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The first trailer for HBO’s Game of Thrones prequel series House of the Dragon is out, and by the looks of it, it seems like a promising successor of the original record-shattering show.
The longish clip gives us a glimpse of the civil war that is about to break out in Westeros as the question of rightful heir to the iron throne arises. HBO had previously said in a statement that the spin-off is set at least 300 years prior to the events of Game of Thrones.
Since the name of the show itself has dragons, the majestic and ferocious creatures feature in abundance in the new promo besides its main cast. The special effects look on point and so does the costume. But the rest depends heavily on the narrative, of course. Will House of the Dragon create, or perhaps bypass the success of Game of Thrones? To know the answer, we will have to wait at least a month more.
But author George RR Martin has already given his expressed approval to the pilot of the series. Writing in his blog in December last year, the beloved writer had mentioned, “I’ve seen a rough cut of the first episode. And loved it. It’s dark, it’s powerful, it’s visceral … just the way I like my epic fantasy.”
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The main cast features Emma D’Arcy as Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen, Matt Smith as Prince Daemon Targaryen, Rhys Ifans as Otto Hightower, Olivia Cooke as Alicent Hightower, Steve Toussaint as Lord Corlys Velaryon, Paddy Considine as King Viserys I, Eve Best as Princess Rhaenys Velaryon, Fabien Frankel as Ser Criston Cole and Sonoya Mizuno as Mysaria.
House of the Dragon will premiere on August 21 on HBO Max, and on August 22 on Disney Plus Hotstar in India.
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Vacations are always fun, but coming back from one and resuming the daily routine, including one’s fitness regime, feels like a challenge.
But the ideal way to deal with fitness blues is to “jump back in”, believes actor and fitness enthusiast Soha Ali Khan. As such, she recently penned a note on how she believes in starting right away without any further delay.
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“Post a holiday, it’s tough to get back to your fitness routine. But rather than waiting for inspiration that may take it’s own sweet time to come, I find it’s better to jump back in,” she said.
In the video, she can be seen doing bodyweight exercises like lunges, as well as core exercises with weights like weighted sumo squats.
Stressing that it may take a while for the body to regain its strength, she shared, “I may take a couple of days to find my previous strength and rhythm but I won’t get there at all unless I start!”
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The post was soon flooded with appreciative comments from her many followers, including Gul Panag who wrote, “Well done!”, and sister Saba Pataudi who commented, “You are an inspiration”.
Do you also struggle with resuming fitness after a holiday?
Experts share that it is important to begin slowly and work one’s way towards their fitness goals. This helps beat lethargy and get started. This also motivates one to keep going. Tracking one’s progress can also help one to set new deadlines and goals that can act as a motivational factor!
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The Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president, D K Shivakumar, often uses the analogies of chess and football to frame political scenes. In 2017, when he was not the state Congress chief, Shivakumar had said he could not land this job because he had been playing football, an essentially physical sport, rather than playing chess, a mind game.
“I know how to play chess,” Shivakumar had said ahead of the collapse of the then Congress-Janata Dal (Secular) coalition government in Karnataka in 2019.
By putting his chief ministerial aspiration out in public this week, the KPCC chief made a remarkable move on the political chessboard ahead of the state Assembly polls due in May 2023.
“Time has come for the Vokkaliga community (the dominant South Karnataka community to which he belongs) to elect a community leader after a gap of 18 years,” Shivakumar said at a press event in Mysuru last Tuesday. “I have come to a certain stage. The chief minister is elected if the Congress wins a majority. I have told my community that they should rally behind me,” he said. “Am I a sanyasi?” he replied when pressed on his CM ambition.
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While hedging his personal ambition of becoming the CM with the interest of the Congress’s return to power, Shivakumar has attempted to rally the support of Vokkaligas for the grand old party like they did in 1999 when S M Krishna, Shivakumar’s political guru, was the KPCC president. He has thus also sent out a clear signal to his rivals within the Congress that he will be in the CM race if the party wins a majority in the coming polls.
The Vokkaliga community, which accounts for about 15 per cent population of Karnataka, is known to be a key support base of former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda and his son H D Kumaraswamy of the JD(S). There seems to be a growing sense in state political circles that
the community could back the Congress if it sees the possibility of a Vokkaliga leader like Shivakumar becoming the next CM.
Shivakumar’s public declaration came at a time when the supporters of his arch Congress rival and Leader of the Opposition in the state Assembly, Siddaramaiah, are going all out to make preparations to celebrate the latter’s 75th birthday on August 3, showcasing his achievements as the CM during 2013-2018. Positioning himself to emerge as the party’s CM face, Siddaramaiah, who belongs to the backward class Kuruba community, has been reaching out to the Congress’s traditional vote bases comprising the backward classes, Dalits and minorities.
Both Shivakumar and Siddaramaiah have publicly maintained that the decision about the Congress CM to be taken by party leadership and MLAs will only come into play after the party’s victory in the polls. The two Congress satraps are however known to be capable of undercutting each other on the ground level, which is a spectre haunting the party as it gears up for the polls.
In Mysuru Shivakumar referred to the Krishna case to drive the point that “the time has come after 18 years to elect a Vokkaliga leader from the Congress as the CM”.
A day later, he sought to temper his remarks, saying anybody can become CM in the Congress. “Sonia Gandhi has made me KPCC president. After 20 years, a Vokkaliga leader has got the responsibility. What is wrong in asking the community people for support. The community people will also have self respect. Now Dalits are demanding a Dalit CM for Karnataka, what is wrong in that,” he said.
A source from the Shivakumar camp pointed out that he made these statements in the backdrop of Siddaramaiah’s supporters projecting the latter as a CM face. The Shivakumar team decided that the KPCC chief needed to project himself as a CM aspirant in public lest he would face the risk of losing out in the race with other contenders outpacing him.
On his part, Siddaramaiah has made it clear that his 75th birthday bash would be as much about politics as about celebrating his life’s achievements. “There will certainly be a political message (from the event), are we sanyasis? Is Rahul Gandhi or Shivakumar a sanyasi? It will be there. Isn’t listing out our achievements during our five years of tenure politics? Isn’t recalling my political journey a politics? It is there, nothing can be done without politics,” he said recently.
Soon after Shivakumar played the Vokkaliga card, Kumaraswamy, who also belongs to the same community, reacted saying it is “impossible” for the former to become the CM from the Congress. “Is Siddaramaiah celebrating his birthday to make Shivakumar the CM? There were a lot of people in Congress who sacrificed for the party but did not get a chance to become CM because of Siddaramaiah. As he (Siddaramaiah) was previously with our party, I know him very well,” he said.
Chief Minister and senior BJP leader Basavaraj Bommai said Siddaramaiah and Shivakumar are “poles apart”. “Shivakumar has been nursing the dream of becoming the CM. The Congress leaders are not allowing him to function even as KPCC president. We have been watching the happenings in Congress,” he said.
The Karnataka Congress, which has got a slew of prominent leaders from various communities, has been aiming to return to power in the state in the 2023 polls.
Dalit leaders like Mallikarjun Kharge, the Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha, who turned 80 Thursday, would also be in the reckoning for the CM’s post. Kharge has asked his followers not to celebrate his birthday or commemorate his 50 years in politics. There has been a long-standing demand in Karnataka for a Dalit CM, which has however not fructified so far.
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Geoff Wightman was a marathon runner who came sixth in the European championships in 1990. His wife is an Olympic marathon runner who finished 12th at Seoul 1998. His wife’s identical twin, also an Olympian, had won bronze at the 1990 Commonwealth Games.
On Tuesday, Geoff was sitting, mic’d up at the World Athletics championships, as a stadium announcer. His wife Susan nee Tooby was up in the stands, diagonally above the finish line. The 1500m event was on. Their son Jake was running.
Near the final lap, suddenly, Jake started to pull away, past the defending champion, then went around the Olympic gold medalist the Norwegian Jakob Ingebrigtsen, and ever so coolly took the inside line and kept sprinting ahead. The crowd gasps. Ingebrigtsen puts in his final kick but can’t catch Jake. This wasn’t supposed to happen.
Up there at his spot, Geoff is up on his feet, yelling out the commentary. Just before the finish line, someone taps on his shoulder as congratulations. Geoff rumbles on, ““Jake Wightman has just had the run of his life!” Before he adds, “My voice has gone.”
Jake Wightman has become the World 1500m champion. Geoff calling his son becoming a World Champion is priceless. Helene, part of our team, filmed Dad. I sat with Mum Susan..then could not wait to give my mate a hug. Beyond proud. ❤️@JakeSWightman @WightmanGeoff @SusanWightman6 pic.twitter.com/8I8IT6ntwb
— Katharine Merry (@KatharineMerry) July 20, 2022
As Jake celebrates the incredible upset, the camera also cuts to Geoff. “ “I have got to tell you why the camera is on me,” before he finally lets some pride slip in. “That’s my son. I coach him. And he’s the world champion!”
Jake gets up from the ground, looks around, spots his mother, and runs up the stair. As he had neared the finish line, his mother had been flapping her arms and shrieking in joy. Now, she would hug her son. Soon, Geoff could be seen sprinting up the stairs. The family of Olympians, encircled in a huddle of joy.
Back home, their other son Samuel – who is Jake’s twin (another twin in the family!), had woken up at 3.30 am to watch the run on the telly. He didn’t turn professional but was a runner in his teens.
When the family shifted to the picturesque city of Edinburgh, when the twins were 10, after Geoff was appointed the chief executive of Scottish Athletics, things began to turn serious for Jake. “There’s definitely one race where he went the wrong way, and I think that was when I took the opportunity to win,” Sam tells the London Telegraph. There is a sister too Martha, who too runs and was the first in the family-friendly mile-run in the first Westminster Mile run after pandemics, where incidentally the former England captain Andrew Strauss too had run with his sons in the memory of his departed wife.
The parents had met at the tracks in the commonwealth games in 1990 where Angela, the identical twin of their mother Susan, had taken bronze. Susan had a stress fracture before the event, and had accompanied her father to see Angela run. There, they met Geoff, who was running, and his family. Friendship flourished, and in a year, they would marry. She kept running after having kids.
“While I’m out running it’s an ideal time to “switch off” from everyday worries and it gives me the opportunity to think deeply and to think about loved ones that have passed away. I’m not one to shout out about what I believe in as it’s quite personal to me. But I do have a connection with my faith and the environment, I think they go hand in hand. As you get older there’s a tendency to worry about things more and running is good for relaxing,” Susan once told Cranleigh Magazine.
Jake, now the world champion, summed up his philosophy of running in the same magazine. “Because Mum had gone to the Olympics, I had a false sense and thought that as my parents were international athletes that I could choose to do it and succeed. But I’ve found the opposite. These sports are hard. Athletics is not a skill, it’s physical and it’s about how willing you are to be uncomfortable. When you race it’s about who can get the most out of himself and be better than the others. It’s not like a football match where one moment of brilliance wins the game. It’s the years of learning and developing that win races and the months building up to that moment. It’s a purely physical event rather than any skill.”
At Tokyo, he had reached the finals though he couldn’t put together his best performance in the run. Geoff was again the stadium announcer, then, and without much crowd due to the pandemic, the son could hear the father. “The thing to do is block that out with as many positive thoughts as possible. The Tokyo stadium had music playing and Dad was a stadium announcer so I could hear him which was encouraging.”
“If you’ve got self-doubt and don’t have confidence you won’t do anything. You’ve got to stand on the startline and believe that you’re going to win a race because that’s the only way you will.”
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Which he did on the biggest day of his career, watched by his parents, the mother an emotional wreck in the stands, the father yelling out live commentary and telling the world ‘that’s my son!’.
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The Indian smartphone market saw shipments fall by 5 per cent in the second quarter of 2022 compared to the previous quarter, according to Canalys, the Singapore-based research firm. Shipments in the second quarter stood at 36.4 million units, with major brands struggling to shift units as consumer demand dwindled. But on a year-to-year comparison, the market was still positive with shipments increasing 12 per cent on a yearly basis. Xiaomi remained the market leader with 7 million units. However, Xiaomi continues to face another quarter of both annual and sequential decline, according to Canalys.
Samsung was a close second with 6.7 million shipments, while realme came in at number three with 6.1 million units being shipped. Vivo and OPPO completed the top five, shipping 6.0 million and 5.5 million units respectively.
“Vendor activity remained muted in Q2, due to falling demand and government scrutiny of Chinese manufacturers,” said Canalys Analyst Sanyam Chaurasia in a press statement. “Ballooning inflation hit consumers’ disposable income and vendors are struggling to cover their operating costs. Top Chinese brands, such as Xiaomi, vivo and OPPO, struggled with government scrutiny as well as financial problems,” he added.
According to Canalys, in the premium segment, Samsung’s positive reception for its flagship S series boosted its value share, while Apple’s iPhone 13 continues to see demand and growth. Local manufacturing of the iPhone 13 and aggressive pricing also helped boost growth.
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But given the high inventory pileup, customers should expect some more discounts, especially on e-commerce platforms, according to the research firm. “Vendors are looking to leverage strong channel collaboration as smartphone inventory is getting alarmingly high,” said Chaurasia. “Brands are using early deep discount sales, which began in June via the e-commerce channel, to get rid of stock before the holiday season kicks in,” he added.
Canalys predicts there will be more of these monsoon season sales on Flipkart and Amazon, with significant discounts to stimulate demand. “The weakening Indian rupee, rising retail prices and Chinese brands’ compliance risks are hindering growth in the sub-US$200 segment. The domestic economic environment remains cautious in the short term,” the analyst added.
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“There have been many other games that have tried to just sort of copy and paste the Pokémon Go concept on their IP. I don’t think it works that well,” Archit Bhargava, Director, Worldwide Product Marketing – Niantic, Inc, explains why the industry has not been able to produce another hit augmented reality (AR) mobile game that matches the hype, scale and social nature of Pokémon Go.
Bhargava says to make games like Pokémon Go not only requires technical prowess and infrastructure but also a better understanding of cell phone network technology to do the right amount of processing on the app itself on the smartphone for a seamless and smooth experience.“Building these games is definitely not easy,” he tells indianexpress.com over a video call from San Francisco.
“AR is something that shouldn’t feel like it’s slapped onto a game experience. It should feel like it’s genuinely adding to this experience,” Bhargava says. “We are still in the early phases, I think it will take a lot of iteration, a lot of work to get the concept of AR more mainstream.” AR, like the name suggests, mixes digital imagery and information with the real world.
But Bhargava hopes the company’s big gamble to develop the market for Augmented reality (AR) based mobile games will pay off well in the future. Its latest AR game, “Pikmin Bloom” borrows a lot of basic elements from Pokémon Go but offers a totally different experience. The game made its debut in the western markets late last year and is now headed to India, the world’s second-largest smartphone market. It’s available free to download from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.
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The main goal of “Pikmin Bloom” is to get you walking through the use of cute little creatures called Pikmin. In Pikmin Bloom, you plant Pikmin, which grow automatically as you walk, then you pluck them. The more you walk, the more Pikmin friends you can make.
Niantic’s Tokyo Studio has worked directly with Nintendo on “Pikmin Bloom.” Pikmin isn’t as popular as Nintendo’s original IPs but it has a loyal following. “Pikmin Bloom [the game] was a collaborative effort between Niantic and Nintendo,” Bhargava said, adding that Nintendo does not have the experience of making real-world games but Niantic has a decade-long experience in making such products.
When the game launched last year, it lacked a number of features but both Niantic and Nintendo quickly figured out what was missing, Bhargava acknowledged, especially the element of social gameplay. To make the “Pikmin Bloom” more compelling to users, Niantic recently introduced walking challenges and the ability to invite your friends no matter where they are. The idea is to motivate you to step out of home and walk more and have fun playing Pikmin Bloom.
“When we launch our products, we do launch them globally, but there is a lot of foundation building that we need to do over a period of time in order to make the products work really well,” Bhargava explained when asked about why there is a long gap between the launch of games in the US and India.
Although Bhargava called India an important market strategically, he said the playability of its games is higher in markets like the US. “There are a lot more cities and in countries like the US and Japan that are very much walking friendly, we have mapped more locations on our map,” he said. “It’s actually a combination of manual and algorithms.” “We started that process in earnest for India about four years ago, and we are well underway making improvements,” he added.
Bhargava didn’t reveal the share of India in making Pokémon GO the hit it is today but said the number of people playing the AR game continues to grow. Pokémon Go has a massive fan following, with players spending over $5 billion on the AR game in the five years since it launched according to a report from Analytics firm Sensor Tower.
Despite the popularity of mobile games like Battlegrounds Mobile India and Call of Duty: Mobile in India, Bhargava believes there is a space and the market of games where Niantic has thrived over the years. “The games that we build, they get people out, walking, exploring and connecting with others in the real world. And if you go to any of your events, it’s pure magic. It’s like being in a version of Disneyland.” Bhargava was referring to Pokemon Go Fest events that are usually held in major global cities. India recently joined the list.
Bhargava, who grew up in Mumbai and later went on to get an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley, says Niantic has demonstrated to the world how to make real-world games that are interactive and social at the same time. Niantic rose to fame with the popular location-based game “Ingress”, then an internal startup within Google. However, in 2015, Niantic Labs spun out of Google to become an independent company. Niantic counts Nintendo as well as Google as their investors.
With the tech industry counting on metaverse as the next big thing, Niantic announced its Lightship AR Developer Kit earlier this year to offer tools to create augmented reality games. Niantic’s tools make it easier to create augmented reality solutions for smartphones that don’t require additional technology. The company has also revealed that it is working with Hasbro on a Pokémon Go-style Transformers game. It is also developing an AR pet game called Peridot; it’s an original title having a mix of Pokémon and Tamagotchi.
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Microsoft Corp’s messaging application MS Teams was down for thousands of users on Thursday, according to an outage tracking website, and the company said it was investigating the disruption.
The Redmond, Washington-based company pinpointed the disruption “on a recent deployment that contained a broken connection to an internal storage service”, but did not disclose the number of users affected by the outage.
MS Teams forms an integral part of daily operations for businesses as workers use the service to communicate internally, message each other, make calls and organize their workflow.
There were more than 4,800 incidents of people who reported issues with Microsoft Teams on Wednesday, said Downdetector.com, which tracks outages by collating status reports from sources including user-submitted errors on its platform.
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More than 1,457 users are currently affected, Downdetector said. The web monitoring firm also showed there were more than 150 incidents of people reporting issues with Microsoft Office 365.
Microsoft tweeted it has identified downstream impact to multiple Microsoft 365 services with Teams integration, such as Microsoft Word, Office Online and SharePoint Online.
“We’ve taken action to reroute a portion of traffic to provide some relief within the environment,” it said.
Microsoft in its earnings call in January had said that Teams surpassed 270 million monthly active users, as demand for remote business-oriented teleconferencing and messaging tools soared and became a key fixture for organizations during the COVID-19 pandemic as people worked from homes.
Other big technology companies have also been hit by outages in the past year, with a near six-hour disruption at Meta Platforms keeping WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger out of reach for billions of users last October.
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Singapore has granted a 14-day short-term visit pass to former Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa as he entered the country on a “private visit” on July 14, according to immigration authorities in Singapore.
Rajapaksa, 73, on July 13 fled Sri Lanka to the Maldives and then Singapore and resigned after a popular uprising against his government for mismanaging the economy.
In a statement released in response to media queries about Rajapaksa’s visit to Singapore, the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority said that he was granted a short-term visit pass (STVP) on arrival.
Rajapaksa was issued a 14-day visit pass when he arrived here on July 14, according to a report by The Straits Times newspaper.
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A Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman said last week that Rajapaksa has not asked for asylum and neither has he been granted any asylum. The ICA said visitors from Sri Lanka who enter Singapore for social visits will generally be issued with an STVP with a duration of up to 30 days.
Those who need to extend their stay here may apply online for an extension of their STVP. Applications will be assessed on a case-by-case basis, said the ICA.
Meanwhile, Sri Lankans in Singapore remains optimistic about the situation back home.
But they say a real change has to go beyond the changing of guards with more decisive policies and more engaged voters, Channel News Asia reported as it interviewed several Sri Lankans in the country.
Some Sri Lankans in Singapore are skipping meals to save money and sending items such as medicine and other essential goods back to their home country amid the economic crisis there.
Some are shipping bicycles as it is very difficult to travel in the country, one Sri Lankan told the Channel.
“People are using bikes as a mode of transport and we have a shortage of bikes (back home) because we have only two manufacturers (in the country),” said Samira Peiris, an engineer, who had recently moved to Singapore to work.
Peiris says a meal in Singapore is equivalent to three back home and as such he skips meals and cuts down on spending.
“This is not purely out of desperation but I don’t feel it is right for me to enjoy life here when people back home are suffering.” He said many others like him in Singapore are coming up with ways to contribute.
Paul William, an auditor, said that Sri Lankans in Singapore would definitely send money when they can. But they want to send it through a reliable source as that is the main concern.
“If it goes into the wrong hands, then there is no point,” said William.
“Every single time we meet a Sri Lankan, this is the discussion we have.” William, a permanent resident here, is concerned about how his 72-year-old mother is coping. He is sending her money through the United Kingdom where his sister is based.
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My friend mentioned to me that he got dinged by the IRS for underpayment of estimated tax. Apparently the reason that his employer didn't withhold enough tax from his paycheck is that he received income from dividends, which his employer didn't know about. So his taxable income was higher than his wages, but his employer only withheld estimated taxes based on his wages. Apparently he could have avoided this penalty if he'd told his employer about his dividend income by filling out a W-4 form.
I found a TurboTax web site that lists common reasons to fill out a W-4, but it doesn't list dividend income as one of them. This seems weird to me, because lots of people receive dividends, so it seems like my friend's situation would be very common. This got me wondering if my friend was correct.
Is my friend correct that anyone who receives dividend income should report it to their employer through a W-4 form, in order to make sure that the employer withholds enough tax? Do most people do this? Should I do it? | https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/151845/should-everyone-who-receives-dividend-income-fill-out-a-w-4-form-reporting-it-to | 2022-07-21T05:27:33 | en | 0.996614 |
Public polls point to strong support for climate action, as Tory leadership race enters the final straight with Rishi Sunak, Liz Truss, and Penny Mordaunt all hoping to make the cut
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BRECKLER, Russell Alan
Age 66, of Bellbrook, passed away on Sunday, June 5, 2022, at Miami Valley South Hospital. He was born on October 10, 1955, in Dayton, OH, to Robert and Virginia (Holycross) Breckler. He attended Fairmont East High School and completed 3 years at Wright State University. Russ was a Facilities Manager at Wright State University and The Nutter Center. He worked out often, lifting weights, hiking and cycling. He enjoyed traveling, reading, studying and learning new things. Russ is preceded in death by his parents and his brother Bruce. He is survived by his son Rob (Deana) Breckler, his 3 grandchildren BriAnna, Brooklyn and Brenden and his sisters, Connie (Galen) Siler, Joyce Deis and Sherri Breckler, and by his faithful companion, his dog Maverick. There will be a Gathering of Family and Friends on Sunday, July 24, 2022, from 4pm to 6pm with a Memorial Service at 5pm at Tobias Funeral Home, 648 Watervliet Ave., Dayton, Ohio. Condolences can be sent to the family at www.tobiasfuneralhome.com.
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BULP, Delores A.
89 of Springfield, flew away with her Savior Jesus Christ on Monday, July 18, 2022, in the Springfield Masonic Community surrounded by her family. She was born in St. Marys, Ohio, on May 7, 1933, the daughter of Joseph and Goldie Mae (Shimp) Wurster. She was a member of High Street Church of the Nazarene and loved being outside enjoying the sunshine, her Roses and Lily of the Valley. Her words of wisdom, strength and encouragement will be forever missed. She was a strong and compassionate mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and friend. Survivors include her three children and spouses, Kurt (Joyce) Bubp, Roxanne (Nick) Kneisley and Melissa (Jon) Young; 11 grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; and two sisters and spouse, Marjorie Heppard and Marilyn (Larry) Hecht. She was preceded in death by her husband, Albert in 1999; son, Dan in 2017; two sisters, Gwen Walters and Patricia Cook; and two brothers-in-law, Don Heppard and Fred Cook. The family would like to thank the nursing staff of the third floor Rickley Hall at the Masonic Community and Affinity Hospice for the compassion and personal care you gave our mother and to us. No words can express our thanks. Her funeral service will be held at 2:00 p.m. Monday in High Street Church of the Nazarene with Pastor Marty Dennis officiating. Visitation will be held two hours prior to the service in the church, beginning at 12:00 p.m. Arrangements by CONROY FUNERAL HOME. | https://www.journal-news.com/obituaries/bulp-delores/O4QRTJY42ZDKTFK7PGR7IIAM6U/ | 2022-07-21T05:27:46 | en | 0.96607 |
Citation
Cong Z, Chen Z. Nat. Hazards 2022; 112(3): 2217-2236.
Copyright
(Copyright © 2022, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)
DOI
10.1007/s11069-022-05262-6
PMID
unavailable
Abstract
This study focused on Asian-Americans who have rarely been studied in previous disaster research and examined their disaster preparedness when they provided caregiving. Using a sample of 4316 individuals from the 2017 Federal Emergency Management Agency National Household Survey, linear regressions were performed to investigate racial differences in disaster preparedness of individuals with two types of caregiving responsibilities (i.e., 1) caring for children, and (2) caring for older adults or those with disabilities), as well as how access to preparedness-related information moderated such differences. The results showed that on average individuals who had children in their households reported better disaster preparedness, so did those who provided care for older or disabled family members or friends. But further examination with two-way interaction showed that this finding did not apply to Asians, among whom the caregivers of children were particularly disadvantaged with lower levels of preparedness relative to non-caregivers. Actually, Asian caregivers of children were the most disadvantaged group when compared to either caregivers or and non-caregivers of other races, namely White, African-American, and Native American. In addition, the vulnerability of Asian caregivers of children was magnified when there is a lack of information about how to get better prepared for disasters. The findings highlighted the uniqueness of the Asian population in disaster preparedness, their vulnerability to caregiving responsibilities, and the importance of information access. The findings could guide interventions and programs to serve and engage Asian communities in disaster planning and promote their disaster preparedness and resilience.
Language: en
Keywords
Asian; Caregiving; Children; Community-based theory; Disaster preparedness; Older adults | https://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds%5B%5D=citjournalarticle_724186_7 | 2022-07-21T05:27:49 | en | 0.950404 |
CRAYCRAFT, Jeremy Paul
Jeremy Paul Craycraft, 38, of Springfield, passed away unexpectedly July 15, 2022. He was born September 23, 1983, in Springfield, the son of Darrell and Darla (Wilson) Craycraft. Jeremy was a member of the Dream City Church, the G. O. A. and the Local #402. He was employed at Navistar. Jeremy loved motorcycles and cars, but most of all he loved spending time with his loving family and many friends. He will be remembered as one of the most caring, loving and hard-working people you could ever know. He strived every day to make life better for his family and everyone that he came in contact with. Survivors include his loving wife; Kerissa (Morris) Craycraft, five children; Landon Craycraft, Romeo McClain, Adaline Craycraft, Emalyn Porter and Karson Porter, his beloved mother; Darla Craycraft (Chris Severt), his brother; Jacob Craycraft (Cheyenne), his grandmother; Maysel Craycraft, special friends, Bradley Rhodes and Ed LeMaster and many aunts, uncles, cousins and friends He was preceded in death by his father; Darrell Craycraft, grandfathers; Paul Craycraft and William Wilson and grandmother; Gloria Wilson. Visitation will be held from 5:00PM until 8:00PM Friday in the Dream City Church, 705 Linden Avenue, Springfield. Funeral services will be held at 1:00PM Saturday in the church with Pastor Victor Lawwill officiating. Burial will follow in Rose Hill Burial Park. Arrangements are being handled by the JONES-KENNEY-ZECHMAN FUNERAL HOME. Condolences may be shared at
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Citation
Tsranchev I, Timonov P, Alexandrov A. Folia Med. (Plovdiv) 2021; 63(6): 977-980.
Copyright
(Copyright © 2021, Plovdiv University of Medicine)
DOI
10.3897/folmed.63.e59428
PMID
35851244
Abstract
Cases of severe injuries caused by air guns are really uncommon, but they can lead to a fatal outcome. Usually, these injuries occur in children due to their not fully developed skull bones or in adults through less resistant and thin regions of the cranium. Most of them are accidental events, followed by low percentage of suicidal attempts. In this paper, we present the case of a 68-year-old man suffering from severe depression, with self-inflicted air gun injury to the head. The patient was admitted to the hospital in a coma with a Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) score of 8, with severe penetrating head injury manifested with brain contusion and intraventricular bleeding seen at the CT examination. Metal particles from the projectile were seen inside the brain. The entry wound had inverted margins, abraded collar and skin defect. The additional neurological examination of the patient showed symptoms of increased intracranial pressure. The treatment started with the air gun wound care. Craniotomy surgery was also done and bone fragments around the entry wound were successfully extracted with subsequent debridement and duraplasty. The patient was treated with new-generation combined antibiotics for preventing inflammatory complications. On the nineteenth day, the patient was discharged with mild hemiparesis on the left side and with GCS score of 15. Air-gun traumatic cases with head injury or with injury to other parts of the body are often mistaken for firearm accidents, because air guns are seriously underestimated devices. Nevertheless, they could lead to severe health consequences and severe disability. This case highlights the necessity of strict monitoring of air guns by the responsible government institutions which should apply the same regulations in controlling these weapons as they implement in controlling the firearm guns. Presence of severe depression, mental illnesses, and neoplasms are risk factors for committing suicide with this type of weapons and the control over the air weapons in this group of people should be stricter.
Language: en
Keywords
Accidents; Adult; Aged; Child; Humans; Male; suicide; *Firearms; *Brain Injuries, Traumatic/diagnostic imaging/etiology/surgery; *Head Injuries, Penetrating/diagnostic imaging/etiology/surgery; air gun injury; Glasgow Coma Scale; penetrating brain trauma | https://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds%5B%5D=citjournalarticle_724260_7 | 2022-07-21T05:27:55 | en | 0.942356 |
Analysis from think tank Ember reveals skyrocketing prices are driven almost entirely by reliance on fossil fuel gas
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CROSS (Atiyeh),
Eleanor Elizabeth "Ellie"
Entered this eternal life on Tuesday, July 19, 2022. She was love incarnate. Ellie was a giver and healer of many souls. She was passionate about family, "it's what life is all about" as she would say. If you were a child or grandchild of Ellie's, you were loved deeply. She was slow to anger and easy to please. Ellie was exceptional at making you feel special, never missing an opportunity to write you a long letter for your birthday or some other special occasion. She gave to people so effortlessly; it was in her DNA. If you were a friend of Ellie's, you were the recipient of great listening, validation, respect, and kindness. Ellie loved her family, cooking from scratch, and Penn State football. She was passionate about how good food created opportunities for great connections and conversations. Food was love and the table was always set and ready to welcome anyone into our family. Ellie was an athlete throughout her life and her playful and competitive spirit exuded itself whether it was playing cards with the grandkids or playing corn-hole on a Sunday afternoon. Ellie was also a nurturer, and it was her love for children that led her to become a school bus driver, and for many years after that, she worked for skilled nursing facilities in admissions and advocated for those when they were at their most vulnerable. In retirement, she volunteered at Dayton Children's Hospital and comforted babies in the intensive care unit. Ellie's legacy and spirit will live on as we will be better listeners, graceful givers, and make someone feel cherished every chance we get. She will be deeply missed by all those who knew and loved her. Her love for a life filled with rich connections is carried on by her four children, nine grandchildren, one great-granddaughter, and an extended network of friends. Her family would like to thank the beautiful community at the Carlyle House for their love and support, along with the angels on earth at Ohio Hospice who took great care of her during this transition. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Dayton Children's Hospital www.childrensdayton.org/community/giving or to Hospice of Dayton www.hospiceof dayton.org/donations. Visitation: Routsong Funeral Home, 2100 East Stroop Road, Kettering, Ohio 45429 from 6 pm to 8 pm on Friday, July 22, 2022. Funeral Services: St. Paul the Apostle Orthodox Church, 4451 Wagner Road, Dayton, Ohio 45440 at 10 am on Saturday, July 23, 2022. Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be made at | https://www.journal-news.com/obituaries/cross-eleanor/MRJVJRDIQJDL5AAIWMYO5HOMJE/ | 2022-07-21T05:27:58 | en | 0.98605 |
Citation
Lu X, Luo Y, Hu B. HERD 2022; ePub(ePub): ePub.
Copyright
(Copyright © 2022, SAGE Publishing)
DOI
10.1177/19375867221113067
PMID
35850598
Abstract
PURPOSE: The field study was to understand older adults' reactions to and use of different low-light conditions while walking to bathrooms in the dark in their homes. Low-light conditions included participants' usual nightlights and a destination-based LED strip lighting system. BACKGROUND: Older adults encounter fall accidents while going to bathrooms at night due to low illuminance levels. They also fear falling due to previous fall histories or visual impairments. This field study tested and compared a destination-based LED strip lighting system with their usual nightlights on their movement and fear of falls. METHODS: Fifteen older adults from an independent living facility participated in the within-subject design experiment, walking under two scenarios in random order: with usual nightlights turned on or with the destination-based LED strip lighting system turned on. Body-worn sensors were used to collect participants' movement behaviors, and subjective questionnaires were used to understand participants' anxiety under the two low-light conditions. Further, semi-structured interviews were conducted to understand their nightlight usage patterns and their evaluations of the destination-based LED strip lighting system. RESULTS: Participants walked more smoothly under the destination-based LED strip lighting system scenario. However, the anxiety states were not statistically different between the two scenarios. CONCLUSION: Visual cues in the dark can benefit older adults' safe movement. However, the application of the lab-effective LED strip lighting system in home settings should consider older adults' floor plans and their furniture layout, both indoor and outdoor ambient lighting sources, and their lifestyles.
Language: en
Keywords
older adults; floor plan; Life Plan Retirement Community; movement behaviors; nightlight | https://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds%5B%5D=citjournalarticle_724262_7 | 2022-07-21T05:28:02 | en | 0.936142 |
DYE, Michael Jerome
Age 44, of Englewood, Ohio, passed away Sunday, July 10, 2022. Walk-through visitation 10-11 am Friday, July 22, at the House of Wheat Funeral Home, Inc., 2107 N. Gettysburg Ave. Funeral service at 11 am. (Mask Required). Interment Jeffersonview Cemetery.
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House Of Wheat Funeral Home Inc
2107 N Gettysburg Ave
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Citation
Grant LK, St Hilaire MA, Heller JP, Heller RA, Lockley SW, Rahman SA. J. Am. Med. Dir. Assoc. 2022; ePub(ePub): ePub.
Copyright
(Copyright © 2022, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)
DOI
10.1016/j.jamda.2022.06.013
PMID
35850166
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: Falls in care home residents have major health and economic implications. Given the impact of lighting on visual acuity, alertness, and sleep and their potential influence on falls, we aimed to assess the impact of upgraded lighting on the rate of falls in long-term care home residents. DESIGN: An observational study of 2 pairs of care homes (4 sites total). One site from each pair was selected for solid-state lighting upgrade, and the other site served as a control. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: Two pairs of care homes with 758 residents (126,479 resident-days; mean age (±SD) 81.0 ± 11.7 years; 57% female; 31% with dementia). METHODS: One "experimental" site from each pair had solid-state lighting installed throughout the facility that changed in intensity and spectrum to increase short-wavelength (blue light) exposure during the day (6 am-6 pm) and decrease it overnight (6 pm-6 am). The control sites retained standard lighting with no change in intensity or spectrum throughout the day. The number of falls aggregated from medical records were assessed over an approximately 24-month interval. The primary comparison between the sites was the rate of falls per 1000 resident-days. RESULTS: Before the lighting upgrade, the rate of falls was similar between experimental and control sites (6.94 vs 6.62 falls per 1000 resident-days, respectively; rate ratio [RR] 1.05; 95% CI 0.70-1.58; P =.82). Following the upgrade, falls were reduced by 43% at experimental sites compared with control sites (4.82 vs 8.44 falls per 1000 resident-days, respectively; RR 0.57; 95% CI 0.39-0.84; P =.004). CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS: Upgrading ambient lighting to incorporate higher intensity blue-enriched white light during the daytime and lower intensity overnight represents an effective, passive, low-cost, low-burden addition to current preventive strategies to reduce fall risk in long-term care settings.
Language: en
Keywords
Lighting; aging; falls; falls prevention; care homes; melanopic | https://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds%5B%5D=citjournalarticle_724269_7 | 2022-07-21T05:28:08 | en | 0.92632 |
John Robert Early
You are loved, you are missed and you are definitely
remembered by
Jenille and Jeffrey!
Happy Heavenly Birthday
to you from all those you
left behind on earth.
Love,
Your Family
John Robert Early
You are loved, you are missed and you are definitely
remembered by
Jenille and Jeffrey!
Happy Heavenly Birthday
to you from all those you
left behind on earth.
Love,
Your Family | https://www.journal-news.com/obituaries/early-john-robert/3E2TAYTUUFC3PCOJAGOIV226QU/ | 2022-07-21T05:28:13 | en | 0.960815 |
(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.
The Hill has reached out to ESPN for comment. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/college-basketball-star-aliyah-boston-calls-out-espn-for-awards-show-snub/ | 2022-07-21T05:28:18 | en | 0.971061 |
Analysis from WWF and ScottishPower calculates that solar panels, heat pumps, and EV charge points significantly increase property values
Solar panels, air source heat pumps, and electric vehicle (EV) charge points are boosting property values in England and Wales by an average of £10,000, whilst cutting carbon emissions and shielding residents from soaring energy costs, fresh research has shown.
An analysis of more than five million house sales in England and Wales by WWF and ScottishPower found that homeowners with properties that boast a mix of low carbon technologies typically achieve a higher price at sale than comparable homes without clean technologies installed.
The report - titled Better homes, Cooler Planet - notes that an EV charge point can increase a house price by around £5,000, solar panels by anywhere between £1,350 and £5,400, and an air source heat pump by between £5,000 and £8,000.
Rob McGaughey, head of smart heat at ScottishPower, said the findings highlighted that green home technologies were a savvy investment for home owners that could also deliver benefits to the planet.
"At ScottishPower we believe that home installations of heat pumps, solar panels and electric vehicle chargers can help both move the country away from its reliance on fossil fuels and address the climate crisis," he said. "Not only that, but the Better homes, Cooler Planet report findings also demonstrate that installing a combination of these renewable technologies can be a smart investment for homeowners and landlords, increasing home equity value by an average of around £10,000 and significantly reducing energy bills."
The report also sets out the climate benefits of low-carbon home technologies, calculating that a property's lifetime energy-related carbon emissions can be reduced by roughly 95 per cent, or up to 91 tonnes of CO2e, through the installation and use or established clean technologies.
And it also calculates that these technologies can deliver major savings to residents, reducing household electricity and gas bills by up to £1,878 a year.
The report urges the UK and devolved governments to ramp up support and policies that help reduce the upfront and running costs of low-carbon technologies, in order to further accelerate their deployment.
It highlights how enhanced consumer protection and advice services, and more funding for homeowners and tax incentives for private landlords for installations could help drive demand for a range of clean technologies.
And to incentivise the purchase of lower carbon homes, WWF and ScottishPower have also called on the government to consider introducing an energy saving Stamp Duty incentive and urged financial institutions to launch innovative green mortgage products that offer a lower rate of interest for households with reduced energy bills.
Estate agents, property listing websites, and surveys could also have a role to play in driving cleat tech demand, by highlighting the presence and value of green technologies to house buyers, the reports notes.
"Accelerating the rollout of low-carbon technologies and energy efficiency is the best way to ensure the UK's energy security, shield homeowners from the high price of fossil fuels, and protect the planet," said Isabella O'Dowd, head of climate at WWF-UK. "To ensure that a wide range of people benefit, government must improve incentives for installing low-carbon technologies and provide more financial support and advice to homeowners and landlords."
The government removed VAT from domestic clean technologies and launched a new £450m Boiler Upgrade Scheme earlier this year, but it has faced growing calls to deliver further support for measures that can protect households from soaring energy prices, which rose to record levels in the Spring and are set to rise again in the Autumn. There are fears that as many as four in 10 people in the UK could fall into fuel poverty later this year, with average bills tipped to exceed £3,00 0 a year.
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy was considering a request for comment at the time of going to press. | https://www.businessgreen.com/news/4053414/study-low-carbon-technologies-boost-house-prices-roughly-gbp | 2022-07-21T05:28:18 | en | 0.955921 |
FINLEY, Jr., Robert Kent
Robert Kent Finley Jr. died at his home on July 15, 2022, just shy of his 98th birthday. Always an innovative influencer, he and two friends, John Herbert and Dick Christian, began working various jobs during high school for 25-35 cents/hr. to save money for the purchase of a car, which they took on a trip out West. They wrote accounts of their adventure for the local newspaper. Robert was part of the Navy's V-12 program during WWII, which provided accelerated medical education. He briefly attended Haverford and Swarthmore colleges and The Ohio State University and finished medical school at Jefferson Medical College. He married Georganne Ozias in 1949 and began surgical residency after a stint with the Navy in 1949-50 in Trinidad. While a surgical resident, he participated in the first successful open-heart surgery using the heart and lung machine with Dr. John Gibbon in 1953. He began practicing surgery with his father, Robert Kent Finley Sr. around 1956 in Dayton and continued practicing surgery for more than 30 years. Robert was instrumental in founding the burn unit at Miami Valley Hospital. He was a teacher and mentor for countless medical students and surgical residents. Upon retirement he volunteered his services overseas in various settings including Jamaica, American Samoa, Kenya, and Rwanda. He is most remembered for more than 10 years of volunteer service at Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital in Hangzhou, China, where he helped build a surgical residency program modeled after that at Wright State University. Mentoring young leaders, especially in surgery, was his passion, employing the motto, "give hearty praise and lavish approbation." This is found on his bedroom door printed in capitals with a very large font. He was an inspiration and a highly accomplished influencer of people for good. "Help people," he often said, though he claimed not to give advice.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Georganne. Surviving are 5 children, Robert Kent Finley III, Charles Devon Finley, David Ganiard Finley, Anna Finley Schroeder, and Richelle Cramer Piper, as well as 11 grandchildren and 9 great-grandchildren.
In lieu of flowers, a program fund in Dr. Finley's memory is now available at Wright State University for the Boonshoft School of Medicine's Department of Surgery. Its intention is to foster mentorship among surgeons. Memorial gifts can be made online at wright.edu/give/finleymemorial or by mail to Wright State University Foundation, 3640 Colonel Glenn Highway, Dayton, OH 45435. If you have questions, please contact Nicki Crellin with Wright State at 937-245-7634.
Photos, videos and tributes may be placed and viewed at https://robert-kent-finleyjrmd.forevermissed.com. | https://www.journal-news.com/obituaries/finley-robert/6OGCP5FMFZCQPBSNCE3XKFJ3RI/ | 2022-07-21T05:28:19 | en | 0.974745 |
(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://www.wowktv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/house-committee-advances-bill-to-ban-assault-weapons/ | 2022-07-21T05:28:24 | en | 0.964706 |
GARBER, Vera Mae
Age 85, of Brookville, passed away Saturday, July 16, 2022. There will be private family services. Jackson Sarver Funeral Home, Pleasant Hill, OH.
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GIBSON, Saunders T.
November 16, 1970 - May 25, 2022
Saunders passed away surrounded by loved ones at Hospice of Dayton. Corporal Gibson served in the United States Marine Corps with Surveillance and Target Acquisition (STA) Platoon, Headquarters and Service Company, 3rd Battalion, 7th, Marines during Operation Desert Shield/Storm. Newcomer Funeral Home - Kettering Chapel is assisting the family.
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GILBERT, Vicki L.
Age 65, of Dayton, passed away July 19, 2022. Memorial services will be held Saturday, July 30th, 5pm at Newcomer Funeral Home in Kettering, OH.
GILBERT, Vicki L.
Age 65, of Dayton, passed away July 19, 2022. Memorial services will be held Saturday, July 30th, 5pm at Newcomer Funeral Home in Kettering, OH. | https://www.journal-news.com/obituaries/gilbert-vicki/NT2DNPFYKBAVTAAYABTULK3OSU/ | 2022-07-21T05:28:38 | en | 0.942625 |
Government approves plans for controversial project on energy security and climate grounds
Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has granted development consent for the Sizewell C nuclear power station on the coast of Suffolk, overruling the recommendations of the Planning Inspectorate on the grounds the power plant is set to play a critical part in decarbonising the UK's economy.
The two-reactor plant, mainly funded by the French company EDF, is expected to cost in the region of £20bn to build and supply roughly seven per cent of the UK's electricity needs once operational.
A decision on planning approval for the project, which secured £100m of government funding earlier this year, was previously scheduled for 25 May but had been delayed twice to give the Secretary of State more time to review information on the project.
Over the decade since it was first proposed, Sizewell C has faced fierce opposition from campaigners who maintain it represents an ineffective use of public funds and would harm the local environment, including a nearby nature reserve.
Earlier this year, the Planning Inspectorate also raised the alarm about the project's environmental impacts, with the body warning Kwarteng in a report that "unless the outstanding water supply strategy can be resolved", the case for granting consent was "not made out".
But in a decision letter published on the Planning Inspectorate website this afternoon, Kwarteng said the "very substantial and urgent need" for the plant outweighed the harms that would result.
"The Secretary of State agrees that the Proposed Development will make a very substantial contribution towards meeting the national [energy] need … and the substantial contribution it would make in terms of the delivery of low carbon energy, ultimately assisting with the decarbonisation of the economy in line with the UK's legal obligations in the Paris Agreement 7 under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Climate Change Act 2008," the letter states.
The RSBP said it was reviewing the reasons for the decision and considering its options for appealing against the approval, with chief executive Beccy Speight dubbing the decision to move ahead with the scheme "ludicrous".
"We are dismayed that the decision by this interim government goes against the advice of the Examiners and their own experts in this matter," she said. "The construction of the proposed development will be damaging and it has been granted with insufficient consideration for the effects on nature as described by the governments own experts. This is a ludicrous decision for an interim government to make."
Campaigners now have six weeks to decide whether to appeal against the Secretary of State's decision.
Chinese nuclear company CGN was involved in the project in its first phase, but it is understood the UK government is aiming to edge the state-backed firm out of the deal through a plan - announced earlier this year - to purchase an 20 per cent option in Sizewell C's holding company, amid concerns about Chinese government involvement in strategic UK assets.
The UK government has made a commitment to reaching a final investment decision on at least one large-scale nuclear power station this Parliament, as part of plans to rapidly expand the UK's fleet of nuclear generators so as to bolster energy security and decarbonise the electricity grid.
To deliver on a target to make final investment decisions on eight nuclear assets by the end of this decade, the government is in the process of finalising a new funding model for nuclear generators that aims to bring down the costs of new projects, which have historically been exorbitantly high.
The Sizewell C project is anticipated to be the first nuclear project to use the planned Regulated Asset Base (RAB) model, which is also designed to attract private investment into strategic public projects.
The news comes in the same week the French government announced it planned to fully nationalise EDF, amid fears about the electricity giant's growing debt position.
The French state already controls an 84 per cent stake in EDF, the firm behind the much-delayed Hinkley Point C nuclear plant that has been under construction in Somerset for half a decade. | https://www.businessgreen.com/news/4053451/business-secretary-green-light-sizewell-nuclear-project | 2022-07-21T05:28:38 | en | 0.964548 |
HARDIN, Janet S.
Janet S. Hardin, age 81, formerly of West Alexandria, passed away July 17, 2022. She was born May 23, 1941, in Dayton, Ohio, to the late James and Ethel (Lewis) Maddox. Janet was preceded in death by her husband Russell Hardin, her daughter Karen Lynn Neeley, her son-in-law Kent Christopher, her step-daughter Judy Thomas, and niece Gail Arnold. She is survived by her devoted daughter Deborah Christopher and partner Nathan Conner; step-daughter Elizabeth (Wade) Napier, step-sons Jeff (Amanda) Hardin, Jerry (Theresa) Hardin, and Michael (Sherry) Hardin. Janet is also survived by her grandchildren Chad (Jennifer) Damico, Amanda (Frank) Telesco, Ashley Rae (Zachary) George, Austin Christopher; great-grandchildren Brayden and Elana Damico, Abigayle Telesco; her sister Donna (Carl) Hillgruber; niece Lynn Bogan, and her best friend Julia Deaton along with many other loving friends and relatives. Janet was an avid quilter, gardener and ladies sewing group participant. She enjoyed cooking for her family and friends who enjoyed her cooking in equal measure. Graveside service will be held on Monday, July 25, 2022, at 10:30 am at Calvary Cemetery, 1625 Calvary Ave., Dayton, OH 45409. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Hospice of Dayton in Janet's memory. Please visit www.NewcomerDayton.com to leave a special message for her family.
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HARRIS, Jr., Willie James "Bluebird"
Age 68, born August 20, 1953, in Montgomery, AL, passed away July 14, 2022. Willie was a member of Mt. Enon Baptist Church. He was a graduate of Lima Central Catholic H.S. and of Central State University. Preceded in death by his wife, Theresa Harris; parents, Willie Sr. and Fannie Mae Harris; 5 brothers and 1 sister. He leaves to cherish his memory, children, Micah Harris, Kenya (Ramell) Brown, Renaldo (Tina) Harris, Amber Harris and stepdaughter, Tiana Burks; siblings, Martha Burton, Wesley, Steve and Betty Harris, Kathy (Danny) Smith, Gloria (Fernando) Meeks, Verlene Mills, Lena Harris, Diann Perry, Cherry Gaston, Carol Pleasant, Philip and Rickie Harris; 4 grandchildren; other family and friends. Funeral service 1 pm Friday, July 22, at Omega Baptist Chapel (Omega CDC), 1800 Harvard Blvd. Visitation 12-1 pm. Interment Woodland Cemetery. Arrangements entrusted to House of Wheat Funeral Home, Inc.
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House Of Wheat Funeral Home Inc
2107 N Gettysburg Ave
Dayton, OH
45406
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HOWARD, James
Passed away July 18, 2022. Service will be held Tuesday, July 26, 2022, at 12 pm at W.E. Lusain Funeral Home, Dayton, OH. Masks are required.
HOWARD, James
Passed away July 18, 2022. Service will be held Tuesday, July 26, 2022, at 12 pm at W.E. Lusain Funeral Home, Dayton, OH. Masks are required. | https://www.journal-news.com/obituaries/howard-james/CNPUNYTVHZHYXOCN2W6GPIXWRA/ | 2022-07-21T05:28:57 | en | 0.959504 |
As the price of energy skyrockets, it is time for Britain's political leaders to finally take action to eliminate fuel poverty, writes British Energy Efficiency Federation's Andrew Warren
We already have a serious fuel poverty crisis, even before fuel prices increase yet again this autumn by as much as third. It is an impending catastrophe that is apparently being wilfully ignored by those...
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JEWETT, Jerry Dean
RICHMOND, Ind. Jerry Dean Jewett, age 79, of Richmond, Indiana, and formerly of Dayton, Ohio, passed away Thursday, July 14, 2022, at Brickyard Healthcare Golden Rule.
Jerry was born March 11, 1943, in Harriman, Tennessee, to Arthur and Wilma Jewett. The family eventually relocated to Dayton, and upon graduation from Nettie Lee Roth High School, Jerry proudly enlisted in the United States Marine Corps, serving for four years.
Jerry spent most of his working life as a teamster, eventually retiring from ABF in Huber Heights. He was proudly pro-union, and spent some years as a union steward, vigorously protecting the rights of his union brothers and sisters.
Jerry loved his family above all else, and leaves behind his son, Jerry Jewett Jr.; daughter, Ginny Jewett Taylor; granddaughter, Danielle Jewett; sisters, Barbara Dillon, Brenda Warren, Pat Willis, and Pam Cook; brothers, Charles Jewett and Donny Jewett; and numerous nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his parents; brother, Jim Jewett; and son-in-law, Robert Taylor.
Memorial visitation for Jerry Dean Jewett will be from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. Saturday, July 23, 2022, at Doan & Mills Funeral Home, 790 National Road West, Richmond. A celebration of life will be held at 4:00 p.m., Saturday, July 23, 2022, at Doan & Mills Funeral Home.
In lieu of flowers, you are invited to make a donation to your favorite charity in Jerry's memory .
Condolences may be sent to the family via the guest book at
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KING, Betty J.
Age 97, of Huber Heights, passed away on July 18, 2022. The Arrangements are by Newcomer North Chapel, Dayton, OH.
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Newcomer Funeral Home - North Dayton Chapel
4104 Needmore Rd
KING, Betty J.
Age 97, of Huber Heights, passed away on July 18, 2022. The Arrangements are by Newcomer North Chapel, Dayton, OH.
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Newcomer Funeral Home - North Dayton Chapel
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KNIGHT, Marcia Allyson
Age 71, of West Chester, passed away July 8, 2022. Visitation 11:00 AM- 12:00 PM, Saturday, at the Webster Funeral Home, Fairfield, OH.
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Webster Funeral Home
3080 Homeward Way | https://www.journal-news.com/obituaries/knight-marcia/NGCBAYXJRBHD5FNZNO5BCDBBV4/ | 2022-07-21T05:29:15 | en | 0.707322 |
KRUPP,
Joseph Christopher
Joseph Christopher Krupp, age 72, of Clarksville, passed away on Tuesday, July 19, 2022. A Funeral Mass will be held at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, July 26, 2022, at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church. Burial will follow at Resthaven Memorial Gardens. Visitation will be held on Monday, July 25 from 4-7 p.m. at McReynolds-Nave & Larson Funeral Home with a Rosary to follow at 7 p.m. Visitation will also be on Tuesday, July 26 from 10 a.m. until the hour of service at the church. Joseph entered into this life on October 14, 1949, in Springfield, OH, to the late Lawrence and Isabelle Mechlin Krupp. Joseph received his Master's Degree in Physics from MIT and went on to be a software engineer for forty-plus years. He was a member of the Knights of Columbus. Joseph enjoyed traveling and spending time with his family. In addition to his parents, he is preceded in death by his brother, James Krupp. Survivors include his loving wife, Margaret Krupp; sons, Michael (Tia) Krupp, Kevin Krupp; sister, Jane (Dave) Spragg; grandchild, Lauren Krupp; sister-in-law, Vivian Krupp; nieces, nephews, great-nieces, and great-nephews. Online condolences may be made at | https://www.journal-news.com/obituaries/krupp-joseph/B5XVGLS2IFFSFCVJDLJYE3UXT4/ | 2022-07-21T05:29:22 | en | 0.972453 |
MACMILLAN Jr.,
William Wallace
The Honorable William Wallace MacMillan Jr., retired Montgomery County Common Pleas Court, Judge, beloved brother, uncle and friend, died peacefully Sunday, July 17, 2022, just 25 days short of his 95th birthday. He was preceded in death by his parents, William and Rose MacMillan Sr., and by his wife of 58 years, Lois. Bill is survived by his two sisters, Virginia Varga and Rosemarie Meyer; brother-in-law, Ron; many nieces and nephews; and his dear friend, Pat Vondrell. He was a graduate of Roosevelt High School and Notre Dame University. Bill lived life to its fullest and never ceased to share his time, talents and gifts to help others in his usual unassuming way. His sharp mind and unending quest for knowledge continued well into his 94th year of life. He was honored for 65 years of service by the Ohio Bar Association. He was an avid skier and member of the Dayton Ski Club, an accomplished musician, member of the Hibernians, Notre Dame Alumni, NAMI, and a generous philanthropist. He was a long-time member of Ascension Parish. Bill enjoyed world travel, researching family genealogy, and visiting local venues for music and beer. Visitation will be held at Routsong Funeral Home, 2100 E. Stroop Rd., Sunday, July 24th from 2-5PM. Mass of Christian Burial at Ascension Church on Woodman Dr., on Monday, July 25th, 10:30am. In memory of Bill, donations may be made to the MacMillan Family Charitable Fund at the Dayton Foundation. Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be made at
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Routsong Funeral Home & Cremation Services - Kettering | https://www.journal-news.com/obituaries/macmillan-william/BWBV7C3TSZAB7NOBUO6CHPXI4A/ | 2022-07-21T05:29:28 | en | 0.979214 |
McDANIEL, Sr.,
Shawn William
Shawn William McDaniel Sr., age 49, of Kettering, passed away on July 14, 2022. He was born on March 26, 1973, to George Byard and Vikki McDaniel. He was an avid football fan, his favorite team being the Miami Dolphins. He enjoyed watching football and going to Bengals games with his daughter, Clarissa. He loved to watch wrestling with his daughter, Kaela, and he inspired her to pursue wrestling. He coached his son's basketball team and they loved to go fishing together or watch basketball. He has been with the love of his life, Crystal, for over 30 years, meeting when they were younger. He was a wonderful father, husband, brother, son, uncle, and grandfather. He had a huge heart, and he will be greatly missed by all those who loved him. His family is grateful for all the time they were able to share with him. Shawn was preceded in death by his grandmother, Mabel Vogel, his uncle, William Vogel, his aunt, Helen Vogel, and his nephew, Nathan Coile. His memory will be cherished by his beloved wife, Crystal Schelling; his children: Kaela McDaniel, Clarissa McDaniel, and Shawn McDaniel Jr.; father, George Byard; mother, Vikki McDaniel and his dad, John Andress; sister, Michelle McDaniel; grandchildren: Carter Combs and Cayson Combs; nieces and nephews: Cortney Moss, Cameron Moss, and Shianne Moss; and many extended family and friends. To share a memory of Shawn or to leave a special message for his family, please visit
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MILLER (Guldner),
Ruth Carol
Ruth Carol Guldner Miller, 83, died peacefully on July 13, 2022, after a brave six-year battle with Alzheimer's Disease.
Ruth was born at home in the spring of 1939 in Broken Bow, Nebraska, to the Reverend Lester and Norma Guldner (née Ahrens). Her father was the pastor of the Broken Bow First Presbyterian Church.
In 1954, her parents moved to Oxford, Iowa, (near Iowa City and the Amana Colonies) where her father became the pastor of the Oxford Federated Church. Ruth graduated from Oxford High School as class valedictorian and winner of the Betty Crocker Award.
Ruth continued her education at the University of Iowa, graduating in 1961 with a degree in elementary education. While at Iowa she was a drummer with the Scottish Highlanders, an all-female bagpipe, drum, and dance group. They performed at all home football games and one away game each season. In December of 1958 the Highlanders took the Santa Fe Railroad to Pasadena, California where Iowa played in the Rose Bowl. Ruth marched in the Rose Parade and performed on the field at half time. In the summer of 1960, the Highlanders traveled to Europe on the HMS Queen Elizabeth and performed in Scotland and England, as well as visited several other countries on the continent.
In the fall of 1962, Ruth entered the Graduate School of Library Science at the University of Illinois. She met her husband-to-be Marty over lunch in the Illini Union. She graduated in 1963 and accepted a position in the Government Documents Department at the University of Illinois Library.
Ruth and Marty were married in Marty's hometown of Danville, Illinois on August 8,, 1964. They moved to Iowa City where Marty worked in the University of Iowa Library and Ruth in the University of Iowa Law Library. In the summer of 1965 they moved to Burlington, Vermont where both worked in the University of Vermont Library. Their daughter Chris was born in June of 1967. A year later the family moved to Oxford, Ohio where both Ruth and Marty were employed at the Miami University Library. In July of 1970, Ruth gave birth to their son, Mark. While at Miami Ruth worked as a cataloger, librarian at the McGuffey Laboratory School, humanities librarian, music librarian, and head of the instructional materials center until her retirement in 2002.
Ruth's community activities were many and varied. Her involvement included serving as board member of the McCullough-Hyde Women's Auxiliary, a member of COSEP and the host family program, and serving on the Butler County Planned Parenthood board. She drove Head Start children for several years and carried out the distribution of food baskets to needy local families. She was also involved in McGuffey Lab School's Parent Teacher Organization, Friends of the Oxford Lane Library, and the Talawanda Academic Boosters. In 1974, Ruth was runner-up for Oxford Citizen of the Year.
Ruth was a member of the Oxford Presbyterian Church for over 50 years where she served as the coordinator of vacation church school, helped organize the Christian Cooperative Nursery school, and served on the Board of Deacons.
Ruth was a lover of books and especially enjoyed reading aloud to her children and students at McGuffey Lab School. She also enjoyed entertaining friends and her homemade ice cream and rum cakes were loved by many. Travel was a big part of Ruth's life. She and Marty traveled to all 50 states, as well as Canada, Mexico and many European countries. Ruth was a big fan of Road Scholar and she and Marty attended over 100 programs.
She is survived by her husband, Marty, daughter, Chris (John) Orsborn of Colorado Springs, Colorado and son, Mark (Kathy) of Cedarburg, Wisconsin.
The family would like to thank the management and staff of Woodland Country Manor for their kind and loving care of Ruth for nearly four years.
A service in memory of Ruth will be held Tuesday, November 1st at 11am at the Oxford Presbyterian Church with a light lunch to follow.
In lieu of flowers, gifts in Ruth's memory may be made to Oxford Seniors Community Adult Day Service or the Alzheimer's Association Greater Cincinnati Chapter.
Her beautiful smile could light up a room. May the memory of Ruth Miller be a blessing. She was gracious and kind to all. Rest in peace. | https://www.journal-news.com/obituaries/miller-ruth/5I6K5O2H25E4NJQOAOQFIAIMAM/ | 2022-07-21T05:29:40 | en | 0.980575 |
NERGER, Rachel
Rachel Nerger, 29, of Springfield, formerly of Thackery, Ohio, went to be with the Lord on Monday, July 18, 2022. She was born on December 30, 1992, in Springfield, the daughter of Dana J. and Sheri A. (Buell) Horsley. Rachel graduated from Graham High School in 2011 and then received a dual bachelors' degree in Elementary Education and Special Education from Grand Canyon University Suma Cum Laude in 2015. Following college, she worked in Phoenix as an Early Childhood Educator before moving to Springfield. Rachel also worked as and loved being a Barista finding employment with various coffee shops, but most recently Starbucks in Springfield. She and her husband Greg served together as Spring Hill campus Pastor and the youth at Fellowship Church. She had a passion for God and helping kids see His beauty. Rachel is survived by her husband Greg; her two children: Reagan and Gideon; parents, Dana and Sheri Horsley; brother, Brandon J. Horsley; maternal grandparents, Rob and Ruthie Buell; uncles and aunts: Terry and Darla Buell, Rick and Rhonda Pencil, Bob and Gwen Pencil and Kenny Michael; in-laws: Gary and Darcy Nerger, Gage and Stephanie Nerger, and Alyssa Nerger; chosen sisters: Shelby Harris and Brittany Jo Herston; and many, many friends and acquaintances who will cherish her memory and miss her enduring smile. She was preceded in death by her paternal grandparents, Jack and Clysta Horsley, and her aunt, Diana Horsley. A gathering of family and friends will be held on Sunday, July 24th from 4-8:00 p.m. in the LITTLETON & RUE FUNERAL HOME. A celebration of her life will be on Monday the 25th at 11:00am at Fellowship Church, 2301 Valley Loop Rd., Springfield, with Livestreaming provided through Fellowship Church's YouTube Channel, 'Fellowship Springfield Live'. To leave online condolences, support the family through financial support, view her video tribute and livestreaming information, please visit www.littletonandrue.com.
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Littleton & Rue Funeral Home
830 N Limestone Street
Springfield, OH
45503-3610
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NORRIS, Daniel H.
Age 69, of Dayton, went home to be with the Lord on July 19, 2022. Services held privately at the convenience of the family. Newcomer Funeral Home, Kettering Chapel, Kettering, OH.
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Newcomer Funeral Home - Kettering Chapel
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PIZZINO, Joseph R. "Joe"
SERVICES RESCHEDULED DUE TO FAMILY ILLNESS.
Visitation will be from 4:00 - 7:00 PM Thursday, July 28 at Morton & Whetstone Funeral Home, 139 S. Dixie Dr., Vandalia. Funeral services will be held at 10:00 AM, Friday, July 29, at the Vandalia United Methodist Church, 200 S. Dixie Dr., Vandalia.
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Morton & Whetstone Funeral Home - Vandalia
139 South Dixie Dr.
Vandalia, OH
45377-2123
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REKE (Buechele), Diane
Diane died quietly on January 30, 2022, with some family members present at Van Crest Health Care Center in Eaton, OH, after a long struggle with dementia and Alzheimer's Disease.
She was born October 4, 1942, in Dayton, OH, of John P. Buechele and Mary M. Grimshaw Buechele. Her Father was in the Army and served during WWII in the Battle of the Bulge. She attended Corpus Christ Elementary School and Julienne Highschool where she graduated in 1960. She really enjoyed attending the alumni get togethers. She married Joseph A. Reke Jr., a 1959 graduate of Chaminade Highschool in 1960. They had three children Joyce, Joseph III, and Paul. They lived in Dayton for a while but moved to the country to raise their children and have ponies and horses. After about 20 years Joe unfortunately decided he needed to leave, and they got divorced. Diane lived there several more years and started working but could not afford to keep the house. She had to sell it and moved in with her Dad and Mom in Dayton. She worked for many years for Pedro's Mexican Restaurant in Richmond, IN, and then in Fairfield, OH. She had also started volunteering at Boonshoft Museum and after a while they offered her a full-time job. She was closer to home that way and loved her work there. She remained friends with the owners of Pedros and they offered her an old farmhouse to rent that was close to them near Oxford, OH. It would mean an hour drive each way to work and her family tried to talk her out of it, but she loved the country and old houses, so she moved there. She eventually retired from Boonshoft, but she filled her time with art and music events, eating out and drinking wine, traveling, and shopping. She especially liked researching her mother's ancestry who were Quakers and came from North Carolina to Warren and Clinton Counties in OH. She was highly creative and could make simple things into a work of art which she mostly gave away as gifts.
She was the oldest of four children and is survived by the other three: Jane and her husband Marion Zwolski, Margie and her husband Ed Nickle and John and his wife Kim. Also surviving are her daughter Joyce and her husband Jeremy, her son Joseph (Tony) and his wife Lisa, six grandchildren, many great-grandchildren, nieces, nephews, and a host of friends. She was preceded in death by her parents, her former husband Joe, her son Paul, and two grandchildren.
Her Funeral Mass was celebrated at Visitation Catholic Church in Eaton on Saturday, February 5th, 2022. There was a bad ice storm a couple of days before that, and it prevented some people from coming. She was cremated at a later date. We are planning a memorial service to bury her ashes at Calvary Cemetery on Wednesday, August 17, 2022, at 11am. If coming to the cemetery wait at the flagpole by the entrance and we will be led to the site. | https://www.journal-news.com/obituaries/reke-diane/MHLFFBGXMJFGDHPT57OAWW4GLY/ | 2022-07-21T05:30:05 | en | 0.992768 |
ROSENBERGER, Ralph J. "Curly"
Ralph J. "Curly" Rosenberger, age 91, of Hamilton, Ohio, passed away on Monday, July 18, 2022, at Hospice of Hamilton. He was born on April 4, 1931, in Hamilton, Ohio, the son of Harry and Rose (Sauerland) Rosenberger. He attended St. Joseph School and graduated from Hamilton Catholic High School with the class of 1949. He was a corporal in the U.S. Army, serving during the Korean War. On November 22, 1956, he married Barbara J. Mosely at St. Lawrence Catholic Church and together they raised three children. Ralph was employed at Canteen Vending Corporation where he was a regional vice-president, retiring in 1987. He was a member of St. Ann Catholic Church. He is survived by his wife, Barb Rosenberger; three children, Rick (Vikki) Rosenberger, Karen (Ken) Mueller, and Kim (Anthony) Fogle; four grandchildren, Brittni O'Leary, Lauren Schloemer, Whitney Mueller, and Madison Rosenberger; three great-grandchildren, Chelsey, Christian, and Riley; and many other loving relatives and friends. He was preceded in death by his parents; one granddaughter, Bailey Rose Fogle; and two sisters, Marianne Williams and Ruth Williams. There will be a visitation at St. Ann Catholic Church, 3028 Pleasant Avenue, Hamilton, Ohio 45015 on Saturday, July 23, 2022, from 9:30 a.m. until the time of the Mass of Christian Burial at 10:30 a.m. Burial will follow in St. Stephen Cemetery in Hamilton. If desired, memorials may be made to St. Ann Catholic Church or to Badin High School for the Mueller Stadium Fund, 571 New London Road, Hamilton, OH 45013. Albert D. Hinkel, funeral director with Charles C. Young Funeral Home, Ross, Ohio, is assisting the family. Online condolences at
www.charlesyoungfuneralhome.com
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Charles C. Young Funeral Home - Ross | https://www.journal-news.com/obituaries/rosenberger-ralph/HCOGO3JY2NBCDCFGZ5V3NAHUTE/ | 2022-07-21T05:30:12 | en | 0.951626 |
SAMPSON, Zoie
Age 87 of Chicago Heights, IL, and formerly of Trotwood, OH, passed away on Thursday, July 7, 2022, at Franciscan Health Olympia Fields in Illinois. She is survived by her brother, John (Lorain) Grayer, her sons Michael and Jeffery (Charlene) and a loving host of family, friends and church family. Zoie was a devoted teacher of Dayton Public Schools, and enjoyed her retirement by traveling, and visiting with family and friends. Memorial services will be at 1:00 PM, Saturday, July 23, 2022, at Canaan Missionary Baptist Church, 5191 Hoover Ave., Dayton, OH 45417. | https://www.journal-news.com/obituaries/sampson-zoie/TEHKPMP345B3RKWUQUWURP7DC4/ | 2022-07-21T05:30:18 | en | 0.978051 |
SHEPHERD, Branden A.
Age 23, was granted his angel wings on July 12th, 2022. He was preceded in death by his great-great-grandmother Janie Cook and paternal grandfather Glenn Morton. He leaves to cherish his memory devoted parents, John Masey and Lanicka Shepherd-Masey, sister Kennedy Masey, maternal great-grandparents Shellie and Clara Shepherd, paternal great-grandmother Charlotte Sheilds, maternal grandmother Gina Shepherd, grandmother Betty Masey, aunt Nicole Shepherd, the Morton family, the Robinson family, special family friends Keith Brown and Rolando Mitchell, and a host of other caring family members and friends. Branden was adored by many. His smile and bright eyes were always a joy to see and will be forever in our hearts. His family would like to extend a special thank you to Dr. Alonzo Patterson, his team, and the staff from Hospice of Dayton. Service will be held Friday, July 22, 2022, at St. Luke MBC, (2262 N. Gettysburg Ave., Dayton, OH 45406). Visitation at 10:00am and service at 11:00am. www.lusain.com. | https://www.journal-news.com/obituaries/shepherd-branden/AE7YMXSH45H7XPEZLZWOLUGTWM/ | 2022-07-21T05:30:24 | en | 0.964994 |
STAHL, Ashley N.
Age 43, of Englewood, passed away July 16, 2022. Visitation Saturday, July 23, 2022, 10-11 am at Kindred Funeral Home, Englewood, OH.
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STAHL, Ashley N.
Age 43, of Englewood, passed away July 16, 2022. Visitation Saturday, July 23, 2022, 10-11 am at Kindred Funeral Home, Englewood, OH.
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TAYLOR, USAF MSgt. (Ret.), Robert J. "Bob"
Age 75, passed away July 18, 2022. Visitation 11:30-1 PM July 25, 2022. Belton-Stroup Funeral Home, Fairborn, OH.
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Shawn J. Thompson 7/20/1968 - 8/29/2018 Happy Birthday
If roses grow in heaven Lord, please pick a bunch for me. Place them in my Brother's arms and tell him they're from me. Tell him that I love and miss him and when he turns to smile, place a kiss upon his cheek and hold him for a while. Because remembering him is easy, I do it every day. Which is why I know its your Birthday!
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Craig Allen Cortner III
7/21/1990 - 8/3/2019
Screaming Happy 32nd Birthday to My First Born Son!
No words can explain how I miss you. How I wish I could see you enjoying your day. Waking up in another state, eating dinner, shopping until our legs were tired and just simply enjoying life as we always have. I still can't wrap my mind around the fact that you're no longer physically here on earth with us. I often have to take a break from this thing called life, just to grasp my thoughts and deal with the ongoing pain, frustration and anger I'm feeling because you're not here. I'm looking around, but I'm unable to see. I'm engaging in conversations, but I can't hear. My nights are sleepless as I'm still waking up at 2am, 3am, 5am waiting for the alarm to announce that the garage door has been opened from you coming home. Your three children bring me a great sense of peace. They all remind me of you in their own special ways. They truly miss you and I wish I could see you being the Great Father you were to them. Since you're physically no longer here, I vow, every plan we discussed for them and their lives, I will follow thru to the end. Though I can't give them that fatherly love you have always been there to show them, I can keep your presence and memories alive. I will love them as I do you and your brothers, today and forever. A son's first true love is his mother, and a mother's true first love is her sons. With those words I hold tight to my heart as I constantly reminisce on your 29 years physically here with me. Life is not the same without you here. Your children, your brothers, family and friends all miss you deeply.
Happy Birthday Son!
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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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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.
Please see http://ir.music.163.com/ for more information.
Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements relating to the business outlook, estimates of financial performance, forecast business plans and growth strategies of the Company. These forward-looking statements are based on information currently available to the Company and are stated herein on the basis of the outlook at the time of this press release. They are based on certain expectations, assumptions and premises, some of which are subjective or beyond our control. These forward-looking statements may prove to be incorrect and may not be realised in the future. Underlying these forward-looking statements are a lot of risks and uncertainties. In light of the risks and uncertainties, the inclusion of forward-looking statements in this press release should not be regarded as representations by the Board or the Company that the plans and objectives will be achieved, and investors should not place undue reliance on such
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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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WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Jan. 6 committee is headed back to prime time for its eighth hearing — potentially the final time this summer that lawmakers will lay out evidence about the U.S. Capitol insurrection and President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election defeat.
Thursday’s hearing is expected to focus on what Trump was doing in the White House as the violence unfolded on Jan. 6, 2021. Rep. Adam Kinzinger, an Illinois Republican who is one of two members leading the hearing, said he expects it will “open people’s eyes in a big way.”
This will be the panel’s second hearing in prime time. The first, on June 9, was watched by more than 20 million people.
What to watch for in Thursday’s hearing:
TRUMP IN THE WHITE HOUSE
Committee members have said the hearing will be an in-depth look at what Trump was doing in the White House that day as hundreds of his supporters violently pushed past police and broke into the building.
The panel has already revealed some of the Trump evidence in previous hearings, showing clips of multiple White House aides who tried to pressure the president to act, or to publicly call on the rioters to leave, as he watched television in a West Wing dining room.
But there are still questions about what the president was doing, especially because official White House records of Trump’s phone calls included an eight-hour gap, from a little after 11 that morning to about 7 that evening.
The committee has tried to fill in that gap with witness interviews and other sources, such as subpoenaing private phone records. A panel member, Rep. Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., said Trump could have called off the rioters at any time, but he did not. More than three hours, or 187 minutes, passed before he finally did.
“The consequences we’re still dealing with today,” Aguilar said.
“You will hear that Donald Trump never picked up the phone that day to order his administration to help,” Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, the committee's Republican vice chairwoman, said as she previewed the hearing last week.
NEW WITNESSES
Two former White House aides who resigned immediately after the insurrection will testify at the hearing. Former deputy press secretary Sarah Matthews and former deputy national security adviser Matthew Pottinger will talk about what they saw and heard in the White House as Trump learned about the insurrection and waited hours to tell the rioters to leave the Capitol.
Rep. Elaine Luria, D-Va., who will lead the hearing with Kinzinger, said the two witnesses “believed in the work they were doing, but didn’t believe in the stolen election.”
The committee will be “hearing from people who were in the White House, what they observed, what their reactions were,” Luria said.
THE WHOLE STORY
The finale in the committee’s summer series of hearings will seek to wrap up the story the panel has been telling from the start — that Trump was told his claims of widespread fraud were false but pushed them anyway, without regard for democracy or the people who were affected, and that his words and actions incited the riot at the Capitol.
The lawmakers are expected to give a minute-by-minute description of what happened the day of Jan. 6, a capstone to previous hearings that examined the weeks running up to the insurrection.
A Democratic member of the committee, Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin, said the hearing will be about what happened in three different places on Jan. 6: The White House, inside the Capitol and outside the Capitol, where police officers were beaten and overwhelmed by the rioters.
CLIFFHANGERS
As the committee wraps up this “season” of hearings, like a television show, there are likely to be some cliffhangers.
Among the questions the committee may leave unanswered: Will the committee call Trump to testify? Or his vice president, Mike Pence? Will there be more hearings? Are they holding back any information for their final report?
At least one hearing is expected in the fall, when the nine-member panel is expected to issue a report on its findings, but more hearings are possible. If Republicans take control of the House in November's midterm elections, they are expected to shut down the committee.
The panel's work will also continue to reverberate through other investigations, including at the Justice Department, which has arrested more than 800 suspected rioters and has seized or sought information from some of the politicians and others who were allied with Trump as he tried to overturn the vote. The Justice Department has asked the committee for some of its interview transcripts.
Raskin said before the hearings began that the measure of success would be “whether we are able to preserve American democracy and our institutions — it’s a long-term test.”
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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.
Conference call
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:
Further information
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.
Contact
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OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Washington Lottery's "Daily Game" game were:
5-7-8
(five, seven, eight)
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Washington Lottery's "Daily Game" game were:
5-7-8
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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.
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.
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Louisiana Lottery's "Easy 5" game were:
20-25-27-30-37
(twenty, twenty-five, twenty-seven, thirty, thirty-seven)
Estimated jackpot: $220,000
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Louisiana Lottery's "Easy 5" game were:
20-25-27-30-37
(twenty, twenty-five, twenty-seven, thirty, thirty-seven)
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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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- 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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HONG KONG (AP) — Baidu, a Chinese search engine and artificial intelligence firm, unveiled its latest electric autonomous driving vehicle on Thursday.
The Apollo RT6 will be soon be part of Baidu's robotaxi fleet, as China pushes forward with its autonomous driving ambitions. It is a fully electric vehicle with a steering wheel that can be removed or installed when required, and will cost 250,000 yuan ($37,000) per unit.
“This massive cost reduction will enable us to deploy tens of thousands of autonomous vehicles across China,” Robin Li, co-founder and CEO of Baidu, said at the firm’s Baidu World conference Thursday.
“We are moving towards a future where taking a robotaxi will be half the cost of taking a taxi today.”
Baidu already runs Apollo Go, an autonomous ride-hailing service using self-driving robotaxis with safety staff seated in the driver or passenger seat. It has launched Apollo Go in big cities like Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Guangzhou, although the service is limited to specific areas.
The RT6 also attained the industry’s Level 4 out of five possible levels of technology. That means its systems can operate without a driver but must be pre-loaded with a detailed map, thus limiting the areas where the vehicles can operate.
Lower levels of technology range from cruise control, a feature that has been available for decades, up to Level 3, which allows hands-free highway driving. Self-driving robot carts already are widely used in factories, warehouses and other tightly controlled settings.
The Apollo RT6 was designed specifically with autonomous driving in mind, compared to previous generations where the technology was retrofitted on conventional vehicles, the company said.
The steering wheel-free design allows more space for the installation of extra seating or other additions, even a gaming console or vending machine.
Baidu is best known for its search engine and online advertising services, but in recent years has invested heavily in autonomous driving and artificial intelligence technology, including automated personal assistants and AI chips.
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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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WASHINGTON (AP) — The right to use contraceptives would be inscribed into law under a measure Democrats are pushing through the House, their latest campaign-season response to worries that a conservative Supreme Court that’s erased federal abortion rights could go further.
The House planned to vote Thursday on the legislation and send it to the Senate, where its fate seemed uncertain. The push underscored that Democrats are latching onto their own version of culture-war battles to appeal to female, progressive and minority voters by casting the court and Republicans as extremists intent on obliterating rights taken for granted for years.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said now that the “radical, Republican-stacked Supreme Court" overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, GOP lawmakers want to do more than ban abortion.
“Those of us who’ve been in Congress a while can tell you that they have been against contraception, family planning, birth control the entire time,” said Pelosi, D-Calif. “This is their moment. Clarence Thomas has made that clear. They’re right down to the fundamentals of privacy that they want to erase.”
In his opinion overturning Roe v. Wade last month, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote that the court should now review other precedents. He mentioned rulings that affirmed the rights of same-sex marriage in 2015, same-sex intimate relationships in 2003 and married couples' use of contraceptives in 1965.
Thomas did not specify a 1972 decision that legalized the use of contraceptives by unmarried people as well, but Democrats say they consider that at risk as well.
Thomas and congressional Republicans “are about one thing, control," said Rep. Kathy Manning, D-N.C., chief sponsor of the contraception bill, which has around 150 co-sponsors, all Democrats.
“These extremists are working to take away the rights of women, to take away our right to decide when to have children, to take away our right to control our own lives and our own bodies. And we will not let this happen," she said.
Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, who is close to GOP leaders, said he doubted the legislation could win the Republican support it will need to survive in the Senate. Democrats there have introduced a contraception bill similar to the House version.
“I think it’s pure hysteria” by Democrats, Cornyn said of the contraception rights bill. “It’s not in jeopardy” of being repealed, he said.
House Democrats have begun forcing votes on these and other issues related to privacy rights, hoping for long-shot victories or to at least energize sympathetic voters and donors and force Republicans from competitive districts in difficult spots. The House voted last week to revive a nationwide right to abortion, with every Republican voting no, and voted largely along party lines to bar prosecuting women traveling to states where abortion remains legal.
The House voted Tuesday to keep same-sex marriage legal, with 47 Republicans joining all Democrats in backing the measure. Though 157 Republicans voted no, that tally raised expectations that the bill could win support from at least 10 GOP senators and get the 60 votes needed to clear the 50-50 Senate, sending it to President Joe Biden for his signature.
The contraception bill explicitly allows the use of contraceptives and gives the medical community the right to provide them, covering “any device or medication used to prevent pregnancy.” Listed examples include oral contraceptives, injections, implants like intrauterine devices and emergency contraceptives, which prevent pregnancy several days after unprotected sex.
The bill lets the federal and state government, patients and health care providers bring civil suits against states or state officials that violate its provisions.
Same-sex marriage may have such broad public acceptance that growing numbers of Republicans are willing to vote for it. But anti-abortion groups oppose the contraception legislation, and it remains to be seen if significant numbers of GOP lawmakers are willing to make that break.
Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America said the legislation “seeks to bail out the abortion industry, trample conscience rights, and require uninhibited access to dangerous chemical abortion drugs.” The National Right to Life Committee said it “goes far beyond the scope of contraception” and would cover abortion pills like RU486, which supporters said was incorrect.
Spokespeople for House GOP leaders did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the legislation.
The measure drew a mixed reaction from two of the Senate's more moderate Republicans.
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said she was “most likely" to support the measure. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, demurred, saying she was working on bipartisan legislation that she said would codify the rights to abortion and perhaps for contraception.
There are few state restrictions on contraceptive use, said Elizabeth Nash, who studies state reproductive health policies for the Guttmacher Institute, a research organization that supports abortion rights.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Jan. 6 committee will hold its final hearing of the summer the way the series began — vividly making the case that Donald Trump's lies about a stolen election fueled the grisly U.S. Capitol attack, which he did nothing to stop but instead “gleefully” watched on television at the White House.
Thursday's prime-time hearing will dive into the 187 minutes that Trump failed to act on Jan. 6, 2021, despite pleas for help from aides, allies and even his family. The panel intends to show how the defeated president's attempt to overturn Joe Biden's election victory has left the United States facing enduring questions about the resiliency of its democracy.
“A profound moment of reckoning for America,” said Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., a member of the committee.
With live testimony from two former White House aides, and excerpts from its trove of more than 1,000 interviews, the nearly two-hour session will add a closing chapter to the past six weeks of hearings that at times have captivated the nation.
Returning to prime time for the first time since the series of hearings began, the panel aims to show just how close the United States came to what one retired federal judge testifying this summer called a constitutional crisis.
The events of Jan. 6 will be outlined “minute by minute,” said the panel's vice chair, Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo.
“You will hear that Donald Trump never picked up the phone that day to order his administration to help," Cheney said.
“He did not call the military. His Secretary of Defense received no order. He did not call his Attorney General. He did not talk to the Department of Homeland Security," Cheney said. “Mike Pence did all of those things; Donald Trump did not.”
Testifying Thursday will be former White House aides who had close proximity to power.
Matt Pottinger, who was deputy national security adviser, and Sarah Matthews, then press aide, both submitted their resignations on Jan. 6, 2021, after what they saw that day. Trump has dismissed the hearings on social media and regarded much of the testimony as fake.
Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., the chairman of the committee, is isolating after testing positive for COVID-19 and will attend by video. Rep. Elaine Luria, D-Va., a former Naval officer who will lead the session with Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., who flew combat missions in Iraq and Afghanistan, said she expects the testimony from the White House aides will “just be really compelling.”
"These are people who believed in the work they were doing, but didn’t believe in the stolen election,” Luria said.
The White House aides were not alone in calling it quits that day. The panel is expected to provide a tally of the Trump administration aides and even Cabinet members who resigned after Trump failed to call off the attack.
As the panel continues to collect evidence and prepares to issue a preliminary report of findings, it has amassed the most substantial public record to date of what led up to Americans attacking the seat of democracy.
While the committee cannot make criminal charges, the Justice Department is monitoring its work.
So far, more than 840 people have been charged with federal crimes related to the Capitol riot. Over 330 of them have pleaded guilty, mostly to misdemeanors. Of the more than 200 defendants to be sentenced, approximately 100 received terms of imprisonment.
What remains uncertain is whether Trump or the former president's top allies will face serious charges. No former president has ever been federally prosecuted by the Justice Department.
Attorney General Merrick Garland said Wednesday that Jan. 6 is “the most wide-ranging investigation and the most important investigation that the Justice Department has ever entered into.”
“We have to get this right,” Garland said. “For people who are concerned, as I think every American should be, we have to do two things: We have to hold accountable every person who is criminally responsible for trying to overturn a legitimate election, and we must do it in a way filled with integrity and professionalism.”
In delving into the timeline, the panel aims to show what happened between the time Trump left the stage at his “Stop the Steal” rally shortly after 1:10 p.m., after telling supporters to march to the Capitol, and some three hours later, when he issued a video address from the Rose Garden in which he told the rioters to “go home” but also praised them as “very special.”
It also expects to produce additional evidence about Trump's confrontation with Secret Service agents who refused to drive him to the Capitol — a witness account that the security detail has disputed.
Five people died that day as Trump supporters battled the police in gory hand-to-hand combat to storm the Capitol. One officer has testified about how she was “slipping in other people's blood” as they tried to hold back the mob. One Trump supporter was shot and killed by police.
“The president didn’t do very much but gleefully watch television during this time frame,” Kinzinger said.
Not only did Trump refuse to tell the mob to leave the Capitol, he did not call other parts of the government for backup and gave no order to deploy the National Guard, Cheney said.
This despite countless pleas from Trump's aides and allies, including his daughter Ivanka Trump and Fox News host Sean Hannity, according to previous testimony and text messages the committee has obtained.
“You will hear that leaders on Capitol Hill begged the president for help,” Cheney has said, including House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy, who she said indicated he was “'scared' and called multiple members of President Trump’s family after he could not persuade the President himself.”
The panel has said its investigation is ongoing and other hearings are possible. It expects to compile a preliminary report this fall, and a final report by the end of this session of Congress.
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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. | https://www.chron.com/news/article/Key-gas-pipeline-from-Russia-to-Europe-restarts-17318819.php | 2022-07-21T05:33:26 | en | 0.974573 |
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Veteran politician Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's new president Thursday to take charge of a nation bitterly angry he will remain in power amid an unprecedented economic crisis.
Sri Lankans have taken to the streets for months to demand their top leaders step down to take responsibility for economic chaos that has left the nation's 22 million people struggling with shortages of essentials, including medicine, fuel and food. While the protesters have focused on the Rajapaksa political dynasty, Wickremesinghe also has drawn their ire as a perceived Rajapaksa surrogate.
The six-time prime minister had never held the top job. But he easily won the secret ballot of lawmakers Wednesday to finish the term of former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who fled the country after protesters stormed his residence last week and resigned.
Wickremesinghe, 73, has wide experience in diplomatic and international affairs and has been overseeing the bailout talks with the International Monetary Fund.
Lawmakers apparently considered him the safer hands to lead the nation through the crisis, despite public anger at Wickremesinghe as an example of the nation's problematic political establishment. During demonstrations last week, crowds set his personal residence on fire and occupied his office.
After Wednesday's vote, Wickremesinghe called for politicians to work together and pleaded for the country to move on. But protesters flocked to the presidential residence instead, chanting, “Ranil, go home.”
Wickremesinghe took his oath of office Thursday morning before Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya at a ceremony held in Parliament in the capital, Colombo. He now can choose a new prime minister.
Wickremesinghe said Monday the negotiations with the IMF 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.” | https://www.chron.com/news/article/Sri-Lanka-s-newly-elected-president-sworn-into-17318830.php | 2022-07-21T05:33:38 | en | 0.973303 |
Today in History
Today is Thursday, July 21, the 202nd day of 2022. There are 163 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On July 21, 1925, the so-called “Monkey Trial” ended in Dayton, Tennessee, with John T. Scopes found guilty of violating state law for teaching Darwin’s Theory of Evolution. (The conviction was later overturned on a technicality.)
On this date:
In 1861, during the Civil War, the first Battle of Bull Run was fought at Manassas, Virginia, resulting in a Confederate victory.
In 1944, American forces landed on Guam during World War II, capturing it from the Japanese some three weeks later.
In 1954, the Geneva Conference concluded with accords dividing Vietnam into northern and southern entities.
In 1969, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin blasted off from the moon aboard the ascent stage of the lunar module for docking with the command module.
In 1972, the Irish Republican Army carried out 22 bombings in Belfast, Northern Ireland, killing nine people and injuring 130 in what became known as “Bloody Friday.”
In 1998, astronaut Alan Shepard died in Monterey, California, at age 74; actor Robert Young died in Westlake Village, California, at age 91.
In 1999, Navy divers found and recovered the bodies of John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife, Carolyn, and sister-in-law, Lauren Bessette (bih-SEHT’), in the wreckage of Kennedy’s plane in the Atlantic Ocean off Martha’s Vineyard.
In 2002, Ernie Els won the British Open in the first sudden-death finish in the 142-year history of the tournament.
In 2008, former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic (RA’-doh-van KA’-ra-jich), one of the world’s top war crimes fugitives, was arrested in a Belgrade suburb by Serbian security forces. (He was sentenced by a U.N. court in 2019 to life imprisonment after being convicted of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.)
In 2009, prosecutors in Cambridge, Massachusetts, dropped a disorderly conduct charge against prominent Black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr., who was arrested by a white officer at his home near Harvard University after a report of a break-in.
In 2011, the 30-year-old space shuttle program ended as Atlantis landed at Cape Canaveral, Florida, after the 135th shuttle flight.
In 2016, Donald Trump accepted the GOP presidential nomination with a speech in which he pledged to cheering Republicans and still-skeptical voters that as president, he would restore the safety they feared they were losing, strictly curb immigration and save the nation from what he said was Hillary Clinton’s record of “death, destruction, terrorism and weakness.” The NBA moved the 2017 All-Star Game out of Charlotte because of its objections to a North Carolina law that limited anti-discrimination protections for lesbian, gay and transgender people.
Ten years ago: The president of the International Olympic Committee, Jacques Rogge (zhahk ROH’-geh), rejected the latest calls for a minute of silence for the Israeli victims of the 1972 Munich massacre at the opening ceremony of the London Olympics. Staff Sgt. Luis Walker, an Air Force training instructor at Lackland Air Force base in San Antonio, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for crimes that included rape and sexual assault. (Walker died in August 2014.)
Five years ago: White House press secretary Sean Spicer abruptly quit over President Donald Trump’s decision to name financier Anthony Scaramucci as the new White House communications director. Scaramucci announced from the White House briefing room that Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who had been Spicer’s deputy, would take over for Spicer. (Scaramucci would be fired on July 31 after 11 days on the job; he had used vulgar language to insult White House aides during a phone call to a reporter.) Escalating Israeli-Palestinian tensions over the Holy Land’s most contested shrine boiled over into violence that killed six people — three Palestinians in street clashes in Jerusalem and three Israelis in a stabbing attack at a West Bank settlement.
One year ago: Public health officials said U.S. life expectancy fell by a year and a half in 2020, the largest one-year decline since World War II; the drop was due mainly to the COVID-19 pandemic. A day after he was extradited from New York, convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein pleaded not guilty in Los Angeles to four counts of rape and seven other sexual assault counts. Organizers of the Kennedy Center Honors announced that the 2021 honorees would be Motown Records creator Berry Gordy, “Saturday Night Live” mastermind Lorne Michaels, opera singer Justino Diaz, folk music legend Joni Mitchell, and actor-singer Bette Midler.
Today’s Birthdays: Movie director Norman Jewison is 96. Actor Leigh Lawson is 79. Singer Yusuf Islam (also known as Cat Stevens) is 74. Cartoonist Garry Trudeau is 74. Actor Jamey Sheridan is 71. Rock singer-musician Eric Bazilian (The Hooters) is 69. Comedian Jon Lovitz is 65. Actor Lance Guest is 62. Actor Matt Mulhern is 62. Comedian Greg Behrendt is 59. Retired soccer player Brandi Chastain is 54. Rock singer Emerson Hart is 53. Rock-soul singer Michael Fitzpatrick (Fitz and the Tantrums) is 52. Actor Alysia Reiner is 52. Country singer Paul Brandt is 50. Christian rock musician Korey Cooper (Skillet) is 50. Actor Ali Landry is 49. Actor-comedian Steve Byrne is 48. Rock musician Tato Melgar (Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real) is 45. Actor Justin Bartha is 44. Actor Josh Hartnett is 44. Contemporary Christian singer Brandon Heath is 44. Actor Sprague Grayden is 44. Reggae singer Damian Marley is 44. Country singer Brad Mates (Emerson Drive) is 44. Former MLB All-Star pitcher CC Sabathia (suh-BATH’-ee-uh) is 42. Singer Blake Lewis (“American Idol”) is 41. Latin singer Romeo Santos is 41. Rock musician Johan Carlsson (Carolina Liar) is 38. Actor Vanessa Lengies (LEHN’-jeez) is 37. Actor Betty Gilpin is 36. Actor Rory Culkin is 33. Actor Jamie Waylett (“Harry Potter” films) is 33. Figure skater Rachael Flatt is 30. | https://www.chron.com/news/article/Today-in-History-July-21-guilty-verdict-in-17297098.php | 2022-07-21T05:33:44 | en | 0.944469 |
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Matthew Pottinger was a journalist in China, concerned about the country's drift toward authoritarianism, when he decided — at age 31 — to enlist in the U.S. Marines after the invasion of Iraq.
“Our form of government is not inevitable," Pottinger recalled thinking during an interview two years ago with the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute. "And it shouldn’t be taken for granted. But it’s a form of government very much worth fighting for.”
Pottinger had no way of knowing when he put on his military uniform for the first time how close to home that battle for democracy would get. He became deputy national security adviser to President Donald Trump, and he resigned after the Jan. 6 attack that tried to stop the peaceful transfer of power to President Joe Biden.
On Thursday, he'll be one of the key witnesses at a prime-time hearing of the select House committee investigating the attack. The other is Sarah Matthews, who resigned from her position as a deputy press secretary the same day.
Pottinger and Matthews will join Cassidy Hutchinson, a former assistant to Mark Meadows, Trump's final chief of staff, in the exclusive club of Trump White House insiders who have appeared publicly. Their appearances stand in blunt contrast to the cadre of Trump loyalists who have tried to defy the committee’s subpoenas, remained silent or continued to dismiss the investigation’s findings.
Any details on what Pottinger and Matthews will share on Thursday have been kept under wraps, but the hearing is expected to focus on what Trump did — and didn't do — as his supporters swarmed the U.S. Capitol and interrupted the ceremonial certification of the election.
Roughly three hours elapsed between Trump's speech at a rally near the White House and his release of a video calling the rioters “very special” but asking them to “go home now.”
Pottinger, 49, and Matthews, 27, may be able to illuminate what was happening behind the scenes as Trump resisted pleas from family, aides and Republicans to condemn the riot and urge people to leave the building.
As a member of the press office, Matthews was privy to debates over what the White House and Trump should say publicly during the riot and what other aides advised. And although Pottinger was focused on foreign policy, his position placed him at the crossroads of national security matters.
Whatever they saw that day, they decided to quit, helping to begin an exodus that included other White House staff and various Cabinet officials.
“These are people who believed in the work they were doing, but didn’t believe in the stolen election," said Rep. Elaine Luria, D-Va., a member of the select committee.
Luria added, “It’s just a key piece of telling the story about that day, because we’ll be hearing from people who were in the White House, what they observed, what their reactions were."
Alyssa Farah Griffin, the former White House director of strategic communications, said Pottinger and Matthews could make potent witnesses, particularly because of their very different backgrounds.
Pottinger, Griffin said, is someone with “enormous credibility,” who is “highly respected in the national security space” and not seen as overtly political. Matthews, in contrast, is “a tried and true Republican” who worked for Trump’s reelection campaign and was hand-picked to join the White House.
“I think their testimony will be incredibly compelling and carry a lot of weight,” said Griffin, who has been supportive of the committee's work and has discussed Matthews' testimony with her.
Matthews began working for Republicans on Capitol Hill as an intern while she was still a student at Kent State University in Ohio. She was so eager to begin a career in Washington that she moved to the city for her first job a month before her graduation, missing her last weeks of college and finishing her final classes online, she told her alma mater in an interview two years ago.
Matthews was hired as a deputy press secretary for Trump's reelection campaign and was brought over to the White House by press secretary Kayleigh McEnany. She worked in the area of the West Wing known as “upper press,” placing her in closer proximity to the Oval Office than others in her office.
Sometimes she joined Trump for media interviews, but mostly she fielded questions from reporters and helped prepare for White House briefings.
When Matthews resigned on Jan. 6, she issued a statement saying she was “deeply disturbed by what I saw today." On the anniversary of the attack, she called it “one of the darkest days in American history.”
“Make no mistake, the events on the 6th were a coup attempt, a term we’d use had they happened in any other country, and former President Trump failed to meet the moment,” she tweeted.
Pottinger did not issue a statement when he resigned on Jan. 6, but he discussed the decision during previous, closed-door testimony to the committee.
While the riot was underway, Pottinger said, a staff member brought him a printout of a Trump tweet accusing Vice President Mike Pence of not having “the courage to do what should have been done” to overturn the election.
“I read that tweet and made a decision at that moment to resign," Pottinger said. "That’s where I knew that I was leaving that day once I read that tweet.”
Pottinger took a much more roundabout path to the White House than Matthews.
His father, John Stanley Pottinger, served as an assistant attorney general under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. He studied China in college, then moved to the country to work as a reporter for Reuters and The Wall Street Journal.
But in 2005, he joined the Marines. Explaining his unusual decision, Pottinger wrote an essay saying that “living in China also shows you what a nondemocratic country can do to its citizens.”
Qualifying at age 31 wasn't easy. He wrote that he got winded after running for five minutes, and he could only do half a pullup. But by the time he took his physical fitness test, he could do 13 pullups and run 3 miles in less than 21 minutes.
Pottinger deployed to Iraq as an intelligence officer, and he later worked in Afghanistan with U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn. At the time, Flynn was a respected military leader, not the promoter of conspiracy theories that he's become today.
They ended up writing a report criticizing military intelligence efforts in Afghanistan. Years later, after Trump was elected, Flynn invited Pottinger to join him in the National Security Council. Flynn didn't last long — he was forced out after a little more than three weeks because of his obfuscations about his conversations with the Russian ambassador to the U.S. — but Pottinger stuck around.
He was promoted to deputy national security adviser in 2019. Pottinger was focused on Asia during his time in the Trump administration, and helped outline a more aggressive stance toward China, one that was rooted in his own experiences as a reporter in the country.
He is now a distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution and the chair of the China program at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
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Colvin reported from New York. Associated Press writer Mary Clare Jalonick contributed to this report. | https://www.chron.com/news/article/White-House-insiders-to-talk-about-Trump-s-17318796.php | 2022-07-21T05:33:46 | en | 0.985104 |
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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.
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TOKYO (AP) — The Tokyo Olympics survived the COVID-19 postponement, soaring expenses and some public opposition. A year later, the costs and benefits remain as difficult to untangle as the Games were to pull off.
In his speech at the closing ceremony, IOC President Thomas Bach said a major accomplishment of the Games was simply reaching the end.
“We did it,” Bach said. “We did it together," he repeated, crediting the athletes, Japanese government officials, and deep-pocketed broadcasters for refashioning the Games despite no fans, disappointed sponsors, and no buzz around the city.
Organizers said the Games would drive tourism, showcase Japan's technological prowess, and create memories similar to the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. The pandemic erased that.
Japan's goal after the postponement was to get through it, mindful that Beijing was holding the Winter Olympics in China just six months after Tokyo's close. For the International Olympic Committee, it was a priority to get the Games on television and keep big sponsors — the sources of 90% of IOC income — happy.
“I think what the Games meant more than anything else was simply not having to deal with a cancellation,” David Leheny, a political scientist at Japan’s Waseda University, told The Associated Press. “There were no public health disasters associated with it. I do think officials would like to have run a victory lap — if the public had been more enthusiastic about it.”
“If Japan had cancelled," Leheny added, "there would have been a lot of discussion, particularly in the conservative media, about what it meant that we couldn't pull it off."
As a final act before legally dissolving the organizing committee on June 30, President Seiko Hashimoto and CEO Toshiro Muto said the price tag for the Tokyo Games was $13 billion — almost 60% public money. This was twice the estimated cost when the IOC awarded Tokyo the Games, but less than the $25 billion some predicted.
How to judge? Legacy or costly hangover? Is there success to celebrate, or is it simply rejoicing over not having failed?
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government, on the hook for $5.4 billion in Games expenses, has campaigned to persuade the public that a half-dozen new venues have post-Games uses. Typical is a reopening ceremony next week at the canoe-slalom venue, featuring a paddling parade for elementary-school students.
A center dedicated to the LGBTQ community was championed during the Games, and the Paralympics pushed Tokyo to improve accessibility around town.
The city government is holding a 1-year anniversary event Saturday at the $1.4 billion National Stadium to mark the date of the opening ceremony. Athletes, high school and junior high school marching bands, and cheerleaders are to appear.
Tokyo was initially billed as the “Recovery Olympics," but this got little play after the delay. Government officials promised before the postponement that the Games would focus attention on an area of northeastern Japan devastated in 2011 by an earthquake, tsunami, and the meltdown of three nuclear reactors.
Japan’s Kyodo news agency published a survey of 4,000 people, compiled by a government agency, that showed only 29.8% said they were grateful for government reconstruction support. Many in the region believe the Olympics sapped resources from recovery efforts.
“I almost get the impression that the Olympics have come to that very quiet period where people don’t want to talk about it or even think about it,” Aki Tonami, a political economist at Japan’s University of Tsukuba, told AP. “Any analysis of what the Olympics meant is still in the symbolic phase. We don’t really have the capacity or the bandwidth to really dig down for a more long-lasting meaning.”
Kyodo has also reported this week that an executive board member of the organizing committee received $326,000 from a Games sponsor. As a quasi-civil servant, Kyodo said he was not allowed to receive such payments.
The board member, Haruyuki Takahashi, is a former director at Japanese advertising agency Dentsu, Inc, which helped land $3 billion in local sponsorship for the Tokyo Games.
Amid uncertainty, there is one clear legacy. Despite scandals, bloated costs, and lukewarm public support, Japan is pursuing the 2030 Winter Olympics for Sapporo. And it's trying to use the Tokyo Games to drive the bid.
Sapporo places the price tag at $2.6 billion, likely an underestimate since Tokyo expenses were at least twice the initial estimate. And it's impossible to estimate accurately eight years in advance.
“We're already working toward that," Seiko Hashimoto, the head of the Tokyo Games, said last month. “The significance of the Tokyo Games should be communicated thoroughly, otherwise the people in Sapporo and Hokkaido will not support this initiative.”
Sapporo is believed to be the front-running candidate competing with Vancouver and Salt Lake City. Salt Lake officials have suggested they may focus on 2034. The IOC is expected to name the host in May 2023 and IOC President Bach, in an interview with Kyodo, seemed to rule out awarding 2030 and 2034 at the same time.
Neither of the three cities requires citizens to approve the bid in a public referendum, which have consistently been rejected when tied to funding the Olympics.
“Previously, there was no question about whether it was the right thing to do to bring the Olympics to Japan,” Tonami said. “But I think what’s different now is that people are starting to ask if it’s really the right thing to do."
Barbara Holthus, the deputy director of the German Institute for Japanese Studies in Tokyo, worked as a volunteer during the Olympics and got a feel for the street.
“People were so upset that (IOC president) Thomas Bach pushed the Olympics down everybody's throat without consideration for Japanese sentiments,” she said. “And now they want to it again without asking the people of Sapporo, which they would have to do in Germany.”
Holthus, who grew up in Hamburg, Germany, pointed out that in 2015, local voters there turned down a referendum to hold the 2024 Olympics in the northern German city. Like Holthus, IOC President Bach is also a German.
Working as an Olympic volunteer, Holthus said she saw other volunteers decline to wear their uniforms on public transportation as they traveled to the venue during the pandemic. She said volunteers were told to wear the uniforms because there was no provision for storing street clothing at venues, but some didn't want to be identified with Games.
She said it was different recently when volunteers gathered to clean some Tokyo beaches.
"My colleagues last year, lots of them didn't want to be seen in their neighborhood with the uniform on. People were thinking, maybe you'll bring the virus back to the office or into the neighborhood. But at the recent event we were asked to wear our uniform. Of course, not everybody did, but some did — and they were really proud now to wear it. So I think this bad taste of the uniform now is kind of gone."
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WFO SAN DIEGO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, July 22, 2022
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EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service SAN DIEGO CA
908 PM PDT Wed Jul 20 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THURSDAY
TO 8 PM PDT FRIDAY...
* WHAT...Dangerously hot conditions with temperatures up to 116
expected.
* WHERE...Coachella Valley and San Diego County Deserts.
* WHEN...From 11 AM Thursday to 8 PM PDT Friday.
* IMPACTS...Extreme heat will significantly increase the
potential for heat related illnesses, particularly for those
working or participating in outdoor activities.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Little relief expected at night with low
temperatures in the 80s and lower 90s.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Drink plenty of fluids, stay in an air-conditioned room, stay out
of the sun, and check up on relatives and neighbors. Young
children and pets should never be left unattended in vehicles
under any circumstances.
Take extra precautions if you work or spend time outside. When
possible reschedule strenuous activities to early morning or
evening. Know the signs and symptoms of heat exhaustion and heat
stroke. Wear lightweight and loose fitting clothing when
possible. To reduce risk during outdoor work, the Occupational
Safety and Health Administration recommends scheduling frequent
rest breaks in shaded or air conditioned environments. Anyone
overcome by heat should be moved to a cool and shaded location.
Heat stroke is an emergency! Call 9 1 1.
* WHAT...Dangerously hot conditions with temperatures up to 112
* WHERE...San Gorgonio Pass Near Banning.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...High temperatures will be highest and
nights warmest in the northern Coachella Valley.
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Financial Advisors Are Invited To Learn What Actually Makes The Financial Planning Process More Efficient & Scalable
NEW YORK, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- fpPathfinder, an advisor-led fintech company that creates checklists and flowcharts to help advisors have more diligent client conversations, invites financial advisors to join industry thought leader Michael Kitces for a live webinar that features a new presentation, "Scaling Advice: From Financial Advisor to Financial Advicer."
Michael Kitces' new presentation will cut through the noise to explore the research on what actually makes the financial planning process more efficient and scalable. At the end of the webinar, advisors will understand the impact of advanced training and designations, how to develop more repeatable financial planning processes with an annual service calendar, how client variability impacts the efficiency of firms and their planning processes, and the role technology does – and does not – play in advisor efficiency.
"Financial advisors are faced with competing demands every day," said Mike Lecours, CFP®, and fpPathfinder co-founder. "We are hosting this webinar for all financial advisors because we are passionate about helping them make efficient progress toward scaling their practices while meeting the promise of their missions."
The webinar on July 28, at 11 a.m. EST, is free to attend and will include a Q&A with Michael Kitces. Anyone interested in attending can register here.
Created by advisors for advisors, fpPathfinder is a fintech company that creates checklists and flowcharts for financial planners to have diligent conversations and navigate financial planning topics with their clients. In addition to the guides, membership offers white label capabilities, customized dashboards, digital rights, interactive checklists, Share Link, enhanced notes, and CRM integrations with Wealthbox, Redtail, Salesforce Financial Cloud Services, and XLR8.
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DayDayCook and Brinc commit to investing in 45 food tech companies that impact global food sustainability goals through the Good Food Accelerator Program
- DayDayCook and Brinc join forces to invest US$10 million over the next three years through the Good Food Accelerator Program. Applications for the next cohort open on July 21, 2022.
- DayDayCook and Brinc share a dedicated mission to tackle global food sustainability goals by developing sustainable food systems and addressing food security issues in China and Asia.
- Prominent advisors and professional mentors from the food technology industry joining this program include: Patrick Kwok (Nishimoto Wismettac Group), Alex Pestalozzi (Mueller Asia), Sonalie Figueiras (Green Queen), Chris Pipe (Nestle China), Christina Gaw (Gaw Capital) and Liu Xing (Sequoia Capital).
- DayDayCook, founded by banker-turned-entrepreneur Norma Chu, is a burgeoning, content-to-commerce innovative food brand, with 80 million active users and more than 18 million paid customers globally.
- Brinc, the global venture accelerator founded by Manav Gupta, has also invested US$500,000 in DayDayCook's pre-IPO funding round to bolster its long-term commitment to their new partnership.
HONG KONG, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Brinc, a leading venture accelerator with a global sustainability mandate, and DayDayCook, a leading content-to-commerce Asian culinary platform, announce a commitment of US$10 million to invest in food technology companies that are developing the sustainable, animal-free, global food ecosystem and scaling commercialization in Greater China and Asia. DayDayCook and Brinc will invest in and support 45 companies over the next three years through the Good Food Accelerator Program, operated by Brinc. This alliance is further bolstered by Brinc's US$500,000 investment in DayDayCook, solidifying a long-term collaborative effort to support game-changing startups.
Applications for the Good Food Accelerator Program open on July 21, 2022. Startups accepted into the program will receive an initial investment of a minimum of US$200,000 and will have access to Brinc and DayDayCook's network of later-stage investors during and post-program for potential follow-on funding.
The key investment themes of the program include Alternative Protein, Functional and Novel Ingredients, Sustainable Packaging, Food Supply Chain Innovation, and consumer Agritech solutions. Companies with commercial-ready products and services that are actively contributing toward global food sustainability goals will be prioritised.
The program will be delivered completely virtually and will accept applications from commercially-ready startups located in or looking to enter the Greater China or Asian market. Interested startups can apply online here: http://www.brinc.io/good-food-accelerator/.
The core directive of the Good Food Accelerator Program is to help food tech companies meaningfully commercialise in Greater China and Asia, leveraging the online and offline distribution channels of DayDayCook's core business as well as Brinc and DayDayCook's combined network of food corporations, hospitality groups and investors in the region. With Brinc bringing eight years of accelerator program design and operational experience to strengthen the Good Food Accelerator, selected startups will also have access to DayDayCook's commercial team during the program to explore opportunities for business collaboration.
According to GFI APAC, Asia's leading alternative-protein think tank, strong year-on-year investor growth for the APAC alt-protein market is marked by a 92% surge: from US$162 million in 2020 to US$312 million in 2021. This has concurrently paved the way for the region's startups to grow in global prominence — making them a strong force alongside North America's alt-protein companies, which have fully dominated the market this past decade. In particular, the adoption of alternative proteins will be crucial for China, where, due to the rapid increase in demand for meat, the country is expected to experience a meat deficit of more than 53 million tonnes between 2021 and 2030.
Manav Gupta, founder and CEO of Brinc, said: "China's five-year agricultural development plan sets out an agenda to establish a sustainable food supply system nationwide. Brinc's Food Tech accelerator expertise, investor and mentor network along with DayDayCook's wide reach, commercial network and distribution reach in Mainland China will take us a bold step closer towards attaining this goal. We are excited to support more founders who are looking to scale alternate protein products and deep technologies from around the globe to the world's most populous market while further developing a growing food tech ecosystem across Mainland China and the Greater Bay Area. Addressing deep-rooted inefficiencies in our regional and global food systems, creating a sustainable food supply chain, plus tackling food security issues all in all help mitigate against the growing effects of climate change — which is the need of the hour and our lifetimes."
Norma Chu, founder and CEO of DayDayCook, said: "The Good Food Accelerator Program's mission is to build a leading food tech ecosystem in Hong Kong. We are thrilled to partner with Brinc to welcome our second cohort of startups, to accelerate their growth, and to kickstart a stream of commercially-viable products and innovative solutions. By sourcing innovative startups from the Greater Bay Area, Southeast Asia and areas beyond, the program will make a global splash as it carries out Hong Kong's ambition of transforming into a key innovation hub for food tech talents worldwide."
DayDayCook launched the Good Food Accelerator Program in partnership with the incubation division of Hong Kong Cyberport in December 2021. The seven startups selected in the launch cohort included five Hong Kong companies — AllKlear Health, Breer, Farmacy, Geb Import Technology, Good Food Tech — plus 70/30 Food Science & Tech (Shanghai) and Alchemy (Singapore).
Brinc has been a key global food innovation player since launching its first food technology program in 2018 — Asia's first at the time. Today, having launched AgriFood, AgriTech and Food Tech Programs in Brazil, Hong Kong and Mainland China, Brinc has more than 50 AgriFood Tech portfolio companies all building a more sustainable food future. Highly notable examples of Brinc-accelerated startups that have impacted the global stage include Avant Meats (Hong Kong), CellX (Mainland China), Exponential Foods (Mexico), Galy (USA), Haofood (Mainland China), Orbillion Bio (USA) and Phuture Foods (Singapore).
About DayDayCook
Founded in 2012, DayDayCook is a direct-to-consumer company that focuses on innovative and healthy meal solutions with a fast-growing retail footprint in China and a strong online presence globally.
DDC has launched ready-to-heat (RTH), ready-to-cook (RTC) and plant-based food products, which bring convenience and quality food products to young food lovers. The group builds brand recognition through culinary and lifestyle content across major social media and e-commerce platforms, resulting in an aggregate of over 3 billion video views and over 10 million orders worldwide. www.daydaycook.com
About Brinc
Headquartered in Hong Kong, Brinc is a leader in global venture acceleration, operating 18 multidisciplinary accelerator programs in seven countries. Brinc accelerates startups focused on Internet of Things (IoT), blockchain technology, artificial intelligence, connected hardware, drones, robotics, clean energy and food technology, all within a sustainability mandate. Brinc's goal is to empower founders to accelerate humanity's transition to a more sustainable, inclusive and equitable future.
Brinc has a portfolio of 200+ companies with founders from more than 38 countries. Brinc also supports corporations with investment services, distributed innovation strategies, sourcing of new startups and technologies, as well as venture-building Web 3.0-enabled businesses. Global corporations (Manulife, Huawei, Schneider Electric, Puma, Batelco, Merck, Omantel, Linrun Group, Zhihui Park), government organisations (Hong Kong Science Park, MBRIF, Guangdong Soft-tech Park), tertiary institutions (HK City University, National University of Singapore) and leading venture funds (Artesian, LeverVC, Tamkeen, EDB) have all run programs with Brinc. In 2021, Brinc announced a series of venture funds to invest in high-potential early-stage companies through accelerators and provide LPs with a dedicated innovation platform and access to Series A+ co-investment opportunities.
Learn more about Brinc: www.brinc.io and Brinc's commitment to developing sustainable systems.
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DMALINK ® secures FinTech Unicorn, Smart co-founder and CEO Andrew Evans as Non-Executive Advisor
LONDON, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- DMALINK, the emerging markets foreign exchange focused institutional ECN adds Andrew Evans to its senior advisory board to bolster representation from asset allocators, buyside funds and play a pivotal role in scaling the enlarged group post-merger.
The appointment comes as DMALINK looks to build even further on its commitment to create more open, transparent and accessible FX, gold and digital asset electronic trading ecosystems.
Manu Choudhary, Chief Executive Officer of DMALINK, says, "Andrew represents a major strategic addition to DMALINK and our senior advisory board. Andrew brings with him not only two decades of deep financial markets knowledge, but also adds the insight of an asset allocator and as the CEO and founder of one of London's fastest growing FinTech Unicorns, a huge amount of strategic vision. We are delighted that Andrew decided to join DMALINK on our journey to create the most disruptive electronic trading venue in the world."
Andrew co-founded Smart (formerly "Smart Pension") to give real people simpler ways to save and access their savings throughout their lives. In recent years many world-leading institutions and governments have partnered with Smart helping it become one of London's fastest growing FinTech Unicorns with over £4 billion in assets under management.
Andrew was, previously an international managing director, with roles at Lloyds, Barclays and Credit Agricole. He also works with cutting edge innovation foundations – awarding funding and offering advice to promising UK fintech companies and social entrepreneurs, including those who work with open banking.
Andrew Evans added, "As an asset allocator, Smart strives to maximise returns to investors. The radical advances being created in terms of pre-trade TCA, AI powered liquidity management and anomaly detection, are invaluable tools to help buyside fund managers make better informed trading decisions whilst being able to benchmark execution across FX, gold and crypto helps reassure asset allocators that returns are not eroded needlessly by high frictional costs."
Michael Siwek, DMALINK founder concluded, "The boards of DMALINK Ltd and DeFinity Markets Ltd recently agreed to merge the businesses to create the world's first cross asset institutional electronic trading venue. Whilst we await regulatory clearance, Andrew's role will focus primarily on DMALINK, however, he will be instrumental in helping to scale DeFinity Markets and the enlarged group and play a key role in our Series A capital raise."
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DMALINK is an independent electronic trading, analytics and market data venue for institutional FX traders globally. All liquidity pools are proactively constructed across key emerging markets. Its platform participants benefit from advanced order analytics data and granular reporting and benchmarked execution services, ensuring price transparency for all platform participants.
About DeFinity Markets
DeFinity operates an institutional digital assets electronic trading venue for Cryptocurrencies and Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC). In addition to supporting decentralised financial services for FX clearing, DeFinity is a layer-2 protocol with a focus on interoperability, utilising existing blockchain frameworks such as WeOwn, Ethereum, Polkadot, Binance Smart Chain and Cardano.
About Smart (Formerly known as "Smart Pension")
Smart is a global savings and investments technology platform provider. Its mission is to transform retirement, savings and financial well-being around the world. Smart partners with governments and financial institutions (including insurers, asset managers, banks, financial advisers) to deliver retirement savings and income solutions that are digital, bespoke and cost efficient. In addition to the UK, Smart is operating in the USA, Europe, Australia and the Middle East with more than a million savers entrusting over £4 billion in assets on the platform. Smart supports its clients with a 750 strong global team. Legal & General, Fidelity International Strategic Ventures, J.P. Morgan, the Link Group, Barclays, Natixis Investment Managers, DWS Group and Chrysalis Investments are all investors in Smart.
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Delhi is likely to see another spell of rain Thursday with the India Meteorological Department (IMD) having issued a ‘yellow’ alert for ‘moderate’ rainfall.
A yellow alert is a warning to ‘be alert’. The IMD has also warned of possible impacts including major traffic disruption on roads, increased chances of accidents and waterlogging in low-lying areas.
The maximum temperature on Thursday is likely to be 35 degrees Celsius. The minimum temperature early on Thursday was 24.5 degrees Celsius, three degrees below normal.
After the spell of heavy rain in the afternoon, parts of the city saw light rainfall at night on Wednesday. Between 8.30 am on Wednesday and 8.30 am on Thursday, the Safdarjung weather observatory received 56.6 mm of rainfall.
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Moderate rainfall remains in the forecast for Delhi on Friday and Saturday as well. The intensity is likely to reduce to light rainfall on Sunday and Monday.
The rainfall for the month and the season has surpassed normal levels at Safdarjung, the city’s base weather station. From June 1 onwards, Safdarjung has recorded 246.2 mm of rainfall this monsoon season, which is 18 per cent above the normal of 208.5 mm. For the month of July, the observatory has recorded 221.7 mm, 65 per cent over the normal of 134.4 mm so far.
The monsoon trough is near its normal position and is likely to remain so for two to three days, according to an IMD bulletin issued on Thursday morning. This, along with a western disturbance over north Pakistan, is likely to bring rainfall to northwest India from July 21 to 24, the bulletin indicates. Isolated very heavy rainfall is likely over Delhi, Chandigarh, Haryana, Punjab, western Uttar Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh on July 21.
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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.
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Doctors and doctors’ associations have condemned the move to debar five doctors from Delhi’s Safdarjung Hospital after a woman delivered her baby on a road within the campus on Tuesday, saying that lack of infrastructure and manpower were to blame. The principal of the associated Vardhman Mahavir Medical College (VMMC) had issued a show cause notice to three junior doctors – two post-graduation students who work as junior residents in the hospitals, and an intern.
“We condemn the move by Prof Geetika Khanna, Principal, VMMC for issuing show cause notice to innocent trainees & interns who have come to SJH to learn medicine. This is a small example of reality of young doctors in India. Why Unit Heads/ HODs/ MS are not held accountable,” the Federation of All India Medical Association (FAIMA) said.
With one of the busiest obstetrics and gynaecology departments, Safdarjung Hospital sees over 100 deliveries a day. It is a common sight to see two or three expectant mothers sharing a bed in the maternity ward and even in the labour room. On the day of the incident, the hospital handled 101 deliveries with just six doctors.
Dr Suvrankar Dutta, a junior resident at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences and formerly associated with FAIMA, said on Twitter, “The sole responsibility of ensuring adequate healthcare for its citizens lies on the government! Our governments have historically neglected our healthcare system. To hide their incompetency, without any proper enquiry, 3 Resident Doctors have been suspended!”
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Dr Ashwini Dalmiya, the Delhi Medical Association’s president, was also vocal about the move. “As usual, doctors are to be blamed for all administrative lapses. Don’t make doctors scapegoats in Safdarjung Hospital case,” Dr Dalmiya said.
Not only from within Delhi, the doctors also received support from the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research in Chandigarh. The Association of Resident Doctors from the hospital said in a letter, “While what happened with the mother is very heart wrenching and shows the despicable state of healthcare in India, it’s beyond our imagination why trainees and interns are being held responsible. Availability of beds and admission for the same are under the purview of consultants and not trainees.”
It added, “In India, PG trainees are already overburdened with an extremely skewed patient to doctor ratio, and whatever crumbling health infrastructure we have is being held in place by resident trainees who go beyond their duty hours and responsibilities just to keep the system in place.”
A doctor from Safdarjung Hospital had previously told The Indian Express that the woman had been advised admission after an ultrasound the night before. And, even though they reached the place for ultrasound, they failed to come to the ward for admission. The family said that they were running around from one place to the other to ensure she got the ultrasound, but even at 11 pm, they were not able to.
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Half-year results 2022 of Sartorius Stedim Biotech
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.
Conference call
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:
https://media.chorusScall.eu/mediaframe/webcast.html?webcastid=PBMZ53Mz
Further information
https://www.sartorius.com/en/company/newsroom
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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The department of school education on Wednesday announced that eggs or bananas/chikkis (supplementary nutrition) would be included in the midday meals as part of the Flexibility for Innovative Intervention activity under the PM Poshan Shakti Nirman (Midday meals) scheme for all districts from class 1-8.
The order stated that supplementary nutrition will be provided for 46 days a year in all districts for the current academic year 2022-23. In this regard, the secretary of the department of school education and literacy has stated that supplementary nutrition for 46 days will be provided at a unit at a cost of Rs 6 per student. The order also stated that the funds released under the PM Poshan Shakti Nirman scheme last year will be used to extend the supplementary nutrition initiative across all districts. Under the scheme, a total of Rs 34,711 crores was approved, out of which Rs 4494 crores have been granted to the supplementary nutrition programme, which will be used for this academic year.
Earlier, the Karnataka government had conducted a pilot initiative between December 2021- March 2022 by introducing eggs in midday meals in Kalyan Karnataka region including Bidar, Kalburgi, Ballari, Vijayanagara, Koppala, Raichur and Yadgiri after identifying the growing malnourishment among school children. The funds for the same were shared between the Centre and the State on a 60:40 ratio respectively.
Education minister BC Nagesh said, “The response from the Kalyan Karnataka region on the inclusion of eggs has been very good and it was seen that the outcome has been very positive. Hence we have decided to extend eggs or bananas/chikkis in midday meals across all districts and we want to ensure that malnutrition doesn’t impede education.”
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The order also said that the purchase of eggs should happen at school level and the school authorities must ensure that quality eggs are purchased and distributed. The government has also ordered the school authorities to update the information on distribution of eggs on SATS (Student Achievement Track System) and MDM (Midday Meal) websites.
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SHENZHEN, China, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- JWEI, a global leader in the electronic cigarette industry, announces today that they have successfully submitted a Pre-Market Tobacco Application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for a device created with their new innovative technology, which is focusing on safety, harm reduction and designed to curb underage use.
As one of the world-leading device manufacturers and innovators of e-cigarette and vaping products, with over 3,600 granted patents and multiple internationally recognized manufacturing and quality certifications (GMP, HACCP, ISO9001, ISO13485, EHS, and ERP), JWEI is committed to contributing to the advancement of the public health with meaningful and responsible innovations.
Cigarette smoking is one of the biggest public health threats, killing over 7 million people in the world every year 1. About one in every five deaths in the US is caused by cigarette smoking annually 2. The litany of tobacco-related diseases is long. Sadly, most of the mortality and morbidity are preventable.
Tobacco is addictive, primarily due to the presence of nicotine, although nicotine itself is not the direct cause of most smoking-related diseases 3. Many smokers who try to quit, either on their own or with the help from cessation programs, fail in their attempt 4 5 6.
There is a continuum of risks for products that deliver nicotine, ranging from the most harmful combusted products (e.g. cigarettes) to currently least harmful medicinal nicotine products such as nicotine replacement therapy (NRT). In recent years, attention has turned to the possibility of encouraging those who are unable or unwilling to quit to either reduce their cigarette consumption or switch to a less harmful alternative such as e-cigarettes as a potential outcome goal 6 7.
It requires a comprehensive, multifaceted approach and efforts to tackle the cigarette smoking epidemic from regulators, manufacturers, entrepreneurs, researchers in academia or private sections, advocacy groups, and distributors while not creating another vaping epidemic in youth and vulnerable populations.
Firstly, JWEI developed a set of principles to guide through every step of the new product development, led by safety and effectiveness studies in early 2019. The design philosophy is the foundation and guide rails for designing, manufacturing, verifying, validating, and continuously improving innovative, responsible, reliable, and high-quality products. The design philosophy was clearly established at the very beginning of the new product platform development: Turning the smoking epidemic challenge into improving public health opportunities with meaningful and responsible innovations.
Secondly, JWEI formed a dedicated multidisciplinary team including aerosol chemists, material scientists, toxicologists, epidemiologists, clinicians, behavioral scientists, and other subject-matter experts to harness creativity and innovation towards the realization of meaningful and effective product development.
Thirdly, JWEI has held a high standard from the beginning of the new product platform development and throughout the whole process. They brought in domain experts, including biomedical engineers and clinical and regulatory experts with decades' extensive experience in Class III medical devices. They prioritized safety with significant harm reductions for users and device-based access restrictions to deter youth initiation.
Fourthly, JWEI embedded the comprehensive PMTA guideline into a set of coherent criteria for product development and study objectives. The thorough and systematic testing and studies were conducted across three continents (Asia, Europe, and North America) with many certified third-party labs and reputable principal investigators and researchers from industry and academia, including aerosol testing, stability testing, E&L testing, in vitro toxicology testing, biomarker studies, in vivo pharmacokinetics, clinical studies, product perception and behavioral studies, human factors study, individual health assessment, actual use studies, population health modeling, and environmental impact assessment. The hand-in-hand interactive process between the new product platform development and executing PMTA study modules has yielded impressive results efficiently and effectively. For example, the new product has been shown to reduce>99.9% harmful and potentially harmful constituents (HPHC) compared to combustible cigarettes. This nicotine transfer effectiveness can enable the ability of much lower nicotine consumption to meet users' needs to ramp down, innovative and pragmatic deterrence features that greatly discourage non-users, and the ability to sustain the switch as the primary source of nicotine in actual use among users.
Last but not least, the mission-driven motivated team across three continents (Asia, Europe, and North America) tirelessly worked on the project around the clock.
The limited product debut in the UK has received overwhelming recognition from users and commercial partners after a few months' actual use. The high-quality and innovative features resonated well with users. The demographics of the actual use age distribution also showed the vast majority of users are existing nicotine product users who are well past young adulthood. The totality of the evidence builds a strong foundation demonstrating the new product and its platform products have a high potential to exert a profound impact on the APPH (appropriate for the protection of public health).
Over 1,500 documents, hundreds of study reports, and tens of thousands of pages in the final PMTA submission have been submitted to the FDA. The application will now be reviewed by the FDA before a determination is made by the agency to accept the application for filing at which stage it will then undergo a preliminary scientific review to ensure the application contains all required items to permit a substantive review by the FDA.
"JWEI has been a leader in this industry from the start and this milestone again reiterates our commitment to the industry and public health: ensuring our adult customers continued access to less harmful alternatives to traditional tobacco products, while setting a new standard preventing underage youth access." said Jason Yao, VP of JWEI Group.
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Paneer butter masala has been trending on Twitter after the GST rates for several items were revised. The GST council, following a two-day meet, decided to bring packed foods like milk, curd, and paneer, under the five per cent slab, and butter at 12 per cent.
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Soon, netizens started having a field day with memes flooding the microblogging site. Even politician Shashi Tharoor joined the conversation and wrote, “I don’t know who comes up with these brilliant WhatsApp forwards but this one skewers the folly of the GST as few jokes have!”
I don’t know who comes up with these brilliant WhatsAPP forwards but this one skewers the folly of the GST as few jokes have! pic.twitter.com/zcDGzgGOIQ
— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) July 20, 2022
The Congress MP had earlier written that “this GST rate hike is breathtakingly irresponsible at a time of mounting economic difficulties for most Indians. The Aam Aadmi will bear the brunt of the burden even as inflation eats into his earnings. Does this government believe it can get away with anything?”
This GST rate hike is breathtakingly irresponsible at a time of mounting economic difficulties for most Indians. The Aam Aadmi will bear the brunt of the burden even as inflation eats into his earnings. Does this government believe it can get away with anything? pic.twitter.com/wFPPfNxlQm
— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) July 17, 2022
A user, while pointing out that paneer butter masala is a dish relished by vegetarians, wrote now people will have to pay “direct and indirect taxes and GST of more than 35 per cent on one dish at restaurant”, while another wrote, “Wanted to order paneer butter masala. Then just let it be…. Too much confusion”.
Wanted to order Paneer Butter Masala. Then just let it be…. Too much confusion. pic.twitter.com/IAJ955Hsfk
— AW Sait (عبدالواحد سیٹ) 🆗 (@wahid_sait) July 19, 2022
Amid this Twitter chatter, here’s a quick and delicious recipe from chef Sanjeev Kapoor that you may like to try.
Ingredients
500g – Paneer, cut into triangles
5 tbsp – Butter
1 tsp – Oil
2 – Bay leaves
2 – Cloves
2 one-inch – Cinnamon
2 – Dried red chillies, broken
2 tbsp – Coriander seeds, crushed
1 – Onion sliced, 1 medium
2 tsp – Ginger paste
2 tsp – Garlic paste
1 tsp – Coriander powder
1 tsp – Red chilli powder
5-6 – Tomatoes, chopped 5-6
Salt to taste
1/2 tsp – Kasoori methi, crushed
2 tbsp – Fresh cream, 2 tablespoons
Coriander sprig for garnish
Method
*Heat three tablespoons butter with one teaspoon oil in a kadhai. Add bay leaves, cloves, cinnamon, red chillies and half of the crushed coriander seeds. Sauté for half a minute.
*Add onion and stir-fry for 30 seconds. Then add ginger-garlic paste and cook for another thirty seconds. Add coriander powder, red chilli powder and tomatoes. Cook on high heat till oil leaves the masala. Puree the mixture.
*Heat the remaining butter in a non-stick, cook the pureed mixture for two minutes. Add paneer pieces and salt. Add half cup of water. Cook covered on low heat for five minutes.
*Sprinkle kasoori methi and mix in lightly. Remove from heat and mix in cream. Serve hot, garnished with coriander sprig.
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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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The Federal Bureau of Investigation has added a 28-year-old Indian woman, who has been missing from New Jersey for the last three years, to its list of “Missing Persons” and is asking for assistance from the public on her whereabouts.
Mayushi Bhagat was last seen in the evening hours of April 29, 2019, leaving her apartment in Jersey City, New Jersey. She was last seen wearing colourful pajama pants and a black T-shirt. Bhagat was reported missing by her family on May 1, 2019.
She is described as 5 feet 10 inches tall, medium build with black hair and brown eyes.
Bhagat came to the United States in 2016 on an F1 Student Visa. She was enrolled at the University of New Hampshire and then the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT), according to information released by the FBI.
FBI’s Newark Division on Wednesday added Bhagat to the list of “Missing Persons” on its webpage, FBI Special Agent in Charge James Dennehy said.
Mayushi Bhagat was last seen April 29, 2019, leaving her apartment in Jersey City, NJ, wearing colorful pajama pants and a black t-shirt. She was in the US attending the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) in New York City. Help the #FBI find her: https://t.co/rAMkiPpsmN pic.twitter.com/SNFWOEAlCA
— FBI Most Wanted (@FBIMostWanted) July 19, 2022
Bhagat speaks English, Hindi, and Urdu and has friends in the South Plainfield, New Jersey, area.
The FBI said any person with information about Bhagat should contact the local FBI office or the nearest American Embassy or Consulate.
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