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Editor’s note: The following column was originally published in the New Hampshire Union Leader on Sept. 19, 1987.
WE LIVE NEXT DOOR to the Monadnock Region Humane Society and it not infrequently happens that someone tosses an unwanted cat from their car. Our Sheltie, Sir Sidney, takes umbrage when cats even cast their shadow upon his territory. There is no sanctuary here for, upon discovery of such a trespasser, he raises a mighty uproar and proceeds instantly to “have at them” if, and that’s a big “if,” he can catch them. Frankly, I’m pleased to report that his success rate in making such a capture is very low. However, that means if I can’t cajole the feline into coming to me, then I have to resort to using a Havahart trap.
Each morning when Sir Sidney is let out of the house he immediately puts his nose to work sniffing out any and all creatures that have made passage through our dooryard during the night. And if he suspects a cat has so trespassed he becomes quite vocal.
One morning recently, Sir Sidney put on a vigorous show of hunting just after being let out. He tore about the yard cutting larger and larger circles and spoke with great authority. And that meant, cats!
When evening came I baited and set the trap and looked around for a good place to leave it. I wanted it to be under cover, somewhere a cat might go either to hunt or seek shelter. My first thought was the barn, but I rejected that idea as raccoons have been seen there at night searching for leftover grain. I was not after raccoons — not this time anyway.
We keep our John Deere diesel tractor in the garage with the bucket lowered and it occurred to me that the tractor bucket would be a good place for the trap, so that’s where I put it. I left the garage door open about a foot, just wide enough to accommodate a cat, and went to bed.
Sure enough, the next morning I had captured a lovely gray cat with a nice blue ribbon for a collar. It so happened that this was not a discarded cat but one that had escaped from the shelter. I found that out when I returned it there. They also informed me that a few days before, not one but three cats had spurned their sanctuary and had made their way to freedom.
Since two other cats were “on the lam,” so’s to speak, it became my civic duty therefore to recapture them. That evening just before retiring I rebaited and reset the trap. Now, Mildred is the early riser in the family and the next morning she discovered my effort had been a success. She gently woke me by saying, “You are a good trapper. You better check your trap.”
I arose and, still in my pajamas, went out through the shed to the garage to see what I had caught. There was something in the trap all right, but it was not a cat. No sir — it was a partly grown skunk! My sleep-filled eyes opened wider and, as you might guess, I approached very slowly. My first move was to carefully open the garage door. If there was going to be an explosion, I wanted to be surrounded with as much fresh air as possible.
The door made an awful squawk at being opened, but the skunk did not seem to pay it any mind. Suddenly, from out of nowhere, Sir Sidney appeared and dashed toward the trap. I found my voice in a hurry and he reluctantly obeyed my command to stay away. The little skunk had bumped its back upon hearing Sir Sidney but he held his fire. I was sure thankful for that.
My first thought was to remove the cause of a possible catastrophe and so I mounted the tractor seat, started the engine, slowly raised the bucket and drove out of the garage. I headed for the woods thinking that the skunk might become calmed by seeing familiar surroundings. Apparently the skunk was not displeased with my decisions to that point, for no expected but unwanted odor drifted back to my nose. When I thought we had gone far enough, I stopped the tractor, gently lowered the bucket to the ground and climbed down. I stood behind the bucket for as much protection as possible, reached over and struggled to release the trap door. This was a crucial time.
I had found no difficulty in unlatching the trap door before, but now with a skunk inside it seemed to be much more of a problem. I hasten to explain that in such a trap the door folds in the middle and is held at the bottom by two pins, one on each side. The pins fit into a metal catch and the catchers have to be squeezed in, both at the same time in order that the door can be opened. I managed to get one side loose, but as I tried the other, the first snapped shut again. The skunk arched his back and treaded up and down with his forefeet. I took this as a sign that his patience was being surely tried.
The trap continued to resist my efforts. All the while, I spoke softly to the skunk, I encouraged him to bide his time with pleasant thoughts. “There, there, I won’t hurt you,” I said. “It’s all right.” And I repeated the remarks several times. Frankly, I did not know what else to say under such unnerving circumstances.
Success at last! The door opened and I held it so with one hand while I tilted the cage slightly with the other. The little skunk didn’t seem to notice that freedom was but a foot away. I spoke again, encouraging him to be on his way. He looked up at me and turned around and faced the wrong way. I tilted the trap at a more precarious angle and slowly, too slowly, I thought, the skunk finally waddled out of the trap.
Once his feet touched the ground he headed for the brush, increasing his speed as he went. I was relieved that he didn’t look back. Although, now that I think about it, I would have appreciated a friendly wave as he found sanctuary in the bushes.
I climbed back atop the tractor, drove to the dooryard and backed the machine into the garage.
When I returned to the house Mildred said, “Still wearing your pajamas, I see.”
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Stacey Cole, Nature Talks columnist for more than 50 years, passed away in 2014. If readers have a favorite column written by Stacey they would like to see reprinted, please drop a note to Jen Lord at jlord@unionleader.com.
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In the last two years, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, about 28 million Indians joined the professional networking platform LinkedIn, a senior company official said. India has also emerged as the fastest growing country for the platform in terms of engagement globally.
“At 64 million members in 2020, the LinkedIn community stands at a whopping over 92 million members in India today - a 44% growth in members since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic,” Ashutosh Gupta, India country manager, LinkedIn, said in an interview with The Hindu.
Mr. Gupta also added that the company’s revenues in India, which was the second biggest market for the company in terms of users after the U.S., also witnessed a growth of 84% from FY20 to FY22.
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Talking about the evolution of conversations on the platform, Mr. Gupta said when the company started, the value proposition it offered was around jobs, and that still remained the biggest value proposition why people come to LinkedIn.
Multiple other dimensions had been added to that value proposition – for example, business networking and learning new skills, which picked up very strongly during COVID.
“How people engage on LinkedIn has evolved due to so many people’s personal and professional lives blurring during the pandemic. We are seeing more personal, vulnerable stories and conversations emerge - but very much through the professional / workplace lens,” he said.
“When you think about professionals, it is a very big term. What do you mean by a professional? Are cricketers not professionals or when I go on a vacation and I am sharing that with my business network, is that not a professional conversation? So that envelope has expanded a little bit…” he added.
Mr. Gupta also pointed out that the company was focussing on encouraging skill-based hiring via its LinkedIn Learning, which saw a huge surge in demand during the pandemic. “Traditionally, we have been hiring using a template…I need somebody from this college, should have done this work… We don’t always focus on skills. We are trying to shift the focus to skills. LinkedIn Learning plays a big role. As soon as you complete a course, you can add that skill on your profile…But recruiters’ side also needs to change…Now when recruiters enter their search on LinkedIn, profiles that come are based on skills match…”
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Coimbatore district reported 57 new cases of COVID-19 on Saturday. The Health Department said that 60 persons recovered from the disease, and the district had 476 active cases on Saturday. The district had a test positivity rate of 6.2% on Friday, when 60 persons tested positive.
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Tiruppur district reported 12 new cases. The Health Department said that 13 persons recovered from the disease, and the district had 88 active cases. The district had a test positivity rate of 4.5% on Friday, when 14 persons tested positive.
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Bank of New York Mellon chief auditor Bradnock dies
Sept 17 (Reuters) - Bank of New York Mellon Corp's chief auditor Paulette Mullings Bradnock has died, the company said in a statement on Saturday.
"BNY Mellon is deeply saddened at the passing of our dear friend and colleague, Paulette Mullings Bradnock, who had served as our Chief Auditor since 2015," the bank said.
She worked as the director of internal audit at American International Group before moving to BNY Mellon in May 2015, according to her Linkedin profile.
Prior to that, Bradnock worked with JPMorgan Chase & Co for more than two decades where she held multiple senior positions.
She also served as the vice-chair of the board of trustees at her alma mater Queens College.
(Reporting by Ann Maria Shibu in Bengaluru, Editing by Franklin Paul)
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By JILL LAWLESS
Associated Press
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Liz Truss took office less than two weeks ago, impatient to set her stamp on government and facing an overflowing inbox of crises: soaring inflation, a plummeting national currency and skyrocketing energy bills.
Then the death of 96-year-old Queen Elizabeth II ripped up Truss’s carefully laid plans.
The epochal event has been both a challenge and a reprieve for the U.K.’s untested new leader. The monarch’s demise has put everyday politics in the U.K. on hold as the country plunged into an emotional mourning period.
“It’s given her space to think with the media off her, to plan,” said political historian Anthony Seldon. “The one thing (a) prime minister most lacks is time to think.”
Truss won a Conservative Party leadership contest on Sept. 5 and was appointed prime minister by the queen at Balmoral Castle the next day, in one of Elizabeth’s final acts.
Truss was informed that the queen was gravely ill as she announced an emergency energy package in the House of Commons on Sept. 8 that was designed to ease the impact of steep fuel bill increases driven by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The monarch’s death was announced a few hours later, leaving many questions about the support package unanswered as Parliament was suspended during 10 days of official mourning.
Truss’s appearances since then have been largely ceremonial. She has traveled to memorial services for the queen in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and attended the accession ceremony of King Charles III. On Monday, Truss will join hundreds of political leaders and dignitaries from around the world in the 2,000-strong congregation for the queen’s funeral in Westminster Abbey.
After that, politics will return with a vengeance and Truss will try to make up for lost time. She will launch herself onto the world stage, travelling to New York to attend the United Nations General Assembly next week.
Even before the funeral, Truss is quietly getting to know other world leaders. She is holding private meetings this weekend with key allies, including the prime ministers of Canada, Australia and New Zealand, Irish leader Micheal Martin, U.S. President Joe Biden and President Andrzej Duda of Poland, whose country is in the front line of support for Ukraine.
“The fact that so many leaders from around the world … are flooding to London gives the new prime minister ample time for soft diplomacy, those quiet conversations before and after the funeral, which will help her achieve her objective — if it is achievable — of ‘global Britain,’” Seldon said.
Truss wants to reassure allies that she will continue the strong political and military support for Ukraine begun under her predecessor, Boris Johnson. At the U.N., she is also likely to urge the world’s democracies to work more closely together in what she has labeled a “network of liberty.”
But Truss also has some bridge-building to do, especially with Biden. The U.S. leader has expressed concerns about the impact of Britain’s departure from the European Union on the delicate peace in Northern Ireland.
Northern Ireland shares a border with EU member Ireland, and Brexit has brought new checks on goods that have spiraled into a political crisis in Belfast. British Unionist politicians are refusing to form a power-sharing government with Irish nationalists, saying the Brexit border checks undermine Northern Ireland’s place in the U.K.
Johnson’s government announced plans to suspend the checks and rip up part of its Brexit treaty with the EU — a move that angered the bloc and alarmed Washington. Biden has warned that no side should do anything to undermine the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, cornerstone of Northern Ireland’s peace process, which the U.S. was instrumental in negotiating.
Truss says she wants to reach an agreement with the EU, but will push ahead with Johnson’s plan to rewrite the rules if that fails. It’s unclear whether U.K.-EU relations, which hit rock bottom during Johnson’s turbulent tenure, will improve under Truss. She ruffled French feathers last month when she said the “jury is out” on whether French President Emmanuel Macron is a friend or a foe.
At home, Truss — a small-state, free-market conservative — has been forced to leave her political comfort zone and spend billions capping energy prices for homes and businesses that had been facing an 80% increase next month as Russia’s war in Ukraine sends energy prices surging.
The government will reveal more details of its energy package — and face sharp questions from the opposition — when lawmakers return to Parliament on Wednesday.
Then on Friday, Truss-appointed Treasury chief Kwasi Kwarteng is due to make an emergency budget statement to address the U.K.’s deteriorating economic picture. Inflation eased slightly in August but remains at 9.9%, the highest in four decades, while the pound is at a 37-year low against the dollar. The Bank of England has forecast a long recession to start later this year.
Kwarteng is likely to announce cuts to personal or corporate tax — or both — in hopes that will spur economic growth, though critics say such measures help the well-off more than the poorest.
Newspapers report that Kwarteng also wants to remove a cap on bankers’ bonuses imposed after the 2008 global financial crisis. That would be highly contentious, and would abruptly end the political truce that has followed the queen’s death.
“We’re beginning to see … the signs of what the new economics of Liz Truss is all about,” opposition Labour Party lawmaker Margaret Hodge told the BBC. “Thinking about bankers at this stage is obscene.”
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Morning" game were:
0-9-2, FIREBALL: 3
(zero, nine, two; FIREBALL: three)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Morning" game were:
0-9-2, FIREBALL: 3
(zero, nine, two; FIREBALL: three)
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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) – A Florida woman was charged with attempted first-degree murder after she allegedly stabbed her roommates in a dispute Friday morning, according to deputies.
The Marion County Sheriff’s Office got a call at around 8:03 a.m. from a victim who claimed that he and another person were stabbed by Christina Adams, 30, that morning.
Deputies said Adams was found near driving near the crime scene. She initially denied the accusation during an interview with deputies, but later admitted that she stabbed the roommates after they asked her to leave the home they shared with her.
Adams confessed to getting a large knife and stabbing both roommates to the point where she thought they were dead, according to the sheriff’s office.
After the stabbing, Adams said she tried to destroy evidence of the attack, changed her clothes, left the home, and went shopping. Deputies located her while she was on her way back.
“These senseless acts of violence are shocking to all of us,” Sheriff Billy Wood said. “I’m very proud of my deputies and detectives that worked so quickly to not only provide aid to the victims but, also to capture such an evil person and ensure that our streets are safe.”
Adams was charged with two counts of attempted first-degree murder and tampering with evidence.
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MONTVILLE — Two people, including a 17-year-old, were killed late Friday night when they were struck by a car on the shoulder of Interstate-395, state police said.
Two vehicles, a 2002 Lexus ES 300 and a 2008 Buick Enclave, were parked on the shoulder of the northbound side of the highway near Exit 9 around 11:25 p.m., Trooper Ryan Meakem said in a report.
Four people were standing outside of the vehicles on the shoulder, with a fifth sitting inside one of the vehicles, he said.
A third vehicle, a 2014 Volkswagon Passat, crossed over the fog line and struck two of the people, as well as the vehicles and the guardrail, Meakem said.
Norwich residents Jamie Krajewski, 33, and Tyshon Harper, 17, were both pronounced dead at the scene, Meakem said.
The Buick, driven forward by the impact, struck the Lexus, as well as the other two people standing nearby, he said. One of the people was hospitalized with a suspected minor injury.
The crash remains under investigation.
Anyone with information about the incident can contact Trooper Meakem at Troop E, 860-848-6500.
Ben Lambert can be reached at william.lambert@hearstmediact.com
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NEW YORK (AP) — Yeshiva University has abruptly suspended student club activity in the wake of a U.S. Supreme Court decision earlier this week that ordered the school to recognize — for now — an LGBTQ student group.
In an email to students, university officials on Friday said that it “hold off on all undergraduate club activities while it immediately takes steps to follow the roadmap provided by the U.S. Supreme Court to protect YU's religious freedom.”
On Wednesday, the High Court cleared the way for the LGBTQ group, YU Pride Alliance, to gain official recognition from the Jewish university in New York.
The undergraduate group describes itself as “a supportive space for all students, of all sexual orientations and gender identities, to feel respected, visible, and represented.”
Spokespeople for the university did not immediately respond to emails seeking comment on Saturday.
By a 5-4 vote Wednesday, the justices lifted a temporary hold on a court order that requires Yeshiva University to recognize the group, even as a legal fight continues in New York courts. Two conservatives, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh, sided with the court’s three liberal justices to form a majority.
The disagreement among the justices appears to be mostly about procedure, with the majority writing in a brief unsigned order that Yeshiva should return to state court to seek quick review and temporary relief while the case continues. If it gets neither from state courts, the school can return to the Supreme Court, the majority wrote.
The case was being closely watched by other faith-based institutions.
Following the ruling, the president of the university, Rabbi Ari Berman, said that faith-based universities have the right to establish clubs within its understanding of the Torah.
“Yeshiva University simply seeks that same right of self-determination,” he said. “The Supreme Court has laid out the roadmap for us to find expedited relief and we will follow their instructions.”
Berman also said the university's “commitment and love for our LGBTQ students are unshakeable.”
Nevertheless, a lawyer for the students said the university's action Friday was divisive and “shameful.”
“The Pride Alliance seeks a safe space on campus, nothing more. By shutting down all club activities, the YU administration attempts to divide the student body, and pit students against their LGBT peers,” said the lawyer, Katie Rosenfeld.
The university's tactic, she said, “is a throwback to 50 years ago when the city of Jackson, Mississippi closed all public swimming pools rather than comply with court orders to desegregate.”
The university, an Orthodox Jewish institution in New York, argued that granting recognition to the Pride Alliance, “would violate its sincere religious beliefs.”
The club argued that Yeshiva’s plea to the Supreme Court was premature, also noting the university already has recognized a gay pride club at its law school.
A New York state court sided with the student group and ordered the university to recognize the club immediately. The matter remains on appeal in the state court system, but judges there refused to put the order on hold in the meantime.
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Russia makes new stand after being thrown back by rapid Ukrainian offensive in Kharkiv
The Russians are making a stand at Svatove, as well as trying to regain their positions at Kremenna, because if they cannot, then Lysychansk and Severodonetsk could be surrounded from the north.
Saturday 17 September 2022 16:37, UK
Thrown back by the rapid Ukrainian offensive in the Kharkiv region east of Ukraine, the Russians were going to have to dig in somewhere.
And now we can begin to see where.
They are certainly making a stand at Svatove, east of the Oskil River.
This is really important to them because Svatove controls the last good supply route from Belgorod in Russia to their forces further south.
But the Ukrainians are now in a position to attack the P66 highway that runs south from Svatove towards Kremenna, on the northern doorstep of the Donbas.
So the Russians are also trying hard to regain their positions at Kremenna, because if they cannot, then Lysychansk and Severodonetsk - remember them? - could be surrounded from the north.
So the next phase of this battle in the northeast is taking shape.
In the southwest, the battle for Kherson continues.
Kherson is the more important strategic objective and Russian troops are fighting hard to retain it.
It appears that the Ukrainians are working to squeeze Russian forces elsewhere in the region back into the city itself. And then probably wearing them down.
Russia's response to these setbacks has been to launch more rocket attacks against civilian targets and infrastructure.
The dam and hydroelectric plants at Kryvyi Rih were attacked repeatedly. There is military logic in this for Russia.
Breaking the dam floods the Inhulets River and that destroys some of the pontoon bridges the Ukrainians depend on now they have crossed the Inhulets.
The dam is rapidly repaired, the pontoon bridges are replaced, and Russian attacks on the dam will probably continue.
It is all part of the battle of logistics - without which frontline battles will always fail.
Read more:
Bodies of Ukrainian troops 'dumped as if they were dogs in ditch'
Russia will do everything it can to end Ukraine war 'as soon as possible', Vladimir Putin says
And when it comes to logistics and support, some of the headline figures are pretty dramatic.
The Russians have lost more than 6,000 pieces of significant equipment - the Ukrainians only about a quarter of that.
But these big Russian losses are still generally small in terms of the amount of equipment available. Whereas Ukrainian losses are a bigger proportion of what they can ultimately throw into the battle.
This emphasises two fundamental issues.
One is that Ukraine will need Western military equipment for as long as it fights this war.
And two, that means we are witnessing the return of industrial-scale warfare to Europe - for the first time in a couple of generations.
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Three individuals were arrested Friday after Everman Police received information about a potential imminent threat at the Everman High School Homecoming Game.
The Everman Police Department says they received information from a Tarrant County Sheriff's Office Deputy regarding a person who was currently on their way to the game with the intent of utilizing a firearm that he had obtained earlier Friday.
Heavy law enforcement presence already existed at the game; however, additional personnel was dispatched to assist.
A short time later, Everman Police Officers saw a vehicle matching the description of the suspect vehicle traveling southbound on Race Street towards the Everman High School football stadium.
Officers attempted to initiate a traffic stop on the vehicle, which came to a stop at the east gate entrance to the stadium. Three individuals were detained three from inside of the vehicle and officers also recovered an AR Pistol along with a 60-round magazine.
"It is evident that this individual was coming to do harm. The quick thinking and action by the Tarrant County Deputy who shared the information and the attentiveness and responsiveness of the Officers who made the stop saved countless lives this evening."
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Following the incident, there was no additional threat to those in attendance at the game.
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BOSTON, Sept. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Edwards Lifesciences Corporation (NYSE: EW) announced results from CLASP IID, the first randomized controlled trial that directly compares two contemporary transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (TEER) therapies. The study confirms TEER as a safe and effective therapy in patients with degenerative mitral regurgitation (DMR). Results from the CLASP IID pivotal trial were presented as a late-breaking clinical science session at the 34th Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT), the annual scientific symposium of the Cardiovascular Research Foundation, and published simultaneously in JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions.
Patients enrolled in the CLASP IID pivotal trial had severe symptomatic DMR and were determined to be at prohibitive surgical risk. The CLASP IID trial met its primary safety and effectiveness endpoints, with the PASCAL system demonstrating non-inferiority for safety and effectiveness compared to the MitraClip device. The PASCAL device showed:
- Low composite major adverse event rate of 3.4 percent at 30 days, and
- Significant and sustained MR reduction with 97.7 percent of patients achieving MR ≤2+ at six months.
The PASCAL system further demonstrated significant and sustained MR ≤1+ with 83.7 percent of patients at MR ≤1+ at six months. PASCAL system results also showed favorable ventricular remodeling with improved stroke volume, and patients receiving the PASCAL system experienced significant improvements in functional capacity and quality of life.
"The CLASP IID randomized trial further establishes the PASCAL system as a safe and effective therapy, expanding the armamentarium of transcatheter mitral valve treatment options for patients with DMR," said Scott Lim, MD, director, Advanced Heart Valve Center at University of Virginia Health System and CLASP IID Study Principal Investigator. "Several distinct design characteristics of the PASCAL system, including the flexible nitinol design and elongation capability, contribute to the positive outcomes of this study."
The CLASP IID trial is a prospective randomized controlled trial comparing the safety and effectiveness of the PASCAL system to the MitraClip system. Results were reported on 180 patients with 2:1 randomization (117 PASCAL / 63 MitraClip), with echo core lab adjudication. The trial included 43 sites in the US, Canada and Europe, with most clinical operators new to using the PASCAL system and all having experience with the MitraClip system.
"As we consider the many DMR patients who are suffering with debilitating symptoms and could benefit from a TEER procedure, we are very pleased with the outcomes from the CLASP IID trial," said Bernard J. Zovighian, Edwards' corporate vice president, transcatheter mitral and tricuspid therapies. "Edwards continues to prioritize evidence generation with world-class data in support of our patient-driven therapies, and we are proud to support this and multiple other pivotal trials as we work to transform treatment for these patients in need."
Additional data presentations for the company during TCT 2022 include:
- The PASCAL IID Registry: A Prospective Registry for Transcatheter Edge-to-Edge Repair in Prohibitive Risk Patients With Degenerative Mitral Regurgitation and Complex Mitral Valve Anatomy (Sept. 17) – Late-Breaking Presenter: Jörg Hausleiter.
- Deep Dive Session: Mitral TEER = CLASP IID Trials (Sept. 17) – Moderators: Megan Coylewright, Linda D. Gillam. Discussants: Paul A. Grayburn, Konstantinos P. Koulogiannis, Raj Makkar, Jacob M. Mishell, Ralph Stephan von Bardeleben, Firas Zahr.
- Frequency and Safety of Bioprosthetic Valve Fracture in Patients Undergoing Valve in Valve TAVR for Failed Surgical Valves Using the SAPIEN 3/Ultra Valves: Insights From Real-World Data (Sept. 18) – Presenter: Santiago Garcia.
- Cardiac Damage and Quality of Life After Aortic Valve Replacement: Results from the PARTNER Trials (Sept. 18) – Presenter: Philippe Genereux.
Edwards is committed to transforming the treatment of patients with structural heart disease, supported by robust clinical evidence. As part of Edwards' continued commitment to building a body of real-world evidence, patients receiving the PASCAL Precision therapy in the US will be enrolled in the TVT Registry for five years. The PASCAL Precision system is one of multiple transcatheter repair or replacement therapies in development by Edwards and the company's first approved transcatheter therapy for DMR in the US. The PASCAL system first received CE Mark in Europe in 2019, and the PASCAL Precision system received CE Mark in 2022.
Transcatheter Edge-to-Edge Repair (TEER) of the mitral valve is used in the treatment of mitral regurgitation. TEER approximates the anterior and posterior mitral valve leaflets by grasping them with a clipping device in an approach similar to a treatment developed in cardiac surgery called the Alfieri stitch.
Edwards Lifesciences is the global leader of patient-focused innovations for structural heart disease and critical care monitoring. We are driven by a passion for patients, dedicated to improving and enhancing lives through partnerships with clinicians and stakeholders across the global healthcare landscape. For more information, visit Edwards.com and follow us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter and YouTube.
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Last Wednesday, residents at Brandywine Living at Princeton went through the door into their great room as they normally do, but this time it was out of this world and they instantly were “Lost in Space.”
The room resembled a black light planetarium, with pinpoints of laser light traveling across the walls and ceiling, backdrops of the stars, and planets suspended from the ceiling.
It’s National Assisted Living Week, and Escapades Producer Stephanie Gaber has a different TV sitcom-based theme for residents each day. ”Lost in Space” was an American science fiction television series which originally aired in the 1960′s. The show featured a robot.
This event also featured a robot, but not the kind that proclaims the show’s catchphrase “Danger, Will Robinson!”
This mechanical man was an 8-ft tall Mega Robot (inhabited by Alex Fazyrn with Laser Show USA) which strutted around the room to club music, lights flashing, high-fiving and dancing with responsive residents.
The National Center For Assisted Living chose this years theme as “JOYFUL MOMENTS” but Gaber embellished the idea and came up with her TV Sitcoms & Series motiff.
The week kicked off with a “Happy Days” theme on Sunday, then “Miami Vice” on Monday, “Green Acres” on Tuesday, “Lost in Space” on Wednesday, “I Dream Of Jeannie” on Thursday, and “I Love Lucy” on Friday.
On Saturday, Sept. 17, which happens to also be National Batman Day, residents can take a ride in the authentic Batmobile in addition to meeting costumed characters from the 1960s American television series, based on the DC comic book character of the same name.
To prepare for “Lost in Space” day, Gaber and staff have been working since the middle of August. Residents contributed out-of-this-world artwork and also fashioned the planets that were hanging from the ceiling.
“We wrapped balloons in them and then had them dry and then they painted them,” Gaber said, speaking of the planets which were representations of those in our solar system.
When the dancing was done, residents sampled extra-terrestrial treats, astronaut food in the form of freeze-dried ice cream.
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LONDON — British Prime Minister Liz Truss has met her counterparts from Australia and New Zealand who have arrived in town ahead of Queen Elizabeth II’s state funeral on Monday.
Truss met with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and New Zealand Premier Jacinda Ardern at the government’s Chevening country residence outside London on Saturday.
Ardern said the talks would focus on the queen’s death and King Charles III, as well as the war in Ukraine and the U.K.’s free trade agreement with New Zealand.
Truss’ meeting with Albanese will likely also touch on trade. The Australian leader signed a condolence book for the queen’s family with his partner, Jodie Haydon. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau also signed the book.
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KEY DEVELOPMENTS:
— Thousands wait in shivering cold to view queen; King stops by for a visit
— Queen’s death both a challenge and a reprieve for new UK Prime Minister Liz Truss
— US-UK relations enter new chapter as new PM, king settle in
— Crowds paying respects to queen boost London tourism amid slump
— Queen’s death triggers media bonanza that has been at work for decades
— In Yemen, queen’s death recalls oppression under British colonial rule
— Once home to a princess, Malta remembers a queen
— Palace reveals details of queen’s state funeral on Monday
— Find more AP coverage here: https://apnews.com/hub/queen-elizabeth-ii
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While thousands of mourners line up along the River Thames to pay their last respects to the late Queen Elizabeth II, others are already staking out prime viewing locations in the heart of London for the late monarch’s funeral on Monday.
Shirin Thorpe, 62, from Sevenoaks south of the English capital, arrived Thursday and was camped out Saturday near Westminster subway station. It’s near the historic hall where the queen is lying in state and Westminster Abbey, where her funeral will be held.
She says, “There’s going to be millions of people here and we didn’t want to miss the chance.”
Thorpe and her friends are well prepared for a few nights of camping amid cold temperatures: They’ve brought inflatable mattresses, sleeping bags, winter coats and battery packs to keep gadgets running. They have hung Union Jack flags from security barriers and added a photograph of Elizabeth.
While the sun was shining Saturday, Thorpe says she’s ready to brave worse weather should it come.
She says, “We’re tough women like the Queen.”
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LONDON — King Charles III is making an unannounced visit to greet people waiting to file past the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II.
Charles and his son, Prince William, shook hands and thanked mourners in the miles-long queue near Lambeth Bridge on Saturday.
Charles has made several impromptu walkabouts since he became king on Sept. 8, in an attempt to meet as many of his subjects as possible.
Thousands of people are lining up to see the queen’s coffin in Westminster Hall, despite waiting times of 16 hours or more.
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LONDON — King Charles III is spending much of the day meeting dignitaries who have arrived in London for his mother’s funeral on Monday.
On Saturday morning, he held an audience at Buckingham Palace with the country’s military chiefs, who have provided thousands of armed forces personnel to take part in the pageantry surrounding Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral as well as helping line crowd-packed roads and performing other ceremonial duties.
In the early afternoon, the king was holding a reception for Governors General of the Realms – the monarch’s representatives in the U.K.’s former colonies ranging from Antigua and Barbuda to Tuvalu.
And later in the day, Charles was meeting prime ministers including Justin Trudeau of Canada, Anthony Albanese of Australia, Philip Davis of the Bahamas, Andrew Holness of Jamaica and New Zealand’s Jacinda Ardern.
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WINDSOR, England — Hundreds of troops from the British army, air force and navy have taken part in the first full rehearsal of the procession that will bring the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II to its final resting place.
With troops lining The Long Walk, a picturesque path leading to Windsor Castle, the thumping of drums echoed as marching bands walked ahead of a hearse early Saturday.
On Monday, they will do the same, only surrounded by thousands of people expected to travel to Windsor for a final farewell to the queen, who died last week at age 96.
Her funeral is to be held at Westminster Abbey on Monday before some 2,000 guests, including visiting heads of state. After the church service, the late queen’s coffin will be transported through the historic heart of London on a horse-drawn gun carriage.
It will then be taken by hearse to Windsor, where the queen will be interred alongside her late husband, Prince Philip, who died last year.
Some people who won’t be in Windsor on Monday decided to wake up early to watch Saturday’s rehearsal.
Local resident Katharine Horsfall said she set her alarm for 3:15 a.m. She said: “I think it will be an amazing tribute to the queen, a great send off, with all the pageantry that she so well deserves.”
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BEIJING — China announced Saturday that Vice President Wang Qishan would attend the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II as the special representative of President Xi Jinping.
A group of British legislators sanctioned by China have expressed concern that the Chinese government has been invited to the funeral. One told the BBC the invitation should be rescinded because of human rights abuses in the treatment of the Uyghur ethnic group in China’s far-western region of Xinjiang.
Wang, who is close to Xi, was a member of the ruling Communist Party’s all-powerful, seven-member Politburo Standing Committee from 2012 to 2017. During those years, he led a crackdown on corruption that has been one of Xi’s signature initiatives as China’s leader.
Wang was named to the largely ceremonial post of vice president in 2018 and often attends events on Xi’s behalf.
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TOKYO — Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako left for Britain on Saturday to attend Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral to pay respects to her and the British royal family who considered as a model for Japan’s monarchy in modern history.
The decision for the emperor and empress to attend the queen’s funeral underscores the importance and the deep bond between the royal families. Traditionally, a Japanese emperor stays away from funerals except for those of their own parents because of a cultural belief based in the Shinto religion that considers death impure.
Former Emperor Akihito, as crown prince, attended the Queen’s 1953 coronation and her Diamond Jubilee in 2012. Queen Elizabeth visited Japan in 1975.
Naruhito and Masako’s trip to Britain is their first as the Emperor and Empress. The Queen’s invitation for them to visit following Naruhito’s 2019 ascension to the Chrysanthemum Throne had to be postponed due to the pandemic.
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Spurred by conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election, activists around the country are using laws that allow people to challenge a voter’s right to cast a ballot to contest the registrations of thousands of voters at a time.
In Iowa, Linn County Auditor Joel Miller had handled three voter challenges over the previous 15 years. He received 119 over just two days after Doug Frank, an Ohio educator who is touring the country spreading doubts about the 2020 election, swung through the state.
In Nassau County in northern Florida, two residents challenged the registrations of nearly 2,000 voters just six days before last month’s primary. In Georgia, activists are dropping off boxloads of challenges in the diverse and Democratic-leaning counties comprising the Atlanta metro area, including more than 35,000 in one county late last month.
Election officials say the vast majority of the challenges will be irrelevant because they contest the presence on voting rolls of people who already are in the process of being removed after they moved out of the region. Still, they create potentially hundreds of hours of extra work as the offices scramble to prepare for November’s election.
“They at best overburden election officials in the run-up to an election, and at worse they lead to people being removed from the rolls when they shouldn’t be,” said Sean Morales-Doyle of The Brennan Center for Justice, which has tracked an upswing in voter challenges.
The voter challenges come as activists who believe in the election lies of former President Donald Trump also have flooded election offices across the country with public records requests and threats of litigation, piling even more work on them as they ready for November.
“It’s time-consuming for us, because we have to consult with our county attorneys about what the proper response is going to be,” said Rachel Rodriguez, an elections supervisor in Dane County, Wisconsin, which includes Madison, the state capital.
She received duplicate emails demanding records about two weeks ago: “It’s taking up valuable time that we don’t necessarily have as election officials when we’re trying to prepare for a November election.”
Michael Henrici, the Democratic commissioner of elections in New York’s Otsego County, received a single-line email last week warning of unspecified “election integrity” litigation, then a follow-up complaining he hadn’t responded.
“These aren’t people with specific grievances,” Henrici said. “They’re getting a form letter from someone’s podcast and sometimes filling in the blanks.”
Multiple investigations and reviews, including one by Trump’s own Department of Justice, found no significant fraud i n the 2020 presidential election, and courts rejected dozens of lawsuits brought by Trump and his allies. But Trump has continued to insist that widespread fraud cost him re-election. That has inspired legions of activists to become do-it-yourself election sleuths around the country, challenging local voting officials at every turn.
In Linn County, Iowa, which includes the city of Cedar Rapids, Miller said he and the auditors who run elections in the state’s other 98 counties have been deluged with both records requests and voter challenges.
“The whole barrage came in a two-week period,” Miller said, following the tour by Frank, who uses mathematical projections to make claims of a vast conspiracy to steal the election from Trump, “and it’s happening to auditors across the state.”
Election offices routinely go through their voter rolls and remove those who have moved or died. Federal law constrains how quickly they can drop voters, and conservative activists have long complained that election officials do not move swiftly enough to clean up their rolls.
The recent challenges stem from activists comparing postal change-of-address and other databases to voter rolls. Election officials say this is redundant, because they already take the same steps.
Sometimes the challenges come after election conspiracists go door-to-door, often in heavily minority neighborhoods, seeking evidence that votes were cast improperly in 2020.
Texas’ heavily Democratic Harris County, which includes Houston, received nearly 5,000 challenges from a conservative group that went door-to-door checking voter addresses. The election office said it dismissed the challenges it legally had to review before the election and will finish the remainder after Nov. 8.
Activists in Gwinnett County, which stretches across the increasingly Democratic northern Atlanta suburbs, spent 10 months comparing change-of-address and other databases with the county’s voter rolls. They submitted eight boxes of challenges last month. About 15,000, they said, were complaints that specific voters improperly received mail ballots in 2020. Another 22,000 were for voters they contend are no longer at their registered address.
There are so many challenges that election officials have yet to even count them all. But Zach Manifold, Gwinnett’s election supervisor, said that, in every single mail ballot complaint the office has sampled, the voter properly received a mailed ballot.
But if any of the address-challenged voters do try to cast a ballot in November, the county’s elections board will need to decide whether that vote should count. They’ll only have six days to make a decision, as they have to certify their vote total by the Monday after Election Day under Georgia law.
Manifold estimated his office has a month to log and research the challenges, before mail ballots go out for the November elections: “It is a tight window to get everything done,” he said.
Many of the large counties facing voter roll challenges are places where President Joe Biden beat Trump in 2020, including Gwinnett and Harris. Yet those behind the effort dispute the notion that they are targeting Democratic-leaning counties and say they’re working on behalf of all voters. In Florida’s Nassau County, for example, Trump won with more than 72% of the vote.
“They should be glad that the voter rolls are being cleaned up so they can make sure their votes count,” said Garland Favorito, a conservative activist who has teamed up with supporters of Trump’s election lies and is helping with voter challenges in Georgia.
Favorito said more challenges are coming in other Georgia counties.
Under legislation passed last year by the Republican-controlled Legislature, there are no limits on the number of voter challenges that can be filed in Georgia. Most states implicitly set restraints on challenges, said Morales-Doyle of the Brennan Center. They require a complainant to have specific, personal information about the voters they target and establish penalties for making frivolous challenges.
Florida is an example. Its voter challenge law only permits the filing of challenges 30 days before an election, requiring election officials to contact each voter challenged before Election Day. It is a misdemeanor to file a “frivolous” challenge. But voter challenges almost derailed Florida’s primary last month in heavily-Republican Nassau County, in the northeastern part of the state.
Two women who belonged to a conservative group, County Citizens Defending Freedom, dropped off the nearly 2,000 challenges at the county elections office six days before the Aug. 23 primary.
Luckily for the office, the challenges were filed in an incorrect format. Elections Supervisor Janet Adkins told the activists they would review them, anyway — after the primary.
“To take away a person’s right to vote is a very serious thing,” Adkins said.
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Holly Ramer in Concord, New Hampshire, contributed to this report.
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(NEXSTAR) – Judging from how the flu has roared back in Australia and other countries south of the Equator, experts are predicting a particularly nasty season for the U.S. this winter. At the same time, many Americans are also making plans to strengthen their defenses against COVID-19 with the omicron-specific booster, but should they be taken at the same time?
Experts say there’s no danger in taking them simultaneously. With COVID already spreading and peak flu season still months away, some people may choose to wait on the flu vaccine.
“It depends on how reliable you find yourself to be,” Dr. Jeffrey Kopin, Chief Medical Officer for Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Hospital, told Nexstar’s WGN Radio. “What do I mean by that? If one does want to put off getting the influenza vaccine and wait towards the latter part of October [or] first part of November, that’s a good strategy for people [as] we’re not seeing that much influenza yet … but you’ve got to be able to rely on yourself, you got to to remember to go in and actually get the influenza vaccine.”
Kopin emphasized that everyone who qualifies to get the bivalent COVID-19 vaccine should go ahead and get it to protect against the omicron strains that are already circulating across the country. So if you know there’s a chance you’ll forget to go back for the flu vaccine, Kopin recommends getting them together.
So too, does the White House.
“The good news is you can get both your flu shot and COVID shot at the same time. It’s actually a good idea,” Dr. Ashish Jha, the White House’s COVID response coordinator said during recent press conference. “I really believe this is why God gave us two arms — one for the flu shot and the other one for the COVID shot.”
Some people, however, wonder if rushing out to get the flu shot in September might leave them with their vaccine-boost fading during late winter months. If you aren’t worried about forgetting to get the shot entirely and don’t mind making a second trip, experts agree there is some benefit to delaying the flu shot.
“If you get it too early, there’s clear evidence that it wanes off by the end of the season,” Amesh Adalja, senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, told The Hill. “Traditionally, it peaked around February. So if you’re getting a flu shot now in early September, you can’t expect it to be that effective at the tail end of the flu season. So I’ve always recommended people get their flu vaccine sometime in late October.”
Experts are encouraging people to get the flu vaccine as the upcoming season is expected to be rough. Flu cases plummeted during the pandemic thanks to masks, social distancing and other precautions, leading to less exposure and less natural immunity.
Judging from this year’s case counts from the Southern Hemisphere – where summer in the U.S. is winter – it looks like the experts might be right.
Australia had 600 cases of influenza recorded by laboratories in 2021, a number that jumped to over 217,000 this year, which is closer to a normal flu season. Public health officials told Bloomberg late last month they expect the final tally could be similar to to that of 2019, which brought a record number of infections.
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VALLETTA, Malta (AP) — A dilapidated villa outside Malta’s capital where a young Princess Elizabeth and her husband lived for a fondly recalled period before she became queen has become a focal point of Malta’s remembrance of the late monarch and her ties to the former British colony in the Mediterranean.
Flowers and wreaths have crowded the door of Villa Guardamangia, where Elizabeth and Prince Philip spent months at a time between 1949 and 1951, following who would go on to serve for 70 years as Queen Elizabeth II. Philip, a Royal Navy officer, was assigned to Malta in the early years of the couple’s marriage.
“Visiting Malta is always very special for me,” the queen said in Malta in 2015, when she visited the island nation for a Commonwealth meeting in what became her final visit. “I remember happy days here with Prince Phillip when we were first married.”
Unlike in some , where the monarch’s death has conjured up memories of oppression or lasting economic disparities as a legacy of British rule, residents of Malta generally remember the monarch with respect.
The Maltese government in 2020 purchased Villa Guardamangia, which had fallen into disrepair, and is renovating the dwelling with the aim of documenting the history of Malta’s relationship with the British monarchy.
“Obviously, Malta was a colony, too, so there are people who also remember that Britain had colonized us,” said former President Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca. “But I don’t think people really mix the issue of being colonized and the queen. The queen carried a lot of respect.”
Malta’s current president, George Vella, plans to represent the country at the queen’s Monday funeral in London.
Malta’s colonial past saw political clashes and a few riots, but also some pushes for the country to become closer to the United Kingdom. After attempts by a major political party for integration with the U.K. failed in the 1950s, Malta steadied on a path towards self-determination and eventually gained its independence in 1964. Elizabeth remained Malta’s head of state until 1974, when Malta became a republic.
“Having lived here when she was still a princess, Malta is the only country that Queen Elizabeth II could call home outside of the United Kingdom,” said Noel Zarb, who helped handle communications for the Maltese president at the time of the monarch’s last visit.
The Commonwealth is a political association of 56 countries, most of them former British colonies like Malta. Zarb recalled that as recently as the 2015 meeting in Valletta, “everywhere the queen went, there was still that sentiment of warmth, hospitality and welcome.”
Coleiro Preca, who hosted the queen at San Anton Palace that year, said the queen remained interested in Malta and clearly had fond memories of her time there.
“She could remember a lot of details about Malta, especially about the time she spent in the country at the beginning of her marriage,” the former president said.
“She was also very interested in the goings on of the Maltese people. I remember taking her Maltese products and oranges from San Anton Garden, and her speaking to me about the food in Malta.”
Following the queen’s death, an online petition calling for a statue to be created in Elizabeth’s honor garnered some 1,400 signatures. The initiative also sparked online debate as to whether such a tribute was appropriate.
Among the Maltese with fond memories of the queen is Aldo Muscat, whose family has a long history of providing flowers for royal events starting when the princess lived in Malta and up through when the queen came back for visits.
Muscat proudly shows off letters of thanks from her staff thanking him, his father and grandfather, who all provided blooms.
“I know the queen liked flowers so much, and we always were thanked,” Muscat said.
Such personal touches helped cement an enduring relationship between Malta and the queen. Coleiro Preca recalled her daughter bumping into the queen in the San Anton Palace corridor in 2015.
“She stopped my daughter and started a conversation. She knew my daughter was studying in England and asked about her studies, what she intends to do in the future,” Coleiro Preca recalled. “I could see a mother behind the person of repute.”
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Keke Palmer has never been afraid to shoot her shot for a role, but this time the fans are doing it for her!
A video of the Nope actress showing off different outfits for Vogue sparked a conversation about casting her as a comic-book hero when Palmer briefly appears in a black leather outfit and says she's "manifesting a superhero role" because it would make a perfect costume. While many of the suggestions were the popular casting choices for Black actresses -- regardless of personality -- one particular fan's idea went viral.
TikToker @jacobfordridgway noted that although suggestions like Storm and Bumblebee were understandable, Palmer would work best in a role that tapped into her real-life superpower -- her vivaciousness.
"If you want her to deliver a powerhouse lead, she's got to have room to play in that role," he explains, suggesting that Palmer should play X-Men's Rogue, giving her a "fun, boisterous role."
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The idea quickly took off on TikTok and Twitter, finding its way to Palmer herself. When the TikTok video began to gain viral status on Twitter, she quote-retweeted it with the caption, "Come on agentttttttt," showing her appreciation for fans thinking of her.
Of course, a viral fan-casting being kicked off from a Tiktok video doesn't exactly make for a traditional copy letter but it wouldn't be the first time Palmer landed a role through unconventional means.
In September 2020, Palmer hooked her guest-starring role in Insecure's final season by flagging Issa Rae through social media. After tweeting about looking forward to the final season of the HBO series, Palmer tweeted at Rae, saying, "@IssaRae there's been a mix up. I tweeted about my excitement for season 5 of Insecure and now everyone thinks I'm gonna be on it. We can't let them down, put me in to beat Condola's a** real quick."
A year later, the actress revealed that her tweet had done the trick. But, instead of being brought on "to beat Condola’s a** real quick” as she had hoped, Palmer was cast as her sister, Kira, and appeared in season 5’s emotionally charged third episode, "Pressure, Okay?!," about the birth of Condola and Lawrence’s (Jay Ellis) son, Elijah.
"That’s how crazy life is. You never know what you gonna get. I mean, I had no idea that it was really gonna happen," Palmer told ET of being asked to appear on Insecure, before quipping, "I didn't do the casting... Honey, Issa cast this."
A year later, Palmer pulled something similar while appearing on The View, taking the time to speak directly to Whoopi Goldberg before her time was up.
"Now Whoopi, I gotta shoot my shot, like I did with Issa a little bit ago," Palmer said. "I heard that Tyler Perry is doing Sister Act 3 and I just want you to know I’m available for the job. Any job. I mean, you ain't got to say nothing now, you know, I'll send you an email or something. Just let me know if you need me."
But Goldberg didn't need an email, she was ready with an answer for the actress.
"I already brought it up," the host replied with a smile.
Now, someone just needs to get Kevin Feige on board!
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In the wake of Sony continuing to push back against Microsoft’s pending acquisition of Activision Blizzard and Call of Duty for the sake of “PlayStation gamers,” many have pointed out some ironies, like how Sony is current advertising loads of PlayStation exclusive access to Modern Warfare 2’s beta, including early access and a unique operator.
But I think why Sony is protesting so much is not because of the loss of exclusive bonuses like this, which it will no doubt no longer get in a Microsoft-owned era. Nor do I actually think Sony believes that Microsoft is going to make Call of Duty fully exclusive to the Xbox ecosystem, as Microsoft has said repeatedly they’re not doing that, and they would be leaving a massive amount of money on the table as a publisher by doing so. Sony knows this.
Rather, Sony is fighting against this deal because they see the likely end result of this. That is new Call of Duty games being sold on PlayStation for full price, probably $70, while the same game is offered as included with Xbox Game Pass every year. And this is something that Sony feels like it can’t compete against, even if the game is still available on the console just as it’s always been. They may be believe that Call of Duty is a big enough series to really start to move players off PlayStation and onto Xbox, if they’re going to get a “free” Call of Duty every year, in addition to all Game Pass’s other first party offerings.
I believe Microsoft will keep selling Call of Duty on PlayStation after this deal. I think Sony believes that too. But this marks the a unique situation in which a formerly third party, massive series would be heading to Xbox Game Pass while Sony is still asking gamers to pay full price. This has happened a few times with deals Xbox has made, with games like Outriders which launched on Game Pass but cost the normal amount of PlayStation. But usually it’s apples and oranges. Yes, Sony is charging $70 for Horizon Forbidden West and The Last of Us Part I while Halo Infinite and Forza Horizon are on Game Pass, but those are entirely different series. Here, Microsoft will be offering the biggest game of the year, every year, on Game Pass, while Sony will have to sell it for full price.
Not that Sony offers its own games day one as a part of PlayStation Plus or anything, but when Call of Duty is owned by Microsoft it wouldn’t even have the option, as Microsoft would never let that happen. But that doesn’t seem to matter, as Sony has said repeatedly they do not view a Game Pass-like model where their biggest games are released on the service instead of sold individually is a viable way to fund those titles and turn a profit from them.
So it’s not that Sony doesn’t have anything to complain about, I just think people are missing what they are actually afraid of. And Sony is not being honest about it either. Losing exclusive beta weeks and operators is small potatoes. But nor do I think the “disaster” scenario of Microsoft ripping Call of Duty off PlayStation completely is likely, which Sony has to know. Rather, Sony will not say what they’re actually afraid of, Microsoft giving away Call of Duty every year to Game Pass subscribers, while Sony will continue to charge full price, and be giving a cut of that revenue directly to Microsoft.
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U.S. President Joe Biden headed to the United Kingdom on Saturday to pay his respects to Queen Elizabeth II at a time of transition in US-UK relations, as both a new royal and a new prime minister are settling in.
The hawkish approach of new Prime Minister Liz Truss to Russia and China puts her on the same page as Biden. But the rise of Truss, 47, who once called the U.S.-U.K. relationship “special but not exclusive,” could mark a decidedly new chapter in the trans-Atlantic partnership.
Of high concern for Biden officials is Truss’ backing of legislation that would shred parts of the post-Brexit trading arrangements in Northern Ireland. Analysts say the move could cause deep strains between the U.K. and the European Union, and undermine peace in Northern Ireland. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the move “would not create a conducive environment” for crafting a long-awaited U.S.-UK trade deal coveted by Truss and her Conservative Party.
“She’s signaled that she’s willing to go to the mattresses on this and that’s going to cause a rift not just between the U.K. and EU, but the U.K. and the U.S.,” said Max Bergmann, director of the Europe program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.
Biden and Truss had been set to meet Sunday, but the prime minister’s office said Saturday they would skip the weekend hello, opting instead for a meeting at the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday.
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KEY DEVELOPMENTS:
— Thousands wait in shivering cold to view queen; King stops by for a visit
— Queen’s death both a challenge and a reprieve for new UK Prime Minister Liz Truss
— US-UK relations enter new chapter as new PM, king settle in
— Crowds paying respects to queen boost London tourism amid slump
— Queen’s death triggers media bonanza that has been at work for decades
— In Yemen, queen’s death recalls oppression under British colonial rule
— Once home to a princess, Malta remembers a queen
— Palace reveals details of queen’s state funeral on Monday
— Find more AP coverage here: https://apnews.com/hub/queen-elizabeth-ii
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LONDON — The line for people with disabilities and mobility issues who want to pay their last respects to Queen Elizabeth II as her coffin lies in state has been closed.
The government announced Saturday afternoon that the queue “has reached full capacity and is now permanently closed.”
It says that all time slots have been allocated for those who are entitled to join the “accessible” queue which is for people who have a disability or condition that means they cannot line up for extended periods of time. It is separate to the main queue, which remains open with waiting times around 13 hours.
The queen, who died Sept. 8 at age 96 after 70 years on the throne, is lying in state at the Houses of Parliament until early Monday morning, hours before her funeral.
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LONDON — British Prime Minister Liz Truss has met her counterparts from Australia and New Zealand who have arrived in town ahead of Queen Elizabeth II’s state funeral on Monday.
Truss met with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and New Zealand Premier Jacinda Ardern at the government’s Chevening country residence outside London on Saturday.
Ardern said the talks would focus on the queen’s death and King Charles III, as well as the war in Ukraine and the U.K.’s free trade agreement with New Zealand.
Truss’ meeting with Albanese will likely also touch on trade. The Australian leader signed a condolence book for the queen’s family with his partner, Jodie Haydon. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau also signed the book.
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LONDON — While thousands of mourners line up along the River Thames to pay their last respects to the late Queen Elizabeth II, others are already staking out prime viewing locations in the heart of London for the late monarch’s funeral on Monday.
Shirin Thorpe, 62, from Sevenoaks south of the English capital, arrived Thursday and was camped out Saturday near Westminster subway station. It’s near the historic hall where the queen is lying in state and Westminster Abbey, where her funeral will be held.
She says, “There’s going to be millions of people here and we didn’t want to miss the chance.”
Thorpe and her friends are well prepared for a few nights of camping amid cold temperatures: They’ve brought inflatable mattresses, sleeping bags, winter coats and battery packs to keep gadgets running. They have hung Union Jack flags from security barriers and added a photograph of Elizabeth.
While the sun was shining Saturday, Thorpe says she’s ready to brave worse weather should it come.
She says, “We’re tough women like the Queen.”
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LONDON — King Charles III is making an unannounced visit to greet people waiting to file past the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II.
Charles and his son, Prince William, shook hands and thanked mourners in the miles-long queue near Lambeth Bridge on Saturday.
Charles has made several impromptu walkabouts since he became king on Sept. 8, in an attempt to meet as many of his subjects as possible.
Thousands of people are lining up to see the queen’s coffin in Westminster Hall, despite waiting times of 16 hours or more.
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LONDON — King Charles III is spending much of the day meeting dignitaries who have arrived in London for his mother’s funeral on Monday.
On Saturday morning, he held an audience at Buckingham Palace with the country’s military chiefs, who have provided thousands of armed forces personnel to take part in the pageantry surrounding Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral as well as helping line crowd-packed roads and performing other ceremonial duties.
In the early afternoon, the king was holding a reception for Governors General of the Realms – the monarch’s representatives in the U.K.’s former colonies ranging from Antigua and Barbuda to Tuvalu.
And later in the day, Charles was meeting prime ministers including Justin Trudeau of Canada, Anthony Albanese of Australia, Philip Davis of the Bahamas, Andrew Holness of Jamaica and New Zealand’s Jacinda Ardern.
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WINDSOR, England — Hundreds of troops from the British army, air force and navy have taken part in the first full rehearsal of the procession that will bring the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II to its final resting place.
With troops lining The Long Walk, a picturesque path leading to Windsor Castle, the thumping of drums echoed as marching bands walked ahead of a hearse early Saturday.
On Monday, they will do the same, only surrounded by thousands of people expected to travel to Windsor for a final farewell to the queen, who died last week at age 96.
Her funeral is to be held at Westminster Abbey on Monday before some 2,000 guests, including visiting heads of state. After the church service, the late queen’s coffin will be transported through the historic heart of London on a horse-drawn gun carriage.
It will then be taken by hearse to Windsor, where the queen will be interred alongside her late husband, Prince Philip, who died last year.
Some people who won’t be in Windsor on Monday decided to wake up early to watch Saturday’s rehearsal.
Local resident Katharine Horsfall said she set her alarm for 3:15 a.m. She said: “I think it will be an amazing tribute to the queen, a great send off, with all the pageantry that she so well deserves.”
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BEIJING — China announced Saturday that Vice President Wang Qishan would attend the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II as the special representative of President Xi Jinping.
A group of British legislators sanctioned by China have expressed concern that the Chinese government has been invited to the funeral. One told the BBC the invitation should be rescinded because of human rights abuses in the treatment of the Uyghur ethnic group in China’s far-western region of Xinjiang.
Wang, who is close to Xi, was a member of the ruling Communist Party’s all-powerful, seven-member Politburo Standing Committee from 2012 to 2017. During those years, he led a crackdown on corruption that has been one of Xi’s signature initiatives as China’s leader.
Wang was named to the largely ceremonial post of vice president in 2018 and often attends events on Xi’s behalf.
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TOKYO — Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako left for Britain on Saturday to attend Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral to pay respects to her and the British royal family who considered as a model for Japan’s monarchy in modern history.
The decision for the emperor and empress to attend the queen’s funeral underscores the importance and the deep bond between the royal families. Traditionally, a Japanese emperor stays away from funerals except for those of their own parents because of a cultural belief based in the Shinto religion that considers death impure.
Former Emperor Akihito, as crown prince, attended the Queen’s 1953 coronation and her Diamond Jubilee in 2012. Queen Elizabeth visited Japan in 1975.
Naruhito and Masako’s trip to Britain is their first as the Emperor and Empress. The Queen’s invitation for them to visit following Naruhito’s 2019 ascension to the Chrysanthemum Throne had to be postponed due to the pandemic.
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(NEXSTAR) – Don’t expect to find Hellmann’s mayonnaise in supermarkets west of the Rocky Mountains.
That’s not to say the people of the West Coast refuse to eat mayonnaise, or hold some kind of grudge against the condiment. It’s because Hellmann’s mayonnaise, one of the most recognizable brands of mayonnaise in many parts of the country, is known as something else entirely in parts of the West.
Take a gander at these jars of Best Foods mayonnaise:
Best Foods — a brand owned by Unilever, like Hellmann’s — is essentially the Hellmann’s of the western United States. More specifically, Best Foods and Hellmann’s are brand names for the very same line of mayonnaise products. They’ve simply retained separate branding since 1932, when Best Foods Inc. of California purchased Richard Hellmann Inc. of New York, according to Unilever.
Best Foods and Hellmann’s have been offered (almost) exclusively in their respective regions ever since.
Best Foods and Hellmann’s also maintain their own separate websites, which appear nearly identical aside from their Best Foods or Hellmann’s branding.
But it goes beyond that. Fans of Best Foods and Hellmann’s have been exposed to nearly identical advertising campaigns for the better part of a century — including this pair of animated commercials from the 1950s, and these early-‘90s commercials featuring the same jingle and slogan. (“Bring out the Best Foods and bring out the best,” one commercial cheerily suggests, while the other asks consumers to “Bring out the Hellmann’s and bring out the best.”)
Still, despite their shared histories and marketing, there may be a difference of opinion when it comes to the tastes of both brands. A representative for Unilever did not respond to questions about their specific recipes, but an FAQ page on the former Hellmann’s website indicated that both products were not identical, but rather “basically” the same.
“Taste preferences vary; some people find Best Foods Mayonnaise is slightly more tangy,” according to the site’s archived FAQ page from 2002.
A comparison of both products’ nutrition facts shows they have the same ingredients and relative ingredient quantities. Best Foods, however, has five more milligrams of sodium per teaspoon than Hellmann’s, according to Unilever.
In any case, the differences are slight enough that Unilever’s official Hellmann’s webpage claims that Hellmann’s is simply “known as Best Foods west of the Rockies.” Those who want to taste for themselves, meanwhile, can sometimes find both brands at outlets within the same city or state, as Reddit users in several places have previously claimed.
“I did a side-by-side taste test once and there is slightly more [tanginess] in Best Foods than Hellmann’s,” one user from Colorado wrote.
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Luton end wait for home win as Carlton Morris and Reece Burke sink Blackburn
Second-half goals from Carlton Morris and Reece Burke saw Luton finally register a first home win of the season at the seventh attempt when beating Blackburn 2-0 at Kenilworth Road.
Morris volleyed home Jordan Clark’s cross before centre-back Burke produced a moment of magic to make the game safe.
The visitors should have led early on when leading scorer Ben Brereton Diaz escaped the home defence, as hesitant keeper Ethan Horvath was out just in time to get enough on the shot with Dan Potts clearing off the line.
In the 19th minute, the recalled Henri Lansbury almost took matters into his own hands, breaking through a few challenges before shooting straight at Thomas Kaminski when he had more time.
A first half very low on attacking quality saw Rovers midfielder Ryan Hedges go closest on 40 minutes, his curler drifting tamely wide of the target.
The second period picked up immediately though, as Luton got themselves on the front foot from the start and did not look like taking a step back.
Midfielder Clark wasted a glorious chance when he turned down a shooting opportunity from inside the box, trying to find Cauley Woodrow instead, before he then did go for goal but dragged a far tougher chance wide on his left foot.
However, he was the architect of Luton’s opening goal on 58 minutes as, picking up the ball on the right, his cross was met by Morris who cushioned a sidefooted volley beyond Kaminski for his sixth in six games.
Rather than settle for the lead, Luton went for a second to kill the game off. Clark tried his luck from distance, forcing Kaminski to turn behind at full stretch, and the ball would not drop to Woodrow from Morris’s header as his volley was well blocked.
It was 2-0 on 67 minutes though as Burke picked up a loose ball midway inside the Rovers half and the defender kept on going, curling a wonderful effort into the corner from 20 yards on his weaker left foot.
James Bree went close to sewing up the points, Kaminski keeping his low shot out at the second attempt, as Rovers started to cause a minor threat in the closing stages, Hedges blasting wide from the edge of the box on 71 minutes.
The visitors should have made it a nervy final few moments when George Hirst raced into the area but, as his team-mates had done previously, rashly fired into the stands as Luton could finally leave Kenilworth Road victorious.
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Yeshiva University says it's pausing all student clubs on campus just days after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to block a lower court ruling that ordered the school to recognize an LGBTQ group.
In an unsigned email to students, the New York City school said that, considering upcoming Jewish holidays, "the university will hold off on all undergraduate club activities while it immediately takes steps to follow the roadmap provided by the US Supreme Court to protect YU's religious freedom. Warm wishes for a Shannah Tovah."
Earlier this week the Supreme Court told Yeshiva to go back to New York state court to continue its legal battle with the YU Pride Alliance, an LGBTQ student group that wants to be officially recognized by the university.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Novelist Gayl Jones is a fiction nominee for the National Book Award, the rare established name on a list of 10 that features eight debut works of fiction.
Jones was cited Friday for “The Birdcatcher,” an exploration of race, art and marriage in which a Black American writer journeys to the island of Ibiza and stays with her married friends, one of whom is trying to kill the other. Jones, 72, is herself the author of one of the most acclaimed debut books in recent memory, the novel “Corregidora,” which came out in 1975. She has published sporadically in the decades following and last year broke a 20-year hiatus with the novel “Palmares,” a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
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US-UK relations enter new chapter as new PM, king settle in
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden headed to the United Kingdom on Saturday to pay his respects to Queen Elizabeth II at a time of transition in US-UK relations, as both a new royal and a new prime minister are settling in.
The hawkish approach of Prime Minister Liz Truss to Russia and China puts her on the same page as Biden. But the rise of Truss, 47, who once called the US-UK relationship “special but not exclusive,” could mark a decidedly new chapter in the trans-Atlantic partnership on trade and more.
Of high concern for Biden officials in the early going of Truss’s premiership is her backing of legislation that would shred parts of the post-Brexit trading arrangements in Northern Ireland. Analysts say the move could cause deep strain between the UK and the European Union, and undermine peace in Northern Ireland. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the move “would not create a conducive environment” for crafting a long-awaited U.S.-UK trade deal coveted by Truss and her Conservative Party.
“She’s signaled that she’s willing to go to the mattresses on this and that’s going to cause a rift not just between the UK and EU, but the UK and the U.S.,” said Max Bergmann, director of the Europe program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington and a former senior State Department official in the Obama administration. “It’s one that’s going to keep the White House up at night.”
Biden and Truss had been set to meet Sunday, but the prime minister’s office said Saturday they would skip the weekend hello, opting instead for a meeting at the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday, though Truss still planned to gather with other world leaders converging on London for the royal funeral. The White House confirmed the U.N. meeting just as the president boarded Air Force One.
The two close allies now find themselves in a period of political uncertainty on both sides of the Atlantic. Not unlike his fellow septuagenarian Biden, King Charles III faces questions from the public about whether his age will limit his ability to faithfully carry out the duties of the monarch.
Charles, 73, and Biden, 79, discussed global cooperation on the climate crisis last year while both attended a summit in Glasgow, Scotland. They also met at Buckingham Palace in June 2021 at a reception the queen hosted before a world leaders’ summit in Cornwall.
Truss finds herself, as Biden does, facing questions about whether she has what it takes to lift a country battered by stubborn inflation borne out of the coronavirus pandemic and exacerbated by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine unleashing chaos on the global energy market.
All the while, Britain — and the rest of Europe — is carefully watching to see what the upcoming U.S. midterm elections will bring for the Democratic American president after he vowed upon taking office that “America is back” to being a full partner in the international community after four years of Republican Donald Trump pushing his “America First” worldview.
“It certainly is a time of change and transformation in the UK,” said Barbara A. Perry, presidential studies director at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. She added, “We don’t know what will happen in our midterms. We don’t know what will happen in 2024.”
Truss, a former accountant who was first elected to Parliament in 2010, hasn’t had much interaction with Biden. The U.S. president called her earlier this month to congratulate her. Truss, as foreign secretary, accompanied her predecessor, Boris Johnson, on a White House visit last year.
It’s been more than 75 years since Winston Churchill declared there was a “special relationship” between the two nations, a notion that leaders on both sides have repeatedly affirmed. Still, there have been bumps along the way.
Tony Blair was derisively branded by the British tabloids as George W. Bush’s “poodle” for backing the 2003 American-led invasion of Iraq. David Cameron and Barack Obama had a “bromance,” but Obama also had his frustrations with the Brits over defense spending and the UK’s handling of Libya following the 2011 ouster of Muammar Gaddafi.
Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan forged a close alliance in the midst of the Cold War, with the prime minister once telling students that the Republican president’s “really good sense of humor” helped their relationship. But there were difficulties too, such as when Thatcher and members of her Cabinet bristled at the Reagan administration’s initial neutrality in the Falklands War.
The White House wasn’t expecting Truss’s announcement in May, when she was foreign secretary, that the government would move forward with legislation that would rewrite parts of the Northern Ireland Protocol. The agreement was part of the UK’s 2020 Brexit withdrawal from the EU that was designed to avoid a hard north-south border with Ireland that might upset Northern Ireland’s fragile peace.
Now, in the first weeks of Truss’s premiership, Biden administration officials are carefully taking the measure of the new British leader. Analysts say there is some trepidation in the administration that undercutting the Northern Ireland protocol could plunge Europe into trade turmoil at a moment when Biden is working mightily to keep the West unified in confronting Russia over its aggression against Ukraine.
“Brexit could once again become the issue -- the issue that can make it difficult for all of Europe to work together at a time when it is critical for Europe to work together,” Bergmann said. “If you’re the Biden administration, this is not the time for the two of your closest partners getting into fights.”
To be certain, there were areas of friction between Biden and Johnson, who had a warm rapport with former President Donald Trump.
Biden staunchly opposed Brexit as a candidate and had expressed great concern over the future of Northern Ireland. Biden once even derided Johnson as a “physical and emotional clone” of Trump.
Johnson worked hard to overcome that impression, stressing his common ground with Biden on climate change, support for international institutions and most notably by making certain Britain was an early and generous member of the U.S.-led alliance providing economic and military assistance to Ukraine in the aftermath of the Russian invasion.
The former prime minister also unsuccessfully pressed Biden starting days into his administration to begin negotiations on a new U.S.-UK trade deal just as the U.K. regained control over its national trade policy weeks before Biden took office and following the end of a post-Brexit transition period.
But Biden largely kept focus on his domestic to-do list in the early going of his presidency—passing trillions in spending on coronavirus relief, infrastructure, and more—and put negotiations on trade deals on the back burner.
Elliot Abrams, chairman of the conservative foreign policy group Vandenberg Coalition, said that Truss needs Biden to make a new U.S.-UK trade deal a priority. Queen Elizabeth’s funeral won’t be the setting for tough bilateral conversations, but it still marks a moment for the two leaders’ to begin taking stock of each other.
Truss, who succeeded Johnson after he was forced to resign in the face of a string of scandals, has lagged in the opinion polls. She also won her election with a smaller margin than her recent predecessors and is looking for an early win.
“I think if I were (Truss), I want recognition of the leading role Britain’s played, far more than any other country outside the United States in supporting Ukraine,” said Abrams, who served in senior national security and foreign policy roles in the Trump, George W. Bush and Reagan administrations. “And I think I’d want some positive economic message to give the British people, which could be that the free trade agreement negotiations are starting.”
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan veteran has been sentenced to five years in prison after investigators who followed him discovered he had faked injuries that allowed him to claim more than $260,000 in federal benefits.
Joseph Gray, 53, of Lawton repeatedly claimed he had lost the use of his legs and left hand in order to obtain the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs benefits, prosecutors said. But government investigators saw him walking, using his left hand and even carrying a heavy bag on his shoulder.
Acquaintances also told investigators they had not seen Gray in a wheelchair except for his VA appointments.
Prosecutors said Gray received benefits intended for veterans who cannot work or care for themselves, even at home, because of service-related disabilities.
A federal jury convicted Gray in April of conspiracy to defraud the government, making a false statement to the VA, theft of government funds and making a false, fictitious or fraudulent claim.
A judge who sentenced Gray on Wednesday to a five-year prison term also ordered him to pay $264,631.51 in restitution for losses dating to 2004, the Kalamazoo Gazette reported.
Gray's wife, Paula Gray, 53, said she could not work because she had to care for her husband. She was convicted of conspiracy to defraud the government and other charges, and was sentenced to three years probation and ordered to pay the same restitution.
Joseph Gray’s attorney, Scott Graham, said Gray earned military decorations during the Gulf War and “sustained life-changing injuries,” including injuries to his shoulders from a fall in Saudi Arabia.
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Former president Trump is preparing to swoop into Ohio on Saturday to rally Republicans behind J.D. Vance in a key Senate race. Two weeks ago, he did the same for Dr. Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania.
Neither candidate invited him.
Instead, aides to the former president simply informed the Senate campaigns that he was coming. Never mind that Trump, while viewed heroically by many Republicans, remains widely disliked among crucial swing voters.
The question of how to handle Trump has so bedeviled some Republican candidates for Senate that they have held private meetings about the best way to field the inevitable calls from his team, according to strategists familiar with the discussions.
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This awkward state of affairs reflects the contortions many Republican candidates are going through as they leave primary season behind and pivot to the general election, when Democrats are trying to bind them to the former president.
In New Hampshire, Don Bolduc won the Republican Senate nomination Tuesday after a primary campaign in which he unequivocally repeated Trump’s false claims of 2020 election fraud. Just two days later, he reversed himself, telling Fox News, “I want to be definitive on this: The election was not stolen.”
Some of Trump’s chosen candidates, after pasting his likeness across campaign literature and trumpeting his seal of approval in television ads during the primaries, are now distancing themselves, backtracking from his positions or scrubbing their websites of his name.
The moves reflect a complicated political calculus for Republican campaigns, which want to exploit the energy Trump elicits among his supporters — some of whom rarely show up to the polls unless it is to vote for him — without riling up the independent voters needed to win elections in battleground states.
In North Carolina, Bo Hines, a Republican House candidate who won his primary in May after proudly highlighting support from Trump, has deleted the former president’s name and image from his campaign site. A campaign official described the move as part of an overhaul of the website to prioritize issues that are important to general-election voters.
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But Trump’s endorsement remains prominent on Hines’s social media accounts. Reached by phone, the 27-year-old candidate said he planned to attend a Trump rally in the state next week and then cut short the call.
In Wisconsin, Tim Michels, the Republican nominee for governor, erased from his campaign homepage the fact that Trump had endorsed him — but then restored it after the change was reported, saying it had been a mistake.
“The optimal scenario for Republicans is for Trump to remain at arm’s length — supportive, but not in ways that overshadow the candidate or the contrast,” said Liam Donovan, a Republican strategist and a former top aide at the National Republican Senatorial Committee.
Donovan, as well as consultants and staff members working for Trump-backed Senate candidates, said the former president could be most helpful, if he chose, by providing support from his powerful fundraising machine.
“A big part of the problem is that these nominees emerged from messy fields where the party has been slow to unify,” Donovan said. “But to fix what ails, what these GOP candidates need isn’t a Trump rally, it’s a MAGA money bomb.”
Taylor Budowich, a spokesperson for Trump, said in a statement that the former president’s “name and likeness was responsible for the unprecedented success of the GOP’s small-dollar fundraising programs,” and that he continued to “fuel and define the success of the Republican Party.”
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Budowich added, “His rallies, which serve as the most powerful political weapon in American politics, bring out new voters and invaluable media attention.”
But linking arms with the former president could create problems for candidates in close races.
Even though he has been out of office for nearly 20 months, Trump has remained a constant presence in news headlines because of mounting criminal and congressional investigations into his role in the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, his refusal to hand over sensitive government documents that he took to his Florida home and whether he and his family fraudulently inflated the value of their business assets.
On Thursday, when asked about the possibility of his being indicted in the document inquiry, Trump told a conservative radio host that there would be “problems in this country the likes of which perhaps we’ve never seen before.”
Polls suggest these controversies could be taking a toll. Among independent voters, 60 percent said they had an unfavorable view of Trump, compared with 37 percent who had a favorable view, according to a New York Times/Siena College poll released this week. President Biden was also underwater among these key voters, but by a far smaller margin of 8 percentage points.
Asked whether Trump had “committed any serious federal crimes,” 62 percent of independent voters said they believed he had, and 53 percent said he had threatened American democracy with his actions after the 2020 election.
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Republican candidates appear to be aware of such sentiments, backing away from Trump’s fixation on the 2020 election. While he has said that election fraud is the most important issue in the midterms, polls show that voters are far more worried about economic issues and abortion rights.
Three days after Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania, Oz, the Republican Senate nominee, told reporters that he would have defied the former president and voted to certify the 2020 presidential election.
Oz, a former TV personality, leaned on Trump’s endorsement to win a bitter primary. Since then, he has removed prominent mentions of the endorsement from his campaign website and has swapped out Trump-themed branding from his social media.
Republican campaigns said that they would not reject Trump’s help out of hand, but that accepting it created a whole set of other problems: Where, for instance, could a rally be held to energize the conservative base, while minimizing the damage among independents?
When Trump’s team called to say that the former president wanted to come back to Pennsylvania for a rally this month, Oz’s campaign guided him to Wilkes-Barre in Luzerne County. The county was one of three that voted twice for Barack Obama and flipped to Trump in 2016. It was also the only one of those three counties that backed Trump again in 2020. The other two — Erie and Northampton — supported Biden.
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Trump’s rally in Ohio on Saturday will be his third visit to the state since leaving office — more than any other state so far. He twice won Ohio, a longtime presidential battleground, by 8 percentage points.
This year, his endorsement of Vance’s Senate bid has been widely viewed as the clearest example of his enduring political influence. Vance, an author and a venture capitalist, was trailing in the polls before Trump backed him with just over two weeks left in the race. Vance won the crowded primary by nearly 10 points.
For the rally on Saturday, Vance’s team directed Trump to Youngstown, a blue-collar area that had been a Democratic stronghold until he ran for president. The rally, at the 6,000-seat Covelli Centre, is also squarely in the congressional district represented by Tim Ryan, the Democrat running against Vance.
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WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of TuSimple Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: TSP): (i) pursuant and/or traceable to the offering documents issued in connection with the Company's initial public offering conducted on or about April 15, 2021 (the "IPO"); and/or (ii) between April 15, 2021 and August 1, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important October 31, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased TuSimple securities you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
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Yeshiva University says it's pausing all student clubs on campus just days after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to block a lower court ruling that ordered the school to recognize an LGBTQ group.
In an unsigned email to students, the New York City school said that, considering upcoming Jewish holidays, "the university will hold off on all undergraduate club activities while it immediately takes steps to follow the roadmap provided by the US Supreme Court to protect YU's religious freedom. Warm wishes for a Shannah Tovah."
Earlier this week the Supreme Court told Yeshiva to go back to New York state court to continue its legal battle with the YU Pride Alliance, an LGBTQ student group that wants to be officially recognized by the university.
The YU Pride Alliance sued the school last year after Yeshiva refused to officially recognize it, claiming that it conflicted with the school's interpretation of the Torah.
A New York state court ruled that the university had to recognize the club, and the Supreme Court has left that ruling in place for now.
Pride group lawyer calls Yeshiva's decision "shameful"
Katie Rosenfeld, an attorney for the YU Pride Alliance, said the decision to cancel all club activities "rather than accept one LGBTQ peer support group on campus is a throwback to 50 years ago when the city of Jackson, Mississippi closed all public swimming pools rather than comply with court orders to desegregate."
"We are confident that YU students will see through this shameful tactic and stand together in community," Rosenfeld added in a statement.
Yeshiva University did not immediately respond to NPR's request for comment.
Earlier in the week, Yeshiva University President Rabbi Ari Berman said in a statement that the school would continue to press its case in court.
"Every faith-based university in the country has the right to work with its students, including its LGBTQ students, to establish the clubs, places and spaces that fit within its faith tradition. Yeshiva University simply seeks that same right of self-determination," Berman said.
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s top leaders celebrated the opening Saturday of a new — albeit unfinished — canal that they say will mean ships no longer must secure Russia’s permission to sail from the Baltic Sea to the ports of the Vistula Lagoon.
The event was timed to mark 83 years since the Soviet invasion of Poland during World War II and to demonstrate symbolically the end of Moscow’s say on the economy and development of a region that borders Russia’s Kaliningrad exclave. The government says the waterway gives Poland full sovereignty in the northeastern region, which needs investment and economic development.
“The idea was to have this waterway opened and not to have to ask permission anymore from a country that is not friendly and whose authorities do not hesitate to attack and subdue others,” Polish President Andrzej Duda said.
He said the investment will pay off through the increase in the value of the land around it, through the development of the cities and ports on the lagoon thanks to increased trade, business and tourism.
A few thousand people with national white-and-red flags gathered in rain to watch the Zodiak II technical ship pass through the water gates to inaugurate the canal. The national anthem was played and ships sounded their horns.
Small ships and yachts are expected to be allowed in on Sunday.
The leader of Poland’s right-wing ruling party, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, told the crowd this is “the start of Poland’s fourth big port (Elblag) and a new impulse for the development of this land” that will cut unemployment, which is among Poland's highest levels now at 7.6%.
Kaczynski stressed the construction of the canal shows that “Poland is a truly independent, sovereign and strong nation that matters. "
The canal, built at a cost of almost 2 billion zlotys ($420 million), cuts across the Vistula Spit, east of Gdansk, to allow ships to sail from the Baltic Sea and the Bay of Gdansk to Elblag and smaller ports of the lagoon without obtaining authorization to travel through Russia's Strait of Pilawa. It also shortens the Baltic-to-Elblag route by some 100 kilometers (54 nautical miles).
However, cargo ships cannot use the passage until the approach to the Port of Elblag is deepened to 5 meters (16 feet). The work is expected to cost 100 million zlotys ($21 million), which is a source of controversy between the national government and city authorities.
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LOUISVILLE — JeJuan Davis was ready.
The Starkville High School football team had practiced blocking field goals all week, with the senior defensive back playing a big role.
The team’s rallying cry? “Go get it, Juju,” referring to Davis’ nickname.
On Friday night at Louisville, Davis and the Yellow Jackets found themselves in the situation they’d prepared extensively for, ever since noticing a vulnerability in Wildcats game tape.
It wasn’t hard to predict what happened next.
“He went and got it,” Starkville coach Chris Jones said.
Davis blocked a 36-yard field goal to keep the Jackets within one score in the fourth quarter, and Starkville (4-0) soon pulled ahead for good with 1:50 to go in a 21-20 road victory over Louisville (3-1).
“That’s what great defenses do: They find a way to get big stops,” Jones said.
After Davis’ block with 5:30 left, Starkville went three and out, but a 56-yard punt by Ethan Pulliam pinned the Wildcats at their own 7-yard line. Louisville soon punted from the 2, and Starkville had a short field to work with.
Sophomore running back Courtland Cooper punched in the go-ahead score with less than two minutes remaining, and Brayden Green’s extra point put Starkville on top.
“He’s going to be really good,” Jones said of Cooper. “He has vision; he runs hard; he protects the football. He’s what you want in a running back. I’m proud of him.”
Starkville’s defense stopped Louisville one last time, never letting the Wildcats even sniff Yellow Jackets territory. Two incompletions by quarterback Xavier Hunt set up a fourth-and-6 at the Louisville 38, and Hunt ran out of bounds at the 37 to set up fourth down.
Quarterback Trey Petty downed the ball twice to run out the clock and keep Starkville unbeaten.
Petty battled a lower left leg injury suffered on a run late in the third quarter to maintain the Jackets’ perfect record.
It was nothing new for the junior; Jones said Petty was banged up in four or five Jackets wins last season.
Petty had rushing touchdowns of 5 and 4 yards in the second quarter.
“He’s a really good football player,” Jones said. “He trusts his teammates. He made plays.
“We made a few more plays than they did.”
Louisville, to be certain, had its share of big plays Friday. JaDen Triplett ran for a 59-yard score in the third quarter; only a botched snap on the extra point kept Starkville in the lead.
The second of Petty’s two interceptions in the third quarter was a 40-yard pick-six by Laterrius Haynes with 1:39 left in the period, putting Louisville in front 20-14.
Starkville jumped out to a 14-0 lead on Petty’s short scoring runs but faltered on its final defensive drive in the first half. Two roughing the passer penalties — one on a fake punt that was negated by an offsetting call on Louisville — and an offside call helped the Wildcats punch the ball in. Keyarrion Jackson scored from 1 yard out with just two seconds to play in the half.
Besides Petty’s touchdown runs and the game-winning drive, the Jackets’ offense sputtered for much of the game. Holding calls, incompletions and runs stuffed for no gain characterized the first quarter and much of the second half.
“It wasn’t pretty, but I’d rather have an ugly win than a pretty loss, so I’ll take it,” Jones said.
It was almost an ugly loss, if such a thing is possible against a team of Louisville’s caliber. The Wildcats got all the way to the Starkville 16-yard line midway through the fourth quarter, leading by six and aiming to put the game away.
But when Louisville’s Ceidrick Hunt lined up south of the 25-yard line with a chance to put the Wildcats up two scores, Starkville put its field goal block into motion.
Davis came up with the football, and the Jackets came up with the win.
“That was big,” senior defensive end Eric Thomas Jr. said. “That really just brought the whole team up — offense and defense. After that, we all just came together.”
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — An honor guard fired a three-gun salute toward cloudy skies as friends and comrades-in-arms gathered in Kyiv to bid farewell to a Russian woman who was killed while fighting on Ukraine’s side in the war with her native country.
Olga Simonova, 34, was remembered for her courage and kindness at a funeral in the Ukrainian capital on Friday.
Simonova’s coffin was draped in the blue-and-yellow Ukrainian flag, with a cuddly toy lion on top. Her nom de guerre was “Simba,” like the main character in the Disney cartoon “The Lion King.”
Just a few days before Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, Simonova spoke to the The Associated Press in a trench in the Donbas region, where she had served for years alongside Ukrainian soldiers fighting against Russian-backed separatists.
Born in the Russian city of Chelyabinsk, Simonova had a keen interest in sports and excelled in both mountain climbing and karate. She said she was always proud to compete for Russia.
But she started feeling uncomfortable about her native country after reading about Russia’s war in Chechnya and its actions in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region and Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014.
Filled with doubts that she “would ever be able to raise the flag of my country, my homeland” again, Simonova made a life-changing decision. She travelled to Ukraine to join the conflict in the Donbas on the Ukrainian side, first as a volunteer fighter, then a paramedic and ultimately as an enlisted member of the Armed Forces.
“I had this internal feeling that I could handle it and that what I was doing was right and necessary, because I can’t turn a blind eye to the situation,” she said. “I just had to buy a one-way ticket. I bought it and I left.”
Simonova said she never hid her Russian origin from her colleagues and gained their trust by showing her commitment to Ukraine on the battlefield. In 2017 she received Ukrainian citizenship.
She became a sergeant and was given command of both infantry and artillery units.
Friends and colleagues said Simonova, who was unmarried and had no children, had recently redeployed from the east to the southern Kherson region, where Ukraine has launched a counteroffensive against Russian forces. They said she died on Sept. 13, after her vehicle hit a land mine.
“She was respected not only as a commander, but as a person,” said Dmytro Karabinovskyi, her former commander and friend.
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A Comprehensive Urban Primary Health Centre (CUPHC), which the government says is the first of its kind in India, located at Palace Guttahalli near Malleswaram, was inaugurated by Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Saturday.
Calling it a model to the entire country, Mr. Bommai said 20 such CUPHCs will be set up in the city this year. He said ‘namma clinic’ will be set up in all the 243 wards in next three months. Mr. Bommai also inaugurated hi-tech diagnostic services ‘Xpress Clinic’ on the occasion, which coincided with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s birthday.
Cheap medicines
At CUPHC, along with services like testing, diagnosis and treatment, medicines will also be provided at either zero cost or an affordable price. It has been set up by Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) in collaboration with Manipal Health Enterprises and with philanthropic contributions by several citizens.
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C.N. Ashwath Narayan, Minister and MLA of Malleswaram, said, “This healthcare centre is the very first completely digitalised healthcare centre to be established in India. Our solemn aim is to provide quality healthcare services, without turning down anyone, at affordable price.”
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SAN ANTONIO, Sept. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pursuant to Section 9-610 of the Uniform Commercial Code, GEMCAP SOLUTIONS, LLC, as servicer and attorney-in-fact for secured party GEMCAP HOLDINGS, LLC (the "Secured Party"), will hold a secured party public sale to the highest and best bidder for cash, with reserve, will be conducted telephonically by the Secured Party on Wednesday, September 28, 2022 at 12:00 p.m. Central Standard Time (the "Public Sale"). Qualified Bidders (defined below) may attend the Public Sale telephonically.
The Secured Party is conducting the Public Sale to foreclose the security interest held by the Secured Party in and to substantially all of the personal property assets of BEDFORD VENTURES, INC., a California corporation (the "Borrower"), including, without limitation, (i) inventory ("Inventory"), (ii) intellectual property, including, but not limited to the following trademarks and trade names: ACTIVE, ACTIVE COMPOSITE, ACTIVE RIDE SHOP, TRIANGLE DESIGN; the following domain name: www.activerideshop.com; and the Borrower's customer list (collectively, the "Intellectual Property"), (iii) accounts receivable, (iv) trade fixtures, and (v) equipment and machinery (collectively, the "Collateral").
The Secured Party is conducting the Public Sale to foreclose the lien and security interest held by the Secured Party in and to the Collateral. At the Public Sale, all of Borrower's right, title and interest in and to the Collateral will be sold "as is" and "where is" and the Secured Party shall make no representation or warranty, either express or implied, relating to title, use, quiet enjoyment, possession, merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose, completeness, condition or the like, all of which are hereby disclaimed, in the sale or disposition of the Collateral. In addition, the Collateral is being sold (i) free and clear of Secured Party's liens and any subordinate security interests, and (ii) without recourse to Secured Party, its attorneys and representatives. The Public Sale of the Collateral, if made, shall be to the highest and best bidder.
The Secured Party reserves the right to adjourn or cancel the Public Sale.
In order to participate in the bidding process, each person or entity (a "Potential Bidder") must deliver to the undersigned (i) an executed confidentiality agreement in form and substance acceptable to Secured Party, (ii) current financial statements of the Potential Bidder or other evidence acceptable to Secured Party that will show the financial ability of the Potential Bidder to purchase the Collateral, (iii) a completed and executed Asset Purchase Agreement in the form provided by Secured Party, and (iv) a deposit in an amount equal to ten percent of the bid amount which will be held in escrow. A Potential Bidder that complies with the foregoing requirements shall be deemed a "Qualified Bidder". Those Qualified Bidders participating at the Public Sale shall be provided with the telephone number and passcode to attend the Public Sale and shall be given the opportunity to bid on a competitive basis.
At the Public Sale, each of the Inventory and the Intellectual Property will be offered for sale in separate lots and the Collateral will be offered as a single lot. At the conclusion of the Public Sale, the successful bidder(s) must pay the final bid amount in full by a wire transfer of funds to the Secured Party. The Secured Party reserves the right to credit bid on any or all of the Collateral at the Public Sale. The Secured Party reserves the right to reject all bids, adjourn or cancel the Public Sale.
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More paramedics part of NSW election pitch
More paramedics who can do more things are part of NSW Labor's election pitch as it seeks to wrest power from the Coalition government for the first time in 12 years.
Labor has announced a $150 million commitment for another 500 paramedics in rural and regional areas in its first term if it takes government.
Consultation would determine where paramedics are needed, and they would be upskilled for intensive and extended care roles that would hopefully ease pressure on emergency rooms.
"The NSW system cannot cope with another four years of Band-Aid solutions, it requires serious repair," Opposition Leader Chris Minns said.
Sunday's announcement is only the beginning of the "long-term, structural repairs" his party will take to the March election.
Labor's health spokesman Ryan Park said regional paramedics desperately need a resources injection to fix shortages that are pushing the ambulance network to its limit.
"It's like going to work with one hand tied behind your back."
"A Minns Labor government will begin the task of repairing that," Mr Park said.
The NSW government has invested billions in health infrastructure in recent years.
A further $2.8 billion was pledged in the June budget to continue building and redeveloping hospitals.
Close to $1.8 billion was allocated for NSW Ambulance to spend on new stations and staff, including 1858 new paramedics, over four years.
Whether that many paramedics can actually be recruited by then is unclear, with nurses and paramedics burning out.
Mr Minns has indicated his party's policies will focus more on the workforce than the workplace.
"We need to build up the profession, invest in our human capital, in our nurses and paramedics and frontline workers," Mr Minns said last week.
Unions representing an exhausted cohort of nurses, midwives and paramedics mounted pressure on the government in the lead up to the budget, which also included a $3000 payment for frontline health workers and a lift on the public sector wage rise cap to three per cent per annum.
Staff-patient ratios that nurses have pushed for have so far seen no firm commitment from either the government or Labor to introduce them.
The NSW government has established a taskforce to look at professional recognition and higher pay for paramedics across the state.
Labor says it will seek bipartisan support for an in-principle agreement to the outcomes of that taskforce.
A NSW Labor government would also seek to implement findings from a Victorian trial of highly-trained paramedic practitioners, if it goes ahead.
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews announced the $20 million scheme last week, which is similarly a pitch to voters, however he has the benefit of incumbency at an election taking place in November.
Paramedic practitioners would attend more complex callouts, be able to give more medications, and use more advanced equipment than they currently do, under a model inspired by the UK.
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Woman escapes armed attacker, runs for help after sexual assault in Greenville County
GREENVILLE, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - The Greenville County Sheriff’s Office is investigating after a woman escaped an armed attacker and ran for help.
Deputies said the victim was in the vehicle with a man on Friday afternoon when they drove to an abandoned building in the 200 block of Old Bleachery Road. The suspect was armed with a gun and sexually assaulted the woman.
The victim was able to escape and run for help, flagging someone down on the nearby Swamp Rabbit Trail. The bystander helped call 911 and when deputies arrived, they said the woman has visible injuries.
The suspect has not yet been apprehended, but he was driving a silver sedan. Anyone with information about the assault is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 23-CRIME.
Stay with FOX Carolina for updates on this developing story.
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Reward offered for missing teenager
Published: Sep. 17, 2022 at 1:01 PM EDT|Updated: 40 minutes ago
BERKELEY, S.C. (WCSC) - The Berkeley County Sheriff’s Office is seeking information from the public regarding a missing teenager that was last seen at a Summerville high school.
Sarah Pipkin, 15, was last seen at Cane Bay High School wearing faded black jeans, a black Bob Ross T-shirt, and white Air Force 1′s. She also had a gray backpack with flowers on it.
CrimeStoppers of the Lowcountry is offering a $1,000 reward, plus up to an additional $1,000 for information leading to the location of Pipkin.
Those with information are asked to call CrimeStoppers of the Lowcountry at 843-554-1111.
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Chile schedules credential event to Israeli ambassador after diplomatic tension
Sept 17 (Reuters) - Chilean Foreign Ministry scheduled for September 30 the acceptance of Israeli Ambassador's credentials, days after a diplomatic tussle was seen in the South American country.
The dispute began on Thursday when Chilean Foreign Minister Antonia Urrejola informed newly appointed Israeli Ambassador Gil Artzyeli that Chilean President Gabriel Boric was postponing a meeting to accept his credentials until October.
As a response, Israel's Foreign Ministry summoned Chilean ambassador Jorge Carvajal on Friday for what it called a reprimand at a meeting where, it said, "Israel's response would be made clear."
The Chilean ministry said in a statement early Saturday that the postponement should be understood as a response "within the framework of the political sensitivity generated by the death of a Palestinian teenager" last Thursday.
It added the postponement decision was "exceptional", and that it reiterated its "permanent willingness to maintain a fraternal and constructive relationship" with Israel and its people.
The Israeli Foreign Affairs ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment. (Reporting by Carolina Pulice and Noe Torres, Editing by Franklin Paul)
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US-UK relations enter new chapter as new PM, king settle in
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden headed to the United Kingdom on Saturday to pay his respects to Queen Elizabeth II at a time of transition in US-UK relations, as both a new royal and a new prime minister are settling in.
The hawkish approach of Prime Minister Liz Truss to Russia and China puts her on the same page as Biden. But the rise of Truss, 47, who once called the US-UK relationship “special but not exclusive,” could mark a decidedly new chapter in the trans-Atlantic partnership on trade and more.
Of high concern for Biden officials in the early going of Truss’s premiership is her backing of legislation that would shred parts of the post-Brexit trading arrangements in Northern Ireland. Analysts say the move could cause deep strain between the UK and the European Union, and undermine peace in Northern Ireland. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the move “would not create a conducive environment” for crafting a long-awaited U.S.-UK trade deal coveted by Truss and her Conservative Party.
“She’s signaled that she’s willing to go to the mattresses on this and that’s going to cause a rift not just between the UK and EU, but the UK and the U.S.,” said Max Bergmann, director of the Europe program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington and a former senior State Department official in the Obama administration. “It’s one that’s going to keep the White House up at night.”
Biden and Truss had been set to meet Sunday, but the prime minister’s office said Saturday they would skip the weekend hello, opting instead for a meeting at the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday, though Truss still planned to gather with other world leaders converging on London for the royal funeral. The White House confirmed the U.N. meeting just as the president boarded Air Force One.
The two close allies now find themselves in a period of political uncertainty on both sides of the Atlantic. Not unlike his fellow septuagenarian Biden, King Charles III faces questions from the public about whether his age will limit his ability to faithfully carry out the duties of the monarch.
Charles, 73, and Biden, 79, discussed global cooperation on the climate crisis last year while both attended a summit in Glasgow, Scotland. They also met at Buckingham Palace in June 2021 at a reception the queen hosted before a world leaders’ summit in Cornwall.
Truss finds herself, as Biden does, facing questions about whether she has what it takes to lift a country battered by stubborn inflation borne out of the coronavirus pandemic and exacerbated by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine unleashing chaos on the global energy market.
All the while, Britain — and the rest of Europe — is carefully watching to see what the upcoming U.S. midterm elections will bring for the Democratic American president after he vowed upon taking office that “America is back” to being a full partner in the international community after four years of Republican Donald Trump pushing his “America First” worldview.
“It certainly is a time of change and transformation in the UK,” said Barbara A. Perry, presidential studies director at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. She added, “We don’t know what will happen in our midterms. We don’t know what will happen in 2024.”
Truss, a former accountant who was first elected to Parliament in 2010, hasn’t had much interaction with Biden. The U.S. president called her earlier this month to congratulate her. Truss, as foreign secretary, accompanied her predecessor, Boris Johnson, on a White House visit last year.
It’s been more than 75 years since Winston Churchill declared there was a “special relationship” between the two nations, a notion that leaders on both sides have repeatedly affirmed. Still, there have been bumps along the way.
Tony Blair was derisively branded by the British tabloids as George W. Bush’s “poodle” for backing the 2003 American-led invasion of Iraq. David Cameron and Barack Obama had a “bromance,” but Obama also had his frustrations with the Brits over defense spending and the UK’s handling of Libya following the 2011 ouster of Muammar Gaddafi.
Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan forged a close alliance in the midst of the Cold War, with the prime minister once telling students that the Republican president’s “really good sense of humor” helped their relationship. But there were difficulties too, such as when Thatcher and members of her Cabinet bristled at the Reagan administration’s initial neutrality in the Falklands War.
The White House wasn’t expecting Truss’s announcement in May, when she was foreign secretary, that the government would move forward with legislation that would rewrite parts of the Northern Ireland Protocol. The agreement was part of the UK’s 2020 Brexit withdrawal from the EU that was designed to avoid a hard north-south border with Ireland that might upset Northern Ireland’s fragile peace.
Now, in the first weeks of Truss’s premiership, Biden administration officials are carefully taking the measure of the new British leader. Analysts say there is some trepidation in the administration that undercutting the Northern Ireland protocol could plunge Europe into trade turmoil at a moment when Biden is working mightily to keep the West unified in confronting Russia over its aggression against Ukraine.
“Brexit could once again become the issue -- the issue that can make it difficult for all of Europe to work together at a time when it is critical for Europe to work together,” Bergmann said. “If you’re the Biden administration, this is not the time for the two of your closest partners getting into fights.”
To be certain, there were areas of friction between Biden and Johnson, who had a warm rapport with former President Donald Trump.
Biden staunchly opposed Brexit as a candidate and had expressed great concern over the future of Northern Ireland. Biden once even derided Johnson as a “physical and emotional clone” of Trump.
Johnson worked hard to overcome that impression, stressing his common ground with Biden on climate change, support for international institutions and most notably by making certain Britain was an early and generous member of the U.S.-led alliance providing economic and military assistance to Ukraine in the aftermath of the Russian invasion.
The former prime minister also unsuccessfully pressed Biden starting days into his administration to begin negotiations on a new U.S.-UK trade deal just as the U.K. regained control over its national trade policy weeks before Biden took office and following the end of a post-Brexit transition period.
But Biden largely kept focus on his domestic to-do list in the early going of his presidency—passing trillions in spending on coronavirus relief, infrastructure, and more—and put negotiations on trade deals on the back burner.
Elliot Abrams, chairman of the conservative foreign policy group Vandenberg Coalition, said that Truss needs Biden to make a new U.S.-UK trade deal a priority. Queen Elizabeth’s funeral won’t be the setting for tough bilateral conversations, but it still marks a moment for the two leaders’ to begin taking stock of each other.
Truss, who succeeded Johnson after he was forced to resign in the face of a string of scandals, has lagged in the opinion polls. She also won her election with a smaller margin than her recent predecessors and is looking for an early win.
“I think if I were (Truss), I want recognition of the leading role Britain’s played, far more than any other country outside the United States in supporting Ukraine,” said Abrams, who served in senior national security and foreign policy roles in the Trump, George W. Bush and Reagan administrations. “And I think I’d want some positive economic message to give the British people, which could be that the free trade agreement negotiations are starting.”
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Sarah Sanders released from hospital after cancer surgery
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Former White House press secretary Sarah Sanders, a Republican who is running for governor in Arkansas, was released from a hospital Saturday after undergoing surgery for thyroid cancer.
“Following successful surgery on Friday to remove her thyroid and surrounding lymph nodes and in consultation with her physician, Sarah was discharged from an Arkansas hospital—cancer free,” said Sanders spokesperson Judd Deere. “She will spend the remaining portion of her recovery at home.”
Deere told The Associated Press that Sanders, 40, plans to resume campaigning “soon,” but it was not known precisely when she would return.
Sanders said Friday when announcing the surgery that a biopsy earlier this month revealed she had thyroid cancer.
Dr. John R. Sims, a surgeon at CARTI Cancer Center in Little Rock who is one of Sanders’ doctors, said Sanders’ cancer was a stage 1 papillary thyroid carcinoma, the most common type of thyroid cancer and said she has an “excellent” prognosis.
Sims said Sanders will need adjuvant treatment with radioactive iodine and long-term continuing care.
Sanders, who served as former President Donald Trump’s spokeswoman until 2019, is running against Democratic nominee Chris Jones. She is the daughter of former Gov. Mike Huckabee.
Jones and his wife, Jerrilyn, on Friday issued a statement saying their family was thinking of Sanders and praying for her.
Sanders is heavily favored in the predominantly Republican state of Arkansas to win the office currently held by Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson, who is leaving office in January due to term limits.
She’s run primarily on national issues in the Arkansas race, promising to use the governor’s office to fight President Joe Biden and the “radical left.”
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Miguel Graterol pumped in three goals, and that hat trick effort propelled Cherokee to a 4-0 victory over Delsea in Medford on Saturday morning.
Chris Meder also scored and chipped in on one of Graterol’s goals for the Chiefs, who are now 3-0-1 on the year. David Farnan added an assist for the winners.
Maximus Van Auken turned away seven shots for Delsea, which fell to 2-1-1 with the defeat.
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INDIANAPOLIS – The Colts announced on Saturday afternoon that Michael Pittman Jr. will not play in Sunday’s game when the Colts visit the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Pittman was a limited participant in the team’s practice on Wednesday, but was kept from practicing on Thursday and Friday due to a quad injury.
The third-year wide receiver had nine catches for 121 yards and a touchdown in the Colts’ season-opening tie with the Houston Texans.
The Indianapolis Colts visit the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday, September 17 at 1:00 p.m.
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The Kovalam- Bekkal waterway will change the face of Kerala, Water Transport Minister Antony Raju has said.
He was inaugurating 'See Kuttanad', a new passenger-cum-tourist boat of the State Water Transport Department (SWTD) here on Saturday.
Mr. Raju said the waterway would boost tourism prospects in the State. "The 616-km waterway will ensure passenger and freight movements at nominal cost," he said.
The Minister said the process of converting 80% of vessels in the SWTD's fleet into electric-solar boats was nearing completion.
The ₹1.90-crore double-decker boat has a total seating capacity for 90 passengers. The boat will operate on the Punnamada- Kainakary Road Mukku- Mennappally Kayal- Pallathuruthy- Punchiri- Alappuzha route.
H. Salam, MLA, will presided. P.P. Chitharanjan, MLA, District Collector V.R. Krishna Teja, SWTD Director Shaji V. Nair and others attended.
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Detectives continue to hold man arrested for grabbing Queen's coffin in Westminster Hall in custody overnight as investigation continues
- EXCLUSIVE: The man arrested after grabbing the Queen's coffin was 'behaving strangely', witnesses said
- Officers tackled the man to the floor after he rushed out of the queue in the Palace of Westminster last night
- He then touched the Queen's casket and even managed to lift the Royal Standard in which it is draped
- The man remains in custody having been arrested on suspicion of a public order offence
- ***Did you see the incident? Email jack.wright@mailonline.co.uk or tips@dailymail.com***
- The Queen's funeral: All the latest Royal Family news and coverage
The Metropolitan Police are continuing to question a man arrested for rushing out and grabbing the Queen's coffin at Westminster Hall on Friday night.
Mourners looked on in shock as the man raced towards the catafalque around 10pm on Friday.
Officers tackled the man to the floor last night after he pushed through the queue, knocking aside a seven-year-old girl, in a scramble up to the coffin in the centre of the hall in London - and then touched the Queen's casket, even managing to lift the Royal Standard in which it is draped.
The man arrested after rushing out of the queue of mourners and grabbing the Queen's coffin at the Palace of Westminster in a security scare that stunned police and well-wishers was behaving 'strangely' and had waited 14 hours to get close enough to the late monarch lying-in-state, eyewitnesses have claimed.
The Metropolitan Police said the incident occurred at around 10pm, as the live feed from inside the hall cut away for a brief period. A spokesperson told MailOnline today that a man had been arrested in Westminster Hall on suspicion of a public order offence and that he still remains in custody.
A source told MailOnline: 'He is still in custody. He can be held for 24 hours but that time only starts once he was been booked into custody. That can take four or five hours.'
The source said there were no courts operating tomorrow but there should be limited courts on Monday.
This morning, new Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley was seen patrolling the queue for the Queen's lying in state near Lambeth Palace in south London. He greeted mourners, including several who were wearing blankets after waiting in line for hours through the early morning, and walked from the east towards Lambeth Bridge.
Eyewitnesses today described the man's odd, even erratic, behaviour in the run-up to the security scare. Speaking to MailOnline, Jon Williams, who queued with the coffin-pusher before the incident unfolded, said: 'He stood out to me as we were in the queue for 14 hours from start to end and he was some way ahead of us, even so we noticed him as he stood out.
'And he only stood out as most people in the queue were talking to each other and interacting however he wasn't. I saw a few people next to him trying to strike up conversation but he seemed to keep himself to himself.
'He got to the coffin and seemed to lift up the flag, he didn't try to pull out off from what I could see. As I said people were in shock although they seemed to try to carry on. What surprised me is the guards didn't appear to move or help, it was all left to the police.'
Another mourner who saw the incident described how a well-wisher 'screamed' when she saw the man running at the coffin. They said: 'We saw him (the man) in the queue from the beginning of the queue and throughout the day, he was by himself. When we entered the room we were at the top of the stairs when we saw the incident. A lady screamed as it happened it was quite unnerving. Although he was detained and people kept calm and carried on.'
It came after King Charles III and his siblings entered Westminster Hall last night to pay a moving tribute to their beloved mother.
In other developments:
- King Charles III went on a surprise walkabout with his son the Prince of Wales in Lambeth, where they met mourners queueing to see the Queen's coffin. Earlier they had gone to Scotland Yard's Lambeth headquarters and thanked emergency services for their work during the period of mourning;
- The new Prince and Princess of Wales met Commonwealth soldiers who will take part in Monday's State Funeral, with William telling them the Queen would be 'looking down and hoping it all goes well';
- Prince Edward paid a moving tribute to his 'beloved Mama', saying the family had been 'overwhelmed by the tide of emotion that has engulfed us';
- He and his wife, Sophie - along with Prince Andrew and his ex-wife Sarah - spent around 30 minutes meeting people outside Windsor Castle, collecting floral tributes and accepting condolences from well-wishers;
- Buckingham Palace confirmed a second vigil will take place tonight involving the Queen's eight grand-children, including Prince Harry, who has been given permission to wear a military uniform despite being a non-working royal;
- Details were announced of the 25-mile route the Queen's coffin will take in the State Hearse from London's Wellington Arch to Windsor on Monday to allow more people to pay their respects;
- The five-mile queue to see the Queen lying in state in Westminster Hall had to be closed for six hours because it was so long - with two further queues forming just to join the main one;
- Former England footballer David Beckham shunned offers of special treatment and spent 13 hours queueing before paying his respects to the late Queen;
- It was claimed that King Charles found out about his mother's deteriorating health only hours before the public last Thursday;
- William told well-wishers they thought his grandmother 'might get a bit more' time, video footage shot in Norfolk on Thursday showed.
A video grab posted to Twitter shows the moment of the incident at Westminster Hall. Police officers are tackling the man, circled, as he lifts the Royal Standard off the Queen's coffin
The man who grabbed the Standard smirks as he is held to the floor by police who had dragged him away from the coffin
Mourners were left visibly shocked (pictured) during Friday night's incident - which took place just hours after King Charles and his family held a vigil in honour of the Queen
Another witness Tracey Holland (pictured left), whose seven-year-old niece Darcy (pictured right) was pushed aside by the man as he rushed at the coffin, last night described the incident
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, at the Palace of Westminster
Members of the public view the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II, lying in state on the catafalque in Westminster Hall
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
Members of the public file past the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II lying-in-state
Mourners queue opposite Parliament this morning as they wait to see the Queen lying-in-state
Another witness Tracey Holland, whose seven-year-old niece, Darcy, was pushed aside by the man as he rushed at the coffin, last night described the incident.
She said: 'A person decided they were going to push my seven-year-old niece out the way, run up to the coffin, lift up the standard and try to do I don't know what. She was grabbed out the way and the police had him within two seconds.
Ms Holland added: (It was) terrible, absolutely terrible, so disrespectful and unbelievable - and this poor little seven-year-old child, this is her lasting memory of the Queen.'
A couple watched in horror as they saw a man run towards the Queen's coffin after queueing for 14 hours to pay their respects.
Mark and Corinne Ward-Jones had travelled 140 miles from Wales to join the queue at the Palace of Westminster. They joined the line of mourners at 8.05am on Friday morning before making friends with other travellers waiting outside. But they were left shocked after entering the hall when they saw a man run out towards the coffin and 'grab the Royal Standard.'
Mr Ward-Jones, 54, of Fairwater, Cwmbran, South Wales, said: 'It was a very long tiring day, where we met some amazing people in the queue. It was all worth it to be able to pause briefly next to the Queen's coffin and offer a respectful bow to her for everything she did for the nation.
'You see it on TV, but just to be there was awe-inspiring. The first thing I saw was the coffin and then I saw one of the ceremonial guards looking down. It looked like something surreal, to see this occasion. to actually be there. I thought 'I'm entering somewhere really special, historic'.'
The couple say they made friends while waiting in line - and even joined a WhatsApp group to stay in touch with fellow mourners.
Mr Ward-Jones said: 'It was magical. We went from laughing and joking with the people we met in the queue to silence. We went up some steps, turned to our left and looked down and it was just unbelievable.
'We stood at the top about to go down and then all hell broke loose.. Suddenly some guy lunged across and grabbed the Royal Standard and it lifted up. I don't know if he was trying to pull it off or lift it up.
'This is how professional the guards and Beefeaters were, they didn't flinch, they were like statues, but the police were on him in a second. They wrestled him to the ground and dragged him out within in a minute.
'You could hear a sharp intake of breath in unison. Everyone still wanted to stay respectful. There was no screaming. My wife burst out crying, she was in bits.
'I was dumbstruck, what am I witnessing? My wife thought he was trying to pull the coffin off. Without realising I was stood for seconds with my hand over my mouth. What am I witnessing here?
'It went from calm, silent and respectful to something you would not expect to happen in a million years. All respect to everybody there. The police dealt with it instantly. It was all over in a minute.
'We decided we were not going to let one idiot spoil it. I waited 14 hours for this I'm not going to let one idiot ruin this moment and the enormity of the occasion. They say you have to keep things moving but I stopped and paid my respects.
'It is a memory that will last a lifetime and I'm glad we were able to be part of this momentous event in history.'
Mrs Ward-Jones, 59, added: 'The staff and volunteers were brilliant at helping people follow the route and giving out water and blankets at the end.'
A spokesperson for the UK Parliament said: 'We're aware of an incident in Westminster Hall, in which a member of the public moved out of the queue and towards the Catafalque. They have now been removed from the Hall and the queue restarted.'
The Queen lying in state at Westminster Hall has been covered via a live stream on the BBC 24-hours a day since the coffin arrived at the venue on Wednesday.
But the cameras, which are delayed for around 30 seconds, quickly cut away from the coffin around 10pm on Friday, instead showing a moving image of the outside of the Palace of Westminster. The cameras did not turn back to the casket for around 15 minutes, at which point the Royal Standard appeared to have been moved.
One mourner who witnessed the incident last night told The Sun: 'It happened so fast. Someone got up to the coffin, grabbed the flag and pulled it upwards.'
The mourner, who did not wish to be named, described members of the public 'hysterically crying' and 'shaking' after the incident.
It comes after King Charles and his siblings held a silent vigil in Westminster Hall to pay a moving tribute to their beloved mother. As members of the public watched in complete silence, the four senior royals - all in dress uniform - approached the Queen's coffin. At just after 7.45pm, the duty officer struck the floor three times with his staff to signal the arrival of the late monarch's four children.
Mourners were said to be left in shock during the incident, which took place just hours after King Charles and his family held a vigil in honour of the Queen. Alongside siblings Anne, Andrew and Edward, the newly crowned monarch stood guard beside his mother's coffin (pictured)
As tearful mourners watched on, the Queen's four children stood guard of their mother's coffin for more than 10 minutes at Westminster Hall
Mourners queueing at Tower Bridge in central London this morning as they wait to pay their respects to the Queen
Mourners in the queue to see the Queen lying-in-state brave the cold as temperatures plunged overnight
A satellite image shows queues of people waiting to pay their respects to Queen Elizabeth following her death
A satellite image shows queues of people in central London waiting to pay their respects
They lined up, the King at the front, followed by Anne, Edward and then Andrew, as the staff was struck three times again. Solemnly, they approached the catafalque - the raised platform holding the coffin - to take their positions and approach their mother's coffin.
Another three strikes of the staff, echoing throughout the cavernous Norman hall, and they stepped up before facing outwards, and then three strikes again.
Four candles flickered as they stepped up, the King, 73, sporting his Royal Navy ceremonial dress; Princess Anne, 72, in the uniform of the Blues and Royals, and the Earl of Wessex, 58, the Blues uniform with the rank of Honorary Royal Colonel of the Royal Wessex Yeomanry.
Former Royal Navy helicopter pilot Andrew, 62, who is no longer a working royal and has been stripped of his honorary affiliations, was given special permission by Charles to wear a uniform for the vigil as a mark of respect for Her Majesty. He chose his Vice-Admiral's uniform, an honour given to him by the Queen on his 55th birthday.
Members of the public, many of whom had been queueing all day, were allowed to keep filing into the 900-year-old hall.
Last night's vigil had been intended to involve only the Queen's four children, but in a remarkable show of family unity, 18 senior family members - as well as a host of other relatives - turned up to support them.
They included the Queen Consort, the Countess of Wessex, Princess Anne's husband Vice-Admiral Sir Tim Laurence, Princess Beatrice and her husband Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, Princess Eugenie and her husband Jack Brooksbank, Edward and Sophie's children Lady Louise and James, Viscount Severn, Peter Phillips, Zara Tindall and her husband Mike, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, the Duke of Kent, Prince and Princess Michael of Kent and Princess Alexandra.
Last night's vigil lasted 15 minutes and was in addition to that being mounted by the Household Division and Body Guards from 5pm on Wednesday to 6.30am on Monday, when the Queen's official lying in state concludes. At that moment, the doors of Westminster Hall will close in preparation for the procession to Westminster Abbey, where the State Funeral service will take place at 11am.
Rehearsals are taking place across the weekend to make sure that everything is in place for Monday's State Funeral, which will be the biggest show of pomp, pageantry and majesty seen in the modern age. World leaders and royalty from across the globe are flying in to pay their respects.
They will be joined by hundreds of charity representatives and members of the public honoured for their civic duty who have secured places in the 2,000-strong congregation at Westminster Abbey.
Yesterday it was announced that the King had given permission for the Queen's eight grandchildren to stand vigil beside her coffin in Westminster Hall tonight. William will stand at the head, with his brother Harry at the foot.
A spokesman said: 'At the King's request, they will both be in uniform.' Earlier in the week officials had said only working members of the Royal Family would be permitted to wear military uniform - meaning Princes Andrew and Harry would be forced to wear mourning dress.
When it emerged that Andrew had been given special permission to wear a uniform last night, there was widespread condemnation that Harry appeared to be left out. Sources said the U-turn was not as a result of any lobbying by Harry, adding that it was a decision made solely by his father in a spirit of unity and honour to the Queen.
It came as the King last night set out what kind of monarch he wants to be, telling faith leaders at Buckingham Palace that he believes it is his 'duty' to protect the diversity of the country including 'religions, cultures, traditions and beliefs'. He said his Christian beliefs, which 'have love at their very heart', allowed him to accept, respect and protect the views of others.
The King, who has made clear that despite being Supreme Governor of the Church of England, he wants to be defender of 'faith' - as well as 'the faith' - told the religious leaders of an 'additional duty'. 'It is the duty to protect the diversity of our country, including by protecting the space for faith itself,' he said.
Tens of thousands of mourners queueing to see the Queen lying-in-state at the Palace of Westminster braved the cold last night amid plunging temperatures - as the Government warned people will have to wait more than 24 hours to pay their respects in what is thought to be he world's longest queue, which can even be seen from space.
Wait times stretched to more than 25 hours overnight as thousands of mourners wrapped up so they could keep warm and keep their place in the five-mile queue to file past the Queen's coffin before Monday, the day of her state funeral.
It is believed that the queue to see the late monarch is the world's longest queue in terms of distance, potentially even eclipsing the 30,000 Russians who waited to get inside the USSR's first McDonald's restaurant when it finally opened on January 31, 1990 after the end of the Cold War.
The queue has become so big that it even received its own BBC weather forecast this morning - a crisp 7C, while other parts of the UK hit freezing.
Members of the public build their tents in front Westminster Hall and Big Ben
Members of the public build their tents in front Westminster Hall and Big Ben
At about 1.15am today, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport's (DCMS) online tracker said the expected wait time was at least 25 hours as people queued from Southwark Park in south-east London to pay their respects to the Queen's coffin in Westminster Hall, about five miles away. At around 7.20am, the tracker said mourners would have to wait at least 24 hours and warned people not to travel to join the queue - and to check back later on Saturday.
However, by 8am the Government had said that the end point of the queue was once more accessible in Southwark Park.
Undeterred, a steady stream of people joined the queue last night, many wearing coats and jumpers. Tatie Kirst, 38, of Canada Water in south-east London, a project manager who had just joined the queue in Southwark Park, said: 'Well, it's a journey right? I think I'm prepared, I brought my good coat, I have a stool if I need to sit, I'm getting food and water, and we're going to walk the way.
'I think there is always a question, Is it worth it? Can I make it? And hopefully, yes. I wanted to be part of this, pay my respect to the Queen.'
The queue begins on the Albert Embankment, along Belvedere Road, behind the London Eye, then crosses Lambeth Bridge and travels along the South Bank past the National Theatre, Tate Modern and HMS Belfast, before ending in Southwark Park.
Those inside Westminster Hall were briefly shocked when a man was arrested after moving out of the queue to approach the Queen's coffin last night. Metropolitan Police said the incident occurred around 10pm, as the live feed from inside the hall cut away for a brief period.
Final preparations are under way for the funeral, with politicians and royal dignitaries from around the world expected to arrive throughout the weekend.
Sachet Pariyar had travelled from Basingstoke with his father, who had served in the Queen's Gurkha regiment, to attend the lying in state.
He said: 'My dad served in the British Army before and the Queen's Gurkha regiment, and my grandfather as well. So, we feel like we have that connection with the Queen and we wanted to come and pay respects.'
He added that he had been checking the queue's live tracker and had seen it might take 24 hours, adding he was 'a bit worried' about the wait, but 'thought if we can get the wristband, then we will give it a try'.
Linda Partridge, 71, and Simon Hopkins, 59, travelled down from the West Midlands for the lying in state, despite warnings that the queue was closed, because they felt 'that need to come down'.
Ms Partridge, who had left home at 3am, said: 'Even though they said it was closed I felt that need to come down. If we've got here and then they turned away, then fine. I would have just felt I needed to come and then be told I couldn't go'.
Mr Hopkins added: 'There was a sense of perhaps 'best not travel' but just to make the journey and just to check it out, and you know, if it ended in disappointment, and then so be it.'
He likened the experience to a 'pilgrimage', which he said, 'is a bit strange, because that kind of goes against my grain. I've been kind of drawn into it.'
James Birchall, 33, a trainee physiotherapist who travelled from Liverpool to pay his respects, was also queuing.
He said: 'Now I just feel normal and unemotional but as I get closer and closer (to the Queen's coffin) I think I'll start to become more emotional and maybe five minutes before I go in I'll probably, even though I don't look like the type of person, I'll probably start crying. I absolutely loved the Queen, she was great, she had been there all my life, I have always had respect for her. She was great for our country, always did her duty right until she died.
'When she died I was overcome with emotion and I thought, I have got to come to London to see it.'
On the thousands of people queuing, he added: 'I'm absolutely amazed because there is so many people, young and old - I did not think young people would come, necessarily, because they are not really in tune with monarchy, but there's so many young people here to pay their respects which I think is awesome.'
Also queuing was Vlasta Picker, 73, of Bedford, who said: 'I came here in 1977 on the Silver Jubilee. Growing up in central Europe, monarchy was a thing of the past, history.
'I was really quite mesmerised, it was massive in 1977 and I have admired her ever since because she was a wonderful person, unique. To serve all her life until the end, it's something, isn't it? Unprecedented. And that's why I want to be here.'
Figures from the London Ambulance Service (LAS) show that 435 members of the public were treated along the route of the queue to see the Queen lying in state and surrounding areas over the past two days.
Some 291 people along the route of the queue and nearby in London were given medical assistance on Wednesday, with 17 needing hospital treatment, the LAS said. A further 144 people were treated on Thursday, with 25 people being taken to hospital.
The LAS said the majority of incidents attended were faints and collapses, resulting in head injuries.
It came as David Beckham made it inside Westminster Hall at about 3.30pm yesterday after joining the queue at 2am.
Meanwhile some people are trying to cash in by selling used wristbands for up to £350 on eBay. Those joining the queue receive wristbands to mark their place - so they can leave for a drink, or to go to the toilet, and then return.
MPs can jump the queue and bring in up to four guests, to the anger of those being forced to wait. Among those visiting yesterday were Business Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg and Shadow Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner.
This Morning hosts Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby cut sombre figures as they were seen at Westminster Hall. MailOnline was told the TV duo joined a separate queue for press and were taken into a press gallery.
People wake up after a night spent at a makeshift campsite set up along The Mall
People have been camping on The Mall ahead of the funeral of the Queen
People wake up after a night spent at a makeshift campsite set up along The Mall
A person sits at a makeshift campsite set up along The Mall
Tower Bridge looms in the background as mourners queue to see the Queen lying-in-state
Mourners queueing in Southwark Park as they wait to see the Queen lying-in-state
More mourners carry coffee cups as they queue through Southwark Park to see the Queen's coffin in Westminster Hall
Mourners including young children wrap up after temperatures plummeted overnight - as they queue to see the Queen
David Beckham wipes his eye while waiting to see the Queen's coffin at Westminster Hall in London yesterday
Former England footballer David Beckham waits to see the Queen's coffin at Westminster Hall in London yesterday
David Beckham said he feels 'lucky' to have spent time with the Queen while queueing to pay tribute yesterday
Ex-England captain Beckham was spotted queueing at about 12.30pm, after joining the line at 2am to wait with everyone else. His representative confirmed to MailOnline that he had queued with the public, and said those around him initially did not take pictures of the 47-year-old star because there was an air of 'mutual respect'.
Inside the park, a crowd formed in the holding pen next to the main queue as people begged to be let in. Security teams were allowing 100 people at a time from the holding area to join the main queue every ten to 15 minutes.
But outside the park, some people waited in the street with no idea of when they might be able to even join the queue.
The Government said in an update just before 10am: 'Southwark Park has reached capacity. Entry will be paused for at least 6 hours. We are sorry for any inconvenience. Please do not attempt to join the queue until it re-opens.'
Just after 12pm, the Government also said the accessible queue was now 'at capacity for today and entry for allocation of wristbands is currently paused', adding that those with wristbands and entry times will still get in.
But then at 1pm, the entrance to Southwark Park reopened despite the Government still saying that the queue has been paused.
The gates were originally shut as queue attendants sought to deter new arrivals. However a second queue quickly began to form outside the park along Jamaica Road, leading attendants to reopen the gate.
A Number 10 spokesman directed questions to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport, but said it was 'the case that what DCMS have done is they've temporarily paused the queue for at least six hours after it reached maximum capacity.
'That has always been part of our planning and that is to make sure as many as people as possible in the queue can enter the Palace of Westminster. But we keep it under review and there will be further updates from DCMS.'
The spokesman would not state what number of people represented 'maximum capacity' for the queue.
As Beckham approached Westminster Hall, he told Sky News: 'This day was always going to be a difficult day. Our thoughts are with the family, it's very special to hear all of the stories from people here. The most special moment for me was to receive my OBE. I took my grandparents with me who were huge royalists. I was so lucky that I was able to have a few moments like that in my life to be around Her Majesty. It's a sad day, but a day to remember.'
Beckham added that it 'meant so much' to sing the National Anthem before England matches.
He told ITV News: 'I thought by coming at 2am it was going to be a little bit quieter, but I was wrong, everybody had that in mind. But the people here, all ages, there was an 84-year-old lady walking around, a 90-year-old gentleman walking around. Everybody wants to be here to be part of this experience and to celebrate what Her Majesty has done for us.'
Images shared on Twitter showed many people trying to capture a picture of Beckham as he waited at the front of the line.
Twitter user Jules Birkby from Leeds said Beckham was 'just a few lines behind us in the snake', writing: 'The Queue is now full of people trying to photograph David Beckham and forgetting to actually move onwards. It's madness! I feel a bit sorry for him, but he's taking it very well. It's made me almost forget that we've been in The Queue almost TWELVE HOURS though.'
A fellow mourner said: 'He was chatting happily to people around him about the times he met the Queen. I think we were all stunned to see him here given how famous he is. He had his cap pulled down so I think he was trying to keep a low profile.
'I didn't recognise him straight away but he was a lovely bloke, happy to talk. Clearly he was in the queue for some time, perhaps since the early hours like myself. He was obviously keen to pay his respects to the Queen and felt he should join the rest of us rather than use the VIP line which goes down much quicker.'
Royal guards take part in final drills along the Long Walk, as they prepare for the State Funeral of Queen Elizabeth lI, near Windsor Castle
Royal guards take part in final drills along the Long Walk, as they prepare for the State Funeral of Queen Elizabeth lI, near Windsor Castle
British military personnel take part in final drills along the Long Walk, as they prepare for the State Funeral of Queen Elizabeth lI, near Windsor Castle
The hearse arrives along the Long Walk in Windsor during an early morning rehearsal
Bagpipes are played as military personnel take part in final drills along the Long Walk
Thousands of people have queued late into the night, despite warnings they could be waiting for up to 24 hours
Mourners have lined the banks of the Thames for a chance to see Queen Elizabeth II lie in state in Westminster Hall
People travelled from across the country to say a final farewell to the Queen, who died last week at the age of 96
While some questioned whether Beckham had actually been queuing up, one woman tweeted: 'My friend's mum says he joined the queue at about 2am. He's bought the people around him donuts! The guys a ledge.'
One of those who was waiting in the holding line was Terrence Houlahan, 56, who had ridden his Penny Farthing bike down to the park in Bermondsey from his home in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, some 40 miles north.
Mr Houlahan, who is originally from New York but has lived in the UK for 20 years, said: 'It took me three hours to get here. In fact, a little longer as I first went to London Bridge by mistake thinking the queue started there.
'So I've ridden all the way just to stand in line for 15 to 20 hours pushing my Penny Farthing along before cycling back another three hours in the dark. It sounds crazy but I wanted to be here and honour the Queen as well as show my support for the new King, Charles III. Charles has to put on a public show now in his new role and that must be busting him up inside. Most of us get to grieve privately. This is as much to show him solidarity as it is to pay tribute to the Queen.'
Mr Houlahan said he was going to leave his Penny Farthing outside Westminster Hall before heading inside. He said: 'I don't need to chain it up or anything because hardly anyone knows how to ride it.
'But I race these bikes so I guess it's also a good bit of training whilst also taking in a really important, historic moment. Something that is way bigger than myself or any individual.'
Moses Martinez, meanwhile, flew into London Heathrow Airport from Nicaragua this morning especially to join the queue of mourners.
The 32-year-old booked his flight as soon as heard news of the Queen's death and has spent nearly £2,000 on flights and a hotel in London.
Mr Martinez, who lives in Managua, the capital of Nicaragua, said: 'I had to be here in London. I've never been here before, never been to the UK before.
'But when I heard the Queen had died and seeing thousands of British people queue to see her lie in state, I knew now was the time that I had to go.
'I flew in at 7am this morning after a 12-hour flight, dropped my bags in the hotel and came straight to this queue. I know I could be in line for as many as 20 hours but I don't care, I don't need sleep, I just want to pay my respects.
'She meant so much to me, ever since I was a small boy. She was a symbol of Britain. I've paid a lot of money and it's a lot of travelling but for me it's worth all of it. People are very friendly and polite.
'It's a once in a lifetime experience, I thought to myself 'it's now or never' as I won't ever be able to do this again. I'm so glad I made the journey.'
Shannon Baird, 28, hopped on a flight from Dublin just to join the queue and will return straight after seeing the Queen's coffin.
She lives in Pennsylvania in the US but is spending a few months in Ireland and said: 'Once I'm done, I'm back on a flight at 9pm tomorrow. This is a moment in history and I had to be a part of it. I know it's going to be tough but I'm prepared for it. She's an iconic figure.'
Barrie Scott, 72, from East Moseley, said: 'We've been in this secondary queue for 45 minutes so it's a bit frustrating that we haven't even joined the proper line yet.
'But hopefully we'll be through soon. It is moving still, people are being let through, we've not been turned away or anything like that.
'I know it's going to be a long, long day but then the Queen was on the throne for 70 years showing such service and dedication.
'Compared to that, 15 or even 20 hours or however long it takes doesn't seem too bad to say thank you and pay my respects.'
Karen Hare, 59, from Upminster, Essex, said: 'We've been joking that we're queuing up for the queue! As if that isn't already long enough! 'I'm annoyed at my husband because I wanted to leave the house at 3am and he talked me out of it only to change his mind at 9am.
'If it wasn't for him we'd be in the main queue by now. It's not ideal but there's thousands and thousands of people who want to pay their respects. That's what the Queen means to people, she felt like part of your family.
'I felt I had to come down today, I felt a sense of service to thank her for all the fantastic things she did for the country. We'll never get this opportunity again and I knew if I didn't come, I'd have regretted it all my life.'
Mourners said there was 'breathtaking' serenity awaiting them in Westminster Hall where 'you could hear a pin drop' in the silence.
But security jobsworths had a field day as they took hand sanitiser and boiled sweets from elderly mourners queuing.
Stewards in hi-vis were accused of being overzealous as they cracked down on what could and could not be brought into Westminster Hall. Mourners also described brazen pushing-in towards the back of the line as young people took advantage of spaces left by slow elderly people in the queue.
Officials have enforced airport-style security as the public enter the Palace of Westminster. One mourner was forced to hand over a single Werther's Original, lipstick and hand sanitiser, while others told of various items being confiscated.
It comes it emerged that the Queen's grandchildren will stand guard around her coffin in London today.
Notably, the Duke of Sussex will join his brother the Prince of Wales in wearing uniform around the coffin in Westminster Hall, ahead of the Queen's state funeral on Monday.
Harry, who saw action on the front line during two tours of duty in Afghanistan, has previously been denied the chance to wear his military uniform as he publicly mourns, because he is no longer a working royal. But royal sources say the King has decided his youngest son can wear uniform for the vigil, saying he will stand at the foot of the coffin, with William at the head.
People wait in a queue to pay their respects as the Tower Bridge is lit up in purple last night
Mourners queue in Southwark Park yesterday to view the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II
Queuing for the lying in state of Queen Elizabeth II this morning at Southwark Park in London
Mourners queue in Southwark Park yesterday to view the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II who is lying-in-state
Despite being a former Army officer, he has been in civilian dress for official events, including walking behind his grandmother's coffin on Wednesday when it was carried to Westminster Hall for lying in state.
Last night, the Queen's children - Charles, the Duke of York, the Princess Royal and the Earl of Wessex - took part in their own vigil.
The King, Anne, Andrew and Edward had solemn looks on their faces as they stood vigil around their mother's coffin, with their heads bowed throughout as members of the public filed slowly past them.
It comes as final preparations are under way for the funeral on Monday, with politicians and royal dignitaries from around the world expected to arrive throughout the weekend. Prime Minster Liz Truss will today meet the prime ministers of Australia and New Zealand - Anthony Albanese and Jacinda Ardern - at the Government's Chevening country residence, a No 10 spokesperson said.
Charles will also meet chiefs of staff at Buckingham Palace today and visit police headquarters to thank the emergency services for their work in planning the funeral.
Tomorrow, Ms Truss will meet Irish Taoiseach Micheal Martin, Canadian premier Justin Trudeau, Polish President Andrzej Duda and US President Joe Biden at Downing Street. She will have an audience with the King before attending his reception for visiting heads of state at Buckingham Palace on Sunday.
Charles concluded his tour of the home nations yesterday, starting his day with a visit to Wales, after trips to Northern Ireland and Scotland in recent days.
Some 800 people, including members of the Queen's Household and Windsor estate staff, will attend the committal service afterwards at 4pm in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.
After the funeral, the King and members of the royal family will walk behind the Queen's coffin to Wellington Arch when it leaves Westminster Abbey, before it is driven to Windsor on the state hearse.
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
3-6-8
(three, six, eight)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
3-6-8
(three, six, eight)
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| 2022-09-17T18:14:13Z
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A Michigan man was sentenced on Friday to five years in federal prison for his role in the U.S. Capitol attack by a mob that disrupted Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral victory.
Chief Judge Beryl Howell also sentenced Anthony Robert Williams, 47, of Southgate, Michigan, to three years of supervised release after his prison term and ordered him to pay $2,000 in restitution and a $5,000 fine, according to a U.S. Justice Department news release.
In June, a jury convicted Williams of a felony count of obstructing the Jan. 6, 2021, joint session of Congress for certifying the Electoral College vote. Jurors also convicted him of four related misdemeanor offenses.
Prosecutors had recommended a prison sentence of five years and four months for Williams, who was arrested in Detroit in March 2021.
In a Facebook post three days after the riot, Williams called himself an “Operation Swamp Storm veteran” and referred to Jan. 6 as the “proudest day of my life.” He added that it “felt like the founding fathers were smiling down on us in that room, and I guarantee my dad and gramps, both vets, would be proud.”
“Williams’ participation in the riot was purposeful, extensive, enthusiastic, and remorseless,” prosecutors wrote in a court filing.
Outside the Capitol, Williams stole water bottles that police intended to use for decontaminating themselves from chemical spray, according to prosecutors. They said Williams entered the Capitol through the Senate Wing doors and joined other rioters in overwhelming police officers in the Crypt area.
“Williams advanced to the Rotunda where he celebrated with other rioters and smoked marijuana,” prosecutors wrote. “When the police tried to force Williams out of the Rotunda, he joined with other rioters and actively resisted and mocked the police.”
Williams’ attorneys requested a sentence of 15 months of incarceration.
“Mr. Williams has learned from his experience and from listening to the testimony at trial and during jury selection. He will not become involved in something like this ever again,” they wrote.
More than 870 people have been charged with federal crimes for the conduct on Jan. 6. More 260 of them have been sentenced, with roughly half of them receiving a term of imprisonment ranging from seven days to 10 years. Only five other Capitol riot defendants have been sentenced to a longer prison term than Williams.
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| 2022-09-17T18:15:29Z
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By DUSAN STOJANOVIC
Associated Press
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Riot police clashed Saturday with soccer hooligans in downtown Belgrade, where an international Pride march started despite threats from anti-gay groups and an official earlier ban.
Tensions were high in the Serbian capital as the ultranationalist fans hurled stun grenades, stones and flares at a police cordon, which repelled the attack with batons and riot shields. Hundreds of Pride march supporters, meanwhile, gathered a few kilometers (miles) away in the pouring rain, dancing and singing as their march was held on shortened route.
“We need justice and freedom,” said Goran Miletic, one of the Pride event organizers.
Serbian police this week banned the parade, citing the risk of clashes with the far-right activists. But organizers on Saturday said they received guarantees from Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic, who is a lesbian, that the event could go ahead.
“Following weeks of intense international pressure, the Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic has announced that the EuroPride March, scheduled for 1700 CET (11 a.m. EDT) today, can go ahead,” the European Pride Organizers Association said.
“The prime minister said she can guarantee that the streets of Belgrade will be safe this afternoon,” the statement said.
Brnabic said she was proud that during “this entire week, with more then 130 (LGBTQ) events, there wasn’t a one single incident. And that really is the right image of Belgrade and Serbia.”
Several incidents were reported earlier Saturday with anti-gay activists hurling bottles at police and trying to break through the police cordons. Police said 31 people were detained.
The European Pride Organizers Association chose Serbia’s capital three years ago to host the annual event, hoping it would represent a major breakthrough for a Slavic country that is traditionally conservative and strongly influenced by the Orthodox Church.
Interior Minister Aleksandar Vulin warned Saturday that his agency “will not tolerate any violence on the streets of Belgrade and that it will strictly implement the law.”
EU and other Western officials, as well as rights groups, had urged populist Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic to allow the holding of the Pride march. But Vucic had said that police can’t cope with possible riots by right-wing groups amid the energy crisis.
Those right-wing groups, some of them considered close to Vucic’s nationalist government, were also banned from gathering on Saturday, but they said they will ignore the ruling.
Several legal appeals by march organizers against the ban have been rejected by Serbian authorities.
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AP writer Jovana Gec contributed to this story.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.
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Viktor Durasovic showed that Norway was not exactly a one-man army! Ranked a modest 325 in singles and 224 in doubles, the 25-year-old Durasovic stood up to the task, along with world No.2 Casper Ruud, in guiding Norway to an unbeatable 3-0 lead in the Davis Cup World Group tie against India at the Hakons Hall in Lillehammer on Saturday.
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Yuki Bhambri and Saketh Myneni did raise hopes of sustaining Indian fight when they took the second set in the doubles, but Ruud and Durasovic broke Yuki’s serve in the fourth game of the decider and pulled through without any further drama.
Also Read | Italy and Germany advance in Davis Cup; Alacaraz has losing homecoming
Once Ruud recovered from 0-30 to hold serve for a 5-2 lead in the decider, it was hard for the Indian pair, even though Yuki nonchalantly served the eighth game to put Durasovic’s serve to test.
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Durasovic, the unsung hero in the Norwegian camp, served it out to put the team ahead.
After the manner in which he had dismissed the challenge from India No.1 Ramkumar Ramanathan in the second singles on the opening day, winning the match 6-1, 6-4 in quick time, Durasovic did command a lot of respect from the Indian camp.
In the given conditions of the indoor hard court, on which the players were really blasting the ball, the Norwegians were quite at home. The home fans were treated to a quality fare overall, even though India could have fought better, as the players had trained hard in the build-up to get accustomed to the conditions.
It was a bit disappointing for India as except for Yuki and Saketh giving a good account of themselves, the team could not show that it could fight.
Yet, one has to give credit where it belongs, and Durasovic was indeed the hero who took the fight to India, and took the team’s breath away. Driven by the commitment shown by Ruud to report for national duty despite being exhausted competing against the very best in the world for two weeks and reaching the final of the US Open last Sunda, Durasovic played his part brilliantly.
Davis Cup is all about commitment. Ruud and Durasovic exemplified the aspect much to the delight of the fans, with an entertaining performance.
The results
Norway bt India 3-0 (Viktor Durasovic bt Ramkumar Ramanathan 6-1, 6-4; Durasovic & Casper Ruud bt Yuki Bhambri & Saketh Myneni 6-3, 3-6, 6-3).
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EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND (AP) - Results from Scotch football:
Aberdeen vs. Rangers, 7 a.m. ppd
Celtic vs. Livingston FC, 10 a.m. ppd
Dundee United vs. Hibernian FC, 10 a.m. ppd
Kilmarnock vs. St. Johnstone, 10 a.m. ppd
Ross County vs. Motherwell, 10 a.m. ppd
Hearts vs. St Mirren FC, 10 a.m. ppd
Hibernian FC 3, Aberdeen 1
Livingston FC 1, Kilmarnock 0
Rangers 2, Dundee United 1
St. Johnstone 0, Ross County 0
St Mirren FC vs. Celtic, 7 a.m.
Motherwell vs. Hearts, 10 a.m.
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A new, genetically modified purple tomato may hit the grocery market stands
It tastes like a tomato, smells like a tomato, and even looks (mostly) like a tomato. There's just one catch: It's purple.
The USDA has approved a genetically modified purple tomato, clearing the path for the unique fruit to be sold in American stores next year.
"From a plant pest risk perspective, this plant may be safely grown and used in breeding," the agency said in a September 7 news release.
The approval moves the purple tomato one step closer to widespread distribution. In addition to its unique color, the purple tomato also has health benefits and a longer shelf life than garden variety red tomatoes, scientists say.
The tomato was developed by a team of scientists, including British biochemist Cathie Martin, who is a professor at the University of East Anglia and a project leader at the John Innes Centre in Norwich, England.
Martin worked on pigment production in flowers for over 20 years, she told CNN. "I wanted to start projects where we could look and see whether there were health benefits for this particular group of pigments," she said.
The pigments that drew Martin's interest are anthocyanins, which give blueberries, blackberries and eggplants their rich blue-purple hues. With funding from a German consortium, she decided to engineer tomatoes that were rich in anthocyanins, hoping to "increase the antioxidant capacity" of the fruits.
By comparing regular tomatoes to the engineered purple tomatoes, she would be able to easily identify whether the anthocyanins were linked to any specific health benefits.
To engineer the purple tomatoes, the scientists used transcription factors from snapdragons to trigger the tomatoes to produce more anthocyanin, creating a vibrant purple color.
Martin and her colleagues published the first results of their research in 2008 in an article in Nature Biotechnology.
The results were "stunning," she said. Cancer-prone mice that ate the purple tomatoes lived around 30% longer than those that ate normal tomatoes, according to the study.
Martin said there are "many explanations" as to why anthocyanin-rich tomatoes may have health benefits. There are "probably multiple mechanisms involved," she said. "It's not like a drug, where there's a single target. It's about them having antioxidant capacity. It also may influence the composition of the microbiome, so it's better able to deal with digestion of other nutrients."
And in 2013, Martin and colleagues released a study that found the purple tomatoes had double the shelf life of their red cousins.
Martin established a spinout company, Norfolk Plant Sciences, to bring the purple tomatoes to market. Nathan Pumplin, the CEO of Norfolk's US-based commercial business, told CNN that the purple tomato "strikes a chord with people in this very basic way."
The distinctive purple color means that "it takes no imagination to see that it's different," Pumplin said. "It really allows people to make a choice."
FDA approval and commercialization are next steps
In the past, forays into genetically modified foods have often focused on engineering crops that are more sustainable to produce, he added. But for consumers, the benefits of eating a genetically modified food are murky.
"It's very abstract, hard to understand," Pumplin said. "But a purple tomato -- you either choose or choose not to consume." The difference between the GMO (Genetically Modified Organism) product and the non-modified tomato are stark -- and the possible health benefits for consumers are also clear.
Pumplin says that consumers are "warming up" to genetically modified foods across the world.
"We look at the problems facing our society as far as sustainability, climate change, health tied to diet and nutrition, and what's clear from the response from our announcement is that it's a really important topic to a lot of people," he said. "I'm encouraged that a lot of people are starting to relook at biotechnology in light of the important challenges."
At the same time, "GMOs are not a silver bullet," he said. "It's one tool in our toolbox as plant scientists, as scientists, agronomists, to improve the food production system."
The next steps for the purple tomato are FDA approval and commercialization, Pumplin said. "We need to breed excellent, delicious purple tomatoes. We need to work with producers to produce them and distribute them."
Norfolk will begin to launch limited test markets in 2023 to identify which consumers are most interested in purple tomatoes.
As for the taste? The purple tomato is indistinguishable from your standard red tomato, Pumplin said.
"It tastes like a great tomato," he said.
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
3-6-8
(three, six, eight)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
3-6-8
(three, six, eight)
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| 2022-09-17T18:39:50Z
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(NEXSTAR) – Judging from how the flu has roared back in Australia and other countries south of the Equator, experts are predicting a particularly nasty season for the U.S. this winter. At the same time, many Americans are also making plans to strengthen their defenses against COVID-19 with the omicron-specific booster, but should they be taken at the same time?
Experts say there’s no danger in taking them simultaneously. With COVID already spreading and peak flu season still months away, some people may choose to wait on the flu vaccine.
“It depends on how reliable you find yourself to be,” Dr. Jeffrey Kopin, Chief Medical Officer for Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Hospital, told Nexstar’s WGN Radio. “What do I mean by that? If one does want to put off getting the influenza vaccine and wait towards the latter part of October [or] first part of November, that’s a good strategy for people [as] we’re not seeing that much influenza yet … but you’ve got to be able to rely on yourself, you got to to remember to go in and actually get the influenza vaccine.”
Kopin emphasized that everyone who qualifies to get the bivalent COVID-19 vaccine should go ahead and get it to protect against the omicron strains that are already circulating across the country. So if you know there’s a chance you’ll forget to go back for the flu vaccine, Kopin recommends getting them together.
So too, does the White House.
“The good news is you can get both your flu shot and COVID shot at the same time. It’s actually a good idea,” Dr. Ashish Jha, the White House’s COVID response coordinator said during recent press conference. “I really believe this is why God gave us two arms — one for the flu shot and the other one for the COVID shot.”
Some people, however, wonder if rushing out to get the flu shot in September might leave them with their vaccine-boost fading during late winter months. If you aren’t worried about forgetting to get the shot entirely and don’t mind making a second trip, experts agree there is some benefit to delaying the flu shot.
“If you get it too early, there’s clear evidence that it wanes off by the end of the season,” Amesh Adalja, senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, told The Hill. “Traditionally, it peaked around February. So if you’re getting a flu shot now in early September, you can’t expect it to be that effective at the tail end of the flu season. So I’ve always recommended people get their flu vaccine sometime in late October.”
Experts are encouraging people to get the flu vaccine as the upcoming season is expected to be rough. Flu cases plummeted during the pandemic thanks to masks, social distancing and other precautions, leading to less exposure and less natural immunity.
Judging from this year’s case counts from the Southern Hemisphere – where summer in the U.S. is winter – it looks like the experts might be right.
Australia had 600 cases of influenza recorded by laboratories in 2021, a number that jumped to over 217,000 this year, which is closer to a normal flu season. Public health officials told Bloomberg late last month they expect the final tally could be similar to to that of 2019, which brought a record number of infections.
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The recent transfer of Venezuelan migrants to Martha's Vineyard resembles the "Reverse Freedom Rides" of 60 years ago, when white supremacist groups bused Black southerners to the North.
Copyright 2022 NPR
The recent transfer of Venezuelan migrants to Martha's Vineyard resembles the "Reverse Freedom Rides" of 60 years ago, when white supremacist groups bused Black southerners to the North.
Copyright 2022 NPR
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CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – Shelby Jordan, an offensive lineman who played for the New England Patriots and the Los Angeles Raiders, died earlier this month, the Patriots announced Friday.
Jordan, 70, died on Sept. 9, according to the announcement.
Jordan played in 95 games with 87 starts at right tackle during his eight seasons with the Patriots. With the Raiders, Jordan was able to win a ring as a member of the Super Bowl XVIII Championship team in 1983.
Prior to his NFL career, Jordan led Washington University’s Division III Bears in tackles for three consecutive seasons before being named a Kodak first-team All-American during his senior year.
The 1972 team captain and Bears MVP is considered the greatest defensive player in the history of the school, and in 1973, he was the first football player in university’s 150 year history to be drafted in the NFL.
He was initially a 7th-round draft pick by the Houston Oilers in 1973, but was dropped during training. He signed with the New England Patriots, eventually becoming a six-year starter at offensive tackle.
After retiring from the NFL in 1988, Jordan launched and directed a Los Angeles-based nonprofit economic-development corporation that provides affordable urban housing to help families and seniors.
In 2013, Jordan was also inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.
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| 2022-09-17T18:48:19Z
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BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, Sept. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The St. Kitts and Nevis National Emergency Management Association has been closely monitoring Tropical Storm Fiona, and the storm has passed the Federation. As a result, Robert L. Bradshaw International Airport is once again open and operating at full capacity, as of 17 September at 12:00 p.m. AST.
"The Federation's main priority was the safety of our citizens and international guests, and we are watching closely and sending well-wishes to our neighbours as the storm continues to move," said Honourable Marsha Henderson, Minister of Tourism, International Transport, Civil Aviation, Urban Development, Employment, and Labour. "We thank our first responders and our tourism and business partners who together ensured our preparedness plans were put in place efficiently across the island. St. Kitts is open for business."
Stay up to date on revised travel and flights for St. Kitts at www.stkittstourism.kn or on our social media channels Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
About St. Kitts
Where the Atlantic meets the Caribbean, you will find the captivating island of St. Kitts, an exciting oasis that beguiles the senses. Once known as the gateway to the Caribbean, St. Kitts invites you to Awake Your Sense of Wander and journey the island of a thousand treasures. Wander the secluded beaches and rainforests that stretch for miles. Hear the pulsating sounds of nature as you explore via ziplines, mini speed boats, and jeep safaris. Take a leisurely ride on the Caribbean's only authentic scenic passenger train, hike to the rim of a dormant volcano, dive into an ancient shipwreck. Embrace the scents of a smoky, sizzling beach barbecue, and taste culinary delights fresh from the sea. Indulge your wanderlust in one-of-a-kind attractions such as the UNESCO recognized Brimstone Hill Fortress National Park. Ignite your sense of style with Caribbean flair and the pure artistry as you feel the fabrics of Caribelle Batik. The serene beauty of the tropical island allows your mind and spirit to wander. Let the sun warm your soul and the island to tempt your thirst for exploration. For more information about St. Kitts, visit www.stkittstourism.kn.
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HAVANA (AP) — Mediation talks to restructure more than $9 billion in debt held by Puerto Rico’s power company failed, officials announced Saturday, raising concerns about the future of the bankrupt government agency.
A federal control board that oversees Puerto Rico’s finances said the impasse with bondholders means it would resume litigation against them in an attempt to restructure the debt, warning that any cost associated with debt repayment would be passed along to consumers.
Gov. Pedro Pierluisi said the mediation did not achieve the desired outcome: “My administration cannot accept a deal that unduly strains the wallets of our hard-working families, or the resources businesses need to fuel our economy and create and maintain jobs on the island.”
In a press conference on Saturday, Pierluisi said the power company will remain in a state of bankruptcy given pending litigations.
Creditors could not be immediately reached for comment.
Board member Justin Peterson criticized the board for abandoning mediation efforts as he advocated for bondholders to be paid and said that a deal to end bankruptcy and avoid expensive and lengthy litigation “was clearly in reach.”
“It would have catalyzed much-needed private sector investment to rebuild and modernize Puerto Rico’s grid and would have provided the citizens...with cleaner, more reliable and more affordable power,” he said. “Now, all of this could be delayed for years.”
Puerto Rico’s power grid remains frail after Hurricane Maria razed it in 2017, with outages reported daily. The grid was already crumbling before the storm hit as a result of aging infrastructure and a lack of maintenance.
The failed talks come after Gov. Pedro Pierluisi announced in early March that his administration was scrapping a proposed debt restructuring deal for the island’s Electric Power Authority that was several years in the making because it wasn’t feasible or in Puerto Rico’s best interest.
The power company’s debt is the largest of any government agency, and economists have said that restructuring it would help boost economic development on an island mired in a deep economic crisis.
It is one of two government agencies whose debt have yet to be restructured more than five years after Puerto Rico's government filed for the largest municipal bankruptcy in history. Puerto Rico’s Highways and Transportation Authority still holds $5.8 billion in debt.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
6-1-6
(six, one, six)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
6-1-6
(six, one, six)
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| 2022-09-17T18:53:39Z
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CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – Shelby Jordan, an offensive lineman who played for the New England Patriots and the Los Angeles Raiders, died earlier this month, the Patriots announced Friday.
Jordan, 70, died on Sept. 9, according to the announcement.
Jordan played in 95 games with 87 starts at right tackle during his eight seasons with the Patriots. With the Raiders, Jordan was able to win a ring as a member of the Super Bowl XVIII Championship team in 1983.
Prior to his NFL career, Jordan led Washington University’s Division III Bears in tackles for three consecutive seasons before being named a Kodak first-team All-American during his senior year.
The 1972 team captain and Bears MVP is considered the greatest defensive player in the history of the school, and in 1973, he was the first football player in university’s 150 year history to be drafted in the NFL.
He was initially a 7th-round draft pick by the Houston Oilers in 1973, but was dropped during training. He signed with the New England Patriots, eventually becoming a six-year starter at offensive tackle.
After retiring from the NFL in 1988, Jordan launched and directed a Los Angeles-based nonprofit economic-development corporation that provides affordable urban housing to help families and seniors.
In 2013, Jordan was also inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.
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WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden headed to the United Kingdom on Saturday to pay his respects to Queen Elizabeth II at a time of transition in US-UK relations, as both a new monarch and a new prime minister are settling in.
The hawkish approach of Prime Minister Liz Truss to Russia and China puts her on the same page as Biden. But the rise of Truss, 47, who once called the US-UK relationship “special but not exclusive,” could mark a decidedly new chapter in the trans-Atlantic partnership on trade and more.
Of high concern for Biden officials in the early going of Truss's premiership is her backing of legislation that would shred parts of the post-Brexit trading arrangements in Northern Ireland. Analysts say the move could cause deep strain between the UK and the European Union, and undermine peace in Northern Ireland. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the move “would not create a conducive environment” for crafting a long-awaited U.S.-UK trade deal coveted by Truss and her Conservative Party.
“She's signaled that she's willing to go to the mattresses on this and that's going to cause a rift not just between the UK and EU, but the UK and the U.S.,” said Max Bergmann, director of the Europe program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington and a former senior State Department official in the Obama administration. “It's one that's going to keep the White House up at night.”
Biden and Truss had been set to meet Sunday, but the prime minister's office said Saturday they would skip the weekend hello, opting instead for a meeting at the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday, though Truss still planned to gather with other world leaders converging on London for the royal funeral. The White House confirmed the U.N. meeting just as the president boarded Air Force One.
The two close allies now find themselves in a period of political uncertainty on both sides of the Atlantic. Not unlike his fellow septuagenarian Biden, King Charles III faces questions from the public about whether his age will limit his ability to faithfully carry out the duties of the monarch.
Charles, 73, and Biden, 79, discussed global cooperation on the climate crisis last year while both attended a summit in Glasgow, Scotland. They also met at Buckingham Palace in June 2021 at a reception the queen hosted before a world leaders' summit in Cornwall.
Truss finds herself, as Biden does, facing questions about whether she has what it takes to lift a country battered by stubborn inflation borne out of the coronavirus pandemic and exacerbated by Russia's invasion of Ukraine unleashing chaos on the global energy market.
All the while, Britain - and the rest of Europe - is carefully watching to see what the upcoming U.S. midterm elections will bring for the Democratic American president after he vowed upon taking office that “America is back” to being a full partner in the international community after four years of Republican Donald Trump pushing his “America First” worldview.
“It certainly is a time of change and transformation in the UK,” said Barbara A. Perry, presidential studies director at the University of Virginia's Miller Center. She added, “We don't know what will happen in our midterms. We don't know what will happen in 2024.”
Truss, a former accountant who was first elected to Parliament in 2010, hasn't had much interaction with Biden. The U.S. president called her earlier this month to congratulate her. Truss, as foreign secretary, accompanied her predecessor, Boris Johnson, on a White House visit last year.
It's been more than 75 years since Winston Churchill declared there was a “special relationship” between the two nations, a notion that leaders on both sides have repeatedly affirmed. Still, there have been bumps along the way.
Tony Blair was derisively branded by the British tabloids as George W. Bush's “poodle” for backing the 2003 American-led invasion of Iraq. David Cameron and Barack Obama had a “bromance,” but Obama also had his frustrations with the Brits over defense spending and the UK's handling of Libya following the 2011 ouster of Muammar Gaddafi.
Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan forged a close alliance in the midst of the Cold War, with the prime minister once telling students that the Republican president's “really good sense of humor” helped their relationship. But there were difficulties too, such as when Thatcher and members of her Cabinet bristled at the Reagan administration's initial neutrality in the Falklands War.
The White House wasn't expecting Truss's announcement in May, when she was foreign secretary, that the government would move forward with legislation that would rewrite parts of the Northern Ireland Protocol. The agreement was part of the UK's 2020 Brexit withdrawal from the EU that was designed to avoid a hard north-south border with Ireland that might upset Northern Ireland's fragile peace.
Now, in the first weeks of Truss's premiership, Biden administration officials are carefully taking the measure of the new British leader. Analysts say there is some trepidation in the administration that undercutting the Northern Ireland protocol could plunge Europe into trade turmoil at a moment when Biden is working mightily to keep the West unified in confronting Russia over its aggression against Ukraine.
“Brexit could once again become the issue -- the issue that can make it difficult for all of Europe to work together at a time when it is critical for Europe to work together,” Bergmann said. “If you're the Biden administration, this is not the time for the two of your closest partners getting into fights.”
To be certain, there were areas of friction between Biden and Johnson, who had a warm rapport with former President Donald Trump.
Biden staunchly opposed Brexit as a candidate and had expressed great concern over the future of Northern Ireland. Biden once even derided Johnson as a “physical and emotional clone” of Trump.
Johnson worked hard to overcome that impression, stressing his common ground with Biden on climate change, support for international institutions and most notably by making certain Britain was an early and generous member of the U.S.-led alliance providing economic and military assistance to Ukraine in the aftermath of the Russian invasion.
The former prime minister also unsuccessfully pressed Biden starting days into his administration to begin negotiations on a new U.S.-UK trade deal just as the U.K. regained control over its national trade policy weeks before Biden took office and following the end of a post-Brexit transition period.
But Biden largely kept focus on his domestic to-do list in the early going of his presidency-passing trillions in spending on coronavirus relief, infrastructure, and more-and put negotiations on trade deals on the back burner.
Elliot Abrams, chairman of the conservative foreign policy group Vandenberg Coalition, said that Truss needs Biden to make a new U.S.-UK trade deal a priority. Queen Elizabeth's funeral won't be the setting for tough bilateral conversations, but it still marks a moment for the two leaders to begin taking stock of each other.
Truss, who succeeded Johnson after he was forced to resign in the face of a string of scandals, has lagged in the opinion polls. She also won her election with a smaller margin than her recent predecessors and is looking for an early win.
“I think if I were (Truss), I want recognition of the leading role Britain's played, far more than any other country outside the United States in supporting Ukraine,” said Abrams, who served in senior national security and foreign policy roles in the Trump, George W. Bush and Reagan administrations. “And I think I'd want some positive economic message to give the British people, which could be that the free trade agreement negotiations are starting.”
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The NFL season is often viewed as a war of attrition, and two contenders are already dealing with injuries that threaten to ruin their postseason hopes.
The New York Jets and Green Bay Packers just learned that Kris Jenkins and Ryan Grant are out for the season. While both teams field deep rosters, the loss of a key member will thrust an unheralded reserve into a key role.
In New York, Sione Pouha will replace Jenkins at nose tackle. Pouha has logged 16 starts in his career, but the bulk of those came last season when he started at defensive end before shifting to nose tackle following Jenkins' ACL injury a year ago.
Although he's not the athletic behemoth that Jenkins is on the interior, Pouha's a big, powerful defender. His ability to effectively control the point against single and double teams keyed the Jets' top-ranked run defense a season ago.
With Pouha set to shift to nose tackle, the Jets will turn to Mike Devito at defensive end. The scrappy Devito emerged as a valuable member last season as a versatile 3-4 defensive end/4-3 "under" tackle. As a stout run defender with a non-stop motor, Devito is exactly the kind of player that coach Rex Ryan loves to incorporate in the rotation.
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Ryan Grant's season-ending injury provides fantasy football owners a rare opportunity to pick up a top back -- replacement Brandon Jackson (right) -- via waivers. More ...
For Green Bay, the loss of Grant makes Brandon Jackson the starter. The fourth-year pro has shown potential as a three-down back.
While Jackson isn't an explosive or shifty runner, he's very instinctive and shows a knack for finding creases in the defense. In addition, he's a solid receiver out of the backfield with open-field running skills. He should fare well in the passing game as a viable weapon on screens and check downs.
John Kuhn will also get some playing time as a short-yardage/goal-line specialist. Though he's a fullback by trade, his hard-nosed nature is ideally suited for the complementary role. He should see three or four carries a game in those situations.
Although the Packers have the utmost trust in Jackson and Kuhn, they will surely scan the waiver wire or trade market for a veteran runner to add to the mix. If they opt for a trade, the Buffalo Bills' Marshawn Lynch would appear to be a perfect fit. He's a three-down back with the skills to seamlessly transition into their offense.
The Packers and Jets both have their eyes on Super Bowl XLV, but how well they navigate their recent injury woes will ultimately determine if they stay on course.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a sweeping package of bills Friday to expand California’s reliance on clean energy and reduce carbon emissions, moves he said further establish the state as a global climate leader.
The new laws include proposals aimed at reducing exposure to gas and oil pollution in communities of color, expanding clean energy jobs and accelerating the state’s timeline for getting most of its electricity from renewable energy sources. Newsom signed them following a record-breaking heat wave that forced California to rely more heavily on natural gas for its electricity production.
“We could talk about the way the world should be and protest it,” Newsom said while standing underneath an array of solar panels. “Or we can actually make demonstrable progress.”
State Sen. Lena Gonzalez, a Democrat, was an author of one bill aimed at protecting vulnerable communities from pollution coming from oil and gas production sites. It bans the drilling of any new oil and gas wells with 3,200 feet (975 meters) of homes, schools and other neighborhood sites and requires wells in those zones to enact stricter safety measures. Neighborhood oil drilling is prominent around Los Angeles and oil-rich parts of the Central Valley.
“The reason why we do this, first and foremost, is because some of us are parents,” said Gonzalez, who represents the southern part of Los Angeles County.
Another bill Newsom signed requires California to reach carbon neutrality by 2045, meaning it will remove as much carbon from the atmosphere as what it emits.
The state’s accelerated carbon reduction targets are a “big win for California,” Kassie Siegel, of the Center for Biological Diversity Action Fund, said in a statement.
The oil industry has broadly criticized Newsom’s climate package, saying it will harm an industry that still provides many jobs throughout the state. California is the seventh-largest oil producing state.
Some environmental groups were critical as well, though for different reasons. Food and Water Watch California, a nonprofit aimed at addressing climate and water issues, opposed a bill in the package that creates a permitting system for carbon capture projects. Such efforts rely on technology to remove carbon from the atmosphere to store underground.
Critics of the technology say it’s dangerous, unproven and a means for oil companies to keep emitting.
“Carbon capture is a smokescreen for fossil fuel industry players to protect their bottom lines at the expense of our climate and communities,” Food and Water Watch California Director Chirag G. Bhakta said in a statement.
Newsom, a Democrat, also took the opportunity to swipe at Republican political leaders in Texas. He compared California’s energy production to that of Texas, another major producer, where a winter storm in February 2021 left millions without power.
“And they’re talking to us about keeping our lights on?” Newsom said of Texas.
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Sophie Austin is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues. Follow her on Twitter at https://twitter.com/sophieadanna.
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WATERBURY, Conn. (AP) — Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who is on trial in Connecticut for calling the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre a hoax, continued Friday to describe the proceedings as a “kangaroo court” from his Infowars studio in Texas.
Jones’ commentary became a focus of testimony on the fourth day of the trial, with a lawyer for the Sandy Hook families questioning a corporate representative for Jones’ Infowars brand about how seriously the company was taking the trial.
The lawyer, Christopher Mattei, showed the jury a photo he said was of an Infowars webpage, depicting the judge in the trial with lasers shooting out of her eyes.
“On a scale of one to 10, how seriously is Infowars taking this trial,” Mattei asked the corporate representative, Brittany Paz.
“Ten. It’s serious to me,” Paz responded.
The exchange occurred as Jones prepares to attend the trial in Waterbury next week and the judge, Barbara Bellis, considers a request by the families’ lawyers to limit what Jones and his lawyer can say and argue in court. Jones is expected to testify,, but it’s not clear yet when.
“They are pretending to the world that it’s an actual trial, but I’m guilty when I get there and I can’t say I’m innocent,” Jones said on his Infowars web show Friday. “Everybody fundamentally knows that’s a fraud.”
He has previously said the judges’ default rulings against him — finding him liable without trials — were unfair and suggested they were part of a conspiracy to put him out of business and silence him.
Jones and his Free Speech Systems company are on trial in a lawsuit brought by an FBI agent who responded to the shooting and relatives of eight of the 20 first-graders and six educators killed in the December 2012 massacre in Newtown. They say Jones inflicted emotional and psychological harm on them, and they have been threatened and harassed by Jones’ followers.
Jones has already been found liable for spreading the myth that the shooting never happened, and the six-member jury will be deciding how much he and his company should pay the plaintiffs in damages.
In a motion filed Thursday, the families’ lawyers asked Bellis for several limitations on what Jones and his lawyer, Norman Pattis, can say and argue at the trial, including barring them from alleging that holding Jones and Free Speech Systems accountable for their actions offends the First Amendment.
Pattis outlined Jones’ defense in a motion filed Friday in response to the families’ motion.
“The defendants have argued, and intend to argue, that the plaintiffs have motives, biases and interest in exaggerating their claims against the defendants, to wit: their interest in gun control regulation and their hostility to Mr. Jones,” Pattis wrote.
Pattis also said Jones is challenging the amount of any damages to be awarded and is focusing on the families’ motives for “overstating their damages: to wit: their desire to silence Alex Jones not just because he harmed them, but because they find his politics and political affiliations repugnant.”
Pattis added, “Mr. Jones’ conspiracy theory may by offensive to some, and ridiculous to others, but he has not gained millions of listeners by compelling people to tune in. He speaks a language that many Americans seem prepared to accept.”
Mattei has showed the jury evidence that Jones’ viewership and sales of products such as nutritional supplements and clothing on his website soared around the times he talked about the Sandy Hook shooting, suggesting Jones was profiting off the shooting.
Pattis countered in court Friday that the jury should be allowed to hear that Jones believes there is a conspiracy to take guns away and enslave people.
“They have put before this jury the theory that Jones merchandizes fear for the sake of making a buck,” Pattis said. “Our claim is that he recognizes the fear of the people and makes a dollar to support that premise.”
Last month, a jury in Texas awarded the parents of one of the slain Sandy Hook children nearly $50 million in a similar lawsuit against Jones and his company over the hoax claims. Jones also faces a third trial in Texas later this year over how much he should pay the parents of another child killed in the shooting.
The Connecticut trial is expected to resume Tuesday with the judge indicating she will decide then whether to further limit what the defense may argue when it comes to the worth of Jones’ holdings.
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Associated Press writer Pat Eaton-Robb contributed to this story from Connecticut
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A Goochland County man died Thursday after the box truck he was driving ran off the road and overturned in Hanover County, according to the Hanover County Sherriff's Office.
Brady Marshall Price, 31, of Manakin Sabot, was transported to VCU Medical Center where he was pronounced dead as a result of his injuries.
According to the Sherriff's Office, deputies responded to a single-vehicle crash on Rural Point Road near its intersection with Georgetown Road. The preliminary investigation revealed that the 2004 Freightliner was traveling east on Rural Point Road when it ran off the westbound shoulder of the road and came to rest on its side. Investigators are still collecting information.
From the Archives: A look back at notable Richmond fires
In March 1901, a fire engulfed the Jefferson Hotel. The hotel, which had opened in 1895, was destroyed by a fire caused by a faulty wire.
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In January 1943, William H. Haskins gazed over what was left of his Health Centre Inc. bowling alley at Hermitage Road and Meadow Street in Richmond after a fire. The sprawling brick building, which opened in 1928 and housed 36 lanes, was totally destroyed.
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In late December 1943, a three-alarm fire struck the Spencer Casket Co. in the 1300 block of East Main Street, causing about $20,000 in damage. The blaze and two others in the final week of the year raised Richmond’s fire losses to about $300,000.
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In March 1949, smoldering embers and charred, jagged walls were all that remained of the Dunlop Mills in South Richmond. The two brick buildings, which had survived damage during the Civil War, were lost to the fire, which took more than 200 firemen six hours to put out.
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In November 1950, Richmond firefighters battled an early morning blaze at Monument Methodist Church, located at Allen and Park avenues. More than 150 firefighters and two-thirds of the city’s firefighting equipment responded to the blaze, which caused extensive damage. Four firemen were injured, mainly from ice that formed on ladders and sidewalks in the freezing cold.
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In January 1953, a fire destroyed most of a Richmond Ice Co. factory at Bainbridge and 20th streets in South Richmond. The four-alarm fire sent flames nearly 40 feet into the air.
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February 15, 1955: Twelve firemen escaped the collapse of a burning roof by minutes when a fire engulfed one building and damaged two others on East Main Street in downtown Richmond. It took nearly 200 firemen, pouring geysers of water from two dozen trucks and engines, two hours to halt the spread of the flames. The fire started in the rear of Morton Marks & Sons Inc., an office supply company at 1217 E. Main Street.
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In August 1956, firefighters worked to put out flames at the Carter-Venable Grain Elevator at 12th and Canal streets in Richmond. The fire, which drew a crowd of hundreds, caused an estimated $100,000 in damage to machinery and supplies. Friction in a stalled conveyor belt sparked the fire.
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February 14, 1960 (cutline): Three Richmond homes were damaged by fire during yesterday afternoon's snowstorm. The two-story frame homes were at 1320, 1320 1/2 and 1322 West Clay St. Deputy Fire Battalion Chief J.S. Riggsbee said the fire apparently started in a stove at 1320 West Clay St. Fire spread quickly to the adjoining homes. Riggsbee estimated damage to the three houses at $2,500. The fire which started at 2:54 p.m. was brought under control a half hour later.
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May 26, 1961 (cutline): Fire destroys Julian Black & Co. Warehouse at 14th and Byrd Streets.
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July 4, 1961 (cutline): A series of explosions ripped through gasoline tanks in the dock area off the 4400 block of East Main St. early this morning. Two of four men on the barge unloading gasoline at the Crown Central Petroleum Corp. said they had to swim the James River when a sudden explosion and roaring fire cut off their escape. Flames went 150 to 200 feet into the air as gasoline tanks exploded one after another. Firemen attempting to fight the blaze had to flee after a tank blasted apart and sent huge balls of flame into the air.The fire area was confined to the area from Main St. to the river from south of Nicholson St. to Orleans St. shortly before 3 a.m. The wind was blowing to the southwest and houses on the north side of Main which were burning apparently caught fire from the intense heat. The barge that started the fire contained 450,000 gallons of gasoline.
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April 5, 1964: Firemen battled flames at 203 W. Franklin Street. The blaze began in the basement and spread quickly through the walls to the roof.
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February 17, 1967 (cutline): Firemen inspect stack of folding chairs in fire-swept section of Southern Industries, Inc. At one point, firefighters were briefly trapped under the collapsing stack of chairs. The two-alarm fire swept through a storage area and the shipping department of Southern Industries, Inc., near Sixth Street and Dinwiddie Avenue in South Richmond.
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May 13, 1969 (cutline): Firemen on the city's aerial platform truck directed water to the roof of the Medical College of Virginia's Department of Purchases and Supplies building on N. 13th Street, behind the MCV North Hospital, late yesterday afternoon. Four alarms brought 15 fire companies to battle the blaze, which disrupted traffic in the area of the hospital complex. The cause of the fire was being investigated early today. It was believed to have started in a work area midway through the building.
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August 16, 1973 (cutline): Wrecking crews work to level buildings and clean up debris in the 1300 block of E. Cary Street following yesterday's fire. Fire Bureau Officials estimated damages totaling almost $100,000 were sustained in the fire which broke out shortly before dawn. Five buildings total were destroyed.
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In June 1975, southbound traffic on Interstate 95 backed up past Main Street Station as smoke billowed from a fire at Little Oil Co. in South Richmond. Two tanks holding a combined 850,000 gallons of fuel exploded at the business on Commerce Road. Fire officials believed that the ignition of an employee’s car sparked the blaze, though the oil company speculated that a lightning strike was to blame. The fire took 19 hours to extinguish.
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November 11, 1976 (cutline): Fire swept through rolls containing some 2,000 tons of cardboard paper used to line corrugated boxes, destroyed two loaded tractor-trailers and spread to roof of the Dixie Container Corp. plant at 2900 Jefferson Davis Highway shortly before 9:30 last night. Before the fire was brought under control more than two hours later, 12 companies which answered six alarms were in action. Although the interior of the plant was damaged by water pumped by firemen through a sprinkler system, a plant official said it would be open today. Plant officials said the loss would exceed a half-million dollars.
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May 29, 1980 (cutline): A building temporarily housing the financial aid office at Virginia Commonwealth University was heavily damaged in a fire yesterday afternoon. Eight fire companies, dozens of firefighters, 11 pieces of equipment and four fire chiefs fought the fire for nearly two hours. The cause of the fire, in which some records might have been destroyed, is under investigation.
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October 7, 1983 (cutline): A six-alarm fire destroyed the fifth floor and roof and badly damaged the fourth floor of Richmond's historic Main Street Station. Fire Chief Ronald Lewis said he suspected arson. The fire required 12 engine companies and seven ladder companies with about 110 firefighters at the scene.
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June 4, 1984 (cutline): A nine-alarm fire destroyed the Wilson Feed & Seed Co. warehouse at 220 Decatur St. in South Richmond, sending up black clouds seen more than 20 miles away. The spectacular blaze began in the rear of the warehouse's first floor, which was being rented by the Cavalier Printing Inc. Co., according to fire officials.
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April 19, 1990 (cutline): The aerial view looking west toward Richmond shows the two trucks surrounded by white foam in the center, the smoking ruins of the Little Tavern Restaurant )left) and the Chickahominy River (top).
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
1-3-0-3
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
1-3-0-3
(one, three, zero, three)
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Josh Campbell’s brace helps Hibernian come from behind to beat 10-man Aberdeen
Josh Campbell struck two second-half goals as Hibernian came from behind to defeat 10-man Aberdeen at Easter Road.
The visitors went in front early on through Luis ‘Duk’ Lopes but had Liam Scales sent off for two bookings in quick succession late in the first half.
Martin Boyle equalised from the penalty spot before Campbell landed a double as Hibs dominated the second half.
The home side made just one change from the team that defeated Kilmarnock a fortnight ago as they handed a debut to Ukrainian striker Mykola Kuharevych. Ewan Henderson dropped to the bench.
Aberdeen, similarly, made just one alteration from the line-up that had drawn with Ross County. In came Lopes who took the place of Leighton Clarkson.
It was a first start for the player known as Duk and he made an instant impact with the opening goal after just four minutes.
Hayden Coulson sent in a great ball from the left and the forward was able to glance a header beyond David Marshall for his third goal in as many games.
Hibs looked certain to equalise when Ryan Porteous shot after a corner fell to Paul Hanlon but he could not steer it in. The offside flag spared his blushes in any case.
The home side then appealed for a penalty when Ross McCrorie appeared to meet Marijan Cabraja’s cross with his arm but referee David Dickinson was not convinced.
Joe Newell’s long-range free-kick was then comfortably held by Kelle Roos in the Dons goal before the goalkeeper stretched to help Elie Youan’s drive over his crossbar.
Hibs’ pressure finally paid off a minute before the interval. Scales and Porteous tangled as they contested a corner and the referee this time awarded the penalty.
The on-loan Celtic defender had been booked moments earlier and was soon shown a second yellow card to end his involvement. Boyle stuck away the penalty.
Hibernian started the second half on top and Campbell should have done better than shoot at Roos after being played in on goal.
The Dutchman then made a brilliant double save to keep out Porteous’ effort and the rebound attempt from Newell.
But Hibs kept up the pressure and moved in front after 62 minutes. A brilliant run and pass from Chris Cadden set up Campbell and he finished well from just inside the box.
Cadden was also involved in his side’s third goal, his cross nodded down by McCrorie but only as far as Campbell who stabbed in his second of the game.
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China-ASEAN economic cooperation brings about fruitful results: Cambodian PM
PHNOM PENH, Sept. 16 (Xinhua) -- Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen said on Friday that the China-ASEAN economic cooperation has accomplished many fruitful achievements since the two sides signed the ASEAN-China Framework Agreement on Comprehensive Economic Cooperation in 2002 and other free trade and investment agreements.
In a speech delivered via video link to the opening of the 19th China-ASEAN Expo, Hun Sen said the two sides had successfully implemented the China-ASEAN free trade agreement version 1.0 and 2.0 over past years, and that Cambodia supported upgrading this agreement to the new version 3.0.
He called on China and ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) to pay more attention to further expanding and deepening the scope of their economic cooperation, minimizing barriers to trade in goods, services and investment, and promoting the development of digital economy, green growth and capacity building of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
"I am confident that the implementation of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), starting this year, will not only create and bring more trade and investment opportunities for countries in the region, but are also significantly contributing to the growth of the above-mentioned sectors," he said.
He added that the implementation of the RCEP will also become the "core framework" for building version 3.0 of the China-ASEAN free trade area in the future.
Meanwhile, the Cambodian leader expressed his gratitude to the Chinese government for its always giving high priorities to supporting the development and prosperity of ASEAN.
"As the chair of ASEAN for 2022, Cambodia will continue making efforts in further strengthening ASEAN's cooperation with the People's Republic of China to ensure the sustainability, inclusiveness, and resiliency of socioeconomic development in both regions," Hun Sen said.
The 19th China-ASEAN Expo is being held online and offline in Nanning, capital of south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, from Sept. 16 to 19.
ASEAN groups Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
4-3-6-1
(four, three, six, one)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
4-3-6-1
(four, three, six, one)
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Western countries not always honest about aid they provide: Foreign Affairs
NEW YORK, Sept. 16 (Xinhua) -- The United States and other high-income Western countries insist that they offer a more honest, open partnership with developing countries than their rivals do, but in truth, they are not always honest about the assistance they provide, reported Foreign Affairs on Wednesday.
"They find ways to exaggerate their real commitments through creative and dubious accounting practices meant to expand the definition of development-aid spending," said the report.
"When it comes to the other category of assistance that wealthy countries owe to developing ones -- finance to help the global South mitigate and adapt to climate change -- rich countries fall egregiously short of what they have pledged, which is in turn tragically short of what poorer ones need," it said.
These shortcomings on development aid and climate finance undermine the credibility of Western donors and hurt the United States and its allies in their strive for influence around the world, according to the report.
"To live up to its values and promises," said the report, "the West must be honest and serious about its development-aid and climate-finance commitments."
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Alfonso Ribeiro has stepped into Tom Bergeron's dancing shoes not once but twice. And if the new Dancing With the Stars co-host had his druthers, he'd like to step into Bergeron's shoes again and again and again.
Ahead of the season 31 premiere Monday, Sept. 19 on Disney+, Ribeiro spoke with ET's Matt Cohen and opened up about co-hosting DWTS and how he's no stranger to following in Bergeron's footsteps. For starters, Ribeiro took over Bergeron's hosting duties on America's Funniest Home Videos in October 2015 following Bergeron's 15-season run.
It's also not the first time Ribeiro will co-host DWTS. Also in October 2015, Ribeiro filled in for one episode, after Bergeron missed a show to be at his sick father's bedside. After getting the call earlier this summer that they'd like him to be a permanent co-host, Ribeiro said he hopped on the phone and chatted with Bergeron about it while also joking about Ribeiro, once again, following in his footsteps.
"Tom and I talk every once in a while," Ribeiro tells ET. "I'm like, Tom needs to get another big show because when AFV and Dancing With the Stars end, I need another job that I need to get, right? Listen, I don't care. Get a good one, and when you're done doing it, I'll come get that one. We joke all the time about that. I follow in his footsteps, for real."
Bergeron shared his excitement after Ribeiro was announced as the new co-host. But perhaps nobody's more excited about it than Ribeiro's longtime pal, DWTS co-host Tyra Banks, who explained why the move from ABC to Disney+ required a second host.
"So, with the addition of Disney+ there's a whole new way of doing the show and it's impossible to host the show alone," Banks says. "It's impossible based on no commercials, needing to clear the sets and so we knew that we needed to have a co-host. They said one name to me. One. The first. You [Ribeiro] were not down the list. The first, and I was like, 'Stop right there.' I was like, 'People are going to be obsessed with this.'"
It's true. Ribeiro and Banks go all the way back to their days on Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, her first acting gig.
"I love this man," Banks says. "I remember we used to spar on set. I was 19 years old. He used to tease me. I used to tease him back. It was great."
Those aren't her only memories.
"I remember two things very vividly," Banks says. "One is, you would hear Will Smith before you saw him. So, he was a wonderful leader. He would come in like, 'What's up everybody?' It was just like this announcement of his voice that he saw energy. And, you know, I was young and insecure. First acting job. I didn't know what the hell I was doing and it was a family. And not just the Banks of the characters, but they were a true family of love. So, hearing his voice was great. And then there was Alfonso. Alfonso was this great, this weird warmth that I felt with you, but I also felt like a brother that I would tease."
But their connection goes further than the NBC sitcom. Ribeiro was in the seventh grade and Banks in the fourth grade when they attended the same middle school in Los Angeles. She recalls Ribeiro appearing in Michael Jackson commercials and other work on TV that made him a popular kid in school.
"He had these fans around him at lunch time all the time," Banks recalled. "I actually took your picture -- you didn't even know it -- and I still have it. It was crazy. And then the next year, Gary Coleman came to our school. It was, like, the celebrity school. I wasn't a celebrity, but I was chasing y'all."
That Ribeiro's been a past DWTS champion (he won season 19 with Whitney Carson as his partner) is something Banks thinks will only make him a more well-rounded host.
"He knows this show from the technical to the emotional, like, he really knows it," Banks says, "and so spending time with these dancers and the stars he's like, 'I've been in your space.'"
Season 31 of Dancing With the Stars premieres Monday, Sept. 19 on Disney+.
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BOISE, Idaho — UPDATE: This event has been canceled, read more here.
This story originally appeared in the Idaho Press.
A GOP candidate for the Idaho state Senate is planning a “Daddy-Daughter Dance” campaign fundraiser Saturday at Centennial High School with admission costing $40 to $50, despite a 2018 state law that specifically forbids public property or resources from being used for candidates’ campaigns.
Current state Rep. Codi Galloway, R-Boise, who is running for the Senate, told the Idaho Press in an email, “I paid to rent the cafeteria at Centennial. West Ada rents many of its facilities to businesses, non-profits, etc.”
The West Ada School District also sent out electronic flyers about the event to more than 700 households that have students at Spalding STEM Academy, at Galloway’s request, according to district spokesman Greg Wilson.
“We have a very open rental policy,” Wilson told the Idaho Press. “We’re merely renting it out.”
However, the 2018 Idaho state law, entitled the Public Integrity in Elections Act, says in Idaho Code Section 74-604, “Neither a public entity nor any of its employees shall use, nor shall a public official authorize or use, public property or resources to advocate for or against a candidate or a ballot measure.”
Galloway, who defeated fifth-term Sen. Fred Martin, R-Boise, in May’s GOP primary, faces Democrat Rick Just on the November ballot for the District 15 Senate seat.
Wilson said Galloway’s application to rent the high school facility, for which she paid $716.74, identified herself as the renter, for “individual (personal use)” and made no mention of her campaign. She also selected the rate category for a “for-profit business.”
“The way she inputted it on our system was that it was ‘individual personal use,’” Wilson said. “We rent to a lot of different people.”
However, on Thursday afternoon, Galloway told the Idaho Press, “This Saturday’s event is a fundraiser for Codi 4 Idaho. I rented the gym like any other organization would rent any other venue.”
Wilson said Galloway’s rental request drew little attention because she’s previously rented the facility for two similar events, both “Daddy-Daughter Dance” events for the Summerwind Skippers, a non-profit competitive kids jump rope team. One of those was in February of 2019, the other in April of this year.
“It’s not tracked about who was the recipient of the funds raised at these events,” Wilson said.
However, the wording of the state law appears to make both the school district and Galloway, as a current elected official, liable for violations of the Public Integrity in Elections Act if public property or resources are used to benefit a candidate’s campaign.
An amendment to the law passed the Legislature this year, aimed at authorizing the longstanding practice of the Ada County Republican Party Central Committee holding its meetings at the Ada County Courthouse. However, that addition to the law addressed only “political parties,” exempting them “provided that all political parties are given equal and fair access.”
It didn’t change the existing definition of “property or resources,” which remains: “Goods, services, equipment, computer software and hardware, college extra credit, other items of intangible property, or facilities provided to or for the benefit of a candidate, a candidate’s personal campaign committee, a political issues committee for political purposes, or advocacy for or against a ballot measure or candidate.”
Galloway voted for this year’s bill, HB 566, which passed the House 67-1. It also included a minor change to the definition of public property or resources “that are available to the general public,” which are exempted from the section, by adding, “at such times and in such manner as they are available to the general public.”
The bill’s Statement of Purpose said, “This legislation allows for public property that is available to the general public to be used by a political party provided that all political parties are given equal and fair access.” It didn’t say anything about candidates.
Erik Berg, chairman of the Ada County Democrats, sent a formal letter of complaint to the school district Wednesday evening, noting both the scheduled campaign fundraiser event at the school and the district’s distribution of flyers about the event to students.
“It appears this event was scheduled with the approval of Centennial High School administration, though it is unclear if administration knew it had approved the use of public school facilities for a private partisan political fundraising event,” Berg wrote. “Nevertheless, Centennial High School authorizing the use of its facilities for a private partisan political fundraiser in support of Codi Galloway’s state Senate campaign is in direct violation of this statute which could subject both the school district and Codi Galloway to civil penalties provided for in law.”
He added, “With such increased focus on ensuring that our teachers are free of partisan bias in their instruction and classrooms, it is disappointing that West Ada administrators did not hold themselves to the same standard as our educators when they cosigned the use of a school district property for a partisan political fundraiser.”
Berg wrote that if he doesn’t receive confirmation by 5 p.m. Friday that the event has been canceled, he’ll file complaints with both the Ada County Prosecutor’s office and the Idaho Attorney General’s office.
Neither office would comment on the legal issue. “We can’t give a legal opinion on a matter regarding a situation or fact scenario that may at some point come to us for formal review,” Emily Lowe, public information officer for Ada County Prosecutor Jan Bennetts, said in an email Thursday afternoon.
Wilson said the West Ada School District’s in-house attorney, Amy White, researched the issue on Thursday and concluded that the district hadn’t violated the law.
“As a public agency, West Ada School District opens its facilities to individuals and organizations for renting,” Wilson said in an email. “The rental or use of a West Ada facility does not constitute an expressed or implied endorsement of any individual or organization.”
He also pointed to the district’s policy for rental of facilities, which states, in part, “Approval will require that the activity be deemed appropriate and in the best interest of the District and its students.” No mention is made of partisan political fundraisers.
“Because we’re a public entity, we have a very broad definition,” Wilson said. “And I think if the role was reversed and there was someone of the other partisan persuasion or another political entity doing this, I don’t think we would unwind it.”
“Our counsel believes we’re good,” he said.
Berg told the Idaho Press late Thursday afternoon, “That’s disappointing to hear. … I haven’t heard anything from them. And I would have thought they would have wanted to get on this pretty quickly.”
He noted that he’s long been involved with political events. “It had always been made very clear to me that you cannot fundraise on property such as schools,” Berg said.
The 2018 law, sponsored by Rep. Jason Monks, R-Meridian, said in its Statement of Purpose that it “ensures that public funds, resources and property are not used to influence the outcome at the ballot box.” The bill passed the House 58-9 and the Senate unanimously.
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LAKE PLACID, N.Y. — Ilia Malinin made history late Wednesday when the 17-year-old wunderkind, and the heir apparent to Olympic champion Nathan Chen among American figure skaters, successfully landed the first quad axel in competition.
Malinin pulled off the four-and-a-half revolution jump while winning the lower-level U.S. Classic in Lake Placid, New York, before a small crowd in a mostly empty arena. It nonetheless sent shockwaves through the sport as the final and most difficult of the quadruple jumps had finally been conquered.
“It felt really good. When I’m practicing it, it’s pretty easy for me to figure out how to get the right timing and everything to have it be a good attempt," said Malinin, whose supreme confidence in his jumping ability is evidenced by use of “quadg0d” on his social media platforms. ”To do it in competition is a different story because you have nerves and pressure that can get in the way of that. So I have to treat it like I’m at home and it feels pretty good."
Chen, who for now has stepped away from the sport following his triumph at the Beijing Olympics, has toyed with the jump in practice. And two-time Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu was unsuccessful in trying to land it at the Winter Games.
But there had been brief snippets of video Malinin had put out on social media over the past six months that indicated it was a work in progress. There were some reports from his training camp that he had landed the quad axel in practice.
What makes the axel more difficult than the other quads — the flip, toe flip, lutz, salchow, loops and toe loop — is that skaters face forward when they enter the jump, forcing them to complete an extra half revolution. Even the triple axel is hard enough that most women, and many men, have trouble getting it right.
“I had an idea for trying it for a little while now. March or April was when I really started to work on the technique and try to improve it,” Malinin said. “(Hanyu) definitely inspired me to try it here.”
Malinin put the jump first in his free skate, set to “Euphoria” by Labrinth and choreographed by Shae-Lynn Bourne, when he knew that he would be freshest. The base value of 12.50 is more than any other jump, and the 1.00 that Malinin received in grade-of-execution from the judging panel indicated they considered it clean.
“This is the craziest thing I’ve ever seen anyone do on the ice,” said Adam Rippon, a member of the 2018 Olympic team.
Malinin scored 185.44 points for his free skate and 257.28 points in total to win the competition. Kevin Aymoz of France was second with 236.17 points while Malinin's American teammate, Camden Pulkinen, was third with 219.49 points.
Malinin was born in Virginia to Russian-born Uzbekistani skaters Tatiana Malinina and Roman Skorniakov. He's been considered the next big thing in American figure skating for years. He won Junior Grand Prix events in France and Austria, along with the world championship last year, and was second to Chen at the U.S. championships.
In most Olympic years, that would have made him a lock for the team. But officials with U.S. Figure Skating use a series of factors in making their decision, and they bypassed him in favor of adding Vincent Zhou and Jason Brown.
Chen ultimately won gold in record-setting fashion. He joined Zhou in skating the team competition, where the Americans won a silver medal that could still be elevated to gold pending the results of a Russian doping investigation.
Meanwhile, Malinin continued to work away from the spotlight on a jump that some thought impossible.
“Ilia Malinin landed the first quadruple axel in history tonight at an event in Lake Placid, NY, home of so many great American sporting moments," two-time U.S. Olympian Johnny Weir, now a figure skating analyst for NBC Sports, tweeted afterward. “ 4.5 revolutions in the blink of an eye. Bravo!”
The U.S. Classic is an early season event that doesn't get the attention of the Grand Prix events, which begin with Skate America on Oct. 21 in Boston. Malinin is scheduled to make his senior debut there in a field that includes Olympic silver medalist Yuma Kagiyama of Japan, a two-time runner-up at the world championships.
Malinin's other Grand Prix assignment this season is Nov. 25 in Espoo, Finland.
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LOS ANGELES — The Kansas City Chiefs defeated the Los Angeles Chargers in a thrilling Thursday Night Football contest, but we still have a LOT more to go in Week 2!
There are plenty of storylines and questions heading into Week 2, including if teams that we expected a lot from this season will bounce back after dismal opening starts in Week 1. That includes the Green Bay Packers, San Francisco 49ers and Denver Broncos.
Three more matchups, after Chiefs-Chargers on Thursday night, this week feature two 1-0 teams: Bucs vs. Saints, Dolphins vs. Ravens and Vikings vs. Eagles.
All year long, Locked On Podcast Network analysts Brian Peacock and Matt Williamson, hosts of the daily Peacock and Williamson NFL Show, will pick five games each week to predict the scores with their "Pick 5" NFL picks of the week.
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Miami Dolphins at Baltimore Ravens
Time: Sunday, 1 p.m. ET
Watch: CBS
Spread: BAL -3.5, O/U 44
Brian Peacock: Dolphins 20, Ravens 17
Matt Williamson: Ravens 17, Dolphins 16
Tampa Bay Bucs at New Orleans Saints
Time: Sunday, 1 p.m. ET
Watch: FOX
Spread: TB -2.5, O/U 44
Brian Peacock: Bucs 27, Saints 20
Matt Williamson: Saints 20, Bucs 17
Seattle Seahawks at San Francisco 49ers
Time: Sunday, 4:05 p.m. ET
Watch: FOX
Spread: SF -8.5, O/U 41
Brian Peacock: 49ers 24, Seahawks 16
Matt Williamson: 49ers 24, Seahawks 13
Arizona Cardinals at Las Vegas Raiders
Time: Sunday, 4:25 p.m. ET
Watch: CBS
Spread: LV -5.5, O/U 51
Brian Peacock: Raiders 30, Cardinals 23
Matt Williamson: Raiders 35, Cardinals 24
Minnesota Vikings at Philadelphia Eagles
Time: Monday, 8:30 p.m. ET
Watch: ABC
Spread: PHI -2, O/U 50.5
Brian Peacock: Eagles 31, Vikings 21
Matt Williamson: Eagles 24, Vikings 23
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(The Conversation) – Inflation in the U.S. is surging to near a 40-year high, with prices on food, fuel and pretty much everything seeming to rise more every month.
Smartphones may be an exception.
Apple, for example, recently announced its new versions of the iPhone and other gadgets, and turned a lot of heads when it said it wouldn’t charge more despite higher costs to make the devices.
This is puzzling because companies typically raise prices in line with inflation – or at least enough to cover the increased costs of making their products.
Consumer price data tells an even more befuddling story. The latest consumer price index data suggests smartphone prices are actually down 20.4% in August from a year ago, according to an index released on Sept. 13, 2022. That’s the biggest drop of any detailed expenditure item the Bureau of Labor Statistics tracks, and contrasts with the overall 8.3% increase in prices.
What’s going on?
As an economist teaching business school students, I enjoy exploring and explaining these economic puzzles. I believe there are two basic explanations – one for the data and another for Apple.
Why consumer prices on smartphones fell
The story behind the consumer price index data is easier to explain, if a bit technical.
The 20% drop over the past year isn’t unusual for smartphones. In fact, according to the index, they almost always go down from month to month. Since the end of 2019, smartphone prices have come down a whopping 40%.
And though smartphones are showing the biggest drop in the index, tech gear more broadly – from computers to smartwatches – also tend to fall over time. In the previous 12 months, televisions are down 19% and what the government calls information technology commodities are down 8.8%.
Part of the reason for their steady decline is found buried in the Bureau of Labor Statistics website. The consumer price index tries to measure a constant quality of goods and services in the economy. This means it seeks to track the price changes of the exact same set of goods and services each month. It’s comparing the price today with the price of the exact same thing a month or year ago.
For most goods, it’s not really an issue because their quality doesn’t change much over relatively small periods of time. For example, an apple you bite into today is pretty much the same as an apple you ate a year ago.
Smartphones and other technology-heavy gadgets are different. Because smartphones are constantly improving in quality – with the latest updates of an iPhone or Samsung Galaxy awaited breathlessly every year – it is more difficult to ensure you’re comparing prices of products of the exact same quality.
For rapidly improving items, the Bureau of Labor Statistics uses what are called “hedonic regression models” to estimate these changes in quality over time. Hedonic models measure the same amount of satisfaction. While this sounds complicated, the goal is simple: to figure out how much each new smartphone feature changes the price.
As a consumer, you are essentially doing this whenever you decide whether it is worth paying the extra money for that marginally better camera or extended battery life when buying a new phone.
And so, the 20.4% drop doesn’t mean you’re going to pay less for a new smartphone. But it does suggest you’re getting 20% more bang for your buck versus the same phone a year earlier. Whether it’s worth it is another question.
Why Apple kept prices flat
That brings us to why Apple didn’t change its prices, even as the quality of the iPhone improved and supply chain costs went up.
Beyond the quality issues, one of the main ways supply chain problems are affecting phones is in the shortage of computer chips. If there is any product dependent on computer chips, it is smartphones. The shortage has resulted in delays to produce cars, trucks and many other consumer items.
The shortage has also increased the price of semiconductor parts. The U.S. government’s producer price index shows the price of semiconductor parts like chips and wafers steadily rising since the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020, after falling for years. Chip prices are likely going up 20% in the next year.
For these and other reasons, analysts were expecting Apple to increase its prices.
Instead, Apple released its latest iPhone models at the same prices as the last two models, or US$799 for the iPhone 14 and $999 for the pro version. Keeping prices constant during inflationary times means iPhones are getting relatively cheaper.
So why isn’t Apple increasing prices? Is it just being kind to its customers, who have fueled tremendous profits for the company over the past decade?
Probably not.
With a gross profit margin of over 40% – meaning that’s how much it makes over the cost of producing all its products and services – Apple can probably afford to absorb increased chip and other component costs.
My best guess, since the smartphone market is fairly competitive, is that Apple is keeping prices the same to build market share in the U.S. – beyond the record 50% it recently hit – so the iPhone remains one of the best-selling smartphones.
So while the cost of almost everything we buy is rising, you can take some comfort in knowing at least one item is getting both better over time and not succumbing to an inflationary price spiral.
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Jacob Ramsey fired Aston Villa to a vital 1-0 win over Southampton.
The midfielder’s first goal of the season lifted Villa to 13th, level on points with their visitors, and eased any pressure on manager Steven Gerrard.
The hosts built on their point against Manchester City with a workmanlike, if not fluid, display although, in reality, it did little to ease long-term fears of their direction in the Premier League.
It was a forgettable game between two sides still searching for a consistent identity and the Saints slipped to a third defeat in four games to leave legitimate questions over the future of boss Ralph Hasenhuttl.
Fourth bottom at kick-off, Villa had won just one of their previous 10 league games and, in truth, did little to suggest they would improve that record for the majority of the first half.
It took 34 minutes for Philippe Coutinho, who had scored just once and failed to provide an assist since March, to create a rare chance when he spun away from James Ward-Prowse and drilled over.
The lack of action underlined the scrappy nature of a game where two teams laboured to a pedestrian tempo.
Southampton had looked more accomplished in possession in the opening stages but once John McGinn and Coutinho showed a bit of urgency the hosts wriggled ahead at the break.
Four minutes before the interval Coutinho’s far-post header was shovelled behind and from the resulting corner Villa snatched the lead.
It was played short to Coutinho to find Ollie Watkins, whose header was turned onto the bar by Gavin Bazunu. Southampton failed to clear the looping ball and Ramsey smashed in from five yards.
Energised, Villa pushed for a second with Leon Bailey’s shot deflecting wide and Douglas Luiz’s corner turned over by Bazunu.
The dramatic finale to the half was out of keeping with the first, drab, 40 minutes and Villa needed to be mindful all of Southampton’s previous points had come from losing positions.
But the Saints never threatened, leaving Emi Martinez untroubled and allowing Villa to comfortably hold their lead.
The hosts hardly looked like adding to it, even if Ramsey saw a shot blocked, and after Stuart Armstrong glanced wide in stoppage time the slender advantage was enough.
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Almost half of UK adults who pay energy bills have said they are struggling to afford them, according to new figures.
The Office for National Statistics revealed that 48% of adults said they were finding it “very or somewhat difficult” to afford their energy costs in a survey between August 31 and September 11.
It represents an increase on a fortnight earlier when 45% said they were struggling with energy bills.
However, households have been promised support by Liz Truss’s new Government due to the soaring cost of energy since the start of the survey period.
The new Government said it will cap energy bills at £2,500 from October, including a £400 rebate which will be paid in six instalments.
It came after industry regulator Ofgem had originally said average bills were due to rise by 80% to £3,549.
Households had already seen their energy costs surge by 54% after the price cap for an average home increased to £1,971 in April.
The fortnightly ONS cost-of-living survey also revealed an increase in concerns from consumers over their regular spending.
It showed that 82% of adults reported “being very or somewhat worried about rising costs of living” in the past two weeks, edging up from 81% a fortnight earlier.
It compared with 74% when households were first asked the question in May.
Around a quarter of adults – 26% – also said they are unable to save as much as usual, when asked about the current state of their household finances.
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(NEXSTAR) — It turns out there’s not only best market times to buy a new house, there is apparently one specific week prospective homebuyers should look out for. Reator.com calls it “the very best time of the year” for buyers.
Mark it on your calendar: Sept. 25 through Oct. 1. Realtor says there are typically about 8.4% more homes for sale nationally during these dates — even better, they’re typically priced $20,000 lower than usual.
“The best time to purchase a home is the last week of September, because that’s historically when the market is most hospitable to buyers,” said Realtor.com economic data analyst Hannah Jones. “Typically, the early fall is when there are fewer buyers. There are also more homes on the market, and the housing market is generally calming down from the summer rush.”
Realtor says it used a number of criteria to determine the “best” week, including home list prices, the number of homes for sale, and days homes stayed on the market. Data from 2018-19 and 2021 were used. Analysts skipped 2020 due to the unusual market conditions amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
While 2020 was a great time for buyers, so far, 2022 has been a rough time to find a new home. A national streak of rising inflation through the spring and summer, in addition to decreased demand for homes, resulted in record home listing prices.
Realtor says the median list price for a home as of August 2022 was $435,000 — that’s about 14% higher than August 2021. In July, the median listing price was $449,000, which is 16.6% higher than last July, Realtor reports.
Back in June, Redfin reported the median sale price for a home was $428,400, an 11.2% increase since the same time last year. While summer prices may not look great for prospective buyers, Redfin market analyst Tim Ellis said June’s numbers were the smallest year-over-year increase “in nearly two years.”
Market cooling is also affirmed by Realtor economic data manager Sabrina Speianu and chief economist Danielle Hale. In an August report, the pair wrote: “August housing data reveals that listing prices decelerated for the third month in a row, as more sellers hit pause on listing homes and homes for sale spent more time on the market than last August. While fewer new listings are entering the market, overall inventory continues to grow, providing more choice to buyers who are still shopping for a home.”
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Scott Kashket could miss out for Gillingham against Mansfield By Press Association September 16 2022, 2.46pm Scott Kashket could miss out on the visit of Mansfield (Nigel French/PA) [[title]] [[text]] An error occurred. Please try again. [[success]] Email address Sign up Gillingham could be without Scott Kashket for the visit of Mansfield on Saturday. The 26-year-old forward was substituted at half-time in the Gills’ 1-1 draw with Grimsby with a groin issue and could miss out at the weekend. Olly Lee (tendinitis) and Dom Jefferies (hamstring) remain doubtful. Defender David Tutonda will be looking to break back into the squad after being left out last time out. Mansfield will assess Will Swan ahead of their trip to Kent. The 21-year–old forward sat out the Stags’ midweek draw with Carlisle with a chest infection and will be looked at ahead of kick-off. Midfielder Hiram Boateng (hamstring) is doubtful. Forward Rhys Oates (chest) is also unlikely to feature for Mansfield. Already a subscriber? Sign in [[title]] [[text]] Close More from Sport Reading made ‘perfect response’ to Sunderland defeat – Paul Ince Sub Son Heung-min comes on and hits hat-trick as Tottenham thrash Leicester Aldershot brush aside Halifax to climb out of drop zone Nigel Clough rates Mansfield’s display at Gillingham highly He’d chase an empty crisp packet – Scott Lindsey hails Jacob Wakeling work rate Danny Cowley doesn’t understand lack of goal-line technology in League One Giovanni van Bronckhorst admits Rangers must improve in ‘moments of stress’ Micky Mellon lauds ‘real team performance’ as Tranmere shock Salford Burnley boss Vincent Kompany heaps praise on matchwinner Jay Rodriguez Persistence pays off for Ian Evatt as Bolton pounce late on against Peterborough More from The Courier Liam Fox boss bid to be 'resolved' as Dundee United interim hails Sadat Anaku… 0 St Johnstone boss Callum Davidson gives Graham Carey injury update and Ross County 0-0… 0 'Put that in the Premiership and you probably get 10,000 fans' - John McGlynn… 0 James McPake disappointed to drop points but praises response of Dunfermline after going behind 0 Dundee boss Gary Bowyer delivers scathing review of referee after Inverness defeat: 'The worst… 0 Fife Pride: Best pictures as thousands flock to Kirkcaldy for colourful celebration 0
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Occidental Petroleum (OXY) Dips More Than Broader Markets: What You Should Know
In the latest trading session, Occidental Petroleum (OXY) closed at $64.41, marking a -1.04% move from the previous day. This change lagged the S&P 500's 0.72% loss on the day. Elsewhere, the Dow lost 0.45%, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq lost 0.27%.
Coming into today, shares of the oil and gas exploration and production company had gained 0.32% in the past month. In that same time, the Oils-Energy sector gained 1.38%, while the S&P 500 lost 9.06%.
Occidental Petroleum will be looking to display strength as it nears its next earnings release. The company is expected to report EPS of $2.90, up 233.33% from the prior-year quarter. Our most recent consensus estimate is calling for quarterly revenue of $9.93 billion, up 45.65% from the year-ago period.
OXY's full-year Zacks Consensus Estimates are calling for earnings of $11.03 per share and revenue of $39.06 billion. These results would represent year-over-year changes of +332.55% and +48.43%, respectively.
Investors should also note any recent changes to analyst estimates for Occidental Petroleum. These revisions help to show the ever-changing nature of near-term business trends. As a result, we can interpret positive estimate revisions as a good sign for the company's business outlook.
Our research shows that these estimate changes are directly correlated with near-term stock prices. We developed the Zacks Rank to capitalize on this phenomenon. Our system takes these estimate changes into account and delivers a clear, actionable rating model.
The Zacks Rank system, which ranges from #1 (Strong Buy) to #5 (Strong Sell), has an impressive outside-audited track record of outperformance, with #1 stocks generating an average annual return of +25% since 1988. Within the past 30 days, our consensus EPS projection has moved 0.03% lower. Occidental Petroleum is currently a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold).
Digging into valuation, Occidental Petroleum currently has a Forward P/E ratio of 5.9. Its industry sports an average Forward P/E of 10.68, so we one might conclude that Occidental Petroleum is trading at a discount comparatively.
Investors should also note that OXY has a PEG ratio of 0.35 right now. The PEG ratio is similar to the widely-used P/E ratio, but this metric also takes the company's expected earnings growth rate into account. OXY's industry had an average PEG ratio of 0.38 as of yesterday's close.
The Oil and Gas - Integrated - United States industry is part of the Oils-Energy sector. This industry currently has a Zacks Industry Rank of 172, which puts it in the bottom 32% of all 250+ industries.
The Zacks Industry Rank gauges the strength of our individual industry groups by measuring the average Zacks Rank of the individual stocks within the groups. Our research shows that the top 50% rated industries outperform the bottom half by a factor of 2 to 1.
You can find more information on all of these metrics, and much more, on Zacks.com.
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Ryan McGowan is putting all of his focus on St Johnstone rather than obsessing over his World Cup chances.
The Australian is looking to compete at his second World Cup but missed out on Graham Arnold’s squad for a friendly double header against New Zealand later this month.
The 33-year-old has 22 caps and played at the 2014 World Cup and knows his only chances of making Qatar depend on him putting his all into his St Johnstone career.
“I’m on stand-by,” he said. “I didn’t make the initial squad but I’m in the extended squad.
“Those are one of the things that are out of my control. I’m old enough and ugly enough to realise that I need to be playing well week in, week out here before I can even start thinking about that.
“It’s a little bit at the back of my mind. My main focus is doing well here. If I do well here, then it opens up a few doors and if it doesn’t then I have been successful week in, week out.”
Saints host Ross County on Saturday looking to follow up a 3-0 home win over St Mirren in their previous cinch Premiership game.
“That standard we set against a good St Mirren team is something we cannot let drop,” McGowan said.
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(NerdWallet) – Beth Bourdon, an assistant public defender at the Orange County Public Defender’s Office in Orlando, Florida, was used to her student loans not qualifying for relief that other federal loans did.
She had Family Federal Education Loan Program, or FFEL, loans. They’re an older type of federal student loan that may be owned by the federal government or a private company. This type of loan generally doesn’t qualify for the benefits that come with federal direct loans. Those benefits include income-driven repayment, loan forgiveness or, most recently, the federal student loan payment pause.
“When everyone else’s student loan payments were paused for COVID, mine weren’t paused. I paid every month,” says Bourdon. “When everyone else’s interest rate dropped down to zero, mine didn’t drop down.”
She finally caught a break with the help of a temporary waiver for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program. The waiver, which includes FFEL loans, counts past payments toward the total needed for debt discharge that otherwise would have been ineligible.
Through the waiver, Bourdon saw her remaining $57,000 in law school debt wiped away.
A debt discharge program with a dismal success rate
For years, most borrowers who applied for Public Service Loan Forgiveness were rejected. The approval rate since the program’s inception in 2007 hovered around 2.4%.
Full debt discharge requires 120 qualifying payments made while working full time for an eligible employer such as a public school, public hospital, qualified nonprofit or the government. But most borrowers had floundered, sometimes for years, in their attempts to advocate for payments to be counted toward forgiveness.
As a result of public criticism, the Biden administration made temporary changes to rectify some of the flaws in the program’s execution. Hence, the PSLF waiver, which offers borrowers the opportunity to receive credit for past payments that didn’t meet the program’s stringent rules. Since the waiver was implemented in October 2021, federal data shows PSLF approvals through June 2022 have climbed to nearly 10%.
A short window of forgiveness
Bourdon had about $75,000 in student loans, including $20,000 in undergraduate debt she used to attend the University of Central Florida. She’d already repaid her undergraduate debt when she learned about the PSLF waiver. That left only her law school debt — originally about $55,000 — which she had held since 2004 when she earned her Juris Doctor degree at Stetson University College of Law in Gulfport, Florida.
Bourdon says she posted on Twitter last fall about how she didn’t qualify for forgiveness due to the type of federal loans she carried. In response, she received a direct message about the waiver from a member of the Debt Collective, a membership-based debtors’ union and advocacy nonprofit. Finding out that she might see her debt erased prompted her to apply, though not without some apprehension.
“I was really scared that I was going to screw something up,” says Bourdon. “But I told myself ‘This is the only chance I have and it’s only an open window for a year.’ I didn’t know how long the process was going to take.”
She doesn’t recommend applying for PSLF while also working a first-degree murder trial in a different county, as she did. But, the more typical aspect of her application process went like this:
First, Bourdon used the federal government’s employer search tool for PSLF, a database of all employers that qualify for the benefit. But the PSLF help tool proved to be finicky and less user-friendly to Bourdon, so she abandoned it.
Next, Bourdon applied for consolidation, a necessary step for borrowers who don’t have direct loans. However, she says she was afraid of consolidating her debt due to the stringent rules of Public Service Loan Forgiveness and income-driven repayment forgiveness — if you consolidate, your countdown to forgiveness resets as zero.
Bourdon took the plunge in good faith. In the process, she chose to have her loans serviced by the only student loan servicer that manages debt for borrowers seeking PSLF (at the time, it was FedLoan Servicing, but those loans are in the process of moving to MOHELA by year’s end).
Finally, she submitted the combined PSLF/Employer Certification Form. She initially had two separate waiver forms because of a break in employment. But the human resources department at her employer sent back a single form and told her even if she had split periods of work, the federal student aid office would process it on one form.
This turned out to be a mistake.
Bourdon submitted the single application in November 2021. However, by early January 2022, she received a letter that stated she only had one qualifying payment according to the waiver and still had to make 119 more payments.
“I started freaking out,” Bourdon says. She received advice from the Debt Collective to submit two forms to certify her employment that accurately showed the separate periods of public service employment in her history.
Then, she waited and checked her account every single day.
“Nothing seemed to be changing. I was getting antsy,” says Bourdon. Then she saw an anticlimactic $1,000 decline in her total balance. “It was like, ‘Oh, thanks a lot,'” she says.
On Feb. 15, Bourdon logged in to her account and saw her debt was at zero. But, instead of instant relief, she says she was filled with doubt.
“For a second, I was like, ‘this is a trick,'” says Bourdon.
But two days later, she had a message in her account, a letter from her servicer confirming the discharge of her debt.
How to get the PSLF waiver
More than 146,000 borrowers have seen a collective $9 billion in loan debt forgiven through the temporary waiver, federal data from June shows. The average balance discharged through the waiver is $61,408. If your employer qualifies you for PSLF, you should apply even if past payments have been denied.
The PSLF waiver counts past payments that previously didn’t qualify including:
- Late payments.
- Payments equaling less than the full amount due.
- Payments made on the incorrect repayment plan.
- Payments made on loans that previously did not qualify, such as FFEL loans or Perkins loans.
- Payments not made during forbearance periods of 12 consecutive months or greater.
- Months spent in deferment, other than in-school deferment, before 2013.
Use the PSLF Help Tool to search for a qualifying employer and generate a form. It has been updated to align with the waiver.
To qualify, borrowers must already have direct loans or consolidate their federal debt into a new direct loan. The consolidation step is critical: Borrowers can submit a combined PSLF/Employer Certification form before consolidating, but they must consolidate to be eligible for forgiveness.
To find out if you qualify for additional payments and learn more about the waiver, log in to the federal student aid website. Make sure to submit it before the waiver expires on Oct. 31.
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Woman’s body found buried under debris days after California mudslides
FOREST FALLS, Calif. (KCAL) - The body of a woman who was unaccounted for after a series of mudslides in California has been found.
Search and rescue teams sifted through several feet of mud and debris inside a home in Forest Falls, California, for several days until they found the body of Doris Jagiello, 62, underneath.
“We were waiting for it and we didn’t want it to happen. But we knew it was going to,” her neighbor, Olin Richey, said. “When you have boulders the size of cars being moved, there’s not much hope with that.
Jagiello is remembered as an accomplished artist, published poet, and beloved grandmother.
Richey said she was a kind-hearted woman and he feels for her family who she lived with.
“Thoughts and prayers go out to her and her family,” Richey said.
Jagiello’s son hugged search teams Wednesday, thanking them for looking for his mom.
The same mudslide that killed Jagiello swept a Jeep away and ripped a wall off the house of Richey’s family.
“That’s the worst of it. It took out the entire wall right there,” Richey said, gesturing to a collapsed part of the house.
On the other side of the wall is Richey’s room, where a wall caved in.
“If I would have been home at the time it would have seriously injured, if not killed me,” Richey said. “So, I’m counting my blessings.
Jagiello’s friends said they feel blessed to have known her. They described her to be sensitive and happy living in Forest Falls with her family.
Search teams were able to salvage a few of her things for them, including several of her paintings and one of her dogs, who was found alive two days after the flash flood.
Jagiello first went missing on Monday during the rainstorm that led to several mudslides and flooding throughout southern California.
Officials said they hope finding her will bring her family some closure.
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WFO MIDLAND/ODESSA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, September 18, 2022
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FLOOD WARNING
Flood Statement
National Weather Service Midland/Odessa TX
151 PM CDT Sat Sep 17 2022
...The Flood Warning is extended for the following rivers in Texas...
Rio Grande at Boquillas affecting Brewster County.
Rio Grande at Castolon affecting Brewster County.
...The Flood Warning continues for the following rivers in Texas...
Rio Grande at Johnson Ranch affecting Brewster County.
Rio Grande below Presidio 5SE affecting Presidio County.
Rio Grande at Presidio International Bridge affecting Presidio
County.
For the Rio Grande...including Presidio 6WNW, Presidio International
Bridge, Presidio 5SE, Castolon, Johnson Ranch, Boquillas, Dryden
16S, Terlingua 8S...Minor flooding is forecast.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Caution is urged when walking near riverbanks.
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.
Motorists should not attempt to drive around barricades or drive
cars through flooded areas.
Additional information is available at www.weather.gov.
The next statement will be issued late tonight at 200 AM CDT.
...FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE...
* WHAT...Minor flooding is occurring and minor flooding is forecast.
* WHERE...Rio Grande below Presidio 5SE.
* WHEN...Until further notice.
* IMPACTS...At 9.0 feet (2.7 meters), the river reaches minor flood
stage, and low lying areas begin to flood.
At 11.0 feet (3.4 meters), minor flooding continues along the
river. Irrigation pumps may need to be removed. No threats to
residences or other structures are known to occur.
At 13.0 feet (4.0 meters), the river reaches moderate flood
stage. Farmland near the river will be inundated. Water may
begin flooding low lying areas of FM 170.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 1:15 PM CDT Saturday the stage was 11.3 feet (3.4 meters).
- Recent Activity...The maximum river stage in the 24 hours
ending at 1:15 PM CDT Saturday was 12.3 feet (3.8 meters).
- Forecast...The river is expected to fall to 10.3 feet (3.1
meters) early Thursday afternoon.
- Flood stage is 9.0 feet (2.7 meters).
- Flood History...This crest compares to a previous crest of
13.2 feet (4.0 meters) on 08/24/2022.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
Below are the latest river stages and forecasts (feet):
Fld Observed Sat Sun Sun Sun
Location Stg Stg Day/Time 7pm 1am 7am 1pm
Rio Grande
Presidio 5SE 9.0 11.3 Sat 1pm 11.2 11.0 11.0 10.9
Below are the latest river stages and forecasts (meters):
Presidio 5SE 2.7 3.4 Sat 1pm 3.4 3.4 3.4 3.3
* WHERE...Rio Grande at Presidio International Bridge.
* IMPACTS...At 12.0 feet (3.7 meters), the river reaches bankfull,
after which the flood plain between the levees begins to flood.
No damage is expected.
At 15.5 feet (4.7 meters), the river reaches minor flood stage,
and flooding between the levees occurs. No damage to structures
is expected.
At 20.0 feet (6.1 meters), the river reaches moderate flood stage,
inundating the plain between the levees. Erosion of the levees is
likely. Water may seep through the levees, flooding adjacent
farmland.
- At 1:15 PM CDT Saturday the stage was 19.2 feet (5.9 meters).
ending at 1:15 PM CDT Saturday was 19.7 feet (6.0 meters).
- Forecast...The river is expected to fall to 18.0 feet (5.5
- Flood stage is 15.5 feet (4.7 meters).
18.9 feet (5.8 meters) on 09/03/2022.
Fld Observed Sat Sun Sun Sun
Location Stg Stg Day/Time 7pm 1am 7am 1pm
Presidio Internation 15.5 19.2 Sat 1pm 19.1 19.0 18.9 18.8
Presidio Internation 4.7 5.8 Sat 1pm 5.8 5.8 5.8 5.7
...FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL EARLY TUESDAY MORNING...
* WHERE...Rio Grande at Johnson Ranch.
* WHEN...Until early Tuesday morning.
minor lowland flooding occurs, and no significant damage is
expected.
At 15.0 feet (4.6 meters), flood stage is reached. Moderate
lowland flooding begins. Roads that lead to Cottonwood Campground
and River Road may flood. Stages are practically synonymous with
the gage at Cottonwood Campground at Castolon (CSTT2), and
therefore represent the reach from Santa Elena Canyon through
Cottonwood Campground, where damage may occur. Cattle also graze
in the lowlands, and may be threatened.
- At 1:15 PM CDT Saturday the stage was 16.1 feet (4.9 meters).
ending at 1:15 PM CDT Saturday was 16.2 feet (4.9 meters).
- Forecast...The river is expected to fall below flood stage
early Monday afternoon and continue falling to 14.1 feet (4.3
- Flood stage is 15.0 feet (4.6 meters).
15.7 feet (4.8 meters) on 09/03/2022.
Fld Observed Sat Sun Sun Sun
Location Stg Stg Day/Time 7pm 1am 7am 1pm
Johnson Ranch 15.0 16.1 Sat 1pm 15.9 15.8 15.6 15.5
Johnson Ranch 4.6 4.9 Sat 1pm 4.8 4.8 4.8 4.7
...FLOOD WARNING NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL EARLY THURSDAY MORNING...
* WHERE...Rio Grande at Castolon.
* WHEN...Until early Thursday 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.
At 19.0 feet (5.8 meters), the river reaches moderate flood stage,
and begins flooding Cottonwood Campground. The river inundates
the restrooms upstream at Santa Elena Canyon parking lot. The
river begins to close all area roads.
- At 1:15 PM CDT Saturday the stage was 17.3 feet (5.3 meters).
ending at 1:15 PM CDT Saturday was 17.3 feet (5.3 meters).
early Tuesday afternoon and continue falling to 14.3 feet
(4.4 meters) early Thursday afternoon.
16.8 feet (5.1 meters) on 09/03/2022.
Fld Observed Sat Sun Sun Sun
Location Stg Stg Day/Time 7pm 1am 7am 1pm
Castolon 15.0 17.3 Sat 1pm 17.1 16.9 16.7 16.4
Castolon 4.6 5.3 Sat 1pm 5.2 5.2 5.1 5.0
...FLOOD WARNING NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL TUESDAY EVENING...
* WHERE...Rio Grande at Boquillas.
* WHEN...Until Tuesday evening.
and no damage is expected. Preparations may be necessary to
remove water pumps. The park should be notified at this time if
additional rises are expected so they will have time to remove the
pumps.
At 13.0 feet (4.0 meters), the river reaches minor flood stage.
Water reaches the water pumps maintained by the park service that
are used to water the campgrounds and to provide water to the
employee living quarters. It may be necessary for park personnel
to remove the pumps.
At 15.0 feet (4.6 meters), the river reaches moderate flood
stage. Water pumps submerge.
- At 1:00 PM CDT Saturday the stage was 14.7 feet (4.5 meters).
ending at 1:00 PM CDT Saturday was 14.7 feet (4.5 meters).
- Forecast...The river is expected to rise to a crest of 14.7
feet (4.5 meters) late this afternoon. It will then fall
below flood stage Monday morning.
- Flood stage is 13.0 feet (4.0 meters).
13.2 feet (4.0 meters) on 09/04/2022.
Fld Observed Sat Sun Sun Sun
Location Stg Stg Day/Time 7pm 1am 7am 1pm
Boquillas 13.0 14.7 Sat 1pm 14.7 14.6 14.3 14.0
Boquillas 4.0 4.5 Sat 1pm 4.5 4.5 4.4 4.3
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Pharmacies could face ADHD drug shortages
Published: Sep. 17, 2022 at 2:20 PM CDT|Updated: 53 minutes ago
(CNN) - ADHD patients could have trouble filling their prescriptions.
Bloomberg reports pharmacy chains like CVS and Walgreens are having difficulty keeping Adderall in stock at locations across the country.
Adderall is a drug commonly used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
According to Bloomberg, Walgreens says supply chain challenges are affecting its supply of both instant-release and extended-release Adderall.
pharmacies have also seen a spike in demand as diagnoses of mental health disorders increased during the pandemic.
Bloomberg states several drug manufacturers have had both generic and brand pills on back order over the past month.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A strong earthquake struck southeastern Taiwan on Saturday evening, toppling objects from store shelves, collapsing a house and interrupting rail service on the island, but there were no immediate reports of deaths, media reported.
Taiwan’s Central News Agency said the 6.4 magnitude shallow quake was centered north of Taitung County on the island’s eastern shore.
It partially collapsed an uninhabited house in Hualien County, about 165 kilometers (100 miles) north along the coast, causing no casualties. The Taiwan Railways Administration said trains linking Hualien and Taitung had been temporarily halted and five other high speed rail services canceled until safety checks are performed.
Metro systems in the capital, Taipei, and southern Kaoshiung city were temporarily suspended.
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SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — Former Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te’o, the runner-up to Texas A&M’s Johnny Manziel for the Heisman Trophy in 2012, made his first public appearance on campus in nearly a decade since it was disclosed that he was the victim of a high-profile catfishing scheme involving a fake girlfriend.
“It’s always good to be home. There’s no place like home. But I want to make this real clear: It’s not about me. It’s not about one person. It’s about this whole family,” Te’o said, speaking to fans Saturday before Notre Dame’s game against California.
Te’o received an enthusiastic response from fans. He attended Mass with the team at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart on campus and then walked with the team before the game to the stadium. He stopped briefly with coach Marcus Freeman to address the crowd, with Touchdown Jesus as a backdrop.
“This team needs all of us,” Te’o said. “It’s easy to jump on the bandwagon when everything is going great. It’s easy to get on when everything is right. But what I want to know is, who is with me? … Who is going to get off that wagon and start pushing with me? That’s why I am here.”
Te’o high-fived fans as he walked through the crowd and stopped briefly for photos. He then took questions from the media in the press box before the game. He said it was his fourth time back at Notre Dame since news broke about the hoax.
Te’o said he’s been pleasantly surprised by the response he received from the Netflix documentary “Untold: The Girlfriend Who Didn’t Exist.” He said he was anxious about it because he didn’t want to talk about the hoax again.
“All the facts are out there and I’m happy with it because it’s factual. … Since Day 1, it’s been nothing but positive,” he said.
Te’o was a second-round draft pick in 2013 by the San Diego Chargers. He played for San Diego for four seasons and the New Orleans Saints for three.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the New Mexico Lottery's "Pick 3 Day" game were:
0-8-3
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0-8-3
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The sole photographer to capture the historic moment the Queen greeted Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness has recalled it as the longest handshake he has ever shot.
Paul Faith, from Co Antrim, was asked to take the image of the monarch’s meeting with the former IRA commander inside the Lyric Theatre in Belfast in 2012.
The handshake between the Queen and Mr McGuinness, who was then Stormont deputy First Minister, was a highly symbolic gesture and is considered a landmark moment in Northern Ireland’s peace process journey from conflict toward reconciliation.
The PA news agency was asked to photograph the encounter and Mr Faith, who was then PA’s main photographer in Northern Ireland, was given the high-profile assignment.
The event at the Lyric Theatre was organised by peacebuilding organisation Cooperation Ireland and centred around an exhibition of portraits of Troubles victims painted by Northern Ireland artist Colin Davidson.
The Queen and President of Ireland Michael D Higgins were invited, as were then DUP First Minister Peter Robinson and deputy First Minister Mr McGuinness.
The first meeting between the Queen and Mr McGuinness, who died in 2017, took place privately within the theatre before a handshake in public soon after.
And Mr Faith was on the spot to capture it.
“It’s the longest handshake I think I’ve actually shot,” he said.
“I actually timed it and think it was about four seconds, and four seconds for a handshake is quite long.
“So I got plenty of frames of it and it was perfect – really, really nice.
“The Queen met a couple of other people and left and that was it.
“And then we turned around and walked up the stairs and Martin McGuinness said ‘well, that’s it done’.”
Mr Faith, from Glenarm, said his bosses were more stressed about the job than he was.
“The night before an editor rang me and he was in a real panic and I wasn’t. He said ‘I hope you’re nervous, it’s healthy if you are nervous’.
“He said ‘you need to be on your game for this’ and I said ‘look, it’s a handshake, I’ve done hundreds and thousands of handshakes in my career, it’ll come together and be all right’.
“More people were nervous about it than I was.”
He added: “Working with the Queen over the years I photographed her so many times and have been in close proximity to her and I always found her very courteous.”
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By STEVE DOUGLAS
AP Sports Writer
Jack Grealish and Son Heung-min, two of the English Premier League’s most high-profile players, have been facing growing criticism for their failure to score this season.
They silenced the doubters on Saturday.
With a strike after 55 seconds, Grealish — the England international with the 100 million pound ($139 million) price tag — set Manchester City on its way to a 3-0 win at Wolverhampton and first place in the standings, at least for 24 hours.
With a hat trick after coming off the bench, Son — the joint-top scorer in the league last season — rounded off Tottenham’s 6-2 victory over last-placed Leicester, whose manager Brendan Rodgers will head into the international break with his job under serious pressure after six straight league defeats.
The wins left City and Tottenham tied for points in first and second place, respectively, and their managers thrilled to see their forwards scoring again.
“Rightly so, people have been asking questions — I should be scoring more and getting more assists,” said Grealish, who hadn’t even set up a goal this season.
“I am always going to have people talking about me with the money that was spent on me, but all my career I haven’t scored enough goals. I do want to add that to my game.”
Naturally, Erling Haaland was one of City’s other scorers at Molineux — that’s 14 in nine games in all competitions since joining from Borussia Dortmund — along with Phil Foden, with Wolves playing with only 10 men from the 33rd minute after Nathan Collins’ red card for a chest-high lunge on Grealish.
City has 23 goals in its seven games so far.
Son was rotated — or was he dropped? — by Tottenham manager Antonio Conte for the Leicester game and his emotions came out after each of his goals after going on as a 59th-minute substitute. Two of them were curling shots into the top corner and his hat trick goal squirmed under beleaguered Leicester goalkeeper Danny Ward, before needing the say-so of a VAR review.
Harry Kane, Eric Dier and Rodrigo Bentancur also scored for Tottenham, while Youri Tielemans — with a twice-taken penalty — and James Maddison scored for Leicester.
NEWCASTLE FLAT-LINING
It’s no wins in six games for Newcastle, whose manager Eddie Howe will understand the pressure that comes with coaching the soccer team with the world’s richest owners. How patient will the club’s Saudi leadership be?
After a disappointing 1-1 draw with Bournemouth at St. James’ Park, Newcastle remained without a win in the league since beating Nottingham Forest at home on the opening weekend. Five of Newcastle’s six results have been draws.
There were some jeers from Newcastle supporters at the fulltime whistle after Bournemouth held out for a point in a disciplined defensive performance, which saw the visitors take the lead against the run of play through Philip Billing in the 62nd.
Newcastle, which hit the post through Kieran Trippier and Joelinton by that point, equalized five minutes later when Alexander Isak converted a penalty awarded for a handball against Jefferson Lerma.
Bournemouth continued its upturn in results since firing Scott Parker after a 9-0 loss at Liverpool at the end of August. In three games since under caretaker manager Gary O’Neil, the south-coast team has two draws and a win at Nottingham Forest.
TRIBUTES TO QUEEN
There were more tributes to Queen Elizabeth II before and during Saturday’s games, including a pre-match minute’s silence and a period of applause after the 70th minute — marking the 70 years she was on the throne.
All players wore black armbands as a mark of respect for the queen, who died last week. Her funeral is in London on Monday.
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By DÁNICA COTO
Associated Press
HAVANA (AP) — Mediation talks to restructure more than $9 billion in debt held by Puerto Rico’s power company failed, officials announced Saturday, raising concerns about the future of the bankrupt government agency.
A federal control board that oversees Puerto Rico’s finances said the impasse with bondholders means it would resume litigation against them in an attempt to restructure the debt, warning that any cost associated with debt repayment would be passed along to consumers.
Gov. Pedro Pierluisi said the mediation did not achieve the desired outcome: “My administration cannot accept a deal that unduly strains the wallets of our hard-working families, or the resources businesses need to fuel our economy and create and maintain jobs on the island.”
In a press conference on Saturday, Pierluisi said the power company will remain in a state of bankruptcy given pending litigations.
Creditors could not be immediately reached for comment.
Board member Justin Peterson criticized the board for abandoning mediation efforts as he advocated for bondholders to be paid and said that a deal to end bankruptcy and avoid expensive and lengthy litigation “was clearly in reach.”
“It would have catalyzed much-needed private sector investment to rebuild and modernize Puerto Rico’s grid and would have provided the citizens…with cleaner, more reliable and more affordable power,” he said. “Now, all of this could be delayed for years.”
Puerto Rico’s power grid remains frail after Hurricane Maria razed it in 2017, with outages reported daily. The grid was already crumbling before the storm hit as a result of aging infrastructure and a lack of maintenance.
The failed talks come after Gov. Pedro Pierluisi announced in early March that his administration was scrapping a proposed debt restructuring deal for the island’s Electric Power Authority that was several years in the making because it wasn’t feasible or in Puerto Rico’s best interest.
The power company’s debt is the largest of any government agency, and economists have said that restructuring it would help boost economic development on an island mired in a deep economic crisis.
It is one of two government agencies whose debt have yet to be restructured more than five years after Puerto Rico’s government filed for the largest municipal bankruptcy in history. Puerto Rico’s Highways and Transportation Authority still holds $5.8 billion in debt.
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SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — Former Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te’o, the runner-up to Texas A&M’s Johnny Manziel for the Heisman Trophy in 2012, made his first public appearance on campus in nearly a decade since it was disclosed that he was the victim of a high-profile catfishing scheme involving a fake girlfriend.
“It’s always good to be home. There’s no place like home. But I want to make this real clear: It’s not about me. It’s not about one person. It’s about this whole family,” Te’o said, speaking to fans Saturday before Notre Dame’s game against California.
Te’o received an enthusiastic response from fans. He attended Mass with the team at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart on campus and then walked with the team before the game to the stadium. He stopped briefly with coach Marcus Freeman to address the crowd, with Touchdown Jesus as a backdrop.
“This team needs all of us,” Te’o said. “It’s easy to jump on the bandwagon when everything is going great. It’s easy to get on when everything is right. But what I want to know is, who is with me? … Who is going to get off that wagon and start pushing with me? That’s why I am here.”
Te’o high-fived fans as he walked through the crowd and stopped briefly for photos. He then took questions from the media in the press box before the game. He said it was his fourth time back at Notre Dame since news broke about the hoax.
Te’o said he’s been pleasantly surprised by the response he received from the Netflix documentary “Untold: The Girlfriend Who Didn’t Exist.” He said he was anxious about it because he didn’t want to talk about the hoax again.
“All the facts are out there and I’m happy with it because it’s factual. … Since Day 1, it’s been nothing but positive,” he said.
Te’o was a second-round draft pick in 2013 by the San Diego Chargers. He played for San Diego for four seasons and the New Orleans Saints for three.
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