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Check out 2012 events in South Walton

South Walton, a strand of 15 beach neighborhoods along Northwest Florida's coast, has sent along a list of cultural activities and other events on the calendar for 2012:

New Arts & Culture Offerings

Carmike Cinema is currently building a 10-screen, 1,What are some new guccicaps coming out in 2009?800-seat movie theater at Grand Boulevard in the Sandestin neighborhood of South Walton. The new state-of-the-art theater is projected to open July 4, 2012, just in time for the line-up of summer blockbusters. Montecito 10 will also feature two special auditoriums: BIGD, which boasts a 60-foot-wide, three-story screen, and Ovation Club, an intimate 60-person theater that will offer a full food menu, beer and wine.

For years, musicians and music lovers have flocked to South Walton to take part in its thriving performing arts scene. On July 4, 2011, Tommy Jackson opened the First Note Music Hall in Santa Rosa Beach. Jackson developed First Note with the inspiration of a shuffling iPod; as many as eight artists take the stage each night, giving listeners a variety of music to enjoy in an intimate setting.

Each year, the South Walton Tourist Development Council (TDC) selects an artist to represent the destination and its thriving arts community. Allison Craft, South Walton's new 2012 Artist of the Year, crafts beautiful leather and pearl jewelry that perfectly represents South Walton—a strand of cherished beach neighborhoods connected like pearls along Northwest Florida's coast. While Allison's work can be found in shops throughout South Walton and the southeast, 30A Studio at Hibiscus Coffee & Guesthouse in Grayton Beach is home to her as well as three photographers. To see more of Allison Craft's work online, visit www.AllisonCraftDesigns.com.

In conjunction with the annual 30A Songwriters Festival, taking place January 13-15, 2012, South Walton will unveil a custom song inspired by the destination. Co-written and recorded by Susanna Hoffs of The Bangles, “This is the Place” showcases the many memories that are made along the destination's sugar-white sand and turquoise waters.

Additional family events

South Walton will welcome the inaugural ANNIKA & Friends Event to Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort, May 12-13, 2012. All proceeds from the event, which includes a wine-tasting reception, dinner party, Mother's Day Breakfast, and a golf clinic led by the legendary Annika Sorenstam, will go to the ANNIKA Foundation,The reliable Aquatimer leatherhandbags. which teaches children the importance of living a healthy and active lifestyle.

The star-studded ANNIKA & Friends Event will also feature country music star Darius Rucker, who will perform a headline concert May 13. Rucker, lead singer of Hootie and the Blowfish, has enjoyed a very successful career as a solo artist since his debut album, “Learn to Live,” was released in 2008. General admission concert tickets are available for purchase at www.AnnikaandFriends.com.

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Dining Options

While food trucks aren't a brand new addition to South Walton, they are increasingly popular throughout the destination's beach neighborhoods. Award-winning chef Derryck Adams recently opened Derryck's Pastries, a delightful concession stand located across from Van R. Butler Elementary School on Scenic Highway 30A in Dune Allen. The menu changes daily and features handmade pastries and fresh gourmet sandwiches. Adams, originally from Sri Lanka, has worked at five-star restaurants around the world and has been honored internationally for his sugar, chocolate and petit fours creations. Derryck's Pastries is open every day except Saturday and also offers wedding cake services.

Foodie Dietrich is another new addition to South Walton's growing food truck scene. Chef and owner Jamie Dietrich travels throughout South Walton, serving gourmet sandwiches and classic Southern favorites like shrimp and grits. An Alabama native, Dietrich uses only the freshest, high-quality ingredients and draws culinary inspiration from her Southern and Gulf Coast roots.

Seaside's The Meltdown on 30A offers several unique grilled cheese concoctions, including a goat cheese, prosciutto, arugula and tomato sandwich and a mozzarella, tomato and basil option, in addition to traditional favorites like the classic American grilled cheese sandwich and fresh tomato soup.

Seaside is also home to Wild Bill's Beach Dogs, which serves some of the healthiest hot dogs available. All of their dogs are grass-fed and contain no nitrites, nitrates, hormones or antibiotics. Wild Bill's also offers made-from-scratch chili, secret sauces and more.

The new Jin Jin 98 restaurant in Miramar Beach features a unique blend of Chinese, Japanese and Thai dishes. The owner, Li Wei, offers a variety of Asian dishes,,discountcoachhandbags full lines of this brand you can find at our store, including carefully prepared sushi, Thai Mango chicken or shrimp, red and yellow curry, Peking duck and much more.

Starting this spring, V Seagrove will begin offering special cooking classes with the restaurant's talented chefs. The classes will be held Saturdays at 1 p.m. in V's show kitchen and will have seating for only 12 aspiring chefs. Attendees will learn from the chefs at V Seagrove, who use only the freshest local ingredients with a special emphasis on locally sourced seafood and fresh produce.

Clear your mind by clearing out your cupboards

GONE ARE the days when everything we owned was either new or disposable. While the Celtic Tiger mantra was "spend, spend, spend”, we are now in an era of "re-use, swap, sell”.

With a huge increase in the popularity of car boot sales, vintage markets, websites such as eBay and Gumtree, it seems the new fashion is to re-fashion, and make better use of the things we no longer need or want.

But apart from the financial benefit of finding assets in our attic, it seems the act of decluttering in itself has emotional and psychological benefits.

Francine Jay, author of The Joy of Less, A Minimalist Living Guide, recommends decluttering for a simpler, happier life. "The top three benefits are less stress, more freedom and more joy. Possessions can be like anchors,Wholesale pradareplicahandbags for high quality wholesale New ERA Hats products.” she says.

"Even those who have pared down for financial reasons have fallen in love with a ‘lighter’ lifestyle. They feel less pressure to consume and keep up with the neighbours, and feel more satisfied and content with what they have. With this change in outlook, they generally experience less anxiety over their financial restraints.”

Clutter is a recognised symptom and cause of stress and can be overwhelming. You only have to Google "decluttering” for a plethora of companies dedicated to organising your life, and articles extolling its benefits and giving you tips. Bookshop shelves are laden with self-help books on the benefits of simplicity, and minimalism has become the new materialism.

"Many of the clients who come to us are literally overwhelmed by their clutter and just don’t know what to do. They avoid their home, eat out and their stuff owns them rather than them owning their stuff,” says Sarah Reynolds, founder of Organised Chaos, a Dublin-based decluttering service.

While there has always been a need for this sort of service, Reynolds has seen an increase in recent years. From the couple who bought an apartment intending to buy a house when their children were born but can no longer afford to, to busy professionals who procrastinate until their accumulation of Celtic Tiger trophies reaches tipping point, Reynolds admits they start to feel relieved from the minute the first session is over and they know there is a plan in place to deal with the mess.

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"Clients often tell me they take up hobbies afterwards because they suddenly feel more free. It has a transformative effect on them and they literally feel lighter and happier with themselves.”

But there is another benefit to de-cluttering. It can also make us a few euro. The traditional route of taking things to the charity shops seems to have faltered – instead more and more of us are going there for a bargain ourselves.Essential-Watches.com sells only 100% celinereplicahandb ,

"We have definitely seen an increase in customers, but less stock coming in as the public aren’t spending as much and holding onto their items longer,” says Bernadette Harrington, who manages the Barnardos shops.

Many charity shops such as Barnardos and Oxfam no longer provoke images of old dark cluttered premises, but have a recognisable retail environment, with many specialising in particular areas such as book, furniture and bridal wear. The stigma of shopping in charity shops is long gone, and they are now seen as cool places to hunt out bargains.

"It has become more and more trendy to be frugal and a savvy shopper since the more difficult times, hence the term ‘Recessionista’. People are definitely looking for a bargain or that retro designer Chanel or Prada!” says Harrington.

"Vintage is very en vogue and charity shops are an Aladdin’s cave to find something wonderful from a bygone era without the high-end price tag!”

But if charity starts at home, then the growing trend to sell on our goods looks set to continue. eBay has recorded a 40 per cent increase in Irish users selling between 2008 and 2010, with more than 24,000 Irish households making an average of 500 a year by turning their unwanted items into extra income.

Although the goods sold range from electrical to jewellery, clothes, shoes and accessories are the most popular. A pair of shoes is sold on ebay.ie every 38 seconds, while it seems the people of Westmeath are the canniest shoppers selling more than any other Irish county.

Fiona Mullen of eBay thinks Irish shoppers are very savvy. "A recent study we did reveals Ireland is the latest country to embrace the global trend of ‘shopping neutral’ – offsetting the cost of spending by selling unwanted goods online.”

Joanna Canney from Galway is a keen buyer and seller on sites such as eBay. "We’ve bought everything from bathroom radiators to Fired Earth tiles, Bugaboo prams, Chloe handbags, paintings and silver coins.,burberryhandbags as rich regain appetite for shopping. We’ve sold a bass guitar, albums, handbags,What are some new diorhandbags coming out in 2009? jeans and bodhráns and those silver coins when their value had gone up.”

Canney started buying on eBay because she would often see things in magazines that wouldn’t be easy to get in Galway, and her buying has evolved from there.

"We now buy a lot of second-hand goods within Ireland and it feels good to be buying quality second-hand goods that give the seller cash, recycles a perfectly good item and saves us a lot of money right now. It can also be very thrilling.”

They even found a market for unusual things. "The most surprising was the interest in our little miniature wooden Gypsy caravan, but it’s a worldwide market with all sorts of people looking for all sorts of things.”

So paring down for emotional, financial or pure logistics of space reasons can have a lasting benefit on our lifestyle and our pockets.

Francine Jay explains: "I think people are embracing a ‘share and reuse’ approach worldwide. The benefits are threefold: it keeps money in your pocket, keeps clutter out of your house, and conserves the resources of the planet. It’s a wonderful step forward in creating a more sustainable economy.”

Specialty camo effective during late-season hunt

According to that gun-totin,' guitar-playin' Texan Billy Gibbons, "the whole world's crazy about a sharp-dressed man."

While sharpness can be a matter of debate and taste, it's a fact that being well dressed for hunters who participate in Pennsylvania's late deer seasons means wearing apparel that makes them difficult to be seen. That means, for those who enjoy the challenge of spot-and-stalk hunting, having some type of snow camouflage in their wardrobe.

With Pennsylvania Game Commission regulations making the wearing of fluorescent orange optional for flintlock muzzleloader and late-season archery hunters, wearing snow camo - when combined with scent control and wind-direction awareness - can be especially effective for spot-and-stalk hunting. Unfortunately, when it comes to snow patterns, good camouflage is hard to find (pun intended).

As effective as snow camo is in winter conditions for both late-season deer hunting and snow goose hunting in the open, rather than a blind, the demand is limited. As a result, there are few choices available from major manufacturers.

Ever since bowhunters began wearing World War II surplus camo, rather than the traditional tweeds and wools, the manufacturing of camouflage clothing designed for hunting has become an industry onto itself. Like so many products whose development - from aircraft to those "tasty" freeze-dried meals - have grown by leaps and bounds because of military use, the design of camo clothing has resulted in products being produced in a seemingly endless variety for specific hunting situations.

There are camo patterns for hunting from a treestand in hardwoods (with or without leaf cover); there are camo patterns for hunting in a swamp or marsh; there are camo patterns for hunting in pines; and there are camo patterns for hunting in open terrain, from the waving seas of grain to sand-covered deserts.Great Promotions on Greatest Purchase San Francisco Giants Franchise Fitted chloehandbags Shops.audemarspiguetdiverreplica produced during the 1970s and early 1980s did feature quartz movements, As if these choices are not enough, there are even patterns designed to resemble the skin of various animals and reptiles.

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Realtree offers a reversible Sherpa hooded jacket and coverall bib set, with one side its standard AP pattern and the other its AP snow pattern. Both pieces each retail in the $150 range, which makes a set a bit pricey for those needing only snow camo.

Cabela's offers a range of snow camo hunting apparel from cover-up jackets and pants that can be worn over all types of cold-weather clothing - from ski and snowmobile suits to wool and camouflage hunting clothing - to outer wear that stands on its own. In addition, the line has accessory items, such as facemasks for protection from wind and rain.

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'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' 101

You know it's one of the biggest books of the last decade, when you see people everywhere from the beach to the doctor's office with their head buried in "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo."

You might even know the tragic story about how author Stieg Larsson died before his blockbuster Millennium Trilogy (". . . Dragon Tattoo," "The Girl Who Played With Fire" and "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest") was published. But how much more do you know about the book, and girl, who have taken the publishing world by storm?

In advance of Wednesday's opening of the movie starring Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig, here's your "Dragon Tattoo 101."

1. The original title of the "Dragon Tattoo" book in Swedish is "Men Who Hate Women." The vitriol gives a not-so-subtle hint at the book's very dark, very violent themes.

2. Larsson's Millennium Trilogy books have sold a phenomenal 65 million copies in more than 50 countries, including more than 1 million e-books.

3. The David Fincher-directed "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" that opens nationwide Wednesday follows three successful Swedish film adaptations of Larsson's books, all released in 2009.

4. The Swedish-language films were a big hit for Cleveland Cinemas when they played in town in 2010. "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" played for five months, and "The Girl Who Played With Fire" and "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest" lasted for three months. The Swedish films were a worldwide success, playing in more than 25 countries outside Scandinavia.

5. The budget for Fincher's "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" was $100 million. Director Niels Arden Oplev's Swedish "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" was made for $13 million and took in over $105 million ($10 million in North America).

6. Noomi Rapace, who stunned critics (including this one) with her fierce turn as Lisbeth Salander in the Swedish trilogy, earned the Swedish Guldbagge Award for best actress and nominations for several other European honors. She can currently be seen in her first English-language film, as a Gypsy fortune teller in "Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows."

7. Director Fincher's previous films include "Seven" (1995), "Fight Club" (1999), "Panic Room" (2002), "Zodiac" (2007) and "The Social Network" (2010). But he got his start directing videos for some very famous names, including Madonna ("Express Yourself," "Vogue"), Billy Idol ("Cradle of Love"), Paula Abdul ("Straight Up"), Aerosmith ("Janie's Got a Gun"), the Rolling Stones ("Love Is Strong") and Nine Inch Nails ("Only.")

8. The English-language production was filmed almost entirely in Sweden.

9. Daniel Craig was the first major star to be cast in Fincher's film, as crusading journalist Mikael Blomkvist. Blomkvist has one character trait in common with Craig's most famous role, "Bond, James Bond": He's a ladies' man. But don't expect much swanky martini-swilling this time; Blomkvist is a nose-to-the-grindstone reporter, not a superspy.

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12. Actor Stellan Skarsgaard, who plays businessman Martin Vanger in the film, is the only Swede with a major role in the movie. He speaks English with a Swedish accent in it, as do the American actors. Brit Daniel Craig has his usual English accent.

13. Despite the extreme violence against women in his stories, Larsson considered himself a devoted feminist. He claimed to have begun his fight for women's rights after witnessing a gang-rape of a girl when he was a teen. It's speculated that his regret at not coming to her defense led to avenging angel Lisbeth.

14. Larsson imagined Lisbeth as a grown-up Pippi Longstocking (a Pippi who'd had a hard, hard life, apparently). Not only is her real hair red in honor of the children's literature favorite created by Astrid Lindgren. Lisbeth uses the alias V.Kulla on her apartment building, short for Pippi's house, Villa Villekulla.

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17. Want to see the real Sodermalm area, the Kvarnen bar and other Stockholm hangouts where Blomkvist and Lisbeth uncover dastardly deeds and drink lots of coffee? Tours of "Larsson's Stockholm" are popular tourist draws in Sweden. The Stockholm City Museum's "Stieg Larsson -- Millennium Tour" is one of the most popular.

18. The soundtrack to the new movie was created by former Clevelander Trent Reznor, of Nine Inch Nails fame, along with English musician Atticus Ross.

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