The company hopes that the introduction of Pepsi Raw will compete for a greater share of the cola market from the leader Coca-Cola and at the same time it will capitalise on the growing consumer demand for more natural products.
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Initially, Pepsi Raw will only be available in selected bars and clubs in seven cities — London, Manchester, Glasgow, Brighton, Birmingham, Leeds and Liverpool, although a wider roll-out is expected later in the year.
CANBERRA (Reuters) – A drunken man’s threat to blow up half a city with his television remote control forced Australian police to declare a state of emergency at a luxury golf resort, a local court heard Thursday.
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Fryatt’s lawyer told the Brisbane District Court that his client lost control after losing much of his life savings in a fraud carried out by his finance broker, local media said.
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Fryatt accepted probation, but said he was concerned it could interrupt plans to travel overseas to do humanitarian aid work, the Brisbane Times newspaper reported.
LONDON – Paul McCartney and Heather Mills returned to court on Monday in an attempt to agree on terms for their divorce.
The fight over the wealth of the former Beatle, who is estimated to have as much as $1.6 billion, could produce Britain’s largest ever divorce settlement.
Mills was the first to arrive at the court for the hearing.
The Beatles in one way or another have pretty much spent their post-breakup years in court. That sounds like it SUCKs. But of course, that’s the outcome of being in showbiz, which based on clues is a horrible bitch goddess.
Published: February 05, 2008 SAN FRANCISCO (AdAge.com) — AT&T has hired the Discovery Channel’s new-media guru, Chris Schembri, to oversee the allocation of its $3.3 billion annual media budget.
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Last summer, in a deal with Verizon Wireless, he promoted Discovery’s popular “Deadliest Catch” by giving away free wallpapers, ringtones, bios of the risk-taking fishermen, show facts and sneak peeks, and even mobisodes. Mobile users also were able to participate in mobile polls and quizzes.
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He also spearheaded a campaign last year aimed at boosting ratings for Discovery Channel’s “Future Weapons,” in which Microsoft gave away downloadable content for its Xbox game “Gears of War.” Ratings for the show reportedly were 60% higher than expected, especially given it was going up against the season premiere of Fox’s “24″ and the Golden Globes.
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“I love innovation,” Mr. Schembri said.
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I <3 innovation too my friend. Without it we would be in a world without bongs.
Published: February 06, 2008 NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — The writers’ strike is expected to be resolved by next week, according to TV network executives familiar with the situation, ending a work stoppage that has endangered an advertising medium marketers consider their best way to reach mass audiences.
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It’s hard for advertisers to figure out where else to put their money to match [the reach of broadcast television], though some have discussed shifting dollars into other media venues including online, cable, print and cinema.
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A resolution by mid-month could solve a lot of problems. While the networks have no doubt saved millions of dollars in production costs all this time, they also stand to lose ad revenue as ratings continue to slip. Should the strike be resolved, networks could probably produce five to six episodes of their best-performing programs in time to air during May sweeps. They would also be able to commission a few pilots in time to show to advertisers during the May upfront selling seasons. However, many of the networks have already canceled a number of production deals.
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I can’t believe how long this has been going. I sort of don’t miss tv that much. If there were no such thing as internet video though, I might be hurting.
‘He’s fascinated by it,’ said Matt Slater, of the Blue Reef Aquarium in Newquay, Cornwall. ‘He attacks the net we use to fish the toy out every time we try to take it away.’
ABC news has a story and video about a police sting operation in Columbus, Ohio. The cops put aimed a video camera at a topless women in the park (topless sunbathing is allowed) and waited. A 42-year old man approached the woman. She smiled at him, and at one point playfully put her foot on his shoulder. She asked him to show his penis. A few seconds after he complied with her request, the cops rolled up on the grass in their SUV and busted him.
Yikes, I lived in Columbus, OH. But at that time all women were topless. That was the motto plastered across the sign you see when you enter city limits from the highway, “All our women are topless.”
With presidential caucuses set for next Thursday, candidates have bought every local spot in ABC’s telecast of the game on Des Moines station WOI-TV. That’s 10 30-second spots, some of which are being combined for 60-second messages.
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TV-station and cable execs say candidates’ last-minute buys combined with the usual post-Christmas slowdown in other ad categories means far more Iowa TV spots are political ads. Even when nonpolitical advertisers do want in, in some cases federal requirements give precedence to the political spots, meaning some regular advertisers get pre-empted.
The RIAA is being dicks again, so weird. But now they are pushing it to the point that copying music from your own CD to your own computer or MP3 player is grounds for a lawsuit. They say that copying a song you bought is “a nice way of saying ‘steals just one copy.’ ”
But this was the best angle I saw on it, an excerpt from the article:
As technologies evolve, old media companies tend not to be the source of the innovation that allows them to survive. Even so, new technologies don’t usually kill off old media: That’s the good news for the recording industry, as for the TV, movie, newspaper and magazine businesses. But for those old media to survive, they must adapt, finding new business models and new, compelling content to offer.
The RIAA’s legal crusade against its customers is a classic example of an old media company clinging to a business model that has collapsed. Four years of a failed strategy has only “created a whole market of people who specifically look to buy independent goods so as not to deal with the big record companies,” Beckerman says. “Every problem they’re trying to solve is worse now than when they started.”
Ray Beckerman is a New York lawyer who represents six clients who have been sued by the RIAA.
The Bush administration blocked California’s plan to put tighter limits on automobile tailpipe emissions, handing a victory to the auto industry on the same day the president signed an energy bill that mandates the biggest boost in federal fuel-efficiency standards in more than 30 years…
This is a chat log between Condi and Mahmoud regarding the recent report that Iran halted work toward a nuclear weapon under international scrutiny in 2003 and is unlikely to be able to produce enough enriched uranium for a bomb until 2010 to 2015.
Click the 236.com link above to read the transcript
“Freedom requires religion just as religion requires freedom. Freedom opens the windows of the soul so that man can discover his most profound beliefs and commune with God. Freedom and religion endure together, or perish alone.”
Mitt, are you a fucking psycho? Please stop running.
He says he believes Jesus Christ is the son of God and the savior of mankind. I say everybody knows ducks come from volcanoes. How do you not know ducks come from volcanoes? It is proven true by my belief. If you don’t believe ducks come from volcanoes then you are an idiot and you’re going to spend your afterlife in Cincinnati, OH.
Let me just be very clear that religion has nothing to do with freedom. Religion causes mentally unhealthy things like sexual repression, intolerance, and Jerry Falwell. It makes Israel and Palestine keep up their little game of tetherball or whatever the fuck they’re fighting about over there. It causes Divine Right to be used as a justification for horrendous violations of human rights. Fuck that noise.
I know by saying this that I sound intolerant of religion. I am not saying that — nor am I saying that I am an atheist. You want to pick a religion? Go for it. Join a club. Just know what you’re getting yourself into.
WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. – Dave Chappelle has broken his own Laugh Factory endurance record.
The 34-year-old comedian topped his record of six hours and seven minutes, set in mid-April, by taking to the stage Sunday and telling jokes for six hours and 12 minutes.
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The article says Dane Cook is trying to beat his record. Man, fuck that. Dane Cook isn’t a comedian, he’s a panderer. He tells a joke about an atheist coming back as a tree that turns into a bible. Here it is:
Listen to that piece of shit pre-built christian audience. Southpark addresses this phenomenon when Cartman decides he’s going to beat Kyle at getting a platinum record by starting a Christian rock band because the audience is already there.
Here’s a joke: There was this comedian that couldn’t write any good jokes so God smote him. Ok that was not that great of a joke. That’s why i don’t do it professionally.
Seriously, Dane, why don’t you just start doing slapstick fall-down humor as well? Oh you do. Well, it makes babies laugh. Must be good.
A British teacher is facing 40 lashes in a Sudanese jail if convicted of insulting Islam’s prophet by letting children name a teddy bear Mohammed.
This is actually happening. Sorry Islam, but you’re being kind of lame. I might die for saying this. But you gotta’ cool out. I respect you guys believing whatever you want but there is NO WAY this woman was trying to disrespect you. Do you actually believe that? I might have to question your faith if you DO sentence her though.
I already question most faiths in their flawed logic. Once you select a religion you are immediately intolerant of other religions. Some religions implore you to kill people from other religions. That is NOT GOOD. In fact FUCK THAT NOISE. Seriously? You have nothing better to do? Fuck you a million times over if that’s what you choose to do with your life.
Besides, every religion has it’s gems. Islam, Christianity, Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism. They’re all good. And they all imply that there is something like a god out there. If you move from subjectivity to objectivity though and do just a little exploration you will see that most of them overlap, even as far as historic events that caused a paradigm or dogma to solidify. But when you select one you exclude the others. Some insist on playing that stupid game of conversion. We’re not playing Othello here people. We’re playing life. Use religion correctly or eat a steaming bowl of dog turds is what I say.
Published: November 19, 2007 The writers strike has media buyers growing cautious about the efficacy of TV advertising in the weeks ahead and in the first quarter of 2008 — and mulling strategies for possible reallocation of marketers’ ad spending. The fourth quarter is an especially fraught time for marketers to not be able to count on TV as a reach vehicle, as many are pushing products for the holidays.
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Nielsen is eliminating a new rule that was intended to help advertisers better track how many people watched a TV show and their ads no matter when they watched it. But outcry over the way NBC used the policy to report ratings for the season debut of its hit “Heroes” has scuttled the effort — at least for now.
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A British teacher is facing 40 lashes in a Sudanese jail if convicted of insulting Islam’s prophet by letting children name a teddy bear Mohammed.