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Here's the way one scam works: A grandparent gets a call from Mexico City from "the American Embassy." That embassy agent claims that a grandson was in Mexico for a college break (and names the college.)
The "grandchild" is being held in jail because two pounds of illegal drugs are found in the car rented by his friends. The agent explains that the grandson had insisted on a full drug test and comes out clean. If these grandparents wire $900 immediately, his trial could be set in two hours and the grandson would be put on a plane home. Being told the parents could not be reached, a sobbing and distraught grandchild appeals to the grandparents and calls them by their family nicknames. (Such information, by the way, is available on Facebook, etc.)
Recently a group nearby received a call from London saying a prominent resident of Hilton Head had been robbed, his money and passport taken, and $700 needed quickly to get a new passport and put him on the next plane home. A few well-placed calls located the man having lunch in Hilton Head. Beware of sudden "emergency calls," especially when they have a time limit.
"Wire fraud" was the topic of an excellent TV program recently, showing family after family telling how their life's saving was "hacked into" and put in thieves' private accounts. Some hackers have learned to steal through computers and the Internet. Recently, hackers got into private accounts due to a weakness in the computer records of the University of South Carolina. The Devil is smart.
Indeed, it's more than interesting - maybe even important - to ponder the "nature of evil," and certainly many pastors are being called on these days to address this topic. In the wake of the slaughter in the school in Connecticut, we are a nation asking questions and losing trust.
Those of a more humanitarian/secular orientation question whether evil exists as a living entity. Those of faith tend to acknowledge that evil exists, but have questions about "squaring" this with other deeply held beliefs. Indeed, many pastors (perhaps more bravely than I) are addressing the problem of evil in the world. There are lots of things we don't know and can't explain.
But can we at least discern some things about the nature of evil? Just what can we know? I will suggest some things I know and believe to be in line with my faith: It seems to me that evil can certainly look like a predator. The purpose behind harmful acts is often control, assertion of power over others, domination, and sometimes is less about the resources scammed and more about the thrill of the deception/domination/destruction itself. It is manipulation and it is often characterized by threat.
Threat can be a powerful tool of the Devil. The fear of loss is a powerful manipulator. And, I think that we should learn to become sensitive to manipulation of any kind. I think we should be sensitive to this and other "markers." To not address evil is to, in my mind, allow evil to exist and very effectively diminish goodwill, love, charity and Trust. I think we have to address threat, and intimidation, and manipulation head on. I think we have to stand up to manipulation and any deceptive assertion of willfulness. I think, to be virtuous and to be truly on the side of Justice, we have to be brave. And we cannot lose trust - nor faith. Indeed, Faith is one important "answer" to evil.


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UBS terminates its advisory mandate for the Ilisu hydro-electric project
UBS announced today that it is to terminate its advisory mandate for the Ilisu project. This decision has already been advised to the lead management of the suppliers' consortium for the construction of the project, which is located in south-east Anatolia (Turkey). The contract of mandate with the supplier company for the structuring and arranging of the financing, together with related consultancy services, will be terminated in compliance with the agreed period of notice.
The decisive factor behind this termination is that the general progress of the project has been unsatisfactory in recent years and that until now there has been no definitive decision on what accompanying measures are to be taken to minimize the social and environmental impact of the project.
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Lee County Port Authority has implemented a Federal Aviation Administration plan to reduce late night aircraft from flying over Estero Island. This procedure, inserted Aug. 1, will aid in avoiding loud aircraft noise events over noise sensitive areas along Fort Myers Beach during nighttime hours.
The cooperative effort involves incoming flights to Southwest Florida International Airport between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. utilizing Runway 24 instead of Runway 6. It allows the flights coming down the middle of the state to go over Lehigh Acres and avoid the Beach altogether as well as flights coming down the coast to pass just south of the Beach and into the local airport.
This makes Runway 24 the preferred arrival direction to the southwest rather than northeast during the night time hours. It limits nighttime flights over the Beach and publishes Charted Visual Approach to Runway 6 from the north and south when weather conditions permit. Runway 24 is the other end of Runway 6.
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Shifts in flight runways have allowed incoming flights from the center of the state and over the coastline to avoid traversing over Fort Myers Beach when weather conditions apply.
"By shifting from Runway 6 to Runway 24, those aircraft will come down and transition right into the runway through the Lehigh Acres area rather than passing all the way around the south of the airport to the west and back into the airport," said LCPA consultant and Environmental Sciences Associates Airports employee Mike Arnold. "The aircraft coming down the coast will pass to the south of Fort Myers Beach."
Arnold stated that roughly 90 percent of the arriving flights occur during 10 p.m. and midnight. Sixty percent of those come down the middle of the state.
This implementation evolved from proposed measures and recommendations during an operational evaluation under the RSW Federal Aviation Regulation Part 150 study. Public input and discussions with Town officials aided in the process.
"The airport has been working with the tower, and the tower has been willing to implement a number of the measures in advance of the formal determinations of the Part 150 study," said Arnold. "So, basically, as the study goes through the formal approval process, they are already trying to get some things in place to provide some relief to those communities right now."
LCPA Project Coordinator Chad Rosenstein stated that the new late night flight paths will only be used when weather conditions allow. When the tower reopens at 6 a.m., Runway 6 is utilized at that point.
"If wind conditions are calm or favor Runway 24, then they will use that runway," he said. "It's easier and quicker for aircraft to land on Runway 24 if they are coming down the middle of the state. It saves time, fuel and is more efficient."
Arnold also pointed out the cost savings regarding the "SHFTY TWO" (middle of state incoming flights) path.
"They are saving about 15 miles in travel distance each time," he said. "It provides considerable fuel savings and gets them on the ground quicker. From an air traffic standpoint, there is less handling of those aircraft. It creates a better overall operational environment."
This comes less than two months after certain airline companies voluntarily applied consultant recommendations to keep incoming aircraft at or above 3,000 feet over Estero Island and try different flight patterns over the Back Bay instead of incorporating arrival procedures over the island.
In July, Beach Mayor Alan Mandel and Town Manager Terry Stewart met with local port authority and FAA officials at the airport and discovered that certain airline companies were voluntary applying the recommendations. Mandel had requested a meeting with airport officials after listening to public comment at a previous Council meeting and receiving phone calls from concerned residents questioning the progress of the Federal Aviation Regulation Part 150 study.
"It's a win-win, because it means less noise for people who live on the island and the airline saves money," said Mandel. "It's another step in improvements that the Port Authority has been discussing with us."
The local Board of Port Commissioners held a public hearing about the proposed recommendations back in January. After approval, the recommendations were sent to the FAA's regional office in Atlanta and reviewed. Upon reviewal completion, the document will be sent to the FAA's national office in Washington D.C. for yet another reviewal.
"The FAA corporate headquarters issues their final determination on the noise study. That could take another six months," said Rosenstein back in July.
"They're implementing some of the things they have in there already," added Mandel. "This is just another good example of the Lee County Port Authority in conjunction with people in the FAA tower working with the Town. I think that's a very positive step. Of course, safety is always the first concern."


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The Gaza Strip is famously wracked by political and religious turmoil, but much of its unrest can be traced to family feuds, according to a report by the International Crisis Group. After the second intifada, Israel eviscerated the Palestinian Authority's security establishment, and clans stepped in to deal with their members' crimes—up to and including murder. Now these families have consolidated power by establishing their own autonomous zones and quasi-governmental functions. Blood loyalties trump political ones, and Hamas, which took over the government of Gaza in mid-2007, has been unable to extinguish the clan vendettas or to weaken the family bonds that undermine its authority. The clan structures represent a "double-edged sword," the authors suggest: they are the rare organizing principle that has stayed constant and reliable during a period of deprivation and unrest, arguably preventing a "total collapse" in Gazan society, but at the same time they ensure that Gazans remain persistently divided, which contributes to the growing disorder in the territory. Hamas will have to reconcile with the families, the report argues; otherwise, they will provide a potent focal point for resistance to Hamas's (often brutal) attempts to consolidate power.
—"Inside Gaza: The Challenge of Clans and Families," International Crisis Group
Is there an American analogue to that persistent European scourge, the soccer hooligan? Two economists at the University of Colorado suggest that it could be the college football fan. They find that arrests for all sorts of belligerence and bad behavior rise after home football games—and skyrocket after upsets, whether the home team is on the winning or the losing end. The researchers examined crime data from 26 police stations that had jurisdiction over college campuses from 2000 to 2005, and then compared game-day arrests with typical daily crime stats. Although away games had no effect on the crime numbers, after home games arrests spiked in all the categories studied—from assaults to vandalism. Upsets triggered even greater havoc. Disorderly-conduct arrests jumped by 93 percent after upset victories, for instance, and DUIs increased 57 percent after upset defeats. The authors reject some common psychological explanations for the mayhem—the idea that fans mimic the violence they see unleashed on the gridiron, or the idea that rioting is a way of relieving frustration after a loss. But one thing the authors say they couldn't discount as a root of game-day evils: lots and lots of booze. Even though all the stadiums in the sample had banned liquor sales, the authors note that "it is difficult to rule out the possibility that the relationship between college football games and aggressive behavior is entirely driven by alcohol consumption."
—"College Football Games and Crime," Daniel I. Rees and Kevin T. Schnepel, University of Colorado
The notion that we repress memories of sexual trauma dates back to the dawn of the Freudian era, but three Canadian psychologists report that such memories tend to be among the hardest to repress. The psychologists surveyed 44 women who'd sought counseling for sexual traumas ranging from childhood abuse to assault in adulthood. The women were asked about the persistence of three memories from the same general time in their lives: the sexual trauma, a nonsexual trauma, and a positive experience. The recollections of sexual trauma proved to be the most enduring, and the subjects relayed them with greater detail, emotion, and vividness than the other memories. Curiously, the women were much more likely to think they'd misremembered the sexual trauma than the nonsexual trauma or the positive incident. In effect, trauma survivors excelled at remembering sexual trauma but found it more difficult to recall whether they'd remembered it correctly.
—"Are memories for sexually traumatic events 'special'? A within-subjects investigation of trauma and memory in a clinical sample," Kristine A. Peace, Stephen Porter, and Leanne ten Brinke, Memory
The YouTube presidential debates were just the tip of the iceberg: according to a new Pew Research Center study, Americans are turning increasingly to online sources for election coverage. Although television continues to outperform print newspapers and the Internet as the main source of campaign news, the percentage of people who say they get most of their news about the election from television dropped from 68 percent during the 2004 race to 60 percent in late 2007, while the percentage of people who reported that they turn primarily to the Internet for news about the presidential candidates more than doubled, from 6 percent in 2004 to 15 percent at the end of 2007. Nearly half of 18-to-29-year-olds report that they get most of their election news online, compared with 21 percent in 2004. The Internet gets slightly higher marks for objectivity: 45 percent of the people who consume news online believe that Republican and Democratic views get roughly equal attention on political Web sites and blogs, whereas 41 percent of all Americans feel the same way about general media coverage of the campaigns. However, the new media landscape may be less diverse than some of the hype would suggest: the study finds that online readers relied overwhelmingly on only a few popular news sites, with MSNBC, CNN, and Yahoo News topping the list. And the growing popularity of political coverage on the Internet doesn't necessarily correlate with a rising appetite for news. As the study reports, "a majority of web users … say they 'come across' campaign news and information when they are going online to do something else."
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—"Social Networking and Online Videos Take Off: Internet's Broader Role in Campaign 2008," [PDF] Andrew Kohut et al., Pew Research Center
Expectant parents have long considered the meaning behind names before choosing one for their child, but a recent study suggests it's our initials that help determine our fates. The authors argue that our preference for our names is so strong that we unconsciously gravitate toward people, places, objects, and outcomes that begin with the same letter as our moniker: Mary is more likely to marry Mark, drive a Mazda, and move to Maryland than is Virginia, who's more likely to marry Virgil, drive a Volvo, and move to Virginia. To test whether the influence of initials could override a conscious desire to succeed at something, the authors turned to professional baseball players and graduate students. An analysis of Major League Baseball records from 1913 to 2006 showed that players whose first or last name started with the letter K (the symbol for strikeout) were slightly more likely to fulfill the destiny suggested by their initials: they struck out 18.8 percent of the time, compared with 17.2 percent for other players. Likewise, MBA students whose first or last name began with a C or a D tended to end up with lower grade-point averages, and law students with A or B in their initials tended to end up at better-ranked programs than those whose initials included a C or a D. Students with initials from the very beginning of the alphabet did not, however, earn higher grades than those with grade-irrelevant initials. The authors explain that performance reflects both motivation and ability, so although having a name tied to "easy-to-achieve negative outcomes" might hurt you, having a name whose first letter reflects "hard-to-achieve positive outcomes" may not offer a boost.
—"Moniker Maladies: When Names Sabotage Success," Leif D. Nelson and Joseph P. Simmons, Psychological Science
The debates in France and Britain may get the lion's share of attention, but if you're looking for places in Europe where immigration is really controversial, a new study suggests, head east and south. Data from a pan-European survey reveal three distinct types of attitudes toward immigration on the Continent. Scandinavians tend to be "lenient," displaying few categorical prejudices against foreigners and expressing an overall generosity toward immigrants. Western Europeans likewise tend to lack generalized prejudices, but they have specific preferences as to which immigrants ought to be admitted, emphasizing markers such as education and income. Meanwhile, Europeans from eastern and southern countries—including Poland, Hungary, Greece, and Italy—tend to have sweepingly negative attitudes toward foreigners settling in their countries. Many people in this last group, whom the author labels "strict gatekeepers," hail from countries that are relatively new to the EU and arguably lack the resources necessary to assimilate immigrants; the study also notes that the eastern European countries in the sample tend to have experienced a post–Cold War revival of nationalistic fervor.
—"Guarding the gates of Europe: A typological analysis of immigration attitudes across 21 countries," Eva G. T. Green, International Journal of Psychology
There are two common explanations for why some athletes perform poorly in the clutch: either the pressure distracts them, or it causes them to focus too intently on usually automatic actions. To test the competing theories, two researchers studied 20 experienced Australian golfers in a low-stakes contest and a high-stakes competition with monetary prizes. The participants played three 10-putt rounds, and they were given different instructions at the start of each: first, they were told to concentrate on three things that were irrelevant to the task; then to focus on three words that related to technical aspects of their swing, such as arms, weight, or acceleration; and finally to concentrate on a single "holistic cue word" describing their intended movement, such as smooth. In the high-pressure situation, participants did worse when thinking about words related to execution; overall, golfers in both situations did best while concentrating on the holistic cue. The authors speculate that focusing on a cue word prevents experts from trying to "consciously control their movements under pressure," which suggests that overthinking, rather than distraction, may be the greater danger facing athletes in the clutch.
—"Choking under pressure in sensorimotor skills: Conscious processing or depleted attentional resources?" Daniel F. Gucciardi and James A. Dimmock, Psychology of Sport and Exercise
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Groom 2.0 wanted chocolate cupcakes for his wedding. I thought the better than sex chocolate cupcakes would be perfect, but Bride 2.0 found them too rich. They both really liked the derby pie cupcakes. However, they had a problem and I had a problem.
What Do Chocolate Cupcakes with Bourbon and Pecan Have to Do with Prince?
The problem that Bride and Groom 2.0 had with the derby pie cupcakes was the name. They aren't big horse racing fans and their wedding isn't around Derby time – it's in 2 weeks! This was an easy problem to solve.
Much like Prince, a name change was in order. The cupcakes formally known as derby pie cupcakes are now known as chocolate cupcakes with bourbon and pecan.
Wedding Cupcake Frosting Must Be Pretty
The frosting on the derby pie cupcakes wasn't pretty enough for a wedding. I knew I could do better.
I frosted the chocolate bourbon pecan cupcakes using a pecan butter frosting with chocolate and bourbon.
Did the new frosting and new name work for the soon-to-be wed couple? All will be revealed VERY soon. The couple has chosen their wedding cupcakes and I'll be posting about their selections any day now.
Chocolate Cupcake with Bourbon and Pecan Recipe
I am reprinting the original derby pie cupcake recipe here with just a few slight changes from the original.
For the chocolate cake, I used chockylit's recipe that I featured in my Better than Sex Chocolate Cupcakes.
Chocolate Cupcakes with Bourbon and Pecan
Cupcake Ingredients
- 1/2 C 1 stick butter, room temperature
- 1 1/4 C sugar
- 2 large eggs room temperature
- 3/4 C flour
- 1/2 t baking powder
- 1/4 t baking soda
- 1/4 t salt
- 1/2 C unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1/2 C milk
- 1 t vanilla extract
The Fun Gooey Part (Formerly Known as Derby Pie Filling) Ingredients*
- 1/2 C white sugar
- 1/2 C light corn syrup
- 1/4 C butter
- 2 eggs beaten
- 1/8 C bourbon
- 1/2 t vanilla extract
- 1/8 t salt
- 1/2 C semisweet chocolate chips
- 1/2 C chopped pecans
To begin the cupcake
- Beat butter until softened.
- Add sugar and beat until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes.
- Add eggs, one at a time, beating until well combined.
- Measure the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and cocoa powder into a small bowl and whisk to combine.
- In another small bowl, measure out the milk and vanilla and stir to combine.
- Add about a third of the dry ingredients to the butter/sugar and beat to combine.
- Add about half of the milk/vanilla and beat to combine.
- Continue adding, alternating between dry and wet and finishing with the dry.
- Make the fun gooey part.
To make the fun gooey part
- In a small saucepan, combine sugar, corn syrup, and butter.
- Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until the butter melts and the sugar dissolves.
- Cool slightly.
- In a large bowl, combine eggs, bourbon, vanilla, and salt. Mix well.
- Slowly pour the sugar mixture into the egg mixture, whisking constantly.
- Stir in chocolate chips and pecans.
To complete the cupcake
- Fold 3/4 of the fun gooey part into the chocolate cupcake batter. You don't need to mix it well, just give it a nice stir.
- Fill cupcake liners about halfway.
- Use up the remaining 1/4 of the filling by putting an additional spoonful or two of the fun gooey part on top of each cupcake, being careful not to fill them more than 3/4.
- Bake the cupcakes at 350 F for 20-25 minutes.
- Frost with pecan butter frosting with chocolate and bourbon.
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These cupcakes are my entry into this month's Cupcake Hero! Cupcake Hero is a year old now! It's so hard to believe. Happy birthday!


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Each month, City Parks Alliance recognizes a "Frontline Park" to promote and highlight inspiring examples of urban park excellence, innovation, and stewardship across the country. The program also seeks to highlight examples of the challenges facing our cities' parks as a result of shrinking municipal budgets, land use pressures, and urban neighborhood decay.
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Founded in 2004, 21st Century Parks is the nonprofit responsible for the creation and long-term operations of a system of new public parks in Louisville. The organization employs best practices in land use and infrastructure planning, watershed protection, education programming, historic preservation, multi-modal trail development, and design of recreational spaces. Working with their strategic partners, Louisville Metro Government and the nonprofit Future Fund, 21st Century Parks has acquired and protected into perpetuity nearly 3,800 acres of new park land in the Floyds Fork watershed corridor, resulting in one of the nation's five largest new metropolitan parks projects – the only one that is 90% funded and scheduled to open to the public within five years.
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Academy Award-nominated actress Anna Kendrick was on The Late Show last night to promote her new movie, Pitch Perfect. The movie, about an undergraduate a capella group, features a scene in which Ms. Kendrick sings a rendition of the extremely viral "You're Gonna Miss Me," better known as "the cups song." She explained that she learned the song and dance long before she ever got the part–after she saw the video on Reddit.
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April 01, 2008
By Paul Feinberg
T.K. Pillan ('96) was sick of pizza.
So, he opened The Veggie Grill.
In 2007, The Veggie Grill was named Orange County's "Best New Restaurant" by the OC Register, collecting a slew of other glowing press clippings along the way. Pillan and his partners have since opened a second Veggie Grill location in El Segundo and are in preparations for TVG - #3, slated for a desirous Orange County shopping complex.
If the carefully-timed roll out proves successful, the plan is to take The Veggie Grill nationwide.
And Pillan doesn't eat pizza anymore.
Pillan Thirumalaisamy (he later changed his name legally to "T.K. Pillan" and everyone just calls him "Pillan") fell in love with Los Angeles when a tech company he worked for transferred him to Southern California as part of their corporate expansion. PIllan chose to attend UCLA Anderson because he wanted to further his career by increasing his understanding of the business side of things and to nurture his own entrepreneurial inclinations.
His time as a student was in many ways exploratory. He involved himself at the Harold and Pauline Price Center for Entrepreneurial Studies and began searching for different entrepreneurial opportunities.
"At the beginning of my second year, I saw some opportunities with the Internet," Pillan said. "I really saw [the Internet] as a fundamental change." So, he co-founded a company that enabled commerce on the web. "Anderson was a great asset to us at that time." Pillan explained -- pointing out that the assistance he received in writing his business plan was very valuable. "I took advantage of my professors, running different concepts past them."
The company Pillan and his partners created while the former was still at Anderson became Guidance Solutions. Timing might not be everything, but it doesn't hurt either and 1996 was the perfect time to catch one of the first waves of what became the Internet tsunami. A year later they had 30 employees and a host of solid clients. By 1998, they were in high demand, as the only company in Los Angeles with their type of core, e-commerce expertise. By the end of 1999, Guidance employed 100 people and by mid-2000, they had a staff of 175.
At the end of 1999, Pillan and his partners raised 40 million dollars to continue building the business, pouring most back in while accepting a portion of the monies raised for a portion of their share of the business. In 2004, Pillan stepped away from the business (and he most recently sold off his remaining stake in the business to the person he brought in to run it. He does still keep an office at Guidance.)
After moving away from his day-to-day activities at Guidance in 2004, Pillan traveled and didn't begin to consider his next move until the end of that year. In early 2005, an investment banker, Kevin Boylan, invited him to attend a meeting -- Boylan wanted Pillan's take on a tech company he was considering investing in and if they both liked the deal, the thought was Pillan would also invest and then run the company.
They didn't like the deal.
But afterwards, they sat down at a popular, Seattle-based coffee emporium and brainstormed. The banker asked Pillan what he would really do, if he could do anything he wanted.
Pillan told the banker that he was tired of picking up a pizza on his way home from work. It was a tremendous challenge to find good, wholesome food to eat out or bring home. The banker felt the same way and their mutual feelings got each other excited about the idea.
So, calling on the skills he learned at Anderson, Pillan wrote a mini-business plan. He and Boylan studied market trends and looked at all the consumer research they could find regarding healthy food and restaurant trends. They then embarked on a coast-to-coast, cross country tour to sample the best of healthy and vegetarian cooking. They went looking for two things: Great tasting food and an approach that would be scalable in a "fast-casual" food format.
Ironically, one of the establishments Pillan believed was closest to the concept they were looking for was Native Foods, which has a branch in the Westwood Village, only about a mile from UCLA Anderson. It wasn't exactly what they were looking for, but it was in the ball park.
"Native Foods did great things with vegetable protein, which was important," Pillan said. "But their menu was larger than we felt it had to be for what we wanted to do and the atmosphere was a little cliquey." The vibe was essential to Pillan as he considered the type of restaurant he wanted to establish. Pillan wasn't looking to make a political statement. He was looking to base a new business on the concept of great tasting, healthy food.
After the tour, he and his partner spent their time coming up with the exact concept, considering everything from branding and marketing to packaging and the creation of a simple, workable menu that would allow for the control of food costs. Ultimately, they approached Native Foods directly and formed a new company along with one of Native Food's two founders (Ray White), who shared their vision. Their new partner would focus on the food, while the two businessmen focused on brand building and the look and feel of the new restaurants.
The El Segundo branch of The Veggie Grill is well-lit and brightly colored -- with quasi-neon hues in abundance. You place your order at a counter, where friendly staff are available to answer any questions one might have about the entirely vegetarian menu. The concept in El Segundo is based on the already successful, original Irvine location, which opened as a prototype in November 2006.
When Pillan greets a reporter at the El Segundo branch, it's only been open for a few weeks, but early indications are that it will match the original. At noon, there's a line at the counter and business is brisk. The Veggie Grill has become not only a choice for vegetarians in the neighborhood, but another choice for the same people who might eat at California Pizza Kitchen one day and Island's the next.
Perhaps the best analogy for The Veggie Grill is Whole Foods, the grocery chain focused on healthier food. While both may attract those with stricter dietary desires, both aim to appeal to anyone who's looking for high-quality, wholesome food.
Currently, the plan is to open a third Veggie Grill later this year, then use the three locations to establish a series of best practices. "We could grow faster, Pillan -- who since the opening of TVG has become a vegetarian himself -- said. "But we're being disciplined.
"Building out The Veggie Grill is definitely a passion, we believe in it."


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text: A few months back I traded in my Triumph Scrambler on a new '09 Street Triple R. I have been so impressed and in awe of this bike and it's many talents that I was sure there must be an all encompassing Street Triple thread here in Road Warriors. My searches revealed nothing very substantial. Therefore, I am starting this Street Triple thread to share my experiences and connect with other owners of this truly awesome bike. Are you an owner of a Streetie? Please check in here. Here is my bike in "adventure" mode. Light touring is a hoot on her. My Street Triple is pretty close to stock right now. In fact, this is the first bike that I have owned that I didn't feel an immediate need to "fix" some annoying niggles. There are a few here as well, but nothing too bad. Currently she has these additions: Triumph flyscreen and R visor Triumph seat bag (not shown) Ventura Rack and pack Future possible "enhancements": Sargent saddle Peg lowering kit (old knees) Engine protection of some sort I'm sure I'll add to this list over time. The Good Amazing 675 motor (13,000 RPM redline - yeah, I've been there ) Telepathic handling - I swear, I just think about turning and she goes Decent suspension - On the R, anyway. I have not heard good things about the base ST suspension. Very light weight - something I really wanted after the Scram Very good brakes - again, upgraded on the R model Did I mention the handling..........and that sweet sounding motor? The So-So: The seat isn't great, but I did 300 mile days last weekend without too much pain and suffering. Wind protection is limited. This isn't a bother when she is in commuter and hooligan modes, a little tiring while putting on longer miles. In hot weather my ass cooks. Still, I don't think I'll be going to a low pipe. The bike handles packed gravel nicely, but the tires limit you quite a bit. I hit some deeper gravel over the weekend and it got real sketchy pretty quickly. There aren't a lot of options for the ST's wheel sizes. I know that is not what the bike is built for, but my exploring will always include some dirt. That's it for now. I plan to update this thread as I get to know her better (currently at 2000 miles). I'd love to hear your experiences with the Street Triple, or help steer potential buyers to the dark side. Cheers.


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SUNRISE, Fla. — Mike Knuble wanted to stay where he was, get used to the already familiar surroundings, even if they had taken on a different feel.
He had gone home to Grand Rapids, Mich., which is where the Toronto-born Knuble had spent many childhood years and where he has maintained a residence for him, his wife and their three children.
But this past week, Knuble was in different surroundings in what he calls his home town, because after playing 1,040 NHL games in an impressive career stretching back to the mid-1990s, Knuble was in a minor league uniform again.
He played Wednesday with the Grand Rapids Griffins, Detroit's AHL affiliate.
He was called upon Thursday to leave his home and come to Florida, to return to one of his old NHL teams, the Flyers.
"It was good, because it was in my home town," Knuble said of playing his first AHL game since 1997. "That was important to me. I was pretty shocked that it wasn't longer."
He'd spent the past three seasons with Washington, and after the lockout failed a week-long training camp tryout with the Red Wings. But the 40-year-old Knuble was able to hook on with the Griffins, looking to keep sharp until an NHL team expressed interest. Besides, he was going home ... so you can't blame him if he had at least a little mixed emotions about his stay there being such a short one.
"I was thinking a couple or three weeks," Knuble said after prepping for tonight's game against the Florida Panthers. "But it was fun. A good experience."
Now comes the hard part, as Knuble, who as a durable right wing for the Flyers from 2005-09 scored 114 goals and 221 points, tries to get back on the fast track.
"I know I'll probably move around a little bit, with the injuries going on," said Knuble, who at today's morning skate at the BB&T Center skated on a would-be second line with center Ruslan Fedotenko and Brayden Schenn ... who is almost half of Knuble's age.
"When we get healthy again, I'm smart enough to know who's going to get (minutes), where I stand on the team," he added. "You go out there and do the best you can ... move around and do different things and do your best every night."
"He doesn't have the same game or the time that our other guys have had, but he went to a camp (with Detroit), got a game in (the AHL)," coach Peter Laviolette said of Knuble. "We're talking about a seasoned pro here. He's played just about every system there is. I'm sure we'll work him into the lineup."
As for that lineup tonight, it won't include Eric Wellwood. He was demoted to the AHL Phantoms today after practice. Might be a measure of surprise it's Wellwood instead of Tom Sestito, but somebody had to go with Knuble here and Danny Briere close to returning.
This game against the Panthers will be the first game with both Scott Hartnell (metatarsal surgery, 4-6 weeks) and defenseman Andrej Meszaros (out for a month with a shoulder injury) missing. Meanwhile, Briere has been cleared for full practices and made it through one today.
Briere was holding out at least some hope for playing against the Panthers, but it's much more likely he won't be in until Sunday against the Lightning or perhaps Tuesday in New York against the Rangers.
"We'll see tonight ... I'll try it in warmup," said Briere, whose delayed season was delayed even more by a wrist fracture while playing in Germany. "I didn't feel that great this morning, but maybe when I'm warmed up tonight, we'll see what happens."
Flyers Pre-game: Knuble to start on scoring line, Wellwood sent down
SUNRISE, Fla. — Mike Knuble wanted to stay where he was, get used to the already familiar surroundings, even if they had taken on a different feel.


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Is anyone aware of a solution that utilised the Verifinger extracted templates with an Active Directory logon solution.
Enroll employees fingerprints using Verifinger into database
Instead of employees then logging onto the workstations with an Active Directory username and password, they use their fingerprints, with maybe a pin?
The fingerprint and pin should be linked to the identity of the user as stored in the Active Directory.
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text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Rabat Morocco General Conerns/Warnings Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Rabat Morocco General Conerns/Warnings Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> General Africa Forum View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message frustratedwithTEFLJoined: 03 Feb 2006Posts: 5 Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 4:48 pm Post subject: Rabat Morocco General Conerns/Warnings English teachers who truly want to teach effectively and be appreciated for your efforts.. . . . . . . . . . . . Be very wary of schools in Rabat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! . . . . . . they are especially good at telling you one thing over the telephone and then either abandoning you once you are assigned classes (of poorly placed students in ridiculous numbers) or fobbing you off and ignoring you (telling you in the most sincere of conjured tone that somehting will be done immediately and then waiting 5 weeks before abandoning hope that anything will be done). In my opinion the teaching staff are not considered valuable assests by their employers . After experiencing this first hand I would never advise another serious teacher to seek gainful employment in Rabat. DOS and Center Managers have demostrated that they have very little to no concern for teachers' working environment, pedagogical standards or even a well run school. The only priority, it seems, is to put bodies in seats and collect their money. Their must be a school that equally balances quality and quantity however I have yet to find such a school in Rabat !!!!!!!! Think twice before believing an honest sounding voice over the telephone Back to top medinaJoined: 04 Jun 2005Posts: 64Location: Morocco Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 9:32 pm Post subject: I'm sorry to read of your negative experience. Rabat's a pretty large city with quite a large number of language schools. I think I understand the basis of your complaint: promised one thing, given another. But do you care to be any more specific about the place(s) you've had problems with? I don't mean people's names, with is tabou on this site, but what school or schools do you mean? Back to top frustratedwithTEFLJoined: 03 Feb 2006Posts: 5 Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 2:26 pm Post subject: I would love to be more specific, but I feel that I shouldn't. You would like to think that in an efficacious workplace one could voice their concerns and frustrations without fearing reprecussions i.e. an unagreeable working relationship between teachers and D.o.S.. The thing is I don't work in such a workplace. Hence the frustratedwithTEFL. This isn't the first school or the first country that I have experienced this feeling. I always have great times wherever I may go. I have to make the most of it and I do. The problems are usually work-related and sometimes teaching isn't the end, it's the means. So I take it with a pinch of salt. However the rest of the teachers and I feel as if our problems fall of deaf ears until the wrong word is said or the wrong tone is used, then things become even more difficult. It's a bit of a conundrum!!!!!! F.W.T... Back to top aharbutJoined: 12 Jan 2006Posts: 19Location: Arizona,USA Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 7:48 pm Post subject: Decent? 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County Noxious Weed Control Program
is a legal term used to denote a destructive or harmful weed for the purpose of regulation. These non-native plants aggressively compete with desirable plants and affect man, livestock and wildlife. This not only directly affects landowners, but erodes the tax base for all residents. The business of noxious weed control is everyone's concern and their control is to everyons's benefit. Effective control needs to include controlling the existing infestations and preventing new infestations.Noxious weeds found in Lancaster County
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Nebraska's Noxious Weed Control Act places the responsibility for controlling noxious weeds on the property owner. This includes preventing the spread of noxious weeds or any article (equipment, soil, etc.) contaminated with viable seeds or plant parts.Inspection
Inspectors visit properties because of past infestations, a complaint or their observation that there may be noxious weeds present. If there are uncontrolled noxious weeds, the owner is issued a notice requiring control within 10 days. If equipment or soil is contaminated with viable noxious weed seed or plant parts, a quarantine may be issued requiring decontamination, if possible, prior to removal from the property.
Owners that don't perform timely control of noxious weeds are subject to having it done by a contracted commercial weed control service.Control by a Contracted Weed Control Service
If the 10 day notice is not complied with, the Lancaster County Weed Control Authority may have the work done. The owner will be billed for all costs associated with the forced control. This will include the cost of the contracted work and related clerical and inspection cost. The resulting cost will be significantly greater than if done by the owner or someone the owner hires to do the work.Special Assessment
Any unpaid bills become a lien on the property and a special assessment levied. These special assessments, plus interest, must be paid before land can be sold.How to report Noxious Weeds
Any citizen may call the Weed Control Office at (402) 441-7817 to report a location with noxious weeds.


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Brandon Metcalf
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Major/Minor: Biology, Psychology
Six years after his graduation from Washington College, Brandon holds a Master in Public Health degree from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and a medical degree from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Next up: a three-year residency program in ophthalmology at the University of Wisconsin.
With a double major in biology and psychology, as well as some independent research experience investigating Rett Syndrome at the Kennedy Krieger Institute, Brandon was an attractive candidate for medical school.
"Washington College really had prepared me well for medical school," recalls Brandon. "I had great mentors in both biology and psychology who helped build my interest in research and medicine." He says the Cater Society of Junior Fellows, which funded his participation in a medical missionary trip to Costa Rica and Nicaragua, solidified his interest in a medical career.
Brandon has chosen to specialize in a field that combines his interests in medicine, diagnosis and surgery.
"One of my first rotations in med school was neurology," he recalls. "We had a patient who had been seeing doctors for two years but no one could tell her what was wrong. When she was hospitalized, she was given an eye exam. Those findings pointed to a diagnosis of MS [multiple sclerosis]. That early case in my career helped me understand the importance of the eyes and the significance of a proper eye exam. We were able to give her a diagnosis and prognosis, and prescribe treatment."
When Brandon did his rotation in ophthalmology, he says, "I loved everything about it. I like the idea that I can have longitudinal relationships with my patients."
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Urbain Olanguena Awono, Minister of Health, Cameroon
Enriqueta Bond, Chair of the Board on African Science Academy Development
Jo Ivey Boufford, Former Deputy Assistant and Acting Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, USA
Michael Clegg, National Academies Foreign Secretary
Clara Cohen, Program Director for the National Academies
Robin Crewe, Academy of Science of South Africa
Samuel Domngang, President, Cameroon Academy of Sciences
Adipala Ekwamu, Coordinator for Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture in Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Uganda and Zimbabwe
Benson B. A. Estambale, Professor at the Kenya Academy
Franklin Muyonjo , Uganda National Academy of Sciences
Wieland Gevers, Executive Director, Academy of Science of South Africa
Isatou Jallow, Executive Director, National Nutrition Agency, Gambia
Ousmane Kane, Executive Director of the African Regional Centre for Technology, Senegal
Wilberforce Kisamba-Mugerwa, IFPRI Africa Office, Addis Ababa and Fmr. Minister of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries, Uganda
Daniel Lantum, ICCID Regional Coordinator for Africa
Jospeph Mbede, Former Minister of Scientific and Technical Research, Cameroon
Barry Mendelow, Professor of Pathology, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, and Chair, Academy of Sciences of South Africa Consensus Study on Nutritional Influences on Human Immunity, With Special Reference to Tuberculosis and HIV Infection
Joseph K. Mukiibi, Director General, National Agricultural Research Organization
Jacob Olongida Ole Miaron, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries, Kenya
Henry Moore, Senior Managing Director, Public Law & Policy Strategies Group, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP, Former Representative
Namanga Ngongi, Former Executive Director of the World Food Programme
Jean Nkuete, Executive Secretary of CEMAC
Patrick Amuriat Oboi, MP, Uganda Parliamentary Committee on Science & Technology
Susan Offutt, Administrator, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Gabriel Ogunmola, ISC regional chairman
Willas Oluoch-Kosura, Director of the Collaborative Master of Science Programme in Agricultural and Applied Economics in Eastern and Southern Africa (CMAAE)
David Satcher, Former Surgeon General of the United States
Susanne A. Stoiber, Institute of Medicine Executive Officer
Vincent P.K. Titanji, Chair of InterAcademy Advisory Panel
Wynand J. van der Walt, Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network
Catherine Woteki, Former Under Secretary of Food Safety, USDA; Former Acting Under Secretary, Research Education, and Economics, USDA; Global Director of Scientific Affairs
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It's that time to celebrate Mother's Day! I used the daisy from the Flower Set - One. But, keep in mind, this set comes with three flower cuts and a banner!
I cut my layers in patterned paper, using white for the top layer, added a stem, a banner, and some bling.
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Tonight is the part 1 of the Real Housewives of Orange County! Unlike the last reunion of the Real Housewives of Atlanta, this should be good!
In the preview clip below, the ladies are asked to play truth of dare, during which Gretchen is dared to kiss Tamera, and they do. The picture of that is below as well, guess hell has frozen over.
So what can we expect from the two part reunion shows? It will update us on the pending divorce of Tamra and Simon Barney. Tamra will boldly address the situation with raw honesty and emotion. Lynne will answer questions regarding the challenges she has faced with her teenage daughters throughout the season. The men also make an appearance and Slade uses the opportunity to give Vicki a piece of his mind. The two go at it in a verbal battle that has been brewing for years.
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Honey, I'm home! Excuse me while I shake the sand out of, well, everything.
As I alluded to previously, I've been quiet for a while because I've been in Kuwait for the past two weeks, planning for my unit's next deployment. As a mechanism to get myself started up again, I'll be flipping through the last few pages of news posts on MMO-Champion and commenting whenever appropriate (or when not…wherever I feel, really! Hell, it's good to be home.) I'll also have a catch-up post for feral topics once I can wade through two weeks of forum posts, and I'll start updating the various guides for 5.2.
New Hearthstone CCG. I started out with Magic:TG as a kid, though my finely tuned economic sense kicked in after the first couple booster packs I bought. I've played a lot of Magic and other CCG-type games online though; it's definitely one of my favorite genres. Very happy to see Hearthstone, though I'm sure the people at Cryptozoic (WoW TCG) aren't. Yes, they can talk until they're blue in the face about it being different…but let's be real, the market for "hey, I want to play a WoW-themed card game" isn't very big. I would've thought they would have diversified it among all the Blizzard properties, but maybe that's a future expansion. "My Kerrigan deck can beat your Thrall…wait, you switched to Tyrael? Crap."
I'm pleasantly surprised in the initial details for deck construction. If they stick to the "max 2 of same card per deck, only 1 legendary" model, that means building a competitive deck should be reasonably fast; most of the progression will be horizontal (enabling new deck builds) than vertical (optimizing for a specific build). Of course, since the only source of cards is RNG, that means a LOT of grinding (or cash money) to fully optimize a build, but I suspect the difference between non-optimized and optimized builds (aka no/wrong rares/epics/legendaries) will be pretty slight. I'm assuming the disenchant/craft feature will not yield epics/legendaries, but we'll see. I may also be misunderstanding the rarity system somewhat, as I'm also seeing references to "golden" cards, which I don't quite get yet.
Crap. I just realized I'm probably going to have to start a Hearthstone blog. Can a man get some free time, please? Eighth day of the week, solely for recreational purposes, call it Funday? That Steam queue isn't getting any shorter.
PvP gear changes in 5.3. I freely admit I've detested WoW PvP for a long time. My first experience with it was grinding AV for an S2 staff for my lock to raid Karazhan; my second experience was futilely trying to land Shreds while playing from an Oceanic realm with high pings.I kept meaning to give it another go, never did, but this might push me over the top. I think these changes finally nail the "how to we let people in PvE gear have a fun PvP experience while still providing PvP progression for those who play often" problem, but as I'm a definite neophyte in this area, I'll just leave it at that (Neophyte: The nice way to say noob.)
Item Upgrades returning in 5.3, much cheaper than before. From a statistical perspective, this and Thunderforged items make things quite a bit more difficult, as the definition of "BiS" keeps stretching. From a game perspective, though, this is great in that it drastically pushes out the cap at where you can no longer keep increasing your character's power, which keeps people playing. Of course, the alternative view (I can't stand VP grinding, if I'm Heroic raiding or bought all my VP pieces anyway, this just addis extra busywork) is also reasonable. Personally, I take a middle ground. I do the content I enjoy (scenarios, dailies 1-2 times a week, a few 5-mans, current-tier LFR) and if I don't cap VP…*shrug*. There's always next week. Note, though, that it took me a long time to get to that point and past the "I have to cap VP every week or I'm letting my raid down" mindset (which is a topic for another post).
Bonus roll time increased to 3 minutes. About freaking time. I know, I know, I should have AtlasLoot or something up ahead of time so I can predetermine whether to spend a MoguCoin(TM), but..yeah. "Hmm, boss killed, use a coin? Let's check the Dungeon Journal…ugh UI taint bug that won't let me click on individual bosses..uhhh….tickticktick…mightaswell. C'mon, Daddy needs a new….3rd Arrow-Breaking Windcloak. Yeah, that's great. Just what I always wanted."
LFR drop rates increase quantified. (This is based on the MMO-C data that shows Satchel drop rate for 5.0 raids as 68% and 5.2 as 81%, hence gear drop rates of 32% (up from 16%) for 5.0 and 19% for 5.2.) Of course, less time fighting the RNG boss is a good thing all around. However, this doesn't help the problem I've mentioned before; if you're going for a specific item, then your rate for each boss gets divided by the number of items dropped for that boss. This was a big problem for those looking to get Gao-Rei back in 5.0 (16% drop chance * 33% item chance = ~5% droprate), and Rune of Reorigination will be the same for 5.2.


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How to keep pollen from spoiling your spring
Spring is in the air, and for some, that's enough to set off sneezing, wheezing, coughing and dripping noses.
While trees and flowers are blooming and brightening our yards, they are also emitting pollens that can make some people feel downright miserable.
Why does pollen make my nose run and eyes water?
"Tiny particles whose mission is to fertilize parts of other plants are released from trees, weeds and grasses each year," explains Dr. Casey Nekl, M.D., an ear, nose and throat specialist at Sentara ENT Specialists in Elizabeth City, N.C. "These particles, known as pollen, hitch rides on currents of air taking them into the airways of the human body."
When an allergen like pollen enters the body, a series of reactions occurs, including the production of histamine. The release of histamine leads to allergy symptoms, such as sneezing, runny nose, watery and itchy eyes, scratchy throat, hives and shortness of breath. For some, these allergens can cause skin problems, such as eczema. Pollen can also aggravate asthma.
Here's where "antihistamine" medication helps by combatting histamine's effects on the body. However, when allergies cannot be controlled by these medications, it's time to see a doctor.
How can my doctor help?
Allergy symptoms are best controlled with multiple approaches. These can include:
- Antihistamine tablets or nasal sprays
- Steroid nasal sprays
- Decongestants
- Eye drops
- Allergy shots
- Oral Montelukast (Originally developed to treat asthma, this drug has recently come into favor as a prescription therapy for allergies. The brand name is Singulair.)
- Controlling the environment to lessen exposure to pollen
- Nasal saline flushing
- Sublingual Immunotherapy (SLIT) - Immunotherapy is a preventive treatment in which patients are given gradually increasing doses of an allergen to desensitize the immune system.
Your physician may choose to narrow exactly what pollens are causing allergies with more thorough testing.
"When an individual is not receiving relief with common treatments, identifying the allergen facilitates a more comprehensive treatment plan," Nekl says. "The skin prick test and a blood test, known as RAST, are both used to identify allergens."
Keep track of when allergies are worst, and plan ahead the following year by taking medication a couple weeks before the pollen starts circulating, Nekl advises.
What can I do at home?
Beyond medication, those who suffer from pollen allergies can take these steps at home to control allergies:
- Wear a mask while working outside
- Change air filters in heating and AC units, as well as vacuums
- Keep window and doors closed when pollen counts are high
- Check the pollen forecast
- Use HEPA covers over mattresses and pillows
- Get rid of carpentry
- Clean often, especially rugs and floors


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In 2011, an independent evaluation of 10 years of international support to Cat Tien National Park documented the failure to convert high levels of technical and financial support into effective protected area management. This failure was starkly revealed by the killing of the last Javan rhino in Cat Tien, and the extinction of the sub-species, in April 2010. If millions of dollars can't "buy" improved protected area management in Vietnam, a country with 10% of the world's vertebrate fauna on 1% of its land area, what can? This is an important question because a similar outcome has been observed in neighboring Laos and Cambodia where significant foreign support has not resulted in reduced threats to globally threatened wildlife.
It is worth looking for inspiration to India whose nominal GDP per person is almost identical to Vietnam's ($1,390 vs. $1,374 in 2011). But unlike Vietnam (and despite equally high population pressure), India has retained viable populations of tigers, elephants, and rhinos that are both a source of national pride and sustain a valuable wildlife viewing industry. In 2011, a writer working for the Global Tiger Initiative (http://www.globaltigerinitiative.org/) visited Chu Mom Ray National Park in central Vietnam and Corbett Tiger Reserve in northern India, two protected areas of similar size, terrain, vegetation, and demographic context. The table below summaries the findings of these visits:
|Chu Mom Ray
|Core area (hectares)
|No. tigers
|Local population
|No. visitors/year
|Training center
|Yes, 60 rangers/year
|Development allowed
|Road through core zone
|NGO participation
The differences are striking: there have been no confirmed tiger sightings in Chu Mom Ray for 15 years; Corbett, where tigers are strictly protected, currently has over 100. A road runs through Chu Mon Ray; there are no roads in Corbett. Corbett has an active ranger training center; Chu Mom Ray has a training center but no training. In Corbett, several NGOs including the Wildlife Trust of India (http://www.wildlifetrustofindia.org/) and the Corbett Foundation (http://www.corbettfoundation.org/) participate actively in management.
NGO participation in protected area management, and particularly wildlife protection, is a feature of some of India's highest profile and best managed protected areas. Kaziranga National Park in northeast India, which is home to over 2,000 rhinos, 1,500 elephants, and 100 tigers on just 45,000 hectares, is a case in point. For the last 10 years, Aaranyak (http://www.aaranyak.org/), a local NGO, has supported the park with, for example, wildlife surveys, ranger training, and wireless communications. Not only do Aaranyak and other NGOs provide specialized skills, but their support gives rangers extra confidence to do a difficult and sometimes dangerous job. Even with 600 rangers, the park loses 10-15 rhinos a year to poachers (mostly killed outside the park) but the rhino population is still growing.
According to Aaranyak, NGO participation has been "crucial" to strengthening protected area management in India. But NGO participation adds value to a functioning protected area system that is built on a cadre of rangers whose work is recognized and rewarded. Rangers with three years experience get $350/month; a range officer, who supervises 100-120 rangers, gets $650/month, a deputy park director gets $1,000/month, and a park director gets $2,000/month—significantly more than their counterparts in Vietnam. In many parks rangers receive free food and NGOs often assist with emergency medical care. Rangers get trained every 4-5 years and there are opportunities to get promoted all the way to park director. If caught and the evidence is adequate, poachers are always prosecuted and the penalties are getting stricter. In 2010, the state of Assam amended national law so that a rhino poacher gets a 7-year sentence for a first offense, 10 years for a second, and life for a third.
Ranger performance is closely monitored. Range officers visit ranger stations every day, often at random times, and rangers can be transferred, suspended, or have their pay docked for poor performance. A few years ago, a park director was fired. In Vietnam, there are no performance-based incentives (or disincentives), which is one reason why years of national and internationally supported ranger training has, according to a 2011 GIZ report, had virtually no impact in terms of ranger capacity and confidence. In India, protected area management effectiveness is independently evaluated and reported publicly. Every year, the first week of October is Wildlife Week when government officials from the prime minister down publically celebrate the country's wildlife and the rangers who protect it. It is the combination of high-level government support, on-going professional training, and strong accountability that distinguishes India from Vietnam.
What would it take for Vietnam to aspire to India's achievements? A 2007 IUCN-coordinated policy review recommended the establishment of a centralized protected area management authority. This responded to the fact that Vietnam doesn't have a national protected area system but rather 163 separately managed protected areas, all but six of which are under the authority of provinces whose priority is economic growth not biodiversity conservation. A centralized authority with the power to hold park directors to account and to prevent inappropriate land use in and around protected areas would provide an institutional structure within which reforms, such as tying conservation spending to threat, merit-based recruitment, and performance-based promotion, could be implemented. This is not to say that NGOs can't make a difference at a specific site, but it is clear that without such reforms, the impact if this support is limited and lasts only as long as the funding does.
Fundamental improvements in protected area management in Vietnam would require institutional changes that, experience suggests, would be strongly resisted by vested interests. Ultimately, this is a political decision. What quality of protected area does Vietnam want? What messages does the government want to send to its citizens and visitors? How does Vietnam want to be perceived internationally? There are no technical or financial barriers to better protected area management. In fact, on a per hectare basis, spending on protected areas is among the highest in Asia. But does the government want to emulate India's success? It has the capacity. Now it needs the political vision and leadership to turn potential into reality.
Jake Brunner - Mekong Programme Coordinator (Viet Nam, Cambodia, and Myanmar) - IUCN Viet Nam


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Spicy Tuna MeltOkay, so yes. It's a simple open-faced tuna melt sandwich. But a reader recently asked me for my recipe, which of course gave me a craving for one, so I made them and I'm sharing it with y'all, because that is what a blogger of food does. Besides. It's too darned hot to cook much, or at least often, and when is the last time you had one yourself? I think it's time!
To make a melt, you could certainly use whatever type of tuna salad you usually make for the standard sandwich, and mine is fairly close to that, with the exception of a few different seasonings and the absence of eggs. I don't serve the tuna hot, though you can certainly warm it if you like. I just assemble them and pass them under the broiler, only long enough to melt the cheese on top. Since that's all the oven time you need for these, pair one of two of them up with a nice cucumber salad, or a simple green salad, maybe some fresh seasonal fruit and iced tea, and you've got a nice, light supper for these busy, hot weather days.
Here's how I make them.
To two cans of drained tuna, add chopped celery, sweet onion, jalapeno, tarragon, lemon pepper, Old Bay and Cajun seasoning. Stir all that together.
You'll need at least a cup of shredded cheese, but I like to add 1/4 cup of it into the tuna, along with the mayonnaise. Use whatever cheese you favor or have on hand for these. You can even use sliced American cheese and leave the cheese out of the mixture. Some folks even like tuna melts with Cheez Whiz or Velveeta.
I like to use English muffins for melts, although Texas toast is good too, but even regular sliced bread works just fine. I very lightly toast the English muffins, but you can also just leave them soft, if you prefer. Divide the tuna mixture evenly between all of the halves. Now, if you like them good and cheesy, you can add a pinch or slice of cheese right here on top of the tuna, then pass them briefly under the broiler and proceed. The cheese is real good melted into the tuna and it just makes them a little more, well, cheesy. Nothing wrong with that! I'm gonna behave though for the purposes of this tutorial at least.
Top each with the slices of tomato and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Add a couple dashes of hot sauce here too if you like.
Top each sandwich with the remaining shredded cheese. I was conservative here, but you go right ahead and add a little more if you like.
Place under the broiler and with the oven door ajar; broil just until cheese is melted. Remove and garnish with additional tarragon, if desired. I desired, but I just flat out forgot before it had its photo shoot! Serve immediately. A simple but delicious sandwich that is ready in no time and makes for a quick and easy supper, that's just a step beyond the tuna sandwich.
Recipe: Spicy Tuna Melt©From the Kitchen of Deep South Dish
Prep time: 10 min |Cook time: 5 min | Yield: About 4 to 6 servings
- 2 (5-6 ounce) cans or pouches of tuna, drained
- 1/2 cup of finely chopped celery
- 1/2 cup of finely chopped Vidalia or other sweet onion
- 1 tablespoon of pickled jalapeno, chopped
- 1/4 teaspoon dried tarragon, plus extra for garnish
- 1/4 teaspoon of lemon pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon of Old Bay seasoning
- 1/2 teaspoon of Cajun seasoning (like Slap Ya Mama)
- 1 cup of shredded cheese, divided
- 1/4 cup of mayonnaise
- 3 English muffins or 6 slices of Texas toast
- 6 thick slices of tomato
- Kosher salt and freshly cracked black pepper, to taste
- Couple dashes of hot pepper sauce
Preheat broiler. Mix together the tuna with the next 7 ingredients. Add 1/4 cup of the cheese and the mayonnaise; mix and set aside.
Split the English muffins and lightly toast, if desired. Divide the tuna mixture evenly among the English muffins and top each with a slice of tomato. Season with a small pinch of salt, freshly cracked black pepper and a dash of hot sauce. Divide the remaining cheese among each sandwich and place under the broiler with the oven door ajar; broil just until cheese is melted. Remove and garnish with tarragon, if desired. Serve immediately with a side salad of mixed baby greens, some fresh strawberries or peaches and a glass of iced tea.
Cook's Notes: If you prefer the tuna salad portion warm, heat it in the microwave. Can also substitute a variety of sliced cheeses, Velveeta or American cheese slices for the shredded, or use Cheez Whiz. For extra cheesy goodness, top tuna with cheese and run under the broiler first, then top with tomato and extra cheese and run under the broiler again.
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Action games often have multiplayer modes that feel like are were—at best—tacked-on as an afterthought. These multiplayer games often rely on Capture the Flag and deathmatches; if done right, playing online can be fun, even if the play is unremarkable. However, details have been revealed about Br�tal Legend's multiplayer mode, which sounds like it's going to be much more innovative and enjoyable than expected.
According to previews, Tim Schafer's new rock-action title will allow up to four players to battle online in an RTS format. Players will start out with bases (in the form of demonic stages) and will need to capture and control resource fountains; resources are presented as rock fans whom you'll want to keep under your control. Each player will have unique units and spells to pit against each other, and they also have the ability to switch between a commander and an avatar on the fly.
Players can roam the battlefield with their avatar, playing the role of a near-invincible battlemage that is apparently able to blast enemy units on the fly. You can switch to a top-down commander viewpoint with the flick of a thumbstick and fly over the battlefield with the ability to command/upgrade your units via a radial menu. Commands are set to be simple, utilizing basic controller buttons with the menu.
Overall, Br�tal Legend's multiplayer sounds like it's going to be a mix of styles between the game's single-player campaign and Halo Wars solid RTS gameplay. Once again, new details about the game have us all excited here at Ars, and we can't wait to see the game in action.


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Ohio University President Roderick J. McDavis and First Lady Deborah McDavis accompany Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Mohd Yassin as he is greeted by members of the OHIO community outside Baker University Center.
Photographer: Chris Franz
Ohio University President Roderick J. McDavis introduces Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Mohd Yassin to members of the OHIO community.
Photographer: Chris Franz
Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Mohd Yassin's visit to the Athens Campus for International Education Week included a conversation between him and OHIO President Roderick J. McDavis.
Photographer: Chris Franz
Nov 15, 2013
By Bethany Venable
By celebrating a long-standing international partnership, Ohio University wrote a new chapter in its history Tuesday, launching the first International Education Week on campus with the celebration "Malaysia @ Ohio University: Celebrating Five Decades of Strategic Partnership."
The event, which included speeches from Ohio University President Roderick J. McDavis and Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Mohd Yassin, who is also the Minister of Education, reflected on the relationship forged in 1965 between the University and the then newly-independent Southeast Asian country.
"International education has always been at the forefront of the educational mission of Ohio University," McDavis told the group gathered in Baker University Center. "Founded in 1804 as the first university in the Northwest Territory, we welcomed our first international student in 1896. Since then, the University's international population has continued to grow. This fall semester, there are 1,881 international students, representing more than 100 countries, enrolled at Ohio University."
Malaysia is counted among those countries, with 21 Malaysian students taking classes on campus as well as endowed chair professor in Southeast Asian Studies, the Tun Abdul Razak Chair Habibah Ashari. The country also boasts the largest group of Ohio University alumni outside of the United States – more than 2,400.
"Ohio University has been playing a major role in Malaysia's development for the last five decades," Tan Sri Muhyiddin said.
Beginning in 1968, when the University began the first programs in Business and Commerce with Institut Teknologi Mara (ITM), to 1981, when the Tun Abdul Razak Chair in Southeast Asian Studies was established in the University's Center for International Studies, the partnership has been fruitful for both countries. In 1987, the Malaysian Resource Center in the Vernon R. Alden Library became the sole repository for Malaysian materials in North America.
In his role as the country's minister of education, Tan Sri Muhyiddin identified the importance of improving education in a keynote speech titled "Malaysian Higher Education in the 21st Century." He spoke of the country's recent strides in improving literacy rates, the dedication of nearly 20 percent of the country's budget to education and the establishment of the Ministry of Education to "encourage the development of human capital and nation builders."
"Malaysian leaders have always placed emphasis on education and the importance of remaining competitive with economic leaders in the world," Tan Sri Muhyiddin said. He commented that the number of Malaysians holding degrees from American universities speaks to the confidence they have in American higher education.
Each leader called for the continuation of this solid partnership. "We reaffirm our commitment to international education, to the education of our future generation to become global citizens, and to the partnerships between our two countries," McDavis said.
To encourage future educational exchange, McDavis also called attention to an Ohio University initiative that offers in-state tuition for 15 Malaysian scholarship recipients – a program that he hopes to see more Malaysian students take advantage of in the future.
For his part, Tan Sri Muhyiddin encouraged OHIO students to study abroad in Malaysia, where he said opportunities are rich for study and research in tropical diseases, traditional complementary medicines and biodiversity.
"I hope that the little I have said will pique your interest in our country," laughed Tan Sri Muhyiddin, before officially declaring Ohio University's first International Education Week open.
For more information on International Education Week, visit http://eca.state.gov/programs-initiatives/international-education-week.