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HTML and CSS Essentials Course
Sound challenging? Fear not, because learning to write code for the Web has never been easier or more fun. In this six-lesson HTML and CSS Essentials course, you'll learn to create Web sites—using HTML to mark up the structure of the document, and CSS to dictate how each page element should look. You will also learn to expand on the basics with cutting-edge HTML5 and CSS3.
Course lessons are packed with hands-on examples that help you gain skills and confidence step-by-step. You'll begin by mastering the basics of HTML markup and how to structure HTML5 pages. You'll also learn how to create HTML tables and add multimedia with HTML5. Then you'll learn to translate your page structure into visual designs that use CSS for typography and positioning. The course wraps up with a look at Web forms, CSS-based navigation, and special CSS3 visual effects.
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A Student Guide is provided for this course. Evaluation is based solely on an Academy of Learning Career College final exam. Prior to taking the final exam, students must successfully complete all the components of the online course material. Participants who receive 75% or higher on their exam will receive a certificate.
Introduction to HTML and CSS; How the web works; Writing tags; Creating an HTML page; Structuring page content; Basic text formatting; Using hyperlinks; Inserting images; Web site structure; Posting to the web with FTP; Other common FTP tasks
Building HTML tables and introducing HTML5; Tables on the web; Creating a basic table; Customizing tables; Special tables; Introducing HTML5
HTML5 multimedia and troubleshooting; Adding audio and video using HTML5; Troubleshooting web page structure
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What sets viral videos apart from other ad campaigns is their ability to interact with and entertain their audience. A good viral video campaign will invite others to participate in the fun that it creates. Yes, it serves the purpose of advertising a product or a concept, but it does so through connotation more than anything else. Instead of just promoting something in general, these marketing campaigns show how a product or an idea can be used effectively. Here are four great examples of interesting campaigns that have taken off (some quite literally into the sky) recently:
1) Harlem Shake
By now, you've no doubt heard about the Harlem Shake phenomenon. It was perhaps the biggest viral video campaign of 2013 and it helped to promote workplace unity and support for businesses of all kinds. While the concept for this didn't originally go viral as a part of an ad campaign, it was eventually adapted for those purposes by several companies such as eBay, Vimeo and Google. This helped to promote the image of these businesses by giving them a chance to participate in an internet phenomenon and showing off how laid back and fun their company can be.
2) Baby Attack
Babies work notoriously well on the internet. Of course, this isn't your average baby. In order to promote the movie Devil's Due, 20th Century Fox had an animatronic baby built to go around the streets of New York scaring random passers by. They then video taped the reactions and edited them into a viral video which now has millions of views. What better way to promote a scary movie than by scaring people on the street?
This campaign worked as well as it did because the marketing team behind the concept did a good job of targeting the right audience. Reaching your target audience is incredibly important when crafting a viral video campaign, and it's pretty easy to see that they have done just that with this baby attack video. Perhaps as a result, the film made back double its budget and was fairly successful during a time of year when films typically struggle in theaters.
3) Baby & Me
Speaking of babies, Evian recently banked on these adorable little guys in a big way by crafting a new ad campaign known as "Baby & Me." The ad features a group of people noticing that their reflections make them look like babies, inspiring all of them to dance. The company even crafted a mobile app for the campaign that allows users to turn themselves into babies, just like they saw in the viral video ads.
Their bid at going viral was so successful that the most recent ad from Evian is a movie tie-in with the blockbuster The Amazing Spider-Man 2. Needless to say, these little tykes have won the hearts and minds of internet viewers everywhere once more. By combining the cute factor of babies with the power of social media and mobile technology, Evian has created a powerful advertisement that will sell their product well.
4) Superman With a GoPro
Talk about your underdog stories! A little production company known as Corridor Digital crafted an amazing video that not only showcases the power of the GoPro, but also shows off what their company is capable of. In the video, Superman himself returns a GoPro camera to its owner by strapping it on his head. However, before he can return the camera, he has to save a few people and stop a crime or two in progress.
The power of this video lies in its ability to not only show off what their production company can do by targeting a market that is familiar with superheroes. Everyone knows who Superman is, and many of us have wondered what it would be like to be in his shoes. By giving the world that opportunity, these guys have created a viral video campaign that not only promotes their work, but also promotes products such as the GoPro and Dronefly drones.
They utilized both technologies alongside others in the industry in order to produce a realistic vision of heroism that anyone can enjoy. Working with other companies, as Evian did with Sony Pictures, can sometimes result in an excellent viral video campaign that will benefit all parties involved.

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Horror Surfer: What Scares Hellboy's Helper
Actor Doug Jones (a.k.a. the Silver Surfer) finds his voice as Abe Sapien in Guillermo del Toro's Hellboy II: The Golden Army. Hear him talk about what gives him "the willies" in this video interview on Fear.net.
Print out your very own Dawn of the Dead board game with a little guidance from The Horror Blog.
Read Part II of Fangoria's epic interview with unrivaled bonechiller Stephen King and director Frank Darabont ( The Green Mile ) who discuss their latest collaboration, The Mist.
Meet the three Hellraiser cenobites and Fright Night vampire Chris Sarandon at "HorrorHound Weekend." Bloody-disgusting announces, tickets are now on sale for the Indianapolis fright fest running March 28-30.
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Trusteel Fabrications has completed a new curved roof shelter at a school located to the north of Melbourne.
The new curved roof shelter has been built as an extension to an adjacent similar shaped closed room structure to enhance the usability of the space. The new structure has received positive feedback from teachers, students and visitors to the school.
Trusteel offers design, drafting, engineering and fabrication services with site construction for a wide range of buildings. The company also provides assistance with planning and building permits.


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I have been chatting here on and off about the fund-raising I am involved with this year, and another friend in Auckland Trina McClune has kindly set up an account at Givealittle for anyone to donate into....I love the title of this foundation, as we know lots giving a little adds up to lots of help!
Here's the reason why we need your help:
Bevan is living in Australia with his family & their government doesn't offer any financial help to Kiwis, which falls back on family here, and is a struggle. He is 43 years old and a wonderful Dad to Huntah 12yrs, Pipah 10yrs & Phoenix 8yrs. Bevan was diagnosed in 2005 with an extremely rare terminal autoimmune disease. Sadly he is unable to return to NZ as there is no medical care available here.....the irony is the 2 best specialists are in Australia.
His body is rejecting his own organs. His medical costs are high and he needs regular hospital care. Operations are out of the question, he would not survive. We're fundraising to give him the medications he needs, so he can have as much quality time as possible with his children.
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According to new reports, it looks like following their divorces, Jennifer Garner and Josh Duhamel might have started dating each other! As you may already know, Jennifer split from Ben Affleck while Josh used to be married to Fergie.
One insider on the set of Love, Simon claims that the co-stars have been involved in a secret romance for months!
Supposedly, they were able to slowly but surely build their relationship by getting to know each other during filming breaks.
'That is the best time for intimate conversations, the ones you have at the beginning of a relationship to happen. Away from home and looking for companionship, It is easy to see what happened,' our source explained.
Jennifer and Ben officially announced they were divorcing back in 2015 after being married for a decade!
However, it took a long time to finally file for divorce as it only happened in April of 2017.
'Anyone in Jen's shoes, after all she went through with Ben, would doubt they could ever trust a man again. But Josh is truly a good guy, and spending time with him opened her emotionally again. She is still playing her cards close to the vest, but she is excited about where this could go,' the insider went on.
Before announcing their separation in September 2017, Josh and Fergie were married for eight years.
'To be honest, hardly anyone close to him thought Josh and Fergie were a good couple. She was way too wild for him. Josh is a homebody and craves a simple life. With Jen, he would get that in spades. She is very sweet and family-oriented,' our insider argued.
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These Stoneware Travel Containers from Melbourne's own Robert Gordon are perfect for baking in (without lid on, of course!), for bringing a fresh homemade salad to work or taking delicious goodies to a picnic.
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ING Direct Banks on Social Media Programs
Last year, like many other kinds of businesses, most banks and financial institutions saw their numbers spiral downward. But at least one bank, ING Direct, a unit within the Dutch financial institution ING Group, has taken a proactive approach to the economic malaise.
The Wilmington, Del.-based branchless direct bank, which also has operations in Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain and the United Kingdom, launched a multifaceted marketing campaign last year called "We, The Savers." The campaign was designed to be a helpful counterpoint to the spending overkill that mires so many Americans in credit card debt.
"We, The Savers," which maximizes several social networking features, is designed to remind consumers of some common actions they can take to remain in control of their money regardless of whether they save with ING Direct or not, points out Jurie Pieterse, head of brand communications at ING Direct.
"We linked the program into some of the social networks so people could establish groups around it or put a badge up on their Facebook page to show that they support the initiative," Pieterse says.
Social media fits into ING Direct's philosophy, Pieterse says, "since the bank researches and pilots efforts in technology where it can assist Main Street consumers to connect and be empowered to save their money."
But, he says, "being a bank in a heavily regulated industry curtails our ability to make use of all the social media tools available." For instance, many conversational tools, such as blogs, forums and Twitter, pose challenges to banks because using them to offer advice or answer questions about rates doesn't allow for the legal reviews and often lengthy disclosures required, Pieterse says. Many consumers often are not comfortable using these tools in the financial context, he says, because they could accidentally reveal private information in a public forum that could be targeted for fraud or identity theft.
Savings 2.0
The first phase of "We, The Savers" started as a print campaign on Oct. 1, 2008, running in major newspapers in large metropolitan areas. Shortly thereafter, ING Direct created WeTheSavers.com, which allows participants to sign an online "Declaration of Financial Independence." This contains a 10-point plan designed to put consumers in control of their financial lives by being careful about how they spend their money. The declaration includes these mottos:
- We will spend less than we earn.
- We will use our home as a savings account.
- We will take care of our money.
- We will defend our credit worthiness.
- We will ignore unsolicited credit card marketing.
The Web site allows participants to interact with one another through the Savers' Forum, where they can contribute tips, advice and questions. They can participate in weekly savers' polls, view a video of ING Direct CEO Arkadi Kuhlmann and see how their states are doing in terms of saving versus the rest of the country. Savers also can receive a free "I Save" bumper sticker after they sign the declaration.
While customers open and fund ING Direct savings products, such as Orange Savings accounts and stocks — offered through ShareBuilder — online, the products are not actively promoted on WeTheSavers.com.
"We feel this may distract from the earnest effort of promoting financial advocacy by the brand," Pieterse says. "Visitors can reach the products via a link on the ING Direct logo on the site, but the focus is on engaging them on taking steps to financial independence, and then hopefully forming an affinity with the ING Direct brand so they will seek out products from the brand that can help them out on their journey," he adds.
The Web site is garnering attention organically through friends referring others and bloggers commenting on the Declaration of Financial Independence, Pieterse says.
The second phase of the campaign, launched in November 2008, includes outdoor advertising, online banner ads and a forward to a friend feature on the site. This feature adds a viral marketing element to the campaign, which is designed to increase brand awareness.
"There's functionality on the Web site where customers can refer it to other people," Pieterse says. "Consumers can also send a lighthearted and fun e-card to a friend who may have a problem with spending on his credit card. It basically says 'Hey, maybe you should take a look at this and think about it.'"
Declaration signers can also invite fellow savers to read the Declaration of Financial Independence to enhance their saving lifestyle.
So far, ING Direct is pleased with the campaign's progress and especially with the role the Internet has had with it. Pieterse says ING Direct has seen considerable activity on the forward to a friend feature, most notably with parents and grandparents sending messages to their children and grandchildren.
"As people are forwarding to a friend, we can see the commentary that they write, and we're seeing a lot of activity where kids and grandkids are saying thank you to their parents and grandparents and even to ING Direct for telling them about the program," Pieterse says. "The positive message is resonating with customers and noncustomers alike, which helps both with retaining existing customers who appreciate the ING Direct brand's point of view and attracts new customers seeking a bank that shares their values."
Leveraging social media marketing
"We, The Savers" isn't the only campaign for which ING Direct has used social media. Last year, for example, it launched MoveOutMoveUp.com, a Web site targeted at potential first-time homeowners. The site engages them through entertainment to think about the possibility of buying a home.
A video of Kuhlmann that ING Direct posted on YouTube explaining the brand and directing viewers to the Web site has received almost 60,000 views as of late 2008.
ING Direct decided to post the video on YouTube because "it makes it easier for consumers to share the video in a viral fashion and also provides a third-party forum where the video and content can be commented on," Pieterse says.
ING Direct keeps both positive and negative posts up — on YouTube and WeTheSavers.com — since authenticity and direct, honest engagement are keys to successful social media marketing programs, Pieterse says.
"We refrain from removing or editing any negative comments, unless severely off-topic, from any public forum," he says. "We always receive an overwhelming positive response but feel that leaving in the small number of negative comments provides greater authenticity that the conversation is open and honest."
What's more, people see comments on YouTube in a much more believable and transparent way than on ING Direct's Web site, Pieterse says. YouTube makes the video universally accessible without complicating matters by forcing users to select a type of video player and Internet connection they may find on corporate Web sites, he says.
Based on the positive feedback, ING Direct launched the youtube.com/saveyourmoney channel with more videos.
While it's difficult to quantify ROI from social media activity for the bank, Pieterse says the real value of social media marketing ultimately lies in building social currency for the brand. "We know it reflects positively upon the ING Direct brand," Pieterse says, "because it shows us as being innovative and more willing to connect with consumers through technology."
Social Media Financial Marketing: Best Practices
eM+C asked Jurie Pieterse, head of brand communications at ING Direct, to offer some social media marketing best practices for financial service marketers.
- Work with people who live in the social media space. If you were to visit Japan on an important business visit, hopefully you'd get some cultural advice and absorb the social ways of the Japanese beforehand, Pieterse says. Treat the social media space like any other culture — with its own nuances. "Stepping in blindly could result in an embarrassing blunder," he says. "Traditional marketing and business ideas don't always bend to the social context in an acceptable and receptive manner. Seek input from people who live daily with the tools you plan to use."
- Start with an idea and objective, not a tool. If you start out with a plan "to try something on Facebook," you're likely to fail, Pieterse says. Search your marketing objectives and take a deep look at your target market or customer base, he says. Then, "determine if social media is well-suited to bringing a new angle to increase your success rate."
Melissa Campanelli is Editor-in-Chief of Total Retail. She is an industry veteran, having covered all aspects of retail, tech, digital, e-commerce, and marketing over the past 20 years. Melissa is also the co-founder of the Women in Retail Leadership Circle.


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Ed Avery, hero of Nicholas Ray's film Bigger Than Life (1956), has a rare medical condition that only cortisone can treat. There's just one little catch: Too much cortisone makes you psychotic. The movie follows Ed's psychological disintegration, as he morphs from genial suburban dad into Old Testament–obsessed madman.
Daniel Fish's elegant stage version condenses this tale of conformity and dementia into a succinct two-hander—with an outlandishly un-succinct title: Tom Ryan Thinks He's James Mason Starring in a Movie by Nicholas Ray in Which a Man's Illness Provides an Escape From the Pain, Pressure and Loneliness of Trying to Be the Ultimate American Father, Only to Drive Him Further Into the More Thrilling Though Possibly Lonelier Roles of Addict and Misunderstood Visionary.
Christina Rouner and Thomas Jay Ryan expertly play all the roles, leaping abruptly between scenes and erupting from unnerving calm into manic fury. They slump against a slanting gray wall (designed by Peter Ksander), which implies both a film set and a hospital room; rolling lights create "close-ups" or throw distorted shadows behind them. Fish musters memorable images: a hilariously mechanical sex scene, a spilled milk episode worth crying over.
As Ryan and Rouner gabble their way through Bigger Than Life's dialogue, it's like watching two lunatics tell a story of descent into insanity. When Ed's madness finally overtakes the stage, Fish's spare vision only makes the plunge more profound—transporting us from the delusions of 1950s Americana into the depths of a deranged mind.


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Modern day retail spaces have vast expanses of display glass panels in their stores. It's one of the best ways to showcase goods and create interesting window displays to attract customers to their business and increase the footfall. While glass looks stunning in any type of setting, care has to be taken to use the right type and thickness of glass for these purposes.
When you get this glass installation done from experts in the field, you can rest assured that they will provide you the right solutions; whenever any large sheets of glass are installed in spaces where there will be a larger amount of human traffic, 10-12mm(or more) thick, toughened and laminated glass would be used in the installation. This glass is impact-resistant and can withstand a great deal of wear.
But it is glass after all and in case it suffers a heavy impact, it can crack or break. The one major advantage of toughened and laminated glass is that it doesn't break into pointed shards like standard glass does. Rather, it breaks into more rounded pieces that aren't as dangerous as shards of glass.
Timely Display Glass Replacement is important
If the display window glass on your storefront breaks due to heavy impact, it's crucial that you get it replaced immediately. We at Diversified Glass and Mirror provide excellent glass repair and replacement services to commercial as well as residential customers. When you call us with your request, we send out our technicians without delay to survey the damage and assess what solutions would work best. In most instances, when glass windows or panes crack or break, replacement becomes the only solution.
But even before the glass is replaced, there are a couple of important steps that have to be taken- all the glass pieces would have to be removed from the framing and the areas will have to be thoroughly cleared of the glass pieces. Once this has been done, the next step is to board up the open window space. We provide excellent broken glass repair board up services and will make sure that the entire open space is carefully boarded up using strong wooden or vinyl battens.
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The battens provide security to your property till the time the replacement glass has been fitted. The open space will be boarded and reinforced properly and that eliminates the chances of accidents happening as well. We use the best replacement glass in the work and will provide you all the information you need about the different types of glass available.
This helps you make a more well-informed choice about which material to use. As you can see, we are very meticulous with the broken glass repair board up services and glass replacement solutions we provide and ensure you get value for money every time you hire our services. We are an insured and licensed company that provides guarantees for our workmanship.
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This week saw the release of two great books, the first Everyday Sexism by Laura Bates
Search #shoutingback on Twitter and you'll see Laura Bates has already made quite a stir. There's an endless list of women reporting on their experiences of a daily struggle against the attitudes and behaviour they encounter just for being a certain sex. You might have heard of Laura Bates before, as a young journalist she spearheaded the Everyday Sexism project after being harassed on the tube. If you haven't heard of her you have almost defiantly felt her effects in the confidence of women to speaking out against unfair treatment. The project is now an internationally recognised movement. The new book Everyday Sexism collects together experiences recorded by the online community which has formed in the projects wake, some harrowing, some hilarious with underlying implications. Today feminism is as much about reclaiming the small victories as combatting institutionalised problems such as equal pay. The Everyday Sexism Project has captured that idea perfectly, now let its book capture you.
And the second exciting release: Lost Art by Jennifer Mundy
Yesterday saw the release of Lost Art, the printed aftermath of the Tate's online exhibition documenting modern art that has disappeared, been destroyed, or thieved. As well as the titillating subject matter (the naughtiness of art thievery, the passionate act of destroying something so emotionally potent), it's a really fascinating idea. Through photographic representations, fact and myth, essays and discussions of missing work by those who experienced it portraits are built of work that no longer exists to us. There are a slew of big names, Bacon, Duchamp, Miro and Emin all feature. It's an unusually thorough and intellectual light shone on a significant aspect of art in context. The exhibition reached over 3.4 million visitors and was featured by over 900 media outlets. We've put ours on the birthday list.


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Wood Middle School students help out at an Adopt-a-School event. Photo courtesy of Alex Boskovich.
When Alameda High School became home to one of Alameda County's first school-based health centers, in 1993, its arrival aroused a storm of protest.
"There were certain elements who thought it was a place to distribute condoms," said Alameda County Supervisor Wilma Chan, who said she led the early effort to establish a similar center at Encinal High in 1999. "But it's much more than that."
Alameda County Supervisor Wilma Chan is casting a spotlight on cuts that state lawmakers want to make to health care and social services for the county's poor, sick, young and old. Chan held a hearing at Alameda's Boys & Girls Club on Wednesday night intended to detail the human impact of the cuts – and to ask participants to pressure lawmakers to reconsider them.
"We live next to these folks that are impacted. We go to church with these people. We see our kids go to school with them," said Chan, a former state lawmaker herself. "I think if people are aware of this, we can get a lot more help from people who are really devastated and really suffering right now."


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1.Tell us a little bit about you.
I'm Emlyn, a 26-almost-27-year old YA author. I am also the president of Novel Publicity and a crazy bird lady too. And, oh yeah, I emerged from the womb with a fountain pen grasped firmly in my left hand (at least that's what my Twitter bio says).
2.How long does it take you to write a book?
Well, that depends what you consider the start of the writing process. I first got the idea for Farsighted on July 5, 2010. I didn't start writing it until October, but I thought about it a lot and started building the plot in my head. I wrote about 1/3 of it in late 2010 and then decided to start my own book promotion company, Novel Publicity. That kept me super busy, so I didn't get back to Farsighted until summer 2011. Then I wrote and wrote in a wild frenzy. I spent about 10 hours per day holding myself "writing hostage" at the local Panera. This lasted about 3 weeks. If I had to pick a definite amount of time, I'd say Farsighted took about one year to write.
3.Do you always write young adult books? Have you ever tried something different?
My first novel, which I've decided not to publish, was literary fiction—that's not something I plan on revisiting ever. I'm a YA writer through-and-through. I actually just wrote a blog post explaining why I choose to write this genre (it's here). It all comes down to the enjoyment factor. YA is my favorite genre to read, so it's only natural that I would choose to write it as well. I like the vulnerability and changeability of the characters. I love the ease of language and the connection that is created by writing in first person point-of-view. But mostly, I like the readers of YA. YA readers WANT to enjoy books .Their primary goal is not to dissect the literary merit of a story but rather to find a bit of entertainment. YA readers are also extremely loyal to authors they like and can border on fanatical. It makes you feel good as an author ;-)
4.Do you think movies, radio, and TV influence your writing? If so, how?
Oh, TV definitely influences my writing. Most people assume film is a closer medium to writing, but I don't think so. In television, you get the same characters over and over again, which means you get to see vivid character development at work. My favorite shows are Glee and the Big Bang Theory for precisely this reason. You watch either of these shows, and you'll learn how the quirks make the characters. Great inspiration for writers!
5.Can you tell us about your path to publication. Any sprints or stumbles?
I was able to get a literary agent for my first novel (the lit fic one), but then I started writing Farsighted fell in love with YA and decided I'd rather not do the necessary revisions to my first novel to make it publishable. When I signed with my agent, one of the criteria I had was that I be allowed to self-publish the Farsighted series. I wrote a blog post explaining this decision in detail (that's here). Basically, the publishing industry is not only changing – it's changed. I'm not really sure there is any benefit to being traditionally published anymore, especially if you're an author who has the know-how and financial/time resources to A) professionally edit your books, B) get a stellar cover designed, and C) market your work. Another reason I'm all gaga for the self-pub world is because it's what I preach through the business I own, Novel Publicity. I spend all day trying to convince writers that the indie path can work for them. By choosing that route for myself, I am showing my belief in that statement; I am practicing what I preach. I want the hands-on experience. I want the control. If this works out for me; I'm pretty sure I'll stay indie forever!
6.Could you share your links with us?
Sure, here's my link-laden bio: Emlyn Chand is the president of Novel Publicity and a YA author. She loves to hear and tell stories and emerged from the womb with a fountain pen grasped firmly in her left hand (true story). Her first novel Farsighted released in late 2011 and is of the YA genre. Learn more about Emlyn at www.emlynchand.com or by connecting with her on Facebook, Twitter, Google+ or GoodReads.
7.We'd love to read an excerpt from one of your books. Be sure to include a blurb and buy link.
Alex Kosmitoras's life has never been easy. The only other student who will talk to him is the school bully, his parents are dead-broke and insanely overprotective, and to complicate matters even more, he's blind. Just when he thinks he'll never have a shot at a normal life, a new girl from India moves into town. Simmi is smart, nice, and actually wants to be friends with Alex. Plus she smells like an Almond Joy bar. Yes, sophomore year might not be so bad after all.
Here's the scene where Alex first meets Miss Teak (the new psychic in town) in Farsighted...
"Did Dad tell you? A new tenant moved into the old pharmacy next door."
"Really?" I ask, not letting on I already know. If I feign ignorance, Mom'll divulge all the details. "What is it?"
"It's a psychic shop," Her voice crackles with excitement like a fire that's just beginning to burn. "The All-Seeing Miss Teak. Isn't that cute? Miss Teak, Mystic. Ha, I wonder if that's her real name."
I laugh. "That is funny. Never had a psychic in town before. What's she like?"
"Oh, she's very friendly. Why don't you go over and say 'hi.' I'm sure she'd like to meet you."
"Okay, I think I will." I'm incredibly intrigued, because first off, it's a psychic shop—how weird is that?—and second, its presence made Dad super uncomfortable—also very cool. I waste no time heading next door to check out the scene.
As I step cautiously into the new shop, a recording of soft, instrumental music greets me. I can make out chimes and a string instrument I don't recognize but for some reason reminds me of snake charmers. The smell of incense fills my nostrils, which explains the burning I detected earlier.
"Hello?" I call out into the otherwise quiet room.
Nobody answers. I walk in deeper, sweeping my cane out in front of me in a metronome fashion. This place is new to me, so I need to be especially careful while moving around.
Thump! Despite my precautions, I stub my toe on something hard, big, and made of wood. Just my luck to stub the same toe twice in one day. I reach down to press my fingers into my throbbing foot to alleviate some of the pain. Something teeters before rolling off of the chest and across the floor; the sound it makes indicates a curved path. Suddenly, the object stops. Somebody's stopped it.
"Hello?" I call again.
"Hello," a deep, feminine voice responds, placing more emphasis on the first syllable than the second.
"I- I'm sorry I knocked that thing over. I didn't mean to…" I hope she's not angry. Probably not a good idea to get on a psychic's bad side.
"That wasn't just a thing, it's a crystal ball," she says as she walks over, sending my blood pulsing through my veins. I sense her looking at me for a moment before she places the ball back on top of the chest.
"Can it see the future?" I ask, allowing my curiosity to outweigh my uneasiness.
"No." After a pause lasting several beats, she continues. "But I can see the future sometimes when I look into it."
"Oh, okay." I tighten my hand around my cane and turn to leave. It may not be the most polite thing to do, but all of this hocus-pocus stuff is freaking me out more than I would've guessed.
The psychic lady speaks again, stopping me cold. "Don't run away, Alex Kosmitoras." She must've spoken to Mom earlier today. That must be how she knows my name.
"I'm not running away," I say meekly. "I'm just going back over to Sweet Blossoms."
"Don't run away," she repeats—this time she speaks louder and with more energy. "Don't run away from your abilities. They are gifts."
"What?" I ask in confusion. What abilities is she talking about?
"You already know. Watch. Listen. Be open to your gifts."
I turn to face Miss Teak, but find she's already gone, returning to wherever she was before I got there.
Is it safe to leave? I trail my fingers across the wooden box I ran into earlier; a thick coat of dust clings to the tips as I pull away. If this shop just opened, why is it already so dirty? I wipe my hands over my shirt to get the gritty substance off. Shivers rock my whole body. Something about this place is wrong, and I'm not sticking around to figure out what. Tapping my cane along the floor, I'm able to find the exit without knocking into anything else.
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Doctors and public health experts said that the new "public charge" rule will end up costing the healthcare system more money. (AP)
Plague-ridden prairie dogs are encroaching on Denver suburbs. (Washington Post)
The unintended consequences of pregnancy alcohol warnings and threats? Some women avoid prenatal care altogether. (New York Times)
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In a potential landmark court case on partisan gerrymandering, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments regarding North Carolina's lopsided congressional districting on March 26.
North Carolina Republicans won 53 percent of U.S. Congressional votes in 2016 and 50.3 percent in 2018. In each election cycle, Republicans claimed 10 of 13 congressional seats.
Allison Riggs, an attorney representing the League of Women Voters, said the court could set a dangerous precedent by deeming extreme partisan gerrymandering constitutional and could exacerbate future gerrymandering.
"This case is not the first North Carolina voting case to reach this court this decade," she said. "But it represents the most extreme example of a non-responsive legislature that believes that this court will implicitly endorse unfettered partisan manipulation in redistricting by declining to rein in this most egregious example."
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The Adolescent Representation Clinic represents youth and young adults on collateral issues relating to their aging out of foster care or other institutional settings. Most of these clients range in age from 16 to 23. The issues involved extend across a broad spectrum of need and may include housing and homelessness prevention; teen pregnancy and parenting; health and health benefits; income and support benefits; education, tuition and financial aid benefits; financial planning; civil rights including LGBTQ issues; job training and career planning; identify theft and credit; and inheritance. Students paired in teams will represent clients referred from the Juvenile Rights Practice of the Legal Aid Society, Lawyers for Children, foster care agencies and community-based organizations.
The clinic has four components:
Seminar in Representing Adolescents: a weekly seminar will focus on the unique attributes of adolescents and young adults as viewed from multiple disciplines including medicine, law, sociology, and psychology. In addition to law students enrolled in the clinic, graduate students from other disciplines may enroll in the seminar portion of the clinic in order to explore adolescence from multiple perspectives. Guest lecturers include advocates, family court judges, youth in foster care, and mental health professionals.
Class and Simulation Exercises to prepare for casework: students will participate in intensive simulation practice, being introduced to basic lawyering skills including interviewing and counseling, case development and strategy, complex problem solving, and preparation for negotiation or litigation.
Client Representation: students will begin to represent clients following an intensive introduction to representation. Students will be teamed in pairs for casework. Each team will meet weekly with Professor Spinak for case supervision. Once case representation begins, some portion of the classes devoted to case preparation will be structured for case rounds so that students will be aware of and learn from their colleagues. Once casework has begun, students should expect to devote at least 20 hours per week to clinic-related activities.
Law Reform, Education and Policy Work: For several years, students have been addressing housing stability for aging out youth. Clinic students researched and wrote a report published in 2016 on housing instability for youth aging out of foster care with the goal of developing solutions for policy and lawmakers to reduce housing instability and homelessness. This report was based on the recent experiences of clinic clients and our advocacy on their behalf. Students have used the report to serve as the basis for systemic advocacy in collaboration with other groups. All enrolled students will participate in continuing this advocacy campaign, which is expected to include policy, lobbying and legislative components.
Read our housing report, Aged Out/Cast Out here.
Read about our recent housing activities, Speaking Out for Foster Care Youth, here.
Students with a wide range of backgrounds and/or ultimate career interests are encouraged to apply. Graduates of the clinic enter public service and private practice careers, frequently using their clinic experience to develop pro bono opportunities in the private sector. Students will focus on their own professional goals for the year, identifying specific skills or professional attributes they would like to develop or enhance in preparation for making the transition into the legal profession. The clinic will encompass professional responsibility and ethical practice issues as well as explorations into the role of law and legal practice in a just society.
"I participated in the Adolescent Representation Clinic because I've always been interested in working with youth populations. Becoming an effective advocate takes commitment and dedication to learning things outside of your comfort zone. The clinic prepared me to think critically and creatively about resolving issues, skills I know will be crucial in my future practice."
- Ademisola Ijidakinro '18
Jane M. Spinak is the Edward Ross Aranow Clinical Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. A member of the Law School faculty since 1982, Spinak co-founded the Child Advocacy and Family Advocacy Clinics. She currently directs the Adolescent Representation Clinic, which represents adolescents and young adults aging out of foster care. For more information please visit the Faculty Contacts page.


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My plans for graduate studies have been pushed-back for another year, but I've decided to not waste any time either. In the coming year, I want to learn about as many new things as I can.
I just ordered a few books from Flipkart.com—which is, by the way, fast becoming my favourite Indian book store—and for a change, these are non-fiction. I think this will be the first non-fiction books I read in over a year:
The Pragmatic Programmer has been on my wishlist for years, and shouldn't need introduction. From what I hear, it's must-read material for any professional programmer, and it's about time I read it myself.
Programming Pearls is an old gem. I hear it's as much fun to read as 'The Little Schemer'—even if this is half true, it's worth a buy.
Design of the Unix Operating System is another old book that I think is still relevant. Unix has a beautiful design, and a Linux user like me should be able to appreciate it (I think).
Reminiscences Of A Stock Operator is the only book on the list not related to computers. I come from a family of investment and finance nuts, and at times, feel left out because I don't really 'get' the stock market. This is another classic (published in 1923!), and does not really explain how the modern markets work. But from the reviews, I expect that it's still relevant. If nothing else, it'll provide a great historical perspective.
I guess I plan to read around 2-3 such 'educational' books a month, my tentative target is 30 books by end of 2010. I don't want to just read about programming though, as I'm interested in lots of subjects. The object of this exercise if to get into a state of beginner's mind, and see where it leads me.
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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday had her meals which were cooked without onion and she found all those very tasty.
"We've stopped taking onion, and all the food items of my lunch were cooked without onion at my residence," PM's Deputy Press Secretary Hasan Jahid Tusher quoted the Prime Minister as saying.
The Prime Minister made the remarks at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the evening before departing for Dubai on a four-day official visit to the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
"The foods without onion were very tasty," she said and thanked the cooks of her official residence Ganobhaban for preparing such delicious food items.
Sheikh Hasina also said onion is being imported by cargo planes to cool down the overheated market of the essential kitchen item.


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By Gordon Thomas
Sunday, October 8, 2006
It was dusk when the BMWs and Mercedes once more began to enter Cheb onChristmas Eve, 2004. By midnight, the expensive cars cruised its streets. The town is on the Czech-German border, a crossing point on the highway that leadsto Prague from Bavaria and Saxony.
Cheb is a mecca for German paedophiles who come to this drab town, with itsugly Stalinist-era apartment blocks and poorly-lit back streets for onepurpose.
Every night, since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Cheb has maintained itsreputation as the child sex capital of Europe. These include what are known as"the specials": children so small, so vulnerable, so fragile, that they cannotsolicit for themselves. They are offered to the drivers of those cars by their"keepers". This is the shame of Czechoslovakia, a country that now prides itselfon having a future in the European Community.
For the equivalent of US $50 a paedophile can take his pick of children oftenbarely out of their diapers.
They are the ultimate degradation for a town of 38,000 people. With over 100brothels, no one knows exactly how many young prostitutes work in them or on thestreets of Cheb.
On New Year's Day, 2004, Europe's newspapers reported the latest child-sexscandal. A former Portuguese cabinet minister tipped to lead his socialistparty, Paulo Pedroso, and a former ambassador to South Africa, Jorge Ritto,along with eight others, including a doctor and two television presenters, wereall charged with sexually abusing minors.
Outside Portugal most newspapers gave little space to the revelations. Theyhave become all too commonplace.
The allegedly abused children of Portugal represent a fraction of a globalindustry. Its annual revenues were estimated in 2003 to exceed half a trilliondollars globally. This is twice the value of all United States currencycurrently in circulation at any given time, more than the annual gross nationalproducts of many countries.
To understand the sheer size of profits accruing from such terrible misery,consider this: a million dollars in gold would weigh as much as a Japanese Sumowrestler. A half trillion dollars would come close to exceeding the entirepopulation weight of a medium sized Australian city.
The profits come from child sexual trafficking in all its forms: whiteslavery, sex rings, pornography, the sex tourism industry, lap dancing, bogusadoption schemes and procuring the victims -- the untold millions of childrenglobally entrapped in the sex trade industry who are forced to allow theirbodies to be used in exchange for food, money, shelter, alcohol and drugs.
Children are bought, sold, traded and misused in underground child sexmarkets daily. Every state in the United States, and every other nation,contributes in some fashion to the steady flow of children, the customers andexploiters.
It is estimated that the profits from this vast evil empire, when properlyinvested, would draw an interest exceeding US $2 million an hour. The sexualtrafficking in children is not so much an industry but a global empire.
Sovereign and expansionist, it is frequently torn by internal struggle --fights to the death between the Chinese Triads and the Russian Mafia, betweenthe multi-gangs of the Balkans, are commonplace. But the empire presents asecret front to the world. It is from there it plunders our children, snatchesthem, never to be seen again.
The predators who control the sexual trafficking in children are wellorganized. They have thugs who snatch and break the resistance of children;banks who account the empire's profits without asking questions; ships thatconvey the hapless children from one continent to another and private planes that transport them to clients around theworld.
Yet there is little or no cohesive and sustained war against this terribleevil. The United States and Britain try to stamp on the trafficking within itsown borders. But as yet there is no universal challenge to the ever-growingsexual trafficking in children.
The shabby streets of Cheb are but one staging post in a necklace of shamethat encircles the globe.
To the east of Cheb, a battered Volvo crossed into northern Bosnia. Hiddenunder filthy blankets were four teenage girls. One, a blonde called Maria, hadjust celebrated her thirteenth birthday.
To prepare for the long and uncomfortable journey, the girls had each beengiven an injection by a doctor. They were told it was to alleviate travelsickness. In reality it was a cocktail of drugs to keep them drowsy and unableto try and escape. This is standard procedure for the men operating this segmentof the network in sexual trafficking that criss-crosses the Balkans.
The doctor is a man known by his first name only, Goran, in the girl'shometown of Chisinau, the capital of Europe's poorest country, Moldova. It hassome of the prettiest children in central Europe. This has made it a magnet forthe traffickers.
They moved in soon after the collapse of the Communist system in the country.Since then there is a widely accepted estimate that some 6,000 girls have beentrafficked out of Moldova. No one knows how many of them received their druginjections from Dr Goran.
The girls in the Volvo had answered advertisements in a Chisinau newspaper.The ads promised them work in Paris, London and Dublin -- and even in the UnitedStates. The posts on offer included maids, nannies, house-keeping and bar work.The ads stressed no previous experience was required. The salaries were farbeyond those available in Moldova.
A Moldavian recruiter told the girls their journey would involve them firstbeing secretly driven over the border into Bosnia. There, they would receivepassports, for which they had already paid him US $100 -- money borrowed fromtheir families and friends. Then they would go West to earn undreamed of money.So they had been promised.
The break-up of the former Yugoslavia, followed by a vicious war in theregion and the establishment of new states under the 1995 Dayton peace accord,had left many Balkan countries with virtually no legislation or border controlsto deal with the sexual traffic in young women and children.
By the time Maria and her three young friends had been tricked into makingthe journey in the Volvo, the profits from sexual trafficking in the Balkanswere matching those of the drug trade -- and the penalties for smuggling humanswere minimal.
The border guards into Bosnia waved the Volvo through. The car was a familiarsight to them. Each time it crossed, the guards received US $200 for allowingits unhampered passage.
Five hours later the Volvo reached its final destination. "Arizona Market" ison the outskirts of Kosovo. The town resembles the old Wild West rather thanCentral Europe in the Third Millennium. It is also the UN headquarters inBosnia.
An area interlaced with muddy tracks lead to establishments with names like Café Marlboro, Café Don, and The Golden Heart. Fronted byheaps of refuse, used condoms and empty liquor bottles, they are brothels.Between them stand wooden huts selling cheap denim clothes, alcohol, perfume,and guns.
Inside the sleazy bars, the scene seldom changes: dimmed red lights, loud music, cheap drinks -- and semi-naked girls.Usually they are draped over the men known as "the internationalists". These arethe soldiers of the United Nations multi-national peace keeping force. In 2003,it consisted of 45,000 soldiers drawn from 39 countries. In addition, there weresome 7,000 UN staff as well as members of over 200 Western aid agencies.
Many of the girls appear to be drugged -- and not only from the ready supplyof cocaine and heroin on open sale.
An American aid agency worker said: "Lookit, the bar owners who bought thesegirls like to keep them nice and quiet. So they buy drugs from some of the UNmedics to do so. When a girl has finished her shift, she is taken to her room bya bar man and given a shot. When she wakes up she is ready for her nextshift".
This is Arizona Market. Officially established by the peacekeeping forces tofoster trade between Serbs, Croats and Muslims, today its five square miles isthe epicenter of Bosnia's booming sex-slaves trade.
This was the destination of the four young girls. They would work here asprostitutes -- and maybe die -- in this forsaken place.
Almost 2,000 miles to the south of Bosnia, in the tropical heat of WestAfrica, a group of girls, each no more than thirteen years old, made their wayto a small square in the suburbs of Abidjan, the capital of the Ivory Coast.They were escorted by hard-faced young men, the gold in their teeth glinting inthe searing sunlight.
Dressed in their Sunday best -- colourful print cotton dresses -- with hairwashed and combed, the girls were directed to sit on wooden benches in thecentre of the square.
Each girl was for sale as a slave. Their prices ranged from US $5 -- the costof a coffee in what passes for the city's finest hotel -- to the most expensivechild, an eleven year old, costing US $15.
The place is known, locally, as Le Marche de Jeunes Filles -- theMarket of Young Girls.
Buyers, men carrying fly-whisks, and sharp-eyed women, strolled up and downalong the benches, feeling one girl's arm, looking at another's teeth. One wasasked to stand and twirl. Another to bend.
Around the edges of the square stood the traders. The moment a prospectivebuyer stopped, a trader was there to emphasise a girl's good points.
"She is young and disease free. She is strong and will obey your everycommand. She will do whatever you want..." he would intone.
No one knows today how many sexual slaves there are in the world. TheInternational Organisation for Migration estimated in December, 2003, that fromEastern Europe alone there could be half a million.
Anti-Slavery International believes the global figure may run to "tens ofmillions". The one certainty, adds the world's oldest human rights organisation,is that there are more sexual slaves than ever before.
The United States State Department announced in June, 2003, that fifteencountries were now deeply involved in trafficking humans. They included Greeceand Italy, both members of the European Community. The State Departmentestimated that through the fifteen countries almost one million adults andchildren brought and sold annually into the sex slave market. Secretary of StateColin Powell rightly called it a blight on humanity.
There is growing evidence that many of those slaves are traded over theinternet; pimps, often catering for extreme sexual demands ranging fromunprotected sex to torture, can log on to women and children best suited totheir "markets".
In Britain, Scotland Yard believes that over 5,000 girls fromformer-Communist countries were smuggled into the country in 2003. Each earnedtheir pimps an estimated over US $2,000 a day.
Bill Hughes, Director General of Britain's National Crime Squad, said: "Agrowing number of girls are barely into their teens. Although the number issmall compared to such countries as Greece and Italy, it has had a startlingimpact on London's indigenous vice trade.
"British teenagers have been moved out by their pimps into the city suburbsas their rates are undercut by sex slaves imported from the Balkans intoLondon's traditional Soho red light district.
"They have come from Romania, the Ukraine and Moldova. The great majorityhave escaped from dirt-poor villages, with no modern form of communications --some villages do not even have a single telephone let alone a policeman.
"That makes it easier for a young girl to be lured away or kidnapped fromtheir homes -- and never to be traced again", added Hughes.
The former Soviet Republics are the nexus of the traffic. Serbia andYugoslavia are key staging posts along this road of unspeakable misery. It is inthose countries that the majority of girls are housed, waiting for pimps toconduct an initial inspection. The girls -- and some boys -- are then taken byroad to one of the regular "flesh markets".
In 2003, those sales took place in the many apartment block complexes on theoutskirts of Belgrade. The girls are handled like livestock and, once one hasbeen bought by a pimp -- prices can be up to US $1,500 for a teenager, doublethat for a pre-teen -- the victim will usually be beaten, drugged and forced tohave sex with scores of men a week. If she tries to escape, she can be subjectedto further horrendous sexual abuse -- and warned that if she tries again toescape, her family back home will be killed.
The Belgrade apartments are owned by Semion Yokovich Mogilevich. He is aspecialist in every type of major crime. A document by MI5, Britain's internalsecurity service, describes this Ukranian as "one of the most dangerouscriminals on earth".
Mogilevich is wanted in the United States for a multitude of crimes includingbank frauds, money laundering and other currency offences. He is protected byhis own private army -- and, according to CIA sources, he has a liking for younggirls. Documents in the agency possession show he is a regular visitor to theapartments to pick out a girl.
One CIA document identifies Mogilevich as the head of the Rising Sun, one ofMoscow's major criminal families.
"His business is global prostitution, drug running and traffic in humans. Heruns a dark and evil empire. A number of people who have crossed his path havebeen disposed of. He has his own team of killers never further away than a phonecall", said former British intelligence officer Colin Wallace.
Unable to travel to the West for fear of immediate arrest, Mogilevich movesbetween Moscow and Belgrade with his bodyguards and his latest choice ofgirl.
The office for the UN High Commission for Human Rights has identified othercriminal gangs from Macedonia and Serbia as being involved in sex trafficking.But along with Mogilevich, it is the criminal warlords of Albania who nowdominate it.
A report prepared by the Commission states:
"Girls who've shown signs of disobedience have had their feet cemented intowashbasins before being dumped in the Aegean Sea. Others have been horrificallytortured. The Albanian gangs have a seemingly endless supply of women, and theirpower extends way beyond their homeland to the underworlds of Italy and parts of New York. The victims do not officially exist and arepowerless to resist."
Most Albanian gangsters are men in their twenties from the backward north ofthe country. Rather than being based around individual gangland bosses, they areorganized in clans bound by an ancient code of honour called kanun. Someof the profits are returned to their homelands.
In 2002, UN administration in Kosovo and Bosnia enacted new laws to prohibitthe traffic. But there have been few prosecutions, and such as have occurredhave been tainted by charges of corruption. UN teams set up to rescue the girlshave often found that when they organise a raid, the brothel-keepers have beentipped off.
A UN report into trafficking claims that some Western officials areundermining attempts to clean up the trade by becoming cronies of Balkan pimps.The same is true of some of the international and local police. In one case,cited by the report, Bulgarian border police took money from girls to securetheir safe passage back to Bulgaria, only to hand them back to the traffickersin exchange for yet more money.
The fate of those four young girls who were smuggled over the border intoBosnia to work in Arizona Market was to be hustled from the Volvo into a largewooden building. Standing around its walls were the brothel keepers of ArizonaMarket. Maria and her companions were ordered to undress. When Maria refused,her dress was ripped from her. Naked, she and the other girls were forced tostand on wooden crates. The brothel keepers physically inspected the women.
Then the bidding began. In minutes Maria had been sold to a brothel keeperfor US $1,500. The other girls fetched prices ranging from US $350 to US $1,200.
For US $20 a client could spend thirty minutes with Maria. For US $2.50 hecould buy a bottle of beer while he satisfied himself.
Maria would soon discover that there was no escape from a life where she isexpected to have unprotected sex. She is owned body and soul by the man whobought her. All she receives are three meals a day, a bed to sleep on and theskimpy clothes her owner insists she must wear to attract clients.
A UN peacekeeper in Kosovo, who asked not to be named, told me: "Often thegirls are sold on by other brothel keepers. They are traded like cattle and areroutinely beaten and drugged. If a girl tries to escape, she is raped ortortured -- or told that her mother back home will be killed."
Milan Sitilovic, the Bosnian police chief with responsibility for ArizonaMarket says: "How can we stop it? Prostitution is the oldest profession in theworld".
Frederick Larson who headed the office of the International Organisation forMigration (IOM) in Sarajevo identified the problem, "the girls are terrified oftestifying against their owners. Those who dare to do so are simplymurdered".
In 2001, the naked bodies of several girls were found in a river near ArizonaMarket. They bore the hallmarks of Russian mafia-style killings; hands had beentied behind their backs and their feet set in concrete. Their breasts had beenslashed off.
Arizona Market is situated close to the Bosnian headquarters of the USpeacekeeping force. During 2002, six Russian soldiers, members of K-For,gang-raped two girls in the Arizona Market. As they were "owned" by the clubowner, the soldiers paid him a small sum in compensation. No other charges werebrought against the rapists.
Those who survive such inhumane treatment are often sold on to theinternational slave market.
Paul Holmes, of London's Metropolitan Police Vice Squad, has estimated that80% of all women working in the brothels of Britain's capital are from theBalkans. His own investigations concluded that the traffic in women had madetheir owners at least US $75 million since the start of the ThirdMillennium.
His facts and figures can be repeated through the Western world. In Paris,Dublin, Rome, New York, Montreal and Los Angeles, police report the same story:when rescued from sexual bondage, the women are too terrified to testify againstthose who traffic in them.
As of now the penalties against trading in preteen sex slaves is smallcompared to those handed out against drug runners or arms dealers. Indeed, inBosnia, the offence is not even on the statute book.
Pino Arlacchi, executive director of the United Nations Office of DrugControl and Crime Prevention said: "the trafficking in people is now the fastestgrowing transnational criminal activity".
Frederick Larson explained that, apart from his organisation, there is almostnothing to protect sex slaves in Bosnia.
The girls are regarded as illegal immigrants, and are treated as such, ratherthan the victims of gross human rights violations. All NATO and UN officials whofrequent Arizona Market are entitled to immunity from Bosnian prosecution --although not from legal consequences when they return home.
However, the possibility of any conviction in a US or UK court isnon-existent, given that no abused girl is ever likely to be able to giveevidence.
Recently an international police team carried out a raid on three bars inArizona Market. They rescued thirty-four girls, three of whom were aged justfourteen. The raids were carried out without the assistance of the local police.
Afterwards, team members faced disciplinary charges for "exceeding theirauthority". The charges were not pursued; the officers have quietly leftBosnia.
The IOM has set up safe houses in Sarajevo to protect girls, some as young aseleven, who have escaped from brothels.
"The best we can do is to offer them support and repatriation", saidLarson.
But the reality again is that a girl who does go home to a country likeMoldova is often cast-out by her family who suspect what happened to her inBosnia. All too often, she ends up prostituting herself on the streets of thecountry's capital, Chisnau.
In Bosnia, the international peace-keeping force has failed to control, letalone eradicate, the transport of sexual slaves.
Jaque Grinberg, the UN missions head of civil affairs -- a caring andcommitted official -- said there was "an urgent need for an effective borderforce". The office of the High Representative in Bosnia ordered its creation.But there was no money to bring it to reality.
The trafficking business started with the arrival of UN peacekeepers in 1993.Until then Bosnia had no "sex industry". The mission of the peacekeepers was tobring democracy. But too many of their members saw an easy way to make money aswell as satisfy their own sexual desires.
"After the peacekeepers arrived, criminal gangs who had smuggled guns duringthe war began to traffic in women and girls. There was more profit and lessrisk. And so it goes on", said a member of the international police force, DonThomas.
"The evils of what is going on are obvious. But the problem is that thevictims are horribly exploited, many of them also claim they are not in Bosniainvoluntarily. That is the rub. How can you convince some kid who is soterrified that she will not talk? If she opens her mouth she is dead meat",added Thomas.
The worst offenders are the 3,000 Russian peace-keepers. Some girls havedescribed how friends were taken into the Russian camps and never seenagain.
Unlike Bosnia, where the UN peacekeepers arrived in a blaze of publicity, noone knows exactly when "the Germans" started to arrive in their big cars for sexwith the children of Cheb.
The men who drive into the cheerless town know they no longer have to fly toThailand to have sex with a child.
Many of the child prostitutes come from Cheb's large Roman refugeepopulation. Their knowledge of German is confined to the sexual words of theirtrade.
By night, they haunt the park adjoining the town's Evropska Street or standin darkened doorways in the alleys.
New byelaws have forbidden street prostitution in the centre of Cheb; videocameras have been installed to monitor the area.
Catherin Schauer, a nurse who works for Karo, a child-rescue projectsupported by the German Red Cross and the European Commission, said the policeare largely indifferent to what goes on.
"Those who work as prostitutes are usually homeless and turned on to drugs.They start by sniffing glue and then move on to a substance known as 'piko", acheap amphetamine which suppresses feelings of cold and hunger", saidSchauer.
Some of the children have been born in Cheb after their families fled fromeastern Europe in the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union. At an agewhen their childhood is beginning to expand, they are forced intoprostitution.
One girl, her face smeared with make-up who admitted she was thirteen, said"the Germans like us to wear as little as possible. I only wear a short skirtand a t-shirt and my sandals".
She added that in "a good night" she had four or five clients. "They pay meanything from US $20 to US $30 dollars. It's good money for a few hours of work.I always make them use a condom. But some of the younger girls allow unprotectedsex. Because they are not menstruating, they believe they won't becomepregnant".
Catherine Schauer said that a growing number of these under-age girls haddeveloped HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases.
She and her colleagues distribute condoms to the children. The rescue centrehas a drop-in facility where the children can go for treatment.
"We are a little sensitive about all this. There would not be a problem butfor the Germans. We know that the sex tourists are 99 percent from Bavaria andSaxony", said Petr Jaks, Cheb's deputy mayor.
He did admit there had been "a problem to get our police motivated, but wehope this will change soon".
A senior police officer reluctantly agreed to talk on the basis of having hisidentity concealed.
"My colleagues and I have better things to do than check on every kid whohangs around the streets. As far as we are concerned, they are just out for anight of fun. Look at the way they dress: good quality jeans, Adidas shoes.Sure, they may take a little dope. But so do the kids in Munich."
What about all the Germans who drive into the town every night? The officershrugged. "They spend good money in our bars. If they pick up a girl, so what.It happens everywhere."
Even small children? He smiled indifferently. "How can you tell if a girl isten, thirteen or fifteen? These Romanian kids grow up quickly. Anyway, why pickon Cheb? Prostitution is all along the border."
That is true. At every crossing, the child whores are there, alongside thetraders selling cheap cigarettes and Becherovka, the Czech nationaldrink.
Catherin Schauer and her small team of dedicated social workers note down thelicense plate numbers of the German cars entering the town, then send them tothe nearest German city of Regensburg.
There is a German law, passed in 1993, under which the Federal Republic canprosecute men who have sex with minors abroad. If found guilty, a culprit can besentenced up to ten years in jail.
But, as in Bosnia, the reality is very different. Josef Heisl, a policeofficer with the Regensburg force said "when we get the license plates fromCheb, we do question the car drivers. The men just say they were looking fordirections. To make a successful prosecution, we have to catch a man in the actof having sex with a minor -- or get a child to file a complaint. That is purelywishful thinking".
Just as in Cheb, the turnover of girls is high at Le Marche de JeunesFilles -- the baked earth market place in Abidjan, the capital of the IvoryCoast.
The girls come from the country's remote rural areas, lured away from theirvillages by promise of a better life in the city. Family and friends sew theirnew clothes and arrange their hair before they leave home. But once they arrivein Abidjan, they find there is no work; instead they are sold-off like cattle inthat market place.
Some, the lucky ones, are sent to toil in up-country cocoa plantations.Others are shipped off to Sudan, where slave traders shackle them for the longjourney to the Middle East to restock the region's brothels.
Still others end up in a truck stop called Salgaa on the main Kenya-Ugandahighway. It is the biggest whorehouse in central Africa. In 2003, it had 24 barsand 500 prostitutes -- an estimated half of them under age.
In a regional economy that is close to collapse elsewhere, Salgaa is booming.It is a cut-price version of Arizona Market. In Salgaa a child can be procuredfor one US dollar. In Salgaa the life expectancy of a prostitute is put inmonths rather than years. Their clients are the thousands of truck drivers whotravel every week up and down the highway.
The girls work out of seedy bars with names like the Good Times Hotel and New Paradise.
AIDS is a killer by many names here: "mikingo" meaning "slowpuncture"; and "kauzi" meaning "slim as a thread", an apt description todescribe the body wasting process of the disease.
Sharin Cmemtai, who admitted to being "only fifteen", said that her "worstclients are the Arabs. They can be very violent. I try to charge them more. Butit is impossible for me to keep the extra money. He always takes it straightaway after sex".
"He" was her pimp, a burly Kenyan who is reputed to have a stable of fiftyyoung girls, a number of them in their pre-teens, working in Salgaa.
His girls live in a small compound. It has one water tap, two showers andthree stinking pit latrines. Most weeks a girl is diagnosed as in the finalstages of AIDS. Overnight she will be taken from the compound by the pimp. Thereis a widespread fear she is dumped in the bush to be devoured by the jackals orother wild animals.
Within hours a new girl will arrive as a replacement.
She, too, can expect to be dead within a year. To survive longer in Salgaa isa miracle.
Only none of the girls who work there believe in such divineintervention.
The global traffic in children for commercial sexual exploitation involvestorture and their premeditated rape and mutilation. If and when the authoritiesdecide to take action against the child sex trade, it achieves very little.
This terrible human abuse, the prerogative of no one race or colour,continues to occur under all religions, and where there is no religion. Thesexual traffic in children is the product of greed and lust which feeds offabject poverty.
There is no solution in sight until that poverty is addressed -- and thetraffickers sentenced to long terms. By a collective indifference and silence,the betrayal of children will persist.
Gordon Thomas' work includes the five-times nominated Academy Award winner"Voyage Of The Damned"; "Enola Gay", winner of the Emmy Best Foreign Film prize;"A Bit Of An Experience", winner of the Monte Carlo Film Festival Critics andJury's prizes. His "Underpass" received the Best Original Screenplay submissionat the 1999 Cannes Festival.


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IOC Olympic Games Executive Director Gilbert Felli speaks to the media at an International Olympic Committee press conference in Singapore on Aug 21, 2010 / SPH-SYOGOC/Ray Chua.
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SINGAPORE, Aug 21: It's been just seven days since the inaugural Youth Olympic Flame was lit here in Singapore but cities around the world are already generating a keen interest in hosting future editions.
As the International Olympic Committee passed the halfway point so Gilbert Felli, executive director for the Olympic Games, said: "Athletes and spectators alike have really taken to the new sports formats. We're very pleased with the way in which the international federations have embraced the Youth Games."
With six days left until the Games come to a close, IOC director of communications Mark Adams also pointed out that the official YOG YouTube channel is approaching three million views, "which is actually more than the Vancouver Winter Games."
He added: "Clearly it won't surprise you that lots of the traffic has come from where there are big YouTube audiences, so the US and Europe specifically."
The figures make encouraging reading for the IOC. Speaking before the YOG about the challenges faced in engaging audiences in an unknown event, Adams had said: "It is a challenge to enthuse the Olympic audience about something new, and on top of that it's a challenge to engage a young audience, who are in many cases, not always aware of the Olympics."
Questions though were raised about poor attendances at the live events. Despite claims by the Singapore Youth Olympic Games Organising Committee (SYOGOC) that all tickets are sold out, many events have continued to be played out in half empty stadia.
Felli said: "We are trying to understand why tickets have sold out but the people are not necessarily there. For many events, people buy tickets for the whole day and, after attending the morning session, they may not come back in the afternoon or evening session. As of last night, we've been working on that and stadiums were a lot fuller."
Next in line to carry the Youth Olympic Flame will be Innsbruck 2012 which will host the first Winter edition of the YOG and then the torch passes to Nanjing 2014 for the second Summer Games. The question of where the YOG will go subsequently is unknown, but Felli thought there was no shortage of interest.
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He said: "We had this morning a discussion with an Africa country who have said they are interested, we also had one Latin American country show interest."
Although he was not specific, Felli also said that around 17 countries were in Singapore taking part in the Observer Programme. In a new move by the IOC, they have invited cities to take part in the programme before being signed off by their relevant National Olympic Committees.
"Normally we don't accept anybody to come to our Observer Programme who doesn't have a sign-off from their NOC. This is a new thing, quite a few cities have asked to come before they have talked with their NOC and we have invited them to come and informed the NOCs that they are here."
Speaking about changes to the bidding process for the YOG, Felli said: "We said when we started the process in 2007, that we will give six years for an Organising Committee to prepare for the Games. Now we see here in Singapore what they have been able to do in two and half years.
"When we see what has happened with some Organising Committees, if you give them too much time, they start to do planning and then re-planning and re-planning again.
"So, we have decided one month ago to reduce the time. It will be no more than four and half years for the Summer Games and three and half years for the Winter Games. If we start from the fact that they must have the facilities in place, they don't need so much time to prepare."
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"I know myself – I had to play a bit at right-back at Sheffield United then come in after being in centre midfield to play centre-half," he remembered.
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