SINKHOLES ALL AROUND THE GLOBE 2012
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Tag Archive: 2012
AFV Part 135 (NEW!) America’s Funniest Home Videos 2012 (Funny Clips Fail Montage Compilation)
Has China Built A Stargate?
Vertical Skydiving World Record 2012
National Geographic Photo Contest 2012
” See the three winning images, along with the viewers’ choices and honorable mentions. The grand-prize winner receives $10,000 and a trip to National Geographic headquarters to participate in an annual photography seminar.”
” Honorable Mention
Stilt fishing is a typical fishing technique only seen in Sri Lanka. The fishermen sit on a cross bar called a petta tied to a vertical pole planted into the coral reef. This long exposure shot shows how unstable their position is.”
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Report: 532 Murdered In Chicago In 2012
” The website also claims that, through December 25, 2012, there 2,670 people were shot in Chicago last year. That’s also an increase from the year before, when 2,217 people were shot in Chicago that year.
In all, it means that on average almost 1.5 people were murdered in Chicago each day last year, while on average 7.3 people were shot each day.
Official numbers from the city of Chicago appear to be a tad bit lower, however. “
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A Shameful Roundup Of The Year’s Most Humiliating Marketing Blunders
” Judging by the traffic trends on this blog, it seems the only thing more enjoyable than a brilliant, uplifting, inspirational marketing success is a horrible, embarrassing, cringe-worthy marketing blunder—otherwise known as the big brand fail. Every year there’s plenty of them—the accidental tweet, the offensive billboard, the Photoshop disaster, the just-plain-tasteless ad. At the link below, we’ve compiled 20 of the most notable brand fails from 2012—a nice dose of ad-enfreude to fill your evil rubbernecking hearts with joy. Just be glad it wasn’t you. And try to learn a lesson from the Harvey Nichols model above and refrain from pissing yourself with laughter. It’s not a good look. “
Gallery: The 20 Biggest Brand Fails of 2012
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Victoria’s Secret Stills And Video
Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show 2012: All About Alessandra Ambrosio’s Floral Fantasy Bra (VIDEO)
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Will 2013 be 1937?
” In this case, “1937” means a market drop similar to the one after the re-election of another Democratic president, Franklin D. Roosevelt, in 1936.
The drop wasn’t immediate in that case; it came in the first full year after the election. Industrial production plummeted by 34.5%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped by half, from almost 200 in early 1937 to less than 100 at the end of March 1938.
It’s hard to imagine stock indexes dropping by half today, or unemployment rising past 15%, as they did in the “depression within the Depression.” But the parallels are visible enough to be worth tracing. “
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Something For Sullen Among Us …
Everybody Gets A Turn In The Wilderness
It’s Terrible. It’s Never Happened Before.
” A President despised by one party has won an election despite having the economy against him and a deteriorating situation in a country he invaded, and, despite growing whispers that he’s simply not up to the job, he wins narrowly in a victory fueled by highly-motivated occasional voters who marched out to support him.
The candidate beaten by this weak, lame-duck president had good qualifications on the key issue of the election. Sure, that candidate lacked charisma and warmth, and was a wealthy New Englander viewed skeptically by much of the country, but he did have a background which gave him inarguable authority to speak on the most important issue of the day.”
Read the whole thing , as they say , and be of good cheer . The tide will turn .
Here is a preliminary list of winners and losers from the election:
” Some winners Barack Obama. Congratulations to him and his team for another brilliant campaign. Nate Silver. I often come away from his columns thinking I’ve learned something. Apparently, there is more for me to learn. The MSM. To advance its pro-Obama agenda, the media kept the lid on Benghazigate when it counted. And one of its stalwarts, Candy Crowley, actively and deceitfully intervened on Obama’s behalf during his debate with Romney on the subject.” Illustration by Eric Allies
