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Google Play offers a rich platform for developers to showcase their high-quality, age appropriate content for the whole family. Before submitting an app to the Designed for Families program or submitting an app that targets children to the Google Play Store, you are responsible for ensuring your app is appropriate for children and compliant with all relevant laws.
Learn about the families process and review the interactive checklist at Academy for App Success.
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Designing Apps for Children and Families
The use of technology as a tool for enriching families' lives continues to grow, and parents are looking for safe, high-quality content to share with their children. You may be designing your apps specifically for children or your app may just attract their attention. Google Play wants to help you make sure your app is safe for all users, including families.
The word "children" can mean different things in different locales and in different contexts. It is important that you consult with your legal counsel to help determine what obligations and/or age-based restrictions may apply to your app. You know best how your app works so we are relying on you to help us make sure apps on Google Play are safe for families.
Apps designed specifically for children must participate in the Designed for Families program. However, if your app targets children as only one of its audiences, participating in the Designed for Families program is still a great way to surface your app to the right users. If you decide not to participate in the Designed for Families program, you still must comply with the Google Play Families Policy requirements below, as well as all other Google Play Developer Program Policies and the Developer Distribution Agreement.
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Target Audience and Content
In the Target Audience and Content section of the Google Play Console you must indicate the target audience for your app, prior to publishing, by selecting from the list of age groups provided. Regardless of what you identify in the Google Play Console, if you choose to include imagery and terminology in your app that could be considered targeting children, this may impact Google Play's assessment of your declared target audience. Google Play reserves the right to conduct its own review of the app information that you provide to determine whether the target audience that you disclose is accurate.
If you select a target audience that only includes adults, but Google determines that this is inaccurate because your app is targeting both children and adults, you will have the option to make clear to users that your app is not targeting children by agreeing to carry a warning label.
You should only select more than one age group for your app's target audience if you have designed your app for and ensured that your app is appropriate for users within the selected age group(s). For example, apps designed for babies, toddlers, and preschool children should only have the age group "Ages 5 & Under" selected as the age group target for those apps. If your app is designed for a specific level of school, choose the age group that best represents that school level. You should only select age groups that include both adults and children if you truly have designed your app for all ages.
Updates to Target Audience and Content Section
You can always update your app's information in the Target Audience and Content section in the Google Play Console. An app update is required before this information will be reflected on the Google Play store. However, any changes you make in this section of the Google Play Console may be reviewed for policy compliance even before an app update is submitted.
We strongly recommend that you let your existing users know if you change the target age group for your app or start using ads or in-app purchases, either by using the "What's New" section of your app's store listing page or through in-app notifications.
Misrepresentation in Play Console
Misrepresentation of any information about your app in the Play Console, including in the Target Audience and Content section, may result in removal or suspension of your app, so it is important to provide accurate information.
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If one of the target audiences for your app is children, you must comply with the following requirements. Failure to satisfy these requirements may result in app removal or suspension.
App content: Your app's content that is accessible to children must be appropriate for children.
Google Play Console Answers: You must accurately answer the questions in the Google Play Console regarding your app and update those answers to accurately reflect any changes to your app.
Ads: If your app displays ads to children or to users of unknown age, you must:
only use Google Play certified ad networks to display ads to those users;
ensure ads displayed to those users do not involve interest-based advertising or remarketing;
ensure ads displayed to those users present content that is appropriate for children;
ensure ads displayed to those users follow the Families ad format requirements; and
ensure compliance with all applicable legal regulations and industry standards relating to advertising to children.
Data Collection: You must disclose the collection of any personal information from children in your app, including through APIs and SDKs called or used in your app.
APIs and SDKs: You must ensure that your app properly implements any APIs and SDKs.
Apps that solely target children must not contain any APIs or SDKs that are not approved for use in child-directed services. This includes, Google Sign-In (or any other Google API Service that accesses data associated with a Google Account), Google Play Games Services, and any other API Service using OAuth technology for authentication and authorization.
Apps that target both children and older audiences should not implement APIs or SDKs that are not approved for use in child-directed services unless they are used behind a neutral age screen or implemented in a way that does not result in the collection of data from children (e.g., providing Google Sign-in as an optional feature). Note that all users must be able to access your app and a reasonable amount of its functionality.
Privacy policy: You must provide a link to your app's privacy policy on your app's store listing page. This link must be maintained at all times while the app is available on the Store, and it must link to a privacy policy that, among other things, accurately describes your app's data collection and use.
Special restrictions:
If your app uses Augmented Reality, you must include a safety warning immediately upon launch of the AR section. The warning should contain the following:
An appropriate message about the importance of parental supervision.
A reminder to be aware of physical hazards in the real world (e.g., be aware of your surroundings).
Your app must not require the usage of a device that is advised not to be used by children. (e.g. Daydream, Oculus)
Legal Compliance: You must ensure that your app, including any APIs or SDKs that your app calls or uses, is compliant with the U.S. Children's Online Privacy and Protection Act (COPPA), E.U. General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and any other applicable laws or regulations.
Here are some examples of common violations:
Apps that promote play for children in their store-listing but the app content is only appropriate for adults.
Apps that implement APIs that have terms of service that prohibit their use in child-directed apps.
Apps that glamorize the use of alcohol, tobacco or controlled substances.
Apps that include real or simulated gambling.
Apps that include violence, gore, or shocking content not appropriate for children.
Apps that provide dating services or offer sexual or marital advice.
Apps that show mature ads to children.
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Apps designed specifically for children must participate in the Designed for Families program. If your app is designed for everyone, including children and families, you too can apply to participate in the program.
Before being accepted into the program your app must meet all of the Families Policy requirements and Designed for Families eligibility requirements, in addition to those outlined in the Google Play Developer Program Policies and Developer Distribution Agreement.
For more information on the process for submitting your app for inclusion in the program, click here.
Program Eligibility
All apps participating in the Designed for Families program must have both app and ad content that are relevant and appropriate for children and must satisfy all of the requirements below. Apps accepted into the Designed for Families program must remain compliant with all program requirements. Google Play reserves the right in its sole discretion to reject or remove any app determined to be inappropriate for the Designed for Families program.
Designed for Families Requirements
Apps must be rated ESRB Everyone or Everyone 10+, or equivalent.
You must accurately disclose the app's interactive elements on the Content Rating Questionnaire in the Google Play Console, including whether:
users can interact or exchange information;
your app shares user-provided personal information with third parties; and
your app shares the user's physical location with other users.
If your app uses the Android Speech API, your app's RecognizerIntent.EXTRA_CALLING_PACKAGE must be set to its PackageName.
Apps must only use Google Play's certified ad networks.
Apps designed specifically for children cannot request location permissions.
Here are some examples of common apps that are ineligible for the program:
Apps that are rated ESRB Everyone but contain ads for gambling content
Apps for parents or care-givers (e.g., breastfeeding tracker, developmental guide)
Parent guides or device management apps that are only intended for use by parents or care-givers
If you are accepted to participate in the Designed for Families program, you can choose a second Families-specific category that describes your app. Here are the categories available for apps participating in the Designed for Families program:
Action & Adventure: Action-oriented apps/games, including everything from simplistic racing games to fairy tale adventures, to other apps and games that are designed to generate excitement.
Brain Games: Games that make the user think, including puzzles, matching games, quizzes, and other games that challenge the memory, intelligence or logic.
Creativity: Apps and games that spur creativity, including drawing apps, painting apps, coding apps, and other apps and games where you can build things.
Education: Apps and games designed with input from learning experts (e.g., educators, learning specialists, researchers) to promote learning, including academic, social-emotional, physical, and creative learning, as well as learning related to basic life skills, critical thinking, and problem solving.
Music and Video: Apps and games with a musical or video component, including everything from instrument simulation apps to apps that provide video and musical audio content.
Pretend Play: Apps and games where the user can pretend to take on a role, for example, pretending to be a chef, care-giver, prince/princess, firefighter, police person or fictional character.
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Mountain View's Mike Fell now longest tenured coach in Mesa district starting 4th season
When he arrived from Ohio in 2016 to coach Mountain View football, Mike Fell couldn't have known that four years later he would be the longest-tenured coach in the Mesa district.
"That's all right," he said. "But you know, it tells you people have a lot of expectations. Things haven't been great in our region, so we're looking for some solid teams."
Mountain View opened spring football Monday with more than 100 eager football players hoping to turn around a 4-6 2018 season.
Coaches introduced themselves to the players at the start of Monday's workout. New to the staff is offensive line coach Mark Northey, who served in that capacity at Mesa Skyline, before the Coyotes fired head coach Angelo Paffumi at the end of last season.
Northey has Mountain View roots. He graduated from the school in 1982, playing for Jesse Parker when the Toros were rolling as one of the best high school football programs in Arizona. He also coached under Parker at Gilbert.
Tony Tabor, who led Scottsdale Desert Mountain to its best season in 2009 when it reached the state semifinals, remains as the defensive line and special teams coach. Tabor is excited to see freshman defensive end Malaki Ta'ase grow into what he believes will be a beast. He said California has shown interest in the 6-foot-2, 220-pound Ta'ase, who figures to play a big role for the Toros in 2019.
"Last year, I missed spring ball, and now I get all of this," Ta'ase said. "I'll get strong, go 100 percent, so by next season, I'll be good."
Ta'ase has high expectations.
"I guarantee we'll got 7-3, or 8-2, or 9-1," he said.
Right now, Fell would be happy about getting the guys to learn the offense and defense and form a tight bond during spring ball, as things progress into summer 7-on-7s and an Aug. 23 opener at Tempe Corona del Sol.
The players Fell coaches as freshmen in his first season will be seniors in the fall.
"They've gotten a little better every day," he said. "They weren't real strong as freshmen. They got better as sophomores. Last year, a lot of them were JV players and we had an undefeated JV team. Some of them got varsity time. We'll see what we've got."
Expectations might be higher at Mountain View than any other Mesa school, mainly because of the success in the late '70s, '80s, '90s and for part of the 2000s. The Toros won eight state championships at the highest level between 1978 and 2002.
Fell led the Toros to the state playoffs in his first two seasons, going 7-4 in 2016 and 6-5 in '17. Those came after they sank to 3-8 in Chad DeGrenier's last season at Mountain View in 2015. DeGrenier is now entering his first season leading the Mesa Jackrabbits, after a short stint at Gilbert Mesquite.
Even though the Toros took a step back last season, Fell is hopeful that they can get back to being as solid a program as Red Mountain, which has had the most success among the Mesa schools in the past couple of years under Mike Peterson, who will be starting his third season.
Red Mountain went 10-3 in 2017 and 9-3 last season.
"Red Mountain has done a nice job," Fell said. "We want to be that team getting to the playoffs and doing some damage. Our big thing is we're just going to take care of ourselves. Last year, we had a really tough schedule in the first month of the season. We were worried about those games instead of just getting better. When those things didn't go well, we got a little down on ourselves."
After opening with a rout of Tempe Corona del Sol, Mountain View lost its next four games in 2018, getting outscored 164-54. Rock bottom hit Oct. 19, a 73-39 loss to Skyline. It was the most points Mountain View allowed in its storied history.
"All of us grew up watching the history of Toro football as being great," junior wide receiver Cash Clark said. "We all decided to come together this year as friends. Last year, we really didn't have team bonding. We weren't close. We want to focus on that and work hard as a team."
The Toros aren't huge so they'll need to rely on quickness, speed and getting back to being one of the toughest teams in Mesa.
"I feel like this team is more connected to one another," said junior quarterback Brandon Nieto, who is expected to take over from graduating Brandon Nunez. "We have a lot of chemistry. I feel like we'll do well."
Key date
Aug. 30, at home against Gilbert Perry. Perry reached the 6A final each of the last two years and returns quarterback Chubba Purdy, one of the nation's top quarterbacks.
Greatest strength
Hard working, committed. Nieto should develop into a decent quarterback and he's got two talented receivers to help him. Clark led the Toros last year with 66 catches for 836 yards and seven TDs. And big target Ethan Davidson (6-foot-3, 205 pounds) is back after he caught 34 passe for 627 yards and eight TDs in his first year ever playing organized football.
Biggest concerns
The Toros didn't have much of a run game last season. Nobody gained more than 400 yards on the ground. Jon Crum, who led the team with 400 rushing yards on 86 carries, is graduating. Defense can only get better, after giving up 319 points in 10 games. Improving that will be a focal point.
To make the playoffs
Sometimes, it doesn't matter how many players are on the roster, but how committed those players are. If Fell can find 30 hungry guys willing to sacrifice every day, these guys should be back in the playoffs.
2019 schedule, all games 7 p.m.
Aug. 14 — Desert Ridge (scrimmage)
Aug. 23 — at Tempe Corona del Sol
Aug. 30 — Perry
Sept. 6 — Phoenix Mountain Pointe
Sept. 13 — Queen Creek
Sept. 20 — vs. Phoenix Brophy Prep, at Phoenix College
Sept. 27 — at Mesa
Oct. 4 — Mesa Westwood
Oct. 18 — at Mesa Red Mountain
Oct. 25 — Mesa Skyline
Nov. 1 — at Mesa Dobson

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According to multiple USA reports, police were called to Kim's house at around 11.30am, where officers found her unresponsive.
The model-and-actress was found dead at her Los Angeles home on Thursday, November 15, after suffering from "flu-like" symptoms, possibly pneumonia, for weeks, and police have now confirmed there was "no foul playing" surrounding her passing.
A spokeswoman for Diddy, Cindi Berger, told Variety: "Sadly, I can confirm the passing of Kim Porter".
T.I.P. penned this message to the hip-hop businessman and his family: "We'll always love you and cherish your lovely spirit". The cause was not immediately clear, and an autopsy will be performed, the LA County coroner's office said.
Diddy, 49, was with Porter on-and-off from 1994 until they split for good in 2007.
Christian Combs, left, and his mother Kim Porter attend the Tom Ford Women's Fall/Winter 2018 fashion show at Park Avenue Armory during New York Fashion Week on February 8, 2018. Another insider claimed that Porter had called her doctor just one day before she passed, as she allegedly hadn't been feeling better. They have three children together.
The couple have three children together - Christian, D'Lila Star and Jesse James Combs. Rapper Mase, 41, who was a star of Diddy's Bad Boy Records at the time Kim started dating the music mogul, wrote on Instagram, "Can't Believe Someone So Special and Contributed So Much..." She captioned the image, "Love".
Tiny Harris called Sean "Diddy" Combs's former girlfriend a great mom while T.I.P. said she was a real angel. "Chin up puff, Positive vibes only", wrote rapper 50 Cent on Twitter.
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Meghan Markle's Family: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
By Jessica McBride
Updated Nov 27, 2017 at 10:14am
Thomas Markle, Meghan Markle's father. (Instagram/Meghan Markle)
Prince Harry, whose engagement to Meghan Markle was announced Monday, is about to marry into an American family.
Meghan Markle's mother, Doria Ragland, is a yoga instructor and social worker with whom Prince Harry's flame seems very close. Her father, Thomas Markle, has worked as a lighting director for U.S. soap operas.
Meghan is the daughter of divorced parents: Meghan's parents divorced when she was six, according to UK Daily Mail. She has written emotionally about her mother and about what it is like being a biracial person (her mother is black, and her father is white). Many sites give her mother's name as Doria Radlan, but, on her Facebook page, Meghan's mother calls herself Doria Ragland.
According to BBC, Prince Harry, who is the fifth in line to the British throne, and Markle, announced their engagement on November 27, revealing the marriage will occur in spring 2018. "They will live at Nottingham Cottage in Kensington Palace, London. The couple, who have been dating since the summer of 2016, secretly got engaged earlier this month," BBC reported, as the couple posed for photos and Prince Harry and his father declared themselves both "thrilled" by the news.
Prince Harry and actress Meghan Markle during an official photocall to announce their engagement at The Sunken Gardens at Kensington Palace on November 27, 2017 in London, England.
It was widely believed an engagement was imminent after Doria joined Meghan and Prince Harry in a private box to watch the Invictus Games, demonstrating the growing seriousness in her daughter's relationship with the British prince. An engagement is now expected soon. In addition, to her parents, Meghan has half siblings who have generated negative headlines.
First picture of Prince Harry, Meghan Markle and her mother Doria together – courtesy of top Daily Mail photographer Mark Large pic.twitter.com/7tp211ilhY
— Rebecca English (@RE_DailyMail) October 1, 2017
Here are more photos from that moment:
Meghan Markle attends Invictus Games closing ceremony with mother Doria Radlan pic.twitter.com/FZ7UpGaV36
— Royal Highness (@vaninaswchindt) October 1, 2017
1. Meghan's Mom has a Master's Degree in Social Work & Her Parents Are Divorced
In 2016, Meghan wrote a tribute to her mom on Instagram, complete with a photo of her mother in a graduation cap and gown. She has spoken about their close relationship. "Always proud of this beautiful woman," she wrote on Mother's Day. "This was when she graduated from USC with a masters in social work. Honoring my mom, Doria, and all the amazing mamas in our lives."
Meghan Marke and her mother, Doria Ragland. (Instagram)
Doria's Facebook page says she works in social work at Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services in California. She says she went to Fairfax High School and lives in Los Angeles. She is friends on Facebook with "Meghan Markle Engelson," which was Meghan's married name (Meghan Markle is divorced from Trevor Engelson). On another mother's day, Meghan referred to her mother on Instagram as her "hot mama."
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According to Hello Magazine, "Meghan is a yoga devotee and began practising at the age of seven with her instructor mother Doria Radlan." In December 2016, Meghan and her mother were photographed walking together in Toronto with yoga mats.
Suits star Meghan has described her mother as a "'free-spirited clinical therapist' who took her daughter travelling to remote – often impoverished – places around the world" and once said, "Both my parents came from little, so they made a choice to give a lot," UK Express reports.
According to Daily Mail, "Harry also asked Meghan's parents Thomas Markle and Doria Ragland, who divorced when their daughter was six, for her hand in marriage before popping the question a few weeks ago," and Meghan's parents said in a statement, "Our daughter has always been a kind and loving person. To see her union with Harry, who shares the same qualities, is a source of great joy for us as parents."
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Thomas Markle, Meghan Markle's Father: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
2. Meghan's Father Worked as a Lighting Director
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According to the Sun, Tom Markle, Meghan's dad, "is of Dutch-Irish origin, and was born in 1945. Thomas is a former television lighting director working on iconic US shows including Married with Children and General Hospital." The Sun adds, "In 2011 he won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Lighting Direction for a Drama Series for his work on General Hospital, a long-running US soap. He was married to Meghan's mother, Doria Ragland, in 1979 – but they divorced in 1988."
Meghan wrote about her childhood in an essay in Elle Magazine. In it, she says that her parents met in the late Seventies when her father "was a lighting director for a soap opera and my mom was a temp at the studio. I like to think he was drawn to her sweet eyes and her Afro, plus their shared love of antiques. Whatever it was, they married and had me."
They moved to a non-diverse area of LA, where Meghan laments that her mother would be mistaken for the nanny, according to Elle Magazine. Meghan "spent time on film sets as a child because her father Thomas was a lighting director on the series Married with Children and General Hospital," reports UK Express.
She has described her father as the "most hardworking father you can imagine" and said, "My father was the lighting director on two television shows as I was growing up," UK Express reports.
According to UK Daily Mail, both of Meghan's parents have filed for bankruptcy; her mother in 2002 "over a $52,750 credit card bill." Her father is a lighting director thought to be in Mexico, reports Daily Mail.
3. Meghan's Half Sister, Samantha, Has Criticized Her in the Press
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Markle has a half sister, Samantha, through her father's first marriage, who has criticized her in the press, accusing Meghan of mistreating their father, UK Daily Mail reports. The half-sister, Samantha Grant, is the product of Thomas Markle's first marriage to Roslyn Markle, and, at age 52, is considerably older than Meghan.
Samantha Grant called Meghan "narcissistic and selfish," UK Daily Mail reports. According to The Sun, Grant is planning a tell-all book on the family. "Mum-of-three Samantha Grant, also known as Samantha Markle, is a 52-year-old former actress and model, who lives in Florida, US," the site reports. She is in a wheelchair because of multiple sclerosis, the site reports.
Grant accused Meghan of not supporting her family and being overly ambitious, supposedly changing once she found success in Hollywood. "Samantha Grant doesn't have a relationship with Meghan Markle and she never has. As they were 17 years apart, they were never raised in the same house. Meghan was raised an only child by her loving parents," a source told E! News in April. It is widely believed that Markle Grant is coming out of the woodwork in an effort to capitalize on her sister's fame.
You can read more about Samantha Grant here:
Samantha Markle Grant & Meghan Markle: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
4. Meghan Has a Half Brother Who Has Defended Her But Has Had His Own Troubles
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Meghan also has a half brother, Thomas Markle Jr., who has defended Meghan, according to UK Daily Mail. Grant's mother, Rosyln, also defended Meghan and told The Daily Mail that Grant once referred to Meghan's mother as the "maid" because she was black.
Daily Mail reports that Thomas Markle Jr. remains close to Meghan even though he was arrested after he was accused of a "drunken altercation with his girlfriend." Meghan's half brother told Daily Mail that their father had met Prince Harry in Toronto and has given his stamp of approval on the relationship.
UK Express reported in January 2017 that "Thomas Markle Jr, 50, has been charged with menacing, pointing a firearm at someone and unlawful use of a weapon, according to police." The site notes, "Thomas Jr is a window fitter who lives in Grants Pass with his girlfriend Darlene Blout, 36. His sons – Tyler, 27, and Thomas Dooley, 25, also live nearby."
The ex-wife of Meghan's half brother, Tracy Dooley, said in an interview that Thomas Jr. was "happy and proud" of Meghan, adding, "They used to be very close but there has been some separation over the years. The last thing he would want to do is hurt her."
5. Meghan Opened Up About Her Bi-Racial Identity in a Magazine Interview
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Meghan has written openly about what it is like being bi-racial, especially growing up. Her mother is black, and her father is white. She penned a moving essay for Elle Magazine, which includes many anecdotes about her parents. The article discusses "creating her identity and finding her voice as a mixed race woman."
In the article, Meghan explains how people repeatedly inquire "where she is from," when she knows what they are really after: "My dad is Caucasian and my mom is African American. I'm half black and half white."
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She eloquently wrote, "Being biracial paints a blurred line that is equal parts staggering and illuminating." However, the essay is uplifting. She concludes, "While my mixed heritage may have created a grey area surrounding my self-identification, keeping me with a foot on both sides of the fence, I have come to embrace that. To say who I am, to share where I'm from, to voice my pride in being a strong, confident mixed-race woman."
You can read the full Elle essay here.
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Autobytel recently reported the results of a survey (sorry, no methodology or sample size provided) that points to the inevitable - consumers want Internet in their cars. And it's young people leading the way.
The fact that those under 35 are especially desirous of Internet on the go is no surprise. As "The Bedroom Project" showed, and subsequent research has confirmed, it is youth that leads the way down the digital highway. In this case, that journey is about to become even more cluttered with entertainment and information choices.
As Paul reported from CES back in January, the auto companies now see themselves as consumer entertainment companies. They recognize that digital media has simply been placed on a new platform, one that has a chassis and wheels.
So even if the data and the predictions from guys like Ford's Alan Mulally are on the exuberant side, the digital writing is on the wall. In the not-so-distant future, the choices while you drive are going to grow exponentially. Young people will lead the way, but inevitably, large segments of the population will be treated to a myriad of what we called "Control-Variety-Choice" in our first ethnographic journey.
What does this mean for radio?
First, the lines will blur between local radio, Internet radio, and other entertainment and information sources. Those over 40 will know that KGO is a local station if you're driving around in the Bay Area, but younger people will begin to view the radio dial as more "infinite" (with a tip of the cap to Edison). And they won't care whether a station is local, global, terrestrial, or internet. It will inevitably be about who's playing the best song or providing the right mix of infotainment at the right time.
Second, terrestrial radio will need to have its secret sauce. Or that USP that gives it an edge over the many choices - often commercial-free - that will compete for time and attention. Will it be personality, local coverage, community connection, metro discounts, or something altogether different that compels a consumer to punch up an in-market station and enjoy the content?
Third, streams will be judged, evaluated, and accepted or rejected. In the same way that television/cable channels are scrutinized if they're not broadcasting in HD or if the picture is inferior, so will local stations that stream.
So, let's spend a moment on #3.
When was the last time you critically listened to your station's stream? Have you given it a true test drive for quality, durability, and listenability? How are you programming those long commercial breaks - in a way that keeps online listeners tuned in or turned off because of repetitive promos and other material that is simply annoying?
In-car streaming will be a huge deal. And because local brands have been established, terrestrial radio stations will have a leg up - at first. To allow that advantage to erode because of a lack of attention and resources directed at streaming infrastructure is inexcusable. Just as resources and personnel are dedicated to that tower, transmitter shack, and rack room, radio needs to start seriously thinking of its stream as a key platform in its future, whether on laptops, smartphones, iPads, or in dashboards. Your stream - or streams - live at that intersection of analog and digital.
And given that P1s are your most likely streamies, there is no reason not to pay attention to the next major wave.
"The next major wave?" You guys are in Detroit. You know that it takes a few years to get auto concept from design studio to production. So if Detroit has caught the wave, where was radio?
And if I hear one more "McGruff the Crime Dog" PSA in a streaming stop set, I'll rob a bank.
No doubt, Ed. The "filler" is bad. Just don't rob the bank. Thanks for reading/commmenting.


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Napoli humiliated Lazio 5-0 with a brace from Gonzalo Higuain and inspirational Lorenzo Insigne performance.
On the final round of last season, a 4-2 Lazio win here secured third place and the Champions League play-off spot. Maurizio Sarri had since taken over and, after a 5-0 demolition of Club Brugge, was looking for his first Serie A victory on the Partenopei bench. The Aquile missed Antonio Candreva, Lucas Biglia, Miroslav Klose, Stefan de Vrij and Ravel Morrison.
In the opening minutes there was an unorthodox Federico Marchetti save as Gonzalo Higuain stretched out a leg to redirect Lorenzo Insigne's cross. Keita Balde Diao then missed an open goal from nine yards, totally undisturbed on a Dusan Basta drag-back.
Allan's volley was deflected just wide and Raul Albiol tried to lob Marchetti from midfield, but Higuain broke through when he turned Wesley Hoedt and drilled right into the bottom corner from outside the box. Remarkably, it was Pipita's ninth goal in just five Serie A meetings with Lazio.
Napoli continued to pour forward and pinned Lazio back into their own half. Insigne was inspirational and created the second goal, cutting in from the left before setting Allan up with a wonderful disguised through ball, the former Udinese midfielder powering home the finish.
Insigne almost got one himself, dribbling past Basta only for the chip to be deflected over the bar, then another was smothered by Marchetti at the near post.
Lazio were completely absent from that first half, so Stefano Pioli made a double substitution. However, Napoli added a third goal when Higuain cut in from the left, dribbling past two defenders and his shot was beaten into the path of Insigne. It seemed as if the two forwards exchanged roles during that move.
Higuain had a similar spectacular solo run and this time was able to finish it off himself, riding two tackles at high speed before smashing it across Marchetti.
Sergej Milinkovic-Savic hit the side-netting, but Lazio were absolutely steam-rollered at the San Paolo. It would've been worse, but Marchetti had his gloves stung by Insigne after a splendid first touch to control Jorginho's long ball.
Manolo Gabbiadini came off the bench and made it 5-0, running on to a wonderful Allan through pass to deposit into the empty net.
Pepe Reina denied Lazio a consolation goal late on, using his knee to parry Keita at the near post, and from the resulting corner Sergej Milinkovic-Savic nodded on to the crossbar.
As excellent as Napoli were, Lazio also lost 4-0 to Chievo this season and have the worst defensive record after four rounds, on a par with newcomers Carpi.


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West of Independence Soundtrack Part 3
To Recap:
1. Willy Porter "Unconditional"
2. David Bowie "Heroes"
3. Journey "Don't Stop Believin'"
4. Matt Hires "State Lines"
5. Toad the Wet Sprocket "Windmills"
6. The Damnwells "Texas"
7. Ian Axel "Gone"
8. Greg Holden "The Lost Boy"
The first time I ran away, my mother packed for me. I remember standing on the front walkway, my hand gripping the black metal handle of the red wagon into which she had placed my belongings. I was to start my new life with a bag of Mom's soft and sugary ginger snaps, my favorite blanket, and not much else.
I was four years old.
"You might want a big stick," Mom said, standing in the open doorway of the little white house that I would never call home again.
I looked up at her, seeking one final explanation.
"The neighbor's dog," she said, pointing at the fence up the street.
"Oh," I said to her back. She had already stepped inside and was shutting the door.
In spite of following that one last piece of advice from my mother, I never made it past the dog.
Some sticks just don't seem to carry enough weight.
From West of Independence page 90:
Just as it had to other states, the fight over the definition of marriage soon came to New Hampshire. Before long, the hallways and classrooms at church echoed with fearful comments and excited arguments against gay marriage. I was confused and frustrated; I loved my brothers, and I knew that Jared wanted nothing more in life than to be joined in happiness with someone that would love him without qualifications. That seemed reasonable to me, since it was exactly what Ella and I had been fighting for in our own marriage. The issue for most church members seemed to be the threat posed to the institution of marriage by legally joining two men or women. It was to me a silly notion, the thought that anyone could threaten a marriage other than the two people in it, but I listened earnestly to many of my fellow Mormons as they argued their case. I spent several weeks waiting for a clarity that never came.
I felt like a homeowner standing on his lawn with a dribbling garden hose, watching as a menacing brushfire crept ever closer to everything he owned. I could stand and try to fight back the inevitable, or I could admit defeat and run away. The trouble was that I wasn't sure which side was the menacing fire.
In an effort to figure it all out and put a permanent end to my wondering, I accepted an invitation by church leaders to carpool up to a public debate on gay marriage at the statehouse in Concord.
We sat in the large auditorium-like chambers of the state legislature and waited for the debate. The government was as slow in action as it had ever been, and we spent a fair amount of time just growing ever more impatient.
I watched as a constant flow of citizens entered the room. The line of demarcation was clear; a long aisle between the many rows of seats separated the opposing points of view. Upon walking through the double doors, people would step almost immediately to the left or the right, heading for the security of their fellows. I found it disheartening that the very room in which people were meant to come together for the good of all had been built as if division were in fact its intended purpose.
Not everyone had clued in on the obvious segregation, however. At one point two men holding hands crossed in front of our group, the limited space between seats causing their legs to brush against the knees of everyone in the row. I was horrified as my father made a show of pulling his legs up into his chest to prevent the gay men's legs from touching him. As he did so, I heard him half-mutter, "I wouldn't want it to rub off on me."
My head was floundering in a pool of disbelief. I knew Dad to be intolerant in private, but had never seen such an outward display of hatred from him in public. I felt a large measure of the respect I had for my father disappear before the two men had reached the end of our row.
9. Rick Springfield "Tear It All Down"
"And all that time, I wished that I could talk to you. I hated myself and all the terrible things I was doing, but I was too afraid, and embarrassed and guilty, and I didn't feel that I could come to you with any of it. I wanted more than anything to talk to you about it and hear you tell me that you knew what I was going through, and that I wasn't going to hell, and that you still loved me. But I was too afraid to tell you, and so I buried it and tried to live with all the guilt and hate that I felt for myself."
Rain slapped against the windshield of Dad's parked minivan, blurring the world outside.
"I just wish it could have been different between us; I wish I could have talked to you," I added softly as the tears dried up.
Newly married and desperate for aid in overcoming my absolute misery, I had just revealed every one of my darkest secrets to my father. If he had ever wondered as to my carnal desires and what I might have done to either suppress or satisfy them, he wouldn't have to anymore. I felt vulnerable but good, having said things to my father that I had carried around deep within myself for years.
The engine clicked and pinged as it cooled. I sat still and quiet, fighting impatience as I allowed Dad time to process my confession and all that it meant for our relationship.
"I often wondered what I would tell you boys should one of you ever asked me if I had done any of those things," Dad began at last.
I looked at my father. This was our moment; after this evening we would move forward not so much as father and son, but rather as equals on level ground.
"And you know what I decided?"
I looked away and waited for his next words, knowing that after hearing them, things between us would be different.
"It's none of your damn business," he said curtly.
My side of the car seemed to sink as he opened his door and stepped out onto the pavement. He slammed the door behind him, and I wasn't startled by the sound. I turned to watch him cross the driveway, his shoulders hunched against the rain.
By the time he had disappeared into the house, I knew that things would indeed be different between us.
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But I knew for a fact that Dad had his own share of bad habits and carnal appetites to overcome. I had witnessed his hypocritical self-righteousness first hand. When I had once called him out on one of his own stumbling blocks, he had shared with me the ever popular "the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak" excuse that gave him and so many others the right to sin and run away from the consequences.
10. Greg Laswell "Sweet Dream"
Since Jared died, we have done a lot together. We have driven across burning deserts, paddled quiet rivers under the northern lights, watched movies in dark and empty theaters, and one night he even taught me to fly.
I love to hate waking up.
Since he worked nights, Jared had to sleep at some point during the day. He would often crash on our couch, covering himself from head to toe in a blanket so that he could sleep in relative darkness. Ella would chase the kids outside or upstairs so he would not be disturbed.
While I loved having Jared there to laugh and joke with, it was while he lay sleeping on our couch that I felt the happiest. My little brother was asleep on my couch during daylight hours, and I was okay with it. I felt that I had become the loving brother that Jared had always needed, rather than the self-appointed surrogate father that I had always been.
11. HYUNA "Bubble Pop"
A co-worker once caught me dance-driving back to the office after a lunch meeting. She told the entire company that she had seen me popping my shoulders, bobbing my head, and singing into the steering wheel with an enthusiasm that made Richard Simmons seem comatose in comparison. I think it might have been a Cher song, but I can't won't recall...
The months after Jared's death were without question the darkest of my life, but there were a few sources of light that kept me from living under a total eclipse. One source was most unexpected, arriving in the form of my little brother (Connor). He would sit in our kitchen for hours, strumming his guitar to Korean pop songs that he had found on YouTube. Most of the kids' homework assignments that year were completed to the uplifting beats and cheerful foreign lyrics about bubbles and shy boys.
I have downloaded a number of those songs to my iPod, and they kept my feet on the pedals as I biked from the top of Utah to the bottom last year. I find it impossible to remain sad and still when these songs are sounding against my eardrums.
Plus, the girls are much cuter than Cher.
As we passed them by and continued our way through the fallen stone trees, I felt sad for Connor. He knew what he wanted out of life, but for some time he had harbored less than little hope of getting it.
Had he asked me, I would have told Connor that he would know a relationship was worth having if the changes he was willing to initiate within himself to make it last were the most ambitious and difficult of his life. They would not be the juvenile changes that stem from an initial attraction. They would eclipse the willingness to shop for shoes, watch chick flicks, or enjoy the company of her overbearing best friend. The changes would be almost impossible to initiate, painful to follow through on, and would at times test his resolve beyond belief and reason.
Had he asked, I would have also told him that they would be worth it in the end.
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No recovery until Yeltsin gone-Yavlinsky
Interview By Adam Tanner
- Grigory Yavlinsky, head of the pro-reform opposition party Yabloko, said on Sunday Russia's economy would not substantially improve until President Boris Yeltsin left office.
"Things will be better only when there will be a new president,'' Yavlinsky, a candidate for president in the next elections, told Reuters in an interview.
Yeltsin has vowed to serve out his term until the elections in 2000 despite calls for his resignation. A poll of 1,500 Russians reported on NTV television on Sunday said 66 percent favoured his immediate resignation.
Yavlinsky, 46, leads the fourth-largest faction in the State Duma, the lower house of parliament, which will vote on Monday on whether to confirm acting Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin in his post.
Long a critic of Yeltsin and his government, Yavlinsky said his party would again reject Chernomyrdin, but said it was unclear how other parties would vote.
``In Russia only an idiot would make predictions,'' he said. ``I've been in politics for 10 years, which is the entire time that politics have existed in Russia. It's exactly because I've been in politics for 10 years that I can say my partners' positions change very often.''
The Duma rejected Chernomyrdin overwhelmingly during its first vote last week. It can reject him up to three times before the constitution requires a dissolution of the legislature.
On Monday morning Yavlinsky and other parliamentary leaders will meet Yeltsin for last-minute discussions before the vote.
``As a rule, it's quite rare that he says something sensible,'' Yavlinsky said of Yeltsin. ``Nothing is clear, and considering the partners I have it's not clear what to expect from them -- from Yeltsin, from the Communists.''
Economically depressed Russia suffered a further blow three weeks ago when the government devalued the rouble, leading to a sharp rise in prices.
Some experts have warned of civil unrest, but the streets remain calm.
``I'm worried that things could really worsen, but I don't think it would lead to a disaster,'' Yavlinsky told Reuters.
``The main problem in Russia is that there is no civil society, there are no stable parties, there's no continuity, there's no heritage, there's no traditions,'' Yavlinsky said.
``The world must understand that Russia must create a civil society from the grassroots....Otherwise we'll have a Babel.''
Asked about the likely course of the rouble, which has fallen from six to the dollar to 17 in recent weeks, Yavlinsky said: ``For now it will continue to get worse, because there is no production, there are no exports.''
One of the authors of a 500-day plan to boost the Soviet economy under President Mikhail Gorbachev, Yavlinsky said he had stayed up all night on Saturday to prepare a new programme.
``I am writing a programme of immediate and medium-term measures,'' he said. ``We will publish it mid week.''
Gorbachev rejected the original 500-day plan and it was not clear whether Yavlinsky would win support for his latest ideas.
In an opinion poll in the latest weekly Obshchaya Gazeta, 16 percent of 936 polled Muscovites said Yavlinsky would be the best candidate for prime minister. Only six percent in the poll mentioned Chernomyrdin as the best man for the job.


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The Youth Advisory Committee (YAC) functions similarly to a board of directors. It is a governing body that provides guidance and vision like a board. It also can influence decision making like a board does. In this way, the YAC can have meaningful impact on the lives of youth in our community because they are helping to shape effective services. You might be thinking, "Okay, the YAC governs and make suggestions but what does that really mean?" The YAC could do things like:
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HOUSTON — Hey, everybody. Welcome to our pre-trade-deadline chat. Glad you could join me for this unique event.
It's unique because this was an internal chat about the Feb. 19 trade deadline, questions I came up with and answered in the 5 a.m. ride to the airport today, the long security line in Newark and the long flight here . So let's get started.
Hey, you do a great job. But what I don't understand is why the Nets would consider trading Vince Carter?
YES Insider: Thanks, AI. The reason the Nets are considering it is because they have to. They have to listen and see what they can get for him, especially since he's 32 and has been healthy all season. If they wait, and he has a bad year next year, his trade value goes down. So they have to listen and see if something makes sense.
What would it take for them to trade Carter?
YES Insider: Ideally, so tired, the Nets would make a Jason Kidd-like deal: get a good, young player that can be an All-Star, some young players, draft picks and salary-cap flexibility. But deals like that don't always happen. They're actually very tough to do.
I've been reading about some 4-for-1 deals with the Spurs and another one with the Mavericks for Josh Howard and Jerry Stackhouse. Could they happen?
YES Insider: Look, So hungry, anything is possible, but neither of those is likely. With the first, the Nets would have to part with three players before they could do that deal. They're either eating contracts or trading players for draft picks or doing both in order to get Roger Mason, George Hill, Bruce Bowen and Fabricio Oberto or Michael Finley – not easy and not smart. Maybe they include a third team. As for Howard for Carter, Keyon Dooling and Eduardo Najera, remember something: the Nets own the Mavericks' No. 1 pick in 2010. They don't help them and lessen the value of the pick.
Do you think Rod Thorn wants to trade Carter?
YES Insider: I don't think he does, deadline watcher. Just like I didn't think Thorn wanted to trade Kidd before he asked out and made the Nets miserable. But he has to listen. In the end, I think Thorn is a smart man who cares about his legacy. He was the guy who drafted Michael Jordan, made the Nets relevant and a power by trading for Kidd, Richard Jefferson, Carter and eventually moving Kidd for Devin Harris. Thorn isn't going to want to make a trade that makes him look bad. Thorn survived the Kenyon Martin deal for three draft picks, made necessary by ownership, by turning those picks into Carter. If Thorn does something, it's doubtful cap space will be the reason, again, unless it's ownership's edict. He's not giving Carter away.
What will the fan reactioncbe if they move Carter?
YES Insider: The fans won't be happy, accountant, especially if he's moved for a young player or two and salary filler/expiring contracts. This team already flaunts their alleged move to Brooklyn every chance they get and have lost fans because of that. There will be no one left. If the Nets did something with Carter, that means they traded Kidd, Jefferson and Carter in the same year. The fans would go with them.
We keep talking about Carter. What about the other Nets? Who stays and who goes?
YES Insider: Other than Brook Lopez and Devin Harris, all the Nets are fair game, sleepy. They also would like to hang on to Yi Jianlian. But I think the Nets want to do something. It just comes to whether they can find a deal that makes sense. They don't want any bad contracts in return, add any payroll or take back someone else's problem.
Back to Carter, how do you think his teammates would react if he's moved?
YES Insider: I don't think they would be happy, full guy. He has meant so much to them from a leadership and belief standpoint. He has been the biggest pusher of the Nets quieting the critics and being a playoff team. They have followed him, and if he's gone, it would send a bad message to the young guys as well as the veterans who believed and wanted to see some playoff shares.
Everyone talks about money in either 2009 but mostly 2010. The Nets may have money, but does it guarantee they get anyone?
YES Insider: Of course not, proud papa. There is a cautionary tale to be learned from the Bulls and pre-Joe Johnson Hawks that if you have all the money in the world and your team stinks, it doesn't mean players will come there. The Nets have to show they have something first to intrigue people and they're not as good without Carter as they are with him. There also are no guarantees that if the Nets have all the money in the world that they'll be able to spend it.
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A review by T. F. Rhoden of Alfian Sa'at's Malay Sketches.
Exploring identity in a multi-ethnic community through fiction can be a sensitive subject. The importance people place on identity is often a prickly topic these days—especially in multi-religious, multiracial communities like that of Singapore's five and a half million citizens. In November 2017, the Singaporean Institute of Policy Studies presented evidence that for the first time more Singaporeans identify with the city-state than with their own ethnic lineage. The remaining half of survey respondents, however, still felt a "simultaneous" identity of both Singaporean and racial heritage.
Yet these statistics only go so far in understanding the subject's sensitivity for many people. Alfian Sa'at's Malay Sketches is a short story collection that achieves a balance between the sensitive nature of analyzing race and ethnicity from the perspective of a minority and a playful inventiveness by making the discussion seem lighthearted. First published in 2012 by Ethos Books, it be will released early in 2018 for the international market by the new imprint Gaudy Boy.
In ethnically-Chinese dominated Singapore, Aflian's perspective in these short stories is valuable for investigating the daily lives of those individuals who may not fit the stereotypical, Chinese-looking Singaporean. Alfian, who is himself a Singaporean Muslim of mixed Hakka, Javanese, and Minangkabau descent, is a creative interpreter of Singapore's unique society for outsiders.
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Same as it ever was: Whistler luge World Cup results similar to 2010 Olympics
All of the 2010 Olympic luge gold medalists claimed hardware in the World Cup held Dec. 9-10, 2011, in Whistler, B.C., Canada. While the track on Blackcomb Mountain was slightly reconfigured this off-season, the results differed little.
Serve the curve.
The doubles kicked off the World Cup on Friday afternoon, and Austria's Andreas and Wolfgang Linger repeated their 2010 Olympic gold medal performance. The team of Linger/Linger finished in first with a two-heat time of one minute, 22.644 seconds, and set the track record of 41.255 in their first run.
The doubles, as all luge disciplines in the 2010 Olympics, started one start height lower due to the tragic death of Nodar Kumaritashvili during an Olympic training run on this track. This means that the doubles, as the women, enter the track at curve 6 at an angle that is very sharp. While each team faces the same difficult curve, it basically reduces this race to those doubles teams that can correctly negotiate the first 50 meters of track correctly. Scrubbing off too much speed at the top of the Whistler track will immediately take you out of the medal hunt, especially in a field as competitive as doubles, as this track is very fast at the bottom.
"The atmosphere here is great and we like the track," Andreas Linger was quoted on the International Luge Federation (FIL) website. "Well, if they would change the start just a little bit it would be perfect." Well said, Andreas.
Second place went to another Austrian team, the tandem of Peter Penz and Georg Fischler, with a time of 1:22.888. The bronze went to Italians Christian Oberstolz and Patrick Gruber at 1:22.943. The first 10 places in the doubles race were separated by only .509 seconds.
2010 Olympic silver medalists Andris and Juris Šics didn't compete, as Juris is still recovering from a nasty off-season car accident. The bronze medalists from the 2010 Games, Patric Leitner and Alexander Resch, have retired.
Team USA was led by Matthew Mortensen and Preston Griffall in 12th place, .735 seconds out of first. They had the 13th fastest run in each heat.
America's other entrant, the team of Christian Niccum and Jayson Terdiman, found themselves in 12th place after their first run but were disqualified before the second heat when the temperature of their steels was found to be slightly warmer than the control temperature.
Niccum/Terdiman posted a time that was almost the same as their Thursday bronze medal Nations Cup time, while the winner of that race, Germany's Ronny Pietrasik and Christian Weise, slid .103 faster than their Nations Cup time en route to a fourth place World Cup finish.
The young American team of Shane Hook and Zachary Clark finshed in 18th place with a time of 1:27.434.
Grip. Rip. Slide.
There's a saying in luge that you can't win a race at the start, but you can lose it. Well, it's time to call BS on that one, at least as it relates to the Whistler track, as the sliders with the fastest starts took the top seven spots in the men's race.
As in the 2010 Olympics, the men slid one start lower on the ramp originally designated for the ladies, and it is a very easy and flat ramp. Combine this with a track that isn't particularly demanding and one that gains speed quickly, and you have a recipe for a 1200 meter start competition.
Germany's Felix Loch repeated his 2010 Olympic triumph with a first place finish in 1:36.480. Johannes Ludwig, also of Germany, took home silver at 1:36.758 and set the track start record in his first run. He was followed closely by teammate and 2010 Olympic silver medalist David Möller at 1:36.778.
Oh, there was another German in fourth place. Andi Langenhan tripped the timing eye at 1:36.946. And sixth place went to Ralf Palik, also from Team Deutschland, at 1:37.202. Canada's Samuel Edney managed to sneak into fifth place with a time of 1:37.061.
"It has to be acknowledged that German lugers have a bit of an advantage with this start," Loch is quoted on the FIL website. "Thanks to our good performances at the start, our German team has an advantage – we have to admit that," added Möller. Captain Obvious has spoken.
The 2010 Olympic bronze medalist from Italy, Armin Zöggeler, finished in an uncharacteristic 13th place and couldn't make up for his slow start. Even Russia's Albert Demtchenko couldn't overcome his slow start, but he did use his, ahem, momentum to move up a few places and finish in eighth at 1:37.283. Memo to Albert: Russia hired Germany's former start trainer – you might want to introduce yourself.
The Americans qualified two young sliders for this race. Taylor Morris finished in 25th at 1:38.317, and Isaac Underwood was close behind in 28th at 1:38.632. Psst, USA men's sliders, there's a reason you need to train like an animal every day in the summer – please see the previous German quotes.
Medal swap.
The women's race was very close, with the top 13 sleds separated by only.983 seconds. While the racing was close, the results were similar to the 2010 Olympics.
First place went to 2010 Olympic bronze medalist Natalie Geisenberger of Germany with a time of 1:23.439. Geisenberger also managed to lower the start record in her second run. The 2010 Olympic gold medal winner, Germany's Tatjana Hüfner, finished a scant .043 behind Geisenberger after she said she didn't catch hold of her sled handles. Hüfner settled for the silver. Third place went to Russian Tatiana Ivanova at 1:23.606. Canada's Alex Gough just missed the bronze at 1:23.685 and finished fourth.
America was led by 2009 World Champion Erin Hamlin. She finished sixth with a time of 1:23.909. Hamlin is certainly showing speed – she made up more time than any other top-eight competitor after the start split.
"It was a good two solid runs. Better than the last time here," said Hamlin in an interview with Gordy Sheer from USA Luge. Hamlin finished 16th place at the 2010 Olympics after having trouble negotiating the start curve. While Hamlin said that her start curves were good, she mentioned that she'd done even better in training.
"Erin had two good runs," said Mark Grimmette, USA Luge head coach and program director, in an interview with Sheer. "She had one or two small mistakes . . . she slid fast with the starts she had."
The other American slider, Ashley Walden, posted start splits similar to Hamlin's but she couldn't hold the speed and finished in 22nd place.
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The Team Relay event concluded the Whistler World Cup as Germany avenged their defeat by Canada in the first World Cup. The German team's combined time of 2:18.773 bested the host Canadians by .228 seconds. Russia finished in third place, .389 seconds behind the Germans.
The American team finished in sixth place with a total time of 2:20.280. Hamlin led off with the second fastest women's time, just .017 behind Germany's Geisenberger.
"I had a pretty awesome run in the relay," Hamlin was quoted on the USA Luge website. "In the relay, I let things flow at the bottom and I didn't force it to be there."
Hamlin was followed by Matheson and he posted the slowest time of the men in the eight-team field. The Americans are fielding a young men's team for the first half of the World Cup season, as their top male slider, Chris Mazdzer, chose to stay home and do some equipment testing. Without Mazdzer, it will be tough sledding for the Americans to medal in the Team Relay.
The doubles team of Niccum/Terdiman followed up with "a pretty bad run," according to Grimmette. "Their feet were down for a good portion of it [the run]." Their time of 47.484 was sixth fastest.
The World Cup now moves east to Calgary, Alberta, site of the 1988 Olympics. Complete Whistler race results can be found on the USA Luge website.
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