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Feeling lonely, Ichiro drives back into the city and rents a hotel room. He finds a newspaper and looks at the classified ads. The first job that stands out to him is a job as a porter. He heads to a nearby hotel, where he is ushered into the employment office. He easily answers the questions on the front of the form, but realizes he cannot account for the past two years of unemployment. He gets up and leaves without finishing the application.
Although briefly optimistic, Ichiro once again is made to feel as though he ruined his future by rejecting the draft. Because he feels undesirable, he believes any prospective employer who found out about his past would automatically find him undesirable as well. Essentially, he feels like an imposter, who people only connect to because they don't know the "real" him.
Ichiro stops for coffee in a diner, and considers two other classifieds he had circled in the newspaper. Although concerned he will encounter the same problem at each new job site, he pushes himself to keep searching for work.
Although it is not clear why Ichiro has suddenly become so proactive, his decision to continue to look for jobs signifies a growing interest in his future wellbeing.
Ichiro decides to look at a draftsman position in a small engineering firm. He drives to the office of Carrick and Sons, and waits in the lobby for Mr. Carrick to see him. Eventually, the receptionist leads him down to the basement, where Mr. Carrick is building his own snowplow. Mr. Carrick is immediately warm and friendly. He easily pronounces Ichiro's name, and speaks a little Japanese to him. Mr. Carrick explains that he used to have close Japanese friends, although they moved east after their internment ended.
Mr. Carrick is only the second white character, after Mr. Brown, Ichiro's former professor, to treat Ichiro with any kindness, and the first who goes out of his way to make Ichiro feel comfortable and optimistic about his future. Mr. Carrick genuinely seems to understand the plight of people of Japanese ancestry in America and the devastation of internment, and therefore understands what Ichiro has gone through and how he must be feeling.
Mr. Carrick tells Ichiro that he thinks the government made a mistake interning its Japanese citizens. Mr. Carrick used to feel like a proud American, but his country's behavior has changed his mind. Ichiro sees that Mr. Carrick's apology is genuine, but he does not know how to respond.
Mr. Carrick complicates the idea of an American identity. Although he is recognized as American and given rights, he doesn't feel American because he is embarrassed of how his country treated its Japanese citizens.
Mr. Carrick asks Ichiro when he wants to start. He offers him $265 a month, $300 after a year. Ichiro knows it would be so easy to take the job, and knows too that because he is Japanese, Mr. Carrick is offering him more than the listed salary of $200. But Ichiro feels the job is not for him—it is for another Japanese person "who was equally as American" as Mr. Carrick. He asks for some time to consider.
Mr. Carrick is ashamed of how his country has treated Ichiro and other people with Japanese ancestry. He is trying to personally make up for the discrimination Ichiro has faced. This, the book suggests, is the best way for white Americans to reject their country's systemic racism—not just learning to "tolerate" others, but actively seeking to make reparations and undo past mistakes. However, Ichiro believes that because he rejected the draft, he is undeserving of any kindness.
Ichiro decides to come clean. He stands to leave and tells Mr. Carrick he's not a veteran. Mr. Carrick doesn't understand at first, but when Ichiro explains that he refused the draft, Mr. Carrick is not upset. He apologizes to Ichiro—he is sorry Ichiro did what he felt he had to do. He hopes Ichiro will not blame himself. Ichiro says it's hard not to, but also blames his mother, and the situation. It was unfair first to be treated as un-American, and then asked to prove his Americanness.
Ichiro assumes that Mr. Carrick will treat him differently once he discovers the truth about Ichiro's past, as this has often been Ichiro's experience. However, Mr. Carrick doesn't care. He understands what Ichiro seems not to—that whether or not Ichiro rejected the draft he remains American, and it was extremely unfair to be expected to commit to fighting for America when his country had just treated him with such disrespect.
Ichiro and Mr. Carrick shake hands and then Ichiro leaves. Although he does not expect to take the job, meeting Mr. Carrick comforted him. He realizes "there was someone who cared," and that perhaps he could forgive a country that still has good, kind people in it.
Mr. Carrick's kindness has demonstrated to Ichiro that perhaps he hasn't ruined his future after all. He realizes there might be other people out there like Mr. Carrick, who will accept him and help him.
Ichiro returns to his hotel. He sleeps for many hours and wakes late in the evening. He decides he will return to Seattle. He believes he cannot begin a new life until he has reckoned with his old one—he has shared so much with his mother and his father that he knows that, to find "wholeness and belonging," he must return to "the place where he had begun to lose it." Ichiro decides not to take the job, but writes Mr. Carrick a thank-you note on hotel stationary, trying to explain how important Mr. Carrick's kindness was, and how it has changed his outlook on life.
Ichiro's interaction with Mr. Carrick has shifted his sense of the future—he realizes he might have one after all. But to have a future free from the baggage of his past, he understands he must extricate himself from his family, who he has for so long blamed for his current misery. However, the only way to untangle himself is to return home and mend or make peace with their complicated relationship.
Ichiro leaves the hotel in search of food. He remembers hearing about Burnside Café, and seeks it out. Inside, a Japanese teenager wearing a discharge pin seats him and takes his order. Ichiro can tell the boy recognizes him as Japanese, and is suddenly filled with disgust. He understands that it is nice that immigrants from the same country in America can recognize each other and help each other out, but also sees that this kind of nationalism only furthers divisions and prejudices.
Ichiro recognizes that there is the potential for solidarity between people of Japanese descent, just as there is solidarity between people of Chinese descent in America. Still, he wishes that unconditional acceptance of strangers also applied to those who were of other racial or ethnic groups. The teenager's discharge pin indicates that he served in the army, and therefore is seen by most as a "true" American. This makes Ichiro angry, partly because he feels the boy should be accepted as American regardless of army service.
The boy asks Ichiro if he is Japanese, and he lies, first saying he's a decorated veteran, and then that he's Chinese. The boy says that it's fine, "I like Chinese," and Ichiro pushes back that there's no reason he shouldn't. The boy is flustered and leaves Ichiro alone for the rest of his meal. Ichiro finishes eating and leaves, happy to get away from the Japanese teenager who felt the need to wear a discharge pin to prove his worth as an American.
Ichiro takes out his frustration at racism and discrimination in the United States on this teenager. He understands the teen is being extra kind to him because he recognizes Ichiro as Japanese, and Ichiro tests this kindness by seeing if it would apply to someone of a different background. His issue is not with kindness being extended to people from the same country of origin, but of that kindness then being withheld from people with different backgrounds.
Back in his hotel room, Ichiro wonders if the "land of happily-ever-after" could ever be accessible to him. Or, if he forfeited it, will it be available to the teenager with the discharge pin? What about African Americans back in Seattle? Even though they have told him to go back to Tokyo, he recognizes these men are also "on the outside looking in." Ichiro recognizes that Mr. Carrick is also on the outside.
Ichiro understands that although many minority groups discriminate against each other, they share a common plight: they have been denied the rights and privileges promised to "true" Americans, and hope by abusing others that they can elevate themselves in contrast.
Ichiro considers that maybe everyone is on the outside, "pushing and shoving and screaming to get into someplace that doesn't exist," not understanding that if everyone got along, maybe "the outside could be the inside."
Ichiro and other characters often fantasize about the ideal America that white people must experience, but Ichiro here realizes that perhaps everyone struggles in their own way, and imagines that life would be better if all people were more accepting.
The next morning, Ichiro drives to the hospital. Visiting hours haven't begun, but he slips upstairs to Kenji's room. Kenji says he thinks he is going to die. The doctors haven't confirmed it, but he can tell they agree.
Kenji is able to calmly discuss his death, because he has spent much of the time since his original amputation coming to terms with his illness and accepting his fate.
Kenji advises Ichiro to return to Seattle. Although the harassment from other Japanese people, especially those in the army, has been difficult, Kenji tells Ichiro to stick it out. He explains that even when people who were not no-no boys returned, they faced discrimination of their own, including name-calling and vandalism. Kenji says that the men who have harassed Ichiro are probably doing it because they blame him for their own harassment.
Kenji and Ichiro both recognize that people who harass others are often responding to harassment they themselves have received. For example, the Japanese men and teenagers who have made Ichiro's life so difficult are lashing out only because they have been harassed and made to feel un-American.
Kenji doesn't like how Japanese people cluster together. He sees it as a kind of internment camp of their own making. Ichiro points out that this happens with many ethnic or religious minorities. Kenji agrees that this is true, but it doesn't make it right. He tells Ichiro to go back to Seattle until the other Japanese men living there leave him alone, then to move far away and marry a girl who is not Japanese.
Kenji believes that if people would be more willing to befriend or even marry those unlike them, there would be less racism and prejudice in the world. His advice to Ichiro is to begin this project himself, de-segregating the Japanese community through his own personal and intimate relationships.
Kenji tells Ichiro that he's going to write to Ralph, and tell him that Ichiro and Emi are hitting it off. Kenji tells Ichiro to tell Emi he's been thinking about her—and he's been thinking about Ichiro too.
Kenji recognizes both Ichiro and Emi's loneliness, and hopes that in his absence his friends can take comfort in each other.
Kenji says he hopes that wherever he's going, there won't be Japanese, or Jewish, or Chinese, or black people—instead there will be "only people." He remembers shooting a German when he was serving in the army. He hopes that, in the afterlife, there won't be distinctions between Japanese and Germans because "I'll have to shoot him again." Kenji acknowledges there might not be anything after he dies, but he doesn't mind. Ichiro says goodbye, choking up as he leaves the room.
Kenji believes the afterlife can only be truly heavenly if there is no opportunity for prejudice, discrimination, or divisions between people. He feels that as long as there are labels and national alliances there will be differences between people that force them to treat each other badly. He has made peace with his future and so can look towards death without fear or regret.
Ichiro takes seven hours to drive back to Seattle, where he first visits Emi. She is working in the field, and seeing the Oldsmobile she assumes Kenji has returned. She is disappointed to see Ichiro. She invites him inside anyway, and they talk about Kenji. She says she loved him, but in a different way than she loves Ralph, and in a different way than she could see herself loving Ichiro.
Kenji has done his best to set up a relationship between his friends. Emi has no real family, and is unmoored and lonely. Ichiro has a family, but receives no comfort or emotional support from them.
Ichiro tells Emi about Mr. Carrick's job offer. Emi notes that Mr. Carrick "sounds like the kind of American that Americans always profess themselves to be." Ichiro begins to worry that just because there was one Mr. Carrick in Portland, there is no guarantee there are other people in the world like him.
Although many people believe they are true Americans because they were born in America, or have white skin, Emi feels that being American should be as much about integrity and personal values as it is about looking the part.
Emi tells Ichiro that her neighbor, Mr. Maeno, would give Ichiro work. He thanks her but turns down the offer. Mr. Maeno is Japanese, and Ichiro is still thinking about what Kenji told him—to marry a girl who's not Japanese and distance himself from his community. Emi thinks Kenji was joking, but Ichiro isn't sure. Emi asks if Kenji is really going to die, and when Ichiro says yes, Emi begins to sob. Ichiro prepares to leave. He tells her Ralph will come back, because Kenji will write to him. Ichiro wants to comfort Emi, but cannot. He gives her a kiss on the forehead and leaves.
Ichiro has decided to live his life according to Kenji's advice. Ichiro doesn't genuinely believe that distancing himself from the Japanese community is the best decision, but without any direction of his own it is as good a directive as any to follow.
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China raises $6 billion as U.S. investors look past political tensions
Scott Murdoch | Posted: Oct. 15, 2020, 9:51 a.m. | Updated: Oct. 15, 2020, 9:30 a.m. | 2 Min Read
By Scott Murdoch
HONG KONG (Reuters) - China has raised $6 billion in a dollar bond issue that was offered to U.S. investors for the first time just weeks before the Nov. 3 election, a term-sheet reviewed by Reuters showed.
The deal, the fifth foreign currency denominated bond since China reinstated its offshore debt sales programme in 2017, attracted $27.2 billion in orders, the term-sheet showed.
China has issued four dollar bonds and one euro bond in the past three years.
The debt was priced at 25 basis points above U.S. Treasuries for the $1.25 billion three-year tranche, 30 basis points for the $2.25 billion 5-year tranche, 50 basis points for the $2 billion 10-year tranche and 80 basis points for the $500 million 30-year tranche, the term-sheet showed.
"The successful issuance of the U.S. sovereign bonds has helped establish and improve a yield benchmark of more market significance for Chinese issuers," China's finance ministry said in a statement.
It was the first time China has offered debt to U.S.-based investors who were most active in the longer-dated tranches of the transaction.
U.S investors, primarily fund managers, were the largest buyers of the 30-year tranche, picking up 47% of the $500 million sold, according to the term-sheet.
The rising tensions between Washington and Beijing did not deter U.S.-based investors from participating in the deal, according to one person with direct knowledge of the matter.
The person could not be named because he was not authorised to speak to media.
"We did not see the geopolitical situation scaring people away," he said.
The deal was finalised on Wednesday as the stand-off between Washington and Beijing showed no signs of easing.
The U.S. State Department has submitted a proposal for the Trump administration to add China's Ant Group to a trade blacklist, according to two people familiar with the matter, before the financial technology firm is slated to go public in Shanghai and Hong Kong.
(Reporting by Scott Murdoch in Hong Kong; Additional reporting by Tom Arnold in London and the Beijing newsroom ; Editing by Jacqueline Wong, Toby Chopra and Tomasz Janowski)

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This book will remain in my heart as one of the best books I've ever read. The characters and the messages they convey jump from the pages and touch a soft spot in my soul. It's a love story. It's a story of friendship. It's a woman's journey to the fullness of life. She gives up what means the most to her and finds what matters most in the most unlikely places. Bette Lee Crosby's wonderful way with words, her wit, and her wisdom shine more than ever in "What Matters Most".
I really enjoyed this book. I found that it manifested Bette's traditional "quirky" Southern sense of humor surrounded by well developed characters.


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Laire métropolitaine de La Nouvelle-Orléans (en ) ou région de la grande Nouvelle-Orléans (en  ou GNO) est l'agglomération de La Nouvelle-Orléans en Louisiane selon l'United States Census. Cela représente sept paroisses civiles, avec La Nouvelle-Orléans comme principale ville, mais également les villes de Kenner et Metairie.

En , 1,2 million d'habitants peuplaient cette région.

Notes et références

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Orcas photographed in Alaska, near Seward. Photo by Shanon Sinn.
Features, In Focus
Below the Surface: A tail of residential orcas
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On July 24 2018 the killer whale J-35—nicknamed Tahlequah—began a 17-day "tour of grief" for her daughter that worried researchers. The 20-year-old mother of the J pod pushed her calf, who lived for only 30 minutes, for over 1,000 miles off the Pacific Northwest Coast.
J pod is the community of Southern Resident Whales who live in the water off of Victoria. Tahlequah wasn't the only member of the pod to suffer. Only a few weeks later, Scarlet (J-50) was presumed dead. Scarlet's birth had once brought reason for researchers of The Pacific Whale Watch Association (PWWA) to celebrate: two (J-50; J-51) healthy and athletic calves—after years of unsuccessful births. Considered to be the pod's Baby Boom of 2015/2016, they marked a healthier chance at survival. However, scientists had been reluctant to celebrate this so-called "baby boom" as newborn calves only have a 50 percent survival rate in their first year.
J-50 was born in December of 2015 during a difficult delivery. Scientist believed the calf had been mid-wifed by two other members. Cuts along baby Scarlet's body indicated that another killer whale had pulled the baby from the mother. Despite the difficult birth, Scarlet was a favourite amongst researchers for her playful nature and was often photographed breaching, even at a young age.
Scarlet had always been small for her age, but stayed resilient, even as she lost weight during her third year. She had been sickly for months and was seen with a prominent "peanut head" in her last days. Scarlet died on September 7.
"Peanut head" syndrome has run through the Southern Resident Whales for years and is often associated with death. The illness that is plaguing the J pod is a visible sign of starvation, often coupled with exposed ribs. The extreme loss of fat around the head causes the area—which should be robust—to become sunken and concave, imitating the shape of a peanut.
The J pod, which was once nearly a hundred strong, now only has 22 members. Breeding age whales are critical to the pod's survival, and there are just a handful left. Killer whales usually give birth every three to five years once they turn fourteen, however, a high infant mortality rate results in declining numbers—75 percent of conceptions are miscarriages. In the last decade, deaths have outnumbered births. With the reproductive capacity low, the Southern Resident Whale population faces looming extinction.
Conservation efforts are, in part, thanks to Dr. Michael Bigg: known as the "father of killer whale research." His work in the 1980s discovered that killer whales have distinct populations and cultures, and a limited number of members within these populations. The social structures of pods are complex societies, and most are matriarchal. Calves are disciplined and educated by their mothers, and the cultures of their pods are passed on through the mothers and grandmothers. The bond between mother and son is so strong that the sons rarely leave their mother's pod.
Bigg's discovery that there was so few within each population allowed the identification of individual killer whales. Like a human nose, each dorsal fin is unique, and when coupled with markings on their backs each whale becomes distinguishable.
Bigg's research showed that in the waters surrounding Vancouver Island there are three kinds of killer whales; and four populations:
The Transient Killer Whales, who are fondly referred to as Bigg's Killer Whales, eat other marine mammals: seals, sea lions, porpoises, and sometimes birds. They are the largest orcas in BC at seven to eight meters in length, and roam the entire length of North America. Because of their diet, they are considered to be the fastest of the orcas.
Offshore Killer Whales do not mate with the Transient or Residential pods, and have a wider range than the local populations. The result of their diet, which includes Pacific sleeper sharks from the continental shelf, means that their teeth are worn, and their bodies are often scared from battle. The Offshore pods are not often seen from the island, but lucky sightings occasionally happen in the north.
Resident Killer Whales are inshore salmon-eaters, mostly chinook, rather than marine mammals. They are the most vocal of all the killer whales. Fish have terrible hearing which makes the salmon easy prey.
Another orca photographed in Alaska, near Seward. Photo by Shanon Sinn.
There are two populations of Resident orcas: North, and South. The Northern Residents number 305 according to a 2017 report from Fisheries and Oceans Canada. They are found in northern British Columbia in the Johnstone Strait area, and also in southeastern Alaska. The Salish Sea is home to the orcas known as the Southern Residents, of which there are only 74. The Southern Resident pods include three families: the J, K, and L pods.
Jackie Hildering, a biology teacher, cold-water diver, and Humpback Whale researcher visited Vancouver Island University on September 25 to deliver a poignant presentation: Lessons Learned from Killer Whales. During her talk she impressed the importance of recognizing that what is happening to the killer whales isn't happening somewhere else; it's happening right here. Hildering urged the audience to remember that the capacity to change lies with our humanity.
"It took 17 days and a mother pushing around her dead calf for anyone to care," Hildering said.
British Columbia's history with orcas is dicey at best. Killer whales have received a bad reputation because of their name: Orcinus orca. Or, "bringer of death." They were believed by some fishermen to be competition for salmon; in the 1960s, Campbell River fishing organizations proposed various methods of dealing the growing population of killer whales: bombing the animals from the air, and installing a machine gun at Seymour Narrows to be shot when pods came through. During this time, nearly 50 individuals were taken into captivity at marine parks.
Whales aren't unique when it comes to British Columbia's indifferent attitude towards marine life. Sea otters were skinned for their pelts—the obnoxious predators were taken care of—and sea lions slaughtered. Also, fisherman would attach blades to the front of their boats to prevent basking sharks from getting caught in fishing nets. Basking sharks are the world's second largest shark and feed primarily on zooplankton.
Threats these days aren't as outwardly aggressive as shooting fish in a barrel. These days the threats are more subtle, and there are more factors. Orcas face three main threats: fluctuation of food supply, habitual and environmental threats, and human pollution.
Whales live to be a hundred years old, like humans, so pollution in their system builds up from chemicals and toxins in contaminated water and air. Hildering pronounced that "the most contaminated animals in the world live in Beautiful BC." Toxic pollutants, like pesticides, contaminate the whales—and are passed onto their babies.
The survival of these orcas rests in our capacity to change. Boaters need to observe the federal regulations to stay 200 yards away from all whales; reductions need to be made in vessel traffic and noise to prevent disturbing pods. Cuts need to be made on pollutants such as PCBs, which compromise the health, immune function, and reproduction of whales.
There are still the occasional ship-strike, where ships collide with whales, although movements to amend these collisions have been implemented. In June of this year, the Canadian Marine Mammal Regulation Act was amended in the cases of specific disturbances, and reports of incidents enforced.
Further, the conservation of our waters includes recognizing that they are a critical habitat. A critical habitat, defined by the federal Species at Risk Act (or SARA), is a "habitat that is necessary for the survival or recovery of a listed wildlife species, and necessary for the strategy or action plan for the species." By recognizing that the sea around Vancouver Island is a critical habitat, laws, and bylaws, can become strictly enforced.
It's hard to imagine our waters without the killer whale families, but it is a risk that we're going to have to acknowledge before we can begin to recover. The path to becoming better for and to our marine neighbors may seem daunting, but it isn't. There are many Vancouver Island grown organizations fighting and educating on behalf of the orcas, humpbacks, sea lions, seals and all other creatures found in the Pacific Northwest. The Georgia Strait Alliance is just one example. They were founded by Nanaimo residents in the 1990s to act as a collaborative voice for all who call the Georgia Strait home in restoring and protecting the strait and adjoining waters.
Caileigh Broatch
Features Editor Caileigh Broatch is a fifth-year creative writing major. She freelance edits for Broadview Press, managed Portal magazine in 2018, and was awarded the Pat Bevan and Myrtle Bergren creative writing awards for fiction. Her work has appeared Portal and The Nav.
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Chinese Investigators Release First Clues About What Caused Crash of China Eastern Airlines Flight
Posted by John Titor | Mar 24, 2022 |
Chinese authorities have just released some of the first definitive information about the circumstances surrounding the crash of China Eastern Airlines flight MU5735, which suddenly nosedived into the Guangxi Mountains on Monday, killing all 132 passengers and crew on board, and snapping China's 12-year streak with no passenger airliner crashes. Unfortunately, their cryptic revelation raises more questions than it provides answers.
According to Bloomberg, at least one piece of the ill-fated Boeing Co. 737-800 appears to have broken loose well before impact, possibly in mid-air, and potentially resulting in the devastating crash, which occurred before the plane's pilots had time to send an emergency signal to air traffic control.
Authorities didn't say which piece exactly had broken off – only that it was found about 6 miles from the main wreckage area.
Assuming that investigators confirm that the part did indeed come from the jet (of course, that would be some coincidence if it didn't), this would indicate that the plane suffered some kind of midair breakup, which could in turn offer clues about what exactly precipitated Monday's crash – or at the very least shed light on the flight's final seconds.
"The questions are: exactly what piece was it and when did it come off?" said Jeff Guzzetti, the former chief of accident investigations at the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration.
As we have reported, the highly unusual arc of the plane's dive, and the suddenness with which it occurred, has baffled airline safety experts.
It's impossible to know at this early stage in the investigation whether the piece came loose as a result of stresses during the high-speed plunge or broke off before the sudden descent.
The most likely scenario is that the piece sheared off as the plane plummeted from its cruising altitude of about 29,000 feet, which occurred in the span of about 1 minute and 35 seconds.
"In my view, that's the aircraft shedding parts as it's coming down," Guzzetti said.
Rescue workers have found 183 pieces of wreckage, but heavy rainfall has hampered efforts to find the plane's second black box, and its cockpit voice recorded was found to be heavily damaged, possibly rendering data recovery impossible. They have also found human remains at the site, and confirmed that there were in fact no survivors.
Republished from ZeroHedge.com with permission
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"This is boring." Natsu said, his right cheek laying against the cool counter of the bar.
"Can't believe she didn't choose us."
"We're supposed to be a team."
"I swear, idiot, if you say you can't believe it again, I will punch you in the face." Gray said, his left cheek resting against the bar counter.
"Stop moping you idiots." Erza said, her right cheek against the counter.
"Yeah. Ok." Happy remarked sarcastically.
"I thinks it's peaceful." She said and Wendy smiled. Her ears pricked slightly and she turned her head.
"What's that sound?" She asked and Natsu sat up, his brow crinkling in question.
"Yeah." Gajeel confirmed, looking up. Levy, who was siting across the table from him, looked at the Iron Dragon slayer in confusion. Natsu sniffed the air and his eyes widened.
"Duck and cover!" He yelled, turning and throwing his hand out. Levy's eyes widened as her hands met with Gajeel's chest and they hit the ground.
Fairy Tail exploded in a brilliant light. Silently, then all at once.
A mushroom shaped cloud of black smoke and debris rose from the place where Fairy Tail had once stood. Lucy and Juvia stood at the base of the hill where Fairy Tail had resided on and stared in horror, their eyes wide and reflectionless. Yuri, Diachi and Arashi were huddled together, Yuri's hands wrapped tightly in her male teammates hands.
"The guild hall..." Lucy whispered.
"Everyone..." Juvia murmured hysterically, her hand over her mouth. A yell of pain echoed from the mess and Juvia's ears pricked.
"That was....!" Lucy started and the water mage took off running.
Juvia stopped in front of the debris, her blue eyes pausing on the half destroyed sign that had once been posted proudly above Fairy Tail's massive doors.
"J-Juvia-san." Juvia's head jerked to the left and her eyes landed on Wendy, who was pulling herself out of the wreckage.
"Wendy!" Juvia jogged to her and helped the small girl out from under the beams that buried her. "Are you alright?"
"I'm fine." Wendy said, her right eye shut in pain. Her left hand clutched Juvia's arm as she turned her head left and right, looking around. A moan of pain came from close by and Juvia turned, her eyes widening.
"Gray-sama!" Juvia gasped, spotting the black haired mage laying on the ground. She and Wendy walked to the boy, Wendy limping at Juvia's side. Wendy fell to her knees, placing her hands on Gray's bare and battered back.
"Gray-san. Are you ok?" Wendy asked, looking at the boy in concern who groaned in response.
"Juvia!" Lucy cried and Juvia looked up, holding her hand to her chest. Lucy, who had come up with Yuri, Diachi and Arashi, was staring at the request board which was eerily still standing, unfazed by the blast. Juvia stood, hesitated at Gray's side then walked to the request board.
Yuri sobbed and fell to her knees, causing Juvia and Lucy to turn to her in shock.
"It's happening again..." She whispered, clutching the sides of her head.
"What?" Juvia questioned. Yuri was shaking and the boys were comforting her but Juvia could clearly see the strained, fear filled expressions on her face.
"Lost Dreams..." Diachi said, looking up at the two girls. "They're back."
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Unemployment Rate Edges Lower in August to 3.2%
TRENTON – New Jersey's unemployment rate continued its downward trend in August, moving lower for the fifth consecutive month, while employment levels in the Garden State were essentially unchanged, according to estimates produced by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The state's unemployment rate edged lower by 0.1 of a percentage point to 3.2 percent – the lowest monthly rate since state-level records began in 1976 – and remained below the national unemployment rate of 3.7 percent. Total nonfarm wage and salary employment in the state increased by 1,100 to reach a seasonally adjusted level of 4,200,400.
Looking at the longer term, over the year, August 2018 – August 2019, employment in New Jersey was higher by 46,700 jobs, with gains recorded in both the private (+44,000) and public (+2,700) sectors of the New Jersey economy. Since February 2010 (the low point of the last recession), New Jersey's private sector employers have added 404,400 jobs.
Based on more complete reporting from employers, the previously released total nonfarm employment estimate for July was revised lower by 2,700 to show an over-the-month (June – July) decrease of 3,200 jobs. Preliminary estimates had indicated an over-the-month decrease of 500 jobs. The state's revised July unemployment rate was unchanged at 3.3 percent.
In August, employment increases were recorded in four out of nine major private industry sectors. Industry sectors that gained jobs include education and health services (+2,300), other services (+1,500), financial activities (+900), and professional and business services (+300). Industry sectors that lost jobs include leisure and hospitality (-3,700), information (-1,000), manufacturing (-600), trade, transportation, and utilities (-500), and construction (-400). Over the month, public sector employment was higher by 2,300 jobs, mainly at the local level (+1,500).
Preliminary BLS data for September 2019 will be released on October 17, 2019.
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Technical Notes: Estimates of industry employment and unemployment levels are arrived at through the use of two different monthly surveys.
Industry employment data are derived through the Current Employment Statistics (CES) survey, a monthly survey of approximately 4,000 New Jersey businesses conducted by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) of the U.S. Department of Labor, which provides estimates of employment, hours, and earnings data broken down by industry for the nation as a whole, all states and most major metropolitan areas (often referred to as the "establishment" survey).
Resident employment and unemployment data are mainly derived from the New Jersey portion of the national Current Population Survey (CPS), a household survey conducted each month by the U.S. Census Bureau under contract with BLS, which provides input to the Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) program (often referred to as the "household" survey).
Both industry and household estimates are revised each month based on additional information from updated survey reports compiled by the BLS. In addition, these estimates are benchmarked (revised) annually based on actual counts from New Jersey's Unemployment Compensation Law administrative records and more complete data from all New Jersey employers.
Effective with the release of January 2018 estimates, the Current Employment Statistics (CES) program has converted to concurrent seasonal adjustment, which uses all available estimates, including those for the current month, in developing seasonal factors. Previously, the CES program developed seasonal factors once a year during the annual benchmark process. For more information on concurrent seasonal adjustment in the CES State and Area program, see www.bls.gov/sae/saeconcurrent.htm.
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Race number two of the 2016 Summit Bracket Racing Series presented by COMP Cams is a wrap at Memphis International Raceway (MIR). Racers and fans witnessed more new winners and some returning for the first time in 2016. With five finals to be decided at the end of the day, whether it be excitement, nerves or determination, four of those five finals would be determined by red lights.
The RT Turbines Junior Dragster class saw the likes of Tara Taylor, Drew "Mann" Tracey, Brianna Moore, and Wade Rose, appearing in their respective final. The first final in the main event saw Tara Taylor from Somerville, Tennessee paired with Drew "Mann" Tracey of Millington, Tennessee. Tracey was looking for the first win of the season after taking home the runner-up spot in race one. It wasn't meant to be, Tara Taylor took the win with a hole shot with a .001 reaction time and running a 7.98 with a 2 on a 7.92 dial-in over Tracey was a little late on the tree with a .80 reaction time running a 8.20 with a 5 on a 8.20 dial-in.
The RT Turbines Junior Dragster 2nd Chance saw Wade Rose of Ripley, Tennessee paired against Brianna Moore of Millington, Tennessee. Moore was a little too quick, turning on the red leaving just .017 too quick giving the win to Wade Rose with a .204 reaction time and running a 10.69 on a 10.64 dial-in. This marked Rose's first trip to the winner's circle for a point's race.
The points after two races finds Drew "Mann" Tracey leading the way by 10 points over event winner Tara Taylor.
Rick's Powder Coating Super Pro / Box would go seven rounds to the finals coming down to two racers from the state of Mississippi and door car versus dragster for the second race in a row. The dragster of Jesse Bobo from Walnut, Mississippi versus the door car of Tyler Huckaby, of Red Banks, Mississippi, two drivers who turned on the win light round after round. Huckaby was a little too quick on the light, going red by .011 and hand the win to Jesse Bobo with a .015 reaction time running a 4.689 on a 4.67 dial-in. Rounding out the field was Derrick Hubbard and Brian Anglin in the semi's and Leigh Hubbard, Tim Combs, and Tyler Roach in the quarters.
The points after two races gives Jesse Bobo the lead over Ron Minton with the win on Sunday.
Foster's Towing and Salvage No Box class was going to be the will of patience, after seeing 19 reds in the first few rounds, who would have the patience to win the trophy. Two racers bringing it to a Buick versus Chevy final would find a way to get there. The final saw the Chevy Nova of David Ciarloni paired against the Buick Skylark of Kyle Rumley. Ciarloni of Collierville, Tennessee and Rumely of Huntington, Tennessee. Ciarloni who turned the reds on last week escaped until the final round over the weekend. The too quick of a start by Ciarloni turned the win light on for the final time of the day for Rumley. Rumley took the win with a .019 reaction time running a 7.27 with a 3 on a 7.26 dial-in. Rounding out the field would be Kenny Bomar in the semi's, and Caffey Broadus, David Elam and Billy Foster, Sr. in the quarters.
The points would show race one runner-up David Elam leading by a narrow nine over race one winner Greg Johnson.
RT Turbines DOT/Street looked like it may be shaping up to a battle between the number one and number two finishers in points for 2015, but a few racers had a different idea. Bradley Sanders and Chris Foster would both have early on round losses with buy backs giving them another shot. They took full advantage of the shot. Sanders in his Dodge Ram 2500 while Chris Foster in the El Camino put it to the test, winning each of the following rounds. The story of red lights would continue in RT Turbines DOT / Street with Foster going .004 red giving the win to Sanders with a .025 reaction time and running a 16.06 with a 2 on a 16.09. Foster would run it out with a 13.57 on a 13.56 dial-in. Rounding out the field would be Randy Franks in the semi's and Cliff Hubbard and Billy Foster, Sr. in the quarters.
With a quarter final appearance, Cliff Hubbard, maintains the points lead over Chris Foster by 12 after two races.
"It was a great day of racing. The series is early and we are sure there will be a few if not many, shake ups before it is all said and done," commented Director of Race Operations Paul Cartwright.
The next Summit Bracket Racing Series presented by COMP Cams is scheduled for April 16, 2016. Please note, the event originally scheduled for April 30, 2016 will move to May 14, 2016. MIR will run the first three weeks in the month of May to accommodate the Footbrake Challenge at Holly Springs the final weekend in April.


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The 2021 Global Connected Healthcare Cybersecurity workshop series has explored the challenges and potential solutions to improve security, privacy, and safety in global healthcare with the increased connectivity of devices, humans and data. Now we must consider how the technology and policy elements come together. Indeed, privacy and security policies are growing around the world, including the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and European Cybersecurity Act, the US HIPAA and Internet of Things Cybersecurity Improvement Act, as well as local jurisdictional policies such as the California Consumer Privacy Act, and the California Information Privacy: Security of Connected Devices Law. While there are local jurisdictional policies, the humans who wear connected healthcare devices, from pacemakers to insulin pumps and brain implants, travel around the world. We need to consider how technology and policy can work together to protect the devices from being hacked, the data from being compromised, changed or stolen, and keep the humans safe from harm.
In this workshop we will delve into the state of technology and policies around the world to address the trust, identity, privacy, protection, safety and security (TIPPSS) of global connected healthcare. Experts in technology and policy will share their insights and recommendations, and the workshop participants will further explore challenges and opportunities across devices and systems to enable precision medicine, data sharing, and improved health outcomes, while ensuring patient and provider trust, privacy and security. The workshop will leverage findings and outcomes of the previous workshops in the global connected healthcare cybersecurity 2021 virtual workshop series. The learning outcomes of this workshop will be:
Understanding challenges and opportunities at the intersection of technology and policy for global health IoT
Policies that are leading the way to increase TIPPSS for global connected healthcare
Ideas to work together internationally to address global connected healthcare cybersecurity challenges from a technology and policy perspective, for device manufacturers, healthcare providers, patient advocates and policymakers
Opening and Welcome Remarks
Maria Palombini, Director, IEEE SA Healthcare & Life Sciences Practice Leader, IEEE SA
Florence Hudson, Executive Director, Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub
Main Panel Session: Connected Healthcare Cybersecurity - Global Perspectives on Technology and Policy
Maria Palombini, Director, Healthcare and Life Sciences Practice Leader, IEEE SA
Dr. Robert Graboyes, Senior Research Fellow & Healthcare Scholar, Mercatus Center George Mason University
Dr. Tamás Haidegger, Associate Professor, Director, University Research and Innovation Center (EKIK), Óbuda University; IEEE Senior Member, Associate VP for Industrial Activities, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society; IEEE Hungary Section chair
Jennifer Stoll, Executive Vice President, Government Relations and Public Affairs, OCHIN, Inc
Interactive Mind Mapping Session
The audience will participate in a structured think-tank session to draw relationships between terms and ideas tied to the concept of technology policy as it relates to connected healthcare cybersecurity.
12:50PM Next Steps: Introduction to 2022 series
1:00PM Workshop 5 Concludes
Dr. Robert Graboye
Senior Research Fellow & Healthcare Scholar, Mercatus Center George Mason University
Dr. Robert Graboyes is a Senior Research Fellow and healthcare scholar at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Author of "Fortress and Frontier in American Health Care," his work asks, "How can we make health care as innovative in the next 30 years as information technology was in the past 30?" Previously, he was health care advisor for the National Federation of Independent Business, economics professor at the University of Richmond, regional economist/director of education at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, and Sub-Saharan Africa economist for Chase Manhattan Bank. He has also taught health economics in graduate programs at Virginia Commonwealth University, the University of Virginia, George Mason University, and the George Washington University. His degrees include a PhD in Economics from Columbia University; master's from Columbia University, Virginia Commonwealth University, and the College of William and Mary; and a bachelor's from the University of Virginia. He has chaired the National Economists Club, Richmond Association for Business Economics, and National Association for Business Economics Healthcare Roundtable. He won the Reason Foundation's 2014 Bastiat Prize for Journalism, an international competition for "writing that that best demonstrates the importance of individual liberty and free markets with originality, wit, and eloquence.
Dr. Tamás Haidegger
Associate Professor, Director, University Research and Innovation Center (EKIK), Óbuda University; IEEE Senior Member, Associate VP for Industrial Activities, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society; IEEE Hungary Section Chair
Tamás Haidegger received his MSc degrees from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) in Electrical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, then PhD in medical robotics. His main field of research is on medical technologies, control/teleoperation of surgical robots, image-guided therapy and digital health technologies. Currently, he is associate professor at ˜"buda University, serving as the director of the University Research and Innovation Center (EKIK), and as the technical lead of medical robotics research at the Antal Bejczy Center for Intelligent Robotics. Besides, he is a research area manager at the Austrian Center of Medical Innovation and Technology (ACMIT), working on minimally invasive surgical simulation and training, medical robotics and usability/workflow assessment through ontologies. Tamás is the co-founder of a university spin-off—HandInScan—focusing on objective hand hygiene control in the medical environment, member of the World Health Organization POPS group. He is an active member of various other professional organizations, including the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (serving as an associate VP), IEEE SMC, IEEE EMBC, IEEE SA and euRobotics aisbl, holding leadership positions in the IEEE Hungary Section as well. He is a national delegate to the ISO TC299 standardization committee focusing on the safety and performance of medical robots and the ISO TC 304 working on hand hygiene and patient safety standards, furthermore, involved in the IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems. He is co-Editor-in-Chief of Acta Polytechnica Hungarica and Associate Editor to the IEEE Trans. on Medical Robotics and Bionics, the IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine and the Intl. J. of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery. Tamás is the author and co-author of over 250 scientific papers, books, articles across the various domains of biomedical engineering, with over 2000 independent citations to his work. He has been running a professional blog on medical robotic technologies for over 14 years: surgrob.blogspot.com.
Jennifer Stoll
Executive Vice President, Government Relations and Public Affairs, OCHIN, Inc
Jennifer Stoll leads government relations and public affairs for OCHIN, a national non-profit organization that provides leading-edge technology, expertise, and research to community health organizations and other providers. With more than 25 years' experience in the health care industry, Jennifer is a leading spokesperson at the intersection of technology and health policy.
Prior to joining OCHIN, Jennifer directed government affairs and advocacy strategies for pharmaceutical companies, such as Allergan, Inc. and Sepracor (Sunovion). Based at OCHIN's headquarters in Portland, Oregon, she travels extensively as a representative and media spokesperson for OCHIN, giving voice to its network members and the historically underserved communities they support. Jennifer holds a B.A. from the University of Connecticut and serves on multiple state and national-level boards and committees, working to advance health equity through technology innovation.
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Ozark Viking Meadery product by Christmas…maybe
Caleb Brubaker
Nov 30, 2021 Updated Dec 13, 2021
Dan Watkins is his name and mead is his game. If you're not familiar with the millennia-old alcoholic beverage brewed from honey, then you just might be in for a treat when Ozark Viking Meadery finally has product on shelves in local stores and bars, including Wells Package & Gun, The Saucy Chook Pub and Screen, JB Malone'S, and Whispering Pines.
Watkins said he believes the first batch will be complete around Christmas of this year, but there's really no way to know for sure.
"Making mead is more of an art than a science," said Watkins. "Each batch is a little different. It'll be done when it's done," he said. "Sometimes it takes six months and sometimes eight," he said.
"If I could put a shotgun to it and force the mead to be done on a certain date, I would," he said. "But that's not how it works." For the time being, Watkins and the rest of us will just have to be patient.
"I'm making mead the old-fashioned way," said Dan Watkins, the owner of Ozark Viking Meadery, now in business at 407 E. Fourth Street (in the basement below Grace Harbor). "The way the Vikings or Friar Tuck made it."
Before turning professional, Watkins was a hobbyist meadmaker for over 20 years. During that time, he became more and more popular among his friends as he perfected his craft.
"I make good hooch," said Watkins with a shrug and glee in his eye.
"I made it for family, friends, and neighbors to have at barbeques and float trips," Watkins said. And his brew was always popular when he shared it at American Legion barbeques. However, Watkins didn't originally intend to make mead for a living, but once he started winning brewing competitions with his mead he realized that there might just be something to this mead making business.
"I found out I was a little better at it than I thought," Watkins said. "My blackberry mead won a brewing competition at the St. James winery."
"Mead is the oldest alcoholic beverage known to man," said Watkins.
Watkins explained that people most likely discovered the fermentation process on accident when wind or rain damaged a beehive in the wild, letting rain in. The necessary yeast must have been in the air, causing the natural fermentation process and the beehive was later harvested. Eventually people began making it intentionally.
"People have been making mead for thousands of years," said Watkins. In fact, he has one recipe that dates back to Viking times.
"It had a lot herbs in it that I had never even heard of," Watkins said, but that didn't stop him from acquiring them in order to make the mead. Watkins said that a Christian monk who traveled and lived among Vikings for several years recorded the recipe. That recipe was passed down and now it will be one of the products Watkins will be offering. It's also part of the inspiration for the name of the meadery.
"It's always going to have a bit of a Viking theme," said Watkins.
Along with the Viking brew and his award-winning blackberry meads, Watkins is known to make orange blossom, wildflower, strawberry, apple as well as a more traditional vanilla and cinnamon.
Mead is its own category of alcoholic beverage. Similar to other categories of alcohol like wines, beers, and liquors mead offers a broad variety of flavor profile options. "Everyone is going to have their favorite because everyone likes different things," Watkins said. "I've got some people who would practically kill for some of my orange blossom mead, but others prefer cinnamon and honey." Watkins said that Queen Elizabeth I liked her mead cut with whiskey. "She liked that grain alcohol taste in hers," said Watkins. Watkins' mead will between 13 and 18 percent alcohol. That's for a couple reasons. That's what his liquor licenses will allow and, that way, he will be able to ship using Fed-Ex because his mead will be nonflammable.
You have to have good ingredients to start with," said Watkins. "You have to wait a few months for it to really become mead and then it just keeps getting better," Watkins said.
Watkins said that his method is simple. "I put my heart and soul in every bottle," Watkins said.
"I like making mead and I like seeing the look on peoples faces when they really like it."
Watkins is cautiously optimistic about having mead ready by Christmas time, but he can't promise the exact date it will be finished.
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THE HAGUE–The public entity Saba will have to await the completion of an inventory before it receives a reply to its urgent appeal for more structural funding from The Hague in order to cover its operational costs.
Dutch State Secretary of Home Affairs and Kingdom Relations Raymond Knops informed the Second Chamber of the Dutch Parliament in a letter, on Friday, that currently a trajectory of inventory and reassessment was taking place with regard to the division of tasks and the associated costs. The public entities Bonaire, St. Eustatius and Saba are involved in this trajectory.
The results of this inventory are expected to be ready in the first quarter of 2021. "Based on the recommendations and conclusion, where possible, a reassessment of the financial means will take place in relation to the available budget of the Caribbean Netherlands islands," stated Knops.
The state secretary said he was aware of the "communicated signals" by the Island Council with regard to the dire financial situation. In November, the Island Council approved the 2021 budget with a US $1.3 million deficit, putting aside the advice of the Committee for Financial Supervision CFT. For the first time, Saba reached the point where it could no longer present a balanced budget as required by law.
The Island Council and Finance Commissioner Bruce Zagers asserted that more budget cuts were not possible as it was already a skeleton budget which barely covered the legal obligations of the local government, and that following the CFT advice to book the loss of income due to the coronavirus COVID-19 crisis to the general reserves would have a detrimental effect on Saba's liquidity position.
According to Knops, of importance in the discussion about raising the free allowance ("vrije uitkering") was part or the findings of earlier reports, which stated the division of tasks between the Dutch government and the public entities was "blurred". As such, the Dutch government initiated a reassessment of the division of tasks. This reassessment also included the issue of whether the financial means were "still fitting".
In response to Saba's financial situation, where the local government has been finding itself unable to cover its operational and structural costs due to insufficient structural funding from the Netherlands, Knops stated that the Dutch government in the past years has taken a number of actions to support the public entity with the local challenges.
Also, The Hague provided additional means for island-specific tasks. This takes place via the direct monetary flows, such as structural means for infrastructure, but also through direct funding from the ministries' budgets.
From the Regional Envelope, 12.5 million euros has been made available for the construction of a new harbour in Saba, and one million euros was allocated for agricultural projects. The idea is to create the opportunity for Saba to generate more of its own income through these projects.
In addition, emergency packages have been made available to help Saba cope with the COVID-19 pandemic which has a huge impact due to the closure of the borders. To compensate the loss of income, Saba received 300,000 euros. To mitigate the social consequences of the pandemic, an additional 560,000 euros was allocated to Saba.
As for one of the major impacts on the Saba budget, the US $560,000 pension provision for former politicians, Knops noted that research has been initiated on the request of the CFT on this matter. Assessed will be the possibilities of adapting the law which regulates the pension of elected officials and to transfer this pension facility to a pension fund, for example the Caribbean Netherlands Pension Fund PCN.
The state secretary promised to take the comments and advice of the CFT and the external auditor with regard to Saba's budget, including the importance of creating structural coverage for trajectories that were agreed upon in the Saba Package, the multiannual development plan, into consideration.
Knops pledged to also take the signals communicated by the Island Council and the results of the inventory and reassessment of the tasks, which should be concluded in the first quarter of next year, into consideration in determining a structural financial solution for Saba.
Source: The Daily Herald https://www.thedailyherald.sx/islands/inventory-1st-financial-solution-for-saba-later
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