Blown out in Buffalo; Rodgers and Defense Flop in 40-14 LossAs of mid-December, FEMA shelled out $1.1 billion for Floridians who were victims of hurricanes Debby, Helene and Milton, according to an agency spokesperson. It’s about the same amount the agency dispersed across Florida after Ian in 2022, which was the costliest hurricane in state history. Unlike two years ago, however, much of the damage this time was clustered in Tampa Bay, which bore the brunt of the three storms. Combined, homeowners and renters in Hillsborough and Pinellas received $670 million from FEMA this year. And yet, how federal officials have distributed the record amount of aid varied, leaving those hit the hardest with vastly different perceptions of FEMA. For the full story, please visit miamiherald.comAP Trending SummaryBrief at 11:43 p.m. ESTno way out the roulette 。

SEOUL - Investigators probing South Korea's Yoon Suk Yeol over his short-lived declaration of martial law said on Monday they had sought an arrest warrant for the suspended president after he failed to report for questioning. Yoon briefly suspended civilian rule this month, plunging South Korea into its worst political crisis in decades. He was stripped of his presidential duties by parliament over the action, but a constitutional court ruling is pending on whether to confirm the impeachment. The conservative leader also faces criminal charges of insurrection, which could result in life imprisonment or even the death penalty. A former prosecutor himself, Yoon had been summoned three times by investigators for questioning, but refused to present himself each time -- including by yesterday's deadline. "The Joint Investigation Headquarters filed an arrest warrant for President Yoon Suk Yeol with the Seoul Western District Court", said the probe team in a statement. The application by investigators marks the first attempt in the country's history to forcibly detain a president before the impeachment procedure is complete. Yoon is being investigated by prosecutors as well as a joint team comprising police, defence ministry, and anti-corruption officials. A 10-page prosecutors' report seen by AFP stated that Yoon authorised the military to fire weapons if needed to enter parliament during his failed martial law bid. Yoon's lawyer Yoon Kab-keun had dismissed the prosecutors' report, telling AFP it was "a one-sided account that neither corresponds to objective circumstances nor common sense". - 'Drag them out' - Yoon declared martial law in an unannounced televised address on December 3, saying it was aimed at eliminating "anti-state elements". Lawmakers rushed to parliament within minutes of the declaration to vote it down. At the same time, heavily armed troops stormed the building, scaling fences, smashing windows and landing by helicopter. According to the prosecution indictment report, Yoon told the chief of the capital defence command, Lee Jin-woo, that military forces could shoot if necessary to enter the National Assembly. "Have you still not got in? What are you doing? Break down the door and drag them out, even if it means shooting," Yoon told Lee, according to the report. Yoon also allegedly told the head of the Defense Counterintelligence Command, General Kwak Jong-keun, to "quickly get inside" the National Assembly since the quorum for lifting the martial law declaration had not been met. "So quickly get inside the National Assembly and bring out the people inside the chamber, and break down the doors with an axe if necessary and drag everyone out," the report quotes Yoon as saying at the time. The report also said there was evidence that Yoon had been discussing declaring martial law with senior military officials as early as March. As investigations began against Yoon, attempts by prosecutors to search his offices were blocked by the presidential security team. South Korea's political turmoil deepened late last week when Yoon's replacement, Han Duck-soo, was also impeached by parliament for failing to sign through bills for investigations into Yoon. Finance Minister Choi Sang-mok has taken over as the new acting president, and found himself thrust immediately into a disaster with the Jeju Air plane crash that claimed 179 lives.

NoneCEZ, a. s. ( OTCMKTS:CEZYY – Get Free Report )’s share price dropped 0.3% during trading on Friday . The company traded as low as $18.00 and last traded at $18.00. Approximately 100 shares traded hands during mid-day trading, a decline of 99% from the average daily volume of 9,661 shares. The stock had previously closed at $18.05. CEZ, a. s. Stock Performance The firm’s 50-day simple moving average is $18.00 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $18.00. About CEZ, a. s. ( Get Free Report ) CEZ, a. s. engages in the generation, distribution, trade, and sale of electricity and heat in Western, Central, and Southeastern Europe. The company operates through four segments: Generation, Distribution, Sales, and Mining. It operates hydro, wind, solar, nuclear, coal, natural gas, biogas, and biomass power plants; and combined cycle gas turbine plant and small combined heat and power units. Recommended Stories Receive News & Ratings for CEZ a. s. Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for CEZ a. s. and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter .

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Drop in Boxing Day footfall ‘signals return to declining pre-pandemic levels’Education The free and compulsory primary education has been focused in each successive government’s education policy, but the programme was never implemented in letter and spirit. Resultantly, goals set under SDGs, particularly those relating to primary education for all, remained low by great margin from the target. Resultantly, Pakistan is faced with the lowest literacy rate and a glaring inequality in education gender wise. According to recent Human Development report, published by UNDP, regarding gender gap, Pakistan has been placed at 145th position out of 146 countries surveyed. Only 27.9 percent of females of the age 15 and above are literate. As per statics of 2022, there were 80 percent and 55 percent literacy rates in urban and rural areas, respectively, of the country. In rural areas, female enrolment rate is around 42 percent. Female enrolment was recorded highest at primary level, but seems to decrease progressively at secondary, college and tertiary levels. Keeping in view the size of the social sector development programme, there is a need to increase allocations for education and health sectors. The present allocation for education, being 2.7 percent of GNP or 8.8 percent of total government expenditures, is woefully low. Status of women development in Pakistan–I However, it is a matter of satisfaction that new education policy has its focus on technical education, particularly on information technology for women. In recent years, non-governmental sector’s role has gained a lot of importance in developing and implementing social sector initiatives. Donor agencies and government itself have inducted notable NGOs for promoting female education in less-developed areas of all the four provinces speedily, realizing the fact that education besides having its intrinsic worth has impact on human capital, productivity and capabilities for participation and social interaction. Economic empowerment According to Human Development report of 2022, population earning dollars two or less per day exceeds 84% of the total population. Nearly 70 percent of this poverty-stricken population of Pakistan is women. In order to eradicate poverty and empower women economically, their participation in economic process needs to be enhanced. In recent years there has been substantial increase in urban women participation in economic activity due to increase in the number of educated women, rising cost of living and successive governments’ objective of mainstreaming women in economic process. Despite increasing involvement of women in economic activity, there is wide gender gap regarding size of earnings. The human development report depicts a woman’s earnings equivalent to US dollar 916 against 2,884 of man. The report also reveals that employment of women in Agriculture is 66 percent of total female population, whereas male employment ratio in agriculture is only 41 percent. Females’ average contribution to total family income has improved to 39 percent. This is mainly due to increasing responsibilities imposed on women to maintain not only themselves, but also their rapidly growing families. Resultantly, their deployment in informal sector continues to increase. Women’s share in formal sector, particularly in civil and financial services, has enhanced considerably. In NPS grades 16 to 22 their percentage has improved to 11 percent, whereas in lower scales it continues to be 5 percent for last 10 years. In financial sector, women employees’ strength has got doubled in last 10 years and women have been provided opportunities to elevate themselves to clinch top and senior management positions. Actual need is to look into plight of women in informal sector where legal and economic rights are being denied due to lacunae in labor laws relating to the fields where most women work. Hence informal sector is needed to be documented, making registration of each employee of business units compulsory irrespective of its size to remove all exploitations of workers. The reserved quota for women in all civil services and public sector corporations needs to be enhanced to 20% at least and to be monitored strictly. Government’s initiatives to motivate women to become self–employed deserve appreciation. Women have been given easy access to credit through specialized financial institutions like First Women Bank and SME Bank and also Micro Credit Banks both in public and private sectors. The recent involvement of Export Promotion Bureau and Chambers of Commerce and Industry to improve business and technical skills of businesswomen is really commendable. Creation of separate chambers of trade and commerce is yet another advantageous step to promote businesses of women. They organize seminars and technical courses on continuous basis for the purpose, and to create market for their products, exhibitions are being held both abroad and within the country. This will go a long way in motivating women to set up businesses not only for their own economic well-being, but also for the country’s overall economic development. Further, historically, women now have the largest-ever representation in Assemblies, Senate and Local governments. They will have parliamentary strength to influence legislative processes for reviewing all discriminatory laws against women and also to prevail upon economic managers of the country to make greater allocations for social sector and women development in particular. (Concluded) Copyright Business Recorder, 2024

Direxion Daily AAPL Bull 2X Shares ( NASDAQ:AAPU – Get Free Report ) saw a significant drop in short interest in December. As of December 15th, there was short interest totalling 285,300 shares, a drop of 25.8% from the November 30th total of 384,300 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 500,100 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 0.6 days. Direxion Daily AAPL Bull 2X Shares Stock Performance AAPU opened at $39.30 on Friday. The stock has a 50-day moving average of $37.67 and a 200-day moving average of $36.33. Direxion Daily AAPL Bull 2X Shares has a 52-week low of $20.48 and a 52-week high of $43.10. The company has a market cap of $109.25 million, a PE ratio of 23.89 and a beta of -1.95. Direxion Daily AAPL Bull 2X Shares Cuts Dividend The business also recently declared a dividend, which will be paid on Tuesday, December 31st. Shareholders of record on Monday, December 23rd will be issued a dividend of $0.2953 per share. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, December 23rd. Hedge Funds Weigh In On Direxion Daily AAPL Bull 2X Shares About Direxion Daily AAPL Bull 2X Shares ( Get Free Report ) The Direxion Daily AAPL Bull 1.5X Shares (AAPU) is an exchange-traded fund that is based on the Apple Inc index. The fund provides 1.5x leveraged exposure, less fees and expenses, to the daily price movement for shares of Apple stock. AAPU was launched on Aug 9, 2022 and is managed by Direxion. Featured Stories Receive News & Ratings for Direxion Daily AAPL Bull 2X Shares Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for Direxion Daily AAPL Bull 2X Shares and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter .The Super Football Conference released its All-Division football teams for the 2024 season. You can find the selections for the Patriot White Division below. NOTE : The selections were made by coaches from the conference and not reporters from NJ.com . If an athlete’s name is misspelled, please let us know and we will make the correction. First Team Offense QB: Clark Mohrbutter, Nutley, Sr. Skill: Anthony Drago, West Essex, Sr. Skill: Dante Benvenuti, Passaic Valley, Jr. Skil: Nick Hurley, Passaic Valley, Jr. Skill: John Mongeli, Wayne Hills, Sr. OL: Mikey Cerisano, West Essex, Sr. OL: Joey Russo, West Essex, Sr. OL: Richard Breitwesser, Passaic Valley, Jr. OL: Cole Blazeman, Caldwell, Sr. OL: Aidan Hartney, Caldwell, Sr. TE: Kiefer Curi, Millburn, Sr. At-Large: Nick Mignone, Caldwell, Jr. First Team Defense DL: Mike Conforti, West Essex, Sr. DL: Kenneth VanWinkle, Passaic Valley. Sr. DL: Anthony Capaldo, Caldwell, Sr. DL: Tylr Vonroth, Nutley, Sr. LB: Brady Phillips, West Essex, Sr. LB: Nick Sangillo, West Essex, Sr. LB: A’Meire Simpson, Passaic Valley, Sr. LB: Christian Meletta, Passaic Valley. Jr. DB: Max Garcia, West Essex, Sr. DB: Vasili Vasilopoulos, Wayne Hills, Jr. DB: Vincent Giaquinto, West Essex, Sr. At-Large: Mike Mignone, Caldwell, Sr. Special Teams K: Ryan Feldman, Millburn, Sr. P: Aaron Viray, Wayne Hills, Sr. R: Max Delagarde, Wayne Hills, Sr. Second Team Offense QB: Mike Fitzsimmons, Wayne Hills, Jr. Skill: Justin Perini, West Essex, Jr. Skill: Adam Sepe, Caldwell, Fr. Skill: Jack Monisera, Wayne Hills, Sr. Skill: Vincent Berardi, Passaic Valley, Jr. OL: Daniel Bucher, Passaic Valley, Sr. OL: Elvis Nikollaj, Caldwell, Jr. OL: Cole DiMarco, West Essex, Sr. OL: Damiano Farro, Nutley, Sr. OL: Owen Troesch, Millburn, Jr. At-Large: Anthony Bagnuoic, Passaic Valley, Jr. Second Team Defense DL: Jack Kostick, West Essex, Sr. DL: Tristan Puerta, Passaic Valley, Sr. DL: Jalun Caraballo, Nutley, Jr. DL: Alejandro Martin, Millburn, Jr. LB: Jake Long, West Essex, Jr. LB: Troy Demikoff, Wayne Hills, So. LB: Aidan Rotbaum, Nutley, So. LB: Santino Russo, Caldwell, So. DB: Nick Moyano, Caldwell, Jr. DB: Oliver Kik, West Essex, Sr. DB: Marc Meola, Passasic Valley, Sr. Honorable Mention Yeshua Cuello, West Essex, Sr. Ayden Mulroony, Passaic Valley, Sr. Nico Sozio, Caldwell, So. Jack Rewick, Wayne Hills, Sr. Jeremiah Tirado, Nutley, Jr. PJ Sicoli, Millburn, Jr. Coach of the Year Chris Benacquista, West Essex RECOMMENDED • nj .com Boys Bowling preview, 2024-25: Divisional alignments heading into the winter Nov. 18, 2024, 11:30 a.m. Late former Caldwell AD Ron San Fillipo wore many hats - all with grace & style Nov. 19, 2024, 7:31 p.m. Mike Kinney can be reached at mkinney@njadvancemedia.com The N.J. High School Sports newsletter is now appearing in mailboxes 5 days a week. Sign up now! Follow us on social: Facebook | Instagram | X (formerly Twitter)

After being blown out in Buffalo by a score of 40-14, it’s clear that the 2024 NFL season can’t come to an end soon enough for Aaron Rodgers and the New York Jets . The Bills took an early lead and never looked back. It may have looked like a game the Jets would be able to keep close as they had multiple drives that landed them in Buffalo territory. However, the Jets failed to capitalize as Aaron Rodgers finished the day with two interceptions. Tyrod Taylor would come on in relief of Rodgers and lead a couple of touchdown drives that saw Garrett Wilson and Tyler Conklin find the end zone. The loss drops the Jets to 4-12 which has them currently slated to pick sixth in the draft. This article first appeared on JetNation.com and was syndicated with permission.It comes as Propertymark, which represents estate agents, said selling property or turning to the short-term letting market is becoming a "more attractive" option for landlords. Provisional figures from the Office for National Statistics show the average private rent in St Helens reached £708 per month in the year to October – up 9% from £650 a year prior. It was also up 34% from an estimated £527 a month five years ago. Valuation Office Agency rent officers collect prices from a variety of sources, including landlords and letting agents, with the aim to collect data on approximately 10% of the market. Across the North West, the average rent was £870 – rising 10% from the year before. Trafford had the highest rental cost in the region at £1,278 per month, while the lowest was in Burnley at £582. Sarah Coles, head of personal finance at Hargreaves Lansdown, said: "Getting good news about your rent is about as common as discovering your housemates have washed up for you, or your landlord suggesting you get a dog. "It means for many, the only way out of the endless cycle of rising costs is to buy, but this is far easier said than done when rents absorb so much of your income." In October, the average private rent in Great Britain was £1,307 per month. This was £105, or 9%, higher than 12 months ago. Nathan Emerson, chief executive at Propertymark, said: "As we continue to see a further increase in rental prices across the UK, our members continue to emphasise key concerns regarding the ongoing trend of lack of rental stock versus an ever-growing number of tenants looking for homes. "Selling up altogether or turning to the short-term letting market is becoming a more attractive option for landlords due to the challenging legislative changes and increased financial liabilities they face." The figures also show the different costs for various homes in St Helens, from £518 for a one-bed property to £1,165 for a home with four or more bedrooms in October. Among the property types in the area: A detached housed cost £1,036 to rent per month A semi-detached cost £774 per month A terraced house was £697 per month And a flat or maisonette was £604 a month

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