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Learning The Hard Way

What to pack and where to pack it—to stay alive
By Herb Mathisen
Feb 10
From the February 2017 Issue

"Victory awaits him who has everything in order—luck, people call it,” writes famed polar explorer Roald Amundsen in his book The South Pole. “Defeat is certain for him who has neglected to take the necessary precautions in time. This is called bad luck.” The difference between life and death on the land can be directly related to what you bring with you. If you packed it but can’t reach it, however, that’s just as bad.

Close to the heart

If Jimmy Noble had put his satellite phone in his qamutik box like usual, and not in his jacket pocket, he might not be with us today.

More than ten years ago, Noble and his uncle set out from Iqaluit in darkness on a bitterly cold January morning to hunt for seals. About 20 miles out of town, they saw steam rising from a river. Overflow on rivers is common during the full moon and Noble asked his uncle, an elder, how best to proceed. His uncle advised against travelling close to the shore, since they might get stuck in slush. It should be safer out in the middle. It didn’t turn out that way.

Noble’s uncle was fortunate. When he went through the ice, he was able to jump off his snowmobile and into the boat he’d been dragging behind him on a qamutik. Noble wasn’t so lucky. “Once it started to sink, I stood up on the seat, then on the handlebar. And then when it was totally going down—I didn’t know if there was a bottom to it—I took the leap of faith to jump onto my qamutik and I missed,” he says. “And that’s how I ended up wet.”

Now up to his chest in frigid water, Noble was able to call his father—using the satellite phone in the inside breast-pocket of his parka—and arrange for a set of dry clothes. Noble’s uncle told him to stay in the water for as long as he could because the moment he got out, his gear would freeze. Plus, his uncle knew other hunters would be passing by soon enough. Within 45 minutes, they’d arrived. Noble rolled onto the ice and the hunters stripped him of his wet clothes and wrapped him in a frozen caribou hide and a tarp. They spared what they could for clothing. “Nobody had extra pants or longjohns or anything like that, so I put on a sweater for a pair of pants,” says Noble. “One guy ripped apart his mitts and I put them on as socks and I stayed like that for a couple hours until help arrived.” The cold was “indescribable,” he says, but he wasn’t hypothermic. Salvation soon arrived in the form of dry clothes and a sleeping bag.

Keep fire on you

In less than 30 seconds, they went from flight to upside-down, underwater.

Pilot Ken Quackenbush and passenger Shariff Adam had been looking for moose and taking in the sights over Gordon Lake before heading back to Sandy Point Lodge, about 100 km northeast of Yellowknife. The engine of Quackenbush’s Maule M-4 failed and now it was sinking. He fumbled with the door; Adam, disoriented, managed to unclip his seatbelt and escape, swimming down toward the wing of the overturned and submerged plane at first, fighting the buoyancy of his lifejacket, before surfacing.

The two stunned men stared disbelieving at each other over the floats, before climbing up to sit on one each. They were pushed by a brisk late-September wind to an island in the middle of the large lake.

Neither man had a lighter or matches on them. Quackenbush tried five times—plunging into the cold water—to access the sinking plane and the fire-starters, SPOT device, flares and other potentially lifesaving items contained therein. ˚

He managed to grab a tarp and some soggy lunch, but little else. And the dives were beginning to take their toll. Quackenbush says Adam later told him that he was talking gibberish. “I wasn’t making much sense,” says Quackenbush. “This was actually getting beyond shivering. After I got out, we’re collecting spruce boughs, making a little bed, and Shariff found a muffin and I was trying to eat it and I couldn’t. I had no spit. I just couldn’t swallow.”

They heard floatplanes buzzing along the coast, a chopper on the south-end of the lake, but with only their orange tarp—nestled away in the bush, surrounded by fall’s reds and oranges—there was little to do to attract their attention.

As night fell, the two men hunkered down close together under the tarp to conserve body heat. They could stop shivering for five to ten seconds, Quackenbush says, before starting again. At midnight, a Hercules passed overhead, flying a grid pattern along the east shore of the lake. The Herc didn’t see them, and eventually it left.

Around 5 a.m., a snow squall hit and Quackenbush started to worry—if the weather stayed like this, and the planes couldn’t get in, he didn’t know how long they could hold out without fire. Thankfully, the snow let up and soon the skies were buzzing again. Later that morning, a helicopter sighted Adam‘s blue jacket and they were rescued. Three months later, Quackenbush was still awestruck by the tireless efforts of the search and rescue team. But all the anguish could have been avoided if he’d had a lighter, some matches or even a flint on his person. “A fire would have got us rescued right away, the same day,” he says. At the very least, they’d have been reasonably comfortable on the heavily wooded island, in dry clothes.

Dry-bag in the dead of winter

Mike Rarog was leading a squadron to reopen an abandoned airstrip 90 kilometres east of Yellowknife when suddenly he had a sinking feeling. It was close to -40 C and Rarog, an ex-mission specialist with the military and current owner of survival training company Arctic Response, felt the ice beneath him give way. He was soon chest-deep in a small creek. His army-supply cold-weather gear kept him warm, as he fought to get his snowmobile back on land. “So long as I kept moving, my insulated bib pants, parka and bad temper made the experience miserable but doable,” he says. The ordeal took about a half-hour.

“I knew I wasn’t going to freeze to death because I was travelling with other members of the squadron, but I couldn’t help but think that this could have been pretty dire if I had been on my own,” he says. His snowmobile, once wrestled out of the creek, was a block of ice, as was his survival bag, strapped to his backrest. “It would be a coin toss if I’d be able to get a fire going at that temperature in wet clothes and with severe shakes and loss of dexterity,” he says.

But without knowing it, he’d been prepared for this. He doesn’t generally pack a dry-sack in winter, but this time he did. Inside, he had polypropylene long-undies, gloves, heavy socks, a balaclava and even a fire-making kit—and they were all dry, despite the bag’s half-hour soaking. If he’d been alone, he might have been okay after all, he reckons.

Now out of the creek, Rarog was stuffed into a hypothermia wrap, strapped to a skimmer, and hauled back to town. But he had one more painful lesson to learn yet: Rarog’s colleague was racing back to Yellowknife at a pretty good clip. A little too fast actually—he “rolled the snowmobile and skimmer over and buried my face in the hard pack.”

Don’t leave home without…

No matter how prepared you are, mishaps occur. In his 25 years with search and rescue in Iqaluit, Jimmy Noble has seen it all. And he says there are items no one should head out on the land without. “At minimum,” says Noble, a SPOT or inReach device—or a more expensive satellite phone—should be taken to transmit location information in an emergency. This, for instance, would have saved Nunavut MLA Pauloosie Keyootak and his two travel companions a week of physical and mental agony—and spared the stress to family, friends and search and rescuers—after their party got turned around in a blizzard during a snowmobile trip from Iqaluit to Qikiqtarjuaq. A cellphone GPS program malfunctioned and instead of heading northeast, the three men were found nearly eight days later, 167 kilometres southeast of Iqaluit. (Fortunately, they had a small knife, which they used to build an iglu for shelter.)


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Because Two Days Isn’t Enough

By Geoff Rynex

Joy. It’s important. It’s joyful. And it’s frequently found at parties. It’s an issue though that sometimes we feel obligated to keep our joy-seeking to Friday and Saturday nights. It’s a burden we want to free you from. And so we’ve collected our favorite weeknight parties, and put them right here.

Battle Hymn at Flash Factory

Battle Hymn at Flash Factory

The Scene: The best techno and EDM DJs that nightlife legend Ladyfag can assemble in a place that feels a whole lot like a church devoted to dancing.
Keywords: Legendary DJ pop-ins, religious experiences, mysterious pills

Sundays, 10pm-3am, $10-20, Flash Factory, 229 W 28th St (between 7th and 8th), 212-929-9070

ESO!! Mondays at Bembe

ESO!! Mondays at Bembe

The Scene: All kinds of Latin music and graduate-level dancing in a tucked-away South Williamsburg favorite.
Keywords: Salsa, merengue, dancehall, drinks with umbrellas

Mondays, 10pm-4am, Bembe, 81 S 6th St (at Berry), Brooklyn, 718-387-5389

Tuesday Baby Tuesday at Up & Down

Tuesday Baby Tuesday at Up & Down

The Scene: Glowing stalactites, a hip-hop bent, the more-than-occasional celebrity and you dancing at what is the longest continuous nightlife event in New York, now on 14th at Up & Down.
Keywords: Until daylight, neon living, probable sick day

Tuesdays, 11pm, Up & Down, 244 W 14th St (between 7th and 8th), 212-242-4411

BYOVinyl at Garret East

BYOVinyl at Garret East

The Scene: Aside from the relaxed cocktail lounge vibe, this one’s kind of up to you. You bring in your own vinyl, they give you a shot.
Keywords: Classics, audiophiles, music snobs welcome

Open Decks at Lot45

Open Decks at Lot45

The Scene: You on the ones and twos at a rowdy Bushwick cocktail spot, at least three friends to cheer you on, and an after-party for you to cool down and collect praise.
Keywords: Practice, do a good job, no pressure

Thursdays, 7pm-2am, Lot45, 411 Troutman St (between Wyckoff and St. Nicholas), Brooklyn, 347-505-9155

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Eastman Institute Celebrates Class of 2017

“Those graduating tonight are achieving a major milestone in their lives and their careers,” said EIOH Director Dr. Eli Eliav as he began the ceremony to a standing-room only auditorium. “Some will enter the world of research, and some will join practices or set up their own. Or, some will pursue academic careers, which I encourage you to do because it is a very fulfilling career.”

Dr. CalnonThe keynote address was delivered by Dr. William Calnon, an Eastman GPR alumnus and longstanding leader in the profession. He is president of the Eastman Dental Foundation Board and American Dental Association Foundation, and has served previously as president of the American Dental Association, NYS Dental Association, and the Monroe County and Seventh District Dental Societies, among many other local, national and international key positions.

“We all enjoy working with him because he is passionate about Eastman, and our mission of excellence in education, research and patient care,” said Dr. Eliav about Dr. Calnon. “His decades of leadership have provided him with a keen ability to build bridges between people and organizations, and work toward long term, sustainable solutions.”

George EAstmanDr. Calnon asked the audience to imagine that George Eastman, who founded Eastman Dental 100 years ago, had been able to observe the evolution of the dispensary, and was available to answer a few questions.

Dr. Calnon shared that George Eastman expressed confusion as to why dental disease was still so prevalent so many years later, despite major advancements in technology and knowledge. Dr. Calnon challenged the graduates to address that issue.

“You must use your leadership skills you have acquired and sharpened at Eastman Institute to address the many reasons why a virtually preventable process is still as prevalent as it is,” he said.  “These issues include dental literacy, ability to access care, understanding of the need for care, utilization of available care, and ability to navigate health care systems.”

And, economic and cultural issues only makes the problem worse, he added, so Dr. Calnon encouraged the graduates to get –and stay involved.

“We as professionals need to have a say in how these matters are handled,” he said. “Position yourselves to influence outcomes. Always try to make a difference – for yourselves and the public at large.”

Dr. Calnon asked Mr. Eastman if he had any advice for the graduates.  Mr. Eastman emphasized that they are a product of many years of history. Their future has been shaped by leaders in dentistry, and by those who invested in the mission of the original dispensary, and who gave back to the institution that had contributed to their personal and professional success.

“You have become part of a family with a rich heritage and a very bright future,” he said. “Membership in the family comes with certain responsibilities. Stay current and engaged – the family is stronger with you and you are stronger because of the family. Look for ways to mentor and invest in those around you.  The world will be a better place when you do.”

Before the trainees received their certificates, many awards were given to deserving faculty, staff and residents.

Dr. Eugene Surasky and Dr. EliavThe Director’s Award was presented to Dr. Eugene Surasky, a part-time faculty member in General Dentistry for 30 years.  The award recognizes his excellence in clinical education, and for outstanding achievements in service and education.

“When you combine a wonderful sense of humor, compassion, kindness, thoughtfulness, the willingness to help others and give their personal time, with excellent dental skills and diagnostic ability, you get Dr. Eugene Surasky,” Dr. Eliav said.

Previously, Dr. Surasky was the recipient of the Part-Time Clinical Teaching Award in 1993 and 2004, and the General Dentistry Excellence in Clinical Teaching Award in 2006.

“When I first heard about the director’s award I thought they had the wrong person, I never made a movie,” Dr. Surasky quipped. “But now that I understand, I am very humbled and appreciative. Being a teacher is a passion – you really do learn more than you teach. I can now swear in 14 languages. Thank you so much.”

Dr. Leonard Fishman, who has been helping residents for some 55 years, was awarded the Bejan Iranpour Award, for making a huge impact supervising clinical treatment as well as numerous research projects which have impacted the discipline of orthodontics.

Dr. Len Fishman and Dr. Eliav“Through the years, Len mentored generations of orthodontists, sometimes the parent and years later their daughter or son,” Dr. Eliav added. “I am looking forward to see him teaching one of his resident’s grandchild.”

“This award is so special because I’ve known Bejan Iranpour since 1961 when we were pedo residents together,” recalled Dr. Fishman. “Today we have a very dedicated and talented staff. We’re one big family we act like a team, and it can’t get any better than it is right now.”

Each year, the Dentistry faculty and residents are given the opportunity to nominate part-time faculty who give a great amount of personal time and understanding to those involved in our educational programs. This year’s recipient is Dr. Vladimir Frias

“If we knew that the talented Dr. Frias lived in the region, we would have approached him years ago,” said Dr. Eliav. “But it was one of our lucky days when he approached us with a desire to teach part time.”

The residents love his teaching style and said he is extremely knowledgeable with exceptional patient care skills.  He is especially instrumental in enhancing care for patients with complex conditions, improving the education for residents, while partnering with our colleagues at the medical center. Maxillofacial cases can be difficult and psychologically demanding to both the patient and the provider, but Dr. Frias always finds a positive way to talk to the patients with enthusiasm while being realistic and showing great compassion.

Tequila Wright accepting awardThe Shaffer-Devries Award for Excellence in Administrative Operations or Clinical Service was awarded to Tequila Wright, who started her career at Eastman more than 13 years ago as a dental assistant, was promoted to Lead Dental Assistant and has been the Practice Manager for School 17 and the SMILEmobiles for the last 4 years.

Her dedication and enthusiasm to our mission and serving most vulnerable people in our community is unwavering.  Her many contributions have been significant and our patients are better off because of them.

Basil G. Bibby Fellowship Award
Basil Bibby who served as the second director of the Eastman dispensary between 1947 and 1967 strove Basil Bibby Award Winnersto lead and help early investigators into productive and meaningful careers.

He encouraged young people to think and to participate in research with the realization that research caused one to focus attention and foster thinking. Dr. Grace Xuelian Huang and Dr. Linda Wang were chosen for this award.

New York State Dental Foundation Dean’s Award
Dr. Sari Alzoubi
was given this award for demonstrating outstanding academic achievement and their Drs. Alzoubi and Calnoncommitment to enhancing and improving the oral health of underserved populations.

Stanley L. Handelman Fellowship Award
Training future leaders in dentistry is at the core of the Eastman mission.  Dr. Stan Handelman, widely known as the Father of Postdoctoral General Dentistry, established a Fellowship fund to provide support to students and residents interested in Handelman Fellowshippursuing a dental academic career.  To date, more than 100 Eastman alumni, faculty and friends have contributed to the fund.

This award is not given out each year, but only when an exemplary resident or student, such as this year’s awardee Dr. Maria Gabriela Carranza, has been identified as truly embracing the spirit of the Handelman fund.

Another Handelman Award recognized Drs. Sari Alzoubi and Abner O Delos Santos for their Handelman award winners with Mr. Handelmanperformance during the program of going beyond the expectations and demonstrating excellent skills in leadership, ethics, initiative, and communications, as well as showing an interest in enhancing other residents’ experience at EIOH.

Jack G. Caton Graduate Fellowship Award
This award, given to Dr. Alexandra Tsigarida, is designed to encourage and support dentists who are pursuing an academic career in periodontics. The Caton Fellowship was awarded to Dr. Alexandra Dr Tsigarida and Dr CatonTsigarida, an assistant professor in the Department of Periodontics, in recognition of her commitment to academic periodontology.

“I feel very happy that I’m in this institution,” said Dr. Tsigarida, EIOH Periodontics assistant professor. “I’ve always felt very welcome and very supported by all the faculty and the institution.  I will continue to strive for excellence for the residents, our department, and the institution.”

Award for Scholarly Excellence
Drs. Fawad Javed and Sergio Varela Kellesarian received the Award of Scholarly Excellence for their Fawad and Sergio accepting awardcontributions to dental research in peer-reviewed publications during their two and a half years of training. Dr. Javed published 68 studies in medical and dental journals, and Dr. Varela Kellesarian published 41 studies. Each received national and international media attention for some of their work. This award was given for the first time to graduating AEGD residents.

American Association for Dental Research – Rochester Section
Each spring, a special event highlights research projects completed throughout the year. Out of 80 poster presentations, a team of judges selected seven to receive scientific merit awards.

Basil G. Bibby Award
basil bibby awardeesOutstanding scientific merit among presentations by non-degree candidates.

Dr. Shannon Fitzpatrick, Pediatric resident
Dr. Edith Gonzalez Jaimes, AEGD resident
Dr. Samuel Obamiyi, TMJD resident.

Michael G. Buonocore Award
Outstanding scientific merit among oral and poster presentations by degree candidates.

Buonocore AwardeesDr. Cuc (Daisy) Ngo, Orthodontic Resident
Dr. Linda Wang Perio Resident

Gerald N. Graser Award
Outstanding clinical case series and/or case reports that describe original, innovative and/or evidence based clinical treatments.

AADR winnerDr. Adriana Parra Barillas, AEGD resident.

Bowen Award
Outstanding scientific merit among poster presentations by candidates in postdoctoral programs.

Dr. Heng Lin, Center for Oral BiologyCOB winner Bowen award

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U of T expert on cannabis pardons – and how racialized Canadians are disproportionately affected by drug laws

Akwasi Owusu-Bempah, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Toronto Mississauga, is the director of research for the Campaign for Cannabis Amnesty, a non-profit advocacy organization (photo by Jim Rankin/Toronto Star via Getty Images)

On Wednesday, the day that cannabis became legal in Canada, the federal government announced that it will bring in legislation to allow Canadians with criminal convictions for small amounts of marijuana apply for pardons.

It's an issue that Akwasi Owusu-Bempah, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Toronto Mississauga, has been at the centre of as the director of research for the Campaign for Cannabis Amnesty, a non-profit advocacy organization.

On Oct. 26, he will give a TEDxToronto talk on his work, which focuses on race and policing and the criminal justice system.

He talked to Kim Honey of U ofT News about legalization, border crossings, and how racialized Canadians are disproportionately affected by drug laws.

Cannabis is now legal. What do you think is going to happen, especially with young people?

Canada has some of the highest rates of youth cannabis use in the world, and our young people are already using the drug at fairly high rates. It’s becoming more and more socially acceptable. It's not uncommon for me to be wandering through campus or around downtown Toronto and smell cannabis frequently. Some people have said that Oct. 17 will become the new 4/20 – April 20 being one of the days that cannabis culture celebrates – and that might happen. But I'm not expecting anything kind of world-changing to happen.

Decriminalizing possession is something that you strongly feel has been a long time coming?

Yes, absolutely. From my perspective, the fact that people are being saddled with criminal records that can impact their lives is much more harmful than any of the effects of using the drug itself.

Canada has had a liberal attitude to cannabis, where police might stop you if you had a certain amount and let you go. What effect has that had?

The police have a lot of discretion. For a lot of Canadian history, police have exercised that discretion and turned a blind eye for some, but certainly not all people. For most of human history, drugs have not been illegal, and drugs have been criminalized largely to control a certain population.

Our first drug law was the Opium Act of 1908. This came directly in response to concern over the presence of Asian immigrants on the West Coast. Once the railroad was complete, those Asian labourers were competition for white labour. So this created a fair bit of social unrest, including the anti-Asiatic riots in the early 20th century.

I knew that criminal convictions are disproportionate for racialized and Indigenous people, but it goes back that far?

Our first racialized drug law was actually the prohibition of alcohol, which was exercised with Indigenous populations. Marijuana was outlawed in 1923, but few people were arrested. That did start to increase in the 1950s and 1960s, and this was largely a concern here and south of the border about who was using. It was the hippies, the Communists – those who were looked at as socially undesirable and perhaps a threat to the dominant order.

This is where we see a spike in our enforcement. Many of the people who were targeted turned out to be children of middle-class, white Canadians, and those middle-class, white Canadian parents were worried about what was going to happen to their children.

We often think of ourselves as having been pretty liberal with respect to drugs generally and cannabis in particular, but this hasn't been the case. We’ve got tens of thousands of people being arrested for cannabis use in Canada each year. And this varies from year to year and also across the country, but dating back to 2000, estimates are as many as 500,000 people in Canada have a criminal record for cannabis possession.

Of the 500,000 people, do we know how many are racialized?

We do not know exactly how many are racialized. We do have relatively good data showing that it has been largely Indigenous people and Black Canadians who've been targeted for cannabis possession arrest, even though we know that rates of cannabis use are relatively similar across racial groups.

How will that affect who will be stopped at the U.S. border?

Those arrests go into the Canadian Police Information Centre system, and that information is accessible by American customs officials. We can suspect border services are going to be more likely to ask them because of stereotypes, equating those groups with drug use.  But they're also more likely to have their data in that system, because they've been more likely to be arrested. The problem is that that burden has been disproportionately placed on these racialized populations. And it’s not just the border, it’s completing education, it’s gaining employment. We're seeing increasingly that you can't get housing, and then of course there's the travelling.

 One of the questions that can trip people up at the border is “have you used before?”

Yes, and if you admit to having used it in your lifetime, then that is grounds for American customs to deny you entry and to do so for life. But now that it will be legal, even if you've used it under our legal regime, they will turn you away.

So what happens if you lie and say no?

You don't want to lie, because if you're caught lying, then you can also be banned for life.

What would you advise students who are worried about traveling to or through the U.S.?

Just be careful about what information might be publicly accessible. We know that border services have access to public social media profiles, but we understand they're also increasingly asking people to look through their phones.

Why is an amnesty important for possession convictions?

One thing that we have to consider is there will now be more laws around the cannabis plant after legalization than there were before. There are still a number of ways that people can become criminalized. There will be the possession of illicit cannabis, concerns around impaired driving, trafficking, and sharing with minors. So amnesty’s certainly not going to make everything go away, because there are so many things that are illegal.

But amnesty is important to us in order to right history’s wrongs. The least we can do for people who have been convicted of crimes that are no longer illegal is to erase those criminal records.


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A 24-year-old Oxnard man was arrested Wednesday night after a crash in Port Hueneme left a woman dead, authorities said Thursday.

The two-car collision with major injuries was reported at 9:57 p.m. in the 600 Block of West Channel Islands Boulevard, near the cross-over bridge entrance to Mandalay Village Marketplace, according to the Port Hueneme Police Department.

Jose Garcia Rodriguez, the driver of one of the vehicles, was taken into custody on suspicion of felony gross vehicular manslaughter and felony driving under the influence causing injury. Police also said Rodriguez was driving without a license.

Garcia Rodriguez was driving a Chevy Malibu westbound on Channel Islands Boulevard at a high-rate of speed and ran a red light, Port Hueneme police said. His car, with passengers, struck a Hyundai Accent that was making a left turn into the shopping center.

The male driver and female passenger of the Hyundai suffered major injuries and were taken by ambulance to Ventura County Medical Center. The passenger later died from her injuries and was pronounced dead at the hospital, Port Hueneme police said.

The four occupants of the Chevy were treated at the scene for minor injuries.

This collision is still under investigation. Anyone with additional information is asked to contact Detective Mike Hamrick at 805-986-6541 or

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1) Kansas vs. 16) Western Kentucky

Kansas Jayhawks basketballThe Jayhawks will again be in the hunt for a national championship in this 2013 NCAA basketball tournament. Kansas has improved since losing three in a row in February by becoming less dependent on freshman Ben McLemore and having other making steadier contributions. Western Kentucky suffered a rash of injuries, but got healthy late which is why they won the Sun Belt. The Hilltoppers have a fine backcourt in J. Price and Jamal Crook, but lack the offense and defensive acumen to fly with the Jayhawks who are favored by 20.

8) North Carolina vs. 9) Villanova

North Carolina went small starting near the middle February and finished 8-2 SU. The Tar Heels can create mismatches on the floor, but can be exposed in the paint when the shots are not dropping. Villanova played the role of giant killer several times in the Big East, but all those came in Philadelphia, not on the road, yet the Wildcats were 11-5 ATS away. Nova is a crappy club and might be mentally tougher than the Tar Heels, opening the door for taking the 3.5-points. Either squad could be challenging for Kansas, but beating them is a different matter.

4) Michigan vs. 13) South Dakota State

Michigan ended the regular season 5-5 and is 2-10 ATS since Feb. 2. This leaves them susceptible to being upset as Glenn Robinson III went AWOL on the offensive end, leaving Trey Burke to fend for himself too frequently. The Jackrabbits have a terrific scorer in Nate Wolters, who will give the Wolverines fits. South Dakota State struggles with quickness and speed as witnessed in their loss to Murray State in late February. Michigan should handle their weaker foe, but 11.5-points do seem large for a team not covering spreads.

5) VCU vs. 12) Akron

The Zips are the lone MAC representative and could not have drawn a worse opponent, considering their circumstance. Akron lost starting point guard Alex Abreu to an arrest, leaving freshman Carmelo Betancourt to run the team. With the kind of constant pressure the Rams apply, they can negate the Zips edge inside with Zeke Marshall and Demetrius Treadwell. Based on the matchup, hard to imagine VCU doesn’t come away as a double digit winner. The Rams could cause Michigan a boatload of problems if they meet.

2) Georgetown vs. 15) Florida G.C.

Georgetown Hoyas basketballIn seeking a medium-priced team to win six times, hard to go wrong with Georgetown at 18-to-1. The Hoyas have an outstanding player in Otto Porter Jr. who can score and set up his teammates from the forward spot. Georgetown is one of the best defensive teams in the tourney by any measure, nonetheless, will have scoring deficiencies which keeps games sometimes closer than they should. Florida Gulf Coast might serve as a good first half wager with their balanced attack and defense, but it turns the ball over too much to be a quality play at +12.5.

7) San Diego State vs. 10) Oklahoma

With a backcourt of Jamaal Franklin, Chase Tapley and Xavier Thames, the Aztecs will not go quietly. San Diego State might not have much up front, but this trio is tough-minded and gives all it has each time out. Oklahoma has coach Lon Kruger and normally that is worth at least one win in this event. Kruger’s Sooners have depth, yet little star power and are dependent on its moving parts to emerge victorious. San Diego State is favored by 2.5-points and Oklahoma needs to have the lead with five minutes to play, since the Aztecs are 90-0 when ahead with that much time to play. Do not expect either squad to knock of G-Town.

3) Florida vs. 14) Northwestern State

Florida has the firepower to reach the title game on April 8; the holdup on the Gators is do they have the smarts and will when it counts to do so. Florida is a tremendous frontrunner, but is 0-6 SU in games decided by six points or less. Northwestern State led the country in scoring at 81 PPG and has four double digit scorers. The Demons defeats have to teams which slow them down or have the athletes to match points with them. Not much of a contest, however, the 20.5-points by the oddsmakers make it intriguing.

6) UCLA vs. 11) Minnesota

In this confrontation, the outcome will be determined by who can play to their strengths and best mask their weaknesses. UCLA is very efficient both in the run game and half court sets. The Bruins are a thoroughly awful rebounding team and get to the free throw line for dead ball points infrequently. It is hard to remember Minnesota was once 15-1 and ranked No.8 in the land. The Golden Gophers are considered a head-case at this juncture, being able to control the glass, yet make the dumbest of mistakes for periods of times. Minnesota a 3.5-point choice based on conference and the winner’s season ends when they face Florida.

Sweet 16 – Kansas – VCU – Florida – Georgetown

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Verbund acquires 13 hydro power plants in Bavaria from German E.ON

Verbund, Austria´s leading electricity company, further enforces its position as one of the leading hydro power producers in Europe and acquires a total of 13 hydro power plants with a capacity of 312 MW along the Bavarian part of the river Inn from German energy utility E.ON.

E.ON has been obliged by the EU-commission to sell a total capacity of 5,000 MW of  their German power plants. According to this obligation, E.On has lanced a tendering procedure of 13 run-of-river power plants along the Bavarian part of the river Inn with a total capacity of 312 MW. Verbund has participated and successfully acquired the power plants. The annual generation totals 1,850 GWh and corresponds to approximately 9 % of the total run-of- river production generated by Verbund.

The acquisition price consists of a cash purchase price and a 20 year electricity purchase and service contract for the Verbund owned power plant group Zemm/Ziller. E.On and Verbund agreed upon silence about the exact sum of the acquisition price.

Verbund is going to run a subsidiary company in Germany for the acquired Inn hydro power plants and intends to offer a stake of up to 30 % of this company to interested Bavarian municipalities.

This transaction fits perfectly with Verbund’s long-term development strategy to enforce the Austrian group’s position as one of Europe´s leading hydro power producers. In Austria, Verbund operates storage and run-of-river hydro power plants with a total capacity of more than 6,600 MW, has currently 500 MW hydro power plant projects under construction and is planning the realisation of 550 MW more until 2015. In addition hydro power is genuine part of its international growth strategy as well: The group is targeting to acquire hydro concessions in France as part of its joint venture Poweo’s business plan and the enforcement of its activities in French energy market.  In Turkey, Verbund is planning and constructing nine hydro power plants with a total capacity of approximately 1,000 MW together with its regional partner Sabanci group. Furthermore Verbund recently celebrated the groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of a 48 MW run-of-river power plant in Albania.

Furthermore, this acquisition supports Verbund’s successful retail and trading activities in Germany. The German electricity market  - providing an annual sales volume of approximately 22,700 GWh - which corresponds to 40 % of the total sales volume of Verbund-  is Verbund’s main international core market. Besides Verbund is going to benefit from multiple synergies having VERBUND-Austrian Hydro Power’s plants close-by the acquired plants on the river Inn.

The closing of the transaction is scheduled for quarter 3/2009 and is still subject to certain conditions precedent, including, in particular, approval by the European Commission  and the competent anti-trust authorities.


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Physician Assistant Career Profile and Overview

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The role of a physician assistant varies by state because the way they are able to practice depends on the state laws in which they practice. Physician assistants (P.A.s) are sometimes confused with medical assistants or nurses. However, physician assistants are much more educationally and clinically advanced than medical assistants, and they don't attend nursing school for their degree.

Physician assistants are often referred to as "mid-level" providers because they are sort of in between physicians and nurses in their clinical authority, although they are somewhat similar to nurse practitioners in their role.

Sometimes, P.A.s are called "physician extenders" because they can see patients and charge for office visits without a physician's direct supervision. This allows a medical practice to see more patients, and earn more revenue, with fewer physicians. In many states, however, P.A.s must practice under indirect supervision from a physician, meaning a physician must be in the building or sign off on all clinical orders and prescriptions written by a P.A.

Educational Requirements

Physician assisting requires a bachelor's degree and completion of a master's program in physician assisting from an accredited P.A. school. The program is usually about two years and includes eight clinical rotations lasting five weeks each.

To expedite the process and increase your chances of being accepted into a P.A. program, it helps if your bachelor's degree is in a science such as biology. Otherwise, you may have to take additional hours of prerequisite lab sciences before applying to a P.A. program.

Physician assistants can work in medical offices or in hospitals, depending upon their specialty. For example, in the case of surgical P.A.s, they may work in the operating room assisting a surgeon in surgery at a hospital or at an outpatient surgery center.

Depending on the state laws, P.A.s may work very independently with minimal physician oversight, or in other states, they may be supervised more closely. In any case, they have more clinical authority and independence than most nurses, but not as much as physicians.

In most states, physician assistants can see patients and diagnose them, prescribe medication, and perform procedures much like a physician would.

Physician assistants can focus on a variety of medical specialties. Some of the most common are family medicine, internal medicine, surgery, orthopedics, and cardiology.

Some medical industry leaders feel that physician assistants are an integral part of the solution to the physician shortage. On the other hand, physicians cite the disparity in P.A. training as compared to physicians. (Physicians attend four years of medical school plus a minimum of three years in residency training, for a total of at least seven years, while the physician assistant training is a total of two years including clinical rotations.)

Average Salary and Compensation

The Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows average salary for physician assistants to be $97,280 annually. However, other salary reports show the average salary to be well over $100,000. According to the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA), the average annual compensation for physician assistants is $84,326 in primary care and $97,207 for surgical specialties. Additionally, benefits often include an additional $6,000 to $7,000 worth of retirement benefits per year.

Additional Information

As with any specialized professional health career, a professional association is an excellent resource for additional information about specific licensure requirements, educational needs, and state practice laws.

The American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA) is a great place to go for such specialized, detailed information including a list of accredited P.A. schools.

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Veterans Call for De-escalation, Negotiations, and Peace on the Korean Peninsula

Veterans For Peace, a U.S. based organization with international chapters in Japan and Okinawa, calls on the governmental leaders of the U.S., the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK, aka North Korea), the Republic of Korea (ROK, aka South Korea) and Japan to stop their escalation of threatening words and actions, and begin negotiations toward the signing of the long-awaited Peace Treaty putting a final end to the Korean War.

Any attempt to solve the issues dividing the Korean Peninsula by warfare would bring disaster not only to the people living there, but also to all the people living in Northeast Asia.

Retired General Gary Luck, Former Commander of U.S. Forces in Korea, has estimated that such a war would leave one million dead.  And what would be the aim of this war?  Each side is threatening to make war on the other to punish it for threatening to make war.  This is the behavior of schoolyard bullies, armed not with knives and clubs but nuclear weapons.  This catastrophic war is avoidable, and must be avoided.

In understanding the background to this situation, it should be remembered that the DPRK has been under nuclear threat from the U.S. ever since the Korean War in the 1950s. That their government has in recent years taken to threatening nuclear retaliation to any attacker is a wildly dangerous and morally condemnable policy, but it is not unique to the DPRK.  It is a policy, invented by the U.S. and adopted by every country that possesses nuclear weapons, called “nuclear deterrence”.  Every criticism heaped upon the DPRK for following this policy applies equally to every country possessing nuclear weapons.

Each year the U.S. and the ROK carry out joint military exercises right up against the DPRK border, and based on the scenario of an invasion of that country.

Every year the DPRK, which unsurprisingly considers this a threat, protests with verbal counter-threats and, recently, missile launchings.

This year, the U.S. and Japan carried out joint military exercises at the same time as the U.S.-ROK exercises. Rhetoric has escalated. U.S. President Donald Trump threatened “fire and fury like the world has never seen”, and stated that “all options are on the table”, which means a pre-emptive strike is being considered.  DPRK leader Kim Jong Un threatened to launch missiles aimed at the vicinity of Guam.  Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe threatened to send Japan’s Self Defense Forces along with any U.S.  invasion of the North, which would spell the final end of Japan’s Peace Constitution.  Kim Jong Un responded by sending a missile over northern Japan – though not, as was claimed, violating Japan’s airspace, as when it passed over Japan it was in outer space, at an elevation even higher than that of the many satellites that legally pass over Japan every day.

Prime Minister Abe, however, took advantage of the situation by calling a state of emergency in northern Japan, commandeering the national broadcasting system NHK, and also the cell-phone system, to urge people take shelter from the alleged impending attack by moving to the basements of concrete buildings (few buildings have these). Presumably Abe is hoping that the resulting panic will help him to promote his militarization plans, and in particular to gain support for his purchases of expensive counter-missile commodities. (It is noteworthy that during this “state of emergency” the trains, including the bullet trains, were kept running.)

This gambling with the lives of millions has got to stop.  And there is a way to stop it.  DPRK, while carrying out its threatening nuclear tests and missile launchings, has repeatedly said it wants to negotiate a peace treaty ending the Korean War, which the U.S. has been refusing.  But a peace treaty is a very good idea, the signing of which would allow the many hundreds of millions of people living in Northeast Asia to breathe a sigh of relief.  Veterans For Peace calls on the U.S. Government to accept this offer, and to begin negotiations with the DPRK aiming at signing such a treaty and normalizing relations between the DPRK and the ROK.

And as the governments of the relevant countries seem locked into their present self-destructive policies, we call upon the citizens of those countries, who surely do not want a meaningless nuclear war where they live, to demand that their governments back off and begin negotiations, which are the only way to bring peace to the region.

Written by Veterans For Peace, VFP Japan and Okinawa VFP


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Try This! Summer Hairstyles That Continue Into Autumn

Danielle from Fashion Bomb Daily has given us a healthy reminder that summer is coming to a close. As we all rush to run out and buy boots, new fall jackets and makeup, there are a few things we need to worry about first and foremost–our hair! Hair trends are changing, but there are a few great hair looks that can take you right in the breezy months to come.

Check it out:

1. A pop of color on a precision cut.

If you have short cut, jazz it up with a pop of red or honey-blonde. You don’t even have to fully commit to color—not with clip-in bangs making it easy for you to pop your color in and pop it right out.

2. A messy roller set.

Hit the salon (or DIY) and have the hair set on 1/2 inch or less rollers (the smaller the rod the tighter the curl). Sit under a hooded dryer (grab a book—The Help is a pretty good read so far–I’m up to page 326). Once you’re dry, finger comb the hair to your desired look. Fear not if the hair doesn’t come out exactly as planned–your best hair days will come as the curls begin to drop.

P.S. Be sure the hair is saturated with water and some setting lotion to ensure the best curl. Add a little hair serum to the ends to help prevent frizzing. This is also a great style for those transitioning from a relaxer.

Peep the other summer ‘styles to try at Fashion Bomb Daily!

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Kevin is from Vietnam

Kevin (53)

Big heart ❤ I take care of you a... Kon Tum, Kon Tum, Vietnam
Seeking: Female 22 - 35 for Marriage
Have children: No

❤ My name is Kevin and I live in Kon Tum, Vietnam. I am from the UK originally. I am serious about marriage and having a family. I am looking for a special, beautiful lady. Pretty, intelligent and happy. I want one child for sure, or 2. I love children and I am happy if you already have a child. I am an English Teacher. I am surrounded by children and I am happy about that. Me? I love LOVE. I know how to love, I demand love in return. Love is everything. ❤ Without love, we see only 50% of the world. I like music and I like to laugh if you sing that is even better. I love to walk along the river and explore the area and I am serious about creating my family. I am not a rich man, but my profession means that I will always have good a salary to care for you and our children. Let’s make our dreams come true. I am ready to create a family. How about you?

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Nguyen (30)

Tìm bạn nữ cùng sở thích đọc bên ... District 1, Hồ Chí Minh, Vietnam
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David is from Vietnam

David (45)

Don't look for a prince - Look fo... Phu Quoc, Kiên Giang, Vietnam
Seeking: Female 18 - 39 for Marriage
Have children: No

I am flirting with the universe and all her elements every day, but it is not easy to find real happiness. My life is more intense than what ever you know tasted before – it is like blowing kisses at the sun as she sets...waiting to seduce the moon..

Johnson is from Vietnam

Johnson (47)

Work Hard Play Hard District 1, Hồ Chí Minh, Vietnam
Seeking: Female 24 - 40 for Marriage
Have children: No

Hi my dear friends, I am johnson from Singapore nice to meet you here. I do hope I could able to find my true friendship and my ideal lover here as I do wish to have a happy family. Currently I am working in HCM and Vinh Long and doing my food business here. Wishing you all good health and prosperous always, take care god bless. Xin chào bạn bè thân mến của tôi, tôi là johnson từ Singapore rất vui được gặp bạn ở đây. Tôi hy vọng tôi có thể tìm thấy tình bạn thật sự của tôi và người yêu lý tưởng của tôi ở đây như tôi muốn có một gia đình hạnh phúc. Hiện nay tôi đang làm việc tại TP. Hồ Chí Minh và Vĩnh Long và kinh doanh thực phẩm của tôi ở đây. Với mong muốn bạn tất cả sức khỏe tốt và thịnh vượng luôn, chăm sóc Thiên Chúa ban phước cho.

Anh em is from Vietnam

Anh em (31)

Zalo: không 9 sáu chín 8 bốn sáu ... Hai Ba Trung, Hà Nội, Vietnam
Seeking: Female 20 - 33 for Marriage
Have children: No

Anh sống và làm việc ở Việt nam nếu em là người đó chỉ quan tâm về tiền hay đến nước Anh thì đừng liện hẹ anh. Nhưng nếu em đang tim người đàn ông đó sẽ yêu em và quan tâm về em và em không đòi quá thì làm ơn nhắn anh vào zalo: không chín sáu chín tám bốn sáu hai bốn ba.

Christopher  is from Vietnam

Christopher (26)

Hai Chau, Ðà Nẵng, Vietnam
Seeking: Female 18 - 33 for Marriage
Have children: No

Moving to live in Vietnam, Entrepreneur/software engineer, sporty, healthy lifestyle, like to spent time meeting new cultures and interesting people, adventurer, explorer, photography, dance, guitar, self development. Write me on

Mike is from Vietnam

Mike (38)

Saigon Tonight District 1, Hồ Chí Minh, Vietnam
Seeking: Female 20 - 26 for Marriage
Have children: No

Ready to get married now. I do not drink or smoke. I do my best to eat healthy. I go to the gym at least 3 days per week and I often attend meditation and yoga. I'm looking for love. -My job is to annalyize and advise businesses and governments on how they can promote a more equal, healthier and happier society.-

Harry is from Vietnam

Harry (49)

Life is about stepping out of you... Binh Thanh, Hồ Chí Minh, Vietnam
Seeking: Female 20 - 37 for Marriage
Have children: No

Well I guess I'm just an easy going straight forward guy and I would like to meet some friends along life's way. I have traveled all over the world but to date I haven't met the right person. I'll try anything once and have lots of get up and go. So come for the ride and see where we end up!!

Dominykas is from Vietnam

Dominykas (31)

A boy from europe District 1, Hồ Chí Minh, Vietnam
Seeking: Female 23 - 29 for Marriage
Have children: No

I am an active,outgoing,emotional person.I like doing sports,cooking(used to be a chef,but not now),reading books,watching a lot movies,beeing in nature,doing a little bit of amature photography.I like exploring new things in life.Like intelectual discussions and people who talk in many different themes of life.I can speak 3 languages:lithuanian,english,russian.I am a quite diverse person.Also i like very much listening to lots of different kind of music every day.Oh and almost forgot to mention: i am a big car enthusiast(petrolhead).

Minh is from Vietnam

Minh (39)

Zalo khong chin mot sau tam hai c... Sa Dec, Ðồng Tháp, Vietnam
Seeking: Female 20 - 37 for Marriage
Have children: No

I teach English at a high school print Dongthap. I'm taking security ma course. Most of the time, I am occupied by'm studying. Print addition, I'm a little timid. That's why I am still transfer. However, I'm rather frank, sincere, strong and hearty. Besides 2, I can outsiders English, French and Chlnese. I really need a real wife who is a little good-looking, a little in six, a little modern, and she should be sympathetic, generous and sociable.

James is from Vietnam

James (34)

Hey my viet friends Son Tra, Ðà Nẵng, Vietnam
Seeking: Female 18 - 25 for Marriage
Have children: No

I'm from La I've spent a lot of time in little saigon and with viet friends so I know viet culture well. It's a very nice city in California with the second largest Vietnamese population it the world. It's also called garden grove, have you heard of it? Now I will be living in Thailand and Vietnam and working on an entertainment company while teaching english. I have had some serious Vietnamese girlfriends in America and it well! The most important thing to me is that a woman is smart and happy.

Jason is from Vietnam

Jason (32)

Hey there! Paid member so that we... District 1, Hồ Chí Minh, Vietnam
Seeking: Female 18 - 27 for Marriage
Have children: No

My name is Jason Adams. I am from the USA. I am currently living and working in Saigon. I'm hoping to meet a nice sweet girl. Could you be the one? If you think we might be a good match send me a message. Thank you. I hope to talk to you soon. Don't be shy.

Jordan is from Vietnam

Jordan (36)

new to saigon District 1, Hồ Chí Minh, Vietnam
Seeking: Female 20 - 33 for Marriage
Have children: No

I like to have a good time, usually what ever i'm doing, i'm laughing, and so is everybody around me. I like to be outdoors, boating, beach, BBQ's, sports, site seeing, i love fun in the sun. When I don't live in a dry country I am all about going out, I'm a good dancer.. But i also enjoy staying at home, and cuddling up to a movie ;) Dinner party's are fun.. haha I have alot of likes, I'm a fun outgoing kind of guy, message me if you want to know more.

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Rock (49)

officer and gentleman Looking ser... Nha Trang, Khánh Hòa, Vietnam
Seeking: Female 25 - 41 for Marriage
Have children: No

.I'm a real gentlemen , Calm, honest and easy going ...I like Nha-Trang...I leave there during winter I'm a captain on a ship in Canada...Looking for a nice and beautiful Vietnamese girl friend with a nice personality . NO PICTURES = NO ANSWER

Anthony is from Vietnam

Anthony (48)

American Doctor Seeking Romance &... Hoan Kiem, Hà Nội, Vietnam
Seeking: Female 18 - 29 for Marriage
Have children: No

PLEASE READ CAREFULLY FIRST: ***I am the one in black and red shirt on left side in the profile picture. I am with my nephew*** I am a 45 year old American doctor and am new to Hanoi, Vietnam. My job brought me here. I am in very good shape and look very young. I enjoy quiet romantic evenings, wine or champagne, and spending time with my girl alone. I enjoy family, church, and staying healthy. I also enjoy shopping at the mall, traveling and nice restaurants. I am a doctor and I specialize in bones, nerves, and muscle diseases and injuries. I work for a private practice and have my evenings and weekends off to spoil you and have fun.

Sơn is from Vietnam

Sơn (30)

Tìm một bạn gái chia sẽ sở thích ... Tan Phu, Hồ Chí Minh, Vietnam
Seeking: Female 18 - 35 for Marriage
Have children: No

Find a girlfriend to share hobbies hard to say at TPHCM. I like to kiss that your daughter a long time, as long as possible without qht d. No need to kiss. I clean, amigo polite. Who seriously and really wanted to help, please Z hello compared: 0 mot two strikes carbon carbon after chin chin two 2 I need to find the serious help yourself, so if you do help, or feel not like please do not pm. Thanks

Marlon is from Vietnam

Marlon (36)

Chao em District 1, Hồ Chí Minh, Vietnam
Seeking: Female 20 - 28 for Marriage
Have children: No

Hi, thanks for checking out my profile. My name is Marlon, I'm an serial entrepreneur in consulting, FnB and Investment. I'm responsible, respectful and fun-loving. I love the active lifestyle, traveling, sport, literature and art. I love to explore new subjects and spontaneity. Feel free to send me a message and we can get to know each other better or catch up somewhere for a coffee :) Thanks.

Simon is from Vietnam

Simon (46)

Hi there Ninh Kieu, Cần Thơ, Vietnam
Seeking: Female 23 - 33 for Marriage
Have children: No

I am an English teacher from the U.K. and am currently teaching in Can Tho city and I love it :) I have been traveling the world for 15 years and have lived in over 30 countries. I have been in Vietnam for sometime now and love your country. I am very open minded, I enjoy eating out, working out, music, playing guitar, singing, writing,performing music, hiking in nature, just about everything really but I'd like to share it all with someone and find out what you are all about, what you make of this magical journey, that we call life.

Jack is from Vietnam

Jack (45)

Looking for loving partnership an... Binh Thanh, Hồ Chí Minh, Vietnam
Seeking: Female 20 - 34 for Marriage
Have children: No

I am romantic, educated, open hearted, generous, and a gentleman. I love to travel, dancing, sports, nature, I stay active and fit, have a happy life and I am close to my family. I have been very successful in different careers, I have a great home and like to contribute to people and teach just for fun. Now just looking for someone to share it all with.....Someone who wants to have lots of romance, likes to travel, have fun, honest, sincere, happy, sense of humor and peaceful. Can open your heart and communicate openly and is ready to love, be loved and have lots of fun in life and try new things. I like a girl who can open up and show her feelings to her man not lose her mind when she is upset, hehe. I'm an understanding intelligent guy who knows how to take care of a girl if she has a good heart and understands what it means to have a genuine partnership.

Charles is from Vietnam

Charles (38)

New to Hanoi, want to meet Vietna... Tay Ho, Hà Nội, Vietnam
Seeking: Female 25 - 31 for Marriage
Have children: No

I am an international school teacher. I have lived in the US, Canada, Greece, Argentina, and India. I am now in Vietnam and very much like Hanoi and would like to stay here. I like to go out clubbing sometimes, but I also very much like movies, skiin

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Fake It So Real

To judge from the movies, the most common fantasy in our starstruck nation must be that of vaulting out of the mass audience and onto the spotlit stage. Or maybe it’s just that movies are made by stars (and wannabe stars) who naturally assume that your deepest desire is to be a star as well.

In Rock Star, former pop icon Mark Wahlberg plays a rock ‘n’ roll impersonator—the lead singer of a heavy metal cover band—who, being Mark Wahlberg, turns out to be better than the real thing. Imitation isn’t just the sincerest form of flattery; in this particular universe, it’s the lone instance of showbiz sincerity. In the more cerebral but no less personality-driven Haiku Tunnel, writer-director-performance artist Josh Kornbluth uses his own foibles to launch himself as leading man “Josh Kornbluth.” Success in this psychodrama is similarly predicated on the sincerity of one’s desire.

With the invocation “Those days were amazing,” Rock Star opens in mid-’80s Pittsburgh—Flashdance country—with Wahlberg and his less talented cohorts practicing in a loft somewhere behind the screen of the neighborhood porn theater. A fanatical follower of the Judas Priest-like band Steel Dragon, Wahlberg attends their local performance as a humble devout, crouching under the arena stage and screaming joyously along in perfect mimicry of their lead singer.

Scarcely a heavy metal monster, the Wahlberg character is meant to be a working-class sweetie whose salt of the earth parents are surprisingly tolerant and whose manager is his stellar girlfriend (Jennifer Aniston), with whom he sings in a church choir. Supremely motherly, Aniston’s main job in the movie is flashing Wahlberg a wry, warm look. In her big scene, she pierces his nipple for him after he learns that his idol has had the same operation. Literal-minded as this fan is, his band eventually kicks him out for being too serious about their fidelity to Steel Dragon.

Wahlberg can be a stupefyingly inert screen presence, but he does know something about how to hold a stage. As in Boogie Nights and, to a lesser degree, Three Kings, Wahlberg successfully projects a contradictory mixture of slack-jawed innocence and hard-nosed ambition. With his floppy Bon Jovi locks and beseeching canine eyes, he’s enormously appealing. Plant a black olive on his snout and he’d be as cute as a humanoid dog in a Disney comic book. (Perhaps Tim Burton should have tried something similar to enliven the world of tedium that was Planet of the Apes.)

As in the movie 42nd Street, and a thousand other backstage fantasies, the hero is plucked from obscurity to sub for the ailing headliner. His debut is a junkyard, Sturm und Drang Ziegfeld Follies in which he trips during his onstage entrance and tumbles from the heights of the prop staircase into the depths of the mosh pit, then recovers—finishing the show bloody but unbowed. (Appropriately hyper-theatrical, this particular 42nd Street variation combines the star who breaks her leg with the chorine who triumphantly takes her place.)

A superstar after one performance, Wahlberg develops a suitably inspirational riff—telling his fans that, like him, they should follow their dream. Of course, Rock Star is also a cautionary tale: Don’t wish for something—you might get it. Once the young man is initiated into the ongoing orgy of the beautiful, depraved, and sexually ambiguous, his faithful girlfriend has to split. She wants “a life” while his job is “to live the fantasy other people only dream about.” Or so explains Steel Dragon’s manager (Timothy Spall, playing his role as though he were the troll beneath the bridge waiting to dine on a Billygoat Gruff).

Raking over the same clichés as Almost Famous, Rock Star is far less reverential—it isn’t burdened by generational nostalgia and doesn’t take itself too seriously. (What’s more, although not to every taste, the “live” musical performances are far more convincingly faked.) Stephen Herek, who had his own show business break with Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, keeps the proceedings light, without being sloppy or haphazard in his period reconstructions. There are a number of good sight gags and even some pointed jokes—Wahlberg’s revered role model in the smoke-and-mirror business is not what he seems on stage.

Rock Star is hardly social satire—it does rather less with MTV than it might have—but it has a comical sense of history and seems perfectly aware that it is recounting a myth. The star ultimately recognizes his own wannabes, mutates into his dialectical opposite, and—if you wait for the closing credits—acknowledges himself as Marky Mark.

Another ambitious, if not so young, man searches for his place on the great chain of being in Haiku Tunnel, the latest in a series of low-budget workplace comedies that includes American Job, Office Killer, Clockwatchers, Bartleby, and the upcoming waydowntown. Haiku Tunnel—which Josh Kornbluth wrote and directed in collaboration with his brother Jacob—originated as a performance monologue, and it shows. The tip-off is not so much “Josh” delivering his well-honed account of Xerox jams, computer problems, and Satanic lawyers in direct, stand-up address, as it is the good-natured solipsism with which he orchestrates his misadventures as a legal secretary. Ironically self-regarding, Haiku Tunnel is a movie that revels in the perfume of its own body odor.

A round-faced, pop-eyed, stringy-haired Buddha type, Kornbluth casts himself as a professional office temp, an aspiring novelist and dithering slacker whose greatest joy is sacking out. (It’s a timely conceit, although the onstage Haiku Tunnel was first performed a decade ago.) Not consistently funny as a raconteur (his delivery lacks modulation), he’s almost always lovable as a character. Indeed, his greatest talent may be that of inspiring sympathy. (One running joke has “Josh” using the fearsome chief secretary as his surrogate shrink by filling her voice mail with his lengthy free associations.) Watching “Josh” perform, it’s difficult not to root for him—particularly as his mess becomes increasingly hopeless.

Kornbluth allows room for some enthusiastic secondary performances—particularly his blandly high-powered boss (Warren Keith, seemingly imitating the first George Bush)—but the movie is basically a one-man show. This broad, sometimes silly, evocation of office politics may lack a Gogolian sense of hierarchy or a Kafkaesque edge of terror, but it’s evident why it went over so well at Sundance. Haiku Tunnel is an indie inspirational. It’s unpretentiously low-tech and humorously offbeat. And against all odds, the filmmaker emerges as a star.

Having completed its run at the Whitney and begun its replay at Anthology, the “Unseen Cinema” series touches down for a weekend at the American Museum of the Moving Image. The theme is the intersection of Hollywood and the early American avant-garde—bracketing, for example, dance director Busby Berkeley with independent abstractionists like Oskar Fischinger and Mary Ellen Bute.

The rarest item screening may be Maurice Tourneur’s The Bluebird, a 1918 Famous Players-Lasky production adapted from Maurice Maeterlinck’s popular stage play. Made at least a year before The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, this allegorical account of two children’s search for the Bluebird of Happiness has a number of expressionist touches, including exaggerated shadows, optical distortions, blatantly two-dimensional backdrops, and animated silhouettes. Another anticipation of Caligari is no less striking: As numerous film avant-gardists would, Tourneur goes forward by going back. The Bluebird is deliberately anachronistic in quoting the primitive “trick films” (by Georges Méliès and others) that had passed from fashion a dozen years before.

A relatively lavish production for its time, The Bluebird eschews the rapid-fire editing characteristic of post-D.W. Griffith American movies in favor of the cluttered tableaux of 1905. It might be subtitled “A Pageant of Living Pictures,” particularly as much of the Wizard of Oz-like plot has to do with the coming to life of various household objects. In his major concession to naturalism, Tourneur allows his extremely relaxed child performers to, in effect, groove on the hallucinated doings around them. At the end of the movie, one kid stares straight into the camera. A title then follows: “Please, all of you, look for our Bluebird with all your hearts. Be sure to look first in your own homes, where he is most apt to be found.” It’s a thought that might have been articulated at the end of Rock Star or Haiku Tunnel.

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Steps To Remove Likingyetsnarl.com

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Internet Explorer VersionsIE 8:8.00.7000.00000, IE 8:8.00.7600.16385, Internet Explorer 7-7.00.6001.1800, Internet Explorer 7-7.00.6000.16441, Internet Explorer 9-9.0.8112.16421, IE 9:9.0.8112.16421, IE 7:7.00.6000.16441, Internet Explorer 8-8.00.6001.18241, IE 7:7.00.6001.1800, Internet Explorer 10:10.0.9200.16384, Internet Explorer 8-8.00.6001.18702, Internet Explorer 10-10.0.8400.00000, Internet Explorer 7-7.00.6000.16441, IE 7:7.00.5730.1300, IE 7:7.00.6000.16441
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How To Remove Likingyetsnarl.com From Infected System Manually

Step 1: Start PC in Safe Mode To Get Rid Of Likingyetsnarl.com

Step 2: Clear Away Likingyetsnarl.com Related Processes From Windows Task Manager

Step 3: Get Rid Of Likingyetsnarl.com & Its Associated Programs From Control Panel

Step 4: Clear Away Malicious Registry Entries Created by Likingyetsnarl.com

Step 5: Remove Likingyetsnarl.com From Infected Internet Explorer

Step 6: Reset Internet Explorer Settings To Eliminate Likingyetsnarl.com Assistance For

Step 1: How To Boot Your System in Safe Mode To Get Rid Of Likingyetsnarl.com

For Windows XP/Vista/7 Users

  • Tap F8 key continuously after the computer is powered on or restarted.

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  • Press “Ctrl + Alt + Del” keys altogether to open Windows Task Manager.

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  • Tap on Start button and go to the Control Panel menu option.

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Step 5: Eliminate Likingyetsnarl.com From Affected Internet Explorer

Clear Away Likingyetsnarl.com From Internet Explorer 7-7.00.6001.1800

  • Open IE and click on Gear Icon from right-top corner in order to open the Tools.

  • Tap on Manage Add-ons option.

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Likingyetsnarl.com Uninstallation From Chrome 52.0.2743

  • Launch Chrome and click on gear icon placed at the top right corner of your browser.

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  • Select all the unwanted extensions including Likingyetsnarl.com and tap on Trash bin icon.

Get Rid Of Likingyetsnarl.com From Mozilla:38.3.0

  • Open Mozilla FF and click on gear icon from the top right corner to open browser menu.

  • Select Add-ons and choose Extensions or Appearance panel.

  • Select add-ons related to Likingyetsnarl.com and tap on Remove button.

Step 6: Reset Your Infected Internet Explorer To Remove Likingyetsnarl.com Manually

Reset Internet Explorer 7-7.00.6001.1800

  • Open IE and click on Tools menu and then select Internet options.

  • Tap on Advanced Tab and hit Reset button.

  • Also, check “Delete Personal Settings” option and click on Reset button.

  • Finally, tap on Close button and then restart your Internet Explorer. As a result, you will find the complete Uninstallation of Likingyetsnarl.com.

Reset Chrome 52.0.2743

  • Open Chrome browser, click on Chrome menu and tap on Settings option.

  • Type Reset into the search box and finally click on Reset button.

  • After resetting Chrome, Likingyetsnarl.com will be removed Assistance For .

Reset Mozilla:38.3.0

  • Open Mozilla FF, tap on Firefox menu >> select Help option and click Troubleshooting Information.

  • Click on the “Refresh Firefox” from top of the page.

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  • Resetting Mozilla Firefox will result in the complete Uninstallation of Likingyetsnarl.com.


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View From The Infield: Plessinger Clinches The Crown 1

Aaron Plessinger clinches his second 250 title of the year, with three motos to spare.

View From The Infield: Plessinger Clinches The Crown

Oh yeah, we always love coming back to Budds Creek. While the question of whether or not it'll be around on each year's schedule seems to come up on an annual basis, there's no doubt that it's a great track, and provides for some equally great racing.   Marvin Musquin grabbed the holeshot to start the 450 action, tailed by Ken Roczen and Justin Barcia.

Ken Roczen quickly took over the top spot and sprinted away...despite reportedly not feeling particularly spicy.

It was great to see Jason Anderson back in the mix after nearly having a toe cut off in a freak practice accident earlier this summer. He looked fast and smooth, finishing fourth in moto one, but opted to sit out moto two.

Something clicked for Blake Baggett this weekend, and he looked like the Chupacabra of old. He was fifth in the first frame.

Marvin Musquin kept things interesting for Ken Roczen, but Kenny hung on to grab the moto one win.

Eli Tomac started out at the tail end of the top ten, and only made it back to third in moto one. A small change to the bike before moto two made for a lot more corner confidence in moto two.

Dare DeMartile scored himself a career highlight by leading the pack into the first turn at the start of the second moto.

Marvin Musquin quickly took over the top spot, and Justin Barcia took a crack at a pass, but Marvin squared back under and held him offl

Marvin reportedly had an elbow injury from earlier in the week, and he held the top spot for a handful of laps before Roczen took over the lead. Marvin eventually finished fourth, which combined with the second in moto one, was good for third overall.

Eli Tomac was seventh at the end of lap one, but made one of those impressive marches through the pack to take over the lead with a handful of laps left.

Ken Roczen had moved to the lead after passing Marvin Musquin, and for a while it looked like he might be able to pull off the overall.

Weston Peick was ninth in moto two, and will have surgery this week on his pesky right wrist.

Blake Baggett was on fire in moto two. When he got by Ken Roczen, it cost the Honda-mounted rider the overall. Blake even reeled in Eli Tomac a bit on his way to a strong second in moto two.

Chalk up another overall for Eli Tomac. With one round remaining, he's got a 20-point lead.

Oddly, Mitchell Harrison's 4-5 score was beat out by Aaron Plessinger's 1-11, and he just missed out on a second straight podium.

Pencil RJ Hampshire in for a second in moto one.

Dylan Ferrandis was fifth in moto one, but his amazing ride of the day was in moto two, where he charged back from a first turn crash to finish tenth.

Aaron Plessinger got this pit board with a lap to go in the first moto.

Chase Sexton was seventh in moto one, but with better results ahead.

Boom. Championship clinched. They don't hand out the plate after the first moto, just in case there's some kind of protest or DQ in moto two that would affect the overall result.

With the 250 title already in hand, Aaron Plessinger jumped out front of moto two. After a bit, the combination of heat and mental fatigue from the championship chase had him ease up, and he settled for an 11th place finish.

A handful of laps into the moto, RJ Hampshire took over the top spot.

Chase Sexton and Austin Forkner were battling early in moto two over third and fourth. Chase eventually made it to second spot, while Forkner slid back to seventh.

The highlight of Alex Martin's day was a fourth in moto two.

Some weekends are hot, some are cold. This one was a chilly one for Joey Savatgy, with 11-16 moto scores.

Chase Sexton's 7-2 score was good for second overall.

That win has been a long time coming for RJ Hampshire. He's shown speed all season, but seemed to end up in a lot of first turn (or first straight) crashes. He put it all together at Budds Creek.

It was a great day for the GEICO Honda boys, with a first and second overall for RJ Hampshire and Chase Sexton.

Aaron Plessinger took home the big prize of the day, claiming the 250 crown.

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Mark Hurley's 1975 Suzuki GT380M

I noticed you don't seem to have any pictures in the owners section for the GT380, so attached are some of my 1975 GT380M. 2 as at today, 1 from 1980 and one from a few years back when I'd restored another GT380m (which is now sold).

I purchased my GT in 1979 when it had only covered 1600 miles. I then proceeded to modify from standard with expansions, rearsets, proddy seat etc. etc.. I used for less than a year then parked up for various reasons, not least a broken femur and three speeding offences making insurance on anything over 350cc a bit nasty - hey I was 19!

By the time insurance was reasonable enough again for anything over 350, I'd moved onto Z650's and then on and on, so the GT was left parked up at my parent's house.

I did briefly put it back on the road mid 80's for a while but then parked up again. Mid 90's I started to collect parts to refresh the metalwork which had become tatty over the years. Started the final refurbishment in 2007, back on the road fully in 2009. Since then it's been in regular use and has still has only covered a little over 13000 miles. I've a few bikes nowadays, including 4 other 380's in various stages and believe they are a great bikes for back roads around where I live.

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Legendary Singer Fela Remembered - 2001-08-06

This year marks the fourth anniversary of the death of legendary Nigerian singer Fela Anikulapo-Kuti. He died of complications from HIV-AIDS. Fela is still a force to be reckoned with in Nigeria - his fans say his social messages of his music are as relevant as ever. Meanwhile, his family wants the human rights commission - the Oputa Panel - to re-open an investigation into the burning of his house in 1977. The attack came under the administration of then military ruler Olusegun Obasanjo - who is now Nigeria's elected head of state.

Fela created and promoted Afro-beat music. It's drawn from highlife - and blends African instruments with western jazz. Two of Fela's children, Femi and Seun continue to play his music. Outside the family, other artists singing Afro beat songs have been influenced by him. Fela was controversial. He preached pan-Africanism - and condemned military rule. He sang against injustice and clashed several times with different governments. He formed a party, the Movement of the People, MOP, but could not contest elections because the electoral body would not register it. Fela separated from his first wife and later married 27 others at the same ceremony. Segun Sango, a Lagos lawyer is an admirer. He says Fela is cherished as a first class musician whose music cut across generations - old and young. "Very original, very African yet combined the best in international music. He sustained himself without praise singing which is common here. Fela was not just seen as a musician but a social crusader. It is common for people to say Fela sang about this and that," he says. "Complain of no water, they say Fela sang about it. Complain of stealing, treasury looting, fela has talked about it. It was no accident that when Fela died, hundreds of thousands of people came from Nigeria, Europe and America to pay tribute. Yet no food or drink was served, as it is common on occasions like that here. That sums up what Fela meant to the masses."

Fela's younger brother Dr. Beko Ransome-Kuti agrees that the late musician remains a folk hero four years after. "He still looks very well liked by people generally and they tend to see that he had vision at that time that most of the things he sang about are the things that we are now embattled with. So by and large, he hasn't done too badly," says Dr. Kuti. But the family is still pained by the raid on Fela's house in 1977. His home, called Kalakuta Republic, was burnt down in 1977 shortly after his record - Zombie - depicted soldiers as robots obeying any order. A government panel later said unknown soldiers burned the house.

Many valuables were lost in the fire including the tapes of Fela's film - the Black President. Fela's mother, Olufunmilayo Ransome-Kuti - herself a political activist - died from injuries sustained in the raid. Fela's family is therefore asking the human rights investigation commission - The Oputa Panel -- to examine the case once more. It wants it to question President Olusegun Obasanjo who was then military head of state. And also General Theophilus Danjuma, army chief at that time. Dr. Kuti however says the handling of the matter by the panel has not been satisfactory. He says the chairman, justice Chukudifu Oputa, has said that Obasanjo himself was not responsible though it happened under his regime. "But since then, one major Jokolo, who was an aide-de-campe (assistant) to one of them at Dodan barracks - the seat of government at the time - had done an Advertisement in 1992, to pin point what happened at the Dodan barracks at that time," he says. "That it was Danjuma who ordered the place to be. well… that they should bring Fela alive or dead. Then he also mentioned that one lieutenant Garba was the one who led the team that went to set Kalakuta in flames. So I think with Obasanjo, they were doing a security council meeting, even if he did not stop what was going on I think he deserves some blame and now that somebody has pointed to Danjuma, I think those responsible can now come out and explain themselves." For Fela's son, Seun Anikulapo-Kuti, it is also important to keep fela's music alive. Seun, who now leads Fela's Egypt 80 band, hopes the group will continue to enjoy public support. "Well, we are trying," he says. "We can only play music and hope that people listen and appreciate it. So apart from that there is not much we can do apart from keep the flag flying and the message ringing."

Analysts believe Fela's legacy will endure for years to come. But they say the best way to immortalize him is for his admirers to help transform Nigerian society for the better - free from all the ills he sang about.