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SINGAPORE: When the history of this tumultuous week in South Korean politics is written, legislators who demanded the president rescind his declaration of martial law will surely be lauded. It’s also worth standing back to examine the role that economics has played in the country’s transition to democracy, and why that least-worst system of government, to quote Winston Churchill, survived. The contribution of capitalism – its constraints and opportunities – has been vital. The rhythms of global commerce have been present at key points in South Korea’s journey. It’s fair to say that without the thrills and spills of money, there wouldn’t have been a mature democracy to protect. That you may not have noticed is a testament to its success and durability. Of all the potential year-end shocks that traders had gamed out, Tuesday (Dec 3) night's brief but alarming events didn't come close to making the cut. Markets were braced for social media posts on outlandish cabinet picks by Donald Trump, new tariff threats, and the prospect of a French government implosion, not an attempted coup by President Yoon Suk Yeol . NO ECONOMIC BLOODBATH AFTER MARTIAL LAW CRISIS The reaction was swift but contained: The currency tumbled in offshore trading, along with other assets tied to South Korea. By Wednesday morning, after lawmakers rebuked Yoon, the won had recouped losses and bonds were little changed. Equities fell in local trading, but by no means was it a bloodbath. Regulators were ready to provide ample liquidity. Dramatic gestures like shutting the stock exchange were eschewed, as were panicky moves like further interest-rate cuts. Officials backstopped the system without fuss. This is the way it's supposed to work: Instill confidence, not sap it. Textbook central banking. This doesn't mean the economy will sail smoothly. Gross domestic product rebounded slightly in the third quarter from a modest contraction in the previous three months. The Bank of Korea had already signalled its worries by unexpectedly reducing borrowing costs last week, and making concerned noises about a resumption of trade wars. But a cyclical downdraft is different from a shock that strikes at the heart of the administration. (When I previously wrote that the country was preparing for bleak days, the would-be putsch wasn’t what I foresaw.) ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL UPHEAVAL IN ASIA The good news is that economics and political upheaval have often been strange bedfellows in South Korea – and elsewhere in Asia. As military-backed leaders in Seoul pushed rapid industrialisation in the years after the 1950 to 1953 war that left the peninsula divided, it was almost inevitable that prosperity would bring with it a rising middle class that became more aspirational and demanded a greater say in how it was governed. The scrutiny that came with integration in supply chains, inbound and outbound investment, and the price demanded for access to global markets forced South Korea to clean up its act. Booms also bring busts and Seoul came within an inch of default in the late 1990s during the Asian financial crisis. As wrenching as the meltdown was, it was also part of a big shift in the country’s politics. For the first time, a long-standing opposition politician, Kim Dae-jung, was elected president. Government figures tried to murder him during the dictatorship years, but American intervention kept Kim alive. His moment came and the transition to full democracy was complete. FORCES UNLEASED BY CAPITALISM AND AN OPEN ECONOMY As lawmakers debated the future of the now disgraced Yoon on Wednesday, a former South Korean trade minister sat down with Bloomberg journalists in Singapore. I asked him whether, from a historical vantage point, the ebbs and flows of capitalism were effectively the midwife to democracy in Korea. “Absolutely,” replied Yeo Han-koo, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington. “There's no turning back.” Financial swings also led to a revolution and, ultimately, a freer system in Indonesia. It hasn’t been perfect; the years after the International Monetary Fund imposed harsh conditions on loans that pushed autocratic ruler Suharto out were marred by communal violence and efforts by far flung provinces to break away. Although Suharto’s son-in-law, Prabowo Subianto, now sits in the presidential office, he had to get there the hard way – via the ballot box. In Malaysia, Mahathir Mohamad held on to power for a few years after the financial collapse, but the ructions it produced cemented Anwar Ibrahim as the leading alternative. Anwar became prime minister in 2022 and presides over a sprawling coalition that, against the odds, he has held together. There are exceptions to these encouraging stories: China didn’t democratise as its economy flourished and markets took shape. If anything, it has gone in the opposite direction: President Xi Jinping has accrued more personal authority than any leader since Mao Zedong. Perhaps the moral is you have to be very big to stand against the forces that thriving capitalism and an open economy unleash. Taiwan did manage the transition after decades of enviable growth. Governance can take detours, as Koreans have found out. But the necessities of operating within the global economic system also bring checks on the power of ambitious leaders. Let’s salute the people of South Korea, but also the not-so-invisible hand of commercial priorities.Central kicker Nathan Zimmer (41) boots the extra point in the first quarter of the Division I non select regional game against West Ouachita on Friday, November 22, 2024 in Central, Louisiana. Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save BUNKIE VS. DUNHAM Division III select 7 p.m. at Parkview Baptist RECORDS: No. 5 Bunkie 12-0; No. 1 Dunham 12-0 LAST WEEK: Bunkie beat Jewel Sumner 14-12; Dunham beat Lafayette Christian 34-30 PLAYERS TO WATCH: BUNKIE: QB Dillon Compton, LB Luke Normand, WR Kyle Johnson, RB Zion Lee; DUNHAM: QB Elijah Haven, DL Elliot Trahan, WR Jarvis Washington, OL Joshua Beychok. NOTEWORTHY: Bunkie is in the semifinals for the first time since 1988 ... Dunham seeks its second Prep Classic berth in three years ... Haven has passed for 2,455 yards and 32 TDs, along with 601 rushing yards and 16 TDs ... Trahan has 68.5 tackles with 12.5 sacks/tackles for loss ... Johnson, a Houston signee, has 900 yards receiving for Bunkie. CATHOLIC VS. KARR Division I select 7 p.m. at Morris Jeff Stadium RECORDS: No. 4 Catholic 11-0; No. 1 Karr 11-0 LAST WEEK: Catholic beat Rummel 14-7; Karr beat St. Thomas More 42-14 PLAYERS TO WATCH: CATHOLIC: DB Jacob Bradford, OL Erv Smith, WR-KR Cohen LeBlanc, LB Max Maurer; KARR: DL Corey Adams, WR TaRon Francis, A Aiden Hall, DL Richard Anderson. NOTEWORTHY: Catholic is the defending Division I select champion ... Karr seeks its first title since 2019 when the Cougars were the Class 4A champions ... Catholic’s Bradford signed with LSU on Wednesday ... Catholic QB Baylor Graves has 1,386 passing yards and completed 72 percent of his passes ... Francis is one two LSU signees for Karr. CECILIA AT PLAQUEMINE Division II nonselect 7 p.m. at PHS’ Canova Stadium RECORDS: No. 18 Cecilia 10-3 at No. 6 Plaquemine 12-1 LAST WEEK: Cecilia beat North DeSoto 57-40; Plaquemine beat Opelousas 35-22 PLAYERS TO WATCH: CECILIA: QB Diesel Solari, DB/WR Brent Gordon, RB Braylon Calaias; PLAQUEMINE: RB Tyrese Mosby, DL Paul Smith, QB Nico Victorian, WR John Walker. NOTEWORTHY: Cecilia was the Division III nonselect runner-up a year ago ... It's Plaquemine’s first semifinal berth in 10 years ...Solari is a returning all-state player for CHS ... Mosby has 2,350 rushing yards and 37 TDs, while Victorian has passed for 1,994 yards and 27 TDs for the Green Devils. CENTRAL AT NEVILLE Division I nonselect 7 p.m. at Neville-Monroe RECORDS: No. 4 Central 11-1; No. 1 Neville 11-1. LAST WEEK: Central beat West Monroe 21-7; Neville beat Chalmette 31-7 PLAYERS TO WATCH: CENTRAL: DL DK Mays, QB Jackson Firmin, DB Steven Ranel, OL Graham Harris, LV KD Mays; NEVILLE: QB Parker Robinson, RB Jaylon Nichols, DB Jayden Reed, WR Trendon Dumas. NOTEWORTHY: The teams meet in the playoffs for the second straight year ... In 2023, the No. 18 Wildcats upset No. 2 Neville 17-16 in the regional round ... Central’s last semifinal berth was in 2008 ... ... Robinson has passed for 2,169 yards and 18 TDs, while Nichols has 1,158 rushing yards and 22 TDs for Neville ... Central's Firmin, a Nicholls signee, has passed for 1,428 yards, nine TDs. MADISON PREP VS. SHAW Division II select 7 p.m. at Joe Zimmerman Stadium RECORDS: No. 5 Madison Prep 9-3; No. 2 Archbishop Shaw 10-2 LAST WEEK: Madison Prep beat Istrouma 13-6; Shaw beat Kennedy 21-14 PLAYERS TO WATCH: MADISON: QB Tylan Johnson, RB Alfred McKnight, LB Calvin Spears, OL Robric Walker; SHAW: RB Jasper Parker, QB Mason Wilson, LB Rontrae Carter. NOTEWORTHY: MPA seeks its first finals berth since winning the Class 3A title in 2020 ... Shaw is led by Parker, who signed with Michigan, as did Eagle WR Jacob Washington on Wednesday ... The Chargers have a triple threat with QB Johnson (2,259 passing yards, 28 TDs), McKnight (1,354 yards, 20 TDs) and WR Keyon Robinson (1,116 receiving yards, 12 TDs). OUACHITA CHRISTIAN VS. ASCENSION CATHOLIC Division IV select 7 p.m. at Boutte Stadium RECORDS: No. 11 Ouachita Christian 12-1; No. 2 Ascension Catholic 11-0 LAST WEEK: Ouachita Christian beat Covenant Christian 30-16; Ascension Catholic beat Riverside Academy 40-35 PLAYERS TO WATCH: OUACHITA CHRISTIAN: QB Luke Vidrine, RB Makin Lenard, DL Cooper Russell ASCENSION CATHOLIC: RB Chad Elzy Jr., LB Mace Melancon, DL Josh Barber, OL Austin Paine. NOTEWORTHY: ACHS seeks its first title-game berth since 2018 ... OCS plays in a Baton Rouge-area semifinal for the second straight year, the Eagles lost to Southern Lab in 2023 ... ACHS’ Elzy has rushed for 1,977 yards, 35 TDs and averages 10.7 yards per carry ... Camille LeBoeuf adds 1.125 passing yards for ACHS... Luke Vidrine leads OCS with 2,244 passing yards and 25 TDs ... Makin Lenard has 1,443 yards rushing, 24 TDs. UNION PARISH AT ST. JAMES Division III nonselect 7 p.m. at SJHS RECORDS: No. 5 Union 9-4; No. 1 St. James 9-2 LAST WEEK: Union beat Kinder 44-14; St. James beat Pine 26-7 PLAYERS TO WATCH: UNION: RB Derrick Dew, QB Braxton Patterson, LB Tyquereis Wilson, WR Chase Meeking; ST. JAMES: WR Jakias Villanueva, DB Jarrell Williams, QB Jujuan Jackson, LB Nolan Zenon. NOTEWORTHY: Union beat St. James 36-35 in the Division III nonselect final a year ago ... Jackson, a freshman, has 1,515 passing yards and 20 TDs for SJHS, while RB Kani King-Young has 918 rushing yards with 11 TDs ... WR Villanueva has 69 catches for 872 yards and 12 TDs.49ers coach Kyle Shanahan expresses confidence in struggling kicker Jake Moody

It’s not about them. Or then. Though you’d think this would be the perfect time for the three guys who where there then , at the beginning of the Galaxy, to regale the talented whippersnappers in their charge with tales of yore. No? You’d think Greg Vanney, Kevin Hartman and Dan Calichman, the Galaxy coaches who were among the original G’z – OGz? – would relish the opportunity to bask in the good ol’ days. That they’d want to luxuriate in their legacy as players who helped establish the Galaxy as MLS’s winningest franchise , with its nine MLS Cup Final appearances and five championships going into this season’s title match Saturday at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson. Even just for this week leading up to the club’s championship game against the New York Red Bulls – the team formerly known as the New York/New Jersey MetroStars. It was against them that the Galaxy played their first match on April 13, 1996 , at the Rose Bowl, before a then-record crowd of of 69,255. • MLS Cup preview: Galaxy hosts New York Red Bulls in search of 6th title You’d assume it would be impossible to resist reminiscing about that if you were Vanney or Calichman, who patrolled the back line on that date in history. Stars on the first Galaxy team before circling back in 2021 as the head coach and trusted assistant , taking the reins of a team that hadn’t made the playoffs for four seasons and that remained in such disarray just last year that many of its most ardent fans boycotted matches . You’d expect it would be hard not to throw on a few campfire stories in camp this week if you were Hartman. A fan favorite , the bleached-blonde goalkeeper joined Vanney and Calichman in 1997. Wound up playing 10 of his 17 MLS seasons with the Galaxy, winning two MLS Cups, two U.S. Open Cups, two Supporters’ Shields and earning the nickname El Gato in L.A. – where he’d been working since 2017 as the director of the LA Galaxy Academy before reuniting with Vanney as his goalkeeper coach in 2021. You’d think. But no. “We’re reticent, we don’t want to be talking about the good old days,” Hartman said by phone this week, suggesting such focus would not only be misplaced but come across as “maybe a little egotistical.” “Every once in a while,” said Calichman, noting that when those sorts of conversations happen, it’s with individual players and in the context of how much MLS has grown. Because, really, these MLS veterans are living for the here and now. Pioneers turned prisoners of the moment, willingly and enthusiastically. Right now, most of their bandwidth is being spent figuring out how they’ll overcome the loss of Riqui Puig , the star midfielder who suffered a torn ACL in the 1-0 Western Conference final victory over Seattle last weekend. How they’ll defend Lewis Morgan and Emil Forsberg on one end and set up Joseph Paintsil and Gabriel Pec and Dejan Joveljić to do damage on the other. How they’ll continue to hold serve on their home turf, unbeaten this season at Dignity Health Sports Park, against a team that’s won on the road this postseason against Columbus, New York City FC and Orlando City SC. How they can spoil the Red Bulls’ Cinderella story as the Eastern Conference’s seventh seed ... How could they possibly have time for history lessons right now? Especially because no one needs a refresher; they already know. Whether or not they were there then, they know. The trust and belief borne of decades of partnership – Vanney and Hartman weren’t only Galaxy teammates, they also played and roomed together at UCLA; and Calichman was on Vanney’s staff with Toronto FC as that club reached the playoffs in five of six seasons, made three MLS Cup Finals appearances and won it all once – is coursing through this iteration of the Galaxy. “We all share a passion for this organization and the club and where we want it to be,” Vanney said this week. “But we also have known each other long enough to challenge each other and to put the right questions in front of each other in support. We know where to fill each other’s gaps.” Such airtight bonds are built through years of hard-earned successes and bitter disappointments, Hartman said. “We all have this culture of excellence that we share and we’re not going to take any shortcuts to get there,” he said. “We have such longstanding, trusting relationships, I don’t think any of us are afraid to voice our opinions ... and if there’s something that comes off wrong, we’re pretty forgiving of one another.” Calichman should say so: “Hopefully they’re being honest!” And from that place of understanding, the Galaxy is at last, after a long decade, again living up to the legacy that Vanney, Calichman and Hartman helped create all those years ago. “Culture can change, but the expectations within the club were set very early,” Calichman said. “In ’96, the Galaxy made it to the MLS Cup final, and unfortunately we didn’t win it, but that expectation was set ... we’re a team that is vying for trophies. We’re a team that will work hard. That standard never stopped.” “Sometimes there’s a burden that comes with a legacy with a team like this,” Vanney said. “But to be able to own that, this group has attacked it from Day One and hasn’t been afraid of it or in awe of it – and has gone for it. That’s one of the beauties of this group.” Because the best way to honor a legacy isn’t to treat it as a fable. It’s to write the next chapter.Reuters says it has seen the proposals the Trump transition team is recommending for the transportation sector, and they include taking the portions of the Inflation Reduction Act that deal with electric vehicles and EV charging infrastructure, ripping them out by the roots, and throwing them in the trash. In addition, the transition team is recommending sweeping changes to strengthen measures that will blocking cars, components, and battery materials from China. The recommendations, which have not been previously reported, come as the US electric vehicle transition stalls and China’s heavily subsidized EV industry continues to surge in part because of its superior battery supply chain. On the campaign trail, Trump vowed to ease regulations on gasoline- and diesel-powered vehicles and roll back what he called Biden’s EV mandate. It was never a mandate at all, but the truth and MAGAlomaniacs have a fraught relationship that allows them to say anything they want and their so-called base will lap it up like a cat with sweet cream. Being incurious and willing to accept every lie and distortion you hear is a hallmark of the Red Hat squadron. The transition team also recommends imposing tariffs on all battery materials sourced from anywhere outside the United States and then negotiating individual exemptions with allies, the document shows. Taken together, Reuters says, the recommendations are a stark departure from Biden administration policy, which sought to balance encouraging a domestic battery supply chain, separate from China, with a rapid EV transition. The transition team plan would take the money now flowing into building charging stations and making EVs affordable and redirecting it into national defense priorities, including securing supplies and materials needed to manufacture batteries from sources that have not been tainted with the stain of Chinese technology. It’s the old “yellow peril” trope updated for the 21st century. The Trump transition team has been assigned the task of crafting a strategy for swift implementation of new automotive policies. The team also calls for eliminating the Biden administration’s $7500 tax credit for consumer EV purchases. If implemented, the changes could substantially impact the production and sale of electric cars in the US at a time when many legacy automakers, including General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis, have committed more than $100 billion to the EV revolution. Hyundai and Kia have also introduced a wide range of electric cars to the US market. Cutting government EV support could also hurt sales of Tesla, the dominant seller of electric cars in the US, but Elon Musk — who spent more than a quarter of a billion dollars helping to elect Trump — has said that losing subsidies would hurt rivals more than Tesla. Apparently the great and powerful Musk has forgotten that he was once the champion for electric cars and is happy to see his rivals — and the environment — suffer if it means more billions in his pocket. The transition team calls for clawing back whatever funds remain from Biden’s $7.5 billion plan to build charging stations and shifting the money to battery minerals processing and the “national defense supply chain and critical infrastructure.” While batteries, minerals, and other EV components are “critical to defense production,” electric vehicles “and charging stations are not,” the document says. The Defense Department — which will soon be headed by Ron DeSantis, who knows as much about running the military as most people know about nuclear fusion — in recent years has highlighted US strategic vulnerabilities because of China’s dominance of the mining and refining of critical minerals, including graphite and lithium needed for batteries and rare earth metals used in both EV motors and military aircraft. A 2021 government report said the US military faces “escalating power requirements” for weapons and communication equipment, among other technologies. “Assured sources of critical minerals and materials” are “critical to U.S. national security,” the report found. Trump transition team spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said voters gave Trump a mandate to deliver on campaign promises, including stopping government attacks on gasoline-powered cars. “When he takes office, President Trump will support the auto industry, allowing space for both gas powered cars and electric vehicles,” Leavitt said in a statement. Automakers globally have been shifting toward electric vehicles in part to comply with stricter government limits on climate-damaging tailpipe pollution. But the transition team recommendations would allow automakers to produce more gasoline vehicles by rolling back emissions and fuel economy standards championed by the Biden administration. The transition team proposes shifting those regulations back to 2019 levels, which would allow an average of about 25% more emissions per vehicle mile than the current 2025 limits, and the average fuel economy to be about 15% lower. That is wonderful news for the oil companies that paid big bucks to get Trump elected, but not for people with lungs, as the fine particulates created when gasoline and diesel are burned can cross directly into the bloodstream, causing untold health issues, especially for young children and older Americans. Naturally, the proposal also recommends blocking California from setting its own more restrictive vehicle emissions standards, which more than a dozen other states have adopted. Trump barred California from setting tougher requirements during his first term, a policy that Biden reversed. California has asked the Environmental Protection Agency for another waiver to incorporate a stronger set of requirements beginning in 2026. Those requirements would eventually lead to all vehicles sold in California to be electric, plug-in hybrids, or hydrogen -powered by 2035. The current EPA has not yet approved California’s request, but this week the US Supreme Court dismissed an appeal by several Red States to force their worldview on the citizens of California. Nothing says “states rights” like barring another state from exercising its best judgement about what is best for its citizens. Many of the transition team proposals appear aimed at encouraging domestic battery production, primarily for defense-related interests, Reuters says. Others appear aimed at protecting automakers, even those producing EVs, in the United States. The proposals include: Instituting tariffs on “EV supply chain” imports including batteries, critical minerals, and charging components. The proposal viewed by Reuters said the administration should use Section 232 tariffs, which target national security threats, to limit imports of such products. Waiving environmental reviews to speed up “federally funded EV infrastructure projects,” including battery recycling and production, charging stations, and critical mineral manufacturing. Expanding export restrictions on EV battery technology to adversarial nations. Providing support for exports of U.S.-made EV batteries through the Export-Import Bank of the United States. Using tariffs as a “negotiating tool” to open foreign markets to U.S. auto exports, including EVs. Eliminating requirements that federal agencies purchase EVs. A Biden policy requires all federal acquisitions of cars and smaller trucks to be zero-emission vehicles by the end of 2027. Ending DOD programs aimed at purchasing or developing electric military vehicles. In addition, the Trumpies intend to cancel the contract the US Postal Service signed with Oshkosh Defense to manufacture battery-electric postal vehicles . Can’t have postal workers enjoying better health or postal patrons benefiting from lower operating costs when there are oil companies to protect, now can we? They bought and paid for this new government and expect to reap their just rewards. You might think most Americans would be upset about rules that will allow new cars to get worse fuel economy. People lose their minds if the price of gas goes up a nickel, but apparently they don’t care a flying fig leaf if they have to buy more gas to keep their chariots running. Logic and common sense have no role to play in the deliberations of the incoming administration or its supporters. CleanTechnica's Comment Policy LinkedIn WhatsApp Facebook Bluesky Email Reddit

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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Let’s begin this ending with the right story. There are plenty who don’t get it right. The right story lends direction and purpose for what Jim Larrañaga was about as he resigns and begins where everything did for him, which was with his Miami basketball team around him. So, you could tell about him dancing in the locker room — shimmying, really, in that old-school, elbows-akimbo manner he did — after beating Houston as players clapped after reaching the Final Four just 20 months ago. You could tell about meeting his players as they came out of the game, one by one, for a quick handshake or hug in the spring of 2022 as they lost in the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament. But here’s the better story as he leaves a life of coaching basketball: Each practice, each year, for decades, Larrañaga had signs propped up against chairs lining the baseline for players to see as the word. “The Ten Commitments,’’ he called them, and each one spoke of a different angle to his basketball philosophy. “We will set ourselves defensively every time,’’ read No. 1. “We will share the ball,’’ read No. 7. Then, for weekend practices, the Ten Commitments were replaced by signs of motivational author Stephen Covey’s ‘The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.’ “Seek first to understand, then to be understood,’’ read No. 7. Isaiah Wong, who’s now with the Charlotte Hornets, could recite The Ten Commitments and Covey’s Seven Habits after being in Larrañaga’s program for four years. He developed from a role-playing freshman in that time to the ACC Player of the Year. Something wasn’t right anymore for Larrañaga, 75, who resigned suddenly Thursday. The 4-8 record spoke of it. But so did what a Miami official said last week while I watched a practice: His players might know The Ten Commitments but probably didn’t know the Seven Daily Habits just yet. That’s because 10 of them just came through the transfer portal. They hadn’t been around long enough. The portal and its real-life bedfellow in name, image and likeness money has changed more than college sports. It’s changing the cast of coaches teaching them. Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski, Virginia’s Tony Bennett, Villanova’s Jay Wright — some titans of the games are leaving. Now, Larrañaga, too. The new game isn’t for him. He told of a player’s agent wanting $1 million for his player. “I said, ‘What?’ he said. “A million dollars to play college basketball?”’ Now he tried to explain it all. “It’s hard to put into words why I’m doing this, ” he said Thursday. “I love the game, love the university. ... But because I love the game and the university that much, I felt, ‘OK, there’s one thing you have to constantly ask yourself: Are you going to give everything you have, the commitment it deserves?' " He said, “I’m exhausted.” He told a story of meeting his team after their Final Four trip in the spring of 2023. Eight said they were transferring. They liked Larrañaga and Miami, too. But they had a chance to make money somewhere else. He showed up for his final press conference in form. No suit and tie. He wore a sweat suit. He’s a coach. He saw himself as a teacher even more. He taught more than dribbling a ball. He taught life. Each day he would give players a daily quote. “Life is about balance,’’ he’d say, talking about not just offense and defense but time management outside the locker room. It was about winning, of course. That meant building an unsteady program, too. When he arrived at Miami in 2011, he took pizzas to dorm rooms and talked at fraternities to invite them to games and tell about the importance of a homecourt advantage. Whether that’s why they began to fill up the student section or winning did the trick is anyone’s guess. But they came. And he built. And, man, will Miami miss him. He was a coach of routine. Most every day for lunch, he’d walk across campus talking to everyday students and order the same strawberry and banana smoothie at a shop. He’d then continue on to a food court to order the same six-inch toasted tuna sub with provolone cheese. He brought a slice of humanity like that to the big-time coaching pressure. A day before leaving for the Final Four, he invited me into a coach’s meeting where they drew up their game plan followed by a team meeting where he addressed the players on strategy. No coach does that. It wasn’t always fun and good games for him. There were a couple of empty Miami years due to an FBI investigation into shoe deals over his and other programs that went nowhere. Last season, he thought he had a team to sustain back-to-back Elite Eight and Final Four seasons but injuries derailed everything. “I was heartbroken,’’ Larrañaga said last week. He didn’t golf, fish or have any hobby beyond coaching basketball. The only thing he did was watch movies with his wife, and he’d incorporate clips from the Last Samurai or Cobra Kai into talks. When Miami led Auburn by a point near the end in the 2022 NCAA Tournament, he trotted out a Mel Gibson line in a timeout huddle from a Braveheart clip they’d all seen. “Are you ready to go to war?” he said. For 44 seasons, he went to basketball war. His career started as a Davidson assistant in 1971 and ended with an overtime loss to Mount St. Mary’s on Saturday. Something wasn’t right anymore. He saw it. “It’s a new world,’’ he said a week ago in his office, talking about the portal and the NIL. It sure feels like a new world around Miami sports now. Larrañaga is gone, and so much of what a good coach should do goes out the door with him. Just as anyone who played for him can tell you. They’ll recite Stephen Covey’s seven habits of effective people, too. ©2024 South Florida Sun-Sentinel. Visit sun-sentinel.com . Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

RCC to host FAFSA event Dec. 12If you want to sit around griping about the state of the world, don’t do it at a meeting of the St. Paul Optimist Club. They don’t call themselves “optimists” for nothing. The club members are “people who want to share the attitude of optimism,” said Margie Bodas, a member and one of the club’s many past presidents. “You need optimism or nothing will get done. If you don’t have optimism, you kind of just stagnate.” The Optimist Club of St. Paul , one of nearly two dozen chapters in Minnesota of Optimist International , definitely has not stagnated. One of the state’s oldest local groups, it celebrates its 100th anniversary this month. At a gala the club held a few weeks ago, a couple of dozen past presidents attended. The club has had a different president every year throughout that century, Bodas said, with the exception of a year during COVID-19. Also attending were young people who’ve received scholarships from the club, one of its most important projects. But underlying their array of community volunteering projects, the Optimists emphasize the importance of maintaining a positive outlook. It’s even written into the club’s official creed, which asks members to commit to a list of upbeat promises, such as “Look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true,” and “Wear a cheerful countenance at all times and give every living creature you meet a smile.” The strong emphasis on optimism subtly distinguishes the Optimists from other community service organizations, said Diane Koch, another member. Not that members of other groups are pessimistic, but if the Lions are known for recycling eyeglasses and Rotary places more focus on local economic growth, the Optimists are all about being hopeful for the future. “Optimism isn’t necessarily that you’re walking around giddy and smiling,” said Koch, who sometimes plucks a tenet from the creed to put at the end of an email. “It’s an attitude that ‘This too will pass. We’ll get through it.’” And the Optimist Club should know, having made it through the Great Depression and Dust Bowl era in the 1930s, World War II the following decade, the arms race in the decades after that, and assorted assassinations, protests and economic ups and downs over the years. Most current members don’t remember the early decades. But they may find it comforting to remember that the nation has faced challenges at least as potentially worrisome as conflicts going on today. In fact, it’s the club’s ability to rise above such conflicts that Bodas likes most about being a member. Unlike in many social situations, she gets an opportunity to meet people whose politics may differ, and engage in a shared passion for helping youth. For instance, club members get together monthly to cook a meal for members of the Jeremiah Program, an organization that supports single mothers and their children. “If you start with your differences you’re not going to get far,” Bodas said. Club members don’t spend much time debating differences of opinion, “but they’re there and we all know who thinks what,” she said. “And we still find things that we share together that are important to us. Neither of us is going to be able to change the other person. We are able to talk about it and still get together and do stuff. I just think that’s something pretty special these days.” Optimist Club members tend to skew middle-aged or older, most ranging from 40 to 80 but with a few members in their 20s and 30s (daytime meetings can be a hurdle for people with jobs and kids at home). There’s some ethnic diversity, Bodas said. Socioeconomically, most members are in the middle-class-and-up brackets. Beyond that, though, they include “real-estate people, morticians, construction people,” said Karl Olson of Minneapolis, who has been in the club for 48 years. (There was a Minneapolis group previously, but it’s no longer operating.) “My insurance agent was in the original chartered club and said ‘Karl, you’d be a real good person to be in Optimist Club,” said the 81-year-old Olson, who retired from 3M in 2004 and became a wine representative. “So I went to a meeting. ... It was the best decision I ever made,” Olson said. “I wanted to work with children.” Through the club, Olson volunteered in a program at a St. Paul high school for students who’d been missing class, and a different project involving kids in recovery. “We’d go there once a month and have pizza with these kids. We were role models, we’d play board games, play cards, once in a while go cross-country skiing or take them on hay ride,” he said. For 30 years the St. Paul Optimists have operated a Youth Appreciation program that this year provided $3,000 post-high-school scholarships for 15 students who’d overcome some substantial challenge and have plans for continuing their education. “A lot of these kids are immigrants, the first in their family” to pursue education past high school. “It could be culinary school, it could be a trade school, it could be Macalester College, could be anything,” Olson said. Many volunteer projects struggle to find participants who can make a long-term commitment; people’s schedules are busy and many would prefer a one off. One advantage of the Optimist Club is that it lets members pitch in on volunteer opportunities as their schedules permit, without requiring long-term commitments by individuals. “Let’s say you want to do bell-ringing for Salvation Army; that’s a four-hour commitment,” Olson said. “We meet with the Jeremiah Program every month. You can go whenever your schedule’s free. ‘You always have enough people that you don’t have to say, ‘Yeah I’m going to do that for the next year.’” And members do sincerely want to find ways to help their communities. That’s what has kept the club going for its first 100 years, Bodas said. “There’s just such a similarity in belief that you can do something,” she said. “There are just so many shared values that keep us together.”

The gunman who stalked and killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson fled New York City by bus, police officials told CNN on Friday. Video of the suspected shooter leaving the scene of the shooting Wednesday showed him riding a bicycle to Central Park and later taking a taxi cab to a bus depot, Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny told CNN. Here's the latest: The gunman who killed the CEO of the largest U.S. health insurer may have fled the city on a bus, New York City police officials told CNN on Friday. Video of the suspected shooter leaving the scene of the shooting Wednesday showed him riding a bicycle to Central Park and later taking a taxi cab to a bus depot, Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny told CNN. “We have reason to believe that the person in question has left New York City,” Commissioner Jessica Tisch said. The gunman who killed the CEO of the largest U.S. health insurer made sure to wear a mask during the shooting yet left a trail of evidence in view of the nation’s biggest city and its network of security cameras that have aided authorities piecing together his movements and his identity. A law enforcement official said Friday that new surveillance footage shows the suspect riding the subway and visiting establishments in Manhattan and provided more clues about his actions in the days before he ambushed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson . The gunman’s whereabouts and identity remain unknown Friday, as did the reason for Wednesday’s killing. New York City police say evidence firmly points to it being a targeted attack . ▶ Read more about the search for the gunman In many companies, investor meetings like the one UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was walking to when he was fatally shot are viewed as very risky because details on the location and who will be speaking are highly publicized. “It gives people an opportunity to arrive well in advance and take a look at the room, take a look at how people would probably come and go out of a location,” said Dave Komendat, president of DSKomendat Risk Management Services, which is based in the greater Seattle area. Some firms respond by beefing up security. For example, tech companies routinely require everyone attending a major event, such as Apple’s annual unveiling of the next iPhone or a shareholder meeting, to go through airport-style security checkpoints before entering. Others forgo in-person meetings with shareholders. ▶ Read more about how companies protect their leaders Those images include New York’s subway system, a law enforcement official said. In establishments where the person was captured on camera, he always appeared to pay with cash, the official said. The official wasn’t authorized to discuss details of the ongoing investigation and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. — Mike Balsamo Medica, a Minnesota-based nonprofit health care firm that serves 1.5 million customers in 12 states, said it’s temporarily closing all six locations. The firm has offices in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Nebraska and North Dakota, and employs about 3,000 people. Employees will work from home, Medica spokesman Greg Bury said in an email Friday. “The safety of Medica employees is our top priority and we have increased security both for all of our employees,” a statement from Medica said. “Although we have received no specific threats related to our campuses, our office buildings will be temporarily closed out of an abundance of caution.” Bury also said biographical information on the company’s executives was taken down from its website as a precaution. The insurer cited the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in its announcement about the Dec. 12 event. “All of us at Centene are deeply saddened by Brian Thompson’s death and want to express our support for all of those affected. Health insurance is a big industry and a small community; many members of the CenTeam crossed paths with Brian during their careers,” Centene CEO Sarah M. London said in a news release. “He was a person with a deep sense of empathy and clear passion for improving access to care. Our hearts are with his family and his colleagues during this difficult time.” Centene Corp. has grown in recent years to become the largest insurer in Medicaid, the state- and federally funded program that covers care for people with low incomes. Insurers manage Medicaid coverage for states, and Centene has more than 13 million people enrolled in that coverage. The insurance company also said it’s focused on ensuring the safety of employees and assisting investigators. “While our hearts are broken, we have been touched by the huge outpouring of kindness and support in the hours since this horrific crime took place,” the company said. But he said Friday that he’s confident police will arrest the shooter. “We are on the right road to apprehend him and bring him to justice,” Adams said on TV station WPIX. Later, it removed their names and biographies entirely. Police and federal agents have been collecting information from Greyhound in an attempt to identify the suspect and are working to determine whether he purchased the ticket to New York in late November, a law enforcement official said. Investigators were also trying to obtain additional information from a cellphone recovered from a pedestrian plaza through which the shooter fled. The fatal shooting of Brian Thompson while walking alone on a New York City sidewalk has put a spotlight on the widely varied approaches companies take to protect their leaders against threats. Experts say today’s political, economic and technological climate is only going to make the job of evaluating threats against executives and taking action to protect them even more difficult, experts say. Some organizations have a protective intelligence group that uses digital tools such as machine learning or artificial intelligence to comb through online comments to detect threats not only on social media platforms such as X but also on the dark web, says Komendat. They look for what’s being said about the company, its employees and its leadership to uncover risks. ▶ Read more about the steps companies take to protect their leadership Police said Thursday they found a water bottle and protein bar wrapper from a trash can near the scene of the ambush and think the suspect bought them from a Starbucks minutes before the shooting. The items were being tested by the city’s medical examiner.How to Watch Top 25 Women’s College Basketball Games – Saturday, November 23

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The gunman who stalked and killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson fled New York City by bus, police officials told CNN on Friday. Video of the suspected shooter leaving the scene of the shooting Wednesday showed him riding a bicycle to Central Park and later taking a taxi cab to a bus depot, Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny told CNN. Here's the latest: The gunman who killed the CEO of the largest U.S. health insurer may have fled the city on a bus, New York City police officials told CNN on Friday. Video of the suspected shooter leaving the scene of the shooting Wednesday showed him riding a bicycle to Central Park and later taking a taxi cab to a bus depot, Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny told CNN. “We have reason to believe that the person in question has left New York City,” Commissioner Jessica Tisch said. The gunman who killed the CEO of the largest U.S. health insurer made sure to wear a mask during the shooting yet left a trail of evidence in view of the nation’s biggest city and its network of security cameras that have aided authorities piecing together his movements and his identity. A law enforcement official said Friday that new surveillance footage shows the suspect riding the subway and visiting establishments in Manhattan and provided more clues about his actions in the days before he ambushed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson . The gunman’s whereabouts and identity remain unknown Friday, as did the reason for Wednesday’s killing. New York City police say evidence firmly points to it being a targeted attack . ▶ Read more about the search for the gunman In many companies, investor meetings like the one UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was walking to when he was fatally shot are viewed as very risky because details on the location and who will be speaking are highly publicized. “It gives people an opportunity to arrive well in advance and take a look at the room, take a look at how people would probably come and go out of a location,” said Dave Komendat, president of DSKomendat Risk Management Services, which is based in the greater Seattle area. Some firms respond by beefing up security. For example, tech companies routinely require everyone attending a major event, such as Apple’s annual unveiling of the next iPhone or a shareholder meeting, to go through airport-style security checkpoints before entering. Others forgo in-person meetings with shareholders. ▶ Read more about how companies protect their leaders Those images include New York’s subway system, a law enforcement official said. In establishments where the person was captured on camera, he always appeared to pay with cash, the official said. The official wasn’t authorized to discuss details of the ongoing investigation and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. — Mike Balsamo Medica, a Minnesota-based nonprofit health care firm that serves 1.5 million customers in 12 states, said it’s temporarily closing all six locations. The firm has offices in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Nebraska and North Dakota, and employs about 3,000 people. Employees will work from home, Medica spokesman Greg Bury said in an email Friday. “The safety of Medica employees is our top priority and we have increased security both for all of our employees,” a statement from Medica said. “Although we have received no specific threats related to our campuses, our office buildings will be temporarily closed out of an abundance of caution.” Bury also said biographical information on the company’s executives was taken down from its website as a precaution. The insurer cited the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in its announcement about the Dec. 12 event. “All of us at Centene are deeply saddened by Brian Thompson’s death and want to express our support for all of those affected. Health insurance is a big industry and a small community; many members of the CenTeam crossed paths with Brian during their careers,” Centene CEO Sarah M. London said in a news release. “He was a person with a deep sense of empathy and clear passion for improving access to care. Our hearts are with his family and his colleagues during this difficult time.” Centene Corp. has grown in recent years to become the largest insurer in Medicaid, the state- and federally funded program that covers care for people with low incomes. Insurers manage Medicaid coverage for states, and Centene has more than 13 million people enrolled in that coverage. The insurance company also said it’s focused on ensuring the safety of employees and assisting investigators. “While our hearts are broken, we have been touched by the huge outpouring of kindness and support in the hours since this horrific crime took place,” the company said. But he said Friday that he’s confident police will arrest the shooter. “We are on the right road to apprehend him and bring him to justice,” Adams said on TV station WPIX. Later, it removed their names and biographies entirely. Police and federal agents have been collecting information from Greyhound in an attempt to identify the suspect and are working to determine whether he purchased the ticket to New York in late November, a law enforcement official said. Investigators were also trying to obtain additional information from a cellphone recovered from a pedestrian plaza through which the shooter fled. The fatal shooting of Brian Thompson while walking alone on a New York City sidewalk has put a spotlight on the widely varied approaches companies take to protect their leaders against threats. Experts say today’s political, economic and technological climate is only going to make the job of evaluating threats against executives and taking action to protect them even more difficult, experts say. Some organizations have a protective intelligence group that uses digital tools such as machine learning or artificial intelligence to comb through online comments to detect threats not only on social media platforms such as X but also on the dark web, says Komendat. They look for what’s being said about the company, its employees and its leadership to uncover risks. ▶ Read more about the steps companies take to protect their leadership Police said Thursday they found a water bottle and protein bar wrapper from a trash can near the scene of the ambush and think the suspect bought them from a Starbucks minutes before the shooting. The items were being tested by the city’s medical examiner.