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American Girl - Not Frugal At All (Or What's A Smile Worth) Last weekend we went to the American Girl store in Manhattan to buy my daughter a doll. Have you heard of this place? It's a doll store that specializes in making the doll purchase a full experience for your child. Among the doll choices you have is their Just Like...- Review: Charity Girl by Georgette Heyer Charity Girl by Georgette Heyer is one scrumptious romp of trouble after the next. It all begins when Miss Charity Steane was found wandering the hillside, luggage in one hand and very sore feet. She is picked up by Viscount Ashley Desford and whisked away in his curricle as blasé...
- Where do They Stand on the Issues? Many of you out there may be confused about where Bush and Kerry stand on certain issues, and with the Presidential election less than 100 days away, it would be nice to have it explained to you. Now you can watch the DNC and RNC on television and listen to...
- BUD - An American Company No More! What would 1 Share Purchased 24 Years ago of Anheuser-Busch be Worth When it Was Finally Sold Yesterday While it has been in the news recently, it became official yesterday, Anheuser-Busch is no longer an American Company. That's right, your favorite domestic beer company is now owned by beer GIANT InBev - you can find some full articles HERE, HERE and HERE. Never heard of InBev?  Guess Again - from...
- I get emails Who said working in publishing would be unrewarding? ------------------------------------- Subject: Immediate Release: Girls Gone Wild Heads Overseas Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:35:39 -0400 From: Barry Roesler To: oliver@alliancemagazine.org Hello Oliver, I thought you may find this interesting. If you would like to follow-up with Joe Francis or Scott Barbour,...
- Should You Do Business With Unethical Companies? Maybe I've had some sort of "Come to Jesus" moment, but this recession thing has really opened my eyes to companies with poor business ethics. Whether it be carelessness, blissful ignorance or a seemingly infinite supply of tolerance, we consumers seem to take our hard knocks from shady companies in...
- Invisible Girl, by Tess Hudson Because I enjoyed Tess Hudson's Double Down so well, I wanted to read this one. If you remember, Double Down was a romance about a young woman overcoming her addiction to gambling. There were some darker images in it involving uncovering a mystery about drugging a football player (her...
Review: Years by LaVyrle Spencer I recently was able to reacquaint myself with an old friend... Years by LaVyrle Spencer. I find Spencer's writing to be so thoroughly engrossing that even after finishing a novel, the story of the leads cling to you. In this particular novel, set near the end of WWI in...- Is An American VAT Tax In The Works? Many tax experts think a European-style Value Added Tax (VAT) will inevitably find its way to American shores in the near future. Created in 1954 by a French economist, the VAT is by far the most efficient way to raise money for the government from a revenue perspective, according to...
"Pride and Prejudice" Meets Facebook I am obsessed with Jane Austen. Love love love her books. Jane Austen is the mother of all chick lit, and Pride and Prejudice is the best book ever written, IMHO. Not only is it a great, great read, but I believe that all men can be classified as either...
- How Rude! Something most guidebooks to Southeast Asian destinations don't mention is rudeness. While many countries in Southeast Asia rely heavily on tourism, sometimes their ideas of what's polite and what's not is at odds with many Western ideas. Some are even at odds with common sense This occurred to me as...
- The power of suggestion No one seems to have a clear answer on just how many advertisements the average American is exposed to, but numbers range from a very conservative 300-something to about 3000. Per day. Personally, I'd lean toward the higher number. I've only been awake for a little over an hour, and...
- Incredible Presentation by Dean Hunt... I have a new all-time favorite webinar. I've hosted some incredible people over the years on teleconferences and webinars. I can't begin to calculate the value of them all together for the information and tactics shared by some of the best in the business. But yesterday I recorded a webinar...
- Saving money just by asking Most people have a very difficult time asking for a discount. For some reason here in the US we feel like we have to pay full price for everything. In a lot of foreign countries asking for a discount, or haggling, is not only welcomed, it is often expected, and...
- The window replacement story Our house was built in the late 70's. Part of its 70's-fabulous look included a pair of windows that weren't even glass. (They were made from two thin sheets of decorative plastic.) But even the windows that were glass had issues: They were practically falling out of their ugly aluminum...
Corporate Blogging Made Easy One of the best ways for a company to reach out to their customers and build a strong brand is corporate blogging. However, there are a lot of misconceptions out there and a lot of room for error. Let’s take a look at some techniques that you can use to...
Piss Off Louis Vuitton, Become a Celebrity Overnight, And Have Yourself Some Blog Success! Guest Post by Christopher Flores Most know me as a New York City joint venture guy or "that moderator on SMC" or "that college dude". More than being a spectacular person 90% of the time, I'm a scientist of people and cultures, an Anthropology student. In Cyberculture, my thing is...
New Issue of Personal Branding Magazine Personal Branding Magazine continues to grow its readership rapidly. People who've read it know why. Its a high-quality publication with some great writers on topics ranging from networking to personal development to getting more website traffic. The new issue, hitting the stands February 1st, includes articles from the following columnists:...- Bernanke: Recovery Will Be Slow. "A number of factors are likely to continue to weigh on consumer spending, among them the weak labor market, the declines in equity and housing wealth that households have experienced over the past two years, and still-tight credit conditions," Bernanke said. And that's not even taking into account the backwards...
- Need To Deepen Those Vocals? Do chicks truly dig deeper voices in men? Will a Barry White makeover put you on the map in ladiesland? The answer appears to be yes. So what precisely can you do to reinvent your oratory and deepen that voice? This is a subject that commonly recurs in the writings...
- The Ultimate Tea Diet By Mark Ukra and Sharon Kolberg While many diets come and go, new ones spring up to take their place each year. Some go by without much notice, while others are fervently adhered to, at least until the next one comes along. Fad diets have their place, and will undoubtedly last longer than most of us...
Wolf Mountain Ski Resort, Eden, UT Wolf Mountain Ski Resort is located in: Eden, UT Phone: (801) 745-3511 Website: http://www.wolfmountaineden.com/ About the Resort: This is a tiny resort by many standards, but they don't let their overall size keep them from offering one of the best skiing experiences in Utah. Sometimes smaller is better, and the...- Copying by using Ribbon commands Choosing Home?Clipboard?Copy transfers a copy of the selected cell or range to the Windows Clipboard and the Office Clipboard. After performing the copy part of this operation, select the cell that will hold the copy and choose Home?Clipboard?Paste. Rather than using Home?Clipboard?Paste, you can just activate the destination cell and...
- A Rising Tide Lifts All Websites I was watching the wind blowing the leaves around in my yard this morning and a thought percolated up out of the depths of my coffee-stimulated mind. "What have you done for the SEO on your website, lately?" No home run in Search Engine Optimization I have a number of articles...
- California Student Selling Her Virginity to Pay for College. I know times are tough, but I never thought I would ever hear of a young woman purposely selling her virginity to the highest bidder. Apparently, a 22 year old Sacramento State graduate going by the stage name of Natalie Dylan will place her virginity up for auction at the...
- linklings, July 20th, 2007 My usual roundup of some posts I read around the Interweb in the last week. Some good stuff out there in the pipes, people. My Two Dollars has a brief post titled ”The Layoff - How an emergency fund is going to help a member of my family” which...
- I’ve Lost A Fish! The fish only aquarium or reef aquarium has been stocked. The aquarium may be fairly newly set up, or may have been running for months or years. Sooner or later, a fish is going to disappear. How can I be so sure? Well, fish are living organisms and therefore have...
- Wal-Mart Selling Non-Organic Food As Organic? Oh say it isn't so Wal-Mart! Please prove to us all that you really are a decent, fun loving, environmentally friendly store! Seems that Wal-Mart might be in some deep trouble after the Cornucopia Institute discovered that they were placing "natural" produce in the organic section, and mislabeling non-organic food...
- Consider All Factors More Than Just Price To Compare Auto Insurance There are many ways to go about obtaining the prices of premiums from different insurers to begin a comparison. One can easily do so by contacting an agent or a broker. The difference between the two is that agents work for and therefore represent a company whereas a broker will...
creepy and hatboy - someone's killing pizza delivery drivers “i don’t see why they don’t deliver to us, anyway. we’re valued customers. they said so in the pamphlets they handed out last fortnight!”
“they did. send a few drivers, i mean. apparently one went missing last night, which was why we didn’t get our vegetarian with triple pineapple.”
“i wondered about that.”
