Andrew walks over and gives us (myself and my photographer/close friend Helen) a huge smile along with a warm hello, and sits down with his coffee. He places his shopping bags on the chair beside and claims that it's "my fault" because I've dragged him out into town, and now he's done some "damage" (pointing at the shopping bags). To be honest, at first I am sitting there feeling a bit "starstruck". Like every fan of the show, I have been watching this guy on TV for 2 months straight. So I guess it is pretty normal to have one of those pinch-me moments thinking, 'Yup, this is really him. Andrew Brady from The Apprentice. Sitting right in front of me." But then we start talking. About one minute later I'm completely relaxed, and it feels like I'm catching up with an old friend I haven't seen in a while.
Andrew asks me where I'm from because I don't sound local. We talk about home towns, laugh about how we met prior to the interview, and then Andrew jokes that this (pointing to us sitting opposite each other and having coffees) looks like a date, and that he hopes my husband doesn't mind. I assure him that it was all approved.
Andrew Brady is a 26-year old engineering project manager / entrepreneur / guy full of charisma and wit from Sheffield.
He currently lives in Chester and is best known as the best Wembley Executive Box entertainer (Week 4), pro hotel room re-decorator (Week 2) and a Bruges city guide extraordinaire (Week 6). People also refer to him as "the guy who looks like Clark Kent".
Andrew made it to Week 8 on The Apprentice, and we all enjoyed watching him compete for a £250,000 investment from Lord Sugar.
– Who/what did you want to be when you were a kid?
An assassin when I was really young. A marine biologist when I was a bit older.
– What's your favourite ice cream flavour?
Pistachio. In India they call it kulfi – it's so nice! What's yours? Chocolate. Meh.
I love traveling. I go to France twice a year because my mum and dad got a place there. I went to Asia for 2 months which was awesome.
Baked Camembert with ciabatta. I love cheese!! Or a fried breakfast.
Caring, hard working and light-hearted.
How did you decide to come on the show?
Yup. So I just filled out the application form thinking nothing was ever going to happen. And then I had this really weird feeling about 2017. I thought, 'This is my year' but then I broke up with someone at the start of it, 4 or 5 days into 2017. So I thought maybe I was wrong.
Doesn't sound like a good start, does it?
Definitely not. But then I got a call for an audition. I never thought I would be on it (The Apprentice). It was really exciting when I went through. There were different parts, different stages of the auditions and interviews. You have probably seen one of them. It was on the telly.
Yeah, the one where you talked about making friends with 70 year old women by the time you get to your bus stop?
Were you allowed to tell you family and friends you were going to be on the show?
No. Definitely not. I was allowed to let only a few people know: my mum, my dad, my best friend and the person I was seeing at the time. So they had to sign the non-disclosure agreement. So when I went away, I told everyone else that I was going to South Africa. I even put it up on my Facebook, I even checked in in Johannesburg and said that I will have my phone off.
That's a really good cover story.
Yeah, I thought so too. But then, one of my friends started panicking "I can't get a hold of you", "Where are you?", "I'm going to call your mum and dad". I think I got 20 or 30 messages from him on Whatsapp. So then I had to tell people I had my phone and my camera stolen because I didn't have any pictures from South Africa and I couldn't be in touch with anyone.
How did those you did tell about the show react to the news?
You know what, my mum and dad are not into reality TV. They are not into any of that. At all. I was thinking of paying them to watch because I was in it. But then my mum phoned me last night and started asking me about Harrison, Michaela and others. So I asked why is she still watching it.
She must have got really into it!
Yes! But when I told them, they were like, 'Oh that's nice'. It was very humbling. But my best friend, on the other hand, is such an extrovert, she was very excited about it and messaged me every day to say how excited she was. It was nice to have that balance: someone to keep you grounded and someone to tell you that this is big.
It's nice because I'm sure the whole experience must have been tough. Was there a lot of pressure?
Definitely. It messes with your mind like you wouldn't know. There's more to it that meets the eye.
What advice could you give someone who's planning on signing up to go on the show?
Understand that there's only one winner. There's a good chance they will edit you to look like an idiot so understand you will need THICK skin.
There were 18 of us, plus 5 people who lived in the house with us. Minders as such. To keep everything in order, get the food, etc. It was intense. But I've been in the halls at the university, shared a house for the past 3 or 4 years so I'm used to it. I found it really easy. I mean, I was sharing a room with Ross until he got fired. I didn't mind it at all. It did get a bit much when we were fighting over the bathrooms.
Were you discussing the task with each other or talking about what's to come next?
You're not allowed to discuss the task. If you get caught talking about it, you get hammered for that. So we were just getting to know each other, talking about the stuff happening at home and before the show. And you get very close to people and you almost forget about the life outside. Some people struggled because they left kids at home. I didn't care about my life outside.
You immersed yourself fully into it.
Yeah, I did. Which is probably why I acted more friendly to people and a bit more laddish than I probably should have. I just had a fun time. I didn't have any worries about the outside life so I got engrossed in what was happening and had fun with it.
I think you did come across like this happy-go-lucky guy, very chilled about everything. It looked like you were having fun.
Exactly! I think when you look at someone like Joanna or Jade, who were both very confrontational, I was different. A lot was edited out but Jade had a lot more arguments with people that anyone else in there. And then there was Lizzie who was so determined. Very big personalities. What I saw was that women worked so much harder than men. But Karren Brady actually said that this one was the worst season of the show in terms of the conflicts between the girls.
Oh wow. It did come across that way on TV but I thought it was edited that way. So it was all real?
It was intense among the girls. With the guys, it was a different story. We were very chilled out. People actually told me that in the first few weeks I came across as very quiet, and whether it was a game plan. But then there's 18 of you, it's your first task and you're arguing about something that's not even relevant. People were arguing about the name for the team. Just decide on that quickly, get on with it, go get things done. So I didn't feel like I had to argue for the sake of arguing which doesn't make good TV, I guess. It was interesting to see how it was portrayed and how it all came across. From day one I tried just to be myself.
Is it really true you have 20 minutes to get ready?
Yes, 20 minutes! Obviously, you don't necessarily leave the house in 20 minutes. But you have exactly 20 minutes to get ready.
What time did you usually wake up then?
Even if you have an alarm clock, you never know what time you need to set it for. The worst one was when we had to be up at 2:30 in the morning, and we got to bed after 12! It was the first night, everyone was excited. We were having something like a slumber party. So we only got 2 hour of sleep. It was a bit tough.
Who decides who runs down to get the phone?
I don't know. It's never me. I'm completely knocked out when I'm asleep. James would usually enjoy being a show pony! (laughs) But the worst thing in the morning was having the camera in your face. The amount of times I would be doing my hair in front of the mirror and just tell them to leave me alone for a minute. They wouldn't, of course.
Was there anyone who was chirpy in the morning?
I'm usually quite chirpy in the morning! When I'm awake and not grumpy because of the cameras in my face. And I was the first one to jump into the shower. You had to be fast!
Which task or week was your absolute favourite?
For me the most memorable were two: Wembley and Bruges. In the Wembley one I was PM. Still, to this day, the only male PM to bring the win to team Vitality. And I loved Bruges! It was just a lot of fun. The whole task was just hilarious. I did a beer tour and I got to drink some beer (laughs).
It was my favourite one as well. But it was a bit painful to watch at times.
Haha, tell me about it. The other team wasn't great but ours was awful. What really infuriated me about that episode is that I did my job. I sold the most tickets and I gave the beer tour. And I did it well! Charles got lost and Anisa was so flustered. I just had to keep it together. There were two young couples our age on the tour and we got along so well. There was also an older couple and they were the ones who wanted their money back. I gave a really good tour, I'm good at it. Even the guy at that beer place in Bruges came up to me and said, '9 out of 10 for that tour, it was very professional'. But it didn't make it on TV. It would be naïve to think that 160 hours of footage would make it into 30 minutes of the episode. Of course, they had to cut the good parts out. Which is a shame because it was probably my best episode in terms of my performance. And all I got was like a 15-minute montage of me saying "beer" non stop. Karren's frown – they showed that a lot.
She's incredible. I personally really like her on the show but she comes across as very tough. Is she really that harsh?
In some way, yes. She's a lady in business. You have to be tough to be successful. She's really good at what she does and she's always very busy. So in between shooting, she's always on her phone, sending emails, taking calls, typing away on her Blackberry. She's really good at multitasking. She's often telling people where to go and what to do on the set. But you can tell she's got a warm heart. You can tell she's caring, that she's a mum. After the episode in Bruges when I was sitting in the boardroom defending myself, she was nodding away and encouraging me so it was nice to get a bit of support from her.
Claude is a gentleman. When we were split into two teams on the task, Claude was lovely on the set every time. He's quiet, very polite, very submissive in the way he approaches the producers to help them do their job. You can tell he's such a nice guy. When Karren is on set, she tells them what they need to do! She was taking control.
So you obviously saw Karren and Claude on the tasks. What about Lord Sugar? Did you interact with him briefly only when the task is given out and then in the boardroom or was there more communication behind the scenes?
Yeah, only then. You never get to see him off camera, shake his hand or speak with him. None of that. But I guess it's just required of the show because you need to have that level of intimidation. But nothing intimidates me. I've been in meetings with army generals, big military men. Those people are seriously intimidating. Lord Sugar is a successful self-made man who's worth over 1 billion pounds. I respect that but it doesn't intimidate me. And I don't think he enjoyed my jokes or my outgoing personality. He's a good lad though (laughs).
Lord Sugar mentioned that if you came on the show a few years later, it could've been a different story. Do you think it would make a difference? 4 or 5 years later?
Of course, you change, you adapt to your surroundings and circumstances. I don't know if it would make a difference though. For me, personality is the most important thing in business. So I don't think I would be any different if I came back in a few years' time. If I'm selling something to someone, they are buying it because of me. You have to get on with people, they have to trust you. You're constantly building relationships. I am 100% real. I wouldn't change. I probably just wasn't what Sugar wanted his business partner to be. But that's okay. He's a good character and I really enjoyed the interaction in the boardroom.
Who did you get along with best on the show?
Saj, Sarah. They were my two. And Michaela. I got along with Harrison, James, Anisa sometimes, Lizzie. I got along with most of the people. I think most of them didn't see me as a threat, they just saw me as a bit of a joker. I did miss Danny though. Danny was my boy. Charles should've gone that week. I think that's why I've always had a disliking to him. He took away my Danny. From day one I was like, 'This guy is my guy'.
So I'm guessing you didn't really get along with Charles?
He wasn't my type of person.
Was he not very easy to work with?
He was very confrontational, rude, backstabbing. He doesn't have a personality. I didn't like the guy one bit. You can put that in there, don't edit it out.
What about Elizabeth? Some people said she is like sushi, either you love it or you hate it. I really enjoyed watching her on the show!
I don't like sushi but I like Elizabeth. She's really nice. She's got the charisma and the personality for the industry she's in. She might come across as if she's lost the plot. I love it in every way. She's great! In the real world she's not as kooky as she came across on TV.
What about Michaela. She's an absolute powerhouse. I was 100% sure she'd make it to the final two.
Michaela is a very strong person. She's absolutely smashing it in the business world. You could tell – she doesn't even need Lord Sugar's investment – she's doing so well on her own! She's really good at taking charge and directing people. And she's not scared to talk to anyone, unless she doesn't know you. But on any task, she was a leader. It didn't matter whether she was PM, sub-team leader or neither, she'd be in charge in a very calm and subtle way. Everyone would just listen to her because Michaela always talks sense. She was harsh on me when it came to the car advert task. We talked it out though so we're good. She's a very honest person.
Would you want to work with her?
No (laughs). Well, I would want her to work for ME but I wouldn't want to work for HER.
NONE of them! They've all got their positives but none of them would be my type of person to go into business with. Maybe apart from Danny or Sajan. The only downside of Saj was that he wasn't able to admit his faults. Charles, on the other hand, had no faults, according to him.
Do you think anyone would want to go into business with you?
I think ALL of them would want to go into business with me (laughs). Especially if any of them were opening the bar. Who wouldn't want me there? I give good beer tours, you know (laughs).
I think a lot of people miss you on the show and think it wasn't fair you got fired so quickly.
Do you think it was your time to go?
It's two-fold. I would obviously like to get to the final 5 to showcase my talent and my business plan. To be able to sit opposite Claude Littner. I would've liked to have done that. He's absolutely brilliant! I got further than I thought but I didn't get as far as I would want to.
Were you allowed to use phones in the house or while you were filming?
No. Your wallet, your phone, your laptop – they take it all off you and put it into the safe. And then on the day when you get fired, you go to a hotel for a night and then you return to the house the next day – that's when you get it all back.
So when you have your suitcase before you go into the boardroom, do you actually have your stuff in there or is it empty?
Well, you pack more like a night bag. Because if you get fired, you film the taxi scene and then you will have to spend the night at the hotel so you'd need your toiletries, a change of clothes. The essentials. There was such a funny story after the hotel design task!
Is it the one where you thought your red, blue and yellow British flag was a success!
What was the most challenging about the whole experience?
I was exhausted a lot at times. Not necessarily mentally. The worst part of the entire process was the silence. Sitting in silence waiting for cameras to move, waiting for someone to be somewhere, waiting for the boardroom. It was the silence. It was the most difficult part, especially for me. As you can tell, I love to talk. We also had very long days but it wasn't mentally draining.
What about the best part of it all?
The support I got on social media. I couldn't believe how many people have been very encouraging. For months. And they still are! It's amazing. I love social media. Especially Snapchat. Do you use Snapchat?
I used to. Now I'm more on Instagram. I haven't deleted Snapchat because of the filters, to be honest.
Yes! They are the best for selfies, those filters. I sometimes open my DMs so people can message me. I even took a few calls and talked to people. But, of course, you have to know when to draw the line and not let social media world overtake your life. And then there's Instagram. It's all about marketing there, isn't it? Here I am at the beach enjoying my protein shake. No, you're not. I think if you are advertising something, do it the right way. Have you seen Chris & Kem's ad for Sainsbury's? It's an ad but it's a lot smarter, a lot more natural.
What would you like to use your platform for then?
I like you, bloggers. Maybe I will become a travel blogger myself. I've always wanted to get a van and turn it into a home and just drive around the world. That would be a dream. So it would be great to be endorsed to do something like that. Jokes aside, I wouldn't want to be a walking advert. I would like to use my platform for better things. What we should be using social media for is changing the world. We should make people feel like they are capable, that they are beautiful, that they are enough. Social media can make anyone feel like a failure but it should be used to motivate and inspire. Also, we should be using it to raise the awareness about different important issues, like slavery in Libya, not what Kim Kardashian is wearing today. Ultimately, we should be using social media in a positive way.
If you could do the whole thing over again, would you do it?
One million %. And I wouldn't do anything differently. I walked away from it knowing that I was myself. I don't think many could say that 100%.
What are your best tips for staying motivated? Any advice on finding the perfect work/life balance?
Set yourself goals. They don't have to be as big as "millionaire by the time I'm 30" but achievable. Focus on what it will take to achieve them and how much effort they will require. Understand that you are the ultimate reason you will fail and if you do then start again. Never take no for an answer. Exercise daily even if it's only for 30mins and make time for the people you care about.
So what's the big plan for 2018? What's next now that The Apprentice is over?
All I can say is…watch this space.
That. Or I will just get plastic surgery, change my name and start over (laughs).
We keep chatting probably for about 20 minutes after I stop recording. Then we agree to arrange a catch up some time in 2018 over a coffee. I promise Andrew it won't be a Bridge Cafe one.
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To the north of Marunouchi is Otemachi, where Japan's leading financial institutions and insurance companies are located. Otemachi is also home to NTT, the communications giant. Of course, Tokyo is also the site of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, located in Kabutocho.
Tokyo was particularly affected by an economic boom in Japan in the 1980s when the country emerged as a global financial center rivaling Europe and the United States. The economic upswing led to speculation, and especially to real estate speculation. Land prices soared at the time, as did the value of the yen. The economy leveled out by the early 1990s, but Tokyo real estate remained the most expensive in Japan and held a similar rank on a global scale.
In the latter half of the 1990s, Tokyo was again affected by the national economy—only this time it was not an economic boom. In 1999 Japan began a tentative recovery from its longest and most severe recession since the end of World War II.
Situated on the Kanto Plain, Tokyo is one of three large cities, the other two being Yokohama and Kawasaki, located along the northwestern shore of Tokyo Bay, an inlet of the Pacific Ocean on east-central Honshu, the largest of the islands of Japan. The central part of the city was once marsh and lagoons that were filled in when Ieyasu took over. This area is called shitamachi, or "low city," site of the original Edo. The terrain becomes increasingly hilly to the west of the city's center until it becomes the Musashino Plateau, where Yoyogi Park, the Meiji Shrine, Roppongi, and fashionable Harajuku are located. Other notable places on the west side are the nightclub district of Roppongi and the high-fashion districts of Aoyama and Harajuku.
Tokyo is intersected by the Sumida River and has an extensive network of canals. There is a large man-made port at the mouth of the Sumida, the development of which has enabled Tokyo to compete with Yokohama, the area's foremost port. Land reclamation projects have added to Tokyo's available surface area by filling in the bay and providing room for waste disposal, additional port facilities, and new residential areas.
Pollution of the environment is regarded as a matter of public offense. While the national government is often slow to address environmental issues, growing public pressure has led to legislation requiring industrial polluters to rectify any environmental damage for which they are responsible. In spite of widespread use of bicycles and public transportation, automobile exhaust is a problem in Tokyo. The imposition of emission standards has lately eliminated some of the smog that has plagued the city.
Tokyo stores bring the goods of the world home to the domestic market. At the fashionable shops of the Ginza, Harajuku, Aoyama, and Shibuya, discerning Tokyoites can procure the clothing and merchandise of designers from London, Paris, New York, and of course Tokyo. Large, well-supplied department stores can be found throughout the city, like Tokyu, Seibu, and Parco in Shibuya, and Keio, Mitsukoshi, and Isetan in Shinjuku. Ikebukuro is the location of the Tobu department store, which promotes itself as the world's largest.
Certain areas of Tokyo specialize in particular lines of merchandise. Akihabara, for example, is an electronics market and is the first place to sell the latest offerings from Japan's unsurpassable electronics industry. Nearby Kanda, in the vicinity of Meiji University, has some 100 shops specializing in secondhand books. Kanda also has a concentrated area of sporting goods stores.
Wherever one shops, and whatever one shops for, one thing is universal throughout Tokyo and all of Japan: high-quality, attentive service from Japanese merchants. In this regard, the invariably helpful and polite proprietor of the smallest shop is in no way out-done by even the most expensive boutique in the Ginza or the larger department stores of Shibuya and Shinjuku, with their "greeters" at the doors and their abundant sales personnel.
Tokyoites have been subject to the same national education system as the rest of Japan since the Meiji period, when elementary schooling was made compulsory for children beginning at the age of eight. Further reformed after World War II, the system has produced one of the world's most literate and educated populations. While private elementary and secondary schools exist, virtually all Japanese are educated in public schools.
The central aim of primary and secondary education in Japan is to win entry into the country's most exclusive universities. Entrance examinations are tough, and about two million prospective students sit for the exams each year in Tokyo between January and March.
Tokyo boasts the world's highest concentration of institutions of higher learning with over 100 universities and colleges, about a quarter of Japan's total. One-third of Japan's university students are enrolled in Tokyo schools. Tokyo University, founded in 1877, is the nation's most prestigious, but it is joined by other top-ranking schools such as Keio-Gijuku University (established in 1867), Rikkyo University (1883), Waseda University (1882), and Tokyo Women's College (1900). The high concentration of such schools in Tokyo does present some difficulties, as Tokyo's Metropolitan Board of Education has restricted the schools' expansion to curb overcrowding in the city and encouraged them instead to locate additional facilities in outlying areas.
Health standards in Tokyo are comparable to those found in other highly industrialized countries. Restaurants are most often impeccably clean, and the food is safe to eat and the water safe to drink everywhere.
Noise and smog are persistent problems in the city. Electronic billboards report sound levels and air pollution indices. Air quality has improved in recent years and continues to improve.
Medical insurance in Japan is of two types. Private insurance is usually held through one's employer or labor union. Public health insurance is available to everyone through the government's National Health Insurance. Policy holders of the latter pay 30 percent of costs, and while most doctors and medical and dental establishments subscribe to the program, not all do. Certain expensive materials (like gold fillings) are not covered, though the plan does provide for expensive procedures.
Health care is provided on a level comparable to that in any other highly industrialized nation. There are many hospitals in Tokyo, several of which are associated with the universities there, while others are private or run by religious groups. Some of the more prominent are Kosei General, University of Tokyo, Showa University, Tokyo Adventist, and St. Luke's International Hospitals.
As Japan's nerve center, Tokyo is also a national media center. Television and radio stations and programs abound in Japanese and many other languages, with English predominating. Televisions are engineered for bilingual broadcast when available.
The most famous television network is Japan Broadcasting Corporation, or Nippon Hoso Kyokai, known as NHK. The government-sponsored network produces and broadcasts a wide variety of high-quality programs from their studios near Harujuku.
Tokyo is also home to several newspapers, notably Asahi Shinbun, the Mainichi Daily News, the Japan Times, and Yomiuri Shimbun, which boasts the world's largest circulation.
Japan's traditional national sport is sumo, where huge wrestlers compete against each other in a five-meter ring. Six tournaments are held annually, about every other month, and are broadcast on national television. The center of sumo in Tokyo is the Ryokugo Kokugikan.
In terms of popularity, sumo is outstripped by baseball, which has been played in Japan since the 1870s and has been known as yakyu ("field ball") since World War II. Six teams are based in the Tokyo area, most with sponsorship from large corporations. Two of these teams, the Tokyo Giants and the Nippon Ham Fighters, play in the Tokyo Dome, Japan's first indoor stadium, with a capacity of 56,000, at Korakuen.
Golf is also a major athletic preoccupation for Tokyoites, though golfers who can afford membership in a club have to travel two hours outside the city.
For such a crowded and heavily built-up city, Tokyo boasts a surprising number of parks, many of them quite beautiful. There are over 6,000 different parks and gardens covering more than 1,000 hectares (2,471 acres) in the city. The most impressive green spaces in Tokyo tend to be in the northern and eastern areas of the city. These are the places to which modern Tokyoites repair for such traditional seasonal activities as cherry-blossom viewing (hanami ), when people gather to drink sake and picnic beneath flower-laden branches in the spring. Ueno Park, along with the Sumida embankment, has remained the most popular spot for hanami since the days of old Edo. Ueno also contains a renowned peony garden, a zoo, and Shinobazu Pond, where visitors can boat among abundant water fowl and lotus blossoms. Inokashira Park is another large green space with a beautiful pond.
Many parks are associated with shrines and temples. The Meiji Shrine is situated in a deep wood with very large trees. The shrine also has a famous iris garden. Other gardens can be found at Nezu Shrine (azaleas), Nishiarai Daishi Temple (peonies), and Kameido Shrine (wisteria).
Modern Tokyo is host to the latest trends of global popular culture, and Tokyo Dome is the usual venue for performances by the likes of the Rolling Stones and Mariah Carey.
Of course, Japan has evolved many types of performance that are uniquely Japanese, and Tokyo is one of the best places to experience these. Noh drama, slow-paced and minimalist and rooted in Zen Buddhism, can be seen at the new National Noh Theater in Sendagaya. Noh is also performed at night by torchlight at places like Meiji Shrine. But the National Theater, across the moat from the Imperial Palace, is the major venue for traditional performance art in Tokyo. There one can experience traditional court music called gagaku, which dates back many centuries to the Heian period. The National Theater also holds performances of bunraku, dramas in which the "actors" are three-quarter-life-size puppets manipulated by men covered with black cloth. And performances of kabuiki, the marvelously stylized opera-like dramas as elaborate as any from the heart of Italy, are part of the program at the National Theater, though one can also see these at the Kabukiza in the Ginza and the Simbashi Embujo Theater.
A large number of Tokyo's prestigious museums are located in the vicinity of Ueno Park. Among these are the Tokyo National Museum (which is Japan's largest art museum), the National Museum of Science, the National Museum of Western Art (in a building designed by Le Corbusier and housing nineteenth-and twentieth-century Western painters, with a focus on Monet), and the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum (with exhibitions based on its own extensive collections and exhibits of contemporary Japanese art). Near the Imperial Palace are the National Museum of Modern Art and the Nezu Art Museum.
Tokyo's metropolitan region also abounds in smaller galleries and museums, with perhaps the largest concentration around the Ginza. Many small museums are specialized: Zen calligraphy in the Idemitsu Art Gallery in Marunouchi, a large print collection in the Ukiyoe Ota Memorial Museum of Art in Harujuku, and tea ceremony utensils at the Nezu Institute of Fine Arts in Minami-Aoyama.
While each of the major universities of Tokyo has a notable library collection, two other libraries are of note. These are the National Diet Library and the National Archives, both near the Imperial Palace.
Entry into Japan is subject to the complex policies of the Immigration Bureau of the Ministry of Justice. Visitors from the United States who will be staying in Japan for a period of less than 90 days need to have a valid passport and obtain a short-term visa. Longer stays require an extension or a commercial or student visa.
Standard electrical voltage in Tokyo as in the rest of Japan is 100 volts AC, 50 cycles. Appliances designed to operate on 110–120 volts AC will work on Tokyo's 100 volts but will not run as well and eventually will burn out, though this occurs only with long-term use and not during a short stay. Major hotels in Tokyo have 110-to 120-volt and 220-volt outlets as well and can usually supply adapters if appliance plugs will not fit the outlets provided.
Travel in Tokyo is safe, easy, and efficient, and getting around is relatively inexpensive. The subway and train system is extensive, though transferring between the two different subway systems is more costly than traveling on only one. Transfers are sometimes a bit more complicated between JR lines and private railways. English-language signs abound, and English-language subway and train maps are available at major stations. Tickets are dispensed from vending machines, though there is always an attendant on hand (who usually speaks little if any English). There are many services to aid the foreign traveler, among them the Japan National Tourist Organization.
Japan has many national and local holidays and festivals (matsuri ). The Sanjamatsuri at Asakusa Shrine in May, the Kandamatsuri at the Kanda Shrine in the same month, and the Sanno-sai at Hie Shrine in June are the three major Tokyo festivals.
Yukio Mishima (1925–78), born Hiraoka Kimitake, one of Japan's outstanding twentieth-century novelists.
Ernest F. Fenollosa (1853–1908), American Orientalist and lecturer at Tokyo University, one of the founders of the Tokyo Fine Arts School in 1887.
Junichiro Tanizaki (1886–1965), leading figure in twentieth-century Japanese letters.
Soseki Natsume (1867–1916), born Kinnosuke Natsume, the preeminent novelist of the Meiji era.
Edwin O. Reischauer (1910–90), American historian and Orientalist, born in Tokyo, served in military intelligence during World War II, and authored several important books aimed at increasing understanding of Japan in the United States.
Shigeru Yoshida (1878–1967), prime minister of Japan during the country's post-Occupation transition to democratic self-rule.
Shinichiro Tomonaga (1906–79), physicist at what is now the Tokyo University of Education, won the Nobel prize for physics for research in quantum electrodynamics.
Akio Morita (1921–99), world-renowned innovator in the electronics industry who founded the Sony Corporation and designed the hugely successful Walkman.
Akira Kurosawa (1910–98), one of the world's greatest film directors.
Sadaharu Oh (b. 1940), one of Japan's most outstanding baseball players, played for the Tokyo Giants.
Issey Miyake (b. 1938), leading figure in Japanese and international fashion design, studied at Tama Art University in Tokyo and set up his studio there in 1971.
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Tokyo (tō´kēō), city (1990 pop. 8,163,573), capital of Japan and of Tokyo prefecture, E central Honshu, at the head of Tokyo Bay. The Tokyo-Yokohama metropolitan area is the world's most populous metropolitan area, with over 28,000,000 people. Tokyo proper consists of an urban area divided into wards, a county area with farms and mountain villages, and the Izu Islands stretching to the S of Tokyo Bay. Tokyo prefecture (1990 pop. 11,854,987), is governed by a popularly elected governor and assembly. The wards and other subsidiary units of the city have their own assemblies.
The city, which lies on the Kanto plain, is intersected by the Sumida River and has an extensive network of canals. Yokohama is its seaport, but there is a large man-made port at the mouth of the Sumida, through which such items as electrical products, cameras, and automobiles are exported. The deepening of Tokyo's harbor and the development of storage facilities have gradually lessened the city's dependence on Yokohama. Land reclamation projects in Tokyo Bay have led to waste disposal islands, additional port functions, and even new residential developments.
The castle passed in 1590 to Ieyasu Tokugawa, founder of the Tokugawa line of shoguns, who made Edo the capital of a province and, after formally assuming the title of shogun in 1603, the capital of the shogunate. The imperial capital, however, remained at Kyoto. In Tokugawa times, the shogun's palace, encircled by the residences of the daimyos [feudal barons], samurai, and merchants, dominated the city's life. The urban population was increased by the shogun's retainers and by the large retinues of the daimyos, who were obliged to divide their time between their regional power centers and the capital.
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Tokyo (Jap. 'Eastern capital') Capital of Japan, on e central Honshu, at the head of Tokyo Bay. The modern city divides into distinct districts: Kasumigaseki, Japan's administrative centre; Marunouchi, its commercial centre; Ginza, its shopping and cultural centre; the w shore of Tokyo Bay (including Kawasaki and Yokohama seaport), its industrial centre. Modern Tokyo also serves as the country's educational centre with more than 100 universities. Founded in the 12th century as Edo, it became capital of the Tokugawa shogunate in 1603. In 1868, the Japanese Reformation re-established imperial power, and the last shogun surrendered Edo Castle. Emperor Meiji renamed the city Tokyo, and it replaced Kyoto as the capital of Japan. In 1923, an earthquake and subsequent fire claimed more than 150,000 lives and necessitated the city's reconstruction. In 1944–45, intensive US bombing destroyed more than half of Tokyo, and another modernization and restoration programme began. Industries: electronic equipment, cameras, car manufacture, metals, chemicals, textiles. Pop. (2000) 8,130,408.
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TOKYO , city in *Japan. Jewish history, culture, and religion were generally unknown to the Japanese of Tokyo before the end of World War i. Although the city had been designated the imperial capital in 1868, Jews who took up residence in Japan before World War i settled in the great port cities of *Kobe, *Yokohama, and *Nagasaki. Acquaintance with things Jewish was largely limited to Christian missionaries and their converts. This state of affairs changed somewhat after 1918 when a small number of Jews fleeing from the Bolshevik revolution in Russia made their homes in Tokyo, and many Japanese encountered Jews and witnessed antisemitism during Japan's military expedition in Siberia (1918–22). During the 1920s a handful of Japanese antisemites founded organizations and engaged in publication, mostly in Tokyo, but their work was generally ineffectual. With the spread of Nazism in Germany and the drift of Japan after 1932 toward closer relations with Hitler, professional antisemites – military and civilian – attempted with little success to spread their message of hatred among the Japanese people. When Japan surrendered to the allied powers in 1945, Tokyo soon emerged as a center of Jewish life and activity in Japan. Many of the Jews who helped to stimulate a wide variety of Jewish activities were among the thousands of American troops stationed in Tokyo during the American occupation of Japan (1945–52). The civilian Jewish community grew slowly during and after this period as hundreds of Jews, mainly from the United States and Western Europe, settled in the city for professional and commercial purposes. Jewish life gravitated toward the Tokyo Jewish Center which was established and maintained by the local community. In the late 1950s some American Jews studied briefly the feasibility of "missionary" work in Japan, especially in Tokyo, but the idea was soon abandoned. A Jewish community, supplemented by a steady stream of temporary residents from abroad, continued to exist in Japan's capital city. In 1971 there were approximately 300 Jews living in the city. In the first years of the 21st century the permanent Jewish population of Tokyo amounted to fewer than 200 people, though the transient Jewish population brought the total up to somewhat fewer than 1,000. These included representatives of businesses and financial institutions, as well as journalists and students, mostly from the U.S. and Israel. The Jewish community center houses the only synagogue in Japan as well as a school (with classes twice a week up to the eighth grade), a library, and a mikveh.
S. Mason, Our Mission to the Far East (1918); J. Nakada, Japan in the Bible (1933); I. Cohen, in: East and West, 2 (1922), 239–40, 267–70, 652–4; H. Dicker, Wanderers and Settlers in the Far East (1962), incl. bibl.
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I will soon introduce legislation to create the Dairy Investment Program within the Commonwealth Financing Authority (CFA). Last year's Fiscal Code included language to transfer $5 million from the First Industries Fund to a new account for the CFA to issue grants to support the Commonwealth's dairy industry. The CFA was directed to adopt guidelines for the approval of grants for research and development, organic transition, value-added processing and marketing, and those guidelines were approved in the Fall of 2018. Grants were issued in March 2019 that exhausted the $5 million.
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Several voices from both sides of the issue were heard by Jackson County Board of Education members as they considered possible changes to the current school re-entry plan at a special meeting on Sept. 22.
Many educators and parents expressed concern regarding the inability to follow CDC guidelines for social distancing if students return for five-day instruction. Opposing viewpoints expressed apprehension regarding students not receiving a full education without being in the classroom. Issues with technology also caused frustration.
Adena Barnette, Ripley High School teacher and president of the Jackson County Education Association, urged the board to continue with the blended education plan. Locally known as the 2-1-2 model, students, based on their last name, attend two days a week with the rest of the week being remote learning.
"There is no time between classes at the high school to clean our rooms thoroughly," she said. "Many of our union members want to see us go green on the metric map for a week before considering five-day in-person instruction."
For parent Brianna Goodson, concerns for students falling behind and parents not having the ability to assist or teach their children are paramount.
Goodson, who said she was asked to be the voice for several parents, stated, "Educators should be able to adapt to five days. Other counties are open without issue and we shouldn't let fear control our children's education."
Prioritizing what students need is a positive outcome of the 2-1-2 plan according to Ripley High teacher Emily Okes.
"We can meet standards but we have to be flexible," she said. "We will focus and prioritize what our students need. Stability is what these students need and following this plan for a while longer will ensure that. With smaller groups, we are able to get to know our students better as well."
Roane Jackson Technical Center is an issue that instructor Melissa Wilkinson addressed.
"We teach life skills," she said. "With this 2-1-2 plan, we will potentially only see Jackson County students 36 days this semester. Roane County students are coming four days a week. Hands-on instruction is vital to our students. We need them back in the classroom."
Board members were divided in their opinions as well, but all did agree on one point.
"On the metric map, we're not gold because of the students," Ben Mize said.
Board President, Bobbi Ferrell, who ultimately made the motion to continue with the blended 2-1-2 model, agreed.
"The maps are just targeting schools and students," she said. "It's not affecting the community. Everything is open and our habits don't seem to be changing. Our schools are paying the price. But I can't gamble with the safety of our children. My worst nightmare is our county going red on the map and we can't be in school at all."
With a 3-2 vote, board members voted to extend the blended model until "the board determines trends are safe to shift to five-day week in-person" instruction. Members Ferrell, Jim Frazier, and Dan Barnette voted in favor, with Mize and Steve Chancey voting against.
After the meeting, parents and teachers who lobbied for a return to five-day were not pleased with the vote.
"The education triangle of trust is broken tonight," Joe Shockey said. "Children are not at risk being in school. Parents need school options now with vouchers or educational credits. Public education will not be the same after tonight."
During public comments, Gilmore Elementary teacher Gala Voiers said the regression of her students is evident. Her thoughts after the meeting ventured to the board perhaps considering a different plan for elementary and secondary students.
"Maybe we need to look at a plan to allow our younger students to attend five days," she said. "We have more of an ability to social distance and the need for them to be in school is vital. Early intervention is backed by all research. Being in two groups, I only see my students eight days a month."
For those in favor of the plan adopted, relief was expressed.
"We can't predict the future," Ripley Elementary teacher Dr. Leslie Haynes said. "We have to deal with them now and that means considering the safety of our students and staff above everything."
In other business, board members:
• Approved revisions to Virtual School Policy 2370.01 to include "Jackson County Schools will pilot a Distanced Family Engagement program, within WVDE guidelines, through our established Collaborative Community Partners, for up to 40 pre-school students."
• Approved payment of bills from the general accounts fund in the amount of $723,591.64.
• Learned that virtual school enrollment stands at 786. The number of students who have opted to return to in-school attendance is 351. Students have until Sept. 30 to make that change.
• Learned that the Jackson County Health Department has identified two out-of-county employers and one in-county employer as the source of the current COVID-19 spread.
The next regular meeting of the board will be at 7 p.m. on Oct. 1 at the administration building.


PALAPYE: Mahalapye United Hotspurs caught Motlakase Power Dynamos napping in the opening minute to register a third consecutive win in the First Division North.
Mogomotsi Tlou posted a long free kick into the box from the left, the goalkeeper and defenders miscommunicated and failed to clear. Owen Ferguson pounced from the blind spot and headed home in a match played at the Palapye Swallows ground.
It became a daunting task for Chouka to find their footing in the game. They had a half chance in the fifth minute when Thatayaone Magazi was at the end of Itumeleng Mabuaaeme's free kick inside the 18 yard, but his connection lacked conviction.
As the half wore on, frustrations caught up with Chouka and they committed a lot of errors that affected their decision-making.
"The early goal took us off. We got too eager to equalise and when we failed we made wrong decisions and committed unnecessary errors," Chouka stand-in coach, Letlogile Seoforeng said after the game.
From the break it was a one-way traffic. Chouka looked more enterprising in attack. They created well but poor decision-making continued to haunt them.
Magazi had two clear-cut chances. First one-on-one against the keeper but his poke was tame and the keeper collected.
put all men behind the ball to frustrate Chouka.
Chouka's bad day in the office was summed up by a delicate Omphemetse Bolofete's curling free kick that was tipped over by a full stretched Kago Mmipi.
Amahot's coach, Wame Mokoka said his players are responding well to their strategies. He said the game was played to script. "Motlakase is a technically gifted side with skilful players, good ball retention and they are competing for promotion. We knew an early goal could destablise them and closing them down would frustrate them and we did that perfectly." Seoforeng said the game is a wake-up call going forward. He said his players will learn from the loss and prepare for such mishaps in the future.


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Books Into the Silence, by Wade Davis
Review: Non-fiction
Into the Silence, by Wade Davis
REVIEWED BY KEN McGOOGAN
Special to The Globe and Mail
Published January 13, 2012 Updated May 9, 2018
In the decades immediately preceding the First World War, Wade Davis tells us, the British public-school system flourished. "The schools existed to create a cadre for the empire," he writes, "civil servants to man the distant outposts, officers to lead the armies, politicians to determine the fate of millions of dark-faced subjects of the crown."
The schools were fiercely anti-intellectual, he adds, and "their real purpose was to infuse students with a certain ethos, a blind obedience to those of higher rank, a reflexive inclination to dominate inferiors, and, above all, the cultivated air of superiority so essential to the stability of the empire."
If that sentiment is not too surprising in a book about the first three attempts to climb Mount Everest, all of them British-led, then consider this description of the typical Westerner as seen through the eyes of a Tibetan woman: "The average European is not good-looking according to our ideas. We consider your noses too big, often they stick out like kettle spouts; your ears are too large, like pig's ears; your eyes blue like children's marbles; your eye sockets too deep and eyebrows too prominent, too simian."
Into the Silence is a complex, subversive work, a postcolonial refashioning of an imperialist adventure. Davis, a Canadian anthropologist and explorer, is rightly celebrated for introducing indigenous perspectives into the mainstream. Here, he continues that work while telling a terrific adventure story and affirming as sublime the hubristic madness of assaulting the highest mountain in the world "because it's there."
The familiar mountaineering story, man against nature, is here vividly rendered: the difficult treks to Base Camp, the struggles to locate a feasible route, the debilitating effects of altitude sickness, the cold, the fog, the wind-whipping snow, the frostbite, the avalanches, the slips and the tumbles, and the life-and-death choices that confront climbers at altitudes above 23,000 feet.
Davis paints an engaging portrait of Englishman George Mallory, the greatest mountaineer of the age, who emerges as brave and athletic but profoundly flawed. Probably we did not need to learn so much about his early adventures in homoeroticism. But the most meaningful revisionism here is broader and more political, in that Davis responds to the attitudes outlined in the first paragraph of this review. Specifically, he sets the record straight about two remarkable "colonials" – one Canadian and one Australian – who, in the countless retellings of the initial assaults on Everest, have received nothing like the recognition they deserve.
The first is Edward Oliver Wheeler, the Ottawa-born surveyor who, on the reconnaissance expedition of 1921, discovered the way up the mountain after Mallory had missed it. "Mallory, for reasons difficult to ascertain," Davis writes, "had an abiding dislike of Canadians." The great climber himself, writing to his wife, showed this to be true even while denying it: "Wheeler can be a bore in the colonial fashion, but I don't dislike him."
Davis demonstrates that Mallory, humiliated at having missed the route he should have found, sought deliberately to obscure Wheeler's achievement. "One thing is certain," the author writes: "It was not Mallory or any of his English compatriots who first discovered the key to the mountain. It was the Canadian Oliver Wheeler, working alone in the solitude of the Roungbuk valley." Later, he adds that this first expedition "had been an extraordinary triumph, marred perhaps only by Mallory's stubborn, even unseemly, refusal to acknowledge Wheeler's contribution." The detailed map Wheeler produced, astonishing in its detail, "would be the basis for all future endeavours."
Mallory fares better in relation to the second unsung "colonial" contributor, Australian George Finch, while British society fares worse. Finch, who pioneered the use of oxygen at high altitude, managed on the second expedition to climb higher than Mallory, a record altitude of 27,300 feet. Davis writes: "Finch, pilloried from the start as an Australian, dismissed as a scientific eccentric, marginalized as a colonial irritant, had done the impossible, and in doing so had changed mountaineering history." Over Mallory's protestations, Finch would be excluded from the third expedition, in 1924 – the one that cost Mallory his life.
I admit to one uncertainty: Do we need scores of pages about the First World War to contextualize this magnificent tale? If, as a result, the book starts slowly and runs long, Davis handles the technical demands of the decision with artistry, and Into the Silence, which was this week short-listed for the Charles Taylor Prize for literary non-fiction, stands as a near masterpiece.
Ken McGoogan is the author of four books about Arctic exploration. His most recent work is How the Scots Invented Canada.
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For a minute, think of the things you do every day. Eat a hard boiled egg? Scan through email? Shower, talk weather, traffic, news? Get outside with the dog? Think about money or health?
Good. Now, there's this other thing each of us does - and it's subtle, normal to overlook: Every day, we are writing the story of ourselves.
Today, as we did yesterday, last July, 13 years and 21 days ago, we add a few lines to the narrative of who we are and who we are becoming. Buddhist nun Pema Chödrön puts it this way: "We create ourselves and our future with every thought and action."
And this happens whether we do it intentionally or not. So why not cast our lot with those who are intentional about it?
An approach that's been helpful to me is this: being aware enough to choose the thoughts and actions that are life-affirming. That move us in the direction not of who we think we should be, but of who we are.
It's a process, not an event. We lose awareness, drop the pen, forget the writing. That's part of our story. We are human, after all.
But we humans can pick up the pen, restart the writing, at any point of any day. And I believe the more we do this, the greater the likelihood that we can look over our week, our year, our time, and say with tenderness and truth, Yes, this is my story.


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The INL fire has now officially burned 170 square miles in just 24 hours. Assuming a constant burn rate for the past 24 hours, that's 5000 square feet a minute! Officials are now calling the "Jefferson Fire" the largest single fire in Idaho's recent history. (The 1910 fires were much larger, of course.) At a news conference yesterday, INL officials shared this amazing factoid--the fire burned THIRTY NINE lineal miles in a mere five hours! That's nearly 8 miles an hour which is one lineal mile every 7 minutes and 30 seconds. That's basically 12 lineal feet a second for five straight hours. That's truly amazing and nearly unbelievable except that these guys have "the black" to prove it.
The cause of the fire is still unknown and is under investigation. Approximately 300 firefighters from INL and BLM are on scene. The Bureau of Land Management has dispatched 21 fire engines, a helicopter, five bulldozers, five air tankers and an air attack plane to fight the fire. INL has four bulldozers and seven fire engines on the scene.
The scene above was captured by The Rexburg Standard-Journal yesterday. I got to tour that Temple in January 2008 before it was Dedicated. Cool Temple and Cool Spot! Click here to read Thomas Monson's Dedication prayer on 10FEB08. Great prayer!


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Prison Architect è un videogioco gestionale sviluppato dalla software house britannica Introversion Software in cui il giocatore deve affrontare la costruzione e la gestione di una prigione statunitense.

Dal 25 settembre 2012 il titolo è disponibile nella versione alpha ad accesso anticipato su Steam con aggiornamenti mensili, con un guadagno di oltre 10,7 milioni di dollari per più di  copie vendute a gennaio 2014.

L'8 gennaio 2019 i diritti del gioco vengono acquistati dalla Paradox Interactive.

Modalità di gioco
Prison Architect si presenta con una grafica 2D e visuale dall'alto. Il giocatore è responsabile della gestione di diversi aspetti della prigione da mantenere, come la costruzione delle celle, delle strutture e dei servizi rappresentati dall'impianto elettrico e idrico, l'assunzione del personale dedicato alle mansioni di vigilianza, costruzione e amministrazione, oltre che dello staff incaricato della cucina, della pulizia degli ambienti interni ed esterni e dell'infermeria: l'assunzione del personale è necessaria non solo per il buon mantenimento della struttura carceraria ma anche per sbloccare ulteriori funzioni e posizioni nello staff.

Il giocatore inoltre deve far fronte alle spese di gestione mantenendo al contempo buono il morale dei detenuti, in modo da eliminare o quantomeno contrastare le possibili cause che possano generare fenomeni di rivolta: a tal fine è possibile impegnare i prigionieri in lavori manuali, costruire una classe per il reinserimento sociale, garantire spazi ricreativi per il tempo libero, dare modo di poter vedere o contattare i famigliari, riservare un luogo per soddisfare il bisogno di spiritualità, ecc...

Escape mode
Dalla prima versione ufficiale del gioco è stata aggiunta una modalità extra che ha come scopo scappare dalla prigione.

Il giocatore dovrà eseguire azioni importanti per guadagnare reputazione, che servirà a migliorare le abilità e trovare compagni per la fuga.

Si ha inoltre l'abilità di rubare, collezionare, nascondere e ovviamente utilizzare oggetti. Si possono trovare armi, chiavi delle celle, utensili per scavare ecc...

Per vincere è sufficiente uscire dalla mappa.

Sviluppo
La versione alpha è stata resa disponibile il 25 settembre 2012 e da febbraio 2013 è stata aggiornata 35 volte; l'ultimo aggiornamento, denominato Alpha 35, è avvenuto il 30 luglio 2015.

Il 30 gennaio 2015 Introversion Software ha annunciato che il gioco è stato acquistato da più di un milione di utenti, annunciando inoltre lo sviluppo di una versione mobile del gioco. Il 6 ottobre 2015 il gioco è uscito dall'accesso anticipato.

DLC
I DLC sviluppati per il gioco sono:
Psych Ward: i giocatori hanno la possibilità di ospitare prigionieri pazzi criminali e costruire strutture pertinenti per soddisfare le loro esigenze (come celle imbottite) e assumere personale aggiuntivo necessario per tenerli sotto controllo, come inservienti e psichiatri. Inoltre, i detenuti regolari possono diventare pazzi criminali quando subiscono punizioni eccessive o quando i loro bisogni non vengono soddisfatti regolarmente (come la mancanza di accesso al cibo o ai servizi igienici).
Going Green, in uscita il 28 gennaio 2021.

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Saturday night, Make A Wish continued to spoil us by inviting our family to their Night of Wishes ~ a gala event at the Ritz Carlton in St. Louis. Beautiful music was played by wish kids Elizabeth and Isaiah. We were wowed by not only the music, but also the food, and the entertaining painting skills and theatrics of Dan Dunn. About half-way through Mr. Dunn's performance, my husband walked to my side of the table and whispered into my ear, "I'm going to bid on one of his paintings." I looked at him twice. Uh-huh. It was Mister. I easily agreed and sat back to watch the remainder of the evening unfold.
I'm not sure this photo does the size of this painting any justice. I'm off to rent a UHaul to bring our new friend Ray Charles home to roost. And that's all I'm saying.


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Freezing rain and sleet are blanketing parts of Pennsylvania and New York while the Gulf Coast may get pummeled with severe storms
Treacherous, icy conditions are gripping much of the Northeast while millions of people along the Gulf Coast are under the gun for severe storms Sunday.
[ cnn.com ] Sunday, 9 January 2022 at 19:58:03
Quit your job? Here's what to do with your 401(k)
Millions of people have decided to quit their jobs. If you're one of them, you'll have a lot to wrap up before your last day of work.
[ cnn.com ] Thursday, 6 January 2022 at 18:10:09
Severe winter weather grips millions across the eastern US
More than 14 million people are under winter storm watches and warnings, as a strong winter storm works its way across the eastern US.
[ cnn.com ] Monday, 3 January 2022 at 11:48:43
Millions of American kids will head back to classrooms in the coming days -- just after new pediatric Covid-19 hospitalizations reached an all-time high.
Holiday flight cancellations soar with Covid-19 disruptions and bad weather
Thousands of US flights were canceled over New Year's weekend as a combination of Covid-19 disruptions and wintry weather slowed travel. Flight cancellations have trended up steadily since Christmas Eve, hitting a new peak Saturday as millions travel over the holidays.
Thousands of US flights were canceled on New Year's Day
Thousands of US flights were canceled on New Year's Day as a combination of Covid-19 and wintry weather have slowed travel. Flight cancellations have trended up steadily since Christmas Eve, hitting a new peak Saturday morning as millions travel over the holidays.
[ cnn.com ] Saturday, 1 January 2022 at 21:06:56
Snow, ice, flooding and severe storms will ring in 2022
The year 2022 will start with a bang, as snow, ice, severe storms, flooding and plummeting temperatures impact millions from coast to coast.
[ cnn.com ] Friday, 31 December 2021 at 18:36:17
Omicron and the Olympics could be on a collision course with China's zero-Covid strategy
Perhaps it was naive to expect that China's rigid approach to fighting Covid-19 -- complete with locking down millions of people and using invasive surveillance to keep tabs on citizens -- would not eventually cause problems for the host of the 2022 Winter Olympics amid an ongoing global pandemic.
A Supreme Court that's declined to block several vaccine mandates is now considering Biden's Covid vaccine requirement
A Supreme Court that has declined to block several types of vaccine mandates is now considering whether to allow the Biden administration to require millions of Americans to get Covid-19 vaccines.
[ cnn.com ] Wednesday, 29 December 2021 at 14:00:09
The 3 reasons travel ground to a halt this Christmas
Over the Christmas weekend, flying was a miserable experience for millions of travelers, as airlines canceled or delayed thousands of flights.
Here's how to track Santa around the world, thanks to NORAD
Santa Claus has packed his sleigh with toys for all the good girls and boys and he has made sure the reindeer are secured for takeoff. Now, they are traveling around the world to visit millions of households.
Afghanistan's first president wants the world to work with the Taliban
Former Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai believes it is now time for the international community to work with the Taliban to prevent millions of people from starving to death.
[ cnn.com ] Thursday, 23 December 2021 at 19:48:38
Hospitals face the trauma of Covid deaths for a second Christmas
With the potentially more transmissible Omicron now the most widely detected variant in the US, hospitals are preparing for additional Covid-19 cases as millions of Americans face infection.
As millions of Americans plan to gather this holiday season, a rush for Covid testing has strained availability and left many frustrated
Track cases | Can vaccinated people get infected with Omicron?
Russian businessman with Kremlin ties extradited to US and charged in multi-million-dollar insider trading scheme
A Russian businessman was extradited to the US this weekend from Switzerland to face charges in an insider trading scheme worth tens of millions of dollars for allegedly hacking into US computer networks, the Justice Department announced on Monday.
Covid surges threaten festivities worldwide, as China's biggest holiday is upended for a third year
As the rapid spread of the Omicron coronavirus variant looms across parts of the globe and the Delta variant remains dominant -- for now -- in others, the Covid-19 pandemic is again threatening holiday celebrations for millions.
[ cnn.com ] Saturday, 18 December 2021 at 17:08:53
Cristiano Ronaldo and his pregnant partner reveal the sex of their unborn twins
Cristiano Ronaldo and his pregnant partner, Georgina Rodriguez, have revealed the sex of their unborn twins in a video that is likely to warm millions of hearts just in time for Christmas.
Shipping CEO: The best solution to global supply chain chaos
Almost everything you buy has traveled along some of the millions of miles of networks that make up the world's supply chains. Most of the time, the logistics involved in making this possible are invisible and kept behind the scenes. But these days, supply chains are front and center as companies cope with a pandemic-induced shift in consumer behavior from experiences to goods that has left supply chains strained.
McDonald's CEO, fired after relationship with employee, repays $105 million
• How millions of jobless Americans can afford to ditch work
Bruce Springsteen reportedly sold his music catalog worth hundreds of millions of dollars
"The Boss" may have just made a cool half-billion dollars.
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The Vancouver Grizzlies' Shareef Abdur-Rahim has been named to the USA Basketball team to compete in this summer's Olympic Games.
Abdur-Rahim, who averaged a double-double this season for the Grizz, gets the nod in place of the hobbled Grant Hill, who continues to nurse a broken left ankle he sustained during the Pistons' playoff loss to the Heat.
Other candidates who did not make the cut for the final roster spot included Kobe Bryant and Eddie Jones.
Abdur-Rahim will join Ray Allen, Vin Baker, Vince Carter, Tim Duncan, Kevin Garnett, Tim Hardaway, Allan Houston, Jason Kidd, Alonzo Mourning and Steve Smith for the games to be played in Sydney, Australia.


Holly Willoughby's fans really want her to have a fourth child, don't they?
The 36-year-old presenter and her husband Dan Baldwin already have kids Harry, Belle and Chester together, and they're clearly a happy family unit.
But that hasn't stopped rumours flying about them adding another littlun to the mix.
After watching a food segment on today's This Morning, viewers couldn't help speculating over the fact that Holly appeared to refuse cheese.
Some mould-ripened cheeses, such as Brie and Camembert, aren't recommended for pregnant women.
This isn't the first time that the suggestion's been raised. Back in December, fans went into overdrive when Holly rejected a tequila shot live on air, after previously saying it's one of our favourite tipples.
Then Holly was filmed taking a trip to the maternity ward at St Thomas' Hospital.
Holly has previously admitted to being keen to expand her family, telling The Sun: 'I love being pregnant and I love having babies.


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