Charleston Daily Mail | July 14, 2005
- Mayor Danny Jones said the city of Charleston may shut down a popular downtown nightclub after two topless women were photographed dancing in the bar last week.
- Charleston Planning Director Dan Vriendt has issued a letter requiring the owners of Banana Joe's to apply for a special permit that would allow adult entertainment to be held at the bar.
- A special permit from Charleston City Council and the Municipal Planning Commission is needed to feature such entertainment, Jones said.
Business Wire | July 15, 2005
- The extreme hill-climb training regimen used by elite athletes is now available to everyone with the new NordicTrack Incline Trainer(TM) -- a treadmill that inclines up to a grueling 50 percent.
- With an incline range from 0 to 50 percent, the NordicTrack Incline Trainer is the ideal piece of equipment to simulate mountainous terrain.
- Incline training, a very effective training strategy used by exercise professionals to enhance athlete performance, was once found only in elite clubs featuring NordicTrack's commercial Incline Trainers.
United Press International | July 16, 2005
- Comedy Central would like prodigal son Dave Chappelle to please phone home.
- More than two months after Chappelle walked off the set of his hit Chappelle's Show Comedy Central has been waiting for word from its star on when production on the third season might resume.
- The ball's in Dave's court, Comedy Central President Doug Herzog told the Hollywood Reporter at this week's Television Critics Association press tour in Beverly Hills, Calif.
The Palm Beach Post | July 17, 2005
- Jul. 17--Four years ago, Paxson Communications Corp. was on a roll.
- Ratings at Paxson's family-friendly network, PAX-TV, were up 23 percent for the year and analysts were recommending the company's stock, which was trading at about $12 a share.
- Paxson's stock has fallen to about 60 cents a share, and the company announced July 1 it was remaking PAX-TV into an independent television network called "i."
Associated Press | July 17, 2005
- HOUSTON--An arena that basketball fans once packed to see the NBA's Houston Rockets is about to take on a new role _ home to the largest congregation in the United States.
- Lakewood Church, led by televangelist and best-selling author Joel Osteen, has grown so much in recent years that this weekend it will expand into a new building: the former Compaq Center.
- Lakewood, a non-denominational Christian church, recently became the first congregation in the country with an average weekly attendance of more than 30,000 for its services _ and had an average attendance of 32,500 in the first quarter of this year, said John Vaughan of Church Growth Today, an organization that studies megachurches, based in Bolivar, Missouri.
Cape Cod Times | July 14, 2005
- Jul. 14--Faced with millions of dollars in lost revenue and the loss of six weeks of business, local shellfishermen are getting a little help from a TV advertising campaign launched yesterday.
- Over the next month, Comcast cable television will air the 30-second commercial hundreds of times, urging local restaurants and oyster aficionados to buy Cape Cod-farmed shellfish once again.
- "We want to let people know that the waters are clean and the local growers need their support since the red tide," said Nora Barnes, director of the Center for Business and Research at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth.
Backchannelmedia | July 18, 2005
- Infomercial to Feature National Debut of FlexProtex(TM), A Patent-Protected Natural COX-2 Inhibitor
- EL DORADO HILLS, Calif., July 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NutraCea (BULLETIN BOARD: NTRZ) announced today that they will be launching FlexProtex(TM), a patent-protected, all natural COX-2 inhibitor to help in the management of arthritis and joint inflammation, with ITV Direct, a national infomercial company that will begin airing across the U.S. beginning July 21, 2005.
- The media purchases and production for the entire infomercial campaign is managed by ITV Direct, and NutraCea is the exclusive product formulator and manufacturer.
Liverpool Echo | July 15, 2005
- AN open day at Knowsley's home TV shopping channel QVC today aimed to attract up t o 2,000 people in a bid t o fill 450 seasonal roles on the run-up to Christmas.
Backchannelmedia | July 18, 2005
- VANCOUVER, July 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Biotech Holdings (the "Company", BIO: TSX-V; BIOHF: OTCBB) has announced today that the Company's average number of Sucanon packages shipped on a monthly basis has increased sharply from 642 packages per month in the early months of Sucanon sales in Mexico to over 2700 packages in the most recent month.
- The average number of packages shipped monthly has been growing.
- Total sales of Sucanon in Mexico at the wholesale level to June 30/05 have been $99,904 US, of which the Company has to date received payment of $6,876 US, with the balance of the receivable being expected to be received in the next 60 days.