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Otago Daily Times
31-07-2025
- Climate
- Otago Daily Times
Tsunami alert glitches to be investigated
By Liu Chen of RNZ The National Emergency Management Agency says it will look into reports of apparent inconsistencies in how people received the latest emergency alerts. Tsunami activity threat for NZ extended One man reported nearly 50 of the alarms ringing out on his phone, while others said they did not receive an alert about the tsunami risk from the magnitude 8.8 earthquake off Russia on Wednesday. NEMA spokesperson John Price said the agency sent out two alerts - the first on Wednesday afternoon about 4.15pm and a second at 6.30am on Thursday morning. Price said they would be looking into why some people received 30 to 50 alerts to understand why that had occurred. "It could be different providers and different cell towers, there's a lot of possibilities." There was always room for improvement, he said, but NEMA was doing the best with what it currently had. "We will be working with the platform providers, with these telecommunication providers as well, to get to the bottom of why this may have occurred. "So yes, we are taking this seriously, and we will look into it to make sure that we can provide the best service for New Zealanders." Marlborough resident Terry Costello said he got the first alert on Wednesday afternoon. Then another ... and another. "By the time I went to bed at 10pm, they were still going on and there'd be 32 of them by then. And I turned my phone off at 10pm and went to bed. "I turned it on again at 7am this morning and since then I've had another 16. So that's 48 altogether I've had." Costello said it just kept going, he would get an alert and then another one a minute or two later. "Sometimes they give you a bit of a fright." Bodhi Twilley, who lives in west Auckland's Titirangi, said the alerts started when he was driving home with his son. "I kind of lost count, but it just keep happening." He got at least two alerts in the car and then another few once he got home - but also that was on two devices which added to the number of alerts. "So we're just constantly going off." Twilley said he received another two or three alerts when he got up on Thursday morning and then a couple more after he had left home. "The messages were so frequent that we just stopped reading them, basically because they were coming to all our devices and to everyone in the house, so they were just constantly going off." Others received no alert Donna Glass from Christchurch has received alerts before but unlike Costello and Twilley, she did not receive a single one this time. She did not understand why some were getting them and others not - even when they were all in the same space. "There were the seven of us at our book club last night in Christchurch and out of the seven of us, only one person had received a text, an alert text." Rosemarie Quax, who lives in Hamilton, said there were three cell phones in her household and none received an alert. She only learned about the tsunami warning through media reports. "I was listening to RNZ this morning and they were talking about some people getting numerous alerts and in the week they were getting woken up and I just said to my husband, 'well we didn't receive anything'." Price said the message was only directed to those people in areas that were deemed at risk and anyone who later entered an at risk area would receive the message at that point. Anyone in central New Zealand, for example, would not have received an emergency mobile alert because there was no need for them to get it, he said. People with their phones in flight mode or whose phones were turned off would not receive the alert, he said. Asked why if there were seven people in the same room only one got an emergency message on their phone, Price said the agency was looking into that. "I think the important thing is the message was received by some people there and therefore they have hopefully acted on the message." The system is tested annually across all of New Zealand and was last tested in May this year, he said. The tests have shown that the alerts cover about 90% of the country because there are some areas which do not have cell phone coverage, he said. Emergency Management Minister Mark Mitchell told RNZ there appeared to have been a glitch and NEMZ was working with telecommunications providers to resolve it. "What I've been told is it can be people standing, changing over different cell towers and it's triggering another alert. So those are glitches that we need to work on. "I mean, the good thing is that, like I said, the system hasn't been used for a long time nationally. So it's good that that these issues have been highlighted so that we can get to work and fix them." However, Mitchell said he was pleased with the authority's response to the tsunami warnings. "We've been proactive and we're making sure that people get the information they need that they can make the decisions that they have to make. "There's nothing alarmist about it. It's quite something the best information that we have at the time." He urged people to heed the officials' warnings in an emergency like this to avoid putting themselves and others in danger.
Otago Daily Times
31-07-2025
- Climate
- Otago Daily Times
Tsunami alert: NEMA to investigate glitches
By Liu Chen of RNZ The National Emergency Management Agency says it will look into reports of apparent inconsistencies in how people received the latest emergency alerts. Tsunami activity threat for NZ extended One man reported nearly 50 of the alarms ringing out on his phone, while others said they did not receive an alert about the tsunami risk from the magnitude 8.8 earthquake off Russia on Wednesday. NEMA spokesperson John Price said the agency sent out two alerts - the first on Wednesday afternoon about 4.15pm and a second at 6.30am on Thursday morning. Price said they would be looking into why some people received 30 to 50 alerts to understand why that had occurred. "It could be different providers and different cell towers, there's a lot of possibilities." There was always room for improvement, he said, but NEMA was doing the best with what it currently had. "We will be working with the platform providers, with these telecommunication providers as well, to get to the bottom of why this may have occurred. "So yes, we are taking this seriously, and we will look into it to make sure that we can provide the best service for New Zealanders." Marlborough resident Terry Costello said he got the first alert on Wednesday afternoon. Then another ... and another. "By the time I went to bed at 10pm, they were still going on and there'd be 32 of them by then. And I turned my phone off at 10pm and went to bed. "I turned it on again at 7am this morning and since then I've had another 16. So that's 48 altogether I've had." Costello said it just kept going, he would get an alert and then another one a minute or two later. "Sometimes they give you a bit of a fright." Bodhi Twilley, who lives in west Auckland's Titirangi, said the alerts started when he was driving home with his son. "I kind of lost count, but it just keep happening." He got at least two alerts in the car and then another few once he got home - but also that was on two devices which added to the number of alerts. "So we're just constantly going off." Twilley said he received another two or three alerts when he got up on Thursday morning and then a couple more after he had left home. "The messages were so frequent that we just stopped reading them, basically because they were coming to all our devices and to everyone in the house, so they were just constantly going off." Others received no alert Donna Glass from Christchurch has received alerts before but unlike Costello and Twilley, she did not receive a single one this time. She did not understand why some were getting them and others not - even when they were all in the same space. "There were the seven of us at our book club last night in Christchurch and out of the seven of us, only one person had received a text, an alert text." Rosemarie Quax, who lives in Hamilton, said there were three cell phones in her household and none received an alert. She only learned about the tsunami warning through media reports. "I was listening to RNZ this morning and they were talking about some people getting numerous alerts and in the week they were getting woken up and I just said to my husband, 'well we didn't receive anything'." Price said the message was only directed to those people in areas that were deemed at risk and anyone who later entered an at risk area would receive the message at that point. Anyone in central New Zealand, for example, would not have received an emergency mobile alert because there was no need for them to get it, he said. People with their phones in flight mode or whose phones were turned off would not receive the alert, he said. Asked why if there were seven people in the same room only one got an emergency message on their phone, Price said the agency was looking into that. "I think the important thing is the message was received by some people there and therefore they have hopefully acted on the message." The system is tested annually across all of New Zealand and was last tested in May this year, he said. The tests have shown that the alerts cover about 90% of the country because there are some areas which do not have cell phone coverage, he said. Emergency Management Minister Mark Mitchell told RNZ there appeared to have been a glitch and NEMZ was working with telecommunications providers to resolve it. "What I've been told is it can be people standing, changing over different cell towers and it's triggering another alert. So those are glitches that we need to work on. "I mean, the good thing is that, like I said, the system hasn't been used for a long time nationally. So it's good that that these issues have been highlighted so that we can get to work and fix them." However, Mitchell said he was pleased with the authority's response to the tsunami warnings. "We've been proactive and we're making sure that people get the information they need that they can make the decisions that they have to make. "There's nothing alarmist about it. It's quite something the best information that we have at the time." He urged people to heed the officials' warnings in an emergency like this to avoid putting themselves and others in danger.
Yahoo
15-03-2025
- Yahoo
Detroit man sentenced for role in drug distribution network
DETROIT (FOX 2) - Joseph Twilley, 65 years old, of Detroit, was sentenced to just over 13 years in prison for overseeing a drug-trafficking network that officials said was laundering money and moving kilograms of cocaine, fentanyl, and heroin. Twilley was able to obtain kilograms of cocaine, fentanyl, and heroin at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic when drug prices skyrocketed as supplies dwindled. DEA and FBI's investigation culminated in the seizure of 15 kilograms of cocaine shipped from California in a hidden compartment in a vehicle. Agents then searched Twilley's residence and recovered heroin, fentanyl, multiple firearms, and bulk currency. IRS CI uncovered hundreds of thousands of dollars that Twilley laundered through various bank accounts for businesses he set up to hide his drug proceeds from law enforcement. Acting United States Attorney Julie Beck announced the sentence after United States District Judge Laurie J. Michelson made her ruling. Along with Beck were several other officials who worked on the investigation, including; Andrew Lawton, Acting Special Agent in Charge of Drug Enforcement Administration, Cheyvoryea Gibson, Special Agent in Charge of Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Charles E. Miller, Special Agent in Charge of the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigations, Detroit Field Division. "Our office works collaboratively with our federal law enforcement partners to hold drug traffickers accountable for distributing opioids and other illegal drugs into our communities while profiting handsomely and trying to hide and launder their drug proceeds. We have to stop not only the drug trafficking, but we have to remove the financial incentive to truly take down an organization like Twilley's," Beck said. The investigation of the case was conducted by the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Southeast Regional Strike Force, an Initiative that provides for the establishment of permanent multi-agency task force teams that work side-by-side in the same location. This co-located model enables agents from different agencies to collaborate on intelligence-driven, multi-jurisdictional operations to disrupt and dismantle the most significant drug traffickers, money launderers, gangs, and transnational criminal organizations. Assistant United States Attorneys Andrea Hutting and Rajesh Prasad prosecuted the case for the United States.
Miami Herald
11-02-2025
- Politics
- Miami Herald
FBI should go back to fighting real criminals, not Donald Trump
FBI treatment Re: the Feb. 9 op-ed, 'FBI agents deserve fair treatment, not purging.' My father was the Special Agent in Charge with the FBI in Fort Lauderdale from 1951-1968. He went after real criminals, bank robbers, kidnappers, tax evaders. He would be appalled at the state of the FBI today. Did former FBI Director James B. Comey give fair treatment to Donald Trump? Hardly. Mike Grealy, Plantation Censored app Despite DeepSeek becoming the top free application software in the United States in late January, the enthusiasm surrounding China's DeepSeek R1 has quickly deflated. Behind this initial success is a reason for skepticism. In contrast to other models like ChatGPT and Claude, DeepSeek is censored. For example, with prompts referring to 'Tiananmen Square,' 'Xi Jinping' and 'Taiwan,' its response is strikingly evasive: 'Sorry, that's beyond my current scope. Let's talk about something else.' When given the same prompts, however, ChatGPT and Claude provide substantive responses, highlighting China's persistent restrictions of free speech. Can DeepSeek and other entities under China's control be trusted elsewhere? Modesto A. Maidique, Edwin Luu, Miami Parkland anniversary Valentine's Day will mark the seventh anniversary of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland. To celebrate the occasion, salt was rubbed into the still-open wounds of the 17 victims' relatives and friends. Instead of banning military assault killing machines, a federal court of appeals, in all of its infinite wisdom, reverted a gun law banning anyone under 21 to own a gun, under the guise of age discrimination. Tom Sedor, Sr., West Palm Beach Dolphins great Howard Twilley, a mainstay on the Miami Dolphins receiving corps for 11 seasons, passed away last week. Twilley accomplished much during his life. He received many awards for his football skills. He also ran a successful business. It is purely a coincidence that Twilley died at age 81 and wore #81 on his jersey when he played for the Dolphins. I am sure he will be missed by many. Allan Tavss, Miami Art fest fee The entry fee to the Coconut Grove Art Festival, a once free event, has increased this year to $35 per person. This includes children ages 13 and above. In doing the math for a family of four — two adults and two early teens — the cost is close to $150.. While this may seem reasonable for the event's directors, a quick look at Miami's demographics suggests this falls way out of what most would call affordable. Apparently, the event has moved on from one designed for the 'common man' to one directed at the 'affluent.' Sid Kaskey, South Miami Illegal entry Once again, the liberal media and others have confused the difference between undocumented and illegal regarding those who willingly enter our country without any type of governmental clearance. These misguided entities refer to those who chose to enter our country in this matter as undocumented, as if they have an inherent right to be here, versus illegal, as they are violating our immigration laws. To give an example: if I left my house and simply forgot to bring my valid driver's license and was stopped by a police officer for a traffic offense, I am undocumented. If I never had a license or it was suspended, then I have committed a criminal traffic offense. Most of those illegally entering our country are fully aware they are committing a criminal act despite those who are attempting to ameliorate and justify their illegal acts. Isn't it time we stopped playing a game of semantics and simply told the truth regarding this issue? Charles Miller, Port St. Lucie Dynamic duo In an apparent desperate move to insure his relevancy, Gov. Ron DeSantis said he was 'supportive' of his wife running for governor of Florida. It would be an interesting test to learn whether a sitting first lady can hold any elected position, let alone a governorship. DeSantis seems to be hedging his bets on running for president again in 2028 by trying to hold on to power in Florida, even as a shadow governor. Alex Jimenez, Winter Park Medicare cuts Dear elected officials, I am a long time occupational therapy assistant and have been working in the skilled home health settings since 1996, licensed and for seven years, as an aide for the elderly. That is a lifetime of caring for the elderly and for people of all ages. We cannot afford anymore Medicare cuts to stay in business. These cuts affect not just employees, but also large and small business owners and most importantly, patients. Such patients could be your parents, your spouse and eventually, your children. Our elderly have worked their entire lives for this right to get better and stronger. I have seen with my own eyes and through my life of experience in health care, the effects of occupational, physical and speech therapy in a person's life. I urge you to commit to abolishing this Medicare decrease and future cuts that impact our seniors' lives. Pamela Siclari, Pompano Beach Down at the strip President Donald Trump wants to develop the Gaza Strip as a tourist destination. This reminds us of another famous strip that once caught his fancy: Atlantic City, New Jersey. It did not end well. The 39-story Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino was finally razed in 2021, leaving a pile of rubble that has yet to be rebuilt. Much like poor Gaza. Susan Whitman-Helfgot, Coral Gables Rubio must go Marco Rubio should resign immediately, unless he wants to be known forever as the person who ended American 'soft power' in a manner that led to immeasurable hunger, illness and death in low-income countries. Until he became Secretary of State, Sen. Rubio was one of the major proponents of foreign assistance for health. He even asked the Biden administration to increase funding for certain programs at USAID. Rubio articulated well the importance of foreign assistance to America's leadership in the world, to not ceding power to China and to saving lives and creating opportunity in poor countries. However, he now presides over the dismantling of USAID. This smacks of a profound lack of integrity, immeasurable hypocrisy and discarding his strong commitment to the well-being of vulnerable people in the rest of the world. By resigning immediately, Rubio can preserve some part of his reputation and hopefully, some of his integrity. Richard Skolnik, Whiterock, NM Exiles betrayed Re: Andres Oppenheimer's Jan. 31 opinion, 'Trump betrayed Venezuelan exiles by revoking TPS and engaging Maduro.' Why are Venezuelan exiles surprised by President Trump's betrayal and his interest in Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro? They can't say they didn't know this malignant narcissist would promise anything to anyone to secure their votes. He demonstrated his pathological lying almost daily during his first term in office and in the preceding and subsequent years. Indeed, his false accusations about Venezuelans echoes nearly word for word what he said about Mexicans. Recall his demagoguery in Hialeah in November 2023, where he plied his divisive politics against South American immigrants — to a crowd of applauding Cubans. Sadly, the Venezuelan community did what too many others did in the last election: believe a wannabe dictator while trying to protect themselves from a sitting dictator. June S. Neal, Delray Beach Plain vanilla President Trump's blatant hatred of diversity, equity and inclusion was made obvious during his news conference on the mid-air collision over the Potomac River almost two weeks ago. Does that mean the only people he finds acceptable for his Secret Service protection teams and for air crews for Marine I and Air Force I, are Caucasian males? Michael Marmesh, Miami
New York Times
07-02-2025
- Sport
- New York Times
Howard Twilley, Receiver on the 1972 Champion Dolphins, Dies at 81
Howard Twilley, a key receiver for the Miami Dolphins during the team's perfect 1972 season and a Heisman Trophy runner-up at the University of Tulsa, died on Wednesday. He was 81. An announcement of his death by a Tulsa spokesperson did not say where Twilley died or cite a cause. Twilley caught a touchdown pass in Super Bowl VII against Washington as Miami rolled to a 14-7 victory to cap a 17-0 season. He also played for the Dolphins team that repeated as Super Bowl champions the next season. Though relatively undersized as a wide receiver, at 5 feet 10 inches and 185 pounds, he had a respectable 11-year pro career, all of it in Miami, that lasted until 1976, finishing with 212 receptions for 3,064 yards and 23 touchdowns. At Tulsa, Twilley put up remarkable numbers in the mid-1960s, an era when college teams usually stuck to the ground game. He caught 261 passes for 3,343 yards and 32 touchdowns. His Tulsa record for career yards receiving stood until Keylon Stokes broke it in 2022. In 1965, Twilley was the Heisman runner-up to Southern California's Mike Garrett. He had 134 catches for 1,779 yards that season, N.C.A.A. records that stood for more than two decades. In one game, against Louisville, he caught five touchdown passes and had 230 yards receiving. He also had 267 yards on 16 catches against Memphis, 242 yards on 18 receptions against Southern Illinois, 226 yards on 14 catches against Cincinnati, and 214 yards on 19 catches against Colorado State. Twilley was the captain of the Academic All-America team in 1965 and the Most Valuable Player of the 1966 Senior Bowl. The Minnesota Vikings selected him in the 14th round of the 1966 National Football League draft, and Miami chose him in the 12th round of the American Football League draft. He chose the Dolphins, a first-year team. Howard James Twilley Jr. was born on Dec. 25, 1943, in Houston. Information on survivors was not immediately available. After leaving football, he owned and operated sporting goods stores in Oklahoma, Arkansas and Texas. He considered running for Congress in Oklahoma in 1994 but chose instead to support another former Tulsa receiver, Steve Largent, who ran as a Republican and won a seat in the House of Representatives, which he held for four terms. Twilley was inducted into the Tulsa Athletic Hall of Fame in 1984, the College Football Hall of Fame in 1992 and the Oklahoma Hall of Fame in 1995. Tulsa has retired his jersey, No. 81 — the same number he wore in Miami.
