The 350+ miles were completed in 5 days, starting in Portsmouth England. Continued through Cherbourg, France and followed the Normandy landings and Liberation route from 65 years ago. The event culminated in Paris with a ceremony at the Arc de Triomphe for all of the fallen from WWII, before swamping the Champs Elysee and finishing at the Eiffel tower.

Blood, sweat and tears were all given and we at GDM are all really very proud of Charlie. What have you done today to make yourself feel proud? Click here to watch the invasion!

The last mission is to help Charlie smash her fundraising target by the 1st July 09.

This year it is a 350 mile bike ride from Cherbourg to Paris. Charlie has chosen to join the Help for Heroes – Band of Brothers Bike Ride.

Around 300 like minded lunatics left Portsmouth on 24th May 2009 and finish in Paris on 29th May 2009.

The goal is to raise as much money as possible for a very worthy cause, helping injured service personnel to rebuild their lives.

The bike ride was organised by Help for Heroes. Many of you may have seen Major Phil Packer finish his mammoth London Marathon walk recently, and Marine Ben McBean – a double amputee running the London Marathon.

They too are supporting the charity that helped provide some of the facilities they used in their rehabilitation.

The ride followed the route of the D-Day landings, and in honour of the men that gave their lives in the liberation of France the cyclists visited allied cemeteries in Normandy for wreath laying ceremonies. American, British, Canadian, French Resistance, Polish and Special Forces were all honoured.

The ride culminates with the bike riders moving up the Champs Elysee pausing at the Arc de Triomphe to lay wreaths and then on to the Eiffel Tower.

Charlie has been taking the cycle training very seriously and has been crunching the miles for charity. So all we need to do now is show our support for the challenge and visit the fundraising page and help her reach her target.

Everyone at Global Direct Media and parent company Unanimis are very proud of your achievements Charlie.

To show your support for Help For Heroes please give generously at http://www.justgiving.com/bandofbrothersbikeride09

Elissa has been taking care of business for our parent company Unanimis and as we were experiencing such rapid growth in affiliate numbers we needed someone with a terrific personality to assist in the day to day activities of Global Direct Media.

As Elissa is based in our London office she will primarily be looking after our UK based affiliates and if you are planning on attending Internet World at the end of this month be sure to arrange to meet up with Elissa and Lucinda who will be flying the Global Direct Media flag, while Jim will be attending the a4uexpo in Amsterdam (who organises two exhibitions at the same time!)

Elissa’s contact details are available on our brand new affiliate home page.

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Now to say this car is stylish and fast is a bit of an understatement. You can see all the gory details here

Top speed of 223 mph, 0-62 in 3.2 seconds blah, blah blah.

The car is ONLY $693,000 (think I might buy two), but being the intrepid ad relevancy guru I tittered to myself to see the poignancy of the ads showing underneath the pictures.

Now this throws up a whole bunch of questions.

1. That car is expensive but can you imagine driving it home to your trailer park?

2. How many payday loans would you need to get to buy a $700k car?

3. Where would you put the 7 kids and 2 dogs?

4. Why on earth would you show payday loan ads on a page with a $700k car?

5. Does it come in any other colours other than black?

6. Will you be able to put it on a removal truck when you leave the trailer park at midnight?

Call me fussy, but why spend that sort of money for a car that would make everyone think you were a Dark Knight wannabe, you’ve inherited the money from a rich relative, you won the lottery or you are a pimp.