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The top job at the Tees Valley Combined Authority (TVCA) is to be axed as part of a ‘restructure’ - as its chief executive is set to retire. TVCA's group chief executive, Julie Gilhespie, is stepping down, Teesside Live understands. The organisation is now expected to undergo an overhaul which will see the role abolished. In documents seen by the Local Democracy Reporting Service, a “revised senior management structure” is proposed “in response to the group chief executive’s declared intention to retire from the organisation within the next 12 to 18 months.” Ms Gilhespie was appointed chief executive of TVCA in November 2018. In May 2020, she became the group chief executive for both the South Tees Development Corporation (STDC) and TVCA. She was also a director of Teesworks Limited (TWL) from July 2020 until this month. She was removed from this position at the STDC board meeting on December 5. The document explains that the group chief executive post is to be deleted and “the separation between the roles of the chief executive of TVCA and STDC” will be re-established. It is believed that this move “will assist in managing any perception of conflict of interest between the roles” and allow the TVCA to focus on the upcoming devolution agenda. The reference to a “perception of conflict of interest” almost mirrors the wording used in the Teesworks review (formally known as the Tees Valley Review), which was undertaken and made 28 recommendations when it was published in January this year. The document detailed the proposed changes, saying: “It is considered appropriate that the required changes are made expeditiously and so the proposal is to make the changes with effect from April 1, 2025.” This timeline is deemed to minimise disruption to the organisation and “minimise any uncertainty to staff and stakeholders that the changes may cause. “The head of operations role that directly supports the group chief executive is also proposed to be deleted,” the document explained. “It is anticipated that STDC Board will be asked to consider regrading the existing chief operation officer of STDC to chief executive”. This action would mean that the chief executive of STDC would gain all of the responsibilities that the group chief executive had “in respect of STDC and its subsidiaries”. John Barnes is the chief operating officer at STDC and likely to be regraded as chief executive of STDC. At a meeting of the STDC board, on Thursday December 5, the board voted to appoint him as director of South Tees Developments Limited, and as a director of South Tees Site Company Limited. He was also appointed to be STDC’s nominated director of TWL, replacing Ms Gilhespie in the process. The Tees Valley Review said: “The interests of TWL haven't always been aligned with those of either TVCA or STDC, particularly after the re-distribution of share ownership and this gives rise to potential/perceived conflicts of interest which could be avoided by another TVCA, or an officer from a constituent authority, undertaking the TWL director role in place of the chief executive.” It is not clear who will become TVCA chief executive. Neither TVCA nor the Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen wished to comment. Teesside Live is now on WhatsApp and we want you to join our community. Through the app, we'll send you the latest breaking news, top stories, exclusives and much more straight to your phone. To join our community group, you need to already have WhatsApp. All you need to do is click this link and select 'Join Community' . No one will be able to see who is signed up and no one can send messages except the Teesside Live team. We also treat our community members to special offers, promotions, and adverts from us and our partners. If you don’t like our community, you can check out any time you like. To leave our community click on the name at the top of your screen and choose 'Exit group'. If you’re curious, you can read our Privacy Notice . Click here to join our WhatsApp community . For a North East politics and regional affairs digest direct to your inbox, go here to sign up to the free Northern Agenda newsletter

Newswise — Electricity, water, transportation, healthcare and communications interact to form a broader system of systems that analysts at Argonne are committed to making more resilient. Decision and infrastructure sciences experts at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory are dedicated to understanding how critical infrastructure operates — and why and when sometimes it won’t. By analyzing the way key systems like electricity, water, transportation, healthcare and communications interact, they form an understanding of a sort of ​“system of systems” upon which modern society relies. This includes understanding how that broad system functions normally on good days and what might happen on not-so-good days. Meet seven people of infrastructure resilience whose scientific, analytical and technological expertise serves communities in times of stress or change and helps them plan to adapt to future challenges. The U.S. power grid is an example of something so large, so complex and so interconnected that it is truly too big to fail. And yet it does sometimes. Just ask anyone who has experienced outages during an extreme weather event. Leah Talaber, an infrastructure analyst at Argonne, developed a sophisticated hurricane model called HEADOUT to help predict where and when critical infrastructure systems are most likely to experience outages. The model is so valuable and accurate that it runs every time the National Hurricane Center issues an advisory. In the hours preceding some storms, Talaber has been tasked with providing hourly updates to DOE and DOE’s Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Systems, and Emergency Response (CESER). HEADOUT data is essential because it helps communities anticipate and mitigate the safety and economic impacts of losing electrical power, which could cascade to other types of infrastructure, including so-called ​“lifeline systems” — energy, water, communications and transportation — when a hurricane makes landfall. After every storm, HEADOUT analysts review the model’s predicted storm path and reconcile that data with the storm’s actual path. They also consider the storm’s impact on electrical power. When errors between the predicted model and the actual result are found, Talaber said, it is sometimes a positive sign that regions have improved infrastructure as a result of data HEADOUT provided in previous storms. Using better models and more reliable data, regions can more accurately calculate where it is most important to make interdependent systems more resilient in anticipation of future events. “It’s very exciting to see how these advances have the potential to save lives,” said Talaber. ​“The more information we have, the more we can prepare. That decreases the potential for lives lost.” If someone has to focus on the possibility of a regional energy system having its worst kind of day, it might be David Sehloff, an Argonne energy systems engineer. Sehloff, who lived in California during an era of rolling energy blackouts, is an expert in modeling adverse conditions on regional power transmission networks. Sometimes, he’s using Argonne’s high-fidelity downscaled future weather simulations to look many years into the future. Other times, he is modeling a system’s resilience a few months ahead. He examines how a system will respond when an adverse event propagates through it and ripples into other parts of the network. He also examines what happens to the infrastructure systems that are dependent or interdependent on the initially affected system. “An adverse event might be a natural hazard, a cyber event or a physical attack,” said Sehloff. ​“A flood might take out a substation and we know we’ll lose power in its vicinity. But how does losing that one substation affect the rest of the system, and can we model how that entire system will respond and recover?” This analysis can reveal a system’s most vulnerable aspects. With that information, Argonne can start making recommendations for how to mitigate effects and improve overall system resilience. “Power systems work very well, but there is a high cost when there is a disruption,” Sehloff said. ​“It’s important to identify critical times and pieces of infrastructure so that we can make improvements and prevent worst case outcomes.” Navigating the vast complexity of so much infrastructure in order to make it more resilient might be easier if there was a map to follow. But ask what information belongs on that map and Argonne’s Carmella Burdi will ask you what story you are trying to tell. “What belongs on a map changes based on what you’re trying to do,” said Burdi, group leader of Argonne’s Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) and Data Analytics. ​“We have the ability — and maybe the responsibility — to think about what’s going on when we’re trying to get information across using a map.” Unlike cartographers of old who used chain links as standard units of measure and drafted with pencil on paper, Burdi and others at Argonne use the laboratory’s high performance computing (HPC) resources to add mathematical depth and scientific meaning to spatial data. She has become an expert at piecing together GIS and data analytics to tell complex community stories. For example, with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), AT&T and DOE’s Grid Deployment Office, she helped develop a free, R&D 100 award-winning, publicly available online tool called ClimRR to make Argonne’s high-fidelity, dynamically downscaled future weather projections more accessible to both non-experts and experts alike. Local, regional and national decision-makers can use this information for forward-looking resilience planning or in immediate response to crises. “When you’re talking about infrastructure resilience, you’re talking about an actual spot on the earth’s surface that’s important to understand,” Burdi said. ​“As technology makes more data available to us, we’re able to capture more information about the world. We can organize that data, make sense of it and make our findings discoverable for other folks who need it.” Lawrence ​“Paul” Lewis lived through the deadly devastation of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans as a law student in 2005. The experience was profound and formative, both personally and professionally. “I witnessed communities lose absolutely everything,” said Lewis, who had been studying environmental law. ​“It caused me to start thinking, ​‘why did this happen? Was it the way the city was constructed? What was it about the infrastructure that caused all of the systems’ failures?’ ” Inspired, Lewis completed his legal studies, went on to earn a master’s degree in threat and response management and is currently completing a Ph.D. in systems engineering. Today, as the Community Resilience and Sustainable Development Program Lead and co-principal investigator of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Regional Resiliency Assessment Program (RRAP), he devotes himself to finding, untangling and modeling solutions to single points of infrastructure failures that can disrupt entire systems and devastate communities. “There’s not always a data set you can download and feed into a model,” Lewis said. ​“Some of this analysis has to be stitched together from real people who identify which part of their system is the most consequential to lose.” Lifeline systems are the most devastating to lose and they can create cascading problems for a community. Those failures are the ones Lewis wants to help identify most. “It’s really important to me that my work with Argonne has economic impact,” he said. ​“But, most important to me is the immediate impact we have on helping communities to be the versions of themselves that they want to be.” A better understanding of how infrastructure systems connect and relate to one another can help system operators to prioritize and restore functionality when a natural hazard or other event disrupts operations. Josh Bergerson, a principal infrastructure analyst at Argonne, works directly with critical infrastructure owners and operators to help them gain greater visibility of their dependencies on and interdependencies with other infrastructure systems. This can be through complex analysis of a system — and its place within the broader system of systems — or by facilitating more transparency between system operators. For example, a hospital may know it needs water and electricity, but it might not know how disruptions in these utilities could impact its usage of those systems. “Other than knowing the direct substation to which it is connected, a hospital might not know some of the resilience challenges,” Bergerson said. ​“We can work with stakeholders to collect data and run different analyses to help them understand what they can do so their supply is not as vulnerable every time there’s a storm or other event.” Smaller utilities might not fully understand the demands of their customers and how to prioritize restoration of power. But prioritizing a hospital’s critical functions is likely higher priority than restoring a nearby parking garage’s functionality. It also presents different resilience challenges. Bergerson works to bridge this gap in understanding through his work in support of RRAP and DHS. “Sometimes this work directly informs future decisions to enhance critical infrastructure resilience,” he said. ​“Sometimes it brings value by building relationships between stakeholders.” When planning for and developing critical infrastructure, one of the biggest x factors in any plan may be the people who use it. “People don’t necessarily use infrastructure in the ways we expect, even though they are the very reason why infrastructure is built in the first place,” said Liz Bolton, infrastructure risk analyst at Argonne. In addition to being a Fulbright scholar, Bolton is an expert in water security and the nexus between people and infrastructure. During one program abroad, she recalled, a community diverted water from newly constructed infrastructure for purposes entirely different than what its engineers intended. The region spent millions of dollars, but the effort didn’t result in improved water security. Bolton believes there are opportunities to apply new ways of thinking to promote greater water security. She studies the interdependencies between water and power grids, and the critical choke points where the greatest impact is felt if part of the system, such as a power plant, should fail. “Power and clean water are inextricably linked,” said Bolton. ​“Pumping, treating, cleaning and distributing water require a lot of energy. Energy production often requires large volumes of clean water for equipment cooling. When one fails, the other is at risk.” Analyzing and understanding the interdependencies of water and complex systems (that include people) is Bolton’s top priority. “We all expect water to be there until it isn’t,” she said. ​“At the point when we notice poor quality or insufficient quantity, it’s often too late.” Before becoming Argonne’s director of Global Energy and Climate Security, Duane Verner considered various careers in security and law enforcement. He was a National Park Service Ranger in Glacier National Park. He earned a degree in urban planning and helped governments and organizations with infrastructure recovery efforts after disasters like Hurricane Sandy, Hurricane Katrina and the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center. Combined, the experiences all made him pose a question to himself that he continues to ask today: How can communities be built to be more resilient to natural disasters and man-made attacks? His efforts to answer that question have varied over time and include work on national and international programs, including the DHS’s RRAP, the DOE’s Office of International Affairs’ Partnership for Transatlantic Energy and Climate Cooperation (P-TECC), and the U.S. Department of State’s Organization for Security Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). Energy and the stability of energy systems are increasingly important to the U.S. and its allies. As a result, Verner supports P-TECC and OSCE in their shared focus to develop and implement projects on the protection of critical, sustainable energy networks and energy-related aspects of disaster risk reduction in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia. For example, recent geopolitical tensions prompted the country of Moldova to identify viable alternative routes and sources of natural gas in the event of a wintertime disruption. Verner and an Argonne colleague flew to Moldova’s capital, analyzed the interdependencies of the country’s power system, identified ways to respond to a potential disruption and jump-started a partnership that led to a viable backup plan. That kind of expertise, Verner said, plus the HPC resources in the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, a DOE Office of Science user facility, and additional science and technology capabilities make Argonne a key contributor to infrastructure resilience — and national security. “We have very unique capabilities at the national labs,” he said, ​“and the world knows that.” The DOE, DOE’s CESER, DOE’s Grid Deployment Office, DHS, DHS’s FEMA, DOE’s Office of International Affairs, OSCE, AT&T and others sponsors contributed funding for research described in this article. The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility provides supercomputing capabilities to the scientific and engineering community to advance fundamental discovery and understanding in a broad range of disciplines. Supported by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Science, Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) program, the ALCF is one of two DOE Leadership Computing Facilities in the nation dedicated to open science. Argonne National Laboratory seeks solutions to pressing national problems in science and technology by conducting leading-edge basic and applied research in virtually every scientific discipline. Argonne is managed by UChicago Argonne, LLC for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science. The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, visit https://​ener​gy​.gov/​s​c​ience .

LOS ANGELES (AP) — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is planning to make a $1 million personal donation to President-Elect Donald Trump's inauguration fund, joining a number of tech companies and executives who are working to improve their relationships with the incoming administration. A spokesperson for OpenAI confirmed the move on Friday. The announcement comes one day after Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, said it donated $1 million to the same fund. Amazon also said it plans to donate $1 million. “President Trump will lead our country into the age of AI, and I am eager to support his efforts to ensure America stays ahead," Altman said in a statement. Altman, who is in a legal dispute with rival Elon Musk, has said he is “not that worried” about the Tesla CEO's influence in the incoming administration. Trump is putting Musk, the world’s richest man, and Vivek Ramaswamy , an entrepreneur and former Republican presidential candidate, in charge of the new Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, which is an outside advisory committee that will work with people inside the government to reduce spending and regulations. Musk, an early OpenAI investor and board member, sued the artificial intelligence company earlier this year alleging that the maker of ChatGPT betrayed its founding aims of benefiting the public good rather than pursuing profits. Musk recently escalated the lawsuit by asking a federal judge to stop OpenAI’s plans to convert itself into a for-profit business more fully. —— The Associated Press and OpenAI have a licensing and technology agreement allowing OpenAI access to part of the AP’s text archives.Manchester City, Arsenal, and now Tottenham. The list of top Premier League teams beaten at Bournemouth this season is growing. Dean Huijsen took advantage of Tottenham’s weakness at set pieces to head home a 17th-minute winner in Bournemouth’s 1-0 victory on Thursday. After the game, some Spurs fans appeared to vent their frustration at manager Ange Postecoglou when he went over to the away contingent following his team's insipid display. “They are pretty disappointed, rightly so, and I got some pretty direct feedback as to how we are going,” the Australian coach said, “and that's fair enough.” Bournemouth climbed to ninth — a point and a place above Tottenham in the standings — and underlined its penchant for surprising high-profile visitors to Vitality Stadium. Man City’s remarkable four-game losing run in the Premier League started with a 2-1 defeat at Bournemouth, while fellow title contender Arsenal’s first loss of the season also came at the Vitality, 2-0 on Oct. 19. This was Spurs' sixth defeat of the campaign. They now have as many wins as losses, highlighting the inconsistency blighting their season, and their seven away results so far make remarkable reading: aside from a 3-0 win at Manchester United and a 4-0 thrashing of Man City, Tottenham has lost four and drawn the other at relegation candidate Leicester. “We've got to get out of this space we're in at the moment where we're just not able to get a real grip on our season,” Postecoglou said. An inability to defend set plays continues to hurt Postecoglou’s team. A week after Roma scored twice from them in a 2-2 draw in the Europa League, Huijsen roamed free in the area at a corner and headed home unmarked. Postecoglou said in May said he “wasn’t interested” about his side’s fallibility while defending set pieces, and said after losing 1-0 to Arsenal in September — after a goal from Gabriel at a corner — that “it’s my burden to carry and I’m happy to do that.” “We started well and conceded a really poor goal," Postecoglou said after the Bournemouth game. “It’s a difficult place to come when giving the opposition the opportunity to play in the manner they want.” IWOBI DOUBLE Alex Iwobi scored goals early and late in the game to lead Fulham to a 3-1 win over Brighton. The Nigeria winger intercepted a stray pass out from the back by Brighton goalkeeper Bart Verbruggen and slotted into an unguarded net for the opener in the fourth minute and curled home Fulham’s clinching goal in the 87th. Carlos Baleba equalized for Brighton in the 56th before Brighton midfielder Matt O’Riley – a former Fulham academy player – deflected the ball into his own net from a corner to put the home side back in front. Fulham climbed to sixth in the standings, a point and a place behind Brighton. ___ AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccer

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Lions receiver Jameson Williams won't be charged for having a gun in a carBy BARBARA ORTUTAY, AP Technology Writer Nearly half of American teenagers say they are online “constantly” despite concerns about the effects of social media and smartphones on their mental health, according to a new report published Thursday by the Pew Research Center. As in past years, YouTube was the single most popular platform teenagers used — 90% said they watched videos on the site, down slightly from 95% in 2022. Nearly three-quarters said they visit YouTube every day. There was a slight downward trend in several popular apps teens used. For instance, 63% of teens said they used TikTok, down from 67% and Snapchat slipped to 55% from 59%. This small decline could be due to pandemic-era restrictions easing up and kids having more time to see friends in person, but it’s not enough to be truly meaningful . X saw the biggest decline among teenage users. Only 17% of teenagers said they use X, down from 23% in 2022, the year Elon Musk bought the platform. Reddit held steady at 14%. About 6% of teenagers said they use Threads, Meta’s answer to X that launched in 2023. The report comes as countries around the world are grappling with how to handle the effects of social media on young people’s well-being. Australia recently passed a law banning kids under 16 from social networks, though it’s unclear how it will be able to enforce the age limit — and whether it will come with unintended consequences such as isolating vulnerable kids from their peers. Meta’s messaging service WhatsApp was a rare exception in that it saw the number of teenage users increase, to 23% from 17% in 2022. Pew also asked kids how often they use various online platforms. Small but significant numbers said they are on them “almost constantly.” For YouTube, 15% reported constant use, for TikTok, 16% and for Snapchat, 13%. As in previous surveys, girls were more likely to use TikTok almost constantly while boys gravitated to YouTube. There was no meaningful gender difference in the use of Snapchat, Instagram and Facebook. Roughly a quarter of Black and Hispanic teens said they visit TikTok almost constantly, compared with just 8% of white teenagers. The report was based on a survey of 1,391 U.S. teens ages 13 to 17 conducted from Sept. 18 to Oct. 10, 2024.

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