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A special Thanksgiving Meal In Bayou La Batre

COMMENTARY
Submitted for your inspection, one of the many storm stories from our area this Thanksgiving.

NEWSLINE
"Many in the Bayou will tell you what they're most thankful for are the neighbors and churches that are helping the Bayou bounce back."

NEWSBYTE
A special Thanksgiving meal served in Bayou La Batre
(BAYOU LA BATRE, Ala.) November 24 -- Thanksgiving this year has been very different for many who are still struggling after Hurricane Katrina. Many people, like those in hard hit Bayou La Batre, were forced to give up eating their traditional dinner in the traditional way. Yet they are still thankful, despite the devastation which surrounds them.

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LOCAL TENSION: Hope for tomorrow
GRAVITY: 100%

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Hurricane Katrina Aftermath News Pictures #13

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Tropical Storm Delta Update: Nov. 24 PM

THE NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER IS ISSUING ADVISORIES ON TROPICAL STORM DELTA...LOCATED ABOUT 1160 MILES SOUTHWEST OF THE AZORES.

Forecast Track Map

Computer Models

TROPICAL STORM DELTA ADVISORY NUMBER 5
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
5 PM AST THU NOV 24 2005

TROPICAL STORM DELTA DISCUSSION NUMBER 5
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
4 PM EST THU NOV 24 2005

TENSION: More tropical depression
GRAVITY: Out to sea

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A Military Thanksgiving Overseas Photo Essay

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The South Has Risen Once Again

COMMENTARY
(UPDATED) I've seen two stories written almost back to back about "Southern" topics. The first explained how Southerners are trying to lose their accents and this one, about how everyone has moved, or wants to move, to the South. Well, moving to the South comes with a price. Remember the images of Wilma, Rita and Katrina before you rush into paradise.

In the story below, the mainstream elites, not to be denied feeling superior, simply want to remind us that they have adopted "Southern" charm and locale because it is so quaint. Not so fast, yanks. The good-ol-boys will never let you slicks into their club: you have moved into the South, and no matter how you try to spin it, you will be playing by the South's rules. I won't remind you that Reagan was the last President not from the South. Dang, I did remind you.

NEWSBYTE
Definition of South, Southern is changing
Southern Identity: the South and the Notion of What It Means to Be 'Southern' Is Changing
CARY, N.C. Nov 23, 2005 (AP) -- The joke around here is that this town's name is really an acronym for "Containment Area for Relocated Yankees." As far as Vernon Yates is concerned, they haven't been contained well enough. Read full story.

TENSION: If you can't win an election
GRAVITY: Oil and water won't mix

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Pumping Up Part Six: Prices Fall Fast

UPDATED: Pumping Up Part Six

COMMENTARY
Lower gas prices are yet another thing to be thankful for on this holiday.

NEWSLINE
"We would argue that prices have fallen partly due to demand but mostly due to a spike in supply."

NEWSBYTES
Thanksgiving travelers find lower prices at the pump
Millions of Americans hit the road or took to the sky Wednesday in the annual dash to someone else's house for Thanksgiving turkey, despite the prospect of traffic jams, snowy highways and crowded airports and train stations. Read full story. Watch video.

Gas prices down as millions hit road for Thanksgiving
(Mobile Register) As drivers fill their gas tanks today for that trip over the river and through the woods, they will be greeted with fuel prices that are much lower than two months ago.

The average price for a gallon of regular gasoline in the Mobile metro area was $2.22 Tuesday, according to AAA, down more than 50 cents in the last month. Read full story -- free registration required.

TENSION: Relaxing a tiny bit
GRAVITY: Still pretty heavy

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Moving Day Has Passed

COMMENTARY
Alabama said goodbye with an RC Cola and Moon Pie.

The movers have packed and loaded. We are about to set out on our way north (after a trip to Florida) but we'll be spending the day tomorrow cleaning up our now-empty house.

It looks like it's snowing around DC tonight. I guess I'll need something warmer than the shorts I am wearing now!

Happy Thanksgiving!!

See y'all later.

Hurricane Katrina Aftermath News Pictures #12

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Ignoring Useless Info Aids Memory

COMMENTARY
So, tell me again why you are surfing the blogs?

NEWSBYTE
Ignoring useless information aids memory
How much someone remembers does not depend on brain space, study finds

LONDON (Reuters) -- Filtering out useless information can help people increase their capacity to remember what is really important, researchers said on Wednesday.

Scientists at the University of Oregon have demonstrated that awareness, or visual working memory, does not depend on extra storage space in the brain but on an ability to ignore what is irrelevant. Read full story.

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GRAVITY: MTV Generation

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Whither the Southern Accent? (Not Really)

COMMENTARY
The story below seems to say there is a decline in a regional Southern accent in American english. The writers obviously haven't reported any news from ground zero of the Katrina disaster or spent any time in the Gulf states. So much for their ignorance. The real Southern accent is alive and very well in L.A. (Make that lower Alabama as the natives call it.) I was juz a-thinkin' y'all shud know.

NEWSBYTE
Whither the Southern Accent?
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- "Y'all" isn't welcome in Erica Tobolski's class in voice and diction at the University of South Carolina. And forget about "fixin'," as in getting ready to do something, or "pin" when talking about the writing instrument.

Tobolski's class is all about getting rid of accents, mostly Southern ones in the heart of the former Confederacy, and replacing them with Standard American Dialect, the uninflected tone of TV news anchors that oozes authority and refinement. Read full story. Updated link.

TENSION: Drawn out
GRAVITY: Southern

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Selected Iraq War News Photos #3

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Selected Hurricane Wilma News Photos #16

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Poll: Most Ala. Residents Support Aruba Boycot

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H' Wood Madam Heidi Fleiss To Open Stud Farm

COMMENTARY
It's a hard job but someone's got to do it.

NEWSLINE
"The Hollywood Madam is looking for a few good men out there."

NEWSBYTES
Hollywood Madam to open Nevada 'stud farm'
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Former "Hollywood Madam" Heidi Fleiss, whose previous career running a call-girl ring landed her in prison, is returning to the world's oldest profession -- to open a Nevada brothel catering to women.

'Hollywood Madam' leaving California, plans Nevada brothel
(SanDiego.com) LAS VEGAS – Former "Hollywood Madam" Heidi Fleiss is bound for a brothel in the southern Nevada desert that she wants to remake into a resort featuring male prostitutes serving female customers.

TENSION: Relax
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Tropical Depression Gamma Update: Nov 20 AM

...GAMMA CONTINUES TO BECOME LESS ORGANIZED AS IT MEANDERS OVER THE NORTHWESTERN CARIBBEAN SEA TO THE EAST OF ROATAN ISLAND...

NEWSBYTES

Tropical Weather Outlook

THE NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER IS ISSUING ADVISORIES ON WEAKENING TROPICAL STORM GAMMA... LOCATED OVER THE NORTHWESTERN CARIBBEAN SEA ABOUT 75 MILES NORTH-NORTHEAST OF LIMON HONDURAS.

Forcast Track Map

Computer Models

TROPICAL DEPRESSION GAMMA ADVISORY NUMBER 19
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
10 AM EST SUN NOV 20 2005

TROPICAL DEPRESSION GAMMA DISCUSSION NUMBER 19
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
10 AM EST SUN NOV 20 2005

Tension: Tropical Depression
Gravity: 100

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Match.com Sued For "Date Bait" Scam

COMMENTARY
"I guess if you have to ask...."

NEWSLINE
"Hiding behind Match.com's portrait of online success is a very big, very dirty secret ... Not everyone you meet and date through Match.com is just another Match.com member."

NEWSBYTE
Leading online matchmaker sued for bogus dating scam
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) - Match.com, one of the top Internet dating websites, has been accused of hiring people as "date bait" to go out with some of their one million customers to encourage them to keep paying for the service.

A Los Angeles racketeering lawsuit said the lonely hearts website secretly recruited people to send enticing emails to its customers and to go out on dates with them as a way of getting them to keep up their 30 dollars monthly subscription. Read full story.

TENSION: Bait
GRAVITY: Switch

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