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Disabled Supporters Groups
If you would like to list your organisation on this page please call CAFE on Call +44 (0)20 8621 2405 or send an e-mail to email@example.com
Aberdeen FC Disabled Supporters Club (Scotland)
Aberdeen FC Disabled Supporters Club was form in 1998 and is supported by the Pittodrie based club. The Dons have more than 300 registered disabled followers who regularly games both home and away. Recently, they joined with other clubs in forming the Scottish Disabled Supporters Association.
BBAG - Bundesbehinddertenfanarbeitsgemeinschaft (Germany)
The Bundesbehindertenfanarbeitsgemeinschaft (BBAG) is the German association of disabled football supporters and disability officers within the clubs. The BBAG started its activities in 1999 and was founded as a charity organization in 2003. Its main purpose is to advise the two organizations of German football, Deutscher Fußball-Bund (DFB) and Deutsche Fußball Liga (DFL), in all issues concerning disabled people. The BBAG is also lobbying on national level towards the relevant stakeholders in German politics. Furthermore its aim is to support German football clubs, both professionals and non-professionals, to improve their services for disabled supporters and to design their stadia accessible.
Blue Army On Wheels (Belgium)
Blue Army on Wheels was started on June 17, 2000. We were the first supporters club in Belgium for people with disabilities. The main purpose of this club is to ensure that wheelchair users and other disabled people can fully participate in the soccer event without worrying that they can go to a football match, both in Genk and away. We do this in good agreement with KRC Genk and the Umbrella Supporters Association KRC Genk (OSV), where the Blue Army on Wheels has a spokeswoman for people with disabilities.
The club can also count on the support of Genk and the province of Limburg. Blue Army on Wheels currently has 200 members.
Our contact person is Bielen Maurice firstname.lastname@example.com
CLAN - Club Links for Additional Needs (Scotland)
Our name is CLAN - Club Link for Additional Needs. Our DSA is made up of fans of Inverness Caledonian Thistle F.C. Since we were formed in 2010 we have had regular meetings, party discos for fund raising and other social events. We have hired a bus with access for wheelchairs for three successful trips to away matches and hope to do this more often in the future. Fund raising is supplemented with raffles at Inverness Caley Thistle Supporters Club and bucket collections at our Stadium. We are also looked after by the ICT Supporters Trust. The Chairman of the football club attended a recent meeting and will continue to assist us in the future. Ryan Esson, one of our favourite players, has agreed to be an Honourary Member.
Anybody interested in contacting the CLAN should email Brian Duncan at firstname.lastname@example.com
Celtic Disabled Supporters Association (Scotland)
Celtic Disabled Supporters Association was formed in 2011. The Association was formed to promote disabled supporters attending football matches both at Celtic Park and at away venues. They are fully recognised and supported by the football club, and work closely with them on issues such as future ticketing, access issues and any general issues that members may have. For further information, please email email@example.com
Chelsea Disabled Supporters' Association (England)
Chelsea Disabled Supporters' Association (CDSA) is a committee of 6 disabled fans of Chelsea FC and 3 Club Officials. It was formed in March 2006 and has as its aim the maintenance and advancement of good relations between Chelsea Football Club and its disabled supporters, the improvement of amenities for such supporters and any other objective, which the committee deems appropriate.
Dolphins (Ukraine)
The disabled fans group of FC Sevastopol (Ukraine) was formally created in 2010 when the reconstructed stadium of FC Sevastopol was opened and offered improved facilities for disabled supporters. Today the group consists of 40 members who attend almost every home match with their families and friends.
In 2012 the groups called themselves Dolphins and created a blue logo which resembles the colors of the football club and bears the marine theme.
Dundee FC Disabled Supporters Club (Scotland)
Dundee FC Disabled Supporters Club was formed in year 2010 to help disabled supporters & Dundee FC work together to make a better football experience for all disabled fans. We are recognised by the club now with the full backing of the DFC board of directors. We have achieved getting more disabled parking for home and away fans and have managed to get disabled wheelchair ramps for the lounges which have steps. But this is mainly the Andy Penman lounge which all away fans are welcome. We are now also members of the Dundee Supporters Society (Fans Group).
If you wish to contact us, please contact, Secretary, Cheryl Adam by Mobile 07857749871 or email firstname.lastname@example.com
Dundee United Disabled Supporters Club (Scotland)
The group was originally formed in 2010 with the support of CAFE. Later it stopped operated once Ken Lowrie, who originally took the lead, returned to Northern Ireland. The club continued to be represented at the SDSA meetings however in October 2015 it was decided to revive the group.
The club now needs support to move forward. Any Dundee United disabled fan and/or their personal assistant who is interested in supporting this group should contact Alan Mills T: 07561227576 Email: email@example.com .
Dunfermline Athletic Disabled Supporters Club (Scotland)
Dunfermline Athletic Disabled Supporters Club was set up in 2007 with a few aims. the first was to give the clubs disabled support a forum in which they could discuss the problems they faced at East End park and other grounds in Scottish football. Through this we can push for improvements in facilities. It gave us a united voice with which to speak to DAFC. This in turn gave the Football Club had an organisation they could turn to when formulating Disabled policy. Our other aim was to organising transport to selected away games during the season. We hire specially adapted buses which has enabled fans who have difficulty with normal public transport to travel to away games.
We're affiliated to the Official Supporters Clubs. If you wish to contact us, please email Peter Lockhart email@example.com
Dynamo Kiev DSA (Ukraine)
The Dynamo Kiev DSA was created on the 14th of November 2014.
The association consists of approximately 150 disabled members.
This includes wheelchair users, partially sighted and blind supporters as well as hard of hearing and deaf fans.
Everton Disabled Supporters Association
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Falkirk Disabled Supporters Club (Scotland)
FDSC was created to help achieve certain aims for every disabled supporter visiting Falkirk Football Club. These aims include being a voice for supporters of all disability groups, improving facilities and welfare of all disabled supporters, enriching lives of disabled people through football and raising disability awareness.
Fundacja Otwarte Ramię Białej Gwiazdy (FORBG - Poland)
Open Arms of the White Star Fundation was created to help people with disabilities to participate in sporting events at home and abroad. Therefore with a view to activate, integrate and help to prove that if you really want something, it's really possible. The Foundation was created by the club Wisla Krakow.
"Open Arm" is for all disabled fans wheelchair users, partially sighted and blind as well as heard of hearing and others.
Glentoran DSG (Northern Ireland)
Glentoran DSG was formed in September 2011. Our aim now that we have formed a disabled supporters group is to work closely with our own supporters and any away supporters to make their trip to The Oval more enjoyable, and as stress-free as we can for an enjoyable day out. We are so pleased that CAFE have been there to advise us and appreciate all their help.
We can be found on Facebook Glentoran DSG or email email@example.com
Handi Supporters (France)
Handi Supporters is an organisation, created as per the 1901 law, to support disabled fans.
Handi Supporters aims to provide all disabled people with the opportunity to experience their passion for Saint Etienne Football Club, to make people aware of and acknowledge disabled supporters and to strive towards greater integration for disabled people. We reserve seats at the Geoffroy Guichard Stadium on match days, we accompany people to the stadium if they so desire, we organise trips and we remain closely aligned to both Saint Etienne Football Club and to its disabled supporters.
Handi-Sup-OL (France)
The Handi-Sup-OL association was created in July 2005. The key aims of the group were to improve the accessibility of Lyon's Stade Gerland stadium, as well as enabling supporters to travel around stadiums for away matches. This has been particularly helpful for disabled supporters watching Lyon play in such competitions as the UEFA Champions League, which they regularly perform well in.
The association currently has in excess of 100 members and continues to grow.
Handifan Club OM (France)
Handifan Club OM was created in 2004. The objective of Handifan Club OM is to facilitate access and provide support for all disabled supporters without discrimination, so they can support Olympique de Marseille and access all stadia in Europe.
Handifan Club OM is proud of being amongst the largest disabled supporters group in Europe, with some 511 season ticket holders. We have 32 volunteers who provide support for our disabled supporters and carers at every home match providing stewarding services in the car park, helping with travelling from the car park to the stadium, distributing and checking tickets, placing the supporters in their designated areas and providing refreshments.
We also organise trips to away matches, both in France and across Europe.
Hapoel Tel Aviv's DSA (Israel)
Hapoel Tel Aviv`s Disabled Supporters Association has a few active members who all have some sort of disability: wheelchair users, partially sighted and blind people and also people with walking difficulties. We stay in touch during the Football season and get together once in a while to talk about different aspects of the disabled supporters' experiences. We also started a radio commentary initiative for the visually impaired in Hapoel basketball club and soon we will do the same for the football club.
If you wish to contact us, please email Asaf de Vries. email@example.com
Heart of Midlothian Disabled Supporters Club (Scotland)
The HDSC has been in place for nearly 20 years and has over 60 members. Membership includes fans with different disabilities, family members, friends and personal assistants. The club has a strong relationship with Heart of Midlothian F.C. who recognize the HDSC as the main spokesperson for disabled supporters. The HDSC has a small group of members who travel to all away matches throughout Scotland and it is an active member of the newly formed Scottish Disabled Supporters Association.
If you wish to contact us, please contact HDSC Secretaries, Heather and Mark Jackson by email at firstname.lastname@example.com
Hibernian Disabled Supporters Association (Scotland)
Hibernian FC Disabled Supporters Association was founded in May 2011. They utilise the skills and expertise of disabled supporters in assisting Hibernian Football Club to enhance the facilities and experience of supporting the club for disabled people. Their aims are to improve facilities and services, promote the interests of members and establish a first class working relationship with the club. Hibernian DSA are also interested in co-operating with other similar groups, and you can contact them by emailing the HDSA at email@example.com or the HDSA mobile 07784069122
Hibernian Disabled Supporters Association became one of the first DSA's to be twinned with another, The Rolly Side, at the CAFE Conference in September 2011. To read more about this, please visit http://www.cafefootball.eu/en/news/cafe-promotes-dsa-twinning
Inclusive Supporters Association (Northern Ireland)
The ISA – NI was launched in November 2010. Membership is open to representatives from all football clubs who are recognised as the spokesperson for disabled supporters. In addition disabled supporters of the Northern Ireland international team are also represented. Regular meetings have been taking place and the association has a strong relationship with the Irish Football Association including involvement in the redevelopment of Windsor Park.
If you wish to contact us, please email the following officer bearers of whom one will get back to you as soon as possible:- firstname.lastname@example.com; firstname.lastname@example.com; email@example.com; firstname.lastname@example.com
Inside (Belgium)
A new national disabled supporters association was launched towards the end of 2011 in Belgium. This is now called INSIDE (Toegankelijk Voetbal België/Football Accessible Belgique) and is open to all disabled supporters groups in Belgium. Regular meetings have been taking place and in the future will take be held at various stadiums around the country.
INSIDE is supported by the KBVB. If you wish to contact INSIDE please email Geert Thomas at firstname.lastname@example.com
Kilmarnock Football Club Disabled Supporters Association (Scotland)
The club KFCDSA (Kilmarnock Football Club Disabled Supporters Association) was formed in 1992 with the full backing of the then KFC board of directors, who in turn asked if we would form a committee and take over the day to day running of attending to Home and Away disabled supporters who wanted to watch football at Rugby Park, a meeting with all concerned was held,and voted on a working committee. Since then we have steadily built up our fan base, we know have 21 wheelchair & Carer season ticket holders -130 Ambulant plus Carers for those that require them.
If you need to contact us feel free to email Peter, our Chairman email@example.com
Klub Kibicow Niepelnosprawnych (KKN, Poland)
Klub Kibiców Niepełnosprawnych has been created on 28 October 2008 in Wrocław, Poland. This is the first Disabled Supporters Club in Poland. The main aim of the club is to empower disabled supporters to take active part in sport events and assure accessibility and equality on their stadium.
There is a significant group of active supporters which support Slask Wroclaw at home and away games.
Legia Warszawa Supporters' Association (SKLW, Poland) – Disabled Supporters' Group
Legia Disabled supporters have been travelling to Legia away matches since a long time. Up to 2006 they had to travel on their own. In March 2006 disabled and other supporters travelled together to away match for the first time. Since then disabled supporters have also been travelling to all Legia league matches across Poland and Europe, e.g. they travelled to European Cup matches in Donetsk, Vienna or Vilnius. During those trips all supporters follow one rule – "Legia always together." It means that disabled supporters appear only on those stadia where the main Legia Supporters' Group sits.
According to this principle, in December 2010 disabled supporters established Disabled Supporters' Club within SKLW. Operating in one association also emphasizes equality of all Legia supporters and it means that all disabled supporters can count on any assistance provided by people engaged in Legia Supporters' Association.
If you need to contact us feel free to email Bartek firstname.lastname@example.com
Level Playing Field (LPF, England and Wales)
Level Playing Field is the new trading name for The National Association of Disabled Supporters (NADS). LPF changed their name in March 2011 because they feel it better embraces the social model of disability. LPF/NADS was established in 1998 and is the only national registered charity for England and Wales representing disabled fans of all sports together with their personal assistant's and advocates. Its key objectives are to promote an inclusive agenda, raise disability awareness through sport and ensure an equality of experiences for all fans.
On the LPF website you'll find information on disabled facilities at clubs and stadia, along with useful football and disability reports, guides and general disabled supporter information.
Lierse Rollerboys (Belgium)
Lierse Rollerboys were founded in 2000 as an unofficial group of SK Lierse in Belgium. Since 2006, the group has been supported by the club and recognised by the union of supporters groups. Lierse Rollerboys try to improve the accessibility of the stadium and bring disabled SK Lierse supporters together. For more information on the group, please contact Bert van Dyck via email at firstname.lastname@example.com
MetalHearts DSA (Ukraine)
The Disabled supporters association (DSA) of football club Metalist (Kharkiv) was created on the 6th of March 2013. The DSA got its official name through the supporters' vote– MetalHearts. The association consists of approximately 600 disabled members. This includes wheelchair users, partially sighted and blind supporters as well as hard of hearing and deaf fans.
Motherwell Disabled Supporters Club (Scotland)
Motherwell Disabled Supporters Club was set up in 2010 to help disabled supporters & Motherwell FC work together to make a better football experience for all disabled fans. If you need to contact us feel free to call our Secretary Sharon McCaskie on mobile 07809417208 or by email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Parafan-club Shakhtar Donetsk (Ukraine)
Shakhtar Donetsk launched the Parafan-club disabled supporters association as a social project in August 2009. A significant number of wheelchair users and companions attend Shakhtar's matches at the Donbass Arena, with a number of accessible seating areas in the third tier.
Parafan-club has more than 1000 disabled fans as members. They can help disabled fans to attend matches and other events held by Shakhtar Donetsk at the stadium.
You can contact Parafan-club by calling +38 (062) 388 88 83
RSCA Purple Wheels (Belgium)
RSCA Purple Wheels is the official recognized disabled supporters group of R.S.C. Anderlecht football club and was formed in 2009. Since that time, we were able to build strong relationships with the football club. Our main objective is to defend the meanings of all disabilities fans, their families and their friends in order to create a better football experience. Therefore RSCA Purple Wheels is proud on his achievements together with R.S.C. Anderlecht football club, such as new accessible stadium seats, improved parking facilities etc. For the benefit of visually impaired or blind supporters, we also use an Audio Description System during all home games. Last but not least: RSCA Purple Wheels aims to create networks with several organizations and supporters groups.
If you wish to contact us, please feel free to email Geert Thomas, chairman email@example.com
Rangers Disabled Supporters Club (Scotland)
In the early sixties a group of fans got together and formed the Rangers Disabled Supporters Club.Our main objective was to gain access to away grounds. The club continued in its orginal form until Rangers redeveloped the stadium, at which point Rangers F.C. approached the RDSA with a view to forming a new organisation recognised officially by the club. As a result Club was re-launched in 1980 and at that time we had 42 members however the number of wheelchair spaces at Ibrox was limited to 26 wheelchairs.
This situation continued until the West Enclosure was redeveloped and there are now 65 wheelchair spaces and our current membership is about the same number.
After the recent financial problems at the club the group has risen up again and is now aiming to be a pan-disability group.
If you are interested in joining or find out more information please contact Peter Dunbar Secretary (on 07588633076 or firstname.lastname@example.com) or Billy Paterson Chairperson on 07952685773 or email@example.com
SFCB On Wheels (Belgium)
The associated federation of fans from Club Brugge VZW has kicked off a permanent new fan club for people with disabilities. In collaboration with Club Brugge KV and Allemaol Thope we want to make football as a whole more accessible and adapted to the fans. The main purpose of this fan club is to ensure that wheelchair users and disabled people can fully participate in the football event, without worrying that they can go to a football game, both at Club Brugge and visiting other clubs.
This requires that a number of preconditions have to be created. These include the accommodation within the stadiums, car parks, rest rooms, access to food and drinks, ticketing, accompanying the disabled person to and from the stadiums, the safety of the wheelchair inside the stadiums, etc. This way we hope our fanclub can contribute to the identification of disabled people and wheelchair users as full blue and black supporters.
For all information you can contact us by email: firstname.lastname@example.com visit our website at www.sfcbonwheels.be
Scottish Disabled Supporters Association (Scotland)
The SDSA was launched in October 2010. Membership is open to club DSA's at all levels and individuals from some of the smaller football clubs where the number of disabled supporters is low. Regular meetings have been taking place and a strong constitution is now in place. The association has a strong relationship with the Scottish Football Association, the Scottish Premier League and the Scottish Football League.
If you wish to contact us, please click on http://scottishdsa.co.uk/contact-us/ or our Facebook page www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=117116208321105#!/groups/250402131683413
The Football Association of Ireland's Inclusive Supporters Club (FAIISC, Republic of Ireland)
The Football Association of Ireland's Inclusive Supporters Club ( FAIISC) was formed in 2010 coinciding with the opening of the new Aviva Stadium on the old Lansdowne Road site. With the new state of the art stadium providing people with disabilities with quality viewing points, lift access throughout and aids for both visually and hearing impaired, the FAIISC aims to bring the football experience to all and especially to those with a disability who may have yet to experience attending a football match.
The current committee consists of people with disabilities and representatives from many of the main organisations that work in the disability area. The membership continues to grow.
The Rollerside (Netherlands)
The official and independent supporter association Vitesse Arnhem was founded in 1992. The supporter association looks after the interests of all Vitesse supporters and includes various commissions. The commission of the Rollerside looks after the interests of disabled supporters. We try to ensure that as much as possible our disabled supporters can visit the away matches of Vitesse. The transport to away matches is organised and combined with the other Vitesse supporters. We travel in an adapted coach with special wheelchair places.
Rollerside contacts the away club in advance and ensures accompaniment by Vitesse stewards. These all are volunteers, but well trained and official certified stewards. During home matches we offer our supporters very good facilities on the Rollerside Stand in our stadium, GelreDome Arnhem.
Anybody interested in contacting the Rollerside should email Dick Cochius at email@example.com
The Rolly-Side (Netherlands)
The Rolly-Side is one of the disabled supporters club at FC Groningen. The Rolly-Side is working with the club to create an accessible stand directly opposite the grandstand which would be a total for 60 wheelchair spaces and their companions. The Rolly-Side on March 8, 2006 and currently we have currently we have over 100 members. The objective of Rolly-Side is to represent the interests of its members and cooperate with the club. Please contact us if you have questions regarding ticketing, transportation or parking, we will always try to our best to help. The Rolly-Side is more than just a fan club also the social aspect is very important to the Rolly-Side. Moreover the Rolly-Side has regular meetings with the management of FC Groningen and also we have representative on the board of FC Groningen.
The Rolly Side became one of the first DSA's to be twinned with another, Hibernian Disabled Supporters Association, at the CAFE Conference in September 2011.
To read more about this, please visit http://www.cafefootball.eu/en/news/cafe-promotes-dsa-twinning
Traplifters (FC Utrecht, Netherlands)
We are the Traplifters, a group of disabled supporters of FC Utrecht. F.C. Utrecht stadium in the Netherlands has a nice place for our disabled supporters high up in the stands. We sit in the South Stand of the Stadium the Galgenwaard. Our members are increasingly uniting as a small yet strong group to work with such a large organisation as FC Utrecht. We invented the name Traplifters in 2000 and it is derived from the stair lift in the old stadium.
We have around 40 members and some of the some of the family and friends of the disabled supporters who are personal assistants are also supporters of the Traplifters.
Yellow and Red Army on Wheels (Belgium)
YRAW were founded to assist all disabled supporters of Belgian club KV Mechelen. The purpose of the association was to work on getting equal treatment to non-disabled supporters and to also have a vote in the management of the club. YRAW were presented in 2003 prior to a match against RC Genk, who at the time were the only club-based DSA in Belgium. YRAW discussed some ideas with the RC Genk representatives and grew from there. Initially there were 37 members of the association, however this has now exceeded 70 and continues to expand.
YRAW meet every two weeks for two hours to discuss ways of creating a perfect matchday environment for their members.
Zolte Waragem OP Wieltjes (Belgium)
Zolte Waragem OP Wieltjes was formed in year 2009 to help disabled supporters & S.V. Zolte Waregem work together to make a better football experience for all disabiled fans. We are recognised by the club with the full backing of the organisation. We were successful in working with the club to create a new wheelchair area under cover for our members.
If you wish to contact us please contact Bram Naessens on +32(0497/580493) or by email at firstname.lastname@example.com


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The Breakaway Brands survey, conducted by Landor Associates using Young & Rubicam's BrandAsset Valuator database, measures brand momentum over three years. From 2006 to 2009,
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The Top-Ranked Brands
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No. 8: iPod
What seems so remarkable about the Apple iPod is not that it has earned Breakaway Brand status; the iPod has been cited among the world's most valuable product brands in countless surveys, including this one, for years. What is more telling is that it managed to maintain its leadership position despite the vast array of alternative MP3 players it competes against, not to mention the rise of countless other strong iconic brands of the past decade. Why does iPod have such exceptional brand staying power?
The iPod has consistently re-imagined its brand experience. Its image has been built and nurtured around the simplicity of its elegant, highly functional design that is trendy and aspirational, yet utterly approachable. Membership in this nonexclusive club still feels special and private. By broadening its range of offerings (from the Nano to iPod touch), Apple has made its products accessible to virtually every income strata and social group across the globe. This is loyalty at its most seductive, yet neither the iPod nor its ancillary products and services are ever left to rest on their laurels. Constant refinements in software and hardware serve to regularly and substantively enhance the iPod user experience, which has now extended to gaming.
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Few companies could claim more historic eminence as a classic American brand than Kraft. Founded by cheese maker J.L. Kraft in 1903, the company has long been known for iconic product brands like Kraft Macaroni & Cheese, Miracle Whip and Philadelphia Cream Cheese. Yet through acquisition and aggressive marketing, the company has grown into a global conglomerate with a roster of regional and international consumer food brands is among the largest and most valued in the world. But Kraft Foods as a Breakaway Brand? That distinction may come as a surprise.
It shouldn't. As consumers turned toward classic, trusted brands for comfort and value, Kraft Foods' many household staples fit that bill perfectly. But high relevance alone does not assure distinctiveness. That objective requires real vision and leadership, and Kraft Foods' Chairman and CEO Irene Rosenfeld set her sights on differentiating this classic American-cupboard stable of brands in the minds of modern consumers, and her efforts have paid off.
Repositioning itself from a mega-holding group to a meal-solutions company over the last few years, Kraft Foods--a Landor client--has successfully integrated its product offerings into our daily lives in new and innovative ways. Simple, healthful, easy-to-make recipes in Food & Family magazine, its iFood Assistant mobile phone app and kraftrecipes.com invite fans to try, rate, share and even post photos of their meal creations.
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No. 10: Disney
While a trip to an amusement park might have seemed a financial stretch for many these past several years, Disney still stepped up advertising efforts and offered deals to encourage families to take a memory-making vacation together. Even if Disney parks were out of the question, Disney movies, television programs and games offered multiple Disney-paved avenues to help families bond and spend quality time together.
Through acquisition of award-winning animation studio Pixar and the classic Marvel comics brand, Disney ensured its continuing relevance to kids of all ages. While Disney is an entertainment merchandising powerhouse (selling everything from lunchboxes to cruises, Broadway shows and family trips to Europe), the brand itself is about providing family-friendly experiences in virtually every form of entertainment.
Disney's continued dominance in entertainment marketing seems assured by its community of avid fans, who it rewards and further inspires through a range of structured loyalty programs. Among these is the Disney Podcast Network, where fans engage in numerous official and unofficial Disney-centric podcasts, connecting enthusiasts and building communities.
So what do these great brands have in common? Each has looked at its business with fresh eyes, anticipated customers' needs during difficult times, and committed to long-term, relevant brand building. They make brand promises that resonate with customers and employees alike and then work hard to deliver on them, using the broadest range of creative, often cost-effective, tools to build consistently strong relationships and positive experiences.
About Landor's Breakaway Brands Study
First published in 2004, Landor's annual study provides a look at brands that have exhibited sustained, quantifiable increases in brand strength over a three-year period. Brand strength is determined using three years of consumer survey data from the BrandAsset Valuator U.S. database. Landor analyzed data for about 2,500 brands across industries and interviewed more than 15,000 consumers annually, evaluating 48 different measures of brand health. By comparing brand performance on key measures that drive consumer preference and choice, specifically the brand's differentiation and the brand's relevance. When a brand grew significantly on both measures--and indication of true brand strength--and these numbers were sustained over the three-year period, they became candidates for the Breakaway Brands list.
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Paxman: Do you really care that there are a lot of stupid people around?This is where I have a really hard time with Dawkins. Instead of replying that those people aren't 'stupid', but simply 'misguided' he went with the 'stupid' moniker. Unfortunately, in The God Delusion Dawkins makes the point that religion is inherited from parents. Thus most people who are religious got that way because their parents taught them about religion. This doesn't make them stupid. You might say incorrect, or indoctrinated, you might even say dangerous, but that doesn't make them stupid.
Dawkins: I do actually, yes. I really do. I mean, I care that children are being misled by those stupid people.
Stupid is a really strong word. I know a talented programmer called Jonathan Zdziarski who is clearly not stupid (I met him through the anti-spam world) but who holds strong beliefs about Christianity including the creation story. I find those beliefs difficult to reconcile with evidence in the world, but he doesn't.
I've also met many other religious people in the computer industry. Just recently I reviewed a technical book which began with the author thanking Jesus for inspiration and his very existence. Difficult for me to understand, but the book was good and the author clearly not stupid.
Historically, many scientists have been religious. The most striking example is Michael Faraday. Clearly, not a stupid man.
Calling people stupid doesn't help progress an argument, it just makes the person that uses the word look pompous and overbearing. It just sounds like school playground level name calling.
Dawkins should have retorted that he didn't think 'those people' are 'stupid' and qualified his thinking. But I suspect that he actually does think they are stupid and it's that judgemental tone that annoys me most whenever I accidentally hear him speak.
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Just wanted to update everyone on things that have been going on in the Breeden house!
Since my last post in June we found out our whole clan will be going back to NIH soon (no date yet) for testing and a big meeting with Dr. Bonneman. They will be doing Cardiac Imaging (MRI) on Steven and I and Echo's on both girls as well as some other testing. I'm interested to find out what Dr. Bonneman has found out about the rest of the results of Bailey's whole exome sequencing. I'm pretty nervous. This will be our Third visit since 2011 and I don't think the nervousness will ever go away.
We have been very slowly trying to wean Baily off of her overnight feed AGAIN. Things had been going very well until this last week. She overheated at a school function on Friday and her sugars have been off ever since then. She has also been bruising pretty badly (11 on just one leg) so I was getting concerned if her body was having trouble bouncing back due to the weaning. For some reason every time we try to get her off of this feed her body goes into complete shut down. This time has gone much better but now we're starting to worry that the overheating put her body in defense mode. So her GI suggested we bump her up 20 more ml's for 3 weeks and hopefully her body will stabilize and then we can finish weaning her by 5ml's a week instead 20 like we were doing before. Hopefully it works out. She really needs to get off of these feeds. It is starting to really affect her weight. We don't want her to be overweight especially with muscle related issues. Her Pediatrician ordered blood work to try to get to the bottom of her bruising. So we will try to get that done by next week.
Bailey started 1st grade August 25th and she LOVES it. We are still working out little minor issues as they come along but so far the start of the school year has been much more pleasant than last year. Hopefully after she gets her power chair in October she will be able to go to school longer than 2 1/2 hours a day. She has been really disappointed in leaving early this school year. I can't say I blame her but at the same time as a Mom I can't allow her to push herself to the extreme and crash at school. Walking around the school off and on for 6 1/2 hours would be completely detrimental to her health. Fingers crossed that the power chair is a huge help for her.
In other news! Addison had a second opinion Speech Evaluation on Monday at the Children's Outpatient Center in Laurel. Bailey's Genetics doctor recommended Addison having this evaluation to try to determine what she really needed and what may be the cause of her talking the way she does. The evaluation went really well. Addie was such a good girl for cooperating in such long testing with a stranger. The Therapist believes Addison may have Apraxia of Speech but she can not be officially diagnosed until after 3. Apraxia of speech is a motor speech disorder. The brain has trouble moving the body parts needed for speech. So she knows what she wants to say but her brain has difficulty coordinating the muscle movements necessary to say the words. I believe that's pretty darn accurate. She knows exactly what she wants to say and she tries so very hard but her words come out as only the sounds of the words or only vowels come out. So she is starting Speech Therapy there on Monday morning and she will still get Speech through the Howard County Infants and Toddlers program as well. They also want her to have a formal oral motor/feeding evaluation as well.
Bailey has follow up appointments with Endocrinology, Cardiology, Developmental Pediatrics(both girls), GI, Orthopedic, and a Sleep Study all within the next month! Plus NIH and Addie's oral motor evaluation whenever we have dates for those. Hopefully nothing but good news comes from all of those appointments.
I guess this has sort of became a blog for both girls now!
There is NEVER a dull moment in this household. We're just trying to take things as they come and deal accordingly. Sometimes that is much easier said than done!
As always thank you to those who continue to support us on this journey, it sure is a wild one!
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Regency Centers Corporation ("Regency" or the "Company") announced today that prior to year end the Company acquired four properties at a total purchase price of $188.5 million. Regency's share of the total purchase price was $147.4 million. The Company also disposed of three non-strategic properties during the fourth quarter at a total sales price of $76.6 million. Regency's share of the total sales price was $49.7 million. For the full year 2012, the Company acquired $334.3 million of dominant shopping centers (Regency's share was $242.8 million) and sold $581.2 million of non-strategic assets (Regency's share was $404.9 million).
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Uptown District, located in San Diego, CA, was purchased on a wholly owned basis for a gross purchase price of $81.1 million. The 148,638 square foot urban center is the dominant grocery shopping destination in San Diego's densely populated Hillcrest neighborhood. Uptown District is 95% leased and anchored by two grocers, Ralphs (a banner of The Kroger Company) and Trader Joe's.
Sandy Springs Plaza, located in the affluent Atlanta neighborhood of Sandy Springs, was purchased on a wholly owned basis for a gross purchase price of $35.3 million. The 115,794 square foot center is situated along Roswell Road, which is the major north-south thoroughfare extending from Atlanta's premier Buckhead neighborhood. Sandy Springs Plaza is 95% leased and anchored by Trader Joe's, Pier 1 Imports and Party City.
Village Plaza, located in Chapel Hill, NC, was purchased with a co-investment partner for a gross purchase price of $16.7 million. Regency's share of the purchase price was $3.3 million. The 78,128 square foot neighborhood center sits approximately two miles northeast of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Village Plaza is 100% leased and anchored by Whole Foods.
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Regency is the preeminent national owner, operator, and developer of dominant grocery-anchored and community shopping centers. At September 30, 2012, the Company owned 347 retail properties, including those held in co-investment partnerships. Including tenant-owned square footage, the portfolio encompassed 46.1 million square feet located in top markets throughout the United States. Since 2000, Regency has developed 209 shopping centers, including those currently in-process, representing an investment at completion of more than $3.0 billion. Operating as a fully integrated real estate company, Regency is a qualified real estate investment trust that is self-administered and self-managed.
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Joyce wrote, "A brother is as easily forgotten as an umbrella." And Stanislaus, one of Joyce's brothers, could verify the quote's accuracy, except for when James wanted money or a favor from him, which was often.
In a sense, Will Self asks a favor from his readers as well. He wants us to spend a good deal of our time accommodating his interest in psychiatry, mental illness, drugs and death in his free-wheeling, stream-of-consciousness novel, "Umbrella," where rules of grammar and breaks between chapters are infrequent.
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My view: I like the novel but it's a chore to make sense of it all.
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It was that year that he was experimenting with L-DOPA, a drug now used to treat patients with Parkinson's disease. Busner was using it on mental patients with brain disease.
To appreciate the extensive historical references, the reader is required to have a sense of English social history and period detail, much as the reader of Joyce's "Ulysses" would be required to know or learn about Dublin as it existed on June 16, 1904, the day celebrated in Joyce's classic.
"Umbrella" opens with Busner making rounds as the new man in a London psychiatric hospital. Here is a brief piece from that section to give you a feeling for the prose.
As the two psychiatrists walk the corridors, an older colleague named Whitcomb advises Busner about what to expect of patients under his care.
Whitcomb says:
"This is at the corner where the western corner intersects a rounded corner worn down by lurch-upon-lurch - No! It was designed this way to stop them killing themselves, which they will do. And get used to it, Whitcomb had said perkily from behind his plastic comb moustache, because you'll have to deal with a great many more. That's just the way - how it is. A great shame - but how it is. Hanging may've been repealed by Parliament. He puffed small and aromatic clouds of cosmic faux pas ... but it remains the number one method of execution in here - this decade is proving quite as swinging as the last!"
Or, try another set of sensory word images, to see if you wish to abide the images.
"Apart from that smell, faecal, certainly, but antiseptically chemical too, with an ammoniac note of floor polish - a still more intense blending of the odour that emanated from the pores, mouths and hidden vents of the inmates confined to the first psychiatric ward Bushner had ever visited more than a decade before, where he had student-foolishly inquired, what's that smell?"
The "take-away" is that Self's writing can be riveting, although you'll have to wade through broad swaths of indelicacies to appreciate it.
One of his patients, Audrey Death and two members of her family, Albert and Stanley, evoke during treatment the third and most distant time period, the Edwardian era, the early 1900s and thereafter. The other periods are the early 1970s and 2010.
Audrey worked in an umbrella shop and in old age exhibits a strange physical tic: rapid, precise movements that she repeats over and over.
Busner discovers too late that the films he made of post-encephalitic patients, specifically the one of Audrey Death operating her invisible lathe "…embodied in these poor sufferers' shaking frames … the entire mechanical age - the post-encephalitics' akinesia and festination has been the stop/start, the on/off, the 0/1, of a two-step with technology, and she, Audrey, anticipated it!"
But he has failed her in not recognizing the connection.
In death, Audrey levels a last look at Busner: "her thin metal ribs and struts all furled in the stained folds of her old silken skin. His very own. Sleeping Beauty. her neck, gripped in the kyphotic vice of her extreme old age, curves up and over into a hook, so that leveled at him is its own blunt and accusatory end."
Nick Rennison, who writes for the Sunday Times, gives us a bit of background on Will Self.
He explains that the author "is an Oxford-educated, middle-class metropolitan who, despite his protestations to the contrary in interviews, is about as much at the heart of the establishment as you can get, a place he has occupied almost from the start of his career."
My conclusion is that Self's lobbing bombs of social criticism from inside an asylum – an awkward position for a critic - is as hard on his literary "throwing arm" as it is on his readers, stretching their wits to catch the nuance.
"Umbrella" is not easily forgotten. Artistically, it is a brave piece of work recently short-listed for the Man-Booker Prize. But, like "Ulysses" to some,ww perhaps more commented upon as complicated and head-scratching than read.
By Will Self
Grove Press
448 pages, $30.50
Michael D. Langan is a veteran News book reviewer.


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This is a letterpress card designed by Jessica Raley at Bantam Design for Squarespace. They are busy handing them out at SXSW Music Festival in Austin this weekend. And they took some time to print, seven passes through the press to be exact. Due to the card volume, we printed them on larger 13 x 20 press sheet 15up. They are printed on two paper stocks. Side one on Wausau Royal Complements Eclipse Black, printed with black, varnish, dark silver, light silver. Side two is Mohawk Via Scarlet Red printed with varnish, black and light silver. To hide impression show through we pasted them together after printing, adding thickness and rigidity with another 100lb cover sheet in the middle. The final three ply paper thickness is 280lbC. We trimmed the sheets down and edge colored them in a metallic silver.
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Boy, you sure can get some neat things with two quarters! This book, although starting to fall apart is really lovely. Published in 1881 and includes several nice pictures battles, childhood homes and portraits of the Presidents. Found a page that loooks like someone was practicing signatures on, but I am sure it was the same kid who cut out a few of the Presidents from a collage in the front of the book--darn school projects.
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Miami Dolphins lineman Richie Incognito seeking professional help for mental health issues, according to media reports
Dolphins guard Richie Incognito has sought professional help for mental health issues following two weeks of erratic behavior in public, according to media reports Friday.
Incognito's unusual behavior perhaps is the result of the release of investigator Ted Wells' report that was requested by the NFL to investigate harassment in the Dolphins' locker room.
Recently, Incognito used social media to fire agent David Dunn, then recanted; he then apologized to Dolphins owner Stephen Ross, Wells and former Dolphins teammate Jonathan Martin, who left the team after being unable to take the incessant bullying Wells' report said he was subject to from Incognito, center Mike Pouncey and guard John Jerry.
This week, Incognito took a baseball bat to his black Ferrari FF and left it in front of his Scottsdale, Ariz., home. He declared to a KSAZ Fox 10 reporting team that he would donate the car to Orangewood Pals, an Orange County, Calif., organization that works with abused and neglected children (Dunn works out of Orange County, also).
"That was just me venting," Incognito told the reporting team Thursday. "That was my self-expression. That was a piece of art."
Incognito couldn't have been more pleasant when the reporter and cameraman showed up at his Scottsdale home Thursday after news of Incognito's Ferrari-bashing went viral.
Though declaring a couple of times he and his family were private people, Incognito answered the reporter's questions without a trace of rancor, displaying the manner that prompted the South Florida Professional Football Writers Association chapter to award him the 2012 Good Guy Award for cooperation with the media.
"Me and my dad built and designed this house. When things went down, it was just unfortunate," Incognito said. "We understand it. Me, my dad, my brother, my mom, my dad, Jonathan Martin, the Miami Dolphins, [Dolphins owner] Stephen Ross, you … we're all brothers and sisters. I think we all understand that. It's just time to move on. Words were said. Things were done. At at the end of the day, we're all brothers and sisters. We're here to lift each other up, and we're here to motivate each other to get the best out of one another."
Explosions of off-field violence and on-field over-the-line play marked Incognito's college and NFL careers. In a lengthy NFL.com profile, he admitted he has sought professional help for his behavior, which almost cost him his career before the Dolphins signed him in 2010.
Former University of Miami center Brett Romberg, a teammate of Incognito's in St. Louis for three seasons and still a good friend, told 790 The Ticket's morning show: "No joke … I'm really concerned."
Romberg said his wife told him he should get in touch with Incognito. In addition to an uncertain professional future, Incognito is dealing with the recent dissolution of his parents' marriage.
"His parents are his backbone in life," Romberg told the show's hosts, Jonathan Zaslow and Joy Taylor. "This is just bad. It's getting really, really bad. I'm terrified he might go about doing something really, really, really bad to himself. Now, it's dangerous. I don't think he's going to go as far as to hurt other people. I think it's just a self-inflicted breakdown."


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Top Row: Ixodes scapularis (dammini), the deer tick which transmits Lyme disease. Left to right: nymph, adult male, adult female, engorged adult female. Nymphs are most common May through July. Adults appear in the fall and early spring.
Bottom Row: Dermacentor variabilis, the American dog tick, which is not thought to transmit Lyme disease. Left to right: adult male, adult female, engorged adult female. Adults are most common in May, June, and July. Note that the adult dog ticks are somewhat larger than adult deer ticks, and have characteristic white markings on the dorsal (top) side.


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Intel has announced the next generation of its Thunderbolt interface with support for up to 20Gbps throughput, as well as support for 4K. Code-named Falcon Ridge, this new version of Thunderbolt sports some impressive capabilities. According to Engadget
But let's talk about the real news: the next-gen Thunderbolt tech (code-named Falcon Ridge) enables 4K video file transfer and display simultaneously in addition to running at 20 Gbps.
In addition to its impressive output, Falcon Ridge will be compatible with the first-generation ports and connectors. The current version of Thunderbolt, formerly Light Peak, has a maximum throughput of 10Gbps, and has been on various Macs since 2011.
Of particular interest to Mac users -- current Thunderbolt connectors can't support enough bandwidth for a theoretical Retina 27" LED Thunderbolt display. This one could.
Falcon Ridge is expected to start production in 2014.
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Hughes in top form as patient Twins pull out victory
MINNEAPOLIS -- As the Twins proved again on Saturday, drawing a walk is sometimes just as good as getting a hit.
The Twins have been using walks to their advantage early this season, as they lead the Majors in both walks and runs scored per game, and it was evident once more against the Tigers on Saturday afternoon.View Full Game Coverage
MINNEAPOLIS -- As the Twins proved again on Saturday, drawing a walk is sometimes just as good as getting a hit.
The Twins have been using walks to their advantage early this season, as they lead the Majors in both walks and runs scored per game, and it was evident once more against the Tigers on Saturday afternoon.View Full Game Coverage
Minnesota used eight walks to its advantage, including five in a four-run fifth inning, to back seven strong innings from right-hander Phil Hughes in a 5-3 win over the Tigers at Target Field.
The Twins scored two runs in the fifth before they had a hit, and their first was a big one from Trevor Plouffe, who came through with a go-ahead two-run single in the fifth with the bases loaded that proved to be the game-winner.
"We didn't kill the ball today, but we took our walks when we had to," Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said. "As we've talked about many times now, we're taking our walks and getting people on. You can score runs that way, so it's a good way to go about your business. We know that when we walk guys, they usually score, so it's working for us now."
The four-run fifth was enough for Hughes, who turned in his second straight quality start after struggling in his first three outings of the year, as he gave up two runs (one earned) on just four hits and no walks with six strikeouts.
Hughes gave up the two runs in the first inning, but he settled down from there. Torii Hunter singled with one out in the first and scored on a double to right field from Miguel Cabrera that went off Sam Fuld's glove. Fuld's throw into the infield was off line, allowing Cabrera to reach third and eventually score on a sacrifice fly from Victor Martinez for an unearned run.
Hughes retired 16 batters in a row after Cabrera's double, and he went seven innings for the first time this season.
"It was good," said Hughes, who improved to 2-1 with a 5.14 ERA. "In the first, I was coming apart a little bit and not staying within myself and overthrowing a little bit. But I was able to settle down pretty quick and get on a roll, which was nice."
The Twins caught a break offensively, as right-hander Anibal Sanchez left the game with a blister on his right middle finger after 2 2/3 hitless innings.
Right-hander Jose Ortega, who was recalled from Triple-A Toledo before the game, replaced Sanchez and was erratic against Minnesota.
The Twins used his wildness to their advantage in the fifth, as Fuld and Aaron Hicks started it off by drawing back-to-back walks with nobody out. Eduardo Escobar then laid down a sacrifice bunt and catcher Bryan Holaday tried to throw out Fuld at third base, but the throw ended up in left field to allow Fuld to score Minnesota's first run.
Brian Dozier then walked to load the bases before left-hander Phil Coke was brought in to face Joe Mauer. Mauer promptly walked on four pitches to tie up the game, even though the Twins still didn't have a hit through four-plus innings.
Plouffe's two-run single back up the middle gave the Twins a two-run lead they wouldn't relinquish. It was a gutsy at-bat for Plouffe, who was dealing with a left triceps contusion after being hit by a pitch in his previous plate appearance.
"I had some adrenaline going," said Plouffe, who eventually left the game in the seventh. "I've faced Phil enough to know he's sinking the ball up there. The biggest thing was getting him over the plate. I didn't want to chase anything. I got to 3-1 there and zoned up looking for a pitch in one spot, and got it."
The Tigers made it interesting in the eighth, loading the bases against reliever Jared Burton with one out, but Cabrera grounded into an inning-ending double play. Burton, who entered the game with a 10.13 ERA, had been struggling early this season, but Gardenhire stuck with him and it paid off.
"We couldn't draw it up any better, having Miggy up with the bases loaded," Tigers manager Brad Ausmus said. "But he can't be the hero every single day."
Twins catcher Josmil Pinto crushed a solo shot to the second deck in left field in the bottom of the inning off reliever Al Alburquerque for his fifth of the year. Martinez answered with a leadoff homer in the ninth off Minnesota closer Glen Perkins, who finished the inning despite giving up a double to Austin Jackson to pick up his sixth save.
"We got enough runs and held on there at the end," Gardenhire said. "It was exciting."
Rhett Bollinger is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Bollinger Beat, and follow him on Twitter @RhettBollinger.