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- Rosemary is an aromatic herb that has an evergreen like appearance and fragrance.
- It can be used fresh from the plant for using in cooking, decorating, and for fragrance.
- Rosemary can be dried or frozen for later use.
- Dried rosemary actually contains more nutrients and vitamins than fresh rosemary. Some of the nutrients are: iron, calcium, and Vitamin B6.
- Rosemary is an ancient plant and often used in Mediterranean cooking.
Sally, over at Aprovechar, will be serving up: rosemary baked winter squash, gluten free pulled pork, and no hurry vegetable curry!! (I LOVE curry!!) Her husband Dan will also be in the kitchen this week using up leftover produce to make a hearty meal! Great menu Sally!
Melanie, of The Gluti Girls, with her snazzy new site, will be making: Italian wedding soup (recipe included), rosemary marinated salmon, and swiss steak! Melanie loves rosemary so much she dedicated a post to it back in October! She also has a lot of great info on the herb with her fantastic menu plan this week! Also, Melanie deserves a pat on the back today! She is celebrating 1 year of gluten-free Freedom! Congrats girl!
Mary Frances, of Gluten Free Cooking School, also has her menu up this week! I COMPLETELY have to agree with her, that I too had a hard time coming up with my menu this week! Good job Mary Frances! And Congrats on your new job! Mary Frances will be serving: Black Bean burgers, stuffed poblano peppers, and ravioli with a cream sauce! Don't forget her Gluten Free Gusto: A blogging event, and enter soon with your best GF flour mix! Oh, and check out that lovely picture of rosemary on her blog!
Sea, over at Book of Yum, has a truly exciting upcoming week! Today is her 1 year blog anniversary! Congrats to Sea! She will be serving up: Black bean vegan burgers with oven baked rosemary polenta fries, sweet potato chickpea crepes, and cabbage vadai, she will also be serving a delicious dessert of sweet rice flour crepes with a fruit filling and sweet cashew cream! Don't forget to enter Book of Yum's 1 year anniversary contest! Tell Sea what your favorite post is from her site and you get a chance to win a Bette Hagman cookbook! I'll definitely be entering!!!
Mandy, from DC Gluties, is joining us for the first time this week! Welcome Mandy!! She will be serving up some yummy foods this week as she attempts a yummy chili for this cold weather, gluten free mac and cheese with spinach on the side, and chicken served with roasted red potatoes and rosemary! Sounds like a delicious week Mandy! I'm so glad you and Brandi are joining us!
Karen, from Gluten Free Sox, has a great menu this week! She will be making: beef stew in red wine (yummy!!), chicken with fennel and rosemary (another yummy!!) and a vegetarian mushroom lasagna (you better share that with us Karen!!). She's also going to be having a Super Bowl party and she'll be making all kinds of gluten free appetizers and goodies!
Tracy from Thoughts from Miller Manor has a wonderful week planned as well! She will be serving up: a scrumptious lasagna, marinated salmon, tostadas, and baked chicken! Sounds like a warm and yummy week Tracy!! Love the new look of your site! Check out Tracey's recipe site as well for some great gluten free goodies!
Deborah, from One Beggar's Bread (I still love the name of your blog girl!) will be cooking up Natalie's Black Pepper Salmon over Spinach, Chicken Fajitas, and a Bacon, Spinach, and Mandarin Orange Salad (definitely on my favorites list!)! Great menu Deborah! Thanks so much for sharing! Deborah also has breakfasts, lunches, and even desserts listed on her menu! Check out her site for more great gluten free ideas!
Sara at The Gluten Free Dance (another blog name I am in love with!) has also posted her weekly menu! We all need to give a little cheer to Sara, I think she's a bit discouraged with gluten free cooking, so everybody go and give Sara and a big hug in her comments! She will be making: slow cooker steak with rosemary rice (what a great idea!), chicken and potatoes with spinach, and creamy hashbrowns with eggs! Yum! I love breakfast for dinner! We need to do that again soon at my house! Great menu Sara! Don't get discouraged! You are doing great!!
Ginger, from Fresh Ginger also has her menu posted for the week! This is also her first time participating! Welcome Ginger!! Ginger will be making an assortment of international meals this week including: Pork Vindaloo, Homemade Pitas with gyro meat, and grilled salmon with a mustard dill glaze! Great Menu Ginger! Thanks so much for joining us!
12 weekly menus this week (including mine below)!
I think we may have set a Gluten Free Menu Swap Record!
What do you think Natalie?
I have to admit this week was difficult for me, because of our Sugar Free January meal plan! This week we are not eating sugar, dairy (I don't know how you do it Sally!), or meats (other than fish and eggs), so this menu was a challenge for us!
Crock pot pinto beans with chopped onions
Dairy Free, Sugar Free Cornbread
Turnip Greens
Sea's Nutritional Yeast Gravy
Homemade Meat Free, Sugar Free Spaghetti Sauce
GF Pasta
My Dad's Ceasar Salad
GF Garlic Toast
Spicy White Chili with Tofu
Green Leaf Salad
Fresh Fruit for dessert
Tofu, Fried Egg, and Veggie Stir Fry
with Brown Rice
Apple Grape and Walnut Salad
Baked Salmon with Rosemary and Lemon Sauce
Green Beans with Almonds
Baked Sweet Potatoes
Breakfasts and Baked Goods:
GF Pita Bread (we're going to attempt it!)
Sugar Free Walnut Apple Cheesecake
Some type of GF mini-muffins
Sara's Baked Oatmeal
Check back this week for GF Pita bread (if it works), a sugar free cheesecake, and my Dad's Caesar Salad!!
Have a great, gluten free week!
PS... check out weekly menus of all sorts over at Org Junkie's Menu Plan Monday.


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When measured against other smartphones, the average price of Apple's iPhone already makes it a luxury item in most Asian countries.
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Schnitzer Steel Industries Inc. (SCHN) Jumps 9.74% on February 12Equities Staff Follow |
Schnitzer Steel Industries Inc. (SCHN) was among the biggest gainers on the Russell 2000 for Friday February 12 as the stock popped 9.74% to $14.20, representing a gain of $1.26 per share. Some 169,391 shares traded hands on 1,595 trades, compared with an average daily volume of 351,243 shares out of a total float of 26.75 million. The stock opened at $13.05 and traded with an intraday range of $14.28 to $13.03.
After today's gains, Schnitzer Steel Industries Inc. reached a market cap of $379.79 million. Schnitzer Steel Industries Inc. has had a trading range between $20.65 and $11.70 over the last year, and it had a 50-day SMA of $13.82 and a 200-day SMA of $15.76.
Schnitzer Steel Industries Inc is a recycler of ferrous and nonferrous scrap metal including end-of-life vehicles and a manufacturer of finished steel products.
Schnitzer Steel Industries Inc. is based out of Portland, OR and has some 2,955 employees. Its CEO is .
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A Chapel Hill police officer acted reasonably and without malice when he stopped and arrested a man in 2009 he thought was someone else, according to the N.C. Court of Appeals.
But in a strongly worded dissenting opinion, one member of the three-judge panel said the majority opinion undermines the man's Fourth Amendment protections against illegal search and seizure.
Charles D. Brown, who owned a barbershop on West Rosemary Street, had just closed after working late June 1, 2009, when he began walking to his girlfriend's home in Carrboro. Officer D. Funk stopped him, handcuffed him and held him in custody before eventually releasing him.
Funk claims he thought Brown was Cuman Fearrington, who was wanted on outstanding warrants. Once he determined Brown was not Fearrington, Funk let Brown go.
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Brown claimed Funk did not request his identification before arresting him, that Funk made disparaging remarks to him, and that Funk continued to hold him long after he had shown his identification.
Brown sued Funk and the Chapel Hill Police Department, claiming false imprisonment, assault and violation of his constitutional rights.
In a hearing in August 2012, Superior Court Judge Carl Fox dismissed most of Brown's claims through summary judgment, but he allowed Brown's claim of false imprisonment to go forward.
The issue for the Court of Appeals was whether Funk was protected by public immunity laws, which protect public officials from being sued while doing their jobs. The judges had to decide whether Funk acted outside the boundaries of his position and with malice, or ill will.
Brown claimed that even after he showed Funk his identification, Funk continued to hold him in handcuffs, asking the 911 communicator to verify his identification and to check to see if other towns or counties had warrants for him.
The appeals court decided Funk did act reasonably in arresting Brown because Brown looked like Fearrington.
The statements Funk made, including sarcastically asking, "Oh? You own a business?" showed Funk acted disrespectfully and unprofessionally, but it did not show malice, and therefore Funk is entitled to the defense of public immunity, according to the majority opinion written by Judge Robert C. Hunter.
However, Judge Martha Geer, had a different opinion.
While she agreed Funk had reasonable suspicion to stop Brown to check his identification, he did not have probable cause to arrest him.
"The majority holds it is permissible, when an officer suspects an individual is another person to arrest that person and then seek identification," Geer wrote. "That holding is an extraordinary undermining of the protections of the Fourth Amendment."
Even after Brown showed Funk his ID, Funk disregarded it, she wrote.
"A reasonable juror could find that it was unreasonable to disregard the identification and that the 'verification' of plaintiff's identity – and the subsequent search of NCIC for outstanding warrants – was really an attempt to cover up the officer's mistake in hopes of manufacturing probable cause to detain plaintiff," Geer wrote.
Funk should have released Brown as soon as he knew he had made a mistake, Geer wrote.
Because of her dissenting opinion, the decision allows the case to be appealed to the N.C. Supreme Court.
Brown's attorney, Al McSurely, said Brown will definitely appeal.
No matter what the Supreme Court decides, Brown's claim of false imprisonment against the Police Department will still go forward, McSurely said.
If the Supreme Court reverses the appeals court's decision, then the case will also go forward against Funk as well, he said.


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You, Mixtab, Are No Google Reader
Jul 16, 2013 5:00 AM PT
Mixtab Pro is available from Mixtab for US$3.99.
With Google Reader's demise, makers of software to subscribe to Really Simple Syndication feeds have hustled to fill the void.
The biggest winner in the RSS sweepstakes so far has been Feedly, which attracted a large portion of Google Reader's orphans. Feedly has been so successful, in fact, that some RSS makers, like Reeder, are connecting to it, much as they plugged into Google Reader.
A more conventional way to attract Reader orphans is to allow them to import their feeds from the defunct service into a new reader. That's the approach tried by Mixtab Pro, available for US$3.99 from the Mac App store.
At the end of last year, we reviewed the free version of Mixtab and were impressed with its visual audacity. Unlike some drab RSS readers, Mixtab uses a magazine-style approach to displaying the content of feeds -- an approach pioneered by Flipboard, one of the first super apps for the iPad.
Miss List View
However visually arresting the magazine metaphor is, it has its drawbacks for hard core Reader users. That's because it trades screen real estate for information.
Google Reader's list view packs headlines from RSS articles on the screen. The view may have the all the allure of the agate on the stock pages of a newspaper, but it allows you to scan lots of information quickly.
With magazine layouts, articles have large headlines, photos and text that take up more room on a page. That's sweeter for the eye, but it means fewer articles on a screen.
To some extent, the drawbacks to not having a list view can be offset by the program's gesture support. With a trackpad, for example, you can slide your fingers across the pad to move left or right through groups of feeds.
When they work, the swipe gestures allow you to quickly flip through feed screens as fast as you would flip through the pages of a magazine. The problem is that you sometimes have to swipe two or three times before you can advance a screen, which can be annoying.
Clumsy Gestures
In the free version of Mixtab, there were arrows on the sides of the feed screens that could be clicked to advance them. Those don't appear in Mixtab Pro, so if a swipe doesn't succeed, you have no choice but to keep on swiping until it does.
It's easy to understand why Mixtab's developers removed the arrows -- why do you need arrows if you can do something with gestures? -- but in this case, the arrows would have provided some just-in-case redundancy that could make navigating in the app less vexing.
This latest version of Mixtab Pro was released just in time to be touted as an alternative to Google Reader. Unfortunately, we couldn't get the RSS viewer to digest our Reader feeds.
Before our Reader account expired, we saved our feeds as instructed by Google. Reader exported all our account information into a Zip archive.
There's a bunch of files in the archive, but the only important one is subscriptions.xml. That's the equivalent of an OPML file, a format used for tree-style applications.
Import Choking
Mixtab choked on the XML file. It wouldn't import it, generated a lengthy error message, and crashed.
The same thing occurred when we changed the file's extension from XML to OPML -- a trick that sometimes works with fussy RSS readers.
Since all our Google Reader feeds had been exported to Feedly, we tried exporting them into an OPML file created by that app.
Mixtab wouldn't have anything to do with it. It flashed a message stating the file wasn't a proper OPML file and then crashed.
So Mixtab Pro definitely didn't make it as a Reader altrernative for us.
Attractive Feed Reader
Although Mixtab's new gesture support and feed import features leave something to be desired, the app remains an attractive way to organize and view RSS feeds.
Feeds can be organized in "tabs," which appear as tiles on the program's home screen. Each tile contains a title for the group of feeds under it, along with a headline and graphic from a recent article in the feed stream.
In addition to navigating to your tabs from the home screen, you can view a gallery of tabs created by the Mixtab community, view any articles from your feeds that you marketed as a "favorite," or create a new tab.
To reorder tabs on your home screen, you can enter the edit mode and drag the tiles where you want them to appear on the home screen. You can also delete tabs in edit mode.
Rich Reader
Where an RSS article is viewed can be a matter of taste. We like to view them inside the RSS reader, but others prefer to see them in a Web browser. Mixtab gives you both options.
If you want to share an article with your friends on the Internet, Mixtab lets you do that, too. You can email an article link, ship it to your Twitter feed or post it to Facebook.
In order to start using Mixtab, you need to set up a free online account for the program. You can piggyback that on a Facebook or Twitter account, if you're trying to avoid account proliferation.
An advantage of having your tab information in Mixtab's cloud is you can access it from any device with a Web browser. That can be handy when you're away from your Mac.
As a Google Reader alternative, Mixtab Pro stumbles, but as an RSS reader that provides a rich way to view syndicated articles, it still excels.
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I don't have Recount opened to Damage Done or DPS. I have it opened to a page called Deaths. Recount will faithfully count up the number of times your raid team members have died.
While it's nice to know that I've now died 11 times in this Ulduar run, that's not really important.
The first thing I look for it mistakes on my part. It's fairly easy to see a 10k+ Biting Cold and know that I let my stack get too high.
I can also check for mistakes on my teammates fault.
We let him know what the issue was and how to correct the problem, but we tried to make sure he didn't feel called out or belittled.
It's also fairly easy to see a 5,000,000 damage rocket strike.
After looking for mistakes, I look at how long I went without heals. Sometimes, this is because the healer was killed by some AoE damage or a loose mob. Other times, it's because the healer left HoTs rolling on me and switched targets. This was an issue on some of the keepers. We had to tell certain healers that they simply couldn't come off the tanks.
You occaisionally catch the classic Ardent Defender leapfrog. That really makes me upset. Currently with Ardent Defender, it only works on hits if you are below 35%. Since I was above 35%, it didn't do a bloody thing on this hit. Thankfully, it's being fixed next patch.
Recount also has a nifty feature that you can broadcast the Death Report to the Raid, your party, or as a whisper to another player, like your Raid Leader or Tank Officer. This is fantastic for when you are having a disagreement with someone about what happened. You say you got no heals for 5 seconds. Healers say they were on you; you link the Death Report showing only Blood Presence ticks and Judgment of Light healing.
I read somewhere that doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is the very definition of insanity. Every wipe needs to be a learning experience. What did we do wrong, how did we die, what can we do differently next time. Recount's Death Meter is a treasure trove of information to figure out what went wrong and fix it.


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Female and Graduate Student Enrollment Rises
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Michigan Technological University, like other public universities in the state, submitted its official fall enrollment numbers to Lansing this week. The news was very good.
Michigan Tech has 1,252 first-year students, the largest freshman class since 2008. The average ACT score and high school GPA of those students are at an all-time high, at 26.7 and 3.66.
Graduate student numbers also rose for the fifth straight year, to 1,359.
"I want to thank everyone all across campus for the work they do to attract the highest quality students," said President Glenn Mroz. "The results of their efforts speak for themselves."
Total undergraduate enrollment this fall is 5,617, making the University's total enrollment for the fall semester 6,976, up from 6,945. There are a total of 1,810 female students, the second highest ever. Female enrollment in the College of Engineering is now 906, up from 612 in 2005 and 835 last year. That is an all-time high. And the Graduate School has 392 female graduate students, the most ever.
The number of domestic ethnic minorities has risen to just shy of 7 percent of the undergraduate student body. This is a 10-year high that is also an all-time record.
"The academic caliber of this incoming class of undergraduates one of the highest in recent history at Michigan Tech," said John Lehman, associate vice president for enrollment, marketing and communications at Michigan Tech. "It's a diverse class with a relatively high proportion of women entering the STEM fields. We're very excited to have this group of talented, future leaders studying with us at Tech."
The Graduate School saw the number of first-time master's degree students rise 22.2 percent, to 314. There are 97 first-time doctoral students, a 1 percent drop from fall 2012. Tech's Graduate School processed more than 4,100 applications for the fall 2013 semester.
"This is the fifth consecutive year of record graduate enrollment at Michigan Tech," said Jacqueline Huntoon, dean of the Graduate School. "We are making clear progress toward our goal of 3,000 graduate students by 2035. Also, last year was the fourth consecutive year of record graduation numbers for master's and PhD students. We want to thank everyone who helped get new graduate students to Tech and who worked closely with the students who are here."
The enrollment report lists numbers of students in each of Michigan Tech's Colleges and Schools.
- College of Engineering: 4,329
- College of Sciences & Arts: 1,657
- School of Business & Economics: 365
- School of Technology: 276
- School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science: 242
- No School or College designated: 107
Michigan Technological University is a public research university, home to more than 7,000 students from 54 countries. Founded in 1885, the University offers more than 120 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in science and technology, engineering, forestry, business and economics, health professions, humanities, mathematics, and social sciences. Our campus in Michigan's Upper Peninsula overlooks the Keweenaw Waterway and is just a few miles from Lake Superior.


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 72 diseños de 22 diseñadores freelance.
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We are looking to create an icon that will represent the a saying in the Christian bible that states:
"I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there' and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you."
So the design should somehow capture the element of being able to move a mountain with even the smallest amount of faith. You can change the world with faith and make everything possible. The goal for the design is to provide an icon that communicates the Christian theme but in a subtle way. There ought to be elements associated with Christianity (ie a cross, a fish, a crown of thorns, etc) embedded in the design where possible but the Christian theme should be subtle enough that it does not overwhelm the design.
We understand that mountains and mustard seeds are not easy elements to incorporate so we are hoping for some creativity.
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Rafter dumps Tomic from Davis Cup
Pat Rafter will not consider Bernard Tomic for Australia's opening Davis Cup tie in 2013, due to concerns over the young star's on and off-court behaviour.
Australia's Davis Cup captain has taken the decision two months ahead of his side's opening match in the new tournament calendar against Taiwan in February.
Tomic, 20, has fallen foul of Tennis Australia on numerous occasions over the last 18 months since reaching the quarter-finals of Wimbledon in 2011.
Rafter himself labelled Tomic's performance in losing to Andy Roddick in the second round of this year's US Open as "disgraceful".
It had been hoped such a stern warning would lead to an increased dedication to the sport but there have been few signs of this.
In October, Tomic was questioned by police after a fight with a friend in a spa and this weekend was seen driving a yellow ferrari with the number plate SINCITY.
"Pat has made the decision early that for the first tie next year Bernard will not be selected," Craig Tiley, TA's director of tennis told the Age.
"As a team, we just felt that part of the commitment that we make to athletes and athletes make to the sport is they always put 100 per cent commitment and effort in competing for their country."
Marinko Matosevic fell foul of Rafter last year when the grand slam winner felt the Melbourne player did not give full effort in a dead rubber for Australia in April and did not play Davis Cup again for the rest of the year.
Marinko has since bounced back and is currently rated at a career-high 47 in the world, four places above Tomic.
Now Rafter has shown he will treat all players the same, regardless of their status and ability.
''I think you can draw a few parallels with Marinko," Tiley said.
"It's very much along those lines: it's not one specific incident, just an aggregation of his approach to the game.
"We just felt that this decision should provide additional motivation every time (Tomic) walks on the court, to be a total professional in his approach to not only his preparation but competing in the match and post-match.
"And it would be no different if he was the number one player in Australia or the number 100 player, or a junior.''
Veteran Davis Cup campaigner Lleyton Hewitt has responded saying Tomic still has a lot to learn.
"Obviously he is learning, it is a learning phase for him at the moment," Hewitt told Channel Seven.
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Marius Black was a Squib, third child of Cygnus Black II and Violetta Bulstrode, and brother of Pollux Black, Cassiopeia Black, and Dorea Black. Marius was disowned and removed from the Black family tree tapestry for being a Squib[1], as his family believed strongly in the importance of blood purity and disdained Squibs, who are generally treated as second-class citizens in the Wizarding world[2].
Marius's date of birth is unknown, but given when his siblings were born, Marius was likely born between 1915 and 1920.
Marius is a Roman name derived from Mars, the Roman god of war. It was the name of several Roman generals, a philosopher, and an emperor. One of those Roman generals was renowned for his revolutionary military reforms and for being elected consul an unprecedented seven times. The name is also sometimes used as a masculine version of the name Maria[3], which is derived from the Hebrew name Miriam, the meaning of which is usually theorized to be "sea of bitterness"[4]. Marius is also the name of one of the main characters in Victor Hugo's Les Misérables.
Marius is also the name of a moon crater , which fits in with the Black family tradition of naming children after stars.
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- He may have had descendants (which may have been Muggles or Squibs) but because he was disowned by his family, they did not appear on the family tree.
- Since in the wizarding world, Squibs were considered as the worst blood status, Marius may have been the House of Black's greatest shame.
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film) (Appears on Black family tapestry)


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For an assignment I am asked to implement an algorithm using OpenMP. I am working on OSX 10.8.3 and have installed g++-4.7 from Homebrew and everything compiles and works fine, except for the speed. The serial version of the algorithm performs in 0.98 seconds, the openmp version performs in 4.8 seconds. Executing the same algorithm on my laptop but in Parallels, on Ubuntu 12.04 (also compiled with g++-4.7), both execute in 1.55 seconds, which is somewhat more what I expected. On some remote server (running Ubuntu as well) the sequential code runs in 1.39 seconds and the OpenMP code in 0.78 seconds, which is more what I was expecting.
So I think it is not my algorithm that is not properly programmed. Adding num_threads(2) to the pragma improves the result slightly, down to 1.67 seconds, but this is still slower than what I see in my parallels session with Ubuntu and also slower than the sequential code (but marginally). I would expect at least the same speedup from my Parallels Ubuntu since it is ran on the same machine, just with a different OS. Is there something not correct for OSX ?
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In the past five months Trish Stratus retired from wrestling, got married, settled into a new house and signed on for a seven-episode reality show that is airing in primetime on CBS.
"So I spent my honeymoon in Muncie, Ind., without my husband," the WWE legend and native of Richmond Hill said with a laugh.
Stratus felt the sacrifice was worth it to be part of Armed And Famous, in which five celebrites -- Stratus, La Toya Jackson, Jack Osbourne, Erik Estrada and Jason (Wee Man) Acuna -- become police officers and go on real-life calls in crime- and crack-infested Muncie.
"They wouldn't tell me who the other celebrities were until I signed on," Stratus recalled. "They were sworn to secrecy, but they did say, 'There's one guy who played a cop on TV.' And I was like, 'That's totally Erik Estrada.'
"When they first said 'reality show,' I wondered if it was for me. But then they said CBS, and who knows where that can lead?"
Stratus finished filming Armed And Famous in mid-January, and the program is in the middle of its on-air run. Stratus -- who in last week's episode did everything from going undercover as a prostitute to checking up on an elderly man only to find him dead in his apartment -- has emerged with a newfound respect for the police.
"They have to wear so many hats," Stratus said.
Of course, no conversation with Stratus could take place without asking her for the inside scoop on her fellow celebrity police officers. Here's what Stratus had to say:
La Toya Jackson (a.k.a. Michael's sister) -- "She is a 50-year-old woman who has been pampered her whole life. So when she first comes in, people are carrying her bags, she isn't opening her own doors, and I was like, 'Okay, here we go, diva.' And oh my God, did she ever prove everyone wrong. The second day we did physical testing, and she couldn't do a pushup. But she came to me and said, 'Can you help me do this?' So we really bonded. She made a full 180-degree turn. Even her tone of voice changed. She left a stronger, bolder woman, and she really was a source of inspiration."
Jack Osbourne (a.k.a. Ozzy's son) -- "He is the most grounded, down-to-earth, mature kid you ever could meet. Obviously it was a big thing when he went through rehab, and he lost 70 pounds. We were expecting him to be the spoiled little brat from The Osbournes. But he has grown up so much since then."
Erik Estrada (a.k.a. Mr. CHiPs) -- "He has been in show business for so long, he is an absolute pro. Of course, on our very first day, when we were learning how to pull over a car, he had the strut, he had the walk. And I was like, 'That's not fair!' He ended up being Uncle Erik, the mother hen of us all."
Jason (Wee Man) Acuna (a.k.a. the little dude from MTV's Jackass) -- "We expected this jackass, basically. But he knew that going in, he took it to heart, and he really was an un-jackass. That's not a word, but it is now."
Stratus said she hasn't had a chance to miss wrestling yet, but honestly, she doesn't think she will.
"I'm done," Stratus said. "I could never do that touring schedule again.
"Wrestling is in my blood. I love it, so if there were an opportunity to do something again in the ring, maybe. But going on the road? No -- I've moved on."
EDITOR'S NOTE: Reports are that CBS has already shelved Armed And Famous from its Wednesday schedule.


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Witchcraft and Death in Uganda
Posted: Mon, April 08, 2013 | By: Religion / Atheism
by Leo Igwe
Attacks and killings of people suspected of witchcraft and malevolent magic continue unabated in different parts of Africa. A local newspaper in Uganda, the Daily Monitor, has just reported the brutal murder of a man 'accused of being a witch' in a local village. The man, Siraje Kayondo, was waylaid on his way from the garden by machete-wielding persons. They tied him up and beheaded him. According to the report, they threw his head into a bush and dumped his body on the roadside.
In January, Kayondo was accused of killing two members of his community through witchcraft. A local mob burnt down his house and he was forced to flee the community. Kayondo came out of exile to cultivate his garden when he was waylaid and killed. Such gruesome murders of suspected witches take place in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and in other countries in Sub Saharan Africa.
In Uganda, the belief in witchcraft and 'black' magic is very strong. The term witchcraft evokes fear in the minds of people across the country. Very often people attribute death, diseases or any misfortune to witchcraft. Witchcraft accusations often take place among neighbours, family or community members. People hate or react violently to anybody suspected of using occult powers to harm or destroy. A witch is generally seen as an 'enemy within' who should be eliminated.
Many Africans are turning to witchcraft as they try to manage and respond to uncertainties in their lives. They use witchcraft to explain or cope with cases and instances of misfortune. They believe witches are responsible for their poverty, misery, unemployment, marital or childbirth difficulties.
Many people in Africa also believe in the power of witchcraft to enhance their political and economic fortunes.
A recent survey carried out in Uganda says that more 'literate Ugandans' are using witchcraft to get and secure their jobs. According to the survey,
'A majority (66% of those interviewed) said witchcraft was a common practice at workplaces while 16% were undecided about its prevalence.
Although 17% said witchcraft was not common at workplaces, only 4% strongly believed in what they were saying.
Of those, 60% of the respondents, mostly males, testified that they had either heard or seen signs of witchcraft in their offices.
In that group, the majority were aged between 18 and 20 years, followed by those in the 41-45 age group and others between 36 and 40 years.
Also, 41% of the respondents said an "average number" of their colleagues in offices depend on witchcraft while 17% said "too many" of their workmates use it. However, some 42% believe "too few" of their workmates use witchcraft to secure their jobs.
About 90% of the respondents reported that people practice witchcraft to seek job promotion while 12% said others use witchcraft to prosper in business.
Astonishingly, others use witchcraft either to harm or hurt workmates, besides seeking favour and power at workplaces, as reported by 17% of the interviewees."
This survey clearly reveals how obsessed the so-called literate people in Uganda are by this ancient superstition. It shows how ineffective the literacy and educational program in Uganda is and has been. Since the colonial days, there have been efforts to eradicate witchcraft beliefs and related abuses through legislation. But these efforts have also proved ineffective. In many African countries, the practice of witchcraft is a crime punishable by law. Witchcraft accusation is also an offence. But these legal provisions have not deterred people across the region from persecuting or murdering in cold blood any suspected witch or wizard. A major anti-superstition campaign is urgently needed in Africa to save the people from the dark and destructive influence of witchcraft and other irrational beliefs.


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Tuesday, February 23, 2010
The Temple Street Night Market is an icon of Hong Kong, a mecca for hardcore shoppers and foodies alike – and as the name says, it only opens at night. Good news for us, as we wanted to shoot the night lights and atmosphere. Arriving at our hotel from Shau Kei Wan, we spent a while at the harborside promenade shooting the Symphony of Lights again, then took an hour's much-needed rest; not only had we walked all day, we had to come back during the rush hour and so spent the entire train ride on our feet.
Did I mention we were tigerishly hungry? No? Well, whatever the condition of your appetite when you enter the Night Market, be assured that it will be in excruciatingly hyperactive mode within minutes of wandering in! A whole section of the market is devoted to streetside dining, where just about anything edible seems available in just about any Chinese style of cuisine. Soy-basted ducks and geese hung on racks everywhere, live groupers and other fish swam in aquariums, pails or basins along with lobsters and fat crabs, and there were plates of beautiful shellfish everywhere. Unless you totally hate Chinese cuisine, it'd be impossible not to find something to your taste here.
Cat and I finally decided on a place to eat, not so much by the menu as by the fact that the waiter spoke English. One thing about dining here: have an idea already what you want to eat! There's a great throng of people waiting to be seated, and any hesitation is taken as a sinful waste of time by the busy restaurateurs. I took matters into my own hands and ordered something I thought we'd both like, as well as feeding my spice addiction: a dish of crispy Szechuan-style chicken. The dish arrived smothered with crunchy bits of fried garlic and dried red chilies, steaming hot and with a fragrance that might've been detected by the wolves in Mongolia. And yes, it was that good.
Dining at the Temple Street restaurants as a couple however is not the optimal way to do things. Far better to come here as a family or troop of friends, for only thus can you order a wider variety of dishes. We discovered the table beside ours was occupied by a Filipino extended family; at first we had no idea, as they were just so busy munching on a profusion of seafoods that I couldn't make out what they were saying. Then a waiter walked between our tables carrying a crab dish that made both me and the guy nearest me on that table exclaim in Tagalog. Voila! Instead friends! And yes, they did call the waiter over on his way back to order the same crab dish for themselves. Another nod to Pinoy pride: a lot of diners, including many Caucasians, were washing down their vittles with golden San Miguel beer. What can I say? Good food deserves good beer.
The Night Market is also a great place to shop for Chinese handicrafts as well as toys, watches, jewelry and other gewgaws, provided you're prepared to wade through a crowd and haggle aggressively. I was prepared to do neither, having in fact not an iota of inclination for shopping, but I did want photos of the merchandise. It was challenging to squeeze in and find a space to shoot, and even more challenging to get a stable shot what with people bumping me from every direction, but I did manage a few. It was near midnight when we got back to our hotel, tired, but very happy with our experience.


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I vowed to take it slow. I am at ground zero, and I know it. Between being out of any exercise for exactly 3 months (not counting a 50 mile walk at Ozark), loosing a lot of muscle mass, gaining a lot of fat tissue, loosing cardio-vascular fitness and even simple breathing pattern, and still being on the tail end of whatever I carried all that time in terms of illness - it all put stresses on my body. This week I ran twice, and it was a tad slower both times than last week (3 miles and 6 miles) - but I am ok with that. I ran. That is the part that matters the most.
I re-joined the gym and began doing things in there as well. Little weight lifting, some upper with dumbbells 5 lbs lighter, some squatting with half the weight I am used to...some spin class time (controlling my heart rate), some Stairclimbers (that knock me out after 10 minutes). I am using flat roads to progressively build endurance only, and cardio equipment for training my climbing muscles. Speed is not even on horizon anywhere, and that is just fine too.
It is amazing how much patience I am learning with all that. It's not that I am afraid the running will suddenly disappear again, it's just that waiting so long shifted priorities. I do have races I am signed up for - but I don't have pressure to do well at them. Funny that local running store Rogue had contacted me with offer to join their team - I applied last September and totally forgot about it. I emailed back my thank you - and my honest "where I am today". I haven't heard back...and that is ok too.
My mood is changing and it is not surprising at all - it's been a long-known fact that natural endorphins are best enhancers of happiness. The technique is used for treatment of patients with depression, PTSD, PPD...even in jails. Apparently, I didn't know I was THAT bad until Larry mentioned I got better:) Well, now we know.
I joined 40 days of Personal Revolution journey at my local Baptiste yoga studio. I love those guys. It's been a week as we are asked to practice yoga daily, meditate twice a day, and mindfully forgo something that matters for those 40 days - I chose to not log into computer before 8 am or after 9 pm (and, luckily, I don't own i-Phone). It is amazing what a crutch it is, our addiction to the Powers of Internet. Nothing happens between those hours - yet I feverishly log in and check Facebook updates and see if anybody emailed me. Granted, parts of my personal business depends on communication - but I am not saving babies from the fire, so things can wait till morning, right?
It is amazes me how I thought not training hard will free some of my time - and I've been busier than ever. Why did I sign up for the 40 days that will require me to commit to an hour a day at least to extra things? I'll never know, but there is never a good time. I am blessed to be so busy - it means I have a regular job that serves me with a stable paycheck and medical benefits, and I have people that utilize my skills for helping them in either reach their goals or feel better physically. I have no regrets (well, may be to spend more time actually talking to my husband, who is the most amazing patient partner a woman can possibly want during this transitional time for me). 60 hrs a week between a "job" job and things I do for business (and I don't have a powerful job of a business woman with career), 45 min commute each way each day, and at least 2 yoga classes a week. Who can get 8 hrs of sleep in this life? Never happens to me...
But I recently stumbled on a quote by no other but a Hollywood star Cameron Diaz, and it resonated with me: "Discipline isn't about denying yourself; it's about giving to yourself. It isn't about loosing; it's about gaining. Every day I get up to exercise ('or mediate, or journal, or knit'), I think about what I'll gain from it and what I will loose if I don't do it. 9 times out of 10, I will only gain by doing those things and lose by not doing. Discipline is always a gain in the tallying of life". I love discipline, it makes me feel safe. I missed discipline of waking up and getting out the door. It's a good thing...
There are things that I ran into as a road block as I announced this year as a year to take care of myself. I ran some x-rays and was diagnosed with hip height discrepancy (not surprising at all, always knew it, and it's one of a few causes of my consistent injuries on one side, all stemming from herniated disks back in 1998) and cervical kyphosis, what freaked me out much more, as it potentially can lead to my cervical vertebrae being fused. Not a prospect I am looking forward to - and it totally explains how my neck has been bothering me for over a year now (I keep choosing not to throw my head back during yoga's backbends anymore, or do it briefly at the end), and how the pain in the area had been getting worse in the last month or so. Time to take care of it with aggressive treatments (mostly deep tissue type of things to break scar tissues to free the movement first, all procedures quite painful and not covered by medical insurance, of course), and then re-train my neck into a curve again. Here goes my free time...But it does fit into "taking care of me year" description, and since the "training" is rather simple and basic at this time, there is no better way.
I certainly am a runner in my heart, there is no question about it anymore. But at the same time, I am more than that, and not being seen for more makes me resentful of being a runner. Does it make sense? (all that daily journaling for 40 days and my visits with a therapist make me think too much?) Obviously social media is a crazy thing to use as a judgment point (and of many reasons I joined 40 days at Yoga studio is to meet real people I'd talk to, and I make an honest effort to keep meeting with my friends in real life too, for a cup of coffee and a conversation, past month had been wonderfully full of those), but it does tick me in a wrong way when I post on FB "I ran 2 miles" - and get 70 likes, but when I say "I practiced yoga" - it'll be 3 (and one of them is Larry). Granted, 90% of my friends (and I still keep the "number" down to real life people I met and talked to on "other" matters beyond races) are met through running, but we are ALL people with many more sides! Being a freak I am and an introvert, it cause me to battle a wish to shut down FB and NOT run.
May be I am just getting older...and processing a lot more things in a way I didn't have time to before.
Breaks are good. Breaks from habitual experiences are awesome. I realized I love running - from a whole new perspective, every time my break is forced upon me. And every time I, also, realize what else I am besides running. It's a process. I hope it never ends.
(In the meantime, I am throwing away the scale, because in the last 2 weeks of actually exercising, I haven't lost a single pound, and my clothes still don't fit! Ugh! Rant over:))
p.s. I'll be at Rocky Raccoon 100 this weekend crewing for Pam Smith (yes, THAT Pam Smith) and cheering my friends out. Yell me hello!
p.p.s let me venture and add here (as you can see from the very first comment and my response below) I get somewhat defensive when I am asked about Whole30 these days - and I get asked a lot, and obviously, I set myself up for it since I wrote how it helped me to get in (better) shape in 2013. I DO NOT EAT JUNK FOOD! Ok, yelling is over:) The reason I don't call it Whole30 or Paleo anymore is because it is not - I have IBS and have enough restrictions to keep up with. I do not eat processed food, I don't like deserts (lucky!), I can have an ice cream scoop once a month (and have a stomach ache later), or a slice of cheese once a week (same outcome). I eat either slice of bread or cup of brown rice as an emergency once a month. I don't subscribe to organic and grass-fed grocery idea (too expensive). I will refer all to Pam Smith's latest entry HERE as she describes "diet" close to what I do - without back-carbo-loading for me due to not training really and due to my IBS. My breakfast is either 2 eggs with tomato and spinach and salsa, or a shake of water/protein powder/spinach/berries. My lunch is salad of greens with no dressing and some chicken or canned fish. My dinner is cooked meat (chicken or pork due to price tag) and veggies. This is normal to me, not diet or eating plan. I do have a piece of dark chocolate daily. I drink Latte once in a blue moon when see my friends for a date. As rarely if not more so I drink wine - once a month? As I told my doctor last December when he tried to propose may be weakness in running is caused by dietary deficit - if he finds someone who eats healthier, I'd like to shake hands (I am aware a number of my friends are extremely healthy eaters, but I was speaking in general terms). That said, I will not put myself on calorie restriction or food restriction for the magic of getting lean/fit at this point of my life. My priorities changed. I want to be healthy, but not focused on being a very good athlete at the expense of other aspects of my life, including meals with my husband, who is normal - and, by the way, eats healthy, since I am the cook:)
Bottom line is, just as we "can not outrun bad diet", we can not "out-eat no exercise". It has to go hand in hand.
|Cardigan I started 10 days ago from a fantastic yarn is almost done!
|Coffee date with my good friend Cris Strong
|Snow apocalypses in Austin
|Hawk in the backyard (bad picture)
|We have a woodpecker too, keeping company to our owls!
|Henry and Janice visiting - and then we visited their new home!


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Students are encouraged to work with faculty mentors on research.
Benjamin Brown, Professor and Chair, Ph.D. Brandeis University, studies positron interaction with atoms and molecules at low energies which has applications in atomic physics, chemistry, and astrophysics.
Joseph Collins, Associate Professor, Ph.D. IIT, studies biological liquid crystals with particular interest in self-assembly behavior as a function of temperature and chemical environment in order to advance our understanding of intercellular communication and certain diseases such as sickle cell anemia.
Paul Joseph, Lecturer, M.S. University of Utah, is the Chief Meteorologist of the Journal Broadcast Group's Milwaukee operation of Today's TMJ 4, WTMJ and WKTI. He has been forecasting Milwaukee's weather for over 33 years and has a strong interest in science education.
John Karkheck, Professor, Ph.D. SUNY Stony Brook, develops and analyzes statistical models of fluids in order to advance our understanding of transport processes and irreversible behavior in fluids and of the nature of interparticle forces.
Andrew Kunz, Associate Professor, Ph.D. University of Minnesota, simulates magnetic materials in order to better understand the dynamic response of such systems. The simulation results are used to create physical models for magnetoresistive and other spintronic devices. He is also interested in improving physics education.
Rev. Donald Matthys, S.J., Professor, Ph.D. Washington University, develops optical measurement and imaging techniques for precision determination of surface deformation and contouring.
Michael Politano, Associate Professor, Ph.D. University of Illinois, models populations of interacting binary stars with emphasis on model populations of cataclysmic variable stars, such as novae. He is interested in physics education and teacher preparation.
Zbigniew Sorbjan, Research Professor, Ph.D. Warsaw, models turbulence, diffusion and clouds in atmospheric boundary layer, the lowest mile of the atmosphere.
Christopher Stockdale, Associate Professor, Ph.D. Oklahoma, is actively engaged in a multi-wavelength study of core collapse supernovae. He observes the radio emission from these events and their surroundings using a variety of instruments, but primarily the Very Large Array in Socorro, New Mexico.


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Weekend Warrior 05/17/13
A few of us will be finishing up Metro: Last Light and Blood Dragon, but almost all of use are going to see the new Star Trek movie. We hope it features a lot of cool lightsaber battles.
Kimberley Wallace: I'm hoping to finally finish Blood Dragon this weekend. I'm looking forward to moving on to Metro: Last Light. Other than that, I'm seeing Star Trek Into Darkness with some of the Game Informer crew tonight, and Kyle is challenging us all to find out the best poker player on Saturday. Never a dull moment!
Andrew Reiner: My weekend is dedicated to finishing up Metro: Last Light (I believe I'm near the end), and starting up Resident Evil: Revelations on Xbox 360. At some point on Saturday or Sunday, I hope to go see Star Trek: Into Darkness.
Mike Futter: This weekend, I'm planning on visiting post-nuclear Russia with Metro 2033 (so I'm ready to take on the horrors of Metro: Last Light). I'm also planning on continuing the war against the alien invaders by taking the GI team into battle in XCOM: Enemy Unknown. Finally, and if time allows, I might just jump into Borderlands 2 to take new vault hunter Krieg out for a spin.


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January 21, 2006
Chicken & Biscuits Pie
Chicken & Biscuits Pie
1 lb boneless, skinless chicken thighs, cut into 1 inch cubes
1 medium onion, finely diced
3 carrots, finely diced
3 stalks celery, finely diced
4 cloves garlic, minced
2 cups milk
1 cup frozen peas
1/4 cup flour
1 tablespoons fresh parsley
2 1/2 tablespoons butter
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon hot paprika
1 teaspoon mustard powder
1/4 teaspoon thyme
1/4 teaspoon sage
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1 1/2 cups flour
1/2 cup milk
1 egg, at room temperature
6 tablespoons of butter, cold
2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
Preheat to 425.
In a food processor, pulse dry ingredients. Add butter and pulse until barely mixed. In a small bowl or cup, mix egg and milk. Pour into food processor, pulse until a dough forms. Remove to a flour dusted surface, knead 5 times then roll out. Using a biscuit cutter or glass cut out circles. Set aside.
In a large pan saute the onions in butter until just beginning to brown. Add garlic, mustard powder, thyme, celery, carrots, paprika, parsley sage, salt and pepper. Cook 4-5 minutes or until they begin to soften. Add chicken and saute until thighs are browned, 5-10 minutes. Add the flour and cook 1-2 minutes and add half of the milk. Cook over medium heat, stirring until thickened. Add the remaining milk and cook over medium low heat, 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. Remove from heat and add frozen peas.
Pour into a medium sized casserole dish. Top with biscuits. Bake 20-5 minutes or until the crust is golden brown.
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Quick and easy comfort food. It's creamy but not high in fat if you use low fat milk and full of vegetables.
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Line 12 muffin cups with paper liners. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
Whisk the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a medium bowl to blend. Using an electric mixer, beat 1 cup sugar, butter, and lemon zest in a large bowl until light and fluffy. Beat in the ricotta. Beat in the egg, lemon juice, and almond extract. Add the dry ingredients and stir just until blended (the batter will be thick and fluffy).
Divide the batter among the prepared muffin cups. Sprinkle the almonds and then the remaining 1 teaspoon of sugar over the muffins. Bake until the muffins just become pale golden on top, about 20 minutes. Cool slightly. Serve warm or at room temperature.


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Professor Warner, Mendoza Research in Mexicoby Jim Amidon • March 9, 2006 Share:
History professor Rick Warner is spending Spring Break traveling through Mexico to conduct research. Assisting the Latin America history professor is sophomore Adrian Mendoza, a Chicago native.
Professor Warner writes from Mexico:
"Adrian and I are looking in libraries, archives, and bookstores for research materials for two of my projects. When these places are not open we are visiting historical sites to ascertain the best way to include them in my next immersion trip to Mexico City, which I hope will be this fall or next fall.
"The first photo is taken in front of an Orozco mural about the Mexican Revolution, in Chapultapec Castle. The second picture was taken in front of a new mural in a metro station, further proof of the national and popular interest in remembering the indigenous past.
"The final photograph was taken at Cholula, on the outer layer of a series of pyramids. There is a colonial church on top. To preserve the pyramids and church, archaeologists spent 40 years in the mid 20th century digging tunnels. This was very cool to wander through and I cannot wait to do it again with other students."
Warner has previously guided groups of students and faculty through Mexico on immersion learning trips and during faculty trips to determine the best ways to teach modules of the all-sophomore course, Cultures and Traditions.


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Solar Eclipse Eye Safety: Be Prepared!
Are you ready for the total solar eclipse on August 21?
Are you ready for the total solar eclipse on August 21?
Our eyes are easily the most complex sensory organs we have, but our night vision is nowhere near as powerful as that of many animals.
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Another Sunday, another awards show.
The Screen Actor's Guide Awards is a bit different from the rest because attending actors don't try to ridiculously outdo on another as with the Oscars, or add the extra zing as with the Golden Globes.
The SAG Awards is as low-key as a red carpet can get, and with that comes some of the most elegant, prettiest dresses that don't 'wear' the wearer… in other words, more class, less schmaltz.
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We've highlighted some of the best dressed from last night's awards as an inspiration board of trends for you to think about the next time you REALLY need to go formal. This isn't about fantasy, or novelty, but about pretty, chic dresses with actresses looking modern, classy, and simply divine, starting with our favorite Zoe Saldana in Givenchy Haute Couture by Riccardo Tisci, featured above.
Zoe Saldana, Tilda Swinton in Lanvin, Gretchen Mol in L'Wren Scott, and Linda Gray radiate in the spare simplicity of a well-cut white dress that looks anything but bridal.
American Beauty Rose
The vibrant fuchsia tinged pink of an American Beauty rose is a color that Yves Saint Laurent championed. Flattering to most skin tones and always evoking glamor, as here with Sofia Vergara in Marchesa, Julie Bowen in Temperley London, and Mary Steenburgen.
A touch of sheer
A simple draped touch of sheer makes for an elegant take on bare or to camouflage in strategic places. Sexy and classy on Ashlee Simpson in Jenny Packham, Glenn Close in Zac Posen, and Michelle Williams in Valentino.
Not very basic black
Timeless and chic with the right touch of evening drama, the perfection of a not so little black dress worked on Emma Stone in Alexander McQueen, Paz Vega, Jane Krakowski, and Angelina Jolie in Jenny Packham.
Flaunting tattoos
More than a girl with a dragon tattoo, it's a star with enough body art to drive Jesse James wild, Angelina Jolie displayed her full monty of back and arm tatts and Kyra Sedgwick wore a strategically cut Pucci gown to show off her new "family" tattoo. Thoughts???
The best of the SAG Awards Red Carpet Fashion at a glance:
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a SAU juried art exhibition
April 4 - 15, 2008
-eligibility: all St. Lawrence students
-deadline for submissions: Friday, March 28
-jurying: Saturday, March 29
-pick-up of declined works: Sunday, March 30 and Monday, March 31
-all 2D and 3D
-installation work (with accompanying diagram/s)
- all digital media: video, audio, image
- photography
-up to 3 works per person
THE RULES: interpret and respond to the word/idea "(un)monumental"
Work must be ready for immediate installation. If proposing experimental/ephemeral work, please include a drawing or diagram and any other information which will help the juror understand your work.
About the juror: F. Douglass Schatz is Associate Professor of Sculpture at SUNY Potsdam and an accomplished visual artist. He will give a public lecture about his work and processes on Friday, April 4 at 6:00 p.m. in Griffiths 123, with opening reception to follow in the gallery. For more information on Schatz's work, please see www.dougschatz.com.
This exhibition is sponsored by the SLU Student Art Union, the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery, and the Jeanne Scribner Cashin Endowment Fund for Fine Arts.
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No Excuses--Sync Your Visor/Palm to Linux
Setting Up the Hardware
"I need to change the batteries in my Visor again," my wife said.
"OK, now if I swap the old AAA's fast enough, I won't lose any data," I muttered to myself for the 47th time. "Perhaps I ought to back up the Visor's data this time," I silently continued.
Then, the familiar realization hit me again. I've been using Linux totally at home for quite a while and the last time the PDA was backed up was when I still had access to a Windows box. Has it been that long?
Bad sysadmin! Double bad sysadmin for not backing up the wife's data! Time to figure how to save myself a lot of grief and get that Visor data over to the old dependable SuSE Linux laptop. Here's how I did it.
The first order of business was to make sure the USB and hotplugging features were working when the Linux machine was booted. I plugged in my HP scanner for a test. I used the lsmod command to see if the USB hardware was recognized by the kernel. I simply typed:
I was looking for entries such as usbcore, usb-uhci, scanner, etc. Basically any module that was USB related. No luck!
As it turned out, SuSE Linux 7.3 Pro had a major USB problem on my no-name 300 Mhz PII laptop when I made the initial installation. YaST2 went through all the installation menus, tried to reboot the new system, and promptly stopped running when it tried to load the USB and hotplugging modules.
I chased my tail for quite a while before I was able to boot up with the rescue disk, then temporarily mount the /dev/hda1 partition and edit the /etc/rc.config.d/hotplug.rc.config file.
I changed the hotplug_start_USB parameter from "yes" to "no" and then my laptop booted just fine. The USB and hotplugging didn't work, but that was OK, I would fix that later. It's kind of hard to get any work done if your machine won't boot after you load the OS.
After the machine booted, it was time to figure out how to get USB and hotplugging to work first time, every time. I went the modprobe route with the usb-core, usb-uhci, scanner, usb-storage, etc. for a while. Loading kernel modules is OK once in a while, but if you are going to use external USB hardware on a regular basis, recognizing the devices auto magically is the only way to go.
The whole problem of hotplugging turned out to be the ohci/uhci USB controller hardware war. SuSE 7.3 apparently assumed my USB controller used the ohci module. My laptop USB controller needed the uhci module. There was a file called /etc/hotplug/blacklist that prevented modules from loading. I commented the usb-uhci entry out and saved the blacklist file. Next, I changed the hotplug_start_USB parameter back to "yes" in /etc/rc.config.d/hotplug.rc.config and rebooted.
The Linux bootup screen flew through the USB and hotplugging steps without a hitch. I was finally greeted with the familiar login request. I logged in as a normal user and plugged in my HP scanner to test the USB connection. The drive light flickered for a moment and I knew I was on the right track. I took a look with lsmod again and was happy to see usbcore, usb-uhci and scanner proclaimed as loaded modules. Xsane was fired up and sure enough, I could scan with the HP scanner. It looked like the USB hardware was working properly.
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A year or two ago, it all seemed so inevitable. Just as Zine El Abidine Ben Ali had been swept from power in Tunisia, Hosni Mubarak deposed in Egypt and Moammar Khadafy toppled in Libya, surely it was only a matter of time before Bashar al-Assad's cruel dictatorship in Syria ran its course.
The rebels representing a majority of long-suffering Syrians would gradually gain the upper hand and Assad would be overthrown. The Arab Spring decreed it.
But history has a way of ignoring such complacent forecasts. And the debate among foreign policy experts today is not about when the rebels will triumph so much as whether they will triumph at all.
"I think the rebels are in trouble," a former Middle East analyst with the Defense Intelligence Agency told The New York Times this week. As The Times added, "Hezbollah's large-scale entry into the fight in recent weeks and the Assad government's firepower has tilted the battlefield in favor of the Syrian government."
So should the U.S intervene, as some in Congress and the foreign policy establishment are advocating?
Should we shovel military aid to the rebels or initiate air strikes and impose a no-fly zone to protect opposition enclaves from Assad's fury?
The answer regarding a no-fly zone should be a categorical "no." That's an open-ended military commitment that might be necessary for years just to maintain a stalemate. And the longer it persists, the more pressure will grow for military escalation.
We lean against funneling military aid to the rebels at this late date, too, in part because of the increasingly prominent role of Islamist radicals among the rebels and the difficulty in ensuring that they do not end up leading a post-Assad government.
Make no mistake: The tyrant Assad deserves whatever ugly fate might befall him. And it's inevitable that Americans would want to do something to lessen the suffering. But if this nation has learned anything in the past dozen years, it's that intervention can founder without clear goals and an exit strategy — neither of which seems to exist once again.


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Editor's note: This review was written in September 2011 about the 2012 BMW X5. Little of substance has changed with this year's model. To see what's new for 2013, click here, or check out a side-by-side comparison of the two model years.
Like an outstanding athlete saddled with an attitude problem, the 2012 BMW X5 has moments both of excellence and frustration.
You really want to love the SUV. But its driving flaws add up, and a decade of awful reliability stains any admiration. The X5 may appeal to some, but BMW has a lot to address in its next redesign, which may come as soon as the 2013 model year.
We tested an X5 xDrive35i, whose turbo six-cylinder slots below the xDrive50i's twin-turbo V-8. BMW also offers a turbo six-cylinder diesel in the xDrive35d. After a host of updates for 2011, the X5 changed little for 2012; compare the two here. Five seats and all-wheel drive are standard, and an optional third row brings seating capacity to seven.
We cover the 555-horsepower X5 M separately on Cars.com, but you can compare it with the regular X5 here.
Lagging Power
The X5's 300-hp gasoline six-cylinder eats up the passing lane, turning 50 mph into 75 mph with hardly a dent to its reserves. Its eight-speed automatic transmission delays a bit kicking down, but the drivetrain's abundant power across the rev range masks the lag, and a Sport mode holds lower gears longer, lessening the need for a downshift at all.
The problem is getting to all that power.
Accelerator lag spoils the X5's fun. Editors called the gas pedal hard to modulate, disconnected or just plain delayed. Throwing the transmission into Sport changes little. The light turns green, you step down, and the X5 xDrive35i … hesitates. It's maddening.
The 265-hp xDrive35d, which we last drove in 2009, runs short on steam at higher revs but starts off strong, thanks to less initial lag, a gutsy diesel engine and a more decisive transmission — with six gears instead of eight. We haven't driven the 400-hp xDrive50i, but BMW says its twin-turbo V-8 hauls you to 60 mph in 5.3 seconds. Those are Porsche Boxster numbers, but they'll mean little in everyday driving if the lag persists. If you drive the xDrive50i back-to-back with the others, click the link at the end of this review to email me your assessment.
Ride & Handling
Our test car had BMW's $3,500 Adaptive Drive option. It combines adaptive shocks with active stabilizer bars to minimize body roll, with a stiffer Sport mode — independent of the transmission's Sport mode — for more aggressive driving. As such, the X5 stays planted over broken pavement and fights midcorner lean. The brakes impress, with powerful, linear stopping power. Too much spirited driving, however, reveals limitations. Crank the X5 into a hard corner, even in Adaptive Drive's Sport mode, and the initial wallow and pushy nose reminds you it's no 3 Series.
The steering drives the point home: There's meager power assist at low speeds and numb feedback around town. A $1,550 Active Steering option varies the steering ratio for improved feedback and less effort. Active Steering has impressed us in other BMWs, and the X5 could well follow suit. But the standard setup disappoints, and the X5's yacht-like turning circle — 42 feet! — will have you cursing the low assist in close quarters.
It's hard to discern a difference in ride comfort between Adaptive Drive's Sport and regular modes. Either way, our X5 soaked up large bumps but fell into wavy up-and-down rhythms on uneven highway. Small imperfections peppered the cabin where our diesel X5, which had a fixed suspension, smothered them out. BMW offers standard and sport-tuned versions of the fixed suspension. Whichever you choose, save the money and skip the adaptive setup.
The Inside
BMW has yet to address the ill-fitting dash panels we noted in past X5 reviews, but the cabin feels rich otherwise, with low-gloss finishes, padding along your knees and elbows, and real wood and aluminum trim. Where the X3 gets cheap below eye level, the X5 stays consistent. BMW overhauled the earlier X5 navigation system's wretched iDrive controller for 2011. It's much easier to use, albeit still less intuitive than Mercedes' Comand controller.
My 6-foot frame had a couple of inches' rearward seat travel to spare, and headroom in our moonroof-equipped model was excellent. Ditto for the sightlines. Thanks to large windows and oversized side mirrors, the X5 hides little — and rams home the fact you can't see a damn thing out of its sibling X6 crossover.
Typical for BMW, the X5's base seats are firm, but contour-adjustable seats and bolstered sport seats, both with unique cushioning, are optional. The second row has good legroom and headroom, but the seat sits too low to the ground, resulting in raised knees. Despite myriad other amenities, it doesn't adjust, as the seats in some competitors do. The optional third row can suffice for kids; don't consign any adults to it.
Cargo room behind the second row totals 35.8 cubic feet; with both rows folded, the X5 has 75.2 cubic feet. Those figures beat the Audi Q7 and Porsche Cayenne, but the Home Depot crowd might favor BMW's Japanese competition. The Acura MDX and Lexus RX top out past 80 cubic feet.
Get the optional third row, and the resulting 23.2 cubic feet of cargo space behind it is generous — 8.2 cubic feet more than the MDX with its third row raised.
Safety, Features & Pricing
In crash tests by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, the X5 scored the top mark, Good, in front, side and rear impacts. The SUV hasn't undergone IIHS' roof-strength test. If you buy the optional third row, beware: The X5's curtain airbags don't cover it, as the curtains in the Q7 and MDX do. (Neither IIHS nor the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration evaluates third-row crash protection, so the X5 and other vehicles with the same oversight skate by.) Click here to see a full list of safety features.
Bad reliability has tarnished the X5 for a decade. Today's V-8 models rate average, but six-cylinders are poor. European luxury SUVs are a dubious bunch, but even among this mechanic-needy group, the X5 stinks, and BMW's four-year warranty is only par for the course.
The X5 starts at $47,200, in line with the Mercedes-Benz M-Class and Q7 but a bit pricier than the MDX. In typical BMW fashion, many features that are standard on the competition — heated front seats, leather upholstery, a moonroof — are optional. Shell out the cash, and the luxury options go sky-high — among them are a rear entertainment system, multiple parking cameras, quad-zone climate control, a third-row seat, a panoramic moonroof, ventilated front seats, heated second-row seats, a leather-lined dashboard and a massaging driver's seat. Check all the boxes, and a V-8 X5 can balloon to nearly $90,000.
X5 in the Market
A lot of shoppers still choose the X5 for its sharp styling, decent utility and an interior that lives up to BMW's luxury reputation. Through 12 years and two generations, it's been a runaway hit; only the redesigned 5 Series and venerable 3 Series outsell today's model.
But the X5 is slipping, confounded by problems large and small. BMW builds a lot of truly fun cars — and the first-generation X5, despite its size, fit the bill. I'd like to see the nameplate ascend there again.
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So here it is then, the worst kept secret in the Porsche world: the 991 series GT3 made it's world debut @ Geneva 2013, and despite sharing floor space & column inches with an unprecedented amount of high profile world debuts the hotly anticipated hardcore 991 held it's own drawing, huge crowds all day long.
How hardcore? We can't wait to get behind the wheel and find out, but in the meantime here's a few vital statistics: 468bhp from a 9000rpm(!) 3.8 litre evolution of the current 991 DI engine, mandatory 7 spd PDK (controversially there is no manual option), 0-62mph despatched in 3.5secs. Beautiful (and doubtless super light) 20" centre lock wheels shield 380mm carbon ceramic disks and 6 piston calipers, so it should go and stop just as well as the visuals promise.
And the visuals promise much. Following the template of the previous GT3 (if it aint broken...) the 991 GT3 has huge air grabbing vents up front, a deep front splitter and the bonnet edge air vent first seen on the 997 GT3. The rear wing sits atop posts with the same '3.8' decal as the 997 gen GT3 - is that a hint at future larger engined variants? Vents behind the arches aid brake cooling whilst the twin central exhausts separate the GT3 from the standard 991. Sitting 44mm wider at rear, the 991GT3 nails that typically hunkered down stance, and especially in the show cars white looks ready for a few sponsor stickers before heading to the track for a weekend of racing...
At which it would no doubt be super competitive. Augmenting all of the technical aspects above (and a real curveball - nobody saw this one coming) is a new rear wheel steering system designed to aid low speed turn in with toe out, and high speed stability with toe in. As with the 911, it seems that every iteration of the GT3 family pushes that bit further and brings a new level of dynamic excellence to the class.
The expulsion of the manual box will split the opinion of many enthusiasts, but if you're going to go automatic then at least we've got the best in the business with PDK. And - hallelujah - the logic of the sequential shifter has been changed to the more natural pull to change up, push to change down. Shift paddles operate with a shorter, more positive action whilst pulling both simultaneously allows selection of neutral. The 'creep' programmed into the standard system has been removed. Fundamentally the philosophy shifts to true paddle-operate manual instead of mimicking a conventional auto as with standard PDK.
The stats of 0-62mph 3.5secs, 0-124mph 'under 12secs' and top speed of 196mph tell only part of the story, for the GT3 has always been focused more on track performance & driver satisfaction. Given the excellence of the 991, there's every chance the GT3 will sweep all before it, and despite a price tag now into 6 figures (£100,540 to be precise) it still seems good value in the super sportscar market.