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This time, it was Noah Burkhart's turn.
Burkhart, a 132-pounder for McDowell, recorded an 11-1 major decision over Fort LeBoeuf's Shane Newell in the finale of Friday night's non-region dual between two of District 10's traditional wrestling powers. The junior's victory also clinched a 28-22 win for the Trojans at Paul Goll Gymnasium.
While the stakes were nowhere as high against the Bison, the situation was very similar to what McDowell experienced Wednesday.
The Trojans beat Cathedral Prep 35-23, although they weren't assured of a victory against their Region 4 rivals until that dual's last match. Their hero that night was Coleman Cousins, who recorded a pin at 170.
Burkhart didn't pin Newell, though he almost recorded a shutout. He racked up nine of his points over the second and third periods before allowing the Bison junior his lone escape point.
Burkhart was honest about having Friday's outcome come down to his match.
"I really didn't like all the pressure," he said, "but I'm glad I could step up to the plate and finish it off. I take pride in my team, so I liked getting the job done for them."
Friday's outcome had no bearing on the teams' fortunes for next week's District 10 team tournaments.
McDowell (8-1) was already assured of the top seed for the Class AAA meet, which will take place Jan. 29 at Central Tech's Al Calabrese Gymnasium. The Trojans, the defending champions, will face Meadville in the semifinals.
LeBoeuf (8-3) is seeded second for the Class AA tournament, scheduled Feb. 1 at Sharon. Cochranton will be its quarterfinal opponent.
The Bison took an early led in Friday's dual, thanks to George McGuire's 12-4 major decision over Luke Peterson in the 138 opener and Brad Malinowski's 5-2 decision over Ryan Dailey at 152.
McDowell won the next four matches, capped by Tyree Spearman's 11-7 victory over LeBoeuf's Anthony Rivera at 195, which left the Trojans up 15-6.
The hosts led 24-9 when the Bison rallied. The last of their four straight wins, Tyler Kuzma's 10-0 major decision over Benji Yates at 126, pulled them within 24-22.
However, Burkhart thwarted LeBoeuf's hopes of a major comeback when he dominated Newell.
McDowell's Charlie Lenox recorded the dual's only fall. Lenox only needed 1 minute, 22 seconds to pin Abe Guarriello at 106.
Lost amid the Trojans' larger victories were the first three team points that Jake Paulson scored.
Paulson, only a freshman, rallied in the third period of his 145 match for a 6-3 decision over Bison senior Colton Pillar. Paulson tied the score in the last 30 seconds, and then recorded his decisive three back points as time expired.
"I just hate losing," Paulson said, "and that's what drove me through the third (period)."
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AT&T Center – It was NBA Finals Media Day in San Antonio yesterday where the San Antonio Spurs and Miami Heat gave their thoughts on the Finals before Game 1 set to kick off tonight.
And among the flood of media and players, was Aron Baynes sitting on the scorers table, by himself and just soaking in the media hoopla.
Baynes was kind enough to speak with Project Spurs about being in his second NBA Finals with the Spurs, facing Miami, and much more.
Jeff: It's your second time here at the Finals. How are you feeling?
Aron: I kind of feel like something was taken from us last year. We know why we're here, we been working to get to here. We just want to go out and continue to play they way that got us here.
There's been a lot of back and forth from the two teams. Miami saying they know the Spurs do not like them. Heading into a big series like this, are there any personal feelings towards the Heat seeing how this team came up short against them last year?
I mean anytime you step on the court you want try to prove yourself against who you're playing against. That's definitely one aspect of it. At the same time, we got to focus on us. At the end of the day, if we're doing what we need to, then it should take care of itself.
Talk about the game that will be going in the paint versus Heat players such as Udonis Haslem, and Chris Bosh. What is your mindset as you might be going up against them?
It's the same as every other game. Like I said, you got to focus on what you need to do, what my role is. I know what I want to do – I want to bring energy and I want to be a presence inside defensively and offensively and play within our system. At the end of the day, what happens happens.
What's your favorite thing about the NBA Finals?
(Laughs) Playing! It's what it's about. It's the pinnacle of professional basketball right here! Everyone works to get to this point and you got to capitalize on it and make the most of it. You want to go out and play your best basketball but at the same time you don't want to go out and do anything you can't do. You just want to play within yourself.
Is last season's Game 6 loss during the Finals still in the collective mind of the team?
I mean we watched it, we've learned from it. That's one thing is great about being with the Spurs. We don't shut it out. We try to embrace what we did wrong, what we didn't do right. We learned from that and in this series, we don't make those same mistakes again.
How is Tony Parker's ankle?
I don't know how it is but Tony is a competitor.
The road to a title goes through San Antonio. How is having home court advantage?
I mean it's good. It's something I wouldn't turn down. We worked to get this all year and now we got it. Now we have to go out and do what we did to get here and take advantage of it.
Any butterflies before Game 1?
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Manufacturers across the United States are targeting schools and colleges to let young people know there is more to manufacturing than pulling levers on an assembly line.
"People still have the idea that manufacturing is a dirty dungeon place," said Andy Bushmaker of KI Furniture, a maker of school desks and cafeteria tables in Green Bay, Wis. The goal, Bushmaker said, is to get people to see manufacturing jobs as the high-tech, high-skilled and high-paying careers they can be in the second decade of the 21st century.
Today's manufacturers, whether they are making cars, airplanes or iPhone parts, are looking for engineers, designers, machinists and computer programmers. Manufacturing has moved from manual mills and lathes to computerized numerical control equipment and 3-D printers. Hand-held welders are being replaced with robotic welders. Industrial maintenance mechanics no longer need to know how to use a wrench, but they have to be able to operate a "programmable logic control," or a digital computer, to fix the machines.
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One of the first things people think of when summer comes to mind is going to the beach or playing in the water, whether it is at a river, lake, or beach. The one thing hard to do, however, is experience those things within a city or urban area. This article will introduce Korea's top water parks designed to let you get your fill of water fun without having to leave town, and others great for overnight trips.
Water parks in Seoul and metropolitan area
Caribbean Bay
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Caribbean Bay, a water park located just outside of Seoul in the city of Yongin, holds the titles of both the first and largest water park in the country. Caribbean Bay can accommodate up to 20,000 people, and has five themed zones that include indoor pools, outdoor pools, spas, water rides, water slides, and many other amusement facilities.
Onemount Waterpark
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Onemount Waterpark in Gyeonggi-do's Ilsan is a four-story structure with a seven-story rooftop that lets visitors look down on the various slides and attractions in the park, as well as the nearby Ilsan Lake Park. Most of the attractions for children are on
the 4th level, and rides for adults are located higher on the 7th floor.
Sealala Waterpark
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Located in Mullae-dong of Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul, Sealala Spa & Water Park is a place where Seoulites can enjoy water fun any time of the year. Although it is not as big as other water parks in Korea, it boasts an exotic Greece-themed décor and offers easy access, as it is directly connected to the subway.
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Historically frequented by the kings of the Joseon Dynasty, the hot springs of Icheon are well known for their excellent water quality. Located in this famed hot spring city of Icheon, Termeden
is a hot spring resort complex that is popular for its high-quality water and luxurious facilities.
Woongjin Playdoci
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Woongjin Playdoci, a very unique indoor theme park, is located not far from Seoul in the city of Bucheon, Gyeonggi-do.
In addition to having basic water facilities, Woongjin Playdoci, which is the central area of the venue, includes event pools decorated in themes of different countries and hot spring pools scented with natural ingredients.
Beat the heat with overnight trips to these rural waterparks!
Resom Spa Castle (Chunchunhyang)
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Resom Spa Castle represents one of Korea's hot spring theme parks, thanks to the widespread fame of its therapeutic Germanium-rich water,
which is maintained at 49°C. Located in Yesan-gun, Chungcheongnam-do, Resom Spa Castle's hot spring facility Chunchunhyang is open all year round.
Seorak Waterpia
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Seorak Waterpia
is the most popular destination on the East Coast. With the stunning scenery of Seoraksan Mountain serving as a beautiful backdrop, this place offers the latest in water amusement facilities and hot spring water spas.
Vivaldi Park Ocean World
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Vivaldi Park Ocean World
is situated among the beautiful ancient forests of Hongcheon in Gangwon-do. The water park has an Egyptian theme throughout, and contains replicas of the Sphinx, pyramids, obelisks, and other decorative touches.
Divided into various "zones" — Indoor Zone, Wave Pool Zone, Extreme Zone, Dynamic Zone, and the Mega Slide Zone — each section of the water park offers a different kind of amusement.
Gimhae Lotte Water Park
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Opened on May 2014, Gimhae Lotte Water Park is one of Korea's biggest water parks. Located in Gimhae-si, Gyeongsangnam-do, Gimhae Lotte Water Park features custom-designed, Polynesian-themed waterslides and pools, such as an outdoor wave pool (135 m), indoor wave pool (35 m), and a huge funnel slide, among other attractions.
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So far in this chapter, I have been describing how to retrieve data from ResultSet using specifically-typed Getter methods. For example, in this version of my project, GenericGetters, in my Tours class, I have calls to the methods getInt, getString, and getDouble, and I'm selecting the method to match the data type of the column. So, the tour ID is an integer, so I call getInt, tour name is a string column, so I'll call getString, and so on. In Java 7, there is a new approach, a Generic Getter method called getObject that you can use on every column of ResultSet, and you explicitly data type the return value using a different syntax.
Now again, this new Generic Getter method is only available in Java 7. So if you're using an older version of Java, you should stick with these explicitly data typed method calls. But if you are working with Java 7 and therefore JDBC 4.1, this new approach is just another option, another tool in your toolkit. I'll start this exercise by re-factoring this code a bit. I'm going to take the expression that's retrieving the tourId, and I'll extract it to a local variable of the method. I'll select the expression, then I'll right-click, scroll down and choose Refactor, and then Extract Local Variable.
I'll name my new variable the same as the column name, tourId. So that creates a local variable here, and then I'm using that value on the next line to build my string buffer. I'll do the same sort of re-factoring for the tourName. This is all just to make the code a little bit more readable. I'll select the expression, right-click, choose Refactor > Extract Local Variable, and again, I'll name the new variable to match the column name, tour name. I'll group these two variable declarations together, and then I'll take another that already exists, the declaration of the price variable, and I'll move that up.
So now I have one section of code where I'm getting all the values I need from the current row. I'm going to reformat the code a little bit, and make it even easier to read, and now I'm ready to use the new Generic Getter method. I'm going to keep a copy of this code around so I can compare the two styles of coding to each other. I'll select and copy and then paste in, and then I'll comment out the second version, and I'll make the changes to the first version. Here's how you use the Generic Getter. I'll start with the integer. Instead of calling getInt and passing in either the name of the column or the ordinal position of the column as an integer, you call getObject.
So, I'll get rid of that, and instead of getInt, I'll call getObject. You'll see that there are a few versions of this method, but I'm using this version, the one that accepts a column label as the first argument and then a class. The class will determine the data type that will be returned from the method. You'll see that we're using the diamond operator, and the T in the middle means type. What is the data type that we're looking for? So I'll call getObject, and just as before, I'll pass in the name of the column that I'm retrieving from, and then, I'll pass in a class and its class field, and it looks like this for an integer, Integer.class.
That means that I want to retrieve the tourId column, and I want to data type it as a class. Now, you might think that I would have to explicitly cast the value as I'm passing it back. For example, adding casting syntax at the beginning. But because of the way the getObject method is written, when I say that I'm passing in an integer class here, that's the class that's going to be returned, and so it will automatically be returned as my primitive integer, and I don't need this casting syntax. Now, let's do the same thing with the string.
I'll get rid of the call to the getString method, and instead I'll call getObject, once again, I'll call the version that accepts the name of the column and the type. I'll pass in the name of the column as tour name, and the type will be string.class. Finally, I'll do the same thing with the price. I'm retrieving a double value. So I'll call the getObject method, and I'll pass in the name of the column, price, and the data type which I'm going to set initially as Double.class. So, take a look at these two versions of the code. In the first one, you're calling the same method over and over again, getObject, and you're setting the data type using that second argument.
In the second version, which is the older version, you're setting the data type with the actual method names. I'll run this application, and I'll see that it works exactly the same as it has in previous versions of the project. If you see a pop-up dialog asking you whether you want to run an application or an applet, choose Java application. But here's a little problem with this version of the code. I'll go back to my Main class and show that I have started off working against MySQL, and this code works with MySQL. But now I'm going to switch to HSQLDB or HyperSQL, and I'll run the code again.
And this time I get an error. Depending on the state of your installation of Eclipse, you might not see this dialog. Instead, you might go right to the debug perspective. I'll see that I'm getting a ClassCastException which was not caught by MySQL Exception catch clause. I need to add a little bit more try catch code to see what's happening. So, I'll terminate the project and go back to my code, and I'm going to add in another catch section. And this time, instead of SQLException, I'll catch the global exception object, Exception.
And here, I'll just do a little bit of system error output, and I'll pass in the Error object. I'll run the code again, and this time I can see the explicit error, BigDecimal cannot be cast to double. So what's going on here? When you call the getObject method with a double column or a float, the specification for JDBC says that a BigDecimal will be returned, not a double or a float. Now, if you have watched my Java Essential Training course, you might remember that I described why the Big Decimal class exists.
The double and float objects can't be guaranteed to be absolutely precise because of the nature of how floating-point arithmetic happens on the computer, you'll frequently have additional decimal values that you don't want. Whereas the BigDecimal object can always return a very specific value. With some database drivers, the BigDecimal can be converted to the Double, and that was the case with MySQL. But with other database drivers, such as HyperSQLs, you have to always use the BigDecimal. So, for portability between databases, if you're working with columns that are doubles, floats, currency, or anything else that might have fractional values, I recommend always returning a BigDecimal.
So I'm going to change the data type of the value that I'm returning into, the price, and I'll change it to BigDecimal. I'll make sure to choose it so that I get an import statement for the class. Then I'll go to my getObject call, and I'll change that from Double.class to BigDecimal.class. I'll save and run the code again. And with HyperSQL, it now works, where it broke before. I'll go back to my Main class and change back to MySQL, and I'll run the code again. And I'll see that it works there as well.
If you use the BigDecimal to contain your doubles and floats, you'll pretty much guarantee that things work fine across different databases. But if you try to stuff things into a double or a float value using this new Generic Getter method, it will work on some databases but not on others. So that's a look at how you can use the new Generic Getter method. In the rest of the code throughout this course, I'm going to continue to use the older style because it is compatible with older versions of Java. But if you're working with Java 7, you might want to upgrade to this new version of the code.
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quote: So in terms of returns, Android is sustainable. However, in relative terms the value created leaves much to be desired. Whereas Android generates $1.70/device/year and thus an Android device with a two year life generates about $3.5 to Google over its life, Apple obtained $576.3 for each iOS device it sold in 2011[4]. The economics of Android are nothing like the economics of iOS.
quote: Where I think we are seeing weaknesses, however, of the kind directly related to the smartphone wars, are in the following areas: • 46% of their revenues are from the US. • • Average cost per click declined a significant 12% over Q1 2011 (a 6% decrease from the previous quarter, Q4 2011). • • Traffic acquisition costs, in large part what Google pays others to make Google search prominent on their sites/platforms, were up slightly. • Smartphoens are altering how we search. It's typically easier to activate a highly specific app on a smartphone rather than go to a mobile web browser and search on Google. This has created legitimate opportunities for more and more applications to cut into more and more types of search. Despite Google search and Google maps, for example, the smartphone makes it far easier and better to search for a restaurant using Yelp, say, than using Google. Smartphones are linked with platforms. The web is no longer the web. To "google" is no longer as simple as typing in a phrase in the open web browser. Carriers and device makers have more power than before over how accessible a search engine is both in the device and on its browser.For example, Google has to pay Apple to make Google search the default on iPhones and iPads. This will not change. However, as I've said many times, when you look at the numbers you realize there is no iPhone vs Android war -- it's Apple iPhone vs Samsung Android.This gives both companies leverage over Google. I would not be surprised if Samsung increases its demands on Google. Such as, to start, increasingly large direct payments to incorporate Google search and all the other 'sanctioned' Google applications on its devices.There's also that massive US number. Almost half of all Google's revenues come from the United States. iPhone is strongest in the United States. It's share of the US smartphone market stands at about 30%. It is the most popular device across the three largest carriers in the nation. As iPhone grows in function, expect it to also demand higher payments from Google. We should also expect the iPhone platform to offer more/superior alternatives to Google. Lastly, there's the issue of the cost per click, which fell for the second quarter in a row. Cost-per-click (CPC) is the amount Google charges advertisers when a user clicks on an ad. Though Google refuses, still, to break out numbers, it's widely accepted that cost-per-click is down because of the shift from PC search to mobile search.Isn't this backwards? That is, shouldn't the cost per click for mobile search be higher than PC search?In theory, yes. Smartphones are always on, highly social, location aware. The results they return should therefore be much more specific -- more "relevant" as Google states.A more relevant result ought to result in higher margin clicks. Only, they do not. In fact, I don't believe they ever will. The cost-per-click business model is a relic of the PC age. While Google's Page is correct in stating that Android is growing, and we all know that smartphone device growth will far surpass PCs, the business model that has allowed Google to earn around $40 billion a year in revenues and over $10 billion a year in profit, is dying.Cost per click on a smartphone screen is, frankly, silly. The smartphone allows for extremely specific results and that is what the smartphone user demands. Smartphones are simply better at search than PCs. They present information based on the exact time, the exact location and the exact need. But the Google model, built for PCs, is likely not the model that will win out. By owning the Android platform and by having the leading smartphone mapping service, Google is well positioned to offer superior search services. It's just that their primary method, the one they've used to become a global web giant, is increasingly irrelevant. In addition, another core strength, the ease of use of their service, where an always-open (PC) browser allowed for rapid search -- on Google -- is no longer the preferred (or even sensible) method of searching.Fact is, only a couple years ago, Google owned search. Now, because of the smartphone wars, new forms of search are exploding across devices and platforms. Certainly, Google is well positioned for this. But they are not the only legitimate solution nor do they control the superior business model for this ew era of search. It's a whole new world. Over the past decade, Google went from a noun to a verb. This is now reversing itself.


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After spotting visiting Jacksonville a big early lead, Stetson battled back on Thursday night to tie the game late, only to let the Dolphins pull away late for a 9-6 series opening win at Melching Field.
The loss snapped Stetson's three-game win streak and was the Hatters' third consecutive loss in Atlantic Sun Conference openers. The Hatters (19-10, 3-4) have surrendered 39 runs in those three series opening losses.
"We have to find a way to win the first game of a series," Hatters coach Pete Dunn said. "We have given up almost 40 runs in three series openers – that is just unheard of. You can't chase runs."
Jacksonville came into the game having lost five straight games, but improved to 12-19 overall and 2-5 in conference play with the win.
Stetson junior starting pitcher Kurt Schluter is a perfect example of the Hatters' series opening woes. The defending A-Sun pitcher of the year has been the starting pitcher in each of the three A-Sun openers, and has allowed 23 runs on 29 hits over 12 innings of work. He has been undone by the home run ball, allowing seven in those three appearances after having allowed just four in the first 31 appearances in his career.
"I don't see the intensity level," Dunn said of Schluter. "That Friday night guy needs to go out there with some intensity and set the tone for the weekend. I wish I knew what was wrong. Coach (Chris) Roberts is going crazy trying to figure it out. Kurt has to fix it. There is nothing wrong with him physically. He needs to reach down inside and figure out what it is he need to do to go out there and compete and give us a quality start."
Schluter was victimized by the home run ball again on Thursday. He surrendered a two-runs homer to A-Sun preseason player of the year Adam Brett Walker in the first inning, and then gave up a solo bomb to Walker in the third. Schluter also allowed a run on a pair of hits in the second inning, putting the Hatters in an early 5-1 hole.
Stetson got single runs in the second and third innings, but missed out on what could have been more productive frames against JU starter Drew Woods. Ryan Lashley drove in a run with a ground out in the second before Kyle Zech hit into an inning-ending double play.
In the third inning, Mark Jones came up with the bases loaded and one out, but only managed a ground ball to plate one run.
Stetson did knot the score at 5-5 in the fifth, scoring three times, but again leaving two runners in scoring position. Robert Crews doubled in the first run of the inning and Jones and Lashley both delivered run-scoring singles, but were left on base at the end of the frame.
"We did come back, and had chances to almost blow the game open, but we get pop ups and punch outs," Dunn said. "When we need to swing the bat, we don't. We take two steps forward and one step back."
With the game still tied in the eighth, the Dolphins regained the lead on a bloop double to center field off Tucker Donahue (2-1) that escaped the grasp of a sliding Kyle Zech with two out in the inning.
"We have to make that play in the outfield," Dunn said. "If you get to the ball, you have to make the catch. It was a tie game and we had a chance to get out of the inning, but we didn't make the play and they took the lead."
JU then put the game out of reach in the ninth inning, scoring three times off Jake Boyd. Dan Gulbransen opened the inning with a home run and, after a single by Walker, a walk and a sacrifice put two runners in scoring position, Alex McRae delivered a two-run single.
Sophomore left-hander Jimmy Appleby (2-0) was the third of five pitchers for Jacksonville and earned the win. Sophomore Chris Anderson recorded the final four outs for the Dolphins, allowing one run, to earn his first save.
The loss in the series opener puts the pressure on the Hatters, especially senior starting pitchers Lindsey Caughel and Will Dorsey, for the rest of the series. Caughel will get the ball on Friday night as Stetson looks to even the weekend series. The game is scheduled for a 6:30 p.m. start.
"We have to find guys who will come up big in the big situations," Dunn said. "Right now, we aren't doing that.
They have to learn how to compete and we have some guys who aren't competitive right now. We can't continue to go out and lose on Friday night and expect to be in the hunt for a tournament berth. Good teams win the first night and, right now, we are not a good team and that is why we are not winning."


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Strolling through South Beach on a clear night, you enter a lush garden. You pass a horse-drawn carriage only to be greeted by a dazzling bearded lady on stilts; behind her a lit fountain sparkles with flames from a fire juggler. Everyone is wearing white. Just as you marvel at the vividness of your dream, you're tackled by a brawny bartender who wants to know why you stiffed her for the White Russian. Okay, it's not your dream; in your dreams, drinks are free. But it is the tantalizing vision of 27-year-old Yesi León (promoter of Pandora, the weekly party at Timba) and her 28-year-old partner at Kiss the Girl Productions, Carmen Benard. "It's going to be Cirque du Soleil style: fireblowers, acrobats, mimes," says León of Kiss the Girl's premier event, Cirque Blanc. She adds, "There might be an albino alligator coming. It's just going to be extravagant."
Cirque Blanc is one of three officially sanctioned female fiestas lined up for White Party Week (WPW), the annual fundraiser that culminates in a huge Vizcaya glamfest. Fifteen years ago the White Party was conceived by Miami's Health Crisis Network (now referred to as Care Resource, following a merged partnership with Community Research Initiative), local gay businessman Frank Wager, and a core of volunteers as a way to help finance the fight against AIDS.
Women's WPW has brought local promoters, such as León, Benard, Mary D, Julie Garrity, and Shescape's Alison Burgos, together as a community, creating a camaraderie that hasn't always existed on the Miami nightlife scene. Burgos, who is hosting Wednesday's Shadow Lounge spectacular featuring MTV-anointed DJ Tracy Young, says, "You see promoters in clubs really go after each other, and it's nice to be working together on a very positive, focused event and goal."
Traditionally women have represented a small fraction of WPW attendees. León believes the group's marketing contributions will bring ladies out of the woodwork this year, not only changing the face of the White Party, but also reflecting the changing face of today's AIDS crisis. According to Care Resource, over the past five years the focus has shifted to people under age 25, black women, and senior citizens. Further, Care Resource reports, "In Florida during the past year, more than twice as many women between the ages of sixteen and twenty were diagnosed with HIV than young men."
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10 Reasons Gettin' Busy is Good For Your HealthLori Garcia
You already know sex is an important part of maintaining intimacy in a relationship, but did you know that sex is actually good for your health? It's true.
WebMD offers up 10 Surprising Health Benefits of Sex worth considering next time you're tempted to snub your lover. When you're busy getting busy, your body is working overtime in these 10 positive ways:
Sex reduces prostate cancer risk 1 of 10Men, you've got a bonafide (pun intended) reason keep nudging for nookie! Australian researchers found that prostate cancer risk was reduced by a third in 20-something men who ejaculated 5 or more times a week. Another study found that older men who experienced 21 or more ejaculations per month also had reduced risk.
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Sex is good for your heart 2 of 10Men who have sex at least two times a week are half as likely to experience a fatal heart attack than those who had sex less than once a month!
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Sex reduces pain 3 of 10Sex might just cure what ails ya. Increased oxytocin (lovey dovey hormones released during sex) lead to increased endorphins, which lead to a reduction in pain. Image credit: Shutterstock
Sex strengthens pelvic floor muscles 4 of 10Ladies, getting your Kegels on during intercourse not only increases sensation, but strengthens those pesky pelvic floor muscles responsible for that whole incontinence thing as we get older.
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Sex helps you sleep 5 of 10Good sleep affects our health in a variety of positive ways. Research suggests oxytocin, the hormone released during orgasm, promotes restful sleep.
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Sex boosts your immune system 6 of 10Science has proven that sex helps ward off all kinds of nasty stuff like colds and infections.
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Sex relieves stress 7 of 10In addition to sex lowering blood pressure, researchers discovered sexually active people handled stress better than those who were not sexually active.
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Sex burns calories 8 of 10According to WebMd, "Thirty minutes of sex burns 85 calories or more. It may not sound like much, but it adds up: 42 half-hour sessions will burn 3,570 calories, more than enough to lose a pound." Talk about losing weight and feeling good!
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Sex increases intimacy 9 of 10Increased oxytocin levels achieved during sex and orgasm make women feel all sorts of warm and fuzzy (and trusting) towards their partners.
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Sex boosts self-esteem 10 of 10According to Gina Ogden, PhD, a sex therapist and marriage and family therapist, "Great sex begins with self-esteem, and it raises it. If the sex is loving, connected, and what you want, it raises it."
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when a guy ejaculates on the chest of a woman and leaves his penis there until his penis is stuck on the woman's chest/breasts.
Sticking her was an awesome idea and felt great.
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Trinidadian slang for an action that has remained incomplete for a long time. Usually employed to berate the person perpetuating the action.
You ent finish de dishes yet? How yuh sticking so?!
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The sport of running around with a stick of some sort, while poking every clay man in sight.
Clay man: I am feeling rather happy at the moment.
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To have very little pubic hair.
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A therapeutic exercise in which one picks up sticks off the ground set out by a sponsor while trying to overcome alcoholism; helps give a sense of confidence in completing a task and a sense of achievement.
After my brother received a DUI, my dad used the sticking program to wean him off booze.
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I'm not really sure what my expecations were coming to the global conference on climate change in Copenhagen but I know that today turned out to be nothing like them, whatever they were!
This has been a hugely anticipated conference, in the planning for years, talked about for years. Organisers knew the interest was going to be phenomenal, that there would be a cast of manymany thousands.
They knew but they didn't know what they should have knew. The last few days have been a mess. The Bella Centre, a conference centre in the suburbs, has a capacity of 15,000. With 45,000 people registered, there was always going to be a problem.
My first sighting of the mercurial French agrarian campaigner, Jose Bove, was of him in the middle of his sit-down protest in support of Friends of the Earth. The entire FOE delegation was excluded from the building which was a disgrace. People enduring waits of between five and eight hourse in freezing conditions was also a disgrace. As were the ugly scenes we saw this morning when Danish police drew batons and released teargas. We were essentially trapped in the Bella Centre for this but there were lots of people saying afterwards that the police had over-reacted.
It's all been a massive diversion from the real nub. And that's the lack of progress in the talks. No substantial progress has been made in the past 24 hours as delegations and groupings continue to wrangle and bicker over texts. There was an all-night plenary session last night with the goal or removing brackets (they offer different options, softer and harder, for remedial actions) but the session ended with even more brackets in the documents.
Why should the EU sign up for a second stint of Kyoto and all its binding agreements while the same time the US and China escape scot-free?
Of course, the industrialised North needs to stump up the funds to mitigate and adapt, in order to achieve climate justice. But finding a solution to that in terms of funding commitments is so fractious and complicated, that I just don't think it can be pulled off this week.
Arnold Swharzenneger was around this morning but I missed him because I was queuing up for my accreditation (long enough for me not to be able to feel my toes any more). I did see Senator John Kerry, the former Democratic presidential candidate, not once but twice. The second time he was hosting a press conference.
He knows his stuff on climate change. He's also highly confident that the climate change bill will pass through the Senate before the summer. The big problem in the US, says Kerry, is finding a way of putting a price on carbon.
The centre is like the worldwideweb come to life. I don't mean that in a good way. There are stands from every conceivable country, NGO, company, cause and interest. All have voluminous literature and violently competing slogans. Then there are the earnest young campaigners doing their flying picket thing in every corner of the complex. It's just too much to take in in one day, like trawling through every single result on a popular google search.


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Black Howler Monkey (Alouatta pigra)
Howler monkeys are among the largest primates in the Neotropics. They can grow to be 22 to 36 inches tall when standing. And, their tails are about the same size in length as their bodies. Male howlers are black, while females are brown. They have prehensile tails that they can use to grab onto branches. They make loud vocalizations to mark their territory, thus earning their name. Their howls, which resemble a strong wind blowing through a tunnel, have been heard over two miles away by researchers. While most individuals do not live for more than 15 years in the wild, it is possible for howlers to reach over 20 years in age.
Listen to an MP3 audio file of howler monkeys at night:
Or download and listen to a Windows Media Player file of a recording of howler monkeys at night [WMA file, requires Windows Media Player].
Howler monkeys are found only in the rainforests of the Americas. They live in tall rainforest trees in groups of between 4 and 19 members. They travel from tree to tree in search of food -- walking from limb to limb, rather than jumping. While not particularly perky primates, they are most active during the day (diurnal), sleeping high in rainforest trees at night.
Howlers are strict vegetarians, eating only flowers, fruits and leaves. In Belize, special community managed protected areas have been established to keep people from over-harvesting the fruit and flowers that the howlers need to survive.
Howlers have both natural and human-induced threats to their existence. The black howler monkey, known as the "baboon" in Belize, is endangered throughout much of its range due to hunting and habitat destruction. As forests are cleared, howlers, who need several acres of forest per troop to survive, are becoming increasingly rare. Throughout the region in which they are found, howlers are hunted both for food and for sport. Some experts believe that howlers could become extinct within the next 35 years.
- Jukofsky, Diane. Encyclopedia of Rainforests. Connecticut: Oryx Press, 2002.
- Smithsonian National Zoological Park: nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/SmallMammals/Exhibits/HowlerMonkeys/LoudestAnimal
- The Belize Zoo: www.belizezoo.org/zoo/zoo/mammals/how/how1.html


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"We've been duped by the Republicans. Kentucky Sen. and minority leader Mitch McConnell in a news conference one day after the election, stated that the single and sole goal of the GOP over the next two years is: to make Barack Obama a single term president. What an arrogant and obnoxious goal and statement. There agenda before the election was to get votes by promising that there first goals were jobs, the economy and health care reform. It seems their goal is to grab power, not to do things for the people that are in need of jobs and or unemployment pay, health care for those that don't have it, and the people losing their homes. This is the same party that wanted the auto plants and their suppliers to go out of business. We are just coming back from what they did to this country, and now we have them back to do the same things to our country again. What a mess the next two years is going to bring to this country. Talk about partisanship." Carl D. Leow Rogers Cit
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Dumb arse, I have NEVER advocated 'gun control' IF you were capable of comprehending American English, you would know that. I differ from you in that I have not given in to FEAR, which is the bread and butter of the NRA, and right wing speak.
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Nobo, it saddens me to see an otherwise rational purveyor of truth in this forum give in to the fear mongering NRA. Shrillstein cannot comprehend a simple notion that the sequester he is so fraught with fear over was and is a function of the House of Representatives and the Senate. The REPUBLICAN HOUSE voted FOR the sequester, by a wide margin. FACT. Congress voted FOR the sequester, in spite of all the GOP nonsensical history revision that presently dominates Republican speak. FACT. Your guns are safe. FACT. The NRA is scaring the 'crap' out of you guys. I am not afraid of my guns and ammunition being taken away, they are safe and secure. Nothing I have ever said in this forum contains lies of the sort rshrill would so marginalize my ideals with by insane innuendo and misrepresentation, let alone plain American English, which he has little grasp of. Do not be fooled, by a fool.
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nobo..The language of the day didn't say a thing about 30 round clips and one 'crossroad' assult weapons ban has come and gone the way of the end of the earth in December. Now go threaten to have someone's legs broken, again.
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nobo..Just wait a week and maybe the republicans will get rid of meat inspectors so your children can chew E Coli while big oil pockets the billions Beneshek gave them.
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Right. Norm would sing them a lullaby.
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Rshill, The 2nd amendment was written as a fail-safe to tyranny in as clear and solid language of the day. As written it will take a lot of social engineering to change the meaning and cloud the meaning of those words to the point it can be legislated out of existence. History has proven that every tyrant has always disarmed the public prior to enslaving it. I believe that we are at a crossroads where the people of the country still have enough power to stop and bring to justice the criminals who would enslave us. But it takes people to be aware and awake of the subtleties of a complicit media.
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Norm is not a rational person NS. His sweeping, repetitive statements that nobody wants to take our guns, is 100% ludicrous.
Gun owners across the fruited plain apparently scare the crap out of them. That's good. We do not work for them. They work for us, and need to get that through their freedom-hating, control-freak, heads.
Are we going to need yet another Declaration of Independence? These gun control adherents might consider re-reading that particular document, as they are now doing a great impression of King George III.
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You mean DHS.
I've seen those targets. Extremely disturbing to say the least. I also heard audio of someone talking to the company on the telephone that makes those targets, for verification of the facts.
Also, that's enough hollow point ammo to kill every man, woman, and child in this country approximately 5 times. Less than 6 million rounds were used in the Iraq War, to put those numbers in further perspective.
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Hiya Norm, It's been a while. I gotta side with (of all people) Rshill on the gun issue. The second amendment is under attack across the country to the point that constitutional sheriffs are warning the public about it and assuring the public and local and state governments that they will not enforce gun-grabbing laws. I very concerned about the DHC program of funding non traditional "No hesitation" training targets to the government and law enforcement depicting pregnant women, children in schoolyards, old men in their homes with guns. Combined with the fact that DHC has recently ordered over 2 billion hollow point bullets (Illegal by treaty for use in war) a rational person must give pause to consider the implications.
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The sequester was Obama's idea, dumb-a-s-s. It IS his sequester.
Also, it is simply a reduction in the rate of growth, not a cut. Approx. 3% of the budget.
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Boehner to Obama "Your sequester". What a goof! So, rshrill has unregistered guns, call the ATF! NO entity is after your guns! Period. I do not care what Rush, or Hannity, or O'Turdley, or the NRA tells you. NO BODY is going after OUR guns!
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Boehner to Obama "Your sequester". What a goof!
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Can anyone see a fragment of the bigger picture? Look where we are as a people since 911. Are we more free, less taxed? It's our nation. We (the people) were charged with maintaining it by our vote to send representatives to its capital to act on our behalf. Is that what is happening now? I don't feel it. I personally feel that we have lost the power to control our government with checks and balances. Our government now controls us. Our travel, our income, our personal belongings and personal space and even our personal nutrition is now regulated in some form by a government that we were meant to control. Where is this all going? How far will our society fall? Is some new form of slavery of serfdom in our near future?
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The government is indeed looking to disarm the American people. Anyone that does not recognize this as a required step into terrorizing the populace into submission is a fool. We have lost control of our government to criminals who continue to play us with left/right games. It is YOUR duty as an American to wake up and step up.
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Some states have already outlawed my guns Normakebelieve. Your stupid words fly in the face of written, passed, and signed, laws. OK? Shut your ignorant, lying, face-anus.
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Drag your knuckles across the keyboard, chum, and you would get the SAME result as if you actually put words together, on purpose. Nobody is after your guns, rshRill. Benghazi that, and adjust your tinfoil hat.
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I am not paying attention!!?? The correct issue is YOU are fearful, and falling for the NRA rhetoric. Sorry, man, your paranoia is bringing me down. Have a nice life looking over your shoulder.
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Wow. Have you heard some of the inane things Colorado legislators are saying regarding how women can't be trusted with guns? OMG...inane, insane, ludicrous, asylum candidates. Yikes. Fight 'em with ball-point pens? Sure, use what you've got (sarc).
OK, here's the quintessential method to disarm and permanently immobilize an attacker:
First, realize he's a crazy-ass. So...carry an ample supply of Rorschach tests...uh huh...see where I'm going with this?
Then, in rapid succession mind ya', shout, Hey! What's the first thing that pops into your mind when you see this! My pen that's what! Then jam your bic into his temple as he's trying to verbalize the first thing that pops into his mind. If he says, "your pen" as he collapses, give him an A+ and a so-so burial.
I know. You're welcome!
Plan B: Pull out a Glock and drop the gunman in his tracks before he gets the first round off. Then hit him a couple more times as he's going down. (The "Mozambique" Drill)
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...statement added that the 2010 Trafficking in Persons report reflected the Government of Pakistans efforts to prosecute trafficking offenders, prevent and combat bonded labour, and protect trafficking victims. During 2009, Pakistan endeavoured to prosecute...
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HUMAN TRAFFICKING violations in Namibia are a reality that requires increased attention and efforts by Namibians in order to identify trafficking and punish traffickers.
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...the release of the 2010 Trafficking in Persons Report. The annual study adds six more African countries to a list of states were trafficking takes place. (AP Photo/Drew Angerer) The new plan, called the AU Commission Initiative against Trafficking, was launched...
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...community take it upon themselves, as their duty, to assist the law enforcement agencies by reporting suspected cases of trafficking on time," she said. The training will look at investigations and prosecution of human trafficking perpetrators. She said due...
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Mexico has become the top provider of sex slaves to the Americas, according to the United Nations. In an effort to tackle the problem, the Mexican government has now signed onto the UN's Blue Heart campaign, but so far it has had little success in prosecuting and convicting human traffickers. One reason, according to some analysts, is confusion over which government agencies have jurisdiction over human trafficking cases. In addition the Mexican government has yet to conduct any comprehensive surveys detailing the true extent of the problem. Al Jazeera's Mariana Sanchez reports.
...victims to date this year. And in New York City, between Dec. 2007 and Sept. 2009, there were 262 calls to a national trafficking hotline. The group Fight Slavery Now identifies the city as one of the country's main ports of entry for trafficking, with JFK...
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People smuggling networks taking asylum seekers from Indonesia to Australia are flourishing despite Jakarta's pledges to combat the trade. Al Jazeera's Step Vaessen gained rare access to a network of smugglers who revealed some of their closely-guarded methods. These include using secret compartments taking asylum seekers to Australian waters and then issuing distress calls in the hope of being picked up by rescue boats and taken to Australian detention centres. The Indonesian government says it is looking at laws to curb people-smuggling as none currently exist.
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A diverse group of New York City public high school students, involved in an intensive after school program conducted by Global Kids, have produced this new digital movie on child sex trafficking. The film was created in Teen Second Life, a 3D virtual world that Global Kids uses to educate youth from around the world about global issues. See www.discoveredmovie.com for more info.
Human beings are being bought and sold and its an industry thats quickly become big business. Now, detectives are stepping up their efforts to try to identify human trafficking victims and they need your help. Its an illegal business second only in profitability to the drug trafficking industry and its happening right here in Southwest Florida. The suspects are brokers who deal in the sale of human beings trapping women and children into lives of prostitution, physical and mental abuse. In terms of viciousness of a crime, its horrible. I cant believe that we, as a society, have actually created a market to traffic humans in exchange for money," said Detective Mike Zaleski of the Lee County Sheriff's Office. Law enforcement and other non-governmental agencies are stepping up their efforts to define the magnitude of the problem locally and to identify and rescue those trapped in lives that could best be defined as modern day slavery. Coyotes, or recruiters, prey on vulnerable victims using threats and intimidation, or even promises of a better life, to bring them into the United States. Here, they become slaves, kept away from society and forced to serve as prostitutes and unpaid laborers. Theyre bought and sold as mere commodities stripped of their core human dignity. Investigators have documented more than 100 cases of human trafficking locally over the last few years. While most involve victims brought in from other countries, domestic trafficking is also an issue. Just ...
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An owner and a cashier at a bar in Daraga, Albay - south of Manila - were convicted for trafficking minors for sexual
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Human trafficking is one of the biggest exports inthe impoverished eastern European country of Moldova. Al Jazeera's Stephen Cole reports on the kind of efforts Moldova has been taking to stop the flow of people illegaly crossing into neighbouring Romania.
A compilation of facts, footage, and pictures I made depicting modern slavery, human trafficking, etc. www.callandresponse.com www.notforsalecampaign.org www.polarisproject.org Sorry about the weird crop. I did not make it like that and I don't know why it is formated that way.
CIA child trafficking, pedophilia, and snuff networks on the Peer into Darkness radio program (female co-host is drunk) en.wikipedia.org White House records Democratic Representatives John Conyers of Michigan and Louise Slaughter of New York had submitted similar requests under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), on February 15, 2005. The Louise Slaughter request was answered by the Department of Homeland Security with Secret Service records of Mr. Gannon's check in and out times at the White House.[26] The Secret Service Records appear to show that Gannon checked in, but never checked out on many occasions, and visited the White House on several days during which no press conference or other press events were held.[27] In a 2007 interview, Gannon stated that he has never spent the night at the White House.[8] [edit] National Press Club Blogger Jeff Gannon became a blogger for the National Press Club in Washington DC[28] A fellow press club member described Gannon as "very active" at the club where Gannon serves on the New Media Committee and Newsmakers Committee. The latter decides which "newsmakers" to invite to some Press Club events.
Accra, Oct.29, GNA - Vice President Alhaji Aliu Mahama, on Tuesday launched a human trafficking fund in Accra, which aims at checking the activities of human traffickers and rehabilitation and re-integration of victims. The fund is the
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Canada's first national statistics on human trafficking into the country released Tuesday also named Romania, the Philippines and Moldova as three other top source countries for foreign victims of this trade.
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MANILA, 19 September 2008 (IRIN) - In June 2008, a lower court sentenced to life in prison a woman found guilty of trafficking seven minors for sexual exploitation, becoming only the 11th person convicted since the Anti-Trafficking in Persons
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* UPDATED 31 MARCH 2009: Now it's a Top-5 news finalist in Logie Award (3rd May 2009) * Mike Duffy of Australian TV Channel 7's exposed the "human trafficking on a massive scale" involving Viet and other workers at Nike's sweatshop contract factories in Malaysia. The 3 news items ran on 21-22 July & 22 Aug 2008.
The UAE National Committee to Combat Human Trafficking said it will launch a nationwide media campaign to enhance awareness about the crime of human trafficking.
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An awareness video about the effects of child sex trafficking.
Lifetime mini-series that is not only an excellent thriller with an amazing cast, but offers an accurate depiction of the fastest growing industry today: human slavery. There are an estimated 27 million people (90% women and 50% children) enslaved all over the world, more than any other time in history. The traders make an estimated $32 billiondollars, untaxed, a year, more than Google, Nike, and Starbucks combined.
Addressing a two-day joint training workshop on "Counteraction to human Trafficking: its coverage in the media" teacher of the Police Academy of Germany, doctor Charles Andreas Harnekame told about the experience of Germany in its struggle against
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A federally funded study has found that boys and girls are being sold for sex in Baton Rouge and New Orleans. The shameful practice was revealed by Shared Hope International, an organization dedicated to preventing sex trafficking and to rescuing and
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Siddharth Kara first encountered the horrors of sexual slavery in a Bosnian refugee camp in 1995. Since then, he has traveled to India, Nepal, Burma, Thailand, Vietnam, the United Kingdom, Italy, the Netherlands, Albania, Moldova, Mexico, and the United States to learn the mechanics of this brutal business and to take stock of its devastating human toll. This book provides a rare business analysis of sex trafficking, focusing on the local drivers and global macroeconomic trends that gave rise to the industry after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Kara quantifies the size, growth, and profitability of sex trafficking and other forms of modern slavery-metrics that have not been published before-and locates the sectors that would be hardest hit by specifically designed interventions and penalties. Kara bolsters his analysis with a riveting account of this unconscionable industry, sharing the stories of victims and revealing the shocking conditions of their exploitation. He concludes with a plan for aggressive measures that would sharply increase the costs of exploiting sex slaves, thereby reducing their aggregate demand among slave owners and consumers.
Benjamin Perrin, of the University of British Columbia, speaks on Canada AM from CTV's studios in Quebec City, Thursday, June 5, 2008.
The U.S. State Department says Canada should be doing a lot more to mitigate human trafficking in the country.
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The State Department's annual report on human trafficking, issued Wednesday, gave the lowest rankings to some U.S. Arab allies, including Saudi Arabia. But several countries were credited with an improved performance on the issue, including Venezuela,
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The United Nations aimed the spotlight on human trafficking Tuesday. From VOA's New York Bureau, correspondent Barbara Schoetzau reports the General Assembly devoted the entire day to discussing the issue of forced labor and exploitation.
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UNITED NATIONS, June 3 (Xinhua) -- The UN General Assembly took up the issue of human trafficking at a thematic debate on Tuesday in an effort to fight a scourge that enslaves more than 2 million people worldwide.
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Combating Human Trafficking in the UAE 2007, released a year after the committee was formed, highlights the countrys stand on the crime, the efforts to counter it, the obstacles and challenges it has encountered, as well as plans for the future.
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British band Radiohead are releasing a video which aims to raise awareness of human trafficking, lead singer Thom Yorke said Wednesday. The video for "All I Need" uses a split screen to show a day in the life of two different children -- one from an affluent background and another who is forced to work in a sweat shop. It will be screened from Thursday by music channel MTV, which says it could reach 560 million households worldwide. "The video is a powerful piece and I hope that the emotion of the song will jump out at people in the context of these images of exploitation," Yorke said. "I'm proud that the song and the video will help to raise awareness of this issue around the world." So Do I
DURBAN,, 23 April 2008 (IRIN) - The victims of human trafficking in Southern Africa are often invisible
because many countries in the region have failed to implement laws to combat it, Hans Petter Boe, Regional Representative for the International
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Authorities plan to increase border checks to curb smuggling of people into the country that is home to about 2 million Myanmar workers who also face a life of exploitation.
A short video documentary that talks about human-trafficking in the Philippines, the present mechanisms in place, and the safety measures to save a potential victim. This film is part of Visayan Forum's information and awareness campaign to help address the vulnerabilities of women and children as potential trafficking victims.
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www.qeveria.eu Turkey is the source of 90% of the West's supply heroin, opiates, & morphine. The recent arrests within Turkey on January 27 2008, reaffirmed the rumours surrounding the Susurluk scandal Zaman Newspaper Monday, January 28, 2008 PAŞAS IN A PANIC AND DEEP STATE DRUG TRAFFICKING "Since the 1950s, Turkey has played a key role in channelling into Europe and the United States the heroin produced in the "Golden Triangle" comprised by Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran. The operation is run by mafia groups closely controlled by the MIT." ~ Kendal Nezan. AP Tuesday, 29 January, 2008 Germany's Niedersachsen State's anti-drug department, Landeskrimi-nalamtes (LKA), which tapped the phones of some of the Ergenekon members as part of a narcotics investigation, proved that Ergenekon members were indeed in the drug business as well. Almost every night rubber dinghy come from Albania to Italy loaded with Drugs. Albanian and Turkish criminal groups operating from Albania due to its geographical position have trasformed the country into a transit point for illegal drugs being shipped to western Europe. IN 2007, Interpol destroyed an international heroin & cocaine-smuggling network shipping the drug to Italy and other western European countries via Albania. Police arrested about 20 traffickers and seized eight tonnes of heroin and cocaine (13 were Turkish, 6 Albanian & 1 Bosnian). The operation involved the joint efforts of drug squads of seven south American countries and ...
www.worldconcern.org See undercover video taken by police, better understand why it happens, and who is doing it. It highlights the heartbreaking reality of child trafficking around the world. Women and children in poverty are at an extremely high risk of exploitation. This is why World Concern, www.worldconcern.org , makes child trafficking prevention a major component of its aid programs, especially in Asia. CREDITS: Originally produced by the Viva Network and the Asha Forum in association with Fat America Films, and was sponsored by World Emergency Relief.
Drug traffickers in Colombia are finding ever more inventive ways of transporting narcotics out of the country. Colombia is the world's main producer and distributor of cocaine. As police continue their efforts to crack down on the drug cartels - they're finding the battle is not only on land, in the sky or on the sea - but underwater. Teresa Bo reports.
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VIENNA (AFP) - The first international conference on human trafficking, one of the fastest growing crimes, will
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