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Keith Gittens Director of Personal Training Certifications: AFAA, Pre/Post-Natal, Kick Boxing
Keith hails from England (born & raised) and played semi-professional soccer for Arsenal & Chelsea starting at age 13. Twenty years ago Keith made the move stateside, the first four in investment banking, and the last sixteen in the fitness field, where his soccer and aerobic kickboxing experiences make him a unique trainer. Jack Lalane remains his inspiration, reminding Keith of 3 things that keep him going; age is just a number. If you eat, you should exercise. Healthy body, healthy mind.
Travis Brown Assistant Director of Personal Training Certifications: CSCS, NASM, Pre/Post Natal, MES, BS Kinesiology
Travis grew up watching his older brothers play soccer and wrestle, and followed in their footsteps with a dual-sport career at NYU. Combining his academic studies with an already strong affinity for physical activity, Travis received his first personal training certification in 1996 and has been continually educating himself on the latest fitness findings and trends ever since. Travis enjoys bringing his knowledge and experience to the JCC clients and training staff, while always learning from his peers.
Dorit Bloom Personal Trainer, Reiki Practitioner, Yoga Instructor. Certifications: ACE
Since 1995, Dorit has been a yoga instructor and Reiki Master practicing in both Israel and New York City. In 2006, she continued her professional development by becoming a Holistic Health Counselor and Personal Trainer. Integrating all these skills in her unique mind, body and soul approach to personalized training sessions allows her to address her client's overall well being. Dorit provides her clients with invigorating, goal-orientated workouts as well as individualized nutritional planning and counseling.
Rachel Cohen Certifications: NASM, BFA (Dance)
Rachel remembers dancing soon after birth, and makes time between auditioning, taking classes and training to continue this life-long passion. It was a strong commitment to dance that helped her overcome weight issues in her youth, and she now brings this same energy and focus to her clients. Those training with Rachel benefit from the combined disciplines of dance, pilates and MELT techniques. Among other endeavors, Rachel is currently dancing in a NYC caberet.
Tito Dudley Certifications: NASM, AMFPT, pre/post natal
A native of NYC, Tito overcame Hodgkins Disease as a youth by combining exercise and healthy eating habits, staying strong and minimizing his recovery time from chemo-therapy to six months. Convinced this regimen was the way to live the rest of his life, Tito has since become a top natural bodybuilder, a ten-year veteran of personal training, and is now moving into using MELT techniques, food planning and lifestyle coaching with his diverse clientele. Weight loss and toning remain his specialties.
Joe Esposito Certifications: NASM
Joe is a mainstay at the JCC, loyally training here since opening day. At just 13, the Rocky movies and the popular rise of Arnold Schwarzenegger proved an irresistible 1-2 punch in motivating Joe to start training with weights and his passion only grew with age. Turning his love of fitness into his work was an easy decision. Joe now strives to help his clients achieve their goals, while making time for his budding acting career.
Paul Frediani Certifications: ACE, ACSM, CHEK-1, MES, USAC-3, USAT-1
Growing up in his native Tuscany, Italy, Paul wanted to be a priest, then a garbageman. He ended up as an actor; a perfect combination. An avid surfer and triathlete, he is also a former San Francisco Golden Gloves and Pacific Coast Diamond Belt boxing champion. After 17 years in the fitness field, authoring 10 books and numerous articles, Paul maintains exercise is the key to living a healthy life, both physically and physiologically. His latest book, "Tri-Power," is due to publish in May '07. www.paulfrediani.com
Jamar Grimball Personal Trainer. Certifications: NASM
Jamar is a New York City native, coming to the JCC with an extensive background in baseball, basketball, and football. His two brothers, both strong athletes, have inspired Jamar in all things athletic, from preparation and performance, to ensuring safe and effective workouts for his clients. Already a two-year veteran in the fitness field, Jamar aspires to become a physical therapist.
Rizel Lederhouse Personal Trainer Certifications: AFAA, NASM, Pre/Postnatal
Rizel comes from a corporate background working at law firms in New York. Rizel has a passion for fitness and received her Personal Training certification from Marymount College. She has been training for the past nine years and incorporates weight loss, strength training and overall wellness into her training. Rizel utilizes her extensive fitness background to help members achieve a more healthy and productive lifestyle through her personal training.
Dan Marks Certifications: M.Ed., MELT
Dan began his fitness career during graduate school, teaching academic weight training and fitness classes while assuming the Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach for University of Missouri's Division I athletic teams. He later managed corporate fitness centers and co-owned "Knowledge & Power Personal Training," in Princeton, New Jersey. A former collegiate athlete, Dan will always maintain his 'muscle-head cred' while expanding his experience and skill in the area of therapeutic exercise.
Maria Mason Certifications: NASM, USAT-1, PST
Maria's youth was non-stop movement, riding her bicycle to various activities; swimming or tennis in the morning, softball or basketball in the afternoon, dance, piano, flute or viola in the evening. She turned her interests into a career, studying with the founders of Postural Strengthening Therapy. Her focus is in creating functional bodies for any sport through good posture. These techniques, and a will to succeed she instills in her clients, enabled Maria to complete a marathon after recovering from two ACL surgeries.
Stacey Menchel Certifications: NASM
Originally from Coral Springs, FL, Stacey has been a dancer since age 5, a trapeze artist since age 10, and performed in dance, theatre and circus shows throughout her youth. After earning her BA in Creative Writing and Italian, she danced ballet professionally for 4 years in both Europe and the US. She is currently pursuing her Master's in European and Mediterranean Studies at NYU. Stacey believes that fitness is lifestyle; not an option. She integrates her dance background with yoga, pilates, swimming, and plyometrics.
Brett Neichin Certifications: NASM
A native of Connecticut, Brett graduated from Baruch College, excelling in his dual major of philosophy and literature. A high school and college athlete, Brett has an extensive background in Sambo, Judo, and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. His training style implements functional exercises into tailor-made fitness routines, with an emphasis on strength training. Brett finds time between sessions to continue his creative writing career.
Cedric Stewart Certifications: NASM, MES, Pre/Post Natal
Daryl Stewart Certifications: NASM, Pre/Post Natal
Daryl comes to personal training from an extensive background in sports competition. An award-winning gymnastics career commenced by age 7, yet by high school football became an enduring passion. A dedicated and aspiring athlete in his own right, Daryl nonetheless adapts to recent mothers, high school athletes and adults of various ages equally well. In addition, those looking for sports/circuit training programs are well advised to seek his services.
Toure Vakaramoko Certifications: NASM, AFAA Certified Group Fitness Instructor
Born in Guinea and raised in the Cote D'Ivoire, Toure played soccer throughout his youth, soon discovering a strong natural affinity for coaching. His competitive boxing experience as an adult hit home the importance of staying fit, and helped him become a top JCC instructor. Toure's positive attitude, challenging workout regimens, and his ability to lead by example is creating a growing list of motivated clients who get results.


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I stumbled across Butterworks Farm Plain Organic Nonfat Yogurt at Whole Foods and since it was new to me, I took a closer look, only to find that a cup (8 ounces) of the stuff had only 75 calories. That's 5 calories less than a Dannon Light 'n Fit Yogurt (6 ounces), for 2 ounces more yogurt. A 32-ounce container cost $3.99, which was close enough to other yogurt cartons, so without hesitation, I threw this into my shopping cart, giddy with the prospect of a new, hopefully delicious, yogurt find.
I opened the container when I got home. On the Butterworks Farm website, the yogurt is described as being, "Noted for its firm set and clean, pleasing taste ... especially smooth and mild." Funny, I didn't find the "set" of this yogurt to be particularly firm, and the taste wasn't entirely pleasing to me. In fact, the yogurt was fairly runny (and the whey - the liquid part - separated after the yogurt had been opened); I later came across a New York Times article that said that the reason this yogurt was thinner is that it had no pectin, which explains my finding. The yogurt also tasted somewhat sour, even for plain yogurt. A little bit of Splenda made it more palatable, but overall this wasn't the best plain yogurt I've had.
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BY FRAN SPIELMAN City Hall Reporter email@example.com March 20, 2013 12:30PM
Updated: April 22, 2013 12:07PM
The Cubs have been turning up the heat to get a deal done by opening day to renovate 99-year-old Wrigley Field, but they had better be careful. They just might get burned.
The pressure tactics started two weeks ago, when Cubs Chairman Tom Ricketts sweetened the pot — with a health club in the hotel he plans to build across the street from Wrigley — to prod Mayor Rahm Emanuel into siding with the Cubs over local Ald. Tom Tunney (44th) and rooftop club owners in the signage dispute that stands as the biggest roadblock.
"My family is prepared to invest $500 million. . . . All of this can happen if we can reach a common-sense solution that allows us to run our business," Ricketts said in a not-so-subtle news release.
Emanuel is used to being the one applying political pressure. He doesn't like being squeezed himself. He promptly summoned both sides to City Hall.
But that didn't stop Act II, starring Rosemont Mayor Brad Stephens.
Stephens offered Ricketts 25 acres in the shadow of O'Hare Airport to build a Wrigley replica. DuPage County officials said they, too, were interested in luring the Cubs with no costly restrictions on night games, signage and game day street fairs that Ricketts says he needs in Chicago to renovate Wrigley without a public subsidy.
The coup de gras came this week, in what Emanuel advisers consider a Cubs' ploy to smear Tunney by disclosing the alderman's "dismissed" proposal to move Wrigley's iconic centerfield scoreboard to make way for a video scoreboard that would generate millions without blocking anybody's view.
Mayoral pal David Axelrod added fuel to the anti-Tunney fire by tweeting from spring training that, "No team should be held hostage the way the Cubs have to rooftop owners and the ward pols they own." Never mind that Axelrod's old firm has worked for the Cubs.
The Cubs' campaign left mayoral confidants fuming.
The sources noted that "incredible progress" was being made before the previously timid Ricketts started playing hardball.
A deal — if it can still be salvaged — is certain to include "some signage" inside the ballpark and "some blockage" of rooftop clubs even after attempts to "minimize" the number of obstructions, sources said.
Emanuel is also prepared to lift the 30-game-per-season ceiling on the number of night games to 44 or 45 games, with some of the dates reserved for concerts. Six-to-10 3:05 p.m. starts could also be part of the mix.
But none of that will happen before fence-mending.
"They just accused the alderman of desecrating Wrigley Field, and Axelrod is out there saying Tunney is in the rooftops' pocket. Every time we make progress, the Cubs do something stupid to set us back," said a mayoral confidant, who asked to remain anonymous.
"There has been progress. There have been concessions made. But the constant one-upsmanship in the media only undermines the trust that's been built over the period of months. Now, we have to try to rebuild that trust. We have to reclaim territory we've already covered."
Tunney has been under fire for fronting for rooftop club owners who are among his most reliable campaign contributors.
But the mayoral confidante said the Cubs are more responsible for impeding progress because they "keep moving the ball, changing what they want" and refusing to share information.
"The Cubs say they just want to run their business. But when you're talking about a $500 million project in a marquee location in the middle of a neighborhood, nobody is gonna get 100 percent of what they want," the mayoral confidant said.
Ricketts' spokesman Dennis Culloton flatly denied that the Cubs were orchestrating a campaign to pressure Emanuel into taking sides.
"We are just trying to get a deal done with the city of Chicago. That's been the Ricketts family's goal since Day One. Any offers from other communities have been unsolicited," Culloton said.


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First aired in syndication on The Disney Afternoon.
Darkwing Duck, a spin-off from Disney's hugely successful DuckTales, took the noble premise of cartoon superheroes like Batman and Superman, then turned it on its head.
In the vast reaches of the fictional metropolis of St. Canard, where evil lurked and crime ran rampant, there was only one chance for the future. By day, this great, feathered hope was known as Drake Mallard, a mild-mannered working duck. But by night, when his services were needed most, he turned into his crime-fighting alter ego, Darkwing Duck.
Like Batman and Superman, Darkwing was destined to fight the forces of evil and restore order to civilization. But unlike Batman and Superman, the superhero thing didn't come naturally to Darkwing Duck. A rather ill-fated (and all around hapless) superhero, Darkwing was helped in his efforts by his adopted daughter Gosalyn, her friend Honker Muddlefoot, and personal pilot Launchpad McQuack. While Darkwing and Launchpad believed themselves to be the saviors of duckkind, they couldn't have done it alone. Like Penny and Brain in the Inspector Gagdet cartoons, the resourceful Gosalyn and the intelligent, perpetually congested Honker were usually the true heroes.
The oversized ego of Darkwing Duck was often humbled by his rival, Fenton Crackshell, better known as Gizmo Duck. Both were in competition to defeat such criminal masterminds as Megavolt (an electrically charged rat), Negaduck (who was like a Bizarro Darkwing), and Bushroot. Perhaps worst of the arch-villains was Steel Beak, leader of F.O.W.L. (the Fiendish Organization of World Larceny).
Over the course of its lengthy run, Darkwing Duck proved to be as popular as its parent program. The show debuted on The Disney Channel in April 1993, then moved to a much wider audience that fall when new episodes appeared both on ABC's Saturday morning lineup and in weekday syndication as part of the Disney Afternoon. Whatever the location, time, or station, you could rest assured that when Darkwing Duck was around, there would be no fowl play in ducktown.
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Gulfstream Aerospace has opened a Beijing sales office in the China World Tower, which is in the middle of the city's central business district. "As the business aviation market continues to expand in Asia Pacific, it becomes increasingly important that Gulfstream and [parent company] General Dynamics have a permanent presence in Beijing," said Larry Flynn, Gulfstream's president.
December 8, 2011
The Obama Administration has notified the National Business Aviation Association that it will continue to have a seat on the Transportation Security Administration's Aviation Security Advisory Committee (ASAC), along with 24 other industry groups.
December 8, 2011
Airbus has announced creation of Airbus Corporate Jets and will invest more resources in the business unit, including the expansion of its local presence in key markets. The unit brings together commercial, program and support activities and has a direct link to the company's Airbus Corporate Jet Centre cabin-outfitting subsidiary.
December 8, 2011
U.S. aircraft services company Duncan Aviation is providing customers with two new resources that show how to economize on interior aircraft refurbishments.
December 2, 2011
Embraer's Legacy 500 and its shorter-haul, smaller sibling, the Legacy 450, are the latest entries in Embraer's burgeoning book of business jet offerings, which range from the entry-level Phenom 100 to the uber barge Lineage 1000.
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Manufacturers invest considerable time and effort to try to lower decibel levels in business jet cabins, many of which are marvels of acoustic ingenuity.
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Conklin & de Decker, a business aviation research and consulting firm, has introduced ACE On the Go!, an online interface for its Aircraft Cost Evaluator product.
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In October, for the second month in a row, the number of business aircraft flights in the U.S. fell from the same period in 2010. The year-over-year change was minus 1.5 percent in October and minus 1.3 percent in September, according to aviation services company Argus.
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This topic shows you how to use server scripts to authorize authenticated users for accessing data in Azure Mobile Services from an Android app. In this tutorial you register scripts with Mobile Services to filter queries based on the userId of an authenticated user, ensuring that each user can see only their own data.
This tutorial uses Eclipse and Android 4.2 or a later version.
This tutorial is based on the Mobile Services quickstart. Before you start this tutorial, you must first complete either Get started with Mobile Services or [Add Mobile Services to an existing app].
The Mobile Services Android SDK has been updated to version 2.0. If you completed the above two tutorials some time ago, you must redo them if they are not using the updated SDK. To verify what version of the SDK your app uses, open it in Eclipse and inspect the contents of the libs folder. The version numbers on the Mobile Services jar files should be 2.0 or higher.
Because the quickstart app reads and inserts data, you need to register scripts for these operations against the TodoItem table.
Log on to the Azure Management Portal, click Mobile Services, and then click your app.
Click the Data tab, then click the TodoItem table.
Click Script, then select the Insert operation.
Replace the existing script with the following function, and then click Save.
function insert(item, user, request) { item.userId = user.userId; request.execute(); }
This script adds a userId value to the item, which is the user ID of the authenticated user, before it is inserted into the TodoItem table.
Dynamic schema must be enabled the first time that this insert script runs. With dynamic schema enabled, Mobile Services automatically adds the userId column to the TodoItem table on the first execution. Dynamic schema is enabled by default for a new mobile service, and it should be disabled before the app is published to the Windows Store.
Repeat steps 3 and 4 to replace the existing Read operation with the following function:
function read(query, user, request) { query.where({ userId: user.userId }); request.execute(); }
This script filters the returned TodoItem objects so that each user only receives the items that they inserted.
In Eclipse, open the project that you modified when you completed the tutorial Get started with authentication.
From the Run menu, then click Run to start the app and sign in with your chosen identity provider.
Notice that this time, although there are items already in the TodoItem table from previous tutorials, no items are returned. This happens because previous items were inserted without the userId column and now have null values.
In the app, enter text in Insert a TodoItem and then click Save.
This inserts both the text and the userId in the TodoItem table in the mobile service. Because the new item has the correct userId value, it is returned by the mobile service and displayed in the second column.
Back in the todoitem table in the Management Portal, click Browse and verify that each newly added item now has an associated userId value.
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PSIP data is not equal to Electronic Program Guide Data.
No, but the ATSC tuner in the HR20 relies on a "replacement" PSIP data, if you will, to determine channel mapping. It gets that data from the satellite stream.
In other words, if UHF frequency 24 in "Anytown USA" contains digital channels 2-1, 2-2, and 2-3, a "normal" ATSC tuner scans the band and finds a modulated carrier on UHF frequency 24, it then picks up the PSIP data from that signal to determine what channels are on it and what to call them, e.g. "2-1 WPIG-DT" and "2-2 WPIG-24/7 weather" etc., as well as some other information about these channels.
By contrast, the tuner in the HR20 gets this channel mapping information from the satellite stream.
DirecTV gets it from Tribune (the same company from which they get their guide data), Tribune gets it from God-only-knows-where (but ultimately, it must come from the station itself, at some point).
The "chain of information" in this case is fragile. Lots of chances for human error to screw up the data.
Having a manual scan capability on the HR20 could "fix" problems introduced by human error. As I said before, the HR10 has such a manual scan function. Others have reported that the H10 and H20 do as well.


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Climate-related disruptions to fruit and vegetable growers will increase over the next 25 years, according to projections from the third National Climate Assessment.
The 840-page report, (www.globalchange.gov), was written by 240 groups of authors who documented ways climate change is affecting agriculture, forestry and other sectors. Congress calls for the assessment every four years through the U.S. Global Change Research Program.
"Many agricultural regions will experience declines in crop and livestock production from increased stress due to weeds, diseases, insect pests, and other climate change induced stresses," said William Hohensein, director of the USDA's Climate Change Program Office, in a blog post about the report. By 2050, climate change will increasingly effect most crops and livestock, he said.
Hohensein said extremes in precipitation will challenge dryland and irrigated agriculture, potentially resulting in loss and degradation of soil and water resources unless new conservation methods are implemented.
Growers often try to survive current crop challenges and may not have the luxury of planning for long-term climate change, said Ray Gilmer, vice president of issues management and communication for the Washington, D.C.-based United Fresh Produce Association. Gilmer said water is a dominant issue for California growers.
"If they don't get the water problem solved, the long-term challenge isn't anything they can necessarily need to worry about because they might not be in business any more," he said.
According to the report, there are "multiple lines of independent evidence" that confirm that human activities are the primary cause of the global warming of the past 50 years. Burning of coal, oil, and gas, and clearing of forests have boosted carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere by more than 40% since the Industrial Revolution, according to the report. The U.S. average temperature has increased by 1.3°F to 1.9°F since 1895, and most of this increase has occurred since 1970.
Temperatures are projected to rise another 2°F to 4°F in most areas of the U.S. in the next few decades, and by 2100 temperatures could rise by 3°F to 5°F under a lower emissions scenario and as much as a 5°F to 10°F rise for a higher emissions scenario, according to the report.
In California, the combination of a longer frost-free season, less frequent cold air outbreaks, and more frequent heat waves will accelerate crop ripening and maturity, reduce yields of corn, tree fruit, and wine grapes and increase irrigation use.


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B-Moto's Antti Pyrhönen and Ludde Söderberg compete in Hyvinkää, Finland, this weekend
Published on 23.5.2012 10:27B-Moto's Antti Pyrhönen and Ludde Söderberg are back in Finland after having been on the MX3 Word Championship circuit around Europe. The guys will be competing in one the Finnish Championship races in SuperCross in Hyvinkää on Saturday and Sunday, May 26th and 27th. Come check it out.
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Vicky BoydDick Pavelski (right), a potato grower from Hancock, Wis., congratulates Gregg Halverson of Black Gold Farms.SAN ANTONIO — The head of a large family-owned potato operation known for his innovation and support of education was recognized at the National Potato Council's annual awards banquet, Jan. 10.
Gregg Halverson, president and chief executive officer of Black Gold Farms, Grand Forks, N.D., received the 2013 Potato Man for All Seasons award from Packer staff writer Vicky Boyd.
The silver bowl is presented by The Packer and TheGrower.com in conjunction with the NPC.
Halverson has been active on the U.S. Potato Board, having served as chairman of the chip committee and helping craft strategies for the committee's programs and long-term visions
In addition to serving on boards of the Northern Plains Potato Growers Association and the NPC, Halverson "has done a lot behind the scenes for the industry and never asks for anything in return," one colleague said.
Another person, who has worked closely with Halverson on the boards, said he "is exactly the type of grower-leader the (Potato Man for All Seasons) award was created to recognize; he gives freely of his time and expertise to make the industry better."
Two other colleagues who nominated Halverson said he shares the same passion for North Dakota State University and the Alpha Gamma Rho ag fraternity that he does for potato production.
"He is extremely supportive of education and is very active in providing and supporting scholastic curriculum and advancing our agricultural industry through his participation in scholarship programs," one colleague wrote.
Among those philanthropic activities is the Halverson Family Foundation, which supports scholarship and local charities.
Halverson's involvement even filters down to the community level, where he is active in his church and has volunteered at the homeless shelter, among other activities.
"His selfless service to family, others and his community further illustrates this exceptional individual," said a counterpart in education.
Black Gold Farms, founded by Halverson's grandfather, A.E. "Hallie" Halverson in 1928, has grown from 10 acres to more than 20,000 acres in 11 states and is one of the world's largest chip stock producers. The firm also offers trucking logistics and certified seed as well as sweet potatoes and peanuts.
Halverson and Black Gold have received numerous quality and leadership accolades — including the Clem Kuehler Innovation award — over the years from Frito-Lay, for which they grow.


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- Key moments
- Getting to know us
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- About the venue
- Getting there
- Congress circulation map
- Conference admission - delegate badges
- Official conference language
- Lunch & coffee breaks
- Abstract booklet & CD ROM
- Optional courses
- Scientific posters, e-papers & multimedia center
- Accommodation
- Transportation and tours
- Visa & entry requirements
- Time difference
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1. Key moments
2. Getting to Know Us
IMCAS Mission Statement
IMCAS is dedicated to providing the highest quality of teaching through the interface of Plastic Surgery and Dermatology.
Achieving this vision requires a dynamic organization which mission embodies the following standards:
- Unification and fair representation of Plastic Surgery and Dermatology
- Excellence in teaching all leading subjects on Aging Skin Treatments
- Constant adherence to ethical conduct
Unequalled Tradition of Professional Support
IMCAS started in 1994, in Paris, France, as a congress dedicated to plastic surgeons and dermatologists. Since its conception,
IMCAS has sought to bridge the knowledge vacuum between Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and Dermatology, thereby
generating a synergetic and mutually reinforcing interface among these two fields.
IMCAS Today
What began more than 16 years ago has now grown in terms of participation and renown . As such, IMCAS has become one of the most important international courses dedicated to aging skin treatments . Over the year, our congresses welcome around 10 000 participants, coming from as much as 85 countries worldwide .
3. IMCAS Population
To get a clear view of who is attending IMCAS conferences, do not hesitate to browse this link
4. About the venue
About Hong Kong
Hong Kong is undeniably the gateway to Asia. Due to its strategic location, it is the centre of the world's fastest growing economies.
Situated just a stone's throw distance from mainland China, the city is home to Asia's busiest manufacturing hubs, as well as the showcase of the latest international technology and know how to the huge Asian markets. It is the perfect platform for international traders to access Asia.
Hong Kong offers dynamic business environment, sophisticated infrastructure, professional expertise and easy accessibility.
More than 60 airlines operate some 2 400 flights a week to over 120 worldwide destinations. Getting around Hong Kong is just as easy, whether by comfortable air-conditioned taxi or on the highly efficient subway and train system. Such unrivalled attributes make Hong Kong a real "World City" which creates endless possibilities towards complete success.
About the InterContinental Hong Kong Hotel
Recognised as one of the world's top hotels, InterContinental Hong Kong is renowned for its dramatic location on the Kowloon waterfront, with spectacular views of Victoria Harbour and HongKong Island.
Located on the edge of Victoria Harbour in the Tsim Sha Tsui area, the hotel is convenient to Kowloon's business, entertainment and shopping districts and all forms of transportation.
The views are not the only draw -- the hotel is also renowned for its luxurious accommodation, impeccable service and dramatic dining venues which include two celebrity chef restaurants -- SPOON by Alain Ducasse and NOBU.
InterContinental Hong Kong is acclaimed as the one of the city's most prestigious venues for high-end meetings & conferences, gala balls and glamorous weddings. The hotel has the largest ballroom in Hong Kong and eleven harbourview meeting rooms.
5. Getting there
AIRPORT CONNECTIONS: Hong Kong International Airport
Distance 36 KM / 22.37 MI north east to Hotel
Train Charge (one way): HK$90.00
Time by train: 30 min
InterContinental Hong Kong offers a fleet of Mercedes Benz S320 for Airport transfers at HK$710 + 10% service charge per car each way
Station Name: MTR TSIM SHA TSUI EAST STATION
Distance 0.1 KM / 0.06 MI NORTH to Hotel
Subway Name: MTR TSIM SHA TSUI STATION
Distance 0.0 KM / 0 MI NORTH to Hotel
6. Congress circulation map
7. Conference admission – delegate badges
Admission is by badge only. An adult must accompany chlidren under the age of 16.
IMCAS strictly complies with the criteria required for CME accreditation. That is why the access to the conferences is subject to a number of strict rules, aiming to guarantee the scientific independence of the conferences, and to preserve it from any commercial interest or influence. A precise Badge Policy has been implemented, specifying the rules related to the admittance to the different areas of IMCAS conferences.
IMCAS Badge Policy is mandatory for all the participants. Its violation will authorize IMCAS Staff to take measures in order to restore the order, and may lead to the withdrawal of the badge and the prohibition of access to the conference area. According to each participant's status (delegate, faculty, exhibitor, etc...), a corresponding code bared badge is issued.
Fees for full Delegate registration include:
- all conference sessions during the 3 days
- access to exhibit area including lunches and coffee breaks
- CD with abstracts and course handouts, as well as the Abstract Booklet
Prices in USD |
BEFORE August 20, 2012 11:59 PM (GMT +1) |
AFTER August 20, 2012 11:59 PM (GMT +1) |
Congress registration | US$ 650.00 | US$ 750.00 |
1 Optional Teaching Course | US$ 100.00 | US$ 100.00 |
2 Optional Teaching Courses | US$ 180.00 | US$ 180.00 |
Gala dinner | US$ 150.00 | US$ 150.00 |
Nurse registration* | US$ 450.00 | US$ 550.00 |
Accompanying person registration* | US$ 450.00 | US$ 550.00 |
8. Official conference language
English is the official congress language.
9. Lunch & coffee breaks
Coffee breaks are scheduled:
- Thursday October 4: from 4 to 4.30 pm
- Friday October 5: from 10.30 to 11 am / from 4 to 4.30 pm
- Saturday October 6: from 10.30 to 11 am
Lunch breaks are scheduled:
- Friday October 5: from 1 to 2 pm
- Saturday October 6: from 1 to 2 pm
Coffee breaks and lunches are served on site to allow our delegates to fully visit the Exhibition Hall. Complimentary food and beverages are provided to Delegate and Faculty badges types only.
10. Abstract booklet & CD-ROM
In regards to abstracts accepted by the Scientific Committee, they are all published in the free IMCAS Asia 2012 Program Book distributed onsite to all the attendees and they are also available on imcas.com.Moreover, a USB key or a CD-rom containing the abstracts might also be published in addition an placed inside the congress bags.
Companies and participants may copy material for their personal use; however further copy for sale or for any other commercial purpose is prohibited without prior permission of IMCAS.
11. Optional courses
IMCAS Congresses offer their attendees to register for optional courses, providing an opportunity for in-depth exposure to specific techniques and topics, as well as more personalized contact with recognized leaders in aesthetic surgery and cosmetic dermatology.
Those special courses require additionnal fees and can be booked independantly from the main conference.
Refer to daily programming descriptions within the programme brochure.
Giving the limited number of seats, please, register early before your course selections sell out! You may also register for Optional Courses on-site, if places are still available.
12. Scientific posters, e-papers and multimedia center
The POSTER session is held on Saturday, October 6 at lunchtime (from 1 to 2 pm), meeting point being the Welcome Desk. Visit the IMCAS Multimedia Center to check email and view the scientific lectures in electronic format (E-Papers).
E-Papers provide an opportunity for in-depth information exchange. You will be able to exchange ideas about clinical cases presented by sending personalized emails to the authors.
13. Accommodation
IMCAS has the pleasure of offering to its attendees special negotiated prices at various wonderful hotels in Hong Kong. Our official Travel Agency Partner will be most pleased to help you organize your accommodation during your stay in Hong Kong.
Please contact them directly:
IMCAS Official Land Handler
14. Transportation and tours
Check out the Tours and Travels page to see what Hong Kong has to offer! Victoria Peak, Wong Tai Sin Temple, Tai Fu Tai Mandarin's Mansion, Ladies Market: amazing experiences and places are waiting for you in Hong Kong.
15. Visa & entry requirements
In general, all visitors to Hong Kong must have a passport that is valid for at least one month after the period of their intended stay in Hong Kong.
Nationals of most countries do not require visas and can stay for periods varying from 7 days to 180 days, depending on nationality. If unsure of status, check with any Chinese embassy or consulate
Please check the details about visa requirements on Immigration Department website
16. Time difference
Hong Kong time is GMT plus 8 hours.
17. Electric standards
The standard electrical voltage in HK is 220 volts AC, 50HZ, so 100-volt appliances and electrical equipment require an adaptor. Also, note that most electric sockets in Hong Kong take a three-pronged plug (UK plug).
18. Currency & exchange
The unit of currency is the Hong Kong dollar (HK$). It is pegged to the US$ at approximately HK$7.8 (as of April 2012). Most foreign currencies and traveller's cheques can be changed at banks, money-changers, hotels and major retail outlets. Banks usually offer the best exchange rate.
Normal office hours in Hong Kong are 9 am - 5 pm or longer (depending on the kind of business) on weekdays, and 9 am - 1 pm on Saturdays. Major banks are open 9am - 4:30 pm on weekdays, and 9am - 12:30 pm on Saturdays. Closed Sundays and public holidays
19. Climate
Hong Kong's climate is sub-tropical, tending towards temperate for nearly half the year. From October to December there are pleasant breezes, plenty of sunshine and comfortable temperatures. Many people regard these as the best months of the year.
Autumn is generally considered as the most pleasant season. Temperatures are still high (20-27°C) while humidity and rainfall are considerably lower. Moreover, autumn is the sunniest season in Hong Kong, with October and November both averaging close to 200 hours of bright sunshine.


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Customized executive education programs target leadership skills among senior executives.
Sherri Hart* was excited about her recent promotion to senior vice president for the Americas. In addition to managing a substantial profit and loss, she was looking forward to the broad range of management challenges she'd face. She learned in her rise through the management ranks that one of her key responsibilities was identifying and developing talent within her organization. But as she reviewed the recent performance evaluations of her team members, something began to trouble her.
In profile after profile, these leaders were described as strong on execution but lacking strategic thinking skills. Ms. Hart knew that strategic thinking was one of the crucial requirements for continued advancement in her company. How could she address this gap in the capabilities of her senior team members?
She considered several solutions: bring in coaches for each team member to focus on developing strategic thinking skills or send team members to a course at one of the prestigious business schools. She hesitated, in part because of the associated costs. But more importantly, Ms. Hart wanted a solution that was group-focused and specifically tailored to the strategic challenges her company faced.
What she and similar business leaders are seeking is a customized, in-house executive education program. These programs, widely used in learning-oriented companies, focus on targeted leadership skills. The courses are presented to a cohort of company leaders who study together to increase their effectiveness in their current and future roles. Besides strategic thinking, programs can focus on a variety of leadership skills: team leadership, marketing savvy, business development and many others.
Some large companies have in-house teams to develop executive education programs. Ms. Hart's firm didn't, so she contacted an external consultant to help her develop a program. The consultant started by interviewing the senior company executives to align the program with key business objectives. Why is it important to develop this leadership skill at this time in this company? This alignment was critical for Ms. Hart to gain the endorsement of the company's most senior leaders, so everyone agreed this was a top-priority initiative.
Once the senior leadership team was on-board, the next step was selecting the right participants. Ms. Hart chose to focus the program on high-potential leaders who were on an accelerated development track. Being selected to participate was a privilege awarded to leaders who demonstrated high levels of both performance and potential.
Curriculum design was the crucial next step. An executive education program must be designed to address specific, measurable, relevant learning objectives. Executive education programs employ a variety of engaging educational approaches, including computer simulations, customized case studies, and other technological innovations. Ms. Hart and her consultant agreed their program should include Action Learning Projects. These team projects focus on real, pressing business problems that matter to the senior leadership team. Within a specified time frame, each team tackles one of these problems and presents their findings and recommendations to the senior officers of the company. The Action Learning Projects provide an opportunity to practice the new skills the participants have learned, give them exposure to the company's senior leaders and provide valuable insights about some of the company's key issues.
Highly skilled teachers and facilitators who had a proven track record with senior business executives delivered the executive education program. It incorporated an evaluation component to ensure it had the desired impact. Throughout the process, Ms. Hart and her consultant kept in mind that world-class executive education programs link program goals to business results and are customized to the specific company. They also selected the right participants and kept in mind their strategy, the developmental needs of the participants, to build in follow-up activities to ensure on-going application of the new learning and to actively engage the senior executives.
Ms. Hart was also thoughtful about linking the program to other leadership development initiatives. For example, she worked with company HR professionals to integrate the executive education program into their succession program. Within a year, the company began to benefit from the higher quality of strategic thinking, and several participants were promoted into roles with broader responsibilities.
Ms. Hart realized the executive education program wouldn't be effective as a one-time event but needed to be part of a broader change intervention. She and the other senior leaders were delighted when the participants began applying their new skills in their leadership roles. The program had increased both the quantity and quality of strategic thinking and it was paying off.
Ms. Hart was in a position to drive an executive education initiative. However, what if you aren't yet a senior leader but an individual employee who wants to advance her career? Make sure you're aware of educational opportunities within your company and raise your hand to participate. It helps to have a "sponsor," a senior leader who advocates for you and puts your name forward for opportunities.
If you're in a middle management role, look for ways to provide educational opportunities for the people who report to you. You may not be able to create a full-blown executive education program, but you can find speakers and on-line courses that focus on the developmental needs of your team. Not only will this increase the effectiveness of your team, but it will also increase employee engagement and position you as a forward-thinking leader.
Contributing writer: Michael Seitchik, EdD


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Some people in Park Forest voted twice in Tuesday's presidential election, but Cook County election officials say the error will be corrected.
Susan Wakeford of Park Forest said she was handed two voting cards for the electronic touch screen machine at her polling place in the Blackhawk Intermediate School. When she questioned the practice, Wakeford said she was told, "This is the way it's supposed to be done."
When she inserted the first card, Wakeford said, a ballot appeared with only the presidential contestants listed. After she was finished voting with that card, she inserted the second card in the machine and a ballot with the presidential race and all the other election contests in Cook County appeared.
"I protested again and was told very sternly this is the way it is being done this year and that my presidential vote wouldn't be counted twice because at the end of the day they divide the number of votes by two to get the result.
"I wasn't the only one who questioned the process. Several voters did and they were all told the same thing. This is the way it is being done."
Cook County election officials say the incident happened early on Tuesday, but was corrected before many people voted.
"Apparently, what happened is that some election judge was confused because people voting by paper ballot did get two different paper ballots, due to the judicial retention races," said Courtney Greve, spokeswoman for Cook County Clerk David Orr..
"An election judge apparently misunderstood the instructions and handed out two voting cards to people using the touch screens, one with a presidential-only ballot that is used for people who have recently moved," Greve said. "The other voter card was for the full ballot, including the presidential election."
Greve said the presidential-only ballots are easily nullified, negating the two votes cast by those who were handed two voting cards.
"We believe this was only one election official who became confused by the directions," Greve said.
Election officials do divide the number of paper ballots by two at the end of the day to determine the number of votes actually cast, Greve said.
Nevertheless, a spokeswoman for the Illinois attorney general's office said a team of lawyers had been dispatched to the Park Forest polling place to investigate the incident.


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Been seeing this game on the FFG site for a few years. Always balked cause of the artwork. How Anime is Anima?
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Been seeing this game on the FFG site for a few years. Always balked cause of the artwork. How Anime is Anima?
I would say it draws more from the tropes typically found in anime than the artwork: larger-than-life heroes, powerful sorcery, etc. But that being said, the RPG was meant to be a blending of Western and Japanese themes, both in terms of the setting and its gameplay, and some of the artists reasonably pull some of their inspiration from anime because of this.
I guess it really depends on what it is about anime that peeves you, and whether you're interested in the RPG or just the miniatures game. As an advocate of anime, though, I have to stress the fact that it is a visual medium first, and a "genre" second, if at all. Odds are the shows that have turned you off to anime are the ones I've found just as repellant. However, if you take issue with the art style itself, it might be a good idea to browse a bit around the Anima pages, and definitely visit Wen-M on deviantART (he's the only artist I recall offhand) to decide if it's your cup of tea.


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James Braly is the writer and performer of the monologue Life in a Marital Institution, which premiered at the 2007 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, sold-out 59E59 Theaters in New York City, and transferred Off Broadway to the Soho Playhouse. The show has played over 120 performances, and will tour nationally in 2009. Optioned for film & television by Meredith Vieira Productions, Life in a Marital Institution is also a forthcoming memoir from St. Martin's Press.
James has performed other autobiographical stories on NPR and at The Whitney Museum, Long Wharf Theatre, and The Moth, where he was featured on the TNT National Story Tour and is the only two-time winner of the Moth GrandSlam storytelling competition. His commentaries have been broadcast nationally on Marketplace, and his essays appear in the recently published anthologies Mr. Beller's Neighborhood, from W.W. Norton, and Afterbirth, from St. Martin's Press.
Visit James's website at www.jamesbraly.com.
June Rifkin Clark is a partner in Get There Media, Inc., a promotion and brand development company, providing strategic guidance to writers, experts, and businesses, by building platforms, creating awareness, and providing PR outreach to consumers and the media.
For over 20 years, June worked in marketing and promotion, retained by numerous agencies to write and develop promotional materials for companies like Food Network, Bravo, A&E, NBC, AOL, eBay and Kraft Foods, many of which won PMA and Reggie Awards. June also worked in cable TV at Showtime, Group W Cable, and as head of her own agency, Concepts. She is the recipient of a Cable ACE/Emmy award.
After receiving her MA in Writing and Publishing from Emerson College, June became a literary agent at the Peter Rubie Literary Agency in New York (now FinePrint Literary Management), specializing in nonfiction books. Clients include floral designer Michael George, Forbidden Broadway creator Gerard Alessandrini, Cosmopolitan's "Bedside Astrologer" Hazel Dixon-Cooper, I Love Lucy writer Madelyn Pugh Davis, Soupy Sales, and The Friars Club. She is still an Agent-at-Large at FinePrint to serve her long-term clients.
A published author and playwright, June wrote (and co-wrote) four books, several plays, and has given workshops on topical issues on writing and publishing.
For more information, visit www.juneclark.com.
In 1991, she founded The Peripatetic Writing Workshop, Inc., a nonprofit summer writing workshop and retreat, which has met on Shelter Island and Woodstock, NY; Achill Island, Ireland; and for the past three years in Guatemala. She teaches the Advanced Fiction Workshop in New York University's SCPS program and has also taught essay writing at Marymount College, the Bronx Community College, Mount Saint Mary's in Newburgh, as well as English as a Second Language for NYANA. She received her MFA in Creative Writing at Bennington College and her BFA in Fine Arts at Hunter College.
Mary Stewart Hammond was reared in Roanoke, Virginia and Baltimore, Maryland. Her poems have been published in many magazines, including American Poetry Review, The American Voice, The Atlantic Monthly, Boulevard, Field, The Gettysburg Review, The New Criterion, The New England Review, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and The Yale Review. Anthologies where her poems have appeared include Wedding Readings: Centuries of Writing and Rituals for Love and Marriage, ed. Eleanor Munro, The KGB Bar Book of Poems, ed. David Lehman and Star Black, Inventions of Farewell: A Book of Elegies, ed. Sandra M. Gilbert, Stone and Steel, ed. Bascove, and Where Books Fall Open, ed. Bascove.
Her book, Out of Canaan, received the 1992 Best First Collection of Poetry Award from the Great Lakes Colleges Association. Other awards include MacDowell Colony and Yaddo fellowships, and a Writer's Community Poet-in-Residence fellowship. She lives in New York City. Besides conducting workshops and giving readings at many colleges and universities in the East and the Midwest, she taught advanced level workshops at the Writer's Voice of the West Side Y for nine years and at the JCC for one. She now conducts workshops privately from her home. Her students, some of whom come to her already possessing a few publication credits, or graduate degrees from various writing programs, or just raw talent, go on to win awards such as the Discovery/The Nation, the Nicholas Roerich book publication Prize from Story Line Press, Pushcart Prizes, chap book publication prizes. Others achieve more substantial publishing credentials, or admittance into top graduate writing programs. More information can be found on her website, www.marystewarthammond.com.
Charlie is the bookwriter of the new musical "The Fartiste" (OUTSTANDING MUSICAL FRINGENYC 2006) "The Fartiste" is based on his original screenplay and will have an commercial run Off-Broadway in 2007. His chapter on Playwriting is published in The Portable MFA In Creative Writing (Writers Digest). Charlie teaches screenwriting in the Dramatic Writing Program at New York University and playwriting at Spalding University's MFA program.
AWARDS: Avery Hopwood Award for Drama, Paulette Goddard Fellowship, Charles McArthur Award for comedy.
OFF-BROADWAY Credits: Angel of Death (American Jewish Theater) The Ground Zero Club (Playwrights Horizons) and The Birthday Present (Circle Rep).
His plays are published by The Dramatist Play Service and in several anthologies.
Rachel Sherman was born in 1975. She holds an MFA in fiction from Columbia University. Her short stories have been published in McSweeney's, Open City, Post Road, Conjunctions, and Story Quarterly, among other publications, and in the book Full Frontal Fiction: The Best of Nerve Anthology (Three Rivers Press, 2000).
Her book of short stories THE FIRST HURT, was published by Open City Books in May 2006. (www.thefirsthurt.com)
The media savvy social satirist has been a featured lifestyle trend writer on national morning shows and talk shows including ABC, CBS, CNN and most recently, VH1. Her articles cover a range of topics, from beauty and food trends to celebrity interviews, appearing in an array of publications and newspapers such as: The New York Times, The New York Post, and Daily News, as well as national magazines: Time Magazine, Town & Country Travel, Travel & Leisure Golf, Marie Claire, Self, Men's Health, and Outside, among others. Alix has been writing about lifestyle trends for the past two years covering such topics as: High-end invites, A-list parties, Goodie bags, Diva Diets, Slumber parties, Must-have-beauty-products and Trailer-trash treats. Her collection of shorts, THE JOY OF FUNERALS, was published by St. Martin's Press in both hard and soft cover. The Joy of Funerals will be heading to the big screen with Stockard Channing attached to direct. Alix will write the screenplay as well. Currently, she is working on a novel.
The Joy of Funerals is the recent winner of the Ingram Award, and was named Best Debut Novel by The New York Resident. In addition, Alix's work has been anthologized, and her short fiction has appeared in the Hampton Shorts Literary Journal, the Idaho Review, Quality Women's Fiction, The Blue Moon Café III, and A Kudzu Christmas. Her short story, Shrinking Away, won the David Dornstein Creative Writing Award. She is the recipient of several awards and fellowships: The Wesleyan Writers Conference, Skidmore College Writer's Institute, Sarah Lawrence Summer and Squaw Valley's Screenwriters' Summer program.
Alix has spoken at numerous conferences and panels including: The Southern Festival of Books, The Northwest Bookfest, The New England's Writer's Conference, Wesleyan Writer's conference, The 92nd Street Y, NYU, Center For Communications, Mediabistro, Columbia University, among others. She hosted a monthly event at Makor called Word of Mouth Thursdays, readings of personal essays, works in-progress and novel excerpts.
For more information, visit her website at Joyoffunerals.com.


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"We want to find a cure ... We will find a cure. And I must say, the hope is stronger now than it has ever been," Ellington said. "Last year, I got to stand up here and talk about a new drug that had come out called Kalydeco."
Ellington said, "It is the first drug of its kind which actually starts at the root causes of cystic fibrosis. We are not just treating the symptoms. We are getting down to the root so we can have a nice, healthy treatment."
Only 4 percent of the 30,000 patients diagnosed with cystic fibrosis across the country match the drug's specifications. These patients have experienced increased lung function and improved weight gain. Both are struggles for a person living with the genetic disease.
Lee University and the Cleveland community have been raising funds for research through the Great Strides walk for 13 years. Ellington announced the 13-year fundraising total to be $631,658. The money has gone, and will continue to go, toward research.
"We want this, obviously, for the other 96 percent of our population. And I must say, the research is great right now. We have some drugs which are in the final stages of the clinical trials that could help up to 65 percent of our population have this type of control as early as 2015," Ellington said. "Guys, we are talking a year and a half to two years from now."
Additional research could increase the odds in the remaining patients' favor.
"What's great is there is more research a little further down the pipeline that could take care of up to 95 percent of our population by 2017," Ellington said. "So as we know, of course, it is research. There is always the opportunity things will not go like we want, but we are hopeful and we are prayerful as we continue to research and continue to fundraise to support that research."
Ellington shared a story of a child recently placed on Kalydeco.
"I had a lady tell a story about how she had been serving her grandson bacon for years. He is probably 8 or 7 years old. He had been on Kalydeco for several weeks. She was making bacon one morning and he comes running down the stairs and says, 'What is that smell,' and she said, 'Honey, it's bacon. You've had bacon before,'" Ellington said. "He had never truly taken that deep breath and been able to smell bacon."
She thanked Bill Estes, Mike Hayes, Vannessa Hammon, their support staff, Lee University and Cleveland for the committment to supporting research to find a cure for Cystic Fibrosis.
Hammon, Estes, Hayes and Paul Conn, Lee University president, gave their thanks to the Cleveland community, as well.
Sponsors, team leaders and supporters were recognized at the luncheon. Team Nathan was recognized as the top CF family team with $4,400 raised for the cause. A partnership between Garden Plaza and Life Care Center of Cleveland raised $5,700 to earn them the top overall fundraising team.
According to current reports, there were more than 40 teams with 36 registered walk teams and several race teams. A total of 683 official runners participated in the 65 Roses 5K and Kids Fun Run and more than 325 walkers participated in the Great Strides Walk. Hayes said there were a total of 1,295 people on Lee's campus who came out to participate in one way or the other for the event.
A special thanks was given to the Cleveland Police Department for their help in keeping the roadways clear and the participants safe. Hammond thanked Beecher Hunter, Great Strides Honorary Chair and Life Care Centers of America president, for his involvement in the event for the second year.
Next year's Great Strides Walk and 65 Roses 5K will take place on Saturday, April 12.


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Shrimp Scampi
If you are looking for a special dinner for two you really cannot go wrong with shrimp scampi and I figured that it was the perfect time to update my old recipe! Shrimp scampi is a really simple pasta dish consisting of shrimp sauteed in a buttery, garlic, white wine and lemon sauce that is just to die for! Although this recipe is super quick and easy it is perfect for entertaining or for special dinners for two in addition to being a great weeknight meal. Really it takes more time to cook the pasta than it does to make the shrimp and sauce so dinner is on the table in less than 20 minutes! I like to hit the scampi up with some red pepper flakes for a touch of heat along with some lemon zest and parsley for garnish. No matter how you cut it, this dish is sure to impress and they will never know how easy it was to make!
(When I am serving shrimp scampi I normally remove the tails first.)
Shrimp scampi is also great with parmesan!
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Shrimp Scampi
Succulent sauteed shrimp in a buttery lemon and white wine sauce that is surprisingly quick and easy to make.
- 8 ounces linguine (or other pasta)
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1 pound jumbo shrimp (16-24), shelled and deveined
- 4 cloves garlic, chopped
- 1 pinch red pepper flakes (optional)
- 1/4 cup white wine
- 1/4 cup lemon juice (~1 lemon)
- salt and pepper to taste
- 1 teaspoon lemon zest
- 1 tablespoon parsley, chopped
- Start cooking the pasta as directed on package.
- Meanwhile, heat the oil and melt the butter in a pan over medium-high heat until frothing, add the shrimp, cook for 2 minutes, flip, add the garlic and red pepper flakes and cook for 1 more minute before transferring to a large bowl.
- Add the white wine and lemon juice to the pan, deglaze it, simmer for a minute and remove from heat, season with salt and pepper and stir in the parsley and lemon zest before tossing with the shrimp and pasta.
Note: The cook time for the shrimp will vary depending on the size of your shrimp. When the shrimp just turns from 'translucent' to opaque/white (look at the thickest part of side where it was deviened) it is done and you want to flip the shrimp and then just a little before the white gets to the centre from the other side remove it from the pan; the residual heat will finish the job.
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Music group salutes Trans-Siberian flair
By Bob Kostanczuk Post-Tribune correspondent December 5, 2012 3:16PM
Lighting and visual panache are key elements of Trans Infinity Orchestra shows. The rocked-up Christmas concert is being presented Dec. 15, 2012, at Merrillville's Star Plaza Theatre. | Ralf Lipp FotoGraf-Imaging
If you go
What: Trans Infinity Orchestra performing the music of Trans-Siberian Orchestra
Where: Star Plaza Theatre, U.S. 30 and Interstate 65, Merrillville
When: 8 p.m. Dec. 15
Tickets: $25, $30 and $40; available through Ticketmaster, www.ticketmaster.com
More details: www.starplazatheatre.com
Updated: January 8, 2013 6:12AM
The Trans Infinity Orchestra has found its niche in the world of tribute acts that salutes everyone from the Beatles to Frank Sinatra's Rat Pack.
The orchestra is doing well by paying homage to the yuletide sounds of the Trans-Siberian Orchestra.
"We started it three years ago; it just keeps getting bigger,"said Robert Biagi, bassist for the intriguing TIO undertaking. "There's tons of tribute bands. There's not, like, a Christmas tribute band out there."
Trans Infinity Orchestra is happy to fill that void by re-creating the grand and progressive holiday music of the Trans-Siberian Orchestra.
To achieve that end, TIO touts its use of an eye-catching light show and small choir, in addition to trotting out the classical bent provided by a viola.
The Trans Infinity experience has a Dec. 15 date at Merrillville's Star Plaza Theatre, where rockin' holiday favorites will be dispensed as a feel-good addendum to the works of the Trans-Siberian Orchestra.
Known for a majestic orchestral approach to Christmas fare, Trans-Siberian Orchestra has consistently been a top touring attraction during the holiday season. It recently released a five-song disc called "Dreams of Fireflies (On a Christmas Night)."
With a background in the rock-band realm, the guys in Trans Infinity Orchestra switch gears with TSO gigs, which afford them the chance to don tuxes and turn out a high-energy show with a vibrant-visual sweep.
"It's like a high; it's just intense," said Scott Flaws, the group's tour manager, production manager and lighting director.
Biagi — a resident of Woodridge, Ill. — said his tribute show has a key endorsement.
"We did talk to TSO and got their approval," Biagi said. "I've been going to see TSO shows for many, many moons."
In order to spin out the full-bodied audio of Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Biagi's group utilizes a three-keyboard setup, according to Flaws.
Opening TIO's 8 p.m. show on Dec. 15 will be Nicole Jamrose — the Dyer singer-guitarist who was the top female finisher in 2006 on "Nashville Star," a nationally televised music-competition series.
Jamrose will sing holiday tunes, according to TIO, an Illinois band based in the Chicago suburbs.


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Funeral service will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, April 27, 2013, at Woodland Church in Marks with Rev. George Davis officiated. Burial will follow in Booker Cemetery in Marks.
Visitation will be from 2-6 p.m. Friday, April 26, 2013, at Byas Funeral Home in Ruleville.
Survivors include mother, Mary L. Bush of Marks; son, Mark Williams of Memphis, Tenn.; daughter, Tara Henley of Drew; brothers, Clarence W. Figgs of South Korea, Isiah Jr. and Jimmy Bush, both of Detroit, Mich.; sisters, Margaret Henley, Lizzie Phillips, Ruby Bridges and Mary Davis, all of Marks; and two grandchildren.
Online guestbook may be viewed at www.byasfuneralhomes.com


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Documentary: A film presenting facts about a person or event.
American film critic Pare Lorentz defines a documentary film as "a factual film which is dramatic."
The Gaston County Public Library is pleased to present "Southern Docs," a five-part series of documentary films created by regional filmmakers and filmed in North Carolina. The films will be shown in the auditorium of the Gaston County Public Library, 1555 E. Garrison Blvd., Gastonia, at 6:30 p.m. Tuesdays through the month of October. Show dates are Oct. 2, Oct. 9, Oct. 16, Oct. 23, and Oct.r 30.
This free public series is appropriate for adults and teens. No reservations are required for individuals and families. Advance reservations are required for organized groups to insure seating.
Each of the selected films reflects North Carolina's history and culture as well as demonstrates the outstanding quality of documentary filmmaking in our state.
The series kicks off on Oct. 2 with an introductory presentation on documentary film by Cynthia Hill, an acclaimed filmmaker and co-founder of the Durham-based Southern Documentary Fund. Hill will discuss the founding and mission of the Southern Documentary Fund, the process of creating a successful documentary film, and the importance of the documentary film industry in the state of North Carolina. Hill's Oct. 2 presentation will be followed by a showing of "Tobacco Feeds My Family: A Documentary Film" by Cynthia Hill and Curtis Gaston ( Markay Media, LLC, 2003).
In this thought-provoking (and often poignant) look at traditional tobacco farming in eastern North Carolina, veteran filmmakers Hill and Gaston explore why farmers continue to grow tobacco in the face of growing public criticism and increasing financial hardships.
The series continues on Oct. 9 with "February One: The Story of the Greensboro Four" (Video Dialog, Incorporated, 2005), which was co-produced by Cynthia Hill.
Based largely on first-hand accounts and rare archival footage, this film documents the volatile winter of 1960 in Greensboro and the protest that not only changed public accommodation customs and state law, but also served as a blueprint for the non-violent civil rights protests that swept across the South and the nation in the 1960s.
"Moving Midway: A Southern Plantation and the Legacy of Slavery" (First Run Features, 2008), showing on Oct. 16, is a very personal production by New York film critic / filmmaker Godfrey Cheshire, who returns to his North Carolina roots to find that his cousin Charlie Silvers plans to uproot and relocate the family ancestral home to escape urban sprawl. The physical relocation of Midway Plantation leads to the unexpected discovery of African-American cousins whose ancestors were slaves at Midway, proof of the historical status of America as a mixed-race society. The film is both a chronicle of the plantation's place in North Carolina history as well as a meditation on the ironies of caste and class.
The Oct. 23 film selection, "Change Comes Knocking: The Story of the North Carolina Fund" (Video Dialog, Incorporated, 2008), is based on the book, To Right These Wrongs by Robert Korstad and James Leloudis (University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 2010). Sponsored by the Southern Documentary Fund, this film documents the fascinating and tumultuous story of the bi-racial anti-poverty organization, the North Carolina Fund, that boldly confronted the issues of race, class, and politics during the turbulent 1960s.
"The Guestworker: A Documentary Film by Cynthia Hill and Charles Thompson" ( Markay Media, LLC, 2007) will be shown on October 30. It is both the story of one man and a broader look at migrant labor in North Carolina agriculture.
Each year for decades, Don Cande risked his life crossing into the United States to work in farmers' fields, compelled by his devotion to his family and his need to sustain his own farm in Durango, Mexico. Now age 66, Don Cande joins thousands of other seasoned workers who legally enter the United States each year in the Guest Worker program, working long hours each day and enduring months away from his home and family.
For more information about the Southern Docs film series and other Gaston County Public Library events, call 704-868-2164 or visit www.gastonlibrary.org.
Carol Reinhadrt is program coordinator for the Gaston County Public Library. Her column runs on Sundays.


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Running to Stand Still
A Study in Static Is Now Available for Android: Netrunner |
Android: Netrunner The Card Game | Published 21 March 2013 |
"Yeah, I followed the money. Unfortunately, it was only two credits."
–Gabriel Santiago
A Study in Static, the fourth Data Pack for Android: Netrunner The Card Game, is now available at your local retailer!
In the high-speed, futuristic world of Android: Netrunner, corporate servers process and oversee hundreds of zetabytes of data every nanosecond, keeping tight tabs on their massive financial empires. They host valuable assets and the blueprints for the corporations' secret agendas, and they host tricks, traps, and deadly security programs known as ice. Still, there are those individualistic criminals known as runners who, for their own reasons, conduct runs against these heavily fortified servers.
From jacking in to jacking out, these runners risk not only their software and hardware, but their neural networks and their very lives, along with those of their friends and family. One single sentry ice could do enough brain damage to render a runner brain dead. One single trace could provide a corporation enough information to tear down the runner's network of business associates and allow a mercenary hit squad access to the runner's private digs.
In the end, the security of hundreds of billions of credits, as well as the health of an untold number of runners, depends upon not only the strength of the ice and icebreakers employed, but the time it takes the runner to conduct a run. The sixty new cards (three copies each of twenty individual cards) from A Study in Static, the fourth Data Pack in the Genesis Cycle, more fully explore the nature of time in Android: Netrunner and the consequences of accelerating or stalling runs.
Talent, Programs, Preparation, and Fuel
A good runner's run starts long before he ever jacks in. While anyone can attempt to breach corporate security systems, the runners who do so successfully understand that running is a matter of talent, programs, preparation, and fuel. You need to be able to understand and adapt to the limited information you find, and you need to be able to take full advantage of every weakness in a corporation's defenses. If you can't, you'll be blocked, traced, or left behind.
While jacked in, runners need to rely upon their intuitions to process untold terabytes of information and devise creative responses within split seconds, but the foundations for their actions need to be built into place far earlier. As the saying goes, "an icebreaker is a girl's best friend," and every runner knows how important it is to have the right icebreaker for the job. However, during a run, there's no time to write and install such programs. That has to be done before the run ever starts. Likewise, if you want to build your rig to include the most bleeding edge hardware you can, you need to do that before the run, too. And these components don't come cheap. Simply acquiring them takes a heap of credits, and it takes more time, yet, to build up a sufficient pool of those. Thus, every good runner knows the actual practice of running most often starts well before he ever jacks into a corporate server.
Accordingly, when you do finally get all your components into place, you want to make the most of the situation. You don't want to run once or twice and miss an agenda that the corporation advances right under your nose. Once you get your rig ready, you want to fuel up on some Diesel and launch into an All-Nighter (A Study in Static, 67). Settling down to a string of runs may not guarantee you the chance to expose corporate agendas, but it certainly increases them. It also increases your odds of gaining true Notoriety (Trace Amount, 26) or of managing to build up the strength of your Medium (Core Set, 10) over the course of several runs on R&D, during which time the Corp player has no chance to spend three clicks to wipe your virus counters.
Running into Traffic
Then again, as the runner's going through all the effort to build up for an All-Nighter, a cautious corporation may build toward the future by advancing one or more False Leads (A Study in Static, 80). By drawing a runner toward a False Lead, a corporation can increase the potency of its defenses and buy time to advance its other agendas.
"Cautious corporation" is a term that could easily apply to any of the monolithic megacorps of Android: Netrunner. After all, they each control vast assets and need to coordinate multiple departments and servers as they steer their business toward the future. Nonetheless, the name that the phrase typically calls to mind first is Haas-Bioroid. Known for its Accelerated Beta Tests (Core Set, 55) and its tendency to install layers upon layers upon layers of ice on its servers, Haas-Bioroid is among the most cautious of a naturally cautious breed of organizations. Accordingly, developing a False Lead or two may play well into its plans, especially since it can trigger the agenda's paid ability as a runner encounters a particularly nasty bioroid, like Ichi 1.0 (Core Set, 62) or Janus 1.0 (What Lies Ahead, 12). When the Runner decides to approach the piece of ice, he forfeits his ability to jack out, and the Corp player can then forfeit his False Lead as he rezzes his ice in order to drain the Runner's available clicks and removing or reducing the Runner's option of spending clicks to bypass the destruction of his programs or the brain damage that Janus 1.0 would cause.
Though the False Lead's ability to empower bioroid ice may make it a natural fit for Haas-Bioroid, the sort of tricks it engenders also fit well into a Jinteki strategy, especially one built around the new identity the faction gained in Trace Amount, Replicating Perfection (Trace Amount, 31). With its new identity, Jinteki already gains a limited amount of control over its opponent's turn, forcing the Runner to run against a central server before it can run against any remote servers. Then, by pairing its identity's ability with the paid ability of a False Lead, Jinteki can limit the Runner to single click available to run against remote servers. And if that Runner needs to spend a click to gain credits, he'll be completely shut out for a turn.
Since a turn may be all the Corp player needs to advance its final agenda, the investment in a False Lead can pay off greatly later in the game.
Time Is Not on Your Side
In the high-speed, high-stakes cyberstruggles of Android: Netrunner, there's no time for error. All-Nighter and False Lead are just two of the cards from A Study in Static that permit players to manipulate the time they spend on the network, and they're sure to change the way that players approach the game.
Head to your local retailer today to use All-Nighter, False Lead, and the other cards from A Study in Static to forge dynamic new strategies in your games of Android: Netrunner. The game's fourth Data Pack is available now!
Based on the classic card game designed by Richard Garfield, Android: Netrunner The Card Game is a game for two players set in the dystopian future of Android. It pits monolothic megacorps against subversive netrunners in a high-stakes struggle for the control of valuable data.