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History Of Coca-Cola (Daily Article)

Today I was looking for what people are searching in the net. So the answer was that a lot of persons are intrested in the history od Coca-Cola and how did the first bootle look like. With the help of the official site of The Coca-Cola Company(http://www.thecoca-colacompany.com)  I’ll share you this story.

History of Bottling

Coca-Cola® originated as a soda fountain beverage in 1886 selling for five cents a glass. Early growth was impressive, but it was only when a strong bottling system developed that Coca-Cola became the world-famous brand it is today.

1894 … A modest start for a bold idea
In a candy store in Vicksburg, Mississippi, brisk sales of the new fountain beverage calledCoca-Cola impressed the store’s owner, Joseph A. Biedenharn. He began bottling Coca-Cola to sell, using a common glass bottle called a Hutchinson.

Biedenharn sent a case to Asa Griggs Candler, who owned the Company. Candler thanked him but took no action. One of his nephews already had urged that Coca-Cola be bottled, but Candler focused on fountain sales.

1899 … The first bottling agreement
Two young attorneys from Chattanooga, Tennessee believed they could build a business around bottling Coca-Cola. In a meeting with Candler, Benjamin F. Thomas and Joseph B. Whitehead obtained exclusive rights to bottle Coca-Cola across most of the United States (specifically excluding Vicksburg) — for the sum of one dollar. A third Chattanooga lawyer, John T. Lupton, soon joined their venture.

1900-1909 … Rapid growth
The three pioneer bottlers divided the country into territories and sold bottling rights to local entrepreneurs. Their efforts were boosted by major progress in bottling technology, which improved efficiency and product quality. By 1909, nearly 400 Coca-Colabottling plants were operating, most of them family-owned businesses. Some were open only during hot-weather months when demand was high.

1916 … Birth of the contour bottle
Bottlers worried that the straight-sided bottle for Coca-Cola was easily confused with imitators. A group representing the Company and bottlers asked glass manufacturers to offer ideas for a distinctive bottle. A design from the Root Glass Company of Terre Haute, Indiana won enthusiastic approval in 1915 and was introduced in 1916. The contour bottle became one of the few packages ever granted trademark status by the U.S. Patent Office. Today, it’s one of the most recognized icons in the world – even in the dark!

1920s … Bottling overtakes fountain sales
As the 1920s dawned, more than 1,000 Coca-Cola bottlers were operating in the U.S. Their ideas and zeal fueled steady growth. Six-bottle cartons were a huge hit after their 1923 introduction. A few years later, open-top metal coolers became the forerunners of automated vending machines. By the end of the 1920s, bottle sales ofCoca-Cola exceeded fountain sales.

1920s and 30s … International expansion
Led by longtime Company leader Robert W. Woodruff, chief executive officer and chairman of the Board, the Company began a major push to establish bottling operations outside the U.S. Plants were opened in France, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Belgium, Italy, Peru, Spain, Australia and South Africa. By the time World War II began,Coca-Cola was being bottled in 44 countries.

1940s … Post-war growth
During the war, 64 bottling plants were set up around the world to supply the troops. This followed an urgent request for bottling equipment and materials from General Eisenhower’s base in North Africa. Many of these war-time plants were later converted to civilian use, permanently enlarging the bottling system and accelerating the growth of the Company’s worldwide business.

1950s … Packaging innovations
For the first time, consumers had choices of Coca-Colapackage size and type — the traditional 6.5-ounce contour bottle, or larger servings including 10-, 12- and 26-ounce versions. Cans were also introduced, becoming generally available in 1960.

1960s … New brands introduced
Following Fanta® in the 1950s, Sprite®, Minute Maid®, Fresca® and TaB® joined brandCoca-Cola in the 1960s. Mr. Pibb® and Mello Yello® were added in the 1970s. The 1980s brought diet Coke® and Cherry Coke®, followed by POWERADE® and DASANI® in the 1990s. Today hundreds of other brands are offered to meet consumer preferences in local markets around the world.

1970s and 80s … Consolidation to serve customers
As technology led to a global economy, the retailers who sold Coca-Cola merged and evolved into international mega-chains. Such customers required a new approach. In response, many small and medium-size bottlers consolidated to better serve giant international customers. The Company encouraged and invested in a number of bottler consolidations to assure that its largest bottling partners would have capacity to lead the system in working with global retailers.

1990s … New and growing markets
Political and economic changes opened vast markets that were closed or underdeveloped for decades. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Company invested heavily to build plants in Eastern Europe. And as the century closed, more than $1.5 billion was committed to new bottling facilities in Africa.

21st Century …
The Coca-Cola bottling system grew up with roots deeply planted in local communities. This heritage serves the Company well today as people seek brands that honor local identity and the distinctiveness of local markets. As was true a century ago, strong locally based relationships between Coca-Cola bottlers, customers and communities are the foundation on which the entire business grows.

Here are some pictures with all the bottles of Coca-Cola since 1899:

   

What happened the 9 of May?

It seems to be a simpe day , the 9 of may, but behind this date there is plenty of events. With the help of  Wikipedia I will tell you all this events:

May 9 is the 129th day of the year (130th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 236 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 328 – Athanasius is elected Patriarch bishop of Alexandria.
• 1092 – Lincoln Cathedral is consecrated.
• 1450 – ‘Abd al-Latif (Timurid monarch) is assassinated.
• 1502 – Christopher Columbus leaves Spain for his fourth and final journey to the New World.
• 1671 – Thomas Blood, disguised as a clergyman, attempts to steal England‘s Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.
• 1726 – Five men arrested during a raid on Mother Clap‘s molly house in London are executed at Tyburn.
• 1864 – Second War of Schleswig: The Danish navy defeats the Austrian and Prussian fleets in the Battle of Heligoland.
• 1868 – The city of Reno, Nevada, is founded.
• 1873 – Der Krach: Vienna stock market crash heralds the Long Depression.
• 1874 – The first horse-drawn bus makes its début in the city of Mumbai, traveling two routes.
• 1877 – Mihail Kogălniceanu reads, in the Chamber of Deputies, the Declaration of Independence of Romania. This day became the Independence Day of Romania.
• 1877 – A magnitude 8.8 earthquake off the coast of Peru kills 2,541, including some as far away as Hawaii and Japan.
• 1887 – Buffalo Bill Cody‘s Wild West Show opens in London.
• 1901 – Australia opens its first parliament in Melbourne.
• 1904 – The steam locomotive City of Truro becomes the first steam engine in Europe to exceed 100 mph (160 km/h).
• 1911 – The works of Gabriele D’Annunzio placed by the Vatican in the Index of Forbidden Books.
• 1915 – World War I: Second Battle of Artois between German and French forces.
• 1920 – Polish-Soviet War: The Polish army under General Edward Rydz-Śmigły celebrates its capture of Kiev with a victory parade on Khreschatyk.
• 1926 – Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett claim to have flown over the North Pole (later discovery of Byrd’s diary seems to indicate that this did not happen).
• 1927 – The Australian Parliament first convenes in Canberra.
• 1936 – Italy formally annexes Ethiopia after taking the capital Addis Ababa on May 5.
• 1937 – Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy took to the airwaves becoming an overnight radio sensation.
• 1940 – World War II: The German submarine U-9 sinks the French coastal submarine Doris near Den Helder.
• 1941 – World War II: The German submarine U-110 is captured by the Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma cryptography machine which Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages.
• 1942 – Holocaust: The SS murders 588 Jewish residents of the Podolian town of Zinkiv (Khmelnytska oblast, Ukraine). The Zoludek Ghetto is destroyed and all its inhabitants murdered or deported.
• 1945 – World War II: Ratification in Berlin-Karlshorst of the German unconditional surrender of May 8 in Rheims, France, with the signatures of Marshal Georgy Zhukov for the Soviet Union, and for the Western Headquarters Sir Arthur Tedder, British Air Marshal and Eisenhower’s deputy, and for the German side of Colonel-General Hans-Jürgen Stumpff as the representative of the Luftwaffe, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitelas the Chief of Staff of OKW, and Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg as Commander-in-Chief of the Kriegsmarine.
• 1945 – World War II: The Channel Islands are liberated by the British after five years of German occupation.
• 1946 – King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy abdicates and is succeeded by Humbert II.
• 1949 – Rainier III of Monaco becomes Prince of Monaco.
• 1950 – Robert Schuman presents his proposal on the creation of an organized Europe, which according to him was indispensable to the maintenance of peaceful relations. This proposal, known as the “Schuman declaration“, is considered by some people to be the beginning of the creation of what is now the European Union.
• 1950 – L. Ron Hubbard‘s Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health is released.
• 1955 – Cold War: West Germany joins NATO.
• 1955 – Sam and Friends debuts on a local United States television channel, marking the first television appearance of both Jim Henson and what would become Kermit the Frog and The Muppets.
• 1960 – The Food and Drug Administration announces it will approve birth control as an additional indication for Searle‘s Enovid, making Enovid the world’s first approved oral contraceptive pill.
• 1961 – Jim Gentile of the Baltimore Orioles becomes the first player in baseball history to hit grand slams in consecutive innings.
• 1964 – Ngo Dinh Can, de facto ruler of central Vietnam under his brother President Ngo Dinh Diem before the family’s toppling, is executed.
• 1969 – Carlos Lamarca leads the first urban guerrilla action against the military dictatorship of Brazil in São Paulo, by robbing two banks.
• 1970 – Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 75,000 to 100,000 war protesters demonstrate in front of the White House.
• 1974 – Watergate Scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee opens formal and public impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon.
• 1980 – In Florida, Liberian freighter MV Summit Venture collides with the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay, making a 1,400-ft. section of the southbound span collapse. 35 people in six cars and aGreyhound bus fall 150 ft. into the water and die.
• 1980 – In Norco, California, five masked gunman hold up a Security Pacific bank, leading to a violent shoot-out and one of the largest pursuits in California history. Two of the gunmen and one police officer are killed and thirty-three police and civilian vehicles are destroyed in the chase.
• 1987 – A Polish LOT Ilyushin IL-62M “Tadeusz Kościuszko” (SP-LBG) crashes after takeoff in Warsaw, Poland, killing 183 people.
• 1992 – Armenian forces capture Shusha, marking a major turning point in the Karabakh War.
• 2001 – In Ghana 129 football fans die in what became known as the Accra Sports Stadium Disaster. The deaths are caused by a stampede (caused by the firing of teargas by police personnel at the stadium) that followed a controversial decision by the referee.
• 2002 – The 38-day stand-off in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem comes to an end when the Palestinians inside agree to have 13 suspected terrorists among them deported to several different countries.
• 2002 – In Kaspiysk, Russia, a remote-controlled bomb explodes during a holiday parade killing 43 and injuring at least 130.
• 2004 – Chechen president Akhmad Kadyrov is killed by a land mine under a VIP stage during a World War II memorial victory parade in Grozny, Chechnya.
• 2006 – Estonia ratifies the European Constitution.

Births

• 1147 – Minamoto no Yoritomo, Japanese shogun (d. 1199)
• 1741 – Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (d. 1816)
• 1800 – John Brown, American abolitionist (d. 1859)
• 1801 – Peter Hesketh-Fleetwood, English Member of Parliament and developer (d. 1866)
• 1837 – Adam Opel, German engineer and industrialist (d. 1895)
• 1860 – J. M. Barrie, Scottish author (d. 1937)
• 1866 – Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Leader of Indian Independence Movement (d. 1915)
• 1873 – Anton Cermak, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1933)
• 1874 – Howard Carter, British archaeologist (d. 1939)
• 1882 – George Barker, American painter (d. 1965)
• 1882 – Henry J. Kaiser, American shipbuilder (d. 1967)
• 1883 – José Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher (d. 1955)
• 1886 – Francis Biddle, United States Attorney General (d. 1968)
• 1892 – Zita of Bourbon-Parma, Empress of Austria-Hungary (d. 1989)
• 1893 – William Moulton Marston, American psychologist, writer (co-creator, Wonder Woman) (d. 1947)
• 1895 – Richard Barthelmess, American actor (d. 1963)
• 1895 – Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet, playwright, and philosopher (d. 1961)
• 1888 – Rolf de Maré, Swedish art collector and museum director (d. 1964)
• 1907 – Kathryn Kuhlman, famed evangelist (d. 1976)
• 1907 – Baldur von Schirach, Nazi official (d. 1974)
• 1907 – Fred Warngård, Swedish athlete (d. 1950)
• 1908 – Mary Goldsmith, American ceramist (d. 2007)
• 1909 – Don Messer, Canadian country musician (d. 1973)
• 1912 – Pedro Armendáriz, Mexican actor (d. 1963)
• 1912 – Géza Ottlik, Hungarian writer (d. 1990)
• 1912 – Per Imerslund, Norwegian writer (d. 1943)
• 1914 – Denham Fouts, American male prostitute and socialite (d. 1948)
• 1914 – Carlo Maria Giulini, Italian musician and conductor (d. 2005)
• 1914 – Hank Snow, American country music singer and songwriter (d. 1999)
• 1918 – Moisis Michail Bourlas, Greek member of the World War II resistance (d. 2011)
• 1918 – Orville L. Freeman, American politician (d. 2003)
• 1918 – Mike Wallace, American journalist
• 1919 – Arthur English, English actor and comedian (d. 1995)
• 1920 – Richard Adams, English author
• 1920 – William Tenn, American author (d. 2010)
• 1921 – Daniel Berrigan, American peace activist
• 1921 – Sophie Scholl, resistance fighter in Nazi Germany (d. 1943)
• 1921 – Mona Van Duyn, American poet (d. 2004)
• 1923 – Johnny Grant, American radio personality, television producer (d. 2008)
• 1924 – Bulat Okudzhava, Russian writer and musician (d. 1997)
• 1927 – Manfred Eigen, German biophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• 1928 – Ralph Goings, American painter
• 1928 – Pancho Gonzalez, American tennis player (d. 1995)
• 1928 – Barbara Ann Scott, Canadian figure skater
• 1929 – Kay Dotrice, British actress (d. 2007)
• 1930 – Joan Sims, British actress (d. 2001)
• 1930 – Kalifa Tillisi, Libyan writer and linguist
• 1931 – Vance Brand, American astronaut
• 1932 – Geraldine McEwan, English actress
• 1933 – Jessica Steele, English romance novelist
• 1934 – Alan Bennett, British author
• 1935 – Nokie Edwards, American guitarist (The Ventures)
• 1935 – Roger Hargreaves, English children’s author (Mr. Men) (d. 1988)
• 1936 – Albert Finney, British actor
• 1936 – Glenda Jackson, English actress and politician
• 1937 – José Rafael Moneo, Spanish architect
• 1937 – Sonny Curtis, American singer, songwriter, guitarist
• 1937 – David Prater, American singer (Sam & Dave) (d. 1988)
• 1938 – Charles Simic, Yugoslavian-born poet, 15th Poet Laureate of the United States
• 1939 – Ralph Boston, American athlete
• 1939 – Pierre Desproges, French humorist (d. 1988)
• 1939 – Ion Ţiriac, Romanian tennis manager
• 1940 – James L. Brooks, American film producer and writer
• 1941 – Pete Birrell, British bass guitarist
• 1942 – John Ashcroft, United States Attorney General
• 1942 – Tommy Roe, American singer and songwriter
• 1943 – Vince Cable, British politician
• 1943 – Anders Isaksson, Swedish journalist, writer, and historian (d. 2009)
• 1944 – Richie Furay, American musician (Poco and Buffalo Springfield)
• 1944 – Laurence Owen, American figure skater (d. 1961)
• 1945 – Steve Katz, American musician (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
• 1946 – Candice Bergen, American actress
• 1946 – Clint Holmes, English-born American singer and songwriter
• 1948 – Hans Georg Bock, German mathematician
• 1948 – Calvin Murphy, American basketball player
• 1949 – Billy Joel, American musician
• 1950 – Tom Petersson, American bass guitarist (Cheap Trick)
• 1951 – Alley Mills, American actress
• 1953 – Bruno Brokken, Belgian high jumper
• 1953 – Amy Hill, American actress
• 1954 – Lawrence Dutton, American violist
• 1955 – Kevin Peter Hall, American actor (d. 1991)
• 1955 – Anne-Sofie von Otter, Swedish mezzo-soprano
• 1956 – Wendy Crewson, Canadian actress
• 1960 – Tony Gwynn, American baseball player
• 1961 – Sean Altman, American singer (Rockapella)
• 1962 – John Corbett, American actor
• 1962 – Dave Gahan, English singer (Depeche Mode)
• 1962 – Paul Heaton, English singer/songwriter (Beautiful South)
• 1963 – Sanja Doležal, Croatian singer (Novi fosili)
• 1965 – Ken Nomura, Japanese racing driver
• 1965 – Janu Tornell, American model and Survivor contestant
• 1965 – Steve Yzerman, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1968 – David Benoit, American basketball player
• 1968 – Marie-José Pérec, French athlete
• 1969 – Amber, Dutch musician
• 1969 – Hudson Leick, American actress
• 1970 – Doug Christie, American basketball player
• 1970 – Ghostface Killah, American rapper
• 1971 – Paul McGuigan, English bassist (Oasis)
• 1972 – Megumi Odaka, Japanese actress and artist
• 1972 – Dana Perino, former White House press secretary
• 1972 – Daniela Silivaş, Romanian gymnast and Olympic Champion
• 1972 – Lisa Ann, American Pornographic Actress
• 1973 – Chu Sang-mi, South Korean actress
• 1974 – Dylan Lauren,American businesswoman & daughter of fashion designer Ralph Lauren
• 1975 – Brian Deegan, freestyle motocross innovator
• 1975 – Chris Diamantopoulos, Canadian actor
• 1975 – Lane Kiffin, American football coach
• 1975 – Tamia, Canadian singer
• 1976 – Christos Marangos, Greek-Cypriot footballer
• 1977 – Choi Jeong-yoon, South Korean actress
• 1977 – Maggie Dixon, American college basketball coach (d. 2006)
• 1977 – Iñigo Landaluze, Spanish cyclist
• 1978 – Leandro Damián Cufré, Argentine footballer
• 1978 – Santiago Dellapè, Argentine-born Italian rugby player
• 1978 – Aaron Harang, American baseball player
• 1979 – Dionysis Boukouvalas, Greek composer, pianist and musicologist
• 1979 – Pierre Bouvier, Canadian musician (Simple Plan)
• 1979 – Rosario Dawson, American actress
• 1979 – Matt Morris, American singer-songwriter
• 1979 – Andrew W.K., American musician
• 1979 – Brandon Webb, American baseball player
• 1980 – Grant Hackett, Australian swimmer
• 1980 – Jo Hyeon-jae, South Korean actor
• 1980 – Angela Nikodinov, American figure skater
• 1980 – Tony Schmidt, German racing driver
• 1981 – Bill Murphy, American baseball player
• 1981 – Evangelos Tsiolis, Greek footballer
• 1981 – Yu Yokoyama, Japanese actor and singer
• 1982 – Rachel Boston, American actress
• 1983 – Tyler Lumsden, American baseball player
• 1983 – Ryuhei Matsuda, Japanese actor
• 1983 – Gilles Müller, Luxembourgian tennis player
• 1984 – Prince Fielder, American baseball player
• 1985 – Henrique, Brazilian soccer player
• 1985 – Jake Long, American football player
• 1985 – Audrina Patridge, American actress
• 1988 – John Ryan Fitzpatrick, Canadian race truck driver
• 1992 – Chris Gutierrez, Filipino actor
• 1993 – Ryosuke Yamada, Japanese actor and singer
• 1997 – Zane Huett, American actor

Deaths

• 1315 – Hugh V, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1282)
• 1446 – Mary of Enghien, Queen of Naples (b. 1368)
• 1657 – William Bradford, Governor of Plymouth Colony (b. 1590)
• 1707 – Dieterich Buxtehude, German composer
• 1745 – Tomaso Antonio Vitali, Italian violinist and composer(b. 1663)
• 1747 – John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair, Scottish soldier and diplomat (b. 1673)
• 1760 – Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf, German religious and social reformer (b. 1700)
• 1789 – Jean Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval, French artillery specialist (b. 1715)
• 1790 – William Clingan, American delegate to the Continental Congress
• 1791 – Francis Hopkinson, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1737)
• 1805 – Friedrich Schiller, German poet and historian (b. 1759)
• 1861 – Peter Ernst von Lasaulx, German philosopher and writer (b. 1805)
• 1889 – William S. Harney, U.S. general (b. 1800)
• 1914 – C.W. Post, American food manufacturer (b. 1854)
• 1915 – François Faber, Luxembourgish cyclist (b. 1887)
• 1918 – George Coşbuc, Romanian poet (b. 1866)
• 1931 – Albert Abraham Michelson, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1938 – Thomas B. Thrige, Danish industrialist (b. 1866)
• 1949 – Prince Louis II of Monaco (b. 1870)
• 1950 – Esteban Terradas i Illa, Catalan mathematician, scientist, and engineer (b. 1883)
• 1955 – Kate Booth, oldest daughter of William and Catherine Booth (b. 1858)
• 1957 – Ezio Pinza, Italian bass (b. 1892)
• 1957 – Sir Ernest de Silva, Sri Lankan Philanthropist (b. 1887)
• 1965 – Leopold Figl, Austrian politician (b. 1902)
• 1968 – Mercedes de Acosta, American poet, playwright, costume designer, and socialite (b. 1893)
• 1968 – Finlay Currie, British actor (b. 1878)
• 1968 – Marion Lorne, American actress (b. 1885)
• 1970 – Andrew Watson Myles, Canadian politician (b. 1884)
• 1970 – Walter Reuther, American labor leader (b. 1907)
• 1976 – Jens Bjørneboe, Norwegian author (b. 1920)
• 1976 – Ulrike Meinhof, German communist militant (b. 1934)
• 1977 – James Jones, American writer (b. 1921)
• 1978 – Aldo Moro, Prime Minister of Italy: 1963-1968, 1974-1976 (b. 1916)
• 1979 – Cyrus Eaton, Canadian-American businessman and industrialist (b. 1883)
• 1981 – Ralph Allen, English footballer (b. 1906)
• 1985 – Edmond O’Brien, American actor (b. 1915)
• 1986 – Tenzing Norgay, Nepalese sherpa and 1st sherpa to climb Mt. Everest (b. 1914)
• 1989 – Keith Whitley, American country music singer (b. 1955)
• 1993 – Jacques Dextraze, French Canadian military officer (b. 1919)
• 1994 – Elias Motsoaledi, South African freedom fighter (b. 1924)
• 1997 – Rawya Ateya, Egyptian politician and first female parliamentarian in the Arab world (b. 1926)
• 1997 – Marco Ferreri, Italian film director (b. 1928)
• 1998 – Alice Faye, American actress (b. 1915)
• 1998 – Rommie Loudd, former American football player, coach, and executive (b. 1933)
• 1998 – Talat Mahmood, Indian singer (b. 1924)
• 2000 – Arthur Davis, American animator (b. 1905)
• 2001 – James E. Myers, American songwriter (Rock Around the Clock) and producer (b. 1919)
• 2002 – Dan Devine, American football coach (b. 1924)
• 2003 – Russell B. Long, U.S. Senator from Louisiana (b. 1918)
• 2004 – Akhmad Kadyrov, Chechen president (b. 1951)
• 2004 – Alan King, American comedian (b. 1927)
• 2005 – Nasrat Parsa, Afghani singer (b. 1969)
• 2007 – Dwight Wilson, second-to-last Canadian World War I veteran (b. 1901)
• 2007 – Edith Rodriguez, woman refused emergency room treatment for gastrointestinal perforation (b. 1964)
• 2008 – Jack Gibson, Australian rugby league footballer and coach (b. 1929)
• 2008 – Nuala O’Faolain, Irish journalist (b. 1942)
• 2009 – Chuck Daly, American basketball coach (b. 1930)
• 2009 – Evgenios Spatharis, Greek shadow theatre artist (b. 1924)
• 2010 – Lena Horne, American singer and actress (b. 1917)
• 2010 – Otakar Motejl, Czechoslvakian politician (b. 1932)

Holidays and observances

• Anniversary of Dianetics (Church of Scientology)
• Christian Feast Day
  • Beatus of Lungern
  • Beatus of Vendome
  • Christopher (Αγιος Χριστόφορος) (Eastern Orthodox Church)
  • George Preca
  • Gerontius of Cervia
  • Pachomius
  • Tudy of Landevennec
  • May 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Europe Day, commemorating the Schuman Declaration. (European Union)
• Independence Day, celebrate the independence of Romania from the Ottoman Empire in 1877.
• Liberation Day, commemorating the end of the German Occupation of the Channel Islands during World War II). (Guernsey, Jersey)
• One of the three days of the Feast of the Lemures. (Roman Empire)
• Victory Day observances, celebration of the Soviet Union victory over Nazi Germany (Soviet Union, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Serbia,Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan)
  • Victory and Peace Day, mark the capture of Shusha in the Karabakh War and the end of World War II. (Armenia)

Just a simpe day but with a huge history behind it.

How to use correct the low of Attraction?!

People started becoming aware of argument to whither or not the Law of Attraction works since the movie The Secret went main stream. I thought it was a fascinating movie that had a good intention, but left out crucial elements that are necessary for the Law of Attraction to work.

The Law of Attraction simply states that if you focus on something (long enough) you will get it. Whither it be money, power, fame, the Law of Attraction will provide it for you.

I’ve been behind the scenes of the Personal Development industry, and when you’re behind the scenes of any industry, the truth does eventually come out. The Law of Attraction was padded up nicely and presented to the public in a way that’s so simple and requires no work what so ever on your part.

Now, do you really believe that you can sit on a couch, eat pizza, focus on pictures you cut out from the Forbes magazine, and attract them in your life? I will never say it’s impossible, but let’s face that fact that it’s almost never going to happen. A majority of the people who saw this movie or run their life by the Law of Attraction believe it to be true.  The element that just happened to be left out was Newtons Third Law, the Law of Action. If you have no action, you have no reaction. If the golf club doesn’t hit the golf ball, the ball isn’t going anywhere. No matter how hard you attract a hole in one.

The Law Of Attraction Works

There were several examples from my personal life that I use to explain the success I had with the Law of Attraction. I use to work for an amazing company called The Mike Ferry Organizationwhere I would sell contracts for their coaching programs. I believed in their services 100% which is why I became so good at selling it. After learning about the Law of Attraction, I decided to take it out for a test run.

I was at the mall on day and saw these wicked Prada sunglasses for $350. For some god dam sunglasses, it’s quite expensive, even if you are rich. I found a picture, printed it out and started focusing on those glasses every single day for about 1 month. Now I did not just focus on it and hoped for it to happen, I was focusing on it, got excited and inspired every single day and took action by selling more contracts. That month turned out to be one of my better months because I made well over what I expected. I did this again by buying amazing gear for snowboarding. $600 Burton Snowboard with some $200 Burton Bindings. I did it the same way.

Everything I focused on wouldn’t have come true, if it wasn’t for me taking action on it.

What’s your take on the “law of attraction”?

Obama killing Obama the number one priority (Daily News)

Osama’s watery grave captured (Daily Commercial)

Even if he’s dead, Osama Bin Laden is still a hot topic amongst advertisers. We have no clue whether this video is official, but it’s hilarious. It always important to wear a seatbelt, no matter who you are, and in which condition you find yourself in..

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Ways Your Business Can Use the Internet (Daily Article)

Ways Your Business Can Use the Internet

(NOTE: This is an article listing the ways in which the World Wide Web can be used by businesses. It was authored by Dr. Bill Pierce with the assistance of Dr. Don Altman while both were at Visualogic, Inc. Written during 1994, and therefore ancient by Internet standards, it still is still spot-on, a tribute to Bill’s vision.)

Reach a worldwide audience The Internet is a worldwide network allowing you to reach people even very expensive advertising could not.

Provide product information Give customers direct access to information about your products. Some people prefer to learn about products on their own. The Internet has an unsurpassed ability to make information about your company’s products or services available to potential customers. It also provides the information when the customer wants it (now).

Save on literature costs Providing the information online reduces the need to print and mail product literature, thereby resulting in significant cost reductions.

Augment/replace phone banks Often people staffing phone banks are serving merely as interfaces to computer databases. In an age of graphical, networked computing, this function is less necessary. Simple graphical interfaces can be designed to allow customers to find the information they want quickly and inexpensively.

Provide easy access to customer service representatives Human interaction cannot be totally replaced by even the best graphical interface. When customers have a question, or would like to speak with a person, provide a list of contacts and phone numbers or allow them to send e-mail directly to a customer service representative, requesting that they be contacted.

Level your customer service load How many customers are turned away unsatisfied when your customer service lines are busy? How often do you have slack times when customer support personnel are not handling calls but still cost your business money? E-mail provides “asynchronous communication” that can help level the load. Customers with problems that do not require immediate attention can send an e-mail message through your Web site which can be handled when support people are not busy. Telephone-tag is eliminated for your customers, and you.

Inexpensively create/augment your corporate image It is easy and inexpensive to define your image on the Internet, whether you are a one-person-company or a large corporation. If your company information changes rapidly due to market forces, there is no easier way to change your image than electronically.

Recruit new employees Many companies (now nearly all), provide current information about job openings and attract talented people from places they could not reach otherwise.

Provide useful information to attract customers Ski shops often have a board listing local snow conditions. Search sites like ” yahoo ” and ” Lycos ” provide useful search services for the Web. Providing useful information to potential customers is a good way to get them to come to your site and return again and again (a property now called “stickiness”).

Provide your service on-line Many products and services can be delivered over the Internet. Online services will become an even brighter option for many businesses. Since the transaction is electronic, billing and inventory control can be automated, increasing accuracy and reducing your accounting and product storage costs.

Give customers access to searchable information Computers on the Internet allow companies to post information in the form of static Web pages. But, with some of the latest software (or some clever programming) , these computers can also help your customers find the information you are providing quickly. Federal Express created an award winning Web site that allows customers to track their packages. In doing this, Fed- Ex is providing a useful customer service while also promoting their product (service).

Help customers understand why they need you Another thing computers do well is provide artificial intelligence, expertise, or analysis. The Internet allows you to deliver custom software applications and extend your expertise virtually. Suppose you manufacture thermopane windows. A spreadsheet application could allow potential customers to determine how much money they would save in energy costs if they installed your windows. A financial services company could allow potential customers to analyze their investments in light of a financial service the company offers.

Let customers try a sample of your product or service Many new Web tools are becoming available that will allow consumers to try out a sample of what you have to offer before they buy. Gain a competitive advantage by offering a “test drive” of your product or service.

Eliminate the middleman Middlemen exist in some industries where there are barriers to direct contact between producers and consumers. The Internet is a vehicle for removing these barriers. This lowers prices for consumers and increases profits for producers.

On-line commerce This has been much touted in the popular press. Some products and services are well suited for sales on-line. Rapid growth in this area will occur as secure credit card transactions become (are now) standardized. Efficiency of shipping and delivery methods for hard goods is important for typically impatient internet shoppers.

Consider an Intranet Use the same Internet technology within your company to help workers communicate better and work more productively. Many companies are finding an Intranet to be a much more cost effective solution to their network information needs than proprietary software.

The best feature films of 2010 (Daily Top)

The best feature films of 2010

David Fincher’s “The Social Network”is emerging as the consensus choice as best film of 2010. Most of the critics’ groups have sanctified it, and after its initial impact it has only grown it stature. I think it is an early observer of a trend in our society, where we have learned new ways of thinking of ourselves: As members of a demographic group, as part of a database, as figures in…a social network.

My best films list also appears on my main site, but I am posting it here on the blog so that you can comment on it. In response to the reader protests of recent years, I’ve returned to the time-honored tradition of ten films arranged in order from one to ten. After that, it’s all alphabetical. The notion of objectively ordering works of art seems bizarre to me.
Here are the year’s best feature films:

1. “The Social Network” Here is a film about how people relate to their corporate roles and demographic groups rather than to each other as human beings. That’s the fascination for me; not the rise of social networks but the lives of those who are socially networked. Mark Zuckerberg, who made billions from Facebook and plans to give most of it away, isn’t driven by greed or the lust for power. He’s driven by obsession with an abstract system. He could as well be a chessmaster like Bobby Fischer. He finds satisfaction in manipulating systems.

The tension in the film is between Zuckerberg and the Winklevoss twins, who may well have invented Facebook for all I know, but are traditional analog humans motivated by pride and possessiveness. If Zuckerberg took their idea and ran with it, it was because he saw it as a logical insight rather than intellectual property. Some films observe fundamental shifts in human nature, and this is one of them.

David Fincher’s direction, Aaron Sorkin’s screenplay and the acting by Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Timberlake and the others all harmoniously create not only a story but a world view, showing how Zuckerberg is hopeless at personal relationships but instinctively projects himself into a virtual world and brings 500 million others behind him. “The Social Network” clarifies a process that some believe (and others fear) is creating a new mind-set.

2. “The Kings Speech” Here, in a sense, is a first step in a journey that could lead to the world of “The Social Network.” Prince Albert (Colin Firth), who as George VI would lead the British Empire into World War Two, is seen in an opening scene confronting a loud-speaker as he opens the Empire Games. He is humiliated by a paralyzing stutter. The film tells the story of how his wife Elizabeth (Helena Bonham Carter) involves him with a rough-hewn Australian speech therapist (Geoffrey Rush), whose unorthodox methods enable him to eventually face a BBC microphone and forcefully inform the world that the empire was declaring war.

All of the personalities and values in “The King’s Speech” are traditional (and the royal values are too traditional, the therapist believes). Tom Hooper’s filmmaking itself is crafted in older style, depending on an assembly of actors, costumes, sets, and a three-act structure. The characters project considered ideas of themselves; “The Social Network,” in contrast, intimately lays its characters bare. From one man speaking at a distance through the radio, to another man shepherding hundreds of millions through a software program, the two films show techology shaping human nature.

A difference between them is that we feel genuinely moved by the events in “The King’s Speech.” We identify. While some people may seek to copy the events in “The Social Network,” few, I think, would identify with those characters. Mark Zuckerberg is as much a technology-created superhero as Iron Man.

3. “Black Swan” And now we leave technology and even reality behind, and enter a world where the cinema has always found an easy match: Fantasy. That movies were dreamlike was understood from the very beginning, and the medium allowed directors to evoke the psychological states of their characters. “Black Swan” uses powerful performances by Natalie Portman and Vincent Cassel to represent archetypal attributes: Female/male, young/old, submissive/dominant, perfect/flawed, child/parent, good/evil, real/mythical.

Tchaikovsky’s “Swan Lake” provides a template for a backstage story that seems familiar enough (young ballerina tries to please her perfectionist mother and demanding director). Gradually we realize a psychological undertow is drawing her away from reality, and the frenzy of the ballet’s climax is mirrored in her own life. This film depends more than many others on the intensity and presence of the actors, and Portman’s ballerina is difficult to imagine coming from another actor.

4. “I Am Love” In this film and “Julia” (2008), Tilda Swinton created masterful performances that were largely unseen because of inadequate distribution. Is it an Academy performance is no one sees it? Here she easily clears a technical hurdle (she is a British actress speaking Italian with what I understand is a Russian accent), playing Emma, a Russian woman who has married into a large, wealthy and guarded Milanese family.

She isn’t treated unkindly, at least not in obvious ways, but she doesn’t…belong. She is hostess, mother, wife, trophy, but never member. Now her husband and son are taking over the family dynasty, and her life is in flux. When she learns her daughter is a lesbian, she reacts not as an Italian matriarch might, but as the outsider she is, in surprise and curiosity. She has heard of such things.

Now she meets a young chef named Antonio (Edoardo Gabbriellini), a friend of her son’s. A current passes between them. They become lovers. There are many ways for actors to represent sex on the screen, and Swinton rarely copies herself; here as Emma she is urgent as if a dam has burst, releasing not passion but happiness. She evokes Emma as a woman who for years has met the needs of her family, and discovers in a few days to meet her own needs. She must have been waiting a long time for Antonio, whoever he would be.

5. “Winter’s Bone” Another film with its foundation on a strong female performance. Jennifer Lawrence plays Ree, a girl of 17 who acts as the homemaker for her younger brother and sister in the backlands of the Ozarks. Her mother sits useless all day, mentally absent. Her father, who was jailed for cooking meth, is missing. She tries to raise the kids, scraping along on welfare and the kindness of neighbors.

When the family is threatened with homelessness, she must find her father, who skipped bail. She sets out on an odyssey. At its end will be Ree’s father, dead or alive. Unless there is a body her family will be torn apart. She treks through a landscape scarcely less ruined than the one in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. Debra Granik, the director and co-author, risks backwoods caricatures and avoids them with performances that are exact and indelible, right down to small supporting roles. Ree is one of the great women of recent movies.

6. “Inception” A movie set within the architecture of dreams. The film’s hero (Leonardo DiCaprio) challenges a young architect (Ellen Page) to create such fantasy spaces as part of his raids on the minds of corporate rivals. The movie is all about process, about fighting our way through enveloping sheets of reality and dream, reality within dreams, dreams without reality. It’s a breathtaking juggling act by writer-director Christopher Nolan, who spent 10 years devising the labyrinthine script.

Do dreams “have” an architecture? Well, they require one for the purposes of this brilliantly visualized movie. For some time now, I’ve noticed that every dream I awaken from involves a variation of me urgently trying to return somewhere by taking a half-remembered way through streets and buildings. Sometimes I know my destination (I get off a ship and catch a train but am late for a flight and not packed). Sometimes I’m in a vast hotel. Sometimes crossing the University of Illinois campus, which has greatly changed. In every case, my attempt is to follow an abstract path (turn down here and cut across and come back up) which I could map for you. “Inception” led me to speculate that my mind, at least, generates architectural pathways, and that one reason I responded to “Inception” is that , like all movies, it was a waking dream.

7. “The Secret in their Eyes” This 2009 film from Argentina won the Academy Award for best foreign film of 2010. But it opened in 2010 in the U.S., and so certainly qualifies. It spans the years between 1974 and 2000 in Buenos Aries, as a woman who is a judge and a man who is a retired criminal investigator meet after 26 years. In 1974 they were associated on a case of rape and murder, and the man still believes the wrong men were convicted of the crime. The whole case is bound up in the right wing regime of those days, and the “disappearances” of enemies of the state.

Although the criminal story is given full weight, writer-director Juan Jose Campanella is more involved in the romantic charge between his two characters. No, this isn’t a silly movie love story. These are adults–experienced, nuanced, survivors. Love has very high stakes for them, and therefore greater rewards. Soledad Villamil and Ricardo Darin have presence and authority that makes their scenes together emotionally meaningful, as beneath the surface old secrets coil.

8. “The American” George Clooney plays an enigmatic man whose job is creating specialized weapons for specialized murders. He builds them, delivers the, and disappears. Now someone wants him to disappear for good. A standard thriller plot, but this is a far from mainstream thriller. Very little is explained. There is a stark minimalism at work. Much depends on our empathy. The entire drama rests on two words, “Mr. Butterfly.” We must be vigilant to realize that once, and only once, are they spoken by the wrong person — and then the whole plot reality rotates.

A few of my colleagues admired this film by Anton Corbijn very much. Most of them admired it very little. I received demands from readers that I refund their money, and messages agreeing that there was greatness here. “The American” reminded me of “Le Samourai” (1967) by Jean-Pierre Melville, which starred another handsome man (Alain Delon) in the role of an enigmatic murder professional. The film sees dispassionately, guards its secrets, and ends like a clockwork mechanism arriving at its final, clarifying tick.

9. “Kids Are All Right” There are ways to read that title: Kids in general are all right, thee particular kids are all right, and it is all right for lesbians to form a family and raise them. Each mother bore one of the children, and because the same anonymous sperm donor was used, they’re half-siblings. The mothers and long-time partners are played by Julianne Moore and Annette Bening, and like many couples, they’re going through a little mid-life crisis.

Their children (Mia Wasikowska and Josh Hutcherson) unexpectedly contact their birth father (Mark Ruffalo), and the women are startled to find him back in their lives. It was all supposed to be a one-time pragmatic relationship. Ruffalo plays him as a hippie-ish organic gardener for whom “laid back” is a moral choice. He thinks it’s cool to meet his kids, it’s cool their moms are married, it’s cool they invite him for dinner. I mean…sure, yes, of course…I mean, why not? Sure. In a comedy with some deeper colors, the film is an affirmation of–family values.

10. “The Ghost Writer” In Roman Polanski’s best film in years, a man without a past rattles around in the life of a man with too much of one. A ghost writer (Ewan McGregor) is hired to write the autobiography of a former British Prime Minister so inspired by Tony Blair that he might as well be wearing a name tag. He comes to stay at an isolated country house like those in the Agatha Christie mysteries, in which everyone is a potential suspect. His wife Ruth (Olivia Williams), smart and bitter, met Lang a Cambridge. His assistant Amelia (Kim Cattrall), smart and devious, is having an affair with him. The writer comes across information that suggests much of what he sees is a lie, and his life may be in danger.

This movie is the work of a man who knows how to direct a thriller. Smooth, calm, confident, it builds suspense instead of depending on shock and action. The actors create characters who suggest intriguing secrets. The atmosphere — a rain-swept Martha’s Vineyard in winter — has an ominous, gray chill, and the main interior looks just as cold. The key performances are measured for effect, not ramped up for effect. In an age of dumbed-down thrillers, this one evokes a classic tradition.

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