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Three male suicide bombers with IEDs strapped to their bodies, gained entry into the premises of University of Maiduguri at the early hours of Friday .
In an attempt to enter the female hostels, they were intercepted by security operatives.
One of the bombers hurriedly detonated his IED vest, killing himself instantly.
The other two bombers detonated theirs near a contruction site also within the proximity of the University premises, killing themselves alone.
Three university security personnel were reported injured.
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A relatively compact, lightweight, and programmable spectropolarimetric imager was used to collect spectral and polarization data from various objects and backgrounds, both in the laboratory and in field tests. This imager uses a tellurium dioxide (TeO2) acousto-optic tunable filter and a liquid-crystal retardation plate with a CCD camera. The spectral images were collected 450–1000 nm at 10- or 20-nm intervals at two or four polarization settings for each spectral interval. We analyzed a portion of these data to assess the effectiveness of this system for object detection. We present our measurements and discuss the analysis results.
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Dear friends, family, and college buddies I haven't laid eyes on in twenty years:
Boy, was 2017 amazing! Hilda joined the Peace Corps after realizing she couldn't afford community college. She's currently digging latrines in Sierra Leone, which she says is beautiful as long as you don't look at the human feces or feral dogs. We have high hopes she'll wear herself out after a year and come back to join the nursing program at a nonprofit institution of higher learning.
We recently learned there are tax cuts! This is great! We're looking forward to using our return to buy a new SUV that should be able to navigate the crumbling roadways we use to commute two hours each way to a soul-killing office job that will soon be replaced by robots.
In other news, Nancy made it through a round of breast cancer thanks to us learning that you can get an interest-free payment plan if you call the 800 number and tell them you have no money. You, too, could pay $35.18 a month for the next twenty years to each of ten different healthcare providers. #blessed
Little Jerod has been pursuing four different sports at the age of nine. The doctors say his concussions should heal up well and he's excited to play competitive league soccer year-round as long as his games continue to start before 11 pm on school nights. He may even see ten minutes of playing time in 2018. Woot!
Nancy and Alexander are looking forward to celebrating 23 years of marriage in December, when they realized they'll be making the same household income that they did in 1998 despite a 43% increase in healthcare costs. Nancy is excited her antidepressants will soon be covered under the maintenance medicine list on her high-deductible health plan.
What else? The family took an exciting trip this year to Duluth, where they took a tobaggan ride down the steepest hill in the middle of a winter storm. You haven't lived until you've crossed a busy intersection on black ice, amirite?
Nancy is still putting in twenty hours of unpaid work each week at the PTA after a round of budget cuts reduced the teaching staff by 18%. Alexander forwent dental care in order to pay for Hilda's totalled Corolla after they took out the stop sign on Highway 50. Thank God nobody was seriously injured, because man, we haven't hit the out-of-pocket max yet even in December. Even after cancer. But who's counting?
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flying colors
To come off with flying colors is to achieve great success. It is a military metaphor for leaving the battlefield still in possession of one's flag. The phrase dates to the 17th century. From John Locke's 1692 A Letter Concerning Toleration:
It may...bring a Man off with flying Colours.
And from George Farquhar's 1706-07 A Beaux Stratagem:
We came off with flying colours.
Some claim a nautical origin for this phrase, but it appears to have got its start among armies, not navies.
(Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd Edition)
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A new report puts the release of the Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) mass market electric vehicle, pre-emptively titled the Model E, at the start of 2016. The piece, which came from Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf, was picked up by worldcarfans.com writer Michael Gauthier, and says that the car will have a range of 199 miles. That's a little less than the shortest range Model S sedan.
The Tesla Model E, if that is what the vehicle is eventually called, will be a new venture for Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA). It will mark the company's first entry into the mass market. The new car will, according to the report, cost $35,000. The car will have to be lighter and cheaper than the Model S in order to boost margins and demand. It will have to do that without compromising on Tesla's unique style and technological features.
Tesla mass market
A mass market vehicle is the holy grail for Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA). With the small and brand-focused nature of the company, it will probably only get one chance at a release. The incredibly high valuation of the stock in today's market shows an incredible amount of expectation for the Model E. If Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) doesn't deliver, that gamble will simply not pay off.
Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) has had production difficulties with its coming SUV, the Model X. It has pushed back the production of the model in order to make sure it was done right and didn't interfere with the company's long-term strategy. Even if releasing in early 2016 is the plan right now, the company is likely to set that date back if it has production issues, or issues with its technology.
Tesla stock drop
Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) stock was increasing in value on today's market for the first time in several days. The firm's stock appeared to be deflating for the last few trading sessions, but today has seen the company add more than 3.5 percent to its value. Shares lost more than 10 percent in the five days preceding this morning's open.
Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) is going to release a mass market car. It might be called the Model E, or it might be called something else, but the company is going to get the vehicle out there. How the stock will react in the space between now and that release is anyone's guess.


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- 1 can of Dr Pepper
- 1 bottle of BBQ sauce
- 3-4 chicken breasts
- A package of King's Hawaiian Savory Butter Rolls
- Place your chicken breasts in the bottom of your crock pot
- Pour the entire bottle of bbq sauce over the chicken breasts
- Pour the entire can of Dr Pepper over the chicken
- Place the lid on your slow cooker & cook on low for 4-6 hours
Once your chicken is cooked, it should fall apart. Carefully pull a few pieces & place on your rolls. Serve with your favorite coleslaw for a delicious dinner and of course you make a bigger batch for family barbecue's and other special events!


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Well, that wasn't very nice. Sure, we've all dreamed up some pretty twisted things to do to that car in traffic that is annoying us, but we have the decency to keep those awful things in our head. These guys decided to plan way ahead and take it to the streets.
At least dropping a tennis ball would only rank as a 2 out of 10 on the list of things we wish we could do to annoying tailgaters. But still, it doesn't seem the "Ricer" was doing anything to really deserve this. Maybe the driver's judgement was impaired by listening to "Bodies" too loud.
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Eberly Family Professor, HHMI Professor
Dr. Hatfull received his Ph.D. in 1981 with Willie Donachie at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, performed postdoctoral studies with Nigel Grindley at Yale University and with Fred Sanger at the MRC, and joined the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh in 1988.
Dr. Hatfull's professional interests center around the study of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of tuberculosis. With approximately one third of the world's population infected and roughly 3 million deaths per year, TB is a formidable pathogen. Dr. Hatfull uses Mycobacterium smegmatis as the model organism for many of his lab's studies.
Mycobacteriophages—viruses that infect the mycobacteria—lie at the heart of Dr. Hatfull's strategy to understand mycobacterial genetics. Phages are easy to grow and manipulate and offer advantages over working with the slow-growing mycobacteria (such as M. tuberculosis) that can take up to a month to produce a colony on an agar plate. Phages are also rich sources of a wide variety of potential genetic and molecular tools that can be used to study—and to modify—their bacterial hosts.
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Dan's current roles include building and curating phagesdb.org, and managing the sequencing of phage genomes from Roger Hendrix and Graham Hatfull's labs at the University of Pittsburgh. He has a B.S. from Cornell University in Molecular and Cellular Biology and a Master's Degree in Education from the University of Missouri. In 2008, Dan moved back to Pittsburgh, his hometown, after a 12-year absence and now works in the same department where his father was a faculty member.Phages Found: Avrafan, Babsiella, Cello, Kugel
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Phagehunting Program Coordinator
Ms. Jacobs-Sera has a BSMT from the University of Pittsburgh. She worked as a microbiologist at Presbyterian University Hospital, Blood Bank Technologist at Central Blood Bank of Pittsburgh, and Pathology Assistant at Presbyterian University Hospital. Later, she received her Masters of Teaching degree from the University of Pittsburgh and taught life science and biology at the Greater Latrobe School District. While there, as her interest to import authentic science research into her lab, she found phagehunting at Dr. Hatfull's lab. In 2001, two of her students, Joe Gross and Jake Falbo, began phagehunting in the classroom laboratory. Their first phages, Rosebush, Barnyard, and Wildcat are some of the first published mycobacteriophages.
In 2004, Ms. Jacobs-Sera joined the Hatfull Lab as assistant coordinator, under the direction of Dr. Marisa Pedulla. Together, they developed a teacher professional development program and expanded the high school student outreach. Since Marisa's departure in 2006, Ms. Jacobs-Sera's best efforts have been utilized to promote and continue the ever-expanding Phagehunting Program.
For more information about teacher and student involvement in the phagehunter Program, go to the phagehunters link below.
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Research Assistant Professor, Hendrix and Hatfull Labs
A native of Cape Cod, Welkin received a BS in Biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2000 and a PhD in Biological Oceanography from the MIT-Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program in 2005. She did her graduate work in the laboratory of Prof. Jonathan King at MIT, where she learned to love bacteriophage of all shapes and sizes. Her thesis work focused on the physical and genomic characterization of Syn5, a cyanophage of marine Synechococcus.
In 2005, she moved to Pittsburgh (the phage center of the universe) to work with Roger Hendrix and Graham Hatfull at the Pittsburgh Bacteriophage Institute at the University of Pittsburgh, and now primarily focuses on comparative genomics. With the adoption and nationalization of Dr. Hatfull's phagehunting program by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Science Education Alliance, Welkin became highly involved in the coordination of scientific efforts between the SEA's member schools and the PBI.
To date, she has worked with phages of Salmonella typhiimurium, Escherichia coli, Bacillus megaterium, marine Synechococcus, marine Prochlorococcus, Mycobacterium smegmatis, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, as well as some unknown hosts, and she is always happy to acquire new ones.
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Vic received his B.Sc. from Cardiff University and his Ph.D. from the University of Oxford in Biochemistry. His graduate research, under the supervision of Prof. David Sherratt, was primarily focused of dissecting the mechanisms that coordinate chromosome segregation and cell division in the model bacterium, Escherichia coli.
Vic then moved to Harvard Medical School where we worked on proteins that have a high tendency to form highly structured aggregates that are typically associated with diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. Under the supervision of Prof. Ann Hochschild, Vic developed novel technologies to study the behavior of these aggregation-prone proteins, using Escherichia coli as his model system.
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Fix a Computer That Turns On and Then Off [How To]
Here's How:
Troubleshoot the cause of the beep code, assuming you're lucky enough to hear one. A beep code will give you a very good idea of exactly where to look for the cause of your computer turning off.If you don't fix the problem that way, you can always return here and continue troubleshooting with the more generic information below.
Verify that the power supply voltage switch is set correctly. If the input voltage for the power supplydoes not match the correct setting for your country, your computer may not stay powered on.Chances are your computer wouldn't power on at all if this switch is wrong but an incorrect power supply voltage might also cause your computer turn off by itself.
Check for causes of electrical shorts inside your computer. This is very often the cause of the problem when the computer powers on for a second or two but then powers off completely.Important: It's very, very important that you spend the time necessary to inspect the inside of your computer for issues that can cause shorting. If you don't take the time to troubleshoot this possibility thoroughly you may end up missing a simple electrical short and instead performing costly hardware replacements later on for no good reason.
Test your power supply. Just because your computer came on for a few moments doesn't mean that the power supply unit in your computer is working properly. In my experience, the power supply tends to cause more problems than any other piece of hardware and is very often the cause of a computer turning off by itself.
Tip: If you do end up replacing the PSU, keep the computer plugged in for at least 5 minutes before you try powering it on. This gives time for the CMOSbattery to charge a little.
Test the power button on the front of your computer's case. If the power button is shorting out or even just sticking to the case, it might be the reason your computer is turning off by itself.Replace the power button if it fails your testing or if you suspect it's not working properly.
Reseat everything inside of your computer. Reseating will reestablish all of the connections inside your computer which may have wiggled loose over time.Try reseating the following and then see if your computer stays on:
Note: Unplug and reattach your keyboard and mouse as well. There is little chance that either one is the cause of this problem but we shouldn't overlook them while we're reseating everything else.
- Reseat all internal data and power cables
- Reseat the memory modules
- Reseat any expansion cards
Reseat the CPU only if you suspect that it might have come loose or might not have been installed properly.Note: I call this out separately only because the chance of a CPU coming loose is very slim and because installing one is a sensitive task. This isn't a big concern if you're careful so don't worry!
Start your PC with essential hardware only. The purpose here is to remove as much hardware as possible while still maintaining your computer's ability to power on.
Important: This troubleshooting step is easy enough for anyone to complete, takes no special tools, and could give a lot of very valuable information. This isn't a step to skip if, after all the steps above, your computer is still shutting off by itself.
- If your computer turns on, and stays on, with essential hardware only, proceed to Step 9.
- If your computer continues to turn off by itself, proceed to Step 10.
Reinstall each piece of nonessential hardware, one component at a time, testing your computer after each installation.Since your PC powered on with only the essential hardware installed, those components are working properly. This means that one of the devices you removed is causing your computer to turn off by itself. By installing each device back into your computer and testing after each installation, you'll eventually find the hardware that caused your problem.Replace the faulty hardware once you've identified it. These Hardware Installation Videosmight come in handy as you're reinstalling your hardware.
Test your PC using a Power On Self Test card. If your computer continues to power off by itself with nothing but essential PC hardware installed, a POST card will help identify which piece of remaining hardware is to blame.If you don't already own and are unwilling to purchase a POST card, skip to Step 11.
Replace each piece of essential hardware in your computer with a "known good" identical or equivalent spare piece of hardware, one component at a time, to determine which piece of hardware is causing your computer to shut off automatically. Test after each hardware replacement to determine which device is faulty.Note: Most normal computer users don't have a collection of working spare computer parts at their disposals. My advice is to revisit Step 10. A POST card is not expensive and is a much more reasonable approach than stocking spare computer parts.
Finally, if all else fails, you'll likely need to seek professional help from a computer repair service or from your computer manufacturer's technical support.Unfortunately, if you're without a POST card and also without spare parts to swap in and out, you're left not knowing which piece of your essential computer hardware is faulty. In these cases you have little option than to rely on individuals or companies that do have these resources.Note: See the last tip below for information on requesting more help.
Are you troubleshooting this issue on a computer that you've just built? If so, triple check your configuration! There is a significantly greater chance that your computer is turning off by itself due to a misconfiguration and not an actual hardware failure.
Via : about.com
Posted on December 10, 2013, in Tutorial and tagged Hardware, Motherboard, Power supply, PSU. Bookmark the permalink. Leave a comment.


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Don't Dress For Dinner, by Marc Camoletti
Splendidly Suprised
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
After an impromptu dinner at Nirvana in Roswell, which was very healthy and moderately priced, my Princess and I decided to visit the theatre to see Don't Dress For Dinner. Note that I have often been accused of falling asleep during other plays, so I am always worried the wife may catch me napping if scenes get a little boring.
Ironically, I was bright eyed and bushy for this performance! From the opening scene to the curtain closing, we chuckled to the quick wit and improvisation displayed by all characters. The cast is strong, and for an opening night performance, we were suprised how seamlessly the actors performed.
I would highly encourage you to check out this offering from Rosweater, BTW, did I mention that they also serve wine there? Good friends and a bottle of wine baby, it doesn't get any better! Can't wait to take some more peeps to the play next month!


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This is the story of what happened first…
Jacqueline was her mother's perfect daughter—polite and quiet, always dressed as a princess. If her mother was sometimes a little strict, it's because crafting the perfect daughter takes discipline.
Jillian was her father's perfect daughter—adventurous, thrill-seeking, and a bit of a tom-boy. He really would have preferred a son, but you work with what you've got.
They were five when they learned that grown-ups can't be trusted.
They were twelve when they walked down the impossible staircase and discovered that the pretense of love can never be enough to prepare you a life filled with magic in a land filled with mad scientists and death and choices.
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This series sounds so interesting. Have any of you read it? If so, I'd love to hear your thoughts!
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"Marry Me": An artist's reflection on life as a military spouse
by Airman 1st Class Aaron J. Jenne
4th Fighter Wing Public Affairs
4/21/2015 - SEYMOUR JOHNSON AIR FORCE BASE, N.C. -- Diala Estela, 4th Fighter Wing key spouse mentor, placed third out of 35 exhibits April 3, at the Visual Art Exchange in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Estala's sculpture, titled "Marry Me," was a dress made from 130 plastic bottles to symbolize the spouses of active-duty service members based on her personal experience as an artist and military spouse.
"My dress represents how I see military spouses and myself as one," Estela said. "Many times we can have a hard time keeping our identities, finding our purpose and seeing our self-worth when we're constantly moving. Sometimes we feel see-through just like the plastic bottles, but like them, we are also flexible and deceptively strong."
Estela cut, molded and tinted each bottle by hand, then riveted each piece in place to create the dress' light blue, translucent figure. Each bottle was collected from the Airman and Family Readiness Center - recycling not only the material but the emotions tied to the bottles into a piece of art.
"Sometimes we get focused on how the military lifestyle affects us and we forget how important our commitment to our spouse is to their way of life," Estela said. "My commitment to my husband is everything. It's to mend all the pieces together; myself, my family and military life. This role is more important than some people realize, and sometimes it gets tough. When it gets tough, I've found the A & FRC to be really helpful. I've heard a lot of success stories since I've been here, and the bottles represent all of this, from the trying times and turmoil to the successes of coming together as one military family."
Arianne Henry-Kroll, 4th FW key spouse mentor said The bottles consolidate to form a fine piece of art with a great meaning.
"She took something that was 'trash' and recycled it into something creative, beautiful and deceptively durable," Henry-Kroll said. "I think that's how I feel about spouses, we're strong and beautiful. When we move, we recycle what we've already experienced and borrow things from the people who are at the next location. You take all the resources you can and create something that can stand the test of time. That is what her dress says to me."
Estela said crafting the dress allowed her to reflect on her journey as an artist and military spouse.
She found joy in art at an early age and knew that's where her dreams lay. She received two bachelor's degrees in psychology and fine arts specializing in sculpture and photography from the University of Montevallo, Alabama, and a master's degree in art education specializing in art therapy from Florida State University.
"In college you think you know who you are," Estela said. "I was successful there. A lot of my stuff was displayed at the school I attended. I've always been an artist. I can draw, paint, I can do whatever, but when I was first introduced to metal sculpting I knew that's what I wanted to do. I found my passion in the fire and flames that manipulated the steel I worked with."
She focused on large scale sculptures, which required a well-ventilated workspace. The material, equipment and final products were heavy and costly to move. None of these qualities lend themselves to a lifestyle which requires moving every couple of years.
She married a young second lieutenant after college and shortly thereafter turned down her dream job as an art therapist at a juvenile detention center in Florida in order to move with her husband.
Several years, moves and children later, the family arrived at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base. Estela said throughout that journey she wasn't able to continue pursuing her dreams.
"I volunteered and found ways to keep my inner artist active, but I wasn't able to return to metal sculptures," Estela said. "It took me a long time to find my way again. I thought to myself, 'What can I do? I like to recycle in my art, let's use plastic. It looks like glass and there are so many things I can do with it.'"
In February 2015, Estela found out about an upcoming art competition and decided she would like to participate. She prepared bottles for the sculpture, but she had no idea how to construct her dress and the deadline was rapidly approaching.
"I was frustrated," Estela said. "I had all these pieces and I knew what I wanted to do, I just wasn't sure how to do it. My husband was very supportive and he told me that he knew I was a great artist and I'd figure something out, but if I didn't there would always be another show to look forward to. I was just walking past the pieces a while later and the idea of riveting them together like shingles hit me. I'd used this process before when I was metal sculpting."
In about a week, she created a plan and used the bottles she'd prepared to complete her sculpture in the nick of time - just three days before the competition deadline.
Weeks later, Estela said she's pleased with the dress and the recognition she's received and now intends to turn her single sculpture into a collection of as many as six dresses to represent different aspects of military life and what it takes to be a military spouse.
"You could throw my dress around and it wouldn't break," Estela said. "You can hear it crunch and it bounces right back. Spouses are the same way. We're strong, and we find a way to keep our households together along the way."


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It is possible to develop constipation while taking OxyContin (oxycodone ER). This side effect is so predictable that many healthcare providers recommend that people who take OxyContin also take a laxative before any problems occur. If you are taking this medication and constipation occurs, you can try using stool softeners or stimulant laxatives.
OxyContin® (oxycodone ER) is a prescription medication approved to treat moderate to severe pain. As with most narcotics, OxyContin is likely to cause constipation. In fact, constipation is one of the most common OxyContin side effects.
Most people who take narcotic pain relievers (such as OxyContin) will develop some degree of constipation. If left untreated, constipation due to OxyContin can become very painful or, in some situations, could even lead to a dangerous intestinal blockage.
Many side effects of OxyContin (such as nausea or drowsiness) typically improve as the body adjusts to the medication. However, the body never adjusts or adapts to constipation due to OxyContin. Therefore, constipation due to OxyContin will not go away on its own, as long as you continue to take the medication.
Someone who has been taking OxyContin for years is just as likely to have constipation due to the drug as someone who just started taking it. Therefore, measures to treat and prevent constipation due to OxyContin are usually necessary.
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Engelberg Switzerland is a haven for skiers, the name actually translates to Angel Mountain. Engelberg comprises two ski resorts – Titlis and Brunni, with a beautiful ski village at the base and an Igloo Village up on the slopes. Brunni is best for beginners and families while Mt Titlis offers spectacular glacier skiing and higher more challenging terrain.
The Brunni Ski Region is the sunnier family oriented side of Engelberg. Klostermatte at the base offers a perfect area for beginners, with two lifts and a magic carpet, and ski school. Kids will enjoy Globis Winterland and Kinderland for youngsters. Globis is a toucan mascot very popular with Swiss children, making learning to ski fun as they follow Globis around the resort. Brunni has night skiing on Klostermatte slopes some weekends. The Brunni Tram takes you to a few fun sunny slopes at Ristis and a Poma to Schonegg. The Brunni side is also popular for sledging, winter wandering and parasail launching. Lunch on the sunny deck of Brunni Hut offers perfect views of Titlis Glacier, the sledders going by and the occasional parasails from Brunni's slopes.
Engelberg-Titlis ski area, on the other side of town, has three aspects and over 50 miles of slopes served by many modern lifts, with skiing from October into May on the Titlis Glacier. Engelberg Titlis is not just a ski mountain on a glacier, it's also a high-elevation amusement park of snow and ice. Many come from all over the world just to ride the cool lifts up Titilis, including the Titlis Rotair – the first rotating tram that spins a full 360 during its trip, and to see their first snow and ice at the summit. Asians and Indians are particularly drawn to this Disney on snow kind of attraction, that includes a Glacier Park where you can tour Glacier Caves or try the Titlis Cliff Walk – a long wiggly suspended bridge at 9,908′ with amazing photo ops.
Mount Titlis is a ski playground at 10,000', the Ice Flyer chairlift provides riders a bird's eye view over the beautiful sparkling Titlis Glacier, and serves a few well-pitched prepared trails as does the nearby T-Bar.
Stand and Jochstock areas offer more interesting red and black groomed trails, plus some very challenging off piste terrain like the legendary Laub – a super long wide steep natural run. Kids will enjoy the Speed Check, Obstacle Park and Big Air Bar Jump at Jochpass.
Engelberg Titlis is known for its off piste powder skiing and couloirs if you are looking for advanced high alpine adventure with a mountain guide. Ask about skiing Engelberg's Big 5 to impress your guide, the longest ski run is 7.5 miles descending 6,500′ vertical.
Wonderful chalet restaurants dot the ski slopes of Engleberg, including Skihutte Stand, Alpstubli and The Ritz at the base of the Laub run. On Lake Trubsee at mid mountain, there is an Igloo Village and a SnowXPark where you can drive electric motorbikes around a snow track, they have special smaller sleds for kids. Igloo village is also a "cool" place to stop, explore the IgluDorf and have lunch of Swiss Fondue.
Aside from alpine skiing at Engelberg, there is cross-country, sledging (which is crazy Swiss sledding on wooden runner sleds down the mountainside), winter hiking and snowshoeing to enjoy the dramatic Swiss Alps scenery of the Engelberg valley.
Engelberg village is charming, good sized with shops, restaurants and a magnificent Benedictine Monastery as the centerpiece of town. You can tour the impressive Church and the 12th century Monastery grounds and visit the Monks' cheese-making store.
Lodging in the ski village of Engelberg you have a choice of chalet apartments, to hotels like Ramada, Bellevue, and The Ski Lodge Engelberg which is modern, cozy and has bistro dining at Brasserie Konrad, and lively "happy hour" après ski all under one chalet roof, run by Swedes.
Spend the night at 5,905′ in Engelberg's Igloo Village, enjoy Swiss cheese fondue dinner, an evening snowshoe, and a soak in the steamy whirlpool, then sleep in the beautiful illuminated igloo with the heat of the Swedish woodstove before a homemade breakfast in the Alpstubli restaurant before you ski away.
A family ski trip to Engelberg would be well paired with a stop in the nearby Haslital and Jungfrau Region.
Photos: Engelberg Titlis Ski Photos and Brunni Ski Images
Videos: Engelberg Titlis Famous Laub Off Piste run
Engelberg Stats:
10,000′ highest summit, 6,500′ vertical, 25 lifts with gondolas and cable cars, over 50 miles of trails at two ski resorts -Titlis and Brunni.
Traveling to Engelberg:
Fly into Zurich, take the Train 60 miles, approximately 2 hours, or an hour via car.


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Former Genesis guitarist and prog-rock legend Steve Hackett and his band are back in the UK next month for the Genesis Revisited and Classic Hackett Tour.
And they will be at Nottingham's Royal Concert Hall on April 11
They will be celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Genesis album Wind and Wuthering with tracks from that and other favourites.
Ticket details are at www.trch.co.uk


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In order to motivate me to do more of my own comics, I have started a web comic called Short Stories which will include the stories from my book in addition to new material that I haven't gotten around to finishing. The entirety of Cup-O-Noodles is up there now. Once I have caught up with the short stories I have on file (posting 1 per week), I will be posting complete stories once/month for the foreseeable future. This is a good way to motivate me to keep writing and finishing my own work in addition to the comics I am illustrating by other folks.
It would mean so much if you would go and subscribe! And even more if you could tweet it and facepage it and spread the word (@larsenproject)! Free comics! The next story will be up by Friday.
One day I hope to have enough to collect them all into one gigantic book...


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Aquaflow was started in 1972 when Henry King and George Tokash left Delaware plumbing supply where they were employed for many years to start out on their own. After leasing a small run down gas station on route 40 in Bear Delaware they started meeting with Vendors and selecting products and calling on customers to try and establish a future for his family. They decided they would focus primarily on well drillers, plumbers and septic professionals who could see value in what he had to offer.
It wasn't too many years later Henry purchased the building and land next to the gas station and expanded his business into that 8,000 sq. foot building . 12 years later he would build yet another 10,000 sq. ft. addition to that building which still operates as their central headquarters today.
From the very start Henry III and Edward (Mr. Kings sons) began to work at the company. From that point forward they learned all they could from the ground up . Both Henry III and Edward now hold key management positions that oversee the company's operations. Henry Sr. ( more active than ever)stays focused on the inner operations and purchasing side of the business . Together as a team they decide the company's direction in the same office where it all started so many years ago.
In 1989 Aquaflow purchased its first store in Glenside Pa, called PUMPS Inc. In 1991 they opened in Harrington Delaware. In 1996 in Reading Pa. and now just recently Aquaflow purchased the Superior Pumps company near Pittsburg Pa. in 2009 which operates three stores in Bedford , Greensburg and Shippenville Pa. Still the same family owned business Mr. King now 80 , and his sons continue to focus on the customers exactly as they did when he started the company back in 1972.
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Austin & Ferguson, LLC
James Austin is a partner at Austin & Ferguson, L.L.C., a law firm exclusively practicing Immigration & Nationality law. He also serves as an Adjunct Professor in Immigration Law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law and was the 2010 recipient of the Elmer Fried Excellence in Teaching Immigration Law Award.
Mr. Austin is a frequent speaker at immigration conferences and is actively involved with the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), the Immigration Law arm of the American Bar Association, where he has chaired several national committees including the USCIS Ombudsman Committee, the National Benefit Center Liaison Committee and the Paralegal Certification Task Force.


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JJ Grey & Mofro + Jonny Lang
From the days of playing greasy local juke joints to headlining major festivals, JJ Grey remains an unfettered, blissful performer, singing with a blue-collared spirit over the bone-deep grooves of his compositions. His presence before an audience is something startling and immediate, at times a funk rave-up, other times a sort of mass-absolution for the mortal weaknesses that make him and his audience human. When you see JJ Grey and his band Mofro live — and you truly, absolutely must — the man is fearless.
For more information on JJ Grey and Mofro, visit jjgrey.com
It is hard to believe that at 36 years old Jonny Lang has already had a successful career for two decades. Easier to believe when you learn he released his first platinum record at 15 -- an age when many young people are just beginning to play music. Lie to Me revealed a talent that transcended the crop of blues prodigies floating around in the late Nineties. No flashy re-hasher of classic blues licks, even at that early age Lang was a full-blown artist with a style of his own. Also, setting Lang apart from the wunderkind crowd was a 15-year-old voice that sounded like a weathered soul shouter. Actual life experience was yet to come, and has been subsequently chronicled in a series of five uniformly excellent recordings. "I got married, had kids, and that arc has been recorded on albums along the way," says Lang. "There is a lot of personal history in there, and also some things that relate to world events."
For more information on Jonny Lang, visit jonnylang.com
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Henry Meier, the General Counsel of the New York State Credit Union Association, wrote a blog post last week in which he noted the growing sentiment among consumer advocacy groups and the regulators who love them to favor putting the clamps on the nefarious fiends at ChexSystems. As Henry points out, credit unions (and other financial institutions) have been using ChexSystmes for over 20 years to prescreen consumers for potential credit and bank account offers. Notwithstanding the insanity of the subprime mortgage debacle (fostered by non-financial institution originators and their Wall Street bank enablers, by the way), most financial institutions have this funny tendency to want to be repaid money they lend and to have account customers who don't bounce a lot of checks (notwithstanding the popular notion that all banks desire check-bouncers to generate overdraft fees). Well, according to the same folks who fell in love with "disparate impact" in the lending area, that's simply not fair.
Henry links to a lengthy New York Times article that is chock full of state bank regulators and consumer advocacy spokespersons who claims that maintaining a database on people who bounce checks and otherwise stiff banks is preventing poor people and racial minorities from getting bank accounts, all based on the fact that they haven't handled bank accounts responsibly in the past. In other words, they are suffering the logical consequences of their behavior. You can understand how unfair this might be in a world when those who have not are entitled to have simply because...they are.
The article notes that the CFPB is currently investigating whether databases like that maintained by ChexSystems violate the FCRA. The New York State Banking Superintendent is also on the case. The boys and girls at the US Department of Justice can not be far behind.
While conceding that banks don't want to "bank" customers who aren't profitable, and that bouncing checks in light of the recent cut backs on the ability to charge overdraft fees makes such customers potential money losers, the article then gets down to the real reason that banks must overcome their adherence to sound business principles and take the kind of risks that regulators claim to hate: Feelings. Nothing more than feelings.
The sting of being rejected, though, can make lower-income individuals feel like second-class citizens.
"I just don't understand why they wouldn't want me," said Ms. Murrell, the Brooklyn secretary. "It feels unfair."
There you have it: It's simply "not fair."
The watch words for a new area of banking policy and enforcement actions: Life is not fair, so we'll use the power of the state and federal government to make it fair. Because, after all, no one should have their feelings hurt.


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Studio Savvy
When it came time to make his latest record of folk/jazz/country/roots ditties, Selected Shorts [Surf Dog], Hicks and co-guitarist Dave Bell went to Los Angeles and laid down tracks with the world-beating rhythm section of bassist Tony Garnier (Bob Dylan) and drummer Jim Keltner (Dylan, Lennon, Clapton, and too many others to mention).
"When a project is coming up," says Hicks, "I always look to my most recent songs—those are always contenders. But some of the songs for this album went back decades. I wrote the first few lines to 'Mama's Boy Blues' in the late '60s, but I didn't get around to finishing it until a couple of years ago. 'One More Cowboy,' which I did as a duet with Willie Nelson, was a Bunky and Jake song I had wanted to do since I first heard it in the '70s. I called Jake himself and he taught me that song over the phone."
Once Hicks had decided on a song list, he began work on the arrangements, which entailed a unique rhythm guitar approach. "The basis of the sound of this record comes from the two rhythm guitars," says Hicks. "When the two guitars sound good and right, everything else falls into place more easily."
"Dan's guitar is definitely the driving force in these tunes," continues Bell, "For this record, he envisioned a second, interlocking rhythm part to complement his. I went to his place and we worked out the parts in preproduction. He had this grand scheme that I didn't get at first. In 'One More Cowboy,' he's playing a swing part and I was supposed to nail the downbeats, which seemed almost anti-swing to me. Once we locked it in, though, I got it. It really reinforced the rhythm."
The preproduction involved Hicks tracking the guitar, vocals, and drum parts at home on his Teac 8-track cassette machine. His elaborate demos reflect the finished product fairly accurately, even down to the fills played on violin, flute, or cello. "I'm not good at solo instruments," says Hicks, "but I can give the idea. If I want fills from the violin, guitar, or whatever, I'll sing the instrumental melodies, and my friend Paul Robinson will transcribe them so the players can read them. Most of the lines going through these songs were sung by me on the demos." Bell can attest to the level of detail on Hicks' demos: "Dan could do a record like that—just singing all the lines. His demos sound that good."
Once Bell and Hicks got to the sessions, they were joined by producer Tim Hauser of Manhatten Transfer fame. He set up the musicians in the same room, with baffles separating them, and recorded the basics for Selected Shorts. "We all tracked at once and I did some singing as a guide," recalls Hicks. "I would have preferred to just play, but Keltner and Tony thought the vocal would help them know where they were. I played my Guild F50 acoustic that I've had since my 1971 record, Where's the Money? It was miked, but I wanted to add some of the Baggs pickup to the sound, although I don't know how much of the pickup ended up on the record. I think the pickup adds body to the sound. And because we were all in the same room, there was leakage and I thought the direct sound of the guitar would help with that."
The leakage from the mics actually necessitated some changes in the recording process. "They were using these nice Coles ribbon mics," says Bell, "and they just picked up too much of the room, which was a shame because they sounded so rich. They switched the mic on my Taylor 314ce to an inexpensive Marshall MXL 603S condenser, which did the job fine and ended up sounding great. They didn't do any crazy miking techniques—just pointed it at the 12th fret."
Although both Hicks and Bell have worked with heavy hitters in the past, the musicians on Selected Shorts took the star power up a notch. The cameos by Willie Nelson, Jimmy Buffett, and Van Dyke Parks were primarily done as overdubs, occasionally in different cities. Keltner and Garnier, however, were present during basics, adding to the excitement and sometimes the pressure of the situation. "Having Jim Keltner there didn't really affect how I approached my parts," says Hicks. "I pretty much knew how I wanted to sound. I was a little skeptical about Keltner at first. Even though he's a renowned rock drummer, I didn't know if he'd be the guy for this record. I wanted more of a jazz approach, like Shelly Manne. But Jim did a great job, especially on the brush stuff. I started on drums and I still have a little technique left. So I would sit down at his kit before we tracked and give him an idea of what I thought was good for the song. But it wasn't like he played my parts—no way! He did his thing and he did it great."
"It was both exciting and nerve wracking for me to track with those guys," explains Bell. "At first, the engineer had my guitar jacked way up in the cans and it was a much different mix than the demo. It was kind of throwing Keltner's groove until we got it worked out. Thankfully I had rehearsed my parts a lot so I was comfortable with the music. That helped ease the pressure when the red light went on, and once I relaxed it was thrilling. I loved hearing them tell stories about Dylan and the other incredible stuff they've done."
Although it's tough for Hicks to be completely satisfied with a recording, he is aware that he captured a little bit of magic on this record. "Originally, I was supposed to redo all my guitar parts after the basics were done," he says, "but I never did. I even think some of those scratch vocals might have made it to the album. It's funny—sometimes when you're not thinking about a part as you play it, it comes out really good."


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Somebody said or did something, it hit you the wrong way, and just like that you're a twisted wreck.
Triggers aren't just limited to "IRL" interactions, either. You've probably noticed that social media has gone apeshit these last few years because people are offended by E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G. Trigger bombs are going off on just about every platform there is.
So triggers have pretty much become an issue of global proportions, right?
Here's what made me think of this…
There's a student in my Freedom Beyond Money course who recently came to me with a major button-pushing issue--her boss. He's always picky, never pleased by anything--pretty much gets on her last nerve every damn day.
Sure, having a demanding supervisor is hardly unusual in the world of the J-O-B. But for some reason, this guy was really hitting her stress buttons hard.
But she didn't bring it up just to vent by the watercooler about it. Her question was deeper. She sincerely asked me "What does this mean? Where is this coming from?"
That's what inspired me to take on this topic. I mean, we all have people in our lives who annoy the shit out of us. Everybody's triggered by something at some point.
So today, I'm gonna tackle triggers--and show you not only why they happen, but also that like everything else in life, they're happening FOR you and not TO you.
In other words, triggers are a GIFT.
When something or someone triggers you, it means that they're actually setting off one of your subconscious beliefs.
Something that's been lurking in your head, maybe hiding for years. And then somebody says something and POW! That thing is your face, wrecking your high-vibe day.
It could be that gut-wrenching feeling that ties you in knots. Or tightness in the chest or throat. It might be that thorn that lodged in your brain that you can't stop thinking about (and you're not even sure why!)
Maybe you feel like you're shrinking--you know, that sinking feeling of contraction when someone bursts your bubble?
Now, when somebody annoys the hell out of us, that's usually exactly how we put it: "they're annoying me". We put the burden on them and say that THEY are causing the trouble, being annoying, acting like an asshole--you get the idea.
Usually the conclusion becomes something like, "if ONLY they would stop doing that….."
But here's the deal--you might not like to hear it, but here goes….
When someone triggers you, they're actually not the root of the problem. It's actually YOU. Read more here:http://bit.ly/2rH6xCf
So really, it's not their "fault" if what they say sends you into a tailspin.
Here's why: if the other person was entirely to blame, then they would annoy everybody in the entire world equally. Everyone would see them, feel the same way, and nobody would want them around, right?
I mean, think of that one person that everyone you know loves--but you can't stand them. There's also the flip-side, too--when there's somebody who drives everybody else bat-shit crazy--but you don't mind them at all.
But there's no universal response to this person, right?
So when it comes to it, it's not the other person making you lose your mind--it's something that's been set off inside of you.
So what does being set off by somebody else actually say about us?
Let's say you're walking down the street and some random person comes up to you and says, "hey, you've got blue skin!" Would you take it seriously? I doubt it! There's there is nothing in you that believes that this is true.
But suppose that you had some sort of skin condition where you really did have a patch of blue skin--and you've always been embarrassed and ashamed by it. In that case, you'd probably be totally set off---because you know that there's some truth in that person's comment.
Or how about those moments when some random troll shows up your blog or social media? And what if they're spewing stuff to the tune of "your content is BORING" or "you don't have any real VALUE"?
If there is any part of you at all that fears that this might actually be true, then guess what happens? BOOM! Trigger-fest. Self-doubt, negative chatter, big-time shrinking--you name it.
So that's the first step--knowing that it's not the person or the circumstance that's setting you off--it's what you've got going on in your head.
Again, put simply, triggers are a mirror of your subconscious beliefs.
When someone bugs the shit out of you, it's not ALWAYS just "their issues". Sometimes it IS about you. Read more here:http://bit.ly/2rH6xCf
Someone challenges one of your subconscious beliefs
You perceive someone as a threat to one of your subconscious beliefs
Someone shows you "proof" of a subconscious belief as actually being true
Here's a few examples to put that all into context…..
Let's say you have the subconscious belief that money has to be hard work. Maybe you grew up watching your parents bust their asses for their salaries and yet barely scraping by. So in your world, getting money has to be back-breaking labor or you didn't really "earn" it.
But then lo and behold, you find out one of your "competitors" just made a killing sending out a mere few emails to her list--and in the blink of an eye she sold 10K worth of her programs. Easy peasy. (And with about 30 minutes of work!)
Naturally that makes YOU go apeshit, right? But why?
She's actually challenging your belief that money has to be hard work. You might find yourself saying, "No, that's not possible! That's not fair! Money should come from hard work!"
And so the internal explosion goes, right?
Let's stick with that same competitor and look at it another way. Suppose you believe your niche is small and the clients are few and far between. In this case, you might go off because you believe that she's taking too big of a slice of a limited pie.
In other words, you see her as a threat because she's taking all the clients--and there won't be enough left for you. Which means you're a failure. And it's all her fault.
AND finally….
Do you believe that rich people are assholes? Let's say that this a "tape" that's been on a repeating loop in your subconscious for years.
So one day you're waiting in line at Starbucks when some lady with a fancy haircut, a Gucci bag and a fur coat cuts in front of you. And before you know what hit you, you think, "how fucking rude, you rich bitch!"
What happened? She's proving your age-old belief that rich people are assholes because she confirmed it--and you can't stand her for it.
See how that all works?
So now that the reasons for triggers are less of a mystery, the next question is what do you DO about them?
After all, if you keep ignoring them, they won't get better. And they might morph into something that really gets big and out of control.
Here's what I suggest: Start by seeing triggers for what they really are--A GIFT.
Start by seeing triggers for what they really are--A GIFT. Read more here: http://bit.ly/2rH6xCf
They're actually showing you that there's something your subconscious is holding onto--something that needs to be examined and released.
And seriously--when you can render powerless the things that up until now stopped you cold, it works wonders for your growth and expansion--and your vibe!
Next time a pesky trigger shows up, ask yourself these four questions and watch what happens. You'll get to the heart of the matter fast--and then kick it to the curb even faster.
What Am I Making This Mean About Myself? Looking back at the scenario about that competitor "stealing" all the clients--ask yourself this: what are you making that mean about YOU? Maybe you believe that it means you're doomed to failure, maybe you believe it means that you could never make it anyway, the list could be endless.
When you ask yourself what you're making those triggered feelings mean, you might uncover some underlying beliefs that might've been sabotaging you for a long time--and without your knowledge.
What belief is this triggering? Let's take the rich-person scenario. Now, if some rich lady cuts in front of you in line, ask yourself this: are you thinking that she's an asshole because she has money---OR is it because she's just rude in general?
In other words--clarify that belief that's popping up. Be as specific as you can. You might find that the belief you had isn't what you thought it was after all.
Am I afraid on some level that this is TRUE about me? So what about that social media troll? You know, that random person who shows up and trashes your work, calls you a fraud, or whatever the haters are saying these days?
Do you have a secret fear that they're right? Is there a part of you that thinks "OMG, what if that's true? AM I a fraud?"
If you find that you DO fear that the haters are right, that's definitely worth exploring. And as soon as you can.
What does this person make me FEAR? Let's take your "competitor" again. So she's supposedly taking all the clients. Now, what does that make you fear?
It might be that you fear that you're missing out--on the clients, the money, the prestige--everything. You know, good ol' FOMO kicks in, right? That feeling that no matter what you do, you're always gonna miss the bus?
Puts everything in a whole new perspective, right?
In the end, you might actually want to thank the people who trigger you! After all, if they never triggered you in the first place, that crappy belief might've continued to cause trouble behind your back for years to come.
Take on triggers like this from now on, and I promise that your personal growth is gonna skyrocket in ways that you are going to love. Because when you nix the hotspots, your personal landscape will be a lot less of a minefield.
So what do you think? Do triggers make more sense now--and do you have a better idea of how they can be your ally instead of your enemy? Tell me how this all sits with you--and share any "a-ha" moments that you had! Hit me up in the comments below!


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It has been a deja vu session of that day nearly a month ago when the Banco Espirito Santo (BES) problems were first revealed, sending European stocks and US futures, however briefly, plunging. Since then things have only gotten worse for the insolvent Portuguese megabank, and overnight BES, all three of its holdco now bankrupt, reported an epic loss despite which it will not get a bailout but instead must raise capital on its own. The result has been a record drop in both the bonds (down some 20 points earlier) and the stock (despite a shorting ban instituted last night), which crashed as much as 40% before stabilizing at new all time lows around €0.25, in the process wiping out recent investments by such "smart money" as Baupost, Goldman and DE Shaw. The result is a European financial sector that is struggling in the red, while adding to its pain are some large cap names such as Adidas which also tumbled after issuing a profit warning relating to "developments" in Russia. Then there was European inflation which printed at 0.4%, below the expected 0.5%, and the lowest in pretty much ever, and certainly since the ECB commenced its latest fight with "deflation", which so far is not going well. The European cherry on top was Greece, whose dead cat bounce is now over, after May retail sales crashed 8.5%, after rising 3.8% in April.
Oh, as for now bankrupt Argentina, don't cry for it. Something tells us the brand new BRICS bank will be quick to reach out a helping hand to the insolvent country, unless of course the country purchases the holdout bonds behind the scenes and puts the whole affair to bed (although how that will anger the restructured bondholders, or if it will trigger the RUFO clause is anyone's guess).


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Take a deep breath. We had been warned. Don't trust anyone in North Vietnam. To us, that seemed a bit exaggerated. We step off the plane in Hanoi and board the airport approved minibus bound for downtown. First stop, fifteen feet outside the airport gates. More money was required to take the load of white faced tourists to their hotel. Cue the band of scammers. Take a deep breath. We arrive at a poorly lit intersection where the driver rudely announces this is the last stop. A heated argument ensues between me and  the fraudulent minibus operator about how we paid to be dropped off at the Hanoi Guesthouse, not some Hanoi locale swarming with suspicious individuals. Take a deep breath. My demands fell on deaf ears, but a gentleman offered to take us to the hostel for a fair price. Oh, did he ever take us to "Hanoi Guesthouse" alright. Turns out the real Hanoi Guesthouse has such a great reputation that others with the same name have popped up. However, these knockoffs are of inferior quality. Evidence #1: the "Hanoi Guesthouse" we slept at utilized a soiled mattress as a window replacement in the second floor stairwell. Take a deep breath.
Water puppet shows are all the rage for tourists in Hanoi. What the heck, we shall check it out. Unfortunately, the thearte in Hanoi's Old City was sold out. I called another theatre further afield whose tickets were available so I hopped a cab only to find the person I spoke with was mistaken about the ticket window times. IIt was closed all day, only open immediately before start time. Take a deep breath. One hour prior to showtime, Ash and I flagged down a lime green cab driven by a friendly looking woman in her twenties. Friendly until she opened her mouth. We quickly noticed the meter had been tampered with and was ringing up a bill four times faster than normal. I asked her to stop the car, that we would pay the current amount and hail another. But she wouldn't stop. Take a deep breath. So Ashley and I told her we would not pay the full amount upon arrival at the theatre. To say she became angry is an understatement. You must understand one thing about Hanoi, Vietnam in general, before the story unfolds; motos are everywhere and they are driven recklessly. For example, crossing the street is toying with fate. So the fraudster driver was prepping for a confrontation as she parked the tiny car twelve feet away from the crumbling concrete curb with motos racing past us on all sides. Before exiting the cab on the curb side, I glanced over my shoulder to ensure no bikes were moving past. Upon opening the door just one quarter, WHACK. Take a deep breath.
Perpendicular to the taxi's right front tire lay a man and his young son, no helmets in sight. I was mortified. Instinctively, we rushed to their aid. Thankfully, both were fine except for a small bleeding cut on the boys ear. Once it was clear that they were both not seriously hurt and that the moto itself was in working order, I gave them half the money in my wallet as a penance. Take a deep breath. Next thing I know, the scamming taxi driver has a handful of my button down shirt with an unbelievably tight grip, screaming in Vietnamese. Ignoring her, I sternly ask Ashley to run away and meet me at the hotel as an angry mob surrounds us. But she won't leave my side. The scene is chaos. Take a deep breath. I nearly punch my temporary capture in the face after repeatedly looking her in the eye saying in slow English, "let me go.†Instead I opt to unbutton my shirt as a way of escape. But before I am shirtless, two men remove the ravenous woman's clutch then each take a firm grip of Ashley and me while directing us to a streetside cafe where we sit, trembling, on two low plastic stools. The father and son have since left unceremoniously on their moto as the crowd grows around us. There is shouting, mass confusion, no one speaks English, and we fear for our well being. Three tense minutes pass with us scanning the impenetrable fence of North Vietnamese. Then a pre-teen girl and her younger brother approach, speaking decent English. I beg them to call the police, but they say that that won't be necessary. That everything will be OK. Take a deep breath. The two men who accompanied us to our current location have since had a visit to the accident scene with the flustered driver. Through hand gestures, but mainly through the young English speakers, we are told the accident was not my fault at all. It was the driver's mistake since she stopped so far away from the curb, essentially in traffic. Upon understanding the circumstances of the accident, the crowd becomes disinterested and a few even apologize for our uncomfortable treatment. Our dishonest driver has since fled after realizing payment is now the least of her worries. We didn't see the water puppet show, just thankful for calmer heads prevailing. Take a deep breath.
Take a deep breath. Hoa La Prison, otherwise known sarcastically to American POWs as the Hanoi Hilton. Typical of Vietnam's war museums, it was more propaganda than legit history. Constructed by the French in the 1860s when present day Vietnam was part of French Indochina, the North Vietnamese used the facility to interrogate and torture American pilots downed during Vietnam War bombing raids. Methods of torture included beatings, lengthy periods of solitary confinement, and iron bindings. The North Vietnamese were not after military intel. Oh no. They longed to break their prisoner's spirit and obtain written and / or verbal statements that were critical of US conduct in war while praising their "host's hospitality.†Take a deep breath. The museum went to great lengths to portray the prison more as a temporary home than hell on earth. Perhaps the most maddening display was a picture of captured pilots enjoying a Christmas decorating session complete with paint brushes, craft materials, and even a Santa. We knew this photo was staged, that the Americans were ill-treated rather than welcomed as foreign guests free to celebrate their holidays. John McCain's flight suit was proudly encased in glass, displayed as a spoil from wartime. Take a deep breath.
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3 ways to keep cookouts healthy and enjoyable
Ahh, Spring ...
Such a delight to the senses. The feel of warmer weather, the sight of beautiful flowers, the sound of birds chirping, the smell of fresh cut grass, and the taste of grilled food.
Grilling Season!
Grilling can be a delicious way to eat healthy, or a delicious way to eat unhealthy, depending on what you grill and what you serve as sides, of course. As you are probably aware, foods like chicken breast, fish, pork tenderloin, and veggie or black bean burgers offer a great source of protein without excessive calories and saturated fat.
On the other hand, foods like hamburgers, hot dogs, and steak can pack a lot of calories, saturated fat, and sodium.
The Cookout Dilemma
Opting for healthier meals at home is one thing. Cookouts with friends and family is another. I don't know about you, but I haven't been to many cookouts featuring salmon, quinoa, and kale. Nope, it's typically hamburgers and hot dogs.
I love a grilled hamburger as much as the next person. My goal is not to be the healthy food police (although my kids might disagree), nor to advocate hamburgers on a regular basis.
I want to find a nice balance of healthy and enjoyable.
We know that mindless eating and overindulgence isn't healthy. On the other hand, strict rules and fretting over every ingredient and nutrition fact isn't enjoyable. And when something isn't enjoyable, it's hard to stick with it.
So how can we incorporate more healthiness into the (perhaps not-so-healthy) things we enjoy?
A Moderate Approach = An Enjoyable Approach
For me, completely restricting unhealthy foods doesn't work. It makes me obsess over the forbidden food, eventually reach a point where I can't take it anymore, and ultimately go back to eating the food (often in larger quantities than before).
Instead, I'm a fan of good old-fashioned moderation and of improving your ratio of healthier choices.
A great way to do this is by filling up on the healthy stuff (veggies!) first, savoring smaller portions of the less-healthy stuff (without guilt), and quitting before you are stuffed.
1. Filling up on the healthy stuff first
When getting together with family and friends, we almost always have a vegetable tray out before the meal. It's a great way for kids and adults alike to fuel up on nutrient-rich vegetables beforehand.
Another idea is to grill vegetables as an appetizer. Grilled asparagus is a great example. Toss fresh asparagus in some olive oil, place on top of foil on the grill (so the spears don't fall through), add a touch of sea salt and fresh ground pepper, and flip with tongs until evenly cooked and dark green in color. Asparagus is so delicious hot off the grill. Even the kids love it!
2. Savoring smaller portions of the less-healthy stuff
In my family, we don't prepare full-sized hamburgers. We make sliders instead. I've found that one little slider gives the same enjoyment as a larger burger, with far fewer calories, saturated fat, sodium, post-meal sluggishness, and guilt.
Not to mention, they're so cute! :)
If you're not into "cute" food, you can achieve the same thing by not taking a whole portion. Simply opt for half of a hamburger, sausage, steak, etc. instead.
It's important to slow down and enjoy each bite of the smaller portion. The taste buds are in our mouth, not our stomach. :)
3. Quitting before you are stuffed
When we quickly shove food into our bodies, our brain doesn't have time to signal that we are full until we've reached the point of being "stuffed." Slowing down and savoring each bite not only provides more enjoyment, it also helps us to realize how full we are before we've overdone it.
Personally, I like is the 80 percent rule (known as hara hachi bu in Japan), which means you stop eating when you feel 80 percent full. This is a common practice of Okinawans, who are known for being among the healthiest, longest-living people on the planet. This practice, combined with slower eating and savoring your food, are great ways to maximize enjoyment while avoiding overindulgence.
Long-Term Success
Whether at a grocery store, restaurant, or cookout, there will always be unhealthy options enticing us. Our relationship with food is important.
We can view food as a source of enjoyment and nourishment, or as a source of guilt and stress.
There are countless diets that can yield results. But most are not sustainable. In the end, it's about finding what will work for you in the long run. Personally, I've found that good-old fashioned moderation and improving my ratio of healthier choices is my best bet for long-term success.
Kiley Owen is a physician assistant, blogger and preventive health enthusiast. This post — along with helpful links to other resources — originally appeared on her blog, makinghealthapriority.com.


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Los Angeles (CA) – When we learned one month ago that the Electronic Entertainment Expo was to be downsized to a much smaller, single-day gathering of media and marketing officials, some of the analysts with whom we spoke afterwards expressed a certain lack of shock. The prevailing opinion seems to be that E3's demise may speak more about the state of the trade show industry than of the gaming industry, which few believe to be in any serious trouble.
But the demise of COMDEX years earlier was largely blamed on the computer industry, which was seen as suffering from a slump, whose impact was compounded by the after-effects of 9/11. This at a time when attendees and exhibitors alike were complaining about the lack of any real business going on there. Yet if the lack of business at COMDEX was a symptom of bad business, how can we conclude with the same breath that the lack of real business at E3 – a symptom about which there were many complaints, despite high attendance – was a symptom of poor show management? Is there a deeper problem worth addressing, or at least looking for?
Lionhead Studios managing director Peter Molyneux
Molyneux responded to that by noting there seems to be a problem among the marketing divisions of game developers, where if a prospective game's designated genre doesn't appear on TV at the moment, it's a "real slag" for its developer to get it past marketing and into production. "There must be another way," he said. "We in the industry say we need more original ideas, but then, it's almost a Catch-22 situation, because whenever anybody presents an original idea, quite often the research and marketing people will say, 'Well, look, our research shows that people aren't interested in Westerns at the moment.'"
Ubisoft senior producer Julien Gerighty added, "We do a lot of sequels, on a yearly basis, but we try to always inject something completely new. Maybe at another company, there would be less sequels, but at the end of the day, it helps us to renew interest, not only for us but also for journalists or fans out there, and keep people buying games."
When a company like Microsoft has to spend two years or more developing Halo 2, with an enormous amount of investment, Gerighty added, it helps for that game to have a bankable name. "Today, when games are costing more and more," he remarked, "and you can't afford to really waste time, energy, and money on ideas that may be not 100% tested or proven successful, a license for a franchise will help you have that sort of escape chute that may save a lot of [investment]."
It's nice to have that escape chute, but an artist might not always feel more artistic working with a safety net. As Molyneux told TG Daily after the panel concluded, "I've always found it incredibly challenging, doing a sequel. Looking out at what you want to experience again, and rather than doing the same content, and experiencing that sense of wonder, getting that back again, and not saying, 'You've got to have this.'
"There's one thing missing for me, and that is passion and fear, because when you're going to do anything [innovative], you've got to have passion. And also the fear of doing something new, of actually showing it for the first time, whether it be internally to publishers or externally, is a real motivator for me."
I recalled for Molyneux how, when dramas were produced daily for radio, how they had the most beautiful pictures…because they came from the listener's own head. "It's very interesting that you say that, because personally, I think probably the most horrific piece of entertainment I've ever had was the radio," he responded, using "horrific" in this sense not to refer to its quality, but to its essence. "[In] one of the most horrific plays I've ever seen, 'The Woman in Black,' there was nothing on the set, on stage. It was all in the story. A lot of the time, when [I'm] designing [a game], I design to this feeling that you want to get to, this place that you want someone playing your game to get to, because it's already in your head. It's not easy to express what that is, it's not easy to express it visually, or with painting, or through the design process. It's more this unattainable thing that you're trying to reach."
Have game artists and game marketers reached an impasse?
Two days later, on 12 May, NCSoft designer Richard Garriott participated in a panel discussion about the merits of cross-platform gaming. While Garriott (whom some of us long-time gamers still address as "M'Lord") found himself to be the lone opponent of a massively cross-platform approach to design on the panel, he found his point of view carried a lot of weight among attendees and questioners.
NCSoft senior designer Richard Garriott
One questioner asked, what role does the controller hardware play in considering how to craft a game that plays on both PCs and consoles? "I do believe the hardware differences, be they graphical or storage hardware, or user interface hardware, make a big difference," Garriott responded. When people describe to him the requirements of adapting games to multiple platforms, also including mobile phones, he said, "they use the word compromise. That actually sca – concerns me, because I always believed that, with the technology racing ahead so fast on each of these platforms, you might like to believe that games could be judged on their literary content. And being a person that likes to believe I'm adding some literary content to my games, I would love for that to be true. I believe I've had some success based on a small amount of that truth. But I think a much bigger factor is the "Wow" factor, where there's audio and visuals that really sell these games well above the literary content. And therefore, if you start compromising on that front-line feature in order to do cross-platform, I then have to question the value of, 'What am I gaining out of cross-platform?'"
Proponents of cross-platform then argue, continued Garriott, that a mobile-based participant could perform some accessory role in the game, such as playing a monster rather than a main character. "Personally, I'm unconvinced," he declared. It's hard enough to engineer fun into a game, he said, without having to add to that principal requirement the need to artificially restrict or slow down the playing ability of one component so as to accommodate the lower bandwidth or capabilities of the other. "I just see the lumpiness of getting everybody together at the same time, to have little advantage to a person playing on a particular platform. It makes too many compromises from the global perspective of trying to compete for shelf space, and create games that people buy."
Sony Online Entertainment president John Smedley, who also sat on that panel, immediately responded: "I look at it exactly the other way around. So, what is the game…itself? It's people enjoying a common activity together…It's different for different people. If a person is logged in on PlayStation 3, and they have the incredible graphics, and [I] can log in through his PC or his little laptop in Tokyo…I can take on a role that my machine can handle at that point in time, and I'm still able to interact and have fun. We have not compromised the main game. We've made the main game more accessible on more platforms [that] may not be able to support every single feature. I don't think that compromises the game in any way."
A representative from mobile technology manufacturer Qualcomm, who also sat on the panel, described a situation where his company's phones could be used to play a kind of "side game" that involves the use of resources from a massively multiplayer online game, without being directly involved in it, or slowing down the entire game for everyone as a result. Garriott recalled a similar concept he helped develop for a game called Lineage, and added, "The high concept of saying, let people connect to the game or contribute to the game casually through the rest of their lives while not in front of their PC, I endorse that as a broad perspective…The time that it begins to scare me is when people say, 'I'm want to play on the same server set, running avatars in the same world, driving on the same vehicles or some relationship.'"
"I just see the lumpiness of getting everybody together at the same time, to have little advantage to a person playing on a particular platform."
Richard Garriott, NCSoft
Garriott continued the argument by throwing the marketing terminology right back at their proponents. "What I still wait to hear, when I hear people talk about this cross-platform activity, is, what is compelling about the fact that it's cross-platform? I don't think the answer is, to play with more people who are on a different kind of machine – in the case of PCs and consoles – because [we just managed] to get tens of thousands, or millions, of people who have the same machine as we do, so why is it relevant that some players are not on a PC? In fact, here you break up the world into shards, so to speak. There's technical reasons [why] we could make [games] universal. But it turns out, it's not compelling to make them universal. I'm waiting for a description of the killer application, as to why is it compelling to make it cross-platform."
Later in the discussion, I redirected essentially the same question to the panel. Sony's John Smedley responded that the drive to make a massively multi-platform gaming environment continues because, "We're spending money on it now. We're happy to do it. There are certainly business things that prevent us from being on the Xbox 360, and I think that's just the way the world works. In my opinion, embrace that and take advantage of that."
Then Smedley's answer took a direction nobody expected, ending up advocating perhaps the opposite of what he intended: "What I am actually seeing now, more and more, are the products that are selling really well, aren't necessarily the ones that do go across every platform. Why does every game have to be on every platform? It doesn't. In our space, I think it's necessary to get it as broad as possible, because we need more people doing what we're trying to sell."
In other words, games should become cross-platform not because it's compelling for them to go that way, but because they need to sell more.
These two E3 panels represent the type of business that the conference was founded to foster and facilitate. And there, at the last E3 that anyone of consequence may ever attend, the most serious questions affecting the digital gaming industry were laid on the table for all to debate and consider. The possibility was there for a kind of consensus to be reached, because after all, these panelists worked on behalf of one another anyway. But instead, in the interest of expedience and convenience, these panels were pushed aside to make more room for the massive displays. There, artists and marketers could meet one another, but they couldn't say anything to one another, because they could barely hear themselves speak.
So indeed, much of the demise of E3 can be blamed upon the fact that the show didn't fulfill the needs of its industry. But that industry faces an evolutionary crossroads, which – though it hasn't yet – could conceivably lead to a downturn if its leaders in both the artistic and production space have no space or time whatsoever, in either the real or virtual worlds, to sit down with one another and reach a productive conclusion.
The loss of E3 is the story of lost opportunity. The clues that could have pointed the show's producers to that fact remain in front of us today: all the unresolved issues that remain on the table.


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Contract notebook computer maker Inventec Corp (英業達) yesterday said its consolidated sales for the first quarter rose 15.8 percent from a year earlier to NT$116.68 billion (US$3.89 billion) on the back of deferred orders from its major clients from the second half of last year.
However, the total still fell 13.33 percent from the previous quarter due to the effects of the traditionally slow season.
The company said as the number of working days last month returned to normal compared with February, its notebook computer shipments totaled 1.7 million units last month, up 30.77 percent from a month earlier.
As global PC demand remains slow, the company has been gearing up to diversify its product portfolio to offset the impact from a weakness in the PC market.
The company said its server shipments are expected to benefit from a raft of stable orders from international brands and that it is possible servers could account for more than 25 percent of its total sales this year.
In addition, solar energy product sales could double this year to make up 2 percent to 3 percent of the company's total revenue, while sales generated from handheld devices could grow about 10 percent this year from last year.
Bigger rival Quanta Computer Inc (廣達), the world's top contract notebook computer maker by shipments, yesterday said its sales reached NT$215.83 billion in the January-to-March quarter, down 20.5 percent from the previous quarter, but up 9.39 percent from a year ago, while Pegatron Corp (和碩), the world's fifth-largest contract laptop maker, said total sales in the first quarter were NT$217.88 billion, down 18.1 percent quarter-on-quarter, but up 0.14 percent year-on-year.
Meanwhile, PC vendor Acer Inc (宏碁) said its sales declined for the eighth straight month to NT$30.79 billion last month, causing its quarterly sales to slide 16.42 percent year-on-year to NT$76.73 billion — the lowest since the fourth quarter of 2006.
UBS Securities has added Acer to its least-preferred shares among Taiwan's technology companies, saying it expects the company's strategy to transform into a hardware-plus-software and service company would not take effect immediately.
"It's unclear to us whether Acer can benefit from cloud computing," UBS said in a note yesterday. "We believe Acer may lose further market share before it comes up with attractive new products."
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