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WHO: Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte
WHAT: WONDROUS BEAUTY,
a new biography by Carol Berkin
WHEN: Published by Knopf February 17, 2014
WHERE: Set in Baltimore and Europe.
WHY: “A wonderful story of a woman who managed to achieve independence and leave her mark in a world not quite ready for her.
“Berkin tells the story of Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte (1875–1879), a strong woman who succeeded in spite of herself. The young Baltimore beauty was not only intelligent, but also blessed with a quick wit. She was a good friend of Dolley Madison, who introduced her to the best of Washington society.
“Brash and dressed in the newest shockingly bare styles out of France without a thought to opinion, she found that Jérome Bonaparte was just what she was looking for. The youngest brother of Napoleon, he did not enjoy the navy and left his post in the Caribbean to see America. Jérome and Elizabeth fell madly in love; after a lengthy fight with her father, the couple married in late 1803.
“Napoleon was livid and ordered his brother home to France—without that American girl. Elizabeth was banned from entering any port in Europe. Jérome finally succumbed to his brother’s demand, and his return to France in 1805 was the end of the marriage. After Napoleon annulled the marriage, she strove for her son’s legitimacy, first with the emperor himself and eventually with Napoleon III and finally in the courts of France, all to no avail.
“This story would be that of just another headstrong girl who married badly if it weren’t for her fierce independence. She went to Europe seeking intellectual freedom and an identity, carefully budgeted her scant funds, invested wisely and became one of America’s first self-made women.” —KIRKUS REVIEWS
“A fascinating portrait of a determined woman who defied convention.”
—Vanessa Bush, BOOKLIST
“Engaging and quick-reading.
Betsy’s little-remembered story exposes tensions between the Bonapartes while also revealing the fragility of her native country as her predicament briefly threatened diplomatic incidents in three countries while upsetting moral and patriotic purists in the process.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
From the beginning of the book: She was a Baltimore legend, a curiosity, walking slowly down the streets of the city in the 1870s, her trademark red parasol high above her head to protect her from sun or rain or, in winter weather, draped carefully over her arm. On the other arm, she carried an ornate elaborately embellished bag that, it was rumored, held all her jewels. Her dress was no longer fashionable, perhaps made in that bygone era when Napoleon dominated Europe and America was little more than a fledgling nation. No matter; it was clear she had once been a great beauty, and even in her old age, she conveyed an elegance and a sense of superiority that captured admiration as well as curiosity. As she stopped at one building and then the next, rapping on doors and demanding the rent owed to her by tenants, passersby might have recognized her as their city’s first celebrity, Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte.”
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Raghavendran Ganesan, a software engineer with Indian outsourcing firm Infosys Ltd. who had been missing since last week’s terrorist attacks in Belgium, has been confirmed dead, the company said.
“It is with deep regret that we confirm the passing of our colleague Raghavendran Ganeshan in the terrible attack in Brussels,” the Bangalore-based firm said in a statement on Monday, using an alternate spelling for his surname. “Our thoughts and prayers are with Raghavendran’s family and with those who were injured or lost a loved one in these attacks.”
Suicide bombers last week struck Brussels’ airport and a subway train, killing 35 people, excluding the attackers. Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the attacks.
“A young life, full of hope & promise cut short by mindless violence,” India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, wrote Tuesday on his Twitter account.
A young life, full of hope & promise cut short by mindless violence… condolences to family of Raghavendran, who lost his life in Brussels.
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) March 29, 2016
India’s foreign minister, Sushma Swaraj, said on her Twitter account Monday that Mr. Ganesan had been “travelling in the same coach of the metro in which the suicide bomber blew himself up,” and that authorities in Brussels had identified Mr. Ganesan as one of those killed.
Unfortunately, he was travelling in the same coach of the metro in which the suicide bomber blew himself up. /3
— Sushma Swaraj (@SushmaSwaraj) March 28, 2016
Mr. Ganesan’s brother said last week that the two had spoken on the phone just 15 minutes before the attack on the subway, and that he had not heard from him since. He said Mr. Ganesan’s wife and child were awaiting news at home in India.
An Infosys spokeswoman declined to say how long Mr. Ganesan had been working in Brussels, or to specify clients with whom he worked.
Many Indian outsourcing firms such as Infosys, the country’s second largest software exporter by sales, send their engineers and programmers abroad to work for clients in various sectors.
The outsourcing industry is an important pathway to the middle class in the world’s second-most-populous country, employing millions.
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Wine Regions worth a visit
Judean Hills – The wine area expected to be the first to gain international recognition (GI) includes many of the best wineries in Israel. From small boutique wineries producing a few thousand individual bottles a year, to the more established wineries, producing tens and even hundreds of thousands of bottles a year. Here too, old and new merge perfectly; the famous clash between David and Goliath took place here, and ancient wine presses can be found all over this area. This visit can be combined with a visit to one of Israel’s best cheese makers, to breweries, ciders and many other good things.
Zikhron Yaakov and the coastal area
The first commercial winery in Israel was founded by the well-known philanthropist (Rothchild) in 1882. Actually, two were founded, one in Rishon Lezion and one in Zikhron Yaakov, named after the philanthropist Baron. Most of Israel’s vineyards were in this area for many decades, along with the old and large Carmel Mizrahi winery. Also to be found in this area are many small and medium-sized wineries, pioneering in character, and in many cases producing as well as wine, olive oil, jams and other delicacies.
The Galilee and the Golan
The climate in the north of Israel is cooler and facilitates the growing of excellent wine grapes. Together with the familiar Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot, one can find Riesling, Barbera, Morvedre, Chanin Blanc and many other interesting types. It was right here that, in 1983, the quality revolution in Israeli wine took place, when the Ramat Hagolan Winery took a stand and changed the trend for quality over quantity. Today there are dozens of wineries throughout the north of Israel, along with boutique hotels, many of which are right in the middle of the vineyards.
The Negev Desert
Our vehicle coasts along the desert roads, 50 shades of brown sprouting all round, until suddenly a beautiful green vineyard of wine grapes bursts as out of nowhere; even in the desert they manage to grow quality wine grapes and produce tasty wines with lots of character. Single-flare farms, white truffles which grow in the desert climate, and other tastes and fragrances unique to the breath-taking desert landscape.

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Xenoblade Chronicles 3 will be released sooner than expected, according to Nintendo, who also confirmed that a Special Edition of the game is in the works.
However, it seems that fans will have to wait a bit longer to get their hands on these additional items.
Xenoblade Chronicles 3 – Special Edition details
The contents of the Special Edition (such as the special artbook, steel case, and outer box) will only be sent out from Fall 2022 onwards, according to the My Nintendo website in Japan — not on the game’s release date. This implies that anyone who buy the Special Edition in Japan will get the solo game first when it comes on July 29, 2022, while the remainder of the Special Edition material will have to wait until until Fall 2022.
Notice on My Nintendo Japan’s website (roughly translated):
Only the software will be sent to those who have reserved the “Xenoblade 3 Collector’s Edition” on the release date (7/29) initially.
The “Xenoblade 3 Collector’s Edition” extras (the “Xenoblade 3 Nintendo Switch Card Case Steel Book,” the “Original Art Book” Xenoblade 3 Collected Works,” and the outer box) will begin shipping in the autumn of 2022.
It’s unclear if the Special Edition materials will be released in a similar fashion in the west. Let’s hope so though.
About Xenoblade Chronicles 3
In Xenoblade Chronicles 3, the latest installment in the critically renowned RPG series from MONOLITHSOFT, a huge universe awaits. In the midst of conflict between the antagonistic countries of Keves and Agnus, players will assume the roles of protagonists Noah and Mio. Six protagonists from six countries will take part in a big story centered on the concept of “life.” Explore a new universe that will tie the futures of both Xenoblade Chronicles and Xenoblade Chronicles 2, both of which will be released on Nintendo Switch on July 29, 2022.


Not so, Makayla. Even before she saw any of the films she was calling gowns ‘princess dresses.’ It’s strange to think of toddlers and pre-schoolers having their own pop sub-culture, but they do and, if they’re girls, Disney Princesses are their icons. And she picked up on what the movies are telling her too: the goal is to find a prince. If you asked her what she wants to be when she grows up, she’ll tell you she wants to get married. (Actually, nowadays she’s likely to tell you to become a doctor and get married, but that’s her mother’s influence.)
But if Disney has created a problem--and, yes, it would be silly to lay the whole thing at Disney’s feet--they are also providing a solution in a new series of movies starring Tinker Bell and the fairies of Pixie Hollow. I saw the first two of these movies before our trip to Disney World, but didn’t recognize their potential until we were there. The nice thing about going there at the end of September is how much the crowds have thinned. We rarely waited more than ten minutes for anything. We may have waited fifteen to meet actresses dressed as Princess characters, and I did see a sign saying that the wait to go on the Peter Pan ride was then thirty five minutes, but we had gone earlier and been on the ride in less than ten minutes. No, if line ups are any measure of demand the biggest thing at Disney World was Pixie Hollow. We actually stood in line an hour so the girls (we also took our granddaughter Talia) could meet three actresses dressed as the fairies Fawn, Tinker Bell, and Vidia. I heard a lot of parents muttering about how they couldn’t believe how long it was taking, but I didn’t hear a single complaint from the kids; ours or anyone else’s.
(Makayla is dressed like Belle. Talia like Aurora.)
The first film, Tinker Bell (2008), tells the
origins of Tinker Bell, her birth and how she became a tinker. In the world of Pixie Hollow, where the fairies are hard at work bringing about the changes of the seasons (painting the leaves for autumn, teaching the baby birds to fly in the spring, etc) newborn fairies are presented with the sigils of each fairy guild. The one that reacts most strongly to the fairy’s presence defines that fairy’s role. There are animal fairies, light fairies, water fairies, garden fairies, fast flying (air/wind) fairies, and there are tinker fairies. While the other fairies take what they have prepared out of Pixie Hollow and over to the mainland, the tinkers stay home and help prepare. They provide what the military would call logistical support. When Tinker Bell learns that she can’t go to the mainland, she is determined to develop a new skill, to become another kind of fairy, so that she can. After a great many comic misadventures, she learns to appreciate herself and her own gifts.
The second movie, Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure (2009), sees her happily applying her considerable problem-solving skills and being given the privilege of creating the sceptre for the Blue Harvest Moon ceremony. Every eight years a blue harvest moon shines through the moonstone and creates blue pixie dust, which the pixie dust tree needs if it’s going to keep producing their supply of pixie dust. This dust is a valuable resource for the community, providing them with many of their powers. Without it, for example, a fairy can’t really fly. They just sort of hop about. Tinker Bell feels genuinely honoured to be given the task, but anyone who remembers the original Peter Pan will know that she has a notorious temper and when a friend of hers, the pixie dust keeper Terence (dust keepers seem to be a sub-group of the tinkers), tries to help, he ends up setting off that temper to ruinous results. If Tink is going to save the day, she’s going to have to start valuing her friends.
Parents appreciate quality children’s entertainment. Kids really will watch the same thing over and over and over and… anyway, if you’re watching the same show on a regular basis, good writing and production values begin to count for a lot. And the Tinker Bell movies have been very good. They don’t make an effort to reach out to older viewers with pop culture references that will go over the kids head. Instead they trust in the story. A good story is a good story and while an adult is unlikely to pick up one of these films for him or herself, I think the kids who are watching them now will still have fond memories of them ten, twenty years from now. (For cinemaphiles who want some frame of reference, John Lasseter, the driving force behind Pixar, is also the Executive Producer of this series.)
What I like about these films is that the fairies, and the focus is on the female cast, are focused on their work and helping their friends and community. Tinker Bell is never going to marry Terence. It’s why I think they are an antidote to the Princesses and not just the Next Big Thing. They are characters who take pride in take pride in their accomplishments, in problem solving, and in helping one another. And they don’t waste time with all the girl power tag lines we’ve all grown so weary of. They simply do the job in front of them.
As for the third movie, The Great Fairy Rescue, my wife and I sat down to watch it with Makayla and found ourselves laughing out loud more than once. It was fun. I am sure we’ll be watching it again (and again), but the story wasn’t as strong as the first two. The main plot involves Tinker Bell being captured by a little girl named Lizzy. I am not sure what Tink is doing on the mainland. The whole point of the first movie was that she wasn’t able to go there. Lizzy is a girl that loves fairies and spends all her time fantasizing about them. Her father is the always busy, always preoccupied Dr. Griffins, who doesn’t believe in fairies or anything else without proof. Yes, it’s another little girl who just needs a little attention and another parent who just needs to believe.
The motive of this movie, however, has nothing to do with the Griffins. It has to do with Vidia and Tinker Bell. As you might have noticed from the video above, these two characters aren’t exactly friends. Vidia is a fast flying fairy. She’s important, she knows it, and she finds Tinker Bell extremely annoying. If these stories were set in a high school, Vidia would be the Queen Bee. She is not a villain. She is not a bad person--fairy--but she is obviously intended to be Tink’s antagonist. There are two problems with this. First, because Disney had the courage to play her character straight. Kids know she isn’t a villain. She’s the best and she knows it, and that comes off as snobbish, but little children have a strong sense of pecking order. They seem hard wired to defer to the oldest, the strongest, the ‘best’, even if they don’t want to, or don’t like the other kid. They may not like the trouble she causes Tink and they may be glad when she gets in trouble, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t attracted to her in much the same way school children will seek the approval of the class Queen. Second, of all the fairies Vidia and Tinker Bell have the strongest personalities. Tink has four other friends. Rosetta, a flower fairy, has a Southern accent and Iridessa, a light fairy, is black, but accents and skin colouring don’t really add much personality-wise. Both Fawn, an animal fairy, and Silvermist, a water fairy, seem more nurturing, but I could well be reading that into them, given the nature of their work. The truth Tink’s friends exists largely just to be friends and to encourage her when things aren’t going well. Tink and Vidia are the ones that make an impression and the point of this movie seems to be to create a détente between them. Even if Vidia isn’t going to become anther one of Tinker Bell’s BFFs, most mothers don’t want their daughters trying to emulate a snob. (Trust me.) The next movie is due out in February and I am sure we’ll be watching it. I personally hope Vidia’s character remains unchanged. That she remains the oil to Tinker Bell’s vinegar. It adds a nice mix and one we often don’t see in the dumbed down world of children’s entertainment.
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Aunt Lily gives her a necklace she claims is charmed - and it's not long before Veronica is experiencing clairvoyant images while wearing it! Is the necklace merely magical, or is the magic all in Veronica's head? Then, Career Day at the school leads Veronica to imagine what life in the workplace would be like, with her as the boss, of course!
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The US will overcome a housing slowdown and avert recession, while the rest of the global economy is in sound health, the IMF said on Thursday.
"The message here is reassuring: we do not think the US is heading for recession," the IMF's new chief economist, Simon Johnson, told a news conference.
Johnson acknowledged the housing slowdown underway in the world's largest economy, "but we're not seeing it spread beyond residential construction."
Canada and Mexico could feel some effects from the US housing market, "but it won't spill over to the broader global economy," the economist said.
"If the United States sneezes, you should worry about other parts of the world catching cold. But at the moment, other parts of the world are healthy," he added.
"The US economy has also been taking its vitamins. While there are problems in one important sector and a couple of regions of the United States, overall the economy is very healthy," he said.
Johnson was speaking after the release of a portion of the IMF's semi-annual report World Economic Outlook. The full report, with projections for global growth, is to be released next week just ahead of the Fund's annual spring meeting.
The IMF report said that some of the world's economic imbalances could be corrected as the dollar's value declines. The massive US trade gap -- of US$763.6 billion last year -- is among key concerns for finance officials as surpluses and currency reserves mount in countries such as China.
The IMF concluded that "a real US dollar depreciation of less than 10 percent could bring about a one percent of GDP narrowing in the US trade deficit."
The US account deficit is already looking better, Johnson said. "It looks like that part of the global imbalances has turned the corner."
In another section, the report said the "effective global labor force" has risen fourfold over the past two decades, reflecting population growth and the increasing integration of China, India, and the former Eastern bloc.
But the report appeared to acknowledge that globalization has pushed down wages in wealthy countries, especially in European countries and among unskilled workers.
"Looking ahead, it is important to maximize the benefits from labor globalization and technological advancements, while working to address the distributional impact of these ongoing changes," it cautioned.
Up to now, the Federal Reserve said, the US economy remained on track for moderate growth this year despite a severe slump in housing, although some data suggested a softening of business investment.
The Fed predicted a US GDP growth in a range of 2.5 to 3 percent this year, compared to 3.3 percent last year.
"We think the US is going to bounce back pretty quickly," Johnson said, adding: "The US is a significant part of the [global[ economy ... but it's not by any means the whole story. "The contribution of China and India and other emerging markets is definitely positive."
The report said any slowdown in the US economy "can exert spillovers" in advanced and developing countries, especially to those with strong trade ties to the US.
But "with the US slowdown to date largely driven by the cooling domestic housing market, spillovers to growth elsewhere have been limited," it added.
‘HERO OF THE ERA’: President Tsai Ing-wen expressed deep sadness at Lee’s passing, and told the government to assist his family with all their needs Former president Lee Teng-hui (李登輝) passed away at 7:24pm yesterday at Taipei Veterans General Hospital. He was 97 years old. The hospital stated the cause of death as septic shock and multiple organ failure. Lee had been hospitalized there since February, when he choked on a mouthful of milk at home. He was later diagnosed with pulmonary infiltrates and aspiration pneumonia. The hospital said that Lee had been treated with antibiotics, but that his health had not improved, as his advanced age and diabetes had inhibited his immune system and led to recurring infections. During his hospitalization, Lee underwent daily kidney dialysis, which removed
‘WEAK POSITIVE’: The man arrived in Taiwan in May and was quarantined for two weeks, Chen Shih-chung said, adding that he might be infected a long time ago The government is considering tightening mask-wearing rules again in light of a potential domestic COVID-19 infection, Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中) said yesterday. The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) confirmed seven new COVID-19 cases, six of which are imported. The other case involves a Belgian engineer who entered Taiwan on May 3 and remained in quarantine until May 17, said Chen, who heads the CECC. Although the source of infection has yet to be identified, the case could end the nation’s record of not having any domestic cases in the previous 110 days. The Belgian, in his 20s, is a technician
RECEIVING TREATMENT: President Tsai Ing-wen, Vice President William Lai and Premier Su Tseng-chang visited former president Lee Teng-hui yesterday morning Taipei Veterans General Hospital yesterday rebutted speculation that former president Lee Teng-hui (李登輝) had died a day earlier, saying that he was weak, but receiving treatment. The hospital said the 97-year-old Lee was not in good condition and needed ongoing care, adding that if there are any changes in his condition, it would make those public. The comments came after rumors emerged online on Tuesday that Lee had died after being hospitalized since early February. Soon after the unsubstantiated rumors emerged, reporters started flocking to the hospital seeking confirmation. Lee was admitted to Taipei Veterans General Hospital on Feb. 8 after choking while drinking
THAI CASE UPDATE: Twenty-nine close contacts of the worker have been tested with two types of tests, including 18 dorm mates, with 28 negative results so far Five imported cases of COVID-19, four from the Philippines and one from Hong Kong, were reported yesterday, bringing the total confirmed cases in Taiwan to 467, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) said yesterday. The four returning from the Philippines were on the same flight, and the local health department has identified 15 people who had direct contact with them — including 10 passengers in the two rows in front or behind them, who have been put under 14-day home isolation, and five crew members, who will practice 14-day self-health management, said Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Deputy Director-General Chuang Jen-hsiang


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More new details have been released recently for Final Fantasy 15. A new gameplay footage for Final Fantasy XV?has been released recently during the 2015 PAX Prime in Seattle. The game director has also stressed at the event that the 2016 release window for the game is final and that they will be announcing the exact release date at a major event in March next year.
New Final Fantasy 15 Gameplay Footage
Fans were treated before with a trailer showing the new bro-focus of the game which shows the team driving along vast landscapes with monsters scurrying around in the background. The new gameplay video shows us more new features on?how we can greatly enjoy the scenery while exploring the vast areas of the game.
Here are the new things showcased in the trailer according to DualShockers:
- The Driver seat is on the left side of the car because the vehicle came from Nieflheim
- You car?s fuel can run out. If you run out of gas in the middle of the road, you need to push your car to the nearest gas station.
- There are a total of four views while riding the car: Joyride mode, driver view, scenic view, and tail view.
- You can go outside the car anytime to marvel at the beautiful scenic views.
New monsters and refinements to the main menu was also shown.
Final Fantasy Team and Avalanche Studios to team-up?
Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer of Avalanche Studios, Christofer Sundberg, just teased that they may be collaborating with the developers of the game.
?The talks between our two teams has just started so we won?t be able to share new information with you today,? Sundberg said.
Avalanche Studios is known for making Just Cause and the upcoming Mad Max game. Details on what game they will be working on has yet to be revealed.
With the developers claiming that they have created ‘the best villain’ the FF universe has seen for FF15, we can surely expect a great game next year.
Final Fantasy 15 will be released sometime next year for PS4 and Xbox One.

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Now that the Covid-19 vaccines are being rolled out in some countries, the next question relevant to Thailand is… if I’ve had a vaccine for Covid-19, can I come back without doing the 14 (or 15 in some cases) days of quarantine?
The Public Health Ministry has issued a statement stating that, in the short to medium term, “everyone entering Thailand has to do at least a 14 day quarantine”.
“The quarantine will apply, even those people who have been vaccinated.”
The Public Health Ministry says the reason is because the vaccination process has only just begun in some countries around the world.
“There is no agreement or study on how effective the vaccine is in a real life environment.”
At this stage the World Health Organisation has not made an official statement about the situation.
For now, if you come to Thailand, under any visa, vaccinated or not, you will still need to do the mandatory 14 day quarantine period, at your expense, at an ASQ facility.
The Thaiger will continue to update this situation as additional statements are made on the matter.
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MILWAUKEE, Wis. – The No. 10 University of Louisville volleyball team won the BIG EAST Championship and regular season titles for the first time in the same season with a 25-19, 25-23, 26-24 sweep over Marquette on Sunday in the Al McGuire Center.
The Cardinals became the first BIG EAST team to win both the BIG EAST Championship and regular season titles in the same season since St. John’s did in 2007. It also marked the 15th time a BIG EAST team accomplished this feat. The win was also Louisville’s fifth BIG EAST Championship having won in 2006 and from 2008-10. It was also Louisville’s 25th conference title counting regular season and tournament accolades.
“We are so excited,” said U of L head coach Anne Kordes. “The greatest thing in the world to do is win a regular season championship and then back it up with a tournament championship. It’s tough, it’s exhausting and its pressure filled. I am so proud of our kids. If anyone has paid attention to us all year, even though we have some big stars, we’re very evenly distributed with our offense, but it’s our defense that we bank on. Marquette played phenomenal. Hats off to Marquette.”
Tournament MVP Gwen Rucker recorded 10 kills, six digs and five blocks on Sunday to finish the three-day tournament with 38 kills and 52 swings with just four errors. Rucker hit .654 for the weekend.
Lola Arslanbekova, who was also named to the All-BIG EAST Championship Team, snapped Louisville’s spell of five matches without a double-double. The senior had 13 kills and 11 digs for her 20th double-double of the season.
Caitlin Welch added a match-high 21 digs and was named to the All-BIG EAST Championship Team.
After not recording a hitting error in the first set in the quarterfinal and semifinal, the Cardinals ran into a stiff Golden Eagle defense in the first set and had five hitting errors. Despite its early struggles, Louisville regrouped to hit .300 in the opening frame and held Marquette to a .050 mark. Louisville was ignited by a 10-1 run which included three kills by Rucker, two by James and three blocks to take a 17-10 lead. Marquette fought back with a 5-1 run to cut the deficit to three at 20-17. Two late kills by Mattingly kept the Golden Eagles at bay.
Marquette used a 6-2 run to open up the second set with a 6-3 advantage. The Cardinals stormed back with an 8-2 run capped by the Uzbekistan duo of Arslanbekova and Tanya Lukyanenko to give Louisville a 13-12 lead. The Cardinals opened up a four point cushion at 16-12 before the Golden Eagles answered with a 4-0 run to knot the score at 16 all. The two teams traded points until Brooke Mattingly and Emily Juhl connected on back-to-back kills to give Louisville the 20-18 advantage. After Marquette pulled to within one at 24-23 Mattingly notched her sixth kill of the match to give Louisville the set. Louisville hit .250 in the frame to Marquette’s .214.
The Cardinals jumped out to an 8-4 lead in the third set before the Golden Eagles used a 5-1 run to tie the score at nine all. The two sides traded points until Marquette’s Elizabeth Koberstein and Danielle Carlson blocked Arslanbekova to give the Golden Eagles the two point edge at 18-16. Juhl carried the Cardinals down the stretch before Arslanbekova polished off the Golden Eagles. Juhl recorded three kills and combined with Mattingly on a block to tie the score at 20. Arslanbekova added two timely kills before Holly Mertens sailed an attack attempt wide to give Louisville the win. Louisville hit .244 in the final frame to Marquette’s .231.
Louisville will play the Ohio Valley Conference champion Belmont on Friday, Nov. 23 in Cardinal Arena at 5 p.m. Prior to the match, Louisville will honor its four seniors.

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(RxWiki News) Hey, kids! Do you want to eat ice cream for a week and protect your heart health? Well, research shows that getting your tonsils removed might let you do just that.
Kids with enlarged tonsils and adenoids have a high risk of getting sleep apnea - a breathing problem that can raise blood pressure in both children and adults. Researchers found that taking out enlarged tonsils and adenoids may protect children with sleep apnea from high blood pressure and the heart damage that can be caused by it.
"A simple surgery can protect children from sleep apnea."
Researchers already knew that children with sleep apnea are more likely to have high blood pressure than children without sleep apnea. However, this study was the first to look at how treating sleep apnea can affect the blood pressure of children who are otherwise healthy.
According to Lisa Burns, M.D., from Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and lead author of the study, these findings highlight the importance of treating sleep apnea before it leads to high blood pressure and heart damage.
Dr. Burns notes that it is especially important to treat high blood pressure in childhood because children with high blood pressure often grow up to be adults with the same problem. Adults with high blood pressure face a high risk of dangerous heart problems like heart attack, stroke, and heart failure.
This study's findings show that doctors may be able to prevent heart disease in childhood and adulthood if they treat sleep apnea at an earlier age.
- Researchers studied 115 children with obstructive sleep apnea
- The children were between 7 and 13 years of age
- Participants' level of obstructive sleep apnea was measured using polysomnography, a test that measures breathing while people sleep
- 28 participants had mild obstructive sleep apnea, 27 had severe obstructive sleep apnea, and 60 were healthy control subjects
- All of the participants with obstructive sleep apnea went through adenotonsillectomy - a surgery to remove enlarged tonsils and adenoids
- Participants' blood pressure, levels of rest and activity, and heart size were measured when the study began, 12 months after the study, and 24 months after the study
- After adenotonsillectomy, sleep-time blood pressure decreased compared to blood pressure at the beginning of the study
- Adenotonsillectomy also restored the normal decrease in blood pressure that happens during the night compared to the day
- In children with moderate to severe sleep apnea, heart size decreased after adenotonsillectomy

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Nicholas Chevalier, Refuge Cove, Wilson's Promontory, 1865, lithograph and watercolour, 22.3cm x 32.0cm. The University of Melbourne Art Collection. Gift of the Russell and Mab Grimwade Bequest 1973. 1973.0622
This education resource accompanies the exhibition North South East West: Visions of mid-19th century Victoria featuring prints and paintings of the Victorian landscape. The resource is designed for teachers and students to engage with and explore ideas on the evolving spaces in Victoria that in turn reflect us and our culture over time. Artworks of the 19th century Victorian landscape are presented as historical visual resources for in-depth research and inquiry into our local spaces. Artists featured in the resource include; Louis Buvelot, Nicholas Chevalier, Duncan Cooper, S.T. Gill, Eugene von Guérard and John Skinner Prout.
This education resource has been designed to address key concepts and skills of AusVELS and VCE Humanities and Social Sciences, Art, Science and Environmental studies. Teachers are encouraged to select and adapt the material in the resource to suit the specific learning requirements of their students. Suggested inquiry questions and an online Padlet page resource for students are provided to inform the development of learning tasks relevant to the specific subject area. Students will practice visual literacy skills, communication and critical thinking by viewing and responding to the artworks in the exhibition. Key themes for students to explore include local geography, environment, sustainability, bushfires, national identity, the Gold Rush, Indigenous and Chinese history.
Just opened! Activate,animate, complicate, grow: what new acquisitions can do to and for the collection showcases 22 artworks recently acquired by the University of Melbourne in dialogue with existing works from the collection. Presented as individual ‘case studies’, the relationships between works demonstrate the ways that new additions breathe life into permanent collections.rn
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The air is getting colder, the nights are getting darker, and the spookiest season of the year is upon us! For many people, that means watching their favourite Halloween movies. Whether you’re more of a family-friendly Hocus Pocus gal or a gore-loving Halloween guy, there truly is something for everyone. However, if you’re looking for something fresh to watch this Halloween, why not try some classic Canadian content? Beware, though—the films that follow are definitely more of the slasher horror variety. If you’re up for a good scare, read on!
Released in 1997, Cube is a science-fiction/horror film directed by Vincenzo Natali. Cube stars Nicole de Boer (who later played Ezri Dax on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), David Hewlett, Maurice Dean Wint, Nicky Guadagni, and Andrew Miller. With very little exposition at the beginning of the movie, viewers must hit the cinematic ground running in much the same fashion as the five very different main characters: a mathematician, a self-proclaimed “office-guy,” a police officer, a doctor, and an autistic man must do their best to work together to stay alive and find a way out of a complicated maze full of high-tech death traps.
Pre-empting the early 21st-century kidnap/torture-maze movie craze that helped give films of questionable value, such as Hostel or Saw, a leg up, Cube focuses more on the concept than it does on the gore. I originally saw Cube as a teenager shortly after it came out. Watching it as an adult, though, I find that it has more in common with a play by Jean-Paul Sartre than it does with typical horror movie fare. Cartesian co-ordinates, prime numbers, and the evils caused by headless bureaucracies all feature in this disturbing and cynical film, so if you’re looking for a high-concept psychological science-fiction thriller to get you in the mood for Halloween then this genre-bending film (that inspired both a sequel and a prequel) is right up your alley.
Hunter Hunter isn’t a true slasher film, I have to say, but it does have several elements of one. I highly recommend this all-Canadian film that was released in 2020 and directed by Shawn Linden. It stars Canadian actors Camille Sullivan (who plays Anne, mom and wife), Summer H. Howell (who plays Renee, teenage daughter), and Devon Sawa (who plays Joe, dad and husband). The family live in a rustic (very rustic) cabin in the Manitoba woods just north of Winnipeg, along with canine companion, Tova. Joe’s family took over this land three generations ago to work the trap lines and it’s a way of life he prefers. Anne confesses to marrying into his choice but feels it is time for Renee to be among people. You see her point early on in the movie—the isolation, the work of setting traps, the skinning and tanning of hides of beaver and muskrat that Anne takes into the nearby town’s all-purpose corner store to exchange for food. It’s a rough life.
It’s also a dangerous one. Which comes into full view when a lone wolf makes its presence known. “Who’s afraid of a wolf?” Joe asks Renee as they begin to set traps on one of the lines deep in the woods. And so begins the hunt for the threat that they all begin to feel. It creeps up on them, that sense of being watched and stalked as they go about their daily routine of collecting water from the river, preparing meals, and cleaning and setting traps. Yes, traps play a big role in this film and several are being set as the film unfolds. What starts out as a somewhat serene movie set in the late autumn woods soon escalates into a suspenseful fight for survival between Anne and Renee and a shadowy stalker— just as Joe has disappeared.
One of the scariest movies of my childhood was Black Christmas (originally titled Silent Night, Evil Night in the United States): a 1974 Canadian slasher film by Bob Clark, who would go on to make the decidedly less horrifying holiday classic A Christmas Story in 1983. In the past, I tried to make the case that this was absolutely a Christmas movie too, just as many have done with Die Hard (1988), but it’s really not: It’s way too disturbing. I remember being terrified by the VHS box alone at the local Canadian Tire (yes, they used to rent movies). Black Christmas took advantage of the fact that the Capital Cost Allowance of that year raised the tax deduction limit for investment in Canadian-produced movies to 100 percent, creating an irresistible tax shelter for the film industry. This allowed the producers to bring American directors like Clark to work in Canada, but some of the film’s stars are still instantly recognizable from Canadian film and television, such as Margot Kidder or Andrea Martin.
Inspired both by an urban legend about a teenage babysitter who receives telephone calls from a stalker and by a series of real murders by serial killer Wayne Boden that took place in the Westmount neighbourhood of Montreal between 1969 and 1971, the film is set in a sorority house over Christmas break (in fact, it was shot on the University of Toronto campus). The young women who live there receive threatening phone calls and are almost all eventually stalked and murdered by a deranged killer.
The movie set the pattern for the better-known slasher films of the future, such as Friday the 13th (1980), Halloween (1978), and A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984). It has been remade twice (in 2006 and 2019), but the original is better and scarier: it was recently named “the definitive Canadian horror text” by Rue Morgue, and it landed on IndieWire’s list of the greatest horror movies of all time.
This Canadian horror flick written by Karen Walton and directed by John Fawcett puts an unconventional twist on the familiar werewolf myth, making it a satirical (albeit extremely violent) coming-of-age story that uses lycanthropy as a metaphor for “becoming a woman.” The film follows the initially inseparable teenaged sisters Ginger (Katharine Isabelle) and Brigitte (Emily Perkins), two death-obsessed social outcasts who rebel against the monotony of middle-class suburbia and plan to one day escape it by way of their joint suicide pact. But when Ginger is attacked by some mysterious beast the same night of her first period, the sisters start to find themselves increasingly at odds—Ginger experiencing transformations, both physical and emotional, that leave a bloody trail in her wake, and young Brigitte getting left behind all together.
I would have been a few years younger than the two female protagonists when this film first came out—too young, probably, to have handled its extreme gore or to have been able to recognize all the ways it transgresses the familiar tropes of the horror genre. But watching it now, some twenty years later, I was able to appreciate those genre-breaking qualities and was especially affected by the deep sense of nostalgia the film invoked in me. As much as I still love some of the other Hollywood teenage horror “classics” of that era, it was hard for me, then and still now, to relate to the wealthy “high school kids” in Scream (1996), who are all drop dead-gorgeous and look to be at least twenty-six years old, or to the sunny, picturesque beach town setting of I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997). Where Ginger Snaps really delivers for me is in its realism and authenticity to my own lived experience. Maybe not the deadly monsters or all the gruesome murder and carnage, but certainly the pimple-faced sixteen-year-old boys, the overwrought suburban angst, and the dull grey skies of October in Canada.
I’ll be honest: I’m not a huge watcher of horror movies, so I can’t say I’ve seen any Canadian horror flicks. However, I do make the occasional exception around the spookiest time of year. So, this year, on my “to watch” list is the Canadian cult classic Prom Night, a 1980 slasher tale starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Leslie Nielsen. (Oddly enough, 1980 was also the year the Nielsen’s classic deadpan comedy Airplane! was released—definitely two opposite ends of the spectrum there.) Of course, Jamie Lee Curtis had already earned her scream queen reputation in Halloween, which had been released to great success two years prior, in 1978.
Prom Night tells the tale of four teens who are targeted (on prom night) by a deadly masked killer seeking revenge for the accidental death of a young girl six years earlier—a death that all four teens witnessed. The movie was filmed in Toronto, so I look forward to keeping an eye out for familiar streets and landmarks that pop up. Another quirk of the film is that it not only gained its cult following for great horror content, but also apparently for its disco-heavy soundtrack. Gory murders and disco aren’t a pairing I believe I’ve encountered before, but I’m excited to see what kind of movie-watching experience they create!
Who knows? Maybe Prom Night will earn its way onto the curated list of horror movies I seek out every Halloween!
For more creepy Halloween content, check out this blog on the origins of this spooky holiday!


As sustainability becomes a bigger conversation in the food and beverage industry, so does food safety monitoring. The primary goal of food safety monitoring has remained the same over the years: to mitigate any risks that compromise the safety of food for human consumption — and in turn lead to loss of product. It’s a worthwhile point to reflect on the fact that over one third of food produced today is either lost or wasted.
While manual approaches to food safety monitoring are common, today’s complex, rapidly evolving supply chain calls for more efficient and effective measures. Organizations need real-time monitoring capabilities over food temperatures and humidity levels so they can detect and respond to food safety risks as they occur.
Before we dive into sensor-based food safety monitoring systems that streamline these efforts, let’s explore some key ways that this practice supports sustainability initiatives.
Food Safety Monitoring: 3 Ways It Impacts the Supply Chain
1. Less Food Waste
The earlier contamination issues are discovered in the supply chain, the faster organizations can react to prevent product loss and ensure consumers’ safety. Contaminated batches can be detected and isolated on a smaller scale, which helps to prevent widespread recalls that can be costly from both retrieval/disposal and reputational standpoints. Less operational disruption in the food production process translates into fewer supply chain inefficiencies.
2. Reduced Environmental Impact
When products are contaminated, food manufacturers need to ramp up production to make up for that loss — which ultimately means higher energy consumption. There’s also the transportation of these additional products, which increases fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. By minimizing the risk of contamination, food safety monitoring helps businesses in the food and beverage industry conserve resources and minimize waste.
3. Improved Resource Allocation
Reactive measures to food contamination and product recalls can be labor intensive. When managing a recall, workers have to identify affected batches, retrieve affected products from the market, and then dispose of them. At the same time, they’re also diverting labor toward conducting investigations around the incident and implementing corrective actions to ensure adherence with food safety regulations. With a proactive approach to food safety monitoring, there is less operational downtime and fewer labor costs to worry about.
Automating Food Safety Monitoring: Why It’s So Important
Manual food safety monitoring can be resource and time intensive, while offering limited traceability as potential food safety issues emerge. And as supply chains expand and become more complex, a standard approach to temperature monitoring becomes increasingly difficult.
Forbes set the scene well in a recent article on sustainability in the food and beverage industry: “Suppose a truck driver transports food items that must remain at cold temperatures.” If out of range temperatures occur during in transit, this increases the risk of foodborne illnesses. Yet, if those variations happen between scheduled food safety checks, these food safety issues may go unnoticed or they may not be discovered until the products arrive at their destination. By that time, the products are likely to be compromised.
With an automated food safety monitoring system, you can continuously monitor temperature and humidity levels at every step of the supply chain — from production, to storage, to transportation. This continued surveillance ensures that the right personnel are alerted to any issues in real time and can promptly intervene. Organizations in the food business can use historical data from these systems for reporting and compliance documentation. This data showcases their commitment to ethical standards while helping uphold a positive brand image that builds customer loyalty and trust.
Choose CORIS As Your Food Safety Monitoring System
At CORIS, we understand the costly burden of food product loss, as well as the safety and compliance implications. That’s why we’ve developed a 24/7 monitoring system to make sure you’re alerted about temperature and humidity excursions as they occur. So whether an excursion occurs as foods are being prepared, when foods are in cold storage, or when foods are in transit, you’ll get the early warnings you need to prevent costly losses and support compliance management.


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Studio Ghibli’s iconic Japanese museum is currently closed due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. But that hasn’t stopped the museum from displaying some of its awesome props and replicas to the world, with fans able to get a virtual look inside the museum and its many magical rooms through the Ghibli YouTube channel.
Here’s one of the clips, featuring an exhibit called ‘Where a Film is Born’, which is described as belonging to a boy wishing to make his own film.
The Ghibli Museum was first established in 2001 and has remained a tourism hotspot since then. Tickets are usually in high demand and there’s a certain level of exclusivity to the venue.
A glimpse inside is a rare treat, and with several short videos being uploaded to the new Ghibli Museum YouTube channel over the last few weeks, fans around the world are finally getting a look at the treasures inside. While the videos are quite short and showcase only a small portion of the museum’s exhibits, it’s a fascinating look into a location that many of us may never have the chance to visit.


Rajdeep Sengupta, Senior Manager IT, Synopsys; Srini Bala, GM, Solutions Engineering, Supermicro
The changing workload placements, from the Data Center to the Edge, have disrupted enterprise data storage infrastructure dynamics. to the hybrid nature of workload characteristics, the storage performance requirements for use cases such as AI/ML, Cloud Native Platforms (CNP), and HPC have made it far more complex to create the infrastructure that scales effectively and efficiently.
In this Webinar, Rajdeep (Senior Manager IT, Synopsys) and Srini Bala (GM, Solutions Engineering, Supermicro) will discuss their experience in overcoming these challenges to optimize workloads while maximizing performance. Tune into this webinar to learn:
• How Cloud Native Platforms using docker and Kubernetes based container applications leverage CEPH’s object and block storage
• How AI/ML use-cases changed the storage requirements over time
• How OpenStack like environment where we need on-demand VMs to leverage CEPH’s block and object storage
• Ways to leverage the latest storage technology while preserving existing investments
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30 YEARS OF THE BANGKOK OFFICE MARKET
Bangkok, 21 June 2018 – 30 years ago, when CBRE established an office in Bangkok, the total office supply was less than one million square metres and the rents were THB 250 per square metre per month.There were no grade A office buildings and the best quality developments were Sathorn Thani, Sindhorn Tower I and Amarin Tower. 30 years on, the total office stock is now almost nine million square metres and average grade A central business district (CBD) rents are just under 1,000 baht per square metre. The top three buildings based on rent levels are Gaysorn Tower, Park Ventures Ecoplex and Bhiraj Tower at EmQuartier.
The first grade A building in Bangkok was Diethelm Towers, now called GPF Witthayu Towers, on Wireless Road which was completed in 1992 and achieved rents of over 800 baht per square metre per month. This was the first building to have variable air volume, air-conditioning improving the ability to keep all parts of the office floor at a constant temperature.
The 1997 Financial Crisis had a huge impact on the Bangkok office market, the closure of the finance companies and downsizing of other tenants meant that in 1998 the total amount of occupied office space fell by almost 300,000 square metres and vacancy rates rose to almost 40%.
Rents in most buildings halved when leases came up for renewal. It was only in 2004 that grade A rentals were able to reach the levels that they were at in 1994.
Some of the biggest changes have been in the design and specification of office buildings. Thai developers have listened to tenants’ requirements in terms of providing column free, regular-shaped floor plates, ceiling heights of more than 2.8 metres, adequate lift provision and sophisticated air-conditioning systems. The highest specification office buildings in Bangkok such as Gaysorn Tower, AIA Sathorn Tower and Park Ventures Ecoplex match the quality of the best office buildings in other countries.
About 80% of the total Bangkok office stock is single ownership buildings and there has been no new strata-title office condominium development for more than 20 years. This is because tenants prefer single ownership buildings because of better management and the ability to deal with a single owner making it easier to expand within the same building.
The way that tenants use office premises has also changed dramatically, in most cases the days of each manager having their own enclosed office are gone and the move has been towards open-plan, flexible work space.
In some cases, companies have moved to activity-based workspace, without each employee having an allocated desk. This has resulted in a much greater population density on office floors requiring better air-conditioning and more efficient lifts.
“Tenants are demanding a greater range of services from landlords and do not just want to pay rent for a concrete box,” said Roongrat Veeraparkkaroon, Director of Advisory & Transaction Services - Office at CBRE Thailand.
Tenants also want a higher specification. “They want to be able to control climate in different areas of the office and to adjust lighting levels. They also require more facilities in the property not just a coffee shop and convenience store,” commented Ms. Roongrat. Some tenants want flexible workspace providers such as serviced offices and co-working space to be in the building.
30 years ago, office tenants were just starting to demand features like fire sprinklers, now they are much more sophisticated and demanding a higher specification and more facilities. Many large multinational and Thai companies are concerned about sustainability and want energy efficient buildings with LEED certification.
A new generation of office buildings are now being designed in Bangkok with construction due to start from 2018 onwards and these buildings will have to cater to the increasingly complex demands from tenants who want higher specifications and a greater range and level of services within the building. Tenants are demanding a much higher standard of property management in terms of maintenance, safety procedures and customer service.
Location has always been a critical factor, but the completion of the BTS skytrain in 1999 changed tenants’ priorities. “Today, almost every tenant CBRE speaks to wants to be near and preferably with direct covered access to a mass transit station,” said Ms. Roongrat.
Rent is still one of the most important factors for tenants when choosing their new office premises, followed by the location, which is how close the office building is both to the CBD and a mass transit station.
Selecting an office building is now not just about location and cost. Recruiting the best employees is challenging and providing an attractive workplace in terms of location, quality of building and the workspace itself can provide companies with a unique selling point to help them win the struggle to attract talent. This means that the quality of design, specification, facilities and services in a building are becoming increasingly important.
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The Southampton sailor presumed lost at sea was knocked overboard during a yacht race, while tying up a line.
John Fisher, who lived in Adelaide, Australia, plunged into the Southern Ocean, around 1,400 miles west of Cape Horn, during the Volvo Ocean Race on Monday.
Officials of the round-the-world race say the team searched for several hours in high wind and big waves, although deteriorating conditions forced the crew to resume course toward South America.
Fellow crew from Team Sun Hung Kai/Scallywag said Mr Fisher had unclipped his tether to tidy up a sheet when the boat was caught in an accidental crash gybe - where the mainsail and its supporting boom swing across to the opposite side of the vessel.
According to a timeline of events released by the team, Mr Fisher was hit by the mainsheet system and knocked overboard. The crew believe he was already unconscious from the blow before hitting the water.
The 47-year-old, who was an experienced big boat sailor and was sailing in his first Volvo Ocean Race, was wearing a survival suit with a wetsuit hood and gloves and a lifejacket at the time.
Team manager Tim Newton described it as "the worst situation you can imagine happening to your team". He added:
"We are absolutely heart-broken for John's family and friends. I know for David (Witt, the boat's skipper), he has lost his best friend. It's devastating."
A search and rescue operation was carried out for several hours, but there was no sign of the sailor, and the decision was made to abandon the search as weather conditions deteriorated. The crew are now making their way back to shore.
"This situation isn't over yet for our team," said Mr Newton. "The conditions are extremely challenging, with strong winds and a forecast for a building sea state over the next couple of days.
"Our sole focus, with the assistance of Race Control in Alicante is to get the team into port safely.
"Once we have achieved that, we have time to de-brief more fully and ensure that any lessons that can be learned from what happened to John are incorporated by the rest of the fleet going forward.
"That would be a tremendous legacy for John, who spent so much of his time passing the learnings from his lifetime of experience at sea onto the younger sailors on our team."
Richard Brisius, the President of the Volvo Ocean Race, said in a statement:
'This morning I am extremely sad to inform you that one of our sailors, John Fisher, from Team Sun Hung Kai / Scallywag, is now presumed to have been lost at sea.
'This is heart-breaking for all of us. As sailors and race organisers losing a crew member at sea is a tragedy we don't ever want to contemplate. We are devastated and our thoughts are with John's family, friends and teammates.
'All of us here at the Volvo Ocean Race organisation send our heartfelt condolences out to John's family, his friends and his teammates and we will do everything in our power to support them in this very difficult time.'
Lee Seng Huang and Sun Hung Kai & Co, owner and sponsor of Team Sun Hung Kai/Scallywag, said:
'We are devastated by the news involving our crew member, John Fisher, following a man overboard incident early on Monday afternoon UTC.
'Witty and the Scallywag crew have been battling extremely treacherous conditions in the Southern Ocean and this tragedy is heart breaking.
'The crew did everything they could to recover John, leading an extensive search and rescue operation in stormy conditions.
'Over our long passages, I have come to know Fish well. Despite the dangers of the sport he loved his sailing. He is one of our own, a long-standing member of the team. He is a great and experienced sailor, the finest human being and a true Scallywag.
'Our thoughts and prayers are with John’s family and the crew at this most difficult time, and we are working with Volvo Ocean Race to provide all the support we can. Our focus now, is getting the boat and crew to a safe harbour.'
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Brewer Creek: A Fall Classic
On the list of spectacular and memorable hikes in the Invermere area, Brewer Creek would definitely be near or at the top. Though Brewer is a great hike any time of year, the fall colours of the larch and tamarack turn the whole basin into a kaleidoscope of greens, oranges and yellows. The best time of the year to catch the larches in their full glory is in the latter part of September. Larches are unusual trees in that they are deciduous conifers: cone-bearing trees that lose their needles every fall.
Drive 18 kilometers out Westside Road to Hawk Road (13th Avenue turns into Westside Road going south), take a right when you see a large parking area with the Hoodoo kiosk on your right. With a further 26 km to the trailhead, stay on the main dirt road for the next 11 km until you come to a fork in the road. Go straight (the other fork goes left) up a slight hill for 0.5 km before taking a less traveled road going left. There should be a Brewer Creek sign here. Continue on this road to the trailhead. To avoid hiking the last 2 km of road make sure you are in a high-clearance 4-wheel drive vehicle. Expect a 60 minute drive to the trailhead from Invermere.
Once on the trail, you gain 460 meters in 4.7 km before you get to the first of many tarns (mountain lakes or ponds) in the area. For the first 2 km you parallel Brewer Creek in the trees, gaining 240 meters before breaking out into an open meadow. In the fall this is where you start to catch your first glimpse of the spectacular display put on by the larches as they turn from forest green to a soft yellow. Upon reaching the first tarn you can either take the trail to the right that will take you down past another tarn before you take the ridge that goes to the top of the Mount Brewer. This trail is just over 2 km and gains over 400 meters to an elevation of 2743 meters at the top of Mount Brewer. Surveying the surrounding area from the top is truly breath taking. Going left at the first tarn for another 1.5 km will take you up onto a ridge at the end of the valley. From the ridge, looking back to the east you get a great view of Brewer Basin, and to the west you look down on one of the tributaries that feed Mineral Creek. Bear in mind that you are deep in the mountains where a warm and sunny start might give way to chilly temperatures and snow flurries at any time of the year. Packing a down jacket, a toque and gloves will help avoid a miserable hike back to the vehicles. Enjoy your time in the mountains.