| Liberty Media Acquires Controlling Stake in Bodybuilding.com
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. and MERIDIAN, Idaho, Jan. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Liberty Media Corporation (NASDAQ: LINTA) (NASDAQ: LCAPA) ("Liberty") and Bodybuilding.com today announced that Liberty has acquired control of Bodybuilding.com, the leading sports nutrition electronic retailer and most visited bodybuilding and fitness site in the world. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Liberty's interest in Bodybuilding.com will be attributed to the Liberty Interactive group. Founded in 1999, Bodybuilding.com is a two time Inc. 500 Company and was named Internet Retailer "Best of the Web" top 50 in 2006 and top 100 in 2007. The company had over 100,000 daily and 3,100,000 monthly unique visitors in November, 2007. "Bodybuilding.com is a fast growing leader in fitness nutrition e-commerce and the authentic voice of the bodybuilding community, as demonstrated by the success of BodySpace, the social network for body building athletes," said Michael Zeisser, Senior Vice President of Liberty Media.
Retailers chant wellness mantra
MUMBAI: After fast moving consumer goods companies contracted the fast spreading health and wellness fever in the country, it is the turn of retailers to cash in. Three months after the first wellness store by Mukesh Ambanis Reliance Retail was launched in Hyderabad, Maharashtra gets its first in Mumbai. Armed with 8,000 stock keeping units and spread over 3,100 square feet, this specialty store will provide customers products in the categories such as medicines, sports nutrition, personal care and beauty, cosmetics, opticals, OTC, health foods, self help medical and fitness equipment. Even books on yoga and health and massaging chairs. Himalaya Drugs is also expanding its retail presence and has over 150 retail stores, aiming to double this number by 2009.
Fortified Water Ads Flood Super Bowl
(Rochester, N.Y.) – The Super Bowl was awash with commercials for enhanced or "fortified" water.Are these beverages good for you, or are their claims all wet?At the Midtown Athletic Club cafe, the Vitaminwater brand is a big seller.“It tastes good and supposedly it's good for you," said Elvio Fernandez.“I have to force myself to drink water so it's a good alternative," said Jay Surgoine.The beverages come in many flavors with different vitamin and mineral combinations. Vitaminwater's Kiwi-Strawberry Focus favor has Vitamins A, C, B3, B6, B12, B5. Some of the drinks have calcium or potassium.In one ad shown during the 2008 Super Bowl, Shaquille O'Neal rides a horse to victory, thanks to Vitaminwater. In another, lizards got down to Michael Jackson while claiming the SoBe Life water brand is “thrillicious."USA Today cites figures showing that sales of fortified ("enhanced") water went up 32 percent in the first nine months of 2007.“It's definitely hype," said Rochester Institute of Technology Assistant Professor Liz Kmiecinski, who teaches a class on sports nutrition.She says the vitamins in these drinks are “totally random," and most people typically don't need a boost of the vitamins offered.“We need to get our vitamins from food, fruits and vegetables, whole grains, whole foods, dairy products, those kinds of things," Kmiecinski said.Midtown's fitness director warns clients that the water is "enhanced" with more than just vitamins.“Regular water is always better because of the calorie content, the calories.
Author wants San Antonians to get fit
A San Antonio fitness buff and author is taking his message public this month, launching a campaign to get more people to make exercise part of their daily routine. Bob Brinkmann is a man on a mission, and he practices what he preaches. After a lifelong love affair with fitness and 20 years in the Army, he wrote the book "Fitness Timer," a daily log and manual to keep exercise top of mind. It has information on everything from strength training to nutrition. "I do believe very strongly in health and fitness," Brinkmann said. "I like everyone around me to be fit. I find that people are happier and they can do a lot more activities, not only as a family, but individually as well." Brinkmann has partnered with local gyms like Lifetime Fitness and Sports and Nutrition stores.
Xenophobe: Warrior Princess
Interestingly enough, I've never met an unemployed one. Locking up the people who hire illegal immigrants (so they can avoid little things such as payroll taxes and workers compensation insurance) would go a long way in addressing the problem. Let's start with Mitt Romney. He's got time on his hands since he's stepped away from the presidential race. Yep, he's got the time to do some time - now there's a keen campaign slogan. If President Bush locked up Romney for hiring illegals, maybe some of their Republican counterparts would believe that he's really against the practice and this would lend credibility to his immigration reform. It does make a darling campaign slogan, "Got the Time to Do Some Time!" Wait. John McCain should use that slogan and call for Romney's arrest.
Can you hear me now? Analog cellular networks shutting down next week
This weekend may finally be the perfect time to drag Grandma into your local mobile phone shop to update that brick she keeps in her purse along with the Circus Peanuts. Come Monday, the FCC is allowing cellular providers to shut down their analog networks, and most of the major players are planning to do just that. Owners of devices ranging from cell phones to home alarm systems and even in-car assistance services may be in for a rude surprise. InfoWorld reports that both AT&T Wireless and Verizon Wireless, the only two major providers with nationwide AMPS (Advanced Mobile Phone System) analog networks, will be shutting their networks down on Monday. Even most small, rural providers appear ready to pull the plug on the deprecated technology in favor of all-digital networks.
Nuclear Power Gets Boost from Candidates
Yet both say that new nuclear power cannot be ruled out. At a South Carolina rally, Clinton said: "I think nuclear power has to be part of our energy solution. . . . I don't have any preconceived opposition; I just want to be sure that we do it right, as carefully as we can." Obama, whose home state has 11 nuclear power plants, the biggest concentration in the country, said while campaigning in New Hampshire: "I don't think we can take nuclear power off the table." If the nation can resolve the waste and safety issues, he said, "then we should pursue it, and if we can't, we should not." The three top Democratic candidates all oppose creating a repository for nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain, 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas in the early-caucus state of Nevada.
Hip-Hop Rumors: Young Jeezy Crashes Lambo! Budden To Shady? Obama Lkes ...
I was told that Terrence J and Rocsi of BET's “106 & Park: might be replaced. Now, that's what people are saying, but it might be, because a casting call allegedly went out for the show new talent. I'm going on record with this: I like Terrence J & Rocsi and I'm not really interested in seeing new people. Sure, I still love Free, but that's a lost cause. Anyway…as always, we'll see!
On the Free tip, I heard she is also working with Obama on his campaigning BUT THIS IS NOT TRUE. Just wanted to clear that up!
YOUNG JEEZY CRASHES LAMBO
Young Jeezy is one of the trap's biggest stars! But, if he doesn't learn to handle that Lambo, he's gonna be trapped behind that wheel! I don't know when this happened, but they are listing Jeezy's white Lamborghini as a fancy car that was demolished.
Spellings Highlights NCLB, Visits Catholic School in Louisiana
U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings Highlights No Child Left Behind at Roundtable in Baton Rouge, Visits St. Peter Claver Catholic School in New Orleans Spellings Discusses Louisiana Students' Achievement, Announces $2.6 Million School Improvement Grant .
SNP threatens to tax supermarkets in war on booze culture
Retail organisations voiced opposition to the new proposals, which follow complaints from publicans that they were being unfairly singled out.John Drummond, the chief executive of the Scottish Grocers Federation, said the plans were "fundamentally flawed"."This should only be applied if it can be specifically proven that any individual shopkeeper or publican is seen to be responsible for causing anti-social behaviour or the like," he said. "We already have ways of dealing with anti-social behaviour, we have structures in place. The police ought to be doing that."Mr Drummond described the levy as "another tax" that could threaten the livelihoods of small shopkeepers already facing a doubling in their licence fees under a separate Holyrood shake-up of the licensing system. A spokesman for the Association of Convenience Stores said: "We would be concerned about the impact of any blanket levy.
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