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Female writers triumph in New Writing awards
Michelle Pauli
Thu 13 Sep 2007 18.59 EDT First published on Thu 13 Sep 2007 18.59 EDT
Azmar Dar was the winner in the New Writing Ventures fiction category
The judge of a national writing prize has ordered men to "wake up" after all of the £3,000 awards went this year to women. With eight of the nine contenders on the New Writing Ventures awards for emerging literary talent being women, the outcome was always unlikely to be otherwise.
Henry Sutton, chair of judges for the fiction section of the awards and literary editor of the Daily Mirror, said he was "surprised and saddened" when he realised that no men had made the grade to even reach the shortlist for the category. "I was shocked when I realised that all three were women," he said. "I've never believed in a difference of the sexes when it comes to literary talent, but there does seem to be a broader appeal in what women are writing than men."
"I think it's harder for a fledgling male writer to establish themselves, because market forces are swayed towards women," he suggested. "But in this case women produced the best writing, so perhaps men just need to wake up."
The fiction award, which Sutton judged, went to Azmar Dar for The Secret Arts, the first chapter of a novel set in Muree, a hill town in Pakistan, where a wedding is about to take place. Dar is a playwright and her entry for the award was her first attempt at novel-writing. The judges described her work as "lively, stylish, innovative, funny and moving" and declared that her "success has to be guaranteed".
Suzanne Joinson, a project co-ordinator for the literature department of the British Council, won the creative non-fiction award with an unusual reconstructed tale of family relationships, culture, memory and history inspired by a box of letters found in Deptford Market. The judges praised it as "bold in conception, beautifully controlled in terms of its tone, and finely constructed."
The winner of the poetry award is Jemma Borg, who has a doctorate in genetics and draws on her science background in her work, leading Erica Wagner, chair of judges for he section and literary editor of the Times to comment that "to language and imagery she brings a scientist's precision and care: this, in combination with an artist's heart, is rare."
The New Writing Ventures awards, launched two years ago by Booktrust and the New Writing Partnership, are open to all previously unpublished writers of fiction, non-fiction and poetry and are intended to help nurture emerging talent beyond the usual round of prize ceremonies and cheque-cashing. In addition to the prize money, the winner and runners-up in each category receive a "bespoke development plan" provided by Arts Council England, which includes workshops, online mentoring from the Literary Consultancy, introductions to agents and professional advice.
"The New Writing Ventures awards have very quickly become a key event for publishers and agents, acting as a 'shop window' to the best emerging talent," explains Chris Gribble, chief executive of the New Writing Partnership. However, he said, "the awards aren't run primarily for the industry, but for the writers themselves, to encourage and guide the best emerging writers from a wide range of backgrounds through the obstacle race of the literary world."
Gribble's confidence is borne out by the success of previous New Ventures winners. The 2005 awards saw two of its winners secure publishing deals. Nicholas Hogg, winner of the 2005 fiction category, will have his novel, Show Me the Sky, published by Canongate next year, and Liz Diamond, runner-up in the creative non-fiction category, has signed a two-book deal with Picador. Last year's winners are also in the process of securing agents and publishers.

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Cannabis euphoria in NYC —but for how long?
Posted on October 6th, 2021 by Bill Weinberg and tagged cannabis, capitalism, CBD, edibles, equity, legalization, medicinal, New York, New York City, science, United States.
New York's new Gov. Kathy Hochul is hyping the coming cannabis boom in the state — although no adult-use licenses have yet been issued, and the bureaucracy is just starting to move on this. Meanwhile, the cops in Gotham City are turning a blind eye to small outfits that are setting up tables in the parks and on the sidewalks, selling edibles, extracts and bud. How long will this utopian free-for-all last?
"Free samples! Edibles! Check it out!"
So hawks the young dreadlocked entrepreneur who goes by the moniker "AI," in between tokes on joint rolled on paper slathered with budder. Then, sotto voce, she adds, "I'm high as fuck!"
This is a Friday night in Washington Square Park, a key youth gathering point in New York City's Greenwich Village, and business is brisk.
'Open market' in Washington Square
AI says her initials stand for An Inspiration, and her business, registered in New York state last year, is Canaremedy—offering its own line of infused edibles, topicals and oils. At the table she has set up, she is also offering little baggies of bud, and pre-rolled joints.
Those inquiring about free samples are encouraged to help themselves to a little paper cup of AI's "weed juice"—AI's own concoction of what she calls "jungle juice," with THC tincture instead of booze. For the other products, money is exchanged—although, technically, AI says she is accepting donations for free samples, rather than making sales.
It may seem a semantic distinction. AI says the since the passage of New York's Marijuana Taxation & Regulation ACT (MRTA) in March, there is an "open market" in the state. Even if authorities officially do not view it that way, it is clear that the police are taking a hands-off approach. Several other tables peddling similar wares are set up nearby. The cops clustered around the square's iconic arch, some 50 yards away, do not interfere. And this scene has been unfolding every night all summer long, and now into early fall.
AI's goal is to eventually get a storefront, and a share of the licensed market. She registered the Canaremedy brand in 2020, in anticipation of legalization. Born in Newark, and having done a stint homeless on the streets of New York, she's now an East Village resident.
She explains that she got into developing her own cannabis products because her sister is suffering from multiple sclerosis, and her ailing mother suffered from a skin condition. "I felt the need to help my family—both with financial support and medicine." Her first creation was a CBD "body butter" that aided her mother's condition.
"My mission is to create business to help people and the community—mind, body and soul." And also, she adds, to finance her ambitions as a writer, rapper, artist and musician. She is currently working on a semi-autobiographical book, Love A Lesbian.
Local neighborhood business
"Trademark Rob" has over the past several weeks maintained a similar table—this one on the sidewalk of Clinton Street, on Manhattan's Lower East Side. "I was born and raised on Clinton Street," he says proudly as he breaks up bud to roll a joint on the curbside. "Clinton is on my birth certificate."
The baseball cap he wears backwards, New York style, shows the official logo of the city, in the official font—"NYC." But it is adorned with a cannabis leaf image, and the letters below read "New York Cannabis."
Trademark launched his tongue-in-cheek brand a year ago—as an apparel line, but definitely in anticipation of cannabis going legal in New York state. After months of selling hoodies, caps and t-shirts emblazoned with the New York Cannabis logo from a storefront at 40 Clinton, on April 1 (the day after MRTA was signed) he started offering cannabis—officially, as a promotional give-away with an apparel sale. He set up the sidewalk stand in September, when the storefront was temporarily closed for renovations.
At the stand, Trademark and his crew offer a sealed baggie of bud with a purchase of $100 worth of merchandise.—3.5 grams. "We call that an eighth on the street," Trademark says wryly.
Waiting to get back into the storefront after the landlord completes renovation, Trademark says being on the street has "increased awareness and visibility. People were thinking we were just an apparel store." He previously had another apparel store at a different Clinton Street address, under the LES Clothing Co brand—for Lower East Side.
Trademark says there has been no problem with law enforcement whatsoever as he's openly sold bud and edibles from his table. "The cops are more concerned with vehicles parked in the bike lane," he quips.
"It all unfolded organically for me," Trademark says. "We'll apply for a retail license when it's available. We want to offer educational courses for those new to cannabis biz, and a members-only consumption lounge. Maybe a 'smoke and paint,' instead of a sip-and-paint."
A list of available varieties displayed at the table names San Fernando Valley OG, Glookies (Gorilla Glue X Girl Scout Cookies), Cake Batter, Kasmeir, East Coast Sour Diesel, and Fruity Pebbles.
Trademark says all the product is New York state indoor, and much of it grown within the city. He says whole buildings in the city are now dedicated to cannabis cultivation, exploiting the six plants per adult resident allowed under MRTA. (Although technically, this provision does not take effect for several months.)
Delayed licensing process
This same strategy of conforming to the letter of the law by the narrowest of margins is also being pursued by the city's CBD stores, which are openly selling very potent Delta-8 products. Since passage of the 2018 US Farm Bill, hemp-derived Delta-8 THC has been in a legal grayzone, as the law only refers to Delta-9 as a prohibited cannabinoid.
Mayor Bill de Blasio has for two years now instructed the NYPD not to make arrests for small cannabis offenses, and New York City's district attorneys are no longer prosecuting in such cases. However, this (officially, at least) applies to use and possession rather than sale. And while arrests dropped dramatically under this policy, as recently as mere weeks before the passage of MRTA, there were still instances of brutal arrests for cannabis offenses.
Under MRTA, public use and possession by those over 21 are now legal, within the permitted limits (three ounces of bud or 24 grams of concentrate). But, again, unlicensed cannabis sale is another matter. And it not clear that the law treats exchange of unlicensed cannabis from one hand to another any differently if no money is exchanged. The current laissez-faire atmosphere in the Big Apple appears to be a matter of policy rather than law.
Six months after the passage of MRTA, state authorities are only now starting the process of crafting the licensing and regulation structure for commercial cultivation, processing and sale. The first meeting of the new Cannabis Control Board was finally held on Oct. 5, in a "virtual format, NewYorkUpstate reports. Political chaos in New York state (then-governor Andrew Cuomo stepped down under cloud of scandal five months after signing MRTA) contributed to delays in appointment of the five-member board.
"The MRTA was signed into law on March 31. But we were not able to begin the work of establishing New York's cannabis market until Sept. 22, when the full cannabis control board was appointed. As such, there was a six-month delay to make up," Christopher Alexander, executive director of the Office of Cannabis Management, told the board as the meeting opened, according to LoHud.
And the only immediate changes to come out of this first meeting concerned the state's heretofore very limited medical marijuana program. Board members agreed to permanently waive the $50 registration fee for patients and caregivers, and to make actual herbaceous cannabis an approved form of medical marijuana product.
Empire State canna-boom?
A coming cannabis boom was hyped by Gov. Kathy Hochul at the Business Council of New York State's annual meeting on Sept. 24. "We do want to go big or go home, and I want to help you get there," she said. "I need you to survive because you're the identity of New York that people create jobs and opportunities. You are who we are as New Yorkers. Your success means the success of this entire state."
"So count me in as an ally—someone who's going to be there for you, who will fight for you to make sure that we do not lose out to any competition, whether it's in the space of cannabis, where I believe there's thousands and thousands of jobs and new industries, to be created," Hochul pledged.
The Business Council meeting, held "in real life" at Rockefeller Center's posh Rainbow Room, brought out several bigwigs of finance, industry and celebrity—including Bronx native and retired NFL player Ruben Lindo, who is now CEO of Phoenix Nutraceutical and founder of Buffalo-based Blak Mar Farms. Lindo applauded the state's commitment to award cannabis business licenses to neighborhoods impacted by cannabis prohibition under MRTA's "social equity" provisions. But he urged that those who have already been in the industry deserve more than a carved-out allocation of permits, according to MarketWatch.
"It's about giving the rightful ownership of an industry to people who bore the brunt of incarceration," Lindo said. "We operated in the space at risk of life and liberty."
Many of these legacy operators are already taking advantage of the post-MRTA euphoria and bureaucratic limbo to boogie in public. It remains to be seen whether this thriving informal sector will survive once the big boys start getting state licenses.
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Q: Determine suitable quadraples of positive integers satisying the following conditions I need some advice on how to proceed on with this question:
Determine all possible quadruples of positive integers $a,b,c,d\in\mathbb{Z}_{>0}$ such that
$a^3=b^2$ ,  $c^3=d^2$   and $c-a=7$.
So far I have gathered the following:
$c^3-a^3=d^2-b^2$ and so $(c-a)(c^2+ac+a^2)=(d-b)(d+b)$
$7((c-a)^2+3ac)=(d-b)(d+b)$
$7(49+3a(a+7)=(d-b)(d+b)$
$7(3a^2+21a+49)=(d-b)(d+b)$
and I'm stuck here. However I do realised that $(3a^2+21a+49)$ is unfactorizable. So does it imply that $(3a^2+21a+49)$ is prime too?
If so I can conclude that (d-b)(d+b) is a product of 7 and a prime number. To which, either
$(d-b)=7, (d+b) = $ a prime number OR  $d-b= $ a prime number, $d+b=7$
Would greatly appreciated if someone can enlighten me on this.
Thank you very much!

A: To answer your question: there is no known formula to generate primes only, so no.
Now, since $a^3=b^2$ and $c^3=d^2,$ the Unique factorization Theorem implies that the exponent of any prime factor of $a$ must be even and the same happens with $c$ and so $c-a$ is a difference of squares and hence...

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Ranveer-Anushka to team up for Aditya Chopra's Directorial?
B-town's 'ex-jodi' Ranveer and Anushka are all set to team up and recreate their magic like they did before in Band Baaja Baarat and Ladies Vs Ricky Bahl and guess who's going to direct the movie? Aditya Chopra!! Well, it's just a gossip which is revolving around, that Adi will be casting the duo but the director has been keeping mum as of now.
After embracing the bollywood with some of the evergreen hits like Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge, Mohabbatien and Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi, Adi Chopra is making a comeback with the light hearted 'rom-com' titled 'Befikre'.
Ranveer and Aunshka are one of the most loved couples of bollywood in fact Aditya Chopra hinted that he thought of casting this Jodi after seeing their superb chemistry in Zoya Akhtar's Dil Dhadakne Do.
After being away from direction for about seven years, Aditya planned to make a comeback on the occasion of Yash Chopra's 83rd Birth anniversary. He has always come up with romantic movies with sizzling star cast and this time again he is all set to create on-screen magic with something 'hatke'.
Interestingly, Adi thought of announcing the film in a different way revealing few aspects of the film. The YRF team released a unique poster which depicted an imaginary conversation of Aditya Chopra with his father and late legendary film maker Yash Chopra, in which the latter is convincing Adi to make this film which may not be an ideal blockbuster movie but will be a movie which Aditya believes in.
We hope the movie is as unique as the poster itself and recreates the infamous YRF magic.


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U.S. vet blinded by terrorist Canada paid off says Trudeau is a 'traitor'
TOPICS:Barack ObamaCanadaGitmo detaineeJustin TrudeauOmar KhadrPresident Donald J. Trumpterrorist
Posted By: usafeaturesmedia July 9, 2017
(National Sentinel) Terrorism: Tens of millions of Americans (and some Canadians) continue to express outrage at Ottawa's decision to pay a terrorist and former Guantanamo Bay 'resident' millions of dollars after his release, citing his history of killing American military personnel.
As reported by The Daily Caller, one former vet blinded by Omar Khadr's grenade attack that killed Sgt. Chris Speer has called Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau a "traitor."
The site noted further:
In an interview with the Toronto Sun on Saturday, Layne Morris says Trudeau's decision to reward the former al-Qaida terrorist with a formal apology and $10.5 million cash settlement feels "like a punch in the face."
"I don't see this as anything but treason," said Morris. "It's something a traitor would do. As far as I am concerned, Prime Minister Trudeau should be charged."
Morris is also angry that Trudeau delivered the "compensation" money to Khadr in secret so that the settlement would be unknown to any U.S. court. Morris, along with Speer's widow, Tabitha Speer, were awarded $134 million in a civil suit aimed against Khadr.
"It feels like a dirty deal to me," said the former U.S. Army special force sergeant said, adding that Khadr was also removed from Guantanamo Bay in secret by then-President Barack Obama and sent to Canada (which should surprise no one, given Obama's penchant for dumping on American values).
"He sure gets special treatment," Morris continued, noting that American medics saved Khadr's life when they could have left him to "die like a dog."
Morris is bewildered that one of America's closest allies would sanction a payoff to Khadr.
"We were fighting the terrorists. They were the bad guys. Something is really off here," he said. "I can't believe any government would get involved in something like this."
"The fact is Chris Speer and myself were fighting with Canadians in Afghanistan. We were alongside the PPCLI [Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry]. There was a Canadian flag flying along with the American flag at our base there, so it's quite a thing that now Canada is giving millions to a guy who would attack a compound where Canadians were serving."
Speer — and every other American who is upset about this — has every right to be. It certainly was a kick in the face, diplomatically speaking, and it was done for no other reason than to spite the U.S. over its continued incarceration of terrorists at Gitmo.
This is the problem when one powerful country — the one the world always turns to when there is some heavy lifting to be done — enables far less powerful countries to exist safely within its security umbrella. The one reason Canada does not have to worry about ceasing to exist is because it has the good fortune of bordering the United States (ditto for Mexico). It's people can sniff and wail about "treatment of the people in Gitmo" because they have the luxury of not having to deal with terrorists and terrorism. They haven't lost thousands of troops and spent hundreds of billions of dollars keeping themselves (and much of the rest of the world) safe from the evil that is ISIS.
This disgusting insult is why more Americans in more states voted for Trump and why they continue to support his "America First" policies: We are sick and tired of being taken advantage of by "allies" who work to subvert us at every opportunity.
Leaders around the globe constantly complain about American "interventionism;" wouldn't it be something to see how they get along in a world where we act only on our interests?
For a glimpse into that, just check out how the nations of the G20 are freaking out over Trump's "go it alone" approach to foreign and economic policy.
2 Comments on "U.S. vet blinded by terrorist Canada paid off says Trudeau is a 'traitor'"
Ruth kearns | July 9, 2017 at 2:24 pm | Reply
That's what happens when liberals are voted to lead. Poor canada…hope they wake up in their next election. GO PRESIDENT TRUMP. ..Thank God the American people voted him into office!
BG | July 15, 2017 at 3:00 pm | Reply
Upon hearing of this egregious act of terrorist endorsement, I feel only shame that my country's elected leader has chosen to go down this sordid road. Though Canada is still a great free nation, it's plain to see we made an enormous mistake voting in a devout neo-liberal turd in Justin Trudeau. (Fwiw, I never cast a vote for the man.)
Khadr & his kind have long leveraged Canada's liberal democracy to take refuge on the doorstep of the U.S. Evidently, Trudeau's interpretation of Canada's Charter of Rights & Freedoms grants asylum & compensation to convicted, murderous terrorists. That's his misguided mind at work. Our highest court had yet to reach a decision on Khadr's fallacious lawsuit vs. the gov't for supposedly failing him while in detention in Gitmo as an Islamic extremist. Trudeau took it upon himself to bestow Khadr with a get-outta-jail-free card, a cool $10.5 million c/o Canadian tax payers along with a sincere "We're sorry."
This is the gist of the stories I've run across thus far & I'm deeply disturbed that Trudeau is Canada's current Prime Minister. Let us all wish his first term is his last. America, Canada should've known better.


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An evening commemorating the late journalist and poet Ales Lipay was held at the Pyatrus Browka Literary Museum in Minsk on April 3.
The event had been organized by a literary group called Petraki, a member of which Mr. Lipay was.
The founder and director general of BelaPAN died a sudden death on August 23, 2018.
He would be 53 years old on April 9.


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FCC Issues Emergency Caller-ID Waiver After Jewish Center Threats
The FCC moves to suspend caller-ID rules after a wave of bomb threats across the country.
by Sam Gustin
Mar 3 2017, 11:26pm
The Federal Communications Commission issued an emergency waiver on Friday to make it easier for Jewish Community Centers and law enforcement officials to identify anonymous callers, in an effort to stem the rising tide of violent threats against these institutions.
The emergency federal action comes in response to a "large number of recent bomb-threat calls targeting these facilities and substantial disruption and fear caused as a result," the FCC said in its order. Since the beginning of the year, dozens of bomb threats directed at Jewish and other religious institutions have been reported around the country.
What this means in practice is that when a threatening call comes in, the community center and law enforcement authorities can bypass FCC regulations to get the incoming number more easily from the relevant telecom provider, a FCC official told Motherboard.
"This agency must and will do whatever it can to combat the recent wave of bomb threats against Jewish Community Centers," FCC Chairman Ajit Pai said in a statement, adding that the agency's order is intended to "help Jewish Community Centers, telecommunications carriers, and law enforcement agencies track down the perpetrators of these crimes."
On Friday, a St. Louis man was charged with making bomb threats against several Jewish community institutions, including a school and a museum.
The FCC's action comes in response to a waiver request made by Sen. Charles Schumer, the New York Democrat, who earlier this week sent the agency a letter in which he cited "69 such incidents involving 54 JCCs in 27 different states since the beginning of 2017," according to the FCC.
"Perpetrators terrorizing Jewish communities across the country—and here in New York—should not be allowed to hide in the shadows," Schumer said in a statement. "We cannot give these fear-mongering criminals protection when they are instilling hate and panic."
In its order, the FCC defined Jewish Community Center as "any entity that operates as a Jewish Community Center or its close equivalent, including any entity that is a member of the JCC Association of North America located in the United States."
The man who was charged, Juan Thompson, was a former reporter for The Intercept online news website. Thompson was fired for fabricating articles last year. Prosecutors said that Thompson's threats were a hoax involving a personal grudge against his ex-girlfriend, according to the Associated Press.
"Juan Thompson put 2 bombs in the History Museum set to go off Sunday," Thompson wrote in a Jan. 28 email to the Jewish History Museum in New York City written from an account disguised to look like it was coming from his ex-girlfriend, according to the federal complaint.
"These actions are heinous and should be fully investigated and prosecuted," Betsy Reed, Editor-in-Chief of The Intercept, said in a statement.
Thompson, who was arrested on Friday in St. Louis, was charged with one count of cyberstalking, which carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison, according to a press release issued by Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York.
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We focused on creating an ambient light source that had a substantial chain with a heavy brass holder, then Cora came to be. With an oversized 14" open bottom shade the Cora pendant sits perfect over kitchen tables, islands, and in commercial settings. We can also make these with fixed down rods if needed.
Height - 8"
Width - 14"
Total overall drop length (adjustable) - 10" to 45"
Ceiling canopy - 5"
E26 (medium) base Lamp Socket; 120v 60 watt max
Non-Returnable, made to spec for each customer.
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Lotus, Post-war
The Lotus Europa, or Europe in its initial export-only guise, was a two door mid-engined GT coupe built by Lotus Cars from 1966 to 1975.
The original Europa used Lotus founder Colin Chapman's steel backbone chassis concept that was first used in the Lotus Elan, while also relying on its fibreglass moulded body for structural strength. The Europa was the world's first mass-produced mid-engine road car and was based on a prototype built to compete for Henry Ford II's contract to build a Le Mans race car, which Ford later introduced as the GT40, in the early 1960s.
The concept originated during 1963 with drawings by Ron Hickman, director of Lotus Engineering (Designer of the original Lotus Elan, as well as inventor of the Black and Decker Workmate), for a bid on the Ford GT40 project. That contract went to Lola as Colin Chapman wanted to call the car a Lotus and Henry Ford II insisted it would be called Ford. Chapman chose to use Hickman's aerodynamic design (with a still respectable, even today, drag coefficient of Cd 0.29) as the basis for the Europa production model which was originally intended to replace the Lotus 7.
The Europa was designed and built to be an embodiment of Chapman's oft-stated philosophy of automotive design: "Simplify, then add lightness." The 4-wheel independent suspension was typical of Chapman's thinking; the rear suspension consisted of two relatively large trailing arms, one lower locating link per side, and the axles were used as upper locating links, which was very similar to Formula racing car designs of that era. Aside from the doors, bonnet (hood), and trunk (boot), the body was installed on the chassis as a single unit of fibreglass.
The car's handling prompted automotive writers to describe the Europa as the nearest thing to a Formula car for the road.
In all, Lotus built about 9,300 Europas of all variants.
First Generation/Origins (1966-1975)
Series 1 (Type 46) Type change points: Series I from Chassis Number 46/0001 to 46/0299 excluding 0270, 0271 & 0272 Series I Mk.I from Chassis Number 46/0300 to 46/0644 including 0270, 0271 & 0272
The Series 1 or S1 Europa (also known as Lotus Type 46) was announced for sale to European markets on December 20, 1966. The first cars were delivered in France in February 1967, sold as Lotus Europe. The S1 was fitted with a modified Renault 16 1470 cc engine and a 4-speed gearbox. The engine was a special 82 hp version (as opposed to the 52 hp generated in standard form). Lotus turned the engine and gearbox through 180 degrees to accommodate the Europa's longitudinal mid-engined layout, inverting the gearbox's crown wheel and its pinion gear to avoid having four reverse gears. The S1 weighed 1512 lbs, had a top speed of 110 mph, and did 0.60 mph in 10 seconds. Of particular note, nearly 0.9 g lateral acceleration was achieved on road tires of that era.
46 - S1 - First Europa - Lancia Flavia taillights, Aluminum dash. Fully enclosed chassis. Fixed windows. Stopped at 460299 46 - S1A - Same as S1 but with wood dash. Pop-out windows. Stopped at 460540 46- S1B - Same as S1A but with S2 taillights. Stopped at 460644 47 - Racing 46 - Twin cam engine. Rear disc brakes at the gearbox 644 Europa S1s for the street were manufactured.
Series 2 (Types 54 & 65) Type change points: Series II from Chassis Number 54/0645 Series II Federal from Chassis Number 54/1066
The Europa S2, or Type 54, was introduced in April 1968. It used the same Renault engine as the Type 46, but offered a number of refinements, including electric windows, fully adjustable seats, a new interior, and a polished wooden facia for the dashboard. Per request of the automotive insurance industry, Lotus switched to bolts (instead of resin bonding) to attach the body to the frame. A small number of Type 54s were modified to be "federalized", that is, made suitable for export to the United States.
In 1969 the Type 65, or S2 Federal, was born with additional changes to the body, chassis, and powerplant to better comply with U.S. D.O.T. standards. Among the changes, the Renault engine was expanded to 1565 cc capacity over the previous 1470 cc. Road&Track Magazine tested the Federal S2 and recorded 0-60 mph in 9.6 seconds with a top speed of 116 mph.
54 - S2 - Early - No parking light binnacles in the front. No rear side markers. 46 style front side markers. Single wiper. Power windows. Started at 540645. Stopped around #541070 54 - S2 - Late - 65 parking light binnacles in the front. 65 style side marker lights. Dual wipers. Stopped around 542859 62 - Racer. Only 2 built 65 - S2 - Late - Federalized S2 with raised headlight height by adjusting top line of front fenders and longer springs, emission-controlled R16 engine, but includes all the improvements brought forward from the 46 into the 54 and ROW 65 3,615 S2s were produced
Twin Cam and Special
In 1971, the Type 74 Europa Twin Cam was made available to the public, with a 115 hp 1558 cc "big valve" Lotus-Ford Twin Cam engine (105 hp to comply with US Federal emissions controls until the end of production), a new Renault 4-speed gearbox (Type 352) and a re-designed bodyshell to improve rearward visibility. Mike Kimberley, who rose to become chief executive of Group Lotus, then a new engineer at Lotus, was appointed Chief Engineer of the Europa TC project. 1,580 cars were shipped as the Europa Twin Cam before Lotus switched to a 126 hp, Dellorto/Weber carbureted version of the same engine; in addition to offering a new Renault 5-speed (Type 365) gearbox option; and renamed the car Europa Special. It weighed 740 kg (1631 lb), had a top speed of 123 mph, did 0.60 mph in 7.0 seconds, and ran the 1/4mile in 14.9 sec. A total of 3,130 Specials were manufactured.
To honor Team Lotus's 1972 and 1973 F1 World Championships, a few black with gold pin stripe and numbered badge Europa Specials were offered as the first ever "John Player Special" commemorative motor vehicles.
74 - TC - Low sails. Larger cabin (deeper). Front track increased 1" and frame deepened. Introduction of the Twin Cam engine. Maintained 1.25" rear brake shoes from S2. Brake servos standard. 74 - TCS - Rear brake shoe width increased to 1.5". Special pinstriping. Lower body sills in sliver metalflake.
1972 Lotus Europa John Player Special
Lotus Europa John Player Special
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One Size Won't Fit All
Nearly 35 percent of Americans are considered obese — a diagnosis that has become so common the American Medical Association recognizes it as a chronic disease. While the diagnosis is the same for all, the treatments vary; what works for one person typically doesn't work for another. In response, researchers from across UNC have joined forces to tackle this ever-growing problem.
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Deborah Tate (right), a health behavior researcher, has developed an app that tracks weight, diet, exercise, and glucose levels to provide individualized feedback and customized health plans for adults.
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Acknowledging the multiple health risks they face after receiving obesity diagnoses, two friends decide they're going to work together to get healthier. They develop an exercise regimen and change their diets. They send each other encouraging messages and tag-team meal prep. They get more sleep and adjust to their new lifestyle. After a few weeks, the results begin to show on the scale. They've both lost five pounds.
Then another month goes by. This time at weigh in, one person has lost 10 pounds. But the other remains stuck at five — and frustrated. This is a familiar story: People on the same exact diet, completing the same workouts, experiencing different results. What gives?
"It is not a simple matter of energy balance," says Penny Gordon-Larsen, in reference to calorie intake and output. "And the world has approached obesity from the energy balance equation — not the recognition of how complex obesity is and the fact that there's no one path to obesity."
Penny Gordon-Larsen is the principal investigator for the Obesity Hub project. (photo by Megan May)
Gordon-Larsen, a UNC obesity researcher, believes there's a lot more at play when it comes to weight gain and loss. Beyond eating and exercise, environmental factors, behaviors, and genetics all play a role. Every person is unique and requires a different approach to lose weight. That's because there is not just one "obesity" but many different types — something called heterogeneity.
This makes obesity tricky, an unfortunate thing since it's a nationwide health crisis — 93.3 million U.S. adults are obese, according to the Centers for Disease Control. That's nearly one-third of the population. And why Gordon-Larsen is driven to tackle this problem.
Thanks to a new funding program at UNC called Creativity Hubs, she's organized a team of more than 30 researchers across 20 academic departments, from nutrition to health behavior and even data science. And that's the exact purpose of the funding. The program supports "hubs," or teams of diverse scientists spanning multiple disciplines who come together to solve major societal challenges.
"I am so grateful to the vice chancellor for research, Terry Magnuson, who had the idea to make a large grant that encourages innovation and team science," Gordon-Larsen says. "These are hard topics to find pilot funds for. We would never have been able to approach this problem using such an innovative approach without this mechanism."
This support enables Gordon-Larsen and her team to move broadly and quickly. Within the team's Creativity Hub — called the "Heterogeneity in Obesity Creativity Hub: Transdisciplinary Approaches for Precision Research and Treatment" — they conduct genetic, biologic, and environmental research in humans and mice, and are also developing a personalized health tracker and data analysis and visualization app.
"Working across so many diverse disciplines involves many conversations," Gordon-Larsen points out. "Each scientist has to learn about areas of science that they know nothing about. So the clinical researchers are learning about the mice projects, the population researchers are learning about the computer science projects and vice versa. But that time is well spent — it increases the quality of everyone's work and facilitates the acceleration of discovery."
Uncovering genetic links
Put two people on the same diet and they'll experience different results — at least, that's what the data says. The problem with looking at humans only, according to Gordon-Larsen, is that you can't put them in a lab setting and completely control what they eat for long periods of time. While that kind of study can't be completed with large samples of humans, it can be with mice.
One of UNC's biggest strengths is its Collaborative Cross program, "an eight-way cross of different strains of mice that reflects the type of genetic heterogeneity that's inherent in the human population," Stephen Hursting, a UNC nutritionist and biochemist, says.
As part of the Obesity Hub, Hursting uses these mice and diversity outbred mice, another genetically diverse group of mice, to understand how one diet impacts multiple subjects. Most recently, he spent 12 weeks observing weight gain in mice fed a high-calorie diet, and then proceeded to see how these numbers changed over eight weeks of a lower-calorie regimen.
The results matched predictions in human health.
"Some mice gained a lot of weight on the diet-induced obesity regimen, and then when we switched to the weight loss, some of the mice who gained a lot maintained their weight while others lost it," Hursting says. "We even had a few that gained weight on the low-calorie diet."
Through these observations, Hursting searches for new genetic explanations for these differences in weight gain and loss. He's also exploring how changes in the microbiome — the community of microorganisms like bacteria and fungi that live in every human being — affect these responses. With collaborators in the population studies part of the hub, they will compare the microbiome associated with weight gain in the mice to that in humans.
With just a couple hundred mice, Hursting and his lab can pick out the genetic underpinnings behind this problem. "We're hoping to bring new information to the human side, while also using data from our hub's human studies to validate what we're doing in the mice," he says. "I am a big fan of this animal-to-human connectivity. It accelerates our pace and fits nicely with what my lab is always trying to do — connect human studies with mechanistic research."
Tracking the variables
MyFitnessPal. Runkeeper. Fitbit. What if there was an app with the combined functionality of these popular health monitoring programs, but it also connected to a smart scale and ultimately provided a weight-loss prescription? Cue health behavior professor Deborah Tate.
"Our app is talking to a lot of devices," she says. Called mPWR— Mobile Personalized Weight Research — it syncs to a patient's smart scale, exercise tracking device, diet app, and eventually a glucose monitor.
Right now, Tate and her team are developing the app in a way that will allow people to follow different diets, meal frequency recommendations, and exercise approaches. The long-term goal is to predict who will do best with a specific combination of approaches.
mPWR not only tracks weight, diet, exercise, and glucose levels — it also includes encouraging messages when participants stick to their goals.
"When you combine all those factors together, you could have a dietary approach A with meal patterning B and exercise approach A," she explains. "That might work well for you, but for me it's diet B with meal pattern A and exercise A." The genetic, microbial, and behavioral factors that predict which diet works best for which person are then compared to the findings from the mice and human population data that are also part of the hub.
Tate began researching digital weight loss intervention in the early 2000s. Now that most people use mobile phones access to the internet, it makes sense to provide this information to the patient through that platform, she says. "There's a segment of the population called smartphone dependent, which means they don't have internet anywhere but on their smartphone. We want mobile devices to empower patients, so they have the most potentially effective approach at their fingertips."
As Tate and collaborators wrap up the app-development process, they hope to recruit patients for a trial this fall. For three months, they will track the app users' progress. The first few weeks will involve figuring out which patterns work best for each individual, followed by a comprehensive prescription that the patient will stick to for the remainder of the experiment. They will also collect biological data for genetics, metabolomics, and microbiome analyses in concert with the hub's mouse and human studies.
For the trial, Tate hopes to attract about 40 people across cultures, ages, and glucose levels. "We are trying to keep the criteria as broad as possible to get a mixture of genetics," she says.
Sifting through the data
A project like the Obesity Hub involves thousands of pieces of data. And that data requires storage, organization, and accessibility. Thankfully, Carolina already has a solution for such things — RENCI, UNC's signature computing institute that oversees data science cyberinfrastructure for researchers.
To make sense of all the hub's data, RENCI's Chris Bizon plugs it into a program called ROBOKOP. "In a project this big, you have all these little bits of knowledge, but they're all dispersed in a bunch of physical locations," he explains. "What ROBOKOP does is know how to talk to those different knowledge sources, bring them into one place, and smush them all together."
The software creates what's called a knowledge graph, a roadmap that shows how all these different pieces of data connect and allows users to ask specific questions. What genes are involved in this disease? What drugs treat those genes? What side effects do those drugs have? ROBOKOP hooks this chain of questions together, providing researchers with insight on what variants lead to obesity.
"It allows us to integrate multiple observations together into a coherent story," Bizon says. But this process isn't as simple as it could be, he adds. Researchers must know what they're looking for and "poke around." That's why he's developing algorithms that do the searching for you.
"You've taken all the data and combined it — how can you let the computer tell you what's interesting?" he asks. "That's where the fun begins."
Prescribing a solution
Combine all the evidence from the mice, the human population studies, and the clinical study — and these researchers should make strides toward recommending individual prescriptions for people to manage their weight. If successful, Gordon-Larsen believes this team science tactic has promise for treating diseases other than obesity.
"Obesity is one example of this approach," she says. "We could do this to tackle other complex diseases."
Gordon-Larsen would also love to see early career researchers learn to collaborate in this way as they go through their training. While this type of project is hard to complete, she explains, it is fun and effective.
"This could be a model for other kinds of collaborators to do this same kind of work with their own questions," she says. "It would be great to see more people trained in translational, team science lead this kind of work."
For the Obesity Hub, the ultimate goal is to combine Tate's app with Bizon's app and deploy them in clinical settings in the next 10 years or so. The team strives to treat obesity with both breadth and precision — not only determining a patient's specific susceptibility to obesity and specific treatments, but developing tools that help them with weight loss.
"While the world has been fighting to reduce obesity, it continues to remain a problem in all corners of the globe," Gordon-Larsen says. "We hope that the Obesity Hub can help change this, allowing us to further our science in a way that we've never been able to do before."
Penny Gordon-Larsen is a professor in the Department of Nutrition and associate dean for research at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. She is also the principal investigator of the Heterogeneity in Obesity Creativity Hub. Stephen Hursting is a professor in the Department of Nutrition within the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, and UNC Nutrition Research Institute. Deborah Tate is a professor in the Department of Health Behavior and Department of Nutrition within the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. She is also director of the school's Communication for Health Applications and Interventions Core. Chris Bizon is the director of analytics and data science at RENCI.
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