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HELSINKI (AP) — Finland's president said Thursday that he wants to make it harder for Russians to use owning real estate in the Nordic nation - usually apartments or summer cottages - as justification for obtaining travel visas.
“Getting a visa to a country is not a subjective right for anyone, but the visa issuer always has discretion,” President Sauli Niinisto told journalists in Helsinki. “Until now, owning a property or an apartment in Finland has been perceived as a factor supporting a visa application. I don’t think it’s necessary.”
Regional newspaper Etela-Saimaa reported in August that Russian citizens purchased property in Finland at an increased rate this year despite the war in Ukraine and Western economic sanctions against Russia.
As of Sept. 1, Finland slashed the number of visas - including for tourism purposes - issued to Russian citizens to one-tenth of the typical number, a move seen as a show of solidarity with Ukraine.
Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto recently told public broadcaster YLE that as a result of the new limit, Russian property owners have started to divide the ownership of their Finnish real estate among several people so more of them are eligible for visas.
Etela-Saimaa reported that the majority of Finnish real estate sales to Russian buyers as of August were in the South Karelia region, a picturesque lake area close to Russia's border.
Citizens of countries outside the European Union need to apply for permits from the Finnish Defense Ministry to buy property in Finland, which shares a 1,340-kilometer (830-mile) border with Russia - the longest of any EU member nation.
Finnish security police have warned for several years that Russian real estate dealings in Finland might involve properties that were of military interest to Moscow.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NuLeaf Naturals, one of America's top pioneering cannabinoid companies, has launched a new CBD gummies line. Desperate for a good night's rest, more consumers are turning to CBD and CBN gummies for their sleep issues, especially as natural wellness trends have increased since the pandemic. Various cannabinoid products are available from the well-known industry developer and manufacturer of organic cannabinoid products in the form of oils (for humans and animals) and herbal capsules. To meet the growing consumer demand, cannabis companies Hempshire Group (TSXV:HMPG) (OTCPK:HMPSF), HEXO Corp (TSX:HEXO) (NASDAQ:HEXO), Canopy Growth Corporation (TSX: WEED) (NASDAQ: CGC), Tilray Brands Inc (TSX:TLRY) (NASDAQ:TLRY), and Aurora Cannabis (NASDAQ:ACB) (TSX:ACB) are also expanding their CBD products line.
The Hempshire Group (TSXV:HMPG) (OTC:HMPSF) is the largest North American manufacturer of hemp cigarettes, with expertise in "seed-to-sale."
The Hempshire Group (TSXV:HMPG) (OTC:HMPSF) just reported that it has finalized a binding purchase deal with European exclusive master distributor Montagnaria Group AG for MOUNTAIN® Smokes destined for Europe and the European Union (EU) for US$1.25 million.
The purchase agreement is the next step after Hempshire (TSXV:HMPG) (OTC:HMPSF) announced in a press release on September 7, 2022 that it had just been given approval to market MOUNTAIN® Smokes in Belgium. Due to member state reciprocity, Hempshire (TSXV:HMPG) (OTC:HMPSF) now has access to the whole EU.
In accordance with the terms of the purchase agreement, Montagnaria will pay a minimum of US$1.25 million over the period of one year, commencing in September 2022 and ending in August 2023, for MOUNTAIN® Smokes. All purchase orders issued in accordance with the Purchase Agreement must be paid 50% at the time of issue, with the outstanding sums payable before Hempshire (TSXV:HMPG) (OTC:HMPSF) dispatches the order.
The purchase agreement was executed to enable MOUNTAIN® Smokes to be distributed in a standardised and efficient manner throughout Europe and the EU. Montagnaria and Hempshire (TSXV:HMPG) (OTC:HMPSF) are carefully working together to ensure that the MOUNTAIN® Smokes product conforms with each member country's specific "local" legislation, including any appropriate warning labels and packaging in the local language.
By placing its initial test orders in 2021, Montagnaria was able to place MOUNTAIN® Smokes in over 400 retail locations and smoke shops throughout Switzerland. Montagnaria also had a big impact on Hempshire's (TSXV:HMPG) (OTC:HMPSF) ability to obtain Belgian government authorisation for the sale of MOUNTAIN® Smokes, which opened the door to the entire EU. Montagnaria will establish European warehouse and fulfilment facilities in order to support retailer accounts, convenience stores, and smoke shops throughout Europe. In order to create a sales and distribution plan for all of Europe, Montagnaria will work closely with Hempshire (TSXV:HMPG) (OTC:HMPSF).
"Penetrating the US$261 billion tobacco products market in Europe is one of our top priorities." said Hempshire President and CEO Martin Marion. "Montagnaria's binding financial commitment to MOUNTAIN® Smokes highlights their excitement and belief in the product, and their expectations of a successful European roll-out strategy. We intend on dedicating significant resources alongside Montagnaria to help facilitate brand awareness, consumer demand, and sales in each European country where we introduce MOUNTAIN® Smokes."
The second quarter of 2022 was revolutionary for the company. During the quarter, Hempshire Group (TSXV:HMPG) (OTC:HMPSF) and Hoist Capital Corp. merged. The business created by Hoist and Hempshire U.S. union is well-positioned to dominate the market for tobacco- and nicotine-free smoking alternatives. It continues the operations that Hempshire U.S. had previously handled.
For more information about The Hempshire Group (TSXV:HMPG) (OTC:HMPSF), click here.
Cannabis Companies Launch New CBD Products
On August 30, HEXO Corp (TSX:HEXO) (NASDAQ:HEXO) announced that the company has partnered exclusively with Mike Tyson's newly established cannabis company, TYSON 2.0, an entrepreneur and proponent of cannabis. According to the agreement, HEXO will manufacture all of TYSON 2.0's goods in Canada, including its flower, pre-rolls, edibles, and vapes. In the fall of 2022, the lines made by HEXO will begin shipping across Canada. On July 12, HEXO completed its previously announced transaction with Tilray Brands, Inc. The transactions with Tilray Brands solidify the strategic partnership between HEXO and Tilray Brands and provide HEXO with a recapitalized balance sheet and the financial flexibility to accelerate its transformation into a cash flow-positive business over the next four quarters.
On August 15, Martha Stewart CBD's line of CBD gummies unveiled a new flavour - Pumpkin Spice CBD Wellness Gummies. These new gummies capture the season's spirit and are the ideal accompaniment to consumers' preferred fall activities. These limited-edition candies are part of Martha Stewart's growing range of CBD candies, which already includes some of the brand's best-selling products and flavours, such as the Tropical Medley CBD Wellness GummiesTM and the Harvest Medley CBD Wellness GummiesTM. The new flavour reflects Martha's dedication to providing customers with the flavours and products they love and her ongoing collaboration with Canopy Growth Corporation (TSX: WEED) (NASDAQ: CGC), a market leader in diverse cannabis and cannabinoid-based consumer goods companies.
Tilray Brands Inc (TSX:TLRY) (NASDAQ:TLRY) announced the release of new medical cannabis products under the Tilray and Aphria brands and the debut of CannaPoints, a new program created to support patients on their medical cannabis journey. Tilray Medical, Aphria, Broken Coast, and Symbios are just a few of the medical cannabis brands that Tilray Medical sells in Canada. Tilray Medical's most recent line of premium medical cannabis products from distinctive brands contains a wide selection of THC and CBD products since it recognizes that every patient has different needs. On August 3, Tilray reported that Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits, the leading distributor of wine and spirits, has entered a distribution deal with Fresh Hemp Foods, Ltd., a subsidiary of the company's Tilray Wellness division. Through the distribution deal, Tilray Wellness will have direct access to Southern Glazer's extensive consumer distribution network, including independent and large-chain grocery shops and local pubs and restaurants.
On August 25, Aurora Cannabis (NASDAQ:ACB) (TSX:ACB) acquired a majority stake in Bevo Agtech Inc., the only parent of Bevo Farms Ltd., one of North America's top suppliers of propagated vegetables and ornamental plants. With the Bevo Transaction's completion, Bevo and the Company agreed to sell one of Aurora's wholly-owned subsidiaries to buy the Aurora Sky plant in Edmonton, Alberta. The transaction gives Aurora access to a successful, cash flow-positive, and expanding business. It may have the potential to provide long-term value to Aurora's current cannabis business by utilizing Bevo's unmatched plant propagation know-how. Through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Aurora will purchase 50.1% of the outstanding common shares of Bevo, gain a majority on the board of directors, and consolidate Bevo's finances. Bevo's seasoned management team will continue to have a sizable stake in the company and remain in place as it implements a comprehensive expansion strategy that includes using the Aurora Sky facility for vegetable and orchid culture.
To provide CBD hemp smokes that deliver all the joyful rituals of smoking without the addictive and harmful consequences of tobacco and nicotine, Hempshire Group is committed to finding the best CBD-rich organic hemp and additional organic components, such as mullein and white sage.
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Iconic New Jersey pastry shop closing after 98 years
The time to make the donuts is coming to an end in Ocean City.
Wards Pastry Shop is closing after an incredible 98-year run.
The announcement was made on their Facebook page:
"After being an Ocean City tradition for over 98 years, Wards Pastry will be turning off its ovens Sunday, September 18, 2022 for the last time. The Hohman family would like to thank everyone for choosing Wards Pastry to be part of their celebrations through all of these years. Thank you for all of your support!"
According to The Press of Atlantic City, Ward Holman cited his intentions to retiree and inflation pushing up the prices of ingredients as his reasons for closing. The shop has already been sold and is expected to become a sports apparel shop.
Along with the great pies cakes and donuts, what people will miss most about Wards are their scrapple pies, which were to die for. As Michael Wilt commented on their Facebook page: "I'll have to make it down to grab some scrapple pies before then! I love those!"
When you've been open for 98 years, your reputation gets handed down through the generations and that will be missed.
Mary Croes Coverdale points out on their Facebook page:
"I have been getting something from your bakery since I was a child. As an adult, my mom and I would always come there on our day trips. You are a must-visit when coming to Ocean City and surely will be missed. Thank you and good luck on your next adventures."
If you're in Ocean City over the next few weeks, give yourself a treat and visit Wards one last time. I'm going for the scrapple pie.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday flew two planes of immigrants to Martha's Vineyard, escalating a tactic by Republican governors to draw attention to what they consider to be the Biden administration's failed border policies.
Flights to the upscale island enclave in Massachusetts were part of an effort to “transport illegal immigrants to sanctuary destinations,” said Taryn Fenske, DeSantis' communications director.
While DeSantis' office didn't elaborate on their legal status, many migrants who cross the border illegally from Mexico are temporarily shielded from deportation after being freed by U.S. authorities to pursue asylum in immigration court — as allowed under U.S law and international treaty — or released on humanitarian parole.
Massachusetts’ Gov. Charlie Baker, a Republican, said he was in touch with local officials and that short-term shelter was being provided.
Martha’s Vineyard has styled itself as a “sanctuary destination” that welcomes migrants — a position it took early in former President Donald Trump’s administration.
State Rep. Dylan Fernandes, who represents Martha’s Vineyard, tweeted: “Our island jumped into action putting together 50 beds, giving everyone a good meal, providing a play area for the children, making sure people have the healthcare and support they need. We are a community that comes together to support immigrants.”
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott began busing thousands of migrants to Washington in April and recently added New York and Chicago as destinations. Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey has been busing migrants to Washington since May. Passengers must sign waivers that the free trips are voluntary.
DeSantis, who is mentioned as potential presidential candidate, appears to be taking the strategy to a new level by using planes and choosing Martha's Vineyard, whose harbor towns that are home to about 15,000 people are far less prepared than New York or Washington for large influxes of migrants.
The move is likely to delight DeSantis' supporters who deride Democrat-led, immigrant-friendly “sanctuary” cities and anger critics who say he is weaponizing migrants as pawns for political gain.
The Florida Legislature appropriated $12 million to transport “illegal immigrants” from the state consistent with federal law, Fenske said.
“States like Massachusetts, New York, and California will better facilitate the care of these individuals who they have invited into our country by incentivizing illegal immigration through their designation as 'sanctuary states' and support for the Biden Administration’s open border policies,” Fenske said.
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NEW CARROLLTON, Md. (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen laid out her vision for a modernized, responsive, tech-savvy tax collection agency equipped to manage 21st century challenges at an IRS office in New Carrollton, Maryland, on Thursday.
Yellen said the agency plans to hire 5,000 new customer service representatives to vastly improve taxpayer service before the next filing season, using part of the money from a recent $80 billion infusion of funds from the so-called Inflation Reduction Act.
Yellen gave her address against the backdrop of false narratives pushed by Republicans regarding the thousands of new IRS workers expected to be hired with the money under the new law approved last month. GOP representatives say the IRS will be targeting the taxes of working-class Americans with armed auditing agents.
She said she wanted to focus on giving the IRS the ability to digitize paper tax returns as well as answering phones that have been ringing off the hook.
This was Yellen's first visit to an IRS facility as treasury secretary. Her speech to several thousand employees also addressed the importance of their work at a pivotal time in the agency’s history.
“The Inflation Reduction Act finally provides the funding to transform the IRS into a 21st century agency,” she said. “For taxpayers, this means faster processing and faster refunds.”
Getting the agency increased funding was even recently considered a pipe dream, as administration officials have long talked about how IRS computer systems run on outdated technology and getting adequate customer service has turned into a cottage industry.
In Maryland, Yellen talked about updating computer systems to help automate the scanning of millions of individual paper returns into a digital copy by next filing season and hiring thousands more people to answer the phones.
“For too long, IRS Tax Assistance Centers have been massively understaffed and under-resourced. No longer," she said. "By next year, every single center will be fully staffed,” which will provide an estimated 2.7 million taxpayers with in-person assistance, she said.
Last month, shortly after the IRA funding was secured, Yellen directed the IRS to develop a plan within six months outlining how the tax agency will overhaul its technology, customer service and hiring processes. In part, the improvements are meant to “end the two-tiered tax system, where most Americans pay what they owe, but those at the top of the distribution often do not,” Yellen said in an August memo to IRS Commissioner Chuck Rettig, whose term ends in November.
The White House said it has not yet chosen a successor for Rettig.
Yellen's speech comes as Republican lawmakers have distorted how the tax collection agency will spend the multi-billion dollar infusion of funds.
Republican leaders, including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., have tweeted false claims about how many workers the agency intends to hire.
During her speech, Yellen said “by hiring 5,000 additional customer service representatives," by next tax season "we will also cut phone wait times in half — from an average wait of nearly 30 minutes during the 2022 filing season to less than 15 minutes.”
Yellen is on a monthlong tour, which is part of 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.
Yellen said she wants to restore fairness to the tax code by ensuring wealthy Americans and big corporations pay the taxes they owe. “In sum, high earners are paying far less than they owe,” she said.
“The tax gap – the amount of unpaid taxes – has grown to enormous levels. It’s estimated at $7 trillion over the next decade,” she said.
In her address, she also commended IRS employees for stepping up during the pandemic and helping to deliver Advance Child Tax Credits and three rounds of stimulus checks.
“While all the improvements won’t be done overnight,” she said, “taxpayers can expect to feel real differences during the next filing season.”
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Vegetable prices in the city have once again shot up due to the heavy rainfall in the last few weeks in the vegetable growing regions of the State, including Bengaluru Rural and Ramanagaram districts that are major suppliers of vegetables and fresh greens to the city.
Supply has taken a serious hit, while demand continues to be high due to the ongoing season of festivals and functions. The availability of green leafy vegetables has especially been greatly affected, as the rains destroyed crops and also affected the quality of the crop that could be harvested.
A bunch of coriander is priced at ₹80 to ₹90 at many retail stores, while fenugreek and spinach have also touched close to ₹30 per bunch. On the wholesale front, coriander is priced at ₹200 per kg while fenugreek has risen from ₹80 to ₹180 per kg.
At retail markets, the price of beans has almost tripled from ₹30 per kg last week to ₹80 this week. This has been followed by tomatoes, which went up from ₹18 per kg to ₹34 this week.
Carrots, drumsticks, and potatoes are some of the other vegetables which have seen a price rise.
“There’s a lot of shortage of green vegetables like coriander, fenugreek, mint, and spinach. Beans are also in short supply. The prices of commonly used everyday vegetables are touching the sky as they spoil very quickly due to the damp conditions everywhere,” said Venkatesh, a mandi manager in Kalasipalya wholesale market.
Observing the trends, the traders said that the prices will keep increasing as the Dasara and Deepavali festivals are coming up soon.
“For various reasons, the prices of vegetables have been on the rise these days. A bunch of coriander leaves is ₹80 near my house and a kg of beans also cost the same. It is not possible for us to skip vegetables as vegetarians,” said Shashikala R., a resident of Amruthahalli.
Onion traders depend on stock from Maharashtra
The rains have also damaged onions in the State. However, this has not caused much difference in prices, as stock from Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh is coming in regularly.
“Onion growers in Maharashtra have gotten good prices for two years and hence they have taken to the crop in large numbers this year too. They have also set up good infrastructure to store the bulbs. In Karnataka, the situation is such that farmers cannot even step into the fields. On top of this, the government has bought a significant amount from farmers for lower prices. Due to this, the supply chain is balanced for now, but if it rains continuously again, then the prices might increase,” said Ravi, an onion trader at APMC, Yeshwanthpur. The price is currently at ₹20 per kg.
Rice gets expensive
In just a week to 10 days, the price of rice has gone up in retail stores. The traders attribute the rise to the levying of GST on rice bags. The GST Council recently levied 5% GST on pre-packed and labelled food items up to 25 kg.
The price of a kilogram of Sona Masuri rice has gone from ₹42 to ₹52 and Kollam rice has also touched ₹50 per kg from the earlier ₹40. “The trader told me that whatever GST is levied upon a bag of rice, is being transferred accordingly to each kilogram,” said a customer in Hanumantha Nagar.
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The Forest Department has requested the Chamundeshwari Electricity Supply Corporation (CESC), Mysuru, to illuminate the Dasara procession route – from the Chamaraja Circle to Bannimantap – six days before the festivities commence for familiarising the Dasara elephants to the illuminated surroundings.
As this year’s Jamboo Savari inaugural ‘muhurtha’ is in the evening and the elephants have to return to the palace after dark (around 8.30 p.m. onwards after the completing procession), the forest authorities suggested the CESC to get the route illuminated in advance to acquaint the jumbos to the bright lights.
The CESC had also requested that the wires should be 22 ft above the road on the route and there should not be any bending cables.
Deputy Conservator of Forest V. Karikalan had requested CESC to illuminate the route from September 19. However, CESC has now decided to illuminate the procession route from September 23, three days before the festivities.
“We cannot take out elephants on some days during Dasara in connection with some rituals inside the palace. To ensure that the jumbos get familiarised with the bright lights, we requested CESC to light up the route five to six days in advance,” said Mr Karikalan.
Meanwhile, a meeting was held at the Deputy Commissioner’s office here on Thursday which was attended by Mysuru MP Pratap Simha, Deputy Commissioner Bagadi Gautham, CESC Managing Director Jayavibhavaswamy and engineers from the CESC to discuss the Dasara illumination plans.
Mr. Jayavibhavaswamy said CESC had planned illumination on a 124-km distance in the city. The illumination would begin at 7 p.m. and conclude at 10.30 p.m., he said.
As this year’s Dasara procession would start after 5 p.m., the procession had to travel under lights till Bannimantap. The lights would be 22 ft above the road to facilitate the movement of procession, according to CESC.
Though the celebrations were low-key last year due to COVID-19, the Dasara illumination did not lose its lustre as CESC put up a reasonably good show, illuminating the streets and junctions amidst the scaled-down festivities. This year, CESC wants to make illumination bigger, brighter and expansive with the celebrations returning to its original charm after two years due to pandemic.
According to CESC, 124 km of roads and streets and 961 junctions will be specially illuminated with LED bulbs. Last year, the illumination was done on 110 km of roads and 89 circles.
Illuminations featuring Puneeth Rajkumar and Central Vista Avenue building model are among the highlights this year.
The CESC is expecting that the illumination would consume more power this year with newer features and expansive lighting. Last year, 1.35 lakh units of power was consumed, and a sum of ₹4.37 crore was spent on the illumination. The CESC has invited sponsorship of the illumination.
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“We have a teacher respect issue in this country,” says the U.S Secretary of Education as districts tackle teacher shortages
U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona is urging districts to use federal funding to help keep teachers on the job. One district in Virginia discusses its three-prong strategy to recruit.
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - Margaret Browne knows recruiting educators isn’t an easy job. But, it’s her job at Alexandria City Public Schools.
“A lot of the strategy was around recognizing that we had to be creative. We have to be nimble,” she said, as she detailed the three-prong strategy that has helped the district find success to overcome the teacher shortage concerns happening nationwide.
“One, partnering with universities, establishing a good partnership where we knew their ed schools would send us their strong folks. Along with that, making sure student teachers and interns from those universities were converted into full time staff. Two, It’s working with professional organizations, tapping that career switcher pipeline I talked about. And lastly, just getting out into the community, working with organizations, particularly around our non instructional staff, with community centers, workforce development organizations and other community organizations,” she said.
Browne said she focuses on connecting job candidates with principals to help them understand the mission of the district. The district also organizes specialized interview days. For example, to recruit special education teachers Browne said they allowed candidates to meet and work with their curriculum development team.
“We’re really pleased that we have a 2% vacancy rate of full-time teachers, which has come a very long way. We’ve been able to fill 231 instructional vacancies since March. So, we’re really pleased and a lot of kudos to our school leaders who tirelessly interviewed and selected those candidates and partner with us to get that far,” she said.
The U.S. Secretary of Education, Miguel Cardona, said teacher shortages were a long-standing issue even before the pandemic.
“With the economy the way it is. People have options. But also, I think it’d be short-sighted for me to talk about this without acknowledging that we have a teacher respect issue in this country too. That, if we’re not serious about paying teachers a competitive salary, improving working conditions, and including student and teacher voice in decisions that are being made, you know, the profession will lack the amount of people that it needs to get and the quality applicants that it needs to have,” said Cardona.
A July survey by the American Federation of Teachers by Hart Research Associates found 79% of educators surveyed reported job dissatisfaction. Nearly 9 out of 10 said schools have become too politicized. Since the school shootings in Uvalde, Texas, the AFT reports “educators increasingly fear the scourge of gun violence in their schools, with nearly half of all members concerned about a mass shooting.”
“The shortage is an issue, but we need all hands on deck and we need to think about it not only short term, but long term. This is the best profession we should be. It should be a place where people want to go to. And, I’m confident that in some states they’re really moving the needle on that,” said Cardona.
Cardona is urging schools districts to use funding from the American Rescue Plan to fuel support for teachers. On the issue of school safety, he acknowledged the passage of the bipartisan Safer Communities Act and federal funding to help make districts safer and provide mental health support.
“I am confident, however, that with the use of American Rescue Plan dollars we’ve been pushing at the department to use the money to provide bonuses, to bring expert teachers out of retirement, to work with higher education institutions, to get our student teachers into the classrooms earlier so that they can have that experience of learning while maybe also getting paid and getting their college credits to get their credential. We need innovation right now more than ever,” said Cardona.
Browne is one of the people working to innovate new ways to hire teachers.
”What we found is that even if we’re not going into our traditional pipelines through education schools, that we’ve a ton of career switchers. And, there’s a huge pipeline of folks who are looking to get into teaching that have been in the workforce for ten or 15 years. And so, what we’re doing is really working with them to demonstrate the value of teaching,” she said.
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The Guardian Cap appears to be an effective tool in reducing concussions.
The NFL said concussions dropped by 50% this summer among players who were mandated to wear the piece of equipment.
The league compared concussion rates from the summer to the previous three years.
According to ESPN, the NFL required players in numerous positions, including linemen, tight ends and linebackers, to wear Guardian Caps from the start of training camp until the second preseason game.
The network reports that 11 players suffered concussions during that time, but six were caused by contact to the face mask, which the Guardian Cap does not protect.
Despite no longer being required to wear the caps, the NFL says some players are still using them.
Other players have complained about their fit.
The NFL says it will continue working on solutions to prevent concussions.
"When we started this work a few years ago, we said the offerings on the field may look a little bit different and I think we might be living up to those words. And, that's an exciting opportunity for the health and safety of the sport and for the players who play it," NFL executive Jeff Miller said, according to The Associated Press.
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Agtonomy is well capitalized for accelerated growth backed by lead investors Cavallo Ventures and Mirae Asset Venture Investment
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Agtonomy, a cutting-edge software and service ag-tech start-up, announced the successful closing of another round of funding for a total investment of $13.5 million. The round was led by Cavallo Ventures, the venture arm of multi-billion-dollar agribusiness leader Wilbur-Ellis, and Mirae Asset Venture Investment which is the VC arm of Mirae Asset Financial Group headquartered in South Korea. The Mirae Asset Financial Group is one of the largest independent financial groups in Asia with over $700B in AUM, and owns the largest investment bank in South Korea. Other leading names including Toyota Ventures and David R. Duncan, Proprietor, Chairman & CEO of Silver Oak Cellars, also participated in this round. This latest funding will be used to add strategic depth to the team, expand the fleet of vehicles now operating with Agtonomy technology in the fields, and accelerate trials of the service platform designed to address the growing skilled labor challenges facing local agriculture.
"Agtonomy is on a mission to close the labor gap being experienced by many in the farming community. Farmers face tremendous challenges in a time where skilled labor shortages are contributing to high food prices," said Tim Bucher, CEO and Co-Founder of Agtonomy. "We are thrilled to grow our network of support around Agtonomy and accelerate our impact on the global food chain through this latest round of funding."
Through its innovative platform, Agtonomy enables sustainable, autonomous machines that are affordable to the majority of farmers in the world who do not fall in the "big ag" category. By partnering with some of the most trusted names in agricultural OEM equipment, Agtonomy will deliver immediate value to local farmers by leveling up skilled labor with technology that automates repetitive workload tasks with increased efficiency and precision.
Brett Morris, Managing Director at Cavallo Ventures, which is the VC arm of Wilbur-Ellis, believes Agtonomy complements the group's investment portfolio, with the agribusiness space representing their largest market.
"We like to invest in emerging and next generation technologies and products that will guide the future of agriculture and couldn't be more excited to partner with Agtonomy, a company doing just that," he said. "The team is made up of both technologists and lifelong farmers, who truly understand the pain points and needs of the customer. It's what makes the team stand out amongst others and what makes us excited to partner with Agtonomy."
"South Korea is a major hub for agricultural equipment manufacturing and innovation. We are always on the lookout for start-ups that are pioneering technology that will evolve agriculture as we know it," said Scott Kim, General Manager of Mirae Asset Venture Investment. "Agtonomy's game-changing technology allows farming operations to automate workloads and increase labor efficiency. We could not be more thrilled to be a partner."
"As a leading Cabernet brand based in Napa Valley, we are always looking to bring the best product to our customers in the most innovative and sustainable way possible." said David R. Duncan, Proprietor, Chairman & CEO of Silver Oak Cellars. "I witnessed a demonstration of what Agtonomy is building and I knew I wanted to be a part of it. This is the future of farming, and I am excited to be working with Agtonomy to bring this technology forward."
To learn more, visit Agtonomy.com.
Agtonomy, based in South San Francisco and Sonoma County, is a hybrid autonomy and tele-assist service platform with the venture backing of GV, Toyota Ventures, Grit Ventures, Flybridge, Momenta, Village Global, Cavallo Ventures, Mirae Asset Venture Investment, and many other prestigious investors. The platform will give local agriculture and land maintenance operators the ability to solve the skilled labor shortage with autonomous equipment and greatly increase their efficiency. The executive team consists of veterans from the AI, EV, cloud service and agriculture industries, with extensive experience at companies like Amazon, Apple, Google, Dell, Microsoft, Uber, Cruise, and Zoox as well as lifelong farming experience at Northern California agriculture operations such as Trattore Farms.
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA's Perseverance rover is well into its second science campaign, collecting rock-core samples from features within an area long considered by scientists to be a top prospect for finding signs of ancient microbial life on Mars. The rover has collected four samples from an ancient river delta in the Red Planet's Jezero Crater since July 7, bringing the total count of scientifically compelling rock samples to 12.
"We picked the Jezero Crater for Perseverance to explore because we thought it had the best chance of providing scientifically excellent samples – and now we know we sent the rover to the right location," said Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA's associate administrator for science in Washington. "These first two science campaigns have yielded an amazing diversity of samples to bring back to Earth by the Mars Sample Return campaign."
Twenty-eight miles (45 kilometers) wide, Jezero Crater hosts a delta – an ancient fan-shaped feature that formed about 3.5 billion years ago at the convergence of a Martian river and a lake. Perseverance is currently investigating the delta's sedimentary rocks, formed when particles of various sizes settled in the once-watery environment. During its first science campaign, the rover explored the crater's floor, finding igneous rock, which forms deep underground from magma or during volcanic activity at the surface.
"The delta, with its diverse sedimentary rocks, contrasts beautifully with the igneous rocks – formed from crystallization of magma – discovered on the crater floor," said Perseverance project scientist Ken Farley of Caltech in Pasadena, California. "This juxtaposition provides us with a rich understanding of the geologic history after the crater formed and a diverse sample suite. For example, we found a sandstone that carries grains and rock fragments created far from Jezero Crater – and a mudstone that includes intriguing organic compounds."
"Wildcat Ridge" is the name given to a rock about 3 feet (1 meter) wide that likely formed billions of years ago as mud and fine sand settled in an evaporating saltwater lake. On July 20, the rover abraded some of the surface of Wildcat Ridge so it could analyze the area with the instrument called Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics & Chemicals, or SHERLOC.
SHERLOC's analysis indicates the samples feature a class of organic molecules that are spatially correlated with those of sulfate minerals. Sulfate minerals found in layers of sedimentary rock can yield significant information about the aqueous environments in which they formed.
What Is Organic Matter?
Organic molecules consist of a wide variety of compounds made primarily of carbon and usually include hydrogen and oxygen atoms. They can also contain other elements, such as nitrogen, phosphorus, and sulfur. While there are chemical processes that produce these molecules that don't require life, some of these compounds are the chemical building blocks of life. The presence of these specific molecules is considered to be a potential biosignature – a substance or structure that could be evidence of past life but may also have been produced without the presence of life.
In 2013, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover found evidence of organic matter in rock-powder samples, and Perseverance has detected organics in Jezero Crater before. But unlike that previous discovery, this latest detection was made in an area where, in the distant past, sediment and salts were deposited into a lake under conditions in which life could potentially have existed. In its analysis of Wildcat Ridge, the SHERLOC instrument registered the most abundant organic detections on the mission to date.
"In the distant past, the sand, mud, and salts that now make up the Wildcat Ridge sample were deposited under conditions where life could potentially have thrived," said Farley. "The fact the organic matter was found in such a sedimentary rock – known for preserving fossils of ancient life here on Earth – is important. However, as capable as our instruments aboard Perseverance are, further conclusions regarding what is contained in the Wildcat Ridge sample will have to wait until it's returned to Earth for in-depth study as part of the agency's Mars Sample Return campaign."
The first step in the NASA-ESA (European Space Agency) Mars Sample Return campaign began when Perseverance cored its first rock sample in September 2021. Along with its rock-core samples, the rover has collected one atmospheric sample and two witness tubes, all of which are stored in the rover's belly.
The geologic diversity of the samples already carried in the rover is so good that the rover team is looking into depositing select tubes near the base of the delta in about two months. After depositing the cache, the rover will continue its delta explorations.
"I've studied Martian habitability and geology for much of my career and know first-hand the incredible scientific value of returning a carefully collected set of Mars rocks to Earth," said Laurie Leshin, director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. "That we are weeks from deploying Perseverance's fascinating samples and mere years from bringing them to Earth so scientists can study them in exquisite detail is truly phenomenal. We will learn so much."
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A key objective for Perseverance's mission on Mars is astrobiology, including caching samples that may contain signs of ancient microbial life. The rover will characterize the planet's geology and past climate, pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet, and be the first mission to collect and cache Martian rock and regolith.
Subsequent NASA missions, in cooperation with ESA, would send spacecraft to Mars to collect these sealed samples from the surface and return them to Earth for in-depth analysis.
The Mars 2020 Perseverance mission is part of NASA's Moon to Mars exploration approach, which includes Artemis missions to the Moon that will help prepare for human exploration of the Red Planet.
JPL, which is managed for NASA by Caltech, built and manages operations of the Perseverance rover.
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The Bharatiya Janata Party will oppose the decision to provide new permits for starting distilleries in the Union Territory if they violate rules pertaining to drawal of groundwater and other prescribed norms, party president V. Saminathan said here on Thursday.
“It doesn’t matter whether we are in the ruling alliance or not. If the project is going to be in violation of environmental rules, the party will oppose the policy decision to issue new permits for starting distilleries. The BJP legislators themselves have raised the issue in the Assembly,” he said to a query on the subject at a press conference.
Stating that the decision to issue permits for distilleries was in the nascent stage, the former legislator said the party was examining the issue after the controversy erupted.
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When his response was sought on the corruption charge raised by a BJP member itself, he said “the individual member may have spoken based on the information available with him but as the party president I am not aware of any corruption. But as I said the policy decision itself is in the nascent stage of implementation and if there is any wrong doing, the party will not hesitate from raising it.”
The Congress party has accused the All India N. R. Congress-led National Democratic Alliance government of indulging in corruption for giving permission to start six distilleries in the Union Territory. The BJP is part of the ruling alliance and the Chief Minister holds the Excise portfolio.
On the statement of former Chief Minister V. Narayanasamy on the poor law and order situation under the NDA government in the Union Territory, Mr. Saminathan said rowdyism was at its peak when Mr. Narayanasamy headed the previous Congress government. After the NDA came to power, anti-social elements were taken to task. The police were also arresting ganja peddlers on a daily basis, he said.
“The former Chief Minister has no right to question our government after he gave a free run to all anti-social elements,” he said.
Mr. Saminathan announced a slew of programmes to be undertaken by party workers to celebrate the birthday of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Party legislators and functionaries would sponsor medical expenses of TB patients in the Union Territory for one-year, erect rainwater harvesting facility in their houses and participate in planting 5,000 saplings in government properties.
The party would also organise an exhibition to showcase products of local artisans. The programmes would be launched on September 17 and go on till October 2, he said.
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Zac Efron says he ‘almost died’ after shattering his jaw
By Lisa Respers France, CNN
Zac Efron has heard about speculation that he altered his face with plastic surgery, but he says that’s not close to the truth.
“It was funny,” he told “Entertainment Tonight” about people thinking he had gone under the knife. “It sucks. I almost died, but we’re good.”
While promoting his new film, “The Greatest Beer Run Ever,” Efron put the rumors to rest as he had actually been injured. The actor reportedly shattered his jaw and had to have it wired shut after he slipped in a puddle of water near his home.
Someone close to him told him that word on the street was he had undergone plastic surgery.
“My mom told me,” he said. “I never really read the internet, so, I don’t really care.”
Viewers can catch his face, along with those of costars Bill Murray and Russell Crowe, in the new movie in which he plays a man who in 1967 travels to Vitenam to bring beer to his childhood buddies who are fighting for the Army during the war.
It premieres September 30 on Apple TV+.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Bloomberg Philanthropies' Greenwood Initiative announced the launch of the Black Wealth Data Center (BWDC) which will host the new Racial Wealth Equity Database. The BWDC aims to empower decision-makers – including practitioners, elected officials at all levels, and philanthropists – as well as journalists, working to improve and chronicle economic opportunity by making it easier for them to find and analyze a wide range of factors correlated to economic well-being and progress by race. This new effort will also build a network for leaders and organizations working to create economic progress for Black families and communities. The BWDC is incubated by Prosperity Now, a leading nonprofit based in Washington, D.C. focused on advancing racial and ethnic economic justice.
On the Black Wealth Data Center's website, visitors will use BWDC's Racial Wealth Equity Database to interact with wealth data by topic (assets/debt, education, employment, homeownership, and business ownership), and compare wealth data by race (Black, Hispanic, Asian, White, Other or multiple races), sex, age, education attainment, and geographic area (state, county or zip code). Over the coming months, the BWDC will continuously add datasets and functionality to the database, looking for opportunities to offer new tools for the field to better interpret racial equity data. It will also convene leaders and host events about the power of data to help drive solutions for racial wealth equity.
The need for the BWDC was explained by Michael R. Bloomberg, founder of Bloomberg LP and Bloomberg Philanthropies and 108th mayor of New York City in January 2020 when he spoke in Tulsa, Oklahoma, launching the Greenwood Initiative, and addressed "the enormous obstacles that so many Black Americans have faced not only in creating wealth, but in passing assets to their children and grandchildren as generations of white families have done." He said, "I believe that we have the power to build a future where color and capital are no longer related."
Bloomberg Philanthropies' Greenwood Initiative is a national program focused on accelerating the pace of wealth accumulation for Black individuals and families and addressing systemic underinvestment in Black communities across the U.S. Through this initiative, Bloomberg Philanthropies supports and works with leaders and organizations across the country to implement, scale, and advocate for efforts that increase economic and social mobility to reduce wealth disparities in Black communities.
"Leaders and organizations across the country have been challenged by the lack of accessible and high-quality data disaggregated by race – making it difficult to assess what's working and not working in efforts to make America more equitable, what assets exist in Black communities, and what we need to do to effect change," said Garnesha Ezediaro, who leads Bloomberg Philanthropies' Greenwood Initiative. "With a commitment to continuously scan and integrate the best data into a comprehensive user-friendly source, the Black Wealth Data Center will be a resource for leaders who are working to ensure that data can be accessed more equitably, progress can be measured more precisely, and that change can come faster."
The BWDC is led by Natalie Evans Harris, who brings nearly 20 years of experience advancing the public sector's strategic use of data. She spent 16 years at the National Security Agency where she led an analytics development center and was a senior policy advisor to the U.S. Chief Technology Officer in the Obama administration. Most recently, Natalie co-founded and served as the head of strategic initiatives of BrightHive, a data sharing platform for users to easily and securely connect data.
"I am thrilled to lead the Black Wealth Data Center, help leverage data and technology to expedite the accumulation of Black wealth and establish partnerships with practitioners and policymakers to power the path to equity," said Natalie Evans Harris, executive director of the Black Wealth Data Center.
Bloomberg Philanthropies' Greenwood Initiative has partnered with Prosperity Now to incubate the Black Wealth Data Center because of its long legacy of work in racial economic justice rooted in data, research, and community building.
"For so long, those of us working to develop meaningful programs to address racial wealth inequities have had to use our organizations' critical resources to search for and access needed data to support our work," said Gary Cunningham, president and chief executive officer of Prosperity Now. "Prosperity Now is excited to incubate the Black Wealth Data Center. We hope it will serve as a resource for leaders seeking to solve racial wealth inequities for both the Black community and other groups who systematically experience wealth inequities."
In order to lay the foundation for new data sources and to help contextualize the data, the BWDC is currently partnering with the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership, the Urban Institute, and DataKind. BWDC will create additional partnerships with a specific focus on increasing the amount of local data in its database, incorporating data from private sources, and collaborating with existing data providers to strengthen data quality.
The Black Wealth Data Center is the most recent investment made by Bloomberg Philanthropies' Greenwood Initiative, which was launched in September 2020. The first investment was a $100 million partnership with the nation's four historically Black medical schools to help ease the debt burden of approximately 900 Black medical students. The second investment was more than $6 million to those four schools to increase their mobile unit COVID-19 vaccination efforts and help ensure equitable access to vaccines within Black communities disproportionately impacted by the pandemic. The third investment was the Vivien Thomas Scholars Initiative, a $150 million effort at Johns Hopkins devoted to addressing historic underrepresentation in the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields by providing permanent funding for a sustained cohort of approximately 100 new slots for diverse PhD students in JHU's more than 30 STEM programs. The Greenwood Initiative has also partnered on programs to help local leaders prioritize economic equity agendas through Bloomberg Philanthropies' Local Infrastructure Hub and the CityStart Program at Cities for Financial Empowerment.
To learn more about the Black Wealth Data Center and the database, visit blackwealthdata.org.
Bloomberg Philanthropies invests in 941 cities and 173 countries around the world to ensure better, longer lives for the greatest number of people. The organization focuses on five key areas for creating lasting change: the Arts, Education, Environment, Government Innovation, and Public Health. Bloomberg Philanthropies encompasses all of Michael R. Bloomberg's giving, including his foundation, corporate, and personal philanthropy as well as Bloomberg Associates, a pro bono consultancy that works in cities around the world. In 2021, Bloomberg Philanthropies distributed $1.66 billion. For more information, please visit bloomberg.org or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
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Palo Alto Networks is positioned furthest to the right on the Completeness of Vision axis
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ: PANW), the global cybersecurity leader, today announced that Palo Alto Networks has been recognized as a Leader in the 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for SD-WAN for the third consecutive year.
Palo Alto Networks was among the 14 vendors that Gartner evaluated for its 2022 Magic Quadrant for SD-WAN. The report evaluates vendors' Ability to Execute as well as their Completeness of Vision.
"We are thrilled to be recognized as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for SD-WAN," said Kumar Ramachandran, senior vice president for SASE products at Palo Alto Networks. "We believe that placing furthest to the right on the Completeness of Vision axis is a testament to our offering of a next-generation SD-WAN solution that is autonomous, integrated and secure. Moreover, we were recognized as a Customers' Choice in the 2022 Peer Insights™ 'Voice of the Customer' for WAN Edge Infrastructure. Since last year, we've continued to expand our SD-WAN offering to include a flexible consumption model with bandwidth licensing on-demand, simplified operations with artificial intelligence for operations (AIOps) powered deep WAN insights, and integrated SD-branch capabilities to help customers modernize their small to midsize branches. We believe our commitment to innovation has allowed us to anticipate the industry's needs and provide our customers with industry-recognized protection."
To learn more about Palo Alto Networks Prisma® SD-WAN, visit: https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/sase/sd-wan
To learn more about Palo Alto Networks' recognition in the 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for SD-WAN, please read our blog:
https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/blog/2022/09/hat-trick-2022-gartner-mq-for-sd-wan
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LONDON (AP) — Microsoft's $69 billion deal to buy video game company Activision Blizzard faces an in-depth antitrust investigation in Britain after the tech company refused to offer proposals to ease competition concerns.
Britain's Competition and Markets Authority said Thursday that it was referring the blockbuster deal for more scrutiny under a so-called phase 2 investigation.
The watchdog said that based on the available information, the deal “may be expected to result in a substantial lessening of competition” in the United Kingdom.
The all-cash deal, which is set to be the largest in the history of the tech industry, is facing scrutiny from competition regulators around the world. It would give Microsoft, maker of the Xbox console and gaming system, control of popular game franchises such as Call of Duty, World of Warcraft and Candy Crush.
In the U.K., regulators had opened a preliminary inquiry and threatened to escalate it earlier this month unless the companies came up with proposals within five days to ease their concerns.
Last week, “Microsoft informed the CMA that it would not offer such undertakings,” the watchdog said.
Microsoft declined to comment and referred to a statement this month from President Brad Smith, who said the company is ready to work with U.K. regulators and is committed to making Activision's popular Call of Duty game available on both Xbox and rival Sony's PlayStation.
More than eight months after Microsoft announced the deal, only Saudi Arabia has approved it. Competition watchdogs from New Zealand to Brazil and the U.S. are still examining the purchase, while the European Union is expected to soon announce its own investigation.
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Data engineering and AI solutions company raises series B funding to accelerate growth
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sigmoid, a data engineering, analytics and AI solutions company, announced that it has closed a Series B investment of $12 million, in a mix of primary and secondary funding from Sequoia Capital India. This takes Sequoia Capital India's total investment in Sigmoid to $19.3 million. The new capital will fuel the company's plan to evolve its market offerings, expand delivery centers and cater to new industries.
"The last 12 months have been an inflexion point in our growth story. As we gear towards our next phase of growth, we are happy to see Sequoia Capital India continue to believe in us. This will help us to rapidly expand our capabilities in terms of solutions and talent to meet the ever-growing customer demand," said Lokesh Anand, CEO and Co-Founder at Sigmoid.
Many large enterprises in CPG, retail, financial services, and other industries turn to Sigmoid to extract strategic business value from data and make smarter business decisions. As an example, for a multinational CPG company, Sigmoid developed self-adapting Multi-Touch Attribution models to enable in-flight campaign optimization, which provided a 11% improvement on the return on marketing investments.
"The AI/ML market continues to grow year-on-year and alongside, the need for solutions to help enterprises adopt and harness this power is growing exponentially. The team at Sigmoid, which stands out for its data and AI engineering excellence, are well-positioned to capture this opportunity. As long term partners, we are excited to double-down on their goal to be the premier engineered data solutions and AI provider for accelerating digital transformation for enterprises across industries," said Anandamoy Roychowdhary, Principal, Sequoia Southeast Asia.
Founded in 2013 by IIT alumni Lokesh Anand (CEO), Mayur Rustagi (CTO) and Rahul Kumar Singh (CAO), Sigmoid helps enterprises organize and manage their data better, extract insights, build predictive systems, and extract the highest ROI from their data investments.
Sigmoid combines data engineering and AI consulting to help enterprises gain competitive advantage through effective data-driven decision making. Some of the world's largest data producers are engaging with Sigmoid to solve complex business problems. Sigmoid's team of 550+ data professionals provide deep expertise in data engineering, cloud data modernization, artificial intelligence, and DataOps.
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PEWAUKEE, Wis., Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SunVest Solar LLC recently flipped the switch on three Illinois community solar projects the company acquired from another developer. The acquisitions were the first of many planned nationwide for the Wisconsin-based developer as it progresses toward its goal of helping businesses, municipalities, residents and utilities transition to clean electricity.
"Community solar is a key component for states, like Illinois, with plans to transition to renewable energy," said Tim Polz, Chief Development Officer of SunVest Solar LLC. "We are actively initiating and acquiring community solar sites in 14 states, with more to come."
Two of the Illinois community solar sites, located in the communities of Glenwood and Mazon, are in Commonwealth Edison territory. The third site, located in downstate Elba, is in Ameren territory. The Glenwood site is believed to be the first community solar project to energize in Cook County. All three sites are 2MWac.
Projects like these are made possible from state incentives and programs, including Solar Renewable Energy Credits (SRECs) and the Illinois Climate and Equitable Jobs Act (CEJA), signed into law by Governor Pritzker one year ago today on Sept. 15, 2021. SunVest, which builds, owns, and operates large scale community solar sites, is prepared to expand along with the Illinois market.
"SunVest is making distributed solar more accessible to residents and businesses while creating jobs and training a diverse workforce," Polz said. "We establish long-term relationships with landowners and industry partners and plan to acquire, own and operate community solar projects."
SunVest has acquired nearly 90MWac of projects in Illinois in conjunction with another developer, a partnership that has to-date resulted in nearly 74MWac of total solar projects energized or achieved key notice-to-proceed milestones. The company's dynamic development and construction team, combined with strong financial partners put SunVest in a position to acquire additional assets in the near future.
SunVest Solar is one of the nation's largest distributed solar developers. We develop community solar projects in key markets nationwide, distributed solar for commercial/industrial customers, as well as solar assets for utilities, co-ops, municipalities and others. To learn more, visit www.sunvest.com.
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The rupee declined by 19 paise to close at 79.71 against the US dollar on Thursday, weighed down by a firm American currency and a negative trend in domestic equities.
At the interbank foreign exchange market, the domestic currency opened at 79.53 per dollar. It hovered in a range of 79.44 to 79.73 during the session.
The domestic unit finally settled at 79.71, down 19 paise over its previous close of 79.52.
Meanwhile, the dollar index, which gauges the greenback's strength against a basket of six currencies, was trading 0.09 per cent lower at 109.56.
"The Indian rupee weakened against the dollar on Thursday weighed by strong dollar demand from oil companies," said Sriram Iyer, Senior Research Analyst at Reliance Securities.
Asian and emerging market peers were weak with the Chinese Yuan, Thai Baht and the Taiwanese Dollar amongst the worst performers in afternoon trade.
In the overseas markets, the dollar index pushed higher in early European trade, with buyers returning ahead of the next week’s Federal Reserve meeting.
Ahead of the Fed meeting, traders will also be watching US retail sales and industrial production data due later in the day.
India's 10-year benchmark bond yield rose on Thursday, as market participants are slowly pricing in an aggressive rate hike from the Reserve Bank of India to curb inflation.
According to Dilip Parmar, Research Analyst, HDFC Securities, the Indian rupee drifted further lower following a weaker Chinese Yuan and foreign fund selling amid risk-averse sentiments.
The dollar has been stabilising versus the major currencies but strengthening against the Asian currencies. The Fed has remained quite hawkish in recent commentaries which are offering a good floor to the dollar.
In the near term, spot USDINR is likely to trade in the range of 79.90 to 79.30.
Brent crude futures, the global oil benchmark, fell by 0.96 per cent to USD 93.20 per barrel.
On the domestic equity market front, the BSE Sensex ended 412.96 points or 0.68 per cent lower at 59,934.01, while the broader NSE Nifty declined 126.35 points or 0.7 per cent to 17,877.40.
Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) were net sellers in the capital markets, as they offloaded shares worth Rs 1,397.51 crore on Wednesday, according to provisional data.
On the macroeconomic front, India's exports rose marginally by 1.62 per cent to USD 33.92 billion, while the trade deficit more than doubled to USD 27.98 billion in August due to increased crude oil imports, the commerce ministry data showed on Wednesday.
The revised data showed that imports rose by 37.28 per cent to USD 61.9 billion in August this year.
Fitch Ratings on Thursday slashed India's GDP growth projection for FY23 to 7 per cent, saying the economy is expected to slow down against the backdrop of global economy, elevated inflation and high interest rate.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks fell in afternoon trading on Wall Street Thursday, putting major indexes deeper in the red for the week.
The S&P 500 fell 0.9% as of 12:02 p.m. Eastern. The benchmark index is down 3.1% for the week following the biggest pullback for the market in more than two years on Tuesday.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 144 points, or 0.5%, to 30,987 and the Nasdaq fell 1.2%.
Technology stocks were among the biggest weights on the broader market. Adobe slumped 17% after the software maker announced a $20 billion acquisition of a design company and issued a disappointing revenue forecast.
U.S. crude oil prices fell 3.6% and weighed on energy stocks. Hess fell 3%.
Railroad operators were mostly higher after a tentative labor agreement was reached, averting a strike across the country that could have been devastating to the economy. Union Pacific rose 1.8%.
Bond yields rose. The yield on the 10-year Treasury, which helps dictate where mortgages and rates for other loans are heading, rose to 3.46% from 3.40% late Wednesday. The yield on the two-year Treasury rose to 3.88% from 3.79%.
Investors were digesting the latest report on retail sales, which gave a mixed view of how consumers are coping with the hottest inflation in four decades. The government report showed that retail sales rose an unexpected 0.3% in August after falling 0.4% in July. Inflation hurt several areas of spending, though, with business at restaurants still growing, but at a slower pace, while furniture and online sales fell.
Consumer spending has been a strong point in the broader economy, along with employment, as inflation continues to squeeze businesses and consumers. High prices and the Federal Reserve’s aggressive plan to raise interest rates as a solution remains Wall Street’s main focus.
A hotter-than-expected August report on consumer prices Tuesday spooked the market and dashed hopes that the Fed might consider easing its rate hikes. It was followed on Wednesday by a report that wholesale prices are still rising.
Investors worry rate hikes by the Fed could go too far in slowing the U.S. economy and send it into a recession. The central bank has already raised its benchmark interest rate four times this year, with the last two increases by three-quarters of a percentage point. Traders now see a 1-in-5 chance the Fed may hike its benchmark rate by a full percentage point next week, quadruple the usual move, according to the CME Group.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Mark Meadows, the White House chief of staff under former President Donald Trump, has complied with a Justice Department subpoena and turned over records as part of a federal investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021 assault on the Capitol and efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, a person familiar the matter said Thursday.
The records produced by Meadows are the same ones he earlier provided to a House committee conducting a similar investigation, according to the person, who spoke with The Associated Press on condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing Justice Department probe.
The subpoena to Meadows, first reported by CNN, makes clear that Justice Department officials are seeking information from the most senior of Trump’s White House advisers as they examine wide-ranging efforts to overturn the results of the election won by Democrat Joe Biden.
The department, whose work at times has mirrored or overlapped with that of the committee, this month served a broad wave of grand jury subpoenas and search warrants to Trump allies.
Meadows has been a pivotal figure in the House investigation, his name invoked repeatedly in testimony by other Trump advisers, including by his own top aide. He had provided the committee with thousands of text messages, including communications with outside Trump allies and advisers.
In a filing in April in a federal lawsuit over his House subpoena, a lawyer for Meadows accused the committee of trying to vilify him publicly, noting that all of the texts it had been provided had been disclosed to the news media. The committee declined at the time to respond to the accusation.
Meadows did not provide to the committee records he believed were subject to claims of executive privilege and those documents were also not produced to the Justice Department.
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SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bexson Biomedical, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company focused on disrupting the small molecule injectable market and enabling home health solutions, today announced the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued a Notice of Allowance for U.S. Application No. 17/546,880 filed on December 9, 2021 and titled Complexing Agent Salt Formulations of Pharmaceutical Compounds.
Bexson's formulation platform, branded as SEVALENTTM, is the basis for the Company's lead ketamine therapy, BB106. The Company believes this patent allowance expands the potential utility of its formulation technology, SEVALENTTM, to other small molecules. SEVALENTTM is designed to enable intravenous (IV)-only therapies to now be delivered subcutaneously in a controlled manner for use in the home setting.
"The allowance is significant as it protects our novel salt formulation technology across a broad platform of therapeutic areas," commented Jeffrey Becker, MD, Chief Scientific Officer. "There has been little innovation for delivery of small molecule therapies, which is why we believe the opportunity to migrate from IV to subcutaneous administration will be a game changer for both patients and payors."
"We are pleased with this step forward in building out the Company's patent portfolio and achieving another important milestone in protecting our formulation technology," said Gregg Peterson, CEO. "In addition, this allowance, along with our other patents, demonstrates our strong commitment to protecting the innovation and broad commercial opportunities offered by our growing product portfolio."
Bexson Biomedical, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company focused on disrupting the small molecule injectable market and enabling home health solutions through new formulations designed for subcutaneous delivery. Bexson's proprietary platform, SEVALENTTM, can be applied to small molecules across a broad range of drug classes, enabling IV therapies to be delivered subcutaneously.
Bexson's lead therapy, BB106, is a low-dose ketamine treatment for post-operative pain management, a $36B global market and leading driver of opioid addiction. Additionally, management believes its BB106 formulation technology can be utilized to address various mental health indications.
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BARCELONA , Spain, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Eyes of the World Foundation has launched 'Iris of the World' to raise awareness of the deficiencies in eye care in the most vulnerable areas of the world, and to promote the right to vision.
Javier Bardem launches the initiative by 'donating' his iris to raise as much money as possible to fight against avoidable blindness, which can be prevented and treated with the right care and resources. Effectively, the actor's eyes will help to open others' eyes.
Starting at $9,000, the auction is for a digital NFT file, and a printed photograph signed by the actor, both authenticated as unique pieces. Whoever acquires them will have exclusive ownership of them in their own right. Other personalities from the world of art, culture and sport will collaborate for auctions of NFTs and printed photographs in the future.
"To be able to see, to be able to hear, to be able to touch or to be able to feel are things that we don't appreciate until we lose them." says Javier Bardem.
Director of the Eyes of the World Foundation, Anna Barba says "we want to communicate that the right to vision should not be subject to the availability of economic resources of a person or a country. It's a question of giving sight back to thousands of people without resources who suffer from serious eye problems that can be prevented or treated if action is taken in time," she remarked.
Eyes of the World estimates the cost of an eye check-up at $7 and a cataract operation at $70.
The Foundation will use the amount raised to expand its lines of action and promote new projects in the Saharawi camps, Mozambique, Bolivia and Mali.
Millions of people in developing countries suffer from eye problems caused by hygienic and sanitary deficiencies, adverse climatic conditions or traumatisms suffered during conflicts. There are 1.1 billion blind people worldwide and around 90% of cases could be prevented or cured.
Some blindness can be avoided with the right care and resources in vulnerable territories: 90% live in low and middle-income countries.
161 million people suffer from uncorrected refractive errors, 100 million from cataracts and 510 million have difficulty seeing up close with 55% of visually impaired people being women says IAPB*.
The auction starts 29 September at 12h UTC and runs until 6 October at 18h. www.irisesoftheworld.org
About the Eyes of the World Foundation
The Eyes of the World Foundation is a non-for-profit organisation that contributes to improving the eye health of the poor in impoverished countries. The aim is to enable them to receive quality ophthalmological care from their local health services, as well as to create optimal conditions to reduce the incidence of eye diseases in each territory. Eyes of the World also raises public awareness of the deficiencies in basic health care in those areas.
*International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB).
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US stocks waver, indexes remain in the red for the week
New York – Stocks teetered between small gains and losses in morning trading on Wall Street Thursday, which left major indexes well in the red for the week.
The S&P 500 rose 0.2% as of 10:17 a.m. Eastern. The benchmark index is down 3.1% for the week following the biggest pullback for the market in more than two years on Tuesday.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 110 points, or 0.4%, to 31,251 and the Nasdaq fell 0.3%.
Technology stocks were among the biggest weights on the broader market. Adobe slumped 12.3% after the software maker announced a $20 billion acquisition of a design company and issued a disappointing revenue forecast.
U.S. crude oil prices fell 2.9% and weighed on energy stocks. Hess fell 2.4%.
Railroad operators were mostly higher after a tentative labor agreement was reached, averting a strike across the country that could have been devastating to the economy. Union Pacific rose 2.6%.
Bond yields rose. The yield on the 10-year Treasury, which helps dictate where mortgages and rates for other loans are heading, rose to 3.44% from 3.40% late Wednesday. The yield on the two-year Treasury rose to 3.83% from 3.79%.
Investors were digesting the latest report on retail sales, which gave a mixed view of how consumers are coping with the hottest inflation in four decades. The government report showed that retail sales rose an unexpected 0.3% in August after falling 0.4% in July. Inflation hurt several areas of spending, though, with business at restaurants still growing, but at a slower pace, while furniture and online sales fell.
Consumer spending has been a strong point in the broader economy, along with employment, as inflation continues to squeeze businesses and consumers. High prices and the Federal Reserve’s aggressive plan to raise interest rates as a solution remains Wall Street’s main focus.
A hotter-than-expected August report on consumer prices Tuesday spooked the market and dashed hopes that the Fed might consider easing its rate hikes. It was followed on Wednesday by a report that wholesale prices are still rising.
Investors worry rate hikes by the Fed could go too far in slowing the U.S. economy and send it into a recession. The central bank has already raised its benchmark interest rate four times this year, with the last two increases by three-quarters of a percentage point. Traders now see a 1-in-5 chance the Fed may hike its benchmark rate by a full percentage point next week, quadruple the usual move, according to the CME Group.
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Crowds wait hours to view queen’s coffin as King Charles III spends quiet day reflecting
LONDON - Thousands of mourners spent hours in line for a few minutes to file past the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II while it lay in state inside a Parliament building Thursday and as King Charles III spent the day in private to reflect on his first week on the throne.
The queue to pay respects to the late queen at Westminster Hall stretched to 4.4 miles (7 kilometers), past Tower Bridge. The line snaked along the south bank of the River Thames and then over a bridge to Parliament. People in line said they didn't mind the wait.
"I’m glad there was a queue because that gave us time to see what was ahead of us, prepared us and absorbed the whole atmosphere," health care professional Nimisha Maroo said. "I wouldn’t have liked it if I’d had to just rush through."
RELATED: How long is the line to view queen's coffin? UK posts live 'queue tracker'
Buckingham Palace released details of plans for the queen's funeral on Monday. It will be the first state funeral held in Britain since the death of former Prime Minister Winston Churchill in 1965.
Royalty and heads of state from a round the world are expected to be among the 2,000 people attending the Westminster Abbey funeral service. A smaller burial service is planned for later Monday at Windsor Castle.
At the end of the day, the queen will be buried in a private family service at Windsor alongside her late husband, Prince Philip, who died last year.
After a day of high ceremony and high emotion on Wednesday as the queen was borne in somber procession from Buckingham Palace, the king was spending the day working and in "private reflection" at his Highgrove residence in western England.
RELATED: Queen Elizabeth II's coffin lies in state after somber procession
Charles has had calls with U.S. President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron and is speaking to a host of world leaders — many of whom will come to London on Monday for the queen’s funeral.
Heir to the throne Prince William and his wife Kate visited the royal family’s Sandringham estate in eastern England to see some of the tributes left by well-wishers.
The couple walked slowly along metal barriers as they received bouquets from the public and chatted to well-wishers. Other royals fanned out across the U.K. to thank people for their support, with the queen's son, Prince Edward, and his wife Sophie visiting Manchester and his sister Princess Anne in Glasgow.
On Wednesday the queen left Buckingham Palace for the last time, borne on a horse-drawn carriage and saluted by cannons and the tolling of Big Ben, in a solemn procession through the flag-draped, crowd-lined streets of London to Westminster Hall.
RELATED: Most don't know life without Queen Elizabeth II — how will the world cope without her?
Charles, his siblings and sons marched behind the coffin, which was topped by a wreath of white roses and her crown resting on a purple velvet pillow.
The military procession underscored Elizabeth’s seven decades as head of state as the national mourning process shifted to the grand boulevards and historic landmarks of the U.K. capital.
The 900-year-old Westminster Hall is now the focus of events, as the queen lies in state until Monday.
The display of mass mourning is an enormous logistical operation, with a designated 10-mile (16 kilometer) route lined with first aid points and more than 500 portable toilets. There are 1,000 stewards and marshals working at any given time, and 30 religious leaders from a range of faiths to stop and talk to those in line.
RELATED: Double rainbow over Buckingham Palace as Queen Elizabeth's death is announced
Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, the spiritual leader of the Church of England, wore a high-visibility vest emblazoned with the words "Faith Team" as he spoke to mourners.
Welby, who led a service for the royal family when Elizabeth's coffin reached Westminster Hall, paid tribute to the queen as "someone you could trust totally, completely and absolutely, whose wisdom was remarkable."
Thousands have already paid their respects, filing past the casket draped with the royal standard and topped with a diamond-encrusted crown.
People old and young, dressed in dark suits or jeans and sneakers, walked in a steady stream through the historic hall, where Guy Fawkes and Charles I were tried, where kings and queens hosted magnificent medieval banquets, and where previous monarchs have lain in state.
After passing the coffin, most mourners paused to look back before going out through the hall’s great oak doors. Some wiped away tears; others bowed their heads or curtseyed. One sank onto a knee and blew a farewell kiss.
Keith Smart, an engineer and British Army veteran, wiped away tears as he left the hall. He had waited more than 10 hours for the chance to say his goodbye.
"Everybody in the crowd was impeccably behaved. There was no malice, everybody was friends. It was fantastic," he said. "And then, to come into that room and see that, I just broke down inside. I didn’t bow — I knelt to the floor, on my knees, bowed my head to the queen."
The late-night silence was broken when one of the guards standing vigil around the coffin collapsed and fell forward off a raised platform. The man, his chest adorned with medals, could be seen on livestreams of the queen’s coffin lying in state swaying on his feet before pitching forward onto the floor. Two police officers rushed to his assistance.
Crowds have lined the route of the queen’s coffin whenever it has been moved in its long journey from Scotland — where the monarch died Sept. 8, aged 96 — to London.
On Tuesday night, thousands braved a typical London drizzle as the hearse, with interior lights illuminating the casket, drove slowly from an air base to Buckingham Palace.
Earlier, in Edinburgh, about 33,000 people filed silently past her coffin in 24 hours at St. Giles’ Cathedral.
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37 million garage door openers in the market today are not being used to their full potential
OAK BROOK, Ill., Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- According to Chamberlain Group, a Blackstone Company that manufactures LiftMaster® and Chamberlain® brand garage door openers powered by myQ®, 37 million garage door openers in the market today are not being used to their full potential. If you installed a new LiftMaster® or Chamberlain® smart garage door opener within the last seven years or just moved into a newly constructed home, chances are you have a garage door opener that you can monitor and control through the myQ app – anytime, from anywhere.
"With myQ, homeowners are not limited to opening and closing the garage door within line of sight of the garage. They can control, secure and monitor the garage door from anywhere with their smartphone through the myQ app," said Patrick Leitch, Marketing Director for Residential & In-Garage Delivery, Chamberlain Group. "We want to make sure everyone who has a myQ smart garage door opener knows it. So, we are calling for all homeowners to look up to see if there is a myQ logo plus Wi-Fi logo, or if it says "powered by myQ" on their garage opener."
In partnership with independent creative agency Schafer Condon Carter (SCC), Chamberlain Group has developed the nationwide, integrated "Look Up" campaign which will run across CTV, online video, direct mail, paid social (Twitter, Snapchat, IG and FB) and CRM.
"myQ is an amazing smart home technology that millions of homeowners don't realize they already have," said SCC Chief Creative Officer Denny Hebson. "To get people excited about the possibilities that already exist in their own garage, we created an integrated campaign encouraging our target to simply look up -- and see their garage door opener a little differently. With a movie trailer feel and stellar visual effects, we dramatize the mesmerizing power of myQ. It's so captivating, not even an alien invasion can get you to look away!"
Today, more than 7 million people use the highly rated myQ app (4.8-star app store rating with over one million verified reviews) to control, secure and monitor their garage door. This innovative technology helps enhance the security of the garage and home with real-time alerts that let homeowners know if they left the garage door open. The app's Guest Access feature also provides a safer way to share access to the home – no need to share keys or codes. Additionally, myQ works with Amazon Key for convenient and secure in-garage delivery of packages and groceries. You can even add a myQ camera or lock to enhance home security for greater peace of mind.
For those who do not have a myQ smart garage door opener, for less than $30, you can easily upgrade any leading brand garage door opener with a myQ Smart Garage Control device.
About Chamberlain Group
Chamberlain Group, a Blackstone company, is a global leader in smart access solutions across residential and commercial properties. Our prominent brands LiftMaster®, Chamberlain®, Merlin® and Grifco® are found in millions of residential and commercial access applications across the globe. Our innovative products and partnerships, powered by our myQ® smart technology, provide customers with smart access solutions to move safely through garages, homes, communities, businesses and storage facilities. Chamberlain Group pioneered vehicle-to-home connectivity through patented technology aboard hundreds of millions of vehicles. Chamberlain Group includes Controlled Products Systems Group, a leading wholesale distributor of perimeter access control equipment in the U.S., and Systems, LLC, one of North America's leading dock leveler manufacturers. Follow Chamberlain Group on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
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Magna's platform allows companies to plan and manage token distributions for participants, employees, investors and other key stakeholders
Led by Tiger Global and Tusk Venture Partners, the new funding will allow the platform to launch new token management offerings and continue to build a world-class team
NEW YORK, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Magna, a New York-based token management platform, announced today it has raised $15.2 million in seed funding. The round was led by Tiger Global and Tusk Venture Partners with participation from Circle Ventures, Galaxy Digital, Asymmetric, Alchemy Ventures, Solana Ventures, Ava Labs, Polygon, Protocol Labs, Y Combinator Continuity, Blockchain Founders Fund, AV Blockchain Fund, Olive Tree Capital, ProtoFund, Plug and Play Ventures, Balaji Srinivasan, Ryan Selkis, and angels including senior executives from Anchorage, Fireblocks, TRM, Chainalysis, TokenSoft, Phantom, QuantStamp, and QuickNode, among other investors.
In the last few years, there has been a growing trend for companies and projects to offer tokens to employees, community members, investors, and other stakeholders. The current process for managing hundreds to thousands of token grants is time-consuming and manual for companies. Magna, founded by CEO Bruno Faviero and CTO Arun Kirubarajan, was started in early 2022 to remove this friction of managing token grants and distributing tokens: customers input their distribution schedules and recipient information, and the platform automates the rest. The platform currently supports distributions on blockchains including Solana, Ethereum, Polygon, Avalanche, and others, and is now managing over $30M of distributions for select customers, having distributed to thousands of recipients since going live in July.
"Crypto founders want their stakeholders to get their tokens on-time, correctly, and in a compliant way," said Bruno Faviero, CEO of Magna. "DIY tools for critical workflows like this often lead to extensive engineering efforts, unaudited code, unusable UIs, and a lack of support for proper tax reporting and compliance elements. These things have to work out of the box if we want to make it easier to start, scale, and participate in the next 100,000 crypto companies."
"At Shima, we have hundreds of portfolio companies and several have tried to build token distribution mechanisms in-house to no avail," said Yida Gao, General Partner at Shima Capital. "These tools should exist as a primitive and require battle-tested smart contract code, extensive security audits, and a usable interface to get right."
For companies that haven't yet launched their token, Magna helps them plan out their token allocations well in advance with tools including token offer letters and legal agreement management. For companies that already have a live token, Magna's platform helps beyond distributions with on-chain insights (holdership breakdown, token transfers, live price, and more.), as well as compliance support for tax withholding, calculating tax liability, IRS filings, and more.
"Magna is solving a pain point that many founders and organizations face today when managing tokens for employees and various stakeholders," said Jordan Nof, Managing Partner and Co-Founder at Tusk Venture Partners. "Token issuances can create a powerful incentive for stakeholders, but managing the process is still highly manual. Bruno and the team at Magna are creating a platform that will change the future of how companies plan, manage and execute token distributions."
Magna will put this new round of funding towards improving the overall experience of the platform, building new product offerings, launching support for new blockchains and protocols, and continuing to frequently audit its smart contracts. Magna's on-chain programs have been audited multiple times by industry-leading firms including OtterSec and CertiK to date. Magna is also in the process of integrating with leading institutional custody providers and market makers to bring best-in-class custody options and liquidity options to its customers.
With a presence in New York, Miami, and Toronto, Magna is actively hiring across several roles.
Magna allows crypto companies to put their token distributions on autopilot. With Magna, organizations can distribute tokens to their team, stakeholders, community members and other key stakeholders in a fast, secure, and reliable way on Solana, Ethereum, and other major blockchains. Magna's token planning features also allow founders to plan future token distributions, while educating token holders on what their future ownership will look like.
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BOSTON, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ratio Therapeutics Inc., a pharmaceutical company that employs a suite of innovative technologies to develop best-in-class targeted radiotherapeutics for the treatment of cancers, today announced the appointment of Jacob Hesterman, Ph.D., as the company's Chief Data Officer (CDO). In this newly created role, Dr. Hesterman will build the company's data management and data sciences infrastructure. In addition to oversight of the data platform, Hesterman will manage imaging and dosimetry for Ratio's discovery and clinical programs.
"We are delighted to welcome Jacob to the management team and into a new leadership role at Ratio. He brings extensive experience in analytics and software informatics across all stages of drug development and has profound leadership experience in managing and facilitating research and development goals - qualities that align with our fast-growing company's goals and mission," commented Dr. Jack Hoppin, Ratio's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. "Jacob is the perfect addition to a growing team of researchers and developers with a singular focus on delivering the best treatments to cancer patients."
Dr. Hesterman has 15+ years of experience in medical imaging, data analysis, and the management of interdisciplinary technical teams. Prior to joining Ratio, Dr. Hesterman was a founding member of Invicro, first serving as Senior Vice President of Image Analysis and then as Chief Technology Officer and ultimately as the Chief Technology Officer of Realm IDx, the parent company of Invicro. He built a 60+ person image analysis group at Invicro to provide quantitative analysis for programs across multiple imaging modalities in all phases of drug discovery and development. As CTO of Realm IDx he oversaw more than 150 data scientists focused on integrated diagnostics software and applications.
"I am excited to be a part of Ratio's team and I look forward to working with my new colleagues to enable the imaging, discovery and advancement of novel radiopharmaceuticals," said Dr. Hesterman. "I believe the team at Ratio is applying cutting-edge science and technology to the development of their radiotherapeutics and I am delighted to join Ratio's world-class co-founders, Drs. Hoppin and Babich in their commitment to developing effective treatments for cancer patients."
Dr. Hesterman owns patents for his previous work and has been a member of both the Society of Nuclear Medicine and the World Molecular Imaging Society since 2014. He holds a Ph.D. in Optics from The University of Arizona, USA.
About Ratio Therapeutics
Ratio Therapeutics Inc. is a Boston-based pharmaceutical company with the mission to accelerate the development of next-generation precision radiopharmaceuticals for solid tumors and transform oncology treatment paradigms. Founded by John Babich, Ph.D., and Jack Hoppin, Ph.D., the company currently employs a growing team of radiopharmaceuticals discovery and development experts with backgrounds in the life science industry. Ratio's fully integrated proprietary R&D platforms, Trillium™ and Macropa™, enable the imaging, discovery and advancement of novel radiopharmaceuticals that have first/best-in-class delivery, safety and efficacy properties. The tunable nature of the company's platforms enables the efficient and timely generation of numerous novel radiopharmaceuticals for a broad range of high unmet need in solid tumors. Built to be the radiopharmaceuticals discovery and development partner of choice, Ratio currently collaborates with Bayer and Lantheus.
Please visit www.ratiotx.com for more information and follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.
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Fireball which lit up skies over Scotland last night was SPACE JUNK that likely landed in the Atlantic south of the Hebrides, experts say
- People spotted the ball of light in the skies above parts of Scotland, northern England and Northern Ireland
- The UK Meteor Network received almost 800 reports about the mysterious blazing orb last night
- Now, the network says it's likely the fireball was space debris that then landed in the Atlantic
- It has tweeted at SpaceX's Elon Musk to ask if the debris was from a SpaceX satellite
A 'brilliant fireball' seen in the skies above parts of Britain is believed to have been space debris, experts have said.
The UK Meteor Network said it received almost 800 reports after the blazing orb was spotted in the night sky on Wednesday night.
The organisation said that having studied many videos of the incident, it is now of the opinion 'this was space debris'.
It comes after people spotted the ball of light in the skies above parts of Scotland, northern England and Northern Ireland.
The network tweeted: 'There have been nearly 800 reports of the fireball that was seen over UK last night.'
It said the preliminary trajectory has been calculated by the International Meteor Organisation, and this 'indicates that the object, which we now believe to be space debris, would have landed in the Atlantic south of the Hebrides'.
A 'brilliant fireball' seen in the skies above parts of Britain is believed to have been space debris, experts have said
The UK Meteor Network said it received almost 800 reports after the blazing orb was spotted in the night sky on Wednesday night
Reports starting coming in at about 9pm on Wednesday, mainly from Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Danny Nell, 21, was walking his dog in Johnstone, near Glasgow, when he saw the fireball.
He said: 'It was strangely enough 10pm on the dot, and I just saw the flash in the sky and pulled out my phone and recorded it.
'I thought it may be a firework at first because there was a lot of Scottish football on, but quickly realised it wasn't and just grabbed my phone to see if I could catch it.'
Steve Owens, an astronomer and science communicator at the Glasgow Science Centre, saw the fireball as it passed over.
He told BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme: 'It was incredible. I was sitting in my living room at exactly 10 o'clock last night and saw out of the window, due south, this brilliant fireball, this meteor streaking across the sky, and I could tell that it was something special because I could see through broken cloud.
'It wasn't perfectly visible; I could see that it was fragmenting, breaking apart, there were little bits coming off it.
'Normally, if you see a meteor or a shooting star, they are just tiny little streaks of light, they last for a fraction of a second.
'This one was streaking across the sky for at least 10 seconds – probably longer than that – and it travelled from due south all the way across to the west, so it was a pretty incredible sight.'
He said it is possible it could have landed but added it is 'highly unlikely' to have done so in Scotland.
He said: 'Normally these tiny little streaks of light, these little shooting stars, they all burn up and everything just vanishes and evaporates in the atmosphere, but the thing last night was bigger than a little bit of dust.
The organisation said that having studied many videos of the incident, it is now of the opinion 'this was space debris'
'The one last night might have been the size of a golf ball or maybe a cricket ball, maybe bigger than that, so it's certainly not impossible that bits could have landed.'
While the source of the space debris remains unclear, the network suggests that it may be from SpaceX's Starlink satellites.
It tweeted a photo to SpaceX's CEO, Elon Musk, writing: 'Hey Elon Musk is this one of yours?'
While Musk is yet to respond, SpaceX has previously been blamed for other space debris falling to Earth.
For example, last month, The Australian Space Agency confirmed that space debris found in the Snowy Mountains in southern New South Wales belonged to a craft built by SpaceX.
Space junk poses a major threat to all space vehicles, including the International Space Station, which has humans on board.
'There are approximately 23,000 pieces of debris larger than a softball orbiting the Earth,' NASA explained.
'They travel at speeds up to 17,500 mph, fast enough for a relatively small piece of orbital debris to damage a satellite or a spacecraft.
'There are half a million pieces of debris the size of a marble or larger (up to 0.4 inches, or 1 centimeter) or larger, and approximately 100 million pieces of debris about .04 inches (or one millimeter) and larger.
'There is even more smaller micrometer-sized (0.000039 of an inch in diameter) debris.'
According to the National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service, a total of 200-400 pieces of space junk enter Earth's atmosphere every year - about one every day.
While the source of the space debris remains unclear, the network suggests that it may be from SpaceX's Starlink satellites
'Thankfully human populations are rarely affected by things falling from the sky (from outer space). This is largely a numbers game,' it explained.
'Human populations live on a small percentage of the Earth's total surface area.
'So any objects that do not burn up and disintegrate upon atmosphere re-entry are likely to fall into the ocean (which covers over 70 per cent of the surface of the Earth) or a sparsely populated land area.'
However, scientists have warned there is a 10 per cent chance that an out-of-control rocket or spacecraft could kill someone within the next decade.
They analysed the risk to human life of objects plummeting to the ground after re-entering the Earth's atmosphere.
Under current practices, the researchers found that if a typical rocket re-entry spreads debris across a 10 m2 area then there is roughly a 1 in 10 chance that one or more casualties will occur over the next 10 years.
They also said there was a higher risk to those living in the global south, with errant parts three times more likely to land at the latitudes of Jakarta, Dhaka and Lagos than those of New York, Beijing or Moscow.
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Refined foot traffic datasets and greater granularity power new insights for decision-making in real estate, retail and investment.
NEW YORK, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Unacast, the leader in aggregated location data, today announced the availability of its updated U.S. Migration Patterns V2 solution, offering greater insights into the movements of people throughout the United States.
In the wake of COVID-19, and with a global recession looming, understanding the effects of population movement is essential for real estate investors, urban planners, retailers and others concerned with physical locations and service offerings.
Customers use Unacast's Migrations Patterns data sets in their decision-making process. By understanding the areas people are leaving and moving to, they're able to:
- Assess service availability by business categories
- Find potential commercial hubs and areas of growth
- Identify areas with depleting populations
- Evaluate moves of a permanent versus non-permanent nature
- Understand regional differences in behavior
One recent study by Unacast found positive migration flow as of summer 2022 was strongest in the Central and Southeast United States, while states along the Canadian border, to the West, and to the Northeast, were almost uniformly net negative in terms of population flow.
Thomas Walle, CEO and co-founder, Unacast, said: "We've seen significant population shifts during and in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. This has caused hardship for some businesses, but for those with the right data, it creates opportunities. The granular data in Migrations Patterns V2 gives companies the insights they need to make better decisions and thrive even in uncertain times."
Unacast provides the most accurate understanding of human activity in the physical world for consultancies, software analytics firms, and multinational organizations. Our Data-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service offerings provide customers with clean, filtered insights to make better strategic decisions on a global scale. Visit us unacast.com
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Polk sheriff: Disney, Publix employees among those accused of wanting to 'sexually abuse, groom' kids
WINTER HAVEN, Fla. - A total of 13 men were arrested in the latest Polk County undercover operation targeting suspects who made attempts to "sexually abuse, groom, and corrupt" children, said Sheriff Grady Judd.
In addition to the agency's team, Chris Hansen from ‘To Catch a Predator’ worked alongside investigators.
Sheriff Judd said three suspects believed they were speaking to the guardian or parent of a child who wanted to teach their kid to have sex or arrange for the suspect to meet the minor, officials said. Others either traveled to have sex with children, had sexually-explicit conversations, or sent "harmful material." It turned out the person on the end of those conversations was an undercover detective.
Among those arrested were people who worked at Disney, Publix, and Amazon, along with a man who installs internet safety programs in schools — the very same firewall blocking systems means to protect children from sexual predators.
"We will continue to conduct proactive operations like this to search out these evil predators before they get to our children," Sheriff Judd said. "Thanks to the hard work of our detectives and the detectives in our partnering agencies, these 13 predators have been arrested. We are going hold them criminally accountable for their attempts to sexually abuse, groom, and corrupt our children."
According to the sheriff's office, six of the suspects confessed to investigators:
33-year-old Matthew Silva of Melbourne
Polk County detectives said Silva began speaking to an undercover detective who was posing as a 14-year-old girl.
The detective told Silva "she was only 14," officials said.
"Knowing this, Sanders described the sex acts he wanted to perform on the child," according to a news release from the sheriff's office.
Investigators arrested Silva at a Publix in Melbourne, where he works as a bagger. He later confessed to detectives.
31-year-old Neri Banda of Lakeland
Detectives said Banda worked at an Amazon warehouse in Auburndale. They said he began speaking to an undercover detective who was posing as a 14-year-old boy.
"He told the ‘boy’ he had ‘a thing for younger guys.’ Banda continued communicating with the 'boy' on the Kik application asking the 'boy' when they were going to have "their make-out session." The undercover detective reminded Banda that he was only 14; Banda said he didn't mind," according to the sheriff's office.
Banda confessed to investigators after his arrest.
28-year-old Michael Hojewski III of Lakeland
Detectives said Hojewski began speaking to an undercover detective who was posing as a 14-year-old girl. When the detective said he was speaking to a 14-year-old, he said, "It's fine" and sent naked images of himself to the detective.
Over the next few days, he "continued the conversation and explicitly described the sex acts he wanted to perform on the child," officials said.
Upon his arrest, Hojewski admitted to having sexually explicit conversations and sending nude photos to a person who he believed to be an underage girl, according to the sheriff's office.
30-year-old Luis Velazquez of Haines City
Velazquez said he was going to meet up with the 15-year-old girl he thought he was speaking to. Once again, it turned out to be an undercover detective, officials said. However, he did not show up at the planned meeting spot.
Detectives said he "contacted the 'girl' saying he got ‘scared.’ He then sent the ‘girl’ two nude photos of himself."
Investigators obtained a warrant and arrested Velasquez, who then confessed.
27-year-old Nicholas Jenkins of Winter Garden
According to detectives, Jenkins believed he was speaking to a 15-year-old girl and told her in an online conversation that he didn't care about her age. They said he described the sexual acts he wanted to perform and arranged a meeting.
When he arrived, he was arrested.
42-year-old Kevin Sanders of Winter Garden
Sanders began chatting on a social networking site with an undercover detective posing as a 13-year-old girl, investigators said. The sheriff's office said Sanders described the sex acts he wanted to perform on the child, telling the "girl" they would "have to be careful" because of her age.
Investigators said Sanders has engaged online with undercover detectives he believed to be children for several years, but always ended his communication before actually traveling to meet up. During this latest investigation, the sheriff's office said they were able to identify Sanders and obtained a warrant for his arrest.
Polk detectives, FDLE agents and the Orange County Sheriff's Office arrested Sanders at Disney, where he has worked for 16 years, Sheriff Grady Judd said.
Sanders admitted to having sexually explicit conversations with a minor upon his arrest, telling detectives he had been doing it or years and that communicating online with underage children was his "addiction."
He told detectives he works as a roving IT support specialist at Disney, and previously was a member of Disney's Youth Education Series program which offers accredited educational opportunities for students ages 5 to 18.
Sanders also told investigators he is married with two young children.
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You can find their products on Instagram @Origin_Mexico or go to OriginMexico.com.
Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month with Origin Mexico
Origin Mexico celebrates traditions and culture through wearable art, all while giving back to the artisan communities in Mexico.
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BALTIMORE — Fashion House Mugler has partnered with actress, singer, and model Willow Smith to donate $50,000 to the Baltimore School of the Arts.
Smith, the daughter of actors Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith chose BSA for the grant "aimed at helping build the creative workforces next generation," according to a press release on the school's website.
Smiths mother, Jada Pinkett-Smith is a BSA alumni.
The grant will provide materials and educational resources for more than 400 students that attend BSA.
The House of @Mugler and its ambassadress Willow Smith @OfficialWillow are pleased to announce a $50,000 donation to the Baltimore School for the Arts.
— BaltSchoolArts (@BaltSchoolArts) September 14, 2022
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“I believe deeply in the mission of BSA and am thrilled Mugler will contribute to their continued growth and positive impact, which will help talented and driven young people succeed, no matter their chosen path,” Smith said in a statement.
BSA is a public high school that teaches vocal music, instrumental music, theater acting, theater production, dance, visual arts and film.
Some of BSA's notable alumni include rapper Tupac Shakur, Makeba Riddick, Moses Ingram, Tiffany Boone, Josh Charles and Rachel Hilson.
Smith and Mugler Creative Director plan to visit BSA in the near future. to talk with students.
The full announcement can be read on BSA's website HERE
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The Guardian Cap appears to be an effective tool in reducing concussions.
The NFL said concussions dropped by 50% this summer among players who were mandated to wear the piece of equipment.
The league compared concussion rates from the summer to the previous three years.
According to ESPN, the NFL required players in numerous positions, including linemen, tight ends and linebackers, to wear Guardian Caps from the start of training camp until the second preseason game.
The network reports that 11 players suffered concussions during that time, but six were caused by contact to the face mask, which the Guardian Cap does not protect.
Despite no longer being required to wear the caps, the NFL says some players are still using them.
Other players have complained about their fit.
The NFL says it will continue working on solutions to prevent concussions.
"When we started this work a few years ago, we said the offerings on the field may look a little bit different and I think we might be living up to those words. And, that's an exciting opportunity for the health and safety of the sport and for the players who play it," NFL executive Jeff Miller said, according to The Associated Press.
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WASHINGTON — U.S. intelligence officials predicted two years ago that the Islamic State group would likely regain much of its former strength and global influence, particularly if American and other Western forces reduced their role in countering the extremist movement, according to a newly declassified report.
The Islamic State group is no longer controlling huge swaths of territory or staging attacks in the United States as it did several years ago before a major U.S.-led offensive. But it is now slowly rebuilding some core capabilities in Iraq and Syria and increasingly fighting local governments in places including Afghanistan, where an affiliate of the IS group, also known by the acronym ISIS, is fighting the ruling Taliban following the U.S. withdrawal.
“If the United States and our partners pull back or withdraw further from areas where ISIS is active, the group’s trajectory will increasingly depend on local governments’ will and capability to fill the resulting security voids,” says the report, originally published in classified form in May 2020, months after then-President Donald Trump’s administration reached an agreement with the Taliban to pull out American troops.
Biden and top national security officials have cited the recent strike killing al-Qaida head Ayman al-Zawahri as evidence that America maintains an “over-the-horizon” counterterrorism capacity in Afghanistan after the withdrawal. U.S. special forces also killed the head of the Islamic State group in a February raid in northwest Syria.
“The fact of those operations are, I think, reflective how serious this threat environment remains,” said Christy Abizaid, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, on Thursday. But she added that analysts believe the terrorist threat to the U.S. homeland is “less acute than we’ve seen it” at any time since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Analysts have recently seen growth in IS group branches around the world, particularly in Africa, said Abizaid, who spoke at the Intelligence and National Security Summit outside Washington.
“Afghanistan is a really interesting story along those lines about where the ISIS affiliate is and how we continue to be concerned about it,” she said.
Some outside analysts say al-Zawahri’s apparent presence in downtown Kabul suggests that extremist groups are more comfortable operating in Afghanistan — and that it will be tougher to counter the Islamic State group as it grows across the country.
Bruce Hoffman, senior fellow for counterterrorism at the Washington-based Council on Foreign Relations, called the May 2020 report “very clear-eyed and forthright.”
“It’s very different operating against ISIS in the isolated mountain redoubts or deep valleys of Afghanistan,” he said. “The advantages that enabled us to so brilliantly take out al-Zawahri, I would guess, are absent outside of Kabul.”
While the White House last month released declassified points from an intelligence assessment saying al-Qaida had not reconstituted in Afghanistan, the points did not address the Islamic State in Khorasan, the local IS group affiliate. IS-K was responsible for killing 13 U.S. troops outside the Kabul airport during the withdrawal and has continued to mount an insurgency against the Taliban now in control of the country.
The National Security Council said in a statement that the U.S. is working to deny “ISIS-K access to financing, disrupt and deter foreign terrorist fighters from reaching Afghanistan and the region, and counter ISIS-K’s violent extremism.”
The May 2020 report was declassified this August and published online last week by the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence. The ODNI periodically declassifies and releases older intelligence assessments. A spokesperson for the ODNI’s National Counterterrorism Center declined to answer questions about the assessment or address the intelligence community’s current view on the Islamic State group.
The report predicts that the Islamic State group’s global branches are likely to increase its “capability to conduct attacks in many regions of the world, including the West.” The U.S. would more likely face attacks from people inspired by the group’s ideology than plots directed or supported by the group, the report said.
Pressure by local governments where the IS group is active and their international partners “almost certainly will shape the scale of ISIS’ resurgence in Iraq and Syria and its expansion worldwide,” the report said.
Experts commonly agree with the report’s predictions, said Colin Clarke, an expert on counterterrorism who is director of research for The Soufan Group, an intelligence and security consultancy. But top intelligence analysts would have been involved in drafting and reviewing the assessment, formally known as a national intelligence estimate, he said.
Clarke noted several recent IS-linked attacks in Afghanistan, including an apparent suicide bombing outside the Russian embassy in Kabul that killed two diplomats, as well as ongoing fighting between militants and U.S.-backed forces at a sprawling camp in Syria.
“There are some things that have happened in the last few weeks,” he said, “that make you wonder if the situation is not more dire than is being presented.”
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Arkansas Governor, Local Officials Join Hostess Executives to Celebrate Milestone
ARKADELPHIA, Ark., Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hostess Brands, Inc. (NASDAQ: TWNK), together with Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson and other state and local government officials, today unveiled the signage at its upcoming bakery and celebrated the innovation, economic investment and job creation it will bring to Central Arkansas.
"As Hostess Brands continues to focus on building a socially responsible, modern, snacking powerhouse, we are excited to reach another milestone in our journey to bring a sustainability-first bakery to the Arkadelphia community," said Andy Callahan, president and chief executive officer of Hostess Brands. "Unveiling the Hostess Brands' sign at this once-idle facility is tangible evidence of our commitment to deliver on our sustainability priorities, while also meeting the growing demand among consumers for our iconic and innovative snacks. We thank Arkansas Gov. Hutchinson, state and local officials and the Arkadelphia business community for partnering with us to make this new bakery a reality."
The company's bakery expansion is a key indicator of its continued growth in recent years. With the opening of the Arkadelphia facility, Hostess Brands will increase its bakery capacity on its Donettes® and cake platforms by approximately 20 percent, to meet increasing consumer demand for its sweet snacks.
"I am proud to see Hostess, a beloved household name, expanding its roots into Arkadelphia," Governor Hutchinson said, "Arkansas welcomes a new investment partner that will bring its sustainability-first policies to a business community ripe for growth."
"Clark County is thrilled to have been selected as the site for a new, state of the art bakery to be built by Hostess," added Kevin Jester, chairman of the Economic Development Corporation of Clark County. "Our Economic Development team worked hard to show Hostess that we had all the necessary components here for them to be successful. By choosing our site, Hostess is demonstrating their belief that Clark County is a place where businesses can thrive. We are excited to be a part of the growth and future success of such a community minded company."
Hostess is investing $120 million to $140 million to convert the closed, Arkadelphia factory into a 330,000-square-foot bakery, which is expected to be operational in the second half of 2023 and bring at least 150 new jobs to the Arkadelphia community over the next three years.
Hostess Brands, Inc. (NASDAQ: TWNK) is a snacking powerhouse with a portfolio of iconic brands and a mission to inspire moments of joy by putting our heart into everything we do. Hostess Brands is proud to make America's No. 1 cupcake, mini donut and sugar-free cookie brands. With sales exceeding $1.1 billion and employing approximately 2,600 dedicated team members, Hostess Brands produces new and classic snacks, including Hostess® Donettes®, Twinkies®, CupCakes, Ding Dongs® and Zingers®, as well as a variety of Voortman® cookies and wafers. For more information about Hostess Brands, please visit hostessbrands.com.
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The new group, Ampliform, will develop more than 10GW of solar projects in North America by 2025.
The joint venture's consortium of investors led by the Jones Family Office, alongside Barings, the George Kaiser Family Foundation, and others.
ARDMORE, Pa., Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Prospect14, a leading solar energy developer, today announced it has partnered with a group of experienced energy investors and operators with deep expertise in power generation and quantitative trading to launch Ampliform, a joint venture that will originate, develop, build, operate and optimize utility-scale solar and solar + storage projects in the United States.
Ampliform is backed by a significant equity commitment from a consortium of investors led by the Jones Family Office, alongside Barings, the George Kaiser Family Foundation, and others.
Prospect14, led by energy industry veterans Carl Jackson, Geoff Underwood, and Charles Silio, will provide greenfield origination, development and construction services to Ampliform, leveraging Prospect14's experience in data-driven, scaled project origination and project delivery. Also investing in Ampliform and serving on its executive leadership team on behalf of Greens Ledge Renewable Partners (GLRP) are Brad Romine and Steve Culliton, who previously led North American power generation investments, power trading and asset optimization for Castleton Commodities International, John Vivenzio, who previously served as Chief Technology Officer of King Street Capital Management, a leading global alternative asset manager, and Mikael Andren, who serves as Chief Executive Officer and President of the Jones Family Office and related entities.
"We are very excited to partner with such experienced investors and power plant operators to drive the deployment and optimization of solar + storage projects at scale," said Carl Jackson, Partner, Prospect14. "Brad, Steve, and John have had tremendous success optimizing power plants, managing quantitative energy trading operations, building robust trading and operational data analysis infrastructure, and putting in place innovative financing for energy projects. That experience combined with our ability to pinpoint interconnection opportunities and scale them quickly in targeted markets is unique within the industry and will be invaluable as Ampliform transitions towards a merchant model."
"We're partnering with Prospect14 on this joint venture because they have built a unique platform with a track record of using data-driven methods to site and develop solar + storage projects at scale in the nation's most competitive energy markets," said Brad Romine, Partner, Greens Ledge Renewable Partners. "We are developing our projects with the intent to own and operate them efficiently, so we begin projects with the end in mind and implement creative, data-driven approaches to optimizing plant design, development, and construction. This will make Ampliform faster and more efficient at every stage from greenfield development through to operations."
Ampliform launches with more than 3GW of early- and mid-stage projects under development, the first of which are expected to begin construction in 2023. Ampliform is actively pursuing additional greenfield project origination as well as acquisition opportunities of solar projects and interconnection capacity, with a plan to build a development pipeline of more than 10GW by 2025.
"Solar energy is an increasingly important part of the U.S. energy mix. In Ampliform, we see a tremendous opportunity to build a leading, highly differentiated company to help drive the energy transition," said Paul Tudor Jones II. "Ampliform has a significant competitive advantage because of its ability to scale rapidly, leverage technology and data, and take innovative approaches in bringing its assets to market."
Guggenheim Securities served as the financial advisor on the formation of the joint venture and as structuring advisor, private placement agent and arranger on the financing of Ampliform. Sullivan & Cromwell LLP served as counsel to the investor group and to Ampliform. Jefferies LLC acted as financial adviser, and Greeneurlocker, PLC is legal adviser to Prospect14.
Ampliform originates, develops, builds, operates, and optimizes utility-scale solar and solar + storage projects in the United States. Ampliform is led by a team of veteran developers, investors and operators in the energy sector with collectively more than 100 years of management experience. Ampliform's team has originated and developed multiple gigawatts of solar energy projects and overseen several gigawatts of power generation investments. For more information, and to contact Ampliform, please visit www.ampliform.com
Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Ardmore, Pennsylvania, Prospect14 focuses on the scaled origination and development of renewable energy and energy storage projects in multiple markets in the United States. Since its inception, Prospect14 has originated over 5 GWdc of solar and solar + storage projects. For more information, please visit www.prospect14.com.
GLRP is a team of veteran investors and operators in the energy sector. The team collectively has more than 75 years of management experience and has acquired, operated and optimized over 5 gigawatts of power generation investments and traded energy and other commodities in the US and other global markets.
Contact: 610.424.8228, info@ampliform.com
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PITTSBURGH, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a device to effectively remove earwax and other debris from the ears," said an inventor, from Brampton, Ontario, Canada, "so I invented the CLEAN EAR. My design would help to prevent the user from packing the wax against the eardrum."
The patent-pending invention provides an improved method for cleaning the ears. In doing so, it enables the user to easily remove wax and dirt from the ears. As a result, it increases convenience and safety and it offers an alternative to using a cotton swab. The invention features a practical and durable design that is easy to use so it is ideal for the general population. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
The original design was submitted to the Toronto sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-TOR-9055, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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MILWAUKEE, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ademi LLP is investigating STORE Capital (NYSE: STOR) for possible breaches of fiduciary duty and other violations of law in its transaction with GIC and Oak Street.
Click here to learn how to join the action: https://www.ademilaw.com/case/store-capital-corporation or call Guri Ademi toll-free at 866-264-3995. There is no cost or obligation to you.
Ademi LLP alleges STORE Capital's financial outlook and prospects are excellent and yet STORE Capital holders will receive only $32.25 per share in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $14 billion. The transaction agreement unreasonably limits competing bids for STORE Capital by imposing a significant penalty if STORE Capital accepts a superior bid. STORE Capital insiders will receive substantial benefits as part of change of control arrangements.
We are investigating the conduct of STORE Capital's board of directors, and whether they are (i) fulfilling their fiduciary duties to all shareholders, and (ii) obtaining a fair and reasonable price for STORE Capital.
If you own STORE Capital common stock and wish to obtain additional information, please contact Guri Ademi either at gademi@ademilaw.com or toll-free: 866-264-3995, or https://www.ademilaw.com/case/store-capital-corporation.
We specialize in shareholder litigation involving buyouts, mergers, and individual shareholder rights throughout the country. For more information, please feel free to call us. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
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New quantitatively-assessed forwards build on the existing editorially-assessed 3-month forwards
SINGAPORE and LONDON and NEW YORK, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- S&P Global Commodity Insights™, the leading independent provider of information, analysis and benchmark prices for the commodities and energy markets, is expanding global Platts Forward Curves for conventional ("gray) ammonia to 24 months, effective September 16, 2022, further enhancing Platts Ammonia benchmark offerings across the global market.
"This launch follows market engagement and responds to increased interest for longer-term ammonia price trends, amid market volatility and this year's historically high ammonia spot prices," said Mario Perez, Managing Editor, Hydrogen Pricing, S&P Global Commodity Insights. "The interest in and importance of ammonia is increasing by the day. Ammonia is expected to move quickly into the energy transition space as fuel for power generation and as bunker fuel."
The new, expanded forward curves for ammonia are built on the existing near-term Platts Ammonia Forward Curves for conventional ("gray) ammonia free-on-board (FOB) Middle East and on a cost, insurance and freight (CFR) basis for Northwest Europe and US Gulf Coast, which were launched April 26, 2022. Prompt months in the forward curve are assessed by the Platts editorial team, based on market data, prevailing price information, historical price spreads and trend analysis.
Platts is adding months four through 24 of new quantitatively-driven forward assessments to FOB Middle East, CFR Northwest Europe and CFR US Gulf. It is also launching a new set of months one to 24 of quantitative forward assessments for CFR Far East Asia, all effective September 16th.
More details may be found here: (https://www.spglobal.com/commodityinsights/en/our-methodology/subscriber-notes/071922-s-p-global-commodity-insights-to-publish-ammonia-quantitative-forward-curves-out-to-month-24 )
Earlier this year, on April 26, 2022, S&P Global Commodity Insights began publishing a daily Platts forward curve for three months forward for conventional ("gray) ammonia. The new forward curves add to the Platts ammonia price assessments, which already include gray anhydrous ammonia cargoes begun in October 2021 and low-carbon ("blue") ammonia price valuations, which Platts launched April 22, 2022.
Understanding the forward price of ammonia could bring additional confidence over time in price risk strategies such as hedging, as well as investing in ammonia production facilities. Increased confidence could boost liquidity and promote international trade, including exchange settlement transactions.
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(NEXSTAR) — Jimmy Kimmel has apologized to “Abbott Elementary” creator and star Quinta Brunson following criticism of a comedy bit he staged during her acceptance speech at the Emmy Awards earlier this week.
Kimmel’s show, “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” had been nominated for Outstanding Variety Talk Series at the ceremony, but it lost to HBO’s “Last Week Tonight With John Oliver” earlier in the evening.
Kimmel and actor Will Arnett later took the stage to present the Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series, with Arnett literally dragging Kimmel’s body over to their mark. Arnett explained that Kimmel, after having lost, had gotten drunk on “skinny margaritas” and passed out.
When Arnett announced Brunson as the winner, she took the stage with Kimmel’s motionless body next to the microphone.
“Jimmy, wake up. I won,” said Brunson, prompting laughter from the audience. She went on to deliver a heartfelt speech with Kimmel still on the ground beside her.
A number of viewers have since accused Kimmel of stealing Brunson’s spotlight, with one calling it a “dumb unfunny bit” that took away from her moment.
“Super disrespectful and inappropriate and completely on the nose for the antics Black women have to put up with,” the viewer wrote on YouTube.
“Abbott Elementary” actor Sherly Lee Ralph, who won an Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress, also said at a press engagement for the Television Critics Association that she was initially taken aback by Kimmel’s “disrespect.”
“I told him, too! To his face! And he understood,” said Ralph, as reported by Variety.
During Wednesday’s taping of “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” Kimmel apologized to Brunson, but not before she interrupted his monologue for a pre-planned bit.
“You know how when you win an Emmy, you only have 45 seconds to do an acceptance speech, which is not that much time?” she asked Kimmel while holding her Emmy. “And then … you get less time because someone does a dumb comedy bit that goes on too long?”
“You know, I have heard of that happening,” Kimmel responded.
Brunson followed up by jokingly demanding to finish her speech in front of Kimmel’s audience.
Later in the night, Kimmel formally apologized to Brunson.
“People got upset. They said I stole your moment. And maybe I did, and I’m very sorry if I did do that. I’m sorry I did do that, actually. And also, the last thing I would ever want to do is upset you, because I think so much of you,” Kimmel said. “And I think you know that. I hope you know that.”
Brunson told Kimmel she wasn’t personally upset by his actions at the Emmys, as she was “wrapped up in the moment.”
“Thank you,” she said. “That’s kind. But honestly, I had a good night.”
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Setting the stage for clearance of the Karnataka Right to Freedom of Religion Bill, the Legislative Council on Thursday passed the controversial legislation by voice vote amidst vociferous protest and walkout from Congress members.
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High drama prevailed before the passage of the Bill, popularly called the anti-conversion Bill, as the ruling BJP and Opposition members sparred while some key questions asked by the Congress went unanswered. Despite repeated questions on the number of cases registered since the Ordinance was promulgated in May, Home Minister Araga Jnanendra did not answer.
While Congress members were on their feet with doubts yet to be clarified by the treasury benches, Chairman Raghunath Rao Malkapure put the Bill to vote, enraging the Congress members. As the Bill was being cleared with the BJP having majority in the Upper House, several Congress members, including Leader of the Opposition B.K. Hariprasad, raised slogans and tore copies of the Bill before walking out of the House.
Earlier passed in Assembly
The Bill, which was passed in Legislative Assembly during the winter session in Belagavi in December, 2021, had not been cleared in the Upper House as the Opposition had protested its introduction at the last moment. The BJP, which did not have majority in the Council then, deferred its introduction twice early this year only to promulgate an Ordinance in May.
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While the Council passed the Bill on Thursday, it will be introduced in the Legislative Assembly later during this session.
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During the over four hours of debate, sparks flew as the members from the Opposition and treasury benches engaged in arguments several times. The Law Minister and the Leader of Opposition were also involved in a heated debate as the Opposition charged the government with having a “hidden agenda” to bring in the legislation. Members also raised objection to the punishment prescribed and the burden of proof on the witness.
Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister J.C. Madhuswamy, who was engaged in verbal exchanges with the Opposition benches, said that the Bill was not “anti-conversion bill”, but “a Bill to protect religions”, which was within the ambit of the Constitution. While the Congress member P.R. Ramesh pointed out that the Bill was against the 1977 Supreme Court order, the Law Minister justified, saying there had been no direction nor restriction from the court.
Defending the Bill, Mr. Jnanendra said that there was no hidden agenda nor vote bank politics involved, and argued that the Bill was originally proposed by the Congress during Siddaramaiah’s regime. He also said that the Bill only spoke about forced conversion and not against any religion.
Earlier, initiating the discussion Mr. Hariprasad said that the Bill was against the principles of the Constitution. “This will come under the ambit of Constitutional amendment and any debate pertaining to an amendment to the Constitution cannot not take place in this House. This should be debated in the Lok Sabha,” he added.
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Pointing out that the minority population in the State had actually reduced compared to previous years, Mr. Hariprasad said: “If there were conversions, the population should have gone up. Show us how many cases have you booked against forced conversions.”
Intervening, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai said the government had taken steps to prevent forced conversion. “Religious practice is allowed under the Constitution. The Bill has been framed to prevent forced conversion. The country has a history of spiritual revolutions. Earlier Christian churches ruled. Now, they have lost control. We cannot allow terrorism in the name of religion,” he said.
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KUER politics reporter Saige Miller joins Here & Now‘s Celeste Headlee to discuss the race between former presidential candidate Evan McMullin and Republican incumbent Mike Lee.
Democrats are supporting McMullin, who is a conservative. Lee endorsed McMullin in the 2016 presidential race against Donald Trump, but then developed a close relationship with Trump, before eventually backing away from the former president’s election conspiracies.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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A strike that could have halted both freight and passenger trains across the country seems to have been averted.
After a marathon negotiating session lasting 20 hours, the White House announced early Thursday that a tentative agreement had been reached between rail companies and the unions representing conductors and engineers.
"This agreement is validation – validation of what I've always believed. Unions and management can work together, can work together for the benefit of everyone," President Biden said, calling the deal a win for America and for rail workers who worked tirelessly through the pandemic to deliver goods.
Union members still have to vote to ratify the agreement before it is finalized. A vote is not expected for at least a couple of weeks.
The parties had been negotiating the contract without resolution for several years and were facing a 12:01 am Friday deadline, the end of a "cooling off period."
Biden called in to the talks at 9 p.m. Wednesday night to urge groups to "be flexible, be creative, get a deal done," an official said. At 2 a.m. Thursday, Labor Secretary Marty Walsh called to announce they had a deal.
Already this week, freight rail companies had halted shipments of hazardous materials, including chlorine to water treatment plants and chemicals for fertilizers, not wanting those goods to be left unattended should a strike be called.
Amtrak said in a statement it is working to quickly restore canceled trains and reaching out to impacted customers to accommodate on first available departures. Yesterday, Amtrak announced that it was canceling all of its long-distance trains due to the threatened strike.
The National Carriers' Conference Committee, which represents the nation's freight railroads said: "The tentative agreements announced today follow the August 16 recommendations of Presidential Emergency Board...which include a 24% wage increase during the five-year period from 2020 through 2024 — with a 14.1% wage increase effective immediately — and five annual $1,000 lump sum payments."
The deal also includes changes to workplace attendance policies that workers found overly punitive. Under the tentative agreement, workers will be able to take time off for medical care without facing discipline, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen and the SMART Transportation Division confirmed in a joint statement.
Those attendance policies had become the major sticking point as the deadline for a deal neared.
In an interview with NPR, Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg said the proposed deal will bring not just pay increases and quality of life improvements for workers but will help the railroads as well.
"It means a way to attract and retain great workers," Buttigieg said. "It means avoiding the disruptions that could have accompanied any kind of shutdown or or slowdown."
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Police launch investigation into abuse claims at Nicky Campbell´s old school
Police Scotland has launched an investigation into historic claims of abuse at a top school BBC presenter Nicky Campbell attended.
The broadcaster claimed he had suffered abuse during his time at Edinburgh Academy in the 1970s.
The force said the investigation was “live and ongoing” and a dedicated team was looking into the claims.
A spokesperson said: “While the investigation of child abuse, particularly non-recent offences, can be complex and challenging, anyone who reports this type of crime can be assured that we will listen and we will investigate all reports, no matter when those offences occurred or who committed them.
“If you have suffered abuse, or you know anyone who may have been the victim of child abuse, then please call Police Scotland on 101.”
Campbell made the claims during an episode of his BBC podcast Different.
Nicky Campbell claimed he had experienced abuse at Edinburgh Academy during the 1970s (Andrew Milligan/PA)
He said the experience had a “profound effect on my life”.
Later speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live, the broadcaster said: “I was badly beaten up at school by a teacher who was a leading light in the scripture union.
“My mother took it as far as she could and got a grovelling apology from (the man involved), but was essentially stonewalled and it was hushed up by the school.
“Those were different times and that has stayed with me all my life.”
The school said it “deeply” regrets the allegations and “wholeheartedly” apologised to those involved.
In a previously released statement, the school said: “We have worked closely with the relevant authorities including Police Scotland with their inquiries and would like to provide reassurance that things have dramatically changed since the 1970s.
“The Academy has robust measures in place to safeguard children at the school with child protection training now core to the ethos of the Academy.”
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AMSTERDAM (AP) — The CEO of Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport has quit after a summer that descended into chaos and flight cancellations amid staff shortages in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“I’ve done my very best, but we’re not there yet. I do hope it gets better soon,” CEO Dick Benschop said in a statement released by the airport Thursday, after he told the board of his decision on Wednesday night.
He said he was stepping down “to give Schiphol the space to make a new start. I do not want attention on me to become an obstacle for Schiphol.”
The busy aviation hub on the outskirts of Amsterdam has been hit by huge queues and piles of unclaimed baggage over the summer vacation months as air travel roared back after the pandemic.
The surge in demand for air travel came after airlines and airports had slashed jobs during the aviation slump during the pandemic.
Jaap de Winter, chairman of the Schiphol board, said he and board members “respect and understand Dick’s decision” and will be looking for a successor.
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The Ford Mustang started the pony car segment when it hit the market in 1964. Now, it will carry the torch for that segment in an automotive market switching to electric vehicles.
On Wednesday, Ford introduced the 2024 Mustang at the Detroit auto show. The iconic pony car will continue on the same platform with a revised look, a pair of gas engines—including the requisite V-8 with up to 500 hp—and a tech-laden interior to attract a new generation of connected buyers. It also adds two cool new features to show off to your friends: Remote Rev and an Electronic Drift Brake.
Ford has the Mustang Mach-E crossover to carry the torch for the EV market, but the 2024 Mustang coupe and convertible get updated versions of its previous gas engines. The base 2.3-liter turbo-4 in EcoBoost models adds port and direct injection, gets a higher compression ratio and higher thermal efficiency, and reduces internal friction to make more power and deliver better fuel efficiency. Ford isn’t stating power or fuel economy figures yet, but the current 2.3-liter makes 310 hp or 330 hp with a Performance Pack and gets up to 25 mpg combined.
The revisions to the 5.0-liter V-8 in GT models include a new dual-airbox intake to feed dual electronic throttle bodies and feed more air to the plenum intake manifold. It also has a longer duration exhaust camshaft to handle the increased airflow, and it continues with port and direct injection. The 5.0-liter V-8 in the 2022 Mustang makes 450 hp in the GT and 470 hp in the Mach I. This time around, Ford is targeting up to 500 hp, the target announced for a new 2024 Dark Horse track-focused model. Transmission choices will once again be a 10-speed automatic or a 6-speed manual with rev matching for both engines.
Ford said there will be three Dark Horse models in total. In addition to the track-focused but street-legal regular Dark Horse, there will also be a track-only Dark Horse S and race-ready Dark Horse R.
Racing will be a big deal for the 7th-generation Mustang which will compete across the spectrum participating in NASCAR, GT3, and GT4 classes. Ford confirmed the Mustang will also race at the 24 Hours of Daytona and the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
While the new internally coded S650-generation Mustang was rumored to switch platforms to the CD6 rear- and all-wheel-drive architecture from the Ford Explorer and Lincoln Navigator, it instead stays on the Mustang-specific DC2 platform that’s served the car since 2015. However, Mustang Vehicle Engineering Manager Eddie Kahn told Motor Authority that Ford revised several parts, including the aluminum lower control arms, rear suspension links, shocks, springs, and stabilizer bars, all with the goal of providing better dynamics and responsiveness. Ford also revised the steering system with a stiffer rack and and a faster 15.5:1 steering ratio versus 16.0:1 for the last model.
An optional Performance Pack for both the GT and EcoBoost adds a front strut tower brace and a Torsen limited-slip differential. Performance Pack cars can also get a magnetic suspension, wider rear wheels and tires, larger brakes, Recaro bucket seats, and an active exhaust. The GT Performance Pack also gets brake ducts and an auxiliary engine oil cooler for better cooling. Ford mentioned a Handling Package for the Dark Horse model but didn’t elaborate. Ford will offer three upgraded brake options. The top version, offered for Performance Pack cars, will feature 6-piston front calipers clamping down on 15.4-inch rotors and 4-piston rear calipers with 14.0-inch rear rotors. All of the calipers are by Brembo and will be available in three colors: black, red, or Grabber Blue.
The exterior design is an evolution of the throwback look Ford adopted in 2005 and has evolved since. All the body panels are new, and Ford says it will have more downforce than the outgoing model and the lowest coefficient of drag for a Mustang yet. The car gets a lower beltline, which should aid outward vision, more pronounced rear haunches, smoother flanks without as many creases, and revised front and rear fascias with a new take on the Mustang’s tri-bar lighting theme.
The noses of the 2.3 and GT models will be unique. Compared to the 2.3, the GT will have struts in the traditional Mustang grille, taller intakes at the corners, and a standard louvered hood vent. Profile images of all seven generations of Mustang will line up along the lower rear glass as one of the car’s Easter eggs. A Bronze Design Series Appearance package will come with bronze alloy wheels and badges.
Inside, the new Mustang goes for revolution. The big change is a healthy injection of technology. Every Mustang will come with a 12.4-inch screen for the digital instrument cluster and a 13.2-inch infotainment touchscreen. The screens will be separated on the base model, but other models will connect them under a single piece of glass, even though the touchscreen angles toward the driver.
The screens will run Ford’s Sync 4 infotainment interface and be configurable. Ford will include five themes for the instrument cluster: Normal, Sport, Track, Calm, and Fox Body, each with a different digital layout. Fox Body will take on the analog look of the beloved Fox body Mustangs built from the late 1970s to the early 1990s. A MyMustang mode will allow drivers to pull up a three- or five-gauge digital auxiliary gauge layout on the center screen. Another Easter egg? The track icon shown in the Track drive mode display will be Michigan’s Grattan Raceway. The other modes will consist of Normal, Sport, Slippery, Drag, and a customizable setting with up to six individual profiles.
The interior also gets a thicker, flat-bottom steering wheel and improved materials with more soft-touch surfaces and contrast stitching. A new Carmine Red interior color will be offered, and the seats will range from cloth in the base version to cloth and vinyl or to vinyl and leather.
In addition to the line lock and launch control functions of previous Mustangs, owners will have access to two new cool gadgets. The first is an Electronic Drift Brake. It’s an electronic parking brake that the driver controls with a different take on a parking brake handle. Instead of a straight handle, it has a 90-degree bend, and it can be enabled by an icon on the center screen. When used, it automatically puts the car in Track driving mode, and lets drivers control the parking brake like a pro drifter. That’s no coincidence as Ford worked with noted drifter Vaughn Gittin Jr. to develop it.
The other new feature is a party trick to show off to the neighbors. It’s called Remote Rev and it lets owners not only start the car remotely but also use the key fob to rev the engine and hear its fury.
On the safety front, the new Mustang gets adaptive cruise control with stop-and-go, speed limit sign recognition, active lane control, evasive steering assist, and front and rear automatic emergency braking. Performance Pack cars also have Active Pothole Mitigation, which monitors the suspension, body, and steering and braking inputs, and adjusts the suspension to lessen the impact of potholes.
The 2024 Ford Mustang will hit dealerships in early summer 2023. Full specs and pricing will be released closer to the market launch.
For more coverage from Detroit, check out our dedicated hub.
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EU countries seek to appoint U.N. rights expert on Russian rights abuses - sources
GENEVA, Sept 15 (Reuters) - A group of European Union countries has agreed to propose a motion at the U.N. Human Rights Council to appoint a new independent expert on alleged human rights abuses in Russia, three sources familiar with the discussions told Reuters.
The creation of a mandate for a new Special Rapporteur, decided in a closed-door meeting on Tuesday, follows Moscow's creation of stronger laws this year to punish those deemed to discredit the armed forces or spread fake information.
(Reporting by Emma Farge Editing by Riham Alkousaa)
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Monetary Support and Product Donation Furthers Physician Training and Practice in Procedures Aiding in Lung Cancer Staging and Diagnosis
CENTER VALLEY, Pa., Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Olympus Corporation of the Americas Grants Committee recently approved a grant to The American College of Chest Physicians® (CHEST) for monetary support and a product donation that will help build the physician trainee pipeline in interventional pulmonology and ensure physician proficiency in key pulmonary specialties. This grant helps advance evidence-based medical education for the purpose of improving public health.
The monetary donation funded the purchase of educational simulators for training physicians in both EBUS (Endobronchial Ultrasound) and Radial EBUS. The current CHEST lung cancer screening guidelines recommend EBUS with transbronchial needle aspiration (TBNA) as the best first procedure for locating and sampling pulmonary lesions to diagnose and stage diseasei following screening with a low-dose CT (computed tomography) scan.
The product donation to the CHEST Training Center, valued at just over $1 million, includes many of the tools and devices necessary to diagnose and stage lung cancer, including the SPiN Thoracic Navigation System™ which was a part of the recent Olympus acquisition of Veran Medical Technologies.
"Olympus highly values its relationships with medical societies, and we are very pleased to continue our support of education for pulmonologists," said Jovan Reyerson, Vice President for Medical and Scientific Affairs at Olympus Corporation. "As medical technologies advance, so do opportunities to improve patient care. Through this grant to CHEST, Olympus is helping ensure physicians learn the methods and techniques for using these technologies to treat patients."
The largest number of CHEST course offerings, both at the annual meeting and at their Simulation Center, are in bronchoscopy. "Interventional pulmonology is a growing specialty within pulmonary medicine, and so we're seeing increasing interest in our bronchoscopy courses," said Richard Schuch, Ed.D., Chief Learning Officer and Senior Vice President of Education with the American College of Chest Physicians. "We are grateful to Olympus for their continued support, which is helping us to meet the educational needs of physicians nationwide."
Through its portfolio of products, Olympus is committed to improving the care pathway for patients with lung diseases. The company's minimally invasive technologies are intended to advance the standard of care for detecting and diagnosing diseases and disorders. Both the SPiN Thoracic Navigation System and radial EBUS (endobronchial ultrasound) procedures are designed for locating and sampling peripheral lung nodules. The EBUS-TBNA procedure uses a bronchoscope equipped with ultrasound capability designed to visualize lymph nodes beyond the bronchus and determine their exact location for needle aspiration.
To learn more about Olympus' Grants program, visit olympusamerica.com/grants.
Olympus is passionate about the solutions it creates for the medical industry. For more than 100 years, Olympus has focused on making people's lives healthier, safer and more fulfilling by helping detect, prevent, and treat disease. Olympus Corporation is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, with more than 31,000 employees worldwide in nearly 40 countries.
Olympus Corporation of the Americas, a wholly owned subsidiary of Olympus Corporation, is headquartered in Center Valley, Pennsylvania, USA, and employs more than 5,100 employees throughout locations in North and South America.
The American College of Chest Physicians® (CHEST) is the global leader in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of chest diseases. Its mission is to champion advanced clinical practice, education, communication and research in chest medicine. It serves as an essential connection to clinical knowledge and resources for its 19,000+ members from around the world who provide patient care in pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine. For information about the American College of Chest Physicians, and its flagship journal CHEST®, visit chestnet.org.
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Southwest Airlines said Thursday that corporate travel is recovering more slowly than the airline had expected, although that is offset by continuing strong demand from leisure travelers even after the end of the traditional summer vacation season.
Southwest said revenue from “managed” business travel in the quarter ending Sept. 30 will be down 26% to 28% from 2019 levels. That’s a retreat from Southwest’s earlier forecast of a 17% to 21% decline, which the airline attributed to “softer” last-minute business-travel bookings since late July.
The Dallas-based airline said, however, that business travel has picked up after Labor Day — as it usually does — echoing similar comments by Delta Air Lines on Wednesday.
Southwest caters mostly to leisure travelers but has been making a big push to attract more corporate business, putting it in more direct competition with American, Delta and United.
Southwest offered the third-quarter commentary in a securities filing that generally repeated previous forecasts, including that overall revenue will be about 10% higher than the same period in 2019. Southwest said it had a good Labor Day weekend and revenue is still trending higher than in 2019.
“Although early in the booking curve, the company continues to experience strong revenue trends in fourth quarter 2022,” it said.
Shares of Southwest fell more than 2% in late-morning trading, while other major U.S. airline stocks rose by 2% to 3%.
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Wofford (0-2) at Virginia Tech (1-1), Saturday, 11 a.m. EDT (ACC Network)
Line: No line, according to FanDuel Sportsbook.
Series record: First meeting.
WHAT’S AT STAKE?
The Hokies should win, and win big, against a team that has failed to score against two lower-level opponents. With a stout defense that appears further along than the offense, Virginia Tech could find some balance against the Terriers.
KEY MATCHUP
The Terriers are on a program-worst 12-game losing streak and failed to score in games against Chattanooga and Elon. They enter the game ranked 113th in total offense the Championship Subdivision, averaging just 179 yards. Virginia Tech ranks fifth in total defense in the Bowl Subdivision, allowing just 202 yards per game.
PLAYERS TO WATCH
Wofford: RB Nathan Walker. The Terriers ranked in the top 10 in rushing among FCS teams for 22 straight years in their wingbone offense before last season. Getting Walker untracked would help. He’s carried 24 times for 86 yards in the first two games.
Virginia Tech: QB Grant Wells. After a shaky four-interception start against Old Dominion, Wells was efficient and productive against Boston College. He threw for a touchdown and ran nine times, all without a turnover.
FACTS & FIGURES
Wofford coach Josh Conklin spent three seasons as the defensive coordinator at Pittsburgh from 2015-2017, where he went 2-1 against the Hokies. … Wofford is 1-23 in its last 24 games against FBS teams and 3-24-1 all-time against the ACC, with all three wins coming long ago against Clemson. … Despite its recent struggles, Wofford’s history includes four straight NCAA playoff berths from 2016-2019. … Keshawn King has seemingly supplanted veteran Jalen Holston as the Hokies’ top tailback. He scored on a 65-yard run against BC. … The 11 a.m. start time will be the earliest in football in Virginia Tech history.
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Visitors spill from cars and vans into the fertile acreage of Marin County, Calif., just north of San Francisco.
They stand attentively outdoors, in beautiful surroundings, to learn about production cycles and see what treasure grows from seeds. Then comes what they’re really here for: the tasting session.
Unlike most tourism in these parts, however, this pilgrimage isn’t to a winery.
It’s to an oyster farm.
From central California to Maine, the Gulf Coast to the Pacific Northwest, the oyster tour is becoming the new wine tour as consumers grow more knowledgeable about these salty mollusks and producers build brand loyalty — all in quiet waterfront settings and against the backdrop of people’s hunger to learn more about their food.
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And there’s still time to enjoy one in the temperate fall, before they generally wrap up for the season.
“It’s pretty cool to eat something that’s just been pulled out of the ocean and sit next to that seashore while you’re eating it,” said Gary Fleener, science sustainability and farm education specialist at Marin County’s Hog Island Oysters, whose tours he runs.
Maine has launched the Maine Oyster Trail, with more than 80 farm tours, raw bars, and retailers up and down the coast, and an online trip planner and “passport” system to keep track of oyster farm and raw bar visits.
The first-ever Maine Oyster Festival was held in July in Freeport, with shucking lessons, tastings, food trucks, cooking demonstrations, live music, and local craft beer.
Hama Hama Oyster Company on Washington State’s Olympic Peninsula annually puts on the Hama Hama Oyster Rama, which it describes as the world’s biggest subtidal party, with a “shuckathalon,” oysters, clams, a beer and wine garden, and live music.
Even oyster farms in Florida and Alabama have come out of their shells and started offering tours, which they see as a way to better their image in a region where oysters have a reputation for being muddier, milder, and less briny than their northern counterparts.
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Even tour companies have started offering itineraries that visit one or more oyster farms in a day, often by boat and with wine and beer.
“You have the boat ride, you have beautiful scenery, you get a little education and you get lunch,” said Peter Milholland, the gray-bearded captain and owner of Seacoast Tours in Maine, who takes guests on a retrofitted lobster boat to oyster farms on Casco Bay from July through October, complete with a meal of oysters and crab or lobster rolls.
Demand is brisk. Oyster farm tours “just exploded” last year, Milholland said, beginning when pandemic-weary travelers were looking for activities to do outdoors and producers needed to find another way to sell their oysters while restaurants — and, in particular, raw bars — still were limiting capacity.
So popular are the tours at Hog Island, whose VIP version costs up to $300 per person, that the company started using the reservation system from its restaurants to manage bookings.
The Maine Oyster Trail has already gotten 20,000 website views and nearly 2,000 registered users, double the goal for the first year.
“There’s definitely an intrigue, a mystique around oyster farming. A lot of people have never seen an oyster farm,” said Afton Vigue, outreach and development specialist for the Maine Aquaculture Association.
Eighty percent of the available farm tours at Island Creek Oysters in Duxbury, which cost $100 to $150 per person, depending on the day, were booked on the first day reservations opened last year; this year’s tours began in May and run through the end of this month.
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“It’s insanely popular,” said Island Creek founder Skip Bennett.
One reason is that people have become more sophisticated about oysters, discerning the subtle differences in taste and learning to order them by brand or region.
“We have this super-devoted fan base, the true oyster geeks of the world,” said Fleener. They further spread the word on social media, including about oyster farm tours, he said.
Since rebounding from overharvesting and disease before the millennium, and with the rise of oyster farming and the popularity of raw bars, US oyster production has reached 28 million pounds annually, worth more than a quarter of a billion dollars and growing by about 6 percent a year, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
“People are just eating more of it and wanting to see what it’s all about,” said Julie Qiu, an oyster expert and founder of the website In A Half Shell, which is all about oysters. “Oysters are just intriguing. Either you love them or you hate them, but it always starts a conversation.”
Increasingly that conversation intersects with broader curiosity about the origins of what people eat.
“There’s been this greater desire to understand where our food comes from,” said Allyson Blake, retail and events manager at Glidden Point Oyster Farm in Edgecomb, Maine, which also offers tours from May through October. As a particularly sustainable food, oysters offer “a way to talk to people about our stewardship to the environment that isn’t highbrow or pretentious.”
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Martin Byrnes Jr. sees oyster farm tours as a type of ecotourism. “People want an environmentally immersive experience,” said Byrnes, who gives tours at Peconic Pearls, one of several oyster farms in the Noank Aquaculture Cooperative in Peconic Bay on Long Island. “They’re learning how nature works instead of spending money on material things.”
Some just want to go to a raw bar and eat oysters and drink champagne, “and that’s fine,” said Beth Walton, a New Bedford native who farmed oysters on Cape Cod and now serves as executive director of Oyster South, which represents oyster producers in the south Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico. “But a lot of people want to see the farms, and know what’s the salinity and who the farmer is.”
Southern growers are turning to farm tours to change people’s perceptions. “There’s still that preconceived notion of, ‘Oh my gosh, warm water oysters? They must be big and muddy,’ " Walton said. But she said variety should be as much a selling point for oysters as it is for wine and beer. “People are blown away by some of the southern oysters. Why not give them a chance?”
Oyster farm tours are, in fact, a lot like wine and beer tours — and that’s intentional. “A lot of oyster tourism is holding hands with wine tourism,” Fleener said. Wine producers “are the masters of the food tour.” The Maine Oyster Trail is modeled on the Maine Beer Trail, Vigue said.
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Just as with a winery or microbrewery, inviting customers to an oyster farm — and to taste the oysters — is a good way to build a brand.
“The more they’re slurping, the more they’re tasting, they’re beginning to pick up on the subtle differences,” said Vigue. And the next time those visitors are shopping for shellfish, Fleener said, “they’ll remember you.”
They’ll also better understand how hard oysters are to raise, starting in hatcheries as “spat,” or tiny seed-like larvae, and later moved to floating bags, cages, or baskets — and why they cost so much.
“People are amazed, who plow through a dozen oysters, at how long it takes to grow them,” Blake said.
But the best reason for a visit to a farm is because oysters “are grown in some of the most beautiful places you’ve ever seen,” Qiu said.
“You smell the tide and you hear the birds. It’s such an incredible experience. It’s a natural connection between the things you eat and the places that you want to go.”
Jon Marcus can be reached at jonmarcusboston@gmail.com.
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Who says science is boring? Certainly not the organizers of the Cambridge Science Festival. Modeled on art, music, and movie festivals, the annual, weeklong, multicultural event is designed to make science accessible, interactive, and fun by showcasing the leading edge in fields of science, technology, engineering, art, and math (STEAM). Produced by the MIT Museum, and based at the Kendall/MIT Open Space, programming falls into four categories: Science + Climate, Science + Food, Science + Fashion, and The Science Carnival, the latter of which includes a midway, main stage, sideshows and more. Most events are scheduled for Oct. 6-9, after the new MIT Museum debuts on Oct. 2, including the US premiere of “Borealis,” an artwork by Swiss artist Dan Acher that will re-create the magic of the Northern Lights in the night sky above Kendall Square (8-11 p.m.). All events in the Festival Zone (Kendall/MIT Open Space) are free; all ages welcome. Events at other locations may have a fee. cambridgesciencefestival.org
CRAFTS CRISSCROSS MAINE
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Fall is a popular season for visitors to Maine. This year, consider enriching your leaf-peeping experiences by checking out the annual Maine Craft Weekend (Oct. 1-2). The two-day event — in featured cities Bath, Biddeford, Bucksport, Ellsworth, Freeport, Gardiner, and Monson — is a great opportunity to visit artist studios, attend glassblowing, blacksmithing, tapestry weaving (and more!) demonstrations, participate in pottery wheel lessons, and tour craft shows, outdoor installation sites, nonprofit craft organizations, craft-based schools, and pop-up shops. Plan your route on the easy-to-use website that allows you to filter choices by date, city, craft medium, and featured events. mainecraftweekend.org/about-maine-craft-weekend
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It’s not too early to book a flight to San Diego County, a.k.a. “The Capital of Craft,” to attend the 14th Annual San Diego Beer Week, an annual beer-a-ganza celebrating the area’s independent brewing community (Nov. 4-13). Join the San Diego Brewers Guild and more than 60 independent breweries for 2022 Guild Fest, the official kick-off party on Nov. 5 that showcases tasty craft beer from San Diego and beyond, as well as food trucks, live music, and more at Surf Sports Park in Del Mar. (Tickets from $55.) During the week, each brewery will host its own events and special beers. The closing event, The Beer Garden at The Lodge at Torrey Pines, will feature 28 breweries and 14 chefs for a fine-dining, food-and-beer pairing feast. Book tickets early as this popular event sells out quickly ($145). www.sdbeer.com/guildfest.html
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WFO MIDLAND/ODESSA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, September 21, 2022
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FLOOD WARNING
Flood Statement
National Weather Service Midland/Odessa TX
1108 AM CDT Thu Sep 15 2022
...The Flood Warning is extended for the following rivers in Texas...
Rio Grande at Castolon affecting Brewster County.
For the Rio Grande...including Castolon...flooding is forecast.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Motorists should not attempt to drive around barricades or drive
cars through flooded areas.
Please report observed flooding to local emergency services or law
enforcement and request they pass this information to the National
Weather Service when you can do so safely.
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Additional information is available at www.weather.gov.
The next statement will be issued late tonight at 100 AM CDT.
...FLOOD WARNING NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL LATE WEDNESDAY MORNING...
* WHAT...Minor flooding is occurring and minor flooding is forecast.
* WHERE...Rio Grande at Castolon.
* WHEN...Until late Wednesday morning.
* IMPACTS...At 13.0 feet (4.0 meters), the river reaches bankfull,
and no significant damage is expected.
At 15.0 feet (4.6 meters), the river reaches minor flood stage,
and lowland flooding begins. The river begins to flood the road
between Santa Elena Canyon and Cottonwood Campground in Big Bend
National Park. The river begins to flood the parking lot at Santa
Elena Canyon, and cut off the nature trail into the canyon.
Campers in Cottonwood Campground need to prepare for possible
evacuations.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 10:15 AM CDT Thursday the stage was 16.2 feet (4.9
meters).
- Recent Activity...The maximum river stage in the 24 hours
ending at 10:15 AM CDT Thursday was 16.4 feet (5.0 meters).
- Forecast...The river is expected to rise to a crest of 16.6
feet (5.1 meters) this evening. It will then fall below flood
stage late Monday evening.
- Flood stage is 15.0 feet (4.6 meters).
- Flood History...This crest compares to a previous crest of
15.1 feet (4.6 meters) on 09/04/2022.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
Below are the latest river stages and forecasts (feet):
Fld Observed Thu Thu Fri Fri
Location Stg Stg Day/Time 1pm 7pm 1am 7am
Rio Grande
Castolon 15.0 16.2 Thu 10am 16.5 16.6 16.6 16.6
Below are the latest river stages and forecasts (meters):
Castolon 4.6 5.0 Thu 10am 5.0 5.1 5.1 5.1
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Fed Up with Shoplifters, Wegmans Eliminating Self-Scan Checkout in New Jersey
The convenience of self-scanning checkout at Wegmans grocery stores here in New Jersey is going away, and thieves are to blame.
This coming Sunday, September 18th will be the last day shoppers will be able to use Wegmans' popular shopping app, called SCAN, to scan and pay for items, Patch.com reports.
In an email sent to loyal customers, Wegmans writes, "SCAN users have told us they love the app and the convenience it offers. We love it too and have tried many adjustments to keep it. Unfortunately, the losses we are experiencing from this program prevent us from continuing to make it available in its current state."
Wegmans' message goes on to say, "We've made the decision to turn off the app until we can make improvements that will meet the needs of our customers and business".
Reportedly, too many customers have been exploiting the app and the shopping autonomy it gives them, often leaving the store without paying for some items, according to NJ.com.
Wegmans has several locations in South Jersey, including Cherry Hill and Mt. Laurel.
You know how the saying goes, "it only takes one bad apple to spoil the bunch." And, even though the contactless shop/pay option was helpful during the COVID-19 pandemic, it's obviously just too much of a liability to hold on to. Hopefully, the "five finger discounts" will slow with Wegmans' decision.
Wegmans is offering customers who used the SCAN app a $20 courtesy credit in their online account.
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CLEVELAND (AP) — José Ramírez hit a tiebreaking two-run homer in the eighth inning, and the Cleveland Guardians beat the Los Angeles Angels 5-3 on Wednesday for their sixth consecutive victory.
Oscar Gonzalez and Andrés Giménez each had three hits as AL Central-leading Cleveland (76-65) moved 11 games over .500 for the first time since September 2020.
With Amed Rosario aboard after a leadoff single, Ramírez drove a 3-1 slider from Ryan Tepera (4-3) deep to right for his 27th homer. The All-Star third baseman also leads the Guardians with 111 RBIs.
“In reality, we’re in a rebuild, but it’s a bit different when you have very talented players that know how to play the game the right way,” Ramírez said. “It’s fun to see them, and as long as we keep playing our way, it’s going to be fun to watch.”
The Guardians opened a four-game lead over the Chicago White Sox, who lost 3-0 to last-place Colorado. The win streak for Cleveland matches a season high.
“Ramírez does a little bit of everything and he’s really tough to pitch to,” Angels interim manager Phil Nevin said. “That’s why I walked him two or three times in this series already, but in that situation, you can’t put the winning run on second in Rosario.”
Trevor Stephan (5-4) recorded three outs for the win, and James Karinchak worked the ninth for his third save. Emmanuel Clase, who has an MLB-best 35 saves, was unavailable after pitching four times in the previous five days.
Luis Rengifo led off the ninth with a double for Los Angeles, but Karinchak retired the next three batters.
“We’re trying not to overdo people, but the way we play, there’s a lot of close games,” Cleveland manager Terry Francona said. “We’re trying to manage about nine different things with our pitching staff.”
Mickey Moniak hit a two-run homer for the Angels, and Mike Trout had an RBI single in their fourth straight loss. Shohei Ohtani went 1 for 4 with an eighth-inning double.
Moniak went deep in the third for his third homer since he was acquired in an Aug. 2 trade with Philadelphia. Moniak was selected by the Phillies with the No. 1 overall pick in the 2016 amateur draft.
Los Angeles opened a 3-1 lead when Moniak scored on Trout’s base hit in the fifth.
Cleveland got one back in the bottom half when Giménez singled and scored on Austin Hedges’ double-play ball. Giménez singled again in the seventh and scored the tying run on Tyler Freeman’s double off Jimmy Herget.
“There are no better veteran leaders, in my opinion, than the guys in our clubhouse,” Freeman said. “José is a fireball and someone to look up to, and all of them make us feel comfortable on the field or on the bus.”
Cleveland right-hander Cal Quantrill, who is 12-0 in his career at Progressive Field, allowed three runs and eight hits in seven innings.
“I know there have been some really special players this year, but José deserves to be in the (MVP) discussion,” Quantrill said. “At least in the discussion at the end of the year.”
Gonzalez opened the scoring with a solo shot in the second for his second homer in two days. The rookie has four homers and 11 RBIs over his last nine games.
Angels starter Patrick Sandoval pitched 5 1/3 innings of two-run ball. The left-hander has not allowed more than two earned runs in eight straight starts.
Los Angeles is 1-21 against the Guardians on the road since 2015, losing 11 straight.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Angels: SS Andrew Velazquez (right knee) will miss the remainder of the season after tearing his right meniscus Tuesday while fielding a Gonzalez grounder. Velazquez was placed on the 10-day injured list and will require surgery.
Guardians: LHP Anthony Gose (left elbow), who has been on the IL since July 3, underwent Tommy John surgery in Dallas. The former Tigers and Blue Jays outfielder was shut down six weeks ago after feeling discomfort in his triceps.
UP NEXT
Angels: RHP Michael Lorenzen (6-6, 4.70 ERA) works the opener of a four-game set Friday against Seattle. Lorenzen went 5 2/3 innings, allowing an earned run, at Houston last week in his return from a two-month absence with a strained right shoulder.
Guardians: RHP Hunter Gaddis (0-1, 21.60 ERA) will be recalled from Triple-A Columbus to start a makeup game Thursday against the White Sox. Gaddis lost his only big league appearance on Aug. 5 against Houston, giving up eight runs in 3 1/3 innings.
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Firm earns high honors as Best Family Law Firm in Dallas
DALLAS, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --Texas Lawyer's Best of 2022 edition has singled out Family Law firm Orsinger, Nelson, Downing & Anderson (ONDA) as the Best Family Law Firm in Dallas.
Texas Lawyer is the oldest and one of the most respected legal publications in the state. For the 2022 edition, readers ranked the firm No. 1 in Dallas and among the Top 3 for Family Law in the San Antonio/Austin markets. This is the second year that ONDA has earned the publication's Best Family Law Firm honor, which is compiled through peer votes and independent research.
"Our goal is to provide the best representation for the individuals and families involved in family matter disputes, and we do that by attracting the very best lawyers practicing Family Law today," said Scott Downing, managing partner of the firm. "We appreciate that our dedication is acknowledged by Texas Lawyer."
ONDA has received some of the legal industry's highest honors, most recently with the inclusion of 16 attorneys in the 2023 Best Lawyers in America and Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch legal guides.
In addition, the firm is home to several of the state's Top 100 Super Lawyers for their representation of Family Law matters. ONDA is frequently ranked among the Best Law Firms by U.S. News/Best Lawyers.
Orsinger, Nelson, Downing & Anderson has served families for more than 30 years. With offices in Dallas, Frisco and San Antonio, ONDA is one of Texas' largest Family Law firms. Each partner is Board Certified in Family Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, and each is a member of the Texas Academy of Family Law Specialists.
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Sophia Reza
800-559-4534
sophia@androvett.com
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This is the sixth consecutive time that Paychex has been recognized as an industry leader
ROCHESTER, N.Y., Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NelsonHall, a global analyst and research firm, has once again identified Paychex, Inc., a leading provider of integrated human capital management software solutions for human resources, payroll, benefits, and insurance services, as a "Leader" in its 2022 NelsonHall Vendor Evaluation and Assessment Tool (NEAT) report for payroll service providers. This is the sixth consecutive time Paychex has been positioned in the upper right quadrant of the NEAT graph with a leader designation.
Liz Rennie, NelsonHall's HR Technology & Services Research Director, said "Paychex is a Leader in the Comprehensive Payroll Capability and Digital Payroll Capability market segments, clearly demonstrating that it can change with the times through constantly improving and offering additional tools for payroll quality and compliance. Its payroll technology is one of the most advanced, bringing benchmarks as well as digital service enablement, and is complemented by a highly responsive and high-quality customer support model. Paychex clients benefit from having improved insights and greater visibility of data as well as improved accuracy and timeliness of payroll."
NelsonHall's 2022 NEAT report evaluated 24 payroll services vendors based on two criteria: (1) ability to deliver immediate client benefits and (2) ability to meet clients' future requirements. Paychex was positioned highly in the "Leader" category, fulfilling both criteria.
"We are proud of our 50-year track record of successfully helping American businesses pay their employees through simple and intuitive technology and highly professional services," said Tom Hammond, vice president of corporate strategy and product management at Paychex. "Receiving recognition from firms like NelsonHall is another indication that we are building on our payroll foundation to offer innovative services that not only meet the current needs of our customers but offer solutions that will address future business challenges."
Over the past year, Paychex has added several new payroll features to its comprehensive HCM platform Paychex Flex®. These additions include:
- Paychex Pre-Check, which allows employees to preview their paycheck on a device of their choice to confirm its accuracy before payday.
- Compensation Summary Reports, which allows employees to view their compensation, including health insurance contributions, retirement contributions, bonuses, and other benefits.
- Diversity and Equal Pay Live Report, which builds on the company's recently released EEO-1 compliance solution to enable administrators to analyze pay and diversity data.
- Paychex Flex Labor Cost Hub, which offers customers and CPAs a holistic view of payroll labor job cost and labor distribution to highlight the long-term impact of pay decisions.
These new features help drive payroll efficiency for business leaders with varying needs, whether they are HR managers charged with recruiting and retaining talent or business managers looking to save time with administrative tasks. Employees can also benefit from the flexibility of payroll solutions within Paychex Flex®.
Attendees of the 2022 HR Technology Conference & Expo, September 13-16, in Las Vegas can stop by the Paychex booth (#3410) to learn more about how Paychex HCM solutions, including payroll, work in conjunction with support from industry-leading HR coaches and best-in-class service to deliver a superior customer experience. Paychex experts will also present two in-person educational sessions during the conference highlighting the technology solutions available for today's HR professionals and how businesses can make decisions with HR analytics and reporting. For a complete overview of how to connect with Paychex at HR Tech, visit https://pages.paychex.com/HR-Tech-Fall-2022.
NelsonHall is the leading global analyst firm dedicated to helping organizations understand the 'art of the possible' in digital operations transformation. NelsonHall provides buy-side organizations with detailed, critical information on markets and vendors (including NEAT assessments) that helps them make fast and highly informed sourcing decisions. And for vendors, NelsonHall provides deep knowledge of market dynamics and user requirements to help them hone their go-to-market strategies. NelsonHall's research is based on rigorous, all-original research, and is widely respected for the quality, depth, and insight of its analysis.
Paychex, Inc. (NASDAQ: PAYX) is a leading provider of integrated human capital management solutions for human resources, payroll, benefits, and insurance services. By combining innovative software-as-a-service technology and mobility platform with dedicated, personal service, Paychex empowers business owners to focus on the growth and management of their business. Backed by 50 years of industry expertise, Paychex serves more than 730,000 payroll clients as of May 31, 2022 in the U.S. and Europe, and pays one out of every 12 American private sector employees. Learn more about Paychex by visiting www.paychex.com and stay connected on Twitter and LinkedIn.
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Paychex, Inc.
(585) 217-6343
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@Paychex
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BARCELONA , Spain, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Eyes of the World Foundation has launched 'Iris of the World' to raise awareness of the deficiencies in eye care in the most vulnerable areas of the world, and to promote the right to vision.
Javier Bardem launches the initiative by 'donating' his iris to raise as much money as possible to fight against avoidable blindness, which can be prevented and treated with the right care and resources. Effectively, the actor's eyes will help to open others' eyes.
Starting at $9,000, the auction is for a digital NFT file, and a printed photograph signed by the actor, both authenticated as unique pieces. Whoever acquires them will have exclusive ownership of them in their own right. Other personalities from the world of art, culture and sport will collaborate for auctions of NFTs and printed photographs in the future.
"To be able to see, to be able to hear, to be able to touch or to be able to feel are things that we don't appreciate until we lose them." says Javier Bardem.
Director of the Eyes of the World Foundation, Anna Barba says "we want to communicate that the right to vision should not be subject to the availability of economic resources of a person or a country. It's a question of giving sight back to thousands of people without resources who suffer from serious eye problems that can be prevented or treated if action is taken in time," she remarked.
Eyes of the World estimates the cost of an eye check-up at $7 and a cataract operation at $70.
The Foundation will use the amount raised to expand its lines of action and promote new projects in the Saharawi camps, Mozambique, Bolivia and Mali.
Millions of people in developing countries suffer from eye problems caused by hygienic and sanitary deficiencies, adverse climatic conditions or traumatisms suffered during conflicts. There are 1.1 billion blind people worldwide and around 90% of cases could be prevented or cured.
Some blindness can be avoided with the right care and resources in vulnerable territories: 90% live in low and middle-income countries.
161 million people suffer from uncorrected refractive errors, 100 million from cataracts and 510 million have difficulty seeing up close with 55% of visually impaired people being women says IAPB*.
The auction starts 29 September at 12h UTC and runs until 6 October at 18h. www.irisesoftheworld.org
About the Eyes of the World Foundation
The Eyes of the World Foundation is a non-for-profit organisation that contributes to improving the eye health of the poor in impoverished countries. The aim is to enable them to receive quality ophthalmological care from their local health services, as well as to create optimal conditions to reduce the incidence of eye diseases in each territory. Eyes of the World also raises public awareness of the deficiencies in basic health care in those areas.
*International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB).
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A former Massachusetts town official pleaded guilty on Wednesday to joining a mob in storming the U.S. Capitol after she organized a bus trip to Washington, D.C., for fellow members of a right-wing group called “Super Happy Fun America.”
Before her guilty plea, Suzanne Ianni had argued in February that federal authorities had selectively targeted her for prosecution based on her political beliefs. Prosecutors said her political views played no role in charging her with crimes for her conduct at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. A judge rejected Ianni’s request to dismiss the case before she pleaded guilty.
Ianni, 60, of Natick, Massachusetts, faces a maximum sentence of six months of imprisonment and five years of probation after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor count of disorderly conduct in a Capitol building. U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols is scheduled to sentence her on Dec. 2.
Ianni was an elected member of Natick Town Meeting in a Boston suburb while serving as operation director of Super Happy Fun America, which gained national notoriety for organizing a “Straight Pride Parade” in Boston in 2019.
On its website, Super Happy Fun America calls itself “a right of center civil rights organization focusing on defending the Constitution, opposing gender madness and defeating cultural Marxism.” The group registered as a nonprofit with Massachusetts state regulators.
A Dec. 29, 2020, post on the group’s Twitter account said Super Happy Fun America members would be in Washington “to get wild.” Ianni was listed as the contact for the trip. The account also tweeted a photo of Ianni and other members on a bus traveling to Washington on the eve of the riot.
After marching to the Capitol, she joined a crowd chanting “Fight for Trump!” and “Our house!” while rioters near her broke windows, forced open doors and breached police barricades. Surveillance video captured Ianni marching through the Capitol after she entered the building through a Senate fire-exit door. She raised her fist in the air in front of police officers who stopped her and other members of the mob, prosecutors said in a court filing.
Mark Sahady, another Super Happy Fun America member, was arrested on Capitol riot-related charges that haven’t been resolved.
In April 2021, Natick Town Meeting members voted to condemn the Capitol riot. Ianni, who was elected to a three-year term that was due to expire in March 2022, told the MetroWest Daily News that the vote represented “political persecution of conservatives.”
Also on Wednesday, a Nevada man pleaded guilty to assaulting law enforcement officers at the Capitol with what appeared to be a table leg, injuring an officer. Josiah Kenyon, 35, of Winnemucca, Nevada, is scheduled to be sentenced on Dec. 15. Kenyon was dressed up as “Jack Skellington,” a character from the movie “The Nightmare Before Christmas,” when he attacked police.
More than 870 people have been charged with federal crimes related to the Jan. 6 riot. Approximately 400 of them have pleaded guilty, mostly to misdemeanors, and over 250 have been sentenced.
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This version of story has been corrected to reflect that Judge Carl Nichols did deny Suzanne Ianni’s request to dismiss her case before she pleaded guilty.
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MIAMI (AP) — A 20-year-old Tesla driver who died with a passenger in a fiery, high-speed crash on a residential South Florida street last year might have been upset after learning he had lost a scholarship, federal investigators said.
The National Transportation Safety Board released new documents Tuesday saying the driver of the 2021 Model 3 sedan had learned several hours before the Sept. 13, 2021, crash that he had lost a scholarship at Florida International University. The school’s main campus is located just west of Miami.
The driver’s friends and family told investigators that he didn’t seem unusually perturbed about the scholarship, according to the NTSB report. But his passenger, a 19-year-old woman, texted her mother shortly before the crash that the driver was upset about the scholarship and that she was trying to make the him feel better.
The crash occurred after the driver accelerated to 90 mph (145 kph) through a Coral Gables intersection to beat a yellow light on a residential street, his speed tripling the 30 mph (49 kph) limit, investigators said. The driver had owned the car for about six days before the crash.
The driver lost control as he cleared the intersection and veered left onto the median, where the Tesla glanced off one large tree before before smashing its passenger’s side door into a second, the NTSB said. The driver never hit the brake, a report said, citing five seconds of data recovered from the car’s severely damaged event recorder.
The crash damaged the Tesla’s high-voltage lithium-ion battery and the car erupted into flames, killing the driver and passenger.
Tesla vehicles do not use gasoline that could raise the risk of a big fire after a crash, but the company’s guidance to first responders includes a warning about lithium-ion battery fires. Tesla representatives have said high-speed collisions can result in a fire for any kind of car.
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Kota woman alleges rape while staying in live-in relationship; accused held
Kota woman alleges rape while staying in live-in relationship; accused held
Kota (Rajasthan): A woman from Kota, while staying in a live-in relationship with a youth for the past five years, alleged that she has been sexually assaulted by him. She further alleged that the accused was carrying on the courtship on the pretext of marrying her. She also informed that the youth, who belongs to a different religious community than herself, committed the crime under the garb of a Hindu name.
After the prolonged ordeals, the woman realized that the accused is a married man and has been keeping things from her. The victim immediately reached out to the police and filed a complaint against the accused after which the police registered a case against him for outraging the modesty of a woman along with the SC/ST Act. Along with the main accused, his brother, and his mother have also been named as the accused in the case. So far, the officials have taken the main accused into custody.
Deputy Superintendent of Police, Mukul Sharma, said, "Main accused Ali Hussain alias Bunty has been arrested. We have sent him to judicial custody. An investigation is underway." However, he further said that the case largely remains in a grey area as the victim and the accused were in a live-in relationship, while further investigation into the matter will hatch something concrete in the case.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Phoenix Suns owner Robert Sarver was likely spared even stronger sanctioning by the NBA for his racist, misogynistic and hostile words and actions because of one key conclusion by investigators, Commissioner Adam Silver said Wednesday.
The law firm that spent nearly a year digging into the situation determined Sarver’s use of slurs “was not motivated by racial animus.”
Had that not been the case, Silver indicated, Sarver’s punishment — a one-year suspension and $10 million fine — would have been far more severe.
“It was relevant,” Silver said after the league’s Board of Governors meetings concluded. “I think if they had made findings that, in fact, his conduct was motivated by racial animus, absolutely that would have had an impact on on the ultimate outcome here. But that’s not what they found.”
And that, to Silver, is one of the key distinctions between the Sarver case and the one surrounding then-Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling in 2014, when he was banned for life and fined $2.5 million for racist comments.
Some players, Silver said, have reached out to him to voice concerns. Silver said he would keep the details of those conversations private.
But LeBron James — obviously, one of the league’s most prominent player voices ever — took his concerns public Wednesday night, tweeting that the NBA did not go far enough with Sarver.
“I gotta be honest…Our league definitely got this wrong,” James tweeted to his 52 million followers. “I don’t need to explain why. Y’all read the stories and decide for yourself. I said it before and I’m gonna say it again, there is no place in this league for that kind of behavior.
“I love this league and I deeply respect our leadership. But this isn’t right. There is no place for misogyny, sexism, and racism in any work place. Don’t matter if you own the team or play for the team. We hold our league up as an example of our values and this aint it,” he wrote.
Suns point guard Chris Paul echoed James’ sentiment later Wednesday.
“Like many others, I reviewed the report,” Paul wrote on social media. “I was and am horrified and disappointed by what I read. This conduct especially towards women is unacceptable and must never be repeated. … I am of the view that the sanctions fell short in truly addressing what we can all agree was atrocious behavior. My heart goes out to all of the people that were affected.”
The NBA had the option of giving Sarver a longer ban than the one-year suspension. The $10 million fine was the maximum allowable, as was the case with Sterling’s $2.5 million fine eight years ago; NBA rules on maximum fines were changed in 2019.
Another reason Silver, who was the ultimate decider of the penalty in this case, stopped short of suspending Sarver for longer or even banning him: He said he took into account a number of anonymous details that could not be revealed in the investigative report that was published Tuesday, along with other elements of Sarver’s actions in his 18 years owning the Suns and the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury.
“There were these terrible things,” Silver said. “There are also many, many people with very positive things to say about him through this process. And ultimately, I took all of that into account in making the decision that the one-year suspension plus the fine was appropriate.”
A 10-month investigation into Sarver’s behavior confirmed he had used racist language, made sexually inappropriate comments, left some employees — male and female — feeling uncomfortable with his words and actions, and took part in what would be considered workplace bullying.
“Indefensible is not strong enough,” Silver said.
But the league did not have discussions about removing Sarver as owner during the Board of Governors meetings. Silver permanently banned Sterling after tapes of him making racist comments were leaked to TMZ in a move that started the process of Sterling being forced to sell the franchise.
“This case is very different,” Silver said. “It’s not that one was captured on tape and the other isn’t. … Mr. Sarver ultimately acknowledged his behavior.”
Sarver did, and issued an apology Tuesday, though noted he did not agree with all of the report’s findings.
Silver was asked about how most employees of any company would likely face firings if they were to use racial slurs or partake in lewd actions or comments in the way that the investigation showed that Sarver did.
“It’s hard to make those comparisons to somebody who commits an inappropriate act in the workplace in somewhat of an anonymous fashion versus what is a huge public issue now around this person,” Silver said. “There’s no neat answer here, other than the rights that come with owning an NBA team, how that is set up within our Constitution. What it would take to remove that team from his control is a very involved process, and it’s different than holding a job. It just is. When you actually own a team, it’s just a very different proposition.”
A difference between the Sterling and Sarver cases is this: Sarver cooperated with the league’s investigation and Sterling, in many ways, did not. Sterling wound up suing the NBA for $1 billion in federal court after his lifetime ban was announced, saying his constitutional rights were violated.
The report said Sarver “repeated or purported to repeat the N-word on at least five occasions spanning his tenure with the Suns.”
“However, the investigation does not find that Sarver’s conduct in any of these instances was motivated by racial animus,” the report read, adding that investigators made “no finding that Sarver used this racially insensitive language with the intent to demean or denigrate.”
The Sterling investigation — from when the audio tapes of him making racist remarks to a girlfriend were released, to Silver’s announcement of the lifetime ban — took three days. The Sarver probe took 100 times longer, involved more than 320 interviews and the review of more than 80,000 documents and other materials.
Both investigations were handled by the same New York-based firm of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen and Katz. Attorney David Anders led both probes.
Sarver will be welcomed back in 2023, though Silver made clear that his words and actions going forward will be highly scrutinized.
“I don’t have the right to take away his team,” Silver said. “I don’t want to rest on that legal point because of course there could be a process to take away someone’s team in this league. It’s very involved, and I ultimately made the decision that it didn’t rise to that level. But to me, the consequences are severe here on Mr. Sarver.”
Sarver’s punishment is also similar to others levied in past high-profile examples of wrongdoing, either words, actions or both.
In 1993, then-Cincinnati Reds owner Marge Schott was fined $25,000 and suspended one year for making “racially and ethnically offensive remarks.” And last year, the NFL fined the Washington Commanders $10 million, plus investigative fees, after a probe found the team’s workplace environment for women was, in the words of Commissioner Roger Goodell, “highly unprofessional” — but stopped short of suspending owner Daniel Snyder.
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NEW YORK — Americans picked up their spending a bit in August from July even as surging inflation on household necessities like rent and food took a toll on family budgets.
U.S. retail sales rose an unexpected 0.3% last month after falling 0.4% in July, the Commerce Department said Thursday. Excluding business at gas stations, sales rose 0.8%.
The sales figures for August were largely boosted by higher spending on vehicles. Sales of purchases at motor vehicles and parts dealers rose 2.8% last month. Excluding vehicle sales, spending slipped 0.3%. Excluding both vehicle and gas spending, retail sales rose 0.3%.
While the report showed shoppers’ resilience, the figures also are not adjusted for inflation unlike many other government reports. In fact, sales at grocery stores rose 0.5% , helped by rising prices in food.
There was, however, weakening in some areas of discretionary spending with Americans fully aware of inflation’s bite. Business at restaurants ticked up 1.1%, but the pace has slowed. Sales at furniture stores fell 1.3%. Online sales fell 0.7% last month after Amazon’s Prime Day boosted e-commerce sales in July.
“Retailers would probably like to be growing more, especially relative to inflation, but I’m not sure they could realistically hope for much more,” said Ted Rossman, senior industry analyst at Bankrate.com. “Consumer spending habits are changing as the pandemic continues to recede and inflation remains high.”
Consumer spending accounts for nearly 70% of U.S. economic activity and Americans have remained mostly resilient even with inflation near four-decade highs. Yet surging prices for everything from mortgages to milk have upped the anxiety level. Overall spending has slowed and shifted increasingly toward necessities like food, while spending on electronics, furniture, new clothes and other non-necessities has faded.
On Thursday, it appeared that the U.S. dodged a national freight rail strike, which could have sent retail prices higher.
Still, inflation remains stubbornly high. Lower gas costs slowed U.S. inflation for a second straight month in August, but most other prices across the economy kept going up — evidence that inflation remains a heavy load for American households.
Consumer prices rose 8.3% from a year earlier and 0.1% from July. But the jump in “core” prices, which exclude volatile food and energy costs, was especially worrisome. It outpaced expectations and sparked fear that the Federal Reserve will increase interest rates more aggressively and raise the risk of a recession.
Retailers are wrapping up what has turned out to be a decent back-to-school shopping season. But many retail executives say that customers are being more selective when they buy, a trend that could hold through the only shopping period that tops back to school in sales, the weeks leading up to winter holidays.
Jill Renslow, executive vice president of business development and marketing at Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, said that mall is faring well with families generously spending for the back-to-school season. But she said the lower income Americans are tightening their belts and waiting for sales.
“They’re being more selective in where they are shopping and what they are purchasing, what they’re spending their time on,” she said.
Shoe Carnival, which has stores located in strip malls rather than enclosed malls, did well during the pandemic as Americans avoided being indoors as much as possible. CEO Mark Worden said the chain is now getting another bump as people trade down to lower price footwear amid soaring inflation.
Shoppers are buying fewer shoes this year compared with the last year when business was boosted by the government stimulus checks. But customers are still buying more shoes than in the pre-pandemic 2019.
The government’s monthly report on retail sales covers about a third of all consumer purchases and doesn’t include spending on most services, ranging from plane fares and apartment rents to movie tickets and doctor visits. In recent months, Americans have been shifting their purchases away from physical goods and more toward travel, hotel stays and plane trips as the threat of the virus fades.
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The slew of midterm polls released over the last 24 hours all have one thing in common: They show competitive — if not razor-close — contests across the country.
And in an era where polling, especially involving state surveys, has seen its fair share of misses, that’s maybe the only real conclusion we can reach from all of these different polls.
- In Georgia, a Quinnipiac University poll on Wednesday had incumbent Gov. Brian Kemp at 50% among likely voters, and it had Democratic challenger Stacey Abrams at 48%, well within the poll’s margin of error. In the state’s Senate race, incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., was ahead of GOP challenger Herschel Walker by 6 points, 52%-46% — just outside the margin of error.
- In Wisconsin, a Marquette Law School poll showed Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., at 49% among likely voters, and Democratic challenger Mandela Barnes at 48%. (A month ago, the same poll had Barnes up by 7 points, 52%-45%.) In the gubernatorial contest, the Marquette survey found incumbent Democratic Gov. Tony Evers at 47% and GOP challenger Tim Michels at 44%
- In Pennsylvania, a CBS/YouGov poll of likely voters showed Democrat John Fetterman ahead by 5 points over Republican Mehmet Oz in the contest for Senate, 52%-47% --within that poll’s margin of error. In the gubernatorial contest, Democrat Josh Shapiro was leading Republican Doug Mastriano by double digits, 55%-44% -- outside the margin of error.
Even in Texas, an online University of Texas/Texas Politics Project poll showed incumbent Gov. Greg Abbott ahead of Democratic challenger by 5 points among registered voters, 45%-40%, which is within that poll’s margin of error.
And nationally, the generic ballot from a Fox News poll found 44% of voters saying they’d vote for Democrats, versus 41% preferring Republicans. (It was tied in August.)
So with Senate control and governor’s mansions up for grabs in October, we have two words of advice when reading these polls.
Buckle up.
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US DOLLAR OUTLOOK
- U.S. dollar wavers on Thursday, moving between small gains and losses as traders look toward Fed meeting
- The central bank is seen raising borrowing costs by 75 basis points to 3.00-3.25% next week at its September FOMC meeting. The terminal rate is also projected to move higher
- Hawkish re-pricing of peak rates could boost U.S. treasury yields, supporting the USD
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The U.S. dollar, as measured by the DXY index, traded with a neutral bias on Thursday, oscillating between small gains and losses near the 109.65 area, in a session characterized by lower volatility in the FX space compared to the past few days, where we saw significant moves following the release of the latest U.S. inflation figures.
U.S. economic data published earlier, such as the August retail sales report and initial claims for unemployment for the period ended September 10, only provoked a muted reaction, although the results confirmed that the American consumer and the country's labor market remain healthy by most metrics.
For context, the value of overall retail purchases edged up 0.3% in nominal terms, versus the 0.0% estimated, indicating that household spending is holding up well, despite sky-high inflation and falling real incomes. Meanwhile, jobless claims fell for the fifth consecutive week to their lowest reading in three months, a sign that layoffs have not yet become widespread even as growth continues to downshift.
FED DECISION IN FOCUS FOR FOREX TRADERS
The resilience of the economy, coupled with persistently elevated CPI pressures, may prompt the Fed to stay the course and press ahead with forceful interest rate increases at upcoming meetings as it struggles to restore price stability. For next week's gathering, policymakers seen raising borrowing costs by 75 basis points to 3.00%-3.25%, but some analysts go as far as predicting a 100 basis point hike.
While the September FOMC decision will be important, the market will be more interested in the path of the tightening cycle, especially the terminal rate, which is expected to be much higher than the 3.8% forecast three months ago in the June SEP to better address recent economic developments (more cooling is needed to rebalance demand with supply to bring inflation down).
Hawkish re-pricing of peak rates is likely to bolster U.S. Treasury yields, supporting the U.S. dollar, particularly against its low-yielding counterparts. This could fuel the next leg higher for the greenback, creating the right conditions for the DXY index to reclaim its best levels of the year and possibly surpass them to reach fresh multi-decade highs.
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SKIPPACK TWP., Pa. - Emergency responders descended on a state prison in Montgomery County after an accident during a training exercise.
Some sort of explosion was reported around 10 a.m. Thursday at SCI Phoenix in Skippack Township.
Officials said the county bomb squad was installing an explosive device for a later training exercise when it exploded prematurely, according to WPVI.
A large police presence swarmed the prison, and video showed two medical helicopters at the scene. There was also a charred car on the prison grounds.
Authorities have not commented on the extent of injuries, but said all patients involved were taken to area hospitals.
The FBI is investigating, said the county public safety department.
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MONROE COUNTY, MI – An Adrian man died Wednesday night when he lost control of his motorcycle and crashed in Monroe County.
Emergency crews were called at 11:42 p.m. Sept. 14, to the area of Oakville Waltz Road near Tuttle Hill Road in London Township for a report of a motorcycle crash, according to Michigan State Police.
Troopers arrived and discovered the 62-year-old man from Adrian, was riding his Harley Davidson motorcycle west on Oakville Waltz Road when, while riding along a curve in the road, he lost control of his bike and ran off the road crashing into a ditch, police said.
The man was flung from the motorcycle, suffered fatal injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.
It is unknown if drugs or alcohol played a role in the crash which remains under investigation, police said.
Anyone with information about the crash is asked to contact Trooper Cole Martin of the Michigan State Police Monroe Post at 734-242-3500.
The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office, Monroe Community Ambulance and personnel from London, Maybee and Raisinville Fire Departments assisted at the scene.
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GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP)It’s difficult to truly gauge the Southeastern Conference’s tight-end talent through two weeks of the season.
There’s little chance the same will be said after two months.
The powerhouse league has arguably its deepest and most skilled tight-end group in years. The collection includes big-time playmakers and is sure to produce NFL first-round draft picks such as Kyle Pitts (Florida), Hayden Hurst (South Carolina), Evan Engram (Ole Miss) and O.J. Howard (Alabama).
South Carolina’s Jaheim Bell, Georgia’s Brock Bowers and Mississippi’s Michael Trigg top the list. They’re big. They’re fast. They’re versatile. And they’re hardly alone.
Here’s a look at the best of the SEC’s current crop, five of whom will share a field when South Carolina (1-1) hosts top-ranked and defending national champion Georgia (2-0) on Saturday:
BELL, SOUTH CAROLINA
Bell might be the most multifaceted tight end in the SEC, possibly in the country. The 6-foot-3, 230-pound junior from Lake City, Florida, lines up all over the field. He has four catches for 18 yards to go with 11 carries for 44 more. He also owns the top two receiving games by a tight end in school history: 136 yards against Vanderbilt and 159 against North Carolina.
”He’s a freak athlete,” teammate and fellow tight end Austin Stogner said. ”You can really put him anywhere.”
BOWERS, GEORGIA
Anyone who watched the eventual champs play last season should remember Bowers. The 6-4, 230-pound native of Napa, California, burst onto the scene as a freshman, finishing with 56 receptions for 882 yards and 13 touchdowns. He has five catches for 95 yards this year, getting plenty of time off during Georgia’s back-to-back blowouts.
ARIK GILBERT, GEORGIA
Arik Gilbert appears to be the odd man out in Georgia’s ultra-deep position group. The former LSU starter and the No. 1 tight end prospect in the 2020 recruiting class doesn’t have a reception while playing behind Bowers and Darnell Washington. He caught 35 passes for 368 yards and two TDs as a freshman with the Tigers before entering the transfer portal.
He was briefly committed to Florida but ended up in Athens, about 80 miles from his home in Marietta, Georgia. Coach Kirby Smart said Gilbert’s lack of playing time has more to do with his practice habits than the depth chart.
”It’s really based on Arik’s performance,” Smart said. ”It’s not really based on those guys … That’s all based on how he practices and how he carries over to game day.”
STOGNER, SOUTH CAROLINA
The Oklahoma transfer landed at South Carolina along with quarterback Spencer Rattler. They already have chemistry, although Stogner has just six catches for 75 yards through two games. The 6-6, 251-pound senior from Plano, Texas, had 47 receptions for 654 yards and eight scores with the Sooners. And he enjoys blocking as much as anything else he does.
”It’s amazing; it’s an extra O-lineman on the field,” Gamecocks running back Marshawn Lloyd said.
MASON TAYLOR, LSU
First-year LSU coach Brian Kelly called the son of Pro Football Hall of Famer Jason Taylor ”the No. 1 surprise of camp.” Mason Taylor has five catches for 47 yards, including a 17-yarder that set up a late touchdown against Florida State.
”He’s been outstanding,” Kelly said, adding that Taylor has added 20 pounds. ”I’ve been blessed. I’ve had some great tight ends. I’ve got seven of them right now who are active in the NFL. And Mason Taylor is as good as any freshman tight end that I’ve had.”
TRIGG, OLE MISS
The Southern Cal transfer had three TD receptions in last week’s 59-3 romp over Central Arkansas, all from inside the 10-yard line. The 6-3, 240-pound sophomore from Tampa, Florida, has nine receptions for 61 yards. He caught seven balls for 109 yards and a score in six games with the Trojans in 2021. He landed in Oxford as part of the package deal with quarterback Jaxson Dart.
Rebels coach Lane Kiffin likes what he’s seen from Trigg but wants more.
”There’s some inconsistency there because he’s a young player,” Kiffin said. ”He needs to play more consistent because you can see the big-play potential.”
WASHINGTON, GEORGIA
No one his size is supposed to move like that. But Washington has rare traits. The 6-7, 260-pound junior is a blocking beast as well as a threat to run by linebackers and post up — or leap over – defensive backs. He has four catches for 66 yards, well on his way to surpass his two-year totals of 17 receptions for 320 yards and a score.
He already created a career highlight when he hurdled Oregon cornerback Bryan Addison in the team’s opener.
”Darnell Washington is in the best shape he’s been in,” Smart said recently, adding the big man can play ”harder for longer.”
The SEC appears poised for talent at the position for years to come, too.
Texas A&M signed three of the top six tight-end prospects in its ballyhooed 2022 class: Jake Johnson, Donovan Green and Theo Melin Ohrstrom. Georgia landed the No. 2 guy on the list, Oscar Delp.
Tennessee and Georgia have commitments from the second- and third-rated tight-end recruits for 2023. The Vols ave a pledge from Ethan Davis of Suwanee, while the Dawgs are in line to land Pearce Spurlin of Santa Rosa Beach, Florida.
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- Workers from Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta are paying $75,000+ to be taller, a surgeon told GQ.
- The Las Vegas-based surgeon can lengthen patients' legs via a painful months-long process.
- He breaks the thigh bones and inserts nails that are extended every day for three months.
A Las Vegas cosmetic surgeon specializes in leg-lengthening procedures that can grow people's height by three to six inches, according to a new GQ profile.
And many of his patients are tech workers.
Kevin Debiparshad founded LimbplastX Institute in 2016 and the clinic's business has boomed during the pandemic, he told GQ.
Here's how it works: the doctor breaks the patients' femurs, or thigh bones, and inserts metal nails into them that can be adjusted. The nails are extended a tiny bit every day for three months with a magnetic remote control, GQ reported.
It can take months to slowly lengthen the bones and then for the legs to heal. One software engineer told GQ he spent the first three months after his surgery alone in his apartment and ordered delivery food during that time to go from five feet six inches to five nine.
The procedure costs $70,000 to $150,000, depending on if the patient wants to grow three, four, five, or six inches, per GQ.
The common denominator of Debiparshad's client base is that they are wealthy, but they vary by profession: GQ reports that he's treated CEOs, actors, and finance employees. And a bevy of high-earning tech workers — mostly men but also some women — have come to him for the procedure.
"I joke that I could open a tech company," Debiparshad told GQ."I got, like, 20 software engineers doing this procedure right now who are here in Vegas. There was a girl yesterday from PayPal. I've got patients from Google, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft. I've had multiple patients from Microsoft."
The surgeon said he doesn't recommend the procedure for athletes since it could decrease their ability, and many of the patients that GQ spoke to said they don't tell people that they had the procedure done.
Stigmas around plastic surgery for men have begun to fall away in recent years. Cosmetic procedures performed on men went up 325% from 1997 to 2015, according to the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery.
And within Silicon Valley specifically, plastic surgery has become a way for male tech workers to reach peak "personal optimization" in recent years.
The Washington Post reported in January 2020 that men were turning to Botox, fillers, laser treatments, and techniques meant to stimulate collagen in an effort to get ahead in their careers.
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PARMA -- Pay no attention to Lumen Christi’s record.
Western certainly isn’t.
Through three games the Titans have three losses, but those were all by a possession or less to some of the top teams Lumen Christi could find; a 14-7 loss to New Lothrop, a 42-35 loss to Traverse City St. Francis and a 24-21 loss to Hastings.
“I know that they’re going to give us their best effort. I know they’re going to be laser-focused on us,” Western coach Nick Rulewicz said. “They’re very hungry, I’m sure, for their first win and they’re not going to be looking past us what-so-ever. They’re a very strong program. They’re probably the best 0-3 program in the state right now, because that’s not an 0-3 program.”
This is also very unfamiliar territory for the Titans, who have not been 0-3 since 1970. But coach Herb Brogan knew going into the season that this stretch, including the Week 4 trip to Western, was going to be tough.
“We’re focused, we just haven’t put a 48-minute game together yet,” Brogan said. “We played three really good football teams, been in the ballgame and had a chance to win every one, but haven’t gotten it done. We’ve just got to get ourselves ready to play 48 minutes, and if we do that we’re going to be fine.”
They were all losses, but all three were close, with Lumen Christi leading the Week 3 game with Hastings late in the second quarter following a Joe Lathers touchdown and again taking the lead in the third quarter off a 40-yard Derrick Walker score.
Western has not beaten Lumen Christi on the field since 1976. Western won the 2020 matchup via forfeit.
So something, either Lumen Christi’s losing streak or its winning streak in games against the Panthers, has to give on Friday.
Western comes into the game having beaten Pennfield in resounding fashion 64-0 in Week 3. In that game, the Western defense came up with a safety from Landon Heavy and an interception returned for a touchdown by Gibson French while never allowing Pennfield to get within 49 yards of the Western goalline.
That defense is the next test for a Titans offense which scored just once against New Lothrop but has turned things around since.
“I think our offense has been pretty consistent, starting with Week 2,” Brogan said. “We moved the ball fairly well. I think we’re going to present them with some challenges, but they’re big and physical up front. They’ve got a lot of good athletes at the second and third levels. We’ve just got to execute our offense.”
Heading into Week 4, Rulewicz is very pleased with what he’s seen in practice.
“I feel like guys have really focused,” he said. “I feel like the effort has been there. We’ve had positive attitudes. We’ve worked hard. Hopefully we continue that and play our best and see how things fall.”
Western’s offense was able to use the strong Week 3 showing to get the ball into the hands of plenty of different players. The Panthers had 15 different players with at least one carry in Week 3, with no one taking on more of the workload than Hunter Fullerton’s seven carries and no one gaining more yards than the 65 Mitchell Williams picked up on three carries.
One of the last Panthers to get a touch was Owen St. Andre, who went 36 yards for a touchdown on one of his two carries.
“It goes back to one of our core values of next-man-up,” Rulewicz said. “You never know when your number is going to be called, so be prepared.”
But that offense is now faced with a defense which shut Western out last year and even this fall limited all three opponents to their lowest point totals of the season.
Rulewicz said the key to moving the ball against the Titans will be to ”be physical at the line of scrimmage, keep re-establishing the line of scrimmage. I feel like if we’re able to get them in uncomfortable situations with some of our personnel and some of our sets, I feel like we can move the ball.”
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New Detention Center Director announced in Fairfield County
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - A new director has been announced for Fairfield County’s Detention Center.
Fairfield County Detention Center Captain Harriet Squirewell has been named to the position. Officials said Squirewell has worked with the center for 17 years. She’s been a captain with the detention center for over four years and assumed command as an acting director on July 17th.
“Fairfield County is looking forward to Ms. Squirewell’s continued leadership and support for our hardworking Detention Center staff,” says Malik Whitaker, Fairfield County Administrator.
FCDC operates on a budget of $2,300,419. It is responsible for:
- Detainee Processing
- Detainee Commissary
- Detainee Labor Force
- Detainee Transportation
- Facility Security
- Custody of pretrial and sentenced detainees
- Detainee Medical Care
- Food Services
- Maintenance of Incarceration Records
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Key Takeaways
- Dogecoin
DOGE has been in the news again lately, after Elon Musk announced the TeslaTSLA Cyberwhistle (yes, really) which could only be purchased using Dogecoin. It’s sold out already. - Ethereum has been trending as well, as the long awaited ‘Merge’ and move to proof of stake has finally happened.
- Both dogecoin and ethereum have been around a long time in crypto terms, which gives them a better chance of survival than most. With that said, nothing in the world of investing is guaranteed.
The threat of a recession is constantly looming at the moment. We’ve seen two consecutive quarters of negative growth, inflation remains sky high and against this backdrop the crypto sector has taken an absolute beating so far in 2022.
Even the biggest crypto of all, bitcoin
For those that hold smaller coins or tokens, even those high on the market cap list like ethereum and dogecoin, those nerves go up another level again. And with good reason.
The history of crypto is littered with big names that have gone bust. Projects like Terra Luna
Given the rocky road we’re on across the wider economy, some investors may be asking themselves which project is next. More importantly, they’ll be wondering if it’s one they hold in their wallet.
Aside from all of this general market volatility, ethereum and dogecoin in particular have been hitting the headlines in recent times, but for quite different reasons. So what’s been happening with these two, and what are their chances of surviving the (potential) upcoming recession?
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DogeCoin and the Cyberwhistle
Dogecoin seems to be the meme that never dies. This week it’s in the news again due to, surprise, surprise, a tweet from Elon Musk.
That’s because Tesla recently launched their latest product.
It’s not a new car. It’s not a new rocket. It’s not even a new humanoid robot. It’s a whistle. Sure, it has a modern and sleek design that resembles the Cybertruck, but nonetheless, it’s a $60 whistle.
To be specific, it’s a 1,000 Dogecoin whistle.
Always one to get into the headlines, Musk announced that the Cyberwhistle could only be purchased using the meme coin. The unusual pricing strategy didn’t deter would be whistlers, because it sold out almost instantly.
It’s been a crazy few years for doge, but it has shown remarkable staying power for a coin that was created as a joke. Despite it being created in 2013, it didn’t hit mainstream awareness until the 2021 short squeeze mania.
In January 2021 it soared over 800% to $0.07 in just 24 hours. This kicked off a wave of publicity that prompted mentions from Musk, Snoop Dogg, Mark Cuban and Logan Paul. By April it had hit $0.10 and it carried on to an all-time high of $0.74 in early May.
Since then, it’s come back down to earth in a big way and currently hovers around the $0.06 mark.
Now that the rollercoaster ride appears to have settled, will dogecoin survive a recession? No one knows for sure, but dogecoin has a couple of major points in its favor. First off, the community that supports it is a devoted one.
The grass roots support for maintaining Dogecoin and advocating for its adoption is significant. The Dogecoin subreddit has over 2 million subscribers, and the presence of doge boosters across social media platforms like YouTube and Twitter is almost unmatched.
Having a devoted base of support provides a lot more buyers when prices start to soften, which in itself can help keep the price at a certain level.
The second card that doge has up its sleeve is simply its longevity. That might seem strange to say, but it’s managed to weather multiple crypto winters and some of the most extreme volatility seen in the crypto world.
No one can say for sure whether dogecoin will survive a recession, but so far it’s proven to be a remarkably resilient pup.
The Ethereum Merge
Etherum is also in the news this week, but for something a bit more serious than the Cyberwhistle.
For some time now, ‘the merge’ has been touted as one of the biggest innovations in the history of crypto. In essence, it involves the world’s second largest cryptocurrency moving from ‘proof of work’ to ‘proof of stake’.
Since its inception Ethereum has run on a proof of work system. This is the traditional form of cryptography that powers many blockchains, including the one used by Bitcoin. This system allows miners to compete to verify transactions on the blockchain, with the winners rewarded with a set amount of the currency in question.
This type of cryptography uses a lot of processing power due to the fact that complex mathematical problems are used as the method of competition. These require specialist computers that draw a huge amount of energy.
The problem with proof-of-work is that while it is very secure, it’s not very fast and therefore not very scalable. Anyone who spends any time in the crypto world will know that the fees for ethereum and other tokens that use the Ethereum blockchain have been massive in recent times.
This has been particularly important given that the majority of NFTs and DeFi protocols utilize the Ethereum network as well.
The change to proof of stake aims to solve this problem.
What is Proof of Stake?
The validation of the transactions on the network still happens using the same method of consensus. This decentralization is a key pillar of crypto, meaning that no single person or organization acts as the middleman to approve or deny a transaction.
Where proof of work selects these validators based on their ability to solve mathematical problems, proof of stake selects them based on the validators contributing or ‘staking’ the currency.
This is based on both the amount a validator has staked, as well as the length of time they’ve been staking for. It means that the network rewards those who hold the most currency for the longest, which in theory strengthens the network over time by ensuring participants are committed to its longevity and security.
Since late 2020, Ethereum developers have been running the two processes side by side. As of today, these have now been merged into one, and going forward the Ethereum network will rely on proof of stake exclusively.
Will Ethereum Survive a Recession?
As you can see, there has been a lot going on behind the scenes at Ethereum, and much of the world of cryptocurrency runs on its technology. This puts them in a unique position. Not only are Ethereum developers and holders invested in their survival, but so is much of the rest of the crypto world.
They’re like the well connected friend who gets their friends into parties and on VIP lists. They know that if Ethereum goes down, the party stops for everyone.
With this in mind, it has a very good chance of lasting the distance. It was also created in 2013, which means it too has already survived through crypto winters and times of economic turmoil.
Nothing in investing, and particularly crypto investing, is guaranteed, but Ethereum has a better chance than most of being around for the long haul.
What is the best way to invest in crypto?
As with any form of investment, trying to pick and choose individual holdings can end in disaster. Betting on an entire sector or industry is one thing, but there are just too many variables and unexpected events that can derail an individual company or cryptocurrency.
That’s why one of the golden rules of investing is diversification.
By spreading your investment across many different individual investments, you reduce the risk of losing money long term, while also holding on to the potential for big gains if things go well.
That can be tricky to do with crypto, which is why we created the Crypto Kit. This Kit utilizes investments via trusts and funds to gain access to a selection of large cap crypto projects. It includes the big boys Bitcoin and Ethereum as well as a number of other altcoins that can include projects like Cardano
These positions change based on the underlying investment within the trusts and funds, which means you gain exposure to expert crypto knowledge, even if you’re not an expert yourself.
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Adobe builds collaborative design muscle with US$20B deal for Figma
Adobe Inc will buy startup Figma for about US$20 billion in its biggest deal, the Photoshop maker said on Thursday, bulking up on applications that support online collaboration amid a global shift to hybrid working.
The cash-and-stock deal will give Adobe ownership of a company whose online collaborative platform for designs and brainstorming is used by firms ranging from Zoom Video Communications to AirBnB and Coinbase.
"The combination of Adobe and Figma is transformational and will accelerate our vision for collaborative creativity," Adobe Chief Executive Shantanu Narayen said in a statement.
Adobe has sharpened its focus on the collaboration tools space in recent years through acquisitions. It acquired work management platform Workfront in 2020 and cloud-based video collaboration platform Frame.io last year.
Still, shares fell 13% in early trading. Some analysts pointed to the size of the deal that could require Adobe to raise debt. The company had cash and cash equivalents of $3.87 billion as of Sept. 2.
"We're disappointed for the price paid for the company (Figma)," said David Wagner, portfolio manager and equity analyst at Aptus Capital Advisors that owns a 1.5% stake in Adobe.
"It tends to not be a great sign when a company has to acquire to defend share. It's not a sustainable solution."
A CNBC report last month said thousands of Microsoft employees were utilizing Figma, putting pressure on the close relationship shared by the software giant with Adobe. Distribution across machines running on Windows helped Adobe gain ubiquity and the companies also sync their products across platforms.
The deal is expected to close in 2023 and San Francisco-based Figma will continue to be led by co-founder and Chief Executive Dylan Field. Either company will have to pay a termination fee of $1 billion if they scrap the deal.
Meanwhile, Adobe's fourth-quarter revenue forecast of $4.52 billion came in below the $4.58 billion estimated by analysts, according to Refinitiv data.
Third-quarter profit also fell nearly 6%, reflecting the hit from a stronger dollar and higher costs.
Reporting by Chavi Mehta and Tiyashi Datta in Bengaluru; Editing by Devika Syamnath and Sriraj Kalluvila
YOUR FINANCES
Canadians charging slightly less to primary credit cards than year ago: study
A new study shows Canadians are charging slightly less to their primary credit cards than they did a year ago as inflation remains high and buy now, pay later services grow more prominent.
Canadians are rethinking their financial goals post-pandemic: poll
A new study has found that the pandemic provided Canadians the opportunity to rethink their financial goals, with many moving, switching careers and planning to travel.
opinion | These are some of the best part-time jobs for university students in Canada
The average cost of tuition hit $6,693 for the 2021/2022 year, according to StatCan, and more students are scrambling for ways to afford the increased cost. Contributor Christoper Liew breaks down some of the best-paying jobs that provide an excellent opportunity for post-secondary students to earn a side income.
Statistics Canada says household debt ratio up in second quarter
Statistics Canada says the amount Canadians owe relative to their income moved higher in the second quarter as the level of debt grew faster than their earnings.
Rent-to-own: What is it and is it right for you?
Amid increasingly high mortgage and interest rates, Canadians struggling to get into the housing market are looking into rent-to-own as an alternative route to homeownership.
Canadians vulnerable to 'payment shock' as debt, interest rates climb, experts say
Canadians are increasingly vulnerable to 'payment shock' as higher household debt levels collide with oversized interest rate hikes.
How another Bank of Canada interest rate hike could impact your mortgage
Another interest rate hike from the Bank of Canada means some Canadians could be spending a lot more on their monthly mortgage bills.
Average non-mortgage debt tops $21,000, up 2.4 per cent from last year, Equifax says
Equifax Canada says total consumer debt rose to $2.32 trillion in the second quarter, up 8.2 per cent compared with the same quarter last year.
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The founder of outdoor gear company Patagonia, long known for environmental activism, says the company is transferring all of its voting shares into a trust “dedicated to fighting the environmental crisis and defending nature.”
In a letter posted on the privately-held company’s website on Wednesday night, founder Yvon Chouinard said the 50-year-old company would transfer 100% of the its voting stock to the Patagonia Purpose Trust and and 100% of its nonvoting stock had been given to the Holdfast Collective.
Each year after reinvesting profits back into the company, Chouinard said remaining funds will be distributed as a dividend to the trusts in their ongoing efforts to fight the climate crisis.
Chouinard said the other options for the Ventura, California company to dedicate itself to protecting the planet — selling the company and donating the proceeds; or taking the company public — were not viable for Patagonia’s ultimate goals.
“Instead of extracting value from nature and transforming it into wealth for investors, we’ll use the wealth Patagonia creates to protect the source of all wealth,” Chouinard wrote.
Patagonia makes outdoor clothing, gear and accessories for everything from skiing to climbing and camping.
Chouinard said he “never wanted to be a businessman,” and started Patagonia as a craftsman, making climbing gear for himself and his friends.
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HOUSTON, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- VerticalWeb.com CEO Beth Guide has been named by the Federation of Houston Professional Women as one of Houston's Women of Excellence for 2022.
The Federation of Houston Professional Women has this annual peer-selected award, which acknowledges women who have made exceptional contributions through leadership and mentorship as woman-led companies to Houston and its surrounding communities. "Vertical Web works diligently to improve the landscape for Houston businesses, and I am very humbled to receive such a prestigious award," said Guide.
Guide has been a part of FHPW for seven years through member organization Memorial Women's Business Network, a group of dynamic women who network and support each other's businesses in a spirit of professionalism and friendship.
"Both organizations have helped me grow as a community leader, and I could not have earned this award without their support," Guide continued. One of the most important services Vertical Web, a Digital Marketing Agency, provides to Houston is its commitment to mentoring business owners that do not know where to turn to get technology help. Because of this ongoing need, Guide continues to offer free SEO Classes to help support small business owners.
"We have expanded our role through the years and have now added SCORE Houston, as well as Houston Community College's Center for Entrepreneurship. I really wish I had a program like this when I started my businesses," Guide added. "It is extremely important to Houston to continue having a diverse economy that nurtures its small businesses as it continues to be a force on the world economic stage, and this is our small part in it," she concluded.
The induction ceremony will be held on Saturday September 16th at the Norris Conference Center at Town and Country.
Vertical Web is a full-service digital marketing agency serving Houston. Services include SEO, web design and development, as well as web hosting. They work with businesses of all sizes to host, promote and rank websites, as well as provide turnkey IT solutions for small to midsize businesses. Visit verticalweb.com to learn more.
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Nation's largest gastroenterology practice management company to pursue continued growth with new investment partner
DALLAS, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Waud Capital Partners, L.L.C. ("WCP") today announced it has completed its sale of a controlling ownership stake in GI Alliance ("GIA"), the nation's largest gastroenterology practice management company, as part of a physician-led buyout and recapitalization (the "Transaction"). The Transaction valued GIA at $2.2 billion and was facilitated by an investment from funds managed by Apollo (NYSE: APO). As a result of the Transaction, GI Alliance's physician owners, led by James Weber M.D., CEO, own a controlling equity interest in GIA.
GIA was formed in 2018 in partnership with WCP and has since established itself as the nation's largest independent gastroenterology practice management company through organic growth, ancillary investment, and practice affiliation. Since WCP's initial investment, GIA expanded from 2 to 14 states, and has become the partner of choice for high-quality gastroenterology practices looking to benefit from a national support services organization. GIA's strategic priority has been to maintain its unwavering commitment to support clinical quality, complemented by significant investment in corporate infrastructure and systems, while pursuing and maintaining its position of national leadership.
"GI Alliance has achieved significant growth over the past four years, and I appreciate the support from our committed partners at WCP," said Dr. Weber. "Our primary focus on delivering superior outcomes for patients has continued through this growth. With this transaction, GI Alliance will maintain its vision of being a physician-owned and physician-led organization. We are excited to embark on this new chapter with Apollo and we want to thank the WCP team for its contributions to our success."
David Neighbours, Partner at WCP, commented, "We are proud to have partnered with Dr. Weber and the team we helped him recruit over the last four years to build one of the leading physician practice management organizations in the U.S. across all medical specialties. Since the time of our initial investment, GIA has increased its physician count by nearly five times. This growth was achieved through both organic initiatives and highly targeted, strategic acquisitions. We wish GIA continued success with its new partner, Apollo."
Kirkland & Ellis LLP and Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP served as legal advisors to WCP and GI Alliance's practices and management, respectively. Latham & Watkins LLP and Houlihan Lokey acted as legal counsel and financial advisor, respectively, to the Apollo funds. Jefferies acted as financial advisor to GI Alliance and its shareholders. Greenhill & Co. acted as financial advisor to management and physician owners of GI Alliance. Blackstone & Ally led the lender group providing committed debt financing for the Transaction.
About GI Alliance
GI Alliance is a physician-led and majority physician-owned GI practice management company providing services to nearly 700 independent gastroenterologists operating in Texas, Arkansas, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Utah, and Washington. GIA-managed practices focus on providing the highest-quality care to their patients. In addition to providing operational support for practices, GIA is working to unite gastroenterologists nationwide by aligning interests and improving patient care. To learn more, please visit www.gialliance.com.
Waud Capital Partners is a growth-oriented private equity firm with total capital commitments of approximately $3.7 billion since its founding in 1993. WCP partners with exceptional management teams to build market-leading companies within two industries: healthcare services and software/technology. Since its founding, WCP has successfully completed more than 400 investments, including platform companies and follow-on opportunities. To learn more, please visit www.waudcapital.com.
Waud Capital Partners Contacts
Antonia Schwartz
312.676.8436
aschwartz@waudcapital.com
Gabriel Torres
312.676.8431
gtorres@waudcapital.com
GI Alliance Contact
Dee Dee Brooks
Head of Communications
(214) 998-3434
deedee.brooks@gialliance.com
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Bain & Company's findings focus on how feelings of inclusion are different for each group and how that can be applied to the diverse US Latino population
BOSTON, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Latino population is one of the fastest growing demographics in the US participating in the labor market at higher-than-average rates. They accounted for approximately 80% of workforce growth from 2010 to 2017, and they are expected to represent nearly one in three working-age Americans by 2050. Bain & Company research has found a culture of belonging and feeling included at work key to employee retention and success, but only approximately 25% of Latinos say they feel fully included at their workplaces.
Feelings of inclusion drive Latino workers employment choices from evaluation of a prospective employer, where 70% indicate this is a highly important factor to retention at their current job. Latino workers who do not feel particularly included are approximately two times more likely to quit than those who feel fully included, and nearly 45% of Latino workers who don't feel completely included are actively seeking new jobs (compared with approximately 25% of those who do feel fully included), according to Bain's Inclusive Organization Survey.
Prioritizing inclusion for all including Latino employees is crucial to the success of companies throughout the workforce, especially as they look to grow in the years to come. Determining how to successfully execute inclusion for a population is a harder problem to solve. Additionally, the Latino population is racially diverse, including people from over two dozen countries, many of whom speak different languages and have different experiences based on when their family came to the US and how long they've been here.
"Bain & Company's research found with such a diverse population, it is important to bring an intersectional lens that captures a multiplicity of identities (such as geography, gender, race or ethnicity, and seniority within the organization)," said Naiara De Leon, a Dallas-based partner and member of the firm's Latinx at Bain (LATBA) affinity group. "This allows companies to identify with the greatest precision what enablers will most likely increase inclusion for specific populations."
For example, by breaking down the Latino population with a multiplicity of identities, Latina women prefer behavioral enablers (grounded in everyday behaviors) and Latino men are more likely to be motivated by systemic enablers of inclusion (involving organizational processes and systems).
"I find team-building exercises to be a critical enabler of inclusion," said Saber Sherrard, a Dallas-based partner and global lead of LATBA. "More specifically, I always look forward to case team events as ways to learn people's stories. These discussions can foster authenticity and inclusivity, creating both a more engaging team environment and a higher-performing team."
With the Latino workforce rapidly growing, it is beneficial for companies to reflect on what enablers are being used to encourage feelings of inclusion and to make changes. Additionally, Latino leaders have an opportunity and a responsibility to push organizations to do the hard work of discovering what behaviors and systems will create more inclusion, and to ensure they are executed.
For more information or interview requests please contact:
Dan Pinkney, Bain & Company, tel. +1 646 562 8102, email: dan.pinkney@bain.com
Bain & Company is a global consultancy that helps the world's most ambitious change makers define the future.
Across 65 cities in 40 countries, we work alongside our clients as one team with a shared ambition to achieve extraordinary results, outperform the competition, and redefine industries. We complement our tailored, integrated expertise with a vibrant ecosystem of digital innovators to deliver better, faster, and more enduring outcomes. Our 10-year commitment to invest more than $1 billion in pro bono services brings our talent, expertise, and insight to organizations tackling today's urgent challenges in education, racial equity, social justice, economic development, and the environment. We earned a platinum rating from EcoVadis, the leading platform for environmental, social, and ethical performance ratings for global supply chains, putting us in the top 1% of all companies. Since our founding in 1973, we have measured our success by the success of our clients, and we proudly maintain the highest level of client advocacy in the industry.
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LAGOS, Nigeria, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Afrobeats superstar, recording artist, producer, and philanthropist, Davido announced his ARE WE AFRICAN YET? (A.W.A.Y) Festival, a one-day music festival and cultural experience taking place at the State Farm Arena in Atlanta on November 18, 2022. The Festival was conceived to promote and foster cultural exportation and collaboration between Africa and the world. Davido's level of collaboration with U.S based artists over the years has positioned him as a unique bridge between Africa and the world, a mantle that he has carried proudly.
The demand for African music, fashion and culture worldwide has restored a sense of pride to Africans everywhere with most yearning for a deeper connection with home, Davido reflectingly asks 'Are we African Yet?', are we willing to claim our heritage and our culture. The A.W.A.Y Festival is an opportunity that urges the African diaspora and non-Africans around the world to find and celebrate each other roots and experience African culture like never before.
Afrobeats music is currently one of the fastest growing music genre, gaining global recognition and some of Africa's finest artists will grace the stage alongside some of the hottest stars stateside, with headline performances by DAVIDO, KIZZ DANIEL, PHEELZ, LOJAY, VICTONY, OXLADE, BNXN, FOCALISTIC, AND MORE.
Tickets for the first ever A.W.A.Y Festival will go on sale beginning Friday, September 23, 2022 at Ticketmaster.com
"Growing up, we were often made to feel unworthy as Africans, so many of us didn't want to claim where we were from and in some cases denied our heritage. That's not the case anymore, we are proud Africans, and we want to invite people to enjoy our culture – our music, food and art. That's what The A.W.A.Y Festival is all about," said, A.W.A.Y Festival Founder, Davido.
ARE WE AFRICAN YET?'s mission is to unite communities, promote collaboration and celebrate the diversity and magic of African music and culture. It is an opportunity to build coalition between Africa and the world. Through the power of music, A.W.A.Y seeks to celebrate our shared parallels in culture, dance, clothing and provide an opportunity to empower everyone to build pride and claim their heritage proudly.
2022 has been a busy year for Afrobeat's icon Davido. The American born, Nigerian raised superstar saw his music streaming surpass +2 Billion and his social media footprint exceed +50M, making him the most followed Afrobeat's artist in the world. In April 2022, Davido released new projects including the multi-million streaming Stand Strong ft. Sunday Service Choir, the first single off his highly anticipated forthcoming album and his collaboration with FIFA on their 2022 World Cup Soundtrack "Hayya Hayya (Better Together)". Davido recently finished performing his sold-out, We Rise By Lifting Others World Tour.
Davido (born David Adedeji Adeleke) has cemented his position as a global force within the music scene, capped off by several milestones for the platinum artist including his second sold out show at London's O2 Arena and the release of his third studio album, 2020's A Better Time, the critically acclaimed follow up to his 1.2 billion streaming 2019 release, A Good Time. Released at the end of 2020, A Better Time debuted on Billboards 200 album chart garnering over 560 million streams and producing certified hits High featuring Adekunle Gold, Holy Ground Ft. Nicki Minaj and Shopping Spree ft. Chris Brown & Young Thug. Shopping Spree marked Davido's 10th entry on Billboard's World Digital Song Chart, it was highlighted by millions of video views and attracted the praise of Rolling Stone, HighSnobiety and Complex. In addition to both fan and critical acclaim, Davido's U.S. visibility continue to soar with thrilling national television appearances on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah and Jimmy Kimmel Live and magazine covers of Billboard, Flaunt, Dazed, L'Officiel to name a few. Davido has also been recognized with Billboard Music Award, BET Award, as well as several Grammy Nominations.
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A Jersey City woman is facing a murder charge after the man authorities say she stabbed multiple times in February died from injuries suffered in the attack.
Sykirrah Kirkland, 28, was arrested at the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office Wednesday and transported to the Hudson County jail pending her first court appearance, Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez said. Kirkland is charged with murder, possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose and unlawful possession of a weapon.
The victim, 29-year-old Omar Boatwright, was stabbed multiple times on Feb. 19 and treated at the Jersey City Medical Center. On July 9, Boatwright was readmitted to the hospital for complications relating to injuries from the stabbing and he died July 16.
Kirkland was previously charged by Jersey City police with assault, possession of a weapon, possession of a weapon in commission of a crime and criminal mischief.
The murder charge was only filed after the state Regional Medical Examiner’s Office determined that the cause of death was complications from a stab wound to the abdomen.
Police responded to 67 Lexington Ave. at 8:05 p.m. on Feb. 19 on the report of a fight, Suarez said. The officers found Boatwright with multiple stab wounds.
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Three members of Mexico’s army have been arrested for alleged connection to the disappearance of 43 students in southern Mexico in 2014, the government announced Thursday.
Assistant Public Safety Secretary Ricardo Mejia said that among those arrested was the commander of the army base in Iguala, Guerrero in September 2014, when the students from a radical teacher’s college were abducted. Mejía said a fourth arrest was expected soon.
Mejía did not give names of those arrested, but the commander of the Iguala base at that time was Col. José Rodríguez Pérez. Last month, a government truth commission re-investigating the case issued a report that named Rodríguez as being allegedly responsible for the disappearance of six of the students.
Interior Undersecretary Alejandro Encinas, who led the commission, said last month that six of the missing students were allegedly kept alive in a warehouse for days then turned over to Rodríguez who ordered them killed.
The report had called the disappearances a “state crime,” emphasizing that authorities had been closely monitoring the students from the teachers’ college at Ayotzinapa from the time they left their campus through their abduction by local police in the town of Iguala that night. A soldier who had infiltrated the school was among the abducted students, and Encinas asserted the army did not follow its own protocols and try to rescue him.
“There is also information corroborated with emergency 089 telephone calls where allegedly six of the 43 disappeared students were held during several days and alive in what they call the old warehouse and from there were turned over to the colonel,” Encinas said. “Allegedly the six students were alive for as many as four days after the events and were killed and disappeared on orders of the colonel, allegedly the then Col. José Rodríguez Pérez.”
Numerous government and independent investigations have failed to reach a single conclusive narrative about what happened to the 43 students, but it appears that local police pulled the students off several buses in Iguala that night and turned them over to a drug gang. The motive remains unclear. Their bodies have never been found, though fragments of burned bone have been matched to three of the students.
The role of the army in the students’ disappearance has long been a source of tension between the families and the government. From the beginning, there were questions about the military’s knowledge of what happened and its possible involvement. The students’ parents demanded for years that they be allowed to search the army base in Iguala. It was not until 2019 that they were given access along with Encinas and the Truth Commission.
Shortly after the truth commission report, the Attorney General’s Office announced 83 arrest orders, 20 for members of the military. Then federal agents arrested Jesús Murillo Karam, who was attorney general at the time.
Doubts had been growing in the weeks since the arrest orders were announced because no arrests had been announced. The administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has also formed a closer public bond with the military than any in recent memory.
The president pushed to shift the newly created National Guard under full military authority and his allies in congress are trying to extend the time for the military to continue a policing role in the streets to 2029.
On Thursday, Mejía also dismissed any suggestion that José Luis Abarca, who was mayor of Iguala at the time, would be released from prison after a judge absolved him of responsibility for the student’s abduction based on a lack of evidence. Even without the aggravated kidnapping charge, Abarca still faces other charges for organized crime and money laundering, and Mejía said the judge’s latest decision would be challenged. The judge similarly absolved 19 others, including the man who was Iguala’s police at the time.
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A look at the season ahead.
New York Fashion Week is back, and with lockdown as a thing of the past, this season the city has bucked digital presentations in favour of IRL events. NYC has been abuzz with editors, influencers and buyers, all eager to see what designers have envisioned for Spring/Summer 2023.
As far as trends are concerned, it seems that brands are continuing to turn to the noughties for inspiration. The popularity of low-waist silhouettes shows no sign of slowing down, while bubble skirts—the look seen all over It-girls on red carpets in 2006—have made a surprising resurgence. Favoured by the likes of Lauren Conrad and Paris Hilton over 15 years ago, the statement skirt is back in a big way, and this time it’s had a makeover.
Elsewhere, we’ve seen fringing given an evening update for 2023. The often casual embellishment now comes in crystal and beaded iterations, adorning the hemline of gowns and midi dresses. Designers evidently have celebrations on their minds, with party-ready dresses and separate appearing across several catwalks. For S/S23, it’s all about sequins, crystals and all that glitters.
Keep scrolling for a closer look at the top 5 trends taking over New York Fashion Week.
The top trends from New York Fashion Week:
1. Bubble skirts are back
Cast your mind back to the mid-noughties. It was a time when MySpace reigned supreme, The OC and Misha Barton were all over our TVs, and bubble skirts were the look du jour. While we might be leaving MySpace in the past, for Spring/Summer 2023, the voluminous, puff-ball skirts of yore are in the midst of a revival.
Seen on the runway at Khaite, Proenza Schouler, Ulla Johnson and more, the bubble skirts of 2023 have been reimagined with low-waist silhouettes but still feel like a complete throwback. My teenage self can’t take it.
2. Not your average wallflower
Each year during the spring/summer runway shows, we see the return of floral prints. And to quote on very famous fashion figure, the trend is less than… groundbreaking. However, for 2023, designers are taking florals one step further by swapping 2D prints for 3D floral designs and appliques. From Carolina Herrera to Prabal Gurung, Patbo to Lela Rose, designers have created sculptural flowers this season, adding them to skirts, tops, blazers and even swimwear.
3. Fringe benefits
Shedding its wild west connotations, this season fringe is back again and now it’s chicer than ever. By way of Jonathan Simkhai, Michael Kors and Proenza Schouler, this season fringe trims have been added to formal wear and created with crystal embellishments and beading. It’s a decidedly dressy take on the trend.
4. How low can you go
Low-waist silhouettes have been making a comeback for a few reasons now. We’ve seen the return of low-rise jeans and cargo trousers. For the Spring season, designers are reimaging the look across very, very low-waisted maxi skirts and tailored trousers. Peter Do and Tibi sent models down the runway in white, low-slung maxis, while LaQuan Smith opted for hip-skimming trousers in bold shades of pink, green and yellow.
5. All that glitters
With lockdowns now over, designers are clearly in the mood to have a good time. Party-ready pieces have been seen all over the runway with sequins, crystal and glitter embellishments making their mark at Brandon Maxwell, Tom Ford and Michael Kors. Tom Ford’s collection in particular had a retro feel with Studio 54-esque metallic ensembles and voluminous curly hairstyles to match.
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By Lucia Mutikani
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. retail sales unexpectedly rebounded in August as Americans ramped up purchases of motor vehicles and dined out more amid lower gasoline prices, but demand is cooling as the Federal Reserve aggressively raises interest rates to fight inflation.
Consumer spending, however, is likely to remain supported by persistent strength in the labor market, with other data on Thursday showing the number of people filing new claims for unemployment benefits last week fell to the lowest level in more than three months.
The data was among the last batch of reports released before the Fed's policy meeting next Wednesday. Together with a surprise increase in consumer prices in August, the reports likely give the U.S. central bank ammunition to deliver a third consecutive 75-basis-point rate hike.
"Demand appears to be slowing this quarter, but job losses look modest at this point of the economic cycle," said Christopher Rupkey, chief U.S. economist at FWDBONDS in New York. "The storm clouds of recession threatening the economy have blown further offshore and this will likely convince Fed officials to keep their foot down even harder on the brakes."
Retail sales increased 0.3% last month, also lifted by back-to-school shopping. But data for July was revised down to show retail sales falling 0.4% instead of being unchanged as previously reported. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast sales would be unchanged, with estimates ranging from as low as a 0.5% decline to as high as a 0.5% increase.
Retail sales, which are mostly goods and are not adjusted for inflation, increased 9.1% year-on-year in August.
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Some economists were disappointed that monthly sales did not reverse July's drop, despite consumers getting a reprieve from higher gasoline prices. They said this was a sign that stubbornly high inflation was forcing some cutbacks on discretionary spending as consumers focused on essential items.
"While consumers remain generally willing to spend, many families, especially those at the lower-to-median end of the income spectrum, are feeling increasingly constrained by elevated prices," said Gregory Daco, chief economist at EY-Parthenon in New York.
Though inflation remains a headache, it is unlikely becoming entrenched, with a separate report from the Labor Department on Thursday showing import prices declining for a second straight month in August, thanks to lower commodity prices and a strong dollar.
Gasoline prices have dropped about 20% from their record peak in June, according to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Sales at service stations tumbled 4.2% last month, while receipts at auto dealerships increased 2.8%.
Sales at clothing and general merchandise stores increased solidly, driven by back-to-school shopping. But online and mail-order retail sales fell 0.7% after being boosted in the prior month by Amazon's Prime Day promotion.
Receipts at furniture stores dropped 1.3%, while sales at building material and garden equipment retailers increased 1.1%. Sales at electronics and appliance stores dipped 0.1%. There were strong gains in sales at hobby, musical instrument and book stores. Receipts at bars and restaurants, the only services category in the retail sales report, increased 1.1%.
Stocks on Wall Street were lower. The dollar was steady against a basket of currencies. U.S. Treasury prices fell.
TIGHT LABOR MARKET
Excluding automobiles, gasoline, building materials and food services, retail sales were unchanged last month. Data for July was revised lower to show these so-called core retail sales increasing 0.4% instead of 0.8% as previously reported.
Core retail sales correspond most closely with the consumer spending component of gross domestic product. A steady pace of consumer spending and strong export growth helped to limit the drag on the economy from a moderation in the pace of inventory accumulation in the second quarter.
Economists estimated that inflation-adjusted core retail sales fell at least 0.5% in August. This together, with July's downward revision, likely kept real consumer spending on a moderate growth path. Economic growth estimates for the third quarter are mostly below a 2% annualized rate.
The economy contracted at a 0.6% rate last quarter after declining at a 1.6% pace in the January-March period. But it is not in recession, with the income side of the growth ledger showing a 1.4% rate of expansion in the second quarter, thanks to labor market resilience.
A third report from the Labor Department showed initial claims for state unemployment benefits fell 5,000 to a seasonally adjusted 213,000 for the week ended Sept. 10, the lowest level since the end of May.
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Despite the hand wringing about a possible recession next year due to higher borrowing costs, there has not been a surge in layoffs. Economists say companies are hoarding workers after experiencing difficulties hiring in the past year as the COVID-19 pandemic forced some people out of the workforce in part because of prolonged illness caused by the virus.
There were 11.2 million job openings at the end of July, with two jobs for every unemployed person.
"We expect employers to slow the pace of hiring before conducting any major layoffs," said Nancy Vanden Houten, lead U.S. economist at Oxford Economics in New York.
While tighter monetary policy has not significantly slowed the labor market, manufacturing is starting to feel the pinch. Production at factories barely increased in August, a fourth report from the Fed showed.
Manufacturing's struggles were amplified by a fifth report from the Philadelphia Fed showing factory activity in the mid-Atlantic region contracting in September. In New York State, manufacturing held steady this month, but at weaker levels, a sixth report from the New York Fed showed.
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"Supply chain constraints and price pressures appear to be easing, which is a positive for manufacturing," said Rubeela Farooqi, chief U.S. economist at High Frequency Economics in White Plains, New York. "But factory activity is likely to moderate in response to slowing demand amid a rising interest rate backdrop."
(Reporting by Lucia Mutikani; Editing by Paul Simao and Andrea Ricci)
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Official: Biden to meet Friday with families of Brittney Griner, Paul Whelan
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden plans to meet at the White House on Friday with family members of WNBA star Brittney Griner and Michigan corporate security executive Paul Whelan, both of whom remain jailed in Russia, senior administration officials told The Associated Press.
The separate meetings are to be the first in-person encounter between Biden and the families and are taking place amid sustained but so far unsuccessful efforts by the administration to secure the Americans’ release. The administration said in July that it had made a “substantial proposal” to get them home, but despite plans for the White House meetings, there is no sign that a breakthrough is imminent.
Griner has been held in Russia since February on drug-related charges. She was sentenced last month to nine years in prison after pleading guilty and has appealed the punishment. Whelan is serving a 16-year sentence on espionage-related charges that he and his family say are false. The U.S. government regards both as wrongfully detained, placing their cases with the office of its top hostage negotiator.
Friday’s meetings, which both families have long sought, are intended to underscore the administration’s commitment to bringing home Griner, Whelan and other Americans jailed abroad, as well as to “connect with them on a human level as they undergo an ordeal that the Russian government has imposed on them,” said one of the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity as the meetings had not yet been publicly announced.
Negotiations have been complicated by the tense relations between Washington and Moscow over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken took the unusual step of announcing two months ago that the administration had made a substantial proposal to Russia. Since then, the administration has followed up in multiple ways to press its offer and get serious negotiations underway, one of the administration officials said Thursday.
The Russians, who have indicated that they are open to negotiations but have chided the Americans to conduct them in private, have come back with suggestions that are not within the administration’s ability to deliver, said the official, declining to elaborate. But the U.S. has been following up through the same channels that produced an April prisoner swap that brought Marine veteran Trevor Reed home from Russia, the official said.
The administration has not provided specifics about its proposal, but a person familiar with the matter previously confirmed it had offered to release Viktor Bout, a convicted Russian arms dealer now imprisoned in the U.S. It is also possible that, in the interests of symmetry, Russia might insist on having two of its citizens released from prison.
Biden spoke by phone in July with Griner’s wife, Cherelle, and with Whelan’s sister, Elizabeth, but both families have also requested in-person meetings. On Friday, Biden plans to speak at the White House with Cherelle Griner and with the player’s agent in one meeting and with Elizabeth Whelan in the other.
The meetings are being done separately so as to ensure that each family has private time with the president. But the fact that they are happening on the same day shows the extent to which the two cases have become intertwined since the only deal that is presumably palatable to the U.S. is one that gets both Americans — a famous WNBA player and a Michigan man who until recently was little known to the public — home together at the same time,
In the past several months, representatives of both families have expressed frustration over what they perceived as a lack of aggressive action and coordination from the administration.
Cherelle Griner, for instance, told The Associated Press in an interview in June that she was dismayed after the failure of a phone call from her wife that was supposed to have been patched through by the American Embassy in Moscow left the couple unable to connect on their fourth anniversary.
Whelan’s relatives have sought to keep attention on his case, anxious that it has been overshadowed in the public eye by the focus on the far more prominent Griner — a two-time Olympic gold medalist and seven-time WNBA all-star. They also conveyed disappointment when Whelan, despite having been held in Russia since December 2018, was not included in a prisoner swap last April that brought home another detained American, Reed.
Friday’s meeting was scheduled before news broke this week of an unconnected trip to Russia by Bill Richardson, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations who has been a veteran emissary in hostage and detainee cases. Administration officials reacted coolly to that trip, with State Department spokesman Ned Price saying Wednesday that dialogue with Russia outside the “established channel” risks hindering efforts to get Griner and Whelan home.
Administration officials say work on hostage and detainee cases persist regardless of whether a family receives a meeting with the president, though there is also no question that such an encounter can help establish a connection. Biden met in the Oval Office in March with Reed’s parents after the Texas couple stood with a large sign outside the White House calling for their son’s release.
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Abbott accused O'Rourke of wanting to defund the police; O'Rourke says claims are false
DALLAS - The two candidates for Texas governor address the issue of funding for police departments while at campaign stops Wednesday.
Gov. Greg Abbott pitched himself as the candidate who best supports law enforcement in Texas.
The Republican incumbent campaigned alongside members of the Fort Worth Police Officer’s Association on Wednesday.
He pledged to reform the state’s bail system if he’s re-elected to make it tougher for people accused of violent crimes to be released.
Texas: The Issue Is.... State senator makes urgent call for crime control
He also accused his Democratic challenger, Beto O'Rourke, of being hostile toward law enforcement. In TV campaign ads, the governor accuses O’Rourke of wanting to defund the police.
"Beto’s approach to defund the police is an extraordinarily dangerous approach, a deadly approach. And when we in the capital saw that a city in Texas defunded the police, we stood together and said, ‘Not on our watch will we allow our law enforcement officers to be defunded.’ That’s exactly why they passed and I signed a law that will defund any city that defunds the police," Abbott said.
O’Rourke denies that he supports defunding any police department.
While at a campaign stop in The Woodlands, north of Houston, he blasted the governor for accusing him of not supporting law enforcement.
"When he tries to scare you about defund the police, know this. I fully support funding law enforcement, making sure they have the training necessary and also the accountability that breeds the kind of trust that we need to protect everyone in every single community," he said.
O’Rourke ripped his Republican opponent for failing to address gun safety after the Uvalde school shooting.
He also promised to reverse the state’s near-total ban on abortion in Texas and improve the state’s power grid. The two issues are cornerstones of his campaign.
About 300 people attended O’Rourke’s campaign event in The Woodlands, which is part of a solidly Republican Montgomery County.
A new poll of registered Texas voters shows Abbott leading O'Rourke by 5 percentage points in this year's race for governor. Many polls taken since July have shown Abbott with a 5 to 7-point lead.
The two candidates are scheduled to debate each other on Sept. 20 at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley in Edinburg.
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Large sinkhole opens up in Pleasant Grove
DALLAS - Dallas Police and Dallas Fire Rescue are blocking an area around a large sinkhole in Pleasant Grove.
The several-feet deep hole opened up at Lake June Road and Prairie Creek Road.
The hole took up most of the center lane.
What Causes Sinkholes?
According to the United States Geological Survey a sinkhole is an area of ground that has no natural external surface drainage. When it rains, the water stays inside the sinkhole and typically drains into the subsurface.
Sinkholes are common where the rock below the land surface is limestone, carbonate rock, salt beds, or rocks that can naturally be dissolved by groundwater circulating through them. As the rock dissolves, spaces develop underground. Sinkholes are dramatic because the land usually stays intact for a while until the underground spaces just get too big. If there is not enough support for the land above the spaces, then a sudden collapse of the land surface can occur.
The most damage from sinkholes tends to occur in Florida, Texas, Alabama, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Pennsylvania.
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(The Conversation) – The United States may regard itself as a “leader of the free world,” but an index of development released in July 2022 places the country much farther down the list.
In its global rankings, the United Nations Office of Sustainable Development dropped the U.S. to 41st worldwide, down from its previous ranking of 32nd. Under this methodology – an expansive model of 17 categories, or “goals,” many of them focused on the environment and equity – the U.S. ranks between Cuba and Bulgaria. Both are widely regarded as developing countries.
The U.S. is also now considered a “flawed democracy,” according to The Economist’s democracy index.
As a political historian who studies U.S. institutional development, I recognize these dismal ratings as the inevitable result of two problems. Racism has cheated many Americans out of the health care, education, economic security and environment they deserve. At the same time, as threats to democracy become more serious, a devotion to “American exceptionalism” keeps the country from candid appraisals and course corrections.
‘The other America’
The Office of Sustainable Development’s rankings differ from more traditional development measures in that they are more focused on the experiences of ordinary people, including their ability to enjoy clean air and water, than the creation of wealth.
So while the gigantic size of the American economy counts in its scoring, so too does unequal access to the wealth it produces. When judged by accepted measures like the Gini coefficient, income inequality in the U.S. has risen markedly over the past 30 years. By the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s measurement, the U.S. has the biggest wealth gap among G-7 nations.
These results reflect structural disparities in the United States, which are most pronounced for African Americans. Such differences have persisted well beyond the demise of chattel slavery and the repeal of Jim Crow laws.
Scholar W.E.B. Du Bois first exposed this kind of structural inequality in his 1899 analysis of Black life in the urban north, “The Philadelphia Negro.” Though he noted distinctions of affluence and status within Black society, Du Bois found the lives of African Americans to be a world apart from white residents: a “city within a city.” Du Bois traced the high rates of poverty, crime and illiteracy prevalent in Philadelphia’s Black community to discrimination, divestment and residential segregation – not to Black people’s degree of ambition or talent.
More than a half-century later, with characteristic eloquence, Martin Luther King Jr. similarly decried the persistence of the “other America,” one where “the buoyancy of hope” was transformed into “the fatigue of despair.”
To illustrate his point, King referred to many of the same factors studied by Du Bois: the condition of housing and household wealth, education, social mobility and literacy rates, health outcomes and employment. On all of these metrics, Black Americans fared worse than whites. But as King noted, “Many people of various backgrounds live in this other America.”
The benchmarks of development invoked by these men also featured prominently in the 1962 book “The Other America,” by political scientist Michael Harrington, founder of a group that eventually became the Democratic Socialists of America. Harrington’s work so unsettled President John F. Kennedy that it reportedly galvanized him into formulating a “war on poverty.”
Kennedy’s successor, Lyndon Johnson, waged this metaphorical war. But poverty bound to discrete places. Rural areas and segregated neighborhoods stayed poor well beyond mid-20th-century federal efforts.
In large part that is because federal efforts during that critical time accommodated rather than confronted the forces of racism, according to my research.
Across a number of policy domains, the sustained efforts of segregationist Democrats in Congress resulted in an incomplete and patchwork system of social policy. Democrats from the South cooperated with Republicans to doom to failure efforts to achieve universal health care or unionized workforces. Rejecting proposals for strong federal intervention, they left a checkered legacy of local funding for education and public health.
Today, many years later, the effects of a welfare state tailored to racism is evident — though perhaps less visibly so — in the inadequate health policies driving a shocking decline in average American life expectancy.
Declining democracy
There are other ways to measure a country’s level of development, and on some of them the U.S. fares better.
The U.S. currently ranks 21st on the United Nations Development Program’s index, which measures fewer factors than the sustainable development index. Good results in average income per person – $64,765 – and an average 13.7 years of schooling situate the United States squarely in the developed world.
Its ranking suffers, however, on appraisals that place greater weight on political systems.
The Economist’s democracy index now groups the U.S. among “flawed democracies,” with an overall score that ranks between Estonia and Chile. It falls short of being a top-rated “full democracy” in large part because of a fractured political culture. This growing divide is most apparent in the divergent paths between “red” and “blue” states.
Although the analysts from The Economist applaud the peaceful transfer of power in the face of an insurrection intended to disrupt it, their report laments that, according to a January 2022 poll, “only 55% of Americans believe that Mr. Biden legitimately won the 2020 election, despite no evidence of widespread voter fraud.”
Election denialism carries with it the threat that election officials in Republican-controlled jurisdictions will reject or alter vote tallies that do not favor the Republican Party in upcoming elections, further jeopardizing the score of the U.S. on the democracy index.
Red and blue America also differ on access to modern reproductive care for women. This hurts the U.S. gender equality rating, one aspect of the United Nations’ sustainable development index.
Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Republican-controlled states have enacted or proposed grossly restrictive abortion laws, to the point of endangering a woman’s health.
I believe that, when paired with structural inequalities and fractured social policy, the dwindling Republican commitment to democracy lends weight to the classification of the U.S. as a developing country.
American exceptionalism
To address the poor showing of the United States on a variety of global surveys, one must also contend with the idea of American exceptionalism, a belief in American superiority over the rest of the world.
Both political parties have long promoted this belief, at home and abroad, but “exceptionalism” receives a more formal treatment from Republicans. It was the first line of the Republican Party’s national platform of 2016 and 2020 (“we believe in American exceptionalism”). And it served as the organizing principle behind Donald Trump’s vow to restore “patriotic education” to America’s schools.
In Florida, after lobbying by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, the state board of education in July 2022 approved standards rooted in American exceptionalism while barring instruction in critical race theory, an academic framework teaching the kind of structural racism Du Bois exposed long ago.
With a tendency to proclaim excellence rather than pursue it, the peddling of American exceptionalism encourages Americans to maintain a robust sense of national achievement – despite mounting evidence to the contrary.
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DENVER — A Colorado man was one of two unlucky people who developed nerve damage after a monkeypox infection, and federal officials urged doctors to watch for the rare but serious complication.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published a report Tuesday describing the cases of two previously healthy men who had to be hospitalized because of nervous system complications from monkeypox. Almost 22,000 people nationwide have tested positive for monkeypox.
Most people with monkeypox develop a rash, which is often painful, and some have flu-like symptoms. Some develop only one or two lesions, and may not realize they have the virus.
Serious complications from monkeypox are rare. One person was confirmed to have died from monkeypox in California, and a person being treated for the virus died in Texas, though it’s not yet clear if that was the cause of death.
The Colorado patient was a man in his 30s who identified as gay and had no known health conditions before his infection. About nine days after he first noticed flu-like symptoms, he developed unexplained weakness and numbness in his legs and his left arm, and he was hospitalized.
An MRI found spots in his brain and spinal cord where something had attacked the protective covering on the nerves. It’s not yet clear if the virus directly invaded the patient’s nervous system, or if an immune overreaction was responsible for the damage.
While the Colorado patient’s weakness improved, he still had to go to a rehabilitation facility and was using an assistive device to walk one month later. (An assistive device could be something like a walker or cane, though the CDC’s report didn’t specify.)
The other patient, a man in his 30s who lived in Washington, D.C., had an even rougher time. He had to be placed on a ventilator, though he eventually recovered enough to go to a rehabilitation facility.
Both patients received multiple drugs, including Tpoxx, an antiviral that was developed to treat smallpox but is being tried against monkeypox. Both improved after a treatment that filtered their blood plasma, though that could be coincidental.
The CDC urged doctors caring for patients with monkeypox to track and report complications from the virus. The current outbreak was identified less than six months ago, so there isn’t much data about how rare neurological complications are, or how best to treat to them.
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Gov. Pete Ricketts on Thursday urged Nebraskans to take advantage of millions of dollars of potential property tax relief that remains available to them through a new state income tax credit on local property taxes paid to support public schools and community colleges.
"We're going to pay 30 percent of your K-12 and community college tax bill," Ricketts said at a news conference called to spotlight the new opportunity for property tax relief that requires taxpayer action.
State Tax Commissioner Tony Fulton said "60 percent of what can be claimed has been claimed" on state tax forms, but many Nebraskans still may not be aware of the new tax relief opportunity.
Sen. Lou Ann Linehan of Elkhorn, chairwoman of the Legislature's Revenue Committee and the catalyst for enactment of 2022 legislation that will deliver an estimated $3.4 billion of tax relief to Nebraskans through the 2027 tax year, hailed the additional property tax relief provision and suggested there is more to come.
Linehan noted that additional property tax relief will also be provided when voter-approved casino gambling begins in Nebraska. Seventy percent of the revenue from a 20% tax on gross gambling revenue will be allocated to local property tax relief.
Ricketts said the purpose of the news conference hailing this year's tax relief package, which already had been widely reported, was to spotlight the state income tax credit on local property taxes paid in order to make sure Nebraska taxpayers take advantage of their new opportunity for property tax relief.
That's the largest piece of $12.7 billion in total tax relief that will be provided to Nebraskans by 2027, the governor said. Some $10 billion of that total represents property tax relief.
"It's up to taxpayers to make sure they take advantage of the income tax credit," Ricketts said.
Fulton said taxpayers will still have three years to claim this year's credit.
Linehan praised the governor and a number of her legislative colleagues, specifically including members of the Revenue Committee, for enactment of LB873 earlier this year.
That tax reduction package will deliver comprehensive tax relief to Nebraskans, including a phased-out end to state income taxation of Social Security benefits.
“If you don’t have unclaimed property, you likely know someone who does,” said the director of the Unclaimed Property Division. “It’s your money; we’re just the custodian.”
Rep. Mike Flood has called for a U.S. Department of Commerce investigation of the use of Huawei hardware near military installations in Nebraska, including Offutt Air Force Base.
Proposed abolition of secret ballots to select legislative leadership and committee chairpersons could lead to a "de facto partisan body," a critic warns.
More than 200 Nebraskans are listed on the leaked membership rolls of an anti-government extremist group accused of playing a key part in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
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Official: Biden to meet Friday with families of Brittney Griner, Paul Whelan
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden plans to meet at the White House on Friday with family members of WNBA star Brittney Griner and Michigan corporate security executive Paul Whelan, both of whom remain jailed in Russia, senior administration officials told The Associated Press.
The separate meetings are to be the first in-person encounter between Biden and the families and are taking place amid sustained but so far unsuccessful efforts by the administration to secure the Americans’ release. The administration said in July that it had made a “substantial proposal” to get them home, but despite plans for the White House meetings, there is no sign that a breakthrough is imminent.
Griner has been held in Russia since February on drug-related charges. She was sentenced last month to nine years in prison after pleading guilty and has appealed the punishment. Whelan is serving a 16-year sentence on espionage-related charges that he and his family say are false. The U.S. government regards both as wrongfully detained, placing their cases with the office of its top hostage negotiator.
Friday’s meetings, which both families have long sought, are intended to underscore the administration’s commitment to bringing home Griner, Whelan and other Americans jailed abroad, as well as to “connect with them on a human level as they undergo an ordeal that the Russian government has imposed on them,” said one of the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity as the meetings had not yet been publicly announced.
Negotiations have been complicated by the tense relations between Washington and Moscow over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken took the unusual step of announcing two months ago that the administration had made a substantial proposal to Russia. Since then, the administration has followed up in multiple ways to press its offer and get serious negotiations underway, one of the administration officials said Thursday.
The Russians, who have indicated that they are open to negotiations but have chided the Americans to conduct them in private, have come back with suggestions that are not within the administration’s ability to deliver, said the official, declining to elaborate. But the U.S. has been following up through the same channels that produced an April prisoner swap that brought Marine veteran Trevor Reed home from Russia, the official said.
The administration has not provided specifics about its proposal, but a person familiar with the matter previously confirmed it had offered to release Viktor Bout, a convicted Russian arms dealer now imprisoned in the U.S. It is also possible that, in the interests of symmetry, Russia might insist on having two of its citizens released from prison.
Biden spoke by phone in July with Griner’s wife, Cherelle, and with Whelan’s sister, Elizabeth, but both families have also requested in-person meetings. On Friday, Biden plans to speak at the White House with Cherelle Griner and with the player’s agent in one meeting and with Elizabeth Whelan in the other.
The meetings are being done separately so as to ensure that each family has private time with the president. But the fact that they are happening on the same day shows the extent to which the two cases have become intertwined since the only deal that is presumably palatable to the U.S. is one that gets both Americans — a famous WNBA player and a Michigan man who until recently was little known to the public — home together at the same time,
In the past several months, representatives of both families have expressed frustration over what they perceived as a lack of aggressive action and coordination from the administration.
Cherelle Griner, for instance, told The Associated Press in an interview in June that she was dismayed after the failure of a phone call from her wife that was supposed to have been patched through by the American Embassy in Moscow left the couple unable to connect on their fourth anniversary.
Whelan’s relatives have sought to keep attention on his case, anxious that it has been overshadowed in the public eye by the focus on the far more prominent Griner — a two-time Olympic gold medalist and seven-time WNBA all-star. They also conveyed disappointment when Whelan, despite having been held in Russia since December 2018, was not included in a prisoner swap last April that brought home another detained American, Reed.
Friday’s meeting was scheduled before news broke this week of an unconnected trip to Russia by Bill Richardson, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations who has been a veteran emissary in hostage and detainee cases. Administration officials reacted coolly to that trip, with State Department spokesman Ned Price saying Wednesday that dialogue with Russia outside the “established channel” risks hindering efforts to get Griner and Whelan home.
Administration officials say work on hostage and detainee cases persist regardless of whether a family receives a meeting with the president, though there is also no question that such an encounter can help establish a connection. Biden met in the Oval Office in March with Reed’s parents after the Texas couple stood with a large sign outside the White House calling for their son’s release.
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The Howard County Board of Education pushed back its work session and initial vote on the superintendent’s proposed capital budget for fiscal 2024 to Sept. 29 to allow more time to consider public feedback.
The vote was scheduled to take place at the Sept. 22 school board meeting. A. public hearing and work session were also scheduled for that meeting date and Howard County Public School System board member Christina Delmont-Small argued that the agenda was too crowded.
“It’s not efficient, it doesn’t look good and, quite frankly, we can do better,” Delmont-Small said at a meeting last week, adding that just because all three processes had occurred on the same date in years past doesn’t mean the board has to continue to do things that way.
School board Chair Vicky Cutroneo agreed and the board immediately worked to find a new date for the work session and vote. The public hearing stays on its previously announced date of Sept. 22.
“It’s disingenuous to have a public hearing the night that we’re making a vote,” Cutroneo said. “I think going forward we’re going to change how we do this.”
In addition to the completion of high school 13 in Jessup, major items included in HCPSS Superintendent Michael Martirano’s proposed $76.4 million capital budget included renovations and additions at Oakland Mills Middle School, Dunloggin Middle School, Faulkner Ridge Center for pre-kindergarten as well as construction of the county’s 43rd elementary school.
The board must submit a priority list of projects to the state by Oct. 4 for review in order to be eligible for funding.
Community members must register online to testify at the public hearing or may submit written testimony. The public may attend work sessions, but not participate in them.
“As an individual board member, [shifting the vote] would help me because sometimes the community has some really good ideas, but I don’t know how feasible they are without being able to … look at the data and talk to my colleagues,” Delmont-Small said at the Sept. 8 board meeting.
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Ukrainian troops keep up pressure on fleeing Russian forces
KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) - Ukrainian troops piled pressure on retreating Russian forces Tuesday, pressing deeper into occupied territory and sending more Kremlin troops fleeing ahead of the counteroffensive that has inflicted a stunning blow on Moscow´s military prestige.
As the advance continued, Ukraine´s border guard services said the army took control of Vovchansk - a town just 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Russia seized on the first day of the war. Russia has acknowledged that it recently withdrew troops from areas in the northeastern region of Kharkiv.
Russian troops were also pulling out from Melitopol, the second largest city in Ukraine´s southern Zaporizhzhia region, the city´s pre-occupation mayor said. His claim could not immediately be verified.
Melitopol has been occupied since early March. Capturing it would give Kyiv an opportunity to disrupt Russian supply lines between the south and the eastern Donbas region, the two major areas where Moscow-backed forces hold territory.
Melitopol Mayor Ivan Fedorov wrote on Telegram that the Russian troops were heading toward Moscow-annexed Crimea. He said columns of military equipment were reported at a checkpoint in Chonhar, a village marking the boundary between the Crimean peninsula and the Ukrainian mainland.
In the newly freed village of Chkalovske in the Kharkiv region, Svitlana Honchar said the Russians' departure was sudden and swift.
A Ukrainian soldier shows a V-sign atop a vehicle in Izium, Kharkiv region, Ukraine, Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022. Ukrainian troops piled pressure on retreating Russian forces Tuesday, pressing deeper into occupied territory and sending more Kremlin troops fleeing ahead of the counteroffensive that has inflicted a stunning blow on Moscow's military prestige. (AP Photo/Kostiantyn Liberov)
"They left like the wind," Honchar said Tuesday after loading cans of food aid into her car. "They were fleeing by any means they could."
Some Russians appeared to have been left behind in the hasty retreat. "They were trying to catch up," she said.
It was not yet clear if the Ukrainian blitz, which unfolded after months of little discernible movement, could signal a turning point in the nearly seven-month war.
But the country's officials were buoyant, releasing footage showing their forces burning Russian flags and inspecting abandoned, charred tanks. In one video, border guards tore down a poster that read, "We are one people with Russia."
Momentum has switched back and forth before, and Ukraine's American allies were careful not to declare a premature victory since Russian President Vladimir Putin still has troops and resources to tap.
In the face of Russia's largest defeat since its botched attempt to capture Kyiv early in the war, Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said troops were hitting back with "massive strikes" in all sectors. But there were no immediate reports of a sudden uptick in Russian attacks.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Ukrainian forces were carrying out "stabilization measures" across recaptured territory in the south and east, and rounding up Russian troops, "saboteurs" and alleged collaborators.
In his nightly address, Zelenskyy also pledged to restore normalcy in the liberated areas.
"It is very important that together with our troops, with our flag, ordinary, normal life enters the de-occupied territory," he said, citing an example of how people in one village had already begun receiving pension payments after months of occupation.
Reports of chaos abounded as Russian troops pulled out - as well as claims that they were surrendering en masse. The claims could not be confirmed.
Ukrainian Deputy Minister of Defense Hanna Maliar said Kyiv is trying to persuade even more Russian soldiers to give up, launching shells filled with flyers ahead of their advance.
"Russians use you as cannon fodder. Your life doesn´t mean anything for them. You don´t need this war. Surrender to Armed Forces of Ukraine," the flyers read.
In the wake of the retreat, Ukrainian authorities moved into several areas to investigate alleged atrocities committed by Russian troops against civilians.
Since Saturday, the Kharkiv regional police have repeatedly reported that local law enforcement officers have found civilian bodies bearing signs of torture across territories formerly held by Russia. It was not possible to verify their statements.
On Tuesday, regional police alleged that Russian troops set up "a torture chamber" at the local police station in Balakliya, a town of 25,000, that was occupied from March until last week.
In a Facebook post, the head of the police force´s investigative department, Serhii Bolvinov, cited testimony from Balakliya residents and claimed that Russian troops "always kept at least 40 people captive" on the premises.
Meanwhile, military analysts sought to understand the blow sustained by Moscow.
British intelligence said that one premier force, the 1st Guards Tank Army, had been "severely degraded" during the invasion, along with the conventional Russian forces designed to counter NATO.
"It will likely take years for Russia to rebuild this capability," the British officials said.
The setback might renew Russia's interest in peace talks, said Abbas Gallyamov, an independent Russian political analyst and former speechwriter for Putin.
But even if Putin were to sit down at the negotiating table, Zelenskyy has made it clear that Russia must return all Ukrainian territory, including Crimea, Gallyamov said.
"This is unacceptable to Moscow, so talks are, strictly speaking, impossible," he said.
Putin´s previous actions "have restricted his room to maneuver," so he "wouldn´t be able to put anything meaningful on the table."
For talks to be possible, Putin "would need to leave and be replaced by someone who´s relatively untarnished by the current situation," such as his deputy chief of staff, the Moscow mayor or the Russian prime minister, Gallyamov said.
The retreat did not stop Russia from pounding Ukrainian positions. It shelled the city of Lozova in the Kharkiv region, killing three people and injuring nine, said regional Gov. Oleh Syniehubov.
And Ukrainian officials said Russia kept up shelling around Europe´s largest nuclear facility, where fighting has raised fears of a nuclear disaster. The Nikopol area, which is across the Dnieper River from the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, was shelled six times during the night, but no injuries were immediately reported, said regional Gov. Valentyn Reznichenko.
Strikes have also continued unabated on the city of Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest and one that has been hammered by artillery for months.
Among Kharkiv's battle-scarred apartment buildings, one man who returned to feed the birds struck a defiant tone, saying that the success of the Ukrainian counteroffensive would likely prompt harsh Russian retaliation against civilian targets. But he said the Kremlin would not succeed in intimidating ordinary Ukrainians.
Putin "will strike so we don´t have water, electricity, to create more chaos and intimidate us," said Serhii who only gave his first name. "But he will not succeed because we will survive, and Putin will soon croak!"
The counteroffensive has provoked rare public criticism of Putin´s war in Russia. Some of the war's defenders played down the idea that the success belonged to Ukraine, blaming instead Western weapons and fighters for the losses.
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Arhirova reported from Kyiv.
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A Ukrainian soldier holds up the Russian flag to demonstrate in Izium, Kharkiv region, Ukraine, Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022. Ukrainian troops piled pressure on retreating Russian forces Tuesday, pressing deeper into occupied territory and sending more Kremlin troops fleeing ahead of the counteroffensive that has inflicted a stunning blow on Moscow's military prestige. (AP Photo/Kostiantyn Liberov)
Wounded Ukrainian soldiers are seen inside a vehicle in the freed territory of the Kharkiv region, Ukraine, Monday, Sept. 12, 2022. Ukrainian troops retook a wide swath of territory from Russia on Monday, pushing all the way back to the northeastern border in some places, and claimed to have captured many Russian soldiers as part of a lightning advance that forced Moscow to make a hasty retreat. (AP Photo/Kostiantyn Liberov)
A Ukrainian soldier stands on a tank on the road in the freed territory of the Kharkiv region, Ukraine, Monday, Sept. 12, 2022. Ukrainian troops retook a wide swath of territory from Russia on Monday, pushing all the way back to the northeastern border in some places, and claimed to have captured many Russian soldiers as part of a lightning advance that forced Moscow to make a hasty retreat. (AP Photo/Kostiantyn Liberov)
Oleh Lutsai, 70, stands in front of the entrance of the damaged building where he lives in the freed village of Hrakove, Ukraine, Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022. Lutsai has been living in the basement for months together with other neigbhors. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
Liudmyla Dmyttruk, 67, lights up an oil lamp, as she shows the basement where she is living together with her neighbors in the freed village of Hrakove, Ukraine, Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022.(AP Photo/Leo Correa)
A Ukrainian soldier helps his wounded fellow soldier on the road in the freed territory of the Kharkiv region, Ukraine, Monday, Sept. 12, 2022. Ukrainian troops retook a wide swath of territory from Russia on Monday, pushing all the way back to the northeastern border in some places, and claimed to have captured many Russian soldiers as part of a lightning advance that forced Moscow to make a hasty retreat. (AP Photo/Kostiantyn Liberov)
Ukrainian soldiers stand on the road in the freed territory of the Kharkiv region, Ukraine, Monday, Sept. 12, 2022. Ukrainian troops retook a wide swath of territory from Russia on Monday, pushing all the way back to the northeastern border in some places, and claimed to have captured many Russian soldiers as part of a lightning advance that forced Moscow to make a hasty retreat. (AP Photo/Kostiantyn Liberov)
Ukrainian military vehicles move on the road in the freed territory of the Kharkiv region, Ukraine, Monday, Sept. 12, 2022. Ukrainian troops retook a wide swath of territory from Russia on Monday, pushing all the way back to the northeastern border in some places, and claimed to have captured many Russian soldiers as part of a lightning advance that forced Moscow to make a hasty retreat. (AP Photo/Kostiantyn Liberov)
Ukrainian military vehicles move on the road in the freed territory of the Kharkiv region, Ukraine, Monday, Sept. 12, 2022. Ukrainian troops retook a wide swath of territory from Russia on Monday, pushing all the way back to the northeastern border in some places, and claimed to have captured many Russian soldiers as part of a lightning advance that forced Moscow to make a hasty retreat. (AP Photo/Kostiantyn Liberov)
A Ukrainian soldier atop a military vehicle on the road in the freed territory of the Kharkiv region, Ukraine, Monday, Sept. 12, 2022. Ukrainian troops retook a wide swath of territory from Russia on Monday, pushing all the way back to the northeastern border in some places, and claimed to have captured many Russian soldiers as part of a lightning advance that forced Moscow to make a hasty retreat. (AP Photo/Kostiantyn Liberov)
Residents pass by a burnt building in the center of the freed town of Izium, in Kharkiv region, Ukraine, Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022. Ukrainian troops piled pressure on retreating Russian forces Tuesday, pressing deeper into occupied territory and sending more Kremlin troops fleeing ahead of the counteroffensive that has inflicted a stunning blow on Moscow's military prestige. (AP Photo/Kostiantyn Liberov)
Ukrainian soldiers stand on a destroyed bridge in Izium, Kharkiv region, Ukraine, Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022. Ukrainian troops piled pressure on retreating Russian forces Tuesday, pressing deeper into occupied territory and sending more Kremlin troops fleeing ahead of the counteroffensive that has inflicted a stunning blow on Moscow's military prestige. (AP Photo/Kostiantyn Liberov)
A Ukrainian flag waves above the City Hall in Izium, Kharkiv region, Ukraine, Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022. Ukrainian troops piled pressure on retreating Russian forces Tuesday, pressing deeper into occupied territory and sending more Kremlin troops fleeing ahead of the counteroffensive that has inflicted a stunning blow on Moscow's military prestige. (AP Photo/Kostiantyn Liberov)
A field is covered with craters left by the shelling close to Izium, Kharkiv region, Ukraine, Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022. Ukrainian troops piled pressure on retreating Russian forces Tuesday, pressing deeper into occupied territory and sending more Kremlin troops fleeing ahead of the counteroffensive that has inflicted a stunning blow on Moscow's military prestige. (AP Photo/Kostiantyn Liberov)
A Ukrainian soldier stands in Izium, Kharkiv region, Ukraine, Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022. Ukrainian troops piled pressure on retreating Russian forces Tuesday, pressing deeper into occupied territory and sending more Kremlin troops fleeing ahead of the counteroffensive that has inflicted a stunning blow on Moscow's military prestige. (AP Photo/Kostiantyn Liberov)
A Ukrainian soldier takes a rest on the steps of the City Hall in Izium, Kharkiv region, Ukraine, Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022. Ukrainian troops piled pressure on retreating Russian forces Tuesday, pressing deeper into occupied territory and sending more Kremlin troops fleeing ahead of the counteroffensive that has inflicted a stunning blow on Moscow's military prestige. (AP Photo/Kostiantyn Liberov)
A Ukrainian soldier stands on the Russian flag in Izium, Kharkiv region, Ukraine, Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022. Ukrainian troops piled pressure on retreating Russian forces Tuesday, pressing deeper into occupied territory and sending more Kremlin troops fleeing ahead of the counteroffensive that has inflicted a stunning blow on Moscow's military prestige. (AP Photo/Kostiantyn Liberov)
In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Military Unit Kholodnyi Yar, destroyed military vehicles are seen on a road close to Izium, Kharkiv region, Ukraine, Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022. Ukrainian troops piled pressure on retreating Russian forces Tuesday, pressing deeper into occupied territory and sending more Kremlin troops fleeing ahead of the counteroffensive that has inflicted a stunning blow on Moscow's military prestige.(Ukrainian Military Unit Kholodnyi Yar, Iryna Rybakova via AP)
In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, A man takes his bike in a deserted street in the centre of the freed town of Izium, Kharkiv region, Ukraine, Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022. Ukrainian troops piled pressure on retreating Russian forces Tuesday, pressing deeper into occupied territory and sending more Kremlin troops fleeing ahead of the counteroffensive that has inflicted a stunning blow on Moscow's military prestige.(Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)
A Ukrainian soldier sits atop a Russian armoured personnel carrier in Izium, Kharkiv region, Ukraine, Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022. Ukrainian troops piled pressure on retreating Russian forces Tuesday, pressing deeper into occupied territory and sending more Kremlin troops fleeing ahead of the counteroffensive that has inflicted a stunning blow on Moscow's military prestige. (AP Photo/Kostiantyn Liberov)
A destroyed bridge in Izium, Kharkiv region, Ukraine, Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022. Ukrainian troops piled pressure on retreating Russian forces Tuesday, pressing deeper into occupied territory and sending more Kremlin troops fleeing ahead of the counteroffensive that has inflicted a stunning blow on Moscow's military prestige. (AP Photo/Kostiantyn Liberov)
A Ukrainian soldier lifts a carpet that covered the Russian ammunition in Izium, Kharkiv region, Ukraine, Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022. Ukrainian troops piled pressure on retreating Russian forces Tuesday, pressing deeper into occupied territory and sending more Kremlin troops fleeing ahead of the counteroffensive that has inflicted a stunning blow on Moscow's military prestige. (AP Photo/Kostiantyn Liberov)
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ABBOTT PARK, Ill., Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The board of directors of Abbott (NYSE: ABT) today declared a quarterly common dividend of 47 cents per share.
This marks the 395th consecutive quarterly dividend to be paid by Abbott since 1924. The cash dividend is payable Nov. 15, 2022, to shareholders of record at the close of business on Oct. 14, 2022.
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How Huey Lewis and the News Fashioned Their First No. 1 LP, ‘Sports’
In the summer of 1983, Huey Lewis and the News were just another mildly successful rock band with a couple of mid-sized hits to their name. One year later, they were on top of the album charts, all over Top 40 radio and in heavy rotation on MTV.
The catalyst for this massive surge in popularity? Sports. Released on Sept. 15, 1983, the band's third LP was one of the biggest records of 1984: In fact, it would have been the year's overall best seller if not for a little thing called Michael Jackson's Thriller. On the way to racking up an impressive seven million in sales, the album spun off no fewer than five Top 40 singles, starting with "Heart and Soul" and "I Want a New Drug" and continuing through "The Heart of Rock & Roll," "If This Is It" and "Walking on a Thin Line."
As it turns out, the album's radio-ready sound was very much a deliberate decision on the part of the band. "It was really a record for its time," Lewis later recalled in an interview with Billboard. "In the '80s, the way radio was programmed, if you didn't have a hit record, you weren't going to be able to make any more records. That was it, period. So our priority was to come up with hit singles. Every tune we aimed for radio, 'cause we didn't know which one was going to be a hit. We just knew we needed a frickin' hit, period. And fortunately we got 'em."
Telling Rolling Stone that their first album "didn't do anything" and Picture This brought them their first hit ("Do You Believe in Love"), he admitted, "Our future was anything but secure. This was the third album on our contract, and we knew we had to have a hit."
Listen to Huey Lewis & the News' 'The Heart of Rock & Roll'
The Sports aesthetic was as brilliant as it was simple. As Lewis put it in the same Rolling Stone interview, "Our style was to take something old and make it modern. Around 1980 we heard Steely Dan's 'Hey Nineteen,' which was cut with the [electronic] Linn Drum. Our idea was to take the modern technologies of the day as kind of the cake, if you will, and then have the icing be saxophones and voices and old-school stuff. It was the old and the new at once."
"The old and the new at once" pretty much sums up Sports in a nutshell: Although the band's sound was still unmistakably rooted in the pub rock style that had attracted Lewis early attention from the likes of Elvis Costello and Nick Lowe, the record's production was tricked out with just enough of a slick '80s sheen that the singles fit comfortably alongside the synth-powered hits of the day. Although the added ear candy wasn't always in tune with the tenor of the songs – the sharply written Vietnam vet's lament "Walking on a Thin Line" ended up like just any other mid-tempo Top 40 hit from the era – it was absolutely the right sound for the era.
But even with that '80s production hanging over the record, Sports still holds up surprisingly well even decades later; unlike subsequent hit records like Fore! and Small World, which catered more heavily to radio at the expense of the group's bar band roots, Sports is a weirder and edgier album than it's often remembered as, folding an eclectic variety of styles into a track listing that left room for darker stuff like "Thin Line" and the sneering "You Crack Me Up" while still serving up broad-based hits like "If This Is It." If anything, the formula was a little too successful. By the end of the decade, radio programmers (and more than a few listeners) were suffering from News burnout, and the band seemed trapped in the sound that had once been such a tremendous asset.
Still, all's well that ends well. Even if Lewis and the News only ended up entering the studio sporadically later on, they remained a popular draw on the road. They memorably celebrated the 30th anniversary of Sports with a well-received tour, featuring complete performances of the album.
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Abilene area forecast: Thursday September 15th
No big time cool down will be headed our way anytime soon in fact through the extended forecast period, those afternoon highs will continue to be in the 90’s. That means plenty of work for the old AC! For today, we will see sunny skies and an afternoon high of 93 degrees. The winds will be out of the south and breezy at 10-15 mph. For tonight, we will see mainly clear skies and an overnight low down around 68 degrees. The winds will be out of the south southeast at 10-15 mph.
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Abilene area forecast: Wednesday September 14th
We will continue to see more of the same we have had the last several days in the forecast as those afternoon temperatures will be very close to seasonal. Expect more 90’s for afternoon highs. For today, we will see sunny skies and a high around 95 degrees. The winds will be breezy from the south at 5-10 with gusts up to 20 mph. For tonight, we will look for mostly clear skies and a mild 68 degrees. The winds will be breezy at 10-15 mph from the south southeast.
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French bulldog gives rare birth to 13 puppies
MORNING VIEW, Ky. (WXIX/Gray News) – A French bulldog in Northern Kentucky achieved something incredibly rare – giving birth to 13 puppies.
According to the website French Bulldog Owner, the average French bulldog will have around three puppies in a litter. Having seven puppies is rare, the website claims.
The dog’s owner, Jamie Walker, was expecting her dog to go into labor and noticed she was larger than most pregnant dogs.
“We went to the vet, and he said, ‘She might have six or seven [puppies],’ and he came back out with a basket behind me full of 13 puppies,” Walker told WXIX. “And that’s just unheard of.”
Walker is now wondering if his French bulldog is a record-setter.
Regardless, the mother and her puppies are healthy. The pups will be adopted to new homes when they are ready.
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Tearful mourners waiting to see the Queen and pay tribute to 'the nation's grandmother' 'exchange numbers and promise to stay in touch' after meeting in nine-hour queues
- Queue to see Queen as she lies in state at Westminster is now 4.2 miles with an expected wait of nine hours
- Up to a million mourners are expected to queue up to 10 miles to see the Queen's coffin over next four days
- Met Police officers, volunteers and stewards are all managing the queue, which has reached three miles
- It comes after tens of thousands lined streets yesterday to watch procession from Buckingham Palace
- Government's live queue-tracker for the line can be viewed via YouTube by clicking here
- The Queen's funeral: All the latest Royal Family news and coverage
Tearful mourners waiting to see the Queen lying-in-state today have exchanged numbers and promised to stay in touch after meeting in the nine-hour-long queues.
The queue now stretches for 4.2 miles along the bank of the River Thames to Tower Bridge with an estimated wait of nine hours to see the beloved late monarch.
Those in it are now calling it the 'Elizabeth Line' in a nod to the London rail route opened by the Queen in June, one of her final public engagements. But MPs and peers are able to book time slots to avoid the main queue.
Well-wishers have shared cheery camaraderie, egg sandwiches and biscuits during their wait outside, as people queued through the night to pay their final respects to the late monarch inside the Palace of Westminster. Hymns played across the Southbank, with many joining in song.
Shopkeepers have been giving out biscuits along the route and welcoming people in as those waiting in line have made friends with others next to them.
By midday today, the queue was four miles long and stretched past Tower Bridge into Bermondsey, as officials expect some 400,000 people to view the coffin over the coming days. It was at 2.6 miles as of 8am this morning.
This morning, more than 1.3 million people logged on to watch the queue-tracker for the line.
There will likely be a cut-off point for new arrivals in the queue this weekend, as stewards calculate the waiting times and number of people hoping to pay their respects to the late monarch.
At the back of the queue, time estimates are varying minute by minute depending on how quickly people walk, and the number of people in front.
By lunchtime on Thursday, it was expected to take between eight and 10 hours to reach Westminster Hall.
Jeni (52) and Meghan Hamilton (26), a mother and daughter from Northern Ireland, flew to London especially to the Queen lying in state
Many, such as Jeni and her daughter Meghan Hamilton from Ireland, had travelled from abroad to join the queue.
The mother-and-daughter duo said they caught a flight at 4am yesterday to begin the long journey to see their much-loved Queen.
They said: 'We just want to be a part of something.'
Asked how they think they'll feel when they reach Westminster Hall, they said: 'It will be very emotional and surreal and we don't think we'll quite be able to believe it.'
James Lawler, 55, from Stamford, worked for 22 years in the RAF (right), said he was willing to queue for 10 hours but no more, because it's his day off work today. He went with his sister Debbie Arnold, 60 (second from left)
The mother and daughter travelled with friends, who have left the queue due to its length, and are instead visiting London's landmarks.
James Lawler, 55, from Stamford, worked for 22 years in the RAF. He met the Queen a couple of times and said that she was 'lovely, as she was to everyone', which is the reason why he has decided to pay his respects.
Mr Lawler said that he is willing to queue for a maximum of 10 hours, as he has a day off work.
He is making progress along the route with his sister Debbie Arnold, 60, who said that she's willing to queue for five hours.
Speaking from the end of the queue, Anita Biela, 34, said that she will 'stay in the queue until she gets there' and 'doesn't mind how long' she waits.
Anita Biela, 34, told MailOnline she wants to 'pay respects' and see the Queen as it's a 'part of history'
Charlotte Lindsey (left) and mother Anita. Anita came from Hertfordshire and picked Charlotte up from Bournemouth last night
Ms Biela, who moved to the UK ten years ago from Poland, estimates that it could take between two and three hours, believing that it is her 'one and only chance' to see the Queen.
Standing outside the Globe Theatre, on the bank of the River Thames, Charlotte and her mother Anita Lindsey said that the queue was moving quickly and is 'very organised'.
At some points, the pair have had to run to 'keep up', and have had time to pause for a coffee break elsewhere.
Ms Lindsey said that her great-grandfather met the Queen, with the duo feeling the need to pay their respects.
Jeanette and Nicola Williams from York have been in the lying-in-state queue since 9.45am. Jeanette said that she had lunch with the Queen once.
'I didn't think I would be able to speak but she made me feel like I'd known her my whole life,' she said. 'She was just amazing and acted like she knew me personally.
'She spoke to my husband and then came back to speak to me. She did her duty but did it with such charm.'
Jeanette said that she had also met the late Prince Philip and described him as a 'joy'.
Left to right: Nicola Williams, Jeanette Williams, Hayley Mableson (who they met in the queue)
By lunchtime, the group were expecting to wait a further three hours, as they have friends following the coverage at home, sending them updates.
They came down to London because it's a 'historic event' and it would be 'absolutely amazing' to see.
The duo have booked a train home for 8pm, but are able to take a 10pm train if they miss the first. They said that people in the queue have been pretty chatty, with it '[bringing] everyone together'.
Silke Dollmieir, 49, arrived in London this morning after flying from Germany.
She described the queue as 'so British', adding that she wanted to be part of the 'historical event'.
From left: John Mills, Fiona Whelan and Silke Dollmeir
Paul Dabrowa, 42, from Australia, said that he has met fellow Australians in the queue.
He said that the late monarch was 'very popular' adding: 'The Queen did a lot for us.
'We won't see something like this again. It's the end of an epoch and we're seeing the last of the World War Two generation.
'I think people who don't come and see the Queen lying-in-state will regret it because it's the only chance to do so.'
Catherine Sutcliffe, Charlotte Johnson and Alicia Kaill travelled to the capital from Yorkshire on Thursday morning.
Speaking while standing next to the London Eye, Ms Kaill said: 'I think it will be breathtaking when we get there and we'll all have a moment of realisation.
Paul Dabrowa, 42, from Australia, that the late monarch was 'very popular'
'I'm sure it will be quiet beforehand but when I get out I'll just want to go around again.
'I feel like I'm here on behalf of my family and friends and even people at work so it feels very representative for me to be here and see something so important.'
She met Ms Sutcliffe, a nurse who had to swap her shift, and Ms Johnson on the train to London this morning.
The trio said that they had originally planned to see how long the queue was when they arrived, and tour the city if they felt it was too long.
Upon joining the queue, they said that the time passed quickly because of all the people they had spoken to.
From left: Alicia Kaill, Catherine Sutcliffe and Charlotte Johnson
The UK chief commissioner of the Scouts said the mood among the crowds waiting to pay their respects was 'friendly and poignant'.
Carl Hankinson, who is among volunteers to monitor the queue to Westminster Hall, said Scouts had been 'on their feet 12 hours' a day to help ensure the smooth running of admissions.
He said there was 'no expectation' among Scouts that they would later be allowed to skip the queue to pay their own respects, but that they were 'very keen' to be able to visit the coffin.
Mr Hankinson said: '[The crowd atmosphere] is poignant, very quiet and respectful - some people are tired, of course, but, generally, a great atmosphere.'
The Scout, who once met the Queen at a garden party, said: 'She was fantastic in every way - she was interested in Scouts, she was conversational, very encouraging and very supportive of young people.'
Mark Lucas, 51, from Kansas, decided to join the queue today, after arriving in the UK on Monday.
'People back home were saying I should do it and I really wanted to do it on their behalf,' he said.
'I don't really know what to expect but I'm sure I'll be moved. I think it will be different for me than for others because I'm not from England.
'As Americans we still loved the Queen. She wasn't our Queen but in a way she kind of was.'
The music professor brought a book with him to read at slow points in the queue, but said that he has not had a chance to turn a page, as people have been 'so friendly', chatting with him instead.
The queue now stretches for 4.2 miles along the bank of the River Thames to Tower Bridge. Pictured: People at the end of the line today
He added that at some points, the queue has moved so quickly he has sprinted to catch up.
Two friends who met in the Royal Navy two decades ago said they'd been 'crying most days' since hearing the news of Queen Elizabeth II's death last Thursday at Balmoral Castle.
Annette Penfold and Tina Gray said they'd been travelling for hours on the early train from Portsmouth - but Tina forgot her medals.
Annette, 62, is now retired but joined up in 1978 as a Young Wren in the Women's Royal Naval Services - and today she wore the branch's tartan, and seven medals on her Royal Navy jacket.
She was proud to have become the first female Command Warrant Officer, a cane carrying position, which led her to meet Her Majesty a couple of times.
Annette sat just behind the Queen at the Royal Jubilee, and described Elizabeth II's pride and professionalism in front of her entire Navy.
She said: 'We're very much a Royalist family, we're a family within the Navy too. That's what we are.
'I'm still crying most days, I don't think there's been a day that I haven't.
'She was, personally, an absolute inspiration. I think we're going to miss her massively, and my whole family feels exactly the same, so I'm not just here on my own - today I'm representing my family, four generations who have all served.'
Tina, 59, served during the Gulf War as one of the first female officers at sea, on HMS Battalax.
Stewards near the end of the queue said waiting times were between eight and ten hours; others said they had gone from start to finish in around five hours
She said said: 'People say we are all subservient to the Queen, and of course we are, but she was also subservient to us.
'Everything she did was for the good of the country, her people, for the Commonwealth as well, and for the entire world.
'I think that's where the world is looking, what a remarkable woman, and we will never see the likes of her again.'
'So we're here today, hoping we get through before we have to go back to work tomorrow - only a day's leave.
'I think it will be very, very poignant and moving. I'll probably shed a tear, but I want to pay my respects.
'It will be different for every person, but at the moment the crowd is wonderful. There's a wonderful atmosphere - you can't beat Britain, and it's at its best when everyone's queueing.
'Nobody's jumping in, everybody's friendly, and enjoying it. But that will change when we get to Westminster, because we will become solemn and everyone will realise why we are here, and the gravity of the situation will hit us.'
Tina was a very young Wren Officer when she met the Queen, and described being completely gob-smacked.
'I was a deer stuck in the headlights thinking I don't know what to say, and she just smiled.
'I think everybody says you feel like you're the only person in the world when she's talking to you, and I can't explain that, but it's true.'
K Foong, a 60-year-old Bomb Disposal Officer in the Royal Engineers, was solemn as he queued to say goodbye to his boss after six wars and 16 years serving her and her country, paying tribute to the Queen as 'the whole world's grandmother'.
The queue stretched along the river bank as strangers made new friends and chatted with those standing next to them
Smartly dressed and donning four medals, K said the Royal Family would never talk about themselves, they would always ask about you.
'I feel sombre and sad saying goodbye to the boss, I saw her when I was eight years old then again at Sandhurst at a Sovereign's Parade, the Queen was inspecting all of us.
'Six wars later, I'm here saying goodbye to her. They're all very polite people, they would always ask about you and would never talk about themselves.
'They're interested in you, and they make you talk, and make you comfortable.
'She's the world's grandmother, the whole world's grandmother, some of the Commonwealth countries are having days off.
'It's incredible what one lady can do. I will feel deep sadness when I enter Westminster Hall, deep sadness but great honour to have served her.'
Everyone had sentimental memories of the Queen and predicted a fall to solemnity as they neared the front of the queue.
One couple weren't put off by the reported 30-hour waits and left Birmingham at 4am to experience the 'memory for life.'
Accountant Ravi Sembi and self-employed Parvi Sembi joined the queue at Southwark Cathedral at 8.30am and reached Westminster Bridge, two and a half miles away, at 11am.
The exhaustion was hitting them but they said the queues are as much of an experience as the end destination, but added people are keeping themselves to themselves.
Ravi said: 'The early night has started to catch up with us a bit now, but we've got supplies.
'The queue's been a bit stop start, but there have been some fast bits.
'It's going to be surreal in there. The Queen's like the grandmother to the nation, so it's going to feel like a personal loss.
'The James Bond skit, and the Paddington skit stand out, seeing another side of her. But she's always been a constant. King Charles has some big boots to fill.
'We're having some renovation work done at home, and it was just happenstance that I had this time off. But to be honest, I would have taken leave anyway.
'The queue is an experience in itself, we've only met the people either side of us though. Everyone's keeping themselves to themselves, very British.'
Parvi said: 'I don't think anyone can replace her, there's nobody like her.'
- The Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport's queue tracker can be viewed via YouTube here.
An emotional Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson wipes away tears as she sees the Queen's coffin
Theresa May and her husband Sir Philip were in Westminster Hall with mourners. Mrs May curtseyed while Mr May bowed, ducking so low she was briefly out of sight
Members of the public file past the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II, draped in the Royal Standard with the Imperial State Crown and the Sovereign's orb and sceptre, lying in state on the catafalque in Westminster Hall,
An emotional mourner wipes her tears after leaving Westminster Hall and viewing the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II
A woman dries her eyes after leaving Westminster Hall and paying her respects to the late monarch, Queen Elizabeth II
A sea of people filled the area close to Tower Bridge as they continue to queue to see the late monarch's coffin
People queue to pay their respect to the late Queen Elizabeth II during the lying-in-state at Westminster Hall in London today
The queue for members of the public for the Queen's lying-in-state is back to Tower Bridge this morning. More than three miles from Parliament
Members of the public in the queue at Butlers Wharf, central London, close to London Bridge
People wait in line between London Bridge and Tower Bridge to see the Queen
The largely black-clad crowd were solemn and pensive as they flowed into the ancient hall where chandeliers and spotlights illuminated the scene beneath the medieval timber roof.
As hundreds of ordinary people of all ages filed past the coffin of the long-reigning monarch, many wiped their eyes with tissues.
Some bowed, some curtsied and some simply took a moment to look at the extraordinary scene.
Former prime minister Theresa May and her husband Philip were among those paying their respects to the Queen at Westminster Hall.
Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson cried as she joined similarly emotional mourners including Theresa May in the affectionately-named 'Elizabeth Line' of tens of thousands of people queuing for more than four miles to see the Queen's coffin.
Britain's greatest Paralympian wiped away tears in Westminster Hall as awestruck others from Britain and abroad wept, prayed and saluted after queuing for up to 48 hours to pay their respects.
Theresa May and her husband Sir Philip also came to see the Queen's coffin after the former prime minister described the 'tremendous privilege' of knowing the monarch and even barbecuing with Her Majesty. She dipped into a final low curtsey as they reached the casket.
By 1.30pm on Thursday, the queue had passed Tower Bridge, reaching Bermondsey Beach, with stewards estimating that it would take eight and a half hours to reach Westminster Hall — with the longest wait times expected at the weekend.
By lunchtime, those leaving the Palace of Westminster after paying their respects had queued for approximately five hours, joining at 8am.
Yvonne Joseph, 57, and Curlette Edwards, 61, from London
People who brought food and drink with them are unable to take it into the building, with sealed packets left behind being donated to a local foodbank.
Yvonne Joseph, 57, and Curlette Edwards, 61, from London joined well-wishers at 8am on Thursday morning.
'It didn't take that long, about 45 minutes to an hour,' they said. 'We went through the accessibility queue, it's for people with disabilities that are seen and unseen. It was a totally separate queue. Everything ran in order.
'When we arrived we were fortunate to see the Changing of the Guard so we have an extra moment to pay our respects to the Queen.
'We wanted to come and pay our respects because it's just a historic moment, the Queen is like a mother and a grandmother to all of us.'
Neil Miller, 58, from Buckinghamshire, said that he wanted to pay his respects, because he has 'watched the Queen's speech ever year of my life at 3pm on Christmas Day'.
'She has done a great job for the country, and I wanted to come and pay my respects and say thank you,' he said.
'At 6.55am this morning, I joined the back of the queue and it's been fine. Lots of banter and talk. I was told 10 hours I would be in the queue.'
Esbil Wong, 70, is from South Africa and was visiting her son in the UK when she heard news of the Queen's death.
She said she came to pay her respects because 'I have been following her all my life.' Ms Wong said she joined the queue at around 7am and had been queuing for about three hours so far.
She said: 'We are really honoured, I couldn't miss this opportunity to be part of history. I love her.'
Ros Cook, 53, from Epsom, came to the lying-in-state for her elderly mother.
'I came here to London with my Mum for the Golden Jubilee, and my Mum is now 84, and to queue today would be too much for her, so I felt I wanted to come today for her,' she explained.
'I grew up as an army child moving a lot and the Queen has been a part of my family I suppose, as my Dad pledged allegiance to her all those years ago — I wanted to come and pay my respects to her.'
Ms Cook, who joined the queue at 7am had been queuing for about three hours 10am before she reached the Palace of Westminster.
On the queue, she said: 'It has been really well organised and hasn't taken too long. I think I just came here with no expectations of how long it's going to take because then you can't be disappointed.'
Stewards on the route have advised that from Lambeth Bridge, it could take well-wishers anywhere between two and four hours to reach Westminster Hall.
Fraser and Tricia Campbell from St Albans. The couple queued for five hours
Fraser and Tricia Campbell from St Albans said that they came because they wanted to 'show their recognition for all that [the Queen has] done.'
Mr Campbell, 68, said: 'I have always had a high regard for the Queen, I think increasingly in recent years no less because of the way she has been so open regarding her Christian faith. And I have really admired her for that.
'There's also a personal level as well, I'm conscious that my late mother was a very loyal follower of the Queen and she would have wanted to come here today. It's been very special to be here.'
Mrs Campbell, 65, added: 'It was a real privilege to be here and we coincided with the changing of the guard which was very interesting to see. It was just very moving. I just said 'rest in peace' because she has done an amazing job.'
The couple queued for five hours from 5.30am.
Mother and daughter Clara, 15, and Kate Chetwood, 50, from Sussex queued for around six hours
They continued: 'We thought we could come and see how long it was. We got up very early and left St Albans at half past four and said we would see how long the queue was.
'Thinking about it yesterday, we realised that no matter how long it took we really wanted to part of the moment. I'm not sure there was an upper limit on how long we would have queued because it is a small price to pay.'
Mother and daughter Kate Chetwood, 50, and Clara, 15, from Sussex queued for around six hours to pay their respects.
Clara said: 'I think the Queen was a very special person. I'm not sure there will be another monarch like her. Her Platinum Jubilee celebration was a big part of the beginning of our summer. It's a big occasion that is important to commemorate.'
Kate described entering Westminster Hall where the Queen's coffin lies and being 'struck by a huge overwhelming sense of the grandeur and the mystery of it all.'
'I just wanted to say thank you to her for a job incredibly well done,' Ms Chetwood said.
The duo said that they made friends during their queuing and shared stories with others.
'Everyone is here for the same reasons,' Clara added.
Rupi Chawlia, 45, from Wiltshire started queuing at 5.50am and has visited the Queen's coffin by 10.30am on Thursday.
She said: 'I felt it was important being a woman. She was such a role model for all women, not just in this country but across the world. And what I love about her the most was her calmness, she made people feel comfortable. That's a true skill to have.'
She said that the queue was 'constantly moving', as people walked the planned route.
'We made some new friends in the queue and we're going for a drink,' she added. 'It's been great, the socialising aspect of it, and that's what really made the time go by.
'You're chatting to people, about your lives, any connections you may have had with the royal family which we found out today some of us have met the Queen. I have, I've been to one of her tea parties.
'It's her legacy, the community coming together. For me, it's one big celebration of her wonderful role'.
Members of the public stand in the queue, opposite the skyscrapers of the City of London, as they wait in line this morning
People queue to view Queen Elizabeth II's lying in state near the Tate Modern in London at first light this morning
The first members of the public pay their respects as the vigil begins around the coffin at Westminster Hall yesterday
Members of the public stand in the queue today as they wait in line to pay their respects to the late Queen Elizabeth II
The queue for members of the public for the Queen's lying-in-state is back to Tower Bridge this morning
People queue to view Queen Elizabeth II's lying in state near the Tate Modern in London at first light this morning
Kaya Mar, an artist from London, said that he painted a picture of the Queen as 'a tribute to Her Majesty'.
'I painted Prince Charles in a sombre mood,' he said.
Mr Mar added that it was 'frightening what is around the corner' now that the Queen had passed, but said 'you have to be optimistic and prayer for the best. I will really miss her.'
Mother and son, Emma Peden, 43, and Brandon, 12, from Peckham decided to come and pay their respects after watching the news last night.
They joined the accessibility queue at around 9am, with it taking around one and a half hours, describing the experience as 'very efficient'.
Brandon said: 'I wanted to see what it was like. It is a once in a lifetime opportunity.'
Ms Peden described that atmosphere in Westminster Hall as 'moving', adding: 'We are not going to have a Queen again. It was calm and peaceful, I can't even put words to it. It was emotional. You get a wave of emotion.'
Rosalind Devlin, 59, a Navy wren, said: 'It was one of the greatest moments of my life, we're all ex-forces so to be able to pay our last respects to the Queen was a privilege.
'It was exhausting but ultimately very rewarding. It was well worth waiting eight hours for.'
Patrick and Lynn Keane from Stockton-on-Tees caught a 7.30am train from Darlington and arrived in London at 10.30am, arriving at Westminster Hall by 12.30pm after waiting in the accessibility queue.
Mr Keane, 67, a military veteran who has met the Queen several times, said: 'I came to pay my respects to the Queen. She was the boss.
'She was the only person we have known as head of state. We are not going to see a Queen again in our lifetime or our children's lifetime — 70 years on the throne, it is an outstanding achievement.'
Mrs Keane, 56, said: 'We went through the disabled queue, which we knew was going to be slightly shorter. The organisation is just fantastic, just unbelievable.'
She also said it was 'very emotional' as she entered Westminster Hall to pay her respects.
'I didn't think it would be that emotional. I was struck by how powerful her presence was,' she said.
Mr Keane said it took his 'breath away'.
John Peach, 63, from Peterborough said: 'Like so many people, I can't remember any other sovereign and she worked so hard, and was working up until the day before she died.'
Kim Rickard, 61, from West Sussex said that she just wanted to 'say thank you' to the late monarch
He said the moment he paid his respects was 'quite magical', adding: 'It is a very sad occasion but an occasion I think is worth coming up for.'
Charlotte Minchell, 66, from Bromley, south-east London, said that she queued for five hours before reaching the Palace of Westminster.
'Hearing about how long the queue was didn't put me off,' she explained. 'I was surprised by how little time it did take. I think it's right for it to be emphasised how long it could be because it's an awful long time for people who maybe aren't so fit or so strong to stand.'
She added: 'You talk to the people around you and it was quite interesting because we all seem to share the same values.
'The other thing that surprised me is everyone seemed to have some sort of connection with the Queen, some event in their life or personal reason for being here. It was lovely.'
Kim Rickard, 61, from West Sussex said that she just wanted to 'say thank you' to the late monarch.
She said: 'She has been that golden thread through my whole life, a sort of presence that is not always incredibly tangible but at key times you became very much aware of her as our Queen.
'To me she was an incredibly good woman. Everyone has said her sense of duty, her dignity, her dedication was incredible, an example to us all. I just wanted to say thank you. I will never know another queen in my lifetime and it seems important to honour that.'
Ms Rickard joined the queue just after 7.30am and reached Westminster Hall after roughly six hours.
'I thought today was going to be the best day to come because I think the crowds are going to start descending en masse in huge volumes from probably tomorrow onwards, probably quite early in the morning,' she said.
'So I thought this was my best chance to give it a go and I'm glad I've done it.'
Members of the public stand in the queue, opposite the skyscrapers of the City of London, as they wait in line this morning
Members of the public stand in the queue today as they wait in line to pay their respects to the late Queen Elizabeth II
Members of the public stand in the queue today as they wait in line to pay their respects to the late Queen Elizabeth II
Former Prime Minister Theresa May arrived in the Palace of Westminster with her husband just before 8am this morning
The largely black-clad crowd were solemn and pensive as they flowed into the ancient hall, with many moved to tears
A man in his uniform saluted the Queen's coffin this morning as he passed through Westminster Hall
A woman clasps her hands in prayer as she bows her head towards the late monarch's coffin in the Palace of Westminster
A woman blows a kiss as she pays her respects to the late Queen Elizabeth II in the Palace of Westminster
Queues of people fill metal railings as they line up to visit the late monarch's coffin in Westminster
At London Bride, people continue to move along the growing queue to pay their respects to the late monarch
Well-wishers move down the queue as they wait to visit the Queen's coffin lying-in-state in Westminster
A sea of people can be seen outside the Palace of Westminster as the queue edges closer to its final destination
People queue along London's Southbank as they prepare to visit the late monarch's coffin and pay their respects
Well-wishers are making their way closer to the Palace of Westminster to pay their respects to the Queen
Well-wishers move down the queue as they wait to visit the Queen's coffin lying-in-state in Westminster
Yesterday the first people in the queue for the Queen's lying-in-state ate pizza brought by the Archbishop of York after camping overnight and waiting hours to be granted access to Westminster Hall, where the fallen monarch will remain until 6.30am on Monday.
Their wait totalled 50 hours, after some arrived as early as Monday in order to maintain a place in the queue. They were chatting to their neighbours, making friends, sharing squashed egg sandwiches and cups of tepid tea.
The coffin continues to be guarded at all hours by units from the Sovereign's Bodyguard, the Household Division or Yeoman Warders of the Tower of London.
Metropolitan Police officers, volunteers and stewards are managing the queue while toilets and water fountains are provided at various points along the route.
People waiting in line are also being given a coloured and numbered wristband to manage the queue. One mourner, Alan Davies, has been handing out biscuits to others queuing around him.
He said: 'I got here around four and made sure to bring some supplies, I knew some people had been waiting far longer than I have, but it is moving fairly quickly. It's the best example of how much the Queen meant to us all, queuing in the British weather, rain or sun, for days. Just to say one final goodbye.'
The queue could reach ten miles by Saturday night, with officials planning to implement three miles of airport-style zigzag lines in parks at the beginning and end of the seven-mile planned route.
It came after tens of thousands lined the streets of central London, many of them in tears, to watch the procession as King Charles, William and Harry reunited to mourn and march behind the coffin as part of its journey from Buckingham Palace to Westminster at 2.22pm yesterday.
A short service was held involving members of the Royal Family, before members of the public were given access to pay their respects from 5pm.
The first member of the public to pay a personal tribute to the Queen told of how she fought back tears after experiencing 'the most memorable and unique moment of my life'.
Vanessa Nathakumaran, 56, an admin assistant from Harrow, north west London, said she had to battle to control her emotions as the Queen's coffin came into view.
She told MailOnline: 'I was trying not to cry. I wanted to pay my respects in a dignified way but it was so hard. There were such mixed emotions. It was a privilege to be here but it was so sad and solemn. It was a moment that will live with me forever.
People queue early this morning to pay their respects to Queen Elizabeth II's lying in state at the Palace of Westminster
Members of the public stand in the queue today as they wait in line to pay their respects to the late Queen Elizabeth II
People queue early this morning to pay their respects to Queen Elizabeth II's lying in state at the Palace of Westminster
'It was the most memorable and unique moment of my life. It was so quiet and peaceful and seeing her coffin it really came home to me that she is really gone. I curtsied when I went past and my eye was drawn to the crown on top of the coffin. I feel down wined and shattered.'
Amy Harris, 34, described the atmosphere in Westminster Hall as 'breathtaking'.
Ms Harris, who travelled to London from Birmingham to join the queue at around 1am, said: 'When you're able to go in and have a moment to look at it and reflect...
'The serenity of it - to be able to pay your respects in such a serene place, it's very peaceful.'
James Cross, 65, who met Ms Harris in the queue, said: 'It's just like the only person that's there is you.
'You walk in and you could hear a pin drop.'
Those who braved the chilly evening told this morning how they had been waiting for up to nine hours to catch a glimpse of history.
With his medals proudly decorating his jacket, Stephen Swallow, 64, who served with the Worcestershire and Sherwood Forresters regiment, joined the queue at 10pm last night.
He only reached Westminster Hall to see The Queen lay in state at 7am, having travelled from his home in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire yesterday.
He said: 'It was exhausting and I felt my legs about to buckle at one point but I felt it was my duty to come here.
'I bought a small chair when my legs got really heavy and I just about managed to get through it by talking to others about The Queen and the Royals.
'As soon as I got out of Southwark tube station last night I joined the queue and stayed with the same group of people all night.
'When I eventually reached the hall, it was very quick and very sombre. I didn't just come for myself but for my two sons who were also in the military and couldn't make it.
'I bowed my head when I got to the coffin, said thank you for all The Queen's years of service and now I'm heading home.
'It's been a long, tiring night and I'm exhausted.'
Former Navy Wrens Wynne Matthews, Kim Williams, Kiki Sakelaropoulos and Rosalind Devlin had spent more than eight-hours waiting to pay their respects.
Ms Matthews, 58, from Birmingham, said: 'We joined the queue at 10.45pm last night and got in to see the Queen lying in state just before 7am this morning.
'By the time we joined the line it was already at Southwark Bridge but everything is organised well, there's food, drink and toilets available all along the route.
'The queue also keeps moving quite well, there were bottle necks as we came past Blackfriars and up Lambeth Bridge but it's tough waiting through the night.
'I'm exhausted but I'm glad I've done it and paid my respects to the Queen.'
Ms Williams, 64, who had travelled to London from her home in Somerset said: 'We got to see the sunrise over London.
'It's quite gruelling but we stuck together and got each other through. Luckily the weather held off.
'When we did eventually get in to see the Queen, it was very emotional and extremely extremely quiet. That's what I noticed first, the silence, everyone was clearly in reflective mood.'
Three well-wishers who befriended each other during their eight-hour overnight wait to visit the Queen's coffin are going for a pint after finally making it to Westminster Hall.
People queue early this morning to pay their respects to Queen Elizabeth II's lying in state at the Palace of Westminster
People gather to pay their respects to Queen Elizabeth II today following her death, as the queue for the lying-in-state
People queue early this morning to pay their respects to Queen Elizabeth II's lying in state at the Palace of Westminster
People queue in darkness on the South Bank early this morning for Westminster Hall to see the Queen's lying-in-state
People queue on the South Bank early this morning to view the Queen's lying-in-state at Westminster Hall
Amy Harris, 34, and Matthew Edwards, 35, met James Cross, 65, after travelling to London from Birmingham to join the queue at around 1am.
They described a sense of 'camaraderie' among the crowd, with people sharing snacks and drinks and 'having a laugh'.
Ms Harris said: 'We were asking for directions and (James) said 'Follow me to the back of the queue'.'
Mr Cross said: 'Everyone in the queue was very friendly, chatting and having a laugh. It was really quite lovely.'
Mr Edwards said: 'Everyone was offering biscuits, drinks', adding that the trio are now planning to have a drink together to quench their thirst after the long wait.
Bernadette Christie, 68, flew into the UK on Wednesday from Canada and plans to camp outside on The Mall for a full week, leaving two days after the Queen's funeral takes place on Monday.
Ms Christie said she booked a flight to London from the Canadian province of Alberta two minutes after the Queen's death was announced last week.
She added: 'Thirty-six hours of no sleep and here I am. It's crazy but it's worth it.
'The weather is similar to Alberta, everything is cold and damp.'
Ms Christie said that she wanted to show her respect to the Queen by camping outside Buckingham Palace in the colours of the Canadian flag: 'She was the only leader on the planet that everybody knew, she was a grandmother to all of us.'
But anger has emerged as hundreds of thousands of people are having to stand in line for up to 30 hours while MPs can jump the queue to see the Queen's coffin and bring in up to four guests.
And thousands continued to flow through the hall overnight, though, members of the public were left aghast when a guard fainted off the podium while holding vigil next to the coffin.
The man had moments earlier briefly stepped off the podium before retaking his place as other servicemen joined him for a changeover.
But seconds later he blacked out and fell forwards, landing sprawled on the stone floor to loud gasps from bystanders queueing to pay their respects.
The live stream also cut out for several minutes as police rushed to the man's aid.
The Queen's coffin, which has been placed on a raised platform called a catafalque, is being guarded around the clock by units from the Sovereign's Bodyguard, the Household Division, or Yeoman Warders of the Tower of London.
Also among the first to see the monarch lying in state was Annie Daley. She told MailOnline: 'I felt sorrowful being in there with the Queen's coffin. I found it a shattering experience. The Crown was gleaming atop the coffin, as was the orb and sceptre.
'When we approached the coffin, everyone was silent, it was so, so quiet. I looked round and the Yeoman guards were like statues.
'We waited for days and when it came to it the whole experience was over in seconds, we went round the coffin once and down the stairs.'
Annie's friend Grace Gothard, who was third in the queue and had also been there since Monday, broke down as she said: 'It was very sad, it reminded me of when my own mother died.
'I was taken aback to see the Queen lying in state, even though we'd been waiting three days to do so. May she rest in peace.'
Father Peter Walters and Pauline Allan, from Yorkshire, joined the queue at 1.20am on Thursday to pay respects at Westminster Hall.
'There was a wonderful atmosphere, people were talking to one another quietly, sharing with one another, and there was even some laughter,' Father Walters, a priest working in Colombia, said.
It was 'immensely' worth the wait, he said, with the final experience 'very personal' and different from viewing the coffin on the TV.
'The atmosphere in there was one of of absolute silence, great reverence, great respect and great reflection. It was really a very memorable experience.
'Everyone had the chance to pause - despite the queues, there was no great sense of rush.'
'We had a good five minutes from entering to leaving, it was so slow and dignified,' Ms Allan added.
Among the others to see the coffin first was Chris Imagidon, who had been queuing since 10am the previous morning. In television footage, he was be seen raising his top hat as he approached the coffin in a mark of respect.
In tears, Chris, who runs a programme for inner city children called Excellence in Education, told MailOnline: 'It was so emotional, very poignant and well worth every minute that I waited.
'It was only when I saw the coffin with my eyes that it struck me, she was gone, our Queen is no longer here. She was more than a Queen she was a mother to the whole nation.
'I took my hat off as a sign or respect and tears came in my eyes. It was so very sad to see her like that but at the same time it was all very beautiful.
'All I keep saying to myself is 'she's gone, she's gone' I still can't believe it but my message is for people to come and say goodbye to her if you can. It's the least people can do after 70 years of service.'
Illuminated by London's city lights, the queue snakes along the bank of the River Thames as mourners continue to gather
Standing in the dark city, a woman yawns as she continues to move forward in the queue to pay respects to the late monarch
A man carries a tray of drinks as people gather to pay respects to the late monarch whose coffin lies in Westminster Hall
Well-wishers line the Southbank as they queued through the night to pay their respects to the Queen
People walked past some of London's most iconic landmarks, including St Paul's Cathedral, which could be seen from the riverside
The queue reached nearly three miles overnight, as people continued to arrive to pay their respects to the late Queen
A woman, draped in a Union flag, forms part of the group of well-wishers gathering to pay their respects to the late monarch
People enter security checkpoints outside the houses of parliament after queuing to pay respects to Britain's Queen Elizabeth
People queue for the Queen's lying in state, some wear coats and warm layers while another wears a skirt
Along the Southbank, people line the route as they queue to see the Queen's lying-in-state in Westminster Hall
A man carrying flowers walks across Westminster Bridge as people gather to pay respects to Britain's Queen Elizabeth
Stewards keep watch as the mourners continue to progress along the queue route for the lying in state
People stand in line along Southbank overnight as tens of thousands join queues to see Queen's coffin at the Palace of Westminster
Well-wishers are pictured in the lengthy queue along the Thames Embankment in the early hours of the morning waiting to see the Queen's coffin
People talk to one another as they wait for hours to arrive at the Palace of Westminster where they can pay their respects
People queue opposite the Houses of Parliament, with some leaving to grab refreshments before rejoining the line towards Westminster Hall
Adoring crowds sang hymns and ate 'pizza blessed by God' after camping overnight and waiting hours to be granted access to Westminster Hall
A group of men smile as they wait among hundreds of thousands of mourners to pay their final respects to the Queen following her death on Thursday
The queue for people to pay their final respects to the Queen could stretch for ten miles, officials have warned, as people queue through the night
A cyclists travels past the long queue, with the Houses of Parliament, Big Ben and the London Eye all visible in the background
At 1.30am, the queue to access the Palace of Westminster had reached nearly three miles as officials expect some 400,000 people to view the coffin over the four days
The Queen's coffin arrived at Westminster Hall following a procession from Buckingham Palace this afternoon and will remain until her funeral
Annie Daley (centre) Vanessa Nathakumaran (left) and Grace Gothard (right) were the first members of the public to see the Queen's coffin inside Westminster Hall this evening
An aerial view of the queues of mourners on Lambeth Bridge as they wait to gain entry to the Palace of Westminster
Delroy Morrison, who was fourth in the queue, said he was 'so emotional' when he saw the Queen's coffin and described it as a 'sad but beautiful moment'
A tearful man brings his hands towards his face as he looks at the Queen's coffin inside the Palace of Westminster earlier this evening
Mourners were given a coloured and numbered wristband which served as a record of when someone joined the queue.
It allows people to leave the line temporarily to use some of the 500 portable toilets and snack stops set up along the route before regaining their place.
Regular updates were provided on queue length and estimated waiting times to see the Queen as she lay in Westminster Hall, which has remained open for 24-hours.
Authorities had warned those queuing to bring a poncho or an umbrella but not large bags, flowers, flags, placards or food and drink.
The first people to view the coffin, which is adorned with the Royal standard and Imperial State Crown and was out on view early yesterday evening, had waited for up to three days, bedding down on the streets of South London in tents, sleeping bags and camping chairs.
However current guidance states: 'You will need to stand for many hours, possibly overnight, with very little opportunity to sit down as the queue will be continuously moving.
'Large crowds are expected, and there are likely to be delays on public transport and road closures around the area. Check ahead, plan accordingly and be prepared for long queues.'
Ian Thompson, 55, from Beckenham joked: 'It's a very British tradition, queuing, and I have to say we do it best.
'I joined the queue by the Anchor pub on the South Bank at about 11.15pm last night and I only got in to see The Queen's coffin at 7.20am this morning.
'But nobody pushed in, the wristband system worked well, there was plenty of toilets and places to eat and drink. The police were everywhere, I don't think I've felt safer in London.
'It was a privilege to do it, to be honest, despite queuing through the night. It was for The Queen.'
Emerging wearily from the black gates of the Palace of Westminster, Lorraine Woodhouse, 53, from London said she had joined the queue at 10.45pm last night and waited just over eight hours before she was able toview the coffin.
She said: 'I joined the queue just before 11pm, thinking it was a good time to join the queue but there were thousands of people already in front of me.
'Once you get over the fatigue, willpower gets you through. I wanted to overcome tiredness and pay my respects because The Queen did just that by serving the country right up until died even though she must have been in a lot of discomfort.
'It was a moment of history and even though I need some sleep, I'm pleased I did it.'
Fitzgerald Etibio, from Canning Town, said: 'The atmosphere in the hall was electric. It was quite a moment. It was a privilege to be able to take part in a part of history. It was overwhelming.'
James and Victoria Mottram travelled together from their home in Chislehurst in Kent.
James, 31, said: 'It was very emotional. I found it quite striking and I think it summed up the complexity of the moment, the sorrow and solemnity of the Queen's passing together with the comfort and reassurance that she's now with God, her husband, her parents and sister.
'There is a now longing for strength for the King as King and for comfort for the nation as a whole.'
Victoria, 27, admitted she broke down and wept when she saw the coffin and fighting back tears, added: 'It was very profound. I'm struggling for words to sum up the experience.'
Delroy Morrison, 61, from London, who was fourth in the queue after arriving on Monday evening, told MailOnline: 'The first night was okay but the second night was tough but we kept our spirits up with singing and talking.
'I've loved The Queen since I came here in 1975 and have been to the last three jubilees and Harry and Meghan's wedding.
'Waiting all that time was worth every minute and when I walked in and saw the coffin and the crown I was so emotional.
'I had butterflies in my stomach and tears in my eyes it was a sad moment but a beautiful moment at the same time.'
Earlier, at 4am yesterday, the Archbishop of York entertained tired mourners camping along the Albert Embankment overlooking the Houses of Parliament entertained by singing hymns and even brought pizza which campers joked had probably been blessed - while a former soldier dressed impeccably in a bowler hat and polished shoes said he was keeping himself awake by rocking on his heels.
The veteran told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: 'I'm dressed like this because I served Her Majesty... 22 years in the Army. I figure the least I could do after 70 years is give her another day of my life, so come down here and pay my respects. I did spend a good couple of hours, maybe a little more attention to deal, knowing I'd be seeing Her Majesty again, put my medals on.
'I'd crumble my clothes if I was to [go to sleep]. It's an old trick, literally just rocking back and forth on your heels, sips of water... and then crack on'.
An estimated 10,000 people were queueing past Waterloo station towards the Southbank Centre to pay their respects to the late monarch.
The 10-mile queue begins on the Albert Embankment, along Belvedere Road, behind the London Eye. It will then cross Lambeth Bridge and travel along the South Bank past the National Theatre, Tate Modern and HMS Belfast. The back of the queue will be in Southwark Park.
City Hall said all viewing areas for the procession are full, adding that people should instead head to Hyde Park to watch proceedings on large screens.
Officials expect some 400,000 people, some of whom have flown into the UK from abroad, will view the coffin - more than the 300,000 who filed past her father King George VI as he lay in state at Westminster Hall in 1952.
But with between 750,000 and a million expected to want to pay tribute, fears are growing that as many as 650,000 could miss out. Many others may struggle to get to London due to the enormous strain that transport networks are set to come under.
TfL bosses have warned the organisation is facing the 'biggest event and challenge' in its history, claiming that planning for the Queen's lying in state and funeral is more complicated than the 2012 Olympics as it is 'impossible' to accurately predict crowd sizes.
There will be more than more than 500 Portaloos, 1,000 volunteers, stewards, marshals and police officers on hand at any one time as people queue for the Queen's lying in state. There will be 779 professional stewards per shift, assisted by 100 civil service volunteer marshals, 40 adult scouts, and 30 members of the first aid nursing yeomanry, as well as Metropolitan Police officers.
There is further queue support from 10 members of the Red Cross, 30 multifaith pastors - co-ordinated by Lambeth Palace - and six Samaritans per shift. There will also be two British Sign Language interpreters in the accessible queue.
Overall, there are 140 Red Cross volunteers from every nation in the UK, 120 from the Scouts, 170 from the Salvation Army, 180 from the Samaritans, 600 from St John Ambulance, and then the wider deployment of military personnel helping with the overall ceremonial events.
Whitehall chiefs in charge of logistics for the historic five-night vigil have estimated mourner numbers could be close to the million people who turned up to view Pope John Paul II when he lay in state in Vatican City in 2005.
Government guidance says the queue is expected to be very long, with people standing for 'many hours, possibly overnight' and with very little opportunity to sit down.
People have been also warned off taking children to pay their respects, as the queue could become too arduous for them.
The Prime Minister's spokesman said organisers on the ground will make a decision on any 'cut-off point' once they see the 'scale of people who are attending'.
Numerous people who gathered along the bank of the River Thames insisted on sticking out the poor weather conditions in order to pay their respects to the Queen.
Some brought no waterproof clothing as they stood in the rain, while others donned plastic ponchos.
David Howard, who travelled to Buckingham Palace from Surrey with his wife Sue, likened the Queen to a swan - 'always graceful on the surface, even if there were all sorts of thoughts and concerns underneath'.
Mr Howard, 59, said: 'The thing that gets me about her is that she didn't say anything to be popular, unlike politicians, and so when she did say things, there was a streak of authenticity and honesty, as well as through her actions and the way she lived.
'I think she read the mood music very well after Diana's death and realised things had to change. They became far more approachable and modernised, institutionally.'
He added: 'She was like that classic swan - graceful on the surface, even there were all sorts of thoughts or concerns underneath.'
Michael Darvill, 85, had camped out since 2pm on Tuesday with daughter Mandy Desmond, 55. They camped out previously in the Mall when Charles and Diana married in 1981.
Mr Darvill from Ascot, Berkshire, said: 'It's not been too bad. The afternoon yesterday was quite pleasant but as the evening wore on, there was a little bit of drizzle.'
The pair had slept on camping chairs huddled under a Union flag umbrella. Mr Darvill added: 'I remember as a young man being among the crowds in London and watching as Winston Churchill's cortèges rolled past.
'That for me that is the only comparable event to this. I think this is bigger and has attracted people from around the world. The Queen committed most of her life to service of this country and this is just a small way of saying ''thank you for all you've done''.'
Former member of the Balmoral Guard Duncan Rasor, who met the Queen while serving in Scotland, wore his military medals and Glengarry headdress as he queued for the lying in state.
The 48-year-old served in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and said: 'I spent four months up in Balmoral valley and so I did get to meet the Queen and spend some time with her.
'So, from a personal perspective, I wanted to come and pay my respects for everything that she's done.'
He described spending time with the royal family as an 'extraordinary privilege' and added: 'Even though they are on holiday up in Balmoral, they are still working, and it just never stops.
'I think that is something which is starting to become more apparent to people is quite how hard Her Majesty has worked for her entire life.'
He served in the regiment between 1997 and 2002 and wore a Northern Ireland medal and a Kosovo medal.
Asked why he decided to wear his medals and Glengarry headdress, he said: 'She was our Colonel-in-Chief so, having been part of the regiment, I could have come down without it, but I retired 20 years ago so I'm not a serving soldier, but it is a rare opportunity to put on a headdress and wear medals again and just be proud, I guess.'
William Single, 19, said he got up at 5am to travel from Coventry in order to secure a spot outside Buckingham Palace to pay tribute to the Queen.
'I'm here because she served for 70 years and worked every day of her life, and I just want to say thank you,' he said.
Stella Single, from Coventry, said she could 'feel the difference' in tone from other royal events as the thousands-strong crowd outside Buckingham Palace remained 'sombre'.
'It's very quiet, whereas usually it's quite loud,' she said. 'I can really feel the difference in the sound. My mum was a monarchist as well and I feel like I've lost a bit of her as well. I can't stop crying.'
Kush Sonigra, who lives in the London area, is spending his 24th birthday in the queue for the Queen's lying in state and hopes to make it back home in time for dinner with his family this evening.
After those waiting behind him in the queue sang Happy Birthday, he said: 'Well, fortunately, from work I get the day off for my birthday, so I thought I'd get involved and see what the hype is about, get involved with the event.'
He added: 'There's a family dinner table so I'm hoping, depending on how late I finish here, I might be able to make it for that. Otherwise, we will postpone that to the weekend.'
He said his mother 'is a little bit upset that I'm missing the family dinner, but I think she'll understand'.
Chris Bond, from Truro, had attended the lying in state of the Queen Mother in 2002, and expected to have less of a wait to see Queen Elizabeth, after joining the queue at 7am on the other side of the Thames to the Palace of Westminster.
Mr Bond, wearing a black tie and jacket, said that in 2002, 'I saw the procession pass by at Horse Guards Parade, and then by the time I made my way down, I actually started to queue right down by the Millennium Wheel and then took me six hours to progress from there.'
'It was six o'clock when I walked into Westminster.'
He added: 'Obviously, it's quite difficult queuing all day long, but when you walk through those doors into Westminster Hall, that marvellous, historic building, there was a great sense of hush and one was told you take as much time as you like, and it's just amazing.'
In preparation for the wait this time, Mr Bond had brought crisps, nuts and energy bars and bottles of water, and he said he was 'well-equipped' for the duration.
He said: 'We know the Queen was a good age and she served the country a long time, but we hoped this day would never come.
'But it has come, and I think undoubtedly she has been our most outstanding monarch.'
Joyce Dawson, 54, from Middlesbrough, has never visited London before, but said she was 'inspired' to travel down for the Queen's lying in state after seeing the first people in the queue being interviewed on the TV news on Tuesday evening.
She said: 'I texted my daughter and said 'We have to go to London tonight', so we're here. It was a spur-of-the-moment thing.'
She and her daughter Shelby, 26, who has also never been to the capital before, got on the midnight coach from Middlesbrough and joined the queue at about 8am.
Joyce added: 'It's just nice to be a part of this. It's exciting, I'm dead excited, I'm like a little kid.'
Jacqueline Nemorin, Suzanne Howell, and Patricia King did not know each other before they joined the queue to attend the lying in state at the same time, at 6pm on Tuesday. They are 44th, 45th and 46th in line.
Ms Nemorin said the wait overnight was 'really terrible' due to the weather conditions, which she described as 'raining cats and dogs'.
She added that she managed 'a little cat nap' at some point in the night, but her two new friends 'didn't sleep at all'.
They have been told that they will be allowed to cross Lambeth Bridge to do security checks at around 3.30pm, before being let into Westminster Hall to see the Queen's coffin.
Suzanne Howell said a man who lives in a block of flats on the other side of the river had brought over camping chairs, a blanket and food for the trio.
Ms Howell said: 'We were told that there would be like a million or millions of people expected and that it could be a 30-hour wait.
'So that's why I was saying I was so surprised when we arrived last night and we're in the 40s (in the queue). I thought this can't be the queue, I must be in the wrong place.'
She added: 'We haven't slept at all, but I don't feel tired. We're glad we did it, we've got no regrets.'
Amanda Drake, 63, who divides her time between Britain and her native Australia, set up her tent at 10pm last night. She came over to the UK in February for the Platinum Jubilee and is now among those waiting by Lambeth Bridge.
Clutching her blue sleeping bag and eating toast by her one man tent, she said: 'This is a once in a lifetime event. The Queen meant so much to me, my mother and grandmother, who have now sadly both died, were staunch Royalists.
'I camped out when the Queen Mother was lying in state 20 years ago so I knew this is what I had to do. I feel as though I'm representing my mum and grandmother, the three generations of my family. I divide my time between Sydney and London but I've been here in Britain since the Jubilee in February. I didn't want to go back to Australia because the Queen looked quite frail and I has a feeling that she didn't have long left.
'Camping the night has been quite comfortable, I've managed to get some sleep and I've been talking to others who also camped out about the Queen's life and her dedication to service.'
Consultant Louis Neves, 50, is originally from California but has been in the UK for the last 15-years and now lives in North West London.
He said: 'I love the UK, I love the Royal Family. I've been here since midnight. Myself and a friend just brought down some chairs and we've been talking to strangers about the Queen, making new friends and trying to get a bit of sleep.
'For me this is a one in a million event, I really wanted to be here. There's maybe 150-160 people in front of us. I've always thought the Queen had a kind face. She's represented continuity having been on the throne for so long but now she's gone and we've got to look to the future without her.
'But I wanted to show my respects to what she meant for me and what she meant for the UK.'
However, Steven Welsh, 68, from Lancashire, said he will not head into London to see the Queen's coffin procession because it will be 'congested'.
Speaking outside Windsor Castle, he said: 'It'll be congested won't it?. We will probably just hang around Windsor and watch it on the telly.'
He added: 'I think to go there, there will be so many people there. I won't be missing the funeral, I think a lot of people will just watch it on the telly.'
However, he said he had come to Windsor from his home in the North West to be 'part of it'.
'We've come down today to be part of it,' he said. 'We've been watching it on telly, but it feels more personal when you come down.'
It comes as the boss for Transport for London claimed the organisation is facing the 'biggest event and challenge' in its history.
Andy Byford said planning for the Queen's lying in state and funeral is more complicated than the 2012 Olympics as it is 'impossible' to accurately predict crowd sizes.
TfL is 'used to dealing with big crowds' and will take measures such as temporarily restricting access to the busiest Tube stations and directing passengers to other stations to 'spread the load', he said. Mr Byford added that the situation is being managed 'minute by minute' from a command centre alongside other agencies and Government departments.
London Underground stations near Buckingham Palace have seen a surge in passenger numbers since the Queen died on Thursday.
TfL figures show more than 19,000 people started or finished journeys at Hyde Park Corner station on Tuesday, which was double the total on the same day last week. Green Park has been made an exit only station to prevent overcrowding. Across the Tube network as a whole, TfL recorded 2.99 million journeys on Tuesday, up 8 per cent compared with a week earlier.
Mr Byford said: 'The most recent approximation or estimate is that there will be around potentially up to 750,000 people in the queue for lying in state, which is itself a huge number. But then if you take the whole 10-day mourning period and the various events that happen during that - obviously some happened elsewhere - but even the London element of that, we are talking well north of a million people.
'So this is huge. This is the biggest event and challenge that TfL has faced in its history, and we must rise to that challenge.
'The Olympics was a huge logistical challenge and operational challenge for TfL, which the company executed in magnificent fashion. But this is different. With something like the Olympics, you know what the events are, where they are, and you know what the numbers will be because it's ticketed.
'This is more challenging. It's over a long period and although there are estimates, it is impossible to say with certainty how many people will turn up to the various elements, so we've assumed the highest possible number and we're aligning our service to match that.'
A special service will run on the Elizabeth Line railway between Paddington and Abbey Wood on Sunday to ease the pressure on other parts of London's transport network.
That section of the line - which was opened by the Queen in May - is usually closed on Sundays due to testing and software updates.
Mr Byford added: 'We have recruited literally an army of people from across TfL. We've cancelled non-essential meetings. I've asked everyone to step up, I've asked everyone to volunteer, and the response has been fantastic. We've dropped everything in order to pull out all the stops and send Her Majesty off in style with an excellent transport offering.
With some royal fans already camping on The Mall, industry body UKHospitality said hotels had seen a major spike in bookings since the Queen's death last Thursday, with block bookings for accommodation for extra police and other personnel contributing to this.
Some 10,000 police officers will be on duty daily this week - with Simon Morgan, a former Metropolitan Police personal protection officer for the Queen, saying that Met protection teams will be 'stretched'.
Churches along the route will be asked to provide support to those waiting, with the Government's Cobra emergency planning committee told that the estimate of queueing times is currently 17 to 35 hours.
A gazebo was donated by a member of the public to give shelter to the small group queueing when it started to rain on Tuesday, and it was claimed council officials were on their way to remove it. However, they eventually decided that the group could keep it up.
Anne, 65, from Cardiff, who was the second person in line after arriving on Monday, said: 'I will chain myself to the gazebo and call the leader of the Welsh Assembly if that happens. They can't take it away.'
And a security guard told MailOnline: 'A discreet word with the council was had and it was decided to let the gazebo stay up. It would have caused a bit of a scene and some red faces if it had come down.'
Downing Street said it is not aware of any 'upper cap' on the number of people able to attend the lying in state. The Prime Minister's official spokesman said there are expected to be 'long queues... running overnight over successive days', with London 'extremely busy'. But he said he does not think there is necessarily going to be a 'cut-off point', adding: 'Those sorts of decisions (will) really (be) made by those on the ground once we see the scale of people who are attending.'
Asked if there is a maximum capacity, the spokesman said: 'If there is, I'm not aware of a number. I mean, I wouldn't get into detailed operational planning... but I'm not aware of there being some sort of upper cap.'
No10 added that there will be help for mourners unable to queue for long. The spokesman said: 'A lot of people understandably will want to see the lying in state and we will do everything possible to facilitate as many people as possible, including those who may not be physically able to wait that long, because of disabilities, for example.'
Ms Nathakumaran, who is staying at a hotel in Lambeth so she does not miss the opportunity to pay her respects, said that she began 'admiring the royal family' from the age of 10 and has 'a huge respect for them'.
The administrative assistant, who grew up in Sri Lanka before moving to the UK to study in the 1980s, said she is going to call her daughters to change her bag and bring warmer clothes and glucose bars to keep her energy up.
On why she wants to see the Queen lying in state, she said: 'Because she has done a good service. She was very devoted. She has done a service to our country, Britain and also international and the Commonwealth.
'I do respect her way of kindness, how she treats everyone equal, the religions and the communities. She sees everyone as equal.'
On why she arrived so early, she said: 'I really, really want to be part of it. I don't want to miss it in case... they said they are probably going to control the crowds if (the queue) gets too long.'
Today, the Queen's coffin was solemnly moved from Buckingham Palace to the ancient Palace of Westminster.
The Imperial State Crown and a wreath of flowers was placed on top of the Queen's coffin.
At 2:22pm, a procession took the late monarch from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Hall where she will lie in state.
The King followed the coffin on foot, joined by his sons the Prince of Wales and Duke of Sussex, as well as the Duke of York, the Princess Royal and the Earl of Wessex. Anne's son Peter Phillips and her husband Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence also walked in the procession, as well as the Duke of Gloucester and the Earl of Snowdon.
The Queen Consort, the Princess of Wales, the Countess of Wessex and the Duchess of Sussex travelled by car. There was a gun salute from Hyde Park during the procession, with one round fired every minute.
Viewing areas for the public along the route opened at 11am on the day, with large crowds expected to attend.
The procession is set to arrive at Westminster Hall at 3pm.
A service lasting around 20 minutes was led by the Archbishop of Canterbury accompanied by the Dean of Westminster.
The lying in state opened to the public at 5pm yesterday and will be accessible 24 hours a day. Tens of thousands are expected to wait in the queue before walking past the coffin, which will be raised on a catafalque and draped in the Royal Standard, with the Orb and Sceptre placed on top.
It will be guarded at all hours by units from the Sovereign's Bodyguard, the Household Division or Yeoman Warders of the Tower of London.
Metropolitan Police officers will be joined by volunteers and stewards to manage the queue, while toilets and water fountains are provided at various points along the route. A wristband system will be used to manage the queue, with those waiting in line given a coloured and numbered wristband. Lambeth Palace is also expected to arrange a multi-faith pastor service to provide support to those who need it.
On Wednesday afternoon, the King led the royal family in a public display of homage by walking behind the Queen's coffin during a procession from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Hall for the lying in state.
Charles then returned to his Highgrove home in Gloucestershire on Wednesday evening.
He will have a private day of reflection on Thursday and is not expected to attend any public events.
In the detailed planning for the aftermath of the Queen's death - known as 'London Bridge' - a day was set aside at this point for the new monarch to have some time away from public duties.
The period will allow the King to pause, but it is understood he will be working in preparation for his new role and will already be receiving his red boxes of state papers.
The Prince and Princess of Wales will visit Sandringham to view floral tributes left by members of the public.
Thousands of people have visited the Norfolk estate to pay their respects, with tributes having piled up by the Norwich Gates to Sandringham House since news of the Queen's death was announced last Thursday.
The Earl and Countess of Wessex will travel to Manchester, where they will light a candle in memory of the Queen at the city's cathedral.
They will also view the floral tributes in St Ann's Square and the book of condolence at Manchester's Central Library.
The Princess Royal, accompanied by her husband Sir Tim Laurence, will visit Glasgow City Chambers to meet representatives of organisations of which the Queen was patron.
Elsewhere, King's Counsel will take part in a wreath-laying.
Senior barristers, now known as KCs instead of QCs after the proclamation of the King, have been invited to dress in robes and court mourning attire.
They will then gather outside the Old Bailey before walking to Gray's Inn Chapel for the ceremony.
Fascinating past of Westminster Hall where the Queen will lie in state: Built in 1097 by son of William the Conqueror, it has hosted trials of Charles I and Guy Fawkes, Henry VIII's coronation banquet and even Tudor TENNIS matches
For nearly a thousands years, Westminster Hall has stood as a beacon of the British state.
Commissioned by King William II, the son of William the Conqueror, the hall was built in 1097 and is one of the few surviving parts of the original Palace of Westminster.
Today, its importance was demonstrated once again as it hosted King Charles. He addressed MPs and Lords and told them he could 'feel the weight of history' on his shoulders, after they had given their own tributes to his 'beloved mother'.
From Wednesday afternoon, the Queen's coffin will lie-in-state in the hall for four days until Monday, with up to one million people expected to queue to pay their respects.
Westminster Hall was originally built by King William as a banqueting hall and then became England's main administrative centre from the 12th Century onwards.
It has hosted the trials of Guy Fawkes, King Charles I and churchman Thomas More, who was executed by Henry VIII. Henry's coronation banquet - in 1509 - was also held there.
In 2002, the Queen Mother's coffin lay in state there and an estimated 200,000 people filed in to pay their respects. The body of King George VI also lay there for three days in 1952, with around 300,000 filing past.
In 1920, two leather tennis balls dating from Henry's time on the throne were found by workmen in the hall's rafters.
The discovery raised the tantalising prospect that Henry himself may have played what was then known as Real Tennis in the hall. The infamous king is known to have enjoyed the sport at Hampton Court, his palace in Richmond.
Westminster Hall also been the setting for speeches by Charles De Gaulle, Nelson Mandela, Pope Benedict VI, and the then US President Barack Obama in 2011.
For nearly a thousands years, Westminster Hall has stood as a beacon of the British state. Above: The hall is seen packed with MPs and Lords today ahead of King Charles' speech
King Charles I's trial in the hall came in January 1649, after Royalist forces had been defeated in the English Civil War. The king was subsequently beheaded
According to Parliament's website, King William II - better known as William Rufus - commissioned Westminster Hall with the intention of impressing his new subjects. He had succeeded his father as King of England in 1087, after the older man's death.
At 240 feet long and 67 feet wide, it was the largest hall in England and probably Europe when it was built.
King William II - better known as William Rufus - commissioned Westminster Hall with the intention of impressing his new subjects
The hall was so large that other halls were needed nearby for normal banquets and events. The royal household, who lived in the Palace of Westminster, would have usually eaten in a smaller hall nearby.
Its walls were six feet thick and largely remain today, although have been refaced over the decades.
In 2006, a renovation project aiming to level eight of the huge flight of stone steps in the hall found fragments of the ancient King's Table, which was used by 17 monarchs over the course of more than 300 years.
At the table, monarchs would be acclaimed by their lords before their Coronation in nearby Westminster Abbey.
They would also enjoy lavish coronation banquets and breakfasts. Henry VIII's coronation banquet in 1509 was one such event.
The roof was originally supported by two rows of pillars but in 1399 Richard II wanted to make the hall more impressive by making it unsupported.
It was a challenge met by carpenter Hugh Herland and architect Henry Yevele, who built huge hammer-shaped oak beams and strengthened the walls.
In the 14th century the hall became a centre of London life, housing the law courts and selling a host of legal paraphernalia including wigs, pens and books.
Before being gruesomely executed, Guy Fawkes was put on trial in the hall along with his fellow Gunpowder Plot conspirators in 1606.
The coronation banquet of King Henry VIII, June 24, 1509. The banquet was one of dozens that were held in the hall during the reigns of successive monarchs
In 1920, two leather tennis balls (pictured) dating from Henry's time on the throne were found by workmen in the hall's rafters. The discovery raised the tantalising prospect that Henry himself may have played what was then known as Real Tennis in the hall. The infamous king is known to have enjoyed the sport at Hampton Court, his palace in Richmond
King Charles I's trial in the hall then came in January 1649, after Royalist forces had been defeated in the English Civil War. The king was subsequently beheaded.
During its use, Westminster Hall has twice escaped destruction.
In 1834, a fire caused by a stove overheating razed the rest of the Palace of Westminster to the ground but the hall survived.
During the Second World War it escaped harm once again when when German bombers dropped a dozen bombs on the neighbouring House of Commons chamber in 1941.
In 2002, the Queen Mother's coffin lay in state there and an estimated 200,000 people filed in to pay their respects
The body of King George VI also lay there for three days in 1952, with around 300,000 filing past
It is reported in Brewer's Politics that Tory MP Colonel Walter Elliot broke down the hall's oak door after the bombing with an axe, shouting: 'Let the pseudo-Gothic go. We must save the Hall!'
The historic roof and the hall were saved although Elliot could simply have opened the side door kept unlocked for emergencies.
Despite the hall being used as the location for several royals and former prime ministers to lie in state, the Queen's husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, did not follow suit after his death in 2021.
The decision was in line with his wishes.
The hall has also been used for celebrations to mark important moments in British history, such as the 50th anniversary of the end of the Second World War and the Queen's Silver Jubilee in 1977, Golden Jubilee in 2002 and Diamond Jubilee in 2012.
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