#also some lines in resume showing growth with a high five:

[windypuddle]

wow guys i cant believe approximately 2/3 of DRAMATICA is autistic... really says something about theatre people

[gongjunsimon]

[220329] GONG JUN - SUPERELLE APRIL 2022 ISSUE

In the entertainment industry, Gong Jun is neither an early success nor a late bloomer. Before the opportunity came, he was diligent and self-disciplined, and when the opportunity came, he was still humble and peaceful. What Gong Jun wants more, is continuous growth and continuous flow.

On the day of the interview, the weather in Qingdao was sunny. Gong Jun was sitting in the dressing room wearing a white shirt with his sleeves rolled up high. To his right, there was a large floor-to-ceiling window, and the sea was outside the window.

This is Gong Jun's first winter in Qingdao. "It's cold and windy, but the scenery is good." Gong Jun filmed "Rising With The Wind" in Qingdao, playing the business elite Xu Si in the drama. The drama filming has not wrapped yet, Gong Jun can't talk about it too much, he can only share more feelings about living here. For example, the weather is very dry, so he bought a humidifier, but he still "can't stand it". The good thing is, he likes to eat the raw and pickled seafood here. Yesterday, his friends cooked scallops and oysters and sent them over, he thought it was delicious.

Gong Jun has been away from his hometown of Chengdu for more than ten years. When he was a child, his parents owned a provision store. At that time, Gong Jun thought that it would be great if he could open a skewer store and a hot pot store in the future. But he didn't expect to become an actor when he grew up, and also now he seldom eats red soup hot pot. "I'm not prone to putting on weight easily, but I will still put on weight." Gong Jun is very self-controlled and eats very little carbohydrates. It is not a special requirement for the characters he portrays, but comes from his self-discipline, "You can't get fat when filming."

Gong Jun also likes to exercise. He is very busy with filming, so he can only go to the gym when he has the time. “Fitness training allows me to maintain my body lines and rejuvenate. When I see the effect, I want to maintain it." During the time when he was the most cruel to himself, Gong Jun would use a measuring food scale to calculate the food content, protein, vitamins, sugars precisely. “The effect can only be seen by being strict, so the advice to fitness people is only ‘persistence’, nothing else.” Gong Jun said.

For him now, it is indeed a very important thing to show a full mental state in the camera. On one hand, he is living like that, and on the other hand, he cherishes the moment’s opportunity.

Gong Jun graduated from the performance department of Donghua University. Yuan Che, the frank and loyal eleventh prince in the costume fantasy romance drama "Lost Love in Times", made him known to some audiences, but this is not enough for him to gain a firm foothold in the entertainment industry.

Gong Jun is very afraid that he would stop, because "I don't know what else I could film after this drama is completed”. For half a year after he completed filming for “Lost Love in Times SP”, he had nothing to do for a period of time, the resumes he sent out did not receive a response, he even flew to other cities to audition, but there was no outcome. Gong Jun fell into deep self-doubt. "I just thought am I too stupid, or my acting was too bad, or other reasons."

From the beginning of 2021, Gong Jun gradually gained more attention. Originally, he was in Chengdu for the New Year, and he asked his manager what he should do with the free time in March. Then March came, and he was suddenly so busy that he didn't even have time to rest. In the early hours of the morning, he was still filming on set, after wrapping for the day he had to go to a different city to film a variety show. At times he had more than ten interviews per day, and slept an average of five hours a day... He used to be able to go shopping and eating with friends at will, but now he is afraid of disturbing the public order, he can only make a restaurant booth reservation in advance. However, the compression of personal space also means the broadening of the acting path, at least now when he is selecting drama roles, it’s no longer that passive.

In the rescue-themed emotional drama "The Flaming Heart", Gong Jun played the brave, calm, restrained and determined firefighter Huo Yan, and in the romantic suspense drama "Dream Garden", he became a strict and dedicated psychological counselor Lin Shen, from July to November last year, he filmed "The Legend of An Le" in Hengdian for four months. From December, he played the investor Xu Si in the urban workplace drama "Rising With The Wind". Gong Jun said that when choosing dramas, he will try to avoid similar roles, because, "Not only will the audience feel bored, I will not have a feeling of freshness too."

Gong Jun believes that he is not a talented actor, he can only rely on "acting a lot, seeing a lot, and slowly trying to understand what acting is about". He also doesn't feel that he is able to sense the environment richly, but his “ability to empathize is quite good". Sometimes when his drama character talks about their own life experience or emotional troubles, the corresponding imagery will appear in Gong Jun’s mind, but sometimes due to the constraints of time or space, he cannot 100% interpret the character, but Gong Jun will find a way to be more mindful.

After a long time, these characters have all become people that Gong Jun has spent time with, they are intertwined in Gong Jun's memory, often making him feel like he is traveling through time and space. In the summer of last year, he was filming the costume drama "The Legend of An Le" in Hengdian, he wore a thick headgear and thick clothes every day, and his scalp was allergic. How did he suddenly transform into a business elite? Gong Jun thinks that the most amazing thing about being an actor is this kind of change, it’s not saying goodbye to each role, but seeing the growth they bestowed on you.

In the past six months, Gong Jun has also started thinking about things in the long term. "What I'm perplexed about now is how to transform, what works to film in the future, and how to go further. You have to know what you are doing in this career, and you have to make plans for yourself, instead of letting others push you along." Right now, there are no exact answers to these questions, but Gong Jun is not in a hurry. There might not be a moment of sudden enlightenment and inspiration in the future, but he says, it won’t be wrong to feel slowly and improve slowly.

SUPERELLE X GONG JUN

SuperELLE: For you now, is it important to maintain a good body line on camera?

Gong Jun: It is very important at present, I hope that I look good in front of the audience. In the future if the role requires it, for example, like Matthew McConaughey, to portray someone who is fat or thin, then I will also do it.

SuperELLE: Besides fitness training, what other sports would you like to try?

Gong Jun: I think snowboarding is very cool, and I have taken a few classes. But the thing I want to do most is a self-driving road trip. If I can, I will drive all over the world. The car gives me a feeling of freedom, I can go where I want to go, I can see the scenery along the way, and I can also experience different people and cultures.

SuperELLE: What qualities have your past roles given you?

Gong Jun: What I learned from each character is different. Every industry has its own story, and the process of portraying the role is also experiencing a different life. For example, when portraying a psychological counselor or an elite investor, after receiving the script the first time you may not understand when you read it, but you can check it yourself and discuss it with the screenwriter, it isn’t a very in-depth knowledge of the industry, but you can know a few things.

SuperELLE: So each character bestows on you a different energy.

Gong Jun: Yes, actors are quite lucky in this aspect. You can feel different environments, characters, atmospheres, and that's something I really enjoy.

SuperELLE: What movie and TV works have you watched recently?

Gong Jun: Those I didn’t watch last year. “The Father”, “The Lincoln Lawyer”, “Dune”, “Don't Look Up”. And Teacher Zhou Xun and Teacher Huang Lei’s “A Little Mood for Love”, I heard that many of their details were created on the spot. But the presentation method of a film and a television drama is different, a film has to be expressed in the shortest possible time. For television dramas, especially modern dramas, the performance method should be more lifelike, these can all be referenced.”

English translation by me @gongjun_ also published on Gong Jun Global. Please do not copy and paste elsewhere.

Original article: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/T8wrLE9wkEdVLX2WW_2DsQ

[pinkhairedlily]

Chapter 11 - Student Council President Sakura / Graduation Chapter

SCPS AO3 | PREVIOUS CHAPTER

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They held a run-through of the graduation ceremony on the last day of class and technically the last day of the trio’s high school life. Unlike their first general assembly, Uchiha Sasuke was to deliver the graduation speech but not without great sulking from Haruno Sakura who landed a close second despite ranking first in their final exams.

And obviously, not without Sasuke trying to give up his speech privileges by campaigning instead for Sakura.

In the end, all three of them were granted speech slots – one for Sasuke as valedictorian, Sakura as student representative, and Naruto as the school’s first national MVP. It was this debacle that led the three of them to brainstorm in an empty AVR after the dry run.

“Done!” Sakura yelled like the diligent student she was. “Let me look at yours!”

Sasuke presented her a blank paper while saying, “It’s all prepared in my head”, and Naruto showed her his baseball doodles.

“Oh God, you’re all so hopeless.”

Then the electricity suddenly got cut off in the AVR. Sakura expected the boys to screech in surprise and cling to each other, but she only heard silence in the dark. She jumped in her seat when the doors opened with a loud bang, a confetti splash, and the lights coming back to life.

Sasuke and Naruto were still in front of her, holding two bouquets of irises and yellow roses. Behind them were the old and new student council members with other students holding a large banner saying Thank you, Student Council President Sakura!

She started to leave her seat to come to them, but they gestured for her to stay on her seat. In front of the room, the large monitor beeped and showed a compilation of videos.

Sukehiro Aoi, an alumni and currently an intern in an animation studio. “Hello, Ms. Pres. You once asked the body to submit a publication material for an event of the student council, and I sent mine through a dummy email with no expectations of winning. I wasn’t comfortable with the public seeing my art. I was afraid of the unsolicited remarks so sending it anonymously gave me some relief. You chose it however, and you knew how big a credit was to an artist. I was really scared when you were able to hunt me down just by my watermark, but my name in the info blast caught the attention of a school board member and referred me to this animation studio. It was the littlest thing, but you handed me my dream.”

Watanabe Kota was a year below them. He has a small frame, round thick glasses, and battled with face acne. “Ms. Pres! People never had much confidence in my physical appearance, so I don’t know what you saw in me when you asked me to take over the school radio. But here we are – we’re airing daily and we even produce documentaries and radio programs. Thank you for seeing what I didn’t.”

Ito Amanaya, a typical jock in the football team, muscular and came across as intimidating, but he had the gentlest cadence. “I was bullied by the same group that bullied your dynamic duo. When you ran them off, you also saved my life. Thank you, Haruno.”

Kimura Shinze, a classmate in third year, beautiful, popular, and the captain of the cheering squad. “Hope you’re having a great day, Ms. Pres. Remember that time when the class was guessing who were our crushes and I blurted out that it was a girl, you told me thank you for telling us. That was…a big deal to me. Thank you for that gesture.”

Himurata Aoi, president of the koto club. “Sakura, I know you had many people come up and confessed to you so when I did try, I was glad that you didn’t give me a bullshit reason like you’re not into girls. You turned me down because you have someone you already love. I am thankful for your honesty.”

The biology teacher, Takahashi Kande. “Student council, thank you for your mental health program. As a single father to twins, I don’t have the luxury of time to sit in a couch and sort out my issues. To be able to do that in my workplace during breaks is a heaven-sent gift. You saved me and my family. Thank you.”

Many more messages came on, from a classmate she lent spare change to, from a staff she helped clean, from countless students who she wasn’t aware she gave kindness to.

“Why….” She asked breathlessly.

“You’ve been beating yourself lately. We thought you needed some reminding,” Sasuke muttered, under his breath, the bouquet still in his hands. “You left some pretty big footprints, Ms. Pres.

“You might not have noticed,” Naruto jested. “But this is always innate and natural to you, isn’t it?”

“Why did you bother so much?” She was reduced to tears.

“It was Naruto’s idea.”

“Huh? You did all the compiling though!”

“Shut up, it was me,” yelled the current president.

“Thank you, everyone.”

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It was a weekend, but Sasuke requested Sakura and Naruto to meet him at the school gates. He only gave the time and place, and he knew well enough that they would be there – no questions asked.

They stood there, minutes earlier than planned, a first but nothing more unusual than homebody Sasuke asking them to go out on a weekend. Sakura wore an oversized rust shirt over a pair of muted cotton blue trousers tied with a brown leather belt and tan fisherman sandals, her long hair kept in one single braid at the back. Naruto probably expected a fancy lunch with his outfit – black silky long sleeves over gray pants and black loafers.

Sasuke, high on impulsive decisions, wore bright colors, a complete departure from his usual neutrals; mustard vest over a deep violet polo, baggy pants, off white converse, and a white fanny pack. “Well, we’re mostly dressed for comfort, except for that idiot beside you.”

“What do you mean dressed for comfort? I borrowed these loafers from my vice-captain and my feet aren’t used to them,” Naruto whined. “Besides, aren’t you taking us out to a five-star meal, Mr. Valedictorian?”

“Wow, what a way to show off.” Sakura pursed her lips in annoyance. “Don’t worry Naruto, I got your next café order.”

“Ah no. It was just something we heard from the grape vine.” Naruto scratched his head and carefully glanced at Sasuke. “Grumpy got his trust fund today.”

In bated breaths, they waited for him to respond with a scowl or a retort, but he just nodded. “Come on, we’ll miss the train.”

They traveled for three stations and disembarked on the fourth, Sasuke sandwiched in between the two, his shoulders pillows again to their heads and yet such burdens were light as cotton. The surfacing emotions since last week were taking hold of him, but he needed to pull through somehow because breaking down while commuting was one thing he did not really see doing.

“Word just got in. The house was turned over this morning,” Itachi told him over the phone.

“Impeccable timing when I’m also moving abroad next week.” Sasuke pulled out his Bleachers vinyl and anticipated another lonesome lull for the night.

“Do you miss the cream puffs?”

“Nothing comes close.”

“Hmm. I’ll pay for the rental fee of your car.”

In Itachi’s defense, while he was an afficionado of escapism, he also knew how to read between the lines. “Watch me get a Mercedes-Benz.”

“I have a good driving playlist.” This only meant math rock, and Sasuke wanted something to scream his lungs too.

“Don’t need one.”

“Treat your friends to dinner, okay? Gotta go.”

“We’re walking?!” Naruto almost limped out of the train. Sasuke took one look at his heels and saw that they were bruised red. He took off his converse and socks and gave them to him.

Sakura whipped out a small first-aid kit and covered the rash on Naruto’s heels. “Hey don’t look at me like that. Brought it just in case we’re going on a day survival tour. A camping would be nice too.”

“Did you scrub your feet, idiot?”

“You think so low of me grumpy. Of course – last week!”

With Naruto now comfortable, the three resumed walking on the unfamiliar residential area. Sasuke gestured for them to enter a bamboo forest on the far side of the main road. Hidden in the shadows of the clumped stalks were a small opening, the growth hampered and ground rid of grasses and weeds; many people have also chosen this shortcut, walked through the forest, did a little nature bathing, and emerged behind the bakery, still there, still standing, still operating.

Sasuke tapped on the large glass window cum counter on the front and bought three sets of cream puffs.

“Oh, it’s you,” the old baker greeted. “You brought your friends over? You always buy one set.”

Sasuke offered her a smile, briefly glancing to his periphery where Sakura was fussing with Naruto’s feet, and nodded as he accepted the paper bag. “It’s on the house, kid.”

“You brought us to stalk someone’s house?” Sakura dug in one paper bag, bit the puff in one bite, and with full mouth, she sighed. “This is heaven.”

“It’s our old family house, before the accident that is.” Sasuke also took out one puff and munched on it, ruminating on the sight before him, a two-story house with an imposing façade, his mom’s climbing hydrangea gone and cut by the new owners, beds of roses and daisies already withered, but the wisteria tree on the vacant lot beside continued to grow and shade what he supposed were the children’s rooms. It was in his third bite that he saw the tomato fruits he planted, alive and full with harvest. “Do you think my parents know?”

Naruto slid an arm across his shoulder and grinned sheepishly. “Then they would be happy ghosts or maybe they would voluntarily move away to give the new owners the opportunity to make it a happy a home like yours.

“What part are you gonna miss?” Sakura asked, halfway through her set of puffs.

“The sight of the wisteria before I sleep and after I wake up, and the sunlight in my parents’ room. My dad liked to make these suncatchers for my mom. The play of light was a good morning greeting, she said.”

“What’s your funniest memory?” Naruto sat on the grass, uncaring for the stains that would taint his good pair of pants.

“It was probably Christmas when I was seven, and Itachi had this big idea to bake a cake, but he swapped the sugar for the salt and we were wondering why it wouldn’t make a custard. Our parents still ate it, saying it was a very salty version of dark chocolate cake.”

“It was a good home,” Sakura patted the space between her and Naruto and Sasuke sat down cross-legged too, dipping his hand on the paper bag with the last cream puff.

“It was a good home,” Sasuke agreed as he bit into the last vestige of his family memory. He was suckling the powdered sugar off his fingers when he realized he was already crying, and the two were downright sobbing on his either side.

Such an embarrassing sight to see; he wondered what would the new owners feel if they looked out their windows this instant and saw three teenagers breaking down on the road across. It was honestly stupid and laughable to a point, considering how funny it was for grief to become lighter when someone else cried with him.

Naruto was sniffling so much that he had to offer his handkerchief to him. “I forgot to tell you guys. Hinata confessed to me during the cultural festival.”

“Oh my god. What did you say?” Sakura took a tissue out of her bag and dabbed her eyes. She flashed an apologetic look to Sasuke who already offered his hanky to Naruto’s fluids.

“Ah, what else? I had to reject her.” Naruto sneezed on Sasuke’s handkerchief again. “I told her I was in love with someone else.” He slyly glanced at his raven-haired friend and pursed his lips which Sakura quickly caught.

“Who is it?”

“Sasuke also likes someone.”

“Shut your mouth, blondie. Point is already moot. Besides, we’ve already been rejected.”

“Who are these people and why don’t I know them?” Sakura genuinely looked offended. “I could have vetted them!”

“Exactly why it was fortunate you didn’t meet them,” Sasuke said as an excuse though he pegged Sakura for not being that naïve. She, thankfully, let it go and gathered their trash. She dropped the bomb as she was brushing the grass blades from her trousers. “My parents are divorcing. Such a travesty not to have them show up on graduation day, and I thought I did a great job.”

The two, ever so sure, held onto her hands in case she was trembling again.

“Let’s get that five-star dinner,” Sasuke suggested, “and we need to rent a Mercedes-Benz.”

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Graduation Day

“Let’s welcome to the stage, class valedictorian, Uchiha Sasuke.” Kakashi was the officiating faculty today so she expected difficulty going through the event, but for some reason, he slipped into her mental back burner, no longer taking up room in her active consciousness. That was a good step, she smiled to herself. Her smile became wider as Sasuke got up the stage.

His fans club’s cheers were heard outside the auditorium, and the graduating class chuckled at the quick interruption. He cleared his throat and started his piece.

“Please get it on record that I was coerced to do this speech. Then again, I also had a hand on the turn of events that led me here today, in front of you. And it’s a little too on the nose, but I came to high school with a clear set of goals – have high grades and lead an uninteresting life. I accomplished the first one rather easily, and it’s a good metric for the future that’s upon us right now. Good grades land us good colleges. Good colleges land us good jobs. Good jobs land us good life.

But it’s not the sole benchmark as I have learned lately. You see, my second goal really missed the mark. Good life can also mean good friends, fun experiences, a caring environment, a complete family. If you ticked off each one, then that’s very notable. You have the four-leaf clover, and it’s a rare blessing. I only ticked off three, but that goes without any regret. If you only have one silver lining in your high school memory, then that makes us all the more human. And if there’s none, there is still is still a whole stretch of possibilities we can discover to find one. Thank you for your kind attention.”

Sakura was pretty sure she heard several sniffles across the student body. “The bastard delivered a good speech,” she muttered to herself.

“We would like to welcome our first national MVP, Uzumaki Naruto.”

Outside, the school band played the cheering anthem for his last national games. The cheerleaders also did a routine in tribute to him. That made him well up when he got to the podium.

“Wait oh my god, I’m tearing up so much.”

Sasuke grunted loudly and went back the stage to hand him a handkerchief which Naruto quickly used to wipe his snot.

“Thanks Sasuke. How can Kakashi-sensei let me follow after that rousing speech, and before Sakura too. It’s kinda evil.”

Laughter broke out.

“Well, this one’s a bare minimum. I didn’t have any goals or expectations, unlike genius grumpy over there. I just wanted to live my life like an ordinary boy. Someone said that how you spend your day is how you live your life so I did just that – ate ramen, slept in class because I am a growing kid, and played each arcade game until I won them. I also believe in serendipitous – thanks Sakura for this word, for the spelling and meaning – serendipitous coincidences. I just pitched and batted for former captain Haru one afternoon and now we landed in the national finals. I had loneliness for a friend, but now I’ve got all of you. And you know what else, the magic of working together. We wouldn’t have stepped foot in the nationals if it weren’t for your collective help. When we work towards a common goal, that also gives us common happiness, right? It’s infectious, a bouncing energy that gets thrown around and still makes it one piece. So wherever you will be after this, believe it!”

When Kakashi called her name next, she thought she was deaf, the noise around her collapsed in muted decibels. It took a minute before her fellow classmates shook her and motioned for her to quickly come up the stairs. Her silver-haired teacher looked so concerned in the shadows, but for what it was worth, she was civil and calm enough (at least in the matters concerning him) to nod at him in quiet exchange of assurance.

It was because she saw both of her parents at the side with a bouquet of roses. She struggled with the paper she brought with her although she had it memorized in her head; she even went through it flawlessly for three times last night. Tears blurred the words and the mere shock of the sight of their togetherness disabled her mental function to string coherent thoughts. She also started hyperventilating, her breaths coming faster than what her lungs could pump.

Then she felt Kakashi’s hand on her shoulder, a steady presence, and it reeled her back to reality. He tapped the mic and the feedback echoed. “Ah, Ms. Haruno had some technical issues. Again, let’s welcome former student council president, Sakura.”

Sasuke and Naruto in the front were almost standing, but she flashed them a smile as if to say she was okay now. “Hello, good day to our honorable guests and graduates. I think it’s safe to say that Sasuke and Naruto provided really good words of advice. So I have nothing more to offer, but to share my gratitude. Everyone was saying the student council did a good job in its programs, but it was actually the lot of you who made this possible – from your activity suggestions to participation and feedback. After all, you were the makers of your memories.

Earlier last week, my councilmates and friends reminded me how small actions go a long way – a smile, a wave across the hallway, a short exchange of good morning and see you soon, and I thought, aren’t we all just an accumulation of these small, little things? As such, it was what you think your insignificant moments were that pushed us to deliver you the best. It was the passing comment, the top-of-your-head tips, the interlude stories we hear during lunch breaks that allowed us to give you grand gestures and memories we hoped were worth keeping. And if we could start to use that perspective as well in our lives then maybe the uncertainties of a future wouldn’t be so heavy on us. We will face tomorrow with a lightness in being.

In behalf of the student council, thank you for allowing us to serve you.”

She bowed at a level where her torso was almost aligned at her hips, and she was confused with the lack of reaction. Sakura sighed, mulling over the deficiencies in her speech, but she straightened her back to a sight of a standing ovation and a thundering applause.

Then, she let her tears fall.

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“Why would you let Kakashi-sensei take the pic?” Sakura hissed at them.

“Just this one time, Sakura!” Naruto grinned.

“Sakura, you’re out of the frame,” Kakashi remarked. “Okay good. Say cheese.”

In spite of her recent heartbreak with him, she permitted herself to bask in fleeting cordiality. “Cheese.”

“Grumpyyyyyy.”

“Idiot blondie.”

Kakashi took three more shots and handed the camera to the trio. He almost turned away when Sakura caught his sleeve.

“Just one more,” she said. “With you.”

Sakura shifted to the front, almost kneeling with the camera angled for a selfie, her two friends beside her looking equally annoyed as the other, and Kakashi behind them, his hands on either head, smiling with his deceptively charming beauty mark.

It was the last picture of their high school life.

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The three were rushing through the airport crowd fifteen minutes before the immigration closes gates.

“Here!” Sakura slid a folder on the large pocket on Sasuke’s bag. “It includes your passport, your flight details, your valid IDs, your itinerary, and letters from us! Don’t forget our Friday video calls!”

“I can’t see. These tears are bullies,” Naruto said through tears. He was continuously wiping his eyes with his sleeve.

“And If I don’t get on my flight because you made us eat ramen for one last time and the orders took too long, I’m gonna have you cursed by a witch and a shaman!” Sasuke growled. The guards were starting to close the gates when a sobbing Naruto sprinted and basically tackled the guards on the floor.

“Sasuke come on, hurry up!”

“Drink your vitamins! And if you miss cream puffs, I’ll teach you how to make them.” Sakura was trying hard to keep pace with Sasuke’s brisk walking, but she ended up breathless anyway.

The three of them finally reached the immigration entrance, and Naruto was profusely apologizing to the guards for the interruption. Sasuke showed his documents, wheezing as they looked at it. They gave him a thumbs up and opened the gates.

The two were already slumped at the floor, waving without words, and exhausted from the clock race. Sasuke was almost through when he remembered something he forgot. He muttered a quick sorry, ran through the opening, and hugged his two friends.

“I’ll miss you.”

[friend-o-dorothy]

Employability Master Post

So I’m a job coach and I’m in this capstone course focused on employability and job readiness which is like hysterical to me because I literally help prep people for employment for a living. But rewriting my resume and doing mock interviews etc. has put me back on the receiving end of all this again, so I thought I’d impart some wisdom on y’all because I love you.

Resumes

Nothing on the page should be larger than your name.

Do not include work experience where you were fired or where you left on poor terms. Assume HR will contact that employer to seek a reference.

Do not exceed one page. I know there’s been a lot of debate about this lately, but for the love of God don’t do it. It’s still not standard practice to do and you’re more likely to find an employer turned off by that than impressed.

Double. Triple. Quadrouple check for errors.

If you have a huge employment gap, feel free to write a one sentence explanation in italics at the end of the work history section. Between the years of 2015 and 2017 I focused on school or I was focused on my family in the year 2018 and am now excited to enter the workforce is appropriate.

The skills section should not include things everyone else has. I cannot tell you how many resumes I see that say “proficient in Microsoft office.” If you’re applying they’ll assume you are already. Don’t waste precious space with that. If you want to include skills, share qualifications, completed trainings or webinars, and relevant information like typing speed for a data entry specialist or deescalation trainings for social work.

Make sure you have permission from your references before you use them. Even if you have a standing agreement, they may not answer an unfamiliar call if they aren’t expecting it.

Include awards and accomplishments. These should be applicable to the field you’re going into and contain descriptions. Here’s a glimpse of mine (sorry I’m on mobile and the formatting got weird)

Look online to make sure your formatting is appropriate. Also, many career centers at colleges will look over your resume whether or not you’re a student. Old teachers or professors are also helpful when you need a second set of eyes.

Interviews

Pick out your outfit well ahead of time. Wear modest makeup, try to avoid cleavage, don’t wear heels higher than you’re comfortable walking in normally, and don’t wear anything you’ll be tempted to pull at or fidget with. A skirt that rides up will make you self conscious and it will be difficult to void yanking it down.

Research the company. Take time to really look at the company’s mission statement and to consider what it means to you. Look at outcomes from the local branch or department and know the name of your interviewer.

Prepare three strengths and weaknesses. Your weaknesses should be spun as strengths. Example: “I’m excited about my work and have a hard time saying no. I’ve really had to learn to manage my time to prevent burn-out.” Also consider real-life examples of times you have failed and how you can display a growth mindset when sharing the story. On the other side of things, if you can’t tell them why you are worth hiring why should you expect them to choose you?

Never NEVER bitch about a former employer. The interviewer may ask you about your least favorite boss. Do not share their name, but focus on the management or leadership style that was negative while still trying to give them the benefit of the doubt. Example: “A previous supervisor of mine had a very hands off approach. Because he didn’t offer much feedback, I struggled to please him. I prefer to work with a supervisor that doesn’t hesitate to offer praise or criticism.”

Smile, get engaged, laugh when appropriate, and humanize yourself. Remember that they have to supervise you, and just like you’re hoping for a boss that’s likable they want an employee that’s likable. Don’t be afraid to be a little vulnerable. Reveal something about yourself that’s appropriate for work. I’ve mentioned having cats, being new to the area, struggling with anxiety, and being adopted when appropriate and relevant. Here’s a clip from my mock interview:

Practice getting yourself to the interview site a day or more ahead of time and be sure to time it. Maps may say it takes 15 minutes, but if it actually takes 20 with construction, you’ve set yourself up to be five minutes late.

The interviewer may ask how you would handle certain situations on the job. If you are not sure, saying, “I would consult with my supervisor to make sure my response was in line with company policy” is totally appropriate. No one has all the answers, and being willing to admit you may need help is not a bad thing.

If you need time to think about an answer to a question try repeating the question back or stating, “wow what a great question” to give yourself time to think rather than allowing for too long a pause. Example: “Hm, when is a time I felt overwhelmed... well! Last summer I was responsible for running a large volunteer group and I had a number of high behavior clients...”

Send a thank you card afterwards. An email works, but a handwritten card adds a personal touch, shows greater effort, and more deeply expresses gratitude.

Feel free to send questions or ask me to look over a resume or give tips on your interview outfit. I’d be happy to help. I wanna see you beautiful women living fully in jobs that bring you joy.

[winlandmetalnews]

China Copper Weekly Review: Copper prices fall from a high level this week (Week 9)

Supply in Chile and Peru will resume, and the tension will be eased. The actual start of consumption in the current market has been suppressed. No obvious replenishment behavior has been seen. The continuous rise of the US dollar index and US bond yields constituted pressure, and the copper price fell from a high level this week .

1. The trend of domestic spot copper prices this week

In the week of March 5, the domestic spot copper price dropped from a high level. The average price of 1# copper was reported at 66672 yuan/ton, with an average daily drop of 740 yuan/ton, and a weekly drop of 5.40%; the average price of the previous week was reported at 68280 yuan/ton, a decrease of 1608 yuan/ton compared with last week, and a month-on-month drop of 2.36% .

Chile's copper production in January fell by 0.7% year-on-year. Chile's national copper company Codelco's copper production surged, but the world's largest copper mine Escondida's copper production fell; Peru's metal mining industry fell by 7.12% in January, of which copper fell by 7.6%. Chilean ports have returned to normal and the state of emergency in Peru has been lifted. Analysts expect a large number of ships from Chile and Peru to arrive at Chinese ports starting in March, and the tight supply situation will be eased.

Previously, prices rose too fast, and rising production costs inhibited the start of actual consumption. The Shanghai Futures Exchange's inventory continues to accumulate, and there is still greater pressure to destock. Recently, due to the increase in the price of raw materials, some downstream companies feared the high to reduce the operating rate. There has not been any obvious replenishment behavior, and the prices of various home appliances such as air conditioners have increased. The agency said that some of the fundamental factors supporting industrial metals began to fade, and the macro atmosphere disturbed the market, and copper prices fell from their highs this week.

2. One-week trend of copper futures prices

Data show that this week the center of gravity of Lun Copper has moved down. The average price of LME copper in the first four trading days was US$9003.5/ton, an average daily drop of US$102.75/ton; the average price last week was US$9243.4/ton, a month-on-month drop of 2.60%.

China's manufacturing industry has remained above the line of prosperity and decline for 12 consecutive months, but its activity has declined, and the pace of expansion of production and demand has slowed. Manufacturing activities in Europe and the United States have also maintained an expansion trend. The good manufacturing conditions have eased the economic impact of the blockade measures. The global vaccine is accelerating, and economic recovery is expected to drive demand recovery. However, the U.S. dollar index and U.S. bond yields have continued to rise recently, and the Fed has not given a "rescue" signal, which has put pressure on the commodity market.

The trend of Shanghai copper was weak this week. The average weekly settlement price of the current month contract was 66710 yuan/ton, an average daily drop of 668 yuan/ton; the average price of the previous week was reported at 67864 yuan/ton, down 1.70% from the previous week. Copper inventories in Shanghai continued to climb this week, increasing by 15067 tons to 163,025 tons, an increase of 10.18. The cumulative increase in the past five weeks reached 144.91%.

3. Lun Copper Week Inventory Situation

Lun's copper stocks continued to rise this week, with a cumulative increase of 2,800 metric tons to 79,025 metric tons, a cumulative increase of 3.67%.

Fourth, hot finance at home and abroad

China:

1. According to data from the National Bureau of Statistics, the manufacturing PMI in February was 50.6%, which was higher than the critical point, down 0.7 percentage points from the previous month, and remained above the prosperity and decline line for 12 consecutive months. my country's economy as a whole continued to expand.

2. The economic recovery in 2020 will be better than expected, and the annual GDP will grow by 2.3%. The government work report stated that the main expected target for development in 2021 is to increase GDP by more than 6%.

International aspect:

1. The final value of the Eurozone manufacturing PMI in February was announced at 57.9, a new high since February 2018. The previous value was 57.7 and the expected value was 57.7. The continued expansion of manufacturing in the Eurozone is clearly helping to offset the weakness in many consumer-facing industries.

2. The US Manufacturing ISM Purchasing Managers Index in February increased to 60.8 month-on-month, the highest in three years since February 2018, with an expected value of 58.6 and a previous value of 58.7. It has been expanding for 9 consecutive months, and the price index hit the highest since July 2008.

Five, copper market news of the week

1. Rio Tinto and Mongolia reached a new agreement to expand the Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold mine in the Gobi Desert. Underground expansion is its most important growth project. After completion, the mine will produce 480,000 tons of copper per year from 2028 to 2036.

2. An executive of Southern Copper in Peru revealed that the company is advancing the development of the Chancas and Michiquillay projects worth US$5.4 billion because China’s demand and limited supply will help boost global copper prices.

6. Outlook for the copper price market outlook

The market's expectations for the global economic recovery have increased. With the continuous advancement of vaccines, the haze of the epidemic in Europe and the United States has continued to weaken. The European Central Bank said that trade has almost returned to the level before the epidemic and that it can remain optimistic about the economic outlook in the second half of the year. However, the four consecutive months of contraction in the service industry have brought the Eurozone economy into a second recession, but the recession has slowed down. The US stimulus plan continues to advance, but the job market is mixed and has not yet recovered from the impact of the epidemic. The Fed said it may not be able to restore full employment within the year.

China's economic growth target for this year is set at more than 6%, which will steadily increase bulk consumption such as automobiles and home appliances, and increase charging piles and other facilities. According to data from the Passenger Association, the cumulative retail sales of passenger vehicles in the first two months increased by about 71% year-on-year. The China Automobile Association predicts that the sales of new energy vehicles will reach 1.8 million this year. The terminal market demand will be more positive in the future, and the peak season consumption expectation in the second quarter still exists, but the macro atmosphere is uncertain. It is expected that copper prices will continue to fluctuate next week.

[griffith-ben]

My Linked[In]terview

One of my most proud accomplishments related to social media has nothing to do with learning about posting or using the online platform. In Fall 2020, I entered the internship market determined to make the best of these unprecedented times. To me this meant dedicating hours each week to revising and editing my resume to match the criteria of any internships that were remotely interesting to me. I would say on average I spent about four hours per week dedicated to the job hunt, finding listings on LinkedIn, getting inspiration on company websites, and manually creating alternate versions of my resume to best match different positions between sales, marketing, communication, public relations, you name it.  

Goals individuals place on themselves can only be one of two possibilities: a stretch goal or a comfort goal. When sending out my resume in the middle of a pandemic I adopted a “the worst they can say is no” attitude, which ultimately has led me to some immense success. I had two stretch goals that began to come to fruition in October of 2020. One day I got a LinkedIn notification from an unknown and it ended up being a recruiter for the LinkedIn Global Sales Internship role. Looking at this from my realist perspective I knew that there was some sort of artificial intelligence software in LinkedIn that was able to pull my profile as one with “relevant skills that could translate to a career in sales at LinkedIn.” Either way I felt very excited to explore this possibility.

This is where my journey with LinkedIn began. In this message the recruiter sent a welcome video where she filmed an introduction, and it was refreshing to see someone in a more normal way during this global crisis. During this week I began to reach out to my professors to gain opinions on my resume in order to give myself the best shot in the interview process. After making conversation with the recruiter via LinkedIn messaging, I was able to put in my application with confidence.

About a week later or so I received an e-mail telling me I had made it into the first stage of the process which was a fifteen-minute phone screen. We set-up time which was late for us on the east coast, but worked out nicely for the recruiter because the headquarters and where she lives is in San Francisco. Looking back at this conversation there was not much substance to it, just checking in on how the school year is going and basic questions on my experience listed on my resume. Applying what I know from my Sales Management course I know the content of this talk was not what was being evaluated. It was the soft skills of conversing over the phone which is directly applicable to the sales position being applied for.

After the call was over, I was given a timeline of two weeks to hear if I made it into the first round of interviews. I knew I had chosen a time for the phone screen early in the process so to make sure that I remained in the head of the recruiter I had to take action. Something I did that really made me feel more confident that this position was a right fit for me was reaching out to previous interns from the position. Just on LinkedIn alone I was able to strike up conversation with at least five of the previous interns and ask about their experience. I then formulated a thank you email to the recruiter and I mentioned these interactions which further showed my interest and my ability to work with others input.

This is a mostly happy story after all; I did end up making it to the first round of interviews which was extremely exciting to achieve. This call was scheduled for about half an hour and consisted of a video-chat going over those standard interview questions like “tell me about a time where you failed and how you handled it?” And the more sales role specific questions such as “why are you interested in sales?” In this conversation I prepared to have a more back and forth conversation whereas the phone interview was mostly a one-way talking style. I studied up on here LinkedIn profile to get a sense on what we had in common and was sure to use those commonalities in my answers. For example, I used my transition from the running club to the division one team to show hard work, dedication, but tied it into some she could relate to. Based on her profile we had roots in the Midwest which was a great conversation starter. In my running I highlighted the unpredictability of Midwestern weather and from this I learned she had completed a half marathon and I was clued into knowing she could relate to my experience.

In this first round there was only a week turn-around between knowing if we made it into the second round of interviews. I am usually confident in interviews because people skills are one of my strongest skills but, because of my lack of internship experience I was worried if I would be overlooked. In a confetti started email, I got the congratulations email and made it to the second round. For this round I would be interviewing with someone higher up in the hiring manager level. This interview I was preparing to answer behavioral based questions, so I began going through mental preparations to show my story in the most positive light.

For this interview it was done over a video call and lasted for about forty-five minutes. This new woman I was interacting with was inspiring and strong. She has worked her way up to being a Vice President of Sales in three companies and now works as a sales director of North America for LinkedIn. Interacting with someone so high up in an organization I thought was not going to be possible in college, but it was so cool to see how down to earth someone so successful could be. On the day of, I had to miss class, with permission, in order to attend the call. After sharing with my professor about the opportunity it was great to know how much I felt supported in achieving higher.  

The content of this second round interview with the hiring manager was definitely more nerve racking. I was glad I was dressed up in my full suit because even with the window open to a Michigan November I was still sweating nervously. In our conversation I never showed my nerves though, I was calm confident and collected and made sure to speak at a rate that was understandable and would translate well across the video call. She asked questions on my sales experience and why I think I would succeed with LinkedIn, but the question I always love to get in an interview was brought up giving me the confidence I needed to finish strong across those forty-five minutes. The question was along the lines of: tell me about a time where you were under stress and still performed well.  

My answer to this question in a spark notes version always relates to my Leader Advancement Scholar Program experience where we performed a debate course partnered with the Saginaw Regional Correctional Facility. In this experience we were partnered with men that has sentences between two-years and life, we drove to the prison, went through security, and learned alongside these men debate principles and etiquette. Internally, I was a mess. I was very stressed out about being in a prison, I had never known anyone to go to prison, all my knowledge on the prison system came from the media. Even under this stress I was able to walk away with the second highest speaker’s award for best debate and performed two wins as I stepped in for another student when she was sick on the day of her debate. The response from the LinkedIn interviewer was priceless, she said that in her four years of going through rounds of Intern interviews she had never heard a story like that and overall was very impressed.

I left the interview feeling proud of my work, but this is not to be confused with confident on the position. At this stage in the game it was obvious there were very few candidates left. I wanted to leave an impression of myself on the interviewer and share why I wanted to be apart of the Global Sales program. I was able to ask great questions on what it is like working at LinkedIn, culture differences between this job and previous ones, and growth opportunities. I was also able to share my story in an authentic and memorable way.

While this entire LinkedIn process was going on, I did not put all my eggs in one basket. I was balancing three other companies for interviews and was able to land two other offers. Upon notification of another offer with a deadline I reached out to LinkedIn out of courtesy to let them know I have a new timeline. That next day results came back from the Round Two of interviews and I was not selected to move into final round. Though I had other offers, I was devastated at this news. After spending over a month interacting with recruiters, I began to envision my internship living in San Francisco for the summer, I imagined life meeting new people from all over the country, I envisioned a job offer there after college. The world works in mysterious ways and I know that it must have not been meant to be at that time. Moving forward I have built strong connections with LinkedIn and going into my senior year I feel excited at what could be next for me.

As for the power of social media it is obvious that without its impact, I would have never earned this opportunity. Based on my profile, artificial intelligence was able to select me as a candidate with the characteristics to be successful in their internship role. Specifically, I attribute my profile having this status due to my active posting. With higher frequency of posts the AI was able to have more data points to judge me and therefore more reasons to share my name with the recruiter. Social media is often talked negatively in this day and age but this anecdote about LinkedIn is an obvious example of the great things possible.

[ucflibrary]

The summer semester is ending and the prep for fall has started. It’s only a few short weeks until the 2019-2020 academic year begins. We’ll have a full cohort of students back on campus. The lines for coffee will be never ending and a free parking space will be nowhere to be found. Life will definitely get more exciting.

 Libraries staff has pulled together a full list of books that cover a whole range of areas. Some books are for our graduating students wondering what comes next. Some books are to help new incoming students start the year successfully. We even have books that staff read when they were your age (yep, books existed that long ago) that changed how they thought about the world.

 Welcome to the 2019-20 academic year!

 Click on the link below to see the full list, descriptions, and catalog links for the featured Back-so-School titles suggested by UCF Library employees. These 24 books plus many more are also on display on the 2nd (main) floor of the John C. Hitt Library next to the bank of two elevators.

 Bei qi baba shang xue: Going to school with dad on my back directed by Zhou Youchao Shiwa, the son of a poor Chinese farmer, is doing well at school. But when his mother dies and his sister leaves the house, he's the only one left to take care of his disabled father. Suggested by Tim Walker, Information Technology & Digital Initiatives

 Braving the Wilderness: The quest for true belonging and the courage to stand alone by Brené Brown Social scientist Brené Brown, PhD, LMSW, has sparked a global conversation about the experiences that bring meaning to our lives—experiences of courage, vulnerability, love, belonging, shame, and empathy. In Braving the Wilderness, Brown redefines what it means to truly belong in an age of increased polarization. Suggested by Kryslynn Collazo, Scholarly Communication

 Close Encounters of the Third-Grade Kind: thoughts on teacherhood by Phillip Done A twenty-year veteran of the classroom, elementary school teacher Phillip Done takes readers through a lively and hilarious year in the classroom. Starting with the relative calm before the storm of buying school supplies and posting class lists, he shares the distinct personalities of grades K-4, what he learned from two professional trick or treating 8-year-old boys, the art of learning cursive and letter-writing, how kindergartners try to trap leprechauns, and what every child should experience before he or she grows up. Suggested by Richard Harrison, Research & Information Services

 Educated: a memoir by Tara Westover Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Her family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education, and no one to intervene when one of Tara's older brothers became violent. When another brother got himself into college, Tara decided to try a new kind of life. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge University. Only then would she wonder if she'd traveled too far, if there was still a way home. Suggested by Cindy Dancel, Research & Information Services

 Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger The short story, Franny, takes place in an unnamed college town and tells the tale of an undergraduate who is becoming disenchanted with the selfishness and inauthenticity she perceives all around her. The novella, Zooey, is named for Zooey Glass, the second-youngest member of the Glass family. As his younger sister, Franny, suffers a spiritual and existential breakdown in her parents' Manhattan living room -- leaving Bessie, her mother, deeply concerned -- Zooey comes to her aid, offering what he thinks is brotherly love, understanding, and words of sage advice. Suggested by Christina Wray, Teaching & Engagement

 Girl, Stop Apologizing: A shame-free plan for embracing and achieving your goals by Rachel Hollis In Girl, Stop Apologizing, Rachel Hollis sounds a wake-up call. She knows that many women have been taught to define themselves in light of other people—whether as wife, mother, daughter, or employee—instead of learning how to own who they are and what they want. With a challenge to women everywhere to stop talking themselves out of their dreams, Hollis identifies the excuses to let go of, the behaviors to adopt, and the skills to acquire on the path to growth, confidence, and believing in yourself. Suggested by Kryslynn Collazo, Scholarly Communication

 Glimmer of Hope: how tragedy sparked a movement by March for Our Lives (Organization) Glimmer of Hope tells the story of how a group of teenagers raced to channel their rage and sorrow into action, and went on to create one of the largest youth-led movements in global history. Suggested by Richard Harrison, Research & Information Services

 Hillbilly Elegy: A memoir of a family in culture in crisis by J. D. Vance Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of white working-class Americans. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck. Suggested by Katy Miller, Research, Education & Engagement

 How to Become a Straight-A Student: the unconventional strategies real college students use to score high while studying less by Cal Newport Most college students believe that straight A’s can be achieved only through cramming and painful all-nighters at the library. But Cal Newport knows that real straight-A students don’t study harder—they study smarter. A breakthrough approach to acing academic assignments, from quizzes and exams to essays and papers, How to Become a Straight-A Student reveals for the first time the proven study secrets of real straight-A students across the country and weaves them into a simple, practical system that anyone can master. Suggested by Joanie Reynolds, Interlibrary Loan & Document Delivery Services

 How to Win at College: simple rules for success from star students by Cal Newport What does it take to be a standout student? How can you make the most of your college years—graduate with honors, choose exciting activities, build a head-turning resume, and gain access to the best post-college opportunities? Based on interviews with star students at universities nationwide, from Harvard to the University of Arizona, How to Win at College presents seventy-five simple rules that will rocket you to the top of the class. Suggested by Joanie Reynolds, Interlibrary Loan & Document Delivery Services

 I am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe  As Charlotte encounters the paragons of Dupont's privileged elite, she is seduced by the heady glamour of acceptance, betraying her values and upbringing before she grasps the power of being different and the exotic allure of her innocence. Suggested by Jada Reyes, UCF Libraries Student Ambassador

 I Just Graduated... Now What?: honest answers from those who have been there by Katherine Schwarzenegger Graduation is a time of tough questions whose answers we don’t—and sometimes can’t—know the day we receive our diploma. Determined to power through the uncertainty of post-gradua­tion, bestselling author Katherine Schwarzenegger embarked on a yearlong quest to gather the best guidance possible from more than thirty highly success­ful people working in fields like business, media, fashion, technology, sports, and philanthropy. Suggested by Megan Haught, Teaching & Engagement/Research & Information Services

 In Defense of Food: an eater's manifesto by Michael Pollan Because in the so-called Western diet, food has been replaced by nutrients, and common sense by confusion--most of what we’re consuming today is longer the product of nature but of food science. The result is what Michael Pollan calls the American Paradox: The more we worry about nutrition, the less healthy we see to become. Pollan’s bracing and eloquent manifesto shows us how we can start making thoughtful food choices that will enrich our lives, enlarge our sense of what it means to be healthy, and bring pleasure back to eating. Suggested by Megan Haught, Teaching & Engagement/Research & Information Services

 Mis(h)adra by Iasmin Omar Ata An Arab-American college student struggles to live with epilepsy in this starkly colored and deeply-cutting graphic novel. Isaac wants nothing more than to be a functional college student—but managing his epilepsy is an exhausting battle to survive. He attempts to maintain a balancing act between his seizure triggers and his day-to-day schedule, but he finds that nothing—not even his medication—seems to work. The doctors won’t listen, the schoolwork keeps piling up, his family is in denial about his condition, and his social life falls apart as he feels more and more isolated by his illness. Even with an unexpected new friend by his side, so much is up against him that Isaac is starting to think his epilepsy might be unbeatable. Suggested by Emma Gisclair, Curriculum Materials Center

 Never Eat Alone and Other Secrets to Success by Keith Ferrazzi with Tahl Raz In Never Eat Alone, Ferrazzi lays out the specific steps—and inner mindset—he uses to reach out to connect with the thousands of colleagues, friends, and associates on his contacts list, people he has helped and who have helped him. And in the time since Never Eat Alone was published in 2005, the rise of social media and new, collaborative management styles have only made Ferrazzi’s advice more essential for anyone hoping to get ahead in business. Suggested by Sandy Avila, Research & Information Services

 On Beauty by Zadie Smith Howard Belsey is an Englishman abroad, an academic teaching in Wellington, a college town in New England. Married young, thirty years later he is struggling to revive his love for his African American wife Kiki. Meanwhile, his three teenage children - Jerome, Zora and Levi - are each seeking the passions, ideals and commitments that will guide them through their own lives. After Howard has a disastrous affair with a colleague, his sensitive older son, Jerome, escapes to England for the holidays. In London he defies everything the Belseys represent when he goes to work for Trinidadian right-wing academic and pundit, Monty Kipps. Taken in by the Kipps family for the summer, Jerome falls for Monty's beautiful, capricious daughter, Victoria. But this short-lived romance has long-lasting consequences, drawing these very different families into each other's lives. Suggested by Jada Reyes, UCF Libraries Student Ambassador

 Parkland: inside building 12 produced and directed by Charlie Minn Acclaimed director Charlie Minn brings attention to the victims of the infamous massacre that occurred on February 14th, 2018 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. A normal day at school became a true nightmare for Parkland, Florida citizens as they experienced something they had never thought would happen in their small suburb. In just six minutes, seventeen students and staff were fatally shot and seventeen more were wounded, while innumerable lives were changed forever. The true heroes of that day have come together to tell their stories and to bring words to those who are no longer here to offer them. This documentary reveals testimony and the raw emotions of those involved, highlighting the actions taken by individuals to save the lives of others through selfless and brave acts. Suggested by Megan Haught, Teaching & Engagement/Research & Information Services

 So What Are You Going to Do With That?: a guide to career-changing by Susan Basalla and Maggie Debelius A witty, accessible guide full of concrete advice for anyone contemplating the jump from scholarship to the outside world, So What Are You Going to Do with That? covers topics ranging from career counseling to interview etiquette to translating skills learned in the academy into terms an employer can understand and appreciate. Packed with examples and stories from real people who have successfully made this daunting—but potentially rewarding— transition, and written with a deep understanding of both the joys and difficulties of the academic life, this fully revised and up-to-date edition will be indispensable for any graduate student or professor who has ever glanced at her CV, flipped through the want ads, and wondered, “What if?”

Suggested by Rachel Edford, Teaching & Engagement

Sourdough: or, Lois and her adventures in the underground market by Robin Sloan Lois Clary is a software engineer at General Dexterity, a San Francisco robotics company with world-changing ambitions. She codes all day and collapses at night, her human contact limited to the two brothers who run the neighborhood hole-in-the-wall from which she orders dinner every evening. Then, disaster! Visa issues. The brothers quickly close up shop. But they have one last delivery for Lois: their culture, the sourdough starter used to bake their bread. She must keep it alive, they tell her―feed it daily, play it music, and learn to bake with it. Lois is no baker, but she could use a roommate, even if it is a needy colony of microorganisms. Soon, not only is she eating her own homemade bread, she’s providing loaves to the General Dexterity cafeteria every day. Then the company chef urges her to take her product to the farmer’s market―and a whole new world opens up.. Suggested by Katy Miller, Research, Education & Engagement

 Teacher Man: A memoir by Frank McCourt In bold and spirited prose featuring his irreverent wit and compelling honesty, McCourt records the trials, triumphs and surprises he faced in the classroom. Teacher Man shows McCourt developing his unparalleled ability to tell a great story as, five days a week, five periods per day, he worked to gain the attention and respect of unruly, hormonally charged or indifferent adolescents. Suggested by Rachel Edford, Teaching & Engagement

 The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho Paulo Coelho's masterpiece tells the magical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure as extravagant as any ever found. The story of the treasures Santiago finds along the way teaches us, as only a few stories can, about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, learning to read the omens strewn along life's path, and, above all, following our dreams. Suggested by Christina Wray, Teaching & Engagement

 The Secret Lives of Teachers by Anonymous Welcome to “East Hudson,” an elite private school in New York where the students are attentive, the colleagues are supportive, and the tuition would make the average person choke on its string of zeroes. You might think a teacher here would have little in common with most other teachers in America, but as this veteran educator—writing anonymously—shows in this refreshingly honest account, all teachers are bound by a common thread. Stripped of most economic obstacles and freed up by anonymity, he is able to tell a deeper story about the universal conditions, anxieties, foibles, generosities, hopes, and complaints that comprise every teacher’s life. Suggested by Richard Harrison, Research & Information Services

 We Don’t Eat Our Classmates by Ryan T. Higgins It's the first day of school for Penelope Rex, and she can't wait to meet her classmates. But it's hard to make human friends when they're so darn delicious! That is, until Penelope gets a taste of her own medicine and finds she may not be at the top of the food chain after all. . . . Suggested by Emma Gisclair, Curriculum Materials Center

 Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: an inquiry into values by Robert M. Pirsig Acclaimed as one of the most exciting books in the history of American letters, this modern epic became an instant bestseller upon publication in 1974, transforming a generation and continuing to inspire millions. A narration of a summer motorcycle trip undertaken by a father and his son, the book becomes a personal and philosophical odyssey into fundamental questions of how to live. The narrator's relationship with his son leads to a powerful self-reckoning; the craft of motorcycle maintenance leads to an austerely beautiful process for reconciling science, religion, and humanism. Suggested by Sandy Avila, Research & Information Services

[reviewcrbtech]

Reviews of CRB Tech: CRB’s Japanese Webinar 2021

CRB Tech — a trusted name and a front running online training and career development partner recently conducted a webinar on ‘Japanese for Career Growth’. As the name suggests, the webinar threw light on how Japanese proficiency can help an aspirant from the career (growth) perspective. The webinar received an overwhelming response, with more than 500+ students attending it!

The focus of the webinar was on making the attendees understand the benefits of knowing a language like Japanese and becoming proficient in it, for their overall career development and growth.

JLPT is a standard criteria based test to assess, verify, and confirm the proficiency level of non-native speakers as well as the learners, is what he stated. In line with this, the speaker who himself happened to be a Japanese language expert from the industry, began by introducing the students to the Japanese Language Proficiency Test i.e. JLPT. According to him, this is the first step for those who are looking to learn Japanese from a professional perspective. Here is the summary of what the language expert explained during the Japanese webinar.

Going further, he informed that JLPT consists of five levels i.e. N1, N2, N3, N4, and N5.

N5 — It is meant for the beginners. Under this, students need to learn near about 100 Kanji, Hiragana, Katakana (readings + pronunciations) and nearly 400–500 Japanese words along with Japanese grammar basics.

N4 — This level consists of listening and comprehending daily conversations. Approx. 1500 Japanese words and 300 Kanji are required, is what the speaker mentioned.

N3 — One becomes capable of listening, reading and understanding daily conversations at almost normal speed. Near about 3000 to 4000 Japanese words and 600–700 Kanjis are required.

N2 — Individuals who have reached this level are acknowledged to possess upper intermediate conversational ability and they can state it in their resume. The level goes up here to 6000 words and 1000 Kanji is what the expert added.

N1 — This is the highest level showing topmost proficiency. In simple language, one has now become a Japanese expert with near native proficiency. 10,000+ words and 2000–2500 Kanjis are required is what the speaker informed the students.

With reference to various studies and research, the expert also came up with real-time data and some stats during his talk. The stats revealed that knowing a language like Japanese along with technical skills have resulted into higher salary packages for the aspirants. That’s because of that additional skill in foreign language. This information was encouraging for the students who were present at the seminar.

The webinar concluded with a Q&A session where students asked their doubts to the career experts.

One of the students Prakash who attended the Japanese webinar asked “Which is the minimum level that one should attain to get a good job offer?”

While answering the question, the speaker referred to the various levels (N5-N1) in Japanese. He being a Japanese professional recommended the N3 level for getting a good job and salary package.

Suman, yet another student attending the webinar asked “Where can we appear for the JLPT?”

One can take the test across the major cities in Japan. For those who wish to take the test outside of Japan, they can find the exam conducting cities in their respective country by searching “Local Host Institutions of JLPT”.

In their feedback post the webinar, the students expressed that they found the webinar to be informative, and made them realize the importance of having a bilingual skillset i.e. English and a foreign language, along with core domain knowledge.

CRB with its vast experience in this field, has been providing bilingual (Japanese) training as a part of its IT, Engineering and Healthcare training programs, for a number of years now. As per reports, this has benefited many of their students in getting good placements in MNCs, with high salary packages. Student CRB Tech reviews on the web are a proof of this.

Towards the end of the webinar, the students were also briefed about the domain wise online bilingual courses on offer from CRB Tech reviews. Right from Java to Clinical Research training program. The students were also told about the other offerings of these courses like funding, opportunity to earn and learn, interview training, unlimited placement calls from CRB Tech placement etc.

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Investors may have misjudged the recovery summer Finally, thanks to coronavirus vaccination campaigns, such activities seem possible again, encouraging investors to pile into travel and entertainment stocks. But a closer look at what many of these companies are saying shows that 2022, and not 2021, may be where most of the action is. What’s happening: While tourism group TUI (TUIFF) is touting “a strong 2021 holiday season,” the 2.6 million bookings it reported Wednesday for the summer months are 69% lower than they were at a comparable point for 2019. The company said bookings had actually dropped slightly since its last update, “reflecting customers choosing to defer their booking to future seasons due to the lack of clarity provided by governments on lifting of travel restrictions.” Shares fell more than 2% in Frankfurt. Carnival (CCL) also said this week that it had cancelled some additional sailings as it planned for a “possible” July restart on select ships departing from Florida and Texas. “We continue to have constructive discussions with the [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] but still have many questions that remain unanswered,” said Christine Duffy, president of Carnival Cruise Line. Events group Live Nation (LYV), meanwhile, said that while it’s about to announce more tours for later this summer, including Dave Matthews Band and Maroon 5, it expects the bigger productions to start later this year and into 2022 “given the longer lead times associated with global arena and stadium tours.” Big picture: Summer 2021 won’t be a total wash. But it’s not going to be completely normal, either. Does that mean investors got a bit ahead of themselves? Shares of TUI, which reported a huge loss of roughly $1.8 billion for the first half of its fiscal year, are still up 48% in 2021. Carnival’s stock has climbed more than 19%, while Live Nation is 11.5% higher. The S&P 500 has climbed 10.5%. Investors may be looking further into the future. Live Nation has said that its concert pipeline is up double digits in 2022 from 2019. Carnival has also reported that cruise bookings are up from pre-pandemic levels in 2022 “despite minimal advertising or marketing.” That’s great news, and a sign that the economic recovery from a historic shock will only gather steam in the months ahead. But it underscores the dilemma facing Wall Street. Investor insight: Inflation fears have battered high-growth stocks in recent days, as concerns grow that a red-hot recovery could lead to a spike in prices, forcing central banks to hike interest rates. In that environment, investors may be inclined to look toward stocks that may be undervalued and could benefit from the recovery. But it’s increasingly clear that requires looking past an uncertain 2021 and into 2022. Gasoline demand surges after pipeline attack A growing number of gas stations along the East Coast of the United States are without fuel as anxious drivers aggressively fill up their tanks following a ransomware attack that shut down the Colonial Pipeline, a critical artery for gasoline and other fuels. As of 12 a.m. ET Wednesday, 16% of gas stations in North Carolina and 10.4% in Georgia didn’t have gasoline, according to outage figures reported by GasBuddy, an app that tracks fuel prices and demand. That was up from 14.7% in North Carolina and 9.4% in Georgia just two hours earlier. Rising outages are also being reported in Virginia, South Carolina and Florida. “Panicked buying” is “running stations in the region dry,” Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy, told CNN Business. He warned that the “irrational behavior” could prolong supply issues for weeks. US Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm pleaded with Americans not to hoard gas as the pipeline attempts to resume operations. “Let me emphasize that much as there was no cause for say, hoarding toilet paper at the beginning of the pandemic, there should be no cause for hoarding gasoline,” Granholm said during Tuesday’s White House press briefing, adding that the pipeline “should be substantially operational by the end of this week and over the weekend.” Watch this space: The episode has highlighted the growing threat that cyber criminals pose to the world’s largest corporations and strategic infrastructure, an issue experts say demands urgent attention. “What will stop this is much higher levels of [cyber]security,” said Peter Yapp, the former deputy director of the UK National Cyber Security Centre. “Instead of putting money into paying people after the event, we should be putting money in ahead of the event and making sure we batten down the hatches.” Tesla’s problems in China could hurt its stock Can Tesla (TSLA) maintain its foothold in China, a crucial market for car sales? Investors hope so, but they’re starting to worry. The latest: Tesla sold fewer than 26,000 cars in China in April, down 27% from March, according to figures released by the China Passenger Car Association. The drop came as Chinese electric vehicle manufacturers such as Nio, Xpeng and Li Auto all reported improved domestic sales. “It was expected that its April sales would be down sequentially, but not to this extent,” said Dan Ives, a tech analysts at Wedbush Securities. “China is a lynchpin to the Tesla bull story. The sales numbers show that all the issues in April had an impact.” Remember: Tesla was the target of a protest at China’s largest auto show in Shanghai last month by owners who complained about problems with their cars. Five Chinese regulatory agencies are also questioning the quality of its Shanghai-made Model 3. There have also been reports that China’s military banned Tesla vehicles from entering its complexes, expressing concerns that onboard cameras could be used for spying — a charge CEO Elon Musk denied. In this tense environment, Reuters reported Tuesday that Tesla has halted plans to buy land to expand its Shanghai plant into a global export hub due to uncertainty over US-China trade tensions. Tesla did not respond to a request for comment on either its April sales in China or its Shanghai plans. Investor insight: Investors aren’t panicking, but they are closely monitoring any developments. Tesla’s shares fell nearly 2% on Tuesday and are off again in premarket trading Wednesday. Up next Wendy’s (WEN) reports results before US markets open. Bumble and Poshmark follow after the close. Also today: The latest US Consumer Price Index, a key measure of inflation, posts at 8:30 a.m. ET. Coming tomorrow: Another look at inflation from the Producer Price Index. 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Investors may have misjudged the recovery summer

Finally, thanks to coronavirus vaccination campaigns, such activities seem possible again, encouraging investors to pile into travel and entertainment stocks. But a closer look at what many of these companies are saying shows that 2022, and not 2021, may be where most of the action is.

What’s happening: While tourism group TUI (TUIFF) is touting “a strong 2021 holiday season,” the 2.6 million bookings it reported Wednesday for the summer months are 69% lower than they were at a comparable point for 2019.

The company said bookings had actually dropped slightly since its last update, “reflecting customers choosing to defer their booking to future seasons due to the lack of clarity provided by governments on lifting of travel restrictions.” Shares fell more than 2% in Frankfurt.

Carnival (CCL) also said this week that it had cancelled some additional sailings as it planned for a “possible” July restart on select ships departing from Florida and Texas.

“We continue to have constructive discussions with the [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] but still have many questions that remain unanswered,” said Christine Duffy, president of Carnival Cruise Line.

Events group Live Nation (LYV), meanwhile, said that while it’s about to announce more tours for later this summer, including Dave Matthews Band and Maroon 5, it expects the bigger productions to start later this year and into 2022 “given the longer lead times associated with global arena and stadium tours.”

Big picture: Summer 2021 won’t be a total wash. But it’s not going to be completely normal, either. Does that mean investors got a bit ahead of themselves?

Shares of TUI, which reported a huge loss of roughly $1.8 billion for the first half of its fiscal year, are still up 48% in 2021. Carnival’s stock has climbed more than 19%, while Live Nation is 11.5% higher. The S&P 500 has climbed 10.5%.

Investors may be looking further into the future. Live Nation has said that its concert pipeline is up double digits in 2022 from 2019. Carnival has also reported that cruise bookings are up from pre-pandemic levels in 2022 “despite minimal advertising or marketing.”

That’s great news, and a sign that the economic recovery from a historic shock will only gather steam in the months ahead. But it underscores the dilemma facing Wall Street.

Investor insight: Inflation fears have battered high-growth stocks in recent days, as concerns grow that a red-hot recovery could lead to a spike in prices, forcing central banks to hike interest rates.

In that environment, investors may be inclined to look toward stocks that may be undervalued and could benefit from the recovery. But it’s increasingly clear that requires looking past an uncertain 2021 and into 2022.

Gasoline demand surges after pipeline attack

A growing number of gas stations along the East Coast of the United States are without fuel as anxious drivers aggressively fill up their tanks following a ransomware attack that shut down the Colonial Pipeline, a critical artery for gasoline and other fuels.

As of 12 a.m. ET Wednesday, 16% of gas stations in North Carolina and 10.4% in Georgia didn’t have gasoline, according to outage figures reported by GasBuddy, an app that tracks fuel prices and demand. That was up from 14.7% in North Carolina and 9.4% in Georgia just two hours earlier.

Rising outages are also being reported in Virginia, South Carolina and Florida.

“Panicked buying” is “running stations in the region dry,” Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy, told Appradab Business.

He warned that the “irrational behavior” could prolong supply issues for weeks.

US Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm pleaded with Americans not to hoard gas as the pipeline attempts to resume operations.

“Let me emphasize that much as there was no cause for say, hoarding toilet paper at the beginning of the pandemic, there should be no cause for hoarding gasoline,” Granholm said during Tuesday’s White House press briefing, adding that the pipeline “should be substantially operational by the end of this week and over the weekend.”

Watch this space: The episode has highlighted the growing threat that cyber criminals pose to the world’s largest corporations and strategic infrastructure, an issue experts say demands urgent attention.

“What will stop this is much higher levels of [cyber]security,” said Peter Yapp, the former deputy director of the UK National Cyber Security Centre. “Instead of putting money into paying people after the event, we should be putting money in ahead of the event and making sure we batten down the hatches.”

Tesla’s problems in China could hurt its stock

Can Tesla (TSLA) maintain its foothold in China, a crucial market for car sales? Investors hope so, but they’re starting to worry.

The latest: Tesla sold fewer than 26,000 cars in China in April, down 27% from March, according to figures released by the China Passenger Car Association. The drop came as Chinese electric vehicle manufacturers such as Nio, Xpeng and Li Auto all reported improved domestic sales.

“It was expected that its April sales would be down sequentially, but not to this extent,” said Dan Ives, a tech analysts at Wedbush Securities. “China is a lynchpin to the Tesla bull story. The sales numbers show that all the issues in April had an impact.”

Remember: Tesla was the target of a protest at China’s largest auto show in Shanghai last month by owners who complained about problems with their cars. Five Chinese regulatory agencies are also questioning the quality of its Shanghai-made Model 3.

There have also been reports that China’s military banned Tesla vehicles from entering its complexes, expressing concerns that onboard cameras could be used for spying — a charge CEO Elon Musk denied.

In this tense environment, Reuters reported Tuesday that Tesla has halted plans to buy land to expand its Shanghai plant into a global export hub due to uncertainty over US-China trade tensions. Tesla did not respond to a request for comment on either its April sales in China or its Shanghai plans.

Investor insight: Investors aren’t panicking, but they are closely monitoring any developments. Tesla’s shares fell nearly 2% on Tuesday and are off again in premarket trading Wednesday.

Up next

Wendy’s (WEN) reports results before US markets open. Bumble and Poshmark follow after the close.

Also today: The latest US Consumer Price Index, a key measure of inflation, posts at 8:30 a.m. ET.

Coming tomorrow: Another look at inflation from the Producer Price Index.

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Erika Chabarin enjoys an afternoon of bowling with her friends at Bowlero in Torrance on Tuesday April 6, 2021.(Photo by Axel Koester, Contributing Photographer)

Is California spiking the football before the game is truly over?

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s declaration that the coronavirus outbreak could largely be over in his state by June sent local leaders, public health experts, doctors and business owners scrambling for thoughtful answers to that question.

Some questioned the wisdom of of the state’s sudden shift into the recovery fast lane, given the significant gains still needed to attain vaccination goals and the gradually slowing declines in caseload growth. Others, however, were confident that this was the appropriate decision for a state eager to break free of the fiercely debated coronavirus restrictions and the economic turmoil triggered by a bitter year of pandemic.

Gov. Gavin Newsom greets people as they wait in line to receive COVID-19 vaccines at 16th Street Seventh Day Adventist Church in San Bernardino on Friday, April 2, 2021. (Photo by Watchara Phomicinda, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)

Soon after Newsom declared on Tuesday, April 6, that the state’s color-coded recovery tiers would be erased come June 15 — a mere 10 weeks from now and five days before summer’s dawn — Los Angeles County Health Director Barbara Ferrer held her own press conference Wednesday, hosting a session that replaced Newsom’s grin with reminders grim.

The governor spoke of  “resuming everyday activities,” wide-open businesses and “common-sense risk-reduction measures.” In response, Ferrer raised the specter of the “double mutant,” potential super-spreaders and the enduring sting of winter’s deadly surge.

Iris Schmalix gets a bandage after receiving a vaccination shot at the COVID-19 Vaccination Center at California State University, Los Angeles in Los Angeles, Wed, Apr. 7, 2021. (Photo by Hans Gutknecht, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

“I don’t think anybody knows exactly what reopening looks like on June 15, except that with a lot more people vaccinated many restrictions on some of our activities will no longer be necessary,” Ferrer said.

Ferrer’s words were not stripped of optimism, however. Ferrer said L.A. County would follow the state’s guidelines, including the continuation of a mask mandate and social distancing, especially in schools and other settings with children. And she said she sincerely hopes the statistics — and the vaccine supply — will boost the governor’s buoyant vision.

“I think it’s completely possible if we move forward with this collective will to take care of each other from now until the time we get more and more people vaccinated,” Ferrer said Wednesday. “That’s what gives us that extra level of protection that allows us to get beyond the blueprint.”

Barbara Ferrer, Director of Public Health for Los Angeles County, at a press conference Friday, March 6, 2020. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

In Orange County, experts and officials aligned optimistically — but with their own caveats.

“I do believe that we’ll be in a much better place June 15 than we are even today,” said UC Irvine epidemiologist Andrew Noymer.

But eight weeks still feels like a long ways away to the Irvine professor.

“These things can kind of turn around,” Noymer said, noting that Michigan has seen an unnerving uptick in cases in the past month.

Restaurant, brewery and distillery owners received news that they will be able to fully open by June 15. They’re making plans to get operations a bit more back to normal. Wil Dee, owner of Haven Craft Kitchen + Bar in Orange, watches as California Governor Gavin Newsom speaks during a noontime coronavirus update in which guidelines to reopen dine-in restaurants were addressed, on Tuesday, May 12, 2020. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Dr. Roger Lewis, who leads the team at the L.A. County Department of Health Services that forecasts hospitalization demand based on coronavirus case rates, said that local modelling shows June 15 as a reasonable target for complete reopening given what they are seeing in the local models.

“Our models show that the number of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 is steadily going down and in fact we’re seeing some of the people hospitalized with positive COVID-19 are hospitalized for other reasons.”

Key numbers have now returned to levels last seen in March 2020 before the first surge in patients in April.

As of Wednesday, 572 people with COVID-19 were admitted to L.A. County hospitals with 136 in intensive care units. In Orange County, 114 were hospitalized with 29 in ICU. In Riverside, 106 were in hospitals with 20 in ICU. And in San Bernardino 103 COVID-19 patients were in hospitals with 25 in ICU.

Adjusted coronavirus case rates this week in L.A. County were 3.1 per 100,000 people. In Orange County it was 3.0 per 100,000. In Riverside it was 3.5 per 100,000. And in San Bernardino it was 3.4 per 100,000. To advance to the yellow tier, adjusted case rates must fall below 2.0 per 100,000 people.

Still, Ferrer cautioned that rates of declines have levelled off significantly. And she worried that more gatherings in the days ahead could kickstart increases in those pivotal categories.

At the top of mind for Lewis and many others are the growing number of variants, including a “double mutant” recently found by Stanford University researchers that could be especially virulent.

“While we have essentially informally good news locally, we would be foolish not to be paying very close attention to what’s happening in Michigan and other states,” Lewis said.

National public health officials have been watching increases in caseloads in Florida, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, too.

“We don’t live in a bubble here in L.A. County,” Ferrer said. “In order for us to hold on to the gains we’ve made, we have to be more diligent not less diligent.”

The June 15 deadline is ultimately contingent on two factors outlined by state health officials Tuesday: Case rates remaining low and vaccine rates increasing.

Statewide, more than 20 million vaccine doses have now been administered, at least 4 million of them in the state’s hardest-hit communities based on the Healthy Places Index.

For Dr. Lawrence Sher, an allergist-immunologist who leads the Palos Verdes Medical Group, said assessing the vaccine stats make him believe June 15 could be premature.

“Everybody is, of course, weary and looking forward to reopening. And the state is looking forward to that for multiple reasons,” he said.

Chilled syringes with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine wait for use at drive through vaccination site at Santa Ana College in Santa Ana, CA on Wednesday, February 17, 2021. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG)

But he added: “Until we get children and adolescents vaccinated as well, we still can have problems down the road. We are still being a little more aggressive than most of us would like them to be.”

A key factor: Southern California’s millions of minors.

So far, the Pfizer vaccine is approved for residents 16 and older. Both the Moderna and Johnson & Johnson require recipients be at least 18. Drug makers, however, are currently in trials with children as young as six months old.

Sher expects it will take another few months for children 12 and older to be approved. Children younger may require six months or more, he said.

“They (drug companies) are all trying to go younger and younger,” Sher said. “They just have to get the approval and inoculate as many people as possible to prevent spread and mutations of the variants.”

The ultimate question: What constitutes herd immunity? Experts do not agree, Sher said.

Most place it anywhere from 70 to 80% vaccinated — or higher. It really depends, he said, on how effective the current vaccines prove to be at warding off variants. (A hint: So far they have fared pretty well, including against the U.K. variant, Sher said.)

Gov. Gavin Newsom greets people as they wait in line to receive COVID-19 vaccines at 16th Street Seventh Day Adventist Church in San Bernardino on Friday, April 2, 2021. (Photo by Watchara Phomicinda, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)

Moving into the new green tier on June 15 “depends on us,” said Brandon Brown, a UC Riverside associate professor with a background in epidemiology.

“We need high vaccination rates, people practicing masking and physical distancing, we need to do better with (hard-to-reach) populations, and importantly keeping a close watch on the data to track the number of hospitalizations and cases including the new variants,” he wrote by email.

Brown worried about the summer break bringing increased travel and more people easing up on  prevention measures, some of which became habits back when caseloads were soaring.

“Masking may need to be our ‘new normal,’ even after June 15,” Brown said.

Much progress has been made in getting vaccines into the field, with about 40% of the state’s adults getting at least one dose, said Bernadette Boden-Albala, dean of UC Irvine’s School of Public Health.

But she’d like to see that number at least doubled before people go back to a pre-pandemic “normal.”

Some of the groups already eligible for the vaccine — seniors, people with underlying health conditions and public-facing workers — were highly motivated to get inoculated because they face higher risks from infection, Boden-Albala said.

Fear of death can be a powerful motivator. It generally doesn’t resonate, however, among younger residents.

“What is concerning is that we don’t really understand the behavior in terms of vaccine uptake of young people,” she said

Also: “Vaccine hesitancy is going to rear its ugly head,” she added.

Noymer and Boden-Albala both worried that the end of the state’s tier system will make it harder to fine-tune the response based on what’s happening in each county.

However, Richard Carpiano, a public health scientist and medical sociologist at UC Riverside, doesn’t foresee the same problems.

Eliminating state tiers throws decision-making to the counties, which could decide to keep more things closed if their numbers go in the wrong direction, Carpiano said.

“The trick is, to make that work, there needs to be more detail around what the markers will be, what to be aiming for,” he said.

Alice Kao, owner of Sender One Climbing, Yoga, Fitness and Sender City. Kao, like so many others, have been deeply impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Chuck Bennett, Contributing Photographer)

Alice Kao, who owns Sender One Climbing, an indoor gym with a location near LAX airport, called the June 15 reopening date a hopeful sign.

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But real recovery for business owners, jolted by the gut-punch delivered by months of restrictive health orders and the subsequent shutdowns, still seems far off.

“I celebrate that this hurdle to our business recovering will be behind us soon, but this is not the only hurdle,” Kao said. “Whether a business is able to fully recover will depend on a lot more factors than whether the government says we can. Going back to the way we were is going to take time.”

Kiran Savage-Sangwan, executive director of the California Pan Ethnic Health Network, which represents the interests of minorities, said their biggest concern was maintaining a clear focus on equity as the vaccine is rolled out.

While progress has been made on the unsettling gaps detected in the initial months, revealing that communities of color were bearing an inequitable burden, Savage-Sangwan said more needs to be done to reach those hardest him.

“The larger question is who has access to the vaccine supply and is it equitably distributed,” she said.

“The state has made great strides in that area but when we look at the data it’s clear we have to do more.”

Staff writers Jeff Horseman and Ryan Carter contributed to this report.

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Air Travel Is Showing Signs of Renewed Demand

Airline executives said they are starting to see a path out of the coronavirus pandemic as more passengers resume travel, following a weekend when airport volumes hit their highest levels in a year.

Delta DAL 2.33% Air Lines Inc. bookings began picking up five or six weeks ago as people have begun making plans for spring and summer, Chief Executive Officer Ed Bastian said at an industry conference Monday.

“We’ve seen some glimmers of hope over the last year, but they’ve been false hope,” Mr. Bastian said. “But this seems like it’s real.”

Airline stocks climbed Monday. Shares of United Airlines Holdings Inc. UAL 8.26% rose 8.3%, while shares of American Airlines Group Inc. AAL 7.70% climbed 7.7% and Delta shares rose 2.3%.

The pandemic brought travel to a near halt last spring. Travel restrictions and fear of infection kept people at home and out of airports for most of the year: U.S. airlines carried 60% fewer passengers in 2020 than in 2019, bringing passenger traffic to the lowest level since the mid-1980s, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics.

Major U.S. airlines lost about $35 billion in 2020. But on Monday, United and Delta said they could stop bleeding cash this month.

That was hard to imagine at the beginning of this year. Airline executives said January and February were even weaker than they expected, as a high numbers of cases, the rise of more contagious variants, and new Covid-19 testing requirements for people arriving from abroad had a chilling effect.

Executives said they remain cautious. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention still advises against travel, and the number of people passing through U.S. airports is still half—or less—of what it was for most days in 2019, according to the Transportation Security Administration.

But the numbers are climbing. Airports screened nearly 1.36 million people Friday and more than 1.34 million people on Sunday, two of the busiest days since March 2020.

Numbers of new Covid-19 cases are dropping, and distribution of vaccine doses has picked up. President Biden said earlier this month that the U.S. will have enough vaccines for all American adults by the end of May.

Some states, including New York and Connecticut, are relaxing rules requiring that inbound travelers quarantine.

And there is more to do once people arrive. California, for instance, has paved the way for Walt Disney Co. ’s Disneyland and other attractions to reopen at limited capacity if certain test positivity benchmarks are met. State and local governments—even in heavily restrictive states such as Michigan and Illinois—are allowing restaurants to seat some patrons indoors again.

Southwest Airlines Co. LUV 1.75% and JetBlue Airways Corp. also said Monday that more people are making plans to travel, booking vacations or trips to visit friends and family, helping to pare expected revenue declines this quarter.

Amy Curtis, who lives in Arizona, has been vaccinated since the end of February. When she learned over the weekend that her mother in Pennsylvania had also received her second shot, Ms. Curtis decided to book a visit.

“It was one of those impulsive things,” she said. “Life is so short—I feel like I need to take this opportunity. I don’t know when I may have it again.”

Ms. Curtis said she doesn’t yet feel comfortable traveling just for fun or vacation. But others are hitting beaches and ski resorts, according to airlines and analysts. JetBlue sold more bundled flight-and-hotel vacation packages last week than ever before, Chief Executive Robin Hayes said at the conference hosted by JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Bookings to destinations such as Florida and Hawaii, while still down from 2019 levels, are holding up better than other areas, according to data from ForwardKeys, a travel-analytics company. Domestic bookings were 42% of 2019 levels in the first week of January but were at 64% of 2019 levels in the first week of March, according to its data.

“There has been progressive growth in U.S. domestic bookings every week since the beginning of the year,” said Olivier Ponti, vice president of insights at ForwardKeys.

The recent uptick in flight bookings is helping to stem the amount of cash the carriers have been losing daily, executives said Monday. Airlines have been on track to burn through $150 million in cash a day during the first three months of this year, according to trade group Airlines for America.

Covid-19 and Travel

United CEO Scott Kirby said at the conference Monday that the company expects its cash flow to turn positive, excluding debt payments, this month. Mr. Bastian also said Delta expects to stop burning cash as soon as this month.

“We know that we can’t yet put Covid in the rearview mirror,” Mr. Kirby said, noting that the airline remains unprofitable and would have to focus on repaying the debt it has taken on. But he said he expects there could be a steady travel boom on the way after a year when many people suspended or curtailed leisure experiences.

Airline executives have long said that travel demand would roar back once more people are vaccinated. While many international borders remain closed and businesses aren’t rushing to resume client meetings and conferences, executives said there are signs that pent-up demand is returning.

“Our last three weeks have been the best three weeks since the pandemic hit,” American Airlines AAL 7.70% CEO Doug Parker said.

Airports in Paris and Singapore as well as airlines including United and JetBlue are experimenting with apps that verify travelers are Covid-free before boarding. WSJ visits an airport in Rome to see how a digital health passport works. Photo credit: AOKpass

Carriers are also on firmer financial footing, having secured three rounds of government aid to cover the costs of paying workers, in addition to billions of dollars of private funding. The American Rescue Act that President Biden signed into law last week includes $14 billion to cover salaries and benefits for airline workers in exchange for pledges not to furlough or lay off employees until the fall. That brings the total amount of government payroll support for airlines to $54 billion.

American Airlines also said last week it would raise $10 billion by putting up its frequent-flier program as collateral.

Mr. Parker said, “For the first time since this crisis hit a little over a year ago, we at American are not looking to go raise any money.”

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Global defense spending, led by US and China, hits new high (Stars & Stripes) The U.S. and China led the growth in global defense spending, which hit a new high in 2020 despite the economic stress brought on by the coronavirus pandemic, a report said Thursday. In its annual report on military power, the International Institute for Strategic Studies said total military expenditures added up to $1.83 trillion in 2020, a 3.9% increase over the previous year. “This came despite the coronavirus pandemic and the subsequent contraction in global economic output,” the London-based think tank said in a statement. The United States remained the top spender, accounting for 40.3% of global spending. But China and other Asian powers concerned about Beijing’s rise also spent more, albeit at a somewhat slower pace than in 2019 because of the pandemic, IISS said in its “Military Balance” report. The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute pegged Chinese defense spending at $261 billion in 2019.

Almost a fifth of ALL US dollars were created this year (City A.M./UK) About 20 per cent of all US dollars were created this year. The Federal Reserve has printed unprecedented amounts of money to support the coronavirus-stricken economy. It has sparked debates about inflation and helped asset prices soar. Data from the Fed shows that a broad measure of the stock of dollars, known as M2, rose from $15.34 trillion (£11.87 trillion) at the start of the year to $18.72 trillion in September. The increase of $3.38 trillion equates to 18 per cent of the total supply of dollars. It means almost one in five dollars was created in 2020. The huge growth in the stock of dollars reflects the massive interventions in the economy by the Fed, which is in control of the US’s money supply. Although it is often described as printing money, the Fed in practice creates digital dollars to buy up government bonds and other securities in the secondary market. The policy, known as quantitative easing (QE), aims to flood the markets with cash to keep borrowing cheap. Banks also create money when they lend. Most money in the economy is created this way. Only about $2 trillion are in circulation as physical currency.

Countries call on drug companies to share vaccine know-how (AP) In an industrial neighborhood on the outskirts of Bangladesh’s largest city lies a factory with gleaming new equipment imported from Germany, its immaculate hallways lined with hermetically sealed rooms. It is operating at just a quarter of its capacity. It is one of three factories that The Associated Press found on three continents whose owners say they could start producing hundreds of millions of COVID-19 vaccines on short notice if only they had the blueprints and technical know-how. But that knowledge belongs to the large pharmaceutical companies who produce the first three vaccines authorized by countries including Britain, the European Union and the U.S.—Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca. The factories are all still awaiting responses. Across Africa and Southeast Asia, governments and aid groups, as well as the WHO, are calling on pharmaceutical companies to share their patent information more broadly to meet a yawning global shortfall in a pandemic that already has claimed nearly 2.5 million lives. Pharmaceutical companies that took taxpayer money from the U.S. or Europe to develop inoculations at unprecedented speed say they are negotiating contracts and exclusive licensing deals with producers on a case-by-case basis because they need to protect their intellectual property and ensure safety. Critics say this piecemeal approach is just too slow at a time of urgent need to stop the virus before it mutates into even deadlier forms.

As School Closures Near First Anniversary, a Diverse Parent Movement Demands Action (NYT) Aquené Tyler, a mother and hair stylist in North Philadelphia, has been disappointed in her neighborhood’s public schools for many years. There were too few books and computers. Even before the pandemic, some schools were shuttered for asbestos removal. Now, her 9-year-old son and 13-year-old daughter have been learning online for nearly a year, even as masked children gather boisterously at local private schools. Ms. Tyler’s children are lonely, and Mya, who is in eighth grade, seems depressed and overwhelmed by her class work. She has begun seeing a counselor remotely. So Ms. Tyler is planning a radical change: moving her family to Florida, where the Republican-controlled state government has mandated that all districts provide in-person learning five days per week. A niece there is attending traditional public school in Sarasota, complete with sports, arts and music. A year into the pandemic, less than half of students nationwide are attending public schools that offer traditional, full-time schedules. Now many parents are beginning to rebel, frustrated with the pace of reopening and determined to take matters into their own hands. Some are making contingency plans to relocate, home-school or retreat to private education if their children’s routines continue to be disrupted this fall—a real possibility. Other parents are filing lawsuits, agitating at public meetings, creating political action committees, or running for school board seats.

Prince Philip moved to specialized London heart hospital (AP) Prince Philip was transferred Monday to a specialized London heart hospital to undergo testing and observation for a pre-existing heart condition as he continues to be treated for an unspecified infection, Buckingham Palace said. The 99-year-old husband of Queen Elizabeth II was moved from King Edward VII’s Hospital, where he has been treated since Feb. 17, to St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, which specializes in cardiac care. The palace says Philip “remains comfortable and is responding to treatment but is expected to remain in hospital until at least the end of the week.” Philip married the then-Princess Elizabeth in 1947 and is the longest-serving royal consort in British history. He and the queen have four children, eight grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.

France’s Sarkozy convicted of corruption, sentenced to jail (AP) A Paris court on Monday found French former President Nicolas Sarkozy guilty of corruption and influence peddling and sentenced him to one year in prison and a two-year suspended sentence. The 66-year-old politician, who was president from 2007 to 2012, was convicted for having tried to illegally obtain information from a senior magistrate in 2014 about a legal action in which he was involved. The court said Sarkozy is entitled to request to be detained at home with an electronic bracelet. This is the first time in France’s modern history that a former president has been convicted of corruption.

China Appears to Warn India: Push Too Hard and the Lights Could Go Out (NYT) Early last summer, Chinese and Indian troops clashed in a surprise border battle in the remote Galwan Valley, bashing each other to death with rocks and clubs. Four months later and more than 1,500 miles away in Mumbai, India, trains shut down and the stock market closed as the power went out in a city of 20 million people. Hospitals had to switch to emergency generators to keep ventilators running amid a coronavirus outbreak that was among India’s worst. Now, a new study lends weight to the idea that those two events may well have been connected—as part of a broad Chinese cybercampaign against India’s power grid, timed to send a message that if India pressed its claims too hard, the lights could go out across the country. The study shows that as the standoff continued in the Himalayas, taking at least two dozen lives, Chinese malware was flowing into the control systems that manage electric supply across India, along with a high-voltage transmission substation and a coal-fired power plant. The discovery raises the question about whether an outage that struck on Oct. 13 in Mumbai, one of the country’s busiest business hubs, was meant as a message from Beijing about what might happen if India pushed its border claims too vigorously.

Rogue ATMs (Nikkei Asia) Fully 2,956 ATMs out of 5,395 machines operated by Mizuho Bank in Japan have gone rogue, with the machines unable to dispense cash and devouring cards. The bug is related to an issue that popped up when the bank was updating its data, and 55 percent of Mizuho’s branches have been forced to shut down.

Pope’s risky trip to Iraq defies sceptics (Reuters) Rockets have hit Iraqi cities and COVID-19 has flared, yet, barring last-minute changes, Pope Francis will embark on a whirlwind four-day trip starting on Friday to show solidarity with the country’s devastated Christian community. Keen to get on the road again after the pandemic put paid to several planned trips, he convinced some perplexed Vatican aides that it is worth the risk and that, in any case, his mind was made up, three Vatican sources said. The March 5-8 trip will be Francis’ first outside Italy since November 2019, when he visited Thailand and Japan. Four trips planned for 2020 were cancelled because of COVID-19. “He really feels that need to reach out to people on their home ground,” said a Vatican prelate who is familiar with Iraq and who spoke on condition of anonymity. “The pope knows where he is going. He is deliberately coming to an area marked by war and violence to bring a message of peace,” Archbishop Bashar Warda of Erbil told reporters on a recent conference call.

Iran insists U.S. lift sanctions first to revive nuclear deal talks (Reuters) Iran said on Monday the United States should lift sanctions first if it wants to hold talks with Tehran to salvage the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers that former President Donald Trump abandoned. President Joe Biden has said Washington is ready for talks about both nations resuming compliance with the pact, under which Tehran secured an easing of sanctions by limiting its nuclear work. But each side wants the other to move first. The West fears Iran wants to build nuclear weapons, while Tehran says that has never been its goal.

Netanyahu accuses Iran of attacking Israeli-owned cargo ship (AP) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday accused Iran of attacking an Israeli-owned ship in the Gulf of Oman last week, a mysterious explosion that further spiked security concerns in the region. Without offering any evidence to his claim, Netanyahu told Israeli public broadcaster Kan that “it was indeed an act by Iran, that’s clear.” “Iran is the greatest enemy of Israel, I am determined to halt it. We are hitting it in the entire region,” Netanyahu said. The blast struck the Israeli-owned MV Helios Ray, a Bahamian-flagged roll-on, roll-off vehicle cargo ship, as it was sailing out of the Middle East on its way to Singapore on Friday. The crew was unharmed, but the vessel sustained two holes on its port side and two on its starboard side just above the waterline, according to American defense officials. It remains unclear what caused Friday’s blast on the Helios Ray. Iran responded to Netanyahu’s statement saying it “strongly rejected” the claim that it was behind the attack. In a press briefing, Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said Netanyahu was “suffering from an obsession with Iran” and described his charges as “fear-mongering.”

Thousands flee rebel violence in Central African Republic (AP) Monique Moukidje fled her home in Central African Republic’s town of Bangassou in January when rebels attacked with heavy weapons, the fighting killing more than a dozen people. “I ran away because the bullets have no eyes,” the 34-year-old said sitting in the shade while waiting for water purification tablets, a tarp, and other supplies to help her in Mbangui-Ngoro, a village where she and hundreds of other displaced people are sheltering. She is among an estimated 240,000 people displaced in the country since mid-December, according to U.N. relief workers, when rebels calling themselves the Coalition of Patriots for Change launched attacks, first to disrupt the Dec. 27 elections and then to destabilize the newly-elected government of President Faustin Archange Touadera. The rebels’ fighting has enveloped the country and caused a humanitarian crisis in the already unstable nation. Hundreds of thousands of people are also left without basic food or health care, and with the main roads between Central African Republic and Cameroon closed for almost two months, prices have skyrocketed leaving families unable to afford food.

Nigerian governor says 279 kidnapped schoolgirls are freed (AP) Hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls abducted last week from a boarding school in the northwestern Zamfara state have been released, the state’s governor said Tuesday. Zamfara state governor Bello Matawalle announced that 279 girls have been freed. The government last week said 317 had been kidnapped. Gunmen abducted the girls from the Government Girls Junior Secondary School in Jangebe town on Friday, in the latest in a series of mass kidnappings of students in the West African nation.

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Tips to Get the Approval You Need for Commercial Real Estate Financing

Asking for a commercial real estate loan is daunting enough, being approved can be exceptionally stressful. Often, the commercial property purchase can only go through if you are approved. There are a few tips you can take to increase the chances of being approved for a loan to purchase the property you feel will benefit your business in the long run.

The first very important thing is to ensure your business shows a profit and your finances should be in order. You need to have a growing and profitable business, it's a very important requirement for securing the loan you need. A business that isn't making a profit is a high risk to lenders and chances are this business will be declined.

Study your real estate requirements with careful consideration. The bank isn't going to approve the commercial real estate loan if you haven't chosen a property based on your business needs, but rather as a spur of the moment decision. They want evidence that this is well thought out and that you have a solid plan in place.

Ensure you have your budget and location in mind, along with the square footage you will need. You also need to identify if you are going to rent or buy and how it will accommodate the growth of your business moving forward. Don't only buy based on your current needs, consider any future expansion in your decision. When setting your budget look at any additional costs that may be associated with the property other than the purchase price or initial cost of the rental. You may need to carry out some renovations in order to operate productively and you must consider the time you are not able to work during the move and any legal fees associated with the property. 

It's always more beneficial to walk into the bank manager’s office and ask for a commercial real estate loan when you know what property you want to purchase based on your budget and current financial situation. This should be the type of building, its age and resale potential. Having a property in mind makes it easier for the bank to make a decision on financing. A letter of intent from the seller can be even more beneficial in these situations.

Get all your documents in order in advance. Get the documents you are going to need to show you are not a high risk to the bank and you are good to make timely repayments. These documents should include financial statements, a business plan, and property details. Have a copy of your resume to prove your experience in the industry. Meeting your bank manager should be seen as a job interview. Plan in advance, have all your documents ready and be prepared for any financial, business or property questions they may ask.

If you have a set property in mind, it's always tempting to make an offer and then approach the bank manager. Having a letter of intent to sell from the seller is beneficial, but wait until you meet the bank manager before signing on the dotted line. The bank will be able to provide you with additional insight on what you need to get the financing you need. This may even include building condition assessments, environmental assessments,appraisals and more. Each bank has their own experts to consult with. 

Take very careful note of the terms of the commercial real estate loan, don't only focus on the rates. Terms can have a significant impact on the overall loan. Onceof the terms to focus on is the loan to value ratio, which is the portion of the property value the bank will finance. This is usually between seventy-five to one hundred percent of the real estatevalue, depending on the condition, resale potential and more.

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Kanapu Hemp Food Ltd's Isaac Beach, left, and Simon Wilson see huge potential for the many applications hemp products offer. Photo / Warren Buckland. On a 5ha block of land just north of Otane, Kanapu Hemp Foods Ltd's newest crop of hemp seedlings are starting to pop their heads above ground after being planted seven days ago. The latest addition, grown from a seed variety from France, adds to 10ha already planted and is the next step in this progressive industry, well-established in many countries overseas, which co-founders Isaac Beach and Simon White want to expand here in Hawke's Bay. Another 15ha were due to be planted at Ludlow Farms within the next couple of weeks, and would be manufactured into hemp seed oil, which was launched on to the market this year, sold to restaurants and in specialty food shops. As well as producing the oil, however, the company was now piloting a hemp seed flour product containing 35 per cent protein, and was in the process of installing a processing line that would enable them to manufacture dehulled hemp seeds (Kanapu hemp flakes), a product similar in texture to finely ground nuts, that had many culinary uses as well as being an attractive health proposition, said Mr Beach. The appeal for many consumers was in the health-enhancing properties of the plant protein, as well as its versatility, with the flour being able to be used in baking, or added to smoothies, and the hemp flakes suitable for anything from dukkah to a vegan substitute for butter. "Our research showed that for some people complications can develop from whey protein, and that plant protein is a great alternative. "Hemp has a high concentration of albumin and edisten proteins, and can be very efficiently absorbed by the body," he said. At this point the business was in the first phase of startup, they had tested the market, found it was sustainable, and were currently meeting demand. Mr Beach described Mr White as the brains of the operation, and himself the messenger, but both shared a belief in the plant's potential, ever since they met and began growing the crop in Otane in 2015. Mr White said Ludlow Farms was a diverse operation, and that as a farmer he was always looking for the next big thing. "By sheer chance Isaac and I met and it went from there - we developed a business plan over a cup of tea.

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Tips And Tricks Of The Fitness Masters

Too often, people decide to get physically fit without knowing how to start. The information in the article below offers many great tips that are simple enough to help you get started with your fitness routine. Keep reading for tips on achieving maximum success when it comes to your fitness goals. If you find yourself falling behind on fitness objectives, give yourself a motivational boost buy buying new workout clothes. Your new purchase does not have to be extravagant, just something you are proud to wear and want to show off at the gym. Are you short on time? Do two shorter workouts instead of one long one. Try cutting your total work out time into half or thirds. If you normally get on the treadmill for an hour, do two 30 minute sessions instead. If you would rather not visit your fitness center twice in a single day, you could do one workout at the gym and then do another workout outdoors. Do not worry. Biking is another great exercise. Try bicycling for a fun and economical commute to work that will be of great benefit to your body. Riding a bike to and from work, especially if your commute is short, can count as your workout for the day. When working out using weights, start by using smaller machines first. Small muscles wear out before the big ones, so you should start small. By the time you are ready to exercise large muscle groups, the smaller muscles can rest. If you aim to build more muscle mass, lift heavier weights using fewer reps. Start by choosing a muscle group. Start by lifting light weights to warm up. It is a good idea to do approximately 15-20 reps with the lighter weight. The second set should consist of heavier weights with half the amount of repetitions. Add five pounds to the weight and the repeat this for a third set. When you are working out, wear comfy clothing. If you are heading out to the gym, you may feel pressure to dress a certain way, but you need to put comfort first. Wear clothing that allows you to move freely without making you feel embarrassed. Proper clothing is essential to help you concentrate on exercise and not on ancillary matters. To increase forearm strength, try this simple strategy from racquetball and tennis players. Put a large sheet of newspaper on the table or another flat surface. Use the hand you write with to crumple the paper with as much force as you can muster for 30 seconds. Do this two times and then go to the other hand and do it once. You should do it a total of 4 times on your dominant hand. m. You don't have to be a morning person to find the energy to get active in the a.m. Start out slowly by waking up just a quarter of an hour before your normal time, and then use that time to do something easy like walking or jump rope. This helps start your morning off on the right foot and builds healthy habits. Some people overdo exercise because it doesn't seem to burn the calories that people expect it to. Extreme exercise can damage joints and muscles, cause dehydration as well heart problems. For anyone wanting to get into shape and maintain a good level of fitness, it all starts with coming up with a plan of action. Use this article's advice to start your fitness and health regimen. Not knowing where to begin is no longer an excuse. This information will get you started.

Questions To Consider About Speedy Products In Canada

And it got me thinking that, in the wake of Friday’s numbers from the Canadian Real Estate Association, that it it’s a good time for a look at what analysts are saying: “The Canadian housing bubble continues to deflate … We expect Whey Protein that all these factors will come to a head in late 2018 and early 2019, leading to several quarters of house price declines. However, in our baseline projection this depreciation is relatively small. Prices stabilize in 2020 and resume increasing in 2021.” Paul Matsiras, Moody’s Analytics “ The housing market continues to adjust to stricter mortgage rules, recent Bank of Canada rate hikes and some provincial policy moves. While we’re seeing some signs of stability, the adjustment likely has some time yet to go, which is one more reason for the Bank of Canada to proceed cautiously down the tightening path.” Robert Kavcic, Bank of Montreal “Canadian housing markets are likely to remain under pressure from the recent B-20 regulation, higher mortgage rates, and in some cases provincial regulation. However, lower-priced markets where affordability is good should generally outperform in the current environment.” Michael Dolega, Toronto-Dominion Bank “Housing slumps have a nasty habit of becoming self-perpetuating, however, as would-be buyers are scared off by the risk of overpaying and incurring losses. Why take the risk when you can wait a few months until prices have bottomed out which, of course, means that prices will fall further? Nevertheless, in Toronto, the relatively lean number of new listings means that any downward pressure on house prices will be limited.” Paul Ashworth, Capital Economics “Housing starts remained strong in March, bringing the six-month average to 227,000 units – a solid pace of activity, particularly in light of the cooling seen in existing home sales and prices. Data out [Friday] revealed that existing home sales stabilized in March (+1.3 per cent), following a steep decline in the prior two months. Meanwhile, [MLS] home prices were up 4.6 per cent year on year - the slowest pace in over four years. Hence, despite strong home-building activity, the drop in sales suggests that residential investment will weigh on growth in the first quarter.” Dina Ignjatovic, TD Netflix shares rise as subscriber growth beats expectations Goldman Sachs Group Inc. boasted of a strong first quarter, with a trading-driven bump in profit and a dividend increase.

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Using Vitamins And Minerals To Feel Great

I can tell you that eating right is important to feeling great, but you know that. Exercising is also necessary for good health, but that may be obvious to you, too. If you would like health-related tips about what vitamins and minerals to look for, then keep reading below. If you want your workout to be as effective as possible, make sure to take your vitamins. Your body needs appropriate nutrition to both recover from workouts but also fire up the metabolism you need to shed pounds and build lean tissue. Make sure you are eating a diet that is healthy and balanced to ensure it includes adequate vitamins and minerals. Try to consume at least five fruit and veggie portions daily along with a bit of protein. If this is hard to do, consider adding a supplement. Calcium helps you have stronger bones. To digest the calcium properly and get all that you can from it, you need a good amount of vitamin D in your system. You can get vitamin D through food, of course, as well as supplements or just spending time in the sun. By making sure you have enough vitamin D, you help with calcium intake. Sun and milk represent two great sources of vitamin D. If you don't care for milk or don't get any sun, try taking a vitamin D supplement. Vitamin D plays a major role when it comes to keeping your bones strong. A lot people are unaware of why their body aches them. Instead of rushing off to the doctor, try ensuring you are getting the correct amount of daily vitamins and nutrients. Fish oils and vitamin E can help your muscles soften when they're bound up. Vitamin A is important as an antioxidant for your immune system, reducing heart disease risk, slowing skin aging and improving your vision. However, vitamin A can be toxic. Carrots, squash and leafy greens are great sources of vitamin A. If you're someone that wants to take gummy vitamins for kids, you may need to take more than just one. Adults need a higher dosage of vitamins than children, so taking one will not be enough. Don't overdose, though! The starting point in any supplement journey is having your doctor test you for specific nutrient deficiencies. This is the first area on which you must concentrate when you choose your supplements, so understanding which ones you must start taking immediately is critical. In today's difficult economic times we often neglect our bodies by eating from the dollar menu at our favorite fast food restaurant depriving it of the vitamin and minerals we require. To help ensure you are receiving the nutrients your body requires, consider taking a multivitamin. Now, you can add supplements to your daily regimen to stay healthy. Regardless, don't stop collecting information on the subject so that you can keep bettering your health. If you work hard at it, you are sure to do well in your pursuit of a healthy lifestyle.

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COVID-19 testing, contact tracing key to fending off second wave, experts say

VANCOUVER — Provinces hit hardest by COVID-19 have ramped up testing capacity as they plan to reopen their economies, but infectious disease experts say there will be recurring outbreaks without more robust testing, contact tracing and quarantine services across the country.

A Canadian Press analysis of provincial data over a seven-week period starting in late March shows the provinces with the highest number of infections — British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, Quebec and Nova Scotia — each faced their own unique epidemics, with different positivity and mortality rates based on the number of confirmed cases.

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Those provinces also took different approaches to determining who to test and when, decisions that were at least partly influenced by their ability to scale up lab capacity as well as the resources some had available to do tests.

"The rationing has become less prominent each week as availability of testing capacity has increased," said Dr. Peter Phillips, a clinical professor in the division of infectious diseases at the University of British Columbia. "Testing is not easy access like buying chewing gum across the country, but it's a lot more accessible."

Canada's chief public health officer, Dr. Theresa Tam, has said reopening schools and businesses relies on testing and the ability of public health departments to trace the contacts of positive cases. Physical distancing also remains critical since people who aren't experiencing symptoms can spread the disease.

More than a million people in Canada have been tested for the novel coronavirus, with over 61,000 positive tests as of Friday.

Alberta has been a testing front-runner with 3,950 tests completed per 100,000 people between Jan. 23, when testing began, and last Thursday. More than 174,300 tests in total were completed in the province to that point.

That province's cumulative per capita testing is bested only by the Northwest Territories. The territory of just under 45,000 had completed the equivalent of 4,184 per 100,000 residents as of Thursday.

Ontario had completed more than 397,000 tests at the same point, which amounts to just under 2,700 tests per 100,000 people. However, in the last week Ontario surpassed Alberta's number of daily tests per capita.

Alberta has still completed nearly six times the number of tests for every person who has died due to COVID-19 compared with Ontario — a measure Phillips said is useful to assess the extent of testing relative to the true size of the epidemic.

Nova Scotia had completed 3,462 tests per 100,000 residents as of Thursday, Quebec had done 3,173, and B.C. had conducted 2,054 tests per 100,000 people.

As of Friday, Quebec had 36,150 cases of COVID-19, Ontario 19,598, Alberta 6,098, B.C. 2,315 and Nova Scotia had 1,008.

Phillips said Quebec's high proportion of positive tests is an indicator that significant transmission is still happening. As of Thursday, more than 13 per cent of the nearly 271,000 tests completed in Quebec yielded positive results.

By comparison, as many as one in four tests come back positive in the United Kingdom and New York, a proportion Phillips called "very disturbing." Countries that are bringing the epidemic under control are seeing "very few of their tests coming back positive," he said.

As public health restrictions are eased, Phillips said the provinces and territories must maintain a low threshold for testing in order to detect and isolate COVID-19 cases quickly and avoid large outbreaks and exponential growth in cases during a second wave.

To stop transmission, provinces will need to test "very liberally" to identify cases, and not just the symptomatic ones, he said.

Testing also goes hand in hand with contact tracing, which involves isolating and questioning each person who tests positive about any behaviour that might have caused the virus to spread.

"The contacts should be tested because that may identify other people, which will then trigger more contact tracing on those people who are testing positive," said Phillips, adding that not all the provinces with a higher number of cases have taken that approach.

The extent to which people who are directed to self-isolate or enter quarantine are being monitored across Canada is also unclear, he said.

Other jurisdictions that are closer to the origin point of the virus in Wuhan, China, such as Hong Kong and Taiwan, have done better than Canada when it comes to keeping COVID-19 cases and fatalities at bay, said Phillips.

He attributes that success in no small part to contact tracing enhanced by mobile apps, which have sparked a privacy debate in Canada.

Phillips said COVID-19 moves too fast for conventional public health measures alone and privacy is not the only concern.

"What about the liberties of uninfected Canadians who are at substantial risk of dying here?" he asked.

Phillips also expressed concern that public health departments are underfunded and overloaded, especially in Ontario and Quebec, which are still reporting hundreds of new cases each day.

"COVID-19 is the biggest thing this country has had since 1918," said Phillips, referring to the flu pandemic that killed at least 50 million people around the world. "And for strange reasons, the public health department, which is our main defence, doesn't seem to be getting a big funding rescue package."

A spokesperson for the Public Health Agency of Canada said it's slated to receive $230 million of the $1.1 billion Ottawa has committed to public health measures in the wake of COVID-19.

The federal government also allocated $500 million to support the provinces and territories, but the Finance Department did not respond to questions about how much money is going to contact tracing and quarantine services.

The chief of the microbiology division of the Nova Scotia Health Authority agreed with Phillips, saying public health is one of the first places provinces have looked to cut spending over time.

"It takes a lot of human resources to do good old contact tracing," said Dr. Todd Hatchette. "So if you don't fund it appropriately, you're not going to get the biggest bang for your buck."

Here is a look at the approach to testing in the five provinces with the most cases of COVID-19:

British Columbia

Although B.C.'s handling of the epidemic has garnered praise, the province has consistently been testing at a lower level than the other four hardest-hit provinces.

The Ministry of Health said in an email that labs have the capacity to complete around 6,500 tests per day, and 82 collection sites across B.C. are well stocked with supplies.

But last week, daily tests completed in B.C. ranged from around 1,800 to 2,800.

B.C. initially began testing symptomatic people who had travelled to areas of China affected by the novel coronavirus. In mid-March, the province expanded testing to include health-care workers, residents of long-term care facilities and hospital patients with respiratory symptoms, as well as people connected to a cluster or outbreak.

Starting April 8, clinicians could order COVID-19 tests, but daily testing didn't increase until later in the month, when provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry announced updated guidelines that emphasized testing anyone with new respiratory or COVID-19 compatible symptoms, however mild.

There were more than 15,230 tests completed in B.C. between April 4 and 17, and just under 29,630 in the following two weeks between April 18 and May 1.

The latest guidelines also prioritize testing for residents of remote or Indigenous communities, people living in congregate settings, such as work camps, correctional facilities and shelters, as well as people who are homeless and essential service providers.

Henry said there's no specific number of tests that must be done each day, but it's important to test the right people.

Phillips agreed there isn't a magic number, but he said there's increasing evidence that people who came into contact with a case should be tested even if they are not experiencing symptoms and regardless of whether they are connected to an outbreak.

"I suspect there could be more testing in B.C., for sure, and I think as we move towards opening up commerce and getting back to something closer to normal, the testing threshold should be kept low, so that we're not missing any transmission in the community."

The B.C. Centre for Disease Control says people who aren't experiencing symptoms don't require a test, even if they are a contact of a confirmed case or a returning traveller who is self-isolating at home.

Phillips said declining admissions to intensive care due to COVID-19 indicate the size of the epidemic in B.C. is smaller than it was several weeks ago.

Henry said B.C. plans to ramp up testing heading into the fall, when there will be more respiratory illness circulating, including influenza.

Alberta

Alberta has boasted of having one of the highest testing capacities globally and says further expansions are key to its economic relaunch strategy.

"Our decisions about opening businesses and resuming activities require us to have the most accurate and detailed information possible," Health Minister Tyler Shandro said recently.

Dr. Ameeta Singh, an infectious diseases specialist at Edmonton's Royal Alexandra Hospital, said "if things continue as they are, we should be good to go."

Singh, also a University of Alberta clinical professor, suggested the province's centralized health and laboratory systems — versus patchwork regional authorities elsewhere — could be one reason for its high testing rate.

Alberta has the capacity to complete up to 7,000 tests a day but has recently been averaging under 4,000. The province aims to expand its daily capacity to 16,000 by June.

Until mid-April, testing was limited to certain vulnerable groups or symptomatic people with recent travel history or contact with confirmed cases.

Since then, anyone with a cough, shortness of breath, runny nose or fever could get a test. And last week, the list of symptoms was expanded to include less common ones, such as loss of taste and smell, and digestive problems.

The number of tests surged from about 28,000 completed between April 4 and 17 to nearly 61,000 between April 18 and May 1.

"The criteria that have been established in this province are very reasonable and based on good scientific principles," said Singh.

Chief medical officer Deena Hinshaw said the province doesn't intend to constantly max out its testing capacity but aims to have slack in the system for potential surges.

She said fewer tests are being done because transmission rates are lower with everyone in lockdown. But as the economy reopens, all types of viruses will start spreading again.

"The actual number of people that we test, that is reflective of who is feeling ill, who are in outbreak settings, those who are close contacts. But it's not reflective of the success or failure of our testing program," Hinshaw said Thursday.

"The success of our testing program is that we can respond to demand, we can respond to surges and that's what we're making sure we have put in place."

Alberta Health says the province will look at whether it needs to further expand its testing criteria as the economy reopens in stages.

Ontario

Canada's most populous province initially lagged behind the rest of the country when it came to testing for COVID-19. It faced criticism for having a low per capita testing rate amid the country's second-most severe outbreak of the novel coronavirus, next to Quebec.

At first, Ontario didn't have enough assessment centres, then it lacked the lab capacity to process the tests, then it ran low on key chemicals needed for testing. It managed to clear a backlog of tests that at one point reached 11,000.

By early April, Ontario was conducting fewer than 4,000 tests per day, although it had the capacity to complete 13,000. Shortly afterwards, public health officials issued new guidelines, expanding testing for front-line health workers and long-term care residents.

A spokesman for the Health Ministry said updated guidelines for testing have lowered the threshold to ensure more people can be tested, adding that clinicians are also instructed to use their discretion when referring people for testing.

Recently, the province has been conducting the most tests per day among the hardest-hit provinces in terms of both volume and per capita.

But in mid-April, Ontario changed how it compiles testing data. It switched from reporting the number of people tested to the number of tests performed, making it difficult to get a clear picture of the shift in the scope of testing.

Dr. Camille Lemieux, chief of family medicine at the University Health Network in Toronto, said that change in reporting — combined with co-ordination issues between labs and ongoing confusion in community assessment centres over who gets sent for testing — means officials may not have the best information on the status of the epidemic at this pivotal time.

Bottlenecks still occur at some labs while others could be processing the tests, and the turnaround time for test results varies between labs, which means "the way we're counting is not truly in real time the way it should be," she said.

"It's really important to know what accurate numbers are as we're looking to reopen and scale back up," said Lemieux, who is also the medical lead for Toronto Western Hospital's assessment centre.

As Ontario gradually loosens its COVID-19 restrictions, the province should take a two-pronged approach to limit the risks of a devastating second wave of infection, she said.

The first prong consists of broader and more consistent testing of health-care workers, regardless of whether they show symptoms. The other is expanded community testing that includes "anybody who wants or needs to be tested," even if they show minimal or no symptoms, as well as randomized testing, said Lemieux.

That will help identify so-called hotspots of the virus, she said, comparing them to the smoldering embers that remain after a house fire has been put out. If those hotspots aren't identified, they're "going to flare right back up again," she said.

A spokesperson for the Health Ministry said Ontario has created a network of public, hospital and private labs that work together to ensure tests are processed efficiently.

"This includes redirecting the overflow of specimens from one lab to another as well as monitoring and managing limited testing supplies such as reagents," Christian Hasse said in an email.

"There has also been a significant investment made in new machines and new technologies in both the hospitals and public health laboratories. The labs have never worked together as a system before, so this is also an opportunity for us to build a better provincewide approach to COVID-19 testing."

Quebec

Quebec is the epicentre of the COVID-19 epidemic in Canada and trails Alberta, Nova Scotia and Ontario in terms per capita tests completed each day, though it has tested more people per capita cumulatively than Ontario and B.C.

Nima Machouf, an epidemiologist and professor at the University of Montreal's school of public health, said much of Quebec's testing data reflects the shortages of testing materials and capacity the province experienced.

"Quebec's testing strategy was guided by a lack of tests," she said in a phone interview.

"The ideal would be to test massively since the beginning, but we didn't have the tests in hand to do it."

As a result, she said the province kept its testing criteria narrow, focusing on segments of the population where there were likely to be more positive cases: symptomatic travellers at first, then their contacts who fell ill in the community, then health workers and people associated with long-term care homes.

The actual rate of community infection in Quebec is likely much higher than the tests reflect, said Machouf, given that infected people can be asymptomatic.

"Everywhere, not only in Quebec, but in Canada and around the world, it's only the tip of the iceberg we're seeing."

On Friday, the number of deaths in Canada was highest in Quebec at 2,725, with the majority occurring in seniors' residences or long-term care homes.

While hospitalizations and death rates are often cited as the most reliable way to assess and compare outbreaks across different jurisdictions, Machouf said they also reflect which segment of the population is getting ill.

"Given that we have more and more elderly people infected, that will result in more hospitalizations and deaths."

Machouf praised Quebec's method of diagnosing cases and deaths through "epidemiological link," meaning they are counted as COVID-19 cases in the absence of testing if the person showed symptoms after known exposure to the virus.

She said the strategy, which saves tests for those who need them, means that Quebec's declared death rates are likely fairly accurate, since they include patients who never got a test but who died likely after contracting the virus.

The Quebec government has said it will massively ramp up testing, promising 14,000 to 15,000 per day as the province gradually allows businesses and schools to reopen.

Machouf said it will be "very important" that this strategy includes testing not only people with symptoms, but also their contacts and random members of the population to find out how many people might be spreading the virus without showing symptoms.

She said the true extent of the outbreak will likely only be known much later, once testing to determine how many people have developed antibodies, which indicates they've recovered from COVID-19, becomes more widespread.

Phillips said antibody testing is easier and less expensive to scale up than the methods used to test for active COVID-19 infections, and it will be valuable to assess which groups of people were most affected by the disease.

But, he said, the vast majority of people are still susceptible to future waves of the virus because 50 to 70 per cent of the population must be infected to attain so-called herd immunity.

"The idea of going to herd immunity without a vaccine, you know, it's a pipe dream."

Nova Scotia

Dr. Todd Hatchette of the Nova Scotia Health Authority said an "aggressive" approach to COVID-19 case management has been key to Nova Scotia's mitigation of the epidemic.

All of the contacts of a person who is confirmed to have the disease are tested, whether they are symptomatic or not, said Hatchette, who also credited Nova Scotians for staying home to help stem the spread.

The province just received equipment that would allow for between 2,500 and 3,000 tests to be completed each day, he said, though it's testing below capacity now that flu season is over and there are fewer people with symptoms compatible with COVID-19.

There were 7,353 tests completed in Nova Scotia between March 21 and April 3, increasing to 10,912 between April 4 and April 17, and dropping back down to 9,730 in the last two weeks of April.

The province continues to trail only the Northwest Territories and Alberta when it comes to the number of tests completed per capita so far, though its daily per capita test rate dropped below Ontario and Alberta last week.

Like other provinces, Nova Scotia started out testing and contact tracing symptomatic people with recent travel histories, and then dropped the travel requirement and modified the list of symptoms that trigger testing, said Hatchette.

"Other jurisdictions still (only) test symptomatic people. We did do more asymptomatic testing associated with known cases, whether that's known individual cases in the community or part of outbreak clusters. The testing has been aggressive."

Hatchette said Nova Scotia's comparatively small population meant the vast majority of testing is concentrated in one lab, which is an advantage over more populous provinces.

"This virus, nobody knew about it in December, so all of these tests had to be developed and validated and ... it's easier to do that in one location or a very small number of locations before sort of broadening out the testing."

Hatchette said he has regular meetings with the Canadian Public Health Lab Network to discuss challenges and share ideas, and the group is "not afraid to share the lessons learned early on to make sure that we can help each other."

How testing can support the relaxing of physical distancing in the coming months is a "hot topic of discussion" across Canada, he said, noting lab and swabbing capacity are still factors and it's impossible to test the entire population.

"But if we have our surveillance programs in place so that we protect the most vulnerable and target the places where outbreaks occur more frequently, so hospitals, long-term care facilities (and) homeless populations, then hopefully that risk is lowered significantly so it doesn't translate to further community-based spread."

— With files form Paola Loriggio in Toronto, Morgan Lowrie in Montreal and Lauren Krugel in Calgary.

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