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Fifty years ago, they were screwed-up kids sent to the Florida School for Boys to be straightened out. But now they are screwed-up men, scarred by the whippings they endured. Read the story and see a video and portrait gallery.
In the emotionally charged Returning to Earth, Jim Harrison revisits a family going through change, then finds that he, too, must get back on the ground.
By COLETTE BANCROFT
Published February 11, 2007
Jim Harrison is looking forward to the wildflowers.
He's calling from his winter home in Patagonia, Ariz., about 20 miles from the Mexican border. "We got quite a bit of snow a few days ago. That means this year we'll have wildflowers."
In the meantime, he's keeping busy. Harrison's 14th book of fiction, the novel Returning to Earth, was published in January. "Don't feed the poets," his slyly funny take on the academic creative writing mill, appeared in the New York Times Jan. 28.
He has already finished another novel and is working on two, or maybe three, more books. At 69, this fiction writer, poet, essayist, memoirist and children's author is one of the most revered of American writers.
In such books as Legends of the Fall, Dalva and The Woman Lit by Fireflies, his spare, lyrical style and his themes - the impact of human violence and love on individuals, cultures and the natural world - place him squarely in the tradition of such great American writers as Melville, Twain and Hemingway.
But he resists square placement; he's interested in too many things. In an hour, his conversation spins from politics to screenwriting, from Chippewa bear dancers to chef Mario Batali.
Some subjects hold his interest. The characters and Upper Peninsula Michigan setting of Returning to Earth were also central to his 2004 novel True North, in which young David Burkett tries to come to terms with his family's destructive past.
Returning to Earth revolves around the death of Donald, the husband of David's sister, from Lou Gehrig's disease. Harrison depicts his dying, then follows those closest to him through the first year of mourning. The novel is the farthest thing from sentimental, a book both elegiac and joyful - an unlikely trick Harrison pulls off with grace.
"Some people have said it's my best novel, but I never think about my babies quite that way."
He says, "When I started True North I knew I'd have to revisit the characters. I thought of the whole story about 15 years ago when I was walking with the poet Dan Gerber through these acres and acres of huge stumps. He said, 'I'm glad my grandpa didn't do this.' "
David's ancestors did, and that rape of the land is echoed in his monstrous father's rape of Vera, the young daughter of an employee. David, just a boy at the time, was in love with Vera.
In Returning to Earth, Harrison says, "I wanted to see what happened to them. I wanted to see if I could make it credible.
"It's the mystery of human affection. If it starts that early and is that poignant, there's an emotional residue that remains."
Writing such an emotionally intense book means living inside it, he says, and he has to find his own return to Earth. "The whole fictive mentality was beginning to drive me a bit batty. Walker Percy called it the re-entry problem. I think that's why a lot of writers drink too much: Getting back on the ground is so hard."
He did it this time by writing an entirely different kind of novel. "This one was a bit melancholy. About four days after I finished it, I started a comic novel. That helped levitate my spirits."
What's it about? "The title will give you a clue: The English Major. I've often thought about the curse of going through the world having taken the Emerson essays seriously."
Harrison says he had the idea for the book 40 years ago, during his own brief teaching career. "I'm temperamentally indisposed to teaching. I think it's not good for you to read that much bad writing."
Harrison also spent many years making quite a bit of money as a screenwriter. But, he says, it led to "bad behavior," so he stopped about 12 years ago.
He and his wife, Linda, split their time between homes in Arizona and Montana. Harrison is a legendary epicure and has produced much knowledgeable, sensual food writing. He writes an occasional piece for author Michael Ondaatje's literary magazine Brick - "You know, food and eternity, that kind of thing" - but he's had to slow down.
"I got Type 2 diabetes a few years ago, and it really did me a lot of good," he says. "My only regret is that I can't eat good French bread and big bowls of pasta. Now I only get little bitty sissy bowls."
He eats well, though, when his friend Mario Batali visits each summer in Montana. "He brings 10 cartons of supplies and wine. But he doesn't trust his Italian white truffles to the airline. He brings them in his pockets."
Harrison's Arizona writing studio is a cabin on the Hard Luck Ranch, in country still wild enough to be home to mountain lions and bears.
Bears have a resonance for Harrison and appear in many of his books. In Returning to Earth, they're so closely associated with Donald that his grief-stricken daughter seeks them out after his death.
Clare, Harrison says, is "one of those preternaturally strong women" but struggles with the loss of her father. "Clare is crazy enough to think she can make contact, which people do, you know, especially that first year, seeing revenants and ghosts.
"There are worse things than thinking your father has come back as a bear."
Colette Bancroft can be reached at (727) 893-8435 or email@example.com.
Returning to Earth
By Jim Harrison Grove Press, 280 pages, $24
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Part One of Jim Harrison's novel Returning to Earth is narrated by Donald, who at 45 is dying of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Years before, Donald, who is Chippewa and Finnish, had spent three days in spiritual meditation in the woods, an experience he never spoke about.
Here he recounts it for his family:
Around noon the second day a flock of ravens began checking me out. I got this idea that the ravens hung around because they have spare time and were wondering what I was doing sitting still in their general home, which was where I was. Animals spend a lot of time being still so when we do too they lose their logical mistrust of us. At midmorning on the third day these three big ravens stood right outside of the thicket looking in at me. Ravens don't stand on the ground unless they're sure of themselves. Only once have I seen one dead by the road and it was pretty young. Deer and many other animals haven't figured out cars but ravens have. Anyway, it was plain to me that these three ravens wanted to know why I was sitting there. I wasn't so sure myself but I told them that the first day I had a real short vision that I was going to get sick and die. This was more than two years before I got diagnosed. I told them I wasn't too much bothered by my coming death because it's what happens to all living things sooner or later. Later would be better but it's not for me to decide. I also told these ravens about a funeral of their kind I had seen a few miles from Whitefish Point a few years back. A real old raven had fallen slowly down through the branches of a hemlock tree over a period of two hours, grabbing hold of a branch now and then with his or her last strength, while around the bird about three dozen of his family were whirling. I heard the soft sound when he finally hit the ground. I got the feeling that one of the three ravens had been there as it was less than a hundred miles away. They showed no signs of leaving so I also told them of my vision of my mother and father sitting beside a creek with a sleeping bear beside them as if it were a pet dog. My mother and father looked wonderful and they said, "Don't be afraid to come home, son."
. . . I've been lucky to spend a life pretty close to the earth up here in the north. I learned in those three days that the earth is so much more than I ever thought it was. It was a gift indeed to see all sides of everything at once. This makes it real hard to say good-bye. My family will be with me just like that old raven falling slowly down through the tree.


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It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.
It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins.
The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.
A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.
Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.
A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.
The conqueror is regarded with awe: the wise man commands our respect: but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.
For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
It is not fit that every man should travel: it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
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Peter Dykeman and I are strolling through a sunny field in Rhinebeck looking for food – not garden crops, for which it is far too early, but edible wild plants. I’m expecting that the search will be difficult, somewhat capricious, like the morels that I recently harvested in a local forest (the mushrooms like elms, but cannot always be found under the trees). So it’s a surprise when he gestures towards a weedy bank, parts the thick foliage and cuts the stalk of a fresh shoot of leaves.
It’s a young pokeweed – the plant that later bears drooping, poisonous black berries on a red stalk. But it turns out the plant’s stem is edible: Dykeman peels off the green rind with a knife to reveal the tender white core, which can boiled in several changes of water and eaten. Dykeman cautions that the stem can only be eaten when it’s white, and never should be ingested raw. But otherwise, it’s a scrumptious food.
Another common weed, burdock, whose burrs attach themselves to your pants in the fall, is also edible. In the summer, the young flowerstalks of burdock can be peeled and the white core sliced into salads like celery or cooked in a casserole, he said. The roots of first-year plants can be dug up and peeled, sliced and boiled for 20 minutes until tender. The burdock, it turns out, is a veritable banquet.
A moment later, after peering around, Dykeman picks a leaf off a spindly white-flowered plant that grows everywhere: garlic mustard. (I think of it as a pestilent invasive.) He crushes the leaf in his fingers, sniffs it and offers it to me; the sharp garlicky taste of the tender green would definitely add zest to a salad. Dykeman also likes it on hot dogs.
If you were marooned in this field, unable to leave and without any snacks packed in your backpack, you could survive, so plentiful are the green edible things to be found here. You would need to have the guidebook that Peter Dykeman wrote with Thomas Elias – Field Guide to North American Edible Wild Plants, which was published in 1982 and is still in print, under the title Edible Wild Plants: A north American Field Guide – to know what to eat, because some plants are toxic and many others are either inedible or just not that tasty.
Timing is key: harvesting leaves, for example, when they are young and tender. Each edible plant yields up its harvest – be it leaf, stalk, flower, tuber, fruit, seed or sap – in the carefully calibrated round of the seasons, starting with the tapping of sugar maple trees in early March and ending with the gathering of black walnut nuts and smooth or staghorn sumac clusters in the fall.
“If you’re too lazy to do a garden, plow it up and leave it, and things that are edible will grow, such as purslane, lambs’ quarters and garlic mustard,” Dykeman said. The edges of ponds or wetlands are particularly productive; he points to a stand of cattails, which offers a wealth of food. He pulls up a young stalk and peels off the rind. The succulent core, white and pale green like a leek and known as “Cossacks’ asparagus,” is toothsome and delicious, juicy as a piece of sugarcane and with a mellow flavor, similar to celery.
When the young cattails emerge, one can cut them off when they are as big as a finger and still in their papery sheaths. Boiled, buttered and seasoned, they can be eaten like a corncob, filled with tiny kernels, Dykeman said. You can also shake out the pollen from the maturing flowering stalk, which “is very rich and high in calories” when mixed with flour, he said. Finally, the small sprouts that form on the roots in early spring can be dug up and eaten raw or cooked; the roots themselves, from the fall to early spring, can be washed, peeled and pounded into flour. “It’s one of my favorites,” he said.
Dykeman, who never goes out into the field without a small knife, digging tool and bag, earned a PhD in Environmental Education at Cornell University and started the educational program at Millbrook’s Cary Arboretum in 1973. The Arboretum, predecessor of today’s Cary Institute for Ecosystem Studies, acquired seeds from all over the world to increase the diversity of trees and shrubs that could be grown in this area. The director was Thomas Elias, who had written field guides on trees and shrubs. Elias was asked by Time Mirror Books to write a book on edible plants. Euell Gibbons’ classic Stalking the Wild Asparagus had been a hit, and Time Mirror wanted to cash in on the enthusiasm that it had generated. Elias recruited Dykeman as co-author, covering the collection and use of the plants.
Dykeman had been interested in trees since attending high school in Pawling and learned about edible plants while studying with Dr. Richard Fischer at Cornell in the 1970s. “Environmental Studies were big back then,” he said, noting that school districts in New York State were planning to add Environmental Education to their curriculum. Sadly, it didn’t happen. Today, “People are asleep. They’re not reacting to environmental problems like climate change. There’s so much money available to deny climate change and toxicity in foods; the only funds available for counteracting these problems come from donations.”


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April 3, 2008
Myanmar’s pro-democracy the National League for Democracy (NLD) has launched a campaign urging the public vote against the military government’s draft charter in a referendum to held in May.
Following the NLD’s move, the United Nations Security Council, in a statement to be released shortly, calls on the Myanmar junta to allow detained NLD leader Aung San Suu Kyi, and other political actors to speak freely and hold meetings ahead of the May referendum on a new constitution.
The statement is expected to be circulated to all 15 Security Council members in the coming days. It needs the approval of all members for the council to adopt it, said the Associated Press report, which obtained the draft statement prepared by the United States, Britain and France.
The draft Security Council statement also expresses regret at the military government's "slow rate of progress" towards meeting the council's call last September for a "genuine dialogue" with the pro-democracy opposition and the early release of all political prisoners and detainees.
The military government has not made public the final version of the constitution. However, leaked copies reportedly show the basic law would give the military continued dominance over the government even after elections slated for 2010.
It would bar Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel peace prize winner who is under house arrest, from running for president because she married a Briton.
The referendum in May will be the first balloting in Burma since 1990, when the NLD won a landslide victory that was never recognised by the junta.


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Place Your Bids: Sotheby's 'Rock & Roll Anthology' Gallery AuctionSee photos from WCBS-FM's visit and be sure to watch Scott Shannon's exclusive tour of all the fantastic items up for sale at Sotheby's 'A Rock & Roll Anthology: From Folk to Fury' gallery auction.
This Week In History: Paul Is Dead, Blondie Hits NYC, Bon Jovi's 'New Jersey', Elton For Diana, and Clapton Loses His LicenseHey guys, Joe Causi back with another week in music history -- and this week there's lots and lots going on. Strap yourself in, 'cuz you're NOT going to believe it.
CBGB is Reopening, in the Worst Way PossibleThat sound you hear is Joey Ramone rolling over in his grave.
Watch: 'CBGB' Trailer Brings NYC Punk Rock Legends To LifePunk rock fans have been anxiously awaiting the star-studded bio-pic based on the legendary club that served as the breeding ground for such legendary acts as the Ramones, Talking Heads, Blondie and Patti Smith.
Roles Cast For Film Based On Iconic New York City Club CBGBSeveral roles have been cast in the film based on CBGB's.
CBGB Lives On With Music Festival; Possible ReopeningThe CBGB Music and Film Festival hopes to breathe new life into New York City's music scene when it comes to town from July 5-8.
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Reservoir will be released on the 25th August through Jagjaguwar. The album was written by Gordi and co-produced alongside Tim Anderson (Solange/Banks), Ali Chant (Perfume Genius/PJ Harvey) and Alex Somers (Sigur Ros). It was recorded in Wisconsin, Reykjavik, Los Angeles, New York, and Sydney.
To coincide with the announcement, a new single, Heaven I Know is streaming now. It was one of two tracks on the LP produced solely by herself.
Gordi is the moniker of Sophie Payten, who grew up in the tiny Australian farming town of Canowindra. Her story, which has only truly just begun has already taken Gordi from this remotest of rural outposts to performing alongside her new friends and collaborators Bon Iver on US television, and now clutching this remarkable debut collection of shimmering leftfield pop songs.
Gordi’s first foray into songwriting came in the form of performances at her school’s weekly assembly. She’d tell her friends they were written by other artists to ensure they gave honest feedback – though given she was pulling lines from One Tree Hill for lyrics about experiences she was yet to actually have, that feedback wasn’t always glowing. It wasn’t until she started writing about what was happening around her, the friendships she was building and, as is inevitable in the tumult of growing up, breaking, that the chrysalis of the music she’s making now – a brooding, multi-layered blend of electronica and folk, with lyrics that tend to avoid well-trodden paths – began to form. “I often find that writing about platonic relationships,” she says, “can be a great deal more powerful than writing about romantic ones.”
“The name Reservoir, it’s that thing that you can’t describe, that space that anxious people would probably live their life in. It’s actually an expression my friend and I use. If I’m really down one day, I’ll say, ‘Oh I’m a bit in the reservoir today’. You’re mulling everything over, and you’re sitting in all these thoughts and feelings. In order to be able to write a song I need to go to that place, but I couldn’t live a functional life if I spent all my time in there.”
Writing music, in fact, is the way Gordi lifts herself out of the Reservoir. “Writing music has always been and will remain my therapy, my process and my way of communicating,” she explains. “I don’t write songs by someone else’s prescription, I write to fill my own need. I get this tightness in my chest, and nothing will make it go away other than trying to write lyrics or sitting down at a piano and playing it, and it’s like a medicine. If I have a good session of that, then that tightness and that weight just totally lifts. It just centres me, and gets the things that are riddled through my mind out on paper. And then I can leave them there.”
Gordi’s voice and her music very quickly caught the attention of her label-mates Bon Iver who asked her to perform backing vocals for them during their performance of 8 (Circle) on the Jimmy Fallon US tv show at the tail end of last year. Gordi returned the favour with a quite breathtaking acapella cover of 00000 Million which you can listen to here. She has also toured with the likes of Asgeir, Tallest Man on Earth, Highasakite, Local Natives and Of Monsters and Men.
As an opening statement, Reservoir is a compelling listen that challenges textural limitations and explores with leftfield rhythms, but crucially, at its very heart is melody in abundance.
Reservoir follows the Spring release of Gordi’s debut EP, Clever Disguise.
Straight to your headphones via Manchester, 19 year old Phoebe Green is churning out soulful alt-pop filled with promise.
Her latest release, “Watercolour Envy“, comes complete with surging verses that churn sinister undertones with oozing flecks of deception. It’s a track that builds beautifully, culminating in an explosive bridge that leaves you demanding more.
Releasing her debut EP, 02:00AM, towards the tale end of last year, Green’s songwriting style artfully drops hints like puzzle pieces, allowing listeners to rearrange them to decipher the messages behind the tracks.
IORA’s Music is a combination of vocal and instrumental harmonies, married with electronic samples and sounds, intriguing the audience with it’s originality. With a blend of folk tones, a versatile voice and haunting arrangements, IORA tells stories, fascinating in their melodies and musical delivery. Her countryside roots adds to her songbird affinity that creates rich and emotive moments, contrasted with moments of raw drama. The live loops and electronic instruments build to create songs that will stay with you.


State water planners hope to wrap up by summer's end a pilot study that could shape the way policy makers balance future demand for water in Oklahoma's streams and rivers.
The Oklahoma Water Resources Board this past week drafted a report of its Instream Flow Pilot Study of the Upper Illinois River. Because Oklahoma is one of only two states that lack instream flow programs, the draft report provides a conceptual framework that could be applied statewide.
The draft report also includes detailed stream flow analyses for the Illinois River and two tributaries — the Barren Fork and Flint creeks — and projected flow scenarios based on projected demand in 2060. Those scenarios show consumptive use in 2060 combined with periods of drought could contribute to less than optimal instream flows.
Instream flows are the amount of water in a stream set aside for nonconsumptive uses in order to preserve its environmental and aesthetical qualities. Minimum stream flows ensure environmental, social and economic benefits are met downstream.
A comprehensive water plan developed for the state commissioned a work group in 2009 to develop "a process to ascertain the suitability and structure of an instream flow program for Oklahoma." An instream flow program was prioritized in 2012 when the comprehensive water plan was updated, and an advisory workgroup was formed and began meeting the following year.
The stream flow analyses were provided by John P. Rehring, an engineer with the Carollo Corp. of Broomfield, Colorado. The company looked at data from the 2012 update of the Oklahoma Comprehensive Water Plan and stakeholder input gathered during a series of public meetings.
Rehring, during an advisory group meeting on June 27, said four mechanisms to prevent water shortages were examined as part of the pilot study. Those mechanisms included a numeric instream flow rule, voluntary efforts, adaptive management monitoring, and taking no action at all.
Owen Mills, water resources planner with the Oklahoma Water Resources Board, said while the pilot study may be used to shape policies, in never was intended for implementation. The pilot study, he said, will provide the advisory group — made up of representatives from more than a dozen stakeholder groups — something concrete to work with as policy discussions begin to take shape going forward.
"I don't think we can get consensus," Mills said. "There's nothing that everyone agrees on, but maybe we could give them the two arguments here and they can let the legislature decide."
Mills said he and others who helped guide the pilot study hoped to find a way to help local stakeholders develop solutions for the watersheds that affect them. He described that as "the tricky part."
"We think it seems it ought to be a bottom-up approach," Mills said. "It's already controversial enough without us doing a top-down approach."
Robert Jackman, a Tulsa geologist, said the pilot study is "partly flawed." That is so, he said, because engineers failed to take into consideration during the flow analyses the contribution of the Boone-Roubidoux aquifer.
"You have to look at those like huge underground reservoirs — that's what they are, literally," Jackman said. "My educated guess could be 20 percent — plus or minus — of your flow comes from groundwater, or from springs, out of those aquifers."
Jackman said it is likely a U.S. Geological Survey study of those aquifers expected to be completed in a couple of years will back up that assumption. But he said there is other science that supports that assertion and the idea that "more studies are needed before we start waving the red flags about running out of water."
"They've only done half the study, so we need the other half," Jackman said. "That would include the aquifers, but then you have to address the quality of the water — there is enough concern that we need extensive studies on what's happening to the water quality control of the Illinois River Basin and the Grand River Basin ..., and I'm really concerned that it's being overlooked."


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Unai Emery has suggested previously that the club would like to add a defender and winger to the squad this month. But with the Spaniard admitting the club can only sign loan players currently, it’s worth taking a look at which young players could possibly take their game to the next level in the second half of the season.
Coaching staff at the club believe that young Greek defender Konstantinos Mavropanos could be the answer to the clubs defensive woes and Arsenal fans will certainly hope so. Aged just 21, he has time to grow into a top class defender and during his brief spell in the first team last season we definitely saw evidence of his qualities. Strong, tall, but fairly fast for his size, he brings qualities to Arsenal’s defence that the clubs other options do not. The Gunners have plenty of young attacking players coming through the ranks, but Mavropanos is one of the few promising defensive talents.
Elsewhere 21-year-old Ainsley Maitland-Niles is already established in the first team picture, but with the Gunners on the lookout for a new winger in the transfer market, the Englishman believes he is ready to play further forward and start scoring frequently. He played on the right wing at Anfield and despite the team’s poor show, his performance was one of the few positives from the night, scoring the opening goal.
A recent injury to 18-year-old Emile Smith-Rowe has seen him drift off the radar a little, but the young Englishman has already shown his quality in the Europa League this season. The diminutive attack minded midfielder is capable of playing on the wing or as an advanced midfielder. In Arsenal’s away game against Vorskla in the Europa League, Smith-Rowe managed to net the game-winning goal in a 3-0 win for the Gunners, he managed a very impressive PB score of 220 in this outing, highlighting his PB potential in the long term.
Another English talent, Bukayo Saka has started to appear in the first team squad lately due to injuries to first teamers. Saka is just 17-year-old and despite being very raw, looks to be the type of player the club are really missing at the moment. A direct winger that has a good end product.
And finally, Reiss Nelson. He won’t be back until the summer, but the future looks very bright for Nelson. The English winger could certainly save the club some money when he returns next season. Capable of playing as a number ten or out wide, the 19-year-old is very highly rated at the club and has earned European recognition due to his impressive performances for Hoffenheim. With Emery not looking to recall him this month, fans will hope he continues to show progress in the second half of the Bundesliga season. Jadon Sancho and Callum Hudson-Odoi’s meteoric rises recently
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Bethlehem-based B. Braun's recently announced joint venture with the German CeGaT GmbH is working to get its next generation genetic sequencing technology accepted as the standard of diagnostic care for a variety of cancers and other illnesses ... Newsmaker Q&A with CEO Scott Fainor of National Penn Bank ... RETAIL WATCH: Mom-and-pop pizza shops on the rise ... ON THE CHEAP: Don't let Father's Day set you back ... Nationally, Uber car service snags $1.2 billion in new funding, and executive action easing student loan debt is expected from Pres. Obama ... VIDEO OF THE DAY: Amazon to launch subscription-based billing and recurring payments ... QUOTE OF THE DAY: "Happy Monday! If you're looking for good news, you've come to the wrong place." - Morning Call Watch Dog columnist Paul Muschick in his blog post recapping the latest scams, accusations of fraud, recalls and other consumer news.


Just a couple of weeks ago, Hurricane Ida brought torrential rain, wind and flooding to much of the Gulf Coast and eastern United States. At one point, more than one million people in the path of the …
Just a couple of weeks ago, Hurricane Ida brought torrential rain, wind and flooding to much of the Gulf Coast and eastern United States. At one point, more than one million people in the path of the hurricane were living without power. Electricity powers just about everything that we have come to depend on in life. Over the past several years, the term beneficial electrification has become an industry topic. We’ve spent the last 20 – 30 years trying to focus on energy efficiency and energy reduction. However, much of the focus has turned toward reducing fossil fuels including reduction of fossil fuels for energy generation. Out of this movement sprung beneficial electrification, which is the use of electricity for things that otherwise would use fossil fuels as the means to provide energy. While most would say that all electricity provides benefit, the focus on highlighting uses of electricity to decarbonize our world has become quite mainstream.
One of the fascinating parts about electrification is all the new innovations that are entering the market. A couple of years ago, I purchased a leaf blower and lawn trimmer both powered by a battery. Since then, batterypowered lawn mowers and chainsaws are available. We now have robots that vacuum our floors, and it won’t be long before we see lawn robots become more affordable. I for one will enjoy not having to change the oil or fill up a 5-gallon gas can only to spill half of it on the mower. These are just some of the innovative products that are reducing our dependency on fossil fuels, but more importantly are helping us get work done more efficiently.
On Sept. 25, Pierce Pepin Cooperative Services will hold an inaugural event called “Powered by Electricity” at our headquarters, located at the corner of U.S. Highway 10 and State Highway 63 in Ellsworth. We celebrate National Cooperative Month in October, National Drive EV Week the last week of September, and our Member Appreciation event is normally held this time of year; we are combining these into one great event for all members and the community. During our Powered by Electricity event, community members will have a chance to see electric vehicles, battery-powered tools, electric golf carts, an electric bike, and many other items that use electricity. We are also excited to showcase an all-electric bus. The event, which runs from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. will also include food trucks and activities for kids. Stop on by; see how electricity is powering many of the things we use each day and take a tour of the bus. See you there!


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If you have little experience in painting, you will hardly be able to realistically portray a ballerina.
This is especially difficult, because the need to implement all the elegance and grace of ballet.
However, if you follow the simple step by step instructions, you will succeed.
Draw the outline initial line. It is very important to follow the exact proportions and location. First, picture the circuit packs. It should be slanted oval, the left edge is slightly tapered. Then picture the feet position, arms and head of a ballerina. These finishing touches considerably facilitate the task.
Ask the general shape of a ballerina. Skip to main loop, add a few lines to form the shape. Draw the shoulder line, the approximate shape of the legs and waist line. Remember that the ballerina - a very slender girl, so try to make the figure high, light and elegant.
Fully Draw the shape of the hands and feet of a ballerina. It stands on tiptoes, so with the image of the feet should be no problems. Remember that she is on her feet pointe shoes. Draw the legs thin as possible, but do not get carried away.
At this stage, the picture is necessary to remove allunnecessary edges and lines. You can say that you come almost to the final stage. Draw the palm and fingers. Add some wrinkles on the package and apply the facial contours.
Draw a face and a ballerina dress. If you have no experience in drawing, the task may seem daunting. If you draw a large image, the person must be fully portray, not missing even the smallest detail. If the picture a little, then you can do a few strokes.
Draw the nose, mouth, eyebrows, and then slightlyshade the entire face. As for the hair, then there should be no problems. Dancers always clean them, so it is enough to represent only a small outline. Do not forget to portray the pattern on the dress.
Try to pack a little ballerinatransparent. For this it is necessary to leave plenty of white color. Bring to mind the image of the corset and begin to apply the shadow. Carefully inspect the picture for the absence of any details. For example, the ties on pointe. It is the little things make a drawing truly alive.


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The adoption of the 2008 French space law or “LOI du 3 juin 2008 relative aux opérations spatiales” on June 3, 2008, which addressed several issues intimately linked to the privatisation of space activities, marked the outcome of several years of discussions, and finally provided France with a legal framework for activities in outer space. This highly expected piece of legislation, adopted a couple of days before the beginning of the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union, aimed at setting out the legal framework for French space activities, and at the same time, it clearly indicated the perspectives of France in terms of business, national sovereignty and independence.
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Space projects in Europe take place in a complicated environment involving many public, private and intergovernmental actors, where the participation of the private sector, as independent space operators or as sub-contractors to others, is usually subsumed under the label of “the space industry”, producing hardware, software and services to be used in outer space, in support of space activities, or using products, data or information generated with the help of space activities. It is often considered that national space legislation is the most adapted way to tie the link between the international framework and the private space actors. Besides, as a matter of domestic interest, enacting national space law is also a way for a State to set out its particular interests and orientation in terms of space policy.
Let’s recall that the French Space Agency, CNES, founded in 1961, is a major actor for outer space sustainability and implementation of voluntary guidelines. CNES is the government agency responsible for shaping and implementing France’s Space policy in Europe. Through its ability to innovate and its forward-looking vision, CNES is helping to foster new technologies that will benefit society as a whole, focusing on five themes: access to outer space (with Ariane), telecommunications, observation, science, security and defence. Through its numerous affiliations and participations in companies, CNES was in a position which enabled the control to take place.
France has adopted three main laws in support of sustainable development for Earth and outer space activities: the Law on Energy Transition to Green Growth adopted in August 2015, the Biodiversity Law adopted in July 2016, and the 2008 French space law or “LOI du 3 juin 2008 relative aux opérations spatiales”, adopted in June 2008. In order to respect the environment and to mitigate climate change, France implements exemplary policy concerning the impacts of space missions and the corresponding technical means. The mechanism implemented in the French legal system reflects the goal set out to create an extremely attractive framework for space operators.
While France opts for a conventional interpretation of the international legal system developed within the framework of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS), the 2008 French space law is not only a mere transposition of the international dispositions, but it also clarifies a certain number of national issues. As a leader in the field of outer space, France confirms with the 2008 French space law its acceptance of the U.N. system, and adheres to the structures recommended by the space treaties, especially in terms of State liability.
The 2008 French space law
While France is considered as a “space power”, it had no specific legislation applicable to activities in outer space until June 2008. The problematic grew even stronger over the last decade, where the apparition and the development of private space actors (referred to as “New Space”) stressed out the evident call for legislative action. The problems resulting from the lack of national regulation were apparent and even constituted an economical deficiency, as the emerging legal uncertainty could possibly impede the further development of the commercial use of outer space. A first draft for a French national space law was introduced in 2006, and opened the way to further discussions.
The 2008 French space law or French Space Operations Act (LOS) of June 2008, supplemented by decrees and a Technical Regulation, adopted after many years of discussion, establishes the legal framework for outer space activities in France. The 2008 French space law sets up an authorisation and continuous supervision process of the outer space activities of the French operators, in accordance with the international treaties, and in particular, the 1967 Outer Space Treaty and the 1972 Liability Convention. This process allows mastering the liability of France for space activities for which it is responsible, in accordance with the aforementioned international treaties.
The 2008 French space law leads to authorise and supervise all the space operations performed by French operators, and takes into account the long-term development of space activities. In particular, the Technical Regulation was developed with due consideration paid to the Space Debris Mitigation Guidelines adopted by the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space and endorsed by the United Nations General Assembly, the recommended practices and voluntary guidelines proposed by the Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee (IADC), and the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR), as well as the existing international technical standards, including those published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), and the Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS), generally accepted by the international space community for the safe conduct of outer space activities.
In France, the authorisation to perform a space operation (launch or on-orbit control) is given by the ministry in charge of Space, only after evaluation of compliance with the Technical Regulation. The detailed analysis of compliance with the Technical Regulation is performed by CNES on behalf of the ministry of Space (the Ministère de l’Enseignement supérieur, de la Recherche et de l’Innovation). This Technical Regulation comprises requirements ensuring that any space operation limits the number of fragments, and performs end-of-life operations respecting the protected regions, limits ground risks to populations and properties during the launch and re-entry of space objects, limits risks to public health and the environment associated with the elements coming back to Earth, and is compliant with applicable nuclear safety prescriptions via a specific plan, in case of use of radioactive materials.
The 2008 French space law provides that every operator has to carry out, for any space operation, an impact assessment on the environment, and a hazard study with a plan to manage risks and ensure safety of populations, properties, public health and the environment. The authorisation process and the assessment of compliance with the Technical Regulation provides assurance that the operators have the means, resources, necessary skills and are appropriately organised to perform the operation in compliance with the 2008 French space law. It also allows competent authorities to verify that compliance is maintained throughout operational life of the space object up until disposal, through the processing of the technical and organisational events.
For the sake of consistency, it was decided to extend previously established ad hoc practices and allocate them a legal origin so to ensure their dissemination in the space industry. This firstly concerns the cross waiver of liability clauses. This practice consists in considering that each party in a space related contract shall individually bear the risks of the activities performed and renounce to all claims against the other party (Article 20 of the 2008 French space law). The second noteworthy piece of codification carried out in the 2008 French space law concerns the liability ceiling for launch operators, and the mandatory insurance obligations for amounts below the ceiling (Article 6 of the 2008 French space law). The 2008 French space law also provides an insurance obligation for risks in orbit.
Article 4 of the 2008 French space law establishes a double stepped authorisation procedure. Based on Article VI of the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, France insures that non-governmental space activities are subject to “authorisation and control”. However, out of reasons of industrial policy and in order to relieve space operators from redundant and expensive authorisation applications, France has opted for a licensing system besides the authorisation system. Operators can apply for licences attesting that they have the guarantees required by the 2008 French space law for the granting of the authorisations. The 2008 French space law underlines the need for a harmonised approach to national space legislation at a European level.

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It’s happening again—Facebook is mimicking Snapchat with its new product. Just like Instagram Stories was considered a copy of Snapchat Stories, Facebook is testing a new camera and messaging features that ape its rival, including facial masks and photos or videos that disappear if you don’t respond within 24 hours, reports Recode. Facebook says that the new features let users “share moments as they happen and express yourself more” . . . and, they’re hoping, have fewer reasons to use Snapchat.


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When you think about Spain, the first things that usually come to mind are the sun, beaches, sightseeing… In short, holidays. But what about the textile industry some would say?
Well today, this is what I am going to talk about: Spanish Fashion. And more specifically, kids fashion with a brand we simply love here at French Blossom: Tiny Cottons.
Tiny Cottons was created in 2012 in Barcelona but it was one year later that they presented their first collection, which was a great success. They quickly became well-known in the children fashion universe as a fun brand with unique designs and high quality fabrics. Indeed, they use pima cotton (superior blend of cotton, durable and very absorbent) combined with lightweight cotton woven fabrics, knitted cotton yarns and light denim.
Their motto? Be as imaginative as kids and be as bold and not so serious as they can be. However, as a brand selling clothes, being creative is not the only criteria they have. Making good, long lasting products is just as important as being a fun favourite for kids.
This year, Tiny Cottons new collection is full of sun ! After the team created their little office garden, they decided to take the plants theme a little further. This spring and summer will be all about graphic stories and refreshing colours such as white, green, terracotta, pastel blue and light pink. Among the different patterns, you’ll be able to find potted plants, water textures and even ants tracks! In short, everything to make garden lovers happy, even from the youngest age.
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Here is a radio interview with Errol about his 1989 exhibition at the Holdsworth Galleries, Woollahra (Sydney) which was held from 21st Oct - 8th Nov 1989. The interviewer is Sophia Hendel, who presented the Arts programme at the time, on Eastside Radio 89.7FM in Sydney's Eastern Suburbs.
They discuss two sculptures, "Poetic Fragment" (cast stainless steel); and a half-size replica of Errol's 4-metre welded stainless steel work, "Kakadu Flight", which won the Ueno Royal Museum Award at the 6th Henry Moore Grand Prize Exhibition in Hakone, Japan in 1989. The Award required the original to remain on permanent display at the Open-Air Sculpture Museum in Utsukushi-ga-hara, Japan.
They discuss the sculptural process and how it relates to both mathematics and nature, through contours which naturally occur, eg. in landscapes and clouds.
Thank you to 89.7 Eastside FM (eastsidefm.org) for copyright permission to upload this recording.
Thank you also to Mrs Gisella Scheinberg, proprietor of the Holdsworth Galleries who firstly, had the foresight to donate the gallery's entire manuscript collection to the National Library of Australia when the Holdsworth Galleries closed; and who secondly, gave me her kind permission to research and copy parts of the collection relating to Errol's exhibitions, one of which was this original cassette recording, which had been provided to her by Sophia Hendel.
This beautiful film, entitled "A Momentary Impression - the Work of Errol Davis" was recorded on Super 8 film on 6th January 1992 by April Glaser-Hinder. The audio is the Aria from J.S. Bach's Suite in D major, played by Trudy Davis.
Modelmakers Errol B Davis and Alan Wilson, interviewed on Channel Ten's 'Good Morning Sydney' programme by Maureen Duvall and Jo Hasham regarding the second "Australian Modelmakers' Fair", held at the Sydney Showgrounds in the Royal Hall of Industries in the 1980s.
Errol B Davis interviewed for ABC TV's 'Weekend Magazine' in 1981. The segment was called 'The Creative Urge'.
Sydney sculptor Errol B. Davis, interviewed by Edith Bliss for 'Simon Townsend's Wonderworld', an afternoon children's programme on Channel Ten in the mid 1980s. This interview was filmed in September 1984, as part of it was filmed at Parkers Garden Centre in Turramurra, where Errol's work was on display at that time; so it would have gone to air about that time, or shortly after.
Errol Davis and other sculptors are interviewed about the Macquarie University Sculpture Park on the ABC's 'Review' programme, 12th July 1993.
This video was made by Gina Park, Gallery Intern at Macquarie University Art Gallery, in 2013. The Sculpture Park's Curator, Leonard Janiszewski, talks about the Park and various sculptures including three of Errol's. Music composed by Michael Pasterfield. Cameraman Iain Brew.
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January 26, 2017, by Liz Cass
Academics join former Minister to debate a threat bigger than cancer
University of Nottingham experts joined the economist behind a Government Review on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) to spark debate on a crisis that kills 700,000 people a year.
Lord Jim O’Neill, along with a panel of academic and industry experts, spoke to a packed audience at the Royal College of Physicians as part of the University’s Chancellor’s Lecture series.
Lord O’Neill led a review into AMR which was published last year.
He warned that our growing resistance to antimicrobials, in particular antibiotics, is a threat greater than cancer and could claim 10 million lives by 2050.
Blaming previous attitudes and overuse of antibiotics he said that lack of action could impact world economic development- specifically a loss of $100 trillion.
A Google for Doctors
As part of his lecture Lord O’Neill spoke about the challenges ahead.
On September 23 2016, All 193 UN member states agreed to combat the proliferation of drug-resistant infections – the fourth time such an agreement has been reached on a health issue.
But he said more needed to be done, including in the following areas:
- Public awareness
- Sanitation and hygiene – even basic improvements, like washing hands, could make a difference
- Surveillance and data – to help countries collect data
- Rapid diagnostics (the need for a tool like Google for Doctors) to remove the guess work and reduce the number of antibiotic prescriptions that are unnecessary
- Reducing the use of drugs in agriculture and farming
- Reducing use of antibiotics in animals
He added that it was far more important to address these issues than to focus on new drugs and alternatives, but pharmaceuticals and researchers in this area were part of the puzzle.
In the panel discussion, which included The University of Nottingham’s Liz Sockett, Professor in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dov Stekel, Associate Professor of Integrative Systems Biology in the Faculty of Science, and Matthew Diggle, Consultant at Nottingham University Hospital, Lord O’Neill said that global cooperation was the only way to solve the issue – estimating a spend of $40 million would be needed. He said the G20 set to take place in Germany should identify the drugs of the future and look towards phage research (already taking place in Nottingham).
The panel also discussed ways of future proofing against more AMR in the future and added that new technology and apps would help increase education and awareness.
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Looks like Kendrick Lamar is gearing up to make us all say “DAMN” at a stage near you. He announced at 17 tour stop along with Travis Scott and D.R.A.M. The tour will kick of July 12th in Arizona.
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Bradley Corp. Survey Finds Increase in Handwashing RatesFebruary 22, 2019
Participants in the 10th annual handwashing survey conducted by Bradley Corp. said they wash their hands 87 percent of the time after using a public restroom. What stops them from handwashing the other 13 percent of the time? Survey respondents said they skip the soap and water when the public restroom sinks are dirty, not working, or there is no soap to be found.
Bradley’s annual survey polled 1,264 adults about their handwashing habits in public restrooms and their concerns about germs, colds, and the flu. Participants were from around the country, were 18 years and older, and were fairly evenly split between men and women (49 and 51 percent).
Among those surveyed, 73 percent said they increased their hand hygiene in response to flu and other virus outbreaks. When Bradley conducted its first handwashing survey in 2009, only 45 percent of respondents said they elevated their handwashing in response to illness outbreaks.
Nearly two out of three Americans surveyed in the 2019 survey, or 62 percent, believe their hands are less germy after washing with soap and water than after using hand sanitizer.
Interestingly, in 10 years of Bradley’s surveys, women have consistently outperformed men in hand hygiene, with more men admitting they are more likely to skip soap and simply rinse their hands with water. Forty-four percent of men reported they were more likely to wash their hands after seeing a sign that requires employees to wash before returning to work, compared to 34 percent of women.
About Bradley Corp.
Bradley Corp. is a Menomonee Falls, WI-based manufacturer of commercial restroom products. For more information, visit www.bradleycorp.com.


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Property price growth slowed in more than half of the biggest US markets in 2018
Annual residential property price growth slowed in more than half of the largest housing markets in the United States in December 2018, the latest index shows.
Seattle and San Jose in California saw the biggest declines in prices in 2018 after growing at a double digit pace during the year. In December 2017 they increased by 12.4% but by last month that had fallen to 5%.
San Jose has seen a similarly steep fall in price growth, down from 16.8% in December 2017 to 9.9% a year later.
The data from the Zillow real estate index shows that price growth is still strong overall, up 7.6% year on year nationwide to an average of £233,900 while rents increased by 1.4% year on year, the biggest annual rise since June 2018.
In several more affordable Southern markets, home value growth accelerated in 2018. In Atlanta, for example, appreciation increased from 8.1% at the end of 2017 to 13.2% in December 2018.
Even as appreciation slowed in 19 of the nation’s 35 largest housing markets, national home value growth is faster than it was when the market was coming out of the recession. The fastest home values grew in the earliest years of the recovery was 7% in early 2014.
‘Looking at the nation as a whole, housing appreciation seems stabilized at an arguably aggressive pace. The exceptions to the rule are the metros that saw the fastest appreciation over the past few years, where home values far outpaced incomes,’ said Skylar Olsen, Zillow director of economic research.
‘Employment growth continues, but that kind of extreme home value growth isn’t sustainable, and home buyers’ willingness and ability to outbid each other is falling back fast. We expect continued slowdowns in those expensive coastal markets. A three month trend in increasing inventory ended, telling buyers that the pendulum hasn’t fully swung in their favour for this year’s home shopping season,’ he added.
The median rent increased 1.4% year on year to $1,460, the biggest annual increase in rents since June 2018. Orlando rents saw the biggest jump, up 6.4% to $1,496 while rents fell 1.3% in Portland, Oregon.
The index also shows that inventory fell slightly over the past year, down 0.4% since December 2017. This was after three consecutive months of gains in the number of homes for sale.
However, several major markets that had a low number of homes for sale are seeing big gains, led by San Jose with a rise of 47.6%, Seattle up 32.9% and San Diego up 32.2%.

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Today, buzzing NY artist KM Kash releases his remix for “No Promises,” which is a remix to A Boogies “No Promises” single that is featured on his The Bigger Artist album. The single goes into depth with a variety of emotions that KM faces in his life, positively and negatively. Km Kash also shouts out the Rapfest in regards to making the Top Ten Tristate Rappers Making Noise.
Very determined to make his mark in our music culture one way or another, his unique style and versatility have been getting positive reactions from his fans and other listeners. We look forward to seeing KM’s upcoming album this year titled In Kash We Trust.
But while we are here, let us know what you think about the track below:

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OAK TREE GRAND PRIX AT VIR. PORSCHE MOTORSPORTS PRE-EVENT NOTES
August 20, 2014 by Porsche
While the Porsche 919 Hybrid competes for overall victories at Le Mans and in the FIA World Endurance Championship, the likelihood of a GT Le Mans (GTLM) class entry of winning against the Prototype (P) class in the TUDOR United SportsCar Championship is slim. However, for the first time this year, and in recent memory, the Porsche 911 RSR will have a chance at the overall race win when the Oak Tree Grand Prix at VIR takes place on Sunday, August 24. The two-hour and 45-minute event marks the first time that only GTLM and GT Daytona (GTD) cars will be entered in a race. Therefore, the factory team-laden GTLM class will be the fastest in the race and should take overall honors. A win would give Porsche it's first overall victory in the highest form of North America sportscar racing since the Porsche RS Spyder won the American Le Mans Series' event overall at Canadian Tire Motorsports Park – then Mosport International Raceway – in 2010.
The pair of Porsche North America works Porsche 911 RSRs – the No. 911 shared by Richard Lietz (Austria) and Nick Tandy (Great Britain) and No. 912 campaigned by Michael Christensen (Denmark) and Patrick Long (Playa del Rey, California) – as well as the customer-raced No. 17 Team Falken Tire Porsche 911 RSR of Wolf Henzler (Germany) and Bryan Sellers (Braselton, Georgia) are the top Porsche contenders for the race victory in Virginia.
Give and Take. It is not all one-sided on track for GTLM and GTD Classes
In most TUDOR United SportsCar Championship races, there are four classes which make-up the competition: the Prototype (P), Prototype Challenge (PC), GT Le Mans (GTLM) and GT Daytona (GTD) classes. Each category is crafted with difference in mechanical and aerodynamic philosophy to distinguish them from the other. The idea is that, on track, each will have to race with every other category but top speed, cornering, braking, even fuel mileage will separate them into classes. But, those with a sharp eye will recognize that, at times, those variations do not divide the classes significantly.
With only the GTLM and GTD cars on track for two-hours and 45-minutes at Virginia International Raceway (VIR), the dividing line between classes is even smaller. Perhaps surprising to some, the GTD class cars, such as the Porsche 911 GT America, can be faster in a straight line than the larger GTLM class cars like the Porsche 911 RSR. This is largely due to aerodynamics where the more production based GTD cars are narrower and carry smaller wings minimizing drag on the straights but downforce in the corners. With nearly the same horsepower and the GTD cars cutting a smaller 'hole' in the air, the result is often the two categories running neck-and-neck, at times with the GTD car holding the edge, at the end of VIR's multiple long straights.
When asked, GTD class drivers like Patrick Lindsey (Santa Barbara, California) in the No. 73 Park Place Motorsports Porsche 911 GT America, admit that they will have to give way to the GTLM cars for 'self preservation' to avoid issues entering the corners. Once clear, the GTLM car will brake and corner better than the GTD car, creating the needed separation to avoid incident. As Lindsey points out, the issue of managing traffic is made easier when the GTLM cars aren't all racing in a group. Therefore, long green flag runs will help minimize conflicts between the two classes.
What's the Difference? A Comparison of Racing Porsche 911s.
For 2014, Porsche is racing four versions of its 911 racecars in North America. While they are all based on the Porsche 911 street car, and they are all running in race series that have GT classes, the cars are very different. Each series in which the cars compete has a different set of rules that must be met. Below is a short description of each car, along with some specifications to show the differences. Complete specifications for these cars, plus the Porsche 919 Hybrid Le Mans Prototype racer are available to journalists on the Porsche Cars North America motorsports media kit and at:
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Porsche 911 RSR
The 911 RSR, which contests the Sports Car World Endurance Championship (WEC) – including the 24 Hours of Le Mans – as well as the new TUDOR United SportsCar Championship GT Le Mans (GTLM) class in the USA and Canada, follows in the footsteps of its successful predecessor, the 911 GT3 RSR. It is based on the seventh generation of the iconic 911 sports car. As with the production vehicle, the wheelbase grew by approximately ten centimeters. A wishbone front suspension replaces the previously used McPherson struts. Another new development from Porsche Motorsport is the particularly lightweight racing gearbox. As previously, the six gears are selected via paddles on the steering wheel. The 470 hp (with ACO restriction), 4.0-liter six-cylinder boxer engine was taken from the car's predecessor and extensively optimized.
Porsche 911 GT America
The Porsche 911 GT America was built specifically for racing in the GT Daytona (GTD) class (GTD) for the 2014 TUDOR United SportsCar Championship. The vehicle is an enhanced version of the new Porsche 911 GT3 Cup, the most successful, and – with more than 2,600 units built since 1998 – the most widely manufactured racecar in the world. The 911 GT America features a flat-six 4.0-liter racing engine in the rear which produces 470 hp (350 kW) at 7,750 rpm, and utilizes a six-speed sequential gearbox with pneumatic paddle shift system and electronic throttle. As with the Porsche 911 GT3 Cup and 911 RSR, drivers are safeguarded by a redesigned safety cage and race seat, specially molded around the head and shoulders. A rescue hatch in the roof provides easy access for primary medical attention and for the extrication of the driver. As with the road-legal car, the body of the new 911 GT America combines highest rigidity with low weight thanks to its smart aluminum-steel composite construction. The 911 GT America weighs around 2640 pounds per current IMSA regulations. As in the case of the 911 GT3 Cup, the suspension features higher precision and more stability at high speeds. With the wheelbase extended to 2,458 millimeters, the handling of the 911 GT America at the limit has also improved. The race braking system, newly developed for the latest version of the GT3 Cup, improves the excellent endurance qualities of the 911 GT America.
Porsche 911 GT3 R
While this particular model of the 911 GT3 R was launched in 2010 for the worldwide FIA GT3 categories, it is running in North America for the first time in 2014. Three cars are racing in the Pirelli World Challenge. Based on the sixth generation of the Porsche 911 GT3 RS street car (type 997), the 911 GT3 has flared fenders front and rear. The aerodynamics improves downforce for higher cornering speeds and later braking points, while the wider track provides additional traction. The highly efficient four-liter six-cylinder flat engine has an output of approximately 500 hp (368 kW). The Porsche six-speed sequential dog-type gearbox with pneumatic shift system is operated via shift paddles on the steering wheel.
Porsche 911 GT3 Cup
The Porsche 911 GT3 Cup is the racing version of the Porsche 911 GT3 street car. After celebrating a successful debut in the 2013 Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup, the production-based racecar, based on the seventh generation of the 911, also runs in the worldwide Porsche Carrera Cups and Challenge Cups, included the IMSA Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge by Yokohama (USA), and the Ultra 94 Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge by Michelin (Canada). Powering the Porsche 911 GT3 Cup is a 3.8-litre, six-cylinder boxer engine. Thanks to the weight-optimized modular race exhaust system, the vehicle generates 460 hp (338 KW) at 7,500 revs per minute. Power is delivered to the rear axle via a race clutch and a Porsche Motorsport designed six-speed dog-type gearbox with a mechanical limited slip differential. For the first time in a Porsche makes Cup racecar, gear shifting is performed with paddle shifts on the steering wheel.
Porsche Point of View.
Jens Walther, President/CEO, Porsche Motorsport North America
'This weekend will be a two-prong approach by Porsche Motorsport. We have the Tudor Championship competing at Virginia International Raceway with the Porsche North America works effort, the Team Falken Tire customer 911 RSR and nearly a dozen Porsche 911 GT Americas. Simultaneously, we have the Pirelli World Challenge racing in Sonoma with EFFORT Racing's two Porsche 911 GT3 R and GTSport's Porsche Cayman S.
Logistically, it is always challenging to have two major series racing on opposite sides of the country. However, we have many years of experience and we have been able to create the processes to maximize our effectiveness at both locations. We trust that our customers and fans will not recognize any difference in either our commitment or execution of service and performance on either coast.'
Richard Lietz, Driver, No. 911 Porsche North America Porsche 911 RSR – Tudor United SportsCar Championship, GTLM Class
'This will be my first time to race at VIR. I know from videos that it is a very fast track in a very green area. I have heard the tarmac is new so I expect a smooth track with not too many bumps. But, I've also heard that you have to run the
curbs really hard, so again, it's a compromise with the dampers. It looks quite difficult to learn to be honest. I've been playing iRacing to learn the track. Road America was new for me also and I have to so it was a very good preparation to go to a track for the first time. I also look at videos and have a good track walk with experienced drivers like Pat Long. And, you have to ask as many questions as possible. At Road America, we worked a lot to get a good balance with our new aero kit. For the race, we got it right and all drivers felt happy with the car and pushed hard all race long. With the Adjustment of Performance (AoP), we lost top speed but gained grip in the corners. It's a compromise but now we can make that compromise because we have some aero to play with.'
Jan Heyen, Driver, No. 58 Snow Racing Porsche 911 GT America – Tudor United SportsCar Championship, GTD Class
'For Dempsey Racing and Snow Racing, the third-place finish at Road America was long overdue. We've been in a good position for the podium all year, but only have two to show for it. We'll take it, but I'm not satisfied because of all the ones we missed. More than anything, I'm happy for our car owner Martin Snow. He stuck with us throughout our bad luck, and it was good to come back with a good result. The whole team is great to work with, and the joint effort has been good for everyone. It wasn't easy – that last lap at Road America – but the battle with the Viper was a lot of fun. As it's the last lap, you do whatever you can to hang on. That Viper was in a class of its own, and was faster than any car on track. To be able to keep him behind us was good and made for a good battle.'
Porsche History. Virginia International Raceway
In 1955, a group of North Carolina sports car enthusiasts began searching for a suitable race track location. They found the perfect site just across the state line from Milton, North Carolina on 1200 acres of rolling farmland in Alton, Virginia. The VIR facility was paved and opened in 1957. The early days held primarily SCCA amateur races until IMSA visited in the 1970s. In spite of some excellent events, the facility was unable to draw the necessary revenue and closed in 1974. VIR reopened in 2000 with professional racing including first the Rolex GRAND-AM and then American Le Mans Series. The current track follows the centerline and elevation of the old track but has been widened and renovated several times since, including prior to this racing season.
1957 – Bob Holbert – Porsche 550 RS – Washington Region SCCA Inaugural Grand Prix Sports Car Races – first-ever race at VIR – F-Modified winner
1958 – Dan Sessler – Porsche 550 RS – SCCA National – F-Modified winner
1959 – Bruce Jennings – Porsche 356 Carrera GT – SCCA National – F-Production winner (Briggs Cunningham was fourth in an Osca 750)
1960 – Bob Holbert – Porsche 718 RSK – SCCA National – E Modified winner (Roger Penske was fourth in a similar Porsche)
1961 – Bob Holbert – Porsche RS 61 – SCCA National – E-Modified winner
1962 – Bob Holbert – Porsche RS 62 – SCCA National – E-Modified winner
1966 – Bruce Jennings – Porsche 356 Carrera – SCCA National – C Production winner
1968 – Pat Mernone – Porsche 911 – SCCA National – B-Sedan winner
1971 – Peter Gregg/Hurley Haywood – Porsche 914/6 – IMSA GT – GTU and overall race winner
1972 – Peter Gregg/Hurley Haywood – Porsche 911s – Camel GTU winner
2004 – Randy Pobst/Mike Levitas – Porsche 911 GT3 Cup – Rolex Grand-Am GT winner
2006 – Patrick Long/Mike Rockenfeller – Crawford DP03 Porsche – Rolex Grand-Am Daytona Prototype and overall race winner
2007 – Bryce Miller/Dirk Werner – Porsche 911 GT3 Cup – Rolex Grand-Am GT winner
2010 – Andy Lally/Ted Ballou – Porsche 911 GT3 Cup – Rolex Grand-Am GT winner
2011 – J.C. France/Joao Barbosa/Terry Borcheller – Riley MkX1 Porsche – Rolex Grand-Am Daytona Prototype and overall race winner


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Block 2 of "Baltimore Rhapsody" is the clarinet block. ("Baltimore Rhapsody" is my original musical pattern series in the making - to learn the back story, click here). As a clarinet player, of course this had to be one of the first musical instruments drafted!
The clarinet, a single reed instrument, is one of the four typical kinds of woodwind instruments found in a symphony orchestra. It was invented about 1700. Besides a symphony, clarinets are used in chamber music, concert bands, jazz ensembles, Dixieland bands, and waking up a napping Grandpa...
Admittedly, the size and shape of a traditional 15-inch block makes the long, skinny instruments more of a design challenge than, say, a tambourine or a stocky drum. I finally settled on the instrument in the center of a heart wreath, which is appropriate for one of my favorites.
When I make this one again (I'm sure I will make a few of each block...), I will use a batik or similarly high thread count fabric to make all the silver keys of the instrument. The grey that I used was a little testy as I glued/turned under under all the edges of the little circles or long rods. I also want to experiment with some grey ultra suede, which has the advantage of being used "raw edge." Alternately, it will also give me an opportunity to work on my raw edge applique...
After gently soaking the block to remove the glues, there was one tiny piece that I neglected to hand applique all sides down. Due to the looser weave of the grey fabric, it was hard to wrangle the raw edge by needle turn to stitch it down. No problem! I just invented an extra key to cover up the area that looked a little threadbare...can you clarinet aficionados out there see where I fudged??
Picking the fabric palette for this project has been fun. I felt I needed to use sort of bright fabrics for the flowers, fruits, birds, etc. due to the rather limited, muted palette of the instruments (blacks, greys, browns, and golds). Then, I picked more traditional greens for leaves and vines to tone down the brights. Hopefully the contrast of tones and values will cause movement in the finished top.
After drafting the heart wreath, I didn't like the empty spaces in the bottom corners, hence the loose blossoms.
It probably makes the gardeners crazy, but I am just making up flowers, right and left (I'm not sure I've ever seen this color blue in an actual blossom before, ha-ha).
The first 16 blocks will contain instruments found in a symphony orchestra. But don't worry, the rest of the blocks will feature everything from organ pipes to accordions!


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What happened: On Monday night Prime Ministers Boris Johnson and Benjamin Netanyahu spoke on the phone, after the former’s op-ed in Yediot Ahronot calling for Israel not to apply its sovereignty in the West Bank.
- Netanyahu told Johnson that “Israel is prepared to conduct negotiations on the basis of President Trump’s peace plan which is both creative and realistic and will not return to the failed formulas of the past.” In addition, The Prime Minister’s Office said the pair “agreed to strengthen bilateral relations in a range of fields, especially to deepen cooperation combating the coronavirus”.
- The UK Government released a statement, saying: “The Prime Minister set out his concerns about plans to annex parts of the West Bank unilaterally and cautioned that this would set back the prospects for peace in the region. He reiterated his personal support for Israel and urged Prime Minister Netanyahu to return to negotiations with the Palestinians. The leaders also underlined their ongoing commitment to UK-Israel trade and discussed the global response to coronavirus, agreeing to continue working together to tackle the pandemic.”
- Yesterday, the foreign ministers of Egypt, France, Germany and Jordan spoke on a video conference and afterwards issued a rare joint statement: “We concur that any annexation of Palestinian territories occupied in 1967 would be a violation of international law and imperil the foundations of the peace process. We would not recognise any changes to the 1967 borders that are not agreed by both parties in the conflict. We also concur that such a step would have serious consequences for the security and stability of the region, and would constitute a major obstacle to efforts aimed at achieving a comprehensive and just peace. It could also have consequences for the relationship with Israel. We emphasise our strong commitment to a negotiated two-state solution based on international law and relevant UN resolutions. We discussed how a constructive fresh start can be made between the Israeli and Palestinian sides, and we offer our support in opening a path to negotiations.”
- Last night Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah warned in a televised speech: “We stand by our Palestinian brothers as a state and as a people, and are ready to do anything against this plot, the consequences of which are extremely dangerous for Lebanon.”
Context: According to the coalition agreement, July 1 was set as the earliest date for an Israeli government decision on any West Bank move. However, the issue was not even on the agenda at this week’s parliamentary faction meetings for either the Likud or Blue and White.
- At the beginning of the week outgoing Director General of the Defence Ministry Udi Adam said “there is no practical way to do a sweeping annexation at the moment”. He added that any move needs to be done in cooperation with other countries in the region, the US, the Europeans, and “of course the Palestinians”.
- Both Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) are focused on fighting a new surge of the coronavirus. According to the PA’s Health Ministry, more than 4,570 people have tested positive overall and 17 people have died. Last week there were 2,356 cases and five deaths. In Israel, a total of 1,319 people have tested positive in the last 24 hours. Five people died in hospitals across Israel yesterday, bringing the death toll up to 342.
- The King of Jordan and other Jordanian officials have been outspoken in their opposition to any unilateral Israeli move, but this is the first time Egypt has publicly threatened that annexation could impact its relations with Israel.
- Last week, the US Special Representative for International Negotiations Avi Berkowitz and National Security Council Member Scott Leith were in Israel for consultations and met Prime Minister Netanyahu, Alternate Prime Minister and Defence Minister Benny Gantz and Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi.
- Last Wednesday Prime Minister Boris Johnson wrote an op-ed, published on the front page of Israel’s popular daily newspaper Yediot Ahronot, where he sought to reassure that “our commitment to Israel’s security will be unshakable while I am Prime Minister,“ but added, “I profoundly hope that annexation does not go ahead. If it does, the UK will not recognise any changes to the 1967 lines, except those agreed between both parties”.
Looking ahead: The US peace team is expected to resume their discussion later today on next steps to implement the Trump plan. A source told The Jerusalem Post that an announcement is “still possible” this month.
- Netanyahu and Johnson also agreed that British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab will continue to discuss the issue with Israeli Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi during Raab’s next official visit to Israel.