Births at Erlanger East rise to a file excessive in ’22
Erlanger East Hospital was as soon as once more Chattanooga’s prime hospital for births final yr with a record-high 3,144 infants born on the East Brainerd hospital in 2022.
Erlanger East Hospital, which started its labor and supply companies in 1996, additionally shattered its earlier file for many births in a month with 320 births in December 2022. Erlanger East has been acknowledged as The “Greatest Place to Have a Child” for every of the previous 15 years within the annual Occasions Free Press reader survey.
The brand new yr of 2023 started with Chattanooga’s first child born early Sunday at 5:14 a.m. to William and Laura Probasco of Lookout Mountain at Erlanger East. The 7-pound 1-ounce child woman was named Laura “Lollie” and was born with the assistance of Dr. Kathleen Mitchell of Erlanger Girls’s Institute for Specialised Care. Each mother and child are doing properly. Erlanger spokeswoman Blaine Kelley stated Friday.
Southwest scrapped 16,700 vacation fights
Southwest Airways is anticipating a money-losing fourth quarter after a winter storm and expertise meltdown led to just about 17,000 canceled flights and stranded lots of of 1000’s of vacation vacationers.
The cancellations will lead to a pretax hit of $725 million to $825 million from misplaced income, plus further prices, together with reimbursements for vacationers and premium pay for workers, Southwest stated Friday in a regulatory submitting.
The storm and gradual restoration was a devastating flip financially and fame ally for the Dallas-based provider, which led all U.S. airways in revenue through the first 9 months of 2022, a yr of restoration for the pandemic-battered airline business.
The large disruptions began with a winter storm that hit a lot of the nation earlier than Christmas. They snowballed when Southwest’s outdated crew-scheduling expertise was overwhelmed, leaving crews and planes out of place to function flights. Managers and a cadre of volunteer workers at firm headquarters have been compelled to manually reassign pilots and flight attendants to flights.
It took Southwest eight days to get better simply earlier than the New 12 months’s Day weekend, whereas different main airways have been up and working rapidly after the storm handed.
Southwest stated within the submitting with the U.S. Securities and Trade Fee that it canceled greater than 16,700 flights between Dec. 21 and Dec. 31, inflicting a lack of $400 million to $425 million in income. In early December, earlier than the meltdown, Southwest projected fourth-quarter income would rise by as much as 17% over the identical interval in 2019, earlier than the pandemic.
Walgreens overstated theft affect, CFO says
A Walgreens government stated this week that the corporate, which cited “organized” shoplifting as a motive to shut 5 shops in San Francisco in October 2021, might need overstated the impact of theft on its enterprise.
“Possibly we cried an excessive amount of final yr,” James Kehoe, the corporate’s chief monetary officer, stated throughout a Walgreens earnings name with buyers.
Kehoe additionally stated that the corporate had “in all probability” spent an excessive amount of on safety measures and that it might need mischaracterized how a lot theft occurred in its shops.
It was a exceptional admission, retail consultants stated. Walgreens and different retailers have lately complained about a rise in shoplifting, inflaming political debates about crime.
Kehoe stated Walgreens’ shrinkage — the business time period for stock that was purchased however can’t be offered, primarily due to theft — was now round 2.5% to 2.6% of gross sales, in contrast with round 3.5% final yr, and had “stabilized.” Shrinkage will also be attributed to product harm, theft or lack of items by workers or vendor fraud.
Twitter leak exposes 235 million emails
Private emails linked to 235 million Twitter accounts hacked a while in the past have been uncovered, in accordance with Israeli safety researcher Alon Gal. The hacks might make hundreds of thousands susceptible to having their accounts compromised or identities uncovered if they’ve used the positioning anonymously to criticize oppressive governments.
Gal, co-founder and chief expertise officer at cybersecurity agency Hudson Rock, wrote in a LinkedIn publish this week that the leak “will sadly result in numerous hacking, focused phishing, and doxxing.” Whereas passwords weren’t leaked, malicious hackers might use the e-mail addresses to attempt to reset folks’s passwords, or guess them if they’re generally used.
Gas leak shuts down a part of Colonial pipeline
The Colonial Pipeline says a diesel gasoline leak in Virginia has shut down a part of the nation’s largest gasoline pipeline, however it’s anticipated to restart Saturday.
Colonial spokesperson David Conti says the spill was found Tuesday. And whereas this explicit line is shut down, the remainder of the system is working usually. The pipeline provides roughly half the gasoline consumed on the East Coast.
The Georgia-based firm says crews are fixing tools that failed on the Witt booster station close to Danville. It says the failure brought on a spill that was detected throughout a routine station verify and seems to be contained to the property. Patrick De Haan is an analyst with GasBuddy. He stated the incident should not affect gasoline costs.