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On Tuesday night, far-right state Del. Dan Cox won the Maryland gubernatorial primary. He was leading his closest competitor, Kelly Schulz, by 16 percentage points Wednesday night. He’d won the most conservative counties of the state, near the West Virginia border, with more than 60% of the vote. He won generally liberal counties, like Baltimore City and the Washington, D.C., suburbs. Schulz, a former Cabinet officer for the popular GOP Gov. Larry Hogan, is managing to win only two of the state’s 24 jurisdictions.
Cox is wholly unelectable in Maryland, a state President Joe Biden won by 30 percentage points, where liberal college-educated white voters and Black voters are both plentiful. A fierce advocate of former President Donald Trump’s lies about the election, Cox arranged a bus caravan for Trump supporters to attend the Jan. 6, 2021, Washington rally that preceded the attack on the U.S. Capitol. During the attack, Cox tweeted, “Mike Pence is a traitor.”
That’s not all: Cox supported impeaching Hogan over his support for COVID-19 mitigation measures, such as mask mandates. He has at least flirted with the QAnon conspiracy theory movement. He supports gutting Maryland’s gun control laws and heavily restricting abortion rights.
A certain form of punditry will tell you Cox’s victory is the result of Democratic meddling: The Democratic Governors’ Association, wanting to ensure an easy victory in November for the Democratic candidate, spent more than $1 million on ads highlighting these stances ahead of Tuesday’s primary. Democratic groups, especially the DGA, have spent tens of millions of dollars on similar ads aiming to promote similarly unelectable candidates in Colorado, Pennsylvania, Illinois and elsewhere.
These efforts have prompted no small amount of teeth-gnashing. Republicans who have stood up to Trump’s election lies, including Hogan, Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) and Rep. Peter Meijer (R-Mich.), have suggested it shows Democrats are not serious when they call these candidates a threat to democracy.
Other Democrats, often glancing back at Hillary Clinton’s not-so-hidden hopes that Trump would win the GOP presidential primary in 2016, say these efforts are doomed to backfire.
Many of these concerns are legitimate. It’s fully possible a candidate like Doug Mastriano, the Christian nationalist and election denier who won the GOP gubernatorial nomination in Pennsylvania, could win in what looks like a strong year for Republicans. (Polling shows Mastriano trailing Attorney General Josh Shapiro, the Democratic nominee, by surmountable margins.) Some Democratic operatives have suggested the millions spent now would be of more use in November.
There’s also an obvious question about whether it’s ethical to support candidates who threaten democracy in any fashion.
But many of these criticisms ignore a more salient fact: GOP voters want candidates like Mastriano and Cox. The fact that these candidates think the 2020 presidential election was stolen, that they wholeheartedly embrace conspiracy theories, Christian nationalism and unflinching conservative views are features in a GOP primary, not bugs. Otherwise Democratic meddling wouldn’t work.
Furthermore, Republican leaders have stood by candidates who have espoused similar views. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) declined to kick Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) off of her committee positions. The National Republican Senatorial Committee is set to spend millions this fall boosting the campaign of Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt, who sought to overturn Biden’s win in the Silver State.
None of the ads Democrats have aired have hidden their purposes. In the past, Democratic meddling efforts have used anodyne names like “Duty and Country” to hide who was behind the television ads they funded. That hasn’t been the case in 2022: Democratic candidates and groups have aired ads under their own name or otherwise made it clear Democrats are behind the ads.
And most of these ads have been straightforward recitations of the Republican candidates’ stances on the issues. For example, look at the DGA ad boosting Cox. It mentions Trump’s endorsement, Cox’s support for overturning the 2020 election results, his support for gun rights and opposition to abortion rights.
Republicans who opposed Cox, led by Hogan, held press conferences to highlight what the DGA was doing. It did not matter to the state’s Republican voters, who happily ignored their state’s ultra-popular governor. (Here, it is worth noting that Hogan’s fellow ultra-popular East Coast Republican governor, Massachusetts’ Charlie Baker, chose not to run for reelection after it was clear he would lose to a Trump-endorsed challenger in a primary.)
Democrats also noted Hogan hardly seemed totally dedicated to Cox’s defeat, spending time in the weeks leading up to the election campaigning in New Hampshire and meeting donors at a Republican Governors’ Association meeting in Colorado as he readies a potential 2024 presidential run.
A second race in Maryland on Tuesday drives home the clear GOP desire for ultraconservative candidates. Republicans nominated Michael Peroutka, a neo-Confederate activist whose views are even more right-wing than Cox’s, in the race for attorney general. There was no Democratic interference in the race. Peroutka was leading his opponent, moderate former prosecutor Jim Shalleck, by a 16-point margin on Wednesday night, identical to Cox’s lead over Schulz.
Similarly, Mastriano consistently led in polling in the Pennsylvania primary well before any Democratic attempt to put their thumb on the scale. Darren Bailey, the conservative candidate whom Democrats promoted in Illinois’s governor race, did not have a consistent lead ― but ultimately won by 42 percentage points.
There are places where Trump-endorsed, election-denying candidates have flopped in primaries, most notably in secretary of state races in Colorado and Georgia. But as The Washington Post’s Aaron Blake notes, both those states have open primaries, allowing independents and even some Democrats to cast ballots. When a closed primary leaves the GOP base to its own devices, there’s little chance of stopping Trump-style Republicans.
Colorado is the state where Democratic efforts saw the biggest flop that could most easily backfire. National Democrats spent roughly $5 million boosting the campaign of state Rep. Ron Hanks, an election denier, while also playing up the moderate credentials of businessman Joe O’Dea. The hope was Republicans would choose the seemingly unelectable Hanks.
Instead, Republicans nominated O’Dea ― meaning Democrats spent significant amounts of cash on ads playing up the GOP candidate’s moderation.
Many attempts to meddle in elections flop: Republicans worked unsuccessfully to promote a progressive House candidate in Kansas in 2018, and Democrats tried to lift the unpopular Kris Kobach in Kansas’ GOP Senate primary in 2020.
At the same time, Democrats owe their bare 50-seat Senate majority to a successful interference campaign in the 2018 West Virginia GOP primary, which enabled Sen. Joe Manchin to squeak out a win against a weaker opponent.
Colorado’s gubernatorial race, however, might provide the best example yet of why some Democratic operatives believe the distinction between Trump-style Republicans and the party’s mainstream is irrelevant. There, Democrats hoped to knock out the supposed moderate candidate, University of Colorado Regent Heidi Ganahl. They failed.
On Monday, Ganahl announced her running mate: a businessman who hosted a conservative leadership event at his home featuring John Eastman, the law professor who helped Trump work to overturn the election, and who had himself called the election “stolen.” | https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dont-blame-democrats-for-what-republican-voters-want_n_62d89319e4b000da23fb74f2 | 2022-07-21T05:17:53 | en | 0.954655 |
Govt launches first nationwide tsunami evacuation map
“All of New Zealand’s coastline is at risk of tsunami which means most of us live, work, or play in areas under threat,” Kieran McAnulty said.
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The Government has taken a further important step in improving Kiwis' preparedness in the event of a tsunami with the launch of Aotearoa's first nationwide tsunami evacuation map, says Minister for Emergency Management Kieran McAnulty.
"All of New Zealand's coastline is at risk of tsunami which means most of us live, work, or play in areas under threat," Kieran McAnulty said.
"It's important all Kiwis have a plan to keep their whānau safe if a tsunami happens. The new national tsunami evacuation map makes it easy for people to find out where to get to safety.
"The map enables you to enter your address to find out if you're in a tsunami evacuation zone and where to go to stay safe and directs you to in-depth local evacuation information.
"In an emergency every second counts so it's crucial people have a plan in place before something happens. This map makes it easier for people to know where their closest safe ground is, and to have a plan to get there.
"While individual areas of the country have tsunami maps, this is the first time we've had a single map for the whole country and is the latest of a series of milestones to strengthen Aotearoa's tsunami safety arrangements.
"This is just the latest step the Government has taken in strengthening New Zealand's readiness for a natural disaster.
"In addition to the tsunami evacuation map the Government has also established the National Geohazards Monitoring Centre, deployed the DART marine tsunami sensor network to provide early warning of threats to Aotearoa and the South Pacific, rolled out the Emergency Mobile Alert system, and last month opened NEMA's 24-7 Monitoring, Alerting and Reporting (MAR) Centre.
"The map has been developed by the National Emergency Management Agency in close partnership with the 16 regional Civil Defence Emergency Management Groups, and I'd like to thank all those who have worked hard to bring this to life.
"You shouldn't wait until an emergency to check whether you're in a tsunami evacuation zone – there is no better time than now to make sure you're prepared and your plan is up to date to keep you and your whānau safe," Kieran McAnulty said.
(With Inputs from New Zealand Government Press Release)
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BANGOR, Maine (AP) — A detective who created the viral “Duck of Justice” when he rescued a faux waterfowl headed for the trash bin is retiring to write a book.
Lt. Tim Cotton combined his sense of humor with the Bangor Police Department’s social media account to show the human side of police work.
His “Duck of Justice” became a viral sensation as the fowl appeared in various locations before finding a permanent roost in police department, where author Stephen King and others have stopped by for photos.
Along the way, Cotton helped put the city of 30,000 on the social media map with 330,000 Facebook followers — including many outside Maine.
Cotton, 59, told the Bangor Daily News that it’s been frustrating in recent years to watch anti-police sentiment grow nationwide as officers grapple with how to handle tough issues like mental illness and substance abuse.
“Over the last 10 years, society has decided they don’t want police involved and yet they call police for each and every issue,” he said. “We’ve taken on that responsibility because there was no one else to call.”
In his retirement, Cotton will continue posting to the Duck of Justice’s Facebook page for the police department while pursuing his writing career. He already has published two books.
In the meantime, people should continue to heed the department’s oft-repeated advice: “Keep your hands to yourself, leave other people’s things alone, and be kind to one another.” | https://www.huffpost.com/entry/duck-of-justice-detective-retires_n_62d8d7f8e4b06e213fbac642 | 2022-07-21T05:18:00 | en | 0.970684 |
One soldier was killed and nine others were injured by a lightning strike at Fort Gordon, an Army base in Georgia, according to military officials.
The strike took place just after 11 a.m. in a training area at the base, a spokesperson told The New York Times. Fort Gordon is about 10 miles from Augusta and is home to some of the Army’s cyber-operations.
Brig. Gen. Paul Stanton, the commander of the base, confirmed the incident on Twitter.
“Today Fort Gordon experienced a terrible tragedy,” Stanton wrote. “10 Soldiers sustained injuries associated with a lightning strike at one of our training areas. With a heavy heart we can confirm 1 of these Soldiers succumbed to their injuries.”
He said no names of the victims would be released until next of kin had been notified.
It’s unclear how severe the injuries are, and the spokesperson told the Times she wasn’t sure if all 10 soldiers had been struck by lightning or injured in another manner. | https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fort-gordon-lightning-strike-georgia_n_62d8d17de4b06e213fbabefc | 2022-07-21T05:18:06 | en | 0.978071 |
Depression is probably not caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain – new study
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For three decades, people have been deluged with information suggesting that depression is caused by a "chemical imbalance" in the brain – namely an imbalance of a brain chemical called serotonin. However, our latest research review shows that the evidence does not support it.
Although first proposed in the 1960s, the serotonin theory of depression started to be widely promoted by the pharmaceutical industry in the 1990s in association with its efforts to market a new range of antidepressants, known as selective serotonin-reuptake inhibitors or SSRIs.
The idea was also endorsed by official institutions such as the American Psychiatric Association, which still tells the public that "differences in certain chemicals in the brain may contribute to symptoms of depression".
Countless doctors have repeated the message all over the world, in their private surgeries and in the media. People accepted what they were told. And many started taking antidepressants because they believed they had something wrong with their brain that required an antidepressant to put right.
In the period of this marketing push, antidepressant use climbed dramatically, and they are now prescribed to one in six of the adult population in England, for example.
For a long time, certain academics, including some leading psychiatrists, have suggested that there is no satisfactory evidence to support the idea that depression is a result of abnormally low or inactive serotonin. Others continue to endorse the theory. Until now, however, there has been no comprehensive review of the research on serotonin and depression that could enable firm conclusions either way.
At first sight, the fact that SSRI-type antidepressants act on the serotonin system appears to support the serotonin theory of depression. SSRIs temporarily increase the availability of serotonin in the brain, but this does not necessarily imply that depression is caused by the opposite of this effect.
There are other explanations for antidepressants' effects. In fact, drug trials show that antidepressants are barely distinguishable from a placebo (dummy pill) when it comes to treating depression. Also, antidepressants appear to have a generalized emotion-numbing effect that may influence people's moods, although we do not know how this effect is produced or much about it.
First comprehensive review There has been extensive research on the serotonin system since the 1990s, but it has not been collected systematically before. We conducted an "umbrella" review that involved systematically identifying and collating existing overviews of the evidence from each of the main areas of research into serotonin and depression. Although there have been systematic reviews of individual areas in the past, none have combined the evidence from all the different areas taking this approach.
One area of research we included was research comparing levels of serotonin and its breakdown products in the blood or brain fluid. Overall, this research did not show a difference between people with depression and those without depression.
Another area of research has focused on serotonin receptors, which are proteins on the ends of the nerves that serotonin links up with and which can transmit or inhibit serotonin's effects. Research on the most commonly investigated serotonin receptor suggested either no difference between people with depression and people without depression, or that serotonin activity was actually increased in people with depression – the opposite of the serotonin theory's prediction.
Research on the serotonin "transporter", which is the protein that helps to terminate the effect of serotonin (this is the protein that SSRIs act on), also suggested that, if anything, there was increased serotonin activity in people with depression. However, these findings may be explained by the fact that many participants in these studies had used or were currently using antidepressants.
We also looked at research that explored whether depression can be induced in volunteers by artificially lowering levels of serotonin. Two systematic reviews from 2006 and 2007 and a sample of the ten most recent studies (at the time the current research was conducted) found that lowering serotonin did not produce depression in hundreds of healthy volunteers. One of the reviews showed very weak evidence of an effect in a small subgroup of people with a family history of depression, but this only involved 75 participants.
Very large studies involving tens of thousands of patients looked at gene variation, including the gene that has the instructions for making the serotonin transporter. They found no difference in the frequency of varieties of this gene between people with depression and healthy controls.
Although a famous early study found a relationship between the serotonin transporter gene and stressful life events, larger, more comprehensive studies suggest no such relationship exists. Stressful life events in themselves, however, exerted a strong effect on people's subsequent risk of developing depression.
Some of the studies in our overview that included people who were taking or had previously taken antidepressants showed evidence that antidepressants may actually lower the concentration or activity of serotonin.
Not supported by the evidence The serotonin theory of depression has been one of the most influential and extensively researched biological theories of the origins of depression. Our study shows that this view is not supported by scientific evidence. It also calls into question the basis for the use of antidepressants.
Most antidepressants now in use are presumed to act via their effects on serotonin. Some also affect the brain's chemical noradrenaline. But experts agree that the evidence for the involvement of noradrenaline in depression is weaker than that for serotonin.
There is no other accepted pharmacological mechanism for how antidepressants might affect depression. If antidepressants exert their effects as placebos, or by numbing emotions, then it is not clear that they do more good than harm.
Although viewing depression as a biological disorder may seem like it would reduce stigma, in fact, research has shown the opposite, and also that people who believe their own depression is due to a chemical imbalance are more pessimistic about their chances of recovery.
It is important that people know that the idea that depression results from a "chemical imbalance" is hypothetical. And we do not understand what temporarily elevating serotonin or other biochemical changes produced by antidepressants do to the brain. We conclude that it is impossible to say that taking SSRI antidepressants is worthwhile, or even completely safe.
If you're taking antidepressants, it's very important you don't stop doing so without speaking to your doctor first. But people need all this information to make informed decisions about whether or not to take these drugs.
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As British athlete Jake Wightman pulled off a shocking victory to become the 1500m men’s world champion in Oregon on Tuesday night, it was his dad, Geoff, calling the race over the loudspeakers.
Jake Wightman finished in 3:29:23 ― just seconds ahead of Olympic champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen and Spain’s Mohamed Katir. The 28-year-old looked as surprised as anyone as he brought it home, his mouth gaping in awe.
“Jake Wightman has just had the run of his life,” his dad announced over the speakers as he crossed the line. “My voice has gone.”
Moments later, the big screen at Eugene’s Hayward Field switched to show the stadium announcer. “I have got to tell you why the camera is on me. That’s my son. I coach him. And he’s the world champion,” he explained to the crowd.
Geoff Wightman, a former top marathon runner and a veteran athletics commentator, has been calling races for his son since he was a kid.
“I’ve been doing his school sports day since he was about 11 because my wife’s been his PE teacher,” he later said, according to The Guardian.
Jake was later pictured with mom and dad, all looking proud as punch. Both parents are former athletes, with mom Susan Wightman having represented Team GB in the marathon at the 1988 Seoul Olympics.
Asked how he felt about his dad’s commentating, Jake Wightman said he hardly notices his voice over the speaker anymore, though noted he can be “a bit of a robot on the mic sometimes.”
“I hope he broke down today. It will be interesting to watch it back. My mum was in tears, someone was crying!” he said.
But dad says he has to keep it professional.
“The crowds have got bigger, the stadiums have got bigger but the threat is always that if I am not impartial or start coaching over the microphone, I’ll get taken off the 1500m and I love the 1500m,” he told the BBC.
“It’s his achievement. I’m in the background blithering away.”
Jake Wightman was born in England but runs for Scotland, where he was raised. This win is by far his biggest accomplishment. He won bronze for the 1500m at the European Championships and Commonwealth Games in 2018, but didn’t qualify for the 2016 Olympics and came in 10th at Tokyo in 2020. | https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jake-wightman-dad-commentating-win_n_62d88b7ae4b06e213fba7a60 | 2022-07-21T05:18:12 | en | 0.991305 |
Science News Roundup: Scientists uncover history of 'ridiculously charming' penguins; Scientists reveal origin of mammal evolution milestone: warm-bloodedness
Researchers on Tuesday offered the most thorough examination to date of the history of penguins dating back to their origins more than 60 million years ago, including identifying a suite of genes crucial in adaptations related to underwater vision, long dives, body temperature regulation, diet and body size. Scientists reveal origin of mammal evolution milestone: warm-bloodedness Scientists have answered a longstanding question about mammalian evolution, examining ear anatomy of living and extinct mammals and their close relatives to determine when warm-bloodedness - a trait integral to the lineage's success - first emerged.
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Scientists uncover history of 'ridiculously charming' penguins
The evolution of penguins from their flying seabird ancestors into the flightless denizens of marine environments from frigid Antarctica to the tropical Galapagos Islands is among the wonders of the animal kingdom. Researchers on Tuesday offered the most thorough examination to date of the history of penguins dating back to their origins more than 60 million years ago, including identifying a suite of genes crucial in adaptations related to underwater vision, long dives, body temperature regulation, diet and body size.
Scientists reveal origin of mammal evolution milestone: warm-bloodedness
Scientists have answered a longstanding question about mammalian evolution, examining ear anatomy of living and extinct mammals and their close relatives to determine when warm-bloodedness - a trait integral to the lineage's success - first emerged. Researchers said on Wednesday that the reduced size of inner ear structures called semicircular canals - small, fluid-filled tubes that help in keeping balance - in fossils of mammal forerunners showed that warm-bloodedness, called endothermy, arose roughly 233 million years ago during the Triassic Period.
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Actor Kerry Washington filled in for Jimmy Kimmel on Wednesday night ― and she used her monologue to help up-and-coming members of her profession in a big way.
The “Scandal” star recruited actors who were just short of the earnings needed to be eligible for health care from the Screen Actors Guild.
Then she had them deliver lines of dialogue in the middle of the monologue ― a paying gig that put each of them over the threshold.
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Odd News Roundup: Mexican beauty queen, Romanian-Dutch man arrested after chase across Europe over $1.7 million wine theft; Italy's oldest student graduates again aged 98
In a statement, Spanish national police said that on Oct. 27, 2021 in the western city of Caceres, 45 wine bottles worth a total of 1.65 million euros, including one "unique" 19th-century vintage worth 310,000 euros, were spirited out in a meticulously planned theft from the cellars of the famous hotel-restaurant El Atrio. Italy's oldest student graduates again aged 98 Giuseppe Paterno, who is 98, has become Italy's oldest graduate - again.
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Mexican beauty queen, Romanian-Dutch man arrested after chase across Europe over $1.7 million wine theft
A former Mexican beauty queen and a Romanian-Dutch accomplice have been arrested in Croatia over the theft of $1.7 million worth of prestige bottles of wine in Spain after a nine-month chase across Europe, police said on Wednesday. In a statement, Spanish national police said that on Oct. 27, 2021, in the western city of Caceres, 45 wine bottles worth a total of 1.65 million euros, including one "unique" 19th-century vintage worth 310,000 euros, were spirited out in a meticulously planned theft from the cellars of the famous hotel-restaurant El Atrio.
Italy's oldest student graduates again aged 98
Giuseppe Paterno, who is 98, has become Italy's oldest graduate - again. Paterno has added a master's in history and philosophy from the University of Palermo to an initial degree in the same subjects he earned there two years ago.
(With inputs from agencies.)
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Rock and Roll Hall of Famers Pearl Jam had to pull out of a European show on Wednesday due to the effects of a French wildfire on lead singer Eddie Vedder.
The band wrote on Instagram that its Vienna, Austria, show would be called off after it faced “extreme” circumstances at its Lollapalooza Paris show on July 17.
Officials have fought wildfires in France and Spain amid a scorching heat wave, causing about 14,000 people to evacuate the city of Bordeaux in southwest France, NPR reported.
In Spain, firefighters have worked to stop more than 30 wildfires.
A combination of dust, heat and smoke from the wildfires outside Paris have taken a toll on the band, according to its Instagram, including damaging Vedder’s throat.
“He has seen doctors and treatment but as of yet, his vocal cords have not recovered,” the band wrote.
“This is brutal news and horrible timing...for everyone involved. ... As a band, we are deeply sorry and have tried to find options to still play. And Ed wants to play. There’s just no throat available at this time.”
It’s unclear if the band will call off a number of other shows scheduled for this month, including a Friday show in Prague and two shows in Amsterdam early next week. | https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pearl-jam-vienna-concert-canceled-eddie-vedder-voice-wildfires_n_62d8af21e4b081f3a8faecab | 2022-07-21T05:18:24 | en | 0.974485 |
Inmate attacked in Tihar jail over watching television: Officials
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A scuffle over watching television led to an inmate in the Tihar jail being attacked by two others, according to officials.
The incident took place in jail number 5 on Wednesday, they added.
The scuffle broke out in a barrack where offenders aged between 18 and 21 years are lodged, a senior jail official said, adding that two inmates attacked a third one with a sharp metal piece taken from a fan.
The injured inmate had his face cut in the attack. He was taken to the Deen Dayal Upadhyay (DDU) hospital, from where he was discharged subsequently, the officials said.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan group of senators agreed Wednesday on proposed changes to the Electoral Count Act, the post-Civil War-era law for certifying presidential elections that came under intense scrutiny after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and Donald Trump's effort to overturn the 2020 election.
Long in the making, the package introduced by the group led by Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Joe Manchin of West Virginia is made up of two separate proposals. One would clarify the way states submit electors and the vice president tallies the votes in Congress. The other would bolster security for state and local election officials who have faced violence and harassment.
“From the beginning, our bipartisan group has shared a vision of drafting legislation to fix the flaws of the archaic and ambiguous Electoral Count Act of 1887,” Collins, Manchin and the other 14 senators said in a joint statement.
“We have developed legislation that establishes clear guidelines for our system of certifying and counting electoral votes," the group wrote. "We urge our colleagues in both parties to support these simple, commonsense reforms.”
Both Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell have signaled support for the bipartisan group, but the final legislative package will undergo careful scrutiny.
Votes are not likely before fall. But with broad support from the group of 16 senators, seven Democrats and nine Republicans, who have worked behind closed doors for months with the help of outside experts, serious consideration is assured.
In a statement, Matthew Weil, executive director of the Democracy Program at the Bipartisan Policy Center, called the framework a “critical step” in shoring up ambiguities in the Electoral Count Act.
After Trump lost the 2020 election, the defeated president orchestrated an unprecedented attempt to challenge the electors sent from battleground states to the joint session of Congress on Jan. 6, when the vice president presides over certification.
Under the proposed changes, the law would be updated to ensure the governor from each state is initially responsible for submitting electors, as a way to safeguard against states sending alternative or fake elector slates.
Additionally, the law would spell out that the vice president presides over the joint session in a “solely ministerial” capacity, according to a summary page. It says the vice president “does not have any power to solely determine, accept, reject, or otherwise adjudicate disputes over electors.”
That provision is a direct reaction to Trump's relentless efforts to pressure then Vice President Mike Pence to reject the electors being sent from certain battleground states as a way to halt the certification or tip it away from Joe Biden's victory.
The bill also specifies the procedures around presidential transitions, including when the election outcome is disputed, to ensure the peaceful transfer of power from one administration to the next.
That's another pushback to the way Trump blocked Biden's team from accessing some information for his transition to the White House.
The second proposal, revolving around election security, would double the federal penalties to up to two years in prison for individuals who “threaten or intimidate election officials, poll watchers, voters or candidates,” according to the summary.
It also would seek to improve the way the U.S. Postal Service handles election mail and “provide guidance to states to improve their mail-in ballot processes.” Mail-in ballots and the role of the Postal Service came under great scrutiny during the 2020 election.
An Associated Press review of potential cases of voter fraud in six battleground states found no evidence of widespread fraud that could change the outcome of the election. A separate AP review of drop boxes used for mailed ballots also found no significant problems.
The need for election worker protections was front and center at a separate hearing Wednesday of the House Committee on Homeland Security. Election officials and experts testified that a rise in threats of physical violence is contributing to staffing shortages across the country and a loss of experience at local boards of elections.
“The impact is widespread,” said Neal Kelley, a former registrar of voters in Orange County, California, who now chairs the Committee for Safe and Secure Elections. “And, while the effects on individuals are devastating, the potential blow to democracy should not be dismissed.”
Elizabeth Howard, senior counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice, told the committee that Congress needs to direct more money and support toward protecting election workers’ personal safety, including by funding local and federal training programs and providing grants to enhance security at election directors’ personal residences.
Democratic New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver, who recently reported a series of threats, told the panel the situation has become worse after former President Donald Trump’s attacks against the 2020 election result.
“Unfortunately, we are still on a daily basis, in my state and across the country, living with the reverberating effects of the ‘Big Lie’ from 2020,” she said. "And, as we all know, when it comes to leadership, what you say from the very highest echelons of government power in this country do have those reverberating effects.”
Some Republican members of the committee condemned violence against election workers — and also drew a parallel to recent threats and intimidation directed toward some Supreme Court justices after their decision to overturn constitutional protections for abortion.
GOP Rep. Clay Higgins of Louisiana rejected the notion that Trump and other election skeptics were solely responsible for the “atmosphere of mistrust” that grew up around the 2020 election.
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Associated Press writer Julie Carr Smyth in Columbus, Ohio contributed to this report. | https://www.huffpost.com/entry/senators-congress-electoral-votes_n_62d8cee2e4b06e213fbabc2c | 2022-07-21T05:18:30 | en | 0.955507 |
100 metre champ Kerley out for relays at worlds with hurting leg
World 100-meter champion Fred Kerley will not be available for the U.S. relay team later this week due to a leg injury he suffered while running the semifinals of the 200. The team initially said hed suffered a cramp.Kerley was a 400-meter specialist who moved down in distance before last years Olympics.
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World 100-meter champion Fred Kerley will not be available for the U.S. relay team later this week due to a leg injury he suffered while running the semifinals of the 200. Kerley's agent, Ricky Simms, said the sprinter sustained a slight injury to his quadriceps during the race Tuesday night. Kerley slowed down about halfway through the race and finished second-to-last. After the race, he pulled the left leg of his shorts up above his thigh. The team initially said he'd suffered a cramp.
Kerley was a 400-meter specialist who moved down in distance before last year's Olympics. He won silver in the 100 in Tokyo, then the gold in Eugene last Saturday as part of an American medals sweep that also included Marvin Bracy and Trayvon Bromell. Kerley was expected to play a key part of the American 4x100 meter relay team that has been plagued with problems over the decades. Qualifying for that race is Friday, with the final on Saturday. Even without him, the U.S. can field the fastest team. Christian Coleman, the 100-meter champion in 2019 who finished sixth Saturday, is a candidate. So are Noah Lyles and Erriyon Knighton, the top two contenders in the 200 who also have the two fastest times in the world at that distance this year.
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Semenya finishes 13th, doesn't advance in 5,000 at worlds
Caster Semenya finished 13th and failed to advance in the womens 5,000 meters Wednesday at the world championships, an expected result for the South African who is barred from her best event because of rules that demand she take hormone-reducing drugs to enter certain races.
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Caster Semenya finished 13th and failed to advance in the women's 5,000 meters Wednesday at the world championships, an expected result for the South African who is barred from her best event because of rules that demand she take hormone-reducing drugs to enter certain races. Semenya, who has two Olympic and three world titles in the 800 meters, has been kept out of that race in big events since 2019, after losing an appeal of a World Athletics regulation that made women with certain intersex condition ineligible for races of between 400 meters and one mile. Semenya finished the 12 1/2-lap race, held on a blistering 91-degree (32 Celsius) afternoon, in 15 minutes, 46.12 seconds. That was 54 seconds behind the winner of the heat, Gudaf Tsegay of Ethiopia, and 53 seconds outside of the fifth and last automatic qualifying spot into the final.
The only surprise in any of that was that she came to Oregon to compete. Her personal best in the race is 15:31.50, which is outside the world-championships qualifying standard. But she moved into the race after some higher-ranked runners did not enter. Her case is the most recognizable in a number of instances involving intersex and transgender athletes in sports. Semenya is not transgender, but her case carries strong implications for how transgender athletes are treated and classified. World Athletics President Sebastian Coe, who has hinted that the rules could be updated later this year, but probably not in a way that would restore Semenya's eligibility in her best race, said science regarding the effects of testosterone on athletes has guided all World Athletics' decisions.
“The issue for me is very simple,” Coe said in an interview the day before Semenya's race. “Of course, I recognize that both with DSD and with transgender, these are societal issues. I don't have the luxury, however, of being intimately involved in that debate. My responsibility is to protect the integrity of women's sport.” Semenya has been a vocal critic of the rules, most recently saying through her lawyer that they are “an affront to the spirit of the sport.” Semenya hung in the middle of the lead pack of the 18-woman race for about three laps, then things started stringing out. Halfway through the 5,000 meters, she had fallen to 13th — racing in a group of three runners some 80 meters behind the lead group. With about three laps to go, Semenya was in a familiar place — running all alone on the track — but she was in 13th.
There were no runners within 50 meters of her on either side when she crossed the finish line to a notable burst of applause, same as she received when she was introduced at the starting line. While most of the runners collapsed to the track at the end, Semenya paced around, breathing heavily, with her hands on her hips. She high-fived a few of the runners, grabbed a wet towel to put on the back of her neck, then dug around in a cooler for something to drink before heading up a set of stairs that lead away from the track.
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Federal regulators Wednesday canceled a policy adopted under former President Donald Trump that weakened their authority to identify lands and waters where declining animals and plants could receive government protection.
The move was the latest by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service undoing changes to the Endangered Species Act that industry and landowner groups had won under Trump. President Joe Biden ordered a broad review of his predecessor's environmental policies after taking office in 2021.
One Trump measure required regulators not to designate areas as critical habitat if there would be greater economic benefit from developing them.
That forced the agency to disprove “speculative claims of environmental harm made by industries such as mining, logging, and oil and gas" as they sought to extract resources from public lands," said Earthjustice, a law firm that represents environmental groups.
In a 48-page document explaining withdrawal of the rule, the agency said it gave outside parties an “outsized role” in determining which areas were needed for preserving imperiled species while undermining the Fish and Wildlife Service's authority.
"The Service is the federal government’s lead agency on endangered species, responsible for conserving the nature of America for future generations,” agency Director Martha Williams said.
Returning to the pre-Trump policy, she said, would make “sound science and citizen participation” the basis of habitat decisions.
Under the 1973 law, federal agencies cannot fund, permit or take actions that would destroy or severely damage critical habitats. It doesn’t restrict activities on private land unless government approval or financial support is involved.
It allows regulators to deny critical habitat designation to areas after considering economic and national security issues, and other factors such as conservation activities underway in such areas.
In some cases, the designation "can discourage conservation and restoration by making habitat a serious liability for landowners, whose property values can plunge up to 75 percent,” The Property and Environment Research Center, a landowner advocacy group, said in a statement.
“Instead of simply reversing the Trump administration’s flawed rule, the Fish and Wildlife Service should reform the critical habitat process to focus on creating the right incentives for landowners to actively conserve and restore habitat," said Jonathan Wood, the group's vice president of law and policy.
Earthjustice said the Biden administration's action would return the focus to imperiled species instead of “the self-interest of destructive industries.”
“The Trump rules violated the letter and spirit” of the Endangered Species Act "by stripping vital protections necessary to address the extinction crisis," attorney Leinā`ala Ley said.
The Biden administration in June withdrew a Trump rule that prevented agencies from selecting for protection areas that don’t presently meet a species’ needs but might in the future as a result of restoration work or natural changes, including global warming.
A federal judge this month threw out a number of Trump actions to roll back protections for endangered or threatened species. | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/nation-world/biden-administration-to-undo-trump-endangered-species-rule/507-2d324589-63eb-4c61-a7c1-759a0d890429 | 2022-07-21T05:18:51 | en | 0.946201 |
Rugby-Tonga without big guns for World Cup playoff amid injuries
Former New Zealand centre Fekitoa had returned to Irish club Munster after suffering a calf injury while fellow All Black Piutau had only committed to two matches during the Pacific Nations Cup, Kefu added. In a further blow, former Australia number eight Lopeti Timani had also been scratched from the Hong Kong game after failing a fitness test at training on Thursday morning in the Sunshine Coast.
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Tonga will be without star internationals Israel Folau, Malakai Fekitoa and Charles Piutau for their World Cup playoff against Hong Kong on the Sunshine Coast in Australia on Saturday. Outside back Folau, capped 73 times for Australia before his Wallabies contract was terminated in 2019, suffered a serious hamstring injury early in his Tonga debut in the 36-0 loss to hosts Fiji in the Pacific Nations Cup.
Coach Toutai Kefu told Reuters the dual code international could be sidelined for up to another 12 weeks. Former New Zealand centre Fekitoa had returned to Irish club Munster after suffering a calf injury while fellow All Black Piutau had only committed to two matches during the Pacific Nations Cup, Kefu added.
In a further blow, former Australia number eight Lopeti Timani had also been scratched from the Hong Kong game after failing a fitness test at training on Thursday morning in the Sunshine Coast. His place on the bench will be taken by Sione Tuipulotu, Kefu said.
Tonga have only missed qualifying for one World Cup in 1991 and should have too much quality for Hong Kong, despite heading into the playoff in dire form after three straight defeats at the Pacific Nations Cup. The winner secures a place in Pool D at next year's World Cup in France with reigning champions South Africa, Ireland, Scotland and Romania.
Tonga squad: 15-Telusa Veainu, 14-Tima Fainga'anuku, 13-Afusipa Taumoepeau, 12-Fetuli Paea, 11-Anzelo Tu'itavuki, 10-William Havili, 9-Sonatane Takulua (capt), 8-Sione Havili Talitui, 7-Solomone Funaki, 6-Tanginoa Halaifonua, 5-Sam Lousi, 4-Halaleva Fifita, 3-Ben Tameifuna, 2-Siua Maile, 1-Siegfried Fisi'ihoi
Replacements: 16-Samiuela Moli, 17-David Lolohea, 18-Siate Tokolahe, 19-Semisi Paea, 20-Sione Tuipulotu, 21-Manu Paea, 22-James Faiva, 23-Otumaka Mausia
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WASHINGTON — Microsoft's collaboration platform Teams suffered a major outage Wednesday night.
The website DownDetector.com, which reports outages submitted by users, indicated a large spike in Teams complaints starting at around 9:20 p.m. By 10:05 p.m., there were over 4,500 reports submitted.
Microsoft Teams is platform that allows users to chat, have meetings and share attachments.
As of midnight, the problems seemed to be alleviated for some users.
"We’ve taken action to reroute a portion of traffic to provide some relief within the environment. We anticipate that some users may be able to access the affected features shortly," the company said on it's website.
Thousands of users were having issues with sending and receiving messages. Teams was displaying error messages saying “We ran into a problem. Reconnecting…,” according to Microsoft's status website.
A twitter account for Microsoft updates confirmed the outage on Wednesday and said the company was investigating the issues. According to Down Detector's website, 64% of the complaints were server connection issues.
"We've received reports of users being unable to access Microsoft Teams or leverage any features. We're investigating the issue and further updates can be found in your Service Health Dashboard via TM402718," the company tweeted on Wednesday.
The 11 p.m. update from Microsoft's twitter account said the cause was a recent deployment containing "a broken connection to an internal storage service, which has resulted in impact."
Last week, two social media giants experienced global outages, causing trouble for thousands of users. Twitter users across the world reported disruptions in service Thursday morning. As the afternoon rolled in, Instagram was crashing for some users as well. | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/nation-world/microsoft-teams-suffers-major-outage/507-91a2d0e4-db87-4b8d-b828-00b5f93beb09 | 2022-07-21T05:18:57 | en | 0.965875 |
Goa to host National Games next year
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After a wait of nearly a decade, Goa has got the nod to host the National Games next year, state sports minister has said.
The infrastructure required for hosting the games in Goa would be ready by December this year, sports minister Govind Gaude said while making the announcement in the state Assembly late Wednesday night.
He thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah for the opportunity.
“The Government of Goa has received an email from the Indian Olympics Association in consultation with the Union Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports that the state will be the host for the 37th National Games anytime in 2023,'' Gaude told the House.
The last National Games were held in Kerala in 2015 and Goa was to host the 36th edition in November 2016.
After two delays in 2018 and 2019 due to the coastal state's inability to create adequate infrastructure, the Games were further postponed to 2020.
The COVID-19 pandemic then forced the postponement of the National Games and the Goa government was still not certain whether it will be able to host them this year.
Gaude said he had already informed members of the Goa Legislative Assembly that the state would be ready to host the National Games by December 2022.
Eariler, speaking in the House on the demands for grants for the sports department, Gaude said he has made it clear that the infrastructure required for the Games would be ready by December this year.
“We will be ready with the infrastructure by December 2022 and Goa will be able to host the National Games next year,” the minister had said.
“Forget about history, let’s create history in future,” he had said.
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DETROIT — Tesla's second-quarter profit fell 32% from record levels in the first quarter as supply chain issues and pandemic lockdowns in China slowed production of its electric vehicles.
But the Austin, Texas, company still surprised analysts Wednesday with a better-than-expected $2.26 billion net profit for the quarter. Tesla stuck with a prediction of 50% annual vehicle sales growth over the next few years, but said that depends on the supply chain, equipment capacity and other issues.
The company made a record $3.32 billion in this year's first quarter.
Tesla's sales from April through June fell to 254,000 vehicles, their lowest quarterly level since last fall. But the company predicted record-breaking production in the second half and said that in June it had the highest production month in its history.
Industry analysts had been expecting lower earnings after the lower sales figures and tweets by CEO Elon Musk about laying off 10% of the company's work force due to fears of a recession. In an interview, Musk described new factories in Austin and Berlin as “money furnaces” that were losing billions of dollars because supply chain breakdowns were limiting the number of cars they can produce.
But Tesla exceeded Wall Street expectations from April through June with adjusted earnings of $2.27 per share. Analysts polled by FactSet expected $1.81. Revenue was $16.93 billion, beating estimates of $16.54 billion.
Edward Jones analyst Jeff Windau said the earnings were better than expected. He noted that the decrease in automobile revenues from the first quarter was offset by stronger energy storage, solar and services performance.
Musk reiterated the 50% annual vehicle sales growth forecast but said it depends a lot on circumstances that the company might not be able to control.
Windau said the forecast “shows the confidence they have in their ability to grow the electric vehicle market.”
Tesla shares rose 1.5% to $753.40 in extended trading Wednesday.
The company said it converted 75% of its bitcoin investment to government currency during the quarter, adding $936 million in cash to its balance sheet. It spent $1.5 billion on the investment last year. Overall, it booked a $106 million cost for bitcoin, plus added costs for employee reductions.
CEO Elon Musk said the bitcoin holdings were sold to raise cash because of uncertainty over how long pandemic lockdowns would last in China. He said Tesla is open to increasing bitcoin holdings in the future.
The price of bitcoin has fallen about 50% so far this year.
Musk also said Tesla is seeing indications that inflation may be declining as prices for most commodities drop. He cautioned against making economic predictions but said commodity prices, such as steel and aluminum, are trending down.
Musk said Tesla’s “Full Self-Driving” beta test software is on track to be released before the end of this year to all North American customers who want to buy it. And with regulatory approval, it will be released in Europe and other parts of the world, he said. Despite its name, “Full Self-Driving” cannot drive itself, and Tesla warns that drivers have to pay attention all the time.
Chief Financial Officer Zachary Kirkhorn said the company is seeing “maybe a little” impact on demand due to macroeconomic issues. Musk reiterated that Tesla has a vehicle supply problem, not a demand problem, and said it now takes six months to a year to get a new vehicle. He said the company has increased prices to “embarrassing levels” due to inflation, but he hopes to reduce prices a bit. | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/nation-world/tesla-2q-profit-bitcoin/507-625debc3-e06f-420c-9c73-2d8773125dd2 | 2022-07-21T05:19:03 | en | 0.973496 |
Champ aims to defend 3M title in another challenging season
Cameron Champ fought off dehydration and dizziness down the stretch to win the 3M Open last year with a bogey-free final round, a confidence-boosting win for a young player trying to establish himself on the PGA tour.The challenges for Champ have persisted this season, and he has arrived in Minnesota in search of another late-summer bump to make the FedEx Cup playoffs.
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Cameron Champ fought off dehydration and dizziness down the stretch to win the 3M Open last year with a bogey-free final round, a confidence-boosting win for a young player trying to establish himself on the PGA tour.
The challenges for Champ have persisted this season, and he has arrived in Minnesota in search of another late-summer bump to make the FedEx Cup playoffs. “This is just one of those places where it doesn't matter if I play good or bad. I'm just very comfortable with it,” Champ said Wednesday after his pro-am warmup for the fourth edition of this tournament at the TPC Twin Cities course that favors big hitters like him.
Champ missed the cut in his first event on the 2021-22 schedule. Then he broke his left wrist and didn't play again for almost four months. Just before his return, there was a false start with a positive COVID-19 test that forced him to withdraw from the Sentry Tournament of Champions.
“This year's been an eventful year to say the least. I've had a lot of stuff going on in my personal life mixed in with me breaking my wrist in the fall. That was a whole just unknown for quite a while, if it was going to be serious or if it was not serious. Luckily, it wasn't too serious, but it was very close to possibly hurting my career for a long time,” said Champ, who ranks 153rd in the FedEx Cup standings with the top 125 eligible for the playoffs.
He has missed the cut in his last five starts, but a 10th-place Masters finish still stands out on his season record.
“I think I've taken more positives than negatives from it,'' Champ said. “Even where I stand or when people look at my stats or whatever they want to say, I'm in a way better headspace. I understand myself better. I understand what my motives are.” The highest-ranked player in the field is Hideki Matsuyama, who is eighth in the FedEx Cup standings and 14th in the world. The other major winners who will tee off in the first round Thursday are Stewart Cink, Jason Day, Jason Dufner, Lucas Glover and Danny Willett. Tony Finau and Rickie Fowler are here, too, as are rising stars Jhooyung Kim, Davis Riley and Sahith Theegala. There are a couple of prospects fresh from the college links worth watching in Chris Gotterup and Cale Hammer. Gotterup (Oklahoma) tied for fifth at the NCAA championships in May, and Hammer helped Texas win the team title.
The most unique entrant among the 155 players this year is undoubtedly Mardy Fish, the former tennis star and a native of Minnesota who is one of eight sponsor exemptions included in the field. Fish's profile has been raised further by his advocacy for and openness about mental health, after a severe anxiety disorder derailed his tennis career. Fish, who won six ATP tour titles and the silver medal at the Olympics in 2004, befriended Jack Nicklaus on the celebrity circuit and used a recommendation from one of golf's greats to land a spot in the PGA Tour event in his home state.
“I've played golf my whole life, ever since I could stand, and so you're just hitting a little white ball around. I don't have to run after it or anything like that, so it's right there in front of you,” Fish said.
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NEW YORK — Former Vice President Mike Pence is becoming increasingly brazen in his willingness to counter former President Donald Trump.
The two will hold dueling events in Arizona on Friday as they stump for rival candidates who offer dramatically different visions of the Republican Party in a critical battleground state. Days later, they will once again cross paths as they deliver major speeches on the same day in Washington, D.C.
The encounters mark a more confrontational phase in the fraught relationship between the former running mates and once close confidantes who could soon find themselves competing against one another in the 2024 GOP presidential primary if they both ultimately choose to run.
“I think this is a continuation of the larger message that Pence is trying to embody here, which is the Republican Party should look to the future,” said Scott Jennings, a longtime party strategist. “This is going to be the existential question for the Republican Party: Are we going to listen to a slightly different view than Donald Trump’s? Right now, the standard-bearer for this is Mike Pence.”
That description marks a striking turnaround for Pence, who spent his four years in the White House as Trump’s most loyal defender. But Trump turned on his vice president when Pence refused to go along with his unconstitutional efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, putting Pence in the crosshairs of a violent mob on Jan. 6.
Now Pence, who has repeatedly defended his actions that day, is taking a more active effort to shape the future of the party. This week, Pence endorsed Karrin Taylor Robson in Arizona's Republican gubernatorial primary, pitting himself against Trump, who has endorsed Kari Lake, a former newscaster who has embraced Trump's election lies.
“As Arizona Democrats pursue the reckless Biden-Harris agenda, Karrin Taylor Robson is the only candidate for Governor that will keep Arizona’s border secure and streets safe, empower parents and create great schools, and promote conservative values,” Pence said in a statement announcing his decision.
Pence backed Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, a top Trump target who easily defeated the former president’s hand-picked challenger this spring. But Pence’s Arizona move showed a willingness to weigh in on a closer and open race in alliance with the state’s outgoing GOP governor, Doug Ducey, who also rebuffed Trump’s efforts to overturn the election.
Pence is planning to campaign with Robson in Phoenix and southern Arizona Friday — the same day that Trump is set to headline a rally for Lake in Prescott Valley that was rescheduled after the death of his first wife, Ivana Trump. Matt Benson, a Robson campaign spokesman, said Pence would be attending an event at a local employer as well as a briefing on border security while in the state.
A Trump spokesperson did not respond to requests for comment on the events.
Trump and Pence will again cross paths next week as the former president returns to the nation's capital for the first time since leaving the White House. Pence will address the conservative Heritage Foundation on Monday evening and will speak at the Young America’s Foundation's annual National Conservative Student Conference on Tuesday morning. That afternoon, Trump will headline a two-day summit organized by the America First Policy Institute and deliver what organizers said would be a policy-focused speech.
Pence, too, will use his speech before the Heritage Foundation to highlight the policy agenda he released earlier this year and to talk about the future of the party, according to aides. The remarks are expected to offer an implicit contrast with Trump, who has spent much of his energy since leaving office on relitigating the 2020 election.
Pence has urged Republicans to move on, even as he continues to tout the accomplishments of what he often describes as the Trump-Pence administration during his frequent appearances.
Pence also huddled privately Wednesday with the House’s Republican Study Committee, the traditionally conservative caucus he once led as a member of Congress, to discuss his policy agenda. During the meeting, Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, thanked Pence for his actions on Jan. 6, according to a person familiar with the exchange who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe the closed-door meeting. Pence also committed to helping the GOP in the midterms and in 2024, though he did not explicitly say what role he intends to play.
He then headed to South Carolina for a speech at a Baptist church in South Carolina to discuss “the post-Roe world” after the Supreme Court overturned constitutional protections for abortions — a position he has long advocated.
Pence's efforts come as Trump is preparing to launch a third campaign for the White House as soon as this summer while he faces a flurry of investigations into his efforts to cling to power. That includes the House Jan. 6 committee, which on Thursday will hold another prime-time hearing, this time spotlighting Trump's refusal to call off the angry mob that stormed the Capitol and sent Pence and other lawmakers into hiding.
While polls show Trump remains the overwhelming favorite in a hypothetical GOP primary, Marc Short, Pence’s former chief of staff and a top adviser, argued that even if Trump does announce a run, that doesn't necessarily mean he'll be on the ballot two years from now.
“As the committee winds down, I'm sure he’s looking for a reset that brings attention back on him. And an announcement does not necessarily mean a commitment at the end of that process to continue forward," said Short. “I don't think there's any doubt that the president enjoys being the center of attention. And the announcement puts even additional media focus on him."
Trump, meanwhile, has continued to slam Pence for refusing to go along with his scheme to remain in power. At a gathering of Evangelical Christians in Nashville, Tennessee, last month, Trump again said Pence “did not have the courage to act," drawing applause.
When it comes to a potential race, Trump does not see Pence as a threat, according to allies, who are much more consumed with Ron DeSantis. The Florida governor is increasingly seen by conservatives as a natural and younger successor to Trump's MAGA movement who can channel the same anger, but with less baggage.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday predicted Trump will face competition in 2024 if he enters the race.
“I think we’re going to have a crowded field for president,” he told reporters.
Asked if Pence should run, Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, a frequent Trump critic, said it's up to Pence, who has said he'll make a decision after the midterms. “The more the merrier," Romney said.
Jennings, meanwhile, praised Pence for being willing to stand up to Trump when so many others in the party still refuse to cross him.
“What Mike Pence is doing is extremely valuable. And whether he is a viable candidate for president, I don’t know. But he’s certainly earned the right to make the case for a post-Trump future," said Jennings.
“He may end up being John the Baptist to someone else," he added. "Headless but remembered well.” | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/nation-world/trump-pence-rivalry-intensifies/507-0f56f723-4eed-4837-a1b2-871c7b6cde49 | 2022-07-21T05:19:09 | en | 0.972754 |
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WASHINGTON — During a speech on the effects of climate change Wednesday, President Joe Biden seemingly indicated that he has cancer, but the White House quickly clarified the president was referring to a previous diagnosis before his presidency.
The comment came during a speech in Somerset, Mass., when the president was discussing the health effects caused by emissions from oil refineries near his hometown in Delaware.
“That’s why I — and so damn many other people I grew up with — have cancer and why for the longest time Delaware had the highest cancer rate in the nation,” Biden said.
RNC Research, a Twitter account run by the Republican National Committee, quickly posted a video clip, tweeting, "Did Joe Biden just announce he has cancer?" The claim quickly gained traction among conservative figures on Twitter.
Andrew Bates, a White House deputy press secretary, responded by pointing to a tweet from Glenn Kessler, the editor and chief writer for the Washington Post's Fact Checker. Kessler debunked the claim, pointing out Biden had minor skin cancers removed prior to his presidency, which was noted in a health report released last year.
"This is what the President was referring to," Bates tweeted.
It's not clear why Biden used the present tense, or if medical experts have linked refinery emissions to skin conditions like cancer.
President Biden's physician, Dr. Kevin O'Connor, released a medical report in November 2021 that said "it is well-established that President Biden did spend a good deal of time in the sun in his youth" and noted Biden had "several localized, non-melanoma skin cancers removed with Mohs surgery before he started his presidency." The doctor added Biden had no suspected skin cancers at the time of the report.
Mohs surgery is considered a fairly routine procedure and one of the most effective ways to treat the two most common types of skin cancer. It requires only local anesthesia and is typically performed in an outpatient setting, according to the Mayo Clinic.
Cancer has touched Biden's life in a number of ways. His son, Beau Biden, died of brain cancer in 2015. As Vice President in 2016, Biden launched the "Cancer Moonshot" program; in February 2022, he "reignited" the program and set a lofty goal to reduce the death rate from cancer by at least 50% over the next 25 years. | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/nation-world/white-house-clarifies-biden-cancer-comments/507-582b6ff8-1943-471c-9371-b680bb0e9f3e | 2022-07-21T05:19:16 | en | 0.980564 |
Steeplechaser Jeruto plunges into water after gold at worlds
Feng Bin of China was a surprise winner in the womens discus, beating runner-up Sandra Perkovic of Croatia and Olympic champion Valarie Allman, who finished with bronze. Feng earned the victory with her first throw.Truly, its bittersweet, said Allman, who earned the first world medal in the womens discus for the U.S.
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Steeplechaser Norah Jeruto came up with a cool way to celebrate her victory at the end of a sizzling hot day at the world championships.
A pool party. Everyone was invited, too.
The Kenyan-born runner who recently began representing Kazakhstan moved to the backstretch following her win Wednesday and took the plunge — straight into the event's water pit.
A moment later, the Jeruto was joined by her two Ethiopian competitors, runner-up Werkuha Getachew and bronze medalist Mekides Abebe. Not wanting to be left out, Legend, the mascot for these championships, jumped in, too.
Jeruto finished in a championship record of 8 minutes, 53.02 seconds to hold off Getachew by 1.59 seconds. "The weather was good here. I enjoyed my race today," Jeruto said. "At the starting line, I was afraid of my friends from Ethiopia. They are also champions like me so I was scared of them. I tried my best to win the race and it was not easy. It was tough." It was a tough day for Emma Coburn, a two-time world medalist in the event who faded late and finished eighth.
"Disappointing," Coburn said. "I went for it and it didn't pay off." It was a warm one at Hayward Field with temperatures hovering around 91 degrees Fahrenheit (33 Celsius). To stay cool, many athletes donned ice vests before competing, wore sunglasses while racing, and wrapped cold towels around their shoulders when finished. But Jeruto may have had the best solution — go for a swim and splash around.
The steeplechase was one of two events that handed out medals on a night where the stands were far from packed. Feng Bin of China was a surprise winner in the women's discus, beating runner-up Sandra Perkovic of Croatia and Olympic champion Valarie Allman, who finished with bronze. Feng earned the victory with her first throw.
"Truly, it's bittersweet," said Allman, who earned the first world medal in the women's discus for the U.S. "I just couldn't find that big throw. It's good to walk out with a medal.'' Sydney McLaughlin coolly cruised through her semifinal heat of the 400-meter hurdles. Hardly pressed and conserving energy near the finish, the Olympic champion and world-record holder finished in a time of 52.17 seconds at the world championships Wednesday night. That's fast for never kicking into overdrive.
It might be another sign that her record of 51.41 — set on this track nearly a month ago — could fall yet again. The final is Friday and includes all three medalists from the Tokyo Games — McLaughlin, silver medalist Dalilah Muhammad, and bronze medalist Femke Bol of the Netherlands. "It was a good day to get faster," said McLaughlin, who improved on her first-round time by almost two seconds. "I just want to be free, give all I have, and leave it all on the track." On deck, another epic showdown.
"I still have something left, of course," Bol said. "I am ready for a good final." Wednesday also marked both the beginning and end of Caster Semenya's stay at worlds. She finished 13th and did not advance through her 5,000 qualifying heat. She ran the longer distance because she is banned from her specialty, the 800, due to rules that demand she take hormone-reducing drugs to enter certain races.
The Americans suffered a blow when world 100-meter champion Fred Kerley was knocked out of the 4x100 relay due to a quadriceps injury. He was hurt while running in the semifinals of the 200. Kerley was a 400-meter specialist who moved down in distance before last year's Olympics. He won silver in the 100 in Tokyo, then the gold in Eugene last Saturday as part of the American medals sweep that also included Marvin Bracy and Trayvon Bromell.
The season is over for defending 800 world champion Donavan Brazier, who struggled in his first-round heat and didn't advance. Next stop, surgery. Brazier will undergo a procedure to shave down bone in his heel to return to the form in 2019 when he won at the worlds in Doha.
"It makes it very hard to go from being the best in the world to next week I'll be on crutches," Brazier said. "That sucks. It makes me feel like I'm an injury-prone athlete. I don't want to be that one-and-done runner."
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1 soldier dead, 9 injured in lightning strike at Ga. base
FORT GORDON, Ga. (WRDW) - As thunderstorms moved through the area, 10 soliders were injured by a lighting strike, killing one of them, at Georgia’s Fort Gordon.
It happened around 11:10 a.m. Wednesday, according to spokeswoman Anne H. Bowman.
“It is with a heavy heart Fort Gordon confirms one of the soldiers injured in the lightning strike this afternoon succumbed to their injuries,” said Bowman in a statement.
The identity will be released once the next of kin is notified, WRDW reports.
As thunderstorms moved through the area, the soldiers suffered injuries associated with a lightning strike at one of their training areas.
Fort Gordon’s Department of Emergency Services and Emergency Medical Services responded to the scene immediately, according to Bowman.
The extent of the other nine injuries sustained is currently unknown.
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WASHINGTON — House Democrats pushed ahead Wednesday with legislation that would ban certain semi-automatic weapons as they considered their most far-reaching response yet to this summer’s series of mass shootings.
Democrats hope that the 100-page bill moving through the Judiciary Committee will pass the House before the August break. But that is far from assured because some moderates in the party, especially those from swing districts, are wary of a vote on broad gun controls before the November elections — especially when the bill has little chance of becoming law due to opposition in the Senate.
Democrats can afford to lose only four votes if Republicans are united in opposition to the ban. Maine Rep. Jared Golden, who represents a GOP-leaning district, is one of the few Democrats who have indicated a “no” vote.
“I don’t support any version of that,” Golden said. He is joined by Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, who is also facing a tough reelection race, and has said he doesn't believe in bans on weapons.
Despite not yet having full support from his caucus, Rep. David Cicilline, D-R.I., the bill's lead sponsor, said he is confident he can get the required votes, even if that involves reaching out for Republican support.
“There are more guns than people in this country, more mass shootings than days in the year. This is a uniquely American problem, and assault weapons only magnify the epidemic,” Cicilline said during the committee hearing.
The renewed push comes nearly two decades after Congress allowed similar restrictions to lapse. The original ban passed in 1994, led by then-Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., and outlawed certain semi-automatic weapons and large-capacity magazines. It exempted an estimated 1.5 million of those weapons and 25 million that were already owned by people in the United States.
In the nearly three decades since, mass shootings have become alarmingly frequent, with semi-automatic weapons often used in attacks on schools, workplaces, public spaces, stores, churches and other places where people gather.
"An assault weapon’s only purpose is to kill people efficiently," said Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-NY., the committee chairman. “It is time to protect our communities and to ban them once more.”
Republicans said the proposal was an attack on Second Amendment rights.
“Democrats know this legislation will not reduce violent crime or reduce the likelihood of mass shootings, but they are obsessed with attacking law-abiding Americans’ Second Amendment liberties,” said Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, the top Republican on the committee. “For over 30 years, the Democrats have been running a propaganda campaign to make people believe that ‘assault weapons’ are a specific class of firearms that no one needs.”
During the hearing, the committee listened to haunting audio of the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, during which 17 people were killed and 17 more wounded. Dozens of rapid-fire shots could be heard in the course of just 1 minute and 18 seconds along with the distressed screams of those trying to escape.
The hearing also comes in the wake of a July Fourth shooting at a parade in Highland Park, Illinois, and mass shootings in Buffalo, New York and Uvalde, Texas.
Democratic Rep. Brad Schneider whose district represents Highland Park, said that “getting these weapons of war off the streets, at the very least, will reduce the lethality, if not necessarily the frequency, of these just horrific fatalities that have devastated my community.”
Congress last month passed the most significant gun violence measure in decades, mandating background checks for gun buyers age 18 to 21 as well as allocating money for states to enact “red flag” laws.
But the bill fell far short of the steps that President Biden and Democrats say are needed.
“We’re paying for these weapons of war on our streets with the blood of our children sitting in our schools,” said Rep. Lucy McBath, D-Ga., whose 17-year-old son was shot and killed at a gas station in 2012.
Cicilline said that the protection of the Second Amendment is not without limits. He said the Democratic proposal is focused on assault-style rifles, which are not what the majority of guns law-abiding people buy and own.
“Dangerous military weapons that were created to fight on the battlefield and slaughter enemies do not belong in the neighborhoods and schools and movie theaters where we live,” he added. | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/politics/national-politics/semi-automatic-gun-ban-moves-forward-in-the-house/507-c16e0fe0-0920-448e-8585-3893e29fe55d | 2022-07-21T05:19:22 | en | 0.973718 |
We will go game-by-game during CWG 2022: Hockey player Surender Kumar
Indian Men's Hockey Team will take on Ghana in their first match of the Commonwealth Games 2022 in Birmingham on Sunday, July 31
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With the Commonwealth Games 2022 in Birmingham set to begin on July 28, 2022, the Indian Men's Hockey Team has been training vigorously at the SAI Centre in Bengaluru. Speaking on the ongoing training sessions, Indian Men's Hockey Team defender Surender Kumar said that the team's prime focus is physical fitness ahead of the Commonwealth Games.
"Our training sessions are still going on. Our focus has been mainly on fitness, and we have been working a lot on this aspect of the game. We have worked on getting stronger in other areas as well, especially in defence," Surender said. India is placed in Pool B along with England, Canada, Wales, and Ghana at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games. They will be opening their campaign against Ghana on July 31, 2022. Surender said that the team will not be taking any teams lightly and will go game-by-game.
"We are not taking any match lightly. Every team will enter the tournament to win the Gold medal. Our current focus is on the first game against Ghana," he said. "We have been closely following their footage that we have received. Our coaches are making plans accordingly and we will hope to follow the same on the match day. There will be no easy teams in the tournament and we will go game-by-game," Surender added.
India finished third at the FIH Men's Hockey Pro League 2021/22 and Surender believes the experience of competing against tough teams in the tournament will benefit India in Birmingham. "Our target is to win the Gold medal at the Commonwealth Games. The rest will depend on our performances," Surender said. "The matches that we have played since the Tokyo Olympics 2020 have been quite good. We have played against strong teams and it has really benefited us. We executed our plans well and thus we were also able to recognise the areas where we can improve upon. We have focused on those areas at the camp," he added.
Surender also praised the mix of experience and youth in the squad and revealed the advice the senior players have given to youngsters such as Abhishek and Jugraj Singh. "We have told the players to not feel the pressure of performing at the Commonwealth Games, and to take them as normal games. The coaches and senior players have also been telling them that they have experience of playing against strong teams and hence, they are ready to perform in the competition," he signed off. The Indian Men's Hockey Team will take on Ghana in their first match of the Commonwealth Games 2022 in Birmingham on Sunday, July 31, 2022 at 2030 hrs IST. The matches will be telecasted on the Sony Network. (ANI)
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(The Hill) – University of South Carolina women’s basketball player Aliyah Boston has called out sports ESPN network for not inviting her to its annual ESPY award shows.
Boston, who was named the Naismith Women’s Player of the Year last season, released a statement on Wednesday that she was hurt by the network’s decision to not invite her to the ceremony.
After leading the Gamecocks to their second national championship earlier this year, Boston was nominated for the “Best College Athlete, Women’s Sports” category. She said the network didn’t have plans to televise the category despite televising the category last year.
The network quickly changed its decision and invited Boston to the award show, but she declined.
“To be nominated for an ESPY this year meant the world to me and my family,” Boston said in her statement, adding that “it hurt more to see ESPN change course and invite me only after social media caught wind of it. Respectfully, I declined,” Boston said.
Boston characterized the move as another moment of “disrespect and erasure of Black women” that was brushed off as a mistake or oversight, more than 50 years after Title IX was passed.
“To every Black girl and every Black woman: no one can take away what God has in store for us. You matter. You are valuable. You are a priority. You are seen, and you are LOVED — don’t let anyone tell you otherwise,” Boston said.
In a statement to The State, An ESPN spokesperson said the reason why Boston wasn’t invited to the award show was due to COVID-19 restrictions and a smaller venue with a smaller seating capacity.
“We have the utmost respect for Aliyah Boston, Dawn Staley and the South Carolina Gamecocks,” An ESPN spokesperson told the newspaper. “Due to both COVID restrictions and a new venue with much less seating capacity than previous shows, The 2022 ESPYS prioritized athlete invitations to focus on specific awards that will be handed out during the broadcast.”
University of South Carolina head coach and basketball legend Dawn Staley called network out on Twitter for neglecting to invite Boston to the award ceremony.
“Like really….who in the room from @espn @ESPYS decided it was a great idea not to invite @MarchMadnessWBB NPOY DPOY….not one person was able to see the uproar this would cause? There’s definitely something wrong with the make up of the room……the fight continue….#WBBSTANDUP,” Staley tweeted.
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20 agencies respond to help Gun Barrel City firefighters battle 35 acre fire
GUN BARREL CITY, Texas (KLTV) - Gun Barrel City Fire received help from more than 20 agencies Tuesday to fight a fire that burned 35 acres.
The Gun Barrel City Fire Department responded to a grass fire just before 5 p.m. Tuesday, in the 11,000 block of County Road 4006.
In all, 35 acres were burned. Gun Barrel City Assistant Fire Chief Jason Raney said they were on their way to a Van Zandt County fire when they got called back into town.
“We pull up with a tanker and a brush truck and then we had another responder come in one of our engines. We pull up, it was approximately two acres and we get out there with a brush truck and he starts trying to get a knock down but the wind was so bad,” Raney said. “Our chief got on scene and he had us pull the engine down to the fire, which we normally would never carry an engine into a field but the way things were, we had to do something, so we went down in the engine.”
Raney said the fire started during a hay baling operation. More than 20 agencies and 60 first responders assisted Gun Barrel City with the fire, which burned for nearly four hours. Three firefighters were taken to the hospital to be treated for smoke inhalation.
“We were doing pretty good but the wind was killing us. It started swirling, changing directions, everything started happening on us,” he said.
They had crews on the road to keep the fire from jumping County Road 4006. Raney said it got to the road but they were able to put it out right away.
“It went from two acres to, I’d say 15 to 20 acres, like really quick. We finally started getting help, there was departments, everybody was out on fire,” he said. “Some of them left their fires, when they got released, they were able to come help us. So we ended up having a lot of help there.”
Raney said that while all hay balers carry fire extinguishers, in conditions like this fires can get out of hand quickly. He advises not hay baling during burn bans if you can.
The three firefighters who were treated for smoke inhalation were released from the hospital on Wednesday.
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Athletics-Dominant Jeruto roars to superb steeplechase gold
Jeruto clocked eight minutes, 53.02 seconds, the third-fastest of all time and more than five seconds better than Beatrice Chepkoech’s 2019 winning mark. Werkuha Getachew set an Ethiopian record of 8:54.61 for silver, ahead of compatriot Mekides Abebe, who took bronze with a personal best of 8:56.08.
Norah Jeruto delivered a devastating display of front running to win the world 3,000 metres steeplechase title in a massive championship record on Wednesday, earning gold for Kazakhstan having switched allegiance from Kenya earlier this year. Jeruto clocked eight minutes, 53.02 seconds, the third-fastest of all time and more than five seconds better than Beatrice Chepkoech's 2019 winning mark.
Werkuha Getachew set an Ethiopian record of 8:54.61 for silver, ahead of compatriot Mekides Abebe, who took bronze with a personal best of 8:56.08. Bahrain's Winfred Mutile Yavi, fastest in the world this year and another former Kenyan, finished fourth for the second successive World Championships.
Five of the top seven set national records or personal bests as carbon spike technology and a super-fast track continue to tear down existing marks. "I enjoyed my race today," Jeruto said. "At the starting line I was afraid of my friends from Ethiopia and it was tough. I decided to go to the front so I could control the race." Jeruto and Mutile Yavi have both been in impressive form this season and showed their intention from the off as they put the hammer down on the opening lap to immediately stretch the field. The Ethiopian pair, Uganda's Olympic champion Peruth Chemutai and home hope and 2017 champion Emma Coburn stuck with them as they rattled through the first kilometre inside three minutes.
They just about stayed together until three laps to go, when Coburn dropped off, then Abebe looked to be out of it too, only to dig really deep to latch back on for the final lap. Running bunched together it made the barriers more of a challenge and as the Ethiopian duo battled for space behind Jeruto, it was Yavi who paid the price, almost coming to a stop in the water jump to end her medal hopes.
Jeruto, who missed the Tokyo Olympics as she sat out her change of allegiance period, tore down the home straight, finishing more than half a second inside her personal best, set on the same Hayward Field track almost a year ago. Ethiopia had previously managed only one bronze medal since the event was introduced in 2005 and Getachew was delighted to play her part in improving that tally.
"This is so amazing, we will surely celebrate. I wanted gold but the winner was very strong," she said. "The steeplechase is a Kenyan event. Ethiopian men started to challenge, we are joining them now and it's becoming our event," she said, referring to her compatriot Lamecha Girma, who took silver in the men's race on Monday.
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(The Hill) – The House Judiciary Committee advanced a bill to ban assault weapons on Wednesday, the first time in two decades a congressional panel has moved to prohibit the sale, transfer and possession of the popular firearms.
The committee approved the Assault Weapons Ban of 2021 in a 25-18 vote following an hours-long markup.
Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), the chairman of the committee, announced last week that the panel would move on the legislation. The move comes after a spate of mass shootings in the U.S., a number of which were perpetrated by young men reportedly wielding assault-style semi-automatic rifles.
A gunman opened fire at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas in May, killing 19 students and two teachers. Earlier this month, seven people were fatally shot at a July Fourth parade in Highland Park, Ill.
In both incidents, the alleged shooter was a young man with an AR-style semi-automatic weapon, which is the main firearm the legislation aims to restrict.
The bill, sponsored by Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.), specifically seeks to prohibit the sale, manufacture, transfer or import of all semi-automatic rifles that can accept a detachable magazine and have a pistol grip; a forward grip; a folding, telescoping or detachable stock; a grenade launcher; a barrel shroud or a threaded barrel.
It also places restrictions on semi-automatic rifles with fixed magazines that can fit more than 10 rounds, bump fire stocks, high-capacity feeding devices that can hold more than 10 rounds, and semi-automatic shotguns with specific features.
The measure does not, however, apply to antique firearms, manually-operated firearms and upwards of 2,000 specific models of firearms used for hunting and sporting.
While the assault weapons ban passed through committee on Wednesday, it is unclear when — and if — it will be brought to the House floor for a vote. Nadler last week said he was looking forward to “moving this legislation through the Judiciary Committee next week and onto the House floor,” but House leadership has not yet announced a vote.
That is likely because it is unclear if the legislation has the votes to pass.
Two Democrats, Reps. Jared Golden (Maine) and Henry Cuellar (Texas), have said they will not support the bill, and a handful of others remain undecided.
On the other side of the aisle, Rep. Chris Jacobs (R-N.Y.) has said he would support an assault weapons ban if it came to the floor. Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) has backed the concept of an assault weapons ban, but he has not yet said if he will support the specific bill under consideration.
During her weekly press conference last week, Pelosi said “there is great support in our Caucus for an assault weapons ban.”
Asked if he plans to bring the bill to the floor before August recess, House Minority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) told reporters on Tuesday “I may do that.”
“Obviously, the committee’s going to be dealing with it tomorrow, and we’ll talk to the chairman about it. But I think it’s an important bill for us to consider,” he added.
Former President Clinton signed an assault weapons ban in 1994, which eventually expired in 2004.
In opening remarks at the markup on Wednesday, Nadler made the case for banning assault weapons.
“As we have learned all too well in recent years, assault weapons — especially when combined with high-capacity magazines — are the weapon of choice for mass shootings. These military-style weapons are designed to kill the most people in the shortest amount of time,” he said. “Quite simply, there is no place for them on our streets.”
The chairman said assault weapons are solely meant “to kill people efficiently,” adding “it is time to protect our communities and to ban them once more.”
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), ranking member of the committee, argued in opening remarks that the bill would “strip Americans of their right” and asserted that “it would do nothing to make our communities safer.”
“Democrats know this legislation will not reduce violent crime or reduce the likelihood of mass shootings, but they are obsessed with attacking law-abiding Americans’ Second Amendment liberties,” he added.
The Ohio Republican also said the assault weapons ban would prevent law-abiding Americans from using weapons “to defend themselves against violent intruders in their home.”
“Prevented from defending themselves, their family, their property because of this legislation. This legislation is dangerous, it doesn’t square with the Constitution, with the Second Amendment in any way, and it has failed in the past,” he added.
Last month, Congress passed and President Biden signed a gun safety bill into law. The measure bolstered background checks for firearm purchasers ages 18 to 21 and created a federal offense for people who acquired firearms through straw purchases or trafficking, among other measures.
Aside from that, the House previously passed bills to nationalize red flag laws and create an active shooter communications network, and it approved a sweeping firearm package that, among other provisions, called for raising the minimum age to purchase a semi-automatic weapon from 18 to 21.
However, those bills, like the assault weapons ban, had little chance of advancing given GOP opposition in the evenly divided Senate. | https://cw39.com/cw39/house-committee-advances-bill-to-ban-assault-weapons/ | 2022-07-21T05:19:32 | en | 0.964706 |
Historic Zion Baptist Hill Church renovation close to completion
NACOGDOCHES, Texas (KTRE) - By Brian Jordan
The Zion Hill Baptist Church is a historic landmark in Nacogdoches, and has stood in the city’s downtown district since its construction in 1914.
Since the mid-1980s it has sat unutilized, but that could be changing by the fall as a nearly 20 year project to open it up to the public could be coming to and end.
“And at that point they started seeing leaks in the roof, rotting wood and there was water getting into the basement,” Jessica Sowell, Assistant Community Director for the City of Nacogdoches, said about problems that the building had when it was turned into an office in the early ‘80s. “Things like that. Then they moved out because it wasn’t usable as an office space.”
Over the next 15 years the church was abandoned. Then the Nacogdoches County Historical Foundation began an expansive project in 1999.
“If they hadn’t started the project, the building wouldn’t be standing today,” Sowell said.
But restoring a piece of history like the church adds problems that you wouldn’t see in a modern renovation.
“It wasn’t built to have electricity or plumbing or be ADA compliant or having fire sprinkler systems,” Sowell said. “So a lot of it is figuring out how to have the modern systems we need without just placing an AC unit in a stairwell.”
With a building so old, lacking blueprints can make simple things like fixing interior walls a challenge. When renovations were done, the original exterior wooden wall had to be removed and numbered so they could return to the exact place due to fear of not being able to get measurements correct.
Many of those hurdles have been handled, and the city hopes to have the newly-renovated church finished by the fall, and it will open as an African-American museum, as well as open for citywide events and for rental services for things like weddings.
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Venus Williams added as wild card for National Bank Open
Asked after that defeat whether she would play again, the 40-year-old Williams said she didnt know.The three-time champion in Toronto last played there in 2019, when she retired because of back spasms in the final against Bianca Andreescu of Canada.
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Seven-time Grand Slam champion Venus Williams has been given a wild-card entry into the main draw of the National Bank Open next month.
She will compete in Toronto for the first time since 2019 and return to WTA Tour singles play for the first time in August 2021.
The former world No. 1 and five-time Wimbledon champion last played when she partnered with Jamie Murray of Britain in Wimbledon's mixed doubles draw earlier this month. Williams is a 41-time WTA singles champion and Olympic gold medalist.
Her sister Serena Williams was on the official entry list released last week for Toronto, which would mark her first North American hard-court event in two years, and comes of the heels of her first-round exit at Wimbledon in June. Asked after that defeat whether she would play again, the 40-year-old Williams said she didn't know.
The three-time champion in Toronto last played there in 2019, when she retired because of back spasms in the final against Bianca Andreescu of Canada. Andreescu beat Serena Williams a month later in the final at the U.S. Open, for which Toronto is considered a tuneup event.
Andreescu also received a top-20 wild card for the National Bank Open.
Three more wild cards will be distributed to Canadian players closer to the start of the tournament, which runs Aug. 6-14.
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HANGZHOU, China, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cloud Village Inc. (HKEX: 9899, "NetEase Cloud Music" or the "Company"), a leading interactive music streaming service provider in China, today announced that it has entered into a licensing agreement for digital music distribution ("the Agreement") with YG Entertainment Inc. ("YG Entertainment"), a leading entertainment company in South Korea, granting NetEase Cloud Music the right to distribute YG Entertainment's music catalog in China.
Under the terms of the Agreement, both parties will engage in innovative approaches to unlock more opportunities for YG Entertainment's vast and influential catalog as well as its artists on the platform, including music by popular K-Pop groups such as BIGBANG and BLACKPINK, and utilize their strengths to expand the music library on NetEase Cloud Music platform to provide more high-quality music content for Chinese music lovers.
Founded in 1996, YG Entertainment is one of the largest entertainment management companies in South Korea. It has been at the forefront of the popularization of hip-hop music. It is also the entertainment company with the most hip-hop singers in South Korea. World-renowned artists on its roster include BIGBANG, BLACKPINK, SECHSKIES, AKMU, WINNER, iKON and TREASURE.
As one of China's leading online music platforms, NetEase Cloud Music has been gaining presence among the younger generation. The unique music community atmosphere, highly interactive user base and strong user stickiness of NetEase Cloud Music further demonstrate the platform's capability in efficiently promoting music content while enhancing the interaction between artists and their fan base in China.
NetEase Cloud Music has been actively expanding its broad portfolio and once again is joining hands with a top South Korean entertainment company to continually supplement the platform's high-quality content to cater to users' diverse music tastes spanning multiple genres. Recently, NetEase Cloud Music has reached music copyright cooperation with a number of top record labels, including Modern Sky, Emperor Entertainment Group, China Record Group, Feng Hua Qiu Shi, Yuehua Entertainment, Linfair Records, SM Entertainment and TF Entertainment. In the future, NetEase Cloud Music will keep on promoting its collaborations with upstream copyright owners and continue to provide more high-quality music content for Chinese music enthusiasts.
About Cloud Village Inc.
Launched in 2013 by NetEase, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTES; HKEX: 9999), Cloud Village Inc. (HKEX: 9899) is a leading interactive music streaming service provider in China. Dedicated to providing an elevated user experience, Cloud Village Inc. provides precise, personalised recommendations, promotes user interaction and creates a strong social community. Its focus on discovering and promoting emerging musicians has made Cloud Village Inc. a destination of choice for exploring new and independent music among music enthusiasts in China. The platform has been recognised as the most popular entertainment app among China's vibrant Generation Z community.
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Naomi Osaka in need of new coach after Wim Fissette split
She has inspired a whole new generation to fall in love with the game to speak up for what they believe in and its been incredible to play a part in that journey. He also thanked Osaka and closed by writing I wish you all the best and looking forward to my next chapter. Fissette coached Osaka to two of her major championships at the 2020 U.S. Open and 2021 Australian Open.He also previously worked with players such as Victoria Azarenka, Kim Clijsters, Simona Halep and Angelique Kerber.
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Wim Fissette, who began working with Osaka shortly before the start of the 2020 season, wrote on Instagram on Wednesday that he and Osaka are ending their partnership.
"It has been a privilege to coach Naomi since 2019 and see her grow into the Champion she has become," Fissette's post said. "She has inspired a whole new generation to fall in love with the game & to speak up for what they believe in and it's been incredible to play a part in that journey." He also thanked Osaka and closed by writing: "I wish you all the best and looking forward to my next chapter." Fissette coached Osaka to two of her major championships — at the 2020 U.S. Open and 2021 Australian Open.
He also previously worked with players such as Victoria Azarenka, Kim Clijsters, Simona Halep, and Angelique Kerber. Those four, like Osaka, have won major titles and spent time at No. 1 in the WTA rankings.
Osaka, a 24-year-old who was born in Japan and moved to the United States with her family as a child, is currently ranked 38th after missing chunks of time last season and this season. She withdrew from the 2021 French Open before her second-round match in order to take a mental health break, then also sat out Wimbledon last year.
After returning to action at the Tokyo Summer Games, where she lit the Olympic cauldron during the opening ceremony and then competing at the U.S. Open, Osaka took another chunk of time off.
She has been dealing with an injured left Achilles tendon this season and, after a first-round loss at Roland Garros, missed Wimbledon again and hasn't returned to the tour yet. The year's last Grand Slam tournament, the U.S. Open, begins Aug. 29 in New York.
In February 2019, shortly after winning a trophy at the Australian Open to go with her 2018 U.S. Open title, Osaka split from coach Sascha Bajin, who helped her at both of those tournaments. Osaka then briefly was coached by Jermaine Jenkins, who was followed by her father, Leonard Francois, before Fissette came aboard.
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Fintech provides transformative compliance automation for 135+ banks and credit unions
HOUSTON, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- FINBOA, Inc., a leading innovator in intelligent process automation for regulatory compliance in financial institutions, announced 104% revenue growth in the first half of FY2022 over same period 2021. FINBOA attributes the continued success to offering a proven portfolio of software solutions specifically designed for banks and credit unions. Created to transform back-office processing and the customer experience using RPA, FINBOA increases staff efficiency and accuracy, while reducing compliance costs, loss and risk.
FINBOA's industry recognized SaaS products digitize and modernize the inefficient manual processes or systems commonly used to manage regulatory compliance processing for Payment Disputes, Exception Management, and Loan or Treasury Onboarding.
FINBOA sales pipeline remains strong, fueling new business momentum into Q3 and beyond. During H1 2022, more than 135 financial institutions nationwide, with asset sizes ranging from tens of millions to billions, utilized FINBOA software. In addition to securing 23 new institutions as customers this year, FINBOA experienced increased demand from existing customers choosing to implement additional offerings from FINBOA's growing product portfolio.
FINBOA CEO and Founder, Raj Singal commented, "Tackling process automation can help financial institutions compete and win while improving the level of service provided to their account holders. We continue our mission to empower the back office workforce, allowing compliance teams to be more responsive and alert to trends, enabling better decision-making and saving both cost and time."
In 2Q, FINBOA formally announced a partnership with Computer Services Inc. (CSI) for CSI to resell FINBOA payment dispute management software. In April, FINBOA was named a Fintech Banking Tech finalist for the Tech of the Future award.
FINBOA partners with customers to ensure successful implementation and solution adoption. Account retention remains high as FINBOA users experience real results. For example, FINBOA's Regulation E Dispute Management solution reduces claim-related losses up to 25% and process time by 90%, all with an average implementation timeline of 30-45 days.
FINBOA provides intelligent process automation to banks and credit unions to simplify and improve regulatory compliance by eliminating manual systems. Leveraging extensive industry experience and a commitment to customer service, FINBOA delivers transformative software proven to enable institutional growth by reducing operational costs and risk. FINBOA is headquartered in Houston. Learn more at www.finboa.com or follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.
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Women's Euro 2022: Stanway's late extra-time goal helps England defeat Spain 2-1, reach semi-finals
Spain frustrated their opposition by dominating in terms of ball possession and shots, but England kept their nerves to snatch the win from jaws of defeat.
Georgia Stanway's extra-time stunner helped England reach the semi-finals of Women's Euro 2022 after they defeated Spain 2-1 in the quarter-finals. Spain frustrated their opposition during the whole 90 minutes of the match and dominated in terms of ball possession and shots. Other time-stalling techniques used by them did not allow England to reach their full potential in the match.
After the first half break, Spain took the lead shortly. England was denied their opening goal and a penalty shout via VAR in the first half. Half-time substitute Athenea del Castillo beat Rachel Daly, before cutting the ball back for Eshter Gonzalez, who made no mistake in firing it past Mary Earps in the 54th minute. By this, England had conceded their first goal in the 2022 edition of the tournament and with Spain in lead till the 84th minute, it looked like the hosts would make an early exit from the tournament. But substitute Ella Toone scored an equalizer and sent the game into extra-time.
Spain was agitated by the equalizer and felt that a foul had happened, but the referee and VAR did not feel the same and their substitute goalkeeper Misa Rodriguez was given a yellow card for dissent while on the bench. The English team was much better in the extra time and things continued to move in their way. In the 96th minute, Stanway hit a stunning goal and sealed the game for the hosts.
Now in the semi-finals, England will now face either Sweden or Belgium on Tuesday at Bramall Lane. Spain has failed to make it past the quarter-finals for the third consecutive time in the European Championships. England head coach Sarina Wiegman was quoted by Sky Sports as saying following the match: "I think I went a little crazy. I was so happy - I tried to stay calm but it was so close, a game which could have gone either way. I was so happy that we won."
"We showed resilience, we showed we could come from behind. From the 80th minute, we changed shape and scored very quickly. Then we went back to that, and in extra-time at the moment we scored we were a little better. We were a little fresher, then they had to score again and were pushing," she added. "For the fans in the stadium and watching on TV, it was an incredible game. The fans here were so behind us, it was incredible to experience. Every game, the subs have had an influence. It shows the depth of our team, the eagerness of every player to start or come on. Everyone is also on the same page all the time, and wants to make a difference. I am just really happy with that, we are all supportive, everyone knows their task, otherwise you cannot do what you bring on the pitch," she continued.
"I do not make the decisions on my own, we have a technical staff communicating what we want to do before a game, during a game we talk about scenarios - it is teamwork too. What the fans did for us was really home advantage, it was really incredible to experience and it really helped our team," she concluded. Spain head coach Jorge Vilda also said, "It is a disappointing defeat and to go out of this competition. If there is a good way to lose, I think it is by playing the sort of game my players have done tonight. We are all very proud of what we saw on the pitch, everyone has improved, we gave everything, it was not to be and now we have to keep our heads held high and we will analyse it further going forward."
"We have a very good team here, there is a bright future ahead based on what we have seen at this tournament. It is a difficult day for us, we'll have to just digest it over the next few days and see where we can improve," she continued. "We have done well in many areas, and then when there are big moments in the future we hope that we can avoid the sorts of setbacks we've had this time around. When there are just a few minutes left, you are thinking about how not to concede a goal. Then a cross came in, the ball was knocked down and we went into extra-time. I did not have a clear view and have not had a chance to see it back. We can take the good performance from our players, and there is a bright future ahead."
"We scored the goal, but then we were losing possession and finding it hard in midfield to get the ball. England were looking dangerous from wide areas and corners, so then we took off players who we thought would help us less in those areas." "Everyone did well and performed at a high level. We would have liked to have had more of the ball, I think the key would have been scoring a second goal to finish off the game. It was not possible, and that led to what happened afterwards," she concluded. (ANI)
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AUBAGNE, France, July 21, 2022
- Sales revenue up 22.1 percent in constant currencies, underlying EBITDA margin 35.2 percent
- 2022 outlook confirmed: Sales revenue expected to rise by 15 to 19 percent and underlying EBITDA margin projected to be more than 35 percent
- Uncertainties due to the global political and economic situation remain high
Sartorius Stedim Biotech, a leading partner of the biopharma industry, increased sales revenue and earnings with double-digit growth rates in the first half of 2022 and confirmed its full-year outlook.
"Sartorius Stedim Biotech performed well during the first half of the year in an increasingly challenging environment. We achieved significant growth and could maintain a high profit margin despite some headwinds from currencies. Since the beginning of the year, we increased our worldwide headcount by a good 1,500, and the recent acquisitions are contributing to our business development as expected. Given the healthy underlying demand in our industry and good order situation, we confirm our full-year outlook as well as our ambitious investment program, despite higher inflation and lower corona-related demand. However, the global political and economic uncertainties, the resulting strained supply chains, and thus also the uncertainties of projections and outlooks remain high," said Joachim Kreuzburg, Chairman of the Board of Directors and CEO.
Business development of the Group1
In the first half of the year, Group sales revenue rose by 22.1 percent year-over-year in constant currencies (reported: + 27.5 percent) to around 1,724 million euros. This good performance was mainly driven by organic growth, while acquisitions2 contributed around 2 percentage points to sales revenue growth. All major product segments contributed to this positive development with clear double-digit growth rates, while business with vaccine manufacturers normalized faster than expected. All three business regions – EMEA3, Americas, and Asia | Pacific – posted double-digit percentage growth in constant currencies. The restrictions in China caused by the pandemic had a relatively minor impact on growth.
Following the extraordinarily high growth rates due to the pandemic in the first half of 2021, order intake also continued to normalize and reached 1,827 million euros, which was, as expected, slightly below the prior-year figure of 1,890 million euros (in constant currencies: -7.3 percent, reported -3.3 percent).
Following the strong growth in sales revenue, underlying EBITDA rose by 24.5 percent to 607 million euros in the first half of the year. The corresponding margin reached 35.2 percent (prior-year period: 36.1 percent). The development was influenced by positive economies of scale which were offset by negative currency effects and, as planned, higher costs due to new employees and an increase in the number of business trips. Effects from price trends and adjustments on the purchasing and customer sides largely compensated each other.
Relevant net profit reached 405 million euros, up 26.0 percent from the prior-year period. Underlying earnings per share were 4.40 euros (prior-year period: 3.49 euros).
Key financial indicators
The Sartorius Stedim Biotech Group continues to have a very sound balance sheet and financial base. As of June 30, 2022, its equity ratio stood at 48.6 percent (December 31, 2021: 43.9 percent). The ratio of net debt to underlying EBITDA was 0.5 as of the reporting date, compared with 0.4 at year-end 2021. Cash flow from investing activities stood at –180 million euros, compared with -114 million euros in the first half of 2021. The ratio of capital expenditures (CAPEX) to sales revenue reached 10.4 percent (prior-year period: 8.4 percent).
Increase in the number of employees
As of June 30, 2022, Sartorius Stedim Biotech employed a total of 11,942 people worldwide, representing a headcount increase of 1,533 from the end of December 2021.
Outlook for fiscal 2022 confirmed
The management confirms its outlook for the current fiscal year. Consolidated sales revenue is expected to increase by about 15 percent to 19 percent with non-organic growth from acquisitions projected to contribute about 2 percentage points. Regarding profitability, Sartorius Stedim Biotech continues to expect its underlying EBITDA margin to reach more than 35 percent.
The CAPEX ratio is anticipated to be about 14.5 percent and net debt to underlying EBITDA to be about 0.2 at year-end. Possible further acquisitions are not included in this projection.
All forecasts are based on constant currencies, as in the past years. In addition, management points out that the dynamics and volatilities in the life science and biopharma sectors have increased over the past years and the coronavirus pandemic has further amplified these trends. Moreover, the forecasts are based on the assumption of no further deterioration in the geopolitical and global economic situation, supply chains, inflation and energy supply, and no new relevant restrictions in connection with the coronavirus pandemic. Accordingly, current forecasts show even higher uncertainties than usual.
1 Sartorius Stedim Biotech publishes alternative performance measures that are not defined by international accounting standards. These are determined with the aim of improving the comparability of business performance over time and within the industry.
- Order intake: all customer orders contractually concluded and booked during the respective reporting period
- Underlying EBITDA: earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization and adjusted for extraordinary items
- Relevant net profit: profit for the period after non-controlling interest, adjusted for extraordinary items and non-cash amortization, as well as based on the normalized financial result and the normalized tax rate
- Ratio of net debt to underlying EBITDA: quotient of net debt and underlying EBITDA over the past 12 months, including the pro forma amount contributed by acquisitions for this period
2 Acquisition of CellGenix, Xell, the Novasep chromatography division
3 EMEA = Europe, Middle East, Africa
This press release contains forward-looking statements about the future development of the Sartorius Stedim Biotech Group. Forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such statements. Sartorius Stedim Biotech assumes no liability for updating such statements in light of new information or future events. Sartorius Stedim Biotech shall not assume any liability for the correctness of this release. The original French press release is the legally binding version.
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Joachim Kreuzburg, Chairman of the Board of Directors and CEO of the Sartorius Stedim Biotech Group, will discuss the company's business results with analysts and investors in a conference call at 3.30 p.m. CEST on July 21, 2022.You may register by clicking on the following link:
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Financial calendar
October 19, 2022 Publication of nine-month figures (January to September 2022)
- The figures for the reporting period 2021 were restated due to the finalization of the purchase price allocation for the acquisition of BIA Separations
- cc = in constant currencies
- According to customers' location
- Underlying EBITDA = earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, and adjusted for extraordinary items
- After non-controlling interest
- Underlying net result = net result after non-controlling interest; adjusted for extraordinary items, amortization and based on a normalized financial result and normalized tax rate
Statement of reconciliation
- The figures for the reporting period 2021 were restated due to the finalization of the purchase price allocation for the acquisition of BIA Separations.
- Financial result excluding fair value adjustments of hedging instruments and currency effects relating to financing activities and change in valuation of earn-out liability
- Normalized income tax based on the underlying profit before taxes and non-cash amortization
A profile of Sartorius Stedim Biotech
Sartorius Stedim Biotech is a leading international partner of the biopharmaceutical industry. As a total solutions provider, the company helps its customers to manufacture biotech medications safely, rapidly and economically. Headquartered in Aubagne, France, Sartorius Stedim Biotech is quoted on the Eurolist of Euronext Paris. With its own manufacturing and R&D sites in Europe, North America and Asia and an international network of sales companies, Sartorius Stedim Biotech has a global reach. The Group has been annually growing by double digits on average and has been regularly expanding its portfolio by acquisitions of complementary technologies. In 2021, the company employed more than 10,400 people, and earned sales revenue of around 2.89 billion euros.
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WALLDORF, Germany, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today announced a new share repurchase program. The program, with a volume of up to €500 million, is planned to be executed in the period between August 1 and December 31, 2022. It will be implemented based on the authorization granted by the Annual General Meeting of SAP SE on May 17, 2018, and in compliance with the restrictions set forth therein. Repurchased shares will primarily be used to service awards granted under share-based compensation plans for employees.
The new share repurchase program follows SAP's 2020 repurchase of around 14 million shares for about €1.5 billion and the repurchase of around 10 million shares for about €1 billion in the first half of 2022.
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Bracewell hat trick seals New Zealand T20 win over Ireland
But against Lockie Ferguson, he was caught to finish with 21 and leave the hosts at 23 for 1.Ireland managed just four runs for its next two wickets, as Jacob Duffy was dismissed by Gareth Delany for a first-ball duck before Harry Tector 2 was run out.Ish Sodhi took three wickets for 21 and Ireland was at 86 for seven when Bracewell came on for his first over.
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Dane Cleaver's 78 not out and Michael Bracewell's hat trick powered New Zealand to an 88-run win over Ireland to clinch their Twenty20 series 2-0 at Stormont on Wednesday.
New Zealand posted 179-4 and bowled out Ireland for 91 to secure its fifth straight win over the hosts. The visitors beat Ireland by 31 runs on Monday after a 3-0 series win in the one-day internationals at Malahide.
New Zealand can sweep the three-match T20 series on Friday.
Cleaver's total came off 55 balls and included five fours and four sixes in just his second T20 international appearance. Finn Allen contributed 35 off 20.
Chasing 180, Paul Stirling gave the Irish a fast start, hitting Mitchell Santner for a six and a four in the first over. But against Lockie Ferguson, he was caught to finish with 21 and leave the hosts at 23 for 1.
Ireland managed just four runs for its next two wickets, as Jacob Duffy was dismissed by Gareth Delany for a first-ball duck before Harry Tector (2) was run out.
Ish Sodhi took three wickets for 21 and Ireland was at 86 for seven when Bracewell came on for his first over. The off-spinner had Mark Adair and Barry McCarthy caught in the deep with successive deliveries before Craig Young sliced to backward point from the next ball as Ireland was all out for 91.
Young and Josh Little took two wickets apiece for Ireland.
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- Cloud revenue up 34% and up 24% at constant currencies to become the largest revenue stream
- Current cloud backlog exceeds €10 billion, up 34% and up 25% at constant currencies
- SAP S/4HANA current cloud backlog extends its growth trend, up 100% and up 87% at constant currencies
- Cloud gross profit up 39% (IFRS), up 38% (non-IFRS) and up 28% (non-IFRS at constant currencies), leading to a strong cloud gross margin expansion
- IFRS operating profit down 32%, non-IFRS operating profit down 13% and down 16% at constant currencies, primarily due to the impact of the war in Ukraine
- SAP reaffirms 2022 revenue and free cash flow outlook, updates operating profit outlook range
WALLDORF, Germany, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today announced its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2022.
Christian Klein, CEO: "As our Q2 results demonstrate, SAP's portfolio is more relevant than ever. Our transition to the cloud is ahead of schedule and we have exceeded topline expectations, with cloud revenue becoming SAP's largest revenue stream. Our pipeline is strong, and we are winning market share underpinned by the very strong 100% growth of S/4HANA current cloud backlog."
Luka Mucic, CFO: "This quarter again proves that our strategy is resonating, even in an increasingly challenging external environment. We continued to deliver strong topline growth, exceeding revenue expectations and increasing cloud profitability. This quarter, we have recognized the main impact of the war in Ukraine. We believe that we are now able to capitalize on our substantial growth investments of the last 18 months, by delivering sustained growth and profitability expansion."
Financial Performance
Cloud Performance – Second quarter 2022
1 For a breakdown of the individual adjustments, see table "Non-IFRS Adjustments by Functional Areas" in this Quarterly Statement.
2 As this is an order entry metric, there is no matching IFRS equivalent.
3 Software as a service
4 Platform as a service
5 Infrastructure as a service
Due to rounding, numbers may not add up precisely
Cloud Performance – Six months ended June 2022
1 For a breakdown of the individual adjustments, see table "Non-IFRS Adjustments by Functional Areas" in this Quarterly Statement.
2 As this is an order entry metric, there is no matching IFRS equivalent.
3 Software as a service
4 Platform as a service
5 Infrastructure as a service
Due to rounding, numbers may not add up precisely
The Q1-Q2 2022 results were also impacted by other effects. For details, please refer to the disclosures on page 31 of this document.
Financial Highlights
Current cloud backlog exceeded €10 billion for the first time and was up 34% to €10.40 billion and up 25% at constant currencies, accelerating from 23% at constant currencies in the first quarter and demonstrating a strong foundation of future cloud revenue.
Driven by double-digit growth across the SaaS and PaaS portfolio, cloud revenue was up 34% to €3.06 billion, up 24% at constant currencies.
Our cloud gross margin was up 2.3 percentage points to 69.8% (IFRS) and up 1.8 percentage points to 71.9% (non-IFRS). This was driven by a strong increase in our SaaS margin, despite increased investments into our next generation cloud delivery program. Revenue growth, alongside cloud gross margin expansion, drove strong cloud gross profit growth of 39% (IFRS), 38% (non-IFRS) and 28% (non-IFRS at constant currencies).
IFRS operating profit decreased 32% to €673 million and IFRS operating margin decreased by 5.8 percentage points to 8.9%. Non-IFRS operating profit was down 13% to €1.68 billion and decreased 16% at constant currencies. Non-IFRS operating margin decreased by 6.5 percentage points to 22.4% and was down by 5.8 percentage points at constant currencies. This was mainly driven by reduced contribution from software licenses revenue, as well as significant bad debt expenses related to the war in Ukraine. In addition, IFRS operating profit was affected by restructuring expenses of €130 million, primarily incurred due to the exit from Russia and Belarus. Estimated immediate financial impacts of the war in Ukraine lowered IFRS operating profit growth by 28 percentage points, non-IFRS operating profit growth by 8 percentage points and non-IFRS operating profit growth at constant currencies by 6 percentage points.
IFRS earnings per share decreased 75% to €0.29 and non-IFRS earnings per share decreased 45% to €0.96. The year-over-year decline of earnings per share reflects a contribution to financial income by Sapphire Ventures that, due to current market conditions, was lower than in the same period last year. Our effective tax rate was 62.2% (IFRS) and 29.3% (non-IFRS). The year-over-year effective tax rate increase mainly resulted from changes in tax exempt income and non-deductible expenses. For non-IFRS, the changes in non-deductible expenses do not apply due to respective adjustments of pre-tax figures.
Free cash flow for the first six months was down 36% to €2.08 billion. The decrease versus last year is mainly attributable to the development of profitability and impacts from working capital due to SAP's continuing move to the cloud. In the second half-year, we expect a more favorable cash flow development due to lower cash taxes and better profitability. We are therefore reiterating our free cash flow outlook for the year.
On January 13, SAP announced a new share repurchase program to support the transition of SAP's share-based compensation programs to equity settlement, which was completed on April 29. SAP had repurchased 10,004,763 shares at an average price of €99.63 with a purchased value of approximately €997 million. In addition, on July 21, SAP announced another share buyback program of approximately €500 million. Repurchased shares will primarily be used to service awards granted under share-based compensation plans for employees.
Impact of War in Ukraine
In the first six months, SAP's business was impacted by the war in Ukraine and SAP's decision to wind down its business operations in Russia and Belarus.
In the second quarter current cloud backlog was approximately €64 million lower due to the termination of existing cloud engagements, reducing current cloud backlog growth by approximately 1 percentage point at constant currencies. IFRS and non-IFRS operating profit were lowered mainly due to reduced software licenses and support revenues and bad debt reserves recorded on trade receivables. IFRS operating profit was additionally affected by restructuring expenses of approximately €120 million incurred due to severance payments to employees in Russia and Belarus and further impairments of assets. The increase of restructuring expenses versus prior expectations is due to the appreciation of the Russian ruble over the past quarter. The overall impact on IFRS operating profit was approximately €280 million (first six months: approximately €350 million) and on non-IFRS operating profit approximately €160 million (first six months: approximately €230 million).
For the fiscal year, we expect a total revenue impact of approximately €300 million at constant currencies from lack of new business and discontinuation of existing business. For non-IFRS operating profit we expect an impact of approximately €350 million at constant currencies from the revenue gaps mentioned above and other expense items.
Other impacts due to this rapidly evolving situation are currently unknown and could potentially subject our business to materially adverse consequences should the situation escalate beyond its current scope.
Business Highlights
More than 650 customers chose SAP S/4HANA in the quarter, increasing total adoption to approximately 20,000 customers, up 15% year over year, of which more than 14,500 are live. In the second quarter, more than 60% of the additional SAP S/4HANA customers were net new.
In the second quarter, customers around the globe chose "RISE with SAP" to drive end-to-end business transformation, including ABB Information Systems, Bridgestone Australia, Capitec Bank, EisnerAmper, Hisense Group, Mitsubishi Materials Corporation, Moderna, Pitney Bowes, RWE, Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Zoomlion. Customers continue to expand their SAP landscape: Microsoft invested in "RISE with SAP", while GlobalFoundries, HeidelbergCement, Malaysia Airlines, and Mapletree Investments combined the "RISE with SAP" offering with further solutions.
Key customer wins across SAP's solution portfolio included: ALTANA, Analog Devices, ASUS, BeiGene, Coop Genossenschaft, Corning, Ericsson, Fisker Inc., FUNKE Mediengruppe, Kyndryl, Moët Hennessy, Persán, Positivo Tecnologia, Sportradar, Votorantim, Wieland-Werke. Antonio Puig, CONA Services, HCL Technologies, and Wittenstein all went live on SAP solutions in the second quarter.
SAP's cloud revenue performance for the quarter was strong across all regions. Germany had an outstanding cloud revenue performance while the U.S., Brazil, Japan, India and Switzerland were particularly strong.
On May 4, SAP and Google Cloud announced an expansion of their relationship, unveiling new integrations between Google Workspace and SAP's flagship cloud ERP, SAP S/4HANA Cloud.
On May 11, SAP and IBM announced the latest milestone in their long-standing partnership as IBM undertakes one of the world's largest corporate transformation projects based on SAP ERP software, designed to fuel the company's growth and better support its clients.
On May 18, SAP announced that the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders of SAP SE approved all proposals of the Executive Board and Supervisory Board. Prof. Dr. h. c. mult. Hasso Plattner, Dr. Rouven Westphal and Dr. Gunnar Wiedenfels were reelected and Jennifer Xin-Zhe Li was elected to the Supervisory Board. With these elections, the Supervisory Board has reached gender parity. In addition, the compensation report was approved and to ensure a smooth transition between auditors, KPMG, for fiscal year 2022, and the new auditor, BDO, for fiscal year 2023, were elected. Furthermore, the dividend proposal of €2.45 per share for fiscal year 2021 was approved. This amount includes a special dividend of €0.50 to mark the Company's 50th anniversary.
Segment Results at a Glance
At the beginning of 2022, the Services segment was integrated into the former Applications, Technology & Support segment which was re-named to Applications, Technology & Services.
Therefore, SAP now has two reportable segments: the Applications, Technology & Services segment and the Qualtrics segment.
In addition, certain marketing costs that we primarily incur for product and solution-specific activities in the Applications, Technology & Services segment are now presented in the results of this segment and are no longer allocated to SAP's corporate functions.
Segment Performance Second Quarter 2022
1 Segment information for comparative prior periods were restated to conform with the new segment composition.
SAP's two reportable segments showed the following performance:
Applications, Technology & Services (AT&S)
Segment revenue in AT&S was up 11% to €7.11 billion year over year, up 4% at constant currencies. Segment performance was mainly due to strong Cloud Revenue growth, driven by SAP S/4HANA as well as Business Technology Platform. Software licenses revenue decreased due to the shift to the cloud as more customers are adopting our 'RISE with SAP' offering. Segment support revenue was up 5% to €2.98 billion year over year and flat at constant currencies.
Qualtrics
Qualtrics segment revenue was up 57% to €330 million year over year, up 39% at constant currencies. The continued strong growth was driven by robust renewal rates and expansions. LINE Plus, Merck KGaA, the New York City Department of Education, PGA TOUR, PNC Financial Services Group, Progress Residential, Scarlet Health, Tata Digital, Toyota North America, and Venues NSW, among others, selected Qualtrics Experience Management Solutions.
Business Outlook 2022
SAP is executing on its cloud-led strategy, which is driving accelerating cloud growth through both new business and cloud adoption by existing customers. The pace and scale of SAP's cloud momentum places the Company well on track towards its mid-term ambition.
Financial Outlook
For 2022, SAP now expects:
- €7.6 – 7.9 billion non-IFRS operating profit at constant currencies (2021: €8.23 billion), down 4% to 8% at constant currencies. The updated non-IFRS operating profit outlook range reflects the expected 2022 non-IFRS operating profit impact of approximately €350 million at constant currencies from the war in Ukraine and a potential continued marked decline of software licenses revenue. The previous range was €7.8 – 8.25 billion at constant currencies.
Despite the expected total revenue impact of approximately €300 million at constant currencies of the war in Ukraine and a further accelerated move of our customers from upfront software licenses revenue to the cloud in the current macro-environment, SAP continues to expect for 2022:
- €11.55 – 11.85 billion cloud revenue at constant currencies (2021: €9.42 billion), up 23% to 26% at constant currencies.
- €25.0 – 25.5 billion cloud and software revenue at constant currencies (2021: €24.08 billion), up 4% to 6% at constant currencies.
- The share of more predictable revenue (defined as the total of cloud revenue and software support revenue) is expected to reach approximately 78% (2021: 75%).
- Free cash flow above €4.5 billion (2021: €5.01 billion).
SAP is also updating its full-year 2022 effective tax rate outlook (IFRS) to 34.0% to 38.0% (previously: 28.0% to 32.0%). The adjustment mainly results from an updated projection of non-deductible expenses and of the lower 2022 financial income contribution of Sapphire Ventures given current market conditions. As the updated non-deductible expenses are not included in non-IFRS, SAP continues to anticipate a full-year 2022 effective tax rate (non-IFRS) of 23.0% to 27.0% but expects to be at the upper end of this range.
While SAP's full-year 2022 business outlook is at constant currencies, actual currency reported figures are expected to be impacted by currency exchange rate fluctuations as the Company progresses through the year. See the table below for the Q3 and FY 2022 expected currency impacts.
Expected Currency Impact Assuming June 2022 Rates Apply for the Rest of the Year
Non-Financial Outlook
SAP now expects the Employee Engagement Index to be in a range of 80% to 84% in 2022 (previously: 84% to 86%).
In 2022, SAP continues to expect:
- a Customer Net Promoter Score of 11 to 15 (2021: 10)
- Net carbon emissions of 70 kt (2021: 110 kt)
Ambition 2025
SAP reiterates its mid-term ambition published in its Q3 2020 Quarterly Statement including the commitment of double-digit growth of operating profit in 2023. In light of its strong cloud momentum and most recent favorable currency exchange rates development, SAP expects to update its mid-term ambition in the upcoming quarters.
The full Q2 2022 Quarterly Statement can be downloaded from: https://www.sap.com/investors/sap-2022-q2-statement.
Additional Information
This press release and all information therein is preliminary and unaudited.
SAP Performance Measures
For more information about our key growth metrics and performance measures, their calculation, their usefulness, and their limitation, please refer to the following document on our Investor Relations website: SAP Performance Measures.
Webcast
SAP senior management will host a financial analyst conference call on Thursday, July 21st at 2:00 PM (CET) / 1:00 PM (GMT) / 8:00 AM (Eastern) / 5:00 AM (Pacific). The conference will be webcast live on the Company's website at www.sap.com/investor and will be available for replay. Supplementary financial information pertaining to the first quarter can be found at www.sap.com/investor.
About SAP
SAP's strategy is to help every business run as an intelligent enterprise. As a market leader in enterprise application software, we help companies of all sizes and in all industries run at their best: SAP customers generate 87% of total global commerce. Our machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT), and advanced analytics technologies help turn customers' businesses into intelligent enterprises. SAP helps give people and organizations deep business insight and fosters collaboration that helps them stay ahead of their competition. We simplify technology for companies so they can consume our software the way they want – without disruption. Our end-to-end suite of applications and services enables business and public customers across 25 industries globally to operate profitably, adapt continuously, and make a difference. With a global network of customers, partners, employees, and thought leaders, SAP helps the world run better and improve people's lives. For more information, visit www.sap.com.
This document contains forward-looking statements, which are predictions, projections, or other statements about future events. These statements are based on current expectations, forecasts, and assumptions that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results and outcomes to materially differ. Additional information regarding these risks and uncertainties may be found in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including but not limited to the risk factors section of SAP's 2021 Annual Report on Form 20-F.
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Rugby-Rennie set to negotiate for more overseas-based Wallabies
and then we need to go back to the board and have a chat around where things are at." Rennie on Wednesday selected flyhalf Quade Cooper, winger Marika Koroibete and lock Arnold in his squad for two tests against Argentina next month, the latter only because centre Samu Kerevi is going to the Commonwealth Games. With Kerevi certain to come back into the squad after the two tests in Argentina, Rennie would face a tough selection choice ahead of two home matches against world champions South Africa.
Wallabies coach Dave Rennie said he might need to negotiate with the Rugby Australia board to bring in a fourth overseas-based player during the Rugby Championship and help him with a shortage of locks.
Under a deal negotiated by his predecessor Michael Cheika ahead of the 2015 World Cup, the Wallabies coach is allowed to select three players contracted to clubs outside Australia. The "Giteau Rule", as it became known, places a constraint on Rennie that few other test coaches have to work with and the New Zealander suggested the allowance might not be enough to get through his second-row injury crisis.
"The issue from the second row is we've lost a number of guys," he told reporters on Wednesday. "Izack (Rodda)'s gone for an extended period, Cadeyrn Neville's gone for an extended period and a guy we brought in to give us a bit of cover, Ned Hanigan, went under the knife last week.
"We're a little bit thin in the second row and we're one injury away from a fair bit of pressure there. So we've brought Rory (Arnold) in ... and then we need to go back to the board and have a chat around where things are at." Rennie on Wednesday selected flyhalf Quade Cooper, winger Marika Koroibete and lock Arnold in his squad for two tests against Argentina next month, the latter only because center Samu Kerevi is going to the Commonwealth Games.
With Kerevi certain to come back into the squad after the two tests in Argentina, Rennie would face a tough selection choice ahead of two home matches against world champions South Africa. The Rugby Australia board, which maintains the restriction to encourage local talent to stay at home rather than seek lucrative contracts in Europe and Japan, can grant extra allowances based on need.
"Maybe there's only three available anyway when it comes to the rest of the championship, but we'll assess the situation when we get back from Argentina," Rennie added.
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- Figures for the first half of 2022: Sales revenue up 20.9 percent in constant currencies, underlying EBITDA up 25.6 percent, underlying EBITDA margin 33.9 percent
- 2022 outlook confirmed: Sales revenue expected to rise by 15 to 19 percent and underlying EBITDA margin projected to be about 34 percent
- Uncertainties due to the global political and economic situation remain high
GÖTTINGEN, Germany, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The life science group Sartorius increased sales revenue and earnings with double-digit growth rates in the first half of 2022 and confirmed its full-year outlook.
"Sartorius performed well during the first half of the year in an increasingly challenging environment. Both divisions achieved significant growth and could maintain high profit margins despite some headwinds from currencies. Since the beginning of the year, we increased our worldwide headcount by around 2,000, and the recent acquisitions are contributing to our business development as expected. Given the healthy underlying demand in our industry and good order situation, we confirm our full-year outlook as well as our ambitious investment program, despite higher inflation and lower corona-related demand. However, the global political and economic uncertainties, the resulting strained supply chains, and thus also the uncertainties of projections and outlooks remain high," said Executive Board Chairman and CEO Joachim Kreuzburg.
Business development of the Group1
In the first half of the year, Group sales revenue rose by 20.9 percent year-over-year in constant currencies (reported: +26.5 percent) to around 2,060 million euros. This good performance was mainly driven by organic growth in the Laboratory as well as in the Bioprocess division, while acquisitions2 contributed almost 2 percentage points to sales revenue growth. All three business regions – EMEA3, Americas, and Asia | Pacific – posted double-digit percentage growth in constant currencies. The restrictions in China caused by the pandemic had a relatively minor impact on growth.
Order intake also developed as expected, reaching 2,169 million euros (in constant currencies:
-4.8 percent, reported: -0.5 percent). In the Bioprocess Solutions Division, in particular, the first half of 2021 was influenced by extraordinarily high demand related to the coronavirus pandemic and changed ordering patterns by some customers, who placed their orders further in advance than usual.
Following the strong growth in sales revenue, underlying EBITDA rose by 25.6 percent to 697 million euros in the first half of the year. The corresponding margin, at 33.9 percent, was close to the high level of the prior-year period (34.1 percent). The development was influenced by positive economies of scale but also by negative currency effects and, as planned, higher costs due to new employees and an increase in the number of business trips. Effects from price trends and adjustments on the purchasing and customer sides largely compensated each other.
Relevant net profit reached 334 million euros, up 28.6 percent from the prior-year period. Underlying earnings were 4.88 euros (prior-year period: 3.79 euros) per ordinary share and 4.89 euros (prior-year period: 3.80 euros) per preference share.
Key financial indicators
The Sartorius Group continues to have a very sound balance sheet and financial base. As of June 30, 2022, its equity ratio stood at 35.9 percent (December 31, 2021: 30.2 percent). The ratio of net debt to underlying EBITDA was 1.4 as of the reporting date, compared with 1.5 at year-end 2021. Cash flow from investing activities stood at -229 million euros, compared with -160 million euros in the first half of 2021. The ratio of capital expenditures (CAPEX) to sales revenue reached 10.7 percent (prior-year period: 9.0 percent).
Increase in the number of employees
As of June 30, 2022, Sartorius employed a total of 15,795 people worldwide, representing a headcount increase of 1,963 from the end of December 2021.
Business development of the Bioprocess Solutions Division
The Bioprocess Solutions Division, which offers a wide array of innovative technologies for the manufacture of biopharmaceuticals and vaccines, recorded sales revenue of 1,637 million euros in the first six months of the year. This corresponds to an increase of 23.6 percent in constant currencies (reported: +29.3 percent) compared with the prior-year period, including a non-organic contribution from acquisitions of a good 2 percentage points. All business areas contributed to this positive development with clear double-digit growth rates, while the business with vaccine manufacturers normalized faster than expected.
Following the high growth rates due to the pandemic in the first half of 2021, order intake also continued to normalize and reached 1,716 million euros, which was, as expected, slightly below the prior-year figure of 1,803 million euros (in constant currencies: -8.9 percent; reported: -4.8 percent).
Underlying EBITDA of the Bioprocess Solutions division rose by 27.2 percent to 586 million euros. Despite negative currency effects and planned higher costs, the resulting margin of 35.8 percent was close to the high prior-year level of 36.3 percent.
Business development of the Lab Products & Services Division
Sales revenue of the Lab Products & Services Division, which specializes in equipment and technologies for life science research and pharmaceutical laboratories, grew by 11.2 percent (reported: +16.7 percent) to 423 million euros in the first half of the year. Close to 1 percentage point came from non-organic growth. Development was again especially dynamic in the bioanalytics product segment. Order intake developed even more strongly than sales revenue, surging by 15.0 percent in constant currencies (reported: +20.6 percent) to 453 million euros.
The division's underlying EBITDA rose by 17.7 percent to 112 million euros. The corresponding margin rose to 26.4 percent (prior-year period: 26.2 percent), with a positive product mix and economies of scale offsetting negative currency effects and planned higher costs.
Outlook for fiscal 2022 confirmed
The management confirms its outlook for the current fiscal year. Consolidated sales revenue is expected to increase by about 15 percent to 19 percent, with non-organic growth from acquisitions projected to contribute about 2 percentage points. Regarding profitability, Sartorius continues to expect its underlying EBITDA margin to reach about 34 percent.
For the Bioprocess Solutions Division, the company still forecasts sales revenue growth of about 17 percent to 21 percent. This includes a non-organic growth contribution from acquisitions of about 2 percentage points. The division's underlying EBITDA margin is projected to reach about 36 percent. Lab Products & Services should achieve revenue growth of about 6 percent to 10 percent in 2022, with about 1 percentage point of this coming from the non-organic growth contribution from acquisitions. The division's underlying EBITDA margin is expected to be about 26 percent.
The CAPEX ratio is anticipated to be about 14 percent and net debt to underlying EBITDA to be around 1.1 at year end. Possible further acquisitions are not included in this projection.
All forecasts are based on constant currencies, as in the past years. In addition, management points out that the dynamics and volatilities in the life science and biopharma sectors have increased over the past years and the coronavirus pandemic has further amplified these trends. Moreover, the forecasts are based on the assumption of no further deterioration in the geopolitical and global economic situation, supply chains, inflation and energy supply, and no new relevant restrictions in connection with the coronavirus pandemic. Accordingly, current forecasts show even higher uncertainties than usual.
1 Sartorius publishes alternative performance measures that are not defined by international accounting standards. These are determined with the aim of improving the comparability of business performance over time and within the industry.
- Order intake: all customer orders contractually concluded and booked during the respective reporting period
- Underlying EBITDA: earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization and adjusted for extraordinary items
- Relevant net profit: profit for the period after non-controlling interest, adjusted for extraordinary items and non-cash amortization, as well as based on the normalized financial result and the normalized tax rate
- Ratio of net debt to underlying EBITDA: quotient of net debt and underlying EBITDA over the past 12 months, including the pro forma amount contributed by acquisitions for this period
2 Acquisition of CellGenix, Xell, the Novasep chromatography division, and ALS Automated Lab Solutions
3 EMEA = Europe, Middle East, Africa
This press release contains forward-looking statements about the future development of the Sartorius Group. Forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such statements. Sartorius assumes no liability for updating such statements in light of new information or future events.
Conference call
The Executive Board Chairman and CEO of Sartorius AG, Joachim Kreuzburg, and Executive Board member and CFO, Rainer Lehmann, will discuss the company's results with analysts and investors in a conference call at 3.30 p.m. CEST on Thursday, July 21, 2022. You may register by clicking on the following link: https://media.chorusScall.eu/mediaframe/webcast.html?webcastid=PBMZ53Mz
Further information
Financial calendar
October 19, 2022 Publication of nine-month figures (January to September 2022)
1 The previous year's figures have been restated due to finalization of the purchase price allocations for the acquisition of BIA Separations
2 cc= in constant currencies
3 Acc. to customers' loaction
4 Adjusted for extraordinary items
5 After non-controlling interest, adjusted for extraordinary items and non-cash amortization, as well as based on the normalized financial result and the normalized tax rate
6 After non-controlling interest
A profile of Sartorius
The Sartorius Group is a leading international partner of life science research and the biopharmaceutical industry. With innovative laboratory instruments and consumables, the Group's Lab Products & Services Division concentrates on serving the needs of laboratories performing research and quality control at pharma and biopharma companies and those of academic research institutes. The Bioprocess Solutions Division with its broad product portfolio focusing on single-use solutions helps customers to manufacture biotech medications and vaccines safely and efficiently. The Group has been annually growing by double digits on average and has been regularly expanding its portfolio by acquisitions of complementary technologies. In fiscal 2021, the company earned sales revenue of some 3.45 billion euros. At the end of 2021, nearly 14,000 people were employed at the Group's approximately 60 manufacturing and sales sites, serving customers around the globe.
Contact
Petra Kirchhoff
Head of Corporate Communications & Investor Relations
+49 (0)551 308 1686
petra.kirchhoff@sartorius.com
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WRAPUP 1-Athletics-Jeruto claims steeplechase gold, Feng Bin wins women's discus
I tried my best to win the race and it was not easy." In the women's discus final, Feng's 69.12-metres opener, a personal best, was enough to secure her victory as Croatia's Sandra Perkovic took silver and American Allman finished with bronze.
- Country:
- United States
Norah Jeruto set a World Championships record en route to winning the women's 3,000 metres steeplechase gold while China's Feng Bin outdid Olympic champion, Valerie Allman, in the discus final in Eugene, Oregon on Wednesday. Jeruto, who switched allegiance from Kenya to Kazakhstan earlier this year, clocked eight minutes, 53.02 seconds, the third-fastest time ever and more than five seconds better than previous winner Beatrice Chepkoech's mark in Doha in 2019.
Werkuha Getachew set an Ethiopian record for silver, while her compatriot Mekides Abebe took bronze. "At the starting line, I was afraid of my friends from Ethiopia," Jeruto said of her competitors. "They are also champions like me so I was scared of them. I tried my best to win the race and it was not easy."
In the women's discus final, Feng's 69.12-metres opener, a personal best, was enough to secure her victory as Croatia's Sandra Perkovic took silver and American Allman finished with bronze. Reigning champion Yaime Perez ended in seventh place. "I am so excited and I have to say all opponents did a very good job today," said Feng, who finished 17th in Tokyo last year. "I did not expect this result coming to Eugene, I just wanted to show my best."
Earlier on Wednesday, record-holder Sydney McLaughlin and fellow American Dalilah Muhammad set up a highly anticipated showdown in the women's 400 metres hurdles final, after winning their respective heats. American Champion Allison advanced to the men's 400 metres final, as compatriot Michael Norman stormed to the fastest finish. World record-holder and twice world champion Wayde van Niekerk also sealed the qualification.
In the women's 400 metres, double Olympic champion Shaunae Miller-Uibo cruised to victory in her semi-final, while Dominican Republic's Marileidy Paulino, who won silver in Tokyo, also qualified for the finals. The United States' relay hopes took a hit as 100 metres champion Fred Kerley pulled out of the 4x100 metres relay due to injury.
South Africa's Caster Semenya, who was competing in the women's 5,000 metres heats after being barred from competing in any race from 400 metres to a mile, failed to qualify for the finals after clocking a time of 15:46.12. Semenya, a two-time Olympic champion at 800 metres, cannot compete in her preferred distance because of a World Athletics ruling saying women with high natural testosterone levels must take medication to reduce them to compete in middle-distance races.
"I am learning and I am willing to learn even more. It was hot, could not keep up with the pace, I tried to stick as much as I can," said Semenya, who refuses to take any medication to alter her testosterone levels. Ethiopian Letesenbet Gidey led the heats with a time of 14:52.27.
The men's and women's 200 metres finals will take place on Thursday, as well as the semi-finals for the men's 800 metres.
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Sports News Roundup: Athletics-U.S. world relay hopes take a hit as Kerley out with injury; Athletics-China's Feng Bin stuns women's discus for gold and more
Hosts England were facing an exit from the tournament with six minutes of normal time remaining, but substitute Ella Toone levelled to earn extra time before Stanway netted with a fierce effort in the 96th minute. Athletics-Jeruto claims steeplechase gold, Feng Bin wins women's discus Norah Jeruto set a World Championships record en route to winning the women's 3,000 metres steeplechase gold while China's Feng Bin outdid Olympic champion Valerie Allman in the discus final in Eugene, Oregon on Wednesday.
Following is a summary of current sports news briefs.
Athletics-U.S. world relay hopes take a hit as Kerley out with injury
The United States' relay hopes took a hit on Wednesday as 100 metres champion Fred Kerley will not run in the 4x100 metres relay due to injury. The Tokyo silver medallist led a U.S. sweep of the 100 metres podium on Saturday but finished sixth in the 200 metres semi-final on Tuesday after grimacing with pain down the final straight.
Athletics-China's Feng Bin stuns women's discus for gold
China's Feng Bin put up the performance of her life to stun the women's discus final at the World Championships on Wednesday, as Olympic champion American Valerie Allman settled for bronze. Feng won off of her 69.12-metres opener, a personal best and her strongest performance of the season by a wide margin, as Croatia's twice Olympic champion Sandra Perkovic secured the silver in a 68.45-metres second attempt.
Golf-Stenson stripped of Team Europe Ryder Cup captaincy, joins LIV series
Henrik Stenson was stripped of Team Europe's Ryder Cup captaincy on Wednesday, a few hours before the Swede announced that he was joining the lucrative Saudi-backed LIV Golf Invitational Series. The 2016 British Open champion helped Europe to victory in three of his five Ryder Cup appearances as a player, including the last home tournament at Le Golf National in 2018.
Athletics-Americans Allison, and Norman advance to 400m final with record-holder van Niekerk
American Champion Allison produced a remarkable comeback to advance to the 400 metres final at the World Championships, as compatriot Michael Norman stormed to the fastest finish on Wednesday. World record-holder and twice world champion Wayde van Niekerk appeared to have a comfortable lead heading into the final 100 metres before Barbadian Jonathan Jones surged forward, running shoulder-to-shoulder with the South African.
Soccer-Stanway stunner sends England past Spain into Euro semis
England's Georgia Stanway scored with a wonderful extra-time strike to earn them a 2-1 win over Spain on Wednesday in an excellent Euro 2022 quarter-final that sent the Lionesses into the last four. Hosts England was facing an exit from the tournament with six minutes of normal time remaining but went on to earn a semi-final clash with Belgium or Sweden to the delight of the home crowd.
Tennis-Williams and Djokovic included in U.S. Open entry list
Serena Williams was included on the entry list for the U.S. Open on Wednesday along with fellow former champion Novak Djokovic, who will not be able to compete due to his refusal to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Williams, who returned to competition last month after a year-long absence, was added to the entry list for the Aug. 29-Sept. 11 Grand Slam in New York having been named in the draw for tune-up events in Toronto and Cincinnati.
Cycling-Pogacar takes Tour stage 17 as Vingegaard stays in control
Tadej Pogacar claimed victory in the 17th stage of the Tour de France but it was Jonas Vingegaard who came to a step closer to the title as he finished on the defending champion's wheel to retain the overall leader's yellow jersey on Wednesday.
Pogacar's late acceleration at the top of the final climb, an 8-km effort at 7.8%, earned him his third win in this year's Tour and gave him a 10-second time bonus.
Athletics-Dominant Jeruto roars to superb steeplechase gold
Norah Jeruto delivered a devastating display of front running to win the world 3,000 metres steeplechase title in a massive championship record on Wednesday, earning gold for Kazakhstan having switched allegiance from Kenya earlier this year. Jeruto clocked eight minutes, 53.02 seconds, the third-fastest of all time and more than five seconds better than Beatrice Chepkoech's 2019 winning mark.
Soccer-England's Stanway wasn't sure wonder strike was goalbound
England goalscorer Georgia Stanway said she was unsure if her stunning strike was destined for the back of the net after letting fly from distance to fire her side into the European Championship semi-finals with a 2-1 extra-time victory over Spain on Wednesday. Hosts England were facing an exit from the tournament with six minutes of normal time remaining, but substitute Ella Toone levelled to earn extra time before Stanway netted with a fierce effort in the 96th minute.
Athletics-Jeruto claims steeplechase gold, Feng Bin wins women's discus
Norah Jeruto set a World Championships record en route to winning the women's 3,000 metres steeplechase gold while China's Feng Bin outdid Olympic champion, Valerie Allman, in the discus final in Eugene, Oregon on Wednesday. Jeruto, who switched allegiance from Kenya to Kazakhstan earlier this year, clocked eight minutes, 53.02 seconds, the third-fastest time ever and more than five seconds better than previous winner Beatrice Chepkoech's mark in Doha in 2019.
(With inputs from agencies.)
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Javelin thrower Annu Rani qualifies for second consecutive World C'ships final
Rani began the qualification round in Group B on a bad note with a foul. But then she came up with a throw of 55.35 m later. She saved the best for the last, making a throw of 59.60 m to make it to the final.
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India's javelin thrower Annu Rani on Thursday became the first Indian to make it to back-to-back finals at the World Athletics Championships after finishing with a throw of 59.60 in her final attempt in Oregon on Thursday. Rani began the qualification round in Group B on a bad note with a foul. But then she came up with a throw of 55.35 m later. She saved the best for the last, making a throw of 59.60 m to make it to the final.
In the group B qualification round, she finished in the fifth position and made it to the final as eighth best across both groups. "#Athletics Update @Annu_Javelin qualifies for her 2nd consecutive #Javelinthrow Final at the World Championships Her best throw being 59.60m, which came on her 3rd attempt at @WCHoregon22finishing 8th Great going!! All the best Annu Rani @g_rajaraman," tweeted SAI Media.
Only three athletes could qualify for the final in Oregon by breaching the automatic qualification mark of 62.50 m. Japan's Haruka Kitaguchi topped the charts in the qualification round with a throw of 64.32 m while China's Shiying Liu was at second with a throw of 63.86 m. Finally at the third position with Lithuania's Liveta Jasiunaite, who had the best attempt of 63.80 m.
With this, Annu Rani has buried the heartbreak of not making it to the finals of the Tokyo Olympics, in which this national record-holding athlete finished with a disappointing best attempt of 54.04 m last year. Rani was in solid form leading up to the world meet, breaking her own national record with 63.82 m attempt at an AFI Indian Open event in Jamshedpur in May 2022.
Rani will be in action on July 22 in the final. Meanwhile, India's Tokyo Olympic gold medalist Neeraj Chopra will be in action along with Rohit Yadav in the men's javelin qualification rounds on Friday.
World Athletics Championships 2022 is being held in Oregon. It will conclude on July 24. (ANI)
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Athletics-China's Feng Bin stuns women's discus for gold
A medal felt all too familiar around Perkovic's neck after two world titles, a bronze in Doha and a previous silver in 2015. "My biggest rival this year - Valarie Allman - and I managed to beat her on the home soil," she said.
China's Feng Bin put up the performance of her life to stun the women's discus final at the World Championships on Wednesday, as Olympic champion American Valerie Allman settled for bronze. Feng won off of her 69.12-metres opener, a personal best and her strongest performance of the season by a wide margin, as Croatia's twice Olympic champion Sandra Perkovic secured the silver in a 68.45-metres second attempt.
"I am so excited and I have to say all opponents did a very good job today," said Feng. "I did not expect this result coming to Eugene. I just wanted to show my best." With the home crowd urging her on, Allman rocketed the discus across the field on her third throw and she jumped with excitement at the performance but it was marked far short of Feng's effort, and she fumbled her final try for 51.41.
The bespectacled, six-foot-tall Feng whipped across a final throw of 64.62 before thrusting her arms into the air, having completed the massive upset and secured China's first gold in the event since Li Yanfeng in 2011. "I am very excited about this result and want to share this excitement with my family and my friends," Feng told reporters, after picking up her first world medal.
Reigning champion Yaime Perez of Cuba could not find her power, finishing seventh with a best throw of 63.07. A medal felt all too familiar around Perkovic's neck after two world titles, a bronze in Doha and a previous silver in 2015.
"My biggest rival this year - Valarie Allman - and I managed to beat her on the home soil," she said. "I did not expect the Chinese girl would beat us all. But I am also glad for her because she threw a huge PB and I think you just have to be lucky.
"We all deserve the red carpets."
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Zhang out with injury, Sorribes Tormo advances in Palermo
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Another seeded player withdrew from the Palermo Ladies Open on Wednesday when Zhang Shuai pulled out with an unspecified “physical problem.” The third-seeded Zhang was scheduled to play Jasmine Paolini and the Italian was given a walkover into the quarterfinals where she will face either eighth-seeded Nuria Parrizas Diaz or Julia Grabher.
Top-seeded Martina Trevisan withdrew from the tournament on Tuesday because of a back injury.
In one of the matches that did go ahead Wednesday, fourth-seeded Sara Sorribes Tormo advanced to the quarterfinals with a 6-0, 6-2 victory over Leolia Jeanjean.
The Spanish player will play seventh-seeded Anna Bondar, who beat fellow Hungarian Panna Udvardy 6-2, 6-4.
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Annual leave: here’s the evidence for why you should use it up – and how to make the most of it
As such, regular respites throughout the year can help achieve the accumulative benefits of annual leave on health.The good news is that taking time out for a week to two weeks is enough to recover and experience a boost of positive emotions.
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We are currently at the peak of the holiday season, but instead of drinking cocktails on the beach, hiking the mountains and enjoying what life has to offer, a surprising number of people are reluctant to take time out from work. Recent research shows one in five people in Ireland do not take their full annual leave entitlement. And in the UK, two in five workers have taken less leave in recent years as a result of the pandemic.
It is important to take time out from work in order to fully live our lives, but there are several issues that can discourage us from taking annual leave. Some people have doubts about whether taking time out will allow for full psychological detachment from work, for example.
The fear that thoughts of work will invade our minds encourages many people to just keep working. A common trend among those who are obsessively passionate about their work, these feelings can become overbearing, controlling their thoughts and making them unable to temporarily forget about work.
Another reason people do not take time off is that they do not expect to feel relaxed while on holiday. This may be due to their circumstances or choices made about how to spend time off. In particular, family holidays may generate a lot of conflicts, sometimes becoming even more stressful than work. It's unsurprising then that staying on at work instead of taking time out may be tempting for many.
Alternatively, some people fear the financial consequences of annual leave. Holidays are expensive, especially for large families, leading many to forgo their leave entitlement to save money.
Benefits of annual leave These are just some examples of why people may avoid holidays, but regardless of the reason, taking time off – especially from demanding jobs – has immediate benefits in terms of decreasing stress and burnout. These benefits are only temporary, with stress often climbing again shortly after returning to work. As such, regular respites throughout the year can help achieve the accumulative benefits of annual leave on health.
The good news is that taking time out for a week to two weeks is enough to recover and experience a boost of positive emotions. This will begin to decline as the time off comes to an end, but still offers the break needed to recharge your batteries.
Annual leave is also beneficial for employers, as it improves employee productivity by up to 40%, reduces the likelihood of sick leave by 28%, and boosts creativity and mental health. Taking time out is also essential for parents, as their children gain immense benefits from spending more time together.
Getting the best from annual leave While these figures may have you reaching for your phone to search for package deals, the spike in travel disruption this summer may put you off from searching for the farthest-flung destination. But you don't need expensive foreign holidays to enjoy annual leave. Here are three vacation activities that can improve wellbeing, whether you are away or on a staycation: 1. Practice relaxation Relaxation can involve simple breathing practices that can help reduce anxiety. An alternative that can have similar benefits is to use meditation techniques such as mindfulness.
2. Spend time in nature When on annual leave, try to spend as much time as you can in nature because it is associated with an improvement in both emotional and psychological health. It doesn't matter what you do when enjoying nature; you can be active, for example walking, running, gardening, or simply sitting on a park bench or spending time sky-gazing.
3. Engage your brain Take time off as an opportunity to develop your interests. If you love reading, plan to read a few books over the holiday. Research shows these activities support our minds and our moods, regardless of age. There are additional benefits if you help your children enjoy books over the summer.
Alternatively, if you enjoy listening to music, take this time to dust off your CDs or rearrange your digital music library. Share music, play an instrument, write lyrics, dance, or even just listen to as much music as you can to improve your physical and mental health.
These are just a few ideas. What's most important is to do something that engages your mind, helps you forget about your job, and allows for a respite before you return to work feeling happier and more energized than before.
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Windows 11 Build 25163 rolling out with new taskbar overflow experience
Microsoft on Wednesday released the Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25163 to the Dev Channel. This build brings a new taskbar overflow experience, some improvements for sharing files and a good set of fixes.
The new taskbar overflow experience offers you a more productive switching and launching experience when space is constrained, according to Microsoft. Now, the taskbar will offer an entry point to an overflow menu that allows you to view all your overflowed apps in one space. After invoking overflow, the menu will quietly dismiss once you click outside of it or navigate to an application.
Next up, the Windows 11 Build 25163 also brings improvements to nearby sharing. You can now discover and share to more devices with nearby sharing via the built-in Windows share window.
As mentioned above, this build also includes a good set of fixes (Via):
Fixes
[File Explorer]
- Fixed an explorer.exe crash when dragging tabs around.
- Did some work to fix a memory leak when using tabs with File Explorer.
- Fixed an issue where the preview thumbnail for File Explorer in the taskbar, ALT + Tab, and Task View might show the title of an adjacent tab and not the currently selected one.
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- Improved the padding around the uninstall button when using Apps > Installed Apps in grid view.
- Fixed a couple issues that could lead to Quick Settings crashing on launch.
[Input]
- Fixed an issue which was leading to certain apps freezing after a copy action if Suggested Actions was enabled.
[Other]
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The Indian rupee weakened at the open on Thursday and was trading just shy of its lifetime low hit earlier this week, tracking losses in most other Asian peers but traders expect dollar-selling intervention by the central bank to limit losses.
The partially convertible rupee was fetching 80.01/02 per dollar by 0337 GMT, compared with its close of 79.99 on Wednesday and near its record low of 80.0650 touched on Tuesday.
Investors will watch out for the central bank after a source said the RBI was prepared to sell another $100 billion to defend the rupee from rapid falls.
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- AUD/USD takes the bids to refresh intraday high, reverse the previous day’s pullback from three-week top.
- Market sentiment remains sour but the US dollar bulls step back amid hawkish expectations from the ECB.
- Downbeat Aussie data, comments from Australia PM also act as upside hurdles.
- ECB will be crucial, second-tier US data could also entertain traders.
AUD/USD cheers the US dollar weakness as it refreshes intraday high around 0.6915 during early Thursday morning in Europe. In doing so, the Aussie pair pays little heed to the downbeat data at home and mixed comments from Australia's Prime Minister (PM), not to forget the risk-aversion wave.
National Australia Bank’s (NAB) Business Confidence gauge dropped to the lowest levels since late 2021 while printing 5 the figure, below 16 market expectations and 15 prior. Also, the Aussie PM Anthony Albanese warned the Reserve Bank of Australia against “overreach” in its efforts to tamp down inflation. It’s worth noting that RBA Governor Philip Lowe teased 0.50% rate hike during his speech the previous day.
Elsewhere, the restoration of the gas flows from Russia’s Nord Stream 1 pipeline, even if gradual, appeared to have improved the market’s mood although Germany considers it as 30% of capacity.
However, risk-aversion remains on the table as fears of economic slowdown in Germany and political crisis in Italy join China’s worsening covid conditions to keep the market sentiment sour and weigh on the AUD/USD prices, due to its risk barometer status.
While portraying the mood, the S&P 500 Futures pare early day losses but the US 10-year Treasury yields fail to improve, down 1.5 basis points near 3.02%.
Looking forward, risk catalysts will be crucial for the AUD/USD traders ahead of the key monetary policy announcements from the European Central Bank (ECB). While the ECB’s likely disappointment appears to renew the US dollar buying afterward, any surprise might not hesitate to drag the DXY further towards the south, which in turn can propel the Aussie pair towards a fresh monthly high.
Also read: ECB Preview: Three critical factors to watch, and why EUR/USD is set to plunge
Technical analysis
AUD/USD bulls aim for the monthly high surrounding 0.6930 while extending the break of the previous resistance line from mid-June, near 0.6815 by the press time. However, the 50-day EMA near 0.6960 could challenge the pair buyers afterward, if not then the odds of witnessing the 0.7000 on the chart can’t be ruled out
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Far bigger crowds are expected Thursday, when the events begin in earnest.
COMIC-COSPLAY
It’s likely no one has missed the in-person convention more than the captains, queens and connoisseurs of cosplay. Comic-Con is their Met Gala, and no getup is too elaborate.
Lorelei McKelvey, 54, who is from San Diego but now lives in Yokosuka, Japan, was dressed as Captain Carter, Captain America's British, World War II-era counterpart.
"I had to do one that I could authentically replicate," McKelvey said. “I went and did my research and found out what were the authentic British officer leathers worn in World War II, and I found manufacturers to actually make those leathers.”
She walked the Convention Center floor in real-as-possible officer cavalry boots and Royal Air Force gauntlets, and carried a 5-pound steel shield.
McKelvey came to Comic-Con and worked a booth for 20 straight years. This is her first time coming as a cosplayer, and her second time coming as a trans woman, and she's excited to be reunited with the cherished friends she's made here.
“My last convention is the first time they've seen me as Lorelei,” McKelvey said. “This is their first time to see me four years later and to see how much I've grown since then.”
Others wandered the halls Wednesday as “Star Wars” Stormtroopers, the Mandalorian, Wonder Woman, and Sailor Moon. Chuckie from “Child's Play” emerged from one cosplayer's stomach.
COMIC-COMING ATTRACTIONS
Comic-Con makes most of its news as a venue to show off trailers and footage from forthcoming films and TV shows during star-studded mega-panels held in Hall H, which holds some 6,000 people. Announced panels include Warner Bros. and the DC Universe's “Black Adam." It will include Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, who plays the titular antihero, director Jaume Collet-Serra, and the stars playing Hawkman, Dr. Fate, and other members of the Justice Society.
"Get ready, because the hype is real," Johnson said in pro-wrestler promo mode on Instagram earlier this month. "Guess who's coming to town, the most electrifying man in all the DC Universe."
Warner Bros. will also provide a preview of “Shazam: Fury of the Gods.”
Marvel may hold back its best material for Disney's forthcoming D23 Expo, but is expected to tease its next film, “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” and the Disney+ TV series “She-Hulk: Attorney at Law.”
A pair of much-anticipated fantasy prequels will also give fans a taste of their worlds. A new trailer dropped Wednesday in advance of a panel from HBO Max that will show off the "Game of Thrones" spinoff "House of the Dragon," set 200 years before the original series.
Amazon is going back in time 2000 years for “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power," a tale of the emergence of evil among the elves long before Frodo and Bilbo walked Middle Earth. Their panel this year comes 21 years after director Peter Jackson presented footage from the first of the original films at Comic-Con.
A Comic-Con attendee walks past a life-size model of the creature from the "Alien" movie franchise during Preview Night at the 2022 Comic-Con International at the San Diego Convention Center, Wednesday, July 20, 2022, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
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A Comic-Con attendee walks past a life-size model of the creature from the "Alien" movie franchise during Preview Night at the 2022 Comic-Con International at the San Diego Convention Center, Wednesday, July 20, 2022, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
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Jay Acey, left, dressed as A-Train from the television series "The Boys," Faeren Adams, center, dressed as Marvel superhero Doctor Strange, and Derek Shackleton, dressed as Marvel superhero Moon Knight, walk together outside Preview Night at the 2022 Comic-Con International at the San Diego Convention Center, Wednesday, July 20, 2022, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
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Jay Acey, left, dressed as A-Train from the television series "The Boys," Faeren Adams, center, dressed as Marvel superhero Doctor Strange, and Derek Shackleton, dressed as Marvel superhero Moon Knight, walk together outside Preview Night at the 2022 Comic-Con International at the San Diego Convention Center, Wednesday, July 20, 2022, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
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C.B. Cebulski attends Marvel's Spider - Man induction into the Comic-Con Museum on Wednesday, July 20, 2022, at the Comic-Con Museum in San Diego. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)
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C.B. Cebulski attends Marvel's Spider - Man induction into the Comic-Con Museum on Wednesday, July 20, 2022, at the Comic-Con Museum in San Diego. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)
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Leslie Acosta, of Escondido, Calif., poses alongside the Patrick Star character from the animated television series "SpongeBob Squarepants" during Preview Night at the 2022 Comic-Con International at the San Diego Convention Center, Wednesday, July 20, 2022, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
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Leslie Acosta, of Escondido, Calif., poses alongside the Patrick Star character from the animated television series "SpongeBob Squarepants" during Preview Night at the 2022 Comic-Con International at the San Diego Convention Center, Wednesday, July 20, 2022, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
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Aiden Molter, left, and Monica Radin, both of San Diego, wear masks as they wait for Preview Night to start at the 2022 Comic-Con International at the San Diego Convention Center, Wednesday, July 20, 2022, in San Diego. Radin is dressed as the Raven character in the animated television series "Teen Titans." (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
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Aiden Molter, left, and Monica Radin, both of San Diego, wear masks as they wait for Preview Night to start at the 2022 Comic-Con International at the San Diego Convention Center, Wednesday, July 20, 2022, in San Diego. Radin is dressed as the Raven character in the animated television series "Teen Titans." (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
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Jenn Brown of CFX (Composite Effects) adjusts a silicon mask based on Pinhead from the movie franchise "Hellraiser" in their stall during Preview Night at the 2022 Comic-Con International at the San Diego Convention Center, Wednesday, July 20, 2022, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
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Jenn Brown of CFX (Composite Effects) adjusts a silicon mask based on Pinhead from the movie franchise "Hellraiser" in their stall during Preview Night at the 2022 Comic-Con International at the San Diego Convention Center, Wednesday, July 20, 2022, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
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Comic-Con attendees peruse the aisles of the convention show floor during Preview Night at the 2022 Comic-Con International at the San Diego Convention Center, Wednesday, July 20, 2022, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
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Comic-Con attendees peruse the aisles of the convention show floor during Preview Night at the 2022 Comic-Con International at the San Diego Convention Center, Wednesday, July 20, 2022, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
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Brian Crosby, left, and C.B.Cebulski attend Marvel's Spide-Man induction into the Comic-Con Museum Hall of Fame on Wednesday, July 20, 2022, at the Comic-Con Museum in San Diego. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)
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Brian Crosby, left, and C.B.Cebulski attend Marvel's Spide-Man induction into the Comic-Con Museum Hall of Fame on Wednesday, July 20, 2022, at the Comic-Con Museum in San Diego. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)
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Chelsea Mullen, of San Francisco, dressed as Garangolm in the video game "Monster Hunter," poses outside Preview Night at the 2022 Comic-Con International at the San Diego Convention Center, Wednesday, July 20, 2022, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
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Chelsea Mullen, of San Francisco, dressed as Garangolm in the video game "Monster Hunter," poses outside Preview Night at the 2022 Comic-Con International at the San Diego Convention Center, Wednesday, July 20, 2022, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
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A Comic-Con attendee looks at small-scale statues of the movie characters Rocky Balboa and Apollo Creed from the "Rocky" film franchise, at the PCS Premium Collectibles Studio stall during Preview Night at the 2022 Comic-Con International at the San Diego Convention Center, Wednesday, July 20, 2022, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
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A Comic-Con attendee looks at small-scale statues of the movie characters Rocky Balboa and Apollo Creed from the "Rocky" film franchise, at the PCS Premium Collectibles Studio stall during Preview Night at the 2022 Comic-Con International at the San Diego Convention Center, Wednesday, July 20, 2022, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
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Calvin Alvarez, 4, of Los Angeles, peers over his shoulder at dinosaur models based on the "Jurassic" Park film franchise during Preview Night at the 2022 Comic-Con International at the San Diego Convention Center, Wednesday, July 20, 2022, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
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Calvin Alvarez, 4, of Los Angeles, peers over his shoulder at dinosaur models based on the "Jurassic" Park film franchise during Preview Night at the 2022 Comic-Con International at the San Diego Convention Center, Wednesday, July 20, 2022, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
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Kevin Uribe of West Orange, N.J., dressed as the writer/director/actor Kevin Smith, waits for Preview Night to start at the 2022 Comic-Con International at the San Diego Convention Center, Wednesday, July 20, 2022, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
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Kevin Uribe of West Orange, N.J., dressed as the writer/director/actor Kevin Smith, waits for Preview Night to start at the 2022 Comic-Con International at the San Diego Convention Center, Wednesday, July 20, 2022, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
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Jay Acey, left, dressed as A-Train from the television series "The Boys," Faeren Adams, center, dressed as Marvel superhero Doctor Strange, and Derek Shackleton, dressed as Marvel superhero Moon Knight, walk together outside Preview Night at the 2022 Comic-Con International at the San Diego Convention Center, Wednesday, July 20, 2022, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
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Jay Acey, left, dressed as A-Train from the television series "The Boys," Faeren Adams, center, dressed as Marvel superhero Doctor Strange, and Derek Shackleton, dressed as Marvel superhero Moon Knight, walk together outside Preview Night at the 2022 Comic-Con International at the San Diego Convention Center, Wednesday, July 20, 2022, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
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Rebecca Eusey, of San Diego, dressed as "Lady Beetlejuice of the Carousel," poses outside Preview Night at the 2022 Comic-Con International at the San Diego Convention Center, Wednesday, July 20, 2022, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
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Rebecca Eusey, of San Diego, dressed as "Lady Beetlejuice of the Carousel," poses outside Preview Night at the 2022 Comic-Con International at the San Diego Convention Center, Wednesday, July 20, 2022, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
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Monica Radin of San Diego, dressed as the Raven character in the animated television series "Teen Titans," walks outside Preview Night at the 2022 Comic-Con International at the San Diego Convention Center, Wednesday, July 20, 2022, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
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Monica Radin of San Diego, dressed as the Raven character in the animated television series "Teen Titans," walks outside Preview Night at the 2022 Comic-Con International at the San Diego Convention Center, Wednesday, July 20, 2022, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
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Nathan Turner, left, of San Diego, dressed as the comic-book character The Rocketeer, poses for a photo with his friend Tracy Doering before Preview Night at the 2022 Comic-Con International at the San Diego Convention Center, Wednesday, July 20, 2022, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
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Nathan Turner, left, of San Diego, dressed as the comic-book character The Rocketeer, poses for a photo with his friend Tracy Doering before Preview Night at the 2022 Comic-Con International at the San Diego Convention Center, Wednesday, July 20, 2022, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
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Equity benchmark indices fell in early trade on Thursday, mirroring weak trends in most of the Asian markets but recovered later and were trading in the green.
The 30-share BSE Sensex declined 126.78 points to 55,270.75 in early trade. The broader NSE Nifty fell by 36.95 points to 16,483.90.
However, later markets recovered and the Sensex was trading 56.67 points higher at 55,454.20, while the Nifty climbed 22.50 points to 16,543.35.
Among the Sensex constituents, Wipro, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Reliance Industries, Tech Mahindra, Infosys and Asian Paints were the major laggards in early trade.
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IndusInd Bank, ITC, Bharti Airtel, Axis Bank and Hindustan Unilever were among the firms trading in the green.
In Asia, markets in Tokyo, Shanghai and Hong Kong were quoting lower, while Seoul traded in the green.
The US markets had ended higher on Wednesday.
The BSE benchmark had rallied 629.91 points or 1.15 per cent to settle at 55,397.53 on Wednesday. The Nifty climbed 180.30 points or 1.10 per cent to 16,520.85.
Meanwhile, international oil benchmark Brent crude dipped 0.66 per cent to USD 106.22 per barrel.
Foreign institutional investors were net buyers on Wednesday, picking up shares worth Rs 1,780.94 crore, as per exchange data.
“FIIs have turned net buyers of local shares to the tune of Rs 1,781 crore on Wednesday, extending the buying momentum for the third straight session,” said Prashanth Tapse, Vice President (Research), Mehta Equities Ltd.
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China's Vice-Premier Sun Chunlan, the official leading the country’s COVID-19 response, said on Thursday, the latest covid control is not about relaxing rules
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“Urged cities to take decisive measures to contain outbreaks quickly.”
"The latest Covid-19 control playbook is not about relaxing rules, but about precision, which requires greater efforts to grasp prevention and close loopholes.”
“Need to act swiftly to stop outbreaks spreading in the run up to the Communist Party congress, the country’s main political event of the year.”
These comments come after the country reported 826 cases for Wednesday, compared with 935 Tuesday, which was the highest daily tally since May 21.
Some neighbourhoods in Shenzhen implemented new lockdowns while infections in Shanghai continued to rise rapidly.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Thousands of cattle are covered in blisters from highly infectious foot-and-mouth disease in Indonesia, sounding the alarm for the country, its Southeast Asian neighbors and Australia. The virus found in two provinces in May has now infected several hundred-thousand animals across multiple provinces, including the popular tourist destination of Bali.
Indonesia is now taking measures to curb the spread of the disease. Australia has offered assistance in hopes of preventing the disease and its economic and environmental consequences from crossing its borders.
Here's a look at the disease and what's happening in Indonesia.
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WHAT IS FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE?
Foot-and-mouth disease is caused by a virus that infects cattle, sheep, goats, swine and other cloven-hoofed animals. While death rates are typically low, the disease can make animals ill with fever, decreased appetite, excessive drooling, blisters and other symptoms.
The disease was once found worldwide but has since been erased from some regions, including western Europe and North America. Parts of Southeast Asia, such as Malaysia and Thailand, have had regular outbreaks, but Indonesia until now had been free from the disease since 1986.
The ongoing outbreak is concentrated in dairy and beef cattle, but the spread to other susceptible animals can't be ruled out.
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HOW DOES IT SPREAD?
The virus spreads easily through contact and airborne transmission and can quickly infect entire herds. People can spread the disease though things like farming equipment, shoes, clothing, vehicle tires and more that have come in contact with the virus. Though it's considered rare, humans can also carry the virus in their nose for short periods of time, infecting animals, said Michael Ward, chair of the Veterinary Public Health & Food Safety at the University of Sydney.
Livestock feed and animal products such as meat and hides can also carry and spread the virus.
More than 300,000 livestock in Indonesia had foot-and-mouth disease by the first week of July. In the same month, the Eid al-Adha festival — a Muslim holiday marked with ritual animal sacrifice — resulted in large movement of animals around the country, which is considered to have accelerated the spread of the disease.
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WHY ARE OFFICIALS WORRIED?
Because it is so easily spread, the virus can be incredibly difficult to get rid of once there is an outbreak. In poorer countries, sick animals affect people's access to food. In middle-income and richer countries, the disease affects the livestock trade and related industries. One paper estimated that foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks can cost billions of dollars, highlighting the damage to governments and farmers.
Australia, which is currently free of foot-and-mouth disease, has expressed particular worry about the spread from Indonesia. The resort island of Bali is a popular tourist destination for Australians and has confirmed cases of the disease.
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WHAT IS BEING DONE TO COMBAT THE OUTBREAK?
Indonesia is using animal testing, vaccination, treatment, and conditional slaughter to try to curb the outbreak. The Ministry of Agriculture launched a vaccination program for livestock in mid-June, prioritizing doses for healthy animals at high risk of infection, such as those at crowded places such as livestock breeding centers, community-owned dairy farms, dairy cooperatives, and beef cattle farms.
The Australian government has offered financial and vaccine assistance for Indonesia's response to the recent outbreak. The vaccination program is likely to focus on support for the small-holder farm sector, which accounts for 90% of Indonesia's cattle industry.
In Australia, the government announced it would install disinfectant mats at airports that are intended to capture potentially contaminated dirt from the shoes of those returning from overseas. Government officials also promised more stringent biosecurity checks, such as sniffing detector dogs, for those returning from overseas.
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CAN PEOPLE GET FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE?
No. Foot-and-mouth disease is often confused with hand, foot and mouth disease, which is caused by a different virus and mostly infects young children. People do not get the animal disease, and animals do not get the human disease, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Considering the expenditure of state-owned bus corporations, an expert panel has recommended to the Karnataka government that it should not hire new staff for another five years as the present employees are sufficient to operate over 35,000 buses in the state.
The state runs four road transport corporations, namely the Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC), North Western Karnataka Road Transport Corporation, Kalyana Karnataka Road Transport Corporation (KKRTC) and Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC).
A report submitted by retired IAS officer M R Sreenivasa Murthy to Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Tuesday says that BMTC is spending Rs 5,072 crore on its employees, which has increased staff costs by 82 per cent from 2013-14. Staff costs have increased from Rs 3,022 crores in 2013-14 to Rs 5,072 crore in 2019-20, the report has pointed out.
According to the report, accessed by The Indian Express, employee costs contribute to 45 per cent of RTC costs and 55 per cent of BMTC costs, and 48 per cent of RTCs’ revenue and 69 per cent of BMTC’s revenue is spent on its staff.
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Considering the current operation practices, the RTCs will require 50 per cent more staff to meet the future fleet. While RTCs employ about 1.07 lakh staff, the sanctioned strength is about 1,24,155 and 16,969 posts are vacant.
Stating that reducing staff costs is key for the financial sustainability of RTCs, the report recommended that they convert to ‘driver only’ bus operations where the tickets can be sold by franchisees in rural and urban areas and tickets can be issued by staff at bus stops and external kiosks. It also suggested automatic fare collection technologies like mobile apps and smart cards, saying that this can reduce the number of tickets issued from 15-less than 5 per cent.
The report has suggested abolishing vacant posts, training employees at all levels to increase productivity, transferring workshop staff to depots and allowing outsourcing for fitness renewal and heavy body repairs through contract labour.
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- EUR/JPY is seeing a muted response to status quo maintenance by the BOJ.
- The BOJ will continue to buy JGBs to keep raining helicopter money.
- As per the market consensus, the ECB will hike interest rates by 25 bps.
The EUR/JPY pair has remained muted after the conclusion of the two-day monetary policy committee (MPC) meeting of the Bank of Japan (BOJ). The BOJ has maintained its status quo by keeping interest rates unchanged at -10 basis points (bps). BOJ Governor Haruhiko Kuroda kept a dovish stance on monetary policy as the central bank is committed to buying Japan’s Government Bonds (JGB) at an annual pace of around 80 trillion yen.
Considering BOJ’s agenda of keeping the inflation rate above 2%, the central bank has no option but to feature policy easing. To keep price pressures above the desired rate, the wage rates are needed to be accelerated. Therefore, the central bank will keep raining helicopter money into the economy to accelerate the overall demand. It is worth noting that the Japanese economy has not yet reached its pre-pandemic growth levels.
Going forward, investors are expecting a European Central Bank (ECB)-BOJ policy divergence. The ECB is set to announce a rate hike for the first time in 11 years. As per the market consensus, the ECB will increase its interest rates by 25 basis points (bps) to test the waters first. Investors should also open their viewpoint to a 50 bps rate hike as European households are facing the heat of ultra-hot inflation.
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BERLIN (AP) — Natural gas started flowing through a major pipeline from Russia to Europe on Thursday after a 10-day shutdown for maintenance, the operator said. But the gas flow was expected to fall well short of full capacity.
The Nord Stream 1 pipeline to Germany had been closed since July 11 for annual maintenance work. Amid growing tensions over Russia's war in Ukraine, German officials had feared that the pipeline — the country's main source of Russian gas, which has accounted for around a third of Germany's gas supplies — might not reopen at all.
Operator Nord Stream AG said that gas started flowing again Thursday morning but the flow would take a while to ramp up, German news agency dpa reported.
Deliveries were expected to fall well below the pipeline's full capacity. Nord Stream said a similar amount of gas was expected to that seen before maintenance. The head of Germany's network regulator, Klaus Mueller, said on Twitter that Russia’s Gazprom had notified deliveries Thursday of only about 30% of the pipeline's capacity.
In mid-June, Russia's state-owned Gazprom cut the flow to 40% of capacity. It cited alleged technical problems involving equipment that partner Siemens Energy sent to Canada for overhaul and couldn't be returned because of sanctions imposed over Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
The Canadian government earlier this month gave permission for the turbine that powers a compressor station at the Russian end of the pipeline to be delivered to Germany.
The German government has rejected Gazprom's technical explanation for the gas reduction, charging repeatedly that it was a pretext for a political decision to sow uncertainty and further push up energy prices. It has said that the turbine was a replacement that was only supposed to be installed in September, but that it's doing everything to deprive Russia of the pretext to reduce supplies.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that Gazprom still hadn't received the relevant documents for the turbine's return — a claim repeated Wednesday by Gazprom. Putin said that Gazprom was to shut another turbine for repairs in late July, and if the one that was sent to Canada wasn't returned by then the flow of gas would ebb even more.
The head of the European Union’s executive Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said on Wednesday that the turbine was “in transit” and there was “no pretext not to deliver” gas.
The Commission proposed that member countries cut their gas use by 15% over the coming months as the bloc braces for a possible full Russian cutoff of gas supplies.
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The Karnataka government will submit a report to the Supreme Court on July 22 on ward delimitation and Other Backward Classes reservation matrix immediately after receiving it from the commission to decide on OBC reservation for holding the elections for the Panchayat bodies and BBMP, said Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai Wednesday.
Speaking to media persons at the Mysuru airport, Bommai said that the election process would be initiated in accordance with the directions of the Supreme Court.
Replying to a question on extending GST compensation for states, Bommai said it is not possible according to GST laws. “The Act provides for compensation for 5 years. The Union government paid the compensation even during the Covid pandemic when the GST collections were very low. We had requested for extending it by 2 more years. But it is not possible according to the GST Act. The Centre has recently paid the Rs 8800 crore which was due for Karnataka,” said Bommai.
Earlier in the day, Bommai said that the state government is yet to decide whether the Kabini Gardens near the reservoir should be developed by the government on a public-private partnership model. A final decision would be taken soon and work would be launched this year, he added. He made the comments after offering traditional Bagina at Kabini reservoir.
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Replying to a question on the backwardness of H D Kote taluk, Bommai said a special programme has been formulated for its all-round development. Construction of the highest number of classrooms and up-gradation of Primary Health Centres to Community Health Centres has been taken up and grants have been provided for roads and construction of houses in the area, he added.
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- EURUSD price reverses the previous day’s pullback from fortnight high.
- Market sentiment remains sour but US dollar struggles to justify its safe-haven appeal amid Fed’s blackout period.
- ECB is set for a 0.25% rate hike but widely discussed 50 bps move tease policy hawks, pair bulls.
EURUSD price grinds higher around the intraday top near 1.0225 as traders brace for the key monetary policy announcements from the European Central Bank (ECB). It’s worth noting, however, that the US dollar’s struggle to justify its safe-haven appeal, even at the time when recession and covid fears escalate, appears to challenge the pair buyers as they pare the previous day’s losses around the weekly top.
Widespread fears of economic recession in Germany join Italy’s political crisis and downbeat EU Consumer Confidence to weigh on the regional currency Euro. However, record high inflation and hawkish expectations from the ECB appear to have underpinned the latest rebound in the major currency pair.
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EURUSD price fails to justify economic/political crisis at home
Be it Germany’s fears of economic contraction or Italy’s political crisis, the EURUSD price has more fears to consider than to stay hopeful of welcoming the bulls on the ECB. That said, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) cut down Germany’s 2022 GDP forecast to 1.2% and to 0.8% for 2023 versus the previous expectations of 2.0% German GDP for both years. On the other hand, Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi won a confidence motion, but as three major cotillion parties boycotted the vote and hence Mr. Draghi may again resign and trigger early elections in the nation.
US Dollar struggles during Fed’s blackout
The Fed policymaker’s pre-meeting absence appears to have tested the US dollar bulls even if the risk-aversion triggered the greenback’s rebound on Wednesday. That said, the US Dollar Index (DXY) fades the previous day’s rebound from a two-week low as it retreats to 106.80, down 0.23% intraday, at the latest. The greenback’s recent weakness could be linked to the market’s expectations of a more hawkish outcome from the ECB than the widely anticipated 0.25% rate hike.
Nord Stream 1 to keep EURUSD bears hopeful
Mixed clues surrounding Russia’s Nord Stream 1 pipeline, the key gas route supplying energy to Germany and major European nation, appears to keep EURUSD traders worried. The reason could be linked to the pipeline’s latest halt due to maintenance and the uncertainty over its restart due to the sour relations between Europe and Russia. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Wednesday that it was a likely scenario that there could be a full cut-off of Russian gas, as reported by Reuters. On the other hand, Russian President Vladimir Putin mentioned that they are yet to see in which condition the equipment for Nord Stream 1 will be after returning from maintenance, per Reuters.
US/EU data exert downside pressure
Downbeat prints of the US and EU data appear to keep EURUSD bears hopeful ahead of the ECB as the pain seems more on the bloc’s side than the US. That said, Eurozone Consumer Confidence marked the record slump on Wednesday while flashing a -27.00 print for July. On the other hand, US Existing Home Sales dropped for the fifth consecutive month in June to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.12 million versus 5.38M expected and 5.41M prior. This was the fifth straight decline and took sales to the lowest level in two years. It’s worth noting that the record inflation in Eurozone and downbeat employment figure make today’s ECB the key.
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The European Central Bank (ECB) is likely to revisit the rate hike path after suffering multiple years of negative rates. The initial market forecasts hint at the 0.25% increase in the benchmark rates, which in turn could trigger a kneejerk EURUSD bounce. However, the market is already pricing in a 0.50% rate lift and hence any moves below the same may not lure the pair buyers. Even so, qualitative actions surrounding Quantitative Easing (QE) could keep the meeting interesting.
EURUSD price technical outlook
EURUSD bulls again approach the 100-SMA level surrounding 1.0215, after facing multiple rejections in the last two days, as firmer RSI backs the early week breakout of the 50-SMA and descending trend line from June 27.
It’s worth noting, however, that multiple tops surrounding 1.0275-80 could act as an additional short-term hurdle for the pair before it can rally towards the 10-week-old resistance zone near 1.0355-65.
Even if the quote rises past 1.0365, a convergence of the 100-SMA and descending resistance line from June 09, close to 1.0385, appear the last defense of EURUSD bears before giving control to the bulls.
Alternatively, pullback remains elusive until the quote remains beyond the 1.0100 support confluence including the 50-SMA and previous resistance line.
Following that, the 61.8% Fibonacci Expansion (FE) of March-May 2022 moves near 0.9950 and the December 2002 low near 0.9860 will be important to watch.
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Wickremesinghe has been leading the talks with the International Monetary Fund seeking a bailout for the bankrupt island nation.
He said Monday the negotiations were near a conclusion and talks on help from other countries had also progressed. He also said the government has taken steps to resolve shortages of fuel and cooking gas.
On Wednesday, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva told financial magazine Nikkei Asia that the organization hoped to complete the rescue talks “as quickly as possible.”
Protesters shout slogans demanding elected president Ranil Wickremesinghe step down during a protest at the presidential secretariat premise in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, July 20, 2022. Sri Lanka's prime minister was elected president Wednesday by lawmakers who opted for a seasoned, veteran leader to lead the country out of economic collapse, despite widespread public opposition.(AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
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Protesters shout slogans demanding elected president Ranil Wickremesinghe step down during a protest at the presidential secretariat premise in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, July 20, 2022. Sri Lanka's prime minister was elected president Wednesday by lawmakers who opted for a seasoned, veteran leader to lead the country out of economic collapse, despite widespread public opposition.(AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
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A Sri Lankan flag is waved by a protester demanding elected president Ranil Wickremesinghe step down in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, July 20, 2022.Sri Lanka's prime minister was elected president Wednesday by lawmakers who opted for a seasoned, veteran leader to lead the country out of economic collapse, despite widespread public opposition. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
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A Sri Lankan flag is waved by a protester demanding elected president Ranil Wickremesinghe step down in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, July 20, 2022.Sri Lanka's prime minister was elected president Wednesday by lawmakers who opted for a seasoned, veteran leader to lead the country out of economic collapse, despite widespread public opposition. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
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A protester waves a national flag and shouts slogans demanding elected president Ranil Wickremesinghe step down during a protest at the presidential secretariat premise in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, July 20, 2022. Sri Lanka's prime minister was elected president Wednesday by lawmakers who opted for a seasoned, veteran leader to lead the country out of economic collapse, despite widespread public opposition.(AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
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A protester waves a national flag and shouts slogans demanding elected president Ranil Wickremesinghe step down during a protest at the presidential secretariat premise in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, July 20, 2022. Sri Lanka's prime minister was elected president Wednesday by lawmakers who opted for a seasoned, veteran leader to lead the country out of economic collapse, despite widespread public opposition.(AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
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A protester shouts slogans demanding elected president Ranil Wickremesinghe step down during a protest at the presidential secretariat premise in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, July 20, 2022. Sri Lanka's prime minister was elected president Wednesday by lawmakers who opted for a seasoned, veteran leader to lead the country out of economic collapse, despite widespread public opposition.(AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
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A protester shouts slogans demanding elected president Ranil Wickremesinghe step down during a protest at the presidential secretariat premise in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, July 20, 2022. Sri Lanka's prime minister was elected president Wednesday by lawmakers who opted for a seasoned, veteran leader to lead the country out of economic collapse, despite widespread public opposition.(AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
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Protesters rest as they join the demand that elected president Ranil Wickremesinghe step down in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, July 20, 2022. Sri Lanka's prime minister was elected president Wednesday by lawmakers who opted for a seasoned, veteran leader to lead the country out of economic collapse, despite widespread public opposition.(AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
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Protesters rest as they join the demand that elected president Ranil Wickremesinghe step down in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, July 20, 2022. Sri Lanka's prime minister was elected president Wednesday by lawmakers who opted for a seasoned, veteran leader to lead the country out of economic collapse, despite widespread public opposition.(AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
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Protesters shout slogans demanding elected president Ranil Wickremesinghe step down during a protest at the presidential secretariat premise in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, July 20, 2022. Sri Lanka's prime minister was elected president Wednesday by lawmakers who opted for a seasoned, veteran leader to lead the country out of economic collapse, despite widespread public opposition.(AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
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Protesters shout slogans demanding elected president Ranil Wickremesinghe step down during a protest at the presidential secretariat premise in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, July 20, 2022. Sri Lanka's prime minister was elected president Wednesday by lawmakers who opted for a seasoned, veteran leader to lead the country out of economic collapse, despite widespread public opposition.(AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
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This frame grab from video taken from the official YouTube channel of the Parliament of Sri Lanka shows Acting President and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, center, as lawmakers elect a new president in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, July 20, 2022. Wickremesinghe was elected president Wednesday, in a secret parliamentary ballot that risked reigniting turmoil among a public outraged by the South Asian nation's economic collapse. (Parliament of Sri Lanka via AP)
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This frame grab from video taken from the official YouTube channel of the Parliament of Sri Lanka shows Acting President and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, center, as lawmakers elect a new president in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, July 20, 2022. Wickremesinghe was elected president Wednesday, in a secret parliamentary ballot that risked reigniting turmoil among a public outraged by the South Asian nation's economic collapse. (Parliament of Sri Lanka via AP)
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Protesters demanding acting president Ranil Wickremesinghe step down leave the presidential secretariat premises after a peaceful protest as the Parliament votes to elect a new president in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, July 20, 2022. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)
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Protesters demanding acting president Ranil Wickremesinghe step down leave the presidential secretariat premises after a peaceful protest as the Parliament votes to elect a new president in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, July 20, 2022. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)
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President elect Ranil Wickremesinghe greats supporters upon his arrival at a buddhist temple in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, July 20, 2022. Wickremesinghe was elected president Wednesday by lawmakers who opted for a seasoned, veteran leader to lead the country out of economic collapse, despite widespread public opposition. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)
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The final verdict on the Mekedatu dam across the Cauvery is expected to be delivered by next week and work on the project would be taken up after getting the clearance for the Detailed Project Report, which has already been prepared by the state, said Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai Wednesday.
Speaking to media persons after offering the traditional Bagina to the Cauvery at the KRS dam he said that the proposed project would meet the drinking water needs of Bengaluru and Mandya. Action is being taken to get necessary clearances for the project, he added.
Referring to the work being undertaken to modernise the canal networks in the Cauvery basin, Bommai said about 15 lakh acres are under irrigation in the area which can be expanded with the completion of these works.
Bommai said Mysore Sugar Company or Mysugar factory would be retained in the government sector and reopened in the second or third week of August and that action has been taken to reopen the factory after holding discussions with the farmers. The state government would provide necessary funds and working capital to resume its operations, he also said.
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The Karnataka chief minister said that the Visvesvaraya canal is being modernised at a cost of Rs 560 crore. Bommai also said that the branch canals have been repaired to enable a smooth flow of water and the works on sub-distributor laterals of the Visvesvaraya canal are being completed. Modernisation of the Kabini and Harangi branch canals of 300 km length would also be taken up, he added.
Expressing his happiness at the water level in all the four reservoirs of the Cauvery basin this year, Bommai said, “Cauvery is the lifeline of the state. It is our duty to make good use of the beautiful waters of mother Cauvery.”
He recalled the sacrifice and dedication of the maharajas of Mysore and Sir M Visvesvaraya in building the KRS dam.
Referring to work on the replacement of 136 crest gates of the KRS dam, Bommai said the work is on and only 61 gates remain to be replaced. They would be replaced within a year and a KRS festival would be observed in a grand way once the work is completed, he added.
Replying to a question on KRS Brindavan Gardens losing its glory over the years, Bommai said a modernisation plan would be approved with added attractions.
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- GBP/JPY eases inside fortnight-old bullish channel after BOJ.
- BOJ announced no policy change, as expected, but cited inflation fears in quarterly outlook report.
- RSI conditions, 166.20-25 area challenge buyers, 200-HMA tests bears.
GBP/JPY eases from an intraday high surrounding 166.00, to 165.67 by the press time, as the Bank of Japan (BOJ) managed to impress yen buyers without altering the current monetary policy during early Thursday.
That said, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) matched market expectations by announcing no change in the current monetary policy. In doing so, the Japanese central bank kept the benchmark rate unchanged at -0.10% while keeping the target rate for the Japanese Government Bonds (JGBs) at 0.0%. The reason for the GBP/JPY weakness could be linked to the hopes of the BOJ’s next move to be hawkish as the quarterly prints of the BOJ outlook report do cite the inflation fears and weighs on the yen.
Technically, the GBP/JPY pair remains on the buyer’s radar as it stays inside a two-week-long bullish channel formation.
However, the recent pullback in the RSI, as well as the pair’s failures to cross the 166.20-25 hurdle, tease short-term sellers.
That said, the 200-HMA and the stated channel’s support line restrict the immediate downside of the GBP/JPY pair, respectively around 164.30 and 164.20.
In a case where the quote drops below 164.20, it can slump towards the monthly low around 160.40 before challenging the 160.00 threshold.
Alternatively, recovery remains elusive until the quote crosses the 166.20-.25 resistance area.
Following that, the aforementioned channel’s resistance line near 166.80 could test the bulls before highlighting the 170.00 psychological magnet for the bulls.
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HONG KONG (AP) — The oldest-ever male giant panda in captivity has died at age 35 at a Hong Kong theme park after his health deteriorated.
An An lived most of his life at Ocean Park after he and a female panda were gifted to Hong Kong by China in 1999. The female panda, Jia Jia, died in 2016 at age 38, making her the oldest-ever female panda in captivity.
Ocean Park mourned An An as a family member who grew with the park and built bonds with locals and tourists.
“An An has brought us fond memories with numerous heart-warming moments. His cleverness and playfulness will be dearly missed,” Paulo Pong, chairman of Ocean Park Corporation, said in a statement.
An An had high blood pressure, a common condition among geriatric pandas. Over the past three weeks, An An had been kept out of sight from visitors at the park as his health worsened. He stopped eating solid food and was significantly less active in recent days.
Last week, hundreds left comments on an Ocean Park post about An An's condition, wishing him a speedy recovery.
He was euthanized to prevent further suffering Thursday morning after veterinarians from Ocean Park and government authorities consulted the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda, Ocean Park said.
“An An lived a full life that ended at the respectable age of 35 – the equivalent of 105 years in human age,” the statement read.
Hong Kong was given another panda pair — Ying Ying, a female, and a male, Le Le — in 2007 to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the city’s return to China.
China commonly engages in “panda diplomacy” where the mammals exclusively found in China are leased to other countries as a sign of goodwill.
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A 67-year-old critically ill woman was being treated at Chennai’s Apollo Hospital on Wednesday, after 23 tense hours in an air ambulance that flew her from Portland in the United States to the Tamil Nadu capital with stops in Reykjavik and Istanbul.
It is the longest medical transfer that the International Critical-Care Air Transfer Team has undertaken, said ICAAT’s Shalini Nalwad who supervised the complex evacuation that cost about Rs 1 crore.
The woman, whose identity has not been disclosed, was treated in Chennai by Apollo Hospital’s senior interventional cardiologist Dr Sai Satish and a team of doctors on arrival in the city, sources told PTI.
The woman from Bengaluru suffered a cardiac failure whilst she was in the US with her family and was admitted in a tertiary hospital there.
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“Her health subsequently deteriorated further affecting other organ systems. She went into renal failure and was stabilised on dialysis,” Nalwad, who founded ICATT along with Dr Rahul Singh Sardar, told PTI in Bengaluru. Recapping the details of the medical evacuation, Nalwad said there was a lot of discussion and planning between the treating doctors in the US, their counterparts in Chennai and ICATT members.
“This was going to be a complex ICU management, away from any help at 41,000 feet in most of the journey of 23 hours,” she said.
After meticulous planning, July 17 was fixed for flying the woman out of the US and the ICATT sent its flying Intensivist on July 15 to Portland. A thorough bedside assessment was carried out and a transport strategy laid out.
“The biggest challenge in this operation was that the kidneys were completely dialysis-dependent and this therapy cannot be provided in transit. The transit time that they were facing was 23 hours in total, including 19.5 hours on flight alone,” the doctor said.
ICATT had been contacted by Apollo’s Dr Satish for the transfer.
The operation to shift the patient from Portland to Chennai began at 2.30 pm local time there.
Two super-midsized private jets were involved in flying the woman to India. She was first put on Challenger 605 aircraft which was developed as an intensive care unit (ICU) where three doctors and two paramedics accompanied her to ensure she safely arrived in the country.
She had a halt at Iceland’s capital Reykjavik for refuelling and then again took off from there to Istanbul in Turkey to be shifted to another Challenger 605 aircraft. It took off to take a brief halt at Diyarbakir in Turkey and finally reached Chennai, the ICATT founder said.
There was a change in crew at Istanbul on the way and the patient landed at 2 am on July 19 in Chennai. She was handed over at the receiving hospital in the city by ICATT’s medical team where her further management immediately commenced, Nalwad said.
According to her, the ICATT has a track record of transferring highly-critical patients, domestically and internationally, over the past five years.
“The ICATT had also transferred the longest air ambulance transfer with a single set of crew during the lockdown from Johannesburg (South Africa) to Chennai. Now, we broke our own record by successfully transferring a critical patient from USA to India,” Nalwad said.
During the pandemic, ICATT also transferred the first COVID-19 positive patient by air in a specialised isolation pod from Afghanistan to Hyderabad when there was a global aviation lockdown, she said.
As many as 148 ECMO (extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation) initiation and transfers were done over 18 months where more than 500 COVID positive critical patients were airlifted.
Shifting patients back from the US to India shows that the latter is rapidly becoming the preferred destination for medical treatment, especially in the heart, lung, liver and kidney management and Chennai has one of the best hospitals in the country, she explained.
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Citing a spokesman for Nord Stream AG, several Russian media outlets reported on Thursday, gas deliveries have resumed via the pipeline.
The spokesman, however, said that the restoration of gas flows will be gradual.
Meanwhile, the German gas regulator said that the current nominations for gas flows via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline are still at 30% capacity.
The Nord Stream 1 carries more than one-third of Russia's natural gas exports to Europe and it was critical for the pipeline to restart after it went offline for 10 days on July 11 for annual maintenance.
Markets were skeptical about Russia’s intentions, particularly after Russia’s Gazprom last month reduced the gas flow through Nord Stream 1 by 60%.
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EUR/USD jumped nearly 15-pips on the above headlines, now trading at 1.0222, adding 0.45% on the day.
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As the Warriors made their run through the Finals to a fourth championship in eight years, it was hard for some not to think about the advantage they have in having ownership willing to spend consistently in the luxury tax to keep a title window open for that long.
Around the league, teams dodge the repeater tax regularly by dipping in and out, trying to reset the clock and avoid the kind of nine-figure tax bill that Warriors principle owner Joe Lacob had to front this year for a title-winning squad. For Lacob, it’s the cost of competing but that doesn’t mean he’s a fan of the current tax system in the NBA, which he recently called “very unfair” in an appearance with Andre Iguodala and Evan Turner on the Point Forward Podcast.
Unfortunately for Lacob, that became a big enough story for the league to take note and deem his comments to be in violation of NBA rules, which prohibit owners from publicly discussing league communications regarding collective bargaining. As such, the league has slapped Lacob with a $500,000 fine, which is kind of funny given he was complaining about how much he has to pay the NBA in tax and they just added half a million to his bill.
ESPN Sources: The NBA has fined Golden State Warriors owner Joe Lacob $500,000 for his recent comments on the Point Forward Podcast discussing the league’s collective bargaining talks, which included Lacob describing the league’s luxury tax system as “very unfair.”
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) July 21, 2022
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OXFORD — Fire and EMS response will get a boost soon with the addition of a new pumper truck to the city’s emergency services.
The truck has been received by the city and shown off twice but spent some time in the past week being outfitted with communications equipment and is expected to go into service in August after members of the department have been trained in its use.
The Sutphen truck replaces a 2000 model Ferrara, which Fire Chief John Detherage said was due for replacement.
“It was 22 years old and met its life expectancy. There have been problems with it the past few years. It was time to replace it,” Detherage said. “This one does things the previous engine did not do. This has considerably more storage space, with a total of 387 cubic feet. With a pumper and tank, it will do all the jobs a straight pumper will do.”
The cost of the new truck was $652,980, with Miami University paying a third of the costs, or $217,660. City Council recently approved selling the old truck in an online auction through GovDeals but Detherage said it will not be turned over until the new truck is in use and everyone is trained.
Miami has been assisting in purchase of new fire and EMS vehicles since 1995 since many of the calls for aid to Oxford take place on campus.
City Manager Doug Elliott told Council the online sale option is a good one, noting a previous sale of city property through the site brought in nearly the original cost of the item.
With nearly double the storage space on the new truck, Detherage said they will also be able to dispose of a support vehicle used to carry equipment with the added advantage of having it more organized.
“It’s a nice thing having the organization. Most of the stuff in the old truck was just thrown in there. It’s like a guy who works out of a toolbox rather than throwing his tools in a bucket,” the chief said. “We got rid of the bucket.”
That organization was on display when Detherage took the truck Uptown prior to the July 5 City Council meeting to show it off. Walking around the truck, he opened doors and showed off items neatly tucked away for easy access.
“It’s all a puzzle. It was originally in the plan to make things easier to get to. The dealer did a nice job of designing the compartments,” Detherage said, adding a tribute to Sutphen, a Columbus firm dealing in the design of emergency vehicles. “It was important to me to deal with an Ohio company and keep the dollars in the state. We are very lucky to have the Sutphen company in Columbus. If we need a part, I can jump in my truck and go up there and be back in four hours. It’s a quality product from a family-owned company in business since the 1800s, a very stable operation.”
The new truck has a host of features and additions the older one does not have which will make dealing with emergencies quicker and more convenient. To illustrate the point, Detherage pulled out a large file, three inches thick, with all the correspondence and specifications used in placing the order. He called that planning, “a long project, a big project.”
The new pumper has a remote-controlled deck gun to shoot water from the top of the vehicle at locations where flames are higher up. In the past, it needed to be operated by someone on the top deck but this can be operated remotely from the ground, which the chief said is helpful in a “limited personnel environment” leaving one more person available for other duties.
There is also a storage area for an additional 1,000 feet of five-inch hose.
The truck will carry a load of 750 gallons of water, which by itself will not last long as the truck has a capacity of unloading 1,750 gallons a minute. The deck gun mounted on top of the truck can put out 1,250 gallons a minute.
“That’s a lot of water,” the chief said.
The cab is bigger than that of the old truck and it has a storage compartment for tools firefighters might need immediately on arrival at a scene. Those heavy tools had to be stored elsewhere before because they could not be loose in the cab so they do not start flying around in the event of an accident.
This new truck has a winch to help stabilize or move vehicles at crash sites.
The truck also carries Hazmat equipment, water rescue equipment including an inflatable boat and ice rescue suits.
While most large vehicles have backup cameras to help the driver see behind, this one has cameras mounted on four sides to provide a view all the way around it to decrease the chances of a crash with a vehicle that large.
The truck will not only carry the breathing equipment firefighters can use to enter a smoke-filled building, but it also has a breathing air station to refill the tanks on-scene.
There are a host of other things the new truck will carry including a rack of cube-its which are used to stabilize a vehicle, Kodiak Rescue Struts to stabilize and lift things and an air-ride chassis to soften the ride so the truck will not get beaten up so easily while driving over rough ground, or the railroad tracks just outside the fire house. It’s the convenience of arriving at a scene with needed equipment close to hand and organized for quick access that make this new fire truck a great addition to their service to the community.
“We want to get as much stuff to a scene as we can. This engine helps with that,” Detherage said.
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Ahead of the Congress protest against the questioning of party chief Sonia Gandhi by the Enforcement Directorate in the New Delhi district, the Delhi Police restricted the movement of vehicles in the area and barricaded streets to prevent a rally.
The ED will be questioning Sonia Gandhi in connection with an alleged money laundering case related to the National Herald newspaper.
Congress leaders and All India Congress Committee members are staging a protest outside the AICC Headquarters on Akbar Road.
The police have also increased deployment in the area as part of their “special arrangements” for the protest. Local staff along with paramilitary forces have been deployed on all roads in the area. The Delhi Police said that Section 144 has already been imposed in the New Delhi district due to the security arrangements of the Parliament session.
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The protest or rally will affect the traffic and security arrangements, said the police.
Amrutha Guguloth, DCP (New Delhi) said, “Section 144 has been imposed in the area for a long time now.”
The Traffic Police posted tweets asking commuters to avoid using Gol Methi junction, Tughlak Road junction, Claridge’s junction, Sunehri Masjid junction, Maulana Azad road junction and Man Singh Road junction on Thursday from 9 am to 2 pm.
Senior officers said that there will be heavy traffic movement on these roads due to arrangements.
“AICC office and surrounding area—Gol Dak Khana Junction, Patel Chowk, Windsor Place, Teen Murti Chowk, Prithviraj Road, Motilal Nehru Marg, Akbar Road, Janpath, and Man Singh Road—have been heavily barricaded. Movement of buses will be restricted beyond Patel Chowk,” said an officer.
Few Congress leaders alleged that the police were not allowing media persons to enter the party office and cover the protest. AICC members said there was a press conference at their office followed by a protest where media persons weren’t allowed.
Jairam Ramesh, Congress Member of Parliament, said in a tweet, “From the early hours of this morning, the Delhi Police—obviously taking orders from the Union Home Minister—is preventing the media from entering the Congress party headquarters. This high-handedness was only to be expected and reflects the mindset of the Modi Sarkar.”
However, the Delhi Police denied the allegations as DCP Guguloth said the media is allowed at Akbar Road.
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- USD/INR is aiming to recapture its all-time highs at 80.20 despite weaker DXY.
- FII selling spree and widening fiscal deficit are hurting the Indian rupee.
- The US economy may face the headwinds of lower job additions in the labor market.
The USD/INR pair is auctioning comfortably above 80.00 and is aiming to recapture its all-time high at 80.21, which was recorded last week. The asset is aiming higher despite a steep fall in the US dollar index (DXY) this week. The catalyst which is weakening the Indian rupee is the widening fiscal deficit.
The Indian economy is importing cheaper Russian oil in bulk, catering to its higher dependency on oil imports to address its massive demand. Also, the economy has restricted the exports of wheat and sugar, which has led to a widening fiscal deficit.
Apart from that, Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) are in deep selling mode and channelizing their funds from the developing country into the US, considering interest rate elevation by the Federal Reserve (Fed). The Indian economy is operating at an inflation rate of around 7% and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is in no hurry to accelerate its repo rate in its August monetary policy meeting vigorously.
Meanwhile, the US dollar index (DXY) has tumbled below 107.00 after failing it convert the pullback move into a bullish reversal. The asset is declining towards its fresh two-week low at 106.39. The DXY may extend its losses as the labor market in the US may bear the consequences of higher price pressures.
Google has halted its recruitment process for the past two weeks, which indicates lower demand prospects. A slippage in the employment generation process may force the Fed to paddle interest rates at a slower rate.
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Next week, Guns N’ Roses’ 1987 debut Appetite For Destruction turns 35. Incredibly, recognizing this is not purely a nostalgic exercise. Appetite is one of the most popular albums of the 1980s, and it’s also one of the most popular albums of today.
This is partly due to the recent blockbuster Thor: Love And Thunder, whose GNR-heavy soundtrack has once again pushed “Welcome To The Jungle” and “Sweet Child O’ Mine” to the upper reaches of the charts. But those songs, as well as other GNR classics, were wracking up millions (and in some cases billions) of streams well before the MCU. Initially associated with the L.A. glam rock scene of the late ’80s, Guns N’ Roses have transcended this ephemeral pigeonhole to achieve a level of superstardom that is rarely reserved for taboo-smashing, profanity-spitting, and riot-causing rock ‘n’ roll bands. In terms of his stature and enduring prominence in pop culture, GNR singer Axl Rose is closer to Michael Jackson or Prince than he is to Vince Neil or Bret Michaels.
Not bad for a band that has only put out four albums of original material, along with an EP, a covers record, and a double-live LP. How did they make such a big impact? Join me as I explore the career and catalog of this often brilliant and always tumultuous band.
Do you know where you are? You’re reading a list of my 40 favorite GNR songs! You’re gonna diiiiiiiiiiii—ve into some really good tunes!
40. “Madagascar” (2008)
This is a story, before anything else, of redemption. It might in fact be the greatest comeback in rock ‘n’ roll history. A tale of a band that imploded in spectacular fashion, remained a smoking carcass in all but name only for many years, and then re-emerged as a shockingly good live outfit that grossed nearly $600 million on a three-and-a-half-year reunion tour in the late 2010s.
The return of Guns N’ Roses, once an implausible dream for heshers everywhere, is almost taken for granted now. But let’s not take it for granted. Let’s instead go to the absolute lowest point in their trajectory in order to understand just how far they’ve come.
After I saw Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis earlier this month — a surprisingly good film, give Austin Butler an Oscar! — I thought about how what happened to Elvis could have easily happened to Axl. For a while there it seemed like it was happening to Axl. One low point was a Rolling Stone cover story from 2000 titled “Axl Rose: The Lost Years” which portrayed him as a misanthropic recluse with a limited inner circle that included a psychic from Sedona, Arizona known among associates as “Yoda.” Another low point was a New York Times article from 2005 that cast doubt on whether the long-gestating album, Chinese Democracy, would ever be released. At that point the LP had been endlessly delayed and re-recorded and delayed again and remixed and delayed and re-written and so on for more than a decade. It took so damn long that one of Axl’s many recording engineers, Billy Howerdel, formed a new band during some downtime with one-time Guns drummer Josh Freese. The group, A Perfect Circle, then started recording their debut, Mer De Noms, which came out in 2000 and sold 1.7 million copies, all while Axl pored through hundreds of CDs containing thousands of song fragments he would never end up developing.
All of this is bad, but I pinpoint the low point for Axl and the GNR brand as August 29, 2002, the date of the MTV Video Music Awards. If you haven’t seen GNR’s show-ending performance, I can’t in good faith recommend that you watch it now. (I am not one to foist spoiled meat on unwitting diners.)
Let me describe it for you: Jimmy Fallon (who looks like he’s 12) introduces them. He is extremely excited. Probably too excited. This is not the Ritz in 1988. Slash, Duff, Izzy, and Steven are not walking through that door. When we finally see the band, it’s deeply … strange. Imagine you’ve been promised Led Zeppelin and it’s Robert Plant and three guys who look like the cast of The Fifth Element (and also Tommy Stinson). The cognitive dissonance is off the charts. And then you start to notice that even Axl … is not quite Axl. His face is waxy and pulled tight across his feline skull; he looks like a mannequin who had Axl Rose’s face painted over its own face.
When he asks us if we know where we are as the atomic riff for “Welcome To The Jungle” informs us that we’re all about to die, it’s clear from the jump that Axl’s voice is shot. A few minutes later, you hear Axl’s lungs scream for mercy as the man himself tries in vain to scream the lyrics. When he tries to do the Axl dance, that snaky shimmy that he once used to seduce a generation of teenagers in the 1980s, he looks sluggish and winded. Axl’s once lithe bod now appears stocky underneath a baggy jersey and husky leather pants. And are those … cornrows? WTF? It’s enough to send a GNR fan to his kn-kn-kn-kn-kn-knees, knees.
I am not the first person to observe that the 2002 VMAs performances of two Appetite For Destruction classics, “Welcome To The Jungle” and “Paradise City,” are not up to snuff. However, I will be among the first to point out that the song between those classics, “Madagascar,” actually sounds pretty good. Axl’s voice is tough and piercing, Dizzy Reed’s synths are epic, and the Martin Luther King sample has not yet been included. I respect it!
39. “Sorry” (2008)
I’m going to underline a point that was implied in the previous paragraph: I love Chinese Democracy. I love that it’s probably the most expensive album ever made. (Allegedly at least $13 million, though that figure was reported in 2005 and the album came out three years later.) I love that Moby at one point was slated to produce it. (He even praised Axl’s use of loops! Eleven years before the record was released!) I love the story about how GNR’s infinitely (stupidly?) patient record label, Geffen, sent Axl a stack of CDs highlighting other potential producers, and Axl responded by running over those CDs with his car. (I’m hoping it was his silver Ferrari.) I love that Axl tried to keep Buckethead, one of his many guitar players, from leaving the project by building him his own chicken coop in the studio, because Buckethead said he wanted a chicken coop in the studio for some reason. (Buckethead surely wanted to see just how preposterous the making of Chinese Democracy could be, and the answer was: “extremely preposterous.”) I love to imagine the possibility that someone was filming all of this and we’ll eventually get a Get Back-style documentary about the making of Chinese Democracy. (I demand that this theoretical movie have a running time of at least 72 hours.)
I also love Chinese Democracy because I think … it’s actually a very good album. Seriously! There are lot of legitimate bangers on Chinese Democracy, as we’ll discuss as this list unfolds. For now, let’s praise this doom-y slice of Floydian space rock with many mind-splitting guitar solos. Oh, the many mind-splitting guitar solos of Chinese Democracy! (What if I told you that Axl was trying to make a hard-rock Steely Dan record with Chinese Democracy? You would think I’m crazy but I’m just growing old.)
In the lyrics, Axl seems to be railing against Slash for exposing him as a megalomaniacal weirdo in his 2007 memoir, Slash: The Autobiography: “Nobody owes you / Not one god damn thing / You know where to put your / Just shut up and sing.” Though it should be noted that Axl Rose was the first person to expose Axl Rose as a megalomaniacal weirdo
38. “Move To The City” (1988)
The first step in appreciating Chinese Democracy is thinking of it not as a Guns N’ Roses record, but as an Axl Rose solo joint, because that’s precisely what it is. Though Chinese Democracy isn’t wholly unique in GNR’s discography as a reboot. Pretty much every GNR album is a reboot, with former members replaced with new ones as Axl aspires to reach even higher levels of grandiosity. Certainly that was also the case for the Use Your Illusion records, in which the guttersnipes of the late ’80s were refashioned as an almost comically bombastic Jim Steinman fever dream brought to larger-than-life reality.
But back to the guttersnipe era: In this song from GN’R Lies, the band’s debt to mid-’70s Aerosmith is fully accounted for. Slash’s favorite band, Aerosmith set the template for the syringe-drunk blues-metal swagger followed by tunes like “Move To The City” with 1976’s immortal Rocks, the missing link between Exile On Main St. and Appetite For Destruction in the charismatic dirtbag rock canon. Though it’s also worth noting how this song also harks back to the relatively innocent teenage rebellions of Chuck Berry, albeit with a junkie’s switchblade edge: “You stole your mama’s car / And your daddy’s plastic credit card / You’re sixteen and you can’t get a job / You’re not goin’ very far.”
37. “You Ain’t The First” (1991)
“Move To The City” was co-written by GNR’s original and now prodigal rhythm guitarist, Izzy Stradlin, who is also the sole writer of this song. For a certain kind of fan, GNR died the moment Izzy walked out the door during the early stages of the Use Your Illusion tour in 1991. He’s an easy guy to romanticize — on “You Ain’t The First,” he’s the embodiment of Guns’ Beggars Banquet side, which is among the aspects of GNR that have aged the best. It’s also impossible to imagine Appetite For Destruction without his instigating song ideas and the relentless, syncopated strum of his guitar. On the other hand, his solo work is mostly undistinguished — as Axl’s songs grew more and more stupidly complicated, Izzy’s tunes become more and more stupidly simple, like 1999’s “Here Comes The Rain,” in which Izzy repeats those four words and only those four words about 175 times. But what can’t be denied is that Izzy is just straight-up cool. Axl is capable of many things, but he could never rhyme “farewell” with “your jivin’s been hell.”
36. “Breakdown” (1991)
While I love Chinese Democracy, I fucking love the Use Your Illusion albums. But even people who fucking love the Use Your Illusion albums tend to (incorrectly) describe them as bloated. This is probably due to the total minutes spread across both albums — 152 and some change — but the songs themselves are fairly lean and straightforward. (I would also argue that hits-to-duds ratio is very much in GNR’s favor, but I’ll let that case unfold gradually as we move through the list.) While the making of both records dragged on for 20 months, that was mostly because Axl spent months overdubbing synths while the rest of the band (save Izzy) was mainlining vodka and cocaine in days-long binges. When they actually hunkered down to work, they were efficient — amazingly so, in fact. According to both Slash and Duff’s books — Duff published his memoir, It’s So Easy: And Other Lies, in 2012 — they laid down basic tracks for 36 songs in 36 days. This tune was one of the more difficult to nail, given all the tempo changes that gave new drummer Matt Sorum fits. But they still made it through in time to resume their binging after work.
35. “Garden Of Eden” (1991)
Here’s a punk-rock song from Use Your Illusion I that sounds like it was knocked out in five minutes, with Axl screeching a mile-a-minute about race wars, exploitive sex, phony politicians, and the power of rock ‘n’ roll. How does he define rock ‘n’ roll? This lyric fits the bill: “I read it on a wall, it went straight to my head / It said, ‘Dance to the tension of a world on edge.'”
34. “There Was A Time” (2008)
It’s tempting to equate the Use Your Illusion records with the Beatles’ “White Album,” only nothing on either Use Your Illusion volume sounds as deliberately tossed-off as “Why Don’t We Do It In The Road.” (Not even “My World,” which his Axl doin’ it in the road with himself.) Axl Rose is simply incapable of not trying hard. But at least there are tracks like “Garden Of Eden” that are “only” glorious noise and not stabs at creating all-time epics.
With Chinese Democracy, however, the goal was to make every utterance the greatest utterance to ever appear on a stadium rock LP. Here we have what’s ostensibly a deep cut, a relatively minor way station on the way to more momentous songs, and it sounds like “Bitter Sweet Symphony” as produced by Roy Thomas Baker and pumped up with the best guitar solos Geffen’s money could buy, like The Edge channeling Eddie Van Halen while jumping out of a plane with Dimebag Darrell.
33. “Better” (2008)
A criticism of Chinese Democracy is that Axl appeared to be influenced by trends in ’90s alt-rock that would have been relevant had the album come out 10 years earlier, but already sounded dated in 2008. In a sense, this is true, as the album often sounds like an attempt to meld Achtung Baby with The Downward Spiral inside the framework of a preposterously rich and famous hard rock band. But that matters less now that we’re 14 years removed from the release; the anachronisms of Chinese Democracy are now part of what’s interesting about it.
There’s also Axl’s keen pop sense, always his secret weapon, which did not abandon him no matter how complex this album gets. Even at his most insane, Axl can rant melodically and in a very catchy fashion. This song is the most obvious example; it’s a sticky Christina Aguilera bubblegum pop tune as sung by a damaged and paranoid 46-year-old rock genius.
32. “Dust N Bones” (1991)
Another “Izzy being cool as hell” track. Such was his vaunted status in the band right before he left that he was granted the second track on both Use Your Illusion records. And in both songs, he appears to write about the same subject — his fraught friendship with Axl, under the guise of complaining about a bad romantic relationship. In “Dust N Bones,” Izzy casts himself as the troubled siren who beguiles and frustrates her hapless suitor. “She loved him yesterday / Yesterday’s over, I said, ‘Okay, that’s alright’ / Time moves on, that’s the way / We live in hope to see the next day, but that’s alright.” All Axl can do is look on helplessly in the harmony vocal lane.
31. “You’re Crazy” (GN’R Lies version) (1988)
I prefer the slower, more choogly acoustic take to the gob of spit on Appetite. This version also reminds me of the “Axl and Izzy” origin story that Izzy tells in the 2021 ’80s hard rock oral history Nothin’ But A Good Time, from back when they were both juvenile delinquents in Lafayette, Indiana: “The first thing I remember about Axl, this is before I knew him — is the first day of class, eighth or ninth grade, I’m sitting in the class and I hear this noise going on in front, and I see these fucking books flying past, and I hear this yelling, and there’s this scuffle and then I see him, Axl, and this teacher bouncing off a door jamb. And then he was gone, down the hall, with a whole bunch of teachers running after him. That was the first thing. I’ll never forget that.”
Axl was, in other words, fuckin’ crazy, right from the beginning.
30. “Don’t Damn Me” (1991)
If I ever end up in a conversation with a middle-aged man who knows I’m a rock critic, the question I’m often asked is something like: “Will there ever be another rock star like Axl Rose?” And I always say, “Of course not,” because our culture now seems diametrically opposed to emboldening a mentally unstable redneck motherfucker from Middle America who lived to deliberately provoke outrage. Even at the height of his popularity when he had the most to lose, Axl did not give a fuck, and not giving a fuck was the bread and butter of rock and hip-hop stars for about 40 years. Now, of course, it’s not, because in the modern world there’s never a shortage of people to remind you of the virtues of giving a fuck. (Odd Future is the last significant pop “outrage” act, and all of the artists associated with that collective have since backed off from the hot-button stuff.)
All of this is probably a good thing, though if I were to mount a devil’s advocate argument, I would quote liberally from this song, which is Axl’s own devil’s advocate argument: “Be it a song or a casual conversation / To hold my tongue speaks of quiet reservations / Your words once heard they can place you in a faction / My words may disturb but at least there’s a reaction.”
29. “Catcher In The Rye” (2008)
When I first heard this song, I assumed that Axl was going meta by referencing a J.D. Salinger book on an album that capped a 14-year period in which he was often described as an eccentric, Salinger-esque recluse. Which would have been kind of brilliant! But the reality is even weirder: Axl actually blames Salinger for inspiring Mark David Chapman to kill John Lennon. He confirmed it himself in a later interview, calling the book “utter garbage” and adding that “I agree wholeheartedly that it should be discontinued as required reading in schools.” As a mega-famous rock star who has been surrounded by bodyguards for the past 35 years, this is clearly a “write what you know” situation, and given that he set those words to such epic music — not even Brian May, who contributed a guitar solo that was left unused, could keep up with Axl’s epic-osity — makes this the most Chinese Democracy track on Chinese Democracy.
28. “My Michelle” (1987)
The first song on this list from Appetite For Destruction, and it’s apparently based on a true story, according to band associate Michelle Young. (“My dad does distribute porno films and my mom did die,” she told Spin in 1999.) But what I care about most is how prominent the bass is. As Duff McKagan writes in his 2011 book It’s So Easy: And Other Lies, the album’s producer Mike Clink put Duff’s bass in the middle of the music and gave it a lot of space, providing a big, warm and supple bottom end to the record. You hear it during this track’s atmospheric open, and then during the chunky verses and breakneck chorus. This bass supremacy is an underrated factor in Appetite‘s “funk” power, which is among the attributes that have made the album so timeless.
(Interesting tangent: Mike Clink was hired by Metallica to produce …And Justice For All based on his work with Guns N’ Roses. He was subsequently fired and replaced at the last minute by Flemming Rasmussen. Is it possible that Clink got the axe because he turned up the bass too much on an album that is now notorious for having no bottom end? I have no evidence to support this theory but I’ve decided to buy into it anyway.)
27. “Locomotive (Complicity)” (1991)
One of the selling points for Clink heading into Appetite was his engineering work on UFO’s classic 1979 live album Strangers In The Night, and how he spotlighted the two-guitar team of Michael Schenker and Paul Raymond. Clink worked similar magic with Slash and Izzy on Appetite, though when he was retained for the Use Your Illusion albums Izzy often bailed on recording sessions. So while this prog-blues behemoth was worked out by Slash and Izzy when they briefly lived together in a rented house in the Hollywood Hills, Slash played Izzy’s rhythm parts on the record, locking into one of the all-time GNR grooves. Because this is the Use Your Illusion era, there is also the requisite “Layla”-like piano coda, which balloons “Locomotive” to almost nine minutes.
26. “Pretty Tied Up (The Perils Of Rock ‘n’ Roll Decadence)” (1991)
Izzy wrote this song and then bailed on GNR before he could witness firsthand the actual perils of rock ‘n’ roll decadence on the never-ending Use Your Illusion tour. The sheer amount of wasteful spending on this globe-trotting campaign is historic and will (hopefully) never be replicated. “We had limos on-call 24 hours, burgers at the Trump Tower that cost $35,” Matt Sorum said later. “The first night we played Giants Stadium, there was one pinball machine and a few bottle of booze backstage. Axl came in and said, ‘This isn’t the Rolling Stones!’ So the next night there’s a full casino, tons of lobster, and champagne following everywhere.” In his book, Slash claims he never went to these parties. Nor did the rest of the band on most nights. Part of the reason the tour dragged on for so long — 194 shows in 27 countries over the course of 30 months — was that they had to pay for all that lobster and champagne they didn’t eat, night after night, all over the world.
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25. “Bad Obsession” (1991)
In the opening lines of this song, Axl calls his mother the worst possible thing you can call your mother. I can’t endorse this, even if (based on Axl’s accounts) Axl’s mother really was a bad person. I really can’t endorse anything about “Bad Obsession,” as it belongs in a musical category that Guns N’ Roses has come to define — cautionary songs about drugs that make doing drugs sound awesome. When Lou Reed wrote about addiction, he instructed John Cale to play torturous violin squeals that sonically evoked the feeling of skin wilting off the bone. When Axl wrote about addiction, he asked for some cowbell and tons of bluesy harmonica. This song makes being strung out sound like Road House.
24. “Used To Love Her” (1988)
More jokey misogyny from our subjects, though I long ago decided to take Axl at his word that this song is about a dog, because it somehow makes “Used To Love Her” even sicker. This is as Stones-y as GNR ever got, and that includes both the parts I love (more delectable Steven Adler choogle!) and the parts I can’t defend (pretty much everything else). But by the standards of GN’R Lies’ side two — which contains some of their greatest as well as some of their most problematic music — “Used To Love Her” now sounds almost sweet, a childish prank pulled by an urchin living under the street.
23. “Live And Let Die” (1991 MTV Video Music Awards version) (1991)
If I were talking about the “Live And Let Die” that appeared on Use Your Illusion I, I would be overrating this song. It’s possible I’m still overrating it by choosing the version that was broadcast on the 1991 VMAs. (Which was actually performed one week prior at Wembley Stadium in London rather than live, which I did not know until this very moment.) But I can’t separate my feelings about this rendition (which I still think smokes any version of “Live And Let Die” I’ve ever heard, including the ones by Macca) from how exciting it was to see GNR play anything from the Use Your Illusion albums just under two weeks from those records finally being unleashed in the world. I had waited three years for this happen, which at that time was 21.4 percent of my entire life. I was so excited that I never stopped to ask the obvious question: Should a 13-year-old in 1991 be this psyched about a hard-rock cover of a Wings tune? It didn’t matter. When GNR had a job to do, they did it well, and they gave this song hell.
22. “14 Years” (1991)
The “Live And Let Die” live clip introduced a lot of the tropes of Use Your Illusion-era GNR to millions of kids: Axl’s flannel (which was prescient at the dawn of the grunge era), Axl’s kilt, the hugeness of the band’s new touring lineup, the hugeness of Matt Sorum’s head, and (most crucially) the absence of Izzy Stradlin. Wembley was actually Izzy’s final show with GNR before he officially quit in November 1991, but you don’t really see him much in the video. On the Use Your Illusion albums, however, some of Izzy’s most affecting songs seemed to foreshadow his exit, including this one, the second of his “veiled comments about my relationship with Axl” songs, and the most essential text for armchair analyzing the Axl/Izzy dynamic.
By then they had been frenemies since 1977, exactly 14 years before the Use Your Illusion albums. There’s also the line about how “these last four years of madness sure put me straight,” which seems to reference their shared time in the spotlight since Appetite. As for Axl, he appears to concur with the chorus as he sings it with Izzy: “But it’s been 14 years of silence / It’s been 14 years of pain / It’s been 14 years that are gone forever and I’ll never have again.”
21. “Get In The Ring” (1991)
Has any rock band been more important historically to the VMAs than GNR? In the late ’80s and early ’90s, they were a chaos agent at the world’s most chaotic awards show. I’ve already written plenty about the Axl vs. Kurt Cobain feud at the 1992 VMAs, so let’s instead do a quick shoutout to the time when Axl and Izzy joined Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers to perform “Free Fallin'” at the 1989 VMAs, perhaps the last great instance of indisputable white-guy coolness in late 20th century mainstream pop culture.
The aftermath of this performance is even more famous, of course — as Izzy walked off stage, Vince Neil decked him for allegedly getting rough with his wife at an L.A. club, which indirectly led to the creation of this song.
To explain why I put “Get In The Ring” at No. 21 I need to revisit how my feelings about “Get In The Ring” have changed over the past several decades:
1991 (age 14): “I have never heard of the people that Axl says he wants to beat up in this song but I nevertheless agree that they are punks and Axl should definitely kick their bitchy little asses.”
2001 (age 24): “This song is horrible and ridiculous and I hate it.”
2011 (age 34): “This song is horrible and ridiculous and I love it.”
And that’s where I am today. What I appreciate most is that “Get In The Ring” exists as a song and not as a tweet or blog post. Because there’s no way Axl would have spent millions of dollars to call out Mick Wall on wax if he could have just vented on social media. But then we wouldn’t have this invaluable time capsule of rock star petulance preserved on one of the best-selling rock albums ever.
20. “Right Next Door To Hell” (1991)
Most of the songs on the Use Your Illusion albums are either about the cause of Axl’s perpetual indignation (extreme childhood trauma) or the effect of that indignation (his desire to beat people up). This song dwells on the latter, though unlike the fantasies of “Get In The Ring” — he never actually got to fight Spin founder Bob Guccione, Jr. — “Right Next Door To Hell” is about a real-life incident involving Axl, a meddlesome neighbor, and wine bottle, which actually warranted an in-depth report from Kurt Loder and MTV News.
19. “Dead Horse” (1991)
There needs to be a Frost/Nixon-style movie about the journalist/subject dynamic between Axl and Loder during this period. There is only one other pop star of my lifetime whose interviews were nearly as essential as his music — Kanye West in his prime — and many of the interviews with Axl were conducted by Kurt Loder. Axl in his backyard, Axl in the back of a limo, Axl on the phone after getting out of jail for whacking his neighbor with a wine bottle — this was riveting and cinematic television. Though the content of these interviews was usually the same, as summed up by the opening lines of this folkie Use Your Illusion I deep cut: “Sick of this life / Not that you’d care / I’m not the only one / With whom these feelings I share.”
18. “Street Of Dreams” (2008)
Time to pay some respect to the guy who has played the most GNR shows after Axl, GNR’s piano man himself, Dizzy Reed. In his book, Slash makes plain his ambivalence about the introduction of keyboards into the band’s sound; many original hard-core GNR-heads no doubt agree that they should have stayed a guitars-bass-drums outfit. But Axl’s love for Elton John, Queen and Billy Joel made Dizzy’s ascendence inevitable. On Chinese Democracy, Dizzy suddenly (and weirdly) became the sole link to the “old” GNR, with his fluttery piano licks evoking their trad-rock past as Axl worked feverishly to make the best alt-rock album of 1994 at the end of the aughts. “Street Of Dreams” is the best song to come out of GNR 3.0, in part because it sounds the most like the 2.0 GNR that Dizzy helped transform during the Use Your Illusion days.
17. “Think About You” (1987)
I apologize for getting this deep into my list and only talking about the Axl dance in reference to that 2002 VMAs performance. One of the finest stage moves in rock frontman history demands a more respectful tribute. The writer John Jeremiah Johnson once called Axl “the only indispensable white male rock dancer of his generation,” and while that’s qualified praise (I personally put the Axl dance up there with the Moonwalk) it nevertheless places Axl in his proper context as a man of genuine rhythm and grace.
Looking back on the Axl dance all these years later, there’s something very Davy Jones about it. For all of his foul-mouthed bad-assery, there’s also a teen idol side of Axl in his tender leather-coated Appetite guise that’s actually kind of … cute? This comes across in the big GNR ballads of the era, but it’s also present in this track, the most bubblegummy song on Appetite, the one where Axl pledges that “deep inside I love you best.” I love how the acoustic guitar softens Axl voice when he coos these sweet nothings, like a late ’60s Monkees radio hit.
16. “Nightrain” (1987)
GNR is forever associated with Mr. Brownstone, but at least two of the core members, Slash and Duff, were huge boozers. (Axl used to introduce Duff on stage as “The King Of Beers.”) This is the big drinking song on Appetite, in which Axl ingests so much liquid courage that he proudly declares himself “one bad mutha” and a “mean machine” who smokes his cigarette with style. But while the rest of us revert to uncool mortals the next morning, Axl always woke up with the same impeccably awesome rattlesnake suitcase under his arm.
15. “Yesterdays” (1991)
By the time this song was released as a single in November of 1992, grunge had swept in and made Nirvana and Pearl Jam the two biggest young rock bands on MTV. And you can feel GNR acknowledging this in the video for “Yesterdays” — the band’s jeans and T-shirts outfits are restrained, the black-and-white cinematography is classy, and Axl’s ponytail is low-key. It’s as stripped down as the video for “November Rain” is … whatever the opposite of stripped down is. (Curiously absent is Axl’s “Live And Let Die” flannel — this should have been his opportunity to accuse Kurt and Eddie of being bandwagon jumpers.) The idea of “Yesterdays” seems to be that this is a “mature” GNR consciously bidding farewell to their excessive, glammy past, which was only about a year old at the time. In reality, things only got more crazy after this.
14. “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door” (Live at The Ritz version) (1988)
This video became an MTV staple when the music channel was starving for GNR content in the wake of Appetite, so it was already burned into the minds of millions of kids years before the recorded version finally appeared on Use Your Illusion II. And it’s still the version that feels definitive for GNR. It also apparently made an impression on Bob Dylan, according to a story that Axl told on stage in Taiwan back in 2009. “Bob asked me, ‘When you gonna record ‘Heaven’s Door’? And I said, ‘I don’t know, but we really love that song.’ And he said, ‘I don’t give a fuck. I just want the money.’ True story!” Given that Use Your Illusion II sold more copies than any Bob Dylan LP by a factor of five or six, we can assume that Bob cleaned up.
13. “It’s So Easy” (1987)
I’m technically including the original Appetite For Destruction take, but I want to discuss the version from the 1988 concert at The Ritz. In a 2019 Rolling Stone article with the curious headline “How Duff McKagan Got Woke,” the bass player attempts to rationalize “It’s So Easy” as “a piss-take,” a joke about a fantasy rock star scenario written when our “audience was, like, three people.” But, honestly, most of us heard it after GNR became “It’s So Easy,” and part of the attraction (if you were a pathetic little pre-teen glued to MTV) was seeing how far these guys were willing to push the “asshole” envelope and get away with it. This aspect of pop stardom is now completely out of fashion, though I’m not convinced it won’t eventually swing back, because being obnoxious for the sake of being obnoxious is one of the key privileges reserved for the young.
As someone who was a pathetic little pre-teen glued to MTV at the time I feel qualified to make this declaration: This is the coolest GNR has ever looked, and therefore the coolest that pretty much any rock band has ever looked. The song itself is peak “dangerous” GNR, which was equally terrifying and exhilarating to encounter as a kid who was too young to fully comprehend the implications of a tune like “It’s So Easy” at the time. I don’t think you can really separate what’s “right” and “wrong” about this song; its power derives from the band’s unapologetic moral despicableness, which (again) is not a concept that feels comfortable in 2022 but nonetheless if you were young in the late ’80s and encountering GNR simultaneously with N.W.A. and Nine Inch Nails and Fatal Attraction and National Lampoon, the appeal was ingrained into you at an impressionable age.
12. “Double Talkin’ Jive” (1991)
My favorite Izzy track from the Use Your Illusion era, and the best example of his “what if J.J. Cale wrote songs for Hanoi Rocks?” persona at the time. According to Slash’s book, they literally found a head and an arm in a garbage can in the alley behind the recording studio when they were working on “Double Talkin’ Jive.” And it was definitely true that Izzy had no more patience at this juncture. So this song doubles as true crime journalism.
11. “Estranged” (1991)
Plenty of people have talked about about how absurdly excessive the video for this song is. And it is absurdly excessive — name another music video where a rock star jumps off an actual ocean liner and into an actual ocean in order to swim with fake dolphins? It undoubtedly marks the end of the Use Your Illusion era, and probably signals the beginning of the dysfunctional Chinese Democracy period. But what’s even more incredible than the length (nearly 10 minutes) or the budget (reportedly $4 million) of the “Estranged” video is that it dropped in December of 1993 — that’s 26 months after the release of the Use Your Illusion albums, and one month after Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged episode debuted on MTV. Which means GNR’s UYI album cycle encapsulates almost the entirety of Kurt Cobain’s post-Nevermind life and career. And just as the Nirvana MTV Unplugged is now remembered as Cobain’s farewell to his artistic life, “Estranged” represents Axl offing this version of GNR.
(Postscript: Slash complains in his book that he spent a lot of time arranging and writing solos for “Estranged,” but didn’t push for songwriting credit so as not to rankle Axl, the sole credited songwriter. This is B.S. Slash’s guitar melodies are the best part of “Estranged.” Pay him his money, Axl.)
10. “Don’t Cry” (1991)
This one gets overlooked in the great Use Your Illusion trilogy of batshit music videos, but I think it’s secretly the best one. By “best” I don’t necessarily mean “most coherent,” but I’ve realized over the years that “Don’t Cry” is Axl’s version of 2001: A Space Odyssey, only instead of venturing into outer space he takes us on a journey deep into Axl Rose’s psyche. In both films, the protagonist sees different versions of himself in a white room. And at the end of both 2001 and “Don’t Cry,” the hero is sacrificed and re-incarnated as a baby. (It’s unclear whether the Star Child in 2001 grows up to front a wildly successful rock band. But he should be 20 or 21 by now, so we’ll find out soon.)
“Don’t Cry” is to “November Rain” what “Billie Jean” was to “Thriller” — “November Rain” is a grander spectacle, but “Don’t Cry” is more disturbing as an exploration of the psychodrama underpinning the iconography of the artist. No major rock star since John Lennon was more transparent about his experiences with psychiatry — we see Axl literally shaking on his shrink’s couch after a series of images in which he threatens suicide and wrestles violently with his real-life girlfriend, Stephanie Seymour, who later accused Axl of actual domestic abuse. The appearance of Blind Melon’s Shannon Hoon adds another retrospective layer to “Don’t Cry” — he’s the doomed rock star who was made into a star by this video about a doomed rock star.
It’s … a lot to take in. For all of the talk about Kurt Cobain — another guy mired in a troubled romantic relationship in the early ’90s who also had a problematic preoccupation with guns — I don’t think even he purged his trauma on a grand stage to the degree that Axl did. If the videos for Appetite were designed to make GNR look like the baddest rock band on the planet, the videos for Use Your Illusion seemed geared first and foremost toward creating a massive catharsis that might ultimately heal their singer.
9. “Civil War” (1991)
Sometimes I see people clown Axl for slotting a protest song as the opening track for Use Your Illusion II. I guess there’s an idea that a guy who puts “Back Off Bitch” on a record has no right in the same context to philosophize about geopolitical matters like a mulleted Sun Tzu. Then again, there are also people for whom “Civil War” is one of GNR’s only good songs. (Robert Christgau put a scissors emoji next to “Civil War” in his very brief Use Your Illusion II review, a confusing but rare compliment for a band he otherwise despised.) For me, this really is, along with Metallica’s “One,” the best anti-war song of the Reagan-Bush years, and it underscores how GNR’s (and Metallica’s) audience were made up of the very working-class kids who “fight the wars [that] go on with brainwashed pride.” Those people needed to hear a song like this when it debuted at Farm Aid in 1990 before Operation Desert Storm, and even later when it was released several months after the first Iraq war ended.
8. “Paradise City” (1987)
The best pop chorus in the GNR canon: “Take me down to the paradise city / where the grass is green and the girls are pretty.” The fantasy works because it’s so humble. If you’ve ever driven through Indiana, you know that “green grass” truly is an exotic surface in that part of the country. Slash wasn’t a fan of the synth part overdubbed over the opening fanfare, but the most egregious addition to “Paradise City” is the referee whistle that commences the “let’s tear shit up!” finale. Like GNR themselves, that whistle is too obnoxious to function on radio, and yet it somehow works like gangbusters anyway.
7. “You Could Be Mine” (1991)
Along with “November Rain,” this song was considered for Appetite and eventually held over for the Use Your Illusion albums. Unlike “November Rain,” it sounds more like an Appetite song than a Use Your Illusion track. There are no pianos, no synths, and no long codas. And “with your bitch-slap rappin’ and your cocaine tongue” is very Appetite-style imagery. But I’m glad “You Could Be Mine” came out when it did. There will never be a pop culture phenomenon that means more to me than the combination of GNR’s Use Your Illusion albums and Terminator 2: Judgement Day did in the summer of 1991. If you were dumb kid with a bad haircut, this was the apotheosis of culture and maybe even your entire life. I would argue that this music video is a more accurate snapshot of what it was like to be young that year than any documentary about how “Smells Like Teen Spirit” changed the world. Maybe that song has meant more over time. But in that time, “You Could Be Mine” was the world.
6. “Patience” (1988)
The “Wild Horses” of the ’80s. Also my personal favorite GNR video, because it’s about how getting what you want (the attention of beautiful women) is never as satisfying as not losing what you already have (a bitchin’ snake collection). The part where Axl watches himself in the “Welcome To The Jungle” video with a “what the hell happened to my life?” expression on his face is his finest music-video acting. But the main event here is the final 90 or so seconds, which I have declared on many drunken nights the best music of GNR’s career. Axl wants patience from the world, his band, and above all himself. And when you hear him sing on this song he convinces you to give it to him. He must have sung it brilliantly, because few men on this planet have been afforded as much patience as Axl.
5, “Rocket Queen” (1987)
At the risk of sounding like a broken record when it comes to referencing the ’88 Ritz performance, I must point out the No. 1 coolest moment of the concert, which occurs during this song. Axl decides to take off during the second verse, but the band keeps playing. Slash at one point gives a slight shrug of his sweaty, naked shoulders, like he’s thinking about bailing himself. But the guys’ playing is so lethal and in the pocket that it doesn’t matter. Still, the possibility that this amazing show is about to go off the rails looms in the air.
Finally, after a few minutes, Axl re-emerges with a lit cigarette. Axl then takes Slash’s unlit cig from his mouth and lights it with his own. It’s so gentle, and so tough, and the song never stops chugging forward. As a viewer, you feel the intimacy of their bond and, for a second, it’s as if you’ve been let in on a secret and the bond has been shared with you.
That’s a fucking rock ‘n’ roll band, kids.
4. “Sweet Child O’ Mine” (1987)
I feel like I haven’t praised Slash’s guitar playing enough so I’ll just say: This is his most beautiful riff. It sounds like something Bach would’ve written if he was raised on the Sunset Strip in the 1970s. And it’s one of his best solos, though there are more all-time great Slash guitar solos than songs left on this list so I’ll hold off on praising that aspect of the man’s artistry. What sets Slash apart as a hard rock guitarist, I think, is that he never seems preoccupied with the concepts speed or “heaviness,” at least as it pertains to overwhelming sonic properties. His riffs are often slow and melodic, but they feel heavy, for both the listener and Slash himself, which explains why he always holds his axe at an angle. A lot of weight comes out of those strings on a song like this.
3. “Mr. Brownstone” (1987)
I played this song 100,000 times between the ages of 11 and 18 and it’s a miracle I’ve never been tempted to try heroin, because I want to live inside the world of “Mr. Brownstone.” If drugs make your heart move at the pace of Steven Adler’s inexplicably funky backbeat, they can’t be all bad, can they?
2. “November Rain” (1991)
Donald Trump’s favorite music video of all time, which is to say that “November Rain” is the rare cultural artifact that can transcend the divide between angels and devils. I don’t know how many times I’ve seen it, but I know I don’t have to see it ever again because so many images are forever burned into my brain: Duff producing Axl’s wedding ring on his pinkie; Axl and Stephanie Frenching like crazy; Slash playing the song’s first guitar solo (the solo of his life!) as a camera crane or maybe the Apocalypse Now helicopters zoom past his head; Rikki Rachtman; the notorious cake jumper.
But the video is so grand that it somewhat overshadows the song, which really is the high point of Axl’s melodicism and Slash’s slow-burn guitar-solo mastery. The best compliment I can pay “November Rain” is that Axl had the nonsensical ambition to write a “Stairway To Heaven” for a new generation and he actually pulled it off.
1. “Welcome To The Jungle” (1987)
The sound of pure hunger. A distillation of fear and desire. A syringe loaded with adrenaline and dread plunged right into your heart. As a million punk documentaries (and the recent Hulu TV show Pistol) have told us repeatedly for 45 years, there was nothing like hearing the Sex Pistols’ “Anarchy In The U.K.” in 1977. I wasn’t there so I have to take their word for it but … I did hear “Welcome To The Jungle” in 1988, and it was like a Molotov cocktail was thrust down your throat, so I’ll just go ahead and call it my “Anarchy In The U.K.”
The fact that you can’t enter a sports arena on Earth without hearing Axl’s demon squeal has not dulled the power of this song, though I concede that I was terrified by “Welcome To The Jungle” when I was 11 and I never really got over it. I’m scarred by this song; GNR exposed me to things when I was young — an adult world of exploitation and degradation — that I try to shield my own children from. Maybe that’s a mistake. Maybe they’ll eventually end up stepping off of a bus in Los Angeles as innocents, with a piece of straw in their mouths and rouge on their cheeks. Maybe Axl was warning us but the packaging was just too damn seductive.
Your mileage my vary; maybe “Welcome To The Jungle” for you is merely a fun song to hear in a Thor movie. As for me, I relate to the guy in the straitjacket who is being forced to watch footage of wars, police brutality, and sexed-up banality. Social media didn’t exist in the late ’80s but it did in the “Welcome To The Jungle” video. “You can have anything you want but you better not take it from me” summed up America then, and it sums up America today. It’s gonna bring you down, if it hasn’t already, sooner or later. But GNR, I suspect, will keep on wracking up spins as the house band for our nation’s final encore. That’s why they were able to come back. Because they never really left. | https://uproxx.com/indie/guns-n-roses-best-songs-ranked-list/ | 2022-07-21T05:23:52 | en | 0.962633 |
The Haryana Government has decided to conduct a judicial inquiry into the death of DSP Surender Singh Bishnoi, who was mowed down by a dumper truck during a raid to check illegal mining in Nuh, Haryana Home Minister Anil Vij said on Thursday.
Vij tweeted, “Haryana Govt has decided to conduct a judicial enquiry into the death of a DSP by mine mafia in Mewat and all other circumstances of illegal mining in that area.”
Haryana Govt has decided to get conduct a Judicial Enquiry into the Death of a DSP by mine mafia in Mewat and all other circumstances of illegal mining in that area.
— ANIL VIJ MINISTER HARYANA (@anilvijminister) July 21, 2022
On Wednesday, the family of DSP Bishnoi had called for an investigation into the circumstances which led to the police officer’s death. The DSP’s daughter, Priyanka, had told The Indian Express, “It is strange that such a senior officer of DSP rank went for a raid with just three junior officers from his staff. It should be investigated why more police personnel did not accompany him.”
The Haryana police have so far arrested two accused — the driver of the dumper truck Shabbir, alias Mittar, and the cleaner of truck Ikkar, both residents of Pachgaon Tauru. SP Nuh Varun Singla said on Wednesday that a preliminary probe suggested that the arrested persons “had no relation to any organised mafia or a syndicate”.
Relatives of the victim said that the police officer’s body would be buried, as is the custom in the Bishnoi community, on the family’s ancestral farm land near their house in village Sarangpur, Hisar.
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On Thursday morning, heavy rain delayed funeral proceedings and an earthmover was called to clear the land for digging at the burial site. Senior officers of Haryana police are scheduled to attend the funeral.
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Gunna has been denied bail twice after the he surrendered and was booked into the Fulton County Jail due to charges of racketeering along with 27 other members of his label YSL Records. Many have been calling for the rapper to be let out, including, as of today, Kim Kardashian.
The celebrity and Kanye ex expressed support for Gunna by tweeting out the hashtag #FreeGunna, as well as some emojis. It quickly went viral, with over 60,000 likes and 18,000 retweets and counting.
🆓🅿️
— Kim Kardashian (@KimKardashian) July 20, 2022
Upon being denied bail a second time, Gunna was to remain in jail until the early 2023 trial date. The judge argued that the rapper poses a threat and could intimidate potential witnesses. The YSL crew was charged with 56 counts of conspiracy to violate the RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) Act, including violations for drugs, guns, and even murder. According to Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, YSL is considered a “hybrid criminal gang,” with both the label and the wider association around it tied to the Bloods. Some observers have also disputed the use of their lyrics as evidence to tie them to a larger conspiracy.
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A trader from Ludhiana, dealing in plastic bags, allegedly died by suicide at his residence in Dharampura area of Ludhiana Tuesday late.
Police said that the deceased identified as Vicky Gaba, 50, had been depressed over “losses in his business” for the past some months as he was unable to pay instalments of his loans.
The family came to know on Wednesday morning when his wife entered the room and found his body hanging from the ceiling fan. She said that since the government had announced the ban on polythene bags and single-use plastic goods, her husband had been facing losses.
They were unable to repay the bank instalments. She said that her husband went into depression thinking about the fate of their business and took the extreme step.
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Inspector Sukhdev Singh, SHO, division number 3 police station, said that Gaba was a trader of plastic bags. “For the past few months, his financial condition had been deteriorating,” said the SHO. Police filed inquest proceedings under Section 174 of the CrPC.
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While Guapdad 4000 was recently sent a cease and desist by Gap because one of the designs on his merch was similar to the brand’s logo, Ye, also known as Kanye West, is bringing his Yeezy Gap line to real life with a pop-up in New York City’s Time Square. The big event will take place tomorrow, Thursday, July 21, starting at 10 A.M. sharp.
The press release states that the location “has been reengineered and distilled to its most essential form in Yeezy Gap Engineered by Balenciaga’s vision of utilitarian design.” There’s sure to be a long line of people outside it soon. The products can also be found on the brand’s website.
It was recently revealed that the rapper almost teamed up with the iconic hip hop group A Tribe Called Quest. In a clip from Cons’s upcoming interview with the Drink Champs podcast, Cons tells NORE and DJ EFN, “What many people don’t know is Kanye was, at one point, was supposed to join Tribe for the last album.” This was apparently after original member Phife Dawg passed away, and according to additional notes Consequence provided to HipHopDX, “there were several conversations and sessions to insert Kanye into A Tribe Called Quest for the final LP.” | https://uproxx.com/music/kanye-2/ | 2022-07-21T05:24:04 | en | 0.979146 |
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Posted as the gunman with a former Congress MLA, a head constable of Punjab Police was held with 200 gram opium, said Khanna police Wednesday.
The police said that Head Constable Baljeet Singh was arrested from a checkpoint near Ghudani Kalani village near Payal town. He was deputed as a gunman with former Payal MLA Lakhvir Singh Lakha of Congress.
Payal DSP Harsimrat Singh said that following a tip-off, Baljeet was arrested with 200 gm opium. Baljeet confessed that he also consumes opium and had been smuggling it for the past three years.
Former MLA and Congress leader Lakha said that Baljeet did not report for duty Tuesday. “He has been posted with me as a gunman for the past three-four years.
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On Tuesday, he did not report for his duty. We got a call from his wife that he did not reach home too. Later, we got to know that he has been arrested by police with opium. Earlier also, I had complained to senior police officers that he was never serious about his duty. He would randomly go missing from duty,” Lakha said.
An FIR under sections 18/61/85 of the NDPS Act was registered at Payal police station.
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Megan Thee Stallion is having a busy year, playing tons of festivals in July alone while also releasing the singles “Plan B” and “Sweetest Pie” with Dua Lipa, which were nothing short of hits. Now she’s back with more new material. The rapper has announced on social media that she’ll be putting out a song called “Pressurelicious,” featuring the one and only Future, on Friday, July 22.
It’s possible that “Pressurelicious” will be on a track on her long-awaited sophomore album, but that remains unconfirmed. The announcement also came with the eccentric, spicy artwork for the song.
PRESSURELICIOUS FT. @1future 7/22 pic.twitter.com/iXhnNe9gMJ
— TINA SNOW (@theestallion) July 20, 2022
While performing at Switzerland’s Gurtenfestival last week, Megan invited none other than Erykah Badu onto the stage and Badu proceeded to give the audience an unexpected twerking masterclass to the song “Kitty Kat.” “When I tell yallll my girl Erykah Badu shocked thee sh*t outta me,” Meg wrote in the caption of the Instagram video of the Badu twerk. “I did not know she was bout to get up here and cut up like this in Switzerland Real mf TEXAS SH!T REAL MF HOT GIRL SH!T.”
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ICAI CA intermediate results 2022: The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India has announced the results of the Chartered Accountants Intermediate examination today, i.e. July 21. Candidates can check their scores at the official ICAI website — icai.nic.in.
Candidates will have to enter their registration number or PIN number along with their roll number to check their CA Inter results at the official website.
CA Intermediate 2022 result: How to check
Step 1: Visit the official websites- icaiexam.icai.org, caresults.icai.org and icai.nic.in
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Step 3: Enter registration number, roll number
Step 4: Results will appear on the screen
Step 5: Download and take a print out for further references.
This year, Rajan Kabra from Aurangabad has achieved the All India Rank 1 with a score of 666 out of 800. He is followed by Nishtha Bothra from Guwahati and Kunal Kamal Hardwani at the second and third rank respectively. This year, 10717 (13.30 per cent) candidates passed the Group I exams, 7943 cleared the Group 2 (12.45 per cent) and 1337 (5.46 per cent) cleared both groups.
ICAI recently announced the results of CA final exams of May session. A total of 6,657 candidates appeared for group I and 63,253 candidates appeared for Group II out of which 14,643 and 13,877 candidates cleared the exam, respectively. The pass percentage recorded for the May session was only around 21 percent. A total of 29,348 candidates appeared for both groups and 3,695 passed.
Anil Shah from Mumbai took first place in this year’s CA final exam with a score of 82.5 per cent. He was followed in the rankings by Shrushtu Keyurbhai Sanghavi in third place and Akshat Goyal of Jaipur in second place, both with 79.88 per cent. This year, 1,18,771 students took the Final test, which was held in 489 locations across the country.
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JEE Main 2022 Session 2 admit card LIVE Updates: The National Testing Agency (NTA) will today release the admit card for the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main 2022 session 2 exams. Candidates will be able to download their session 2 admit cards from the official JEE Main website – jeemain.nta.nic.in or nta.ac.in.
Meet the JEE Main toppers: Girl topper | Gujarat | West Bengal | Maharashtra | Uttarakhand | Punjab | Rajasthan | Tripura | Bihar | Karnataka
This year, the NTA had reopened the application forms for the Joint Entrance Examination Main (JEE Main) 2022 Session 2 (July 2022). Candidates were given a second opportunity of filling out the application forms for session 2. The application window were open till July 9, and candidates were given time till 11:50 pm of July 9 to submit their application fees online.
In the session 1 results declared a few days back, Guwahati’s Sneha Pareek became the only female candidate to achieve the top rank with a score of 600/600. She now aims to pursue BTech in Computer Science from any branch of IIT. This year, 14 students secured 300/300 or 100 per cent marks in the engineering entrance exam, out of which four students are from Telangana, three from Andhra Pradesh and one student each from Haryana, Punjab, Rajashtan, Assam, Jharkhand, Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh.
This year, the JEE main session 2 examination will be conducted on July 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 30. Session 1 exams were conducted between June 20 and 29, 2022. The result for JEE Main 2022 session 1 is likely to release this week.
JEE Main 2022 Session 2 admit card LIVE Updates: Admit card for session 2 will be available on jeemain.nta.nic.in or nta.ac.in.
The NTA announced on July 19 that the second session of JEE Main 2022 has been deferred. It will now be held from July 25 onwards, a senior official of the National Testing Agency (NTA) confirmed to The Indian Express. “We need some buffer between two exam for adequate preparation. CUET ends on July 20 and it would have been difficult to start another exam the next day. Hence, JEE (Main) will now start from July 24,” the senior official added. READ FULL REPORT HERE
The admit card for JEE Main 2022 Session 2 exams will be released today. While the time is not clear right now, NTA has notified that candidates will be able to download their hall tickets from the official JEE Main website – jeemain.nta.nic.in or nta.ac.in. | https://indianexpress.com/article/education/jee-main-2022-session-2-admit-card-live-updates-how-to-download-city-intimation-slip-exam-dates-dress-code-other-guidelines-jeemain-nta-nic-in-nta-nic-in-8014090/ | 2022-07-21T05:24:12 | en | 0.947305 |
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Dave Chappelle’s habit of making trans jokes have inspired walk-outs at Netflix, who’ve aired many of his specials, and appalled fellow comics. Now they’ve gotten one of his shows cancelled at the last minute ¬— and at a place that is a major part of musical/cinematic history.
As per Deadline, on Wednesdsay, Minneapolis’ First Avenue announced they were pulling out of a sold out show mere hours before it was to start. The reason? Social media backlash over his continued jokes about the transgender community. The show will still go on; it was just moved to the nearby Varsity Theater.
“We believe in diverse voices and the freedom of artistic expression, but in honoring that, we lost sight of the impact this would have,” read a post on First Avenue’s Instagram feed. “We know that there are some who will not agree with this decision; you are welcome to send feedback.”
First Avenue, incidentally, isn’t just any old Minneapolis venue. It’s the joint where Prince repeatedly plays in Purple Rain, his beloved debut film, banging out the title song and many more bangers.
The news comes a week after Chappelle had better news: He’d received an Emmy nomination for The Closer, the Netflix show that inspired a firestorm whose flames he didn’t exactly not fan.
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ICAR 2022: The National Testing Agency (NTA) is inviting applications for the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) entrance examinations 2022. Interested candidates can now apply by visiting the official ICAR website — icar.nta.nic.in.
Candidates will be given time till 5 pm of August 19 to submit their online application form, and till 11:50 pm of the same day to submit their application fees, which can be transferred through Credit/Debit Card, Net Banking or UPI.
ICAR 2022: How to apply
Step 1: Visit the official ICAR website — icar.nta.nic.in.
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Step 3: You will be redirected to a new window. Register or log in by keying in the needed details, and sign in.
Step 4: Fill in the required personal and profession (educational) details in the application form.
Step 5: Pay the application fees and submit the form. Download and save the page for future reference.
The correction application window will open on August 21 and close on August 23, and the candidates should be mindful that no further chance of correction will be provided so the aspirants should not make any mistakes.
The ICAR entrance exam will be held in the computer based test format this year, and will be objective type comprising multiple choice questions only. Candidates will be given 150 minutes for AIEEA (UG) and 120 minutes for AIEEA (PG) and AICE JRF/SRF (Ph.D). The exam will be held in English and Hindi for AIEEA-(UG) and English only for AIEEA (PG) and AICE JRF/SRF (Ph.D).
As per the official announcement, NTA has been entrusted with the responsibility of conducting the ICAR Entrance Examinations [AIEEA (UG), AIEEA (PG) and AICE-JRF/SRF(Ph.D)]-2022 for admission to the Undergraduate, Post Graduate and Doctoral Degree Programmes of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (lCAR) for the academic session 2022-23.
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More than a month since the Cathedral Vidya School, a prestigious residential school in Lonavala, shut down abruptly citing a fund crunch, students, parents, teaching and non-teaching staff have moved on, albeit with difficulty. However, the investigation about the closure is in a limbo and puts a spotlight on the lack of effective mechanisms to monitor such decisions by school administrations.
One of the parents, who wished to stay anonymous, said: “Having a fund-crunch is a genuine issue, but there has to be a process in case of shutting down the school that does not leave all children and staff high and dry. At the last minute, we were all focused on finding suitable alternatives for our children, which did not come without compromises on aspects such as subject combinations, location of schools, day or boarding arrangements among others.”
The news of the closure was communicated to the 150 children in the school two days before they were expected to return to campus for the new academic year. Many students have now taken admissions in different schools, including boarding schools in various locations across the country.
“My children were day scholars as we live nearby. In order to get the same board and subject combinations, both have to be admitted to two separate schools which are farther away. Some students even went as far as Ooty and Mussoorie for boarding options,” said a parent.
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The teaching and non-teaching staff from the school have also had to struggle the past month to find alternatives.
“Most of us have had to compromise on salaries and designations. If we had notice, we could have planned better,” said a staff member, adding that there “were a few new appointments in teaching and non-teaching staff a month before the closure”, which did not leave “any room for them to suspect a serious issue”.
“We all knew there was a fund crunch, but just recently, the school management spent money on renovation and repair works. This made us all believe that with new admissions, school is getting ready,” said the staff member, adding that many of them lived in Lonavala with their families and are looking to relocate.
The education department of Maharashtra started an independent inquiry into the abrupt closure on May 26 after parents wrote to the state’s education minister Varsha Gaikwad. An initial notice was sent to the school to explain their stand, following which authorities visited the school campus. The inquiry has not led to any conclusion.
The parents who had sent a legal notice to the school management in June said they had to stop demanding accountability after signing a no-objection certificate that stated that the fee would be refunded.
“Our hands were tied after we all had been forced to sign a declaration of having no objection, in order to receive a refund of our money,” shared the parent who wished to remain anonymous.
They added that “a legal struggle would have meant loss of energy, time and finances” with no end in sight.
Audumber Ukirde, the Deputy Director of Education in Pune, who was responsible for conducting the independent enquiry, said: “Unless we have a complaint from parents, there is no provision to take any action.”
Ukirde said that he had “issued a notice to the school that an abrupt closure was not allowed” and “that the school should continue for an year”.
“But the notice clearly has not been given any importance by the school management. And with no student on campus anymore, the office of the Deputy Director cannot take proactive action,” Ukirde added.
The school offered the International Burreaculate (IB) and Cambridge curriculums, but both boards have also not taken any action.
In an official response the International Baccalaureate stated, “The IB understands the unprecedented challenges and financial strain the global community is facing. The IB is committed to supporting all IB World Schools around the world to ensure our students’ continuity of learning. The IB has financial support options in place and encourages IB World Schools to contact the IB as early as possible, so that the IB can work with schools and explore options that best suit the schools that meet the criteria for financial support. These options can include adjustment to instalment plans and temporary suspension of the program for a maximum of two years. Therefore, it was most unfortunate that the Cathedral Vidya School, Lonavala decided to close without notice”.
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It’s been 25 years since Mike Tyson bit part of Evander Holyfield’s ear off during a heavyweight championship bout in Las Vegas, forever changing his persona and legacy. It’s been almost 20 since he got his facial tattoo. That ink has since been removed, but it also left his mark on our vision of the iconic boxer as a wild, unpredictable force with a gift for self-sacrifice.
Mike should expand that legacy by taking us all the way back to the beginning over the course of 8 episodes. Written by I, Tonya screenwriter Steven Rogers and led by showrunner Karin Gist (Our Kind of People), the series stars Moonlight‘s Trevante Rhodes as Tyson, mildly lisping his way through what looks like an absolutely dynamite performance. With the I, Tonya pedigree (including director Craig Gillespie on board), there’s a hint that the series will follow the same vibe of comic tragedy and smirking heartache, which might be well-suited to a figure so thoroughly misunderstood. But beyond Tyson himself, the official synopsis of the show promises it “examines class in America, race in America, fame and the power of media, misogyny, the wealth divide, the promise of the American Dream and ultimately our own role in shaping Mike’s story.” It would be impossible not to, right?
In addition to Rhodes, the show features Russell Hornsby as fight promotor and mentor Don King, Laura Harrier as Robin Givens, Harvey Keitel as trainer Cus D’Amato, Li Eubanks as Desiree Washington, as well as a handful of actors passing through pretending to be famous people of the 1990s. Mike hits Hulu August 25th. | https://uproxx.com/tv/mike-hulu-mike-tyson-trailer/ | 2022-07-21T05:24:27 | en | 0.952589 |
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The trailer for Vijay Deverakonda and Ananya Panday’s upcoming sports drama, Liger, has just dropped. Vijay plays an MMA fighter whose stage name is ‘Liger’, because he is a cross between a lion and a tiger. Along the way, we’re told that he also has a speech impediment, and he channels his frustrations in the ring.
The trailer is filled with a lot of yelling, punching, raging and Ananya Panday looking glamorous without really telling us what she’s bringing to the story. Vijay seems to have channeled his Arjun Reddy avatar (yet again) for the film, and so has everyone else clearly, going by the endless shouting — in short, this feels like a bit of an assault on the senses. The trailer also reveals Ramya Krishnan as Liger’s wise-cracking mother, who supports her son from the sidelines, and ends with a quick glimpse at a cackling Mike Tyson, who arrives looking like a rodeo cowboy, and appears to be playing some kind of villain.
Leading up to the trailer release, a song titled “Akdi Pakdi” was released on July 11.
Earlier this month, Vijay Deverakonda had spoken about how drained the film had left him. He’d written in a social media post, “A film that took my everything. As a performance, mentally, physically my most challenging role. I give you everything! Coming soon. #Liger.”
He also shared a poster, which boldly features the tagline ‘Saala crossbreed’. While Vijay shot to fame with his Telugu films Arjun Reddy, Geetha Govindam and Dear Comrade, Ananya Panday made her film debut in 2019 with Student of the Year 2, and has starred in films such as Khali Peeli, Gehraiyaan and Pati, Patni Aur Woh.
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Directed by Puri Jagannadh and co-produced by Karan Johar, Liger has been simultaneously filmed in Hindi and Telugu. It’s being touted both as a pan-India film and as Vijay’s Bollywood debut. The film also stars Ronit Roy and Makarand Deshpande in supporting roles, and is set to release on August 25 this year.
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For the last few years, ABC has been staging live, all-star re-creations of classic sitcom episodes from Norman Lear, the king of socially conscious TV comedies. It’s called Live in Front of a Studio Audience, and they’ve already done All in the Family (twice), as well as The Jeffersons, Good Times, The Facts of Life and Diff’rent Strokes. Now Lear has an idea of which one he’d like to do next, and it’s incredibly timely.
In a wide-ranging interview with Variety ahead of his 100th birthday later this month, Lear was asked about a landmark episode of Maude, his All in the Family spin-off about the upper-middle-class liberal played by Bea Arthur. The show would sometimes criticize its well-meaning but sometimes oblivious hero. Not so in the two-parter “Maude’s Dilemma,” in which she discovers she’s pregnant at 47 and ultimately decides (with help from a friend played by Arthur’s future Golden Girls co-star Rue McClanahan) to terminate it. The episodes aired in November of 1972, two months before Roe v. Wade made abortions legal and safe.
When asked if the episode would work today, now that Roe v. Wade has been eradicated, Lear said it’s “hard to guess,” but said “it could be done.” He then floated an idea: “I think the world is ready for us to do a Live in Front of a Studio Audience with Maude.”
There’s one catch. “There is only one Bea Arthur, there will never be another,” Lear said. “But it’s exciting to imagine what somebody else will make of that character. It’s opening a new door and that’s exciting.”
The Live in Front of a Studio Audience restagings have not only attracted big names. (Woody Harrelson’s Archie Bunker was something else. Ditto Jamie Foxx’s George Jefferson, whose blooper was TV gold.) They’ve also made a point of not altering the original scripts, presenting them as-is, dated pop culture references, mores, and racially charged epithets included. How would an episode from 50 years ago, about a time before abortion was safe and legal, play in 2022? We should probably find out.
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Priyanka Chopra’s fans can thank her friend Tamanna Dutt for treating them to some unseen pictures from the actor’s recent 40th birthday bash. The latest batch of pictures include a cute photo of Priyanka posing with her baby daughter, Malti Marie Chopra Jonas. Priyanka Chopra recently celebrated her 40th birthday alongside family and friends.
Earlier, her husband Nick Jonas had shared some photos from Priyanka’s big day. Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas welcomed their daughter Malti Marie Chopra Jonas earlier this year via surrogacy, and they have been trying their best to hide the baby’s face from the public. Every time they’ve posted Malti’s pictures on social media, her face has been strategically hidden.
In the new photo, too, Priyanka can be seen twinning with her baby but there’s an emoji pasted on Malti’s face, to keep her identity hidden. Sharing the photos from Priyanka’s birthday vacay, Tamanna Dutt wrote, “Happy birthday to our golden girl with a heart of gold. Celebrating your birthday as single girls earlier and now celebrating your day with your beautiful family is so amazing ❤️🧿. Love you lots . 22 years and counting #best friends# sisters# god daughterMM #friends like family Thanks for spoiling us as always @nickjonas.”
Priyanka reacted to the photos and wrote in the comments section, “😍 So glad u came babe.”
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Priyanka’s manager Anjula Acharia had also posted a photo with the birthday girl, and had written, “@priyankachopra happy birthday girl! What an amazing pleasure to spend these days with you celebrating the amazing, incredible woman that you are. You’re a role model and inspiration to so many. I’m proud to call you my sister, friend, business partner. God bless you and the next decade you will no doubt slay!! Thank you @nickjonas jiju for all your love and kindness 🥰.”
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Another video from the actor’s birthday party has been shared on the couple’s fan pages. In the video, Nick Jonas can be seen dancing with his mother-in-law Madhu Chopra. Priyanka is seen in an orange ensemble. The video also featured Nick’s parents — Paul Kevin and Denise Jonas — and a few close friends of the couple, such as Natasha Poonawalla and Cavanaugh James.
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Priyanka Chopra seems to have had a good birthday!
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For months, former Trump staffers have been lining up to rat out their former bosses over their role in the Jan. 6 riot. Not everyone has played ball, but those that haven’t are already facing the consequences. One that did cooperate with the House select committee regretted it, to the point that he livestreamed a bizarre rant littered with sexist insults and — why not! — claims that the lawmakers are “Bolsheviks.”
Garrett Ziegler, a former Trump WH aide, lost his mind after his interview with the @January6thCmte yesterday.
He accused the committee of being “anti-white” and referred to his female colleagues who spoke out against Trump as “thots and hoes.” pic.twitter.com/S7wOdH3tY1
— The Republican Accountability Project (@AccountableGOP) July 20, 2022
As per CNN, Garrett Ziegler, a former aide to Trump trade advisor Peter Navarro, spoke with the Jan. 6 committee on Tuesday. He’d been present for the now-notorious Dec. 18 Oval Office meeting in which the likes of Sidney Powell and Michael Flynn floated extreme ideas on how Trump could retain power. It’s not yet clear what Ziegler told them, but he was apparently unimpressed with his interrogators.
“They’re Bolsheviks,” Ziegler said during the stream, using the term for those who led the Russian Revolution, “so, they probably do hate the American founders and most White people in general. This is a Bolshevistic anti-White campaign. If you can’t see that, your eyes are freaking closed. And so, they see me as a young Christian who they can try to basically scare, right?”
Ziegler also disparaged Cassidy Hutchinson and Alyssa Farah, two former Trump staffers who’ve formally turned on him. (The former offered shocking testimony about Trump’s actions on Jan. 6, while the latter may wind up with a permanent position on The View.) He called them “total hoes and thots,” and singled out Farah as a “hoebag.”
And just in case you were wondering, Ziegler asserted that he’s “the least racist person that many of you have ever met,” which is always an encouraging statement. “I have no bigotry, I just try to see the world for where it is.”
The first round of Jan. 6 hearings comes to an end on Thursday night, with a return to the prime time airwaves. Perhaps Ziegler will make a cameo, or more. Either way, there will probably be a sequel.
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Hollywood star Tom Cruise might be taking a lower upfront fee for the next two Mission: Impossible films, but his smart backend deals ensure that he earns a cut of the profits before the studio breaks even, according to a new report. His latest release Top Gun: Maverick continues to fly high at the box office, having raked in almost $1.2 billion dollars worldwide, and Tom is expected to net around $100 million from the ticket sales, home entertainment rentals and streaming revenue. A new Variety report listing the world’s highest paid actors puts Cruise miles ahead the rest of the pack.
For the longest time, Hollywood’s biggest stars commanded $20 million dollars for their films. But the times have changed since Marvel burst onto the scene. Unfortunately, Marvel stars don’t attract the same popularity when they experiment outside the franchise.
While Tom Cruise leads the list with a $100 million payday for Maverick, Will Smith follows with $35 million for the Apple TV+ film Emancipation. Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt are tied with $30 million each for Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon and a Formula One film, respectively. Both headed for streaming.
Dwayne Johnson, Will Ferrell, Chris Hemsworth, Vin Diesel and Tom Hardy have all charged $20 million for their upcoming releases (Black Adam, Spirited, Extraction 2, Fast X and Venom 3, respectively). Joaquin Phoenix earned himself a major salary hike for Joker 2. The Oscar-winner will make $20 million for the sequel to the 2019 film, for which he was paid $4.5 million. Jason Momoa will earn $15 million for the Aquaman sequel and Ryan Gosling is making $12.5 million for Barbie, the same as his co-star Margot Robbie.
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Towards the bottom of the list, Robert Downey Jr is getting $4 million for Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, less than Stranger Things’ Millie Bobby Brown, who is charging $10 million for the sequel to Enola Holmes. This is likely because Downey has a much smaller supporting role in the ensemble, and is making the same amount as his co-stars Matt Damon and Emily Blunt. It’s not clear how much lead actor Cillian Murphy is making.
In Bollywood, the highest-paid actors can charge upwards of Rs 20 crore per project, and this is outside the pool of A-listers such as the three Khans and even Akshay Kumar. Ranveer Singh, who has established himself as one of the most bankable actors in Bollywood, is said to charge more than Rs 45 crore for a film. Varun Dhawan earns more than Rs 35 crore, while Kartik Aaryan, who is now climbing the ladder of success in Bollywood charges around Rs 21 crore for a film. Meanwhile, the pay disparity between the lead actors and actresses is ever-widening. Deepika Padukone charges around Rs 30 crore for a film, while Kangana Ranaut reportedly makes over R 27 crore. Other leading actors like Katrina Kaif and Kareena Kapoor charge around Rs 20 crore for films.
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