Monthly Archives: June 2008

BBC SPORT | Northern Ireland | N Ireland star Healy awarded MBE

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/northern_ireland/7453645.stm




Northern Ireland striker David Healy has been awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List.

The Fulham forward has been recognised for services to football and to the community in Northern Ireland.

Healy is NI’s top scorer with 34 goals in 65 games and he received a special award for netting a record 13 goals in the Euro 2008 qualifiers.

Message Trumps Medium: Five Sort Of Green Billboards : TreeHugger

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/06/five-sort-of-green-billboards.php



Billboards with a Green Message

David Ogilvy, the founder of Ogilvy and Mather, wrote: “I have a passion for landscape, and I have never seen one improved by a billboard. Where every prospect pleases, man is at his vilest when he erects a billboard.” To an earlier post on billboards, commenter Todaystoptrend wrote: “There are no acceptable billboards! Please rethink your position!” There is a survey in this for another day, but one must admit that some of them are clever. As McLuhan might have said: Hate the medium, love the message.