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Forbes
4 days ago
- Business
- Forbes
New Technical Jewelry Symposium To Premiere At Vicenzaoro Jewelry Fair
The Science of jewelry making and adornment will be part of the September Vicenzaoro jewelry fair For the first time in its 70-year history, the Vicenzaoro jewelry trade fair will host an adjacent gathering dedicated to metallurgy and jewelry manufacturing processes. Called the Vicenza Symposium, it will be held September 2 -4 Vicenza, Italy, prior to Vicenzaoro on September 5 -7. Both events are B2B focused, open only to the jewelry trade. The Vicenza Symposium is modeled after the Santa Fe Symposium with the objective of advancing jewelry making technology, the science of adornment if you will. The three-day event is modeled after the Santa Fe Symposium, founded in 1987 by Eddie Bell, the retired CEO of Rio Grande, an Albuquerque, N.M., company the manufactures, markets and sells jewelry-making supplies. He held his last symposium in 2022 following his retirement. By this time, it was the world's most important event on the technology and science of metallurgy and jewelry making, attracting professionals from around the world. This new event is an attempt to maintain the community that Bell established. In fact, Bell was named honorary president and will deliver opening remarks. There will be 21 white papers delivered during the three-day event on artificial intelligence, 3D printing and other highly technical topics. Presentations will range from 'Gold in the Age of SLM-CNC Interface,' and 'Cracks, pores and other defects in jewellery – their causes and their prevention' to 'Potential of Pt-and-pd-based Bulk Metallic Glasses for Jewellery applications.' It is fitting that it's established the Italian gold jewelry center of Vicenza, known as much for the technology of goldsmithing and jewelry making as well as it is for manufacturing jewels in the tradition of Italian design and style. FEATURED | Frase ByForbes™ Unscramble The Anagram To Reveal The Phrase Pinpoint By Linkedin Guess The Category Queens By Linkedin Crown Each Region Crossclimb By Linkedin Unlock A Trivia Ladder Familiar Names at Vicenzaoro When Vicenzaoro opens September 5 at the IEG's Expo Centre, it will once again be a showplace for internationally known Italian jewelry brands such as Roberto Coin, Annamaria Cammilli, Damiani, Nanis, Fope and Crivelli. The revival of the historic Marina B jewelry brand will also be a focus of the show. The fair attracts important jewelers from Europe and other parts of the world as well including Schreiner Fine Jewellery from Germany, Fabergé from the UK, Etho Maria from Greece, Carrera Y Carrera from Spain, and Statement Paris and D1928 from France. Outside Europe, the Australian pearl jewelry company, Autore, will present its new high jewelry and fine jewelry designs. One of the returning features of Vicenzaoro is 'The Design Room,' for independent high-end designers. This is one of the very few international venues where these designers can have a proper place to show their creations as most international jewelry shows focus on large manufacturers. These designers reinterpret jewelry with unique and exclusive creations. Among the best-known names are Alessio Boschi, whose creations combine culture, history and architecture; Mike Joseph, who focuses of geometric design studded with diamonds; Antonini Milano for lovers of pure yet structured lines; and Karen Suen who combines modern glam with classic jewelry techniques. In addition, there's 'The 8' project, a creation of Boschi, fellow jewelry designers Alessia Crivelli and Luca Daverio, and the goldsmith foundation, Mani Intelligenti. The project promotes new Italian and international jewelry talents. There's also a specific space for the watchmaking brands and accessories, a growing sector of the trade fair with more than 40 exhibitors. All totaled the September Vicenzaoro jewelry trade fair is expected to attract more than 450 buyers from 60 countries who will view the products and services of approximately 1,200 exhibitors from 35 countries. In its 70th year, Vicenzaoro claims to be the world's longest-running jewelry trade event. Vicenzaoro is held twice each year. Following the September show the next fair will be held January 16 – 20, 2026. Vicenzaoro and the Vicenza Symposium is owned and operated by the Italian Exhibition Group (IEG), an international trade show company based in Rimini, Italy.
Yahoo
21-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
This LNG Giant was Among the Energy Stocks that Fell This Week
The share price of Venture Global, Inc. (NYSE:VG) fell by 11.07% between July 11 and July 18, 2025, putting it among the Energy Stocks that Lost the Most This Week. A closeup of the Rio Grande LNG terminal facility, showing its massive scale. Venture Global, Inc. (NYSE:VG) develops and constructs LNG export projects to provide clean, affordable energy to the world. The company is currently the second-largest LNG exporter in the United States. Venture Global, Inc. (NYSE:VG) shot up significantly earlier this month following a series of positive developments for the company, including the signing of a multi-year sales and purchase agreement (SPA) with Petronas LNG. Moreover, the LNG producer revealed that it had finalized an agreement with Securing Energy for Europe GmbH (SEFE) to provide the latter with an additional 0.75 MTPA of LNG from CP2 LNG for 20 years. So the recent pullback in share price could be due to profit-taking by investors. Venture Global, Inc. (NYSE:VG) also faced downward pressure recently after Deutsche Bank downgraded the stock from 'Buy' to 'Neutral', while increasing its price target at the same time from $13.5 to $17. The analyst cited the company's lack of liquidity in the Title Transfer Facility curve as well as its high spending on the Calcasieu Pass 2 development as the primary reasons behind the move. While we acknowledge the potential of VG as an investment, we believe certain AI stocks offer greater upside potential and carry less downside risk. If you're looking for an extremely undervalued AI stock that also stands to benefit significantly from Trump-era tariffs and the onshoring trend, see our free report on the best short-term AI stock. READ NEXT: 12 Best Oil and Gas Dividend Stocks to Buy Now and The 5 Energy Stocks Billionaires are Quietly Piling Into. Disclosure: None. Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Yahoo
17-07-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Customers Can Now Take Advantage of Various Transmission-Related Services in Rio Grande, Puerto Rico
RIO GRANDE, Puerto Rico, July 17, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Flagship Mazda offers a range of transmission-related services for customers in Puerto Rico. Drivers in Rio Grande, Puerto Rico, now have a trusted destination for transmission care, as Flagship Mazda proudly announces the availability of a full suite of transmission-related services. From minor fluid changes to full transmission replacements, every service is performed by certified technicians using quality components and modern diagnostic tools. Keeping a vehicle's transmission healthy starts with the basics. Services like transmission fluid change and transmission fluid flush are now available to help protect gears and internal parts from excessive wear and overheating. A simple change involves replacing the old, degraded fluid with clean fluid, while a flush goes further by eliminating contaminants from the entire system, including the torque converter. Alongside these essential services, Flagship Mazda offers transmission filter replacement to help maintain clean fluid flow and prevent damage from metal particles and debris. For drivers dealing with annoying leaks, the service team provides both transmission pan gasket replacement and transmission reseal service. These procedures help seal up the system and keep fluid levels where they belong, preserving smooth shifting and performance. For those noticing rough gear changes or slipping, transmission inspection and diagnostics can uncover hidden issues. Technicians perform visual inspections and use advanced scan tools to read error codes and pinpoint the source of the problem. In more severe cases, the dealership also offers transmission rebuild or overhaul services, which involve disassembling the unit, replacing worn parts and restoring the system to like-new condition. When repair is not an option, transmission replacement ensures a long-lasting solution with new or remanufactured units. Drivers with manual transmissions are also covered, thanks to clutch replacement services. Worn clutches can cause jerky movements, noise and difficulty shifting. A timely clutch replacement ensures the vehicle remains responsive and safe on the road. Flagship Mazda is proud to provide these expert transmission services to the Rio Grande community. Conveniently located at Rio Grande Town Center, Bo. Guzman Abajo, Rio Grande, PR 00721, the service center is ready to assist. For appointments or more information, drivers can call 787-303-6016. Media Contact: Sandra Huerto, 939-639-9719, shuerto@ View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Flagship Mazda Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data


BBC News
13-07-2025
- Politics
- BBC News
The deepening water shortage row between the US and Mexico
After the thirtieth consecutive month without rain, the townsfolk of San Francisco de Conchos in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua gather to plead for divine the shores of Lake Toronto, the reservoir behind the state's most important dam – called La Boquilla, a priest leads local farmers on horseback and their families in prayer, the stony ground beneath their feet once part of the lakebed before the waters receded to today's critically low those with their heads bowed is Rafael Betance, who has voluntarily monitored La Boquilla for the state water authority for 35 years."This should all be underwater," he says, motioning towards the parched expanse of exposed white rocks."The last time the dam was full and caused a tiny overflow was 2017," Mr Betance recalls. "Since then, it's decreased year on year."We're currently at 26.52 metres below the high-water mark, less than 14% of its capacity." Little wonder the local community is beseeching the heavens for rain. Still, few expect any let up from the crippling drought and sweltering 42C (107.6F) a long-running dispute with Texas over the scarce resource is threatening to turn the terms of a 1944 water-sharing agreement, Mexico must send 430 million cubic metres of water per year from the Rio Grande to the water is sent via a system of tributary channels into shared dams owned and operated by the International Boundary and Water Commission (IBWC), which oversees and regulates water-sharing between the two return, the US sends its own much larger allocation (nearly 1.85 billion cubic metres a year) from the Colorado River to supply the Mexican border cities of Tijuana and is in arrears and has failed to keep up with its water deliveries for much of the 21st Century. Following pressure from Republican lawmakers in Texas, the Trump administration warned Mexico that water could be withheld from the Colorado River unless it fulfils its obligations under the 81-year-old April, on his Truth Social account, US President Donald Trump accused Mexico of "stealing" the water and threatened to keep escalating to "TARIFFS, and maybe even SANCTIONS" until Mexico sends Texas what it owes. Still, he gave no firm deadline by when such retaliation might her part, the Mexican President, Claudia Sheinbaum, acknowledged Mexico's shortfall but struck a more conciliatory then, Mexico has transferred an initial 75 million cubic metres of water to the US via their shared dam, Amistad, located along the border, but that is just a fraction of the roughly 1.5 billion cubic metres of Mexico's outstanding on cross-border water sharing can run dangerously high: in September 2020, two Mexican people were killed in clashes with the National Guard at La Boquilla's sluice gates as farmers tried to stop the water from being the acute drought, the prevailing view in Chihuahua is that "you can't take from what isn't there", says local expert Rafael Betance. But that doesn't help Brian Jones to water his crops.A fourth-generation farmer in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas, for the past three years he has only been able to plant half of his farm because he doesn't have enough irrigation water."We've been battling Mexico as they've not been living up to their part of the deal," he says. "All we're asking for is what's rightfully ours under the treaty, nothing extra."Mr Jones also disputes the extent of the problem in Chihuahua. He believes that in October 2022 the state received more than enough water to share, but released "exactly zero" to the US, accusing his neighbours of "hoarding water and using it to grow crops to compete with us". Farmers on the Mexican side read the agreement differently. They say it only binds them to send water north when Mexico can satisfy its own needs, and argue that Chihuahua's ongoing drought means there's no excess the water scarcity, there are also arguments over agricultural trees and alfalfa are two of the main crops in Chihuahua's Rio Conchos Valley, both of which require a lot of watering – walnut trees need on average 250 litres a Mexican farmers have simply flooded their fields with water from the irrigation channel. Driving around the valley one quickly sees walnut trees sitting in shallow pools, the water flowing in from an open complaint from Texas is obvious: the practice is wasteful and easily avoided with more responsible and sustainable farming methods. As Jaime Ramirez walks through his walnut groves, the former mayor of San Francisco de Conchos shows me how his modern sprinkler system ensures his walnut trees are properly watered all year round without wasting the precious resource."With the sprinklers, we use around 60% less than flooding the fields," he says. The system also means they can water the trees less frequently, which is particularly useful when the Rio Conchos is too low to allow local Ramirez readily admits, though, that some of his neighbours aren't so conscientious. As a former local mayor, he urges haven't adopted the sprinkler method because of the costs in setting it up, he says. He's tried to show other farmers that it works out cheaper in the long run, saving on energy and water farmers in Texas must also understand that their counterparts in Chihuahua are facing an existential threat, Mr Ramirez insists. "This is a desert region and the rains haven't come. If the rain doesn't come again this year, then next year there simply won't be any agriculture left. All the available water will have to be conserved as drinking water for human beings," he in northern Mexico believe the 1944 water-sharing treaty is no longer fit for purpose. Mr Ramirez thinks it may have been adequate for conditions eight decades ago, but it has failed to adapt with the times or properly account for population growth or the ravages of climate across the border, Texan farmer Brian Jones says the agreement has stood the test of time and should still be honoured."This treaty was signed when my grandfather was farming. It's been through my grandfather, my father and now me," he says."Now we're seeing Mexico not comply. It's very angering to have a farm where I'm only able to plant half the ground because I don't have irrigation water."Trump's tougher stance has given the local farmers "a pep in our step", he the drought hasn't just harmed farming in Lake Toronto's levels so low, Mr Betance says the remaining water in the reservoir is heating up with uncommon speed and creating a potential disaster for the marine life which sustains a once-thriving tourism valley's outlook hasn't been this dire, Mr Betance says, in the entire time he's spent carefully recording the lake's ups and downs. "Praying for rain is all we have left," he reporting by Angélica Casas.
Yahoo
05-07-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Noem fast-tracks construction for water barriers in Texas along Rio Grande to keep migrants from crossing into US
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has fast-tracked construction for about 17 miles worth of floating border barriers in the Rio Grande River in Texas, expanding the rapidly growing Trump administration footprint on the US-Mexico border. Noem signed a waiver bypassing environmental laws so about 17 miles of 'waterborne barrier' technology could be built in the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas, the Department of Homeland Security announced on Thursday. 'A capability gap has been identified in waterways along the Southwest border where drug smuggling, human trafficking and other dangerous and illegal activity occurs,' the department said in a statement. The project, which will be paid for with previously allocated funds, marks the sixth time Noem has used such a waiver. It revives a strategy that was a source of controversy under the previous administration, when the Biden administration sued the state of Texas for putting a 1,000 feet of razor-tipped barriers in the Rio Grande, in a case that was ultimately unsuccessful on appeal. Texas's much smaller floating barrier effort cost about $1 million, and Rep. Henry Cuellar, Democrat of Texas, warned Border Report that the latest DHS version of a river barrier could cost vastly more. 'When you talk about constructing a fence it could be $30 million per mile. This water structure is going to be expensive,' he said. Residents of the low-income, largely Hispanic region are divided over such border projects. The Rio Grande Valley voted for Trump in 2024, but some argue the border build-up in the area has drained needed resources and led to profiling against Latinos. 'This is like a rights-free area,' Michelle Serrano, of the local advocacy group Voces Unidas RGV, told The Independent last year. 'We're talking about an area where they freely racially profile us. It feels like a separate but equal situation.' In addition to expanding border construction, the second Trump administration has also transferred nearly 400 miles of border land to military control, as a means of expanding the use of troops in direct immigration enforcement, while deploying Marines and National Guard troops internally in response to anti-immigration raid protests in Los Angeles. Prior to Trump returning to office, states like Texas embarked on their own border infrastructure sprees, erecting razor barriers, walls, and floating buoys. As part of the Trump administration's Big, Beautiful Bill spending package, the federal government will spend over $13 billion reimbursing states like Texas for their efforts. The Biden administration also waived environmental laws and continued the military-style security construction at the border, though at a lesser pace than the first Trump term.