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A second-place finish today at the Australia Sail Grand Prix presented by KPMG qualified the United States and event winner Australia, for the winner-take-all $1 million Season 2 Grand Final at the United States Sail Grand Prix San Francisco, March 26-27.Per SailGP rules, only the top three overall teams at the end of the season will qualify for entry to the high-stakes, final race of the season.Securing the team’s Grand Final berth sets up a dream comeback scenario for U.S. SailGP Team’s CEO and Driver Jimmy Spithill, who now looks to win sailing’s largest prize in front of the hometown, San Francisco crowd.”We started the season in last place after being taken out by the Japanese team.” Spithill said. “It was about the worst possible way for a new team to enter a competition. But we’ve fought our way through broken bones, hitting things, and capsizes.”Spithill is no stranger to dramatic comebacks, especially in San Francisco, where he climbed back from a 8-1 deficit to win the 2013 America’s Cup, called one of the greatest comebacks in sports history.

Source: U.S. SailGP Team punches ticket to Grand Final

Aside from being home to popular Hollywood celebrities and having incredible surfing spots, Malibu is also home to fascinating canyons and hiking trails. With a perfect climate for hiking, Malibu makes its courses accessible for any time of the year. With over twenty-plus hiking spots, here’s a comprehensive list of the top hiking trails in the scenic paradise of Malibu.

Source: Best California Coast Hiking: Malibu Trails You Can’t Miss

New York (CNN Business)One of the more insidious myths this year was that young people didn’t want to work because they were getting by just fine on government aid. People had too much money, went the narrative.Only trouble is, the numbers don’t back it up.Instead, early retirement — whether forced by the pandemic or made possible otherwise — is playing a big role in America’s evolving labor market.People have left the workforce for myriad reasons in the past two years — layoffs, health insecurity, child care needs, and any number of personal issues that arose from the disruption caused by the pandemic. But among those who have left and are not able to — or don’t want — to return, the vast majority are older Americans who accelerated their retirement.Earlier this month, ADP Chief Economist Nela Richardson said the strong stock market along with soaring home prices “has given some higher income people options. We already saw a large portion of the Boomer workforce retiring. And they’re in a better position now.”In assessing the jobs recovery, economists have pointed out that while the unemployment rate has come down, the labor force participation rate hasn’t improved at the same pace. But Jared Bernstein, a member of President Joe Biden’s Council of Economic Advisers, said that once “non-prime age” workers — those over 55 — are excluded from the metrics a much clearer picture of how the labor recovery is doing emerges because it strips out the retirement narrative.

Source: How millions of jobless Americans can afford to ditch work – CNN

Stephen Sondheim, who has died aged 91, was a leading light of musical theatre over the course of more than six decades, from the moment in 1957 when he achieved renown as Leonard Bernstein’s lyricist for West Side Story. He went on to establish a place for himself with intelligent, unconventional works such as Company (1970), Sweeney Todd (1979) and Into the Woods (1987), which brought him a following appreciative of the new departures he made, even if his chosen path was not obvious or easy.Sondheim saw himself as heir to Oscar Hammerstein II, who had written the lyrics for Oklahoma! (1943) and South Pacific (1949). Many expected him to revive the floundering American musical, supplying new perceptiveness, relevance and verve.Yet, although the half-century following Hammerstein’s death in 1960 was a golden age full of long-running musicals in the West End and Broadway, and despite his considerable gifts with words and music, Sondheim never scored a true hit show. Nonetheless, new productions and film versions continued for the rest of his life and beyond, and his best work may well last longer than the more profitable musicals of his time.The old firms – Rodgers and Hart, Rodgers and Hammerstein, and Lerner and Loewe – comprised fruitful collaborations between composers and wordsmiths. Sondheim, on the other hand, wrote both music and lyrics himself. Some commercial flops resulted, but Sondheim took after Cole Porter in supplying both text and tune for a number of adorable hit songs.

Source: Stephen Sondheim obituary | Stephen Sondheim | The Guardian

PAID CONTENTHow to manage the pandemic-fueled data surgeFROM AWSJurors in Miami federal court took about a week to reach Monday’s verdict, following about three weeks of trial. The jury rejected most claims against Craig Wright and the outcome probably won’t resolve the debate over whether Wright is the mythical creator of the peer-to-peer currency, Satoshi Nakamoto.The brother of Dave Kleiman, a computer security expert who died in 2013, alleged that the late Florida man worked with Wright to create and mine Bitcoin in its early years. As a result, the plaintiffs claimed the estate was entitled to half of a cache of as many as 1.1 million Bitcoins worth some $57 billion, which are thought to be held by Satoshi.Some cryptocurrency investors see Wright as a fake, and yearslong litigation in Florida has done little to quiet the skeptics. Wright has declared many times in court that he invented Bitcoin, as he has previously in news interviews. Had the jury’s verdict gone against Wright, that would have forced to him to produce the Satoshi fortune. To some observers, that would have been the true test.

Source: Is he Bitcoin inventor Satoshi? Man wins suit over $57 billion crypto pile | Fortune

Romilly Cavanaugh stood at the edge of the Coquihalla River north of Hope, watching big trees snap off the bank like blades of grass in a lawn mower. Some of those not swept away held dead fish in their branches three metres off the ground — a reminder of what came before.ANNOUNCEMENTS, EVENTS & MORE FROM TYEE AND SELECT PARTNERSFinding Hope To Fight The Climate Crisis: A Forum Join SFU Public Square and Vancity for a discussion with climate justice advocates on pushing forward with resolve after COP26.Presenting ‘Under The White Gaze’: A Tyee Newsletter Tired of ‘model minorities,’ ‘immigrant invasions’ and other tropes? Follow reporter Chris Cheung’s journey into making the news better.Cavanaugh and her fellow engineers had been sent into the chaos for a sole purpose: to watch the Trans Mountain pipeline through the flood of 1995.Over that week they held vigil in torrential rain because the pipe, usually buried in a thick blanket of soil and rock, was bare and moving up and down in the river “like a piece of cooked spaghetti.”That was new to her. “You don’t expect metal structures to be moving.”

Source: When Surging Floods Meet Expanding Pipelines | The Tyee

A new report has pinpointed California as the destination for half of the oil drilled in the environmentally fragile Amazon rainforest, just one day after a high court in Ecuador overruled a resource extraction project that violated the constitutional rights of nature.

Source: Oil from Amazon Rainforest Goes to California Refineries, Airlines, Retailers, and Fleets, New Research Shows – The Energy Mix

Waterfront property has long been something of an industry in P.E.I., and the whole province is smaller than the Greater Toronto Area, so we’re talking about a limited commodity. The first wave of construction was from the 1940s to the 1960s, and some of these rustic places may be available. A place one or two lots back from the water, with easy access to the beach, will be more affordable, while true oceanfront will definitely cost more.

Source: Cottage real estate region: North and South Shore, P.E.I. – Cottage Life