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They are activists of a new kind emerging as undeclared watchdogs. From America to Zambia, countries around the world are now under their scanner. Nations across the canvass — from developed to developing — go into a huddle when these soothsayers of the economy indulge in liberal advice of the unsolicited kind. Welcome to the world of credit raters. Not surprisingly, they have become active Opposition to 'governing leaders' — from Obama to Manmohan Singh.
India is the latest to feel the rating heat. Standard & Poor's (S&P) last week cut the country's sovereign credit rating outlook from stable to negative. And, it went on to warn India of rating downgrade if ills afflicting the economy weren't fixed sooner than later. In line with the lowering of sovereign rating outlook, it also downgraded the rating outlook to negative for many big Indian firms. The S&P action has set off a predictable chain of reactions. While some have reacted dismissively, others have pressed the panic button. C. Rangarajan, Chairman of the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council, is convinced that the S&P outlook is 'unwarranted'. Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has reacted a lot more cautiously.
"Situation may be difficult," he admits. But he is confident of coming out of it.
Even as S&P revised the outlook to 'negative', rival Moody's feels that "India is growing solidly but below potential." With competition all pervasive, even among rating agencies, it becomes that much difficult to view the true picture. Is India growing? Or is it slipping? The glass is half-full or half-empty, depending upon the viewer. While Moody's sees in Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) rate cut action positive signs, S&P reads negative signals from slowdown in reform measures!
Are these rating agencies testing their abilities a little too much? In 2008, we saw the collapse of big U.S. institutions with history, reputation and brand equity.
The needle of suspicion for the collapse then pointed to the rating agencies.
From pure rating outfits, many of these agencies had by then gone a long way and diversified to offer a host of allied services to their clients whose debt instruments they rated. Not surprisingly, questions were raised then about their ability to rate objectively.
The rating agencies themselves came under the scanner then. Since then, the world has changed a lot for them.
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Not everything could be looked at from a simplistic prism. In a vast democracy like India with very many federal governments, things will indeed progress slowly. Seeking consensus has its own perils and advantage.
Much of the reforms happened in the post-1990 period when New Delhi had a series of unstable governments. Somewhere along the line the country has lost its way. More than anything else, it betrays a sense of inability to practice what the corporate world now calls co-operative competition.
Political leadership across the spectrum seems to have failed to practice a consensus approach to even a commonly agreed agenda. India is still a growth story. And, it is up to the leadership to not to allow bad politics to spoil the economy of the nation.
As the debate generated by the rating agency's action heats up, many questions prop up. The rating agencies have become aggressive post-downgrading of U.S. rating.
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Political factions in Egypt have tentatively agreed to a deal to form a new constitutional assembly, an agreement which would end weeks of brinksmanship.
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Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, the head of the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), has asked the parliament to convene on Tuesday to select the actual members of the assembly.
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Under the terms of the agreement, 39 seats will be reserved for members of parliament. Those seats will be allocated roughly according to the make-up of parliament: The Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party, which controls nearly half of the parliament, will receive 16 seats; the Salafi Nour Party will receive seven; and so on.
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The deal came after a seven-hour meeting on Thursday between SCAF and representatives from more than 20 political factions.
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"This is where it all fell apart last time they tried to do this, back in April when there was a similar session," she said.
"The liberal and secular parties will want to make sure that the Muslim Brotherhood and Salafi parties don't try to dominate this process again. It's all really about a battle between the different forces in the country over who's going to have the most influence in the assembly and then have the most influence on the constitution."
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This will be my 3rd grow......
- My first was bought clones that I grew from there on. It wasn't a great grow due to a majority of reasons.....new to task, hot climate, not able to control temps etc. I grew 12 plants and came out with a horrible yield. Probably about 2 ounces dry.
- My second grow I grew white widow. started off with 24 plants but ended up with only about 18 at the end (I only grow females) as some of them turned hermie. This time I invested more $ and put in a portable AC to keep the temps down. The end product was better but I still only came out with around 7 ounces dry. One thing that I noticed is that the WW's grew really tall and thin as they reached for the growlights I am sure that it had something to do with it.
- I want to make this next grow a good one. I am going to use the SCROG method to keep the plants from growing too tall but I want to make sure I am growing a plant that works for what I am trying to do:
- I have a tall but narrow grow closet
- There are two levels with in the growroom with their own set of lights. This allows me to put in 24 plants but it also means that they cannot get too tall as I cannot adjust my grow lights to raise or lower them. However the way it is set up they get plenty of light and I use the best lights, nutes, and soil I can get my hands on.
I basically need a quality, high yielding strain that grows short and bushy. I plan on using SCROG using sheets of chicken wire to keep them from growing to reach the lights.
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Afghan? Thats what Im growing, actually germinating right now, but its short and bushy, high yield, thick stemmed, resilient to weather and is definitely quality.
Posted 19 January 2008 - 10:32 PM
i'm looking for the same thing. i found a keeper in arjans haze#3, a nice sativa dominant plant that only stretches by 2/3rds the starting veg height. if anyone else knows of plants with short stature please post! i'm somewhat dissapointed with my cheese and masterkush purchases because i found out they are both likely to stretch alot, but we will see!
Posted 24 January 2008 - 05:39 PM
greenhouse seed co.'s el nino looked pretty nice on the youtube videos. short, bushy, and quality. search for greenhouse seed co. on youtube to find out a lot about diff strains and follow their growths.
Posted 24 January 2008 - 07:41 PM
Hashberry and Speed Queen from Mandala both stay short and chunky. You aren't going to find more vigorous strains that are consistantly good like Mandala's stuff. The price is very right also.
I only grew one but Troublemaker (Hindu Kush x Master Kush or vice versa) from Dr Chronic was a nice one that stayed short. Had a very lemon smell most of the grow before turning into a more generic fruity odor late in flowering. Yield seemed to be decent and it was one of the more potent plants I grew.
Sensi Star is supposed to stay very short and be very potent but I haven't tried it first hand.
I only grew one but Troublemaker (Hindu Kush x Master Kush or vice versa) from Dr Chronic was a nice one that stayed short. Had a very lemon smell most of the grow before turning into a more generic fruity odor late in flowering. Yield seemed to be decent and it was one of the more potent plants I grew.
Sensi Star is supposed to stay very short and be very potent but I haven't tried it first hand.
Posted 28 January 2008 - 12:02 AM
You should try avoiding the Sativa strains, since they make less bud and more leaf, and they also grow 150% taller than they were during their vegetative peak. Indica will only stretch around 100 percent. So, if your growin an indica to 12 inches and decide to start flowering it, it'l grow to around 24 inches. Good luck!
Posted 28 January 2008 - 12:18 AM
Just an idea, if you have a narrow, yet tall space, why not let the grow tall and put lights on the sides so instead of doing scrog?
Anyone know if this will increase his yeilds??
Anyone know if this will increase his yeilds??
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True, he isn't a former Samsung employee, but an ex-employee of someone Samsung is invested in.
None of which matters terribly much, since the real issue is not disclosing a lawsuit he was a party in, when he was instructed to do so.
I don't know, it is hard to see how a trial taking place down the road from Apple's headquarters against a Korean company could be all that fair when the jury clearly have a vested in interest in protecting their local economy and the US economy in general. At the very least the retrial/appeal should be moved to a more neutral location.
worst case, this judgment is thrown out and there's another trial where apple wins even more money. sammy should stop while they're not too far behind!
You wish, Apple Fanboy/Fangirl!
Because most people on juries are blessedly free from the ravages of intelligence. I was on a personal injury jury once and could have convinced the jury to go either way, all in or nothing. It was frankly an awful feeling, especially since neither attorney asked the plaintiff the one crucial question, did you or did you not pull bales from the bottom of the stack?
Well, gosh, that would be true if it weren't simply false! Samsung most definitely has said they didn't know until after the trial. In the reply that lead to this decision [groklaw.net]: "The court held only that claims of misconduct 'must be supported by proof that the evidence of misconduct was not discovered until after the verdict was returned,' which is precisely what Samsung has shown here." (Emphasis mine.)
So first they had to figure out what evidence there was.
Nope. The jurors were all given opportunity to disclose any previous legal wranglings. Hogan chose to omit the Seagate one.
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Merle is a pattern in a dog's coat, though is commonly incorrectly referred to as a colour.[1] The merle gene creates mottled patches of color in a solid or piebald coat, blue or odd-colored eyes, and can affect skin pigment as well. Health issues are more typical and more severe when two merles are bred together, so it is recommended that a merle be bred to a dog with a solid coat color only.
Merle can affect all coat colors. The merle forms of brown and black are usually called "red" (though this is not correct; red and merle are genetically different) and "blue" (again, this is not correct, since "blue" refers to the dilution of black) respectively. Dogs who are recessive red can still be affected by merle, but the patches are either hardly seen or if the dog is a clear recessive red, are not visible at all.[2][3] Combinations such as brindle merle exist, but are not typically accepted in breed standards.[citation needed]
In addition to altering base coat color, merle also modifies eye color and coloring on the nose and paw pads. The merle gene modifies the dark pigment in the eyes, occasionally changing dark eyes to blue, or part of the eye to be colored blue. Since merle causes random modifications, however, both dark-eyed, blue-eyed, and odd-colored eyes are possible.[4] Color on paw pads and nose may be mottled pink and black.[5]
Merle is a distinguishing marking of several breeds, particularly the Australian Shepherd, and appears in others, including the Koolie, German Coolies in Australia, the Shetland Sheepdog, various Collies, the Welsh Corgi (Cardigan), the Pyrenean Shepherd, the Bergamasco Sheepdog, the Old English Sheepdog, and Catahoula Leopard Dog. In Dachshunds the merle marking is known as "dapple".[6] It is also present in the Pomeranian and Chihuahua, but is a disqualification according to the FCI standards. In the Cocker Spaniel breed, it is a recognized pattern, although incorrectly listed as a 'color'.[7] The merle gene also plays a part in producing harlequin Great Danes. In several breeds, such as the Pomeranian and Chihuahua, merle is an indicator of cross breeding.
The merle pattern has been incorrectly linked to pure-bred American Pit Bull Terriers (APBT). Historically it was not found in the breed, and is likely the result of southern breeders cross breeding the American Pit Bull Terrier with the Catahoula Leopard Dog.[8] It is considered a genetic flaw and the ADBA and UKC do not accept registration of APBT with the merle pattern.[9][10]
Merle is actually a heterozygote of an incompletely dominant gene.[11] If two such dogs are mated, on the average one quarter of the puppies will be "double merles", which is the common term for dogs homozygous for merle,[12] and a high percentage of these double merle puppies could have eye defects and/or be deaf. Knowledgeable breeders who want to produce merle puppies mate a merle with a non-merle dog; roughly half the puppies will be merles without the risk of vision or hearing defects associated with double merle dogs.[13]
In January 2006 scientists at Texas A&M University announced the discovery of a mobile genetic unit called a retrotransposon, responsible for the merle mutation in dogs.[14]
A phantom merle or cryptic merle is one with such small patches of merle—or none at all—that it appears to be a non-merle.[15] This is commonly seen in dogs who are recessive red, clear recessive reds in particular, though patches can still be seen in certain red dogs.[16] In America, a dog with the phantom merle coloring is described as being "cryptic for merle."
Certain "modifying genes" work in tandem (co-dominate expressive) with the merle gene to create a completely different look to the pattern.
Often mistaken for a "double merle", a Harlequin Merle (or just Harlequin), is a dog that carries both the merle pattern gene and the co-dominate modifying gene (carried on a different locus) for Harlequin. This causes most or all of the "blue" to be replaced with white, leaving a dog that is mostly white with black patches. All dogs exhibiting the harlequin pattern are also carriers of the merle gene. Common in Great Danes, (and registered as Harlequin) it is less commonly seen in other breeds such as the Catahoula Leopard Dog, Shetland Sheepdog and Collie where the dogs are registered simply as merle.[17]
Patchwork or Tweed, is a co-dominate modifying gene that turns the gray (in what would be a blue merle) or the liver (in what would be a liver or "red" merle) into varying shades of brown, gray and tan. This is the color pattern associated with the African Wild Dog and is very uncommon in pet dogs. It has been reported in the Australian Shepherd, Catahoula Leopard Dog and Border Collie.[17]
Dogs with two copies of the merle gene (homozygous merle or "double merle") have an even higher chance of being born deaf.[18] The UK Kennel Club has acknowledged the health risk associated with homozygous merle and will stop registering puppies produced from merle to merle matings starting from 2013. Merle to merle mating is currently only forbidden in three breeds.[19] Recent research indicates that the majority of health issues occur in dogs carrying both piebald and Merle genes. The piebald gene is indicated by white areas on the dog's coat as seen in the liver merle Catahoula pictured below.
The suppression of pigment cells (melanocytes) in the iris and in the stria vascularis of the cochlea (inner ear) leads to blue eyes and deafness. An auditory-pigmentation disorder in humans, Waardenberg syndrome, reflects some of the problems associated with heterozygous and homozygous merle dogs and genetic research in dogs has been undertaken with the goal of better understanding the genetic basis of this human condition.[14]
Dogs who are homozygous for the merle pattern gene often have visual and auditory deficits.[15] These dogs are sometimes referred to as 'double merle' and sometimes incorrectly referred to as 'lethal white.' Ocular defects include micropthalmia, conditions causing increased ocular pressure, and colobomas, among others.[20] Double merle dogs may be deaf or blind or both, and can carry ocular defects in blue or colored eyes.[21] Currently no studies have been done to prove whether or not the merle gene affects the eyes, causing blindness.
In one study of 38 dachshunds by a German researcher, partial hearing loss was found in 54.6% of double merles and 36.8% of single merles. 1 out of the 11 (9.1%) double merles was fully deaf while none of the single merles were.[22] Another study done by Texas A&M University found that of 22 double merles, 8 were completely deaf and two were deaf in one ear. Of 48 single merles, only one was deaf in one ear, and none were completely deaf.[22] In another study of 70 dogs, 15 of them Catahoula Curs, 4 of the Catahoulas were deaf, while 86% of the double merles of other breeds were deaf.[22]
Deaf, blind, and deaf and blind dogs can have good lives when properly cared for. There are a variety of internet groups dedicated to supporting carers of such dogs. Deaf dogs can compete successfully in agility[23] and there are many anecdotal reports of deaf/blind dogs earning their Canine Good Citizen certification, working as therapy dogs, and competing in dog sports like tracking or Nosework.
Blue merle Australian Shepherd
Blue merle Smooth Collie
Blue merle Shetland Sheepdog
Blue merle Catahoula Leopard Dog
Blue merle Cardigan Welsh Corgi
Blue merle Mudi
Blue merle (silver dapple) Miniature Dachshund
Blue merle Pomeranian
Blue merle Chihuahua
Blue merle Koolie.
Red merle Australian Shepherd
Liver merle Catahoula Leopard Dogs
Liver merle (chocolate dapple) Dachshund
Black merle Bergamasco Shepherd
Red merle American Cocker Spaniel.
From right to left, black, red, and liver merle mixed breed puppies. You can tell the red is merle due to the faint mottling on her black sable tipped ears, but as she grew the only sign of merling was her blue eye.
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Merle (coat colour in dogs).


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John concentrates his research on understanding the relationships between the local atomic structure of surfaces and their chemical reactivity. He and his group are developing molecular level descriptions of these important surface phenomena, and using insights obtained in fundamental studies of model systems to design nanoscale materials that have reactivities tailored for applications ranging from selective oxidation catalysis to electrodes for solid oxide fuel cells and other electrochemical devices.Member of:
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Sugar Puffs RIPOctober 17th, 2014 • No Comments
Sugar Puffs RIP. That's right - Sugar Puffs have been modified to have less sugar and – oh God – are being renamed. Are Mumsnet behind this? This reeks of people complaining about the word 'sugar' on a children's breakfast.
The legendary treat will now be called Honey Monster Puffs. Look at the state of them.
The new look puffs will feature a revised recipe with less sugar and 20% more honey, and also features traffic light nutritional labelling on front of pack, which no-one will read. And besides, isn't honey the same thing as sugar?
The puffs' owners, Halo, said it was taking a "responsible and transparent" approach to nutrition and wanted to help consumers make informed decisions. Honey Monster Puffs contain 8.6g of sugar in a 30g portion – down from the 9.3g of the previous recipe – which is less than Krave (9g), Coco Pops (11g) and Frosties (11g).
Halo said the sugar content of the brand had been reduced by almost 40% in the past decade. That's no fun is it? Some things are great purely because they're really, really bad for you. Anyway, this is all part of a relaunch for the cereal, which has gradually been crashing saleswise over the last few years.
"We feel the product relaunch, coupled with our move to bring the product name in line with the Honey Monster character, can help grow our share of the cereals category," said Halo Foods marketing director Andy Valentine.
The Honey Monster will be back, as he's the dude on the packaging, and as is always the way these days, they're hoping to 'tap into nostalgia of the brand'. Jeez.
A key element of the marketing will be encouraging children to get outside and be active, and allowing them to be au fait with a big yellow monster coming in to nick their breakfast, who has urine that smells exactly like the cereal he's promoting.
North Face make shop floor vanish to terrify customersOctober 16th, 2014 • No Comments
You've probably complained about people wearing wax jackets when they've never been near the countryside or whined about Land Rover drivers who only ever use their vehicles in the city. Of course you have. It's brilliant slagging these people off.
Well, North Face had an idea.
Shoppers in Korea got quite the fright when they were idly browsing through North Face's wares, to suddenly find that the floor gave way and they had no choice to but to climb like a North Face wearing mountaineering person.
This was all to tie in with the company's brand's motto, "Never Stop Exploring."
After climbing the wall (or falling into a pit), the consumers were then faced with a prize – a coat dangling in mid-air, for which you'd have to jump to claim.
"Consumers are used to comfortable city lives and are losing their natural strengths," The North Face said about the "Never Stop Exploring" campaign. "Based on this brand philosophy, North Face Korea induces customers to face an unexpected challenge and encourages them to overcome the situation with their own strength in order to begin their journey to explore."
Also: people will do daft stuff for a freebie. Either way, a decent marketing stunt this. With that, we'd like to see Land Rover showrooms slowly removing their floors and sending the poshos of South West London careering down the side of an active volcano for a test drive.
Free prawn sandwich with Roy Keane booksOctober 11th, 2014 • 1 Comment
Roy Keane has been having a pop at just about everyone on Earth in his latest book.
Tesco, ignoring their recent troubles, decided to have a giggle at the whole thing and do a creative/sarcastic promotion for the book by offering prawn sandwiches to those who bought a copy.
Well played Tesco.
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Red Bull: No wings pay-outOctober 10th, 2014 • 2 Comments
Red Bull customers have been hammering them for a payout, after they were sued for false advertising.
It turns out that the slogan "Red Bull gives you wings", which the company had been using for over a decade is false. It doesn't actually give you wings.
Anyone who felt slighted by not obtaining wings after glugging down the syrupy energy gloop, can now take advantage of a cash reimbursement from Red Bull, after they set $13 million aside into an account.
No. Seriously.
Figuring that it would quietly die down, the company's website has now been inundated with claims, with the likelihood of the settlement devaluing somewhat from the initial $10 to less than $3, due to an internet storm.
The site has been visited over four million times now, but as no proof of purchase is needed – anyone could feasibly waltz in and say that they broke their back jumping from a block of flats under the proviso that wings would occur, and that'd be cool apparently.
You have until March 2015 to claim your pay-out (which will be next-to-nothing) if you were in anyway affected by the lack of wings.
Of course, if they had advertised it as 'Red Bull gives you a massive headache and buggers about with your sleep patterns' then there'd be none of this palaver.
God help us if there's a war.
Crush your car with MoneySuperMarket!October 8th, 2014 • No Comments
Price comparison website MoneySuperMarket are offering everyone the option to crush their cars!
The website wants to get people across the country thinking about 'crushing' car insurance quotes by giving them the opportunity to crush a real car.
You there, in social media land, can use The Car Insurance Epic Car Crusher, which is a 6000 kilo robotic hand over the next two days.
Controlled from MoneySuperMarket's Facebook page, it will offer four entrants an hour the chance to crush a car. And if you're unlucky there, in the waiting hub you will also be able to play a car racing game, watch a live feed of cars being crushed and view the gallery of cars destroyed previously.
This is too much for a Wednesday, no?
David Harling, head of digital at MoneySuperMarket, said: "We wanted to demonstrate in a very 'real' way just how powerful our price comparison site is in crushing car insurance quotes and this activity was the perfect fit, playing to every driver's secret desire to obliterate a car in true movie villain style."
"The execution is in keeping with the 'epic' tone of our creative executions and gives car drivers across the country a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity they'll be bragging to friends about for weeks."
'Engagement and destruction'. It's like Ballard or something.
Lidl are now trolling MorrisonsOctober 4th, 2014 • 11 Comments
Lidl are at it again! After trolling Sainsbury's over their 50p debacle, they're now taking the Michael out of Morrisons.
As you know, Morrisons have announced that they are going to price match Lidl with a new scheme, after Lidl and Aldi ate away at the competitions profits by basically selling everything more cheaply.
Lidl aren't taking that lying down and have trolled Morrisons in an advert in today's papers.
As Lidl point out, you can go through all the faff of price matching with Morrisons and follow the exhaustive instructions as detailed in the sarcastic ad above, or, you could just shop at Lidl.
Looks like this is just the beginning of the supermarket wars getting ugly with each other in the press. Grab the popcorn. This could get very entertaining.
Look at the state of this chartered accountantOctober 3rd, 2014 • No Comments
Initially, we were going to say 'here's a picture of Jonathan Franks, a chartered accountant, presented without comment'.
However, it really is very difficult to look at a berk in a suit, posing with a guitar, trying to jazz up a chartered accountancy advert without thinking of all the swear words simultaneously, as well as being flooded with irritation and looming pity.
Seriously. There were so many opportunities to make sure this photo didn't happen, yet…
This photo was stolen from a twitter account.
Lidl trolls Sainsbury's 50p challenge errorOctober 2nd, 2014 • 4 Comments
It's not enough that the bargain supermarkets are cheaper and more popular than the traditional stalwarts, now Lidl is proving that it too is as funny as Aldi by taking out massive adverts in national newspapers just to take the proverbial out of Sainsbury's.
You can't have failed to notice the huge gaffe Sainsbury's made the other day, when a staff motivation poster encouraging workers to squeeze just 50p more out of every customer was accidentally posted in the main store window, rather than in the staff room. So Lidl have responded in kind, designing their own mock-up of the same poster and printing it in two national newspapers today.
Of course, there is one important difference in the Lidl ad- rather than wanting customers to spend 50p more, Lidl wants their 'lovely' customers to save as many 50ps as they can, tying it in to their latest #lidlsurprises campaign.
Arnd Pickhardt, advertising and marketing director of Lidl UK, said: "We saw an opportunity to show – in a light-hearted way – how our customers can make savings of 50p and beyond by shopping with us. As part of our #LidlSurprises campaign, we're always looking for fun ways to surprise and delight our customers."
We're down with being surprised and delighted by humorous trolling. Every little helps.
Deathwatch: Argos aliensOctober 1st, 2014 • 1 Comment
Cheerio Argos Aliens!
Yes, the slightly baffling and teeth grating family of aliens that Argos have had as a front for their business, are to bid farewell after three years of unfunniness.
They've posted a 60 second video to Argos fans. Clearly because such a realm exists.
The aliens final fling is set to a rendition of Frank Sinatra's 'My Way' from a Ziggy Stardust-clad Dad, voiced by Bill Nighy. Even as you watch them depart, they'll manage to make you unhappy.
Apparently the aliens attracted seven million YouTube hits over the last three years. Mostly people rubbing their eyes and going "WTF is this garbage?"
As a parting gift for aliens fans Argos' social media agency, The Social Practice, has launched a Facebook and Twitter competition to win a set of alien dolls and Argos vouchers by voting for the best alien moments from the last three years.
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TNT has a changeSeptember 30th, 2014 • No Comments
TNT have been having something of a rebrand.
Some designers named Design Bridge have rebranded delivery company TNT, "positioning" it as The People Network and to emphasise this, they've created a circular device which represents "perpetual motion".
Further ponce-speak is to be had, as Design Bridge were asked to come up with something that would "reflect TNT's vision".
"The People Network", reflects the company's aim to connect people and businesses in a "truly personal, rather than purely professional manner", according to Design Bridge.
And – Oh God – they hope it will help "galvanise the 'challenger' spirit of those working internally at TNT", as well as TNT customers.
TNT chief executive Tex Gunning, said this with his mouth: "Customers are not barcodes and we are not robots. We all relate to what drives our customers: business growth with a personal touch. Taking time to understand what customers really need distinguishes us from others. We are The People Network."
There's an advert too, so feast your eyes
TNT Post rebranded as Whistl earlier this month too. No idea why.
LG fail at trolling Apple thanks to using iPhoneSeptember 29th, 2014 • 1 Comment
Trolling, done properly, is an artform. People mistake simply abusing someone as trolling. Trolling is when you get someone apoplectic with frustration without them knowing you were just getting a rise out of them.
Well, LG in France thought they'd mock Apple during the awfully named 'Bendgate'*, but they dropped a clanger.
While LG were chuckling to themselves at their very modern marketing jape, everyone pointed out that they'd mocked Apple while using Twitter on an iPhone.
The company said in their tweet, while talking about the LG G Flex smartphone: "Our phone doesn't bend, it flexes…on purpose. #bendgate"
But the bloody idiots forgot to send the tweet from their desktop or, indeed, the LG G Flex which would've been a secure, tight trolling. Not only were they failing to mock Apple, but they were also inadvertently saying; 'Hey! Buy our phones, even though our social media team doesn't believe in them and would rather own a handset from a rival!'
The tweet was removed once LG had discovered the "issue", but alas, everyone had already got a screengrab. Still, LG will be happy enough that they're getting any coverage at all during the current Apple-fest, even if it does make them look like thundering bozos.
*As an aside, why do we add 'gate' on the end of things? If that was the correct procedure, Nixon would've been embroiled in Watergategate.
Smirnoff want to go dancing with you and SpotifySeptember 26th, 2014 • No Comments
Smirnoff are having a bit of a revamp.
The vodka brand that was famously boycotted by some gays for a bit, have unveiled a new £15 million advertising campaign, and are now close to finalising a deal with Spotify in Europe.
The deal with the online streamer is to 'deepen the brand's connection to dance music'. Which is one way of saying 'loads of clubbers like to cane vodka'.
The company originally piloted the tie-up with Spotify in the US, when it introduced its 'Exclusively for Everybody' brand messaging.
The new advert follows the theme of filtering, with the dismissal of 'pretentious nights out' with the line "Filter the unnecessary. Keep the good stuff".
The Spotify/ Smirnoff tie-up will see the vodka curating an ad-free playlist of bangers, based on the artists they listen to, and it is hoped that it will be a rewarding engagement all round.
The vodka also worked with DJ duo Psychemagik on the track which features in the new advert and is now planning to release it as a single via Spotify, SoundCloud and their own platforms.
Airport parking firm use man's death in marketing emailSeptember 25th, 2014 • No Comments
You know how it is. You're an eager young upstart graduate looking to make your mark in the cut throat world of marketing and advertising. Marketing 101 tells you to use current events as a hook to make your marketing materials more appealing. What Marketing 101 does not tell you, however, is that some things are just not suitable to be shoe horned into a marketing email. Like a man's untimely death…
Unfortunately that is exactly what some bright spark at an airport parking company in the US did (no, we're not going to name them and reward insensitivity with increased exposure), by emailing customers suggesting that the stress of checking in might have killed the man, in Chicago. The company, which operates at more than 85 airports in the US and Canada, sent out an email on Monday headed "Can on-airport parking kill?" and offered potential croakers parkers a cheery $5 off voucher, joking: "Don't be late and end up in a crate." Hilarious.
The marketing email stopped short of claiming that using their service could have prevented the death but did ponder whether the stress of the airport experience had killed the unidentified man "There could be many reasons for the cause of this man's death, but based on the story one possible reason could be stress. The process of arriving to the airport, getting through security, and boarding the plane can be very stressful."
Unsurprisingly, email recipients were less than impressed with the email, and the company was forced to apologise for causing "frustration and grief", describing the email as an "unfortunate event". Not as unfortunate as the poor man they thoughtlessly used though, eh?
"We would like to sincerely apologise for the last marketing email sent that has caused frustration and grief for our customers. We strive to provide our customers with the utmost service and respect; however, we fell short on this commitment," the company said.
"There is no excuse for the topic of the recent email sent to our customers, and we can only extend our deepest apologies to those disrespected by it.
"We have ensured that any marketing or communication sent from our company will not contain any sensitive or offensive content of that nature. We appreciate your continued business with us and apologize once again for this unfortunate event."


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