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There are fewer restaurants open to dine in this Memorial Day with many dining rooms still closed because of the coronavirus pandemic.

But with states in different phases of reopening, what you'll find open Monday will vary greatly depending on where you live. Many restaurants will be open for delivery and takeout Monday.

The federal holiday, which commemorates military personnel who died in service, is seen as the unofficial start to summer and is a popular day for a cookout.

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RB Giovani Bernard, Cincinnati Bengals

The Falcons give up 125.7 rushing yards per game. Add in the fact that Bernard catches a bunch of passes out of the backfield and you've got a recipe for RB1 numbers.

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Baker Mayfield will be tossing him the rock, and we saw how that helped Landry have a 100-yard game last week. On the road against the Raiders, Landry should reach that number again.

TE Trey Burton, Chicago Bears

If you've been waiting patiently for a big Burton game, this is lining up to be one: The Bucs have given up the most fantasy points to tight ends thus far ( per ESPN).

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QB Matthew Stafford, Detroit Lions

The Cowboys are fourth in the NFL against the pass, and you have to wonder if the Lions will balance their offensive attack more after Kerryon Johnson had a 100-yard day. Stafford is still startable but temper your expectations.

RBs Dion Lewis and Derrick Henry, Tennessee Titans

The Eagles are shaping up to be a "DO NOT START RBS AGAINST THEM" kind of team in 2018. They give up a league-leading 61.7 rushing yards per game. Maybe Lewis catches some passes, but you'd be smart to stay away from him and Henry in this one.

WR Brandin Cooks, Los Angeles Rams

Xavier Rhodes will likely cover the deep threat, so don't expect another big game from the veteran wideout.

TE George Kittle, San Francisco 49ers

Not only are the Chargers really good at defending opposing tight ends, but Kittle will now receive passes from C.J. Beathard, who is not Jimmy Garoppolo, sadly.

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QB Eli Manning, New York Giants

He nearly reached 300 yards passing on the road against the Texans last week to go along with two touchdowns, and now he gets to host a Saints defense that's given up 337 yards through the air per game, good for 30th in the NFL.

RB Chris Carson, Seattle Seahawks

Look: He did finish with 102 yards and a touchdown last week. Even though it took 32 carries to get there, it's a good sign. Now he faces the 29th-ranked rushing D in the NFL with a trip to Arizona.

WR John Brown, Baltimore Ravens

The Steelers have been awful against the pass and Brown has had three straight fantasy relevant games as well as 19 targets in his past two contests. Stick him in your lineups in the hopes he'll keep receiving Joe Flacco's looks.

TE Tyler Eifert, Cincinnati Bengals

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Louisiana Considers Online Gambling LegislationCiting concerns that consumers are not adequately protected when patronizing unregulated online gambling sites, Louisiana may consider legislation.

The Bayou State is currently one of seven with laws on the books banning Internet gambling. State regulators have suggested that lawmakers would best serve their constituents by perhaps enacting regulations. Ronnie Jones, the chairman of the Louisiana Gaming Control Board, noted that players within the state are wagering online despite the statute prohibiting such behavior.

Recommendations were made by state officials on Tuesday, Jan. 21 in a presentation that included concerns voiced by Jones, a representative of the Louisiana State Police Gaming Division, and Assistant Attorney General Leonce Gautreaux. Those findings were made in response to a House Concurrent Resolution filed by Rep. Mike Huval last March.

Huval asked industry and state officials to conduct research and determine possible requirements that may be proposed in order to regulate Internet gambling. The lawmaker filed the resolution after his bill proposing a study of online gambling failed to advance past a committee following approval in the House.

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Along with the issue of consumer protection, state officials brought up the need to prevent minors from gambling online, the ability to identify possible criminal activity and violations of regulations, regulatory compliance safeguards to ensure fair and consistent operations, and a requirement that Louisiana citizens be afforded confidence and trust that online gaming sites operating within the state are suitable.

Jones pointed out that the state gaming commission has not spoken out either in support of or against online gambling. He told that it was up to state lawmakers to decide. That decision will undoubtedly be debated in the upcoming legislative session.

A Louisiana statute enacted in 1997 criminalized gambling by computer. The possibility of added revenue and the desire to protect its citizens who are logging on to offshore sites that provide no regulation may prompt state legislators to repeal that 16-year-old law and approve Internet gambling.

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A. phalloides growing in Vancouver. Photo by Paul Kroeger

Extremely dangerous and potentially deadly, contains toxins that damage or destroy the liver and kidneys.

Toxins: bicyclic peptides called Amatoxins and Phallotoxins

Symptoms: Time of onset 6 to 12 hours (up to 36 hours).

Colicky abdominal pain, vomiting, watery diarrhea: symptoms subside after about one day; then about 72 hours post ingestion, gastrointestinal symptoms recur along with signs of impending liver failure.  In fatal cases death occurs 7 to 10 days after the first onset of symptoms.

Early treatment is essential in Amanita phalloides exposures and poisonings to prevent liver damage and reduce mortality. In most fatal cases patients present themselves for treatment three or four days after ingestion, when symptoms resume following the false remission that occurred about a day after first symptoms appeared. By this time damage to the liver may already be extensive.

Silymarin or silibinin is an extract of the Milk Thistle plant, Silybum marianum (L.) Gaertn. ( Asteraceae), that shows promise as a prophalactic measure to protect the liver when administered early in the course of poisoning. This experimental drug is not yet approved for this use in Canada.

Description: Medium to somewhat large introduced European mushrooms that grow from the ground near introduced broadleaved trees in urban and suburban environments along the Pacific coast. They often have a rather tall stature. They are found in late summer and fall or rarely in late spring. They make white spore prints.

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The cap is 5 to 15 cm wide, at first rounded then opening to convex or flattening out to almost plane. Caps usually have a distinct greenish hue, olive yellowish to brownish to olive in the centre, near the edge becoming paler whitish to pale yellowish. The cap is usually bare but when young white flat patches of veil may still be adhering to the surface.  The cap is viscid or slippery when wet and moist but in dry conditions develops a distinct satiny or metallic sheen. A very close examination of the edge of the cap’s surface will not show faint radial raised ribs or grooves corresponding to the gills as some other Amanitas have.

The gills of Death Caps are white, closely spaced and at first covered by a white veil, and are free or not attached to the stem top but rather to the cap underside only.

The stems are 5- 15 cm   long and 1 – 3 cm wide, tapering slightly upward and expanding at the base to a soft bulb, in the upper portion with a skirt-like hanging membranous veil or annulus that is white and slightly striate to smooth on the inside or upper surface and shaded with cap colour on the lower or under side, the stem is whitish or shaded with cap colour below the veil and white above it. The expanded basal bulb is surrounded by a white membranous sac-like loose to sheathing volva aptly often referred to as the “Death Cup”. Unfortunately, the stem base is often deep in the ground and easily broken off so these diagnostic features are easily missed.

Microscopic:  Spores are 8.5-9.8 x 6.8-7.8 microns, subglobose to elliptic, smooth, thin-walled and hyaline, amyloid (blue in Melzers iodine solution).

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Amanita phalloides is the most dangerous mushroom, considered responsible for some 90% of mushroom fatalities around the world. It has spread rapidly since its introduction into the western coastal areas of North America. So far it has been found in BC primarily around the cities of Greater Vancouver and Greater Victoria growing with street trees or in park and institutional landscaping as well as on private properties. Trees with which it is associated in BC are European Beech, Hazelnut, Hornbeams, Lindens, English and red oaks and Sweet chestnut. These are all non-native trees. Recently the death cap has been found associated with a native Garry Oak on Vancouver Island, so they may invade native habitats. So far they have not been associated with conifers in BC or the US Pacific Northwest though in Eastern North America and Europe and elsewhere they are known to live with a variety of conifer species such as pine, fir, hemlock and spruce.

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There have been three serious poisonings caused by Death Caps growing in British Columbia since they were first found here in 1997, including one fatality:

In August of2003 an adult male in Victoria consumed what he thought were puffballs growing in his front yard. These turned out to have been undeveloped “buttons” of Amanita phalloides; a site visit later discovered several mature Death Cap mushrooms at this location under a mature English Oak tree. The patient recovered after extended hospitalization.

Young Amanita phalloides buttons resemble puffballs. Photo by Paul Kroeger

In September of 2008 an adult female ate Death Caps that she had identified as the Straw Mushroom Volvariella volvacea growing on an agricultural property in Langley. After extended hospitalization she recovered.

Straw Mushrooms – Volvariella volvacea. Photo by Fred Notzel

In October of 2016 a three year-old child died more than a week after eating Amanita phalloides growing on a property in Downtown Victoria.

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Here we present a chronology of Death Cap mushrooms recorded from British Columbia in different areas and with different host trees. Dried voucher specimens are preserved in the UBC Herbarium in Vancouver and in the DAVFP Herbarium in Victoria.

1997      The first Amanita phalloides mushroom in Canada was found at Lake Errock near Mission in the Fraser Valley under a grove of old Sweet Chestnut trees Castanea sativa. Subsequent visits to the site found many more specimens.

1998      Amanita phalloides were found in under an old Beech tree (Fagus sylvatica )at Government House in Victoria on Vancouver Island.

2000      Death Caps were found under Linden trees (Tilia sp.) in Victoria’s Uplands district.

2002      Death Caps were found under Hazelnut (Corylus avellana) in Mission.

2002      Death Caps were found growing under Hornbeam (Carpinus betulus) street trees in Downtown Victoria.

2003      Canada’s first Death Cap poisoning. A man in Victoria ate buttons growing under English Oak (Quercus robur) in his yard believing them to be puffballs.

2006      Amanita phalloides was found growing abundantly under Hazelnut (Corylus avellana) in Surrey.

2008      Vancouver’s first Death Caps were found under Hornbeam (Carpinus betulus) street trees.

2008      Canada’s second Death Cap poisoning. A woman ate young Amanita phalloides gathered on an agricultural property in Langley believing they were Straw mushrooms (Volvariella volvacea). The host tree was not identified.

2011      Amanita phalloides was found under Red oak (Quercus rubra) street trees in Vancouver.

2014      Amanita phalloides was found under Hazelnut (Corylus avellana) on Galiano Island.

2014      The Vancouver Mycological Society began a survey of Vancouver street trees for Amanita phalloides. Eventually more than 75 host trees were located, just about all of them were Hornbeams apparently planted in the 1960s and early 1970s, or 45 to 55 years ago.

2015      Amanita phalloides was found growing with a native Garry oak (Quercus garryana) in remnant woodland near Victoria. This is the first record of the Death Cap growing with a native tree in BC.

2015      Amanita phalloides grew under a European Beech (Fagus sylvatica) street tree in Vancouver.

2016      Amanita phalloides grew under English oak (Quercus robur) in Vancouver.

2016      Canada’s third Death Cap poisoning and first Death Cap fatality. A three year-old child died after eating Amanita phalloides which grew under Hornbeam (Carpinus betulus) trees in downtown Victoria.

Host trees for Amanita phalloides in British Columbia

Latin name

Common name

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Carpinus betulus L.

European hornbeam

Betulaceae: Fagales

Castanea sativa Mill.

Sweet chestnut

Fagaceae: Fagales

Corylus avellana Gray

Common hazel

Betulaceae: Fagales

Fagus sylvatica L.

European beech

Fagaceae: Fagales

Quercus garryana Dougl.

Garry oak (native)

Fagaceae: Fagales

Quercus robur L.

English oak

Fagaceae: Fagales

Quercus rubra L.

Northern red oak

Fagaceae: Fagales

Tilia species

Basswood or Linden

Malvaceae: Malvales

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The Women’s Super League (Known as the Barclays FA Women’s Super League for sponsorship reasons) is the top flight of Women’s Football in England and is one of the few fully professional women’s leagues across all of the world. It comprises of 12 teams, and is arguably one of if not the best division across the globe. It was founded in March of 2010 and takes place from September to May of every year.

Prior to the creation of the WSL, the FA Women’s Premier League National Division was the top flight in England, with Southern and Northern regional leagues sitting below that.

The Women’s Super League was originally formed in 2010 to replace the FA Women’s Premier League but this was postponed by a year due to the global economic crisis taking its toll on many clubs. It took place for its first campaign in 2011 in the original summer league format and comprised of eight clubs. The WSL was a very strong league, but was behind the USA’s WPL in the list of most desirable leagues. However, as is often the case with football leagues in the United States, the WPL did not last long and many British players chose to come to the WSL, with a few also adopting Sweden’s Danallsvenskan.

For the 2014 campaign, a second division, the FA WSL 2, was created with nine new teams added and one relegated from the WSL 1. A top-flight license was controversially handed to Manchester City, with Doncaster Rovers Belles demoted to the WSL 2, the decision was appealed by the South Yorkshire side but they were unsuccessful in their attempts to have it overturned.

In July of 2016, The FA announced that the WSL would make the change to playing in a winter league to be better in line with the men’s footballing calendar. Due to this, a shortened competition called the FA WSL ‘Spring Series’ took place to bridge the gap created. Each team played each other once between February and May of 2017, with Chelsea running out as eventual winners on goal difference.

Before the 2018/19 campaign, the league was rebranded and became a fully professional division for the first time. All teams had to re-apply for a license which required clubs to offer their players a minimum of a 16 hour a week contract and to form a youth academy as compulsory for the new licence criteria. Sunderland Ladies were unsuccesful in their application and dropped down to the third tier, whilst Brighton and Hove Albion and West Ham were added to the division.

After the 2018/19 season, Yeovil Town were relegated due to them falling into administration, whilst both Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur gained promotion from the FA Women’s Championship - the new second tier.

The league currently comprises of 12 teams, and each play each other both home and away between September and May of each year. The top two teams at the end of the year receive qualification for the UEFA Women’s Champions League, however, from the 2020/21 season this will expand to the top three to fall better in line with the expanded European competition.

The bottom-placed team is relegated down to the FA Women’s Championship, the division which sits above the National League structure.

One team each year is promoted from the Championship and take the place of the team that is relegated.

All teams in the competition gain automatic qualification for the FA Women’s Continental Tyres League Cup which they start at the group stage, and they enter the FA Women’s Cup at the Fourth Round proper stage.

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For the 2019/20 campaign, the FA introduced the new FA Player, on which every game is televised across the WSL as long as it is not selected for coverage by BT Sports, where only audio coverage will be available on the app. As well as this, one FAWC game a week is shown on the app.

BBC televise one game a week - usually on their Red Button, online and iPlayer service.

BT Sport also have rights to broadcast a number of matches and the more watched games throughout the season, such as those between the ‘big three’ of Chelsea, Arsenal and Manchester City as well as other derby games, are often shown on this paid service.

Each week, the BBC broadcast the ‘Women’s Football Show’ which contains highlights of each of that weekend’s league fixtures. This is live on BBC Four at 7pm every Sunday, as well as on the BBC’s online ways to view their content. By November of 2019, this show was averaging an audience of just over one million.

In March of 2019 the FA announced a landmark sponsorship deal with British bank Barclays for the 2019-20 season that would run for three years. The deal is reported to be in excess of £10 million with a prize money pot of £500,000 for the league champions for the first time. The FA described this as “the biggest ever investment in UK women's sport by a brand”

Continental have been the main sponsorship partner of the WSL since it signed its first deal back in 2012. In 2013, it was announced that this sponsorship deal had been expanded for the 2014-18 contract and included the England women’s national football team, FA Women’s Cup and FA Women’s Continental Tyres League Cup (Conti Cup). In the first season in 2010, Yorkshire Building Society were also a major sponsor.

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ADELAIDE, Australia (VN) — Gravel racing is booming and the UCI is taking notice.

The international governing body is taking its first hard look at the fast-growing off-road discipline, and officials suggested Wednesday that a sanctioned gravel racing world championships could soon be in the cards.

“I think so, I think so,” UCI president David Lappartient said when asked about a gravel worlds. “This is something that is under discussion and that is possible in the future.”

Lappartient’s hints about a gravel rainbow jersey reveal just how much interest the international cycling governing body is taking in the burgeoning gravel scene.

Long on the fringes of the sport, gravel racing had been growing at such a fast clip that the UCI is starting to lean in.

“We had a meeting last week at the UCI, to discuss about this,” Lappartient said. “You can see that it is very popular worldwide and it’s a huge potential.”

Those comments confirm that gravel is very much on the UCI radar.

Yet as gravel racing continues to expand, especially in North America, the stage could be set for a tussle between the UCI and the grassroots organizers that right now largely operate beyond the reach of the international governing body.

In Europe, due to a host of laws and insurance issues, it’s all but impossible to organize a major bike race or mass-participation event without involving international and national governing bodies.

That’s not the case in North America, where the gravel sector is expanding rapidly largely beyond the reach of USA Cycling or the UCI.

Lappartient, who met with journalists including VeloNews on Wednesday evening during a swing through Australia, tried to downplay any possible tension between grassroots organizers of gravel events and the UCI.

“The goal today is not to fight against anyone, but to bring everyone together,” Lappartient said. “I think by joining all together, we are stronger.”

Lappartient’s comments come as the UCI recently started to move some pieces behind the scenes.

Earlier this month, Lappartient met with the promoter of the Eroica gran fondo mass-participation project in Italy to discuss that burgeoning niche. He also confirmed the UCI held an in-house meeting to talk about a range of issues surrounding gravel racing.

“[Gravel] can bring a lot innovation in our sport,” Lappartient said. “We had a meeting with Eroica last week to see what kind of potential there is to work together. We also had a meeting more globally about gravel, [to discuss] what is our strategy.”

Right now, Lappartient is mum on firm details. But those meetings and other behind-the-scenes movement reveal that the UCI is watching the booming gravel sector with interest.

Over the past several years, events such as Dirty Kanza have grown from grass-root, locally run races into major events drawing thousands of participants. Races and mass-participation events are selling out thousands of entry slots within a few hours. Several top racing pros, including Peter Stetina and Ian Boswell, have decided to race gravel and off-road endurance races full-time.

For 2020, there could be as many as 700 gravel events on the calendar, and most of them are unsanctioned. All of the growth has occurred outside of the umbrella of influence of USA Cycling, the sport’s national governing body, or the UCI.

While Lappartient confirmed UCI interest in gravel racing, he also recognized that the U.S. market is unique to how things are organized in Europe.

“We know that in some countries the rules are not the same. If you are U.S., the rules are not the same in other countries that you cannot organize a race without the federation,” Lappartient said. “It’s always better to be under the umbrella.”

Some gravel promoters, however, are wary of the piqued interest of the governing bodies. A few weeks ago, USA Cycling held a symposium in Bentonville, Arkansas, to begin a dialogue with event promoters and the U.S. governing body.

Yet as the niche expands and the top-end competition becomes more professional, questions about prize money, anti-doping controls, the application of rules and enforcement, and the organization of a sanctioned series could lead to growing pains.

Right now, many of those issues are dealt with by each event and there are little or no anti-doping controls. There is no recognized international series or championships or formalized structure, and that’s where Lappartient says the UCI could help out.

The UCI, which has expanded its reach into every other cycling discipline, is studying its options for gravel. Under Lappartient, the UCI is also expanding into e-sports, and will host an e-sports world championships in 2020.

It’s unlikely gravel racing would ever become an Olympic sport, but if the sport does involve into a sanctioned international series with a recognized world championships, that would inevitably lead to UCI involvement.

“You can see the fans of cycling love this,” Lappartient said. “We believe there is a potential opportunity for UCI, so I will not say too much today, but we are working on this at the UCI level because we believe there is a big future of this.”


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COVID-19 Impacts and the Economic Response, Session 2

Conference Board Scenario Recap and Participant Update

In the two weeks since our Virtual Roundtable executives last gathered on April 3rdan unprecedented amount of fiscal relief was pumped into the economy. But social distancing measures continue to vary across state lines, and the federal stimulus package only reached parts of the U.S. Across the globe in China, work has changed. At home, in Europe, and in less-developed parts of the world still suffering, much remains the same. In the U.S., a May Quick Reboot Scenario and Summer V-Shape Scenario proposed by The Conference Board are unlikely. Based on the economic impact so far, it seems a Fall U-Shape Scenario with a slower recovery is the most realistic, as it gives businesses time to recover. That is, assuming social distancing works and we flatten the curve. The Conference Board added a somber Fall Resurgence W-Shaped Scenario to account for a tough season of controlling the virus spread, which would not bode well for the U.S. In VHB’s second Virtual Roundtable, participants reported various ways their industries are being tested, and how they plan to anticipate and embrace change.

U.S. and International Recovery to Date

The McKinsey Group is predicting a rolling recovery by region. States in the Southeast are not feeling the pain as strong as the Northeast. States reliant on consumer spending and discretionary spending will struggle. Some analysts predict U.S. unemployment to be at 15 percent by May and could drop dramatically in the following months. Businesses are realizing the federal government did not pass a stimulus bill so much as a lifeline bill.
How long will the industry be able to hang on?

Many expect the next stimulus bill to be more politically laborious, with division amongst political parties continually emerging. The current CARES Act placed significant money and relief to local government and their response to the pandemic. Many are fighting for the next round of stimulus dollars to provide more direct funding to cities and states, with many governors requesting significant stimulus funding as well as flexibility in spending for general budgetary demands and needs versus just COVID-19 response, helping to get the economy back on track. Expensive items will likely make their way in because the infrastructure piece was not realized in the first bill. Broadband access may have bipartisan support and many expect additional funds for roads and bridges. The next package may also include tax incentives for manufacturing to be brought back home. Vote by mail funding will be a fight. Politically divisive issues could crowd out infrastructure needs.

The virus will alter the way we work and participants agreed that social distancing measures will continue for some time, until a vaccine is found. There is a potential for gateway cities—mid-size, urban cities across the U.S. that serve as economic anchors and hubs to surrounding cities and regions—to see a renewal as people move away from crowded, major city centers.

Consider the dilemma many may face working in an urban city in a significantly large, multi-story office building. With continued social distancing measures in place, will the elevator now pose a time management and commuting dilemma? We will now need to consider time and safety measures for what used to be a simple elevator ride to an office.

If employees continue the work-from-home trend en masse, how will corporate culture thrive? With a vaccine likely a year out, consider the health and safety liability issues the pandemic will continue to place on businesses as employees return to work. When should they return to work? And how does this impact corporate culture and employee engagement? Will the government lay out clear guidelines on reasonable accommodations? What technological changes are worthy investments to retain resiliency? Finally, we cannot underestimate the collective trauma an incident like COVID-19 poses on people and their families. The human toll will likely have unforeseen repercussions. Smart companies will need to continue to keep their finger on the pulse of the workforce. What’s next for maintaining company culture and employee engagement with a significant remote workforce?

Roundtable participants further shared intriguing thoughts and perspective, which are detailed below by sector.

Parts of Asia are now recovering. As of mid-April, despite being hit hard in China, operations that shut down for weeks are up and running now, with strict government guidance on controls and cleaning. Companies that tackle workplace safety head on with transparency can instill employee satisfaction. Nonessential workers in China can return, but employers are cautious and taking it slow. The move to virtual office will be the norm for at least the year in parts of Asia, if not permanently, for many people. Business travel is nonessential, and overseas organizations are ready to travel differently, hire differently, and work from home. Look to keeping supply chains close to manufacturers as an important focus.

AEC Industry

Business software companies saw demand for product come in waves of forced usage due to moving from office to virtual work-from-home or work standstill, based on where the virus was hitting hard globally. It is likely working in the cloud will be the norm for the AEC world (and most industries in general) from this point on, especially for the slow adopters. We expect demand for design work to rethink office, urban, hospitality, and retail for social distancing. It will be a new line of business.

Energy, Renewables, Oil & Gas

From a regulatory standpoint, things are moving forward, but expect change with boots-on-the-ground business. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) was well-prepared to work remotely and is ready to process applications. Natural gas industry is proceeding at pace. Oil drilling dropped off and when it starts back up, rigs may be less efficient due to social distancing. States are still trying to put standards in place for renewables, and the industry is on track to meet them, but will have similar social distancing jobsite concerns.

Oil will lean more toward exports. Participants expect a slowdown on the receiving end due to COVID-19 concerns from abroad, and the ripple effect on the supply chain. Pricing is influenced by drilling drop-off and the storage problem. This should dissipate and oil will return, to some degree. Banks are preparing for significant disruptions. The U.S. does not have a national oil company like some countries (such as China and Russia) so our response will be felt differently across state lines. Companies and lobbyists are vying to get interests included in legislation going through Congress, which could cause delays.

Many questions remain unanswered. Will there be a fundamental realignment of travel? Movement away from density? Will public transit be hit hard due to social distancing? Tracking movement around the system has somewhat fallen by the wayside, but the big data is there to be studied. Transit has declined more than general travel. Transportation industry’s current focus has moved from urban centers to medical facilities and retail centers, where not as many resources exist because they were not previously so important.

Transportation is operations-focused now. Labor shortages are real; frontline workers were hard hit. Projects with rolling deadlines are still on track. The maintenance backlog can move forward. Subway and bus transit are down 80 to 90 percent in Northeast urban areas. What will shared mobility look like in three months? Six months? The rebound could be years. The industry will look outside itself to help determine how to respond. It is possible that cars will pick-up faster than transit. Participants noted agencies will likely be looking towards capital investment plans focusing on the first year, primarily maintenance and not new projects, due to impact on other revenue sources.

Safety is a big concern now on sites. New construction guidelines present a learning curve.

Real Estate Development

While the real estate sector has been hit hard, particularly hospitality and retail, no one is going through “fire sale” concepts yet. Smaller, independently owned operations are receiving critical stimulus monies, helping to keep them afloat for the time being. Of note is concern that employees will not return because their unemployment benefits are better under the paycheck protection program. Many retail establishments may have future workforce challenges, competing to bring employees back.

Developers are seeing a pause as tenants wait to see what a COVID-19 discount might look like. The right product type will have access to equity, but the new retail mix remains to be seen. Zoning pre-pandemic was already a hurdle and may not be a barrier in the future. Regional malls could become fulfillment centers. Employers may disperse to local offices due to social distance concerns in high rise office towers. There is a need to have a very specific plan and protocols for what work looks like to elicit employee confidence.

Higher Education

Universities have reason to be cautious due to large populations of students. Many are trending toward a delayed or online fall semester, but have not made formal announcements yet. Economically, the vast majority of universities are suffering due to research and travel being put on hold, and delayed graduate student decisions. However, universities with major health systems are different than others, as the academic side tends to take a hit to support the healthcare side. Capital projects and discussions about renovation are not part of the conversation yet.

Next Steps: Future Discussions

We want to stay connected! VHB will be hosting more virtual roundtable discussions, connecting varying perspectives across geographies. Future questions and discussion around this roundtable topic include:

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  • Are subsequent federal stimulus bills adequately responding to industry need?
  • Where are pockets of the new normal starting to emerge and what does it look like for your industry?


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Is Running Bad For Your Knees?

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Spend enough time in the average weight room and you might walk away thinking that running is the root of all exercise evil: It does a lousy job at burning fat. It's less exciting than C-SPAN and, haven't you heard, it messes up your knees. But if you've been avoiding the treadmill based on the word of the guy who seems to live under the squat rack, you might want a second opinion.

Running is far from immune to scrutiny, as this very site has proven multiple times over, but the negative long-term impact it has on the joints is often wildly overstated, if not flat-out wrong. As Janet Hamilton, an exercise physiologist and run coach with Running Strong in Atlanta puts it, "Joints are meant to move. And running is arguably one of the most natural movements you can do as a human.” Hamilton points to research that consistently shows running—and running a lot—actually improves knee health.

She's not wrong: In one study of nearly 100,000 runners and walkers, researchers found that frequent running did not increase the risk of osteoarthritis—the most common form of arthritis, linked to wear and tear of protective cartilage and connective tissue—even among seasoned marathoners. In fact, researchers found that osteoarthritis was half as common in runners as it was in walkers. Of course, there's a good chance that the running group was self-selecting—that people who didn't experience knee pain in the first place were the ones who stuck with running. But it still says something that after a seven-year followup among people who had no osteoarthritis to begin with, it was walkers who developed knee problems in greater numbers.

X-ray evidence suggests that osteoarthritis is actually more common in soccer players and weightlifters than it is in long-distance runners, says Leigh-Ann Plack, a physical therapist and advanced clinician with the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City, and author of a review on running and osteoarthritis.

Hamilton thinks the lower risk of osteoarthritis could be due to the fact that running stimulates the production and circulation of synovial fluid, a type of lubricant that nourishes the joints, as well as the fact that runners—at least, more serious ones—tend to maintain better strength and mobility in their muscles. When researchers at Brigham Young University stuck runners with needles to extract and study their synovial fluid, they found that 30 minutes of running decreased the fluid’s levels of inflammatory proteins linked with poor cartilage turnover. (It's worth noting that the study was small, and the researchers were unable to get enough synovial fluid from about half of the subjects.)

So if running is so great for your knees, then why do so many people complain of knee clicks, or a condition literally known as runner's knee? Partly because the vast majority of people who run have a combination of muscle imbalances and less-than-stellar form, says James Gladstone, an orthopedic knee surgeon and sports medicine specialist at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. “The best thing you can do for your knees as a runner," he says, "is make sure to have proper mechanics and proper muscle balance."

Running can also backfire in people with pre-existing osteoarthritis or knee damage, since it can stress the knee with up to eight times the force of walking, according to one review. In healthy subjects, this can be a good thing—stress causes microscopic damage to the cartilage, and as you recover, the tissue grows back stronger (it's like building muscle in that way). However, that stress can be too much for already-osteoarthritic knees to handle, Gladstone says.

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Even if you're not prone to injury, following these guidelines will help you stay that way the next time you step on a treadmill:

How To Prevent Injury From Running

Get Stronger
Strength coaches like to say, “Running doesn’t make you strong. But you need to be strong to run.” This Insta-worthy expression has some truth to it, largely because running is a repetitive exercise that involves a select group of lower-body muscles, a limited range of motion, and only hits one plane of movement, Plack says.

For example, running does little to train the hip abductors, the muscles on the outside of the hip that help you move from side to side, Hamilton says. As a result, many runners have underdeveloped abductors. Research shows that weak abductors can lead to IT Band syndrome—a persistent ache on the outside of the knee that just won’t quit. “Begin running only after you have built a foundation of strength—muscle and tissue strength, not just aerobic strength—to support it,” Hamilton says. Once you start running, perform some form of multi-planar (forward-and-backward, side-to-side, and rotational) strength training at least a couple of times per week.

Deal With Underlying Issues.
If you have issues with your skeletal alignment, such as flat feet, high arches, knock knees, bowed legs, or leg-length discrepancies, get some help from a trained professional, Hamilton says. The same goes if you’ve had knee aches, plantar fasciitis, or any other exercise or running problems in the past. A physical therapist or kinesiologist can help get to the bottom of any issues and address their underlying causes, which will help prevent any issues—knee or otherwise—from cropping up mid-run, she says.

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Running is a natural movement, but most people don't do it correctly. For example, excessive stride length is a common form misstep that can put excessive stress on the knees, Plack says. So if you want to run faster, you shouldn’t try to take bigger strides. Schedule an appointment with a physical therapist, kinesiologist, exercise physiologist, or certified run coach to evaluate and shore up your running form. Some knee-protecting strategies may be as simple as shortening your stride or as involved as identifying and strengthening muscle imbalances, she says.

Take It Slow
Make the transition to running gradually and build your endurance slowly over time, Hamilton says. “Aerobic conditioning responds relatively quickly, but it may take longer than that for your muscles, tendons and ligaments to adapt to the training load.”

As a general rule, experts recommend not increasing your total training load (distance + speed + duration + frequency) any more than 10 percent per week. Hamilton notes that some runners may need to stay closer to five percent. Some might be best off increasing only every other week. “It’s also good to avoid applying too many versions of ‘more’ in any given workout,” she says. “In other words, do hills or a longer workout rather than hills and a longer workout.”

Schedule Recovery Time
“Overload plus recovery equals adaptation and improvement. Overload without recovery equals injury,” Hamilton says. The exact amount of recovery you need depends on multiple factors including your fitness, how hard you’re pushing yourself, your current running and strength training routine, and your overall physical and mental stress levels, she says. High-tech strategies such as heart rate variability can help you determine when your body needs light exercise or no exercise at all. But “listening to your body” will also get the job done.

Find the Right Shoe
Much like rotating the tires on your car, mixing up the running shoes you use throughout the week can lower your risk of injury, according to research from the Sports Medicine Research Laboratory in Luxembourg. Researchers believe cycling through shoes mixes up the stress placed on your joints and tissues, which prevents overuse injuries and strengthens a wider range of muscles. Hamilton recommends buying your shoes from a running specialty store that has software designed to record and analyze how various shoes affect your running form and pattern.

Don't Train Through Pain
“If something hurts, step back and investigate the situation and address the underlying cause of the symptom—not just the symptom itself,” Hamilton says. Generally, any pain that is sharp or strikes the joints is reason to cut your workout short. Sometimes the cause is obvious: Maybe you tripped over a crack in the sidewalk or got cocky and pushed your workout too hard too fast. If it isn’t, or if the pain isn’t completely gone in a couple of days, seek professional help, she says. Again, a physical therapist with a specialty in running will be your best bet for identifying the problem and solution.

K. Aleisha Fetters is a certified strength and conditioning specialist and fitness writer based in Chicago.

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Elizabeth Smart Is Standing Up for Rape Victims—And Tearing Down Purity Culture
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Elizabeth Smart Is Standing Up for Rape Victims—And Tearing Down Purity Culture

Fourteen years after she was kidnapped, sexually abused, and held in captivity for nine months, Elizabeth Smart is fighting to change the way we talk about sex, rape, and abstinence. We visited her in her Utah home to learn more about her advocacy.
September 1, 2016, 5:10pm

"I didn't talk about being raped; I didn't talk about being sexually abused," says Elizabeth Smart, nestled into a large outdoor sofa on the sun-soaked patio of her spacious home in Park City, Utah. "It's hard to come forward. That's probably one of the hardest things that I've ever had to do: to say, 'I was raped.'"

It's been 14 years since Elizabeth Smart, then 14 years old, was kidnapped from the bedroom she shared with her younger sister in their childhood home, in the posh Federal Heights neighborhood of Salt Lake City. Fourteen years since she was awakened by a familiar-seeming stranger, with cold metal pressed to her neck and the following words: "I have a knife at your neck. Don't say a word. Get out of bed and come with me." Fourteen years since she was led away into the night, forced to hike miles up into the mountains behind her home, not to be seen again until just over nine months later, when an alert citizen recognized the face of her captor, Brian David Mitchell, from a recently aired segment of the television show America's Most Wanted and made the 911 call that would end her "nine months of hell."

The particulars of Elizabeth's captivity have been the subject of much media fascination since the moment that her safe return was announced on breaking news: the metal cable bolted around her ankle that kept her chained to a tree in the hills behind her house for months before Mitchell began allowing her to accompany him down into the city; the white linen robes and head coverings she was forced to wear as a disguise; the polygamous marriage ceremony Mitchell performed, sealing Elizabeth to him as a wife for all eternity; the biblical name he insisted on calling her—Shear-Jashub, meaning the remnant who will return.

Read more: 'She Didn't Say Vagina': Sex Ed in Fundamentalist Christian Homeschool

In the infrequent interviews she gave during those initial years back home—years when she was still just a teenager trying to make it through high school—Elizabeth did not discuss the specifics of what she'd endured, focusing instead on her early work advocating for other missing children. In perhaps her most notorious television appearance from those early years, Elizabeth appeared on Headline News with Nancy Grace in 2006 to speak about a national sex offender registry bill that she was championing, and instead was ambushed by Grace's inane and invasive questions about the burqa Elizabeth's captors made her wear in public and whether she ever wanted to scream for help.

In 2013, seven years after the Nancy Grace interview and two years after her captor was sentenced to life in prison, Elizabeth published her first book, a memoir called My Story, which was co-written with Chris Stewart, a Republican congressman from her home state. In the book, Elizabeth reveals in her own words, for the first time, every painful detail of her abduction and captivity: extended periods of starvation and thirst, threats of death for herself and her family, and daily rape.

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The trauma of the sexual violence that Elizabeth endured was made even worse, she says, by the fact that she was raised in a deeply religious household that prioritized abstinence.

"I was raised that way," says Elizabeth, who will be 29 this November, referring to her Mormon upbringing. "I did make that promise to myself that I was going to wait until marriage before I had sex… Well, then I was kidnapped and I was raped, and one of the first thoughts I had was, No one is ever going to want to marry me now: I'm worthless, I'm filthy, I'm dirty. I think every rape survivor feels those same feelings, but having that with the pressure of faith compounded on top—it was almost crippling."

Elizabeth regularly travels across the country, speaking at universities and lecture series, to share the story of her kidnapping, sexual abuse, and survival. It is fascinating to watch past interviews and speeches––many of them have been uploaded to YouTube––because as Elizabeth has matured, so, too, has her message.

"Sometimes when I tell [my story], and I'm thinking about it, it just feels like a different life… Almost like faraway dream," she tells me. "I know it happened to me, but part of me is like, Did that really happen to me? Just because I think I've come so far since then, and I've just done so much. Sometimes it feels like it's a completely different life."

Most surprising for those who have come to see her as the poster girl for Mormon modesty is that she is taking the church to task on some of its more sexist teachings. "I think the power of faith is amazing, the hope and the healing that it can bring to people," says Elizabeth, who credits her everlasting faith for the strength she had to survive Mitchell's abuse. "But I also think there's another side of it that can be potentially very harmful, especially when a lot of religions teach that sexual relations are meant for marriage… It's so stressed that girls in particular tie their worth to their virginity, or, for lack of a better word, purity."

I was kidnapped and I was raped, and one of the first thoughts I had was, No one is ever going to want to marry me now: I'm worthless, I'm filthy, I'm dirty.

She often shares, as an example of what not to teach young girls, an analogy that she learned as a young child in Sunday school: "You're like this stick of gum, and if you have sex before you're married, it's like someone chews up that piece of gum, and then when you're done, who wants a piece of gum that's already chewed up? No one." That was the first thing she thought of after Mitchell raped her on the night of her kidnapping.

Unbelievably, ever after Elizabeth was rescued, she was still made to sit through these lessons a few times a year, as a high-schooler in religious seminary classes. "You're like this beautiful fence," she remembers being told in class after she'd returned home. "And you hammer these nails in, and then every time you have sex with someone else, it's like you're hammering in another nail. And you can take them out, you can repent of them, but the holes are still there."

Elizabeth shakes her head. "I just remember thinking, This is terrible. Do they not realize I'm sitting in class? Do they not realize that I'm listening to what they're saying? Those are terrible analogies. No one should use them, period," she says. "Especially for someone who's been raped, they've already felt these feelings of worthlessness, of filth, of just—" she lets out an exasperated sigh "—of just being so crushed, and then to hear a teacher come back and say, 'Nobody wants you now'… You just think, I should just die right now."

She says she knows that her teachers never meant any of this with malice, but "statistically speaking, I'm not the only girl that's ever been raped. And those kinds of analogies, they stick with people." At that time, though, she still wasn't speaking up about her own rape—and wouldn't for several more years, until she testified at the trial of her kidnappers.

"The way we talk about [sex and abstinence] needs to change," she continues. "People need to realize there is nothing that can detract from your worth. When it comes to rape and sexual violence and abuse, that can never detract from who you are."

In writing and talking about sexual violence, people must make a linguistic choice in describing someone who has endured an assault: victim or survivor. Elizabeth uses both terms seemingly interchangeably, as in "rape victim" or "survivor of sexual assault." Though she uses both words, Elizabeth maintains that they're not synonymous. "I don't think they're the same thing; I think they are different stages, actually," she says. "A victim is someone who is still going through the abuse, and a survivor is someone who survived it. I'm not saying that they don't have hard moments still, or things to work through, but it's more about making that choice: that they want to survive, that they no longer want to remain the victim and they're taking the steps to move on in their life."

"I'm not saying it's easy," she adds, careful not to minimize anyone's path to recovery.

It should be noted that Elizabeth's Instagram bio is, rather poignantly, "Survivor. Mother. Wife." She met a Mormon Scotsman, Matthew Gilmour, while serving an 18-month LDS Mission in Paris; the two later married. Their February 2012 wedding, at the BYU-Hawaii Mormon temple, made the cover of People magazine. Three years later, their daughter Chloe Rose was born.

In 2013, when My Story came out, the New Yorker published a profile of Elizabeth by Margaret Talbot, then the most thorough update on her life. Buried down several thousand words in was one of the most surprising elements in this piece about a champion of women; it's a quote from a women named Kristine Haglund, who is the editor of a journal on Mormonism. She says of Elizabeth, "She's entirely faithful. And while she's not part of the feminist ferment in Mormonism, and I doubt she'd call herself a feminist, she is strong in a way that feminists can admire."

Anyone who is familiar with the Mormon church knows that it has an interesting relationship with the concept of feminism. As Kate Kelly, a feminist activist who was excommunicated from the faith in 2014 for advocating for the ordination of women into the LDS priesthood, puts it, "The primary reason that Mormon women are very reluctant to identify as feminist is that it is explicitly taboo in the culture. The church explicitly considers feminists to be enemies."

This puts Elizabeth Smart in a very strange position. She is a champion of victims of sexual violence, a hero for so many survivors, and an outspoken critic of religious purity culture. By all accounts, she is a feminist in the truest sense of the term.

When it comes to rape and sexual violence and abuse, that can never detract from who you are.

"What I see in feminism is people like Elizabeth, who stand up for women and women's rights," says Bre Lasley, 27, a Mormon woman who survived a brutal attack in her own home and founded the organization Fight Like Girls to empower girls and women to fight back, physically and emotionally, against any struggle they're faced with. Bre says she thought of Elizabeth and her kidnapping during the six-minute attack, which left her with five separate four-inch deep stab wounds to her lower abdomen and leg. The two women have recently teamed up and begun to work together. "For a long time I thought feminism was a negative thing, and I don't know why," Bre tells me over Skype.

Later, I ask Elizabeth whether she identifies with the term or rejects it, as the New Yorker piece would suggest. At first, she equivocates. "I think there are so many different kinds of feminism—some good, some maybe too extreme—it's a wonderful thing for women to come together, to be strong, to be independent, to have equal rights as human beings… There shouldn't be a glass ceiling," she says, sort of talking around the question. "At the same time, I like it when a man holds the door open for me, and I like it when I'm treated like a lady. I mean… I'm married, I have a husband, I have a family."

Given the Mormon church's antagonistic view of the movement, her discomfort with the label makes sense; still, believing in—and actively campaigning for—equality between men and women is pretty much the definition of feminism. When I tell her this, Elizabeth seems to casually change her position. "I've never thought of myself as a feminist before… Sure, call me a feminist," she says.

Although she may not have previously aligned herself with the feminist movement, Elizabeth has devoted a great deal of time to speaking out about how women suffer under hardline religious rules. In her first episode since being named a correspondent on the syndicated TV news program Crime Watch Daily, Elizabeth sat down with two of the women who reported being raped at Brigham Young University—where Elizabeth studied harp performance before being called away on the Paris mission—and were punished for violating an honor code that prohibits students from having sex.

"I don't have a problem with [the honor code]," Elizabeth tells me, reasoning that if you decide to go to a particular school, you are agreeing to abide by their rules, and there's nothing wrong with electing to live by a certain level of standards. "But I do think there are situations that happen that are outside of a person's control. And because of the honor code, [these rape victims] are scared to come forward because it can jeopardize their status at school… Plus, then it goes back to the religious stigma, because BYU is a church-owned school." These situations should be handled gently, she believes, and on a case-by-case basis.

The Crime Watch episode, and her interviews with the women who came forward, received a considerable amount of attention, as is often the case when Elizabeth speaks out against, well, just about anything. As Margaret Talbot suggested in her New Yorker profile, Elizabeth really is universally admired. When she speaks, people listen, Mormon or not.

As Elizabeth pauses to eat her lunch (a Smucker's Uncrustables peanut butter and grape jelly sandwich) we talk about how it isn't just BYU that has a campus rape problem. "It makes me so mad," she says of all of the stories that have been in the news lately, like at Stanford and the University of Colorado. "It just makes me so angry. I guess it's a good thing I'm not a judge, because I don't think any of them would ever see the light of day." She tells me she read the now famous letter that the Stanford rape victim wrote to her rapist, Brock Turner: "It broke my heart, made me angry, made me sick."

When I meet Elizabeth for lunch the next day, at a Park City barbecue restaurant, she is accompanied by her 18-month-old daughter and looks every bit the casual young mother, in a teal V-neck tee shirt, knee-length grey shorts, black slip-on sneakers, and a backpack full of baby things. There are blue and red crayons on the table, and Elizabeth draws a flower on a paper napkin, hoping to entice Chloe with a kid-friendly distraction so that we can pick up where we left off the day before. It works a little bit, but Chloe, who is "just full of wiggles," is more interested in the other booths, so we both keep one eye on the toddler while we talk.

"I'm not going to hide anything from her," says Elizabeth. "Of course, I want to maintain and protect her innocence as long as possible, but with that being said, I think it's a disservice to not talk to children [about sex]."

Elizabeth wants to ensure that Chloe never struggles with the sense of shame she did. "I don't want her to be scared; I want her to be prepared, and to know that she has options, and if she wants to talk about what happened to me, that's fine," she affirms. "I'll be happy to talk about it with her."

After lunch we go to a nearby park, so that Chloe can play while we talk some more. It's the most public place that we've visited together (the restaurant was fairly empty, and we sat inside on a sunny day, avoiding pedestrian traffic). I wonder aloud whether Elizabeth still gets recognized, and how often.

"All the time," she says. "A lot of times people won't know where they recognize me from—like, they'll recognize me, but they can't always place me. And then there are people who know immediately, right away, who I am… They come up and they'll say something like, 'I'm not going to bother you, but I appreciate what you're doing,' or 'I appreciate all that you talk about.'"

She has moved on, it would seem, from being recognized for what happened to her to being recognized for the advocacy work that she does. "I've become so much more than just my kidnapping and what happened," she says. Victim, survivor.

"It's nice to hear that you're appreciated," she tells me. "That's certainly not why I do it, but it is nice."

The park is full of children and adults, and Chloe runs off often, to various play structures, to the slides, to a set of steps which lead her to a bridge that is fairly high for someone who is only about two feet tall. Elizabeth keeps her eye on Chloe and grabs her when she goes too far out of sight, but less frequently than you might imagine for someone who survived a childhood kidnapping. On one of these retrieval missions, she is stopped by a group of young mothers and stands talking to them for a few minutes at the edge of the park. "Well, speak of the devil," she says to me, as she walks back with Chloe in tow: These women had recognized her and wanted to express their admiration.

"A lot of victims or survivors, they want to go back to being normal," she says, pushing her daughter gently in a swing. Chloe is calm, almost trancelike as she flies up, up, up, tilting her head skyward each time she swings back toward her mother, so that Elizabeth is able to quickly cup her chubby pink cheeks and plant a big kiss on her daughter's mouth. "I just wanted to be treated normal. I didn't want special exceptions. I didn't want people to be scared to be my friend… to avoid me because they don't know how I'm going to react."

"I always felt, like, Jeez, I survived nine months of hell, I hardly think that something you're going to say to me is going to break me."


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He isn't thrilled at first to discover guano is dried bird poop, but when he learns it's value as fertilizer, he and Christopher eagerly set sail to Peru to scoop up the riches. But there they discover a savage business, with hundreds of Chinese men forced into a brutal system of slave labor. When one of the miners, claiming to be a kidnapped Chinese nobleman, begs for rescue, Aiden must make a fateful decision.

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It is a chance at a new life for Aiden and Maddy but a chance that is 2000 rough and dangerous miles away. Aiden soon learns however that the greatest challenges are not really the physical ones. When a smallpox epidemic threatens an Indian friend, Aiden’s loyalties, wits and courage are severely tested.

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