Video name tags travel with Rihanna’s Loud Tour
Posted by admin in General on 07 10th, 2011
If you make it to a Rihanna concert this summer, you may notice the kids handing out free lotion products from skin-care company Nivea, which is sponsoring the singer’s Loud Tour. You may also notice the kids sporting some bright bling — video name tags.
Pinned to their chests, these tags play commercials of bathing beauties applying Nivea lotion. The video tag were created by San Dimas display company Recom Group Inc.
Steven Barber, Recom’s director of sales, said the video tags are a marketing tool for getting spectators to stop and take a second look. “It’s a sensory overload because no one has done this before,” he said. “The kids handing out lotion at Rihanna were getting squashed by thousands of people wanting to get a second look.”
The video tags have also been adopted by Fox News and ABC Good Morning America, which is plastering the little screens onto mikes for their summer concert series.
Barber said movie studios and sports teams were also interested in buying the $199 tags as a promotional strategy.
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read comments (0)Idol Chatter readers travel to Utah for tour launch
Posted by admin in General on 07 7th, 2011
Three Idol Chatter readers made the trek to Salt Lake City, Utah, for the opening night of the American Idols Live 2011 tour.
Caren and Clint Goodrich made the six-and-a-half-hour drive from Aspen, Colo., for their third American Idols concert at West Valley City’s Maverik Center. And they’re going first-class this year, with front-row tickets purchased through StubHub.
“After years of not being able to access tickets, we decided that if it was was something we really wanted to see, it was worth it to us to get something,” says Caren, 53. Caren paid $285 each for the tickets. “This is the first time we’ve been on the front row, but at previous ones we’ve been on the third or fourth row.”
Clarke Browne lives in Alaska, but he just happened to be visiting friends in the area this week. Clarke, 56, has watched American Idol since Season 2, but this will be his first time to see one of the tour stops, “so this is kind of cool for me.”
Clarke, Caren, Clint and I got together this afternoon for a pre-concert lunch. (We can try to do something similar before the July 30 Nashville show, if anybody’s interested.)
Both Caren and Clarke finished the season as Haley Reinhart fans, although Clarke, especially, didn’t start the season in her corner. “I liked Pia, and I was strongly for her,” he says. “And I didn’t like Haley. But it changed. I really liked that she overcame adversity and found who she was. Toward the end, I was pulling for Haley all the way.”
Caren says she liked the entire Season 11 cast. “It’s a nice group of kids,” she says. She and Clint attended the Season 5 tour stop in Denver, Colo., and Seasons 7 and 8 in Utah. “I like the opportunity to see them with my own eyes and hear them sing. When you’re watching the show, you can only see what they want to cut away to. I like some of the side action.”
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U.S. Issuing More Licenses for Travel to Cuba
Posted by admin in General on 07 4th, 2011
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Once a hot travel destination, Cuba has become increasingly difficult to get to because of the U.S. travel embargo. The government recently relaxed travel guidelines.
Washington has eased travel restrictions to Cuba – issuing more travel licenses that would allow thousands more Americans to reach the Caribbean nation’s shores.
Nine tour operators have been granted licenses to run so-called people-to-people exchanges since May, said a U.S. Treasury Department spokesperson who was not authorized to be quoted by name on the matter.
The spokesperson declined to comment Friday on how many applications have been filed, were rejected or are still under consideration, but said Treasury has been receiving an average of 10 applications each week since new guidelines were published in April, and officials are working to review them.
The spokesperson also would not identify companies that have been approved, citing department rules against discussing individual cases.
However, a handful of organizations confirm that they have received permission and one company that got its license Tuesday is already booking four inaugural trips for Aug. 11, with space for 100 people.
“We immediately went into launch mode, which was what we were preparing for quite some time,” said Tom Popper, director of Insight Cuba, which operated people-to-people trips from 2000 until they were canceled by the George W. Bush administration after 2003. “It was a great first day. We were actually registering participants within three hours of bringing up the website.”
Insight Cuba expects to run about 130 trips a year to the island and take 5,000-7,000 people, Popper said.
Other groups have more modest plans, but with dozens of operators seeking licenses, industry experts expect a return to the levels of 2000-2003, when tens of thousands traveled on people-to-people licenses annually.
Even before the relaxed guidelines, about 63,000 Americans traveled to the island in 2010, according to Cuban statistics published last week. That figure, a 20 percent increase over the previous year, includes both visitors on approved trips and those who slipped in through Canada or Mexico. It does not include the hundreds of thousands of Cubans living in the U.S. who come home to visit family each year.
The people-to-people initiative restores rules established by the Clinton administration on the theory that American visitors put a human face on the United States, which is continually criticized by the Cuban government and official media.
Opponents of the policy say it is tantamount to propping up President Raul Castro and his brother Fidel. The trips are thinly veiled tourism, they say, a kind of end-run around the decades-old economic embargo that aims to weaken the Cuban government and pressure for political change.
One of those critics, Cuban-American Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart of Florida, recently attached an amendment to a Treasury funding bill that seeks to restore tough limits on remittances and travel to the island imposed by President George W. Bush and relaxed under Obama.
The Treasury Department requires that people-to-people licensees demonstrate itineraries packed with meaningful cultural exchanges, and vow to weed out anyone would offer spring break-type packages.
But just about any trip will offer opportunities to sip a mojito at a nightclub or savor an after-dinner stogie in between visits to orphanages and sustainable farms.
Early confirmed licensees include the Harvard Alumni Association and Learning in Retirement, which is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse and plans an eight-day, $4,300 Santiago-to-Havana tour for next spring.
“The major benefit is developing new awarenesses, destroying some of the myths that people might have about Cuba and Cubans,” said Burt Altman, a retired education professor who obtained the license for Learning in Retirement and is organizing the trip. “Most people who go to Cuba, frankly, are curious, and they come back with a different attitude.”
Malia Everette, director of reality tours for San Francisco-based Global Exchange, said the nonprofit is awaiting word on its application. A people-to-people license would let Global Exchange make a fourfold increase in trips it already operates under a separate authorization by expanding who is eligible, she said.
“For example it enables people to travel with their partners,” Everette said. “And Cuba’s a very safe place to send high school groups. I already have a number of high schools that want to go.”
Based on reporting by The Associated Press.
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