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Re-elected presidents and their speechwriters often have a verbal overload problem at the outset of second terms: They must produce a State of the Union address just weeks after a second inaugural address.
It's hard to be lofty, eloquent and soaring twice in a row.
After he delivers his State of the Union address Tuesday, President Barack Obama will also face logistical problems not usually confronted by re-elected presidents.
While inaugurals tend to be inspirational, aspirational but somewhat vague, a president's diagnosis of the nation's health usually packages a sweeping catalogue of goals with a laundry list of proposed new and recycled legislation — to be fleshed out in the annual budget he sends to Congress a week or two later.
This year the schedule was turned topsy-turvy by Obama's postponing his budget submission to sometime in March — putting it well after a March 1 deadline for deep mandatory government spending cuts. If those "sequester" cuts occur on schedule, they will have a direct bearing on the president's budget.
"I want to keep my remarks short because I just made a pretty long speech a couple of weeks ago, and I'm about to make another next week, and I don't want you guys tired of me," Obama joked at a House Democratic retreat Thursday before answering questions behind closed doors.
First he offered a short preview of next week's speech: job creation, education, clean energy and, "yes, deficits and taxes and sequesters and potential government shutdowns and debt ceiling — we'll talk about that stuff."
Obama has proposed a small package of spending cuts and tax increases to delay the March 1 sequester cuts. So far, Republicans have rejected the plan, even though House Speaker John Boehner likens the threatened cuts to "taking a meat ax to our government."
Opposition parties often call presidential budgets "dead on arrival." This year, Republicans suggest it's ailing even before birth.
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Everybody is chasing Tiger Woods as 38th Memorial Tournament prepares to tee off
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DUBLIN, Ohio – Rory McIlroy deadpanned the best line of the day. And the most honest.
The world's No. 2 golfer was asked why Tiger Woods has won five times at the Memorial Tournament.
"The same reason he's done so well everywhere, I guess," McIlroy said, prompting loud laughter.
Woods' dominance isn't necessarily a laughing matter for the rest of the field at Muirfield Village this week. In 13 trips to Jack Nicklaus' tournament, Woods has wins in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2009 and last year. He's cashed more than $5 million, also finishing third twice and fourth once.
So when the Memorial tees off on Thursday morning, there's no question who everyone will be watching.
"For some reason, I just feel comfortable on (Nicklaus-designed) golf courses, the way he sets it up," said Woods, who has won four times this year in only seven starts to climb back to No. 1 in the world rankings. "There is ample room off the tees. The greens are really severe. If you miss the greens, it tests your short game. Those are the things that I think I do well."
For his part, Nicklaus referred to the eye of the Tiger.
"Obviously, (the course) fits his eye," he said. "I'm delighted that this is one of the golf courses that he likes."
Woods' strong start has perhaps gotten lost in the flurry of news, both good and bad, surrounding the sport these days. Two of the game's sanctioning bodies have banned the anchored putting stroke that has helped four of the last six major-championship winners. Vijay Singh has sued the PGA Tour for its investigation into his use of deer-antler spray. Sergio Garcia made an off-hand comment with racial overtones that was directed at Woods, with whom he squabbled after they were paired at The Players Championship.
Adam Scott, who won the Masters in April with an anchored putter, has hired a lawyer to stay informed on the ongoing legal battle.
"My intention is just to get all the information possible from the PGA Tour," said Scott, who is in the Memorial field along with Woods and Singh but not Garcia. "I just want to get that information and make sure that my views are expressed to the Tour and that's that. There's no intention of filing suit or making problems."
Singh has filed suit after saying he suffered "public humiliation and ridicule" during the investigation of his usage of the spray.
Garcia was jokingly asked at a European Tour dinner last week if he would have Woods over for dinner to mend fences during the U.S. Open. He said he would serve fried chicken.
He apologized that night and against the next day. Woods said Wednesday that Garcia had yet to apologize to him personally.
"Move on," Woods said.
Asked to comment on all the controversies swirling around the tour, its players and particularly the Garcia-Woods verbal skirmish, Nicklaus said times have changed.
"For the most part, today you're in a fish bowl," the Memorial's founder and host said. "There's a lot of mountains made of mole hills. It's a different day. Everybody is there and everything is public."
Getting back to the golf, the Memorial features an elite field that includes the world's top six golfers and 17 of the top 25. Past winners Ernie Els, Justin Rose, Jim Furyk, Fred Couples, K.J. Choi and Carl Petersson fill out the grid, in addition to Singh and Woods.
Sunny and warm temperatures, for the most part, are predicted for the tournament, which is often buffeted by monsoon-like rain and winds.
It remains to be seen, however, if anything — a strong field, perfect weather, all the controversies — can stand in Woods' way.
Davis Love III said Woods' overpowering season has been overshadowed because he lost out to Scott in the Masters and because of all the noise coming from elsewhere in the golf world.
"It's too bad there's so many great stories in golf right now," Love said. "People say, 'What's the matter with Tiger?' Nothing's the matter with him. As long as he plays, he wins."
That doesn't mean anyone is conceding the crystal trophy to him.
McIlroy, who has finished tied for 10th, fifth and missed the cut in appearances the last three years at the tournament, was willing to bank any bit of good mojo he could.
He sported a scarlet and gray shirt — colors that are bound to excite any Ohio State fans in his gallery.
"I didn't even think about it when I took it out of the wardrobe today," he said with a grin. "But I might have to get it cleaned every night and wear it every day."
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HYANNIS – Town officials worked on repairing a sinkhole Wednesday night in a parking lot behind 420 Main St.
HYANNIS – Town officials inspected a sinkhole Wednesday night in a parking lot behind 420 Main St.
Initially the hole was 4 feet in diameter, but crews used a jackhammer to knock out the unsupported pavement to make filling it easier, said P.J. Kelliher of the town highway department. The hole was about 10 feet deep and between 12-14 feet in diameter just after 9 p.m.
The cause was most likely water from a nearby drainage pipe that slowly compacted the sand underneath the pavement over time, said Will Kadunc of the department of public works. "We get a lot in the spring," he said, "but none this big."
Even when it was just the size of a deep pothole, the sinkhole was still dangerous, Kelliher said. "A bigger vehicle like a truck could fall right in," he said. "You never know where it is," he said of the hole's dimensions.
A gas line was also visible, which had to be shut off, Kelliher added, but there were no signs of a leak.
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(Adds record outages) Oct 31 (Reuters) - U.S. nuclear power outages this week were the highest since the spring of 2011 as massive storm Sandy slowed or shut several reactors in the Northeast. On Tuesday, outages climbed to 32,045 megawatts (MW), the highest since the refueling and maintenance season in May 2011, following the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan in March that year. The outages from the spring of 2011 were 32,799 MW, the most since at least 1999, the first year data was available on the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) website. Prior to Sandy, nuclear outages in late October were already running above average for this time of year in the autumn refueling and maintenance season, averaging over 25,000 MW. Sandy hit the U.S. East Coast on Monday night, shutting three reactors. They were Entergy Corp's Indian Point 3 in New York, Public Service Enterprise Group Inc's Salem 1 in New Jersey and Constellation Energy Nuclear Group's Nine Mile Point 1 in New York. Three other plants reduced power due to the storm. They were Dominion Resources Inc's Millstone 3 in Connecticut, Entergy's Vermont Yankee in Vermont and Exelon Corp's Limerick in Pennsylvania. By early Wednesday, the reactors had begun to return to full service.
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BOSTON — Jarome Iginla scored in the second round of the shootout and Tuukka Rask denied all three attempts as the Boston Bruins overcame a sluggish start with a 3-2 win over Anaheim Thursday.
The win snapped Boston's two-game losing skid.
After each team's first shooter was denied, Iginla skated in and snapped a shot just under the crossbar. Rask (21 saves) made the slim advantage stand up by making a pad save on Corey Perry in the second round before captain Ryan Getzlaf's bid in the third caromed off the right post.
Bruins captain Zdeno Chara tied the game at 2-2 by scoring a power-play goal with 2:50 remaining in the third period. Carl Soderberg avenged a first-period miscue by netting his first NHL goal in the second for the Bruins, who mustered just one shot on goal in the first period.Anaheim's Devante Smith-Pelly netted his first goal of the campaign early in the first period before setting up Mathieu Perreault's tally with 21 seconds remaining in the second. Perreault also had an assist and Jonas Hiller turned aside 21 shots for the Ducks, who saw their three-game winning streak come to an end.After Chara drew a tripping penalty on Patrick Maroon, the hulking defenseman made Anaheim pay by tapping home David Krejci's centering feed after it slipped between the legs of Ducks blue-liner Cam Fowler.
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Buffalo Sabres forward John Scott received a seven-game suspension on Thursday for his hit on Boston Bruins forward Loui Eriksson in an Oct. 23 game.
Scott had been suspended indefinitely while awaiting his in-person hearing with the NHL's Department of Player Safety. He already has served three of the seven games.
The 31-year-old Scott delivered an illegal check to Eriksson's head at 5:49 of the third period and received a match penalty. He also was fined $26,923.05.
"Scott cuts across Eriksson and delivers a shoulder to Eriksson's head, making it the main point of contact and causing a serious injury," NHL disciplinarian Brendan Shanahan said. "Although Eriksson is eligible to be checked on this play, he is not eligible to be checked in this fashion."
Scott will be eligible to return on Nov. 8 when the Sabres play the Anaheim Ducks. He has no points in seven games this season.


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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - YS&J Enterprises, Inc., which operates a Dairy Queen restaurant in Winston-Salem's Hanes Mall, will pay $17,500 and furnish significant remedial relief to settle a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.
According to the EEOC's lawsuit (EEOC v. YS&J Enterprises, Inc. d/b/a Dairy Queen, Civil Action No. 1:11 CV 01103), from approximately late March 2009 through Aug. 23, 2009, when she was fired, 18-year-old Chastity Hill-Cox was subjected to harassment based on her sex by a male cashier. The EEOC contends that the harassment consisted of the cashier talking explicitly about his sexual encounters, and making sexual gestures in which he simulated sex acts. The lawsuit further alleges that the male cashier called Hill-Cox offensive gender-based epithets such as "b---h," "c--t" and "p---y" on a frequent basis. Hill-Cox complained about the harassment to the restaurant manager, but the harassment did not stop. According to the lawsuit, Hill-Cox, who was at work, and her mother called the Winston-Salem police to report the harassment. The suit further claims that while the police were present at the restaurant responding to Hill-Cox's complaint, the manager fired Hill-Cox, stating that Hill-Cox was "causing too many problems" for the company.
Sexual harassment and retaliation for complaining about it violate Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The EEOC filed suit after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process.
In addition to paying the $17,500 in damages to Hill-Cox, the company is enjoined from further subjecting employees to discrimination based on their sex, or from retaliating against employees for opposing such discrimination. The company has agreed to redistribute its policy prohibiting sexual harassment and retaliation to managers and supervisors; conduct anti-discrimination training for managers and supervisors; post a notice about the settlement; and report internal sexual harassment and/or retaliation complaints to the EEOC.
"Sexual harassment in the workplace is unacceptable, especially when it involves young and vulnerable victims," said Lynette A. Barnes, regional attorney for the EEOC's Charlotte District. "Further, employers are liable when they fail to address harassment once they have knowledge that such behavior is occurring, and cannot fire employees who complain. We are pleased with this resolution."
EEOC Supervisory Trial Attorney Tina Burnside added, "Employers have a clear legal duty under federal law to respond to discrimination complaints and ensure that the unlawful conduct stops. And no one should ever be fired in retaliation for complaining about sexual harassment."
The EEOC recently updated its Youth@Work website (at http://www.eeoc.gov/youth/), which presents information for teens and other young workers about employment discrimination. The website also contains curriculum guides for students and teachers and videos to help young workers learn about their rights and responsibilities in the work force.
The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information about the EEOC is available on the agency's web site at http://www.eeoc.gov


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Warned that its safety net for abused and neglected children is in a "state of emergency," the county Board of Supervisors on Tuesday vowed to weigh the recommendations of the Blue Ribbon Commission on Child Protection even while outright rejecting some of its ideas.
"There are some really good recommendations," Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky said. "(But) there are some turkeys, in my opinion."
Without going into detail, he dismissed as a "nonstarter" the idea of creating a 20-member committee to oversee the implementation of department reforms, describing such a thing as too unwieldy and arguing there should instead be a more efficient manner of providing oversight.
Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas praised the commission's final report, calling it "the most substantive critique that has ever been done in terms of child protection and child safety in Los Angeles — bar none."
Still, he felt the board needs to take a closer look at the proposals and suggested another meeting be set for May 20 for board members to decide which to implement.
"It is our responsibility to look deeper and make sure it comes together well," Ridley-Thomas said. "The board must be held accountable to get it right, work it out."
"You're not going to change the system overnight, but you've got to reform it," Supervisor Gloria Molina said. "It can be done — and it will be done."
The Blue Ribbon Commission on Child Protection, created by the board after the torture and slaying of 8-year-old Gabriel Fernandez in Palmdale, spent eight months studying ways to improve the county's system of rescuing and caring for children who have been abused or neglected.
"The commission unanimously concluded that a state of emergency exists," the final report read, "which requires a fundamental transformation of the current child protection system.
"The greatest obstacle to reform is the county system itself."
The commission's most controversial proposal was the formation of a new Office of Child Protection to facilitate interagency collaboration and ensure that the departments of Children and Family Services, Sheriff, Mental Health, Health Services, Social Services and other agencies work hand in hand.
Despite objections from the board, commission member Andrea Rich stressed the new office would not be "another layer of bureaucracy" but rather "a knife that cuts through bureaucratic layers."


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Coming next: Savings if a jr. high closes
The subcommittee studying the closing of a junior high school will be provided estimates next Tuesday of how much the department would save if it closed either Aldrich or Gorton.
Considering the department's resources, Dennis Mullen, director of secondary schools, said he would prefer to see that amount divided by two [two schools] rather than three.
From an enrollment numbers point of view, closing a junior high makes good sense. Each of the city's three junior highs have a capacity ranging from 1,273 to 1,311 students, although, because of declining school enrollment, they have 411 to 517 students each. Closing one of the schools and dividing that population among the remaining two schools will still be operating below capacity.
Mullen knows selection of the school won't come without some upheaval. At last Wednesday's meeting, teachers and parents filled the administrative meeting room. Some carried signs and some who couldn't get into the room chanted, "Let us in."
"It is extremely difficult to close a school because of allegiances," Mullen said of attachments to a particular school by students, parents, alumni and neighborhoods.
"We need to honor the feelings and passionate pleas, but we have to do what's best for everyone," Mullen said. Mullen chairs the short-term subcommittee of the 19-member school facilities planning committee. An underlying principle, he said, is to ensure the best education possible and that closing a junior high school doesn't mean degrading the program.
"We're going to try to make it even better, but we need to move on," he said.
How fast that happens is unknown, but a decision could be reached in time to close a school this year.
Acting superintendent Richard D'Agostino said the subcommittee would make its recommendation to the School Committee. He said hearings will be held before the School Committee rendered a decision.
"Everybody gets an opportunity to be heard," he assured.
The subcommittee got a picture of how a two-junior high system could operate at last week's meeting. They were provided class schedules, the numbers of rooms and the teachers required by school.
Winman Junior High, the newest of the three, had been included in the initial study but was dropped when the subcommittee focused on leaving the current segregation of grades by school in place. Options that had been considered were the inclusion of sixth graders in the junior highs to make them 6 to 8. They are now 7th and 8th grades. Other suggestions included expanding senior high schools to 8-12 and using Winman as a career and technology school, expanding upon facilities in place at the Toll Gate Complex.
Under the mock schedules provided last week, subcommittee member Mark Carruolo said the department would need to spend an additional $400,000 to $500,000 on busing. Chief of staff for Mayor Scott Avedisian and a former city planner, Carruolo said it also appears there would be 10 fewer teachers. He estimated that savings at about $1 million.
In information provided the group, the department projects "cost avoidances" for building maintenance, upgrades and renovations to meet fire codes in the range of $5 million to $6 million, depending on which school is closed. Next Tuesday, the panel will be given a comparison of the overall savings of closing Aldrich versus Gorton.
Because of the projected declines in enrollment, Carruolo sees no option to closing a school if the system is to operate effectively.
"We know we need upgrades," he said, "but resources are limited."
Looking beyond closing a school and eventual use of the former school, Carruolo said Aldrich has "the most residual value." He pointed out that it is on a bus line, opposite a commercial plaza, next to a fire station and on a major artery.
Whether redeveloped for housing, as was done with Lockwood School on West Shore Road, converted into offices, as was done with the former Lakewood and Apponaug Elementary Schools, he said Aldrich "has numerous options versus Gorton."
As the school administration has already relocated some administrative offices to the former Greene Elementary School adjacent to Gorton, Carruolo suggested Gorton might also serve for administrative offices. In the case of Aldrich and Gorton, Carruolo said they need to look at deed restrictions about using the properties for anything other than education.
Looking long-term, and from the former role as city planner, Carruolo said the department needs to examine trends and projections "and base its plan on where it is going to end up." He expects that would be a two-junior high school system plus a career and technical facility.
He also acknowledges with its aging infrastructure – Toll Gate and Winman that opened in the early '70s are the newest of the schools – the district faces upkeep, efficiency and operational issues.
"The older construction is not conducive to newer technologies," he said.
Tuesday's meeting is at 3 p.m. at a location to be announced.
They better close a school or two. How else are they going to afford a $3 million dollar surplus and being able to pay for someone to be superintendent and someone not to be superintendent.
This on top of having two business managers being paid last year.
I also heard that the mayor wants to close 2 high schools and build a brand new 1 were is this coming from
The big plan is to close all the grade schools, use the junior high schools as grade schools, and build one mega school at the site of the Rhode Island Mall as one big middle/high school. Or so I have heard.


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Motorist, 88, rams van of motorist, 92 causing water main break
March 10. 2013 11:18AM
GREENLAND - A water main break in Greenland was caused by an 88-year-old motorist backing his car into a vehicle operated by 92-year-old motorist, snapping a fire hydrant on Post Road.
Greenland police said Edward Bennett, 88, was attempting to back into his garage when he lost control of his Buick LeSabre sedan, crashing through the garage door and hitting a parked car and the interior garage wall.
Bennett then put the car in drive and it then careened out of control, crashing into Zona's van and knocking it into a fire hydrant.
Both drivers were taken to Portsmouth Regional Hospital treatment. Both cars were extensively damaged, police said.


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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., Jan. 10 (UPI) -- The newest version of the car that will run in NASCAR's premier series during 2013 was tested at Daytona International Speedway Thursday amid glowing reviews.
NASCAR has dubbed the car "G6" because it is the sixth generation of vehicle to be raced in the Sprint Cup series. It looks more like automobiles seen on the streets rather than the modified versions that have raced in past years.
"Everybody is super excited about this race car and what it brings to our sport and the identity that it brings back to the passenger cars you see on the roads," said Clint Bowyer, who finished second in last year's Sprint Cup points race.
"It was fun to get out there and see what it is all about."
The new car was tested last month at Charlotte Motor Speedway, but not all the series drivers took part.
Thursday was the first of three days of testing at Daytona, where the Sprint Cup season will open on Feb. 24.
Matt Kenseth, last year's Daytona 500 winner who has moved from Roush Fenway Racing to Joe Gibbs Racing for the 2013 season, had the fastest lap during the early practice sessions. He traveled the 2 1/2-mile circuit at 192.757 miles per hour.
Danica Patrick, who for the first time in her career will race a full Sprint Cup schedule, also took part in Thursday's tests and said she had decided not to race in this year's Indianapolis 500.
Patrick had considered competing in both the Indy 500 and the Coca-Cola 600 in Charlotte -- races that are run the same day. The grueling double has been attempted by a few drivers in the past, but with little success.
"The team and I decided to focus on the Sprint Cup race," Patrick said. "It's going to be plenty of work as it is. It's going to be important for me running for the championship full time."


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Splitkick: Previous titles in the series are far from perfect but Halo 4, for all its technical polish, is my least favorite campaign in the series. The elimination of campaign scoring limits the appeal of 'story be damned' replays with friends. If Prometheans are a pill fans have to swallow, 343 has to find a more interesting way to use them or I'm checking out of future entries.
at this point I don't really care about halo 4 reviews, my 13 hours and 47 minutes it took me to finish the legendary playthrough, I really enjoy it, the campaign is 9/10 for me
Not that this review matters but I do find it funny when sites like this do a review of just a portion of the game offering. In this case... we will over ignore half of what the developer gave to the gamer and just review this small piece. later on I am sure they will have a Halo 4 Multiplayer review as well. Its just one more way people are trying to milk people for site hits.
As for this review... looks like the authors main beef really is the Promethian enemy. His quote " Moreover, in a series with an insanely high skill ceiling that rewards headshot efficiency, I can't stand that the Promethean Knights (think Elite equivalent) have no headshot hitbox" So basically as the author noted the Promethians don't offer you up an easy kill solution... contrary to this authors comments, I think the promethean adds a level of difficulty that is totally welcome. When you see a Promethian appear, you know you are in for an even tougher fight. Your skill level absolutely gets tested as you can't just sit back and try and snipe from long range for one shot headshots. That said, you can use a sniper rifle with some success against them but it requires more than one shot...as in..skill to land a few dead on shots and don't miss as ammo can be scarce depending on the level. There is no worse feeling than running out of ammo and still having that Promethian on the field.
Overall...I think this reviewers nitpicks fall short and a bit baseless. No way is it a 6/10, but then again...this review matters little so I guess I will just tell him "you are welcome for the 1 site hit you got from me"
This whole fukin industry sux along with this n4g fuktard web site stirring pots.I play what i want and thats how it goes.
I haven't finished the campaign yet, but damn is it a hell of a lot better than a 6/10...
The beginning prologue and start sequence alone is awesome. I look forward to beating the campaign on Legendary when I get the chance.


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You've started to look at all your media channels together and you've begun to review the touch-points along the way to a conversion event. You're beginning to see what impact display is having on search performance or how email drives initial site visits, but display ads are driving the end conversion. You're even beginning to see which particular sites and placements are showing more influence.
But how do you quantify that attribution? How do you create reliable framework for determining efficiency? And most importantly, how do you effectively compare performance across channels for the purpose of optimizing spend allocation?
In order to begin to quantify attribution, you must first determine the model by which you are most comfortable attributing success. There are four generally accepted attribution frameworks:
- Last Click Attribution: 100 percent of the conversion event value to the placement delivering the last click. While this is the most commonly employed model, it's arguably the most flawed.
- First Click Attribution: 100 percent of the conversion event value to the placement delivering the first click. Basically the same as last-click, but delivering credit for the initial engagement and not the last.
- Equal Weighting Attribution: Every touch-point leading to the conversion gets an equal share of the credit. We'll call this the "Good Parent" model, because while we love each of our kids equally, should we do the same with our media channels?
- Custom Credit Attribution: This model takes multiple factors into account and determines the proper credit share to give to each touch-point. This model becomes the basis for most algorithmic-based models and hones in on the unique levers, which drive user action forward.
In order to get a customized model, we must first understand the factors that impact the value of each touch. These factors include:
- Engagement Factor: What did the user do? Did they click an ad or simply view it? Did they watch an in-video banner? Determine your perceived value of each engagement type and rank-score them against each other.
- Media Factor: What unit delivered goods? Was it a rich media unit? A standard banner? What size was the banner? Was it a text ad? Determine your perceived value of each media unit and rank-score them against each other.
- Time Factor: How long was it between touch-points? How long was it from the specific touch-point to conversion event? Define the parameters around time decay to determine the impact of time on the value of each placement.
It is at this stage that attribution models get stuck. The reason is because we begin to bring in the human element through assigning values to each factor.
What's important to realize here is that here is no "right" answer to what the assigned value is. The value must be worked out and agreed upon across all parties involved (most notably, the client) for the model to move forward. However, once values are agreed upon, you're off to the races on attributing success across channels!
In this example, the time factor starts out as all touches are of equal value, but touches that are 2 to 5 days prior to the conversion are 25 percent less valuable, while touches greater than 5 days out are 50 percent less valuable.
The media factor starts with a standard banner view as the baseline, but states a paid search ad is 25 percent more valuable and an oversized banner is 10 percent more valuable. The engagement factor states clicks are four times as valuable as a view. This attribution model also states that all factors are equally relevant.
Given each of these factors, touch one receives 22.1 percent of the conversion credit, whereas touch three, on the strength of it being paid search and within two days of the conversion event, receives 54.1 percent of the conversion credit.
But, what would happen if you changed your weighting? In the above example, if we change the Time Factor so that all touches that are more than 2 days prior are worth one third of those within 48 hours (going on the premise that any touch older than 2 days is "stale"), this would increase Touch Three's factor to 60 percent, and Touch One's Factor to 20 percent while decreasing Touch Two to just 20 percent. In turn, this will increase Touch One's credit to 23.2 percent, while decreasing Touch Two's credit to 22.2 percent. Touch Three would increase its credit to 54.6 percent (nearly a 10 percent lift it share).
How you weight the value of each factor will impact each touch's credit.
For example, you may decide that a homepage takeover's Media Factor is worth 10 times a standard banner because it is high impact creative. This will greatly skew attribution in favor of the home page banner, while diminishing the value a standard banner, regardless of when the event took place or whether a user engaged.
Good luck and happy attribution.
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Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney hailed his side's dramatic 3-2 derby triumph away at Manchester City, noting that "we've waited a long time for this to happen".
Having lost at home and away in the league to their rivals last season, the England man's two goals put the Red Devils in front before Robin van Persie put down a City comeback with his stoppage-time free kick.
"It's fantastic. It's great for us to go six points clear against our closest rivals, especially after what happened last year. We've waited a long time for this to happen," Rooney told Sky Sports after the game.
The forward's double took him to 151 Premier League goals and a record-breaking 10 in Manchester derbies.
"Of course, it's great to score here but it doesn't matter whether it's against City or not," he insisted. "I'm scoring for Manchester United and enjoying it.
"Obviously it's a great day for us to win here. They've had a great home record and to spoil that is a great feeling.
"[The game was] crazy," Rooney added. "It's been like that all season for us.
"To lose a two-goal lead ... to be fair, we were hanging on a bit at the end. They had a couple of chances and a bit of magic got us the three points."
Van Persie's late strike capped a fine performance in his first Manchester derby but the Dutchman remarked of his goal: "Anything will do – just to win. We had a good start because of Wayne, two really good, clinical finishes, good attacks and then we went into control, which was good.
"City always come back and we knew that so it's a really special way to end this game, to get the three points in a dramatic way.
"Wazza asked me [before the free kick], he said: 'What are you gonna do? Are you gonna shoot or are you gonna cross it?' I said: 'I think I'll have a shot'."
There was controversy at the end of the game as Rio Ferdinand was hit by a coin thrown from the home crowd and Van Persie opined: "In general it was a great atmosphere, everyone was supporting their team.
"I missed the thing with Rio so I'll have to look back at it but that shouldn't really happen on a football pitch."


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*** (out of four)
Warning: The documentary "The Act of Killing" contains disturbing footage, particularly if you just booked a trip to Indonesia.
For the film, director Joshua Oppenheimer tasks several men who acted as executioners in 1965—when members of the military who overthrew the Indonesian government killed more than 1 million alleged communists in less than a year—with cinematically re-creating some of the murders they perpetrated. Since one of them, Anwar Congo, notes that he sometimes was inspired by brutality he saw in films starring Marlon Brando, Al Pacino or John Wayne, "The Act of Killing" becomes a chilling example of art imitating life imitating art. (The film hardly exists as an examination of the social effects of violent media, however.)
To see a man recalling the mandated slaughter of the Chinese ("If I met them, I stabbed them," he says, noting this included his girlfriend's father) or another delighting in the rape of 14-year-olds ("I'd say it's going to be hell for you but heaven on Earth for me"), I mean, what can you say? It's sickening. The film absolutely doesn't glamorize this behavior, and it's staggering the matter-of-fact manner with which some of these killers and corruption advocates speak. They treat genocide with a shrug. Others discuss how they're able to self-justify their cruel behavior.
That said, there's something pretty unpleasant about a film that gives voice only to the perpetrators, rather than the victims' families. I don't know much about Indonesia, and the strange "The Act of Killing," which at times feels like a stunt, doesn't provide a solid understanding of this world or how these men became who they became. Anwar speaks of nightmares that plague him, but when did he have this shift in perspective? Despite the completely different circumstances, it reminds me of a quote from "Quiz Show": "It was the getting away with it part that he couldn't live with."
At one point, while acting in a scene in which he's nearly strangled with wire, Anwar feels very uncomfortable. On the one hand, it's something to see a gangster with a crisis of conscience. On the other hand, who wouldn't be uneasy?
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A little bigger lead, a few more free throw attempts.
For Scott McKelvey, he's not about to second guess what happened in this past weekend's Class D state championship game. Instead, the Lenawee Christian boys basketball coach is focused on the incredible journey LCS had to the state finals — and the possibility of getting back there.
"I try not to dwell on it," McKelvey said Monday, two days after LCS lost in the state finals to Southfield Christian. "I don't think it was anything we did or decided to do. We executed what we wanted to do in the game. Sure, maybe we could have hit a few more free throws or got a little bigger of a lead, but they are a veteran team and they have been there before."
Getting to the state finals was a remarkable accomplishment for the Cougars, who had never advanced to the state finals despite having a tremendous basketball tradition of All-State players, district titles and 20-win seasons.
This Cougars team did it without an All-State player, but with a deep and talented roster. There were early-season flashes of the talent. LCS beat a Whiteford team that made it to the Class C regional finals. They beat traditional power St. Mary Catholic Central, who finished 16-5, at Siena Heights in a holiday tournament. LCS played the likes of Detroit Allen Academy and Jackson Lumen Christi.
"It was always a work in progress," McKelvey said of the Cougars.
Seniors Grant Hohlbein and Brad Harrah already had a good supporting cast with Austin Eagen, Jacob Baker and Dan Schwartz plus juniors Nick Mewborn and Jesse Maguire. When three 6-foot-8 players — Kingsley, Collins and Maxwell — joined the squad, McKelvey saw the potential.
"In practice, it wasn't just the first group, but it was the second group," he said. "They were really working hard to push the starters. They played so hard, and they made this team better. There was a lot of communication and a lot of coming together. They all had a never-say-die attitude."
During the summer, McKelvey took his Cougar team to the Romulus Summer League, during which some of the best basketball teams in metropolitan Detroit honed their skills in the offseason. One of the teams LCS faced was Southfield Christian, the two-time defending Class D champions.
"It helped tremendously," McKelvey said. "We took a lot of lumps up there, but we went into it thinking it was going to make us that much better.
"It's very physical and fast-paced. But that's how you make yourself better, playing against that type of competition."
LCS had some close calls during the state tournament. It beat Morenci by two in the district final, then had to go to overtime in the quarterfinals to get past Battle Creek St. Philip. In the championship game, LCS fell behind 20-13 in the first quarter.
"Our kids stuck with the game plan," McKelvey said. "They didn't panic or start shooting 3s. Little by little, we gradually started chipping away and eventually took the lead by halftime. "At that point, we realized we could play with them.
"Once you get to that level, any mistake you make can cost you at either end of the floor," he continued. "If you make a mistake, you have to move on. A team at this level can go on a really quick run. Everything is magnified. You have to use your timeouts at the right time and just execute your game plan."
The Cougars nearly pulled it off. A last-second shot from near midcourt was slightly off.
"We had a legitimate shot," McKelvey said. "It was not a heave."
For McKelvey, it was a chance of a lifetime to get his team to the Breslin Center. Now, he said, the players are focused on making it happen again.
"The kids were devastated, especially the seniors," he said. "We know how close it was and that it was within our grasp. It would have been so wonderful for them to win it, but I'm so proud of them to get there."
Lenawee Christian not dwelling on state final loss
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BBC World's The Happiness Formula
[I'm writing this as I watch the program on cable TV].
Measuring activity in the brain by oxygen levels when shown a happy or sad picture shows that happiness can be detected directly in the brain ….. or is it pleasure? Is pleasure and happiness the same thing? And does it last? Or is happiness something deeper and more lasting than mere pleasure?
Can you just ask people to rate their own happiness and get a valid result? Professor Ed Diener, psychologist and researcher into happiness, thinks we can. He finds that the happiest people in the world are the Swiss, and those in Belarus are the least happy. Happy countries are richer and democratic, but their happiness is not so much greater than poor, non-democratic ones.
[Why democratic, I wonder? Do we prefer to have some perception of control over our lives that democracy theoretically gives us? This is a question for another time, I think].
Measuring happiness in this way predicts outcomes in peoples' lives. Are they more likely to commit suicide if they are less happy? Surprisingly, yes! Can someone who scores less on the happiness scale keep his hand in iced water for as long as someone who scored higher? The answer turns out to be no! So are happy people more persistent, more resilient, more likely to succeed in life? Perhaps extrapolating from iced water experiments are pushing the whole thing too far, but it is easy to see how it could work.
Another study, of nuns interviewed a few years ago, found that those who sounded happier in interviews lived longer than the less happy ones, up to 9 years longer. This is not something to be sneezed at! And another one, of performance during memory exercises, showed that people who are pampered a bit more are able to remember objects better.
Professor Layard, an economist, has come to the conclusion that money doesn't make us happy. Striving to make more money doesn't make us happier, and perhaps it makes us less happy when we are constantly comparing ourselves to others. Bhutanese polititians measure Gross Domestic Happiness rather than Gross Domestic Product, and make decisions according to whether people will be happier rather than richer. Plastic bags have been banned (not a bad idea). Bhutan is not as rich as it might have been, but the people are happier.
What do we need for lasting happiness? Not endless consumption, but volunteering is what gives our lives meaning, and meaning is necessary for real, lasting, happiness. Happy people volunteer, and volunteers are happier. They also are more likely to get married, stay married, become leaders and help others at work, and have better health, says Ed Diener.
A survey asking whether governments should aim to make us richer or happier, the overwhelming majority went for happiness.
[What would you choose? Will you wait for the government to do something, or will you do it yourself?]
Stay tuned for the next episode in this excellent series on BBC World.


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Victims of Kwiatkowski devastated by illnessBy KATHRYN MARCHOCKI
New Hampshire Union Leader
December 02. 2013 9:52PM
The case against David M. Kwiatkowski
Number of states in which he worked, 2003-2012: 8, in multiple hospitals
Hepatitis C diagnosis discovered: 2010 Number of patients he is known to have infected with hepatitis C: At least 45 (No way to determine precise number of those he exposed to virus): One at VA Medical Center, Baltimore, Md., in 2008; Six at Johns Hopkins Hospital in 2009; Six at Hays Medical Center in Kansas in 2010; 32 at Exeter Hospital in 2011-2012
Deaths: One known (Kansas) Cases Kwiatkowski pleaded guilty to Aug. 14: Seven of the NH cases plus the fatal Kansas case
Number of patients CDC recommended be tested for hepatitis C because of Kwiatkowski: More than 12,000 Number of Exeter Hospital patients tested: 3,753
Cost to New Hampshire to respond to public health crisis: $384,000
When Kwiatkowski began stealing pain killers intended for hospital patients: He admitted he began diverting drugs in 2002 when he and a co-worker stole vials of morphine from a Michigan emergency room.
What is hepatitis C: A viral, blood-borne illness most efficiently transmitted through contact with infected blood. It is potentially fatal. It is most commonly transmitted through needle-sharing by users of injectable drugs. It is occasionally spread sexually or through sharing personal items contaminated with infected blood (e.g. toothbrushes). There currently is no vaccine for Hepatitis C. A small percentage of those who become infected with the disease are able to "clear" the infection. Most (85 percent) develop chronic Hepatitis C. It can lead to chronic liver disease. There currently is no vaccine for Hepatitis C.
CONCORD — Vietnam War veteran Linwood Nelson Sr. said he was devastated to learn he became infected with Hepatitis C while getting health care at the VA Medical Center in his native Baltimore, Md.
"It is so painful to me that this man was able to bring such devastation into my life," Linwood said of former drug-addicted traveling medical technician David M. Kwiatkowski.
"He should receive the same punishment that he has given us — the death penalty," Nelson told a federal judge.
Nelson described the extreme precautions he must take to protect his family from the potentially-fatal blood borne virus and protect himself from the disease's many complications.
"I was told by my doctors that my liver may stop functioning at any time and my blood may not clot. I had all my teeth removed so I wouldn't have to worry about my blood not clotting during my next dental work," he said.
Ronnie Murphy and his sister, Connie Murphy McNeal, traveled 1,700 miles from Hays, Kansas to describe the painful and unnecessary death their mother, Eleanor, 89, suffered as a result of complications from the Hepatitis C she contracted from Kwiatkowski.
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Other victims described the "stigma" and harm they endure, the painful treatments and depression and anxiety.
"Only an evil monster would do this to anyone — let alone to so many. We all want to know why," Linda Thompson said. Her husband, Butch, was one of the first to be infected by Kwiatkowski and was too sick to be in court.
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Event : Vajrakilaya Grand Puja
Date : March 4-9
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Venue : Cartoon House
Address : 33, Jalan Putri Jaya 10, Taman Putri Jaya Batu 9,Cheras, 43200 Selangor
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March 4 from 9 am - 1 pm
Fire Puja - Removed of Obstacles
March 5 - 9 from 9 am - 12 pm, 2 pm - 5 pm
Vajrakilaya Grand Puja
Khenpo Palden Phuntsok (aged 80 years old) and his monks from Sakya Guru Monastery
in Ghoom-Dahjeeling (oldest monastery in India where His Holiness Sakya Trizin had
stayed after leaving Tibet), are coming to visit Kuala Lumpur. There will be a 5 day
Vajrakilaya Grand Pujas for clearing of obstacles.
Khenpo Palden Phuntsok was born into this world as a Tibetan at Sakya, of the well known Surnap Family in the year 1932. He exuded great intelligence in all aspect at a very tender age. An astrologer, who had observed the kid's exceptional quality, advised his parent that the child should enter monk hood to further develop his capabilities. At that time being able to led a monastic life was regarded as the most respected and revered activity.
So in 1939 at a very young age of eight years, he was initiated as a novice monk by H.E. Khenchen Jampal Sangpo, the chief abbot of Sakya Lhakhang Chenmo (The Great Sakya Monastery in Tibet ) and also received from him the very basic sutra vows.
He had excellent training in the grandeur of Lhakhang Chenmo. He completed his study in all aspects of ritual practices in a very short time under the tutelage of Gyatso Loph. After which he continued his studies and trainings in tantra practices such as in the deities of Hevajra,Vajrapani, Vajrakilaya and Vajrayogini. All of which were essential studies in order to become a Phentsang. During that time at Sakya, he acted as a (Gyakhod), a Discipline Master and was highly respected throughout Sakya for his excellent moral conduct.
After finishing these studies he was awarded the title Lama Phenstang, whichwas given to a special and skilful group of monks who were able to perform tantric pujas.
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New electronic display technologies using conductive polymers and electrically charged inks could soon have an impact on the European printing sector, especially the large-format market.
The latest development is the arrival of an electronic ink which has the visual quality of conventional ink on paper, underlying the potential for new electronic systems to become the next new technology after digital printing to challenge traditional printing methods.
NTera, Dublin, Ireland, has revealed that it expects to launch an electrochromic ink based on nanomaterials, which could be appearing on in-store banners and billboard-type advertising and communications in airports this year.
A number of other new electronic technologies are also currently being developed for applications where there are advantages to be gained from frequent changes in displays.
Among these are conductive polymers like organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs). They are already becoming established in small-screen electronic products like cell phones and personal data assistants (PDAs). Developers of OLED systems and their materials believe these conductive polymer technologies can be extended into areas currently dominated by traditional printing methods. That could mark the beginning of a radical change in some printing sectors, particularly in the large format segment.
Major PlayersThese new technologies could become a major threat to conventional printing in a relatively short time in Europe because of the large number of big players who are already becoming involved in their development, including some leading suppliers to ink producers and other printing sectors.
These companies include BASF, which produces inks, printing plates and pigments; Merck KGaA, a pigments maker as well as a big supplier of materials for liquid crystal displays; Avecia, a major producer of digital printing ink ingredients; and Bayer, a producer of chemicals for the ink segment.
Further downstream, there are global players like Philips of the Netherlands which is putting a lot of its R&D resources into the development of conductive polymers and of electronic inks for display systems.
Philips is intent on being a leading force in electronic display technologies. It is already a partner with Agilent Technologies in Lumileds Lighting, San Jose, CA, a leading manufacturer of light emitting diodes (LEDs). It has recently formed partnerships in the display area with Mitsubishi Electric of Japan and DuPont. It has also become a shareholder in E Ink Corporation, Cambridge, MA, a developer of electronic inks.
Europe also has companies at the cutting edge of conductive polymer and display technologies, including Cambridge Display Technology and Plastic Logic, both of the U.K.
Large Format Market
The arrival of higher-quality electronic display systems, especially the application of ink-type materials, comes at a time when the large-format market in Europe has been growing approximately 10 to 15 percent faster than the advertising market as a whole.
Screen printing, litho and digital printing equipment are being improved to meet a variety of requirements in the sector, in particular the ability to print on super-wide sections with widths of up to 5 meters (200 inches).
Advertisers are demanding higher quality from banner, billboard and other displays in terms of durability, lightfastness and resolution together with lower costs.
At the same time, they want a faster turnover of large-format promotions and greater effectiveness in the targeting of their messages. The growing use of digital printing in the sector has helped to cut costs, making more frequent replacement of billboards and banners with new displays more economically viable.
Electronic technologies open up the possibilities of being able to change the content of displays almost instantaneously.
"Displays can be changed throughout the day to catch particular audiences," said Roy Davis, NTera's chief executive. "A roadside billboard can, for example, carry one message aimed at early morning commuters and then can be altered to target mothers taking their children to school.
"With respect to costs, printing on paper will always be cheaper, but once printed the content can never be changed – hence the argument for electronic paper-quality displays," he said. "The key is the ability to change the content and image electronically over the lifetime of the display, so one would reasonably expect the costs to be ultimately competitive, if not cheaper."
Electronics could revolutionize large-format communications as an advertising medium. It could become more like radio and TV, with space being sold according to the position of the time slot. It could become a narrowcasting vehicle able to deliver tailor-made data for individual groups of potential customers. This would be the case especially in stores, airports, bus and railway stations and other places with continuous traffic.
The new technologies would also result in radical changes not only in the large format printing sector but also in the signage industry as well.
"They will re-engineer the whole supply chain," said Mr. Davis. "There will be no need for use of conventional printers and their suppliers. There will no necessity either for the large numbers of people required for changing billboards and other displays, and different advertising and marketing skills will be needed."
NTera's electrochromic technology, called NanoChromics, is similar to that which eliminates glare in automobile mirrors and the windows of office buildings. Through the development of nano-sized chromic materials, its reflective functions can operate much faster, and considerably increase its light levels.
The displays have a structure like that of liquid crystal displays (LCDs) but they are much less complex, so they have substantially lower production costs.
"A big advantage for us is that a state-of-the-art LCD line could provide 90 percent of the manufacturing needs of NanoChromics, significantly reducing the requirement for initial capital expenditure," Mr. Davis said. "In some cases, the time to prepare NanoChromics is lower than for LCDs, making it attractive in terms of turnaround."
Since the displays consist of nanomaterials, they can potentially be printed through ink jets, which could cut the production costs further.
"We've already successfully tested their application by ink jet," said David Corr, NTera's technical manager. "Since the particle sizes are 5 to 20 nanometers, they are a lot smaller than those in digital printing inks."
NTera has recently reached a production and marketing agreement with Merck of Germany, which is a leader in the global market for liquid crystal materials and has experience with nanomaterials in areas like pigments.
"With its broad experience in display technologies, (Merck) has the know-how to produce (NTera's) nanomaterials and worldwide customer base that will appreciate them," said Thomas Schreckenbach, Merck's management board member responsible for chemicals.
NTera has also just entered an alliance with Densitron, a U.K.-based display manufacturer which is building a LCD plant in Shanghai, China in a joint venture with Vbest, a Taiwanese display maker. The first NTera display products could be made at the Shanghai unit in the second half of this year.
The Dublin company expects that its first commercial application could be in smart cards, followed by in-store displays and then larger-format communications in airports.
Its electronic ink can provide miniature displays on cards giving information like credit balances or medical data such as the owner's blood group. The displays would be powered by a thin-film battery on the cards, another technology developed by NTera.
The company claims that in black-and-white applications its technology can achieve resolutions superior to many of those with conventional inks. In tests with monochrome texts, it has reached levels of 200 dpi, compared with an average of 125 dpi for newspapers.
With full color, however, NTera is having difficulties, especially with maintaining an adequate standard with blues. Despite providing the visual quality of ink on paper, it may also have to wait a while for the development of substrates which have the flexibility of paper.
"Initial shortcomings like the lack of full color will not be a burden in the marketplace," said Mr. Corr. "The first applications, many of which will tend to be numeric, will require only high monochrome qualities."
Makers of OLEDs and their materials are also having problems meeting acceptable standards for full-color displays. As with electronic inks, the difficulty is not so much the development among the primary colors of reds and greens but of blues.
OLED developers, especially polymer ones, are confident they can overcome these technical defects. Companies like BASF are working on the development of easy-to-process polymer materials using cost-efficient techniques like roll-to-roll processes. Organic liquid is placed between two hot rolls so that it polymerizes into a continuous sheet.
Polymer LEDs, or polyLEDs, can also be produced through ink jets. Philips has developed an ink jet printing technology for making high precision, full color polyLED displays.
At the moment, Philips is making polyLED small-panel displays with polymers supplied by companies like Bayer, Avecia and Dow Chemical. Since ink jets can deposit polymers over a broad area, Philips sees ink jet printing being suitable for what it believes will be the next generation of polyLEDS when they become suitable for large-format applications.
"Previously the only display technology was the cathode ray tube and then it was replaced by LCDs," explained a Philips officials. "Now we have a lot of new display technologies emerging. The most successful may prove to be certain types of polyLEDs or electronic inks, but it is quite possible there may not be a clear winner."


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Monday, 24 May 2010
Derry's Bid for UK City of Culture
The Derry-Londonderry bid for UK City of Culture 2013 is due to be delivered to Manchester on Friday and we need your help to get it over the line. Although the bid is currently winging its way to the judges we are gearing up for the final stage – a presentation to the judging panel on 17th June.
We will show the judges how everyone in Northern Ireland has got behind the bid and we still need as much support as possible.
The level of online engagement has been phenomenal and we'll be sharing all your wonderful stories at the presentation.
We'd ask you to keep the online momentum up and this Friday we're hoping for a massive peak in activity which we can use as part of our presentation.
Join us and say Yes for Derry 2013!
On Friday we'd ask you to do the following:
1. Retweet the hash tag #derry2013
2. "Like" us on Facebook » and leave your comments on our page
3. Send our template email to your database or network of friends/colleagues
4. Email us a photo or story of how you've been supporting the bid
Find out what else you can do to help here »
Register your support
8 comments:
- Ann said...
When you visit Derry, don't forget the GARDENS and visit the Donegal Garden Trail. Good luck in your bid Derry.
- 25 May 2010 at 05:11
- Heather said...
Be great if Derry would win the bid for UK City of Culture, to help boost the economy and tourism of the north west of Ireland.
- 25 May 2010 at 05:11
- Teresa said...
Come and see the city, it has lots to offer
- 25 May 2010 at 05:15
- mary said...
Derry your culture,environment, people,youth & business acumen are the recepie for success. I wish you luck in your bid for UK City of Culture.
- 26 May 2010 at 14:12
- hugh said...
13 could be Derry/Londonderry's lucky year and deservedly so. Always a good place to visit, either side of the Foyle. Good luck with the bid!
- 26 May 2010 at 14:12
- bob said...
Because Derry City is so famous for it's marvellous musicians and singers it is deserving of the City of culture.
- 31 May 2010 at 08:27
- maureen said...
Lovely city.Pity about litter around williams street.
- 31 May 2010 at 08:29
- Dr. Henry said...
What might the following mean? Derry, 5296, Ireland
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