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IBM today widened its security offerings with products and cloud-based services focused broadly on both mobile devices and Big Data, both areas where IBM foresees growth as enterprises sort out their strategies toward both.
NEWS: The 10 most common mobile security problems and how you can fight them
MORE NEWS: Presidential candidates quiet on cyber policy
The barrage of announcements from IBM include:
- IBM Security Access Manager for Cloud and Mobile, intended to support single-sign-on to cloud-based applications from mobile devices
- IBM InfoSphere Guardium for Hadoop, which extends the Guardium database monitoring capabilities to watch for intrusions into the Hadoop database used for so-called Big Data analysis projects.
- IBM SmartCloud for Patch Management, a cloud-based service for automating patching of enterprise applications.
What IBM is doing is "playing to its strengths," says Scott Crawford, analyst with Enterprise Management Associates. IBM has taken acquisitions such as BigFix for patch management and created a cloud-based service, he points out, and its Worklight acquisition from earlier this year is the foundation for the IBM Security Access Manager for Cloud and Mobile that can perform sophisticated identity and access management for apps and mobile devices.
IBM's Guardium database monitoring tool is now able to watch for unauthorized attempts to gain access to data to Hadoop. "Now the focus is on the security of Big Data, but not the Big Data of security," points out Crawford, noting the security industry is eager to explore how meaningful data-mining of massive collections of security-related data might help in risk management. But today most of the Big Data focus, still an emerging area, appears oriented toward marketing and sales.
Steve Robinson, vice president of development, strategy and product development at IBM Security Systems, says the job of data scientist for Big Data projects is seen most frequently in financial services firms, telcos and government. But Big Data analytics are also likely to be applied for the purposes of security intelligence, he says.
Paula Musich, principal analyst at research firm Current Analysis, says she viewed IBM's security push today as "a significant advancement of IBM's security products and services portfolio."
"What really stands out for me is the level of coordination that IBM has achieved across disparate product groups and the great focus IBM has brought to solving pressing problems like how to ensure compliance in the move to the cloud," Musich says.
This is especially because IBM is also enhancing the QRadar security information and management product, gained as part of its acquisition of Q1 Labs, to be able to collect more and more data from distributed locations, including cloud services, for the purposes of presenting risk-management decisions to business. "I think they recognize that they got a bit of a late start, compared with their chief rival HP," she adds. It's obvious they're making up for lost time."
In other news this week, IBM announced it has appointed Christina Peters, an attorney with IBM since 1996, as the company's chief privacy officer. Peters is expected to guide IBM's direction on public-policy issues and industry initiatives related to data security and privacy, while also continuing to serve on the advisory board of the Future of Privacy Forum.
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- Creditors seek court permission to place assets of firm%27s owners in escrow
- Owners are accused of draining funds from compounding company
- Tainted steroid shots are the cause of outbreak that killed 44 and sickened 678
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Stating immediate action was imperative because of a history of looting, creditors of the firm blamed for a nationwide meningitis outbreak are moving to freeze and seize the assets of the company's owners, including bank accounts, real estate and related firms.
In a massive emergency motion filed Wednesday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Massachusetts, lawyers for unsecured creditors of the New England Compounding Center sought the court's permission to initiate action to seize and place in escrow all assets of the Conigliaro and Cadden families, owners of the firm. The two families are related by marriage.
Lawyers for the creditors, who include dozens of meningitis victims, said in the last year alone the owners had funneled more than $21 million of the company's assets to themselves or other companies they control. More than $16 million went to the owners directly as shareholder payments or salaries.
COVERAGE:Meningitis outbreak in Tennessee
STORY:Pharmacy owner quiet at meningitis hearing
NECC, based in Framingham, Mass., has been blamed by state and federal regulators for a fungal meningitis outbreak that has killed 44 people and sickened 678 who were injected with a spinal steroid, methylprednisolone acetate.
The motion charges that members of the Conigliaro and Cadden families continued to drain assets from the compounding company even after contaminated vials of a spinal steroid had been discovered. The facility was shut down in October and all of its products recalled.
Carla Conigliaro is listed as a director of the company and owns 55 percent of the stock, while Barry Cadden and Lisa Conigliaro Cadden own 17.5 percent of the company each. Barry Cadden is the company president while Lisa Cadden is listed as a director. Gregory Conigliaro is treasurer and vice president with 10 percent of the company stock.
Andrew Paven, an NECC spokesman, denied any attempt to drain assets or loot the company. He said there were no indications prior to September 2012 "that NECC would experience financial distress." The payments to the Caddens and Conigliaros were consistent with prior time periods, he said, and some of those payments were for payment of taxes coming due.
"The company had experienced significant growth and was a thriving corporate entity," he said.
A hearing on the emergency motion is scheduled for Thursday.
"This action arises as a result of over $21 million that the insider shareholders and affiliates of New England Compounding Center looted from it in the year leading up to its bankruptcy, in reckless disregard of the massive tort claims that existed against NECC," one of the proposed complaints states.
The motion seeks to attach the personal assets of the Caddens and Conigliaros and their affiliated companies — Ameridose, Medical Sales Management and GDC Properties Management. The payments to the shareholders and their affiliated companies were disclosed in a filing by NECC's lawyers late last week.
A partial asset freeze of $5 million already had been imposed against NECC by a federal judge in one of the 180 civil suits filed by victims of the meningitis outbreak. But lawyers for the creditors noted that by the time that freeze went into effect, "the vast majority" of the assets already had been transferred, leaving only about $1.3 million.
"The debtor essentially played a game of Russian roulette with members of the American public that received its medicines," the motion states.


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LocalWineEvents.Com for wine tastings - By Frank Mangio
December 08, 2010 ~ This website is my favorite for finding out about wine events around the nation. It is the world's largest calendar of food and wine places to go. Yet you can pick your locations and focus in on exactly where you are or where you are going. The information is free. And if you are an owner wanting to get your event out there, it is also a free posting, including a map on how to get to your event, with a link to your website. So no sending of press releases or phoning in information. What a concept! Eric Orange is the genius who has the site. He also includes wine information and columns that I have been featured on. Last I checked he had more than 4 million events tickets that his service had sold to users. The website is localwineevents.com. For questions, call Eric at (610) 647-4888, ext. 2.
10 iPhone Apps for Wine Enthusiasts - By Jeana Lee Tahnk
November 15, 2010 ~ Drinking wine is a highly social activity that can exponentially increase in enjoyment in the company of others. If you like to frequent wine tastings and want to stay apprised of events in your area, Wine Events is useful to have. It is a simple app, yet it provides numerous listings of tastings for wine and spirits in your location or any location you choose. Within each listing, Wine Events provides the who/what/where and also gives you the option of posting the event to Facebook. Come one, come all!
Growing popularity of wine boosts annual PTARC fundraiser - By Erin Faulk
October 07, 2010 ~ ...... Eric Orange of Philadelphia has studied wine for more than 20 years and said its increased popularity is evident in venues ranging from restaurants to the Internet. Orange holds a certification from the Court of Master Sommeliers and a Master of Wine Education certification from the International Wine Guild. He is the founder of Local Wine Events, a website that serves as a calendar for wine, beer and food events around the world. The website is 10 years old, and, Orange said, postings for wine events have increased between 30 and 35 percent each year. "Without a doubt, it's been on a pretty steady climb," he said. Orange said a recent abundance of wine magazines and television shows could be a contributing factor in getting people interested in the drink. "Celebrity chefs are almost like movie stars these days," Orange said. "The channels running their shows have food and wine galore, and obviously, there's a market for it." ........more
LocalWineEvents.com To Host Kevin Zraly Quiz Section - By Susannah Gold
October 06, 2010 ~ LocalWineEvents.com, the world's leading online calendar of food, wine, beer and spirits events has reached an agreement with renowned wine educator Kevin Zraly to host a quiz section on the LocalWineEvents.com "We are thrilled to be working with someone of his caliber. Kevin Zraly is the preeminent wine educator in the United States and is really the Father of wine education in New York City. Kevin's contribution to our site will give readers a great way to test their wine knowledge. We are truly excited to be able to share his wealth of knowledge with our client base,†said Eric V. Orange, CEO and founder of LocalWineEvents.com. "Whether you are in New York or California or any of the other 48 states, the best place to find out where the quality wine events are happening is to go where I go to at LocalWineEvents.com,†said Kevin Zraly. LocalWineEvents.com went online in 2000 and to date, 293,231+ events have been posted worldwide. It receives over 1,500 food/drink event postings per week. LocalWineEvents.com received over 8 million page views in the past year. Founder and CEO Eric V. Orange, a wine industry veteran, created the site to be one-stop destination for consumers (including foodies, wine and spirits enthusiasts and craft beer lovers) seeking information about events in their area. Over 15,000 industry professionals from wineries, restaurants, retailers and other food/drink professions are registered to post events to LocalWineEvents.com. Kevin Zraly worked at the Windows on the World Restaurant from its opening in 1976 until September 11, 2001. He is the founder and teacher of the immensely popular Windows on the World Wine School that has graduated almost 20,000 students since its inception. The classes are now held at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in Times Square. His book, Windows on the World Complete Wine Course is the largest selling wine book in the United States with over 3 million copies sold. Kevin's new book the "Ultimate Wine Guide" which includes articles and chapters by 40 of the best wine writers in the world will be available November 2010. Kevin is a recipient of the 2009 Wine Professional of the Year from Sante, Lifetime Achievement Award from the European Wine Council, the James Beard Award as the Wine and Spirits Professional of the Year, the Food and Beverage Association's Man of the Year Award, Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Wine Educators, and the 2006 Wine Literary Award. Kevin is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Culinary Institute of America. Media Contact: Susannah Gold Vigneto Communications Tel 917 207 5375 email@example.com
LocalWineEvents.com Re-Releases iPhone App with Added Capabilities - By Susannah Gold
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New York - LocalWineEvents.com, the world's leading online calendar of food, wine, beer and spirits today announced the re-release of their iPhone app, Wine Events. LocalWineEvents.com has decided to release the newest version for free.
The key feature of the new release is a "check-in" function that allows for attendees to check-in at an event, verifying that they attended. Thanks to this new system, the event host can get valuable, legitimate feedback on what attendees thought about the event with certainty that they were there. Feedback survey questions include a range of areas from overall quality, to crowd size, presentation, parking, etc.
LocalWineEvents.com plans to use the feedback from event attendees as a quality check for events posted by a particular host. We will utilize that feedback and turn it into a ranking system that applies to the host of the events, thereby offering a comfort score (Juice Rank) on what to expect when considering an event organized by that particular host or establishment.
"It is a pioneering use of new technology in the world of food and wine events. The wide spread of our Wine Events App will ultimately result in a better experience for users attending events posted on LocalWineEvents.com, of that I am certain," said Eric V. Orange, Founder of LocalWineEvents.com.
Beginner's Guide to Wine Appreciation - By Daphne Oz
June 18, 2010 ~ While Daphne Oz loves that women aren't afraid to ask directions, take advice or pay attention to their own particular tastes, there is one skill she feels her sisters are lacking: being able to pick a good, inexpensive bottle of wine.
There are a few skills I think every woman should have up her sleeve to whip out in times of need. While the basics - ironing, donning stockings without nicking them, blow-drying your own hair -elude me, there is one skill that is often left to the men in our lives to master even though women might actually be better suited for the task. Most among us are able to whip up a simple-yet-sumptuous three-course meal (with our bare hands!), but what about choosing the accompanying wine? No, sir. Not me.
To get out in the world and start sampling, visit LocalWineEvents.com, which provides information on local - and often free - wine tastings in your area.
Discover LocalWineEvents.com - By Kim Giancaterino
May 12, 2010 ~ Discover LocalWineEvents.com
It's no secret that one of my favorite wine-related websites is LocalWineEvents.com. Each of my Livermore Valley Wine Country Squidoo lenses includes an rss feed of local wine events. Since creating the series more than two years ago, I've noticed that more and more Livermore Valley wineries are taking advantage of LocalWineEvents.com to promote wine tastings and other events throughout the year.
For example, here are a couple of events taking place this weekend in the Livermore Valley:
On Sunday, May 16 from 12 to 4 pm The Steven Kent Winery & La Rochelle Winery are hosting their second annual Open House. Guests will receive a commemorative Riedel wine glass and a delicious lunch—Grilled Sausage Sandwich with Merrillie-sauteed Onions, Gourmet BBQ Potato & Bacon Salad, and Apricot-Mango Shortbread. Tom Duarte will be on hand to play Latin Guitar music while eight new wine releases make their debut! Full details are available here.
On Sunday, May 16 from 12 to 4:30 pm Page Mill Winery (pictured top right) will be hosting their popular b.y.o.b. event. Every third Sunday of the month, visitors bring used and clean wine bottles to the winery. The bottles are then filled, corked, and labeled by winery staff. The cost for this delicious and unique table wine is just $8.49 per bottle. Page Mill Winery offers their current topping blend, so the varietal mix changes every month. Find out more about this event here.
LocalWineEvents.com has been around for more than ten years, and is the world's largest calendar of food, wine, beer, and spirits events. Are you curious about wine, food, spirits, or beer events in Australia, Croatia, Denmark, Italy, Macedonia, Tahiti—or anywhere else in the world? LocalWineEvents.com is the world's number one source for information. The website boasts more than 25,000 international Facebook fans!
It's easy (and free!) to submit an event for the LocalWineEvents.com calendar. I've included a banner on each of my Squidoo lenses to make it easy for winery owners and staff to spread the word about their latest winery events.
You can subscribe (also free!) to LocalWineEvents.com's weekly food and drink newsletter, The Juice. Just fill in the blanks to Get The Juice.
LocalWineEvents Indexes Wine Tasting Tours and Dinners - By Jason Fitzpatrick
February 22, 2010 ~ If you're looking for place to taste a variety of wines and even wine and food pairings, you'll want to check out LocalWineEvents to find local wine tasting events and meals. Unless you're on the mailing lists of the companies and vineyards that put on wine tasting events and meals, you're essentially out of the loop when it comes to finding out about them. LocalWineEvents indexes tasting events by state and city and provides an overview of the event including the cost—whether a flat fee, a per ounce fee, etc.—as well as the menu for the event and whether or not food will be served. In addition each entry has contact details in the form of an web site, phone number, and/or address. You can browse listings in a variety of ways searching by events at a location you enjoy visiting or put on by a particular company whose events you have enjoyed. Alternately you can hit up the local calendar and browse by day to see what's going on during the time you have available. LocalWineEvents is free and requires no signup to use, you contact and pay the event host directly. Have a favorite service for finding out about local food and drink-related events? Let's hear about it in the comments.


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Propose a great satnav idea and win a prize with ESA support to create your own business. Previous winners are now running companies with systems for athlete tracking and indoor navigation, and many are supported by ESA's Business Incubation Centres.
Launched this week at the European Navigation Conference in Rotterdam, the annual European Satellite Navigation Competition recognises products, services and innovations designed to improve our daily lives with the help of satellite navigation.
ESA's Technology Transfer Programme is again contributing the ESA Innovation Prize for the most promising satnav application that can be quickly developed into a profitable business.
Now a crucial 21st-century technology, satellite navigation is an increasingly attractive growth market. It is expected to grow by an annual average of 11%, reaching €244 billion by 2020.
In particular, start-ups and smaller companies stand to profit from this burgeoning field.
Our lives today are hard to imagine without satellite navigation – from conventional routing and location services to mobile apps for monitoring sporting activities.
Following ESA's tests of Galileo's signals in early 2013 and with four satellites already operational, another leap in the commercial use of satellite navigation can be expected.
"Europe's entrepreneurs, smaller companies and industry can now seize the opportunity to create value-added applications for the downstream satellite positioning and navigation market, where several technologies are converging to make 'ubiquitous positioning' a compelling reality," emphasises Matthias Petschke, director of the European Commission's satnav programmes.
European Satellite Navigation Competition
For the 11th time, the competition is calling for services, products and business innovations that use satellite-based navigation to improve everyday life. It gives entrepreneurs from industry, research and universities the chance to present value-added business applications for the emerging satnav market.
Individuals and teams can benefit from cooperating with more than 20 partner regions and a number of key organisations, including ESA, DLR German Aerospace Center, GSA and the European Patent Office. Students and research assistants can participate in the University Challenge.
In addition to cash prizes, winners can receive assistance from one of ESA's and other European business incubation centres for turning their satnav ideas and business models into reality.
"Since its launch in 2004, the European Satellite Navigation Competition has fostered the created of successful start ups, many of them have taken the offer to grow their ideas into businesses in one of our 9 and in near future 11 ESA business incubation centres," said Frank M. Salzgeber, Head of ESA's Technology Transfer Programme Office.
"Boosting entrepreneurship and using the innovation our space programmes offer is our business,"
Novel guiding from ESA winner
Last year's winner of the ESA Innovation Prize was the German start-up company Sensovo. Their idea is a belt that helps to navigate using vibration instead of using a screen or audio instructions. For a wearer the Navipal belt becomes like a sixth sense and directions can be taken intuitively.
"Our belt can help people to navigate without having to watch a map on a PC or phone. Tourists, emergency services, cyclists, motorcyclists, and the visually impaired, just to mention a few, can benefit from such a way of navigating," says prize winner Jan Walter Schroeder, Sensovo CEO.
"We plan to start our company at the ESA Business Incubation Centre (BIC) Darmstadt and with its help to turn our idea into a successful business."
Interested entrepreneurs, start-ups and students can participate at www.esnc.info. Deadline for submitting proposals 30 June 2014.
Following the contest ideas can be submitted to one of the ESA BICs.
The competition is organised by Anwendungszentrum GmbH Oberpfaffenhofen.


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My daughter and I take our first bites of caramel apple, a combination of rich sweetness with just a tiny bite of salt hardened onto a crisp new crop apple. Divine. After sharing our first batch with guests (and kind of wishing we had kept more for ourselves) we had a caramel apple party a couple of weeks later, full of sprinkles, stickiness and lots of giggles.
There are two things that I really like about this recipe. First, there is the gooey, sweet, buttery caramel over crisp apples. That's enough to like right there. Secondly, I get this gooey, sweet, buttery, caramel after only two minutes of simmering time. Score!
I was really excited that this caramel apple recipe was so easy. It is almost as easy as the caramel dip my grandmother used to make for us girls growing up. She'd unwrap soft caramel candies and melt it with extra butter (and maybe cream?). We'd happily dip apple slices into it and eat so much we'd be sick. True story.
However, since there are a variety of reasons caramel candies aren't in our weekly diet, I haven't made that same delightful experience happen for my 6-year-old. So, this summer, when she got a caramel apple on vacation, she was quite excited. I have never been too enthusiastic about making these at home, as many recipes require lots of simmering and getting it to a certain temperature, which is always kind of a hassle. "I'll do it sometime," I'd think, but it just never happened.
All to say, this easy recipe was a boon, and one which is easily repeatable.
Of course, you can sprinkle on a variety of yummy toppings onto the caramel too, which is what my daughter likes to do (I don't let her drizzle the caramel because hot sweet syrups create the worst burns). Think chopped roasted peanuts, sprinkles (we use naturally dyed ones), chocolate chips, or whatever else catches your fancy. And why not dip it in melted chocolate after the caramel layer has cooled? Now that would be yummy too.
Easy, All-Natural Caramel Apples
For dipping whole apples, you will need Popsicle or craft sticks. I doubled this recipe and got 5 whole dipped apples, and 5 drizzled apples. I recommend doubling the recipe, as it is easier to get out of the pot when drizzling. How many apples you are able to cover depends on how cooled the mixture was when you started drizzling, and how big your apples are. Adapted from an Eating Well recipe.
1/3 cup coconut sugar, whole cane sugar (such as rapadura or sucanat)
1/4 cup honey
2 tablespoons butter or coconut oil
Dash of unrefined salt
1 teaspoon vanilla (use gluten-free for a gluten-free version).
3 small apples (if you wish to completely cover), 6 small apples, if you wish to only cover half by drizzling it.
Any desired toppings (see above for suggestions)
1. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. If you want to completely cover apples with caramel, stick a popsicle/craft stick into the top of each.
2. In a small pot, combine the sugar of choice, honey, butter (or coconut oil), salt, and vanilla. Place over medium heat and bring to a simmer. Once the mixture starts bubbling on the edges, set timer for 2 minutes. Stir constantly. Take off heat and add vanilla. Be very careful with this mixture, as it can burn badly.
3. To coat whole apples: Working quickly, with one hand hold the end of the popsicle stick, holding the apple over the pot. Careful spoon over caramel, turning the apple to coat all sides. Place back on the parchment paper and top with desired toppings, if using. Repeat.
4. To drizzle: Let mixture sit for about 30 seconds to 1 minute (to cool a bit — it won't run off the apples as quickly). All apples should be on the parchment paper. Using a large spoon, carefully drizzle about 1 to 2 tablespoons over each apple. It will drizzle over the sides of the apple on its own. The longer the caramel cools, the thicker it will become. After doing this over all of the apples, you can go back and scoop up any caramel on the parchment paper and re-drizzle over the top. Decorate as desired.
5. Cool for at least 30 minutes. I find that it hardens better when placed in the refrigerator.
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Huncilman lives in an alternate reality. That's what viewers might think after seeing his works made from metal, wood, paper and fabric. He creates enigmatic forms with even more enigmatic titles such as Dharmamatic or Bunda Mambo. The viewer is at once fascinated and confounded by this wonderland of intriguing forms and convoluted messages.
Huncilman's work invites approach. The use of colors sparks sentimental memories. We are emotionally drawn, desiring fulfillment of our fantasy; but the alien forms don't seem to belong to any remembered world. One of the strongest attractions is the fact that many of his sculptures have movable parts or appear only to be complete if allowed to move. Our physical interaction seems to be invited. In addition to the many different kinetic aspects, some sculptures are hanging from the ceiling, or they are hanging on walls. Or, they look like machines and tools that do not suit our preconceptions of what they are supposed to look like or accomplish. This is a trademark of Huncilman's work.
Huncilman welds steel together with organic and electronic elements to create objects that are humorous and mythological. The mythology seems to have a historical basis - or does it? These objects teeter between the integration and the contradiction of their elements. They glow with glaring lights and make noises like out-dated machines. In a self-portrait, a bicycle wheel of straw is strapped to a wooden carrying frame. It's easy to project a cynical interpretation of this work as society's view of artistic talents: the right equipment used in the wrong way for no good purpose.
Huncilman's progeny would contradict that conclusion. Like Alice in Wonderland, we find that often nonsense makes much more sense.
Other pieces show a more mischievous nature at work. Rat Master Sandals makes an uncomfortable analogy between thongs and rat traps. And again, his Magic Walking Braces are made of barbed wire. A Model of Facts is a wooden chair supported by legs made of stacked squares of newspapers. Casters have been provided for convenience.
His mechanical approach contemplates stages of human experience that draws upon many cultures for its sources, universalizing these experiences in what seems like a simplified form, like a toy, yet one that is quite complicated and, upon further examination, forces the viewer to question these assumptions.
Group Exhibitions
2011 Animal Dreams, a new leaf gallery | sculpturesite, Sonoma, CA
2004 Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ Claudia Chapline Gallery, Stinson Beach, CA 4th Street Studios, Berkeley, CA
2003 Pacific Rim Sculptors, contract Design Center, San Francisco, CA
2002 John Natasoulos Gallery, Davis, CA
2001 Black Madonna, USF, San Francisco, CA
2000 Barbara Anderson Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2000 Los Medanos College, Pittsburg, CA
2000 A New Leaf Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2000 City of Hayward Arts Council , Hayward, CA
2000 Pacific Rim Sculptors, Contract Design Center, San Francisco, CA
1998 Gallery Blu, Palm Desert, CA
1998 Ira Wolk Gallery, St. Helena, CA
1997 Pacific Rim Sculptors, Contract Design Center, San Francisco, CA
1996 Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
1996 John Natasoulos Gallery, Davis, CA
1996 La Quinta Sculpture Park, La Quinta, CA
1995 Berkeley Art Center, Berkley CA
1995 New Leaf Gallery, Berkeley, CA
1995 Pence Gallery, Davis, CA
1994 The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
1994 Syntex Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
1994 Holy Names College, Oakland, CA
1994 Landes Gallery, Berkeley, CA
San Francisco Carnival Parade
California State Fair
Temple Sinai, Oakland CA
Jewish Home for the Aged, San Francisco, CA
1996 Oakland Tribune "Kinetic Sculpture goes Beserk-ley"
1994 San Francisco Chronicle "Carnival Parade"
1993 The Secret Alameda
1991 The Stockton Record "Sculpture filled with whimsy, intrigue"
1984 M.F.A. Sculpture, San Francisco Art Institute
1982 San Francisco State University
1973 Goddard College, Vermont


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The Best All-You-Can-Eat Deal in Every State
At the popular down-home Southern-style Barnyard Buffet in Saraland, Alabama, you'll find more than 30 offerings from three hot bars, with something new every day of the week. There's always fried chicken and fish, hushpuppies, pot roast, mac and cheese, mashed potatoes, honey-glazed sweet potatoes, and cornbread, along with a wide variety of meats, soups, fried treats, and vegetables. Friday night means steak and baked potatoes; Saturday means ribs with house-made barbecue sauce; and Sunday brings a traditional Southern Sunday supper with chicken and dumplings, turkey and gravy, and all the fixins. The weekend breakfast buffet is also popular, with eggs, bacon, sausage, biscuits and gravy, French toast, pancakes, and fresh-cut fruit. The price tops out at $13.19.Barnyard Buffet/Yelp
Alaska: Gold Creek Salmon Bake (Juneau)
Since 1978, Gold Creek Salmon Bake has been bringing hungry travelers to a campsite at Salmon Creek Falls in an old-growth forest, where they can pan for gold, check out old mining relics, enjoy the wilderness, and partake in an all-you-can-eat feast of the freshest salmon you'll find anywhere (this is Alaska, after all). The salmon is grilled over an alderwood fire, and served with a variety of side dishes and blueberry cake for dessert. The adventure costs $55 for adults and $41 for children.Gold Creek Salmon Bake/Yelp
Arizona: Wandering Horse Buffet (Scottsdale)
Located at Scottsdale, Arizona's Talking Stick Resort, Wandering Horse Buffet offers a huge variety of Italian, Asian, Mexican, Mediterranean, and American cuisines, and really has something for everybody. There's fresh sushi, a carving station, brick oven pizza, a huge dessert spread, a $34.95 Champagne Sunday brunch, a $23.95 prime rib feast on Wednesdays, and unlimited king crab legs on Friday and Saturday nights, when the price tops out at $36.95.The Big Kahuna K./Yelp
Arkansas: Brown's Country Store and Restaurant (Benton)
In business since 1973, the fun and kitschy Brown's Country Store and Restaurant is a Benton, Arkansas, landmark. The country store sells loads of toys, knickknacks, candies, chili mixes, and other Southern products, but the restaurant is what put this place on the map. Run by Philip and Cissy Brown, the buffet is 100 feet of down-home country cookin'. Baked chicken, fried chicken, fried catfish, pot roast, chicken and dumplings, peel-and-eat shrimp, hushpuppies, mac and cheese, banana pudding... It's all here, it's all tasty, it's all-you-can-eat, and it'll only set you back $11.95.Casey M./ Yelp
California: Hae Jang Chon (Los Angeles)
California is a big state with no shortage of all-you-can-eat deals, but you'd be hard-pressed to find a better one than what's offered at Hae Jang Chon, located in LA's Koreatown. At this super-popular Korean barbecue spot, you can choose from a mind-boggling assortment of 27 menu options including meats both marinated and unmarinated (brisket, short rib, bulgogi, and pork belly are especially popular), seafood, vegetables, and even beef tripe, which you can cook yourself on tabletop Korean stone grills. The feast costs $23.99 for lunch and $25.99 for dinner, and it's open daily until 2 a.m.FIFI L/Yelp
Colorado: Los Cabos II (Denver)
The quaint Los Cabos II is bringing authentic Peruvian cuisine to Denver, Colorado, and their lunch buffet, served daily from 11 to 2, is the state's best. For $8.95 ($15 on Sundays), you can enjoy a traditional Peruvian feast of lomo saltado (beef strips with peppers, onions, and tomatoes), cau cau de mariscos (curry seafood stew), and a variety of soups and salads.Luis R./Yelp
Connecticut: Evergreens at the Simsbury Inn (Simsbury)
Evergreens is one of Connecticut's finest restaurants, located inside the upscale Simsbury Inn, and its Sunday brunch buffet is nothing short of astounding. Crêpes Suzette, made-to-order Belgian waffles and omelets, carved sirloin and turkey, cheese blintzes, lobster mac and cheese, smoked seafood, cheeses, sesame-crusted salmon, veal scallopini, poached eggs with grilled steak, and a massive variety of desserts (among plenty of other rotating specialties) are yours for the taking.Melanie S./Yelp
Delaware: Deerfield (Newark)
The Sunday brunch served at popular Newark, Delaware, golf club and wedding venue Deerfield is nothing short of spectacular. Served from late September through early May, this 111-foot brunch spread features a seafood station (don't miss the crab cakes and oysters Rockefeller); made-to-order omelets and eggs Benedict; a carving station with lamb, strip loin, and salmon; a pasta station; a vegetarian stir-fry station; soups and salads; bagels and breakfast pastries; a yogurt parfait station; a kids' buffet with fun foods like chicken tenders, mini pizzas, and a "doughnut wall"; and a huge dessert spread. And if you want to make your own mimosas, they'll be happy to supply a bottle of the good stuff and juice.Leigh Rust
Florida: The Circle, The Breakers (Palm Beach)
The Italian Renaissance-style Breakers Palm Beach has been one of the country's premier high-end destinations since tycoon Henry Flagler had it built in Palm Beach, Florida, back in 1896 (the current incarnation was completed in 1926). There's no shortage of spectacular dining options at this luxurious retreat, but for brunch, one option rises head and shoulders above the rest (and above every brunch option in the state): Sunday Brunch in The Circle's splendid and opulent dining room (think ocean views, 30-foot frescoed ceilings, and oval murals depicting Renaissance-era landscapes) - a tradition for more than 25 years. Alaskan king crab legs, sushi, caviar, smoked fish, lamb chops, carved-to-order ham and beef tenderloin, Belgian waffles, eggs Benedict, fresh-baked pastries and muffins, omelets, cheeses, pâté, and more than 30 desserts are all for the taking, with a harpist strolling from table to table to boot. The Champagne, mimosas, and bloody marys are free-flowing. Come hungry, and it'll be well worth the expense.Yelp/ Matt C.
Georgia: Nori Nori (Atlanta)
The super-popular Nori Nori brings an absolutely massive assortment of all-you-can eat sushi and other Japanese and fusion dishes to Georgia. Along with more than 20 varieties of nigiri sushi and more than 30 creative rolls, diners can treat themselves to a spread of dishes including Asian black noodle salad, shrimp cocktail, barbecue pork, blue crab in sesame sauce, beef rib-eye, lobster and clam cakes, oysters Rockefeller, tempura shrimp and vegetables, udon noodles, and a huge assortment of desserts ranging from Oreo cheesecake to green tea ice cream. It ranges in price from $18.25 to $33.95 and is worth every penny.Amanda L./Yelp
Hawaii: 100 Sails (Honolulu)
100 Sails is Honolulu's best buffet restaurant, offering five different buffets in total: breakfast, brunch, lunch, Hawaiian lunch on Saturdays, and dinner, ranging in price from $32 to $58. The buffet is heavily influenced by Chinese cuisine, but the native cuisine of Hawaii is certainly represented as well, and local ingredients are used whenever possible. Drop in for lunch on Saturday and you'll encounter a Hawaiian feast of specialties including kalua pig, pork lau lau, chicken long rice, sushi, and haupia; on the dinner menu, look out for lomi-lomi salmon, ahi poke, Chinatown-style steamed crab, Dungeness crab, salt and pepper Kauai shrimp, crispy garlic soy chicken, and the build-your-own ramen station. And like all great buffets should, this one has a carving station with prime rib au jus.Dodaine D./Yelp
Idaho: China Grand Buffet (Boise)
Going strong for more than 10 years, this beloved Boise, Idaho, institution China Grand Buffet serves all the Chinese and Japanese classics, more than 200 items in total. Along with just about every Chinese-American dish you can dream of, the restaurant also recently added a hibachi grill as well as a full-service sushi bar, which would easily be worth the price of admission alone: Eight bucks for lunch, and $11.25 for dinner.Lydier H./Yelp
Illinois: Red Apple Buffet (Chicago)
Chicago, Illinois' sprawling Red Apple Buffet is home to three full rooms' worth of buffets, and while there are plenty of American and international specialties, for all intents and purposes Red Apple is a Polish buffet. Pierogis, potato pancakes, schnitzel, Polish sausage, blintzes, pork stew, roast beef, stuffed cabbage, pork shanks, roast turkey or duck, potato dumplings, and a huge array of desserts await you, but there's only one problem: It's nearly impossible to try everything you want to before filling up.Kevin N./Yelp
Indiana: The Journey (Indianapolis)
It's not so often that the journey is the destination, but this Indianapolis, Indiana, favorite is in fact a huge destination for anyone looking for all-you-can-eat sushi, prime rib, seafood, and other freshly made Asian-inspired dishes in a modern and comfortable space. For a price ranging from $8.99 to $21.99, guests can enjoy nearly 100 types of maki, gunkanmaki, nigari, temaki, and sashimi; there's also a massive assortment of hot and cold dishes including barbecue pork ribs, blue crab in oyster sauce, grilled swordfish teriyaki, pork loin with gravy, prime rib, roast lamb, stuffed shrimp, red snapper with masago sauce, beef tataki, sashimi salad, snow crab legs, and cold peanut noodles.Jess W./Yelp
Iowa: Americana (Des Moines)
This classic American restaurant draws crowds in Des Moines, Iowa, during the week for its stellar steaks, share plates, and signature pizza pot pie, but Americana really shines on the weekends, when it unveils its Bombshell Brunch Buffet and offers it until 2:30 p.m. More than 40 items are available for the taking, including all the classic breakfast dishes, classic comfort fare, a grilled cheese station, a mashed potato bar (!), a build-your-own breakfast taco station, a ton of desserts, and bottomless bloody marys and mimosas. Plenty of gluten-free items are available as well. And don't forget about Monday nights, when the restaurant offers all-you-can-eat fried chicken and all the fixins.Lisa H./Yelp
Kansas: Cinzetti's (Overland Park)
Modeled after an Italian piazza, Cinzetti's boasts an all-you-can-eat Italian feast ranging in price from $10.99 to $16.99. More than 55 dishes are served from eight stations: Parmesan, Rotisserie, Tavola Calda, Antipasto, Marchetta, The Pizzeria, Fresh Made Pasta, and Fresh Bakery. Standouts include lasagna Bolognese, fried calamari, chicken cacciatore, minestrone soup, six different pizzas, farfalle carbonara, house-recipe meatballs, made to order crepes, and (because we're in Kansas) Kansas City-style barbecue.Cinzetti's/Yelp
Kentucky: J. Graham's Café (Louisville)
Louisville's elegant Brown Hotel is one of America's most famous, due to its timeless luxury and the fact that it was the birthplace of a local specialty, the Kentucky Hot Brown. The hotel's warm and inviting J. Graham's Café is the best place in town to try that famed open-faced sandwich, but its $19 lunch buffet (served Tuesday through Friday) and $28 Sunday brunch are far and away the best buffets in town. The lunch buffet includes soups, salads, fresh breads, two rotating entrées, potato and vegetable sides, and a dessert spread; the Sunday brunch buffet includes a live carving station, a rotating entrée, smoked salmon, cheese and charcuterie, omelets and scrambled eggs, biscuits and gravy, and a variety of other breakfast specialties. Both options are absolute steals.Travis T./Yelp
Louisiana: Dooky Chase (New Orleans)
Dooky Chase has been a quintessential New Orleans, Louisiana, restaurant since Edgar "Dooky" Chase and his wife Leah opened it back in 1941. (Dooky passed away in 2016, but Leah is still going strong at age 96.) On Tuesdays through Fridays, Leah and her team set out a lunch buffet that's nothing short of legendary. It changes daily, but you can expect to find red beans and rice, hot sausage, fried chicken, fried catfish, shrimp étouffée, collard greens, mac and cheese, candied yams, and squash casserole. It may be humble, but it's about as delicious as food can get.Linda K./Yelp
Maine: Harraseeket Inn (Freeport)
The luxurious, 93-room Harraseeket Inn is a Maine institution, and it's home to two restaurants, the Broad Arrow Tavern and the Maine Harvest Dining Room. Both offer spectacular buffets: On every day but Sunday the tavern offers a $17.95 lunchtime spread of housemade soups, salads, porcini-rubbed hanger steak, tandoori chicken, crab cakes, fried haddock, brick oven pizza, Maine blueberry pie, and a variety of other dishes; and on Sundays the big guns come out in the dining room for its $39.95 Sunday brunch, which includes steamed and chilled half-lobsters, local organic prime rib with port wine demi-glace, oven-roasted Mexican-style chicken, ceviche, St. Louis ribs, Mexican seafood stew, brunch burritos, and a variety of desserts.Donna A./Yelp
Maryland: Hooper's Crab House (West Ocean City)
Ocean City, Maryland, destination Hooper's Crab House is only open for the summer season, and while its lobsters, crab cakes, and other local seafood dishes are on their own worthy of praise, it's the All-You-Can-Eat Crab Feast that really puts it over the top. For just $40, you'll be treated to a never-ending cavalcade of house spice-seasoned steamed crabs, steamed shrimp, fried chicken, corn on the cob, and hush puppies. When it comes to dockside dining, it doesn't get much better than this.Robert K./Yelp
Massachusetts: Darryl's Corner Bar & Kitchen (Boston)
The laid-back Darryl's Corner Bar & Kitchen serves some of the best soul food in Boston, Massachusetts, and it's best known for its all-you-can-eat jazz brunch, served Sundays from 10 to 3. For $29.95 for adults and $16.95 for kids 6-12, you can feast on fried chicken, barbecue ribs, rice and beans, collard greens, mac and cheese, scrambled eggs, grits, waffles, breakfast links, ham, and a variety of other weekly rotating dishes. Pro tip: If you get there between 10 and 11, you only have to pay $19.99.Nick F./ Yelp
Michigan: The Grand Hotel Main Dining Room (Mackinac Island)
Mackinac Island, Michigan's famed 1887 Grand Hotel is an ideal spot for luxuriating over a long luncheon. (You know it's luxurious because it's called a luncheon.) While looking out over the world's longest porch (yes, you heard that right), you can enjoy a daily lunchtime feast from chef Hans Burtscher that includes fresh salads, high-end cheese, fresh fruit, and a rotating selection of seafood and slow-roasted meats. Adult hotel guests pay $30; non-guests pay $47. It may seem a little steep, but once you take a seat in the bright, colorful dining room you'll know it's well worth it.Rob C./Yelp
Minnesota: Cornerstone Buffet & Restaurant (Melrose and Sartell)
Cornerstone is a homey restaurant serving classic American fare in a comfortable and family-oriented dining room, and every day of the week it offers a different themed buffet: Monday is chicken, Tuesday is comfort food (including that Minnesota specialty, hotdish), Wednesday is wings and Italian food, Thursday is a traditional German buffet, Friday is surf and turf, Saturday is barbecue, and Sunday is build-your-own tacos and fajitas. There's also a Saturday breakfast and Sunday brunch buffet with all the classic homestyle brunch favorites.John L./Yelp
Mississippi: Palace Buffet (Biloxi)
Located inside the Palace Casino in Biloxi, Mississippi, the Palace Buffet offers everything you'd want in a casino buffet and more. Prime rib, steaks, pizza, fried chicken, catfish, meatloaf, fresh boiled shrimp, stuffed crabs, fried clam strips, hush puppies, the coast's first Mongolian barbecue (where you choose your meat, vegetables, and sauces and watch them cooked in front of you), and a huge variety of salads and desserts. It starts at $14 for weekday lunch, and tops out at $21 on Friday and Saturday nights, when crab legs join the party.Shannon E./Yelp
Missouri: Charley's Buffet (Lincoln)
Self-described as being "in the middle of nowhere," Charley's Buffet is legendary in the Lincoln, Missouri, area for its bounty of fresh-cooked homemade specialties. Steak, mashed potatoes, fried chicken, baked ham, and macaroni and cheese are all standouts, as is the buffet's wide variety of fresh-baked breads and homemade pies. If you choose to make the trek, know a couple things: They're cash-only, they're only open Fridays and Saturdays until 8 p.m., and lines tend to stretch out the door.Melissa T H./Yelp
Montana: Pompey's Grill (Three Forks)
Located inside the historic Sacajawea Hotel, Pompey's Grill is one of Montana's finest steakhouses. It's renowned for its high-quality steaks and locally-sourced meats, but it really comes to life on Sundays, when $48.95 will get you all-you-can-eat red Alaskan crab legs with soup or salad and two side dishes. It's first-come, first-served and only available until 8 p.m., so make sure you get there early!Kristen F./Yelp
Nebraska: Valentino's Grand Italian Buffet (Various Locations)
Nebraska's Valentino's offers a whopping 75 individual dishes, served from eight separate stations, all with an Italian-American slant. Soups and salads, a variety of house-made pizzas, pasta salads, fresh fruit, Italian classics including baked lasagna and meatball parmesan, Fresh baked garlic knots, and six different pastas are always available, along with a huge selection of desserts. And because why not, there's also fried chicken with all the fixins.Katherine Y./Yelp
Nevada: Bacchanal Buffet, Caesars Palace (Las Vegas)
Caesars Palace's Bacchanal Buffet is nothing short of mind-blowing. Opened in September 2012 after a $17 million build-out, it's stocked with nine cooking stations turning out more than 500 individual dishes and about 15 daily specials. Seating about 600, this buffet looks like an upscale restaurant, and the quality of the food served here would feel right at home at any of the city's top eateries. Top-quality carnitas tacos are made to order; you can take your pick from a mound of meat including prime rib, lamb chops, and barbecue brisket; the dim sum and sushi are some of the best in Vegas; and soufflés are baked to order. There are wonders around every corner at this buffet, and if you can only hit up one while in Nevada's playground, it should be the Bacchanal at Caesars. The price varies from $39.99 for weekday brunch to $59.99 for weekend dinner.Caesars Palace
New Hampshire: Wentworth by the Sea (New Castle)
Wentworth by the Sea has been called the Crown Jewel of Portsmouth, located just off the New Hampshire mainland on New Castle Island. Open since 1888 and one of the East Coast's premiere resorts during the 20th century, it was saved from the wrecking ball in the 1980s and is today a member of the Historic Hotels of America and operated by Marriott; a six-year, $30 million renovation added a spa, pool, and suites, and today it's once again one of the East Coast's finest resorts. But it's the all-you-can-eat brunch we're supposed to be talking about, right? Well, its Sunday brunch is amazing. Unlimited Champagne, live jazz, ice sculptures, fine crystal and china, and the elegant environs of the main dining room set the stage for an abundant and luxurious buffet, boasting two carving stations (with prime rib, of course), omelets made to order, pastas, stuffed French toast, cheeses, and a wide variety of desserts. You might just never want to leave.Michael F./Yelp
New Jersey: The Borgata Buffet, The Borgata (Atlantic City)
Every casino-hotel in Atlantic City boasts a buffet, but the one at the Borgata just might be the best. The Borgata is the largest hotel in New Jersey as well as the top-grossing casino in Atlantic City, and the buffet is reasonably priced and really has something (multiple things, in fact) for everyone. The meat section alone is worth the price of admission, with options ranging from sirloin steak and prime rib to grilled chicken, beer-braised pork belly, barbecue pork ribs, and pork chops. The seafood section is also expansive, with fried snapper, mahi mahi, salmon, clams, sushi, shrimp cocktail, and seafood pasta. Rounded out with a selection of Italian dishes, Chinese food, burgers, fried chicken, and macaroni and cheese as well as surprising finds like roasted marrow bones, this is a buffet that's impossible to dislike.The Borgata
New Mexico: Tomato Café (Albuquerque)
A local Albuquerque, New Mexico, favorite since 1993, Tomato Café offers a wide-ranging and very tasty spread of traditional Italian-American classics. A fresh salad bar, several types of soups, pizzas (including gluten-free crust), four types of pasta or polenta with your choice of six sauces, meatballs, ravioli, and vegetable sides are all available for just $9.99 for lunch and $11.99 for dinner.Heide P./Yelp
New York: Hill Country BBQ (New York City)
Inspired by the legendary barbecue joints of Texas' Hill Country, the venerable New York barbecue hotspot Hill Country is insanely popular, and offers a wide variety of expertly smoked meats and addictive sides. It's always hopping, but if you drop in on Mondays between 5 and 10 you can treat yourself to a barbecue feast that's fit for a king: all you can eat brisket, smoked chicken, pork spare ribs, and side dishes for just $32 per person, or $16 for kids 12 and under. It's one of the best barbecue deals you'll find anywhere.Jasmine W./Yelp
North Carolina: Casey's Buffet (Wilmington)
This beloved no-frills buffet is filled to the brim with Southern and North Carolina soul food classics. Chef-owner Larry Casey opened Casey's Buffet in 2005 after 25 years in the industry, and here he displays his culinary skills in spot-on versions of barbecue pork, fried and baked chicken, catfish, whiting, chitlins, mac and cheese, sweet potato soufflé, mashed potatoes and gravy, fried fatback, pigs' feet, and a slew of sides and desserts. Daily specials rotate on Wednesdays through Sundays; standouts include barbecue pork chops and beef ribs on Wednesdays, Brunswick stew and deviled crab on Thursdays, carved roast beef on Fridays through Sundays, hot wings and fried pork chops on Saturdays, and turkey and ham on Sundays. This place is a true Southern icon.Marina E./Yelp
North Dakota: Passage to India (Fargo)
Since 2005, Passage to India's three chefs have been shipping spices and other ingredients from India and using halal meat to create some of the finest Indian food you'll find in North Dakota, and the Midwest in general. Every day except Monday, the team sets out a lunchtime spread that's available from 11 to 2:30, and it's a bounty of Indian specialties. More than 20 options are available, including tandoori chicken and naan cooked in a ripping-hot tandoor, biryani, curry, tikka masala, samosas, pakoras, aloo gobi, chana masala, butter chicken... It's all here, and it's all wildly delicious.Sam R./Yelp
Ohio: Mrs. Yoder's Kitchen (Mount Hope)
Mrs. Yoder's Kitchen is located smack dab in the heart of Ohio's Amish country, and it's run by Gloria Yoder, who, although not Amish, was born and raised in town. Both Amish and "English" alike gather at her restaurant, where they can enjoy traditional Amish home cooking like fried chicken, roast turkey, fried lake perch, fried shrimp, pot roast, chopped sirloin, and traditional Amish "wedding steak," a patty of seasoned ground beef. There are also plenty of sides, soups, salads, and desserts to go around, including nine different pies and Amish cracker pudding.Sue N./Yelp
Oklahoma: Cajun King (Oklahoma City)
Make sure you come to this Oklahoma City favorite extra hungry, because you're going to want to devour everything in sight and be really sad when you become full. Why? Because Cajun King serves expertly prepared Southern and Cajun fare. Beignets, fried catfish, blackened pork chops and catfish, fried chicken, crawfish étouffée, collard greens, candied yams, gumbo, mac and cheese, frog legs, jambalaya, boudin balls, bread pudding, and other classics are all on point, and you'll be really glad you found this place. We suggest you go on Friday, when every single item they make is up for grabs; the whole feast will only set you back 12 bucks.Carly N./Yelp
Oregon: Namaste Indian Cuisine (Portland)
Namaste isn't just one of the Pacific Northwest's best Indian restaurants; it offers the best all-you-can-eat deal in Oregon. Their generous buffet will set you back only 11 bucks for lunch and 14 for dinner. Most Indian buffets only offer a half-dozen or so options tops, but this one boasts well over a dozen options, as well as a full salad bar. Pickles, chutneys, two raitas, vegetable pakoras, daal, palak paneer, vegetable jalfrezi, aloo mataar, butter chicken, South Indian goat curry, tandoori chicken, and assorted curries are all available, with soft-serve mango ice cream for dessert. Come hungry!Wasil K./Yelp
Pennsylvania: Shady Maple Smorgasbord (East Earl)
The longest buffet in Pennsylvania's Lancaster County (clocking in at 200 feet), Shady Maple boasts a massive selection of expertly prepared Pennsylvania Dutch cuisine. A breakfast buffet hits all the right notes (make sure to try the house-made biscuits and scrapple), but the buffet really comes alive at dinner, when 46 salad bar items, eight homemade breads, five soups, six cheeses, eight meats, 14 vegetables, 14 desserts, eight pies, six cakes, and the Sunday bar are just the beginning. Every day has a different theme (except Sundays, when the restaurant is closed): Monday is steak night; Tuesday is surf and turf night;, Wednesday is prime rib night; Thursday is shrimp and steak night; and Friday and Saturday nights bring The Grand Menu, loaded with smoked brisket, salmon, Cajun catfish, fried crab cakes, and New York strip. And on top of all that, it's a great deal: Weekly dinners range in price from $19.99 to $23.99.Kristina G./Yelp
Rhode Island: The Nordic Lodge (Charlestown)
Five words: All-you-can-eat lobster. Seriously, how many places on Earth offer all you can eat lobster? Charlestown, Rhode Island's Nordic Lodge is one of the few. This charming lakeside eatery keeps the steamed lobsters coming, and they're joined on the buffet by Alaskan crab, fried shrimp, bacon-wrapped scallops, steamed crabs, shrimp scampi, fresh local oysters, New England clam chowder, lobster bisque, lobster mac and cheese, barbecue pork ribs, filet mignon, prime rib, and plenty more entrées, salads, sides, and dessert (including a Häagen-Dazs sundae bar). The price may be steep at $103 per person, but with a little bit of planning you can easily get more than your money's worth.Lindsay B./ Yelp
South Carolina: Captain George's Seafood Restaurant (Myrtle Beach)
Captain George's is offering a spectacular fresh seafood feast in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Alaskan snow crab legs, Dungeness crab legs, soft-shell crabs (in season), steamed shrimp and clams, mussels, crawfish, blackened mahi, broiled fish, fried oysters and scallops, oysters Rockefeller, stuffed clams, and she-crab soup are just a handful of their seafood offerings; other specialties include barbecue pork ribs, sirloin steak, mac and cheese, homemade breads, and more than 15 homemade desserts. It costs 20 bucks for kids 12 and under, and $36 for adults.Maikidi B./Yelp
South Dakota: Sanaa's Gourmet (Sioux Falls)
Sioux Falls, South Dakota, is the last place you'd expect to find a restaurant that serves some America's finest vegetarian and vegan cuisine, but Sanaa's Gourmet, run by chef and cookbook author Sanaa Abourezk, has been doing just that for more than a decade. Abourezk serves a full lunch and dinner menu of Mediterranean and Middle Eastern-inspired dishes with a gourmet twist (along with a full gluten-free menu) along with a 10-item buffet for Friday night dinner and Saturday lunch and dinner. The buffet varies each week based on what's fresh and in-season, but expect dishes including chicken shish tawook, tabbouleh, kibbeh, hummus, eggplant kufta, muhummara, falafel, saffron basmati rice pilaf, and a variety of breads and soups. There are always plenty of gluten-free and vegetarian/vegan options, every item is cooked daily from scratch, they use only organic untreated flour and fresh-ground spices, and Abourezk can often be found doing most of the cooking herself. Add on the low price of the buffet ($11.95 for Saturday lunch and $15.95 for Friday and Saturday dinner), and you've got yourself a true winner.Yohana G./Yelp
Tennessee: Brook Shaw's Old Country Store (Jackson)
Picture in your mind's eye your best approximation of what a place in Jackson, Tennessee, called Brook Shaw's Old Country Store would look like. Weathered wood, front porch, antiques on the walls, and plenty of home cookin', right? You got it. Open nearly every day since 1965, the buffet at old-fashioned "whistlestop" Casey Jones Village serves a huge selection of country favorites, like country ham, turnip greens, cracklin' cornbread, chess pie, fried chicken, sweet potato casserole, pulled pork, fried catfish, pickled okra, ribs... If you're a fan of down-home country cooking, Brook Shaw's is a must-visit.Brook Shaw's Old Country Store/Yelp
Texas: Allen's Family Style Meals (Sweetwater)
The humble, unassuming Allen's Family Style Meals located about 40 minutes down I-20 from Abilene in small-town Sweetwater, Texas, has been in business since 1952, when Lizzie Allen began cooking fried chicken for locals, and today it's run by two of Lizzie's grandchildren, Billy and Suzan, and has become a must-visit for those in the know. Pay 10 bucks when you arrive, take a seat at a communal table, and you'll be treated to a family-style feast of fried chicken (some of the best you'll ever try), creamed corn, carrots, potatoes, mac and cheese, okra, beans, cobbler, and more, all prepared according to Lizzie's old recipes. They just don't make 'em like this anymore.Allison E./Yelp
Utah: The Roof Restaurant (Salt Lake City)
Overlooking Temple Square on the 10th floor of the Joseph Smith Memorial Building in Downtown Salt Lake City, Utah, The Roof is a fine dining restaurant that also happens to serve a stunning dinner buffet Monday through Saturday nights. Prime rib, honey-baked ham, rotating entrées and pastas, potatoes, salads, shrimp cocktail, cold poached salmon with lemon and dill, cheeses, soups, and plenty of sides. It costs $42 for adults, $18 for kids 7-11, and $9 for children 4-6.Alina T./Yelp
Vermont: Lucky Buffet (St. Albans)
Located inside a nondescript building across the street from the train station in St. Albans, Vermont, Lucky Buffet serves a varied and ample buffet with a rotating selection of frequently restocked, freshly prepared dishes. The 6-year-old restaurant offers just about everything you'd expect from a Chinese buffet, including General Tso's chicken, dumplings, shu mai, shrimp, lo mein, fried rice, and the like. It's not blazing any new territory, but it does what it does extraordinarily well, for a price that tops out at $9.45.Spencer B./Yelp
Virginia: Sushi King (Virginia Beach)
Virginia Beach's Sushi King offers a massive assortment of all-you-can-eat sushi and other Japanese fare in a sleek and modern setting. Twelve appetizers, 17 different types of sushi, 19 classic rolls, 23 different chef's specialty rolls, and 19 different kitchen entrées are yours for the taking, all for $11.99 for lunch and $17.99 for dinner.Sara O./Yelp
Washington: Salty's on Alki Beach (Seattle)
Located right on the water, Salty's serves one of Seattle's most popular weekend brunches, which features a stunning buffet loaded to the brim with fresh local seafood and brunchtime classics. Washington state Dungeness crab legs, Alaskan snow crab legs, peel-and-eat prawns, blackened steelhead, Puget Sound steamers and mussels, seafood chowder, salt-crusted salmon, smoked steelhead mousse, Taylor Shellfish oysters on the half shell, a variety of pastas, classic eggs Benedict, biscuits and country sausage gravy, cheesy bacon hash browns, mac and cheese, fresh-made omelets, and a variety of salads are complemented by chocolate and caramel fountains with plenty of dippers for dessert and a "make your own mary" bar to wash it all down. Adults pay $54.99 on Saturdays and $59.99 on Sundays.Trista H./Yelp
Washington, D.C.: Seasons, Four Seasons Hotel (Georgetown)
The super-luxe Four Seasons Georgetown is home to Seasons Restaurant, where D.C. power brokers and movers and shakers rub shoulders with regular folks in search of the city's finest brunch buffet. For $85, diners can enjoy a selection of meat, fish, and game (grilled lamb chops, braised short ribs, Maryland crab cakes, seafood gumbo); seafood (shrimp cocktail, oysters, crab claws, house-smoked salmon, grilled octopus poke, blackened tuna, scallops, lobster salad, ceviche); salads (grilled endive, Cobb, escarole with caramelized pear, baby kale and Brussels sprouts); omelets with fillings including shiitake mushrooms and jumbo lump crab; a wide variety of sides; assorted cheeses and charcuterie; Mexican street tacos; a Reuben sandwich station; and an astounding array of house-made desserts. Bring your appetite!Angela M./Yelp
West Virginia: Quinet's (New Martinsville)
This humble and down-home eatery in Downtown Martinsville, West Virginia, has been feeding the locals high-quality classic American fare since the 1920s, and has been owned by the Quinet family (who changed the name when they bought it) since 1941. Along with a full menu of classic breakfasts, salads, sandwiches, and comfort food entrées, the restaurant also offers a daily buffet featuring scratch-made dishes like barbecue ribs, chicken and dumplings, meatloaf, Southern fried chicken, baked Swiss steak, and plenty of side dishes, all cooked according to old family recipes. This place is Americana at its finest.Sam I./Yelp
Wisconsin: Amber Indian Cuisine (Middleton)
Located in an unassuming Middleton, Wisconsin, strip mall, the bright and charming Amber Indian Cuisine has attracted legions of fans for its absolutely massive lunch buffet, served daily from 11:30 to 3. All the bases are covered here, along with some (delicious) surprises: chicken tikka masala, samosas, tandoor-baked naan, a variety of curries, chana masala, kati rolls, and more than a dozen more specialties, along with 12 different chutneys and a huge assortment of desserts. All that for just $11.35.Padma A./Yelp
Wyoming: Bar J Chuckwagon (Wilson)
You knew that the best all-you-can-eat deal in Wyoming was going to involve a chuckwagon one way or another, right? Because of course it does. Located at the 41-year-old Bar J Ranch in Jackson Hole, this nightly dinner begins at 7 p.m. on the dot (when the dinner bell rings, of course), and guests can treat themselves to an all-you-can-eat meal of a choice of barbecue shredded beef, boneless chicken breast, a beef and chicken combo, barbecue pork ribs, or a grilled 12-ounce rib-eye along with endless baked potatoes, biscuits, beans, applesauce, spice cake, coffee, and lemonade. The price ranges from $25 to $35, but a visit to Bar J isn't just a meal, it's an experience, and some say that those rib-eyes are up there with the best steaks in America.
More From The Daily Meal:
The Best Restaurant for Breakfast in Every State
101 Best Casual Restaurants in America
The 101 Most Iconic Restaurant Dishes in America
The Best Special Occasion Restaurant in Every State
The Best Mexican Restaurant in Every StateJason G./Yelp


text: For three decades and longer we have heard educators and technologists making a case for the transformative power of technology in learning. However, despite the rhetoric, in many ways and at most institutional sites, education is still relatively untouched by technology. Even when technologies are introduced, the changes sometimes seem insignificant and the results seem disappointing. If the print textbook is replaced by an e-book, do the social relations of knowledge and learning necessarily change at all or for the better? If the pen-and-paper test is mechanized, does this change the nature of our assessment systems? Technology, in other words, need not necessarily bring significant change. Technology might not even represent a step forward in education. But what might be new? How can we use technologies to innovate in education? This course explores seven affordances of e-learning ecologies, which open up genuine possibilities for what we call New Learning – transformative, 21st century learning: 1. Ubiquitous Learning 2. Active Knowledge Making 3. Multimodal Meaning 4. Recursive Feedback 5. Collaborative Intelligence 6. Metacognition 7. Differentiated Learning These affordances, if recognized and harnessed, will prepare learners for success in a world that is increasingly dominated by digital information flows and tools for communication in the workplace, public spaces, and personal life. This course offers a wide variety of examples of learning technologies and technology implementations that, to varying degrees, demonstrate these affordances in action. -------------------------------- Recommended Background -------------------------------- This course is designed for people interested in the future of education and the "learning society," including people who may wish to join education as a profession, practicing teachers interested in exploring future directions for a vocation that is currently undergoing transformation, and community and workplace leaders who regard their mission to be in part "educative." -------------------------------- Take this Course for Credit at the University of Illinois -------------------------------- This course has the same content and anticipates the same level of contribution by students in the e-Learning Ecologies course offered to graduate certificate, masters, and doctoral level students in the College of Education at the University of Illinois. Of course, in the nature of MOOCs many people will just want to view the videos and casually join some of the discussions. Some people say that these limited kinds of participation offer evidence that MOOCs suffer from low retention rates. Far from it – we say that any level of engagement is good engagement. On the other hand, if you would like to take this course for credit at the University of Illinois, apply here: http://education.illinois.edu/online-offcampus/programs-degrees/ldl-online If you have already taken this course in Coursera, you can prepare a portfolio of work created there and request that this work is taken into account for your University of Illinois course.


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Alexandria Soccer
International Opportunities
Alexandria Soccer recognizes the game of soccer is the world's game bringing together communities large and small around the globe. As part of the clubs initiative to provide our community with access to unique learning opportunities ASA has developed official partnerships with several unique organizations and soccer clubs around the world. The goal is to provide opportunities for players, parents and coaches to experience other cultures and how they approach the game. In addition players may be recommended for opportunities at international residencies and pro club tryouts.
Opportunities ASA offers:
Residency opportunities at youth academies abroad
Access to unique coaching education courses and certificates in soccer and futsal
Professional academy tryouts abroad
Informal youth academy tours for players, coaches and parents
Invitational Soccer tournaments in Holland, Brazil and the UK
Internationally competitive Futsal tournaments in Brazil and Barcelona
Specific opportunities that Alexandria players and coaches have participated in or have access to through our partners include:
International tour of Brazil that included games against Cruceiro, Flamengo and the U15 Kazakhstan National team
Coaching education tour at La Masia with Director of Futsal for FC Barcelona Andreu Plaza
U14 ASA player is participating in a six week residency at the Cruceiro youth academy Summer 2016
ASA staff coaches completed the Unisport Futsal coaching certificate in Sao Paulo, Brazil
ASA staff coaches audited the CBF "A" coaching license at the headquarters in Terosopolis, Brazil
Swansea City academy and University games, education and tour
Notable Club Partners and Friends of ASA:
Pedro Paiva, Director of Aoxy Experiences and Gol Brazil
Dafydd Evans, Head Coach of Swansea University and Assistant Swansea City Academy coach
Andreu Plaza, FC Barcelona Director of Futsal
Alexandria Children's Dentistry
TTR Sotheby
Dicks Sporting Goods
GuideStar Exchange
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If you have lived in an isolated rainforest for the past two years, you are forgiven for knowing nothing about the Broadway phenomenon that is "The Book of Mormon."
The blockbuster satirical musical won nine Tony Awards in 2011, with critics going gaga over the show, calling it "a marvel" (Washington Post) and "one of the most joyously acidic bundles that Broadway has unwrapped in years" (New York Times). Scalpers, and producers, have called it a mint. The production draws Hollywood A-listers and wannabes to its audience.
A touring version of the show, which has been on the road since September, is set to open this week in Minneapolis. Though the show is almost entirely sold out, the tour is offering nightly lotteries to sell select seats for $25, based on the luck of the draw. Here are a few things you need to know about the show:
"Mormon" has made lotsa money
"Mormon" is the handiwork of "South Park" creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone and "Avenue Q" composer Robert Lopez. The three of them share credit for composing the music and writing the book and lyrics. They spent seven years developing the show. The idea for the musical arose, in part, from a 2003 episode of "South Park" that deals with Mormonism. But it's not the first stab at the subject by Parker and Stone. In 1997, the Colorado natives released a film, "Orgazmo," about a young Mormon missionary in the porn industry.
After 28 preview performances, "Mormon" opened on March 24, 2011, at the Eugene O'Neill Theater in Times Square, where it is closing in on 800 performances. The show grosses $1.6 million a week in New York, another $1.6 million a week on tour and $1.5 milion a week from a sit-down Chicago production. The reported $19 million a month in grosses has made its producers enough money to launch a movie production studio reportedly valued at $300 million. And it's a growing franchise, with a London "Mormon" production and a major motion picture in the works.
The original Broadway production was headlined by Andrew Rannells as Elder Price and Josh Gad as Elder Cunningham. Both have gone on to become TV stars. Rannells and Gad appear, respectively, on NBC's "The New Normal" and "1600 Penn." Rannells also is a repeating character on HBO's Emmy-winning series "Girls."
"Mormon" is highly irreverent, sort of
The musical narrative is a pretty straightforward story of attempted conversion, as Mormon missionaries Elder Price and Elder Cunningham go to Uganda to save souls. The Africans are not so compliant, however, seeing that they have such pressing concerns as war and AIDS.
The show, which is rife with pop-culture references, spoofs simplistic understanding of Africa — and takes a particular stab at "The Lion King," whose happy, no-worries anthem, "Hakuna Matata," gets a heretical and obscene riposte, "Hasa Diga Eebowai," in the creative team's made-up African-sounding language, all sung in an upbeat, full-chorus Broadway style.
The profane musical is profusely funny, unless you are yourself a Mormon, in which case you may want to picket outside the theater. Strikingly, the Church of the Latter-day Saints has not been active in opposition. To the contrary, the Mormon doctrine is well-represented, even with more levity than one might expect. Mormon officials have seen the show as a potential recruitment tool. "The production may attempt to entertain audiences for an evening, but the Book of Mormon as a volume of scripture will change people's lives forever by bringing them closer to Christ," the Mormon Church said in a statement just as the show went into previews in February 2011.
Some complaints have come from Africans, however, who have been taken aback by the depiction of Africa and Africans as so war-torn and AIDS-riven.
"Mormon" cast includes a formerly local guy
In the touring cast, Michael McGowan plays a variety of roles, including the father of lead character Elder Price. When he was in his 20s, the South Dakota native spent six years as a singing actor in Minneapolis and St. Paul. "The Twin Cities are a very special place," he said. "I loved working with Jeune Lune, 10,000 Things, the Ordway, Chanhassen — Jesus, I have so many great memories."
McGowan, who grew up with a newscaster mom and retired Navy musician dad, graduated from Drake University with an English degree.
"I always knew I wanted to be in theater, but I also knew that the best preparation for theater was through other things," he said. "If you're a theater or music major in college, all your free time is spent in theater or music practice. But if you're in English, you can do a whole bunch of things, all of which deepen you without closing you off."
McGowan left the Twin Cities for New York, where his biggest show before "Mormon" was Mel Brooks' "The Producers."
"We got to laugh about Hitler in that show," he said. "Now [with 'Mormon'], we get to laugh about God."
"Mormon" is not the first word in religious musicals
"Mormon" travels down a religion-themed musical path forged by other well-known titles. "Fiddler on the Roof" is set in a Russian shtetl in 1905 and orbits Tevye, a symbolic keeper of Jewish culture. "Godspell" resets the story of Jesus and his apostles to 1960s and '70s New York. "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat," a community-theater staple, tells the biblical story of Joseph's betrayal by his brothers. Then there's "Jesus Christ Superstar," the rock musical about Judas' betrayal of Jesus.
But there have been many more failed efforts of musicals with religious stories. One of the biggest was "Ben-Hur: The Musical," which cost $8 million and played around Florida in 1999 but never made it to Broadway.
Perhaps that show was too earnest. In addition to making a boatload of money for its creative team and producers, "Mormon" proves that a bracing religious satire can be a spectacular success.
Rohan Preston • 612-673-4390 •On Twitter: @RohanPreston


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'Ukulele Class - Queen Emma's
October 23, 2019 –
Queen Emma Summer Palace
2913 Pali Highway
Honolulu, HI 96817
(808) 595-3167
Ka Papa 'Ukulele, hosted by William Tai and Teruto Soma, is a basic 'ukulele class open to anyone interested in learning how to play the 'ukulele. This weekly class is held at the Queen Emma Summer Palace in Emmalani Hale from 12:30 pm - 3:00 pm on Wednesdays.
Classes are $1 Daughters & Cousins and $5 Non-members per session.
To become a member, visit Become-A-Member.
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Description: Photograph of Arthur Marconi Radio Tower at Lamar State College. On each side of the tower, there are cut out shapes in the form of "LS." Buildings and trees surround the tower; one building is identified as the Ruby Ruth Fuller Building. Guglielmo Marconi patented wireless telegraphy, and was a close friend of John W. Gates. Marconi personally built and installed the fifty feet tall antenna mounted on top of the 130 feet tall tower. The tower is part of the National Register of Historic Places, and Ruby Ruth Fuller Building is a Texas Historic Landmark.
Date: 2009
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'The Reluctant Detective' to be screened
Check out 'The Reluctant Detective' at Bridgeport screening
Back on a hot August day in 2010, filmmakers were hard at work in the Concordia Society building on Crosby Street in downtown Danbury.
Danbury's Lou D'Amato was among them, but no one was calling him Lou. On this day, he was "Fish," a good-hearted, but tough-as-nails gangster.
Dressed in a well-worn suit and sporting a dark gray fedora, he and others were recreating the alcohol-soaked banter of an early 1930s speakeasy for a scene in the film "The Reluctant Detective."
The movie centers on Bennett Stephens, a well-known actor who plays a detective on a popular television crime show. Stephens gets involved with a murder investigation while on vacation. Fish, who has knowledge of the underworld, winds up helping him solve the case.
"The Reluctant Detective" is a comedy written, directed and produced by Stratford's Christopher Lombardi. It will be screened Sunday, June 22, at the Bijou Theater in Bridgeport. Tickets to the 4 p.m. screening are available by donation of a nonperishable food item, which will be given to a local food pantry.
"This film is my attempt to recreate those wonderful old comedies of the 1930s that they just don't make anymore," said Lombardi, a 2006 graduate of Western Connecticut State University in Danbury.
"It has a definite vintage period feel. Some elements include the pattern of speech, the props, the wardrobe and credit sequences. I think the public will notice all the little touches that went into making this film look and feel like a vintage screwball comedy."
Lombardi, who works for a media company in Shelton, said Danbury's Concordia was "just right" for the movie's bar scene. Inside the 1916-built Concordia, there's lots of dark wood molding, brick walls and a bar with a beveled glass mirror -- the kind you'd see in cafes in Europe. The crew added tables and chairs, martinis and a lounge singer.
"It was cool to film there, very nostalgic," added D'Amato.
From start to finish, the movie took several years to make, and involved close to 100 people. It's a little over an hour and a half long. After the June 22 screening, Lombardi hopes to enter it into some film festivals.
"I'm psyched; it's time the public got to see it," he said. "I've invested thousands and thousands of hours into this. I've probably watched it over 300 times in the time we've been working on it. I feel a sense of accomplishment."
Aside from the Concordia Society building, another local spot that was used in the film was the Danbury Railway Museum, where the opening and closing scenes were shot.
"They had some very vintage looking trains there," said Lombardi, who has some of his characters travel by train. "There was one train from 1925; that's the one they arrive on."
Other scenes were filmed in Stratford and at the Brookfield Theatre for the Arts, where a gunfight was staged.
Bennett Stephens is played by Bristol Pomeroy; his wife, Kelly, is played by Elise Rovinsky, both of New York City.
Among the other actors was Elizabeth Popiel, an associate professor of theater arts at Western, who played Bennett Stephens' mother-in-law, Carol. Popiel said she loved her co-actors' professionalism and enthusiasm for the project. She also enjoyed that Lombardi was open to suggestions on how to inject more humor into the story, and she was happy to contribute ideas.
Danbury's Erik Tonner is an associate producer. He met Lombardi in 2003, while they were both students at Western.
Danbury's D'Amato, the gangster known as Fish, works as a full-time actor and said he enjoyed being in this movie.
"I play a thug, this happy-go-lucky, comedic guy, who helps out this reluctant detective all day," he said. " Fish makes his living pickpocketing and robbing people, but he's not mean. He doesn't have the brains to have a full-time job or just doesn't want to be in corporate life. He meets the main character because he tries to rob him."
You may have seen D'Amato in a commercial for Optimum Online, where he plays a paint store owner. One of his first films was "Other People's Money," with Gregory Peck and Anthony DeVito. Part of it was filmed in Redding. He heard about the audition on the radio while driving, and decided to give it a shot. He recalls chatting with Peck over lunch.
"I enjoyed speaking with him," he said. "That really drew me in to what I'm doing today."
D'Amato added he is looking forward to the premiere of "The Reluctant Detective," and hopes to see many friends and relatives there.
M.B. Tuccio is a freelance writer; email@example.com
The Bijou Theater, 275 Fairfield Ave., Bridgeport, Sunday, June 22, 4 p.m., donation of nonperishable food item, 203-332-3228, www.reluctantdetectivemovie.com, www.thebijoutheatre.com


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WHAT'S GOTTEN into Lindsey Graham?
The Republican senator from South Carolina has been working with New York Democrat Chuck Schumer to achieve what Graham calls the "tough heavy lift" of immigration reform. The two have spelled out the basic framework of the legislation, which is yet to be introduced but enjoys the support of the White House.
So a lot of people were caught off guard when Graham recently threatened to back away from his own legislation. The apparent about-face probably wasn't because of pushback from the right. Graham has already stared down that storm. A few years ago, the senator caught grief after a speech to the National Council of La Raza in which he promised immigration reform and said the way to do it was to "tell the bigots to shut up." For that dose of candor, right-wing bloggers dubbed him "Grahamnesty."
Yet Graham doesn't seem to care about any of this. Why else partner with Schumer to resurrect the immigration debate? What Graham does appear to care about quite a bit is bringing to that debate a couple of things it lacks: clarity and honesty.
Clarity: In 2008, Graham traveled the country stumping for his friend and colleague Sen. John McCain, who had stuck his neck out to forge a bipartisan immigration compromise with Sen. Ted Kennedy. All that McCain got in return were headaches from fellow Republicans and heartache from Hispanic voters who, as loyal Democrats, cast two-thirds of their ballots for Barack Obama.
This would be the same Obama who in his brief time in the Senate worked with Democratic leader Harry Reid to derail comprehensive immigration reform by proposing "poison pill" amendments that Democrats knew Republicans, who were then in the majority, wouldn't support. The poison was inserted at the behest of organized labor, which made it clear it opposed any plan that included Chamber of Commerce-friendly language about importing hundreds of thousands of additional guest workers.
But try telling that story to the Beltway media, much of which resists anything that clashes with its existing narrative that it was Republicans alone who killed immigration reform, all evidence to the contrary. Graham has tried to set the record straight without much success.
I understand where that narrative comes from. After all, Republican lawmakers can be loud and obnoxious when the immigration debate comes up, including a willingness to pander to racists to scare up votes and political contributions. But in recent years, Republicans have also been in the minority and thus largely powerless to stop legislation that Democrats are united around and determined to pass. See: health care reform.
You won't find such Democratic unity in the immigration debate, not with many Democratic lawmakers doing labor's bidding and others buying into the fable that legalizing illegal immigrants would hurt U.S. workers by providing competition.
Honesty: Graham has also taken it upon himself to spell out that what happened in the health care debate hurt the chances for immigration reform. When the Democrats resorted to the desperate tactic of passing health care reform through reconciliation, a lot of the congeniality you would expect to find in the Senate went right out the window. Now hard feelings and acrimony are the order of the day.
During a recent appearance with Schumer on NBC's "Meet the Press," Graham said that he was just being honest when he predicted before the vote that, if health care passed in such a manner, it would "pretty much kill any chance of immigration reform passing the Senate this year." And indeed, after the vote, McCain vowed that there would be no more cooperation with the White House on any issue this year. Graham is also trying to put pressure on the White House to get off the sidelines and work toward immigration reform by drawing attention to the fact that the Obama administration hasn't lifted a finger in this regard.
Despite his threat to walk away from the issue, Graham said he would "keep working with (Schumer) on immigration." But he's obviously fed up with the mainstream media insisting that Republicans are the main obstacles to achieving immigration reform. And he's tired of being asked by the White House to deliver the votes of Republicans when it's the support of Democrats that really matters.
Who can blame him? Still, leadership requires that he finish what he started, and fix an immigration system that is badly broken. Let history take care of the rest.
Ruben Navarrette is a syndicated columnist. Contact him at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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A TextField called DollyI love Flash IDE. Especially the way you can stylise the
TextField – decide what glyphs to embed and what fonts to include, set line height (leading), kerning (letterSpacing), colours, etc. I really hate creating new TextFields from scratch, entirely in code.
__Using Library to store a TextField__
Unfortunately, we can't store a
TextField directly as a Flash IDE library symbol, so we have to wrap it up in a
MovieClip and reference to it as follows:
var textFieldNormal:TextField = new TextMC().textTF;
TextMC is the library MovieClip symbol containing a
TextField named
__How to duplicate (clone) a TextField?__
You can't do it natively in AS3. But you can do some magic instead – clone all (excluding read-only) properties of another TextField.
var description:XML = describeType(referenceTextField);
for each (var item:XML in description.accessor)
// clone passed textfield properties that are not read only
if (item.@access != "readonly") targetTextField[item.@name] = referenceTextField[item.@name];
targetTextField.defaultTextFormat = referenceTextField.getTextFormat();
TextFormat of the
referenceTextField won't be cloned with the loop above as it's not accessible via getter/setter/public methods. You have to clone it manually and this is what the last line does. __It's very handy when you want to change the default kerning (
letterSpacing) in Flash IDE and you want it to be preserved in your cloned text field.__
I wrote a FixedTextField class that does that ([plus fixes a couple of other TextField problems](/fixing-jumpy-htmltext-links/)) – download zipped demo including the class.
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