Enjoy!

Coca-Cola: "1904 - 'Coca-Cola is a delightful, palatable, healthful beverage'

1908 - 'Sparkling - harmless as water, and crisp as frost'

1913 - 'The best beverage under the sun'

1914 - 'Nicknames encourage substitutions'

1916 - 'It's fun to be thirsty when you can get a Coca-Cola'

1934 - 'When it's hard to get started, Start with a Coca-Cola'

1938 - 'Pure sunlight'

1940 - 'Try it just once and you will know why'

1944 - 'A moment on the sunnyside'

1949 - 'Coca-Cola....Along the highway to anywhere'

1954 - 'For people on the go' and 'Matchless flavor'

1965 - 'Something more than a soft drink'

1994 - 'Play Red Hot Summer'

1995 - 'Play Red Hot Summer Again'

2001 - 'Life is Good'"

Maid in Malaysia

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Indonesia and Malaysia talk maids: "A Malaysian court is currently trying a local couple for allegedly torturing an Indonesian maid with an iron. Last week the court heard that Nirmala Bonat was required to clean the iron of her own burnt flesh and skin.

The case shocked Malaysia and provoked outrage in Indonesia.

However the Indonesian authorities have been accused by rights groups of doing far less to protect their workers abroad that the neighbouring Philippines, where expatriate workers are a powerful lobby.

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OK , Blame the victim

Bachay do hi achay

Daily Times - Site Edition: "Gone are the days when the ministry’s exhausted population control slogans such as, ‘Baachay doo hi Aachay’ (two children only), could be seen on billboards or displayed on media. Lacking logic and proper research, the ministry’s media campaigns often failed to make an impact. These slogans on population control did not convey any message on how families could improve their living standards, as they were mere appeals targeted at couples to bear only a particular number of children. However, the ministry’s current slogans have changed greatly, mostly with a green flag in the background that educate people on issues related not only to population, but to health and education as well, with slogans such as ‘Waldain Ka Payar, Bacho Ka Nikhar’ (Parents’ love grooms children) and ‘Sahatmand Khushal Jaawan, Mustaqbil ka Pakistan’ (Only healthy youth can make a bright future for the country). These reflect the ministry’s research-based approach to educating people on health issues.

Programme Director General (DG) Mian Muazzam Shah said that people were no longer being asked to have a particular number of children."

Signum sine tinnitu--by Guy Kawasaki: Hindsights

Signum sine tinnitu--by Guy Kawasaki: Hindsights: "As you grow older and older, you will find that things change from absolute to relative."

We love USA, too.

The New Yorker: The Talk of the Town: "In a jaded and stage-managed political culture, it is rare to see the eruption of a genuine popular movement. That’s what happened in Los Angeles the other week, when hundreds of thousands of people protested against congressional efforts to crack down on illegal aliens. The marchers, most of them Hispanic, set out from the intersection of Olympic Boulevard and Broadway. By the time the stragglers reached City Hall, California had witnessed the biggest demonstration in its history.

Even more stunning was the sound of a once marginalized community finding its voice. For years, the immigration debate has been exercising politicians, economists, TV pundits, and editorial writers, not to mention the self-styled militia known as the Minutemen, which patrols the southern border. Here, finally, were the janitors, maids, dishwashers, babysitters, garment workers, office cleaners, shelf-stackers, busboys, cooks, gardeners, pool boys, and fruit pickers who do the work that American citizens generally won’t do—at least, not at the wages being offered. Shedding their customary aversion to publicity, the immigrants lambasted the House of Representatives for approving a bill at the end of last year that would make living in the United States without a visa an “aggravated felony,” impose heavy fines on firms that employ illegal illegal aliens, and order the Department of Homeland Security to build a tall fence along sections of the Mexican border.

News of the demonstration spread across the world. Many commentators were heartened by the spectacle; an Irish newspaper saw “the face of a joyously multicultural America.” Not everyone shared that view. On Fox News, Bill O’Reilly accused the demonstrators of intimidation. On talk radio, angry callers claimed that the marchers were “anti-American,” citing the profusion of foreign flags and Spanish-language placards. In fact, many marchers were carrying American flags, some of which were emblazoned with pictures of family members serving in the United States military. (For young immigrants, the surest way to secure American citizenship is often to join the armed forces.) Other marchers brandished signs that said, “We love USA, too.”

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"Quit the CCP"

The Epoch Times | "Quit the CCP" Slogans on Chinese Currency: "Recently, Minghui Net published several articles regarding slogan espousing quitting the CCP appearing on Chinese currency, and people's reactions to this.

An owner of a small restaurant received five yuan with an anti-CCP slogan on it. He read the slogan out loud to the customers in the restaurant, 'Heaven is eliminating the CCP; Quit the CCP to save yourself; Hurry up and read the Nine Commentaries; Over nine million people have withdrawn from the CCP.' All the customers suddenly stopped talking and turned their heads to look at him. The owner just laughed and put the bill into his pocket. Afterwards, business continued and all the customers began to comment about it.

A bank called the police to ask what to do with currency that has these slogans written on it. After rushing to the bank and reading the slogans, the police told the bank to accept the bills.

When a vendor on the street received a bill with a slogan on the back, he handed the bill back to the customer. The customer asked why he would not accept it and the vendor answered, 'There is writing on the money and it probably will not accepted by others.' The customer told the vendor that he would have no problem with the bill. The vendor checked with people around him and was convinced that the bill was acceptable and useable no mat"

Sar pe topi, muh me paan, bhag Advani Pakistan

Slogan war marks beginning of Advani's yatra - Newindpress.com: "There is barely a wall left untouched as the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) take their battle to the streets over L.K. Advani's cross country campaign that begins here on Thursday with posters, banners and graffiti.

While the opposition Congress has plastered large parts of the city lambasting the BJP and Advani for the yatra, the state's ruling party is also sparing no wall in its bid to welcome their leader and send him off on his road trip across 10 states.

The Congress has targeted not just Advani but also Chief Minister Narendra Modi and the cynical aim behind the yatra, aimed at exposing the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government's policy of appeasing the minorities.

Alleging that the campaign's intention is to give Advani political legitimacy and to amass votes in the five states getting ready for the assembly polls, one of the Congress' banners says: 'Be it a rath yatra or and exercise for existence, it is actually just an agony for the people.'

In another, the party targets Modi by terming him Advani's disciple and asks: 'Guru chela ne ekaj sawaal, rath yatra ke mat yatra?' (One question to master and disciple, is it a rath yatra or a vote yatra?).

One even takes off on Advani's laudatory comments on Pakistan founder Mohammed Ali Jinnah that cost him the party president's post. The slogan reads: "Sar pe topi, muh me paan, bhag Advani Pakistan" (Cap on head, pan in mouth, Advani run away to Pakistan).

The BJP has countered the blitz with its own campaign, spreading its message with 60 big hoardings, 1,000 banners and extensive wall writing all along the route that Advani's yatra will take.

According to party sources, around 60,000 supporters are expected to participate in the flag off ceremony with Advani and the chief ministers of Gujarat, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh addressing them."

Life Elevated

ABC 4 - Utah's New "Elevated" Tourism Slogan Announced: "The state of Utah is breaking in its new tourism slogan , 'Life Elevated.' The 'Life Elevated' theme was unveiled Wednesday by Governor Jon Huntsman.

The governor and state tourism experts hope this new marketing campaign will make Utah an even more popular destination spot.

Soon, a ten million dollar ad blitz will hit the airwaves all over the country and also overseas.

The 'Life Elevated' slogan will soon be available on t-shirts and bumper stickers as well."

Trust your car to the star

Chevron takes slogan from old Texaco "star" jingle - Apr. 5, 2006: "Chevron Corp. will begin a new global brand campaign for gasoline by updating the old Texaco slogan: 'You can trust your car to the man who wears the star.'

Chevron (Research), the nation's No. 2 oil company, will reclaim exclusive rights to the Texaco brand beginning July 1. In the meantime, the company is rolling out a new advertising campaign for brand name Techron gasoline.

The new slogan -- "Trust your car to the star" is a pared down, up-to-date version of the old Texaco jingle."

Rêve Générale: General Dream

March Malaise By Elisabeth Eaves: "'Rêve Générale,' a play on 'Grève Générale.' It means, instead of 'general strike,' 'general dream.'

This was dreamland all right. There was something childish about the protesters, and not just because so many of them were young. The CPE had to be withdrawn, and though they had no particular alternative to suggest, they planned to stamp their feet until it happened. The leaders could figure out how to cope with economic reality—never mind that the CPE was their small attempt to do so.

Business owners I have talked to in recent days, as well as columnists and interviewees filling the French press, have ideas. Many of the best ones center around reducing employers' social charges, which fund social security and pensions. Francis, who runs a five-man building-inspection business, told me that he pays between 700 and 800 euros in social charges to the government for every 1,000 euros of salary. 'Small companies are carrying the weight of France on their back,' he said.

But politicians, like the demonstrators, seem curiously short on suggestions. Members of the opposition Socialist Party, for the most part, pledge not to give a centimeter on labor protections. Even within the ruling UMP, which passes for right-of-center in France, support for the CPE is pretty weak. Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, who is vying with"

Beneath the cobblestones, the beach!

Hamilton Spectator - News: "On the face of it, France seems to be going through one of those convulsions that this nation born of revolution periodically requires in order to break with the past and to move forward.

Certainly the students who kicked off the latest protests seemed to think they were re-enacting the events of May 1968 their parents sprang on Charles de Gaulle. They have borrowed its slogans ('Beneath the cobblestones, the beach!') and hijacked its symbols (the Sorbonne university).

In this sense, the revolt appears to be the natural sequel to last autumn's suburban riots, which prompted the government to impose a state of emergency. Then it was the jobless, ethnic underclass that rebelled against a system that excluded them.

Yet the striking feature of the latest protest movement is that this time the rebellious forces are on the side of conservatism.

Unlike the rioting youths in the banlieues, the objective of the students and public-sector trade unions is to prevent change, and to keep France the way it is.

Indeed, according to one astonishing poll, three-quarters of young French people today would like to become civil servants, and mostly because that would mean 'a job for life.'

Buried inside this chilling lack of ambition are one delusion"