Rules:
Grab a book, any book.
Turn to page 56.
Find any sentence,
(or few, just don't spoil it) that grabs you.
Post it.
Friday, January 24, 2014
Wednesday, January 22, 2014
You have a business, and whether it is
shiny and new, well-established, or somewhere in between, you
recognize the importance of making the business known. While there
are a variety of ways you can accomplish this, one way you should
definitely not overlook is search page advertising. When you are
looking for a plumber or a nearby burger joint, you most likely do
not pull out an atlas. Instead, you go to your computer or pull out
your smartphone and consult a search engine like Google or Bing, and
you should not expect anything less from your customers. Recognizing
this fact is the easy part; making sure that your company’s name
shows up high on the search results is where it can get slightly more
complicated. To begin with, have you ever heard of the terms PPC or
SEO?
Pay-Per-Click
Both PPC and SEO are Internet marketing
terms, and both work to gain increased traffic to your website. How
they achieve this task is where they differ. The first, PPC, or
pay-per-click, can also be referred to as paid search marketing,
cost-per-click (CPC), or search engine marketing (SEM). When it comes
to the search results, PPC deals with the sponsored links section of
the search engine. When a customer types a keyword phrase into the
search bar that is related to your business, services, products, or
industry, your ad will appear as a result. Each time a person chooses
to click on your ad, you pay the search engine a small fee. Before
your ad can appear in the sponsored link section, however, you must
create an account that will allow you to bid upon a space for certain
keywords against other similar businesses. Generally, this type of
marketing is quick and easy to set up and tends to attract more
customers who are ready to buy than those in the organic search
results. But organic search results should not be shrugged off
either.
Tuesday, January 21, 2014
Our Favorite Animal Couples in Film and TV History
Don’t be a turkey!
Check out Free Birds on DVD and Blu-ray February 4th
To help you get into the mood for romance this Valentine’s Day, we’ve compiled a list of the top animated animal couples in film and TV history!
Mickey and Minnie Mouse
Regarded as the “Brad and Angelina” of animated animal couples, Mickey and Minnie have been together since 1928, when they first appeared in the animated short film “Steamboat Willie.” This power couple has managed to survive the ups and downs that come with such a long relationship - including the shift to color, and the invention of computer animation.
Donkey and Dragon
Starring: Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick York, Agnes Moorehead
Studio: Mill Creek Entertainment
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Retail: $14.98
ASIN: B00GOC74RU
Running Time: 1860 minutes
Rating: Not Rated
Review:
It’s hard to believe that the classic television series Bewitched will turn fifty-years-old this fall. Though the series ended in 1972, Samantha Stephens has continued to live on through syndication reruns. Sony Home Entertainment released the series on DVD sets, but most are out-of-print. Luckily, Mill Creek Entertainment struck a deal to distribute Sony Home Entertainment titles to DVD, which one of those titles is Bewitched.
Today, January 21, 2014, the first two seasons of Bewitched were released on DVD, as well as a two season combo pack, which happens to be the one that was sent to me for this review. All 74 episodes from seasons one and two are presented in their original classic black & white presentation, totaling an approx. runtime of 31 hours of bedazzling entertainment for the entire family.
I grew up watching the reruns when I was kid during the late 80s and early 90s, but for some odd reason I can't remember a plot from one single episode, not unless you count the so-so 2005 big-screen version starring Will Ferrell and Nicole Kidman, which I'm afraid to admit I have seen the movie several times. That being said, I was eagerly looking forward to watching a few episodes of the series again.
Like I said, I don't remember the actually plots, but I also don't recall how the series started, where Darrin Stephens (played by Dick York) bumps into Samantha (played by Elizabeth Montgomery). The two quickly tie the knot and then on the wedding night, Darrin learns Samantha is a witch. They don't move into famous Stephens' house until the second episode "Be It Ever So Mortgaged." Darren doesn't meet his mother-in-law, Endora (played by Agnes Moorehead) until the fourth episode titled "Mother Meet What's His Name," though she had been pestering Samantha in the previous episodes for marring a mortal.
The episodes on the six-disc set are:
Monday, January 20, 2014
Studio: Nickelodeon
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Retail: $14.98
ASIN: B00FWJM7TQ
Running Time: 192 minutes
Rating: Not Rated
Review:
Last week, Nickelodeon released SpongeBob and Friends: Patrick SquarePants on DVD containing 14 episodes, all featuring SpongeBob and his buddy Patrick.
SpongeBob SquarePants is currently in its 9th season with a 10th season planned to hit the airwaves later this year. The award winning series has become one of Nickelodeon’s most popular animation shows with both kids and adults alike.
This DVD release features the best buddy episodes of SpongeBob and Patrick throughout the series' first nine seasons. You'll have plenty of fun watching the two best buddies celebrate Best Friend's Day and Starfish Day. There is plenty of adventure when SpongeBob and Patrick get zapped into a medieval version of Bikini Bottom.
The 14 episodes on the single-disc are:
Sunday, January 19, 2014
The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency
By Alexander McCall Smith
Pub. Date: 1998
ISBN: 978-1400034772
Pages: 235
Genre: Mystery
Source: public library sales
Goodreads
Reading Challenge
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By Alexander McCall Smith
Pub. Date: 1998
ISBN: 978-1400034772
Pages: 235
Genre: Mystery
Source: public library sales
Goodreads
Reading Challenge
Buy Link
Review:
Let’s stir things a
bit here.
I enjoy good
vibrant, suspenseful mysteries. As I had not yet read any by the famous
Alexander McCall Smith, and felt a bit ashamed about it, I decided to remedy
the situation a few months ago, and finally set to read this popular book.
Mma Ramotswe is the
only lady private detective in Botswana. She set up her agency with money from
her dad’s big cattle sale, when he died. After telling us about her dad and her
own education, the author invites us to follow the detective in cases for her
first clients. Actually, she always feels she shouldn’t agree on helping with
some cases, but ends up doing it anyway, wanting to help desperate clients.
I got quite of a
shock, seeing how boring the book was !
Saturday, January 18, 2014
Among learners, essay writing skill is considered as the most adequate
skill since it tremendously helps them to improve their knowledge and
their language fluency. Basically the essay writing is the factor of
implementing a person's idea and thought into a written format. In
order to achieve good essay the student should posse’s in-depth
language and thinking ability. On understanding its necessarily the
education curriculum built its syllabus in the way of improving the
student essay writing strategies. As the part, at each level of the
learning the student should submit their essay according to the
teachers granted topics. Unlike other boring learning strategies, the
essay writing is quite interesting phenomena to the students. The
most vibrating feature of the essay writing skill is that one can
write any kind of essay no matter whether it is philosophy,
sociology, civic and so on depending on their personal desire or
requirement. Since the common essay never follows any consecutive
structure, this advantageous feature makes the student to eagerly
taking part in the essay writing process. By the way if the student
has the habit of the essay writing strategies, such tremendous health
practices help them to acquire to grammar free content, innovative
thinking ability, and so on. In addition to these, this adequate
skill is not only help the student to improve their language fluency
whereas it also greatly helps the student obtain high grade in their
academic part. In that order the instructor is providing essay
assignment to the student which covers various topics including
technologies.
