Investment banks slash price targets for South Korea chipmakers, warn of downturn ahead In Japan, the Nikkei 225 dropped 1.62% to close at 27,523.19, with shares of Fast Retailing and SoftBank Group falling more than 2% each. The Topix index shed 1.61% on the day to close at 1,924.98. Japan's GDP rose 0.3% in the second quarter as compared with the previous three months, when it contracted 0.9%, according to official preliminary estimates released Monday. The April-June data print beat market forecasts for a 0.2% increase, according to Reuters. Elsewhere, the FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI Index

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Flood-related deaths vary significantly from year to year, based on weather conditions. For the past decade, the average has been 100 deaths per year, based on NWS data. Find out what's happening in Across America with free, real-time updates from Patch. Simply put, turn your car around if you encounter water on the road that looks to be 6 inches or deeper—or you can't even tell how deep it is. Be especially cautious at read review night, when it is harder to recognize flood danger. Even water that's 12 inches deep can move a small car, and 2 feet of raging water can dislodge and carry most

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The report highlights how the vast majority (90%) of finance leaders, agree it’s time to accelerate the change from being a scorekeeper to performance driver, and 91% agree finance is the natural hub for the most strategic asset of the digital age, one that holds unprecedented opportunities for business growth: Data. Whilst more than a third (36%) of finance decision-makers believe fundamental transformation of the finance function is needed to survive, and almost a quarter (23%) focus most of their time and resources leading the future of finance, and one third (33%) on becoming a digital

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A $739 mortgage payment in Winter Park? Here’s where we found affordable housing Hannibal Square Land Trust provides affordable housing for working families Tags:  Boomtown , Winter Park , Orange County A $739 mortgage payment in Winter Park? Here’s where we found affordable housing WINTER PARK, Fla. – As the affordable housing crisis is getting worse by the day with housing supply at an all-time low and rents reaching sky high, News 6 has found a solution for homeowners through the Hannibal Square Community Land Trust. “Community land trusts work the best in areas that the house prices are

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Take, for example, the so-called “election audit” in Maricopa County, Arizona. While this partisan review of election results drags on , the effort to unearth nonexistent evidence of widespread voter fraud is spreading to other parts of the country. Under the guise of ensuring “election integrity,” Republican activists doggedly pursue new evidence that the 2020 election was stolen. They continue to contort science and logic on the taxpayer’s dime, even as we approach the Biden administration’s seventh month in office. This is madness. And it must stop. Yet recently, Pennsylvania state Sen.

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Mask On? Mask Off? Mask On? What Employers Need to Know About The New CDC Guidance The CDC is now recommending that everyone – including fully vaccinated individuals – wear masks in indoor public settings in all areas with  substantial and high transmission  of the COVID-19 virus and get tested following exposure to someone with suspected or confirmed COVID-19. The new CDC guidance also recommends universal indoor masking for all teachers, staff, students, and visitors to K-12 schools, regardless of vaccination status. In its latest  Interim Public Health Recommendations for Fully Vaccinated People , the CDC explains that while infections, even with the Delta variant, happen only

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Unions refer pandemic bonus request for health workers to Labour Court The HSE said that it is expected that the recognition issue will be addressed in the autumn. By Gráinne Ní Aodha Thursday 5 Aug 2021, 10:22 PM HEALTH SERVICE UNION have referred a request for a pandemic bonus to the Labour Court after it said the HSE made no such offer for the work healthcare workers have done during the Covid-19 pandemic. The Health Sector Trade Unions – which include Siptu, Fórsa, INMO, IMO, and Unite – released a statement tonight criticising the HSE for a lack of “tangible recognition”. Talks were

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If so, it would be the second such case in France in the past few years. In June 2019, an INRAE lab worker named Émilie Jaumain died at age 33, 10 years after pricking her thumb during an experiment with prion-infected mice. Her family is now suing INRAE for manslaughter and endangering life; her illness had already led to tightened safety measures at French prion labs. The aim of the moratorium, which affects nine labs, is to “study the possibility of a link with the [new patient’s] former professional activity and if necessary to adapt the preventative measures in force in research l

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How COVID-19 has transformed scientific fieldwork Just before dawn in the Jama-Coaque Ecological Reserve, a patch of Ecuador’s lush coastal forest, Abhimanyu Lele unfurls a tall net between two poles, then retreats out of sight. A half-hour later, he and a local assistant reappear and smile: Their catch—10 birds that collided with the net and tumbled into a pocket along its length—was a good one. The pair records species, measures and photographs the captives, and pricks wings for blood that can yield DNA before releasing the birds back into the forest. The data, Lele hopes, will shed light

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