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Boeing on Wednesday revealed a unique new design for the winglets on its upcoming 737 MAX series.
Dubbed the Advanced Technology Winglet, Boeing says the dual-feather design will cut fuel burn by as much to 1.5% over the 10-12% improvement already expected from the MAX's other features. The efficiency difference is dependent on the length of the flight.
On a conference call, Boeing 737 MAX chief project engineer Michael Teal explained that extending a traditional winglet upward would yield better fuel efficiency, but the added weight would negate the benefit. By leaving the top portion about the same size as the current 737 blended winglet, however, and adding a bottom feather, the weight penalty is minimized. "The concept is more efficient than any other wingtip device in the single-aisle market because the effective wing span increase is uniquely balanced between the upper and lower parts of the winglet," he said.
The new winglets are somewhat of a fusion between the design of the blended winglets found on current 737NG's and the raked wingtips built into Boeing's 777 and 747-8 jets, Teal said. Unlike the blended winglets, which were designed and produced by the contractor Aviation Partners Boeing, the Advanced Winglet is an in-house Boeing design.
Compared to the wing fences found on the wingtips of Airbus A320 family jets, with which the Advanced Technology Winglet shares a vague resemblance, Boeing's design will be significantly larger, Teal said. Airbus is moving away from the wing fence design in favor of Sharklets, which closely resemble the blended winglets found on the 737NG.
Low-speed wind tunnel testing on a scale model of the Advanced Technology Winglet has been carried out at QinetiQ in Farnborough, England, while high-speed testing was done at the Boeing Transonic Wind Tunnel in Seattle. The design performed just as expected in the tests, said Teal.
Winglets improve fuel economy by expanding the effective surface area of the wing without adding length to the wingspan. Air that would simply flow off the tip of a bare wing into the ether is recaptured by the winglet and used to add lift.
Wingtip device technology has become a hot sector in recent years as airlines attempt to wring every mile possible out of a gallon of jet fuel amidst wild price increases. A number of designs have made their way to commercial airliners, both on new aircraft and as retrofits to older planes. Boeing says there are no current plans to offer the Advanced Technology Winglet as a retrofit on older 737s, but he did say it would be possible to scale the design to larger aircraft.
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Year Built1974
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Ski In Ski Out Lock Off Unit located on the second hole of the Copper Creek Golf Course, next to the Pitch Fork Lift, Athletic Club, Woodward Training Center and short walking distance to the Center Village. Recently updated corner unit with rock countertops, new carpeting, hardwood floors and remodeled bathrooms. Underground parking, heated outdoor swimming pool, ski locker, sauna, large balcony, extra storage, on site manager. Great for the weekend warrior or as a rental gem. Family Friendly!
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Copper Mountain, with 2,450 acres, is Summit County's largest ski area. At Copper you can enjoy Colorado's first high-speed detachable six-passenger chairlift, the "Super Bee" and an award-winning trail system that naturally separates snowriders by their ability levels. The Village at Copper is a pedestrian-only, high alpine community with spectacular Colorado views. While in the village take time to enjoy a concert, watch fireworks light up the sky overhead or sit-down for some fine dining. In the summer, your senses will be enhanced by fresh wildflowers and a Colorado blue sky. You can hike, bike, golf on a championship course or go whitewater rafting in nearby Buena Vista. One of the newest additions to Cooper Mountain is Woodward at Copper. A training facility where athletes of all ages can practice new tricks over foam pits before testing their skills on the mountain!
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CLEARWATER, Fla. -- The jury is still out on whether Ryan Goins will become a bona fide Major League hitter, but if there's failure in his future, it won't be due to a lack of work ethic.
Goins put in a countless number of hours during the offseason to fix his mechanics at the plate. While some players were still in vacation mode, Goins was accepting an invitation to work out in Kansas City with new Blue Jays hitting coach Kevin Seitzer.
CLEARWATER, Fla. -- The jury is still out on whether Ryan Goins will become a bona fide Major League hitter, but if there's failure in his future, it won't be due to a lack of work ethic.
Goins put in a countless number of hours during the offseason to fix his mechanics at the plate. While some players were still in vacation mode, Goins was accepting an invitation to work out in Kansas City with new Blue Jays hitting coach Kevin Seitzer.
The work has continued this spring, with Goins taking extra hitting drills whenever possible. At times it seems like Seitzer and his second baseman have been attached at the hip, and while that isn't necessarily a guarantee for success, it's at least a step in the right direction.
"Just trying to go in every day and get on the same page, which we are, and then just try to be consistent," Goins said of his work with Seitzer. "Taking what I'm doing in the cage, and in BP, and apply it into the game. First couple of games, it was pretty good. I've had one bad at-bat, and the other ones I feel like I'm seeing the ball well and I think I'm buying into everything he's telling me."
Goins made his Major League debut last August and got off to a fast start, but it didn't take long for some problems to emerge. There was a tendency to be overly aggressive in the box, and instead of waiting for his pitch, Goins would often go after something even some of the best hitters in the league would have difficulty hitting.
The 26-year-old also had a habit of trying to pull too many pitches. A quick look at his spray chart indicates that the vast majority of the ground balls off Goins' bat went to the right side of the field. That wouldn't be a problem for some players, but with the skill set that Goins possesses, it's pretty clear that he would be best served using all parts of the field.
There were times when he would do that, and those were the moments Goins would have the most success. According to FanGraphs, Goins hit 19 line drives last season -- 12 went to the opposite field and nine of those dropped in for hits. The Blue Jays believe the potential is in there, it's just a matter of Goins being able to find it on a consistent basis.
"Just being able to repeat his hand path is the biggest thing," Seitzer said. "To give yourself a chance when you're a little early or a little late. He was out and around balls that were on the middle-in part of the plate. We started cleaning up his direction, he adjusted big time, it felt good to him, it felt right. It was a little awkward at first, but he has worked hard and I like where he is at."
When Goins debuted last season, he held his hands high and away from his body during the batting stance. Former Blue Jays hitting coach Chad Mottola started the transformation by getting Goins to lower his hands in the season's final couple of weeks.
That work continued this offseason with Seitzer and since then another adjustment has been made. Seitzer had Goins bring his hands closer to his body during the stance. The goal was for Goins to have a faster swing path and also one that was easier to replicate on a consistent basis.
Just like any other mechanical adjustment, it hasn't always been smooth sailing. The work started slow, with swings off a tee and through soft toss before eventually progressing to batting practice. It has since been taken into spring games, and while the swing remains a work in progress, Seitzer has been happy with what he has seen so far.
"When I met with him it was awkward, it was something new, something different," Goins said. "It was something I had to buy into, and just keep doing on a daily basis. After a couple of weeks it started to become second nature and I feel like it's natural now. When I go into a game, I don't feel like I have to do anything different than what I've been doing. I don't have to think about it, I can be free and just play my game."
When the Blue Jays' 2013 season came to an end last September, the consensus was that the club was in the market for a new starting second baseman. General manager Alex Anthopoulos initially had the position on his wish list for the offseason, but weeks and months went by without any moves.
When 2014 rolled around, the Blue Jays began openly talking about being just fine with the status quo. There has never been any doubt about Goins in the field as he possesses the type of game-changing defense Toronto hasn't had at second base since the days of Orlando Hudson. The issue was always the bat.
Goins is a career .273 hitter with a .330 on-base percentage over the course of five seasons in the Minor Leagues. The Blue Jays would be more than happy with those types of numbers, but it's one thing to do it at Double-A and another thing entirely to perform at that level in the big leagues.
That's why there have been plenty of skeptics about Toronto's decision to stick with the status quo. For his part, Seitzer doesn't buy into the criticism and also doesn't want to hear about how the Blue Jays might be fine with someone who has a low average and on-base percentage if there's enough defense to compensate for that.
"Maybe in other people's minds, but as an athlete, as an everyday player, you want to have good at-bats consistently and be able to contribute," Seitzer said. "So I don't think he's wired to hit .250 or .260. I think he's wired to try and hit .300 and be a real solid everyday second baseman at this level.
"That's why I don't like putting ceilings on guys, because you never know what their potential could be. But everything so far has been phenomenal. I couldn't be more happy with where he's at. The conversations we have after at-bats, he's learning right now, but I think he has the discipline and the ability mechanically in order to have a real good chance at being good."
Gregor Chisholm is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, North of the Border, and follow him on Twitter @gregorMLB.


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My G-G grandmother was Fanny Richey of county Fermanagh N.Ire. B. ca.1840 She was married to John McKeever. If anyone can shed any light for me, that would be fantastic. Thanks.
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I looking for info on my G-G-grandmother Rachael Hamilton. I don't have her date of birth but, I know she got married on 6th November 1853 to Samuel Jame Fleming (b.1914) in Desertcreat, county Tyrone. They had 2 sons and 2 daughters.
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I would like to find some information about my G-G-grandfather Andrew Hazlett Smyth. Unfortunately as with most ancestors, dates are almost nigh on impossible to come by. Andrew went gold digging in Australia but eventually came back to county Tyrone to live. I have no idea whether his quest in Australia was very fruitful or not!! He was married twice. The first time to Elizabeth Little (this is the union whom I'm descended from) and, secondly to Barbara Weir.
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James McIvor of Gortavoy, Pomeroy, county Tyrone. He married a lady called Margaret Gaddis. They had 2 daughters and 3 sons. Of the 3 sons there were twins. One of the daughters, Jane, was my Great grandmother b. 1878. From this I would guess James was born c. 1850ish.
Looking for info on John Davis
John Davis was originally from Wales and left to live in Garvagh, Donaghmore, county Tyrone, Northern Ireland in 1690/91. He had at least two other brothers. Unfortunately I don't have any details of who he married or, who any of his children were.
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Im currently looking for information on George Davis born. c1775. He was a sergeant in the Newmills Yeomanry. (County Tyrone).
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These cards are great to hand to a cashier or to give to a complete stranger and say, "Here, let me put that on my new Government Master Card." They will get a kick out of the card and it will remind them of Godonomics: God's principles as they apply to an economy. Don't become a slave to the lender. Use GODONOMICS.
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One week from today Marvel Studios launches the second chapter of the next phase of the Marvel Cinematic Universe with Thor: The Dark World opening in theaters across the UK. Marvel is taking advantage of the occasion and buzz to promote the next sequel on the schedule, Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
The Thor and Captain America followups were both showcased by Marvel Studios at this summer's San Diego Comic-Con, along with teasers for Guardians of the Galaxy and The Avengers: Age of Ultron, and each debuted impressive footage that emphasized the "different" approach each of the Phase Two installments are aiming to take. For the return of star-spangled Avenger under new directors Anthony and Joe Russo, The Winter Soldier adaptation is described as a "political thriller."
Yesterday's release of a new Captain America 2 poster coincided with news that the first full trailer would debut in two days time, and today, Marvel is pushing tomorrow's anticipated trailer debut with a 10-second teaser trailer seen above. The teaser of a teaser showcases brief shots of Chris Evans back in his modern outfit from The Avengers and wielding his iconic shield (featured in the first Cap 2 poster) while in plain clothes. We also get brief shots of Scarlett Johansson's Black Widow (and new hairstyle), the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier lifting off, Samuel L. Jackson's Nick Fury and the faint image of Sebastian Stan's Bucky Barnes suited up as the titular and mysterious Winter Soldier. Unfortunately, no footage of Anthony Mackie's Falcon, but hopefully that comes tomorrow.
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The two new stills from the film come from USA Today and feature Evans, with noticeably less blonde, shorter hair, rocking his new uniform based on the Secret Avengers costume from Marvel Comics. The "stealth" outfit, as its dubbed in the film, plays into the story of the movie. The second shot features Steve Rogers standing over the bodies of traitors who attempt to capture him in a close quarters elevator scene that played at Comic-Con - a sequence we described as one of the most impressive action bits we've seen from Marvel Studios to date.
Cap's next adventure is being directed by Anthony Russo and Joe Russo off a screenplay by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely and will release in 3D. Robert Redford joins Chris Evans, Sebastian Stan, Emily VanCamp, Samuel L. Jackson, Cobie Smulders, Scarlett Johansson, Toby Jones, Anthonie Mackie, Frank Grillo, Hayley Atwell, Maximiliano Hernandez and Georges St-Pierre.
Iron Man 3 is now available on home video. Thor: The Dark World releases November 8, 2013, Captain America: The Winter Soldier on April 4, 2014, Guardians of the Galaxy on August 1, 2014, The Avengers: Age of Ultron on May 1, 2015, Ant-Man on July 31, 2015, and unannounced films for May 6 2016, July 8 2016 and May 5 2017.
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NEW YORK - Marymount Manhattan College has settled a lawsuit filed by EEOC alleging that it refused to hire a choreography instructor for a tenure-track assistant professorship because of her age. Marymount is a private liberal arts college located in New York City.
According to the EEOC's suit, Marymount passed over a 64-year-old applicant for an assistant professorship in dance composition who had been working at Marymount, and instead hired a 38-year-old applicant. The suit charged that this violated the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), which prohibits age discrimination against employees and job applicants who are age 40 or older.
By the terms of the consent decree settling the suit, Marymount agreed to pay $125,000 to Patricia Catterson. Further, it agrees to comply with the requirements of the ADEA. The decree also requires monitoring and training on anti-discrimination law. The decree will last for four years.
"We commend Marymount for working cooperatively with us to resolve this matter," said EEOC New York Trial Attorney Louis Graziano. "We are confident that we have put mechanisms in place to ensure compliance with the law in the future."
New York District Director EEOC Kevin Berry said, "Under the law, age has no place in making hiring decisions - and tenure-track positions in academia are no exception.
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Moscow based Director of Finance Johan Hoff tells about his daily work, his development path and his experiences within Volvo Financial Services.
What is your current position at Volvo? What do you do in your daily job?
I am currently the Director of Finance for Volvo Financial Services in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus. I am based in Moscow, Russia.
I am involved in some typical activities for a finance function – creating business plans, following up on the business, setting targets, etc. I also work with finding ways to fund the business in these markets. This includes working with external banks and export credit agencies. Much of the time is naturally spent on decision making for financing Volvo Group customers in our markets.
Working in the Volvo Group has given me a unique opportunity to use my finance background and be close to the core business. I am involved in many business decisions and close to the sales process. Russia is a growing market and I am part of driving and deciding how we develop our organization here, for instance, how to incentivize our people, developing a governance structure or how to ensure we borrow and lend money in the best way.
Being part of Volvo Financial Services is exciting because we have a lot of external contact, including direct interaction with Volvo Group customers, external banks, and local management for all Volvo companies. I interact with many different stakeholders all across the Volvo Group on a weekly basis. I never know exactly what will happen each day; it is a fast-paced and high speed environment. The job never gets routine or boring.
Why did you choose Volvo Group as an employer?
I joined the Volvo Group in 2001 through Volvo Aero in Sweden. Then, I started work with Volvo Financial Services in 2008 in Brussels. I am from Sweden and since I was a child, Volvo has always been one of my favorite companies. It is a truly global company with exciting products.
We also have a strong open culture and you can really feel our core values. I appreciate all the opportunities being part of the Volvo Group has brought me. I have been based in Sweden, Poland, Belgium and Russia since I joined. I have worked actively in even more markets.
How has career with the Volvo Group been this far?
I had a good experience when I started with Volvo Financial Services in Brussels in 2008. Our European organization was very new at the time and I had the chance to participate in a number of projects to build it up. I also really appreciate the opportunity to be Director of Volvo Financial Services' Central East Region, located in Poland. In that role, I not only handled traditional finance-related tasks, but also managed the business development type of tasks required to set-up new companies in several countries.
The chance to experience working in growing regions has been really exciting – a lot of interesting projects and interactions with senior management. Having the chance to work in a multi-national environment also provides a great chance to learn from the cultural perspective. If you are open to new challenges, there are always opportunities available within the Volvo Group.
If you were to recommend Volvo Group as an employer, what would you put forward?
Our culture, our employees, and the size of the company are all reasons I would recommend the Volvo Group. And, the international aspect of the company is a big attraction. Even if you are Swedish, working at the Volvo Group in Sweden, you are still exposed to the company's global footprint on a daily basis. And, if you are interested, there are many opportunities to move around and work in different locations.
When it comes to Finance area, there are some exciting opportunities as well. It isn't only about growing as a financial professional. You can get very close to the Volvo Group's products and the core competence of the business, providing a holistic experience.
Could you please describe your best experience from being an employee of the Volvo Group?
I have had a lot of good experiences. The company's approach to competence development is one thing that has meant a lot to me. I've been through Six Sigma training and a project management program. And, I also had the chance to participate in something called, Volvo Business Program, which was run by the Stockholm School of Economics. This program focused on strategic and leadership development, where we had lectures from experts in different parts of the world, initiated real business projects, and had the chance to interact and present them to Volvo Group's top management.
Another experience worth mentioning has been the chance to start up business in new locations. It is extremely rewarding to be involved in the process from the start of a new office to its implementation and then see how it succeeds in bringing in new business for the Volvo Group.
What are your goals, plans and hopes for the future?
In the short-term, I am trying to improve my Russian. This would be very beneficial for the work here in Moscow and also to experience the Russian culture. When I look longer term, I am very happy that I've spent time in the industrial part of the Volvo Group, close to production and have also worked in the sales distribution area. In the future, I hope I can get a senior role in the Group that would enable me to use the combined experience. And, I'm also looking forward to continuing to work in different countries and cultures to develop and grow our business worldwide.


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During World War II, Denmark became occupied on April 9, 1940 while the training ship DANMARK was on a routine training mission in U.S. waters (Jacksonville, Florida). In agreement with the Danish Ambassador to the United States, the Honorable Henrik Kauffmann, Captain Knud L. Hansen placed his training ship at the disposal of the U.S. Government; however, neutrality prevented the acceptance of the offer until December 7, 1941 when Pearl Harbor was attacked.
From that point onward and until the end of the World War II, DANMARK and Capt. Knud L. Hansen served under the Stars and Stripes training some 3000 U.S. officer cadets. These young men received a first-class education in responsible seamanship under Capt. Knud L. Hansens capable leadership and strict discipline; later they would serve in the U.S. Coast Guard.
The First Officer of DANMARK during the war was Knud Langevad, and he was in charge of training the U.S. cadets. He also convinced U.S. authorities of the value of learning seamanship on a tall ship, and following the war the U.S. Coast Guard purchased its well-known tall ship the U.S. EAGLE, to replace the DANMARK. This close Danish-American teamwork lasted until September 26, 1945, when DANMARK and her Captain were returned to the Danish Government with full honors. The Danish gesture is still remembered and appreciated in the USA.
Reflecting the special kinship between the DANMARK and the U.S. EAGLE, DANMARK sails as the first foreign ship behind the U.S. EAGLE in official Tall Ship Parades. This was the case on July 4, 1986, when DANMARK was honored with the number two position sailing behind the U.S. EAGLE during the Parade of Tall Ships celebrating the 100th birthday of the Statue of Liberty, and again in 2000 when the DANMARK sailed as the first foreign ship behind the U.S. EAGLE during the Millennium Voyage of Tall Ships along the East Coast from Miami to Boston.
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The ship has 26 sails and 236 ropes. A main engine is used in low wind conditions.
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The ship has a permanent crew of 15 consisting of: Captain, Chief Officer, Chief Engineer, Doctor, Deck Officers, Electrician, Chief Steward, cooks and quartermasters.
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The DANMARK forms an excellent teaching environment which combines theory and practice. The trainees achieve technical and social skills difficult to obtain in traditional training environments.
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Owner: Danish Ministry of Economics and Business Affairs
Operator: MARTEC, Maritime Educational Center, Frederikshavn
Built: 1933, Nakskov, Denmark shipyard
Hull: Steel
Gross tonnage: 737
Length: 197 feet
Width: 33 feet
Draft: 16 feet
Height above water line: 131 feet
Crew: 15
Trainees: 80
Rig: 3 masts
Sails: 26
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You guys. I have good news. The best news. Squeal a little news. We finished our huge wall unit shelf. It looks so cool and huge and empty and full of promise. I will be writing a full post with pictures and tips, but not a tutorial because there is no tutorial in the world that could explain building this thing. It was really a plan a lot, adjust, plan some more, adjust, mess up, and just keep pushing through kind of project.
Now the fun part begins – because building that monster was no fun at all. Really. Anderson and I are terrible home DIYers. We are nervous and whiny and we just don't enjoy it. That's ok. There's something for everyone. We'll leave the home improvement to you ambitious, Home Depot on a Saturday morning types.
It doesn't look like much now (Hello, cords!), but I am excited to style it and re-style it and then make Anderson pretend he can have a say in it and then restyle it some more. I'm working on a solution for the ugly cord situation we have going on. (Side note: I cannot use the word situation without thinking of the guy on Jersey Shore lifting up his Ed Hardy t-shirt, pointing to his abs, and smirking at the camera and saying "I think we have a Situation here." I spent the first 3 months of Sawyer's life up all night watching Jersey Shore re-runs, so I guess that hideous show will always be ingrained in my memory. Why did I do that to myself? I blame the lack of sleep.) I think we have an idea for hiding the cords but we are just going to chill out for a few days and bask in the accomplishment of a finished project. I also have to finish decorating the room – curtains and art work and all that good stuff. That's the fun part.
So that's where I've been. Sanding wood and painting pipes and weeping into my American Walnut stained hands. I'm only kind of kidding.
I also decided that I was going to crochet a blanket. Cause you know, I've got so much time. I've made progress but I'm extremely bored with it so I am taking a break for a couple weeks.
The pattern is the granny ripple and all of the yarn came from Michael's. I have no idea of most of the colors or brands because I lose those little papers. And if I don't lose them, Sawyer takes them and adds them to his piles of stuff he has strategically placed in front of doorways or around corners in attempt to cripple and destroy us. I think he calls the yarn papers receipts. He is a receipt magpie lately. He has taken to asking for receipts and even throwing a fit when he doesn't get one. Weird. That's my boy.
While I break from the blanket, I started a new cross stitch project. The pattern is this one from SatsumaStreet on Etsy.
It's very Mary Blair inspired and I just love it. It's colorful, geometric, and the perfect mix of retro and modern. I jump around a lot in my crafts, but I always come back to cross stitch. I think it's my thing. It's perfect because watching tv is also my thing and they marry so seamlessly. There's nothing like sitting down with a cold Diet Coke, turning on a show, and cross stitching. It's the simple things, folks.
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FLASH MEMORY SUMMIT, SANTA CLARA, Calif., August 20, 2012- SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK), a global leader in flash memory storage solutions, today marked the 25-year anniversary of flash memory, the transformational technology used by billions of consumers and countless businesses in smartphones, tablets, ultra-thin laptops, data centers and other electronic devices.
Companies such as SanDisk have increased the capacity of flash memory by 30,000 times while decreasing its cost by 50,000 times over the past two decades. SanDisk's first product, a 20 megabyte solid state drive (SSD), sold for $1,000 in 1991 but would cost only two cents today. This efficiency has driven the wide adoption of flash memory and enabled the smart digital lifestyle of anywhere, anytime access to digital content. Flash memory fuels the three forces behind this trend - mobile computing, pervasive connectivity and the proliferation of digital content.
"We started SanDisk in 1988 with the belief that flash memory would enable entire industries and enrich the lives of billions of people," said Sanjay Mehrotra, president, chief executive officer and co-founder of SanDisk. "Demand for flash is greater than ever, and it's an exciting time to lead an industry that holds such tremendous potential for the future."
This year, individuals will create and consume 2.7 zettabytes (ZB) of digital content such as movies, music, documents and other data, according to IDC** Source: IDC Predictions 2012: Competing for 2020 (Doc #231720) December 2011.. This represents 20 times the amount of digital content from 2005.** Source: IDC's Digital Universe Study, sponsored by EMC, June 2011
"Flash memory plays a crucial role in enabling the content boom due to its low cost, ease of use and widespread adoption by consumers and professionals," said Mario Morales, vice president, semiconductors and EMS, IDC. "Whether it's a tablet that lets consumers access information on the go or the server behind a social media site, flash memory enables many of today's most popular applications."
The information age has only just begun, and within three years the universe of digital content will nearly triple to 8ZB, according to IDC** Source: IDC Predictions 2012: Competing for 2020 (Doc #231720) December 2011.. Servers are increasingly storing and distributing this massive amount of information via social networks, business databases, streaming video services and other cloud-based applications. As digital content proliferates, IT organizations are equipping themselves with next-generation servers, aided by SSDs, in order to handle the rapidly increasing data.
"Flash memory has become pervasive in the cloud," said Joseph Unsworth, research vice president, Gartner. "Data centers using flash memory-based solid state drives offer an attractive benefit to cloud companies because SSDs offer the most cost-effective means for distributing information faster within existing infrastructure, often at orders of magnitude increase over HDD performance. These and other benefits are why we anticipate enterprise SSD unit sales to increase 250 percent within the next four years." ** Source: Gartner, Forecast Analysis: NAND, Worldwide, 2011-2016, 2Q12 Update, June 2012.
Smartphones and tablets using embedded flash memory chips are booming, and ultra-thin laptops using flash memory-based SSDs are redefining the notebook category. Because of flash memory, these devices are highly responsive and offer a more enjoyable experience in smaller, lighter and more durable form factors.
"Fifty years from now, people will look back and realize that flash memory was one of the most important technology advances of our time," said Tim Bajarin, analyst and futurist, Creative Strategies. "For companies around the world, flash memory has revolutionized their business from how they design products to how their customers use them."
The 25-year anniversary of flash memory arrives as consumer demand for powerful mobile devices reaches record levels. SanDisk envisions a world where flash memory fuels every interaction with digital content, from capturing photos on a smartphone to sharing those images via the cloud powered by SSDs. Flash memory is uniquely suited to meet the needs of consumers and businesses, and SanDisk is committed to enriching people's lives through anywhere, anytime access to digital content.
SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK) is a global leader in flash memory storage solutions, from research and development, product design and manufacturing to branding and distribution for OEM and retail channels. Since 1988, SanDisk's innovations in flash memory and storage system technologies have provided customers with new and transformational digital experiences. SanDisk's diverse product portfolio includes flash memory cards and embedded solutions used in smart phones, tablets, digital cameras, camcorders, digital media players and other consumer electronic devices, as well as USB flash drives and solid-state drives (SSD) for the computing market. SanDisk's products are used by consumers and enterprise customers around the world.
SanDisk is a Silicon Valley-based S&P 500 and Fortune 500 company, with more than half its sales outside the United States. For more information, visit www.sandisk.com.
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Anyone know what the "message from The Mole" is? I'm curious!
Either the message is a clue to how The Mole will lie and sabotage the games, or it's a cryptic message. I think I may look at the contestant's bios for any clues.
I couldn't find anything in their bios. I would keep that clue in the back of your mind for when you watch the show, it may be a 2-part hidden clue.
only one person in the picture is wearing glasses? hmmmmm
But due to interviews, Jon Kelley had no idea who was the mole at the start of the show, so we can't infer that the journal #11 belongs to the mole. I think it has something to do with the letters missing. "LVN". Maybe Liz's initial?
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With the end of summer nearing and the days growing shorter the longer hours of night bring with them there own kind of magic in Sweet November land. You see, when the sun goes down and all of the Fairy Sweets have gone to bed, that is the time when the Twisted Sisters come out to play. These fairies love the night life and are all about being mysterious and fabulous in their own quirky kind of way. And even though each one is named after a poisonous flower these batty winged little fairies wouldn't hurt a fly.
Today Jessamine is on the scene and boy, does she enjoy making an entrance. She is a girly girl from the top of her perfectly coiffed curly hair to the tips of her stylishly pointy boots. Fashion is her passion and she has an uncanny knack for creating fabulous ensembles out of flower petals and gossamer webbing. And if there is a party going on out in the mushroom ring or in the old hollow tree Jessamine is sure to be found there until the wee hours strutting her stuff and having a ball! ;)
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Lawyer lauded over fracking battle
Helen Slottje first came across natural gas drilling leases in 2007 while helping her brother-in-law search for a small farm to buy in upstate New York. She knew almost nothing about such leases. Her previous work as a lawyer in New Hampshire and Boston had focused on bankruptcy, failing banks and commercial real estate.
But the more she learned about the gas drilling technique of hydraulic fracturing, or hydrofracking, which was starting in Pennsylvania, the more concerned she became.
That interest led Slottje on a path to being named the 2014 North American winner of the prestigious $175,000 Goldman Environmental Prize.
When New York officials began to weigh how to open the state to gas companies that were using leases to gain drilling rights on hundreds of thousands of acres, Slottje became a quick study in state mining law. She developed a legal theory that contradicted what was then commonly accepted as fact — that if the state approved and regulated fracking, local governments would have no choice but to allow it everywhere.
Now, 74 towns across the state's potential gas-drilling region of the Marcellus Shale have adopted fracking bans based on her idea that local zoning codes can bar such "heavy industrial" uses regardless of what the state does. Another 86 towns have supporters advocating a zoning ban, and 99 towns have enacted moratoriums while waiting to see what happens.
Former Albany Councilman Dominick Calsolaro, a critic of fracking, said Slottje and her husband helped craft legislation that Albany's Common Council first adopted in 2011 to ban natural gas drilling inside city limits. The couple helped frame a separate measure adopted by the council that prohibited the dumping of fracking waste materials in city landfills, he said.
"Helen and her husband helped me a lot," said Calsolaro, a three-term Democratic councilman whose last term ended in December.
Grass-roots zoning bans in two towns have survived legal challenges in two lower state courts filed by industry and pro-fracking landowners. Appeals of those cases are pending before the state's highest court with a decision expected in a few months. New York has yet to render a decision on allowing fracking.
Slottje's legal advice, provided free to towns that want it, won her the Goldman prize, awarded by the San Francisco-based foundation of the late Richard and Rhoda Goldman. Six winners globally are selected annually by an international jury.
Slottje, 47, has become a hero to those who want to block fracking and its risks to air and water quality. She's a villain to fracking supporters who see gas drilling as a step to financial prosperity that should be left up to landowners. Helen and her husband, David, both attorneys, live near Ithaca.
Helen Slottje grew up in New England, majored in economics at the College of the Holy Cross and received a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania, finishing her last year at Harvard University. She went into corporate and business law, working in New Hampshire and Boston, where she met her husband.
About a decade ago, David Slottje returned to Ithaca to work as an executive in his family's chain of regional convenience stores. They married, both working in the family business. In 2007, she was helping her brother-in-law, Daniel, who wanted to move back from Texas and find a "gentleman's farm."
Many of the potential properties carried gas leases, which gave drilling companies the right to set up if and when the state approved fracking. "All the real estate agents told us not to worry, that it was not a big deal, but Daniel was from Texas and knew the energy industry there. ... He said there is no such thing as 'no big deal' with an oil and gas lease," she said.
Two years passed and the Slottjes were winding down their roles in the family retail business. She went to a shale-gas drilling meeting hosted by a landowners group, county planners and opponents from a group called ShaleShock.
"It sounded like a train wreck was unfolding from drilling in Pennsylvania," she said. "The coalition group was advising people they could not count on the state, so (they) should join so they would have a good lawyer to negotiate a strong gas lease."
At that moment, she said, "it occurred to me that I did not want to move. I think this area is beautiful and I want to stay here." Slottje volunteered to help in a losing legal fight to block an oil company fueling station in nearby Horseheads. She met landowners who regretted signing drilling leases and wanted to know if they could back out.
Slottje spent her free time that summer of 2009 in the library at Cornell Law School, reading "every book they had" on state mining and mineral law. By the next spring, she had a theory about how local zoning laws could control fracking under New York's legal tradition as a "home rule" state, which grants local government significant autonomy.
She believed that while state law dictates how gas drilling as a form of mining would be regulated, zoning rules under local control could decide whether the practice would be allowed to happen in the first place.That idea excited Ken Zeserson, planning board chairman for the town of Ulysses, which in August 2011 become one of the first towns to adopt a fracking ban based on Slottje's idea.
"Helen's legal work gave the Town Board some political cover," he said. "At that time, local people were afraid that the gas companies would sue them individually if they tried to block fracking."
The gas industry has sued to overturn bans enacted in two towns, and has so far lost at the state Supreme Court level. Bans in two localities were overturned on technical grounds stemming from county planning issues.
Rachael Bunzey grew up in Bainbridge, an agricultural area in the heart of what could become frack country, and has worked as a blogger for Energy in Depth, a gas industry website supported by the Independent Petroleum Association of America, and for another gas-related site, NaturalGasNow.org.
"Town boards have been manipulated by the Slottjes with their cookie-cutter moratorium," Bunzey said.
Towns are opening up themselves to costly legal challenges, Bunzey said. EID also has attacked the funding received by the not-for-profit group the Slottjes set up to support their pro bono legal work, Community Environmental Defense Council Inc. The Ithaca-based Park Foundation donated $145,000 to the foundation between 2010 and 2013, and the Civil Society Institute made a $20,000 donation. The Independent Petroleum Association of America had a $12 million budget in 2012.
Bunzey and EID have peppered posts about the Slottjes and their supporters with words like elitist, outside money, political correctness and trendy causes popular with bored elites.
Bunzey said the Slottjes are motivated as lawyers seeking to drum up more clients — even though those clients do not pay them. "Their name is out there now and they are building cases and clients, who will call them for something later," she said. "In Ithaca, they are seen as gods."


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My son went to a girl's house for dinner last night. This is the girl he has - for months - told me about, the one who likes him but he doesn't like her back like that, he just wants to hang out with her, you know? There is a girl-ask-boy dance right now (they call this Morp now, which is backwards for prom, or forwards for no one has any idea who is supposed to pick who up for the dance) and according to him yesterday, no one else asked him, and he wanted to go to the dance, so here we are.
My son is going out with another woman. I supposed I knew this day would come.
Interestingly enough, even though he doesn't like like her and they each bought their own tickets to the dance, her parents are still insistent that he come over for dinner with her parents, siblings, distant cousins, the CIA, and a polygrapher. While I also have very high standards for the people who spend time with my daughter, I feel like this is perhaps a bit much for a glorified chauffeur.
Or I felt, until late last night when he informed me that he has, in fact, been *into* this girl for like ever and what I learned is that I should really learn to not question the intuition of a father who's very adorable daughter's [anything] is on the line.
So thank god I baked dessert for them. It was my son's first formal date-interview (whether or not I knew at the time that it was going to matter to him), and I am pretty sure my family's honor rests on him using the correct fork, not picking his nose, and appearing semi-normal. Nothing says, "My son will be a perfect gentleman and dutiful escort for your precious little tulip whom he's tried very hard to convince me he's not really all that into, but you sure seem to be" like a tray full of tarts.
Or perhaps I just wanted to make sure that, even if I couldn't be there, a little bit of me was there, anyway. Because as I have told that child a million times, I am the only tart that he will ever need.
How to make them:
When two people love each other very much, they get reeeeeeallly drunk an....wait, you meant snacks. Fine.
How to make the tarts:
I can't make pie crust. I disgrace my Canadiancestors. I use Pillsbury refrigerated pie crust, and cut tart shells out of the rolled crusts using the top of a Starbucks City Mug. (The architectural ones, not those wussy new ones. It matters.) Those tart shell circle thingys get pressed into really well-greased/Pammed muffin tins (1 box of pie shells contains two rolls, and will yield 12 tart shells) and filled a little more than 3/4 of the way with one of these two fillings:
Pecan - mix (whisk or mixer) together:
- 1 cup of sugar
- 4 large eggs
- 1/2 cup light Karo syrup
- 3 tbsp unsalted butter, melted
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 3/4 chopped (by hand, with a knife, so they're very coarse) pecans
- at least 2 tsp Jack Daniel's (enough that you can just start to taste it - 3 or 4 tsp will probably do the trick)
Key Lime - mix (definetly with a mixer) together:
- 2 cans sweetened condensed milk
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 3/4 cup key lime juice (I would rather die than hand-squeeze key lime juice; I use the bottled kind. It's win.)
- Grated lime zest from one whole lime and no, I have no idea how much it measures out to
Mix that all up, pour it in the shells. You'll have a bunch left over; that's okay, store it for another batch. For yourself. To stress-eat all alone out of a plastic tub while your son goes out to replace you. No really, it's fine.


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In So Many Words...
Today's Wrecks speak for themselves. Or at least attempt to.
I find myself wishing this said "holladay", just so I could work in a lame Gwen Stefani reference. But since I'm just a girl (in the world), I guess I'll leave that up to you guys.
Now that's a stingy well-wisher.
What's worse: making this cake, or serving it to all your employees at the company Christmas party?
Ignorance can be beautiful. Unless of course this snowman is named "Happe", and belongs to someone named "Holidey".
"Mercy" is right; get a load of what Rudolf is holding!
[singing] "I'll have a POO Christmas, without youuuu..."
Careful; buying this cookie "cake" may enter you into a binding legal contract.
And lastly, an oddly emphatic proposal:
Christnos, you sly dog, you, I bet you get this cake for all the girls. [wink]
In case these failed to get the message across: Merry Christmas, all. May your day be sweet and utterly wreck-less .
Many thanks to holiday Wreckporters Jenn S., Irene D., Bergen W., Todd T., Abby, Jennifer L., Jessica C., and Angela M.!


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This week, we look at the year in review. The next column will size up 2013. The big local story in radio in 2012 was the end of the 25-year partnership of Mark Thompson and Brian Phelps on KLOS/95.5 FM.
Thompson announced in advance he was retiring. Phelps decided the night before the final August broadcast he would also leave. They were relatable, creative and always entertaining, and gave their time to countless local causes.
While they are missed in morning drive, the good news is both men found success with daily podcasts. Thompson and wife Lynda explore family and relationships at markandlynda.us. Phelps partnered with Jill Whelan to do a fun, spirited daily podcast at brianandjillshow.com.
KLOS replaced Mark and Brian with The Heidi (Hamilton) and Frank (Kramer) show. More information: 955klos.com.
Here's a digest of other local radio stories in 2012, in random order:
•KROQ/106.7 FM morning personality Gene (Bean) Baxter and KROQ engineer Scott Mason recovered from successful surgery that transplanted one of Bean's kidneys into Mason.
•Jim Ladd, ex-KLOS-FM, started a daily 4 to 8 p.m. Pacific time show on Sirius XM Deep Tracks, channel 27.
•KHHT/92.3 FM personality and "Oldies But Goodies" creator Art Laboe was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame at the Museum of Broadcast Communications in Chicago.
•Ryan Seacrest co-host Ellen K signed a contract extension through 2015 to stay with the top-rated morning show on KIIS/102.7 FM.
•KRTH/101.1 (K-Earth 101) afternoon personality Shotgun Tom Kelly signed a new three-year deal. He is on from 3 to 7 p.m. weekdays.
•KKGO/105.1 FM's Shawn Parr returned to morning drive, 6 to 10 a.m. weekdays on Go Country 105 FM.
•Chuck Cecil, host of "The Singin' Years" heard weekend mornings on KKJZ/88.1 FM, was honored by the National Association of Broadcasters for continuously hosting the program for a record 56 years.
•KBIG 104.3 (MY/fm) surged in the local ratings, at one point tying KIIS-FM for first place.
•Madeleine Brand quit KPCC/89.3 FM and now appears on local TV station KCET. Alex Cohen replaced her from 9 to 11 a.m. weekdays.
•John Phillips joined Doug McIntyre and Terri-Rae Elmer from 5 to 9 a.m. weekdays on KABC/790 AM. His own show "The Fifth Hour" was bumped to make room for Geraldo Rivera.
•Clear Channel laid off several people at KOST/103.5 FM and other music stations. Best known were KOST Program Director Stella Prado and on-air personality Christine Martindale. "Go to" engineer Tony Dinkel was laid off earlier in the year.
•Jimmy Reyes replaced Rick Dees from 6 to 9 a.m. weekdays in July on KHHT/92.3 (Hot 92.3).
•Playlist 92.7 FM was replaced by "Air1," a Christian Top 40 format.
•Classic Hits K-Earth 101 celebrated its 40th anniversary and Gary Bryan's top-rated morning show marked its 10-year celebration with a big party in Malibu.
•Tom Leykis returned to talk radio with a 3 to 6 p.m. weekday Internet program. To hear it, go to blowmeuptom.com.
•Don Barrett ended his 20-year love affair covering local radio and shut down LARadio.com as a daily website.
•Former TV newsman David Cruz started a daily talk show from 3 to 6 p.m. weekdays on KTLK/1150 AM to help create dialogues within various communities.
"Big Wave Dave" from KFSH/95.9 (The Fish) will be at the Orange County Great Park on Monday as part of the lineup for the Family New Year's Eve celebration. It will begin at 5 p.m. and end with the East Coast countdown to 2013 at 9 our time. There will be games, a disco lounge, bands, carousel rides and more. Big Wave Dave is on the station from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. weekdays. More information: ocgp.org.
Thanks to LARadio.com's Don Barrett and others, here is a list of radio and TV broadcasters who passed away in 2012:
David Courtney, Frank Pastore, Rich Buhler, Scotty Morgan, Dale Sommers "The Truckin' Bozo," Rhett Walker, Les Beigel, Bradley Quick, Jai Rich, Bob Stone, Ted Alvy, Bob Anderson, "Sheriff John" Rovick, Bo Donovan, Chris Stanley, Ted Atkins, Al Brady Law, Frank Thompson, Paul Crosswhite, Edgar Pierce, Harry Scarborough, Johnny Otis, Steve Berk, Cal Milner, Peter Bergman, John Garabo, Frank Javorsek, Brent Wilcox, Anita Levine, Roy Storey, John Stroebel III and Bill Wolff.
Dec. 30, 1923: Canada's first radio network was formed, at least temporarily, when CHYC in Montreal and CNRO in Ottawa were linked by telephone lines to broadcast a program celebrating the fifth anniversary of Canadian National Railways.
Dec. 31, 1954: Mutual Broadcasting aired the final episode of "The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok," starring Guy Madison and Andy Devine. The program had begun in April 1951.
Jan. 1, 1923: The ninth Rose Bowl game was the first to be heard on radio. USC defeated Penn State, 14-3, in a game broadcast by KHJ.
Jan. 2, 1938: NBC radio debuted "The Mickey Mouse Theater of The Air," featuring Walt Disney as the voice of Mickey. The children's musical-variety series would air for 20 weeks.
Jan. 3, 1938: NBC's Red Network debuted "The Women in White," a daily serial set in a hospital. Real nurses and doctors appeared with the actors. The series would air for 10 years.
Jan. 4, 1928: NBC broadcast one of radio's first variety shows, "The Dodge Victory Hour," starring Will Rogers, Al Jolson and the Paul Whiteman Orchestra.
Jan. 5, 1940: Inventor Edwin Armstrong gave the first public demonstration of FM radio transmission. The FCC then allocated the frequency range of 44 to 50 megahertz for FM broadcasting. After a few years, the FM band was changed to 88 to 108 megahertz. (The original range would have been television channel 1.)
KKJZ/88.1 FM will air an "All Time Hit Jazz Countdown" starting about 10 p.m. on New Year's Eve. More information: jazzandblues.org.
Orange County Register business writer Jon Lansner is on KFWB/980 AM at 8:12 a.m. Fridays.
"The Pet Place Radio Show" airs 7:30 a.m. Sundays on KMZT/1260 AM (K-Mozart). Sunday's show with Orange County host-producer Marie Hulett looks at pet assisted therapy and also includes an interview with OC Animal Care Center's Ryan Drabek. More info: kmozart.com, petplace.org, and facebook.com/PetPlaceRadio.
Jeff Gehringer features Dionne Warwick on "Jazz at the Spa" at 4 p.m. Sunday on KSPA/1510 AM. Also check out Manny Pacheco's "Forgotten Hollywood" weekly at 3 p.m. Saturdays. More information: forgottenhollywood.com, thesparadio.com.
Bob Goodman's "Whole 'Nuther Thing" at 3 p.m. Jan. 5 celebrates the music of Elvis Presley. More info: ksbr.org. Previous shows are available for download at bobksbr.podomatic.com.
Mari Frank hosts two Monday morning shows on Irvine-based KUCI/89.9 FM starting at 8 a.m. One is "Privacy Policy," followed by "Prescriptions for Healing Conflict." The "Private Policy" topic Monday is ID theft. More information: firstname.lastname@example.com.
"Casey Crime Photographer," "Gunsmoke," "Jack Benny" and "Lights Out" will be played on John and Larry Gassman's "Same Time, Same Station," which streams on demand every Sunday at vintageradioplace.com. It is also available for download beginning Monday or Tuesday at radiooutofthepast.org.
Contact the writer: Freelance writer Gary Lycan is the Register's radio columnist. Write: Show, The Orange County Register, P.O. Box 11626, Santa Ana, CA 92711. You can follow him on Twitter @radioocr. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com


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I can kinda see the "white-collar" image, with formal dress shirts, but "blue-collar" is not intuitive to me, and Dictionary.com and Etymonline are not helpful as to the reason for the color choice. Does anyone know the reason for the color blue in "blue-collar"?
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This question is too basic; it can be definitively and permanently answered by a single link to a standard internet reference source designed specifically to find that type of information. If this question can be reworded to fit the rules in the help center, please edit the question.
"Blue collar" is a reference to the overalls worn by workers in jobs which require working with tools.
The overalls protect their clothing.


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A few years back Grits posed the question, "Is babysitting while white reasonable suspicion for police questioning?" after my granddaughter and I were detained and questioned at length in my neighborhood on suspicion of some nefarious deed (it was never quite clear what). In that incident, the police were pretty clear I was stopped solely because Ty, like her mother (who came to live with my wife and me when she was a child) is black, while I'm an almost stereotypical looking white Texas redneck. At the time, Grits was amazed that three squad cars were dispatched to question me for walking down the street with a child of a different race, detaining me for no good reason and scaring the bejeezus out of then-two-year old Ty.Is this something you worry about? Early on in the adopting process my social worker advised that it was always a good idea to have proof of parentage on you at all times when you and your child's race didn't match. She suggested I always carry a recent picture of the two of us together, so I could show it as proof that I hadn't just snatched my child. Of course, none of these tactics would prevent the initial police encounter, but the thought was at least you could avoid arrest as a kidnapper. . . .
Last night, though, Ty and I got the full jump-out-boys treatment, making our earlier interaction with Austin PD seem downright quaint. It could only have been more ridiculous if they'd actually arrested me, which for a while there didn't seem out of the question.
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Our story began at the Millennium Youth Center in central east Austin, which is a city-owned rec center just a few blocks from my home of 22 years. . . .
Perhaps at 7:40 p.m. or so, after she'd had her fill of skating (if the event were put to music, the appropriate theme song would have been "Slip Slidin' Away"), I asked Ty if she'd like to walk home.
* * *
Our interaction with law enforcement began after we left the Millennium Center on foot, with the giddy five year old racing ahead and me trotting along behind admonishing her to stay out of the parking lot and stop when she gets to the sidewalk, don't run into the street, etc.. She was in a good mood, obeyed, and we held hands crossing the street and as we walked down the bike path toward Boggy Creek and back home.
Then behind us I heard someone call out, though I couldn't make out what was said. We stopped to look back, and there was a dark silhouette crossing the street who Ty thought was calling out to us. We waited, but then the silhouetted figure stopped, crouched down for a moment, then took a few steps back toward the rec center, appearing to speak to someone there. I shrugged it off and we walked on, but in a moment the figure began walking down the path toward us again, calling out when she was about 150 feet away. We stopped and waited. It was a brown-suited deputy constable, apparently out of breath from the short walk.
* * *
"Do you know this man?" the deputy asked. "Yes," Ty mumbled shyly, "he's my Grandpa." The deputy couldn't understand her (though I did) and moved closer, hovering over the child slightly, repeating the question. Ty mumbled the same response, this time louder, but muffled through a burgeoning sob that threatened to break out in lieu of an answer.
The deputy still didn't understand her: "What did you say?" she repeated. "He's my Grandpa!," Ty finally blurted, sharply and clearly, then rushed back over to me and grabbed hold of my leg. "Okay," said the deputy, relaxing, acknowledging the child probably wasn't being held against her will.
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Ty was angrier about this, even, than I was. "Why is it," she demanded a few steps down the path, stomping her feet and swinging her little arms as she said it, "that the police won't ever believe you're my Grandpa?" (Our earlier run in had clearly made an impression, though she hadn't mentioned it in ages.) "Why do you think it is?," I asked, hoping to fend her off with the Socratic method. She paused, then said sheepishly, "Because you're white?" I grinned at her and said, "That's part of it, for sure. But we don't care about that, do we?" "No," she said sternly as we walked across the bridge spanning Boggy Creek just south of 12th Street, "but the police should leave you alone. It's not right that they want to arrest you for being my Grandpa." More prescient words were never spoken.
* * *
As soon as we crossed the street, just two blocks from my house as the crow flies, the police car that just passed us hit its lights and wheeled around, with five others appearing almost immediately, all with lights flashing. The officers got out with tasers drawn demanding I raise my hands and step away from the child. I complied, and they roughly cuffed me, jerking my arms up behind me needlessly. Meanwhile, Ty edged up the hill away from the officers, crying. One of them called out in a comforting tone that they weren't there to hurt her, but another officer blew up any good will that might have garnered by brusquely snatching her up and scuttling her off to the back seat of one of the police cars. (By this time more cars had joined them; they maxxed out at 9 or 10 police vehicles.)
I've never been doubted as a parent to this degree, though I wished I had followed my social worker's advice when the clerk at the pediatric opthamologist's office wanted to see my adoption decree for Maya (yeah, that's what all kidnappers do, take the kid to the pediatric ophthamologist!). But I'm sure familiar with a more benign phenomenon -- the kids are racing ahead of me toward a store, shopper exiting the store looks around for the parents of these Asian kids, and the eyes skim right by me, looking for the matching set of parents! You can just feel this potential Good Samaritan trying to figure out if she needs to intervene to corral these apparantly-unparented children. You call out, "Zoe, Maya, wait up!" The kids stop, the shopper relaxes, we all go on our way. . . .
Have you had similar experiences? How do you explain it to your children?


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Actress Jada Pinkett Smith has compared the harsh media treatment of Justin Bieber to cyber-bullying after the singer came under attack for threatening to beat up an overzealous paparazzo in London.
The teenage superstar hit headlines for all the wrong reasons on Friday after he became engaged in a foul-mouthed altercation with a photographer who had complained about being shoved out of the way by Bieber as the singer dashed from his hotel to a waiting car. Pinkett Smith – whose rapper/actor son Jaden has been supporting the pop hunk on his European tour – has come to the 19 year old's defense with a lengthy post on her Facebook page, insisting she has found it difficult to "differentiate cyber-bullying from how we attack and ridicule our young stars through media and social networks."
The actress does not name names in the message, but it's clear that she's referring to Bieber's recent troubles with the press as she writes: "It is as if we have forgotten what it means to be young or even how to behave like good ol' grown folk. Do we feel as though we can say and do what we please without demonstrating any responsibility simply because they are famous? Is it okay to continually attack and criticize a famous 19 year old who is simply trying to build a life, exercise his talents while figuring out what manhood and fame is all about as he carries the weight of supporting his family as well as providing the paychecks to others who depend on him to work so they can feed their families as well?"
She also draws attention to the heavy criticism recently aimed at confident "Beasts of the Southern Wild" child star Quvenzhane Wallis and singers Taylor Swift and Rihanna, whose love lives are frequently a hot topic in the tabloids.
Pinkett Smith continues, "What about our nine year old beautiful Oscar nominee who was referred to as a c— as well? Or what about being a young woman in her early twenties, exploring the intracacies of love and power on the world stage? And should we shame a young woman for displaying a sense of innocence as she navigates through the murky waters of love, heartbreak, and fame? Are these young people not allowed to be young, make mistakes, grow, and eventually transform a million times before our eyes? Are we asking them to defy the laws of nature because of who they are? Why can't we congratulate them for the capacity to work through their challenges on a world stage and still deliver products that keep them on top…
"We WISH we could have had the capacity to accomplish HALF of what they have accomplished along with ALL these challenges they face. But…maybe THAT'S the problem…we WISH we could have or even…we WISH we could."
Her supportive words have clearly given Bieber a boost as he presses on with his tour; he took to his Twitter.com page on Monday and praised Pinkett Smith for her commentary writing, "you are the best!!"


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Shape Environments needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 217 designs submitted by 43 freelance designers.
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SHP Leading Design (http://www.shp.com), a full-service architecture firm, is launching an LLC (Shape Environments) to provide visualization services for new and existing clients. Some of these services will involve taking very detailed, technical documents and designing visuals to communicate them, while other services will include more traditional types of design.
Personality of Shape Environments: Bleeding Edge (especially as it relates to technology), Creative, Collaborative, Agile, Intelligent, Modern
Objective of Shape Environments: Translate technical, complex concepts and into visuals that are beautiful, inspiring and communicate to a wider audience.
Decision-makers in the commercial, higher education and healthcare markets.
The goal is to create a logo that embodies both the personality and objective of the brand.
It is not necessary to design a logo or icon that illustrates the progression from technical to inspirational. In fact, we'd rather you didn't. The logo should reflect the objective, not the process.
We'd prefer the use of some type of avatar or icon that we could use as a watermark; we're open to your interpretation of this as long as it satisfies the watermark use.
Vectors only; winner will need to supply AI, EPS, PDF and all supporting files
Please – no stock images or clipart.
***A note: we find it interesting that SHP exists within the word "Shape," and that the remaining letters "AE" can refer to SHP's industry (architecture and engineering).
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