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Best Things To Do in Uganda: Tourist Attractions
The things to do in Uganda are some of the most unique things to do in world. Gorilla Trekking, which Uganda is mostly known for, can only be found in three countries, all of which are found in Eastern Africa. There are also hidden gems in Uganda that most people don't know about including Africa safaris and a great lake region which is one of the reasons why people say that Uganda is the Pearl Of Africa.
The country is blessed with all kinds of wildlife and many people don't realize all there is to see. The capital of Kampala will make you feel like your an Asia with electronics shops on every corner and the people Uganda are extremely friendly. The new integration of Uganda into into the Eastern Africa Community is great for tourism as well. While I was living overseas in Africa I was able to spend a great week in Uganda.
Gorilla Trekking
The tourist attractions in Uganda wouldn't be complete without Gorilla Trekking. Uganda is actually the best place to go as they have the largest number of gorilla families in the Biwindi National Forrest. I have a personal contact of the tourist company I used which have tours as low as $400 that I offer via my travel guides, sign up for my email list to receive the contact.
The city feels like Africa with an Asian flare and is the center of everything to do in the country. There are a variety of restaurants to try, new things to experience like a ride on a boda boda (motorcycle taxi), or even just get to know what life is like in the capital city in Uganda. Don't forget to check out the churches, Bahai Temple, and museums in the city.
Straddle The Equator
You doesn't like to do this with every country that sits on the equator? One of the best travel tips I can give you!
White Water Rafting
The Nile River is the longest river in the world and it starts in Uganda. Make sure to check out rafting opportunities which last anywhere from an afternoon to 3 days. You can find tours with many companies and they are often very affordable. I would love to add more details to this travel blog about the rafting in Uganda, if you have been let me know!
Lake Victoria
The things to do in Uganda wouldn't be complete with a little rest and relaxation. Lake Victoria is a very picturesque and also provides secluded beaches that rest on islands that take 8 hours to get to! Definitely check it out.
Chimpanzee Trekking
In addition to the gorilla trekking you can get up close and personal to chimpanzees which can be found in the region. There are many other natural forests as well where you can find plenty more animals.
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- September 24, 2012 at 5:04 pm
Have you visited Masaka before? There's nothing to see but if you ever go there you never want to miss visiting Weaver Bird, this is a growing community for the Arts in East Africa. This village is located only about 6KM from Masaka town center in the direction of Katwe and the through Ssaza.
In Ndegeya you will acquaint yourself with a colouful village with different colour painted walls and a big sculpture in the center where literally all roads meet. Surprisingly all roads are named and labeled and in different corners of the streets you can see NO LITTER signs and if find yourself strolling up the hill to the top, you will meet Camp Ndegeya, the first public sculpture park in East Africa. This is where Ugandan and other regional artists meet every 3 months to break away from their routine city life and meet here to interact, retreat and recreated in a more open space. The regular Weaver Bird Arts camps bring together painters, writers, poets and comedians plus expatriates and diplomats to camp there for a weekend. There's a camp fire and decent bathrooms with running water.
Camp Ndegeya also has a studio space that hosts art workshops to visitors on top of other activities that one may want to get involved in at the Ndege Ya Akili Community Arts Center or The International Artists Residency Center and Children's Community Library (COCHICO Lib) that are located in the village.
- October 3, 2012 at 2:26 am
Here is the website that can link you to the Weaver Bird Community.
- December 22, 2012 at 6:47 am
Thanks for this list of things to do in Uganda! I am hoping to visit in June and will make certain I straddle the equator and chill out by the lake– awesome tips
- March 29, 2014 at 6:30 pm
Does any website talk about the positive aspects in tourism in African Great Lakes?
- April 27, 2014 at 4:30 am
Chimpanzee trekking sounds so funny
But the apes can be wild, ferocious, even carnivorous – they can attack people, so you don't want to get caught in the middle of a wild ape gang.
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Welcome to our Retribution Paladin DPS guide for World of Warcraft MoP 5.4. Here, you will learn everything you need to know about playing a Retribution Paladin in a raid environment, although most of the content also applies to normal and heroic dungeons.
This guide has been reviewed and approved by Anafielle (@Anafielle), one of the authors of Sacred Duty and an accomplished raider on her own.
In single target DPS, the Retribution specialisation is currently performing well, compared to most other classes. While it is not at the top of the DPS rankings, it is certainly worth bringing to raids.
In AoE DPS, Retribution does decently, but certainly does not shine.
As is the case with all Paladins, Retribution Paladins bring many useful buffs and abilities, which a raid leader cannot really overlook.
To make it easy to navigate the guide, we have split it into 7 pages:
- Builds, Talents, and Glyphs: learn how to choose your talents and glyphs;
- Rotation, Cooldowns, and Abilities: master your rotation and your cooldowns;
- Buffs, Debuffs, and Useful Abilities: discover your arsenal of useful abilities;
- Statistics Priority and Reforging: read up on the respective values of your statistics;
- Gems, Enchants, and Professions: choose the best gems, enchantments, etc.;
- Macros and Addons: step up your game with useful macros and addons;
- Gearing Up and Best in Slot: find the best gear you can wear.
- Introduction
- Builds, Talents, and Glyphs
- Rotation, Cooldowns, and Abilities
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Wine had many uses in the Bible:
There is nothing in either the Old or New Testament that opposes the moderate use of alcoholic beverages; they were a staple of everyday life.
On the other hand, there is no commandment in the Bible that we must drink, and many individuals and groups abstained from alcohol (Numbers 6:2-4, Daniel 1:8, Jeremiah 35:1-7, Luke 1:13-15). The apostle Paul warned against using the freedom to drink, or any similar freedom, in a way that would be offensive to others or cause them to stumble into sin (Romans 14:19-22).
Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, And whoever is intoxicated by it is not wise. (NAS, Proverbs 20:1)
Woe to those who rise early in the morning that they may pursue strong drink, Who stay up late in the evening that wine may inflame them! Their banquets are accompanied by lyre and harp, by tambourine and flute, and by wine; But they do not pay attention to the deeds of the LORD, Nor do they consider the work of His hands. (NAS, Isaiah 5:11-12)
"Be careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with dissipation, drunkenness and the anxieties of life, and that day will close on you unexpectedly like a trap. (NIV, Luke 21:34)
Let us behave properly as in the day, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and sensuality, not in strife and jealousy. (NAS, Romans 13:13)
Don't be drunk with wine, because that will ruin your life. Instead, let the Holy Spirit fill and control you. (NLT, Ephesians 5:18)
Now the works of the flesh are obvious: fornication, impurity, licentiousness, idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, anger, quarrels, dissensions, factions, envy, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these. I am warning you, as I warned you before: those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. (NRSV, Galatians 5:19-21)


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Fraser has written for several television shows, including "Spun Out", "George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight", "Almost Heroes", "The Genie Awards", "The NHL Awards", and "The Latest Buzz", which earned him a Writer's Guild Award nomination.
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I'm not hostile, I'm just a very proud Hunter and hate to see the community of potentially good hunters out there (the new ones reading this article) confused by an article like this.
Eddie - What I'm trying to say is this: "Good initiative on the series. Bad judgment on the content (of this article)."
My apologies for the perceived hostilities. The unfortunate thing with a text-only communication system is the inability to hear and see emotions and moods of people when they're "talking". Consider my tone matter-of-fact, not rude.
@Boyd, i've read Bulleyes post. Some things are good to know. The main thing is, i want to know a good build to solo level with. I'd like to know your opinion, but it depends on how long you've been 80. All the classes have been mixed all over the place in the last patches, so most advice on builds is rather hard too find.
I've been 80 for months. I've been playing a hunter since January 2005. (I was deployed to the Middle East when WoW was released.)
For leveling, all three talent trees are viable. Just ask yourself what you want to do.
1) Want your pet to do lots of work while you /autoshoot and /afk, not to mention taming exotic beasts in the higher levels? Beast Mastery
2) Supreme ranged DPS (with a tanking pet to support you)? Marksmanship
3) Damn fine utility with still excellent DPS to boot? Survival
All of those are keeping in mind that Hunter's Pet's Growl ability is b0rked. I may not be the best person to ask for a specific, solo leveling build, as I'm a fan of all three trees. So much to the point that I am dual spec'd, keeping SV always, and having the other change between MM and BM depending on what I'm in the mood for.


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A plane underwater for 24 years is being taken out of Lake Meredith today.
Lake officials are pulling the plane up in sections from the lake's bottom.
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Good Morning! Paul Georgy with early morning comments for December 19, 2013 at 5:00 am.
Grain futures are slightly higher on bargain hunting and position squaring ahead of the holiday.
The South American weather forecast is for more of the same favorable conditions for another record crop. Models add more rain in the forecast for Argentina however the southwestern growing areas are a little dry.
Allendale Ag Leaders Conference is coming to you online this year. All the details are available here.
Weather patterns suggest no bitter cold temperatures that could pose threat to winter wheat crop in US through the end of the year.
Iraq's state grain board has purchased 350,000 tonnes of wheat, all of Australian origin.
The Argentine exporters are waiting for the go ahead to begin movement of grain. Brazil needs wheat now and will have to shop elsewhere if Argentina can't deliver.
Trade estimates for weekly export sales data which will be released at 7:30 am are: corn 550 to 750 tmt, soybeans 700 to 900 tmt, soymeal 150 to 300 tmt, soyoil 10 to 30 tmt and wheat 300 to 400 tmt.
Ethanol production is 10% higher year over year. USDA, this month, raised its corn for ethanol projection by 50 million bushels. They now see a goal of a 6.5% increase over last year. Profit margins are running at a positive 31%.
Informa's acreage estimates for next year's corn planted acres were raised slightly to 91.846 million acres and they lowered the soybean acres by 1.9 million to 81.929 million acres. In 2013 US farmers planted 95.341 million acres of corn and 76.49 million acres of soybeans.
The Fed is going to begin tapering QE3 by 10 billion dollars a month. This is the number much of trade was expecting.
Cattle on Feed report Friday afternoon at 2:00 pm. Trade estimates for on-feed has a narrow range with an average of 95.4% of a year ago. If this holds true it would be the lowest December 1 cattle feedlot inventory in 17 years. Placement numbers have more variation as traders balance the cheaper feed cost with higher feeder cattle prices and better pasture conditions. The outlook still would suggest tight fed cattle supplies through midyear.
Cash cattle traded at 129 in NE and beef cutout values were slightly lower. Choice was down .25 and select was down .40. The CME Feeder Index is 167.36.
Pork product values are under pressure going into year end. The heavy weights and short work weeks have traders expecting even larger numbers after the holidays. Pork cutout values were down 1.98 on Wednesday.
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The Forest Ridge
I grew up in a relatively normal American middle-middle class neighborhood, a street called "Ferngrove", which actually had ferns in its generally well-manicured yards.
The developers of the neighborhood also left as many 80-year-old Douglas Fir trees as they could leave, when the houses were built. So it was also a grove. The neighboring streets had names with equal integrity: "Woodridge", "Pinecreek", "Knollcrest".
To the west of the neighborhood, about 200 feet from my house, the forest thickened and the land there was undeveloped. The neighborhood was surrounded by those stands of firs.
There were trails worn through the trees where I and kids like me would ride our bikes, completely unsupervised. We could bike as far away as two miles through the largest of those thickened forest areas. There were some areas for stunt-BMX biking and a couple of tree houses. The boys of the neighborhood would retreat to those places to do what 80′s preteen boys always did when they have no supervision. It was safe to have no supervision. It was our forest and playground. It was the boxed-in forest ridge.
In front of my house, the view to the west from the street at evening put the sun through the firs. When there was no rain or fog, the needles of the fir tress scattered the sunlight. We never saw the full sunrise or sunset from our house. In autumn and spring, the wind blew the trees slowly back and forth. It enlivened the light, and cast the street in fractal moving shadow, and I was protected from the abrupt beginning or final end of any day by my guardian firs.
I lived in that box of scattered living light, biking and breathing through the firs. I amused myself with minor mischiefs and as many science fiction books as I could find. I grew up on the forest ridge, never realizing that's what it was, or how small it was, as ignorant of the mortality of those constant evergreens as I was of my own.
I would watch the sunset through those trees. After Mount St. Helens began erupting, on the days when the winds were from the North, the colors were breathtaking. I watched the light without context or wisdom, mesmerized in my ignorance.
I have that memory today. There's no way to reproduce it; the ungroomed trails and wild lands have been cut down since 1990, replaced with a thousand manicured homes, a park, and far fewer and much younger trees. The sunset shadow play is muted. The mountain is quiet again.
My children will never see it. They've never ridden bikes on trails through two-mile thickets of firs. I can't give them what my favorite city has taken away.
I retain my years there in thought, and the sunsets through the trees on the forest ridge, grateful to have grown under the watch of silent guardians, glad to have this place of safety in my youth.


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Rodellar It can take some top climbers months to do cutting edge sport routes, think Chris Sharma on Realisation or Es Pontas, or Steve McClure on Northern Lights or his latest 9a+, Overshadow at Malham Cove.
Then up pops 16 year old Eric Lopez from Toledo, Spain who has just knocked off two 9a sport routes in a day at Rodellar, in Spain's Sierra de Guara. Details as to how long he worked them are as yet not forthcoming.
From the source of all things sport climbing, 8a.nu, here are Eric's latest ascents:
07/07/11:Los Borrachos del Mascun, Rodellar, 9a
The 8a.nu scorecard judges say that, "It will be interesting to see what he says about the grade as this could be considered as a new world record. and they continue, "Last year Erik won the Youth World Champion and this year the 16-year-old was 12th in the last World Cup."


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I am a busy mom of four kids (2, 4, 4, 6), the wife of a youth minister, teach full-time and photographer-on-the-side. I don't have time to record every "first", funny kid saying, "awww moment", and other things that go in baby books. I started a blog for my family and enabled text messaging. Now, whenever something happens that I want to remember forever or want my kids to read (favorite verses, lyrics, quotes), I just text it in. Then, every January, I print off a blog book for the year previous. Voila! A very detailed book of our past year, helpful hints for the future, and those moments that I want to be forever memories. My kids love reading what they used to say, what we did together as a family, proud moments we want to remind them of and it is my hope that they share with their own children someday!


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New release out today by Canadian Techno producer Tomas Jirku and de'fchild label boss, Ruoho Ruotsi.
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Open Source India Week (OSIW) is India's largest Linux and Open Source event till date. Formerly, this event was held as LinuxAsia and was limited to the India's capital city of Delhi. But, since the open source software continues to gain popularity, this event has grown to a three city mega event in India with 100-plus speakers. Its latest edition constituting two-day activities concluded in Delhi on 15th Februrary 2008.
A few blogs highlight details of this OSIW event:
- "Open Source has potential with solutions for the disabled"
"The highlight of the second day was a very interesting and topical special session on Open Source accessibility solutions for the disabled. Opened by the legendary Klaus Knopper (of Knoppix fame) who showcased the ADRIANE desktop environment for the visually-impaired. Continuing on the same theme, Steffen Franke of Ed-Media Education, Germany spoke of the challenges of accessibility in e-learning. Professor Arun Mehta of the Computer Engg Department at JMIT Radaur demonstrated computing for those with cerebral palsy and autism and Krishnakant Mane, researcher at the TIFR, Mumbai demonstrated accessibility features of the GNOME desktop. …"
- "GlassFish presentation at Open Source India Week in Bangalore"
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§ Discussion around various source code branching schemes in an open source product and why GlassFish chose its current approach.
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Marques Colston, WR, New Orleans Saints Player Profile Height/Weight: 6-4/225 Birthdate: 6/5/1983 School: Hofstra FANTASY FOOTBALL ANALYSIS Marques Colston is one of those players that I worry about each year thanks to injuries. Even though he statistically had one of his best years last year, 83 catches for 1154 yards and 10 touchdowns, he seemed to be lacking in burst and acceleration as the season wore on. In his seven years in the NFL, Colston has only finished a season while playing in all 16 games just three times, although he's only played in less than 14 just once. I talked about my concern with injuries mounting for Andre Johnson and the same concerns ring true here. Luckily for Colston, his top threat for taking away targets is tight end Jimmy Graham. That really shouldn't be an issue, Colston still is going to be the top wide receiver on the team. The problem, again, comes with the injury concerns. Do you really want a guy on your team that you are going to be worrying i...
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B'day Spl: Vidya Balan's Most Defining RolesVidya's name has become synonymous with passion for meaningful cinema and experimentation with challenging roles. Looks like she has mastered the art of picking the 'explosive' scripts and giving 'killer' performances.
By Anu Chanchal, IndiaTimes | January 1, 2013, 6:00 am IST
With Paa, R Balki gave Bollywood a simple yet an avant-garde maa in Vidya. Treading like an absolute frontrunner, Vidya verified yet again that given the right scripts, she could take the cine-world by storm. Her immaculate rendering of a concerned mother and an independent woman won her many hearts.


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Brand Positioning Through MemoriesBy Mark Di Somma
I think it's healthy for there to be a direct relationship between memory and frequency for a brand. The more often a customer comes into contact with your brand, the more consistent the memory needs to be. That's because brands that frequently interact with their customers have the power of habit on their side. In fact, when someone is buying from you frequently, the memory itself needs to focus on regularity: greeting customers by name; being easy to find; recognizing what they like and maybe working with that; introducing suggestions that fit with what they're looking for. The memories are smaller in their impact and their "experience" factor, but their frequency makes the effect powerfully cumulative.
By contrast, when your customers only interact with you occasionally, then the memory needs to be stronger and much more enduring. It literally needs to "last" until the next time a customer needs to buy because there isn't the same front-of-mind of course – which means less consistent awareness and less reminders. It's easy for customers to decide to explore a new technology or take advantage of what they see as a better price.
Natural or special? Which sentiment do you generate? The feeling that comes with a trip to your favorite deli or the excitement that wells up at the thought of a trip to another part of the world? That's the choice for many brand experiences. Something so easy that life wouldn't be the same without it. Or something so wonderful that you really look forward to buying it again.Read More
Developing A Brand Positioning StatementBy Brad VanAuken The Blake Project
The brand position or brand positioning is how the brand is perceived in the context of competitive alternatives in the mind. As brand consultants, when we develop brand positioning statements for clients, we include a target customer definition, brand essence, brand promise, brand archetype and brand personality, giving the intended brand position / positioning (as opposed to the actual brand position in the mind of the customer) greater depth.
A complete brand positioning statement includes the following:
Brand Essence
[Adjective] [adjective] [noun] (the "heart and soul" of the brand, its timeless quality, its DNA)
Brand Promise
Only [brand]
Delivers [unique and compelling benefit or shared value]
To [target customer description]
In the [product or service category] (establishing the competitive "frame of reference")
In the context of [market condition or trend that makes the benefit or value even more compelling]
Because [proof points or "reasons to believe"]Read More
The Right Time To Position BrandsBy Thomson Dawson
The right time to position brands is seldom obvious. Brand consultants will eagerly advise about how to position your brand. The key to effective brand positioning is more about "when to " rather than "how to". Even if marketers know how, they don't think too much about when. Marketing organizations are so invested in heads down tactics many are risk averse and value predictable outcomes. It's little wonder many don't recognize the right time to make a shift in strategic direction until it's too late.
Living in an era of hyper change.
The distance from innovation to commodity is getting shorter each day. While one company is betting its future on its latest and greatest product introduction, another company is reinventing the future and making everything else in the category obsolete. The recent retooling and reintroduction of the Blackberry is a dramatic case in point. Poor RIM (a.k.a. BlackBerry) spending all that time, energy and capital only to produce a lesser version of the very product that is putting them under.
Sadly it's too late for more me-too innovation in an era where the speed of innovation is faster than any one company can keep up with. Kodak, Blockbuster, Sears, Newsweek and a host of other brands who were once the dominant forces of innovation in their category, have become mere shadows of their former glory. Stuck in their culture of success, these organizations institutionalized the original success into an impediment to change and adaptability, while more nimble competitors were changing the game all together.
Timing is everything – in fact it trumps aggregated knowledge and capability. When mental models within organizations become the status quo and remained fixed, it's nearly impossible to face any challenge that does not conform to the organization's current point of view. There was no way Blockbuster could anticipate the game changer known as Netflix. When Blockbuster did finally react, it was far too late. Blockbuster had lots of knowledge and capability – just no foresight.
The right time to position or reposition brands is seldom obvious.
If you're in an organization that holds to the adage "if it ain't broke don't fix it", then your brand is already doomed to the slush pile. In an age of disruptive product innovation and radical differentiation, what got you there, won't keep you there. Positioning (or for many organizations re-positioning) your brand is usually an activity done in response to a threat rather than pre-emptive strategy of staying one step ahead.Read More
Defining Your Competitive Frame Of ReferenceBy Brad VanAuken The Blake Project
Choosing the most advantageous competitive frame of reference is a very important part of brand positioning. Earlier on Branding Strategy Insider I shared how Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute redefined itself from an engineering school to a place where technological innovation thrives (why not change the world?®). I shared how The Strong Museum redefined itself from a children's museum to THE place that studies and explores play and American University redefined itself as a place for WONKs, focusing on its location in Washington, DC and even its association with public policy. In all three of these instances, the brands intended to move from more crowded categories to a category of their own creation in which they became the only (category-of-one) brand.
I have also explored how to define the category that a cola brand might be in. Is the category colas, or carbonated beverages or soft drinks or non-alcoholic beverages or all beverages or rehydration or human liquid consumption or refreshment or something else?
What category is Dasani Drops in? Perhaps the tagline defines it – "flavor enhancer." Does this mean that the category is not flavored water? How does that help Dasani Drops competitively?
There are hundreds of professional associations and societies in health care, reflecting the degree of complexity and specialization in that field. We are working with a professional society in health care that develops physician leaders. Is their competitive frame of reference professional societies for physicians, professional societies for physician leaders, professional societies for health care executives, professional development for health care administrators, leadership development for physicians or something else? While these may all seem similar, depending on what they have chosen, their competitive set and unique value proposition changes, especially in this crowded field.
Just as choosing the most advantageous target customer definition is not a trivial exercise, so too is choosing the competitive frame of reference. Choosing a competitive frame of reference based on the most powerful motivators for the target customers can lead to a previously undefined category in which your brand has few, if any competitors. That category definition helps your brand own the benefit more quickly before any other brand is able to claim it. Being able to redefine the category requires out-of-the box thinking.
If interested, we have tools to help you explore category description alternatives, including those that can transform your band into a category-of-one.
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The Importance Of Careful Customer TargetingBy Brad VanAuken The Blake Project
I have positioned five wealth management brands and over a dozen other financial service brands in my brand consulting career. Most people, when thinking about wealth management brands, think the target customer is fairly straightforward – anyone who has more than $250,000 or $500,000 of investable assets – individuals or institutions. And while most wealth management firms' customers would meet this criterion, this is not the bulls-eye of the target. As an example, when working with wealth management clients, they have arrived at each these different definitions of their target customers [1]:
- People 55+ on fixed incomes who have at least $250,000 in investable assets, have experienced significant decreases in net worth at least once and are worried about loss of capital and inability to live on their investments
- Entrepreneurs who have created their own wealth, have at least $1,000,000 in investable assets and feel as though they have not been adequately recognized for their accomplishments
- Individuals who have at least $500,000 in investable assets (many of whom previously managed their own portfolios) and desire a wealth management firm that can talk to them in depth about fundamental and technical analysis, market trends, investment philosophies, asset allocation, etc.
- Individuals who have at least $500,000 in investable assets and who are tired of dealing with aggressive New York City brokers who do not listen to their needs or give them personal attention
- Christians with at least $250,000 in investable assets who believe in wise stewardship of resources so that they can be generous with their families and communities
Imagine what the brand promise for each of these brands might be. Imagine what the marketing messaging might be. Imagine through what channels, methods and media these potential customers might be reached. Imagine how the brand promise might be delivered. Imagine the proof points that might support the brand promise. Imagine what the products and services might be and how they might be delivered. Each of these would be different, radically different, for each of these brands.
While I used the wealth management category as an example, this is true of every product/service category. Brands that create amazingly loyal customers tend to have very well defined target customers, so much so that they tend to share values with those customers.
When we are conducting brand positioning workshops, it is important to spend as much time as possible defining the target customer. It is akin to the saying that "defining the problem is half of the solution." Defining the target customer properly gets you most of the way toward crafting a unique and compelling brand promise. I wish you great success in carefully defining your target customer.
[1] Target customer definitions are altered for illustrative purposes
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Excellent recipe for both lamb and polenta. I made the lamb shanks 24 hours in advance; next time I will skim the fat from the sauce before reheating. And I do my polenta in the microwave: 8 minutes at high; 9 minutes at 70%, stirring every 3 minutes; let stand for 5 min.
Braised Lamb Shanks with Rosemary Polenta
Photo: SandraFJ
The flavors in this recipe are reminiscent of the Italian dish osso buco (though we use lamb shanks instead of veal). If you can't find three-quarter-pound lamb shanks, try using one-pound cuts or the closest weight you can find. Ask your butcher for help.
Yield: 6 servings (serving size: 1 lamb shank, 2/3 cup polenta, and about 1/2 cup sauce)
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Nutritional Information
Amount per serving
- Calories: 447
- Calories from fat: 20%
- Fat: 10.1g
- Saturated fat: 3.9g
- Monounsaturated fat: 4.2g
- Polyunsaturated fat: 0.7g
- Protein: 51.1g
- Carbohydrate: 34.4g
- Fiber: 4g
- Cholesterol: 151mg
- Iron: 4.9mg
- Sodium: 815mg
- Calcium: 135mg
- Lamb:
- 6 (3/4-pound) lamb shanks, trimmed
- 1/2 teaspoon salt, divided
- 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper, divided
- 2 cups diced onion
- 1 cup diced carrot
- 1/2 cup diced celery
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 3/4 cup dry red wine
- 1 (14.5-ounce) can no salt-added petite diced tomatoes, undrained
- 1 (14-ounce) can less-sodium beef broth
- 1 tablespoon chopped fresh rosemary
- 1 teaspoon water
- 1/2 teaspoon cornstarch
- Polenta:
- 4 cups fat-free, less-sodium chicken broth
- 1 teaspoon chopped fresh rosemary
- 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 1 cup finely ground yellow cornmeal
- 1/4 cup (1 ounce) grated fresh Parmesan cheese
- Preheat oven to 300°.
- To prepare lamb, sprinkle lamb evenly with 1/4 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper. Heat a large, wide Dutch oven over medium-high heat. Add lamb, and cook for 12 minutes, browning on all sides. Remove lamb from pan.
- Add onion, carrot, and celery to pan; sauté 8 minutes or until lightly browned. Add garlic, and sauté 1 minute. Add red wine; bring to a boil. Cook 2 minutes or until most of liquid evaporates. Return lamb to pan; stir in tomatoes, beef broth, and 1 tablespoon of chopped rosemary. Bring to a boil.
- Cover Dutch oven; place in oven. Bake at 300° for 2 hours or until lamb is tender. Remove lamb from pan; set aside and keep warm. Add remaining 1/4 teaspoon salt and remaining 1/4 teaspoon pepper to pan; bring to a boil over high heat. Cook until sauce is reduced to about 3 1/2 cups (about 30 minutes), stirring frequently. Combine water and cornstarch in a small bowl, stirring with a whisk. Add cornstarch mixture to pan; cook 30 seconds or until sauce thickens, stirring constantly.
- To prepare polenta, bring chicken broth, 1 teaspoon rosemary, and 1/4 teaspoon pepper to a boil in a large saucepan. Gradually add cornmeal, stirring constantly with a whisk. Reduce heat to medium; cook 4 minutes or until thick, stirring constantly. Remove from heat, and stir in cheese. Serve immediately with lamb and sauce.
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- COURSE: Main Dishes
- CUISINE: Italian
- MAIN INGREDIENT: Lamb
- DIETARY CONSIDERATION: Gluten-Free
- COOKING METHOD: Bake
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CPA campaigns are influenced by differences in media invoice type influence the level of control, the level of ROI, and how media are bought.
The CPA (define) advertising mindset is dangerous, and it can kill your business. I'll explain how and help you understand why the most successful businesses succeed with a balance of media.
We're moving toward an ad-buying environment in which marketers are given the option of trading advertising billing methods (CPM, CPC, and CPA) for predictability and guarantees. This turns media buying into a fluid exercise, not a set-and-forget plan. Everyone on the marketing team, from the CMO down to the assistant marketing manager, should understand how the differences in media invoice type (or billing method) influence the level of control, the level of ROI (define), and how the media bought on a CPM (define) basis influences CPA campaigns.
When I was at McCann-Ericson and JWT, my clients weren't buying online media (there was none); we bought the typical mix of TV (network, spot, and cable), radio, magazines, newspaper, and outdoor, plus assorted other media that included the occasional difficult-to-classify type. As someone working on the account side of the business, I wasn't directly involved in negotiating or planning, but my teams were pretty tight and communicative. So I learned a lot about the media buying side of the business. Nearly all the media on the plan was purchased based on some derivative of CPM pricing. Back then, eyeballs weren't online eyeballs, but couch potatoes, magazine readers, and, for radio, ears.
Even in TV advertising where gross rating points (GRPs) were calculated, one could back out of the buy into some kind of CPM, against either the total audience or a segment targeted in the media plan. Tracking was rarely accomplished with any significant level of accuracy. The research required to tie advertising to sales was expensive, so if there was a correlation between advertising and sales at the macro level, everyone was reasonably happy.
For offline CPM advertising, publishers and agencies expended (and still do) a tremendous amount of energy to document and prove to advertisers that the ads ran when and where they were promised. Magazine tear sheets and TV/radio logs were reviewed by agencies. Sometimes, third-party auditors got involved. All this after the CPMs themselves were based on estimates by yet another set of auditing or rating companies (the Audit Bureau of Circulation, Arbitron, or Nielsen, for example).
My point is when buying media on a CPM basis, the marketer wanted the highest level of targeting control possible (offered by the media), as well as verification the media ran as promised. This mode of buying advertising continued as online advertising surged, following the eyeballs of consumers whose behavior was shifting dramatically. However, pre-purchase auditing of sites to verify a target audience or total reach became less important as third-party ad serving (both publisher and advertiser) allowed a new way of validating that impressions were served. (The industry continued to debate how publisher and advertiser ad-server counts could fail to reconcile by wide margins, but that doesn't relate to paid search).
Marketers buying online media on a CPM basis continue to take advantage of ad-server technology's precision to negotiate page position and sections within a site. When you pay CPM rates for something other than run-of-network CPM inventory, you expect, and are granted, a high level of control.
PPC (define) search started in the GoTo straight auction model (GoTo became Overture, which is now Yahoo Search Marketing). Marketers got a high level of control over position that rivaled CPM ad placements, though it was fleeting in the case of highly volatile keywords.
With Google, MSN (now called Microsoft Digital Advertising Solutions), and, starting early next year, even Yahoo, you have less control over position as the engines seek to maximize relevance and revenue. Once you pay for advertising on a per-click basis, it's in the publisher's or network's best interest to pick advertisers, creative, and domain name combinations that make it the most money while preserving relevance. Although some engines are allowing position control (e.g., "give me number two or nothing"), the marketplaces aren't fully predictable. Ironically, much of the influence on perceived relevance and therefore CTR (define) is the level of brand awareness and current advertising in-market for a brand. This means the more you spend on advertising, the cheaper your PPC advertising gets (all other things being equal).
CPA networks, affiliate networks, and direct CPA deals with publishers are similarly driven to maximize revenue. Selling inventory on a CPM guarantees a return. To preempt the CPM deals with a CPC or CPA deal, intelligent publisher ad servers must be confident that the overall yield (effective CPM or money earned) will be higher than an insertion order with a guaranteed CPM. Advertisers and marketers who use the CPA or affiliate networks usually don't know where or when their ads will run. Publishers, including Google (should it ever get into the CPA network business), are happy to run ads only if the ads make them more money than CPC or CPM alternatives. After all, every ad impression has an opportunity cost.
The CPC marketplace operates in a similar way. Publishers tend to be able to find revenue opportunities where demand has been created by your current advertising, marketing, and PR. CPA publisher are much happier piggybacking on demand you've already created than actually creating demand. The perfect example of this is affiliates bidding on brand terms (if they're allowed to). You create the demand, and the affiliate, working on a rev share or CPA basis, taps that demand. With affiliate or CPA programs, your monthly spending is similarly difficult to predict.
When you put together a media and marketing plan, make sure you understand how these different media types interact with each other.
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Will it really be that easy???
"Nothing." He answered with a smile, brushing his hands together and jamming them into his pockets. Ray tried to grab hold of Gerard's arm, remembering the way he'd seen that kid Jason looking when he was finished with him. Then again, Bob was a big guy. He could man-handle Gerard.
"G,... please." Mikey added, worry in his eyes.
"Mikes, I'm fine." Gerard replied, giving his brother and friends a 'WTF' glare. He didn't understand why they'd gotten so tense. He smiled and headed smoothly towards the door.
"Oh shit..." Frank muttered.
"Go and stop this!!" Simone hissed to the boys, who clumsily scampered from their seats to follow their leader.
By that time, Gerard had made it outside, making sure he was close enough for Kristian to hear him.
"Sure you want to play these type of games, little girl?" He whispered as he passed, taking his cigarettes from his pocket. Kris froze.
She turned from Bob and watched as Gerard lit his cigarette, climbed into his car and drove away.
"Hey! Get your damn elbow off my nuts!"
"No, it's not you... Fucker! MOVE!" Ray howled in pain.
"Sorry dude. Who knew...Jesus Toro!" Frank moved over, giving Ray his release, but made Mikey cry out instead.
"That was my nose!"
This was the uncomfortable scene in the back seat of Kristian's car.
"Frank. What the heck are you doing back there?"
"Nothing!" He replied innocently after everyone was comfortable.
There was a brief silence.
"Ok, if nobody else is going to say it, then I am. What the hell was that Kris?" Simone asked.
Kristian sighed. "Simoney..."
"No, I really want to know. We all want to know."
"I think we should wait until we drop the boys off to talk about it. It's complicated."
This time it was Ray who groaned. "Jesus, girl! We're all too far in it for it not to concern us now. Both of you put all of us in the middle. It's only fucking obvious to us that you want to be with each other."
"You guys already know what happened, ok? I went after him, and he didn't want me. So now that he's reacting to me trying to move on, to the person he suggested I move on with, no less, he wants to get all pissy about it? God, I'm SO sorry that my world can't revolve around Gerard Way. You know what he said to me before he left? He asked me if I was sure I wanted to play these games with him. I have no fucking idea what he wants from me."
"I know he can be an asshole. Shit, I've dealt with his bullshit all my life, but believe me K, he just wants to be with you." Mikey spoke softly, followed by another long silence.
"You know what Mikes? Then let HIM chase ME. Because I'm done. I'm done."
They dropped Ray off at home first. Mikey was next. But Gerard's car wasn't parked on the curb out front.
"Fuck! Now where is the fuck could he be?" Mikey exclaimed, exasperated.
"I don't know man, but I'll help you find out." Frank said, giving Simone a quick kiss before climbing out of the car behind Mikey.
"Mikey?" Kris said softly.
"Please call me when you find him. I mean, don't tell him.. But I'd still like to know."
Mikey nodded. "Ok. Stay by the phone. Talk to you guys later." He shut the door and Kris pulled away.
"Did you mean what you said K? You're giving up on Gerard?" Simone asked.
"I can't play games with Gerard, Simoney. One minute he's hot, the next he's cold... I don't have time for that. No matter how I feel about him." Simone glanced at her friend. Her eyes were sad. Why did things have to be so complicated? why were boys such asses? She was glad for her relationship with Frank. Things had been so easy for them. She knew she had to step up. To help her friend, and to keep her cousin from getting hurt.
"Come on. Let's go get wasted and bitch about boys." Simone said when they pulled up at Kristian's house. Kris half-smiled. Her parents were both home, but she knew it would be no challenge to get into their stash. The girls squealed and scrambled into the house and up the stairs. Twenty minutes later they were guzzling her Mother's rum mixed with coke and munching on cheetos.
"I never knew rum could taste so good." Simone giggled.
Kris raised an eyebrow and laughed, then pryed the bottle from Simone's hands and slid it underneath her pillow. "Yeah, but too much of it will get you into trouble. What time did you say Frank is coming back?"
"I don't know...After they find G?" Simone offered, then sighed. "Sorry..."
"For what? I can hear his name without falling apart you know. I wish things weren't so...so..." She sighed. "Forget it."
"Exactly. Forget the boys... It's time for a...PILLOW FIGHT!!" Simone jumped up and slammed her pillow into the side of Kris' head.
"Oh my..."
Kris hit her back, jumping up and bouncing across the bed. Simone screamed, hopped up, and the girls chased each other around the room, screeching, giggling and beating each other with their pillows and Kris' parents slept through it all. They thought they heard a radio playing softly, and Simone froze when she realized it was Kris' cell phone sing.
"Did you hear that?" She asked.
"it's your cell. Somewhere..."
Simone and Kris stared at one another.
"Mikey!!" They said in unison.
The phone was uncovered and Kris answered, out of breath.
"Come down. I'm parked across the street. But I'm standing at the backyard gate..."
Kristian stared at the phone, clutching it in her hand tight.
"What is it? What did he say?" Simone asked, swallowing hard.
Kris opened her mouth to speak, but nothing came out.
"Stay here. I'll be right back." She instructed before leaving the room.
Simone was a little creeped out, and sat down on the floor in front of the television, pillow in her lap.
Kris took down the stairs slowly, tip-toeing to the sliding glass door that led to the patio out back. She slid it open slightly, and shuffled to the gate hurriedly. She inhaled the cigarette smoke before she even saw him.
"What do you want?" She said dryly.
"Why? What's the matter? Still mad at me?" Gerard took a long drag of his cigarette before flicking it to the ground, and crushing it with the toe of his shoe.
"Gerard...I don't know what..."
"Shh..I didn't come here to talk." He placed a finger against her pout and shook his head slightly. Kris frowned at him, wondering if he was on some kind of drug...He grabbed her and kissed her passionately, his tongue coddling and caressing hers, one hand pressed onto the back of her neck. His other arm kept body close, cemented around her waist.
"Princess... Have you been drinking? You naughty girl" Gerard whispered. She kissed him back hungrily, her mind was fighting a losing battle with her body as it pressed even tighter against him. "Maybe we could...Maybe I could take you upstairs...Finish what we started up there..." He growled into he ear, combing his fingers through the hair just above her nape. "Maybe?" Gerard whispered again...And Kris nodded in agreement.
"No wait...We can't go to my room. Simone is in there." She panted.
Gerard squinted, then bit his lip. "Come on. I know someplace we could go." He grabbed her wrist and began to pull her away from the gate.
"Wait! I have to tell Simone /some/thing! I just can't leave her worrying. And I can't exactly go like /this/!" She gestured down to her attire, bed shorts and shirt, underneath a light hooded jacket.
He shushed her the same way he did before, only this time, he kissed her gently right after.
"One, I have a cell phone. Two, she'll be fine when she realizes it's me you're with... And three, believe me. What you're wearing is more than fine." Gerard smirked, and led Kris to his car.
(yeah, i have no idea where that came from. It wasn't in the rough draft. ^_^)


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Rhode Island's law regarding liability for dog bites can be summed up in 10 words: "Strict liability attaches for any injury occurring outside the dog's enclosure." This was the ruling of the Rhode Island Supreme Court in the 2004 case of Johnston v. Poulin.
The dog's "enclosure" must be something that gives notice to anyone entering the premises that he is entering "upon occupied premises where there may be a dog." Wilbur v. Gross. This means that dog owners should place "Beware of Dog" signs near entrances to the premises. A picket fence that encloses the entire yard might not be sufficient to give the pedestrian reasonable notice that the premises is occupied by a dog. Without "signs, fences, gates, or other barriers" and with "nothing to warn the general public that there was a dog running loose on the land" damages may be awarded to the bitten plaintiff by a jury. Lamoureux v. Davis.
The "dog bite" law applies not only to bites, but to all injuries inflicted by a roaming canine, including scratches. The law is not limited to injuries to humans. Rhode Island law extends protection to other dogs, domestic animals, sheep, lamb, cattle, horses, hogs, swine, or fowl.
Taking a Second Bite
As a punitive measure, if the dog has previously attacked an individual outside of its enclosure, the second attack must result in double damages against the owner and the destruction of the dog. The text of RI Gen. Law § 4-13-16 is:
"If any dog kills, wounds, worries, or assists in killing, wounding or worrying, any sheep, lamb, cattle, horse, hog, swine, fowl, or other domestic animal belonging to or in the possession of any person, or assaults, bites, or otherwise injures any person while traveling the highway or out of the enclosure of the owner or keeper of that dog, the owner or keeper of the dog shall be liable to the person aggrieved, for all damage sustained, to be recovered in a civil action, with costs of suit. If afterwards any such damage is done by that dog, the owner or keeper of the dog shall pay to the party aggrieved double the damage, to be recovered in the manner set forth and an order shall be made by the court before whom that second recovery is made, for killing the dog. The order shall be executed by the officer charged with the execution of the order, and it shall not be necessary, in order to sustain this action, to prove that the owner or keeper of the dog knew that the dog was accustomed to causing this damage."
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Spicy Seafood Fusilli
Fusilli is one of the few pastas that come both long and short. Either will work in this dish, but we prefer the long.
Yield: 4 servings (serving size: 2 cups)
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Nutritional Information
Amount per serving
- Calories: 396
- Calories from fat: 21%
- Fat: 9.4g
- Saturated fat: 1.3g
- Monounsaturated fat: 5.3g
- Polyunsaturated fat: 1.6g
- Protein: 26.2g
- Carbohydrate: 50.8g
- Fiber: 2.2g
- Cholesterol: 109mg
- Iron: 9.6mg
- Sodium: 358mg
- Calcium: 96mg
- 4 quarts water
- 8 ounces uncooked long fusilli or 3 cups uncooked short fusilli (twisted spaghetti)
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1/3 cup minced shallots
- 1/2 teaspoon fennel seeds, crushed
- Dash of powdered saffron (optional)
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 1 (14.5-ounce) can diced tomatoes, undrained
- 16 littleneck clams, scrubbed
- 3/4 pound large shrimp, peeled and deveined
- 2 teaspoons grated lemon rind
- 1 teaspoon minced seeded jalapeño pepper
- Bring water to a boil in a large stockpot. Add fusilli; return to a boil. Cook, uncovered, 10 minutes or until fusilli is al dente, stirring occasionally. Drain.
- Heat the olive oil in a large skillet over medium-low heat. Add the shallots, fennel seeds, and saffron (if desired). Cover and cook for 4 minutes or until shallots are tender, stirring occasionally. Stir in salt and tomatoes. Increase heat to medium; cover and cook for 5 minutes. Add the clams. Increase heat to high; cover and cook for 6 minutes or until clams open. Add shrimp, rind, and jalapeño. Stir gently. Cover and cook for 3 minutes or until the shrimp are done. Discard any unopened clamshells. Stir in fusilli.
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OAK LAWN, Ill. | Thanksgiving this year was truly a special holiday for 51-year-old LaVonda Wallace, of South Holland; her sister, 56-year-old Cherylyn Gooch, of Flossmoor; and a 27-year-old man from Wheaton, according to a news release.
Before receiving a new kidney at Advocate Christ Medical Center in May, "I was just looking for the end," said Wallace, who suffered kidney failure in 2006 and had been spending at least 12 hours a week on dialysis since then. "To begin again, to be back to working, is simply wonderful. And, Robert – he is just awesome. He was God-sent."
Last January, Robert Pechous, of Wheaton, made a New Year's resolution to do something special for someone.
"I was tired of seeing people suffer," he said, according to the release.
That is why he walked into the kidney transplant clinic at Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn earlier this year and talked with Deepak Mital, M.D., surgical director of the kidney transplant program, to find out whether or not he might be a match for anyone needing a kidney.
He proved to be a match for Wallace. For Pechous, it would be his first surgery. The day after their respective operations, "my nurse took me down to meet her (LaVonda)," Pechous said. "It was the coolest moment of my life to see someone so happy and thankful."
"I had never met Robert before," Wallace said later. "I only had heard his voice, talking, across the hall when he was going in for surgery, and I was waiting for his kidney."
What Pechous did not know at the time of his face-to-face introduction to Wallace was that LaVonda had experienced several prior "almost" kidney matches — one of them being her sister, Cherylyn Gooch, who is an active, competitive runner. About two-and-a-half years earlier, Gooch had been in her final stages of testing to donate one of her kidneys to LaVonda. Everything looked like a "go."
"I was so excited to be a blood match for my sister. We were doing the 'happy dance,'" Gooch said in the release.
That's when physicians, serendipitously, discovered Gooch to be in the early stages of lung cancer — a discovery that saved her life.
"I was asymptomatic at the time," Gooch said. "Doctors told me I potentially could have remained without symptoms for a long time. Only about 15 percent of lung cancer patients are diagnosed in this first phase."
Gooch underwent an operation to remove a 2-centimeter nodule from her right lung. Six months later, she was back in the gym training and running competitively again, including events in USA Track and Field.
Wallace then tried for another kidney transplant.
Now, enter Robert Pechous.
"I can't thank Robert enough," Wallace said. "He has changed my life."
Indeed, he has. Through the Illinois Department of Human Services, Division of Rehabilitation Services, Wallace is back to work — at least part-time — serving as a personal assistant to individuals debilitated by injury or disease, such as a stroke. She also is undergoing training in medical billing and coding, with a goal of becoming a medical administrative assistant.
"I am able to get up and go to work again. I never thought I would reach this point," Wallace said.
"God works in amazing ways — how all three of our lives were brought together in this manner," Gooch added.
Meanwhile, Pechous recently added to his year of "firsts" — first surgery, first hospital stay — by running his first marathon, the Chicago Marathon, in October, only five months after kidney surgery.
"It's very unusual for a patient to run a full marathon just five months after kidney donation," said Pechous' surgeon, Mital, who ran in the same marathon this year. "Robert's achievement shows that kidney donors can lead a normal life after the surgery."
Pechous ran the marathon in quicker time than Mital. Pechous: four hours, 28 minutes; Mital: five hours, 29 minutes.


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MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (KFGO AM) -- The Minnesota Twins home opener this afternoon will feature a special "Stand Up to Cancer"theme.
As a show of support for Twins GM Terry Ryan and others impacted by cancer, players from the Twins and A's are wearing SU2C patches.
Team spokesman Kevin Smith says there will also be a tribute during the game.
Smith says this is the first time Major League Baseball has allowed a team to do this in the regular season.
"Take Me Out to the Ballgame" will be performed in the 7th inning by Hope Kids, an organization that provides activities for children battling cancer.
KFGO will carry the game live.
The pre-game begins at 2:40 this afternoon, with the opening pitch set for 3:10.


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On February 3, 2002, a court in Boulak-al-Dakrour (in Giza, a suburb of Cairo) convicted four men for consensual homosexual behavior. A judge sentenced each to three years in prison with three years' probation to follow. Days later, Europe and the United States gave Egypt billions of dollars to keep such courts, police, and prisons running.
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alice aycock, studies for a town, 1977
He does say you have "closure" in terms of your openness. He does say your pieces are complete. I thought of "de-centered" because it seems like that is like a tear- it de-centers you. How do you like that?
Maybe. I believe my best work-work that happened every couple of years, without me "forcing it"- is about creating a sense of disequilibrium, and a moment of (she gasps)-ahh! It is closer to terror, and also the pleasure in terror. Which is hard to do for many reasons- even insurance reasons (laughs). When the work is really good, that's what I am able to do. Along with something visual and beautiful, I hope. Something like (the piece at) Storm King- which I like a lot. It does all those things. You get that sense of (breathes in quickly)- it isn't scary, but it's like- whoa! You ask yourself-"Where would I be in that thing?"- as you approach it. That whirling motion, it is pretty neat to look at. I also want you to feel that moment when the wave comes in and takes you under. Or you step out into empty space. I had it even today driving into the city- I almost got sideswiped. You gasp. That's what obsesses me, that's what I can't ignore. That near miss, that glance- what Neitchze called the "glance of eternity". I think art can do that, the art I have always liked does that. It just keeps you in the moment of saying "yes" and saying "no" – the approach/withdraw syndrome. That's what we like about some African art, it is sheer terror- a little bit of it. The art we keep going back to over and over does that. Architecture can do that.
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"We cannot win with eggheads and African-Americans," Paul Begala, a Democratic strategist and Clinton ally, said on CNN last week.
The eggheads he was referring to presumably are those young, college-educated and affluent voters who are wild about Barack Obama. As for African-American voters who for too long have been taken for granted by the Democratic Party, I guess they don't count for much anymore, seeing how they have been treated by the Clintons in this primary campaign.
In his own crude way, Begala was saying nothing more than what Hillary Clinton and her surrogates have been telling undecided superdelegates — that Obama is unelectable because, as her big-state victories show, he cannot "close the deal" with white, working-class voters who could be the key to a Democratic victory in November.
Polls suggest that Obama could have a problem winning these so-called Reagan Democrats in the general election, but so could Clinton up against John McCain. The former first lady ignores the fact that Obama so far has won more white votes than she did in 17 states, including Alaska, Colorado, Kansas, Maine, Minnesota, Nebraska and Utah.
Clinton no longer feels the need to speak in code about the issue of race in this campaign. She is openly presenting herself as her party's Great White Vote-Getter. In an interview last week with USA Today, she cited an Associated Press story "that found how Sen. Obama's support among working, hard-working, white Americans, is weakening again. . . . There's a pattern emerging here."
So this is the last gasp of her historic, once high-flying campaign, now fatally wounded and bankrupt — dividing Democrats along lines of class and race. Even George McGovern, one of her early supporters, called on Clinton to bow out of the race before she does further damage to her party's chances in November. However, Clinton vowed to fight on in the remaining six contests, even though she must know that her dream is shattered, that she has lost the presidential nomination she once thought would be inevitably hers.
The question is no longer how Clinton can win but how she will lose. She can go out with grace, dignity and class, or with cold blast of resentment and defiance.
Some Democrats haven't given up on the idea of an Obama-Clinton ticket. It's not clear Clinton would accept the vice presidential nomination, not that Obama is likely to offer it as a consolation prize. Sen. Ted Kennedy said last week he doesn't think such a ticket is "possible" and urged Obama to select a running mate "who is in tune with his appeal to the nobler aspirations of the American people."
An Obama-Clinton dream ticket could turn into a nightmare, putting Clinton in the awkward position of trying to defend the Democratic nominee against Republican attacks taken straight from her own slash-and-burn playbook.
Tucker Eskew, a veteran Republican strategist in Washington, said last week that Clinton had shown Republicans "how to run against Obama." And you can bet they won't waste any of Clinton's attack lines. Imagine the McCain campaign lifting some of her exact words to raise questions about Obama's relationship with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and William Ayers, a former member of the radical Weather Underground in the '60s. And does anyone believe the Republican attack machine will forget that Clinton is on record saying she and McCain are ready to serve as commander in chief and Obama is not?
It appears all that is left are the terms of Clinton's surrender.
Thomas Edsall of the Huffington Post suggested last week that Democrats could use the "prospects of major rewards" to ease Clinton out of the race.
"One of the most inviting is the near certainty that the Obama campaign would agree to pay back the $11.4 million she has loaned her own bid, along with an estimated $10-to-$15-million in unpaid campaign expenses," Edsall wrote. "In addition, Democrats, both those who are loyal and those who opposed to her campaign, say the odds of her winning a top leadership spot in the Senate would improve dramatically if she gracefully conceded now. The icing on the cake includes an improved political climate, giving Hillary and Bill Clinton the opportunity to heal the rift with the black political community."
That would be a generous offer, considering the damage she has done to her party. It could solve Clinton's money problems and give her a high-profile Senate post that would position her for another run for president in four years if Obama were to lose to John McCain. Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid is considered vulnerable to a challenge next year.
However, Clinton could sour this deal — and forever tarnish the Clinton legacy in Democratic politics — if she uses the remaining weeks of the primary season to inflict further damage on Obama's candidacy. Even some of her own supporters are urging Clinton, if she insists on fighting on, to lay off Obama and turn her political fire on McCain. The worst thing Clinton can do for her party and her own political future is to ignore that advice.
Surely Clinton realizes that she is at a point where she risks losing more than her party's presidential nomination.
(Contact Philip Gailey at email@example.com.)
(Philip Gailey is editor of editorials for the St. Petersburg Times. E-mail gailey(at)sptimes.com.)
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Lip service or scorched earth is about all that can be expected from Clinton, and I think that lip service is the more likely. That's what Ted Kennedy did in 1980 when his supposed come-back against Jimmy Carter flopped.
What remains to be seen post-Clinton is whether or not her share of the traditional Democratic demographic can be persuaded to rally to Obama, or will they choose to cross over as "McCain Democrats", or simply sit out the election. The "scorched earth" approach may be the disaffected voter's response; the socioeconomic low-end white voters tending to cross-over; the hard-core feminists may choose to sit out the election.
Most sincerely,
T. J. Flapsaddle
The only rational reason Clinton is still campaigning is she is expecting someone to assasinate Obama. It happened to Robert Kennedy. It is the only rational explanation.
I know stupid voters like her. I am not stupid. I am apalled.
Since Democracy is a quaint institution, just give her the office. She is entitled, my gawd, the Bilderbergers have ordained it!
Nuff said.
ban me and pay 7 bux a gallon for gas!
Based on her commentary of late, it would seem that her support comes from the very same demographic that overwhelmingly elected George Bush. I have been saying to many people that my impression of her is that she is the female version of GWB – all bravado and bluff barely masking her pathological lies.
When she exits, it will be with a grimace. Once off stage, she will begin plotting her revenge.
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness." -Mark Twain
Is she ever going to exit??? Or will she have to be thrown out kicking and screaming??? It is way past time for her to go!
Howard Dean announced a signed agreement between the Dems, Hillary, and Barack Obama that the two senators will jointly raise the money to pay back Clinton's huge debt.
This bothers me very much, as it sounds like paying her to get out.
While I'll certainly vote for Obama in the Fall because he's the best man for our country, I won't be sending any more of my hard-earned money to him as I've been doing every month, because I don't want it used to pay off that scum bucket lobbyist Penn or the unscrupulous Clintons themselves.
She couldn't choose smart people for her campaign, and that would carry through to her advisors were she elected president; she couldn't even keep her own campaign budget solvent let alone the country's, and she never saw Obama coming up back in February. This is "experience?"
How anyone could vote for someone like that is beyond me.
I sure don't want my money going to her or her henchhoods.
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Verizon Wireless holds ribbon-cutting ceremonyby jmaloni
Fri, Feb 3rd 2012 03:30 pm
The Niagara River Region Chamber of Commerce presented a ribbon-cutting ceremony Friday for its newest member, Verizon Wireless. The phone service company moved and is now located at 1596 Military Road, in the Town of Niagara.
As part of its move, Verizon Wireless is hosting grand opening promotions throughout the month of February. (photos courtesy of the chamber)
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In the October 2011 issue of eurotuner magazine and here at www.eurotuner.com, we brought you the story of the Spectre 341 Challenge. It's an annual hillclimb event that takes place in Virginia City, NV, about 30min from Reno.
During the course of the weekend, we visited the wild west-themed town on several occasions, enjoying its wooden boardwalks, town's folk in period cowboy costumes and all the associated tourist attractions that go along with it.
If you're ever in Nevada, we certainly recommend a visit. It had a small gunfight arena, a stagecoach ride, steam train and much more.
However, Virginia City also has a darker side, one that we alluded to in the magazine and promised to expand upon in a blog.
Fans of ghost TV shows will know the city for its many haunted locations, including the infamous Old Washoe Club, the Mackey residence and the graveyard, to name a few.
As a result, people conduct ghost tours through the town at night to reveal the more active areas.
With the excitement of the racing we were covering, the town's spirits were far from my mind when I came across a familiar-looking building. Having never visited before, my attention was caught by a board inside the building that referenced the Ghost Hunters and Ghost Adventures TV shows.
Both programs had visited the town and spent time in the club. Ghost Hunters appeared to find little evidence, but Ghost Adventures discovered some significant, chilling presence.
Sitting down at the bar for a drink, we were invited to visit the building's ghost museum in the back. Admission is free when you buy a drink so we waited until it was fully dark and ventured in.
The museum has a number of artifacts but most chilling was an enlarged photo of what they call "The Blue Lady". It's a transparent figure on a spiral staircase that used to lead to the club's upper floors in its mining heyday.
The museum has a screen monitoring a number of nightvision cameras in the building, including one positioned in an anteroom at the rear. Unfortunately, upstairs access wasn't possible due to the state or disrepair.
We ventured into the back room, which is stonewalled, damp, dark and has no ceilings. You can see up to the three-storey roof, with the remnants of a short staircase in the far corner at the third-floor level.
This high, short staircase appears to hang in the room and is instantly curious.
Accompanied by Neill Bachand and Cory Burns, there was a heavy, cold atmosphere in the room. We later learned it had been used as a temporary morgue in the previous century. It was an overflow from the town's main mortuary, storing bodies in winter until the ground was soft enough for them to be buried.
Even without this knowledge, we all agreed the room felt unusually creepy. Turning off the lamp on a small table in the room this it almost impossible to remain in there.
We turned the lamp back on and tried to regain our composure when a small group of people entered the room. They were looking up at the staircase and back at a camera screen. After enquiring, we were shown one photo with nothing out of the ordinary, followed by a second that appeared to have a small, round, blue face peering down from under the stairs.
Unconvinced, I used my iPhone to shoot off two quick photos. We took another two with the light off.
It wasn't until the next day that we discovered the same blue face in the first two photos.
I've posted the photos here but the resolution makes it very difficult to identify the face. We've done nothing to enhance the image because we don't want to be accused of inventing the story for any reason. However, the face is in the bottom left corner of the stairs, between the two uprights and just above the wooden floor.
The photo shows a similar blue face we'd seen on the lady's camera. It's round, bluish, with deep-set eyes.
Perhaps more convincing for us is that the second photo, taken from a slightly different angle, shows the face has depth. It's still transparent but you can see a chin and neck as you look up at it. It's not simply two-dimensional, as in the first picture. This is 3D…
At the time, we had no idea what we'd captured because we didn't take it very seriously and hadn't looked closely at the screen. It was Neill who found them the following day, or I might have deleted them.
As we were sitting in the back room with the lamp off again, Neill had wandered out into the museum. I was looking up and to my right. In the total darkness, I started to see a shaft of light move across the roof from front to back.
As it turns out, it was traveling down a section of pipe, which is shown in the photo. However, I have no idea where the light was coming from or how it was moving.
With my attention focused on the light above, Neill returned to the back. As he stepped through the open door we all heard a sound. He described it as a chair being dragged across the floor, and also felt a rush of cold air past him.
To me, the same sound was right next to me. I thought it was somebody's phone vibrating on the table, but I felt no wind.
Cory also heard the same sound and all of us looked at each other to see if we'd heard it and which of us caused it. We all asked the same question but none of us had created it. It was incredibly vivid but we have no explanation for what it was or how it was created. It remains chilling and unexplained.
After finding the blue face photos the next day, we returned to the Old Washoe Club that evening to resume our search. Word had got round and a larger group joined us. This time, the atmosphere in the back room was completely different. It felt lighter, less sinister.
While a group of us were gathered in the back, we noticed a ghost tour group had entered the museum and, although there was a camera on us, we decided to remain silent in the dark. One of us hid under the small table and we held our breath.
Again, the lack of light makes the accompanying video difficult to see but you can here the screams after several people enter the room. The person under the table dragged a stool across the floor and the visitors ran out screaming. It was hilarious for all and they eventually saw the humor.
With little to show for our evening, a large group of us decided to trek to the graveyard about one mile out of town. This definitely isn't allowed and alcohol may have played a part in the decision.
As we stumbled around in the darkness, there were no experiences to be had or ghosts to be seen. However, I had taken a number of photos of the town as we passed through. It looked rather spooky and seemed to make good photos.
Again, we didn't inspect them until later, when another face was discovered in the upstairs room below the museum sign.
It's in the third window from the left, just above the banister rail. At first, I thought it was a reflection of the decorative ball on the banister. However, the angle of the light would make this impossible. The presence of two black eyes, and the shape of the ears and nose would also rule this out.
This face seems more menacing than the first. We checked other photos we'd taken of the same building in daylight to see if a mannequin was placed in the window, but it just seemed to have shelves.
This face is more defined and a little more chilling than the blue face.
To add some perspective, none of us are regular ghost hunters or even believers before this happened. I'd had some previous experiences but had generally tried to explain it as something else or put it out of my mind. However, the ghost faces in Virginia City might have changed the minds of a few people.
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