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166 Meetup Groups match "Dancing" near Denver, CO
Pikes Peak Traditional Dance What is it? Live music with caller ... New England style community dance. Safe, friendly, energetic fun for all ages ... contra and waltz dancing ....no partner needed! Free lesson for beginners If you can walk, you can do it! Easy ... each dance is first taught by caller 7:00 - 7:30 pm for beginner lesson Free refreshments at 8:30 break $8 for adults , $4 for students, $0 for kids with paid adult Active comfortable dress! ... cottons, flats, twirling skirts for …
Are you tired of sitting around at another happy hour eating, drinking, and gaining weight? Are you ready to meet fun, active people who enjoy music, dancing, and socializing? Then we're the group for you! We are fun-loving people who just want to dance! We are all levels of experience; from those who have had lesson after lesson, to those who are pretty rusty, to those new dancers who just want to move! We get together and meet up so that we have at least a few others to dance with no matte …
If you're interested in learning to dance, or finding great places and people to dance with, than this is your group. We'll bring you all of the latest and greatest dance announcements and happenings in the Littleton and South Denver areas. Why drive to Denver, when there are so many great classes and dances near you!? We'll post current information on adult classes and dances in Lindy Hop, Blues, Salsa, Tango and West Coast Swing, as well as special events (weekend workshops, holiday dance part …
This dance group is for singles and couples who love to dance, want to learn how to dance and are 40+ in age. We will be teaching ballroom, latin, swing, country and line dancing. We are in the Aurora, SE Denver, Greenwood Village, Englewood, Centennial areas.
I was surprised there wasn't a Bollywood meetup group in the area!! This is a group for everyone who loves Bollywood Dancing/Music/Movies. I am a Bollywood Dance Instructor/Choreographer and I've been dancing Bollywood for 18 years. I have a performance group "Desi Caliente" and we perform in and around Colorado. I will keep you informed with all the details about Bollywood Dance/Fitness Classes, Workshops and shows. I will also try to keep you informed with the various Bollywood events includin …
Welcome to the Dances of Universal Peace Denver - Boulder - Front Range Meetup site, offering opportunities to experience the Dances of Universal Peace on the Front Range. These dances are ongoing, with between 20 and 50+ people gathering at each event, regardless of how many people sign up through meetup.com. Colorado is home to the largest weekly gatherings of this nature in the country. The dances serve as a hub of connection to people who value tolerance, diversity, peace, the sacredness o …
LOVE salsa music and dancing but, feel TOTALLY intimidated when you enter a club?!! This is the group for YOU!! Jig and Senora have designed this class to be a non-threatening, relaxed and supportive group for the novice salsa dancer!! No partner necessary as we rotate partners so every one has chance to dance. This is a great class for those wanting to find out what salsa dancing is all about! Classes are progressive, but you can come at anytime that suits your schedule. Beginners! This a group …
Dance Classes and Social Dancing for singles and couples. Learn and dance Ballroom, Latin, Country Western, Swing, and Night Club styles. Learn better leading and following skills to allow you to dance with anyone anytime to any type of music.
Calling all couples and singles that want to Have fun and meet new friends as we get together in an affordable way to learn more about dancing. Get together to learn fun dances, then make plans to go out and use our newfound skills. Get together's can include house parties, outings to restaurants, bars and dance clubs. Looking forward to fun friends and future adventures.
THIS IS GOING TO BE A BLAST!! Only $6 per hour! 10 Hours per month! Full 90 Minutes of PROGRESSIVE "Step-by-Step" Salsa Instruction every Tuesday with a Full Hour of a "Practice Party" after EVERY Class!! Beginner, Intermediate, to Advanced WELCOME!! How do some people get ssssssoooooo GOOD, ssssooooo FAST? "A Good System Makes All the Difference" Learn to dance from one of the Top Instructor / performers in the world, "Edie, The Salsa FREAK!!" Learn to be a GREAT social dancer FAST at the Littl …
Denver Belly Dance Fun & Fitness! because health and fitness aren't done unless it's fun It is true that this is a belly dance meetup. But, it is also true that it is for fun ways to get and stay fit! So, keeping to the original core - scroll down to see the videos I put together so that you can see the belly dance class that will be taught. What do you get in my belly dance class? We combine music, the mystique and glamor of belly dance steps with laughter and sisterhood to create an afternoo …
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~Ride the Dragon is a new, 1 1/2 hr long, Boulder-based, Community~Dance~Party! ~It is a creative, safe space for all to delve into authentic dance & movement. Each week we chose a diversely different genre of *high-energy-dance-music*. This encourages an ever evolving opportunity to explore the relationship between you, your body, sound and community. ~Our dance begins with a chill set of music, which facilitates an opportunity to settle in and warm up, your way... we gather in a circle, and of …
This group is for any person interested in 1. having fun while they work out and 2. being inspired through dance while shedding some pounds. I love this class, it provides a warm and welcoming sense of community, while embracing low impact dance/fitness as a way of life. It's a wonderful way to enhance your dance skills, engage your mind and take care of your body. Give it a try, the music is fun, the mood is upbeat and non competitive and you will definately feel moved to dance! It's a great ac …
Let's watch Colorado's Dance companies perform. Looking forward to exploring Colorado's dance community with everybody.
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This group is for people who'd like to learn to dance and meet new people too! After years of teaching and enjoying dancing, I have had a first hand look at what a healthy, wonderful activity it is. Dancing brings fun and energy into your life. For singles, it's a great way to meet and get to know other singles in a non-awkward fashion. For couples, it's a great activity to bring new sparks of fun and excitement into your lives! This group specializes in the historic jazz era dances and includ …
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This is a group for lovers of dance, live music, movement and high energy chanting. Local kirtan-funk/rock band 'Sangha' will be hosting regular live music events for folks who want to be creative in their bodies, in their movement and in their vocal expression of all kinds! This is an high energy environment for embodied spirituality and ecstatic expression. Enjoy our music at soundcloud.com/sanghaband or on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/SanghaBand
This group is intended to bring together those people who want to learn, those who teach, those who love, those who do blues dancing... We are based in Denver but have information on the blues dance scene all the way to the international level. We are looking for people of all ages, 20, 30, 70, singles, couples, all shapes, sizes and beliefs.... and everything in between who share a passion for blues music and want to learn how to blues dance! This is a great community and we welcome anyone and …
This MeetUp hosts Events, Art Showings, Spiritual Meetings, and Classes in the following areas: Art, Yoga, Music, Dance, Language and Meditation. We are a community of people who love art, people who love to create, to teach and learn. We are all about positivity and creativity Many Spiritual people connect to God and Spirituality through their passions to Art, Dance or Music. This meetup is for those passionate people who feel like their passion for Art, Dance or Music is their temple. Jo …
Dance Enthusiasts of all ages and levels. This group is for everyone. Beginner to advanced level ballroom dancers are all offered a free dance lesson and live music performed by The Windjammers Jazz Orchestra. Dance requests are gladly taken so you may practice your favorite steps while asking for hands on advise from our two dance instructors, Jim and Amy Schoendaller. This group meets once a month, taking turns at two different South Suburban Recreation Centers. On the first Saturday of the mo …
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CommuniDance Denver started with my desire to create a safe space for people to come together to express their true selves through dance, and to create a community of people who value dance as an expressive, fun, healing, practice. CommuniDance is an hour of free-form dance based on Gabriel Roth's book "Sweat Your Prayers. The Five Rhythms of the Soul." There is no formal instruction on how to dance - we just let loose and dance by ourselves in community with others. Some people may choose to d …
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Enjoy social ballroom dancing where the steps are announced by a "cuer." Benefits include: fun, friendship and fitness. Attend a dance and see for yourself. Sign up for lessons. Don't wait, you'll be glad you did. Share your talents with others. We offer easy level Social Ballroom Dancing commonly referred to as Choreographed Ballroom Dancing also known as Phase II and Phase III Round Dance. Have fun dancing. Make new friends. Exercise without thinking about it. We are real people looking for ot …
* * * Exercise With A Smile * * * Colorado Friends Of Old Time Music And Dance is a non-profit organization that runs this community, participatory dances — such as contra dances — with live music and calling in the Denver and Boulder metro area of Colorado. No prior dance experience is necessary, and nearly all our dances are preceded by a lesson. Community dances are very social by nature — married and unmarried couples, singles accompanied with friends or arriving alone, and anyone from …
Salsa dancing for ALL LEVELS of experience that LOVE to dance and socialize at QUEMANDO SHOWS!
Zumba is fun and social! As a Zumba Instructor and long time class attendee, I know that it's more that working out and leaving, it's about a community of friends and the feeling of happiness that comes from dancing together, whether you can dance or not! My goal is to help fill the voids in my area with classes, parties and unique experiences while we forge new friendships.
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Paint Dancing is a new venue created solely for the purpose of openly expressing yourself for fun in 2 different mediums - AT ONCE! That's Right! PAINTING and DANCING (at the same time) in private art studios around the Los Angeles area while helping support your local food banks. Watch some of our crazy Paint Dancing videos on YouTube! http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=DF09B34FE51B3199 We will supply non-toxic paint, brushed and paper! All you need is your paint clothes (and shoes) and yo …
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Ruckus to Rapture is a barefoot, freeform ecstatic dance for all. No dance experience needed - this dance is not about steps or choreography, it's about moving however we feel in the moment. The music is an eclectic mix of all kinds of world rhythms (and is inspired by Gabrielle Roth's 5 Rhythms wave.) We follow our hearts and our bodies, trusting how they want to move us. No right or wrong – just movement – dancing in the ruckus and finding the rapture within.
This group celebrates the beauty of Progressive Trance, Electronica, House, Dubstep, Breakbeats, etc. Pool parties rockin' out to Armin Van Buuren, Kaskade, George Acosta, Kyau & Albert, attending plenty of Denver area DJ sets, raves, Global Dance festival and even an EDC Vegas get together. Bring your positivity, your sexy and your love for dance, and let's make this Denver's hottest electronic scene.
I have started a new community jazz big band, headquartered in the Littleton/Centennial area. I started and directed a big band in Rochester NY for 8 years and am ready to do the same here! Rehearsals are Tuesday evenings, 7-9 pm. We will play diverse music and performances - pop/dance music at summer festivals, ballroom dances, challenging modern jazz concerts, and even jazz holiday music! Most of all, I want to have a really fun, solid group! We need 1-2 people in each section, plus people …
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Hello, Here it is - a Colorado Bachata Meetup Group finally. This is for all the Bachata Lovers in Colorado. The purpose of this group is to help promote Bachata Music & Dancing. We will try to keep you informed on everything around Bachata in the CO area. Please spread the word and invite people to join this group. Lets Dance Bachata!! Subbu www.bachataxtasy.com
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Zumba @ LaRumba is cancelled at the present time. I will keep you posted about when this class will resume. Join the party!! YOU love LATIN music and dance so add some spice to your workout!! Zumba is for men and women using various latin dance rhythms from salsa to tango and more to burn calories and get your body moving! High energy and fun! No dance experience or partner necessary, just follow along. This is a great class for for anyone wanting to develop foot speed, body rhythm and to expan …
Learn to dance salsa and other latin dances in a nationally recognized nightclub . Whether you're just beginning or have been dancing for awhile, come to LaRumba 99 W. 9th Ave. Denver,CO 80204 at 8:00pm on Thursdays for a 1 hour salsa lesson, admission to the club and 1/2 class at 9:30pm ONLY $10!(Cash or Check) THIS IS THE BEST AND LONGEST RUNNING SALSA NIGHT IN DENVER - OVER 15 YEARS! WE MUST BE DOING SOMETHING RIGHT!! This is an all levels salsa class, beginners welcome - no partner necessary …
My name is Scott Koogle and I am a local instructor deeply embedded in Denver's scene. I wanted to start this Meet Up so I can continue to help build a strong and commited Salsa community. We really have some great dancers but are always welcoming new people! I'll be hosting events around town and keeping you all up to date on what's going on in Denver's Salsa scene. I can also introduce you not only to the city's best dancers but the nicest dancers. Dancers with attitude need not apply! :) The …
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Our 2013 Holiday Gift Guide is in full swing - we are adding our recommendations daily, aimed at men, women, teens, families, techies, and more. If you need help figuring out what to get the people in your life, head on over to our Guide for some ideas. We'll even be giving away some of the items featured this year!
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2010 Holiday Gift Guide: Zomm wireless smartphone leash
Posted by Andru Edwards - Categories: Accessories, Cell Phones, Features, Wireless / WiFi, Family, Women, Men, Techies, Teens, Under $100, Under $250, Under $500
We've spent some time with the Zomm "wireless leash" and have come away impressed by the simplicity of the device, as it's one of those things that make you wonder why a product like it hasn't been available until now. With that, we thought it would be a good inclusion in our 2010 Holiday Gift Guide. The Zomm can be attached to your keychain, and connects to your smartphone over Bluetooth. Once paired, it becomes your wireless alarm system for your phone. For example, if you walk away from your phone, Zomm will sound a notification alarm and start vibrating, letting you know that you've left your device more than 30 feet away. This way, you don't leave a restaurant without your phone, or spend forever looking for it because you left it in the car (or, that you are in your car driving and left your phone at home!) Cool enough, but it does more.
Zomm also has an integrated speaker and microphone, so it also acts as a hands-free calling device. If your phone rings, Zomm will ring as well, and you just press the Z button to take the call without having to fish around for your phone while driving. Zomm also has a built-in panic alarm. Hold down the Z button and the alarm will go off. Continue holding it, and the Zomm will use the Bluetooth connection to your phone to dial 911, and it will let you speak with the authorities right from the Zomm device. This is seriously a cool piece of technology that is a must-have for those people who constantly leave their smartphones behind in cabs and restaurants, or just anyone who wants an extra layer of security with them at all times. You can get a Zomm from Newegg for $79.99.
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ThinkGeek Holiday Gift Center of Tomorrow is now open
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ThinkGeek is always a fun place to shop for unique gifts for the techies in your life, and they've just opened their Holiday Gift Center of Tomorrow, featuring some of their most popular products. Head on over to check out items like the Star Trek Enterprise Pizza Cutter, and the awesome BuckyBalls Magnetic Building Spheres, among others!
2010 Holiday Gift Guide: Apple TV
Posted by Andru Edwards - Categories: Apple, Features, Home Entertainment, Family, Techies, Under $100
The newly redesigned Apple TV is next up in our 2010 Holiday Gift Guide, and for good reason. You can stream movies, TV shows, photos, and music to the device, and setup just requires plugging it into power, and into your television. A couple minutes later and you're connected to Wi-Fi and streaming Netflix. With iOS 4.2 and the AirPlay feature, you can even send videos and music directly from your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch directly to your television. Mix in HD movies rentals from $3.99 and TV show rentals for $.99 cents, and you have a nice little wireless media extender. You can pick one up now for $99 from Apple, or $98 from Amazon with free shipping.
2010 Holiday Gift Guide: Logitech Wireless gaming Mouse G700
Posted by Andru Edwards - Categories: Accessories, Features, PC / Laptop, Peripherals, Video Games, Techies, Teens, Under $100
Every PC gamer needs a good mouse, and the Logitech Wireless Gaming Mouse G700 more than fits the bill. You get thirteen programmable controls and buttons, easily allowing you to map complicated in-game commands and macros directly beneath your fingertips to be executed with a click. It's got a matte black finish with a few green LEDs and a tiny wireless USB receiver, and is super responsive with 1,000 reports per second from the high-precision laster tracking. It's even got enough onboard memory to store commands for up to five different game profiles. The Gaming Mouse G700 usually sells for $100, but Amazon is currently selling it for $84.82, a 14% discount.
Be sure to check out the other entries in the Gear Live 2010 Holiday Gift Guide!
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2010 Holiday Gift Guide: Powermat Rechargeable Travel Mat
Posted by Andru Edwards - Categories: Accessories, USB, Cell Phones, Misc. Tech, Women, Men, Techies, Under $100
We're big fans of what Powermat has to offer here at Gear Live HQ, and that's why we think it's appropriate to feature them in our 2010 Holiday Gift Guide. What you've got here is a little panel with a built-in battery pack that lets you wirelessly charge your mobile devices. It folds up and is small enough to throw in a bag, and won't take up much space at all on a desk. On a full charge, you can charge an iPhone five times. The Powermat Travel Mat comes with adapters that allow you to charge any USB device, Nintendo DS, a few proprietary phone connectors, and iOS devices. The cool part here is that you just set your device on the mat, and it starts charging.
They typically sell for $130, but Amazon's got 'em for $69 right now.
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Holiday Gift Guide 2009: Aliph Jawbone Prime
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If you have someone if your life that is constantly on their mobile phone, chances are they'd highly benefit from a Bluetooth headset, and the Aliph Jawbone Prime is the best for the job. You get best-in-class call quality and a cool design (rare for Bluetooth headsets.) Just like previous Jawbones, it's constructed of medical-grade plastic and has no visible buttons. The Jawbone Prime also brings it when it comes to noise cancellation, including wind noise reduction. Finally, it supports multipoint technology, which means this bad boy can be paired to several devices at one time, which is super convenient. The Jawbone Prime sells for $129, but Amazon has them for $92.74.
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2009 Holiday Gift Guide: Western Digital WD TV HD Media Player
Posted by Andru Edwards - Categories: HDTV, Home Entertainment, Family, Men, Techies, Under $100
The Western Digital WD TV HD Media Player allows you to attach any external hard drive or USB flash drive to the device, which lets you watch videos, listen to music, or even create your own slideshows from your photos, right on your television. The WD TV HD Media Player can accept up to two external drives at once, and supports Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1 sound, making it ideal to play movies stored on those devices in glorious 1080p. They typically sell for $129, but Amazon has them for $99.
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2009 Holiday Gift Guide: Eyeball 2.0 from Blue Microphones
Posted by Andru Edwards - Categories: Accessories, USB, Cameras, Peripherals, Techies, Teens, Under $100
Okay, with the economy what it is, you may be looking to spruce up your desktop or notebook computer setup, rather than replacing the thing. For that, you'll need some great accessories, and when it comes to a nice upgrade for a microphone and webcam, we've gotta go with Blue Microphones Eyeball 2.0. It's sleek and stylish, so you're iChat and Skype called will feel just a bit more dignified. You get a high-fidelity microphone and 2-megapixel video camera all in one device. You can sit it on your desk, and anchor it to your monitor or notebook with ease. You can even turn the camera off if you need to hide your face for whatever reason. The Eyeball 2.0 retails for $119, but Amazon has it for $79, a full 33% off!
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2009 Holiday Gift Guide: Roku HD-XR Player
Posted by Andru Edwards - Categories: HDTV, Home Entertainment, Internet, Women, Techies, Under $100, Under $250
We are kicking off our 2009 Holiday Gift Guide with the Roku HD-XR player. Why? Well, we think that it's the perfect time to introduce someone to the new hotness that is TV, delivered over the web, and right into the living room. Sure, Netflix has come to the Xbox 360, but if you want streaming access to the Netflix service and don't own a game console, this is your cheapest barrier to entry. The HD-XR model also gives you access to the Amazon Unbox catalogue, as well as the entire MLB game service as well, if you are subscribed.
Definitely a great gift for movie buffs, the Roku HD-XR player is able to stream over 12,000 movies and television shows from the Netflix Watch Instantly catalogue, and over 45,000 from Amazon Video on Demand. It connects to your home network through an ethernet port, or over Wi-Fi, connecting at up to 802.11n if you have it. There's also a USB port on back, which Roku says is for future use. Our guess is that they'll be allowing the device to read from an external USB drive, which would be stellar.
The actual device is tiny, so it takes up barely any space, and setup takes just a couple of minutes - very simple. Of course, a Netflix subscription is required, but once you have that, everything else is a piece of cake.
Honorable Mention: If you want all the features of the Roku HD-XR, but don't need the USB port or 802.11n wireless speeds, you can grab the Roku HD Player for $99!
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Holiday Gift Guide 2008: VUDU $99 for a limited time ($200 off!)
Posted by Andru Edwards - Categories: Features, HDTV, Home Entertainment, Movies, Men, Techies, Under $100
If you, or someone you love, is a big movie buff with an HDTV, we have to recommend the VUDU Christmas Special that is going on right now. The VUDU set-top box normally sells for $299, but for a limited time it can be had for just $99. Now, you also have to buy $50 in movie credits, so the total cost would be $149, but that $50 is would go towards rentals and purchases of VUDU content, including their fantastic HDX 1080p movies. Rentals cost from $1-4 dollars, and purchases are obviously higher.
We recently reported on a lot of the Internet content that has also just made its way to the VUDU service, so all in all, we think this would make a nice gift - either for someone else, or for yourself. Our only complaint with VUDU remains that their speeds are limited, which provides a very, very poor experience if you want to rent HDX content. No matter how fast your Internet connection is, VUDU caps downloads at 4.0 Mbps. That means that my super fast 50.0 Mbps FiOS connection means absolutely nothing, and I still have to wait hours before I can watch an HDX flick. If they got rid of that, it would unleash HDX, their flagship offering. A personal niggle for sure, though. If you don't care, pick one up!
If you miss the sale, you can typically find some nice VUDU deals on Amazon.
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A DEMANDING PROJECT: To rapidly disseminate products such as a future AIDS vaccine into the developing world, public health experts believe they must better gauge the demand for such products in poor countries.
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Supplying desperately needed medicines to the developing world would be a lot easier if Big Pharma would bring its considerable resources to bear on the problems of global health. But even when public health groups can convince firms to supply their drugs at reduced cost, another problem remains: the countries in need can be unpredictable in their buying habits.
Consider that malaria affects more than 500 million people worldwide, and yet this past summer the Financial Times reported that French drugmaker Sanofi-Aventis faced half the demand it had expected for its anti-malaria compound artesunate. As a result, the company was contemplating destroying up to 10 million tablets of the drug. Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis had complained of similar troubles. After scaling up production of its malaria medication Coartem to 30 million treatments in 2005, it received orders for only 14 million treatments.
The global public health community has become increasingly sensitive to the problem of forecasting the developing world's actual demand for medicines, as opposed to the raw need. In one sign of the change, the Center for Global Development, an influential Washington, D.C.-based think tank, has convened a panel of economists, consultants and representatives from industry and public health to make recommendations for forecasting practices.
Among the groups leading the way are those devoted to global vaccine development, which already partner with firms to bring vaccine programs closer to fruition. Now these so-called public-private partnerships (PPPs) are constructing models designed to better understand the factors that influence developing nations' decisions about whether or not to adopt new vaccines.
Their projects run the gamut from relatively short-term analyses of emerging vaccines to more prospective, exploratory studies for still distant products. For the near term, groups known as accelerated development and introduction plans (ADIPs) have studied the possibility of more rapidly introducing new vaccines for rotavirus, a common diarrheal disease, and pneumococcus, a bacterium that causes pneumonia.
Looking farther ahead are partnerships such as the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) and the Malaria Vaccine Initiative, both of which have begun or completed new forecasting projects in the past two years.
The hope is that improved forecasting will increase demand as well as cooperation between industry and public health, which could in turn lead to greater investments. "It means everybody goes in with their eyes open," explains Wendy Woods of the Boston Consulting Group, which has worked with IAVI and other PPPs. "It's important for both sides to make the right decisions and know what to expect."
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Unpredictable demand creates a three-way catch-22 problem, as pointed out in a 2002 study commissioned by the GAVI Alliance, formerly the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization. Poor countries have to know the price of a vaccine to see if they can afford it. Manufacturers, however, are hesitant to set a price unless they know how many doses will be bought. And aid donors cannot be sure they can subsidize a purchase without knowing the price and quantity of the sale.
Vaccine purchases have occurred anyway, but not without difficulty. In 2002, when GAVI convinced suppliers to manufacture extra courses of an existing vaccine against Haemophilus influenzae type b, poor countries were slow to buy it. "We were very naive at that time and thought countries would take up the vaccine much faster than they did," recalls Michel Zaffran, the group's deputy executive secretary. "The tools that we had available were very poor."
Hoping to keep from alienating manufacturers, GAVI instituted the ADIP programs in 2003. The new approach adopted by the ADIPs and other PPPs makes use of interviews with health officials in developing countries to figure out the preferences of those nations. Prior HIV vaccine forecasts, for example, failed to take into account the influence of price and political willingness on potential demand, says Gian Gandhi, manager of policy research and analysis for IAVI.


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Chapter 12 - Training and Trips
NOT VERY long after its completion, the new headquarters building would no longer hold all the people who came for guidance and religious services. It became necessary for members to sit outside on the ground on grass matting. The sessions for groups who gathered in this way came to be known as hoza, one of our activities that has remained a basic practice from the inception of Kosei-kai to the present, though it did not start with a fixed form and has changed from time to time.
The members were so devoted and eager that none of them complained about sitting on the ground or even regarded it as an inconvenience. They made circles of mats around the hoza leader. Often two or three concentric circles formed a single group. And when the group became very large, the people in the outermost circles had to stand throughout the discussion.
Members vied with each other for the privilege of being in charge of preparations for the meetings and cleanup afterward. If hoza was supposed to start at nine in the morning, these people would arrive as early as five or six, spread the matting, prepare everything, and then stay after three in the afternoon to put things in order again. All this was hard work, but the members pleaded with the leaders to be allowed to do it. They were eager to acquire as much virtue as possible from their efforts, and it was because they were permeated with this desire that they were able to achieve miraculous things.
They were equally devoted to and eager for all the other duties and services of the group, including morning and evening meetings, the observances held on memorial days, and the midwinter austerities.
For the midwinter austerities, they arose at four in the morning every day for thirty days from January to February. The night before, they set out a bucket of water. In the morning, breaking the ice that had formed on its surface, they poured the water over their heads. They then drew other buckets of water until they had emptied twenty or thirty over their bodies. They then read the Threefold Lotus Sutra. Each member practiced this discipline independently in his own home.
As a result of such training, several members developed abilities to receive spiritual inspirations and to invoke the sacred protective mantra. They could quickly cure colds or stomachaches. One of the most memorable of the enthusiastic members of the early period was Ken'ichiro Murata, the head carpenter for the construction of the headquarters building. Murata was very diligent in the mid-winter austerities and became especially adept at the invocation of the sacred mantra. He took part in all our pilgrimages to Mount Shichimen (the holy mountain near Mount Minobu, where one of the priest Nichiren's disciples founded a temple in the thirteenth century) and advanced rapidly in hoza discussion groups.
Later a training hall was built at the headquarters building, and midwinter austerities were conducted there under a system that called for strict adherence to rules and schedules. People who were late to training were not allowed to enter. Bus service did not exist in those days, and people had to hurry along the cold, windy streets from the nearest train station. If they suspected they were late, they would take off their wooden clogs and run barefoot over the icy ground. If they did arrive late, they found the doors closed and had to content themselves with reading the Threefold Lotus Sutra in front of the door and returning, trembling, home. The leaders did not pamper the members, and the members survived their harsh training and made spiritual progress. The story of one woman should give an idea of the mood in which we lived. I shall let Mrs. Hiroyo Igusa speak for herself in these words taken from an extract of the official records of a meeting of former Tokyo chapter heads held on August 4, 1967.
"When my son, who is now twenty-five, was four years old, I was instructed to join a pilgrimage to Mount Shichimen. On the night before our departure, when I had made all my preparations. I was tested. My small boy suddenly developed a temperature of about forty degrees centigrade. I stayed up all night applying cold compresses to his head, but by morning his temperature still had not dropped. I did not know what to do but decided that I could not neglect my religious faith. Putting on a white pilgrimage kimono, I left the house at about four in the morning.
"Before I had gone far, I heard my eldest daughter calling, 'Mother, come back! Yoshiharu's having a fit!' I returned at once to find my son in convulsions.
"Dreading that the trouble might be very serious, I hurried to the house of Mrs. Ikuyo Morita, the leader of the second chapter - ours - to discuss the matter. She simply turned her back on me and refused to answer my questions. She was waiting to see if I would repent. Then she at last said, 'All right, I suppose you can come one train late.'
"Intending to do that, I returned home. As I was about to take my pilgrim's staff and leave to take the train, my son had another convulsion. It seemed impossible for me to go that day. I called the doctor, who did not know what the cause could be but said that it might be juvenile dysentery and recommended that we wait and watch a while longer. By about nine o'clock, the boy was somewhat better.
"I went to the headquarters, where I met Mrs. Tanaka, of the first chapter. She asked me why I was not on the pilgrimage train, and I explained. She then said that there were many posthumous Buddhist names for the second chapter and that I should attempt to make amends for not going on the trip by copying them. I set about the task eagerly.
"At lunchtime, when I returned home, my son was well and playing happily. I then saw clearly that his sickness had been a test of me. Realizing this, I went to the headquarters to copy out posthumous names for the four days that I knew the pilgrimage would last. But I was not sincere enough. I thought the matter would be settled by my doing this work. I had forgotten my children in the Law, for whom I was responsible. They were on the pilgrimage, and I remained in Tokyo. If I had so much as telephoned them at Mount Minobu. But I did not think of it.
"I was in for a difficult time at the meeting of thirty leaders that took place in the headquarters the day after the group returned. Sitting in the rear of the room and making myself as small as possible, I apologized from the bottom of my heart to both Mr. Niwano and Myoko Sensei.
"Suddenly Myoko Sensei called out, 'There's someone very foolish in this room! For the sake of her own child she left her children in the Law alone on Mount Minobu. She says she performed some tasks here to make up for it. Fool!'
"I had no idea such a loud voice could come from such a small body. The whole building seemed to be about to crack from the sound. Trembling, pale, and terrified, I could do nothing but look at the floor.
"When the leaders' meeting was over, we were to spread mats on the ground for a hoza counseling session. I was to guide one group, but before doing that I felt that I had to apologize to Myoko Sensei. I could think of nothing else.
"I happened to meet Mrs. Iwafune, the head of the fifth chapter, and asked her to take me to Myoko Sensei. Saying that it was all a part of religious training, she agreed to take me to the main room of the building. She opened the door and announced me. Mr. Niwano said, 'Very well, come in.'
"Kneeling with my forehead on the tatami floor and weeping with repentance, I seemed to strike a chord of sympathy. Myoko Sensei said, 'It's all right; if that's the way you feel, it's all right.' Then she encouraged me to go out and guide my hoza group to the very best of my ability. Next she told the head of the fifth chapter to bring me some tea and some dried persimmons.
"But this was not the end of my penance. I next had to suffer the displeasure of the head of my own chapter, Mrs. Morita, who said to me, 'Anyone Myoko Sensei says is no good is no good. I don't want to have anything to do with you.' For two months she would not speak to me. She would not exchange morning greetings with me and always sat with her back to me in hoza discussion meetings. Nothing is more painful than being ignored. A good scolding is much easier to take. Every day I read the Sutra of Meditation on the Bodhisattva Universal Virtue, the so-called sutra of repentance. I lived repentance until finally she began to speak to me again. This trial affected me very deeply. Mrs. Morita must have known that I am rash and tend to take things lightly. That is why she resolved to teach me a thorough lesson. I have not experienced any further tests since then. But that one was both bitter suffering and an extremely good chance to learn from a religious lesson."
This episode reminds me of the experience of a certain Zen priest aspirant who, as part of his training, was given a koan by his master and was expected to reach enlightenment on it in a fixed number of days. He was to sit morning and night concentrating on the koan and, when enlightenment came, to report to the master. According to the rules, if he failed to reach enlightenment, he did not have to go to the master.
But while the trainee was performing zazen, seated meditation, the priest in charge ordered him to report to the master. The trainee objected strenuously; he had not attained enlightenment. But the priest in charge physically dragged him from the training hall. Though a grown man, the trainee wept, clutched at pillars, and did all he could to resist, but to no avail.
Of course, he had no solution to the koan yet and was severely scolded and badly embarrassed when he appeared in the master's presence.
Such an experience convinces the person that he must devote himself entirely and enthusiastically to his training program. Ordinary common sense says that, since the rule requires no appearance before the master without enlightenment, there was no reason to force the trainee to go. But when spiritual renovation and growth are the aims, training cannot be limited by common sense. Sometimes an unreasonable shock must be administered to force the human being to shed his old self and thus reveal his true, inner self, develop his true powers, and manifest his true life-force. It is especially important to give attention to this today, when everything is interpreted in the light of facile rationalism.
Not everyone was permitted to make the important pilgrimage to Mount Shichimen. Those who could go were obliged to purify themselves for twenty-one days beforehand. They could not eat meat, fish, eggs, or milk. They could not use grated, dried bonito, which is used in the bean-paste soup that is important in the traditional Japanese diet. Furthermore, they could not even use pans that had been polluted by contact with any of these foods. For a week before departure they were obliged to conduct the cold-water ritual that was practiced during midwinter austerities. The buckets in which they drew the cold water had to be thoroughly purified by scrubbings with salt. Using an ordinary bath bucket could bring serious retributions on the head of the hopeful pilgrim. The night before departure, with ink I wrote the Daimoku - Namu Myoho Renge-kyo - on the pilgrims' white clothes, which had been brought to me, and set them in front of my family Buddhist altar. On each garment I set a glass filled with fresh water. If the pilgrim had been negligent of spiritual development or if his mind and heart were not in a suitable state, froth would appear in the water. When this happened, he would be advised not to make the pilgrimage. All these strict preparations were necessitated by the harsh penalties inflicted on some of the pilgrims during our first trip.
The first pilgrimage took place in September, 1940. The weather was unseasonably warm. I was leading the party, and Myoko Sensei was walking briskly at my side. On the way up the mountain, we all became thirsty. Fortunately, beside the main gate of the temple on Mount Minobu was a well. Near the well grew a fig tree, laden with delicious-looking, ripe fruit. In spite of the religious nature of the trip, two of the pilgrims acted like tourists on a hiking excursion and ate some of the figs.
In the inn that night, after supper, these two people came down with severe stomachaches. Myoko Sensei invoked the gods and was asked the following question: "What is the meaning of stealing on the holy mountain? In such a state of mind, you must not climb Mount Shichimen tomorrow."
We were all shocked. What indeed could "stealing" mean? I noticed that the two ailing people remained kneeling with their faces on the floor. "This must have something to do with them," I thought.
"We ate some figs from the tree by the well," they admitted. So that was what was wrong. Though it was after eleven at night, we all joined in reading the sutra of repentance, the Sutra of Meditation on the Bodhisattva Universal Virtue.
We arose and departed at three o'clock the following morning. The weather was clear as we walked through the inner temples and had lunch at Akazawa before climbing Mount Shichimen. We stayed in a lodging hall of the temple that night and rose and went to the observation platform before dawn. After spiritual-inspirational training, we sat on the gravel, faced east, and read from the Threefold Lotus Sutra. The holy atmosphere of the mountain exerted an indescribably exhilarating physical and psychological influence. As we watched, gradually the edges of the clouds above Mount Fuji became tinged with red, then turned gleaming gold. Suddenly, with an arrow-like shaft of light, the sun appeared, lifting all of us to the pinnacle of excitement and joy.
One of my most vivid memories of pilgrimages to Mount Shichimen is connected with a religious ceremony that I was to conduct. October thirteenth is the death anniversary of the thirteenth-century priest Nichiren, who first uttered the Daimoku. On that day in 1945, when the turmoil of the immediate postwar period had begun to settle down, Myoko Sensei received a divine revelation ordering me to offer an invocation to Shakyamuni Buddha (whose image is the focus of devotion of our organization) on my next birthday, November fifteenth.
In November, Myoko Sensei was stricken with an attack of erysipelas and was forced to go to bed. I nursed her. Though I am constitutionally strong, I caught a cold, which suddenly developed into acute pneumonia. On the thirteenth and fourteenth of November, I lay ill with a fever of forty degrees centigrade. I was in the inner room of the headquarters building. I could eat nothing. The fifteenth--my birthday--was also the memorial day of the headquarters and the day on which I was to conduct the invocation ceremony. All the officers were happily and industriously making preparations.
My doctor said that I must not think of conducting a service with a temperature, but the most important thing for me was the knowledge that I would be failing my responsibility to the gods and buddhas if I did not.
On the morning of the fifteenth, I awoke at three o'clock. After a cold-water ritual in the bathroom, I wrote a Buddhist plaque, placed it in my domestic altar, and read the Lotus Sutra with all my mind. The fever did not go down. I went back to bed. Then, at nine, I received a divine inspiration: "You are still worried about your wife and children. You have not cut yourself from them. Unless you become as the gods, you will be unable to conduct the invocation ceremony." Then my fever dropped. I was able to lead the service.
Following an unwritten law of those days, I decided to make a pilgrimage to Mount Minobu as a token of my gratitude for having been allowed to carry out my duty safely. Though I still had a slight fever that evening, I performed the cold-water ritual and read the Lotus Sutra. Since I had eaten nothing for four or five days, I had some of the food that had been cooked for the ceremonies. Later that night, I put on my white pilgrim's clothes, took my staff, and joined eighty-seven other pilgrims on a train from Tokyo Station.
To reach Mount Minobu, it is necessary to change from the Tokaido Line to the Minobu Line at a station called Fuji. We did so, only to find a landslide blocking the tracks two stops before Minobu. There was nothing to do but walk along the tracks for the remaining eight kilometers.
In spite of the sickness and the strain of traveling and walking, after I visited the main hall and reported on the invocation ceremony, I felt miraculously refreshed. "As long as I'm in such good shape, I might as well climb Mount Shichimen tomorrow," I said to myself. And on the next morning, at the head of the group, I walked up the mountain, chanting the Daimoku all the way. It seemed impossible that two days earlier I had been suffering from a high fever and pneumonia. I think I can be justifiably proud that since the foundation of Rissho Kosei-kai I have never missed an event that I was supposed to attend.
On my return to Tokyo, I found Myoko Sensei completely recovered from her sickness. She greeted me with the words: "Mr. Niwano, from now on I am going to call you Kaicho Sensei." (The term means "president-teacher.") When I asked her why, she said that, in a divine revelation experienced while I was away, she had been instructed to do so. From that time, she and the other members of Rissho Kosei-kai referred to me by that title. It was shortly after this that we began calling her Myoko Sensei instead of Naganuma Sensei.
As I have said, no one was permitted to make pilgrimages to the mountains without reaching the correct stage of spiritual development. But I remember the following interesting story. Though one woman wanted desperately to join a pilgrimage to Mount Shichimen, her chapter head would not permit it. Further, her husband was opposed to her religious faith.
Undaunted, she decided to go anyway. The night of departure, she waited until her husband and children were in bed. Then, leaving a note saying that she would become a better wife for the trip and requesting permission to go, she tossed her white clothes and straw sandals out the window and sneaked from her own house. Dashing to the station, she hopped on the train and hid in the lavatory until it started. Then she appeared before the other pilgrims, pleading to be allowed to accompany them.
Pilgrimages were a strict part of our training. For a number of days beforehand, we performed the cold-water ritual as preparation. During the ascent of the mountain, we constantly chanted the Daimoku, Namu Myoho Renge-kyo. Not only did these trips leave a deep impression on the pilgrims, they also helped cement relations between us and the priesthood of the Nichiren sect of Buddhism and contributed to our development as good members of society. We learned to help each other as much as possible. The strong and young helped the weak and old in climbing and in carrying provisions. (Since food was rationed then, we had to carry our own rice with us.) Usually we chartered one coach on the train. We were always very quiet, reading the Lotus Sutra or conducting calm hoza counseling sessions. Before leaving the train, we cleaned up any mess that we had made. In inns we never behaved like guests, but cleared our tables, spread our own bedding, and cleaned our rooms - even the toilets. This was excellent training for the pilgrims. In addition, it created a very good reputation for us among the members of the staffs of the inns and the people with whom they spoke about us. Indeed, many of the people working in the inns and shops we frequented and other citizens of the town of Minobu became members of Kosei-kai.
In later years, when the membership grew to hundreds of thousands, pilgrimages of this kind became impossible. We changed to a system of group pilgrimages centering on the headquarters. But for those of us who took part in them, the inspiring trips in the early days are precious memories.
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Despite already being below the national average on patient falls, Lallie Kemp Regional Medical Center's staff and leadership still felt falls were happening too often. The small but busy 25-bed critical access hospital pulled together to implement many tried-and-true methods, and in the process earned a national patient safety award and proved that a combination of methods, along with a new culture, works best for success.
In May, the National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF) recognized Independence, La.-based Lallie Kemp for its exemplary efforts in improving patient safety with the 2012 Stand Up for Patient Safety Management Award. The organization developed and implemented a program that dramatically reduced falls among its inpatient population.
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When Bhavjit Thandi was pulled over last summer for talking on his cellphone while driving his black Jaguar, he had a ready excuse for the ticketing officer. But when the traffic cop didn't buy his argument that it had been his wallet, not his cellphone, that he had been holding up to his ear, Thandi decided to take matters into his own hands and conduct a little experiment to prove his innocence.
According to a recently released court judgment, Thandi, minutes after being sent on his way, set up a mock "drive-by" to discredit the basis of his ticket. This time, he drove the same stretch of Quadra Street in Saanich, B.C. with his wallet up to his ear.
And just as Thandi had hoped, he was again pulled over, by another officer this time, at the same "cellphone/seatbelt" check that had been set up on Quadra Street, near the south end of Tuxedo Drive.
"The driver was holding a black object cupped to his right hand. He held it up to his right ear, pulled it away and then put it back to his ear. He could see the driver's lips moving. [The officer] suspected the driver was holding a cellphone in his hand," the court documents read. "[The officer] signalled the driver to pull to a stop. As the driver did so, he rolled down his window, held his wallet out to the officer and said "Look, it's my wallet. The other officer got it wrong.' The driver said he was upset and was berating the other officer for issuing him the ticket."
The second officer, the documents read, noted that that wallet was "black, grey and small" and could be held in a portion of his hand. The officer was "satisfied that what he had observed in Mr. Thandi's hand was his wallet," the documents read.
During Thandi's subsequent appeal, the ticketing officer said that he had been using a high-powered scope, attached to a tripod, to monitor passing traffic. When the scope was trained on Thandi's car, the officer could see the driver with his right-hand to his ear.
"He (the officer) could see a shiny surface and blue light shining from the surface of the object," the court documents read. "The driver's lips were moving. He (the officer) says he made the observation for about 8 seconds. As he signalled the driver to stop, he noticed the driver bring his right hand down sharply."
When the officer approached the car, the driver "did not say anything and he appeared to have an expression of resignation on his face," the documents read.
Thandi, the documents continue, told the original ticketing officer that he had been holding his wallet in front of him "and that he was putting his gym card into it." The officer noted, however, that Thandi's wallet was not shiny like the object he had witnessed.
In his analysis, Judge Hunter W. Gordon said at issue was whether or not Thandi had been holding his right hand to his ear, as the ticketing officer had claimed, or if Thandi had been trying to put his gym card away, as he had claimed.
"It is an issue of credibility," Gordon wrote in B.C. Provincial Court. "In my view, an experienced traffic enforcement police officer would neither mistake nor misinterpret what he was seeing between a hand at the right ear and a hand being held out in front of the driver and the lips of the driver moving, at what would have been at most the equivalent of 20 to 25 metres because of the scope."
Gordon also observed that, during his mock drive-by, Thandi had been holding the wallet to his ear, and not out in front of him as he said he had been doing in an effort to put away his gym card.
"Finally, although this of lesser consideration in my decision," Gordon wrote," I would estimate that I have heard the same explanation from male drivers at least a dozen times in the past couple of years and am somewhat skeptical when I hear this defence from male drivers who claim they were holding a wallet to their ear. It is a practice that holds no logic."
As such, Gordon found Thandi guilty as charged and ordered him to pay the fine.
Sadly, excuses are par for the course for traffic cops these days, said Abbotsford Police spokesman Const. Ian MacDonald, speaking generally about distracted driving campaigns in his jurisdiction.
"We do hear them more often than we should," he said. "It's a little bit sad. When people offer the truth in the first instance, it's the exception rather than the rule."
This summer Abbotsford Police launched a light-hearted road safety campaign, drawing attention to some outlandish excuses heard by officers by publishing them online. One memorable excuse similar to Thandi's case was a driver who denied he was using a cell phone, that it was a hamburger he was holding up to his ear.
MacDonald said drivers are likely stressed out when they get pulled over, and may be defensive and anxious and blurt out excuses.
His advice: "Just own it and allow everyone to move on," he said. "Hopefuly it becomes a learning moment."
— with file from Cheryl Chan
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Distracted driving is the third leading cause of motor vehicle fatalities in B.C. behind impaired driving and speeding.
Distracted driving was the cause of 25 per cent of all fatal car crashes in the province from 2008 to 2012, according to ICBC statistics.
Every year, on average, 31 people die in the Lower Mainland in distracted driving-related crashes, while an average of 91 die in distracted driving-related crashes across B.C.
In Vancouver alone, about 800 distracted driving tickets are written each month.
Statistics show that drivers are 23 times more likely to get into a collision if they text while driving, while drivers talking on their cell phones are four times more likely to get into a crash.
A survey done for ICBC in 2012 showed that B.C. drivers think texting while driving is as risky as drinking and driving, but 40 per cent of respondents admitted that they've used their phones while driving.


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Peterson Air Force Base just released more information on the suspicious packages that caused a lock-down earlier today.
The five suspicious packages found at the Eberhardt-Findley Building, home of the North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command, have been assessed as non-threatening. In fact, the packages contained simple office supplies once examined.
New information tonight about those 5 suspicious packages found in the NORAD-NORTHCOM headquarters building on Peterson AFB.
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KKTV 11 News reporter Karen Morfitt has been out at the base all afternoon.
At this time, officials have lifted the 500 foot safety zone that was put in to place as a precaution. The two buildings next to the NORAD-NORTHCOM headquarters have also been released from increased security.
Those precautions were put in to place Just before 10 this morning after the packages were found.
Officials also had the north gate going in to Peterson Air Force Base closed off until about one afternoon.
We're told a team of military dogs was brought in to help clear the scene of any danger and testing we know has been done on those 5 suspicious packages to help determine what's inside
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A Brazilian couple was arraigned in federal court in Miami recently, charged with attempting to smuggle undocumented immigrants aboard boats from the Bahamas.
The arraignment Oct. 15 of Fabio Rodrigues Froes and Juliana Rosa Tome Froes, before Magistrate Judge Chris McAliley, where they pleaded not guilty, came less than a month after they were arrested in South Florida in a federal case that has led to the exposure of a little-known dimension to the issue of migrant smuggling.
Court records show that federal investigators from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) believe that the couple was part of a sophisticated and vast smuggling network that brought relatively well-off undocumented Brazilians to South Florida via a convoluted underground system that included flights from Brazil to France, then England and finally the Bahamas where the migrants boarded boats for the final leg of the journey to South Florida. The smuggling trips date back to at least 2009.
While Cuban and Haitian migrant smuggling networks receive the bulk of public attention in South Florida, smugglers who bring undocumented immigrants from other countries are also active but generally keep under the public radar. Besides Cubans and Haitians, Coast Guard vessels also have interdicted immigrants of many other nationalities on boats headed for South Florida, including Chinese, Dominicans, Mexicans and Ecuadorans in recent years.
"While the primary [migrant smuggling] threat comes from Haiti, the Dominican Republic, the People's Republic of China, and Cuba, the Coast Guard has interdicted migrants of various nationalities throughout the world," according to a statement posted on the Coast Guard's Miami district website.
In another example of what may be an increase in the smuggling of undocumented migrants of various nationalities on boats, a Customs and Border Protection vessel interdicted on Oct. 8 a boat carrying a Romania, three Brazilians, two Jamaicans and seven Haitians. The Romanian, Gabriel Florica, said he was the captain of the vessel that had been stopped off Palm Beach County. He told investigators he had paid $2,000 to a person identified only as Leroy and then traveled from Britain to the Bahamas, where he boarded his boat.
According to Coast Guard figures, during fiscal year 2012 that ended Sept. 20, the largest numbers of interdicted undocumented migrants were 1,275 Cubans, 977 Haitians and 456 Dominicans. There were also 79 Mexicans stopped at sea and 138 others of various nationalities.
Court records in the Froes case show that the alleged Brazilian smuggling network was uncovered because of a routine stop of a suspicious boat at Hillsboro Inlet near Pompano Beach in Broward County two years ago.
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Dr. Alan B. Carr, Department of Dental Specialties at Mayo Clinic, is a consultant in the Division of Prosthodontics and a professor of dentistry at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine.
Dr. Carr, a native of Hattiesburg, MS., received his prosthodontics training at Mayo. Following his training he has was an assistant professor at Marquette University and then became a full professor at Ohio State University where his clinical duties included Director of Maxillofacial Prosthetics at the James Cancer Hospital. He returned to Mayo in 2000.
Dr. Carr is board certified by the American Board of Prosthodontics. He served in the Air Force and has degrees from the University of Southern Mississippi, University of Mississippi and Mayo Graduate School of Medicine. He also is a member of numerous professional organizations including the American Academy of Maxillofacial Prosthetics, the American College of Prosthodontists and the American Dental Association. He has made dozens of international and national presentations, and is author of a dental textbook.
His clinical practice focuses on combined prosthodontics and reconstruction of patients with disabling oral conditions. His research interests include oral and craniofacial endosseous implants, tobacco cessation, and the impact of oral health on general health, especially for patients with chronic illness and the elderly.
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