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Bumblebee colonies are at risk of extinction after pesticide exposure says study
Pesticide puts bumblebee colonies at risk
A widely used pesticide is placing bumblebee populations at an increased risk of extinction, a new study from an Ontario researcher suggests.
Nigel Raine, an environmental science professor at the University of Guelph, discovered that thiamethoxam, a major neonicotinoid found in agricultural crops throughout the world, reduced the chances of bumblebee queens starting new colonies by more than a quarter.
The results were published Monday in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution.
“Bumblebee queens that were exposed to the pesticide were 26 per cent less likely to lay eggs to start a colony,” Raine said of the research conducted in his lab with researchers from Royal Holloway, University of London.
“It was a bigger impact than I was expecting. And our modelling suggests it could have a major impact on population persistence and increases the chances a population could go extinct.”
Bees are crucial to agriculture. Published reports suggest about a third of the crops eaten by humans depend on insect pollination, with bees responsible for about 80 per cent of that figure.
But bee populations are declining worldwide as scientists try to figure out why. Research has suggested the use of neonicotinoids is among the factors contributing to the declines.
Ontario has taken the lead in North America by placing restrictions on the use of neonicotinoids, while Europe has imposed a moratorium on their use.
Recent research by York University showed neonicotinoids had spilled over from crops such as soy and corn in Ontario and Quebec into plants and wildflowers such as maple trees, dandelions and clover.
Raine wanted to examine the effects thiamethoxam and a common parasite had on the bumblebee queen’s ability to set up a colony, a crucial part of a bee’s life cycle.
Bumblebee queens, he explained, are quite different from honeybee queens in that they largely do all of the work themselves to start a colony, from foraging to nest building to raising their young before worker bees take over.
While there has been much study of the honeybee, not as much research has been conducted on the bumblebee, Raine said.
In his lab, Raine infected half the bumblebee queens he was studying with a parasite and then placed all the bees in a cold, dark room to force an artificial hibernation. Those that survived hibernation were then split into two more groups, one of which was exposed for two weeks to pesticide-laden pollen at “field realistic” levels found in the wild, he said.
Those queen bees were placed in different nest boxes and monitored for survival and signs of egg laying.
“There was very little effect of the parasite in our experiment,” Raine said.
But he did find a substantial impact on egg laying.
“We are trying to link all this up to the broader ecology and life history of these organisms,” Raine said.
He took that new data and plugged it into mathematical models to see what would happen over time.
“We’re seeing a substantial increase of the likelihood of them not surviving over a longer period of time and that’s obviously a serious concern with the current patterns of usage of these chemicals.”
If anything, Raine said, his study is conservative, considering he only examined the effects of one pesticide and one parasite, whereas there are many other factors in the wild that play a role in the bumblebee’s health, including disease and habitat destruction.
Liam Casey , The Canadian Press

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Tiny electronic trackers small enough to attach to a flying insect are the latest weapon being used to stave off an Asian hornet invasion threatening dying honeybees.
By tagging the buzzing predators with the radio devices, scientists have been able to pursue them to their hidden nests.
Once located, the nests and hornets within them can be destroyed – allowing nearby bees to continue pollinating in peace.
Bee keepers are increasingly worried about the Asian hornet, which is already well established in France and was first reported in the UK in 2016.
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Tiny electronic trackers (pictured) small enough to attach to a flying insect are the latest weapon being used to stave off an Asian hornet invasion threatening Britain's honeybees
The hornets prey on honeybees, hovering like attack helicopters outside their hives and grabbing them on the wing.
The bees are dismembered before being carried back to the hornets' nest to be fed to larvae.
In the new offensive against the hornets, scientists testing the tracking technique in southern France and Jersey were able to uncover five previously undiscovered nests.
Experts hope the research, funded by the environment agency Defra, will help turn the tables on the Asian hornet and prevent it colonising the UK.
Britain's bees are thought to have fallen by a third since 2007.
Dr Peter Kennedy, who led the University of Exeter team, said: 'Our new method of tracking offers a really important new tool to tackle the spread of this invader, providing an efficient means of finding hornets' nests in urban, rural and wooded environments.'
The hornets prey on honeybees, hovering like attack helicopters outside their hives and grabbing them on the wing. The bees are dismembered (pictured) before being carried back to the hornets' nest to be fed to larvae
WHAT IS THE KILLER ASIAN HORNET INVASION? Asian hornets were accidentally brought to France in 2004, probably in an imported shipment of goods. Since then the dark brown and orange insects have spread rapidly through the country and started to invade neighbouring countries. They have also become established in the Channel Islands and were first reported in the UK in 2016. In 2016, an Asian hornet nest was discovered in Gloucestershire and destroyed. The hornets, which grow up to two inches long (45mm) and have a three-inch wingspan (75mm), are an aggressive predator of honey bees and other pollinating insects. The hornets prey on honeybees, hovering like attack helicopters outside their hives and grabbing them on the wing. The bees are dismembered before being carried back to the hornets' nest to be fed to larvae. The charity Plantlife has warned that the hornet 'poses a deadly threat to honeybees and other pollinators and any potential sightings should be immediately reported to the GB Non-native Species Secretariat.' Queens build nests in April. They rapidly start laying eggs until the hive population reaches about 6,000 insects. A report by the Intergovernmental Science Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, estimates that the decline of bees worldwide poses a potentially major risk to world food supplies. Britain's bees are thought to have fallen by a third since 2007. The British Beekeepers' Association warns the public not to disturb a hornets' nest 'under any circumstances'.
The radio tags, made by British firm Biotrack, weigh just 0.2g and are attached to the hornet's body by sewing thread.
Powered by a minute battery, they transmit a signal that can be followed wherever the insect flies.
Asian hornets were accidentally brought to France in 2004, probably in an imported shipment of goods.
Since then the dark brown and orange insects have spread rapidly through the country and started to invade neighbouring countries.
They have also become established in the Channel Islands.
Once located, the nests (pictured) and hornets within them can be destroyed – allowing nearby bees to continue pollinating in peace
In 2016, an Asian hornet nest was discovered in Gloucestershire and destroyed.
Another nest was found in Woolacombe, Devon, last year and in April a single Asian hornet was reported in Lancashire.
Nicola Spence, Defra's deputy director for Plant and Bee Health, said: 'This work is key for ensuring a rapid response to Asian hornets when sightings are confirmed, and in future bee inspectors will be able to use this technique to take swift action.'
Professor Juliet Osborne, another member of the University of Exeter team whose findings appear in the journal Communications Biology, said: 'It is vital to find the nests early in the season to prevent the hornet spreading, as later in the year hundreds of new queens emerge and disperse from each nest, each with the potential to make new nests.'


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Question: Jury Awards Taylor Swift Complete Victory At Assault Trial

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After about four hours of deliberation, jurors for the Taylor Swift sexual assault trial in Denver, Colorado unanimously found former radio host David Mueller guilty of assault and battery during a meet-and-greet event in 2013. Mueller grabbed onto Swift’s butt without her consent during a photo opportunity, and the singer will be awarded the full damages she sought, which is $1. Mueller’s lawsuit against Swift, in which he wanted millions of dollars in compensation for his lost job and damaged reputation as a result of the incident, was thrown out at the end of last week. There were similar claims filed against Swift’s mom, Andrea, and her radio representative, Frank Bell, and the jury found that neither sufficiently interfered with Mueller’s contract to owe him compensation. Swift’s sexual assault claim was a countersuit to the one filed by Mueller in 2015.
Swift will leave Denver with a complete victory, but the singer, who remained stoic through the proceedings, finally started breaking down during closing arguments. Mueller’s lawyer, the now-familiar Gabe McFarland, asserted to the jury that Swift couldn’t have been sexually assaulted by his client, because she did not look sufficiently distressed in the photo she took with him at the meet-and-greet. “Look at Ms. Swift’s face and ask yourself: Is that the face of a person who just had a strange man grab her butt?” Swift cried at being called a liar — or at least told she didn’t behave enough like a victim to be credible — and was reportedly comforted by her mom and lawyer, Douglas Baldridge, who were seated next to her. After the verdict was read, Swift and her mother shared an immediate, tearful hug.
Shortly after the trial concluded, Swift issued a statement acknowledging the unique circumstances of this case, thanking her team for their work on her behalf, and pledging to help fund resources for other victims of sexual assault.

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Question: Minneapolis team keeps immigrants informed during Super Bowl

Military Humvees, officers in combat gear and the occasional F-16 flying over downtown Minneapolis are all part of the beefed up security measures that come with hosting the Super Bowl. But those images can be scary for some immigrants and refugees who are worried about terrorism, deportation or even a war they can't forget.
A special team with the city of Minneapolis has been working for weeks to reassure immigrant communities that all the extra muscle is here to keep them safe. The team is reaching out through radio and television broadcasts, social media and in-person meetings with elders and community members. The goal is to keep communities informed about everything from security to transportation issues, and let them know they can also participate in the fun.
"It's a welcoming place ... for people to come downtown and enjoy," said Michael Yang, a southeast Asian community specialist with the city. "You shouldn't have to fear anything."
Minnesota has been a welcoming state for immigrants over the last several decades, thanks in part to its social service programs. The state is home to the largest Somali community in the U.S., roughly 57,000 people according to the latest census figures, most of whom live in the Minneapolis area. The state also has the second-highest Hmong population, behind California.
The team of community specialists in Minneapolis does outreach in immigrant communities all year, but is working with more partners and intensifying efforts in the lead-up to the Super Bowl. Officials believe they have created a model for future Super Bowls or other large events. Among other things, the team is broadcasting weekly radio programs in Spanish, Somali and Hmong and is contracting with others to share social media messages in Spanish, Hmong, Somali, Vietnamese, Oromo and Lao.
The messages are being tailored to each community because while one community might believe armed guards are preventing a terror attack, another might see those same officers as an immigration raid.
"Every community has their own take on the event and their own fears and concerns and we address them by giving them the right information, telling them what's going on," said Rose Lindsay with the community relations unit in the Joint Information Center set up for the Super Bowl.
Yang said that even though Hmong immigrants have been in Minnesota for decades, images of the war they left behind are still fresh. Some people he's met tell him that the armed officers remind them of the military taking over the streets of Laos. Others expressed concern about helicopters or other aircraft flying overhead, saying it reminds them of enemy aircraft.
"With some members of the Hmong community, people are really fearful that there is war," he said.
The Hmong have also expressed fear of a terrorist attack or hate crimes, and weeks ago elders were asking families to stay away from the Super Bowl activities. Yang said his work has helped ease fears. Other team members agree.
Abdirashid Ahmed, an East African community specialist, is working to explain the Super Bowl to community leaders, faith leaders and other community members. In addition to face-to-face meetings, he's also monitoring social media to see what the community is talking about.
After a car caught fire in a Somali neighborhood this week, many community members went to social media and asked if there was a terror attack. Ahmed said because of the infrastructure that's been set up, officials were able to respond within minutes to let the community know it was a mechanical fire and they had nothing to worry about.
When asked if there is fear of racial profiling in a community where some members have been the subject of terror investigations, Ahmed said there is always that concern because of the current climate. But as far as it relates to the Super Bowl, "people are not asking the same kinds of questions they were asking me a month or two months ago."
"We have been explaining everything," Ahmed said. "The law enforcement agencies coming to Minneapolis ... they will be here to protect everyone, not to harm."
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UB40 featuring Ali, Astro and Mickey will be performing at Sherwood Pines Forest this summer as part of Forest Live, the annual open-air concert series organised by the Forestry Commission – and we have a pair of tickets to be won in our fantastic competition.
UB40 featuring Ali Campbell, Astro and Mickey Virtue will be performing a set of classic hits that a generation of fans grew up with, such as Food For Thought, One in Ten, Red Red Wine, Please Don’t Make Me Cry, Kingston Town and (I Can’t Help) Falling In Love With You, acknowledging UB40’s status as Britain’s most successful reggae band of all time.
Fans can also expect new material from the trio’s latest album, A Real Labour of Love, which debuted at number two in the UK charts.
Forest Live is a major live music series, managed by the Forestry Commission.
Held every year in seven beautiful forest locations across the country, more than 1.5 million people have attended a gig in the programme’s 17-year history.
With everything required for a great night out, including good food and bar, the concerts are renowned for their informal and relaxed atmosphere set to a spectacular forest backdrop.
Income generated from ticket sales helps look after the nation’s forests sustainably, for people to enjoy and wildlife to thrive.
Commenting on the gig, legendary vocalist Ali Campbell, said: “We love the Forest Live gigs.
“We hope to see you there, so you can join in with the hits in such a beautiful location.”
As part of Forest Live UB40 featuring Ali, Astro and Mickey will be appearing in this region in Sherwood Pines Forest Park, near Mansfield, on Sunday, June 24.
For tickets and further information, call the box office on 03000 680400 or buy online at www.forestry.gov.uk/music.
To stand a chance of winning a pair of tickets to this fantastic concert in our easy-to-enter competition, answer the following question correctly: what is the name of the trio’s latest album.
Email your answer, along with your name, address and daytime contact number, to: martin.hutton@jpress.co.uk. Mark the email Forest Live Competition. The first correct entry drawn after the closing date of midday on Friday, June 8, will win a pair of tickets.
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The Who frontman Roger Daltrey and Def Leppard are among the acts confirmed for this year's Teenage Cancer Trust shows at London's Royal Albert Hall. The fundraisers run from March 19th - 25th.
Roger Daltrey and special guests headline on Thursday, March 22nd, while Def Leppard close the series, headline on Sunday, March 25th. Other acts performing during the run include UB40 Featuring Ali, Astro & Mickey, Nile Rodgers & CHIC, Courteeners, and Kasabian.
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Praise be! The kids can finally eat the cookies.
In a major win for people with allergies everywhere, Nestlé Toll House unveiled a new three-ingredient chocolate chip free of the eight major food allergens.
The company's kicking peanuts, tree nuts, milk, eggs, wheat, soy, fish and shellfish to the curb for this new product. Instead, it's making the morsels with "cocoa butter, pure cane sugar and 100% real chocolate," according to Nestlé Toll House.
The "Simply Delicious" chocolate chips will be available for purchase in most stores starting June. Offered in semi-sweet and dark chocolate, the new line will sell at about $5.
You'll be able to easily identify the bag by looking for a teal banner splayed across the packaging, a color widely recognized as a symbol for allergen-free foods.
“Simply Delicious Morsels are a great option for bakers who want to feel confident that the ingredients they are using are high-quality, taste great and are safe for all to enjoy," Haig Basmadjian said, the company's marketing director.
The standard, non-allergen-free chocolate chips aren't going anywhere and will still be shelved at stores.
Other popular allergen-free chocolate chips include those from Pascha Chocolate, Enjoy Life and others.
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Dreamy sweet and melty, milk chocolate permeates the history of American sweets. It’s the gooey inside of a s’more, the sweet coating on a chocolate bar and the powder we stir into our milk. Store shelves are stacked with options — from chunks and bars to syrups — but for this Taste-Off, we concentrated on milk chocolate chips.
We snatched up every milk-chocolate chip on local store shelves and followed it by a tasting of the chips in both grab-from-the-bag and baked form. The results were surprising.
Unlike more pure forms of chocolate, milk chocolate includes a handful of necessary additives, including sugar, milk, added fat and flavors. When those ingredients are top-quality and perfectly balanced, they transform the bitter flavor of cacao into a fresh, decadent, milky bite.
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Taste-off: The best — and worst — coconut milk Unfortunately, far too many milk chocolate chips miss the mark. Too much sugar, bad milk powder, odd flavored fats and those so-called “natural flavors” make for some strange-flavored chips that will ruin just about anything they touch.
Labels aren’t much help, either. Nearly all these chocolates contain milk, sugar, cocoa, vanilla and lecithin. The best have the fewest ingredients, use fresh milk and always use real vanilla. They also have at least a touch of sodium. But some of the worst have the same list of ingredients — in different proportions.
Here’s the scoop on the best milk chocolate chips — and the inedible failures. Nutrition details refer to a 15-gram serving, which is about 1 tablespoon of chocolate morsels.
Ghirardelli Premium Milk Chocolate Baking Chips
Everything about these extra-rich, medium-sized chips is right. Their deep chocolate and fresh milk flavors work eaten out of hand and in baked goods. 70 calories, 3.5 g fat, 10 g sodium, 10 g sugar. $4.49 for 11.5 ounces at Whole Foods; widely available. (4 stars)
365 Jumbo Milk Chocolate Chips (27 percent cacao)
Creamy rich and seductively fruity, these oversized chips boast bold chocolate flavor, underscored by a hit of chocolate liquor. A bit more sodium would kick it to the top. 80 calories, 4 g fat, 5 mg sodium, 10 g sugar. $3.99 for 10 ounces at Whole Foods. (3½ stars)
Guittard Milk Chocolate Baking Chips (31 percent cacao)
There is precious little chocolate flavor in these oversized chips, but the milky caramel flavor and buttery texture are big wins, especially when the chips are baked into a salty cookie. 80 calories, 4.5 g fat, 10 mg sodium, 9 g sugar. $4.99 for 11.5 ounces at Whole Foods; widely available. (3½ stars)
Hershey’s Mini Kisses Milk Chocolate Chips
The extra hit of salt in these creamy, familiar-tasting chips is genius, as it tones down the sugar and balances out the flavors. 70 calories, 4.5 g fat, 20 g sodium, 8 g sugar. $2.11 on clearance for a 10-ounce bag at Target. (2½ stars)
Nestle’s Toll House Milk Chocolate Chips
Out of hand, these are familiar — yet bland and lackluster. Tucked into a ball of cookie dough, they move up a notch. The slightly acidic flavor of the chip works well in extra-sweet cookies. 70 calories, 4 g fat, no sodium, 8 g sugar. $3.99 for 11.5 ounces at Safeway; widely available. (2½ stars)
Hershey’s Kitchens Milk Chocolate Chips
The taste of cocoa powder is pleasant, but grainy texture and way too much sugar make for a lesser chocolate chip, especially when baked into a cookie. 70 calories, 4.5 g fat, 10 mg sodium, 8 g sugar. $2.49 at Target. (2 stars)
Signature Kitchens Milk Chocolate Chips
Silky and creamy? Yes. But the unfortunate stale milk and too much sugar smother the chocolate in these chips. 80 calories, 4.5 g fat, 10 g sodium, 9 g sugar. $2.50 on sale for 11.5 ounces at Safeway. (1 star)
Sunny Select Real Milk Chocolate Chips
These oversweet, unbalanced chips taste like a cheap chocolate bunny, the week after Easter. 80 calories, 4 g fat, 5 g sodium, 10 g sugar. $2.99 for 12 ounces at Lucky. (½ a star)
Market Pantry Milk Chocolate Chips
These taste so much like warmed-up plastic, you might as well chop up the wrapper and add it to your cookie dough. The wrapper might even add flavor. 80 calories, 4 g fat, 5 mg sodium, 10 g sugar. $2.29 for 11.5 ounces at Target. (No stars)
Reviews are based on product samples purchased by this newspaper or provided by manufacturers. Contact Jolene Thym at timespickyeater@gmail.com. Read more Taste-off columns at www.mercurynews.com/tag/taste-off.


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Question: Fourth of July gas prices: Don't fill up in these states on your roadtrip

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After rising sharply over the past several weeks, gas prices rose just a couple of pennies last week and not at all since Friday.
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So, you're taking a road trip for the Fourth of July weekend, and you're about to leave the state.
Do you fill up on gas now, or do you wait to fill up after you cross the border?
Making the wrong decision could cost you more than $10 a tank, depending on where you're heading.
"Watch out for those state lines," says Patrick DeHaan, senior petroleum analyst at fuel-station-finding app GasBuddy.
Gas prices averaged $2.86 per gallon Tuesday, according to AAA, hitting a four-year high for Independence Day travel.
Here's some advice before you head out – all prices according to GasBuddy:
1. Fill up in Arizona, not California
The price disparity between these two states is extreme.
Arizona averaged $3.06 per gallon as of Tuesday, while California averaged $3.73, according to GasBuddy.
At those prices, a 15-gallon fill-up is $10.06 more expensive in California.
2. Fill up in Texas, not New Mexico
If you're road-tripping in the Southwest, price differences can be significant. This is another good example.
The price of fuel in Texas, where oil refineries are clustered, averaged $2.66 on Tuesday. In New Mexico, it was $2.91.
That means you'd save $3.75 in Texas on a 15-gallon tank.
3. Fill up in Louisiana, not Texas
But Texas is more expensive than Louisiana, which is also a hot spot for refineries.
Prices averaged $2.59 in Louisiana on Tuesday, compared with $2.66 in Texas.
Generally, though, "anywhere in the South" is a good place to fill up, DeHaan said. "They’re right in oil’s backyard. Plus, low taxes."
4. Fill up in Ohio, not Michigan
Ohio is much more forgiving on the pocketbook than its rival to the north.
With prices averaging $2.79 on Tuesday, Ohio was sharply lower than Michigan's $2.96.
5. Fill up in Virginia, not West Virginia
Going white-river rafting in West Virginia? Sounds fun.
But fill up first in Virginia, where prices are 21 cents lower at $2.61.
6. Fill up in West Virginia, not Pennsylvania
West Virginia doesn't look so bad when you see prices in Pennsylvania, which averaged $3.01 on Tuesday, compared with West Virginia's $2.82.
7. Fill up in Massachusetts, not Connecticut
At $2.91, Massachusetts isn't exactly an oasis of cheap gas.
But it's still cheaper than neighboring Connecticut at $3.08.
8. Fill up in South Carolina, not North Carolina
North Carolina is 14 cents higher at $2.66.
Come to think of it, fill up in South Carolina no matter where you're heading. It's the cheapest gas state in the country, according to GasBuddy.
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With the New York City skyline in the background, fireworks explode over the Hudson River during the Jersey City Fourth of July fireworks celebration last year. AAA predicts that a record number of people will travel over Independence Day this year.
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A record-breaking 46.9 million Americans will travel 50 miles or more away from home this Independence Day, according to AAA.
That’s a five percent increase over last year and the highest number since AAA started tracking July 4th travel 18 years ago.
INRIX, a global transportation analytics company, predicts that travel times in the most congested U.S. cities could be twice as long as normal. The Tuesday before the holiday will be the busiest day.
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“This Independence Day will be one for the record books, as more Americans take to the nation’s roads, skies, rails and waterways than ever before,” Bill Sutherland, senior vice president of AAA Travel and Publishing, said in a written statement. “Confident consumers with additional disposable income will look to spend on travel this holiday, building on an already busy summer travel season.”
One reason for the increase is that this year the holiday falls on a Wednesday, giving people the flexibility to take a long weekend before or after. The Independence Day holiday period runs from Tuesday, July 3 to Sunday, July 8.
The majority of travelers– 39.7 million – will drive to their destinations this Independence Day, 5.1 percent more than last year.
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A record-breaking 3.8 million people will travel by plane, a 7.9 percent increase over last year. It’s the ninth year of consecutive air travel volume increases.
Another 3.5 million people will go by train, bus or cruise ship. That is a 5.8 percent year-over-year increase.
For those who decide to drive, commutes will be worse in Los Angeles, New York and Washington, D.C.
“Although travel times are expected to nominally increase throughout the week, Tuesday afternoon will hands down be the worst time to be on the road,” says Scott Sedlik, general manager and vice president for the public sector of INRIX. “Our advice to drivers is to avoid peak commuting hours altogether or consider alternative routes.”
Seven cities perfect for a three-day weekend Portland, Ore.: Oregon’s City of Roses is a gourmand’s dream, and has enough biking paths, trolleys and cable cars for visitors to cover it almost completely without getting in a car. Stroll Pearl District cafes and shops, hop the Aerial Tram at Oregon Health and Science University or bike to Pittock Mansion for the best views, and hike Forest Park within the city limits for a mix of urban and natural scenery. Mississippi Avenue eateries and McMenamins’ brew-and-view movie theaters offer a way to slow down and relax, or you can hop a tour to nearby Mount Hood and bike to Multnomah Falls if you’re looking for more adventure. Portland proper and the Columbia River Valley are close enough to fit both into a three-day weekend. 01 / 07 Portland, Ore.: Oregon’s City of Roses is a gourmand’s dream, and has enough biking paths, trolleys and cable cars for visitors to cover it almost completely without getting in a car. Stroll Pearl District cafes and shops, hop the Aerial Tram at Oregon Health and Science University or bike to Pittock Mansion for the best views, and hike Forest Park within the city limits for a mix of urban and natural scenery. Mississippi Avenue eateries and McMenamins’ brew-and-view movie theaters offer a way to slow down and relax, or you can hop a tour to nearby Mount Hood and bike to Multnomah Falls if you’re looking for more adventure. Portland proper and the Columbia River Valley are close enough to fit both into a three-day weekend. 01 / 07
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THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) - Russian authorities have sent a new extradition request to Greece for a Russian cybercrime suspect also sought on criminal charges by the U.S. and France.
Alexander Vinnik, 38, a former bitcoin platform operator, was informed of the new Russian request by Thessaloniki court officials Wednesday, and is not contesting it.
Russia initially sought Vinnik on lesser fraud charges. The new request raises the amount allegedly involved to 750 million rubles ($12 million).
Greece's supreme court has already approved Vinnik's extradition to the United States for allegedly laundering billions of dollars using the virtual currency. Vinnik had fought that decision.
Another court ruled for his extradition to Russia based on the first request. France wants him on charges including cybercrime and money laundering.
Greece's justice minister will rule on the requests.

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A yet-to-be identified 27 year-old Nigerian is awaiting extradition by Poland to the United States over an estimated $7m cybercrime.
The Nigerian was arrested by Poland’s police in the southwestern city of Wroclaw in connection with alleged cyberfraud and extortion done over the internet.
The Police Central Bureau of Investigation said in a communique Wednesday that the Nigerian was nabbed as a result of cooperation with the FBI and Interpol, which had circulated a warrant for him.
The police raid took him by surprise, the communique said.
The man is suspected of banking fraud, extortion and theft of online banking access data.


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The Serpentine Art and Nature Commons met tonight at the Kairos House at Wagner College. The group is applying to Councilwoman Debbie Rose for a Council Grant for 2018, for continued development of the parkland on Grymes Hill.
Secretary Marie Penza was thanked for her 20 years of service with a gift from the group.
Serpentine Group renewed their insurance with Terrafirma, run by the Land Trust Alliance, to protect the property from encroachment by neighboring property owners. Protection of Open Space Lands via the Courts is always very costly. Land owners may have to deal with encroachment from an abutting property. Land Trusts must always know and protect the property's boundaries and watch for activity near the property lines, for possible encroachments. The group must be quickly ready to take action. The next meeting is on Monday 8, 2018, 7:30 at the Kairos House at Wagner College. All are invited.
Dennis Guttsman

A selection of work from early 2017
Top to bottom — Kentizan for Personal Work, Jordan Coourt, Joey Bada$$ for Rolling Stone, USA Investors for Institutional Investor, Why Humans Build Upwards for TIME, 3 Seasons style guide & EMI Top 40 Hip Hop chart cover.


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Question: Toronto driver charged with 10 counts of 1st degree murder

TORONTO (AP) — A 25-year-old who plowed a van into a crowded Toronto sidewalk was ordered held Tuesday on 10 counts of murder 13 of attempted murder as Canadian authorities and the public sought to make sense of what appeared to be one of the deadliest mass murders in the country’s modern history.
Alek Minassian showed little overt emotion as he made a brief appearance in a Toronto courtroom in a white jumpsuit and handcuffs. The judge ordered him detained without bond and scheduled the next hearing for May 10.
Police, meanwhile, still appeared to be gathering evidence. About 20 officers made their way down the van’s deadly path on Yonge Street searching for any evidence. Nearby, mourners had put together a makeshift memorial to the victims.
“It was like he was playing a video game, trying to kill as many people as possible,” said Panna Patel, 42, who stopped by the memorial and had been at the scene a day earlier, getting cash from an ATM as it occurred. “He was looking people directly in the eye, making eye contact, it was so scary. He wasn’t remorseful at all.”
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau dismissed the possibility of terrorism, saying that authorities see no national security element in the case.
He told a news conference that the incident “hasn’t changed the overall threat level in Canada,” though it occurred as Cabinet ministers from the G7 nations were meeting in Toronto.
Authorities so far had not disclosed a possible motive or cause, though “the incident definitely looked deliberate,” Police Chief Mark Saunders told reporters at a late-night news conference.
Saunders said Minassian, who lives in the Toronto suburb of Richmond Hill, had not been known to police previously. An online social media profile described him as a college student.
Authorities released few details in the case, saying the investigation was still underway, with witnesses being interviewed and surveillance video being examined.
“We are looking very strongly to what the exact motivation was for this particular incident to take place,” Saunders said. “We need every single piece of this puzzle so we can have a fulsome picture and account as to exactly what took place here.”
The driver was heading south on busy Yonge Street around 1:30 p.m. and the streets were crowded with people enjoying an unseasonably warm day when the van jumped onto the sidewalk.
Ali Shaker, who was driving near the van at the time, told Canadian broadcast outlet CP24 that the driver appeared to be moving deliberately through the crowd at more than 30 mph.
“He just went on the sidewalk,” a distraught Shaker said. “He just started hitting everybody, man. He hit every single person on the sidewalk. Anybody in his way he would hit.”
Witness Peter Kang told CTV News that the driver did not seem to make any effort to stop.
“If it was an accident he would have stopped,” Kang said. “But the person just went through the sidewalk. He could have stopped.”
Video broadcast on several Canadian outlets showed police arresting the driver, dressed in dark clothes, after officers surrounded him and his rental Ryder van several blocks from where the incident occurred in the North York neighborhood of northern Toronto. He appeared to make some sort of gesture at the police with an object in his hand just before they ordered him to lie down on the ground and took him away.
Witness Phil Zullo said that he saw police arresting the suspect and people “strewn all over the road” where the incident occurred.
“I must have seen about five, six people being resuscitated by bystanders and by ambulance drivers,” Zullo said. “It was awful. Brutal.”
Police shut down the Yonge and Finch intersection following the incident and Toronto’s transit agency said it had suspended service on the subway line running through the area.
Trudeau on Monday expressed his sympathies for those involved.
“We should all feel safe walking in our cities and communities,” he said. “We are monitoring this situation closely, and will continue working with our law enforcement partners around the country to ensure the safety and security of all Canadians.”
The stretch of Yonge Street where the victims were struck remains closed to traffic and was expected to stay blocked off for several days as police continue what is likely to be a lengthy investigation.
The incident prompted police to beef up security and close several streets around the Air Canada Centre on Monday night for the Toronto-Boston NHL playoff game. Police tweeted that similar road closures may be in effect for the Toronto Raptors NBA playoff game on Wednesday night.
The incident occurred as Cabinet ministers from the major industrial countries were gathered in Canada to discuss a range of international issues in the run-up to the G7 meeting near Quebec City in June. Canadian Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale called the incident a “horrific attack” and said the G7 foreign ministers extended their condolences.
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GUELPH — Police have laid 12 new charges against a practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine, accused last year of sexually assaulting several patients.
The Guelph Police Service says Sherman Lai, who also performed acupuncture, was charged with one count of sexual assault in October 2017.
Between November 2017 and April 2018, the 58-year-old was charged with 16 more counts of sexual assault, two counts of assault with a weapon, two counts of possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose, and two counts of uttering death threats.
Police say Lai was charged on Tuesday with one additional count of sexual assault, six more counts of assault, one more count of assault with a weapon, three counts of uttering threats and one count of forcible confinement.


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Question: South Surrey rugby players, coaches in Ireland with Team BC

Earl Marriott Mariners’ Reid Davis swats a Yale Lion defender aside during the Fraser Valley championship game last spring. Davis is currently serving as captain of Team BC’s U18 boys team, which is in Ireland until Aug. 22. (File photo)
A quintet of local rugby talent – two coaches and three players – is in Ireland this week as part a BC Rugby summer tour.
Team BC’s under-18 boys team features Reid Davis, Max Radcliffe and Kyle Tremblay – all recent graduates of Earl Marriott Secondary’s rugby program – while longtime EMS coach Adam Roberts will serve as head coach and Elgin Park Secondary senior boys coach Mike Jamieson is also on board, as an assistant coach.
Davis – who has experience with Team Canada’s under-18 program – will serve as the team’s captain.
The team left last Thursday for Ireland, where they’ll play three games against some of Ireland’s top rugby programs. The trip coincides with the Women’s Rugby World Cup, and Roberts told Peace Arch News prior to leaving that his squad would also get the chance to attend both a Team Canada practice and a game.
Roberts expects his side will face competition tougher than any they’ve ever seen.
“Anytime you get the opportunity to go on a tour like this, it’s great. It’ll be a good test for the guys,” he said.
“Physically, I think we’ll always be able to stack up against anybody, but it’s rugby knowledge and (experience) where it’ll be interesting to see how we do.”
While both Robers and Jamieson were named months in advance to the coaching staff, the players were only chosen for the team in early July, at the conclusion of BC Rugby’s Provincial Regional Championships.
The team will return home on Aug. 22.

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Clarets boss Sean Dyche is prepared for any predators coming for his star players in January.
Centre back and stand in skipper Ben Mee has been linked with a switch to West Brom in the transfer window, should the Baggies cash in on Jonny Evans, who was a target for Manchester City and Arsenal in the summer.
Republic of Ireland winger James McClean has been touted as a potential part of any deal, with Burnley in the market for a wide player after losing Robbie Brady for the season with a knee injury.
But Dyche has been in the job long enough to know the speculation is part and parcel, having had to fend off questions about the future of Charlie Austin, Danny Ings, Kieran Trippier, Michael a Keane and Andre Gray over his reign.
And he said: "We’ve had that every year I’ve been here, from Charlie Austin, all the way through, it’s not new, we’re well used to it.
“We’re happy with the contractual situations of our players, that’s all you can do.
“When you think of some of the numbers this summer, there’s no ceiling, so to sit here and say none of our players are going, like some managers do...some teams can do that, but we can’t.
“But they’re all under contract at the right and appropriate level. So we know where we are as a business.
“But if they are getting looked at, it’s a sign of success, people are saying ‘there’s good players there’ and that’s part of what’s been ongoing for five years.
“We haven’t been under pressure to sell for a couple of years, but the market is what it is.”
Forward Jon Walters has also been linked with a loan move to the Championship, having been out since late September with a knee problem, but Dyche said: “That would be speculation for an unfit player who is just getting fit again.
“That’s where he is at.
“The future will take care of itself one way or another, we can only look at what is going on now.
“He is getting there. There is a longer term view, he had to strengthen and move it forward for the longer term, not just the immediacy.”

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DETROIT — Jose Iglesias' two-run single keyed a Detroit's five-run sixth as the Tigers took advantage of Shohei Ohtani's departure following the second rain delay to beat the Los Angeles Angels 6-1 Wednesday night.
Ohtani, starting for the first time since May 20th, allowed one run ond three hits in five innings. He walked three and struck out five while throwing 83 pitches.
Tigers starter Mike Fiers was also knocked out by the second rain delay in the top of the sixth, allowing one run and seven hits in 5 2/3 innings.
The Tigers quickly took the lead in the bottom of the sixth, loading the bases against Cam Bedrosian (1-1) on a single, a walk and a hit by pitch. Greyson Greiner struck out, but Iglesias lined a two-run single to centre to put Detroit ahead 3-1. Dixon Machado grounded to short, but Andrelton Simmons' throw to the plate was too late to get JaCoby Jones.

Mike Moustakas hit his 18th home run leading off the second inning, Jorge Bonifacio and Lorenzo Cain followed with back-to-back shots in the third and the Kansas City Royals beat the San Francisco Giants 7-2 on Wednesday to complete a two-game sweep.
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Question: Ex-police officer rejoins Lincolnshire Police after drink-driving dismissal

A former police officer from Louth, who was dismissed for gross misconduct following a drink-driving conviction earlier this year, has been hired in a new role with Lincolnshire Police.
Rebecca Stevenson was dismissed without notice less than six weeks ago - on August 30 - after admitting gross misconduct, following a drink-driving conviction in court (July 18) following the incident in Saltfleetby on July 2.
Since then, Ms Stevenson has been re-hired in a new capacity as a ‘civilian investigator’ at Louth Police Station, although this location has not been confirmed by Lincolnshire Police.
Deputy Chief Constable, Craig Naylor, said: “Ms Stevenson pled guilty at magistrates court to a charge of drink-driving, and was convicted and sentenced. Ms Stevenson’s conviction for drink driving led to a disciplinary hearing chaired by the Chief Constable, at which the fact of ‘gross misconduct’ was accepted.
“The outcome was that the conviction was not compatible with her role as a police constable and the warranted powers that the role holds.
“She was dismissed without notice from that position. There was substantial evidence, heard in private due to its sensitive nature, that supported the view that the actions of Ms Stevenson displayed behaviour for her that was both exceptional and rare.
“Lincolnshire Police takes the wellbeing of its staff very seriously, and believes that the public should be treated with empathy and compassion.
“Ms Stevenson applied for a role as a member of staff and it was felt that, in this exceptional case, it was mutually beneficial for the Force and the public of Lincolnshire to put her 12 years of knowledge and experience to good effect.”

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A Sydney grandmother has been granted bail in Malaysia as she awaits an appeal against her drug trafficking acquittal.


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Question: Doug Adler sues ESPN after being fired for ‘guerrilla effect’ comment about Venus Williams

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Doug Adler, a tennis commentator and former All-American at USC, has filed a wrongful termination suit against ESPN, after a social media uproar over a phrase he used to describe Venus Williams’ tactics during an Australian Open match last month led to his abrupt firing from the network.
On the call for Williams’ match against Stefanie Voegele on Jan. 18, Adler described one play in which Williams’ tactic of charging the net by saying she “put the guerrilla effect on.” Given the similar pronunciation, his comment was construed by some as “gorilla effect.” Following a tweet by a New York Times tennis writer, Adler’s use of the phrase, which he believes was misinterpreted, soon spread across social media.
“I knew I’d been treated badly and unfairly,” Adler told the Southern California News Group on Tuesday, shortly before his lawsuit was filed in Los Angeles Superior Court. “When I saw what it was doing to my reputation, I knew I’d have to fight for my name.”
Adler’s complaint, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Tuesday, alleges ESPN “took the easy way out and bowed to the Twitter universe of haters” in its decision to fire him after a 15-year broadcasting career.
When asked for comment, ESPN spokesman Mike Soltys said: “We have not been served and am declining further comment.”
Adler says he didn’t know anything was amiss for more than 24 hours after the broadcast and even called more Australian Open matches before his bosses at ESPN replayed the video for him and his partner in the booth, asking if they noticed anything odd about the video. When both said they hadn’t, Adler was told by his executive producer that his comment had “gone viral.”
“They told me the Twitter world had basically started labeling me as a racist,” Adler said.
Adler says he was asked to apologize by the network and reluctantly complied, though he said the apology he wrote was deemed unfit and was rewritten by others at the network. In his apology, Adler said he “simply and inadvertently chose the wrong word to describe (Williams’) play.”
When he read the statement on-air, Adler says he was told by his executive producer to continue calling the match. But the director of the broadcast refused to allow him to join the broadcast.
The next afternoon, Adler received a call from his producer with news that he was fired.
“He said, ‘They just don’t want to fight the other side,’” Adler said. “‘There’s a little bit too much pressure coming from the other side. They’ve decided to let you go.’”
Adler stood by his use of the phrase “guerrilla effect,” saying similar references to warfare are “common to anyone who has put on a jockstrap or worn a sports bra.” He also fervently denied his use of the phrase was racially charged.
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As a result of his firing, Adler feels his reputation has been “damaged forever.”
“The irony is that Adler called everything correctly and in a professional manner, whereas ESPN did not — they recklessly made the wrong call,” David Ring, Adler’s attorney, said in a statement. “It was not only political correctness gone overboard, but also a cowardly move that ruined a good man’s career.”
Adler, who lives in Los Angeles, was hired by ESPN in 2008. He earned All-American status as a member of the USC tennis team and was a ranked professional in both singles and doubles, before joining the broadcast booth.
Staff writer Tom Hoffarth contributed to this report.

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Question: The Vegas Golden Knights’ medieval hockey pregame show is great. Is it historically accurate?

Zack Frongillo, representing the Washington Capitals, battles Lee Orchard as the Golden Knight during a pregame show before Game 1 of the 2018 NHL Stanley Cup Final between the Capitals and the Vegas Golden Knights at T-Mobile Arena on Monday in Las Vegas. Photo by David Becker/NHLI via Getty Images
In their first year of existence, the Vegas Golden Knights have shocked the National Hockey League by making it all the way to the Stanley Cup Final. The Golden Knights’ over-the-top pregame shows have been perhaps even more stunning. Before each home game, the franchise stages a set piece centering on fake medieval warfare, featuring a knight-champion who does brief and victorious battle with foes on skates.
The shows got more complex as the season wore on; by Monday, before the first game of the Stanley Cup Final, the spectacle came complete with “flaming” arrows shot by female archers, a castle that looks to have been constructed out of papier-mâché, and, inexplicably, drummers wearing futuristic light-up goggles. It’s all very Vegas—and it’s great.
Vegas sure knows how to put on a show! 🤩 pic.twitter.com/v2uGfgJ7r8 — NHL on NBC (@NHLonNBCSports) May 29, 2018
The shows have gone viral, and we will hopefully get another spectacular one when the Golden Knights play the Washington Capitals in Game 2 on Wednesday night. (Vegas leads the series 1–0.) Hotly anticipating a new chapter in the saga, I called on Kevin Uhalde, a historian who studies and teaches popular medievalism at Ohio University, to talk to me about misused catapults, sword fighting on skates, and whether or not the Golden Knights are actually ronin.
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Rebecca Onion: It’s completely ridiculous to think about historical accuracy when you’re watching a hilarious bit of pop culture medievalism like this, right? Should we just be putting the whole concept of accuracy aside to enjoy these shows?
Kevin Uhalde: I often distinguish between accuracy and authenticity, or realism, with the idea that you need some accuracy to have any sense of authenticity. Attention to detail matters up to a point, but for most people it’s the smallest part of what matters, and that certainly applies to medievalism.
One thing that’s not an “inaccuracy,” because I don’t think they’re trying to be accurate, but knights, historically, would have been on horseback, and there are obviously no horses on the ice, so that’s kind of out the door.
Another thing is that knights were generally not rogues. There’s either a sovereign, a liege lord—there’s someone that knights are following. Watching this, I thought of, in feudal Japan, the example of the ronin, the masterless samurai. In Arthurian material, there are some examples of wandering knights. But it’s really contradictory to the very notion of what it means to be a knight, just like being on foot is contradictory to the notion of being a knight.
I looked up the helmet design, because I didn’t know whether it was supposed to be an English, Viking-era, Saxon, or Scandinavian helmet, and I did think, “Well, it looks a lot like a late Roman helmet, or maybe some sort of Greek or Spartan helmet.” I thought it was really interesting to see that Ken Boehlke [of the Golden Knights fan site SinBin] had this whole article saying, No, it’s really a knight’s helmet! I know you think it’s a Spartan helmet, but it’s really a specific medieval helmet from 15th-century Italy!
"I like the extra-messy medievalism where people are mixing up different stuff—really mixing up their own notion of what is medieval.” — Kevin Uhalde
That was a great defensive internet moment.
[The slippage between Spartans and the medieval period] makes it clear that what they want out of the medieval context is the martial or military part of chivalry. What you’re left with are some warrior motifs that are recognizably medieval because of the armor and the keep with the turret. It’s clearly medieval, but it could be any martial culture. There’s nothing wrong with that! That’s clearly the most relevant thing to competitive sport, and especially one like hockey that’s known, at least in part, for being violent.
Historical slippage is always part of popular medievalism, whether you’re talking about Renaissance fairs, which are vaguely medieval and Renaissance-y, or even talking about medievalism in literature gong back a couple centuries. There’s a great tradition of just picking and choosing whatever elements you want.
There’s a negative part of me watching these shows and thinking, ugh, it’s so depressing how we strip mine history for broad symbols. But you’re saying that’s been happening with medievalism for a long time.
Yeah! There’s nothing strange or new about it, in and of itself, and I like the extra-messy medievalism where people are mixing up different stuff—really mixing up their own notion of what is medieval. There are at least two different kinds of medievalism going on in this one. The most obvious one is the chivalry—which is, when I teach anywhere from 50–100 students a course in medieval history in film and literature, chivalry is what everyone says medievalism is.
But it’s also pulling from this dark primitivism. That’s what clearly informs Game of Thrones and some of the more recent movies to come out, like the most recent Arthur movie from last summer, where the atmosphere is very dark and it’s brutal. That’s its own version of medievalism that goes back to the Renaissance, where they refer to the medieval period as the Dark Ages.
And that’s in this show as well. Especially in the opening where the sort of hooded figure comes out with a lantern and everything’s dark. It’s got a primitive feeling; the guy is fighting off these forces of evil that happen to be Toronto or Winnipeg.
Those horrible Canadians. I liked the opening part too, because there was a way they were enlisting the audience to listen, and it seemed to be similar to how the audience might hear an epic—analogous to medieval storytelling.
When they say things like, “In Chapter 1, we saw the fall of the kings … in Chapter 2, the knights feasted on shark … ” they’re spinning out an epic, taking us on a journey.
There was some profile I was reading that mentioned that one of the people putting on the shows had worked for World Wrestling Entertainment. And he said something like, I learned at that job that you just need to make good and evil extremely obvious. You can see that in the inequity between the champion of the Golden Knights and the villain–bad guy from the other team, who is very easily vanquished in their little battle.
In actual medieval chivalric literature, there’s much, much more gray in there. But certainly our idea of the Middle Ages—our medievalism—is all about light and dark and good and evil, from Tolkien to everything else. There’s no ambiguity.
The use of the flaming arrows and catapults—how did that become the go-to visual indicator of medieval combat?
I’m not a military historian, but I think what most historians would tell you about catapults is that they’re used against fortifications, not against people. For a lot of reasons. They’re not mobile. They would be constructed outside of a fortified city to batter the walls, but the way you see them used most often in movies or in this show is being used against people.
The flaming arrows, they just look good! And it’s hard to see arrows otherwise.
I really liked the fact that this catapult had a StubHub ad on it. If you were going to teach these shows in your class, how would you teach them?
I don’t know if there’s a lot to learn, except that medievalism is so popular that you can almost not notice it. There seem to be ebbs and flows, and times when you see more of it around, and now is one of those times. I was just teaching the course on medieval history in film and literature in the spring, and toward the end, I realized that Bud Light had been running this ad series called “Dilly Dilly,” and it had been running since the fall, and it’s got a medieval king and knights, and they’re really funny. So we watched three or four of them in class. These Golden Knights shows run on the same principle as “Dilly Dilly,” where medievalism is something we can connect to without really thinking very deeply about.
Playing with this anachronism becomes really easy because we all have this little pool of signifiers to point toward.
Yes, and the thing about medievalism is that you get to have these violent references, to slaughtering your foes and eating them. It’s a degree of violence where it’s hard to imagine how they would stage that in a pregame show without putting it in some remote past.

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What’s the best way to make an awesome rookie season all the more legendary? Go ahead and score a game winner during an outdoor game on New Years Day. Auston Matthews is so good, I don’t even have a joke about Toronto for this post.


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Question: No, it's not time to starting taking Uber again

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I hailed my last Uber ride in November 2014. That was the month the company took what we would now think of as a Trump-like turn, with a bizarrely self-sabotaging threat by one of its top executives to spend $1 million investigating the private life of a female journalist who'd raised questions about the company.
"Nobody would know it was us," new senior VP Emil Michael said at an on-the-record dinner with journalists in Manhattan. When CEO Travis Kalanick declined to even reprimand Michael, I wrote a widely-shared story about reluctantly deleting the profoundly useful Uber app, and another about my first day of using its then-obscure rival Lyft.
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Fast forward two-and-a-half years, and a lot of water has suddenly rushed under the bridge. Uber finally parted ways with Michael on Monday; it took an investigation by former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to oust him. On Tuesday, Kalanick took a leave of absence, supposedly to reflect on his failings and to work on "Kalanick 2.0." The company didn't release Holder's damning report in full, but it did post a list of his recommendations that the board has vowed to adopt.
So the original purpose of my boycott, to punish Michael and Kalanick for their Nixonian attack on a free press, is pretty much null and void at this stage. Is it time to give the company a second chance? Should I stick the Uber app, with its strange new backwards-C logo, back on my phone?
I'm likely not the only one pondering that question right now. More than 200,000 users deleted Uber in anger back in February, after the company appeared to take financial advantage of a taxi strike at JFK during the anti-Trump travel ban protests.
The pressure worked, at least in the sense that Kalanick withdrew from Trump's advisory council. But having deleted Uber and switched to Lyft, many of those users discovered what I discovered: Lyft is a more-than-adequate replacement. (New Yorkers have another splendid ride-sharing app alternative, Juno.)
And yet ... I won't lie, there have been times I missed Uber. As abhorrent as the company is, it does have a significantly larger reach. Lyft is available in 300 cities, all of them in the U.S.; Uber drivers can be found in 600 cities in 81 countries and counting.
There are fewer Lyft drivers overall—when it takes a Lyft guy 15 minutes to reach my East Bay Area home, and I'm running late for a flight, I'm often insanely curious about whether the same would be true on Uber.
(The closest I came to reinstalling Uber was while standing in the rain outside a North London Tube station one night, with not a black cab in sight. Lyft doesn't operate in London. In the end a friend called one from his app for me; that breach of the spirit of the boycott left me feeling dirty for days afterwards.)
I would love it if Uber became a service I could use with a clean conscience. For one thing, "uber" has pretty much become the default verb for ordering a car from an app, even among the extremely woke residents of the Bay Area. "Oh, did you uber over here?" a friend will ask. "Lyft," I'll correct them, sounding like the worst kind of nit-picking hipster.
And hey, it isn't like Lyft has entirely clean hands.
And hey, it isn't like Lyft has entirely clean hands. Like Uber, it has cut driver pay in a race for profits. Trump supporter Peter Thiel is a major investor (then again, if you boycotted every Silicon Valley company for which that was true, you'd have to quit Facebook).
Lyft does give its drivers a slightly higher cut of each ride—they earn $17.50 an hour on average compared to $15.68 an hour with Uber, according to a survey released in January. That's not nothing. Lyft also asks users to drop an extra tip, on top of the one that's built in, on a screen with their face that gives you pink balloons if you cough up.
It's a heartstring-tugging device—isn't the point of ride-sharing apps that the user doesn't have to think about money?—that I have learned to love.
But Lyft also had to be sued by the state of California before it would stop simply firing drivers at will. The company had to pay $12 million in that settlement. And of course you could argue that both companies are helping to destroy millions of safe jobs (with benefits, something even Lyft drivers can only dream about) in the taxi industry.
Bottom line: in the ride-sharing business, no one's hands are clean.
Using that argument to justify returning to Uber, however, would be the worst kind of whataboutism—Trump and Putin's favorite propaganda tactic. Saying "they're both bad, so who cares" is almost as inaccurate when you're talking ride-sharing companies as when it is applied to presidential candidates.
Uber still has a serious problem embedded deep in its macho, self-destructive, take-no-prisoners culture; every time we get a peek behind the curtain at the company's inner workings, it's like Wolf of Wall Street in there.
It's like Wolf of Wall Street in there
That much was abundantly clear Tuesday when board member David Bonderman made a casually sexist joke at the precise moment it had the worst possible impact: during an all-hands company meeting as Arianna Huffington was talking about the need to get more than one woman on the board.
Bonderman promptly resigned his post, but one wonders what would have happened had audio of the all-hands not leaked. The fact that he even thought he'd find a receptive audience for the joke suggests sexism is a root-and-branch problem at Uber.
If you find yourself on the App Store with your thumb hovering over the download button, remember this: the company has lost multiple executives since employees started coming forward with accusations sexual harassment. Remember that Uber still faces multiple lawsuits in multiple cities that it could have been avoided simply by playing nice. Remember it has claimed the right—even on occasion boasted about its ability—to peek into your riding behavior.
It doesn't stop there. One executive has been accused of obtaining the medical records of a woman who was sexually assaulted in an Uber. Another was fired because he neglected to disclose harassment charges against him in his previous role at Google.
There are many more: all male, all departing under mysterious circumstances. With or without Kalanick, it's hard to avoid the impression that Uber has become a safe space for abhorrent behavior. Kalanick's leave of absence won't fix that. As Lyft executive Gina Ma told the Guardian earlier this year, "culture is something you can't reverse engineer."
So no, I will not be ending my Uber boycott. I'm sticking with Lyft, and I recommend that you do the same. The company is going to have to spend a significant amount of time—perhaps years, perhaps forever—parked on the naughty step.

You can count on a number of seen-'em-before staples to roll back around when the middle of April arrives. One? You'll probably be paying the post office a visit, if you have a check to send into the government and you haven't sent it yet.
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WASHINGTON | The National Rifle Association has joined the Trump administration and top congressional Republicans in a swift and surprising embrace of a restriction on Americans’ guns, though a narrow one: to regulate the “bump stock” devices the Las Vegas shooter apparently used to horrifically lethal effect.
The devices, originally intended to help people with disabilities, fit over the stock and grip of a semi-automatic rifle and allow the weapon to fire continuously, some 400 to 800 rounds in a single minute. Bump stocks were found among the gunman’s weapons and explain why victims in Las Vegas heard what sounded like automatic-weapons fire as the shooter rained bullets from a casino high-rise, slaughtering 58 people in a concert below and wounding hundreds more.
Former Rep. Gabby Giffords of Arizona who survived an assassination attempt in 2011, flanked by Rep. Mike Thompson, D-Calif., left, and Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., right, joins House Democrats in a call for action on gun safety legislation on the House steps Wednesday morning after the deadly mass shooting in Las Vegas this week, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2017. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) In this Oct. 4, 2017, photo, a device called a "bump stock" is attached to a semi-automatic rifle at the Gun Vault store and shooting range in South Jordan, Utah. The National Rifle Association announced its support Ton Oct. 5 for regulating the devices that can effectively convert semi-automatic rifles into fully automated weapons and that were apparently used in the Las Vegas massacre to lethal effect. It was a surprising shift for the leading gun industry group, which in recent years has resolutely opposed any gun regulations. Immediately afterward the White House, too, said it was open to such a change. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer) Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., speaks at a tax reform town hall with employees at the Dixon Valve & Coupling Company factory in Chestertown, Md., Thursday, Oct. 5, 2017. The National Rifle Association joined the Trump administration and top congressional Republicans in a surprising joint embrace of a gun control measure, albeit a narrow one: to regulate “bump stocks,” legal devices the Las Vegas shooter apparently used to effectively automate his weapons _ to lethal effect. Ryan added his support, too, as have other top Republicans. “Obviously we need to look at how we can tighten up the compliance with this law so that fully automatic weapons are banned,” the Wisconsin Republican told reporters at an event in Chestertown, Md. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) In This Oct. 4, 2017, photo, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., speaks to members of the media after returning to the White House in Washington with President Donald Trump from a trip to Las Vegas after the mass shooting earlier in the week. The National Rifle Association announced its support Thursday for regulating "bump stocks," devices that can effectively convert semi-automatic rifles into fully automated weapons and that were apparently used in the Las Vegas massacre to lethal effect. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) From data collected by the Gun Violence Archive
Thursday’s sudden endorsements of controls came almost simultaneously from the NRA and the White House.
The NRA, which famously opposes virtually any hint of new restrictions, said in a statement: “The National Rifle Association is calling on the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE) to immediately review whether these devices comply with federal law. The NRA believes that devices designed to allow semi-automatic rifles to function like fully automatic rifles should be subject to additional regulations.”
Moments after, at the White House, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders praised the announcement.
“We welcome that and a conversation on that,” Sanders said. “It’s something we’re very open to.”
House Speaker Paul Ryan added his support, as have other top Republicans.
“Obviously we need to look at how we can tighten up the compliance with this law so that fully automatic weapons are banned,” the Wisconsin Republican told reporters at an event in Chestertown, Maryland.
It was a rare concession for all concerned. The nation’s largest gun lobby and most Republicans have stood firmly in recent years against stricter gun regulations, even as one mass shooting after another horrified the nation. They blocked background check legislation after the shooting deaths of elementary school children in Connecticut in 2012, and took no action despite intense pressure from Democrats, including a House floor sit-in, after last year’s bloodbath at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida. Even gunfire that left House Majority Whip Steve Scalise near death at a baseball practice earlier this year didn’t change the equation.
But this time, the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, combined with the opportunity to back a limited change that could potentially be accomplished administratively, spurred a shift.
Robert Spitzer, chairman of the political science department at SUNY Cortland, who watches the gun industry closely, said he was surprised.
Still, he said, “it’s a pretty small concession in the realm of gun stuff. We’re not talking about banning assault weapons here. It’s a very specific accessory.”
The device, which retails for around $200, is not known among gun dealers as an item that is hugely popular. It was created ostensibly to help people with disabilities more easily fire AK- and AR-platform long guns.
The device causes the gun to buck back and forth, repeatedly “bumping” the trigger against the shooter’s finger. Technically, that means the finger is pulling the trigger for each round fired, keeping the weapon a legal semi-automatic. Because it creates a significant rocking motion it also means that the gun is “spraying” bullets and it’s difficult to hit a target.
The stocks have been around for less than a decade. Many Capitol Hill Republicans said this week they had never even heard of them before the shooting in Las Vegas. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms during the Obama administration gave its seal of approval to their sale in 2010 after concluding that they did not violate federal law.
Now, some Republicans appear inclined to blame the Obama administration for allowing their use in the first place.
“We have to get more education on what they are,” Ryan said. “Was it a regulatory misstep by ATF some years ago?”
The issue of bump stocks came up aboard Air Force One as President Donald Trump traveled back from visiting Las Vegas on Wednesday, according to GOP Rep. Mark Amodei of Nevada, who was on board and said Trump sounded open to a change.
But Democrats insisted that a regulatory change by the ATF would not be sufficient.
“Federal regulations won’t be able to fully close this loophole,” said Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, who introduced a bill this week to ban the devices. “Legislation would make crystal clear that Congress is banning all devices that allow a weapon to achieve an automatic rate of fire, regardless of how a weapon is altered.”
It was uncertain whether Congress would go that far.
At the same time, the attention on the devices was already causing an industry response. Slide Fire, the leading maker of bump stocks, suspended sales of the items. In a post on its website, the company said it was not taking any new orders “to provide the best service with those already placed.”
Associated Press writer Lisa Marie Pane contributed from Atlanta.

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Georgia special
The special election in Georgia to fill HHS Secretary Tom Price’s old congressional seat could end with a historic Democratic upset. The Sixth District seat has been held by a Republican continuously since Newt Gingrich won it in 1978, but changing demographics and what’s known as a “jungle primary” are giving Democrat Jon Ossoff a shot at winning today’s vote.
Georgia tea leaves
Spanning wealthier and Republican-leaning suburbs north of Atlanta, Tom Price’s old seat is just the kind of place Democrats would love to pull off an upset. They’d point to it as evidence of excitement in their base, and support from the upper-income Republicans and college graduates who eluded them in 2016. But winning will be tough. We look at data from the 50,000 early votes already cast to gauge the contest.
Custody battle
A lawyer for conservative radio show host Alex Jones says his client is nothing more than a showman. He said it in a Texas court, where Jones is fighting for custody of his children. His ex-wife argues the views and conspiracy theories on Jones’ radio show prove he’s unfit for fatherhood.
Silver lining
Whatever your feelings about tax day, retailers want you to know they feel your pain (or relief). The tax day freebie has become something of a modern tradition as corporations angle for new customers. Here’s a sampling of the companies trying to take some sting out of today by offering big discounts and free stuff.
Church cops
Alabama lawmakers could send a bill to the governor this week that would allow a megachurch to establish its own police force. The bill has already passed the state Senate and is awaiting a House vote. We take a look at why the plan is getting mixed reactions.
Corn sole
Reebok is creating its first shoe made entirely from biological materials. The shoe, available this fall, will have a cotton upper and a sole made from Susterra, a corn-based plastic substitute. It’s intended to be completely compostable, and will even use biologically derived glue to join the pieces together.
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JORDAN-SYRIA BORDER (AP) — The commander of Jordan's border guards says Islamic State extremists are expanding their influence in a sprawling border camp for displaced Syrians, posing a growing threat to the U.S.-allied kingdom.
Brig. Gen. Sami Kafawin spoke to The Associated Press during a tour of the desert area where Jordan, Syria and Iraq meet.
A ride in a military helicopter offered a view of the Rukban camp, an expanse of makeshift shelters housing tens of thousands of Syrians.
Conditions in the camp deteriorated sharply after Jordan sealed its border in June, following a cross-border IS attack that killed seven Jordanian border guards.
Kafawin said on Tuesday that "the (militant) threat is increasing, especially in this area."
He says that nonetheless, Jordan tries to ensure the displaced Syrians get food and medical treatment.

The media arm of Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group says hundreds of Syrian rebels and civilians have started leaving the Lebanon-Syria border area after a deal was reached for their departure.
The Central Military Media says buses carrying members of the Levant People's Brigades rebel group started moving on Monday from the badlands of the Lebanese border town of Arsal in the direction of the Syrian village of Fleeta.
The evacuation comes nearly two weeks after more than 7,000 Syrians, many of them al-Qaida-linked fighters and their families, left Arsal, following an offensive by Hezbollah.
The Levant People's Brigades whose members did not take part in last month's battles will be heading to the Syrian government-held town of Ruhaiba, about 50 kilometers (31 miles) northeast of the Syrian capital, Damascus.


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In 2008, John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt published "The Lobby and U.S. foreign policy" in which they reminded the reader that no two countries share the same vital interests. This obvious truth was ignored. On December 6 th , Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. The decision was celebrated in Washington DC and Jerusalem with enthusiasm. Yet, together with Syria's Western debacle, it concludes the United States' dominant role in the Middle East. It is a Pyrrhus victory for Netanyahu, and it puts an end to the honest-broker and two-state pretenses for the Palestinians.
It is no secret, Netanyahu and other Israeli officials said it repeatedly: Palestine is Israel's homeland. But, Palestinians are in the way. So are the Saudis. The Kingdom, as the keeper of the Faith, is bound to side with the Palestinians. To break Saudi Arabia away from the Palestinians, Israel convinced the Saudis that Iran is their mortal enemy. In this vision, the Iranian threat erases any duty Saudi Arabia may feel vis--vis their Palestinian brothers for the safety of the Kingdom comes first. Israel and Saudi Arabia are now bound by a common enemy. If the plan succeeds, Israelis will have killed two birds with one stone. Iran will be crushed and Palestine will be theirs. Donald Trump's decision has no immediate impact on the plan. The Saudi Royal family, led by Mohammed bin Salman , will stick to it. However, not their subjects and the Arabs at large. The chasm between the rulers and the people in the Middle East will rise overtime.
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On February 14, 1945, Franklin Roosevelt signed with Ibn Saud the Quincy Pact whereby the king traded oil for the protection of the United States. The creation of Israel on May 14, 1948 was followed the next day by the first Arab-Israeli war. Harry Truman who recognized the new state on the day of its creation was caught in a dilemma. He resolved it by posing as the "honest-broker" between the two parties. The posture worked reasonably well until the Yom Kippur War in 1973 when the United States sided with Israel. It no longer was an honest-broker. But the charade lived on with Jimmy Carter's Oslo Accord and other initiatives with the same end result.
Saying the American foreign policy in the Middle East is essentially defined by Israel is stating the obvious. In "A Clean Break, a new strategy for the Realm", Richard Perle, Douglas Feith, David Wurmser and few others partially lift the veil on Israel's strategy. The goal is to eliminate any potential competitor in the Middle East. General Wesley Clark confirms it in his October 3, 2007 speech at the Commonwealth Club of California. A friend of his at the Pentagon tells him ten days after 9/11 that "we're going to attack and destroy the governments of seven countries in five years" Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Soudan and Iran." Not mincing his words, Clark adds: "This country [the United States] was taken over by a group of people with a policy coup: Wolfowitz and Cheney and Rumsfeld and you can name a half dozen other collaborators from the Project for a New American Century." In effect, Washington DC was planning to do Israel's job for none of the seven countries poses any threat to the security of the United States. The Iraqi war is a colossal failure (militarily, financially and humanly), and so is the "uprising" in Syria.
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A Department of Defense memorandum released in May 2015 states: "Western countries, the Gulf States and Turkey are supporting [the Islamists'] efforts [to control Hasaka and Der Zor in Syria]" while at the same time admitting that "there is a possibility of establishing a declared or undeclared Salafist principally in Syria." So, while officially declaring war on terrorism, the United States is helping the terrorists establish an Islamic state! The duplicity of these wars is sickening. Their stupidity is maddening. Besides reading Mearsheimer and Walt, Washington DC's officials should have read Isaac Newton. His third law states: "When one body exerts a force on a second body, the second body simultaneously exerts a force equal in magnitude and opposite in direction on the first body." Russia was bound to come in at some point. It did at the invitation of Bashar al-Assad. It was joined by Iran and later by Turkey -- a NATO member.
Conclusion: The United States' policy in the Middle East is discredited. Israel has become an apartheid state -- something Ehud Barak warned against. As for the Palestinians, the two-state solution is dead and buried, they have no more illusion regarding their future. "Never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."