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LOS ANGELES , Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Official Tort Claimants' Committee ("TCC") of the Boy Scouts of America is pleased to announce that on September 8, 2022 the Bankruptcy Court approved the Boy Scouts' chapter 11 plan of reorganization ("Plan"), establishing the overall framework for a Survivor trust that will evaluate and pay claims. Plan approval comes more than two and half years after the case was filed in a detailed 280-page Bankruptcy Court decision. The TCC is represented by Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones LLP.
"The TCC is proud to put this phase of the bankruptcy case to rest," said John Humphrey, Co-Chair of the TCC. He added that "The TCC has been fighting for Survivors for more than two and a half years and we are ready to move onto the next phase of the process so that the Settlement Trustee can be formally appointed and begin setting up the trust."
Doug Kennedy, Co-Chair of the TCC, remarked "I hope the Boy Scouts will immediately implement the Youth Protection measures that were part of the Plan. While the Plan is an extremely complicated document, the Youth Protection measures are straight-forward protocols designed to help ensure kids are safe. To that end, the Boy Scouts should not wait until the Plan is fully effective before putting them in place."
On September 15, 2022 at 8:00 p.m. (Eastern Time), the TCC will hold a Town Hall to discuss the terms of the Plan, what they mean for Survivors, and the process of establishing the Settlement Trust that will administer Survivor claims.
Survivors and counsel can attend the Town Hall by logging onto or calling the following:
Zoom: https://pszjlaw.zoom.us/j/82272826295 (no registration required)
Dial-In by Telephone: 888-788-0099 (Toll Free), Webinar ID: 822 7282 6295. If asked for a "Participant ID," just press #
If you are not able to attend the Town Hall you can view a recording that will be posted on the TCC's website: http://www.tccbsa.com. In addition to Town Hall information, the TCC's website contains a variety of resources directed to Survivors.
More information on the restructuring can be found at https://www.tccbsa.com.
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DOWNERS GROVE, Ill., Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Dover (NYSE: DOV) announced that its President and Chief Executive Officer, Richard J. Tobin, will speak at the Morgan Stanley Laguna Conference on Thursday, September 15, 2022, at 11:20 AM CDT.
A link to the live audio webcast of the presentation will be available on dovercorporation.com, and the replay will be archived on the website for 90 days.
Dover is a diversified global manufacturer and solutions provider with annual revenue of approximately $8 billion. We deliver innovative equipment and components, consumable supplies, aftermarket parts, software and digital solutions, and support services through five operating segments: Engineered Products, Clean Energy & Fueling, Imaging & Identification, Pumps & Process Solutions and Climate & Sustainability Technologies. Dover combines global scale with operational agility to lead the markets we serve. Recognized for our entrepreneurial approach for over 65 years, our team of over 25,000 employees takes an ownership mindset, collaborating with customers to redefine what's possible. Headquartered in Downers Grove, Illinois, Dover trades on the New York Stock Exchange under "DOV." Additional information is available at dovercorporation.com.
Investor Contact:
Jack Dickens
Senior Director - Investor Relations
(630) 743-2566
jdickens@dovercorp.com
Media Contact:
Adrian Sakowicz
Vice President – Communications
(630) 743-5039
asakowicz@dovercorp.com
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Highly recruited sophomore linebacker Noah Mikhail visited Arkansas in July and has plans to make a return trip soon to see the Hogs and a family member.
Mikhail, 6-3, 205 pounds, of Bonita High School in La Verne, Calif., has offers from Arkansas, Oklahoma, Southern Cal, Oregon, Texas A&M, Washington, Colorado, Arizona, California and others.
His cousin — Kylie Harris, a UA senior — accompanied him and his parents on the first trip. Mikhail plans to attend the Alabama game on Oct. 1.
He's rated a 4-star prospect in the 2025 class by on3.com.
Nickname: I don’t have a nickname.
Favorite thing about playing linebacker is: That you get to do it all, cover, tackle, rush.
UA linebacker coach Michael Scherer is: Energetic, down to earth, and entertaining.
Funniest football moment: Watching my brothers 6u highlights.
If I couldn’t play football, I would want to star in: Basketball.
My mom is always on me to do: Everything.
Must watch TV: "Stranger Things."
Love or hate rollercoasters: I have a love-hate relationship with rollercoasters.
What superpower would you choose if given the option: Teleportation.
If you could meet a famous person, who would it be: Kevin Hart.
My hidden talent is: Cornhole.
Your favorite fast food chain and why: In-N-Out, the quality of their food is unmatched.
If you could only eat one thing the rest if your life, what would it be: Steak and french fries.
I would never eat: Lamb.
Favorite junk food: Cheesecake.
My favorite sweet-tooth craving: Gummy bears.
Strangest thing I’ve eaten: Alligator.
Who is your all-time celebrity crush: Ariana Grande.
If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be: I’d live somewhere that gets snow.
I’m terrified of: Spiders.
Cat or dog person and why: Dog, they actually care about you.
Do you think aliens exist: No.
I get emotional when: When it comes to family.
Favorite social media form: Instagram.
Best advice I’ve received: Never settle for anything less.
Role model and why: My brother, because he always pushed me to be better.
Three words to describe me: Tall, energized, lively.
People would be surprised: That I like classical music.
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CORTE MADERA, Calif. (AP) _ RH (RH) on Thursday reported fiscal second-quarter net income of $122.3 million.
On a per-share basis, the Corte Madera, California-based company said it had profit of $5.37. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, came to $8.08 per share.
The results topped Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of nine analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $6.81 per share.
The furniture and housewares company posted revenue of $991.6 million in the period, also beating Street forecasts. Seven analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $970.8 million.
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SECAUCUS, N.J., Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Quest Diagnostics Incorporated (NYSE: DGX), the world's leading provider of diagnostic information services, announced that it is scheduled to speak at the Morgan Stanley 20th Annual Global Healthcare Conference. Jim Davis, CEO-elect, and Sam Samad, Executive Vice President & CFO, will discuss the company's vision, goals, and capital deployment strategies. The presentation is scheduled for Tuesday, September 13, 2022, at 4:40 p.m. Eastern Time.
The presentation and Q&A session will be webcast live during the conference and will be available on the company's investor relations page which can be accessed at ir.QuestDiagnostics.com. In addition, the archived webcast will be available within 24 hours after the conclusion of the live event and will remain available until October 13, 2022.
About Quest Diagnostics
Quest Diagnostics empowers people to take action to improve health outcomes. Derived from the world's largest database of clinical lab results, our diagnostic insights reveal new avenues to identify and treat disease, inspire healthy behaviors and improve healthcare management. Quest annually serves one in three adult Americans and half the physicians and hospitals in the United States, and our 50,000 employees understand that, in the right hands and with the right context, our diagnostic insights can inspire actions that transform lives. www.QuestDiagnostics.com.
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CUTE: Viral sensation ‘The Corn Kid’ visits the Corn Palace
Published: Sep. 8, 2022 at 4:42 PM EDT|Updated: 9 minutes ago
MITCHELL, S.D. (Gray News) – “The Corn Kid” became so popular on TikTok that he now has a day named after him.
Tariq, a 7-year-old boy known as “The Corn Kid,” became a viral sensation for clips in which he enthusiastically declared his love of corn.
Over the weekend, he accepted an invitation to South Dakota’s Corn Palace, a major tourist attraction in the state.
During the visit with his family, South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem signed an executive proclamation to make Tariq the state’s “corn-bassador.”
Officials also declared Sept. 3 to be “Corn Kid Day” in the city of Mitchell, where the Corn Palace is located.
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BALTIMORE, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Medifast (NYSE: MED), the global company behind one of the fastest-growing health and wellness communities, OPTAVIA®, announced today that its Board of Directors has declared a $1.64 quarterly cash dividend to its stockholders. The quarterly cash dividend of $1.64 per share is payable on November 8, 2022, to stockholders of record as of the close of business on September 20, 2022.
Medifast expects to maintain a program of paying dividends on a quarterly basis. However, the declaration of dividends in the future is subject to the discretion of the company's Board of Directors, who will evaluate the company's dividend program from time to time based on factors that it deems relevant.
About Medifast:
Medifast (NYSE: MED) is the global company behind one of the fastest-growing health and wellness communities, OPTAVIA®, which offers scientifically developed products, clinically proven plans and the support of independent OPTAVIA Coaches and a Community to help Customers achieve Lifelong Transformation, One Healthy Habit at a Time®. As the publicly traded market leader by revenue in the U.S. $7 billion weight management industry, the company has impacted more than 2 million lives through its Community of OPTAVIA Coaches, who teach Customers how to develop holistic healthy habits through the proprietary Habits of Health® Transformational System. Medifast was recognized in 2022 as one of America's Best Mid-Sized Companies by Forbes, in 2020 and 2021 as one of FORTUNE's 100 Fastest-Growing Companies and was named to Forbes' 100 Most Trustworthy Companies in America list in 2017. For more information, visit MedifastInc.com or OPTAVIA.com and follow @Medifast on Twitter.
Forward Looking Statements
Please Note: This release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. These forward-looking statements generally can be identified by use of phrases or terminology such as "intend," "anticipate," "expects" or other similar words or the negative of such terminology. Similarly, descriptions of Medifast's objectives, strategies, plans, goals or targets contained herein are also considered forward-looking statements. These statements are based on the current expectations of the management of Medifast and are subject to certain events, risks, uncertainties and other factors. Some of these factors include, among others, constraints, volatility or disruptions in the capital markets or other factors affecting the amount and timing of share repurchases under Medifast's accelerated share repurchase program; risks associated with Medifast's direct-to-consumer business model, the impact of rapid growth on Medifast's systems; disruptions in Medifast's supply chain; Medifast's inability to continue to develop new products; effectiveness of Medifast's advertising and marketing programs, including use of social media by independent OPTAVIA Coaches; Medifast's inability to maintain and grow the network of independent OPTAVIA Coaches; the departure of one or more key personnel; Medifast's inability to protect against online security risks; to protect its brand or to protect against product liability claims; Medifast's planned growth into domestic and international markets; adverse publicity associated with Medifast's products; Medifast's inability to continue declaring dividends; fluctuations of Medifast's common stock market price; the severity, length and ultimate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Medifast's results and people and economies; increases in competition, litigation, consequences of other geopolitical events, natural disasters, acts of war, climate change, stockholder activism, regulatory changes, inflation, labor shortages, supply chain issues and the resulting impact on market conditions and consumer sentiment and spending; and a failure of internal control over financial reporting. Although Medifast believes that the expectations, statements and assumptions reflected in these forward-looking statements are reasonable, it cautions readers to always consider all of the risk factors and any other cautionary statements carefully in evaluating each forward-looking statement in this release, as well as those set forth in its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021, and other filings filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, including its quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and current reports on Form 8-K. All of the forward-looking statements contained herein speak only as of the date of this release.
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The Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a notice of appeal following a federal judge's ruling that would allow a special master to review documents seized from former President Donald Trump's Florida home.
The ruling also stopped the DOJ from using those records for investigative purposes.
Trump's legal team argued a special master would serve as an independent third party, who would be able to determine whether appropriate documents were being filtered out, including personal items and materials that could be covered by attorney-client privilege.
The DOJ argued that a special master was not necessary because it had already reviewed the documents.
The appeal will be heard by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta.
The DOJ and Trump's attorneys were supposed to submit their list of special master candidates by Friday.
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BBB: Don’t get scammed with fake tickets for Southern vs. LSU game
Published: Sep. 8, 2022 at 3:04 PM CDT|Updated: 52 minutes ago
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - The historic football matchup between the LSU Tigers and Southern University Jags is officially sold out ahead of Saturday’s game in Death Valley.
The Better Business Bureau of South Central Louisiana urges people to watch out for scams related to big events, such as sporting events, concerts, theatres and more.
Here are some of the BBB’s tips for ensuring a trustworthy ticket source:
- LSU is now urging people to purchase tickets through its secondary ticket provider StubHub: LSU Tigers Football Tickets - StubHub
- Check out the seller/broker. Look them up on BBB.org to learn what other customers have experienced. Check to see if they are a member of the National Association of Ticket Brokers.
- Buy only from trusted vendors. Buy online only from vendors you know and trust. Look for the lock symbol in the web address to indicate a secure purchasing system.
- Know the refund policy. You should only purchase tickets from a ticket reseller that provides clear details about the terms of the transaction.
- Use payment methods that come with protection. Always use a credit card so you have some recourse if the tickets are not as promised.
- Be wary of advertisements. When you search the web for online tickets, advertisements for cheap tickets will often appear. Use good judgment; some of these ads are going to be ticket scams, especially if the prices are low.
- If you’re unsure, verify your tickets. Pay a visit to the arena where the event will be held. Present your ticket to “Will Call” (customer service) and they can verify if your ticket is legitimate and show you how to tell if a ticket is fake.
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Lindani Myeni’s widow denied visa extension by home affairs
Lindsay Myeni has 10 days to appeal or face being banned from the country for five years
08 September 2022 - 22:13
The widow of KwaZulu-Natal rugby player Lindani Myeni, who was shot and killed by police in Hawaii last year, has been denied a two-year visa extension to remain in the country...
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Justice Dept. appeals judge’s order allowing for outside review of records from Trump’s Florida home
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department said Thursday that it was appealing a judge’s decision granting the appointment of an independent arbiter to review records seized by the FBI from former President Donald Trump’s Florida home.
The department also asked U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon to put on hold her directive prohibiting it from using the seized records for investigative purposes while it contests her ruling to a federal appeals court.
Law enforcement officials said they would suffer “irreparable harm” if Cannon’s directive remained in place, noting that uncertainty about the boundaries of the judge’s order had led the intelligence community to temporarily halt a damage assessment of the classified records taken from Mar-a-Lago.
“Moreover, the government and the public are irreparably injured when a criminal investigation of matters involving risks to national security is enjoined,” the Justice Department motion stated.
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon on Monday granted the Trump team’s request for a so-called special master and temporarily blocked the Justice Department from using for investigative purposes the thousands of records taken from Mar-a-Lago during the Aug. 8 search.
That order has the likely impact of slowing the pace of the investigation into the presence of classified documents at the Florida property.
The Justice Department, which had strenuously opposed such an appointment, filed a notice of appeal Thursday, saying it was contesting the ruling to the Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Cannon, a Trump appointee, said the yet-to-be-named special master will be responsible for reviewing the records from Mar-a-Lago and segregating out those that are potentially protected by attorney-client privilege or executive privilege.
The Justice Department has been investigating what it says was the unlawful retention of national defense information at Mar-a-Lago as well as efforts to obstruct the probe. It is not clear whether Trump or anyone else will face charges.
The two sides were directed to submit proposed names of a special master by Friday. That role is often filled by a lawyer or former judge.
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PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Some retailers are taking lobster off the menu after an assessment from an influential conservation group that the seafood poses too much of a risk to rare whales and should be avoided.
Whales can suffer injuries and fatalities when they become entangled in the gear that connects to lobster traps on the ocean floor. Seafood Watch, which rates the sustainability of different seafoods, said this week it has added the American and Canadian lobster fisheries to its “red list” of species to avoid.
The organization, based at Monterey Bay Aquarium in California, said in a report that the fishing industry is a danger to North Atlantic right whales because “current management measures do not go far enough to mitigate entanglement risks and promote recovery of the species.”
Thousands of businesses use Seafood Watch’s recommendations to inform seafood buying decisions, and many have pledged to avoid any items that appear on the red list. A spokesperson for Blue Apron, the New York meal kit retailer, said after the release of the report that the company no longer offers lobster. HelloFresh, the Germany-based meal kit company that is the largest such company operating in the U.S., also pledged shortly after the announcement to stop selling lobster.
“HelloFresh is committed to responsible sourcing and follows guidelines from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch program,” said Saskia Leisewitz, a spokesperson for HelloFresh.
Seafood Watch assigns ratings of “best choice,” “good alternative” and “avoid” to more than 2,000 seafood items based on how sustainably they are managed. The organization’s recommendations have been influential in the past, such as when it red-listed the Louisiana shrimp fishery, prompting efforts to better protect sea turtles. The fishery was later removed from the red list.
The lobster fishing industry has come under scrutiny from Seafood Watch because of the threat of entanglement in fishing gear. The North Atlantic right whales number less than 340 and entanglement is one of the two biggest threats they face, along with collisions with ships, scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and other groups have said. The population of the giant animals, which were decimated during the commercial whaling era generations ago, has fallen in recent years.
Members of the lobster fishing industry, which is also coping with increased federal fishing restrictions to protect the whales, pushed back against the Seafood Watch rating. The lobster industry in Maine, where most of the U.S.’s lobster comes to land, has not had a documented interaction with a right whale in almost two decades, said Patrice McCarron, executive director of the Maine Lobstermen’s Association.
“Lobster is one of the most sustainable fisheries in the world due to the effective stewardship practices handed down through generations of lobstermen. These include strict protections for both the lobster resource and right whales,” McCarron said.
American and Canadian lobster fishermen target the same species, the American lobster, which is popular as live seafood and in processed products such as lobster rolls and lobster ravioli. The vast majority of the world’s American lobster comes to the shore in New England and eastern Canada, and the crustaceans are both a key piece of the economy and a cultural marker in both places.
The U.S. lobster fishery is also one of the most lucrative in the country and was worth more than $900 million at the docks in 2021, when fishermen caught more than 130 million pounds (59 million kilograms) of the crustaceans.
Seafood Watch partners with numerous major seafood buyers on its recommendations. Some of the buyers, such as Compass Group and Cheesecake Factory, did not respond to requests for comment from The Associated Press. A spokesperson for one, Mars Petcare, said the company doesn’t have lobster in its supply chain.
Environmental groups said Seafood Watch’s decision places a spotlight on the fishery and the need to do more to protect whales.
“Fishery managers must increase protections to save North Atlantic right whales so seafood retailers, consumers, and restaurants can put American lobster and crab back on the menu,” Oceana campaign director Gib Brogan said.
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NOT FOR DISSEMINATION IN THE UNITED STATES OR FOR DISTRIBUTION TO U.S. NEWSWIRE SERVICES AND DOES NOT CONSTITUTE AN OFFER OF THE SECURITIES DESCRIBED HEREIN
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, Sept. 08, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NOVA LEAP HEALTH CORP. (TSXV: NLH) (“Nova Leap” or the “Company”), a growing home health care organization, is pleased to announce it closed its non-brokered private placement, previously announced on August 23, 2022 (the “Offering”), through the issuance of 6,814,445 common shares (the “Common Shares”) for gross proceeds of CAD$2,385,055.75 on September 8, 2022.
The Common Shares issued pursuant to the Offering are subject to a hold period until January 9, 2023. Insiders of the Company subscribed for an aggregate of 5,600,087 Common Shares. The Company’s material change report in relation to the insiders’ participation in the Offering will not have been filed at least 21 days before the closing of the Offering as participation was not known at that time. The Company paid cash finder’s fees of CAD$12,000 which was equal to 6.0% of the gross proceeds of the Offering raised through certain brokers.
Upon subscribing to 82.18% of the Offering, insiders collectively own 38.72% of the issued and outstanding common shares of Nova Leap.
The proceeds from the Offering will be used for working capital, acquisition and expansion purposes.
The securities offered have not been, nor will they be, registered under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and may not be offered or sold in the United States or to, or for the account or benefit of, U.S. persons absent registration or an applicable exemption from the registration requirements. This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy nor shall there be any sale of the securities in any State in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful.
About Nova Leap
Nova Leap is an acquisitive home health care services company operating in one of the fastest-growing industries in the U.S. & Canada. The Company performs a vital role within the continuum of care with an individual and family centered focus, particularly those requiring dementia care. Nova Leap achieved the #42 ranking on the 2021 Report on Business ranking of Canada’s Top Growing Companies, the #2 ranking on the 2020 Report on Business ranking of Canada’s Top Growing Companies and the #10 Ranking in the 2019 TSX Venture 50™ in the Clean Technology & Life Sciences sector. The Company is geographically diversified with operations in 11 different U.S. states within the New England, Southeastern, South Central and Midwest regions as well as in Nova Scotia, Canada.
FORWARD LOOKING INFORMATION:
Certain information in this press release may contain forward-looking statements, such as statements regarding the expected closing of and the anticipated use of the proceeds from the Offering, expected benefits of the Company’s operational changes, acquisition and expansion plans, and future access to leverage for acquisitions. This information is based on current expectations and assumptions, including assumptions described elsewhere in this release and those concerning general economic and market conditions, obtaining necessary approvals for the Offering, and the availability of desirable acquisition targets and financing to fund such acquisitions, that are subject to significant risks and uncertainties that are difficult to predict. Actual results might differ materially from results suggested in any forward-looking statements. Risks that could cause results to differ from those stated in the forward-looking statements in this release include those relating to the ability to complete the Offering on the terms described above, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic or any recurrence, staff and supply shortages, regulatory changes affecting the home care industry or government programs utilized by the Company, other unexpected increases in operating costs and competition from other service providers. All forward-looking statements, including any financial outlook or future-oriented financial information, contained in this press release are made as of the date of this release and included for the purpose of providing information about management's current expectations and plans relating to the future, and these statements may not be appropriate for other purposes. The Company assumes no obligation to update the forward-looking statements, or to update the reasons why actual results could differ from those reflected in the forward-looking statements unless and until required by securities laws applicable to the Company. Additional information identifying risks and uncertainties is contained in the Company's filings with the Canadian securities regulators, which filings are available at www.sedar.com.
CAUTIONARY STATEMENT:
Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Max Muncy took things into his own hands with the Los Angeles Dodgers trailing 2-0. He beat the shift with a bunt, bringing Justin Turner to the plate — and Turner responded with a three-run homer.
Muncy added his own three-run blast in the eighth to help the Dodgers beat the San Francisco Giants 7-3 on Wednesday.
The NL West leaders reduced their magic number to six games. The Dodgers could clinch a postseason berth Friday in San Diego.
“We’re obviously winning a lot of baseball games, but we still got to get some guys back to health, number one, and we’re still in the mode of trying to get some guys on track,” manager Dave Roberts said.
Trea Turner doubled in the go-ahead run in the eighth after being hitless in his first four at-bats. Austin Barnes, who reached on an infield single, scored for a 4-3 lead.
Freddie Freeman walked and Trea Turner took third on a wild pitch by Zack Littell (2-3) to set up Muncy, whose blast into the right-field pavilion made it 7-3. Muncy went 3 for 4 a day after hitting two homers in a 6-3 win.
“I wanted to get the ball in the air on that one. We have the fastest guy in baseball on third base,” Muncy said, referring to Trea Turner.
The Dodgers took their first lead, 3-2, on Justin Turner’s three-run homer in the fifth.
Justin Turner has been as hot at the plate as the triple-digit temperatures that have gripped Southern California for over a week. He extended his hitting streak to 16 games, with 10 multi-hit games in his last 18.
David Villar homered twice and drove in all of the runs for the Giants, who led 2-0 in the fifth. Villar’s second homer — a solo shot off Justin Bruihl — tied it 3-all in the seventh of a game that began with a temperature of 99 degrees (37 Celsius).
The teams combined for 16 homers in the three-game series.
“When the weather stays warm like this, it’s fun to hit here,” Muncy said. “With it being in the triple digits the last few days, the ball was definitely flying and it showed.”
After leaving eight runners on base through four innings, the Dodgers rallied in the fifth.
Freeman led off with a single, Muncy bunted up the third-base line, and Justin Turner followed with his 11th homer of the season to center for a 3-2 lead. Lewis Brinson leapt at the wall, but couldn’t make the play.
“It’s not so easy, especially when you don’t do it very much,” Dodgers starter Clayton Kershaw said of the bunt. “That was an awesome play by Max right there.”
Evan Phillips (6-3) got the win with 1 1/3 innings of relief.
Kershaw allowed two runs and five hits in six innings and struck out eight in his third straight no-decision. He’s made two starts since coming off the injured list a week ago.
“Another good step forward for me. I’ve been bouncing back good,” Kershaw said. “Now you just want to pitch good leading into October.”
Giants starter Alex Cobb gave up three runs and seven hits in 4 1/3 innings. He struck out four and walked three.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Dodgers: OF Joey Gallo left the game with a right elbow contusion after getting hit by a pitch. He said he couldn’t feel his fingers, although X-rays were negative.
UP NEXT
Giants: Haven’t announced a starter Thursday for the series opener at Milwaukee.
Dodgers: After an off-day, RHP Dustin May (1-2, 3.94) starts Friday at San Diego in the opener of a three-game series.
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Yellen pushes Biden economic plans in battleground Michigan
WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen pressed the case for Democratic economic policies during a visit Thursday to Ford’s Rouge electric vehicle assembly plant in Michigan, a battleground state in the November midterm elections.
After a production-line tour, Yellen promoted recent legislative successes for the Biden administration, saying: “After the progress we have made over the past few months, I am more optimistic about the course of our economy than I have been for quite a while and I know we are headed in the right direction.”
Yellen’s visit to Detroit was part of a monthlong tour as well as a larger White House campaign to highlight new laws intended to repair the economy, boost computer chip manufacturing, lower prescription drug prices, expand clean energy and revamp the country’s infrastructure.
She pointed to the bipartisan infrastructure law, the CHIPS and Science Act and the “Inflation Reduction Act,” all passed and signed in the past year.
“By any traditional metric, we have experienced one of the quickest recoveries in our modern history,” she said, referencing the financial damage and stagnation caused by the coronavirus pandemic that shuttered economic systems around the world. “Our plans worked” she added.
The Treasury Department is responsible for managing a new $7,500 electric vehicle tax credit for qualifying, but the auto industry is warning that the vast majority of EV purchases won’t qualify for that much.
The European Union and other nations have threatened to file complaints at the World Trade Organization over the tax credit, claiming it would discriminate against foreign producers and break WTO rules.
Yellen has more stops planned and will give a speech next month at the 157th anniversary of the Freedman’s Bank Forum to talk about how President Joe Biden’s economic agenda “advances equity and makes our economy stronger as a result.”
Biden is set to visit Ohio on Friday for the groundbreaking of an Intel semiconductor manufacturing facility and go to the Detroit auto show Wednesday to talk about manufacturing electric vehicles.
At the Ford electric vehicle assembly plant in Dearborn, Yellen pointed to U.S. vulnerability to global supply shocks caused by climate change and other factors, and the need to embrace green technology. Addressing those challenges, she said, offers the prospects of new jobs.
“This includes the U.S. clean vehicle sector, where we can expect greater investment — and more good jobs, like the ones here at Ford — as we develop the supply chain here at home,” she said.
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For Americans, Queen Elizabeth II was the central character in the world’s longest running soap opera
My mother often shared two memories of her experience as a young woman during World War II: Her grandmother, an Irish woman with memories of hunger and fear under British rule, cheering the Blitz, to her family’s horror; and the impressive sight of the royal family remaining in London even as bombs dropped on Buckingham Palace. Like millions of others, my mother saw young Princess Elizabeth, who later volunteered as a military truck driver and auto mechanic, as especially heroic.
Queen Elizabeth II, who died Thursday at age 96, would live at the center of such complicated and often oppositional mythology for decades to come.
As has been said many times over, we look to the royal family for the kind of jewel-encrusted, gilded coach-chauffeured institutional ritual that this country, by choice and definition, does not have.
But Queen Elizabeth II enthralled us at an even more basic level. For Americans, who experienced her at a physical and emotional distance, she was an almost mythological figure, the most enduring main character in the world’s longest-running soap opera.
Over the years, that character has been cast in many lights: fairy tale princess, colonial despot, self-sacrificing monarch, money-sucking figurehead, under-appreciated working woman, unfeeling mother-in-law.
Queen Elizabeth II’s 70-year reign was so long that most of Britain’s 68 million people have known no other sovereign.
Though she was queen for longer than most of us have been alive, Elizabeth usually entered the modern American conversation through either celebration — weddings, jubilees — or scandal. The marriage between Prince Charles and Diana Spencer renewed American interest in the British monarchy — and when that marriage ended in scandal, revealing Diana’s deep unhappiness, many blamed, and continue to blame, the queen. After Diana died, Elizabeth’s days-long silence reinforced the belief that she cared little for the People’s Princess, that indeed her coldness had contributed to Diana’s tragic fate.
Others believed it was the queen who had been mistreated. As Peter Morgan’s film “The Queen” and, more recently, Seasons 3 and 4 of “The Crown” explored, one of Elizabeth’s greatest talents was her ability to remain both iconic and enigmatic. Her every action was open to interpretation because, as monarch, she refused to respond definitively to question or criticism.
There may be no other person who lived in the modern public spotlight for so long and still remained, essentially, a cipher, a well-known figure not really known at all.
Which is one reason “The Crown” has been as big a hit in the United States as in the United Kingdom. While royalists and others pressured Netflix to attach an absurdly unnecessary disclaimer that the series is a work of fiction, audiences understood that it represents exactly what Elizabeth II was able to do so successfully: occupy a near-magical crossroads between real and make-believe.
Nineteenth century political writer Walter Bagehot argued that the unwritten British constitution relied on two kinds of institutions: the efficient and the dignified. The efficient, including the House of Commons, did the work of government while the dignified, the monarchy, maintained the nation’s honor and to a lesser extent its narrative.
Elizabeth’s understanding of Bagehot’s definition occupies an entire episode of “The Crown,” but her grappling with the larger concept fuels the entire series. So do the inherent contradictions in her life that have continued to fascinate Americans for generations. Like her father before her, she was thrust into a job she did not want long before she felt ready. She lived in a fancy palace but was chained to her desk and her schedule like the most overworked bureaucrat. She was the symbolic leader of her nation but unable to voice her own views on almost anything.
Queen Elizabeth’s death ended a remarkable 70-year rule — so long that most of Britain’s 68 million people have known no other sovereign.
She was the essence of privilege but also of duty; she may have had a splendid collection of hats and several castles at her disposal, but she never seemed to be living the high life. By all accounts, she was happiest tramping through the mud in Scotland, where she hung out in Balmoral but also drove her own Land Rover until fairly recently. And where she died.
More than anything, Queen Elizabeth II was an increasingly singular fixed point in a frantically changing universe. In recent years, she seemed to exist in a world apart from even the rest of the royal family. As allegations of sexual abuse left Prince Andrew stripped of his royal titles, as Prince Harry and Meghan Markle left the family they accused of racism, the queen’s longevity softened any criticism aimed at her through or by her progeny.
The royal family may be in tatters, and the fate of the monarchy has been questioned for years, but Elizabeth II was England’s beloved queen until the moment of her death.
Scandal and celebration, birth and death, war and peace, prosperity and decline: For almost a century, she watched her country and the world writhe and shift through the modern age while she stood fast, for good and ill, in a role she believed was appointed by God and was certainly rooted through centuries.
We knew this day would come, just as we know even the most epic story must end, that even the most resilient character will at last fall silent, but there is no avoiding the shock or filling the vacuum. Impossible as it may seem, the queen is dead, and we will never see another like her in this world.
What happens next will simply be an epilogue.
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MIAMI, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lennar Corporation (NYSE: LEN and LEN.B), one of the nation's largest homebuilders, announced today that the Company will release earnings for the third quarter ended August 31, 2022 after the market closes on September 21, 2022. Additionally, the Company will hold a conference call on September 22, 2022 at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time.
The call will be broadcast live on the Internet and can be accessed through Lennar's website at investors.lennar.com. If you are unable to participate during the live webcast, the call will be archived at investors.lennar.com for 90 days.
Lennar Corporation, founded in 1954, is one of the nation's leading builders of quality homes for all generations. Lennar builds affordable, move-up and active adult homes primarily under the Lennar brand name. Lennar's Financial Services segment provides mortgage financing, title and closing services primarily for buyers of Lennar's homes and, through LMF Commercial, originates mortgage loans secured primarily by commercial real estate properties throughout the United States. Lennar's Multifamily segment is a nationwide developer of high-quality multifamily rental properties. LENX drives Lennar's technology, innovation and strategic investments. For more information about Lennar, please visit www.lennar.com.
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KILLEEN, Texas — Dr. Robert Marbut with Marbut Consulting told the City of Killeen that their homeless population could quadruple within the next five years.
With the current population already in the hundreds, this could have a significant impact on the city.
Tune in at 5, 6 and 10 p.m. as 25 News reporter Adam Schindler speaks with a city council member and with Dr. Marbut on what he says the city can do to lower homeless rates in Killeen.
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ROSTHERN, Saskatchewan (AP) — The last suspect in a horrific stabbing rampage that killed 10 and wounded 18 in western Canada is dead following his capture, but how he died after being taken into custody has prompted fresh investigations.
One official said Myles Sanderson, 32, died from self-inflicted injuries Wednesday after police forced the stolen car he was driving off a highway in Saskatchewan. Other officials declined to discuss how he died .
“I can’t speak to the specific manner of death. That’s going to be part of the autopsy that will be conducted,” Assistant Commissioner Rhonda Blackmore, commander of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Saskatchewan, said at a news conference Wednesday night.
The other suspect, Sanderson’s 30-year-old brother, Damien Sanderson, was found dead Monday near the scene of the bloody knife attacks inside and around the James Smith Cree First Nation reserve early Sunday. Both men were residents of the Indigenous reserve.
Blackmore said Myles Sanderson was cornered as police units responded to a report of a stolen vehicle driven by a man armed with a knife. She said officers forced Sanderson’s vehicle off the road and into a ditch. He was detained and a knife was found inside the vehicle, she said.
Sanderson went into medical distress while in custody, Blackmore said. She said CPR was attempted on him before an ambulance arrived and he was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
“All life-saving measures that we are capable of were taken at that time,” she said.
Blackmore gave no details on the cause of death. But an official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, earlier said Sanderson died of self-inflicted injuries, without elaborating.
Video and photos from the scene showed a white SUV alongside the road with police cars all around. Air bags had deployed in the SUV. Some photos and video taken from a distance appeared to show Sanderson being frisked.
Members of Saskatchewan’s Serious Incident Response Team went to the arrest site and will review Sanderson’s death and police conduct.
The federal public safety minister, Marco Mendicino, also stressed that the events will be investigated.
“You have questions. We have questions,” he told reporters during a Cabinet retreat in Vancouver, British Columbia, adding: “There will be two levels of police who will be investigating the circumstances of Myles Sanderson’s death.”
Mark Mendelson, a former Toronto police detective, said the police are bound by police service laws that govern the work of internal affairs when there is a death in police custody. Mendelson said police can’t comment yet on how the interaction took place or on what the officers saw or what he said to them.
“They have to at least wait until the forensic autopsy is concluded and hopefully the pathologist will come up with a cause of death. If it’s drugs, then toxicology is going to take sometime,” he said. “If it’s a stab wound that didn’t leak through his clothes then we should hear that. Everybody wants answers.”
His death came two days after the body of Damien Sanderson was found in a field near the scene of the knife rampage. Police are investigating whether Myles Sanderson killed his brother.
Darryl Burns, who lost his sister Gloria Burns to the attack, hugged Damien Sanderson’s widow at a news conference Wednesday, telling her that the family was ready to forgive.
“Damien was caught up in the life,” Darryl Burns said. “He was caught up in a moment. But hearing the stories of Damien. He tried to stop it, he tried to stop it, but he paid with his life.”
Sobbing, his widow muttered, “That’s not my husband.”
Blackmore said that with both men dead, “we may never have an understanding of that motivation.”
But she said she hoped the families of the stabbing victims will find some comfort “knowing that Myles Sanderson is no longer a threat to them.”
Some relatives of the victims arrived at the scene Wednesday, including Brian Burns, whose wife and son were killed.
“Now we can start to heal. The healing begins today, now,” he said.
The stabbings raised questions of why Myles Sanderson — an ex-con with 59 convictions and a long history of shocking violence — was out on the streets in the first place.
He was released by a parole board in February while serving a sentence of over four years on charges that included assault and robbery. But he had been wanted by police since May, apparently for violating the terms of his release, though the details were not immediately clear.
His long and lurid rap sheet also showed that seven years ago, he attacked and stabbed one of the victims killed in Sunday’s stabbings, according to court records.
Mendicino, the public safety minister, has said there will be an investigation into the parole board’s assessment of Sanderson.
“I want to know the reasons behind the decision” to release him, Mendicino said. “I’m extremely concerned with what occurred here. A community has been left reeling.”
The Saskatchewan Coroner’s Service said nine of those killed were from the James Smith Cree Nation: Thomas Burns, 23; Carol Burns, 46; Gregory Burns, 28; Lydia Gloria Burns, 61; Bonnie Burns, 48; Earl Burns, 66; Lana Head, 49; Christian Head, 54; and Robert Sanderson, 49. The other victim was from Weldon, 78-year-old Wesley Patterson.
Authorities would not say if the victims might be related.
Mark Arcand said his half sister Bonnie and her son Gregory were killed.
“Her son was lying there already deceased. My sister went out and tried to help her son, and she was stabbed two times, and she died right beside him,” he said. “Right outside of her home she was killed by senseless acts. She was protecting her son. She was protecting three little boys. This is why she is a hero.”
Arcand rushed to the reserve the morning of the rampage. After that, he said, “I woke up in the middle of the night just screaming and yelling. What I saw that day I can’t get out of my head.”
As for what set off the violence, Arcand said: “We’re all looking for those same answers. We don’t know what happened. Maybe we’ll never know. That’s the hardest part of this.”
Court documents said Sanderson attacked his in-laws Earl Burns and Joyce Burns in 2015, knifing Earl Burns repeatedly and wounding Joyce Burns. He later pleaded guilty to assault and threatening Earl Burns’ life.
Many of Sanderson’s crimes were committed when he was intoxicated, according to court records. He told parole officials at one point that substance use made him out of his mind. Records showed he repeatedly violated court orders barring him from drinking or using drugs.
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Gillies reported from Toronto. Associated Press writer Heather Hollingsworth in Kansas City contributed to this report.
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The high-profile seditious conspiracy trial for the leader of the far-right Oath Keepers extremist group will begin this month after a judge on Wednesday rejected a last-minute bid by Stewart Rhodes to replace his lawyers and delay his Capitol riot case.
Rhodes said in court papers this week there had been a “breakdown” in communication between him and his two lawyers, who he claimed weren’t defending him forcefully enough. Rhodes’ new lawyer argued that the Oath Keepers founder has not been given enough time to adequately prepare for trial and urged the judge to delay his trial at least 90 days.
But the obviously irritated judge called the claim that Rhodes is being denied a fair trial “simply false.”
U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta said Rhodes’ suggestion that his lawyers are not providing effective counsel appeared to be “complete and utter nonsense” and questioned why concerns about his lawyers were surfacing for the first time just weeks before trial.
“The notion that you are going to create the kind of havoc that you will — and havoc is the only appropriate word I can think of — by moving Mr. Rhodes’ trial, not going to happen,” Mehta told Edward Tarpley, whom Rhodes wanted as his new lawyer.
Mehta said Tarpley is free to join Rhodes’ two other lawyers — James Lee Bright and Phillip Linder — but Mehta was not going to remove them from the case.
Tarpley told The Associated Press after the hearing that he’s disappointed but respects the court’s decision and remains willing to help Rhodes’ defense team at trial.
“He never went into the Capitol … he never told anybody to go into the Capitol,” Tarpley said. There’s a lot of things in his favor. And, you know, I just think that he’s been unfairly accused and wrongly prosecuted in this case.”
The case against Rhodes and four co-defendants starting Sept. 27 in federal court will be the most serious case to go to trial so far in the riot of Jan. 6, 2021, that delayed the certification of Joe Biden’s 2020 president victory over Donald Trump.
It will also be a major test for the Department of Justice, which has brought rarely used and difficult-to-prove charges of seditious conspiracy against Oath Keepers members and those of another far-right extremist group, the Proud Boys.
Authorities say Rhodes was the ringleader of the Oath Keepers’ plot to violently stop the transfer of power. In the run-up to Jan. 6, authorities say the Oath Keepers recruited members, purchased weapons and set up a “quick reaction force” with guns on standby outside the capital with the goal of keeping President Donald Trump in office.
On Jan. 6, prosecutors say the Oath Keepers formed two teams, or “stacks,” that entered the Capitol. Rhodes is not accused of going inside the building, but was seen gathered outside the Capitol with several members after they did, authorities say.
Rhodes has said there was no plan to storm the Capitol and that the members who went inside the building went rogue. His lawyers have argued he believed Trump would invoke the Insurrection Act and call upon the Oath Keepers to support his bid to stay in power. When Trump did not do that, Rhodes took no action, his lawyers have said.
Three members of the Oath Keepers have already pleaded guilty to seditious conspiracy, are cooperating with investigators and could testify against Rhodes at trial.
Rhodes claimed that his lawyers, Bright and Linder, were not answering his calls or visiting him enough and failed to file legal papers they promised to. The defense also argued its case would be hurt by the arrest this month of the the Oath Keepers’ general counsel — Kellye SoRelle — whom the defense was expecting to call to the stand.
Bright denied not answering calls from Rhodes or failing to discuss the defense strategy with him. He called some of the new legal papers Rhodes wants to file “frivolous.”
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Associated Press journalist Mike Pesoli contributed to this report from Washington.
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s new government on Thursday proposed a meeting with North Korea to discuss a resumption of reunions of families separated since the 1950-53 Korean War, despite long-strained ties between the rivals over the North’s nuclear weapons program.
Family reunions are a highly emotional humanitarian issue because they involve people in their 80s and older who are desperate to see their long-lost relatives before they die. But North Korea, which often uses such reunions as a bargaining chip in dealings with South Korea, is unlikely to accept the offer because it has steadfastly rebuffed Seoul’s and Washington’s offers to resume talks on its nuclear program and other issues while focusing instead on developing its weapons technology.
“The South and the North should confront the painful parts of the reality. We must solve the matter before the term ‘separated families’ disappears,” Unification Minister Kwon Youngse said in a televised briefing. “We hope that responsible officials of the two sides will meet in person as soon as possible for a candid discussion.”
South Korea later tried several times to send a message about the dialogue offer via a cross-border communication channel, but North Korea didn’t accept the messages, according to the Unification Ministry, which is responsible for relations between the two countries.
The South Korean overture came two days before Chuseok, the Thanksgiving holiday celebrated in both Koreas.
Exchange programs between the Koreas have remained stalled since the 2019 collapse of broader U.S.-led diplomacy aimed at convincing North Korea to give up its nuclear program in return for economic and political benefits. Washington has urged North Korea to return to talks without any conditions, but the North has said it won’t do so unless the United States first drops its hostile policies toward it.
Since taking office in May, South Korea’s new conservative government led by President Yoon Suk Yeol has offered a massive support plan in return for denuclearization but impoverished North Korea has bluntly rejected it. Yoon has also offered the shipment of COVID-19 relief items, but North Korea has ignored them as well. Last month, North Korea blamed its recent COVID-19 outbreak on balloons flown from South Korea containing propaganda materials and warned of deadly retaliation.
North Korea is also continuing more than 2 1/2 years of pandemic-related border shutdowns, another possible obstacle for the revival of family reunions.
Some observers say South Korea may try to use talks on family reunions as a way to find a breakthrough in ties with North Korea. Kwon told reporters that he thinks an offer of dialogue for family reunions can help resolve other issues.
Since the Korean War ended in an armistice, not a peace treaty, the two Koreas have banned millions of people split by the war from visiting their relatives across the world’s most heavily fortified border. Decades later, most have had no word on whether their loved ones are still alive.
The Koreas have occasionally allowed separated families to meet temporarily, but such reunions haven’t happened since 2018. According to the Unification Ministry, about 133,650 people in South Korea have applied for reunions but nearly 70% of them have died.
During past reunions, participants were typically given three days to meet their relatives and none was given a chance to see them again. Those reunions brought together parents and children, brothers and sisters and others who sobbed, hugged and asked each other about their lives.
South Korea uses a computerized lottery system to pick participants. Observers say North Korea chooses citizens loyal to its authoritarian government and is reluctant to expand reunions because it worries its citizens’ contacts with more affluent South Koreans could weaken its rule.
During a previous “sunshine” era of inter-Korean détente in 1998-2008, liberal South Korean governments provided North Korea with rice and fertilizer to hold reunions. Kwon said the new government isn’t considering any similar incentives.
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Yellen pushes Biden economic plans in battleground Michigan
WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen pressed the case for Democratic economic policies during a visit Thursday to Ford’s Rouge electric vehicle assembly plant in Michigan, a battleground state in the November midterm elections.
After a production-line tour, Yellen promoted recent legislative successes for the Biden administration, saying: “After the progress we have made over the past few months, I am more optimistic about the course of our economy than I have been for quite a while and I know we are headed in the right direction.”
Yellen’s visit to Detroit was part of a monthlong tour as well as a larger White House campaign to highlight new laws intended to repair the economy, boost computer chip manufacturing, lower prescription drug prices, expand clean energy and revamp the country’s infrastructure.
She pointed to the bipartisan infrastructure law, the CHIPS and Science Act and the “Inflation Reduction Act,” all passed and signed in the past year.
“By any traditional metric, we have experienced one of the quickest recoveries in our modern history,” she said, referencing the financial damage and stagnation caused by the coronavirus pandemic that shuttered economic systems around the world. “Our plans worked” she added.
The Treasury Department is responsible for managing a new $7,500 electric vehicle tax credit for qualifying, but the auto industry is warning that the vast majority of EV purchases won’t qualify for that much.
The European Union and other nations have threatened to file complaints at the World Trade Organization over the tax credit, claiming it would discriminate against foreign producers and break WTO rules.
Yellen has more stops planned and will give a speech next month at the 157th anniversary of the Freedman’s Bank Forum to talk about how President Joe Biden’s economic agenda “advances equity and makes our economy stronger as a result.”
Biden is set to visit Ohio on Friday for the groundbreaking of an Intel semiconductor manufacturing facility and go to the Detroit auto show Wednesday to talk about manufacturing electric vehicles.
At the Ford electric vehicle assembly plant in Dearborn, Yellen pointed to U.S. vulnerability to global supply shocks caused by climate change and other factors, and the need to embrace green technology. Addressing those challenges, she said, offers the prospects of new jobs.
“This includes the U.S. clean vehicle sector, where we can expect greater investment — and more good jobs, like the ones here at Ford — as we develop the supply chain here at home,” she said.
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The high-profile seditious conspiracy trial for the leader of the far-right Oath Keepers extremist group will begin this month after a judge on Wednesday rejected a last-minute bid by Stewart Rhodes to replace his lawyers and delay his Capitol riot case.
Rhodes said in court papers this week there had been a “breakdown” in communication between him and his two lawyers, who he claimed weren’t defending him forcefully enough. Rhodes’ new lawyer argued that the Oath Keepers founder has not been given enough time to adequately prepare for trial and urged the judge to delay his trial at least 90 days.
But the obviously irritated judge called the claim that Rhodes is being denied a fair trial “simply false.”
U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta said Rhodes’ suggestion that his lawyers are not providing effective counsel appeared to be “complete and utter nonsense” and questioned why concerns about his lawyers were surfacing for the first time just weeks before trial.
“The notion that you are going to create the kind of havoc that you will — and havoc is the only appropriate word I can think of — by moving Mr. Rhodes’ trial, not going to happen,” Mehta told Edward Tarpley, whom Rhodes wanted as his new lawyer.
Mehta said Tarpley is free to join Rhodes’ two other lawyers — James Lee Bright and Phillip Linder — but Mehta was not going to remove them from the case.
Tarpley told The Associated Press after the hearing that he’s disappointed but respects the court’s decision and remains willing to help Rhodes’ defense team at trial.
“He never went into the Capitol … he never told anybody to go into the Capitol,” Tarpley said. There’s a lot of things in his favor. And, you know, I just think that he’s been unfairly accused and wrongly prosecuted in this case.”
The case against Rhodes and four co-defendants starting Sept. 27 in federal court will be the most serious case to go to trial so far in the riot of Jan. 6, 2021, that delayed the certification of Joe Biden’s 2020 president victory over Donald Trump.
It will also be a major test for the Department of Justice, which has brought rarely used and difficult-to-prove charges of seditious conspiracy against Oath Keepers members and those of another far-right extremist group, the Proud Boys.
Authorities say Rhodes was the ringleader of the Oath Keepers’ plot to violently stop the transfer of power. In the run-up to Jan. 6, authorities say the Oath Keepers recruited members, purchased weapons and set up a “quick reaction force” with guns on standby outside the capital with the goal of keeping President Donald Trump in office.
On Jan. 6, prosecutors say the Oath Keepers formed two teams, or “stacks,” that entered the Capitol. Rhodes is not accused of going inside the building, but was seen gathered outside the Capitol with several members after they did, authorities say.
Rhodes has said there was no plan to storm the Capitol and that the members who went inside the building went rogue. His lawyers have argued he believed Trump would invoke the Insurrection Act and call upon the Oath Keepers to support his bid to stay in power. When Trump did not do that, Rhodes took no action, his lawyers have said.
Three members of the Oath Keepers have already pleaded guilty to seditious conspiracy, are cooperating with investigators and could testify against Rhodes at trial.
Rhodes claimed that his lawyers, Bright and Linder, were not answering his calls or visiting him enough and failed to file legal papers they promised to. The defense also argued its case would be hurt by the arrest this month of the the Oath Keepers’ general counsel — Kellye SoRelle — whom the defense was expecting to call to the stand.
Bright denied not answering calls from Rhodes or failing to discuss the defense strategy with him. He called some of the new legal papers Rhodes wants to file “frivolous.”
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Associated Press journalist Mike Pesoli contributed to this report from Washington.
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County dignitaries pay tribute to Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II
“I’m sure everyone will join with me in offering the county’s condolences to her family”
County dignitaries have paid tribute to Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, following her death today (Thursday).
North Northants Council has said ‘its thoughts are with the Royal Family’ following the news that the Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon.
Union flags at the authority’s offices will be flown at half-mast.
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And a council spokesman added: “We will keep our website updated with details of how you can access books of condolence, both physical and online, as soon as that information is available, alongside local services and events.”
James Saunders Watson, HM Lord-Lieutenant for Northamptonshire and the King’s representative in the county, said: “Her Majesty has been a huge part of our country’s public life and it is with great sadness that we heard of her passing.
“I’m sure everyone will join with me in offering the county’s condolences to her family and I would like to invite everyone to take a moment and remember her in their own way.
“The Queen visited Northamptonshire on numerous occasions during her reign and many of us remember the huge crowds that greeted her when visited Corby for her 2012 Diamond Jubilee.”
Cllr Larry Henson, chairman of North Northamptonshire Council, said: “Her Majesty has made a huge contribution to our country’s public life and I know she will be sorely missed.
"We are making arrangements to ensure everyone has the opportunity to pass on their sympathies at this most poignant of moments.
"My thoughts are with Her Majesty’s family at this very difficult time.”
Cllr Jason Smithers, leader of North Northamptonshire Council, said: “I would like to pass on my deepest condolences to Her Majesty’s family during this difficult time.
"I know I speak for all the council’s elected members and staff when I say that she will be sorely missed.
"Her Majesty has played such an active role in public life and her kindness, caring and dedication will remain an inspiration to us all."
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Chiefs defensive end Frank Clark pleaded no contest in Los Angeles on Thursday to two counts of misdemeanor possession of an assault weapon and was sentenced to one year of probation and 40 hours of community service.
Clark is due back in court early next year, when he will need to show proof that he completed his sentence.
The three-time Pro Bowl pass rusher was arrested in March 2021, when he was pulled over while riding with another man in a vehicle that did not have a license plate. An officer noticed a weapon in the car and recovered two loaded firearms.
Three months later, Clark was pulled over for a code violation and officers discovered another gun in his vehicle.
Clark, who did not practice Thursday because of an illness, spent the offseason rededicating himself to the game, going so far as to eliminate alcohol and red meat from his diet. He arrived at training camp noticeably slimmer, and during one news conference, he admitted that “at some point you have to grow up” and be an example for your kids.
The 29-year-old Clark is coming off a disappointing season in which he had 4 1/2 sacks, his lowest total since his rookie season. He has 88 tackles and 18 1/2 sacks during 40 regular-season games in Kansas City.
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OMAHA, Neb., Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- GetMed Staffing (Omaha, Nebraska) is thrilled to welcome Dan Scardina to the team as Chief Executive Officer. Scardina brings 16 years of leadership experience in healthcare staffing and a vast array of expertise. Scardina began his career as a recruiter in 2006 and has held several leadership positions throughout the last decade, becoming a fundamental contributor to rapid growth within the industry. Highlighting his career success as Sr Management at Aureus Medical Group, Chief Sales Officer at Fusion Medical Staffing, and President of Fusion Marketplace and Fusion Workforce Solutions. Scardina is the perfect partner to elevate and develop GetMed's vision and mission not only because of his knowledge but because of his relationship-focused leadership style.
"Over the past four and a half years, GetMed has added the best people to our team who share our core values of excellence, quality, and integrity." says owner Linda Hotchkiss. While Hotchkiss will still be heavily involved within the company, she states, "Dan's knowledge of growth management will help take GetMed to the next level."
Founded in 2018, GetMed Staffing is a women & diversity-owned healthcare staffing agency with over 40 years of leadership and recruiting experience. With innovation on the horizon, Scardina is the perfect partner to accelerate the company's growth.
"I'm excited about this new journey and feel that my experience within the healthcare staffing industry has led me to where I'm meant to be. GetMed Staffing's distinctive approach completely separates them from what has been done before. I am humbled by their genuine passion for seeing others succeed. This group of innovative individuals believes that every opportunity to work in this industry is helping us make a difference," said Scardina.
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LAKE COUNTY, Fla. – A 16-year-old boy was arrested Thursday after he brought an unloaded handgun onto a Lake County school bus, according to the sheriff’s office.
Deputies said the boy is a student at Lake Hills Academy in Mascotte. At this time, News 6 has decided not to name the student.
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Investigators said they were notified about the gun, a Glock, after another student noticed the boy with the gun.
Investigators said the gun was left on the school bus it had already dropped off the students on the bus. The gun was found on the back seat of the bus, concealed in a sweatshirt, according to a news release.
Deputies said surveillance video showed the boy removing his sweatshirt and leaving it in the seat where it was found. The gun was holstered and unloaded. No ammunition was ever found, the release said.
The teen faces a charge of possessing a gun on school property.
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WASHINGTON – The U.S. Treasury Department announced Thursday that it is levying sanctions against four Iranian companies that it says were involved in sending drones to Russia last month for use in Moscow's war against Ukraine.
Tehran-based Safiran Airport Services, Paravar Pars Company, Design and Manufacturing of Aircraft Engines, and Baharestan Kish Company were all hit with the new sanctions.
“Russia is making increasingly desperate choices to continue its unprovoked war against Ukraine, particularly in the face of our unprecedented sanctions and export controls,” said Brian Nelson, under secretary of the Treasury for terrorism and financial intelligence “The United States is committed to strictly enforcing our sanctions against both Russia and Iran and holding accountable Iran and those supporting Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine."
Safiran coordinates Russian military flights between Iran and Russia, including those that U.S. intelligence officials say transported Iranian unmanned aerial vehicles, personnel, and related equipment from Iran to Russia, over several days last month.
Paravar Pars Company is closely associated with Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard Corps-controlled Imam Hossein University, and has been involved in the research, development, and production of the Iranian Shahed-171 UAV. Design and Manufacturing of Aircraft Engines is an Iranian company involved in the research, development, and production of the Iranian Shahed-171 UAV. Baharestan Kish Company oversees various defense-related projects in Iran, including the manufacturing of UAVs.
The Biden administration said last week that Russia has faced technical problems with Iranian-made drones that were acquired from Tehran in August. The White House says Russian officials picked up Mohajer-6 and Shahed-series unmanned aerial vehicles over several days last month. The Biden administration says U.S. intelligence officials have determined that Russia is looking to acquire hundreds of Iranian UAVs for use in Ukraine.
Earlier this week, the Pentagon confirmed that the U.S. intelligence community has determined that Russia is also in the process of purchasing rockets and artillery shells from North Korea for its ongoing fight in Ukraine.
The U.S. has frequently downgraded and made public intelligence findings over the course of the grinding war in Ukraine to highlight Moscow’s difficulties in prosecuting the war. Ukraine’s smaller military has put up a stiff resistance against the militarily superior Russian forces.
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Attack On Chennupati Gandhi: TDP burns FIR copies at police station
TDP leaders from NTR and Krishna districts staged a protest in front of Patamata police station here on Thursday, demanding the arrest of culprits involved in the attack on TDP leader and former corporator Chennupati Gandhi.
Vijayawada (NTR District): TDP leaders from NTR and Krishna districts staged a protest in front of Patamata police station here on Thursday, demanding the arrest of culprits involved in the attack on TDP leader and former corporator Chennupati Gandhi. The TDP leaders wore black ribbons and burnt the FIR copies of the attack case in front of the police station and raised slogans against the police and the State government.
It should be noted here that in an alleged attack by YSRCP leaders, Chennupati Gandhi suffered eye injury and undergoing treatment.
Earlier, TDP president Nara Chandrababu Naidu expressed ire on TDP leaders of NTR district and Krishna districts for not responding to the attack on Gandhi in Vijayawada. Following this, party leaders of two districts responded and staged a protest.
TDP politburo members Varla Ramaiah and Kollu Ravindra, Vijayawada Parliament constituency president and former Minister Nettem Raghu Ram, former MP Konakalla Narayana Rao, Vijayawada East MLA Gadde Rama Mohan, MLC Batchula Arjunudu, former MLC Budha Venkanna, former MLAs Sriram Rajagopal, Bode Prasad and Mandali Buddha Prasad, Police Housing Corporation former chairman Nagul Meera and others participated in the protest and strongly condemned the police inaction in arresting the accused.
The TDP leaders alleged the police officials given contradictory statement on the attack and registering the FIR in the case.
Earlier, they took out a rally from party office to Patamata police station.
Varla Ramaiah, speaking to the media near the police station, demanded suspension of the sub-inspector for not taking action against the culprits.
Former Minister Kollu Ravindra alleged that the IPS officers in the State are implementing the Jagan Penal Code instead of the India Penal Code. He said the TDP would fight on behalf of the people. Vijayawada East MLA Gadde Rama Mohan, former MLC Budha Venkanna, former deputy Speaker Mandali Buddha Prasad and others spoke on the occasion.
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Queen Elizabeth II was a known dog lover, calling more than 30 Welsh corgis her own over the years.
Her beloved dogs were even able to achieve a level of fame, with one of the corgis named Holly appearing in a James Bond sketch during London's 2012 Olympics during the Opening Ceremonies, according to England's Daily News.
A royal biographer told Newsweek, "She loves animals and she absolutely adores dogs. She always has done, they were her first love and they will be her last," Ingrid Seward said before Her Majesty died.
Queen Elizabeth II died on Thursday at 96-years-old after senior members of her royal family headed to Balmoral in Scotland to be with her in her final moments on Earth.
So what will happen to the Queen's pets now? That was a question many were asking.
According to Newsweek, who spoke to royal biographers, it's not entirely clear exactly how many dogs she had when she died. It is believed she had about four dogs. Two of those dogs are corgis named Muick and Sandy, according to reports.
Others included a Dorgi named Candy and another two Cocker Spaniels.
There wasn't a statement released to the public immediately after the Queen's death detailing a plan for the dogs, but it is believed that they should be bequeathed to her children.
Seward said, "I imagine the dogs would be looked after by the family, probably Andrew, as he's the one that gave them to her. They're quite young, the corgi and the dorgi."
Another theory came from Penny Junor, an author.
She said, "Care of the dogs has fallen sometimes to footmen but mostly to the Queen's trusted dressmaker, assistant, and right-hand woman, Angela Kelly. And to her equally trusted page of many years standing, Paul Whybrew, who was seen walking with the Queen and the dogs in the James Bond spoof."
Junor detailed the theory in her 2018 book, "All the Queen's Corgis."
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The death of Queen Elizabeth II at the age of 96 brought an end to the U.K.’s longest reign by a monarch in history, and people around the world are mourning the loss of a queen they’d known most if not all of their lives.
The queen has been in delicate health over the past few months, including battling through a COVID-19 diagnosis in February and various mobility issues that have had other members of the royal family stepping in her shoes for official functions, including at Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee celebration on Feb. 6, which marked her 70th year on the throne.
Given Elizabeth’s historic reign and advanced age, questions about what would happen after her death were common in recent years. However, the monarchy has long had a plan in place, based on tradition and protocol. Known as Operation London Bridge, this plan involved a series of protocols that take effect to ensure a smooth transition of power to the next person in line for a seat on the British throne, her oldest son, Charles.
What is Operation London Bridge?
According to a highly-detailed piece published by The Guardian, the advanced protocol following Queen Elizabeth’s death would have been set into motion with the code phrase, “London Bridge is Down,” from the queen’s private secretary, Sir Christopher Geidt. Geidt would call Prime Minister Liz Truss — whom Elizabeth met with at Balmoral days before her death — and use the code on secure lines.
A 10-day official period of national mourning was set to begin following her death, as part of the plan.
There will also be a number of events quickly following Queen Elizabeth II’s death, including:
- Immediately following Queen Elizabeth’s death, Charles becomes king. His brothers and sister will kiss his hands in a symbolic gesture of the transfer of power.
- A royal footman in mourning clothes will come out of Buckingham Palace and pin a black-edged notice to the gates. That same, single-page notice will be posted on the official palace website, which will have a dark background.
- A radio alert will go out at the BBC to notify the press.
- Radio stations also have a network of blue “obit lights” to indicate a national catastrophe.
- All TV programming will stop, and news broadcasters will wear dark suites and black ties to mark the solemn occasion.
- Flags across Great Britain will come down and bells will toll to honor the queen. They will stay down for 24 hours, and then Charles will officially ascend the throne. He will likely address the nation on the evening of Elizabeth’s death.
What is Operation Unicorn?
Due to the fact that Elizabeth’s death happened in Scotland, rather than England, the plan being carried out is a slightly altered one called Operation Unicorn. In this case, most details remain the same but some logistics change, according to The Guardian.
In the case of Operation Unicorn, Elizabeth’s body will be driven to the Palace of Hollyroodhouse, the royal family’s ceremonial residence in Scotland, which is located about 100 miles south of Balmoral in Edinburgh. After temporarily being there, the queen’s body will then be driven to Edinburgh’s St. Giles Cathedral, according to The Guardian, to lie in state for 24 hours in which the public can pay respects.
Her body will then likely be flown to London and the lengthy period of memorials and tributes to her at Buckingham Palace will begin. Despite Elizabeth being the monarch who truly saw her country into the modern world, the circumstances around her passing will be treated with the same type of circumstance and revery used for the late monarchs of old Britain.
“There is no concession to modernity in this,” a palace official told The Guardian.
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Humans must limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius to avoid runaway ice melting, ocean current disruption and permanent coral reef death, according to new research by an international group of climate scientists.
The new study is the latest and most comprehensive evidence indicating that countries must enact policies to meet the temperature targets set by the 2015 Paris agreement, if humanity hopes to avoid potentially catastrophic sea level rise and other worldwide harms.
Those targets – to limit global warming to between 1.5 and 2 degrees Celsius (between 2.7 and 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) compared to preindustrial times – are within reach if countries follow through on their current promises to cut greenhouse gas emissions. But there is basically no wiggle room, and it's still unclear if governments and corporations will cut emissions as quickly as they have promised.
The Earth has already warmed more than 1 degree Celsius (nearly 2 degrees Fahrenheit) since the late 1800s.
"This is providing some really solid scientific support for that lower, more ambitious, number from the Paris agreement," says David McKay, a climate scientist and one of the authors of the new study, which was published in the journal Science.
The new study makes it clear that every tenth of a degree of warming that is avoided will have huge, long-term benefits. For example, the enormous ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are already melting rapidly, adding enormous amounts of fresh water to the ocean and driving global sea level rise.
But there is a tipping point after which that melting becomes irreversible and inevitable, even if humans rein in global warming entirely. The new study estimates that, for the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets, that tipping point falls somewhere around 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming. The hotter the Earth gets, the more likely it is to trigger runaway ice loss. But keeping average global temperatures from rising less than 1.5 degrees Celsius reduces the risk of such loss.
If both the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets melted, it would lead to more than 30 feet of sea level rise, scientists estimate, although that would happen relatively slowly, over the course of at least 500 years.
But climate scientists who study the ice sheets warn that dangerous sea level rise will occur even sooner, and potentially before it's clear that ice sheets have reached a tipping point.
"Those changes are already starting to happen," says Erin Pettit, a climate scientist at Oregon State University who leads research in Antarctica, and has watched a massive glacier there disintegrate in recent years. "We could see several feet of sea level rise just in the next century," she explains. "And so many vulnerable people live on the coastlines and in those flood-prone areas.
The study also identifies two other looming climate tipping points. Between 1.5 and 2 degrees Celsius of warming, mass death of coral reefs would occur and a key ocean current in the North Atlantic ocean would cease to circulate, affecting weather in many places including Europe.
And beyond 2 degrees Celsius of warming, even more climate tipping points abound. Larger ocean currents stop circulating, the Amazon rainforest dies and permanently frozen ground thaws, releasing the potent greenhouse gas methane.
Cutting greenhouse gas emissions quickly and permanently would avoid such catastrophes. "We still have within our means the ability to stop further tipping points from happening," McKay says, "or make them less likely, by cutting emissions as rapidly as possible."
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Busted: Officers seize $11.9 million in meth at US-Mexico border
DEL RIO, Texas (Gray News) - Authorities say they have made their largest methamphetamine bust at a Texas port of entry.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection reports field operations officers in Del Rio seized meth valued at $11.9 million within a tractor-trailer on Monday.
According to the CBP, the drug bust was the largest methamphetamine seizure in port history.
The seizure occurred at the Del Rio International Bridge when a CBP officer stopped a 2016 Kenworth tractor-trailer hauling a shipment of diesel tank reservoir containers and referred it for a secondary inspection.
Authorities said they discovered 320 packages containing 1,337 pounds of alleged methamphetamine within the shipment. The narcotics were estimated to have a street value of $11.9 million.
Agents with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement-Homeland Security Investigations said they are continuing the investigation.
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FORT WORTH, Texas (WXIN) — Ear muffs designed to protect young children from excess noise are being recalled because the batteries can rupture, possibly causing hearing, projectile or burn injuries.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission said the recall involves four models of Children’s HearMuffs sound compression ear muffs.
Models included in the recall are:
- LA-infant-AM-WH
- LA-infant-ASM-WH
- LA-infant-ASM-WHPlus
- LA-kids-AM-WH
The model is printed on the original packaging. The CPSC said they were sold in multiple colors and have a multi-mode power button to switch from Off, Active or Soothe Mode.
The recall was initiated after Hearing Lab Technology received 19 reports of rupturing batteries. So far, no injuries have been reported.
The recalled products were sold nationwide and online at Sam’s Club, Kroger and other stores between January 2018 and December 2021.
Consumers are advised to stop using the ear muffs immediately.
Anyone with the recalled ear muffs can contact Hearing Lab Technology LLC toll-free at 833-408-0479 Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. CT, or online to receive two new replacement AAA batteries free of charge.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky., Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Great Place to Work® and Fortune magazine have honored Trilogy Health Services as one of the 2022 Best Workplaces in Aging Services™. This is Trilogy's fourth consecutive year being named to this prestigious list, this time coming in at fourth place. Earning a spot means that Trilogy is one of the best companies to work for in the country, the culmination of its goal to be the best place its employees have ever belonged.
The Best Workplaces in Aging Services award is based on analysis of survey responses from more than 140,000 employees from Great Place to Work-Certified™ companies in the aging services industry. In that survey, 83% of Trilogy's employees said Trilogy is a great place to work. This number is 26% higher than the average U.S. company. Learn more at Trilogy's profile here.
"At Trilogy Health Services, we take pride in putting our team members at the center of all we do, guided by our culture of servant leadership and compassionate care. We believe that if we care for our team members, they will care for our residents, and positive results will follow," Chief Human Resources and Inclusion Officer Priscila Mattingly said. "It is an honor to serve such a purposed-filled and dedicated group of people"
The Fortune Best Workplaces in Aging Services list is highly competitive. Great Place to Work, the global authority on workplace culture, selected the list using rigorous analytics and confidential employee feedback. Companies were only considered if they are a Great Place to Work-Certified™ organization.
Great Place to Work is the only company culture award in America that selects winners based on how fairly employees are treated. Companies are assessed on how well they are creating a great employee experience that cuts across race, gender, age, disability status, or any aspect of who employees are or what their role is.
"The Best Workplaces in Aging Services have a lot to be proud of," says Michael C. Bush, CEO of Great Place to Work. "They stepped up to support the well-being of their employees hard at work caring for high-risk populations at unprecedented levels throughout the pandemic. Congratulations to these great workplaces for their dedication to strong company cultures."
In 2021, Trilogy was ranked #6 as Best Workplace for Aging Services (Senior Housing large). In 2020 and 2019, Trilogy was ranked #4 on the list.
Trilogy Health Services is an industry-leading operator of nearly 130 senior living communities throughout four states. The company has the honor of providing over 10,000 seniors with world-class clinical support, innovative lifestyle programs, and a culture built on the tenets of servant leadership and hospitality. Trilogy employs over 14,000 team members, is a certified Great Place to Work, one of Glassdoor's Top 100 Best Places to Work, and was named one of FORTUNE's Best Places to Work in Aging Services for the fourth year in a row. To learn more about Trilogy Health Services, visit www.trilogyhs.com. To learn about job opportunities at Trilogy, visit www.trilogyjobs.com
Great Place to Work selected the Best Workplaces in Aging Services by gathering and analyzing confidential survey responses from more 140,000 employees from Great Place to Work-Certified™ companies in the aging services industry. Company rankings are derived from 60 employee experience questions within the Great Place to Work® Trust Index™ survey. Great Place to Work determines its lists using its proprietary For All methodology to evaluate and certify thousands of organizations in America's largest ongoing annual workforce study, based on over 1 million survey responses and data from companies representing more than 6.1 million employees, this year alone. Read the full methodology. To get on this list next year, start here.
Great Place to Work® is the global authority on workplace culture. Since 1992, they have surveyed more than 100 million employees worldwide and used those deep insights to define what makes a great workplace: trust. Their employee survey platform empowers leaders with the feedback, real-time reporting and insights they need to make data-driven people decisions. Everything they do is driven by the mission to build a better world by helping every organization become a great place to work For All™.
Learn more at greatplacetowork.com and on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
Activated Insights is the senior care division of Great Place to Work and provides employee and resident surveys to aging services provides. With an expertise in senior care, Activated Insights is committed to transform the aging experience by impacting the lives of seniors, families, staff, and others in senior care through research, data, and technology.
Learn more at activatedinsights.com and on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
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MIAMI, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hemisphere Media Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: HMTV) ("Hemisphere" or the "Company"), a leading pure-play U.S. media company targeting the high growth U.S. Hispanic and Latin American markets with prominent broadcast, cable television and digital content platforms, today announced that its stockholders approved the acquisition of the Company by a subsidiary of Gato Investments LP ("Gato"), a portfolio investment of Searchlight Capital Partners, L.P. ("Searchlight").
The final voting results will be filed in a Form 8-K with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Subject to the terms of the definitive merger agreement announced on May 10, 2022, the Company's stockholders will receive $7.00 per share in cash. The Company expects to announce consummation of the merger within the coming days, subject to the satisfaction of certain customary closing conditions. Upon closing of the transaction, the Company's common stock will no longer be listed on the Nasdaq stock market.
Forward-Looking Statements
This communication includes forward-looking statements within the meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21 E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, including statements about the potential benefits of the proposed acquisition, anticipated growth rates, the Company's plans, objectives, expectations, and the anticipated timing of the closing of the proposed transaction. When used in this communication, the words "believes," "estimates," "plans," "expects," "should," "could," "outlook," "potential," "forecast," "target" and "anticipates" and similar expressions as they relate to the Company or its management are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are based on a number of assumptions about future events and are subject to various risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from the views, beliefs, projections and estimates expressed in such statements. These risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to, those discussed under "Risk Factors" in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021, filed with the SEC on March 16, 2022, and the following: (1) the timing, receipt and terms and conditions of any required governmental or regulatory approvals of the proposed transaction that could reduce the anticipated benefits of or cause the parties to abandon the proposed transaction; (2) risks related to the satisfaction of the conditions to closing (including the failure to obtain necessary regulatory approvals or the necessary approvals of the Company's stockholders) in the anticipated timeframe or at all; (3) the risk that any announcements relating to the proposed transaction could have adverse effects on the market price of the Company's common stock; (4) disruption from the proposed transaction making it more difficult to maintain business and operational relationships, including retaining and hiring key personnel and maintaining relationships with the Company's customers, vendors and others with whom it does business; (5) the occurrence of any event, change or other circumstances that could give rise to the termination of the proposed transaction agreement entered into in connection with the proposed transaction; (6) risks related to disruption of management's attention from the Company's ongoing business operations due to the proposed transaction; (7) significant transaction costs; (8) the risk of litigation and/or regulatory actions related to the proposed transaction or unfavorable results from currently pending litigation and proceedings or litigation and proceedings that could arise in the future; (9) other business effects, including the effects of industry, market, economic, political or regulatory conditions; (10) the ability to meet expectations regarding the timing and completion of the proposed transaction; (11) information technology system failures, data security breaches, data privacy compliance, network disruptions, and cybersecurity, malware or ransomware attacks; and (12) changes resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, which could exacerbate any of the risks described above. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements made by or on behalf of the Company. Each such statement speaks only as of the day it was made. The Company undertakes no obligation to update or to revise any forward-looking statements. The factors described above cannot be controlled by the Company.
About Hemisphere Media Group, Inc.
Hemisphere Media Group, Inc. (HMTV) is the only publicly traded pure-play U.S. media company targeting the high-growth U.S. Hispanic and Latin American markets with leading television, streaming and digital content platforms. Headquartered in Miami, Florida, Hemisphere owns and operates five leading U.S. Hispanic cable networks, two Latin American cable networks, the leading broadcast television network in Puerto Rico, the leading Spanish-language subscription streaming service in the U.S., a Spanish-language content distribution company and has an ownership interest in a leading broadcast television network in Colombia.
About Searchlight
Searchlight is a global private investment firm with over $10 billion in assets under management and offices in New York, London and Toronto. Searchlight seeks to invest in businesses where its long-term capital and strategic support accelerate value creation for all stakeholders. For more information, please visit www.searchlightcap.com.
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SIMI VALLEY, Calif., Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ronald and Nancy Reagan had the greatest admiration for Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, and it is with great sorrow and heavy hearts that we heard of her passing. On behalf of the entire Reagan Foundation and Institute Board of Trustees, we send our thoughts and prayers to the Royal Family and to all of Great Britain.
President Reagan often had to remind himself when they were together that she was the Queen because even though she was very proper, when the doors were closed and the press was gone, President Reagan and Queen Elizabeth II felt very comfortable with one another, and they looked forward to whenever they could get together. During a 1983 interview with the London Sunday Times, President Reagan called the Queen "a truly fine and gracious lady" and a "delightful person."
One of President and Mrs. Reagan's fondest memories of being President and first lady was in 1983 when they were guests aboard the royal yacht Britannia for their thirty-first wedding anniversary. Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip gifted the Reagans a beautiful engraved silver box which is still on display in their private offices at the Reagan Library. During toasts at dinner that night, President Reagan joked, "I know I promised Nancy a lot when we were married, but how can I ever top this?"
Her Majesty the Queen was not only the longest-serving monarch in British history, but she was loved by her country and millions across the world. During her reign she never lost her commitment or passion for her role, and she helped to keep the monarchy relevant to the ideals and aspirations of newer generations. In 1991 she was the first British Monarch to address the United States Congress, something President Reagan was delighted to see.
Ronald Reagan was deeply honored when after leaving office in 1989, Queen Elizabeth II presented him with a knighthood and bestowed upon him the Most Honourable Order of the Bath. For the President, it truly was a culmination of their close relationship over the years.
She was both the longest-serving monarch in British history and a kind soul who treasured her family. Her family and all of the British people have our deepest sympathies and prayers at this difficult time.
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ACO REACH Explorer assists with data unification, population health management and omni-channel patient engagement with a special focus on advancing health equity
PALO ALTO, Calif., Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CloudMedx, the healthcare technology company featured everywhere from Newsweek to World Economic Forum, has launched a new bundled tool called ACO REACH Explorer that empowers ACO REACH participants with the tools required to succeed in managing their patient population.
CloudMedx's ACO REACH Explorer is a bundled solution suite that provides support for the full spectrum of ACO REACH requirements. This includes unifying and visualizing disparate data (via the ONE Platform), providing population health management (via Clinical Explorer), improving health equity (via SDOH Explorer) and omni-channel patient engagement (via Patient Explorer). The bundled solution is specifically tailored for the ACO REACH participants, providing a seamless technology suite to meet all their requirements. The insights are also available as APIs that can be integrated with existing solutions.
- Data unification from disparate sources and formats
- Advancing health equity with actionable insights for zip-code level SDOH metrics
- Population Health Management for risk stratification, predictive analytics and quality reporting
- Omni-channel patient engagement with a combination of AI-based automated outreach as well as human support for gap closures
- Risk adjustment
- Cost utilization tracking
- Network leak management
- Price transparency data
For more details on the tool, see https://cloudmedxhealth.com/product-solutions/aco-reach-explorer/.
CloudMedx Inc. is transforming healthcare delivery using Artificial Intelligence, giving patients, providers and payers information they need to ensure the best care, optimize outcomes, and save money. The company's data platform collects and organizes vast amounts of information from public and proprietary sources, including clinical, social, and economic insights. With powerful data visualizations, predictive analytics, interoperable tools and a suite of application services, CloudMedx provides unified patient records, unprecedented understandings of health data in various populations, and automated workflows, yielding superior outcomes. For more information, please visit www.cloudmedxhealth.com
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Queen Elizabeth II died at her Balmoral estate in Scotland at age 96 on Thursday. She was the longest-serving monarch in British history, reigning for 70 years.
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By DANICA KIRKA, JILL LAWLESS and SYLVIA HUI
LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest-reigning monarch and a symbol of stability in a turbulent era that saw the decline of the British empire and embarrassing dysfunction in her own family, died Thursday after 70 years on the throne. She was 96.
The palace announced she died at Balmoral Castle, her summer residence in Scotland, where members of the royal family had rushed to her side after her health took a turn for the worse.
A link to the almost-vanished generation that fought World War II, she was the only monarch most Britons have ever known.
Her 73-year-old son Prince Charles automatically became king and will be known as King Charles III, it was announced. British monarchs in the past have selected new names upon taking the throne. Charles’ second wife, Camilla, will be known as the Queen Consort.
The BBC played the national anthem, “God Save the Queen,” over a portrait of Elizabeth in full regalia as her death was announced, and the flag over Buckingham Palace was lowered to half-staff as the second Elizabethan age came to a close.
The impact of her loss will be huge and unpredictable, both for the nation and for the monarchy, an institution she helped stabilize and modernize across decades of enormous social change and family scandals, but whose relevance in the 21st century has often been called into question.
The public’s abiding affection for the queen has helped sustain support for the monarchy during the scandals. Charles is nowhere near as popular.
In a statement, Charles called his mother’s death “a moment of the greatest sadness for me and all members of my family,” adding: “I know her loss will be deeply felt throughout the country, the Realms and the Commonwealth, and by countless people around the world.”
The changing of the guard comes at a fraught moment for Britain, which has a brand-new prime minister and is grappling with an energy crisis, double-digit inflation, the war in Ukraine and the fallout from Brexit.
Prime Minister Liz Truss, appointed by the queen just 48 hours earlier, pronounced the country “devastated” and called Elizabeth “the rock on which modern Britain was built.”
British subjects outside Buckingham Palace wept when officials carried a notice confirming the queen’s death to the wrought-iron gates of the queen’s London home. Hundreds soon gathered in the rain, and mourners laid dozens of colorful bouquets at the gates.
“As a young person, this is a really huge moment,” said Romy McCarthy, 20. “It marks the end of an era, particularly as a woman. We had a woman who was in power as someone to look up to.”
World leaders extended condolences and paid tribute to the queen.
In Canada, where the British monarch is the country’s head of state, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau saluted her “wisdom, compassion and warmth.” In India, once the “jewel in the crown” of the British empire, Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted: “She personified dignity and decency in public life. Pained by her demise.”
U.S. President Joe Biden called her a “stateswoman of unmatched dignity and constancy who deepened the bedrock alliance between the United Kingdom and the United States.”
Since Feb. 6, 1952, Elizabeth reigned over a Britain that rebuilt from a destructive and financially exhausting war and lost its empire; joined the European Union and then left it; and made the painful transition into the 21st century.
She endured through 15 prime ministers, from Winston Churchill to Truss, becoming an institution and an icon — a reassuring presence even for those who ignored or loathed the monarchy.
She became less visible in her final years as age and frailty curtailed many public appearances. But she remained firmly in control of the monarchy and at the center of national life as Britain celebrated her Platinum Jubilee with days of parties and pageants in June.
That same month she became the second longest-reigning monarch in history, behind 17th-century French King Louis XIV, who took the throne at age 4. On Tuesday, she presided at a ceremony at Balmoral Castle to accept the resignation of Boris Johnson as prime minister and appoint Truss as his successor.
When Elizabeth was 21, almost five years before she became queen, she promised the people of Britain and the Commonwealth that “my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service.”
It was a promise she kept across more than seven decades.
Despite Britain’s complex and often fraught ties with its former colonies, Elizabeth was widely respected and remained head of state of more than a dozen countries, from Canada to Tuvalu. She headed the 54-nation Commonwealth, built around Britain and its former colonies.
Married for more than 73 years to Prince Philip, who died in 2021 at age 99, Elizabeth was matriarch to a royal family whose troubles were a subject of global fascination — amplified by fictionalized accounts such as the TV series “The Crown.” She is survived by four children, eight grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.
Through countless public events, she probably met more people than anyone in history. Her image, which adorned stamps, coins and banknotes, was among the most reproduced in the world.
But her inner life and opinions remained mostly an enigma. Of her personality, the public saw relatively little. A horse owner, she rarely seemed happier than during the Royal Ascot racing week. She never tired of the companionship of her beloved Welsh corgi dogs.
Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor was born in London on April 21, 1926, the first child of the Duke and Duchess of York. She was not born to be queen — her father’s elder brother, Prince Edward, was destined for the crown, to be followed by any children he had.
But in 1936, when she was 10, Edward VIII abdicated to marry twice-divorced American Wallis Simpson, and Elizabeth’s father became King George VI.
Princess Margaret recalled asking her sister whether this meant that Elizabeth would one day be queen. ”’Yes, I suppose it does,‘” Margaret quoted Elizabeth as saying. “She didn’t mention it again.”
Elizabeth was barely in her teens when Britain went to war with Germany in 1939. While the king and queen stayed at Buckingham Palace during the Blitz and toured the bombed-out neighborhoods of London, Elizabeth and Margaret spent most of the war at Windsor Castle, west of the capital. Even there, 300 bombs fell in an adjacent park, and the princesses spent many nights in an underground shelter.
She made her first public broadcast in 1940 when she was 14, sending a wartime message to children evacuated to the countryside or overseas.
“We children at home are full of cheerfulness and courage,” she said with a blend of stoicism and hope that would echo throughout her reign. “We are trying to do all we can to help out gallant soldiers, sailors and airmen. And we are trying, too, to bear our own share of the danger and sadness of war. We know, every one of us, that in the end all will be well.”
In 1945, after months of campaigning for her parents’ permission to do something for the war effort, the heir to the throne became Second Subaltern Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor in the Auxiliary Territorial Service. She enthusiastically learned to drive and service heavy vehicles.
On the night the war ended in Europe, May 8, 1945, she and Margaret managed to mingle, unrecognized, with celebrating crowds in London — “swept along on a tide of happiness and relief,” as she told the BBC decades later, describing it as “one of the most memorable nights of my life.”
At Westminster Abbey in November 1947 she married Royal Navy officer Philip Mountbatten, a prince of Greece and Denmark whom she had first met in 1939 when she was 13 and he 18. Postwar Britain was experiencing austerity and rationing, and so street decorations were limited and no public holiday was declared. But the bride was allowed 100 extra ration coupons for her trousseau.
The couple lived for a time in Malta, where Philip was stationed, and Elizabeth enjoyed an almost-normal life as a navy wife. The first of their four children, Prince Charles, was born in 1948. He was followed by Princess Anne in 1950, Prince Andrew in 1960, and Prince Edward in 1964.
In 1952, George VI died at 56 after years of ill health. Elizabeth, on a visit to Kenya, was told that she was now queen.
Her private secretary, Martin Charteris, later recalled finding the new monarch at her desk, “sitting erect, no tears, color up a little, fully accepting her destiny.”
“In a way, I didn’t have an apprenticeship,” Elizabeth reflected in a BBC documentary in 1992 that opened a rare view into her emotions. “My father died much too young, and so it was all a very sudden kind of taking on, and making the best job you can.”
Her coronation took place more than a year later, a grand spectacle at Westminster Abbey viewed by millions through the still-new medium of television.
Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s first reaction to the king’s death was to complain that the new queen was “only a child,” but he was won over within days and eventually became an ardent admirer.
In Britain’s constitutional monarchy, the queen is head of state but has little direct power; in her official actions she does what the government orders. However, she was not without influence. The queen, officially the head of the Church of England, once reportedly commented that there was nothing she could do legally to block the appointment of a bishop, “but I can always say that I should like more information. That is an indication that the prime minister will not miss.”
The extent of the monarch’s political influence occasionally sparked speculation — but not much criticism while Elizabeth was alive. The views of Charles, who has expressed strong opinions on everything from architecture to the environment, might prove more contentious.
She was obliged to meet weekly with the prime minister, and they generally found her well-informed, inquisitive and up to date. The one possible exception was Margaret Thatcher, with whom her relations were said to be cool, if not frosty, though neither woman ever commented.
The queen’s views in those private meetings became a subject of intense speculation and fertile ground for dramatists like Peter Morgan, author of the play “The Audience” and the hit TV series “The Crown.” Those semi-fictionalized accounts were the product of an era of declining deference and rising celebrity, when the royal family’s troubles became public property.
And there were plenty of troubles within the family, an institution known as “The Firm.” In Elizabeth’s first years on the throne, Princess Margaret provoked a national controversy through her romance with a divorced man.
In what the queen called the “annus horribilis” of 1992, her daughter, Princess Anne, was divorced, Prince Charles and Princess Diana separated, and so did her son Prince Andrew and his wife, Sarah. That was also the year Windsor Castle, a residence she far preferred to Buckingham Palace, was seriously damaged by fire.
The public split of Charles and Diana — “There were three of us in that marriage,” Diana said of her husband’s relationship with Camilla Parker Bowles — was followed by the shock of Diana’s death in a Paris car crash in 1997. For once, the queen appeared out of step with her people.
Amid unprecedented public mourning, Elizabeth’s failure to make a public show of grief appeared to many to be unfeeling. After several days, she finally made a televised address to the nation.
The dent in her popularity was brief. She was by now a sort of national grandmother, with a stern gaze and a twinkling smile.
Despite being one of the world’s wealthiest people, Elizabeth had a reputation for frugality and common sense. She turned off lights in empty rooms, and didn’t flinch from strangling pheasants.
A newspaper reporter who went undercover to work as a palace footman reinforced that down-to-earth image, capturing pictures of the royal Tupperware on the breakfast table and a rubber duck in the bath.
Her sangfroid was not dented when a young man aimed a pistol at her and fired six blanks as she rode by on a horse in 1981, nor when she discovered a disturbed intruder sitting on her bed in Buckingham Palace in 1982.
The image of the queen as an exemplar of ordinary British decency was satirized by the magazine Private Eye, which called her Brenda, apparently because it sounded working-class. Anti-monarchists dubbed her “Mrs. Windsor.” But the republican cause gained limited traction while the queen was alive.
On her Golden Jubilee in 2002, she said the country could “look back with measured pride on the history of the last 50 years.”
“It has been a pretty remarkable 50 years by any standards,” she said in a speech. “There have been ups and downs, but anyone who can remember what things were like after those six long years of war appreciates what immense changes have been achieved since then.”
A reassuring presence at home, she was also an emblem of Britain abroad — a form of soft power, consistently respected whatever the vagaries of the country’s political leaders on the world stage. It felt only fitting that she attended the opening of the 2012 London Olympics alongside another icon, James Bond. Through some movie magic, she appeared to parachute into the Olympic Stadium.
In 2015, she overtook her great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria’s reign of 63 years, seven months and two days to become the longest-serving monarch in British history. She kept working into her 10th decade, though Prince Charles and his elder son, Prince William, increasingly took over the visits, ribbon-cuttings and investitures that form the bulk of royal duties.
The loss of Philip in 2021 was a heavy blow, as she poignantly sat alone at his funeral in the chapel at Windsor Castle because of coronavirus restrictions.
And the family troubles continued. Her son Prince Andrew was entangled in the sordid tale of sex offender businessman Jeffrey Epstein, an American businessman who had been a friend. Andrew denied accusations that he had sex with one of the women who said she was trafficked by Epstein.
The queen’s grandson Prince Harry walked away from Britain and his royal duties after marrying American TV actress Meghan Markle, who is biracial, in 2018. He alleged in an interview that some in the family -– but pointedly not the queen -– had been less than welcoming to his wife.
She enjoyed robust health well into her 90s, although she used a cane in an appearance after Philip’s death. Months ago, she told guests at a reception “as you can see, I can’t move.” The palace, tight-lipped about details, said the queen was experiencing “episodic mobility issues.”
She held virtual meetings with diplomats and politicians from Windsor Castle, but public appearances grew rarer.
Meanwhile, she took steps to prepare for the transition to come. In February, the queen announced that she wanted Camilla to be known as “Queen Consort” when “in the fullness of time” her son became king. It removed a question mark over the role of the woman some blamed for the breakup of Charles’ marriage to Princess Diana in the 1990s.
May brought another symbolic moment, when she asked Charles to stand in for her and read the Queen’s Speech at the State Opening of Parliament, one of the monarch’s most central constitutional duties.
Seven decades after World War II, Elizabeth was again at the center of the national mood amid the uncertainty and loss of COVID 19 — a disease she came through herself in February.
In April 2020 — with the country in lockdown and Prime Minister Boris Johnson hospitalized with the virus — she made a rare video address, urging people to stick together.
She summoned the spirit of World War II, that vital time in her life, and the nation’s, by echoing Vera Lynn’s wartime anthem “We’ll Meet Again.”
“We should take comfort that while we may have more still to endure, better days will return. We will be with our friends again. We will be with our families again. We will meet again,” she said.
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The late Associated Press writers Gregory Katz and Robert Barr contributed material to this report.
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Thousands of dead fish are washing up on the shores of the San Francisco Bay area. Scientists say the red tide causing the fish kill is likely driven by climate change and human wastewater runoff.
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The federal government issued a reminder Thursday about illegal nursing home debt collection practices.
In a joint letter, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) reminded facility operators and debt collectors to stop pursuing friends and families of alleged bill payments from nursing homes.
“Nursing homes that participate in Medicare and Medicaid are prohibited from forcing a resident’s family or friends to assume responsibility for the cost of care as a condition of admission or continued stay in the facility,” said CFPB Director Rohit Chopra. “Debt collectors must take steps to ensure they are not violating the law by collecting on invalid nursing home debts.”
If it does happen, the agencies said they'd violate the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and the Fair Credit Reporting Act.
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Collar worn by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg up for auction
(CNN) – She was a trailblazer serving on the nation’s highest court for 27 years.
Now, nearly 100 personal items of the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg are up for auction.
According to Auction House Bonhams, the items being offered include some rare signature pieces from Ginsburg’s fashion collection.
Some of the items include two pairs of her lace gloves, one of her favorite shawls and a beaded gilt collar necklace.
Justice Ginsburg was known for styling her judicial robes with bold collars.
This one being auctioned is estimated to be worth between $3,000 and $5,000.
The auction is now live on Bonhams.com. It ends Sept. 16.
The proceeds will benefit SOS Children’s Villages, an organization that cares for foster children or those who are at risk of losing their parents.
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CUTE: Viral sensation ‘The Corn Kid’ visits the Corn Palace
Published: Sep. 8, 2022 at 3:42 PM CDT|Updated: 54 minutes ago
MITCHELL, S.D. (Gray News) – “The Corn Kid” became so popular on TikTok that he now has a day named after him.
Tariq, a 7-year-old boy known as “The Corn Kid,” became a viral sensation for clips in which he enthusiastically declared his love of corn.
Over the weekend, he accepted an invitation to South Dakota’s Corn Palace, a major tourist attraction in the state.
During the visit with his family, South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem signed an executive proclamation to make Tariq the state’s “corn-bassador.”
Officials also declared Sept. 3 to be “Corn Kid Day” in the city of Mitchell, where the Corn Palace is located.
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A former Utah city mayor and bishop with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been arrested on accusations he sexually abused at least three children decades ago.
Carl Matthew Johnson, 77, was arrested Wednesday and booked into the Davis County jail in northern Utah on suspicion of seven counts of sex abuse of a child, according to a probable cause statement.
Investigators say Johnson acknowledged abusing three victims in 1985, 1993 and 1996 and estimated there was a total of six victims as young as 2-years-old, according to the document. He told investigators he had struggled “controlling his sexual urges” most of his life.
The investigation is still ongoing, but so far Johnson is only booked on charges stemming from three victims. Johnson had not yet been charged as of Thursday afternoon and it was unknown if he had an attorney.
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Johnson was in a “position of trust” over each victim, but the probable cause statement doesn't say what years Johnson was a church bishop or if the alleged abuse occurred while Johnson was in that role. Bishops are lay clergy who oversee local congregations for a few years at a time in a rotating role reserved only for men in the faith known widely as the Mormon church.
Stephanie Dinsmore, spokesperson for Davis County Sheriff's Office, declined to say if the alleged abuse happened when Johnson was a church bishop, saying in a text that the agency will not be commenting on Johnson's “affiliation” with the church.
Johnson's other leadership role was mayor of West Bountiful from 1990-1997, a city just outside of Salt Lake City.
The victims told investigators they were told not to tell anyone, and Johnson used his position to suppress disclosures, according to the probable cause statement.
Officials with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints didn't immediately have comment about the accusations.
The faith has come under scrutiny following an Associated Press investigation that found flaws in how it handles reporting of sex abuse allegations made to bishops. The church has defended the system and alleged AP has mischaracterized its reporting system.
The AP reported Thursday that a Utah lawmaker was the person who advised a church bishop in Arizona not to report a confession of child sex abuse to authorities, a decision that allowed the abuse to continue for years, according to records filed in a lawsuit.
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Megan Hilty is mourning the deaths of her sister, brother-in-law and nephew, who died in a plane crash off the coast of Washington.
"There are truly no words to appropriately convey the depth of our grief," the "Smash" actress said.
Hilty said her sister, Lauren, was eight months pregnant at the time of the crash. She was going to name the boy Luca. Hilty added that Lauren and her husband Ross leave behind a daughter who was not on the plane.
The U.S. Coast Guard suspended rescue and recovery efforts on Monday, about 24 hours after the floatplane crash in Mutiny Bay.
Officials said nine adults and one child were on the plane. There were no survivors.
The cause of the crash is unknown.
Hilty said her family has received a lot of support, which has meant a lot to them.
"It has been so comforting to know just how loved Lauren, Ross, Remy and Luca truly are," she said.
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President Joe Biden is honoring the memory of Queen Elizabeth II in the United States.
Biden signed a proclamation on Thursday, ordering flags to be flown at half-staff until the day of her funeral.
"Queen Elizabeth II led always with grace, an unwavering commitment to duty, and the incomparable power of her example," Biden stated.
Queen Elizabeth II was a staunch ally of the United States. She met 14 American presidents during her 70-year reign.
Her passing has set off a 10-day mourning period in the United Kingdom.
There will be various ceremonies in honor of the queen. She will be buried on the grounds of Windsor Castle.
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The Eastern Michigan Eagles kicked off their season with an exciting 42-34 win over FCS Eastern Kentucky. This week’s matchup will not be as easy as Week 1 because they’re hitting the road to take on Louisiana-Lafayette. The Ragin’ Cajuns took down an FCS opponent in Southeastern Louisiana 24-7 in their opening match, so both teams will try to grab their second straight win.
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Eastern Michigan will travel to take on Louisiana-Lafayette this Saturday night, and we predict the Eagles can cover the +11.5 spread. Eastern Michigan’s offense came out flying in its home opener, and QB Taylor Powell showed his ability by throwing for 271 yards and three touchdowns. The Eagles jumped out to a 35-17 lead before Eastern Kentucky scored a few times to make the game seem much closer than it appeared. Their defense will need to step up this week, but Louisiana’s offensive performance in Week 1 wasn’t very impressive.
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The Ragin’ Cajuns won their opening game against an FCS opponent too, but the win wasn’t as convincing. The defense looked very strong and pitched a shutout in the first half, but the offense never got going. QB Chandler Fields was 13-for-20 and threw 173 yards and two touchdowns, but Eastern Kentucky never pressured the first-year QB. As long as Eastern Michigan can disrupt an already struggling offense, the Eagles should remain within a touchdown of Louisiana-Lafayette.
Eastern Michigan averaged 30.2 PPG in 2021, 33.5 in 2020 and 29.2 in 2019, which shows that head coach Chris Creighton has turned this program into a team that can put up points. Louisiana’s offense looked shaky against an FCS opponent in Week 1, and although the Eagles’ defense isn’t a top-unit, they’re much better than SE Louisiana. Therefore, our Eastern Michigan vs. Louisiana prediction is for the game to remain close, and the Eagles should cover the +11.5 spread.
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Company Emerges from Chapter 11 with a Healthier Financial Foundation
Communities Continue to Operate Uninterrupted, Prioritizing Resident Health and Well-being
WILMINGTON, Del., Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- American Eagle Delaware Holding Company LLC and certain of its subsidiaries (collectively, "Eagle Senior Living" or the "Company") today announced that they have successfully completed a comprehensive financial reorganization to achieve a more balanced and sustainable capital structure. The Company has implemented its plan of reorganization, approved by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware on April 27, 2022. Eagle Senior Living has significantly reduced its debt service and enhanced its liquidity position, creating a stronger financial foundation.
As part of the Chapter 11 process, Eagle Senior Living executed a transaction whereby the Company's Vista Lake community was acquired by Atlantis Senior Living LLC. The sale of Vista Lake has closed, and the Vista Lake community is no longer an Eagle Senior Living community. All other Eagle Senior Living communities continue to operate uninterrupted, providing high-quality care and amenities to all residents.
"Through this process, we have secured a bolstered financial structure—allowing our communities to be the place for residents to do more of what they love for years to come," said Todd Topliff, President of American Eagle Delaware Holding Company LLC. "I would like to thank our residents and their family members for their ongoing support, our business partners for their patience, and all of our loyal employees for their unwavering hard work and dedication to providing all residents with the highest quality of care as we have worked to complete this process. We are optimistic about our future."
Greenbrier Senior Living continues to manage all of the communities remaining with Eagle Senior Living.
For more information about Eagle Senior Living's Chapter 11 case, including the terms of the transactions consummated in connection with the Company's emergence, please visit https://dm.epiq11.com/eagleseniorliving, email EagleSeniorLivinginfo@epiqglobal.com or call (800) 713-8096 for U.S. calls or +1 (503) 597-7731 for international calls.
Eagle Senior Living was represented in this matter by Polsinelli as legal counsel and FTI Consulting as restructuring and financial advisor.
About Eagle Senior Living
Established in 2018, Eagle Senior Living was founded with the recognition that our human spirit is elevated through meaningful relationships with others. It's why, across all our communities, residents and associates become like family. It's also the reason those individual communities work to become integrated into the fabric of their surrounding neighborhoods and cities. With 14 communities across seven states, our goal is to enrich the lives of older adults across the nation. Our locations offer independent living, assisted living and memory care.
The culture we foster throughout our organization is built to empower residents and employees through inclusive and purposeful programming that brings people together, because for us, people always come first. That means, in everything we do, our goal is to provide a comfortable place for seniors to live authentic and enriched lives, surrounded by opportunities to grow. Some call this approach best-in-class; we simply call it bringing out the best in each other.
These difference-making values are also shared with our management partner, Greenbrier Senior Living, whose mission is to empower and serve residents, families and associates with heart, passion and focus. For more information, visit https://www.eagleseniorliving.org/.
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Fox News personality Geraldo Rivera said in a new tweet that he’s not going to support former President Trump again.
Rivera on Wednesday stressed the former president’s “shameful” claims that the 2020 election was stolen.
“Election Deniers depress me,” Rivera said. “I blame President Trump for his shameful campaign to slander and undermine American faith in our elections.”
“For all his positive accomplishments, and there are many, I could never support him again,” Rivera added. “Without fealty to the Constitution, we’re 2d rate.”
The former syndicated talk show host has been a frequent critic of Trump in the past few years, previously saying that Trump hadn’t spoken to him after Rivera declared that the 2020 election result had been decided.
Rivera, who in January, 2021 said that Trump should be impeached for his role in the rioting at the Capitol, said in August that the former president still rules the GOP, adding that he’s disappointed in many if not most Republicans for still believing Trump’s election claims.
Rivera last month tweeted a response to James Carville’s interview with The Hill during which the Democratic strategist said that GOP voters are “stupid” for believing that Trump did not lose the 2020 election.
“James Carville is wrong. Trump does rule the GOP. Many, if not most Republicans believe Trump was robbed in 2020. That doesn’t make them ignorant or racist,” Rivera said at the time. “It makes them disappointing. They’re drunk on Trump Koolaid, and either don’t believe he lost, or worse, don’t care.”
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Mercedes-Benz and Rivian on Thursday signed a memorandum of understanding for joint production of electric vans in Europe.
This is the first step toward a planned manufacturing joint venture that will produce “bespoke large electric vans” for both Mercedes and Rivian, the two companies said in a joint press release.
The agreement includes plans for a new European factory to build electric vans for both Mercedes and Rivian. The factory will be located on an existing Mercedes site in Central or Eastern Europe, but will produce EVs exclusively, the companies said.
The joint venture appears to be limited to manufacturing and not vehicle development, as the vans will use each company’s respective platform. One will be based on the Mercedes Van.EA platform due to launch in 2025, while the other will be based on the second-generation Rivian Light Van (RLV) platform. However, further collaboration will be explored, the companies noted. The joint venture will give Rivian its first manufacturing beachhead in Europe, something the company hinted at in 2021.
Mercedes currently sells electric versions of its existing vans in Europe, including the eSprinter, eVito Panel Van cargo van, and eVito Touring and EQV passenger vans. EQT and eCitan models are also in the pipeline, which will give Mercedes an electric version of each of its European van models.
Meanwhile, Rivian is working to deliver electric vans for Amazon, which is also an investor in the automaker. First shown in 2020, the van shares a platform with the Rivian R1T pickup truck and R1S SUV, with a body and other features designed with Amazon’s input. The e-commerce giant aims to put 100,000 electric delivery vans on the road by 2030.
Mercedes assembles vans for the U.S. market in South Carolina, but it’s never built electric models here. The automaker also recently slimmed down its U.S. van lineup by killing off the Metris. It’s unclear if this joint venture will produce vehicles for the U.S. market.
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LAVAL, Quebec, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bausch Health Companies Inc. (NYSE/TSX: BHC) (the "Company") clarified today certain provisions related to its previously announced offers (the "Exchange Offers") to exchange the existing senior notes (the "Existing Senior Notes") for new secured notes (the "New Secured Notes") and related solicitation of consent (the "Consent Solicitation") pursuant to the terms described in an Exchange Offer Memorandum and Consent Solicitation Statement, dated Aug. 30, 2022 (the "Exchange Offer Memorandum").
In response to certain concerns raised by holders of Existing Senior Notes, the Company hereby confirms the following with respect to the customary release and waiver provisions set forth in clauses (ii) and (iii) in the section "Terms of the Offers and Consent Solicitations—Procedures for Tendering Existing Senior Notes and Delivering Consents—Representations, Warranties and Undertakings" in the Exchange Offer Memorandum:
- Upon an Eligible Holder (as defined in the Exchange Offer Memorandum) tendering its Existing Senior Notes in the Exchange Offers, such Eligible Holder (a) waives any and all other rights only with respect to the Existing Senior Notes actually exchanged in the Exchange Offers and (b) releases and discharges Bausch Health and its affiliates from any and all claims such holder may have now, or may have in the future, arising out of, or related to, such Existing Senior Notes actually exchanged in the Exchange Offers;
- If an Eligible Holder does not exchange all of its Existing Senior Notes or if certain of its exchanged Existing Senior Notes are returned to it as a result of proration, such an Eligible Holder retains all claims, causes of action and rights under the retained Existing Senior Notes; and
- Upon receipt of the New Secured Notes, the tendering Eligible Holder will have all claims, causes of action and rights entitled to such Eligible Holder under the terms of the New Secured Notes.
The Exchange Offers and Consent Solicitations are being made, and the applicable series of New Secured Notes are being offered, only to holders of the Existing Senior Notes who are either (a) persons other than "U.S. persons" as defined in Regulation S, and who agree to purchase the New Secured Notes outside of the United States, and who are otherwise in compliance with the requirements of Regulation S; or (b) persons who are reasonably believed to be both (i) "qualified institutional buyers" as defined in Rule 144A under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act") and to whom the New Secured Notes are offered in the United States in a transaction not involving a public offering, pursuant to Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act and (ii) qualified purchasers (as defined in Section 2(a)(51) of the U.S. Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended; provided that, in each case, if such holder (i) is resident in Canada, such holder is required to complete, sign and submit to the exchange agent a Canadian holder form, which may be obtained from the information agent, or (ii) is in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, such holder is a "qualified investor" and is not a "retail investor". With respect to holders in the European Economic Area, a "retail investor" means a person who is one (or more) of: (i) a "retail client" as defined in point (11) of Article 4(1) of Directive 2014/65/EU (as amended, "MiFID II"); or (ii) a "customer" within the meaning of Directive (EU) 2016/97, where that customer would not qualify as a professional client as defined in point (10) of Article 4(1) of MiFID II; or (iii) not a "qualified investor" as defined in Regulation (EU) 2017/1129. The holders of Existing Senior Notes who have certified that they are eligible to participate in the Offers and Consent Solicitations pursuant to at least one of the foregoing conditions are referred to as "Eligible Holders." Eligible Holders may go to www.dfking.com/bhc to confirm their eligibility.
All other terms, provisions and conditions of the Exchange Offers and Consent Solicitation remain in full force and effect. Full details of the terms and conditions of the Exchange Offers and the Consent Solicitations are described in the Exchange Offer Memorandum. The Exchange Offers and the Consent Solicitations are only being made pursuant to, and the information in this press release is qualified in its entirety by reference to, the Exchange Offer Memorandum. Eligible Holders of the Existing Senior Notes are encouraged to read these documents, as they contain important information regarding the Exchange Offers and the Consent Solicitations. This press release is neither an offer to purchase nor a solicitation of an offer to buy any Existing Senior Notes in the Exchange Offers or the Consent Solicitations.
Requests for the Exchange Offer Memorandum and other documents relating to the Exchange Offers and the Consent Solicitations may be directed to D.F. King & Co., Inc., the exchange agent and information agent for the Offers, at (212) 232-3233 (for banks and brokers only) or (877) 478-5045 (toll-free) (for all others) or bhc@dfking.com.
None of the Company, any of their respective subsidiaries or affiliates, or any of their respective officers, boards of directors or directors, the dealer manager and solicitation agent, the exchange agent and information agent or any trustee is making any recommendation as to whether Eligible Holders should tender any Existing Senior Notes in response to the Exchange Offers or deliver any consents pursuant to the Consent Solicitations and no one has been authorized by any of them to make such a recommendation. Eligible holders must make their own decision as to whether to tender their Existing Senior Notes and deliver consents, and, if so, the principal amount of Existing Senior Notes as to which action is to be taken.
The Exchange Offers and the Consent Solicitations are not being made to Eligible Holders of Existing Senior Notes in any jurisdiction in which the making or acceptance thereof would not be in compliance with the securities, blue sky or other laws of such jurisdiction. The New Secured Notes have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act, or any state securities laws and may not be offered or sold in the United States, except pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act and applicable state securities laws. The New Secured Notes have not been and will not be qualified for sale to the public by prospectus under applicable Canadian securities laws and, accordingly, any issuance of New Secured Notes in Canada will be made on a basis which is exempt from the prospectus requirements of such securities laws.
This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy the New Secured Notes in the United States and shall not constitute an offer, solicitation or sale of the New Secured Notes in any jurisdiction where such offering or sale would be unlawful. There shall not be any sale of the New Secured Notes in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of such jurisdiction.
About Bausch Health Companies Inc.
Bausch Health Companies Inc. (NYSE/TSX: BHC) is a global diversified pharmaceutical company whose mission is to improve people's lives with our health care products. We develop, manufacture and market a range of products primarily in gastroenterology, hepatology, neurology, dermatology, international pharmaceuticals and eye health, through our approximately 88.7% ownership of Bausch + Lomb. With our leading durable brands, we are delivering on our commitments as we build an innovative company dedicated to advancing global health.
Forward-Looking Statements
This news release may contain forward-looking statements about the future performance of the Company, which may generally be identified by the use of the words "anticipates," "hopes," "expects," "intends," "plans," "should," "could," "would," "may," "believes," "subject to" and variations or similar expressions. These statements are based upon the current expectations and beliefs of management and are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements. Actual results are subject to other risks and uncertainties that relate more broadly to the Company's overall business, including those more fully described in the Company's most recent annual report on Form 10-K and detailed from time to time in the Company's other filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Canadian securities administrators, which factors are incorporated herein by reference.
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House Republicans told the Department of Defense that they are “gravely concerned” about President Biden using Marines as “political props” during his Sept. 1 speech in Philadelphia.
In a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, the lawmakers said it appeared that the Marines “participated in a political event” that “jeopardizes their compliance” with Pentagon regulations against participating in political activities while in uniform.
“We are gravely concerned that throughout the entirety of this partisan, politically charged, and divisive address to the nation, two United States Marines were visibly present flanking the President in the background,” the lawmakers wrote.
“The President’s use of active-duty Marines as political props undermines the apolitical nature of our servicemembers and erodes trust in our military,” they continued.
The letter was signed by House Republican Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik (N.Y.), House Armed Services Committee ranking member Mike Rogers (R-Ala.) and House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense ranking member Ken Calvert (R-Calf.).
The Pentagon referred questions on the use of the Marines to the White House, but said “as with any letter the Secretary receives from lawmakers, his team will reply to the authors of the letter in due time.”
Biden’s use of the Marines during his speech sparked debate, with many who liked the president’s remarks criticizing the positioning of Marines behind him during a speech that was largely seen as political.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre later insisted that Biden had the Marines there out of respect for the military and its role in defending democracy.
“It is not abnormal. It is actually normal for presidents from either side of the aisle to give speeches in front of members of the military,” she added. “It is not an unusual sight or is not an unusual event to have happen.”
Pentagon spokesman Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder declined to comment on the use of the Marines during Biden’s speech on Tuesday, referring to comments made by Jean-Pierre last week.
In their letter, the lawmakers asked Austin to respond to questions regarding his knowledge of Biden’s use of the Marines during the speech.
They asked if anyone in the Defense Department knew of the contents of Biden’s speech before he gave it, if the agency knew that two active-duty service members would be involved and what guidance was given to the White House regarding their participation in the event, among other things.
“You’ve expressed your concern about politicization of the military and have insisted the military will not become a political instrument under your watch. Unfortunately, that is exactly what happened with the participation of the Marines at this political event,” the lawmakers wrote.
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LONDON (AP) — On her 21st birthday in 1947, Princess Elizabeth went on the radio and made a promise to Britain and its Commonwealth nations: She pledged that “my whole life, whether it be short or long, will be devoted to your service.”
Over her very long life, Queen Elizabeth II fulfilled that vow.
Through 15 prime ministers, from Winston Churchill to Liz Truss. Through Britain’s postwar deprivations, crippling labor unrest and Brexit. Through the messy divorces, embarrassments and scandals of her family. She endured through it all -- a reassuring anchor in a fast-changing world.
The longest-reigning monarch that Britain has ever known, Elizabeth died Thursday at 96 at Balmoral Castle, her beloved summer home in Scotland, after having steadied and modernized the royal institution through seven decades of huge social change.
Her passing ends an era, the modern Elizabethan age. Her 73-year-old son, Charles, automatically became king upon her death. He will be known as King Charles III, although his coronation might not take place for months.
Through countless public events in her 70 years as monarch, Elizabeth likely met more people than anyone in history. Her image — on stamps, coins and bank notes — was among the most reproduced in the world.
But her inner life and opinions remained mostly an enigma. The public saw only glimpses of her personality: her joy watching horse racing at Royal Ascot or being with her beloved Welsh corgi dogs.
Yet Elizabeth had an intuitive bond with many of her subjects that seemed to strengthen over time, keeping a sense of perspective that served her well in most instances, said royal historian Robert Lacey.
“A lot of it comes from her modesty, the fact that she’s very conscious that she’s not important, that she’s there to do a job, that it’s the institution that matters,” he said.
She strongly felt the burden of her role as queen, though she was not destined for the crown from birth.
Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor was born in London on April 21, 1926, the first child of the Duke and Duchess of York. Her father’s elder brother, Prince Edward, was first in line for the throne, to be followed by any children he had.
But in 1936, when she was 10, King Edward VIII abdicated to marry twice-divorced American Wallis Simpson, and Elizabeth’s father became King George VI.
Her younger sister, Princess Margaret, recalled asking Elizabeth whether this meant that she would one day be queen. ”‘Yes, I suppose it does,‘” Margaret quoted Elizabeth as saying. “She didn’t mention it again.”
Like many of her generation, Elizabeth was shaped by World War II.
She was barely in her teens when Britain went to war with Germany in 1939. While the king and queen stayed at Buckingham Palace during the Blitz and toured the bombed-out neighborhoods of London, Elizabeth and Margaret stayed for most of the war at Windsor Castle, west of the capital. Even there, 300 bombs fell in an adjacent park, and the princesses spent many nights in an underground shelter.
Her first public broadcast, made in 1940 when she was 14, was a wartime message to children evacuated to the countryside or overseas.
“We children at home are full of cheerfulness and courage,” she said with a blend of stoicism and hope that would echo throughout her reign. “We are trying to do all we can to help out gallant soldiers, sailors and airmen. And we are trying, too, to bear our own share of the danger and sadness of war. We know, every one of us, that in the end all will be well.”
In 1945, after months of urging her parents to let her do something for the war effort, the heir to the throne became Second Subaltern Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor in the Auxiliary Territorial Service. She enthusiastically learned how to drive and service heavy vehicles.
On the night the war ended in Europe, May 8, 1945, she and Margaret managed to mingle, unrecognized, with celebrating crowds in London -- “swept along on a tide of happiness and relief,” as she told the BBC decades later. She described it as “one of the most memorable nights of my life.”
Two years later, at Westminster Abbey in November 1947, she married Royal Navy officer Philip Mountbatten, a prince of Greece and Denmark whom she had first met in 1939 when she was 13 and he 18. Postwar Britain was experiencing austerity and rationing, and so street decorations were limited, and no public holiday was declared. But the bride was allowed 100 extra ration coupons for her trousseau.
The marriage lasted more than 73 years, until Philip’s death in 2021 at age 99.
The first of their four children, Prince Charles, was born on Nov. 14, 1948. He was followed by Princess Anne on Aug. 15, 1950, Prince Andrew on Feb. 19, 1960, and Prince Edward on March 10, 1964. Besides them, the queen is survived by eight grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.
Elizabeth and Philip lived for a time in Malta, where he was stationed and Elizabeth enjoyed an almost-normal life as a navy wife.
Then in February 1952, George VI died in his sleep at age 56 after years of ill health. Elizabeth, on a visit to Kenya, was told she was now queen.
“In a way, I didn’t have an apprenticeship,” Elizabeth told a BBC documentary in 1992 that gave a rare view into her emotions. “My father died much too young, and so it was all a very sudden kind of taking on and making the best job you can.”
Her coronation took place more than a year later at Westminster Abbey, a grand spectacle viewed by millions through the new medium of television.
Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s first reaction to the king’s death was to complain that the new queen was “only a child,” but he was won over within days and became an ardent admirer.
“All the film people in the world, if they had scoured the globe, could not have found anyone so suited to the part,” Churchill’s biographer, Lord Moran, reported the prime minister gushing about the young monarch.
In Britain’s constitutional monarchy, the queen is head of state but has little direct power; in her official actions, she does what the government orders. However, she was not without influence. She once reportedly commented that there was nothing she could do legally to block the appointment of a bishop, “but I can always say that I should like more information. That is an indication that the prime minister will not miss.”
The extent of the monarch’s political influence sparked occasional speculation, but not much criticism. The views of Charles, who has expressed strong opinions on everything from architecture to the environment, might prove more contentious.
The queen was obliged to meet weekly with the prime minister, and they generally found her well-informed, inquisitive and up to date. The one possible exception was Margaret Thatcher, with whom her relations were said to be cool, if not frosty, though neither ever commented.
The queen’s views in those private meetings became a subject of intense speculation and fertile grounds for dramatists like Peter Morgan, author of the play “The Audience” and hit TV series “The Crown.” Those semi-fictionalized accounts were the product of an era of declining deference and rising celebrity, when the royal troubles became public property.
And there were plenty of troubles in the royal family, an institution known within the palace as “The Firm.” In Elizabeth’s first years on the throne, Princess Margaret provoked a national controversy through her romance with a divorced man.
In what the queen called the “annus horribilis” of 1992, her daughter, Princess Anne, got divorced, Prince Charles and Princess Diana separated, and so did Prince Andrew and his wife, Sarah. That was also the year Windsor Castle, a residence she far preferred to Buckingham Palace, was seriously damaged by fire.
The public split of Charles and Diana -- “There were three of us in that marriage,” Diana said of her husband’s relationship with Camilla Parker Bowles -- was followed by the shock of Diana’s death in a Paris car crash in 1997. For once, the queen appeared out of step with her people. Amid unprecedented national mourning, Elizabeth’s failure to make a public show of grief appeared to many to be unfeeling. After several days, she made a televised address to the nation.
The dent in her popularity was brief. She was by now a sort of national grandmother, with a stern gaze, a kind smile and an inexhaustible repertoire of brightly colored outfits with matching hats.
She took the monarchy from the black-and-white era to the digital age and was a cautious modernizer: She ended the presentation of debutantes at court and instituted garden parties with a cross section of her subjects; her children were sent to school, rather than being privately tutored as she was; she was the first monarch to give the annual royal Christmas speech on television, and the first to send an email and post a tweet.
Financial pressures led to staff reductions, cutbacks in repairs and maintenance at some of her palaces, and the removal of the royal yacht from active service. In the 1990s, she voluntarily but prudently agreed to pay taxes, and her dignity survived the necessity of topping up her income by opening a souvenir shop at Buckingham Palace.
Despite being one of the world’s wealthiest people, Elizabeth had a reputation for frugality and common sense. She was known as a monarch who took care to turn off lights in empty rooms, a country woman who didn’t flinch from strangling pheasants.
A newspaper reporter who went undercover to work as a palace footman reinforced that down-to-earth image, taking photos of the royal Tupperware on the breakfast table and a rubber duck in the bath.
“Dogs and horses, courtesy, kindliness and community service, count with her,” biographer Giles Brandreth wrote.
Her sangfroid was not dented when a young man aimed a pistol at her and fired six blanks as she rode by on a horse in 1981, nor when she discovered an intruder sitting on her bed in Buckingham Palace in 1982.
The image of the queen as an exemplar of ordinary British decency was satirized by the magazine Private Eye, which called her Brenda. Anti-monarchists dubbed her “Mrs. Windsor.” But the republican cause gained limited traction.
On her Golden Jubilee in 2002, she said the country could “look back with measured pride on the history of the last 50 years.”
“It has been a pretty remarkable 50 years by any standards,” she said in a speech. “There have been ups and downs, but anyone who can remember what things were like after those six long years of war appreciates what immense changes have been achieved since then.”
A reassuring presence at home, she was also an emblem of Britain abroad -- a form of soft power, consistently respected whatever the vagaries of the country’s political leaders on the world stage. It felt only fitting that she attended the opening of the 2012 London Olympics alongside another icon, James Bond, as portrayed by Daniel Craig. Through some movie magic, she appeared to parachute into the Olympic Stadium.
Despite Britain’s complex and often fraught ties with its former colonies, Elizabeth was widely respected and remained head of state of more than a dozen countries, from Canada to Tuvalu. She headed the 54-nation Commonwealth, built around the U.K. and its former British colonies.
In 2015, she overtook Queen Victoria, her great-great-grandmother, as the longest serving monarch in British history, and in 2022 she became the second longest-reigning monarch in world history, behind 17th century French King Louis XIV, who took the throne at age 4.
She kept working well into her 10th decade, though Prince Charles and his elder son, Prince William, took over most of the visits, ribbon-cuttings and investitures that form the bulk of royal duties. The loss of Philip in 2021 was a heavy blow, as she poignantly sat alone at his funeral in the chapel at Windsor Castle.
The family troubles kept coming. Her son, Prince Andrew, was entangled in the sordid tale of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, an American businessman who had been a friend. Andrew denies accusations that he had sex with one of the women who said she was trafficked by Epstein.
The queen’s grandson, Prince Harry, walked away from Britain and his royal duties after marrying American actress Meghan Markle in 2018. He alleged in an interview that some in the family -– but pointedly not the queen -– had been less than welcoming to his wife.
She enjoyed robust health well into her 90s, though frailty eventually caught up with her. In October 2021, she spent a night in a London hospital for tests, and was later said by the palace to be experiencing “episodic mobility issues.”
She kept up virtual meetings with diplomats and politicians from Windsor Castle, but public duties grew rarer, though she made several appearances as the U.K. celebrated her Platinum Jubilee in June 2022.
Pragmatic to the end, she began to prepare the country for the transition to come. She let it be known that she wanted Charles’ wife Camilla to be known as “Queen Consort” when her son became king. It removed a question mark over the future role of the woman some blamed for the breakup of Charles’ marriage to Princess Diana in the 1990s.
In May 2022, she asked Charles to stand in for her and read the Queen’s Speech at the State Opening of Parliament, one of the monarch’s most central constitutional duties.
But she remained firmly in control of the monarchy and at the center of national life as Britain marked her Platinum Jubilee with parties and pageants. On Sept. 6, 2022, she presided at a ceremony at Balmoral Castle to appoint Truss as the 15th prime minister of her reign.
Seven decades after World War II, Elizabeth was again at the center of the national mood amid the uncertainty and loss of COVID 19 -- a disease she came through herself in February 2022.
In April 2020 -- with the country in lockdown and Prime Minister Boris Johnson hospitalized with the virus -- she made a rare video address, urging people to stick together.
She summoned the spirit of World War II, that vital time in her life, and the nation’s, by echoing Vera Lynn’s wartime anthem “We’ll Meet Again.”
“We should take comfort that while we may have more still to endure, better days will return. We will be with our friends again. We will be with our families again. We will meet again,” she said.
At Queen Square in London’s Bloomsbury neighborhood stands an urn erected to commemorate Elizabeth’s Silver Jubilee. Etched on the ground around it are the words of poet Philip Larkin, written for that event in 1977, but which remained true decades later:
“In times when nothing stood
But worsened or grew strange,
There was one constant good
She did not change.”
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Associated Press writers Gregory Katz and Robert Barr contributed material before their deaths.
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BALTIMORE, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Medifast (NYSE: MED), the global company behind one of the fastest-growing health and wellness communities, OPTAVIA®, announced today that its Board of Directors has declared a $1.64 quarterly cash dividend to its stockholders. The quarterly cash dividend of $1.64 per share is payable on November 8, 2022, to stockholders of record as of the close of business on September 20, 2022.
Medifast expects to maintain a program of paying dividends on a quarterly basis. However, the declaration of dividends in the future is subject to the discretion of the company's Board of Directors, who will evaluate the company's dividend program from time to time based on factors that it deems relevant.
About Medifast:
Medifast (NYSE: MED) is the global company behind one of the fastest-growing health and wellness communities, OPTAVIA®, which offers scientifically developed products, clinically proven plans and the support of independent OPTAVIA Coaches and a Community to help Customers achieve Lifelong Transformation, One Healthy Habit at a Time®. As the publicly traded market leader by revenue in the U.S. $7 billion weight management industry, the company has impacted more than 2 million lives through its Community of OPTAVIA Coaches, who teach Customers how to develop holistic healthy habits through the proprietary Habits of Health® Transformational System. Medifast was recognized in 2022 as one of America's Best Mid-Sized Companies by Forbes, in 2020 and 2021 as one of FORTUNE's 100 Fastest-Growing Companies and was named to Forbes' 100 Most Trustworthy Companies in America list in 2017. For more information, visit MedifastInc.com or OPTAVIA.com and follow @Medifast on Twitter.
Forward Looking Statements
Please Note: This release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. These forward-looking statements generally can be identified by use of phrases or terminology such as "intend," "anticipate," "expects" or other similar words or the negative of such terminology. Similarly, descriptions of Medifast's objectives, strategies, plans, goals or targets contained herein are also considered forward-looking statements. These statements are based on the current expectations of the management of Medifast and are subject to certain events, risks, uncertainties and other factors. Some of these factors include, among others, constraints, volatility or disruptions in the capital markets or other factors affecting the amount and timing of share repurchases under Medifast's accelerated share repurchase program; risks associated with Medifast's direct-to-consumer business model, the impact of rapid growth on Medifast's systems; disruptions in Medifast's supply chain; Medifast's inability to continue to develop new products; effectiveness of Medifast's advertising and marketing programs, including use of social media by independent OPTAVIA Coaches; Medifast's inability to maintain and grow the network of independent OPTAVIA Coaches; the departure of one or more key personnel; Medifast's inability to protect against online security risks; to protect its brand or to protect against product liability claims; Medifast's planned growth into domestic and international markets; adverse publicity associated with Medifast's products; Medifast's inability to continue declaring dividends; fluctuations of Medifast's common stock market price; the severity, length and ultimate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Medifast's results and people and economies; increases in competition, litigation, consequences of other geopolitical events, natural disasters, acts of war, climate change, stockholder activism, regulatory changes, inflation, labor shortages, supply chain issues and the resulting impact on market conditions and consumer sentiment and spending; and a failure of internal control over financial reporting. Although Medifast believes that the expectations, statements and assumptions reflected in these forward-looking statements are reasonable, it cautions readers to always consider all of the risk factors and any other cautionary statements carefully in evaluating each forward-looking statement in this release, as well as those set forth in its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021, and other filings filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, including its quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and current reports on Form 8-K. All of the forward-looking statements contained herein speak only as of the date of this release.
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FRISCO, Texas (AP) — Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott was limited in practice Thursday with a right ankle issue he said was caused by trying a different style of cleats.
Prescott said the ankle wouldn't affect his status for the opener Sunday night at home against Tampa Bay and seven-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady.
It's the same ankle that was surgically repaired after the gruesome injury that ended Prescott's 2020 season in Week 5. Prescott said he had worn a different style of cleats all of training camp.
“It’s just being very, very cautious,” said Prescott, who said he didn't twist the ankle. “Switching shoes today probably wasn’t the best idea. We’re good to go. Promise that.”
Prescott missed almost all of the preseason last year with a shoulder injury, but was spectacular in the opener. He threw for 403 yards and three touchdowns in a 31-29 loss to the Buccaneers, who got four TD passes from Brady.
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OXFORD, England, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sitryx Therapeutics Ltd (the "Company"), a biopharmaceutical company pioneering the field of immunometabolism, today announced that the Company will participate virtually in the following events:
- UBS Biotechnology Private Company Symposium, Sept. 21-22, 2022
- Longwood Healthcare Leaders Fall Webconference, Sept. 22, 2022
- Needham Private Biotech Company Virtual 1x1 Forum, Oct. 18-19, 2022
Sitryx is a global biopharmaceutical company pioneering the field of immunometabolism. The company's proprietary platform and Product Engine are built on a deep understanding of the intersection of inflammatory signaling and metabolism. Sitryx is advancing a pipeline of disease-modifying therapies towards the clinic, on its own and with its strategic partner, Eli Lilly and Company, for a wide range of autoimmune disorders. In 2018, Sitryx raised $30 million Series A funding from an international syndicate of specialist investors including SV Health Investors, Sofinnova Partners, Longwood Fund and GSK. In 2020, Sitryx formed a global licensing and research collaboration with Eli Lilly and Company. Lilly also became an investor in the Company. Sitryx is headquartered in Oxford, UK with offices in the United States.
For more information, please visit www.sitryx.com and engage with us on LinkedIn.
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WFO LOS ANGELES Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, September 8, 2022
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BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT
Coastal Hazard Message
National Weather Service Los Angeles/Oxnard CA
145 PM PDT Thu Sep 8 2022
...COASTAL FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 5 AM FRIDAY TO 2 AM PDT
SUNDAY...
...HIGH SURF ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 5 AM FRIDAY TO 2 AM PDT
* WHAT...For the Coastal Flood Advisory, minor coastal flooding
expected. For the High Surf Advisory, large breaking waves of 5
to 9 feet with dangerous rip currents.
* WHERE...Catalina and Santa Barbara Islands.
* WHEN...From 5 AM Friday to 2 AM PDT Sunday.
* IMPACTS...Flooding of sea water is likely, around the time of
high tide, over vulnerable low-lying coastal areas such as
parking lots, beaches, and walkways. Significant damage to
roads or structures is NOT expected. There is an increased
risk for ocean drowning. Rip currents can pull swimmers and
surfers out to sea. Large breaking waves can cause injury,
wash people off beaches and rocks, and capsize small boats
near shore.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Coastal Flooding will be most hazardous
during high tide. High tides of 7.0 to 7.5 feet are expected
Friday and Saturday around 9 PM, and 6.5 to 7.0 feet tide
Saturday around 10 AM.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Take the necessary actions to protect flood-prone property. Do
NOT drive around barricades or through water of unknown depth.
Remain out of the water due to dangerous surf conditions, or stay
near occupied lifeguard towers. Rock jetties can be deadly in
such conditions, stay off the rocks.
* WHAT...Large breaking waves of 4 to 7 feet with dangerous rip
currents.
* WHERE...Santa Barbara County Southeastern Coast, Ventura
County Beaches, Malibu Coast and Los Angeles County Beaches.
* IMPACTS...There is an increased risk for ocean drowning. Rip
currents can pull swimmers and surfers out to sea. Large
breaking waves can cause injury, wash people off beaches and
rocks, and capsize small boats near shore.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Surf will peak Saturday. Minor coastal
flooding is possible during high tides.
* WHERE...Santa Barbara County Southwestern Coast.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Minor coastal flooding is possible during
high tides.
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When he was a kid growing up in Milton, Charlie Tufts would speak at an assembly every year at Tucker Elementary School, explaining to his schoolmates why doctors believed he wouldn’t live past 30.
Charlie had cystic fibrosis, which gave his lungs a decidedly short life span. Every year — every day, really — he gave his schoolmates a lesson in perspective.
But, even as a kid, Charlie was determined to prove the doctors wrong.
“I’m not dying when I’m 30,” his younger brother Peter remembers him saying.
Charlie Tufts had a lot of living to do first. He graduated from BC High, then UMass Dartmouth. He was a hardcore fan of the Boston Celtics and, in a nod to his birthplace of Memphis, the Tennessee Volunteers. He got a good job as a data base analyst.
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He did all this while, beginning as a small child, having to spend weeks every year in the hospital because of his medical condition. He was a frequent flyer at Massachusetts General Hospital, where his infectious spirit lifted those of the nurses, doctors, and specialists at the cystic fibrosis and infectious disease clinics.
When you have a limited time on earth, the clock is ticking, and Charlie knew he had to make an impact fast. After years of taking part in fund-raising walks for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, he decided to organize a softball tournament to raise money and awareness.
Charlie put the arm on every relative and friend he knew. The first year, in 2013, seven teams raised $7,000 at Joe Moakley Park in South Boston. By 2017, there were 20 teams that raised $125,000.
Two months after that tournament, Charlie went into the hospital. He needed a lung transplant.
Charlie Tufts’s advocacy and fund-raising contributed to the research that led to breakthrough treatments for CF, but his condition had worsened to the point that his body could not benefit from those new drugs.
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He underwent a lung transplant in March 2018 and was still recovering from it when September rolled around, the time he always held the softball tournament.
“Charlie didn’t want anybody else to feel obligated to take on all that responsibility, so we put the tournament on hiatus,” Peter Tufts said. “He was determined to get it back up and running as soon as he felt well enough.”
That day never came.
Two years ago, Charlie was in hospice care when he made his final wishes. The pandemic was raging, and he knew it would be a while before his family and friends could attempt to fulfill those wishes. When it was safe, he wanted them to throw a big party. And he wanted them to start the softball tournament up again.
Charlie Tufts died at home in Milton on Nov. 22, 2020, from complications of cystic fibrosis. He was 33.
Because of COVID, only 20 people were able to attend his funeral at St. Michael’s Church in Milton.
Last month, a huge group of Charlie’s friends and family gathered at the Brick & Beam Tavern in Quincy for that party Charlie wanted. And on Saturday morning, after a five-year hiatus, the softball tournament returns to Joe Moakley Park in Southie.
Peter Tufts said Charlie’s friends and family didn’t want to be overly ambitious, with 16 teams aiming to raise $50,000. They’ve already surpassed that goal.
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It will be bittersweet. Not because Charlie won’t be there, because he will be, in a way. This is Charlie Tufts’s legacy, his sweet, enduring afterlife, after a life of helping and inspiring others.
Among those taking the field Saturday will be his cousin and goddaughter Caroline Connelly and his college classmate and close friend Nicole Corcoran, both of whom are living with cystic fibrosis and have been able to avail themselves of those new treatments, leading active, athletic lives.
Nicole Corcoran has two children, and they’ll grow up hearing stories about their mom’s great friend Charlie, who didn’t get nearly as much time as he deserved, but made every minute count.
Kevin Cullen is a Globe columnist. He can be reached at kevin.cullen@globe.com.
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LONDON (AP) — British politicians across the political spectrum united in sorrow Thursday at the death of Queen Elizabeth II, a passing that brought the country’s usually fractious politics to a halt.
The queen’s death at age 96 will be marked with 10 days of national mourning, culminating in a state funeral for the monarch.
Essential government functions will continue, but much of the routine business of politics will be put on pause. Parliamentary business will give way to two days of tributes from lawmakers in the House of Commons on Friday and Saturday.
New Prime Minister Liz Truss, who was told of the news about 90 minutes before it was made public, said the country was “devastated” by the death of the monarch on Thursday, calling her “the rock on which modern Britain was built.”
“We are now a modern, thriving, dynamic nation,” Truss said outside her 10 Downing St. residence in London. “Through thick and thin, Queen Elizabeth II provided us with the stability and the strength that we needed.
“She was the very spirit of Great Britain – and that spirit will endure,” Truss said.
She ended her statement with words that no British leader has said for 70 years: “God save the king.”
Truss was appointed by the queen just 48 hours earlier at Balmoral Castle in Scotland, becoming the 15th prime minister to serve during Elizabeth’s reign. The queen died at Balmoral on Thursday afternoon after 70 years on the throne.
The Union Jack flag atop the prime minister’s residence was lowered to half-staff after the monarch’s death was announced.
Truss’s predecessor, Boris Johnson, said “this is our country’s saddest day.”
He said the passing of the only monarch most Britons have ever known would provoke “a deep and personal sense of loss – far more intense, perhaps, than we expected.”
But Johnson said her heir, 73-year-old King Charles III, would “amply do justice to her legacy.”
Opposition Labour Party leader Keir Starmer also paid tribute to a constitutional monarch he said was “above the clashes of politics.”
“She stood not for what the nation fought over, but what it agreed upon. As Britain changed rapidly around her, this dedication became the still point of our turning world,” he said. “So as our great Elizabethan era comes to an end, we will honor the late queen’s memory by keeping alive the values of public service she embodied.”
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Turtle Krawl 5K Benefits Sea Turtle Preservation Saturday September 10, 2022 7:30 am
The Sea Turtle Preservation Society has been protecting sea turtles and their habitat in Brevard County for more than 35 years.
Our annual Turtle Krawl 5K event provides needed funds to continue the organization’s education and conservation programs.
All race proceeds benefit the Sea Turtle Preservation Society’s mission to help sea turtles survive. In past years, funds raised have supported numerous efforts to help these protected species.
These programs include the Brevard Zoo’s Sea Turtle Healing Center as well as STPS programs and activities, including rescue and transport of injured sea turtles, nesting surveys, night walks, and other educational outreach programs. In addition, funds have assisted in purchasing satellite transmitters for the UCF marine turtle research program.
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LONDON (AP) — From her ambulance service during World War II to being immortalized by a Beatles song, Queen Elizabeth II has been the only monarch that most people in Britain have ever known. She reigned for seven decades over a Britain that rebuilt from war and lost its empire before dying at age 96 on Thursday at Balmoral Castle in Scotland.
She endured through 15 prime ministers, from Winston Churchill to Liz Truss, becoming an institution and an icon — a fixed point and a reassuring presence even for those who didn’t like the royals. She was the longest reigning-monarch in British history, famous for her life of public service but also for her beloved corgis and a mischievous sense of humor in private.
Ten things to know about the life of Queen Elizabeth II:
BRITAIN’S LONGEST-REIGNING MONARCH
Elizabeth, who marked 70 years on the throne this year, is the oldest and longest-reigning monarch in British history. In September 2015 she surpassed her great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria, who reigned for 63 years and seven months.
In 2016, Elizabeth also became the longest-reigning monarch in the world with the death of King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand. In 2022, she became the second-longest-reigning monarch in world history, behind 17th century French King Louis XIV, who took the throne at age 4.
Apart from Elizabeth and Victoria, only four other monarchs in British history have reigned for 50 years or more: George III (59 years), Henry III (56 years), Edward III (50 years) and James VI of Scotland (58 years.)
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HOME-SCHOOLING
Like many royals of her time and before, Elizabeth never went to a public school and was never exposed to other students. Instead, she was educated at home with Margaret, her younger sister.
Among those who taught her was her father, along with a senior teacher at Eton College, several French and Belgian governesses who taught her French, and the Archbishop of Canterbury, who taught her religion.
Elizabeth’s schooling also included learning to ride, swim, dance and the study of fine art and music.
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“NO. 230873”
During World War II, young Princess Elizabeth briefly became known as No. 230873, Second Subaltern Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor of the Auxiliary Transport Service No. 1.
After months of campaigning for her parents’ permission to do something for the war effort, the heir to the throne learned how to drive and service ambulances and trucks. She rose to the rank of honorary Junior Commander within months.
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‘GREAT MIMICKER’
Elizabeth often gave the impression of a serious demeanor, and many have noted her “poker face,” but those who knew her described her as having a mischievous sense of humor and a talent for mimicry in private company.
Rowan Williams, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, has said the queen could be “extremely funny in private — and not everybody appreciates how funny she can be.”
Bishop Michael Mann, the monarch’s domestic chaplain, once said that “the queen imitating the Concorde landing is one of the funniest things you could see.” Ian Paisley, the Northern Irish clergyman and politician, also noted that Elizabeth was a “great mimicker” of him.
More recently, she showed her mischievous side during the Platinum Jubilee celebrations, when she starred in a comic video alongside an animated Paddington Bear and spoke of hiding marmalade sandwiches in her purse.
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ROYAL TAXPAYER
She may have been the queen, but she paid taxes too — at least since 1992.
When Windsor Castle, the queen’s weekend residence, was ravaged by fire in 1992, the public rebelled against paying millions of pounds for repairs.
But she voluntarily agreed to pay tax on her personal income. She said she would meet 70 percent of the cost of restoration work, and she also decided to open her home at Buckingham Palace to the public for the first time to generate extra funds from admission fees.
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LITTLE LILIBET
The queen was christened Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor of York, in honor of her mother, paternal grandmother and paternal great-grandmother. But as a child, she was endearingly known as young Lilibet by her family — said to be because she couldn’t pronounce “Elizabeth” properly.
In a letter to her grandmother Queen Mary, the young princess wrote: “Dear Granny. Thank you very much for the lovely little jersey. We loved staying at Sandringham with you. I lost a top front tooth yesterday morning,” before signing off, “Love from Lilibet.”
The nickname became more widely known after Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, named their daughter Lilibet Diana in 2021.
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A STEADFAST ROMANCE
Elizabeth and her husband Prince Philip enjoyed a stable relationship for more 70 years, a union that far outlasted the marriages of three of her four children: Charles, Anne and Andrew.
“He has been quite simply my strength and stay all these years,” the queen said of Philip on their 50th wedding anniversary.
Their story began in 1939, when Prince Philip of Greece, a handsome 18-year-old naval cadet, was detailed to entertain the 13-year-old Elizabeth for a day. Several years later, Philip was invited to join the royal family at Windsor Castle at Christmas, and he soon made discreet inquiries whether he would be considered an eligible suitor.
The couple married in Westminster Abbey in 1947. When Philip died in 2021 at age 99, Elizabeth described his passing as leaving a “huge void” in her life, according to their son, Andrew.
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MULTIPLE BIRTHDAYS
Elizabeth was born on April 21, 1926, but it was sometimes confusing for the public to know when to celebrate.
There was no universally fixed day for her “official birthday” — it’s either the first, second or third Saturday in June, and was decided by the government.
In Australia, her birthday was celebrated on the second Monday of June, while in Canada, was marked on a Monday either on or before May 24, Queen Victoria’s birthday.
Only the queen and those closest to her celebrated her actual birthday in private gatherings.
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HOW MANY CORGIS?
It’s widely known that Elizabeth loved corgis — Princess Diana reportedly called the dogs the queen’s “moving carpet” because they accompanied her everywhere.
She owned more than 30 corgis over the years. She also had two “dorgis” — crossbreeds of dachshund and corgi — named Candy and Vulcan.
Elizabeth was photographed hugging one of the dogs as far back as 1936 at age 10, and was given a corgi named Susan for her 18th birthday. The breed was introduced to the royal family by her father, King George VI, in 1933, when he bought a male corgi called Dookie from a local kennel.
As queen, she also technically owned the thousands of mute swans in open British waters, and had the right to claim all sturgeons, porpoises, whales and dolphins, according to a statute from 1324.
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‘A PRETTY NICE GIRL’
The queen inevitably became the subject of pop songs.
The Beatles immortalized her with the tongue-in-cheek “Her Majesty,” calling her “a pretty nice girl” though “she doesn’t have a lot to say.” The brief song, sung by Paul McCartney and recorded in 1969, appeared at the end of the “Abbey Road” album.
Other musical treatments weren’t so kind. The Sex Pistols’ anti-monarchist “God Save The Queen,” released right before her Silver Jubilee in 1977, was banned on British television.
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Principal Paula Bethea may not have found 76 trombones for her Joyce Kilmer Intermediate School opening but what a parade.
Bethea, decked out in hues that would have challenged Joseph and his technicolor coat, voiced her typical big education, tight-village dreams as students filed onto the Stuyvesant Ave. campus.
The “Welcome Back” event attracted Trenton Mayor Reed Gusciora who joined a chorus of well-wishers including, sororities Zeta Phi Beta and Phi Delta Kappa members, city firefighters, parents, and others. The sendoff included support for nearby Jefferson Intermediate School.
And just when the party reached unimaginable celebratory levels, Horace Thomas presented his daughter, Assistant Principal Brittany Thomas, a bouquet of sunflowers to start her Joyce Kilmer career.
“This celebration had been an annual tradition for five years before COVID. We’re happy to bring it back for another school year,” Bethea explained.
“We’ve changed from middle school to fourth through sixth grade. Lot of new changes and faces but our teachers and staff have prepared well for this day. It is our duty to make sure everyone feels welcome.”
Bethea said an influx of Spanish-speaking students changed the school’s dynamic while teachers employ translation apps on their phones.
“We’ve been planning all during the summer and have a great staff. Our motto this year is — New year, new vision,” Bethea explained.
“We’ve met with Superintendent (James) Earle and had regular meetings with Mayor Gusciora, the police and firefighters to assure Kilmer has a productive and safe year.”
Gusciora said he hoped to sustain momentum by “supporting schools” and by “encouraging them to stay in school. And to get involved with extracurricular activities whether they select sports, music, arts. There’s really no excuse for parents not to get their children involved.”
Gusciora called school safety an important aspect of education. He hoped partnerships with police, pastors, principals and community investors will have a positive impact on school safety.
Public schools opened across the City of Trenton yesterday.
L.A. Parker is a Trentonian columnist. Find him on Twitter @LAParker6 or email him at LAParker@Trentonian.com.
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AUSTIN (Nexstar) — Documents show the head of Texas’ top law enforcement agency said “no one is losing their jobs” over the response to the Uvalde school shooting massacre that killed 19 children and two teachers, according to notes, obtained by KXAN, from an internal DPS captain’s meeting in August.
The documents reveal Director Steven McCraw told his staff that leaders overseeing the Uvalde region “did what they are supposed to do” and “stepped up to meet the moment,” according to the meeting transcripts. At the same time, McCraw acknowledged the department will be changing protocol for active shooter response, after criticism of law enforcement response, on all levels.
“We had almost a hundred on sight [sic] and more on the way. Initial information was positive for law enforcement, but some was found to be inaccurate causing confusion,” said the notes transcribed from meetings held on August 15 and 16. “We are not responding to critics in the media and politics, but are relying on the facts to come out from the investigation.”
After saying DPS would wait on results from the agency’s internal investigation into their response to the shooting at Robb Elementary, the notes outline that McCraw said “and oh, by the way, no one is losing their jobs.”
“It will however change how we respond to active shooter events, as it should,” he continued. “We should continue to our school safety program to be present on campuses when we can. Many schools are vulnerable.”
On Tuesday, DPS announced five of its officers will be investigated by the Office of Inspector General regarding their actions during the response to the school shooting. Two of those officers were suspended with pay, pending the outcome of the investigation.
In July, DPS said an internal committee would review the actions of every trooper, special agent and Texas Ranger who responded to Robb Elementary to determine if officers violated policy or their rapid response training, according to the same email. Still, McCraw and his agency have largely blamed local Uvalde police officers for delayed action, despite DPS responders outnumbering them 2:1.
A Texas House committee investigation found that after officers were initially held back by gunfire, they waited more than an hour before taking action against the gunman. More than 370 law enforcement officers responded to the massacre.
The investigation indicated the delays stemmed from confusion over who was actually in command of the scene. Last month, the school board fired embattled Uvalde CISD Police Chief Pete Arredondo over how he handled the response. Arredondo has disputed points in the state lawmakers’ report.
This is a breaking news story. Check back for updates.
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Queen Elizabeth II, who passed away on Thursday after being placed under medical supervision, was a stabilizing force for her country and the world during her remarkable 70-year reign.
She worked alongside 15 prime ministers, met every U.S. president since Harry Truman, with the exception of Lyndon Johnson, and was the second longest reigning monarch in world history.
But she was also at times a transformative influence while steering the British royal family through rapidly changing times. Here are a few of the ways that she reshaped the British monarchy.
Use of social media
FILE – Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II waves as she watches the flypast, with Prince Philip, to right, Prince William, centre, with his son Prince George, front, Kate, Duchess of Cambridge holding Princess Charlotte, centre left, with The Prince of Wales standing with The Duchess of Cornwall, and Princess Anne, fourth left, on the balcony during the Trooping The Colour parade at Buckingham Palace, in London, on June 11, 2016. (AP Photo/Tim Ireland, File)
During her time on the throne, the royal family utilized technology to stay engaged and grow their brand beyond Britain’s borders.
From Prince Harry’s viral mic drop with his grandmother as part of a challenge to the Obamas promoting the Invictus Games to photos of the youngest royals that routinely melt the internet’s heart, social media has played a critical role in the monarchy’s ability to keep up with changing times.
In addition to helping the royals better connect with their followers, social media has also transformed the family’s ability to break news, control the narrative about them and get ahead of negative news.
Currently on Twitter, the @RoyalFamily account has 4.8 million followers, the @KensingtonRoyal account has 2.4 million followers and the @ClarenceHouse account has 1.1 million followers.
Stance on divorce
FILE – Diana, Princess of Wales, left, and Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II smile to well-wishers outside Clarence House in London on Aug. 4, 1987. (AP Photo/Martin Cleaver, File)
For hundreds of years, marrying a divorced person was considered out of the question for members of the British monarchy.
Over time, Queen Elizabeth allowed divorces and remarriages within her family in an unprecedented split from tradition.
Her sister, Princess Margaret, split up with divorced air force officer Peter Townsend in 1953, partly due to the fact that she would have had to give up her royal status if she married him. However, she later got a divorce from her husband, photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones, in 1978.
Three of Queen Elizabeth’s four children — Prince Charles, Prince Andrew and Princess Anne — also ended up getting divorces. The queen famously marked the end of 1992, which saw the splits of Prince Charles and Princess Diana as well as Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson, as an “Annus Horribilis,” Latin for “a horrible year.”
Prince Charles ultimately married Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, in 2005. Earlier this year, Queen Elizabeth announced in a letter commemorating the 70th anniversary of her reign that she wished for Camilla to assume the title of Queen Consort when Prince Charles becomes king.
Television addresses
An image of Queen Elizabeth II and quotes from her historic TV broadcast commenting on the coronavirus epidemic are displayed at Piccadilly Circus in London, Wednesday April 8, 2020. An estimated 24 million people in the UK watched Sunday evening’s TV broadcast when the Queen addressed the nation. (Yui Mok/PA via AP)
Although the queen’s televised addresses were rare — she only delivered TV addresses five times outside of her traditional Christmas Day messages and her Diamond Jubilee message in 2012 — they had a notable impact in allowing her to connect with people around the world in ways that monarchs before her had not been able to do.
Her special addresses included one about the Gulf War in 1991; perhaps her most famous address, about Princess Diana’s passing in 1997; a tribute to the queen mother after her death in 2002; and her latest address in 2020, about the coronavirus.
The queen’s coronation was also the first to be broadcast live on television and was viewed by 20 million people, according to the BBC.
Walkabout
FILE – In this file photo from April 2, 1970, Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II chats with children in Hobart, Australia. The Queen narrowly escaped disaster in 1970 when a large wooden log was placed on a railroad track in an apparent attempt to derail her train as she traveled across Australia, a retired detective said Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2009. (AP Photo/File)
During an official tour of Australia and New Zealand in 1970, the queen transformed how members of the British royal family interact with the crowds of people who gather to see them.
On a 1970 tour, Queen Elizabeth walked alongside the crowds instead of waving at them from a protected distance, as had been the norm for royals up until that point. This change helped create a new standard for how the royal family interacts with crowds both in Britain and around the world, as the “walkabout” is now a regular practice for royals at public events.
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LONDON (AP) — Several sporting events in Britain were called off as a mark of respect following the death of Queen Elizabeth II at the age of 96 on Thursday.
Organizers of the BMW PGA Championship golf event reacted to the announcement of the queen’s death by immediately suspending play, with many players still out on the course at Wentworth. The course and practice facilities will be closed Friday.
The England and Wales Cricket Board said Friday’s play in the second test between England and South Africa at the Oval would not take place.
Horse racing meetings in Britain were suspended on Thursday night and Friday, with the governing body wanting to "remember her extraordinary life and contribution to our sport and our nation.”
Domestic rugby matches in England and Scotland were called off on Thursday and games will not be played over the weekend, either.
Friday's stage in cycling's Tour of Britain was canceled, with a decision on the final two stages over the weekend to be taken in due course.
The Premier League paid its respects to the royal family, saying it was “deeply saddened” to hear of the queen's death. It didn't immediately say whether games would go ahead this weekend.
The English Football League, which runs the three divisions below the Premier League, called off its games that had been scheduled to be played Friday evening and said a decision would be made on Friday morning about weekend games after discussions with the British government and wider sport.
Manchester United's Europa League game against Real Sociedad did take place hours after the queen's death was announced. There was a minute’s silence before kickoff at Old Trafford, with both teams wearing black armbands and the flags at stadium lowered to half-staff as a sign of respect.
There was no pre-match music and the digital advertising hoardings around the field were switched off.
There was a minute's silence in other European games involving British teams, such as Arsenal, West Ham and Hearts.
The U.S. Tennis Association announced there would be a moment of silence before the first U.S. Open women’s semifinal match Thursday night, between Ons Jabeur and Caroline Garcia, “to commemorate the passing of Queen Elizabeth II.”
Tributes also poured in.
Brazil soccer great Pele tweeted about his admiration for the queen ever since meeting her in person in 1968 when she visited the Maracana in Rio de Janeiro.
“Her deeds have marked generations," Pele wrote. "This legacy will last forever.”
The All England Club, home of the Wimbledon tennis tournament, said the queen undertook her duties “with great wisdom, dignity and charm for 70 years.”
The queen was the royal patron of the Welsh Rugby Union, which thanked her for “years of service on this profoundly sad day.”
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Deputy rescues fox caught in high school’s soccer net
PARKER, Colo. (Gray News) – A school resource officer in Colorado is being credited with rescuing a fox that was tangled in a soccer net.
According to the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, Deputy Koski was called to the soccer field at Ponderosa High School early Thursday morning regarding the fox.
While the sheriff’s office said it’s best to leave wildlife alone in most cases, this was an extreme circumstance. Deputies said it was clear the fox was in distress and could not free itself.
With a bit of work, Koski was able to safely free the fox, which took off running.
“It ended in a win-win for all!” the sheriff’s office wrote in a Facebook post.
Ponderosa High School is located in the city of Parker, about 30 miles south of Denver.
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Two Bay Area restaurants that have received a lot of buzz since opening have made Bon Appétit’s 50 Best New Restaurants list in 2022.
San Francisco’s Good Good Culture Club and Oakland’s Daytrip restaurants were among a roster of U.S. eateries recognized Thursday for their creative atmosphere and inventive menu items worth ordering.
“We are humbled and proud to be included on this list amongst these significant restaurants,” Good Good Culture Club wrote on Instagram. “All restaurant families work hard, and we have all been challenged beyond measure these past few years.”
Bon Appétit highlighted Good Good Culture Club’s “good good chicken wing,” which is prepared with an adobo glaze and stuffed with garlic rice and best enjoyed at the restaurant’s rooftop dining area.
Chef-owner Ravi Kapur, who also owns Liholiho Yacht Club in SF, opened Good Good Culture Club in January under a model committed to better pay for staff that eliminated tips and offered shorter work hours, as detailed in Eater SF’s story. The restaurant’s message on Instagram on Thursday added that “our model now benefits every single staff member.”
Daytrip (which technically opened in October 2021) has focused on a mostly fermented menu with plenty of vegetarian and vegan items to nibble on. Moreover, the space has a funky 1970s vibe, complete with a disco ball at the entrance. Co-owner Stella Dennig told the San Francisco Chronicle in 2021 that she anticipated offering a space akin to a “soft disco drunken dinner party.” (SFGATE and the San Francisco Chronicle are both owned by Hearst but operate independently of one another.)
Of Daytrip, Bon Appétit named the charred favas with candied sesame brittle risotto along with the hand-cut pasta as standout menu items.
Bon Appétit plans to release its top 10 new restaurants guide on Sept. 14, when we’ll see if these two local spots make the cut. See the complete list from Bon Appétit.
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RICHMOND, Va. -- Rob Murafsky and Monsoon look like your typical man and best friend duo.
But the partners didn’t forge their relationship at a breeder or a shelter. They teamed up over tragedy.
“He has given me my life back," Murafsky said about the four-legged friend.
Murafsky joined the U.S. Army at age 18.
In 2003, the infantryman was serving his first tour in Baghdad. The experience was filled with firefights and mortar rounds.
"You never know who is the enemy," he said of the experience. "Close calls happen all of the time where you hear bullets just zing past your ear."
During his second tour in 2006, Murafsky did not have a good feeling.
“I would silently say prayers in the back of the Bradley on our way to our missions," he said. “You just never know what’s going to happen.”
While on a patrol in August 2006, a sniper shot Murafsky in the head. Fellow soldiers rushed him to a surgeon.
“The chaplain came out and read me my last rights," he recalled. "I thought I was going to die.”
He would survive. But with his beloved military career over and the loss of an eye, he descended spiraled downward.
PTSD was constant.
“I started drinking a lot," he said. "The demons started coming.”
He met his future wife Alison while recuperating at Walter Reed.
“I am there every step of the way with him into his journey into feeling complete and functioning human again," she said.
The couple went on to welcome two daughters, but Rob's deep depression never really subsided.
“Depression. Drinking. Anxiety. They were kind of slowly killing me," he said.
The veteran knew he needed help. That's when he found Leashes of Valor.
The non-profit in Caroline County pairs veterans with specially trained canines.
“Within like a day or two they reached back out to me," he said.
And then, in 2019, he found salvation at the end of a leash.
“He just ran towards me and started licking my face," he recalled.
Murafsky credits Monsoon and Leashes of Valor with restoring his confidence and will to live.
“It is just incredible what Monsoon has brought to him," he wife said.
Shadow would be another apt name for Monsoon because he never leaves Murafsky's side.
“I knew from there I was like ‘Ok. I think I’m going to be ok," he said.
This proud Army veteran doesn’t know where he would be without his 85-pound furry companion.
“My nightmares and things they’ve kind of stopped," he said.
Simply put this lovable lab saved Murafsky's life far from the battlefield.
Rob Murafsky ’s career as a soldier may have ended in Iraq after his injury, but he is still working indirectly for the military.
He has been working at the Pentagon for a dozen years.
His buddy Monsoon tags along to the office every day.
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Yellen pushes Biden economic plans in battleground Michigan
WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen pressed the case for Democratic economic policies during a visit Thursday to Ford’s Rouge electric vehicle assembly plant in Michigan, a battleground state in the November midterm elections.
After a production-line tour, Yellen promoted recent legislative successes for the Biden administration, saying: “After the progress we have made over the past few months, I am more optimistic about the course of our economy than I have been for quite a while and I know we are headed in the right direction.”
Yellen’s visit to Detroit was part of a monthlong tour as well as a larger White House campaign to highlight new laws intended to repair the economy, boost computer chip manufacturing, lower prescription drug prices, expand clean energy and revamp the country’s infrastructure.
She pointed to the bipartisan infrastructure law, the CHIPS and Science Act and the “Inflation Reduction Act,” all passed and signed in the past year.
“By any traditional metric, we have experienced one of the quickest recoveries in our modern history,” she said, referencing the financial damage and stagnation caused by the coronavirus pandemic that shuttered economic systems around the world. “Our plans worked” she added.
The Treasury Department is responsible for managing a new $7,500 electric vehicle tax credit for qualifying, but the auto industry is warning that the vast majority of EV purchases won’t qualify for that much.
The European Union and other nations have threatened to file complaints at the World Trade Organization over the tax credit, claiming it would discriminate against foreign producers and break WTO rules.
Yellen has more stops planned and will give a speech next month at the 157th anniversary of the Freedman’s Bank Forum to talk about how President Joe Biden’s economic agenda “advances equity and makes our economy stronger as a result.”
Biden is set to visit Ohio on Friday for the groundbreaking of an Intel semiconductor manufacturing facility and go to the Detroit auto show Wednesday to talk about manufacturing electric vehicles.
At the Ford electric vehicle assembly plant in Dearborn, Yellen pointed to U.S. vulnerability to global supply shocks caused by climate change and other factors, and the need to embrace green technology. Addressing those challenges, she said, offers the prospects of new jobs.
“This includes the U.S. clean vehicle sector, where we can expect greater investment — and more good jobs, like the ones here at Ford — as we develop the supply chain here at home,” she said.
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(NEXSTAR) – Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II died Thursday afternoon at her estate in Scotland, following a reign lasting over 70 years.
“The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon,” Buckingham Palace announced Thursday. “The King and Queen Consort will remain at Balmoral this evening and will return to London tomorrow.”
The king and queen consort, as mentioned in the palace’s announcement, refer to Britain’s newest monarch, King Charles III, and his wife Camilla.
But despite the immediate ascension of a new monarch, reminders of Elizabeth’s reign — including postage stamps, the royal cypher (a monogram-like design emblazoned on government buildings, documents and post boxes) and even mentions of her name in popular song, like the national anthem (which, technically, has already reverted to “God Save the King”) — will persist well beyond her death.
The Bank of England’s banknotes, too, currently feature portraits of Elizabeth on the obverse of each bill. In fact, Elizabeth was the first monarch to have her face on the banknotes, beginning with the release of the Bank of England’s Series C notes in 1960.
For more than 60 years, and through several revisions and issues, Elizabeth’s portrait, facing left, has appeared on the front of the bills, with portraits of other prominent British historical figures on the reverse — a different figure for each bill. Elizabeth’s face also appears as a watermark, albeit smaller, on the left of the notes.
But tradition stipulates that this, too, could soon change, as new banknotes in an upcoming series may feature Charles’ likeness instead. But the Bank of England has yet to announce plans for such a change, only saying that a future announcement on “existing” banknotes is forthcoming, per a statement released shortly after the queen’s passing.
If indeed the bank decides on a new series of notes featuring Charles, those bills may take years to become commonplace, according to The Guardian, which estimates there are currently 4.5 billion pounds sterling (in banknotes and coinage) featuring Elizabeth’s likeness in circulation.
Coinage in the U.K. monetary system, meanwhile, has long featured the ruling monarch’s face, and the British Monarchy has made no indication that the Royal Mint (which is in charge of coinage) would interrupt tradition. They did note, however, that each subsequent monarch is depicted facing the opposite direction of their predecessor, meaning any coins with Charles’ likeness would likely face to the left. (Elizabeth’s likeness on coinage faces to the right.) There was one relatively recent exception in King Edward VIII, who preferred “portraits of himself facing to the left,” according to Royal.uk.
It’s unclear if money featuring Elizabeth’s likeness will cease to be printed/minted, or even slow, in coming months. The Bank of England is declining to comment on plans for upcoming notes, saying only that “a further announcement regarding existing Bank of England banknotes will be made once the period of mourning has been observed.”
“As the first monarch to feature on Bank of England banknotes, the Queen’s iconic portraits are synonymous with some of the most important work we do,” reads a portion of the bank’s Thursday news release. “Current banknotes featuring the image of Her Majesty The Queen will continue to be legal tender.”
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N. BETHESDA, Md., Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Federal Realty Investment Trust (NYSE:FRT) announced today that the Company will present at the BofA Securities 2022 Global Real Estate Conference on Tuesday, September 13, 2022 at 3:40 PM ET.
Event: Federal Realty Presentation at the BofA Securities 2022 Global Real Estate Conference
When: 3:40 PM ET, Tuesday, September 13, 2022
Live Webcast: FRT BofA Securities 2022 Global Real Estate Conference Presentation or under the Investors tab at www.federalrealty.com
A replay of the webcast will be available within 24 hours after the conclusion of the live event on Federal Realty's website at www.federalrealty.com through December 13, 2022.
About Federal Realty
Federal Realty is a recognized leader in the ownership, operation and redevelopment of high-quality retail-based properties located primarily in major coastal markets from Washington, D.C. to Boston as well as San Francisco and Los Angeles. Founded in 1962, Federal Realty's mission is to deliver long-term, sustainable growth through investing in communities where retail demand exceeds supply. Its expertise includes creating urban, mixed-use neighborhoods like Santana Row in San Jose, California, Pike & Rose in North Bethesda, Maryland and Assembly Row in Somerville, Massachusetts. These unique and vibrant environments that combine shopping, dining, living and working provide a destination experience valued by their respective communities. Federal Realty's 105 properties include approximately 3,100 tenants, in 25 million square feet, and approximately 3,400 residential units.
Federal Realty has increased its quarterly dividends to its shareholders for 55 consecutive years, the longest record in the REIT industry. Federal Realty is an S&P 500 index member and its shares are traded on the NYSE under the symbol FRT. For additional information about Federal Realty and its properties, visit www.federalrealty.com.
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COLORADO SPRINGS — Attorney General Phil Weiser announced that Colorado will receive more than $1 million after a settlement with Essilor, an optical lens company.
Essilor paid providers kickbacks to refer patients to their company resulting in the submission of false claims to the Colorado Medicaid program. In the settlement, Essilor agreed to pay 35 states a total of $22 million with interest.
“Kickbacks like those Essilor offered can harm consumers by leaving them with products that are not in their best interest. In this case, the kickbacks affected some of the most vulnerable Coloradans,” Weiser said.
The settlement resolves allegations that between Jan. 1, 2011, and Dec. 31, 2016, Essilor knowingly and willfully offered to pay or paid eye care providers, to purchase Essilor products for their patients, including Medicaid beneficiaries. Essilor’s actions violated the Federal and Colorado’s False Claims Statute and resulted in the submission of false claims to the Colorado Medicaid program.
This settlement arises from two whistleblower lawsuits filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas and the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
As part of the settlement, Colorado will receive $1,096,985.36 in restitution and other recoveries. To report potential Medicaid fraud, go to Attorney General’s website or call (719) 508-6696.
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WFO CORPUS CHRISTI Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, September 8, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX
435 PM CDT Thu Sep 8 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of eastern Duval and
west central Jim Wells Counties through 515 PM CDT...
At 435 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Benavides, moving south at 25 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 30 mph and pea size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Benavides, San Jose and Rosita.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 2782 9863 2789 9844 2750 9815 2741 9851
TIME...MOT...LOC 2135Z 338DEG 20KT 2766 9849
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...30 MPH
...OZONE ACTION DAY...
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) has issued
an Ozone Action Day for the Austin area for Friday, September 9,
2022.
Atmospheric conditions are expected to be favorable for producing
high levels of ozone air pollution in the Austin area on Friday.
You can help prevent ozone pollution by sharing a ride, walking
or riding a bicycle, taking your lunch to work, avoiding drive
through lanes, conserving energy, and keeping your vehicle
properly tuned.
If required, the next Ozone Action Day will be issued by 3 PM
on Friday, September 9, 2022.
For more information on ozone:
Ozone: The Facts
www.tceq.texas.gov/airquality/monops/ozonefacts.html
EPA Air Now
www.airnow.gov/index.cfm?action=airnow.local_state&stateid=45&tab=0
Take Care of Texas
Capital Area Council of Governments Air Quality
www.capcog.org/divisions/regional-services/air-quality
Clean Air Force of Central Texas
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of north central
Aransas, southeastern Goliad and northeastern Refugio Counties
through 500 PM CDT...
At 437 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
McFaddin, moving south at 30 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph.
unsecured objects.
Refugio and Quintana.
This includes the following highways...
US Highway 183 between mile markers 664 and 668.
US Highway 77 between mile markers 604 and 622.
LAT...LON 2858 9728 2844 9689 2818 9696 2830 9733
TIME...MOT...LOC 2137Z 014DEG 26KT 2848 9706
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
an Ozone Action Day for the San Antonio area for Friday, September 9,
high levels of ozone air pollution in the San Antonio area on Friday.
Alamo Area Council of Governments Air Quality Outreach & Education
www.aacog.com/index.aspx?nid=99
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It was one of the most telling insights into royal life – but the Queen was not amused.
When an undercover reporter breached security to get a job as a footman at Buckingham Palace, aides were aghast that it happened right under their noses.
Daily Mirror journalist Ryan Parry, who worked at the Queen’s official residence in the run-up to US president George Bush’s state visit in 2003, revealed that in one respect, at least, the Queen lived like many of her subjects.
She used plastic containers for her breakfast cereals.
A woman of great wealth, surrounded by priceless works of art and antique furniture, arranged in gilded rooms lit by crystal chandeliers, she chose the homely touch of Tupperware to hold her cornflakes, porridge oats and Weetabix.
The Queen drank Earl Grey tea and ate cereal, accompanied by plain yogurt, fruit and toast – with a light helping of marmalade.
She liked to feed some of the toast to her corgis under the table.
But there the apparent informality ended.
Setting the royal breakfast table, for the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh, was a precision job.
Servants were given the master plan on how to lay the table, detailing everything down to exactly where to place the maple syrup, honey, marmalade and the silver spoons.
On the breakfast table was a small, battery-operated radio for the Duke of Edinburgh.
A space was left for national newspapers, with the Racing Post on the top of the pile.
Footmen were also given plans of the tea trays, showing where cups and saucers, teapots and milk jugs were to be placed.
At weekends, the Queen was looked after by a reduced staff, consisting of two footmen, two kitchen porters, two chefs, two silver pantry under-butlers, a page and a coffee-room maid, the latter apparently fulfilling a limited function.
To deliver coffee to the Queen in her dining room, the maid was tasked to pour the coffee from a hot-plate pot into a silver jug and hand it to a footman.
The footman then carried it 20 yards to the page’s vestibule.
A page then carried it another eight yards to the Queen in her dining room.
The Royal Household hit back at the revelation of what went on behind closed Palace doors.
In a rare move, the Queen went to the High Court to stop the newspaper and journalist from publishing further details.
Her lawyers argued it was “a flagrant breach” of a contractual obligation to maintain confidentiality.
Much of it – such as details of the Queen’s breakfast table lay-out and the habits, dislikes and moods of the royals – was “personal and intrusive”, they insisted.
The Queen won a permanent injunction preventing publication of further details.
Royal security faced a widespread review in the wake of the scandal, with courtiers determined not to let such a security lapse happen at the Queen’s home again.
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The Prince of Wales grew up knowing it was his destiny to be king.
It was a responsibility that would only come about on the death of his mother.
At the age of three, Charles became heir apparent – the first in line to the throne, facing a lifetime of being groomed to wear the crown.
His friend, Nicholas Soames, once said: “Being heir to the throne is not an ambition but a duty and one which will befall him on a sad moment later in his life.”
In his biography, Jonathan Dimbleby wrote: “Prince Charles is far more aware of the prospective burdens of kingship than its pleasures.”
Charles told him: “If at some stage in the distant future I was to succeed my mama then obviously I would do my best to fulfil that role … Sometimes you daydream the sort of things you might do.”
He added that there was “an enormous weight of expectation” which could be very difficult to come to terms with but that he had been brought up to feel he had a particular duty to the country.
“The difficulty is most of the time not feeling that one is worthy of it, inevitably.”
Dimbleby said Charles had never, despite the problems in his personal life and the intense media coverage, seriously contemplated surrendering his duty.
In 2013, it was reported that the prince believed becoming king would be akin to “prison”, which Clarence House denied.
Journalist Catherine Mayer, who was given rare access to Charles, said he was “joylessly” increasing his royal workload as he geared up for his role as king and that he was “impatient to get as much done as possible” beforehand.
Ms Mayer said: “Far from itching to assume the crown, he is already feeling its weight and worrying about the impact on the job he has been doing.”
Charles was quoted as saying: “I’ve had this extraordinary feeling, for years and years, ever since I can remember, really, of wanting to heal and make things better.
“I feel more than anything else it’s my duty to worry about everybody and their lives in this country, to try and find a way of improving things if I possibly can.”
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Great Britain's Queen Elizabeth II passed away at her Balmoral estate in Scotland on Sept. 8, 2022 after 70 years on the throne. She was 96 years old.
“The death of my beloved Mother, Her Majesty the Queen, is a moment of the greatest sadness for me and all members of my family,” Queen Elizabeth II’s eldest son, Charles, wrote in a statement. “We mourn profoundly the passing of a cherished Sovereign and a much-loved Mother. I know her loss will be felt throughout the country, the Realms and the Commonwealth, and by countless people around the world.”
Following Her Majesty The Queen’s death, some people on social media are asking whether Charles automatically becomes King of England.
THE QUESTION
Did Charles automatically become King of England after the death of Queen Elizabeth II?
THE SOURCES
- The Royal Family
- The Privy Council Office
- Liz Truss, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- University College London
THE ANSWER
Yes, Charles, as the eldest child of the monarch, automatically became King of England after the death of Queen Elizabeth II.
WHAT WE FOUND
The Privy Council Office, a government agency of the United Kingdom, says “a new Sovereign succeeds to the throne as soon as his or her predecessor dies.”
Though a formal proclamation hasn't happened yet, King Charles III automatically became Great Britain's newest ruler the moment his mother passed away.
“Today the crown passes, as it has done for more than 1,000 years, to our new monarch, our new head of state, His Majesty King Charles III,” the United Kingdom’s Prime Minister Liz Truss said during a press conference.
In a separate statement posted on Twitter, Truss wrote, “God save the King,” a reference to the British national anthem. The Royal Family has also referred to Charles as “The King” and “His Majesty the King” in statements posted to Twitter following Queen Elizabeth II’s passing.
According to University College London, this automatic succession takes place because of an old common law rule called Rex nunquam moritur, which translates to “The king never dies.”
“The rule recognizes that the sovereign may die, but [the] government must carry on,” the college writes on its website. “Subsequent ceremonies such as the Accession Council and the coronation in their own ways merely endorse a succession that has already taken place.”
Succession to the throne is determined by hundreds of years of British law. Historically, the first in line to the throne was the monarch’s eldest son – if they had one. King George VI, Queen Elizabeth II's father, had two daughters and Elizabeth was the eldest.
But the law changed in 2013 to allow eldest daughters born after October 2011 to take precedent over younger sons. Charles was Queen Elizabeth’s first child, making him the clear successor to the throne.
Even though Charles is already king, the Accession Council issues a formal proclamation of his succession.
An Accession Council is usually convened within 24 hours of a monarch’s death and is held to “make formal proclamation” of the succession of their successor to the throne, the Privy Council Office explains. The council should be held before a meeting of Parliament, which should take place as soon as possible after the death.
Charlie Proctor, a royal correspondent and editor-in-chief of the news website Royal Central, said in a tweet on Sept. 8 that members of Parliament and the House of Lords, the upper chamber of Parliament, have been summoned to London and will meet on Sept. 9 to take “an oath of allegiance to King Charles III.”
King Charles III also becomes Head of the Commonwealth, which consists of 15 countries including the United Kingdom, following his mother’s death, according to University College London. The role is not hereditary or automatic and is instead chosen by Commonwealth leaders. That choice took place in 2018 so it would be effective upon Elizabeth’s death.
"We recognize the role of the Queen in championing the Commonwealth and its peoples. The next head of the Commonwealth shall be his Royal Highness Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales,” the Commonwealth Heads of Government said on April 20, 2018.
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SUNNYVALE, Calif. (AP) _ EGain Corp. (EGAN) on Thursday reported a fiscal fourth-quarter loss of $1.6 million, after reporting a profit in the same period a year earlier.
On a per-share basis, the Sunnyvale, California-based company said it had a loss of 5 cents. Earnings, adjusted for stock option expense, were 3 cents per share.
The maker of customer engagement software posted revenue of $23.5 million in the period.
For the year, the company reported a loss of $2.4 million, or 8 cents per share, swinging to a loss in the period. Revenue was reported as $92 million.
For the current quarter ending in September, eGain expects its per-share earnings to be 1 cent.
The company said it expects revenue in the range of $24 million to $24.5 million for the fiscal first quarter.
EGain expects full-year earnings in the range of 12 cents to 15 cents per share, with revenue ranging from $101 million to $103 million.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jennifer Hudson is a proud EGOT, an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony winner who has proven herself on screen, stage and in music. Her next intended conquest: daytime TV.
“The Jennifer Hudson Show," starting Monday (check local listings for time, station), is among the newcomers jumping into the void left by the end of long-running shows hosted by Ellen DeGeneres, Wendy Williams and Maury Povich.
Hudson isn't fretting about her competitors, including fellow newcomers “Sherri” with Sherri Shepherd and “Karamo" with Karamo Brown of “Queer Eye.” Her personal and professional experiences have prepared her for the challenge, Hudson said.
She's paying tribute to her start as a contestant on “American Idol” with her first guest, former judge Simon Cowell.
In an interview with The Associated Press, the Chicago native talks about why a daytime show has been a “dream,” whether singing will be part of it and how she'll balance her other pursuits with the day job. Remarks have been edited for clarity and length.
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AP: Why a talk show and why now?
HUDSON: It’s been a dream of mine, and I’ve been blessed to achieve a lot of my goals and dreams thus far. This is yet another one. Now, at 40, I have learned enough and I’ve earned the right to be able to sit on the couch and talk to somebody. Throughout my career, some people have gotten to know me through characters and through song, but I want people to have a chance to know my humor. I’ve always been the kind to want to know my supporters. I was on an ‘American Idol’ journey, and it took people to help me reach those goals and those dreams. Now I want to be that vehicle for someone else. Having the talk show allows me a platform to share with someone else.
AP: Daytime shows can have a combination of elements including interviews with celebrities and ordinary folks, comedy and music. In putting together the show, what have you found is working best?
HUDSON: Just simply being myself and drawing from my life experiences. I’ve been able to travel the world and then live an everyday life, so my life is blended with all of those things, and I feel like the show will be a reflection of that. My show will be a place where everyone is welcome. Everyone has a story, and I want to highlight that. For my life, personally, I’ve seen the highest of the highs and the lowest of the lows and everything in between. So the show will reflect life.
AP: The daytime TV field feels both wide-open and competitive with your show and other newcomers. Is competition something you relish, or do you plan to do your thing and let others like Sherri Shepherd do theirs?
HUDSON: I love Sherri and she’s a Chicago girl. We at Jhud Productions, we love to support everybody. But as for myself, it goes back to what my mother always told me: ‘All you can do is the best that you can do.’ I use that same method in everything that I do, and I plan to with this. My goal is just to bring people together. I love to see people come together on positivity and good energy and love. Obviously, we’re in a time where it’s so many things going on that we really need a place where we can escape, have fun, express ourselves or simply just be. And I want to help be that.
AP: Given the demands of launching a daily show, can you also work as an actor and singer, or do you expect to put those off to the side for now?
HUDSON: Saying goodbye to them is like saying goodbye to myself. It’s all a part of me, and you make room for what you love. Once I find the balance, then I’ll find the places. The way my career is designed has helped me engage with a lot of people, which has led me to this (show). When they say, would you choose singing or acting, I hope I never have to choose between any of them.
AP: Do you plan to sing on the show?
HUDSON: More, I think, as an expression or whatever the moment requires, I don’t want anything that’s just like planned and I hold the mic up under my chin, and here’s a song today. It just has to hit my spirit, or maybe something triggers a song. Or I may just want to sing to you and lift your spirits. Or if you want to dance, I’m ready for that too. Whatever makes you happy.
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Cubs fifth. Nico Hoerner triples to deep center field. P.J. Higgins out on a sacrifice fly to center field to TJ Friedl. Nico Hoerner scores. Alfonso Rivas singles to first base. Nelson Velazquez strikes out swinging. Alfonso Rivas out at second.
1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 0 left on. Cubs 1, Reds 0.
Cubs sixth. David Bote strikes out swinging. Zach McKinstry lines out to right center field to Aristides Aquino. Seiya Suzuki doubles to deep right center field. Franmil Reyes singles to right field. Seiya Suzuki scores. Ian Happ strikes out swinging.
1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Cubs 2, Reds 0.
Reds seventh. Kyle Farmer homers to center field. Jake Fraley singles to right center field. Spencer Steer pops out to second base to Zach McKinstry. Aristides Aquino walks. Jake Fraley to second. Nick Senzel called out on strikes. Jose Barrero strikes out swinging.
1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 2 left on. Cubs 2, Reds 1.
Reds eighth. Alejo Lopez pinch-hitting for Austin Romine. Alejo Lopez lines out to left field to Ian Happ. TJ Friedl walks. Jonathan India lines out to shortstop to Nico Hoerner. Kyle Farmer singles to shallow right field. TJ Friedl to third. Jake Fraley walks. Stuart Fairchild to second. Spencer Steer walks. Jake Fraley to second. Stuart Fairchild to third. TJ Friedl scores. Aristides Aquino grounds out to second base, Nick Madrigal to Alfonso Rivas.
1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 3 left on. Reds 2, Cubs 2.
Cubs eighth. Zach McKinstry strikes out swinging. Seiya Suzuki homers to center field. Franmil Reyes flies out to right field to Aristides Aquino. Ian Happ flies out to deep right field to Aristides Aquino.
1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 0 left on. Cubs 3, Reds 2.
Reds ninth. Nick Senzel walks. Jose Barrero pops out to Alfonso Rivas. Alejo Lopez triples to right center field. Nick Senzel scores. TJ Friedl strikes out swinging. Jonathan India singles to left field. Alejo Lopez scores. Donovan Solano walks. Jonathan India to second. Jake Fraley grounds out to first base to Alfonso Rivas.
2 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors, 2 left on. Reds 4, Cubs 3.
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NICE, France (AP) — The start of a match between Nice and Cologne in the Europa Conference League on Thursday was delayed because of fights among supporters in the stands at Allianz Riviera stadium.
The kickoff was pushed back by 55 minutes to 7.40 p.m. local time because of crowd disturbances. Fans were fighting before the start of the match at the Nice stadium.
French media reported that 18 people were injured. The game ended in a 1-1 draw.
“OGC Nice condemns in the strongest possible manner the incidents that took place before the match, which began with damage in the city, followed by the forced entry of dozens of hooligans from the area reserved for Cologne supporters into the presidential stand,” the French club said in a statement.
“Stunned by this outburst of violence, even though they had done everything possible to welcome the FC Cologne fans in the best possible conditions, OGC Nice expresses its distress for the Nice public, who witnessed and were victims of these incidents and were forced to wait nearly 45 minutes before being allowed to enter their stadium before kick-off,” the statement continued.
The German club said it “condemns every form of violence in the strongest possible terms. We stand for a sporting, fair and respectful behavior with one another. We apologize to all the peaceful fans who had made it a football festival up until this point.”
With the teams in their dressing rooms before the match, Cologne captain Jonas Hector came out and urged fans to remain peaceful, according to the Cologne's English-language Twitter account.
“We can’t wait to play this game with you. We all want the game to take place. But we have to also say that what happened is not good. We don’t want to see that,” Hector said.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Thursday blasted the side deal that Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) struck earlier this summer to pass a controversial proposal to make it easier to develop fossil fuel-based energy projects.
Schumer told reporters Wednesday that he plans to attach Manchin’s permitting reform bill to the stopgap spending measure that needs to pass by Sept. 30 to prevent a government shutdown.
Sanders slammed the agreement as “a huge giveaway to the fossil fuel industry” and angrily warned that it would undermine President Biden’s pledge to reduce carbon emissions by 50 percent by the year 2030.
“I rise this morning to express by strong opposition to the so-called side deal that the fossil fuel industry is pushing to make it easier for them to pollute the environment and destroy our planet,” Sanders said.
He said the legislation crafted by Manchin would make it easier for the fossil fuel industry to receive permits and complete what he called “some of the dirtiest and most polluting oil and gas projects in America.”
He added the bill would speed the approval of a pipeline spanning from West Virginia to North Carolina that would “generate emissions equivalent to 37 coal plants or over 27 million cars each and every year.”
“Really, at a time when climate change is threatening the very existence of our planet, why would anybody be talking about substantially increasing carbon emissions and expanding fossil fuel production in the United States?” Sanders asked.
Sanders said he understood the power of oil, gas and coal companies “in our corrupt political system” but called on his colleagues to vote against the deal.
Pairing permitting reform to a continuing resolution gives it a very good chance of passing, even though opposition is building among progressive House Democrats.
Schumer said he promised to pass the bill in exchange for securing Manchin’s vote last month for the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which will invest more than $300 billion in programs to combat climate change and further develop domestic energy production.
“Permitting reform is part of the IRA, and we will get it done,” Schumer said.
The Democratic leader admitted last month that he was not thrilled to agree to permitting reform, but he noted that it could help the development of renewable energy projects as well as those to extract fossil fuels.
“In terms of the permitting reform, I didn’t like it but it was something that Sen. Manchin wanted,” Schumer told reporters in early August. “And in fact it has some very good things for the environment. It’s going to make permitting easier for clean energy.”
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Webcast Replay of the Analyst Day is Available on the Company's Website
CENTENNIAL, Colo., Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- DHI Group, Inc. (NYSE: DHX) today announced that at its 2022 virtual analyst day event held earlier today, the company raised its full year revenue guidance and provided a continued revenue growth outlook for 2023.
"Based on our continued strong bookings growth across both Dice and CJ, we are increasing our full year 2022 revenue guidance and now expect total revenue to be in the range of $148 million to $149 million, representing growth of between 23% and 24% year over year," commented Kevin Bostick Chief Financial Officer of DHI Group, Inc. "We continue to expect third quarter total revenue to be in the range of $37 million to $38 million, representing growth of between 20% and 23% year over year and will continue to operate the business to Adjusted EBITDA margins at or near 20% throughout 2022 as we continue to balance our strong financial performance with increased sales and marketing investment to drive continued double-digit revenue growth.
"While we are not yet providing specific long-term guidance for 2023, DHI intends to maintain its investment strategy in sales and marketing to capture incremental market share for each of its brands' total addressable market. As a result, DHI intends to stay within the Rule of 40 in 2023, with a bias to driving bookings and revenue growth, and anticipates maintaining Adjusted EBITDA margins of approximately 20%. As such, DHI expects to drive bookings and revenue growth in 2023 approaching or near 20% year over year. We anticipate that DHI's business model will see margin expansion approaching approximately 30% Adjusted EBITDA margins over time, however, the near-term focus will remain on investing to drive top-line growth."
DHI's 2022 investor day, with its theme "Where Tech Connects" was hosted by Art Zeile, President and Chief Executive Officer, with presentations by senior management that included details on:
- The tech hiring market and DHI's market opportunity
- The company's products and client needs
- The company's sales growth strategy
- The company's brand and awareness strategy
- The company's view on marketplaces that serve security-cleared talent
- The company's financial model and outlook
Speakers during the event included:
- Art Zeile, Chief Executive Officer
- Paul Farnsworth, Chief Technology Officer
- Arie Kanofsky, Chief Revenue Officer
- Michelle Marian, Chief Marketing Officer
- Evan Lesser, President and Founder of ClearanceJobs
- Kevin Bostick, Chief Financial Officer
Management also hosted a real-time question and answer session at the end of the investor presentation.
A replay of the event is available in the investor relations section of the DHI website at www.dhigroupinc.com.
Investor Contact
Todd Kehrli or Jim Byers
MKR Investor Relations, Inc.
212-448-4181
ir@dhigroupinc.com
Media Contact
Rachel Ceccarelli
VP of Engagement
212-448-8288
media@dhigroupinc.com
About DHI Group, Inc.
DHI Group, Inc (NYSE: DHX) is a provider of AI-powered career marketplaces that focus on technology roles. DHI's two brands, Dice and ClearanceJobs, enable recruiters and hiring managers to efficiently search for and connect with highly skilled technologists based on the skills requested. The Company's patented algorithm manages over 100,000 unique technology skills. Additionally, our marketplaces allow technology professionals to find their ideal next career opportunity, with relevant advice and personalized insights. Learn more at www.dhigroupinc.com.
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Columbus personnel from several agencies train for potential disasters
LOWNDES COUNTY, Miss. (WCBI) – Disaster can strike at any time, so first responders train all the time.
Thursday, in Columbus personnel from several agencies came together to put that training to the test.
Lowndes County EMA hosted its annual disaster drill at Vibrant Church.
Columbus Police and Fire personnel, paramedics from Baptist Hospital, MEMA officials, and Columbus Air Force Base emergency crews, along with nursing students from MUW responded to a simulated E-3 tornado.
The drill tests response times and emergency plans from the various departments.
It also tests communication among the departments.
“We used this opportunity to test our hospital resources as far as patient flow from the ER, trauma, and general surgery and critical care, and see how we move patients throughout our hospital,” said Madison Guyton, Admin Director BMHGT.
“To work with the emergency partners in our area, hospitals, police, and fire departments. To come together to work a scenario on the other end where they receive treatment, so they may know in the future how to better give treatment,” said Tyler Wheat, MUW Public Affairs.
The agencies involved will discuss what procedures worked, and where things can be improved in the future.
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Michigan’s high court puts abortion question on Nov. ballot
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Voters will determine whether to place abortion rights in the Michigan Constitution, the state Supreme Court declared Thursday, settling the issue a day before the fall ballot must be completed.
Abortion rights would be guaranteed if the amendment passes on Nov. 8. A 1931 state law makes it a crime to perform most abortions, but the law was suspended in May and a judge this week followed up by striking it down as unconstitutional.
Though appeals of that decision are likely, the law would be trumped if voters approve the amendment in the fall election.
There are political implications beyond the ballot question itself. Democrats say the U.S. Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade is mobilizing voters and will help Democratic candidates this fall, when top races including governor, secretary of state and attorney general are on the Michigan ballot. They point to conservative Kansas, where voters overwhelmingly defeated a measure that would have allowed the Republican-controlled Legislature to tighten restrictions or ban the procedure outright.
A state elections board on Aug. 31 deadlocked along party lines on whether the abortion initiative should appear on the ballot, with Republicans voting no and Democrats voting yes. The 2-2 vote meant the measure wasn’t certified for the ballot.
Supporters submitted more than 700,000 signatures, easily clearing the minimum threshold. But Republicans and abortion opponents argued the petitions had improper or no spacing between certain words and were confusing to voters.
“What a sad marker of the times,” Chief Justice Bridget McCormack said in a brief statement that accompanied the 5-2 order.
McCormack said “there is no dispute” that every word was legible and in the correct order.
Republican members of the Board of State Canvassers “would disenfranchise millions of Michiganders not because they believe the many thousands of Michiganders who signed the proposal were confused by it, but because they think they have identified a technicality that allows them to do so, a game of gotcha gone very bad,” McCormack said.
The majority was made up of McCormack, three other Democratic justices and a Republican justice. Two Republicans dissented.
The court ordered the Board of State Canvassers, which meets again Friday, to sign off on the ballot question.
Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has asked the state Supreme Court to settle the status of the 1931 law, but the court hasn’t decided whether to intervene.
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Burnett reported from Chicago and White reported from Detroit.
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LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest-reigning monarch and a symbol of stability in a turbulent era that saw the decline of the British empire and embarrassing dysfunction in her own family, died Thursday after 70 years on the throne. She was 96.
Buckingham Palace said she died at Balmoral Castle, her summer residence in Scotland, where members of the royal family had rushed to her side after her health took a turn for the worse.
A link to the almost-vanished generation that fought World War II, she was the only monarch most Britons have ever known.
Her 73-year-old son Prince Charles automatically became king and will be known as King Charles III, his office said. Charles’ second wife, Camilla, will be known as the Queen Consort.
The BBC played the national anthem, “God Save the Queen,” over a portrait of her in full regalia as her death was announced, and the flag over Buckingham Palace was lowered to half-staff as the second Elizabethan age came to a close.
The impact of her loss will be huge and unpredictable, both for the nation and for the monarchy, an institution she helped stabilize and modernize across decades of enormous social change and family scandals, but whose relevance in the 21st century has often been called into question.
The changing of the guard also comes at a fraught moment for Britain, which has a new prime minister and is grappling with an energy crisis, double-digit inflation, the war in Ukraine and the fallout from Brexit.
Charles, who is nowhere near as popular as his mother, called her death “a moment of the greatest sadness for me and all members of my family.”
“I know her loss will be deeply felt throughout the country, the Realms and the Commonwealth, and by countless people around the world,” he added.
British Prime Minister Liz Truss, appointed by the queen just 48 hours earlier, pronounced the country “devastated” and called Elizabeth “the rock on which modern Britain was built.”
Crowds gathered outside Buckingham Palace in the rain and some people wept when officials carried a notice confirming the queen’s death to the gates of her London home.
In Canada, where the British monarch is the country’s head of state, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau saluted her “wisdom, compassion and warmth.” In India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted: “She provided inspiring leadership to her nation and people. She personified dignity and decency in public life. Pained by her demise.”
President Joe Biden called her a “stateswoman of unmatched dignity and constancy who deepened the bedrock alliance between the United Kingdom and the United States.”
Since Feb. 6, 1952, Elizabeth reigned over a Britain that rebuilt from a ruinous war and lost its empire; joined the European Union and then left it; and made the painful transition into the 21st century. She endured through 15 prime ministers, from Winston Churchill to Truss — a fixed point and a reassuring presence even for those who ignored or loathed the monarchy.
She became less visible in her final years as age and frailty curtailed public appearances, and she used a cane after the April 2021 death of Philip, her husband of 73 years. She was hospitalized for a night for tests later that year.
But she remained firmly in control of the monarchy and at the center of national life as Britain celebrated her Platinum Jubilee in June. That same month, she became the second-longest-reigning monarch in history, behind 17th century French King Louis XIV, who took the throne at age 4.
In 1947, almost five years before becoming queen, the 21-year-old Elizabeth promised the people of Britain and the Commonwealth that “my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service.”
It was a promise she kept across more than seven decades.
Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor was born in London on April 21, 1926, the first child of the Duke and Duchess of York. She was not born to be queen — her father’s elder brother, Prince Edward, was destined for the crown, to be followed by any children he had.
But in 1936, when she was 10, Edward VIII abdicated to marry twice-divorced American Wallis Simpson, and Elizabeth’s father became King George VI.
Princess Margaret recalled asking her sister whether this meant that Elizabeth would one day be queen. ”‘Yes, I suppose it does,’” Margaret quoted her as saying. “She didn’t mention it again.”
Elizabeth was barely in her teens when Britain went to war with Germany in 1939. Elizabeth and Margaret lived mostly at Windsor Castle, spending many nights in an underground bomb shelter. Eager to help the war effort, the heir to the throne joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service in 1945, learning to drive and service heavy vehicles.
On the night the war ended in Europe, May 8, 1945, she and Margaret mingled, unrecognized, with celebrating crowds in London. She later called it “one of the most memorable nights of my life.”
At Westminster Abbey in 1947 she married Royal Navy officer Philip Mountbatten, a prince of Greece and Denmark whom she had first met in 1939 when she was 13 and he 18.
Their first child, Prince Charles, was born on Nov. 14, 1948. He was followed by Princess Anne in 1950, Prince Andrew in 1960, and Prince Edward in 1964. Besides those children, she is survived by eight grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.
In February 1952, George VI died after years of ill health at age 56. Elizabeth, visiting Kenya, was told she was now queen.
“In a way I didn’t have an apprenticeship,” Elizabeth told the BBC in 1992. “My father died much too young, and so it was all a very sudden kind of taking on, and making the best job you can.”
Her coronation came over a year later at Westminster Abbey, a spectacle seen by millions through the new medium of television.
Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s first reaction was that the new queen was “only a child,” but he was won over within days and became an ardent admirer.
She held weekly private meetings with her prime ministers, and they generally found her well-informed, inquisitive and up to date.
Her views in those meetings became a subject of speculation and fertile ground for dramatists like Peter Morgan, author of the play “The Audience” and hit TV series “The Crown.” Those semi-fictionalized accounts were the product of an era of declining deference and rising celebrity, when the royal family’s troubles became public property.
Early in her reign, Princess Margaret provoked a national controversy through her romance with a divorced man. In 1992, during what the queen called the “annus horribilis,” Princess Anne was divorced, Prince Charles and Princess Diana separated, and so did Prince Andrew and his wife, Sarah. That was also the year Windsor Castle was seriously damaged by fire.
The public split of Charles and Diana was followed by the shock of her death in a Paris car crash in 1997. For once, the queen appeared out of step amid unprecedented public mourning, failing to make a public show of grief that was seen by many as unfeeling. After several days, she made a televised address to the nation.
The dent in her popularity was brief. She was by now a sort of national grandmother, with a stern gaze and a kind smile.
She was arguably the most famous person in the world. But her inner life and opinions remained mostly an enigma. The public saw only glimpses of her personality — her joy watching horse races at Royal Ascot, or her pleasure in the companionship of her beloved Welsh corgi dogs.
In 2015, she overtook her great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria’s reign of 63 years, seven months and two days to become the longest serving monarch in British history, and she kept working into her 10th decade. The loss of Philip at age 99 in 2021 was a heavy blow.
And the family troubles kept coming. Her son, Prince Andrew, was entangled in the sordid tale of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, an American businessman who had been a friend. The queen’s grandson Prince Harry walked away from Britain and royal duties after marrying American actress Meghan Markle in 2018.
As the queen entered her mid-90s, she had what the palace called “mobility issues.” In May, she asked Charles to stand in for her at the State Opening of Parliament, one of the monarch’s key constitutional duties.
On Sept. 6, she presided at a ceremony at Balmoral Castle to accept the resignation of Boris Johnson as prime minister and appoint Truss as his successor.
As Britons endured loss, isolation and uncertainty during the coronavirus pandemic, she made a rare video address in 2020 that urged people to stick together, summoning the spirit of World War II and echoing Vera Lynn’s wartime anthem, “We’ll Meet Again.”
“We should take comfort that while we may have more still to endure, better days will return. We will be with our friends again. We will be with our families again. We will meet again,” she said.
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Associated Press writers Gregory Katz and Robert Barr contributed material before their deaths.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Max Muncy took things into his own hands with the Los Angeles Dodgers trailing 2-0. He beat the shift with a bunt, bringing Justin Turner to the plate — and Turner responded with a three-run homer.
Muncy added his own three-run blast in the eighth to help the Dodgers beat the San Francisco Giants 7-3 on Wednesday.
The NL West leaders reduced their magic number to six games. The Dodgers could clinch a postseason berth Friday in San Diego.
“We’re obviously winning a lot of baseball games, but we still got to get some guys back to health, number one, and we’re still in the mode of trying to get some guys on track,” manager Dave Roberts said.
Trea Turner doubled in the go-ahead run in the eighth after being hitless in his first four at-bats. Austin Barnes, who reached on an infield single, scored for a 4-3 lead.
Freddie Freeman walked and Trea Turner took third on a wild pitch by Zack Littell (2-3) to set up Muncy, whose blast into the right-field pavilion made it 7-3. Muncy went 3 for 4 a day after hitting two homers in a 6-3 win.
“I wanted to get the ball in the air on that one. We have the fastest guy in baseball on third base,” Muncy said, referring to Trea Turner.
The Dodgers took their first lead, 3-2, on Justin Turner’s three-run homer in the fifth.
Justin Turner has been as hot at the plate as the triple-digit temperatures that have gripped Southern California for over a week. He extended his hitting streak to 16 games, with 10 multi-hit games in his last 18.
David Villar homered twice and drove in all of the runs for the Giants, who led 2-0 in the fifth. Villar’s second homer — a solo shot off Justin Bruihl — tied it 3-all in the seventh of a game that began with a temperature of 99 degrees (37 Celsius).
The teams combined for 16 homers in the three-game series.
“When the weather stays warm like this, it’s fun to hit here,” Muncy said. “With it being in the triple digits the last few days, the ball was definitely flying and it showed.”
After leaving eight runners on base through four innings, the Dodgers rallied in the fifth.
Freeman led off with a single, Muncy bunted up the third-base line, and Justin Turner followed with his 11th homer of the season to center for a 3-2 lead. Lewis Brinson leapt at the wall, but couldn’t make the play.
“It’s not so easy, especially when you don’t do it very much,” Dodgers starter Clayton Kershaw said of the bunt. “That was an awesome play by Max right there.”
Evan Phillips (6-3) got the win with 1 1/3 innings of relief.
Kershaw allowed two runs and five hits in six innings and struck out eight in his third straight no-decision. He’s made two starts since coming off the injured list a week ago.
“Another good step forward for me. I’ve been bouncing back good,” Kershaw said. “Now you just want to pitch good leading into October.”
Giants starter Alex Cobb gave up three runs and seven hits in 4 1/3 innings. He struck out four and walked three.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Dodgers: OF Joey Gallo left the game with a right elbow contusion after getting hit by a pitch. He said he couldn’t feel his fingers, although X-rays were negative.
UP NEXT
Giants: Haven’t announced a starter Thursday for the series opener at Milwaukee.
Dodgers: After an off-day, RHP Dustin May (1-2, 3.94) starts Friday at San Diego in the opener of a three-game series.
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Michigan’s high court puts abortion question on Nov. ballot
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Voters will determine whether to place abortion rights in the Michigan Constitution, the state Supreme Court declared Thursday, settling the issue a day before the fall ballot must be completed.
Abortion rights would be guaranteed if the amendment passes on Nov. 8. A 1931 state law makes it a crime to perform most abortions, but the law was suspended in May and a judge this week followed up by striking it down as unconstitutional.
Though appeals of that decision are likely, the law would be trumped if voters approve the amendment in the fall election.
There are political implications beyond the ballot question itself. Democrats say the U.S. Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade is mobilizing voters and will help Democratic candidates this fall, when top races including governor, secretary of state and attorney general are on the Michigan ballot. They point to conservative Kansas, where voters overwhelmingly defeated a measure that would have allowed the Republican-controlled Legislature to tighten restrictions or ban the procedure outright.
A state elections board on Aug. 31 deadlocked along party lines on whether the abortion initiative should appear on the ballot, with Republicans voting no and Democrats voting yes. The 2-2 vote meant the measure wasn’t certified for the ballot.
Supporters submitted more than 700,000 signatures, easily clearing the minimum threshold. But Republicans and abortion opponents argued the petitions had improper or no spacing between certain words and were confusing to voters.
“What a sad marker of the times,” Chief Justice Bridget McCormack said in a brief statement that accompanied the 5-2 order.
McCormack said “there is no dispute” that every word was legible and in the correct order.
Republican members of the Board of State Canvassers “would disenfranchise millions of Michiganders not because they believe the many thousands of Michiganders who signed the proposal were confused by it, but because they think they have identified a technicality that allows them to do so, a game of gotcha gone very bad,” McCormack said.
The majority was made up of McCormack, three other Democratic justices and a Republican justice. Two Republicans dissented.
The court ordered the Board of State Canvassers, which meets again Friday, to sign off on the ballot question.
Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has asked the state Supreme Court to settle the status of the 1931 law, but the court hasn’t decided whether to intervene.
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Burnett reported from Chicago and White reported from Detroit.
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Steve Bannon charged with fraud over border wall fundraiser
By Sam Cabral
BBC News, Washington
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Steve Bannon, a long-time ally of former US President Donald Trump, has been indicted on charges of money laundering, fraud and conspiracy.
Mr Bannon, 68, is accused of cheating donors to a fundraiser to help Mr Trump achieve his policy goal of building a wall on the US-Mexico border.
Prosecutors in New York allege he lied to donors and diverted some of the money to two associates.
The former White House chief strategist has said he is being persecuted.
Mr Bannon surrendered to authorities in New York state on Thursday as a grand jury unsealed six criminal charges against him.
Handcuffed as he walked past reporters into court, the right-wing podcaster vowed to fight back.
"This is what happens in the last days of a dying regime," he said. "They'll never shut me up. They'll have to kill me first."
According to the indictment against him, Mr Bannon told donors he was "kind of a volunteer" to the We Build the Wall non-profit, which raised more than $25m (£22m) from thousands of people online.
Despite his vow that "not a penny" would be pocketed by him or others, Mr Bannon is said to have diverted hundreds of thousands of dollars to two associates.
Federal prosecutors brought charges against Mr Bannon and the two men - Brian Kolfage and Andrew Badolato - in 2020. But while Mr Kolfage and Mr Badolato pleaded guilty to the charges, Mr Bannon received a presidential pardon on Mr Trump's final day in office last year and was subsequently dropped from the case.
Pardons, however, apply only to federal crimes, and prosecutors in New York state pursued similar charges against Mr Bannon.
"Stephen Bannon acted as the architect of a multi-million dollar scheme to defraud thousands of donors across the country - including hundreds of Manhattan residents," district attorney Alvin Bragg, who led the probe, said in a statement on Thursday.
New York Attorney General Letitia James, whose office also worked on the case, added that Mr Bannon had taken "advantage of his donors' political views to secure millions of dollars which he then misappropriated".
Ms James said "powerful political interests" who "think they are above the law" must be held to account. Mr Bragg and Ms James, both Democrats, have also been investigating Mr Trump and his business.
As he turned himself in on Thursday morning, Mr Bannon slammed the indictment as "nothing more than a partisan political weaponisation of the criminal justice system".
He alleged that the new charges against him were "all about 60 days" - an apparent reference to November's midterm elections.
Separately in July, Mr Bannon was found guilty of contempt of US Congress after he defied a legal summons from the committee investigating last year's Capitol riots.
He is due to be sentenced in that case next month and faces up to two years in jail.
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Former Trump White House adviser Steve Bannon indicted on New York state charges
Former Trump White House adviser Steve Bannon indicted on New York state charges
Steve Bannon, who managed Trump's 2016 campaign and served his administration, surrendered Thursday on charges that he laundered money by diverting funds donated to the We Build the Wall organization.
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WFO CORPUS CHRISTI Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, September 8, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX
435 PM CDT Thu Sep 8 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of eastern Duval and
west central Jim Wells Counties through 515 PM CDT...
At 435 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Benavides, moving south at 25 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 30 mph and pea size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Benavides, San Jose and Rosita.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 2782 9863 2789 9844 2750 9815 2741 9851
TIME...MOT...LOC 2135Z 338DEG 20KT 2766 9849
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...30 MPH
...OZONE ACTION DAY...
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) has issued
an Ozone Action Day for the Austin area for Friday, September 9,
2022.
Atmospheric conditions are expected to be favorable for producing
high levels of ozone air pollution in the Austin area on Friday.
You can help prevent ozone pollution by sharing a ride, walking
or riding a bicycle, taking your lunch to work, avoiding drive
through lanes, conserving energy, and keeping your vehicle
properly tuned.
If required, the next Ozone Action Day will be issued by 3 PM
on Friday, September 9, 2022.
For more information on ozone:
Ozone: The Facts
www.tceq.texas.gov/airquality/monops/ozonefacts.html
EPA Air Now
www.airnow.gov/index.cfm?action=airnow.local_state&stateid=45&tab=0
Take Care of Texas
Capital Area Council of Governments Air Quality
www.capcog.org/divisions/regional-services/air-quality
Clean Air Force of Central Texas
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of north central
Aransas, southeastern Goliad and northeastern Refugio Counties
through 500 PM CDT...
At 437 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
McFaddin, moving south at 30 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph.
unsecured objects.
Refugio and Quintana.
This includes the following highways...
US Highway 183 between mile markers 664 and 668.
US Highway 77 between mile markers 604 and 622.
LAT...LON 2858 9728 2844 9689 2818 9696 2830 9733
TIME...MOT...LOC 2137Z 014DEG 26KT 2848 9706
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
an Ozone Action Day for the San Antonio area for Friday, September 9,
high levels of ozone air pollution in the San Antonio area on Friday.
Alamo Area Council of Governments Air Quality Outreach & Education
www.aacog.com/index.aspx?nid=99
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Michigan Supreme Court rules abortion amendment should go to voters this November
Thursday, the Michigan Supreme Court ruled that a proposed state constitutional amendment that would protect abortion rights should be placed on November's ballot.
It's up to the Michigan Board of State Canvassers Friday to decide in a final vote whether the measure should go before voters. Last week, the question was sent to the state Supreme Court after Republican canvassers argued the amendment's spacing and formatting would be confusing to voters. They deadlocked on the decision and the group behind the amendment, Reproductive Freedom for All, appealed the decision to the state's highest court.
Chief Justice Bridget Mary McCormack called the effort by board members to keep the abortion rights question off the ballot "a game of gotcha gone very bad."
"What a sad marker of the times."
Justices held that more than enough signatures were collected (about 750,000 signatures, far more than the 425,000 signatures required) and that other matters were not up to the board to decide.
"We are energized and motivated now more than ever to restore the protections that were lost under Roe," said Darci McConnell, the communication director for Reproductive Freedom for All, in a statement after the court's ruling.
"It falls to voters now to reject this mistake-ridden, extreme proposal on Election Day," said the spokesperson for MI Women and Children, Christen Pollo, in a statement. "We are confident that a majority will say No to Proposal 3."
It's been a contentious week for abortion Michigan — one of the only states in the region where abortion remains legal. Wednesday, a judge ordered to bar enforcement of a 1931 law that criminalizes the procedure.
If the amendment moves ahead, Michigan will join other states such as California and Vermont where voters will see similar state constitutional abortion rights amendments on their ballots this November.
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WFO CORPUS CHRISTI Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, September 8, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX
503 PM CDT Thu Sep 8 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southeastern Webb
County through 530 PM CDT...
At 502 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Aguilares, or 19 miles southeast of Laredo, moving south at 25 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and pea size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Oilton, Ranchitos Las Lomas, Mirando City and Aguilares.
This includes US Highway 59 between mile markers 800 and 820.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 2727 9933 2731 9937 2765 9939 2772 9909
2727 9884
TIME...MOT...LOC 2202Z 337DEG 22KT 2743 9919
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
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FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The European Central Bank made its largest-ever interest rate increase Thursday, following the U.S. Federal Reserve and other central banks in a global stampede of rapid rate hikes meant to snuff out the inflation that is squeezing consumers and pushing Europe toward recession.
The bank’s governing council raised its key benchmarks by an unprecedented three-quarters of a percentage point for the 19 countries that use the euro currency. The ECB usually moves rates by a quarter-point and had not raised its key bank lending rate by three-quarters of a point since the euro’s launch in 1999.
Bank President Christine Lagarde said the ECB would keep hiking rates “over the next several meetings” because “inflation remains far too high and is likely to stay above our target for an extended period.”
Lagarde stopped short of predicting a recession, though many economists foresee one at the end of the year and beginning of 2023 as high energy and food prices sap people’s spending power. The bank’s assumption is economic output would not fall outright but “stagnate” later this year and early next, she said.
The bank’s jumbo increase is aimed at raising the cost of borrowing for consumers, governments and businesses, which in theory slows spending and investment and cools off soaring consumer prices by reducing the demand for goods.
Analysts say it’s also aimed at bolstering the bank’s credibility after it underestimated how long and how severe this outbreak of inflation would be. After reaching a record 9.1% in August, inflation may rise into double digits in coming months, economists say.
The war in Ukraine has fueled inflation in Europe, with Russia sharply reducing supplies of cheap natural gas used to heat homes, generate electricity and run factories. That has driven up gas prices by 10 times or more.
European officials decry the cutbacks as blackmail aimed at pressuring and dividing the European Union over its support for Ukraine. Russia has blamed technical problems and threatened this week to cut off energy supplies completely if the West institutes planned price caps on Moscow’s natural gas and oil.
The ECB has lagged other central banks in raising rates. Central banks worldwide have scrambled after being wrong-footed by inflation fed by the war in Ukraine and the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, which have sent energy prices higher and restricted supplies of parts and raw materials.
The sudden campaign to raise interest rates follows years in which borrowing costs and inflation stayed low because of broad trends such as globalization, aging populations and digitalization.
Lagarde rejected comparisons, saying that “we’re not trying to mimic any other central bank” and pointing out that the ECB started tightening monetary policy in December, when it decided to phase out its pandemic stimulus through bond purchases.
Some economists say the ECB’s interest rate hikes, including a half-point hike at its last meeting in July, could deepen a European recession predicted for the end of this year and the beginning of 2023, caused by higher inflation that has made everything from groceries to utility bills more expensive.
Lagarde said a 2022-23 recession would occur only under a “really dark” worst-case scenario where all Russian natural gas is cut off, alternative supplies are not available and governments have to resort to energy rationing.
She praised efforts by the EU’s executive Commission to contain energy prices, such as through electricity market regulation, and noted that while rate hikes send “a strong signal” of the bank’s commitment to fight inflation, “I cannot reduce the price of energy.”
But the bank has reasoned that rate hikes will prevent higher prices from being baked into expectations for wage and price deals and that decisive action now will forestall the need for even bigger hikes if inflation gets ingrained.
Europe’s central bank “wants to fight inflation — and wants to be seen as fighting inflation,” said Holger Schmieding, chief economist at Berenberg bank.
However, energy prices and government support programs to shield consumers from some of the pain will “have a much bigger impact on inflation and the depth of the looming recession than monetary policy,” he said.
Rate hikes often support a currency’s exchange rate — but the euro has been under pressure because of more general fears about recession and economic growth. It has recently fallen under $1, the lowest level in 20 years. The euro slid about a half-cent after the ECB decision, to around 99.5 U.S. cents.
The ECB’s benchmark is now 1.25% for lending to banks. The Fed’s main benchmark is 2.25% to 2.5% after several large rate hikes, including two of three-quarters of a point. The Bank of England’s key benchmark is 1.75%, and the Bank of Canada raised rates Wednesday by three-quarters of a point, to 3.25%.
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World leaders react to Queen's death
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Man hikes the Appalachian Trail after wife of 57 years dies
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Life’s journey takes us all down a variety of paths, and the current path for a 78-year-old Minnesota man is the Appalachian Trail.
Egon Overgaard started walking the trail in Georgia in March. By September, he had made it to Maine.
When he reached the Northeast, Overgaard took the time to reflect on not just the nearly 2,000 miles he’s hiked but also on the grief he’s trying to leave behind.
Overgaard said he spent the past few years caring for Carol, his wife of 57 years, as she battled a terminal illness.
“In my mind, she was as close to a perfect person as I knew,” he said.
When she died last winter, he said he was lost until he found a new purpose in hiking the Appalachian Trail.
He remembered the trail from his time in the Navy and thought that walking seemed like good therapy. After all, some people go for a stroll to clear their heads.
“I don’t know why it came to me, but it did,” he said.
Overgaard’s stroll took him across the eastern part of the U.S. through snow, sleet, rain and an unforgiving sun.
“I sleep in a tent most every night,” he said. “The trail is very interesting. It’s not the same ever.”
Overgaard said he has learned that the trail is very hilly, and he’s even had to scale boulders at times. Walking the entire path is like walking the equivalent of 15 Mount Everests.
“Pennsylvania was strewn with rocks and every one of them moved when you put your foot on them,” Overgaard said.
He said his favorite states hiked through have been Virginia and New Jersey.
Overgaard said there’s another reason he’s taken the trip. His Lutheran Church in Longville, Minnesota, is trying to convert to solar energy. They figure they can save money while helping the environment.
Overgaard’s trek is helping to raise funds for that project.
“I think solar power is a part of that future, so if I can do something to help that, I’m more than willing to,” he said.
Overgaard said he’s averaging 15 to 17 miles a day, and each night, he and the people traveling with him eat like it’s their job. He said he knows that every step he takes is one step closer to solar power and one step closer to closure.
Like so many others on the trail, he’s walking to heal.
“It’s a change in my life,” he said. “I guess I’m ready to embrace that.”
When Overgaard has completed his journey, he will have walked through 14 states.
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New App Lets Creators Sell Video Courses in Their Link in Bio
SAN DIEGO, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Koji, the world's most powerful Link in Bio platform and the leading app store for social media, today announced the launch of Sell Video Courses, a new app that allows creators to sell video courses to their audience directly through their link in bio.
The Sell Video Courses app offers a singular location where creators can provide courses on various subjects for their fans and followers to purchase. With Sell Video Courses, creators can upload multiple videos for each course and track the progress as fans progress. Creators also have the option of including optional course materials like instructor's guides or interactive assignments. Fans can unlock each course by providing the payment method chosen by the creator, which could include standard payment, email, a password, quiz, NFT, or watching a video.
The new app is free to use and available today on the Koji App Store.
Koji is the world's most powerful Link in Bio platform. With hundreds of free apps created by Koji and its community of independent developers, the Koji Link in Bio gives leading Creators on TikTok, Instagram, Twitch, and other social media platforms new ways to engage audiences, connect with supporters, and monetize. Koji launched in March 2021 and has raised $36 million in venture capital.
PRESS CONTACT
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