>meaningless lip service
THIS^^
KEK
It all is. All the blubbering and whining is just that.
All the "we're going to…." but they never actually DO!
And MTG said the day after the fraud certification she was drafting articles of impeachment.
Said it again the other day too…
Tick Tock…
How are those audits coming?
A record-breaking 44 container ships are stuck off the coast of California
Forty-four freight ships are stuck awaiting entry into California's two largest ports, the highest number recorded since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Marine Exchange of Southern California reported Saturday.
The lengthy queue is a result of the labor shortage, COVID-19 related disruptions, and holiday buying surges. According to LA port data, the ships' average wait time has increased to 7.6 days.
"The normal number of container ships at anchor is between zero and one," Kip Louttit, executive director of the Marine Exchange of Southern California, told Insider this July.
California ports in Los Angeles and Long Beach account for about one-third of US imports. These ports operate as a primary source of imports from China and have experienced heavy congestion throughout the pandemic.
"Part of the problem is the ships are double or triple the size of the ships we were seeing 10 or 15 years ago," Louttit told Insider. "They take longer to unload. You need more trucks, more trains, more warehouses to put the cargo."
While the container ships are forced to anchor and await berth space, companies importing and exporting goods to and from Asia expect additional shipping delays.
This comes during one of the busiest months for US-China trade relations, as retailers buy ahead in anticipation of US holidays and China's Golden Week in October, Bloomberg reported.
"To give you a real-life example of the kinds of challenges we're seeing, one of our dedicated charters was recently denied entry into China because a crew member tested positive for COVID, forcing the vessel to return to Indonesia and change the entire crew before continuing," Dollar Tree's CEO Michael Witynski said on its Thursday earnings call. "Overall, the voyage was delayed by two months."
According to Witynski, a San Francisco-based freight forwarder said in a recent transportation webinar that "the transit times from Shanghai to Chicago had more than doubled to 73 days from 35 days." Another carrier executive estimated "that voyages are now taking 30 days longer than in previous years due to port congestion, container handling delays, and other factors," Insider's Áine Cain reported.
"Industry experts expect the ocean shipping capacity will normalize no later than 2023, when many new ships come online," Witynski said.
"Despite record levels of ships in port and at anchor and in drift areas, the Marine Transportation System in LA and LB remains safe, secure, reliable, and environmentally sound, while not being as efficient as it should be due to COVID protocols in these uncertain and unsettled times, and record levels of cargo," the Marine Exchange of Southern California wrote in a statement.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/record-breaking-44-container-ships-145905612.html
He was the Vice President.
This brings back up the Theory the haters were posing, that Trump could be Impeached, after he left office.
Remember it well.
The owner of this iconic building ordered all tenants to leave. Some aren’t going
Maria Ray had a plan. By May 2022, she would have saved enough money to relocate from Miami to San Juan and take care of her aging father in the family home where she grew up.
Ray just hadn’t counted on her landlord suddenly terminating her lease.
Ray, who works as a business consultant for hospitality companies, is one of the roughly 200 residents of the Hamilton on the Bay apartment tower, located at 555 NE 34 St. in Edgewater, who received a notice on May 16 requiring them to move out by July 16 so the building’s new owners, the Denver-based real estate investment and management firm Aimco/AIR, could complete renovations and repairs.
That deadline has been extended until Sept. 17 and Aimco is now offering tenants three months’ rent plus a $500 stipend to help with move-out costs.
But 17 tenants — including Ray — are staying put, because they say the settlement being offered is not enough to move in the current rental market.
The situation at the Hamilton has resulted in a standoff that could serve as a bellwether for future cases in which a building’s owner attempts to terminate the leases of all of its tenants in one swoop.
“We’re all trying to move out,” said Ray, 45, who has lived at the Hamilton since October 2009 and pays a discounted rent of $1,150 for a one-bedroom unit. “We’re trying to comply. But I signed a lease with Aimco for 16 months. I was counting on having a certain amount of time to move.
“My business slowed down because of COVID,” she said. “This situation has completely consumed my life. I can’t work from home because of the constant jack-hammering and noise. They turned off the air-conditioning in the hallways. They are being super aggressive. We have no day-to-day stability.”
Aimco bought the iconic tower, which was built by Carnival Cruise Line founder Ted Arison in 1984, for $80.9 million in Aug. 2020. Repairs were already underway at the building for water damage caused by Hurricane Irma in 2017, which led the previous management company, Bainbridge Management, to offer tenants discounts on their rents to make up for the inconvenience
Aimco kept those discounts in place. But the company also required tenants to sign new leases that promised them up to 18-month stays — and included an early termination clause. When Aimco exercised that clause in May, giving tenants 60 days to move out, the public outcry convinced the company to push back the move-out deadline to Sept. 17, although residents say the noisy renovation work inside and outside the building, which limits access to many common areas, has made life at the Hamilton close to unbearable.
Since the May 16 letter was issued, 119 of the formerly occupied 130 units at the Hamilton’s 265 apartments have been vacated.
Today, 30 units in the building remain occupied, although 13 of those tenants have pledged to vacate their unit by the Sept. 17 deadline.
Digging in their heels
The remaining 17 tenants — along with 20 other former tenants who moved out without accepting Aimco’s settlement — have organized. They are demanding the company pay a group settlement of $22,500 per leaseholder, and they have hired attorney David Winker to defend them from legal action by Aimco.
“The residents were fraudulently led to sign the new leases, so the contracts are null and void,” said Winker. “Therefore the termination of the leases is also null and void.”
Greg Frank, 40, is one of the former Hamilton tenants who moved his wife and son out of their one-bedroom apartment the second week of July. The couple was paying $1,200 in rent for a 1,250 square foot unit. Now they are paying $2,000 per month for a 900 square-foot apartment in Dania Beach.
But Frank did not accept Aimco’s financial move-out package. Instead, he is part of the group hoping to reach a settlement with Aimco.
“We had to leave Miami because we couldn’t find a comparable place we could afford and now we are trying to negotiate as a group,” he said. “Some people felt like they didn’t have any power and accepted Aimco’s deal to move out. But if the company wasn’t so messed up, we wouldn’t be dealing with this. And the bigger issue is this is a growing threat to the people of South Florida. People are going to continue to be displaced as Miami’s popularity grows.”
In July, the owner of an apartment building at 426 E. 34th St. in Edgewater, which is just one block away from the Hamilton, threatened his tenants with mass evictions. Residents suspect the evictions were fueled by the owner’s intent to sell the aged building, along with 10 adjoining lots in the popular neighborhood, for $50 million to real estate developers.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/owner-iconic-building-ordered-tenants-100000171.html