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  Food and Beverage News and Trends - October 2025 # 2
This regular publication by DLA Piper lawyers focuses on helping clients navigate the ever-changing business, legal, and regulatory landscape. Newsom signs Allergen Disclosure for Dining Experiences Act. On October 13, California Governor Gavin...
    
  Where is Jamaica? Hurricane Melissa makes landfall as dangerous Cat. 5 hurricane
Hurricane Melissa made landfall Tuesday over Jamaica as a dangerous and powerful Category 5 hurricane – and one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes in history, according to the National Hurricane Center. The NHC has warned of damaging winds,...
    
  'Grue Jay' Spotted in a Texas Backyard Is First-of-Its-Kind Hybrid
An odd bird found in a Texas backyard is the offspring of two distantly related species, separated by 7 million years of evolution, whose ranges only recently began to overlap due to climate change, researchers report in a new study. The bird is...
BlackRock Survey: Opportunity Amid Uncertainty – Insurers Globally Embracing A More Flexible Approach
Inflation tops insurers’ risk concerns (63%), while overall risk appetite remains low (12% planning to increase exposure) Private markets continue to gain importance, with 30% of insurers planning to increase their allocations and 58% intending to...
    
  GRUPO ELEKTRA ANNOUNCES THIRD QUARTER 2025 RESULTS
MEXICO CITY, Oct. 28, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Grupo Elektra, S.A.B. de C.V. (BMV: ELEKTRA* Latibex: XEKT), reported today its third quarter 2025 results. Quarterly results Consolidated revenue was Ps.53,864 million, compared to Ps.50,761 million in...
    
  University of Miami to host forum on crisis facing Florida's coral reef
The University of Miami Rosenstiel School will host a public forum on the collapsing health of Florida’s coral reef, focusing on new scientific approaches to rebuilding the ecosystem’s resilience against climate change and disease. The event, part...
    
  Cultural Fest organizers reflect on another successful year
The Shelby County Cultural Festival has wrapped up its second year and event organizers Beth Cook and Kirstin Ross are ecstatic that the event was even more successful than last year. While they were nervous about the weather and new location, it...
    
  Suriname faces declining fruit and vegetable exports to Europe
Whereas every flight to Amsterdam was once packed with Surinamese fruit and vegetables, today aircraft space remains conspicuously underused by fresh produce exporters. "We are still only loading at most 10 tonnes per flight," sighs Swami...
    
  Melissa joins small list of Cat 5 hurricanes that have made landfall
Hurricane Melissa has joined a list of only about a dozen other Category 5 hurricanes that have made landfall in the Atlantic. The deadly Hurricane Melissa slammed into Jamaica's southwestern coast with 185 mph winds around noon CT on Tuesday....
    
  Building Clean Water Futures: Cornell AguaClara's Mission to Engineer Global Change
On a hillside in Honduras, water flows through a network of concrete channels, mixing and settling until it emerges clear and drinkable. This simple yet innovative process — powered entirely by gravity — is the heart of AguaClara, a Cornell-born...
    
  Aaron Denkins happy to avoid big guns in Under-17 World Cup qualifiers
Created: Oct 22, 2025 07:57 AM (Updated: Oct 22, 2025 07:57 AM) Still available: Kalen Brunson is one of the players eligible for the 2026 Concacaf Men’s Under-17 Qualifier at Flora Duffy Stadium in February (File photograph by Blaire Simmons)...
    
  No Tropical Paradise: Urban 'Heat Islands' Are Hotbeds For Health Problems
Part of a series examining the effects of climate change here in Massachusetts CHELSEA, Mass. — As coastlines recede with global warming, so-called heat islands are growing. These are dense urban areas where cement or asphalt cover most of the...
    
  Gaston County restaurant inspections in October
Here are the North Carolina Department of Health’s restaurant and food stand inspection scores for Gaston County conducted Oct. 1-8. All restaurants listed this week received an A rating. The North Carolina Department of Public Health,...
    
  From implementation to impact: scaling up customs’ ability to manage cross-border e-commerce
E-commerce has been a major topic of discussions at the WCO over the past 10 years, reflecting the growing importance of e-commerce business models in most economies and the variety of challenges they pose to Customs administrations worldwide....
    
  Letters from Latin America with Leo Boix: October 21, 2025
THE anthology La Lucha: Latin American Feminism Today (Charco Press, £14.99), edited by Carolina Orloff, opens with a voice that sets the tone of courage and clarity: “My name is Bertha Isabel Zuniga Caceres… I belong to the Lenca people that live...
    
  Messiah Lutheran to host German Food Festival on Nov. 1
Messiah Lutheran Church will present its annual German Food Festival on Nov. 1. CONTRIBUTED MADISON – Messiah Lutheran Church will pay homage to the German roots of the Lutheran church with its annual German Food Festival. The food festival on...
    
  Lamar Police Department recognizes Lamar High School DECA members Alexa Ridder and Mae Shelton for recent food drive to benefit Sparrow House Ministries
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  Warning as models predict Storm Melissa will explode into rare Category 5 hurricane in just days
Storm Melissa officially formed in the Caribbean Sea on Tuesday morning, and early forecasts indicate it could strengthen rapidly. An experimental Google DeepMind weather model shows nearly all projections pushing Melissa to Category 5 intensity,...
    
  Women’s Leadership at the Heart of Disaster Risk Reduction
Armed Conflicts, Crime & Justice, Featured, Gender, Global, Headlines, Population, Sustainable Development Goals, TerraViva United Nations Opinion Disasters touch everyone but are not felt equally. Women often take longer to rebuild their...
    
  Living Roots: Sacred Land opening at Museum of Florida Art and Culture
News by South Florida State College AVON PARK — Living Roots: Sacred Land, a visual journey through landscapes of memory, transformation, and sacred belonging by artist Adorable Monique, opens at the Museum of Florida Art and Culture (MOFAC) at...