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A typical situation of summer 2022: There were clouds and medium-to-high levels of moisture in the atmosphere but no precipitation. The topsoil was completely dry, and the crops to be harvested in autumn had 100% yield loss in many places (26 July 2022). Credit: Gusztáv Jakab Intensive agricultural cultivation and the resulting changes in soil structure cause low humidity in the near-surface air during heat waves in really dry…

At the start of 2020, things were coming up Jess Williamson. The Texan songwriter was about to release her fourth album, Sorceress. Its restrained country opulence was turning more heads than her earlier records had. She was happily in a four-year relationship with another musician. But by the time the album was released in May, the pandemic had killed any chance of touring, limiting its potential. And her boyfriend had left.“I was really afraid and sad, and really alone,” says Williamson, 35, speaking from her “hobbit…

Editor’s note: This is Part 2 of a two-part series about the High Plains Library District’s cancellation of its LGBTQIA+ Pride celebration, how community members are reacting and the wider context of the event’s cancellation. Part 1 is available here. A new event celebrating the LGBTQIA+ community will take place this summer following the High Plains Library District’s decision to cancel its Popup Pride Celebration. The new event is set for noon to 6 p.m. Saturday, July 29 at Aims Community College. Community partners and…

The market for hay is overshadowed by grains but can drive up food prices. The market for hay is overshadowed by grains but can drive up food prices. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners, all materials to their authors. If you are the owner of the content and do not want us to publish your…

20th Century Fox For better or worse, Baz Luhrmann’s career has been almost entirely defined by excess. Sometimes it works, in the case of Moulin Rogue! and Elvis, but at the other end of the spectrum live self-indulgent slogs like Netflix bust The Get Down and 2008 epic Australia. In the buildup to its release, there was genuine awards season buzz gathering around the sweeping romance set against the backdrop of World War II, but in the end all the lavish tale had to show for it was a solitary Academy Award…

It would be hard for a duets record – and certainly one so congenially titled – not to sound companionable, but on their debut, Plains move past mere affability to bring a deep kind of ease. Plains brings together old friends Katie Crutchfield (AKA Waxahatchee) and Texas songwriter Jess Williamson, and much of the allure here lies in the duck and dive of their two voices: Crutchfield’s full of elasticity and billow, Williamson’s offering a sweetness and a trill. When they meet, as on the warmly unapologetic Hurricane,…

Vroom IPO at the Nasdaq site, June 9, 2020.Source: NasdaqCheck out the companies making headlines before the bell:Poshmark — Shares spiked more than 5% after Barclays upgraded the online fashion retailer to overweight from equal weight. Poshmark will get a boost from the fast-growing second-hand clothing marketplace, especially if consumers trade down in a recession, Barclays said.Vroom — Shares dropped more than 3% after JPMorgan downgraded the stock to underweight from neutral, saying that the online used car retailer…

Many strange thoughts ping-ponged around my mind while watching David Easteal’s three-hour drama The Plains, despite nothing remotely strange occurring during it. Based in the back of a car for almost the entirety of its very hefty running time, the film captures a series of work-to-home commutes for a middle-aged lawyer, Andrew (Andrew Rakowski), who has a familiar routine: calling his mother and wife; listening to talkback radio; sitting in silence; or chatting to a colleague (Easteal, also the film’s director and…

NASA's Parker Solar probe has captured the first-ever images of Venus, the second planet from the Sun and Earth's closest planetary neighbour, in visible light. Venus is usually smothered in thick clouds and shrouded from sight. The probe captured the images in wavelengths of the visible spectrum — the type of light that the human eye can see — during two recent flybys, using its Wide-Field Imager, or WISPR, the space agency said. Scientists hope these never-before-seen images of Venus will help them understand the…

Ukraine’s arsenal of shoulder-fired anti-armor weapons and drones will need to be augmented by more tanks of their own, armor experts tell The War Zone. Tanks and other armored vehicles will present a much greater challenge for Ukrainian units as the Russian military shifts gears, with a new commander overseeing the concentration of forces in the east, where there is more rural, flat, open land ideal for mechanized warfare.Russia has seen a great deal of armor destroyed in Ukraine in the first 47 days of its all-out…