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I'm fairly sure most (all) of us feel parent/child incest is wrong, and for fairly obvious reasons.
However, if a brother and sister are very careful about pregnancy prevention or, better, one or both of them is unable to conceive, what would be wrong with it?
BTW, I'm NOT trying to decide whether to do it with my sister (LOL). This is just a question that came to mind while in a discussion with another person.
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He is not a troll, just one with serious mental issues. I try to avoid any discussion with him like a plague.
How about answering me? We have heated discussions on controversial topics here without calling the poster a troll. If dealing with difficult issues is a problem, maybe this isn't the place for you or maybe you should just lurk or avoid anything that makes you uncomfortable.
Well can you blame her? Your deliberate devil's advocate role play is very trolllish
But there's a difference between a devil's advocate and a troll. The devil's advocate is challenging people to think clearly, the troll is just there to f*ck with people. It may feel the same but that feeling isn't definitive.
I think you do well being the devil's advocate!
If the devil existed and had trophies, I'd recommend the first two for you. You are good at what you do.
If you fuck with people that don't get the game, and don't seem to want to play, that's not Devils Advocate, that's being a world class asshole... And a troll.. Learn the difference..
If you want to induce those that aren't likely to play.. You need to use a far different tact. Else you're just a moron or socially inept. I don't think you're a moron, and you show awareness of social norms, so, I'm not sure what to think...
You are not achieving your stated goals, so you are obviously doing something wrong. Think about it, and fix it...
Or get bent. I don't really care..
Your opinion is noted. But as an opinion, it is JUST an opinion, and as you can see, not universally held. Not to read my posts is an option you have, just like everyone else. It seems enough people do enjoy my posts (or are obsessed with them) to justify my going on.
So, henceforth perhaps I won't be reading your replies, because their will be none.
We'll see if you can stay away.
I call trollish BS here. It may not be intentional... You get controversial, and aggressive about it, yes, perhaps it is in pursuit of a good debate... But, when folks opt out, or don't like your style, if you attack them about it, that's being trollish. If they opt out, let them....
I enjoy a good debate, but if you heckle folks who don't get the game, I'll opt out, too. If your goal is to be a dick, I'm not in, If your goal is debate, then engage those that want to play, and respect those that don't...
That analogy works well when just considering one-way conversations.
However, the point is valid, that if you think the guy is a troll, don't hang around just to keep feeding him. Or her. Or it. Unless maybe it's poisoned?
But trolls are also immune to all kinds of poisons, practically by definition.
I don't know. I'm confusing myself now, even. There must be a good cliche for this conundrum.
I left T.A. for that very same reason. This site is not a good site to just socialize.
Even the most friendly and benign posts will be treated in a seemingly hostile and negative fashion.
Especially if you lack the required education to engage, you will be made to feel ignorant and small.
I am all for starting a new site for the specific purpose of socializing with other atheist in a friendly and positive manner.
If we can get enough folks together I say we leave.
M.M I think you vilify the people and the site for no reason whatsoever. In my interactions with people on the site, they are many times very friendly even when they differ. How is your participation? Maybe you are projecting your own fears on everyone else or what did you expect of people on the site?
Nobody is going to pick up a fight with you for being nice, I can't say have seen anyone do that. In a topic where I think I have less of a contribution to make I don't though I may read it from time to time just to learn something new.
As for friends, I have made friends with very wonderful people on the site. They really are nice and maybe all you need to do is change your attitude to how you relate with people here and you may just be shocked at the results.


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I just wanted to let people know how dangerous tennis balls can be for bigger dogs. My dog Cody a 3 year old chocolate lab almost chocked to death on one.
We were at the dog park and Cody is a little goofy for tennis balls, he would try and get 3 in his mouth, mainly so the other dogs don't get em I think. Well one day about a year ago, he was doing his thing getting all the tennis balls he could. I was watching him as I chatted with some people. I looked over at Cody and it looked like he was choking on something, I figured it was something like some bark on the balls he was obsessing over but in the back of my mind I feared the worst. I walked over to him and I could tell something was wrong. He was not making any noise as he tried to cough up the obstruction, which I knew meant big trouble, his airway was blocked. I knew right away he had a tennis ball caught in his throat!!
I grabbed his mouth with my right hand and reached in with my left to try and pull it out, I could barely touch it with my finger it was so far down. He was freaking and was trying to swallow the ball but could not so he bit down very hard on my hand in his attempt to clear his airway. The molar almost took the tip of my finger off. I knew right then I had about 2 minutes to get that ball out or he was dead.
I tried reaching in about 5 more times and got severely bit to the bone each time. That was not working so I grabbed him and tried to Heimlich him several times but that ball was really stuck. At this time he started to lose his strength and I pulled him down on the ground on his side. Well he was giving up at this point and starting to pass out. At this time a guy came up and he had some thick gloves on, he said I will try and hold his mouth open while you try to grab the ball. I massaged the ball up from the outside as much as I could and since Cody started to go unconscious his throat relaxed some. I could see about 1/3 of the ball now. My hands were all bloody from the bites but I felt no real pain I just knew I had to grab that ball right then cause Cody emptied his bowel and started to convulse. I grabbed at the slimey ball about 15 times till I finally got enough grip to yank it out! I knew it was do or die right then and it was up to me.
Cody was unconscious for about 15 seconds the guy was talking to him and shaking him and I blew in Cody's nose twice, his heart was still beating as my hand was on it and i could feel it. After about 30 seconds he got up and was a little woozy. I was so relieved! I got up and looked at my hands and they looked like hamburger and bleeding bad. Cody tried to grab another tennis ball while I was covering my hands with a towel someone gave me there, I screamed at him to drop and he did.
After 5 doctor visits and 2 courses of plenty of antibiotics I was OK they thought my finger was broken from that molar bite but it was not. Cody is fine he still is obsessed with tennis balls but I take them from him right away if he finds one at the new dog park we go to, which is more like a forest preserve where he can swim in the river, we both like it there better. I never took him back to the place where it happened.
So be careful letting your dogs have balls.
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I'm glad to hear everything turned out ok. That must've been a very frightening experience.
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Quote from: Princess L on April 01, 2007, 07:39:55 PM
I'm glad to hear everything turned out ok. That must've been a very frightening experience.
Yes it was very traumatic for me, it had me really down for a while.
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If I throw a ball they run to it, look at it, and run back to me and I go fetch it.
The only one who has any fetch balls is Tad, and I keep his at work because his are the really small ones. I used to have some bigger balls (I have danes too so I look for much bigger than tennie size) one was a real hit, but I haven't been able to find them again.
Ropes and stuffed animals they can destroy are popular at my house.
Excellent warning though, sorry you had to experience it, but glad it turned out okay.
Another reason every home should have a pair of hemostats.
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Yeah I don't do tennis balls....if it isn't bigger than a softball...I just know he's going to try & swallow it.
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Here are some images from the night.
An shot from the MIT crime scene was posted to Twitter by the school's student newspaper:
Soon after (or before according to other reports) "Suspect 2" allegedly attempted to rob a convenience store, as captured in this image:
Next the suspects apparently hijacked a Mercedes SUV at gunpoint. The driver was held in the car but eventually dropped off unhurt, according to the DA.
But it led to a cross-town police pursuit from Cambridge into Watertown. There was gunfire and explosions, thought to be from improvised explosive devices.
Suspect 1 was killed in the police standoff, though the DA does not specify when this occured.
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A new chapter of Francesco Tristano`s Idiosycratic dialogue between the acoustic and electronic world will be released in February 2011 on EP. A fistful of electronic experts has been invited to add their own musical language to the piano parts of the eponym track of the album: from Berlin, Germany, Ostgut resident BEN KLOCK, from Kyoto, Japan, Techno Grand Master FUMIYA TANAKA, from Paris, France, electro joker ARK, and from UK, House beatprovider duo, TOM TAYLOR and PAUL WOOLFORD!
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People with formal classical training tend to have very restricted ideas about what music is, and can be very limited by that. I know people in the DSO [Detroit Symphony Orchestra] and their concept of perfection is basically to learn a written piece of work exactly. Francesco is a new kid with a completely modern approach. He has different influences. Most importantly, he has a desire to improvise, which is unusual for someone who was formally trained. It´s important that he has a great, wide-ranging knowledge of music he knows classical music, but he´s also heavily into electronic stuff, and the history of electronic music. He´s like me, I love everything as well, everything that´s great.
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Francesco is the kind of artist that makes you the think of composers from another era such as Herald Budd,Brian Eno,Ryuich Sakamoto & Juan Atkins I realize this is a very interesting mix of artist I just mentioned but the music of Francesco is far from predictable and miles from his contemporaries,that's if he has any to begin with.. I myself love this production which I personally think is a breath of fresh air...bravo to you Francesco you remind me of why it's important to dream the dream's of dreamers! Your music is breath of fresh air.
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Margie Phelps, daughter of pastor Fred Phelps, tweeted that the church will attend Jobs' so far unannounced funeral. Apparently unaware of the irony, Phelps used an iPhone to issue the Twitter message, reported Web pro News.
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Friday, August 15, 2008
On Holiday!
I checked on our rental yesterday, and discovered that the house HAS NO INTERNET ACCESS! I emailed everyone, the messages were flying back and forth, and my brother jokingly admitted he purposely booked a house with no access so that it would be a true vacation.
Well, I'm still taking my lap-top, just in case. Besides, mi jefe found some local Internet cafes so he can do his "banking". (That means fantasy sports and keeping up with his blog.) I'll try to check in as well. If I don't, it will just mean I am resting and thoroughly enjoying the water, sun, and my family.
Adios folks! I'm outta here!
6 comments:
- Jennifer said...
It's been a long time since I've been without ubiquitous internet access. Maybe that will be a good thing!
Have a wonderful time!
- August 16, 2008 at 12:48 AM
- threio said...
Have a great vacation, see you when U get back. Hopefully we will get pictures of U and your Family having a great time.
- August 16, 2008 at 10:54 AM
- Lana Banana said...
- August 16, 2008 at 12:11 PM
- The Fearless Blog said...
Have a great time....
- August 16, 2008 at 9:32 PM
- This Brazen Teacher said...
Funny- I just got back from MY big family vacation in the Outer Banks two weeks ago.
My little sister also booked a house with no internet access. But I too brought my laptop... and discovered upon arrival that the house next door provided me with near full access. :-D
Have fun on your trip!
- August 17, 2008 at 10:22 AM
- Mr. Magoo... said...
Mucha suerte en tus vacaciones, espero que disfrutes con o sin internet, diria que mejor sin internet, veras como la perspectiva cambia cuando regreses.
Dejo mis saludos, y por aqui vendre a buscarte cuando hayas regresado.
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The American Alpine Club Library and Archives has supported and documented the activities of the club since 1916, and continues to serve as a resource to members, scholars, authors, journalists and the public, as well as a premier repository of the cultural record of climbing.
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VMware has faced an almost-immediate backlash from users over new vSphere licensing arrangements with some threatening to jump ship to Microsoft's HyperV in retaliation.
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However, customers were quick to criticise the arrangement as boosting requirements for additional and potentially more costly licenses to cover existing environments upgraded to vSphere 5.0.
Users on the official VMware forum calculated that, based on the new licensing arrangements, they would be required to double and in some cases triple their licenses to upgrade to the new version.
University of Wisconsin systems administrator Robert Plankers wrote in a blog entry that the licensing costs would not likely affect customers to the same extent as first thought but could still have an impact on licensing and budget concerns around virtual machines.
"I don't like that the change penalises those using the 'fewer, bigger machines' model, which is a giant time & money saver," he wrote.
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The Hunger might be from Houston, but founding members and brothers Jeff and Thomas Wilson can literally call Beaumont their second home. They've performed at just about every venue in Southeast Texas and Southwest Louisiana, outlasting most of them, including Starz, Palladium, Club F/X, Empire, Sea Rim Beach, Texas Longhorn Club, Ford Park, Club Infinity, Lamar's Setzer Student Center, The Bottle Shop and The Hangar, just to name a few.
They also headlined festivals such as Gulf Coast Jam, Pleasure Island Music Festival and performed at the first original Dog Jam, then called Texas Dog Jam, in 2001 at the old fairgrounds.
If that's not impressive enough, in 1994, Bridge City High School won a contest, created by then program director Mark Landis of Power Hits K106 and earned themselves an in-school concert and got to pick from three bands. Two were national acts at the time, the other being The Hunger. The high school students of Bridge City chose wisely, as they were on the receiving end of a one-hour concert during school.
Heading into the third decade of their journey, The Hunger remains relevant and they have a terrific story to tell. Though it's not the original lineup, the two most important ingredients remain strong in the brothers Wilson, who share lead singing duties. The current lineup also consists of Tim Huston on guitar, Darren Nelson on bass and Alex Slay on drums, and it's been this way for several years now.
The band has recorded six full albums to date — Leave Me Alone (1991), Grip (1993), Devil Thumbs a Ride (1996), Cinematic Superthug (1998), Spaceman's Last Goodbye (2001) and Finding Who We Are (2005).
Beaumont was introduced to The Hunger in the late '80s when an early version of the band played at Lamar University. Their music was a sign of the times, with plenty of keyboards that fit right in with bands like Erasure, Depeche Mode and Front 242. It was also during the time the dance club scene was taking off locally, beginning with the granddaddy of them all, Starz.
Then came radio personality Mark Landis. Landis was handed the keys to a radio station in 1991, then called Power Hits K106. Landis was a big component at 93Q in Houston, worked the nightclub scene there and was very familiar with The Hunger.
Landis turned Beaumont upside down, giving the airwaves a much needed facelift. He began playing The Hunger on Power Hits K106 and introduced Southeast Texans to songs like "Never Again," "Shock" and "Shoot to Kill." That's all it took.
"The Hunger had the right sound at the time for what was happening in both Houston and Beaumont musically," said Landis. "Their energy and passion on stage came through every night, and their fans are extremely loyal to them."
With their tunes saturated on the radio, the band became instant stars and began playing Beaumont on a regular basis while building up a large following.
A second album, Grip, was released in 1993 and featured local radio hits "Communication Breakdown" and a remake of Bad Company's "Feel Like Makin' Love."
Those in Los Angeles and New York began to take notice of what had become more than just a regional band in Texas. While several record companies were interested, it was Universal Records who gave The Hunger their first national recording contract.
Devil Thumbs a Ride was released nationally in March 1996. The band then consisted of Thomas, Jeff, Brian Albritton (bass), Stephen Bogle (guitar) and Max Schuldberg (drums), and they flew to Canada to shoot a video for the albums first single, "Vanishing Cream."
The video was put in rotation on MTV and MTV2 and the song became a hit on rock radio stations across America. The band toured the country and also landed a two-week stint on the KISS 1996 reunion tour.
Fast forward to 2012, and The Hunger continues to perform about a dozen or so shows a year. And their fans, both the loyal and the newbies, seem to love it.
The Examiner spoke with Jeff Wilson about the beginning, middle and what's next for this band.
How and when did it all start?
It was 1987 as a way to just mess around. It was three surfing buddies — myself, Thomas and Geoff Fish. It wasn't for any other reason than to play some Beastie Boys' songs. We played a little bit of everything, and the only thing we aspired to do was have a good time. It was a simple setup. I played bass, Thomas played drums and Geoff was the guitar player. We didn't even know how to sing yet. Right around that time, we were sneaking in the high school and practicing. A classmate, Brian Albritton, found out about it and brought over one of his keyboards, and one practice was all it took. We got real lucky, real fast.
It wasn't much later and you guys delivered 'Leave Me Alone.'
That came in 1991 on Alpha International Records. I call that album a byproduct of Beaumont. We were playing Beaumont a lot back then, and after the record, we started blowing up and getting tons of gigs.
I remember Mark Landis being very instrumental in your success.
Absolutely. Mark was working at 93Q and playing us there. He then went to Beaumont and took over the radio market and had the power to play any music, so he blasted some of our songs. We went from a band that was making a modest $300 per night to a band suddenly becoming a business. We were making $3,000 per gig and sometime playing two gigs in one day for $10,000.
The single 'Feel Like Makin' Love' on the second album 'Grip' was a monster song here in Southeast Texas. Why choose that one to remake?
That was all me. I still listen to the original Bad Company version, but I won't listen to our own version. The song had elements of Stone Roses and Happy Mondays, but it wasn't anything I was listening to at the time. During that time I was listening to industrial music like Erasure and Depeche Mode. EMF was really big during that time, so I think out song fit during the time period.
You guys began to start getting some serious looks from national record companies right around that time. Am I correct?
I remember Mark Landis and the late Chuck Cotton arranged for a big wig to come in and watch us play. His name was Jason Flom, who at the time was the head of Atlantic Records. We in turn got drunk before the show and acted like idiots. We learned a lot after that.
But Universal Records snagged you up and you made your national debut in 1996 with 'Devil Thumbs a Ride.' Being the third record, you could hear the evolution into a legit rock band.
The No.1 pressure that most bands don't want to admit to is the pressure to be a big player. During the early '90s, you could be a great rock band, but most people were still listening to the Milli Vanilli stuff. For me, it was more like exploring boundaries. We had already been through the whole electronic phase, so it was time to start evolving.
Tons of big moments in this band's history — touring with KISS, finishing the year with a Top 10 single, just to name a few. What's your favorite moment?
Flying to New York City and going to Universal Records and actually sitting in a boardroom as they unveiled our record and having all the employees there at Universal listen to it. That's the moment you work for. Being the main songwriter in the group and as intimidating as it was, that moment was a big one. Don't get me wrong. Playing shows in front of five people or 10,000 people is great, but it's always been about writing music for me.
The Hunger was one of the first rock bands to sign with Universal, which was then a label full of pop artists. Do you think the band and its sound was ahead of its time?
Combining the elements of what we did, yeah, we were probably a little ahead of the time, but definitely ahead of Universal's time. The staff they had then and the philosophies weren't the same as ours. I thought we were probably in the right time, but Universal wasn't. We were nightclub kids and they were 50- and 60-year-old people who thought they knew everything.
It was only a few years later (2000) that Linkin Park debuted. Many people, including myself, thought their first single 'One Step Closer' was a new song by The Hunger. Was that frustrating?
Growing up in the music business, you understand a lot of this is about timing and luck. Not to say Linkin Park got lucky; they just did it better than us.
I'm sure you hear this all the time, but why not play music off 'Leave Me Alone'?
Personally, I would play every song off that album, but I couldn't play it in the same form or version like you may have heard it in 1991. I would have to change it up some. I re-worked 'Never Again,' but just can't get the band to play it.
Of your complete catalog, which song means the most to you?
That's a great question. I would probably say 'Shock' only because it was the first song I ever wrote. We wrote some songs during the early days but didn't actually record any of those. I wrote that song in my mother's living room. Some people like to read into lyrics of songs, but honestly, I don't know what the hell the song really means. It was just a sign of the times. That song, hands down, is No. 1 on my list.
Going on a quarter century, why keep doing it?
I'm still having fun, plus the guys other myself and Thomas – Alex, Darren and Tim – are writing new material and it sounds good, so I could possibly see a new record in the future. That, and nothing replaces performing live. It's like a good drug. You have to keep going back for more.


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Rubio goes all-in on immigration bill
Marco Rubio is preparing to go all in to support sweeping immigration legislation, offering himself up as the public face of a bill that will split the Republican Party — but that his allies hope will propel him to the front of the GOP presidential sweepstakes.
After offering lukewarm support until now, Rubio is preparing to fully embrace a measure that is the most significant of his political career so far. The gambit could pay off in spades by crowning a leading presidential contender in 2016, or it could permanently damage the Republican's brand with conservatives.
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Rubio is planning a media blitz to promote the bill — which is expected to be released early next week — making the rounds on all of the Sunday political talk shows starting this weekend, wooing skeptical conservative radio hosts and pitching the plan to Spanish-language news outlets. The campaign is aimed at building public support for the far-reaching immigration bill that will dominate Capitol Hill's attention for much of the year.
( PHOTOS: Marco Rubio's career)
"Obviously, we'll be informing the public, and we'll want everyone to know everything that's in the bill," Rubio told POLITICO Thursday. "We want everyone to know as much of what's in the bill as possible, and we will use every opportunity we have to communicate that."
Behind the scenes, the potential 2016 aspirant has already launched a lobbying campaign to convince conservatives that the plan will be tough on the border. The goal is to assuage GOP concerns over the pathway to citizenship that would be offered to the nation's 11 million illegal immigrants, allowing them to apply for citizenship after 13 years as the new enforcement measures take effect.
( Also on POLITICO: Gang of Eight plans Tuesday announcement)
The Florida Republican has privately briefed individual GOP senators on the Senate Judiciary Committee — including conservative skeptics John Cornyn of Texas and Mike Lee of Utah — about the soon-to-be-unveiled proposal, according to sources familiar with the matter. His staff has pitched the plan to conservative thought leaders, including at the National Review and Wall Street Journal editorial board as well as the columnist Charles Krauthammer, sources say.
And after being rebuffed in his bid for extensive hearings on the bill before the Judiciary Committee, the senator wants to launch his own public hearing process of sorts to allow Republican senators to question expert witnesses about the plan, a move aimed at alleviating conservative fears that the plan will be jammed through Congress with little public airing.
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Far from dropping out of the group, as some suspected after his tepid comments recently, Rubio will essentially become its most prominent salesman, effectively putting his political capital — and presidential ambitions — on the line in the process. With momentum behind the push, Rubio clearly has calculated it makes more sense for him to fully embrace the effort, rather than run away from it and potentially kill the measure just as it is introduced.


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MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS, BARCELONA, Feb. 24, 2014 – SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK), a global leader in flash storage solutions, today announced the next generation of its iNAND Extreme™ embedded flash drive (EFD) – the fastest, thinnest and most sophisticated embedded storage product from SanDisk to date. Currently being sampled to select customers worldwide in capacities up to in 64GB1, iNAND Extreme enables mobile device manufacturers to push design boundaries and create a new wave of exceptionally responsive Android™-based smartphones and tablets that consistently deliver outstanding performance through the lifespan of the mobile device.
"Smartphones and tablets have come into their own as computing devices, with advanced applications such as 4K video, quad-core processors, and incredibly high resolution cameras becoming more and more pervasive," said Bob O'Donnell, founder and chief analyst, TECHnalysis Research, LLC. "As the mobile capabilities become richer, higher capacity and more sophisticated storage is essential to both provide a great user experience, as well as unlock the true potential of these types of applications."
"We've incorporated our latest memory technology and a truly unique new architecture to create an all new iNAND Extreme," said Drew Henry, senior vice president and general manager, Mobile and Connected Solutions, SanDisk. "iNAND Extreme works with the latest processing technology to reduce latency and take application performance to the next level, from playing 4K video to faster multi-shot, to more responsive gaming apps. iNAND Extreme enables mobile device manufacturers to develop a new generation of faster, more reliable smartphones and tablets that perform exceptionally well."
The enhanced iNAND Extreme features a completely new architecture that works with the latest mobile processors to bring an outstanding user experience to Android-based smartphones and handsets. The advanced architecture includes a unique dual-core design, innovative new hardware and software data management algorithms, and the latest e.MMC 5.0 specification, resulting in significantly lower latency and higher bandwidth. This means that smartphones and tablets with iNAND Extreme can smoothly navigate multiple applications simultaneously, and are responsive enough to record or play back 4K video, and take and share even higher resolution images.
Android-based devices enabled with iNAND Extreme also perform at high levels throughout the life of the device, even as the storage continues to fill up. iNAND Extreme now incorporates a sophisticated error correction mechanism, which significantly enhances storage endurance and makes it more resistant to fragmentation and other issues that slow down storage and mobile device performance over time.
SanDisk, which works will all leading handset and tablet providers, worked closely with leading application processor vendors to optimize the new iNAND Extreme for use in the design of high-performance, next-generation mobile devices.
The iNAND Extreme is supported by advanced simulation, trouble-shooting and engineering tools that enable mobile manufacturers to quickly and easily integrate the device into mobile device designs. This offers the potential to significantly reduce the time from product development to product availability.
The new iNAND Extreme is the first iNAND product to be built on SanDisk's industry-leading 1Y nanometer (nm) process technology, which represents its second-generation 19nm manufacturing technology. This enables SanDisk to offer 64GB of storage capacity in a package just 11.5mm x 13mm in size and as thin as 1.0 mm.
iNAND Extreme is part of the iNAND family of products, which have made incredible mobile experiences possible on hundreds of millions of devices. The iNAND™ product family offers an embedded storage solution for every performance segment. The iNAND product family includes iNAND, iNAND Ultra™ and iNAND Extreme EFD products. SanDisk's iNAND solutions, available in EFDs and MCP (Multi-Chip Package) forms, provide tablets, smartphones, e-Book readers, personal media players and personal navigation devices with faster system responsiveness, improved multitasking and browsing performance, longer battery life and an enhanced user experience.
Samples of the next generation iNAND Extreme are currently available to customers with general availability in the second quarter of 2014.
SanDisk will be displaying the new iNAND Extreme EFD in the company's Mobile World Congress booth, Stand # 7A61, located in Hall 7. The company will also be displaying the new 128GB SanDisk Ultra microSDXC™ UHS-I memory card, the world's largest capacity microSD card (announced separately today).
SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK), a Fortune 500 and S&P 500 company, is a global leader in flash storage solutions. For more than 25 years, SanDisk has expanded the possibilities of storage, providing trusted and innovative products that have transformed the electronics industry. Today, SanDisk's quality, state-of-the-art solutions are at the heart of many of the world's largest data centers, and embedded in advanced smart phones, tablets and PCs. SanDisk's consumer products are available at hundreds of thousands of retail stores worldwide. For more information, visit www.sandisk.com.
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West Virginia Pioneers
Most of my ancestors settled in Virgina starting in the 1600s, and with family and friends steadily moved westward as the country opened up, until some stopped and stayed to build in one of the most beautiful places on Earth - Jackson County, West Virginia. Today, descendants of many of the pioneer families still live in the area and have intermarried so the genealogy of the area is like a big spider web. This is my attempt to connect all those pioneer families.
Feel free to use the data here for your personal use, and if you share it, please give credit for where you found it. You never know when I will find errors and correct them, and I am constantly researching and adding to this database.
I am very grateful to everyone who has shared their data with me. I welcome your additions and corrections, as well as pictures of your ancestors. Please limit each of your emails to one person or one family unit, and include dates, places and your sources.
Go back in time and walk with John House, over the hills and down the creeks of West Virginia. Read what folks shared with him about their families and his description of the countryside. Then check out the maps that show how counties were formed in VA and WV. Read the World War II news about those who served from Jackson County, West Virginia


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Find a different plastic surgeon!!! Dr rochlin did my tummy tuck and I'm so embarrassed by the results. I'm in a bathing suit in Hawaii now, with my tummy fully covered, the opposite of what I was hoping for. My procedure was two years ago, April 2016. When it was done, my belly-button was off-center and 2 1/2 inches tall. She said it would be an innie, but it's the biggest ugliest, outie you've ever seen. It literally protrudes from my stomach. And then there were my stitches. They were made of barbed suture material. Rather than dissolving inside me, they made multiple sores in my incision and worked their way out of my body, until my scar looked like I had been cut open by a chain-saw. I cannot express to you the pain I went through during this "healing" process that took months. I have pictures of all of it, but Yelp won't let me post them. In October of 2016, I went for my 3rd or 4th post-op and she said everything looked beautiful. I told her I was unhappy with all of it and she reassured me I looked great. It wasn't until I burst into tears, crying about my humongous belly-button and the fact that my scar looked like a chain-saw wound that she finally listened to me and understood I wasn't happy. I had told her multiple times, but she just poo-pooed it all away and said everything would be fine. She scheduled me for an in office scar revision. I didn't get completely numb. There was a section on my right hip where I could still feel. SHE DID THE PROCEDURE ANYWAY!!! I could feel all of the cutting, scraping and stitching in that area and it was EXCRUCIATING!! I have a pretty high pain tolerance, but that was insanity. While she was re-doing my belly-button, I asked her to make it as small as she could. Her assistant assured me it was tiny and dainty. ---It's still an inch and a half tall and protrudes from my belly--- Which is why I'm lying here in the sun, in Hawaii, wearing a full piece swimming suit. I have friends who have had tummy tucks since mine who look amazing. I REALLY wish I had gone with another doctor. ANY other doctor... Her staff is actually very nice, but this site won't let me rate my experience as a 1, so I put 1s on everything. I also really like Dr. Rochlin on a personal level, which is why I chose her. I have learned my lesson.
This doctor literally almost killed my daughter. Sent her home overly medicated. My daughter stopped breathing in my car less than 15 minutes after being discharged, even after I had told them several times I didn't think she was awake enough to leave. It was very traumatic to say the least. Then did very poorly in providing care after she was revived. Showed little concern for anything other than what it would do to her reputation.
Absolutely inept. Does not listen or follow simple instructions. It is key that your provider listens to your concerns. Stay away from this office if you have any self respect. This so called Dr made an absolute mess of a juvederm treatment on my face injection site scars lumpy swollen appearance. Just unprofessional in all aspects of treatment. Did not even refund my money. Do not walk from this place RUN....
I came across Dr. Rochlin by chance, I complimented a 50 year plus woman who didn't look a day over 30. After asking the famous "What's your secret?" question, she proudly said she owed it all to Dr. Rochlin. After sharing my unhappy stories with her on the "mall medspa's" she recommended giving Dr. Rochlin a try. Like most women, I want to fight the aging process the best I can so I thought I would give it one more chance and I am so glad I did. Dr. Rochlin has been doing my Botox for the last few years. Not only is she a remarkable plastic surgeon but she has a beautiful heart. Her face just lights up when she talks about her other passion, her rescue dogs. That beautiful heart is visible the first time you meet her. She truly cares about each and every person that walks in her door. Not only am I now THAT person who now gets asked "What's your Secret?" I am THAT person who gets to share the secret.
This office is amazing!! The staff truly care about their patients. I was so pleased with my results and the doctor continues to follow up with me to make sure I am happy. The best bed side manner I have ever had. I would highly recommend this office.
Dr Rochlin is one of the best doctors I have every seen she listens to you and makes you feel so comfortable
I have been seeing Dr. Rochlin since '08. I WOULD NOT ever see another Cosmetic surgeon but her! Very compassionate, honest, sincere and very very sweet! I have never had a problem with anything and she will tell you straight up if you dont need a procedure. I wish other valley doctors, both physicians and cosmetic surgeons would learn from her. Thats how you keep business! Love her!
Dr. Rochlin is a super-duper doc! She took time to really listen to me and my needs. She is highly professional, but in a down-to-earth manner. Great sense of humor as well! I would recommend her to any and all!
I think Dr. Rochlin is the best!! my reasons our personal because I had taken my adult daughter to several other cosmetic/ plastic surgens in the valley, however they did not feel her condition (tubler breast) would have a good result. So most if not all the other Doctors did not want to or thought it was to much trouble to help her. Dr. Rochlin had the skills to do what no other Dr. wanted to attempt. It has been 2 years since her surgery and my daughter is so happy and thankful for all the time and skills that DR. Rochlin spent with her. thank-you so much Dr. Rocklin is also my hero!! a thankful mother!!
Great bed side manner. Very professional and caring! Understood my fears and addressed all my concerns fully.
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Today, the hand gesture above—index and middle finger extended, palm outward—is as innocuous and ubiquitous a token of greeting or farewell as one is likely to see, anywhere. In fact, one would be hard-pressed to find a group portrait of youngsters, grown-ups, teens—in any culture—where at least one person in the photo is not flashing what most of us know as a "peace sign."
The redoubtable fellow above, however, is hardly a hippie, and in his hands the symbol is far more freighted than a laid-back, "Peace, man." He is, of course, Winston Churchill, the British Prime Minister who guided England through the darkest days of World War II—especially when Great Britain effectively stood alone against the forces of the Reich, which had overrun the rest of Europe. (Churchill was not knighted until 1953, and so was not "Sir Winston Churchill" until after the war—indeed until after LIFE's Alfred Eisenstaedt made this photo in 1951.)
Churchill, of course, is probably the one historical figure most closely identified with the "V for Victory" sign in use among the Allies for much of the war. Another Briton, Ringo Starr, is famous today for throwing out the symbol, as a peace sign, in any and every imaginable situation; but it was Churchill who first made it his own.
Here, on the anniversary of the day—July 19, 1941—when Churchill first endorsed the "V for Victory" effort in a speech to his compatriots, LIFE.com celebrates the gesture as one of those unlikely strokes of genius that, while by their very nature symbolic, occasionally serve to unite and inspire millions. It's also worth noting, in passing, that employing the "V" sign as a gesture of defiance and solidarity was first suggested in January 1941 by the liberal Belgian politician, Victor de Laveleye. He encouraged the use of the symbol because V stood for both victoire ("victory" in French) and vrijheid ("freedom" in Dutch).
Finally, we should point out that when Churchill—the son of a British Lord and an American mother from a family of enormous wealth—first began using the V sign in public, he frequently held his hand with the knuckles facing outward, perhaps because he was so often clutching a cigar. His staff had to inform him that gesturing in that manner was the British working-class equivalent of flipping the bird. For the rest of the war, and the rest of his life, Churchill made sure that there could be no possible doubt about the message he meant to send with those two famous fingers.


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Why It's Great to Be a Media Buff in LA (Part Two)/
The Velaslavasay Panorama -- The 19th century Panoramas were astonishing mixtures of painting, music, sound effects, and spoken narration, important ancestors of the cinema and other immersive media of our century. This facility is dedicated to preserving the memory of these great spectacles. We saw a great re-enactment from the original script of a narrative about a journey from South America up the coast of California last summer and throughout the year, they have hosted periodic lectures on 19th century showmanship and popular art.
The Hollywood Museum -- Inside the old Max Factor Factory, this collection of movie memorabilia is full of treasures. For example, it turns out that Pee-Wee's bicycle is not in the basement of the Alamo as he suspects, but rather, here is the heart of old Hollywood. There are also the death masks which Forest Ackerman collected of Karloff, Lagosi, Chaney, Price, and other great horror actors alongside the set from Hannibal Lecter's cell in Silence of the Lambs, costumes from Theda Bara, Mae West, Marilyn Monroe, W.C. Fields, and Lucille Ball, alongside materials from this year's hot releases. The signage is pathetic, the display is more or less random except for a downstairs area organized by the hair color of leading ladies (so red for Lucile Ball and Rita Haywood, blond for Shirley Temple and Jean Harlow). This is less a museum than a romp through someone's attic. Glance through a window into the storage area and you can see a Maltese Falcon, heaven only knows if it is real. This is truly the stuff that dreams are made of.
The Cinefamily at the Silent Movie Theater -- A LA tradition, this is an all purpose retrohouse with strong emphasis on camp and cult cinema during much of the week, but I love it for two great ongoing series. First, there's The Silent Treatment the first Wednesday of every month, which is when the theater lives up to its name, and shares both classic and obscure silent films to a packed house of folks who love what they are seeing. They do Chaplin, Keaton, Griffith, and Eisenstein, to be sure, but they also do titles there I have never seen showing anywhere else. So, coming up this summer are W.C. Fields in So's Your Old Man and Lilian Gish in The Scarlet Letter. My other favorite are the animation screenings currated and hosted by Jerry Beck. I was really happy to see a showcase of the works of Cartoon Modernist Gene Deitch, including an appearance of the great man himself.
Arclight Cinerama Dome: Arclight promises us a "state of the art" exhibition experience and it provides it, but what I am most interested in is the Cinerama Dome itself, one of the few surviving theaters with this configuration in the world. It's wasted, for the most part, on contemporary movies which are not designed to exploit the screen's surround-vision features, but I was lucky enough to catch part of a Cinerama Festival the theater hosted shortly after I arrived. I was awestruck to see How the West Was Won shown through three projectors simultaneously on a screen that completely engulfs your peripheral vision. I had seen the movie on television, but nothing prepared me for the actual Cinerama experience. I can only wish they would show more Cinerama movies there.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences -- I will admit that I have so far underutilized the remarkable lecture and screening series hosted by the Academy, but I hope to make up for it this summer. All summer long, the Academy is showing films from the 1920s, which won Photoplay's Medal of Honor (a kind of People's Choice award). The films include many which have fallen into relative obscurity, including Humoresque, Four Sons, The Covered Wagon, Seventh Heaven, and Beau Geste.
The Hollywood Heritage Museum -- Across the street from the Hollywood Bowl, this ramshackled old facility would be easy to overlook. Built in 1913 by Jesse Laske and Cecil B. Demille to shoot The Squaw Man, this was the first major film studio in Hollywood. A few times a year, they open the facility and screen movies there. The screenings are technically poor but the sense of history of watching silent movies within these walls more than makes up for the periodic blackouts and the folding chair seating, making for a memorable occasion. My favorite experience here so far was a lecture and screening by a Three Stooges fan group which was trying to track down the locations where their silent comedies were shot.
The Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising: Only a few blocks from my apartment, the FIDM was host to the LA season of Project Runaway, but more immediately pertinent, it hosts an ongoing series of exhibits of costume designs, including annual showcases for the Acadamy Awards and Emmy Award nominees and showcases of specific projects (Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, being a personal fave) and designers.
California Artists Radio Theater -- A recent discovery of mine, though a long-time Los Angeles institution, a group of veteran actors get together once a month and publically perform radio drama inside the Beverly Garland Holiday Inn's conference room. We discovered it because they were doing one of Norman Corwin's historical dramas in honor of my USC colleague's 101st Birthday. Corwin was there amongst us, enjoying Birthday Cake, thank you very much, and his gifted friends shared an hour of high entertainment. Take a look at the list of actors who have performed here through the years, and you will see why I plan to come back as often as I can.
The Magic Castle -- This is where all the magic geeks go to hang out. There are typically six or more different magicians performing each night in different showrooms embedded in this meandering Victorian mansion, and there are many more magicians, professional and amateur, in the audience, many of whom will also break out a deck of cards and show you a few tricks while you are awaiting the next performance, and the space is crammed with artifacts reflecting the history of prestidigitation, including stuff from Houdini and W.C. Fields.
And of course, the one truth about media in LA, above all others, is that no matter where you go to watch an old movie in this town, the odds are high that it is going to be introduced by Leonard Maltin. :-)
These are some of my favorite media experiences in Los Angeles. There are a few things I know about like the summer movie screenings inside the Hollywood Forever graveyard which I have yet to see and I am leaving off the big amusement parks, the research archives, university film screenings, and some of the live shootings for network television here. But what else am I missing? Share your favorite media experiences in Los Angeles with me via email at email@example.com


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Monday, October 4, 2010
Hugs all around on the close of another year
The Jays finish at 85-77, ten games out of the playoffs and 11 back of the AL East title. They never lost more than five games in a row, and never fell more than two games below .500.
We'll have the full winter to go back through the entrails of the season that has passed - and with six months of darkness and cold, you gotta know that we're going to want to think back kindly on the warmer days - so we're not going to go through a full debrief at this point.
But if we could sum it all up in one thought, it would be this: This season was never boring, rarely discouraging, and often enthralling. And as we enter into the long off-season, we are filled with more anticipation for the year to come than at any time in recent memory.
Thank you cards for everyone
We're not sure what Emily Post would say about forgoing hand-written thank you cards in favour of a quick note at the bottom of a blog post, but we also doubt that she'd care for much of what we think of as polite and courteous. But seriously, fuck that bitch.
All this to say: Thank you all once again for reading, commenting, following, tweeting and retweeting, emailing, sharing your thoughts and generally encouraging me (us!) to keep on keeping on with this blog. I can tell you that this past year has offered me more personal and professional challenges that I had anticipated, and there were moments where I felt as though the blog had to take a backseat to what seem in those moments to be more pressing matters. But you readers/commenters were always on my mind, and I truly appreciate your ongoing patronage.
Also, big bro hugs to The Ack, without whom this blog would likely have devolved into an angry screed read only by myself and my team of therapists. Ack is pretty modest about his contributions around here, but I seriously couldn't keep this blog going without his help. His posts this season were amongst the most thoughtful and thought-provoking that I've read anywhere this season, and I feel lucky to have him as a contributor.
To one and all, I hope you had as much fun as I did this year.
15 comments:
- Navin Vaswani (@eyebleaf) said...
No, thank you.
And I had the Jays at 82 wins. When they better my expectations, you know they've had a great season.
- October 4, 2010 at 3:15 PM
Yes a great season. Keep up the good work guys
- October 4, 2010 at 3:29 PM
- Ian - BJH said...
I said 72-90, so I officially take it all back.
Thanks Tao and Ack for a season's worth of thought-provoking posts. Looking forward to seeing what you guys have to say this offseason.
- October 4, 2010 at 3:31 PM
- Scott said...
Based on Snider becoming a 4 WAR player (next year!) I had the Jays at 75-80 wins. Who knew JB could be over 7!
Nice work on the season boys. Next year we can say: Playoffs! without being facetios.
- October 4, 2010 at 4:16 PM
I repeatedly evinced that my team would shock the world, with 85 wins or more. I informed you that Jose would produce or find himself swinging a pick-axe in Central America (building one of my gas pipelines). He took that threat seriously.
It seems my artifice has paid off, for you my fans, and for that, you may thank me.
This is indeed, "just the beginning." I will be busy allocating my resources in a way that will improve my team, and offer hope to my fans for 90+ wins in 2011. Any less will be considered an abject failure, and you can count on me to get the job done.
Just remember, without such a stunning, spruce, sexy tycoon running the show from the top, your lives would be filled with anathema and despair. Instead, you can continue to thank Sweet Jesus for Handsome Tony Viner and his beauteous looks and witty schemes.
Expect nothing less than 90 wins in 2011, and more in 2012. I will deliver on my promise to return the Blue Jays to glory, and will go to any lengths, and spill any amount of blood to make it so.
Trust me,
Tony Viner
- October 4, 2010 at 4:22 PM
- Nichols said...
Thanks for another season's worth of work and the entertaining reads.
Based off of AA's statement that the Jays will be aggressive on the trade market, it looks like the offseason could be eventful for you.
- October 4, 2010 at 4:24 PM
- Mattt said...
Thanks for a great year and look forward to the offseason here.
- October 4, 2010 at 4:41 PM
- peteybrigade said...
Thanks - you remain the best source for Blue Jays analysis in the blogosphere.
- October 4, 2010 at 5:16 PM
Thank you guys for a great blog, its enjoyable to read your posts...I had the Jays at between 75-85 wins..I always thought the rotation would be better than expected, but I didn't think we'd go through the year without an injury to a main starter either..Of course they're still a ways away from competing, but damn they're fun and exciting to watch.
- October 4, 2010 at 6:49 PM
Thanks so much for the great blog. I found it mid way through the year and it became part of my daily reading. Keep up the good work and look forward to reading it during the winter days when all you try and look forward to spring.
- October 4, 2010 at 8:42 PM
- SP said...
Thank you both for the great opinion blogging, always interesting tweetage, and the Hoe-down.
- October 4, 2010 at 9:17 PM
- SP said...
By the way, I had them at 73 wins, but who the hell would've predicted no major injuries, a historic season by Beast, and for all of AA's moves to work out. I thought Buck and A-Gon were solid stop-gap pickups. I thought Gregg was unnecessary. They turned out to be much better that that. Now they'll result in 2 picks and Esco!
- October 4, 2010 at 9:22 PM
- Steve G. said...
Speaking as your resident Red Sox fan, it's depressing to join you in "no playoffs land" this year. However, as usual, I enjoyed your blog immensely, along with the Blue Jay Hunter, and Sports and the City. Keep up the good work!
p.s. Has Stieb produced any male spawn yet? Maybe that's the ticket!
- October 5, 2010 at 2:40 AM
I thought your comments about Drabek were interesting, in that you thought that he might be traded over the winter. If you want to go that far, why not go further? Is it possible that Snider gets traded? How about one of the big 4 starters, and not the one everyone thinks will be traded in Marcum? What if they traded Cecil? (Morrow I'd be hard pressed to find a situation to trade him, unless they got a big proven bat for him)
On that vein, is there anyone on this lineup that people think AA thinks of as untouchable? (Well other then Vernon Wells, har har) Maybe Romero since that is AA's first contract signing? Other then Romero I can't really think of any untouchables.
- October 5, 2010 at 9:53 AM
Thank you Tao and Ack. I am one of the legion of non-commenters who follow your superb work and I thought it might be nice to quickly emerge from the shadows to give a huge kudos to you and Ack. I am really looking forward to your thoughts as the off season progresses.
- October 5, 2010 at 2:58 PM


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May 2, 2012
Barely one in a thousand Canadians is a Yukoner -- yet they're huge on the national ski squad. How did a tiny territory come to kick so much cross-country butt? By Eva Holland. Photography by Christian Kuntz.
Great athletes know when they're on their game. A figure skater knows whether they'll land a jump while they're still spinning in mid-air; a hockey player knows whether their shot will be on target before it leaves the stick. And skier Graham Nishikawa knew, halfway through the race that was his last chance to qualify for Canada's 2010 Olympic team, that he wasn't going to make it.
Unfortunately for Nishikawa, one of the Yukon's most promising cross-country skiers, the race was a 50-kilometre classic. He still had 25 kilometres to cover when the biggest disappointment of his career sank in. The race went on and on. "It was definitely the hardest racing of my life," Nishikawa says. He kept going, fighting through Canmore, Alberta's notoriously hilly course under a blinding December sun, and finished in fifth place. He'd needed a win to get a spot in the Games.
More than two years after that defeat, Nishikawa, 28, isn't looking back. He's in his third season on the Canadian senior development team, and last year he collected 17 top-three finishes on the North American racing circuit. And he's not alone: five other young Yukoners are currently training in the national team's development system, collecting victories of their own at nationals and NorAms. Even for a territory with a proud tradition of skiing, the success is unprecedented.
Nishikawa skis and works out year-round at a national training centre in Canmore. So does Emily Nishikawa, 22, Graham's sister and his colleague on the senior development team. Together the Nishikawas make up 20 per cent of their 10-skier squad, while three more Yukoners – Dahria Beatty, 18; Janelle Greer, 19; and Knute Johnsgaard, 19 – compose the same proportion of the 15-member national junior team. A sixth Yukon skier, Janelle's 22-year-old brother David, has graduated from the junior team and is training at another national centre in Quebec, pushing to make the cut for the seniors.
The numbers are remarkable, especially when you remember that the Yukon accounts for just one one-thousandth of Canada's population. Thomas Holland, the director of Cross-Country Canada's high-performance program, thinks time, tradition, and community commitment have created a rare skiing culture in Whitehorse – a culture that produces champions. "Really, the fact that one community is able to produce as many skiers as a division like B.C., that's amazing," he says. "Certain communities, certain cultures, they're not always big, but they produce skiers over time at a high level …. When you see a strong ski club, usually there's history. Around that history it creates a culture."
Flash back five decades, to another race, another finish line, this one in Midland, Ontario. The 1963 Canadian senior cross-country ski championships were under way, and Martha Benjamin, a mother of five and lifelong resident of Old Crow, was racing for the Yukon. When Benjamin crossed the line ahead of the pack in the women's 10K, she became the Yukon's first skiing hero. The front-page headline in the Whitehorse Star the next day read: "Martha Beats Them All." Benjamin's coach, Father Jean Mouchet, told the paper, "Martha is steel, straight steel. She could go on forever. Old Crow skiers have the ability to find a source of energy that we don't know exists."
Mouchet is the patriarch of cross-country skiing in the Yukon. He came to Canada from France in 1946, a missionary priest bound for the remote North. For years he bounced around, with postings to Telegraph Creek, Dease Lake, Iskut, Watson Lake, Teslin, Old Crow and Inuvik. It was in Old Crow, in the late 1950s, that he launched TEST, the Territorial Experimental Ski Program. "I was very impressed by the fitness of the Northern people," Mouchet says. His observations were confirmed by a group of Norwegian physiologists who visited the village in 1959 and found that many residents had the fitness levels of elite athletes.
Mouchet, who now lives in Whitehorse, has skied since age four – he grew up in the Jura Mountains, on the Swiss-French border. He saw the sport as a way to challenge Northern kids, to push them to reach their full potential and improve their self-esteem. He also saw changes sweeping the North: the rise of the snowmobile, the erosion of traditional lifestyles. Skiing, he hoped, would be a counterforce, helping maintain the old-time values of healthy living and robust outdoor activity.
In the program's heyday, TEST's skiers flourished. Benjamin was the program's first champion. A few years later, Sharon and Shirley Firth, Gwich'in twins from Inuvik, emerged to compete in four straight Olympics. But even as TEST was enjoying its greatest success, in the 1970s, a group of Whitehorse-based skiers was breaking away from the program and its aims. Their goal was to lure major ski competitions to the Yukon. The territory's new generation of elite skiers would emerge not from TEST, following in the tracks of Benjamin and the Firths, but from this new program. In 1980, the Whitehorse Ski Club was born.
Today, Mouchet sounds like a man who sees a job left unfinished. At 94, he still skis almost every day, but he doesn't follow the accomplishments of the new crop of Yukon racers. "My interest was the natives," he says, "the Northern child from Northern Canada." He sees the decline of TEST, which faded away in the late 1990s, as a missed opportunity. "I don't think the child coming out of [aboriginal] society has the toughness that they used to have in those days," he says.
In 1981, the organizers behind the breakaway Whitehorse Ski Club pulled off an unlikely feat: They hosted a World Cup race in Whitehorse. Athletes from a dozen nations, over 100 of the world's best skiers, arrived in town on chartered flights, and members of the international media came with them. It was the first race of its kind ever held outside Europe, and it had taken years of effort to bring it North.
The race didn't result in any made-in-the-Yukon world champions. But it generated government funding, corporate sponsors, a paid coaching staff and serious trail improvements – by the time the athletes began arriving, the trails at Mt. Mac had been shaped into one of the most challenging cross-country race courses on the planet. This – cash, coaching, a committed volunteer base and a world-class facility – was the foundation on which the new generation of Yukon racing would be built.
The conditions in the Yukon were ripe for a successful program: long winters with reliable snow, combined with a population that was active and eager for physical challenges. "It's one of the best places to ski in Canada," says Knute Johnsgaard. "Our season is a month or two longer than most people's … and Whitehorse, it's a tight, tight community." David Greer adds: "We take so much for granted here."
Mike Gladish, the operations manager at the Whitehorse Ski Club, agrees there's a culture that keeps the Yukon ski scene strong. "There are a lot of people moving here for the lifestyle," he says. "They're people who like winter and like the outdoors. We have new people coming in every day saying, 'I just moved to Whitehorse and I've decided to take up cross-country skiing.'" Dahria Beatty figures the Yukon's natural beauty doesn't hurt the ski club, either. She's the only one of the six skiers who still trains in Whitehorse year-round, and she relishes her after-school outings on the trails. "It's dark 15 minutes after we start," she says. "None of us ski with headlamps, we just go out. You get this beautiful pastel sunset and it's so spectacular, sometimes you forget about your skiing."
Alain Masson, head coach of the Yukon ski team and a former Olympic skier, thinks the trails built for the World Cup three decades ago are still making a difference. "If you succeed on these trails, you'll find the trails outside no more difficult," he says. He adds that when one skier excels, the rest see what's possible – and the territory's young skiers have had plenty of role models. Masson's wife, Lucy Steele-Masson, skied in the 1992 Olympics. Says Masson: "Having successful skiers makes it easier for upcoming skiers to have self-confidence and know that they can succeed at the national and international level."
Janelle Greer got started early: She first strapped on skis as a two-year-old. She has dim memories of those first skiing attempts, connected to her mother by a rope, following her – and a trail of gummy bears – through the snow, shuffling more than gliding. Even before those early outings, she and her brother David were on the trails – their parents, both active recreational skiers, towed them in pulks as infants. She's had a long time to master her kick and glide.
Her longtime coach, Masson, measures the making of an elite skier in decades, rather than months or years. "It takes a long time to build a program that has results," he says. "So the athletes that are on the national team now, it took them about 10 years to make it to this level. They start when they're 8, 9, 10 – it takes a long, long time."
And even after that first decade, they're in it for the long haul. Cross-country skiers often peak in their late 20s, and can keep competing with the best when they're well into their 30s. ("It's not like gymnastics," says Johnsgaard.) With that in mind, the young skiers have to make tough choices. Do they attempt to balance skiing and school, maybe chase a scholarship to a U.S. college with a strong skiing program? Or do they go all in, plan on spending most of their next 15 years on skis, and sign up for one of Cross-Country Canada's year-round national training centres?
Graham Nishikawa was the first Yukon skier to choose the training centre route, and the rest – with the exception of Beatty, who's still in high school – have followed. "I thought about going to [university in] Anchorage or Fairbanks," says Janelle Greer. "It was a hard decision, but I figured if I wanted to see how good I could be at skiing then I had to put all my focus on it." Johnsgaard echoes her: "Coming out of high school in grade 12, that's really the time where you've got to make decisions. I'd had a really good year when nationals were here in 2010 …. I thought, I'm doing so well now, I might as well see how far I can go."
Nishikawa has a few years on the rest of the group – the age gap is big enough that when David Greer and Knute Johnsgaard were growing up, they both saw him as a role model rather than a peer. He remembers the challenges of his first years in the program. "There's a fine balance of moving out on your own as a young person," he says, "cooking for yourself, trying to have enough money, trying to travel, stay healthy, train, and get success, and then if you're struggling, trying to find ways to get yourself back on track, have good races, and meet the standards that the national team sets." For her part, Emily Nishikawa is glad to have her brother's path to follow. Going to a training centre is "not that unusual anymore, and so it's kind of less frightening," she says. "Once you know someone and you've grown up with them, it's not as hard to make that jump."
Lorrie Greer, mother of Janelle and David, still worries about their choices sometimes. "It's hard to put all your eggs in one basket, and I always hope they're doing the right thing," she says. "My bottom line is, you have lots of years to go to school, and this is the only chance to see how far you can go athletically. I have to keep telling myself that, because once in a while I do think, 'Oh dear, what are they going to be when they grow up?'"
The answer for these six skiers – maybe, hopefully – includes the word "Olympian." Thomas Holland of Cross-Country Canada thinks that Yukoners have reason for optimism in 2014 and 2018. "You're going to pop somebody through at some point," he says. "It would be surprising if we don't see somebody from the Yukon there in one of those Olympic Games."
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Jill Gambon
Ray Weatherby, director of imaging and CAD Engineering for fast-growing medical device manufacturer ConforMIS, was facing a challenge. The company,
which makes custom-designed implants for knee replacements, needed a steady stream of qualified engineers to support its rapid growth. To find the talent ConforMIS needed, Weatherby turned to local engineering programs.
Already familiar with UMass Lowell through several alumni coworkers, Weatherby contacted the Office of Career Services and Cooperative Education, which had recently launched its co-op program with the Francis College of Engineering. Under the co-op initiative, students are matched with employers for three- or six-month placements to get hands-on, professional experience. It was just what Weatherby was looking for.
From that initial phone call late in 2010, a successful partnership has flourished. Bedford-based ConforMIS has so far hired two plastic engineering students for co-op jobs and added alumni to the ranks of its full-time employees. Participating in job fairs, networking events and co-op seminar panels, ConforMIS representatives have brought their business insight to campus. In the process, the company has made a name for itself among young, in-demand engineers and created a pipeline of potential employees for its expanding business.
"What's striking about this is how both ConforMIS and UMass Lowell kicked off programs at the same time and were going through similar experiences," Weatherby says. "The experience with UMass Lowell has exceeded our expectations."
"Our partnership with ConforMIS is exactly how things are supposed to work," says Diane Hewitt, the University's director of cooperative education. "The company is really interested in building a relationship with the University, not just in filling co-op placements."
A New Approach to an Old Problem
ConforMIS was founded in 2004 to develop treatments for osteoarthritis and joint damage. Using an innovative approach, ConforMIS designs and manufactures personalized implants and surgical instrumentation based on each patient's computed tomography (CT) scans. The made-to-order implants simplify the surgery, reduce the amount of bone or tissue that is removed and allow patients to recover more quickly than traditional, off-the-shelf knee replacements, the company says.
Within six weeks of receiving a patient's scans, ConforMIS designs, manufactures and ships the implants and instrumentation that precisely match the patient's anatomy. The materials are sent to the hospital in a single box, 8 inches tall by 17 inches wide, smaller than a typical carry-on travel bag. The instrumentation (made through a three-dimensional printing process) is disposable and replaces the multi-tiered carts of sterilized surgical tools traditionally found in operating rooms.
"Our entire business model is different. It's efficient," says Jong Lee, senior vice president for marketing and business strategy for the privately held firm.
Hands-on Experience for Student Engineers
Senior plastics engineering major Antonia Gruning is working at her second co-op job at ConforMIS as a computer-aided design (CAD) engineer. She was initially hired in May 2011 for a three-month job and when that ended she was offered a part-time position. That allowed her to continue gaining experience and earning money while taking classes. Using the SolidWorks 3-D CAD software that she learned during her sophomore year, she designs implants and instrumentation and reviews her peers' work. "I love it here," Gruning says.
Gruning's responsibilities have grown over time. With the company's rapid expansion, she has gained seniority on the staff and is now supervising other co-op students. The job has put her career goals in focus.
"I'd like to stay in the medical device industry, maybe doing research and development," she says.
John Waszak, also a senior plastics engineering major, started a co-op job at ConforMIS at the same time as Gruning. He, too, continued working part-time after the co-op assignment ended.
"It was a great environment," he says of the job, his first engineering position.
In addition to advancing his CAD skills, Waszak learned to collaborate and communicate with colleagues across a range of ages and backgrounds, which was one of the chief adjustments he had to make moving from campus to a corporate setting.
"You gain confidence over time," he says.
The experience also helped prepare Waszak for a second co-op job at Corning Inc.'s life sciences division in Kennebunk, Maine during the summer of 2012.
A growing number of students are taking advantage of the co-op program, which has expanded to all engineering disciplines, the College of Sciences and the Manning School of Business. The program includes a professional development class to get students ready for the work world and an assessment seminar after they return to campus. For many students, the co-op jobs are a stepping stone to a full-time position.
"Almost everyone who participates in the co-op program has more robust career opportunities when they graduate," Hewitt says.
Ready to Grow
Tom Faulkner, a ConforMIS CAD engineer who graduated in 2001, says the co-op students and young alumni coming from his alma mater arrive well prepared with technical and problem-solving skills.
"I like the enthusiasm that the young hires bring to the table. They bring ideas for design and process improvements," he says.
The demand for skilled engineers at ConforMIS shows no signs of abating. The company is still hiring and recently moved into new facilities to accommodate the growing number of employees and expanding manufacturing operations.
UMass Lowell students and alumni continue to play a role in that growth. Today, there are 11 alumni in addition to Gruning who work in CAD manufacturing for the company.
"They roll up their sleeves and get the job done," says Weatherby.
The successful relationship underscores the unique role that the University can play in helping industry thrive, says Hewitt.
"This partnership has been a model of how the University can work with innovative companies to help support economic development while creating exciting career opportunities for our students and alumni," she says.


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