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BOONE, N.C. (AP) — South Carolina offensive coordinator Dowell Loggains has been hired as head coach at Appalachian State and will receive a five-year contract, athletic director Doug Gillin announced Saturday. The 44-year-old Loggains replaces Shawn Clark, who was fired Monday after the Mountaineers finished 5-6 for their first losing season since 2013. Loggains was South Carolina's offensive coordinator for two seasons and an assistant at Arkansas, his alma mater, for two seasons before that. He spent 16 years in the NFL as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach for Tennessee, Cleveland, Chicago, Miami and the New York Jets. “He brings experience as a leader and play-caller at the highest levels of professional and college football," Gillin said. "He is a great recruiter and believes strongly in building relationships. He is aligned with our core values of academic integrity, competitive excellence, social responsibility and world-class experience. This is a great day for App State.” Loggains' offense at South Carolina featured LaNorris Sellers, one of the nation's top dual-threat quarterbacks, and running back Raheim “Rocket” Sanders. Sellers and Sanders led the Southeastern Conference's third-ranked rushing offense. Loggains spent the 2021 and 2022 seasons as Arkansas' tight ends coach, and he worked with Sam Darnold, Jay Cutler, Mitchell Trubisky, Brian Hoyer and Vince Young during his time in the NFL. The Mountaineers, the preseason favorites in the Sun Belt Conference's East Division, tied for fifth with a 3-5 record in league play. App State was 40-24 under Clark, but the Mountaineers have failed to reach a bowl game two of the past three seasons. Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here . AP college football: https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-football-poll and https://apnews.com/hub/college-footballFive clues Love Island winners Nicole and Ciaran have split – as fans share awkward video that ‘proves’ secret break upAre engagement rumors true? Taylor Swift has solidified her relationship with Travis Kelce by taking this big initiative, here's all about it
Call for defining 'disability' to help include disabled personsEXCLUSIVE Haunting diary entries reveal the heartbreaking truth about John Wayne Gacy's forgotten victims READ MORE: Killer clown was a 'narcissist' with 'no conscience', expert says By RUTH WALKER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM Published: 12:12 GMT, 30 November 2024 | Updated: 12:12 GMT, 30 November 2024 e-mail View comments The phone rings in Kim Byers’ kitchen. It’s 7.30am on May 10, 1994, and she’s making breakfast for the family before school - a regular busy Tuesday morning. But today is not like other days. Today, Kim's father is calling to give her the news she’s been waiting 14 years to hear. ‘He’s gone,' her dad says. 'Gacy’s dead.’ Kim was just 16 when John Wayne Gacy lured her friend Rob Piest from the Illinois pharmacy where they both worked, before murdering him, then dumping him in the Des Plaines River. Kim was the last person to see Rob alive and, aged just 17, was a key witness in the case against Gacy She was the last person to see Rob, 15, alive, and the evidence Kim provided, as key witness at his trial, was enough to secure the death penalty. The notorious serial killer spent 14 years on Death Row. When, finally, he was dead, it felt like the closing of a huge book. Kim turned her back to the living room where her daughters were watching Sesame Street, and melted to the floor, sobbing quietly: ‘He’s gone.’ ‘Why are you crying, Mommy?’ Little Courtney had wandered from her spot in front of the TV and crawled on to her lap, and was now dabbing at her mom's tears. Courtney Lund O'Neil remembers the moment clearly, as Kim repeated a lesson that was drilled into her for as long as she could remember: this world is not safe; danger lurks around every corner. ‘In life, always be careful,' she told her daughter. 'There are bad men out there. If a man pulls up in a van and offers you a ride or a popsicle or to see his puppies, you do not go. Never go. If he takes you anyway, you fight. You scream. You never give up. If he says he will kill your parents if you scream out, scream.’ Gacy raped, tortured, and killed at least 33 young men , burying many of them underneath his ranch-style house in Norwood Park township, near Chicago. Rob Piest was just 15 when he was lured to his death by John Wayne Gacy The film receipt from Nisson Pharmacy placed Rob at Gacy's house, and helped convict the killer Gacy's grinning mugshot - he was found guilty of murdering 33 boys and young men Kim’s proximity to the case - she had accidentally bumped up against Gacy in the pharmacy, looked into his dark eyes before he drove her friend to his death - changed her forever. In her new book, Postmortem: What Survives the John Wayne Gacy Murders , Courtney says: ‘What haunts my mother will also come to haunt me.’ As she grew up, she was increasingly curious about her mom’s remarkable link to this case that made headlines around the world: the ‘Killer Clown’ who would regularly dress as ‘Pogo’ at local parties, and gained infamy for his sinister clown paintings. So, when Courtney herself became a mother, Kim presented her with the diaries she wrote as a teenager and young woman. ‘I read it and was changed,’ she writes. ‘When I think about the mothers, I think about my own motherhood. All the unknowns, both beautiful and painful, I’m yet to hold... I wonder how any of the parents survived the experience of losing a son. I don’t know how anyone truly could.’ The day after Rob disappeared, Kim wrote in her diary: 'He never came back to the store and he never went home. Rob would never run away, he had no reason to' 'I can just imagine Rob lying out in some empty forest — alive but unable to move — crying for help with no one answering him' Kim wanted to know about her mom’s remarkable link to this case that made headlines around the world: the ‘Killer Clown’ who would regularly dress as ‘Pogo’ at local parties When Gacy finally gave a statement to police, he denied even talking to Rob The diary entries - while irregularly written - reveal in haunting detail a teenage Kim's innermost thoughts and fears, starting the day after her friend's disappearance December 12, 1978 'Today was an absolutely miserable day. It started out good. I got up at 9.00 and took a bath. Then I got a phone call from a youth officer — he [Rob] never came back to the store and he never went home. Rob would never run away, he had no reason to. And this guy Gacy claims he never talked to Rob. I can’t believe Rob would have lied to us. But someone is obviously lying. 'I held my cool for the whole day. But right before we were supposed to leave for the meet — I was talking to Mr Tanner (school counselor) and I just started crying. I feel so scared, worried and helpless. I can just imagine Rob lying out in some empty forest — alive but unable to move — crying for help with no one answering him. It is just not fair — Rob never did anything wrong to anyone. 'I pray he has just run off somewhere and is at least safe! Kerry will call me and let me know any new news. I can’t talk about it anymore — my heart is being ripped apart. By the way we lost our meet.' Read More EXCLUSIVE Nancy Grace reveals new evidence in Ellen Greenberg 'suicide' case December 13, 1978 'Well, no word about Rob yet. I feel worse and worse as time goes on. It’s the not knowing that’s ripping me apart. I called Ken [Rob's brother] at 2.30. He said they have Gacy under surveillance. Tailed him and then lost him after 2 blocks — I could do better than that. I had a really morbid dream last night — (had it twice). We found Rob in a trunk of a beat-up old gold car. Any significance?????' Early that morning, Gacy had reluctantly given a statement to the police. Unaware that Kim had seen him talking with Rob, he denied he'd had anything to do with him. Strangely, he was covered in thick mud - which cops would eventually learn was a result of pushing his car out of sludge near the river after dumping Rob's body. Kim didn't know any of this at the time, of course, but perhaps her dream did have some significance after all? The next day, she went to school as usual, but was chilled to learn of her growing role in the case against the prime suspect. Cops had obtained a search warrant for Gacy's house, and placed an officer outside the Byers' home as protection. 'If she witnessed what she said she witnessed, she could be in danger,' writes Courtney. 'Someone working with Gacy could potentially cause her harm. Come after her.' December 14, 1978 'Well, still no sign of Rob... I was still depressed. Cried twice... They (police) have a theory! I hope they find him soon. Also, they put the case up to the Grand Jury — he says I’m the key witness. I’m scared, say they come after me?!! Yuck.' The moment cops entered Gacy's house, the were hit with the smell of decay. They left that first search with no body, but with enough evidence to ensure Gacy remained in their sights. 'Authorities found creepy oddities: the strange Tiki-style bar, the gallery wall of clown paintings, a hallway that looked like it was out of a haunted house, with bizarre yellow and brown zigzag lines on the walls, and then, a trap door that accessed a crawl space,' writes Courtney. Kim’s (left) proximity to the case changed her forever. Her daughter Courtney (right) was similarly haunted by the murders 'Still no sign of Rob,' Kim wrote in her diary. 'I was still depressed. Cried twice... They (police) have a theory! I hope they find him soon' Gacy covers his face as he's led into the courtroom in December 1978 As police searched below his house, they recovered the bodies of 29 boys and young men 'They found startling mementos — a Maine West High School class ring; a 6mm pistol; handcuffs and keys; an identification card that was not Gacy’s. A film receipt.' That film receipt was from Nisson Pharmacy, with the serial number 36119. Kim had put it in the pocket of Rob's blue puffer jacket when she borrowed it on the day he went missing. December 18, 1978 'Mondays, yuck. Got up, took a shower, Mom took me to school. Was called into the office to speak with Mr Adams [the youth officer assigned to the case] and another detective. They found a pendant — I can’t remember if Rob had one on. I wish Rob would show up. I have a strange feeling something will happen tomorrow — call it women’s intuition — But first of all, the film stub I put in Rob’s coat pocket Monday is number 36119, the 19th (the film is not back yet) is tomorrow.' December 19, 1978 'Well, I guess my hunches were right. I came home after school to get something to eat before I went shopping, The phone rang. They asked me questions about the film slip. My guess is that they found it. Will pray for Rob.' The receipt proved Rob was at Gacy's house - and was enough to justify a second search warrant. With Gacy under arrest for weed possession, police descended on the property - focusing their attention on that eerie crawl space that smelled of death. December 22, 1978 'Mom came in and told me they found lots of bodies in Gacy’s house — and he is now leading them on a search for Rob’s... Gacy has confessed to 20 murders. They have not yet found Rob’s body. He said he dumped it into the Des Plaines River over the Kankakee Bridge — that’s far and wide. What sent them back for the 2nd search of the house was my film slip. They found it in Gacy’s garbage can — and did not realize that it came from Rob.' Christmas came and went, but there was little to celebrate. By December 28, the body count had hit 21 at Gacy’s house, and there were still more places to search. Rob was not recovered until the river started to unfreeze in the spring. As bluebells emerged from the hard ground along the bank of the Des Plaines River, a crane operator spotted a body floating by Dresden Lock. April 9, 1979 'They found Rob today — in Morris where the Des Plaines River meets the Illinois... Autopsy will be tomorrow (Tues). Dental something will be Thursday. Funeral is not planned yet but will be soon. Will stay home part of the day tomorrow. I need some time for myself.' The following year, Gacy stood trial for the murder of 33 young men and boys. His youngest victims were 14, the eldest just 21. As expected, Kim was a key witness. As she stood in the courtroom, willing the man who had cold-bloodedly raped and murdered her friend, to meet her eyes, Gacy refused to look up. 'Kim thought he was a coward for not looking.' On March 12, 1980, it took a jury less than two hours to find him guilty. He was sentenced to death, but remained on Death Row for 14 years. 'Just as an earthquake destroys a town or city or small country,' writes Courtney, 'murder has an epicenter, where and when the devastation took place, and its aftershocks reverberate. 'With murder, the aftershocks don’t ever go away. Over the next decade, American media — tabloids, YouTubers, streaming services, sensational cable television, literature, film, documentaries — would aid in making Gacy a cult killer. 'The victims’ stories surfaced rarely; those whose lives were forever altered by the murders; the mothers and fathers who mourned; the ones who loved the young men Gacy killed for his pleasure. For decades, these “other” stories became buried by the buzz and loudness of Gacy — still so very alive, even after his final breath.' After multiple appeals, he was eventually executed by lethal injection early on May 10, 1994. 'Gacy, now in his fifties, and no longer the thirtysomething-year-old murderer posing as an ambitious businessman, was set to be executed after midnight,' writes Courtney. 'In his final hours he didn’t seem worried; he still proclaimed his innocence; and he also talked about the Chicago Cubs to the guards. His last meal was fried shrimp, fried chicken, French fries, and strawberries.' Outside demonstrators sang the song by Steam, Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye, while others chanted 'Strap down the clown!' 'Gacy was first injected with sodium thiopental, which put him to sleep,' writes Courtney. Some of Gacy's victims. As of 2023, five or six of the young men he murdered are still unidentified 'But an error occurred: a clog in the IV line delayed the second injection. Gacy lay there, about to enter the in between, while technicians prepared his execution. 'About ten to 20 minutes later, the clog was cleared and the second drug, pancuronium bromide, entered Gacy’s bloodstream. 'The third and final drug, potassium chloride, stopped the beating of Gacy’s heart. In the first hour of May 10, 1994, at 12.58am, the monster was dead.' For Kim, her overwhelming sense was one of relief. 'Finally, that guy is dead.' But for other families, there would be no peace. At the time of his death, eight of Gacy's victims remained unidentified. As DNA technology advanced, authorities reopened the case and, on November 29, 2011, the first unknown victim was given a name: William George Bundy, a 19-year-old diver and gymnast. 'Some victims are still unnamed,' writes Courtney. 'The most recent one identified was Francis Wayne Alexander in 2021. In 2023, according to the Cook County Sheriff’s Office, five remain unidentified, after being buried on June 12, 1981. 'However, as of 2023, there is still current debate around Michael Marino’s identification as Victim No 14. According to his mother, still living, there was not a positive DNA match after his body was exhumed. So perhaps that number is six. 'Either way, those mothers lived most of their lives without ever knowing what happened to their children.' Postmortem: What Survives the John Wayne Gacy Murders by Courtney Lund O'Neil is published by Citadel on December 24 Illinois Share or comment on this article: Haunting diary entries reveal the heartbreaking truth about John Wayne Gacy's forgotten victims e-mail Add comment
The main vessel categories – bulk carriers, tankers, container ships, and liquefied gas carriers – comprise over 90 percent of the entire world merchant ship fleet’s deadweight tonnes carrying capacity. Fleet development is mainly influenced by newbuilding deliveries and scrapping (recycling) volumes, which have varied greatly from year to year and as proportions of the existing fleet, and there have been contrasting patterns among the individual segments. Enlargement rates estimated for this year (to end-December) vary between a minimal 1 percent for tankers and 10 percent for container ships. Bulk carriers and gas carriers could see 3 percent and 7 percent increases respectively. In a notable smaller segment, car carriers, an 8 percent increase may be seen. During 2025 tanker and gas carrier fleet growth may accelerate, while bulk carrier growth remains stable and container ship enlargement slackens. These indications are tentative because, amid apparently fairly reliable estimates of newbuilding deliveries, scrapping is surrounded by greater uncertainty and is much less predictable. A steady trend of annual growth rates in the world merchant ship fleet has evolved over the past few years. Capacity using deadweight tonnes as a common measurement averaged 3.4 percent growth annually in the five years 2019 to 2023. After growing by 4.1 percent in 2019, the growth rate varied between 3.0 and the 3.4 percent seen in 2023. At the end of 2018 the merchant ship fleet totalled 1990 million deadweight tonnes, comprised of 100,500 vessels. During the next five years to end-2023 this total rose by 18 percent to 2348m dwt (109,500 vessels), based on Clarksons Research data. At end-2023 cargo-carrying ships formed 96 percent of the total deadweight (62,500 ships). During 2023 the overall 3.4 percent annual expansion rate resulted from a wide range of outcomes among the main segments. The container ship fleet expanded by 7.7 percent, while the gas carrier fleet (liquefied natural and petroleum gas – LNG and LPG) grew by 6.5 percent. Lower growth rates of 3.1 percent in bulk carriers and 1.9 percent in tankers were recorded. For 2024 estimates are still tentative, albeit assisted by provisional data covering the first ten months. Slightly faster merchant ship fleet growth than seen last year, at around 3.8 percent seems likely. Within this higher figure, a wider range among individual segments is predictable. As already mentioned, tanker fleet growth is likely to recede to 1 percent, while the bulk carrier fleet could grow by a steady 3 percent. By contrast faster expansion than seen last year is expected in the gas carrier and container ship fleets, at 7 percent and 10 percent respectively. These varying growth rates were mainly a result of newbuilding deliveries, reflecting as usual orders placed in preceding years. In typical years scrapping – the second driver of fleet capacity changes – is a large partly offsetting element. But in recent years it has been exceptionally low, and has offset only a minor proportion of new tonnage being introduced. Estimates for 2025 suggest that deadweight capacity growth in the world merchant ship fleet could slacken after advancing in the preceding twelve months. But segmental performances are likely to differ more noticeably, with some accelerating and some decelerating. Calculations reflect known orderbook schedules, enabling actual newbuilding deliveries to be estimated, albeit rather approximately. For scrapping, forecast volumes characteristically are somewhat speculative, dependent on changing market influences which may be different to what is now envisaged, and subject to changing perceptions about the future market trend and sentiment influences. Among the main segments, ideas that currently seem plausible point to 2025 growth rates in a range of 2 percent to 9 percent. Tankers are again at the low end at about 2%, slightly exceeded by bulk carriers at 3 percent. Container ship fleet expansion may halve to about 5 percent, while the gas carrier fleet accelerates to about 9 percent. Continuing the pattern of influences in 2024 and previously, these enlargements mainly reflect expectations for newbuilding deliveries. Based on present signs, although it is possible to envisage that scrapping may begin reviving, it seems that the extent to which higher volumes offset new tonnage will remain limited. The foregoing broad guesses are informed by expectations that newbuilding deliveries in the bulk carrier, tanker, and gas carrier segments will be higher than seen this year, based on shipbuilding yard orderbook schedules with some adjustments to allow for ‘slippage’ and postponements. On a similar basis, container ship deliveries are set to fall. Potential for scrapping, currently minimal, to surge is a prominent feature following several years of relative inactivity. An ageing fleet, and tightening environmental regulations could hasten obsolescence. But clear signs of a return to more ‘normal’ (much higher) demolition volumes are still absent. Looking further ahead the view of merchant fleet evolution in 2026 and later is more opaque. Yet some visibility is afforded by extensive forward orderbooks for specific ship types, extending the period of heavy newbuilding delivery volumes. In 2026 newbuilding deliveries of bulk carriers, tankers and gas carriers are expected to be higher than next year’s volumes, while container ship deliveries could decline but remain relatively large. These volumes may be accompanied by rising recycling activity. Limited availability of shipbuilding berth slots will constrain the scale of additional newbuilding orders for delivery over the period immediately ahead. This constraint is likely to be especially noticeable for the larger sizes of more technically complex vessel types that have been heavily ordered in the past twelve months or longer, such as container ships and LNG carriers. Later, from 2026 onwards, more potential exists for further new orders to emerge. Annual world orders placed provide an insight into prospects for newbuilding deliveries in the years following the ordering activity. High volumes of container ship ordering from 2021 onwards have been boosting deliveries since last year, while extensive LNG carrier orders from 2022 onwards began raising deliveries this year. Increased tanker orders in the past two years are set to start boosting deliveries in 2025. Future fleet evolution is also indicated by data showing the entire global newbuilding orderbook expressed as a proportion of the extant world fleet. At the beginning of November 2024, statistics compiled by Clarksons Research showed that current orders were equivalent to 14 percent of the existing world merchant fleet’s deadweight capacity. This figure is three percentage points higher than it was twelve months ago, emphasising recent robust ordering activity. Most of the orders, 96 percent of the deadweight tonnage, will be built in the three main shipbuilding countries – China, South Korea and Japan. Percentages for individual segments vary widely. At the low end of the range, the bulk carrier global orderbook is equivalent to 10 percent of the existing fleet while in the tanker segment 13 percent is on order. But elsewhere much higher proportions are visible. For container ships the figure is 23 percent, and for gas carriers (LNG and LPG), capacity equal to almost half the existing fleet at 47 percent is on order. What are the characteristics of influences likely to shape the world merchant ship fleet in future years? Both familiar and novel influences will be evident. Traditional influences are the ordering patterns and resulting new ships entering the market, and the exit of old or uneconomic ships for scrapping. Augmenting these long-established drivers is the effect of tightening international maritime regulations, especially those related to cutting carbon emissions, affecting both new and existing ships. Reflecting the shipping market’s unpredictable aspects, ideas about future fleet growth always have been partly speculative, and are now a more complex mixture of perceptions. In some segments regulatory changes unfolding have restrained newbuilding orders compared with what many observers would have expected to result when freight markets were supportive enough. Over the next few years reinforced regulations could greatly increase pressure to scrap older vessels, although currently it is difficult to estimate the timing and extent of this outcome. An order for any type of newbuilding vessel is often based on an assumption of at least a twenty years trading lifespan and, in practice, 25-30 years is often the basis for investments. Amid this view of usable asset life justifying the cost of new tonnage, shipowners now seek assurances about what fuel and ship propulsion method will satisfy regulators (and vessel users) over the ship’s expected lifetime extending up to mid twenty first century. Avoiding premature obsolescence is a critical aspect. Uncertainty about future changes in regulations affecting use of alternative fuels evidently has deterred some orders, and this lack of clarity may persist. Various alternative fuels designed to replace traditional oil bunker fuel and facilitate the decarbonisation of shipping are being considered. But in most cases extensive further research and development is needed to overcome problematical aspects of the new fuels, to ensure that the new technology enables these to be used safely as well as economically. Among options being considered by shipowners, or already adopted in newbuilding orders several alternative fuels are at the forefront. Because of acute uncertainties surrounding some options LNG is proving the most popular and practicable, although it is widely seen as a ‘transition’ fuel since in standard form carbon emissions reduction is restricted. Newbuildings designed to use methanol or LPG also have been ordered, while ammonia has become more prominent even though toxicity is a problem and large engines able to use this fuel are not yet commercially available. Maritime regulations are not the only imponderable aspect surrounding the evolution of the world fleet of merchant ships. Linked to the global objective of reducing and eliminating greenhouse gas emissions is the possible effects on cargo volumes carried. More than one-third of all world seaborne trade consists of oil and coal, fossil fuels which are likely to see sustained downwards pressure (‘demand depletion’) in response to aiming for decarbonisation goals. In the longer term and perhaps starting fairly soon demand for both oil and coal transportation could begin an extended declining trend. This negative prospect overshadows the tanker and bulk carrier markets, creating further uncertainty about required future fleet capacity. Analysis of current newbuilding orderbooks – showing the pattern of timing of vessel completions and delivery to shipowners – provides a provisional indication of prospects for capacity additions and fleet growth in the near-term future. Potential further ordering, or identification of orders already placed but not yet recorded, could modify estimates. However, the impact on delivery totals for the twelve months immediately ahead normally is limited, because of insufficient time for completion of additional construction work even when vacant building slots are available. Orderbook schedules are then adjusted to allow for ‘slippage‘, a consequence of delays, postponements and cancellations, usually a relatively minor modification. Estimates of actual deliveries result. Assessments of future fleet growth also incorporate forecasts of scrapping (recycling), a typically almost unpredictable element that reflects prevailing and changing market psychology and sentiment as much as fleet obsolescence. Forecasts of net fleet growth in 2025 and 2026 – as outlined in the preceding ‘fleet growth ahead’ section – are based on conventional analysis, incorporating the newbuilding delivery schedule and scrapping estimates calculated. Although further newbuilding orders for delivery in those years may be identified or added, potential has already become greatly constrained as orderbooks for the next two years have grown. The order schedule further ahead in 2027 and later appears less constrained, and there have been signs that more shipbuilding capacity is emerging in several countries. Nevertheless orders may remain somewhat restricted by ongoing uncertainty about alternative fuels and technology. Greatly increased shipbuilding prices over the past few years also act as a limiting factor. Freight market changes in individual market segments, and changing perceptions of future trends, will heavily affect future ordering patterns through next year and beyond, and the newbuilding delivery volumes resulting. Such effects are not clearly predictable even if there are broad indications of how the pattern could unfold. Assumptions about changes in ship employment opportunities, markets and earnings for parts of most segments may need continuing modification, perhaps with occasional abrupt revisions. Prospects for scrapping volumes in future years partly reflect assumptions about secondhand vessel values and scrap prices. Recycling sales also are expected to be affected by the evolving regulations governing carbon emissions. While the likely magnitude of decarbonisation regulation is becoming somewhat clearer, it remains difficult to estimate volumes and timing of demolition sales arising as a consequence. The full effects are expected to become more visible over a period of several years ahead. Regulations already agreed at the International Maritime Organization for adoption in the world fleet of merchant ships, the energy efficiency existing ship index (EEXI) and the carbon intensity indicator (CII), were implemented at the beginning of 2023. Following earlier introduction of the energy efficiency design index (EEDI) for newbuilding vessels, the rules extend the greenhouse gas emissions reduction strategy and targets to the entire operational world fleet. A variety of technical or operational changes can be used to ensure EEXI and CII compliance. For some older ships, complying with these rules may prove difficult or costly, or both. It has been envisaged that substantial scrapping is a likely result, but expectations that the process would become established and accelerate rapidly through 2023 and 2024 have not been fulfilled. This possible pattern remains a valid expectation for the years ahead. Looking at world merchant ship fleet growth prospects for the next couple of years, 2025 and 2026, estimates of newbuilding deliveries are the most reliable – albeit still tentative – part of net capacity addition calculations. Currently it seems realistic to envisage only a limited but gradually increasing offset from recycling activity, thereby prolonging the fairly steady fleet growth trend seen in recent years. But slower expansion amid much higher scrapping remains a possibility. Source: Richard Scott, committee member, London & South East Branch, Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers, on behalf of Hellenic Shipping News Worldwide (please contact at if you have any comments or questions)(CNN) — Donald Trump has selected his son-in-law Jared Kushner’s father, Charles Kushner, to serve as the next US ambassador to France, the president-elect announced Saturday. Trump described Charles Kushner as a highly successful business leader, philanthropist and dealmaker, with deep experience in the real estate industry. “Charlie is the Founder & Chairman of Kushner Companies, one of the largest & most successful privately held Real Estate firms in the Nation. He was recognized as New Jersey Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young, appointed to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council, & served as a Commissioner, & Chairman, of the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, as well as on the Boards of our top institutions, including NYU,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post. 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Maharashtra’s ‘Third Mumbai’: Survey for new town to begin from 2025This is a customer submitted press release. Submit your press release. Jared Isaacman’s nomination as NASA Administrator sparks excitement and questions. A billionaire entrepreneur and private astronaut, he brings unmatched expertise in spaceflight and business. Yet, his ties to SpaceX and challenges like the SLS program and lunar ambitions loom large. Can he revolutionize NASA and lead humanity’s next leap into space? Nominating Jared Isaacman for NASA Administrator is a breathtaking pick for the position and is stirring lots of excitement and some closeted amount of trepidation within and outside the agency and on Capitol Hill. He has a unique combination of management skills, government procurement experience, spaceflight program management, and in-flight experience that I dare say few could match in the history of the agency and the Administrator’s office. Jared Isaacman as a Keynote speaker at SpaceCom 2023 At the ripe young age of 41 with an estimated net worth of $1.9 billion, Isaacman is the founder of Draken International, founder and CEO of Shift4 Payments and instigator and commander of the Inspiration4 and Polaris Dawn missions, two high-profile private spaceflights. Draken, with a fleet of around 150 warplanes, provides adversarial training services to the U.S. and European militaries, working with the former since 2015. It’s safe to say Jared knows government procurement. Shift4 Payments is a publicly traded company – started by him at the age of sixteen – that processes billions of point of sale (POS) transactions annually for hundreds of thousands of businesses around the world. The company expects to crank through $166 billion in transactions through FY 2024, delivering an adjusted EBITDA of $688 million, both at growth rates of 50% year over year. Shift4 has grown through a combination of acquisition, application of the latest technologies, and optimization of its business practices. Fair to say Jared knows how to build, manage, and grow a multi-billion-dollar private enterprise, skills that will come in handy in the years to come. If he can apply those same skills at NASA, including bringing in and developing upper and mid-level managers, the agency is sure to benefit. When it comes to spaceflight, Jared has literally put his money and his body into the pursuit, in the process clocking more orbital flight time than current NASA Administrator Bill Nelson. Isaacman logged nearly three days in LEO on Inspiration4, and added nearly five more days on Polaris Dawn, compared to Nelson’s six days on STS-61-C. Polaris Dawn was the first of three planned private missions to push and test the bounds of commercial space technology and operations, conducting the highest Dragon flight to date and the highest altitude flight of any human mission since the Apollo program, the first commercial spacewalk that tested SpaceX EVA suits in orbit, and conducting Starlink laser communications with a Dragon capsule. The final flight of the Polaris program was to be a crewed mission onboard Starship. So, Jared intimately knows crewed space flight and SpaceX flight operations, including the risks and capabilities of the current generation of operational vehicles. If you are not suitably impressed enough by Mr. Isaacman’s resume by this point, then pointing out his ongoing charitable partnerships with St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and other organizations is simply a waste of time. By all accounts, he seems to be a nice guy when he’s not being a world-class overachiever. Mr. Isaacman faces three perils as he moves onto Capitol Hill hearings and hopefully beyond to the Administrator position. The first one is dealing with Congress and its established interest groups, many of whom support the idea of a leaner, more efficient NASA, so long as it doesn’t affect the flow of funding to existing projects in their home states. Tough questions will be asked about Mr. Isaacman’s positions on SLS, Orion, returning to the Moon, and ultimately heading out to Mars. The second peril will be his relationship with SpaceX and Elon Musk. Mr. Isaacman’s role in managing and executing SLS will no doubt be scrutinized. Questions will be asked if he can be a neutral broker when evaluating established NASA programs without showing favoritism to a vendor he’s intimately worked with for years. As co-chair of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), Mr. Musk will more than likely turn his eye towards the long-delayed and very expensive SLS program but eliminating it would also presumably put more money into SpaceX’s pocket as a result. How SLS’s future plays out is sure to be challenging for all involved. Finally, Mr. Isaacman will have to face an established culture at NASA that, to be blunt, has long resisted rapid change to the status quo. Alan Stern and Lori Garver both fought to change the way NASA operated, but without the advantage of being at the top of the agency and having steadfast White House support. Stern ultimately lost his battle to preserve science over politics while Garver battled hard to establish and fund the Commercial Crew that paved the way for continued multi-vendor/multi-source competition and the success of SpaceX Dragon to provide sovereign and reliable access to the International Space Station. Listen carefully in the weeks to come for Isaacman’s positions on three topics: SLS, Hubble servicing, and China. As noted earlier, Isaacman will face tough questions on the future of SLS on Capitol Hill. How he presents his answers is as important as what the answers are. In the private sector, Isaacman wanted to conduct a crewed servicing of the Hubble Space Telescope but was politely dissuaded by NASA managers. Now he is the head “decider,” with apologies to George W. Bush, does he re-open the idea to a high-risk mission? One of the driving forces for returning to the Moon and establishing a permanent presence there has been China’s plans to land there and do the same. What tone will Isaacman set in returning to the Moon, given the Great Powers competition framing and the incoming administration’s views on China? Will he install a sense of urgency and be able to secure additional resources for an increased tempo of cis-lunar operations and a permanent base on the Moon? Time will tell. In an ideal world, Isaacman will be able to use one thread to connect the needles of improved government efficiency as promised by the incoming Administration, bringing Capitol Hill onboard as a participant to reshape the status quo, and getting buy-in from the NASA workforce. If he can manage to do so, he has the potential to pave the way for a sustainable return to the Moon and build a realistic roadmap to landing on Mars within a decade. By Doug Mohney Read more content at spacecomexpo.com
Appalachian State hires South Carolina offensive coordinator Dowell Loggains as head coachConcerns have also been raised about the “renormalisation” of smoking. Dr Rachel O’Donnell, senior research fellow at the University of Stirling’s Institute for Social Marketing and Health, said restrictions on smoking in outdoor places can “reinforce” a message that smoking “isn’t a socially acceptable thing to do” and could also help smokers to kick the habit. In November, it emerged that the UK Government is to scrap plans to ban smoking in the gardens of pubs and restaurants in England. Health Secretary Wes Streeting said the hospitality industry has “taken a real battering in recent years” and it is not “the right time” to ban smoking outside pubs. But smoking and vaping could be banned in other public places in England – such as in playgrounds or outside of schools – under the Tobacco and Vapes Bill. According to the World Health Organisation, there is no safe level of second-hand smoke exposure. In a briefing for journalists, Dr O’Donnell said decision-making “should be on the basis of all the evidence that’s available”. She added: “Any debate about legislation on smoking in outdoor settings shouldn’t only focus on air quality and second-hand smoke exposure levels, because the impacts of restrictions in outdoor settings are also evident on our social norms.” Smoke-free outdoor environments “reinforce smoke-free as the acceptable norm”, she said. “This, I think, is a critically important point at a time where in the media, over the last year, we’ve seen various reports and questions as to whether we might be on the cusp of renormalisation of smoking for various reasons, and so smoke-free public environments still have a critically important role to play. “If you reduce opportunities to smoke, it can also help individuals who smoke themselves to reduce the amount they smoke or to make a quit attempt.” Dr O’Donnell said visibility of tobacco products and smoking is a “form of marketing for tobacco companies” as she pointed to studies highlighting the increasing number of tobacco depictions on screen. She went on: “The more often young adults observe smoking around them, the more likely they are to believe that smoking is socially acceptable, which feeds back into this idea of renormalisation of smoking. “So, restrictions on smoking in outdoor public places have other positive knock-on effects, potentially for young people as well, just sending out that clear message that this isn’t a socially acceptable thing to do and see, and this could help to discourage smoking initiation among young people at quite a critical time.” On being exposed to second-hand smoke at work, she added: “I think sometimes when we think about exposure to second-hand smoke in outdoor settings, in pubs, in restaurants, we think about that sort of occasional customer exposure, the nuisance element of it when people are out enjoying a meal with friends, but we also need to be reminded that this is a repeated occupational exposure for those who are working in hospitality and serving drinks and food. “Now, as we’ve already seen, concentrations of second-hand smoke in these settings are generally low, and they’re likely to present a low risk to health for most healthy people. “But ... there’s no safe level of exposure to second-hand smoke, and so any individual with pre-existing heart, lung or respiratory conditions may be particularly vulnerable even to low levels of exposure. “We know that second-hand smoke is its known carcinogen, and on that basis those exposed in the hospitality sector have a right to be protected. “On that basis, there’s a need to protect them, as there is anybody in any workplace setting from second-hand smoke exposure in all areas of workplaces and spaces.” Sean Semple, professor of exposure science at the University of Stirling’s Institute for Social Marketing and Health, said: “I think that if I were a policy-maker, which I am not, then I would be looking at those occupational exposures as well. “I have asthma, if I was being occupationally exposed to SHS (second-hand smoke), and knowing that I was one of a very small number of workers now being legally exposed to SHS in the workplace, then I might not be very happy about that.” A Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: “As part of our 10 Year Health Plan we are shifting focus from sickness to prevention, including tackling the harms of smoking and passive smoking. “The landmark Tobacco and Vapes Bill is the biggest public health intervention in a generation and will put us on track towards a smoke-free UK.”
What did you Google in 2024? From the elections to Copa América, here's what search trends showBMT Strengthens Maritime Engineering and Design Leadership in Asia Pacific with Strategic Acquisition of AMTThe Philadelphia Eagles ruled wide receiver DeVonta Smith out for Sunday night's game at the Los Angeles Rams due to a hamstring injury. Smith did not practice all week and will miss his second game of the season and just the third of his four-year NFL career. He was inactive in a Week 4 loss at Tampa Bay due to a concussion. Smith, 26, leads the Eagles with 41 receptions and four touchdown catches ands ranks second with 516 receiving yards in nine starts this season. The former Heisman Trophy winner has 281 catches for 3,694 yards and 23 scores in 59 games (58 starts) since the Eagles drafted him with the 10th overall pick in 2021. NFC East-leading Philadelphia (8-2) takes a six-game winning streak to Los Angeles (5-5), which has won four of its last five games. --Field Level Media
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