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Andy Mitchell aims to ride to school every day Written By: Erik Kaufman | × Andy Mitchell, a fourth grader at Gertie Belle Rogers Elementary, has been riding his bike to school as many times as possible in the last school year, having missed only a handful of days due to family trips and illness. It was a tradition he began when he rode to school with his parents and brother for National Bike To School Day, which is being observed May 5 this year. He plans to continue with his ...

.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... A humpback whale breaches from the water, thought to be one its methods of communication, on “Secrets of the Whales.” (National Geographic for Disney+) Incredible. Amazing. Awesome. The four-part Disney+ series “Secrets of the Whales,” directed with award-level skill by Brian Armstrong and An...

From the weather to the bite, memorable fishing openers are eternal For fishing hall of famers to readers, there is a common thread: They were happy to be out.  April 30, 2021 — 7:10am The Minnesota Fishing Hall of Fame in Little Falls recently inducted three new individual members into its ranks for 2021. We asked them about their most memorable openers. We also solicited stories from readers — shared below, too. And we are sure new memories will be made when this years opener arr...

Engaging and communicating key to success 26 April, 2021 SHARE The BMF Supplier & Service Forum, which took place on 14 April 2020, was the highest attended virtual forum hosted to date with 101 participants. Richard Hill, Chairman of the BMF began proceedings with ‘A view from the Outside, In and the Inside, Out’. Because of his position as Managing Director of ACO for 23 years and his move to the BMF 12 mo...

26 April, 2021 SHARE The BMF Supplier & Service Forum, which took place on 14 April 2020, was the highest attended virtual forum hosted to date with 101 participants. Richard Hill, Chairman of the BMF began proceedings with ‘A view from the Outside, In and the Inside, Out’. Because of his position as Managing Director of ACO for 23 years and his move to the BMF 12 months ago, Hill is now in the perfect position to discuss t...

Secrets of the Whales: Is the House of Mouse taking the mickey? TV review: A visually stunning Disney+ series that improves with the mute button about 5 hours ago Ed Power The ruthless and bloody aspects of nature perhaps do not sit well with Disney, which in Secrets of the Whales insists that oceans are glorious and gorgeous. Photograph: Disney+   Having taken on Netflix, D...

A four-part series available Thursday on Disney+. “Whales have culture,” says narrator Sigourney Weaver (a perfect choice) at the outset of the series. “Each family speaks a unique language. They love deeply, play with joy and mourn their dead. Whales are just like us.” That sounds like a dash of the ol’ Disney anthropomorphic hyperbole — but by the time the journey reaches its conclusion, we’re all-in on that statement. Filmed over three years in two dozen locations ranging from...

By Tom Lowe2021-04-21T13:38:00+01:00 Construction minister confirms consultation on initiative to launch in May The government has thrown further support behind plans to share quarterly data on the industry’s progress towards net zero with the public. Construction minister Anne-Marie Trevelyan said it was “crucial” the government and the public had a way of measuring firms’ progress on cutting carbon from projects and confirmed that a formal consultation on the metrics would be launch...

Awesome. The four-part Disney+ series "Secrets of the Whales," directed with award-level skill by Brian Armstrong and Andy Mitchell, is among the finest nature documentaries Ive ever experienced. This is an astonishingly well-photographed deep dive into the worlds of orcas, belugas, sperm whales, narwhals and humpbacks -- essentially disparate species with their own communities and friend groups, their own unique languages and culture, their own unique family dynamics and their own special hist...

By Jordan Marshall2021-04-20T12:18:00+01:00 Industry body wants sector to speed up process The rate at which major infrastructure projects are decarbonising is not fast enough to hit the government’s goal of being net zero by 2050, the Construction Leadership Council has warned. The Infrastructure Carbon Review (ICR) was published in November 2013 with the call to action to “reduce carbon, reduce cost”. Source: Shutterstock Industry is currently not changing fast enough to hit carbon ta...