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Washington Post
2 days ago
- General
- Washington Post
‘College hazing' or training? Amid shortage, air traffic recruits wash out.
In his first few days guiding aircraft at the Oakland, California, air traffic control center, trainee Ryan Higgins deleted a plane's data from the radar screen. It was untrackable for a few frantic moments while more experienced controllers made sure the plane was on a safe path. The rookie mistake rattled Higgins and earned him a stern rebuke.
BBC News
5 days ago
- Sport
- BBC News
Middlesex wear down Northants to seal innings win
Rothesay County Championship Division Two, Northwood (day four)Middlesex 625-8 dec: Holden 151, Williamson 114, Du Plooy 105, Cracknell 73; Zaib 3-70Northamptonshire 261 & 257: Keogh 61*; Higgins 3-54Middlesex (24pts) beat Northants (2pts) by an innings and 107 scorecard Middlesex's bowlers wore down heroic Northamptonshire resistance to close out an emphatic victory by an innings and 107 runs deep into the final session of day four at Merchant Taylors' Keogh defied the hosts attack for almost five hours despite being struck for a second time on the finger he damaged while fielding on day one to make a gutsy unbeaten 61, while Saif Zaib also battled through pain to add 44 to his 82 of the first was even a last-wicket stand of 47 between Keogh and Yuzvendra Chahal to further frustrate the Seaxes, but in the end for Ryan Higgins' 3-54 (seven in the match) and a maiden first-class wicket for Ben Geddes bowled out the visitors for hopes of frustrating the host's victory push were dealt an early blow when Lewis McManus, having played one delicious extra cover drive tried to leave a ball from Roland-Jones, only for it to cannon off the under edge and send his off-stump wicket became two in the next over, Tom Helm beating George Bartlett twice in successive balls before banging in a short one which the batter skied obligingly to Roland-Jones at now rested on the shoulders of all-rounders Zaib and Keogh. Zaib picked up where he'd left off in the first innings, Keogh meanwhile took 18 balls to get off the mark and was then struck on his already damaged digit by a ball from Higgins but carried on after lengthy treatmentDeprived of spinner Zafar Gohar due to the arm injury picked up fielding on day three and with a soft Kookaburra ball offering no help to the Middlesex seamers, the stoic resistance of the Steelbacks continued on the as frustration looked to be setting in, Tom Helm found some extra bounce and Zaib feathered an edge through to Joe the defiance continued with Ben Sanderson, on a pair from the first innings, battling for over an hour for his 12 and guiding Northamptonshire to the sanctuary of the new ball imminent, Ben Geddes was introduced to speed up its arrival and promptly found the edge of Sanderson's bat with his third ball, Higgins taking a smart catch at took the ripe cherry in hand to remove Guthrie, before an entertaining last-wicket stand that saw Keogh reach a thoroughly deserved on a king pair played a glorious off-drive and a few other less conventional shots to reach 20, but Cornwell rearranged his stumps to clinch victory with 25 overs left. Report supplied by ECB Reporters' Network, supported by Rothesay
BBC News
24-05-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Glamorgan force Middlesex to follow on as Gorvin leads home pressure
Rothesay County Championship Division Two, Sophia Gardens, Cardiff (day two)Glamorgan 383 (115.4 overs): Northeast 122, Carlson 109; Higgins 5-59, Roland-Jones 4-95 Middlesex 155 (52 overs): Holden 42; Gorvin 4-39Glamorgan 6 pts, Middlesex 2 ptsMatch scorecard Glamorgan's bowlers had Middlesex under the pump as they struggled to 155 all out in reply to the hosts' will follow on 228 behind on day three, although the weather forecast for the final day is was a team performance from the hosts with the ball, led by Andy Gorvin's 4-39, backed up by smart catching including a superb Tom Bevan effort. Max Holden's 42 was the top score as the visitors, needing 234 to avoid the possibility of following on, lost wickets at regular intervals. Ryan Higgins completed his first Middlesex five-for under cloudy skies in the morning but Glamorgan still edged the bonus points battle on the home innings. Resuming on 334-7 under thick cloud, Glamorgan managed a third batting point as Andy Gorvin ran three boundaries down to third man before being bowled by Ryan Higgins for missed out on the third bowling point but Dane Paterson switched ends to trap Chris Cooke lbw for a solid 47, and Higgins claimed his fifth when James Harris was lbw for Robson fell for six, caught at slip off Timm van der Gugten in the tricky pre-lunch session and Middlesex's fortunes were not helped by a 90-minute rain delay after the lunch Hollman was bowled for 11, driving loosely at James Harris, but Max Holden looked in decent nick, driving fluently on a pitch where seam-friendly conditions were against gave it away on 42, edging a Gorvin delivery to Kiran Carlson at slip which he did not need to play, and bowling hero Higgins was pinned lbw first left-arm spinner Matt Kuhnemann, making a one-off appearance, tempted Leus du Plooy (17) into trying to hit him straight into the Taff, with the ball skying to cover where Tom Bevan took a well-judged continued to chip away as Ben Geddes, who had defended well, survived a slip chance off Timm van der Gugten before slashing James Harris hard to Carlson on played three nice square drives off Kuhnemann before falling on 22 to a brilliant catch by Bevan as he tried to smash Zain Ul Hassan through mid-wicket, and the follow-on figure of 234 looked a distance away at 121-7 with the light unexpectedly holding induced Toby Roland-Jones to drive hard to Asa Tribe at cover, Naavya Sharma hit three fours before edging Gorvin to Carlson for his third catch, and a brief counter-attack from Zafar Gohar for 25 was finished when he provided Marnus Labuschagne with a slip catch. Four overs should have been left to bowl, but another brief rain flurry saw Glamorgan denied the chance to cause further damage.
Yahoo
23-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Norfolk Southern expands short line interchange improvement program
Norfolk Southern has expanded its interchange improvement program to all of its shortline connections in a bid to boost carload volume growth. NS (NYSE: NSC) sought to improve interchange consistency and reliability when it launched its Short Line Performance Project with 40 short lines last year. 'It led to just absolutely above-normal growth for us,' said Stefan Loeb, the railroad's vice president of business development and first- and final-mile markets, in a company video. 'So as an example, those 40 interchanges through 2024 grew at 4.85% volume. It outperformed our general business in those same markets.' Last year NS' overall merchandise business was up 1%. The Short Line Interchange Project, as it's now called, has been rolled out to all of the railroad's 260-plus shortline partners, NS announced Wednesday. The program creates real-time data and communication channels so that NS and short lines can quickly iron out — or prevent — service problems.'It's about collaboration to be able to sit around the table and exchange ideas and use data to determine what ideas move forward and then make a commitment to act on them,' said Ryan Higgins, chief commercial officer at shortline holding company OmniTRAX, also in the video. Tim Schumm, general manager of OmniTRAX's Alabama & Tennessee River Railway, in the video said the program provides accurate data on interchanges with NS. 'It also lets us resolve any problems quickly. Instead of waiting a day or a week to have the problem resolved, we could literally do it in hours.' About 40% of Norfolk Southern's carload volume originates or terminates on a connecting shortline railroad. Caption: Norfolk Southern local train H76, led by SD40-2 No. 3423, clears the Lehigh Line main in Three Bridges, New Jersey, with a delivery to the Black River & Western interchange on Aug 6, 2021. (Photo: Jerry Dziedzic)Subscribe to FreightWaves' Rail e-newsletter and get the latest insights on rail freight right in your agenda steams up as short lines blitz Congress Coal extends surprising lead in weekly US rail traffic J.B. Hunt and Eastern and Canadian railways see steady intermodal volume For first time since 1998, LA-Long Beach ports bid harbor rail servicesThe post Norfolk Southern expands short line interchange improvement program appeared first on FreightWaves. Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
BBC News
16-05-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Holland gives Foxes upper hand against Middlesex
Rothesay County Championship Division Two, Lord's (day one)Middlesex 232: Davies 49, Higgins 44; Holland 5-35Leicestershire 22-1: Budinger 14*; Higgins 1-1Middlesex 0 pts, Leicestershire 3 pts Match scorecard Ian Holland underlined his status as Division Two's leading wicket-taker with figures of 5-35 to give Leicestershire the upper hand on the opening day of their County Championship clash with 34-year-old medium-pacer took his wicket tally to 26 for the season, returning 3-9 during a relentlessly accurate opening eight-over salvo to reduce the home side to 19-3 at Lord' gradually rallied, with Jack Davies top-scoring on 49, before Holland completed only the second five-wicket haul of his first-class career to dismiss them for Leicestershire reduced the arrears by 22 before the close, they lost Rishi Patel to the final ball of the day, leg before to Ryan won the toss, Foxes captain Peter Handscomb sent his former team into bat – a move that was immediately vindicated as Holland set about wrecking Middlesex's top order during the first fourth delivery from the Nursery End nipped in and stayed low to remove Sam Robson – and the one that zoomed back in the reverse direction to hit Max Holden's off stump was virtually balls later, Leus du Plooy speared Holland to mid=wicket to leave Middlesex reeling, but Luke Hollman – promoted to three following his maiden hundred against Kent last time out – launched a repair drives to the short cover fence off Logan van Beek got Hollman up and running, but it was a measure of Leicestershire's accuracy that those remained the only boundaries of the innings until the 18th also began to accumulate runs as the pair hauled Middlesex's total beyond 50 and, although Hollman perished swishing outside off stump at Tom Scriven, Ben Geddes started brightly with a couple of well-timed clips to the leg looked as if Middlesex had weathered the storm, with Higgins advancing rapidly to 44 after lunch, only to become Holland's fourth victim as he played on attempting to leave the Hull picked up the next wicket, tempting Geddes with a short ball that he flicked high into the hands of long leg, but Davies cut and drove to good effect as he and Zafar Gohar rebuilt with a buoyant stand of capitalised on Hull's tendency to pitch short, punishing the left-armer on both sides of the wicket and thumping him to the point boundary to raise the 50 partnership prior to a close call when he edged Scriven between wicketkeeper and slip on 31, Davies batted doggedly after the interval and was inching towards a third half-century in as many matches when he was castled by Ben Ahmed's tidy eight-over spell brought him the wicket of Gohar, miscuing to backward point for 36 and, while teenage debutant Naavya Sharma kept Toby Roland-Jones company during a lively knock of 29, Middlesex were unable to scrape a batting bonus wrapped up the innings by having last man Dane Paterson caught in the deep and that left Leicestershire's openers seven overs to negotiate – a task they almost completed, only for Higgins to strike right before Reporters' Network supported by Rothesay
