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“It’s kind of like planting the seeds of the crops, and now you’re getting ready to harvest and reap what your crops have produced.”

– John Danish, DART CEO

By Elaine PaniszczynThirty years ago, Dallas Area Rapid Transit

(DART) started out as a dream of area visionaries, and 13 member cities agreed to dedicate a one cent sales tax to fund the project on Aug. 13, 1983. Today, DART is the longest rail system in North America with 97 miles of light rail. December 2014 DART

will connect to Dallas/Fort Worth International Air-port (DFW) which is dedicated to connecting North Texas to the rest of the world.

“We’ll roll into Terminal A at DFW with the Orange Line that’s coming through Irving,” said John Danish, Chairman of the Board of Directors of DART and an Irving representative on the board. “Everything is on time and under budget, and we’re making excellent progress. Gary Thomas (Executive President of DART) tells us we may actually open it early.

“(DFW is) the international gateway to the world, and now you’re seeing a $1.2 billion light rail invest-

By Elaine Paniszczyn“Customer service” is a mantra

at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW), so when interna-tional travelers were stuck in cus-toms lines for hours on Mon., July 22, that was not the first impression the airport wanted to make on its international visitors and citizens returning home from trips abroad.

“Monday night, we had a par-ticularly acute problem of people waiting in line, three and even four hours,” said David Magaña, Se-nior Manager of Public Affairs for DFW. “A Dallas Morning News reporter was stuck in that line and shot a video that posted to You-Tube.”

In the video, the reporter record-ed the scene on his smartphone as he walked briskly from the front of the line at U.S. Customs to the end where the line continued to grow. His walk took almost three min-utes.

“We have added 15 new inter-national destinations over the past 30 months, and that has resulted in growth that we haven’t seen be-

fore,” Magaña said. “Summer is a more heavily traveled season than the other seasons because families are traveling along with the nor-mal business travelers. We are 11 percent above last year in interna-tional passengers, year-to-date so far. That’s close to six million inter-national passengers over the course of this year, whereas we were at five million last year.

“At the same time you had fed-eral inactivity on a couple of levels,” Magaña said. He said that Congress has not adequately funded Customs and Border Protection specifically and Homeland Security in general.

“There’s not been adequate fund-ing to keep pace with the growth and demand for international travel and the increasing demand for pro-cessing people coming in on inter-national flights,” Magaña said. “On another level you have the federal sequester which to our knowledge has taken away the ability to solve some of the shortages with over-time.

“You’ve got us growing, and

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DART celebrates 30 years of light rail

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DFW hopes new tech will solve long lines, Federal inactivity

DFW’s DART terminal in construction near Gate 8A will be finished before the Orange Line rolls into DFW in December 2014. / Artist’s rendering courtesy of DFW Airport

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TSA WEEK IN REVIEW

POLICE REPORT

n Firearms Discovered This Week – Of the 33 firearms, 24 were loaded and eight had rounds cham-bered.

n Stun Guns – Nine stun guns were discovered this week in carry-on bags around the nation. Two were discovered at Denver (DEN), two at Phoenix (PHX), and the others were found at Atlanta (ATL), Burlington (BTV), Mem-phis (MEM), Sacramento (SMF), and San Francisco (SFO).

n Inert Ordnance and Grenades etc. - Two inert/replica/novelty grenades were discovered this week in carry-on bags at Las Vegas (LAS) and San Antonio

(SAT).n Items in the Strangest Places – A four-

inch blade was discovered concealed inside a passenger’s knee brace at Houston (IAH).

A belt buckle knife was discovered at Orlando (MCO).n Miscellaneous Prohibited Items - Two

Airsoft guns were discovered in carry-on baggage this week at Baltimore (BWI) and Sacramento (SMF). Airsoft guns are prohibited in carry-on bags, but allowed in checked bag-gage.

Source: The TSA Blog - http://blog.tsa.gov

n Places Weapons Prohibited July 22, 9:37 a.m.

Officers were dispatched to Terminal A, TSA Security Checkpoint A12 in reference to an image of a firearm in a pas-senger’s bag in the X-ray machine. Officers verified the image, located the owner of the bag and initiated an investigation. Officers arrested the owner of the firearm for Places Weapons Prohibited.n TheftJuly 22, 4:30 p.m.

A victim called to report theft of a wrist watch. The victim said he arrived at Terminal E, Section C, Wed., July 17 at 1:30 p.m., driving a pick-up truck. Unable to find a parking spot in the garage and running out of time to catch his flight, he decided to use theDFW Valet Parking service. Before pulling up to the valet stand, the victim changed his Breitling wrist watch with a black leather strap and a silver face, (valued at $13,000), placing it inside of the glove box of the truck. He took out a second Breitling watch to wear on the trip. The truck was released to an unknown DFW Valet employee.The victim returned to DFW at 9 p.m. July 18 at Terminal A, Gate A33. He said he waited for his truck at the valet stand at Terminal A between 30 and 40minutes. It was delivered to him at about 10 p.m. He drove directly home and parked inside his garage overnight. Friday, July 19, at 7 a.m., he got into the truck to drive to work and opened the glove box to get the Breitling watch. When he opened the glove box door, he immediately noted the contents appeared to have been ransacked and the watch was gone.The victim will forward the serialnumber on the watch.n Speeding/WarrantsJuly 22, 3:26 p.m.

In the 3600 block of South Service Road, an officer stopped a vehicle that was traveling 56 mph in a 35 mph zone. Investigation showed the driver hadconfirmed warrants out of Mansfield PD, Hurst PD, and North Richland Hills PD. The driver

was arrested, and the vehicle was released to the registered owner who arrived at the scene. Besides the warrants and speeding, the driver was cited for no driver’s license, and no insurance.n TheftJuly 23, 6:22 p.m.

A victim called to say somebody stole her small brown Coach purse ($200) after her flight arrived at DFW at about 3:30 p.m. The victim said a flight attendant assisted her with taking her backpack, purse, and carryon suit case off of the plane. She said the flight attendant handed the items to an Air Serve on the C-2 Jet Bridge, and she said she saw the man had “slung it over his shoulder” before she sat down in the wheel-chair. She said the man wheeled her to the C-12 baggage claim area to meet her husband, and then theywent down stairs to the park and ride shuttle area. She said the man told her she could stay seated in the wheelchair until the shuttle bus arrived, and then he left the area. She did not miss her purse until she and her husband arrived home about 5 p.m. She said she has called Lost and Found, Air Serve, and the park and ride shuttle; all of which said they had not seen her purse. Besides the purse, stolen items included: Five $ 100 bills, two $ 20 bills, Citi American Airlines Master card, Chase Southwest Airlines Visa card, Citi American Airlines Visa card, Wal-Mart Discover Credit Card, Valero gas card, and a Capitol One Secu-rity Federal Credit Card. Total Value $890.n Public IntoxicationJuly 23, 5:41 a.m.

An officer investigated a vehicle that had struck an or-ange construction barrel and was abandoned on the shoulder. About 6:30 a.m. he located a male subject walking at Mid Cit-ies Blvd. The subject had a disheveled appearance; his clothing was torn, stained with mud and it appeared he had urinated on himself. The man said he was lost, and had been walking for approximately two hours. He was unsteady on his feet and had glassy, watery eyes. The officer smelled alcohol on the

man who said he had drunk three shots the night before. He was arrested for Public Intoxication. n Public IntoxicationJuly 24, 5:30 p.m.

Officers went to Terminal D, Gate 17 in reference to a possible intoxicated woman. The airline reported the person was harassing the gate agent.Upon seeing the officers, the she said, “I believe you are here to see me.”

When she stood and walked toward the officers, she had to catch her balance. As she walked, she yelled that she was the one that called the police. She went on to explain the air-lines had “canceled” several of her flights today, and one of the employees has even tried to steal her luggage. She stopped her conversation with officers and walked to the gate counter to yell at the employee working at the counter.

When officers asked her to step away from the counter, they detected a strong odor of alcohol on her breath, but she said she had not been drinking. She interrupted the officers and refused to follow instructions. Then, she admitted hav-ing “one BloodyMary early this morning.”She was arrested for Public Intoxication. n TheftJuly 24, 8:14 a.m.

An officer went to Terminal E 34 ticket counter in ref-erence to a stolen wallet. The victim said he arrived at the airline’s kiosk about 7:40 a.m. and placed his wallet on the counter. He was unable to use the kiosk so he walked away leaving his wallet on the counter.He returned to retrieve the wallet about 15 minutes later, and it was gone. The wallet had not been turned in and was not found in trash cans in the area or with TSA. Items stolen: Brown Leather Wallet $15, 15 - $20 dollar bills $300, Texas Driver License, Citi MasterCard (unknown number), Wells Fargo Debit Card (unknown num-ber). He was in the process of canceling his credit and debit cards. He said he did not want to prosecute if suspect(s) were located.

How not to forget yourlaptop at a TSA checkpoint, how to get it back if you doBy Bob Burns

While gathering items after they come out of the X-ray, many will stack their bins to conserve space while they’re recombobulating. Since the laptop is a flat surface, many stack their second bin on top of the laptop bin. This puts the laptop out of sight. So, while the traveler gathers his or her items, the laptop is left behind as the traveler rushes off to their gate.

Tape a Business Card to Your Lap-top - Many will realize they’ve forgotten their laptop and rush back to the check-point.

Others do not realize it, and in most instances, there isn’t any info on the laptop to tell us who the owner is. It’s a good idea to tape a business card or a label with your name and contact info on or inside of your laptop. This helps in several ways:

It gives TSA officers a name to page.It gives TSA officers a phone number

so they can try to contact you.It lets TSA officers know which lap-

top is yours when you call to retrieve it.How to Get Your Laptop Back – If

you go to the TSA’s Airport Lost & Found Contacts page, you’ll be able to find phone numbers for each airport’s TSA lost & found office.

This happened to my father recently. He left his laptop at Cincinnati (CVG) and was in Florida before he realized he left it behind.

After contacting CVG’s TSA lost & found office, they were kind enough to mail (at my dad’s expense) his laptop to him. That’s just one of the options. You can also arrange to pick it up upon your return, or have a friend or family mem-ber pick it up for you.

Source: The TSA Blog - http://blog.tsa.gov Loaded gun found in Houston.

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WASHINGTON - The U. S. Department of Transportation (DOT) recently fined Ameri-can Eagle Airlines $200,000 for lengthy tarmac delays that took place at Dallas-Fort Worth Inter-national Airport on Dec. 25, 2012. The airline was ordered to cease and desist from future violations of the tarmac delay rule.

“Airline passengers have rights, and the Department of Transpor-tation has rules in place to protect them from being stuck on a tarmac waiting hours to get off their plane,” said U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx. “We will continue to take enforcement action when air-lines violate our tarmac delay rules.”

An investigation by the De-partment’s Aviation Enforcement Office revealed that on Dec. 25 of last year, 10 American Eagle flights experienced tarmac delays that ex-ceeded the three-hour limit at Dal-las-Fort Worth during a snow and ice storm. One of the flights, arriv-ing from Sioux Falls, S.D., with 42 passengers, landed at 2:48 p.m., but was not assigned a gate until 5:30 p.m. Passengers were finally al-lowed to leave the aircraft at 6:36 p.m. after a tarmac delay of three

hours and 48 minutes.A second flight, carrying 37 pas-

sengers from Baton Rouge, LA, landed at 3:29 p.m., but the aircraft was not dispatched to an area where passengers could deplane until 6 p.m. The plane parked at 7 p.m., but passengers were not able to leave the plane until 8:01 p.m., four hours and 32 minutes after landing.

Under DOT rules, U.S. airlines operating aircraft with 30 or more

passenger seats are prohibited from allowing their domestic flights to remain on the tarmac for more than three hours at most U.S. air-ports without giving passengers an opportunity to leave the plane. Ex-ceptions to the time limits are al-lowed only for safety, security or air traffic control-related reasons. The rules require carriers to include the three-hour provision in their tar-mac delay contingency plan com-

mitments to passengers.Under an expansion of the tar-

mac delay rule that took effect Aug. 23, 2011, international flights at covered U.S. airports are now prohibited from remaining on the tarmac for more than four hours without permitting passengers the opportunity to deplane, subject to the same exceptions as the rule for domestic flights.

Source: U. S. Department of Transportation

Taking the next step forward in creating a more modern, fuel-efficient fleet, American Airlines recently welcomed its first Air-bus A319 aircraft, the first of 260 planned Airbus narrowbody de-liveries. American and Airbus cel-ebrated this important milestone with a special delivery ceremony at the Airbus manufacturing facility in Hamburg, Germany on July 23.

The Airbus A319 will offer cus-tomers modern technology and increased comfort onboard, includ-ing leather seats, Wi-Fi and in-seat entertainment throughout the air-craft. In addition, customers will be able to stay connected throughout their travels with individual univer-sal power outlets and USB jacks at every seat.

“Everything about the new A319 aircraft has been designed with the customer at the center,” said Virasb Vahidi, American’s

Chief Commercial Officer. “The in-troduction of the A319 is another important step in building a strong foundation for the new American. We’re pleased to be partnering with Airbus.”

The Airbus A319 will offer a wide selection of inflight enter-tainment options for customers throughout the aircraft. First Class customers will enjoy a complimen-tary selection of up to 200 movies, up to 180 TV programs, more than 350 audio selections and up to 15 games, on a 12.1-inch HD-capable touchscreen monitor at each seat. Each seat throughout the Main Cabin will offer 8.9-inch HD-capable touchscreen monitors with an assortment of entertainment options, including movies, TV pro-grams, games and audio selections.

In addition to increased tech-nology offerings, the new Airbus aircraft pave the way for American

to have a more fuel-efficient fleet, incorporating the latest in aerody-namic improvements. The A319s have sharklets on the wings and other modifications to reduce fuel burn and keep American on the path toward being a more environ-mentally friendly airline.

“It’s our great pleasure to wel-come back American Airlines to the Airbus family,” said John Leahy, Airbus Chief Commercial Officer – Customers.

“With its introduction of the A320 Family, the airline is demon-strating its confidence in a single-aisle product that has proven to be a game-changer for airlines around the world. American is undertak-ing a major strategic evolution and we are pleased to watch the A320 Family becoming an integral part of the airline’s future success.”

American’s A319s will begin service in September from Dallas/

Fort Worth (DFW) to select cit-ies, followed by additional routes throughout the end of the year. Initial routes planned for the A319 include service between DFW and Charlotte, NC; Cleveland; Mem-phis, TN; and Wichita, KS.

As previously announced, American plans to take delivery of 260 Airbus aircraft from the A320 family, including 130 current-gen-eration aircraft from the A321 and A319 variants through 2017, and 130 A320neo aircraft with next-generation engine technology be-ginning in 2017.

American will configure some of the current-generation A321s for use on transcontinental flights, des-ignating these aircraft as A321Ts. The A321T is scheduled to begin service between New York and Los Angeles, and New York and San Francisco in early 2014.

Source: American Airlines

Bush ‘41’ shaves head in solidarity with young cancer patient

KENNEBUNKPORT, ME -- President George H. W. Bush recently joined members of his Secret Service detail in shaving his head to show his support for the two year-old son of a detail member who is being treated for leukemia and started losing his hair.

The 89 year-old commander-in-chief took the unusual step earlier this week after learning, and seeing, that many members of his security detail had already gone under the razor to show their support for young Patrick, whose father Jon is a member of the Bush Protective Division (BPD). (Surname being with-held per family’s request.)

BPD members have also launched a website at www.patrickspals.org to assist with Patrick’s medical bills, and orga-nized the Inaugural Patrick’s Pals Motorcycle Benefit Run on Aug. 10 in Kennebunkport to raise funds for Patrick’s treatments.

Once President and Mrs. Bush learned of this “Patrick’s Pals” effort, they made a dona-tion and President Bush volun-teered to shave his head as well. The Bushes lost their second child, Robin, to leukemia 60 years ago this October at the age of four.

Source: Office of George Bush

Setting the season’s newest fashion, President George H. W. Bush and two-year-old Patrick show off their matching ensemble after Bush shaved his head in support of Patrick’s struggle to survive leukemia. / Courtesy photo

American Airlines takes delivery of first Airbus A319

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ment being placed to link that in-ternational airport via the Orange Line through Irving,” Danish said.

The Orange Line will connect to Terminal A at DFW Airport on its North side.

“(DART is) making great prog-ress,” said David Magaña, Senior Manager, Public Affairs for DFW International Airport. “If you drive out the North service road, you see that overpass is built going over-head near the entrance to Cor-porate Aviation. They bring it in along Airfield Drive and it crosses Airfield over by Esters (Blvd.) and then comes around the North En-trance. Then it elevates over the ser-vice road and then drops to grade level after that right next to Inter-national Parkway.

“The station is going to be right next to Gate A-8,” Magaña said. “It’s a two or three minute walk from the rail station into the termi-nal. You’ll go right in and there will be a checkpoint there so you can check in. From there, if you need to go to another terminal, you can easily do that on Skylink. We have plans for a canopied station and there are shade and canopy covers all along the walkway coming into the terminal.

“The DART Rail Station that we’re building in Terminal A is scheduled for completion the end of 2013 or the early 2014, so from the get go the rail station was go-ing to be ready whenever the train tracks arrive,” Magaña said. “It’s a long-awaited project, and it’s really going to elevate the level of services that we have at DFW to bring in the Orange Line here. We’re really looking forward to it. It’s fun to think about the possibilities.”

DFW’s investment in the Ter-

minal connection is $36 million.“The metro system in Wash-

ington D.C. was kind of like America’s premier transit system,” Danish said. “Congress helped fund to build that, and it is an ex-tremely convenient way to go to Regan International Airport. You literally can walk from the train into the airport, and what we will have at DFW will rival being one of the most convenient airports in the country with that kind of mass transit connection.”

Another advantage Danish said travelers will see in the future will stem from the decision made by the City of Dallas to move forward with the first modern-day streetcar.

“That streetcar is going to run from Union Station though their new Omni Hotel and then across the Houston viaduct to the Meth-odist Hospital at the corner of Colorado Boulevard and Beckley and then from there, on down to the Bishop Arts District in the Oak Cliff area near Jefferson Boulevard,” Danish said.

“Imagine an international trav-eler coming in the DFW Airport: They get on the Orange Line and come down to the Omni Hotel and their convention center there and get on the streetcar and go down to the entertainment and restaurants – all that without having to get into an automobile or taxi,” Danish said.

“That is one of the things they are working for in 2014, and when you think that all this began in 1983. It is a remarkable statement for the vision and the implementation of that vision. It’s kind of like plant-ing the seeds of the crops and now you’re getting ready to harvest and reap what your crops have pro-duced.”

“(Our anniversary celebration) will be a commemoration of from where we have come from and a rededication of where we want to go in the future,” Danish said. “Because of our huge geographic distances in Dallas as compared to Manhattan Island or San Francisco Bay area, it’s difficult to have a com-prehensive alternative truly cover-ing the entire region…That’s one of the challenges that we face.”

The Board Chairs and Presi-dents of DART, The T (Fort Worth Transportation Authority), and DCTA (Denton County Trans-portation Authority) signed a Tri-Party Passenger Rail Alliance Nov. 16, 2012, to formalize their com-

mitment to working together to expand mass transit options in the region.

“Hopefully, we can continue to work together to unite the 16 coun-ties that make up the Metropolitan Planning Organization of North Central Texas to begin to see a new vision to how we link passenger rail across North Central Texas and work on issues with the legislature to say how we can achieve this vi-sion,” Danish said.

“If you look at the European and Asian systems of developing pas-senger rail, they have done a good job of moving forward in that tech-nology,” Danish said. “While in America we have the best freight system, we have not kept up with moving people by rail. Hopefully, we can get a better balance between the automobile, the train, and the airplane – a more balanced, multi-modal approach which will benefit all of us into the future for the next generation.”

Magaña said rail service is one of the biggest customer requests that

DFW receives from international travelers.

“In Amsterdam, you can take any number of trains right there at the entry of the airport,” Magaña said. “Frankfort and Heathrow are the same way. If you’re European and you get here, it’s just not there. You have to rent a car, so this is go-ing to be a big thing, especially for the European traveler.

“We wish (DART) a happy 30th birthday and our best congratula-tions on the work that they’re do-ing,” Magaña said. “We’re glad that they’re pulling into DFW.”

“We wish them a happy 30th birthday and our best congratulations on the work that they’re doing. We’re glad that they’re pulling into DFW.”

– David Magaña, Senior Manager, Public Affairs for DFW International Airport

DARTContinued from Page 1

A canopied walkway will shield passengers from sun and rain on their three minute walk to from the DART train to DFW’s Terminal A for flight check-in. / Artist’s renderings courtesy of DFW Airport

DART will come into the north side of DFW’s Terminal A next to International Parkway. After check-in, passengers can take Skylink if their departure is from a different terminal.


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Glass company applies wartime lessons to peaceBy Phil Cerroni

What do companies that spent the last decade building war mate-rials do when there is no war?

Specializing in armored glass, Addison based Consolidated Ar-mor Products (CAP) made their bread and butter outfitting tactical vehicles for the military. Now they are changing their entire market-ing strategy to focus on bringing high quality, custom glass creations to the civilian consumer through a line of products ranging from the utilitarian to the artistic.

Perhaps the most accessible product CAP offers is a close rela-tive of their ballistic armor, called vehicle security glass, or VSG. De-signed to protect against smash and grabs, an eight inch sheet of poly-carbonate is laminated to the inside of the existing window, keeping it from breaking even under the force of a 10 pound sledgehammer.

If the $5,000 price tag seems too steep for this James Bond-style ac-cessory, it is worth noting that at North Park Mall alone there are on average five to seven smash and grabs every week involving cars like Mercedes and BMWs. Insurance companies are usually happy to re-

place damaged VSG windows, said Paul Sivertson CAP’s CEO, because the price is much lower than replac-ing a stolen vehicle and its contents.

Since CAP returned from Af-ghanistan, it has also focused on earning a degree in art. Home builders, companies or private in-dividuals who want original art can supply a painted canvas, or CAP’s in house artist can create a piece either on canvas or directly onto glass. The piece is then laminated between two sheets of plastic and can be used as a window, door or panel, bringing another dimension of light and color to a room.

“This is sort of [a] 3-dimension-al [lamination] trying to get colors and ideas so that the customer can look and think outside their box and say, ‘Wow these colors are good for me,’” Sivertson said. “On the ar-tistic side, it’s a new area.

“There’re really not a lot of peo-ple doing that. They’re doing archi-tectural type glass, or they do some kind of figure in a glass – that’s pretty common – but as artistic glass; that’s very, very new.”

But it is hard to teach an old dog new tricks, and CAP continues to armor cars. Alongside hulking tacti-

cal vehicles for law enforcement and security firms, they are also creating driving machines worthy of a mem-ber of Her Majesty’s Secret Service.

They install natural looking ar-mored glass (it does not even re-quire any modification to the car) and Kevlar lining that makes the vehicle virtually impervious to cali-bers up to .44 magnum. Also, the armor only weighs 400 pounds, so it does not significantly affect mileage or wear and tear. Phil Mickelson re-cently contracted CAP to do exactly this to his new Aston Martin.

“Now you stop the carjacking. You stop the smash and grab, as well as you have low level ballistics. So the demand is growing as we’re pulling out of Afghanistan and Iraq,” Sivertson said.

After the glass is made at their facility in Addison, TX, its bal-listic capabilities are rigorously tested onsite before a sample piece is sent to a third party for further testing and certification. Besides being completely reliable, the final product only has a two percent vi-sual distortion ratio, keeping drivers secure without compromising their ability to safely operate the vehicle.

As CAP transitions from a time

of war when it conducted 98 per-cent of its business with the mili-tary, the industry and innovation poured into protecting America’s service men and women is being turned to protecting and beautify-ing their homeland.

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By Phil CerroniIt is not your regular art recep-

tion, either. More like a hip, Euro-pean party organized by Michael Alig and the Club Kids, the Red Bull Curates: Canvas Cooler Proj-ect kicked off in Dallas on July 25. Twenty local artists were given eight hours to turn a Red Bull mini fridge into a work of public art to be used in venues around the city.

Light poured out of Deep El-lum’s “Life in Deep Ellum,” bath-ing the smokers outside in a warm glow. Inside, hipsters and artists

swilled vodka and toasted public relations officials to the throbbing beat of DJs dropping beats and a vibraphone dropping hammers. The party was swinging, and Red Bull picked up the tab.

The company’s characteristic, laid back club atmosphere allowed guests to wander around the build-ing, visiting the open bars and ad-miring the coolers and other art without being hijacked by a series of planned events. Also during the party, two artists, Jody Pham and Miguel Donjuen, were chosen to go

to the Miami Arts Basel, one of the largest art festivals in the United States.

Although Red Bull does not need to court the starving artists of Dallas in order to move product, Jeff Sayles a member of Red Bull’s Dallas marketing team, explained that having local connections is im-portant to the company’s character. And the event was an opportunity for Red Bull to prove it still pushes the boundary with art and culture.

“It’s something that we always do. It’s something we’ve always

done. We’ve found the parts of the communities that excel at the brand characteristics that we try to push out, so (they) like things we try to reveal in our own company,” Sayles said. “We try to support the com-munities that feel the same way about loving life, living on the edge, being anti-authoritarian, so if there’s a group or community that feels the same way about life, you should support them even if they’re the smallest group.”

Former Dallas City Council-member and Executive Director

of the Dallas Arts District, Valetta Forsythe Lill, helped judge the competition. She pointed out that although Dallas may have emerged as a serious art city because of its wealthy collectors, there has been an overwhelmingly positive re-sponse to expressions of urban art like graffiti, which traditionally have been considered misdemean-ors. For example, the City of Dallas recently commissioned local graffiti collective Sour Grapes to paint a mural on the Jefferson St. Viaduct’s

Leighton Autrey turns a Red Bull mini fridge into a work of public art that will displayed at a venue in downtown Dallas. Red Bull supports the work of local artists in order to stay connected to its edgy, against the grain roots, not because it will help them move product. / Photo courtesy of Red Bull

A guest admires Leighton Autrey’s Biblically inspired, spray paint and oil creation at the Red Bull Curates: Canvas Cooler Project. Although Dallas may have emerged as a serious art city because of its wealthy collectors, there has been an overwhelmingly positive response to urban art like graffiti, which traditionally have been considered misdemeanors.

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Oak Cliff side.“For a long time we were a gal-

leried city, and a lot of our collec-tors went to galleries,” Valetta said. “Now it’s outside, and what you’re seeing now is all these different players who are muralists for exam-ple – somebody like a Sour Grapes who do murals – who are now play-ing in that same field as that guy who is doing something in a local gallery, so it’s really an elevation of all of our artists.

“There were street artists, emerging artists and the galleried professionals, so you’ve got kind of everybody coming in from different backgrounds but democratized in this show.”

Notoriety is forcing artists like Sour Grapes’ Miguel Donjuen to re-evaluate where their art stands in relation to their career.

“There’s a thin line between ev-erything. I mean, commercial cus-

tomers want graffiti, they want ur-ban for a certain part of time, then when they use it they go back to the regular basis but, hey, as long as the money’s there everybody’s gonna use it,” he said.

Donjuen reconciles his positions by focusing on his city’s character and his own roots as a naturalized illegal immigrant.

“Texas is the dirty South. It’s the third coast. It’s not West Coast; it’s not East Coast; it’s the Gulf Coast,” Donjuen said. “You know, Gulf Coast’s got flavor. That’s just what it is. We’ve got Houston; we’ve got Dallas; we’ve got Austin. Texas got flavor too.”

He went on to say that keeping this connection with one’s roots is the only way for art to stay relevant.

“A lot of artists, what they tend to do is leave their cities to find something else, find motivation in other cities but, do you know what, your own personal conflicts come from your own town. You deal with your conflicts and that’s what builds the beauty of any artist. That’s all

that happens. You build your back-ground, build on your conflicts, and that’s what builds an artist. Not leaving a city, not leaving your state,” Donjuen said.

For its part, Red Bull is working to maintain a connection to its own roots through parties and the antics one expected from skateboarders in the 90’s.

“We handle anti-authoritarian by handling things that just aren’t done normally. For example, you had Ricky Fowler hit a golf ball over a building. We could have knocked out multiple windows in Victory Plaza in Downtown Dallas. We took the risk of having to pay for all the windows on the Ameri-can Airlines Center,” Sayles said. “I did those legal documents, and it’s a bitch, but we took the risk of hav-ing to pay for them and to me that’s pretty anti-authoritarian for a big company.

“Coke wouldn’t do that. Pepsi wouldn’t do that. Monster might, but they’d probably hit a bunch of windows. We didn’t.”

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Rugby stars launch A380 superjumbo to Johannesburg

Rugby giants Chris Robshaw, Bryan Habana and Jean De Vil-liers have undertaken one of the biggest challenges of their careers – taking on the might of British Airways’ largest aircraft, the Airbus A380.

Weighing in at 110kg, 95kg and 101kg respectively, Robshaw, the England rugby captain and Habana and De Villiers, the South African Springboks, are pictured attempt-ing to pull the airline’s newest fleet member (topping the scales at 366,000kgs) down the runway at Manston Airport in Kent.

Model, Georgia May Jagger, was also on hand to oversee pro-ceedings.

The players’ feat was in celebra-tion of British Airways’ latest an-nouncement that customers can now book onto the A380 to fly to Johannesburg from Feb. 12, 2014.

A380 enthusiasts eager to be on

the very first A380 flight to Johan-nesburg should note that the date for the inaugural flight is likely to be earlier and will be announced in due course.

The airline will also begin flying A380s to Los Angeles and Hong

Kong. British Airways’ A380s will accommodate 469 customers across four cabins. The airline’s website features information on the new aircraft, including computer gener-ated imagery (CGI).

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you’ve got federal capability either leveled or shrinking, depending on your point of view,” Magaña said. “You put those together and com-bine it with the normal events that we see in the travel year… And all of those things together are work-ing to make the customs lines unac-ceptably long in our Customs Hall at Terminal D.”

He said some people have missed connecting flights because of this.

“We’re talking with the airlines and customs trying to get them together to organize a program to try to cut down on the number of missed connections by giving peo-ple who have a close connection some sort of a designated card to try to expedite (them through cus-toms),” Magaña said. “It’s imple-mented, but not across the board.

“It’s an economic issue for the airlines,” Magaña said. “They have to rebook people and it costs them and the people time.”

Other systems and options to alleviate the problem have been in the works for months and some for years. Some have been imple-mented and enlarged and others are coming soon.

“We started Global Entry in 2009 with four kiosks,” Magaña said. “By this year, we have ex-panded to 16. We’ve also spent over the last two years, 2012 and 2013, $240,000 in each of those years to help market Global Entry – tell people that it’s there and get people to sign up. Our efforts have resulted in more than 40,000 people signing up here at DFW for the program.

“Global Entry requires a signup, and a couple of weeks later you sub-mit to an interview, and a couple of weeks later you get your approval,” Magaña said. “When you get your approval, you are a trusted traveler, you go in, you swipe, and you do a very quick interfacing there with the agent. It’s far faster than stand-ing in line.

“(Global entry) costs $100 for five years, much like a passport has a cost associated with it,” Magaña said. “The benefit of Global Entry is that you (also) get membership in TSA pre-check, so your domestic check-in most often will be faster if

you go through the TSA pre-check line … (with) expedited screening or lighter screening than you would if you’re not a member of TSA pre-check because they know exactly who you are. You’ve done all of the background checks, etc.”

Last month, the DFW board approved Automated Passport Control (APC), a system of 30 ki-osks to help expedite U.S. citizens through customs. The airport will pay $188,000 for the kiosks and software.

“We should have them up and running for November,” Magaña said. “It’s going to be for all U.S. citizens coming into DFW Airport. The system is based on a Canadian airport system that’s been running in Vancouver … called Automated Border Control or ABC. We spent over a year getting to the point where we could ask the board for approval. Customs has signed off on it, and Homeland Security has, and we’re going to implement it. I think Chicago might be ahead of us on this.

“U.S. citizens will be able to go to one of 30 kiosks and electronically put their passport in there and then answer questions they previously answered with agents,” Magaña said. “The need for (passengers) to interact … with a human Border Patrol Officer will be much less. The time required to be with that officer is going to be much shorter.”

Magaña said that implement-ing the APC system will reduce the U.S. citizen line to 30 minutes or less.

“A lot of the border agents that are currently working the domestic line will be able to staff the inter-national line, so those lines will be reduced as well,” Magaña said. “We really feel like it is customer service imperative for us.”

The airport has applied for a pi-lot program that’s been put togeth-

er by Homeland Security.“They are going to allow certain

entities that they will select to pay the overtime costs for customs and border patrol agents to work over-time,” Magaña said. “We have ap-plied to be one of the eventual five ports of entry in the country al-lowed to pay the bill for overtime costs incurred by federal workers. It’s very unusual, but we’re looking at any way we can solve this.

“We don’t know what the odds are of us being named one of the five,” Magaña said. “We do know that several other airports have ap-plied. We don’t know how the five are going to be allocated.”

He said the five will be distrib-uted between land ports, seaports, airports and border crossings.

“I’ve been told by Customs, that Congress has approved 1,800 more Border Agents for next year,” Magaña said. “I don’t know if that’s just airports or if it’s across the board. I don’t know how many of those would be here.

“But we have to deal with issues in the here and now,” Magaña said.

He said DFW has monitors working in the Customs Hall all the time now, and once it goes past a certain point in wait time, they start distributing water bottles to those who want them.

“We’ve even deployed some chairs in there to help make that a little easier,” Magaña said. “We have live monitoring all the time and we keep track of it as best we can so there’s better information coming out of the Custom’s Hall from an airport perspective.

“The people that are on the ground here in customs are really great, and they are literally doing everything they can,” Magaña said. “They are partnering with our cus-tomer service team on how to do things better – a give and take ex-change of ideas. At a certain point,

they are limited by funding as to how much they can do.”

DFW Airport has joined with 12 other major airports to form the Gateway Airports Council.

“We are working together to get our message across in Wash-ington, and our CEO, Mr. Fegan, met with three congressmen this week on this very issue,” Magaña said. “It’s getting a lot of attention now as the problems seem to be getting more acute, and it’s not just a DFW problem. It’s happening at Miami, Atlanta, at JFK, LAX, and O’Hare … and we’re doing every-thing we can, and obviously we’ve been working on it for three or four years, but it’s a long process to get some of this stuff done.

“We’re glad there’s some atten-tion being paid on it, but we wish

we didn’t have this kind of grow-ing pain and that federal funding could keep pace with the pace of the international visitor and inter-national traffic and the need to do screening at customs,” Magaña said. “Obviously, it’s not the kind of first impression you want to leave with your visitors. We don’t want people to think visiting the United States is going to be a four-hour wait right at the top. That’s not good customer service.”

Magaña said the issue has the potential of impacting the region’s bottom line.

“That’s why it’s an important is-sue for us and why we’re not shying away from it,” Magaña said. “It’s not a great customer service story right now, but we’re working to make it better.”

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The Federal Aviation Admin-istration has issued restricted cat-egory type certificates to a pair of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), a milestone that will lead to the first approved commercial UAS opera-tions later this summer.

The newly certified UAS—In-situ’s Scan Eagle X200 and Aero-Vironment’s PUMA—are “small” UAS weighing less than 55 pounds. Each is about 4 ½ feet long, with wingspans of ten and nine feet, re-spectively.

The major advantage of hav-ing type-certificated UAS models available is that they can be used commercially. The Scan Eagle and

PUMA received Restricted Cat-egory type certificates that permit aerial surveillance. Until now, ob-taining an experimental airworthi-ness certificate – which specifically excludes commercial operations — was the only way the private sector could operate UAS in the nation’s airspace. Previous military acceptance of the Scan Eagle and PUMA UAS designs allowed the FAA to issue the Restricted Cat-egory type certificates.

A major energy company plans to fly the ScanEagle off the Alaska coast in international waters start-ing in August. Plans for the initial ship-launched flights include sur-

veys of ocean ice floes and migrat-ing whales in Arctic oil exploration areas.

The PUMA is expected to sup-port emergency response crews for oil spill monitoring and wildlife surveillance over the Beaufort Sea.

Issuing the type certificates is an important step toward the FAA’s goal of integrating UAS into the nation’s airspace.

These flights will also meet re-quirements in the FAA Modern-ization and Reform Act of 2012 that define Arctic operational areas and include a mandate to increase Arctic UAS commercial operations.Source: The Federal Aviation Administration

NASA Hubble finds new Neptune moonWASHINGTON -- NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope discovered a

new moon orbiting the distant blue-green planet Neptune, the 14th known to be circling the giant planet.

The moon, designated S/2004 N 1, is estimated to be no more than 12 miles across, making it the smallest known moon in the Neptunian system. It is so small and dim that it is roughly 100 million times fainter than the faintest star that can be seen with the naked eye. It even es-caped detection by NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft, which flew past Nep-tune in 1989 and surveyed the planet’s system of moons and rings.

Mark Showalter of the SETI Institute in Mountain View, CA, found the moon July 1, while studying the faint arcs, or segments of rings, around Neptune.

“The moons and arcs orbit very quickly, so we had to devise a way to follow their motion in order to bring out the details of the system,” Showalter said.

“It’s the same reason a sports photographer tracks a running athlete -- the athlete stays in focus, but the background blurs.”

The method involved tracking the movement of a white dot that appears over and over again in more than 150 archival Neptune photo-graphs taken by Hubble from 2004 to 2009.

On a whim, Showalter looked far beyond the ring segments and noticed the white dot about 65,400 miles from Neptune, located be-tween the orbits of the Neptunian moons Larissa and Proteus. The dot is S/2004 N 1. Showalter plotted a circular orbit for the moon, which completes one revolution around Neptune every 23 hours.

Source: NASA

LONDON -- The orders pipe-line in the aviation industry may be thinner than expected, but innova-tion is still soaring as showcased by recent achievements and real demonstrations. Novel solutions presented by major industry players at the recent Air Paris Show, could allow fuel savings and make the aircraft environmentally friendly. The buzz word is “electric”, with electric systems/engines to be used for faster taxi outs and more aircraft maneuvers. Are these the first tan-gible signs of the all-electric aircraft revolution?

“The key attractions at the Air Paris Show were the electric pro-totypes from big industry players,” said Frost & Sullivan Aerospace & Defence Analyst, Alix Lebou-langer. “Safran and Honeywell showed their Electric Green Taxi-ing System (EGTS) prototype, which could fundamentally change aircraft taxi out process by enabling the airplane to go autonomously from the airport gate to the run-way without the need to engage the aircraft main engines. Another system intended to make airport areas greener and aircraft more en-vironmental friendly is the TaxiBot vehicle, jointly developed by Israel Aerospace Industries, Airbus, TLD Group and LEOS.”

If these solutions see wider

adoption, they may well pave the way for an all-electric aircraft. There are two main reasons justifying this market move. First, it is said to fun-damentally enhance each aircraft availability rate, as systems and en-gines would be more reliant, and hence with less support required. The second advantage is also fi-nancial. With less reliance on fuel, airliners should be less affected by rising oil prices and passenger fares could significantly decrease.

Consequently, the promised re-turn of investment may be attrac-tive enough to encourage invest-ments despite the high costs of going all-electric.

“If developments go according to the plan, then the all-electric commercial aviation could take off by 2035-2040,” said Leboulanger. “Therefore, it is the right time to start thinking of new electric in-frastructures for airports, electric storage areas, new airplane support in service, and power by the hour bespoke deals.”

For now, the focus is primar-ily on replacing aircraft pneumatic and hydraulics systems to make the airplane lighter and faster. Engi-neers are currently working on how electric drives can provide better efficiency when compared to me-chanical transmissions and actua-tors. Eventually, maintenance costs

will decrease as system failures get easier to track and fix.

The final and golden milestone will be a completely electric power system and thrust.

“As soon as aircraft propulsion becomes fully electric, (bio) fuels, heat engines, and combustion steel and aluminum, will be by-gone memories of the twentieth century,” added Leboulanger.

Despite all developments be-ing on-track, recent debates on lithium-ion versus nickel-cadmium batteries give the impression that the 100% electric aircraft is not ready to take off. However, there were some cutting-edge aircraft in the static display area of the Paris Air Show, which already flew ear-lier this year.

“There is also an essential ques-tion to be asked: Will it be an all-electric airplane first, then all-electric helicopter and finally all-electric UAV or will it just be a rad-ical new aircraft type, like Project Zero?” asked Leboulanger. “Based on this, the entire development timeframe for aviation to go elec-tric will be revised. With aircraft interiors getting more modular and aircraft more versatile, Research & Developments teams may well take this opportunity to realize an all-in-one change.”

Source: Frost & Sullivan

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