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Coca-Cola is spearheading a coalition of more than 100 companies pushing a United Nations climate treaty to bind the U.S. to cap-and-trade emissions regulation, commit the world’s wealthiest nations to a potential $10 trillion in foreign aid and, possibly, form a proposed international “super-grid” for regulating and distributing electric power worldwide.

Together with the SAP and Siemens corporations, Coca-Cola launched a website called Hopenhagen, leading up to the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, which opens on Dec. 7. The website invites the citizens of the world to sign a petition demanding world leaders draft binding agreements on climate change and advertises, as of today, “16 days left to seal the deal.”

Vans and vans full, according to this video! National must be making a fortune over van rentals for this security detail.  

Shot at the end of October on Vancouver Island, the video clearly shows a massive police presence that really-kinda-sorta overwhelms the torch runner in the middle… don’t blink or you will miss the torch altogether! What you can’t miss is all those RCMP, on bikes, on foot, in cars, in vans, and in that really big black armoured vehicle that someone watching refers to as the bomb squad – note the woman smiling and waving to the crowd as she sits in the back seat of that same armoured vehicle! Must be a Liberal- it’s the only safe place for one in the province right now…

A couple of questions: Are all these officers on overtime? Because that torch isn’t exactly speeding along its journey. And if there are that many officers on security detail, where did they all come from? Better yet, whose holding down the fort back home?

But don’t take my word for it, watch for yourself.

Just saw Coca Cola advert on television, so therefore it is now Christmas. May only be November 22 but its 5 weeks till Christmas! Preparations have to be done now! I’ve drawn up my Christmas list for who I’m getting prezzies for and I’ve got a grand total of 2 presents so far for 2 friends. And thats not their full present.

I’m waiting until November payday (December 1st) to commence the present-getting, and I am planning most of the things I’m gonna get for people, but for my mum, I’m gonna do the whole “spur-of-the-moment” thing and go round Bluewater, and just get stuff that I know she would like. Ahh Christmas is so much fun. And, I know its not all about presents. I just love it so much. Its the best time of year, everyone’s all happy. Its a time “for all hating and fighting to cease” as good ol’ Cliff once sang quite merrily.

As we speak, I am downloading the best songs in the universe onto my iPod. What are these awesome songs I hear you say? Well, here it is folks, the 20 Most Awesome Christmas songs playlist (for me anyway, I wont include the full thing coz you’ll all get bored but meh!):

1. Kristy McColl and the Pogues – Fairytale of New York
2. Wizzard – I Wish It Could be Christmas Everyday
3. Mariah Carey – All I Want For Christmas Is You
4. Slade – Merry Christmas Everybody
5. Wham – Last Christmas
6. Mel & Kim/Brenda Lee – Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree
7. Nat King Cole  – The Christmas Song
8. Bobby Helms – Jingle Bell Rock (LOL mean girls )
9. Jona Lewie – Stop the Cavalry
10. Cliff Richard – Mistletoe And Wine
11. Mud – Lonely This Christmas
12. Jackson 5 – Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town
13. Boney M – Mary’s Boy Child
14. Darkness – Christmas Time (Don’t Let The Bells End)
15. Band Aid 1 – Do They Know its Christmas?
16. Paul McCartney – Wonderful Christmastime
17. David Bowie and Bing Crosby – Little Drummer Boy
18. Bing Crosby – White Christmas
19. Bon Jovi – Please Come Home for Christmas
20. Chris Rea – Driving Home for Christmas

Bet that blew your minds. Go download them now, get in the festive mood and be happy That is all for now.

The Winter Olympics begin in Vancouver on February 12th 2010.

The Olympic torch left Greece and arrived in Victoria BC on 30th October.  Since then it has travelled by relay across the country. First North to Dawson City in the Yukon, then through Yellowknife in North West Territory. It then travelled way north to Alert in Nunavut, the most northerly, permanently inhabited settlement in the world. The torch was carried through Quebec,Labrador and Newfoundland before arriving in Nova Scotia.

Last night it came to Lunenburg. There was great excitement in the town and almost everyone turned out to see the flame arrive.

This is a very safe little town, but  the police turned out in force! I think all of the police cars in the area were in the town.

Coca Cola being one of the main sponsors led the torch bearers.

The girls on the truck were handing out  fluorescent coca cola bottles. They were great light sources for the evening.

Eventually one of the torch bearers arrived.

And ran up Lincoln Street towards the Harbour.

Jeff and I walked down to the the waterfront, where the entertainment had already started.

We listened to a great group called Air Traffic Control, followed by a choir from the local school.

Everyone seemed to be enjoying themselves, despite the weather. We’d had almost summer weather all week, only for it to change about 6 pm.

The Olympic torch was brought across the harbour in the Chockle Cap.

Here is our local news report on the event.

http://southshorenow.ca/videos/events/index43.php

My own video wasn’t so successful, but you can hear a grand rendition of  ‘Oh Canada’ -the Canadian National Anthem. I’m sure you’ll agree it’s way better than ‘God Save the Queen.’

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUqAFAd9JoI

We walked to the golf course to get a view of the town from that side and watch the fireworks display.

The rain was at its heaviest by now, but it didn’t dampen the spirits too much. This was as wild a Friday as it gets in Lunenburg.

The torch will now be relayed back through the rest of Canada to Vancouver for the 2010 Winter Olympics. Over 1,000 communities like Lunenburg will have the chance to celebrate in their own ways.

"Help me find Obi-Wan; I feel like McDonald's."

The 3-D action movie “Avatar,” due in theaters December 18, is creating a market product for companies like Coca Cola and McDonalds. These companies have managed to recreate 3D experiences in product containers like the Coke can or the McDonald’s Happy Meal “McWorld virtual world.”

Relative: a little side project to make more money, just like Hot Topic did with the Twilight gear.

For the article, visit Marketers Hop on Augmented Reality Bandwagon to Promote \’Avatar\’

Avatar Coke Zero

If happiness isn’t an entire Troyer’s pumpkin pie in front of me, then I don’t want to know what happiness is.  I spent my first 9 years in Wooster, OH just a few minutes away from what I consider to be the best pumpkin pie ever.  I’ve never tried my hand at making my own pumpkin pie because there didn’t seem to be much of a point when the Amish down the road had already made the best.  Sadly it’s a recipe probably as closely guarded as the Coca-Cola recipe so, there’s that.  I picked up 3 of them for my mom before coming home for the holidays — it took every ounce of my self-control to keep from sneaking a piece for a day and a half.

Copenhagen Climate Treaty Spearheaded By Private Corporations

This isn’t about “kum ba yah” but about corporate socialism with the goal to restrict competition and consolidate money and power in the hands of a few.  Pushing the Climate treaty are international companies with no allegiance to any nation or creed. Coca-Cola, Newsweek, Discovery Channel, Huffington Post, Cosmopolitan, Seventeen, The Wall Street Journal and Clear Channel, Yahoo, Google and AOL push to cede our nation’s sovereignty.

Complete story at  http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=116310

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Perdida pela internet achei essas latas de coca vintage.

Torço pelo relançamento para ter todas!

Vi aqui.

The GreenerPackage website in an article “Coca-Cola unveils plant-based bottle” notes that the new PlantBottle™ is fully recyclable, has a lower reliance on a nonrenewable resource, and reduces carbon emissions.

Today I saw THE Coca Cola Christmas ad.

The one with the truck.

And the “Holidays Are Coming” chanting.

Not the CRAPTASTIC one with the stupid old woman that they tried to pawn off on us last year.

Hurrah for the classics!!!

When you think of the Olympic Games, you think of athletes, of people at their physical peak; the epitome of health and fitness. But what about those behind the scenes? Once you get past the athletes and personal trainers it seems that the Games isn’t all isotonic drinks and protein shakes.

Three of the main sponsors of London 2012 are McDonalds, Cadburys and Coca-cola. Not exactly what you may expect of a sporting event aiming to promote healthy living. It is hoped that the 2012 Olympics will help to combat the obesity crisis in the UK, but if a child sees those golden arches associated with the toned physiques of triathletes and swimmers then who could blame them for continuing to crave these fatty, salty, sugar-filled treats and still expect to be healthy.

Fast food is causing obesity in children

What sort of message does that send? For as long as I can remember P.E. lessons have been an integral part of the curriculum. Not always a student’s favourite, often a dreaded couple of hours a week, but still a necessary evil to make sure that children understand how important it is to stay fit and healthy.

The Olympic Games is such a wonderful opportunity to get the younger generation interested in sports. The glamour and excitement associated with the Games should be attractive to children who are growing up in the ‘X-Factor’ generation where fame and column inches are the ultimate goal.

But it seems that the Games is destined to be marred by the corporate world of sponsors and advertising. McDonalds, Coca Cola and Cadbury are globally recognised brands and are the kind of companies that have the levels of cash to support such a huge event but this doesn’t justify their involvement in something that is so quintessentially opposed to these food brands.

There should be an alternative to these sugary snacks who could step up and take over the role as sponsor. Who this could be however is a difficult question. Something healthy…. Apple? Orange?

Coca-Cola’s launching its largest social media project ever.

“Expedition 206 will send three 20-somethings to 206 countries and territories where Coca-Cola is sold in 2010. The trio sets off on their 275,000-mile tour from Madrid on Jan. 1, stocked with laptops, video cameras, smartphones and plenty of other gadgetry, in order to document for the masses their search for happiness.” (Adage.com)

by Paul Garver

American student anti-sweatshop activists have won their first major victory in a decade-long campaign against sweatshop conditions and repression of labor unions in Central America. Russell Athletic, largest supplier of campus team uniforms and logo-wear, fired 145 union supporters and shut down a factory in Honduras after its 1200 workers tried to organize a union. Under pressure from mobilizations by the United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS), nearly one hundred college and university campuses ended their contracts with Russell. Now Russell Athletic has agreed to open a new unionized factory, hire the fired workers, and maintain neutrality towards union organizing at the seven other facilities owned by Russell Athletics and its parent company Fruit of the Loom in Honduras.

In the first weeks of November Chinese university students escalated their campaign to end abuses against contract labor at mainland Coca-Cola bottling plants. The students leafleted workers at Coke bottling factory gates with detailed explanations of the legal rights of contract workers (called “dispatch labor” in China). They also posted large banners on university campuses with slogans, images and details of abuses against contract laborers that they had documented in two major reports released in December 2008 and May 2009. Under pressure from the students, the Coca-Cola Company and its Swire Bottler partner have agreed to meet with the mainland student group to “enter into dialogue” about the issues they have raised.

Both of these stories deserve a fuller treatment, which follows.

The anti-sweatshop victory at Russell Athletic did not come out of the blue – it was the product of 10 years of organization and mobilization that persuaded 170 universities to join the Worker Rights Consortium (WRC) , an independent monitoring group that inspected factories to ensure that they complied with the detailed codes of conduct adopted by colleges and universities under pressure from the student movement against sweatshops.

Russell Athletic is a subsidiary of Fruit of the Loom, owned by Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway. Students mobilized against its anti-union conduct in Honduras not only by convincing the universities affiliated to the WRC that it had violated their supplier codes of conduct, but by agitating on dozens of other campuses, bringing Honduran speakers to the Berkshire Hathaway shareholders meeting, and picketing the NBA finals because the league had a licensing agreement with Russell. These creative and persistent tactics forced Russell Athletics and Fruit of the Loom to sign an agreement with the WRC not only to reopen a new factory by rehiring the fired workers and recognizing their union, but promising non-interference with union organizing drives at their other factories in Honduras.

After reaching the agreement with the WRC, Russell released a joint statement with the Honduran apparel workers’ union which asserted that the agreement was “intended to foster workers’ rights in Honduras and establish a harmonious relationship.”

Moises Alvarado, president of the union at the closed plant, said that “It was very important to receive the support of the universities. We are impressed by the social conscience of the students in the United States.”

Scott Nova, executive director of the WRC, called the agreement unprecedented in scope and size and in the “transformative impact it can have in one of the hardest regions of the world to win respect for workers’ rights.”

However the USAS and WRC will have to remain vigilant so that the agreement is actually implemented. Several other promising union organizing agreements at maquiladora plants in Central America have turned to ashes when the newly unionized plants were shut down in retaliation.

Steven Greenhouse has written an excellent article for the New York Times detailing this agreement. You can also read more about it on the AFL-CIO NOW blog.

Student Campaign at Coke China

A group of courageous university students in China decided in 2008 to become advocates for one of the the most exploited groups of Chinese workers. Tens of millions of so-called “dispatch workers” are hired by manpower agencies to work on a “temporary” basis in Chinese workplaces. They are drawn from the ranks of migrant workers (rural villagers who seek jobs in industrial areas, but do not enjoy the basic rights in the communities to which they move). Often working alongside permanent workers over many years, but at lower wages and without social benefits, these dispatch workers are not represented by the ineffective official unions either at the dispatch agency itself or at the employer for which they work.

In the summer of 2008 university students took seasonal jobs at five Coke bottling plants in order to investigate the condition of dispatch laborers first hand. Returning to their studies in the autumn, they issued a detailed investigative report in December 2008. In May 2009 they revisited these plants and two others, detailing their findings in a second report (Details of these reports and their background are contained in an article in China Labor News Translations to which I contributed. The article contains links to the students ‘ reports both in Chinese and in English translation).

In August 2009 two students who had returned to work at a Coke bottler in Hangzhou with an excessive ratio of dispatched laborers to permanent employees were physically assaulted by managers of the labor dispatch company. The Coca-Cola Company’s Greater China unit initially denied all the charges and disclaimed any responsibility for the actions of its bottlers or labor suppliers. However the company made marginal improvement for dispatched laborers in a couple of plants. In October the company communicated to the Hong-Kong based advocacy group Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior (SACOM) that it would be willing to meet with the mainland Student Group and their supporters at SACOM to discuss the issues involved.

It is expected that a first meeting between the students and Coca-Cola will take place before the end of 2009. However the students are aware that Coca-Cola will not intervene to correct the underlying abuses of the dispatch labor system at its bottlers without increased public pressure. Therefore at the beginning of November the Student Group launched additional initiatives. Students leafleted workers at two Coke bottlers with information on rights of dispatched workers that are contained in the new Labor Contract law, but have not been implemented. They also began holding public meetings on campuses, and posted huge “big character “ banners to raise student awareness (One banner reads: “Heartless Coca-Cola, Illegal Labor Use, University Students Call on Coca-Cola to Obey Chinese Laws.”)

Although the students are acting completely within a legal framework by merely demanding that Coca-Cola comply with Chinese law, they are pushing the margins of official toleration (even for students and academics, who have looser restrictions than do workers). Several students have already been warned that they are risking their academic careers and worse. If Coca-Cola or its local bottlers were to call upon local authorities to repress the students, the consequences could be disastrous for these brave and idealistic students. But there is also the possibility that their actions may catalyze progressive social reforms that would reduce the social contradictions between capital and the most exploited sectors of Chinese workers. The neglect of the interests of hundreds of millions of migrant workers in the long run will impede the emergence of a more “harmonious” society that would balance China’s explosive economic development with the needs of China’s vast and growing working class.

Two weeks ago I made a presentation on the Coca-Cola case at a labor-management relations conference in Guangzhou hosted by the municipal labor federation, and organized by the labor relations faculties of the universities of Beijing and Frankfurt. (My power point presentation in English and Chinese translation is available upon request). Among the Chinese and foreign participants from both academic and labor environments at the conference there was much talk of the need to balance capitalist development in China with a more developed “socialist” leg, through the development of collective bargaining and stronger more effective labor unions. These kind of “social democratic” reforms so important to China’s future can only succeed in combination with grassroots organizing that mobilizes support from throughout Chinese society and its growing middle class in which university students are future opinion shapers.

Although the movement of Chinese students on behalf of worker rights is still embryonic in comparison with the anti-sweatshop movement on American campuses, they share certain broad characteristics. Both use imaginative tactics appropriate to their respective cultures, but exercise considerable responsibility and self-discipline in implementing them. Both spring from an idealistic dedication to expanding human and worker rights, while using strategic research and careful investigation to buttress their claims and to target global corporations that are vulnerable to organized consumer pressure.

It has been said that China and the USA are two strategic poles of the emerging global social and economic order, and certainly their respective directions will have great influence on the whole 21st century. But their student movements are developing with little mutual comprehension and exchange of ideas. Surely American and Chinese student activists have much to learn from each other.

Avatar, o novo filme de James Cameron é todo moderninho. Tão moderninho e inovador que os brinquedos do McDonald’s e da Coca Cola para promover o filme usarão realidade aumentada! Olha esse vídeo:

Eu gostei bastante, mas ao mesmo tempo não gostei. Eu sou da época em que os bonecos eram palpáveis. Você ia ao shopping com a mãe só para comprar o McLanche Feliz por causa do brinquedo. Brincava por uma semana (quando muito) e nunca mais tocava neles, até aquele seu primo chato vir à sua casa para o almoço de domingo e você fazer sua mãe tirar todos os brinquedos da estante do seu quarto para se mostrar para ele.

Essa criançada vai saber brincar disso? Não estou subestimando a inteligência, mas sim o modo com essas crianças brincarão com isso. Acho que limita a imaginação. Será que essa moda pega? Será que a criançada vai curtir? E será que isso chega no Brasil?

Avatar tem estréia marcada para 18 de Dezembro.

Coca Cola has cornered the drinks market for the 2012 Olympics with their aptly named “Powerade” (sounds like a mickey take doesn’t it?) which will be the official sports drink of the games.

In a glamorous advertising campaign they persuaded several British athletes to strip for a photo shoot and the results are spectacular. Award winning photographer Nadav Kander captured the power and athleticism of their bodies very successfully in a way which would make even the worst British couch potato (and that is most of the population!) want to get up and exercise:

Rebecca Romero is definitely in shape for 2012

Swimmer Gregor Tait went skinny dipping for his shot:

Gregor Tait shows off his physique and his skills in a naked shot

Let’s just hope they perform as well in the real thing as they did for the camera.

Odata, intr-o tara uitata de lume si circulata de toate relele traia un popor de oameni simpli, modesti in gandire si influentabili peste masura. Si la fiecare sfarsit de an acesti oameni cinsteau cu piosenie sfanta sarbatoare a Craciunului, o sarbatoare in cadrul careia ei omagiau nasterea Mantuitorului prin campanii promotionale la tot felul de produse, dar mai ales la Coca-Cola.

Si in tara asta a oamenilor simpli, in fiecare an, cu 40 de zile inainte de sarbatoarea bradului impodobit, influentabilii locuitori ai acestui taram intrau in transa la auzul unei voci suave, diabolice ar fi zis unii. Toti cei care ramaneau imuni vocii cantatoare de muzica “istorica” se intrebau de unde vine acest sunet. Unii ar fi zis ca de la o prefrumoasa zana, altii ar fi zis ca e coloana sonora a unuia din multele filme proaste cu Mos Craciun… putinii care ramaneau constienti vehiculau tot felul de variante.

Intr-una din zile, cand era omenirii se apropia de sfarsit si cand tot mai multi deveneau imuni la zgomotul fermecat tuturor le fu dat sa vada vinovatul. Pe toate posturile de televiziune si pe toate tarabele cu muzica aparu chipul fapturii misterioase. Dar creatura nu era o creatura…. era o fantoma a unui Craciun vechi, comunist, traditional dealtfel, un Craciun care nu sarbatoarea nasterea Domnului ci sarbatoarea mai degraba impodobirea bradului si coacerea cozonacilor. Dar de-a lungul anilor “Fantoma Care Bantuia Craciunul” si-a actualizat metodele si a cantat despre tot ce legau oamenii de Craciun…. mai putin despre Coca-Cola.

http://www.shapecollage.com/

This is a very cool new web application. Very cool indeed. You supply the photos and it creates a collage of them in any shape you like – solid shapes, outlines, text, whatever.

If you ever played Nintendo games then click on the Nintendo Logo Collage above for the full version and reminesce! For other example collages visit the Shape Collage Gallery.

Ritorno sull’argomento affrontato in questo post
http://cubepark.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/i-cubi-cinesi/

Ho chiamato l’ufficio brevetti, e ho scoperto che i giocattoli non possono essere brevettati, si può registrare con il copyright il nome del giocattolo, che in quel caso quindi  non può essere copiato . Ma non ha niente a che vedere col brevetto, speterebbe alla SIAE intervenire, il brevetto non ci azzecca

Puoi proteggere il tuo prodotto (giocattolo) solo tramite il copyright.

Esempio.

Il monopoli. Non è brevettato il gioco, è registrato il nome, che non può essere utilizzato da altri.
Però , se te fai un gioco uguale al Monopoli e lo distribuisci col nome Casopoli potresti ugualmente essere denunciato, perchè propabilmente è stato depositato il regolamento.
Altro esempio, a me caro….
La Coca Cola.
Non è stata brevettata, è stato deposiato il marchio, ma non è stata brevettata la formula…perchè?
Ovvio…
La formula è segreta, se avessero brevettata l abevanda avrebbero dovuto depositare la ricetta con l’ingrediente segreto.
Ormai non è più segreto, ma poco importa, ci hanno giocato molto sul “famoso ingrediete segreto”, credo sia stato una questione di immagine….
Lo stesso discoroso vale per la Nutella…c’è la crema di nocciole dell’esselunga, del GS, della coop, della LIDL di Ligabue, ma Nutella..quella è una sola….ma cambiamo argomento, mi sta venendo fame

Facciamo un passo indietro, e parliamo nuovamente di maxi sequestri.
Quando la dogana ferma dei pacchi con dei cubi e fa pagare il dazio, a noi possono sembrare zelanti, invece sono negligenti…
Il marchio CE, questo sconosciuto.
Se la MAcDue facesse una segnalazione alla Guarda di Finanzia , come si dice dalle mie parti, verrebbe fuori un pieno, un bordello.
Ma non per forza deve essere la MacDue a farlo, basta  una qualsiasi persona…ma nn sarebbero sequestrati per conraffazione , ma perchè privi del marchio CE, almeno che non vengano chiamati Rubik….ma se ci fate caso la parola Rubik non esiste nei vari siti, tipo cube4you, si parla sempre di cube, di vari modelli, ma non rubik’s cube…solo cube

Lo stesso discorso vale per il fisher cube e per i V Cube

Quindi, chiunque può fabbricare e vendere questi cubi…senza problemi, non so come funziona a liello internazionale, ma in Italia è cosi

Spero di essere stato chiaro….

Brand Ambassador – The phrase has been in use for many years. Going forward brand marketers are searching for ambassadors in every domain. I wonder if you saw the report on Charmin’s quest to find bathroom ambassadors, Ford’s looking for Fusion ambassadors, and now Coca-Cola is looking for a few brand Happiness ambassadors themselves.

The Coca-Cola Company is on a mission to find happiness in the 206 different countries that sell Coca-Cola products across the world.

With the Expedition 206 campaign, Coca-Cola is tapping regular people to be their “Happiness Ambassadors” and travel the world for the whole of 2010 and document their quest via blog posts, tweets, YouTube videos, TwitPics, and other social media mentions. Yesterday, at the World of Coca-Cola in Atlanta, GA, Coca-Cola announced the winning Expedition 206team.  In Coca-Cola’s Expedition 206 campaign, the company has used social media to pick three individuals to travel the world in 2010, who in turn visit all 206 markets where Coca-Cola has a presence. Along the way, the “Happiness Ambassadors” will take photos, make videos, send out updates on Twitter and Facebook and connect with individuals around the world

We’re constantly seeing new examples of big companies — and big brands — embracing and using social media to connect with customers. Still, it’s impressive to see a company the size of Coca-Cola, not only talk the talk, but actually follow-through.  The idea for Expedition 206 was kick-started by Clyde Tuggle, the senior vice president of Global Public Affairs and Communications for Coca-Cola. This is interesting for two reasons: 1) this initiative started from the top — the higher-ups didn’t have to be convinced of the power of social media and 2) this blurs the traditional lines and roles that exist between PR and marketing teams. Tuggle made it clear that Coke knows that they don’t own the brand — the consumers own the brand. Thus, who better to trust to spread the message of happiness than those consumers?

Although the scale of Expedition 206 is obviously larger than what most social campaigns can be, the idea of connecting people globally using social media and real-life contact is something we hope other companies embrace.

Source Mashable & DM News