source: http://www.lbhat.com/advertising/26-examples-of-clever-typography-in-advertising-design/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+lbhat%2FTwoF+%28Bhatnaturally%29

以前小時候美術課，用圖案裝飾一個中文字，英文也有，這個叫typography，但是這個英文字可以泛指一些將文字當圖案使用的方式。

Celebrate the 'Spirit of BACARDI' With the Launch of a New Global Multi-Media Ad Campaign

Passion and Pioneering Spirit Unites Friends for Great Times

MIAMI, Oct. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- BACARDI®, the world's favorite rum, is unveiling today a new global multi-media advertising campaign, entitled "Spirit of BACARDI", with the first execution called "Island." The campaign celebrates the optimism, warmth and the pioneering attitude of BACARDI rum. The campaign will feature a TV platform, out-of-home advertising, digital, cinema and print and strong promotional support.

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上一次跟小天使聊到美國的7-11，她跟我說美國地大，7-11裡面有賣汽油。真有趣，如果是古代有7-11，可以賣稻草，可以牽馬來吃。

health food stores：Carlson (康聖維他命在美國健康食品專賣店領域)
vitamin stores: Vitamin World(美國一般維他命販賣店)
pharmacies: CVS (美國一般藥房通路)
warehouse clubs: Kirkland (Costco) (好市多-美國折扣批發量販領域)
catalogues: Puritan's Pride (美國型錄品牌市場)
supermarkets
independent distributors
mass merchants 綜合量販店
health care practitioners: Thorne Research (美國健康事業開發品牌)
Web retailers
mega-retailers:
- Wal-Mart
- Target
- CVS


Nature Made (在美國一般大眾消費市場店面-7-11)

How Red Cross Delivers Messages To Hostages

Mr. ANDY BOWERS (Journalist, Slate): They use a special two-page form. For the last 90 years, the International Committee of the Red Cross has hand-delivered messages to hostages, detainees, and those in war zones. On the front of the forms first page, senders fill out details about themselves and the recipient. On the back, they write out a personal message by hand, so the hostage knows it's really from his family. There's enough space for about 300 words if you write very small.

A second blank page is attached by a perforated line. It's for a handwritten reply from the captive, which also serves as proof of delivery. Hostages can detach and keep the original letters and some have emerged from captivity with a treasured stack of Red Cross page ones. The form is never sealed in an envelope since captors will review it for hidden messages. Only family and/or private news is allowed.

The Red Cross tries to deliver these messages using its carefully cultivated network of contacts. The organization knows people inside nearly every insurgency and terrorist group. For example, a senior official in Geneva might get a high-ranking member of the Taliban on the phone and work out a delivery route for the message.

(source: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=114103988&ft=1&f=2/)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htpm8hidIPc

"Michael Jackson was born in August, 1958. so was I. Michael Jackson grew up in the suburbs of the Midwest. So did I. Michael Jackson had eight brothers and sisters. So do I. When Michael Jackson was 6 he became a superstar and was perhaps the world's most beloved child. When I was 6 my mother died. I think he got the shorter end of the stick. "I never had a mother, but he never had a childhood. And when you never get to have something, you become obsessed by it. I spent my childhood searching for my mother figures; sometimes I was successful. But how do you recreate your childhood when you are under the magnifying glass of the world for your entire life? "There is no question that Michael Jackson was one of the greatest talents the world has ever known. ...

That when he sang a song at the ripe old age of 8, he could make you feel like an experienced adult was squeezing your heart with his words. ... That the way he moved had the elegance of Fred Astaire and packed the punch of Muhammad Ali. ... That his music had an extra layer of inexplicable magic that didn't just make you want to dance but actually made you believe that you could fly, dare to dream, be anything that you wanted to be. Because that is what heroes do. And Michael Jackson was a hero.

"He performed in soccer stadiums around the world, he sold hundreds of millions of records, he dined with prime ministers and presidents. Girls fell in love with him, boys fell in love with him, everyone wanted to dance like him, he seemed otherworldly, but he was also a human being. Like most performers, he was shy and plagued with insecurities. "I can't say we were great friends, but in 1991 I decided I wanted to get to know him better. I asked him out to dinner: I said, 'My treat, I'll drive, just you and me.' He agreed and showed up to my house without any bodyguards. We drove to the restaurant in my car. It was dark out, but he was still wearing sunglasses. I said, 'Michael, I feel like I'm talking to a limousine, do you think you could take off those glasses so I could see your eyes?' He paused for a moment, then he tossed the glasses out the window, looked at me with a wink and a smile and said, 'Can you see me now, is that better?' "In that moment, I could see both his vulnerability and his charm. The rest of the dinner, I was hell-bent on getting him to eat French fries, drink wine, have dessert and say bad words, things he never seemed to allow himself to do.

Later, we went back to my house to watch a movie and we sat on the couch like two kids, and somewhere in the middle of the film, his hand snuck over and held mine. It felt like he was looking for a friend more than a romance and I was happy to oblige him. And in that moment he didn't feel like a superstar, he felt like a human being. We went out a few more times together and then for one reason or another we fell out of touch.

Then, the witch hunt began and it seemed like one negative story after the other was coming out about Michael. I felt his pain. I know what it's like to walk down the street and feel like the whole world has turned against you. I know what it's like to feel helpless and unable to defend yourself because the roar of the lynch mob is so loud that you are convinced your voice can never be heard. "But I had a childhood, and I was allowed to make mistakes and find my own way in the world without the glare of the spotlight. When I first heard that Michael had died I was in London, days away from the opening of my tour. Michael was going to perform in the same venue as me a week later. All I could think about in that moment was that I had abandoned him. That we had abandoned him. That we had allowed this magnificent creature that once set the world on fire to somehow slip through the cracks. While he was trying to build a family and rebuild his career, we were all busy passing judgment. Most of us had turned our backs on him.

"In a desperate attempt to hold onto his memory, I went on the Internet to watch old clips of him dancing and singing on TV and onstage and I thought, 'My God, he was so unique, so original, so rare. And there will never be anyone like him again.'

He was a king. But he was also a human being and alas, we are all human beings and sometimes we have to lose things before we can truly appreciate them. I want to end this on a positive note and say that my sons, age 9 and 4, are obsessed with Michael Jackson. There's a whole lot of crotch-grabbing and moonwalking going on in my house, and it seems like a whole new generation of kids has discovered his genius and are bringing him to life again. I hope that wherever Michael is right now, he is smiling about this.

"Yes, yes Michael Jackson was a human being, but dammit, he was a king. Long live the king." Long Live The King...!!

這帖當作我的bookmarks，避免哪天我的電腦不幸陣亡。

字典類：如果以下的字典都查不到，上國外Yahoo直接問，很多高手。

• Merriam-Webster's Learner's Dictionary 有相當多例句，可以深入瞭解習慣用法
  http://www.learnersdictionary.com/
• Longman 字義解釋最簡單最清楚
  http://www.ldoce-online.cn/
• Dictionary.com 一般外國人都用這個 解釋很詳細
  http://dictionary.reference.com/
• The Free Dictionary 對於查idiom很方便
  http://www.thefreedictionary.com/
• Cambridge 英式用法解釋不錯
  http://dictionary.cambridge.org/
• The Phrase Finder 對於各種 idiom來源有趣味的深入解釋，資料非常豐富
  http://www.phrases.org.uk/index.html
• Urban dictionary 大概是網路上最齊全的slang字典
  http://www.urbandictionary.com/
• London Slang 如果有看英劇 這個站就很實用，很多slang
  http://www.londonslang.com/db/a/

美劇類：從生活對話中學英文是很不錯的方式，雖然會有外國人跟你說電視是垃圾，但是對於我們ESL來說，看到實物、實際例子，比較容易體會字的意思。

• 伊甸園國外連續劇交流站，大概是中文世界裡第一把交椅的網站
  http://bbs.sfileydy.com/
• 破爛熊，以英劇知名
  http://www.ragbear.com/
• 國外美劇網站 1 (非常低調推薦)
  http://tvseries-download.blogspot.com/
• 國外美劇網站 2
  http://www.warez-bb.org/index.php
• 國外美劇網站 3
  http://www.rapidfind.org/upload/index.php
• 射手網 提供豐富的中英文字幕
  http://shooter.cn/
• 找英文字幕除了 TV subtitles之外 此站也不錯
  http://librivox.org/
• Gossip Girls Season 2 英文筆記 這一部就是上流社會學生版。
  http://blog.hjenglish.com/yosemite/category/44326.html

有聲書：雖然一般人可能沒有時間聽完一本書，但是通常書中有些名詞我們不知道怎樣發音，或是因為單字會閱讀速度慢，聽有聲書其實可以解決上述問題。

• The Audiobook 論壇
  http://www.audiobookemporiumb2.no-ip.com/index.php
  
• 英式發音 線上有聲書 如Alice in Wonderland and starting Through The Looking Glass
  http://storynory.com/archives/classic-authors/
• 這個網站對於古典英文小說 有很好的解說 我是看 animal farm 時發現的
  http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/LitNote/Animal-Farm-Study-and-Homework-Help-Full-Glossary-for-Animal-Farm.id-12,pageNum-81.html
• 這個網站是義工自發唸已經沒有版權爭議的書
  http://librivox.org/
• 此站收集很多 Stephen King 的小說有聲書 [刺激一九九五]的有聲書就是在此找到
  http://audiobookscorner.blogspot.com/2009/02/shawshank-redemption-audiobook-stephen.html

2006年的網路短片
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsGYh8AacgY&feature=PlayList&p=6EHMPoLMcbQ

這一篇把Charlie the Unicorn 的典故解釋很好
http://jojos.no-ip.org/Charlie-The-Unicorn/#entrymore ...繼續閱讀

拜open courses風潮之賜，很多大學將課程上傳，讓大家免費聽享，不定期更新連結。

• YouTube Edu (www.youtube.com/edu) 提供一百多所學校線上課程包括Harvard Business School
  • Harvard Business School http://www.youtube.com/user/HarvardBusiness
• iTunes U 需下載itune
  
  • MIT (http://web.mit.edu/itunesu/)
  • Stanford (http://itunes.stanford.edu/)
• AcademicEarth.org (http://www.academicearth.org/)
• TED (http://www.ted.com/index.php)

Obama當初競選時，一堆人不敢相信他的原因是覺得他不是基督徒(儘管Obama一直澄清自己是基督徒)，認為他是回教徒。屆時萬一他當上總統，就會中了中東的計。聽過Obama競選時的演講者，很容易被他感動，我就是一枚，他很會抓人性同鳴點演講。可以說，好好讀他的演講稿可以有很多收穫。

影音全文 http://video.town9.com/obama-speech-in-cairo
中文翻譯來自 http://usinfo.americancorner.org.tw/st/peacesec-chinese/2009/June/20090604121534eaifas0.4368097.html?CP.rss=true

I am honored to be in the timeless city of Cairo, and to be hosted by two remarkable institutions. For over a thousand years, Al-Azhar has stood as a beacon of Islamic learning, and for over a century, Cairo University has been a source of Egypt's advancement. Together, you represent the harmony between tradition and progress. I am grateful for your hospitality, and the hospitality of the people of Egypt. I am also proud to carry with me the goodwill of the American people, and a greeting of peace from Muslim communities in my country: assalaamu alaykum.
歐巴馬總統：非常感謝你們。下午好。我榮幸地來到永恒的開羅古城，榮幸地受到兩所著名學府的邀請。愛資哈爾(Al-Azhar)一千多年來一直是一座伊斯 蘭學術的燈塔，開羅大學(Cairo University)一百多年來一直是埃及發展的源泉。你們並肩而立，象徵著傳統與進步的和諧共進。我對你們的盛情邀請，對埃及人民的盛情邀請表示感 謝。我也自豪地帶來美國人民的友好情誼，帶來我國穆斯林民眾的平安問候： “Assalaamu alaykum.”（"願你平安。"）

We meet at a time of tension between the United States and Muslims around the world – tension rooted in historical forces that go beyond any current policy debate. The relationship between Islam and the West includes centuries of co-existence and cooperation, but also conflict and religious wars. More recently, tension has been fed by colonialism that denied rights and opportunities to many Muslims, and a Cold War in which Muslim-majority countries were too often treated as proxies without regard to their own aspirations. Moreover, the sweeping change brought by modernity and globalization led many Muslims to view the West as hostile to the traditions of Islam.
我們相聚在美國和穆斯林世界之間關係十分緊張的時期──這種緊張關係的歷史根源遠遠超出了當前的任何政策辯論。伊斯蘭教與西方世界之間的關係史既包括好幾 個世紀的共存與合作，也包括衝突和宗教戰爭。在近代，剝奪眾多穆斯林權利和機會的殖民主義，以及穆斯林佔主體的國家往往被視為傀儡、對其自身意願鮮有顧及 的冷戰，加劇了這種緊張。此外，現代化和全球化帶來的巨大變化致使很多穆斯林將西方視為伊斯蘭傳統的敵人。 ...繼續閱讀

感謝筆友Steve解釋，常常熱心回答我各種問題，尤其是我很愛打破沙鍋問到底。史帝夫先生，你將來會上天堂。


However many MPGs your car gets, or what quality ratings it receives, cars, like most products and services (perhaps even more so), have a large emotional component that isn't an optional extra.

modern occurence 對於現在正在發生的改變，可以用此詞組。
a modern occurence is simply something that has happend in modern times. You might say that facebook is a modern occurence. The rise of Facebook has occured in a modern time or a present time.