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Mobile Marketing Outlook for 2011
2011 could be the breakout year for mobile marketing and advertising, according to Mobile Marketer, which recently released Mobile Outlook 2011, an insightful guide to the marketplace. The 48-page report discusses how mobile implementations will impact commerce, content, and marketing, and looks at the ways in which consumers, marketers, advertisers, and brands will be affected.
Sports Illustrated Suits Up With Tag
Sports Illustrated integrated Tag into their 2011 Swimsuit Edition, linking readers to behind–the-scenes photos and videos of the models in the issue and voting for their favorite Rookie.
USA TODAY Adds Tags to Daily Papers
"A milestone moment for both the news media and the mixing of the digital and print worlds." – The Next Web
Sports Illustrated Tags Swimsuit Issue
"This year it's all about mobile, the basis for a new business model for SI, and potentially Time Inc." – brandchannel
Universal Uses Tag to Promote "Bridesmaids"
"Microsoft Tag has a claim at Hollywood stardom with the technology helping an otherwise traditional promotion connect movie-goers with online experiences." – Softpedia
Turkcell Launches Tag-based Mobile Marketing Service
"Brands and advertisers in Turkey can utilize the new service to reach millions of mobile subscribers." – Mobile Barcode Innovations
Tag Tip of the Month
Custom Tags incorporate images and/or text into the Tag graphic, so they can blend seamlessly into your creative, reflecting your brand or design while adding interactivity to the content. For instance, Acura incorporated 12 custom Tags in a recent high-end brochure, each color-matched to the page photography. Other companies have created custom Tags using logos, book covers,and abstract art. Custom Tags are free and easy to make, so try one out the next time you create a Tag.
Is Tag the Ultimate Shopping Companion?
Ever had trouble deciding which product is right for you when faced with an aisle of options? Herbal Essences discovered this dilemma was a purchase barrier for potential customers, so as part of its recent brand relaunch, the company created an innovative campaign that helps answer the question, "Which Herbal product is right for my hair?"
At more than 53,000 retail stores across North America, Herbal products have a "shelf talker" highlighting the key benefit of each product line. Even better, the display includes a Microsoft Tag. Shoppers can use their smartphones right at the shelf to scan the Tag and visit Herbal's mobile site, which provides full product details, along with user reviews, quizzes, and hair tips. The mobile site can even be toggled to Spanish for Hispanic customers.
What do you think about Herbal's approach? Could Tag (and a mobile phone) be the ultimate shopping companion? Let us know on Tag's Facebook or Twitter pages.
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At the start of the NCAA men's basketball tournament, USA Today launched its Mobile Hoopla contest which let fans scan a Tag from the Sports section and build a bracket on their mobile phone. After completing their bracket, fans were automatically entered into a national contest with a chance to win an XBOX 360 console with Kinect. At the end of the tournament, the top 5 players who made the most accurate picks by the end of the NCAA Tournament will win!
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By CHARI JELSMASun Advocate reporter
The Helper American Legion game completed its season in second place after a long week of tournament play in Kearns. Helper had no problem defeating all opposing teams they went up against except St. George who won 28-4 and 9-2 in the championship game on Saturday.
Helper continued tournament play on Wednesday with two wins and a forfeit behind them. Taylorsville was destined to be the next team to be taken down by Helper in an 8-5 win.
After scoring their first run in the first inning, Helper lost its lead and lagged behind Taylorsville 4-1 in the sixth inning.
Helper's determination took control in the sixth inning. After pitcher Chandler Pearson pitched five innings and struck out Taylorsville's Brett Kone and walked Josh Nelson in the sixth, he was moved to shortstop and Mike Smith replaced him on the mound.
Smith's pitching destroyed Taylorsville's chance of scoring any more runs in the inning by forcing Brinton Orullian into a double-play to end the top half of the inning.
The bottom of the inning continued to be on the side of Helper. Aaron Sandoval and Chris Hatch hit singles one after the other in the sixth. Pearson then followed and hit an incredible single, bringing Sandoval safely home.
An error by Taylorsville's Xavier Gonzales on a groundball by Joe Via allowed Hatch to score the tying run.
With bases loaded and the score tied with only one out, right fielder Dustin Howa came up to bat and completed a bunt bringing the third base runner home.
Helper received Thursday off but was ready for play of Friday night as they went up against the Kearns team.
Kearns started the game by scoring three runs with a two-run home run and a sacrifice fly.
Helper came back in the third inning scoring its first runs of the game when Trevor Thompson scored on an error and Wes Baletka scored on a single from Hatch's RBI double. Sandoval then scored on a wild pitch, followed by a single by Via, bringing in Hatch. This gave Helper a 4-3 lead at the end of the inning.
Helper was once again trailing in the eighth inning. Hatch and Pearson both singled to start the inning. After Hatch scored from third on a wild pitch, Via came in and hit a single putting runners on first and third with one down. Howa laid down a bunt that would bring Pearson back home and bring the game to a 6-6 tie. Pearson did what he thought necessary to make it home and tied up the game by jumping over the Kearns catcher's outstretched arm and sliding into home.
The game finally ended after 10 innings and a sacrifice fly by Smith with bases loaded and just one out, ending the game with a 7-6 win for Helper.
Pearson pitched a great game on Friday after coming in as a relief pitcher for Morgan Bates. He struck out a number of batters including six in the 9th and 10th innings.
Unlike the rest of the games in the tournament, Saturday's two games against St. George didn't turn out as well as many Helper fans had hoped, losing both games to St. George 28-4 and 9-2.
Game one of the final day of the tournament didn't do much for Helper's confidence after scoring one run in the first and not scoring again until the ninth.
While Helper struggled, St. George scored two runs in the second and third innings and four in the fourth. They completed their final run in the eighth,ending the inning with a 9-1 lead.
Even though they were down by eight runs, Helper came into the ninth with the determination to win, scoring one run and ending the game with a 9-2 loss against St. George.
Even though it wasn't a great game, Sandoval hit an incredible home run.
Game two was just as bad for Helper who scored their only four runs during the fourth and fifth innings.
St. George on the other hand, had no problem putting runners on base and scoring runs, easily winning game two and and claiming their second American Legion state championship in three years.
Even though they didn't win the championship title, Helper has had an undeniably great year, ending the season in second place in the state.

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I have a never used trekker that has been seem sealed. Only set up in the yard a couple of times. $190 shipped (cont US). Tent goes to the first person that says they'll take it.
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Buyer backed out, so still available.
Free Bump. Great shelter at any price, especially yours. Mine came in under stated weight and held up to serious wind and rain.
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Adult Swim, Cartoon Network, and CNN Clips Coming to YouTube
Wednesday, August 19, 2009 | 8:00 AM
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We want YouTube to be a place where you can find any kind of content you're looking for, from short-form user generated clips to full-length independent films and Hollywood movies and shows. Today, we've taken another step in making YouTube a comprehensive video destination by partnering with Time Warner. With this deal, people in the United States will be able to watch a wide selection of clips from Turner outlets like CNN, the Cartoon Network, and Adult Swim, as well as Warner Brothers movies and hit TV shows like Gossip Girl and the Ellen DeGeneres show. The content will join other Time Warner properties already on the site, such as CNN International (country-restricted) and HBO, whose channel features videos from True Blood, Hung and Entourage.
The flexibility we provide partners in monetizing their content was a key factor in Time Warner's decision to come to YouTube. You'll see a variety of ad formats (like overlays or in-stream ads) on their content, depending on the kind of video you're watching, and both Turner and Warner Bros. will be able to leverage the strength of their sales forces to sell their own ads on the site. We will also be integrating the Time Warner player into YouTube.com.


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CoolerMaster CM 690 III Review
Up Close: Roof, Rear and Base
Published: 16th September 2013 | Source: CoolerMaster | Price: £85 |
Up Close: Roof, Rear and Base
The majority of the roof of the case is given over to a large rectangular mesh panel. Anterior to this there's a high gloss smoked/opaque acrylic sheet that slots into guides providing a sliding access to a decent sized cubby hole beneath. There is nothing elegant or sophisticated about the sliding action, indeed, it does tend to stick a little and we suspect it won't be too long before the high gloss finish is covered in greasy fingerprints. A better alternative may have been to hinge the panel, or perhaps to make it from the mesh material and so extend this along the roof.
The mesh panel is easily removed by means of a thumb bolt at the rear. Lifting it cleanly off reveals fixings for 2x120mm or 2x140mm fans. Although the fixings aren't shown in the image below, the roof is also able to take a 200mm fan. The observant amongst you will also have noticed that several of the screw holes are elongated, hinting at the cases ability to house 240 rads in the roof. There's not really enough room up here to stick a fan in, but as you'll see when we move to the build, there's plenty of room on offer inside.
As well as providing cover for a little cubby box the sliding panel also serves to blank off the front I/O area when it's not in use.
A pair of USB3.0s are teamed up with a pair of USB2.0s, the usual audio headers and a separate power and reset switch.
Round the back all is much as you would expect. A single 120mm fan on extract sits above a trio of rubber grommeted tubing holes (please stop this). Below we find 7 vented PCI slot covers with an additional vertically mounted cover providing a mounting option for devices that do not need motherboard connection, such as fan and lighting controllers.
The case is supported by four large rubber capped feet which give it a very firm base to stand on. a long slim removable dust filter covers the PSU and base fan area.
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Anyway, good to see that its still a strong, solid performer.
But whether this is just available in the US, time will tell.
eBuyer usually stock the panels as they are the only place in the UK I've found that stock them as they did with previous generations of the 690.
There is an optional window panel with no fan mount.
But whether this is just available in the US, time will tell.
eBuyer usually stock the panels as they are the only place in the UK I've found that stock them as they did with previous generations of the 690.
Specialtech, OCUK and Scan, along with a fair few others stocked the CM690-II's windowed side panel, and did it for about �8.
I never saw eBuyer have them tbh, although I don't really use them anymore.
Still little available, or expensive: $150 on CM 690 III - black - Mid Tower (amazon.com), 93.00 EUR ($126) on Cooler Master CM 690 III Ordinateur de bureau (amazon.fr), �98.91 ($161) on Cooler Master CM690 III, ohne Netzteil (amazon.co.uk).
For the GPU compatibility, all sites endlessly repeat Cooler Master site's "423mm" which is a joke: this is obviously the card length you can insert after removing the upper HDD cage; none shows the true compatibility, i.e. with keeping and using both HDD cages with all their trays, which is probably around 300mm. TIA to the one who would be able to post the true value.
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I bought this bike from a retiring classic racer, It is based on a B50SS which has been tuned, the head has been flowed and it runs with a mk2 Amal Concentric carb and a stainless steel megaphone exhaust. When we got the bike it used a battery and coil for ignition, with no charing system. We stripped the bike, junked the battery, fitted a Rex Caunt self generating ignition, Tarozzi rear sets and a cranked Sammy Miller kickstart. The front fairing was removed and a manx style nose fairing fitted. A set of sticky Bridgestone Battlaxe tyres to replace the skinny Avon race tyres,and the BSA was ready for its MOT.
Saying bye bye, just after my last ride before the BSA was stripped and crated to go off to Jutland in Denmark with Henrik Larsen
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The development of social rights in the 20th century was based on the notion of establishing mandatory mechanisms to compensate for the imbalances between capital and labor. To face capital's power, a set of regulations were designed – multilateral and bilateral international treaties as well as regional social charters and national laws and regulations – with the goal of endowing organized labor with enough power to enable employers and workers to negotiate a wide range of subjects in a balanced framework.
In the last 25 years, the world has seen an unprecedented worldwide expansion of the market as the main economic mechanism. At the same time, democracy has become the planet's predominant political system. Technological changes and a new open economy have endowed capital with extraordinary volatility. Deregulation provided companies with freedoms never before experienced. The imbalances that earlier social legislation helped to alleviate have, as a result, reappeared in capital-labor relations.
Clearly, free trade's expansion has created previously unknown possibilities for specialization, exchange, and economic growth. It is desirable that these new opportunities, and the more open relations between national economies, help to overcome the poverty that afflicts hundreds of millions of the world's inhabitants, many in Latin America.
To insure that free trade achieves its full potential as a catalyst for development, the new wealth it creates must be distributed fairly among and within countries. Moreover, in this fair distribution it is desirable to provide for advantages for those sectors often excluded from social progress, such as the unemployed and underemployed low-productivity workers, who are in no position to adequately negotiate working conditions and salaries.
But an acceptable distribution of free trade's benefits will be hard to achieve so long as a sharp imbalance between capital and labor persists. While this unequal relationship may not impede economic growth, it makes it impossible to translate the benefits of free trade into greater social justice.
Even in the global economy of the 21st Century, regulatory instruments to insure that free trade translates into social equity are relevant. The conventions of the International Labor Organization (ILO), in particular those known as "basic agreements" (on trade unions, collective bargaining, discrimination, forced labor and child labor) and the concept of "decent work," promoted nowadays by the ILO, are sound instruments towards this goal. In the Americas, the efforts of the Working Group on Labor of MERCOSUR – the Latin American complement to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) – and other similar tools developed, have yielded valuable experience that should be evaluated, consolidated and consequently promoted.
National labor laws should also balance the need for flexibility for employers with protection of worker's rights. These laws should establish basic rules and define accepted areas of possible negotiation between social parties. Among the options available, those based on the willingness of corporations and business groups to self regulate could open new avenues for action. Proposals whereby employers make transparent their undertakings on labor and social issues, agreeing to keep the public informed are also worth following. Such transparency is necessary to stimulate better practice, and to progressively improve social and labor conditions.
The proposals to dismantle protective national labor legislation that we sometimes hear in Latin America, are not acceptable and do not promise the sound conditions needed to develop free trade. It is also inadequate, no doubt, to look to the past to find norms that have been surpassed by today's economic reality. Sooner or later such legacies will hinder development. Efforts aimed at social justice embedded in modern and dynamic thinking, however, can allow free trade to become an instrument of greater equality, instead of a mechanism that concentrates its benefits on the rich. In Latin America – because of its cultural and socio-economic profile – these efforts could gain unexpected success.
There are those, however, who fear that such considerations only provide ammunition to free trade's adversaries, or to those states which use labor questions as a pretext for practicing protectionism, closing their markets to relatively less developed countries. The latter type of behavior obviously annuls the legitimate competitive advantage possessed by poorer countries, creating a vicious circle of poverty that includes, as one of its elements, the unfair treatment of workers. This abuse of, or bad faith in agreements and norms concerning basic labor questions work against less-developed countries, countries that need the consumer markets of the richer economies.
But the inverse is also true: the stance that defends free trade and refuses to consider labor as an element in development can be a way of masking a lack of public policies designed to diminish the abysmal difference between the rich and the poor that burdens many nations, including those in Latin America.
It is critical to put an end to the suspicions that make a viable solution impossible. The inability to sort out these difficulties creatively may set undue limits to expanding free trade. They also signal an obstacle that all of Latin America must avoid for the elimination of poverty to move from words and speeches to actual fact.
It is important not to forget that the relationship between democracy and the market is not made virtuous by some fixed automatic mechanism. It must be built so as to harness the virtues of each institution while bringing both together. An essential part of this architecture is the existence of labor relations that insure basic rights.


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Spice Sherpa has been honored with recognition in the form of awards and being featured in other publications on and offline.
November, 2010 The Lovely Blog Award
Technorati claims there are currently over 100 million blogs. Against those numbers it's always a treat to receive a comment notification that you've been chosen to receive a blogging award. In this case, thank you to A Little Bit of Everything for giving Spice Sherpa the One Lovely Blog Award. Even though Spice Sherpa dwelves into other spice-related topics these awards demonstrate the warm and generous spirit in the food blogging community. A Little Bit of Everything runs a great food blog illustrated with pictures, vignettes and video. She's a phenomenal cook and has a natural intuition for flavor.
I'm passing the One Lovely Blog Award on to 15 deserving blogs. Hardly a nanodrop in the bucket of blogs out there but these are truly worthy.
- Quickies On The Dinner Table. Love the title? You'll love the blog more. Denise is a trained chef and mother. Her food and photography is exquisite and doable for the everyday kitchen mortal.
- Ancient Fire Wines. Another killer name that originally caught my attention. Jason is a true mixologist and has brewed award-winning wine, mead, and beer. He's also a cancer survivor and his outlook is naturally saturated in optimism. I love that.
- Gigabyting. It's intelligent and entertaining. You won't find recipes but food is about so much more.
- The Ardent Epicure. Very lovely. Very informative. Always a joy to read.
- Health Power for Minorities. This is a brand new blog but the site is a heavy-lifter for good health and inspirations. A definite must-see for all ethnic backgrounds.
- Cooking with Caitlin. She launched the world's most fun weekly 2 hours on Twitter: "Foodies Night In" or if you're adverse to the term foodie, "Food Lovers Night In." You can join the fun from 4-6 p.m. every Monday using the hashtag #fnichat.
- Art of the Spa. A regular cornicopia of fantastic decor and lifestyle ideas to make your life a little more luxurious, entertaining and fun.
- The Beehive Blog
- Secret Stash Salts. All things salt. The recent blog post is on a divine invention called vanilla salt. Need I say more?
- CondoBlues. Cooking on a budget, DIY lifestyle pieces and all things green–all of it seasoned with a touch of zaniness which is why I enjoy what this blog says.
- Jamie's Living.
- Mistress of Spice I go here when I want a little vacation. The Mistress lives in Paris and shares her adventures in la table and la bouffe (table and food).
April, 2010. The Sunshine Award x2
The SunshineAward is given to bloggers who are deemed warm, inspirational and positive; hence the sunflower which symbolizes it. This is Spice Sherpa's first official award and its arrival generated lots of enthusiasm. Imagine the surprise when the following week it popped into the inbox again! Generous thanks to Quickies on the Dinner Table and The Unpolished Spoon! Both these bloggers run fabulous sites filled with amazing recipes, great writing, and entertaining posts. It's a compliment to be on their favorite blog radar.
In the spirit of The Sunshine Award the recipient lists their favorite blogs. The following were chosen for their ability to provide inspiration, a display of creativity, great photos or their consistant ability to entertain. Drumroll please…
Jessica's Dinner Party; Zen Chef Tom; The Easy Indian; Sweet Life; Family Fresh Cooking; Gigabiting; Food Practice; Dessert Crazy: 365 Days of Clean Eating
March/April 2010. Rochester Magazine, The Suburban Outlaw.
Pamela Shermann, columnist for Rochester Magazine met Spice Sherpa on Twitter. After tweeting a question to @SpiceSherpa and receiving a prompt answer and blog post on Moroccan spice advice she included Spice Sherpa in her bi-monthly column. Rochester Magazine is printed exclusively on hardcopy so the article is unavailable online.
December, 2009. San Francisco Examiner.com Holiday Guide, Easy Homemade Foodie Gifts Under $15
Author Jamie Dougherty of the blog Jamie Living compiled a creative list of great gift ideas for the holidays or anytime you want to give a special gift. Spice Sherpa's Homemade Spice Blends made the list.


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Keach Hagey, of Politico, has written an eye-opening article about Newt Gingrich's symbiotic relationship and history with the media. The article focuses primarily on Newt's success in utilizing C-SPAN to advance his political pursuits but also extends to his general handling of the media:
"He has proven himself to be a very good debater in these presidential contests," said Bob Walker, the former congressman who was one of Gingrich's early comrades-in-arms and today advises Gingrich's campaign. "I think at least part of it would go back to the days when he was debating on the House floor."
Gingrich's astute use of C-SPAN to project an energized and combative conservative caucus engaged in challenging the dominant Democratic majority – with him as its dynamic leader – showed an understanding of the political power of television and of messaging that was revolutionary for its day.
The cable network gave Gingrich both the conduit to reach a generation of conservative activists and a laboratory for figuring out how to dominate the news cycle — skills he has relied on in his debate performances this year and which will be crucial Saturday when Gingrich faces what's likely to be a newly combative Mitt Romney at the ABC News/Des Moines Register debate in Iowa.
Behind his "elite media" bombast is a canny student of how to directly reach voters.
…But once he was speaker, Gingrich's appetite for the kind of radical openness C-SPAN represented began to wane. Democrats accused him of "pulling up the ladder" that got him to where he was, and he rebuffed C-SPAN's pleas for more access, as have the speakers that came after him.
But Gingrich's appetite for media attention had not been curbed at all. As Ben Jones, the former "Dukes of Hazzard" star and Democratic congressman who ran against Gingrich in 1994 put it, "The most dangerous place in Washington, D.C .was to be standing between Newt Gingrich and a television camera. That's probably been used by others at other times, but I said it first."
That it has been used at so many other times to describe so many other lawmakers – it was being applied to Phil Gramm, then a Republican senator, back in 1994 when Jones was using it – is a testament to how fundamental the media is to wielding power in Washington. Gingrich was simply better at it than most.
"He understood that, if you compromised, there was no market value in that, in terms of going on television," Clift said. "If you were bombastic and controversial, you were much more likely to be invited back."
This information has numerous applications to the battle for the GOP nomination. While Newt's detractors frequently point out his shortcomings and weaknesses – and, in all honesty, he has plenty – you can make the argument that Newt's ability to massage and work the media to his advantage bears more relevance to the office of the President than do Romney's undeniable skills as an executive and administrator. After all, the role of the President involves persuading, articulating, and influencing much more than, say, micromanaging the vast federal bureaucracy.
As many people have asserted recently and in years past, people tend to view as most effective the presidents with supreme powers of persuasion – Reagan, Lincoln, Kennedy, Truman, and both Roosevelts, to name a few – rather than those who governed more as administrators-in-chief – Bush 41, Ford, Carter, and Eisenhower for example.
I'm sure this will prompt much heated discussion and debate between the pro- and anti-Romney forces, but in the interests of intellectual honesty and the constraints of modern political reality, we ought to consider it.
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You don't think Mitt had a serious power of persuasion as governor of 85% Democrat Massachusetts?
…or more importantly, you think a smooth talker who can charm the media is more important than a competent executive?
Just vote for Obama then, the MSM will always run a CYA for him.
Mass Con,
Governors have much more unilateral power over their governments and budgets than presidents.
Plus, if Mitt had superior powers of persuasion, he would have won over more of the Republican electorate by now.
I wish Rombots would understand that condescension and ridicule won't help win people over to their side.
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So, I guess we can just write off Reagan as a smooth talker who can charm the media?
Reagan's power of persuasion actually had real consequences in CA as governor.
With Newt as speaker, we got a government shutdown that led to Clinton's reelection.
4. If you let someones supporters keep you from embracing a candidate then I'm sorry, you're just not a critical thinker.
Obama is a smooth talker, a persuader. Hitler was as well! We don't need a smooth talker, someone who can propogandize through media influence. We need a competent leader who can actually get things done to turn this ship of state around. Romney is that guy!
#3 How about that Mitt got elected with that percentage of Democrats?
When did I explicitly support any candidate in this post? I merely raised a topic for consideration.
A lot people seem to forget the person at the center of Newt's ethics complaints was Robert Murcoch and the shady book deal he gave Newt. This was also the beginning of the end of Speaker Newt as he seemed more intent on promoting his book tour than being Speaker.
He still has strong ties to Murdoch which helps explain his "skill" at getting FOX to push his candidacy. Not so hard to do when the boss is in your pocket.
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>>I wish Rombots would understand that condescension and ridicule won't help win people over to their side.
Yes, I've heard this complaint before. It seems you have no such advice for the not Romneys who have one nothing but condescend and speak derisively about Romney and his supporters since the beginning of this election.
Funny that.
Oh, and in case irony is not your strong suit, Rombots is term that is both condescending and derisive.
Mittwitts are in a panic mode!
Someone has hit the hive with a stick and they are swarming around wildly stinging anything they land on.
Kinda funny to watch.
Yes, Newt has better leadership skills than Mitt.
It is self evident.
Newt is not the problem.
Mitt is the problem
So…oh never mind!
That is actually example of how Newt Gingrich has adopted bad habits, that a Representative can afford, but presidential candidate can't. Also bomb throwing will make easier to demagogue the reforms needed, as WSJ notes in it's article's last paragraph.
The Newtitlement State – On Medicare, Mitt Romney has the bolder, better reform.
"The contradictions of Mr. Gingrich's entitlement plan reveal part of his political character, which is that his policies often don't match the high-decibel, sometimes grandiose nature of his rhetoric. This can make it easier for his opponents to stigmatize his policies as more radical than they really are because Mr. Gingrich tells everyone they're radical. He might achieve more if he spoke more softly and carried a bigger stick."
Then maybe we should remind the Romney supporters who now use it as a term of endearment? I don't think it has had a strictly negative connotation for at least a couple years.
Good post. The thing that still perplexes me, is if Gingrich is such a great communicator why folks latched onto him so late in the game. It seems to me that it is mass hysteria that is driving this, not any real attachment to the candidate, whoever that happens to be at the moment. I'm beginning to think that it is all psychological noise and that the Gingrich surge is just another fad. The other candidates need to ride this out and not drop out prematurely as Pawlenty did.
Romney's suppport has been solid. You don't see huge waves of rising and ebbing support. That means his supporters are pretty stable. On the other hand you have the mob who flocks to whatever candidate their leaders (whoever they may be ) tell them to flock to. These are poor lost souls who have a hard time making up their minds. I think it most likely that in the heat of the battle, they will fly in several different directions rather than unite.
In your world maybe. A bot implies a mindless robot acting strictly as programed. I would suggest that Romney supporters know their candidate better than the supporters of just about any candidate and have not been flipping from one to the next as the current hot thing self-destructs.
If you don't believe look at the spectacle of the anybody but Romney crowd supporting a candidate with a far more problematic record with far greater apostasies and crowning him the True Conservative simply because he's not Mitt Romney. This is a guy, they argue, who everyone knows intimately and yet he was polling in the single digits up until the last real threat to Romney, Cain, imploded due not only to his bimbo eruptions but also because he apparently had no clue about, well, anything, but 9-9-9. So why is he the True Conservative hero now? Everyone knows why.
If any group is acting like mindless bots its the not Romneys. Bot is not viewed as a term of endearment by any Romney supporter I've ever met.
I always thought Reagan's training as an actor and radio announcer served him well. Not only had he learned how to communicate and persuade but he knew his best side photogenically, he knew how to look into the camera, he knew how to recite his lines, he spoke with appropriate cadence and empathy and he knew how to stand and 'act' him a President.
I'm not suggesting it was all an act; it wasn't but he knew how the things he did would play on TV and how to evoke the desired reaction from the viewers/voters.
For fear of this thread devolving into the sadly now-standard Rombot-Romnot bickering, let me reaffirm that I wrote this not to argue for Gingrich but to raise a valid topic for intellectual discussion.
Gingrich is a good partisan communicator, just like Pelosi is a good partisan and fund raiser. But both of them would make terrible presidential candidates, they both have adopted a style and said things that really don't attract the middle.
"The thing that still perplexes me, is if Gingrich is such a great communicator why folks latched onto him so late in the game. It seems to me that it is mass hysteria that is driving this, not any real attachment to the candidate."
You are wrong. Gingrich's rise in the polls is directly attributable to his debate performances. I took note a couple debates ago and in the last debate I thought he owned it. The decline of the other candidates is relevant only to the extent that voters were still looking for someone who spoke to their needs and desires and they gave Gingrich a second look. But make no mistake, Romney had a shot at most of these voters. But he failed to persuade them. In particular, he failed to persuade them on Romneycare.
Anthony: Good post, Gingrich clearly has outstanding communications skills. It is unfortunate that Romney, who has other skills as you note, lacks these. If he had the ability to connect with people he would be far out front right now.
And thanks for fighting the good fight for common-sense, down-the-middle posts. Unfortunately, with a portion of the Rombot world, any post or comment (or person) that is not explicitly and unreservedly pro-Romney is anti-Romney.
The slightest criticism of Mitt or the slightest praise (even if hedged, as yours clearly was) of anyone else, marks you as an enemy.
Anthony Dalke,
I do understand where you were going with the FPP. I remember the times Newt was on the House floor speaking into the cameras of CSPAN while no other Congressmen/woman were around. It was great to watch for a political junkie. I do think Newt got caught up in the CSPAN cameras and forgot to talk to his members at times.
I think Newt needs to keep trying to show some disipline in these debates and interviews…and Mitt needs to turn on the "vision" stuff. I also remember voters camplaining about GHB lack of VISION in 1988…it might not have been fair, but perception becomes reality. GHB overcame the Vision stuff with a single statement….."A kinder and gentle nation". In other words, GHB told the GOP voters that he would continue the Reagan Revolution but step off the gas some what….which I didn't like personally, but it was a VISION.
Mitt needs to work on his VISION…create a short Mission Statement.
Newt needs to convince us of a more displine excuitive disposition…and he is trying to do that in how he runs his positive campaign.
The result of 1 year of Gingrich was an electorate that thought he was extreme, out of touch and scary.
In a CNN-Time poll, 66 percent of respondents said Gingrich was "too extreme," 52 percent said he was "out of touch" and 49 percent said he was "scary."
With his speakership ending in his own party ousting him.
Good post Anthony. I think part of Gingrich's communication strength is that he is widely considered as one of it no the smartest guy in the room. Particularly with a history background he can make a lot of allusions to past events that can be grasped by people. Whether it's an appropriate analogy or not (like comparing HHS Secretary Sebelius to Stalin). Red-meat and historical allusion together make for a potent combination, one that Newt has mastered over the years.
Great post, Anthony!
As always you hit the nail on the head and the final one in Willard's coffin.
Newt is both, the Great Communicator and the Great Pursuader rolled into one leader.
Willard, not even in the same league.
Therefore, the wife and I are flying out to cold dreary Iowa from sunny southern Cali to help Newt persuade on Monday all the way through to caucus evening!!! We will contact in person the same folks who helped us last time in the Huckaboom.
While we're gone, hope EVERYONE here at Race42012 has a merry Christmas and a happy New Year
In the list of reasons why I can't support Gingrich (and the list is legion) I had forgotten until a couple of days ago that Gingrich pulled the original "Palin" (outdoing her poor sequel by a mile). How can anyone expect that a politician who quits on their constituents a full one day after he was re-elected is worthy of their trust. Frankly, he could be the second coming of George Washington and that single issue would queer the deal for me.
Newt is an excellent communicator ond idea man. He deserves to have input into the new Republican White House. He just isn't the one to put his name on the mailbox. He can't be trusted.
Craig For Huck,
Thank you sir.
Safe trip.
Bring home a Newt victory, and give your wife a SMACKDADDY peck on the cheek for my thanks.
Jonathan sez:
Particularly with a history background he can make a lot of allusions to past events
Now that I think about it, his speechifying is peopled entirely by world historical heroes and villains. Their struggles are the stuff of world historical events. But when he talks about his countrymen here and now, it's as if he's talking about abstract, faceless entities who are insignificant extras in the larger drama. He seems to hobnob exclusively with the historical figures. At least in his own mind.
I'm surprised by how many people in the media like saying how smart Gingrich is, he throws out historical tidbits and people think he's brilliant. I don't see it. I think a lot of his ideas are not well thought out. I think he likes to jump on what he thinks is going to be the next big thing, but often is a big dud.
That is exactly how Ronald Reagan political opponents in 1979 descriped him.
Thanks for comment in 31#
Newt 2012, more now than ever.
Part of Newt's problem is that since he is a historian (in my opinion, if you've got a degree in History, you're a historian) and that he is not burdened with modesty, he starts making ridiculous comparisons. Reagan, Churchill, Thatcher, Kemp, Lincoln, all of them have had the privilege of being compared to Newt Gingrich by Newt Gingrich.
If there's one singular thing that will sink Newt, it'll be his overly muscular ego.
"Newt is both, the Great Communicator and the Great Pursuader rolled into one leader."
He is that for just a segment of people, just like Rush Limbaugh and Mark Levin are for some people, and Nancy Pelosi is for San Francisco fundraising crowds.
You don't get this kind of numbers if you are great communicator for majority of people:
"In a CNN-Time poll, 66 percent of respondents said Gingrich was "too extreme," 52 percent said he was "out of touch" and 49 percent said he was "scary.""
Romney's problem is that his speech and communication style is acceptable for majority of people, but that takes some of the edge of it when you can't go bomb throwing.
This is Newt on the Jewish Channel:
Well, I believe that the Jewish people have the right to have a state, and I believe that the commitments that were made at a time…remember there was no Palestine as a state. It was part of the Ottoman Empire. And I think that we've had an invented Palestinian people, who are in fact Arabs, and were historically part of the Arab community. And they had a chance to go many places. And for a variety of political reasons we have sustained this war against Israel now since the 1940's, and I think it's tragic.
Now Newt's saying he's for a Palestinian state. Pandering?
Anthony, there are many ways to persuade, and being controversial is one. Unfortunately, as I remember vaguely from Newt's speakership, being controversial generally insults your opponents and offends them to the point that you can no longer persuade them. You wind up multiplying your opponents and getting them fired up against you personally, while not convincing them that your ideas are worth consideration. Gingrich turned off reachable folks who might have agreed with him.
That's not a winning formula for governing the country.
15. We are only in 'panic mode' because the so called 'values voters' have forgottent their values (if they truly had them in the first place). We are about to give Obama 4 more years with Newt. I don't know what you all are trying to do to our country, but you know, nominating someone as flawed as Newt Gingrich is not helping it, at all.
Clinton shut down the government by vetoing Newt's budget.
#38 That's what I see coming too. The media will happily be sweet on him and give him a pass, just like McCain.
*sweet on him FOR NOW
Not true. The media has been in full "pile on" mode over the past few days.
The government shutdown is great example of Newt's communication skills. A great communicator wouldn't give a comment like Newt Gingrich did, basically confession that you made the stopgap-spending bill knowingly unacceptable to Clinton, because you were offended by Air Force One seating arrangements.
42 They're on him today because of his "invented people" gaffe. He then followed that up by saying he's for a Palestinian state. So he's managed to offend both sides.
On Fox one of the ladies just called Newt erotic instead of erratic as a slip of the tongue.
#44 "Erotic"? ROFL. Trust me, not a chance.
#44 – Huh? Israelis are for a Palestinian state. Never heard of the "two-state solution?"
The "invented people" "gaffe" is not a gaffe. It is red meat to the base.
I hope none of you are expecting Romney or anyone else to go after him on that. It's a losing proposition.
Exactly. He forced the Palestinians to respond. That's a win for Newt among the base, and with Jewish voters. This wasn't anymore unintentional than his statements on immigration in the last debate. Newt is good at laying traps for his opponents.
It could be intentional, maybe.
#47-48. Indeed.
Tele, says newt is the better leader. Is that why the Republicans In the house threw him out as speaker?
Interesting piece from The Weekly Standard:
If none of the conventional wisdom is fully satisfying as an explanation for why Romney is now stuck in the mid-20s, then, perhaps a more elemental explanation will do: Voters just don't like him very much. And they never have.
Romney has the least-impressive electoral history of any Republican frontrunner in a very long time. Most of the politicians who chase the White House are proven vote-getters with very few electoral blemishes on their record. John McCain, Mike Huckabee, Bill Clinton, John Kerry, George W. Bush, Bob Dole, Michael Dukakis—what unites all of these men is that before getting to the presidential level, they had demonstrated a talent for getting people to vote for them. (Barack Obama is the exception who proves the rule.)
Over the years, Mitt Romney has faced voters in 22 contests. He won 5 of those races and lost 17 of them. (This total includes a win in the 1994 Massachusetts Republican Senate primary as well as results from the 19 primaries he participated in during 2008. It excludes caucuses because their rules make them complicated enough to be considered distinct from straight-up lever-pulling.)
I've been saying the same thing for a long time – the idea that Romney is somehow more "electable" than the rest of the field is not supported by past evidence.
#52 – A lot of us have been pointing out Romney's poor track record in getting people to vote for him, particularly in the South. Truth is, Romney was only the nominal frontrunner because Huckabee chose not to run.
I commented last week on Mr. Electable's career win-loss record. His fans seem to think 5-17 ought to get him into the Hall of Fame. Looks to me more like a ticket back to Triple-A.
Yes. Romney sucks because his state with 85% Democrat legislature didn't do as well by some statistics as the most conservative states with 70% Republican legislature, and he sucks because he didn't get elected or re-elected every time, like a governor of the most conservative state or Representative of a conservative district would be, yes running against the liberal icon in the most liberal state of the union is so easy…
This actually makes him great, he hasn't based his whole political career on bomb throwing, and he has forced to try to squeeze the best deal he can under bad circumstances, the Senate isn't going to 60 Republican after the next election, isn't going to be even 50 Republican if Gingrich is the nominee.
If the best he can get is a large number of "fee" hikes, an "assault weapons" ban, and an individual mandate, then the best he can get from me is to not show up at the polls.
Also, how many of the 25-30% of the Rs who are changing candidates, aka the Romnots, won't pull the lever for him on election day if he's nominated?
That gun legislation sounds pretty good deal considering it is Massachusetts, 85% Democrat legislature, 66.7% is enough to overwrite governor veto. Fee hikes are morally superior to let's extra taxes on the rich on such heavily taxed state as Massachusetts since they are voluntary, and they don't feed on the illusion that you can just free ride on the rich, non-rich revenue collection also increases responsibility, people have more incentive to keep an eye on the public employee unions. In Gallup polls strongly unvaforable among Republicans is 6% for Romney, so the HC RomNots mostly just spam internet, they are not that major factor.
Fearing that Congress won't renew the federal ban on assault weapons, state legislators voted yesterday to bar the sale of the same 19 weapons in Massachusetts, winning over gun-rights supporters by including a half-dozen provisions designed to make it easier to own legal guns in the Bay State.
he gun-friendly provisions include a six-year gun license instead of the current four years, creation of a review board with power to restore gun licenses to people convicted of certain misdemeanors, and a 90-day grace period for expired firearm identification cards and licenses to carry.
"There are a lot of good things in the bill," said Jim Wallace, legislative director of the Gun Owners Action League, the state's leading pro-gun group. "In all, the bill represents a healing process, or the beginning of the healing process, between lawful gun owners and the Massachusetts Legislature."
Wallace, of the Gun Owners Action League, said his group also opposes both federal and state bans on principle, but realizes that the compromise approved yesterday is the best he can hope for in a state where gun-control measures are especially strong.
Senator Richard T. Moore, an Uxbridge Democrat who received an A+ rating from the Gun Owners Action League, said the bill will help lawful gun owners.
"There weren't the votes to repeal it, certainly," Moore said. "I felt the votes were there to continue the ban, and if we're going to continue it, we want to make sure it's one that doesn't seriously affect those who are willing to follow the law."


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The City Council has scheduled a special meeting at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday to ratify the agreement that will allow the construction of a complex for seniors, a new auto mall, and eventually a retail center and public ice arena.
The agreement also will allow Stoneridge Drive to be extended to El Charro Road once Livermore extends Jack London Boulevard on the east side of El Charro to Isabel Road, which the City Council of Livermore has approved.
That project has been delayed, however, until new developers are found for an outlet mall at the northeast corner of El Charro and I-580, whose development would pay most of the costs of extending Jack London.
Although the Staples Ranch master plan has been approved, long-time opponents of the development -- the Alameda Creek Alliance and the Center for Biological Diversity -- have yet to fully endorse new environmental safeguards identified in a supplemental Environmental Impact Report now before the council.
The groups' latest objections concern the impact the Stoneridge Drive extension might have on the San Joaquin Spearscale plant and on the riparian habitat in the Arroyo Mocho adjacent to the construction of two new bridges as part of the new roadway.
Those groups have held meetings with city officials, neighborhood groups and Continuing Life Communities, the developer of the senior care complex, and are expected to reach an agreement they can sign by Tuesday's meeting.
If the final development plan is approved Tuesday, the Alameda County's Surplus Property Authority and the city of Pleasanton would ask LAFCO, the Local Agency Formation Commission of Alameda County, to annex Staples Ranch so that development can get under way, a process that could take six months. That moves the earliest date for CLC to start construction on its first Northern California retirement community well into 2011.
Mayor Jennifer Hosterman is a member of the board of LAFCO and could possibly expedite a LAFCO public hearing on the annexation petition, where there appears to be no opposition. She is seeking re-election as Pleasanton's mayor in the municipal election Nov.2 and would need to keep her post to remain a member of the LAFCO board.
Public hearings on Staples Ranch and City Council action to approve the final development plans will come in two stages, with the most important hearing on the supplemental EIR and Stoneridge Drive considerations on Tuesday. A second hearing would come at the council's regular meeting Sept. 7 to approve specific development plans, with time set aside at its meeting Sept. 21 if additional actions need to be taken.
City Manager Nelson Fialho, who has spearheaded negotiations on Staples Ranch development issues with Steven Bocian, assistant city manager, and Brian Dolan, director of community development, said he believes all of the groups that have been involved in the Staples issue "are now on the same page."
"I'm confident that we have an agreement in place that the council can accept on Aug. 24," Fialho said.
If approved, specific projects would be able to get under way once the property is annexed into the city. These include:
* Stoneridge Creek Pleasanton, a 45-acre senior continuing care community to be developed by Continuing Life Communities (CLC), with up to 800 units for assisted living, skilled nursing and independent living residents.
* Hendrick Automotive Group, which wants to build a new auto mall on its 37-acre portion of Staples, next to the junction of I-580 and El Charro Road, directly across El Charro from a the 160-plus store outlet mall that Livermore has approved, but where a new developer is being sought.
The plan for Staples also includes 11 acres set aside for future use as a retail center and about 17 acres identified as parkland, with about 10 acres earmarked for a two-story, four rink facility to be built by San Jose Arena Management, a subsidiary of the San Jose Sharks.
Troy Bourne of CLC said his firm is ready to build the independent living and assisted care facility as soon as the plan is approved and Staples is annexed. Several hundred applications have been submitted for units in the independent living section of Stoneridge Creek, with deposits ranging from $1,000 and higher.
Since applicants must be in good health at the time their applications are accepted, Bourne urged the council to give its final approval on the project so everyone who wants to move into CLC will be able to do so.
The extension of Stoneridge Drive has been the most controversial part of the Staples Ranch plan and the cause of repeated delays in actions by both the Planning Commission and the City Council.
The new agreement, to be voted on Tuesday, appears to satisfy both proponents and opponents. It allows Stoneridge to be extended as a two-lane thoroughfare but barricaded before it reaches El Charro. The barricade would be removed for public use of the roadway once Jack London Boulevard is opened on the other side, which could take several years. Separate entrances would be made available to the auto mall and the Stoneridge Creek complex.
Alameda County will pay for the extension and the construction of two four-lane-wide bridges with the city of Pleasanton spending an estimated $600,000 for "noise attenuating pavement" on Stoneridge between Santa Rita Road and Kamp Drive and to extend the sound wall on Stoneridge to Trevor Parkway.
Eventually, according to the Aug. 24 agreement, Stoneridge could be widened to four lanes from El Charro to Santa Rita, but only after Jack London Boulevard is extended on the Livermore side and additional public hearings are held.


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COLTON - Together Mary Ann Casale and Andy Van Duyne are the fourth performers in the series of Colton Riverside Gazebo Performances this summer.
The audience will be treated to a wide ranging repertoire built around a core of original songs as well traditional folk, country, rock and blues from 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. Wednesday.
The show will feature music from each alone and the two as a harmonious duo. The audience also can expect some sing-alongs.
The series of performances is held at the Gazebo behind the Colton Museum at 95 Main St. in the hamlet of Colton overlooking the Raquette River. The rain location is the towns large covered pavilion on Sugar Bush Lane in the hamlet of South Colton next to Swift Field. Signs will be posted if the performance is moved from the Gazebo to the Pavilion.
Audience participants should bring their own chairs or blankets to sit on the lawn in front of the Gazebo (or on the concrete floor in the Pavilion if moved). Volunteers will be on hand to help people needing assistance. Hot dogs, hamburgers and other goodies being provided by the Colts Pride Booster Club will be available shortly before and throughout the performance, and bathroom facilities will be available.
The town of Colton, centrally located in the Raquette River corridor, is using the series of live performances to showcase the diversity of talented singers, musicians and storytellers from places along the river. There is no charge to attend since the performances are made possible in part with funds from the Decentralization Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and administered by the St. Lawrence County Arts Council.
A special drawing for artwork featuring the Gazebo by local artist Judy Filarecki will be held as a fundraising activity for the performance series. Other products supporting town activities will be available to purchase including commemorative shirts from the Radio Hour shows this summer as well as the DVD on The Raquette River Experience produced by WPBS-TV in 2012.
More information about performances and other summer activities is available on the town website (www.townofcolton.com) and the town of Colton page on Facebook. Hard copies of the summer schedule also are available at the two information centers and post offices in town as well as the Town Hall. And Ruth McWilliams can be contacted for details (315-262-2450).
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The Battle of Gettysburg was a turning point in the Civil War, providing a Union victory in the summer of 1863 that ended General Robert E. Lee's second and most ambitious invasion of the North. Often referred to as the "High Water Mark of the Confederacy", it was the war's bloodiest battle with 51,000 casualties. It also provided President Abraham Lincoln with the setting for his most famous address.


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Many noteworthy dog clubs are planning to welcome exhibitors and their dogs to their events next month. North Branch Park in Bridgewater, N.J., will be the destination for many East Coast fanciers, and West Coast exhibitors will have their choice of heading to the Sonoma-Marin Fairgrounds in Petaluma, Calif., or Pioneer Park in Brownsville, Ore. Get the details from Senior Editor Christi McDonald, and discover the fun that awaits exhibitors in the Gulf Coast.
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Indoor hammock is perfect for relaxation
An Indoor hammock are the perfect alternative to sitting or stretching out on the couch. If you want to relax you can hang a hammock in your home. This is the perfect type of hammock for those who live in flats and apartments, who don't have space outdoors in a garden. You don't have to give up having a hammock, simply hang one in the living room or bedroom.
Indoor hammocks in tropical themed bedroom
I recently re-decorated my bedroom and came up with the idea of having a tropical theme. On the main wall that runs alongside the bed I put up a huge wall mural that shows a balcony overlooking a blue lagoon and stunning vegetation and palm trees. I then put up a decorative Bali style mosquito net over the bed and filled the bed with colourful cushions.
Above the bed is a poster in the style of a 3D window. On the opposite wall to the large mural is another window mural showing blue water, beach and yet more palm trees. At the sides of the window murals a put up curtains, giving the idea that you are actually looking out onto a tropical beach. The result is very relaxing and it doesn't take long to get to sleep when I play sounds of the ocean on my smartphone as I drift off to sleep. You too can enjoy an indoor hammock bed.
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Here are the Parisian Belle Epoque Evangeline and Ellowyne dolls from the festival. These were posted by Wilde Imagination on Facebook earlier today.
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Wow! There're both very pretty! I would have Ellowyne in redhead however, but this one looks fantastic!ReplyDelete
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Evangeline doesn't look like Evangeline anymore.ReplyDelete
What a pity.
I imagine posing will be better with the plastic body, but the face looks like plastic surgery and the price has gone up.
She just looks like just another pretty doll to me now.
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When an ex-mascot dwarf dies he leaves his fortune to set up a tournament of various horrors. The winner takes all, but just how much must the winner take first?
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Lodge Activities
The members of Palm Coast Elks Lodge #2709 enjoy active participation in many social and family activities held throughout the year including:
- Card Games on Saturdays
- Bingo on Sundays
- Karaoke on Wednesday's nights
- Jan – Ladies Auxiliary Dance
- Feb - Super Bowl Party, Valentines Day Party;
- Mar – Saint Patrick's Day Party;
- Apr - Easter Buffet
- May – Mothers Day Dinner; Memorial Day Flag Raising,
- Jun – Flag Day Celebration;
- Sep – Ocktoberfest / German Night; 9/11 Memorial
- Oct – Halloween Party;
- Nov – Veterans Day Dinner Dance, Thanksgiving Eve Dinner Dance;
- Dec - Memorial Service, Christmas, New Years Eve Parties;
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Then there is the annual family picnic, new member dances, and at least two cruises annually. .. Just to name a few. Become a member you are going to love it.


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Free, Informative Prostate Cancer Seminar
21st Century Oncology is presenting a free prostate cancer seminar geared toward informing local residents about prostate cancer screenings, diagnosis and latest advancements in treatment. The lecture presents area residents with the opportunity to get up-to-date information, practical advise and answers to questions from leading medical professionals in the field of cancer. Free to attend. Complimentary breakfast provided. Who: Guest speakers include: Arturo Balandra, MD Joanna K. Chon, MD Chaundre K. Cross, MD Marc Joel Guttman, DO Bruce M. Nakfoor, MD David K. Ornstein, MD For those interested in attending, please reserve your seat by calling (239) 434-0166. Space is limited. For more information about 21st Century Oncology, visit www.21stCenturyOncology.com.
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