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The Senate voted Wednesday to pass a long-awaited bill aimed at boosting U.S. semiconductor production in a bid to increase American competitiveness.
It passed with broad bipartisan support, 64 to 33.
The measure now goes to the House for approval before it can be sent to President Joe Biden for his expected signature.
The legislation is aimed at addressing a semiconductor chip shortage and making the U.S. less reliant on other countries such as China for manufacturing. Supporters say the measure is important not only for U.S. technological innovation, but for national security as well.
It sets up incentives for domestic semiconductor manufacturing as well as research and development and includes more than $50 billion in funding for that aim.
It includes a number of provisions aimed at bolstering scientific research, including authorizing billions of dollars for the National Science Foundation, the Department of Commerce and the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has praised the bill as a major bipartisan achievement and touted it as highly consequential.
"It's a major step for our economic security, our national security, our supply chains and for America's future," Schumer said of the legislation in remarks on the Senate floor this week.
Schumer described the bill as "one of the most consequential bipartisan achievements of this Congress."
"It will make historic investments to scientific research. It will take direct aim at our nation's chip crisis," he said.
GOP Sen. Todd Young of Indiana, who worked closely with Schumer and other senators over a long process of negotiations praised the bill for "unleashing the potential of our people in outcompeting and out innovating our global rivals who don't share our values or economic interests."
But the bill has not escaped all criticism.
Republican Sen. Rick Scott of Florida told CNN's Erin Burnett on "OutFront" Wednesday evening, "This is not an anti-China bill. This is not a national security bill."
"This is just a free giveaway to a bunch of billion dollar corporations that wanted no accountability," he said.
This story has been updated with additional information Wednesday.
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Lauren Pearl is giving new meaning to the term high-flying soprano.
Sure, her latest venture calls for her to sing up to a high C, but plenty of operatic heroines have to do that. What’s different in Pearl’s case is that she will be singing while scaling a 60-foot brick wall.
Pearl is performing the role of Louise in “Gould’s Wall,” a work that is receiving its world premiere at Toronto’s adventuresome Tapestry Opera beginning Aug. 4.
The opera is the brainchild of composer Brian Current, who regularly passes the wall on his way to work with students at the Glenn Gould School, which is housed in Toronto’s Royal Conservatory of Music. The brick facade is a remnant of a building that dates back to 1881, and it was preserved when the conservatory got a new, modern facility.
“That vertical space was just crying out for something to happen,” Current said. “With singers climbing on the walls, and the audience in the atrium looking up.”
He enlisted Liza Balkan, a performer, director and writer, who created a libretto that, as she said, tells “the story of a young artist, a woman, climbing the wall as a journey toward finding her own voice, the readiness to fly and soar.”
Along the way she encounters numerous characters who are harnessed to windows on the wall. Singing from below is Gould himself — the legendary pianist known for perfectionism who remains one of Canada’s most revered classical music figures nearly 40 years after his death.
“He is a presence in the building always,” Balkan said, and in the opera “he is there to support and also interrogate” the artist on her journey.
To play Louise, the company engaged Pearl, who was not a climber but had been training as an aerialist after, as she explained, “I fell in love with a circus performer.”
“I felt the story was very resonant and uplifting and inspiring,” Pearl said. “I thought immediately, I want to do that. But yeah, it’s daunting. It’s a high space.”
She has been practicing on the wall with the help of DangerBoy, a company whose website says it specializes in “stunts, rigging and special effects.” For the performances, Pearl will be securely fastened to a harness with a carabiner for extra protection.
Pearl said she found that singing while suspended from ropes and scaling a wall requires some adjustment in her vocal technique. ”There needs to be a line of energy through my entire body,” she said. “A greater awareness of tension and support.”
Current’s score, which runs about an hour, will be played by an orchestra consisting of five pianos along with an ensemble of brass, winds, strings and percussion.
The audience of just over 100 will be divided into sections, with prime seating on the atrium floor in reclining chairs angled to provide an easy view of the ascent.
“We thought at first of having people lie on mats,” Current said. “But our audience is largely people who aren’t 20.”
Other spectators will be on a balcony of the new building across from the wall. “Then you’re almost at the same level of the singers and also looking down and you can see the orchestra down below,” Current said.
Tom Comet, head rigger for DangerBoy, said the technical aspect of supporting Pearl’s climb is “pretty simple stuff. We’re pulling on a rope, we’re pulling some ropes through some pulleys, we’re redirecting that line.
“That said,” Comet added, “anytime we have human life in our hands … we need to be 100,000% sure that everything’s going to work as we anticipate.
“For me,” Comet said, “the coolest thing is that Lauren is actually belting out opera fearlessly while she’s suspended in the air, 40-50 feet up. It’s gonna be pretty incredible to experience.”
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Mike Silverman writes frequently about opera for The AP. He can be reached at mkslvrmn@gmail.com.
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SAN MATEO, Calif. (AP) _ Franklin Resources Inc. (BEN) on Thursday reported fiscal third-quarter profit of $256.4 million.
On a per-share basis, the San Mateo, California-based company said it had net income of 50 cents. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, were 82 cents per share.
The results beat Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of five analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 73 cents per share.
The investment manager posted revenue of $2.03 billion in the period.
Franklin Resources shares have fallen 24% since the beginning of the year, while the S&P's 500 index has dropped 16%. The stock has dropped 14% in the last 12 months.
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The first mission to return samples from another planet will touch down on Earth in 2033, according to NASA and European Space Agency officials. The Perseverance rover is currently collecting the samples on Mars.
As Perseverance investigates the site of an ancient lake that existed billions of years ago, it's collecting rocks and soil. This material is of interest because it could contain evidence of past microscopic organisms that would reveal whether life ever existed on Mars. Scientists will have the chance to use some of the most sophisticated instruments around the world to study these precious samples.
The ambitious Mars Sample Return program involves collaboration between the two agencies to retrieve 30 samples from the red planet. Multiple missions will launch to Mars later this decade to safely pick up and bring the samples back.
The program is nearing the end of its conceptual design phase, and NASA has completed its system requirements review. The review has led to changes that will reduce the complexity of future missions and increase probability of success, according to NASA officials.
"The conceptual design phase is when every facet of a mission plan gets put under a microscope," said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate, in a statement. "There are some significant and advantageous changes to the plan, which can be directly attributed to Perseverance's recent successes at Jezero and the amazing performance of our Mars helicopter."
Initially, the plan was to launch a fetch rover along with a Sample Retrieval Lander in the mid-2020s. Once released on the Martian surface, the fetch rover would have retrieved samples from where Perseverance has stashed them on the Martian surface.
Now, Perseverance will be the primary transport vehicle to carry samples to the lander. The rover's latest health and life expectancy assessment shows that it should still be in prime condition to deliver the samples itself in 2030. Perseverance will back up to the lander, and the lander's robotic arm will transfer the samples.
The Sample Retrieval Lander will carry two sample recovery helicopters, similar in style to the Ingenuity helicopter currently on Mars -- rather than a fetch rover.
"Recent operations of the Ingenuity helicopter on Mars, which has completed 29 flights -- 24 more than originally planned -- have shown us the usefulness of potential rotorcraft of Mars," said Jeff Gramling, director of the Mars Sample Return Program.
Engineers have been impressed with Ingenuity's performance. The helicopter has survived more than a year beyond its expected life span. In the event that Perseverance can't return the samples to the lander, the little choppers will be able to fly away from the lander, use arms to retrieve the samples and bring them back.
The two sample return helicopters will be similar in size to Ingenuity but will be a little bit heavier. The landing legs will come equipped with small mobility wheels to allow it to travel on the ground as well as fly, and each chopper will have a little arm that can grab sample tubes, said Richard Cook, Mars Sample Return program manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
If Perseverance's health remains the same over the next eight years and it doesn't need any help in returning samples to the lander, the choppers could observe and capture images of the process.
Getting samples back to Earth
The Sample Retrieval Lander also carries the Mars Ascent Vehicle -- the first rocket that will ever launch from the Martian surface, with the samples tucked safely inside. The spacecraft is currently set to launch from Mars in 2031.
A separate mission will launch from Earth in the mid-2020s, called the Earth Return Orbiter, to rendezvous with the Mars Ascent Vehicle.
Onboard the Earth Return Orbiter is the Capture/Containment and Return System, which will collect the container of samples from the Mars Ascent Vehicle while both vehicles are in orbit around Mars.
The Earth Return Orbiter will then head back to our world. Once the spacecraft is close to Earth, it will release the Earth Entry Vehicle that contains the cache of samples, and that spacecraft will touchdown on Earth in 2033.
Previously, the agency said the samples could return to Earth by 2031, but the planned launch dates for the orbiter in fall 2027 and the lander in summer 2028 have created the new arrival date.
Engineers are currently testing robotic components for the campaign at NASA and ESA centers. The Mars Sample Return program will move into the preliminary design phase in October, which will last for about a year. The design phase will result in technology development as well as engineering prototypes for the main components.
"ESA is continuing at full speed the development of both the Earth Return Orbiter that will make the historic round-trip from Earth to Mars and back again; and the Sample Transfer Arm that will robotically place the sample tubes aboard the Orbiting Sample Container before its launch from the surface of the Red Planet," said David Parker, ESA director of human and robotic exploration, in a statement.
Diverse samples
The Perseverance rover has collected 11 rock core samples so far. The samples represent "an amazing suite of materials," said Meenakshi Wadhwa, principal scientist for Mars Sample Return and director of Arizona State University's School of Earth and Space Exploration.
"The latest one, in fact, is a fine-grained sedimentary rock that has the greatest potential for preserving biosignatures, potentially, and so we have a diversity of materials already in the bag, so to speak, and really excited about the potential for bringing these back," Wadhwa said.
"Working together on historic endeavors like Mars Sample Return not only provides invaluable data about our place in the universe but brings us closer together right here on Earth," Zurbuchen said.
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(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.)
Paul M. Collins, Jr., UMass Amherst and Artemus Ward, Northern Illinois University
(THE CONVERSATION) Following the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturning half a century of abortion rights under Roe v. Wade, nearly two-thirds of Americans want fundamental court reform, specifically term limits for Supreme Court justices.
Indeed, on July 25, 2022, Democrats introduced a bill that would allow a new justice to take the bench every two years and spend 18 years in active service.
The majority that overturned Roe was possible only because of the current system in which justices serve for life and are therefore able to choose when and whether to step down.
Justice Amy Coney Barrett owes her seat to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s refusal to retire under a Democratic president and her subsequent death under a Republican.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh is on the court because of Reagan appointee Justice Anthony Kennedy’s decision to step down under a GOP administration. Justice Neil Gorsuch was appointed after conservative Justice Antonin Scalia happened to die after President Donald Trump took office.
The author of the opinion in Dobbs, Justice Samuel Alito, took his seat when Republican Justice Sandra Day O’Connor chose to leave under President George W. Bush.
Justice Clarence Thomas – the leader of the court’s conservative majority – has served on the high court for over three decades and is there only because liberal icon Justice Thurgood Marshall refused to retire under a Democratic president and subsequently died with a Republican in office.
All federal judges in the U.S., including Supreme Court justices, enjoy life tenure.
Under Article 3 of the Constitution, justices cannot be forced out of office against their will, barring impeachment. This provision, which followed the precedent of Great Britain, is meant to ensure judicial independence that allows judges to render decisions based on their understandings of the law – free from political, social and electoral influences.
Our extensive research on the Supreme Court shows life tenure, while well intended, has had unforeseen consequences.
It skews how the confirmation process and judicialdecision-making work and causes justices who want to retire to behave like political operatives.
Problems with lifetime tenure
Life tenure has motivated presidents to pick younger and younger justices.
In the post-World War II era, presidents generally forgo appointing jurists in their 60s, who would bring a great deal of experience, and instead nominate judges in their 40s or 50s, who could serve on the court for many decades.
And they do.
When Thomas was appointed at age 43 by President George H.W. Bush in 1991, he famously said he would serve for 43 years. There are another dozen years until his promise is met, should he choose to keep it at all.
Partisanship problems
Justices change during their decades on the bench, research shows.
Justices who at the time of their confirmation espoused views that reflected the general public, the Senate and the president who appointed them tend to move away from those preferences over time. They become more ideological, focused on putting their own policy preferences into law.
Other Americans’ political preferences tend to be stable throughout their lives.
The consequence is that Supreme Court justices may no longer reflect the America they preside over.
This can be problematic.
If the court were to routinely stray too far from the public’s values, the public could reject its dictates by refusing to follow the court’s decisions. The Supreme Court relies on public confidence to maintain its legitimacy. In addition to public resistance to its decisions, if the court lost its legitimacy, lower court judges and legislative and executive branch actors might resist implementing the court’s rulings.
Life tenure has also turned staffing the Supreme Court into an increasingly partisan process, politicizing one of the nation’s most powerful institutions.
In the 1980s and 1990s, Supreme Court nominees could generally expect broad, bipartisan support in the Senate. Today, judicial confirmation votes are almost strictly down party lines.
Public support for judicial nominees is likewise shaped by partisanship. Simply put, Democrats are much more supportive of nominees appointed by Democratic presidents, and Republicans are much more supportive of nominees appointed by Republican presidents.
Life tenure can turn supposedly independent judges into political players who attempt to time their departures to secure their preferred successors – and this may have factored in to Justice Stephen Breyer’s decision this year under President Joe Biden, a Democrat.
Biden appointed Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, one of Breyer’s former clerks, to replace him.
The proposed solution
Many Supreme Courtexperts have coalesced around a solution to these problems: staggered 18-year terms with a vacancy automatically occurring every two years in nonelection years.
This system would promote judicial legitimacy, they argue, by taking departure decisions out of the justices’ hands.
It would help insulate the court from becoming a campaign issue because vacancies would no longer arise during election years. Indeed, even if a justice died during an election year, a lower court judge could be temporarily elevated as a replacement. Term limits would also preserve judicial independence by shielding the court from political calls to fundamentally alter the institution.
Partisanship would still tinge the selection and confirmation of judges by the president and Senate and ideological extremists could still reach the Supreme Court. But they would be limited to 18-year terms.
Instituting life tenure
The U.S. Supreme Court is one of the world’s few high courts whose members have life tenure.
Almost all democratic nations have either fixed terms or mandatory retirement ages for their top judges, including the United Kingdom.
Except for Rhode Island, all U.S. states either have mandatory retirement ages or let voters choose when judges leave the bench through judicial elections.
Even before Dobbs, polling consistently showed a large bipartisanmajority of Americans supported ending life tenure for Supreme Court justices.
This view comes amid reports of eroding public confidence as the court routinely issues decisions down partisan lines on the day’s most controversial issues.
Although judges’ ideology has long influenced Supreme Court decisions, today’s court is unusual because all the conservative justices are Republicans and all the liberal justices are Democrats. In the past, it was not uncommon to have liberal-leaning justices who were appointed by Republican presidents, and conservative-leaning justices who were appointed by Democratic presidents.
In April 2021, President Biden formed a committee to examine reforming the Supreme Court, including term-limiting justices.
Some argue that to end the justices’ life tenure would require a constitutional amendment necessitating approval from two-thirds of both houses of Congress and three-fourths of U.S. states. But there is a way to enact term limits short of amendment.
The Constitution does not speak of “life tenure” per se. It states only that justices serve “during good behavior” and does not specify the type of work that justices will do.
As a result, ordinary legislation – such as that introduced this week – could be passed by a majority of both houses of Congress that would require justices to take “senior status” at the end of their 18-year terms.
Senior status is already an option for justices who qualify for it and wish to step down from their Supreme Court duties. Senior status allows them either to retire or to sit on a lower court with undiminished salary for the remainder of their careers.
All that is needed, these proponents argue, is a change in the existing retirement statute that requires senior status after 18 years on the court.
And while there are questions over whether term limits via statute are constitutional, or whether the Supreme Court justices who would be affected by them are the appropriate body to make such a determination, the larger question is whether there is or will be the political will in Congress to enact them.
This story has been updated from the original version published on July 6, 2021.
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here: https://theconversation.com/after-roes-overturning-americans-are-demanding-supreme-court-term-limits-187040.
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NEW YORK (AP) _ Griffon Corp. (GFF) on Thursday reported fiscal third-quarter net income of $140.3 million.
The New York-based company said it had profit of $2.60 per share. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, were $1.23 per share.
The garage door and building products maker posted revenue of $768.2 million in the period.
Griffon expects full-year revenue of $2.85 billion.
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GRAND BLANC TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WJRT) - The Dort Highway extension between Cook and Pollock Roads in Grand Blanc Township is now open.
The extension has been under construction for almost two years. The Genesee County Road Commission worked to bring a new roadway for businesses and residents to get to I-75 easier.
In addition to the roadway, a recreational pathway is part of the project. Developers are working on a new industrial park nearby that would benefit from the new roadway.
Grand Blanc Township Supervisor Scott Bennett said the pathway that is a part of the Dort Highway extension will be connected to others in the area in the future.
This project has been in the works for almost a decade as multiple agencies worked together to finish the project.
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PARIS (AP) — A rights group says it filed a legal complaint in Paris alleging Saudi crown prince's complicity in journalist's killing.
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MUSCATINE, Iowa (AP) _ HNI Corp. (HNI) on Thursday reported second-quarter earnings of $30.3 million.
The Muscatine, Iowa-based company said it had profit of 72 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, came to 52 cents per share.
The maker of office furniture and fireplaces posted revenue of $621.7 million in the period.
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If you love helping a good cause as much as you enjoy a hearty, homemade breakfast, you’ll want to check out Dash’s newest mini waffle maker. The kitchen appliance brand teamed up with the creators of “The Tiny Chef Show” to design an exclusive waffle maker for Williams Sonoma.
The device is adorably decorated with illustrations of the little green culinarian, making it a fun and colorful addition to any kitchen. With the functionality you expect from any original Dash Mini Waffle Maker, it is reliable and easy to use. But it can also do something other appliances can’t: help end childhood hunger in the United States.
For eight years running, Williams Sonoma has conducted its Tools For Change fundraising program to benefit No Kid Hungry. The partnership has helped provide more than 160 million meals to kids to date. This year’s goal is to raise more than $3 million and help provide nearly 30 million meals to children across the country.
The fundraising efforts include limited edition products such as the Dash No Kid Hungry Tiny Chef Mini Waffle Maker. At $19.95, the waffle maker comes with a cleaning brush and a recipe book with vegan recipes in honor of the Tiny Chef, and 30% of the retail price will go to the Share Our Strength organization’s No Kid Hungry campaign.
It also includes a ticket to attend Tiny Chef’s Waffle School on Zoom. On Thursday, August 16 at 8 p.m. ET, Tiny Chef’s friend Tyler Florence will host a class with plant-based mini waffle recipes from Tiny Chef’s kitchen. Some surprise guests will stop by, as well.
The Dash Tiny Chef Mini Waffle Maker can prepare 4-inch diameter waffles in just minutes. Just plug it in, wait for it to heat up, add your batter and close the lid. An indicator light lets you know when the waffle maker is ready to use.
The dual PFOA-free plates feature an upgraded premium nonstick surface that heats evenly, cleans easily and makes crispy, consistent waffles every time. Aside from traditional waffle batter, this Dash mini waffle maker can also cook many other ingredients, like shredded potatoes or cookie dough.
In addition to the Dash Tiny Chef Mini Waffle Maker, other No Kid Hungry products available at Williams Sonoma include a collection of spatulas, tea towels and treats. All the items feature designs from celebrities, culinary personalities, chefs and social media influencers such as Ina Garten, Lauren Alaina and Big Freedia.
No Kid Hungry spatulas, at $15.95 each, have beech handles made with wood from Forest Stewardship Council–certified forests. They are ergonomically shaped for improved comfort and control. The heat-resistant, BPA-free silicone spatula is safe to use with nonstick cookware and won’t chip, crack or absorb flavors and odors from food. The purchase of each spatula can help provide 40 meals.
In sets of two for $24.95, No Kid Hungry tea towels are made of durable, responsibly-sourced cotton twill. They have hanging loops to help keep them handy and have been tested and verified by a third-party lab to be safe from over 350 harmful substances. Each set of two tea towels can help provide 70 meals.
Treats in this collection include chocolate caramel fudge cookies, apple cookies and a dozen decadent cupcakes in a sampler from Georgetown Cupcakes. With flavors like Chocolate Caramel Swirl, Red Velvet and Pumpkin Cheesecake, this fall cupcake sampler will satisfy your sweet tooth while allowing you to do something sweet for kids in America.
“We’re thrilled to have the support of this year’s talented roster of celebrity artists and grateful for our partnership with Williams Sonoma, alongside its customers, to ensure every kid has the ‘tools’ and food they need to thrive now and in the future,” Billy Shore, founder and executive chair of Share Our Strength, said in a statement.
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After a few showers this morning, look for decreasing cloudiness into this afternoon.
It will be windy with highs returning to the upper 70s to low 80s.
Overnight will be clear and cooler with less humid conditions.
Lows will dip into the mid to upper 50s.
Friday will start off sunny with some additional clouds later in the afternoon.
Temperatures will be very pleasant with highs near 80.
Expect dry and comfortable weather heading into the weekend with lots of sunshine.
We'll heat up next week with another chance for rain late on Monday.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — US economy shrank at a 0.9% rate from April through June, 2nd straight quarterly contraction.
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PLANO, Texas (AP) _ Integer Holdings Corp. (ITGR) on Thursday reported second-quarter profit of $20.8 million.
The Plano, Texas-based company said it had net income of 62 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, came to $1.04 per share.
The medical device outsource manufacturer posted revenue of $350.1 million in the period.
Integer expects full-year earnings in the range of $4.20 to $4.50 per share, with revenue in the range of $1.37 billion to $1.4 billion.
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President Joe Biden and China President Xi Jinping spoke on the phone Thursday morning as tensions between the two nations remain high.
Adding to the tensions, the Associated Press reported on Wednesday that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is planning on visiting Taiwan. Per long-standing US policy, the US does not accept Taiwan’s independent status as mere talks of diplomatic ties between Taiwan and the US could raise tensions with China.
Pelosi’s office has yet to confirm reports directly she is headed to Taiwan, but House Foreign Affairs Committee ranking member, Rep. Michael McCaul of Texas, told the Associated Press he was invited.
Pentagon press secretary John Kirby told CNN on Thursday that there is no change in US policy concerning Taiwan.
“I mean, we have been seeing the Chinese increase their level of aggressiveness in the Indo-Pacific region,” he said. “We certainly have seen an increase in their bellicose rhetoric with respect to Taiwan and to other false territorial and maritime claims in the Indo Pacific. I would just tell you that again, nothing's changed about our one China policy.”
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Cigarette maker Altria's $13 billion investment in the troubled vaping company Juul has gone up in smoke — now worth less than 5% of its original value as U.S. regulators move to ban its e-cigarettes.
Altria slashed the value of its Juul investment by more than $1.1 billion Thursday, pegging its new value at $450 million as it reported second-quarter earnings. The Marlboro maker had recently valued its stake in the company at a vastly reduced $1.6 billion.
Despite the losses Altria said it would maintain its investment deal with Juul, including an agreement not to sell competing vaping products.
“At this time, we continue to believe that these investment rights are beneficial to us,” Altria said in a prepared statement.
Altria, based in Richmond, Virginia, is Juul’s largest investor with a 35% stake. Altria executives signed the $12.8-billion pact in 2018, betting that Juul’s popular vaping devices presented a lucrative alternate to tobacco products.
Last month, however, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced plans to ban the small cartridge-based e-cigarettes, saying Juul had failed to provide key information about potentially harmful chemicals in its nicotine formula. The decision surprised industry observers and experts given that the FDA has authorized several competing e-cigarettes and Juul spent years gathering data to support its application.
In yet another twist to the company’s fortunes, the FDA reopened its review of Juul’s application earlier this month after a federal court blocked the ban from immediately taking effect. For now, Juul is able to continue selling its products while the FDA review continues.
The Juul decision is part of a sweeping FDA review of all U.S. e-cigarettes aimed at eliminating those that haven’t been shown to help smokers reduce or quit smoking.
Juul rocketed to the top of the U.S. vaping market five years ago on the popularity of flavors like mango, mint and creme brulee. But the company’s rise was fueled by underage use by teenagers who became hooked on Juul’s high-nicotine pods.
Since 2019, the company has been in retreat: halting all U.S. advertising, discontinuing most of its flavors and rebranding itself as a product for older smokers looking to switch from traditional cigarettes.
The financial hit to Juul contributed to a nearly 60% drop in Altria's quarterly earnings of 49 cents per share.
Excluding Juul and other one-time expenses the company’s adjusted earnings were $1.26 per share, just ahead of Wall Street estimates. Six analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research expected earnings of $1.25 per share.
Net revenue slid nearly 6% to $6.5 billion due to lower sales of cigarettes and other core company products. The company brand's include Parliament and Marlboro cigarettes, Black and Mild cigars and Skoal chewing tobacco.
Altria, the nation's largest cigarette maker, has been attempting to diversify its product offerings into vaping and nicotine pouches as traditional tobacco use continues to fade.
Smoking has been declining for more than five decades. Some 42% of U.S. adults smoked in the early 1960s. That was down to less than 13% in the latest report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
For the full-year Altria said it expects earnings in the range of $4.79 to $4.93 per share
Shares of Altria Group Inc. were essentially flat before the opening bell Thursday.
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JetBlue Airways has agreed to buy Spirit Airlines for $3.8 billion and create the nation’s fifth-largest airline if the deal can win approval from antitrust regulators.
The agreement Thursday capped a months-long bidding war and arrives one day after Spirit’s attempt to merge with fellow budget carrier Frontier Airlines fell apart.
Spirit CEO Ted Christie was thrust into the awkward position of defending a sale to JetBlue after arguing vehemently against the deal, saying that antitrust regulators would never let it happen.
“A lots been said over the last few months obviously, always with our stakeholders in mind,” Christie said on CNBC. “We have been listening to the folks at JetBlue, and they have a lot of good thoughts on their plans for that.”
JetBlue CEO Robin Hayes has argued all along that a larger JetBlue would create more competition for the four airlines that control about 80% of the U.S. market — American, United, Delta and Southwest.
Shares of Spirit, based in Miramar, Florida, rose 4% in trading before Thursday's opening bell, to $25.28, still below the price that JetBlue is offering. JetBlue shares gained about 1%.
JetBlue and Spirit will continue to operate independently until the agreement is approved by regulators and Spirit shareholders, with their separate loyalty programs and customer accounts.
The companies said they expect to conclude the regulatory process and close the transaction no later than the first half of 2024. If that happens, the combined airline would be based in JetBlue's hometown of New York and led by Hayes. It would have a fleet of 458 planes.
JetBlue said Thursday that it would pay $33.50 per share in cash for Spirit, including a prepayment of $2.50 per share in cash payable once Spirit stockholders approve the transaction. There is also a ticking fee of 10 cents per share each month starting in January 2023 through closing to compensate Spirit shareholders for any delay in winning regulatory approval.
If the deal doesn’t close due to antitrust reasons, JetBlue will pay Spirit a reverse break-up fee of $70 million and pay Spirit shareholders $400 million, minus any amounts paid to the shareholders prior to termination.
Spirit and Frontier announced their plan to merge in February, and Spirit's board stood by that deal even after JetBlue made a higher-priced offer in April. However, Spirit's board could never convince the airline's shareholders to go along. A vote on the merger was postponed four times, then cut short Wednesday when Spirit and Frontier announced they were terminating their agreement, which made a Spirit-JetBlue coupling inevitable.
JetBlue anticipates $600 million to $700 million in annual savings once the transaction is complete. Annual revenue for the combined company is anticipated to be about $11.9 billion, based on 2019 revenues.
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The all-new oven-baked pasta line features four new recipes: Chicken Alfredo, Italian Meats, Cheesy Alfredo and Veggie
PLANO, Texas, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pizza Hut, known for being the pizza lovers' pizza, is now just as much for pasta lovers with the introduction of its new Oven-Baked Pastas. The new pasta line marks the first time Pizza Hut has not only expanded the pasta lineup to offer even more delicious variety but has also completely revamped their pasta offering to include more premium ingredients and savory sauces. Starting today, the all-new Oven-Baked Pastas are available on menus nationwide starting at $8.99 for one or double the fun by trying "Family Pasta Pairs," any two recipes starting at $13.99.
Whether grabbing a meal for yourself or settling in with a companion for the newest season of your favorite show, the new pastas featuring penne noodles, sweet tomato or creamy alfredo sauces, and a rich dusting of parmesan-oregano seasoning are the perfect order for any palate and occasion.
All Oven-Baked Pastas include breadsticks or garlic bread, where available- in case of "luckily-I-have-leftover-sauce" cleanups, come in four distinct recipes that cater to any flavor preference and are finished with a NEW and irresistible parmesan oregano topping:
- Chicken Alfredo: You can't go wrong with this classic combination of NEW creamy Alfredo sauce, grilled chicken, and oven-baked cheese.
- Italian Meats: Fill up on this savory new recipe that's packed with sweet tomato sauce, pepperoni, Italian sausage and of course, cheese.
- Cheesy Alfredo: A cheese lover's dream featuring a NEW creamy Alfredo sauce and two layers of cheese with baked-fresh parmesan on top.
- Veggie: A flavorful combo of sweet tomato sauce, green peppers, onions, tomatoes, black olives and oven-baked cheese.
"Customers come to Pizza Hut for best tasting pizza and new pizza innovations, but we now have pastas that are premium, great tasting and affordable for you or your family" said Lindsay Morgan, Chief Marketing Officer, Pizza Hut. "These are my new go-to order when I'm sending lunch or dinner to friends or family."
The introduction of the new, elevated Oven-Baked Pastas is the biggest pasta innovation to hit Pizza Hut menus in the last 20 years, since Tuscani® pasta was introduced in 2003. The all-new pasta line will be replacing the rotini based Tuscani on menus nationwide.
All Oven-Baked Pasta recipes are available now at participating Pizza Hut locations nationwide for contactless delivery, carryout, curbside and Hut Lane pickup. Click here to find your nearest Pizza Hut location. Product availability, prices, participation, availability of contactless, curbside, The Hut Lane™ and delivery areas, charges and minimums vary. Delivery charge is not a driver tip.
Pizza Hut, a subsidiary of Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE: YUM), has more restaurant locations in the world than any other pizza company. Founded in 1958 in Wichita, Kan., Pizza Hut operates nearly 18,000 restaurants in more than 100 countries. With easy order options including the Pizza Hut mobile app, website, and Amazon and Google devices, Pizza Hut is committed to providing an easy pizza experience – from order to delivery – and has Hut Rewards®, the Pizza Hut loyalty program that offers points for every dollar spent on food any way you order.
Now more than ever, restaurants have an important role in helping to safely feed families. As the largest pizza brand in the world by store count, Pizza Hut is committed to doing its part. To help keep team members and customers safe, customers can get their favorite Pizza Hut pizza via three contactless offerings: curbside pickup, delivery, or carryout. After becoming the first national pizza brand to offer contactless curbside pickup, Pizza Hut launched The Hut Lane™, a dedicated digital order pick-up window available at more than 1,500 locations across the country.
Pizza Hut is the creator of The BOOK IT! Program, which is the nation's longest running corporate supported literacy program. Building on that legacy, the program's BOOK IT! in the Community Initiative is designed to enable access to books and education resources, empower teachers and inspire a lifelong love of reading. The program is rooted in the foundation set by the Pizza Hut BOOK IT! Program which impacts more than 14 million students each year.
Pizza Hut is the Official and Only Pizza Sponsor of the NCAA®.
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The Federal Reserve is bumping up interest rates again in an effort to curb inflation, as economists and Americans coast to coast worry about a recession.
The more-expensive borrowing rate is expected to cool the hot housing market.
"Most of your first-time home buyers are gone," Eric Harmon, owner of Crosswind Home Inspection, said. "The home buyers that are left, they're going to be super qualified, but they can negotiate a little bit more. They don't have to waive all their inspections. They don't have to give away their firstborn just to get into a burning shack of a house."
One real estate broker in California is ready to take the hit.
"I'd much rather take a little bit of short-term pain for the long-term benefit of everyone involved," said Geoffrey Tackney, broker and owner of GMT Real Estate.
They're tempering demand to bring down prices on everything, as inflation keeps climbing.
"We didn’t expect a good reading, but this one was even worse than expected, I would say," said Jerome Powell, chairman of the Federal Reserve.
Administration economists argue a second quarter of declining GDP would not indicate a recession right now, while other analysts would still call it a recession.
"There are just too many areas of the economy that are performing too well and, of course, I would point to the labor market," Powell said.
"It’ll be one of the most unusual ones I’ve seen because the job market is so strong," economist Dennis Hoffman said.
Now, the central bank looks ahead to more potential hikes.
"While another unusually large increase could be appropriate at our next meeting, that is a decision that will depend on the data we get between now and then," Powell said.
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VIENNA (AP) — Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer welcomed Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Vienna on Thursday for bilateral talks that focused on migration as well as on the war in Ukraine and its consequences.
The meeting of the two central European leaders came only days after one of Orban’s closest associates resigned in protest over what she called a “pure Nazi” speech given by the Hungarian prime minister in which he railed against Europe becoming a “mixed race” society.
Nehammer sought to quickly distance himself from Orban's controversial remarks, telling reporters in Vienna that he made clear to the Hungarian prime minister that “we in Austria reject, condemn in the strongest terms, any form of trivialization or relativization of racism or even antisemitism.”
While Orban’s anti-migrant stance and criticism of Western liberal values have long prompted a backlash, Saturday’s speech sparked a fresh wave of outrage throughout Europe and from the opposition in Hungary. In it, Orban declared that countries with large-scale migration from outside of Europe “are no longer nations.”
While Orban did not explicitly repeat these remarks in Vienna on Thursday, he stressed his anti-migration agenda and insisted on what he saw as the need to defend his country's culture against outside influence.
“I don’t want Hungary to become an immigration country and I don’t want migration to become stronger in Hungary," he said. "I have always held this point of view and I will continue to do so, this has no biological basis. This is not a racial issue for us. This is a question of culture. Quite simply, our civilization should be preserved as it is now.”
Nehammer, for his part, depicted migration as a “challenge” that needs to be fought.
Austria has taken in over 80,000 refugees from Ukraine and around 30,000 additional asylum applications during the first half of the year, the chancellor pointed out, calling the arrival of these people “challenges that Austria is actually facing now in addition to the energy crisis, in addition to inflation, in addition to the pandemic.”
In comparison, Germany has registered more than 900,000 refugees only from Ukraine since the outbreak of the war.
Both the Austrian and Hungarian leaders said their countries were planning a conference with Serbia on how to “curb irregular migration.”
Nehammer and Orban said they also discussed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and its consequences on Europe, especially regarding sanctions against Russian energy exports, as well the two countries' economic ties.
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FAIRFIELD, N.J. (AP) _ Kearny Financial Corp. (KRNY) on Thursday reported fiscal fourth-quarter profit of $11.4 million.
On a per-share basis, the Fairfield, New Jersey-based company said it had net income of 17 cents. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, were 18 cents per share.
The bank holding company posted revenue of $61.4 million in the period. Its adjusted revenue was $53.4 million.
For the year, the company reported profit of $67.5 million, or 95 cents per share. Revenue was reported as $210.5 million.
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The US economy shrunk .9% from April through June, according to federal projections released Thursday, marking the second consecutive quarter the US economy failed to grow.
By many definitions, if the projections released by the federal government hold true, the US could be starting a recession. Many economists consider two consecutive quarters where the economy does not grow as a recession.
The White House in a statement ahead of the release of Thursday’s figures pushed back on talks of a recession.
“While some maintain that two consecutive quarters of falling real GDP constitute a recession, that is neither the official definition nor the way economists evaluate the state of the business cycle,” the White House said. “Instead, both official determinations of recessions and economists’ assessment of economic activity are based on a holistic look at the data—including the labor market, consumer and business spending, industrial production, and incomes. Based on these data, it is unlikely that the decline in GDP in the first quarter of this year—even if followed by another GDP decline in the second quarter—indicates a recession.”
While the economy appears to be shrinking, the job market has remained strong.
The United States added 372,000 jobs in June, which held the national unemployment rate at 3.6%.
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ASHBURN, Va. (AP) — Washington Commanders Dan Snyder is set to testify Thursday morning before a congressional committee investigating the NFL team’s history of workplace misconduct.
A spokesperson for the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Reform says Snyder will give a deposition virtually and in private.
The spokesperson said in a statement on behalf of the committee: “Snyder has committed to providing full and complete testimony, and to answer the Committee’s questions about his knowledge of and contributions to the Commanders’ toxic work environment, as well as his efforts to interfere with the NFL’s internal investigation, without hiding behind non-disclosure or other confidentiality agreements.”
Snyder, who is in Israel, will testify voluntarily after committee members came to an agreement with his legal team on those terms. The committee had previously agreed to have Snyder testify under the terms of a subpoena it had initially issued.
The committee has the discretion to decide what, if any, information it releases from Snyder’s deposition.
Snyder is testifying a month after NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell appeared before the committee via Zoom to discuss Washington's workplace culture and the league's investigation into it. Snyder was invited to testify at the same hearing and, through a lawyer, declined.
The committee launched this investigation last year after the league fined Washington $10 million following its review of workplace misconduct but did not release a written report of attorney Beth Wilkinson's findings.
Washington opened training camp on Wednesday.
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OAK RIDGE, N.J. (AP) _ Lakeland Bancorp Inc. (LBAI) on Thursday reported second-quarter net income of $29.1 million.
The Oak Ridge, New Jersey-based bank said it had earnings of 44 cents per share.
The results met Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of three analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was also for earnings of 44 cents per share.
The bank holding company posted revenue of $94 million in the period. Its revenue net of interest expense was $87.4 million, surpassing Street forecasts.
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Drum to hopper blends sales in the U.S. are expected to hold 65% total North America drum to hopper blends market over the forecast period. Demand for ready-to-mix food and food fortification are driving sales in the market. Expansion in the Food & Beverage Sector in the U.K. is Spurring Demand for Drum to Hopper Blends.
NEWARK, Del., July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- According to a recent report by Future Market Insights, sales of drum to hopper blends premix market are estimated to reach a value of US$ 1,575.4 Mn by 2032, surging at a 7.4% CAGR over the assessment period.
The demand for fortification of food is increasing significantly amid high prevalence of lifestyle related diseases and malnutrition among the global population
Several food products like flour, sugar, maize, wheat, and vegetable oils are generally fortified with vitamins and minerals to improve health, which is expected to drive demand for the drum to hopper blends.
Consumption of mineral and nutrient premix, like infant formula based on amino acid, is also on the rise, owing to growing preference for nutritional fortification of baby food and infant formula. In addition to this, rising demand for customized premixes and a greater emphasis by various government bodies on raising awareness about the benefits of supplements will fuel the growth in the market.
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"Increasing incorporation of drum to hopper blends in sports nutrition products, along with high demand for amino acids-based products in the food and beverage sector will augment he growth in the market over the assessment period," says an FMI analyst.
Key Takeaways:
- The U.S. drum to hopper blends market is forecast to hold 65% of the North America market share by 2032.
- Demand in the U.K. drum to hopper blends market is expected to increase at a 9.7% CAGR through 2032.
- Sales of powdered blends will rise at a 7.4% CAGR over the forecast period.
- Amino acids will continue to be the most popular ingredient type, holding more than 33% from 2022 to 2032.
- Demand for drum to hopper blends in the food and beverage sector will increase at a 6.6% CAGR through 2032.
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Competition Landscape
Key players operating in the global drum to hopper blends premix market are investing in research and development to improve their product portfolios. They are also investing in mergers, acquisitions and collaborations to expand their distribution networks and to launch novel products in the market. For instance:
- In December 2022m, Prinova will launch a line of premixes for dairy replacement products to assist manufacturers in responding to the plant-based revolution.
Some of the key players in the drum to hopper blends Market include Glanbia, Archer Daniels Midland, Koninklijke DSM, B&H Biotechnology, Jubilant Life Sciences, Farbest Brands, Fenchem, Prinova Group, Watson Inc, Barentz, Lycored, SternVitamin, and Hexagon Nutrition.
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The study divulges compelling insights on the blends based on Form (Powder, Liquid), Ingredient Type (Vitamins, Minerals, Amino Acids, Nucleotides), Application Type (Early Life Nutrition/ Baby Food, Food & Beverages, Pharma OTC Drugs, Dietary Supplements), Function Type (Bone Health, Immunity, Digestion) region (North America, Latin America, Europe, Japan, APEJ, MEA).
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Drum To Hopper Blends Market By Category
By Form:
- Powder
- Liquid
By Ingredient:
- Vitamins
- Minerals
- Amino Acids
- Nucleotides
By Application:
- Early Life Nutrition/ Baby Food
- Food & Beverages
- Pharma OTC Drugs
- Dietary Supplements
By Function:
- Bone Health
- Immunity, Digestion
By Region:
- North America
- Europe
- Asia Pacific
- MEA
- Latin America
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Table of Content
1. Executive Summary
1.1. Global Market Outlook
1.2. Demand-side Trends
1.3. Supply-side Trends
1.4. Technology Roadmap Analysis
1.5. Analysis and Recommendations
2. Market Overview
2.1. Market Coverage / Taxonomy
2.2. Market Definition / Scope / Limitations
3. Market Background
3.1. Market Dynamics
3.1.1. Drivers
3.1.2. Restraints
3.1.3. Opportunity
3.1.4. Trends
3.2. Scenario Forecast
3.2.1. Demand in Optimistic Scenario
3.2.2. Demand in Likely Scenario
3.2.3. Demand in Conservative Scenario
3.3. Product launches & Recent Developments
3.4. Product Life Cycle Analysis
3.5. Value Chain Analysis
3.5.1. Supply Side Participants and their Roles
3.5.1.1. Producers
3.5.1.2. Mid-Level Participants (Traders/ Agents/ Brokers)
3.5.1.3. Wholesalers and Distributors
3.5.2. % of Operating Margin Analysis
3.5.3. List of Raw Material Suppliers
3.5.4. List of Existing and Potential Buyer's
3.6. Global Drum to Hopper Blends Premix Market - Pricing Analysis
3.6.1. Price Point Assessment by Region
3.6.2. Price Point Assessment by Ingredient Type
3.6.3. Price Forecast till 2032
3.6.4. Factors affecting pricing
3.7. Forecast Factors - Relevance & Impact
3.8. Regulatory Landscape
3.8.1. Packaging & Labelling Regulations
3.8.2. Certifications and Certifying Agency Overview
3.8.3. Import/Export Policies
3.9. Regional Parent Market Outlook
3.10. Consumers Survey Analysis
3.11. Macro-Economic Factors
3.12. Product Claims & Nutritional Information Scan by Buyers
4. Global Drum to Hopper Blends Premix Market Analysis 2017-2021 and Forecast, 2022-2032
4.1. Historical Market Size Value (US$ Mn) & Volume (MT) Analysis, 2017-2021
4.2. Current and Future Market Size Value (US$ Mn) & Volume (MT) Projections, 2022-2032
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Drum to Hopper Blends Market: The global drum to hopper blends market size is expected to reach a valuation of US$ 810.8 Mn in 2022. With rising demand from industries such as food & beverages and pharmaceuticals, the overall sales of drum to hopper blends are slated to grow at a robust CAGR of 6.6% between 2022 and 2032, totalling over US$ 1.53 Bn by 2032.
Vitamin Premix Market: The global vitamin premix market is expected to reach a valuation of US$ 1.19 Bn in 2022. As per the report, demand for vitamin premix in China will at a CAGR of 6.7% during the forecast period, reaching US$ 168.3 Mn by 2032.
Mineral Premix Market: The global mineral premixes market is expected to reach US$ 761.1 Mn by 2022, accelerating at a CAGR of 8.6% during the forecast period (2022-2032).
Dairy Blends Market: The global dairy blends market is estimated to be valued at USD 2.4 Bn in 2022. According to a newly released report by Future Market Insights (FMI), the overall market value is expected to reach USD ~4.5 Bn by 2032, rising at a CAGR of ~7.0% during 2022-2032.
Savoury Flavour Blends Market: The savoury flavour blends market is expected to register a CAGR of 5.5% during the forecast period, up from US$ 7.2Bn in 2020 to reach a valuation of US$ 9.5 Bn by 2025.
Frozen Desserts Market: The global frozen desserts market is expected to reach a valuation of US$ 100.1 Bn by the end of 2022, growing at a CAGR of 5.8% by 2022-2032
Industrial Alcohol Market: The global industrial alcohol market size is set to be valued at US$ 110.3 Bn in 2022 and it is expected to grow at a CAGR of 7.6% from 2022 to 2032. The global market is projected to reach US$ 194.7 Bn by 2032.
Egg Albumin Protein Market Outlook : The global egg albumin protein market is expected to reach a valuation of US$ 1.42 Bn by the end of 2022, accelerating at a CAGR of 7.3% during 2022-2032. The egg albumin protein market is anticipated to reach US$ 2.88 Bn in 2032.
Chitosan Oligosaccharides Market Trends : The global chitosan oligosaccharides market holds a forecasted share of US$ 2.5 billion in 2022 and is anticipated to transcend US$ 9.8 billion by the end of 2032, moving ahead with a CAGR of 14% during the forecast period (2022-2032).
Synthetic Food Colors Market: The global synthetic food colors market size is estimated to be valued at US$ 590 Mn in 2022 and is further expected to grow at a CAGR of 6% between 2022 and 2032
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One of the best parts about changing seasons is switching out your accessories — summertime especially, as it usually means there is a vacation or two coming up! Big sunglasses, floppy hats, colorful jewelry and strappy sandals are all playful summer wardrobe staples to pack for vacay. Including a new purse in the mix, perhaps one that’s smaller than your everyday bag, is a great addition, too.
A causal yet statement-making purchase is a rattan bag, which is a popular pick for the hotter months. Round bags, also known as circle bags. are like having a pretty bow tied on top of a present. Round rattan bags polish a look, making your outfit look more complete. Round bags are also a fun way to stand out from the crowd while showing off your unique, personal style.
Right now, there’s a $27 round rattan shoulder bag that is the perfect new accessory for all your summer travels.
Handwoven Round Rattan Bag
This eco-friendly bag is handcrafted by Vietnamese artisans and is Amazon’s Choice in Women’s Shoulder Handbags by NaturalNEO. The 7.9-by-3.2-inch purse is lightweight yet large enough to hold your phone, sunglasses, small books, wallet, lipstick and other small necessities. It features a strong magnetic snap closure, two buttons and a small interior pocket that’s perfectly sized for holding cash or credit cards. It also has a fully adjustable leather strap.
This handwoven round rattan shoulder bag has more than 4,700 reviews and averages 4.6 out of 5 stars. Reviewers found it to be “big enough” and “perfect for summer.” Several people noted they considered it to be of good quality. It’s lined in a floral print that provides a pop of color when opened.
One reviewer said she loves how it holds all her essentials.
“I love the appearance and quality,” SM wrote. “Great crossbody — is long enough for me (5’6″). The strap is adjustable. I can fit a small wallet, iPhone 11, lipstick, tissues, keys, reading glasses or sunglasses and hand sanitizer. This bag is lightweight. I get many compliments on it. I have designer bags that cost over $2,000 and right now, this little bag is my favorite!!”
Aileen called it “beautiful and durable.”
“Love love love this purse! It is exactly as pictured,” she wrote. “The size is perfect not too big and not too small, can easily fit phone, makeup, and a credit card wallet inside. It’s durable and beautiful. Took it on my trip to Europe, held up through many hours of wear and it’s comfortable. Highly recommend this purse, I get compliments constantly on how cute it is.”
We like that this rattan shoulder bag comes with a lifetime money-back guarantee, where the company promises to provide a 100% refund if you’re not fully satisfied.
Happy travels!
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President Joe Biden and China President Xi Jinping spoke on the phone Thursday morning as tensions between the two nations remain high.
Adding to the tensions, the Associated Press reported on Wednesday that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is planning on visiting Taiwan. Per long-standing US policy, the US does not accept Taiwan’s independent status as mere talks of diplomatic ties between Taiwan and the US could raise tensions with China.
Pelosi’s office has yet to confirm reports directly she is headed to Taiwan, but House Foreign Affairs Committee ranking member, Rep. Michael McCaul of Texas, told the Associated Press he was invited.
Pentagon press secretary John Kirby told CNN on Thursday that there is no change in US policy concerning Taiwan.
“I mean, we have been seeing the Chinese increase their level of aggressiveness in the Indo-Pacific region,” he said. “We certainly have seen an increase in their bellicose rhetoric with respect to Taiwan and to other false territorial and maritime claims in the Indo Pacific. I would just tell you that again, nothing's changed about our one China policy.”
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A Richmond man who was released from prison three years ago after serving 23 years for a federal drug trafficking conspiracy is going back behind bars for having a gun he bought on the street.
Following a hearing on Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Richmond, Keith L. Hopkins Jr., 54, was sentenced to 33 months in prison for his earlier guilty plea to possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported.
Hopkins also admitted he was selling drugs again.
Richmond police caught Hopkins with a 9 mm semiautomatic pistol on Oct. 27 as they were executing an arrest warrant on another person at a convenience store. Officers observed Hopkins reach into his waistband, pull out a holstered gun and discard it in a vehicle with two people in it, according to the government’s case.
Hopkins subsequently told police that he purchased the gun “off the street” for $325. He “further stated that he sells illegal narcotics and makes approximately $500-$600 per day doing so.”
Two years earlier, Hopkins was released from federal prison after serving 23 years for conspiring to distribute heroin and cocaine.
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RICHARDSON, Texas (AP) _ Lennox International Inc. (LII) on Thursday reported second-quarter profit of $177.2 million.
On a per-share basis, the Richardson, Texas-based company said it had net income of $4.96. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, were $5 per share.
The results topped Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of 13 analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $4.79 per share.
The manufacturer of furnaces, air conditioners and other products posted revenue of $1.37 billion in the period, also beating Street forecasts. Twelve analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $1.36 billion.
Lennox expects full-year earnings in the range of $13.80 to $14.50 per share.
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Extends support throughout the entire lifecycle of cloud adoption
HERNDON, Va., July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ePlus inc. (NASDAQ NGS: PLUS) (news) today announced the general availability of ePlus Cloud Managed Services (ECMS) for Microsoft Azure. Designed to offload the task of managing Azure deployments, ePlus Cloud Managed Services allow organizations to focus on driving their business and competitive differentiation while ePlus helps optimize cloud costs and leverages proven security best practices to reduce risk.
ePlus Cloud Managed Services deliver fully US-based, 24x7x365 proactive support and specialized cloud expertise from certified engineers and technical architects who deeply understand cloud and how it fits into modern application deployments. The offering includes:
- Well-Architected configuration and automated deployment to speed time to market
- Security and governance of workloads running on Azure to decrease risk with hardened, best practice configuration and ongoing validation
- FinOps methodology for cost-optimized Azure consumption
"ePlus Cloud Managed Services are designed to alleviate many of the challenges we see our customers face when it comes to managing complex public cloud environments and workloads," said Justin Mescher, vice president of cloud and data center solutions at ePlus. "We help ease the transition to cloud by addressing the most common roadblocks—skillsets, cost management, and security—freeing time spent managing their Azure foundation so our customers can focus on driving innovation by optimizing and modernizing applications. ePlus Cloud Managed Services extend our best-of-breed approach to the ongoing management and optimization of Azure to complete the lifecycle of cloud adoption support."
For more information about ePlus Cloud Managed Services, visit the company website.
ePlus has an unwavering and relentless focus on leveraging technology to create inspired and transformative business outcomes for its customers. Offering a robust portfolio of solutions, as well as a full set of consultative and managed services across the technology spectrum, ePlus has proudly achieved more than 30 years of success in the business, carrying customers forward through adversity, rapidly changing environments, and other obstacles. ePlus is a trusted advisor, bringing expertise, credentials, talent and a thorough understanding of innovative technologies, spanning security, cloud, data center, networking, collaboration and emerging solutions, to organizations across all industry segments. With complete lifecycle management services and flexible payment solutions, ePlus' more than 1,500 associates are focused on cultivating positive customer experiences and are dedicated to their craft, harnessing new knowledge while applying decades of proven experience. ePlus is headquartered in Virginia, with offices in the United States, UK, Europe, and Asia‐Pacific. For more information, visit www.eplus.com, call 888-482-1122, or email [email protected]. Connect with ePlus on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. ePlus, Where Technology Means More®.
ePlus®, Where Technology Means More®, and ePlus products referenced herein are either registered trademarks or trademarks of ePlus inc. in the United States and/or other countries. The names of other companies, products, and services mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.
Statements in this press release that are not historical facts may be deemed to be "forward-looking statements." Actual and anticipated future results may vary materially due to certain risks and uncertainties, including, without limitation, the duration and impact of COVID-19 and the efficacy of vaccine roll-outs, which could materially adversely affect our financial condition and results of operations and has resulted worldwide in governmental authorities imposing numerous unprecedented measures to try to contain the virus that has impacted and may further impact our workforce and operations, the operations of our customers, and those of our respective vendors, suppliers, and partners; national and international political instability fostering uncertainty and volatility in the global economy including an economic downturn, an increase in tariffs or adverse changes to trade agreements, exposure to fluctuation in foreign currency rates, interest rates and downward pressure on prices; our ability to successfully perform due diligence and integrate acquired businesses; the possibility of goodwill impairment charges in the future; reduction of vendor incentive programs; significant adverse changes in, reductions in, or losses of relationships with one or more of our largest volume customers or vendors; the demand for and acceptance of, our products and services; our ability to adapt our services to meet changes in market developments; our ability to implement comprehensive plans to achieve customer account coverage for the integration of sales forces, cost containment, asset rationalization, systems integration and other key strategies; our ability to reserve adequately for credit losses; our ability to secure our electronic and other confidential information or that of our customers or partners and remain secure during a cyber-security attack; future growth rates in our core businesses; our ability to protect our intellectual property; the impact of competition in our markets; the possibility of defects in our products or catalog content data; our ability to adapt to changes in the IT industry and/or rapid change in product standards; our ability to realize our investment in leased equipment; our ability to hire and retain sufficient qualified personnel; and other risks or uncertainties detailed in our reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. All information set forth in this press release is current as of the date of this release and ePlus undertakes no duty or obligation to update this information.
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The Federal Reserve is bumping up interest rates again in an effort to curb inflation, as economists and Americans coast to coast worry about a recession.
The more-expensive borrowing rate is expected to cool the hot housing market.
"Most of your first-time home buyers are gone," Eric Harmon, owner of Crosswind Home Inspection, said. "The home buyers that are left, they're going to be super qualified, but they can negotiate a little bit more. They don't have to waive all their inspections. They don't have to give away their firstborn just to get into a burning shack of a house."
One real estate broker in California is ready to take the hit.
"I'd much rather take a little bit of short-term pain for the long-term benefit of everyone involved," said Geoffrey Tackney, broker and owner of GMT Real Estate.
They're tempering demand to bring down prices on everything, as inflation keeps climbing.
"We didn’t expect a good reading, but this one was even worse than expected, I would say," said Jerome Powell, chairman of the Federal Reserve.
Administration economists argue a second quarter of declining GDP would not indicate a recession right now, while other analysts would still call it a recession.
"There are just too many areas of the economy that are performing too well and, of course, I would point to the labor market," Powell said.
"It’ll be one of the most unusual ones I’ve seen because the job market is so strong," economist Dennis Hoffman said.
Now, the central bank looks ahead to more potential hikes.
"While another unusually large increase could be appropriate at our next meeting, that is a decision that will depend on the data we get between now and then," Powell said.
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NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus and Greece plan to consult with other European Union members on how to respond if Turkey tries again to drill for oil and gas inside waters that Cyprus claims as its exclusive economic zone, the Cypriot foreign minister said Thursday.
Turkish Energy Minister Fatih Donmez said earlier this week that the country’s newest drill ship, the Abdullhamid Han, would set sail Aug. 9 for a drilling operation “in the Mediterranean.” The exact location has not been announced.
“We have discussed some actions in the hope that they can avert the creation of such tensions in our exclusive economic zone," Cypriot Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides said after talks with Greek counterpart Nikos Dendias.
Turkey, which doesn’t recognize Cyprus as a sovereign state, claims much of the ethnically split island’s offshore economic zone as its own. Turkish Cypriots in the breakaway north claim their waters overlap many of the 13 blocks off the country's southern coast that make up the zone.
Kasoulides said Cypriot authorities believe there “more than six” potential areas where the Turkish drill ship could start work, and not all may be inside the area claimed by Cyprus.
The government of Cyprus has granted drilling and exploration rights in nine of the blocks to ExxonMobil and its partner Qatar Petroleum, Chevron and partners Dutch Shell and Israel NewMed, as well as a consortium made up of Italy’s Eni and France's TotalEnergies
Turkey previously dispatched warship-escorted drill ships and survey vessels inside Cypriot-claimed waters. Similar excursions into waters claimed by Greece have ratcheted up military tensions. The EU has strongly condemned Turkey’s actions and imposed sanctions on two individuals involved in such drilling expeditions.
Cyprus split into ethnically Greek and ethnically Turkey sides in 1974, when Turkey invaded following a coup by supporters of union with Greece. Only Turkey recognizes a Turkish Cypriot declaration of independence. Although Cyprus joined the EU in 2004, only the southern, Greek Cypriot part enjoys full membership benefits.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tyler Perry will receive an honorary AARP award for uplifting communities and helping people “overcome various obstacles” through his foundation.
The organization announced Thursday that Perry will receive the honorary AARP Purpose Prize award during a virtual ceremony on Oct. 25. The famed filmmaker-actor- philanthropist will be recognized for his work through The Perry Foundation.
Perry’s foundation – which launched in 2006 – has focused on aiding several initiatives such as education, health, human rights, technology and global sustainability. Some of his charitable efforts include building a home for a great-grandmother of seven who lost everything in a fire; surprising kids with a trip to Disney World; and holding a camp quarantine at Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta.
Five individuals will be awarded the AARP Purpose Prize, which honors people ages 50 and older who are making a difference through their “knowledge and life experience.” The recipients include Zerqa Abid of Columbus, Ohio, whose MY Project USA empowers youth to become productive citizens and strong community leaders in the U.S.; Jamesetta Ferguson of Louisville, Kentucky, whose Molo Village CDC takes a holistic approach toward community development; Sharron Rush of Austin, Texas, whose Knowbility creates an inclusive digital world for people with disabilities; Bill Toone of Escondido, California, whose ECOLIFE Conservation aims to protect wildlife, natural resources and the people who depend on them; and Imani Woody of Washington, D.C., whose Mary’s House for Older Adults creates affordable and communal housing.
AARP said 10 previously named Purpose Prize fellows will also be honored. Each of them will receive a $10,000 award to further the mission of their organization.
AARP CEO Jo Ann Jenkins said the recipients “deserve all of the praise and recognition we have to offer for their exemplary work."
“We celebrate these inspiring individuals, who have used their decades of life experience to give back in a meaningful way, to be leaders in their communities, and to create a better future for us all,” Jenkins said.
AARP also announced the return of its Inspire Award for a second year. The general public can vote for the AARP Purpose Prize winner they want to win the award, which grants the recipient an additional $10,000 for their organization.
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CHICAGO, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Medical Device Reprocessing Market is projected to grow from USD 2.0 billion in 2022 to USD 3.9 billion by 2027, at a CAGR of 13.7% from 2022 to 2027 according to a new report by MarketsandMarkets™. Growth in this market is mainly driven by the rising need to reduce healthcare costs, and the increasing adoption of strategies to reduce medical waste.
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The reprocessed support and services segment accounted for the largest share in 2021
Based on type, the medical device reprocessing market is segmented into reprocessing support & services and reprocessed medical devices. In 2021, the reprocessed support & services segment accounted for the largest share of this market. The rising number of surgical procedures associated with growing prevalence of chronic diseases is expected to increase the adoption of third party reprocessing services by healthcare facilities to reduce in-house reprocessing costs.
The critical devices segment is expected to have the highest CAGR during the forecast period
Based on the device type, the medical device reprocessing market is segmented into critical devices, semi-critical devices, and non-critical devices. Critical devices segment is expected to register the highest growth during the forecast period. The growth in this market is mainly driven by the increasing cardiac and electrophysiology (EP) procedures, leading to increased utilization of reprocessed electrophysiology, diagnostic, and cardiology catheters.
The cardiology segment is expected to register the highest growth during the forecast period
Based on application, the medical device reprocessing market is segmented into cardiology, gastroenterology, gynecology, arthroscopy and orthopedic surgery, general surgery & anesthesia, and other applications (urology, non-invasive surgeries, and patient monitoring). The cardiology segment is expected to register the highest growth during the forecast period. This is mainly driven by the favorable approvals from FDA for reprocessing catheters due to rising cardiovascular diagnostic and surgical procedures across healthcare facilities.
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North America holds the largest share of the medical device reprocessing market
North America accounted for the largest share of the pharmacy automation market in 2021. Factors such as favorable US FDA approvals on reprocessing medical devices, growth in the healthcare sector, and the presence of top medical device reprocessing service providers in the US are expected to contribute to the growth of the market in North America.
The prominent players in the medical device reprocessing market are Stryker Corporation (US), Johnson & Johnson (US), Vanguard AG (Germany), Medtronic PLC (Ireland), Steris Healthcare (US), Medline ReNewal (US), Innovative Health (US), Arjo Group (ReNu Medical, Inc.) (Sweden), SteriPro Canada, INC. (Canada), Northeast Scientific, INC. (US), Cardinal Health (Sustainable Technologies) (US), and SureTek Medical(US).
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LOWELL, Mass. (AP) _ M/A-Com Technology Solutions Holdings Inc. (MTSI) on Thursday reported fiscal third-quarter earnings of $32.2 million.
The Lowell, Massachusetts-based company said it had profit of 45 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for stock option expense and amortization costs, came to 73 cents per share.
The results surpassed Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of nine analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 70 cents per share.
The chipmaker posted revenue of $172.3 million in the period, also surpassing Street forecasts. Seven analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $170.2 million.
For the current quarter ending in September, M/A-Com expects its per-share earnings to range from 74 cents to 78 cents.
The company said it expects revenue in the range of $175 million to $180 million for the fiscal fourth quarter.
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The US economy shrunk .9% from April through June, according to federal projections released Thursday, marking the second consecutive quarter the US economy failed to grow.
By many definitions, if the projections released by the federal government hold true, the US could be starting a recession. Many economists consider two consecutive quarters where the economy does not grow as a recession.
The White House in a statement ahead of the release of Thursday’s figures pushed back on talks of a recession.
“While some maintain that two consecutive quarters of falling real GDP constitute a recession, that is neither the official definition nor the way economists evaluate the state of the business cycle,” the White House said. “Instead, both official determinations of recessions and economists’ assessment of economic activity are based on a holistic look at the data—including the labor market, consumer and business spending, industrial production, and incomes. Based on these data, it is unlikely that the decline in GDP in the first quarter of this year—even if followed by another GDP decline in the second quarter—indicates a recession.”
While the economy appears to be shrinking, the job market has remained strong.
The United States added 372,000 jobs in June, which held the national unemployment rate at 3.6%.
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Zachary Lamb, University of California, Berkeley; Jason Spicer, University of Toronto, and Linda Shi, Cornell University
(THE CONVERSATION) When you hear the words “trailer park” or “mobile home park,” what comes to mind? Crime? Poverty? Vulnerability to natural disasters? These negative images reflect the stigma, reinforced by popular culture, that many U.S. residents assign to manufactured home parks – the official name for these dwellings under federal standards adopted in 1976.
Over 20 million Americans live in manufactured housing – more than in public housing and federally subsidized rental housing combined. Yet many people, including urban planners and affordable housing researchers, see manufactured housing parks as problems. In contrast, we see them as part of the solution to housing crises.
We are urban planning scholars who study climate vulnerability, community economic development and equity in urban land use. Our research suggests that misguided stereotypes blind scholars and policymakers to the possibility that mobile homes can help address the affordable housing crisis and climate change. Here are some misperceptions about this widespread form of housing.
Stereotype 1: Manufactured housing is shoddy
Many people think manufactured homes are poorly built, even though these structures, unlike site-built houses, have had to meet federal safety standards since 1976. These safety standards have been periodically updated, often in response to disasters. Today, new well-installed factory-built homes are comparable to site-built homes when it comes to standing up to wind, fire and other disaster threats.
Compared to homes built on-site, manufactured housing costs half as much per square foot – partly because it’s easier, more predictable and cheaper to build homes in factories. Many quality problems associated with manufactured housing arise from home installation, park maintenance and infrastructure issues. No matter how well-built homes are, residents can suffer if they are installed on unstable foundations, or if park owners allow water, sewer or power utility infrastructure to crumble.
Stereotype 2: Manufactured housing parks are always exploitative
While many manufactured housing residents own their homes, they may not own the land the homes sit on. This can leave them at the mercy of predatory park owners and investors. Moving manufactured homes is difficult and expensive, despite the “mobile” label, so residents of manufactured home parks can’t easily relocate when park owners allow conditions to deteriorate, raise rents or evict residents.
But there are alternatives. Residents at over 1,000 manufactured housing parks in the U.S. have jointly bought their land, creating Resident Owned Communities.
This cooperative model gives residents control over their homes and neighborhoods. Resident-owned parks preserve affordability and help residents address their own problems, including vulnerability to climate-driven disasters.
Stereotype 3: Manufactured housing parks aren’t urban or dense
Manufactured home parks are often dismissed as rural and low-density, and therefore irrelevant to urban housing needs. However, 61% of all manufactured housing is located in a metro area, and 8% is in urban centers.
The density of these communities, typically eight to 15 homes per acre, is often greater than nearby neighborhoods. In Houston, for example, many manufactured housing parks are located in suburban areas close to the central business district. If anything, local zoning in many cities limits the density of manufactured housing parks.
Stereotype 4: Manufactured housing parks are uniquely disconnected
Critics often assert that manufactured housing parks are disconnected from surrounding neighborhoods. In reality, this pattern applies to most U.S. residential neighborhoods built since World War II, including gated communities and cul-de-sacs. Residents of these communities value the privacy, safety and neighborhood cohesion their street patterns provide.
Biased local zoning regulations also frequently reinforce manufactured housing parks’ isolation by requiring them to be separated and hidden behind tall privacy fencing. Where fragmented street networks create problems for residents, like reduced walkability, they can be retrofitted by reconnecting streets.
The real challenges
While these stereotypes often don’t reflect reality, manufactured housing communities face real challenges.
Local governments and park owners often are eager to convert parks to what they describe as “higher and better uses,” which frequently means evicting residents for commercial development or more expensive housing. Private equity investors, pension funds and sovereign wealth funds are buying up manufactured housing parks, which they view as reliably profitable investments. When owners redevelop parks, they can evict residents with little recourse.
Residents of manufactured home parks are also increasingly vulnerable to climate change impacts. Biased zoning rules have forced many of these communities to locate on less desirable land, including flood-prone sites, industrial areas and highway fringes. In a 2021 review, we found that 22% of manufactured housing parks across nine states were located within current 100-year floodplains – zones with a 1% chance of flooding every year.
Manufactured housing is especially common in hurricane-prone regions like Florida, Louisiana and Texas. While updated building standards have substantially improved safety, increasingly ferocious storms still pose a real threat.
Aging manufactured home park infrastructure, including sewer, water and electricity systems, is highly vulnerable to extreme heat, wind, drought, flooding and wildfires. And since residents typically have lower incomes, they have fewer resources to respond when extreme events strike.
Manufactured housing, resilience and justice
With economic, political and technical support, evidence shows that manufactured housing can overcome these challenges.
To date, 20 states have adopted laws that help residents purchase the manufactured home parks where they live. These policies have helped ROC USA, a nonprofit social venture, create a network of over 280 cooperatively owned, limited-equity resident-owned communities that are home to over 18,000 households.
ROC USA provides low-cost loans to resident cooperatives to buy land and make needed capital improvements such as upgrading water, sewer and electric systems. Their network of regional housing experts then works with communities for at least a decade to develop and sustain their ability to manage their parks.
Over three decades, no ROC USA community has ever defaulted on a loan or sold their park. A growing number have adopted climate-responsive measures, such as building storm shelters and community centers, upgrading drainage infrastructure and providing emergency post-storm tree clearance and other forms of mutual aid. Other resident-owned communities are investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and energy costs for their residents.
Policymakers are paying attention. The Biden administration’s 2022 housing plan includes extensive support for manufactured housing parks.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has called for increasing state funding to preserve manufactured housing parks as affordable housing. The U.S. Department of Energy recently adopted more ambitious efficiency standards to reduce energy costs for residents of manufactured housing.
In our view, these efforts should be coupled with legislation that protects manufactured housing park tenants and expands the limited-equity ROC model. Governments could enact laws that offer tenants opportunities to purchase their rental units and provide subsidized loans and grants to resident cooperatives. Decades of experience shows that resident ownership can transform manufactured home parks from sites of stigma and vulnerability into stable and resilient communities.
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here: https://theconversation.com/debunking-stereotypes-about-mobile-homes-could-make-them-a-new-face-of-affordable-housing-186105.
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The Toronto Blue Jays are set to unveil their vision for what is expected to be a significant overhaul of the Rogers Centre during a press conference this afternoon.
Few details have been released about the renovations so far, however President and CEO Mark Shapiro did tell reporters in March that the work would take place over the next two winters.
TSN has also reported that the renovations will include an overhaul of the stadium’s lower bowl and interior concourses, as well as the construction of a new clubhouse. The network has said that the club believes the renovations will extend the lifespan of the stadium by an additional 10 to 15 years.
News of the renovations comes nearly two years after a report in the Globe and Mail suggested that the Jays and the developer Brookfield Asset Management Inc. were working on plans for a new downtown stadium. The Blue Jays later confirmed that they were “exploring their options” regarding the future of the Rogers Centre but put the work on hold amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Rogers Centre opened in 1989 at a cost of roughly $570 million, or about $1 billion in today’s dollars.
It was the first stadium ever built with a fully retractable motorized roof.
As part of today’s press conference, the Blue Jays say that they will be unveiling further details about the renovations and “first design renderings.”
The material will be released at 1:30 p.m.
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SEATTLE, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- RealNetworks, Inc. (Nasdaq: RNWK) announced today it has signed a definitive agreement with the Company's founder, Chairman and CEO, Robert D. Glaser, pursuant to which the Company will merge with and into Greater Heights LLC, an affiliate of Mr. Glaser, and each outstanding share of common stock of the Company will be converted into the right to receive cash consideration of $0.73 per share. Mr. Glaser, together with his affiliates, currently owns approximately 39% of the outstanding shares of RealNetworks's stock. The merger consideration represents a 55% premium to the Company's closing stock price on the last trading day prior to announcement of Mr. Glaser's proposal to acquire the Company.
The Merger Agreement and the merger has been approved by the Company's Board of Directors, based on the recommendation of a Special Committee of the Board consisting exclusively of independent directors. The Company's shareholders will be asked to vote upon the adoption of the Merger Agreement and approval of the merger at a shareholders meeting called for such purpose on a date to be announced. The closing of the transaction is conditioned upon the approval of a majority of the shares not owned by Mr. Glaser and his affiliates. The parties anticipate the transaction will close in the fourth quarter.
"I founded RealNetworks 28 years ago because I believed that the Internet represented a once-in-a-generation transformational opportunity for digital media," said Glaser. "I believe that Machine Learning-based Artificial Intelligence represents a similar transformational opportunity today, albeit one that will also take time and resources to fully realize. I'm happy that the RealNetworks Board and I could reach agreement on a path to pursue that transformation with focus, efficiency, and speed by turning Real back into a private company, and in a way that is fair to all shareholders."
Bruce Jaffe, the Chairman of the Special Committee, said, "The Special Committee is very pleased to have completed a thorough process that has resulted in a transaction with Rob that we believe provides immediate liquidity and compelling value to the public shareholders of RealNetworks without the risk of future performance and securing working capital in this economic climate."
Houlihan Lokey is acting as independent financial advisor and King & Spalding LLP is acting as independent legal counsel to the Special Committee in connection with the transaction. Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati P. C. is acting as legal counsel to the Company.
Imperial Capital is acting as financial advisor and DLA Piper LLP (US) is acting as legal counsel to Mr. Glaser.
RealNetworks, its directors and certain executive officers are participants in the solicitation of proxies from stockholders in connection with the pending acquisition of RealNetworks (the "Transaction"). RealNetworks plans to file a proxy statement (the "Transaction Proxy Statement") with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") in connection with the solicitation of proxies to approve the Transaction. Additional information regarding such participants, including their direct or indirect interests, by security holdings or otherwise, will be included in the Transaction Proxy Statement and other relevant documents to be filed with the SEC in connection with the Transaction. Information relating to the foregoing can also be found in RealNetworks's definitive proxy statement for its 2021 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the "2021 Proxy Statement"), which was filed with the SEC on October 29, 2021. To the extent that holdings of RealNetworks's securities have changed since the amounts printed in the 2021 Proxy Statement, such changes have been or will be reflected on Statements of Change in Ownership on Form 4 filed with the SEC. Promptly after filing the definitive Transaction Proxy Statement with the SEC, RealNetworks will mail the definitive Transaction Proxy Statement to each stockholder entitled to vote at the special meeting to consider the Transaction. STOCKHOLDERS ARE URGED TO READ THE TRANSACTION PROXY STATEMENT (INCLUDING ANY AMENDMENTS OR SUPPLEMENTS THERETO) AND ANY OTHER RELEVANT DOCUMENTS THAT REALNETWORKS WILL FILE WITH THE SEC WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE BECAUSE THEY WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION. Stockholders may obtain, free of charge, the preliminary and definitive versions of the Transaction Proxy Statement, any amendments or supplements thereto, and any other relevant documents filed by RealNetworks with the SEC in connection with the Transaction at the SEC's website (http://www.sec.gov). Copies of RealNetworks's definitive Transaction Proxy Statement, any amendments or supplements thereto, and any other relevant documents filed by RealNetworks with the SEC in connection with the Transaction will also be available, free of charge, from RealNetworks's website at www.realnetworks.com.
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, which provides a "safe harbor" for such statements in certain circumstances. The forward-looking statements include statements or expectations regarding timing of the closing of the Transaction, considerations taken into account by the Board of Directors of RealNetworks in approving the Transaction and expectations for RealNetworks following the closing of the Transaction. These statements are based upon current expectations, beliefs and assumptions of RealNetworks management, and there can be no assurance that such expectations will prove to be correct. Because forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties and speak only as of the date on which they are made, actual events could differ materially from those discussed in the forward-looking statements as a result of various factors, including but not limited to the possibility that the conditions to the closing of the Transaction are not satisfied, including the risk that required stockholder approval for the Transaction is not obtained, potential litigation relating to the Transaction, uncertainties as to the timing of the consummation of the Transaction, the ability of each party to consummate the Transaction, risks relating to the substantial costs and diversion of personnel's attention and resources due to these matters and other factors discussed in greater detail in RealNetworks's filings with the SEC. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such statements and to consult RealNetworks's most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and other filings with the SEC for additional risks and uncertainties that may apply to RealNetworks's business and the ownership of RealNetworks's securities. The forward-looking statements are presented as of the date made, and RealNetworks does not undertake any duty to update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.
Building on a rich history of digital media expertise and innovation, RealNetworks has created a new generation of products that employ best-in-class artificial intelligence and machine learning to enhance and secure our daily lives. Real's portfolio includes SAFR, the world's premier computer vision platform for live video, KONTXT, an industry leading NLP (Natural Language Processing) platform for text and multi-media analysis, and leveraging its digital media expertise, a mobile games business focused on the large free-to-play segment. For information about all of our products, visit www.realnetworks.com.
RealNetworks is a registered trademark of RealNetworks, Inc. All other trademarks, names of actual companies and products mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners.
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TULSA, Okla. (AP) _ Magellan Midstream Partners L.P. (MMP) on Thursday reported second-quarter profit of $353.9 million.
The Tulsa, Oklahoma-based company said it had net income of $1.67 per share. Earnings, adjusted to account for discontinued operations, were $1.13 per share.
The results surpassed Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of four analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $1.01 per share.
The petroleum and oil storage and transportation company posted revenue of $788.6 million in the period.
Magellan Midstream expects full-year earnings to be $5.05 per share.
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One of the best parts about changing seasons is switching out your accessories — summertime especially, as it usually means there is a vacation or two coming up! Big sunglasses, floppy hats, colorful jewelry and strappy sandals are all playful summer wardrobe staples to pack for vacay. Including a new purse in the mix, perhaps one that’s smaller than your everyday bag, is a great addition, too.
A causal yet statement-making purchase is a rattan bag, which is a popular pick for the hotter months. Round bags, also known as circle bags. are like having a pretty bow tied on top of a present. Round rattan bags polish a look, making your outfit look more complete. Round bags are also a fun way to stand out from the crowd while showing off your unique, personal style.
Right now, there’s a $27 round rattan shoulder bag that is the perfect new accessory for all your summer travels.
Handwoven Round Rattan Bag
This eco-friendly bag is handcrafted by Vietnamese artisans and is Amazon’s Choice in Women’s Shoulder Handbags by NaturalNEO. The 7.9-by-3.2-inch purse is lightweight yet large enough to hold your phone, sunglasses, small books, wallet, lipstick and other small necessities. It features a strong magnetic snap closure, two buttons and a small interior pocket that’s perfectly sized for holding cash or credit cards. It also has a fully adjustable leather strap.
This handwoven round rattan shoulder bag has more than 4,700 reviews and averages 4.6 out of 5 stars. Reviewers found it to be “big enough” and “perfect for summer.” Several people noted they considered it to be of good quality. It’s lined in a floral print that provides a pop of color when opened.
One reviewer said she loves how it holds all her essentials.
“I love the appearance and quality,” SM wrote. “Great crossbody — is long enough for me (5’6″). The strap is adjustable. I can fit a small wallet, iPhone 11, lipstick, tissues, keys, reading glasses or sunglasses and hand sanitizer. This bag is lightweight. I get many compliments on it. I have designer bags that cost over $2,000 and right now, this little bag is my favorite!!”
Aileen called it “beautiful and durable.”
“Love love love this purse! It is exactly as pictured,” she wrote. “The size is perfect not too big and not too small, can easily fit phone, makeup, and a credit card wallet inside. It’s durable and beautiful. Took it on my trip to Europe, held up through many hours of wear and it’s comfortable. Highly recommend this purse, I get compliments constantly on how cute it is.”
We like that this rattan shoulder bag comes with a lifetime money-back guarantee, where the company promises to provide a 100% refund if you’re not fully satisfied.
Happy travels!
This story originally appeared on Don't Waste Your Money. Checkout Don't Waste Your Money for product reviews and other great ideas to save and make money.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Fewer Americans applied for jobless benefits last week, but the previous week's number was revised upward significantly, with claims breaching the 250,000 level in back-to-back weeks for the first time in more than eight months.
Applications for jobless aid for the week ending July 23 declined by 5,000 to 256,000 from the previous week’s 261,000, the Labor Department reported Thursday. The number of claims for the week of July 16 was revised upward by 10,000 from the previously estimated 251,000.
First-time applications generally reflect layoffs.
The four-week average for claims, which smooths out some of the week-to-week volatility, rose by 6,250 from the previous week, to 249,500. That number is also at its highest level since November of last year.
The total number of Americans collecting jobless benefits for the week ending July 16 fell by 25,000 from the previous week, to 1,359,000. That figure has been near 50-year lows for months.
Earlier this month, the Labor Department reported that employers added 372,000 jobs in June, a surprisingly robust gain and similar to the pace of the previous two months. Economists had expected job growth to slow sharply last month given the broader signs of economic weakness.
The unemployment rate remained 3.6% for a fourth straight month, matching a near-50-year low that was reached before the pandemic struck in early 2020.
The government also reported earlier in July that U.S. employers advertised fewer jobs in May amid signs that the economy is weakening, though the overall demand for workers remained strong. There are nearly two job openings for every unemployed person.
The government also reported Thursday that the U.S. economy shrank 0.9% in the second quarter, the second straight quarterly contraction.
Consumer prices are still soaring though, up 9.1% in June compared with a year earlier, the biggest yearly increase since 1981, the government reported last week.
All of those figures paint a divergent picture of the post-pandemic economy: Inflation is hammering household budgets, forcing consumers to pull back on spending, and growth is weakening, heightening fears the economy could fall into recession.
In an effort to combat the worst inflation in more than four decades, the Federal Reserve raised its main borrowing rate by another three-quarters of a point on Wednesday. That follows last month's three-quarter point hike and a half-point increase in May.
Though the labor market is still strong, there have been some high-profile layoffs announced recently by Tesla, Netflix, Carvana, Redfin and Coinbase.
The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits last week rose to the highest level in more than eight months in what may be a sign that the labor market is weakening.
Applications for jobless aid for the week ending July 16 rose by 7,000 to 251,000, up from the previous week’s 244,000, the Labor Department reported Thursday. That’s the most since Nov. 13, 2021 when 265,000 Americans applied for benefits.
Analysts surveyed by the data firm FactSet expected the number to come in at 242,000.
First-time applications generally reflect layoffs.
The four-week average for claims, which smooths out some of the week-to-week volatility, rose by 4,500 from the previous week, to 240,500.
The total number of Americans collecting jobless benefits for the week ending July 9 rose by 51,000 from the previous week, to 1,384,000. That figure has been near 50-year lows for months.
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A landslide triggered by heavy rains in Iran's capital killed at least four people Thursday, Iranian state TV reported.
The report said heavy rains in the early hours of Thursday caused flash floods and then landslides in the northwestern part of Tehran, and caused damage to Imamzadeh Davood, a religious shrine in the city.
Rescue teams were deployed at the scene, and nine people were injured in the incident, the report said, adding that others may be buried under the mud and search efforts were underway.
The landslide occurred in a valley in the foothills of Tehran's Alborz mountains. In 2015, a flash flood in the area killed at least 14 people.
Ahead of the landslide, officials warned residents of Tehran’s mountainous areas about heavy rains and possible floods. They also warned that heavier rains were expected later Thursday.
On Saturday, flash floods in Iran’s drought-stricken southern Fars province killed at least 21 people and hit more than 10 villages in the province.
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Leading Fintech Firm Creates New Financial Opportunities via Fractional Trading in U.S. Equities for Fubon's Customers
JERSEY CITY, N.J., July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fubon Financial Holdings ("Fubon"), the second-largest financial company in Taiwan, selects ViewTrade as its chosen technology provider to grant Fubon's clients access to U.S. markets for accounts of all sizes as well as the ability to buy fractional shares. Through its unique technology solutions, ViewTrade is now enabling Fubon's retail customers to easily and regularly invest in the U.S. markets.
"We are thrilled to be working with Fubon and providing their customers with this new financial opportunity," said Andy Liao, Business Development - Asia at ViewTrade. "Fractional trading via an omnibus account has made it possible to relieve the burden on retail investors to meet whole-share minimums. With fractional share trading, younger, newer investors can get an earlier start participating in the markets by investing."
Contributing to a regular savings plan through the U.S. Equities Market is becoming a popular way to invest in Taiwan. Fractional trading, with its ability to facilitate dollar-cost averaging, is an important component provided by ViewTrade in the Asia market.
"Fractional trading allows us to provide investors, with small investment amounts, the opportunity to invest in high-priced stocks, which was once a pain point that we were unable to solve. Now, they can enjoy being the shareholder of Amazon, Google, Berkshire Hathaway, Tesla, Costco, etc.," said Jiemin Wang, Head of Global Equities Product Team at Fubon.
About ViewTrade
ViewTrade is the force that powers fintech, providing everything – technology, support and brokerage services – that innovators need to quickly launch or enhance a retail trading platform or app. Over the past 20+ years, our approach has helped hundreds of firms – from startups to large banks, brokers and RIAs – create the differentiating investment experiences their clients demand.
Today, ViewTrade serves clients in more than 20 countries across five continents, representing millions of individual investors. Our offerings translate into multiple languages and provide client service in more than a dozen languages. As a B2B firm, we never compete with our clients for business.
For more information, visit https://viewtrade.com/, and follow the company on LinkedIn.
About Fubon:
Fubon was established in 1961 and currently employs 45,000 people globally. Fubon Financial Holdings is the second-largest financial company in Taiwan by assets. Fubon led the financial sector's earnings per share for 13 consecutive years, was selected to the Fortune Global 500 for the past four years, and Brand Finance's "Top 500 Most Valuable Brands" for the past two years.
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PURCHASE, N.Y. (AP) _ MasterCard Inc. (MA) on Thursday reported second-quarter earnings of $2.28 billion.
On a per-share basis, the Purchase, New York-based company said it had profit of $2.34. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, came to $2.56 per share.
The results surpassed Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of 13 analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $2.36 per share.
The processor of debit and credit card payments posted revenue of $5.5 billion in the period, also exceeding Street forecasts. Thirteen analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $5.27 billion.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) — Good Thursday morning! Waking up to a few showers this morning across the Big Bend under partly cloudy skies. Most of the area will trend dry during the morning hours. Clouds will build as the morning progresses with scattered rain and thunderstorms on tap this afternoon. Some steadier showers are possible, at times. High temperatures will be in the upper 80's to lower 90's.
Lower rain chances will be around heading into the weekend. With slightly drier days ahead, a warm-up is on the way this weekend, too! High temperatures will rise into the mid 90's while rain chances are at 20%. Stay cool while you're out and about this weekend because heat indices may be around 105 degrees during the afternoon! A warmer and somewhat drier pattern will linger into early next week. Scattered showers and storms can still develop from the seabreeze every day, but they'll be few and far between.
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(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.)
Melanie Gall, Arizona State University; Christopher Emrich, University of Central Florida, and Marie Aquilino, Arizona State University
(THE CONVERSATION) If you look at homes on real estate websites today, you’ll likely see risk ratings for flooding, hurricanes and even wildfires.
In theory, summarizing risk information like this should help homebuyers and renters make more informed housing choices. But surveys show it isn’t working that way, at least not yet. Housing developments and home sales are still expanding in flood- and wildfire-prone areas.
The problem isn’t necessarily that consumers are ignoring the numbers. In our view, as experts in hazards geography, it’s that the way risk information is being presented ignores long-established lessons from behavioral science.
These ratings tend to appear as a single number for each hazard and lack an intuitive interpretation. What does it mean to have a heat risk of 84 (“extreme”) with 52 hot days in 2050, or a flood risk of 10 (“extreme”)?
We believe that current and future hazard and climate risks can more effectively be translated as costs, savings and trade-offs.
Making risk personal
Studies show that people rely on personal experience as the dominant driver when considering risk. In the absence of having personally experienced a flood or wildfire damage, they need actionable and understandable information.
We belong to a group of more than 20 interdisciplinary researchers at universities in Arizona, Florida, Louisiana and South Carolina who are trying to improve risk rating information. We’re currently testing an online tool for the Gulf Coast that provides residents with actionable resilience information. It is an early model of what residential risk reporting could look like.
Rather than just presenting a score, the tool offers information on the costs annually and over time that one can expect from each hazard, such as flooding or wind damage, and how the home’s census block compares with the local area, county and state. To capture the effects of sea-level rise, for example, we model the number of years it will take for a home to go from outside a high flood risk area to being inside.
Homebuyers’ psychological hurdles
The development of real estate-focused climate and hazard risk metrics, such as those offered by First Street Foundation and ClimateCheck, is a step in the right direction, going beyond government risk maps that provide risk data by county. The next step is to ground those numbers in behavioral science research.
People do not ignore risk ratings per se, but the point at which information motivates people to take protective actions varies.
The motivation hurdle is lower for people with past experience, those who are aware of the risks and receptive to this kind of information, and those who have the financial resources to choose safer communities.
For others, the hurdle can be much higher. They might struggle with common decision biases, such as oversimplifying the severity of the risk, which leads to either an overestimation or underestimation of the threat depending on the type of hazard, focusing on today rather than the future, or simply assuming nothing bad is going to happen. They might just follow what others do – which research finds is what most of us do when deciding on a home.
Many people also have unrealistic beliefs that insurance and government payouts after disasters will fully compensate them for their losses, and a false sense of security that building codes and permitting mean homes are built to withstand any natural hazard.
The combination of these decision biases causes residents to underestimate the risk and impacts from disasters and climate change. Most people then underprepare and don’t consider these risks in their housing choices.
Risk ratings could help overcome those biases by expressing risk information in relatable terms such as the number of assistance requests made to the Federal Emergency Management Agency after disasters, the rejection rate and the average FEMA funds received per applicant in the area.
Next step: Pull it all together in one location
Ideally, homebuyers and renters would have a one-stop shop for all of this risk information about a property. To be prepared for climate change, risk must become a factor in housing choices similar to square footage and number of bedrooms.
Currently, risk data is scattered. For example, people can learn about insurance costs by checking flood insurance rate maps, which outline the areas with a 1% or greater annual chance of flooding. Or they can ask an insurance agent to generate a Comprehensive Loss Underwriting Exchange report, which lists all flood insurance claims made on a property in the past five to seven years. A handful of states such as California require sellers to disclose the risk of natural hazards to the property.
In our view, the continuing influx of residents into high-risk areas, along with skyrocketing disaster losses, presents an urgent need to give prospective renters and buyers better information about the risks properties face.
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here: https://theconversation.com/flood-and-wildfire-risks-translating-risk-ratings-into-future-costs-can-help-homebuyers-and-renters-grasp-the-odds-and-act-on-them-186798.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will speak Thursday morning with China's Xi Jinping, the fifth conversation of their presidencies, as the two leaders chart the future of their complicated relationship at a time of simmering economic and geopolitical tensions.
The call, at 8:30 a.m. EDT, comes as Biden aims to find new ways to work with the rising global power as well as strategies to contain China's influence around the world. Differing perspectives on global health, economic policy and human rights have long tested the relationship — with China's refusal to condemn Russia's invasion of Ukraine adding further strain.
The latest pressure point has been House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s potential visit to Taiwan, the island that governs itself democratically and receives informal defensive support from the U.S., but which China considers part of its territory. Beijing has said it would view such a trip as a provocation, a threat U.S. officials are taking with heightened seriousness in light of Russia's incursion into Ukraine.
“If the U.S. insists on going its own way and challenging China’s bottom line, it will surely be met with forceful responses,” Zhao Lijian, a spokesperson for China's Foreign Ministry, told reporters earlier this week. “All ensuing consequences shall be borne by the U.S.”
Pelosi would be would be the highest-ranking U.S. elected official to travel to Taiwan since Republican Newt Gingrich visited the island in 1997 when he was House speaker. Biden last week told reporters that U.S. military officials believed it was “not a good idea” for the speaker to visit the island at the moment.
John Kirby, a U.S. national security spokesman, said Wednesday that it was important for Biden and Xi to regularly touch base.
“The president wants to make sure that the lines of communication with President Xi remain open because they need to,” Kirby told reporters at a White House briefing. “There are issues where we can cooperate with China on, and there are issues where obviously there are friction and tension.”
Biden and Xi last spoke in March, shortly after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
“This is one of the most consequential bilateral relationships in the world today, with ramifications well beyond both individual countries,” Kirby said.
The conversation comes as Biden has moved to shift U.S. reliance off Chinese manufacturing, including Senate passage Wednesday of legislation to encourage semiconductor companies to build more high-tech plants in the U.S. Biden wants to marshal global democracies to support infrastructure investments in low- and middle-income nations as an alternative to China’s “Belt and Road Initiative,” which aims to boost China trade with other global markets.
Kirby listed a number of areas of U.S,-China friction that he said would be part of the conversation, including “tensions over Taiwan, tensions over ... China’s aggressive course of behavior in the Indo-Pacific outside of Taiwan, tensions in the economic relationship” and over China’s reaction to Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Biden, who has kept in place Trump-era tariffs on many Chinese-manufactured goods in order to maintain leverage over Beijing, is weighing whether to ease at least some of them in a move to lessen the impact of soaring inflation on American households.
U.S. officials have also criticized China's “zero-COVID” policy of mass testing and lockdowns in an effort to contain the spread of COVID-19 in its territory, labeling it misguided and fretting that it will further slow global economic growth.
Other points of strain include China’s treatment of Uyghur Muslims, which the U.S. has declared a genocide, its militarization in the South China Sea, and global campaign of economic and political espionage.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The chronic shortage of homes for sale that's made fierce bidding wars common and sent prices to record highs has long frustrated homebuyers.
After a streak of annual declines going back three years, home listings finally rose on an annual basis in May and June.
But would-be buyers looking for more modestly priced homes will find scant relief in the listings surge. The increase in homes for sale nationally has been concentrated in the higher-price end of the spectrum, $250,000 or higher, while listings for properties priced below that threshold are becoming more scarce.
“In a market that has been so low on inventory, any increase in the availability of homes for sale is going to be welcome, but the biggest increase that we’ve seen so far is in the pricier side of the market,” said Danielle Hale, Realtor.com’s chief economist.
Listings for homes priced at $100,000 or less were down 21.4% in June from a year earlier, while those listed for between $100,000 and $250,000 were down 12.4%, according to Realtor.com.
In contrast, the number of homes listed for more than $250,000 increased 32.1% in June from a year earlier.
On a typical day in June, the number of active home listings totaled 619,305, a nearly 19% increase from the same month last year, according to Realtor.com.
The sorely needed increase in home listings follows a marked slowdown in the housing market.
Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes are slowing as the Federal Reserve hikes rates to combat surging inflation, lifting mortgage rates. In June sales fell to to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.12 million, the slowest pace in two years according to the National Association of Realtors.
The average rate on a 30-year home loan climbed to 5.54% last week, almost double from a year ago, according to mortgage buyer Freddie Mac. Higher rates reduce buyers’ purchasing power at a time when the median U.S. home price hit a new high of $416,000 last month.
“The entry level side of the market continues to be challenging, and it’s particularly hard because those entry level buyers are often most likely to be taking on a mortgage and borrowing, so they’re also the ones that are facing higher mortgage rates,” Hale said.
Hale expects the for-sale home inventory will be up about 15% on average this year, which should help some would-be buyers. But it would take a significant housing market slowdown before the number of homes for sale at the most affordable range of the market increases, she said.
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BERLIN (AP) — Germany's annual inflation rate has declined slightly for the second consecutive month, official data showed Thursday, but July's pace of 7.5% was still within sight of the nearly half-century high it reached in May.
Inflation in Europe's biggest economy rose 7.9% in May from a year earlier, the highest level since the early 1970s, before slipping to 7.6% last month. The preliminary monthly figure for July, reported Thursday by the Federal Statistical Office, is usually confirmed in a final report about two weeks later.
Energy prices spiked 35.7% this month from a year earlier and food prices rose 14.8%.
Germany temporarily lowered taxes on diesel fuel and gasoline at the start of June and introduced an ultra-cheap ticket that allows people to use all local and regional public transportation for 9 euros ($9.15) a month. The measures are due to last for three months. The statistics office said it wasn't yet clear to what extent they dampened inflation.
As in other countries around the world, inflation in Germany has been stoked by Russia's war in Ukraine, which has led to a rise in energy costs and food prices.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz wants to work with unions and employers to find ways to address the impact of rising prices while preventing an inflationary spiral.
The July inflation rate for all 19 countries that use the euro will be released by the European Union's statistics office Friday after consecutive months of record highs. It reached 8.6% in June.
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces on Thursday launched massive missile strikes on Ukraine's Kyiv and Chernihiv regions, areas that haven't been targeted in weeks, while Ukrainian officials announced an operation to liberate an occupied region in the country's south.
Kyiv regional governor Oleksiy Kuleba said on Telegram that a settlement in the Vyshgorod district of the region was targeted early on Thursday morning; an “infrastructure object” was hit. It wasn't immediately clear if there were any casualties.
Vyshhgorod is located 20 kilometers (about 12 miles) north of downtown Kyiv. Kuleba linked the strikes with the Day of Statehood, which Ukraine was marking for the first time on Thursday.
“Russia, with the help of missiles, is mounting revenge for the widespread popular resistance, which the Ukrainians were able to organize precisely because of their statehood,” Kuleba told Ukrainian television. “Ukraine has already broken Russia’s plans and will continue to defend itself.”
Chernihiv governor Vyacheslav Chaus reported that multiple missiles were fired from the territory of Belarus at the village of Honcharivska.
Russian troops withdrew from the Kyiv and Chernihiv regions months ago after failing to capture either. The renewed strikes on the areas come a day after the leader of pro-Kremlin separatists in the east, Denis Pushilin, publicly called on the Russian forces to “liberate Russian cities founded by the Russian people — Kyiv, Chernihiv, Poltava, Odesa, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, Lutsk.”
Kharkiv, Ukraine's second largest city, also came under a barrage of shelling overnight, its mayor Ihor Terekhov said. The southern city of Mykolaiv was fired at as well, with one person sustaining injuries.
Meanwhile, the Ukrainian military continued to counterattack in the occupied southern region of Kherson, striking a key bridge over the Dnieper River on Wednesday.
Ukrainian media on Thursday quoted Ukraine's presidential adviser, Oleksiy Arestovich, as saying that the operation to liberate Kherson “has already begun.” Arestovich said Kyiv's forces were planning to isolate Russian troops there and leave them with three options — to "retreat, if possible, surrender or be destroyed."
Oleksiy Danilov, the secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, in televised remarks on Wednesday said he was “cautious” in assessing the timeline of the possible counteroffensive. “I would really like it to be much faster,” he said, adding that “the enemy is now concentrating the maximum number (of forces) precisely in the Kherson direction.”
“A very large-scale movement of their troops has begun, they are gathering additional forces,” Danilov warned.
The British military estimated Thursday that Ukraine’s counteroffensive in Kherson is “gathering momentum”.
“Their forces have highly likely established a bridgehead south of the Ingulets River, which forms the northern boundary of Russian-occupied Kherson," the British Defense Ministry said on Thursday.
It added that Ukraine has used its new long-range artillery to damage at least three of the bridges across the Dnieper River, "which Russia relies upon to supply the areas under its control." The 1,000-meter-long Antonivsky bridge, which Ukrainian forces struck on Wednesday, is likely to be “unusable,” the British Defense Ministry concluded.
Ukraine's presidential office said Thursday morning that Russian shelling of cities and villages over the past 24 hours killed at least five civilians, all of them in the eastern Donetsk region, and wounded nine more.
Fighting in recent weeks has focused on the Donetsk region. It has intensified in recent days as Russian forces appeared to emerge from a reported “operational pause” after capturing the neighboring Luhansk region.
A missile struck a residential building in Toretsk early Thursday morning, destroying two floors. “Missile terror again. We will not give up... We will not be intimidated,” Donetsk regional governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said on Telegram.
Analysts with the Institute for the Study of War believe that Russian forces are focusing their efforts on capturing the cities of Bakhmut and Siversk in Donetsk province.
“Russian forces have committed enough resources to conduct near-daily ground assaults and to seize territory on these two axes but have been unable to sustain a similar offensive operational tempo or to make similar territorial gains elsewhere in Ukraine,” the Institute said.
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DALLAS (AP) _ NexPoint Real Estate Finance, Inc. (NREF) on Thursday reported second-quarter earnings of $4.1 million.
On a per-share basis, the Dallas-based company said it had profit of 34 cents. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, were 56 cents per share.
The company posted revenue of $17.6 million in the period. Its adjusted revenue was $8.5 million.
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PRESTONSBURG, Ky. (AP) — Heavy rains unleashed high water and people lost electricity as storms kept pounding parts of central Appalachia on Thursday.
There were reports of flash flooding, water rescues, mudslides and power outages across a mountainous area where thunderstorms have dumped several inches of rain over the past few days. Flood watches and warnings were in effect.
Poweroutage.us reported more than 20,000 power outages in eastern Kentucky, and nearly 10,000 more in southern West Virginia among the mountains of western Virginia.
Floyd County in eastern Kentucky declared a local state of emergency due to significant rainfall and flooding, Gov. Andy Beshear said. He said the Kentucky Emergency Management crews have been deployed there.
In West Virginia's Greenbrier County, firefighters pulled people from flooded homes, and five people who got stranded by high water while camping in Nicholas County were rescued by the Keslers Cross Lanes Volunteer Fire Department, WCHS-TV reported.
Roads in many areas weren’t passable after as much as 6 inches (15 cms) of rain had fallen in some areas by Thursday, and 1-3 more inches (7.5 cms) could fall, the National Weather Service said. People in low areas in Perry, Leslie and Clay counties were urged to seek higher ground after multiple swift water rescues were reported.
The Breathitt County courthouse was opened as an overnight shelter, and Emergency Management Director Chris Friley told WKYT-TV that the Old Montessori School would serve as a more permanent shelter once crews can staff it.
“It’s the worst we’ve had in quite a while,” Friley said early Thursday. “It’s county-wide again. There’s several spots that are still not accessible to rescue crews.”
Perry County dispatchers told WKYT-TV that floodwaters washed out roads and bridges and knocked homes off of their foundations. The city of Hazard posted on Facebook that crews were out all night helping people. The city urged drivers to stay off roads and to “pray for a break in the rain.”
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CHICAGO (AP) _ Old Republic International Corp. (ORI) on Thursday reported a loss of $40.1 million in its second quarter.
The Chicago-based company said it had a loss of 13 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for investment costs, came to 69 cents per share.
The insurance underwriter posted revenue of $1.81 billion in the period. Its adjusted revenue was $2.13 billion.
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Facebook is letting violent hate speech slip through its controls in Kenya as it has in other countries, according to a new report from the nonprofit groups Global Witness and Foxglove.
It is the third such test of Facebook's ability to detect hateful language — either via artificial intelligence or human moderators — that the groups have run, and that the company has failed.
The ads, which the groups submitted both in English and in Swahili, spoke of beheadings, rape and bloodshed. They compared people to donkeys and goats. Some also included profanity and grammatical errors. The Swahili language ads easily made it through Facebook's detection systems and were approved for publication.
As for the English ads, some were rejected at first, but only because they contained profanities and mistakes in addition to hate speech. Once the profanities were removed and grammar errors fixed, however, the ads — still calling for killings and containing obvious hate speech — went through without a hitch.
“We were surprised to see that our ads had for the first time been flagged, but they hadn’t been flagged for the much more important reasons that we expected them to be," said Nienke Palstra, senior campaigner at London-based Global Witness.
The ads were never posted to Facebook. But the fact that they easily could have been shows that despite repeated assurances that it would do better, Facebook parent Meta still appears to regularly fail to detect hate speech and calls for violence on its platform.
Representatives for Meta did not immediately respond to a message for comment on Tuesday. Global Witness said it reached out to Meta after its ads were accepted for publication and did not receive a response.
Each time Global Witness has submitted ads with blatant hate speech to see if Facebook’s systems would catch it, the company failed to do so. In Myanmar, one of the ads used a slur to refer to people of east Indian or Muslim origin and call for their killing. In Ethiopia, the ads used dehumanizing hate speech to call for the murder of people belonging to each of Ethiopia’s three main ethnic groups — the Amhara, the Oromo and the Tigrayans.
Why ads and not regular posts? That's because Meta claims to hold advertisements to an “even stricter” standard than regular, unpaid posts, according to its help center page for paid advertisements.
Meta has consistently refused to say how many content moderators it has in countries where English is not the primary language. This includes moderators in Kenya, Myanmar and other regions where material posted on the company’s platforms has been linked to real-world violence.
Kenya is readying for a national election in August. On July 20, Meta posted a detailed blog post on how it is preparing for the country's election, including establishing an “operations center” and removing harmful content.
“In the six months leading up to April 30, 2022, we took action on more than 37,000 pieces of content for violating our Hate Speech policies on Facebook and Instagram in Kenya. During that same period, we also took action on more than 42,000 pieces of content that violated our Violence & Incitement policies," wrote Mercy Ndegwa, director of public policy in East & Horn of Africa.
Global Witness said it resubmitted two of its ads, one in English and one in Swahili, after Meta published its blog post to see if anything has changed. Once again, the ads went through.
“If you’re not catching these 20 ads, this 37,000 number that you are celebrating, that is probably the tip of the iceberg. You have to think that there’s a lot that’s (slipping through) your filter," Palstra said.
The Global Witness report follows a separate study from June that found that Facebook has failed to catch Islamic State group and al-Shabab extremist content in posts aimed at East Africa. The region remains under threat from violent attacks as Kenya prepares to vote.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) _ Pacific Gas & Electric Co. (PCG) on Thursday reported profit of $360 million in its second quarter.
On a per-share basis, the San Francisco-based company said it had profit of 17 cents. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, came to 25 cents per share.
The utility holding company posted revenue of $5.12 billion in the period.
PG&E expects full-year earnings in the range of $1.07 to $1.13 per share.
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NEW DELHI (AP) — India on Thursday expressed "deep concern" at Myanmar’s executions of four political prisoners.
This was India’s first reaction to the executions carried out last weekend. All were tried, convicted and sentenced by a military tribunal with no access to appeal.
India supports the Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ efforts to bring peace to Myanmar, which has been rocked by civil unrest and widespread fighting since the military seized power from an elected government in February 2021.
"We have noted these developments (executions) with deep concern. As a neighboring country, we have always highlighted the need for a peaceful resolution to the issue. The rule of law and democratic process must be upheld,” said a statement by External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi.
"As a friend of the people of Myanmar, we will continue to support Myanmar's return to democracy and stability," he said.
India and Myanmar share a long land border of over 1,600 km (1,000 miles) and a maritime boundary in the Bay of Bengal. The proximity of the two countries has helped Myanmar become a key partner in India's fight in the remote northeast against dozens of ethnic insurgent groups whose demands range from independent homelands to maximum autonomy within India.
India and Myanmar in recent years have signed defense cooperation agreements committing to peace and stability in border areas, and they promised to not allow anyone to use their respective soil for hostile activities against the other side.
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ELKHART, Ind. (AP) _ Patrick Industries Inc. (PATK) on Thursday reported second-quarter net income of $116.5 million.
On a per-share basis, the Elkhart, Indiana-based company said it had net income of $4.79. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, came to $5.31 per share.
The results topped Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of three analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $3.42 per share.
The building products manufacturer posted revenue of $1.48 billion in the period.
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VEVEY, Switzerland (AP) — Global food giant Nestle, which makes everything from Purina pet food to KitKat candy bars and Gerber baby food, reported higher sales in the first half of the year, even as it increased prices by 6.5% as inflation soared around the world.
The Swiss company said Thursday that total reported sales grew by 9.2%, to 45.6 billion Swiss francs ($47.53 billion), compared with the same period last year. Net profit, however, decreased by 11.7%, to 5.2 billion Swiss francs ($5.42 billion), because of one-time expenses such as taxes, according to Nestle.
Purina was its biggest sales driver, but KitKat and other treats, water brands like Perrier and S. Pellegrino, and vegetarian and plant-based food all grew at double-digit rates, the company said.
It saw strong growth for baby formula after a shortage in the United States this year. One of the largest formula suppliers, Nestle ramped up U.S. imports after the nation’s largest domestic manufacturing plant closed in February over safety concerns.
CEO Mark Schneider said the company “limited the impact of unprecedented inflationary pressures and supply chain constraints" and pointed to “growing food insecurity around the world and heightened climate concerns" as driving its mission.
“Good for you and good for the planet are the two key strategic pillars that our company pursues in an unwavering manner, even in the face of significant short-term challenges," he said in a news release.
With soaring inflation eating into people’s spending power, Nestle said it works to keep its products affordable based on wages in different parts of the world and focuses on nutrition education and boosting nutrients in products based on local needs.
Nestle, however, also has turned to “shrinkflation," slimming down its Nescafe Azera Americano coffee tins from 100 grams to 90 grams in the United Kingdom but charging the same price.
The company had faced criticism for sales in Russia after the country invaded Ukraine. It previously said it would pull KitKat, Nesquik milkshake powder and other brands but continue to supply essentials like medications and baby formula.
For the full year, Nestle expects sales growth from 7% to 8%.
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ST LOUIS (AP) _ Peabody Energy Corp. (BTU) on Thursday reported second-quarter net income of $409.5 million, after reporting a loss in the same period a year earlier.
The St. Louis-based company said it had profit of $2.54 per share. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs and to extinguish debt, came to $2.67 per share.
The coal mining company posted revenue of $1.32 billion in the period.
Peabody Energy shares have more than doubled since the beginning of the year, while the S&P's 500 index has declined 16%. The stock has more than doubled in the last 12 months.
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In his extensive papal travels, Pope Francis has never journeyed farther north than Iqaluit, capital city of the Inuit-governed territory of Nunavut. On Friday, it will be the final stop of his somber six-day visit to Canada.
It is a distinctive destination – home to about 7,500 people but not a single traffic light, with no road or rail links to the outside world. Its lone Catholic church serves parishioners from at least five continents; more than 100 of them routinely fill the pews each Sunday.
Iqaluit has welcomed world leaders before. Queen Elizabeth, for example, visited for about two and a half hours in 2002, three years after Nunavut was carved out of the eastern portion of the Northwest Territories to become a territory of its own.
The pope’s similarly brief stopover, in contrast, is not intended to be celebratory. He’ll be finishing up a Canadian visit focused on in-person apologies for the abuse and disrespect inflicted on many thousands of Indigenous Canadians – including Inuit youths -- who attended Catholic-run boarding schools from the late 1800s to the 1970s.
Given the visit’s purpose, there are mixed feelings about it in Iqaluit, among Inuit leaders and also on the part of the Rev. Daniel Perreault, who oversees the parish of Our Lady of the Assumption Roman Catholic Church.
He said only a handful of his parishioners are Inuit. Most of the others hail from Africa, South America, Asia and other faraway places, have no links to the past problems of the boarding schools and would like to welcome Pope Francis joyously on Friday, Perreault said.
But the region’s Inuit organizations want the visit to be focused on their own community, said the priest. “They do not want it being an occasion of a Catholic feast.”
Iqaluit’s deputy mayor, Solomon Awa, said the Inuit community – which comprises more than half of the city’s population – abounds with swirling emotions. There is gratitude that an apology is forthcoming, and frustration that it took so long to come about.
“It will be very exciting for the people,” Awa said. “I hope that this will get us moving forward to lift ourselves as Inuit, to the point where we say, ‘Yes, we had many downsides in the past but we must move on.’”
Unlike two of his brothers, Awa was spared from attending a boarding school – his father insisted on keeping him at home as a helping hand.
“There are people still with broken hearts who went to residential schools... some of them still hold grudges with what happened,” Awa said. “They are happy that the pope is coming, finally, to say sorry for what happened.”
Iqaluit is by far the largest municipality in Nunavut, a vast territory straddling the Arctic Circle. It is roughly the size of Alaska and California combined, with a mostly Inuit population of about 40,000.
For much of the year, the weather can be severe. In February 2010, Iqaluit hosted a meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors from the Group of Seven nations; several of the dignitaries went dog-sledding in sub-zero temperatures.
Pope Francis, however, is expected to encounter cloudy skies and mild temperatures – about 57 F or 14 C.
“My gosh, he picked the softest kind of a moment to go,” teased David Phillips, senior climatologist for Environment Canada. “Until he feels what it’s like in February, it’s no badge of courage.”
Nunavut’s premier, P.J. Akeeagok, is pleased and grateful that Iqaluit was chosen as one of the three main stops on the pope’s itinerary.
“When people from around the world think of the north, they often think it’s vast, white and barren, when it’s totally opposite,” he told The Associated Press. “We have so much life, in terms of the resiliency of the people... We have incredible opportunities both culturally and economically.”
Along with opportunities, Iqaluit has its share of problems. Last fall, government officials declared a state of emergency after water in the capital was deemed undrinkable and potentially tainted with petroleum. They issued a do-not-consume order, and potable water was flown in by plane.
In May, the city issued an advisory warning that some local youths were throwing rocks at taxis – the main source of public transportation in Iqaluit.
As for the papal visit, community preparations have been low-key. The city says the main street will be closed to regular traffic for five hours on Friday, and in the run-up to the visit volunteers were invited to join in a clean-up of the downtown area.
Perreault, the Catholic priest, said his parishioners have been pitching in, offering to provide food and lodging to priests and other Catholic personnel traveling to Iqaluit from afar for the pope’s visit.
“Life is not always exciting here,” Perreault said. “But people here are happy and enjoy being in a community, sharing and praying together. It’s a very nice, joyful community.”
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Gillies reported from Toronto, where he is AP’s bureau chief. Crary, who reported from New York, is a former Toronto bureau chief who covered the creation of Nunavut in 1999.
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HATO REY, Puerto Rico (AP) _ Popular Inc. (BPOP) on Thursday reported second-quarter profit of $211.1 million.
The bank, based in Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, said it had earnings of $2.77 per share.
The company that runs Banco Popular and other banks in Puerto Rico and the U.S. posted revenue of $729.2 million in the period. Its revenue net of interest expense was $691.3 million, which beat Street forecasts.
Popular shares have dropped slightly more than 2% since the beginning of the year. The stock has increased roughly 10% in the last 12 months.
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Jennifer A. Taylor, James Madison University and Katrina Miller-Stevens, Colorado College
(THE CONVERSATION) When anger over everything from the killing of unarmed people of color to new restrictions on access to abortion bubbles over, many Americans act on it.
One avenue for someone who has gotten fed up with current events is to take part in protests, such as marching for gun reform in response to mass shootings. Another is by what nonprofit and philanthropy scholars like to call “rage giving” – charitable donations motivated by strong emotions and dissatisfaction with the political climate.
In our new book about this phenonenom, we explain that people often donate to nonprofits following breaking news about events they consider to be tragic or unjust. By donating, people may feel they are addressing the wrong they want to see righted, or they can express a strong politically driven view or value.
Divisive moments
When news coverage grows and collective anger culminates in high-profile marches, rage givers can experience an emotional release by channeling their feelings into something they consider positive.
Quick bursts of anger sometimes called “fury triggers” usually drive these gifts.
We have found that waves of rage giving are often sparked by divisive political moments. These unexpected spikes in donations are typically fueled by extensive media coverage.
For example, after the mass shootings in Uvalde, Texas, and Buffalo, New York, donations to groups that support gun violence victims in both communities surged.
And, shortly after the May 2022 leak of the Supreme Court’s draft decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, NARAL Pro-Choice America, an organization that advocates for access to abortion, saw a 1,400% increase in donations within 24 hours.
Likewise, the Brigid Alliance, a nonprofit abortion fund that provides financial and logistical help for people seeking abortions, saw the number of its donors quadruple from May to July. The gifts ranged from $5 to $50,000.
Growth following 2016 election
Rage giving isn’t limited to guns or abortion. Nor is it new.
But there are many signs that the phenomenon grew ahead of, during and after the heated 2016 and 2020 presidential elections. Many people who were concerned about immigration, civil rights and sexual assault and harassment during those highly polarized periods sought out opportunities to give to nonprofits and political action committees as quick and easy ways to express their outrage.
The ease and growth of online giving, up 42% in the three years ending in 2021, makes it simpler for rage givers to express their outrage. There’s no longer a need to mail a check or make a phone call.
Rage giving is, to be sure, partisan in that anger and outrage can provoke political mobilization, action and higher voter turnout.
But nonprofits on both sides of the political and cultural divide have reaped windfalls from rage giving in recent years. Giving to pro-gun organizations like the National Rifle Association, for example, can surge when gun control measures are in the news –as is generally the case after mass shootings.
More likely to be women and Democrats
In 2017, we commissioned a survey that identified 520 people who said they had donated to a nonprofit of their choice after feeling unbridled anger during the 2016 presidential election. Based on that data, we estimated that about 58% of these rage givers were women and 80% were white.
About 44% said they were Democrats, roughly 35% said they were Republicans and the remaining 21% identified as independent voters. Because the shares of Americans who lean toward one major political party or the other is more evenly matched, we found that, at that moment in time, Democrats were more likely to donate this way than more conservative Americans.
When thinking about the candidates in the 2016 presidential election and the stances each candidate takes on social and environmental issues, one rage giver from North Carolina said in response to our survey, “I’m just sick about it,” she said. “We’ve got to do something.”
We also found the surveyed rage donors were likely to be civically engaged – through behaviors such as volunteering, voting, contacting elected officials and participating in marches and protests. Rage giving, as a form of collective action, aligns with other helping behaviors by giving a voice to the underserved and unheard.
More research is needed to get a clearer picture of why certain people do this. But based on what we’ve learned so far, we believe that people who engage in rage giving see philanthropy as a type of civic engagement and that their gift, along with other donations, makes a difference.
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here: https://theconversation.com/rage-giving-charities-can-get-a-boost-from-current-events-such-as-controversial-supreme-court-rulings-185841.
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MIAMI (AP) _ Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. (RCL) on Thursday reported a loss of $521.6 million in its second quarter.
On a per-share basis, the Miami-based company said it had a loss of $2.05. Losses, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, came to $2.08 per share.
The results surpassed Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of five analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for a loss of $2.23 per share.
The cruise operator posted revenue of $2.18 billion in the period, also exceeding Street forecasts. Five analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $2.16 billion.
For the current quarter ending in October, Royal Caribbean expects its per-share earnings to range from 5 cents to 25 cents. Analysts surveyed by Zacks had forecast adjusted earnings per share of $2.47.
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J. Eugene Clay, Arizona State University
(THE CONVERSATION) More than 160 Ukrainian cultural sites have been damaged or destroyed since Russia invaded the country in February 2022, according to UNESCO.
The Ukrainian government claims the number of damaged sites is far higher. Russia denies these charges.
Ukrainian officials accuse Russia of deliberately targeting cultural sites, half of which are churches, monasteries, prayer houses, synagogues and mosques. Such a targeting would be a violation of international law.
As a scholar who has spent over 30 years studying Russian and Ukrainian religion and culture, I’m deeply concerned about the cultural destruction of this war, which has already claimed thousands of lives and has turned over 12 million Ukrainians into refugees.
An important monument under threat is Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv. Built in the 11th century, the church is one of Ukraine’s seven World Heritage sites recognized by the United Nations. It represents the common Orthodox Christian faith that many Russians and Ukrainians share.
Saint Sophia and the Byzantine model
Saint Sophia Cathedral was built under the reign of Grand Prince Yaroslav the Wise, whose father, Volodymyr – also known as Vladimir – had adopted Orthodox Christianity in 988.
According to a legend in the early 12th-century “Primary Chronicle,” Volodymyr chose Orthodoxy for the beauty of its worship services. The envoys he sent to Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, visited the famous Church of Holy Wisdom, the Hagia Sophia. Built by Emperor Justinian in the sixth century, the Hagia Sophia is devoted to the Divine Wisdom, who is personified as a woman in the biblical “Book of Proverbs.” Convinced by his envoys’ favorable report, Volodymyr decided to be baptized and to convert his subjects.
After Volodymyr’s death, Yaroslav invited Byzantine architects and artists to build an impressive cathedral for Kyiv just like the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople. Yaroslav, who had fought a civil war to succeed his father, deliberately imitated the Byzantine capital to buttress his legitimacy. His new cathedral, Saint Sophia, even took its name from the imperial church in Constantinople.
Christian symbolism in the Cathedral
With 13 cupolas and a central dome that rises 29 meters (about 95 feet) into the air, Saint Sophia is an imposing structure that served as a testament to the power and piety of its ruler. Elaborate mosaics decorate the sanctuary and dome. Portraits of Yaroslav and his family are prominently displayed in the cathedral’s princely gallery, where the ruler attended services.
A mosaic of the Virgin Mary, the Mother of God, stands in the apse above the altar. Raising her hands in prayer, Mary is framed by a Greek inscription from Psalm 46: “God is in the midst of Her; She shall not be moved.”
The imagery and language are borrowed from Byzantium. Just as she was seen as a powerful divine protector of Constantinople, so now Mary protects Kyiv. The tall central dome is adorned with a mosaic of an all-powerful image of Christ, known as “Christ Pantokrator,” who gazes down from his throne at his worshipers.
The art historian Elena Boeck calls Saint Sophia “the most ambitious Orthodox Church built in the 11th century.”
Decline and restoration
Saint Sophia Cathedral was consecrated in 1049 and completed around 1062. As the power and importance of Kyiv declined, the church suffered from external attacks and internal neglect.
In 1169, the northern prince Andrei Bogolubskii of Vladimir sacked Kyiv – an event that the leader of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, Metropolitan Epifaniy, has compared to the current Russian invasion. Mongol attacks in 1240, 1416 and 1482 further damaged the cathedral.
Restoration work in the 17th century in the baroque style radically changed the cathedral’s outward appearance. The outer walls were plastered and whitewashed. The church was bombed during the Russian civil war in 1918. Under Soviet rule, the Communists plundered its treasury and secularized the building, which became a museum. In the 1940s, the church again suffered under German occupation.
Saint Sophia Cathedral stands as a monument to the East Slavic cultural heritage that Russians and Ukrainians share. Its extraordinary Byzantine mosaics and frescoes have survived nearly a millennium.
Today, as during the Second World War, Ukraine has been invaded by a foreign army that threatens this heritage. Although Russia has assured the United Nations that its armed forces are taking “necessary precautions” to prevent damage to World Heritage sites, such as Saint Sophia, war is destructive and unpredictable. Whether Saint Sophia Cathedral remains undamaged during this latest invasion remains an open question.
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GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) _ Schneider National Inc. (SNDR) on Thursday reported second-quarter profit of $129.8 million.
On a per-share basis, the Green Bay, Wisconsin-based company said it had net income of 73 cents. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring gains, came to 72 cents per share.
The results surpassed Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of 14 analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 68 cents per share.
The trucking company posted revenue of $1.75 billion in the period, also surpassing Street forecasts. Fourteen analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $1.67 billion.
Schneider National expects full-year earnings in the range of $2.60 to $2.70 per share.
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MADRID (AP) — Spain’s Socialist-led coalition government wants large energy companies and banks to pay a windfall tax, which officials hope will yield around 7 billion euros (dollars) over two years.
The government delivered its proposal to parliament Thursday. A debate and vote by lawmakers were scheduled for after their summer recess.
Officials say the tax would apply to about 20 major corporations that would be prohibited from passing on the cost to customers. Under the government's proposal, watchdog bodies would monitor the companies for compliance.
Britain and Italy have adopted similar windfall taxes. Energy companies have seen bumper profits as prices of oil and natural gas soared in the wake of Russia’s war in Ukraine.
The Spanish government said proceeds from its tax would help pay for measures to alleviate a cost of living crisis, including high energy bills.
The proposal calls for energy companies with more than 1 billion euros (dollars) in revenue in 2019 to pay an additional 1.2% in tax on revenue this year and next. The government hopes that will raise 4 billion euros (dollars).
Financial institutions are expected to provide 3 billion euros through a 4.8% tax on their net interest and customer fees.
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KFAR-SAVA, Israel (AP) _ Silicom Ltd. (SILC) on Thursday reported net income of $4.5 million in its second quarter.
The Kfar-Sava, Israel-based company said it had net income of 67 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for stock option expense and non-recurring costs, came to 70 cents per share.
The provider of servers and network computing appliances posted revenue of $34.2 million in the period.
For the current quarter ending in October, Silicom said it expects revenue in the range of $38 million to $40 million.
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MADRID (AP) — Spain’s government has a message for women who are uncomfortable about their bodies when they wear bathing costumes: Don’t be.
The government’s Equality Ministry launched a summer campaign Thursday encouraging women to reject “stereotypes” and “aesthetical violence” — a reference to social pressure some women feel to conform to beauty ideals.
A poster advertising the campaign features women of different ages, sizes and skin colors in bathing costumes on a beach.
The slogan is, “Summer belongs to us, too.”
In a tweet, Equality Minister Irene Montero said: “Enjoy (the summer) however, wherever and with whoever you like.”
The head of the Women’s Institute, a government body, said gender stereotypes are at the root of discrimination based on physical appearance.
“Expectations are projected onto women about how they should look,” Antonia Morillas told state news agency Efe. “That doesn’t only affect our self-esteem, it also takes away our rights and limits how we behave in and whether we enjoy public spaces.”
Spain's Socialist-led coalition government, which came to power four years ago, has made women’s rights one of its political banners. The Cabinet has 14 women and eight men in ministerial positions.
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BALTIMORE (AP) _ T. Rowe Price Group Inc. (TROW) on Thursday reported second-quarter net income of $339.6 million.
The Baltimore-based company said it had net income of $1.46 per share. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, were $1.79 per share.
The results did not meet Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of five analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $2.24 per share.
The financial services firm posted revenue of $1.51 billion in the period, which also missed Street forecasts. Three analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $1.71 billion.
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TIGARD, Ore. (AP) — The City of Tigard, Oregon, will pay $3.8 million to the mother of 26-year-old Jacob Macduff, who was fatally shot by Tigard police while experiencing a mental health crisis outside of his apartment complex in January 2021.
As part of the wrongful death settlement agreement, the city agreed to undergo an independent review of their officer’s conduct during the shooting, the Oregonian/OregonLive reported.
The city also agreed to implement 15 changes to its policies and procedures, including training officers in de-escalation, moving up the timeline for implementing body-worn cameras and creating a mental health response team that will also serve Sherwood, Tualatin and King City.
According to the settlement, Tigard denies any “liability or fault or wrongdoing” related to the shooting. A representative for Tigard did not immediately respond Wednesday to an inquiry from The Oregonian/OregonLive.
At a news conference Wednesday, David Park, an attorney for the victim’s mother, Maria Macduff, showed police footage taken during the shooting and described a rapid and unexplained series of decisions by Tigard police officers that resulted in Jacob Macduff’s death.
Maria Macduff said in a statement provided by Park and another attorney that her son should never have died. “My deepest desire since this happened has been to do everything possible to make sure no other family loses a child the way I have,” she said. “I believe we’ve accomplished that.”
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CALGARY ALBERTA, Alberta (AP) _ TC Energy Corporation (TRP) on Thursday reported second-quarter profit of $722.5 million.
On a per-share basis, the Calgary Alberta, Alberta-based company said it had net income of 71 cents. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, were 78 cents per share.
The results surpassed Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of five analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 77 cents per share.
The energy infrastructure company posted revenue of $2.85 billion in the period.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tyler Perry will receive an honorary AARP award for uplifting communities and helping people “overcome various obstacles” through his foundation.
The organization announced Thursday that Perry will receive the honorary AARP Purpose Prize award during a virtual ceremony on Oct. 25. The famed filmmaker-actor- philanthropist will be recognized for his work through The Perry Foundation.
Perry’s foundation – which launched in 2006 – has focused on aiding several initiatives such as education, health, human rights, technology and global sustainability. Some of his charitable efforts include building a home for a great-grandmother of seven who lost everything in a fire; surprising kids with a trip to Disney World; and holding a camp quarantine at Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta.
Five individuals will be awarded the AARP Purpose Prize, which honors people ages 50 and older who are making a difference through their “knowledge and life experience.” The recipients include Zerqa Abid of Columbus, Ohio, whose MY Project USA empowers youth to become productive citizens and strong community leaders in the U.S.; Jamesetta Ferguson of Louisville, Kentucky, whose Molo Village CDC takes a holistic approach toward community development; Sharron Rush of Austin, Texas, whose Knowbility creates an inclusive digital world for people with disabilities; Bill Toone of Escondido, California, whose ECOLIFE Conservation aims to protect wildlife, natural resources and the people who depend on them; and Imani Woody of Washington, D.C., whose Mary’s House for Older Adults creates affordable and communal housing.
AARP said 10 previously named Purpose Prize fellows will also be honored. Each of them will receive a $10,000 award to further the mission of their organization.
AARP CEO Jo Ann Jenkins said the recipients “deserve all of the praise and recognition we have to offer for their exemplary work."
“We celebrate these inspiring individuals, who have used their decades of life experience to give back in a meaningful way, to be leaders in their communities, and to create a better future for us all,” Jenkins said.
AARP also announced the return of its Inspire Award for a second year. The general public can vote for the AARP Purpose Prize winner they want to win the award, which grants the recipient an additional $10,000 for their organization.
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GLEN HEAD, N.Y. (AP) _ The First of Long Island Corp. (FLIC) on Thursday reported second-quarter earnings of $12.5 million.
The bank, based in Glen Head, New York, said it had earnings of 54 cents per share.
The holding company for The First National Bank of Long Island posted revenue of $35.9 million in the period. Its revenue net of interest expense was $32.7 million, exceeding Street forecasts.
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Labor organizers at a Trader Joe's store in Massachusetts will find out Thursday if there is enough support among employees to form the chain's first union.
About 80 workers at the store in Hadley were expected to cast ballots over two days, said Maeg Yosef, a union organizer who has worked at Trader Joe's for 18 years.
The workers are organizing under the name Trader Joe’s United, which if successful, would be an independent union, and not affiliated with a larger existing union.
Workers from at least two other Trader Joe’s locations have initiated unionization efforts. Employees at a Minneapolis location have a union vote scheduled for Aug. 11 and 12, while the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 on Tuesday filed a union election petition with the National Labor Relations Board on behalf of crew members at a Boulder, Colorado store.
The Trader Joe's workers are part of a nationwide wave of employees at major companies who have or are attempting to unionize in an effort to secure a bigger say in their work conditions and compensation.
Workers at multiple Starbucks coffee shop locations across the country, as well as employees at Amazon, Apple and REI are among those who have joined unions in the past year.
Trader Joe’s management has engaged in what Yosef called “classic union-busting” tactics, including hiring a law firm specializing in fighting unionization to try and talk employees out of approving a union.
California-based Trader Joe’s, which has about 550 stores nationwide, also just announced an enhanced benefits package that includes more paid time off and better pay for some employees, which she said was an effort to head off unionization.
Trader Joe's has generous pay and benefits by retail industry standards, a company spokesperson said this week.
“Trader Joe’s is a great place to work and our compensation, benefits, flexibility, and working conditions are among the best when compared to any retailer,” Nakia Rohde said in an email. “We welcome a fair vote by our crew members.”
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NOVI, Mich. (AP) _ The Shyft Group, Inc. (SHYF) on Thursday reported second-quarter net income of $5.3 million.
On a per-share basis, the Novi, Michigan-based company said it had net income of 15 cents. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, were 21 cents per share.
The results topped Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of three analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 20 cents per share.
The maker of chassis for Last Mile Delivery, RVs and other vehicles posted revenue of $232.2 million in the period.
The Shyft Group expects full-year earnings in the range of 85 cents to $1.41 per share, with revenue in the range of $925 million to $1.1 billion.
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Tazreena Sajjad, American University School of International Service
(THE CONVERSATION) The U.K. government was due to begin its first deportation flight to remove asylum-seekers to the East African country of Rwanda on June 14, 2022, exactly two months after signing the U.K.-Rwanda agreement. The asylum-seekers were from several war-torn and politically unstable countries, including Syria, Sudan and Iran.
Each year, thousands of people – many fleeing repressive governments or poverty – attempt to cross the English Channel in fragile boats in the hope of starting a new life in the U.K.
Boris Johnson, the U.K. prime minister, defended the U.K.-Rwanda deal in June 2022, saying it would “remove the illegal cross-Channel trafficking of people whose lives are being put at risk.”
In exchange for Rwanda receiving the deportees, the U.K. has paid the country about US$142 million to cover the initial costs of operating the program as well as economic development projects in Rwanda.
The U.K. deportees were expected to integrate their lives into Rwandan social communities.
But the first Rwanda deportation flight did not take off as planned.
Deterring refugees and asylum-seekers
The European Court of Human Rights, the regional judicial human rights body in Europe, issued what are called interim urgent measures to stop the scheduled flights.
Such measures are most often issued in cases where there is imminent risk of death or torture.
Member states are bound by the decisions of the Court, and its rulings are enforced by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe – Europe’s leading human rights organization.
But instead of abiding by the decision, the U.K. government not only stressed its commitment to deportation flights, it also signaled its intention to pull out of the European Court of Human Rights.
As a scholar of refugees and postwar reconstruction, I see the deportation flights to Rwanda as part of a growing list of what are euphemistically known as migrant deterrence practices. These practices are used by Western countries to deter future migration of mainly people of color from countries in Latin America, Asia, Africa and Oceania, collectively known as the Global South.
In exchange for money paid to the receiving country, asylum-seekers are sent to those poorer countries to enable wealthier nations to circumvent international legal obligations to those seeking asylum.
Beyond Rwanda
The use of countries like Rwanda by Western states is on the rise.
The recent U.S.-Mexico Migrant Protection Protocol and the U.S.-Guatemala “third country safe” agreement follow a similar principle.
Since 1992, Australia has had a mandatory detention policy for “unauthorized” arrivals, which have included asylum-seekers.
Since 2001, it has also been removing asylum-seekers to Manus Island in Papua New Guinea and Nauru – a poor island country in the Pacific Ocean – for processing.
This has been the case even if arrivals applied for asylum in mainland Australia immediately upon arrival.
According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, “externalization of Australia’s asylum obligations has undermined the rights of those seeking safety and protection and significantly harmed their physical and mental health.”
European countries have also been pursuing similar programs with Libya, Morocco, Egypt, Tunisia and West African nations such as Nigeria.
They each provide financial aid packages to the respective low-income countries in exchange for preventing migrant mobility and absorbing deported asylum-seekers.
Thus far, Austria, Denmark and the Flemish far-right in Belgium have welcomed the U.K.-Rwanda agreement with the hope that more European states will seek partnerships with countries outside the continent to address irregular immigration.
Johnson’s resignation on July 7, 2022, is not expected to halt the U.K. government’s plans to continue deportations to Rwanda. But in a new turn of events, Rwanda said on July 22 that it can only accommodate 200 deported asylum-seekers and will not be able to stop their efforts to cross the English Channel again.
The 2022 Nationality and Borders Act
Deportations to Rwanda are part of the U.K.‘s 2022 Nationality and Borders Act, a law that drastically changed citizenship and asylum rules in the U.K.
In addition to deportations, the act allows the government to strip citizenship from British people without notice for reasons related to, among other things, national security or counterterrorism.
In the U.K., the reasons to strip citizenship can be defined broadly and may affect about 6 million Britons from immigrant backgrounds.
The 2022 Nationality and Borders Act also allows for the criminal prosecution of those who cross the English Channel on small boats to seek asylum.
The U.N. Refugee Agency has criticized the legislation on which the act is based for being at “odds with the United Kingdom’s international obligations under the Refugee Convention.” These obligations include “not expelling refugees who are lawfully in the territory except on grounds of national security or public order.”
Back into chaos
Deportations under such conditions are controversial because they are violations of the principle of non-refoulement in international refugee law.
The goal of the principle is to prevent individuals from being returned to countries where they have fled and may still be in danger of torture, persecution or death.
Despite this, the U.K. and other European countries have continued to deport asylum-seekers to such places.
Between 2007 and 2016, the U.K. deported 2,748 young people to war-torn and unstable countries such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Libya and Syria.
At least 605 of them were Afghans who had arrived unaccompanied as asylum-seeking children from their war-ravaged country.
According to Amnesty International, many of the deportees face arbitrary detention, kidnapping, torture and even death in the the countries where they’re sent.
In addition, studies have shown deportations like the kind that have taken place in Europe have caused long-term damage.
These include undue burdens on family members, such as loss of family income to meet basic needs, family separation that causes psychological damage including depression and trauma, especially in children.
Rwanda’s acceptance of asylum-seekers
In recent years, Rwanda has become a host country for approximately 130,000 refugees from around East Africa, particularly from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Burundi.
In addition, between 2013 and 2018, Israel paid $5,000 for every African migrant deported to Rwanda under a “voluntary” migration agreement.
Israel made a similar arrangement with Uganda. Under the terms of the controversial arrangement, several thousand Sudanese and Eritrean asylum-seekers had to choose between immigration detention in Israel or to “voluntarily” agree to be deported to Rwanda and Uganda.
Many of those deported to Rwanda have consistently struggled with lack of documentation and poverty, and have mostly fled the country and attempted to return to Europe.
Facing international and national criticism, the Israeli program was later abandoned.
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here: https://theconversation.com/western-countries-are-shipping-refugees-to-poorer-nations-in-exchange-for-cash-185758.
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PORTSMOUTH, Va. (AP) _ TowneBank (TOWN) on Thursday reported net income of $46.5 million in its second quarter.
The bank, based in Portsmouth, Virginia, said it had earnings of 64 cents per share.
The community bank posted revenue of $177.8 million in the period. Its revenue net of interest expense was $167 million, topping Street forecasts.
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Helen Kapstein, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
(THE CONVERSATION) “Beloved.” “The Hate U Give.” “Maus.” “Burger’s Daughter.”
Each of these books has been banned at some point in time, but one stands out. Instead of being banned in 21st-century America, Nadine Gordimer’s “Burger’s Daughter” was banned in 20th century South Africa during apartheid, that country’s period of official white supremacist rule.
So why include it in this list? Despite the decades and distance between bans on this book and the others, the rise in attempts to ban and censor books in America in 2022 looks an awful lot like what South African censors did during apartheid. I make this observation as a scholar who specializes in studying literature to better understand the intersections of race, oppression and resistance.
When apartheid censors – who operated under the Directorate of Publications – sought to crack down on what they found offensive, they used terms like “sedition,” “blasphemy” and “obscenity” to justify their acts. In the 2020s in the U.S., people who’d like to censor books use labels like “objectionable,” “pornographic” or “dangerous.” Then as now, the criteria used to censor books are so broad and subjective that almost any book could be challenged on practically any grounds.
To my eye, it’s almost as though would-be American censors have taken a page directly from the South African censors’ playbook. And it’s not just that they look similar in their rationale. Rather, in my view, it’s that they set out to squash political dissent and silence social debate. Here are the similarities I see:
1. Manufactured outrage
Outrage about the content of books is often disingenuous, misplaced or manufactured.
In 1972, South African author Alex La Guma, who was officially categorized as “coloured” under the country’s racist regime, had already been forced into exile. As a person banned by the South African government, his writing already couldn’t legally be distributed inside the country. Yet, his novel “In the Fog of the Seasons’ End” was still banned for threatening state security and good order. This bureaucratic overkill speaks to the urge to censor even when it’s absurd – the authorities were banning a book that by their own rules no one could read.
La Guma’s book depicted the death and torture in detention of an anti-apartheid resistance fighter, causing the censors to complain about the book’s “wild writing against the police.” But another of his novels, “The Stone Country,” was banned even though the censors themselves acknowledged that there was nothing in the plot that merited it. This shows their willingness to manufacture a threat where none exists.
In the United States in 2022, there are reports of parents shouting at school board meetings or storming town halls, upset about material their children are exposed to and demanding it be removed from school library shelves and classrooms. Are these headline-grabbing moments spontaneous, grassroots and earnest efforts to protect innocent young minds? Or are they highly orchestrated, heavily funded and deliberately manufactured schemes to advance an ultra-conservative agenda at the expense of free speech and expression? It can be hard to tell.
While we cannot know anyone’s intent for certain, we do know that when people act to limit a society’s access to literature and libraries, and therefore to other worlds and possibilities, it makes it easier to limit its political imagination.
2. White discomfort
South African censors objected that “Burger’s Daughter” brought Afrikaners – that is, South Africans of Dutch descent – into “ridicule and contempt,” fundamentally misunderstanding how the whites in the novel are depicted. The censors’ unimaginative defensiveness is much like the language of white “discomfort” we hear bandied about in current politics.
At the same time as South Dakota tried to pass a bill that forbade discussion of any history that causes white discomfort, Florida, in spring 2022, passed the “Individual Freedom” law, which states that “an individual should not be made to feel discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress on account of his or her race.” State Senator Shevrin Jones said, regarding the bill, “This was directed to make whites not feel bad about what happened years ago.”
3. Euphemism
The South African Publications Act may sound supportive of publishing but in fact was intended to censor and control it.
Likewise, the various acts and bills being passed in America today often slide through legislatures with deceptively bland names. For instance, Florida’s “K-12 Education” law requires all school materials be posted and searchable.
Proponents of the law said it was meant to help parents make decisions regarding their children’s education. But in reality, as pointed out by the National Coalition Against Censorship, the mechanism could discourage teachers and librarians from taking risks with teaching material that might lead to complaints from parents.
New legislation also sneaks through in euphemistic disguise, such as the wave of so-called “transparency bills” which use the language of transparency to embolden public scrutiny. Moreover, the bills themselves are not at all transparent.
One bill prohibits the discussion of “any controversial subject matter”, and another mixed up two historical figures. Vague wording, undefined terms, contradictory language and factual errors all make them more “sweeping” and “draconian,” as PEN America describes them.
4. Proxy wars
Hand-wringing over what’s “age-appropriate” is often a proxy today for suppressing other, potentially controversial conversations about subjects like sexuality.
In South Africa under apartheid, such a conversation was the mixing of races. “Burger’s Daughter,” for instance, was called “indecent” partly because a Black child and a white child play together in it.
Here in the U.S., books are also called “objectionable” by lawmakers and parents for reasons other than the real ones. Toni Morrison’s “Beloved,” for example, gets an “NSC … not suitable material or conduct for minors per existing statute” rating for sections mentioning the “n word,” among other objections, from the Florida Citizen’s Alliance 2021 Porn in Schools report.
Ironically, the report labels itself as “contain[ing] objectionable and potentially offensive material.”
In January, a school board in Tennessee removed “Maus” from the curriculum in the name of “inappropriate words” and “objectionable language,” including profanity. However, some people, including the graphic novel’s author, Art Spiegelman, believe the real reason it was removed was disinterest in or discomfort with Holocaust education on the part of Tennessee lawmakers.
5. Unbanning and other doublespeak
“Burger’s Daughter” was first banned under the 1974 Publications Act and then unbanned. Gordimer, however, saw the lifting of the ban as a charade to make the apartheid regime look more fairminded.
A Virginia court ruling also exposes the murky area between banning and unbanning. In May 2022, a Virginia Beach judge declared two books “obscene for unrestricted viewing by minors.” Even though schools and bookstores might now be prohibited from distributing the books to young readers without parental consent, the attorney who won the case insists that, “It doesn’t mean the books are banned. It doesn’t mean we’re burning books or infringing on free speech.”
These rulings, in my view, are largely political theater. If proponents of censorship in the U.S. today are thumbing through the South African playbook, they might learn that it’s savvy to sound tolerant, if only for show.
After all, South African censors were devious enough to figure that banned books were of more use to the anti-apartheid movement because they they’d get notoriety. If the book were no longer banned, then they’d lose much of their appeal. They knew the threat of banning can actually backfire and generate more interest in the books.
Our modern American censors may be cribbing from South Africa’s notes, but they should read to the end of the history book. Despite its repressive tactics, that white minority government could not stay in power, and it was apartheid itself that wound up banned. There’s a lesson for the books.
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here: https://theconversation.com/what-the-us-can-learn-about-apartheid-era-book-bans-in-south-africa-185114.
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BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. (AP) _ TriMas Corp. (TRS) on Thursday reported profit of $19.9 million in its second quarter.
The Bloomfield Hills, Michigan-based company said it had profit of 47 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, came to 60 cents per share.
The maker of packaging materials, aerospace components and other engineered parts posted revenue of $237.7 million in the period.
TriMas expects full-year earnings in the range of $2.25 to $2.35 per share.
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DANBURY, Conn. (AP) — Police officers found a woman and three children aged 5 through 12 dead at a home in Connecticut.
Officers went to the home in Danbury at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday for a wellbeing check after a call from a man who was distraught and crying, Chief Patrick Ridenhour told the New Haven Register.
Officers found the three children dead in the house and a woman dead in a shed in the backyard.
Police in the city about 50 miles (80 kilometers) northeast of New York City did not release the names of the woman or children. They said it appeared to be an isolated incident and there was no immediate threat to the public.
No arrests had been made as of Thursday morning.
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) _ United Bankshares Inc. (UBSI) on Thursday reported net income of $95.6 million in its second quarter.
The bank, based in Charleston, West Virginia, said it had earnings of 71 cents per share.
The holding company for United Bank posted revenue of $271.4 million in the period. Its revenue net of interest expense was $258.5 million, which beat Street forecasts.
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WEST DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ West Bancorp Inc. (WTBA) on Thursday reported earnings of $12.7 million in its second quarter.
On a per-share basis, the West Des Moines, Iowa-based company said it had profit of 75 cents.
The holding company for West Bank posted revenue of $31.2 million in the period. Its adjusted revenue was $26.5 million.
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Jonathan B. Santo, University of Nebraska Omaha and Kelly Rhea MacArthur, University of Nebraska Omaha
(THE CONVERSATION) The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.
The big idea
Women in statistics classes do better academically than men over a semester despite having more negative attitudes regarding their own abilities, according to our recent study in the Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education.
Using data from more than 100 male and female students from multiple statistics classes, my colleagueand I assessed gender differences in grades over the course of a semester. As part of the study, students also answered surveys at the start and end of the semester that measured six different things: their fear of statistics teachers in general; their thoughts about the usefulness of statistics; their perceptions of their own mathematical ability; their anxiety in taking tests; their anxiety in interpreting statistics; and their fear of asking for help.
Overall, we found that students with more negative perceptions of their own mathematical ability had lower grades over the course of the semester. What’s even more interesting are the gender differences that emerged.
Even though men and women scored similarly on exams at the start of the semester, women finished the semester with almost 10% higher final exam grades. This was the case even though women had significantly worse attitudes about their mathematical abilities at the start of the semester than their male counterparts.
At the beginning of the semester specifically, women were more likely to rate their mathematical abilities as lower than men in the class and report more anxiety toward exams and toward interpreting statistical findings. However, each of these self-assessments improved over the course of the semester such that women’s attitudes didn’t differ from men’s by the end.
Meanwhile, the grades of male students who reported fear of statistics teachers or fear of asking for help decreased more sharply over the course of the semester. For men whose attitudes improved during the semester, grades also improved – though not as much as women’s grades improved.
Why it matters
A number of studies have shown that from an early age, boys and girls learn math equally well.
However, girls are less likely to be called on in math classes than boys, even when they raise their hands as much as boys do. Moreover, some teachers unconsciously grade girls’ math tests more harshly than boys’. By middle school, gender differences in math scores emerge. These factors may contribute to adult women’s being more likely to rate themselves as less mathematically skilled than men. As a result, women are also less likely to pursue STEM – science, technology, engineering and math – occupations.
The results from our study, in line with others, bolster the notion that women have the potential to do as well as men, and even better, in STEM fields, such as statistics. We contend that women would benefit from additional mentoring to encourage them as they begin pursuing STEM-related education.
What still isn’t known
The evidence above provides hints at some of the causes of the gender discrepancy in perceived ability. However, there is much we still don’t know.
For example, why did the attitudes of the women in our study improve over time? Was it based on their confidence in their abilities as their grades improved, or did their statistics teachers influence their perception of their own abilities over time?
More research is needed to understand exactly how women differed from men in their attitudes over the course of the school semester, among other questions. In particular, we’d like to disentangle exactly which classroom or instructor factors can lead to better attitudes among students, ultimately translating to better grades.
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here: https://theconversation.com/women-are-better-at-statistics-than-they-think-164676.
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ADDISON, Texas (AP) _ Wingstop Inc. (WING) on Thursday reported second-quarter profit of $13.3 million.
On a per-share basis, the Addison, Texas-based company said it had net income of 44 cents. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, were 45 cents per share.
The results beat Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of 10 analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 35 cents per share.
The restaurant chain posted revenue of $83.8 million in the period, missing Street forecasts. Ten analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $84.8 million.
Wingstop expects full-year earnings to be $1.55 to $1.57 per share.
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Lauren Pearl is giving new meaning to the term high-flying soprano.
Sure, her latest venture calls for her to sing up to a high C, but plenty of operatic heroines have to do that. What’s different in Pearl’s case is that she will be singing while scaling a 60-foot brick wall.
Pearl is performing the role of Louise in “Gould’s Wall,” a work that is receiving its world premiere at Toronto’s adventuresome Tapestry Opera beginning Aug. 4.
The opera is the brainchild of composer Brian Current, who regularly passes the wall on his way to work with students at the Glenn Gould School, which is housed in Toronto’s Royal Conservatory of Music. The brick facade is a remnant of a building that dates back to 1881, and it was preserved when the conservatory got a new, modern facility.
“That vertical space was just crying out for something to happen,” Current said. “With singers climbing on the walls, and the audience in the atrium looking up.”
He enlisted Liza Balkan, a performer, director and writer, who created a libretto that, as she said, tells “the story of a young artist, a woman, climbing the wall as a journey toward finding her own voice, the readiness to fly and soar.”
Along the way she encounters numerous characters who are harnessed to windows on the wall. Singing from below is Gould himself — the legendary pianist known for perfectionism who remains one of Canada’s most revered classical music figures nearly 40 years after his death.
“He is a presence in the building always,” Balkan said, and in the opera “he is there to support and also interrogate” the artist on her journey.
To play Louise, the company engaged Pearl, who was not a climber but had been training as an aerialist after, as she explained, “I fell in love with a circus performer.”
“I felt the story was very resonant and uplifting and inspiring,” Pearl said. “I thought immediately, I want to do that. But yeah, it’s daunting. It’s a high space.”
She has been practicing on the wall with the help of DangerBoy, a company whose website says it specializes in “stunts, rigging and special effects.” For the performances, Pearl will be securely fastened to a harness with a carabiner for extra protection.
Pearl said she found that singing while suspended from ropes and scaling a wall requires some adjustment in her vocal technique. ”There needs to be a line of energy through my entire body,” she said. “A greater awareness of tension and support.”
Current’s score, which runs about an hour, will be played by an orchestra consisting of five pianos along with an ensemble of brass, winds, strings and percussion.
The audience of just over 100 will be divided into sections, with prime seating on the atrium floor in reclining chairs angled to provide an easy view of the ascent.
“We thought at first of having people lie on mats,” Current said. “But our audience is largely people who aren’t 20.”
Other spectators will be on a balcony of the new building across from the wall. “Then you’re almost at the same level of the singers and also looking down and you can see the orchestra down below,” Current said.
Tom Comet, head rigger for DangerBoy, said the technical aspect of supporting Pearl’s climb is “pretty simple stuff. We’re pulling on a rope, we’re pulling some ropes through some pulleys, we’re redirecting that line.
“That said,” Comet added, “anytime we have human life in our hands … we need to be 100,000% sure that everything’s going to work as we anticipate.
“For me,” Comet said, “the coolest thing is that Lauren is actually belting out opera fearlessly while she’s suspended in the air, 40-50 feet up. It’s gonna be pretty incredible to experience.”
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Paul M. Collins, Jr., UMass Amherst and Artemus Ward, Northern Illinois University
(THE CONVERSATION) Following the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturning half a century of abortion rights under Roe v. Wade, nearly two-thirds of Americans want fundamental court reform, specifically term limits for Supreme Court justices.
Indeed, on July 25, 2022, Democrats introduced a bill that would allow a new justice to take the bench every two years and spend 18 years in active service.
The majority that overturned Roe was possible only because of the current system in which justices serve for life and are therefore able to choose when and whether to step down.
Justice Amy Coney Barrett owes her seat to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s refusal to retire under a Democratic president and her subsequent death under a Republican.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh is on the court because of Reagan appointee Justice Anthony Kennedy’s decision to step down under a GOP administration. Justice Neil Gorsuch was appointed after conservative Justice Antonin Scalia happened to die after President Donald Trump took office.
The author of the opinion in Dobbs, Justice Samuel Alito, took his seat when Republican Justice Sandra Day O’Connor chose to leave under President George W. Bush.
Justice Clarence Thomas – the leader of the court’s conservative majority – has served on the high court for over three decades and is there only because liberal icon Justice Thurgood Marshall refused to retire under a Democratic president and subsequently died with a Republican in office.
All federal judges in the U.S., including Supreme Court justices, enjoy life tenure.
Under Article 3 of the Constitution, justices cannot be forced out of office against their will, barring impeachment. This provision, which followed the precedent of Great Britain, is meant to ensure judicial independence that allows judges to render decisions based on their understandings of the law – free from political, social and electoral influences.
Our extensive research on the Supreme Court shows life tenure, while well intended, has had unforeseen consequences.
It skews how the confirmation process and judicialdecision-making work and causes justices who want to retire to behave like political operatives.
Problems with lifetime tenure
Life tenure has motivated presidents to pick younger and younger justices.
In the post-World War II era, presidents generally forgo appointing jurists in their 60s, who would bring a great deal of experience, and instead nominate judges in their 40s or 50s, who could serve on the court for many decades.
And they do.
When Thomas was appointed at age 43 by President George H.W. Bush in 1991, he famously said he would serve for 43 years. There are another dozen years until his promise is met, should he choose to keep it at all.
Partisanship problems
Justices change during their decades on the bench, research shows.
Justices who at the time of their confirmation espoused views that reflected the general public, the Senate and the president who appointed them tend to move away from those preferences over time. They become more ideological, focused on putting their own policy preferences into law.
Other Americans’ political preferences tend to be stable throughout their lives.
The consequence is that Supreme Court justices may no longer reflect the America they preside over.
This can be problematic.
If the court were to routinely stray too far from the public’s values, the public could reject its dictates by refusing to follow the court’s decisions. The Supreme Court relies on public confidence to maintain its legitimacy. In addition to public resistance to its decisions, if the court lost its legitimacy, lower court judges and legislative and executive branch actors might resist implementing the court’s rulings.
Life tenure has also turned staffing the Supreme Court into an increasingly partisan process, politicizing one of the nation’s most powerful institutions.
In the 1980s and 1990s, Supreme Court nominees could generally expect broad, bipartisan support in the Senate. Today, judicial confirmation votes are almost strictly down party lines.
Public support for judicial nominees is likewise shaped by partisanship. Simply put, Democrats are much more supportive of nominees appointed by Democratic presidents, and Republicans are much more supportive of nominees appointed by Republican presidents.
Life tenure can turn supposedly independent judges into political players who attempt to time their departures to secure their preferred successors – and this may have factored in to Justice Stephen Breyer’s decision this year under President Joe Biden, a Democrat.
Biden appointed Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, one of Breyer’s former clerks, to replace him.
The proposed solution
Many Supreme Courtexperts have coalesced around a solution to these problems: staggered 18-year terms with a vacancy automatically occurring every two years in nonelection years.
This system would promote judicial legitimacy, they argue, by taking departure decisions out of the justices’ hands.
It would help insulate the court from becoming a campaign issue because vacancies would no longer arise during election years. Indeed, even if a justice died during an election year, a lower court judge could be temporarily elevated as a replacement. Term limits would also preserve judicial independence by shielding the court from political calls to fundamentally alter the institution.
Partisanship would still tinge the selection and confirmation of judges by the president and Senate and ideological extremists could still reach the Supreme Court. But they would be limited to 18-year terms.
Instituting life tenure
The U.S. Supreme Court is one of the world’s few high courts whose members have life tenure.
Almost all democratic nations have either fixed terms or mandatory retirement ages for their top judges, including the United Kingdom.
Except for Rhode Island, all U.S. states either have mandatory retirement ages or let voters choose when judges leave the bench through judicial elections.
Even before Dobbs, polling consistently showed a large bipartisanmajority of Americans supported ending life tenure for Supreme Court justices.
This view comes amid reports of eroding public confidence as the court routinely issues decisions down partisan lines on the day’s most controversial issues.
Although judges’ ideology has long influenced Supreme Court decisions, today’s court is unusual because all the conservative justices are Republicans and all the liberal justices are Democrats. In the past, it was not uncommon to have liberal-leaning justices who were appointed by Republican presidents, and conservative-leaning justices who were appointed by Democratic presidents.
In April 2021, President Biden formed a committee to examine reforming the Supreme Court, including term-limiting justices.
Some argue that to end the justices’ life tenure would require a constitutional amendment necessitating approval from two-thirds of both houses of Congress and three-fourths of U.S. states. But there is a way to enact term limits short of amendment.
The Constitution does not speak of “life tenure” per se. It states only that justices serve “during good behavior” and does not specify the type of work that justices will do.
As a result, ordinary legislation – such as that introduced this week – could be passed by a majority of both houses of Congress that would require justices to take “senior status” at the end of their 18-year terms.
Senior status is already an option for justices who qualify for it and wish to step down from their Supreme Court duties. Senior status allows them either to retire or to sit on a lower court with undiminished salary for the remainder of their careers.
All that is needed, these proponents argue, is a change in the existing retirement statute that requires senior status after 18 years on the court.
And while there are questions over whether term limits via statute are constitutional, or whether the Supreme Court justices who would be affected by them are the appropriate body to make such a determination, the larger question is whether there is or will be the political will in Congress to enact them.
This story has been updated from the original version published on July 6, 2021.
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PARIS (AP) — A rights group says it filed a legal complaint in Paris alleging Saudi crown prince's complicity in journalist's killing.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — US economy shrank at a 0.9% rate from April through June, 2nd straight quarterly contraction.
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WFO BUFFALO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, July 28, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Buffalo NY
848 AM EDT Thu Jul 28 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southwestern Erie
and northeastern Chautauqua Counties through 930 AM EDT...
At 847 AM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Dunkirk, moving east at 35 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and brief heavy downpours.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.
Locations impacted include...
Dunkirk, Fredonia, Evans, Eden, Silver Creek, Angola, North Collins,
Lake Erie State Park, Derby, Evangola State Park, Angola on the Lake,
Sheridan, Brocton and Farnham.
This includes Interstate 90 between exits 59 and 57A.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
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4259 7919 4264 7916 4267 7912 4272 7909
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TIME...MOT...LOC 1247Z 249DEG 32KT 4250 7937
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
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VIENNA (AP) — Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer welcomed Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Vienna on Thursday for bilateral talks that focused on migration as well as on the war in Ukraine and its consequences.
The meeting of the two central European leaders came only days after one of Orban’s closest associates resigned in protest over what she called a “pure Nazi” speech given by the Hungarian prime minister in which he railed against Europe becoming a “mixed race” society.
Nehammer sought to quickly distance himself from Orban's controversial remarks, telling reporters in Vienna that he made clear to the Hungarian prime minister that “we in Austria reject, condemn in the strongest terms, any form of trivialization or relativization of racism or even antisemitism.”
While Orban’s anti-migrant stance and criticism of Western liberal values have long prompted a backlash, Saturday’s speech sparked a fresh wave of outrage throughout Europe and from the opposition in Hungary. In it, Orban declared that countries with large-scale migration from outside of Europe “are no longer nations.”
While Orban did not explicitly repeat these remarks in Vienna on Thursday, he stressed his anti-migration agenda and insisted on what he saw as the need to defend his country's culture against outside influence.
“I don’t want Hungary to become an immigration country and I don’t want migration to become stronger in Hungary," he said. "I have always held this point of view and I will continue to do so, this has no biological basis. This is not a racial issue for us. This is a question of culture. Quite simply, our civilization should be preserved as it is now.”
Nehammer, for his part, depicted migration as a “challenge” that needs to be fought.
Austria has taken in over 80,000 refugees from Ukraine and around 30,000 additional asylum applications during the first half of the year, the chancellor pointed out, calling the arrival of these people “challenges that Austria is actually facing now in addition to the energy crisis, in addition to inflation, in addition to the pandemic.”
In comparison, Germany has registered more than 900,000 refugees only from Ukraine since the outbreak of the war.
Both the Austrian and Hungarian leaders said their countries were planning a conference with Serbia on how to “curb irregular migration.”
Nehammer and Orban said they also discussed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and its consequences on Europe, especially regarding sanctions against Russian energy exports, as well the two countries' economic ties.
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WA Portland OR Zone Forecast for Wednesday, July 27, 2022
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266 FPUS56 KPQR 281151
ZFPPQR
Zone Forecasts for Northwest Oregon and Southwest Washington
National Weather Service Portland OR
451 AM PDT Thu Jul 28 2022
Spot Temperatures are for Today, Tonight, Friday, Friday
Night, and Saturday.
WAZ021-290100-
South Washington Coast-
Including the cities of Raymond, Long Beach, Ocean Park, Naselle,
Cathlamet, and Cape Disappointment
451 AM PDT Thu Jul 28 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy, then partly cloudy early in the
afternoon, then mostly sunny. Patchy morning fog. Highs 70 to 80.
Light wind becoming northwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy.
Patchy fog overnight. Lows 55 to 60. Northwest wind 5 to 10 mph
becoming light after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Patchy morning fog. Highs 70 to 80.
Light wind becoming west 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 55 to 60. Northwest wind 5 to
10 mph becoming light after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 70 to 80. Light wind becoming
northwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 55 to 60.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs 70 to 75.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy.
Lows 55 to 60.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs 65 to 70.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 55.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers in the
morning. Highs 65 to 70.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 55.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs 65 to 70.
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WAZ020-290100-
Willapa Hills-
Including the cities of Willapa, Frances, Elk Mountain,
and Ryderwood
451 AM PDT Thu Jul 28 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM PDT SATURDAY...
.TODAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then mostly sunny. Patchy
morning fog. Highs 80 to 85. Light wind becoming northwest 5 to
10 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Patchy fog after midnight. Lows 60 to
65. Northwest wind 5 to 10 mph becoming light after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Patchy morning fog. Highs 85 to 90. Light
wind becoming northwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 60. Northwest wind 5 to
10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 80 to 90. Light wind.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear in the evening, then partly cloudy. Lows
55 to 60.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 75 to 80.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy.
Lows 55 to 60.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs 65 to 70.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 55.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs 65 to 70.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 50 to 55.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 65 to 70.
$$
WAZ040-290100-
South Washington Cascade Foothills-
Including the cities of Toutle, Ariel, Lake Merwin, Yale Lake,
and Cougar
451 AM PDT Thu Jul 28 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM PDT SATURDAY...
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Hot. Highs 90 to 95. Light wind becoming
northwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 65. Northwest wind 5 to
10 mph becoming light after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot. Highs 90 to 95. Light wind becoming
northwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 65. Northwest wind 5 to
10 mph becoming light after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot. Highs 85 to 95. Light wind
becoming northwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 60 to 65.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 80 to 90.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 60.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 70 to 75.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 55 to 60.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers.
Highs 65 to 70.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 55.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 70 to 75.
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WAZ019-290100-
South Washington Cascades-
Including the cities of Coldwater Ridge Visitors Center,
Mount St. Helens, and Wind River Valley
451 AM PDT Thu Jul 28 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM PDT SATURDAY BELOW
4000 FEET...
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Free air freezing level 15000 feet. Light
wind becoming northwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Free air freezing level 15000 feet.
North wind 5 to 10 mph shifting to the east after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Free air freezing level 15000 feet rising
to 16000 feet in the afternoon. Hot. Light wind becoming west
5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Free air freezing level 16000 feet.
North wind 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Free air freezing level 15000 feet. Light wind
becoming west 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Free air freezing level
16000 feet.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Free air freezing level 16000 feet.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Free air freezing level
15000 feet.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers. Snow
level above 8000 feet.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Free air freezing level
15000 feet.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers.
Snow level above 8000 feet.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Free air freezing level
14000 feet.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then mostly sunny.
Free air freezing level 14000 feet lowering to 13000 feet in the
afternoon.
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ASHBURN, Va. (AP) — Washington Commanders Dan Snyder has begun testifying before a congressional committee investigating the NFL team’s history of workplace misconduct.
A spokesperson for the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Reform confirmed Snyder began giving his deposition Thursday morning virtually and in private. The hearing is not public.
The spokesperson said in a statement on behalf of the committee: “Snyder has committed to providing full and complete testimony, and to answer the Committee’s questions about his knowledge of and contributions to the Commanders’ toxic work environment, as well as his efforts to interfere with the NFL’s internal investigation, without hiding behind non-disclosure or other confidentiality agreements.”
Snyder, who is in Israel, agreed to testify voluntarily after committee members worked out some issues with his legal team on the terms of his deposition. The committee had previously agreed to have Snyder testify under the terms of a subpoena it had initially issued.
The committee has the discretion to decide what, if any, information it releases from Snyder’s deposition. The hearing is not being recorded, though a transcript is expected.
Snyder is testifying a month after NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell appeared before the committee via Zoom to discuss Washington's workplace culture and the league's investigation into it. Snyder was invited to testify at the same hearing and, through a lawyer, declined.
The committee launched this investigation last year after the league fined Washington $10 million following its review of workplace misconduct but did not release a written report of attorney Beth Wilkinson's findings.
Washington opened training camp on Wednesday in Ashburn, Virginia.
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WA Seattle WA Zone Forecast for Wednesday, July 27, 2022
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679 FPUS56 KSEW 281245
ZFPSEW
Zone Forecast Product for Western Washington
National Weather Service Seattle WA
544 AM PDT Thu Jul 28 2022
Spot temperatures and probabilities of measurable precipitation
are for today, tonight, and Friday.
WAZ558-282300-
Seattle and Vicinity-
Including the cities of Seattle, Shoreline, Federal Way, and Kent
544 AM PDT Thu Jul 28 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM PDT SATURDAY...
.TODAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the mid 80s to lower 90s. Light
wind becoming northwest 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the 60s. North wind 10 to 15 mph
decreasing to 10 mph or less after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s to lower 90s. Light wind
becoming northwest to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the 60s. North wind to 10 mph in
the evening becoming light.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s to lower 90s. North wind
to 10 mph becoming northwest in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower to mid 60s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 60s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a slight chance of rain. Highs in the
mid to upper 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a slight chance of rain after midnight. Lows near 60.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of rain in the morning.
Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid to upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 70s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Seattle 92 66 93 / 0 0 0
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WAZ559-282300-
Bremerton and Vicinity-
Including the cities of Bremerton and Silverdale
544 AM PDT Thu Jul 28 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM PDT SATURDAY...
.TODAY...Clear then becoming partly sunny in the morning then
becoming sunny. Highs in the 80s to lower 90s. Light wind
becoming northeast to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 60s. Northeast
wind 10 to 15 mph becoming north after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s to lower 90s. Light wind
becoming northeast to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower to mid 60s. Northeast
wind 10 to 15 mph becoming north after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s to lower 90s. Light wind
becoming north 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 60s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows near 60.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a slight chance of rain. Highs in the
mid to upper 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a slight chance of rain after midnight. Lows in the upper
50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of rain in the morning.
Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the 70s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Bremerton 92 64 93 / 0 0 0
$$
WAZ507-282300-
Everett and Vicinity-
Including the cities of Everett, Edmonds, Lynnwood, Marysville,
and Arlington
544 AM PDT Thu Jul 28 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM PDT SATURDAY...
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s to mid 80s. North wind to
10 mph in the morning becoming light, then becoming northwest to
10 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
Northwest wind to 10 mph becoming north after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 80s. Light wind becoming west to
10 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower to mid 60s. Northwest
wind to 10 mph becoming north after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s to mid 80s. Northwest
wind to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a slight chance of rain after midnight. Lows in the upper
50s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain in the morning.
Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid to upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Edmonds 83 63 85 / 0 0 0
Everett 84 63 86 / 0 0 0
$$
WAZ509-282300-
Tacoma Area-
Including the cities of Tacoma, Lakewood, Puyallup, and Sumner
544 AM PDT Thu Jul 28 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM PDT SATURDAY...
.TODAY...Clear then becoming mostly sunny in the morning then
becoming sunny. Highs in the upper 80s to mid 90s. Light wind
becoming north to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower to mid 60s. North wind to
10 mph becoming northwest after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s to mid 90s. Light wind.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower to mid 60s. Light wind.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s to mid 90s. Light wind
becoming north to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 60s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a slight chance of rain. Highs in the
mid to upper 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a slight chance of rain after midnight. Lows in the upper
50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with a slight chance of rain. Highs in
the lower to mid 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 70s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Puyallup 94 66 96 / 0 0 0
Tacoma 94 64 95 / 0 0 0
$$
WAZ556-282300-
Bellevue and Vicinity-
Including the cities of Bellevue, Kirkland, Redmond, and Issaquah
544 AM PDT Thu Jul 28 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM PDT SATURDAY...
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s to mid 90s. North wind to
10 mph in the morning becoming light, then becoming north around
10 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the 60s. North wind to 10 mph becoming
northeast after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s to mid 90s. Light wind
becoming northwest to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the 60s. Northwest wind to 10 mph
becoming northeast after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s to mid 90s. Light wind
becoming northwest around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower to mid 60s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s to lower 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a slight chance of rain after midnight. Lows near 60.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of rain in the morning.
Highs in the mid 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid to upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 70s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Bellevue 93 66 93 / 0 0 0
$$
WAZ555-282300-
East Puget Sound Lowlands-
Including the cities of Gold Bar, Enumclaw, North Bend,
and Buckley
544 AM PDT Thu Jul 28 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM PDT SATURDAY...
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s to mid 90s. Light wind
becoming north to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the 60s. North wind to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 90s. Light wind becoming northwest
to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the 60s. North wind to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s to mid 90s. Light wind
becoming northwest to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower to mid 60s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs near 90.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a slight chance of rain. Highs in the
mid to upper 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. A slight chance of rain. Lows in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with a slight chance of rain. Highs in
the lower to mid 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of rain in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid to upper 70s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Gold Bar 95 68 96 / 0 0 0
Enumclaw 94 66 95 / 0 0 0
North Bend 96 67 98 / 0 0 0
$$
WAZ503-282300-
Western Whatcom County-
Including the cities of Bellingham, Blaine, and Lynden
544 AM PDT Thu Jul 28 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM PDT SATURDAY...
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the 80s. South wind 10 to 15 mph
becoming southwest in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the 60s. Southwest wind to
10 mph becoming southeast after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 80s. Light wind becoming southwest
to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 60s.
Southwest wind to 10 mph becoming south after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 80s. South wind to 10 mph
becoming west in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a slight chance of rain. Highs in the
70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. A slight chance of rain. Lows near 60.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of rain in the morning.
Highs near 70.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid to upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny with a slight chance of rain. Highs in
the lower to mid 70s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Bellingham 82 63 84 / 0 0 0
Sumas 92 66 93 / 0 0 0
$$
WAZ506-282300-
Western Skagit County-
Including the cities of Mount Vernon, Anacortes, Sedro-Woolley,
and Burlington
544 AM PDT Thu Jul 28 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM PDT SATURDAY...
.TODAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the mid 70s to lower 80s. South
wind to 10 mph becoming west in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s to mid 60s. West
wind to 10 mph becoming south after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s to mid 80s. Light wind
becoming west to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
West wind to 10 mph becoming south after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s to mid 80s. Northwest
wind to 10 mph increasing to 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows near 60.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s to mid 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows near 60.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a slight chance of rain. Highs in the
lower to mid 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain. Lows
in the mid to upper 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of rain in the morning.
Highs near 70.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny with a slight chance of rain. Highs in
the lower to mid 70s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Anacortes 79 59 80 / 0 0 0
Mount Vernon 86 62 87 / 0 0 0
$$
WAZ001-282300-
San Juan County-
Including the cities of Friday Harbor, Eastsound,
and Roche Harbor
544 AM PDT Thu Jul 28 2022
.TODAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the mid 70s to lower 80s.
Southeast wind to 10 mph becoming southwest in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s to lower 60s.
Southwest wind to 10 mph becoming east after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to lower 80s. Light wind
becoming southwest to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s to lower 60s.
South wind to 10 mph becoming north after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to lower 80s. North wind
to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s to lower 60s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s to lower 60s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a slight chance of rain. Highs in the
lower to mid 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of rain after
midnight. Lows in the mid to upper 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with a slight chance of rain. Highs near
70.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny with a slight chance of rain. Highs
near 70.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Friday Harbor 80 56 80 / 0 0 0
Eastsound 77 61 78 / 0 0 0
$$
WAZ510-282300-
Admiralty Inlet Area-
Including the cities of Port Townsend and Port Ludlow
544 AM PDT Thu Jul 28 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs
in the mid 70s to lower 80s. South wind to 10 mph becoming
southwest in the morning, then becoming northwest in the
afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s to lower 60s.
Northwest wind 10 to 15 mph becoming west after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to lower 80s. West wind
10 to 15 mph decreasing to 10 mph or less in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s to lower 60s.
West wind to 10 mph increasing to 10 to 15 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to lower 80s. Northwest
wind to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows near 60.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to lower 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a slight chance of rain after midnight. Lows in the mid to
upper 50s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain in the morning.
Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of rain in the
morning. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Oak Harbor 73 57 74 / 0 0 0
Port Townsend 77 57 78 / 0 0 0
$$
WAZ511-282300-
Hood Canal Area-
Including the cities of Hoodsport and Brinnon
544 AM PDT Thu Jul 28 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM PDT SATURDAY...
.TODAY...Clear then becoming partly sunny in the morning then
becoming mostly sunny then becoming sunny in the afternoon. Highs
in the 80s. Light wind becoming southeast 10 to 15 mph in the
afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the 60s. Northeast wind 10 to 15 mph in
the evening becoming light.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 80s to lower 90s. Southwest wind to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the 60s. Southwest wind 10 to
15 mph becoming west after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 80s to lower 90s. East wind to
10 mph becoming north in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 60s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows near 60.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a slight chance of rain. Highs in the
70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid to upper 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of rain in the morning.
Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the 70s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Shelton 92 62 95 / 0 0 0
$$
WAZ504-282300-
Southwest Interior-
Including the cities of Olympia, Lacey, Tumwater, Centralia,
and Toledo
544 AM PDT Thu Jul 28 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM PDT SATURDAY...
.TODAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the upper 80s to mid 90s. Light
wind becoming north to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower to mid 60s. North wind to
10 mph becoming northwest after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 90s. Light wind becoming north to
10 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
Northwest wind 10 to 15 mph becoming west after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 90s. Light wind becoming north to
10 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows near 60.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows near 60.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid to upper 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of rain in the morning.
Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 70s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Chehalis 93 62 96 / 0 0 0
Olympia 94 60 96 / 0 0 0
$$
WAZ512-282300-
Lower Chehalis Valley Area-
Including the city of Montesano
544 AM PDT Thu Jul 28 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM PDT SATURDAY...
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy then becoming mostly sunny late in the
morning then becoming sunny. Highs in the 80s. Southwest wind to
10 mph in the morning becoming light, then becoming west to
10 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s to lower 60s. West
wind to 10 mph becoming southwest after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 80s. Southwest wind to 10 mph
becoming west in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s to lower 60s.
West wind to 10 mph becoming southwest after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s to lower 90s. Light wind
becoming west to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s to mid 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of rain in the morning.
Highs near 70.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
$$
WAZ514-282300-
Eastern Strait of Juan de Fuca-
Including the cities of Sequim and Port Angeles
544 AM PDT Thu Jul 28 2022
.TODAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the upper 70s to mid 80s. Wind
variable to 10 mph becoming northwest 10 to 15 mph in the
afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s to mid 60s. West
wind 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s to mid 80s. West wind
10 to 15 mph becoming northwest in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower to mid 60s. West wind
10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s to mid 80s. Wind
variable to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows near 60.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to lower 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs near 70.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of rain in the morning.
Highs in the mid to upper 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs near 70.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Port Angeles 78 60 79 / 0 0 0
Sequim 82 61 83 / 0 0 0
$$
WAZ515-282300-
Western Strait of Juan De Fuca-
Including the cities of Joyce and Clallam Bay
544 AM PDT Thu Jul 28 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs
in the 70s. Wind variable to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s to lower 60s. Wind
variable to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 70s. Wind variable to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s to lower 60s.
West wind 10 to 15 mph decreasing to variable to 10 mph after
midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 70s to lower 80s. Light wind.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the mid to upper 50s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Sekiu 72 58 73 / 0 0 0
$$
WAZ517-282300-
Central Coast-
Including the cities of Hoquiam, Aberdeen, Westport,
and Ocean Shores
544 AM PDT Thu Jul 28 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy then becoming mostly sunny early in the
afternoon then becoming sunny. Highs in the 70s. Northwest wind
to 10 mph in the morning becoming light, then becoming west 10 to
15 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s to lower 60s. Northwest wind 10 to
15 mph decreasing to 10 mph or less after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the 70s to lower 80s. Light wind
becoming west around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s to lower 60s.
West wind to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to lower 80s.
Light wind becoming west 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid to upper 50s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the mid to upper 50s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain in the morning.
Highs in the mid to upper 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain in the morning.
Highs in the mid to upper 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Hoquiam 71 58 72 / 0 0 0
$$
WAZ516-282300-
North Coast-
Including the cities of Neah Bay, La Push, and Forks
544 AM PDT Thu Jul 28 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy then becoming mostly sunny in the late
morning and early afternoon then becoming sunny. Highs in the
70s. North wind to 10 mph in the morning becoming light, then
becoming west around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
Northwest wind to 10 mph becoming north after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the 70s. West wind to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
West wind to 10 mph becoming north after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 70s. Light wind becoming west to
10 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid to upper 50s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid to upper 50s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain in the morning.
Highs in the 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain in the morning.
Highs in the 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Forks 75 56 74 / 0 0 0
$$
WAZ513-282300-
Olympics-
544 AM PDT Thu Jul 28 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Freezing level near 15000 feet.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Freezing level near 15000 feet.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Freezing level near 16000 feet.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Freezing level near 16500 feet.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Freezing level near 16000 feet.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Freezing level near 16000 feet.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Freezing level near 15500 feet.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Freezing level near 15000 feet.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny with a slight chance of rain. Snow level
near 11000 feet.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Freezing level near 13500 feet.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny with a slight chance of rain. Snow level
near 8500 feet.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Freezing level near 13000 feet.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Freezing level near 13000 feet.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Hurricane Ridge 80 64 78 / 0 0 0
$$
WAZ567-282300-
Cascades of Whatcom and Skagit Counties-
Including the cities of Marblemount and Concrete
544 AM PDT Thu Jul 28 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM PDT SATURDAY...
.TODAY...Sunny. Freezing level near 15500 feet.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Freezing level near 15000 feet.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Freezing level near 15500 feet.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Freezing level near 16500 feet.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Freezing level near 16000 feet.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Freezing level near 16000 feet.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Freezing level near 15500 feet.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Freezing level near 15000 feet.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny with a slight chance of rain. Snow level
near 11500 feet.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain in the
evening, then mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain and snow
after midnight. Snow level near 10500 feet.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow. Snow
level near 9500 feet.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of rain in the
evening. Snow level near 9000 feet.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of rain in the
morning, then a slight chance of rain and snow in the afternoon.
Snow level near 8500 feet.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Mount Baker 81 63 82 / 0 0 0
$$
WAZ568-282300-
Cascades of Snohomish and King Counties-
Including the cities of Snoqualmie Pass, Darrington, and Index
544 AM PDT Thu Jul 28 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM PDT SATURDAY...
.TODAY...Clear. Freezing level near 15500 feet. Afternoon pass
temperatures near 90. Light wind in the passes becoming north to
10 mph in the morning, then becoming northwest around 10 mph in
the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Freezing level near 15000 feet. Light wind in
the passes.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Freezing level near 16000 feet. Afternoon pass
temperatures near 90. Light wind in the passes becoming west
around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Freezing level near 16500 feet. North wind
in the passes around 10 mph in the evening becoming light.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Freezing level near 16000 feet. Afternoon pass
temperatures in the mid to upper 80s. Light wind in the passes
becoming west around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Freezing level near 16500 feet.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Freezing level near 15500 feet.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Freezing level near 15000 feet.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny with a slight chance of rain. Snow level
near 11500 feet.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. A slight chance of rain. Snow level near 10500 feet.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with a slight chance of rain. Snow level
near 9500 feet.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain. Snow
level near 9000 feet.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny with a slight chance of rain. Snow
level near 8500 feet.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Snoqualmie Pass 90 63 91 / 0 0 0
Stevens Pass 88 64 88 / 0 0 0
$$
WAZ569-282300-
Cascades of Pierce and Lewis Counties-
Including the cities of Randle, Packwood, Ashford, and Morton
544 AM PDT Thu Jul 28 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM PDT SATURDAY...
.TODAY...Clear. Freezing level near 15500 feet.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Freezing level near 15000 feet.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Freezing level near 16000 feet.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Freezing level near 16500 feet.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Freezing level near 16000 feet.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Freezing level near 16000 feet.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Freezing level near 15500 feet.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Freezing level near 15000 feet.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of rain in the morning,
then a slight chance of rain and snow in the afternoon. Snow
level near 12000 feet.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain and
snow in the evening, then mostly cloudy after midnight. Snow
level near 10500 feet.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of rain in the morning,
then a slight chance of rain and snow in the afternoon. Snow
level near 9500 feet.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of rain and snow
in the evening. Snow level near 9000 feet.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of rain and snow in
the afternoon. Snow level near 9000 feet.
$$
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A Richmond man who was released from prison three years ago after serving 23 years for a federal drug trafficking conspiracy is going back behind bars for having a gun he bought on the street.
Following a hearing on Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Richmond, Keith L. Hopkins Jr., 54, was sentenced to 33 months in prison for his earlier guilty plea to possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported.
Hopkins also admitted he was selling drugs again.
Richmond police caught Hopkins with a 9 mm semiautomatic pistol on Oct. 27 as they were executing an arrest warrant on another person at a convenience store. Officers observed Hopkins reach into his waistband, pull out a holstered gun and discard it in a vehicle with two people in it, according to the government’s case.
Hopkins subsequently told police that he purchased the gun “off the street” for $325. He “further stated that he sells illegal narcotics and makes approximately $500-$600 per day doing so.”
Two years earlier, Hopkins was released from federal prison after serving 23 years for conspiring to distribute heroin and cocaine.
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