Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Jan 30, 2017 (II)

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(1) Is China's Trumpchi Coming to America?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/a ... ca-over-with-an-suv

paragraph 1: "American automakers sold 2.96 million vehicles in China last year. But no mainland car brand has yet to crack the US market. It hasn't been for lack of trying. Zhejiang Geely Holding Group and BYD, two large Chinese carmakers, had set—and failed to achieve—timetables [mere timetables, not actually] to begin US sales as far back as a decade ago. They'd underestimated the difficulties of meeting American regulatory standards and consumer expectations. Now Guangzhou Automobile Group believes that the third time could spell success

Note:
(a) summary underneath the title in print: Guangzhou Auto is angling to sell its mainland-made cars in the US
(b) The authorship in BusinessWeek (in print) is "Bloomberg News."
(c) "Trumpchi 传祺 (pinyin: Chuánqí) is an automotive marque owned by the Chinese automaker GAC Group. It was launched in December 2010."  en.wikipedia.org


(2) Christopher Flavelle, The Incredible Shrinking State.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/a ... siana-won-t-let-him

Note:
(a) summary underneath the title in print: Trump wants to downplay global warming. Louisiana won't let him
(b) summary at the end of the report is as follows. "The bottom line: Louisiana has drawn up a $50 billion plan to cope with climate change. The challenge will be getting Washington to help.

(c) " 'My early, early ancestors were kicked out of France, the British kicked us out of Canada back in the 1750s, and now Mother Nature is threatening to kick our people out of south Louisiana,' says Reggie Dupre"
(i) That 'My early, early ancestors were kicked out of France' is a falsehood. French colonists went of their own free will where Native Americans and (Canada's) First Peoples had been in Acadia.
(A)
* Acadian (people). Encyclopaedia Britannica, undated
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Acadian
("under the terms of the treaties of Utrecht (1713–14) possession of Acadia passed to the English" from France)
* Treaty of Utrecht
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Utrecht
("is a series of individual peace treaties, rather than a single document, signed by the belligerents in the War of the Spanish Succession [1702–1715], in the Dutch city of Utrecht [qv for pronunciation; Utrecht lies 5 o'clock and 22 miles to Amsterdam] in March and April 1713"/ section 2 Principal provisions: View a map whose caption reads: "North America about 1750, after the Treaty of Utrecht")
(B)
* Acadians
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acadians

Quote: "The Acadians lived for almost 80 years in Acadia [following their emigration from France], prior to the British Conquest of Acadia in 1710 [as part of War of the Spanish Succession]. After the Conquest, they refused to sign an unconditional oath for the next forty-five years. During the French and Indian War (the North American theatre of the Seven Years' War [1754 - 1763]), British colonial officers suspected they were aiding the French. The British, together with New England legislators and militia, carried out the Great Expulsion of 1755–1764 during and after the war years. They deported approximately 11,500 Acadians from the maritime region. Approximately one-third perished from disease and drowning. Although one historian compared this event to contemporary ethnic cleansing, other historians suggested that the event is comparable with other deportations in history.  Many Acadians migrated to present day Louisiana state (known then as Spanish colonial Luisiana [Spanish spelling does not have the letter o]), where they developed what became known as Cajun culture.

* Acadia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acadia
(section 1 Etymology: "The origin of the designation Acadia is credited to the explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano [born near Florence, Italy; 'is renowned as the first European [on France's behalf] to explore the Atlantic coast of North America between Florida and New Brunswick' (a Canadian province) in 1524.'  en.wikipedia.org], who on his 16th century map applied the ancient Greek name 'Arcadia' [named after Arcas in Greek mythology] to the entire Atlantic coast north of Virginia (note the inclusion of the 'r' of the original Greek name). 'Arcadia' derives from the Arcadia district in Greece")
* Louisiana (New France)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_(New_France)
("In the 1762 Treaty of Fontainebleau, France ceded Louisiana west of the Mississippi River [which in the 1800 Third Treaty of San Ildefonso, Napoleon wrested back from Spain, and then sold to US 3 years later] to Spain, its ally in the war [Seven Years' War], as compensation for the loss of Spanish Florida to Britain [Spain ceded Florida in exchange for Havana, Cuba, which the British took during the war]")
* Fontainebleau
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fontainebleau
(section 1 History: name)
(ii)
(A) The French surname Dupré means "someone 'from the (du) meadow pré' (Old French pred)."
(B) French-English dictionary:
* du "contraction of de + le ([the meaning after the contraction:] of the)"
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/du
* pré (noun masculine; from Latin [noun neuter] prātum [meadow]): "meadow"
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pr%C3%A9

(d) "Elsewhere in the state the end could come sooner. Near the top of the list is Plaquemines Parish. The towns that dot the ever-narrowing strip of land have fewer people than they used to. In the 2000 census, Empire had 2,211 residents. Then Katrina hit; by 2010, census takers recorded a population of only 993. Many homes are trailers perched on cinder blocks."

Empire, Louisiana
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire,_Louisiana
(is a census-designated place (CDP) in Plaquemines Parish [qv; section 1 History: name], Louisiana)