Saturday, 10 April 2010
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Friday, 9 April 2010
Blogging For Business Success
London, England
About 80 years ago, the late great Henry Ford famously remarked to a colleague that he knew that 50% of his advertising budget worked. Which 50% he didn't know! I don't suppose things have changed that much in the intervening years. What I can tell you is that social media as a marketing tool, up to a point, does work.
Earlier today, I received a call from someone who had seen my new showreel and wants me to host an event later this year. I think the key here is patience!
Jeremy Jacobs Latest Blog Post 4.9.2010
Emotional Intelligence
London, England
Last year at a business networking breakfast I met Stacy Senchal. Stacy is a well-known remedial therapist in the north-west London area. Just recently she's started a new business and website which concentrates on personal development and emotional intelligence. It's called Learn Bright Group. Her new organisation offers courses, workshops and one-to-one assessments.
Happy BDay RAF!
So awesome was this 'sickelschnitt' plan that France freaked and screamed "God! Please! Stop!" and totally surrendered in like 6 weeks. This was unheard of - wars tended to last a lot longer and this panzer und stuka unbeatable combat plan was given the name 'Blitzkrieg' - Teutonic for 'lightning war'.
Hard on the heels of dissing the French in another war, das Deutsches Reich prepped for taking the blitz cross channel to hit Great Britain with a D Day style invasion called 'Operation Sealion"
First bit of Sealion was to drive the British Air Force out of the air, achieve and maintain air superiority then hit the beach and hang and party in London. Easy! Great Britain's army was really hurt - many were captured in France and those who were rescued off the beaches at Dunkirk had to leave all their heavy weaponry behind.
Great Britain's mighty fleet would suffer horribly in an Armada redux at the hands of the wicked Luftwaffe if she attempted (and everyone knew she would) to stop an invasion with no air cover.
It was awful scary looking. Sir Winnie himself pointed out the war was just starting and everything depended on it.
".......the Battle of France is over. The Battle of Britain is about to begin,
upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilization, upon it depends our own British life and the long continuity of our institution and our Empire."
In the summer of 1940, 2,936 pilots took part in an historic battle against the German Luftwaffe that was to become the only battle to be fought entirely in the air (Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan in 2001 was a very close 2nd), this battle has become known as; the Battle of Britain.
And it hasn't. Even today, the spiritual sons of the Few fly and fight in the dark scary places of the world and they carry the torch of Freedom and Liberty. From aerodromes in France nearly a century ago to Basra today, the RAF is the harbinger of hope, free will and the future.These brave pilots came from all walks of life, many were trained and
experienced, but most had come from civilian duties to become fighter pilots with RAF Fighter Command. During that battle which lasted almost four months, 544 of them would lose their lives, many of them killed in action, while others were never to be heard of again, and officially listed as missing in action.The Battle of Britain was a prelude to the German invasion of Great Britain which after just four months had to be abandoned because of the dedication, courage and tenacity of those 2,936 pilots, who, against a formidable and experienced foe and against all odds, fought only for success.
The great victory that they fought for MUST NEVER BE FORGOTTEN
"The gratitude of every home in our Island, in our Empire, and indeed throughout the world, except in the abodes of the guilty, goes out to the British airmen who, undaunted by odds, unwearied in their constant challenge and mortal danger, are turning the tide of the world war by their prowess and by their devotion.
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."
Happy 92th BDay Royal Air Force!
From your crazy cousins across the Pond.
(Love the Bikini!)
Logo by FunkPopArt
Ol' Dirt Farmer
Poor Old Dirt Farmer Music Video
"You don’t negotiate with the weather or with the seasons. You can’t put off what needs doing right now in hope that you will get it done tomorrow as tomorrow comes and tomorrow is an unforgiving son of a bitch that has other plans for you. It is not a life for the soft handed or those that are too self centered or mindful of their own comfort. Rest assured our self appointed betters who occupy the federal square would have none of this for themselves. They live in a land divorced from reality. I have spent a good deal of time amongst these vermin. I have briefed them, I have carried out their orders, and I have met with them in public and in private and have always been disgusted and fascinated by their ineptness and their thorough lack of understanding of how things work where the rubber meets the road." Virgil
Johnny Cash, Redemption Day
The military pilot called for a priority landing because his single-engine jet fighter was running "a bit peaked."
Air Traffic Control told the fighter jock that he was number two, behind a B-52 that had one engine shut down.
"Ah," the fighter pilot remarked, "The dreaded seven-engine approach."
H/T DML
Texan Translated
If chicken were selling for a penny a pound I couldn't kiss a hummingbird's ass.
I'm broke.
Took top and got nut deep.
Describes a quick sexual conquest.
Ate a plate of crazy.
An explanation for bizarre behavior.
The only things in the middle of the road are yellow lines and dead armadillos.
Take a side.
I wouldn't know anymore than a big-eyed clap doctor.
I am clueless.
I'd rather french kiss a rattlesnake.
I would greatly prefer not to.
Deal the five of clubs.
Strike with the fist.
Dick fingered
Lacking in manual dexterity
H/T Jesse
News........
Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, April 8th
GM's Iconic Military Offroad Vehicle Becomes History
Cows absolved of causing global warming with nitrous oxide
ANC challenges 'shoot the boer' ban
Woman Mutilates Rapist’s Reproductive Organ
Swingers go on trial as China cracks down on sex parties
Exposing the WikiLeaks/Communist/Media Alliance
Benjamin Netanyahu snubs US nuclear conference
Petrol prices hit record high
BBC reporter ejected from ANC news conference
Bankers' return sends house prices soaring
Woman killed in freak go-kart accident with hijab
and South African news from Loneblade
ANC 'wasted R1bn on bling'
Amnesty confuses gun owners
[VIDEO] Malema screams at journalist
and finally.......
Breast expansion is the weird video trend you haven’t heard of
NCIS: A speculatory event
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Social Anthropology Explained
London, England
Mary-Ann Craig explains all near London's St. Pancras railway (railroad) station:
Mary-Ann is another one of my captures for Movin' Up series of video clips. They can be seen at my You Tube channel
Mary-Ann's website
Thursday, 8 April 2010
IDF Paratrooper Brigade
More at DoubleTapper
Aussie Nick Adams on Anglosphere @ Bow Group
Nick Adams addresses the oldest centre-right think tank in Britain, the Bow Group, on the political ideology of the "Anglosphere" and outlines the virtues of such a concept. The speech took place in Portcullis House, The Palace of Westminster, London, England.
News.........
HERE'S a sneak preview of the Royal Navy's biggest ever warship
Obama is right to keep America's nuclear weapons trained on Iran
Terror alert as Qatari passenger lights up on US plane
Kyrgyzstan riots: opposition protesters seize power
Plastic gondola plan provokes anger in Venice
Army builds 'mosques' on North Yorkshire firing range
The ends of the political spectrum......
If a conservative doesn't like guns, he doesn't buy one.
If a liberal doesn't like guns, he wants all guns outlawed.
If a conservative is a vegetarian , he doesn't` eat meat.
If a liberal is a vegetarian, he wants all meat products banned for
If a conservative is homosexual, he quietly leads his life.
If a liberal is homosexual, he demands legislated respect.
If a conservative is down-and-out, he thinks about how to better his
situation.
A liberal wonders who is going to take care of him.
If a conservative doesn't like a talk show host, he switches channels.
Liberals demand that those they don't like be shut down.
If a conservative is a non-believer, he doesn't go to church.
A liberal non-believer wants any mention of God and religion silenced.
(Unless it's a foreign religion, of course!)
If a conservative decides he needs health care, he goes about shopping
for it, or may choose a job that provides it.
A liberal demands that the rest of us pay for his.
If a conservative reads this, he'll forward it so his friends can have
a good laugh.
A liberal will delete it because he's "offended".
H/T Agis
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Wednesday, 7 April 2010
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