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Like we've said before, we wanted to do another 'featuring' thing. We will go into your gallery and pick three lovely deviations of yours to feature here along with your name so people know who's art it is, of course. We'll also favourite each one we decide to feature, but since we're behind, we won't be commenting this time.
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Whiplash is an injury to the neck caused by the neck bending forcibly forward and then backward, or vice versa. The injury, which is poorly understood, usually involves the muscles, discs, nerves, and tendons in the neck.
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Colorado top court rejects Holmes appeal
The Colorado Supreme Court is rejecting Aurora theater shooting defendant James Holmes' request that he not have his sanity evaluated a second time.
The court denied Holmes' appeal Thursday. It also ruled that Holmes' filing cannot be seen by the public.
Holmes pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to killing 12 people and injuring 70. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.
He underwent a mandatory psychiatric evaluation last summer. The key findings haven't been made public, but prosecutors claimed the evaluation was flawed and asked for another.
The judge ordered a new evaluation in February, saying the first was "incomplete and inadequate."
The defense appealed to the state Supreme Court on Monday.
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Yes, I checked out the queens in Queens. It was a snowy Wednesday night, but there was still some life to be found in the Jackson Heights bars, where salsa and merengue sounds, twinkly lights, and cheapish drinks make your butt vibrate with the excitement that you've decided to embrace the larger i ... More >>
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The Alan Turing biopic The Imitation Game took the top prize at the Toronto International Film Festival. The festival's highest honor is the Grolsch People's Choice Winner, which is voted for by the audience. The Imitation Game stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Turing and will hit theaters November 21. [Deadline] »
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Where do a zebra's stripes, a leopard's spots and our fingers come from? The key was found years ago – by the man who cracked the Enigma code. »
Benedict Cumberbatch Is Alan Turing In The First Imitation Game Trailer
Get a first look at Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing, computer scientist, mathematician, father of artificial intelligence and the person who cracked the German Enigma code. The Imitation Game appears to focus on the latter of Turing's accomplishments, which makes sense as solving the Germans' "uncrackable" code… »
Why The Turing Test Is Bullshit
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A Chatbot Has 'Passed' The Turing Test For The First Time
A Russian chatterbot named "Eugene Goostman" has become the first to pass the Turing Test – an assessment of machine intelligence first proposed in 1950 by visionary mathematician, logician and codebreaker Alan Turing – by convincing 1 in 3 judges that it was a 13-year-old non-native-English-speaking Ukrainian boy. »
Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing, the Father of Computer Science
The first official image from The Imitation Game has been released, featuring Benedict Cumberbatch as computer scientist, mathematician, and father of artificial intelligence Alan Turing. »
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Take a moment away from your computer screen, and give some props to Alan Turing, the code-breaking badass who helped make all this possible. Turing has captured our imagination several times, in books and movies. Here's our potted history of the Father of Computer Science in pop culture. »
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baba ganoush with/without tahini?
I love to eat baba ganoush, but haven't made it in a long time. I love the smokey flavor. Now, how about tahini? Or does someone have a
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Peel, chop, salt, and drain in a colander for an hour. Mash with a fork and add tahini and lemon juice to taste, maybe a bit more salt. You can add garlic if you wish, but I feel that it mutes the flavor of the eggplant.
The way we did it in Israel was to prick some holes in a whole, unpeeled eggplant (or two) and stick it on a hot grill. It will start to steam, and finally collapse. Take it off the grill, let it cool a bit, and peel the skin (it will come off easily). Don't worry about getting all the burnt bits out, these add to the smokey flavor. The bitter liquids are extruded by the heat, so you don't need to salt it.
If you want a dip, follow the directions of the other poster, and add lemon juice and tahini to taste and mash it up. For a more elegant presentation,you can split the burnt eggplant down the middle, rather than peeling it, and serve it on a puddle (or whatever the proper food stylist term is) of tahini. This is what the fancy restaurants in Israel do.
Prick your eggplant all about and roast on the stovetop until charred all over. Let cool in a colander. Peel the skin (don't worry about getting it all) and give a good squeeze to get rid of the bitter juices. Pulse in a food processor with tahini, lemon juice, olive oil, salt and a pinch of cumin.
same as everyone else..except if you cant find tahini because you are stuck in beaumont texas...try Sunbutter..
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Thanks! New guy is very adventurous food-wise.
I've been making it in a blender lately, which turns it into a velvety smooth dip rather than a chunky mash. I just use garlic, lemon, salt, cumin and tahini to taste with a roasted, peeled eggplant. It's very nice with a bit of preserved lemon as well.
Russians make a very similar dish called eggplant caviar. Essentially roast the eggplant like any of the other suggestions, then add a ton of minced garlic, olive oil, and lemon juice. Use a hand beater to beat until it becomes smooth and almost fluffy.
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5 Things Every Korean Person Has Grown Up Doing
Ever caught yourself doing something and then thinking, 'Gee, I wonder if I'm the only unlucky soul forced to do this in the world'? Well, don't fret because, most likely, there is at least one other person who's suffering with you!
If you're Korean and have caught yourself wondering whether or not you are all alone in this world, here's 5 Things Every Korean Child Has Grown Up Doing
1. Bowing to strangers on the street, assuming you know them somehow.There's this thing about Korean communities all over the world— everyone is interconnected, one way or another. These connections can get so out-of-hand, you get used to being ambushed by random adults.
This is a situation you've probably been in at least once in your life: You're walking along the street, minding your own business, when all of a sudden, out of nowhere: "Suzy! You've grown soooooo much!" You turn around, come face-to-face with a lady, maybe around your mother's age, beaming at you, expecting an answer


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Police Department Debuts Crime Prevention Newsletter
The St. Charles Police Department recently debuted its new Crime Prevention newsletter, Police Beat. The newsletter offers helpful information for protecting you, your family, and home against crime. Police Beat is available on the City website. For more information, please contact Crime Prevention Officer Bill Tynan at email@example.com.
Quarterly Crime Prevention Newsletter
The Crime Prevention section of the St. Charles Police Department issues a community newsletter on a quarterly basis. The first issue was offered in October 2014. Its goal is to provide helpful information for protecting yourself, family, home and other areas of your life against crime. The information may be seasonally based and offer criminal information that surround holidays and weather. Crime trends within the city also are addressed, with tips on how to defend yourself against a certain trend. Read more »
Home Security Survey
Beware of Rental Scams
The St. Charles Police Department recently took a report of an unknown person attempting to rent out a house that was not for rent, but for sale through a legitimate realtor. The scammer placed an advertisement for the property on two popular realty websites: Zillow and Trulia. Interested parties contacted the listing agent attempting to rent the property. The ads were removed and it does not appear there were any victims in this case. Read more »
Reporting a Crime
The St. Charles Police Department appreciates alert, concerned citizens who can help keep an eye out for suspicious activity. Remember, there are two convenient, anonymous ways to report any suspicious activity: with the Drug & Crime Tip line at 866-DRUG-COP (1-866-378-4267) or the online submission form.
When reporting a tip, please give as much information as possible and remember all information is kept strictly confidential. As always, dial "9-1-1" for an emergency. For non-emergencies or to speak to an officer, call 630.377.4435. Read more »
St. Charles Police Working with City Apartment Managers
The St. Charles Police Department has partnered with local area apartment managers in the City of St. Charles to implement a line of open communication, training, and guidance to be utilized among the different apartment complexes and the police department.
The goal of these meetings is to prevent future issues, whether they stem from occupants of the apartment complexes, vagrants, or criminal activity; as well as offering managers different subject training sessions, which includes topics such as utility information and fire prevention tips. Read more »
St. Charles Police Reminds Citizens to Report Crime
The St. Charles Police Department would like to remind the community that concerned residents can report any suspicious activity within the city in two ways. Read more »
Residential Burglaries
On Monday March 3, 2014, at approximately 6:00 p.m., the St. Charles Police Department responded to a residence in the 0-100 block of Roosevelt Street reference to an attempted residential burglary. The resident reported that sometime between 8:00 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. someone attempted to pry open a rear door. No entry was made into the residence and no property was reported missing.
A short time later, officers responded to the 800 block of Gray Street reference to a reported residential burglary. The resident reported that sometime between 7:45 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. Read more »
St. Charles Police Department Hosting 2014 Citizens Police Academy
Have you ever wondered what it's like to be a part of the law enforcement profession? The St. Charles Police Department once again is hosting its annual Citizens Police Academy, which will run from March 18 through May 15, 2014. Read more »
Be Aware of Scammers Calling Claiming to be from Microsoft
St. Charles residents recently have reported that subjects purporting to be from Microsoft have called several times over the last week, and attempted to "help fix a problem" with residents' home computers/laptops. The callers have been both male and female, and have a strong foreign accent.


text: Mexican Cartel Kingpin 'El Taliban' Pleads Guilty in Texas Print article Send a Tip by Kristin Tate 8 Apr 2014 post a comment On April 7 cartel boss Ivan Velasquez-Caballero, better known as "El Taliban" or "L50," pled guilty to money laundering and drug charges, according to reports from The McAllen Monitor. Velasquez was a member of the notorious Los Zetas cartel, which the U.S. government has dubbed the "most technologically advanced, sophisticated, and dangerous cartel operating in Mexico." Sylvia Longmire, Breitbart Texas' Contributing Editor and border security expert, said she was surprised that the cartel boss initially pled not guilty. "Most major drug bosses automatically look at a plea deal when being tried in US courts," she said. "I think Velasquez just wised up and realized he'd be a lot better off if he plead guilty and offered up some useful intelligence on Los Zetas--and perhaps rival organizations--in exchange for a lesser sentence." Longmire said that U.S. prosecutors likely have substantial evidence against Velasquez. "He was a major figure in the Zetas organization, and a controversial one at that. Los Zetas are moving on just fine without him, but he's a good catch, and it's a success just to have him out of the game," Longmire said. Longmire also pointed out an interesting contrast in Mexico's apparent extradition policy: although high-ranking Velasquez was extradited, Sinaloa Federation kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán was not. Longmire said, "[T]he contradiction of extraditing El Taliban and keeping El Chapo may be showing some hints of hypocrisy on [Mexican President] Peña Nieto's part--or more proof of a deliberate snub to the US government by not extraditing Guzmán." El Chapo was arrested at a Mexican beach resort in February. Initially after his arrest, federal prosecutors in cities around the U.S. were pushing for his extradition and jockeying over who would handle the case. Ultimately, however, Mexico refused to transfer El Chapo to the U.S., where he would face serious charges in at least seven cities. As Breitbart Texas reported in March 2014, Velasquez appeared in court after being extradited to the U.S. He plead not guilty to the charges against him, which stemmed from a 2008 indictment. His re-arraignment will take place on Monday before U.S. District Judge Micaela Alvarez. Follow Kristin Tate on Twitter @KristinBTate


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Not even Game 6 of the World Series could keep local food fetishists from getting their Anthony Bourdain fix last night. The author-speaker-cook-TV-host-and-more took the Majestic stage to a nearly packed house last night, for a talk and Q and A sponsored by City of Ate. (Read my interview wi ... More >>
Cooking ChannelDebi Mazar throws wannabe cooks a curve.This may sound superficial, but I'll say it anyway: Debi Mazar is not thin. The near washed-up actress has got some desirable curves goin' on. Awkward segue alert: But those Latvian-origin hips are about the most substantial part of her ... More >>
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Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler misquoted Hillary Clinton while criticizing her recent and accurate comments about the Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby decision.
Kessler specifically took Clinton to task over a comment she made during the Aspen Ideas Festival:
CLINTON: It's very troubling that a salesclerk at Hobby Lobby who needs contraception, which is pretty expensive, is not going to get that service through her employer's health-care plan because her employer doesn't think she should be using contraception.
But in taking issue with the portion of Clinton's remarks about the affordability of contraception, Kessler actually misquoted what she said:
As for "very expensive," this is in the eye of the beholder. Studies have indicated that when times are tough, women have tried to save money by skimping on birth control, such as skipping pills and delaying prescription refills.
Clinton never said that contraception is "very expensive." She said it was "pretty expensive." The distinction is meaningful in light of the fact that Kessler specifically went on to criticize Clinton for not being careful while making extemporaneous remarks.
Kessler also criticized Clinton for observing that a Hobby Lobby sales clerk would not be able to access contraception because her employer doesn't think she should be using it. Here's Kessler's rationale:
In the specific case, the company on religious grounds objected to four of 20 possible options, leaving other possible types of contraceptives available to female employees -- though not necessarily the most effective or necessary at the moment.
Contrary to Kessler's reasoning, it's entirely accurate to say that a sales clerk could decide in consultation with her doctor that a valid form of contraception is the best option for her health needs and yet be denied access because her boss doesn't think she should be using it.
Kessler addressed similar criticism from readers in an update, calling it an "interesting parsing" but standing by his original analysis.
A growing number of mainstream media outlets are holding Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) accountable for flip-flopping on his support of a deal to release Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl from Taliban capitivity.
McCain joined in the right-wing outcry that followed the White House's May 31 announcement that it had secured the release of Bergdahl, the only U.S. service member remaining in enemy hands from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, telling Politico that he "would not have made this deal" if he was the president and denying that he was ever told of the potential prisoner exchange in an interview with CNN's Chris Cuomo.
McCain's rejection of the deal stood in stark contrast to his position on the issue just months ago, when he told CNN's Anderson Cooper that he "would be inclined to support" "an exchange of prisoners for our American fighting man," depending on the details -- an inconsistency the media initially missed.
He went on to day the exchange was "something I think we should seriously consider."
McCain's February position was already a change from the position he held in January 2012, when Rolling Stone's Michael Hastings reported that McCain "reluctantly came around" on the idea of exchanging the five Guantanamo detainees in question for Bergdahl.
After Media Matters raised the issue of McCain's inconsistency on Bergdahl's release, CNN's Jake Tapper noted McCain's conflicting stances on the prisoner exchange on the June 5 edition of The Lead. The New York Times wrote that McCain "switched positions for maximum political advantage." And MSNBC's Rachel Maddow criticized McCain for standing "against his own idea."
Days later, Tapper went on to press McCain on the inconsistency. McCain disputed the "flip-flop charge" by noting that he'd made his support contingent on "the details." McCain said the details of the deal that secured Bergdahl's release "are outrageous" and "unacceptable."
This attempt to rewrite history was short-lived. Washington Post fact checker Glenn Kessler weighed in the following morning, pointing out that "the most important detail -- the identity of the prisoners -- was known at the time he indicated his support" and stamping McCain's statements with the upside-down Pinnochio that denotes "flip flop":
McCain may have thought he left himself an out when he said his support was dependent on the details. But then he can't object to the most important detail -- the identity of the prisoners-that was known at the time he indicated his support. McCain earns an upside-down Pinocchio, constituting a flip-flop.
The New York Times called McCain on "switch[ing] positions for maximum political advantage" and Politico included the flip-flop in a list of times McCain has complained of misrepresentation this week.
Back in August, Mitt Romney's campaign set a controversial benchmark for accuracy, announcing that "we're not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers," and you could make the argument that since then they've hewed closely to that standard. The October 16 presidential debate presented a challenge not just to that fact-checkers-be-damned mentality, but to one of the Romney's campaign's central claims: that as president he would create 12 million new jobs.
This morning Washington Post fact checker Glenn Kessler wrote that the math underlying Romney's claim "doesn't add up," calling it a "bait-and-switch" that fudges with timelines, and quoted Glenn Hubbard, one of Romney's chief economic advisers, acknowledging as much. Again, this is one of Romney's key campaign arguments. He repeated it early on in tonight's debate.
There's been a great deal written lately about post-truth politics and journalism, in which corrections of blatant falsehoods have no discernible effect on the repetition of said falsehoods. This issue -- central as it is to the political campaign but also the economic recovery -- represents an opportunity to alter that dynamic.
But such change can happen only if the media step up and actually press the Romney campaign on this point. It's too important to let slide.
We've already seen numerous examples of the Washington Post printing the false "death panel" claim about health care reform without noting its falsity. The "death panels" lie, as you may remember, was so pernicious PolitiFact named it "Lie of the Year" for 2009. Unfortunately, that didn't stop the Post from frequently repeating the claim that health care reform would result in "death panels" -- and didn't inspire the Post to ensure that it always corrected the falsehood.
PolitiFact's 2010 "Lie of the Year" was the claim that health care reform constitutes a government takeover of heath care. The Washington Post's Glenn Kessler notes: "This snappy talking point is used by Republicans repeatedly to bash Obama's crowing [sic] legislative achievement, but it is simply not true. In fact, PolitiFact.com labeled this claim the 2010 'lie of the year,' but that has not stopped lawmakers from making this claim."
Nor has it stopped Washington Post bloggers from making this claim. Here's Jay Sekulow, the Post's Religious Right Now blogger:
ObamaCare is bad for the economy. The federal government is taking control of what some have estimated to account for as much as 1/6 of the economy while simultaneously creating yet another entitlement program doomed to failure.
The Washington Post's Glenn Kessler rightly criticizes politicians for telling the "Lie of the Year." It would be nice if the Post would hold its own personnel to the same standard.
Last year, I wrote about some problems with the branded "fact-check" features several news organizations have been creating. Among them:
The other problem with the execution of these highly structured, branded "Fact Check" pieces is that fact-checking shouldn't be relegated to occasional, highly specialized pieces; it should be a basic part of everyday journalism. Checking the truthfulness of a politician's statements shouldn't be something a news organization saves for its "Fact Check" feature; it should be present in every news report that includes those statements. It isn't enough to occasionally debunk a false claim, as I've been saying over and over again.
What I'd like to see isn't another media organization with a branded, occasional "Fact Check" feature -- it's a news organization that commits to never reporting a politician's statement without placing that statement in factual context.
The Washington Post -- the poster child for occasionally debunking false claims -- recently revived its "Fact Checker" column, and in doing so reminds us how little the paper actually cares about checking facts. Here's today's "Fact Checker":
"A secretive government committee ('death panels') will be created to make end-of-life decisions about people on Medicare"
This claim, first made by former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate, has been thoroughly debunked and was labeled "lie of the year" in 2009 by Politifacts.org. Yet it persists in the popular imagination. The September Kaiser poll found that 30 percent of seniors still believed this to be the case--and 22 percent were not sure, meaning fewer than half knew the claim was false.
Why might the false "death panels" claim "persist[] in the popular imagination"? Perhaps in part because the Washington Post routinely mentions the claim without pointing out its falsity. Just last week, the Post did this on consecutive days, in a January 13 article by Karen Tumulty and Peter Wallsten and a January 14 article by Shailagh Murray and Paul Kane. Both articles reported the allegation that health care reform contained "death panels," but neither so much as hinted that it was false. This has been a defining characteristic of the Post's treatment of the "death panels" claim (contrary to former Post media critic Howard Kurtz's praise for the paper's reporting on the topic.)
I can't imagine that there's anyone at the Post who doesn't know by now that "death panels" were a lie. And yet the paper routinely prints the lie without noting its falsity. The only conclusion you can draw from that is that the paper just doesn't think it has any responsibility to avoid passing falsehoods along as though they are true -- at least as long as those falsehoods come from right-wing political figures.
Let's say a stock broker tells a Washington Post business reporter "ACME Wireless, Inc. stock has increased in value each of the last four years, with no signs of slowing down. Investors should buy it immediately!" And let's say the reporter knows this to be false -- knows that, in fact, ACME's stock is in a free fall, with no end in sight, and that its entire leadership is under indictment. Would the Post print the false claim without noting its falsity? I doubt it would; I suspect the reporter or an editor would recognize that it has a responsibility not to pass along such dangerously false investment advice to its readers. Likewise, if Happy Fun Ball was conclusively shown to cause cancer in everyone who touches it, the Post wouldn't print Wacky Products Incorporated's claim that the toy is perfectly safe without noting that, in fact, it causes cancer. Nor would the paper quote Redskins owner Daniel Snyder bragging about his team's playoff victory last weekend without noting that in fact the team finished 6-10 and failed to make the playoffs.
So why does the Washington Post print Sarah Palin's lies without noting their falsity? Does the Post think its readers' ability to make informed political decisions is less important than their awareness of sporting events?
The Boston Globe and The Washington Post echoed the discredited accusation, advanced by conservative media figures, that Sen. Hillary Clinton did not condemn controversial comments by Suha Arafat during a 1999 trip to the West Bank, where Arafat, according to the Globe, "launched into an unscripted tirade accusing Israel of poisoning Palestinian children." In fact, Clinton reportedly "condemned Mrs. Arafat hours later, after receiving, she said, an official translation of her remarks."


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Looking for Recs-Most Chowhoundish Frozen Items at Costco
Just got back to work after 5 weeks of bonding with my baby boy...and getting really tired of eating almost every dinner from a restaurant. So need help in finding some good frozen items from Costco that I can put on the table quick. I'm in Los Angeles and usually go to the Costco in Alhambra.
re: mamamia
second the potstickers. also, for non-frozen: the cucumbers they sell are great chopped w/lemon,salt, and olive oil. they also have very good marcona almonds. and hummus.
sorry can't be of more help.
re: mamamia
Is it Ling Ling? With a Panda on it?
They have good frozen spinach ravioli. I can't open the cream puffs without eating the whole box. They had an Alaskan salmon that was marinated that I tried as a sample that was good. The best thing at Costco is going around and trying all the samples so when you have a free afternoon, just hang out there and eat. Also, I haven't tried them but they have a lot of non-frozen premade entrees that look okay, like stuffed salmon, chicken, etc.
re: chowser
Yes! I was even going to write "the panda potstickers".
re: chowser
a free afternoon with a 5 week old...LOL...actually maybe that'll be one of our excursions this weekend to give mama a break.
I'll tell you what NOT to get: The Margaritaville Chicken Wings. Bleh! (And we're not super-picky eaters!)
We are never without a bag of their cheese raviolis...and those Panda potstickers too! Do try to pick up their frozen salmon. IQF in their own little bags...oh! and the mahi mahi too.
You did say frozen...but you gotta pick up some of the rotisserie chicken. I cut it up and put in right back in the lid and cover it with foil. I freeze the carcass for soup. Yum.
re: hbgrrl
Yes! The Kirkland Four-Cheese Ravioli is way good.
don't know if you have the Shepard's Pie in your Costco, but it is pretty good. the "panda" potstickers are pretty good so i agree with that.
re: saeyedoc
Definitely the Handy crabcakes!
not really anythign special but, the 5 cheese pizza is the best frozen pizza ive ever tasted, and then u can add ur left overs to it!
frozen raw peeled shrimp is good and works out to be a nice deal -- not exactly prepared foods, but they take less than 2 minutes to cook. just rinse in warm water and throw into a hot pan with a dash of scallions, chillies, or practically any simple flavoring. not so frozen, but gotta love the huge boxes of cashews...easy snack while you play with the baby!
The rotisserie chickens are fabulous, and the meat can be used in so many ways...if any leftovers from just eating plain or with a bit of a condiment. Sandwiches, chicken salad come to mind. Congratulations on the baby boy! Joyous!
After my daughter was born this is how I survived:bought loads of the bags of frozen fish (salmon, cod, mahi mahi all in individual packets), the garden burgers, bags of the peppers,onions, zuchini, and the portobello mushrooms and occasionally the strip or rib eye steaks and bonless chicken breasts and bottles of the kirkland extra virgin olive oil.
I also bought a large george Foreman Grill. I would just thrown sliced veggies on there with the fish or steaks, sprinkle with oil, salt, pepper, and herbs if I had the energy. About 5 mins or so i would pull the plug (seared at this point) and let the rest cook in the remaining heat for another 5 mins, open it up and fish(actually takes less time) or meat was done to perfection and the veggies were lovely too. If you don't want to bother with slicing the veggies just throw some frozen peas in a pot to go with your fish or meat and you have a decent healthy meal that will make a nice change from take out.
re: TraderVic
This is also how I am surviving in college, and I suspect how I will survive through law school...the Foreman grill and Costco is a formidable combination.
Not frozen, but two things that are easy to prep:
- Costco also sells the same brand of rice that I get at Asian supermarkets (three elephants on the front, in a large white sack)
- hummus - the Hannah's brand is really good.
I've gotten fond of a Costco-sold frozen product called Birds Eye Voila Garlic Chicken. It's a frozen mixture of grilled chicken breast meat chunks, rotelli pasta, broccoli, carrots and corn. Prepare in skillet or microwave in any quantity. It can be doctored, but it's good made as directed. I tend to give it a splash of Tabasco sauce, then stir or toss well, then sprinkle with grated romano, parmesan or grana. It's fast, it's easy and the nutrition numbers don't look too bad, although the sodium figure may bother some.Comes in a three-pound bag for around $9.
The "panda" people also make egg rolls but they are not as good as the potsickers.
The coconut shrimp are not good.
The frozen mini quiches are pretty dry.
But I do love the potstickers, cheese ravioli and crabcakes!
Their frozen organic green beans are excellent, and a great value. Also, 2nd the rotisserie chicks. Frozen chick pot pies are good as well as their the frozen salmon.


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Just for fun. I was hanging around on Talk today and stumbled across this grooving Kori Bustard. Kind of makes me want to dance…
Cheetahs rocking the boat…again!
Cheetahs, it seems, just can't stop shattering everything we believed to be true about them.
Scientists have long believed that lions (and hyenas to some extent) threaten cheetah conservation efforts — in large part because they kill so many cheetah cubs. But last year, researchers from South Africa revealed that lions probably don't kill as many cheetah cubs as folks previously believed. And shortly after that, our research showed that regardless of the amount of lion-inflicted cheetah cub mortality, cheetahs do just fine around large lion populations.
Just last month, another story broke that shakes up how we think about cheetahs. It turns out that not only are cheetahs not as vulnerable to killing by lions, but they cheetahs aren't nearly as vulnerable to non-lethal bullying either. It was thought that because cheetahs couldn't fight back against lions – or hyenas – they lost a lot of their hard-earned kills to these ruthless scavengers. (Yes, both lions and hyenas do steal food from each other and from cheetahs.) We knew that wild dogs expend so much energy hunting that they can't afford to lose even moderate levels of food, and assumed that cheetahs were similarly vulnerable. But, as a recent study from Bostwana and South Africa found out, they aren't. It turns out that despite being super fast, cheetahs don't expend all that much energy chasing down their prey. Researchers estimate that cheetahs could lose a full 50% of their kills to lions and hyenas, and still get all the calories they need!
All in all, it's beginning to look a lot like the biggest threats to cheetahs aren't lions and hyenas. Instead, availability of denning sites (as suggested by our research) and human destruction of habitat that forces cheetahs to travel far and wide in search of prey (suggested by this most recent study) are probably much, much greater threats to their survival.
Tidbits on wild dogs
One of our long-time Snapshot Serengeti members (thanks Reid!) sent me this NY Times article on African wild dogs. As you know, we don't have wild dogs in the study area (though keep your eyes peeled! TANAPA did reintroduce them into the western corridor the other year, and I keep hoping we'll catch one traveling through our grid).
But I am very interested in how dogs interact with the larger carnivore community. And these animals are just *so* cool – incredibly energetic and full of nerve. Watching a small group of dogs defend their kill against a hunting party of hyenas was one of the highlights of my trip to South Africa in June.
The article points out that wild dogs may fare better when lions fare worse (which I've reported on here) — and that raises some questions about questions about how to target conservation efforts. Do we have to choose between which species to protect? I'd say "not necessarily." My dissertation research suggests that although dogs fare worse in small reserves with lions, there are places where wild dogs seem to do just fine. Selous Game Reserve (TZ) and Kruger National Park (SA), for example – big areas that have complex habitat structures. So the answer to protecting the entire carnivore guild may lie in larger, diverse reserves.
There are currently efforts in place to do create a protected area the size of Sweden that spans five southern & east African countries. If successful, according to the NY Times, the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area will be the largest terrestrial protected area in the world. Now that's something to celebrate.
Caught in the act
I am sure you were all enthralled by the recent shots of a male lion with a hyena clamped in his jaw. A truly awesome capture. The reality is that action shots like that are few and far between. Snapshot Serengeti has had only a handful in the millions of images that have been classified to date.
So when Karen and Deon Scheepers caught the following action on camera trap on the nature reserve in South Africa where I used to live I just had to share it with you;
What a capture… a leopard on the hunt. The out come was unknown, reserve staff looked for a carcass but didn't find anything. To think I used to walk those trails every day, I wonder how many times a leopard walked out behind me!
Thanks Karen and Deon Scheepers for sharing these shots.
Africa on my door step
So those of you who have read my blogs are probably used to hearing me bemoaning the fact that I am no longer in Africa but am back in France whilst I am studying towards a degree. I can't really complain, life is still good, but the European wildlife feels a bit lacking when you have been used to the mega fauna of Africa.
I have however continued to put out my camera traps in order to survey my property and the surrounding countryside and it's busier than you would think. Badgers, foxes, hares, otters, roe deer, squirrels, stone martens and wild boar make regular contact with my paltry two cameras. Not really enough camera power to base a study on but interesting all the same.
The highlight has been the discovery that one little favourite of mine from Africa has followed me to France; the genet. Yes the common genet (Genetta genetta) lives in France and I am ecstatic to say right by my house too.
It seems no-one really knows how they got here but it was probably something to do with the Romans centuries ago being brought over from the Magreb region of North Africa. They are now naturalised animals in Spain, Portugal and France. Refreshingly for an introduced animal they are not invasive and have little impact if any on the native wildlife, so I can go on loving them with a clear conscience.
Here are a couple of shots of genets in France for your enjoyment!
I am…
Dr. Swanson!
I have to admit that the defense was way easier than I had anticipated. In fact, I got to spend much of the two hour question session talking about possibilities for future citizen science projects and the cool things that could be done with camera trap surveys. Once things settle down on my end, I'm looking forward to sharing some of my most recent results here on this blog.
…But it might be a few weeks. Right now I'm in Brazil, crewing for my boyfriend in the world hot-air balloon championship. We are centered in Rio Clara, and this place is beautiful. Although more cultivated than some of the places we are used to flying (e.g. Serengeti), we have still managed to find some wildlife. When we (the chase vehicle) managed to find the landed balloon past a maze of 12-foot-tall sugar cane fields, the co-pilot looked at me nervously and said, "there are no hyenas in South America….right?" Because apparently they had seen a rather large canid ripping into some carcass on some abandoned hillside on the flight. And it turns out that there are maned wolves here, which is probably what they saw. Maned wolves actually vaguely resemble giant red foxes (~ 3 ft tall at the shoulder), and are in a genus all their own (Chrysocyon), and are considered "vulnerable" (as a species) by the Brazilian government. They are pretty cool.
Funny story. When I was applying to graduate school, long before I decided to work with Craig at the University of Minnesota, I had wanted to study maned wolves in the Brazilian cerrado (tropical savanna). And, in the end, I turned down an offer to do so in favor of coming to UMN. But wouldn't you know it, 6 years later, here I was – right in the middle of maned-wolf country! Granted, *I* still haven't seen a maned wolf here, as is usually the case. The balloon pilots, with their birds-eye view, always see the most spectacular things. We on the ground just hear about them.
But I've got nearly two more weeks here…and I'm on a mission to find me a maned wolf!
Almost there…
I've been a bit remiss in blog posts lately. I've just recovered from a whirlwind trip through South Africa (so much exciting data!!!), a visit to the Zooniverse team in Oxford, and, not least, my 31st birthday — and now I am rapidly approaching the end of my dissertation, and it is pretty much the only thing on my mind. I've already got a date – July 11th – on which I'll give an hour long public presentation (anyone local is welcome to come) followed by 2 hours of inquisition by my committee members behind closed doors. But to make it there, I first need to hand in my dissertation and have them all agree that I'm ready to defend. I need to hand it in by Friday, and still have a *lot* of work to do!
So, I may have posted this before, but figured it was a good time to (re) share this clip of baby elephants learning to use their trunks. They remind me a little bit of me trying to learn how to do science…
The no armed monkey
I am being consumed by envy. Ali is in South Africa and Meredith is in Tanzania. I am stuck in front of my computer working away on assignments with the prospect of an exam looming fast, in fact days away. I want to be finished with my degree and get back out there where the wild things are.
So to distract myself I have been reminiscing about my life in the African bush, it's been a good exercise as it has reminded me what all the studying is for. Whilst we are waiting for Ali and Meredith's blogs I thought I would share with you the story of the no armed monkey….
This is actually a true story involving a troop of vervet monkeys whose territory included my house. I would see them at least once a day as they moved from the tall sycamore fig trees along the river, their nightly refuge spot, into the bush to feed. Vervets are fascinating to watch, they are always up to something and that often involved trying to get into my house to steel fruit. I remember one cold winter morning watching a heavily pregnant female on the stoop reclining with her back propped up on a chair leg, her arms and legs spread out warming her swollen belly in the sun. She looked so at home there I thought I may just get to witness a birth, no such luck. So when the troop moved through I would always stop and watch.
It was on one such vervet induced pause that I noticed one sub adult monkey run across the garden on its back legs, almost lemur like. Grabbing the binoculars I got a better look only to discover it was missing both its arms. There didn't appear to be any sign of trauma nor scarring. The next thing I knew it had run, on its back legs, straight up a smallish tree through its branches and leaped up on to the thatched roof of my house. My eyes could not believe what they had just clearly seen. Obviously having no arms was no impediment for this little monkey.
On subsequent occasions I watched various other members of the group help the no armed monkey by giving it food or just simply waiting for it to catch up. It was able to use its feet to feed itself quite effectively and seemed to get on just fine. My feeling was that it was born this way, I just can't think of a scenario where it would lose both arms in an accident and recover enough with no scarring. Whatever the truth of the matter, this little monkey was an inspiration.
Nyala are way prettier than impala
I'm in South Africa, getting a feel for the ongoing Panthera camera trapping surveys, collating data, falling madly in love with the country and South African bush, and scheming for how I need to find a way to come back.
Things are a bit of a whirlwind, but so far I am amazed and excited about the amount of monitoring that many of the small private and state-run reserves have been doing. There is an extraordinary amount of information that has been collected over the last decade on how all of the top predators move and live across these parks. There are parks with and without lions. Parks with and without hyenas. With and without wild dogs. Some parks are big and some are small. Some are very thickly treed, others are somewhat open. (Note that one thing I discovered very quickly is that pretty much all South African habitat, even the grassland, would equate to "woodland" in the Serengeti. So…"open" is a relative term.)
The amount of data here is enough to get any science nerd's heart a flutter. But I am trying to focus on what is out the window instead of what's on the computer for now. I've only a few days in South Africa, and endless time to analyze the data.
In the meanwhile, I thought I'd share one of my new favorite animals: the nyala.
These cousins to the waterbuck we capture in camera on Serengeti, and you can see it a bit in their pretty faces. But these animals are far more stunning than anything I've ever seen in Serengeti. The females are small and sport bright white stripes on their red fur, and the males have these incredible "manes" that run down the undersides of their necks and to their bellies. They are pretty awesome. As is everything I've experienced in South Africa so far. Yep, definitely need to find a way back!
More on the Melanistic Serval
As Meredith posted the other day, one of our camera traps caught a melanistic serval. Melanism is known across a broad variety of animals, but is particularly prevalent in the cat family. Of 37 known species of cat, at least 13 species have melanistic individuals: the domestic cat, the jungle cat, the leopard, the jaguar, the bobcat, Geoffroy's cat, the kodkod, the oncilla, the colocolo, the jaguarundi, the Asian golden cat, the marbled cat, and the serval.
Why some individuals are melanistic and why cats are particularly prone to melanism is still a bit of a mystery. It is generally thought that melanism is maladaptive – that is, that individuals with melanism are at a disadvantage because they stand out more than normally colored individuals and so are more likely to be targets of predators and competitors. The consequence is that in populations with a lot of melanism, there ought to be some sort of advantage to offset the disadvantage.
One possible explanation for melanism is that cats' black fur helped keep them warm at higher elevations by absorbing more sunlight. This idea came from the fact that many cat populations with high rates of melanism are found at higher elevations. More recently, there have been studies suggesting that melanistic individuals are more resistant to disease.
There's not a lot of literature on melanistic servals. But I did find an article in the Journal of East African Natural History that listed the known locations of melanistic serval populations in East Africa. Interestingly, the four main populations with melanism are all highland locations: Mt. Kenya and the nearby Aberdare highlands in Kenya and Mt. Kilimanjaro and North Pare Mountains in Tanzania. All of these are in the general geographic region of Serengeti National Park, so it's perhaps not too surprising that melanistic servals are there too. What is unusual is that the Serengeti is not a highland.
Our long-term Serengeti experts, with their decades of experience in the Serengeti, are surprised by the melanistic serval snapped by our cameras. David Bygott says that he's never heard of a melanistic serval in the Serengeti, and Craig Packer says that while he's seen melanistic individuals of other animals up on the rim of Ngorongoro Crater (a highland), he's never seen a melanistic serval anywhere. So this Snapshot Serengeti image is likely the only documented evidence of melanistic serval in the Serengeti.


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Tuesday morning, he made no defense for his own actions.
Hicks, who earlier this year pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of operating a vehicle while intoxicated and carrying a handgun without a license, appeared before an Allen County Superior Court judge to learn his sentence.
He also admitted he had violated the conditions that allowed him to remain free until that sentence was handed down. Namely, he had tasted alcohol, something he was forbidden to do.
I screwed up, he said.
Judge Fran Gull sentenced Hicks to serve a total of 100 days in the Allen County Community Corrections program, which means the attorney will be on house arrest and probably fitted with an ankle bracelet to track his whereabouts.
Last year, Fort Wayne police arrested Hicks, 56, outside the Hitch-in-Post bar after an encounter with a former client.
Officers found Hicks behind the wheel of a car at the bar.
He admitted to drinking for several hours and that he had a handgun for which he did not have a license or a permit to carry.
After a blood-alcohol test – the results of which were not released – Hicks was arrested on misdemeanor charges of drunken driving and carrying a handgun without a license.
He entered a rehabilitation facility after his arrest and in March pleaded guilty to both counts without the benefit of a plea agreement.
He was scheduled to be sentenced next month and allowed to be free as long as he did not consume alcohol or drugs.
Tuesday, he admitted to being an alcoholic and to having alcohol sometime late last month.
A doctor who has been counseling Hicks referred to it in testimony as a lapse but not a relapse, mainly because Hicks did not fall into his old habits again.
Hicks apologized to Gull and other colleagues in the courtroom during the hearing, some of whom he's worked with or alongside for years.
That included Allen County Prosecutor Karen Richards, who attended the hearing, and Allen County Chief Deputy Prosecutor Michael McAlexander, who worked the case against Hicks.
Before his sentencing, Hicks told Gull: Whatever you do, I deserve.
Gull ordered Hicks to serve 60 days at the Allen County Jail on the drunken driving charge but suspended 50 days of that sentence. She ordered him to serve 365 days on the charge of carrying a handgun without a license but suspended 275 days.
She then said he could serve his time in the county community corrections program and that his license will be suspended for 180 days.
There is a fear you're on a self-destructive path if it isn't interrupted, you're going to die, Gull said.
Hicks has a previous drunken-driving conviction from Whitley County in 2004.
According to Indiana State Court records, Hicks' license to practice law is active and in good standing.