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Washington Post
11 hours ago
- Washington Post
Small bear disrupts Japanese airport, prompting low-speed chase on runway
Officials at a small airport in northern Japan conducted a low-speed car chase Thursday to thwart a security risk: a small black bear. An employee at Yamagata airport in Higashine, Yamagata Prefecture spotted the bear near the runway early Thursday morning, according to Japanese outlet Yomiuri Shimbun. Airport personnel briefly shut down operations to run safety checks when staff lost sight of the bear, Yomiuri Shimbun reported. The bear, about four feet tall, reemerged around noon to cause a level of havoc three times its size: Twelve flights were canceled Thursday as airport employees chased the bear around the runway, Yamagata airport official Akira Nagai told Agence France-Presse. 'We're in a stalemate now,' Nagai said at the time, noting that the airport would remain closed until 8 p.m. as they assessed the situation. Nagai confirmed to The Washington Post on Friday that the airport had resumed operations Thursday night after the bear seemed to disappear once more. Yamagata is one of the smaller airports in Japan. The sighting comes as Japan wrestles with an uptick in bear sightings — some of which have resulted in fatalities, Japanese outlet Kyodo News reported in April. Footage from Japan's Nippon TV showed the bear walking through a grassy field and running onto a runway Thursday as a bright-colored car followed behind. In one scene, the bear puts its paws on a fence. 'Given the situation there is no way we can host plane arrivals now,' Nagai told AFP that day. Nagai said hunters were hired to trap the bear. Local police also joined the effort by surrounding the premise, he added. The bear, to Nagai's knowledge, has not been captured. Local hunters are on the lookout. Nagai said he suspects the bear is hiding in the bushes or forest near the airport. Bear sightings — and attacks — in Japan have become increasingly common. Last January, Japan's Ministry of the Environment estimated that the number of bear sightings between April 2023 and October 2023, which is believed to be more than 19,000, surpassed the 18,000 sightings reported in 2020. A week before the black bear delayed flights at Yamagata airport, bear sightings caused a school to move a sports event indoors in Goshogawara, Aomori Prefecture, according to Yomiuri Shimbun. Cate Brown contributed to this report.
Yahoo
13 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Jenni ‘JWoww' Farley Says She ‘Hog-Tied' Her Son in Airport Bathroom While Learning How To Manage His Autism Diagnosis
Jenni 'JWoww' Farley Says She 'Hog-Tied' Her Son in Airport Bathroom While Learning How To Manage His Autism Diagnosis originally appeared on Parade. Fans of Jenni "JWoww" Farley likely know her best for her hard partying ways on the Jersey Shore. But ever since becoming a mom, Farley has shifted her focus to being the best parent she can be for her son Greyson Valor Mathews, who she shares with ex-husband Roger Mathews. However, that wasn't always easy for the reality star, especially when her son was little and had just received an autism diagnosis that left Farley struggling to parent her little boy. 🎬 SIGN UP for Parade's Daily newsletter to get the latest pop culture news & celebrity interviews delivered right to your inbox 🎬 The 40-year-old opened up about the challenging time in her life while appearing on Kylie Kelce's Not Gonna Lie podcast, recalling how hard things were when Grayson was two, and she was traveling alone with him through the airport when he threw an epic tantrum. "I was able to lock myself in a bathroom with him and get him figured out and lock him in his stroller," she recalled. 'I was hog-tying him at one point just to calm him down. And we got on the plane, and he passed out. I remember all the looks; he just got diagnosed. I was [like] I don't wanna talk about his diagnosis.'According to Farley, everything kicked off when her then non-verbal son tried to run through the TSA security checkpoint. 'And when I tried to stop him, he ripped my glasses off and broke them, and he headbutted me.' She went on to explain how nobody had given her any information about his diagnosis at the time, or the sensory challenges he may face. "And I had no idea, because he really wasn't on a flight before that, that he didn't like lines, and he didn't like waiting, and he hated delays.' These days Farley has become a tireless advocate, not just for her son, but for any child or parent who is learning how to manage an autism diagnosis. While we can't imagine how hard that moment had to be for Farley and her son, it sounds like the proud mama is trying to use her story to help raise awareness for other parents, and maybe even help some other mamas feel less 'JWoww' Farley Says She 'Hog-Tied' Her Son in Airport Bathroom While Learning How To Manage His Autism Diagnosis first appeared on Parade on Jun 27, 2025 This story was originally reported by Parade on Jun 27, 2025, where it first appeared.
Washington Post
15 hours ago
- Washington Post
Man who kicked customs dog at Dulles ordered to leave U.S.
Freddie the Customs and Border Protection beagle spent Tuesday morning doing his typical work: patrolling the international baggage claim area at Washington Dulles International Airport for undeclared agricultural products. Then the morning took an unusual turn. After the dog alerted his handler that a piece of luggage from Cairo was suspicious, the duo approached the suitcase's owner, a 70-year-old man from Egypt.
Forbes
19 hours ago
- General
- Forbes
When Blueprints Replace Imprints: The Hidden Cost Of Overdesigning
Designing and brainstorming As organizations work to design and streamline every aspect of experience—from customer journeys to internal workflows—we risk designing out what actually makes people care. In trying to perfect flow, we overlook feeling. And when experience becomes too engineered, what's meant to matter begins to blur. The other day, I had time to spare at a small airport. One of those places with just a few gates, a single coffee stand, and not much else. Multiple delays. No lounge. No crowd to lose myself in. Just a chair, a window, weather and a lukewarm cappuccino. There wasn't much to do. I had promised myself I wouldn't doom-scroll. I tried working. Then writing. Then reading. But none of it held. I closed my laptop and started noticing. I noticed the pacing of the agents behind the counter. The quiet negotiations between passengers. A child asking questions no one could answer. No performance. No template. Just people adjusting to the moment. It reminded me of something I've seen happen in leadership and experience design too. We build systems to manage flow, but we forget that flow is not what people remember. What stays with them are the unmarked moments. The ones no one designed, but someone noticed. The Overdesigned Life Every part of our working lives is now mapped. Customer journeys. Employee life cycles. Experience stages. Pain points. Moments of truth. Every step is measured. Every AI prompt is memorized. These tools have value. They bring shape to something intangible. They align teams. But there's a risk we don't talk about enough. Journey mapping can become an academic exercise. A charting of what's visible and reportable. Not what's emotional. Not what's hidden. Not what's felt but never said. I've seen experience design turn into slide decks. Pain points circled. Touchpoints optimized. But what gets missed is the part that doesn't fit the template. The moment that lingers. The gesture that wasn't in the script. The action no one asked for. Mapping only matters if it leaves room for what can't be mapped. It matters even more when it literally leaves the meeting room and enters the lived reality of employees and customers—where design meets encounter, and frameworks give way to truth. Designing For The Visible, Missing The Meaningful The issue isn't that we map too much. It's that we often only map what we can easily see. Transactions. Digital interactions. Survey responses. These are trackable. Measurable. Safe. But the most valuable moments tend to be harder to spot. They drift. They're subtle. Sometimes they happen right in front of us and still go unnoticed. A team member senses hesitation in a meeting and steps in. A manager responds to tone, not just timing. A customer quietly holds onto a moment that wasn't part of the script, but felt real. An airline announces delays, even apologizes. But misses the frustration, the fatigue, the ripple. These experiences rarely get logged. Yet they shape trust. Loyalty. Memory. Engagement. When I spoke recently with Paco Underhill, we talked about exactly this. His decades of work in stores, airports, and public spaces wasn't built on surveys. It was rooted in observation. He told me, 'Most people can't tell you what influenced them. But their body will.' That resonated. But it was the posture behind it that mattered more. To observe, he doesn't rely on dashboards. He waits. Watches. Lets the data show itself through movement, avoidance, curiosity. We need more of that in leadership. And in design. Leader can no longer lead from the map alone. Observation sharpens leadership. Without it, things become abstract. Leaders assume their plans reflect the reality others are living. But they often don't. Design manages flow. It creates rhythm. But rhythm can blur the edges of emotion. Performance is visible. Fatigue often stays hidden. What gets optimized may not be what gets remembered. You can't shift culture through systems alone. You have to feel your way through it. Slowly. Attentively. Zooming In, Zooming Out That day in the airport helped me zoom in on the micro-signals. Posture. Silence. Breath. And zoom out on how often we substitute process for presence. The late Daniel Kahneman reminded us that people don't remember entire experiences. They remember a few defining moments. Often the emotional peak and how it ended (also called the Peak-end rule). That's what stays. That's what imprints. Kahneman also drew a line between two parts of ourselves. The experiencing self lives moment to moment. The remembering self tells the story afterward. And they don't always agree. As he put it, we don't choose between experiences, we choose between memories of experiences. Those memories don't follow the arc of a process map. They're shaped by what moves us. What catches us off guard. What breaks pattern. They rarely show up in the systems we design. We've trained leaders to act quickly. To deliver. To decide. But attention may be the more endangered skill. Empathy Map strategy chart diagram infographic presentation banner template vector has Says, Thinks, ... More Feels and Does or hear, think and feel, see, say and do. Analyze tool for the target's emotion,need It's not about scanning dashboards or tracking performance signals. It's about noticing what isn't being said. Staying in the conversation long enough to feel the shift. Recognizing emotion before it finds the words to name itself. Empathy mapping can be useful before journey mapping to surface what often goes unsaid. But real insight comes not just from what people say or do, but paying deeper attention the micro-behaviors that reveal how they feel, what they believe, and what they're holding back. French philosopher Simone Weil once wrote, 'Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.' It may also be the most underused form of leadership. Leaders often zoom out. It feels 'Big Picture-strategic'. It feels efficient. But to understand what shapes the remembering self, we have to zoom in. Because reality doesn't live in the summary. It lives in the magnification. The Observer Isn't Neutral The act of watching changes what we see. That's not just philosophy. It's physics. The Heisenberg uncertainty principle teaches us that observation disturbs the observed. The same applies in leadership. People perform when they know they're being watched. They adapt. They polish. And leaders do it too—we tend to notice what matches our mental model. We see what we want to validate. We hear what confirms what we already believe. But the deeper moments—hesitation, discomfort, contradiction—often don't fit neatly. They're easy to dismiss if you're looking for clean narratives. Observation, when done well, isn't about control. It's about humility. You watch to learn, not to prove. You stay long enough to be changed by what you notice. Shot of queue of passengers waiting at boarding gate at airport. Group of people standing in queue ... More to board airplane. When AI Becomes The Loudest Voice Now there's a new observer in the room. AI sees a lot. It maps behavior. Finds patterns. Flags outliers. But seeing more doesn't always mean understanding more. AI helps surface structure. It highlights what's consistent, what's repeated. But the fleeting moments—the ones that pass without pattern—are often missed. That's where human sensitivity still matters. The risk isn't the technology itself. It's what we stop noticing when we believe the machine has already done the noticing for us. When fidelity drops, you still get a signal. But the meaning goes missing. Designing For What You Can't Always See Lives—customer and employee—aren't lived in frameworks. They're lived in moments. Kahneman once estimated that people experience about 20,000 moments a day. Most disappear. But a few don't. And those are often the ones no system predicted. A customer walks into a service center frustrated. The scheduling system failed. They've waited 40 minutes. Then a technician—not a service rep—steps out, apologizes, and explains. The issue isn't resolved. But someone showed up. That matters In a workplace wellbeing session, a facilitator is mid-presentation. A team member opens up. The room stills. Someone else speaks. No one rushes the moment. And something shifts. Not because it was planned. Because someone was paying attention. These moments don't scale easily. But they spread. Quietly. They shape what people remember. You Can't Lead What You Don't Notice If we want to lead for imprint, not just efficiency, we need to move differently. Those are the questions that find the moments that matter. We live in systems built for design. But leadership isn't about templates. It's about noticing what others miss. The moments that aren't measured but make all the difference. If you lead, listen longer. Make room for what doesn't fit the framework. Zoom in as much as you zoom out. Be present enough to catch what no one else is looking for. Because the most powerful leadership imprint isn't always what you design. It's what you notice—and choose to respond to.
The Sun
21 hours ago
- Business
- The Sun
Regional UK airport reveals major masterplan with new flights to US and Middle East… and millions more passengers
BRISTOL Airport has revealed it's masterplan to 2040, with dramatic passenger number increases and new destinations.. The airport's plans suggest that it aims to transform travel into and out of the region over the next five to 15 years. 5 Current proposals include serving more connections and destinations including new long-haul flights such as the east coast of America and the Middle East. In addition, the airport also wants to increase annual passenger numbers from 10million to 15million, by the late 2030s. If the plans go ahead, Bristol Airport will reduce the number of journeys taken to London airports from the south west and south Wales Currently, 10million passengers undertake journeys to London airports each year from these regions. Proposals also including rising the number of flights from 85,990 per year to 100,000. On a busy day in peak season, this would mean an additional 35 flights. Night restrictions are planned to be kept at the airport but the airport is also proposing to increase night flights by 1,000 flights a year. This would mean on average, four per night on a busy nigh in the peak season. In the shorter term - over the next five years - the airport's terminal buildings will be extended to include a larger immigration area for arriving flights, more space for baggage reclaim, more shops and a new lounge. The airport is also working to introduce an upgraded entrance with more car parking and a walkway so that passengers no longer have to get a bus out to planes. The new £7billion mega terminal opening at Changi Airport Over £60million will also be spent on improving bus and coach services in the region. There will also be a new drop-off and pick-up location, as well as e-charging points. Then - as part of the larger masterplan - by 2040, the airport plans to have new bus lanes, improved public transport links, highway improvements, a rapid EV charging hub, new buildings, over 8,000 more car parking spaces, additional hotel accommodation, an expanded car rental area and an extended runway. It is also even considering having a 'vertiport' for electric vertical, take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft services. The report states: "These zero-emissions aircraft are sometimes called 'flying taxis', and in future could play a role comparable to helicopters today. "While the technology is in the early stages of development, it is unlikely to be a major passenger service, but over time it could become viable to carry greater volumes of people between UK regions." 5 A planning application for the appropriate infrastructure for all of the plans, will be submitted later this year. There are currently 14 airlines operating from Bristol Airport to 115 destinations including Alicante, Majorca, Amsterdam, Edinburgh, Tenerife and Barcelona. In 2024, Amsterdam was the most popular destination, followed by Alicante and Majorca. According to the report, the airport is primarily used for leisure (41.9 per cent), followed by visiting family and friends (26.9 per cent) and package holidays (15.9 per cent). Business customers make up the smallest portion of passengers using the airport (15.3 per cent). In total, the airport contributes around £2billion to the south west and South Wales regions each year. By 2040, the airport hopes to grow this to £3billion. And by 2050, the airport also hopes to become net-zero. Dave Lees, CEO of Bristol Airport, said: "We're continuing to see strong demand to travel to and from our region, with business travel surprisingly holding up since the pandemic and people wanting to connect with friends and family across Europe. 5 'More than 10 million people from our catchment continue to travel to fly from Heathrow and London airports every year. "We're confident we can capture a section of that demand and boost the economy of our region by providing direct connections to North America and the Middle East." Bristol Airport previously did fly to America via Continental Airlines - which is now defunct. There was a direct service between Bristol and Newark Liberty International Airport - which launched in 2005 and marked the airport's first ever non-stop transatlantic service from the southwest of England. The flights were popular with more than 400,000 passengers using the route. However, in 2010, the route was scrapped after the airline stopped operations at both airports. Bristol Airport does already serve the Middle East though, including destinations such as Turkey, Egypt and Cyprus. Another UK airport also has major plans for millions more passengers ahead of £1.1bn expansion – with new flights to Europe this year. Plus, London Heathrow has revealed plans to expand two of its terminals as part of multi-billion renovation.
