At a GlanceCook Time 45minCourse Side DishType of Prep BakeCuisine U S RegionalOccasion Christmas Family Dinner nbsp Scroll down to see more dressing and stuffing recipes INGREDIENTS 1 4 cup finely chopped onions1 2 cup chopped celery1 3 cup butter4 cups bread cubes1 teaspoon pepper2 eggs beaten1 2 teaspoon salt1 4 to 1 2 teaspoon ground sage1 4 to 1 2 teaspoon poultry seasoningchicken brothPREPARATION Saut 233 onion and celery in the butter until tender Combine onion mixture with bread pepper eggs salt sage and poultry seasoning in a large mixing bowl Stir in broth until well moistened Bake in a greased foil-covered shallow baking dish at 325 176 for about 35 to 45 minutes Take the cover off the last 5 minutes to brown More Dressing Recipes Giblet Dressing Recipe Bread Oyster Dressing Apple Pecan Dressing Recipe Southern Cornbread Dressing Oyster Cornbread Dressing Southwest Cornbread Dressing Cornbread Dressing Crockpot Cornbread Dressing More Stuffing and Dressing Recipes Cornbread Recipes Side Dish Casseroles Main Dish Casseroles Vegetable Dishes Slow Cooker Recipes 9 Casseroles 9 Main Recipe IndexWeekly Crockpot Recipe Newsletter 9 9

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Georgia forced Russia s hand by launching an attack targeting South Ossetia on Aug 7 in an apparent bid to seize control of the breakaway region In response Russian tanks and troops drove deep into the U S ally s territory in a five-day war that Moscow saw as a justified response to a military threat in its backyard and the West viewed as a repeat of Soviet-style intervention in its vassal states This is not an easy choice but this is the only chance to save people s lives Medvedev said Tuesday in a televised address a day after Russia s Kremlin-controlled parliament voted unanimously to support the diplomatic recognition The U S was taken surprise by the speed of the Russian response on recognition and escalated it by having Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice threaten a U N Security Council veto should Russia ask for international recognition of its move Abkhazia and South Ossetia are a part of the internationally recognized borders of Georgia and it s going to remain so Rice said Britain Germany and France also criticized the decision Medvedev later said Russia did not seek or fear a new Cold War and that it was up to the West to avoid it We are not afraid of anything including the prospect of a new Cold War Medvedev was quoted as saying Tuesday by the ITAR-Tass news agency But we don t want it and in this situation everything depends on the position of our partners If they want to preserve good relations with Russia in the West they will understand the reason behind our decision Medvedev said Russian forces have staked out positions beyond the de-facto borders of the separatist regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia The two territories have effectively ruled themselves following wars in the 1990s While Western nations have called the Russian military presence in Poti a clear violation of an EU-brokered cease-fire a top Russian general countered Tuesday that using warships to deliver aid was devilish The heightened activity of NATO ships in the Black Sea perplexes us Col Gen Anatoly Nogovitsyn said in Moscow The United States says its ships are carrying humanitarian aid but suspicion persists in Russia that they are delivering military materiel clandestinely Many of the Russian forces have pulled back from their positions in Georgia but hundreds at least are estimated to still be manning checkpoints that Russia calls security zones Two of those checkpoints are near the edge of Poti one of Georgia s most important Black Sea ports 151 one by a bridge that provides the only access to Poti The Russian military is also claiming the right to patrol in the city Angering Russia the United States sent the missile destroyer USS McFaul to the southern Georgian port of Batumi well away from the conflict zone to deliver 34 tons of humanitarian aid on Sunday The McFaul left Batumi on Tuesday but would remain in the Black Sea area said Commander Scott Miller a spokesman for the U S Navy s 6th Fleet in Naples Italy The U S Coast Guard cutter Dallas meanwhile was headed for Georgia with a shipment of aid Embassy spokesman Stephen Guice did not give details on which ship would aim to enter Poti but it appeared likely the smaller Coast Guard ship would aim to dock with the McFaul possibly remaining on guard at sea While he did not link it with the U S ships Nogovitsyn said a unit of Russian naval ships was off Sukhumi 151 the capital of another separatist Georgian region Abkhazia on the Black Sea north of Poti He said the ships were observing the pullout of Russian troops from Georgia Nogovitsyn told reporters that 10 ships from NATO nations were currently in the Black Sea and that eight more are to join them soon They have very serious arsenal on their ships Nogovitsyn said The Black Sea is just a small pool for their arms with the range of 2 500 kilometers The United States and other Western countries have given substantial military aid to Georgia angering Russia which regards Georgia as part of its historical sphere of influence Russia has also complained bitterly about aspirations by Georgia and Ukraine to join NATO Medvedev said Georgian Presdent Mikhail Saakshvili was so bent on gaining control of South Ossetia that he resorted to genocide Georgia chose the least human way to achieve its goal 151 to absorb South Ossetia by eliminating a whole nation Medvedev said Hundreds of jubilant Ossetians and Abkhazians spilled onto the streets in their regional capitals after his announcement waving national flags firing shots in the air cheering and dancing traditional Caucasian dances This is the happiest day of my life said Julia Babyeva 19 as she celebrated the news in the devastated South Ossetian capital of Tskhinvali Both breakaway regions rely heavily on Russia for pensions and government subsidies Most people in the two regions have been given Russian passports and already consider themselves citizens of Russia Russia s military presence seems likely to further weaken Georgia a Western ally in the Caucasus region a major transit corridor for energy supplies to Europe and a strategic crossroads close to the Middle East Iran Afghanistan Russia and energy-rich Central Asia Georgia lashed out at Russia as expected Russia is trying to legalize the results of an ethnic cleansing it has conducted to oppose it to the West Georgia s state minister on reintegration Timur Yakobashvili told The Associated Press But it will result in Russia s isolation from the world In London British oil company BP PLC announced Monday it has reopened the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline which runs through Georgia The pipeline which provides some 1 million barrels per day of Caspian Sea crude to international markets had been closed for more than two weeks after a fire on its Turkish stretch Kurdish rebels claimed responsibility for the blaze Moscow and Misha Dzhindzhikhashvili in Tbilisi Georgia contributed to this report

Demand for PCs is holding up even as the U S economy slumps says S amp P analyst Tom Smith When the U S economy slumps computer and other hardware sales usually follow suit That s not happening this year quot It s surprising that PC sales have held up quot says Tom Smith who follows computer hardware stocks for Standard amp Poor s Equity Research quot There s something strong about people and their connection to their laptops quot The latest evidence came from the Aug 19 earnings report from Hewlett-Packard HPQ which said unit shipments of PCs rose 20 from a year ago This indicates the strong trends in the industry are continuing Smith says as consumers and businesses keep buying new laptops with more power memory and battery life to manage even more tasks including storing photos movies and music Faster growth in developing countries is helping offset weakness in U S sales for most hardware makers he adds quot PC sales just didn t falter in the first half of 2008 quot Smith says quot They should have failed already if they were going to quot In turn shares of computer makers are not suffering as much as the broader market this year Year-to-date through Aug 15 the S amp P Computer Hardware index fell 2 1 vs an 11 6 decline for the S amp P 500 index In 2007 the sub-industry index jumped 32 6 compared with a 3 5 rise for the S amp P 500 BusinessWeek com s Karyn McCormack spoke with Smith on Aug 21 about the outlook for computer makers and his favorite stocks Edited excerpts follow Hewlett-Packard reported a good July quarter What does that indicate for other computer hardware makers in the coming quarters It was a pretty strong quarter mdash a key thing for HP is that unit sales for PCs were up 20 What I see here is a continuation of some trends Overall unit shipments of PCs globally remain strong with almost 15 growth last year and projected to be as strong this year With average selling prices falling the dollar revenue rise should be less than that nearly 10 according to IDC The U S economy has moderated and sales of PCs have been slower But in far-flung geographies mdash such as Asia-Pacific Middle East and Africa mdash sales are stronger and it seems that is helping to offset weakness in the U S In PCs notebooks continue to grow faster than desktops In its July quarter HP said notebook revenue rose 26 from a year ago while desktop revenue grew 6 HP s unit shipments rose 20 while revenue rose 15 for its personal systems group In HP s printers and imaging business revenue grew 3 from a year ago to 7 billion mdash to me it s a hopeful sign that it grew at all It s surviving a slowdown in the U S economy and managed to show positive growth In this area the hardware revenue fell for both consumer and commercial customers while supplies revenue grew 11 So even if hardware sales go down people still need ink and supplies In HP s enterprise storage and servers revenue was 4 7 billion up 5 from a year ago So it hasn t really slowed down Blade servers are a huge growth area mdash they re a smaller more energy-efficient way to perform certain server tasks HP software revenue grew 29 which may reflect some consulting business For HP overall you can say that all segments contributed to growth which is a powerful statement considering the U S economy slowing Cost cuts helped the company beat the consensus EPS forecast by a few pennies My principle takeaway from HP is that PC unit sales remain strong and my summation from the rest of the industry is that all PC makers are participating We ve seen very strong growth from Apple AAPL but you ve also seen Dell DELL growing from a new distribution plan that includes partnerships with a few retailers Dell reports results on Thursday Aug 28 so we ll get more information then

While birds turtles and salmon are known to use magnetic guidance to migrate cattle were not previously known to possess an inner compass Farmers have found that cattle stand perpendicular to the sun to heat up their bodies on cold sunny days or stand parallel to the wind during winter days with particularly strong winds the scientists noted But the farmers 39 wisdom and scientific studies had not provided answers to the common alignment of cattle during days with optimal weather the European scientists said quot Amazingly this ubiquitous phenomenon does not seem to have been noticed by herdsmen ranchers or hunters quot said the study co-written by Sabine Begall of Germany 39 s University of Duisburg-Essen quot Because wind and light conditions could be excluded as a common denominator determining the body axis orientation magnetic alignment is the most parsimonious explanation quot says the study published in the August 25 edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America The scientists used Google Earth software to study the alignment of 8 510 cows in 308 pastures around the world and 2 974 red and roe deer in 241 locations in the Czech Republic

Just a quick note that UW s first official depth chart of the season is out You can find it here Among the noteworthy items — In the biggest surprise Senio Kelemete is listed as a starting DT — Chris Polk is the starting RB with David Freeman listed as a co-backup along with Brandon Johnson — Jermaine Kearse is listed as a backup WR — Everrette Thompson is listed as a backup DE — Ryan Perkins is listed as the starting PK — Jordan White-Frisbee is listed as a starting guard with Ryan Tolar a backup at guard and center More on the depth chart later

CORAL GABLES Fla Miami has suspended seven players for the season opener against Charleston Southern including quarterback Robert Marve The school confirmed Sunday that Marve a redshirt freshman who was expected to start will sit out Thursday s game Freshman Jacory Harris of Miami will start instead Marve was arrested in October for smashing a car mirror He was initially charged with two misdemeanors but they were later lifted The school did not immediately identify the other six players or say why they had been suspended

Monday August 25 2008 If you ve never tried couscous before think of it like little tiny pasta noodles Like pasta and whole grains it doesn t taste like much on it s own but will go great with a variety of sauces spices and flavorings One cup of cooked couscous has just 176 calories zero fat and also provides 6 grams of protein Although couscous is traditionally steamed most grocery stores carry instant couscous which can be prepared in just a few minutes Or try preparing your couscous in a crockpot or a rice steamer for a quick and convenient meal Here are some vegetarian and vegan couscous recipes to try Couscous with Lemon and Mint pictured above Apple Cinnamon Breakfast Couscous pictured left Couscous and Chickpea Salad Hot Couscous Breakfast Cereal Couscous with Spinach and Feta Cheese Moroccan Couscous with Sweet Potatoes See also How to Cook Couscous gEI commentform style display none var l getElementsByClassName leavecomment gEI comments for i 0 i

Gerren Taylor was still playing with Barbie dolls when she walked the runway for the first time at Los Angeles Fashion Week in 2003 Just 12 at the time she was the youngest person ever to be represented by the runway division of L A Models Although most agencies require girls to be 14 it s not unheard of for 12-year-olds to get work Actress Milla Jovovich made the cover of the Italian fashion magazine Lei at 12 and Brooke Shields Gisele Bundchen and Kate Moss were stars before they turned 16 With her long legs and confident walk Taylor looked as though she would follow in their footsteps Then during Richard Tyler s show the last one of the week that April she stepped onto the runway in a wedding gown and stumbled hard She tripped once then again on the train that was in front of her because the dress was accidentally put on backward When her eyes welled up with tears even the most hardened fashionistas wanted to give her a hug I wrote about that moment the one that made Taylor a novelty 8212 the 12-year-old plucked from the crowd on an L A street corner who tripped on the high-fashion runway It made for a good story Other people thought so too Oprah Winfrey came calling and designers lined up to book her That September she went to New York to see if she could make it on the world stage and walked in the Tommy Hilfiger Betsey Johnson and Tracy Reese shows Hilfiger even paid to have her teeth fixed telling Taylor she was going to be a top model Making enough money for college seemed a sure bet after she became the first African American in a Marc Jacobs ad campaign We re all expecting her to be a big star Jacobs said Then she disappeared A year later Taylor didn t book a single runway job The advertising work dried up too and so did the magazine editorials She went to Europe to try her luck at the fashion weeks there but was told by booking agents in Paris that 38-inch hips on a pole-thin 6-foot frame made her too big to model They wanted her to diet down to 35 inches In less than two years her career had come to a halt That s where the story ends for most Fashion designers and editors move on to the next girl and the next It s just the way of an industry built on selling a fantasy that depends on novelty and impossible ideals Women try to intellectualize the constant stream of airbrushed images skinny models and too-expensive products but the allure is too strong So we go on searching for some notion of beauty that is always just out of reach And we don t think much about what happened to last year s model Except with Taylor documentary filmmaker Darryl Roberts was there to pick up where the industry left off His film America the Beautiful in limited release and which screenened in Seattle in early August follows the arc of her brief career trying to understand why we are obsessed with physical beauty We see Taylor and her mom Michele Gerren struggling to navigate the sexualized world of fashion while arguing about whether it s too soon for the young model to start wearing a bra We hear from Taylor s school principal who says with prescience How can you comprehend at 12 or 13 that you re going to be discarded Then in 2005 when Taylor returns from Europe humiliated we watch her hit rock bottom Agonizing over the flaws she perceives in her pancake flat stomach her flawless face looks straight into the camera and she says I m ugly She had written herself off at 15 Today Taylor is about to start her senior year of high school in Santa Monica Calif where she s a volleyball star She never did make enough money for college but she s applying anyway to study psychology Some kids would have gone to therapy to cope but Taylor went to church and found support from peers who had the same issues with their bodies even as they had envied hers in teen magazines It was going so well Then when it stopped I didn t know what I had done wrong she said over a recent lunch her Yorkie Arlington sleeping at her feet I was always so nice to people I never turned my back on people Of course she knows now that success in fashion has nothing to do with being nice Taylor is still stunningly beautiful with perfect skin and legs so long they stick out from the other side of the table She is wearing jeans that are a little short even with the bottom seams ripped out a tank top sheer shirt and ballet flats Her mom is close by as she always was making sure Taylor wasn t wearing anything too revealing on the runway or risking a future paycheck by saying on camera that she doesn t like soy milk Sometimes I felt uncomfortable Taylor remembers But I didn t think there was anything I could do I was scared to say I didn t want to wear something to be that girl who had an attitude or didn t cooperate I liked having my mom there so she could say it It s difficult to know why Taylor s career ended so soon 8212 if she got lost in the politics of moving from one agency to another or whether at 6 feet and a size 4 after she grew into her teenage body she was too big for industry standards That started in New York calling her obese at a size 4 says her mother an amateur model herself at age 19 Having that be a rumor was hard the teenager says I thought I needed to diet I was doing all this to make my mom proud to make money and all of a sudden it stopped I would just eat salad I didn t want to go to the beach because of my stretch marks Three years later it s as though one slight happened just last week 8212 that moment in Paris caught on film when a modeling agent asks Taylor if she has gained weight since her pictures were taken Tell me if you want me or not Taylor says Her voice gets louder Don t ask questions criticize me say things that are hypocritical and look at me as if you are totally satisfied with the way you look I m human you re human She hasn t fully regained her self-esteem Then again she is an 18-year-old woman in a looks-obsessed world At school at lunchtime I m in the bathroom holding girls hair while they throw up My friend s dad took her for a consultation with a plastic surgeon to get rid of her love handles At 140 pounds Gerren is thinner than most The average American woman is 140 pounds and 5-foot-4 that weight looks a lot different when you re 8 inches taller Now she worries about being curvy enough for boys to notice her Nobody is satisfied she says I had a model friend who was too small Pants were always way too big for her She says she has no regrets because she has a story to tell And the film has become its own kind of opportunity Taylor and her mom have traveled with Roberts to promote it At the Durban International Film Festival in South Africa Taylor participated in a seminar for teen girls about self-esteem She also modeled in a runway show Which brings us back to the fashion fantasy and whether she could fall into it again I don t think there is anything wrong with modeling she says Taylor is still represented by Elite L A There is Seventeen and Teen Vogue those are fun They have teachers on-set At the same time she dreams of starting a denim line for women of all shapes and sizes and a self-esteem camp for girls similar to the one run by Tyra Banks Taylor 8212 like most women 8212 wants to rise above the fantasy even as she keeps it alive I still haven t given it up for good she says It s still fun for me But if I ever do another runway show I m going to be walking for the empowerment of women not just walking on a stage And somehow I believe her

Beef brisket is slowly braised with vegetables wine and spices for a classic dish Don t skip the juniper berries They lend a lot of flavor Prep Time 20 minutesCook Time 3 hours 15 minutesIngredients 1 tablespoon oil2 pounds beef brisketSalt and freshly ground pepper to taste1 2 cup dry white wine1 medium onion diced4 garlic cloves minced2 medium tomatoes coarsely chopped4 carrots peeled4 medium parsnips peeled1 2 cup chicken stock1 4 cup water1 teaspoon dried thyme1 teaspoon dried rosemary1 bay leaf12 juniper berries crushed optional - see Notes Preparation Heat oven to 225 degrees F Heat oil in large Dutch oven over medium high heat Season brisket with salt and pepper and then sear cook over high heat to brown the exterior on both sides in pan Remove brisket turn heat to high and add white wine With a wooden spoon scrape bottom of pan and reduce wine for 1 minute Add onion and cook over medium heat for 5 minutes Add garlic and cook for 1 minute Return brisket to pan with tomatoes carrots parsnips chicken stock water thyme rosemary bay leaf and juniper berries Bring to a simmer Cover place in oven and cook for about 2-1 2 to 3 hours or until meat is tender about 145 degrees internal temperature Discard bay leaf Remove brisket and slice against the grain into thin slices Arrange on plates with carrots and parsnips adding broth to each serving Yield 4 to 6 servings Notes Although the juniper berries are listed as an optional ingredient do use them if you can They lend a lot of flavor To crush them place them in a small plastic storage bag place the bag on a cutting surface and smash with a meat pounder or the bottom of a skillet or saucepan If you cannot find brisket use any good chuck roast such as a Top Blade roast Source The Cook s Bible by Christopher Kimball Little Brown Reprinted with permission

The Paramount-DreamWorks release 151 starring Ben Stiller Robert Downey Jr and Jack Black as actors caught up in real battle while shooting a war movie 151 raised its 12-day total to 65 7 million Tropic Thunder came in just ahead of Sony s campus comedy The House Bunny which debuted in second place with 15 1 million The House Bunny stars Anna Faris as an ostracized Playboy bunny who becomes den mother to a sorority of campus misfits Universal s Death Race 151 an update of 1975 s Death Race 2000 with Jason Statham starring as a driver in a kill-or-be-killed auto race of the future 151 opened at No 3 with 12 3 million The weekend s other new wide releases Ice Cube s sports drama The Longshots and Rainn Wilson s music comedy The Rocker opened weakly The Longshots 151 an MGM-Weinstein Co release starring Ice Cube as a former high school star coaching his niece the first girl to play Pop Warner football 151 came in at No 8 with 4 3 million 20th Century Fox s The Rocker starring Wilson as an over-the-hill heavy-metal drummer who gets a chance at stardom with a high school band took in 2 8 million to finish at No 12 After a run of blockbuster weekends late summer was proving the usual dumping ground for modest movies as business slowed and audiences eased into back-to-school mode That opened the door for Tropic Thunder to repeat as the weekend s box-office leader There isn t that divide where there s a couple of huge movies coming every week said DreamWorks spokesman Chip Sullivan Summer s biggest hit The Dark Knight continued its climb up the box-office charts placing fourth with 10 3 million The Warner Bros Batman sequel has taken in 489 2 million on its way to becoming the second film ever to top 500 million after Titanic 600 8 million Overall movie revenues of 3 9 billion are slightly ahead of last summer s record pace But higher admission prices mean the actual number of tickets sold is down about 3 percent compared to summer 2007 according to box-office tracker Media By Numbers Still Hollywood should finish with a box-office record and a second-straight summer topping the 4 billion mark Thank you Dark Knight That s added close to half a billion dollars said Paul Dergarabedian president of Media By Numbers One film like The Dark Knight can make a huge difference In limited release Focus Features comedy Hamlet 2 pulled in 435 000 Starring Steve Coogan as a high school drama teacher staging a campy irreverent musical sequel to Shakespeare s play Hamlet 2 expands into nationwide release Wednesday Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U S and Canadian theaters according to Media By Numbers LLC Final figures will be released Monday 1 Tropic Thunder 16 1 million 2 The House Bunny 15 1 million 3 Death Race 12 3 million 4 The Dark Knight 10 3 million 5 Star Wars The Clone Wars 5 7 million 6 Pineapple Express 5 6 million 7 Mirrors 4 9 million 8 The Longshots 4 304 million 9 Mamma Mia 4 303 million 10 The Mummy Tomb of the Dragon Emperor 4 1 million Focus Features and Rogue Pictures are owned by NBC Universal a unit of General Electric Co Sony Pictures Sony Screen Gems and Sony Pictures Classics are units of Sony Corp DreamWorks Paramount and Paramount Vantage are divisions of Viacom Inc Disney s parent is The Walt Disney Co Miramax is a division of The Walt Disney Co 20th Century Fox Fox Searchlight Pictures and Fox Atomic are owned by News Corp Warner Bros New Line Warner Independent and Picturehouse are units of Time Warner Inc MGM is owned by a consortium of Providence Equity Partners Texas Pacific Group Sony Corp Comcast Corp DLJ Merchant Banking Partners and Quadrangle Group Lionsgate is owned by Lionsgate Entertainment Corp IFC Films is owned by Rainbow Media Holdings a subsidiary of Cablevision Systems Corp