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Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 5:44 am
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Is whole milk needed for consistency or can this be made with skim milk or evaporated milk? (great recipes BTW, especially the brined, grilled chicken breasts)
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Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 5:44 am
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I liked your version of the Tuna Noodle Casserole. Your step by step photos are such a pleasure! Wonderful work. I look forward to coming back and seeing what else you've "cooked up"
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Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 5:45 am
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Very good recipe! I used canned salmon with dill instead of the tuna and rosemary. It made more than would fit into an 8in baking dish. I must eyeball measurements on the big side.
Thank you and I love your site!
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Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 5:47 am
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Is whole milk needed for consistency or can this be made with skim milk or evaporated milk? (great recipes BTW, especially the brined, grilled chicken breasts)
I find that the whole milk thickens the sauce a little better and adds more flavor to the dish than skim milk. You can use skim milk, but may have to adjust the flour quantities just a little.
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Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 3:45 pm
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Buttered bread crumbs on top sounds like a nice variation from the slightly browned melted cheese, though!
You could actually just sprinkle some shredded cheese on top of the casserole before sprinkling on the buttered bread crumbs (or crushed ritz crackers, panko, crushed potato chips, etc.) and get the same effect. Cheesy goodness.
I like your recipe for tuna caserole starting with a roux is a great idea. My question pertains to the roux though. I alwasy start my soups with a roux, but I'll saute the veggies in butter before adding flour, and later milk or chicken base. I was wondering why you add the flour before the veggies?
A standard roux consists of equal parts flour and melted butter. The idea is to develop the right color (dirty blondish) before adding the base. The flour literally is what thickens the sauce, so I'd reccomend you make all of your rouxes by starting with flour/butter.
Good recipe, I think I'll mix it up by adding 6 oz. of shredded cheese into the sauce and sprinkle 2 oz. of shredded cheese on top and I'll probably use panko instead of bread crumbs. They brown better in the oven and will give it that nice crunchy texture.
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Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 3:50 pm
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Also I noticed there's chunks of flour in your initial roux. You can keep that from happening by slowly whisking in the flour instead of dumping it all at once (not suggesting you did that). A whisk and saucepan (with rounded corners instead of straight ones) really help in this process.
Also I'd reccomend cooking in a round casserole dish. I use 1.5 quart round corningware casserole dishes to cook casseroles and such, that way you don't get those dry corners sometimes.
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Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 3:08 pm
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What's an alternative for a gluten-free roux? Would white rice flour work? or use corn starch?
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Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 11:32 am
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As I was making this last night my husband informed me that that isn't the way HE (his mom) makes it. I kept on with my task and when it all came out of the oven he actually liked it!! AMAZING!
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Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 1:45 am
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I always liked frozen peas in tuna casserole thats how I had it growing up. Green beans also would be good. I never had it with mushrooms or celery but that also sounds good. never had it with rosemary or thyme either.
A Roux is deffinately the way to go. I'm making some right now with whole grain pasta, dont know how it will turn out...
the cheese this is probably good but that cheating in my opinion. I love cheese, but I like to get away from it sometimes
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Posted: Thu Dec 14, 2006 12:43 pm
Post subject: Good recipe! Analysis and possible improvements
I liked the recipe also, although both I and my wife thought the rosemary was overdone a bit. Next time I plan to cut the rosemary to 1/2 tsp.
For the macronutrient mix I get the following:
3525 kcal, 143g fat (82g sat fat, 11g poly, 41g mono), 308g carb, 246g protein
Ideas for improving the recipe:
As mentioned above, the first thing is that I'd cut the rosemary in half, but that's just personal taste. The butter is of course a delicious ingredient, but I eat it sparingly now. Next time I try this recipe I'll try to preserve the excellent flavor, but will experiment with ways of reducing the butter. "Butter Buds" could replace about 1/2 or 2/3 of the butter without modifying the flavor or texture, both in the roux and in the breadcrumb topping, I believe. If anyone tests this out, please let me know. There are excellent nonfat milk substitutes that have more protein than whole milk and taste like 2%. I used whole milk as called for in the recipe, but will use a nonfat next time. I used a whole grain, protein enriched egg noodle for the lower GI and slight additional protein.
I liked the breadcrumbs on top. I notice that it adds 84g carbs and 17g of protein, and wonder if there's something that I could add to even out the carb/protein ratio. Maybe altering the 1c breadcrumbs to 3/4c breadcrumbs + 1/4c gluten would work without altering the taste or texture too much (I haven't tried this, so I'm just speculating here).
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Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 3:20 pm
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I really love your site.
The way that you show what each step is supposed to look like is a brilliant idea because it makes the whole cooking process simple and easy to understand. It also lessens the mistakes I make since I can easily see where I got off wrong. Everything's so organized.
and the meals look so great. I can't wait to start trying out the recipes here.
Thanks for making cooking simple that even beginner cooks like me won't fumble it up.
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Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 7:44 pm
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It is even better when you leave out the nasty tuna, and add shredded, cooked chicken instead.
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Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 6:26 pm
Post subject: any recipes for chicken and rice casserole?
This is a great recipe! Really like starting off with a classic roux and adding the spices.
Does anyone out there have a good recipe for chicken and rice casserole?
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Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 8:49 am
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When I saw that the title was "Cooking for Engineers", I knew the recipe would turn out. I went looking for this recipe because my son is allergic to dairy, and so we can't use any canned cream soups as a base or get any creamyness from cheese. This recipe turns out just as great if you use kosher vegetable oil margarine and unflavored soy milk (ie, don't use vanilla soy milk!). I used "whole" soy milk (not low-fat). We substituted shell pasta instead of egg noodles because my son is also allergic to egg.
The person who was looking for how to substitute a non-gluten flour in the roux might be able to use 2 tablespoons cornstarch instead of the flour, but in that case the person should mix the cornstarch first in a separate bowl with a little cold milk, thin it out with more cold milk, turn the heat off under the pot, whisk the cornstarch mix in, add in all the rest of the milk and whisk it all in before turning the heat back on. And of course to finish making a gluten-free version, use any non-wheat pasta and instead of breadcrumbs use crushed rice crackers, leftover mashed potato thinned out with extra butter, or perhaps the crushed potato chips another poster recommended (but then don't add salt to the recipe).
I also always add flour to a roux gradually, mixing each time, to prevent lumps.
I think of rosemary as a roasted potato spice, not a "tuna casserole" spice. I added 1/4 teaspoon each marjoram, thyme, minced garlic and celery seed. I used 1/2 cup chopped regular 'yellow' onion rather than green onion; it saves $ and avoids the common food poisoning/bacteria contamination going on with green onions. I added 1/4 extra celery, and I also added 1 cup of frozen peas because we historically add peas to our tuna casserole. Next time I'll add 2 cups of peas. I thought that the extra celery and peas would add extra liquid, but I found that I needed to add a little (1/4) extra soy milk to thin out the sauce enough.
Also, we didn't even bake ours. I just made it, served it immediately due to popular demand, and it was great.
I will be looking for more recipes for engineers!
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Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 2:11 pm
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I made this a few days ago, adding peas to the vegetable saute but keeping everything else to the recipe.
30 minutes wasn't nearly enough to cook the casserole through. It took about 50 minutes at 350 deg F. for me.
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There is a reason why our Crysis 3 review is a touch late: we weren't happy putting pen to paper before we had set eyes on the PC version of the game. It took a little longer, but we've finally had the game ticking along on our rig for a few days now.
As you might have expected, it is incredibly impressive. On the right system, Crysis 3 is going to make those PS4 demos look like old news. What is even more amazing, however, is just what the game manages to do on consoles. We have no idea what sort of dark art Crysis 3's developers worked to get it looking as slick as it does on the Xbox, but it is jaw-dropping.
We will talk about all the graphical flourishes later, first on to gameplay and the beginning of the problems we have with Crysis 3. In a nutshell, take away the bow and arrow and it is very much the same game as Crysis 2.
The nanosuit does the same things, bar an upgrade system, guns from the last game return and you lay waste to quantities of human and alien soldiers alike. Really then, Crysis 3 is more like Crysis 2.5. It just doesn't move progress along in the way the sequel to the original did.
You return to your role as Prophet, a nanosuit-wearing supersoldier who is capable of incredible strength, invisibility and even deflecting bullets. Prophet is a lone ranger character, unleashed on the world to hunt out man and machine, wrecking everything in his path while stopping the crazies of this world from trying to put an end to things.
The story in Crysis 3 isn't hugely gripping. It continues from the fairly convoluted madness of the end of Crysis 2. In that game, you play as a character who you believe to be Prophet, but who turns out to be someone called Alcatraz and then eventually becomes Prophet in the end.
New York, the city in which you fight during the second game, has now been transformed into an overgrown wilderness. The majority of the alien enemies from the second are now replaced by elite soldiers.
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In all honesty, none of this really matters. Crysis is about tearing things up, it is about feeling super-powered and smashing and shooting as much as possible. You can go the stealth route when you really need to, but this is a game best played with cut scenes skipped and the shooting ramped up to 11.
While it lasts, it's fantastic. A combination of graphics, slick and balanced gunplay and varied environments that make you think about what plan of attack to take, all work together to make a great shooter. Sadly though Crysis 3 gives you just five or six hours of this gameplay to enjoy, which is short at best.
The game is also deceptively linear. It opens with a Call of Duty-style boat fight sequence, with you following around Psycho from the first game, who has now lost his nanosuit. This then turns into the jungle-filled sprawl of New York, for a brief moment, until you are led along again by Psycho. Rinse and repeat.
It is really frustrating because clearly the play area is incredible. New York is massive and looks stunning, so why has Crytek forced us into so many bottlenecks? We imagine it is to save on development time, but then don't quote us.
Crysis 3 can be viewed in two respects: as a game or as a technical exercise. This is the F1 car of PC games, and fans of graphics cards and clock speeds are going to enjoy it.
We ran the game on a quad-core i7 rig with a Nvidia GTX 580. It managed to run the whole lot on very high settings, with the anti-aliasing turned way down. It looks utterly mind-blowing at times, but inexplicable frame rate drops ruin things.
Optimisation seems a touch off to us and without getting bogged down in geek terms, any form of particle effects or dramatic shifts in lighting seem to kick the frame rate right down, before it jumps back up again.
Leave the whole lot on medium and everything chugs along nicely, but its irritating to see the potential the game has to run and for things to slow down rather inexplicably. Once again, a Crysis game is almost incapable of running on full resolution in even a high-end rig.
On the Xbox, Crysis 3 does understandably take quite a major hit in the appearance department. This is all forgivable when you think how old the Xbox 360 is. Anyone who thinks that current-gen consoles are on their last legs, fire this up and prove yourself wrong.
So from a technical point of view Crysis 3 is outstanding, when it runs smoothly. In this respect, the game is perfect for the PC gamer with a serious system who wants to show things off. You will play through it just to see how it looks.
Crysis 3 has multiplayer, but we aren't hugely fussed about it. If you want a console-based shooter for the multiplayer, then Black Ops 2 has that well and truly covered.
The fun of invisibility is still here, as is the ability to jump several feet into the air and smash down on the heads of your enemies, but really little is moved forward in terms of gameplay. Gun upgrades on the fly are a nice touch and the new "hunter" mode - which pits cell guards against a single nanosuited player - is fun. Really though, multiplayer just isn't that persuasive a package.
Crysis 3 is more of a tech demo than anything else. The storyline isn't really a great reason to play it and the campaign is short enough that you don't really get your value for money.
What this is, is a game for you to show off your hardware. It's all about who has the best PC, but right now, thanks to some poor optimisation, no one looks likely to get the most from Crysis 3.
Naturally, most of this will get itself patched, and when it does, this is going to be one hell of a graphical show. The choice is yours: spend your money and show off or save some cash and opt for Far Cry 3, which looks almost just as good and plays a whole lot better.


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by Sue Ann Rybak
Mt. Airy USA announced last week that renovations on a previously vacant, blighted mixed-use building at 6513 Germantown Ave. are almost finished. The project is the first of four renovations slated for Germantown Avenue. The other three buildings include 6614 Germantown Ave., 6651-53 Germantown Ave. and the vacant historic post office at 6700 Germantown Ave. The post office was originally designed by Lawrence V. Boyd in 1909.
Brad Copeland, real estate director at Mt. Airy USA said the cost of renovating the four properties is estimated at $1.2 million.
"It's a pretty significant project," said Anuj Gupta, executive director of Mt. Airy USA. "The blocks that these projects are being done on are still relatively blighted and have high levels of vacancy. We think the combination of these four projects will have a catalyzing effect on transforming this section of the avenue by bringing the progress that has started to emerge from the north to the south."
Mt. Airy USA received $600,000 in mixed-use grants from the City of Philadelphia's Office of Housing and Community Development (OHCD) pilot program.
The recently renovated mixed-use building at 6513 Germantown Ave. has about 1,800 square feet of commercial space on the ground floor and a two-bedroom apartment on the second floor.
Copeland said the building was severely decrepit prior to renovation.
"We actually had to put scaffolding up to support the building before work could begin on the proposed project," Copeland said.
He added that thanks to the infusion of capital through OHCD's pilot program and other private organizations the transformation of this section of Germantown Avenue is beginning to bear fruit.
Work on the the historic post office building at the corner of Germantown Avenue and Westview Street is scheduled to begin in a few weeks. Gupta said Mt. Airy USA has already signed a lease with Richard Johnson, who plans to open a Wingstop restaurant this summer at the site of the former post office. Wingstop is a national chain with a sports bar theme that specializes in wings and fries. Gupta said Johnson, who grew up in Mt. Airy, selected Mt. Airy as one of the locations because of its vibrant and diverse business corridor.


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So, you just bought a Droid 2 and signed a 2-year contract, did you? I bet you really don't want to see the phone that will imminently make your new phone feel old, do you? Well, sorry.
Yes, this here is the next version of Motorola's Droid. It's got a slide-out keyboard much like its predecessors and doesn't look to be packing anything all too surprising, at least on the outside. On the inside, expect the latest version of Android and a modest spec bump from the Droid 2.
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James Cameron's Avatar may possibly become one of the highest grossing movies of all time. The immense spectacle portrays a stunning blue wonderland on Pandora, a world depicted by lush, glowing fauna and natives literally plugged into their majestic environment. But CNN reports that some fans are experiencing depression and suicidal thoughts after seeing the film. Why? They long to be a part of the beauty of Pandora.
The fan forum site "Avatar Forums" notes a topic thread entitled "Ways to cope with the depression of the dream of Pandora being intangible," has received more than 1,000 posts from people experiencing depression and fans trying to help them cope with the reality of Earth.
Cameron's story has struck a chord with people. Humans attempt to mine the moon of Pandora and therefore clash with the majestic eco-clued-in natives. Pandora is what CNN calls a "prehistoric fantasyland, filled with dinosaur-like creatures mixed with the kinds of fauna you may find in the deep reaches of the ocean." Life on Earth seems drab in comparison to this natural utopia.
Philippe Baghdassarian is the administrator for Avatar Forums. Recently, he created a second thread so people could continue to post their confused feelings about the movie. As Baghdassarian told CNN, "The movie was so beautiful and it showed something we don't have here on Earth. I think people saw we could be living in a completely different world and that caused them to be depressed."
Feelings expressed on the Web have ranged from an extreme desire to escape reality to thoughts of suicide. Ivar Hill is a 17-year-old from Sweden who is studying game design. As he described his post-Avatar experience, "When I woke up this morning after watching Avatar for the first time yesterday, the world seemed ... gray. It was like my whole life, everything I've done and worked for, lost its meaning." Further, his thoughts took a grim turn. "I still don't really see any reason to keep ... doing things at all. I live in a dying world."
A user named Mike takes it a dark step further. As Mike wrote on the forum, "I even contemplate suicide thinking that if I do it I will be rebirthed in a world similar to Pandora and the everything is the same as in Avatar. "
Dr. Stephan Quentzel is a psychiatrist and medical director for the Louis Armstrong Center for Music and Medicine at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York. He notes that "Virtual life is not real life and it never will be, but this is the pinnacle of what we can build in a virtual presentation so far." Cameron's special effects are some of the best the movie world has ever seen, and this can lend to the separation anxiety some individuals experience when they leave the movie theater.
There is some good news out of Pandora. The fan community of Avatar is reaching out to its depressed members. They are encouraging people to seek positive and constructive activities outside the virtual realm. As CNN reports, "becoming a part of a community of like-minded people on an online forum has helped them emerge from the darkness."
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Seeing the wicked succeed can be discouraging, especially when we are suffering for the sake of righteousness. Yet what we should never do, today's passage tells us, is envy the wicked and their success. The success of the wicked is ...Read More
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Fear of the divine without knowledge of divine truth is superstition, for superstitious people have some kind of "fear" or "anxiety" regarding divine forces. Knowledge of divine truth without fear of the divine is dead orthodoxy, knowledge about God without ...Read More
The Word of God and Affliction
The author of Hebrews tells us that God's discipline may seem painful at the moment, but the lasting harvest of righteousness that it creates is well worth all the trouble we must endure (Heb. 12:3–11). Not all of the pain ...Read More
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God does not delight in seeing His children suffer; rather, He imposes discipline for the greater good of our maturity in Christ. The discipline that we feel for our sin is not a sign that God hates us or is ...Read More
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I'll love your work Cope, no matter the gradient of the angles!
This way it's more exciting (I kinda like evolving art).
I'm impressed by how much you're able to focus on advancing your work. I, having ADHD and Asbergers, wish I could be less critical or analytical of myself and just splurge ahead. Writer's angst is the horror I've dealt with, producing little for nearly 8 years.
But I'll deal with it soon, and crack the egg! Mayhap I will owe it to what may be your example (if perceived, no offense was intended).
Maybe I'll add this as a dual corollary-contrast to my 'More is More' approach to literature and art (one trope of perceived artistic doctrines I rather subscribe to).
... Cerintha seems to be on a bi-daily basis? ^^ It's probably (based) on supply?
It's crack (like Patchwork Heroes back in the day)... Cerintha is just so cute ^^^ Kawaii desu neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
I want to see her enter the story more than I want to get 'Kyle's Mom's a bitch' and 'They're taking the hobbits to Isengard.' out of my head :dok: hehe
oh 'ey, btw., you're not Canadian, eh?
jes curios : ) ;^_=
My other half is Hong Kong Chinese if u wondered.
oh, hey, were u deliberately trying to avoid... ending with 666 comics? : x heeheehee
Bwahahahahaha! That'd be a good sign for Cerintha!! 'The mage is Satan!'
eeeh^^, I'll stop making a mess
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Peter Frampton Luggage Thief Sentenced
A Denver man convicted of stealing numerous pieces of luggage, including some belonging to guitar legend Peter Frampton, from the carousel at Denver International Airport was given a 60 day jail sentence yesterday, according to the Denver Post.
The offender pleaded guilty to taking seven pieces of luggage from the Denver International Airport. But before John Allen Papelbon, 52, was shown the way to jail, the judge presiding over the case suspended the sentence so that the offender could work to repay $8,884 in restitution. Papelbon was also given two years probation for his actions.
Frampton was not the only victim in the case. When police searched Papelbon's home, they found name-brand bags from Gucci and Polo along with a Philadelphia Eagles jacket, ski wear, golf shoes and computer equipment.
In retweeting the story from the Denver Post, Frampton appeared to have a sense of humor about the whole situation, asking "What time are visiting hours?"
Frampton's window for visiting Papelbon in the slammer is limited given his upcoming run of shows with The Doobie Brothers, which starts June 22 in Cincinnati, Ohio. The legendary guitarist also has a number of solo shows coming up this summer that will bring him from one side of North America to the other before the touring season wraps up.


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A Multiple Stakeholder PerspectiveBeckmann, Suzanne C.; Zenker, Sebastian (, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Cities increasingly brand themselves as an attractive place for tourists, investors, business and workforce. Yet, most place branding efforts do not take the diversity of their stakeholders and the variety of place perceptions into account. Our study, however, reveals significant discrepancies between internal and external stakeholders' mental representations of a place brand, using the city of Hamburg as an example. We therefore argue that place brand management needs to align its brand communication with stakeholders' interests, using an integrated approach to developing city-specific strategies for building target group-specific place brand architecture. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8564
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Different Perceptions of a Place Brand by Diverse Target GroupsZenker, Sebastian; Knubben, Evelyn; Bechmann, Suzanne C. (Frederiksberg, 2010)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: compete strongly with each other for attracting tourists, investors, companies, or talents. Place marketers therefore focus more and more on establishing the city as a brand and to promote their city to its different target groups. But the perception of a city (brand) can differ dramatically between those groups. Thus, place branding research should emphasize much more the city brand perceptions of the different target groups and develop strategies for cities on how to build an advantageous place brand architecture vis-à-vis its stakeholders. In this regards, we show in two empirical studies – 40 qualitative in-depth-interviews (Study 1) and an online qualitative open-ended-question survey with 334 participants (Study 2) – using network analysis the important discrepancies between the city brand perceptions in the mental representation of different target groups for the example of the city of Hamburg. Furthermore, practical implications for place marketers are discussed. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8266
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