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Joan Bryna Michelson has been leading record-breaking growth in companies and non-profits - driving innovation - through communications, especially with outreach to and about women. Sure, she's won awards for this, but most proudly, she's helped raise the level of awareness of talented women across industries and sectors who are making a difference.
Joan shares the lessons of these successes through public speaking and leadership training, and through her writings. Her appearances have included at the U.S. Naval Academy, the National Institutes of Health, and national conferences including for the National Association of Women Business Owners, as well as chambers of commerce. She's also addressed the public policy and political issues related to women voters for national audiences including for Executive Women in Government and Women Impacting Public Policy.
Advancing the cause of women in leadership and self-sufficiency has been her avocation, working through corporations as diverse as Chrysler and American Express and organizations such as the World Academy for the Future of Women, Executive Women in Government, National Association of Women Business Owners, and Women Impacting Public Policy. She is helping mentoring leadership in young people through her presentations at universities and working actively with the World Academy for the Future of Women, reaching college-age women worldwide, especially in developing countries.
One of the most pressing issues today - and one that drives everything else in many ways - is growing the "green" economy. The "green" economy is about making sure we have the resources we need to survive and thrive. It's about sustainable entities that support humanitarian operating practices and justice.
Joan has worked with the top "green" private equity firm, Global Environment Fund, and the National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE), particularly their prestigious 2010 conference on "The New Green Economy." This conference brought together top leaders in the Obama Administration, Congress, academia, journalism, non-profits and business. She has also authored numerous articles, including two on driving demand for electric vehicles published in the leading international business/policy magazine, The New Economy.
One of the most fun gigs for Joan was driving "best year ever" growth at the 12-year old electric car division of Chrysler, Global Electric Motorcars (GEM) through creative, strategic and integrated media relations, branding, advertising and print and online marketing initiatives. Successes include: earning positive Page One coverage in The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post, and top coverage in Time magazine, Consumer Reports, CNN Money, CBS, "The Today Show," The LA Times, Yahoo!, Edmunds.com, and other print, television and online media nationwide and globally.
Using creative business development techniques - including a campaign targeted to successful women - Joan helped generate millions in revenue for professional services firms, such as American Express and Deloitte.
Joan has also been reporting on these and other great stories with media organizations across platforms, from CBS, ABC, NBC to online and print, such as the international business and policy magazine "The New Economy." She's also written a recurring column on leadership for a regional business journal and penned an excerpt on women in government leadership for the non-fiction book If Women Ruled the World, published by Inner Ocean Publishing in 2005.
Michelson has been an Adjunct Professor in the Communications and Journalism Department of Columbia Union College in Maryland, and actively involved in her community, including affiliating with the Women's Council on Energy and the Environment and the Wharton DC Club Green Business Roundtable. Her service includes the National Press Club and advisory boards, marketing committees and boards of a number of community organizations, including universities, industry groups and charities, such as America On Wheels museum, Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Nevada, University of Nevada School of Business, CinewomenNY and Skid Row Development Corporation.
A Bachelor of Arts in English from UCLA, a Master of Business Administration from Bernard M. Baruch College, City University of New York in the executive program, and various post-graduate studies - including in leadership at Harvard University and The Aspen Institute - round out Ms. Michelson's portrait…..so far.
I guess you might say that Joan might have come by this through her DNA.....her great-great aunt was Miriam Michelson a leader in the women's suffrage movement as a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle and the Philadelphia Inquirer. One of Miriam's brothers was Albert A. Michelson the first American scientist to win the Nobel Prize (physics, 1907), one of their brothers was Charles Michelson the first White House Communications Director/Press Secretary (under FDR). travel, expanding opportunities for women, "green" issues, innovation, communication, public policy, business growth communications, public speaking, innovation, business growth, "green" economy, driving demand


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Oct 5, 2011; Phoenix, AZ, USA; Milwaukee Brewers first baseman Prince Fielder points towards the bench after being walked in the first inning against the Arizona Diamondbacks during game four of the 2011 NLDS at Chase Field. Mandatory Credit: Mark J. Rebilas-US PRESSWIRE
DUNEDIN, Fla. (AP) -- Detroit slugger Prince Fielder was on the move Tuesday, stealing a base and then getting thrown out at the plate in the Tigers' 13-8 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays.
Fielder grounded into a forceout in the third inning. One out later, the burly slugger stole second for his first spring training swipe since 2008.
Jhonny Peralta later singled and Fielder tried to score, but was easily nailed by left fielder Eric Thames.
Thames homered off Tigers starter Max Scherzer, who was charged with nine runs and 11 hits in 4 1-3 innings.
Miguel Cabrera hit a two-run homer in the Detroit first. Danny Worth homered off Kyle Drabek in the Tigers seventh.
Ryan Schimpf hit a grand slam and Kevin Ahrens followed with a homer in Toronto's seven-run fifth.

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BBL Phototherapy is a noninvasive cosmetic rejuvenation procedure used on men and women to reduce or remove the unwanted effects of aging or sun exposure, such as fine lines, wrinkles, age spots, sun spots, and redness, and to diminish the size of pores and the appearance of tiny, superficial blood vessels.
BBL stands for broad band light. BBL Phototherapy utilizes light to gently heat the upper layers of skin, removing damaged skin and accelerating the development of underlying collagen, the element of skin responsible for giving it resilience and firmness.
The BBL Phototherapy procedure can be used to treat just about any area of the body, with most patients choosing the procedure to treat the face, chest, shoulders, and hands, where sun damage is most likely to have occurred. Your clinician can help you determine which areas of your body are most likely to benefit from BBL Phototherapy treatment.
Because it is a noninvasive procedure, there is no recovery time or downtime necessary following treatment, and the procedure can be performed quickly and in an outpatient setting. The BBL procedure also employs the use of filters, allowing the clinician to specifically target individual lesions and areas to truly customize your treatment to your unique needs.
Nearly any adult can be considered a candidate for BBL Phototherapy. Individuals with suntans or dark skin tones may not be ideal candidates, since Phototherapy can result in uneven pigmentation, or even a loss of pigmentation.
Your BBL Phototherapy procedure will be performed in an outpatient setting. Your clinician will give you protective glasses or goggles to wear during the procedure, and may or may not apply a topical anesthetic prior to the procedure. Most individuals report only a sensation of warmth and mild to moderate tingling sensations during BBL Phototherapy. Depending upon the extent of the treatment, you can expect the procedure to last from a few minutes to a half hour.
BBL Phototherapy requires no recovery time, and allows most patients to resume their normal routines and activities immediately after treatment. There may be some initial redness, which will resolve within a few hours of treatment and can be safely covered with makeup. You will also need to avoid direct sunlight and apply sunscreen after treatment to protect your skin.
Initially, you may notice some redness, which will disappear a few hours after undergoing the BBL procedure. Once the redness dissipates, your skin will appear firmer and more evenly textured, and fine lines will be reduced or eliminated. Pores will appear smaller and tiny vessels that cause redness will be less noticeable. Increased production of collagen will also help your skin appear firmer and more resilient over time.
While even a single treatment can produce visible results, most men and women will need up to five treatments, which can be spaced from two weeks to one month apart, to achieve the greatest benefits of the BBL Phototherapy procedure.
Some patients with darker skin or suntanned skin may experience uneven pigmentation, including loss of pigmentation, following the procedure. This occurs because darker skin pigments absorb more of the BBL light energy than lighter skin tones. In addition, in very few cases, there may be some minor blistering. Your clinician can fully discuss any risk s associated with the BBL Phototherapy procedure.
Yes, BBL Phototherapy treatments have been approved for use by clinicians in the United States.
Since BBL Phototherapy is considered a cosmetic procedure, in most cases it is not covered by insurance companies. Your insurer can provide you with more information.
Disclaimer: This information is intended only as an introduction to this procedure. This information should not be used to determine whether you will have the procedure performed nor does it guarantee results of your elective surgery. Further details regarding surgical standards and procedures should be discussed with your physician.
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Dr. Melissa Walker is an award-winning teacher and scholar. She is the first faculty member at Converse to hold the George Dean Johnson, Jr. chair in history. In recognition of her work at Converse, she received the O'Herron Award for Faculty Excellence in 2002, the Kathryne Amelia Brown Award for outstanding teaching at Converse in 2001, and the Scholarly and Creative Achievement Award in 2007.
In 2007, Walker's book Southern Farmers and Their Stories was published by the University Press of Kentucky. This book makes extensive use of the oral history collections held by the Institute for Oral History and the Texas Collection, both at Baylor University. The book was awarded a prestigious Outstanding Academic Title Award from Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries for its overall excellence in scholarship and its value to undergraduate students.
Walker's first book, All We Knew Was to Farm: Rural Women in the Upcountry South, 1919-1941 (John Hopkins University Press, 2000) earned the Southern Association for Women Historians' Willie Lee Rose Prize for the best book in Southern history authored by a woman.
In addition, she is co-editor of Southern Women at the Millennium, an edited collection of essays drawn from a 2001 conference she helped organize at Converse; editor of a collection of oral histories, Country Women Cope with Hard Times (University of South Carolina, 2004), and co-editor with Rebecca Sharpless of Work, Family, and Faith: Rural Southern Women in the Twentieth Century (University of Missouri, 2006). She just finished editing the agriculture volume of The New Encyclopedia for Southern Culture.
Dr. Walker has received numerous grants to fund her research, most recently a Franklin Research Grant from the American Philosophical Society. She is recipient of the John Trotwood and Mary Daniel Moore Memorial Award from the Tennessee Historical Association and the National Mortar Board Award for Excellence in Advising. She was Joseph J. Malone Faculty Fellow to Syria in 1998. She served as the Executive Secretary of the Southern Association for Women Historians for five years, and she currently first vice president of that organization. She is on the editorial board of the Agricultural History Society and is a past board member of that organization. She also serves as president of the board of HubCulture, Inc., a Spartanburg, SC, arts organization.
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IANA reports a 4.5 percent gain in total Q1 intermodal volumes
May 02, 2013
In the first quarter edition of its Intermodal Market Trends & Statistics Report, the Intermodal Association of North America (IANA) said this week that total first quarter intermodal container and trailer movements—at 3,682,049 trailers and containers—were up 4.5 percent annually.
As has been the case for six straight quarters, domestic containers—at 1,427,802— outpaced all intermodal categories for a 10.2 percent annual gain. This was slightly below the fourth quarter's 2012 10.5 percent annual increase.
IANA noted in the report that that last time domestic volumes declined on a quarter-to-quarter basis was in the second quarter of 2009, adding that on a seasonally-adjusted basis domestic intermodal was up 3.0 percent compared to the fourth quarter, marking its strongest growth rate since the second quarter of 2010.
While it has been largely noted that domestic intermodal gains have occurred due to lower fuel costs, improving service, and major investments into rail networks, among others, it clear that intermodal is taking share from over the road trucking and will continue to be an area of secular growth for railroads.
But while the growth rates are impressive, industry experts maintain that these strong domestic container intermodal volumes are due in large part to freight coming out of intermodal trailers into trailers or from one box to another, coupled with the fact that the gross number of intermodal loadings—both domestic and container—were higher in 2006 than in 2012 as was gross GDP and industrial production. What's more, during that same period the number of truckloads moved and truck tonnage volume is larger than intermodal.
IANA President and CEO Joni Casey told LM that the growth in domestic containers is a combination of transloading—both from small 40-foot international containers into larger 53-foot domestic boxes, and "also a result of additional market share due to actual modal shifts."
First quarter international containers—at 1,869,988—were up 3.0 percent annually, and trailers decreased 6.3 percent—to 384,259. Even though trailers were down, IANA pointed out that the rate of decline was not as high as the 10 percent or higher levels seen in the previous two quarters.
The IANA report explained that the gains on the international side were surprising, considering the current economic climate in terms of the across the board U.S. tax increase and the federal budget sequester serving as headwinds. But even with those obstacles, IANA observed that West Coast port import numbers were strong in the first quarter, adding that rail intermodal has a higher share on the West Coast.
"Our original estimates of 2 percent growth in international volumes were exceeded based on stronger than expected consumer spending, resolution of some lingering labor uncertainty and higher than anticipated inventory restocking," Casey said.
IMC (Intermodal Marketing Company) intermodal and highway revenue for the first quarter—at $813,483,382 and $187,533,645—were up 3.5 percent and 1.0 percent, respectively. Total revenue—at $1,001,017,027—was up 2.0 percent. Average revenue per intermodal load—at $2,637—was up 1.3 percent and average revenue per highway load—at $2,613—was up 11.6 percent, and average revenue per highway load—at $1,442—was down 0.2 percent.
Total first quarter IMC loads—at 438,438—were down 4.3 percent, with intermodal loads down 6.4 percent at 308,479 and highway loads up 1.1 percent at 129,959.
The report explained that growth levels for IMCs were modest compared to the first quarter of 2012, adding that for the first time since the third quarter of 2011 intermodal volume growth lagged overall domestic intermodal growth, adding less than half the gain posted for the total sector.
"First quarter IMC intermodal volume numbers are basically a victim of timing," explained Casey. "There were less days in quarterly cycle this year, coupled with the timing of Asian New Year impacting West Coast transloads. There was also a shift between IMC intermodal loads and IMC highway/broker loads, and while volumes may be off, revenues in each category exceeded last year's numbers for the same quarter. We expect IMC business to follow in line with overall domestic intermodal volumes."
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Update on ClementeCelemente was born in the Minas Pampas community in the Tiraque province, Cochabamba department. He currently lives in his community with his family (Clemente appears in the photo with his family).
His house is rustic: it's constructed of mud and has a tile roof with mud plastering. The community where he lives is three kilometers east of the town of Tiraque. The economic activity there is agriculture, which is growing tubers and grains. The production is seasonal in the high regions of the high valley.
The loan that he is requesting is to buy chicken manure. Clemente is interested in bettering himself and improving his income in the coming years. His whole family does the agricultural work. In some cases his neighbors help with the planting and harvesting, as is their custom.
The previous loan helped him quite a bit with the purchase of manure and livestock. That is why he now wants to increase his production and to buy more manure.
Previous Loan DetailsClemente, born in Minas Pampas in Tiraque province in the department of Cochabamba, now lives here with his family, wife, and two minor children. His mud house has a tile roof reinforced with mud and is very rustic. Clemente's community is 3 km east of Tiraque. He is a farmer. He grows tubers and... More from Clemente's previous loan »
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About CIDRECIDRE is a Bolivian microfinance institution with a strong social commitment to the community. It works to provide quality financial services to rural and peri-urban borrowers, focusing primarily on agricultural loans for dairy farmers and micro-enterprises. CIDRE targets segments of the population that have not traditionally had access to credit, and invests in much-needed community development projects. It is currently working with coca farmers in the Chapare region to replace coca with less controversial crops. Get more involved by joining the Friends of CIDRE lending team.
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Our Field Partners often work with borrowers over a series of loans as the borrowers build credit, take out bigger loans, and expand their businesses. In order to make it easier for our Field Partners to post loans for borrowers who have been listed on Kiva before, we allow them to post successive and concurrent loans for their Kiva borrowers. This means that our Field Partners are able to post a borrower's second, third, etc., loan on Kiva without having to re-enter all of the borrower's information.
This borrower has been listed on Kiva before, so you'll see an updated loan description, as well as excerpts of the original descriptions from earlier loans. Most borrowers take out loans consecutively, meaning that they receive a second loan after having repaid the first. However, sometimes our Field Partners give out concurrent loans, allowing borrowers to take out one primary loan and a secondary "add-on" loan along with it. These "add-on" loans are typically smaller than the borrower's primary loan and serve a different purpose. Because Field Partners can now post loans as successive and concurrent loans, you will be able to track borrower progress over time and see the various ways a borrower is working with our Field Partners through funds from Kiva's lenders.
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Command and Conquere: Tiberium Wars
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Total Anihilation
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Any Warhammer RTS
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I used to play Starcraft tons. I stopped though, because after a while it really just turns into a APM war. Starcraft:Broodwar is certainly the most balanced RTS ever, but the best? I dunno.
I know that the best strategy game is Go, but it's not an RTS. The stuff you learn in Go can be used in any RTS with a little tweaking. It could be argued that Go is an RTS, since it's almost always played with time constraints.
Best strategy game = Go.
Best RTS = SC2? I dunno.
Darkfall is going to be an FPS, First Person Sworder, which means you're going to sword the first person you meet.
I have no problem you you liking something else, i prefer WC3 over SC, i don't think WC3 is a better game tho, saying CoH is the best RTS game is just ridiculous however.
This poll and the fact that SC and WC3 for that matter have been played all over the world for such a retarded amount of time should be enough for most people... you are very stubbon tho.
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The balance is pretty good now. Wehrmacht has powerful units, US has fast and versatile units, British army has powerful stationary defenses and very powerful yet slow infantry, Panzer Elite has tons of light vehicles for early-mid game. Some abilities are unbalanced though, such as an airplane strafing run that rapes infantry like nothing you've seen before.
Unit responses aren't slow at all. Sometimes your infantry won't move immediately and you're like "OMG MOVE!", but that only happens when an artillery shell lands nearby and they all duck to the ground so it's kinda realistic.
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Actors/Puppeteers were excellent. After having seen the "full size" production in New York, I can't say the production values compared to the New York show, but it was mildly entertaining.
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HILARIOUS! Thank you, Stage 773, for bringing Avenue Q to Chicago! This was expertly acted and sung. I especially enjoyed the main character who played Princeton. Great ensemble piece.
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People associated with the university include alumni, faculty, and honorary degree recipients. Thirteen of them are National Scientists of the Philippines, namely Clare R. Baltazar, Julian Banzon, Gelia T. Castillo, Pedro Escuro, Francisco Fronda, Bienvenido Juliano, Ricardo Lantican, Eduardo Quisumbing, Dolores Ramirez, Francisco O. Santos, Teodulo Topacio, Dioscoro L. Umali, and Jose R. Velasco. All of them held academic posts in the university, while three of them were College of Agriculture deans.
Cabinet secretaries affiliated with UPLB include Ricardo Gloria (Science and Technology), William Padolina (Science and Technology), Arsenio Balisacan (Socioeconomic Planning/NEDA), Cielito Habito (Socioeconomic Planning/NEDA), Patricia Santo Tomas (Labor; Development Bank of the Philippines), Domingo Panganiban (Agriculture), and Ramon Paje (Environment and Natural Resources).
Members of Congress who attended UPLB include Teodoro Casiño, Maria Valentina Plaza, Isidro Ungab, Sergio Osmena III and Juan Miguel Zubiri. Nicanor Perlas, an agriculture graduate from UPLB, ran for the Philippine presidential election, 2010. Both of its honorary degree recipients held influential roles in their respective countries' politics. They are Salim Ahmed Salim, former Prime Minister of Tanzania, and Sirindhorn, Princess of Thailand.
Emil Q. Javier, president of the University of the Philippines from 1993 to 1999, and Emerlinda Roman, the first female UP President, graduated from UPLB. Alumni who held ranking administrative posts at other universities include Rommel Banlaoi (Vice President for Administrative Affairs of National Defense College of the Philippines), Alexander Flor (University of the Philippines Open University dean), and Cristina Padolina (president of Centro Escolar University since 2006).
San Miguel Corporation Chairman Eduardo Cojuangco, Jr. and Enchanted Kingdom owners Cesar and Cynthia Mamon also attended UPLB.
Alumni who are active in the performing arts include composer Nilo Alcala, theater actor Terence Guillermo, and bossa nova singer Sabrina.
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Very nice, first post with a challenge map...
I hereby dub you newly repped! *bonk* and banish your "Blue Pip o'Shame"
I found this forum a couple weeks ago looking for some help with painting a map. Found some great stuff here and now I'd like to participate in the contest for the first time.
My map is from the interactive edition of the popular Not So Lonely Planet Guide which allows users to plan their voyages.
I might still change or add some details.
Very nice, first post with a challenge map...
I hereby dub you newly repped! *bonk* and banish your "Blue Pip o'Shame"
My Finished Maps | My Challenge Maps | Ghoraja Juun, my largely stagnated campaign setting.
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Nice vacation to the stars map! Have some REP!
In reading your Casino description - I think reference to the scenic planet surrounding the Casino, beaches, tropics, etc. is missing. Nice reference to the local drinks, though!
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Very nice job... I really like the "hitchhiker's guide" look. Have some rep !
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Excellent entry! Looking forward to seeing more, Zanza!
Superb. I always give rep to new members who open with a challenge entry. Y'know you could win and have less than 10 posts on this board with this !
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Thanks for the nice welcome.
@Gamerprinter: I wanted to get the feel of a travel guide and the detailed information in one. So the text is not meant for the planet or the region of the planet as a whole, but just for the one bar that the user has just selected.
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This is super fun and very slick in it's simplicity. Damn fine map.
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If not can you recommend something better? Its for my wife for CHRISTmas. Thanks.
If not can you recommend something better? Its for my wife for CHRISTmas. Thanks.
MegadetH is the best ever! Deal with it...or not? HHMmm. Did I spell that right? I might look it up. Rambling here...this might be a good time to end...lets see..good, good ill end it here. Now I gotta hit "Save Signature" or this wont work like I had planned. To many options. This screens to bright although i do like the pale grey background. Easy on the eyes, I suppose thats a good thing
I just bought this and got free shipping. Seems pretty good so far.
Just basing my answer on the fact that it is sold by Wal-Mart, I'd say no it isn't.
You get what you pay for though. It is probably best if you spend more money up front at an LBS for a higher quality product you will not have problems with & have to replace parts or have constant repairs done to it.
Also, unless your wife asked for something like a trainer I would not buy one for her. She might think you are calling her fat & needs to exercise. It is akin to getting an treadmill or other type exercise machine with her requesting one.


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Meatless Meals: 10 Tips for Vegetarian Diets (cont.)
It's easy to be a vegetarian these days, with so many meatless food products on the market, along with all kinds of vegetarian cookbooks and magazines.
If you want to become a 'sometime' vegetarian or just enjoy a meatless meal once in a while, there are ways to do it without learning a whole new way of cooking and eating. First, start by substituting beans for meat or poultry in your favorite dishes, advises Diekman.
"The easiest way to transition into a more plant-based diet is to use familiar recipes substituting vegetarian ingredients," she says.
She recommends making these substitutions in dishes that have strong flavors, such as those with a sweet and sour or marinara sauce. Once you get used to more beans in your diet, experiment with meat substitutes, which look and taste like meat but are made of plant products.
Your second step: The next time you're at the grocery store, pick up one of the many pre-prepared vegetarian convenience foods. Sample several options to find the ones you enjoy.
Here are eight other tips for working more vegetarian meals into your eating plan while meeting all your nutritional needs:
Vegetarianism is a healthy lifestyle, but experts point out that lean meat, fish, and poultry also have nutritional benefits -- as long as you keep your portions moderate. To gain the health benefits of a vegetarian diet and still enjoy animal products, think of the meat, fish, or poultry as a side dish and fill the rest of your plate with plant foods. And be sure to choose the leanest cuts when you do buy meat.
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SOURCES: Nutrition Reviews, April 2006. Journal of the American Diet Association, 2003; vol 103: pp 748-765. News release, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. Cynthia Sass, MPH, MA, RD, spokeswoman, American Dietetic Association; and co-author, Your Diet is Driving Me Crazy: When Food Conflicts Get in the Way of Your Love Life. Connie Diekman, RD, MEd, FADA, president elect, American Dietetic Association; and director of nutrition, Washington University, St. Louis.
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Photo Safari In The Aladağ Mountains
With Thrilling Summits Approaching Four Thousand Meters, The Aladağ Range At Kayseri Is A New Favorıte With Mountain Climbers. And It Offers Trails Ideal For Hiking And Photo Safaris.
We never hesitate when the invitation to join a photo safari in the Aladağ Mountains is offered every year at the end of July. More than making the summit, our goal is to get stunning shots. The highest point to which we will climb is Yedigöller Highland at 3,100 meters. With national park status since 1995, the Aladağ range is home to fox, lynx, wolf and bear. The range lies mainly in Kayseri province, the rest spreading into Niğde and Adana, and the region is flooded with thousands of nature buffs and mountaineers Turkish and foreign alike every year.
Our photo safari begins at Kapuzbaşı Falls near the Kayseri town of Yahyalı, where a mighty river appears to have been cut off by steep rocks. The rainbow created by one of the waterfalls dazzles the eye. A little further ahead at Elif Falls, the flow is a little less. According to others, this cascade, where the water falls from a higher elevation, is used to operate a mill. The local people come here with sacks of wheat and leave with freshly ground flour. The area around the falls are a veritable country fairground. Braziers are set up along the banks of the icy stream, watermelons are chilled, and children play happily. It's not easy to tear oneself away from this breathtaking sight. But the Aladağ Mountains await us with all their surprises, and we still have to climb a good thousand meters to reach our evening campsite. We hand our heavy equipment over to muleteers waiting for us just outside the village of Ulupınar and set off. On the first leg, we take a pleasant road that runs from from Hacer Forest to the campsite at Soğuksu. Giant cedars and colorful butterflies are our companions along the way. Towards evening the trees thin out and a magnificent view spreads before our eyes. The sun's last rays stain the rugged mountain slopes myriad shades of gold and crimson, and we now appreciate even better why the Ala (meaning variegated) Mountains are so named.
The camping fun begins when the sun goes down. All around us the mountains are completely enveloped in darkness. Lined up side by side, our tents await us. Despite their heavy loads the mules have arrived far ahead of us, and our camp mates have even lit a fire and made tea. We are too tired to take another step. Those who know the route say that tomorrow's leg will be even more difficult. I sigh inwardly and ask myself if I should turn back. Remembering that if all else fails I can always ride on the back of a mule, I relax again and drift off into a restorative sleep in the overpowering silence of the great mountains… The next morning we are up before sunrise. Today we are going to cross Hacer Pass and climb exactly 1,400 meters. The first two kilometers run over almost flat ground terrain through fabulous vegetation. Then the valley gradually narrows and mountains seem to bear down on us from all sides. At the end of the valley the majority of our group choose a zigzag trail over a steep slag heap. The others choose a path on the south slope. Finally the last trees have been left behind and we are left facing rocky terrain and the deep blue sky. The flowers peeking out from between the rocks are astonishingly brilliant in color. The snow and ice-covered areas that at first appeared only sporadic are gradually bigger now. A person can't help but feel awed by the splendor of nature. Completing our exhausting climb near sundown with our last shred of strength, we reach the Yedigöller (Seven Lakes). Like a giant wall, the Direktaş is reflected in the waters of Büzül Gölü, a glacier lake. In fact, the lakes large and small in the environs number more than seven. Already dozens of tents have been pitched on these lake-dotted highlands. After a deep sleep we have breakfast and begin our descent. Our trail runs along the shores of numerous lakes, each more beautiful than the last. When we reach our campsite at the edge of the forest, we can't resist shouting: "Farewell, Oh great Aladağ Mountains!"
1.Trees give way to daisies above 2,000 meters.
2.Delicate species of carnation can be found in the Hacer Forest environs.
3.The area around Soğuksu is ideal for tent camping.
4.Kapuzbaşı Falls, a major photo safari stop.
1.The foothills of the Aladağ Mountains are a grazing area for cattle.
2.Tasty local snacks will give you energy on your safari route.
3.Buttercups cover the Seven Lakes Highland in summer.
4.Wheat on the way to the local mills.
1.A view of the Hacer Pass.
2.The slopes of the Aladağ Mountains.
3.Elif Falls and a nearby mill.
4.A bell flower thrives in the rugged terrain.
HOW TO GO: Turkish Airlines has daily flights in both directions between Istanbul and Kayseri. Once you are in Kayseri, you can reach the Aladağ Mountains via Develi or Yahyalı.
WHERE TO STAY: If you can't get to Kayseri, you can stay at a bed&breakfast in the village of Kapuzbaşı.
WHAT TO EAT: There are rustic restaurants around the ancient Roman fountain in the Kayseri town of Develi. The dish of choice at these venues shaded by century-old chinars is a kind of flat bread with meat (etli pide) known as Develi cıvıklı.


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Dead End Gene Pool by Wendy Burden
Publication date/ Length: 2010 / 279 pages
Synopsis (from the jacket cover): For generations the Burdens were one of the wealthiest families in New York, thanks to the inherited fortune of Cornelius "The Commodore" Vanderbilt. By 1955, the year of Wendy's birth, the Burdens had become a clan of overfunded, quirky and brainy, steadily chauvinistic, and ultimately doomed bluebloods on the verge of financial and moral decline — and were rarely seen not holding a drink.
First line: "It's a testament ot his libido, if not his character, that Cornelius Vanderbilt died of syphilis instead of apoplexy."
Review: I tend to enjoy memoir as a genre and am fascinated by how people choose to live their lives, so when TLC Tours contacted me to read this memoir of one of the Vanderbilts' ancestors, I thought, "Why not?" I very rarely read memoirs of famous people and thought this might be a nice change. Based on evidence that surrounds us, people who are born with extreme privilege seem to have a generally tougher time finding lasting happiness, and the Vanderbilts seem to be no exception.
The author has a very distinct voice and outlook on life. She records her childhood experiences with palpable scorn and distaste and presents them, warts and all, as peculiar characters who give her everything her heart desired – except for what her heart desired… unconditional love. Burden's voice is unique and authentic and her cutting humor truly brings a sense of credibility to individuals who seem incredible.
In fact, Burden's voice is so singular, I believe most readers could open a random page, read a few passages, and be able to predict whether or not they would enjoy her memoir. So, here are two passages for your consideration. First a description of one of her grandparents' properities:
"A decade before I was born, my grandparents built a house on Mount Desert Island in Maine. They positioned it on the pink granite rocks at the entrance to Northeast Harbor, making it a beacon to anyone who was traveling by in a boat; and in Maine in the summer that means everyone. Even if you looked the other way, you couldn't miss it; the sun bounced off the Belgian hand-rolled picture windows like a paparazzi flash off a Harry Winston sparkler. Natives, tourists, and summer residents gawked as they passed by, and commented freely on the design, the artistic delusion, and the obvious moral depravity of both architect and owner."
And a bit of dialogue describing young Wendy's attempt to scare away one of her mother's suitors:
"Wanna see my hamster? Or my guillotine? How about the two of them together? I bet you didn't know we have a dog that's trained to kill people."
So while I did not particularly enjoy this story of excess and deprivation, I think others might. Interested? Drop me a comment and I'll choose a winner by Saturday!
Wendy Burden's TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS:
Monday, April 19th: Life in Pink
Tuesday, April 20th: Bibliophile by the Sea
Wednesday, April 21st: A Sea of Books
Thursday, April 22nd: Simply Stacie
Friday, April 23rd: A Bookshelf Monstrosity
Monday, April 26th: Luxury Reading
Wednesday, April 28th: Book'N Around
Thursday, April 29th: Chaotic Compendiums
Friday, April 30th: Rundpinne
Monday, May 3rd: One Person's Journey Through a World of Books
Wednesday, May 5th: Book Club Classics!
Friday, May 7th: The Brain Lair
Monday, May 10th: The Serpentine Library
Tuesday, May 11th: Books Are Like Candy Corn
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Just checking in to say aloha and, I'm still around. I've just returned home from a business trip in Honolulu, which I extended for a few days. The trip was lovely, especially because my good friend–who lives on the other side of the country–came along.
Once I was done working, we drove along the coast to the North Shore, hiked Diamond Head, went snorkeling, and ate way too much overpriced food. My favorite part was swimming in the ocean with a green turtle. I am glad to be home, though, as I missed my dog and my blog.
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- Rewarding the best - Student Prize Winners 2012
- New White Paper: Variable Selection in a Cox Proportional Hazards Model
- NAG Quant Day: New York, 26 July
- New Case Study: Performance of Materials Sciences Codes Enhanced
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Rewarding the best - Student Prize Winners 2012
One of our highlights each year occurs when we present the NAG Student Awards which were established to reward outstanding achievement on an MSc course. At the recent Society of Industrial Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Student Chapter Conference held at the University of Manchester we presented two exceptional students with awards. Craig Lucas, NAG Senior Technical Consultant, was delighted to present an award to Randall Errol Martyr for his MSc in Mathematical Finance and Robert Andrew for his MSc in Mathematics & Computational Science.
NAG Student Award Winner Robert Andrew (left) with Craig Lucas, NAG (image © Nick Higham)
NAG Student Prize Winner Randall Errol Martyr with Craig Lucas (image © Nick Higham)
In addition to the NAG Student Awards, we also give 'direct' prizes during the year. The most recent winner was Stan Stilger of Manchester Business School for his paper 'The Use of Importance Sampling to Speed Up Stochastic Volatility Simulations'. Stan won a pass to the prestigious finance event, Quant Congress.
Congratulations and well done to you all!
More information on NAG's Student Awards and Prizes.
New White Paper: Variable Selection in a Cox Proportional Hazards Model
The Cox proportional hazard model relates the time to an event, usually death or failure to a number of explanatory variables known as covariates. Some of the observations may be right-censored, that is the exact time to failure is not known, only that it is greater than a known time.
The NAG routine for fitting a Cox proportional hazards model is G12BAF if you are using the NAG Fortran Library and g12bac if you are using the NAG C Library. In this new paper we will show how to use these routines to perform the three main approaches for automatic variable selection, that is, choosing which explanatory variables to include in the model. The three approaches described are; forward selection, backward selection and stepwise selection.
White Paper: Variable selection in a Cox Proportional Hazards Model.
NAG Quant Event - New York
On 26th July NAG is holding its annual Quant Event in New York (the event will also be webcast live). This is a free evening event aimed at finance industry professionals, but is also open to anyone taking an interest in financial computation from business and academia. The keynote speaker is Professor Uwe Naumann. Here's his talk abstract:
"Fast Greeks through Adjoint Algorithmic Differentiation - and further speedup through Mathematical Structural Insight"
Derivatives of various objectives with respect to potentially large numbers of free parameters are crucial ingredients of many modern numerical algorithms.
Parameter calibration methods based on implementations of highly sophisticated mathematical models as computer programs are of fundamental interest in Computational Finance. Algorithmic Differentiation (AD) transforms the given computer programs into code for the computation of first (gradients, Jacobians) as well as second (Hessians) and higher derivatives.
Adjoint AD allows for gradients to be computed with a computational cost that is independent of their sizes. For example, let the evaluation of a given function of one hundred parameters take one minute on your favourite computer. A sequential first-order finite difference approximation of the one hundred gradient entries takes about one hundred minutes. Adjoint AD delivers the same gradient with machine accuracy within less than ten minutes. Similar complexity results hold for second and higher derivatives.
In this talk we review the fundamental ideas behind (adjoint) AD and we present software tools that support the semi-automatic generation of derivative code with special focus on C/C++. Further gains in robustness and computational complexity result from the exploitation of additional mathematical and structural insight. In particular, we discuss AD of numerical methods that are likely to be embedded into the given simulation code and concurrency in the context of adjoint AD.
Event details will go online soon, but if you'd like to pre-register for the event (or webcast) simply email Rachel Foot.
New Case Study: Performance of Materials Science Codes Enhanced
A high performance computing (HPC) developer from the University of York, UK, working under NAG's Distributed Computational Science and Engineering (dCSE) support service for HECToR, has implemented performance improvements in both time taken and memory used, for the geometry optimization part of the materials science codes CASTEP and ONETEP. The improvements enable larger, more complex, systems to be studied by scientists within their existing budgets.
CASTEP and ONETEP are codes which use Density Functional Theory to calculate the electronic properties of materials from first principles. They are amongst the most heavily-used applications on HECToR. A significant amount of time in these applications is devoted to geometry optimization - this is, the minimization of the system entropy with respect to atomic positions. Originally, this was done using the Broyden-Fletcher-Goldfarb-Shanno (BFGS) non-linear optimization algorithm, which scales O(N*N) with N, the number of atoms in the study. The goal of this distributed CSE project was to improve the scalability of both codes by switching to a limited-memory version of the BFGS algorithm.
Read the results of the project here.
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If you think people at your organization would benefit from training from a NAG expert, get in touch by email. Courses can be tailored to your needs. Click here to learn more about our courses.
Technical Seminars, Training and Events
Algorithmic Differentiation One Day Training Course (webcast and London, UK) - 20 July 2012
NAG, Wilmott and the Certificate in Quantitative Finance are holding a one day training course on Automatic Differentiation, taught by Professor Uwe Naumann. Event Info.
NAG Quant Day (New York, USA) - 26 July 2012
Following the highly successful NAG Quant Day format is this years' USA event. The keynote speaker is Professor Uwe Naumann. Places are limited and registration is required to secure your place. Event Info.
ISMP is a scientific meeting held every 3 years on behalf of the Mathematical Optimization Society. NAG will be attending this event to talk about the NAG Library and Compiler products.
- International Symposium on Mathematical Programming (Berlin, Germany) - 19-24 August 2012
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The Matrix Square Root, Blocking & Parallelism
Edvin Deadman writes about how he, and others, have been investigating how blocking can be used to speed up the computation of matrix square roots.
Using NAG and LabVIEW in a 64 bit environment
Jeremy Walton gives the latest instalment in a series of posts about enhancing LabVIEW applications by using NAG methods and routines. The examples we looked at previously were all in the 32 bit environment, but some users asked whether this works in the 64 bit world. Examples are shown for this in this post.
So just how expensive is Marshaling?
John Morrissey blogs about a technique that may improve run-time performance when using the NAG C Library from .NET.
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Director's Hollywood debut with 'Stoker'
Park Chan-Wook is considered to be South Korea's most admired and popular filmmaker
Still, he feels that "Stoker" fits in with his existing body of work, specifically his most recent feature, "I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK," which, like "Stoker," deals with a girl's coming of age. He's even considering a third story on the theme to complete another trilogy. "In order to tell the story and all the delicacies of becoming an adult, I felt I would be able to do so and give it more rich detail if it was coming from the female perspective. Then I could deal with the subject in a subtle, yet almost mysterious manner," he said.
There's nothing mysterious about Park's preproduction process, which relies heavily upon detailed storyboards to map out each carefully constructed shot. This was especially the case with "Stoker," as Park found himself facing a seriously attenuated shooting schedule compared with what he's used to in Korea. Suddenly, the celebrated auteur with a love for Alfred Hitchcock found himself full of self-doubt. "While I was shooting I was wondering: 'I'm going at twice the speed that I'm going in Korea. Will I still end up with a good film?' "
Park met the challenge by reverting to his pre-digital directing days, when he wasn't able to watch immediate playback of every scene, or have a crew member quickly edit together scenes for preliminary viewing. As convenient as they are, these tricks of the modern trade take time, so Park eliminated them from the production flow. By the time he got to the editing suite to review his footage, he was relieved to see he'd captured most of what he'd hoped for.
So, will Park bring the double-time American shooting pace back home? "Having experienced that now," he said, "I feel I could go back to Korea and find the middle ground."
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1) What dive algorithm does this computer operate on? I am replacing an oceanic data plus, which I think used the pelagic dsat, Rogers Powell algorithm. 2) Will this module fit into an Oceanic hose mount boot and/or a U.S. Divers hose mount boot? Thank you
Genesis has their computers made at Pelagic and uses the same motherboard, processor, algorithms and such. It will fit into any of the current Oceanic Veo or sllimline computer boots, but not the US Divers boot as they switched to a different manufacturer prior to this computer being designed.
I bought the Genesis React Pro 3919 computer last month and want to buy a spare battery. The spare battery listed on the page with the computer does not list the Genesis React Pro as a model that it fits. Is that the correct battery for this computer?
Can you tell me about the conservative setting? I do live aboard diving and my current computer is very conservative. It times out before my dive buddy and we dive similar profiles. Also, can the genesis react pro air/nitrox be manually turned off to conserve battery life?
The Genesis computers are typically considered fairly conservative. They cannot be manually shut off. They will shut off after an hour of not being pressurized or used. If the computer has been under pressure, it will shut down to everything except the "time to fly" countdown indicating when it would be safe to fly after a dive.
How does dive computer download to different computer and if via cable, is it included? What information is downloaded?
Hello Lee, just to let you know this computer is not a downloadable computer. You would download you computer via a download cable and it depends on if you have a MAC or non-mac computer. The manufacture on there website have the program you would need to download on your home computer so the dive computer and home computer can link to each other.
Hello, is the ReAct Pro cable included? or I need to buy it seperately? Thanks
The React Pro Download cable is sold separately. You can find it here: http://www.scuba.com/scuba-gear-67/008062/Genesis-React-Pro-Download-Cable.html
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A suspected drunk driver slammed into a building in Athens county and then tried to run from the crash.
It happened near the Ohio University campus in Athens.
Students posted pictures of the scene on twitter
The driver, identified as 29-year-old Logan Graber, was arrested for OVI.
Police said he drove the wrong way down the one-way street, then hit a parked car and a street light before hitting the building.
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- David A. Feingold. Trading Women documents the sex trafficking trade in China, Thailand, and Burma, depicted as not just a local, but international problem (narrated by Angelina Jolie).
- Lilya 4-Ever
- Lukas Moodysson. 2002. At 16 in the former Soviet Union, Lilya is left by her mother, and, penniless, turns to prostitution and the horrifying life it entails (109 minutes).
- Human Trafficking (Lifetime Ministries)
- Christian Duguay. 2005. This two-part mini-series starring Mira Sorvino and Donald Sutherland depicts the sex trafficking trade in Eastern Europe.
- Sex Slaves (PBS Frontline)
- Ric Esther Bienstock. 2006. One man provides a hidden-camera view of commercial sexual exploitation in Ukraine and Turkey by speaking with the traffickers, victims, and government officials in order to find and buy back the freedom of his trafficked wife (40 minutes).
- The Day My God Died
- Andrew Levine. 2003. The Day My God Died tells the story of the countless girls sold into the sex trade in Bombay, the brave souls working to defend them (55 minutes).
- Anonymously Yours
- Gayle Ferraro. 2002. Four women's stories are weaved together in this 90minute documentary about Burma's sex trafficking trade.
- Dying to Leave
- Chris Hilton and Aaron Wolf. 2004. This 104-minute two part documentary explores the issue of human trafficking, and tells the story of a girl trafficked to Australia then sold into prostitution for three years.
- Trafficked
- Luigi Acquisto. 2005. Acquisto's 60-minute documentary explores the sex trafficking trade in SE Asian and Australia through former Australian Federal Police Officer Chris Payne.
- Turning a Corner
- Salome Chasnoff. 2006. In this 60-minute documentary, the stories of those affected by the sex trade in Chicago and their efforts to raise awareness for necessary policy reforms are revealed.
- Bangkok Girl
- Jordan Clark. 2005. 19-year-old Pla tells of her experience managing to avoid prostitution while working in a bar in Thailand since the age of 13, and how with time she will inevitably be forced into the trade (42 minutes).
- Sacrifice
- Ellen Bruno. 1998. This 50-minute documentary explores the economic, social, and cultural forces behind the sex trafficking of girls for debt-bondage from Burma to Thailand.
- Sisters and Daughters Betrayed
- Chela Blitt. 1995. Focusing on Thailand, Nepal, and the Phillipinnes, this documentary delves into the social and economic factors driving sex trafficking, as well as the consequences for those women affected (28 minutes).
- Stop the Traffick
- Emily Marlow. 2001. Set in Cambodia, Marlow's documentary explores the aftereffects of Khmer Rouge's brutal rule, and how it has impacted the vulnerability of children in the region to the sex trade (30 minutes).
- Bought and Sold
- Gillian Caldwell. 1999. Produced and Directed by WITNESS Director Gillian Caldwell, this 42 minute documentary investigates the illegal traffic of women in the former Soviet Union, as well as the groups that are helping them.
- Bucharest Express
- Chuck Portz. 2003. Enticed falsely by offers of job opportunities as dancers and models, women are trafficked from the Balkans to become sex slaves in Turkey (feature length).
- Girls from Chaka Street
- Antra Cilinska. 1997. In a short 15-minute documentary, the tragic story of Eva, a prostitute in Latvia, and many other underage girls like her is told.
- Svetlana's Journey
- Michael Cory Davis, Hristina Dimatrova. 2005. Based on a true story, this documentary/drama describes the experience of a young Bulgarian girl sold by her adopted parents for only 10,000 euros to another family for sexual exploitation.
- Trafficking Cinderella
- Mira Niagolva. 1994. After the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, there has been a marked increase in the sex trafficking from the former Soviet Union to Western Europe and North America, explored by this 48-minute film.
- Remote Sensing
- Ursula Biemann. 2001. This feature length film explores the impact of U.S. Military presence in South East Asia and European migration politics on the global sex trade.
- So Great a Violence: Prostitution and Trafficking and Global Sex Industry
- Coalition Against the Trafficking in Women. 2000. This inspirational film calls on those with a voice to use their power to create political demand for the ending of sexual exploitation.
- The Children We Sacrifice
- Grace Poore. 2000. Poore's documentary delves into the many aspects of incest, ranging from cultural attitudes to effective treatments for survivors, and focusing on social and cultural resistance in South Asia (61 minutes).
- Anamika: Documentary
- Rajesh Touchriver. 2005. Exposing the issue of child commercial sexual exploitation in India, this 26 minute documentary delves into the very real product of the sex trade, including both physical and mental destruction.
- Born Into Brothels
- Zana Briski, Ross Kauffman. 2004. Taking on a very different vantage point than most films on the subject, Briski and Kauffman's 85-minute documentary focuses not on the prostitutes in India, but their children.
- Girl Trafficking
- Manushi for Sustainable Development. 1994. Trafficked from the rural areas of Nepal into India for commercial sexual exploitation, this documentary-drama outlines the very real ordeal of many young girls, as well as the social ostracism they face with their resulting HIV/AIDS infection.
- Highway to Hell
- Meera Dewan and Niraja Rao. 2000. Exploring the sex trafficking trade between Nepal and India, this documentary also takes on the unique perspectives of male clients in addition to those of the trafficked girls and their families (38 minutes).
- Fields of Mudan
- Steven Chang. 2004. A young girl is forced into sex slavery in this moving short film. She befriends another girl in the brothel and dreams of freedom with her mother in America (23 minutes).
- Trade
- Marco Kreuzpaintner. 2007. A girl from Mexico City is abductesd into modern day slavery, and her brother goes on a quest to rescue her (119 minutes).
- Cargo: Innocence Lost
- Michael Cory Davis. 2008. A "compelling documentary", this film includes interviews from the nation's leading authorities on trafficking, and from victims of modern day slavery themselves (75 minutes).
- Playground
- Playground is a documentary that focuses on the commercial sexual exploitation and trafficking of children in the United States. The director, Libby Spears, shows how very little thrives on this planet without American capital, and the commercial child sex industry is certainly thriving. Spears intelligently traces the epidemic to its disparate, and decidedly domestic, roots — among them the way children are educated about sex, and the problem of raising awareness about a crime that inherently cannot be shown.
- Very Young Girls
Very Young Girls is an exposé of the commercial sexual exploitation of girls in New York City as they are sold on the streets by pimps and treated as adult criminals by police. The film follows barely adolescent girls in real time, using vérité and intimate interviews with them, documenting their struggles and triumphs as they seek to exit the commercial sex industry.
- Call + Response
CALL+RESPONSE is a first of its kind feature documentary film that reveals the world's 27 million dirtiest secrets: there are more slaves today than ever before in human history. CALL+RESPONSE goes deep undercover where slavery is thriving from the child brothels of Cambodia to the slave brick kilns of rural India to reveal that in 2009, Slave Traders made more money than Google, Nike and Starbucks combined.
- Nefarious
This Christian-based documentary ushers you into the nightmare of sex slavery that hundreds of thousands experience daily. You'll see where slaves are sold (often in developed, affluent countries), where they work, and where they are confined. You'll hear first-hand interviews with real victims and traffickers, along with expert analysis from international humanitarian leaders.
- WITNESS Video Project
What I Have Been Through Is Not Who I Am is ECPAT(End Child Prostitution and Trafficking) USA's documentary that brings together a diverse set of experts from juvenile justice, law enforcement, advocates, and services providers to speak about the traumatic effects of commercial sexual exploitation of children. They also share examples of how legislative reform measures and new approaches are helping shift our response from punitive to restorative.


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Campus safety is a community endeavor. From university security patrolling campus around the clock to students staying informed on crime prevention, everyone plays a role in keeping Case Western Reserve University safe.
In addition to 24-hour police and security force patrols on campus, Case Western Reserve Protective Services provides a number of security and safety programs, including security escorts, crime prevention education, security alerts and special event coverage. Read about police and security services.
Protective Services helps campus community members protect themselves and their belongings with a number of crime prevention programs, including bicycle locks and registration, automobile VIN etching, security services overviews and personal safety presentations. View crime prevention options.
The Case Western Reserve Police Department offers electronic National Webcheck (FBI) and electronic Ohio Webcheck (BCI) fingerprinting, as well as traditional ink-rolled services, to all faculty, staff and students. Learn more about fingerprinting services.
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The series comes from the 'Current Population Survey (Household Survey)'
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Meet Our Staff & Stable
Virginia R. "Ginger" Cecil
Biltmore Board of Directors & Biltmore Equestrian Center Barn Advisor
Since 1978, Ginger has been active with the Biltmore Equestrian Center in a variety of roles, including barn manager, lessons instructor, and horse trainer. She currently serves as Barn Advisor for the Equestrian Center and is pursuing her Level 3 Parelli Natural Horsemanship certification. Ginger is also a member of The Biltmore Company Board of Directors.
Melonye Trivett
Director of Equestrian Programs and Antler Hill Farm
Melonye has been with the Equestrian Center for over 10 years. She oversees all equine-related operations, including Deerpark Trail and Carriage Barn. Melonye has a degree in Biology from Lees-McRae College. She grew up in a farm setting and enjoys land management and animals, and is therefore well suited to her role.
Elizabeth McLean
Biltmore Equestrian Center Supervisor
Elizabeth manages our lesson, boarding, and Ride Biltmore programs. She especially loves teaching lessons and traveling with her students to horse events. She also works closely with equine vets. Elizabeth is a Level 1 Centered Riding Instructor and is pursuing her Level 3 Parelli Natural Horsemanship certification. She grew up with horses, started riding at age eight, and enjoys hunter/jumper and dressage. She keeps her two horses at the barn.
Terry Van Buren
Terry has more than a decade of Biltmore experience, and she joined the Equestrian Center team in 2012. Terry makes reservations, keeps records, schedules farriers and vets, answers the phone and emails, and helps the boarders. She loves the diversity of her position and the casual environment.
Stable Assistants
These staff members keep things running smoothly inside and outside the barn. When not tending directly to the stalls and horses, they check and mend fences, Bush Hog®, keep the equestrian trails clear of debris, and occasionally help out in other areas on the estate.
Clay Vick came to the Equestrian Center in 2012. He lives on a horse farm that includes everything from a mini to a draft horse, so he knows what it takes to maintain a herd. A horseman for more than 25 years, he says horses are therapeutic.
Alex Carter started as a stable assistant in 2012, coming from a job where he worked with alpacas and llamas. His favorite things are taking care of the boarded and lesson horses, and maintaining our 80 miles of equestrian trails. In his spare time, he's quite a chainsaw artist.
Cory Sawyer was lucky to job shadow at the Center during his high school years. He liked it so much that he applied for a job and started nearly two years ago. Cory has worked at another barn and also at Builder's Express. His favorite chore is maintaining the trails on a four-wheeler.
Marty Zinn splits his time between work as a stable assistant and as a carriage driver at the Deerpark Carriage and Trail Barn. Marty is a lifelong horseman who keeps two horses at home for western trail riding. As a history buff, he enjoys telling people about Biltmore's legacy.
Steve Schroeder works part-time as a stable assistant; he spends other work time as an agricultural interpreter conducting tours on the estate's West Side. He's also an apprentice blacksmith at Antler Hill Village. Steve came to Biltmore from Indianapolis where he worked on a farm. He says he had a pony as a child, but was frightened of him – he's now overcome that fear and acknowledges he simply can't get away from horses.
Barn Animals
Every good barn has a few smaller animals that protect the herd and keep rodents to a minimum. The Equestrian Center is no exception:
Herbie is a large, lovable, six-year-old Great Pyrenees dog that sleeps comfortably most of the day in the office. At night, he patrols the perimeter of the Equestrian Center, keeping unwanted wildlife away.
Weedle and Betsy, two orange tabby cats, are excellent mousers who both love to cuddle.


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HFBR Goes Into 65-Year Storage
August 2010
On August 24, 2010, the doors of the High Flux Beam Reactor (HFBR) were closed and locked. They'll remain that way for up to 65 years, until radiation levels in the large components (reactor vessel and internals, and thermal and biological shield) naturally decay to a point where the reactor may be removed safely.
With the support of the Department of Energy, federal, state, and local regulatory agencies, and input from BNL's Community Advisory Council, significant progress has been made in the decommissioning of the reactor. Contaminated ancillary structures, underground pipes and ducts, and the control rod blades and beam plugs were removed and the facility was placed in a stable, safe-storage, state.
The DOE Office of Environmental Management provided American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funding to complete the near-term work agreed to in the 2009 Record of Decision well ahead of the 2020 cleanup deadline.


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Right now, I am trying to bring my blood pressure back down to something close to normal. A little while ago, I read a story, now in wide circulation, in the Washington Post: "Why Komen Defunded Planned Parenthood."
The Associated Press reports that Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the nation's leading breast-cancer charity, will cut off its funding to Planned Parenthood affiliates, where the foundation has traditionally paid for preventive screening services.
According to the AP, the move will mean "a cutoff of hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants, mainly for breast exams."Planned Parenthood confirms that Komen is the first, and only, organization to cut off funding since the Congress began debating the issue in earnest last winter.In some ways, the Komen decision isn't particularly surprising. The group has been under pressure from anti-abortion rights groups not to fund Planned Parenthood. It also hired a vice president last year who had previously advocated for the group's defunding in her run for Georgia governor. With a congressional investigation underway, Komen pulled its support.
The Komen Foundation has been skating on thin ice with me for some time. Their pinkwashing efforts have turned a diagnosis of breast cancer into a retail opportunity for corporations all around the country. As a breast cancer survivor, I am aware that fighting disease takes big money, and I understand that a certain amount of commercialization may reap big rewards. I have continued to support my local race because I like the fact that most of the money raised stays in my community and goes to local organizations like Planned Parenthood, who deliver care to the women who need it most and are least likely to have insurance. But this is the end.
I am enraged that the anti-choice lobby has so terrified health care organizations that a misogynist bully like Congressman Cliff Stearns can undermine a decades-long relationship simply by mentioning the A word. Anti-abortion politicians simply will not accept that not every single thing in this world has to do with abortion. To them, women's health and abortion are one and the same, and to provide funds and/or support to any group that advocates for choice is the same as killing a fetus.
Just as one person can blackmail entire organizations, one person can bring down a villain like Stearns. Remember Joseph Welch, who ended McCarthyism with one simple question? How long will we have to watch as the Susan G. Komen Foundation and others who call themselves our allies betray the cause of women's health care?
I encourage each of you to contact the national Komen Foundation here Their homepage will give you contact information for your local affiliate. Komen's Facebook page is here. And this is a perfect opportunity to make an extra donation to your local Planned Parenthood. If you donate, please let them know what prompted your gift.


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Dem boys seh…That TV deal got problems
If people think that butcher is people who only does wuk in slaughter house dem lie. De other day a man dead and dem had to rush in de pathologist to de North West fuh do de post mortem. When de doctor land de people notice that he didn't have he bag wid he. That is when everybody know that something was wrang. But dem shut dem mouth.
De pathologist decide fuh do he wuk and people want know how. Is when he ask fuh a carpenter saw that people know that dem gun see a butchering. When he done saw open de man and he do he checking he had to sew back de man.
Dem boys nearly dead. De man break up two umbrella, tek de bones and stitch up de body. That is when dem boys know that a butcher and a doctor can shake hands.
Other people can shake hands too. Dem boys seh that nuff people shaking hands when is time fuh buy drugs fuh de hospital. De boss man at de hospital shake hands wid Bar Bee and hand over de money. After couple years Bar Bee shake hands wid de hospital people and hand over de drugs.
Dem had some hand shaking when Bar Bee decide to buy de TV from Toe Knee. Well dem boys know that dem got to watch dem mouth but dem still can't understand how de same year dem had short supply of drugs to de hospital is de same year Bar Bee buy de TV station.
One man seh that nuff things coulda cause that ,but it just strange.
Talk half and wait fuh de tek ups.
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A Tallahassee judge has ordered Gov. Rick Scott's administration to "cease and desist" the bidding process for a prison privatization plan she earlier ruled was unconstitional.
Tallahassee Circuit Judge Jackie Fulford late Friday night put the brakes on Department of Corrections officials' attempt to bypass her earlier decision that the way lawmakers ordered the privatization of the 18-county region in the southern portion of the start violated the state constitution.
In her order, Fulford pointed out that corrections officials reneged on a pledge made Thursday not to move forward with the bidding before a Nov. 16 hearing. Later the same day, the department announced it was reopening the procurement and bids would be accepted after Nov. 10, Fulford wrote.
Fulford ruled on Sept. 30 that lawmakers should not have included the privatization plan in the must-pass state budget but instead should have ordered it in a stand-alone bill.
Scott opted not to appeal, but Attorney General Pam Bondi filed a last-minute appeal late Monday on behalf of state lawmakers, setting the stage for Friday's court showdown.
In granting the emergency stay to the Florida Police Benevolent Association, Fulford wrote that "defendants are not likely to succeed on the merits on appeal."
On Thursday, DOC officials announced they were again taking bids from vendors to take over 29 prisons and other correctional operations because the appeal, filed with the First District Court of Appeals in Tallahassee, lifted the stay on her previous order. But they said they would not sign any contracts until the litigation was complete.
That prompted the PBA, the union that filed the original lawsuit on behalf of the state's corrections and probation workers, to ask for an emergency hearing on Friday, where Fulford heard testimony from the PBA and assistant attorney general Jonathan Glogau.
Glogau argued that reopening the bids would not harm the 4,000 state employees now working at the 29 prisons and workcamps in the region.
"Nothing of any importance to their clients was going to happen between now and the 16th," Glogau said. "How are they affected by opening the bids?"
But Jim Baiardi, the president of PBA's chapter for correctional officers, testified that the new bidding process created a heightened state of anxiety for employees already worried about having to look for new jobs or move.
"The panic has begun again," he said. "Officers are concerned again."
– The News Service of Florida contributed to this report.


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San Marcos downtown project imperiled
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SAN MARCOS The state Supreme Court's ruling Thursday to uphold the Legislature's decision to abolish redevelopment agencies leaves much of San Marcos development plans in a state of uncertainty, officials said.
The ruling is considered especially detrimental to the city's Creek District, a 214-acre area designed to create a downtown.
"Now we have to reassess just about everything," San Marcos Mayor Jim Desmond said. "I can't tell you what's safe and what's not," as far as projects already approved by the City Council.
"We're going to have to reassess everything, including our budget, … based on this unfortunate decsion."
Plans for the Creek District "will slow down tremendously," said Deputy City Manager Lydia Romero.
"We have a lot at stake," Romero said.
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Triad -- For those who have been waiting patiently, and even the ones who haven't, this is the week of the warm-up.
A high pressure system is in place off the eastern seaboard. As a result, we enjoyed plenty of sun and southerly winds on Sunday. That meant highs in the low 70s across most of the Triad.
The warming doesn't stop there. On Monday morning, as many kids go back to school for the first time after spring break, it will actually feel like spring. Lows to start the day will be close to 50. By the end of the day, highs will reach the mid 70s.
From there, we gradually get warmer each day. Tuesday will take us to the upper 70s and we could hit 80 by Wednesday. As a bonus, we get to enjoy dry weather the first half of the week.
By Thursday, a low pressure system will approach and take our rain chances back up. There is the possibility of a shower or thunderstorm Thursday evening and through the night. We could still have showers stretching into Friday. Still temperatures will remain mild and in the 70s both days.
By next weekend, it will cool down a bit. However, we won't return to the 40s and 50s. Highs will only scale back to the mid to upper 60s.
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