March 14, 2009: A Non-Celebrity Guest Blog, Your Book of the Month Club Reminder, and An Extra Chunky Mailbag
So a couple of weeks ago, Jason Sizemore over at Apex Books asked me whether I’d be interested in writing a guest blog entry for them (Actually, he referred to it as a Celebrity Blog which, of course, gave me pause because I‘m a celebrity in much the same way that Joe the Plumber or Kim Kardashian are celebrities. In other words, not.) [suite...]
Date: 2009-03-15 01:59:16
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—– Catholic Church Closing 33 Worship Sites In Central New York State (Marc Parry/The Albany Times Union; Jan 18) ALBANY: Cities across the greater Capital Region will bear the brunt of a massive plan to close 33 worship sites throughout the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany, Bishop Howard Hubbard announced Saturday [suite...]
Date: 2009-03-14 05:30:00
Air America Radio Hires Montel Williams
IN JERRY'S FOOTSTEPS TV Talker / Huckster Montel Williams Hired By Air America Apparently hoping to succeed where Jerry Springer ... quest for knowledge.” “After being on television for more than 17 years, I’m looking forward ... running daytime talk shows in the history of television. In addition to his talk show and several [suite...]
Date: 2009-03-11 21:54:00
Daily Update: March 14, 2009
Today is Pi Day, as the first three digits of π are 3.14. Pi Minute is also sometimes celebrated on March 14 at 1:59 a.m. (or p.m.). If π is truncated to seven decimal places, it becomes 3.1415926, making March 14 at 1:59:26 a.m. (or p.m.), Pi Second [suite...]
Date: 2009-03-14 23:14:17
Happy Saint Patrick's Day
The Pope first gave the Kings of England the Lordship of Ireland. A Papal Blessing was sent to William III when he set out for Ireland. The Lateran Palace was illuminated for a fortnight when news of the Battle of the Boyne reached Rome. During the 1798 Rebellion, the staff and students of Maynooth sent a Declaration of Loyalty to the King [suite...]
Date: 2009-03-17 17:19:00
Tisch Film Administration Responds to Petition With Equally Long and Sentimental Letter
In case you are too busy re-scheduling your senior thesis to read the thousand word letter, we have consolidated and bulleted the main points: This has been a problem for the past five years that we have failed to fix in a sustainable way. We warned you in the fall of 2007 that while you were covered individually for over a million dollars in [suite...]
Date: 2009-03-12 17:11:42
Interested in an Usborne Book Event at your homeschool meet up?
Are you interested in hosting an Usborne Books event at one of your homeschool group meetings or in your home for other homeschoolers? ... direct sales division of Usborne Publishing. Founded by Peter Usborne over 30 years ago, the company ... any sacrifice of quality, to produce books as interesting and entertaining as television, magazines [suite...]
Date: 2009-03-18 02:16:00
This Day in Geek History: March 16
1867 Joseph Lister publishes an article on his discovery of antiseptic surgery in the medical journal The Lancet . The article is the first of a series in which Lister applies Pasteur’s theory that the micro-organisms which cause gangrene might be inhibited chemically. In the articles, he details his successful use of phenol (carbolic acid) [suite...]
Date: 2009-03-16 06:00:29
Comparisons of Selling Strategy in Hong Kong: Coca-Cola versus Pepsi Co.
RESEARCH PROPOSAL 1.0 Title The title of this dissertation is initially drafted as – Comparisons of Selling Strategy in Hong Kong: Coca-Cola versus PepsiCo. 2.0 Introduction Marketing can be considered as one of the most important element underpinning successful business creation ( 1994) [suite...]
Date: 2009-02-25 02:42:37
Bartering and Taxes
While catching up on old news, I heard a story about bartering on the Marketplace Money podcast. It’s called a Time Bank ... Dollars for services you want from another person. It’s an indirect bartering system because direct ... . The 37-year-old actress and writer from Studio City holds down sporadic film and television gigs to cover [suite...]
Date: 2009-03-12 13:45:59
[PR] BANG ZOOM! ENTERTAINMENT PRODUCES SPECIAL STREET FIGHTER EPISODE OF “MANGA MINUTES”
New Episode Coincides With Debut Of Capcom’s Street Fighter IV Video Game And Spotlights Related Manga And Anime On Popular Manga.com Web Site Burbank, Calif. and New York, NY , March 16, 2009 – Bang Zoom! Entertainment, a leading full-service audio post production company and producer of original entertainment content, [suite...]
Date: 2009-03-16 21:12:23
Promotional Products - Advertising on Steroids
promotional products are useful personalized items that are given away to promote a business product or service ... that of television or radio, at a fraction of the cost. Here are some of the uses and benefits ... products have been shown to increase response to direct mail campaigns by up to 75%. According [suite...]
Date: 2009-03-14 17:26:00
MadTV S14E12 HDTV XviD-iHT
This article has been published at RLSLOG.net - visit our site for full content ... Award-winning American sketch comedy television series based on the humor magazine, “Mad” ... of its comedy parodies popular television shows, movies, music, and covers topical political and pop [suite...]
Date: 2009-03-15 05:43:45
Seth Meyers: US SNL Government Propagandist
Pop Goes the Culture: Live from New York ... It's the Same Old PropagandaBy Lord Baltimore / March 15, 2009Studio 8H in New York City's Rockefeller Center is not only the two-floor sound stage from which Saturday Night Live airs, but has also long been one of the most important stages for mainstream American political satire and comedic commentary [suite...]
Date: 2009-03-17 02:35:00
What is PocketDISH?
PocketDish by Dish Network is an ingenious video, music, game and photo device that’s compact enough to fit into a pocket or purse ... was created by Dish Network, the fastest-growing U.S. satellite-television service, and the first pay ... on the screen will direct you through the transfer of content stored on your DVR. With the receiver [suite...]
Date: 2009-03-16 02:19:13
Recession Gives Merlot a Chance to Shine
Dear Client: Several years ago the “Sideways effect” on Merlot sales was one of the major issues in the wine business, but an article in WSJ contends the varietal is making a “Rocky”-like comeback. Could the recession prompt a comeback for the wine industry’s prodigal son? [suite...]
Date: 2009-03-17 00:14:00
Headlines: Shoe-Throwing Journalist Sentenced to 3 Years; Bush Admin. Ran Executive Assassination Ring
Headlines from DemocracyNow.org , a daily TV/radio news program, hosted by Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, airing on over 650 stations, ... has been sentenced to three years in prison. A reporter for Al-Baghdadiya television, Muntazer al-Zaidi drew ... with the Cairo-based Baghdadiya TV. Another television reporter was also critically injured. Pakistan [suite...]
Date: 2009-03-12 15:23:00
Marketing video games
I thought it was about time just to helicopter a bit and look at some of the principles of marketing video games. An overall view of this art/science. The first thing to understand is that with zero marketing a game will achieve precisely zero sales, no matter how good it is. Once you have told someone about a game you have started marketing it [suite...]
Date: 2009-03-16 10:02:02
UK Ad Spend Plunges 9.6% in Q4, 3.9% for 2008
UK ad spending fell 9.6% overall in Q408, with the newspaper industry - which posted a 12% drop for the quarter - hardest hit, according to (pdf) ... with 23% and the internet with 20%. Direct mail accounted for 12% of total ad spend, followed ... , Financial, Europe, Radio, Print, Interactive, Outdoor, Television Mar 17-09 [suite...]
Date: 2009-03-17 14:31:23
Give Me Strength
It never rains, but it pours. I could chart a course back through my entire working career and find countless examples of how new projects always come in groups, and land on my doorstep at the exact same time. Paradoxically, going into this week, it appeared that things were going to be anything but busy. My direct manager is on vacation [suite...]
Date: 2009-03-16 15:52:21
Manmohan Shetty Is Part Of Marvel Entertainment’s International Advisory Board
M ARVEL ENTERTAINMENT INC. , a global character-based entertainment and licensing company, has announced the formation of an International Advisory Board comprising business leaders from key international growth markets. The new Advisory Board will work with Marvel executives to explore opportunities for expanding the penetration of the Marvel [suite...]
Date: 2009-03-17 01:00:28
MIND MELD: What Makes a Successful SciFi/Fantasy Book Adaptation? Why Do Some Fail?
Books and visual media (TV/film) are different, so telling the same story in each must inherently be different. But some TV/Film adaptations of sf/f books succeed better than others. Q: What makes a successful sf/f book adaptation? Why do adaptations sometimes fail? Read on to see a variety of viewpoints...and be sure to tell us your opinion! [suite...]
Date: 2008-09-17 06:05:55
Arts Journalism, Say Arts Journalists, Isn't Dying -- It's a Poltergeist
This post is cross-posted at the new Clyde Fitch Report , which is in beta. Do check it out and send comments. Tom Jacobs, who wrote for me at Back Stage until a combination of things -- mostly the ill-advised elimination of a freelance budget -- made that an impossibility, has a fascinating story up on Miller-McCune [suite...]
Date: 2009-03-17 18:47:00
Pimp My Burger - Burger King’s New Whopper Bar
Filed under: Restaurants , Business , Beef , America , Comfort Food , Sandwiches On Tuesday, ... television show Pimp My Ride , Whopper Bars will enable customers to personalize a mass-produced product ... restaurant, customers will be able to watch their sandwiches being prepared and direct employees [suite...]
Date: 2009-03-15 13:35:00
Posts about DVD as of March 17, 2009
Download Videos in Our Game Consoles - kangamini.us 03/18/2009 How to find ourselves in place to keep us entertained in spite of being alone ... Internet, flat screen HDTV, cable television and DVD plus Corey Feldman officially back for Lost ... but, definitely not great sequel to Lost Boys comes another direct to dvd sequel. However [suite...]
Date: 2009-03-18 02:10:05
LINKS IN THE CHAIN
Granted, this seems like a pretty lazy post: links to other, far more interesting sites ... television fanatic might expect ( Dark Shadows, Newhart, even Charles In Charge ), but some nice ... Dante didn't actually direct that particular film, his explanation of how he assembled the trailer [suite...]
Date: 2009-03-17 13:40:00
Pfizer Sued by AIDS Treatment Group for Selling Sex
A major AIDS treatment group in the United States is planning to sue the pharmaceutical giant for illegally promoting the use of its impotence pill ... has encouraged men to engage in risky behavior, and has had a direct impact on the increase in HIV [suite...]
Date: 2009-03-17 17:47:32
Gates of Vienna News Feed 2/2/2009
Gates of Vienna Look for more articles tonight on wildcat strikes in Europe, especially in the UK over the issue of the importation of foreign labor. According to EU law, member states cannot discriminate against job applicants based on nationality, nor favor citizens of their own nations [suite...]
Date: 2009-02-02 15:09:56
A Marketing Plan for Restaurant Development
by Jose L Riesco A marketing plan for restaurant effectiveness is key for attracting new customers to your restaurant and for retaining repeat ... can be a combination of direct mail, promotions, community activities, and radio, television and print [suite...]
Date: 2009-03-14 07:59:15
A Marketing Plan for Restaurant Success
by Jose L Riesco A marketing plan for restaurant effectiveness is key for attracting new customers to your restaurant and for retaining repeat ... can be a combination of direct mail, promotions, community activities, and radio, television and print [suite...]
Date: 2009-03-15 10:40:07
Sur La Table Hamstring Chair, Manhattan I moved to San Francisco at the height of the Dot Com stock overload hysteria. In m
Sur La Table Hamstring Chair, Manhattan I moved to San Francisco at the height of the Dot Com stock overload hysteria ... with a television station run by an internet company. At first they paid me to be a gopher production ... me to light the shows and operate a camera. Then they paid me to operate a camera and floor direct [suite...]
Date: 2009-03-17 15:46:00
RateNerd has all the latest financial deals
RateNerd , a site I helped develop, is launching. A blog, RateNerd finds the best CD rates, mortgage rates and bank deals every day ... : Simple bookkeeping and accounting. Exclusive screenshots! Direct response television (DRTV ... Consolidation Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) Daily Deal! 2.25% APY from HSBC Direct, 1.85% APY [suite...]
Date: 2009-03-16 16:00:26
Diamonds in the Shadow by Caroline B. Cooney
Tour Date: March 17th When the tour date arrives, copy and paste the HTML Provided in the box. Don't forget to add your honest review if you wish! PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT ON THIS POST WHEN THE TOUR COMES AROUND! Grab the HTML for the entire post (will look like the post below): It is time for a FIRST Wild Card Tour book review! [suite...]
Date: 2009-03-15 04:01:00
Finally, A Social Injustice We Can All Condemn
Finally, A Social Injustice We Can All Condemn August 29th, 2008 at 12:41 pm by Gerard We occassionally have trouble generating sufficient publicity for some of our acts, so I can only sympathize with the plight of a P.R. maven enlisted to try and convince the Hartford Courant to interview her scalper client [suite...]
Date: 2008-08-29 16:47:03
d2h - Direct Hai, Correct Hai { Frequently Asked Questions }
Source: saveondish.com Frequently Asked Questions What is DTH service? The Direct-To-Home (DTH) service is a digital satellite service that provides television services direct to subscribers ... to the subscriber's television direct from the satellite, eliminating the need for cables and any cable [suite...]
Date: 2009-03-15 21:17:30
Educating Immigrants: Voices of Experience
Starting this weekend, The Times will publish a series of articles on the impact that the latest wave of immigrants is having on American institutions. Education is the first theme, and in a previous Room for Debate discussion, experts shared their insights into what works best in teaching children who do not speak English [suite...]
Date: 2009-03-12 00:39:36
Consideration On Low Interest Debt Consolidation & Debt Consolidation Counseling
You may have seen the following ads or something similar : Separated? Divorced? Bankrupt? Widowed? Bad Credit? No Credit? ... action against companies that deceptively advertise Visa and MasterCard through television ... cards, or direct you to call another “900″ number at an additional charge to get more information [suite...]
Date: 2009-03-15 18:07:11
Human Rights Report on Afghanistan (2009)
This report is submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council decision 2/113 of 27 November 2006 and has been prepared in cooperation with the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA). Since the last report by the High Commissioner, Afghans have continued to suffer significant rights deficits that pose serious challenges to the [suite...]
Date: 2009-03-13 17:02:53
Boost Your Marketing Efforts with Testimonials
Testimonials go a long way in creating a lasting impression on prospective clients ... is especially pleased with your work or has achieved a financial milestone as a direct result of your efforts [suite...]
Date: 2009-03-17 08:00:56
Diagonale 2009. Graz - Different venues - fino al 22/3/09
Cai Guo-Qiang. Bilbao - Guggenheim Museum - fino al 1/9/09 Cai Guo-Qiang I Want To BelieveCurators: Alexandra Munroe and Thomas Krens From March 17 to September 6, 2009, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want To Believe, an exhibition sponsored by BBVA that presents the full spectrum of the artist's multimedia art in all [suite...]
Date: 2009-03-17 11:55:15
Welcoming New Customers by Opening Doors
Prospecting for new purchasers can be both bodily tiring and costly ... . If mass newspapers passages for example television or wireless are out of the inquiry because ... of a promotional merchandise to a direct posted letters sales note can boost the answer rate by as much as 50 [suite...]
Date: 2009-03-17 20:51:48
The Tent City & The Parkway
The entire incident of the tent city that has been allowed to form on open land adjacent to the American River Parkway—which in terms of preserving ... , considering the direct and destructive environmental impact it was having on the Parkway. It is crucial ... the world, newspaper readers and television viewers are being introduced to the sprawling [suite...]
Date: 2009-03-14 17:21:00
Digital's Knowledge Centre - Articles
Digital Insight Report | by Danny Meadows-KlueAs part of the digital publishing strategy programme, we share our views on the challenges digital newspapers face today and the solutions they urgently need to adopt. Written in 2009, these include ideas we developed and coached newspapers on during the previous decade [suite...]
Date: 2009-03-16 17:11:19
‘Tuesdays with Morrie’ production marvelous
Published in The News Tribune, March 13, 2009 Tim Goebel, standing, plays Mitch Albom, and Tim Hoban plays Morrie Schwartz in “Tuesdays with Morrie ... their conversations, and the tapes became the basis for the book by Albom, which became a made-for-television ... with his father to direct Hoban in portraying a man with ALS, but I do know that Hoban is [suite...]
Date: 2009-03-13 16:29:00
Linking the Internet and the SuperNet Will Reshape Rural Alberta
The wonderful world of technology to evolving and revolving – all at the same time and changing the way we live and work and relax! ... . Television no longer has the dominant grasp of our eyeballs because we are using more on-line viewing of programs. We now have a box of technology that will provide free internet based television [suite...]
Date: 2009-03-10 23:19:00
Using a Website to Market Your Craft Business
by Ethan O. Tanner There are a lot of diverse ways to promote your business on the web ... over the direct competition. Consumers who use the Internet to look for for products and services [suite...]
Date: 2009-03-15 22:04:31
Politics and new media, or “Should I really tweetspam Congress?”
I lectured in my friend Jonathan Zittrain’s class at Harvard Law about ten days ago ... and Madagascar… and then I was blown off the stage by Mele’s short, sweet and direct speech. Mele explained ... director, a pollster and someone who produces your television commercials. The internet, he argues [suite...]
Date: 2009-03-11 22:30:33
AMG review round-up, volume X: smalltown vacation edition, a.k.a. balearic ballywho?
i spent a good portion of last year continuing to track down various strains of so-called "cosmic disco" (some of which is documented in this installment ), along with the related electronic sub-genre of balearic, a hazy but buzzy style which is on the mellower, less actually-danceable end of the same continuum [suite...]
Date: 2009-03-14 17:24:00
Raycom Sports: The Best In The Business
I am in Tampa, FL working for a company called Raycom Sports. They have been producing sports events for the SEC & ACC for over 25 years now ... ) and all of the people that they hire to direct, produce, run camera, do videotape and so on and so forth ... . And this is a quality that is severly lacking in the television world today. Dave & Roger [suite...]
Date: 2009-03-13 13:59:45
Lindsay Long Meets Catherine Hardwicke – Report from SXSW 2009
Lindsay Long has graciously volunteered to be a Film Gecko field reporter at SXSW 2009 , currently the happenin’ place to be in Austin, Texas. That’s Lindsay pictured with "Twilight" director Catherine Hardwicke . More on that later! Lindsay attended two panels on Saturday [suite...]
Date: 2009-03-16 09:19:23
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