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By Shawn Langlois
Good morning.
Christmas is right around the corner, and that's usually a good thing for stocks. But the rally that Santa Claus tends to pack in his sleigh is still a couple of weeks off, if historical data are any indication.
A word of caution, however: Any gains logged during this bullish period could be fleeting. So fleeting, in fact, that at least one bear makes the case for the S&P 500 to test 450, citing investors' lost faith in Treasurys and foreigners' in the dollar.
For now, the dividend rush from the likes of Costco /quotes/zigman/67728 /quotes/nls/cost COST and Oracle /quotes/zigman/76584 /quotes/nls/orcl ORCL is giving an end-of-year boost to many of those going down that road.
Elsewhere, St. Nick arrived early in Shanghai, where beaten-down levels were too irresistible for buyers, who also may have keyed into market-friendly words from the country's new leaders. But beware the value trap.
Key market gauges: China's big surge brought the Shanghai Composite Index /quotes/zigman/1859015 CN:000001 up almost 3%, bouncing off recent lows to pace the region's strong trading day. Hong Kong's Hang Seng /quotes/zigman/2622475 HK:HSI wasn't far behind with a 2.2% jump. Read: China stocks rally to lead Asia gains.
Here's a chart from Also Sprach Analyst showing what an uptick in freight cargo means for the Chinese economy.
Futures on the Dow /quotes/zigman/8750714 DJZ2 and S&P /quotes/zigman/3102232 SPZ2 are in the green, taking part in a broad buying movement globally. Read Indications.
The economy: The MBA weekly mortgage applications survey hit early, followed by the ADP November private-sector jobs report that showed employers adding 118,000 jobs last month, down from 157,000 the prior month. Hurricane Sandy may have eliminated some 50,000 positions from payrolls, according to Goldman.
After that, third-quarter productivity was revised up to 2.9% from an initial reading of 1.9%, as companies generated more goods and services than originally estimated.
ISM non-manufacturing PMI is seen coming in at 53.5, down from 54.2. Also watch for data on factory orders and labor costs and the EIA weekly petroleum stocks report.
Some of the most recent bits of economic data to hit the tape have prompted Goldman Sachs to cut its fourth-quarter GDP forecast to 1% from 1.3%.
The buzz: It's going to be an ugly opening trade for Pandora /quotes/zigman/5419837 /quotes/nls/p P after the Internet-radio company bummed out Wall Street with its third-quarter report. A double-digit skewering is in the cards. Read the transcript from the conference call.
Heading in the other direction, look for huge initial trades from McMoRan Exploration /quotes/zigman/239740 /quotes/nls/mmr MMR and Plains Exploration /quotes/zigman/312657 /quotes/nls/pxp PXP . Both are surging in premarket action on word of buyout interest from Freeport-McMoRan /quotes/zigman/154700 /quotes/nls/fcx FCX .
Facebook /quotes/zigman/9962609 /quotes/nls/fb FB is on the move in premarket action, gaining some ground on word of its inclusion in the Nasdaq-100 starting December 12.
Big Lots /quotes/zigman/283891 /quotes/nls/big BIG had a big rally on Tuesday, but its CEO could be in big trouble now. The SEC is looking into trades made about a month before the company told investors that sales had slowed.
The dividend rush remains firmly on the radar and continues to provide a tailwind for some of the large-cap companies offering them, most notably Costco. Some 228 companies announced special dividends last month, up from 72 a year ago. What's it all mean? Well, perhaps a market "melt-up" to new all-time highs, according to MarketWatch contributor Michael Gayed. Follow him on Twitter.
The chart of the day: The Santa Claus rally concept has legs, but it doesn't get underway for a couple of weeks, according to Eddy Elfenbein, who put together this chart to illustrate "the best time of the year for stocks." The Dow has averaged a 3.2% gain over that 16-day run dating back to 1896. That's 41% of its average annual gain taking place over less than 5% of the year. Compelling evidence.
The call of the day: The Sovereign Man blog breaks down the views of consultant Russell Napier, including a bear-market nadir of 450 on the S&P 500 and an 83% price drop for U.S. Treasurys. The best metric for measuring the affordability of the market? The cyclically adjusted price/earnings ratio, or CAPE.
And it's showing a pricey market.
Random reads: Big-time money manager John Paulson reportedly blames the bulk of the losses that hit his $20-billion hedge funds on the European sovereign-debt crisis. Get the details from Bloomberg.
"Serious unrest" could be in the offing in Egypt, where a crowd of tens of thousands ripped through barbed wire and riot police to press up against the gates of Cairo's Presidential Palace. Read: Egyptians swarm palace in protest.
From AlterNet's Lynn Stuart Parramore: "CEOs talk about shared sacrifice, but the only thing they want to share is your retirement money with their wealthy friends." Read more "blunt talk about what the fixers want to do."
The demise of The Daily, two lessons learned, courtesy of Poynter.
Everybody's favorite neo-con, The Who's Pete Townshend, says he's surprised Obama won the election.
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You know what they say, it's a dirty job, but someone's got to do it.
There are hundreds of dirty jobs out there – dirty, stinky, smelly, messy, sloppy, gross, grueling, get-up-in-there jobs that most of us can't imagine doing once, never mind every day. There are so many, that an entire TV showis dedicated to dirty jobs.
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Göcek is a town in Lycia, Turkey. The gulf on the tip of which Göcek is located in known as one of the most beautiful yachting areas in the country, or even in whole Mediterranean basin.
Most of what you see today as "Göcek" is actually a town purpose built on a grid plan in late 1980s/early 1990s to boost and serve then newly-emerging tourism in the area, on what was then the coastal plains of the village of Göcek. Up to that date, much of the plains was covered with marshes and some farmland, along with a small port used for exporting logs harvested from surrounding forests for paper-milling and chromium ore, found abundantly and extracted since late 19th century in the surrounding mountains and the reason of many men from surrounding towns—who are now commemorated by a bronze mine worker statue at the town plaza—immigrating to look for a job at a time when, in the absence of tourism, there were little alternative ways of earning livelihood in this hilly region unfit for large agricultural operations.
The "real" village of Göcek, lying about 2-3 km uphill from waterfront and north of main highway, is still extant and retains its village atmosphere to some degree, with freely roaming sheepdogs and roosters here and there, and omnipresent mulberry trees casting their deep shadows much needed in this sunny and hot climate—quite a different world from the town centre, in short. However, the village itself is now being slowly engulfed by summer villas of urban dwellers from elsewhere.
Göcek experiences an average of 300 days of sunshine annually—you will indeed be hard pressed to find a single cloud formation in the skies in long summer, when temperatures constantly range between 35°C and 40°C during the day and no lower than 27°C during the night. Average winter—which, in fact, would be called "spring" really, in more northern climates—temperature is +17°C.
Water temperature at the bay is more or less around 25°C on the average during summer.
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Nearest airport is located in Dalaman, which receives domestic as well as international flights. From Dalaman Airport, you can take service shuttles run by Havaş [3] to Fethiye and get off at the junction of Göcek town centre - from there, it's about 10 minutes of walk to the town centre.
By bus[edit]
Buses heading for Fethiye from major cities of the country pass through Göcek.
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D400 connects Göcek north and south. When coming from north (Dalaman, Gökova, Muğla), you may take the tunnel to avoid the very winding and narrow road over the mountain, which is 5 km longer than the route via tunnel. However, this option has a price: Tunnel costs 3 TL/car/one-way and accompanying pessengers won't be able to enjoy the scenery of the mountain road.
There is a car-park at the entrance of the town.
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Göcek has three (or more?) yacht marinas, all located in town centre.
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Göcek is a very walkable place, with the distance from one end to another not exceeding half an hour's walk.
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While the town of Göcek itself has very little to see, its major draw is the coves and isles—which are collectively called Oniki Adalar, i.e. "Twelve Islands"—of the Gulf of Göcek, surrounded by mountains and pine forests rising right from the coastline.
Having said that, though, the beautifully-landscaped and palm lined waterfront promenade can be a sight in itself.
The pleasant Central Mosque (Merkez Camii), just behind the waterfront at the side of town plaza, with its non-traditional red-tile roof and colourful tiles with illustrations relating to Göcek's history and seafaring on its outside fountain, might be worth a check.
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Most of the commerce in town takes place in and around Okaliptüs İş Merkezi in the centre of the town. Banks (and their ATMs) are located there, as well as a number of stores offering stuff related to yachting.
Some national and international grocery store chains, such as Carrefour, Migros, Tansaş, and BİM, have stores in the town. Most have free deliveries to the marinas, however, the delivery is usually made by local youngsters with no affiliation to the stores and in the expectation of a tip, so even the smallest tip will be welcome by the delivery boys who receive no salary from the stores.
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Baran Café in the city center is reliable. Good food and late opening hours. Simple ambiance but clean.
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Many guesthouses, mostly occupying two-storey buildings with little gardens, can be found around the town and in İnlice, a nearby beachfront village to southeast, off the highway to Fethiye.
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Göcek is a very safe place, with local jandarma (Turkish military police responsible for rural safety) officers doing fairly regular patrols along the waterfront, town plaza, and main shopping street. They also have a station in town centre, a block inland from waterfront just on the bank of a creek, where you can file a report should you encounter any problems.
The telephone code of Göcek is (+90) 252.
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More federal regulators are sounding alarms on bitcoin warning that if you use the virtual currency, "you are on your own." Priya Anand joins MoneyBeat with Paul Vigna. Photo: Getty Images.
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Mexico -- One Plate at a Time with Rick Bayless "Puerto Escondido: Living The Dream" Ever dream of renting a space with a kitchen in Mexico just so you can cook all the fresh fish you can eat? Rick lives the dream at Hotel Villas Carrizalillo in Puerto Escondido. First, he peruses the town market for inspiration and ingredients from heirloom tomatoes to the local tuxtla chiles. Then he joins a resident expert to take him spear fishing off Roca Blanca Playa, one of the prettiest beaches in Mexico, for the freshest possible catch for his feast. D
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Unfinished Nation "The Age of the City" Industrialization shifts economic power and population to cities. Increase in immigration and ethnic neighborhoods; nativist reaction. City planning and infrastructure; urban transportation. Housing for wealthy, middle class, poor families. Threat of poverty, fire, disease. Growth of political machines, bossism. Consumerism. New leisure pastimes.G
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DragonflyTV "Space/Astronomy" Lightweight research: kids use microgravity demonstrators to show what puts the spring in an astronaut's step. Arizona kids hit the Mars-like desert landscape to discover more about life on the Red Planet. And "Bionic Woman" Ayanna Howard engineers out-of-this-world robots. D
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Biz Kid$ "Understanding Your Paycheck" What's on your stub, bub? The Biz Kids use a modern American pay stub to explore various social movements of the last century. From unions to social security and from workman's compensation to the 401(k) plans of today-it's all there on the stub. Plus, you'll meet entrepreneurs and explore how they started their businesses. D
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012
trying to unpack an amazing event....
36 comments:
- traci said...
karlie and i went to franklin a couple years ago while in nashville. it is an awesome little town. i didn't want to leave. looks like you all had a wonderful time.
- 7:47 AM, March 13, 2012
- The Avery House said...
Dear Paige,
I am so happy that you had such a wonderful weekend here in my home state and that your weekend was do full of many many blessings. I am also happy that you and Edie finally got to meet. You are right, she is the real deal and I am certain the two of you were cut from the same cloth. I am so sorry I didn't have the chance to meet you in person. It had been a very long week of stomach flu in our house with both girls and I being ill. But I want you to know that I prayed for you and all of you on your weekend. I look forward to hearing all about the many graces you experienced at the Pearl Event II!
- 7:49 AM, March 13, 2012
- Love Being A Nonny said...
Franklin is fabulous! We visited Sunday before heading back to NC! I am working on a post about the weekend....how do you put it in words how FABULOUS you girls are?????
- 7:52 AM, March 13, 2012
- Kelli said...
I look forward to each and every post. I know you all had to have had an amazing time :)
- 8:11 AM, March 13, 2012
- Amanda P said...
We live in Franklin, so seeing it on your blog is so cool! Stop by and see us when you are in town!!! Can't wait to read about the rest of your weekend!
- 8:23 AM, March 13, 2012
- 1 Funky Woman said...
Jealous that you were in that shop, wow! Those lights amazing! Looks like you had a beautiful time with your family!
- 8:47 AM, March 13, 2012
- Home: Inside and Out said...
I'm struggling to put it into words myself. Awesome weekend.
- 8:49 AM, March 13, 2012
- Deborah said...
We love Franklin. It's on our list (nearly the top of the list) of possible future hometowns too. Maybe we'll be neighbors one day. Love the traffic circle area of town and lovely shops, especially Lulu's and Shoppes on Main. We made a stop on the way to Pearl Event II and on the way home. Thank you so much Paige for blessing me with your beautiful story. You've always been an inspiration to me and now that I know you were our sweet Jesse's nurse, I love you even more dear friend.
- 8:55 AM, March 13, 2012
- Jennifer said...
IRON GATE! LOVE LOVE LOVE! Need to bring your fashionsta girls back and shop in Green Hills area and Hillsboro Village.
- 9:19 AM, March 13, 2012
- 3 Peanuts said...
Shana lives there and I am dying to go visit!!! It looks darling. I am so glad y'all had an awesome weekend. I was thinking of you and knew it would go just as God intended it to. Can't wait to hear all about it.
- 9:38 AM, March 13, 2012
- Love Being A Nonny said...
I did it. I put part one into words!
I made you sound good!!!!! :) You ARE!
- 9:44 AM, March 13, 2012
- amazeingteacher said...
i had tickets to the event, but couldn't go for several reasons. i hope you and sibi and edie get together for another event together:) maybe the pearl event III! so sorry i missed it:(
- 9:48 AM, March 13, 2012
- Heather said...
What fun! Can't wait to hear more about this fabulous event. You look so young and fashionable in these pictures!
- 11:12 AM, March 13, 2012
- Yvonne said...
Franklin, TN looks simply charming. Patsy Clairmont lives there also. She is my all time favorite speaker at the Women of Faith conferences. I hope Pearl Event becomes an annual tradition held in Franklin so that I can attend next year. So sorry that I was unable to attend this year. Looking forward to hearing about all of the details.
- 11:32 AM, March 13, 2012
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- 12:08 PM, March 13, 2012
- SSM said...
Oh, Paige, so glad that you had a such a great weeekend.
Loved the dress you were wearing in the first picture with Sibi.
It's to bad Savannah couldn't make it.
Love Madison's boots and her glasses make her look like a Rock Star!
Nice to see the girls had each other to keep company.
Looking forward to hearing more about the event.
Do you know if Jennifer from (the former blog) Southern Butter was there?
I really miss her blog! (:
I never had the chance to communicate with her because I didn't have a blog then.
Our children are the same age.
- 12:11 PM, March 13, 2012
- Tiffany said...
oh i longed to be there - circumstances didn't allow for it! I prayed and thought of you sweet ladies most of Saturday!
I feel blessed just reading about it - truly I do! And if I am lucky enough to attend TPE III - i will squeal right along with you and be the one crying the whole time! That's what God's love does to me!
- 12:47 PM, March 13, 2012
- Karena said...
So many amazing images. I can see you all had the best time!!
Adore that console and the chandeliers are amazing!!
Please do come over to visit, I have a New Giveaway I think you will love!
Art by Karena
- 1:00 PM, March 13, 2012
- Debra said...
Glad you had a good weekend! Can't wait to see future posts on your event.
Tennessee is on my list of places to live if we ever moved (fat chance!) and Franklin is darling!
- 1:26 PM, March 13, 2012
- Privet and Holly said...
I think I need a little
Franklin, right this
very minute......!
You had me at the
movie theater. The
houses and shops
were just a bonus : )
Looking forward to
the play by play!
xx Suzanne
- 3:22 PM, March 13, 2012
- Hannah said...
so glad you had an awesome time! i moved to franklin when i was 13 and my parents still live there...so i get to enjoy it several times a year! and that store you loved so much? my fave! i would move back in 2 heartbeats if my husband ever got a job there! :)
happy tuesday!!!
- 3:56 PM, March 13, 2012
- Tracy is ... Loving Pretty Things said...
so fabulous!! can't wait for more.
- 3:58 PM, March 13, 2012
so glad you found your way around for some fun shopping. but next time i TOtally want to tagalong!
Still basking in pearl event...did a post on my blog last pm:
happy laundering.
- 4:01 PM, March 13, 2012
- bb. said...
How fun!! Can't wait to hear more about the weekend, but I do have to chime in and say how much I love Franklin! I was born just outside of Franklin, moved all around, then finally moved back my senior year of high school. Downtown Franklin is amazing!! Did y'all get to go to "What's in Store?" or "The Registry"? Two favorites!! Once hubby's out of the military, I hope to move back!!
- 5:03 PM, March 13, 2012
- susan said...
Paige-Thank you, thank you, thank you for sharing your story this weekend! I am still trying to process it all. I want to let what I learned change me. I want to bravely embrace the love God has for me and let his Holy Spirit direct me. I don't want it to end up being just another fun weekend with friends. Thanks for listening as I babbled on to you on our way to the restroom!
Your girls are adorable and so patient with everyone making over them. I can just imagine what they must have been thinking!
We ate in Franklin on Saturday night at Puckett's Grocery and hear some FABULOUS music. Love that town!
Have a blessed week!
- 6:30 PM, March 13, 2012
- All Things Cherish said...
Hi! New-ish follower. Isn't Franklin amazing? And isn't Sweet CeCe's the most adorable little shop? We visited in December a few years back and it was decked out in Christmas decor as we're all the storefronts. Truly a beautiful sight and town.
- 7:46 PM, March 13, 2012
- Jodi said...
i am so excited to hear all about it! I just can't imagine how exciting and amazing it was.
I love the shopping trip pictures, you girls are just so cute and what beautiful shops!
take care!
- 9:01 PM, March 13, 2012
- Design with Grace said...
LOVED, LOVED, LOVED meeting you!!! can i say how awesome you are?! so glad you got to get down to dtf (aka downtown franklin) as my boy says :)...yep, it is a great little town to live in, always said i was going to move here! so glad you found sweet cece's...did you find pd's?!
- 9:53 PM, March 13, 2012
- Bobbie said...
Thanks for sending the Noonday bracelet so fast! I just got in the mail. Beautiful!
- 10:07 PM, March 13, 2012
- Jboo said...
Wow! So cool. Can't wait to hear more about the pearl event!
- 8:39 AM, March 14, 2012
When you get a minute -- will you list the names of the shops/restaurants you went? Heading to Franklin for an overnight trip in 2 weeks!
- 11:16 AM, March 14, 2012
- Alecia said...
1- I am in LOVE with that last house...sooo CUTE!
2- The shopping looked amazing!
3- How cute are you?!?!
4- I cannot WAIT to hear all about it!
- 12:07 PM, March 14, 2012
- Lindsey said...
I'm just dying for the next posts. Loving all these pictures though!!
- 5:35 PM, March 14, 2012
Glad you enjoyed Franklin, it really is a great place to shop, eat and just hang out on a nice day. Did you happen to go into Lulu? It is my sister's store and I think you would love it!
Come back soon!
- 11:17 PM, March 14, 2012
- Christan Perona said...
I'm finally getting caught up on some blog reading. I can't WAIT to hear all about your past weekend in future posts.
I love Franklin - and I'm not even southern! :)
- 7:28 AM, March 15, 2012
- Kathie Truitt said...
Whew! Been catching up on your blog. I LOVE that you always wear cowboy boots - you'll just have to come over and see my blog to understand what that means to me! I so wish i could have gone to the Pearl Event. Next year, for sure!
- 8:53 PM, March 26, 2012


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Labyrinthitis is irritation and swelling of the inner ear. It can cause vertigo and hearing loss.
Alternative Names
Bacterial labyrinthitis; Serous labyrinthitis; Neuronitis – vestibular; Vestibular neuronitis; Viral neurolabyrinthitis; Vestibular neuritis; Labyrinthitis-vertigo: Labyrinthitis-dizziness
Labyrinthitis is usually caused by a virus and sometimes by bacteria. Having a cold or flu can trigger the condition. Less often, an ear infection may lead to labyrinthitis. Other causes include allergies or certain drugs that are bad for the inner ear.
Your inner ear is important for both hearing and balance. When you have labyrinthitis, the parts of your inner ear become irritated and swollen. This can make you lose your balance and cause hearing loss.
These factors raise your risk for labyrinthitis:
Drinking large amounts of alcohol
- History of
- Recent viral illness,
respiratory infection, or ear infection
- Smoking
- Using certain prescription or nonprescription drugs (such as aspirin)
- Feeling like you are spinning, even when you are still (
vertigo) Your eyes moving on their own,making it hard to focus them
- Dizziness
Hearing lossin one ear Loss of balance; you may fall toward one side
- Nausea and vomiting
- Ringing or other noises in your ears (
Exams and Tests
Your doctor may give you a physical exam. You may also have tests of your nervous system (neurological exam).
Tests can rule out other causes of your symptoms. These may include:
EEG Electronystagmography, and warming and cooling the inner ear with air or water to test eye reflexes ( caloric stimulation) Head CT scan
- Hearing tests (
audiology/audiometry) MRIof the head
Labyrinthitis usually goes away within a few weeks. Treatment can help reduce vertigo and other symptoms. Medicines that may help include:
- Antihistamines
- Medicines to control nausea and vomiting, such as prochlorperazine (Compazine)
- Medicines relieve dizziness, such as meclizine (Bonine, Dramamine, or Antivert) or scopolamine (Transderm-Scop)
- Sedatives, such as diazepam (Valium)
- Steroids (Prednisone)
- Antiviral agents
Doing these things can help you manage vertigo:
- Stay still and rest.
- Avoid sudden movements or position changes.
- Slowly resume activity. You may need help walking when you lose your balance during attacks.
- Avoid bright lights, TV, and reading during attacks. Rest during severe episodes, and slowly increase your activity.
- Ask your health care provider about balance therapy. This may help once nausea and vomiting have passed.
You should avoid the following for 1 week after symptoms disappear:
- Driving
- Operating heavy machinery
- Climbing
A sudden dizzy spell during these activities can be dangerous.
Outlook (Prognosis)
- If you have severe vomiting, you may be admitted to the hospital.
- Severe symptoms usually go away within a week.
- Most people are completely better within 2 to 3 months.
- Older adults are more likely to have dizziness that lasts longer.
Rarely, hearing loss may be permanent.
Possible Complications
- You can injure yourself or others during attacks of vertigo
- Permanent hearing loss (rare)
When to Contact a Medical Professional
Call your health care provider if:
You have dizziness, vertigo, loss of balance, or other symptoms of labyrinthitis
You have hearing loss
Call 911 or your local emergency number if you have any of the following severe symptoms:
Double vision
Vomiting a lot
Slurred speech
Vertigo that occurs with a fever of more than 101 degrees Fahrenheit
Weakness or paralysis
There is no known way to prevent labyrinthitis.


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I'm not sure I know of a more-showstopping restaurant than Kaluz.
It sits under the bridge that crosses the Intracoastal at Commercial Boulevard. The lot once housed Roadhouse Grill, but the walls are all that remains of the old building. Designed by ID & Design International in Fort Lauderdale, Kaluz is a subtropical ode to Frank Lloyd Wright. It's Wright with 220 feet on the Intracoastal, enough room for a chic bar, 80 outdoor seats and a dock for a yacht.
Inside, a bar sits at the center of the 160-seat main dining room. There's not a bad seat in the house, but who wouldn't want one of the booths closest to the soaring wall of windows on the east side of the building? So glorious is the view of the water that you may miss the brick-covered walls, the glistening wall of wine, the shots of amberlike art and the cyclone-shaped lighting pendants.
Owner David Baldwin says Kaluz cost more than $3.5 million to build. It looks like more. But looks aren't everything.
As my often wise co-diner said as we waited an impossibly long time for a server to approach our table: "For the professional job they did building the place, they're not backing it up operationally."
I'm hopeful that won't always be the case, but right now, Kaluz is a big, beautiful building still finding its way as a restaurant. The first 40 minutes of my first night at Kaluz were spent waiting. Waiting for a table even though we had a reservation. Waiting for a drink at the bar, but never succeeding. Waiting for a waiter for 10 minutes after being seated. On a second visit on a quiet Monday, service ran much smoother. But Kaluz deserves stronger service beginning at the hostess stand. It needs pizazz, charm — something beyond its good looks.
Baldwin spent 11 years working for Houston's and J. Alexander's before heading to Buenos Aires for a dozen years to oversee the opening of three successful Kansas Grill restaurants. He takes credit for introducing baby-back ribs to Argentina.
Chef Mike Knapik's menu offers a crowd-pleasing selection of classic American restaurant food: burgers, pasta, steaks and seafood. It doesn't break any new ground. One night, down-home, loaded-baked-potato soup ($7) was offered next to highbrow lobster bisque ($14). The bisque was a masterpiece with big chunks of meat that went beyond garnish.
Kaluz — a made-up word, by the way — wants to be the kind of place where you can spend $20 on a burger and a craft beer or $50 on that bisque and filet mignon ($34). The wine list seems chosen for value with very modest markups.
Start dinner with one of the flatbreads ($13-$14): long, rectangular cracker-crusted breads, served on long, wooden boards, in a choice of three different styles. Shrimp and goat cheese with dates, balsamic onions and red-bell peppers is my favorite, with a great balance of flavors and textures.
Appetizers are mostly solid. Sweet ginger calamari ($13) gets a goopy assist with chili-ginger beer glaze, cilantro, garlic aioli and lime. Although the tuna tartare ($14) contains both sriracha sauce and wasabi, it didn't pack the heat I'd expected. Likewise, the shrimp-and-salmon ceviche ($9) needs another element beyond citrus and onion. Coconut shrimp ($14) is so perfectly breaded and plated that you won't know if you should eat it or photograph it. Eat it. It's predictably good. While heavily dressed Caesar salad ($10) isn't for everyone, I loved the cold, crispy leaves, even if I couldn't taste a drop of lemon.
The Prime burger ($14) is outstanding. Eight ounces of ground chuck are topped with shaved prime rib, caramelized onions, Swiss cheese and creamy au jus. Our server offered some creamy horseradish sauce, which added still another flavor. If a burger is only as good as the fries it comes with, then Kaluz has a hit with this section of the menu. Both the regular fries and sweet-potato fries were wonderful.
Entrees were excellent. Bar Harbor crab cakes ($32) served with green beans and wild-rice pilaf start with big chunks of crab and very little filler. Cedar-plank salmon ($25) is just as good. The pan-seared scallops in scallops pomegranate ($29) had nice caramelized edges and were served with pomegranate reduction and mango compote, but I wasn't sure why the quinoa medley was served refrigerated. The dish needs a more-refined accompaniment.
The kitchen knows how to cook a steak, as it did with the 9-ounce filet served with thick chimichurri and a loaded baked potato. Pork tenderloin ($22) has a sweet cinnamon-apple sauce and Parmesan mashed potatoes. Pan-seared frenched chicken breast ($16) gets its flavor from fresh herbs. It was just a bit overdone.
Like so much of the menu, desserts will please everyone. What's not to like about a salted caramel brownie ($8)? Or a dish called Going Bananas ($8), in which banana bread is soaked in banana liqueur, topped with hazelnut icing and served with banana slices, dulce de leche and shaved coconut?
Food-wise, Kaluz is on course. And it's the hands-down winner of any beauty contest.
Now, it needs to work on developing some charisma.
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3300 E. Commercial Blvd., Fort Lauderdale
954-772-2209, KaluzRestaurant.com
Cuisine: American
Cost: Moderate-expensive
Hours: Lunch and dinner daily
Reservations: For parties of five or more
Credit cards: All major
Bar: Full service
Sound level: Noisy when full
Outside smoking: Yes
For kids: Highchairs, boosters, menu
Wheelchair accessible: Yes
Parking: Free valet


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Great Moments
- By Jeff Greenfield
- | From Kevin Costner, Nov/Dec 00
"How about coming to Vegas with me?"
It was about the unlikeliest offer imaginable. We had met and fallen in love only a few weeks earlier, in Santa Barbara, California--a place as spiritually removed from Las Vegas as the outer moons of Jupiter. And, as a source of recreational diversion, neither of us would have ranked Vegas all that far above root canal.
Sandra was a child of the late 1960s, not an ashram-dwelling, crystal-waving New Age acolyte, but someone for whom a walk on the beach or along a mountain trail held far more appeal than the casinos and spectacles of the Strip. As for me, my appetite for gambling is more than sated by an occasional stab at the lottery. I have yet to grasp the rules of the craps table, and while I once fantasized about a turn at the blackjack tables, as smooth and suave as Sean Connery playing James Bond, reality was a different story. The sheer speed with which the cards were dealt and my chips vanished turned me into a sweat-drenched Don Knotts.
So why was I going to Las Vegas? For the only reason I ever go to Las Vegas: someone was paying me to speak there. I had long ago made my peace with the town: every time I went there, I would leave a tiny portion of my speaking fee in the slots--the one form of gambling I understood. I had come to think of it as something between a transaction fee and an offering to the gods of the desert. "Here," I might have been murmuring. "Take this small gift, and exempt me from Wayne Newton and David Brenner."
The trip to Las Vegas, I hastily explained to Sandra, was not my way of providing her with a glimpse into our future together. Think of it, I suggested, as something in the way of an anthropological field trip, a concentrated Salute to Wretched Excess. "OK," Sandra said, "as long as we don't have to spend a lot of time in the casino."
"You're on," I said.
So it came to pass that a few weeks later, we were walking through the lobby of one of the high-rise palaces on the Strip. The scene was familiar: the low-intensity clamor of the casino, the lights, the bells, the occasional orgasmic eruption of joy at a winning hand, the furrowed brows and baleful stares aimed by one spouse at the other, who has just placed the rent money at high risk, the endless lines snaking back from the buffet restaurants and reservations desks. We quickly decided we did not wish to book the floor show, a low-key spectacle that featured either the sinking of the Titanic or the bombing of Nagasaki, and set out instead to check out New YorkNew York. The just-opened hotel was Las Vegas at its...best?...worst? ...well, most.
To enter, you walked over an East River, across a Brooklyn Bridge, hard by a Statue of Liberty. The huge hotel offered side-by-side facades of the Empire State and Chrysler buildings. The casino was dominated by a classic Greco-Roman entrance that proclaimed, in a prescient parody of the famous Wall Street landmark: New York Slot Exchange. I started to lead Sandra inside, ready to make my traditional high two-figure offering in the form of several hundred quarters.
"No, not yet," Sandra said.
"What's up?"
"You have to get in touch with your positive karma," she said. All those years of living in Santa Barbara had given Sandra a keen ear for the loonier aspects of the South Coast--so keen an ear, in fact, that it took me some time to understand that these sorts of comments were uttered tongue-in-cheek. "What you have to do, " she said, "is look around the room and then visualize the winning machine."
"Right," I said. I lowered my eyelids and began intoning a barely audible "ommmnnn" as I glanced into the casino. Then I stopped, and pointed at a machine a few rows back. "That one," I said.
"Now, you're sure," Sandra said.
"Oh, yeah; I'm positive. That's the one."
As we walked toward the machine, I tried to calculate how quickly I could lose the $50 I had budgeted for this wild fling. We hadn't eaten for a while, and the hotel's version of an "authentic" New York deli was just a short distance away. Visions of novy, eggs, and onions danced in my head (or maybe ham and eggs--it wasn't that authentic a New York deli).
We reached the machine, pulled over two stools, and sat down. I began stroking the machine while whispering "hare Krishna." Then I dropped in two quarters (it was the maximum bet allowed--they don't call me Diamond Jeff for nothing). The whirring stopped, and I looked at the pay line: two identical symbols with a different symbol alongside; the same symbol that adorned the front of the machine.
"I think we won something," I said--a shrewd judgment confirmed by the sudden explosion of sound and light. It sounded a lot like one of those ambulances you hear racing through the streets of a Central European capital. I felt dozens of pairs of eyes rotate directly toward me, as I tried to calculate how we'd done.
"I think we won...let's see it's 80 times 8--that's 640 quarters; all right, that's $160!"
"No," said Sandra, who managed the finances of a major nonprofit institution in Santa Barbara. "It's 80 times 80; 6,400 quarters. Sixteen hundred dollars."
Several moments later, a very large man came over, jotted down some notes, asked for my driver's license, and handed me a tax form to fill out. (Note: it takes a lot longer to collect your winnings at the slots than it does to lose your money; I think the casinos have figured out how to work the float at any hour of the day or night.)
He went away, and came back a few minutes later clutching a handful of bills in his hand.
As he slowly but surely placed 16 one-hundred-dollar bills in my hand, I looked over at Sandra, flashed her the peace sign, and said to her: "I think I have found the love of my life."
We are now together; but to make sure we have not overburdened the karma, we have not been inside a casino since.
Jeff Greenfield is a senior analyst at CNN and author of the forthcoming novel, Jackpot.


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GAIN needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 88 designs submitted by 19 freelance designers.
GAIN & GAINnet
The Gainesville Area Innovation Network (GAIN) is one of the fastest growing entrepreneurship organizations in the country. It's social network of innovators, GAINnet: The Foundation for the Innovation Nation, can be found at http://my.gain-net.org/ but will be moving to gainnet.org with this logo/design change. Gainesville is home to the University of Florida's $600M+ of sponsored research and 5 different technology incubators, giving it more research and incubators per capita than any county in the US. The region is consistently ranked as a top city for an educated and innovative population -- most recently being projected as the top "creative class" job grower by Richard Florida and the #1 college town by Livability.com.
As the region's oldest and largest entrepreneurship organization, GAIN provides events, resources and networking to help founders create, fund and grow their companies. We are looking for a logo that can be used for GAIN (the organization) and tweaked for GAINnet (the innovators social network). The driving goal is a quality, modern logo design that matches an organization with innovation at its core; but any inclusion of infotech, medtech, cleantech, Gainesville or University elements are also welcome. Instead of being too rigid in our guidance, we'd prefer to see what top designers can do for defining The Foundation of the Innovation Nation.
Our target audience is innovators of all types: entrepreneurs, researchers, inventors, students, investors and service providers to the innovation ecosystem. We grew to almost 700 this year and expect to surpass 2,000 next year.
Gainesville is also a national hub for student startups, including the pioneer of cloud-based music streaming http://Grooveshark.com/ -- named one of the top 50 sites in the world by Time Magazine. Therefore, GAIN's logo needs to combine the quality, professionalism and experience of a 20+ year old organization with the edge of a young, innovative, student entrepreneur hotbed.
Old logo, look & feel can be found here: http://www.gain-net.org/public/index.asp
New look & feel can be found here: http://my.gain-net.org BUT do not focus only on those colors. Those colors are fine, but we also welcome tweaking colors of our social network for the best logo. Likewise, UF colors are orange & blue, a natural choice for Gainesville -- but NOT the only options. Also, despite our project title -- no rainbows, please.
Note, although our current domains and logos may reference "GAIN-net" (with hyphen), this design project is focused on GAIN/GAINnet (no hyphen) logo.
Give us your best!
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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by Brie Sosnov
Springside Chestnut Hill Academy will host the fourth annual "Rock the Runway," a student-organized runway show for charity sponsored by the school's Fashion Club, on Saturday, March 2, from 6 to 9 p.m.
Each year the students select a different charity to receive the proceeds from the event. Past runway shows have raised over $8,000 for charities such as the American Cancer Society. This year's proceeds will be donated to the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia to support pediatric cancer patients.
Members of the SCH Fashion Club styled the looks based on this year's theme "Fashion Through the Years." Each model will wear an outfit inspired by a certain decade, ranging from the 1950s to the 2000s. There will be six models for each decade, wearing clothing and accessories supplied by the SCH community. The Fashion Club cast 36 students as models, both male and female, to strut the catwalk in their stylish ensembles.
In addition to the runway, the event features musical performances by talented SCH students and raffle prizes including gift cards and products from local businesses. T-shirts, headbands and hair ties are available for purchase as well in support of CHOP.
"We've had a few people in the community affected by pediatric cancer and having a fashion show is a great way for us to incorporate something that we love [fashion] while honoring those affected and helping other children try to overcome the obstacles thrown their way," said Leah Beight, the junior head of the club
Tickets can be purchased in advance for $8 or for $10 at the door. To purchase tickets in advance, email the Senior Head of the Club, Jacqueline Weiss at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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NashView – Explore Your Community
Financial Empowerment Center
Opportunity NOW web portal
eBid Nashville
Development Services Center
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Video Gallery Archive
Broadcast Schedule
Citizens' Guide to the Metro Budget
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The Metro Neighborhood Traffic Management Program (MNTMP) has been designed by Metro Public Works, with input from the Metro Planning Department, Metro Police Department and other Metro Agencies. This program will address speeding traffic on local residential streets used by nonresidents as cut-throughs to avoid congestion on major roadways and overloaded intersections. The goal of this program is to create an improved environment within neighborhoods that promotes safety for both the driver and neighborhood residents. The program focuses on a neighborhood as a whole, not just one street or intersection.
The traffic management program was created in response to an ever-increasing number of residents expressing concern regarding the safety and livability of their neighborhoods. People speeding on residential streets can pose a danger to children playing adjacent to the streets, walkers, joggers, bicyclists and themselves.
Neighborhoods that have problems with speeding motorists using their residential streets as cut-throughs are the main group this program is designed to help. For neighborhoods having other traffic related problems, Public Works will work with to find the appropriate solution to their problem.
Public roadways are open to all roadway users; however, users are required to follow the 'rules of the road' as set forth by both state and local laws. The program focuses on the simple rule of obeying the posted speed limit while driving on residential streets.
To determine if a neighborhood is eligible to participate in the program, the Public Works department will conduct field inspections, collect and analyze date, and work with residents to identify the types, causes and severity of traffic issues. If it is determined that the primary traffic problem being experienced by the neighborhood on local residential streets is non-residents cutting-through and not obeying the posted speed limit, the neighborhood may qualify for the program.
Our staff will work with the neighborhood to select traffic management techniques that aim to safely control traffic within the entire neighborhood not just at an isolated site. The techniques used must be compatible with street activities and adjacent land uses. Public streets are not intended to be play areas for children or adults. The traffic management program seeks to improve safety for pedestrians, bicyclists, motorist and all other road users.
Some residents also drive through their own neighborhoods in an inattentive or careless manner. When residents speed in their own neighborhood, the best approach to solving this is a combination of enforcement and peer pressure. It is ultimately the neighborhood's responsibility to help solve internal problems
This document provides guidelines, procedures, and techniques to assist Metro Public Works, Metro Nashville Police Department staff, and neighborhood residents in implementing traffic management projects.
Note: Major roads, arterials, collector streets, and multi-lane roads are not eligible for neighborhood traffic management. These roadways are meant to handle larger amounts of traffic at higher speeds than local residential streets. Other streets, because of their special conditions or individual characteristics, may not be eligible for this program. In addition, consideration must be given to the impact that neighborhood traffic management techniques may have on the ability of emergency responders to safely respond to emergencies. The traffic management program is intended to help neighborhoods associations help themselves.
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Kristie needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 97 designs submitted by 17 freelance designers.
Hospitality Brainwave
Hi I have started a consultation and training business and need a great Logo - so I thought I would seek out the professionals! If you think you could make my business look new and fresh to show that we have a high standard of skill for the hospitality industry - more from a business management point of view, send me your design!
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GMTV is approaching it's 16th Year on ITV running 6am-9.25am 7 days a week. The Show brings you up to date with the mornings latest news and views. With real-life stories, celebrity exclusives, tv reviews and more.
GMTV was made up of 3 segments on a Monday to Thursday excluding half terms and school holidays from 1994-2008
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GMTV Newshour (6am-7am)
GMTV Today (7am-8.35am)
LK Today (8.35am-9.25am)(Replaced with extra GMTV Today during school Holidays)
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Sundays GMTV is made up of 2 Segments.
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The journal Invasive Plant Science and Management features an article in its June issue about trained detection dogs that can locate specific weeds more accurately and at a greater distance than humans.
The journal, produced by the Weed Science Society of America, noted that while dogs and humans were comparable in finding large- and medium-sized plants, the dogs had an edge in locating small plants.
Three dogs, a mixed-breed shepherd and two German shepherds, and 12 humans surveyed a field for spotted knapweed during four sets of seasonal trials in Montana. The dogs, Nightmare, Tsavo and Rio, had an overall success rate of 81 percent, while the humans were successful 59 percent of the time. With small infestations, the dogs registered a 67 percent success rate versus 35 percent for the humans.
Humans did rate higher in precision than the dogs, with 100 percent for humans and 94 percent for the dogs. Tsavo gave more false alerts than either of the other two dogs or the humans, possibly because of his propensity for giving chase to furry inhabitants of the field.
Researchers say they may have only scratched the surface of possibility with the study. "Clearly, the scent training and field research techniques we employed could easily be extended to detection of other plant species," the study said.
As an agricultural journalist, I'm bound to sniff out information wherever it is buried. I hope I'm not barking up the wrong tree here, but is it too far-fetched to suggest that Nightmare and Rio (not Tsavo) might also be trained to detect small glyphosate-resistant weeds like Palmer amaranth?
Just as importantly, could they be compelled to dig up large Palmer amaranth and transport the plant to the edge of the field? (This could give whole new meaning to the phrase, "Who let the dogs out!")
Don't laugh. If geese can be trained to eat weeds in a field, or if farmers can become so desperate they would burn weeds in a cotton field with a flame thrower, which we've resorted to in the past, we should be able to train natural diggers, maybe Dachshunds, to dig out weeds. They're certainly cheaper than hoe hands, requiring only a pat on the head and bowl of dog chow.
If a primary component of weed control is detection by the senses, it appears from this study that the nose can be more powerful than the eye.
As for right now, I would certainly think that the jobs of crop scouts are still safe, as long as they don't go running off into the woods at the first sight of a ground squirrel.
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The proposal unveiled today shows that President Obama did cut the budget — by 16 pages.
At 240 pages, the 2014 budget proposal is 6.25% slimmer than its 2013 counterpart. In contrast, actual spending in the budget was cut by only 0.7%. But in terms of pure word count, this year's proposal marks a reversal from recent years — the 2013 proposal was 40 pages longer than 2012's, for instance.
It should be noted too that although the 2014 budget is shorter, it contains more spending per page. The 2013 budget included $14.8 billion in spending per page, compared with $15.7 billion for the new budget. The 2010 proposal, which clocked in at just 146 pages, contained $24.3 billion in spending per page.
Though the dollar figures, and not the number of pages, are what matter to taxpayers, the shrinking document is a testament to the more austere ethos of the moment.
Negotiating a final budget has gotten tougher at a time when Republicans and Democrats are defending opposing views on how federal spending should be adjusted. The president's latest proposal is viewed by some experts as a compromise, in which he offers to slow the growth of spending on Social Security, Medicare and other benefits, while also calling for some tax increases.
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Thomas Townsend necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 245 diseños de 30 diseñadores freelance.
We have been involved in fitness & bodybuilding for over 25 years and have been involved in the social media marketing for some time in concert with video production and technology based firms.
This site represents a life's work. It is about returning to the love for fitness combined with video and social media.
We are looking for a designer that has cutting edge ideas, not afraid to push the envelope or ask questions.
This may prove to be a very good partnership for the right person.
This is going to be a Global Social Community.
Think Facebook & Twitter BIG !
There are so many hucksters on the internet spreading bad advice and mixed up in the Diet & Weight Loss noise. Our goal is to provide a clear path. This is about giving and sharing freely of information, including sharing experiences on fat loss, fitness etc. Helping People, like the BIGGEST LOOSER
Age Demographics we are hoping for initially will be 30 - 60. Baby Boomers, and Gen Y. Later we hope to expand the reach into lower age Demographics and quite possibly a spin-off for Kids.
The site will be tied into ALL the Social Communities. Also working on a Mobile App Will incorporate. Facebook, Twitter, Video Mashup, Blogging Content, Forums etc.
Video will be very large portion of this Portal.
We want this to be a totally original design.
Don't get hung up on the .com part but it is basis for the business, Nutra-Fit will be a TM.
It should be FUN, INVITING, COLORFUL, FRESH, MODERN, and something that people will remember
We want a LOGO that will POP.
Besides the logo going on the website it will be used as a logo bug in video products,so it needs to stand out, but not be too pretentious. It will also be used in all the Social Channels.
The final logo and colors will have a huge effect on our entire site design. We are working on the back end of the CMS now but waiting final Logo for colors. We may task the winner to help with many other design elements for this site.
Our goal is to have this become the most talked about new entry into the Social Media Spectrum for 2010.
Nutra-Fit is about Nutrition and Fitness in a broader context that encompass, Wellness and aspects of Psychology.
We ran this as Bricks & Mortar business in the early 90's with a certified Personal Fitness Trainer (CPFT) and Nutritionist. It's a proven concept and proven name.
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This month marks the start of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
In the four years since the Beijing Olympics a lot has happened in the world of social media. We've elected a new president who harnessed the power of social media to help get elected for the first time. We ended a war that was played out through social media on a regular basis for the first time too.
Surprising to some, we've also watched a social networking site grow from 100 million users to a publicly traded company with almost 900 million active users.
Today's social media community isn't what it was four years ago and this year's summer Olympics will be what some are calling the first "Socialympics".
The growth of social media since the Beijing Olympics has spurred an obvious need to revamp International Olympic Committee (IOC) social media policies at the games. Rules and regulations about the use of content surrounding the Olympics must comply with some pretty strict rules, which include tweets and Facebook posts.
In a post on SocialMediaToday.com Rachel Boothroyd, General Counsel at eModeration.com, discusses the UK legislation that brands and social media professionals and marketers need to be aware of. She shares Olympic social media rules for brands – dos and don'ts such as:
- Brands cannot associate themselves with the Olympics
- Comply with the Olympic Association Right (OAR) and London Olympic Association Right (LOAR)
- Provide the facts and take a journalistic approach to avoid violating restrictions
- Avoid marketing campaigns framed around the Olympics
- For additional information about brand protection and statutory marketing rights, download the brand protection pdf on the London2012.com site.
With so many restrictions, what are marketers to do? Taking a journalistic approach to sharing content about the Olympics seems to be the safest way marketers can still participate in the conversation, according to Boothroyd. Retweet, share, repin, post, "like", comment on, review, download, subscribe, +1 and blog about the information that is already being shared.
With so many social channels in use there will be plenty of opportunities to participate. Here are seven of the most popular social channels you can use to not only stay aware but use as an opportunity to join the conversation for your own possible journalistic efforts.
1. Olympic Online Communities
Several websites are available to help keep you up-to-date on the Olympic activities before, during and after the events. The official websites are:
- http://www.london2012.com/
- http://www.olympic.org
- http://hub.olympic.org
- http://www.nbcolympics.com/
- http://www.teamusa.org/
With more than 1,000 athletes participating online, the Olympic Athletes' Hub is the online community sports enthusiasts really should know about. Connect with athletes in real time chats, get updates about your favorite athletes, earn points and badges by participating in the Hub community.
Many of the sites do a great job of integrating Facebook and Twitter open graph. When signing up for the Olympic Hub site for example, users are able to sign in using Facebook or Twitter and connect with all their friends for easy registration, sharing, and data capture as well.
2. Facebook
Several pages are available online to stay in touch with your favorite athletes or see the most updated results for your favorite event. The Official Olympics page at over 2.8 million strong, NBC Olympics page and Countdown App are regularly updated accounts worth a "like". Additionally, the official London.uk.com Olympics & Paralympics page is a great page to subscribe to.
For more Olympic themed fun, take a look at some of the sponsors "vying for socialympics supremecy".
The Panasonic Flag Tags app allows you to tag your face with patriotic flag themed face paint, and the Visa Cheer app helps you to show your support for your favorite athletes. These are just a few of the fun ways brands are getting involved with the Olympics.
3. Twitter
While some are touting the Socialympics to be more of a "Facebook Olympics", I'll admit I was more social media geeked to see the Twitter integration by the IOC than anything else.
Not only are official accounts available for @Olympics, @USOlympicTeam, @IOCMedia (Official Olympic News), and London 2012, but Lists are also available. The Twitter Lists available to follow include Olympians Twitter list and automated results for all sports at the Olympics just to name a few.
4. Google+
The Olympics use of Google+ has proved meaningful for engagement and activity. Over 300,000 users have the London 2012 Google+ page in their circles, with many posts receiving well over 50 comments and +1s.
5. YouTube
In a recent post on Mashable, a USOC (United States Olympic Committee) representative shared that their choice to use YouTube as a channel was in large part due to the platform's reach. They plan to push 5 to 10 videos per day during the Olympics in efforts to grow and use their Team USA YouTube channel effectively.
Staying tuned to the channel is a definite must, as well as the Official Olympic Channel by the IOC and video galleries on the Olympics website, available to search and view on demand.
6. Photos/Pinterest
Photo galleries on the Olympic website are available to search through and share on Twitter, Facebook, even Google+ but not Pinterest – yet. There are many boards dedicated to the Olympics on Pinterest and I suspect we'll see more in the coming weeks.
An official Pinterest page doesn't exist yet but with the popularity of the platform Olympic pins are bound to go popular as the games begin. Conduct a search on Pinterest to see updated results of Olympic themed pins or join a London 2012 Flickr group.
7. Shazaam
A recent partnership between Shazaam and Comcast's NBCUniversal will allow users of the Shazaam app to access additional content when using the app during broadcasts on five NBC networks. The recent integration of Shazaam with the Grammys offered additional social engagement and proved successful for their efforts, the same remains to be seen for the Olympics.
The list of social channels could go on forever, but these are just a few of the ways to use social media to participate during the 2012 Summer Olympics.
How do you plan on staying connected? Share with us in the comments below.
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By Max Rothman
Does the hangover cure market look better than it really is?
Hair of the dog, pickle juice or ibuprofen. Greasy breakfast, black coffee, or sports drinks. Chug as much water as humanly possible before bed.
Many have tried and still fail to cure one of life's constantly recurring maladies, the hangover. Sure, they could drink less or stop drinking altogether to prevent the dread, but for many, that's an unrealistic sacrifice. Drinking, after all, is often about forgetting consequences, not preparing for them.
However, a still-emerging category in the beverage industry – recovery drinks – is hoping that there is a fortune to be made in helping provide that preparatory insurance against the day after. (How fast-growing is the category? Look at the 25 or so products that are in our roundup, and you'll see there are plenty of companies chasing the whiskey-hobbled.)
Some products claim they prevent the hangover before it happens, while others try to remedy the ailment when it's already pounding your shriveling brain. Investors see the benefit, at least: for hangover prevention drink Mercy, the investor list includes boldface types like actress Gwyneth Paltrow, MTV founder Bob Pittman, NBA player Jared Jeffries, NASCAR driver Brian Vickers, and Richard Kimball, former managing director at Goldman Sachs and current Mercy chairman.
Entrepreneurs believe the key to having those financial bets pay off is for their products to work.
"People increasingly are demanding observable benefits," said Luc Tomasino, CEO of Mercy. "They're demanding things that do work and they're willing to pay for them."
Tomasino stokes the faith of investors by comparing Mercy to a summer staple: sunscreen. Before you go the beach, it has become near second nature, if your genes call for it, to lather yourself and block sun rays from burning your skin. He envisions Mercy as part of a similarly protective ritual, only one performed before going out to the bar.
"Check and make sure I have my keys to the house," he said, "my wallet, my scarf, my hat, and make sure I have Mercy somewhere accessible nearby, hopefully in the fridge."
Here's how Tomasino says Mercy can help: when alcohol enters the bloodstream, it depletes levels of glutamine, the body's most abundant amino acid and one that aids the immune system, among other responsibilities. After a long night of drinking, your sleep could be interrupted as your body stimulates your brain while replenishing its glutamine levels.
Mercy contains a combination of B and C vitamins, amino acids, magnesium, potassium, chamomile extract and milk thistle to flush your body of acetaldehyde, a toxin created when alcohol is broken down by enzymes in the liver. Fewer toxins mean less glutamine production. Better glutamine retention means that you sleep better, even with the booze on board.
"We fortify your body to naturally break down these toxins and get rid of them efficiently and effectively, before they have a chance to settle into your system and lead to the hangover," Tomasino said.
Not a bad argument – if it works. And there are a lot of products out there that are making similar claims using a variety of ingredients, all with some form of scientific explanation that, if both sides of the equation balance, should provide not just hangover relief, but a highly profitable business proposition.
And yet all of those brands are being outsold by companies that seem to try very hard to avoid any kind of mention of the word "hangover."
While he encourages consumers to use Mercy as an everyday beverage or mixer, Tomasino said that the company's core message is hangover prevention.
Monster Energy Co.'s marketing department has long distanced the company's Rehab subline from that "h-word," in fact, although the word "Rehab" does carry certain implications borne out by web copy that says the product "quenches thirst, fires you up, and brings you back after a hard day's night."
That less-precise wording is certainly broader than the single function that Mercy is sticking by. It's also less precise. Even the name is based on the company's relationship with the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas and its "Rehab Pool Party." Similarly, Rockstar Energy sells four different forms of Rockstar Recovery: lemonade, orange, grape and tea/lemonade. And while the word "recovery" sits boldly below the Rockstar moniker on each can, there's no mention of the word hangover.
The value of that imprecision? The two companies created nearly $500 million in additional revenue last year, and the Rehab and Recovery lines have been the fastest-growing part of the energy drink category. And these products contain many of the same ingredients and effects as hangover cures, like prickly pear and milk thistle, even high-electrolyte coconut water. So why don't Monster, Rockstar and other drinks want to be known as hangover cures?
Ron Fournier, for one, says it's because that category just doesn't sell.
Fournier, who is the vice president of sales for Blue Coast Beverages, a premium beverage distributor, said that while Monster Rehab continues to be a top seller, not one of his 38 sales guys have asked him about hangover cure products. Fournier said the demand isn't there and he just doesn't believe in the category.
"Any of them that we have taken on, really, we haven't seen any type of success at all," he said. "In fact, we've deleted most of them."
Fournier suggested that Monster Rehab and other products like it could be separating themselves from hangover cures so they can market the products as full-spectrum electrolyte-and-coconut-water-based recovery drinks, rather than just a single-function beverage.
This could also mean that hangover cure products are still regarded more as hype than as profit drivers.
"I have no interest in distributing any of them, at least at this moment," Fournier said.
Maybe that's because, science aside, from a social viewpoint, hangover cures carry a stigma.
Kelly Heekin, the president of Hoist, used to market his isotonic sports drink as a hangover reliever because, knowing he couldn't trump Gatorade or Powerade, he thought curing hangovers could be a point of differentiation. On weekends, sales boomed. But here's the problem:
"We had a lot of people telling us they love our drink, but they couldn't drink it at work," he said.
Other products in the category, most notably Code Blue, have made similar marketing shifts. Still, those who believe in the recovery category are driven by the faith that, in time, an effective cure will be a profitable one.
Paul Shike, the president of Security Beverages Company, the maker of hangover preventative Security Feel Better, said that the hangover cure category will definitely expand once consumers are better educated on the efficacy and, in turn, demand increases.
"The big boys, I think, are sitting back and waiting to see what happens," Shike said. "At some point, they're going to jump in and they'll probably acquire somebody who gets a good jump in the market or they're going to come up with something they think is their own."
Shike has never doubted the efficacy of these products¬—it's what lured him into the business. However, when he goes to a store and sees consumers picking hangover cures by price differences, he knows that there's still more marketing to be done. His team has visited restaurants, bars, liquors stores and wine tastings, and encouraged those who try the products to note the differences in quality and share their experiences with others.
"It's an education issue," he said, "especially with a product like ours, where we have a premium price because of the ingredients."
While Shike and Tomasino feel confident in the abilities of their hangover cures, their ability to gain consumer approval also faces another obstacle, the doubts of the medical establishment. Dr. Catherine Ulbricht, Co-Founder of the Natural Standard Research Collaboration and Senior Attending Pharmacist at Massachusetts General Hospital, said that she recommends prevention instead of treatment such as hangover cures.
"They contain a wide array of ingredients, including, sometimes, high amount[s] of caffeine, and natural products not substantiated by science to be effective, so you are potentially taking a risk," Ulbricht said of hangover cure products.
She noted that chronic, excess consumption of alcohol could lead to dehydration, vitamin deficiency, electrolyte imbalances and other ailments. While she admitted that some hangover products could help negative reactions and make a consumer feel better, Ulbricht said they "are not true cures."
"The real cure," she said, "is when the alcohol has cleared your body and related imbalances rectified."
Still, Americans love to put their bodies in the state where the alcohol must be cleared, and there's precious little research into the compounds that these companies say can clear it.
A study from 2000 by Jeffrey G. Weise, MD, et al., noted that of the more than 4,700 medical articles written about alcohol intoxication, only 108 have addressed hangovers. The study also notes that hangovers cost the U.S. approximately $148 billion a year and 25 percent of college students reported that they had experienced a hangover in the previous week.
Of the few studies that have been conducted, concrete answers are hard to find. Natural Standard conducted a study that graded the evidence of several therapies for alcohol withdrawal and related conditions. Ingredients found in varying recovery products, such as borage seed oil and globe artichoke, were graded with a "C" for unclear or conflicting scientific evidence. Other ingredients commonly found in recovery drinks such as ginseng, guarana, n-acetyl cysteine, taurine, Vitamin B6, and Vitamin C, weren't graded and were labeled as traditional or theoretical uses, which lack sufficient evidence.
And the combination of that loss of efficiency and that gray area of traditional or theoretical uses is what keeps hangover cure drink entrepreneurs hopeful that time will eventually prove they have a viable market.
They already believe in their formula. Now they're just waiting for consumers to latch onto their idea; to think of going out, then think of Mercy or Security Feel Better, and then think of a placid morning. Just as we associate Rockstar Energy with extreme sports, Vitaminwater with fitness, and Coca-Cola with Christmas, hangover cure producers strive for consumers to link their products to a common sentiment.
"We all want to live longer," Tomasino said. "We all want to look young, feel young and feel good. This is what this is really all about. This is about the fountain of youth."


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Pumped in crowd noise? They only lost because of uncalled holding? We deliberately try to hurt their players? Richard Sherman is a bigger cheater than Barry Bonds and should have never been allowed to play in that game?
You can't make this stuff up! I've never seen a fan base go to such lengths to discount a team that just kicked their ass. It makes me really want to see them again in the playoffs just for the entertainment factor. I always thought the whole calling them Forty-Whiners thing was kind of childish, but they've earned it. Good stuff!


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