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HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. (AP) — Kijan Robinson scored 28 points off of the bench to lead Hofstra past Saint Joseph's (N.Y.) 114-46 on Friday. Robinson added five rebounds and seven assists for the Pride (7-3). Eric Parnell scored 19 points, shooting 6 for 7 (4 for 5 from 3-point range) and 3 of 3 from the free-throw line. Khalil Farmer shot 5 for 7 (3 for 4 from 3-point range) and 3 of 3 from the free-throw line to finish with 16 points. Alec Tabada finished with 14 points for the Golden Eagles. Robinson led Hofstra with 20 points in the first half to help put them up 53-27 at the break. Hofstra pulled away with a 26-3 run in the second half. Parnell led the way with a team-high 15 second-half points. The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar .Bills clinch the AFC's No. 2 seed with a 40-14 rout of the undisciplined Jets
The Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) has been arguing the case for an “emergency backstop mechanism” to cut off household solar at times of minimum system load when system security is at risk. In simple terms, system security is about ensuring the grid remains stable in response to disturbances to prevent cascading impacts that could lead to blackouts. This is one of AEMO’s most important responsibilities, and a challenge that is changing as we move from a system based on mechanical generators to electronic inverter-based resources, especially solar. In a , AEMO provided new and updated details on the falling rates of minimum demand by jurisdiction and its need for a NEM-wide emergency backstop mechanism, “to allow rooftop PV systems to be curtailed or turned off briefly if necessary in rare emergency conditions”. AEMO also mentions other options available to manage minimum system load, specifically: – Reducing the amount of generation that needs to remain online to provide essential services; – Increasing demand in daytime periods, and – Installing more storage – to soak up solar power in the middle of the day. AEMO is a system operator, not a policy-making body, and these options are not examined in detail in its report. Another option for managing minimum system load could be an equivalent to the Reliability and Emergency Reserve Trader (RERT) peak demand mechanism. In 2021, it was considering “a range of steps with the ‘big-end-of-town’ ... to rebalance supply and demand”, and the Energy Security Board (ESB) presented a plan that included “Emergency Turn-up load (-ve RERT)” in place by 2022, but a RERT-equivalent has not eventuated. Some might argue a price of negative $1,000 per megawatt hour (MWh) is sufficient to incentivise market-based responses to minimum demand, but a market price cap of $17,500/MWh does not substitute for the RERT for peak demand, so this sentiment may be questionable. It is worth considering what value a minimum demand equivalent of the RERT would look like and cost given AEMO is . It has been suggested that cost to “the market” of this approach could be as much as $1 per kilowatt hour (kWh) for negative pricing with a possible premium to provide compensation to directed battery owners. Challenges in the National Electricity Market (NEM) are usually addressed through a . The Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC) can accept a rule change from anyone, and then consider the options to address the identified issue, the relative merits, including costs and benefits, and combinations of opportunities available. This process allows consumers, generators, distribution networks, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), aggregators and others to be consulted through a series of stages: usually a consultation paper, draft and final rulemaking, during which the AEMC accepts the rule as proposed or makes a more preferable rule. It is time for either AEMO or the federal minister, on behalf of all energy and climate change ministers (who are meeting on Friday), to lodge a rule change. This would allow for a thorough investigation of AEMO’s proposal and options to address system security at times of minimum system load, and consider the fast, national implementation of flexible exports (known as dynamic operating envelopes or DOEs). Most states, except Queensland, are implementing, or planning to implement, AEMO’s requirement for a solar cutoff through the roll-out of flexible exports. These allow for greater exports of rooftop solar than static limits (usually around 5kW), accounting for any constraints on the local distribution network. Flexible exports can improve the return on investment for solar households. Flexible exports are fully implemented in South Australia, but are not being rolled out consistently or quickly across the rest of the country. These delays mean almost every household that installs a solar system larger than 5kW is missing out on revenue. Therefore, a rapid rule change is needed to ensure consumers benefit from consistent fast implementation of flexible exports across the NEM. A rule change could look at options to manage minimum system load (including the “emergency backstop mechanism”) and the fast implementation of flexible exports at the same time. Both issues affect the management of customers’ rooftop solar systems and should be addressed jointly to ensure the best technical and social outcome. Another related and urgent issue that needs a full and thorough policy debate is giving any external party – AEMO, distribution businesses or others – behind-the-meter access to control consumer-owned distributed energy resources (DER), such as rooftop solar or electric vehicles. Through the rule change process, AEMO would meet its need for mechanisms to manage minimum system load, and consumers would be involved in a transparent, thorough policy process to consider the optimum combination of measures to support rooftop solar energy exports and system security.
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B.C. Premier David Eby is promising to seek new export opportunities for the province after U.S. president-elect Donald Trump threatened to impose a 25-per-cent tariff on all Mexican and Canadian goods. British Columbia exports billions of dollars’ worth of commodities and products – coal and lumber, plastics and machinery – every month, with just over half bound for the United States. It could be worse. Canada as a whole sends three-quarters of its exports to the U.S. B.C. has less exposure to that single market thanks to a long-running policy, embraced by political parties of every stripe, of maintaining a diversified trade portfolio. “We’re going to continue to do our work to expand those trading opportunities,” Mr. Eby told reporters Wednesday. In the 1980s, B.C.’s political leaders set their economic sights on Asia, opening trade offices in Hong Kong, South Korea and Japan with the intent of reducing the province’s dependence on its dominant customer to the south. The province has bankrolled countless trade missions and now maintains 19 overseas trade offices. Yet the U.S. has consistently remained its most important trading partner over the past four decades. At best, the diversification strategy has dampened the siren call of the behemoth at its doorstep. “Canada is so privileged to be next door to this giant economic engine of the United States,” noted former B.C. premier Glen Clark in an interview. “We understand the laws there, we understand the language, we understand the people, and it’s very close, so it’s a natural.” But too much dependence on a single market – no matter how big, no matter how easy – comes with risk. Mr. Trump’s tariff threat should be a catalyst for a fresh commitment to cultivate new markets, said Mr. Clark, who led 13 trade missions to China alone during his term as premier, from 1996 to 1999. “Reviving that trade policy, only with different focus on parts of the world, makes a lot of sense as we move forward in this kind of dangerous time.” In 1987, Mike Harcourt, then the NDP opposition leader, stood up in the legislature and endorsed the Social Credit government’s early trade missions. Even as some Socred backbenchers dismissed the trips as “boondoggles,” Mr. Harcourt pressed for a more aggressive strategy. “We support those initiatives, but we’re not bold enough,” he said, insisting that the province needed to establish outposts in China and India. At the time, the Canada-U.S. softwood lumber dispute was demonstrating the ability of the U.S. to cripple the province’s forest sector. That conflict continues today – a textbook example for Canada of how U.S. protectionism can supersede good trade relations. British Columbia’s position as a trade gateway for Pacific Rim countries was already a reality before politicians tried to help. The year Mr. Harcourt was calling for trade offices in China, just 46 per cent of the province’s exports went to the United States. When he became Premier in 1991, Mr. Harcourt took the opportunity to pursue new markets aggressively. “I started talking about Vancouver being, not the last stop of the CPR railway, but the front door to Asia for Canada,” he said in an interview. But today he believes the province’s trade strategy needs an urgent update to prepare for 2025, when Mr. Trump returns to office. B.C.’s Trade Diversification Strategy was updated in 2023, but much has changed since. The value of softwood lumber exports has stagnated and is now rivalled by sales of machinery and equipment. Meanwhile, energy exports – especially coal – are climbing in value. Mr. Trump’s tariff threats aside, global trade relations are also more complex, particularly with China and India. The two countries are host to almost half of B.C.’s international trade offices outside the U.S. David Emerson helped steer Canada toward trade diversification. As deputy finance minister under then-Premier Bill Bennett and deputy minister to Premier Bill Vander Zalm, he crafted B.C.’s Asian Pacific trade strategy and later introduced the Asia-Pacific Gateway and Corridor Initiative as the federal Minister of International Trade. He also was the minister who negotiated the one and only settlement on softwood lumber, in 2006. That agreement expired in 2015. Mr. Emerson says this is not a good time for British Columbia – and Canada – to face a strong protectionist leader in the U.S., because the alternatives are limited. “I do believe we need to grow market penetration in markets other than the U.S., but the greatest potential is in markets where we now have terrible relations,” he said. “Today, relations with China and India are a mess, and the great trade diversification strategy has run into serious trouble.” China is B.C.’s second-largest export destination – one that is growing in value. But Canada and China are in the midst of a trade spat. In August, Ottawa announced a 100-per-cent import tariff on Chinese electric vehicles and a 25-per-cent tariff on steel and aluminum products from China, after the U.S. and the European Union introduced similar measures. The following month, Beijing launched an anti-dumping investigation into imports of rapeseed from Canada. Meanwhile, Mr. Trump has signalled he is prepared to reignite trade tensions between the U.S. and China, which could put other trading partners in the crossfire. Canada’s relations with India soured after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said last year that there were credible allegations the Indian government had links to the assassination of Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Canada. Canada has since alleged that India’s Home Affairs Minister, Amit Shah, ordered the targeting of Sikh activists in Canada. Both countries have now expelled each other’s top diplomatic officials. Mr. Trump’s rationale for slapping tariffs on Canadian and Mexican imports is to punish both countries for lax border security, allowing illegal migrants and illicit drugs to slip through into the U.S. On Wednesday, Mr. Trudeau met with the premiers to strategize and emerged with a promise to strengthen border security by pumping more money into the Canada Border Services Agency and the RCMP. Mr. Eby, who advocated for that investment as an answer to Mr. Trump’s complaints, said Canada should put up a united front to take on the U.S. trade threat. But in the meantime, he said, he’ll renew his government’s commitment to diversification. “This was definitely the right direction, obviously, in hindsight, and we do have to redouble those efforts, given the instability south of the border.” The decades of previous efforts have shown, however, that changing those trade patterns will be exceptionally difficult.
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Francis, 87, declined an invitation from French President Emmanuel Macron to attend the Notre Dame reopening ceremony in Paris on December 7. He will however head to Corsica's capital Ajaccio for a conference on the Catholic faith in the Mediterranean one week later on December 15, the Vatican said. Some French bishops were "annoyed" by the pope's decision to stay away from the Notre Dame gala, according to one bishop speaking on condition of anonymity. But the head of the Bishops' Conference of France (CEF) Archbishop Eric de Moulins-Beaufort said: "The star of the Notre Dame reopening ceremony is Notre Dame itself." The pope had not wanted his presence to be a distraction from the essential point of the occasion, he added. "It's not a snub aimed at France," said another bishop. Francis's one-day trip to Corsica will be the first papal visit to the island, where 90 percent of its 350,000 population is Catholic, according to the local Church, and religious traditions remain deeply rooted. He will give two speeches, preside over a mass and meet Macron during his nine hours on the island, the Vatican said. "It is a historic event, we will give ourselves the extraordinary means to put on an exceptional welcome for the Holy Father," said Bishop of Ajaccio Francois-Xavier Bustillo said in a video posted on social media. Francis, who will celebrate his 88th birthday on December 17, has been to France twice since becoming head of the worldwide Catholic Church in 2013. He visited Strasbourg in 2014, where he addressed the European Parliament, and last year went to Marseille for a meeting of Mediterranean area bishops, where he met Macron. He has yet to make a state visit to France, one of Europe's main majority-Catholic countries. He is also yet to make state visits to Spain, the United Kingdom or Germany. The Argentine pontiff prefers visiting smaller or less established Catholic communities, from Malta to Mongolia. The Corsica visit was championed by the popular media-friendly Bustillo, who was made a cardinal by Pope Francis in September 2023. "It will not be a state visit, but a pastoral visit. It will be a beautiful moment, a moment of hope and joy," he told AFP. In addition, the head of the Catholic Church is scheduled to be at the Vatican on December 7-8 for a service at which he will create 21 new cardinals. Rescheduling appointments over coming months would appear to be tricky, given the multitude of events due to take place in Rome in 2025, a Catholic jubilee year. Bustillo is one of the active cardinals Francis has appointed in the Mediterranean region, with the pope keen they "work together to meet the specific challenges of the area", a bishop told AFP on condition of anonymity. Those issues include migration, global warming and interreligious dialogue. Corsica will be the 47th overseas visit for Francis and his third this year, after a long tour of the Asia Pacific in early September and a trip to Belgium and Luxembourg the same month. cmk-bur/tw/jmWoman explains why she walked out of Thanksgiving dinner when her mother brought out pumpkin pieGCCs take over IT service companies in campus placement in top colleges this year
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