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Plane emergency evacuation slide lands in Chicago neighborhood

18/07/202321/04/2025dansa

An emergency evacuation slide from a plane that landed Monday at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago apparently fell off and was found in a nearby neighborhood, officials said.

No injuries were reported. Pictures from NBC Chicago showed officials removing what looked like a large section of plastic-like material. It landed in a backyard, the station reported.

Maintenance workers at the airport noticed the slide was missing from a United Airlines Boeing 767 that had just arrived from Switzerland, the Federal Aviation Administration said.

“We immediately contacted the FAA and are working with our team to better understand the circumstances around this matter,” the airline said in a statement.

The flight from Zurich landed safely with 155 passengers and 10 crew members aboard, the airline said.

The slide is in a compartment near the wing and exit door, and the door wouldn’t have to open for it to fall off, a source with knowledge of the situation said. The compartment door was open when it landed, the source said.

The FAA said it is investigating.

Lawyer hired for land program at UAPB

10/07/202321/04/2025dansa

Amy Pritchard has been hired as a consultant attorney in a program that provides educational resources and technical assistance to Black forest landowners to protect and to retain their family land for future generations.

She will work for the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff Keeping it in the Family (KIITF) Sustainable Forestry and African American Land Retention Program.

Pritchard has served as a partner for the KIITF Program since its inception in 2016. In that capacity, she has helped educate Arkansas forest landowners through the program’s in-person and virtual outreach meetings.

“As a legal consultant, my main responsibility is to provide legal education and information to family landowners and help family landowners to address and prevent problems associated with heirs’ property,” she said. “I started hearing about heirs’ property when I was a legal aid attorney and law professor nearly a decade ago. This type of property leaves families without the clear titles that allow for active management of the land, thereby limiting any economic returns.”

Challenges associated with heirs’ property status are the leading cause of involuntary land loss among Black farmers, Pritchard said. Heirs’ property refers to family-owned land passed down without a will and held by

Westwold property owner loses land, barn and bridge in rising river | iNFOnews

22/05/202321/04/2025dansa

The overflowing Salmon River at 8440 Douglas Lake Road in Westwold.

Image Credit: SUBMITTED/ Sterett Mercer

May 11, 2023 – 7:00 AM

A property owner in Westwold is losing land and structures after the Salmon River crested on May 6, and is now under a local emergency order with the TNRD.

Strett Mercer, whose primary home is in Burnaby, spent a few harrowing days at the property in Westwold over the weekend as river waters eroded his land, took out a farm bridge and threatened to topple his barn. He said two large trees fell down and were backing up the even more flow, directing more water to the bank edge.

“It was scary, I’ve never seen a river run like that,” he said. “I was with the neighbor, wondering if I should pull everything out of the barn to save it, trying to figure out what to do.”

Mercer hesitated to take action, concerned about provincial regulations around working around rivers and elements of whether the costs of trying to stop the erosion himself would be covered by insurance. He set up a security camera and returned to

LETTER: Saanich ignores the encroaching properties of municipal land

15/05/202321/04/2025dansa

Across Saanich, dozens, if not hundreds, of properties encroach upon municipal property and, despite current CAO Brent Reems’ assurances (report to council, April 2018), little is being done to prevent it. Thousands of square feet of public property, worth millions of dollars, upon which no taxes are being paid, have been illegally appropriated by homeowners for their sole use and enjoyment. People who know how to manipulate the system are obtaining permits for fences and hedges at the expense of the majority.

In 2020, the Saanich Engineering Department issued a boulevard permit, contrary to policy and for which there is no charge, for a fence. Granting the homeowners a strip of property worth roughly $16,000 and with the consent of the Bylaw Department. In just the last year I have appealed to the Bylaw Department to enforce infractions in clear violation of bylaws dealing with encroachments on roughly 2,000 square feet of municipal property, yet Brent Reems maintains the municipality’s policy of discretionary enforcement and nothing has happened.

While many of these encroachments endanger public health and safety by forcing pedestrians to walk on roadways [an illegal act in itself, MVA part 3, section 182(2)] the municipality regularly turns a

Transition to EVs shakes up the familiar Jaguar, Land Rover luxury brands

29/04/202321/04/2025dansa

Say goodbye to the Land Rover brand, and get ready for a smaller, much more expensive model line from Jaguar.

Those are the top-line takeaways from Jaguar Land Rover’s new strategy, as first reported by Automotive News.

The storied Land Rover brand name will reportedly be relegated to a “trust mark” badge on tailgates — perhaps elsewhere; the announcement is short on details. The Jaguar brand — so esteemed that Ford paid $2.5 billion for it in 1989 — will finally abandon efforts to become a full-line luxury brand, shifting upmarket to build fewer — one hopes more profitable — vehicles that compete with the top of Mercedes’ and BMW’s lines. Prices will start north of $125,000 and likely elevate into Rolls-Royce/Bentley territory.

Land Rover, on the other hand, will grow into three separate brands: Range Rover, Discovery and Defender.

My first thoughts? It’s fair to view highly publicized “rebranding” campaigns skeptically.

A billion here, a billion there

Ford paid $2.75 billion for Land Rover in 2000, for those of you scoring at home. Neither Jaguar nor Land Rover acquisitions paid off. Ford sold Jaguar and Land Rover to current owner Tata Motors of India for $2.23 billion in 2008.

The company sees room for hotels on vacant land near Routes 41, 42 in Deptford

14/03/2023dansa

DEPTFORD — The thriving hospitality business here may add more hotels off Route 41 near Deptford Center Road, a traffic-heavy strip that already hosts four relatively new hotels.

A Wilmington firm, SSN Hotels LLC, wants to build two hotels on land at the rear of Harmony Lane, according to information before the township’s planning board.

The location is off Route 41, or Hurffville Road, a street that currently holds four hotels.

The last official use of the partially wooded property was a storage lot for trash containers and construction vehicles and equipment, according to reports.

The hotels’ site plan was set for a planning board review on March 8, potentially with a vote on final approval. That meeting was canceled with no new date set for a hearing, according to the township.

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The proposal calls for:

A Townplace Suites hotel of 18,390 square feet, with 112 guest rooms
A Home 2 Suites of 17,280 square feet, with 106 guest rooms

Both four-story hotels would have indoor pools and fitness rooms, as well as bar areas and