Ocean Yield Buying Four VLCCs with Long-Term Charters
Norwegian shipowner Ocean Yield has agreed to acquire four very large crude carriers (VLCCs) with 15-year bareboat charters.All four vessels are chartered to companies owned and guaranteed by Okeanis Marine Holdings, and sub-chartered to the shipping arm of a large industrial conglomerate for a period of 5 years.The company said that the gross purchase price is USD 83.75 million per VLCC and the net cash purchase price is USD 74.25 million after a seller’s credit of USD 9.50 million.“The investment is done at historically low asset values and will increase our EBITDA charter backlog by about 16% to USD 3.4 billion as per today,” Lars Solbakken, Ocean Yield’s Chief Executive Officer, said.The ships are scheduled for delivery by South Korean yard, Hyundai Heavy Industries, in Q2-Q3 2019. Okeanis Marine Holdings will have certain options to acquire the VLCCs during the charter period, with the first purchase option exercisable after seven years.
“Bordalas is a great manager, he demands a lot,” Nyom said. “That’s his style. His big thing is we are a team, a family. He tells us to run, to fight, to never give up and believe me, we run a lot.“It was the hardest pre-season of my career, run, run, run. But it means we can be 100 per cent all the time. At some clubs there is training and there are matches. Here the two are the same.”There may not be a coach in Europe doing a better job than Bordalas and his success has brought speculation, with Atletico Madrid mentioned as a possible next step.“Of course he could do it at a bigger club,” says Nyom. “It’s harder, not easier, with lower teams. With better players he could do even better.”But there are reservations about Getafe’s style, an unashamedly direct approach that looks for territory, relies on defence and relishes confrontation.In La Liga this season, they have completed the fewest passes, collected the most yellow cards and committed the highest number of fouls.Barcelona have four players in the league’s top 10 for passes made while Getafe’s highest, Marc Cucurella, is 74th, and he is on loan from Barcelona.“People can think what they want,” Nyom said. “But we have good players too, skilful, technical players. It’s just these players can defend so it’s the perfect combination for us.”After Barcelona, Getafe play Ajax in the Europa League next week, two opponents united in their veneration of Johan Cruyff and unerring in the belief there is one way the game should be played.Read Also: Delighted Joseph Yobo explains new Super Eagles roleYet Getafe have their own style and their own conviction too.“Style is important because it’s your identity but there are different styles,” Nyom said.“Barcelona want possession, we want to press. We play direct and they play with the ball. But one style is not better than the other. For us, it’s all about the result.”FacebookTwitterWhatsAppEmail分享 Nyom celebrated his first goal for the club like it was the first of his life, racing one way and then the other, not quite sure where he was going until suddenly deciding where he had to end up. Ogenekaro Etebo’s teammate Allan Nyom took a yellow card, scored a goal and was substituted before half-time and in those 16 minutes it was possible to understand why Getafe sit third in La Liga.Advertisement Jose Bordalas took charge of Getafe in September 2016, with the club sitting 21st in Segunda. Loading… Promoted Content7 Facts About Black Holes That Will Blow Your MindPortuguese Street Artist Creates Hyper-Realistic 3D Graffiti8 Superfoods For Growing Hair Back And Stimulating Its Growth2020 Tattoo Trends: Here’s What You’ll See This YearPlaying Games For Hours Can Do This To Your BodyThe 10 Best Secondary Education Systems In The World10 Disney Characters Who Would Make Great Role ModelsA Guy Turns Gray Walls And Simple Bricks Into Works Of ArtA Soviet Shot Put Thrower’s Record Hasn’t Been Beaten To This Day5 Of The World’s Most Unique Theme Parks12 Movies That Almost Ended Their Stars’ CareersCan Playing Too Many Video Games Hurt Your Body? He found the Getafe fans in the corner, who celebrated Nyom putting them two up against old rivals, Leganes, whom Nyom had left last summer, and firing them within touching distance of new ones, Sevilla and Atletico Madrid, in a remarkable challenge for the top four.“This year I’m playing like a right winger and I want to score goals,” Nyom says, in an interview with AFP. “I even try to do tricks now. That’s this team, I’m loving it.”Six minutes before, Nyom had been booked and 10 minutes later, in the 31st minute of the January 17 game at Leganes, he was taken off. On show all at once, Getafe’s mean streak, their unity and the ruthlessness of their coach, Jose Bordalas, to put team above all else.“When people think of Getafe they think of hard work,” says Nyom. “We play together, work together, run together, that’s the most important thing.”Bordalas took over in September 2016 with Getafe 21st in Segunda. Instead of going down, they went up and then instead of scrapping for survival, they finished eighth.Allan Nyom is in the form of his life for Getafe, who play Barcelona on Saturday and sit third in La Liga.Last year, Bordalas took them to the brink of Champions League qualification, missing out to Valencia on the last day, and this season they are challenging again.“There are still a lot of games left but we have a chance,” said Nyom. “I think this year it will be even harder because the teams around those positions are strong and getting stronger. But we will try.”On Saturday, they play Barcelona, whose 11 starting players last weekend cost 340 million euros. Getafe’s cost 21 million, four of them free and one on loan. Barcelona’s salary cap this season is 671 million euros, comfortably 10 times more than Getafe’s 56 million.But Bordalas has instilled belief. Jorge Molina, who scored twice against Valencia last weekend, is 37, older than the club itself.Nyom, at 31, once of Watford and West Brom, is in the form of his life, dreaming of the Champions League and a starting spot at next year’s Africa Cup of Nations, when his country Cameroon will be hosts.
BACOLOD City – A total of 193 police officers of the Negros OccidentalPolice Provincial Office (NOCPPO), who underwent a surprise drug test on threeseparate occasions, turned out negative for drug use. “This is a good indication at the startof the year as we continuously enforce the law to maintain peace and order inNegros,” Garcia said. NOCPPO public information officer MajorEdison Garcia said the results were released by the Philippine National PoliceProvincial Crime Laboratory here. Of the 193, there were 102 policemenassigned at the provincial headquarters, including Colonel Romeo Baleros,provincial police director, who passed the drug test, along with 60 from theHimamaylan City and 31 from the San Enrique Municipal police stations. “It shows that the NOCPPO personneladhere to the mandate of our duty, not engaging in any wrongdoing such as usingillegal drugs,” he said.
Earlier, Baleros said the drug test ispart of the internal cleansing program of the NOCPPO in compliance with the“Stronger Police Regional Office-6” strategic directive of Brigadier General RenePampuspusan, director of PRO-Western Visayas. Some of the 102 personnel of the Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office who underwent a surprise drug test on Jan. 13. PNA “They were chosen randomly, consistingof personnel from different sections of NOCPPO. However, the testing on allpersonnel of the Drug Enforcement Unit and the Intelligence Branch wasmandatory,” he added./PN
Share This StoryFacebookTwitteremailPrintLinkedinRedditLISBON, Portugal (AP) — Kingsley Coman headed Bayern Munich to a sixth European Cup title on Sunday, scoring against boyhood club Paris Saint-Germain to seal a 1-0 victory in the first Champions League final to be played without fans.While Bayern won its first final since 2013, PSG has yet to lift the European Cup despite more than $1 billion being spent on players in nine years.More than $500 million was spent on Neymar, Kylian Mbappé and Angel Di Maria but PSG looked far from formidable or threatening against the Bavarian giants who felt more assured on European club football’s biggest stage. August 23, 2020 The season is now over — three months later than planned due to the coronavirus pandemic pause in play — with Bayern treble winners just as it was in 2013.The European Cup joins the Bundesliga trophy — won for an eighth successive season — and the German Cup.Bayern joins deposed champion Liverpool as six-time champions of Europe, only behind AC Milan (seven) and Real Madrid (13). It was the first final to end 1-0 since Real Madrid beat Juventus in 1998 which was also the last final to feature teams who qualified as domestic champions. But the singing PSG contingent around the directors’ box was silenced in a stadium that was largely empty due to coronavirus restrictions. And when the final whistle blew, Neymar was in tears, embraced by Bayern rival David Alaba.“They were more clinical than us,” PSG midfielder Ander Herrera said. “When you play another top team in Europe, if you don’t score they will.” Bayern beats Paris Saint-Germain 1-0 to win 6th European Cup As the costly front three were frustrated in front of goal, it was instead a winger who was born in Paris and started his career at PSG who inflicted the blow.The 24-year-old Coman ghosted in at the far post unchecked by the PSG defense and was ready to meet a cross from Joshua Kimmich in the 59th minute.It was Bayern’s 43rd goal of a perfect European campaign that has seen Bayern become the first team to win all 11 Champions League matches.“When you win a title like this with brothers on the pitch,” Kimmich said, “that’s the maximum you can ask for.”It capped an incredible transformation this season under Hansi Flick, who emerged from the shadows in November, with a promotion to the top coaching job with Bayern fourth in the Bundesliga. 
Perhaps the only surprise was that there was no 56th goal of the season by Bayern forward Robert Lewandowski.For once his scoring contribution was not needed as this season like no other ended with a 21st successive win for Bayern as part of a 30-game unbeaten run.___More AP soccer https://apnews.com/Soccer and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports PSG’s footballing superstars were subdued at a final which lacked the usual pre-match entertainment from pop stars.Not that PSG lacked chances to take the lead at a final that should have been played in Istanbul in May, rather than the Portuguese capital in late August when seasons usually begin not end.Only the presence of “Istanbul” on the match ball that Neymar struck at Bayern goalkeeper Manuel Neuer in the 18th was a reminder here of the pandemic-enforced change of location.Neymar did spark the move that saw Herrera and Di Maria combine but the Argentine could only strike over.And an interchange between Herrera and Mbappé before halftime ended with a weak shot from the French forward. Associated Press 
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The Wisconsin football team is close to finalizing a deal to hire former University of Southern California defensive coordinator Justin Wilcox to the same position, according to a report by FootballScoop.com. University of Wisconsin Athletics, however, has yet to make a formal announcement.Wilcox is 39-years-old and has served as the defensive coordinator at Boise State, Tennessee, Washington and the past two seasons at USC. He will now take the position of former UW defensive coordinator Dave Aranda, who left to take the same position at Louisiana State University in early January.Football: UW defensive coordinator Dave Aranda leaves for LSUJust two days after the Wisconsin football team took down USC in the Holiday Bowl, defensive coordinator Dave Aranda decided Read…As the Trojans’ defensive coordinator last season, Wilcox coached a unit that finished 50th in the nation in points allowed per game (25.7) and 65th in total defense, allowing 400.8 yards per game. The unit also was 93rd ranked pass defense and 41st against the run. Wilcox was fired following the team’s 41-22 loss to Stanford in the Pac-12 title game.Wilcox will now inherit Wisconsin’s best scoring defense from the 2015 season, as the unit gave up just 13.7 points per game. They also ranked second in total defense, giving up just 268.5 total yards per game last year.
Facebook Twitter Google+ KALAMAZOO, Mich. – Eric Dungey wanted to go back in the game. The senior quarterback told SU head coach Dino Babers as much on the sidelines. Freshman Tommy DeVito checked in with a 24 point lead, but it dwindled to six. Babers held on as long as he could.“I wanted to see if we could battle out of that deficit without (Dungey),” Babers said. “We didn’t get that done so we put him back in.”When Dungey wasn’t in the offense, Syracuse gained a net total of 78 yards on 23 plays. When he was, they gained 482. When Dungey was on the field the team scored 55 points. When he was on the sidelines it didn’t score a point.During a 55-42 win over Western Michigan at Waldo Stadium on Friday night, Syracuse’s offense went as Dungey went.Dungey didn’t reach 10 completions and it didn’t matter. His work came on the ground to the tune of 200 rushing yards, two touchdowns and a program record for most rushing yards in a single game by an SU quarterback. For the quarterback who’s always said he’d run less, Dungey’s running Friday kept SU ahead.AdvertisementThis is placeholder text“I love to win,” Dungey said. “I want to do everything I can do to win. And once it started to get close, I was in Babers ears. He was probably getting annoyed with me but I really wanted to get back in there.”Dungey’s first rush came via a fake jet sweep where he pulled the ball from the man in motion and dashed up the middle for a 14-yard gain. On the next play, he sat in the pocket and dropped a 27-yard pass to Jamal Custis for a score. After an Andre Cisco interception awarded Syracuse the ball at the WMU 30, Dungey ran up the middle before bursting up the sideline nearly untouched for 18 yards. The Orange finished that drive with a field goal and scored 24 more points before Dungey took his break.In the last two Novembers, Syracuse has gone winless and Dungey hasn’t played a full game. The offense at times looked stagnant during those November games and was held to 20 points or fewer five times in eight games. In all of those games, the defense allowed 27 points or more.With Dungey on the sideline against WMU, Syracuse reverted back to the team it’s been in years past. The defense collapsed. It allowed 21 unanswered points and 336 yards in the third quarter. Comments “Dungey carries a lot of weight and people have to play him differently than everyone else,” Babers said. “He’s got too much experience. He’s hard to get fooled on coverages. He’s hard to get fooled on blitzes.”When Dungey came back in, things flipped once more. On the run that broke SU’s program record, he went to pull up a WMU defender but tripped and fell on him instead. He said postgame that it was an accident and “looked a lot worse than it really was.” Nonetheless, it resulted in a skirmish. Both teams exchanged blows and SU offensive linemen Evan Adams as well as WMU’s Drake Spears were ejected.Seven plays later, Dungey found Custis in the left side flat. The redshirt senior wide receiver snagged the ball with one hand and sidestepped his defender. As he finished his 21-yard touchdown catch, Dungey looked toward the Western Michigan bench and made money signs with his fingers, a move formerly made famous by 2012 Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel.“Yeah you know that’s competition,” Dungey said. “It’s the most fun. It’s college football you know, game was on the line, it was game time.” Published on August 31, 2018 at 10:22 pm Contact Josh: jlschafe@syr.edu | @Schafer_44
Coach Doc Rivers told reporters before his Clippers took on the high-flying San Antonio Spurs on Monday night that his team was “consistency away from being a good team, but we just aren’t there yet.”Following a so-so first quarter after which it trailed by seven points, Los Angeles was consistently very good the final three quarters and the result was a 115-92 victory over the Spurs before 19,253 at Staples Center. San Antonio (19-5) came in with the second-best record in the Western Conference.The key was a 19-0 Los Angeles run that began early in the second quarter. It set the tone for the rest of the way. The Clippers (17-9) led 55-49 at halftime and 78-70 after three quarters. “I didn’t even realize it was 19-0, but it was huge,” said Griffin, who also grabbed nine rebounds. “It started with defense.”Griffin scored many of his points off hard work in the paint. That was reflected by his 15 free-throw shots, of which he made 11. Chris Paul, who had 23 points, eight rebounds, seven assists and four steals, marveled at Griffin and the way he goes about his business inside.“It’s been fun to watch, and it’s my job to keep feeding him,” Paul said. “He’s a handful, you have to double-team him to in order to stop him. We’re going to continue to play through him until he tells us otherwise.”There were other contributors to this impressive victory. Jamal Crawford, in his second start, scored 17 points. Dudley scored 14 points, Green had 11 and Darren Collison 10. DeAndre Jordan had seven points and a team-high 11 rebounds.The Clippers shot 51.3 percent from the field to 48.7 for San Antonio.Tim Duncan led the Spurs with 17 points and 11 rebounds; he also had five assists. Manu Ginobili scored 16 points and Kawhi Leonard had 12. Tony Parker played just a little more than 25 minutes before going out with a contusion on his right shin. He finished with eight points and six assists.That this victory against a team like the Spurs came just one day after the Clippers returned from a seven-game road trip, made it even more noteworthy.“Doc and our coaching staff, they do an amazing job making sure we are well-rested and making sure we are in the right mind state before the game,” Paul said, in appreciaton.One thing’s for sure, for a team that has struggled with consistency, the Clippers don’t figure to rest of the laurels of this performance.“It was big,” Rivers said of passing such a test. “But we’re going to have another one soon. You just keep having them all year. If you pass the test, that doesn’t mean you have any time to feel good about it because you’ll have another one.”Next up, the Clippers play host to New Orleans on Wednesday. Newsroom GuidelinesNews TipsContact UsReport an Error
And when San Antonio pulled within four points (86-82) about five minutes into the fourth quarter, the Clippers did not panic. Instead, they outscored San Antonio 29-10 the rest of the way.The final two nails in San Antonio’s coffin were back-to-back 3-pointers by Willie Green and Jared Dudley that gave the Clippers a 103-86 lead with just over three minutes to play.Rivers loved that 19-0 spurt that took the Clippers from a 31-21 deficit to a 40-31 lead with 5:45 left in the second quarter.“That was nice, and I liked it,” Rivers said. “I look at 19-0 runs as defensive runs. The only way you get a 19-0 is when you get defensive stops.”Blake Griffin, who led the Clippers with 27 points on 8-of-14 shooting, concurred.
Petrino has a history of fielding high-octane offenses, and has enjoyed varying degrees of success in each of his previous collegiate stops. He led Louisville to a 41-9 record from 2003 to 2006, Arkansas to a 34-17 record from 2008 to 2011, Western Kentucky to an 8-4 record in 2013 and Louisville (again) to a 36-26 record from 2014 to 2018.MORE: Hired, fired, resigned: Looking at 2019 FBS coaching changes Bobby Petrino is back in the coaching game.The former Louisville, Arkansas and Western Kentucky coach has been hired by FCS program Missouri State, the school announced Wednesday. It will be his fourth job at a different program since 2011. That said, Petrino brings a fair amount of controversy with him.He left his first stint in Louisville after four years, signing a five-year deal with the Atlanta Falcons, whom he coached for 13 games before jumping ship to Arkansas. While he elevated the Razorbacks to two double-digit win seasons and major bowl berths, he was fired in April 2012 after a motorcycle accident revealed he misled Arkansas officials about an extramarital affair he had with an athletic employee.Petrino was out of coaching in 2012 before returning to Western Kentucky for a season. He then returned to Louisville in 2014. He saw moderate success in his second stint there, but failed to win more than nine games in a season — even with Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback Lamar Jackson.
Facebook3Tweet0Pin0 Submitted by The Community Foundation of South Puget Sound The Community Foundation of South Puget Sound awarded $337,750 in discretionary grants to 59 south sound nonprofit organizations. These grants were in turn leveraged by over $238,000 from donor advised funds to causes they choose to support.In addition, The Foundation awarded $114,000 in grants through its partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to address intergenerational poverty in Thurston, Mason and Lewis counties. Another eight nonprofits received these grants.The Community Foundation of South Puget Sound’s mission is to inspire philanthropic efforts that enrich our communities. “All grants reflect donor generosity and their goal to strengthen and sustain the quality of life in our communities” notes Norma Schuiteman, President & CEO.“Donors trust us to be knowledgeable regarding our community’s current and evolving needs. They also know us to be good stewards of their contributed funds.” The Community Foundation currently holds 84 separate funds for individuals, nonprofit agencies and businesses pursuing their respective charitable goals.Thurston County discretionary grants totaling $224,740 were made to 39 nonprofits including the Olympia Arts Alliance, Capitol Land Trust, the Student Orchestras of Greater Olympia, Senior Services, Concern for Animals, Boys and Girls Clubs of Thurston County, Rainer Therapeutic Riding and the Olympia Symphony Orchestra.“This sampling of grantees represents the broad range of interests supported by our community grants committee which distributes unrestricted donor funds,” continues Schuiteman. “A community foundation’s unique value lies in its ability to support a myriad of community interests.”Also in Thurston County, $50,000 in grants were made in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to alleviate poverty. These funds supported continuing work by the Thurston County Asset Building Coalition (TABC). “The TABC is a model of collaborative community leadership that we’ve invested in over the last five years,” Schuiteman explains.”We believe that this model is the right one for the community. TABC is a proven structure founded upon strong communication and shared learning between direct service providers, government and the private sector.” The TABC includes representatives from key community asset areas such as economic advancement, health, housing and food. “All this leads to improved effectiveness in how we care for our community’s most vulnerable residents,” Schuiteman concludes.For more information on the donor resources provided at The Community Foundation, please contact President & CEO, Norma Schuiteman at 360.705.3340 or norma@thecommunityfoundation.comA complete list of 2014 grantees is available at www.thecommunityfoundation.com