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Swimming Pool Blog
by Rob Cox, December 21, 2009
POOL SAFETY: Footprints on the Web
Who are the major players in swimming pool safety on the internet? Which websites create the most influence, drive the most support for education and legislation for the safe use of swimming pools?
Swimming pools can be dangerous, especially to small children. In an average year, over 300 young children drown in swimming pools and spas, and over 2000 emergency room visits occur for near drownings. Diving accidents have been said to put more young men in wheelchairs than motorcycles. Garnering a lot of attention lately with the year old Virginia Graeme Baker Act have been entrapment injuries, where unsafe pool and spa drain fittings have trapped swimmers with their powerful suction.
Government and Advocacy Groups have taken the largest role in helping to reduce swimming pool accidents, drownings and near drownings. Some of the more influential pool safety websites are outlined below.
The Consumer Product Safety Commision has nearly 1000 search results on the topic of swimming pools, on their website CPSC.gov. Covering all topics of safety, the CPSC helps industries create safer products by cataloging incidents and injuries. You'll find safety information on just about every pool product imaginable, even those you many have considered to be completely safe. A sister website of the CPSC is poolsafety.gov, an easy to use, more consumer friendly portal for pool safety information and resources. Join their email list to receive updates related to the safety of swimming pool products.
The Pool Safety Council (PSC) is a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit advocacy group dedicated to overall pool safety and, specifically, the prevention of child drowning nationwide. PSC boasts a diverse group of supports of more than one hundred pool safety experts and organizations, pool owners and operators, families of individuals impacted by pool-related injuries and leaders from the pool and equipment industries. Their website can be visited at PoolSafetyCouncil.org.
ABCpoolsafety.org has dedicated itself to keeping children safe around pools. The information contained in ABCpoolsafety.org has been compiled through a collaborative effort of fire departments, cities, counties and other drowning prevention organizations. I like that their home page stresses that Drowning is Silent. The ABC's of drowning prevention include 1. Adult Supervision 2. Barriers 3. Classes. A fairly simple recipe for swimming pool safety.
A resource for parents, with topics on all things kid, KeepKidsHealthy.com has a searchable knowledgebase of articles related to pool safety. Billing themselves as a "Pediatrician's Guide to your children's health and safety", these folks have put a lot of work into building a far reaching parenting resource. Searchable by age, or by topic, the editors have put together an exhaustive library of swimming pool safety information.
SafeKidsUSA.org has safety information on all types of water, not just pools. Boating, Beach and Bathtub safety in addition to pool and spa safety. Another Advocacy group located in Washington D.C., SafeKidsUSA promotes aquatic safety with several programs, including their popular "Kids Don't Float" and SafeKids "Water Watcher" programs. With fun activities for kids to learn about pool safety, SafeKidsUSA programs are easily implemented into school and organization education efforts.
The Association of Pool & Spa Professionals, APSP.org, has always has safety as a driving focus and a way to serve their members. The largest association of pool and spa industry folks, APSP has developed many safety programs aimed at educating members with safe installation and design standards. The popular Gus & Goldie program, aimed at school age children, provides member chapters with a fun way to bring pool safety information to schools and civic organizations.
A new site from APSP, called Splash Zone, is a fun, interactive website specifically for children to learn about pool safety. Also available are brochures, coloring books and other media to get the word out on pool safety.
There are many other Swimming Pool Safety Advocacy groups not listed above, doing great work to keep our swimming pools safer, and accident free. With so much information, and so many necessary safety products such as pool covers, pool fencing, pool alarms, etc - a pool drowning is a senseless, preventable tragedy. If you are a pool owner, please read up, shut the gate, and remember that drowning is fast and silent. Watch your kids, your neighbor's kids, and keep your pool safe!
~ here's a few more notable players on the internet, sharing their passion and expertise to help prevent pool drownings:
- Abbey's Hope: www.abbeyshope.org
- American Red Cross: www.redcross.org
- Drowning Prevention Foundation: drowningpreventionfoundation.us
- National Drowning Prevention Alliance: www.ndpa.org/home
- National Recreation and Park Association: www.nrpa.org
- National Swimming Pool Foundation: www.nspf.org
- World Waterpark Association: www.waterparks.org


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Prohibited Duties
Work Activities Teens Are Prohibited From Doing in Non-Agricultural Jobs
Experience has shown some jobs are potentially hazardous for young workers. Washington State and federal laws spell out which jobs are prohibited for minor workers.
For a list of jobs that youth CAN do according to age, see the U.S. Department of Labor's information on YouthRules! (www.youthrules.gov) The list is a sample and is not all-inclusive.
Food Service Fact Sheet (F700-167-000): A guide to the common questions about what teens under age 18 can and cannot do while working in food service jobs.
On this page
- All minors under 18 are prohibited from doing the following work in any industry.
- Additional prohibited job duties for all minors under 16.
- Student-learner exemption requirements for the prohibited hazardous occupations.
IMPORTANT: All these duties are prohibited regardless of the type of industry. This list includes only the main highlights of the child labor regulations. For more detail, see the regulations linked at the bottom of each section.
All minors under 18 are prohibited from doing the following work in any industry
Prohibited duties in restaurants and delis and grocery stores
- Operating meat slicers or powered bakery equipment such as a Hobart mixer.
- Regular driving of motor vehicles to make deliveries, such as pizza delivery. No driving at all allowed for those 16 or under. See administrative policy: Driving by Minors in Non-Agricultural Jobs - ES.C.4.3) (52 KB PDF).
- Driving a forklift.
- Working at heights greater than 10 feet off the ground or floor level.
- Loading, operating or unloading of paper balers and compactors.
- Work in freezers and meat coolers in processing facilities.
- Slaughtering, meat packing or food processing.
- Working alone past 8 p.m. without supervision by someone 18 years or older who is on the premises at all times.
Prohibited duties in construction-related activities
- Roofing - All work on or around a roof.
- Working at heights greater than 10 feet off the ground.
- Wrecking and demolition.
- Elevators, hoists and cranes.
- Flagging.
- Trenching or excavating.
- Boilers or in engine rooms.
- Power-driven woodworking machines.
- Earth-moving machines.
- Explosives.
- Mining.
Note: Those who are 16 and older can perform certain tasks related to electrical work that are not otherwise prohibited. Information about the electrical trainee application can be obtained at the L&I Trades and Licensing Electrical Trainee Requirements page.
Other prohibited job duties
- 17-year-olds may drive only under very limited circumstances. See administrative policy: Driving by Minors in Non-Agricultural Jobs - ES.C.4.3) (52 KB PDF).
- Firefighting.
- Logging and sawmill work.
- Selling candy, flowers, or other items to motorists on a public roadway.
- Work performed more than 10 feet above ground or floor level.
- Manufacturing of brick, tile and similar products.
- Jobs where exposures require the use of respiratory protection or hearing protection.
- Work in saunas or massage parlors.
- Nurses' aide or nurses' assistant, unless the minor is in a state-certified program.
- Jobs with possible exposure to bodily fluids, or radioactive and hazardous substances. See administrative policy: Bloodborne Pathogens and Minors - ES.C.4.2) (47 KB PDF).
For more details, see:
WAC 296-125-030 (app.leg.wa.gov) for Prohibited and Hazardous Employment for All Minors.
Additional prohibited duties for minors under 16
- Driving an automobile.
- House-to-house sales.
- Cooking and baking.
- Operating or cleaning meat slicers.
- Operating food processors.
- Any power-driven machinery.
- Construction.
- Manufacturing.
- Processing operations.
- Public messenger.
- Amusement parks.
- Loading or unloading trucks.
- Transportation, warehouse, storage and work around conveyors.
- Ladders and scaffolds, including window washing.
- Maintenance and repair in gas stations.
For more details, see:
WAC 296-125-033 (app.leg.wa.gov) for additional restrictions for those under 16.
Student-learner exemption requirements for the prohibited hazardous occupations
Please refer to the new policy Protocol for Student Learner Exemption ( ES.C.11) (270 KB PDF) for information related to this area. To apply for an exemption for prohibited work related to an educational program approved by OSPI, fill out the Student Learner Minor Work Variance Application.
Partial Exemptions from Non-Agricultural Hazardous
Order Prohibitions (www.dol.gov).
There are limited exemptions from some of the hazardous occupations rules that allow 16- and 17-year-old student-learners to perform the prohibited work (hazardous jobs) in a paid work-based learning experience if certain conditions are met (www.ecfr.gov).
The federal hazardous occupations (HO) and state prohibited duties for non-agricultural jobs that youth may perform if these conditions are met are the same and include:
- Power-driven woodworking machines (HO #5 and WAC 296-125-030(5) (app.leg.wa.gov));
- Power-driven metal-forming, punching and shearing machines (HO #8 and WAC 296-125-030(8) (app.leg.wa.gov));
- Meat packing or processing (HO #10 and WAC 296-125-030(9) (app.leg.wa.gov));
- Power-driven paper-product machines (HO #12 and WAC 296-125-030(11) (app.leg.wa.gov));
- Power-driven circular saws, band saws, and guillotine shears (HO #14 and WAC 296-125-030(13) (app.leg.wa.gov));
- Roofing (HO #16 and WAC 296-125-030(15) (app.leg.wa.gov)); and
- Excavation (HO #17 and WAC 296-125-030(16) (app.leg.wa.gov)).
See the U.S. Department of Labor's summary of exemptions:
- Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) - Child Labor Rules Advisor (www.dol.gov).
Additional Washington State exemptions
There are additional restricted work activities under Washington State law that may be considered for a variance on a case-by-case basis:
- Required use of hearing protection under the DOSH Hearing Conservation Standard (i.e. at or above 85 Dba) (WAC 296-125-030(22)) (app.leg.wa.gov).
- Work that may involve exposure to bloodborne pathogens under the DOSH Bloodborne Pathogens standard, (WAC 296-125-030(24))(app.leg.wa.gov).
- Work that may involve exposure to hazardous chemicals or substances under the DOSH Hazard Communication Standard (WAC 296-125-030(25)) (app.leg.wa.gov).
An exemption applies if:
- The student-learner is enrolled in a course of study and training in a cooperative vocational training program under a recognized State or local educational authority or in a course of study in a substantially similar program by a private school; and
- The student-learner is employed under a written agreement which provides
- The work of the student-learner in the occupations declared particularly hazardous shall be incidental in the training;
- Such work shall be intermittent and for short periods of time, and under the direct and close supervision of a qualified and experienced person;
- Safety instruction shall be given by the employer with on-the-job training; and
- A schedule of organized and progressive work processes to be performed on the job shall have been prepared.
The key to all that is that the prohibited work activity can be performed only in certain circumstances and only if it is incidental and intermittent. The minor is not to be performing the task as a regular employee would. The student-learner can not be the principal operator of the prohibited machinery and must work under the close supervision of a fully qualified and experienced adult. The student can operate the machinery only during their training experience, not for an entire work shift. Copies of all relevant agreements between the school and employer must be in place at both the school and the employer settings.
Student Volunteers and Workers' Compensation Coverage Fact Sheet (F213-023-000)
This fact sheet covers availability, limitations and cost of Washington State's optional workers' compensation coverage for student volunteers who are in grades K-12, including those working in unpaid work-based learning placements. This coverage provides payment for medical costs for injuries that occur at a worksite for student-learners who are not paid employees.
For more information, see L&I publications:
- Teens at Work: Facts for Employers, Parents and Teens (F700-022-000).
- Use of Powered Lawn care Equipment (F700-010-000).
- Parent Authorization Summer Work (F700-168-000).
For more detail, see L&I administrative policy:
- Bloodborne Pathogens and Minors (ES.C.4.2) (114 KB PDF).
- Driving by Minors in Non-Agricultural Jobs (ES.C.4.3) (52 KB PDF).
- Protocol for Student Learner Exemption ( ES.C.11) (270 KB PDF).
For more detail, see Washington Administrative Code:
- Prohibited and hazardous employment for all minors (WAC 296-125-030) (app.leg.wa.gov).
- Additional restrictions for those under 16 (WAC 296-125-033) (app.leg.wa.gov).
- Non-agricultural Employment of Minors (WAC 296-125) (app.leg.wa.gov).

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Objects, for Ettore Sottsass, are companions that serve to make us aware of the little every day gestures, like this cake shovel of Nuovo Milano series: an object with a sophisticated design capable of transforming an offer of a slice of cake into a small table ritual.
The Nuovo Milano service was designed by Ettore Sottsass in 1987 by revisiting a traditional cutlery model in a contemporary fashion. The objects of this series are characterised by soft and rounded shapes which are extremely pleasing to the touch like those of a stone smoothened by the sea. Nuovo Milano is one of the most complete services in the Alessi catalog, offering a selection of 26 different types of cutleries. It is made of stainless steel and created from Sottsass's desire to design all the objects necessary for a "Beautiful Table"; this collection of cutleries is a typical contemporary design, approved by XV Premio Compasso d'Oro.VIEW THE COMPLETE RANGE
Born in Innsbruck in 1917, he is known the world over as one of the initiators of the revolution in architecture and design which led away from the rigid functionalism of the years prior to and following the Second World War. A great and influential Maestro of Italian design, the energy of his language and the vitality of his colour and line contrast sharply with any intellectualism and rigidity. He dies in December 2007.


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After hiring the green Vinny Del Negro to become the Chicago Bulls' head coach, the organization has hired some tremendous assistant coaches. Vinny's Prince now has the Revolution — in the form of three aging men.
Del Harris, Bernie Bickerstaff and Bob Ociepka have been brought into the fold. I'm very happy and impressed with these hires. All three guys can ground the organization with pragmatism and experience, supplementing the change of direction and freshness that Vinny represents.
Harris has more than 13 seasons of head coaching experience with a career record of 556 wins and 457 losses. Having been with the Mavericks for the last nine seasons, Harris has been apart of the offensive fluidity of Don Nelson as well seeing the strict defensive schemes of Avery Johnson. Maybe Jerry Reinsdorf will morph into Mark Cuban?
Bickerstaff has been with the Charlotte Bobcats franchise since the beginning. He has served as their head coach, general manager and EVP of basketball operations. Vinny, as well as John Paxson, will benefit from having someone that has managed a team from different angles. Maybe Reinsdorf will turn into Michael Jordan?
Ociepka also has a lot of coaching experience. Additionally, he spent the last two seasons as a Timberwolves assistant. His familiarity with a young core nucleus will also play a part.
Although these aren't your USA National Team assistants (Jim Boeheim, Nate McMillan and formerly Gregg Popovich), this is a great move by the Bulls. For the first time this summer, they have done what I wanted them to do.
I hope they make it Purple Rain.
Photo credit: Palo Alto Daily News


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Image credit: The Goodman Family
By Jason Zweig
3:10 pm ET Feb. 17, 2014
George J.W. Goodman, known as Adam Smith to his readers and Jerry to his friends, died last month, age 83. But his work will outlive him for years, and quite likely decades, to come.
Warren Buffett considers Jerry Goodman the second-best writer ever to explain how the investment business works, after the brilliant Fred Schwed, whose Where Are the Customers' Yachts? (originally published in 1940) remains the finest – and funniest – book on Wall Street ever written.
"Schwed was the best ever," Buffett told me in a telephone interview this past week. "But Jerry, especially in The Money Game, was incredibly insightful, and he knew how to make the prose sing as well.
"He knew how to put his finger on things that nobody had identified before. Jerry stuck to the facts, but he made them a helluva lot more interesting. He was a great writer."
In The Money Game, the best-selling book he published in 1968, Goodman exposed the frenzied trading, epidemic rumor-mongering and bizarrely neurotic behavior that drove many professional money managers throughout what came to be called the "go-go" years of the bull market of the late 1960s.
With a panache no financial writer ever since could hope to match, he cited the mumbo-jumbo of Freudian psychologists, quoted philosophers and poets in untransliterated ancient Greek, and ridiculed Wall Street analysts trying to make sense of momentum stocks with mock names like Murgatroyd Bonbon and Digital Datawhack.
How good a writer was Jerry Goodman? You be the judge:
A stock is, for all practical purposes, a piece of paper that sits in a bank vault. Most likely you will never see it. It may or may not have an Intrinsic Value; what it is worth on any given day depends on the confluence of buyers and sellers that day. The most important thing to realize is simplistic: The stock doesn't know you own it. All those marvelous things, or those terrible things, that you feel about a stock, or a list of stocks, or an amount of money represented by a list of stocks, all of these things are unreciprocated by the stock or the group of stocks. You can be in love if you want to, but that piece of paper doesn't love you, and unreciprocated love can turn into masochism, narcissism, or, even worse, market losses and unreciprocated hate.
— The Money Game (1968 edition, p. 81)
Or consider this passage:
If you are not automatically applying a mechanical formula, then you are operating in this area of intuition, and if you are going to operate with intuition – or judgment – then it follows that the first thing you have to know is yourself. You are — face it — a bunch of emotions, prejudices, and twitches, and this is all very well as long as you know it…. A series of market decisions does add up, believe it or not, to a kind of personality portrait. It is, in one small way, a method of finding out who you are, but it can be very expensive. That is one of the cryptograms which are my own, and this is the first Irregular Rule: If you don't know who you are, this is an expensive place to find out.
– The Money Game (1968 edition, p. 26
Or this one, paraphrasing a money manager who referred to the typical individual investor as "John Jerk":
In more polite circles, John Jerk and his brother are called "the little fellows" or "the odd-lotters" or "the small investors." I wish I knew Mr. Jerk and his brother. They live in some place called the Hinterlands, and everything they do is wrong. They buy when the smart people sell, they sell when the smart people buy, and they panic at exactly the wrong time. There are services that make a very good living out of charting the activity of Mr. J. and his poor brother. If I knew them I would give them room and board and consult them…. I would push the pheasant and champagne through the little hatch of his cell and ask Mr. J. what he was going to do that morning, and if he said, "buy," I would know to sell, and so on.
– "The Day They Red-Dogged Motorola," The New York World Journal Tribune, Oct. 30, 1966
Or here, writing about the enduring investment principles of Benjamin Graham, the great investment manager who wrote Security Analysis and The Intelligent Investor, and who once signed a letter to Goodman "Benj. Graham":
You can see why Benj. Graham never sold like Anyone Can Make a Million or How I Made $2 Million and so on. Telling a game player that he might make some money in two years is like betting him on how tall the corn will grow and then letting him sit on a camp chair in the corn field watching it. And in the long run, Keynes said, we are all dead.
— Supermoney (1972 edition, p. 190)
Or in this profile of the flamboyant mutual-fund promoter Bernard Cornfeld at Cornfeld's castle in the French Alps:
Bernie's Great Danes were romping in the fields, the chickadees from his own aviary were drying their nails around the pool and twittering in several languages, his grapes were growing on their vines, and Bernie had this stack of articles…. the stories weren't financial stories, except that there was a Lot of Money Around in them; instead, they had a breathless, Jackie-and-Ari quality: Bernie and his Rolls, Bernie and his girls. Eventually they would have Bernie and his model agency, Bernie and Pierre Cardin and Guy LaRoche, Bernie and his jet, the one that was going to make Hugh Hefner's Flying Hutch look like a tired Sopwith Camel.
— "Bernie: The Hundred Days at Elba," New York magazine, Aug. 24, 1970.
Personally, my favorite piece by Jerry Goodman is Chapter 5 of Supermoney, titled "Somebody Must Have Done Something Right: The Lessons of the Master," in which Goodman recounts meeting Benjamin Graham – and how that led Goodman to meet a then-obscure money manager named Warren Buffett. It was the first major profile of Buffett ever published and, in my opinion, is still one of the best.
Goodman met Buffett after Graham invited the writer to to help him revise The Intelligent Investor for its 1972 reprinting:
"There are really only two people I would want to work on this," Graham said. "You're one, and the other is Warren Buffett."
"Who's Warren Buffett?" I asked.
That led to several meetings between Goodman and Buffett, with Goodman capturing Buffett in his earnest analytical prime. Visiting Buffett in 1971, Goodman wrote:
We are driving down a street in Omaha; and we pass a large furniture store. I have to use letters in the story because I can't remember the numbers. "See that store?" Warren says. "That's a really good business. It has a square feet of floor space, does an annual volume of b, has an inventory of only c, and turns over its capital at d."
"Why don't you buy it?" I said.
"It's privately held," Warren said.
"Oh," I said.
"I might buy it anyway," Warren said. "Someday."
And, sure enough, Buffett did buy Nebraska Furniture Mart – 12 years later.
In 2003, long after Graham's death, I'd had the honor of editing the latest edition of Graham's The Intelligent Investor. I met Jerry Goodman only once, probably two or three years after that. I immediately recognized him from his television show, "'Adam Smith's Money World." I went up to him and said, "Are you 'Adam Smith'?" "No," he answered puckishly as he shook my hand, "I'm Jerry Goodman."
"I'm Jason Zweig," I said, "and I —" He then said two of the kindest words anyone has ever said to me: "I know."
I asked him the one question I most wanted to hear him answer: "Why didn't you say yes when Ben Graham asked you to work on revising The Intelligent Investor with him?"
"I was just too busy then," Jerry said. "I didn't want to do it at all if I couldn't do it right, and I knew I wouldn't have the time for that."
Buffett told me that Graham was so particular about his own writing that a working partnership with another writer probably wouldn't have worked out in any event.
A last tip from Buffett: He recommends a 1963 movie called "The Wheeler Dealers," starring James Garner and Lee Remick. The plot features a Texas oil man who comes to New York and falls in love with a female stock analyst on Wall Street. The screenplay was written by Jerry Goodman with "all that effervescence of his," says Buffett. "It's a fun movie."
I'd never heard of the movie before.
I don't know about you, but I'm watching it this weekend.
Source: WSJ.com, Total Return blog


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How to Search iPad 2 E-mail
To locate a specific e-mail message on iPad 2, simply search for it using Mail's search capability. Because sending and receiving e-mail messages on iPad 2 is so easy, you'll soon get a lot of it. You'll soon find that being able to search for the one message you want to review is a must-know kind of thing.
1With Mail open, tap the Inbox button.
If you have more than one e-mail account, a list of Inboxes appears. Click the Inbox whose contents you want to view. Messages in the Inbox appear.
2Tap in the Search Inbox field.
The onscreen keyboard appears.
3Enter a search term or name.
For example, to find all the e-mails from Aunt Helen, type Helen. To find the e-mails about the upcoming holiday party at work, type party. You can search an e-mail message's From, To, or Subject fields.
4Tap the From, To, or Subject tab to view messages that contain the search term in one of those fields.
Tap the All tab to see messages in which any of these three fields contains the term. Matching e-mails are listed in the results.
To start a new search or go back to the full Inbox, tap the Delete key in the top-right corner of the onscreen keyboard to delete the term or just tap the Cancel button.


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Mike999939 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de banner publicitario y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 73 diseños de 14 diseñadores freelance.
Life Span Labs
Life Span Labs offers an herbal supplement to improve male sexual health.
On 112degrees.com homepage, there is a rotating slideshow with three banners. Life Span would like to add one more banner promoting publicity from PBS (i.e."As Seen on PBS"). The banners should be 935x250 pixels. The banner should read as seen on PBS and feature the PBS logo (a files attached).
You may also consider watching the video where the 112 Degrees product is featured: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giBa403YUOE. If anything grabs your attention, feel free to grab a screenshot from the video for the banner. Otherwise, try to emulate the style and design of the banners in the existing slideshow on 112degrees.com.
Target audience is 45+ males who have minimal experience with websites. Use clear buttons, fonts, and descriptions.
I would like the files in Illustrator or Photoshop with the layers in place. I want to be easily able to change aspects of the banner in the future.


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Spectacular tropical beaches, world-class shopping, exotic cuisine, amazing sights and a rich culture, this is what Thailand, the land of smiles, is all about!
From the exotic beaches to bustling Bangkok one can see families with children, singles, and business people from all over the world enjoying this magical country. The city has its old world charm as well as being new, chic, and trendy. I have been coming to Thailand for ten years and it just gets more enjoyable every time!!! It's vibrant, alive, and its future is very bright!
The islands of Phuket, Ko Samui, Khao Lak, Ko Chang and many othersare voted continually by travel magazines as having the top beaches in the world for tourists. To Phuket travel is very easy and reasonable from Bangkok with daily flights on Bangkok Air. Here one can find top resorts such as the Amari, Sheraton Anantara to the boutique hotels such Andara Resort & Villas and The Bell Pool Villa Resort. Once there you have many choices of activities from a soothing foot massage on the beach to racing jet ski's in the beautiful emerald waters. At the end of the day stroll on the beach, watch breath-taking sunsets, and dine al-fresco at your choice of restaurants on the water's edge.
You can stay in one of the top hotels such as the Anantara, Westin, Sheraton, or Amari Hotels or be a little more adventurous and find great boutique hotels such as Le Fenix Hotel on Soi 11.
There are four main venues in the heart of Bangkok for shopping along the Skytrain BTS system. The Emporium, Siam Paragon & Discovery, MKB and the new Terminal 21 that just opened this October. Terminal 21 is the new showplace for shopping in Bangkok. It is an amazing complex. Each floor has a different theme such as Paris, Rome, London, San Francisco. This is your one-stop-shopping center with as many restaurants as stores and a gourmet food center to-die-for.
For the bargins and just about anything you want go to MBK shopping center. Here you will find almost everything from beautiful thai silk products, jeans, clothes, new and used electronics, even free Muay Thai boxing outside every Wednesday evening.
An easy taxi ride in Bangkok will get you to the splendors of the Grand Palace, former home of the King and now the showpiece of Thailand's art and culture. Intricate workmanship went into the building of this 10-acre palace with history scenes painted in gold on the walls and the Emerald Buddha in the Wat Phra temple, Thailand's most precious Buddha.
Other sights to see are the famed Jim Thompson house, the man who put Thai silk on the world map, temple Wat Arin, and a boat ride on the Chao Praya river is a must. Asian Oasis, a tour operator in Thailand, has relaxing cruises on vintage golden teak rice barges and also beautiful Thai junk boats down in Phuket. I highly recommend the day trip on the Chao Praya River in Bangkok.
From colorful itinerant street vendors with mild to spicy Thai food such as papaya salad, a Thai favorite, to the top of the world at such restaurants as Vertigo, 61 stories high in the Bayan Tree Hotel, and the Sirocco, seen in the hit movie Hangover 2.
Don't just take my word for it regarding Bangkok and Thailand. Hear some opinions from people around the globe:
Q. What do you think of Thailand?
Swedish - Agneta Debussy - My husband and I moved here from Sweden 7 years ago and just love it! The climate, the food, the culture, and medical treatment, if you need it, is as good as anywhere in the world at a fraction of the cost. The easygoing way of Thai life really makes it a most comfortable place to live. We love it here and don't plan to move back.
American - Scott Thompson - I came over 17 years ago and was fascinated with Bangkok. It is such an exciting city. I enjoy the Thai's sense of humor and their relaxed sense about everything. I'm a big fan of Thai food and have now settled down in Bangkok with a Thai wife and two new twin daughters. I'm here to stay!
Thai - Gift - Asian Spa and Relax Manager. I am native Thai who came down from Auttaya, the ancient city and former capital of Thailand. Bangkok has great business opportunities and is now my home. It's all right here!
Thanks for reading, I hope you found the article informative. Next time I will be featuring the beautiful coastal town of Hua Hin, home of royalty and an exciting as well as relaxing beach escape from bustling Bangkok.
Daniel Herron


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Deacon Giries Mansoer's speech at the joint press conference with Mr. Adnan Oktar (May 12nd, 2011, Istanbul)
MR. GRIES MANSOER: First of all I want to introduce myself. My name is Giries Mansoer. I am deacon in the Catholic church in Israel. I am the General Manager for all the schools of the Church in Israel. Today I am here to put my voice with our brother Adnan Oktar, to call [for] peace to come in our area. As a Christian man, the foundations for our religions are two things: Love and Peace. And I must tell you that as an Israeli citizen I feel freedom to pray according to the Christian religion. We can build a church. We can pray anytime we want. We can visit any church we want, and as a principle in Rama school, we love together Christians, Muslims and Druze. And my dream to bring to my school also Jewish children. And I tell you that the day will come. We are all brothers, and I want to tell you about that we want international protection for the Christians in Egypt, especially what's happening in the last few days there. And I want all the countries in the Middle East to learn how to protect the Christians like Israeli state [does]. We are not against the Arab countries or Arabians, but I am a citizen in Israel, I have an Israeli passport and I am glad to be a good citizen in this state, but I ask all the leaders in the Middle East to sit around a table and to solve all the problems. One day a student in our school asked me, "who is my brother?" And I told him "your brother is every human being." And I believe that if we start teaching that to the children in the schools about peace, about love, about forgiveness. We must have as our goal for all of us to be equal because all of us are the sons [servants] of God. And our Bible said how many of those people are called the peace maker? Everybody must teach in his home to the children to love, and forgiveness and to give peace for this world. I thank Mr. Oktar for this meeting and I'm ready to be the volunteer of the peace process in this land, in the Middle East between the Christians, Muslims, Jews and Druze. Thank you for this meeting again.
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OTTAWA - About one-fifth of Canadians who count an aboriginal language as their mother tongue live in Quebec, according to 2011 census data.
The province counted more than 44,000 people with an aboriginal language as their first language in 2011, a 22-per-cent increase over 2001 data. Since that year, Quebec overtook Manitoba as the province with the highest number of First Nations people who claim an aboriginal language as their mother tongue.
Manitoba and Saskatchewan trail Quebec closely, with 37,770 and 34,055 mother-tongue aboriginal speakers respectively.
Census figures show 213,500 Canadians are native speakers of an aboriginal language - virtually unchanged since 2006 but a nine per cent increase since 2001. The statistical jump coincides with a 20-per-cent rise in the population of native people in Canada between 2001 and 2006.
There were about 1.17 million aboriginal people in Canada, according to 2006 census numbers. The 2011 numbers were not available.
"I think we're seeing a concerted effort to preserve a language that was on the verge of extinction just a few decades ago," said Joe Delaronde, a former council chief in the Mohawk territory of Kahnawake, Que. "Children are learning (Mohawk) in classrooms, adults are learning it in immersion programs, many of them are taking it home and passing it on."
The surge in the use of Mohawk in the Montreal-area reserve isn't reflected in the census data, which only counted mother tongues and languages spoken most often at home. But Delaronde says the changes he sees in his community will show in the long run.
Mohawk is one of the least popular mother tongues among First Nations communities in Canada, as only about 545 people count it as their first language. Despite its modest presence, Mohawk is used on street signs, community newsletters and in large sections of Kahnawake's community-run newspaper.
The largest aboriginal language family in Canada is Algonquian, with 144,015 people claiming a dialect as their mother tongue. Cree and Ojibwa are the two most popular branches of the linguistic family.
"The (Algonquian) language is at the very heart of our identity as a people," Wemotaci Grand Chief David Boivin told Postmedia News in a September interview. "It has a richness to it, it connects us to nature and to our traditions."
Like most of the communities that speak an Algonquian dialect, Wemotaci lies deep within Canada's wilderness. The northern Quebec territory is only accessible by a long trudge down a logging road or up the St. Maurice River.
Although unemployment and poverty remain problematic in the community of about 1,300, an overwhelming majority of the village speaks Algonquian as a first language, and traditional practices like hunting and fishing remain common on the reserve.
"There's poverty, yes, but there's a kind of wealth you retain when you can hold onto your identity," Boivin said.
There's limited data to track the number of people learning a native dialect as their second language. But 2011 figures show that more than 38,000 Canadians adopted an aboriginal language and began using it at home.
"We find a lot of these (38,000) Canadians are younger, which suggests that they're learning the language in school and taking it home," said Kathy Connors, a representative for Statistics Canada.
About 60 aboriginal languages from 12 linguistic families are spoken in Canada.


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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- John Harbaugh stopped on his walk to the Baltimore Ravens' bus, his suit on and an AFC Champions hat tugged tightly over his head. And on the way to the wildest family reunion ever, he was reminded of just how his team had looked 35 days earlier.
That day, his Scotch-taped-together group was overwhelmed by a red-hot Denver Broncos squad that raced to a 31-3 lead before cruising to a 34-17 win in Baltimore. Harbaugh smiled at the memory.
"Looks," he said, "are deceiving."
Want to encapsulate the 2012 Ravens? It's right there, in the five-week period between that loss and the AFC Championship Game.
There was nothing deceptive about what went down at Gillette Stadium on Sunday. The Ravens spent the early going peppering the New England Patriots with jabs before unloading a barrage of second-half haymakers on their decorated hosts, scoring a convincing 28-13 win.
But to simply see Baltimore as the juggernaut it so clearly seemed to be on this night -- without accounting for the road it traveled to get there -- wouldn't do service to the journey. On Dec. 16, Harbaugh might have known that the rest of the world hadn't seen a proper representation of his team, that the loss hadn't marked the beginning of the end for the Ravens. But few others did.
Against the Broncos that day, the Ravens had just four opening-day starters in their defensive lineup, with massive changes having been prompted by a string of unfortunate circumstances. Ray Lewis was still out. Terrell Suggs was playing through a torn biceps, which he'd suffered after coming back from a torn Achilles. The secondary had been decimated. Haloti Ngata had been playing on a sprained MCL all year.
On that afternoon, logic held that it was over for Baltimore.
"Our team is awesome, because we always believed in each other, no matter what we went through," Lewis said in a quiet moment in the tunnel at Gillette. "It shows you how close our team really is. It's special, because everybody went through pain; everybody had to go through some type of pain. And there was always the next man to pick him up and keep his spirits high. When Suggs went through it, I kept his spirits high. When I went through it, too.
"Five of our starters had major surgery? Who does that?"
The Ravens did. And as has been the case with so many things in this topsy-turvy season for Baltimore, it started with something Lewis himself said.
If you ask Suggs to trace it, he'll go back just about one year, after Lee Evans dropped that ball and Billy Cundiff missed that kick and Baltimore went home one game short of the ultimate stage. What Lewis said, the Ravens believed.
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" 'We'll be back next year. We'll be back next year,' " Suggs remembered Lewis saying. "And we didn't put it in the hands of the refs or the kickers. Even though a few of those calls were questionable, we just said, 'We don't need to worry about wide left.' "
Suggs, of course, was the first to go down, suffering his Achilles injury in April, with Lewis' vow still ringing in his head.
"They said, 'You're out -- nine months to a year.' I said, 'No way. Not with the team I got. No way,' " Suggs said. "They told me I was out for the season, and I decided with my heart I wasn't gonna accept that. They told Ray he was out for the season. He decided in his heart he wasn't gonna accept that. So here we are. And the Ravens are going to the Super Bowl."
Lewis and Suggs were both in the lineup Sunday. They both played all the way through. As did Ngata and Ed Reed, who seemed to have been held together by paper clips at times this season.
Maybe more impressive was how, banged up and maligned as the defense was -- it ranked a middling 17th overall this season -- the team that showed up to Gillette played like the Ravens.
Some of the hits were borderline. Others were flagged. But the message was being sent that Baltimore -- just like in old times -- was going to be the aggressor in this heavyweight bout.
The Ravens were still older in some spots and beat up all over the place. And yet, what Harbaugh had seen earlier rang true. Their resilience trumped everything else.
Wes Welker's momentum-turning drop on third-and-8 in the third quarter came three plays after he took a big -- and illegal -- shot from Ravens safety Bernard Pollard. Two Patriots possessions later, Pollard knocked the ball loose from Stevan Ridley -- and knocked Ridley from the game.
Joe Flacco and the offense -- under coordinator Jim Caldwell, who called his first game for Baltimore on Dec. 16, after Cam Cameron's firing -- adjusted in the second half. They spread the Patriots out, picking them apart on three consecutive scoring drives before coming back and running six straight times for two critical first downs.
When it was time to finish the Patriots, Baltimore's defense picked off Brady twice, sending the Ravens to a stage few of us envisioned them climbing a month ago.
"We knew they didn't have us picked for this," Reed said outside the locker room. "We were underdogs for the whole time in the playoffs. We weren't picked, and that's Baltimore's spot. It happens. For you to grow as a team, you gotta have some losses, you're gonna have some tough wins, and you're gonna get after each other. And we did. But we persevered through all that, through everything."
The Ravens, without question, have been through a lot.
And maybe that's why, as Harbaugh said, we'd all been deceived, because there was so much beneath the surface of the team's problems.
After Sunday, though, it'd be hard for anyone to miss what the coach has seen all along.
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Current and past Student Ambassadors had a chance to meet and mingle with one another and faculty at the Simon Benson House on Thursday September 6, 2012.
Dean of Student Life, Michele Toppe gave praise to the program's success throughout the years in an emotional speech, while J.R Tarabocchia, the current director of the Student Ambassador Program happily described his experience of working with a diverse group of students on a day to day basis. Executive Director of Alumni Engagement, Tom Bull called on Alumni to support the numerous student programs on campus and build an Alumni community at Portland State.
Faculty and staff that came to the event include Nicholas Running, the Learning Center Office Manager and new Commencement Director; Assistant Director of Diversity and Multicultural Student Services Melanie R Dixon; and Graduate Studies Advisor, Karen Popp.
Cindy Reyes, a current Student Ambassador stated, "I really liked meeting all the Alumni and others from Government Relations." The current Ambassadors were also able to meet the co-founder and student co-coordinator for PSU Student Ambassador Program, Sahra Vanderkin Rahimtoola. Rahimtoola graduated from PSU in 1997 with a degree in Biology and now works at Kaiser Medical Center.
The program has been serving the PSU community since 1995, giving PSU students the ability to unite with Alumni, dignitaries and perspective students through school tours and special PSU engagements. Additionally, the event provided an opportunity for new and returning Student Ambassadors to meet the PSU community they will be working with throughout the year.
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A Day Among Giants {wedding invitation design}
Over the summer I had the pleasure of designing wedding invitations for my cousin and his lovely bride-to-be. They were set to get married at the Bohemian Grove which might be the most secluded and coolest place on earth. It's a big encampment deep in the redwoods and it's amazing. The happy couple wanted their wedding invitations to reflect the Grove, be a bit fancy but generally simple and understated. I think we did it!
The Grove's towering trees are incredible and the day was even better than I could have imagined.
Thanks, Melissa and Andrew for letting me be part of such a fun day!


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Along the St-Maurice River by Alexi Hobbs
This project aims to explore and investigate rural Quebec as a city-dwelling outsider by photographing people and places along the St-Maurice River and attemps to show a slice of rural Quebec's current cultural landscape.Located in central Quebec, midway between Québec and Montréal and slicing Trois-Rivières right down the middle, the St-Maurice River is of interest because, forsaken by younger generations who've fled for the cities, it is rife with nostalgic idiosyncrasies of abandonment. Contrasting this vacated feeling is the teeming presence of industry and tourism in the shape of hydro-electric dams, logging trucks, snowmobiling, canoeing and dog-sledding foreigners and cityfolk.
Alexi Hobbs is a Montreal, Canada based photographer.
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Tia Hain necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 130 diseños de 34 diseñadores freelance.
Max and Mum
We are a company that specializes in kids' activities. It will be videos, written instructions, and books about different activities that kids (from toddler through grade school) can do alone and/or with their parents. The videos will feature myself (Mum) and sometimes my 2.5 year-old son (Max) demonstrating the activities on our website.
Most activities will be done with household/inexpensive items, such as papertowel rolls, cardboard boxes, etc.
Our target audience is moms and dads of children age toddler through grade school. It will be mostly moms, but dads are also included. The majority of our audience will be stay-at-home parents, but will also include some working parents who are looking to have something enjoyable to do with their kids when they are home.
We are looking to engage parents who like to do activities with their children but are tired of the high cost of going to places like Gymboree.
They want to engage more with their children and are looking for fun, inexpensive activities and projects. Things that remind them of their childhood, like dioramas, gingerbread house making, etc.
We will also be looking to entice the children, since some will find our website and tell their parents about it.
Right now, we are pretty open.
We would like to have the name of the company easily read and visible.
Please feel free to try Max 'n' Mum in the logo as well as Max and Mum.
You can also try the entire name of Max and Mum Kids' Activities, if you like.
Try to make the colors more gender neutral. In other words, nothing to strongly pink. Especially since my son is part of the company name. But we also don't want it overly masculine, either.
We would like it to be playful. We want a logo that immediately makes someone smile and think of fun.
Please note that our tag line is: Save your sanity by keeping your kids busy and happy. But it seems to be too much to include it in the logo. It become distracting. This is just so you have it for reference.
Also to let you know, in case you want to include anything relating to me and/or my son, we both have short, dark brown hair. And, I am fairly average size (size 8). I thought this might be necessary since we will be seen in the videos.
***UPDATE*** - We have noticed the addition of a "Max and "Mum" character detracts from the actual words, so we would prefer not to use them.
Please do not use any stock images or clip art in the logo.
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57 UIS Named to President's Community Service Honor Roll
In 2013, UIS was named to this honor roll for the fifth straight year. During 2011-12 academic year, UIS students spent 65,181 hours engaged in community service.
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I know who "Digby" Daniel Read is at last after such a looooooong time, isn't that wonderful!!!! I am absolutely delighted although I could not have been further from the truth about who he could be and his age.
After a considerable amount of digging and delving and checking this and checking that I came across three related Daniel Reads – Grandfather, Father and Son. They are all from Emberton and Hardmead in Buckinghamshire, just a little group of them, so the main family was from elsewhere.
Grandfather Daniel was born about 1649 in Moulsoe, Buckinghamshire and died at Hardmead in 1716. He married Sarah Hootton in 1682 in Gayhurst, Buckinghamshire and they went on to have six children between 1684 – 1692. One of these children is Daniel who was born about 1687 and he married Rebeka. I have not been able to find where or when that marriage took place or Rebeka's maiden name yet.
Daniel and Rebeka had eight children mostly born in Hardmead, but with a little foray into Bow Brickhill, Buckinghamshire where they had a daughter. One of their eight children was another Daniel. He was born about 1732 in Hardmead and this is "Digby" Read!!!
"Digby" Daniel then marries a local Emberton girl in 1755 and they move away to Bletsoe, Bedfordshire where they have six children. "Digby" Daniel dies before he reaches the age of 40. I have not found his death/burial yet but know his wife is a widow by 1771 as this is mentioned in her Father's Will.
"Digby" Daniel had a brother, Lavender Read (I just so love his name and he is the only Lavender Read anywhere, so far). Lavender married a sister of Daniel's wife and Lavender and Mary moved away also after their marriage but they went to Huntingdonshire. Sadly, Lavender like "Digby" Daniel, also dies in his thirties but his wife goes on to remarry.
So, answers to all my original questions. The Memorandum was done in 1753 with "Digby" taking no part in it, not because he was an old, much respected gentleman who just may have been losing his wits a bit, but because "Digby" Daniel must have been learning the ropes as he was only about 20 years old, so was maybe messing things up a bit! And being under full age he would not be a party to signing any documents.
There was no family for "Digby" showing in the parish registers because at that time he wasn't even married yet! And he wasn't buried there as he was still a young man, yet to marry and have his family and as it turned out, he moved away to another county anyway, so was no longer in Lower Winchendon.
When he settled at Bletsoe, Bedfordshire he had a farm there so he obviously learned enough to run his own place eventually.
I have now managed to go back beyond "Digby" Daniel's Grandfather Daniel to Grandfather Daniel's own Grandfather, Edward Read born about 1600 in Moulsoe, Buckinghamshire. But since there are only a couple of Reads in Moulsoe and a few in Emberton, it is apparent there are other siblings for Edward and his son Thomas that I haven't found yet.
So, still a bit of a brick wall to knock down for yet another Eureka Moment (I hope) to find out exactly how "Digby" Daniel is related to Cozens Read at whose farm he was learning the ropes. And so it also shows that Cozens Read did not go to Lower Winchendon to help his old relative "Digby" as I originally thought.
The search goes on – look out for another Eureka Moment at some stage as I am sure there will be with the "Digby" Read saga!!!!!


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Monday, November 23, 2009
Wild Turkey
Nov 22, 2001: GB 29, DET 27
A Lions' fourth quarter mad rally fell just short but the real story was that my sister was bringing her boyfriend for Thanksgiving she was really high on, so Grandma wanted to do something "special." She saw an ad for Cornish game hens for like $1/piece at Piggly Wiggly so she thought it would be cool to give everyone their individual hen. Grandma Greenfield baked about twenty of them at the same time and when they were ready, each was plated with a side of mashed potatoes and cranberry sauce. As we started cutting open the hens, it became evident why they were so cheap. Each hen was about 80% bone, vein and tendon so bad that by the time you surgically maneuvered around to the meat, it was nothing but chewy and gross. Embarrassed, Grandma begged him to come back for Christmas dinner where she would make it up to him, but they broke up before that came.
Nov 27, 2003: GB 14, DET 22
My cousin Chet brought over his dog he just adopted from the shelter a week earlier – a brown mut named Digger. Digger was more than happy to receive table scraps from anyone willing. Unfortunately, Chet forgot to mention Digger was on a strict diet. The table scraps didn't agree with his stomach and he yacked up a few disgusting piles around the house. The smell was too much to bear so most of the Greenfield men ended up in the garage listening to the game over a case of High Life and a jar of honey roasted peanuts. It would've been OK except for the fact we had to listen to Favre turn the ball over four times in the second half en route to a crappy Detroit loss.
Nov 22, 2007: GB 37, DET 26
Favre and the Pack straight-up torched the Lions this Thanksgiving, but it was my Uncle Frank's shenanigans that we love talking about. Uncle Frank couldn't wait for Christmas, so he purchased a turkey fryer and invited us all over for the inaugural frying. Like the stubborn man he is, Frank decided he could bypass the directions and wing it because after all, "how hard can it be?" The first of the especially bad ideas was setting the fryer next to the garage. The next was dropping the turkey in the vat waaaaay too fast. The firey oil spewed over, bubbling onto his garage's vinyl siding and melting it instantly. Frank freaked out and pulled out a kick reminiscent of the great Daniel LaRusso, knocking the fryer over and onto his driveway. His boot also briefly caught fire and before he could kick it that off, he suffered second-degree burns.
Always good times with the Greenfields on Thanksgiving with the Packers. I volunteered to host this Thursday. Should be interesting. Feel free to share your stories as well – I'd love to hear them.
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I once spent 5 hours on Black Friday chatting up single moms at the Pro Shop. I got three numbers and a referral to the Fox Valley Modelling Agency.ReplyDelete
Not to try and one up Franklin but the best place to chat up ladies is at Cleo's in downtown Appleton. Their mantra, "Everyday is Christmas at Cleo's." Christmas at Cleo's comes in two ways. 1. The whole place is decorated with more Christmas shit then you could ever imagine and getting drunk is a snap with their specialty drink the "dirty snowball."ReplyDelete
2. Cleo's is full of divorcées and middle age single ladies.
As I did last Thanksgiving Cleo's is the perfect place to head to after an afternoon of food and football to spend some quality time with horny, drunk, aggressive, lonely, aging women...a perfect combination for a little Christmas come early.
Jonathan, you're on the shortlist for "Comment of the Season Award". Congrats and best of luck at Cleo's.ReplyDelete
You can drink dirty snowballs, just don't eat them.
I love that Robert listened to the game on the Radio. Reminds me of growing up poor in chicago I listened to the games all the time. Love Wayne and Larry and they do a great job!!ReplyDelete
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There's a very vocal group of Wolfsburg fans who hate that the Volkswagen Golf R has gone the turbo four route and isn't turning back. Well, maybe the answer to calm the woes of the VR6 fans was hidden under the Design Vision GTI concept the whole time.
Recently, we heard rumors of an "extreme" Volkswagen Golf R Evo being developed and bound for Beijing in April. It's supposed to be loaded with carbon fiber and rid of things like a back seat, all in the name of weight savings. Oh, and the power would be upped significantly from the 296 horsepower in the Euro-spec Golf R's 2.0-liter turbo four.
We figured it would just be a very boosted turbo four going into the R Evo. Mercedes has done a very boosted 2.0-liter turbo in its A/CLA/GLA45 models with 355 horses to show for it.
But a tip on VWVortex from an admin's "old Facebook friend" suggests the 3.0-liter turbocharged V6 shown in the Design Vision GTI is bound for something small – like a Golf R Evo. In the Vision, it was rated at 503 horsepower and 413 lb.-ft. of torque with its twin turbos. Even if those figures are brought closer to reality, it should handily beat the 355 figure in those little AMGs.
Or maybe this is just a turbo V6 that's going in a new Touareg or Passat or 3-row crossover. We can dream about a VR6 Golf R, right?
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Armstrong Losses Hit Home With Departure Of 24 Hour Fitness Deal, Co-Branded Clubs
By Barry Janoff
October 18, 2012: The drug-related scandal involving Lance Armstrong has hit even closer to home for the former pro cycler. 24 Hour Fitness has not only joined the list of companies that have ended or are ending their alliances with him, but said it would also remove the Lance Armstrong name from six co-branded fitness clubs, four of which are in Armstrong's hometown of Austin.
The other two are located in Denver and Tigard, Ore.
Armstrong has lost most of his marketing partners over the past two days as the result of a U.S. Anti-Doping Agency report released last week that detailed the widespread used of prohibited performance-enhancing drugs by Armstrong and teammates, which included his seven consecutive Tour de France wins from 1999-2005.
Among the companies severing ties with Armstrong are Nike, Anheuser-Busch's Michelob Ultra, RadioShack, FRS energy drink, Giro, Honey Foods, SRAM and Trek Bicycles.
Armstrong earned an estimated $15 million from endorsement deals in 2011, according to industry analysts.
Many of these companies worked with Armstrong on his LiveStrong foundation, which raises awareness and money to fight cancer, and they have vowed to remain aligned with that effort. Armstrong himself is a survivor of cancer.
The statement released by 24 Hour Fitness mirrored many of those from other now former Armstrong partners.
"Given the evidence surrounding Lance Armstrong's alleged actions, we have determined that our business relationship with Armstrong no longer aligns with our company's mission and values. Over the coming weeks, we plan to remove the Lance Armstrong brand from our six co-branded fitness clubs and further improve these facilities to enable and inspire our members to achieve their fitness goals."
A Web site dedicated to the 24 Hour Fitness Lance Armstrong locations now yields this result: "Thank you for visiting 24HourFitness.com. Unfortunately, we are not able to process your request at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience. Check back with us later. Thank you for your patience while we improve our site."
Among the few remaining companies that have not as yet cut ties with Armstrong is Oakley eyewear, which has said it is awaiting a decision from the International Cycling Union, the world governing body for the sport, on its review of the USADA's report.
According to the ICU, they can either uphold the USADA's findings and the ban and removal of wins — including seven Tour de France victories — that were placed on Armstrong or take the matter to the Court of Arbitration for Sport. The latter is an international body headquartered in Switzerland that was established in 1984 under the then-auspices of the International Olympic Committee to settle disputes related to the Olympics. It was later revamped to become an independent arbitration body that can handle situations related to numerous global sports.
The USADA, whose report includes sworn statements from 26 witnesses, including 11 former teammates, has banned Armstrong from cycling for life and decreed that 14 years of his career results, including the Tour de France wins, be erased.
Armstrong, who has resigned his position as chairman for LiveStrong, has vehemently denied the use of any prohibited substances, claiming that he never tested positive in upward of 600 drug tests he took during his pro career.
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MISENHEIMER, N.C. - The Pfeiffer University women's soccer program has added six more newcomers to the 2012 roster rounding out the Class of 2016 at a baker's dozen for the upcoming fall season. Sadie Lovelace, Kori Holland, Casey Seagroves, Janelle Floyd, Aaliyah Jackson and Amanda Ross will all call Pfeiffer home starting in August.
Lovelace will help anchor the backline on defense coming from current tournament participate Shelby High School. Lovelace has led the Lady Golden Lions deep into the 2A state playoffs with a recent 2-0 win over Owen High on Wednesday night. Lovelace chipped in the first goal of the night and also added a game-winning header with 8.2 seconds left to knock off rival Crest in late April.
Holland travels up from nearby Hickory Ridge High School as a goalkeeper, scholar-athlete and member of the Ragin' Bulls honor roll. Off the field, Holland has also marveled in band for four years as is a part of the Tri-M Honors Music Society. Her time in club ball has been spent with FCCA '94 Elite.
Seagroves come in from Jordan High School in Durham after a successful career anchoring the Falcons defense. Seagroves played three seasons with Jordan helping the team move into the state tournament again in 2012. Outside of the classroom, Seagroves has been the manager of men's soccer and wrestling while playing her club ball with Triangle United '94 Gold.
Floyd will enter Pfeiffer from the coastlines of Myrtle Beach and North Myrtle Beach High School. A two-year captain, Floyd has been named to the all-region team as well as the Most Valuable Player during her junior season. Floyd was also named Most Improved two years ago. As a midfielder, Floyd is helping the Lady Chiefs to a current berth in the South Carolina state playoffs.
Jackson, a midfielder, will come from South Iredell High School in Statesville as a three-time all-conference, all-region and all-county player. Named the CVAC Player of the Year in 2011, Jackson recently put home four goals starting with 25 minutes to play in the second half and into overtime as South Iredell defeated Wheatmore 8-6 in the 2A State Tournament. Off the pitch, Jackson also stars in track and basketball as two of just six off the field activities.
Ross will make a trip south from Severna Park High School in Maryland after being tabbed the team's MVP in 2012. Ross wraps up a successful career being named first team all-county, second team all-state and an honor roll athlete. Ross led Severna Park to the state championship game (falling 3-2 in PK's after a 0-0 contest against Bethesda-Chevy Chase) to go along with county, district and region championships. Off the field, Ross helps out as the student body secretary representing the class of 2012.
Pfeiffer will open up the 2012 fall slate on August 31 taking on Carson-Newman in the Queens Soccer Classic. The Friday night season-opener is scheduled to kickoff at 6:00 p.m.


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Seventh Heaven Cocktail (No. 2)
1 Tablespoonful Grapefruit Juice. (1 Tablespoon freshly squeezed Grapefruit Juice)
1/4 Maraschino. (1/2 oz Luxardo Maraschino)
3/4 Dry Gin. (1 1/2 oz Beefeater's Gin)
Stir well and place a sprig of green Mint on top.
The Seventh Heaven (No. 2) is quite similar to the Colonial Cocktail, with the Grapefruit and Maraschino ratio inverted. And, as such, boy is it pretty awful. I had hope there would be some magic between the bitterness of the grapefruit and the funk of the Maraschino. The Colonial is, after all, a pretty tasty cocktail. But, unless you really like a Maraschino funky, sweet, bitter grapefruit, after dinner cocktail, I'd say avoid the Seventh Heaven (No. 2).
This post is one in a series documenting my ongoing effort to make all of the cocktails in the Savoy Cocktail Book, starting at the first, Abbey, and ending at the last, Zed.


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|For the vehicle sharing the same name, see S.W.A.T. (vehicle).
For the HD Universe counterpart, see National Office of Security Enforcement.
Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) are tactical units of many law-enforcement agencies. In the Grand Theft Auto series, they first appeared in Grand Theft Auto 2, and they appeared in every game up to Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories. In these games, they are the second Law Enforcement Unit to appear once the player has reached a three-star wanted level.
SWAT officers in Grand Theft Auto III wear a Gen X helmet and goggles on top incase of fogging during tear gas release like a real life S.W.A.T. team.
They wear black sunglasses and turquoise coloured clothing. Their vests are blue and the helmets have "POLICE" printed on the front. SWAT Team members in GTA III wield Micro-Uzis.
SWAT officers in Grand Theft Auto Vice City wear dark blue clothing with a tactical vest and kneepads. They also have a blue helmet and a mask covering their face. SWAT Team members in GTA: Vice City wield the Uzi 9mm.
SWAT officers in Grand Theft Auto:San Andreas have a very dark blue appearance and wear a helmet with goggles, a mask and a tactical vest with "POLICE" decals on the front and back. GTA: San Andreas SWAT Officers also have kneepads and a holster containing a Glock pistol, though the Glock is never used in the game and is only seen in cutscenes.
Once the player has gained a three-star wanted level, they will rappel down from the police helicopters, and at a four-star level they will chase the player in their vans. They will also deploy spike strips to slow the player down. They will be deployed out of the helicopters by means of grappling, but only four at a time. Only in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories will they attack the player while stationed in a roadblock. They are also well armored. Their vans are heavy, and are just a little slower than the Police Car. SWAT Teams always seem to aim for the player's tires and blow them out, making it extremely difficult to escape.
However, the dialogue in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas suggests that the SWAT Officers are quite unprofessional. This is reinforced when the officers make quotes such as "Ouch, rope burning my hands", when they are roping from a chopper.
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- In Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas there are several missions where SWAT team members use MP5s instead of Micro Uzis. However, the actual SWAT members that pursue players when they have wanted levels use Micro Uzis and the MP5 was saved for the FBI.
- Despite wearing helmets, SWAT Officers will die instantly if the player shoots them in the head.
- Despite being an elite unit, SWAT Officers in GTA: San Andreas hold their weapons sideways when firing, similar to that of the gang members in the game.
- In the Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Xbox trailer, one of the SWAT had a Golden Micro Uzi.
- The S.W.A.T. tank is only used by the SWAT once.
- Coincidently, the vehicle's HD universe equivalent is only used by the HD universe SWAT counterpart once too.
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- Groupe d'Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale - French armed forces elite teams fulfilling a similar role in GTA Vice City


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The newly revealed Canadian population of 33.5 million would have seemed startlingly large to the country's founding father, Sir John A. Macdonald, who led about one-tenth that many people — some 3.4 million souls — into Confederation in 1867.
A later Conservative prime minister, John Diefenbaker, might have been shocked at the 2011 totals, too; the country he governed 50 years ago had about half as many citizens — 18 million — as the nation led today by one of his Conservative successors, Stephen Harper.
But we all know what happened during the Diefenbaker era, and Harper himself — born at the height of the Baby Boom in 1959 — was part of that single most significant demographic phenomenon in recent Canadian history.
The huge postwar pulse of newborn Canadians, along with pro-immigration policies of successive governments since the days of Dief, helped send Canada's population on the sharp upward trajectory it's still on today.
But despite surging population figures across the West and big increases in nearly every major urban area of the country, it's perhaps worth examining the country's population "explosion" from a global perspective.
For starters, the 33.5 million Canadians counted in the 2011 census — up 5.9 per cent or almost two million people since the last tally in 2006 — is almost exactly the same number of people China added to its population of 1.3 billion in just the past five years.
So do an additional 1.9 million people since 2006 constitute a significant growth spurt? Perhaps in Canadian terms — and even in comparison to other G8 countries, none of which has registered a greater growth rate than this country's since 2001.
But even the second-smallest G8 country in terms of population — Italy — has almost twice as many people (60.7 million) as Canada.
And Canada still barely registers as a blip when it comes to any headcount for all of humanity, in which this country represents a bit less than one-half of one per cent of the seven billion residents of planet Earth.
Remarkably, this country's 33.5 million people represents something akin to the margin of error when it comes to estimating the population of India, where it's hard to get an exact fix on the roughly 1.2 billion people living in the world's second most populous country.
But back to China for a moment: Take note that between 2006 and 2011, the Chinese population grew by approximately 2.5 per cent. Canada's population grew over the same period by 5.9 per cent — more than twice the Chinese rate of growth.
Assuming these respective rates of increase hold indefinitely (and the population growth of India and some other fast-growing Asian nations tail off in the next few centuries) Canada would eventually overtake China as the world's most populous country.
According to calculations by Statistics Canada officials who kindly indulged a curious journalist, this momentous occasion would happen in the year 2581, when China would have 22.57 billion people but Canada's population will have reached 22.95 billion.
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I found this ironer today that looks and works great. I'd like to know how old it is but I can't find any info on the internet. So-o I figure this is the next place to go.
Anyone know what the value might be?
Seems like it would be great to iron fabric after washing it.


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CHB Settlers Museum houses an extensive collection of early settler memorabilia. It is also the primary repository for archives and family history information in Central Hawke's Bay. Holdings include early school registers, early birth records, database records of births, deaths and marriages from the "Waipawa Mail" newspaper and microfilm copies of the "Waipukurau Press" newspaper. The Museum has an extensive photograph collection.
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rhysgregory necesitaba un nuevo diseño de otro y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 12 diseños de 4 diseñadores freelance.
I'm a university student looking to have mug design created. We're looking for it to go on reusuable mugs so that people can be refill their coffee for the day.
Coffee / Hot Chocolate Drinkers
Fair Trade (Can't use the fair trade logo)
I thought I had more time to do this project... look into examples for you all etc but I have ran out of time and I have been told it needs to be done by Wedesday. Hoping you all can help.
The print area is 60 x 245mm wraparound, supplied as an editable EPS + High quality JPG.
The wraparound is going to be inserted into acrlyic reusable mug.
Looking for a coffee/hot chocolate mug design for students.... must give across a fair trade impression.
Possibly a traditional looking mug design but with a fair trade twist.
The mug is for students... that study in the town of 'Aberystwyth' so again a possible theme could be around the sea side town.
If also possibly... must include my university's logo (attached)... this can't be edited. Shield and name must stay in same place but the colour can change. A solid white/brown/gold outline...
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I thought it might be better to post this in this forum.
Try and name a series where somebody bowled better than Warne did in the 2005 Ashes?
And lets keep it intellectual and not just stat based. Anything against Bangladesh, Zimbabwe or even the West Indies or NZ wont count. It has to be a a performance against one of the better teams.
Also try naming a more impacting series than what Flintoff did. Freddie fired at all the right times. Be it putting on a 50 run partnership with Simon Jones, to taking plenty of wickets in the 5th test. The man was built for the stage.
Of course we'll mention Botham's Ashes ahead of it... there's probably an Imran Khan series where he did awesome.
What a great series it was for both men. I never wanna stop talking about it.


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So I have my armor trimmed and ready but I am scared shitless to size it to my body...don't wont to make the mistake of cutting a piece to short. Wondering if any one is willing to help me make sure I don't mess up while sizing my armor to my body. I fit the mold 6' 175lbs but after a rough fit it still feels way to big. Any help would be greatly appreciated! I live in nola but will drive to get help. Yes it is an anovos kit incase you are wondering (1st batch). Thanks again!
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Ha! got your attention, right? Confessions - I have been known to eat an entire pan of brownies, warm from the oven and chewy... ['scuse me, need a napkin] Anyway... Since we are hurtling towards another deployment, I'm gathering ideas for care packages. After 4 deployments, you really think I'd know exactly what to bake to put in those white flat rate boxes, but I get tired of making snickerdoodles (no melting, don't get inedible too quickly and if stale will crumble nicely over anything) and chocolate chip during the winter (melt into sticky goo with crumbs in the summer and turn rancid) I don't like sending package brownies - chemicals and sodium levels are too too high for my liking.
I got an email a few weeks ago - promising me a great brownie recipe for carepackage brownies. Curiosity and hope led me here. A baker actually downloaded and deciphered the MRE brownie recipe... the description is hysterical and horrifying! then the expert took over. As he says, they needed to be close to indestructible, but tasty!
Eventually I turned out what I consider to be epic care-package brownies—dense, with an intense chocolate flavor. Even better, they had a sturdy crumb that didn't crumble. These brownie weren't just tasty; they were tough as soldiers.
His taste testers pronounced them good, they lasted for days without getting hard as rocks or rancid. So, I think I'll head to the store and get some of the ingredients and see what's what. Go to the site and read the post - it's funny. And here's the recipe. Now some of the comments show that some substitutions are easily done - cocoa nibs are expensive and while our care package recipients are worth it... let's face it, it's not always affordable. The espresso powder is available, but in a pinch instant coffee will do as well.
Now then - how about some of our loyal readers do a little experimenting and let us know how it goes? As soon as I get some homework, shopping, laundry, work... done, I'll bake and report!


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Annual, perennial herb, generally from rhizomes
Stem round or flat
Leaves generally mostly basal; sheath margins fused, or overlapping and generally with 2 ear-like extensions at blade junction; blade round, flat, or vestigial, glabrous or margin hairy
Inflorescence: head-like clusters or single flowers, variously arranged; bracts subtending inflorescence 2, generally leaf-like; bracts subtending inflorescence branches 12, reduced; bractlets subtending flowers generally 12, generally translucent
Flower generally bisexual, radial; sepals and petals similar, persistent, green to brown or purplish black; stamens generally 3 or 6, anthers linear, persistent; pistil 1, ovary superior, chambers generally 1 or 3, placentas 1 and basal or 3 and axile or parietal, stigmas generally > style
Fruit: capsule, loculicidal
Seeds 3many, often with white appendages on 1 or both ends
Genera in family: 9 genera, 325 species: temp, arctic, tropical mtns. Fls late spring to early fall.
Annual, perennial herb; rhizome (if any) generally with scale-like leaves
Stem generally cylindric or flat
Leaf: blade well developed and cylindric or flat, or reduced to small point; crosswalls often present (pull fresh blade apart lengthwise to see or slide leaf between fingers to feel); appendages often present at blade-sheath junction
Inflorescence generally terminal (appearing lateral when pushed aside by lowest inflorescence bract); bractlets 02
Flowers: stamens generally 3 or 6 (2 in some very small annual taxa); pistil 1, ovary chambers 1 or 3, placentas axile or parietal, stigmas generally 3(2)
Seeds many
Species in genus: 225 species: worldwide, especially n hemisphere
Etymology: (Latin: to join or bind, from use of stems)
Reference: [Ertter 1986 Mem NY Bot Gard 39:190]
Perennial, cespitose, 525 cm; rhizome creeping, heavy
Leaves mostly basal; sheath appendages 0; blade with flat side toward stem, often = inflorescence, 24 mm wide; cauline leaves 02
Inflorescence: lowest bract < to > inflorescence; branches 15; clusters 1015, 37-flowered
Flower: perianth segments 23.5 mm (sepals > petals), middle papillate, brown or green; stamens 6, filaments slightly < anthers
Fruit > perianth, widely cylindric, dark; tip ± notched, short-beaked
Seed 0.4 mm; appendages minute
Chromosomes: 2n=38
Ecology: Moist places, especially in forests
Elevation: < 3000 m.
Bioregional distribution: Northwestern California, Cascade Range, Sierra Nevada, San Gabriel Mountains, San Bernardino Mountains
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LOS ANGELES -- Quarterbacks Max Wittek and Cody Kessler both will play for No. 24 Southern California in its season opener next week.
Coach Lane Kiffin said Saturday that he couldn't pick a starting quarterback after a full offseason of evaluation, so both sophomores will get snaps Thursday at Hawaii.
"That really is how well both guys did," Kiffin told reporters after practice. "For us, we look at it as a great thing. We've got two guys that we feel great about. We don't feel like we have to limit our offense with either one of them in there."
USC's coaches won't even decide on a nominal starter until they arrive in Honolulu on Tuesday.
Kiffin thinks Wittek and Kessler are even in their competition to succeed Matt Barkley, the Trojans' four-year starter. Wittek started the final two games last season for USC while Barkley was injured, but Kessler had a strong training camp this month.
Wittek has a stronger arm and more experience, but Kessler proved to be more mobile while showing off his resourcefulness during camp workouts. They both beat out touted freshman Max Browne, who also was in contention for the starting spot until midway through camp.
"They've both done so well, made so many plays," Kiffin said. "It didn't show itself that one guy was above the other guy, so we do it all the time with other positions. We're not going to be stubborn and name a starter just because we're supposed to, or that's what we've done for 100 years, or whatever that is. We've got to do with all of our decisions what's best for our team."
Yet Kiffin has spent training camp saying he hoped a starter would emerge, acknowledging that using two quarterbacks isn't an ideal way to build a team with question marks at several offensive positions. Biletnikoff Award-winning receiver Marqise Lee also hoped Kiffin would pick a starter so he could develop his timing with one passer.
"Ideally, we're going to get to that," Kiffin said. "Ideally, we're not going to continue to do this all year. But at the same time, it can't just (choose) because we've had a way of doing things before."
Kiffin doesn't enjoy pretending to choose a starter at any position when he's planning to use multiple players during games. USC's depth chart, which Kiffin gave about "5 seconds' thought" before it was released Saturday, lists multiple possible starters at five offensive positions, including tailback, fullback and right guard.
Injuries also play a role in Kiffin's decisions, because 19 players couldn't participate in the Trojans' practice Saturday due to various problems.
But Kiffin seems confident his offense can build a winning rhythm with two quarterbacks taking the snaps.
"We're excited to see both of them play," he said. "We look at it as an opportunity for two guys to play great, just like when you're excited for two guys to play tailback."


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Offers User-Friendly Interface for Company-Issued Secure USB Flash Drives And Helps IT Professionals Protect Data Across Platforms
MILPITAS, CALIFORNIA, Dec. 4, 2008 -SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK) today announced that the SanDisk Cruzer® Enterprise is the first secure USB flash drive to fully support Apple Mac OS X computers. Available now, SanDisk Cruzer Enterprise helps IT professionals more effectively protect information on company-issued secure USB drives in Macintosh environments.
SanDisk Cruzer Enterprise is designed to meet the unique USB security, compliance and manageability needs of today's enterprises by imposing a hardware-based USB encryption solution that puts mandatory access control on all files as protection against theft or loss of the drive. By supporting Macintosh and Microsoft Windows environments, IT professionals can more effectively use SanDisk Cruzer Enterprise to protect information on company-issued secure USB flash drives across their organizations.
"SanDisk Cruzer Enterprise is ideal for the millions of business users who use Macs at home or in the office," said Yariv Fishman, senior manager, product marketing management, enterprise division, SanDisk. "It combines a simple, user-friendly interface with the addition of SanDisk's tough security and ultra-fast transfer speeds. It's the first secure USB flash drive that provides full Mac support by allowing initialization of the drive directly on a Mac platform."
Cruzer Enterprise in Mac OS X and Windows PC environments has the same features and data security- even if used in both environments. The device can be initialized from either a Macintosh or Windows computer, where users can:
Available in 1-, 2-, 4- and 8-gigabyte (GB) configurations, Cruzer Enterprise supports Apple Macintosh computers running Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" and Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard." Cruzer Enterprise safeguards all files stored on the drive with advanced hardware-based 256-bit AES USB encryption, which combined with advanced password protection makes it extremely difficult for unauthorized users to access data if the drive is lost or stolen. Existing Cruzer Enterprise users may download a firmware update at http://www.sandisk-enterprise.com/macupdater.
SanDisk is a leader in providing innovative, secure USB flash drives and management solutions for the mobile workforce in enterprises and government agencies. SanDisk's enterprise solutions allow IT managers to extend the enterprise security perimeter to mobile storage and boost employees' productivity.
About SanDisk
SanDisk Corporation, the inventor and world's largest supplier of flash storage cards, is a global leader in flash memory - from research, manufacturing and product design to consumer branding and retail distribution. SanDisk's product portfolio includes flash memory cards for mobile phones, digital cameras and camcorders; digital audio/video players; USB flash drives for consumers and the enterprise; embedded memory for mobile devices; and solid state drives for computers. SanDisk is a Silicon Valley-based S&P 500 company, with more than half its sales outside the United States.
SanDisk's web site/home page address: http://www.sandisk.com
SanDisk's product and executive images can be downloaded from: http://www.sandisk.com/corporate/mediakit
For more Information visit: http://www.sandisk.com/Enterprise
SanDisk, the SanDisk logo and Cruzer are trademarks of SanDisk Corporation, registered in the U.S. and other countries. Other brand names mentioned herein are for identification purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective holder(s).
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements, including specifications, applications, markets, customer acceptance and customers that are based on our current expectations and involve numerous risks and uncertainties that may cause these forward-looking statements to be inaccurate. Risks that may cause these forward-looking statements to be inaccurate include among others: our products may not perform as expected, no security technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, new products may not be released when or in the capacities expected, demand for our products may grow more slowly than our expectations, there may be a slower adoption rate for products in new markets that we are targeting, and the other risks detailed from time-to-time under the caption "Risk Factors" and elsewhere in our Securities and Exchange Commission filings and reports, including, but not limited to, our annual report on Form 10-K and our subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. We do not intend to update the information contained in this press release.
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