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Throughout this week, the Ocean View Church of Christ has been getting its bling on.

Dozens of volunteers have spent time in the church putting up sparkly decorations and satiny swags. Giant metal-framed stars stand ready to be filled with balloons. Lots and lots of balloons.

That’s because, on Friday evening, the church will literally roll out a red carpet for about 100 special-needs guests age 14 to adult, as it hosts its fourth Night to Shine.

The event is meant to give those with special needs a night when they can experience all the glitz and glamour of proms — from the fancy clothes and limousine rides to music and dancing. There will be “paparazzi” greeting them and cheering as they arrive at the church. Instead of just one king and queen, each guest will receive a crown or a tiara during a ceremony at the end of the evening.

Night to Shine is sponsored by the Tim Tebow Foundation, and there are now events similar to the one at the Church of Christ that are held in all 50 states and 24 countries. Ocean View Church of Christ is one of 721 holding a Night to Shine event on Friday. Worldwide, approximately 100,000 guests will be honored, with support from 215,000 volunteers.

“It’s one of my favorite things in all my years of ministry,” said Church of Christ pastor Ethan Magee as he sat outside the sanctuary of the church on Tuesday, Feb. 4.

On Friday, Magee said, “This will be a happening place. We want everyone to feel like kings and queens of the prom.” 

Each guest will have a “buddy” as an escort for the evening. Most of the buddies are local high school students — many of whom have been partnered with the same buddies for several years. Event coordinator Susan Timmons said the buddies are one of many blessings in the Night to Shine.

While the guests and their buddies dance the night away upstairs, the basement of the church is transformed into a relaxing space where parents and guardians can themselves enjoy a special meal, while watching a live video feed of the party above them.

Magee said that, for him, that is one of the best aspects of the evening. Date nights tend to be few and far between for those who parent people with special needs, he said, so the chance to sit, relax, receive a special meal while watching their loved ones having fun is quite a gift.

Aiding in the transformation of the basement is furniture that has been loaned to the church for the evening by six area furniture stores, Magee said.

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The Ocean View church is one of only two in Delaware that host the Night to Shine event, he noted. Guests come from all over Sussex County, as well as Maryland’s Eastern Shore, to be feted for the evening.

In addition to the 100 or so guests and their buddies, about 200 volunteers will be on-site during the Night to Shine, from local police officers who come to hang out and dance, to emergency medical technicians and nurses who are on hand to address any medical needs.

Since part of the fun of proms and fancy dances is getting all dressed up, there will be volunteers at the Church of Christ ready to do special makeup and hairstyles for the girls and women. For the guys, free shoeshines will be offered.

Each guest will be given a framed photograph from the evening as a memento, as well as a Tiffany-blue backpack filled with goodies, including gift cards from McDonald’s and Chik-fil-A.

Magee said he is touched by the extent of the community involvement in the Night to Shine.

“The community has really embraced this,” he said. He praised the efforts by Timmons, whose grandson Josh Timmons has been one of the “stars” of the evening since its start at the Church of Christ. “She just puts so much into the evening,” he said. “We couldn’t do it without her.”

He recalled a conversation with one of the local police officers who attended Night to Shine: “He told me that the three best things that ever happened to him were his marriage, the birth of his child and Night to Shine.”

“It’s just the joy and the smiles on their faces,” Magee said. “That’s what it’s all about.”

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Dive Brief:

• As California and Oregon work toward their transportation electrification goals, utilities are beefing up infrastructure and engaging with customers to cope with the anticipated increase in load — and, in some cases, trying to figure out how to turn electric vehicles (EVs) into a net benefit for the grid.

• California is aiming to put 5 million zero-emission vehicles on the road by 2030, while Oregon Democratic Gov. Kate Brown is aiming for 50,000 registered EVs in the state by the end of this year. As utilities make investments in electrifying transportation, “we’re also hardening and making the grid more reliable and more resilient at the same time,” according to Portland General Electric President and CEO Maria Pope.

• But utilities still face a host of challenges in integrating EVs into their system —​ including potential safety concerns over batteries and associated liability challenges, Nadim Maluf, CEO of battery software management company Qnovo, told Utility Dive.

Dive Insight:

Utilities are at the center of efforts to build a clean energy ecosystem, Drew Murphy, Edison International’s senior vice president of strategy and corporate development, said Monday at the Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) Summit in San Francisco.

“The challenge for us is to make sure we stay there, and we’re actually helping accelerate it, and we don’t actually miss an opportunity and hold things back,” he said. The first thing utilities need to do is “reimagine what the grid looks like —​ it’s going to look very different, it’s going to be used very differently,” in 20 or 30 years.

In 2018, California passed Senate Bill 100, which set the state on a path of achieving 100% zero-carbon electric retail sales by 2045. Edison’s utility subsidiary, Southern California Edison (SCE), analyzed this goal in a white paper released last November, Pathway 2045, and found that the state will need to ensure that three-quarters of light-duty, two-thirds of medium-duty and one-third of heavy-duty vehicles are electric by 2045. 

In terms of managing the impact of these EVs on the grid, “the main piece is really planning and preparation,” Katie Sloan, SCE director of eMobility and building electrification, told Utility Dive.

“As a 100-plus year old company, this is what we do. We see new technologies coming on the grid all the time…” she said. 

A key component of that is collaborating with customers, according to Sloan. That strategy will have to be different with medium and heavy-duty vehicles — like bus depots, that are looking to electrify up to a 100 buses in one location. 

“That just really comes to the infrastructure planning side and making sure we know about our transit customers’, our delivery truck customers’ plans well ahead of time to have the electricity there,” she said.

In fact, infrastructure deployment is the first and foremost focus at SCE, according to Edison International’s Murphy.

“[The] grid is going to be the fueling network for the electric transportation of the future, so we might need to make sure that that grid is reliable and modern and flexible enough to actually accommodate what we’ve never had as an industry before —​ which is actually load that moves around on the system.”

But even assuming the 5 million EVs that California aims to deploy by 2030 —​ or SCE’s internal calculation of 7 million to meet carbon goals —​ “right now, we’re seeing that in most cases, yes, the grid can handle it,” Murphy said.

A key component will be making sure vehicles are incentivized to charge at times that make the most sense, he added.

Another factor that could help Oregon is its energy efficiency programs, according to Pope —​ “we’re able to take some of that capacity that has been freed up when customers don’t use as much electricity and deploy that to electric transportation,” she said.

And there’s no question that EVs can be a net benefit to the grid, if utilities are able to signal and decide when they should be charged, she added.

For EVs to really work, the sector needs to be hand in glove with the utility industry, Chris Baker, vice president of sales at Enel X, told Utility Dive. California’s 5 million zero-emission vehicle goal translates to gigawatts of assets, and utilities need to be involved with figuring out how to flexibly allocate and distribute them. Utilities are “paying very close attention,” according to Baker. 

“With the EV industry, we’re seeing massive attention very, very early on and I think that’s really great. You need to pay attention so that you can put the policies in place up front,” he said.

But utilities will face challenges going into 2030 —​ and one of them could stem from safety concerns around battery storage, according to Maluf, especially following the lithium-ion battery explosion last year at an Arizona Public Service facility. If any safety problems materialize and are not resolved quickly, utilities could get skittish and stall projects, whether it’s vehicle-to-grid technology or higher charge rates, he said.

“Especially given what happened to PG&E this year. No one is going to sacrifice safety in any kind of fashion for the benefit of comfort or easy use,” said Maluf.

With help from Eric Geller, Martin Matishak and Kayla Sharpe

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— The Iowa caucuses are today and the U.S. intelligence community is on watch for foreign interference during the earliest state races, with Iowa the first election security test.

— DHS and election officials huddled last week and over the weekend on election security challenges like the supply chain and communication between feds, states and locals.

— The leader of the NSA and Cyber Command is on the Hill this week as the Senate Intelligence Committee plans to release its latest 2016 election interference report.

HAPPY MONDAY and welcome to Morning Cybersecurity! All Superb Owls must be celebrated. Send your thoughts, feedback and especially tips to tstarks@politico.com. Be sure to follow @POLITICOPro and @MorningCybersec. Full team info below.

GAME ON — The U.S. intelligence community is on guard for the Iowa caucuses starting today and next week’s New Hampshire Democratic primary. “We remain focused and committed to providing all relevant intelligence through the FBI and DHS in an effort to ensure all of the upcoming caucuses and elections are conducted with the greatest integrity, confidence, and without foreign interference,” an NSA spokesperson told POLITICO.

Both NSA and U.S. Cyber Command are banking on lessons learned from defending the 2018 midterms to protect 2020. “We are collaborating with key partners including FBI, DHS and the National Guard Bureau to harden our election infrastructure defenses and make sure that foreign influence doesn’t play a significant role in our elections,” the spokesperson said. “Cyber Command remains poised to act and impose costs across a broad spectrum of adversary resources, organizations and personnel should an adversary attempt to interfere in our elections.”

KNOWING THE RISK — CISA is interested in deepening its understanding of election-related supply chain issues. The agency already co-leads a public-private supply chain task force, but “I’d like to continue to have the conversation about how we can apply that particularly to election infrastructure,” Bob Kolasky, director of CISA’s National Risk Management Center, said Friday at the National Association of State Election Directors’ winter conference. In the meantime, Kolasky said, CISA hopes that vendors will “invest in illuminating and understanding their own supply chain, and as they do that, share the information with us” so the government can combine that data with its own intelligence.

The NASED conference in Washington gave election officials a chance to ask CISA officials about various projects, including the agency’s “Last Mile Initiative” for educating local officials. One election director asked Kolasky if there was an easy way for states to determine which vendors had the best supply chain security. Not at the moment, Kolasky said, but “we are open to working on model contract language” so states could require assurances while buying equipment. The supply chain task force is also working on a framework that vendors can use to attest to their own security practices.

— ALSO RECENTLY ON ELECTION SECURITY: DHS held a tabletop exercise in Washington, D.C., last week for election officials from 44 states as well as 11 federal agencies and reps from more than a dozen voting tech companies. CISA Director Chris Krebs told reporters after the exercise that some of his agency’s top priorities include simplifying interactions with election officials and strengthening the nation’s ability to withstand disinformation operations. And at a National Association of Secretaries of State event in D.C., Louisiana Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin criticized managed service providers that he said don’t offer adequate security products to defend against cyber threats to election systems.

IT’S LONELY AT THE TOP — Only 17 percent of organizations are effectively battling cyberattacks and quickly recovering from breaches, according to the third annual State of Cyber Resilience report out this morning from Accenture Security that surveyed more than 4,600 security experts globally.

Accenture dubbed the best-performing organizations “leaders” since they’ve shown the greatest benefits from their cybersecurity investments. These cyber elites are nearly four times more effective at stopping cyberattacks, 66 percent more likely to detect breaches in less than one day, 60 percent more likely to fix them within 15 days and 34 percent more likely to experience no negative impact as a result, according to the survey. One key ingredient to their success: offering security training to more than more than 75 percent of employees.

THIS WEEK ON THE HILL — Gen. Paul Nakasone, chief of Cyber Command and the NSA, testifies on Thursday before the Senate Armed Services Committee about the fiscal 2021 budget request and the five-year Future Years Defense Program. He’ll join two other DoD leaders at the hearing: Thomas Alexander, who’s serving as assistant secretary of Defense for special operations and low-intensity conflict, and Gen. Richard Clarke, commander of U.S. Special Operations Command. President Donald Trump is scheduled to release his fiscal 2021 budget request on Feb. 10.

Also this week, the Senate Intelligence Committee plans to release its latest unclassified report on 2016 election interference. Lawmakers told reporters that this edition, which will focus on the Obama administration’s response to Kremlin hacking and disinformation, suffered delays in part because of intelligence community declassification procedures.

— AND OFF THE HILL: The trial for the accused leaker of CIA hacking tools to WikiLeaks begins today in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Judge Paul Crotty last week denied a motion to dismiss espionage charges against Joshua Schulte, the alleged Vault 7 leaker.

SILK ROAD TO PERDITION — A senior adviser to the shuttered Silk Road dark web forum for drugs, hacking services and other illegal activities pleaded guilty last week to conspiring to distribute narcotics. Roger Thomas Clark faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. Clark, who was arrested in Thailand and extradited to the U.S. in 2018, served as a mentor to founder Ross Ulbricht on security vulnerabilities on the Silk Road site and more, according to the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. He also admitted to advocating violence to protect the site, the office said.

TWEET OF THE WEEKEND — Yikes.

RECENTLY ON PRO CYBERSECURITY — The Pentagon released cybersecurity standards for its contractors that will apply to every contract beginning in 2026. … NSA General Counsel Glenn Gerstell is departing the agency for a position at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. … One or more wireless carriers appeared to break the law over the unauthorized disclosure of customer location data, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai told lawmakers, and the commission is planning enforcement action. … “The U.S. Commerce Department is restarting a campaign to win the support of other federal agencies for a proposal that would further restrict American sales to the Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies, according to people with knowledge of the matter.”

— The Jeff Bezos hack has the rich and famous spooked, Financial Times reported.

— Maybe not so foreign? Twitter took down a New Hampshire GOP-operated account that mimicked a Democrat, per The Wall Street Journal.

— The New York Times examined the security team shakeup with Pete Buttigieg’s campaign and other Iowa caucuses security topics.

— The Bank of Japan cautioned about cyber threats ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, Reuters recounted.

— CNET: TVEyes, a search engine popular with political campaigns and news organizations, got hit by ransomware.

— People with disabilities will be allowed to vote via smartphone in West Virginia, wrote NBC News.

— Iowa prosecutors dropped charges against two men hired to test the physical and network security of its judicial system, reported Krebs on Security.

— Attorney General William Barr again bashed end-to-end encryption, this time during an event on human trafficking, per The Information.

— CyberScoop: A judge ruled that AIG will have to cover nearly $6 million for a company victimized by suspected Chinese hackers.

That’s all for today.

Stay in touch with the whole team: Mike Farrell (mfarrell@politico.com, @mikebfarrell); Eric Geller (egeller@politico.com, @ericgeller); Mary Lee (mlee@politico.com, @maryjylee) Martin Matishak (mmatishak@politico.com, @martinmatishak) and Tim Starks (tstarks@politico.com, @timstarks).

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The Pentagon said Saturday that Defense Secretary Mark Esper has approved a request to provide military housing for up to 1,000 people who may need to be quarantined upon arrival in the United States from overseas travel due to concerns about possible infection from coronavirus.The Pentagon said the Department of Health and Human Services requested that the Defense Department provide several facilities capable of housing at least 250 people in individual rooms through Feb. 29.”Under the request, DOD will only provide housing support, while HHS will be responsible for all care, transportation, and security of the evacuees. DOD personnel will not be directly in contact with the evacuees and evacuees will not have access to any base location other than their assigned housing,” the Pentagon said in a statement.”In accordance with (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) guidelines, all evacuees will be monitored for a period of 14 days. Should routine monitoring of the evacuees identify ill individuals, HHS has procedures in place to transport them to a local civilian hospital,” the statement continued.The coronavirus outbreak has killed at least 259 people and infected close to 12,000 people globally, as it continues to spread beyond China.For comparison, in the 2019-20 season so far, at least 19 million people in the U.S. have gotten the flu and 10,000 people have died from it, including at least 68 children. Flu activity has been widespread in nearly every region, with high levels of activity in 41 states, the CDC reported this week.Coronavirus has been confirmed in more than a dozen countries and territories since it was first detected in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December. Countries are now sending planes to evacuate their citizens from the infection zone and imposing travel bans or restrictions on travelers from China.Nearly 60 million people are under lockdown in Chinese cities as international researchers race to develop a vaccine and halt the virus’s spread.

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While Americans will be spending the day in front of the TV, local restaurants will be spending the day in the kitchen.

“The Super Bowl is one of the biggest sporting events of the year. We’re going to be ready for it, there’s going to be a lot of pizza, a lot of wings, we’re just going to have a good time as family and friends are getting together, it’s just one big special day,” said Pizza on the Plaza owner Douglas Matruski.

Restaurants in our area say they’re ready to see an influx of orders this weekend.

“Oh, we’ll probably do like more than triple the business,” said Matruski.

“Last year we did just over 9,500 wings for takeout so we’re expecting to do right about there, just because we only have so much time in the day,” said Old Union Hotel owner Andy Kipp.

And the more business, means the more preparations.

“We just over-ordered to make sure we have pizza, wings, and dough and everything, and we’ll be ready for the big event,” said Matruski.

“The kitchen usually closes at 2 a.m. on Saturday, so we’ll close a lot earlier to start getting everything ready, making sauces,” said Kipp.

Once the weekend comes, it’s all hands on deck, as phones will be ringing off the hook.

“I would say the calls will start coming in early on Saturday and everybody wants their pizza and wings before the game. And after the game starts, the phone stops ringing,” said Matruski.

For other hot spots in the area, orders have already started coming in.

“We have a lot of time slots already filled up. We’ve been taking orders for about two weeks now. If you want wings Sunday from us, you should call as soon as possible,” said Kipp.

The Old Union Hotel is using the uptick in business to help out the community, calling the day ‘Super Bowl Sunday of Giving.’

“Five percent of all sales Sunday will go to First Ward Charities, which goes to help the community,” said Kipp.

So no matter who takes home the trophy, the day is already a win in the books of many businesses.

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Hospital officials are preparing their organizations on how to quickly identify and treat any patient who may present with the 2019 novel coronavirus, an infectious disease affecting the respiratory tract that has spread from China to more than a dozen countries including the United States.

The new strain of the coronavirus, known as 2019-nCoV, first emerged in Wuhan, China, and has so far killed 106 in that country and sickened 4,537 others across 14 countries, according to the latest figures from the World Health Organization. Some U.S. airports are now screening passengers in an attempt to contain the spread.

The World Health Organization said Wednesday the global health body would reassess whether the threat level should be re-evaluated.

“I have decided to reconvene the International Health Regulations Emergency Committee on the new #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) tomorrow to advise me on whether the current outbreak constitutes a public health emergency of international concern,” WHO Director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus posted on Twitter.

Fears of the virus spreading further rattled financial markets sending shares down on Monday, though they largely rebounded a day later.

The threat of 2019-nCoV is occurring in the middle of the U.S. flu season, which can already strain a health facility’s resources.

Only five cases have been confirmed so far in the U.S., and hospital officials say they are prepared to treat more patients should the need arise. Even though key questions remain about this coronavirus, hospital officials said they’re well trained from prior experience including the threat of Ebola in 2014 and the 2009 outbreak of swine flu, also known as the H1N1 virus.

Most hospitals believed they were ill prepared for a potential Ebola outbreak when cases started to emerge in the U.S. in 2014, according to a 2018 OIG report. About 71% of hospital administrators reported that their facilities were unprepared to receive Ebola patients. However, that figure improved when administrators were asked again in 2017, and only 14% said they were unprepared.

“Very few hospitals received suspected or diagnosed cases of Ebola, but the disease’s presence caused hospitals to assess and improve their preparedness for Ebola and other [emerging infectious diseases],” the report stated.

The first U.S. patient showed up at one of Providence St. Joseph’s 51 hospitals.

Rebecca Bartles, executive director of system infection prevention at Providence St. Joseph Health, told Healthcare Dive: “I don’t think we could have done better. It was a very smooth response.” 

Bartles also noted that the system keeps up “a level of preparedness in our facilities all the time. Drilling for high-consequence disease happens routinely.”

The focus for hospitals is screening and isolating potential patients with the virus. This type of preparation is standard and has yet to have any impact on hospital budgets, according to the hospital officials who spoke with Healthcare Dive. The nation’s largest hospital operator, HCA, said similar diseases, such as SARS and MERS, have had no impact on its emergency rooms, as executives addressed invesotrs on a conference call this week to report its fourth-quarter earnings. 

Many hospitals are instructing their staff to ask patients about travel history, even before they come in, especially if patients have symptoms that include a cough, fever or shortness of breath. Hospitals also are urging patients to alert providers of their travel history.

For patients who have recently traveled to Wuhan and exhibit those symptoms, they are then asked to put on a mask and escorted to a private room where a limited number of clinicians in protective gear will treat them, Alex Garza, chief medical officer with SSM Health, told Healthcare Dive.

Garza is in charge of leading the preparations for SSM Health’s 23 hospitals throughout four Midwestern states. He formerly served as an assistant secretary and chief medical officer to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security during the Obama administration.

While the number of cases is still limited, “You don’t want to become over extended but you don’t want to underreact either,” Garza said.

It’s important to be informed and stay ahead of the issue, but it’s also important to put the coronavirus threat into perspective, Robert Citronberg, director of infectious diseases at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital, told Healthcare Dive.

Thousands die from the flu each year and only a handful of patients have tested positive in the U.S. for this new strain of coronavirus in the U.S., said Citronberg, whose hospital is part of the larger system Advocate Aurora Health.

Federal health officials reiterated in a press briefing Tuesday morning that Americans should not worry for their own safety right now but said the disease is still “a potentially very serious public health threat.”​

The federal government is currently assessing the strategic national stockpile of pharmaceutical and medical supplies while assisting with develops of diagnostics, treatments and a potential vaccine, HHS Secretary Alex Azar said.

There are reports of consumers buying up masks as fear spreads about this virus, but federal officials said there is no need for general public to wear or buy respiratory masks.

Louisiana ad agency PeterMayer has promoted Michelle Edelman
to president. She succeeds Mark Mayer (son of agency founder Peter Mayer, who died in 2016), who is stepping up to become chairman and CEO. Co-owner Josh Mayer will continue as the agency’s Chief
Creative Officer. 

Edelman joined the agency in 2013 most recently serving as executive vice president and Chief Strategy Officer. She is credited as the architect of the agency’s
strategy-first approach to promoting its clients. Earlier she served at Ogilvy Chicago, Leo Burnett and other agencies. 

“Both Josh and I felt the time had come to prepare the agency for
the future in order to ensure growth,” stated Mark Mayer. “We’re confident PeterMayer will have great success under Michelle’s leadership.” 

The agency’s client list
includes local, regional and national accounts, such as: CenturyLink, Ochsner Health System, Zatarain’s, Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, Hancock Whitney Bank, The National WWII Museum, Coastal
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They’re pushing for a royal return.

Worried senior royals are prepping a possible UK haven for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle — fearing they are so “fragile” after Megxit they may come running back to Britain, according to a report Sunday.

“The palace [is] very worried about the Sussexes, because they are vulnerable outside the embrace of the family,” a source close to the royal household told The Sunday Times of London.

“They are making contingency plans in case the Sussexes suddenly turn round and say: ‘Can we come back under your wing?’”

Harry’s dad, heir to the throne Prince Charles, and brother, Prince William, are both “reaching out” to see if they want to return, stressing the couple would still be free of royal duties, the source said.

“They are phoning him and trying to talk to him and extending a friendly hand,” the source said of their attempts to “rebuild the relationship” amid concerns of the severe strain Harry is under.

Insiders believe the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s plans “disintegrated” over the backlash against Megxit as well as the intense media scrutiny they are facing in their current home in Vancouver Island in Canada.

“What is happening is that they are being told that there is love and affection on standby,” the source said, revealing that a number of potential secluded UK hideaways are being offered for the couple and baby son Archie.

“Everybody agrees that this is a fragile couple. Nobody is going to say, no they can’t come back,” the source said.

“They wouldn’t return to royal duties, but they could have a period of rehabilitation and recuperation,” the source said.

It comes amid other reports claiming that before their 2018 royal wedding, the couple had been offered a life free of royal duties — but rejected it.

Queen Elizabeth II was happy for them to forego the offered Duke and Duchess of Sussex titles, in part to allow “Suits” star Meghan to continue acting if she wanted, according to The Sun.

“From the early days, the Queen really wanted to agree [on] a smooth transition for Meghan,” a source told the paper.

“The offer would have allowed her to carry on her career but she was happy to stop acting to become a working member of the royal family,” the source said.

Buckingham Palace declined to comment.

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The former Yankees manager plans on earning the trust of his players ASAP

BETHLEHEM — After leading the New York Yankees to within one game of the 2017 World Series, Joe Girardi was given a break from managing.

He doesn’t necessarily believe he needed it, but he says a lot of good came out of his contract not being renewed, most notably spending more time with his family, which includes three children. When he was managing he’d get to see his son play football and basketball, but he never really saw him play baseball. Over the last two years, Girardi saw his son on the diamond 140 times.

That won’t be the case this summer, as Girardi will be back in the saddle as the manager of the Philadelphia Phillies.

He spent the better part of the week meeting some of his new family. Monday he put on an impressive show addressing the crowd at the Philadelphia Sports Writers Association Banquet and Tuesday he met the Phillies faithful in Reading for the Phillies Winter Caravan.

Girardi wrapped up one of his final public appearances before spring training — which opens in just under three weeks — Thursday night as the Phillies Winter Caravan stopped at the Wind Creek Event Center in Bethlehem.

The Phillies’ last manager, Gabe Kapler, got off to a rocky start with fans, receiving heavy criticism after the first regular-season game he managed. While that could still happen to Girardi, so far he’s felt nothing but love.

“I feel I’m fortunate that I have the support of the fans,” Girardi said. “Now, again I have not lost a game yet. But it’s really nice to come in and feel wanted. I think all of us want that in life and they’ve been great to my family and we’re super excited.”

Being welcomed with open arms isn’t the only thing Girardi’s excited about; there’s also the team he’s managing.

As an analyst last year, Girardi said he saw the Phillies four or five times and witnessed “a tough team” with a lot of talent. It was a team that fought back. He also saw injuries decimate their chances and prevent them from keeping their bullpen together.

With spring training games less than a month away, Girardi said his main focus in Florida will be earning the trust of the players, getting to know them and find out where they’ll be most successful.

“Those are the things that I have six and a half weeks to learn,” Girardi said.

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He acknowledged having the newly acquired Didi Gregorius, who spent three seasons as shortstop for Girardi in New York, and Rob Thomson, who was either the bench coach or third base coach throughout Girardi’s entire Yankees tenure, will definitely help.

Fans are already familiar with Thomson — this will be his second year as the Phillies’ bench coach — but have yet to get acquainted with the newly acquired Gregorius. Girardi said he won’t ask anything of Gregorius that he wasn’t comfortable doing as a Yankee, although, that might not be much. Gregorius became beloved by Yankee fans in seamlessly filling the role of baseball’s newest Hall of Famer, Derek Jeter, which was no small task.

“I just want him to be himself, and that seemed to work really well in New York,” Girardi said. “People seem to flock around Didi. He plays really hard, he goes to post every day, he’s easy to talk to. I mean, he speaks six languages so if you can’t find a way to communicate with Didi, there’s something wrong.”

If anything, being removed from an on-field position has given Girardi perspective. He says there are things you take for granted when you’re in uniform every day and he’s also been given the chance to gain more experience coaching younger players. He acknowledged he mostly had an older team with the Yankees but being an assistant coach for his teenage son’s team gave him a new outlook.

His time away from the game won’t change his approach at all with analytics, however. It was something he was known for in New York, where he, at least temporarily, earned the nickname “Binder Joe” for carrying around stats. He believes analytics help prepare him to make the best decision he can at the time and wants as much data as he can get. Girardi said the information can also help prevent injuries or even find talent stuck in the minors.

“Tampa’s really good,” Girardi said. “I mean think about how they constructed that bullpen. These weren’t household names that were dominant for them. … Analytics can really help you find some players.”