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Canon is moving ahead with a plan to build a new factory in Japan to double the production of its semiconductor lithography equipment. The planned facility will produce both the standard KrF and i-line machines that constitute the bulk of the division’s sales and the nanoimprint tools that Canon hopes will open a new era in semiconductor manufacturing. Addressing investors after the announcement of third-quarter results in late October, Canon’s management referred to “our leading-edge nanoimprint lithography equipment.” Indeed, Canon’s lithography gear is leading edge in the nanoimprint world. But is it a threat to ASML’s monopoly on extreme ultraviolet...

allot harvesting.” To some, it’s a creepy term, conjuring images of hulking party machines plowing through passive fields of citizens, threshing their votes and delivering them to the ballot box. To others, the whole thing seems practically a conspiracy theory — a catch-all for sore losers who can’t understand how voters could have rejected their team. Feelings aside, ballot harvesting is a reality for much of the country. In twenty-seven states, your ballot can be returned by someone other than you, your family member or your caregiver. Further, only twelve of those twenty-seven have any limit at all on the...

SPECIAL DISPATCH FROM WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, Monday, Nov. 17. Inasmuch ae the news has reached the public from Richmond, we suppose there can be no objection to the loyal population of the North knowing from this point that the Army of the Potomac is to be provided with a new "base" in its approach to Richmond. All its corps. are now, and have been for two days, on the march down the valley of the Rappahannock toward Fredericksburgh, from which place it is proposed now to conduct that pilgrimage toward the Jerusalem of our crusade, which our embattled hosts have so...

The Biden administration told a U.S. court that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s status as a sitting head of government shields him from a civil lawsuit brought by the fiancée of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Mr. Khashoggi, a former royal insider who criticized Prince Mohammed’s policies in Washington Post columns, was killed in 2018 and his body dismembered by Saudi agents during a visit to the kingdom’s Istanbul consulate where he was seeking papers needed to marry Hatice Cengiz, a Turkish citizen. In a filing Thursday, the State Department said “common law principles of immunity” informed its determination...

TALLAHASSEE — Calling the state’s approach “positively dystopian,” a federal judge on Thursday blocked a law championed by Gov. Ron DeSantis that restricts the way race-related concepts can be taught in universities. The law is “antithetical to academic freedom and has cast a leaden pall of orthodoxy over Florida’s state universities,” Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker wrote in the 139-page ruling. “Neither the state of Florida’s authority to regulate public school curriculum, nor its interest in preventing race or sex discrimination can support its weight. Nor does the First Amendment tolerate it,” he added. DeSantis’ administration quickly said it...

A study on government electricity and gas price data reveals that Brits pay the world's highest energy bills. Norway is the country with by far the biggest increase in electricity prices worldwide. The UK’s energy price cap was recently raised from 28p to 34p per kWh. ... UK has the highest electricity bills. Brits pay more for their power than anywhere else on the planet. ... Ireland.. The UK’s neighbours in the Republic of Ireland have the second highest electricity cost, paying 18.99p per kWh. . ... Residents of Spain are paying an average of 18.51p per kWh. Electricity prices...

DIE. Diversity, Inclusion, Equity is the mantra, the maniacal chant of the religious zealots of the left. DIE. Diversity, Inclusion, Equity is the mantra, the maniacal chant of the religious zealots of the left. Equity comes from the elitists and globalists in the dominant political party. But look more deeply. Equity is forced redistribution of property. Equity demands that those who have give to those who have not. It's not a free exchange; it is forced by a central controller, by our own government. Equity presupposes that you do not have any right to ownership of your property, including your...

18 November 2022Friday of week 33 in Ordinary Time Saint Rose Philippine Duchesne Catholic Church, Westwood, Kansas Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(II).First readingApocalypse 10:8-11 ©I was told to swallow the scroll, and to prophesyI, John, heard the voice I had heard from heaven speaking to me again. ‘Go,’ it said ‘and take that open scroll out of the hand of the angel standing on sea and land.’ I went to the angel and asked him to give me the small scroll, and he said, ‘Take it and eat it; it will turn your stomach sour, but in your...

Stockholm (AFP) – Swedish officials confirmed Friday that the September blasts which destroyed sections of the Nord Stream pipelines carrying natural gas from Russia to Germany under the Baltic Sea were acts of sabotage. "The analyses conducted found traces of explosives on several foreign objects" found at the sites of the blasts, prosecutor Mats Ljungqvist who is leading the preliminary investigation said in a statement. Ljungqvist added that technical analyses were continuing in order to "draw more reliable conclusions regarding the incident." Sweden's Prosecution Authority said that the "continued investigation will show if anyone can be formally suspected of a...

Will Americans accept questionable election results where vote counting is done behind closed doors and almost every close race where Republicans are ahead is halted and new ballots are “found” leading to a Democrat win? Imagine a Super Bowl where the Reds were ahead 27-25 with a minute to go. All of a sudden, the power went out in the entire stadium. When the lights came on after a couple minutes of chaos, fans noticed the scoreboard showed 27-29. Anyone witnessing such an event would be beyond outraged. Sports are supposed to be about “may the best team win,” and...

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Eight million Britons will be paying the higher rate of tax and two million the 45p rate within five years after Jeremy Hunt's brutal 'stealth raid'. The scale of the pain set to be caused by 'fiscal drag' was laid bare as experts digested the implications of the Chancellor's bombshell Autumn Statement. The respected IFS think-tank pointed out that the tax burden is set to reach a new post-war peak, and will be the equivalent of £100billion a year higher by 2027-28 than it has been for most of the past 70 years.

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) -- The ongoing fight against the effects of climate change took centerstage at the Honolulu City Council on Thursday. In the past, the council’s Zoning and Planning Committee has drafted bills surrounding coastal erosion and climate change. But lawmakers are now looking at creating comprehensive legislation focused on shoreline development. In an informational briefing, climate experts offered a presentation showcasing the long-term impact of global warming on coastlines throughout Oahu. In Ewa Beach, for example, models show wave inundation of 4 feet in the next 70 years. Dr. Chip Fletcher, interim dean of the University of Hawaii-Manoa School...

"The limited number of high-quality roads and railways in this area, particularly connecting Crimea to the mainland, creates potential bottlenecks that could be vulnerable to Ukrainian interdiction efforts that would gradually degrade the Russian ability to continue supplying its grouping in eastern Kherson Oblast and other areas of southern Ukraine," Russian troops are turning to alcohol abuse and "self-mutilation" as means to escape the front lines as the Kremlin's military continues to grapple with plummeting morale among soldiers, reported (ISW) think tank. Hanna Malyar, Ukraine's deputy minister of defense, said in a briefing Thursday that Russian soldiers are showing signs...

More than four months before voters handed Republicans control of the House of Representatives, top White House and Department of Homeland Security officials huddled in the Roosevelt Room to prepare for that very scenario. .... ...White House officials believe Republicans are bound to overstep and that their investigative overreach will backfire with the American public. In the meantime, they are prepared to push back forcefully...

Nov. 17 (UPI) -- New York Gov. Kathy Hochul declared a state of emergency for 11 counties on Thursday, as a historic lake-effect snow event threatens to blanket parts of the state. Up to five feet of snow are possible in Buffalo and the surrounding areas as a storm system coming from the Great Lakes blankets the western part of the state. Heavy snow is expected to hit the area Thursday evening and continue for up to 48 hours. Hochul said Thursday that the state and Buffalo are prepared for the brunt of the storm. She urged locals to stay...

Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.) announced Thursday that he will take over as the top Republican on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee next year, opting not to become the ranking member on the Senate Health Committee, where he also serves as a senior member. The Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee is the Senate’s chief oversight committee, which will give Paul broad jurisdiction over federal departments and agencies. Had Republicans won the Senate majority in last week’s elections, Paul could have spearheaded Senate investigations of the Biden administration. The committee has authority to receive referrals on all legislation...

“To the people of Los Angeles, my message is this: We are going to solve homelessness,” she said. “Los Angeles is no longer going to be unaffordable for working families — good jobs and affordable housing construction are on the way.”

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