TyJuan Woodard Dead After Being Shot By Friend, Covered With Blanket And Left On Couch

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- An Arkansas man assumed the boy wrapped in a blanket on the futon in his home was his sleeping cousin. But hours later he realized it was a 14-year-old boy he'd never seen before who, police determined Thursday, had been shot while playing with a gun with a friend.

Little Rock police said the boy, TyJuan Woodard, died after he and a 13-year-old friend were playing with a gun that accidentally fired and shot him in the chest Wednesday. The younger boy had covered Woodard's body with a blanket, then left and spent the night elsewhere without telling anyone what happened, police spokesman Lt. Terry Hastings said.

One of the 13-year-old's relatives saw someone wrapped in a blanket on the futon Wednesday night. Thinking the boy was a cousin who had fallen asleep, he didn't disturb him, according to a police report.

A few hours later, though, the man said he realized that the person on the couch wasn't his cousin. He then picked Woodard up and noticed he wasn't breathing.

Someone called 911 and when officers arrived, they found the boy lying face-up on the floor, according to the police report. There was blood on his face and chest, and as medics lifted his shirt, they found what looked like a bullet wound.

Police said everyone in the home said they didn't know the boy or what had happened. Woodard lives elsewhere and had previously run away from home, Hastings said. Hastings said police talked to the 13-year-old Thursday morning.

Hastings said he wasn't sure how the boys got a hold of the gun, which belongs to one of the 13-year-old's relatives. He said they were playing with the gun in a bedroom when it went off and shot the 14-year-old in the chest.

No charges have been filed, but Hastings said the case will be forwarded to the prosecutor. One of the prosecutors, John Johnson, said his office hasn't received the case file yet.

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'On the Fly' show puts Southwest in prime time

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Southwest Airlines employees, from left: Captain Armin Irvani, Rose Dunn, Joshua Pumphrey and Julia Bell are featured in the new TLC series, "On the Fly."

By Tanya Mohn, msnbc.com contributor

With Memorial Day weekend almost upon us, kicking off the summer vacation season, travelers may want to check out a new show for a taste of what hurdles could be ahead.

"On the Fly," a new reality series that takes viewers behind the scenes of modern air travel, is scheduled to premiere on Thursday, May 24 on TLC, the television network that is part of Discovery Communications.

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The series, based on unprecedented access to Southwest Airlines and taped at 11 airports across the country, details many aspects of the flying experience ? from buying tickets to loading luggage to landing safely ??and features both everyday and unique encounters with travelers as well as airline employees.

Why would people be interested in watching what many consider a necessary but often unpleasant experience?

?It?s great to eavesdrop,? said Howard Lee, senior vice present of production & development for TLC. ?Airports are complete microcosms, and each of them has stories and frustrations,? he said. ?They are incredibly relatable. We were able to capture that.??

The two first episodes, ?Delayed and Enraged? and ?I Want to Leave This Place,? which will both air on Thursday, switch back and forth between several airports and reveal both visceral and upbeat encounters: some very angry passengers with no-holds-barred venting about delays and missed flights (the wrath is often not sugarcoated, so beware of some colorful language); how customer service representatives deal with challenging situations, like a passenger who has a mysteriously bad body odor or another who may have been drinking a little too much before boarding.

Both episodes include touching and uplifting stories: a college student who attempts to fly with his pet fish (he claims he managed to get it through security) and a young man, flying in disguise to avoid the notice of his flight attendant girlfriend, so he can surprise her midflight with a marriage proposal.

Customers and airline personnel come across as real and unedited.

?I have the most-hated job here,? said an employee who works in the lost and damaged baggage area. ?I grew up in a family of five, so there?s always someone screaming at someone,? another worker said, but with a smile. Crystal, a young customer service agent at the Denver airport, explained why she often likes to wear a flower in her hair: people are a little bit nicer when she does.

Do things like this actually happen?

Yes, said Lee, the TLC executive. At the airports where shooting took place, Southwest employees were all notified in advance. Customers were taped as events naturally occurred; their permissions were secured after the taping. No one appeared without authorization, and nothing was staged, he said.

Lee said the success of the stories that were captured on tape was due to the broad access by Southwest, an airline that is widely regarded for it distinct corporate culture and customer service.

Daily operations at Southwest were previously the subject of television series in 2004-2005 when ?Airline? ran for three seasons on A&E. The earlier show focused predominately on customer service at the airport, but the new production will be broader and will include many more employees: maintenance workers, providers of drink and food, pilots and flight attendants.

?I applaud Southwest for their willingness to offer transparency into what goes on behind the scenes to fly people to so many destinations,? said Sharr Prohaska, clinical associate professor, Preston Robert Tisch Center for Hospitality, Tourism and Sports Management at New York University. ?Through educating the public, Southwest may create even a greater appreciation for why they have maintained?such an outstanding reputation? with travelers.

?What a great idea ? a reality show that puts the 'real' into focus,? Prohaska said.

Dustin P. Smith, vice president of communications for TLC, said all 13 episodes have been shot and some are currently in post production, but it was too early to know if the series will be renewed. The series, produced for TLC by ITV Studios America, is scheduled to run through July 12.

Readers can take an early sneak peak online at TLC.com/OnTheFly.?

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Seraphic Singles: Doubts About Long Distance

I received an email about a long distance relationship the other day. All I'll say about this email is that a nice young woman has a long distance friend who became a long distance boyfriend, although I don't think there was an in-person, on-the-spot interview involved in this change. She described their relationship as "dating" although they certainly aren't going out anywhere: they live quite a distance apart and haven't seen each other for some time. He never comes to see her, and the last time she organized a trip to see him, her plans fell through. He did not seem particularly upset.

I don't have a problem with long distance relationships. I now have long distance relationships with my family and many of my friends because I moved to the UK from Canada so as not to be in a long distance relationship with my husband. What I have a problem with is long distance relationships that pretend to be something that they are not, e.g. romantic, marriage-track relationships.

The essence of a romantic, marriage-track relationship is being there for one another. Separations are avoided, but, if inevitable, made as short as possible. Everyone is different, of course, but as soon as B.A. and I started talking marriage, we started planning his first trip to see me in Canada. And while he visited me in Canada, we started talking about when I could visit him again in the UK. And while I was visiting him in the UK, we came up with various unfruitful schemes about how to get married right away. And when back in Canada, I went slowly crazy counting down the days until I could see him again, and he stopped eating. Here comes the groom, skinny as a broom.

For about eight months, our relationship was mostly long distance. He called me every day, and we wrote almost daily emails. Then we got married, and I never wanted to be separated from him again, but I had to be because of being FOREIGN. I had to go back to Canada for weeks and sit around waiting for my Spousal Visa. B.A. called me every day, and we wrote almost daily emails, and I cried a lot. BUT--listen to this--BUT after I got my Spousal Visa and flew home that night, being apart for relatively short periods of time was, and is, no longer such a big deal.

It is no longer such a big deal because (A) we are past the initial and painfully insane stage of a marriage-track romantic relationship and (B) we have been living together for three years. Long-distance is not the norm; being in the same flat is the norm. Long-distance is almost a holiday. (Three weeks apart is my absolute max, though.)

And therefore I will go out on a limb and say that long-distance can work for people who are in time-tested, proven, committed relationships. Heaven knows, there are (or were) many, many women in the UK whose husbands were (or are) on oil rigs in the North Sea for weeks on end, and they make (or made) it work. They make it work because they have something to make work.

And that's the problem. If you never go on a date with the man you're dating, you're probably not dating him. I'm sorry to say this, but there is a danger that what you are is free phone therapy or free entertainment. Heaven knows I have warm memories of my last ex-boyfriend Volker, but the major reason we were in a romantic relationship at all, he later admitted, was that he enjoyed my emails so much. How sucky is that?

I was not really in a relationship with B.A. before we met in person, and fortunately I never thought we were. When he started reading my blog, he was at the end of a psychodrama and had no energy for a new romantic relationship. He had his own stuff to deal with. So he left funny messages on my blog, and I left funny messages on his blog, and every once in a blue moon, he wrote me an email. I love writing emails, so it was difficult not to bombard him with emails, but I managed. Friendly but unobtrusive, that was me. My friend Lily would call this emotional chastity.

There is long-distance, epistolary flirtation, which is fun but fundamentally unstable. And there is long-distance romance between engaged and married people doing their best to keep the home fires burning. And there is even long-distance romance between established boyfriends and girlfriends who were together for quite a time before their separation. But I simply do not believe that an entirely long-distance romantic relationship, one that was always long-distance, and that looks like it will be long-distance for a long time to come, can be an authentic romantic relationship.

A man in love wants to be with the woman he is in love with and, unless it means hurting people to whom he has more pressing commitments (e.g. wife and children), makes it happen. End of.

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Just how To Cope With Failure In One's Friendship | Burberry outlet ...

Sometimes it?s not straightforward to get together with our friends and all stay in harmony. We have to seek out ways to understand our buddies and what they do. We can?t all the time agree on certain issues and for some it will mean failure in their friendships. It is a very big ordeal to tackle and it can be a confusing drawback for most.

Failure and success are each good to learn. They?ll offer lessons and give you an vital part of your life. You will be accountable for both of these classes and you must take them as they come. It?s difficult generally to take care of the pressures of associates and to all the time get along the way that we should. Going down the paths of success and failures of friendships is usually a troublesome highway however it?s something that we will learn to manage.

If you happen to discover that you?re in a relationship that?s resulting in failure then you will need to make sure changes in your life. You must learn to accomplish an excellent end result and make optimistic changes within your life. Spending time with folks that are not good for our ethical and emotions can solely do more injury than good. Studying to cope with the failure that now we have in friendships could make us stronger individuals within the end.

When friendships are ending we now have to either decide if we want to attempt to mend the connection or if we should let it go. Having a positive outlook will help to attempt to repair the problems that we are dealing with. Nonetheless it is going to need to be a -sided project. Both folks have to work hard at mending the failing relationships and it?ll take a lot of effort and time.

The reminiscences that we might have with folks can make it arduous to find out if we?re in a negative relationship or not. Looking at each perspective from all of the totally different angles is going to be one factor that now we have to use in our resolution to fix our failed relationships. If it is something that?s harmful to our life then we should make the appropriate choice and back out of the relationship and move on. This is going to go or dating and for friendships.

Having the ambition to move ahead with our lives and be ready or the adjustments that we about to go through will be something to work at. Realizing that failed friendships don?t have any hope an being ready to move on could be onerous and complicated determination however it is one that needs to be thought about. Utilizing our greatest pursuits and going with our instincts may be something that really helps us with dealing with the failing relationships that we?re going through.

Transferring on to extra successful and brighter possibilities is one thing that we need to look forward to. This may assist us deal with the failure that is in our lives and never have the burden of feeling down on our shoulders. There is no need for us to feel defeated or discouraged due to the strain that we?re coping with with regards to friends. Having this kind of stress in our life is barely going to make it more durable for us to move on and be an important success that we are wanting for. It will be something that we?re higher off or and will give us the power to alter the best way that we predict and who we make pals with.

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Asian Chamber of Commerce Celebrates the Spirit of ...

22nd Annual Awards Gala to be held Thursday, June 7, 2012, at the Kim Son Ballroom in Houston.

HOUSTON (May 23, 2012) ? Houston?s entrepreneur scope is thriving, so it is no wonder the Houston Asian Chamber of Commerce has selected as its 22nd Annual Awards Gala theme, ?The Spirit of Entrepreneurship.? This year?s Asian Chamber signature small business recognition and fundraising event will take place on Thursday, June 7, 2012, at the Kim Son Ballroom, 10603 Bellaire, Houston, TX 77072. The Kim Son restaurants are owned by the Tri La family who are also past honorees of the annual Asian Chamber business awards. The festivities will begin with a reception and executive silent auction at 6 p.m., followed by an awards program at 7 p.m.

Professor Lynda Chin, MD will keynote the event. Dr. Chin is The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Department of Genomic Medicine Chair and Scientific Director of the Institute for Applied Cancer Science. Dr. Chin is no stranger to the spirit of entrepreneurship. In addition to being a renowned researcher and physician, she is a biotech entrepreneur who co-founded AVEO Pharmaceuticals and founded Metamark Genetic.

Dr. Chin will be introduced by her husband, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center President Ronald A. DePinho, MD.

?The Annual Awards Gala is our largest event of the year and has recognized Asian entrepreneurs for 22 years,? said Asian Chamber of Commerce President Linda Toyota. ?Several of the entrepreneurs have been honored more than once benchmarking their increased success in the marketplace. We invite the entire Houston community to take part in this special occasion. The celebratory atmosphere, networking and infectious entrepreneurial energy will be stellar.?

Success through giving back to the community is a hallmark of the gala?s four co-chairs: Donna Cole, CEO, Cole Chemical; Glen Gondo, President, Gondo Company; Stephen Le Jr., CEO, Greatland Investments; and Randy Sim, President, Satsun Corporation. Each of the co-chairs is a prior gala honoree.

Five distinguished business professionals will be recognized during the special evening. This year?s Houston Asian Chamber of Commerce 22nd Annual Awards Gala honorees are:

Entrepreneur of the Year Award Winner. Vivek ?Roger? Israni is founder of Test Masters Educational Services. The company was founded when Israni still worked at Texas Instruments. After six years of working two jobs, he left to focus on the business in 1997. Built using savings, credit cards and with hard work, and teaching a majority of the classes, Test Masters is now one of the largest and fastest-growing educational companies in the world serving more than 100,000 students globally in the area of standardized testing preparation. Test Masters has grown geographically, holding classes throughout the United States and internationally. Fifty percent of the company?s popular engineering courses take place outside of Texas. Israni attended M.I.T. earning three degrees in four years, a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Management and a M.S. in Electrical Engineering. He is a gifted teacher with an ability to convey complicated information in a simple, entertaining manner.

Executive Leadership Award. Shahid Javed is Chief Procurement Officer of BP. Javed is responsible for managing more than $2 billion in 3rd party spending, pursuing rigorous category management including creation of robust sector strategies, leading negotiations with strategic suppliers, and proactively addressing business demand and market conditions to deliver significant bottom line savings. Javed is also a member of the Global PSCM Leadership Team. Throughout his corporate career, he has been responsible for developing and implementing policies and procedures to build a world-class procurement model for BP. Javed is a strong believer in mentoring and developing young Asian professionals at BP and in the Asian community. He is dedicated to developing talent and has mentored emerging leaders and middle managers at BP and in the community.

Outstanding Young Entrepreneur Award Albina Rippy is founder of YogaOne Studios. A native of Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan (a former USSR republic) in Central Asia, Rippy was one of two children raised by a single mother. At a young age, Rippy was introduced to entrepreneurialism by her mother who founded a pharmaceutical company called ROMAT, which is now one of the leading pharmaceutical companies in Kazakhstan today. Growing up as a latch-key child, Rippy managed to graduate valedictorian from her high school. At the age of 16, she came to the U.S. to attend college in the 1990s, which was practically unheard of in a country that was separated from the rest of the world by the Iron Curtain for many decades. Alone in the U.S., and barely able to speak English, she enrolled in an ESL program at the University of St. Thomas, won a full scholarship to the University of Houston and majored in finance and accounting. After holding several corporate CPA positions, she left the corporate world to follow her passion and open YogaOne Studios in Midtown in 2008. Last year, she opened her second studio in the Uptown/Galleria area. Rippy continues to transform bodies, lives and the community.

Outstanding Professional Award. Keiji Asakura is owner of Asakura Robinson Company LLC. Asakura is an award-winning landscape architecture, planning and urban design firm noted for design sensitivity, highly effective public engagement and tireless champions of more beautiful, healthful urban environments that foster social interaction, economic development and are great places to live, work and play. For 30 years, Asakura has been led by his passion to both influence and physically create the development of safe, walkable, beautiful neighborhoods, which will serve the communities within to promote mental, physical and cultural health and well-being.

Outstanding Business Award Phoung B. Tran is CEO of Pho Saigon Vietnamese Noodle House. After spending a year in a refugee camp, Tran came to the United States in 1984 with his wife and young daughter. In a new land with no money, no family and no support, they worked as janitors, dishwashers and house painters to support their family. After working for a Vietnamese Pho restaurant chain with locations throughout the U.S. and Southeast Asia, Tran pursued his dream by opening Pho Saigon Vietnamese Noodle House in 1998, which premiered in Midtown Houston. Now in its 12th year of operation, Tran?s Pho Saigon franchise concept has grown to nine locations. Tran believes that his rapid business growth is due to his old fashioned way of doing business that is smart and honest, and is dedicated to his customers and employees.

The honorees were selected as a result of their ability to demonstrate perseverance in the face of adversity, business growth and innovation, and community service.

A unique feature of this year?s gala is the executive silent auction. The auction offers high-bidders the opportunity to enhance their leadership and business skills by winning time with an executive. Executives being ?auctioned? include: Erin Asprec, Memorial Hermann SE Hospital; John Beddow, Houston Business Journal; Anthony Chase, ChaseSource; Albert Chao, Westlake Chemical; Donna Cole, Cole Chemical; Glen Gondo, Gondo & Company; Randy Sim, Satsun Corporation; Ronald DePinho, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center; Jason Few, Reliant an NRG Company; Henry Florsheim, KTRK-TV/ABC13; The Hon. Adrian Garcia, Harris County Sheriff?s Department; George Greanias, Metropolitan Transit Authority; Doug Guthrie, Comcast Houston Region; Gina Luna, JPMorgan Chase; Scott McClelland, H-E-B; The Hon. Annise Parker, City of Houston; Jamey Rootes, Houston Texans; Y. Ping Sun and David Leebron, Rice University; Ed Wulfe, Wulfe & Co.; and Dr. George Yang, Asia Chemical Corporation.

The Asian Chamber of Commerce invites the community to join in the festivities, make connections and to celebrate entrepreneurialism by attending its 22nd Annual Gala. Registration is available online at www.asianchamber-hou.org or by phone at 713.782.7222.

Asian Chamber of Commerce
Incorporated on June 20, 1990, the Asian Chamber of Commerce is a 501(c)(6) nonprofit business membership organization. The Chamber has the dual purpose of promoting trade between Houston and Asia and to foster economic development in the Houston area?s Asian-American communities. The Chamber accomplishes its mission by providing networking opportunities through meetings, seminars and luncheons; presenting speakers on business topics related to Asia and the Asian-American community; and developing business leads for members through member-only notices. For additional details, visit www.asianchamber-hou.org.

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Dr. Lynda Chin is a Professor at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center where she is the Chair of the first ever Department of Genomic Medicine and Scientific Director of the Institute for Applied Cancer Science. Dr. Chin will keynote the 22nd Annual Awards Gala of the Houston Asian Chamber of Commerce.

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Video: Harvard apologizes for Unabomber jokes

Harvard University raised eyebrows after publishing a humorous profile in their alumni directory from Theodore John Kaczynski. In the profile, the man better known as the Unabomber joked about his murder convictions. NBC?s Brian Williams reports.

>> updated his facebook page. his harvard reunion is coming up. as a member of the class of '62, he felt the need to state his occupation at prisoner, and his address as the supermax prison in colorado. there's more, under awards, he lists eight life sentences . his mail bombs, you'll recall, killed three people, injured another two dozen people. they apologized for including his information.

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Opening the Book(Book) on Twelve South: between the covers of a Mac-exclusive accessory maker

The year is 2009. In history books, it'll widely be recognized as the year that most of America -- heck, the world -- would prefer to forget. Job after job was lost, bank after bank fell, and humanity as we knew it plunged into "the worst recession since the Great Depression." It's also the year that Palm attempted a comeback with webOS, and as it turns out, the year that yet another accessory company was born. While such an occurrence may be forgettable on a macro scale, economic researchers and lovers of technology alike have reason to take notice -- and, indeed, ask questions. So, that's exactly what I did.

Beyond growing a technology startup in a me-too field during the worst economy that I've personally been a part of, it's also not often that I find compelling consumer electronics companies far outside of New York City and San Francisco. Twelve South just so happens to be located in a nondescript nook in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina -- just a beautiful trip over the Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge from historic Charleston. Three years after its founding, the company now fittingly counts a dozen employees on its roster, and despite entering a market flooded with iAccessory after iAccessory, it has somehow managed to grab its own slice of an increasingly large niche. As with all good success stories, this particular outfit has plenty of twists, turns and run-ins with Lady Luck to tell about; for those interested in seeing how the "stay small" mantra is keeping Twelve South firmly focused on the future ahead, take a peek beyond the break.

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