Market in the coming years. The Asia Pacific region is expected to be a key revenue generator for Dental Biomaterials in the coming years.
Dental implants are increasing in popularity in countries such as China and India, the countries with the largest populations, and also witnessing growing disposable incomes because of which they are able to afford dental treatments. India is fast emerging as one of the top dental tourism destinations in the world. Every year thousands of people from all parts of the globe including the US, Canada, UK, Europe travel to India for low-cost but world-class dental treatment. The country offers the most advanced technology for dental treatment, specifically when it comes to complex procedures such as dental implants and cosmetic dentistry at a very affordable price. South Korea is also a popular destination for various dental services. Dental Biomaterials require stringent regulatory approval processes which could be one of the major restraining factors in the growth of this market in the coming years.
Key Players
The major players in the market are Straumann Holding AG, Geistlich Pharma AG, Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc., Danaher Corporation, Dentsply Sirona, Inc., 3M Company, Royal DSM, Carpenter Technology Corporation, Kuraray Co., Ltd., Medtronic PLC, Henry Schein, Inc., Mitsui Chemicals, Inc., Victrex PLC, Ivoclar Vivadent AG, GC Corporation.
Verified Market Research has segmented the Global Dental Biomaterials Market On the basis of Product Type, Application, End-User, and Geography.
- Dental Biomaterials Market, By Product Type
- Metallic Biomaterial
- Ceramic Biomaterial
- Metal-Ceramic Biomaterial
- Natural Biomaterial|
- Dental Biomaterials Market, By Application
- Orthodontics
- Implantology
- Prosthodontics
- Others
- Dental Biomaterials Market, By End-User
- Dental Laboratories
- Dental Hospitals and Clinics
- Dental Academies and Research Institutes
- Dental Product Manufacturers
- Dental Biomaterials Market By Geography
- North America
- U.S
- Canada
- Mexico
- Europe
- Germany
- France
- U.K
- Rest of Europe
- Asia Pacific
- China
- Japan
- India
- Rest of Asia Pacific
- ROW
- Middle East & Africa
- Latin America
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NEW YORK, March 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Digital Twin Market Share is expected to increase by USD 24.81 billion from 2020 to 2025, with an accelerated CAGR of 39.48% according to the recent market study by Technavio. The report provides a detailed analysis of drivers & opportunities, top winning strategies, competitive scenario, future market trends, market size & estimations, and major investment pockets.
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- Total Pages: 120
- Companies: 10+ – Including General Electric Co., Honeywell International Inc., International Business Machines Corp., Kongsberg Gruppen ASA, Microsoft Corp., Oracle Corp., PTC Inc., SAP SE, Siemens AG, and Wipro Ltd. among others
- Coverage: Key drivers, trends, and challenges; Product insights & news; Value chain analysis; Parent market analysis; Vendor landscape; COVID impact & recovery analysis
- Segments: End-user (manufacturing, energy and utilities, aerospace and defense, automotive, and others) and Deployment (on-premise and cloud)
- Geographies: North America (US), Europe (UK, Germany, and France), APAC (China and Japan), MEA, and South America
Vendor Insights-
The digital twin market is fragmented and the vendors are seeking strong partnerships with automotive, industrial, and commercial companies to compete in the market.
- General Electric Co.- The company offers innovating digital twin technology which is used to optimize the performance of industrial businesses.
- Honeywell International Inc.- The company offers Digital twin technology which turns plant data into actionable information for better decision-making.
- International Business Machines Corp.- The company offers products like IBM Maximo Enterprise Asset Management, IBM Maximo Asset Performance Management and IBM Digital Twin Exchange with digital twin technology.
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42% of the market's growth will originate from North America during the forecast period. The US is a key market for digital twins in North America. Market growth in this region will be faster than the growth of the market in Europe.
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- Emergence of Industry 4.0 and industrial IoT:
Industry 4.0 initiatives are set to introduce innovative production methodologies using advanced technologies, such as cloud, IoT, analytics, digital twin, digital scanning, AI, and cybersecurity. Digital twin technology is at the center of the Industry 4.0 initiatives development that embraces automation, real-time data exchange, and smart manufacturing processes. Industries have been actively using digital twins for their asset and product lifecycle management. The technology allows companies to create a virtual replica of their products and processes and empowers them to take the necessary decisions in advance.
- Digital Twin Market Trend:
- Adoption of digital twin in the healthcare sector:
Over the last few years, the digital twin is gaining significant traction in the healthcare industry. With the help of digital twins, the hospital management can take decisions in advance and optimize patient care, cost, and performance of the facility. The digital twin can also make the replica of a hospital and enable the management to create a safe and secure environment for employees and patients. Digital twin also helps in identifying the treatment for critical diseases by simulating digital replicas of organs. Vendors and healthcare service providers are working closely to determine more applications of digital twin in healthcare. During the forecast period, the adoption of digital twin in the healthcare sector is likely to increase due to its immense benefits. Moreover, the trend of vendors partnering with healthcare providers, researchers, and pharmaceutical companies will increase the implementation of digital twins in the healthcare sector.
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Table of Contents
Executive Summary
Market Landscape
- Market ecosystem
- Impact of COVID-19 on IT sector
- Value chain analysis
Market Sizing
- Market definition
- Market segment analysis
- Market size 2020
- Market outlook: Forecast for 2020 - 2025
Five Forces Analysis
- Five forces summary
- Bargaining power of buyers
- Bargaining power of suppliers
- Threat of new entrants
- Threat of substitutes
- Threat of rivalry
- Market condition
Market Segmentation by End-user
- Market segments
- Comparison by End user
- Manufacturing - Market size and forecast 2020-2025
- Energy and utilities - Market size and forecast 2020-2025
- Aerospace and defense - Market size and forecast 2020-2025
- Automotive - Market size and forecast 2020-2025
- Others - Market size and forecast 2020-2025
- Market opportunity by End user
Market Segmentation by Deployment
- Market segments
- Comparison by Deployment
- On-premise - Market size and forecast 2020-2025
- Cloud - Market size and forecast 2020-2025
- Market opportunity by Deployment
Customer landscape
Geographic Landscape
- Geographic segmentation
- Geographic comparison
- North America - Market size and forecast 2020-2025
- Europe - Market size and forecast 2020-2025
- APAC - Market size and forecast 2020-2025
- MEA - Market size and forecast 2020-2025
- South America - Market size and forecast 2020-2025
- Key leading countries
- Market opportunity by geography
- Market drivers
- Market challenges
- Market trends
Vendor Landscape
- Overview
- Vendor landscape
- Landscape disruption
Vendor Analysis
- Vendors covered
- Market positioning of vendors
- General Electric Co.
- Honeywell International Inc.
- International Business Machines Corp.
- Kongsberg Gruppen ASA
- Microsoft Corp.
- Oracle Corp.
- PTC Inc.
- SAP SE
- Siemens AG
- Wipro Ltd.
Appendix
- Scope of the report
- Currency conversion rates for US$
- Research methodology
- List of abbreviations
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U.S. oil prices tumbled below $100 a barrel on Monday, unwinding a significant chunk of the recent spike caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.Oil plunged more than 8%, touching a low of $99.76 a barrel. That means oil has lost almost roughly quarter of its value since touching a near 14-year high of $130.50 a barrel on March 6.It's the first time oil has traded below $100 since March 1.Brent crude, the world benchmark, dropped more than 7% to $104.35 a barrel in recent trading. That marks a sharp pullback from the recent peak of nearly $140 a barrel.Traders blamed Monday's losses concerns about COVID-19 lockdowns in China and hopes for progress in negotiations between Russia and Ukraine."You're seeing some vicious selling," lead oil analyst of the Americas at Kpler.The selloff should ease fears of an energy-driven recession in the United States and, if sustained, should bring relief to drivers dealing with record gasoline prices.
U.S. oil prices tumbled below $100 a barrel on Monday, unwinding a significant chunk of the recent spike caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Oil plunged more than 8%, touching a low of $99.76 a barrel. That means oil has lost almost roughly quarter of its value since touching a near 14-year high of $130.50 a barrel on March 6.
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It's the first time oil has traded below $100 since March 1.
Brent crude, the world benchmark, dropped more than 7% to $104.35 a barrel in recent trading. That marks a sharp pullback from the recent peak of nearly $140 a barrel.
Traders blamed Monday's losses concerns about COVID-19 lockdowns in China and hopes for progress in negotiations between Russia and Ukraine.
"You're seeing some vicious selling," lead oil analyst of the Americas at Kpler.
The selloff should ease fears of an energy-driven recession in the United States and, if sustained, should bring relief to drivers dealing with record gasoline prices. | https://www.4029tv.com/article/oil-below-100-dollares-a-barrel/39428962 | 2022-03-14T17:11:58 | en | 0.955478 |
Exfoliation of Zeolites into Solution Produces Porous Monolayers: WPI-MANA
Mar 14, 2022, 04:00 ET
TSUKUBA, Japan, March 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A pioneering study at the International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA) has resulted in the first direct exfoliation of zeolites into a liquid suspension of monolayers. This breakthrough provides proof of the presence of monolayers, and could lead to their use in the creation of catalysts, nanodevices, drug delivery systems and other products with tailored properties.
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Some two-dimensional (2D) materials, such as graphene, exhibit a variety of unique properties thanks to their molecular thinness and large size, as well as their 2D anisotropy. Catalysts and electrode materials that take advantage of nanosheets' high surface area are a promising field, but the 2D anisotropy prevents efficient transfer of ions and molecules within the materials. Therefore, 2D materials with through-holes are attracting attention, but so far there have been few examples of them.
Zeolites are typical porous materials and some of them have a layered structure. So exfoliating them in a single 2D layer could result in nanosheets with a regular pore structure. Although there have been reports of the synthesis of zeolite nanosheets in trace yields, large quantities of the substance have not been obtained at a usable level.
A WPI-MANA group succeeded in synthesizing zeolite nanosheets (MWW and FER types) by exfoliating them into a single layer by greatly swelling the layered zeolite in a solution containing organic ammonium ions.
Dispersing the zeolites into liquids provides the most effective approach to their practical exploitation to fabricate materials with particular activity and functionality. The suspended layers can be deposited on supports or restacked into hierarchical structures alone or in combination with other 2D materials to produce solids with useful properties.
The exfoliation and proof of the presence of monolayers in the colloids open new possibilities of synthesizing functional hybrid and hierarchically structured materials. The researchers also made predictions about potential applications of zeolite monolayer colloids based on the anisotropic physical properties of 2D materials.
This research was conducted by Takayoshi Sasaki (MANA Principal Investigator, Group Leader, Soft Chemistry Group, WPI-MANA, NIMS) and his collaborators.
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'SNL' star Pete Davidson headed to space, Blue Origin announces
"Saturday Night Live" performer Pete Davidson is headed to space, Blue Origin announced Monday.
Davidson will join Marty Allen, Sharon and Marc Hagle, Jim Kitchen and Dr. George Nield for the March 23 launch from Launch Site One in West Texas.
Liftoff is scheduled for 8:30 a.m.
This mission is the fourth human flight for the New Shepard program and the 20th in its history.
According to Blue Origin, the 11-minute flight will take the crew 62 miles above earth, traveling over three times the speed of sound to float weightless for several minutes.
"Each astronaut on board NS-20 will carry a postcard to space on behalf of Blue Origin’s foundation, Club for the Future, whose Postcards to Space program gives students access to space on Blue Origin’s rockets. The Club’s mission is to inspire future generations to pursue careers in STEM for the benefit of Earth," Blue Origin wrote. | https://www.4029tv.com/article/pete-davidson-space-blue-origin/39429868 | 2022-03-14T17:12:08 | en | 0.922542 |
Pies around the world — sweet and savory pastries to celebrate Pi Day
March 14 is Pi Day in honor of the first three digits of the mathematical constant π (3.1415...). But it's also a flimsy, yet delicious, excuse to celebrate an enduring culinary concept: the many edible varieties of pie around the world.
Classic American apple and cherry varieties might be the first dishes that come to mind when the word "pie" is mentioned. But they're just a slice of the sweet and savory pies available to pastry lovers from Florida to the Philippines.
Under the broad definition of a pie as a filled, baked pastry shell, history has provided a wide range of pies. Egyptian hieroglyphics show pastries filled with honey, nuts and fruit, while ancient Greeks and Romans supped on free-form pies filled with both sweets and meats.
From there, the world of pies has only expanded. Try a few of these international pies when you're traveling or bake your own at home.
Meat pies
In ancient Rome, early meat pies used dough merely as a vessel for preserving the meat's tenderness, not for eating with the filling. It took a few centuries (and recipe improvements) for the idea of eating the crust and the meat filling to catch on.
The British and their colonies seem to have perfected the art of the meat pie. Steak and ale pie is a pub favorite and has its roots in medieval pies, which used local meats, game and vegetables in a pastry crust.
Tourtière is a hearty French-Canadian meat pie traditionally filled with ground pork and served during the Christmas season. A salmon version of tourtière is common for those who grew up along the coast.
In Australia and New Zealand, meat pies split the difference between a traditional pie and a handheld pie: round double-crust pies sized down to be single-serving meals. Beef and gravy is the most common filling for these pies, which are often topped with ketchup or tomato sauce.
Speaking of handheld meat pies, their ingenuity spans the globe. Cornish pasties were popularized as a food for miners, but are now so beloved that they're protected by geographic origin.
Jamaican beef patties and Nigerian meat pies are similar, but the Jamaican patty is differentiated by its golden, turmeric-infused crust and spiced filling.
And empanadas, thought to have originated in Galicia, Spain, are eaten all over Latin America and in the Philippines, among other places.
Other savory pies
As one of the birthplaces of pie, Greek cuisine has its share of sweet and savory pies to choose from. Spanakopita is one of the most well-known, featuring a spinach and feta filling inside flaky phyllo dough, but there's also its cousin hortopita, made with wild greens; tiropita, a savory cheese pie; and maridopita, a fish pie.
Layers of flaky phyllo also form the crust for Albanian burek or byrek, savory pies that can be filled with everything from ground meat to spinach and cheese. The tomato and onion version of this pie is often known as Albanian pizza, layering caramelized onions and stewed tomatoes.
Sweet and savory pies
While meat pies were the norm for much of the pie's early history, the spices used in many of these pastries bridged the gap between savory and sweet.
Pastilla, a Moroccan pie that also goes by the names bisteeya or b'stilla, is a spiced pie that combines poultry, almonds and eggs. Though pigeon or squab has been the traditional poultry of choice, easier modern versions substitute chicken in the pie.
If you're familiar with the souffle-like texture of corn spoon bread or corn pudding, American sweet corn custard pie is one step further in the dessert direction. Adding fresh corn kernels to a sweet custard or chess pie filling is a common theme for bakers and gardeners making the most of late summer produce.
Fruit pies
Forget four and twenty blackbirds — if it grows on a tree, it can likely be baked into a pie. Fruit pies are one of the finest ways to enjoy seasonal produce.
Some of the fruit pies well known in North America today originated with colonists who brought seeds from Europe or added ingredients native to North America to their baking traditions.
Rhubarb became a popular pie filling in New England by the 1820s and spread south and west with the population. Concord grape pie uses the juicy, dark-skinned grapes native to North America (yes, the ones in every kid's favorite jar of jelly).
Persimmon pies are found in family recipe files throughout the eastern United States, taking advantage of another native fruit that can be grown as far west as Iowa and as far north as Connecticut. With a texture similar to pumpkin pie, it's no wonder this is a pie perfect for the fall harvest season.
Apple pie is enshrined as the quintessential American pie — as Jack Kerouac wrote in "On the Road": "I ate another apple pie and ice cream; that's practically all I ate all the way across the country."
But apple pie has its roots in Europe, with many of the apple varieties we know today imported to the North American continent.
Vlaai are Dutch fruit pies made with yeasted brioche-style dough instead of the usual butter pastry crust. Though they can be filled with fruits such as apricots, plums, and cherries, a Dutch appelvlaai bridges Old and New World dessert traditions.
Other sweet pies
If cooked fruit fillings aren't your favorite, let pies with creamy fillings fulfill your dessert fantasies.
Fans of coconut cream pie should seek out Filipino buko pie, a specialty of the Laguna province. This double-crust pie is filled with strips of buko, or young coconut, suspended in a creamy coconut custard.
British Banoffee pie is fairly modern by pie standards. Created by the chef and owner of The Hungry Monk restaurant in East Sussex, England, in the 1970s, it's now a no-bake classic. The name is a portmanteau of its main ingredients: bananas and toffee sauce. While the original recipe (spelled banoffi) calls for a pastry crust, many iterations use a biscuit or graham cracker crust instead.
Tangy Key lime pie is a must-have when visiting Key West, Florida, where it's frequently served frozen in a crunchy chocolate shell.
Further up the East Coast, Atlantic Beach pie from North Carolina is a saltier take on the cool citrus pie. Crushed Saltine crackers form the crust base, and a tangy lemon-lime filling gives citrus fans the best of both worlds. | https://www.4029tv.com/article/pies-around-the-world-sweet-and-savory-pastries-to-celebrate-pi-day/39427842 | 2022-03-14T17:12:18 | en | 0.946979 |
Two-year project aims to update and automate all of the group's processes through an integrated approach and to support its growth
RUEIL-MALMAISON, France, March 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Infor, the industry cloud company, today announced that Foodex Group, a Japanese food importer and distributor, has selected Infor CloudSuite Distribution Enterprise, a cloud ERP platform with prebuilt capabilities for food and beverage distributors. Foodex Group has chosen a "One Infor" approach, entrusting the vendor with the entire project through a mission of consulting, support and services delivered in SaaS mode throughout the project.
Learn more about Infor solutions for the food industry:
https://www.infor.com/products/cloudsuite-distribution-enterprise
Foodex was created in Paris in 1992 by a team of gastronomy enthusiasts who wanted to share the treasures of Japanese cuisine with European consumers. Over the years, Foodex has expanded in Europe (notably between 2001 and 2019) by creating or acquiring distribution subsidiaries. At the same time, Foodex was acquired in 2010 by the Japanese group Takara Shuzô International, the leader and historical producer of saké in Japan, and opened a tasting and training space in Paris in 2015, the Atelier du Saké. Since 2018, Foodex has also expanded its export activities with deliveries throughout Europe, constantly growing and hiring new staff. The group's 350 employees now supply more than 10,000 customers with more than 2,500 references in line with market trends and needs: restaurants, grocery shops and agribusinesses specialising in Japanese, Asian and fusion food.
Adeline Colinet, Foodex's IT project director, says: "Having worked for years in a Microsoft environment, we had planned to remain consistent with our initial choices. However, meeting the Infor team and discovering a solution that is entirely dedicated to our business in terms of functionality, led us to reconsider our position."
Multi-site, multi-company, multi-currency and multi-lingual, Infor's CloudSuite, covers the main needs of large international food distributors as standard, from omnichannel sales and order management, through purchasing, inventory and supply management, financial management, and associated analytical reporting with the implementation of the Infor Birst BI module.
"The functional richness of the solution, its standard adaptation to our business specificities, its fully integrated approach within a single interface, as well as its advantages in terms of agility, scalability and speed of deployment, were particularly attractive to us," Colinet continues. "Deployed in a multi-tenant cloud environment — running on Amazon Web Services — will allow us to outsource our maintenance and upgrade processes to Infor's teams, allowing our users to focus on higher value-added tasks."
Selected Foodex key users, assisted by a team of Infor consultants, meticulously evaluated the solution in approximately 10 workshops that were organized during a 6-month evaluation period. Foodex management made a final decision for Infor CloudSuite Distribution Enterprise at the end of 2021. At the same time, Infor's management team has become the sponsor and guarantor of the success of the project, by engaging three of its executive managers at the highest level. While a project team is being set up at Foodex, the solution is expected to be rolled out in two stages beginning in April 2022.
Frédéric Russo, Infor SVP for international sales, concludes: "The excellent collaboration between our teams and those of Foodex from the start of the project was a real factor in accelerating their decision to trust us. Our knowledge of the sector, our international multi-country and multi-site approach based on a single solution available on AWS in the multi-tenant cloud, as well as our ability to harmonise and implement processes for reporting results, subsidiary by subsidiary, in order to consolidate and optimise the budget development plan, all made the difference."
About Infor
Infor is a global leader in business cloud software specialized by industry. We develop complete solutions for our focus industries, including industrial manufacturing, distribution, healthcare, food & beverage, automotive, aerospace & defense, and high tech. Infor's mission-critical enterprise applications and services are designed to deliver sustainable operational advantages with security and faster time-to-value. We are obsessed with delivering successful business outcomes for customers, and we are continually innovating to quickly solve emerging business and industry challenges. Over 65,000 organizations in more than 175 countries rely on Infor's 17,000 employees and their deep industry expertise to help overcome market disruptions and achieve their business goals. As a Koch company, our financial strength, ownership structure, and long-term view empower us to foster enduring, mutually beneficial relationships with our customers, employees and partners. Visit www.infor.com.
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SOURCE Infor | https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/foodex-group-opts-for-infor-as-part-of-global-it-overhaul-301501345.html | 2022-03-14T17:12:27 | en | 0.950585 |
Five shootings targeting sleeping homeless men in New York City and Washington, D.C., over the past two weeks were carried out by a single suspect who is now the subject of an "urgent" manhunt, officials said Sunday.The mayors of both cities issued a joint statement Sunday saying there was a "cold-blooded killer on the loose." Agencies also released surveillance photos of the suspect, and each police chief pledged to catch him."Our homeless population is one of our most vulnerable and an individual preying on them as they sleep is an exceptionally heinous crime," said NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell. "We will use every tool, every technique and every partner to bring the killer to justice."The five shootings took place between March 3 and March 12 and left two men dead, the New York Police Department and Washington's Metropolitan Police Department said in the joint statement. Each shooting took place in the middle of the night and targeted men experiencing homelessness, authorities said.The NYPD and MPD cited similar circumstances and characteristics in each shooting and recovered evidence as the basis for the joint investigation. The agencies are working with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives on the investigation and have offered a combined $55,000 for information leading to the arrest of the suspect.Three of the shootings took place last week in Washington, followed by two further shootings in New York this weekend.The first shooting happened around 4 a.m. on March 3 in the 1100 block of New York Avenue Northeast, the MPD said in an earlier statement Sunday. Officers responded to a call of shots fired and found a man suffering from apparent gunshot wounds. He was treated at a hospital for non-life-threatening injuries, the statement said.The second shooting was reported around 1:21 a.m. on March 8 in the 1700 block of H Street Northeast, MPD said. Officers found another man suffering from apparent gunshot wounds and he was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.Then, around 2:54 a.m. on March 9, an MPD member noticed a fire in the 400 block of New York Avenue Northeast and a man's remains were discovered after the flames were extinguished. The cause of death was determined to be multiple stab and gunshot wounds, police said.The fourth and fifth shootings occurred in New York City early Saturday when the suspect opened fire on two apparently homeless people who were sleeping on the street, killing one and wounding the other, the NYPD said.The shootings happened about 90 minutes apart in Lower Manhattan and were caught on surveillance cameras, the department said. The NYPD described what the videos showed but did not release them to CNN.One video shows a man who appeared to be homeless sleeping near the corner of King Street and Varick when an unknown suspect approached and shot him in his forearm, NYPD Deputy Chief Commanding Officer Henry Sautner said during a news conference Saturday. The man woke up and shouted, "What are you doing?" at the shooter, who then ran away, Sautner added.Police were called to the scene around 4:30 a.m. Saturday and the 38-year-old victim was taken to a hospital for treatment.In addition, investigators became aware of a second shooting outside 148 Lafayette Street on Saturday. There, officers found a man in a sleeping bag with gunshot wounds to his head and neck, and he was pronounced dead at the scene, Sautner said. Surveillance video shows a suspect approaching the sleeping victim around 6:00 a.m. and discharging a weapon, Sautner said.New York Mayor Eric Adams described the videos as "chilling.""This individual approached the two men, one at a time, you see him looking around, making sure no one was around, kicking the homeless person to make sure they were not asleep and just assassinated him," Adams said Sunday. "It was just something you would not imagine would take place in our city."Shootings are 'heinous crimes,' mayors sayIn their joint statement Sunday, New York Mayor Eric Adams and Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser called the shootings "heinous crimes" and called on residents to report any information that could help the investigation."The work to get this individual off our streets before he hurts or murders another individual is urgent. The rise in gun violence has shaken all of us and it is particularly horrible to know that someone is out there deliberately doing harm to an already vulnerable population," they said.The mayors also called on residents who are homeless to seek shelter."It is heartbreaking and tragic to know that in addition to all the dangers that unsheltered residents face, we now have a cold-blooded killer on the loose, but we are certain that we will get the suspect off the street and into police custody," they said.The shootings come as the NYPD grapples with upticks across every major crime category in the city. Major crimes spiked nearly 60% in February compared to the same month in 2021, police data showed.New York City recorded a 41% increase in overall major crime through the first months of 2022 compared to the same period last year, including a nearly 54% increase in robberies, a 56% increase in grand larceny incidents and a 22% increase in rape reports, the data shows.Murders increased by 10%, while citywide shooting incidents decreased by 1.3%, with 77 incidents in February 2021 and 76 incidents last month, NYPD data shows.Those living on the streets in New York "are far more likely to be victims of violent crime than perpetrators," the Coalition for the Homeless said in a statement Sunday.City officials are working to get homeless individuals into shelters, Adams said Sunday."We're also mobilizing on the streets to notify our homeless to try and get them in shelters, those who want to do so," Adams said. "Being homeless should not turn into a homicide and I want to catch this guy bad."Adams unveiled his 'Blueprint to End Gun Violence' in January, which includes long-term goals to grow economic opportunities, improve child education and provide more access to mental health resources while addressing the gun crisis.
Five shootings targeting sleeping homeless men in New York City and Washington, D.C., over the past two weeks were carried out by a single suspect who is now the subject of an "urgent" manhunt, officials said Sunday.
The mayors of both cities issued a joint statement Sunday saying there was a "cold-blooded killer on the loose." Agencies also released surveillance photos of the suspect, and each police chief pledged to catch him.
"Our homeless population is one of our most vulnerable and an individual preying on them as they sleep is an exceptionally heinous crime," said NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell. "We will use every tool, every technique and every partner to bring the killer to justice."
The five shootings took place between March 3 and March 12 and left two men dead, the New York Police Department and Washington's Metropolitan Police Department said in the joint statement. Each shooting took place in the middle of the night and targeted men experiencing homelessness, authorities said.
The NYPD and MPD cited similar circumstances and characteristics in each shooting and recovered evidence as the basis for the joint investigation. The agencies are working with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives on the investigation and have offered a combined $55,000 for information leading to the arrest of the suspect.
Three of the shootings took place last week in Washington, followed by two further shootings in New York this weekend.
NYPD/Twitter
The NYPD released photos of the person they believed targeted homeless men in two shootings March 12.
The first shooting happened around 4 a.m. on March 3 in the 1100 block of New York Avenue Northeast, the MPD said in an earlier statement Sunday. Officers responded to a call of shots fired and found a man suffering from apparent gunshot wounds. He was treated at a hospital for non-life-threatening injuries, the statement said.
The second shooting was reported around 1:21 a.m. on March 8 in the 1700 block of H Street Northeast, MPD said. Officers found another man suffering from apparent gunshot wounds and he was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Then, around 2:54 a.m. on March 9, an MPD member noticed a fire in the 400 block of New York Avenue Northeast and a man's remains were discovered after the flames were extinguished. The cause of death was determined to be multiple stab and gunshot wounds, police said.
The fourth and fifth shootings occurred in New York City early Saturday when the suspect opened fire on two apparently homeless people who were sleeping on the street, killing one and wounding the other, the NYPD said.
The shootings happened about 90 minutes apart in Lower Manhattan and were caught on surveillance cameras, the department said. The NYPD described what the videos showed but did not release them to CNN.
One video shows a man who appeared to be homeless sleeping near the corner of King Street and Varick when an unknown suspect approached and shot him in his forearm, NYPD Deputy Chief Commanding Officer Henry Sautner said during a news conference Saturday. The man woke up and shouted, "What are you doing?" at the shooter, who then ran away, Sautner added.
Police were called to the scene around 4:30 a.m. Saturday and the 38-year-old victim was taken to a hospital for treatment.
In addition, investigators became aware of a second shooting outside 148 Lafayette Street on Saturday. There, officers found a man in a sleeping bag with gunshot wounds to his head and neck, and he was pronounced dead at the scene, Sautner said. Surveillance video shows a suspect approaching the sleeping victim around 6:00 a.m. and discharging a weapon, Sautner said.
New York Mayor Eric Adams described the videos as "chilling."
"This individual approached the two men, one at a time, you see him looking around, making sure no one was around, kicking the homeless person to make sure they were not asleep and just assassinated him," Adams said Sunday. "It was just something you would not imagine would take place in our city."
DC Metropolitan Police Department
The Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, D.C., released photos of the suspect they believe targeted homeless men.
Shootings are 'heinous crimes,' mayors say
In their joint statement Sunday, New York Mayor Eric Adams and Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser called the shootings "heinous crimes" and called on residents to report any information that could help the investigation.
"The work to get this individual off our streets before he hurts or murders another individual is urgent. The rise in gun violence has shaken all of us and it is particularly horrible to know that someone is out there deliberately doing harm to an already vulnerable population," they said.
The mayors also called on residents who are homeless to seek shelter.
"It is heartbreaking and tragic to know that in addition to all the dangers that unsheltered residents face, we now have a cold-blooded killer on the loose, but we are certain that we will get the suspect off the street and into police custody," they said.
The shootings come as the NYPD grapples with upticks across every major crime category in the city. Major crimes spiked nearly 60% in February compared to the same month in 2021, police data showed.
New York City recorded a 41% increase in overall major crime through the first months of 2022 compared to the same period last year, including a nearly 54% increase in robberies, a 56% increase in grand larceny incidents and a 22% increase in rape reports, the data shows.
Murders increased by 10%, while citywide shooting incidents decreased by 1.3%, with 77 incidents in February 2021 and 76 incidents last month, NYPD data shows.
Those living on the streets in New York "are far more likely to be victims of violent crime than perpetrators," the Coalition for the Homeless said in a statement Sunday.
City officials are working to get homeless individuals into shelters, Adams said Sunday.
"We're also mobilizing on the streets to notify our homeless to try and get them in shelters, those who want to do so," Adams said. "Being homeless should not turn into a homicide and I want to catch this guy bad."
Adams unveiled his 'Blueprint to End Gun Violence' in January, which includes long-term goals to grow economic opportunities, improve child education and provide more access to mental health resources while addressing the gun crisis. | https://www.4029tv.com/article/shootings-targeting-homeless-men-in-new-york-and-washington-dc/39428476 | 2022-03-14T17:12:29 | en | 0.979834 |
Giift, backed by Apis Growth Fund II, acquires a majority ownership in Xoxoday, a fintech disruptor in the rewards, incentives, and payout space
SINGAPORE, March 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Giift, a leading provider of loyalty management solutions around the globe, announced today that it has acquired a majority interest in Xoxoday, an India-based fintech disruptor in the rewards, incentives, and payout space. Giift's investment will enable Xoxoday to fuel the next stage of growth in international markets and upgrade its technology infrastructure. Giift and Xoxoday's strategy is to advance its technology leadership, increase market penetration, and create the undisputed global standard for loyalty platform technology.
Xoxoday provides an advanced and scalable infrastructure platform that enables businesses of all sizes and industries to automate rewards, incentives, and payouts for employees, partners, and consumers. With a first-principles approach, the company reimagined how rewards, incentives, and payouts should work. Today, Xoxoday enables rewards and incentives to be embedded and integrated in the flow of work across the value chain. Since different business contexts demand tailored solutions, Xoxoday has three SaaS offerings for the market.
- Plum, a horizontal platform infrastructure that automates rewards, incentives, perks, and payouts programs.
- Empuls, a vertical platform that enables organizations to create an engaged workplace, where everyone is aligned, empowered, and connected through a continuous process of feedback and improvement.
- Compass, a platform automating and gamifying sales incentives and commissions for sales teams.
Giift and Xoxoday's combined technology platforms will cover the entire loyalty value chain. It will enable both companies to enlarge their service offerings and collectively accelerate growth globally. The Giift and Xoxoday SaaS platforms will cover the broadest available loyalty product suite, serving corporate programs with end-to-end loyalty technology, employee rewards and recognition programs, sales and channel incentives, merchant loyalty programs, and consumer incentive programs powered with a global marketplace.
Giift and Xoxoday jointly address all market segments and industries. From the largest global corporations to mid-sized domestic entities and local merchants, the combined platform helps attract and retain customers and incentivize employees and partners. Furthermore, the platform is industry and geography agnostic, with clients representing a broad array of industries including financial services, utilities, hospitality, consumer products, real estate, and pharmaceuticals, across the Americas, APAC, MENA, and Europe.
Co-Founder and CEO of Giift Laurent Xatart commented, "Xoxoday is a unique and powerful loyalty platform for employee, sales, and consumer rewards. Our partnership with Xoxoday will enable Giift to offer the most comprehensive engagement and loyalty solution available on the market and represents a big step forward in our mission to create the global standard for the loyalty industry."
Sumit Khandelwal, Co-founder & CEO Xoxoday, added, "We firmly believe that growth compounds with the right people and right partners. With Giift and Apis Growth Fund II on board, I can only see growth upwards and onwards from here. Giift's loyalty infrastructure and Xoxoday's rewards infrastructure, together, cover the length and breadth of business use cases across the entire lifecycle for employees, channel partners, and consumers."
About Xoxoday
Xoxoday is a rapidly growing fintech SaaS firm that propels business growth while focusing on human motivation. Xoxoday offers a suite of three products - Plum, Empuls, and Compass. Xoxoday works with more than 2000 clients, across 10+ countries and over 2.5 million users. Headquartered in Bengaluru, Xoxoday is a 270 member strong team with four global offices in San Francisco, Dublin, Singapore, New Delhi. www.xoxoday.com
About Giift
Giift serves the multifaceted loyalty industry across three main functions including Loyalty Issuance, Loyalty Exchange, and Loyalty Payment. Founded in 2013, today Giift manages 50k+ programs across 55+ countries and over 130 million users. The company is headquartered in Singapore and has offices in New York, London, Wuhan, San Francisco, Nairobi, Beijing, Mumbai, Dubai, Lagos, Jakarta, New Delhi, Doha, Dhaka, and Colombo. www.giift.com
About Apis Partners
The Apis Group ("Apis") is an ESGI-native global private equity and venture capital asset manager that supports growth-stage financial services and financial infrastructure businesses by providing them with catalytic growth equity capital. Collectively Apis, through its team of approximately 30 professionals with deep industry expertise, manages or advises on total committed capital from investors (including drawn and invested capital) of US$1.2 billion. Including its headquarters in London, Apis has representation in seven countries across Europe, North, East and West Africa, and South and Southeast Asia. www.apis.pe
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The Central government has provided the Y-category protection to the 12 officers of the Delhi Police Special Cell who have been investigating the murder of Punjabi rapper Sidhu Moosewala. The singer-songwriter was shot dead by gangsters in Punjab's Mansa in May. Goldy Brar, a Canada-based Indian origin gangster, took the reponsibility for the murder on social media.
The Delhi Police said in a statement that Special CP HGS Dhaliwal, DCP Special Cell Manishi Chandra, DCP Rajeev Ranjan, ACP Lalit Negi, ACP Hriday Bhushan, ACP Ved Prakash, ACP Rahul Vikram, Inspector Ravindra Joshi, Inspector Sunil Kumar, Inspector Vikram Dahiya, Inspector Nishant Dahiya, Inspector Vinod Kumar, have been provided with extra security due to the high profile nature of the crime and involvement of dreaded gangsters of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang.
One commando each will provide security to these officers.
The security was increased after Lakhbir Landa, aide of Punjab gangster Harvinder Rinda, threatened to murder the officers of the Delhi Police Special Cell on social media.
Landa is also based in Canada and is the prime suspect in the Punjab RPG attack.
He allegedly threatened the officers saying he had the photographs of all those officers involved in the investigation of the murder of the singer whose real name was Shubhdeep Singh Sidhu.
He had also warned that no officer of the Delhi Police Special Cell must be seen in Punjab and that it would not be good for them if they are seen roaming in the streets.
Sidhu was shot dead on May 29 in Jawaharke village of Mansa district in Punjab.
This was two days after Punjab Police withdrew the security cover of over 400 personnel, including Moose Wala.
Earlier this month, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann confirmed that Goldy Brar was detained in the United States. However, days after the information, he appeared in a YouTube video denying his arrest.
With inputs from ANI | https://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-sidhu-moosewala-murder-case-after-lakhbir-landa-s-threat-12-delhi-police-special-cell-officers-get-y-level-3010611 | 2022-12-14T07:20:22 | en | 0.968438 |
Hyderabad: Fans were blown away when they saw their two favorite stars Allu Arjun and Mahesh Babu, posing together at a recent event where both Tollywood actors shared stage.
They recently attended Gunasekhar’s daughter, Neelima Guna’s wedding reception ceremony in Hyderabad. Mahesh Babu was seen on stage congratulating the couple, unaware that Allu Arjun had climbed the stage, and when both stars arrived together, his entire team rushed on to the stage for security.
Allu Arjun saw Mahesh Babu, and he simply went to him and shook his hand. When the iconic star meets the other heroes, he usually laughs and greets them with a smile, but his unusual greeting with Mahesh Babu has sparked the rumours of rift between the two actors. However, the reason remains unknown.
In the past, we also saw a collision of two-star films. In the year 2020, Mahesh Babu and Allu Arjun’s films were released one after the other, as Sarileru Nekevvaru was released on January 10 and Ala Vaikuntapuramulo was released on January 12; both films faced competition during Sankranthi 2020. At that time, we saw so many aggressive promotions and counteractions between the fans, and they were more into the pros and cons of judging at the same time.
This also broke the online fight between Mahesh Babu and Allu Arjun’s fans.
Fan disputes, on the other hand, should be kept to the end of the show. The heroes must agree on whether or not to solve the problem. But we should appreciate the two stars for how they have handled the situation with grace, and fans were so amazed to see both of them sharing the stage and posing together for a photo.
On the work front, Allu Arjun has Pushpa 2 starring Rashmika Mandanna in the female lead. Mahesh Babu has two movies with Trivikram and SS Rajamouli. | https://www.siasat.com/all-is-not-well-between-allu-arjun-and-mahesh-babu-2479514/ | 2022-12-14T07:21:19 | en | 0.985917 |
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Mumbai: New week calls for a new nomination round. Bigg Boss 16 saw a fresh nomination task last night in which one of the captains Soundarya Sharma got the special power to save the contestants.
Bigg Boss 16 Nominated Contestants List
Four contestants have been nominated for the 11th week’s elimination round. Housemates who landed in the danger zone are —
- Sajid Khan
- Shiv Thakare
- Tina Datta
- Shalin Bhanot
Elimination Updates
Among the above four contestants, Shalin Bhanot is having a high chance of getting eliminated from Bigg Boss 16 next. Shiv Thakare is among the strongest contenders, so he has no chance of bidding goodbye to the show. Tina Datta, on the other hand, has just re-entered BB 16 post her temporary eviction last week, so she is likely to stay more in the game. Speaking about Sajid Khan, the buzz on social media has it that the makers’ plot is to keep him till the finale. However, these are just predictions and only the upcoming Weekend Ka Vaar episode will tell about which unlucky contestant will walk home next.
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New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to entertain submissions seeking an early setting up of a fresh bench to hear Bilkis Bano’s plea challenging the remission of sentence of 11 convicts by the Gujarat government in her gang-rape case
A bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justice P S Narasimha was urged by lawyer Shobha Gupta, appearing for Bano, that another bench was needed to be constituted to hear the case.
“The writ (petition) will be listed. Please, do not keep mentioning the same thing again and again. It is very irritating,” the CJI said.
Supreme Court judge Bela M Trivedi on Tuesday recused herself from hearing a plea filed by Bano.
The CJI will now have to set up a fresh bench, to which Justice Trivedi will not be a part, to hear Bano’s case.
All the 11 convicts were granted remission by the state government and released on August 15 this year.
Bilkis Bano was 21-years-old and five months pregnant when she was gang-raped while fleeing the riots that broke out after the Godhra train burning incident. Her three-year-old daughter was among seven family members killed at that time.
The investigation in the case was handed over to the CBI and the trial was transferred to a Maharashtra court by the Supreme Court.
A special CBI court in Mumbai had on January 21, 2008 sentenced the 11 to life imprisonment.
Their conviction was later upheld by the Bombay High Court and the Supreme Court.
The 11 men convicted in the case walked out of the Godhra sub-jail on August 15 after the Gujarat government allowed their release under its remission policy. They had completed more than 15 years in jail. | https://www.siasat.com/bilkis-bano-case-sc-refuses-early-setting-up-of-bench-to-hear-plea-2479542/ | 2022-12-14T07:21:31 | en | 0.98565 |
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New Delhi: BJP MP Brij Lal on Wednesday raised the issue of reservation in the Aligarh Muslim University in the Rajya Sabha.
He alleged that there was no reservation for the SC, ST and OBC in the university.
He said, “Both BHU and AMU were enacted by the same Act by the British government, but BHU has been giving the reservation to the category prescribed by the law and the AMU is not giving it.”
The BJP MP mentioned that the land for AMU was given by Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh.
Aligarh Muslim University was originally established by Sir Syed Ahmad Khan as the Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College. It became Aligarh Muslim University in 1920, following the Aligarh Muslim University Act.
It has three off-campus centres in Malappuram, Murshidabad and Kishanganj.
An institute of national importance, it offers more than 300 courses in traditional and modern branches of education. | https://www.siasat.com/bjp-mp-raises-amu-reservation-issue-in-rs-2479548/ | 2022-12-14T07:21:33 | en | 0.97115 |
New Delhi: BJP president J P Nadda will be on a day-long tour of Karnataka and Telangana on Thursday as the party turns its focus on southern states with an eye on the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
Party sources said Nadda will chair oganisational meetings in Karnataka, where assembly polls are expected in the first half of the next year, and address a public meeting at Karimnagar in Telangana, a state high on the BJP’s political agenda.
The BJP has emerged as the main challenger to the ruling Bharat Rashtra Samithi, the rechristened version of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi.
In Karnataka, the BJP is in power with the main opposition Congress running a campaign to reclaim the state. | https://www.siasat.com/bjp-president-nadda-to-visit-telangana-karnataka-2479592/ | 2022-12-14T07:21:34 | en | 0.930117 |
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London: Azeem Rafiq, a 31-year-old British-Pakistani former Yorkshire cricketer, has been forced to leave the UK after his allegations about institutional racism at the Yorkshire County Cricket Club (CCC) last year created a storm.
He did not disclose where he has relocated to.
However, speaking for the second time to a British parliamentary select committee, Rafiq said he has “been driven out of the country” by “threats and abuse”.
He spoke of a man “defecating” in his garden. “At times, I’ve walked down the street fearing for my life,” he said.
He told MPs he now receives “27/7 security” from the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) and accused the Yorkshire Post newspaper of being “responsible” for the insults he and his family have experienced since first, quite sensationally, appearing as a witness before the parliamentary committee in 2021.
The Yorkshire Post told media it had “applied the same rules of objectivity, impartiality and professionalism in seeking to tell all sides of the story”.
The ECB said the latest hearing “demonstrates why widespread change in cricket is needed”.
The Indian-origin Kamlesh Patel, who was appointed chairman of Yorkshire CCC after the scandal exploded last year, remarked his job has felt “relentless” since he took over. “I don’t get where Azeem gets the strength to carry on.”
The ECB admitted it was “appalled at the level of racist abuse” received by Patel and recognised “the pain this has caused him”. | https://www.siasat.com/british-pakistani-cricketer-forced-to-leave-uk-over-racist-abuse-2479475/ | 2022-12-14T07:21:39 | en | 0.982476 |
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New Delhi: The CBI is probing an alleged theft of case property (material evidence) from a local court in Nellore relating to a matter in which Andhra Pradesh Agriculture Minister Kakani Govardhan Reddy is the prime accused, officials said Wednesday.
The central probe agency has taken over the theft FIR registered by China Bazar Police station, Nellore against Syed Hayath and Shaik Kahaja Rasool on the directions of the Andhra Pradesh High Court last month.
A bench of the high court headed by Chief Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra and Justice D V S S Somayajulu had handed over the case to the CBI with directions to conduct a proper investigation and submit the charge sheet at the earliest, they said.
The bench passed the order while disposing of a suo motu (taken up on its own) public interest litigation petition, based on a report filed by the Principal District Judge, Nellore.
The then Agriculture Minister Somireddy Chandramohan Reddy of the TDP had filed a criminal case of forgery and fabricating documents, besides criminal defamation, against YSRC’s Govardhan Reddy, then an MLA from Sarvepalli Assembly constituency.
The local police had filed the charge sheet before the court and trial had to begin in May.
Five days after Govardhan Reddy was sworn-in as a minister, the thieves broke into the court of fourth additional judicial magistrate of first class in Nellore on the intervening night of April 13-14.
They decamped with a bag containing crucial evidence related to the case including laptop, mobile phones and several documents related to the criminal case of 2016 filed against Govardhan Reddy and three others by Somireddy Chandramohan Reddy.
The bag was later found dumped in a culvert but with the crucial documents and other material evidence were missing.
The principal district judge, who had conducted a preliminary inquiry in April, reported to the high court that the four police personnel on guard failed in their duty.
“It is further stated that the police concerned did not collect footprints and fingerprints on the main door which was broken open by miscreants and they did not even call dog squad to the scene of crime. Based on the above report, the Principal District opined, prima facie, that truth may come into light only if investigation is handed over to an independent agency,” the high court had noted.
The judges also noted that the Supreme Court has directed fast-tracking of cases (against elected public representatives) and monitoring by high courts.
When such importance is accorded to criminal cases against MLAs and MPs, the court concerned at Nellore as well as the state machinery, including the law enforcing agency, should have taken due care and caution to secure the case property, it had said.
Otherwise, in the absence of case property, being produced and proved in the court, the trial against MLAs and MPs may fail for lack of evidence, the high court bench said.
“It is for this reason the matter assumes importance. If timely and proper steps are not taken to book the culprits, people at large may lose faith in the judicial process. It is necessary to reach to the root of the incident as to who are involved in theft of case property, wherein influential people are accused,” Chief Justice Mishra and Justice Somayajulu had observed. | https://www.siasat.com/cbi-initiates-probe-into-theft-of-case-property-from-andhra-pradesh-court-2479516/ | 2022-12-14T07:21:59 | en | 0.978372 |
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Kolkata: Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is now suspecting a bigger controversy behind the mysterious death of Lalan Sheikh, the principal accused behind the Bogtui carnage, in its custody on Monday evening.
The reason behind the suspicion is that the state police have started its own investigation into the matter by registering a case where they have tagged Sushanta Bhattacharya, the Investigating Officer (IO) of the cattle smuggling case in West Bengal.
CBI sources said that the said officer had been involved with the cattle-smuggling case and never had any connection with the separate investigating team of CBI that was conducting parallel probe in the both Bogtui carnage and the murder of Trinamool Congress leader Vadu Sheikh as per the order of the Calcutta High Court, since both the matters were related.
A case in the matter was registered by Birbhum district police and already the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has taken over the investigation in the matter. Even Lalan Sheikh’s wife, who filed an FIR at the local Rampurhat Police Station, demanded a CID probe in the matter.
CBI’s top officers are currently consulting their own legal brains to evaluate the avenues on this matter challenged in the court.
Meanwhile, political slugfest has started over the development in tagging the name of the investing officer of the cattle-smuggling case in the matter. According to the CPI(M) central committee member, Sujan Chakraborty, the conspiracy of tagging Sushanta Bhattacharya’s name in the matter has been plotted by Trinamool Congress only, since the officer concerned is the investing officer in the cattle- smuggling case where the prime accused in the ruling party strongman, Anubrata Mondal.
“Is there any bigger game behind the game? Are there attempts to cover up bigger conspiracies? If we recall, before the arrest of Anubrata Mondal’s bodyguard, Sehgal Hossain, his car faced an accident in which the latter’s daughter was killed. A fire engulfed the branch of a bank at Bolpur where Mondal used to hold bank accounts,” he said.
However, Trinamool Congress’s state general secretary and the party’s spokesman in West Bengal, Kunal Ghosh has rubbished Chakraborty’s claims regarding association of his party leaders in the matter. “Trinamool Congress has no say in the matter. Someone who made the allegation based on certain apprehension against the officer concerned. What will we have to say on this?” he said. | https://www.siasat.com/cbi-sees-bigger-conspiracy-in-lalan-sheikh-death-2479554/ | 2022-12-14T07:22:05 | en | 0.968408 |
New Delhi: The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) has prepared a pool of more than 100 personnel to man additional security counters expected to be handed over to it for easing the ongoing congestion at large airports of Delhi and Mumbai, official sources said Wednesday.
The central paramilitary, designated as the national aviation security force, has informed airport operators, airlines and the Union civil aviation ministry that while it can bring on board some more security personnel there can be “no compromise on security protocols and standard operating procedures followed by it for regular frisking of passengers and scanning of cabin baggage apart from fliers required to undergo extensive search due to specific profiling.”
A senior CISF officer told PTI that the force has brought on board more than 100 personnel “over and above” its sanctioned strength at around 4,500 personnel at the Delhi and Mumbai airports each.
We can add a similar strength of more men and women personnel at other airports witnessing heavy footfall, he said.
This move will continue till the upcoming holiday season due to Christmas and New Year celebrations, he said.
After a recent review of passenger facilities by Union civil aviation minister Jyotiraditya Scindia at the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport in Delhi, a few more security counters are expected to be opened.
The CISF has also assured that the force will provide additional manpower to run them which will help in easing the current congestion and streamline passenger check-in and boarding from Terminals 3, 1 and 2.
A team of CISF officers has also been tasked to supervise the operations at the security check area and direct the private security guards who have been recently deployed at a number of airports to undertake non-core duties like helping passengers to line up, crowd management and bar code scanning of boarding passes.
“We have informed the airport operators in Delhi and Mumbai and that we are in a position to deploy fresh manpower for the new security counters they open to fasten the security checks queue.
“It has also been reiterated to all the stakeholders that there can be no compromise on security, even during the recent spate of high footfalls at big airports. The ministry (civil aviation) and other stakeholders are on the same page,” another senior CISF officer, who did not wish to be named, said.
The leaves of the personnel posted at large airports have also been rationalised and the maximum strength will be on duty over the next fortnight or so, he said.
The CISF currently guards 65 civil airport terminals on the country through its special unit called the aviation security group (ASG) and its core task is to provide an anti-hijack and anti-terrorist cover to these facilities.
Over the last two weeks, passengers have been posting pictures and videos of long queues and crowds at the IGI in Delhi and the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport in Mumbai prompting authorities to take note and subsequently asking airlines and airport operators to take required measures for easing the traffic.
The civil aviation ministry on Tuesday asked airlines to deploy adequate manpower at all check-in and baggage drop counters besides requesting the scheduled airlines to place real-time data on their social media feed regarding waiting time at respective airports’ entry gates.
Airlines have also asked passengers to reach airports early, do web check-in and carry only one piece of hand baggage for faster movement, amid rising air traffic. | https://www.siasat.com/congestion-at-airports-cisf-adds-100-more-personnel-to-man-new-security-counters-2479518/ | 2022-12-14T07:22:11 | en | 0.95703 |
Bhopal: The Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) has warned senior party leader Raja Pateriya of expulsion from the party over his alleged remarks against Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Issuing a notice to Pateriya on Tuesday, Congress sought an explanation why he should not be expelled from the party’s membership.
The MPCC, while terming the alleged act as ‘indicipline’, condemned the controversial remarks made against Prime Minister Modi. It has said that alleged remarks made against the Prime Minister were ‘offensive’ and ‘condemnable’.
“You have used offensive and condemnable words against PM Modi during a meeting in Panna district on December 12. You should explain why you should not be terminated from the party’s membership,” reads the notice issued by MPCC.
Earlier on the day, Pateriya was arrested from his residence in Panna and was produced before court. During the hearing, the former minister maintained that he used the word ‘killing’ in the sense of ‘defeat’ and pleaded for bail, however, his bail plea was rejected and he was sent to 14-day judicial custody.
However, Pateriya, who is also the Congress vice-president in Madhya Pradesh, maintained that he didn’t use ‘offensive’ words and is a ‘follower of Mahatma Gandhi’.
“It’s a fight of ideology. I haven’t said those words. I am a follower of Mahatma Gandhi,” he told reporters outside the courtroom and showed a victory sign.
Pateriya was minister in Digvijaya Singh-led cabinet in the state (1993-2003) and is considered close to Singh.
The state Congress unit including former chief minister Kamal Nath has condemned Pateriya’s alleged remarks, however, some senior leaders stood in his favour.
Though the Congress leaders who favour Pateriya did not made any official statement, they unofficially claimed that he was politically targeted.
Veteran Congress leader and Leader of Opposition in Madhya Pradesh Assembly, Govind Singh has opposed Pateriya’s arrest. “I oppose Raja Pateriya’s arrest, BJP should not hype false incidents. Raja in his speech firstly clarified that he meant defeating Modi and he apologised later. His arrest is not justified. BJP wants to end and harass oppositions, I am standing strong with him,” Singh said. | https://www.siasat.com/congress-warns-pateriya-of-expulsion-over-remarks-against-pm-2479540/ | 2022-12-14T07:22:18 | en | 0.981817 |
New Delhi: In seemingly fresh trouble for BYJUs, some lenders have asked the edtech unicorn to repay part of a $1.2 billion loan they recently bought into as they renegotiate terms of the debt, sources said on Wednesday.
Renegotiating the terms of the debt, including faster repayment are unlikely to be accepted since these lenders make up a minority and can’t sway the previously agreed terms, sources said.
The demand from creditors comes at a time when BYJU’s is in the process to restructure the loan, amid mounting losses.
Sources told IANS that at least 51 per cent of the lenders have to agree with the new terms and conditions of the loan, including repayment.
If this condition is not met, such a large loan issue cannot be rewritten and this is the standard clause in any term loan issue.
Moreover the originally agreed loan repayment terms will be met, according to a person close to the edtech major.
The edtech unicorn reported a loss of Rs 4,588 crore for the fiscal year that ended on March 31, 2021.
The losses in 2020-21 fiscal widened from Rs 231.69 crore in 2019-20 while revenue during FY21 dropped to Rs 2,428 crore from Rs 2,511 crore in FY20.
According to the company, the losses widened in FY21 mainly on account of deferment of some revenue and losses incurred from WhiteHat Jr.
Last month, global investment group Prosus put the fair value of its 9.67 per cent stake in BYJU’S at $578 million, which technically puts the current valuation of the edtech major at nearly $6 billion — last valued at $22 billion.
In its September quarter results, Prosus classified BYJU’s as a non-controlling financial investment rather than an associate, as its shareholding dropped below 10 per cent.
Prosus had told IANS that the investment group has changed the accounting treatment for BYJU’s and in the subsequent reporting periods, “the company will be accounted for as an investment”.
Prosus hasn’t sold any of its stake in BYJU’S, which reported Rs 4,500 crore loss in FY21 due to accounting change (or Rs 12.5 crore loss daily), but “made Rs 27 crore in revenue per day in FY22”.
In October, the edtech major took an unsecured loan of Rs 300 crore from its subsidiary Aakash Educational Services, which it acquired for more than $950 million, to bolster its “principal business activities”.
BYJU’S also raised $250 million from its existing investors in a fresh round of funding in October. | https://www.siasat.com/creditors-seek-part-repayment-of-1-2-bn-loan-given-to-byjus-2479511/ | 2022-12-14T07:22:24 | en | 0.971782 |
New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday arrested Uttar Pradesh mafia don-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari in connection with a Prevention of Money Laundering case.
In November, his son Abbas Ansari was placed under arrest after a nine-hour questioning by the ED.
The ED has now arrested the former BSP MLA, Mukhtar Ansari who is currently lodged in Uttar Pradesh’s Banda jail, The ED has said that there was crucial evidence against him on the basis of which he has been placed under arrest.
The ED initiated the investigation under PMLA, 2002 against Mukhtar Ansari (former MLA) and his aides on the bases of multiple FIRs lodged by the Uttar Pradesh Police.
During the investigation, it came to the notice that two more FIRs were lodged against Vikas Constructions (a partnership firm) by Uttar Pradesh Police for constructing godowns on public/government land after encroaching it. The godowns were constructed in Mau and Ghazipur district of UP.
The firm Vikas Construction was being run by Afshan Ansari (wife of Mukhtar Ansari) and her two brothers, Atif Raza and Anwar Shahzad, and other two persons, Ravindra Narayan Singh and Zakir Hussain.
The UP Police has filed a charge sheet in one of the FIRs registered at Mau District in which all the partners of the firm Vikas construction have been made accused.
During the PMLA investigation, it was learnt that rent to the tune of Rs 15 crore was collected by Vikas Construction from Food Corporation of India by renting out the godowns illegally constructed by encroaching public/government land at Mau and Ghazipur district. This rent was further used to purchase immovable properties in the name of Vikas Construction and Afshan Ansari.
After tracing out such immovable properties, the Directorate of Enforcement has provisionally attached seven immovable properties worth Rs 1.48 crore.
The circle rate of attached properties at the time of registration was Rs 3.42 crore. | https://www.siasat.com/ed-arrests-mukhtar-ansari-in-money-laundering-case-2479579/ | 2022-12-14T07:22:30 | en | 0.973659 |
Jaipur: Former RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan on Wednesday joined Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra in Rajasthan.
Rahul Gandhi had a more than half-an-hour discussion with Rajan during the yatra, which resumed this morning from Bhadoti of Sawai Madhopur.
Rajan is known for keeping a frank opinion on economic issues. Both put forth their views on the economic issues for a documentary.
Raghuram Rajan was the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India during the second term of the UPA and the initial years of the Modi government.
Officials confirmed that Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra will have a week-long break after crossing the Rajasthan-Haryana border. There will be a break in travel from December 24 to January 2.
Congress General Secretary Jairam Ramesh said that on December 16, on the completion of 100 days of the yatra, Rahul Gandhi will go to Jaipur. All the passengers will participate in Sunidhi Chauhan’s music event there. | https://www.siasat.com/ex-rbi-governor-raghuram-rajan-joins-rahuls-bharat-jodo-yatra-in-raj-2479521/ | 2022-12-14T07:22:36 | en | 0.963498 |
The energy of the sun and stars have always fascinated us because it gets its energy from fusion rather than fission, that is combining rather than splitting of atoms.
Though we have been able to harness nuclear energy through fission, fusion has been still a problem because we have not been able to do it successfully.
Basically, the problem has been that the amount of energy invested in the process of fusion reaction has been much more than the output of energy.
In a fusion reaction, two light nuclei merge to form a single heavier nucleus. The process releases energy because the total mass of the resulting single nucleus is less than the mass of the two original nuclei.
Actually, as a new substance is created having a lower mass, the mass which is not used for the creation of the new material is converted into huge amounts of energy, following the famous Einstein’s equation (E=mc2).
Scientists have been working towards harnessing this energy but no one has been successfully able to get excess energy than invested from nuclear fusion technology as one has been able to do so from nuclear fission technology in nuclear power plants.
Usually, scientists use elements like deuterium-tritium (DT) for the fusion reaction.
In a potential future fusion power plants, such neutrons from DT reactions would generate power for our use.
Researchers focus on DT reactions both because they produce large amounts of energy, and they occur at lower temperatures than other elements.
If we are able to harness fusion energy it may become a game changer in the world energy scenario because the fusion energy released is much more than what we get from fission technology and there is no radioactive waste.
Scientists have been working in different countries including India to be able to get to make fusion successful but they have not been able to do so because the input energy always used to be more than the output energy. Making the whole thing unviable.
A recent experiment is reported to have been done by US scientists at the National Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California where they reported for the first time to have got more energy than was used for initiating the fusion process, making it a viable energy source in the future.
The LLNL fusion facility has the size of three football fields and consists of almost 200 lasers which bombard a tiny spot with high levels of energy to initiate a fusion reaction.
The historic fusion reaction produced about 2.5 megajoules of energy using 2.1 MJ of energy in the lasers used to initiate the process. , about 120 percent net energy gain.
The researchers have thus successfully produced more energy in a fusion reaction than was consumed during the process.
They used inertial confinement fusion, which involves bombarding a tiny pellet of hydrogen plasma with the world’s biggest laser.
Fusion is slated to provide limitless, carbon-free energy against fossil fuels and other traditional energy sources.
Even though producing energy that powers homes and businesses from fusion, still have many years to go, successfully getting more energy using less makes it a viable process. One of fusion’s biggest plus points is that it does not create radioactive waste or produce carbon. Fusion can provide limitless clean energy and is definitely a potential source of alternative energy.
Commercialization of this process may take more than a decade. However, it would lead to getting carbon-free electricity a major benefit for climate change as against the nuclear power plants of today which leave huge amounts of radioactive waste.
We also must keep in mind that the world’s largest nuclear fusion reactor ITER costing $ 18.2 billion has begun development in Southern France and is slated to be running by the year 2025 at a commercial scale.
ITER (the Latin word for “The Way”) is a large-scale scientific experiment intended to prove the viability of fusion as an energy source.
It is an international effort with seven partners—China, the European Union, India, Japan, Korea, Russia and the United States—having pooled their financial and scientific resources to build the biggest fusion reactor in history.
It will not produce electricity, but it will resolve critical scientific and technical issues in order to take fusion to the point where industrial applications can be designed.
It intends to produce 500 MW of fusion power from 50 MW of power invested to heat plasma and generate fusion. | https://www.siasat.com/historic-fusion-energy-breakthrough-a-game-changer-for-the-world-2479544/ | 2022-12-14T07:22:42 | en | 0.955458 |
Hyderabad: Regional Passport Office (RPO) Hyderabad has announced to facilitate Hajj and Umrah pilgrims in issuing fresh passports and renewals through a special campaign. Regional Passport Officer D. Ballaiah has sent a letter to President Telangana Hajj Committee Mohammad Saleem and Chief Executive Officer Haj Committee B.Shafiullah to forward all the said passport applicants at Passport Seva Kendra (PSK) on December 17 and 24.
Chairman Hajj Committee Muhammad Saleem has requested the pilgrims who wish to perform Hajj 2023 to approach the PSK on 17 and 24 December and submit applications for obtaining fresh passports or renewals. He said that both pilgrims of Umrah and Hajj can avail of this benefit.
Saleem said that the process of obtaining online applications from Hajj pilgrims will start in January. Therefore, aspiring pilgrims should keep their passports ready as the application submission period will not be long. He said that people going to Umrah can also use this facility.
He said that the Ministry of External Affairs has decided to keep the centers open on the coming Saturdays in December in order to reduce the availability period of appointment under the general and Tatkal categories.
In the special campaign, it is expected to collect about 10000 applications. The Regional Passport Officer said that as a result of the special campaign, there will be no need to send a letter to the Hajj Committee. | https://www.siasat.com/hyderabad-hajj-umrah-pilgrims-can-approach-psks-on-december-17-24-2479491/ | 2022-12-14T07:22:48 | en | 0.95995 |
Hyderabad: The state government has prepared a comprehensive plan for the development of the historical State Central Library, Afzalgunj in Hyderabad. Under this project, the digitalization of books will be carried out in addition to the renovation of the library building.
This 131-year-old library of the Nizam era, formerly known as Asafia Library, has a collection of more than 5 lakh books, most of which are rarest of rare.
Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) and Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation have jointly prepared a detailed project report. It is reported that HMDA will play a major role in the project which will involve repairing and renovating the building, supplying new furniture, constructing book racks, and beautifying the interiors. The reading room will also be restored spending about 1.8 crore on these works.
Apart from the conservation of the building, a cafe will be developed in the library premises and parking space will be increased.
Due to dilapidated book racks and antique furniture in the library, it was difficult to preserve the books. Heritage experts have emphasized the preservation of this historic building and the books, which have collections in Arabic, Urdu, Persian, Hindi, Telugu, Sanskrit, and other languages. Some collections of books have been transferred to Salar Jung Museum for preservation. It is said that 50,000 books were digitized | https://www.siasat.com/hyderabad-nizam-era-state-central-library-gears-up-for-facelift-digitization-2479504/ | 2022-12-14T07:22:54 | en | 0.962813 |
Hyderabad: In view of the GHMC road works at Kothaguda Junction under the limits of Gachibowli traffic police station, Cyberabad DCP Traffic imposed traffic restrictions that will be in effect till December 28.
The entry of vehicular traffic is restricted from Cyber towers towards Kothaguda junction via CII junction.
To facilitate the road works, the following traffic diversion is planned.
- The traffic coming from Cyber towers towards Kothaguda will be diverted at Metal Charminar Junction (Hitex) – right turn- Khanamet Junction – left turn – Aparna Heights – left turn- Kondapur Junction and Kothaguda Junction.
- The traffic coming from CII junction towards Kothaguda, AMB mall, Masjidbanda, and Gachibowli will be diverted at Ramalayam Temple – White fields roads – U-turn – Botanical Garden and Kothaguda Junction.
Apart from the above restrictions, there will be curbs on heavy vehicles. Vehicles such as RMCs, Tippers, Water Tankers, RTC Buses, and DCMs are restricted from Cyber towers towards Kothaguda via Ramalayam Temple.
The public are requested to cooperate with the work-executing agency and traffic police. | https://www.siasat.com/hyderabad-traffic-curbs-due-to-road-works-at-kothaguda-junction-2479450/ | 2022-12-14T07:23:00 | en | 0.898206 |
Hyderabad: A woman, who along with her daughter was injured in an attack by a jilted lover in Hyderabad, succumbed at a hospital on Wednesday.
Shoba (45) died while undergoing treatment at the government-run Gandhi Hospital while the condition of the assailant, who tried to kill himself, remained critical.
Shoba and 19-year-old Vaibhavi were injured on Tuesday when Sandeep (22) attacked them with a knife at their house in Miyapur under the limits of Cyberabad police commissionerate.
According to police, Sandeep was in love with Vaibhavi and attacked her as he was enraged over her getting engaged to another person.
Sandeep and Vaibhavi, both natives of Guntur in Andhra Pradesh, were said to be in a relationship for quite some time. About six months ago, Vaibhavi decided to end the relationship due to some differences between them.
The family later moved to Hyderabad and Vaibhavi started pursuing a beautician course in the city. Meanwhile, her mother fixed her marriage and made arrangements for the engagement.
Enraged after learning about this, Sandeep rushed to Vaibhavi’s house in Miyapur from Guntur and attacked her with a vegetable-cutting knife. The teenager suffered injuries on her hand. In an attempt to save Vaibhavi, her mother too suffered stab injuries in the abdomen and chest. Later, the accused tried to slit his own throat with the same knife, the police said.
(Except for the headline, the story has not been edited by Siasat staff and is published from a syndicated feed.) | https://www.siasat.com/hyderabad-woman-injured-in-attack-by-jilted-lover-dies-2479508/ | 2022-12-14T07:23:06 | en | 0.986574 |
Vienna: The Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will send permanent technical missions to all the nuclear power plants (NPPs) in Ukraine as part of stepped-up efforts to help prevent a nuclear accident amid Russia’s ongoing war against Kiev.
This was agreed upon during a meeting in Paris on Tuesday between IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi and Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal.
Grossi and Shmyhal also made progress in ongoing discussions about setting up a nuclear safety and security protection zone around the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), where the had IAEA deployed a permanent expert mission more than three months ago, the UN nuclear watchdog said in a statement.
“While we are not yet there and more work is required, I’m increasingly optimistic that such a zone, which is of paramount importance, will be agreed and implemented in the near future,” the Director General was quoted as saying after the meeting.
“I will continue my high-level consultations in the coming days, both with Ukraine and Russia, with the clear aim to get this done as soon as possible. We can’t afford to lose more time.”
At the request of Ukraine, the IAEA has over the past month dispatched week-long nuclear safety and security missions to the three other operational NPPs in Ukraine — Khmelnytskyy, Rivne and South Ukraine — as well as to Chernobyl, site of the 1986 nuclear accident. | https://www.siasat.com/iaea-to-send-permanent-technical-missions-to-all-n-plants-in-ukraine-2479496/ | 2022-12-14T07:23:12 | en | 0.956311 |
London: An Indian lecturer has won a discrimination case against a UK university whose selection process, according to an employment tribunal, was “tainted by race discrimination”.
The University of Portsmouth failed to reappoint Dr Kajal Sharma for a job she had been doing for five years, replacing her with a white candidate with no experience of the role, The Guardian reported.
While 11 out of her 12 white colleagues were reappointed after their contracts ended, Sharma, hired as a senior lecturer in 2016, was not given her job back.
The tribunal in its judgement reprimanded the university for ignoring the fact that “a senior member of the academic staff who was a BAME (Black, Asian, and minority ethnic) woman was not reappointed to a post”.
At the case hearing in Southampton, Sharma informed the tribunal that she had a “difficult” relationship with her manager, Dr Gary Rees.
Citing an instance, she said Rees had asked her to do university work in the immediate aftermath of her father’s death.
She added that there was no adequate workplace support for her while she was caring for her critically-ill child.
Rees encouraged a white colleague to pursue an additional qualification but did not support Sharma when she wanted to do the same, the tribunal was told.
While reapplying for the job as her contract neared end, Sharma appeared before an interview panel, which had Rees, and lost out to a rival candidate supported by him.
The tribunal said that the fact that she was not reappointed to her job was “extraordinary” and should have raised questions.
“Instead, the fact that a senior member of the academic staff who was a BAME woman was not reappointed to a post was ignored by the university.”
The tribunal ruled that Sharma was the victim of subconscious discrimination and described the selection process as being “tainted by race discrimination”, The Guardian reported.
It concluded that Rees had treated Sharma “in a way that we considered was different to the way he would have treated others, in areas such as support over her father’s death, and her child’s illness.
“We conclude that his involvement in the recruitment process and his subconscious bias means that the failure to recruit the claimant was an act of race discrimination.”
According to a 2022 TUC (The Trades Union Congress) survey, more than 120,000 workers from minority ethnic backgrounds quit their jobs because of racism.
The landmark survey found that more than one in four workers from black and other minority ethnic backgrounds faced racist jokes at work in the last five years and 35 per cent said it left them feeling less confident at work. | https://www.siasat.com/indian-lecturer-wins-discrimination-case-against-uk-university-2479566/ | 2022-12-14T07:23:18 | en | 0.990409 |
The Arabian Gulf’s first kosher supermarket opened in Dubai on Monday evening, catering to the emirate’s fledging Jewish community.
Rimon, meaning pomegranate in Hebrew, was officially opened by the United Arab Emirates’ Rabbi Levi Duchman in the Al Wasl area of Dubai, said media reports.
“It is a symbol of the incredible progress that our Jewish community in the UAE is making and the freedom we’ve been thankfully granted, to enable all of this – and an answer to a true need for kosher food throughout the year,” Duchman said in a statement.
The new store intends to answer the growing demand for food that abides by the dietary standards of Jewish law, as the number of Jews living in and traveling to the UAE continues to grow.
Rimon offers meat and chicken products classified as ‘mehudar,’ the highest standard of kosher food, among other items.
Its shelves are stocked mainly from produce imported from Israel, Europe, and the US, report said.
The store will also host a Jewish food market every weekend.
“We hope that with this project we will enable many more Jewish families to move and live in the UAE, making their daily lives even more comfortable,” Duchman added.
“So far the feedback from the local and global Jewish community — as well as many non-Jewish friends — is amazing.”
The Jewish community has flourished in the UAE since the Gulf country normalized relations with Israel in the 2020 Abraham Accords. | https://www.siasat.com/jewish-community-opens-gulfs-first-kosher-supermarket-in-dubai-2479561/ | 2022-12-14T07:23:24 | en | 0.963327 |
Hyderabad: Naveen Reddy, wanted for the kidnap of dentist Vaishali Reddy from her residence in Hyderabad last week, has been arrested in Goa and is being brought to the city on Wednesday.
A team of Rachakonda police reportedly arrested Naveen Reddy in Goa and was bringing him to Hyderabad. He is likely to be produced before a magistrate after reaching Hyderabad later in the day.
The man was charged with trespassing, kidnap, theft, and rioting after he abducted Vaishali Reddy on December 9 hours before her engagement.
In a scene straight from a crime flick, about 50 people had attacked Vaishali Reddy’s house at Adibatla on the city outskirts. They ransacked the house, and attacked vehicles before taking her away in a car.
The police later rescued the dentist and arrested 32 persons. Naveen Reddy along with three others, however, had remained at large.
The number two accused in the case Vajid Rumen, Siddu and Chandu, were also arrested on Tuesday from different places.
Before his arrest, Naveen Reddy released a video, appealing to the people and media to see things from his perspective
“I was not able to surrender due to some health issues. What happened was a mistake and I confess. But there is so much pain behind all of this,” he said.
The accused blamed Vaishali Reddy’s family saying he committed the mistake because of them. He also stated that the family had woven all stories.
Rachakonda police is reported to be planning to invoke Preventive Detention (PD) Act against Naveen Reddy. Two years ago he was booked for cheating in Warangal district. In the latest case, police have booked three cases against him.
In the remand report filed on Tuesday, police revealed that after kidnapping Vaishali, Naveen and four others headed towards Nalgonda in the car. On the way, Naveen asked Vaishali why she agreed to marrying someone else, and then beat her indiscriminately. He also bit her on her left shoulder, forehead and right thumb.
All the accused had switched off their mobile phones. As one of the accused Chandu started vomiting on the way, Rumen stopped the car and asked him to return to the city. In the meantime, Rumen switched on his mobile and found that the news and video of Vaishali’s kidnap had gone viral.
The accused then dropped her near the RTO office in Manneguda and one of the accused gave his mobile phone to Vishali to call her father. All the accused then escaped and headed in different directions to evade police.
On a complaint by the girl’s father Damodar Reddy, police registered a case of attempt to murder, kidnap, trespass and assault against Naveen Reddy and his associates.
Vaishali alleged Naveen Reddy had been harassing her as she had rejected his marriage proposal.
The 24-year-old said that he threatened her that if she can’t marry her, he will not allow her to marry anybody else.
She denied that she had married Naveen Reddy. “On the day he is claiming the marriage took place, I was under treatment at Army dental hospital. He made me the nominee in car insurance. I have nothing to do with this. I have not signed any papers,” she said. | https://www.siasat.com/man-who-kidnapped-hyderabad-dentist-arrested-in-goa-2479583/ | 2022-12-14T07:23:30 | en | 0.989601 |
New Delhi: The entire opposition led by the Congress on Wednesday staged a walkout from the Rajya Sabha after their demand for a discussion on the Chinese aggression on the border was disallowed.
Leader of Opposition and senior Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge said the opposition parties wanted a debate to get full information on the Chinese aggression and encroachment on Indian territory, and that they stand by the Army and the country.
But Deputy Chairman Harivansh said there was no notice before the Chair and a debate cannot be allowed on the issue.
Opposition MPs shouted slogans for some time before staging a walkout. Those who walked out included MPs of Congress, Left, TMC, NCP, RJD, SP, JMM, and Shiv Sena.
Earlier Kharge said opposition parties want a “detailed discussion in the House” on the Chinese aggression and encroachment at borders.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh in his statement on the clash between Indian and Chinese troops in the Tawang sector hasn’t informed of the actual situation on the border.
“Our effort from the start has been that we get full information and the country is also informed of what the actual situation there is,” he said, adding there was some information that China has built bridges on vacant land.
Harivansh said there is no notice given by any of the opposition parties on the issue. “There is no permission for discussion,” he said, and called for taking up the listed zero-hour submissions.
Kharge continued to speak but his mike was switched off.
“We are for the country. We are with the army,” he said.
Thereafter, the opposition MPs started raising slogans.
The Deputy Chairman said he had on Tuesday stated that clarifications on Defence Minister’s statements were not allowed as it was a sensitive issue.
Not satisfied, the opposition MPs staged a walkout. | https://www.siasat.com/opposition-parties-walk-out-of-rs-over-demand-for-debate-on-chinese-aggression-2479551/ | 2022-12-14T07:23:36 | en | 0.980453 |
Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has decried a “callous IMF”, saying that the global lender had put shackles on the country because of which the governments efforts for rehabilitation of flood victims and providing relief to the masses had become a huge challenge.
The premier said that the government was facing many difficulties and challenges, reports The Express Tribune.
“On the one hand, the government is burdened by the economic destruction caused by the previous government and the resulting inflation, while there are the strict conditions of the IMF (International Monetary Fund),” he said, adding: “We need funds for flood recovery but the IMF has shackled us.”
“It is a big challenge but there is no question of giving up… The government coalition will work together and mitigate the sufferings of the people. We will not rest until the (flood-affected) people are settled in their homes.”
The Prime Minister criticised his predecessor Imran Khan for instigating people for his personal gains but expressed the hope that the masses would not fall prey to his negative campaign, The Express Tribune reported.
“He knows the plight of the people but he doesn’t care,” he added.
Sharif stressed the importance of completing road access from Balochistan to the rest of the country.
“Balochistan is the most important province of the country and the development of Pakistan is incomplete without its development.” | https://www.siasat.com/shehbaz-decries-callous-imf-amid-flood-devastation-2479588/ | 2022-12-14T07:23:42 | en | 0.975528 |
Jaipur: India should teach China a “lesson like Balakot”, Spiritual head of Ajmer Dargah Zainul Abedin Ali Khan has said, days after troops from the two countries clashed along the Line of Actual Control in Tawang sector of Arunachal Pradesh.
“China keeps trying to infiltrate the Indian border every day, there are reports of clashes with Indian soldiers, we are proud that our brave soldiers do not let them succeed,” Khan said in a statement on Tuesday.
“To put an end to these daily nefarious acts of China, it is necessary that India should teach China a lesson like Balakot,” he added.
On February 26, 2019, Indian Air Force fighter jets crossed the Line of Control and destroyed terror launch pads in Balakot in Pakistan.
The strikes were undertaken days after 40 Central Reserve Police Force personnel were killed in a terror attack in Pulwama in Jammu and Kashmir on February 14.
Khan said India has always been emphasising on peace and good relations with its neighbouring countries, but they should not see this as a weakness.
“Be it China or any other country, India can go to any extent to protect its borders for example, Balakot. China will have to desist from its nefarious activities, otherwise it should keep in mind that this is the new India,” he said.
Chinese troops tried to “unilaterally” change the status quo along the Line of Actual Control in the Yangtse area of Arunachal Pradesh’s Tawang sector last week but the Indian Army compelled them to retreat by its “firm and resolute” response, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said in Parliament on Tuesday. | https://www.siasat.com/tawang-clash-india-must-teach-china-lesson-like-balakot-says-ajmer-dargah-deewan-2479531/ | 2022-12-14T07:23:48 | en | 0.96543 |
Hyderabad: Telangana state BJP president Bandi Sanjay Kumar has refuted allegations made by Bharat Rashtra Samithi MLC and Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao’s daughter Kalvakuntla Kavitha that the BJP government at the Centre is trampling upon human rights of Telangana people.
“Kavitha has no moral right to talk about human rights violations in the state as it her father who is resorting to suppression of rights there,” Sanjay told media after interacting with the families of the victims of the Kondagattu bus tragedy in Jagitial district as part of the Praja Sangrama Yatra.
It has been four years since more than 60 people died in the tragic bus accident at Kondagattu village. KCR had not called on the families of victims even once, said Sanjay issuing an official statement.
“His government had promised to give a job to each of the victim’s family members and a pension to old age people. But not a single promise was fulfilled,” Sanjay pointed out as per an official statement released.
He alleged that some of the family members who had gone to meet the chief minister to seek assistance were arrested and sent to jail. He promised to extend all possible help to the families if the BJP was voted to power.
“Many of the injured are yet to recover. None of them got any help from the government to recover completely. Now, he is talking about developing Kondagattu with Rs 100 crore, It is ridiculous,” he said.
He reminded that it was KCR who had ordered the removal of the dharna chowk at Indira Park so as to suppress the people’s right to question his government; “He threw all those who questioned the atrocities perpetrated by his government and suppressed the freedom of expression of the media,” Sanjay said.
The BJP veteran alleged that the KCR family and the BRS leaders were grabbing lands of poor people and government lands.
“Poets, artists and intellectuals who have raised their voices against him are being threatened. KCR even went to the extent of rewriting the Constitution of India drafted by Baba Saheb Ambedkar. Is it what human rights Kavitha was talking about? Does she mean human rights are applicable only to those who hail the atrocities and corruption of the Kalvakuntla family?” he asked.
On K Kavitha’s charge that the BJP government was throttling the voice of the media, the BJP state president asked “who had imposed a ban on some television channels soon after KCR became the chief minister?”
“Who has threatened to bury the media 100 feet deeper in the earth? Who is intimidating the reporters if they ask any questions at his press conference? Who is controlling the media with advertisements and money?” he asked.
Sanjay appealed to people to voluntarily reach Karimnagar to attend a public meeting on December 15 as part of the conclusion of Praja Sangrama Yatra. The rally would be addressed by BJP national president J P Nadda, added the statement. | https://www.siasat.com/telangana-bjp-dismisses-brs-allegations-of-human-rights-violation-2479535/ | 2022-12-14T07:23:54 | en | 0.986447 |
Hyderabad: Police in Telangana on Wednesday placed several Congress leaders under house arrest in view of the call given by the party for protest against the police raid on the office of party strategist Sunil Kanugolu over derogatory posts on Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao.
In view of the call given by the opposition party for protest in all mandal headquarters, police made preventive arrest of the leaders.
The Congress had called upon the cadres to stage protests in all mandal headquarters and set afire effigies of the chief minister in protest against the police raid on party war room in Hyderabad.
Senior leaders Mohammed Ali Shabbir, Mallu Ravi, S. Harivardan Reddy, Rohin Reddy were kept under house arrest.
Sleuths of Cyberabad Cyber crime raided the office of Sunil on Tuesday night following complaints that posts denigrating content against TRS were being posted from that premises.
Congress MP and in charge of party affairs in Telangana, Manickam Tagore alleged that Telangana Congress war room headed by Sunil was raided. He alleged that five of the professional partners were arrested illegally without FIR. He claimed that police took away 50 computers and data was stolen.
Tagore posted on Twitter the controversial posts for which war room was raided. He dared Telangana chief minister to arrest him.
He earlier condemned the high-handedness of the police and made it clear that they won’t be cowed down by these threats.
Congress general secretary K. C. Venugopal said that the action of Cyberabad police in seizing the office of Sunil Kanugolu is a blatant attempt to suppress dissent. “It is aimed at defunctioning Telangana Congress war room which is at full swing. Come what may,we will continue our crusade against corruption by Telangana CM & his family,” he tweeted.
State Congress chief A. Revanth Reddy said that Cyber police terrorising the staff at Congress war room clearly indicates how terrified KCR is of Congress.A He said it was an irony that KCR, his son and daughter have all been preaching about democracy and freedom of speech in recent times.
Four to five policemen in plainclothes had entered the office on Tuesday night and asked the staffer to switch off their mobile phones. Learning about this, senior leader Shabbir, Mallu Ravi and others reached there and questioned the police officers. One of the officers told them that five FIRs were registered for posting derogatory comments.
The Congress leaders wanted to know who the complainants were and insisted that the police produce the FIRs. | https://www.siasat.com/telangana-congress-leaders-detained-for-protest-over-police-raid-2479499/ | 2022-12-14T07:24:00 | en | 0.974824 |
Hyderabad: The Telangana State Board of Intermediate Education (TS BIE) revised the deadline for submitting the examination fee for the Intermediate Public Examinations on Tuesday, which will take place in March 2023.
The examination fee can be paid from December 14 to 17 and from December 19 to 22, respectively, with a late fee of Rs. 500 and Rs. 1000. A late fee of Rs 2000 from December 24 to December 28.
Regular first- and second-year students as well as failed students (general and vocational) who wish to take the IPE can pay the examination fee at their respective junior colleges in accordance with the updated schedule.
The TS BIE has also extended the deadline for private applicants (without a college education) to apply for a grant of attendance exemption for arts and humanities combinations with a late fee of Rs. 200 until December 23. | https://www.siasat.com/telangana-tsbie-revises-deadline-for-intermediate-exam-fee-2479578/ | 2022-12-14T07:24:06 | en | 0.970383 |
Mumbai: While the world is still drooling over the mesmerizing world of Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s ‘Sukoon’. The second song ‘Tujhe Bhi Chand’ from his album was released on Tuesday.
The video depicts the beauty and strength of love.
The audio of ‘Tujhe Bhi Chand’ had already garnered a lot of love from the masses and now the video is all set to captivate audiences’ hearts.
Tujhe Bhi Chand is a beautifully conceptualised video which takes you back to the time of lockdown love. Two doctors falling for each other and communicating without words while never being able to see each other’s faces is a unique concept directed by Dheer Momaya. Listen here.
Sung by Shreya Ghoshal, the video that features Zoya Hussain and Armaan Ralhan is an interesting ode to the tough times that we have left behind.
Speaking about the song Shreya shared, “Working with SLB Sir is a different & memorable experience. Every project with him is a new learning. The album ‘Sukoon’ is another masterpiece by him & I’m glad I got the opportunity to work with him on 2 of the songs from the album( Tujhe Bhi Chand and Qaraar). Tujhe Bhi Chand is especially very close to my heart, the lyrics, the composition and the instruments used have a very unique touch to it. I hope my audience loves it too. “
This song is a sheer dedication to all the warriors who are still fighting battles every day of our lives.
The song is out now on the Saregama Music YouTube channel and all streaming apps.
Comprising nine songs, the album brings back the memories of the good old lovely ballads making it relevant for today’s youth.
Talented singers like Rashid Khan, Shreya Ghoshal, Arman Malik, Sahil Hada, Papon, Pratibha Baghel and Madhubanti Bagchi have come together and curated this album.
Soon after the album was out, it got massive responses from the audience.
Meanwhile, on the directorial front, Bhansali will come up with ‘Heera Mandi’. The show will explore stories of courtesans and the hidden cultural reality of Heera Mandi, a dazzling district, during pre-independent India. It’s a series about love, betrayal, succession and politics in the kothas and it promises Bhansali’s trademark larger-than-life sets, multi-faceted characters and soulful compositions. | https://www.siasat.com/tujhe-bhi-chand-watch-sanjay-leela-bhansalis-2nd-music-video-2479474/ | 2022-12-14T07:24:12 | en | 0.949929 |
Chennai: Udhayanidhi Stalin, son of Chief Minister M.K. Stalin was sworn-in as a minister in his father’s cabinet on Wednesday.
Tamil Nadu Governor R.N. Ravi administered the oath of office to him. The swearing-in ceremony was held at Durbar Hall and was attended by several dignitaries.
All senior ministers of the Stalin cabinet were present during the ceremony. The junior Stalin took the oath of office in Tamil.
Udhayanidhi will be the third generation from the Karunanidhi family to become a minister in Tamil Nadu after his late grandfather ‘Kalaignar’ Karunanidhi and father M.K. Stalin.
Udhayanidhi, a movie actor and producer was elected from the Chepauk Assembly constituency which was represented by his late grandfather, Kalaignar Karunanidhi in the 2021 Assembly elections with a huge majority.
The young scion of the Karunanidhi family is likely to get the Sports and Youth Affairs portfolio along with the portfolio of programme implementation. With Tamil Nadu moving ahead in implementing several sports hubs, Udhayanidhi is likely to get the responsibility in implementing this. | https://www.siasat.com/udhayanidhi-stalin-sworn-in-as-minister-in-tamil-nadu-2479522/ | 2022-12-14T07:24:18 | en | 0.987487 |
In an incident reported from manchester on Tuesday, a pig’s head was reportedly placed on the roof of a mosque. The police are investigating the matter as a hate crime.
The incident occurred on December 9, when the worshipers discovered the head while leaving the Heatons Muslims Community Trust after prayers. “It was clearly done on purpose to terrify us and people are fearful it could go further.” the trustee of the mosque, Tayyab Mohiuddin was quoted as saying by the BBC.
it was “really painful” to make the discovery, Mohiuddin added. He further said that Muslims are forbidden to touch Pig meat. The head was placed on a low-pitched roof of the building which was visible when one enters the road. The trustee alleged that it was placed in such a manner to terrify the people.
CCTV and dashcam footage from the mosque on Battersea Road has been handed to police. The videos showed two persons pulling over at the mosque one of them got down and placed the pig’s head on the rooftop.
The Greater Manchester police said that following the incident, it received the report of a hate crime at a place of worship. An investigation into the matter has been launched. | https://www.siasat.com/uk-pigs-head-placed-on-mosques-roof-in-manchester-2479462/ | 2022-12-14T07:24:24 | en | 0.987313 |
Istanbul: Uyghur refugees yet to get Turkish citizenship, are worried about deportation post-Turkey’s Interior Minister’s discussions with his Chinese counterpart.
Sources privy to the meeting’s proceedings revealed that the Chinese side has asked Turkish government to deport some of the identified Uyghur refugees staying in Turkey to China before they are accepted in Canada, according to the International Forum for Rights and Security (IFFRAS).
“The timing of the Chinese security delegation’s visit is noteworthy, given the backdrop of Canadian Parliament recently passing a bill to accept 10,000 Uyghur refugees from Turkiye and Central Asia region,” said one Uyghur refugee, as reported by IFFRAS.
The Vice-Minister of Public Security of China, Du Hongwei, in November 2022, met the Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu in Ankara (Turkey).
The Uyghurs were worried about the secrecy surrounding the meeting attended by the Turkish migration administration officials responsible for granting Turkey’s citizenship to the Uyghurs. Also attending the meeting was the Chinese Ambassador to Turkey, reported IFFRAS.
Turkey is home to about 50,000 Uyghurs, the largest Uyghur Diaspora outside Central Asian region.
“Uyghur refugees already receiving Turkish citizenship are not in danger. But on the line are those still under refugee status and who act independently. What horrors lie ahead are unthinkable,” said the Uyghur refugee.
Recently, some 55 Uyghur organizations called on world leaders to recognize December 9 as Uyghur Genocide Recognition Day, reported Radio Free Asia (RFA).
On December 9, 2021, an independent UK-based Uyghur Tribunal announced its findings that China committed genocide against Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in its Xinjiang region.
Uyghur organizations from 20 countries asked global leaders to take action to end the Chinese government’s human rights atrocities against the predominantly Muslim Uyghurs.
“On December 9, 2021, after 18 months of investigations, and reading through hundreds of thousands of pages of documents and holding hearings from witnesses, the Uyghur Tribunal declared China’s crimes in East Turkestan as genocide,” RFA quoted the president of the World Uyghur Congress (WUC), Dolkun Isa as saying.
“By declaring this day as Uyghur Genocide Recognition Day, we want to draw the international community’s attention to this ongoing genocide. By commemorating the day, we want to mobilize countries, peoples and international organizations to stop the genocide,” he said.
(Except for the headline, the story has not been edited by Siasat staff and is published from a syndicated feed.) | https://www.siasat.com/uyghur-refugees-fears-deportation-to-china-from-turkey-2479479/ | 2022-12-14T07:24:30 | en | 0.948423 |
Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego declared Dec. 11 National Council of Jewish Women Arizona Day as she spoke to the group’s first in-person gathering since March 1, 2020, the month the COVID-19 pandemic entered daily discourse.
Praising the organization’s leadership and advocacy in the state, the Jewish mayor’s proclamation highlighted its work “safeguarding and expanding access to abortion and contraception, protecting and promoting the vote and pushing for fair, independent and qualified judges on federal courts.”
National Council of Jewish Women Arizona (NCJW AZ) President Civia Tamarkin explained that the group was founded on the Jewish concept of tikkun olam and advocates for justice on many issues, including immigration policy, LGBTQ rights, public education, ending sexual and domestic violence, and more recently, voting rights and racial justice.
Defending abortion access in the state, however, drew the loudest applause of the morning and several new members.
Assaults on reproductive rights are a big part of the reason that nationally, NCJW has nearly tripled in size over the last few years, NCJW CEO Sheila Katz told Jewish News.
“We care deeply about reproductive rights, but really we care about if, when and how anyone who wants to get pregnant can be pregnant — and if they don’t want to be pregnant we don’t think they should have to be pregnant,” Katz said.
Katz is proud to be Jewish and to helm an organization that requires her to use Jewish values. NCJW is one of a few Jewish organizations leading on the issue of reproductive rights and one that doesn’t shy away from its Jewishness, she said.
“We’re relating to the majority of Jews who care about their families, who care about their communities and who want to do better,” she said.
Rachel Bronson joined Arizona’s branch recently because “the last two to three years, I felt so unbelievably helpless,” she said. “Given the state of our country, and the issues that are now at stake, I wanted a way to get involved and to fight for reproductive freedom.”
NCJW AZ attracted her because “they’re really taking action” as opposed to other groups she’s joined that have fizzled out. Additionally, she values the intersectionality Tamarkin spoke of.
“This organization does it all,” Bronson said.
Rachel Schneider, another new member, agreed.
Years ago, she was involved with the Los Angeles branch. She let her membership lapse when she moved to Arizona. She joined NCJW AZ about a month ago.
“I was feeling very helpless in regards to what I could do in the community, and I decided this was a way to step up and get involved and be proactive instead of reactive,” she said.
After hearing all the speakers, especially Katz’s keynote address, Schneider felt inspired.
“I’m leaving this meeting feeling like I can’t wait to get started,” she said.
That is the kind of enthusiasm Tamarkin was hoping for.
While Sunday’s brunch was an opportunity for members to gather, renew relationships and enjoy bagels and blintzes, it was also a chance for Tamarkin and others to remind everyone of the mission and rally the troops.
“We’ve organized, we’ve strategized, we’ve mobilized, we’ve lobbied and we’ve even testified in the legislature,” Tamarkin said to loud applause.
Congregation Kehillah Rabbi Bonnie Sharfman addressed the crowded room at the Arizona Jewish Historical Society by video, telling them, “no one else is doing this critical work; no one else gets it the way Civia and NCJW do.”
Board member Anita Malik and political consultant Jodi Liggett forecast upcoming advocacy work.
“Activate, mitigate, litigate,” said Liggett, borrowing a phrase from Planned Parenthood.
Though the state didn’t elect a reproductive-rights-minded legislature, Governor-Elect Katie Hobbs is on the same side of the issue. “With a friend in the governor’s office, we have some negotiating power,” Liggett said.
Arizona Assistant Secretary of State Allie Bones, who will be Hobbs’ chief of staff, was in attendance on Sunday, along with State Rep. Jennifer Longdon, State Rep.-Elect Laura Terech and U.S. Rep. Greg Stanton, who spoke at the event.
Also on the agenda that morning was ginning up support for Ruth Place, a dedicated comprehensive trauma recovery program for survivors of sexual assault and exploitation.
Tamarkin called Ruth Place a “signature project” for NCJW AZ. “It is the companion to all the advocacy that we do.”
Two hours after NCJW AZ’s brunch ended, more than 100 women gathered at a private residence in Paradise Valley. “Shine a Light on Reproductive Freedom” was not at the behest of a well-established organization but rather an informal gathering that came about partially due to a happy accident of timing.
Sunday, Dec. 11, was also the first day of the International Lion of Judah Conference, a program recognizing women giving at least $5,000 to their Jewish federation. It is in Phoenix this year.
Victoria Singer, who lives in St. Louis and is a leader of Access MO, a Missouri reproductive rights political action committee, was planning to attend and saw the chance to bring together Jewish women from around the country who felt strongly about protecting access to abortion.
Singer, along with her friend, fellow Access MO board member and Arizona native, Dana Sandweiss and Jennifer Kirshner, Sandweiss’ sister, planned a lunchtime event at the home of Meri Friedman, Sandweiss’ and Kirshner’s mother.
Debra Stein, Arizona’s chapter lead and board member of Jewish Democratic Council of America, was also a member of the organizing committee for Sunday’s get together — a gathering that provided both a casual nosh and the chance to hear from several abortion rights powerhouses.
With Camelback Mountain in the background, Victoria Lopez, an attorney and ACLU of Arizona’s director of program and strategy; Dr. Jill Gibson, medical director of Planned Parenthood Arizona; Dr. Tracy Contant, OB-GYN at Valleywise Health Medical Center and assistant clinical professor at the University of Arizona and Creighton University; Dr. Julie Kwatra, OB-GYN at Arizona Women’s Care in Scottsdale and State Rep.-Elect Laura Terech addressed the women, many of whom had just arrived in Phoenix.
U.S. Rep. Kathy Manning (NC-06), who introduced the Right to Contraception Act in July, was also in attendance.
Kirshner explained that the gathering was “Jewishly inspired,” and Rabbi Bonnie Sharfman was the first to speak.
“I should not have had to be here today, and neither should you,” Sharfman said. “But we’re here because an assault on women has been taking place in a number of states across the country, including here in Arizona.”
She spoke about abortion from a halachic perspective, explaining that the mother’s life takes precedence over the life of an unborn child, and there is no personhood until birth. As evidence, she drew from the Talmud and Torah.
“There is a great need in our civil society today to acknowledge what Jewish law has known for 3,500 years: Abortion must be legal — it is not, nor should it, be a criminal offense,” she said.
Lopez talked about the “muddled” landscape of abortion rights in Arizona after the U.S. Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade in June, including the brief period after Pima County Superior Court Judge Kellie Johnson lifted an injunction on an 1864 total abortion ban.
Shortly afterward, the court issued a stay on her ruling and the 15-week ban signed by Gov. Doug Ducey this summer is the law of the state.
“We’ve stopped the worst of the worst from going into effect for now and we’ll keep plugging away so that we can make sure folks have the care they need and doctors don’t get prosecuted,” she said.
Gibson recounted having to turn away patients after what she called “Dobbs Day” in reference to Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the case that overturned Roe.
“That was a traumatic day for myself as a provider because I had taken an oath to provide non-judgmental care for my patients every day,” she said.
She told the story of a patient who was 18 weeks pregnant and in a dire emotional state. Arizona requires physicians to list the reason for the abortion. This patient told her it was because of incest.
“She’s just sitting in the room and tears are streaming down her face. I said, ‘As a person, not as a physician, what can I do to help you?’ and she said, “The only thing that you can do is to help me not be pregnant.’”
It was the one thing Gibson couldn’t do because of the 15-week ban.
“We are now seeing the real-life consequences of these bans and to say it’s heartbreaking and devastating is just a gross understatement,” she said.
Terech said she and her colleagues are looking for common ground from more moderate Republicans in purple districts who might be willing to work on the issue of abortion, but there are no guarantees.
“What we can do is put forward a citizen initiative. Our work at the legislature also then is about protecting this process, which has come under severe threat in Arizona.”
Kwatra said that while her patients generally have more resources to protect them from some of the worst outcomes of the anti-abortion agenda, they are still afraid and confused.
The first week after the 1864 ban was reinstated, “I had a patient who had a miscarriage who asked if a D&C was still possible,” she said.
(Dilation and curretage or D&C is a surgical procedure that removes tissue during or after a miscarriage.)
Contant talked about her experience with pregnant women whose pregnancies became high risk after 15 weeks and the calculations they are forced to make.
“When we know we can help someone, when we know we can medically help somebody to improve their quality of life or save their life, it is heartbreaking that we can’t be able to do that,” she said.
Along with a cookie frosted with a uterus design and Chanukah gelt with an image of the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, attendees received a summary of abortion access in the country, a resource guide and ideas for taking action, like funding abortion advocacy and talking to friends about the issue.
In Stein’s experience, a lot of good work begins in living rooms, and in this case, a backyard. At least 100 Jewish women in Arizona, some of whom came even though they were exhausted from long flights, seemed to agree. JN | https://www.jewishaz.com/community/jewish-women-in-greater-phoenix-turn-out-to-support-abortion-access/article_c1e4a2ea-7b16-11ed-834f-933adbcc609b.html | 2022-12-14T07:24:44 | en | 0.97049 |
These round objects are applesauce donut holes with caramel glaze and yes, you need to make them! They have a drippy and crunchy exterior with a tender and fluffy interior. Be still my heart!
The traditions of the Chanukah holiday include frying foods in oil and a traditional dessert for the holiday is sufganiyot or donuts. They check the “fried” box. I love baked donuts but this holiday demands that we get the fryer out. I don’t own a deep fryer so a deep pot will suffice!
The flavor of these jumbo donut holes is sublime. By using applesauce to sweeten and moisten the batter and the addition of pumpkin pie spice says, “Hello, winter!” Once fried, they are dipped and coated with a caramel glaze. These treats will have you spinning faster than any ol’ dreidel!
APPLESAUCE DONUT HOLES WITH CARAMEL GLAZE
For the donut holes:
2 ½ cups all-purpose flour
2 ½ teaspoons baking powder
1 ½ teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
¼ teaspoon salt
3 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
½ cup white sugar
¼ cup brown sugar
2 eggs
1 cup unsweetened applesauce
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
¼ cup milk
Oil for frying
For the caramel glaze:
1 ¾ cups powdered sugar
¾ cups caramel sauce
2 tablespoons milk
Prepare the donuts by whisking the flour, baking powder, pumpkin pie spice and salt in a medium bowl. Set aside.
In a separate bowl, cream the butter and sugars together until fluffy. Add the eggs, one at a time, and beat until smooth. Beat in the applesauce and vanilla extract.
Add in a third of the flour mixture, alternating with the milk, until all the ingredients are added and mix until just combined.
Heat 3-4 inches of oil in a deep, heavy bottomed pot or deep fryer to 375°F. Drop batter, one tablespoon at a time, into the oil. Don’t overcrowd the pot, cook 4-5 max at a time. Fry until golden brown, flipping once halfway, 3 to 4 minutes. Pay attention to the temperature; you’ll want to adjust the heat level to keep it at 375°F.
Remove the donuts from the oil with a slotted spoon and set on a paper towel lined plate to cool. Continue until all of the donuts have been fried.
To make the glaze, combine the powdered sugar, caramel sauce and milk in a small bowl. Mix until smooth. You might have to add a bit more milk if the glaze is not thin enough to dip the donuts in. Dip the donuts in the glaze, turning to coat, and place on a wire rack set over a lined baking sheet. Allow the excess to drip off, let dry and serve.
Makes 40 donut holes. JN
Francine Coles is a food blogger based in Phoenix. Find more of her food insights and recipes at thefancypantskitchen.com. | https://www.jewishaz.com/families_lifestyle/a-twist-on-the-traditional-chanukah-treat/article_ba969436-7b24-11ed-92f9-23f3a607d4c3.html | 2022-12-14T07:24:50 | en | 0.89937 |
(JTA) — It was early November when Nicholas Wymer-Santiago walked into his local Target in Austin, Texas, and realized it was beginning to feel a lot like Hanukkah.
Instead of an endcap with a limited array of Hanukkah basics, as he had seen in past years, there stretched out a whole aisle of holiday products: pillows; dreidel-shaped pet toys; window decals; menorahs in the shape of lions, corgis and whales; and so much more. Even the $5-and-under impulse-buys section filled with seasonal products had a supply of Hanukkah goods, including a Star of David-shaped bowl and a set of dishes labeled “sour cream” and “applesauce.”
“In a good way, it was overwhelming at first, because there’s so much and I kind of want to buy it all,” Wymer-Santiago recalled feeling as he stood in the holiday section, looking up at a large photograph of a Hanukkah celebration alongside others showcasing Christmas.
The higher education administrator at the University of Texas decided to limit himself, at first taking home just a tea towel and a matching mug printed with a Hanukkah motif.
“And then I came back twice, maybe three times and each time I bought more and more items that I know I probably don’t need,” he said. “I think I’ve just had so much excitement about the novelty of it all, and having the ability to purchase these items, many of which I’ve never seen before.”
Wymer-Santiago is hardly alone in loading his cart with Hanukkah merchandise. Across the United States, big-box stores appear to be stocking more Hanukkah products than ever — and while off-color items such as Hanukkah gnomes and “Oy to the World” dish towels have raised eyebrows, the real story might be that American retailers have decked their shelves with menorahs, tableware and other items that are appropriate, affordable and often downright tasteful.
For many American Jews, the result is a sense of inclusion at a time of unease — although some are wrestling with what it means to have access to a fast-fashion form of Judaica.
“It is very exciting to go into Target or Michaels or a Walmart and to see Hanukkah merchandise,” said Ariel Scheer Stein, an influencer who shares crafting and holiday content for Jewish families on Instagram, where she has more than 20,000 followers.
“The feeling is almost like pride and like we’re being seen and represented,” Stein added. “In a sea of Christmas … it feels really great, even if it’s a much smaller representation, that the Jewish holiday is there also and the Jewish community is being acknowledged and represented.”
The idea that retailers have stocked up on Hanukkah goods to make Jews feel represented is tempting, but it’s probably not the only reason for a shift in the market, according to Russell Winer, deputy chair of the marketing department at New York University’s Stern School of Business. He said that while an endcap — the small set of shelves at the end of an aisle — might sometimes be given over for symbolic purposes, the devotion of an entire aisle at the busiest time of the year is purely a business decision.
“These stores are very sophisticated in what they put in them,” Winer said. “They’re not going to put stuff on the shelves, especially at the holidays, if they don’t think they’re going to sell.”
There are signs that the Hanukkah market might be much wider than the proportion of Americans who identify as Jewish, 2.5%, would suggest. Numerator, a respected consumer trends polling firm, found in a survey of 11,000 consumers conducted in January 2022 that 14% of respondents said they were “definitely” or “probably” celebrating Hanukkah this year, compared to 96% for Christmas. More than half of the Hanukkah celebrants said they expected to spend more than $50 on the holiday — suggesting that retailers can expect hundreds of millions of dollars in Hanukkah spending this year.
Part of that marketplace is the growing number of families in which Hanukkah is celebrated alongside other holidays, usually Christmas. Most American Jews who have married in the last decade have done so to people who are not Jewish, according to the 2020 Pew study of American Jews; most of them say they are raising their children exclusively or partly as Jews. They may want to have products that allow Hanukkah to share the stage equitably with the other celebrations in their family.
“I’m not terribly surprised from a cultural standpoint that there’s more merchandise,” said Winer, who is Jewish. He said he and his wife had purchased Hanukkah stockings for their grandchildren, who are being raised in two faith traditions. (Evangelical Christians and Messianics, those who adopt Jewish practices while believing in the divinity of Jesus, also represent an emerging market for Jewish ritual objects.)
Stein offered another theory to explain the uptick in interest in Hanukkah products: the fact that social media and Zoom meetings have made home lives more transparent than ever.
“The communal sharing of lives, whether you’re an influencer or even my friends on Facebook showing what their display is this year or taking a picture of a recipe they were really proud of, making latkes from scratch — there’s just more visibility than there has been in the past,” she said. “And that’s probably a factor.”
Whatever the reasons, shoppers are noticing. Like Stein and countless other Jewish influencers, Rabbi Yael Buechler, a devoted observer of Jewish consumer trends, has offered tours of Hanukkah merchandise to her social media followers. Wearing Hanukkah pajamas that she designed and sells, Buechler has posted 14 videos to TikTok showcasing the Hanukkah collections of national retailers and assigns each store a “yay” or “nay” based on several metrics, including whether items display accurate Hebrew or appear to be generic blue-and-white items being passed off as made for the holiday. The videos, which have been viewed hundreds of thousands of times, have given her a broad view of what’s available to the Hanukkah consumer.
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“I see a lot more products this year than any other year,” said Buechler, who works at a Jewish school outside New York City. “I see a lot of new prints. I see more creativity in the market. I see more humor in the market.”
Like Wymer-Santiago, Buechler said Target, which has 2,000 locations across the United States, stood out as offering the widest array of products and the lowest proportion of “fails,” or products that miss the mark religiously, culturally or aesthetically.
“They have really stepped it up,” Buechler said. “Target also carries the Nickelodeon ‘Rugrats’ Hanukkah sweatshirts that are just brilliant. … I would definitely say they get the biggest ‘yay’ for this year.”
Target, which has a track record of using inclusive imagery in its advertisements and in-store promotions, declined to answer questions about its offerings, including how much bigger its Hanukkah collection is this year than in the past and how widely the products for Jewish buyers have been distributed. But a spokesperson said the feeling Wymer-Santiago and Stein described after visiting their local stores is exactly what the company is trying to cultivate.
“Target is committed to creating an inclusive guest experience in which all guests feel represented,” the spokesperson wrote in an email. The spokesperson noted that Target’s Hanukkah assortment “was developed in collaboration with Jewish team members and input from our Jewish employee resource group” and crosses several of the retailer’s in-house brands.
One of those lines, Opalhouse by Jungalow, was created by a Jewish artist, Justina Blakeney. Last year, Blakeney’s first Hanukkah collection included plates and pillows, as well as a gold menorah shaped like a dove. This year, Blakeney added new pillow designs and a clay menorah.
“If I could go back in time and tell elementary-school-aged Justina (or ‘Tina’ as I was called back then) that I would have a chance to design a Hanukkah collection for Target, I would have lost my mind,” she wrote in an October blog post revealing the collection.
Hanukkah goods have always been widely available through Jewish merchandisers and at synagogue bazaars — but those products have been available only to people who already engaged in Jewish communities. Amazon and other online retailers have increased access, but only for people who are hunting for Hanukkah supplies. A Hanukkah aisle at Target, in contrast, reaches the many Jews who may not already have robust holiday traditions.
Stein, who said she particularly regretted not snapping up a marble dreidel sculpture that quickly sold out at Target, said she saw only benefits in promoting major retailers’ Hanukkah offerings, even if doing so has made her something of an unpaid advertiser at times.
“Right now, especially with the rise of antisemitism, if there are ways that we can spur Jewish joy — and for me, that’s by sharing and inspiring people with different kinds of Hanukkah merch and home decor and jewelry — I think that’s great,” she said.
Not everyone is thrilled by the shift in the marketplace. The sweeping Hanukkah displays are drawing criticism from those who have long lamented that the American primacy of Christmas has caused Jews to focus too much on a minor holiday, while leaving holidays with more religious significance relatively uncelebrated.
“I think: What would it feel like to see a giant Shavuot display?” Wymer-Santiago said.
The fast-fashion aspect of the big-box retailers’ offerings, many of which are imported from China, also raises concerns about whether easy access to trendy Judaica comes at environmental and cultural costs.
“How about we don’t extract fossil fuels to make crap that no one needs and that makes Jewish communities less distinctive?” asked Dan Friedman, a writer and longtime climate activist, though he emphasized that systemic change, rather than tweaks to purchasing decisions by Jewish consumers, is needed to avert climate catastrophe.
For Buechler and others, the benefits of a mass-market Hanukkah merchandise boom outweigh any possible drawbacks.
“As a rabbi, I am all for anything that will make Hanukkah celebrations more engaging and potentially lengthen a family celebration,” said Buechler, who said her own collection had outgrown the four tubs it occupied several months ago, and that one of her favorite purchases was of a Hanukkah sweater for lizards that she bought for a friend’s guinea pig.
“I really do believe that owning different kinds of Hanukkah merch, whether apparel or otherwise, will increase the likelihood that a family will celebrate with friends with family for more nights than they would have last year,” she added.
Wymer-Santiago plans to celebrate the holiday with his family in Ohio, meaning that he will be leaving behind much of this year’s Target haul in his Austin apartment: the device that makes dreidel-shaped waffles, the window decals that advertise the holiday to passersby, the giant dreidel-shaped jar that he has filled with, well, dreidels. He said he planned to make room in his suitcase for at least one item: a $5 menorah that reminds him of his dog.
Wymer-Santiago said a piece of him worried that Target was taking advantage of his excitement about Jewish representation, the way it has been criticized for doing around LGBTQ Pride celebrations, to sell him stuff he doesn’t need.
“Every time I buy something from Target in general, but definitely for Hanukkah, I think about this,” he said. “But then I think: This thing is so cute. And I just need it.” JN | https://www.jewishaz.com/families_lifestyle/the-hanukkah-merch-market-has-exploded-but-are-jews-feeling-more-represented/article_ad59f300-7b04-11ed-b0e9-1b6b71cd5b08.html | 2022-12-14T07:24:56 | en | 0.972638 |
At the beginning of this week’s parshah, Jacob gives his favorite son, Joseph, the “coat of many colors,” evoking jealousy from his 11 other sons. Then Joseph, in what’s maybe not an example of his best judgment, tells his brothers of prophetic dreams he’s had that indicate that he’s the greatest in the family.
Even his father, Jacob, chastises him for this, but the brothers take their envy to a new level. Infamously, they initially want to kill him, but Reuben persuades them to resist that urge, so instead they throw him into a pit and sell him to Ishmaelites, who take him to Egypt.
What a horrible way to treat a brother, and what a sad way for the fathers of 11 of the tribes of Israel to treat the father of the 12th. Sadly, I can see this as a foreshadowing of the way Jews often treat one another today. It is bad enough that the Jewish people face rising, extreme hatred from people in the outside world, and I believe there is an additional problem coming from inside the house.
Most of us in the Jewish community feel comfortable and at home with our kind of people. We can often get along relatively fine with the other members of our synagogue, the other parents at school or our extended-family members across the holiday table.
But how much solidarity do we typically feel with the Jews who aren’t part of our immediate communities and ideological groups? How common is it for a secular Jew to have disdain for the black hat wearing ultra-Orthodox Jew as backwards and unevolved? And for a hareidi Orthodox Jew to look down upon the secular Jew as a hater of God and Torah? The same goes for a right-wing Zionist who detests non-Zionist Jews as self-hating, and for a liberal Zionist who dismisses those to their right as ultranationalist and colonialist. Or perhaps you view yourself as a religious or political centrist, and you judge those who stand firmly to both sides of you as irrational and extreme.
The problems we have with one another as Jews are important, and there’s no need to sweep our differences under the rug. But at some point, we stop having arguments for the sake of heaven and begin treating one another the way the brothers treated Joseph. Our jealousy or ideological fervor, both which can lead to hate, can lead us to do and say harmful things, dividing a community that ought to be bound together.
It’s already lonely out there to be a Jew in a country that is 98% gentile and a world that is almost 100% non-Jewish, especially with rising antisemitism nationally and globally. But then to feel hate from your own siblings is unbearable. If we can’t get past this for the betterment of our own lives, we must do it for the Jewish future. I believe petty disagreement may be a key factor why young Jews leave engagement. Young Jews can detect right away when a community is putting down others. We might think we’re inspiring a love for Reform Judaism when we tell the kids we dislike Orthodoxy — or that we’re inspiring Orthodox kids when we shame Reform Judaism as not authentically Jewish. But our children often pick up on our hate and run the other way.
We must build our children’s identities affirmatively, by showing them what we love, not by bashing the type of Jew we think we dislike. The only way for us to achieve the love of Am Yisrael commanded in the Torah is for us to set down our differences, even for just a little while, and come together as a people. The goal is not peoplehood; that’s a low bar. The goal is peoplehood united to actualize our moral mission in the world. Too often those who profess “Jewish unity” mean that other Jews should just think, and act, like them. There are many different moral and spiritual missions within the Jewish ethos that are worthy of our respect.
This does not require us to abandon our moral or religious convictions, or to silence the marketplace of ideas, but rather to learn how to create space for each other, for each to actualize their unique respective potential. As we’ll see by the end of the Book of Genesis, the brothers eventually do come together, make peace with one another and form the 12 tribes.
This parshah calls us to strive to have the same kind of reconciliation. In the Torah, it came from Joseph’s courage to reach out to those who have harmed him, and it came from the brothers’ humility to admit their wrongdoing. These are difficult qualities to exhibit, but no one said that being the Jewish people was going to be easy. JN
Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz is the president and dean of Valley Beit Midrash. | https://www.jewishaz.com/religiouslife/parshah-vayeshev-are-we-adding-our-own-jew-hatred/article_c046a0ca-7b2d-11ed-bef0-133ded6df9ac.html | 2022-12-14T07:25:02 | en | 0.96724 |
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia has signed a new security deal with Oceania island country Vanuatu as part of an ongoing competition with China for influence in the Pacific.
The new security pact covers humanitarian assistance, disaster relief, law enforcement, cyber security, defense, border security and maritime safety. The full text of the agreement has yet to be released.
"We all have a responsibility to ensure our sovereign decisions enhance the security of all members of the Pacific and we're deeply proud to be the Vanuatu principal security partner of choice," Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong told reporters Tuesday in the capital of Port Vila.
Earlier this year, China signed a security deal with the Solomon Islands, raising alarm in the South Pacific that it could lead to a military buildup. China also tried unsuccessfully to have 10 Pacific nations sign a sweeping deal covering everything from security to fisheries.
Australia has been countering China's moves with its own Pacific island-hopping diplomatic missions.
Wong said decisions about how Pacific countries wish to engage with Australia, the level of cooperation they seek, and what they choose to prioritize, are all issues for each individual nation.
The delegation led by Wong also took part in a handover of a new wharf and a police boat. The wharf was built as part of Australia's Pacific Maritime Security Program.
From Vanuatu, the delegation travels to Palau and then Micronesia. Palau is one of the few remaining nations that continues to have diplomatic ties with Taiwan rather than China.
Palau President Surangel Whipps Jr. said economics should not be used to influence its policies.
"There's a lot of Chinese investment in Palau. I think they're the No. 1 foreign investor now. This changes the political dynamic," he told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. "There's been pressure on us to switch to China, and Palau has been strong and saying that we are enemies to none and friends to all and no one should tell us who our friends should be."
Whipps also applauded Australia for increasing its greenhouse gas emissions reduction target to 43% by the end of the decade, but wanted to see it go further.
"We would like to see a 50% reduction by 2030," he told the broadcaster.
Many Pacific nations view climate change as their biggest challenge and an existential threat because sea level rises and stronger storms threaten to swamp many low-lying islands.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.kunm.org/npr-news/2022-12-13/australia-vies-with-china-for-pacific-influence-signs-new-security-deal | 2022-12-14T07:25:34 | en | 0.965981 |
Megan Thee Stallion took the stand as a witness for the prosecution during the assault trial of singer Tory Lanez in Los Angeles Superior Court today, speaking for the first time in explicit detail about the night Lanez allegedly shot the Houston rapper in the feet in 2020 and the event's residual effects on her career and life.
As the key witness for the prosecution, the Houston rapper, real name Megan Pete, described her account of night of July 12, 2020, saying on record that the assault was the result of an argument she had with Lanez, real name Daystar Peterson, and Kelsey Harris, her former best friend and assistant, while driving home from a Hollywood Hills pool party in the early morning hours.
Wearing a purple suit, red-bottom, black stilettos and a black bob hairstyle, Pete, 27, testified that the shooting and its aftermath have impacted her health, both physically and mentally. "I can't even be happy," she said, her voice breaking during her afternoon testimony. "I can't hold conversations with people for a long time. I don't feel like I want to be on this earth. I wish he would have just shot and killed me, if I knew I would have to go through this torture."
The Grammy winner recounted that she and Peterson had an intimate but not exclusive relationship in 2020, one that Harris did not know about at the time. Pete knew Harris had a "crush on" Tory, so she hid the relationship. (When asked specifically why she had not previously revealed the nature of her relationship with Peterson, Pete said she was embarrassed, "because it's disgusting at this point. How could I share my body with someone who could do this to me?")
The fight in the vehicle started when Peterson hinted at the relationship to Harris and then tried to pit the two women against each other, calling them "bitches and hoes" in the car.
Pete testified that, after exiting the vehicle for a second time on the drive home, Peterson shouted at her, "Dance, bitch," then fired five shots at her from the passenger side, striking her in the feet. "I felt shocked. I felt hurt. I wasn't sure if this was really happening. I looked at my feet, I saw the blood and I fell to the ground," the "WAP" star testified.
When expressly asked about changing her story to police the night of the shooting — from stepping in glass to allegedly being shot by Peterson — Pete gave context for her choice in the moment, starting with her distrust of the police.
"I don't feel safe in the car. I don't feel safe with the police," Pete said between tears as she described the aftermath of the incident, when responding officers had her, Peterson, Harris and Jaquan Smith, Peterson's bodyguard, step out of the vehicle they were stopped in.
Pete, who shared that she's grown up deeply suspicious of cops, said that wariness was further stoked by the 2020 climate, George Floyd's murder and subsequent Black Lives Matter protests: "In the Black community — in my community — it's not really acceptable to be cooperating with police officers."
Pete then spoke briefly about how "women aren't believed when they speak out." George Mgdesyan, Peterson's attorney, objected on the grounds that the comment was tangential to the case.
Beyond fear of the police and questions surrounding survivor credibility, Pete also shared the concern that implicating Peterson could negatively impact her career in hip-hop.
"This situation has only been worse for me and it has only made him more famous," Pete said during morning testimony. "Because I was shot, I've been turned into some kind of villain, and he's the victim. This has messed up my whole life ... This whole situation in the industry is like a big boy's club ... I'm telling on one of y'all friends, now you're all about to hate me."
Pete testified that she crawled into the driveway to the left of the SUV after being shot, but eventually got back into the car. In her testimony, she said that, as the group drove away, Peterson immediately told Harris and Pete that he would give them each $1 million if they didn't tell police and said he was on probation for a prior weapons offense. Throughout the trial, Peterson's defense has repeatedly said that Peterson was never on probation.
The afternoon cross examination reached a boiling point when Defense Attorney Mgdesyan implied in his questioning that Pete's career has taken off since this shooting, and even used scare quotes around the word "shot." Pete replied "why did you do this [gestures scare quote] I got shot."
While Pete was on the stand, Peterson, wearing a cream suit and white turtleneck, sat silently in the defense chair, taking notes sporadically and avoiding all eye contact with her.
Pete also shared new details around her contact with Peterson after the night, saying that he continued to contact her following the shooting took place to apologize. According to Pete, he texted her from an unknown number to say he was watching her during an Instagram Live and could see the "pain in my eyes." She said that she responded, "Why are you bothering me? Why are you being weird? You just shot me and now you are telling me you're watching me?"
Because social media has played a critical role in catalyzing public debate of this case, Pete's revelation that Peterson watched her on Instagram is especially striking.
With every development of this case, many media personalities and outlets, specifically gossip blogs, have shared unsubstantiated information that's caused debate on social media about the validity of both Pete and Peterson's versions of events. That online public debate materialized in real life as supporters of both artists flocked outside of the courthouse for testimony.
Peterson is facing three felony charges; assault with a semi-automatic firearm, possession of a concealed, unregistered firearm, negligent discharge of a firearm. If convicted, Peterson faces up to 22 years in prison and/or possible deportation back to Canada.
Kelsey Harris is set to be called to the witness stand by the prosecution on Wednesday, December 14, 2022.
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A series of explosions rang out before dawn Wednesday in Ukraine's capital Kyiv. Ukraine said it shot down at least 10 Russian drones, and initial reports suggested only limited damage.
Residents woke to air raid sirens around 6 am. The explosions came minutes later, part of a grim pattern that's become familiar to Ukrainians nationwide since Russia began launching airstrikes at the country's power systems more than two months ago.
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said in a Telegram post that Ukraine's air defenses shot down 10 drones targeting the capital and the surrounding region.
Two government buildings were damaged in Kyiv, as was a private home in a village outside the city, Kyrylo Tymoshenko, a top aide to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said in another Telegram post.
With Russia suffering setbacks on the battlefield, the Russian military began large-scale air attacks on civilian infrastructure on Oct. 10. The attacks have damaged many parts of the electricity grid nationwide and led to daily power cuts throughout the country.
Over the weekend, Russia fired Iranian-made drones that knocked out power to the southern port city of Odesa and much of the surrounding region.
Ukraine's power companies have been quick to make repairs. But they say the damage is cumulative, and the country cannot generate as much electricity as it needs this winter.
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BANGKOK (AP) — Stocks were mostly higher Wednesday in Asia after a rally on Wall Street spurred by news that inflation in the U.S. cooled more than expected last month.
The 7.1% consumer price index reading for November raised hopes Tuesday for easing pressure on the economy ahead of an interest rate policy update from the U.S. Federal Reserve.
The Fed is widely expected to raise its benchmark rate a half-point Wednesday, smaller than the past four hikes of three-quarters of a point.
Also Wednesday, the Bank of Japan’s quarterly “tankan” survey showed a deterioration in business conditions for major Japanese manufacturers, reflecting higher costs for industrial inputs and energy and weaker demand as the Fed and other central banks raise interest rates to tame inflation.
The headline index for large manufacturers was 7, down from 8 in the previous quarter and the fourth straight quarter of declines. The tankan measures corporate sentiment by subtracting the number of companies saying business conditions are negative from those responding they are positive.
Conditions for nonmanufacturers, such as service industries, rose to 19 from 14, as Japan lifted pandemic precautions and reopened to foreign tourists.
“Today’s Tankan survey suggests that while the services sector is going from strength to strength, the outlook for the manufacturing sector continues to worsen," Darren Tay of Capital Economics said in a commentary. He noted that capital spending projections also weakened slightly.
Tokyo's Nikkei 225 advanced 0.7% to 28,156.21 and the Hang Seng in Hong Kong added 0.6% to 19,722.16. South Korea's Kospi was up 1.1% to 2,399.25.
The Shanghai Composite index edged 0.1% lower to 3,172.33.
In Australia, the S&P/ASX 200 gained 0.7% to 7,251.30. India's Sensex gained 0.7% while the SET in Bangkok added 0.6%.
On Tuesday, the S&P 500 rose 0.7% to 4,019.65 and the Nasdaq composite gained 1% to 11,256.81. The Dow Jones Industrial Average picked up 0.3% to 34,108.64.
Small company stocks also gained ground. The Russell 2000 index rose 0.8% to 1,832.36.
Stocks pared back gains as analysts cautioned investors not to get carried away by hopes for an easier Fed, as they have in the past.
The detail of the inflation data “under the hood being less encouraging than it is on the surface," Mizuho Bank economists said in a report. They noted that core services prices were up 0.4% from a month earlier, distorting inflation risks.
“To be precise , the headline understates underlying inflation risks that concern the Fed," the report said.
Tuesday’s report offered hope that the worst of inflation really did pass during the summer, though inflation remains painfully high and shoppers are paying prices well above levels from a year earlier.
A Fed rate hike of 0.50 percentage points would usually be a big deal because it's double the typical move. But with inflation coming off its worst level in generations, it would be a step down from the four hikes of 0.75 percentage points the Fed has approved since the summer.
Some of Wall Street's wildest action Tuesday was in the bond market, where yields fell sharply immediately after the inflation report's release.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury, which helps set rates for mortgages and other important loans, fell to 3.48% from 3.62% late Monday. The two-year yield, which more closely tracks expectations for the Fed, dropped to 4.22% from 4.39%.
Other central banks around the world, including the European Central Bank, are also likely to raise their own rates by half a percentage point this week.
Even if inflation is finally abating, the global economy still is threatened by rate increases already pushed through. The housing industry and other businesses that rely on low interest rates have shown particular weakness, and worries are rising about the strength of corporate profits broadly.
In other trading, U.S. benchmark crude lost 30 cents to $75.09 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. It jumped $2.22 on Tuesday to $75.39 per barrel.
Brent crude, the pricing basis for international trading, shed 34 cents to $80.34 per barrel.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s committee to study reparations for African Americans will meet in Oakland Wednesday to discuss what form reparations could take and eligibility requirements to receive possible payments.
The first-in-the-nation task force previously voted to limit reparations to Black California residents whose ancestors were living in the United States in the 19th century. This week, the group will talk about whether there could be additional eligibility requirements and what time frame reparations could hinge on.
The group will also discuss how the state may address its impact on Black families whose property was seized through eminent domain, a topic that garnered renewed attention after lawmakers last year voted to allow the return of a beachfront property known as Bruce's Beach to descendants of Black residents from whom it was taken in the 20th century.
Kamilah Moore, the task force’s chair, doesn’t expect the group to come to any final decisions at this week’s two-day meeting.
“We’re still in the exploratory phase,” she said.
The task force has a July 1 deadline to complete its final report for the Legislature listing recommendations for how the state can address its legacy of discriminatory policies against Black Californians. The group's work contrasts from similar efforts that have stalled in Congress.
Lawmakers in other parts of the country have pushed their states and cities to study reparations without much progress. But Evanston, Illinois became the first U.S. city last year to make reparations available for Black residents, and public officials in New York will try anew to create a reparations commission in the state.
Officials from Oakland, Sacramento, Los Angeles and other California cities will talk about local reparations efforts during a panel Wednesday.
That will include Khansa T. Jones-Muhammad, vice-chair of Los Angeles’ Reparations Advisory Commission, who said the commission — created last year under then-Mayor Eric Garcetti — doesn't have a date set in stone to complete its work.
The goal of the commission is to advise the city on a pilot program for distributing reparations to a group of Black residents.
“A lot of our first year has really just been laying the groundwork to have a strong commission,” she said.
In September, economists started listing preliminary estimates for what could be owed by the state as a result of discriminatory policies. But they said they need more data to come up with more complete figures.
Moore said the task force has not decided on any dollar amounts or what form reparations could take, but the public's interest in those estimates shows optimism about the group's work. The group hasn't discussed where money for reparations could potentially come from.
About 30 people gathered Saturday at a Black-owned coffee shop in Sacramento for a reparations information session led by the Coalition for a Just and Equitable California, said Chris Lodgson, an organizer for the group.
The coalition is focused on advocating for reparations for Black residents. It has been supportive of reparations largely targeted at the descendants of enslaved African Americans.
“Generally speaking, Black folks can support other Black folks in the things that they want and need even if not everybody is benefitting equally from it or directly from it," Lodgson said.
California Secretary of State Shirley Weber, a former assemblywoman, authored the bill that created the state's task force, and the group began its work last year. The bill was signed into law in September 2020 after a summer of nationwide protests against racism and police brutality following the killing of George Floyd, a Black man, by a white police officer in Minnesota.
In June, the task force released a 500-page report describing discriminatory policies that drove housing segregation, criminal justice disparities and other realities that harmed Black Californians in the decades since the abolition of slavery.
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Regina 5 Calgary 2
Saskatoon 9 Prince Albert 0
Portland 4 Seattle 3 (SO)
Brandon 2 Spokane 1
Lethbridge 4 Swift Current 3 (SO)
Medicine Hat 6 Moose Jaw 3
Red Deer 5 Edmonton 2
Tri-City 4 Prince George 3
Kamloops 6 Victoria 1
Vancouver 3 Kelowna 2 (OT)
Sunday's results
Calgary 5 Brandon 2
Winnipeg 6 Regina 1
Portland 4 Everett 2
Seattle 5 Vancouver 2
Tuesday's results
Spokane 5 Moose Jaw 2
Saskatoon 8 Medicine Hat 3
Seattle 8 Prince George 1
Wednesday's results
Kelowna at Swift Current, 7 p.m.
Spokane at Regina, 7 p.m.
Medicine Hat at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.
Edmonton at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Vancouver at Victoria, 7:05 p.m.
Tri-City at Everett, 7:05 p.m.
Friday's games
Winnipeg at Brandon, 7 p.m.
Spokane at Saskatoon, 7 p.m.
Regina at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.
Red Deer at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.
Kelowna at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Swift Current at Edmonton, 7 p.m.
Kamloops at Prince George, 7 p.m.
Tri-City at Victoria, 7:05 p.m.
Everett at Seattle, 7:05 p.m.
Portland at Vancouver, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday's games
Saskatoon at Regina, 7 p.m.
Spokane at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.
Brandon at Winnipeg, 7:05 p.m.
Swift Current at Red Deer, 7 p.m.
Kamloops at Prince George, 6 p.m.
Vancouver at Portland, 6 p.m.
Kelowna at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.
Calgary at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Seattle at Everett, 6:05 p.m.
Tri-City at Victoria, 6:05 p.m.
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Regina 5 Calgary 2
Saskatoon 9 Prince Albert 0
Portland 4 Seattle 3 (SO)
Brandon 2 Spokane 1
Lethbridge 4 Swift Current 3 (SO)
Medicine Hat 6 Moose Jaw 3
Red Deer 5 Edmonton 2
Tri-City 4 Prince George 3
Kamloops 6 Victoria 1
Vancouver 3 Kelowna 2 (OT)
Sunday's results
Calgary 5 Brandon 2
Winnipeg 6 Regina 1
Portland 4 Everett 2
Seattle 5 Vancouver 2
Tuesday's results
Spokane 5 Moose Jaw 2
Saskatoon 8 Medicine Hat 3
Seattle 8 Prince George 1
Wednesday's results
Kelowna at Swift Current, 7 p.m.
Spokane at Regina, 7 p.m.
Medicine Hat at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.
Edmonton at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Vancouver at Victoria, 7:05 p.m.
Tri-City at Everett, 7:05 p.m.
Friday's games
Winnipeg at Brandon, 7 p.m.
Spokane at Saskatoon, 7 p.m.
Regina at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.
Red Deer at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.
Kelowna at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Swift Current at Edmonton, 7 p.m.
Kamloops at Prince George, 7 p.m.
Tri-City at Victoria, 7:05 p.m.
Everett at Seattle, 7:05 p.m.
Portland at Vancouver, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday's games
Saskatoon at Regina, 7 p.m.
Spokane at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.
Brandon at Winnipeg, 7:05 p.m.
Swift Current at Red Deer, 7 p.m.
Kamloops at Prince George, 6 p.m.
Vancouver at Portland, 6 p.m.
Kelowna at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.
Calgary at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Seattle at Everett, 6:05 p.m.
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Regina 5 Calgary 2
Saskatoon 9 Prince Albert 0
Portland 4 Seattle 3 (SO)
Brandon 2 Spokane 1
Lethbridge 4 Swift Current 3 (SO)
Medicine Hat 6 Moose Jaw 3
Red Deer 5 Edmonton 2
Tri-City 4 Prince George 3
Kamloops 6 Victoria 1
Vancouver 3 Kelowna 2 (OT)
Sunday's results
Calgary 5 Brandon 2
Winnipeg 6 Regina 1
Portland 4 Everett 2
Seattle 5 Vancouver 2
Tuesday's results
Spokane 5 Moose Jaw 2
Saskatoon 8 Medicine Hat 3
Seattle 8 Prince George 1
Wednesday's results
Kelowna at Swift Current, 7 p.m.
Spokane at Regina, 7 p.m.
Medicine Hat at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.
Edmonton at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Vancouver at Victoria, 7:05 p.m.
Tri-City at Everett, 7:05 p.m.
Friday's games
Winnipeg at Brandon, 7 p.m.
Spokane at Saskatoon, 7 p.m.
Regina at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.
Red Deer at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.
Kelowna at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Swift Current at Edmonton, 7 p.m.
Kamloops at Prince George, 7 p.m.
Tri-City at Victoria, 7:05 p.m.
Everett at Seattle, 7:05 p.m.
Portland at Vancouver, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday's games
Saskatoon at Regina, 7 p.m.
Spokane at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.
Brandon at Winnipeg, 7:05 p.m.
Swift Current at Red Deer, 7 p.m.
Kamloops at Prince George, 6 p.m.
Vancouver at Portland, 6 p.m.
Kelowna at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.
Calgary at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Seattle at Everett, 6:05 p.m.
Tri-City at Victoria, 6:05 p.m.
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi man who pleaded guilty to raping and killing a 16-year-old girl is scheduled to be put to death Wednesday evening. He would become the second inmate executed in Mississippi in 10 years.
Thomas Edwin Loden Jr., 58, is set to receive a lethal injection at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman at 6 p.m. He has been on death row since 2001, when he pleaded guilty to capital murder, rape and four counts of sexual battery against Leesa Marie Gray.
In a late-night ruling on Dec. 7, a federal judge declined to block Mississippi from carrying out the execution amid a pending lawsuit from Loden and four Mississippi death row inmates over the state’s lethal injection protocol. Mississippi’s most recent execution was in November 2021.
During the summer ahead of what should have been Gray's senior year of high school, she had worked as a waitress at her uncle’s restaurant in northeast Mississippi. On June 22, 2000, she left work after dark and became stranded with a flat tire on a rural road.
Loden, a Marine Corps recruiter with relatives in the area, encountered Gray on the road around 10:45 p.m. He stopped and began speaking with the teenager about the flat tire. “Don’t worry. I’m a Marine. We do this kind of stuff,” he said.
Loden told investigators he became angry after Gray allegedly said she would never want to be a Marine, and that he ordered her into his van. He spent four hours sexually assaulting her before strangling and suffocating her, according to an interview he gave investigators.
Court records show that on the afternoon of June 23, 2000, “Loden was discovered lying by the side of a road with the words ‘I’m sorry’ carved into his chest and apparent self-inflicted lacerations on his wrists.”
After pleading guilty in September 2001, Loden told Gray’s friends and family during his sentencing: “I hope you may have some sense of justice when you leave here today.”
Wanda Farris, Gray's mother, described her daughter as a “happy-go-lucky, always smiling” teenager who aspired to become an elementary school teacher.
“She wasn’t perfect, now, mind you,” Farris said. “But she strived to do right.”
Farris plans on attending the execution Wednesday.
In 2015, attorneys for the Roderick & Solange MacArthur Justice Center sued the Mississippi prison system on behalf of two death row inmates, saying the state’s lethal injection protocol is inhumane. Loden and two other Mississippi death row inmates later joined as plaintiffs.
The Mississippi Department of Corrections revealed in court papers in July 2021 that it had acquired three drugs for its lethal injection protocol: midazolam, which is a sedative; vecuronium bromide, which paralyzes the muscles; and potassium chloride, which stops the heart.
Jim Craig, a MacArthur Center attorney, said at a November court hearing that since 2019, only Alabama, Oklahoma, Mississippi and Tennessee have conducted executions using a three-drug protocol.
According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 27 states have the death penalty. Craig said a majority of death-penalty states and the federal government used a three-drug protocol in 2008, but the federal government and most of those states have since started using one drug.
In November, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey sought a pause in executions and ordered a “top-to-bottom” review of the state’s capital punishment system after a series of failed lethal injections.
A week before Loden’s scheduled execution, U.S. District Judge Henry Wingate handed down a ruling saying the execution could happen even while the lawsuit is pending. He wrote that the U.S. Supreme Court had upheld a three-drug lethal injection protocol as recently as seven years ago in a case from Oklahoma.
Loden’s attorneys did respond to requests for comment.
There are 36 inmates on death row in Mississippi. Death Penalty Action, a group opposed to capital punishment, convened a news conference Tuesday in front of the state capitol in Jackson to voice their opposition to Loden's execution.
“Clearly, something in him snapped for him to commit such a horrific crime,” said Mitzi Magleby, a spokesperson for the Mississippi chapter of Ignite Justice, an organization that advocates for criminal justice reform. “Mr. Loden was immediately remorseful. Shouldn’t there be room for grace and mercy in such a situation?”
Farris told The Associated Press on Friday that she forgave Loden years ago, but she did not believe his apology.
“I don’t particularly want to see somebody die,” Farris said. “But I do believe in the death penalty. ... I do believe in justice.”
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Emily Wagster Pettus contributed to this report. Michael Goldberg is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/mikergoldberg. | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/Mississippi-set-to-execute-man-for-killing-17652823.php | 2022-12-14T07:26:52 | en | 0.969272 |
SASKATOON - Conner Roulette scored twice and contributed a pair of assists as his Saskatoon Blades earned a decisive 8-3 victory over the Medicine Hat Tigers in Western Hockey League play on Tuesday.
Tanner Molendyk added a goal and two assists for the Blades (22-5-0), who stretched their win streak to seven games. Egor Sidorov, Vaughn Watterodt, Justin Lies, Aidan De La Gorgendiere and Brandon Lisowsky also scored.
Brendan Lee, Oasiz Wiesblatt and Shane Smith replied for the Tigers (11-16-5).
Ethan Chadwick made 31 saves for Saskatoon and Beckett Langkow stopped 19 shots for Medicine Hat.
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SEATTLE — Jordan Gustafson netted a hat trick as Seattle (21-4-2) trounced Prince George (14-15-1). Kyle Crnkovic scored twice for the Thunderbirds while Sam Popowich, Bryce Pickford and Nico Myatovic all added goals. Blake Eastman had the lone tally for the Cougars, who dropped their fifth straight game.
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MOOSE JAW, SASK. — Carter Streek scored twice as Spokane (6-20-1) downed Moose Jaw (19-12-0). Tommaso De Luca added a pair of goals for the Chiefs, who snapped a four-game losing skid.
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DALLAS (AP) — A destructive winter storm marched across the United States on Wednesday, delivering blizzard-like conditions to the Great Plains hours after tornadoes touched down in parts of Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana.
Five tornadoes were confirmed across north Texas as of Tuesday afternoon based on video and eyewitness reports, but potentially a dozen may have occurred, the National Weather Service in Fort Worth, Texas, reported.
Dozens of homes and businesses were damaged by the line of thunderstorms, and several people were injured in the suburbs and counties stretching north of the Dallas-Fort Worth area. More than 1,000 flights into and out of area airports were delayed, and over 100 were canceled, according to the tracking service FlightAware.
Two people were missing and homes were destroyed Tuesday when a tornado hit Four Forts, Louisiana, about 10 miles (16 kilometers) from Shreveport, said Sgt. Casey Jones of the Caddo Parish Sheriff’s Office.
“I’m hoping they’re with family somewhere,” Jones said. There were no immediate reports of deaths.
The severe weather threat continued into Wednesday for Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle, according to the Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma.
Blizzard warnings stretched from Montana into western Nebraska and Colorado, and the National Weather Service said as much as 2 feet (61 centimeters) of snow was possible in some areas of western South Dakota and northwestern Nebraska. Winds of more than 50 mph (80 kph) at times will make it impossible to see outdoors in Nebraska, officials said.
“There’s essentially no one traveling right now,” said Justin McCallum, a manager at the Flying J truck stop at Ogallala, Nebraska.
Forecasters expect the storm system to hobble the upper Midwest with ice, rain and snow for days, as well as move into the Northeast and central Appalachians. Residents from West Virginia to Vermont were told to watch out for a possible significant mix of snow, ice and sleet, and the National Weather Service issued a winter storm watch from Wednesday night through Friday afternoon, depending on the timing of the storm.
In the Dallas suburb of Grapevine, police spokesperson Amanda McNew reported five confirmed injuries Tuesday.
A possible tornado blew the roof off the city’s service center — a municipal facility — and left pieces of the roof hanging from powerlines, said Trent Kelley, deputy director of Grapevine Parks and Recreation.
It was also trash day, so the storm picked up and scattered garbage all over, he said.
Photos sent by the city showed downed power lines on rain-soaked streets, as well as toppled trees, damaged buildings and a semitrailer that appeared to have been tossed around a parking lot.
In Colorado, all roads were closed in the northeast quadrant of the state. The severe weather in the ranching region could also threaten livestock. Extreme winds can push livestock through fences as they follow the gale’s direction, said Jim Santomaso, a northeast representative for the Colorado Cattlemen’s Association.
“If this keeps up,” said Santomaso, “cattle could drift miles.”
A blizzard warning has been issued on Minnesota’s north shore, as some areas are expecting up to 24 inches of snow and wind gusts up to 40 mph. And in the south of the state, winds gusting up to 50 mph (80 kph) had reduced visibility.
National Weather Service meteorologist Melissa Dye in the Twin Cities said this is a “long duration event” with snow, ice and rain through Friday night. Minnesota was expecting a lull Wednesday, followed by a second round of snow.
The same weather system dumped heavy snow in the Sierra Nevada and western U.S. in recent days.
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Groves reported from Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Associated Press writers Ken Miller in Oklahoma City; Jill Bleed in Little Rock, Arkansas; Sam Metz in Salt Lake City; Trisha Ahmed in Minneapolis; Jesse Bedayn in Denver; Margery Beck in Omaha, Nebraska; and Robert Jablon in Los Angeles contributed to this report. | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/Winter-US-storm-brings-warnings-of-more-17652822.php | 2022-12-14T07:27:12 | en | 0.964805 |
The foreign minister raised the issues when High Commissioner of India to Bangladesh, Pranay Kumar Verma, calls on him at his office on Tuesday. They discussed issues of mutual interest.
Momen recalled with satisfaction the arrangements made by the government of India during his recent visit to Silchar, Assam on 1-3 December to participate in the first edition of the Silchar-Sylhet Festival.
The prime ministers of both Bangladesh and India on numerous occasions have emphasised on building common platforms for promoting understanding and cooperation to further strengthen Bangladesh-India ties.
Following their guidance, this festival revisited the connection, heritage, historical cultural and linguistic affinity between the two countries in order to strengthen the age-old people-to-people ties, said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The foreign minister also thanked India for inviting Bangladesh to attend the G20 meetings as a ‘guest country’ for the tenure of their G20 Presidency.
He noted that this would uphold their image in the regional settings.
Momen also called for bolder solidarity to address the issues faced by the Global South to tackle the combined challenges of the Covid-19 crisis, the crisis in Europe, and financing for climate emergency and SDG implementation. | https://en.prothomalo.com/bangladesh/2rndyx6qu8 | 2022-12-14T07:27:19 | en | 0.969603 |
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SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Nick Bonino scored for the fourth straight game, James Reimer won in his return from injury and the San Jose Sharks beat the Arizona Coyotes 3-2 on Tuesday night.
Tomas Hertl and Bonino scored in a span of 1:02 early in the first period to set the tone and help the Sharks win for only the third time in 10 games.
“I think we’ve deserved more than we’ve had this year," Bonino said. "They hung on a little bit at the end and they kept coming and coming. But it’s nice to get the win and it’s nice to contribute.”
Nico Sturm added a goal in the second period as San Jose earned just its third victory in 15 games at the Shark Tank this season.
Reimer returned from a lower-body injury that had sidelined him since Nov. 25 and made 19 saves.
“It felt good,” Reimer said. “Obviously when you haven’t played in a while, sometimes the game feels fast. Sometimes you’re trying to break in a bit. But I felt pretty good.”
Lawson Crouse and Nick Bjugstad scored for the Coyotes, who were trying to match a season-high three-game winning streak. Karel Vejmelka stopped 30 shots.
“We find ourselves in a lot of these games,” Bjugstad said. “Unfortunately, we didn’t start off the way we wanted to do. We had some spurts there where we weren’t on the same page. I thought we were a little lackadaisical as an entire unit. It’s tough when you start off like that.”
The Sharks got off to a fast start, scoring twice in 62 seconds early in the first period.
Hertl started it when he deflected a point shot from Radim Simek past Vejmelka. Bonino made it 2-0 when he took a pass from Erik Karlsson in front and scored in his fourth consecutive game after going without a goal in his first 24 games this season.
The Coyotes cut it to 2-1 late in the period when Crouse scored on a two-man advantage.
Sturm scored his eighth of the season on a rebound midway through the second before Bjugstad cut it to 3-2 early in the third.
Arizona put heavy pressure on Reimer late but couldn't get the equalizer.
“The first two periods we played in front of them all the time,” Coyotes coach Andre Tourigny said. “We need to get it deep and create more chances and get pucks to the net and create traffic in front of the net. We didn’t do it for 40 minutes. It’s tough to win in that league, even if you have a great push.”
MILESTONE NIGHT
Sharks television play-by-play broadcaster Randy Hahn called his 2,000th regular-season game for the team. Hahn helped form the group Pro Hockey San Jose in the 1980s that helped bring an expansion team to the city in 1991. He started as a fill-in announcer that first year before taking over as the full-time voice of the team in 1993.
INJURY REPORT
While Reimer made his return for the Sharks, forward Alexander Barabanov missed the game with a lower-body injury. Noah Gregor went into the lineup in his place. ... Sharks F Luke Kunin left in the first period with an undisclosed injury and didn't return.
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Coyotes: Host the New York Islanders.
Sharks: Visit the Los Angeles Kings on Saturday night.
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Shahjahan Shikdar, deputy assistant director of Fire Service and Civil Defence headquarters’ media cell, said the two oil tanker trucks caught fire at around 10:12 am.
On information, four fire fighting units rushed to the spot brought the fire under control. However, the cause of the fire could not be known immediately. | https://en.prothomalo.com/bangladesh/city/o7d6g9j659 | 2022-12-14T07:27:25 | en | 0.960675 |
The president and then the prime minister placed wreaths at the Martyred Intellectuals Memorial at Mirpur in the capital.
They stood there in solemn silence for a while as a mark of profound respect to the memories of the illustrious sons and daughters of the soil.
The government has chalked out elaborate programmes to commemorate the 14 December tragedy.
Apart from the family members of the martyred and freedom fighters, the general people also placed wreaths at Martyred Intellectuals Memorial in the morning.
To mark the day, various cultural organisations have arranged several cultural programmes and paid floral tributes to the brightest minds killed by the Pakistani forces and their collaborators during the Liberation War.
Bangladesh Television and private television channels are also airing special programmes highlighting the significance of the day.
On 14 December, 1971, many of the country’s renowned academicians, doctors, engineers, journalists, artists and teachers were dragged out of their homes across the country, blindfolded and taken to unknown places. They were brutally tortured and killed.
Among the martyred intellectuals were professor Munier Chowdhury, Alim Chowdhury, professor Muniruzzaman, Fazle Rabbi, journalist Sirajuddin Hossain, Shahidullah Kaiser, professor GC Dev, JC Guhathakurta, professor Santosh Bhattacharya, Mofazzal Haider Chowdhury, journalists Khandaker Abu Taleb, Nizamuddin Ahmed, SA Mannan (LaduBhai), ANM Golam Mustafa, Syed Nazmul Haq and Selina Parvin. | https://en.prothomalo.com/bangladesh/f3m4cbpz6g | 2022-12-14T07:27:31 | en | 0.955713 |
"A committee has been formed nationally to make a list of martyred intellectuals. A list has already been prepared. Hundreds of new applications have been received. Hope to come up with the full list of martyred intellectuals within 26 March, the Independence Day," the minister added.
When asked about banning the politics of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, AKM Mozammel said they cannot have the right to do politics in Bangladesh.
Razakars and their collaborators are still active in the country, he added. | https://en.prothomalo.com/bangladesh/government/uvc55zbne8 | 2022-12-14T07:27:37 | en | 0.974988 |
Quader, also general secretary of ruling Awami League, also urged the pro-liberation forces to resist all conspiracies by getting united.
Earlier in the morning, President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina paid tributes to the martyred intellectuals.
Flanked by the party’s central leaders, Sheikh Hasina, also the president of Bangladesh Awami League, laid another wreath at the Martyred Intellectuals Memorial as the party chief.
Awami League presidium members Begum Matia Chowdhury, Abdur Razzaque, Jahangir Kabir Nanak, Abdur Rahman, Shahjahan Khan, joint secretary Mahbubul Alam Hanif, MP, AFM Bahauddin Nasim and organising secretary Ahmed Hossain, among others, were present there.
On the night of 14 December, 1971, over 200 intellectuals including educationists, journalists, litterateurs, writers, physicians, scientists, lawyers, artists, philosophers and political thinkers had been picked up in Dhaka by the Pakistani occupation forces, aided by their local collaborators.
The intellectuals were taken blindfolded to torture cells in Mirpur, Mohammadpur, Nakhalpara, Rajarbagh and other locations in different parts of the city and later executed en masse at different killing grounds, most notably Rayerbazar and Mirpur.
Since then, the day has been observed as the Martyred Intellectuals Day. | https://en.prothomalo.com/bangladesh/politics/zszntxtdaq | 2022-12-14T07:27:43 | en | 0.953934 |
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jayson Tatum scored 44 points, Jaylen Brown added five of his 25 in overtime, and the Boston Celtics blew a 20-point lead in the second half before rallying from a late 13-point deficit for a thrilling 122-118 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday night.
Marcus Smart hit four 3-pointers and scored 18 points for the NBA-leading Celtics, who wrapped up their six-game trip by avoiding their first three-game losing streak of the season.
The old rivals played a wild second half in which the Lakers rallied from an 81-61 deficit midway through the third quarter with a 45-12 surge. Boston then erased Los Angeles’ 106-93 lead in the final 3:40 with a 17-4 run capped by Tatum’s tying jumper with 17.8 seconds left.
“That game just says a lot about our experience and mental toughness,” said Brown, who also had 15 rebounds. “That's a tough and perfect way to close out our road trip.”
Anthony Davis had 37 points and 12 rebounds, but he also missed two free throws with 28 seconds left, creating an opportunity for Tatum to send it to overtime.
LeBron James scored 33 points in a memorable chapter of the famed rivalry between the 17-time champion teams dubbed “the two pillars of our league” by new Lakers coach Darvin Ham.
“Everybody can talk about free throws, this and that, but the thing we can’t do is spot teams 15-, 17-, 20-point leads, give up 30-plus points per quarter in the first half,” Ham said. “We have to do a better job of coming out from the tipoff and pressing our will on our opponent.”
Russell Westbrook had 20 points and a season-high 14 rebounds for Los Angeles, but he also missed three open jumpers in overtime while the Celtics pulled away with 12 consecutive points.
“Games aren't won or lost in the fourth quarter or overtime,” Boston coach Joe Mazzulla said. “We have to be elite at managing the end of the third, beginning of the fourth quarter. That is where NBA games are won and lost, and we didn't do a good job managing that part of the game. So we'll take the positives of how we worked to get back in the game and then managed a run to end it, but we'll also focus on that stretch.”
In their first game back from a six-game trip, the Lakers lost for the fourth time in five games after an 8-2 stretch that breathed life into their slow-starting season.
James scored 22 points after halftime for Los Angeles, but Smart hit his fourth 3-pointer with 45.8 seconds left to trim the Lakers' lead to 110-108.
A weary Davis then bricked two free throws, echoing his miss on a potential winning free throw with 3.7 seconds left in regulation of what became an overtime loss for the Lakers at Philadelphia last Friday.
“I haven’t thought about the rest of the game,” Davis said. “To me, the rest doesn’t matter. Had a chance to ice the game, and missed both.”
Tatum coolly tied it with his 14-footer near the baseline, and James missed a 3-pointer at the regulation buzzer.
TIP-INS
Celtics: Al Horford missed his fifth straight game. He is expected back this weekend. ... Robert Williams remained out recovering from preseason knee surgery, but he is expected to make his season debut soon.
Lakers: James had the 516th 30-point game of his career, passing Wilt Chamberlain for second-most in NBA history. ... Dennis Schröder had two points and one assist against his former team. ... Wenyen Gabriel missed his fifth straight game with a left shoulder sprain.
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Celtics: Host Orlando on Friday.
Lakers: Host Denver on Friday.
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Prospects for 2023 also grew dimmer, it said in a report, which lowered the region’s growth forecast to 4.6 per cent from 4.9 per cent.
“Recovery in developing Asia is expected to continue but lose some steam,” the ADB said, referring to the 46 developing member economies that as a whole grew 7.0 per cent last year.
Multiple risks abound as the three main headwinds could worsen, along with geopolitical risks and climate change
Chinese lockdowns, the Ukraine war and slowing demand from developed economies for manufactured goods were the main causes, it said.
“Multiple risks abound as the three main headwinds could worsen, along with geopolitical risks and climate change,” it added.
Surging consumer prices in the United States and other advanced economies could prompt central banks to further tighten interest rates, while the Ukraine conflict could further stoke inflation, it added.
With its tough Covid restrictions and unstable property market, China, Asia’s largest economy, is now forecast to grow 3.0 per cent this year and 4.3 per cent in 2023, compared with 3.3 and 4.5 per cent, respectively, in the bank’s September forecasts.
This assumes a gradual easing of the country’s zero-Covid policy.
Beijing announced last week a nationwide loosening of its coronavirus restrictions, allowing home quarantine for confirmed cases and ending large-scale lockdowns.
On a positive note, developing Asia will grow faster this year and next than the rest of the world, while suffering the least from spiking inflation, the report said.
The bank revised downward its inflation forecast for the region to 4.4 this year from 4.5 per cent in its September report but upgraded it for 2023 to 4.2 per cent from 4.0 per cent. | https://en.prothomalo.com/business/global/66pdqiz7g3 | 2022-12-14T07:27:50 | en | 0.957026 |
Women factory workers, who make up 80 per cent of the labour force in Vietnam’s garment industry, have been hit the hardest by the knock-on effect.
Early last month, 31-year-old Nhieu -- who lives in a nine-square-metre (100 square feet) room in Ho Chi Minh City with her two young sons and husband -- was told she was no longer needed at Ty Hung Company, a Taiwanese shoemaker that supplies big Western labels.
“They told us they did not have enough orders,” she said of Ty Hung’s announcement that it would fire 1,200 of its 1,800 staff.
“I was so, so shocked and so scared, I cried, but I can do nothing, I have to accept it.”
The job earned Nhieu just $220 a month in an expensive city where the average monthly income is $370, but the money was regular and a step up from the mushroom picking she did as a teenager in the heat of the Mekong Delta.
‘Worse than Covid’
Now, with just two months’ severance pay to survive on, Nhieu must feed her family on a few dollars a day, and her kids are struggling to get enough to eat.
“We have no one to help us. I will have to get us through this on my own.”
Since September, more than 1,200 companies -- mostly foreign businesses in the garment, footwear and furniture sectors -- have been forced to sack staff or cut working hours, according to the Vietnam General Confederation of Labour.
Compared with last year, orders are down 30-40 per cent from the United States and 60 per cent from Europe, where inflation and energy bills have soared because of the war in Ukraine.
More than 470,000 workers have had their hours slashed in the last four months of the year while about 40,000 people have lost their jobs -- 30,000 of them women aged 35 or older, the confederation said.
Taiwanese giant Pouyuen, a Nike shoe producer, has put 20,000 of its workers on paid leave in rotation, while reports said Vietnam’s largest foreign investor, Samsung Electronics, has started reducing its smartphone production at factories in the north.
The situation is bleaker than during the Covid-19 pandemic, say workers, who were helped out with food donations when strict quarantine measures forced them to stay home -- and were quickly in demand again once restrictions lifted at the end of 2021.
“It’s not easy to find a new job like before (following the pandemic),” said Nguyen Thi Thom, 35, who was laid off from a South Korean garment firm that makes clothes for US retail giant Walmart.
No dream
Since her factory work finished, Thom, who has three young children, spends her days on the streets of a shiny new suburban district of Ho Chi Minh City, selling dried noodles, shrimp sauce and oranges to passers-by.
The slowdown has come as a shock because export businesses in Vietnam were running at “their fullest capacity” for the first half of 2022, according to Tran Viet Anh, deputy head of Ho Chi Minh City’s Business Association.
“At the start of the third quarter, due to global inflation, consumption demands have shrunk, leading to the suspension of orders... and huge stock surplus,” he told AFP.
But the downturn in Vietnam will likely only be temporary, Viet Anh added.
A cut in production during the pandemic led to a shortage of goods in the first six months of 2022, and the situation will likely repeat a year on.
Viet Anh said that “2023 will be a period where we increase production to compensate”.
Until then, women like Nhieu and Thom, who form the backbone of a low-paid workforce that has helped Vietnam become a key manufacturing hub seen as an alternative to China, must find another way to keep their families afloat.
“I have never had the luxury of dreaming what I want from life. I have only one wish, of earning enough to survive,” Nhieu said. | https://en.prothomalo.com/business/global/ixlqz0lffd | 2022-12-14T07:27:56 | en | 0.976908 |
“Fundamentally strengthening our defence capabilities is the most urgent challenge in this severe security environment,” Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said at the weekend.
“We will urgently ramp up our defence capabilities over the next five years.”
The shift is the result of Tokyo’s fears about China’s growing military strength and regional posturing, as well as threats ranging from North Korean missile launches to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Key among the new policies is a pledge to boost spending to two per cent of GDP by 2027 to bring Japan in line with NATO members.
Japan has also announced plans to develop a next-generation fighter jet with Italy and Britain, and is reportedly planning to build new ammunition depots and launch satellites to help guide potential counterstrikes
That marks a significant increase from historic spending of around one per cent, and has sparked criticism over how it will be financed.
The money will fund projects including the acquisition of what Japan calls “counterstrike capacity” -- the ability to hit launch sites that threaten the country, even preemptively.
Japan has previously shied away from acquiring that ability over disputes on whether it could violate the constitution’s limit on self-defence.
In a nod to the controversy, the policy documents will reportedly insist that Japan remains committed to a “self-defence-oriented security policy” and will “not become a military power”.
Part of that capacity will come from up to 500 US-made Tomahawk cruise missiles Japan is reportedly considering purchasing as a backstop while it develops longer-range missiles domestically.
‘Greatest strategic challenge’
Japan has also announced plans to develop a next-generation fighter jet with Italy and Britain, and is reportedly planning to build new ammunition depots and launch satellites to help guide potential counterstrikes.
The changes will also affect military organisation, with the Nikkei newspaper reporting that all three branches of the Self-Defense Forces will be brought under a single command within five years.
The SDF presence on Japan’s southernmost islands will be increased -- including a tripling of units with ballistic missile interception capacity, according to local media.
The documents, including the key National Security Strategy, are expected to point to China for the shift in policy.
Japan’s ruling party reportedly wanted to term Beijing a “threat”, but under pressure from its coalition partner will settle for dubbing China a “serious concern” and Japan’s “greatest strategic challenge”.
That still represents a sea change from 2013, the document’s first iteration and the last time it was updated, when Japan said it sought a “mutually beneficial strategic partnership”, a phrase expected to disappear now.
Worries about China have deepened since major military drills carried out by Beijing around Taiwan in August, during which missiles fell in Japanese economic waters.
Japan is also expected to call Russia a challenge, compared to a 2013 pledge to seek cooperation and “enhance” ties.
Japan has joined Western allies in imposing sanctions on Moscow over Ukraine, sending already frosty relations into deep freeze.
The radical defence overhaul is likely to anger Beijing, which has regularly referenced Japan’s wartime belligerence in criticising Tokyo.
It may also cause waves domestically, though surveys show growing support for a stronger defence strategy.
“For Japan’s defence policymakers, these developments represent not a militarist resurgence but the latest step in a slow, gradual normalisation of defence and national security posture,” said James Brady, vice president of Teneo consultancy. | https://en.prothomalo.com/international/asia/xyctbxnjmk | 2022-12-14T07:28:02 | en | 0.94817 |
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CHICAGO (AP) — When it was over, when No. 800 was safely tucked away and Washington's fifth straight win was complete, Alex Ovechkin jumped on the ice one last time for another round of cheers.
Gordie Howe is next, and Wayne Gretzky is coming up very quickly.
Ovechkin scored three times to become the third NHL player with 800 career goals, and the streaking Capitals beat the lowly Chicago Blackhawks 7-3 on Tuesday night.
“It’s a big number,” Ovechkin said. “It’s the best company (you can) ever imagine since you started playing hockey.”
Ovechkin moved within one goal of Howe for second all-time. Gretzky has the record with 894 goals, but the 37-year-old Ovechkin is showing no signs of slowing down.
“I think once he’s going to be No. 1 he can have a sense of relief,” said Anthony Mantha, who had the primary assist on Ovechkin’s 800th goal. “Until then, I think he’s on the hunt, and that’s what we love about him.”
Mantha, Nic Dowd, Trevor van Riemsdyk and Dmitry Orlov also scored for Washington. Conor Sheary had two assists, and Charlie Lindgren made 26 stops.
The Capitals went 6-2-1 during a nine-game stretch that included only one home date. They play seven of their next nine at home, beginning Thursday night against Dallas.
“Now we just have to have a strong push before Christmas and then get the three days off,” forward Evgeny Kuznetsov said.
Chicago dropped to 1-11-1 in its last 13 games. It has scored just four goals during a four-game slide.
“I thought we battled back, but it’s Ovechkin," Blackhawks coach Luke Richardson said. “There were a couple of unfortunate bounces, and he makes you pay on those.”
Ovechkin scored on his first two shots, beating Petr Mrazek 24 seconds into the game before stuffing one home on a power play with 11:46 left in the first period. The winger then completed his 29th career hat trick when he knocked Mantha's pass over a sprawled Mrazek 6:34 into the third.
The rest of the Capitals jumped off the bench to celebrate after the milestone goal, and hats rained down on the ice from the crowd of 16,181 at the United Center. Fans then chanted “Ovi! Ovi!” — drawing a wave from Ovechkin.
“The fans here in Chicago were terrific, the way that they saluted him,” Washington coach Peter Laviolette said. “For him to get a hat trick on the road to get to 800 was just a special night.”
Ovechkin has seven goals in his last four games and a team-high 20 on the season. His previous four goals were all empty-netters.
“It’s mind blowing,” Chicago captain Jonathan Toews said. “How many guys can score goals at his rate in the season, let alone year after year after year? He’s one of a kind, for sure.”
Toews, Max Domi and Tyler Johnson scored for Chicago, and Mrazek finished with 23 saves.
It was Johnson's first game since Oct. 25. He had been sidelined by a right ankle injury.
HE'S BACK
Washington forward Dylan Strome played his first game back in Chicago since he signed a $3.5 million, one-year contract with the Capitals in July. He was traded from Arizona to Chicago in November 2018 and scored a career-high 22 goals for the Blackhawks last season.
“It's been really fun to play on this team,” Strome said. “There's incredible guys. Good coaching staff. Top to bottom, I think it's been a really, really easy transition for me.”
WORTH NOTING
Capitals center Lars Eller was scratched with an upper-body injury. He is day to day. ... Blackhawks forward Andreas Athanasiou missed the game because of a family funeral. ... Chicago assigned defenseman Filip Roos to Rockford of the American Hockey League. ... Capitals defenseman Erik Gustafsson returned to the lineup after he missed Sunday’s 5-2 win at Winnipeg with an upper-body injury.
UP NEXT
Capitals: Host the Stars on Thursday night.
Blackhawks: Host the Vegas Golden Knights on Thursday night.
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With the war in its 10th month, the Patriot system would help Ukraine defend against waves of Russian missile and drone attacks that have pounded the country’s energy infrastructure.
Millions of civilians who are enduring Europe’s biggest conflict since World War Two have had to contend with cuts to electricity, heat and water as harsh winter conditions take hold.
Gaining Patriot air defence capability would be “very, very significant” for the Kyiv government, said Alexander Vindman, a retired Army lieutenant colonel and onetime leader of Ukraine policy at the White House.
“These are going to be quite capable of dealing with a lot of different challenges the Ukrainians have, especially if the Russians bring in short-range ballistic missiles” from Iran.
The Pentagon declined comment. There was no immediate comment from Ukrainian officials.
Kyiv held high-level military talks on Tuesday with Washington, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s office said. The United States has given Ukraine $19.3 billion in military assistance since Russia’s invasion on 24 February.
One of the US officials said Ukrainian forces would likely be trained in Germany before the Patriot equipment was delivered. Vindman said the training could take several months.
The Pentagon says Russia’s recent surge in missile strikes is partly designed to exhaust Ukraine’s supplies of air defences so it can dominate the skies above the country.
For that reason, the United States and its allies have been delivering more air defences to Kyiv, everything from Soviet-era systems to more modern, Western ones. Washington has provided NASAMS air defence systems that the Pentagon says have flawlessly intercepted Russian missiles in Ukraine.
In Paris, about 70 countries and institutions pledged just over 1 billion euros ($1.05 billion) to help maintain Ukraine’s water, food, energy, health and transport in face of Russia’s attacks, French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna said.
Sergey Kovalenko, the head of the YASNO power company, said on Facebook that repairs continued on the electric grid but that the capital Kyiv still only had two-thirds of the power it needed.
Environmental Destruction
In a video speech to the New Zealand parliament on Wednesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the environmental harm from Russia’s war will affect millions of people for years.
Russian attacks have contaminated the country’s oceans and 3 million hectares (7.4 million acres) of forest, he said.
“Dozens of rivers are polluted, hundreds of coal mines are flooded, dozens of the most dangerous enterprises, including chemical ones have been destroyed by Russian strikes,” he said, according to translation provided by the parliament.
“All this ... will have a direct impact on millions of people,” he said, referring to leaks of hazardous chemicals and contamination from mines and munitions.
“You cannot rebuild the destroyed nature, just as you cannot restore the destroyed lives,” Zelenskiy added.
In eastern Ukraine, Russian and Ukrainian forces pounded each other around the small city of Bakhmut on Tuesday.
Invading Russian forces have fought to seize Bakhmut for months as part of a grinding battle for control of the Donetsk region, one of the four territories the Kremlin claims to have annexed in votes rejected by most countries as illegal.
There are no peace talks under way to end the conflict, which Moscow describes as a “special military operation” against security threats posed by its neighbour. Ukraine and its Western allies call it an unprovoked, imperialist land grab.
Russia on Tuesday dismissed a peace proposal from Zelenskiy that would involve a pullout of Russian troops and demanded that his government accept Russia’s annexations. | https://en.prothomalo.com/international/europe/9k9xu2nh1d | 2022-12-14T07:28:08 | en | 0.961131 |
At the break Cheteshwar Pujara was on 12 alongside an aggressive Rishabh Pant, who hit four fours and a six to be not-out 29.
India made a brisk start, reaching 41 runs in 13 overs after stand-in skipper Rahul won the toss and elected to bat first at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium.
Gill attempted a paddle sweep but could only manage a top edge which flew to Yasir Ali at leg slip.
After Rahul fell to Khaled, Taijul -- who looked the most threatening of the Bangladeshi bowlers -- got the big wicket of danger man Kohli.
Kohli reviewed the decision in vain as India were reduced to 48-3.
Bangladesh captain Shakib Al Hasan passed a fitness test and was captaining the home side, who handed opening batsman Zakir Hasan a Test debut.
India have been hit by injuries with captain Rohit Sharma out for at least the first match and fast bowler Mohammed Shami and all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja playing no part in the series.
The two-match series forms part of the ICC World Test Championship.
India are fourth, having won six of their 12 matches. Bangladesh are in last place with eight defeats from 10 matches. | https://en.prothomalo.com/sports/cricket/tigxvbics6 | 2022-12-14T07:28:14 | en | 0.959847 |
Didier Deschamps' France are heavy favourites to win at the Al Bayt Stadium but face a team that have conceded just once in their extraordinary run to the semi-finals.
France captain Hugo Lloris is desperate to avoid the whiff of complacency for a team who have become used to competing at the sharp end of tournaments.
"When a team is capable of beating Belgium, Spain and Portugal, and finish top of their group, it is because they have lots of quality on the field and undoubtedly off it too, in terms of cohesion and team spirit," Lloris said.
"They will be formidable opponents, and on top of that there will be a hostile atmosphere in the stadium."
Deschamps' team are closing in on a third World Cup triumph in seven tournaments but will be aware that no team have retained the World Cup since Pele's Brazil side performed the feat in 1962.
The world champions are unlikely to have it all their own way against a tough Morocco team.
They topped a group containing Croatia and Belgium before beating Spain on penalties and then dumping Cristiano Ronaldo's Portugal out of the tournament.
Morocco are the first African side and the first Arab nation to reach the semi-finals of a World Cup.
Fan factor
The game will have added spice given France was Morocco's colonial power and more than a million Moroccans live in the country.
Their not-so-secret weapon on Wednesday will be the incredible support from fans in the stadium and across the Arab world.
"There is a popular fervour behind them," said Deschamps. "It will be very noisy and my players have been warned about that. They know what to expect."
Morocco coach Walid Regragui, who was born near Paris and spent most of his playing career in the French league, believes his team have become the neutral's favourite.
But he is adamant his side are not just there to make up the numbers.
"If we are happy just to reach the semi-finals and some see that as enough, I don't agree," said Regragui.
"If you get to the semi-finals and you are not hungry then there is a problem."
"The best team in the tournament, Brazil, is already out. We are an ambitious team and we are hungry but I don't know if that will be enough," he added.
On Tuesday, Messi converted a penalty in the first half against Croatia to pull level with France hotshot Kylian Mbappe in the leading scorer's race on five goals.
Manchester City forward Julian Alvarez doubled Argentina's lead shortly before half-time after bursting through the middle, aided by two fortunate bounces.
Messi then produced a moment of magic in the 69th minute to set up Alvarez for his second, which killed the game and set up the 35-year-old for another shot at history after he suffered a bitter defeat to Germany in the 2014 final.
"Argentina are, once again, in the World Cup final. Enjoy it!" said the Argentine great.
"We've been through tough situations, other very good ones. Today we're experiencing something spectacular." | https://en.prothomalo.com/sports/football/9926hhoghn | 2022-12-14T07:28:20 | en | 0.97736 |
"I feel very happy, to be able to achieve this, to finish my World Cup journey by playing my last game in a final," Messi told Argentine media outlet Diario Deportivo Ole.
"It's many years for the next one and I don't think I'll be able to do it. And to finish like this, it's the best," added the Argentina captain.
The 35-year-old is playing at his fifth World Cup, surpassing the four of Diego Maradona and Javier Mascherano.
With his fifth goal in Qatar, he also surpassed Gabriel Batistuta as the top Albiceleste scorer at World Cups, netting 11 times.
"It's all well and good (the records), but the important thing is to be able to achieve the group objective, which is the most beautiful thing of all," Messi added. "We're just one step away, after fighting hard, and we're going to give everything to try to make it happen this time."
Tuesday's victory prompted thousands of fans to take to the streets in Argentina to celebrate the national team's sixth World Cup final appearance. France meet Morocco in the other semi-final later on Wednesday. | https://en.prothomalo.com/sports/football/ap7p6mreva | 2022-12-14T07:28:27 | en | 0.978115 |
The public relations officer of the ministry, Mahbubur Rahman, told Prothom Alo on Wednesday morning that "All preparation has been taken to publish the result. The result will be published at 2:00 pm at the primary education directorate website.
"Apart from this, the passed candidates will be notified about their results through SMS," he added. | https://en.prothomalo.com/youth/employment/8ary3a0y66 | 2022-12-14T07:28:33 | en | 0.96246 |
MILWAUKEE (AP) — A fan was ejected following a complaint by Golden State Warriors star Draymond Green during a game at Milwaukee on Tuesday night, and the Bucks said they are investigating the incident and consulting with the NBA.
Security personnel removed the man, who was sitting a few rows beyond the baseline, during a stop in play with 5:19 left in the third quarter.
The fan said “some threatening stuff to my life," Green said.
"I was this close to really going back and diving all the way in, but just went back and told the official. And when I told the official, he said, he’s got to get out of here.
“You just hope it gets to the point to where these leagues can work with legislators to implement laws, because that’s the only thing that’s going to ultimately correct the issue, is if you know something real is going to happen to you," Green said.
After Milwaukee's 128-111 win, the Bucks said in a statement: “Under the referee’s discretion, we are investigating the situation and we are conferring with the NBA.”
The 32-year-old Green scored two points and had six rebounds and seven assists in the loss. He is averaging nine points, six rebounds and seven assists for the reigning NBA champions.
Two weeks ago, Green was fined $25,000 by the NBA “for directing obscene language toward a fan." The situation occurred during the fourth quarter of Golden State's loss at Dallas on Nov. 29.
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AP NBA: https://apnews.com/hub/NBA and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/sports/article/Warriors-Green-says-Bucks-fan-threatened-him-17652825.php | 2022-12-14T07:28:42 | en | 0.975863 |
SEATTLE (AP) — Keion Brooks scored a career-high 30 points and Washington needed a second-half run to beat Cal Poly 74-68 on Tuesday night.
Washington (8-3) continued its season-long trend of being a strong second-half performer and a slow starter in the first half. The Huskies entered shooting 38% in the first half and 50% in the second. Against the Mustangs they shot 25% in the first and 66.7% in the second.
PJ Fuller II's 3-pointer with 10:31 left started a 12-0 run and turned a 51-44 deficit into a 56-51 lead with 6:47 remaining and Washington stayed ahead the rest of the way. Up to that point the Huskies never led for more than 83 seconds, which occurred early.
Cal Poly's (5-4) Trevon Taylor made a jump shot and a 3-pointer to end a 12-0 run early and Cal Poly maintained control for the rest of the first half. Nick Fleming's 3-pointer gave Cal Poly a 25-10 lead and it went to the half up 35-24.
Cole Bajema scored 13 points for Washington and Braxton Meah 11.
Chance Hunter and Taylor scored 13 apiece for the Mustangs.
This is the first meeting between the Huskies and Mustangs since 2016 and third overall.
Washington won by double digits in each of the previous two meetings, both in Seattle. The Huskies now are 5-5 all time against Big West opponents.
Cal Poly’s last victory against a Pac-12 Conference opponent came on Nov. 25, 2012 as the Mustangs overturned an 18-point deficit with 12 minutes remaining to hand then-No. 11 UCLA a 70-68 defeat.
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More AP college basketball: https://apnews.com/hub/college-basketball and https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-basketball-poll and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25 | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/sports/article/Washington-again-uses-2nd-half-to-rally-past-Cal-17652827.php | 2022-12-14T07:28:54 | en | 0.947474 |
CA San Joaquin Valley - Hanford CA Zone Forecast for Tuesday, December 13, 2022
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733 FPUS56 KHNX 140701
ZFPHNX
Zone Forecast Product for Interior Central California
National Weather Service San Joaquin Valley - Hanford CA
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
Spot temperatures and probabilities of measurable precipitation
are for tonight, Wednesday, Wednesday night, and Thursday.
CAZ300-141200-
West Side Mountains north of 198-
Including the city of San Luis Reservoir
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost. Lows in the mid 30s.
West winds up to 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs 44 to
50. Northeast winds up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the
upper 30s. West winds up to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs 45 to 51. Northeast winds up to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the
lower 40s. Northwest winds up to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs 47 to 53. Lows in
the upper 30s.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Highs 47 to 53.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
upper 30s. Highs 47 to 53.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs 47 to 55. Lows in
the lower 40s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
San Luis Reservoir 37 50 38 50 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ301-141200-
Los Banos - Dos Palos-
Including the city of Los Banos
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM PST MONDAY...
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Patchy frost after midnight. Patchy fog
after midnight. Areas of frost late in the night. Lows in the
lower 30s. West winds up to 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Areas of frost and patchy fog in the
morning. Highs in the lower 50s. North winds up to 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy fog through the night.
Patchy frost after midnight. Lows in the mid 30s. Northwest winds
up to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 50s. North winds up
to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s. Northwest
winds up to 5 mph.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 50s.
Lows in the mid 30s.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower
50s. Lows in the mid 30s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 50s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper
30s. Highs in the mid 50s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Los Banos 33 50 34 50 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ302-141200-
Merced - Madera - Mendota-
Including the cities of Merced, Madera, and Atwater
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM PST MONDAY...
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear until early morning then becoming mostly
cloudy. Patchy fog and frost in the late evening and early
morning. Areas of fog, frost and freezing fog late in the night.
Lows in the lower 30s. North winds up to 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Areas of fog and frost in the morning.
Highs in the lower 50s. East winds up to 5 mph shifting to the
northwest in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming
mostly cloudy. Patchy fog and frost. Lows in the lower 30s.
Northwest winds up to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Cloudy in the morning then becoming partly sunny.
Highs around 50. Northwest winds up to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s. Northwest
winds up to 5 mph.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 50s.
Lows in the lower 30s.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower
50s. Lows in the lower 30s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 50s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid
30s. Highs in the mid 50s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Livingston 30 51 31 49 / 0 0 0 0
Merced 31 53 32 52 / 0 0 0 0
Chowchilla 31 51 31 50 / 0 0 0 0
Madera 31 51 31 51 / 0 0 0 0
Firebaugh 31 51 31 51 / 0 0 0 0
Mendota 31 52 31 51 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ303-141200-
Planada - Le Grand - Snelling-
Including the cities of Planada, Lake Mcclure, and Le Grand
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM PST MONDAY...
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Patchy frost in the late evening and
early morning. Patchy fog in the late evening and overnight.
Areas of frost late in the night. Lows in the lower 30s.
Northeast winds up to 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Areas of fog and frost in the morning.
Highs in the lower 50s. Southeast winds up to 5 mph shifting to
the west in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy fog through the night.
Patchy frost after midnight. Lows in the lower 30s. North winds
up to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the lower 50s. West winds up to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s. Northeast winds up to
5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny in the morning then clearing. Highs in the
lower 50s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 30s.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s.
Highs in the mid 50s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid
30s. Highs in the mid 50s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Planada 30 51 31 51 / 0 0 0 0
Le Grand 31 51 31 51 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ304-141200-
Coalinga - Avenal-
Including the cities of Avenal and Coalinga
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost after midnight. Lows in
the mid 30s. Northwest winds up to 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs
in the lower 50s. North winds up to 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s. West winds
up to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 50s. Northeast
winds up to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s. Northwest
winds up to 5 mph.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s.
Lows in the upper 30s.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid
50s. Lows in the upper 30s.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s.
Lows in the upper 30s.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s.
Lows around 40.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Coalinga 34 52 35 53 / 0 0 0 0
Avenal 36 51 37 52 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ305-141200-
West Side of Fresno and Kings Counties-
Including the cities of Lemoore Station, Five Points,
and Kettleman City
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM PST MONDAY...
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Patchy frost late in the evening. Areas
of frost after midnight, then widespread frost and patchy fog
late in the night. Lows in the lower 30s. Northwest winds up to
5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Widespread frost and areas of fog in
the morning. Highs in the lower 50s. North winds up to 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy fog through the night.
Areas of frost after midnight. Lows in the lower 30s. Northwest
winds up to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 50s. North winds up
to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s. Northwest
winds up to 5 mph.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s.
Lows in the lower 30s.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid
50s. Lows in the mid 30s.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s.
Lows in the mid 30s.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s.
Lows in the upper 30s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Huron 32 53 33 52 / 0 0 0 0
Five Points 31 52 32 52 / 0 0 0 0
NAS Lemoore 31 52 31 52 / 0 0 0 0
Kettleman City 34 52 35 52 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ306-141200-
Caruthers - San Joaquin - Selma-
Including the cities of Selma, Sanger, Parlier, Kingsburg,
and Kerman
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM PST MONDAY...
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear until early morning then becoming mostly
cloudy. Patchy frost late in the evening. Areas of frost and
patchy fog after midnight, then widespread frost, areas of fog
and freezing fog late in the night. Lows around 30. North winds
up to 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Widespread dense freezing fog with
possible fog and frost in the morning. Highs in the lower 50s.
East winds up to 5 mph shifting to the northwest in the
afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy frost in the evening.
Patchy fog through the night. Areas of frost after midnight. Lows
around 30. Northwest winds up to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Cloudy in the morning then becoming partly sunny.
Highs in the lower 50s. Northwest winds up to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 30. Northwest winds
up to 5 mph.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s.
Lows around 30.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower
50s. Lows in the lower 30s.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s.
Lows in the lower 30s.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s.
Lows in the mid 30s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Selma 32 52 31 52 / 0 0 0 0
Kingsburg 31 51 31 52 / 0 0 0 0
Sanger 31 52 31 52 / 0 0 0 0
Kerman 30 52 30 52 / 0 0 0 0
Caruthers 31 52 30 52 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ307-141200-
Fresno-Clovis-
Including the city of Fresno
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy frost in the late evening and
early morning. Patchy fog after midnight. Areas of frost late in
the night. Lows in the lower 30s. North winds up to 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Areas of dense fog and frost in the
morning. Highs in the lower 50s. Southeast winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy fog through the night.
Patchy frost after midnight. Lows in the lower 30s. North winds
up to 5 mph in the evening becoming light.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 50s. Southwest winds
up to 5 mph shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s. North winds up to 5 mph.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s.
Lows in the mid 30s.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid
50s. Lows in the mid 30s.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s.
Lows in the mid 30s.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s.
Lows in the upper 30s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Clovis 34 53 34 52 / 0 0 0 0
Fresno 34 53 34 52 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ308-141200-
West Side Mountains South of 198-
Including the cities of Blackwells Corner and McKittrick
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost in the late evening and
overnight. Lows in the mid 30s. Southwest winds up to 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs
45 to 51. East winds up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s. South
winds up to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs 46 to 52. Northeast winds up to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s. East
winds up to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 49 to 55. Lows in
the upper 30s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs 49 to 55. Lows in
the upper 30s.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs 49 to 56. Lows
around 40.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Livingston 30 51 31 49 / 0 0 0 0
Merced 31 53 32 52 / 0 0 0 0
Chowchilla 31 51 31 50 / 0 0 0 0
Madera 31 51 31 51 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ309-141200-
Buttonwillow - Lost Hills - I5-
Including the cities of Lost Hills and Buttonwillow
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM PST MONDAY...
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy frost late in the evening. Areas
of frost after midnight. Patchy fog late in the night. Lows in
the lower 30s. West winds up to 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Widespread frost and patchy fog in the
morning. Highs in the lower 50s. West winds up to 5 mph shifting
to the north in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy frost in the evening.
Patchy fog through the night. Areas of frost after midnight. Lows
in the lower 30s. Northwest winds up to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Cloudy in the morning then becoming partly sunny.
Highs in the lower 50s. North winds up to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s. Northwest
winds up to 5 mph.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s.
Lows in the lower 30s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s.
Lows in the lower 30s.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s.
Lows in the mid 30s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Lost Hills 30 52 31 53 / 0 0 0 0
Buttonwillow 29 53 31 53 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ310-141200-
Delano-Wasco-Shafter-
Including the cities of Delano, Wasco, Alpaugh, and Shafter
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM PST MONDAY...
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy until early morning then becoming mostly
cloudy. Patchy frost in the late evening and early morning.
Patchy fog after midnight. Areas of frost late in the night. Lows
around 30. East winds up to 5 mph shifting to the southeast after
midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny in the morning then clearing. Patchy
fog and frost in the morning. Highs in the lower 50s. Southwest
winds up to 5 mph shifting to the northwest in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming
mostly cloudy. Patchy fog and frost. Lows around 30. North winds
up to 5 mph in the evening becoming light.
.THURSDAY...Cloudy in the morning then becoming partly sunny.
Highs in the lower 50s. Light winds becoming northwest up to
5 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s. Light
winds becoming northeast up to 5 mph after midnight.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s.
Lows around 30.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s.
Lows in the lower 30s.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s.
Lows in the mid 30s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Alpaugh 30 52 29 52 / 0 0 0 0
Allensworth 31 52 30 52 / 0 0 0 0
Wasco 31 52 30 52 / 0 0 0 0
Delano 31 52 31 52 / 0 0 0 0
McFarland 31 52 31 52 / 0 0 0 0
Shafter 31 52 31 52 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ311-141200-
Hanford - Corcoran - Lemoore-
Including the cities of Hanford, Lemoore, and Corcoran
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM PST MONDAY...
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy until early morning then becoming mostly
cloudy. Patchy frost in the evening, then areas of fog, frost and
freezing fog after midnight. Lows around 30. Northeast winds up
to 5 mph in the evening becoming light.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Areas of fog, dense freezing fog and
patchy frost in the morning. Highs in the lower 50s. East winds
up to 5 mph shifting to the northwest in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming
mostly cloudy. Patchy frost in the evening. Patchy fog through
the night. Areas of frost after midnight. Lows around 30.
Northwest winds up to 5 mph in the evening becoming light.
.THURSDAY...Cloudy in the morning then becoming partly sunny.
Highs in the lower 50s. Northwest winds up to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s. North
winds up to 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then clearing. Highs in
the mid 50s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows around 30.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s.
Lows in the lower 30s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s.
Lows in the mid 30s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Lemoore 31 53 31 52 / 0 0 0 0
Hanford 30 53 31 52 / 0 0 0 0
Corcoran 31 53 31 52 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ312-141200-
Visalia - Porterville - Reedley-
Including the cities of Goshen, Visalia, Tulare, and Porterville
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM PST MONDAY...
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy frost in the late evening and
early morning. Patchy fog after midnight. Areas of frost late in
the night. Lows in the lower 30s. East winds up to 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Areas of fog and frost in the morning.
Highs in the lower 50s. Southeast winds up to 5 mph shifting to
the northwest in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy fog through the night.
Patchy frost after midnight. Lows in the lower 30s. Northeast
winds up to 5 mph in the evening becoming light.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 50s. South winds up
to 5 mph shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s. Northeast
winds up to 5 mph.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s.
Lows in the lower 30s.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid
50s. Lows in the mid 30s.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s.
Lows in the lower 30s.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s.
Lows in the upper 30s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Reedley 31 52 31 52 / 0 0 0 0
Dinuba 31 52 31 52 / 0 0 0 0
Visalia 31 52 31 52 / 0 0 0 0
Exeter 31 53 33 54 / 0 0 0 0
Tulare 32 52 32 52 / 0 0 0 0
Lindsay 31 53 33 54 / 0 0 0 0
Porterville 34 53 35 54 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ313-141200-
Buena Vista-
Including the city of Taft
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost and patchy fog late in
the night. Lows in the mid 30s. West winds up to 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Areas of frost and patchy fog in the
morning. Highs around 50. Southwest winds up to 5 mph shifting to
the north in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s. Southwest
winds up to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 50s. East winds up
to 5 mph shifting to the north in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s. South
winds up to 5 mph.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid
50s. Lows in the upper 30s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 50s.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows around 40. Highs
in the mid 50s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Taft 36 50 39 52 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ314-141200-
Bakersfield-
Including the city of Bakersfield
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy frost after midnight. Patchy fog
late in the night. Lows 31 to 37. Northeast winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the east after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Patchy fog and frost in the morning. Highs in
the lower 50s. Southwest winds up to 5 mph shifting to the
northwest in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy fog through the night.
Patchy frost after midnight. Lows 32 to 38. North winds up to
5 mph shifting to the southeast after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 50s. South winds up
to 5 mph shifting to the northwest in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows 33 to 39. East winds up to
5 mph.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s.
Lows 32 to 38.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows 34 to 40.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s.
Lows 33 to 39.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s.
Lows 35 to 41.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Bakersfield 36 53 36 53 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ315-141200-
Southeast San Joaquin Valley-
Including the city of Richgrove
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM PST MONDAY...
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Patchy frost after midnight. Patchy fog
late in the night. Lows in the mid 30s. East winds up to 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Patchy fog and frost in the morning. Highs in
the lower 50s. South winds up to 5 mph shifting to the northwest
in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy fog through the night.
Patchy frost after midnight. Lows in the mid 30s. East winds up
to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 50s. South winds up
to 5 mph shifting to the northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s. East winds
up to 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny in the morning then clearing. Highs in the
mid 50s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid
50s. Lows in the mid 30s.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s.
Lows in the upper 30s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Richgrove 32 52 33 52 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ316-141200-
South End San Joaquin Valley-
Including the cities of Lamont and Arvin
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Patchy frost after midnight. Patchy fog
late in the night. Lows in the mid 30s. South winds up to 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Areas of frost and patchy fog in the morning.
Highs in the lower 50s. South winds up to 5 mph shifting to the
northwest in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy frost after midnight.
Lows 33 to 39. South winds up to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 50s. East winds up to
5 mph shifting to the north in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows 34 to 40. Southeast winds
up to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny in the morning then clearing. Highs in the
upper 50s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 34 to 40.
.SATURDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper
50s. Lows 34 to 40.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Arvin 34 53 35 55 / 0 0 0 0
Lamont 34 53 34 54 / 0 0 0 0
Mettler 33 52 35 54 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ317-141200-
Mariposa Madera Foothills-
Including the cities of El Portal and Mariposa
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Patchy frost late in the evening. Areas
of frost after midnight. Patchy fog late in the night. Lows in
the mid 30s. Northeast winds up to 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Areas of fog and frost in the morning. Highs
in the upper 40s. Southeast winds up to 5 mph shifting to the
west in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy fog through the night.
Patchy frost after midnight. Lows in the mid 30s. Northeast winds
up to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 50s. Southeast winds
up to 5 mph shifting to the southwest in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s. Northeast
winds up to 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 50s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the
lower 50s. Lows in the upper 30s.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 50s.
Lows in the upper 30s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Mariposa 31 46 33 49 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ318-141200-
Mariposa-Madera Lower Sierra-
Including the cities of Bass Lake, Coarsegold, Fish Camp,
Oakhurst, and North Fork
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Widespread frost through the night. Lows
24 to 32. Northeast winds up to 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Widespread frost in the morning. Highs 42 to
48. East winds up to 5 mph shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Areas of frost and patchy fog
in the evening. Widespread frost after midnight. Lows 29 to 35.
Northeast winds up to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 46 to 52. East winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 29 to 35. Northeast winds
up to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 46 to 54. Lows
29 to 35.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs 44 to 53.
Lows 29 to 37.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs 44 to 53. Lows
32 to 38.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Oakhurst 21 51 26 55 / 0 0 0 0
Bass Lake 23 46 28 50 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ319-141200-
Fresno-Tulare Foothills-
Including the city of Millerton Lake
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Patchy frost late in the evening. Areas
of frost after midnight. Patchy fog late in the night. Lows in
the mid 30s. Northeast winds up to 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Areas of frost and patchy fog in the morning.
Highs around 50. Southeast winds up to 5 mph shifting to the west
in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Patchy fog. Lows in the mid
30s. Northeast winds up to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 50s. South winds up
to 5 mph shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s. Northeast
winds up to 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 50s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 50s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s.
Lows in the upper 30s.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s.
Lows around 40.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Millerton Lake 35 50 36 52 / 0 0 0 0
Three Rivers 31 54 36 58 / 0 0 0 0
Springville 29 48 32 51 / 0 0 0 0
Tule River Reservation 36 52 40 55 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ320-141200-
Fresno-Tulare Lower Sierra-
Including the city of Auberry
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Widespread frost in the evening. Areas
of frost after midnight, then widespread frost late in the night.
Near steady temperature in the lower 30s. East winds up to 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Widespread frost in the morning. Highs 42 to
50. East winds up to 5 mph shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Widespread frost in the
evening. Lows 30 to 40. Northeast winds up to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs 45 to 53. Northeast winds up to
5 mph shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 30 to 40. Northeast winds
up to 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 45 to 55.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 30 to 40.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 44 to 54.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows 30 to 40.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs 43 to 53. Lows
30 to 40.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs 44 to 54. Lows
33 to 43.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Auberry 34 46 37 49 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ321-141200-
South End Sierra Foothills-
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Patchy fog late in the night. Lows in
the mid 30s. East winds up to 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Areas of frost and patchy fog in the morning.
Highs around 50. Southeast winds up to 5 mph shifting to the
northwest in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s. East
winds up to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 50s. South winds up
to 5 mph shifting to the northwest in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s. East
winds up to 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny in the morning then clearing. Highs in the
mid 50s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid
50s. Lows in the upper 30s.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s.
Lows in the lower 40s.
$$
CAZ322-141200-
South End of the Lower Sierra-
Including the city of Camp Nelson
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Widespread frost. Near steady
temperature in the lower 30s. East winds up to 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Widespread frost in the morning. Highs 42 to
48. Northeast winds up to 5 mph shifting to the northwest in the
afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Areas of frost. Near steady
temperature in the upper 30s. East winds up to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs 45 to 51. East winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the
upper 30s. East winds up to 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny in the morning then clearing. Highs 46 to
52.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 32 to 38.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 45 to 53.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows 32 to 38.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs 43 to 51. Lows
32 to 38.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs 45 to 51. Lows
34 to 40.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Camp Nelson 23 45 29 48 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ323-141200-
Yosemite NP outside of the valley-
Including the cities of Tuolumne Meadows and Wawona
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Widespread frost early in the evening.
Near steady temperature around 16. Northeast winds up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Not as cold. Sunny. Widespread frost in the
afternoon. Highs 31 to 41. North winds up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Widespread frost in the
evening. Lows 13 to 27. Northeast winds up to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 28 to 42. North winds up to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Colder. Partly cloudy. Lows 10 to 24. Northeast
winds up to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 28 to 42. Lows
10 to 24.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs 25 to 40.
Lows 10 to 25.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs 26 to 41. Lows
14 to 28.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Tuolumne Meadows 1 42 8 39 / 0 0 0 0
Wawona 21 47 27 50 / 0 0 0 0
Hetch Hetchy 26 50 32 53 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ324-141200-
Yosemite Valley-
Including the city of Yosemite Valley
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Widespread frost early in the evening.
Lows 22 to 28. East winds up to 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 41 to 49. East winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 28 to 34. Northeast winds
up to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 43 to 51. Northeast winds up to
5 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then clearing.
Lows 25 to 33. Northeast winds up to 5 mph.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 43 to 51. Lows
25 to 33.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs 40 to 50.
Lows 25 to 34.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs 41 to 50. Lows
28 to 36.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Yosemite 22 50 28 53 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ325-141200-
San Joaquin River Canyon-
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Widespread frost until early morning.
Lows 22 to 30. Northeast winds up to 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 42 to 48. Northeast winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Areas of frost in the evening.
Lows 30 to 36. Northeast winds up to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 45 to 51. Northeast winds up to
10 mph shifting to the northwest in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 26 to 34. Northeast winds
up to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 44 to 52.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 27 to 35.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs 41 to 51.
Lows 26 to 35.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs 42 to 51. Lows
30 to 38.
$$
CAZ326-141200-
Upper San Joaquin River-
Including the cities of Devils Postpile, Florence Lake,
and Lake Thomas Edison
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Widespread frost early in the evening.
Near steady temperature around 15. North winds up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Not as cold. Sunny. Highs 29 to 41. North winds up
to 10 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 14 to 26. North winds up
to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 27 to 41. North winds up to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Colder. Partly cloudy. Lows 10 to 22. North
winds up to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 26 to 40.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 10 to 22.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs 24 to 39.
Lows 10 to 23.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs 25 to 39. Lows
14 to 26.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Devils Postpile 13 38 20 35 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ327-141200-
Kaiser to Rodgers Ridge-
Including the cities of Lake Wishon, Huntington Lake,
and Shaver Lake
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Widespread frost until early morning.
Lows 9 to 19. Northeast winds up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Widespread frost in the afternoon. Highs
33 to 39. North winds up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Widespread frost in the evening.
Lows 16 to 26. North winds up to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 31 to 41. Northwest winds up to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 13 to 23. North winds up to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 30 to 40.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 12 to 24.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs 29 to 40.
Lows 13 to 24.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs 30 to 40. Lows
17 to 27.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Huntington Lake 16 35 23 36 / 0 0 0 0
Shaver Lake 19 40 25 42 / 0 0 0 0
Lake Wishon 18 41 25 43 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ328-141200-
Kings Canyon NP-
Including the city of Cedar Grove
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Near steady temperature around 11.
Northwest winds up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Not as cold. Sunny. Highs 25 to 37. North winds up
to 10 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 11 to 23. North winds 5 to
10 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 22 to 36. Northwest winds up to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Colder. Partly cloudy. Lows 6 to 18. Northwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 19 to 35.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Near steady temperature around 15.
.SATURDAY THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs 19 to 34.
Lows 6 to 23.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs 21 to 35.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Cedar Grove 21 51 29 53 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ329-141200-
Grant Grove Area-
Including the cities of Grant Grove and Hume Lake
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Widespread frost until early morning.
Near steady temperature in the lower 20s. East winds up to 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Not as cool. Sunny. Widespread frost in the
afternoon. Highs 35 to 45. East winds up to 5 mph shifting to the
west in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Widespread frost in the
evening. Near steady temperature around 30. Northeast winds up to
5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 36 to 48. North winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the northwest in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 20 to 34. Northeast winds
up to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 34 to 48.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 20 to 34.
.SATURDAY THROUGH MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 33 to 47. Lows
19 to 33.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows 23 to 37. Highs
35 to 47.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Grant Grove 21 39 27 41 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ330-141200-
Sequoia NP-
Including the cities of Giant Forest and Lodgepole
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Widespread frost in the evening. Near
steady temperature around 15. North winds up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Not as cold. Sunny. Widespread frost in the
afternoon. Highs 26 to 40. Northwest winds up to 10 mph with
gusts to around 25 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 12 to 30. North winds up
to 10 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs 24 to 42. Northwest winds up to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Colder. Partly cloudy. Near steady temperature
in the lower 20s. North winds up to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 22 to 40.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Colder. Mostly clear. Near steady temperature
around 20.
.SATURDAY THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs 21 to 41.
Lows 7 to 30.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs 23 to 41.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Lodgepole 14 40 22 42 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ331-141200-
South End of the Upper Sierra-
Including the city of Johnsondale
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Widespread frost until early morning.
Near steady temperature in the lower 20s. Northwest winds up to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 34 to 42. North winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the
upper 20s. North winds up to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs 33 to 45. Northwest winds up to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows 17 to 31. North winds up to
10 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny in the morning then clearing. Highs 32 to
44.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 16 to 30.
.SATURDAY THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs 31 to 44.
Lows 16 to 34.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs 33 to 45.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Johnsondale 14 48 20 51 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ332-141200-
Kern River Valley-
Including the cities of Lake Isabella and Kernville
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost early in the evening.
Widespread frost in the late evening and overnight. Lows 27 to
33. West winds up to 10 mph shifting to the northeast after
midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Widespread frost in the morning. Highs 48 to
54. Northeast winds up to 10 mph shifting to the west in the
afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s. Northeast
winds up to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs 50 to 56. East winds up to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s. Northeast
winds up to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny in the morning then clearing. Highs 50 to
56.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 29 to 35.
.SATURDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 49 to 56. Lows
30 to 36.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Alta Sierra 25 40 30 41 / 0 0 0 0
Kernville 27 53 31 57 / 0 0 0 0
Lake Isabella 29 54 33 57 / 0 0 0 0
Weldon 30 53 34 55 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ333-141200-
Piute Walker Basin-
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Widespread frost. Near steady
temperature around 30. West winds up to 5 mph shifting to the
northwest after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Not as cool. Sunny. Widespread frost in the morning.
Highs 40 to 48. East winds up to 10 mph shifting to the southwest
in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Widespread frost in the
evening. Lows 27 to 37. North winds up to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs 40 to 50. East winds up to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows 26 to 36. Northeast winds
up to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny in the morning then clearing. Highs 40 to
50.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 25 to 37.
.SATURDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 40 to 51. Lows
26 to 38.
$$
CAZ334-141200-
Tehachapi-
Including the city of Tehachapi
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Widespread frost. Near steady
temperature in the lower 30s. West winds up to 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Widespread frost in the morning. Highs 42 to
48. East winds up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the
mid 30s. East winds up to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs 42 to 50. East winds up to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the
upper 30s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny in the morning then clearing. Highs 42 to
52.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 29 to 37.
.SATURDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 42 to 52. Lows
29 to 39.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Bear Valley Springs 29 45 33 46 / 0 0 0 0
Tehachapi 23 47 26 49 / 0 0 0 0
Twin Oaks 31 50 34 51 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ335-141200-
Grapevine-
Including the cities of Grapevine and Lebec
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Widespread frost through the night. Near
steady temperature in the lower 30s. West winds up to 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Widespread frost in the morning. Highs 43 to
49. East winds up to 10 mph shifting to the northeast in the
afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the
mid 30s. South winds up to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs 44 to 50. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the
upper 30s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny in the morning then clearing. Highs 45 to
53.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s.
.SATURDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 44 to 53. Lows
in the mid 30s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Grapevine 32 49 36 52 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ336-141200-
Frazier Mountain Communities-
Including the city of Frazier Park
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Widespread frost until early morning.
Areas of frost late in the night. Near steady temperature in the
lower 30s. Southwest winds up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 42 to 48. Northeast winds up to 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the
mid 30s. South winds up to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs 42 to 50. Northeast winds up to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Near steady temperature in the
upper 30s. Southeast winds up to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny in the morning then clearing. Highs 44 to
52.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 30 to 40.
.SATURDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 42 to 53. Lows
29 to 41.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Pine Mountain Club 28 45 32 46 / 0 0 0 0
Frazier Park 21 48 25 48 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ337-141200-
Indian Wells Valley-
Including the cities of Inyokern and Ridgecrest
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 20s. West winds up to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 50s. Northwest winds up to
5 mph shifting to the northeast in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s. West
winds up to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 50s. Northeast winds
up to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s. North
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny in the morning then clearing. Highs in the
lower 50s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 30.
.SATURDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower
50s. Lows in the lower 30s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Inyokern 31 53 34 54 / 0 0 0 0
Ridgecrest 27 53 31 55 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ338-141200-
Mojave Desert Slopes-
Including the city of Mojave
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Widespread frost early in the evening.
Lows in the lower 30s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 43 to 51. Northeast winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the east in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s. Northwest
winds up to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs 45 to 53. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s. Northeast
winds 5 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny in the morning then clearing. Highs 44 to
52.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 30s.
.SATURDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 43 to 54. Lows
in the mid 30s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Mojave 29 51 32 52 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ339-141200-
Mojave Desert-
Including the cities of Rosamond, California City, Randsburg,
and Edwards AFB
1100 PM PST Tue Dec 13 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Widespread frost after midnight. Lows
23 to 31. West winds up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Widespread frost in the morning. Highs in the
lower 50s. Northeast winds up to 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 26 to 34. North winds up
to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 50s. Northeast winds
up to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows 28 to 34. Northeast winds
up to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny in the morning then clearing. Highs in the
lower 50s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 24 to 32.
.SATURDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower
50s. Lows 26 to 35.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Randsburg 36 49 38 50 / 0 0 0 0
California City 26 52 29 54 / 0 0 0 0
Edwards AFB 24 52 26 54 / 0 0 0 0
Rosamond 24 53 28 54 / 0 0 0 0
$$
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CT Current Conditions as of 02:00 AM EST Wednesday, December 14, 2022
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City/Town;Weather Condition;Temp (F);Wind Direction;Wind Speed (MPH);Humidity (%)
Bridgeport;Clear;29;NW;4;71%
Chester;Cloudy;30;Calm;0;64%
Danbury;Clear;29;NNW;3;63%
Groton;Partly cloudy;30;NW;7;68%
Hartford;Cloudy;30;NW;4;74%
Meriden;Cloudy;32;NW;5;71%
New Haven;Mostly clear;31;NW;6;71%
Oxford;Mostly cloudy;26;W;8;74%
Willimantic;Cloudy;29;WNW;12;68%
Windsor Locks;Cloudy;30;NW;3;71%
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