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Hurrah!
I've made it onto the top 50 marketing blogs in Australia, even though I've spent much of 2008 talking about advertising to my mates rather than blogging it.
So even though my site was described by a fellow blogger as being on 'life support', I'd prefer to think of it as the Triple M of Aussie marketing blogs....not a whole lot of new stuff, but heaps of classics that go back through the years!
And no ads....just 136 blog posts IN A ROW!
Anyway, who says a blog needs to be updated every day or week. There's only so much interesting new news out there. With all the advertising theories, strategies, models, principles bla bla bla, I'm still trying to work out how to make an effective 30 second tv ad!
Thanks to Julian Cole for putting together the whole shebang.
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Second part of the Mickey Mouse continuity. Hope you are liking it. Is it difficult to wait till tomorrow? Try to imagine that in the 50s they had only one strip per day and they had to wait something like 2-3 months to know the end of each continuity.
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Descripción
En el libro mediante una colección de 50 problemas se ponen en práctica los conceptos teóricos sobre metodologías de desarrollo de Bases de Datos, análisis conceptual utilizando el modelo
E/R, diseño lógico empleando el modelo relacional, teoría de normalización de relaciones y Bases de Datos distribuidas. Cada capítulo incluye una introducción con una panorámica de los aspectos
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LA INFIDELIDAD LLEVA TRAGEDIA... - REFLEXIONES
Ocurrió en Chicago, Illinois, Estados Unidos, pero pudo haber ocurrido en cualquier otra metrópoli del mundo. La alarma sonó en el cuartel de bomberos. Era poco después de la medianoche, y la llamada era insistente: "Hay fuego en la cuadra 2400 de la Harriett Lane —decía una voz angustiada—. ¡Vengan pronto!"
Los bomberos acudieron de inmediato
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Es el nombre que le dieron los indígenas aymaras al dios del viento, HUAYRA TATA, quien se encargaba de producir los vientos, ventiscas y huracanes que habita en las montañas,abismos y cerros de las altiplanicies andinas. Que cuando emergía de esos lugares dejaba su HUAYCUS o lugar de habitación.
Se lo relaciona directamente con la Pachamama como su consorte, que bajaba para demostrar su poder
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I'll be away from home staying with a couple of grandchildren while their parents head to the Keys for some well-earned sun, sea, and snorkeling. I'll post when I can get to a computer, probably daily, but my posting times will be a bit unusual.
I'll be back on my regular schedule after next Tuesday, March 4.
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"When you actually ignore reality for years on end, payback's a bitch, brother!"
- Bruce Sterling
From the Strategic Public Relations blog:Research shows that half of the agency/client relationships out there last less than two years. This is from a sample of about 140 companies with an annual marketing spend of at least $2 million, including Citibank, General Mills, IBM, GE, and ESPN.
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Although I'm exhausted from a busy day of sports. I'm going to give you some quick thoughts on what I saw today before I hit the sack.
-Upsets galore in Tampa Bay kept me entertained all day. I love march madness!
-The biggest surprise to me was how Sienna beat Vanderbilt. I did not see that coming, especially in the way that it happened.
-I was so impressed with Tyrone Brazelton's intelligent play under pressure. Not only did he turn in a great game with 33 points, but I was most impressed by how he got the ball up the floor quickly and made the smart pass back to the inbound man for the buzzerbeater. I felt bad for Drake. They had a dream season this year. But after seeing that I didn't even mind my bracket being busted!
-Sir Alexander Ovechkin is a really good player. It is still amazing to me how a team can be so bad that they have a player score 60 goals in one year and still be fighting for the 8th and final playoff spot in the NHL.
- I love the WKU Hilltopper mascot (The Red dot)
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* When somebody mentions “literature,” what’s the first thing you think of? (Dickens? Tolstoy? Shakespeare?)
* Do you read “literature” (however you define it) for pleasure? Or is it something that you read only when you must?
"Literature" means classics, in most cases. Those books which are timeless and are full of substance. Most tend to think of literature as heavy reading. Not necessarily so. Lewis Caroll's Alice in Wonderland qualifies as a classic and IS a great piece of literature. And no one can call it as serious! I do not think classics are difficult to read unless one gets the gist of those. They do tell us about an era otherwise forgotten. Isn't that what literature is supposed to do?
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The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) publishes the results of a weekly applications survey that covers roughly 50 percent of all residential mortgage originations and tracks the average interest rate for 30 year and 15 year fixed rate mortgages, 1 year ARMs as well as application volume for both purchase and refinance applications.
The purchase application index has been highlighted as a particularly important data series as it very broadly captures the demand side of residential real estate for both new and existing home purchases.
The latest data is showing that the average rate for a 30 year fixed rate mortgage increased 3 basis point since last week to 5.78% while the purchase application volume increased by 8.1% and the refinance application volume increased 3.4% compared to last week’s results.
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Oh. A trend!
A few weeks ago I posted a report by the UK's Government Office for Science which said:"The obesity epidemic cannot be prevented by individual action alone and demands a societal approach."
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"The people of the UK are inexorably becoming heavier simply by living in the Britain of today. This process has been coined 'passive obesity'."I lamented that government agencies in the US still frame America's weight problem as the creature of an individual's nefarious choices. "Eat less refined corn and soy products!" they say, as if our weight problem is our fault.
It's incomprehensible to me that those same agencies, backed by Congress, turn around and fund the production of those very corn and soy products they tell us not to eat - making them cheaper, more accessible, and, well, downright popular.
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UPDATE: Please note that this sale expired August 1st.
That's right! We're crazy, crazy, crazy for slashing prices this low -- must be the heat! Visit VeganLunchBox.com to take advantage of my Summer Clearance Blow Out Sale: from now until August 1st buy TWO COPIES FOR $30.00! You heard right: two copies of Vegan Lunch Box for just $30.00! *
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The following shots are from a scene missing in many prints of this Famous short.
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I bet only a few of you have seen this sequence complete.
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From the Sacramento Bee (hat tip anon1137):In an unprecedented move designed to save thousands of California homeowners from foreclosure, Gov.
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The special category for Trivia Night on Tuesday night will be Vice Presidents Trivia. I will give you the name of a US Vice President, and you will tell me the President he served under. Don't fear the category, as it will also be multiple choice.
We will also have the regular four categories as well, and we'll get going at the usual time of 9 PM. This week's Sneak Peek question is:
"In 1983, what Caribbean nation was invaded by U.S. troops?"
I hope many of you can come out for Trivia Night on Tuesday.
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Are you at least aware of the existence of this extraordinary character?
Fethry is really famous in Italy. He starred in a number of delightful stories, the best ones drawn by Giorgio Cavazzano, in which he was paired with Donald, his cousin, creating a team a là Laurel and Hardy (in one story they were even ghostbusters!).
The best stories with the character are the early ones, drawn my talented Al Hubbard and written by Dick Kinney
When you have a great writer and a marvellous artist, you can't fail (just think at the Walsh-Gottfreson team).
This is probably my favorite story by Kinney/Hubbard, one of the funniest ever made with Fethry. Enjoy.
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In an effort to gain some further perspective on the impact the housing decline could be having on the wider economy, I have added the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) monthly Employment Situation report to the lineup of recurring posts.
Ill expand the lineup of charts in future posts but for now, as a baseline, let’s look at the course that non-farm employment has taken (click for larger version) since 2003.
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My birthday weekend did not quite go as planned, but we still managed to have some fun. Saturday Dan got up early and cleaned the whole house for me in preparation for our guest. That was a huge present in and of itself. He went out and got me a cute little ice-cream cake with yellow roses on them. The plates he got even matched the cake. He then made pasty pie for dinner for everyone. The first guest started arriving around noon. Jen was the only book cluber who could make it this month so we talked briefly about the book before the rest of the group arrived. We headed out for Eglin around 1:00. We soon found out that google maps directions were very off. So we pulled over to a gas station and asked for directions. Turns out one of the customers lived on the street we were looking for so he was able to give us detailed directions to the pumpkin place.
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Today, the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) released their first installment of the Q3 2007 GDP report showing a better than expected growth rate of 3.9%, buoyed by strength in, among other things, nonresidential structures, outstanding exports of goods, and federal, state and local government spending while continuing to be weighed down by tremendous weakness to fixed residential investment.
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* Have you ever met one of your favorite authors? Gotten their autograph?
* How about an author you felt only so-so about, but got their autograph anyway? Like, say, at a book-signing a friend dragged you to?
* How about stumbling across a book signing or reading and being so captivated, you bought the book?
The quick answers: Sort of. Yes. No.
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Lewis Jacobs Phoenix Glass Works
Active in London 1830-1870
F Overalls
Intaglio print published by Short & Forman, Ohio {1800-1900}
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new work in a drawer
Originally uploaded by m.Lee Yup, it is coming and happening. I'm in the process of re-evaluating how I price and almost everything has to go up. I just need to figure out how much would make me happy and settle on that. Expect these to be in effect starting in early November.
My time has become more precious to me. This weekend I have been able to produce a lot of work and now I am exhausted completely.
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There just doesn’t seem to be ANY limit to the depths to which the truly underhanded National Association of Realtors (NAR) will reach in attempting to protect their own self interest.
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The original six franchises, frequently like to look back at their past years as a guide for the future. Success breeding success and all that.
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Faithless
I’ve got my own moral compass to steer by
A guiding star beats a spirit in the sky
And all the preaching voices –
Empty vessels ring so loud
As they move among the crowd
Fools and thieves are well disguised
In the temple and the marketplace
Like a stone in the river
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above: the kind of gorgeous stuff you see from 35,000 feet, by the way
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While the Atlanta Thrashers were busy turning around their season in November, their rookie defenceman, Tobias Enstrom was busy collecting some attention of his own.
Enstrom was becoming a highlight reel attraction all to himself, with eight points in twelve games and a remarkable 25 minutes of playing time per game, a fairly good indication of the faith that the Thrashers have in the rookie Swedish defenceman.
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Another record which isn't going to make my "best of" list, but which surely deserves some attention is the first solo effort from former member of the Delgados, Emma Pollock.
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1. I voted for Obama today. I'm going to be out of the state on primary day (January 8, this time around), so I stopped by the Town Clerk's office and filled in my absentee ballot. The primary system without a doubt gives unearned and unfair power to a few predominantly white and homogeneous states, so it is definitely in need of some reform. That said, there's something pretty amazing about casting a ballot where you have good reason to believe it will have a major significance.
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The contents of the affidavit that Jason Grimsley made in 2006 were revealed yesterday, and curiously the names of Roger Clemens and Andy Pettitte were not in it. Nor were a few other names in the Mitchell Report, like Miguel Tejada, Brian Roberts or Jay Gibbons. (Grimsley did mention such players as Sammy Sosa, Allen Watson and Pete Incaviglia.)
An article in the Los Angeles Times in 2006 said that Clemens and Pettitte were a part of it, and their names were redacted out of it. The unsealing of the document proves they were not named in it, and the Times is planning on running an apology in the paper tomorrow about it.
Listening to Clemens' lawyer, Rusty Hardin, you'd think this makes Clemens an innocent man who has finally been let off the hook.
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