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McCleery, Alison, McCleery, Alistair, Gunn, Linda and Hill, David (2008) Scoping and mapping intangible cultural heritage in Scotland: final report. Museums Galleries Scotland. pp. 1-55.
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The intangible cultural heritage (ICH) of Scotland requires to be accorded a
status which is equal to that of the material culture of Scotland. If this is not
currently the case, this in part reflects difficulties inherent in identifying the
existence of, far less capturing the essence of, something which is not a
material artefact. The creation of an accurate inventory of ICH in Scotland will
constitute an important step towards safeguarding its future.
The nature of ICH in Scotland, while unique thematically and specific
geographically, nevertheless exhibits a range broadly consistent with the
generic UNESCO typology, and may be categorised under the headings of
oral traditions and expressions; performing arts; social practices, rituals and
festive events; and traditional craftsmanship. Within this categorisation, an
inclusive approach to what constitutes ICH in Scotland (as distinct from
Scottish ICH) is advocated which embraces the customs and practices of wellestablished
immigrant communities. It is suggested that the touchstone for
inclusion is the point where selfconscious
reference to the site of origin has
been replaced by selfconfident
expression consistent with the ICH becoming
embedded in its wider destination context.
The obverse of this situation also occurs and must be resolved in the context
of recording and safeguarding ICH in Scotland. This relates to the point at
which ICH in and for the community is transformed into something outward
facing and intended primarily for the 'tourist gaze'. 1 A case in point is
festivals which may demonstrate aspects of both. With decisions made on
criteria for eligibility for inclusion in the inventory, the next choice relates to
finding the most efficient and effective means of identifying ICH on the
ground. A distinction requires to be made between routes to and sources of
ICH and the preferred method is to employ a snowballing technique with
Local Authority staff coordinating and directing the efforts of teams of
knowledgeable practitioners.
Finally, a fitforpurpose
inventory must combine flexibility from the user's
perspective with ease of data entry from the compiler's perspective. It must
also be database based so that a single change of detail effects change across
the whole record. After due consideration, the preferred option is identified
as a restrictedaccess
Wiki with content being uploaded by authorised
individuals only. This offers flexibility in terms of data categorisation, using a
traffic light system for indicating fragility, combined with user friendliness
both for those creating the inventory and for those wishing to access
Both in respect of the snowballing method for data gathering and for the
technical aspects of data entry, basic group training sessions would require to be offered to participating professional coordinators – possibly Local
This training would be specifically designed to be capable of
being cascaded to communitybased
volunteer staff, drawn from ICH
practitioners on the ground, who could be responsible for gathering the data
and sorting it in readiness for data entry. The maintenance of any inventory
will be as critical to the matter of adhering to best practice in the recording of
ICH as its initial creation. It is recommended that ad hoc updating is paralleled
with a more methodical stocktaking of ICH in Scotland every few years.
The establishment of an inventory of ICH in line with UNESCO best practice
is not, however, a sufficient condition to ensure adequate safeguarding,
although it does ensure that those examples of ICH most in need of support
can be identified. However, a specific effort must also be undertaken actively
to safeguard ICH for the future, and it is recommended that such endeavours
are best carried out either as communitylevel
projects or embedded as part
and parcel of the delivery of the curriculum in schools. If young people are
progressively involved with the customs and practices of their own cultures,
through both the curriculum and communitybased
projects, this is
undoubtedly the most effective way of promoting a safeguarded ICH in Scotland for the future.
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Westfield author Kirk White is one of six New Jersey playwrights represented in The Theater Project's Kaleidoscope Kabaret, an annual festival of original one-act plays. This fall, the festival runs Nov. 8, 9, and 10 at the United Methodist Church, Walnut and Lincoln Avenues in Cranford.
An actor/director and filmmaker, White received his MFA in Acting from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and was a top eight finalist in The Starz Network's Looking for Stars Reality micro-series. "After that," he says, "I basically just wandered the earth, getting into adventures" before marrying and moving to Westfield. He is the founder of Quite Film (quitefilm.com) and his first feature, F**k New York, was an official selection of the Queens World and Hoboken International Film Festivals. Recent productions include The How to Kill Yourself in One Year Project and Boo (part of Quite Film's First Annual Scare Your Pants Off Halloween Horror Short). His award-winning script, The Soul Garden has just been greenlit for production in spring 2014. His short play "22" which will be presented in this year's Kabaret is an exploration of what happens when the hands of doctors and nurses are tied by family and by medical bureaucracy.
Other playwrights participating in this year's Kabaret are Mike McGoldrick of Jersey City, Ed Lataro of Tom's River, Jewel Seehaus-Fisher of Highland Park and Joe Vitale of Denville.
Tickets, $20 for adults and $10 for students, can be purchased by calling 973-763-4029 or online at TheTheaterProject.org.
The Theater Project, thetheaterproject.org, an award-winning New Jersey theater company based in Maplewood and Cranford, is known for presenting outrageous comedy as well as drama with social commentary. Last November, the company tackled marriage equality, presenting a one-night-only reading of "8" by Academy Award-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, the play chronicling the historic California challenge to same-sex marriage.

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Anyone with a power hungry gadget, let alone a bag bursting with them, can tell you how much energy it takes to keep a modern arsenal of gadgets up and running. Read on as we review the Waka Waka, a combination battery pack and solar charger that ensures you'll have ample and free power wherever you roam.
I gotta say... I'm rather turned off by the fact that the store page doesn't list any specs about it."a solar panel 200% more efficient" yet they don't list how much power it actually produces? or even how much power the battery holds...?
Nice review but its almost as if they went out of their way to make this thing sound as sketchy as possible, especially with its high price, when you can easily buy a 6,000mah battery ($20) and a small solar panel ($10 - $20) separately for half its price.
The main page is rather flashy, but the tech specs are included if you go to the individual product pages. The specs for unit we reviewed, including data on the solar panel itself, are available here: https://us.waka-waka.com/store/catalogue/wakawaka-power_17/
ok fair enough, I was mostly referring to the amazon store page though, I just shouldn't have to go out of my way to look for what is pretty much basic information about a product, you know... any important details as such really should be there too, its just a tad annoying and also feels like they were trying to hide something when companies don't just list that information up front.
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Muslim terror leaders mean to take Jordan and Syria, and retake Egypt. Obama is arming them in Syria, just as he did in Libya and Egypt.
"Al-Qaida, Muslim Brotherhood hold secret meeting in Jordan" By Ariel Ben Solomon, The Jerusalem Post (thanks to Christian)Al-Qaida and the international organization of the Muslim Brotherhood met secretly last week in Jordan according to a source quoted by the Egyptian daily Al-Youm al-Sabaa on Saturday.
The meeting focused on the conflict in Egypt and Syria and an altercation broke out between a Brotherhood member and jihadist leader Mohammad al-Miqdad, and the latter asked the Brotherhood not to publicly denounce the actions of the jihadists.
The jihadists discussed their plans to start moving Syrian and Iraqi jihadists into Egypt in order to carry out terror operations there after the Eid al-Adha festival, which falls on Tuesday.
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An event happened Oct. 1 at Vandercook Lake High School that was overlooked by the local press.
Vandercook Lake High School's band department hosted the 2012 Marching Band Invitational. I attended because my grandson is in the band. The marching bands from eight schools took the field and performed in front of parents, supporters and each other. All the bands did a great job.
The thing that impressed me most was how the bands from "opposing" schools cheered on the band that that was performing, dancing along with the music, and that afterward there were "high fives" as each band left the field and took their seats.
I was also impressed to learn that Vandercook Lake has hosted this event for 18 years. This was my first year of being able to attend, and I was thoroughly entertained.
Thank you, Vandercook Lake, Michigan Center, Concord, Grass Lake, Stockbridge, East Jackson, Napoleon and Western marching bands. Job well done!
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Between April 7 and 13, the Valley Regional Fire Authority responded to 201 calls for service, among them the following:
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Construction accident: 6:02 p.m., (North Auburn). Firefighters dispatched to a private home found a young man with multiple injuries, lying on the ground in extreme pain. The man had been crushed between the home and the bucket of a backhoe. King County Medics stabilized the man and transported him to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle for more evaluation and treatment.
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Accident: 12:45 p.m., (Lea Hill). Firefighters hustling to a car-versus-semi accident on Highway 18 found a sedan that had run into the back of a semi-trailer, locking the vehicles together and moving them to the right shoulder. Firefighters evaluated one person and transported him or her to MultiCare Auburn Medical Center (MAMC).
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MEXICO CITY -- Jose Sulaiman, the longtime head of the World Boxing Council who promoted renowned fighters and introduced rules to protect boxers, died Thursday. He was 82.
Sulaiman's son, Mauricio Sulaiman, said the man who many say raised the profile of the sport in his four-decade leadership at the Mexico-based council died at a hospital in Los Angeles. He had been hospitalized at the University of California, Los Angeles Medical Center for months for a heart condition.
The WBC confirmed his death, calling him the "father of boxing." Sulaiman was a member of boxing's Hall of Fame since 2006.
The son of a Syrian mother and a Lebanese father, Sulaiman was born on May 30 in Ciudad Victoria, Mexico. He boxed as an amateur but quickly shifted over to working as a manager and a referee.
He trained and promoted many fighters.
Sulaiman is known for supporting Julio Cesar Chavez, Mexico's most famous boxer, and then the fighter's son, Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.
Most recently, Sulaiman helped Saul "Canelo" Alvarez, a young champion who last year challenged Floyd Mayweather Jr. in one of the richest fights ever. He lost to Mayweather.
Sulaiman also managed to institute new rules and regulations regarding boxers' safety and welfare. Among these changes was the reduction in the number of rounds from 15 to 12.
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Allendale, Mich. - Enter "Chris Ripple" into YouTube's search engine. Scroll down past a couple of irrelevant hyperlinks and click on one of the three videos featuring a spindly, baby-faced baseball player from Morton Grove, Ill.
In one of them, he is throwing pitch after pitch and belting ball after ball at an indoor facility with hopes of being discovered by college coaches. But nothing came of it.
Maybe his awkward delivery - sometimes side-armed and slightly below shoulder level and partially over the top other times - scared off recruiters. It could have been his wire-thin arms and legs too. Whatever the reasons were, they landed him at Augustana College for one year and Oakton Community College, the location of the other two videos, for a second.
Grand Valley State's Jamie Detillion, then two seasons away from being promoted to head coach, spotted Ripple in the outfield as he scouted Oakton's third baseman.
On that fateful day in Des Plaines, Ill., less than 10 miles from Ripple's hometown, Detillion found his closer for the 2014 season.
He just didn't know it yet.
Neither did Ripple, who set out to be both an outfielder and a part-time relief pitcher upon his arrival in Allendale three years ago. A hamstring injury just eight games into his career as a Laker sidelined him for the rest of the season. Well, it kept him on the shelf for games anyway.
He could one thing do better than anyone else, even while injured: throw batting practice.
In fact, he was so good at serving up pitches Coach Detillion had no choice but to let him travel to road games, the GLIAC Tournament and the NCAA Division II Midwest Regional.
"He threw strikes," Coach Detillion says. "Throwing strikes isn't the easiest thing in the world, but some guys just have a knack for it."
After earning a medical redshirt, Ripple made a push for a starting spot in the outfield in 2013. The emergence of Jamie Potts and Jesse Abel's hot bat, however, left him without a role. It seemed as though he would be stuck behind the L-screen tossing half-hearted strikes to his teammates again, but things took an unexpected turn near the end of April.
"I started messing around at practice, saying I could pitch, and Coach Detillion was finally tired of hearing me," Ripple says. "He let me throw bullpen."
Obviously Coach Detillion, a former minor league pitcher, liked what he saw, because Ripple took the mound in the ninth inning two days later (Apr. 21) against Lake Erie. Nerves contributed to a leadoff four-pitch walk and a hit batsman, but he settled down and induced a pair of ground balls to escape unharmed.
His second outing, which came in a 7-2 loss to Ohio Dominican in the GLIAC Tournament Quarterfinals, did not go as well - one hit, one walk, one earned run and only one out.
Nevertheless, it was clear Ripple belonged in the bullpen.
"I started working out with the pitchers toward the end of the season. (Coach Detillion) always told me I had good stuff," he says. "I just had to figure out where I was throwing the ball, because I was a little wild."
Initially, Ripple wanted to pitch and play outfield this season, but with the departure of Brad Zambron, the school's all-time saves leader, GVSU needed a full-time closer.
This would require Ripple to dedicate his entire offseason to tinkering his delivery, locating pitches and keeping the ball down in the strike zone. During those long winter months, he found the lower his release point was, the tougher it would be for hitters to pick up on.
Today, his release point is level with his ribcage - much lower than in his old YouTube videos - somewhere between a submariner and a side-arm pitcher.
"It is unorthodox to a degree," Coach Detillion says. "It is kind of tough to change too much with the delivery because he is comfortable throwing that way. We have moved a couple things...real little things he has cleaned up to consistently find his release point."
Not only is this when Ripple is most comfortable, he also noticed a velocity increase with a more horizontal arm plane. Additionally, the extreme angle he throws from makes his most formidable pitch - a two-seam fastball - even nastier due to the extra movement it creates.
Pairing the dancing fastball with a "Frisbee" slider and developing changeup has made for a successful senior season. Ripple has converted 11 saves in 12 chances and carries a nearly non-existent 0.98 earned run average.
Having Zambron as a pitching coach has been a big help to him as well, mostly when it comes to preparation and the mentality it takes to close out a game.
"He is already a pretty good pitcher. I'm pretty careful with what I say to him," Zambron says. "He's done great."
Out on the diamond, Ripple is a happy-go-lucky guy. He is laid back and flashes a wide smile every now and again. Starting catcher Taylor Banks notes this is the biggest difference between predecessor and successor.
"Ripple just goes out there, competes and does what he needs to do," he says. "Brad was more of a serious guy, all business. You never really saw him smile on the mound."
Ripple's career is in its twilight phase and this weekend's series with Malone will likely be the last time he takes the hill at the GVSU Baseball Field. He knows it is going to be a bittersweet feeling, but he realizes the Lakers' goals stretch far beyond the upcoming ceremony for their seniors. After all, this is a team trying to make a second straight trip to Cary, N.C. for the College World Series. Thanks to his efforts, GVSU will be in a position to accomplish that at the Midwest Regional (May 15-18).
"I'm happy I'm making an impact on the team," Ripple says. "Every single day when I show up to the field, I know if it is a close game, I am going to have to go in and pitch one or two innings.
"At this point last year, I didn't expect to ever really get into a game in a meaningful situation."
Thinking back on those three videos gets a good laugh out of Ripple. He admits to watching his much younger and less-muscular self crushing balls at the batting cage. Ironically, he doesn't think too highly of the pitching video.
"I didn't get recruited much as a pitcher out of junior college," he says, still grinning from the memories that come rushing back. "I was just trying to get some looks."
Luckily for Ripple, the right pair of eyes found him, even if they had no idea what exactly they stumbled upon.


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A man suffered non-life threatening injuries tonight after he was shot at least once in the Toulminville area of north Mobile, according to police.
The man, whose name and age were not immediately available, was taken to the University of South Alabama Medical Center, police said.
Initial reports heard over the police radio indicated that the man was shot in the arm and the side.
Emergency personnel found the man on Summerville Street between Better and Good streets, police said, but the man likely was shot at another location.
No other information was immediately available.
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Mother's Day is on the horizon - May 11, 2014. Not sure what to do for the mom in your life? We have some gift suggestions for you.
For the mom who loves to laugh
For those celebrating early, you can't go wrong with getting her a ticket to the Southern Fried Chicks Cage-Free Comedy Tour show at the Carlisle Theatre at 7:30 p.m. on May 9. Tickets are $23-$33; for more information visit carlisletheatre.org. If she's down for a slightly crude movie, check out "The Neighbors" which opens Mother's Day weekend.
For the mom who knows fine wine
Mother's Day weekend falls under the Hershey Harrisburg Wine Country's Spring Sensations events, in which guests sample wine, picnic food and garden displays. The event runs Saturdays and Sundays between 12 and 5 p.m. May 4-18 and tickets are $20 for a single, $30 for couples. Be sure to have a designated driver set up, as mom will want to hit up all 13 participating wineries. For more information visit hersheyharrisburgwinecountry.com.
For the mom who lives for the stage
There are scores of plays going on in the midstate. Consider getting her a ticket to Allenberry Resort Inn and Playhouse's "Ladies Night in a Turkish Bath," a farce about a shy man - who is terrified of the opposite sex - who is trapped in a bathhouse full of women. The show opens on May 14 and tickets range from $12.60 to $38 for the show online (allenberry.com). Please note that Allenberry has rated this play PG-13/R for brief nudity.
Short on funds? Give her a gift certificate of your own creation for a picnic and a play. Then on May 30 make her a picnic dinner over at Reservoir Park in Harrisburg and watch the free performance of "Antony and Cleopatra" at 7:30 p.m. Show runs until June 14; more info at gamutplays.org.
For the mom who adores nature
Take her out for a stroll around Wildwood Park or the Hershey Gardens, where the tulips are in bloom. Hershey Gardens (170 Hotel Road, Hershey) even offers free admissions to moms on Mother's Day.
As for gifts, nab her a ticket to the Springtime Serenade: An Evening with Stuart Malina and Guests at the Ned Smith Center for Nature and Art on May 14. The chamber music concert begins at 7:30 p.m., but get there early to check out the Center and its gorgeous grounds. Tickets are $20; more information at nedsmithcenter.org.
For the mom who can't turn off HGTV
This is another one for those celebrating a little early - the City Living Home Tour by the Harrisburg Young Professionals. The home tour runs 1-5 p.m. on May 10 in downtown Harrisburg and each house will offer food and drinks from restaurants around Harrisburg. The whole thing starts and ends at City Island, which will also have an after party for ticket holders. Tickets are $30; more information at www.hyp.org.
For the mom who's a car fanatic
It's going to be a good weekend to be a car fan. Take your mom over to the Antique Automobile Club of America Museum (161 Museum Drive, Hershey), which she can enter for free on Mother's Day. Making it even sweeter - the first 100 mothers in the museum receive a complimentary rose, courtesy of Hammacker's Flowers. More information at aacamuseum.org.
If she's not as into antiques autos, have her check out the Carlisle Performance and Style show a the Carlisle Fairgrounds (1000 Bryn Mawr Road, Carlisle) to see the hottest trends in the motorsports world as well as some cool cars, trucks and SUVs. Tickets are $20 Saturday, $10 Sunday May 10-11. More information at carlisleevents.com.
For the mom who loves to cook
Start your celebration a day early by taking mom to the Mother's Day Italian Brunch cooking class at Cornerstone Coffeehouse's Culinary Kitchen. She'll learn how to make stuffed Italian mushrooms, fresh fig with ricotta and wild flower honey as well as an Italian brunch torte. Even better, she'll also get to eat everything she makes - and enjoy a free glass of champagne! Tickets are $50 and you have to reserve them in advance by calling 717-909-6854.
If that day doesn't work out for you, consider grabbing her a lesson later on in the year - in May the kitchen tackles "Fantastic Fish and Seafood" and in June they're doing "Grilling on the Deck." For more information visit cornerstonecoffeehouse.com.
The Kitchen Shoppe also offers cooking lessons, the next one being "Spring Grilling" on May 24. Tickets for that are $59 and more information can be found on kitchenshoppe.com.


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Kitsap Mall looking for pictures of local military heroes
In celebration of Flag Day on June 14, Kitsap Mall wants to honor local military heroes, past and present, with a photo display in its Center Court.
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Not a dog's day in the Miami sun
by Russ Paris
Special to the Weekly
Woodinville's Zach Tuiasosopo's hit on Miami quarterback Derrick Crudup was on of the few bright spots for the University of Washington Huskies Saturday, Nov. 24, when they were beaten by #1 ranked Miami Hurricanes.
The Huskies traveled to Miami on Thanksgiving and stayed at the Sonesta Resort on Key Biscayne.
On Saturday night they played before a crowd of 78,000 mostly Miami fans at the Orange Bowl.
The Hurricanes were in a revenge state of mind. The Huskies have won both of the previous meetings between the two schools including last year's 34-26 win in which Zach's brother, Marques, led the Dawgs to their second win over Miami.
Zach's play as a redshirt freshman improved to the level that he started five games for the Huskies this season. His playing time in every game ha given him experience that should make him a leader on next year's team.
Post-season play
Tuiasosopo and the Huskies (8-3) were selected to play in the San Diego Holiday Bowl Dec. 28 against a Big 12 team, probably either Oklahoma or Colorado.


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Ralph Edwards, in full Ralph Livingstone Edwards (born June 13, 1913, Merino, Colo., U.S.—died Nov. 16, 2005, West Hollywood, Calif.) American radio and television personality. Edwards worked as a radio announcer from 1935 before becoming host of the popular game show Truth or Consequences (1940–57). He also created and hosted This Is Your Life on radio (1948–50) and television (1952–61). He produced the game show The Cross-Wits (1975–80).


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HIT: The Police Unity Tour, a four-day bicycle ride from New Jersey to Washington, D.C., to pay tribute to fallen police officers and to raise funds for the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial and Museum. Local officers dedicated their ride to Trooper Marc Castellano, who was struck and killed by a car on Interstate 195 last June.
HIT: DeMarlo Hale, manager of the Trenton Thunder from 1997 to 1999, being inducted into the Trenton Baseball Hall of Fame in a pre-game ceremony at Waterfront Park Thursday night.
MISS: Mets right-handed starter Chris Young most likely done for the year and in need of surgery to repair the torn anterior capsule in his right shoulder.
HIT: Hopewell Valley Central High School 11th-graders Morgan Gruenewald, Agastya Mondal, Shane Moore and Poojitha Shivaprasad capturing a Toshiba/NSTA ExploraVision Award in the world's largest K-12 student science and technology competition. The students looked into the future and envisioned an inner-ear device designed to cure deafness.
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MISS: The agonizing decision for federal engineers along the swollen Mississippi River to open a massive spillway that would protect Baton Rouge and New Orleans but flood hundreds of thousands of acres in Louisiana Cajun country.
HIT: Schools, municipalities and other entities across Mercer County being awarded a combined $1.2 million in federal money to help absorb the cost of cleaning up after winter storms that socked the region in December.
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You can now pay Best Buy an additional $69.99 (for laptops, netbooks, and tablets) at the time of purchase for the option to trade the product in within two years (four years for TVs) for some percentage of the original price. The percentage you get back decreases over time, so it's better to do so sooner rather than later. The fee differs for mobile phones and TVs.
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Second, much like extended warranties and mail-in rebates, a good portion of customers will likely never bother to trade their product in, letting Best Buy pocket the fee. Even if it gets redeemed, the customer only gets a Best Buy gift card, which also has a chance of never being used. Best Buy is no stranger to gift card breakage profits.
And even if those gift cards get fully redeemed, the company says it will likely sell the traded-in products through online auctions, where used iPhones, for example, often sell for close to full retail -- higher than the trade-in cashout.
And finally, the program makes customers feel like they're saving money, but it actually encourages them to spend more. Customers might normally get a new $300 phone every couple of years, but after spending $69.99 to get 40% back after one year, they might feel compelled to start buying more frequently and not let this money go to waste, giving Best Buy a net $249.99 each year for a new phone and trade-in option.
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Even after finishing with one of the worst records in football this past year, the Arizona Cardinals entered the offseason over the salary cap.
A few players were let go to clear up cap room. While the NFL is a business, it was tough to see a couple of those men leave the desert.
This team has embarrassed itself in free agency over the past couple of years. It does not have much room for key signings, but has several holes to fill.
Several issues can be attributed to some of the contracts that Rod Graves signed when he was in charge. But with a new manager and coaching staff, many are hoping that this mess will be sorted out.
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Director Jonathan Demme has always been fascinated by how music affects a person. Think of the members of Talking Heads beaming with pure joy as they performed in the 1984 concert film Stop Making Sense, or the justly praised scene in the 1993 drama Philadelphia where Tom Hanks, shot in a tight close-up, loses himself in âLa mamma morta,â an aria from the opera Andrea Chénier.
Knowing this might help explain the decision by Demme and cinematographer Declan Quinn to keep so much of Neil Young Journeys focused on the titular singer-songwriter's face. In capturing a solo concert Young performed in 2011 at Toronto's Massey Hall, Demme and Quinn keep the camera close, letting the 66-year-old musician's mug move in and out of the center of the frame.
This shooting style gives you a chance to mull unabashedly over the jowls and stubble of Young's face. More important, though, you get to appreciate how, even when performing "After the Gold Rush" or "Ohio"—songs he's probably sung hundreds of times over—Young still loses himself within them. This is especially true of the extreme close-ups taken via a lipstick camera on the center-stage mic stand. It allows us to catch every sneer and smirk and, at one point, a bit of spittle right on the lens.
When the focus isn't on Young and his performance, Journeys feels lost. The film's framing device, a car trip from Young's hometown of Omemee, Ontario, to Massey Hall, with Young providing droll commentary from the behind the wheel, is quickly hurried through and fails to take off. Demme also can't help showing his political hand by intercutting footage of the Kent State shootings during Young's spirited rendition of âOhio.â
Even within the live footage, there's a surprising restlessness to the film. Demme, a director whose best concert films (Stop Making Sense, Storefront Hitchcock) run solely on the energy coming from the people onstage, doesn't seem to trust his subject enough here. Editor Glenn Allen abets this with quick jump cuts to overhead shots of Young onstage or footage of his tour bus idling outside the venue. But Demme is chief conspirator, wrangling in dizzying Super 8 shots of the audience and wobbly bits of hand-held work when simply keeping the focus on the man onstage would suffice. In spite of its title, Journeys works best when it remains still. PG.
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Not sure why I didn't add Tomi to the above sleep question! How bout it? Did you have this problem?
And in other news: I have wings for upper arms. However, much like the ostrich they do not allow me to fly. Unlike the ostrich my head is firmly out of the sand (and most of the times out of my ass) and I am looking for suggestions. If I hold my arms up parallel to the ground fat just hangs and it is gross.
I have in my oven a meatloaf consisting of local beef liver, NZ grassfed angus ground beef from TJ's, and a sausage link for my supper this week. It is actually huge so someone needs to come over for supper This is my first foray into liver. I will let you know how it goes. I used the food processor and ground it which was surprisingly easy and with the exception of some splashes of worsterchire sauce it is completely primal. As much as I love you Gwamma I would have preferred local beef but to get it would have required a 45 minute drive and I just didn't have time this week. At least i know NZ beef is healthy!
You know all those things you wanted to do: You should go do them.
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The problem, ladies, is that she won't listen to me. She does not want the advice I find and can share, but I cannot just not share it as it eats away at my conscience to do so. To knowingly withhold information from her, despite her not wanting it, keeps me awake at night.
So, I share, and they ignore, I find that to be utterly rude and insensitive and distasteful. Even if I don't like a piece of information you share with me, I'll at least say "Thank you for thinking of me. I'll look into it." Most times, I'll even do as I say and look into it. That's how I found Primal to be my solution... b/c I was WILLING to look into something someone shared with me, some unsolicited piece of advice that actually made sense.
Ugh... rant coming. See my journal.
I don't have a comment on the sleep question. I know if I sleep with earplugs (hubby snores) I am always more refreshed in the morning - but I haven't seen any early morning sleep benefits.
1. Love ME no matter what noises are screaming at me, or who is trying to tear me down.
2. Eat to heal
3. Move to live
4. Embrace today
5. Live with intention
6. Respect my body
7. Cultivate joy
8. Find my passion
9. Meditate on peace in my soul
I know my sleep is totally screwed up from stress. This job that I have right now is not good for health of any means at all. I've even lost interest in sex because of it and my eating is pretty much shit right now.
I don't harp... I don't nag. I share information I find. That is all. I find something about Fibro, I share the link and say "Found this today. Thought it might be of interest to you". and I leave it at that.
I find it hard enough to get people to follow my advice.... and they are paying me for it!


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ALLEN PARK -- It was a strange offseason for Drew Stanton. After not playing a snap for the Detroit Lions as the third-string quarterback in 2011, he hit free agency looking for a better opportunity.
He signed a one-year deal with the New York Jets, but after the team acquired Tim Tebow in a trade, Stanton wanted out. The Jets obliged, packaging him with a seventh-round draft pick to the Indianapolis Colts for a sixth-round selection.
Indianapolis only carries two quarterbacks on its roster, but just like Detroit, Stanton finds himself behind a No. 1 overall pick on the depth chart. And because Andrew Luck has been durable, Stanton seems unlikely to game action for the second consecutive season.
Even though he's not contributing on the field, Stanton has been a valuable resource for Luck during his transition to the NFL.
"Drew's been great," Luck said. "Obviously a true professional. He's helped me out with on-field and off-the-field stuff. Great guy, smart, sort of has helped me with how to organize a week, how to be a quarterback."
The Colts are seeking Stanton's input this week as they put together a game plan for his former team.
"Any time you have a player from another club, you always ask him," Colts interim coach Bruce Arians said. "He's a really bright guy and we're really glad to have him. He's met with our coaches on both sides of the ball and gave as much info as he can give that would help our game plan."
Lions coach Jim Schwartz said it's common practice for coaches to get input from players who previously played for upcoming opponents.
"As a quarterback, and a guy who was here three years in the same offense, there's certainly some insight that he has," Schwartz said. "Just his insight of the defense, he worked against our defense on the scout team. He can talk to them about certain players, strengths and weaknesses and things like that. It's all part of having a scouting report and getting ready to play."
One player Stanton won't be able to help the Colts stop is Lions wide receiver Calvin Johnson, the NFL's Offensive Player of the Month for November.
"I think he's got a 42-inch vertical," Stanton said. "He's 6-6. You can put it in places where only he can touch. I know that firsthand. I don't know if there is a ball that's technically uncatchable for Calvin."


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After graduating first in her class from Mandeville High School and being selected St. Tammany Parish Student of the Year in 2010, Marjorie "Betsy" Bateman attended Tulane University. She was one of seven students accepted into the Tulane Accelerated Physician Training Program, through which she completed two years of undergraduate study in cell and molecular biology and a year of public service as an AmeriCorps VISTA.
In May of this year, Betsy graduated summa cum laude with a B.S. in cell and molecular Biology from Tulane University, where she was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa and named a member of the William Wallace Peery Society. She also received the Erik G. Ellgaard Award for Excellence in Cell and Molecular Biology and the Tulane 34 Award, a university-wide honor in recognition of exemplary leadership, service, and academic excellence.
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Kacie and Kari Klynstra were home from college for a few days last week. Kacie was home from Messiah College in Grantham, Pa., Kari was home from Wheaton (Ill.) College.
Over Thanksgiving dinner, the family conversation inevitably turned to the NCAA Division III women's soccer Final Four.
For the third year in a row, the identical twin Klynstra sisters have advanced to the Final Four, which is scheduled to begin today at Macpherson Stadium at Bryan Park in Greensboro, N.C.
Kacie Klynstra will be playing in her fourth consecutive Division III women soccer Final Four. When they were seniors at Forest Hills Central, the Klynstra sisters helped lead the Rangers to the Division 2 state championship.
Messiah won the national championship in Kacie's freshman season, while Wheaton has won the last two national titles. Wheaton beat Messiah 1-0 in last year's national championship game.
"People at home like to talk about it," Kacie Klynstra said. "It is always an underlying joke. People said that since Kari has won it twice and we've won once, I have to do it this year. But I don't need anymore pressure. It's not that we are even thinking about the championship game yet. We have to win in the semifinals first and Kari needs to take care of business too."
Wheaton, which entered the tournament ranked No. 22, will face No. 1 Williams in today's semifinals while No. 2 Messiah will play No. 5 William Smith.
The championship game is scheduled for Saturday.
"This really does get more and more fun every year," Kacie Klynstra said. "I am enjoying this season as much if not more than the first three. It is definitely fun to make the Final Four again too, with my sister playing in it too, and the whole family there."
With the nation's top-ranked team looming in today's semifinals, Kari Klynstra cannot look forward to a national championship rematch against her sister's Messiah squad.
"Playing my sister for the national championship would be a fun way to go out, and we talk about it," Kari Klynstra said. "I got to see her over Thanksgiving and it was exciting. The subject came up over the dinner table. "We've won it twice so a lot of teams think we're the team to beat, but we look at Williams and we think they're the team to beat. It is definitely going to help though that we've been there before."
Kari Klynstra is majoring in kinesiology at Wheaton and plans to take a year off before enrolling in graduate school to study physical therapy. A nutrition major at Messiah, Kacie Klynstra is considering an internship next year.
"This is probably harder on our parents (Kraig and Mary) than on us," Kacie said. "They are happy to have both of their daughters playing in the Final Four and we just get to play the game we love."


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I never imagined to find so many tragic stories that end with joy, until I discovered the project called "Praia para Todos", or "Beach for Everyone." The project, sponsored by the NGO Instituto Novo Ser in Rio, offers recreation and sport to the physically handicapped on Saturdays at Barra da Tijuca beach, and on Sundays at Copacabana. The project is run by physical therapists and students, all of them volunteers. They built ramps on top of the sand so that wheelchairs could easily reach the water's edge.


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In Reply to: Urgent help needed on a repotted Dracaena posted by Dan on June 30, 2003 at 22:05:39:
Dan...I am afraid you will not have much luck having taken just the top part of the plant. If you have ideal conditions, the stalk may put out some roots. The best thing would be to have the bottom part of the plant. To propagate Dracaena's, greenhouses slice half way into the stalk at an angle, pack the cut with wet moss, cover with plastic and in time roots grow from the cut of the upper stalk.It is then totally cut off and potted. New growth will grow at the cut of the lower portion. The best you can do now is keep the stalks in water and remove several of the lower leaves (as they will rot in the water).


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Members of the Hob'art collective are opening their small works exhibition tonight.
Head over to the Windows on Washington gallery at 716 Washington Street between 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. to check out a variety of original artwork. And since it's the height of the holiday shopping season, artists have created special 9 inch by 9 inch pieces, including photography, paintings and prints, and are selling them at $50 each.
The exhibition continues through January 15. Gallery hours are 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Fridays, 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays.
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Falling Home Prices Continue to Impact Small Business Owners
Despite what many perceive to be a recovery in the current housing market, more than 28 percent of U.S. homeowners remain underwater on their mortgages. Clearly, the catastrophic financial effects of this reality have negatively impacted millions of homeowners... but the still free-falling housing prices from coast to coast are also taking an unprecedented toll on small businesses.
According to the Cleveland Federal Reserve, approximately 16 percent of all U.S. small business owners have pulled equity from their primary residences to begin, maintain, or jump-start a struggling small business. In the United States, there is an inextricable link between small business ownership and the use of home equity as a line of credit.
The Federal Reserve's Survey of Consumer Finances indicates that between 1998 and 2007, small business-owning households "took on larger amounts of home equity debt faster than households headed by someone employed by others."
Effects of the Credit Crunch
In small business, money equals opportunity. And with access to small business capital so heavily dependent on home equity, it's easy to see the impact of the downward trend in housing prices on the small business community, which continues to stagger from a precipitous loss of more than $16 billion in home equity credit since the housing bubble burst.
"Home value declines are currently equal to those we experienced during the darkest days of the housing recession," Zillow chief economist Stan Humphries says, noting that home values in the first quarter of this year tumbled another 3 percent from the prior quarter and presently remain 30 percent below the June 2006 peak. "With accelerating declines during the first quarter, it is unreasonable to expect home values to return to stability by the end of 2011."
Mark E. Schweitzer and Scott Shane of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland concur that a long road remains before small business borrowing will return to pre-recession levels. However, "The link between home prices and small business credit," Schweitzer and Shane agree, "poses important challenges for policy makers seeking to improve small business owners' access to credit."
The Fed members believe the solution is significantly more complicated than urging bankers to simply "lend more" or reducing the regulations that inhibit more liberal lending to small businesses and entrepreneurs.
"Returning small business owners to pre-recession levels of credit access will require an increase in home prices or a weaning of small business owners from the use of home equity as a source of financing. Neither of those alternatives falls into the category of easy and quick solutions," Schweitzer and Shane conclude.


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Whether it was because of ESPN's hype or the fact that they were in Iowa where wrestling mats are as common as cornfields, the NCAA Wrestling Championships – as usual -- surpassed all expectations.
---A nice, but too small, arena; tickets sold out in 14 minutes when they went on sale last year. Close to 100,000 tickets were sold and Chamber of Commerce estimates revealed about $15 million was expected to be pumped into the Des Moines, Iowa, economy.
---A knowledgeable crowd, appreciative not only of its home-state boys but of good wrestling as well. The quality of the finalists was extremely high. Let's pick six: Kyle Dake, David Taylor, Logan Stieber, Ed Ruth, Quentin Wright, Jordan Oliver; they all have Olympic aspirations and that's not even half of the 20 who were on the big stage Saturday night. Also, 13 of the 80 All-Americans were from Pennsylvania.
---The coaches challenge system was effective. It slowed things down only slightly across the board – save for an 8-minute debacle in the 165-pound consolations -- and even though a coach or two used one of his three allowable challenges to grab a rest for his athlete, referees got the calls correct.
---When Oklahoma State took the lead in the team race after Chris Perry at 174 beat Penn State's Matt Brown in overtime, it marked the first time in 14 years that the lead changed hands during the finals.
The Cowboys pulled to within three points during Saturday's consolation rounds in which Penn State had no entrants. "We didn't have anybody wrestling and that's something we have to work on,'' Penn State coach Cael Sanderson said his five other wrestlers who did not place. Jordan Conaway (133) and Dylan Alton (157) were one win short of placing.
"We will have to get better every year; our team needs to keep getting better. Oklahoma State really had a great tournament. Minnesota had a great tournament,'' he said.
Penn State sealed its third straight NCAA team title --123.5 to 119.5 over Okie State– when Quentin Wright won at 197 pounds. With four of the five finalists returning next season, and as deep as the Lions are, Penn State certainly is an early favorite to win its fourth at Oklahoma City.
"You have to be motivated, you can't take the defense and protect everything type of mode and that's tough,'' Sanderson said about staying on top.
"You have to say it's probably tougher to get to the top because there are only a few teams that have won the team championship but it's definitely a challenge.
"Our guys, they have the program, they have the funding, so we have a lot and we did a good job. We've got a lot of great kids, a lot of great wrestling, a lot of great history and lot of good support.''
Sanderson's boss, athletic director Dave Joyner, and Joyner's boss, university president Rodney Erickson, were in Des Moines on Saturday offering their support.
"You do this (winning three straight titles) in this world competing against these great teams— Minnesota, the Iowas, Oklahoma State -- I mean the competition is so high,'' Joyner said.
"What a great tournament. And if they think that wrestling isn't exciting, I'll tell you what, it came down to the wire and this was a great tournament.
"I'm really happy for Cael and the athletes. I'm very happy for the sport of wrestling as well,'' Joyner said.
--- Cornell's Dake defeated PSU's Taylor three times this season by a single point and while Sanderson had to be concerned with Taylor's disappointment, he was impressed by Dake, who became the first wrestler to win four titles at four weights, to say nothing of joining Sanderson and Pat Smith as the only three wrestlers to ever win four.
"Kyle Dake is obviously a great champion. He is a tough kid, just an unbelievable competitor,'' Sanderson said. "I'm happy for him but I want my guy to be happy. I want David to be happy.
"That's a great story, winning a national title at four different weights. How does that even happen? How do you even wrestle in four different weights?''
---Sanderson thought the the overall set-up of the final got to Taylor. "He's the last matchup and you can tell he was tired … a lot of stress. David was tired,'' Sanderson said. "I need to a do a better job of keeping David calm because he was fired up and that will really take a lot out of you.''
---When Penn State's Brown lost in the finals, Okie State's Perry actually apologized about not scoring points. He escaped and was able to ride Brown in the second overtime. But Sanderson had nothing but praise for Brown, and a lot of good words for his sport as well.
"(This sport) takes character and that's what this sport is all about. It's just being tough,'' he said, alluding to Brown and others.
"There's not very many things in this world that will teach kids and teach them to be tough to rise up when they win and when they lose.''


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Summer internships offer teens valuable nonprofit experience
For many previous generations, teens spent their summers working behind a fast food counter or other jobs typically occupied by teens getting their first job experience.
These days with the economy being down and teens spending more time preparing for post-high school careers, summer jobs can be hard to come by. Seeing that need and knowing many nonprofit organizations could use an extra hand, the Teens in Public Service (TIPS) program of Seattle works to place teens with nonprofits for an eight-week summer internship — and it's a paying job.
The program, which is highly competitive, recently placed two Mercer Island students with nonprofits for the summer. Lauren Roth and Ahbra Franco were two of 50 chosen for internships out of 550 who applied. Roth will be working with the Renton Skyway Boys & Girls Club, and Franco is helping Cast For Kids, a nonprofit which takes children with special needs fishing.
Roth said she heard about the opportunity after a friend of her family's thought she would be a good fit and encouraged her to apply.
"I'm really glad this opportunity came up," she said. Roth will be working with sixth through eighth graders in a new health program at the club.
"I'll be teaching them about being healthy, and how to handle stress. I'll be helping to plan events and field trips, as well as working with the kids," she said.
Franco said she also heard about the program from a family friend, who had participated in the past and thought it was something she should try. She said she has done a lot of work in the past with special needs children and is excited to learn as much as she can this summer.
"I'm really just excited because this is going to be a unique experience," said Franco. "I'm going to be working in the administration office, so I'll be learning about fundraising."
TIPS raises money throughout the year to pay interns Washington's minimum wage during their internships, and Executive Director Cathy Michalec said the number of interns they can provide for nonprofits is based solely on the amount of money that the program raises.
Michalec said each student earns about $3,100 for the summer and the organization raises whatever it can, and the number of internships it offers is based on the money available.
Nonprofits like the ones Roth and Franco will be working with apply, and are graded and then selected by a committee at TIPS. Interns submit applications and if chosen go through an interview process before being selected. Michalec said teens rank their top three choices of places to work and TIPS does its best to match teens with an organization based on those choices. The interns work for about 20 to 30 hours a week for eight weeks.
Michalec said they provide leadership training and the organization does a day of service with one of the nonprofits. At the end of summer all the teens, their families and the organizations where they work gather for a Celebration of Service, where each student gives a 90-second speech about what they learned.
Roth said she has done a lot of volunteering, and it is something that she enjoys. Getting an internship in some kind of health care field was her first choice, and she said her match is going to suit her interests very well.
"It's very similar to what I wanted, and it's really cool," she said. "I think the part of the internship I'm most excited about is to be able to plan a program with kids and see how my efforts play out."
For Franco, the future holds college and plans to continue volunteering.
"Charity work and volunteering is very important, I think," said Franco. "I would like to get more involved."
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Connor, Steven (2008) The shakes: conditions of tremor. The Senses and Society 3 (2), pp. 205-220. ISSN 1745-8927.Full text not available from this repository.
This paper describes shaking as an action-sensation, meaning that it is an action that connotes and corresponds to a sensation. The action becomes the object of a perception that participates in the sensation. Watching the trembling of a pair of hands, it is hard to retain our composure. We seem to feel a ripple of sympathy at work in us. Shaking, then, proliferates, becomes contagious. I consider how this mode of bodily vibration can be given different meanings depending on the frame of interpretation applied to it. It can mean fragility or fear, medical condition or sacred theater. Focusing on the movements of the Quakers as sacred theater, I suggest this might be understood as a kind of performance of voice without language. Following discussion of the signification of shaking in Quaker circles, I finally ask how and where the signs and effects of convulsion linger in our own time. Shaking becomes a sign of a broad historical shift toward an electromagnetic world, a world in which everything stays where it is and shakes.
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Internet Connection Wizard and ipinfoI have incorporated the 'ipinfo' script into the Internet Connection Wizard, callable by a button.
Comments:Posted on 17 Dec 2009, 18:24 by ttuuxxx
ICW and ipinfo
Sounds like a what I did a few days earlier on 2.14X
best place for it :)
Posted on 21 Dec 2009, 13:51 by ecomoney
Automatic connection
Hi Barry. Many thanks for your work. Other distros (and windows) automatically connect via dhcp if the recognise that an ethernet connection is present. I was wondering why puppy does not take this approach also? From my observations of new users, they certainly expect etheret internet connections to be auto-configuring..they tend to click on the browser and then are surprised when they get the "page cannot be displayed" error. They then have to work out how to connect (usually after rebooting their modem several times!). I understand you use dial up so perhaps would not have noticed this yourself. All the best.
Posted on 21 Dec 2009, 14:11 by BarryK
Yes thanks, I saw your 214x post, which reminded me to do it also.
No, I have satellite broadband.
Doesn't Jemimah's Pwireless2 achieve that? I have got around to trying that yet.


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GULF SHORES, Alabama -- Make no mistake, it is first and foremost the abundance of groovy music that brings 40,000 folks to Pleasure Island every year for three days of fun and music that is Hangout Festival.
But also make no mistake, the food at this giant, sweaty, loud congregational sing along is a huge part of the weekend. And if a person were to put his shallow mind to it, he could eat his way around the world and back again without ever leaving the confines of the festival grounds.
Your working boy made the drive from Mobile down to the Gulf to see what was on the menu at this popular event. You bring in that many people for a weekend of waterside hijinks, you best find something worthwhile to feed them.
My first stop was at the newly formed Alabama Seafood Cabana where, not surprisingly, fresh local seafood was the order of the day. Acme Oyster House was dishing out some of its signature dishes and right next door the landmark Mobile restaurant Wintzell's Oyster House was offering up its own raw oysters.
Tony Nicholas, owner of The Hungry Owl Restaurant in West Mobile, was there as well. He was cooking up his signature Alabama jambalaya – a spicy, rich tomato-based jambalaya that was full of shrimp and sausage.
Nicholas was pulling double duty. He was also charged with serving up food for the swells next door at the VIP lounging area. "I will be serving 1,400 people a day at the VIP area so it's hard to get too fancy," he said.
But he was still able to showcase his uniquely Mobile culinary talents with some tasty black bean salad, red beans and rice with sausage and a handful of vegetarian offerings. On Saturday he planned to serve his signature jambalaya and some Cajun piquant pizza for those meat avoiders.
For the final day of the festival Nicholas is boiling up nearly 1,500 pounds of Gulf shrimp, along with the attendant corn, potatoes and other accoutrements would come to expect from a lower Alabama boil. Vegetarian VIPs on Sunday will get to sample his take on how to make spring rolls.
"A lot of what we do is what I call big pot food, stuff that you can feed a lot of people in a hurry," he said.
I made a note in my journal about sampling the margarita bar that was set up in the VIP area, but somehow I never made it.
Right across the way, in the non-VIP section, a line of stands was set up along the boardwalk, offering a wide and varied array of traditional and non-traditional festival fare. The menu is an international smorgasbord that literally runs the gamut of every taste.
You can get tacos, pizza, toasted peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, paninis, veggie burritos, funnel cakes, crawfish etouffee, boudin balls, Andouille sausage, gumbo, gyros, pitas, falafel and a huge array of Oriental offerings.
There is, of course, the typical food-on-a stick fair food offerings. Chicken on a stick abounded, along with alligator, corndogs and sausage.
So, what did I do? I was challenged by my colleague and frequent dining companion Lawrence Specker to find the most unusual item for public consumption and have a go at it. I searched about and found a winner – smoked gator burrito.
After I assured the young lady who took my order that I was, in fact, very familiar with the unique flavorings of alligator, she set out to process my order. "All the way," implored, which is my answer to a range of questions.
It was served by a firm from Tennessee that calls itself Outback Kate's. They travel about cooking at events such as Hangout and by all accounts, there were having a good time doing it.
When they got finished piling on spicy black beans, yellow rice, roasted green peppers, sautéed zucchini, a mound of sour cream and a smattering of very piquant sauce and some vegetation I wasn't able to identify, I took possession of the beast.
What did it taste like? That's hard to tell. The non-alligator stuff was overpowering the flavor of what I took to be alligator. In short, there was a lot going on in there. (You could have loaded packing peanuts into the thing and I couldn't have told the difference.)
Walkout price for a smoked gator burrito: $15.
After that experience with the hoi polloi, I felt compelled to try and see how the one percenters were getting along so I made my way over to the Super VIP area. And yes, there is such a thing as a Super VIP and there were a number of them in attendance.
After bluffing my way in (my red press arm band wasn't good enough to allow me entrée to the super swanky, air conditioned dining area reserved for the Super VIPs) I found a completely differen dining experience. The young lady at the door allowed me in, but only for just for a second after I promised to make a quick survey and come right back out.
Folks this is where they put on the proverbial dog. They were nibbling on huge, icy cold raw oysters, massive crab claws, what appeared to be West Indies salad, a range of salads, a cheese tray and a massive fruit tray.
The main entrée was a Chilean sea bass that was served over rice and an Andouille sausage slider (or po-boy, depending on your mindset).
All of this super swell food was served inside a very swanky, air conditioned tent that was decorated with mood lighting and lots of fresh flowers.
The chef for the super VIP area is Chef Iran Gallon, the culinary workhorse behind the Hangout and The Gulf. He was busy in the kitchen so I stayed out of his way, but by all accounts his high-end customers appeared pleased.
As promised, I didn't linger in the big wig dining room. I thanked the young lady and split for the relatively meager confines of the press tent where the only food in sight was a half box of stale Krispy Kreme Doughnuts. There was a vague promise of food and (ahem) beverages for the Fourth Estate later but I had had my fill of sun and food on a stick. I left it to my fellow ink-stained wretches to carry on.
I had to get back to Mobile in time to cook supper. I'm not sure what's on the menu, but I doubt there will be any smoked alligator on the menu at my house.
So in the final analysis, the food here at this gala event appears to be such an integral part of the fun that if you tried, you could actually gain weight during the tenure of the three-day event. If you had enough money, that is.


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Piers Morgan Tonight is one of the premier sources of news and discussion on television. The talk show is hosted on CNN and ran between 2011 and 2014, drawing in expansive audiences for its time. Piers Morgan starred as the host and brought on guests in to the discussion format.
Part of the appeal of the show is that Piers Morgan Tonight will be rather unpredictable and surprising. This show has drawn in support from many different corners, adding to its overall appeal. The show originally debuted at 9 pm EST on CNN. This put it alongside many other popular prime time entries to this format as well.
Piers Morgan is British and was able to cultivate a distinctive air for his television series. Though it was canceled during the course of 2014, the show did have a sizable fan base. He was able to bring on board several prominent stars along the way. This included Glen Beck, Gloria Allred and Rudy Giuliani.
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Piers Morgan claims he's never had an interviewee walk out on him...until today. Former Delaware Tea Party candidate Christine O'Donnell walked out on her interview with Morgan on his show, "Piers Morgan Tonight," after the questions took a turn. O'Donnell thought that Morgan was being "a little bit rude" in asking her about issues that came up during her campaign, such as witchcraft and her views on sex.
George Clooney might have a little bit of apologizing to do after his little stint with Piers Morgan on Friday night. George went on his new talk show, discussed some projects that he was doing and then it turned personal. Piers asked George about marrying in the future and George said no way. Actually, he said this via Popeater: "'I hate to blow your whole news story, but I was married,' George told 'Piers Morgan Tonight' on Friday.


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The task force that coordinates Oregon's response to tsunami debris from Japan may disband next year if no significant debris washes ashore over the winter.
The governor's natural resources adviser, Gabriela Goldfarb, said at Thursday's meeting there are systems in place that can be mobilized without the task force meetings.
The task force was formed after a 55-foot long dock washed ashore in June of 2012 on Agate Beach in Newport.
Since then, the Statesman Journal reports few large items have come ashore in Oregon from the March 2011 tsunami that hit Japan.


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Five things rattling around in the head of one movie buff this week:
5. Fanboys vs. Fangirls. In one corner this week, we have "Sex and the City 2" and its appletini-drinking, Dior-flaunting fashionplates. In the other corner, we have "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time" and its Red Bull-swilling, video game-playing adherents. And the winner is ...?
4. Home theater, sweet home theater. Warner Bros. and other studios reportedly are toying with the idea of offering movies on demand for home-theater owners just 30 days after their theatrical release. The catch? It would cost $20 to $30 (popcorn not included). Score one for agoraphobics.
3. "MacGruber" bombs. Apparently no amount of duct tape and gum wrappers could keep this "SNL"-inspired spoof from blowing up in Universal's face. (At the other end of the box-office spectrum, "Shrek Forever After" hauled in more than $70 million in its first weekend, good enough for the top spot.)
2. "Battle: Los Angeles" gets a date change. Sony has moved the big-budget, alien-invasion epic -- shot in Baton Rouge and Shreveport last year -- from the dubious release date of Feb. 11 to the slightly more prestigious March 11. What does it mean? It means the studio suits, after seeing what director Jonathan Liebesman has put together, suddenly have more confidence in the project. Tentacles crossed ...
1. Canal Place theater reopens tomorrow (May 26). It's got a new name (The Theaters at Canal Place); new, luxury amenities (reclining leather seats, "gentle" stadium seating, gourmet food); new operators (the New Orleans-based Southern Theaters); and new ticket prices ($12). It opened Wednesday at midnight. Welcome back.
- From Nola.com: Find New Orleans area showtimes.
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- From the T-P: The T-P's A-to-Z movie review archive.
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