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Fresh off from her starring role in the movie comedy "Easy A," rising star Emma Stone hosted "Saturday Night Live" last night.
Saying that being on the program was "a dream come true," the 21-year-old Stone ("Superbad," "Zombieland") gave a piece of advice from her own experience to 14-year-old-girls during her monologue: "Drop out of school and move to L.A. It always works out." Several of the male cast members portrayed nerds in the audience unsuccessfully trying to convince the actress to make out with them.
Stone played several-youth oriented roles on the program. She portrayed a disinterested teenager pressed by a TV reporter (played by Bill Hader) about dangerous trends facing young people such as "souping" and "trampolining."
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She was also a friend to 11-year-old Morgan (Nasim Pedrad) Everything," who dishes out personal stuff about her older brother (Andy Samberg) on her Web cam show "My Brother Knows Everything."
Bearing a passable resemblance to Lindsay Lohan, Stone portrayed the troubled starlet who guests on "The View" and said she couldn't go to jail because of her movie career and new perfume line.
In the SNL Digital Short, "I Broke My Arm," Stone played a girl who keeps getting into an accident in the cafeteria by slipping on grape jelly, and gradually injuring herself to serious proportions.
Other highlights from the show included a Wrangler commercial featuring football star Bret Favre hawking "open fly jeans" (a reference to his recent troubles involving alleged texts messages), and Googie Rene's Halloween Discount Costume Basement, in which the proprietor, played by Thompson, sells subpar, rundown costumes. Thompson also portrayed Jimmy McMillan, the New York gubernatorial candidate from The Rent Is Too Damn High Party during the Weekend Update segment.
The musical guests from last night were Kings of Leon, who recently released their new album "Come Around Sundown."
Next week's program will be hosted by Mad Men star Jon Hamm with musical guest Rihanna.


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It's easy to fall into a rut when you pack a lunch every day. Here are some of our very favorite foods for guilt-free bagged lunches!
Boar's Head Deli Meat - Any extra-lean deli meat (97 - 98% fat-free) is a smart choice, but the options from Boar's Head are our hands-down favorites! In addition to flavor-packed offerings like the Chipotle Chicken Breast -- only 60 calories and 1g fat for a 2-oz. serving (PointsPlus® value 2*) -- BH serves up Lower Sodium and No Salt Added options. Hooray! 100-Calorie Flat Sandwich Rolls - Basic bread has nothing on these sandwich staples. Many brands make 'em, but we tend to go for the kinds by Arnold/Brownberry/Oroweat, which come in a slew of varieties. Honey Wheat? Yup. Flax & Fiber? Absolutely. Arnold even makes a Seedless Rye! Another top-notch sandwich find? Flatout Hungry Girl Foldit Flatbreads (at Walmart and Walgreens)!!! StarKist Single Serve Tuna Pouches - The great thing about these pouches? VERSATILITY. You want a salad? Empty a packet of Tuna Creations over your greens. You want a sandwich? Scoop the Ready-To-Eat Tuna Salad onto one of the aforementioned rolls or Foldits. Running out the door with no time to assemble anything? Grab any packet and a fork! Our flavor of choice is most definitely the Sweet & Spicy Tuna Creations -- just 90 calories and 0.5g fat (PointsPlus® value 2*). The Laughing Cow Cheeses - The Light wedges are great spread on sandwiches, fruit slices, cut veggies... You name it! And only 35 calories and 1.5g fat per creamy wedge (PointsPlus® value 1*). Plus, Mini Babybel makes a heck of a snack-tastic lunch addition. And no need to limit yourself to Mini Babybel Light. We love all eight varieties. Each perfectly portioned piece has 50 - 80 calories and 3 - 6g fat (PointsPlus® value 1 - 2*). Instant Miso Soup - All you need is a mug and hot water, and you're on your way to SOUP TOWN. We have the hots (tee-hee!) for the worth-ordering-online Miko soup packs and the easy-to-find miso packets from Mishima. Each of these has 25 - 35 calories and 1g fat (PointsPlus® value 1*). Click here for soupy all-stars!
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Van's Natural Foods Gluten Free Crackers Say Cheese! Snack Packs 1 bag: 140 calories, 5g fat, 260mg sodium, 20g carbs, 2g fiber, 2g sugars, 3g protein -- PointsPlus® value 4* Breaking chews: We've raved about these crackers before, and now they're available in convenient single-serving bags! Total score. BTW, spreading these with a wedge of The Laughing Cow Light cheese would result in cheesy fantasticness of epic proportions. Dole Extra Veggie Salad Mixes 3 oz. (about 1/3 of bag): 20 - 80 calories, 0g fat, 35 - 125mg sodium, 3 - 16g carbs, 2 - 6g fiber, 1 - 5g sugars, 1 - 5g protein -- PointsPlus® value 0* These salad blends are major time-savers! The greens come with packs of tomatoes, snap peas, or shredded garden veggies. And though the serving size above is for about a third of the bag, we'd probably eat the whole bag's worth. Still guilt-free! Pssst... A stash of Wonderful Almond Accents comes in handy for topping off a salad! Seapoint Farms Dry Roasted Edamame 100 Calorie Snack Packs 1 snack pack: 100 calories, 3 - 3.5g fat, 100 - 115mg sodium, 7 - 8g carbs, 5 - 6g fiber, 1g sugars, 11g protein -- PointsPlus® value 2* Check out all that fiber and protein! In Lightly Salted and Spicy Wasabi, these crunchy things are a serious find. And like the cracker packs on this list, the portion-control aspect is a major asset. Click to find, or buy online. Grab 'n go!
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In Inauguration, A 'Worship Of The Nation'
In Inauguration, A 'Worship Of The Nation'
Among the sentiments of love of country and national unity, presidential inaugurations also have a religious element. Host Rachel Martin talks with Stephen Prothero, professor of American religion at Boston University, about how the role of faith in inauguration ceremonies has changed over the years.
There are a lot of different sentiments evoked during a presidential inauguration: love of country, a sense of national unity hope and possibility. There is also a religious element in the inauguration of an American president, from the swearing in to the closing prayer.
Stephen Prothero is a professor of American Religion at Boston University. He's also the author of the book "The American Bible." He joins us to talk more about how the role of religion in this important ceremony has changed over the years.
Stephen, thanks so much for speaking with us.
STEPHEN PROTHERO: Thanks for having me.
MARTIN: So traditionally there are two prayers that are part of the inauguration ceremony, the opening prayer and the benediction. A benediction is really specific. As I understand it, it's really the closing part to a church service. What is its place in this particular ceremony?
PROTHERO: It's used in a number of ways. One is to give something of the power of God or something of the aura of religion to this president, who's typically, you know, prayed over. But there's also a kind of worship of the nation going on, and so typically God is asked to bless the nation, to remember that Americans are God's chosen people or this is one nation under God. This also sometimes a signing-off in the name of the Father, Son and the Holy Ghost - to give a nod to the Christian Trinity.
MARTIN: There have been a couple of controversies in 2009, the inauguration - the first inauguration of President Obama. The benediction was offered by Reverend Joseph Lowery who made pretty bold statements at the end of this message about race.
PROTHERO: That was a moment that was a little political, right? When he had this poetic, almost hip-hopish reference to people who are brown and yellow and red and white, in the hopes that in the future the white men will embrace what is right. There's been controversies as well about Rick Warren, that same year who had said that homosexuality was a sin.
That came up again this year with the Reverend Louie Giglio of Atlanta, who was invited and then decided not to come when it came out that he, too, had spoken about homosexuality as a sin. So there are political controversies that come up, for sure.
MARTIN: The United States is obviously becoming a more religiously diverse place. Has that been reflected in the inaugural ceremonies at all?
PROTHERO: It has been. As I was thinking about what we might talk about today, I went back and looked at inaugural benedictions in the vocations back to FDR. And there used to be in some ways more religious diversity. Really starting in the '40s and '50s, there was an effort to kind of cover the basis at least with Protestants, Catholics and Jews. So there was a sense of the plurality of Judeo-Christian America, and sometimes the Greek Orthodox being included in the case of John F. Kennedy.
It seems in recent years the effort is to get a kind of diversity that has more to do with ethnicity and with race, rather than with religion, to, you know, have African-Americans. And to have, in the case of Lewis Leon, bring in Hispanics. And this year, as well, Mrs. Myrlie Evers Williams is going to be the first woman, the wife of the slain civil rights leader, Medgar Evers, who is going to give a prayer. So...
MARTIN: She's also the first, as I understand it, she's also the first person who's not a member of the clergy to give a prayer.
PROTHERO: Yes, her title as Mrs. rather than reverend or reverend doctor something like that. So I think there's been a shift. But noticeably, we're not talking about Hindus or Buddhists or Sikhs or Confucians giving prayers. We're really still in the Judeo-Christian umbrella, for the most part.
MARTIN: And, of course, the president of the United States is still sworn in with the Bible. This year, the president will use three Bibles during the inauguration ceremonies. The First Lady Michele Obama's family Bible will be used during a private ceremony. And two historic Bibles will be used during the public ceremony that takes place Monday. What more do we know about these Bibles?
PROTHERO: Well, it's interesting, this sort of stuffing of symbolism into this already highly symbolic event. So now, one Bible isn't enough. You've got to have these multiple Bibles that I guess say different things. In the public ceremony, President Obama will be swearing in on the traveling Bible of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Then he'll also be using the Bible that President Lincoln used for his first inaugural swearing in and 1861.
So he's trying to lay claim, I think, to this, you know, first black president, civil rights legacy. But I think there's also an effort to position himself inside a broader and, I think, in some ways equally interesting tradition that goes back to the Puritans of, yes, seeing God has involved in the American experiment. And yet being reluctant to say, you know, God is on our side in this particular moment.
And seeing in a way religion as a producer more of questions than of answers. I think of a classic line here is Abraham Lincoln at his second inaugural, when he's looking across the country and seeing this horrible Civil War in 1865, and saying, you know, both sides are reading the same Bible and praying to the same God. And yet, the prayers of both couldn't be answered. And he sort of says what's going on?
PROTHERO: And he says I don't really know. The Almighty as his own purposes. And I think that's President Obama's theological home ground, as well.
MARTIN: Stephen Prothero is a professor of American Religion at Boston University. His latest book is called "The American Bible."
Stephen, thanks so much for talking with us.
PROTHERO: Thanks for having me.
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"Beauty isn't everything. It's the only thing," says a character named Sarno in Nicolas Winding Refn's latest, THE NEON DEMON. It may take years for me to finally decide whether I love this film or hate it, but it seems to demand an extreme reaction. It's too precise an assault of seductive antagonism to simply be written off. At no point in its nearly two-hour running time is there any question that we're in the hands of a capable cinéaste who loves his job and his medium. The film is ripely, even opulently cinematic, but - as with Jonathan Glazer's UNDER THE SKIN (2014) - there is a bland, even soporific thinness about the material, like a logline read through a heroin haze, so void of emotion it feels like an alien transmission draped in scenic alacrity. It's like a story sent from such a great distance that its teller died inside before he could finish.
Sumptuously photographed by Natasha Braier (THE MILK OF SORROW, THE ROVER), the film comes as close as anything I've seen to embodying this century's answer to SUSPIRIA. It shares the same muffled sense of dangerous portent when our heroine Jesse (Elle Fanning - a Jess Franco reference?), while cleaning up after modelling as the proverbial "centerfold in a PLAYBOY layout from Hell", happens to meet Ruby (Jena Malone, excellent), a makeup artist straddling work on Hollywood sound stages and in Hollywood funeral homes. The point couldn't be clearer: the perfection to which these characters aspire is Death - painted, available, unyielding, cold as Fassbinder. Jesse's barely sixteen; she's only been in town for a week and she's spending what's left of her runaway funds on a motel on the Sunset Strip. Almost overnight, she becomes LA's flavor of the week. Let's call that foreshadowing.
We never get to know Jesse. I'd like to praise Elle Fanning's performance, but as Gertude Stein once said of Los Angeles, "There is no there there" - which was almost certainly everyone's goal. No one may want it (or even remember it) a month from now, but Jessie's carnate form has momentarily cornered the market on "pretty." She has "that thing," as someone says. (Something else called "that thing" later turns up in her motel room.) She knows how to walk in ways the other girls can't. She finds an agent (Christina Hendricks, capable in a throwaway guest part) who advises her to lie about her age ("People believe what they are told") and a famous self-absorbed photographer (Desmond Harrington) who sees something in her that he wants to experience on a closed set. It literally happens overnight. The young hopefuls whom she replaces in the city's selective consciousness come to hate her. Those who cannot be her want to drink her blood. She's Bowie before you know it.
Where the film goes from there I should leave to your own discovery, but believe me when I tell you this is a far darker vision of Hollywood than Nathanael West envisioned in DAY OF THE LOCUST or David Lynch proposed in MULLHOLLAND DRIVE. The emphatic male gaze of the piece may seem sexist, but alien as it seems, the film (one hopes) is profoundly humanist and about sexism and objectification, as the two women sharing its byline with Refn (including PREACHER story editor Mary Laws) would probably agree. In an ambivalently direct yet metaphorical way, THE NEON DEMON depicts Hollywood as a murderous mediocrity that tirelessly preys upon and eradicates anything found on its turf that is possessed of genuine quality. And, by extension, it shows us how - in this day and age - cinema of genuine substance is being savaged to the brink of extinction by "creatives" who hate it because they cannot possibly compete with it.
In a bizarre coda that I found simultaneously off-putting yet pregnant with meaning, Refn presents us with a metaphor for the most basic of Hollywood laws: If you don't have the stomach for fame, someone else will.
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How to Add Instant Music Fun to Any Family Activity
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Gather up your family's favorite songs for different occasions. It's a simple way to serve up a big helping of instant music fun and energy.
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When you make a playlist, you put all of your favorite songs together in one place and can combine songs to fit a mood, activity or person. Adding music you love to any activity is a great way to make family time even more fun or to make the most of the mundane.
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The final graded route prep at Tampa Bay Downs for Kentucky Derby 2012 hopefuls will be run on March 10 and the full field is reduced by one with the defection of Take Charge Indy.
#10 Take Charge Indy (3-1) added a touch of class to this event and figured to make his presence felt throughout but his connections opted to scratch and wait for the G1 Florida Derby at Gulfstream Park on March 31.
#1 Prospective (8-1) overcame a wide trip from post 11 to land the place in the G3 Sam Davis here Feb 4. He captured the G3 Grey as a juvenile at Woodbine and began his sophomore campaign with a victory in the seven panel Pasco at Tampa Bay Downs. He dons the hood and should save all of the ground from the cozy rail.
#6 Cozzetti (12-1) has not lived up to expectations for Romans but he continues to train well and barn is known for striking in graded Derby preps (Paddy O'Prado, Shackleford, Dullahan, News Pending, Finnegans Wake).
#7 Battle Hardened (9-2) graduated in the G3 Sam Davis and is on the upswing for Kenneally. A tactical trip is expected.
#9 Spring Hill Farm (5-2) is 2-for-2 in sprints and the promising Pletcher trainee is bred to go this far. He looms a pace factor at the very least under Castellano.
#2 Golden Ticket (12-1) finally graduated in his sixth lifetime start for McPeek. He ran well in both route starts and is getting better but gets tested for class here.
#4 Chief Energy (12-1) makes his first start in more than six months for new trainer James Toner. He traded decisions with My Adonis last year and probably needs the race.
#8 Ravelo's Boy (12-1) rallied to finish 4th in the Sam Davis at 69-1. The late runner can clunk up for a minor award once again.
#5 Tell All You Know (15-1) is 2-for-2 over the local main track but has never raced around two turns and meets other speed.
#12 Cajun Charlie (15-1) exits three straight Delta Downs wire job tallies vs. Louisiana-bred foes. He meets much better company and must work out a forwardly placed trip from the outside post.
#11 Fox Rules (30-1) has failed to threaten in four stakes starts since graduating in a turf route at Saratoga last summer.
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text: When we do something awesome, we usually want to share it. But the environment where awesome adventures happen is often where the tools used for documentation -- cameras, mostly -- are susceptible to being damaged. For that reason, your expensive gear often stays in your pack, instead of out where you can get to it right when you need it. A few months back, my work as a photographer took me into the wilds of Switzerland -- a trip that afforded me the opportunity to field-test some new outdoor photo travel gear. Here are the key pieces of my DSLR kit I used to get the shots I needed while on the job, out in the elements. Mountainsmith Spectrum Day Pack For adventure photography, your kit is going to need to stay minimal to keep things light and relatively fast: One, maybe two camera bodies, two or three lenses, cleaners, flash, remote, and a tight assortment of chargers. Don't let "Day Pack" in the name trick you into thinking it's small -- the Spectrum will house all of those things in padded bliss for the flight to where your adventure starts. Plus, it has a separate padded laptop pocket providing easy airport security access. The Mountainsmith Spectrum Day Pack ($120) lets you keep things incredibly organized with five separate compartments. The outermost pocket is thin and fleece-lined, and it's where I found myself stashing my passport and other quick-access travel documents. Since I was traveling to Switzerland, I wasn't as concerned about pick-pockets -- a different itinerary, and I might have put those somewhere else. Next is a small office pocket with room for a note pad, slots for pens and pencils, and a clear pocket where I found I liked having my CF cards where I could see them. This pocket also has some depth and smaller compartments where I stashed battery chargers, extra batteries, a card reader and a small flashlight. The main compartment sits above the padded lens and camera compartment. Since this was my carry-on bag, this is where my inflight entertainment (books!) and must-haves-if-my-luggage-gets-lost items went. It would also fit an external hard drive or two. There are some good compression straps on the side, and stretchy thin mesh pockets designed to house a water bottle or even a small tripod. Though, tripods are always awkward when strapped to a pack, I think a little tripod accommodation on at least one side of this pack could make it slightly less awkward. WIRED Durable and rugged construction. Comfortable when stuffed and weighted down. High visibility interior with colorful, contrasting panels. Plenty of external straps and loops. Easy-access laptop pocket for a tidy TSA experience. TIRED Limited configuration options in the lens/camera compartment. Comes in any color you want, as long as it's black. Rating: 8 out of 10Photo by Graham Thatcher/WiredOutex Camera Cover Underwater and water-sport photography needn't be so daunting. Outex makes a range of fully waterproof molded latex covers for DSLRs ($250-400, depending on the model) with glass lens ports to maintain the best possible image quality while photographing in sopping wet environments. I used an Outex setup for a canyoning adventure where I followed a creek down a narrow canyon. To give you an idea of how wet this trip was, I was wearing a lifejacket, a helmet, and a full-length, hooded 5mm wetsuit. The day included sliding down slick rocks rappelling down waterfalls and, where the pools were deep enough, jumping off 35-foot high waterfalls. I was taking pictures the whole time and holding my camera to my chest as I made the big jumps. The only ports on the case are for the lens and the view finder. If you have all your buttons memorized, the malleability of the latex allows you to change settings and adjust focus and zoom as needed, but it's not easy. Since you can't see the LCD screen, video is nearly impossible, though Outex says it's working on a way to solve this. I'm eager to see the next version. The latex is thick and rugged and would require a substantial effort to damage it in any way. Installing the cover is not easy the first time you try it, but after a few times, a technique is developed. Also, I felt my tolerance grow as I went through the images I wouldn't have gotten without this level of protection for my camera. WIRED Relatively inexpensive waterproof protection. Packs and travels easily. It floats. Glass ports for the lens and viewfinder. TIRED Tedious installation process. No real impact protection. Can't see screen (easily) for DSLR video recording. Boo hoo, it only comes in blue. Rating: 8 out of 10Photo by Jessica Wunderlich/WiredMountainsmith Descent AT Chest Pack Most of the kinds of adventures I find myself on involve substantial amounts of leg-work -- walking, skiing, biking, and so on. For years, I used a standard hip-holster style camera case. Despite the bulk and discomfort of that case, I would make it work on various adventures because I enjoyed the protection it provided. It made a world of difference to move that bulk away from my constantly moving legs and up to my chest. Mountainsmith's chest pack ($90) sits low enough to provide easy camera access, and has a number of pockets and straps to hold everything literally right in front of me while moving around. While the Descent is not a multi-lens system, Mountainsmith does make some nice lens cases that will strap onto the side of the chest pack or a belt. Rubberized zippers and a built-in rain cover makes this pack ready to protect your kit from anything the weather gods may throw your way -- short of a tsunami, but even then you stand a good chance. The harness system is comfortable and easy to put on. The back of the harness is low-profile, so it's comfortable while wearing a regular pack with it. The blessing is also the curse in the area of temperature management. In cooler environments, the chest pack adds extra insulation to your front, meaning you can probably wear one less layer than you would otherwise. But the same is true for warmer adventures, though the padding has vented channels to help breathability. The bright yellow interior of the chest pack contrasts nicely with dark camera parts like batteries, CF cards and such, making them easy to find when it's time to change something in a hurry. WIRED A comfortable way to carry the weight, and it won't interfere with a backpack. Built-in rain cover and rubberized zippers. Durable build. Provides easy access to gear. External straps and loops for accessories. TIRED Gets hot in warmer environments. Makes you look like a Storm Trooper. Rating: 9 out of 10 Photos by Graham Thatcher/WiredPeak Design Capture Clip If you're shooting in less-hair-raising environments, ditch the hot chest pack and clip your camera -- yes, your DSLR -- to your backpack's shoulder strap to keep it at the ready. You know, for when you round a corner and end up face-to-face with a bear or something equally exciting and you need to get a photo this very second. Previously, to keep my rig within reach on a hike, I would sling my strap across my chest, where my camera would dangle and bang around. The team at Peak Design created the brilliant Capture Clip system ($80) to attach your camera to nearly any strap or piece of webbing on your body. The clip is easy to attach and remove, and locks down with a death grip wherever you attach it. A small, low-profile base plate attaches to your camera and snaps into the clip. While some practice is required to smoothly dock and undock your camera, I never got it to work as smoothly as I'd like. The company has also designed various plates to be compatible with a few tripod mount systems, so if for some unfortunate reason you find yourself lugging around a tripod, you won't need to swap base plates to change from on-the-go mode to tripod mode. WIRED Keep your camera at the ready without letting it swing around on a strap. Clips to nearly any strap or belt. Cross-compatible with certain tripod heads. A lock on the clip prevents accidental releases. TIRED Release could be smoother. Leaves camera exposed to the elements. Rating: 7 out of 10 Photos by Graham Thatcher/WiredJoby Gorilla Pod Weight and bulk are huge considerations on a human-powered adventure, making full-size tripods unwelcome travel companions. Sure, sometimes you need the sticks, so you just suck it up and deal. 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Margaritas in danger as lime prices at all-time high
SAN ANTONIO — Patrons in San Antonio and other restaurants across the country may be noticing a key ingredient missing from their margarita, guacamole, water or tea: limes.
Wholesalers and local restaurant managers say prices for the small citrus fruit has rocketed to an all-time high during the last month, mostly stemming from various climate factors. Some restaurants in the Alamo City say they've been forced to make adjustments, including garnishing margaritas, water and tea with lemons rather than limes or only offering the sour fruit upon request.
Even Taco Cabana chimed in Tuesday, warning its followers on Twitter: "A nat'l lime shortage means we're forced to temporarily serve lemons only on our Salsa Bar. Don't panic, the margaritas will still be lime."
In the Tex-Mex world, this is a big deal.
"Prices for limes are at a historical high," said Paul Gonzalez, Jr., a produce buyer for River City Produce, one of the largest produce and food service wholesalers in San Antonio. "A case of limes in the summer normally runs about $4 and that can get up to $25 in the winter. Prices right now have reached $95 or $100 for a case… And when the market goes up, the quality goes down."
Gonzalez said the majority of limes in Texas are imported from Mexico and a mixture of unseasonably cold weather, hurricane and storm systems and drought has contributed much of the price increase.
"Between the wind and cold weather, the bloom sets in many farms were knocked off the trees, causing a large gap in production," Gonzalez said. "Now (to compensate), many of the Mexican farmers are harvesting smaller fruit too early that will likely continue the cycle into the summertime."
Keith Ludwick, a manager at Acenar, said most of the restaurant's vendors don't even have limes, and if they do, the prices are unbelievably high. He said the cartels in Mexico have increasingly made exports from the country more difficult, which he believes also plays a role.
"Prices were creeping up the last month but over the last few weeks the spike has been outrageous," said Ludwick, who said the restaurant has been garnishing beverages, including margaritas, with lemons instead but that a change to food items such as guacamole is a last resort.
"People have a certain expectation of what the food is going to taste like and the last thing we want to do is change that," Ludwick said.
Dr. Eric P. Thor with Arizona State University's Agribusiness School told KUT that millions more people around the world are now demanding limes at the same time as production is falling.
"It's very simple," Thor told KUT . "As the world population expands and supply chains become longer and more complex, we find ourselves in a position where [the place] where [produce] is produced and where it's consumed is changing very rapidly."
David Flores, who has bartended at Rita's on the River Walk for two years, called the increase in price and decrease in availability "frustrating" for him as well as customers. The restaurant is only offering limes upon request, he said.
"People definitely notice (not having a lime with their drink), they just don't know why… they often think we forgot," Flores said, who added this is the first time he's seen the market change this quickly.
Flores typically slices two-and-a-half buckets of limes for a shift and now he only does a fifth of that.
"We are having to use lime concentrate (for the margaritas) and that takes away from the uniqueness of our restaurant using everything fresh," he said.
Rosario's, a sister restaurant to Acenar, switched from lemons to limes a couple weeks ago after seeing roughly a 50 percent increase, said Manager Mario Luna.
Gonzalez said he wouldn't be surprised if some limes in grocery stores rise to nearly a dollar each and bars could employ a surcharge for dressing beer with lime and salt.
"It should make for a very interesting Cinco de Mayo," he said.
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Three women take center stage for their professional accomplishments and dedication to the fitness industry.
Once again Club Industry placed its spotlight on three women who exemplify professionalism, community service and entrepreneurial spirit. Carol Nalevan-ko, Susan Hughes and Joyce Brown were the recipients this year of Club Industry's Fourth Annual Distinguished Business Woman's Awards sponsored by Life Fitness. The winners were recognized at Club Industry 2000 last month in Chicago.
Business Woman of the Year Carol Nalevanko, vice president of DMB Sports Clubs, Scottsdale, Ariz.
Carol Nalevanko has gotten to where she is today through perseverance. She has worked her way up through the ranks at DMB Sports Clubs - which owns and operates five clubs - starting in 1979 as activities director of DMB's Metro Sport & Health and ending up as vice president of DMB Sports Clubs, where she is responsible for all five clubs and 400 employees.
Nalevanko has moved up in DMB Sports Clubs because she has played an active part its growth. In 1989, she was directly responsible for DMB's Metro Sport & Health Club's $2 million expansion and renovation project, which enabled Metro to compete directly with a chain that had opened up new clubs in the Arizona fitness market.
In 1990, Nalevanko was responsible for all aspects of the design and construction of a $4 million renovation project at DMB's Village Racquet and Health Club, a 400-member bankrupt tennis club in an affluent part of Phoenix. The renovation transformed the club into a 60,000-square-foot multi-recreational, exclusive health club.
The list of Nalevanko's accomplishments goes on. She accepted another renovation project in 1996, and helped develop a new facility that would house a full-service day spa and large multi-recreational health club. The new DMB facility, Gainey Village Health Club and Spa, came to fruition in large part thanks to Nalevanko's dream of opening a day spa component in a health club facility.
Supervising renovations isn't all Nalevanko excels at. In 1990, she formed the Arizona Fitness Network, an organization of Arizona IHRSA clubs. The goal of this organization was to enable individual clubs to band together to offer corporate membership programs at multiple locations to Arizona corporations.
Three years ago, the Arizona Fitness Network changed its name to the Arizona Fitness and Therapy Network Inc. Now it is a registered corporation of which Nalevanko is president.
Around the time of the name change, Arizona Fitness and Therapy Network entered into one of the first capitation agreements with an insurance company: InterGroup Insurance of Arizona. This agreement relates to InterGroup's SeniorCare program, giving approximately 30,000 seniors access to the 16 health clubs in the network.
Nalevanko also took part in developing the curriculum for the year 2000 for both management and front-line staff. The training program includes new hire orientation, best practices, power selection, supervisory skills, the counselor salesperson and signature service.
Entrepreneur of the Year Susan Hughes, proprietor/general manager of Woman's Workout Co., Mashpee, Mass.
Susan Hughes is a self-taught woman. Unlike a lot of others in the fitness industry, Hughes started at the top. In April of 1986, without any prior experience in the field, she purchased an existing health club.
Since then she has been successful in developing three member-directed fitness businesses - the most recent just opened on May 1, 2000. She employs approximately 150 people, and her business is growing daily.
Prior to being a fitness club owner, Hughes worked in the field of health and medicine. During her years working with physicians, Hughes' clientele was predominantly composed of sedentary women who were physically unfit and emotionally insecure.
To alleviate the challenges of her career, Hughes joined a local health club. After work, she frequented the gym routinely, watching as women joined with high expectations, only to get lost in a sea of other members due to poor follow-up.
In the winter of 1986, the health club she frequented - Gloria Stevens Figure Salon - began experiencing financial hardships, and was placed on the market for sale. Hughes saw this as her golden opportunity and took it.
And what an opportunity it was. Hughes has had nothing but success. She expanded her original location three times before outgrowing the building in 1988, when she moved to a larger site. She eventually outgrew this site too, remodeling it four times before moving on. In 1995, she purchased land in Hyannis, where she designed and custom-built her first Woman's Workout Co. (WWC).
Not surprisingly, she got too big for this site, and moved the original WWC location to its current Mashpee site. She also added two more WWCs.
All three of Hughes' facilities are health and well-being centers designed for women. They include day spas, dance studios, weight-loss centers, group exercise studios, juice bars, tanning, playrooms, cardio rooms with state-of-the-art entertainment systems, weight rooms, steam room, locker rooms, pro shops and more.
Hughes' success at building a member-directed fitness business is one of her greatest talents. Her vision can best be described as the creation of all-inclusive, multipurpose centers that meet a woman's well-being needs while offering the convenience of one-stop shopping.
Hughes is driven by her vision, and wants to bring it to as many women as she can. She relishes taking fitness to realms not previously associated with this industry. Hughes has changed the old "fitness-figure salon" image by building beyond it to create programs encompassing diet and day spa options. Her ability to integrate other business concepts into a fitness atmosphere is trend-setting.
Hughes also has a special gift of being able to recognize the best in those who work for her. She encourages and supports employees by giving them the tools and opportunities they need to become the best at what they do.
Her personal goal is to open five centers combining fitness programs and spa services. Hughes is a gifted educator and is excited to share her passions for helping women by teaching them the tools of empowerment necessary to achieve their own success and dreams.
Industry Enhancement Award Joyce Brown, president/owner of Elan Fitness Center, San Anselmo, Calif.
Joyce Brown has owned Elan Fitness Center in San Anselmo for 18 years and in Petaluma for eight years. The center - a ladies spa and health club - has 3,700 members and 100 employees.
As owner of Elan Fitness Center, Brown has used her club as a vehicle for community health awareness and improvement. Elan Fitness Center sponsors quarterly blood drives; semi-annual CPR training; free blood pressure screenings; workshops on women's health issues; the annual breast center hike on Mt. Tam and Alzheimer's walk; the annual women's Heart Association fund-raising luncheon; and Elan's own health and harmony day, which offers fitness information for free to the public.
Brown also donates her time and funds to organizations such as Hospice of Marin, Marin Breast Cancer Watch, Marin AIDS Project, Cedars, Cure for MS, Marin Abused Women's Services, CASA Hoops for Children, rotary club, and the Community Institute for Psychotherapy, which offers individual and family counseling at a low cost. In addition, she provides those in medical or financial need with scholarships to maintain their health at Elan Fitness Center for either low or no cost.
Besides her concern for the health of her community, Brown is also committed to education and the arts, providing donations to school fund-raisers.
Brown's community involvement includes serving on committees for the annual Country Fair Day Parade, the San Anselmo 2000 Beautification Committee and the annual Marin Women in Business Conference. She has made donations to the Girl Scouts of Marin, the San Anselmo Recreation Department, the San Rafael Police Department and the Ross Valley Fire Department.
She is a member of the Petaluma, San Rafael and San Anselmo chamber of commerce of which she has also served as president. Her club was recently nominated for Business of the Year by fellow chamber members, and Brown was nominated Business Person of the Year 1992.
Brown has also provided the community with an asset in Elan Fitness Center itself. The business has taken on a life of its own, becoming a haven for women of the area. More than just a health club, Elan is a communal meeting place where women can feel comfortable bringing their children, networking with other mothers and/or business women, and improving their mental and physical well-being.


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Rescuers with shovels and sniffer dogs are combing through collapsed hillsides as the death toll from a strong earthquake in north-west China rose to 89.
Another five people were listed as missing and 628 injured after the quake near the city of Dingxi in Gansu province.
About 123,000 people were affected by the quake, with 31,600 moved to temporary shelters, the provincial earthquake administration said on its website.
Almost 2,000 homes were destroyed and about 22,500 damaged, the administration said.
The quake toppled brick walls and telephone lines, shattered mud-and-tile-roofed houses and sent cascades of dirt and rock down hillsides that blocked roads and slowed rescue efforts by crews trying to reach remote areas.
Hospitals set up aid stations in parking lots to accommodate large numbers of injured, while hundreds of paramilitary People's Armed Police fanned out to search for victims in the region of terraced farmland where the quake struck about 760 miles west of Beijing.
Damage was worst in Min county in Dingxi's rural southern portion, where scores of homes were damaged and telephone and electricity services knocked out, Dingxi mayor Tang Xiaoming told state broadcaster CCTV. All but three of the deaths, all the missing and most of the injured were in Min, a likely result of shoddy construction.
Residents said the shaking lasted about a minute, but was not strong enough to cause major damage in urban areas, where buildings are more solidly built.
Tremors were felt in the provincial capital of Lanzhou, 110 miles north, and as far away as Xi'an, 250 miles to the east.
The government's earthquake monitoring centre said the quake was magnitude-6.6, while the US Geological Survey said it was 5.9. Measurements can often vary, especially if different monitoring equipment is used.
The quake was shallow, which can be more destructive. The central government said it was about 12.4 miles deep, while the Gansu provincial earthquake administration said it was 3.7 miles deep.
The Chinese Red Cross said it was shipping 200 tents, 1,000 sets of household items, and 2,000 jackets to the area and sending teams from Lanzhou and Beijing to help with relief work and assess further needs.
Other supplies were being shipped in by the army and paramilitary police, which dispatched around 6,000 personnel and two helicopters to aid rescue efforts.
Heavy rain is expected in the area later in the week, raising the need for shelter and increasing the chance of further landslides.
Gansu province, a region of mountains, desert and pastureland with a population of 26 million, is one of China's more lightly populated provinces, although Dingxi has a greater concentration of farms in rolling hills terraced for crops and fruit trees. Dingxi has a total population of about 2.7 million.
China's worst earthquake in recent years was a 7.9-magnitude quake that struck the south-western province of Sichuan in 2008, leaving 90,000 people dead or missing.


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ROCHESTER — Thursday night the Rochester School Board's Policy Committee voted to reconsider a policy recently enacted by the full board which reads Maple Street Magnet School staff may automatically admit their children into the school without going through the district's lottery system.
Chairman of the Policy Committee Anthony Pastelis said in his view, the decision to adopt the new policy was "ethically wrong."
"I feel what was done when this policy was amended was setting up almost a caste system where by a teacher or a staffer at the magnet school would get preferential treatment over any other parent in this district…," he said.
School Chairman Robert Watson said when the board realized so many people were interested in the state's first-ever magnet school, which opened last August at the former Maple Street School site, the district designed a lottery system to accommodate parents' interest. The magnet school's attractive features include a 200-day calendar year, personalized learning plans for each student, nearly daily instruction in French and an increase in parental and community involvement.
During the summer, Superintendent Michael Hopkins presented the board with a request from a full-time teacher recently hired at the school who wished to have her kindergarten-level child added to the coming school year's class. While the Rochester student was previously not accepted through the lottery system held in March 2012, Hopkins explained the school would make accommodations to their class sizes for one more.
The Policy Committee voted at that time allowing an exception to the rule would be unfair to other Rochester families whose children were not accepted in the lottery pickings. School administrators also noted it is typically not favorable for a child's development to always have their parents around.
But, in a last minute, very close vote in July, the full board voted 7-6 to allow the teacher's child to attend the school. This week, the Policy Committee reviewed the amended policy and is requesting the full board review their request again. Board member James Gray requested the policy be changed by deleting the final paragraph, which states a full-time staff member living in Rochester may enroll their child automatically.
The committee clarified if this change takes place, the teacher's enrolled student for this school year would still remain in the school for the next several years and would not be asked to leave.
This discussion last year sparked much controversy in the magnet school community and beyond. At the last full board meeting on the subject, those who voted in favor of the change said the altered school calendar, where magnet school students get an extra week of vacation in October and start school earlier in August, would hurt staff looking to get on the same schedule as the students in their family.
"I heard one of the reasons for doing so is because the magnet school has a unique schedule and it could be a hardship…," Pastelis added Thursday night. "How is that any different from, oh, I don't know, 95 percent of the parents in this district who work a different schedule than what their child does? … Believe me, this is nothing against teachers. … I just think this policy is ethically wrong."
School Board member Matthew Pappas abstained from the vote Thursday evening, but the rest of the board voted unanimously to move the revised policy onward. The next full board meeting will be held on Thursday, Jan. 31 at 7 p.m. in Rochester City Hall.


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CSKA Moscow is in Stockholm to play AIK tonight, in the first leg of a Europa League qualifier, and the Russians were just trying to get a good night's rest. Enter AIK fans, who showed up outside CSKA's hotel in the middle of the night with flares, fireworks, whistles and car horns.
No one was hurt, only pulled from a sound sleep, but police and AIK are launching investigations, and the club could be held responsible by UEFA. I mean, it's not like they could have seen this coming. AIK fans only invaded the hotel of their last opponents, pulling the fire alarm three times the night before a match.


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