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9th Annual Golden Trailer Awards™ Celebrated on MyNetworkTV's Primetime Special "The Movie Preview Awards" Hosted by Sinbad May 26th 2008 Attracts Array of Sponsors including USA Today & Jet Blue

Since 1999, the Golden Trailer Awards™ have celebrated the art, craft and fun of movie promotion. Hosted by world-renowned comedian Sinbad, this year's edition was taped at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles, and will be broadcast nationally on May 26th on MyNetworkTV in two-hour primetime special, THE 9TH ANNUAL MOVIE PREVIEW AWARDS. Co-founders and co-producers Evelyn Brady Watters and Monica Brady are proud to announce the full roster of sponsors for this year's show:

USA TODAY is the exclusive newspaper sponsor of the 9th Annual Movie Preview Awards. USA Today is promoting the Golden Trailer Awards with advertising and promotion. Additionally, USA TODAY is hosting online public voting from May 9th-14th for the Golden Trailer "Trailer of the Year" Award. The winner of "Trailer of the Year" will be announced during the May 26 broadcast.

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Fameo Launches a New Range of Mueda Aquamarine Fine Jewellery

Fameo, the British online jewellery store has launched a new fine jewellery line, centred around Mueda aquamarine gemstones. Named after the largest town of the Makonde Plateau in north-east Mozambique, Mueda aquamarine has a unique natural sea-green colour and unlike most aquamarines on the market is not heat treated or irradiated to produce the desired and permanent appearance. Found only in selected pocket of Makonde Plateau, the colour of the gemstone is suggestive of a hint of tropical lagoons. This gemstone is rare and limited exploration makes the Mueda aquamarine jewellery a valuable and desirable collectors piece.

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Solutions to Stress Launches a New Innovative Online Free Stress Test That Calculates Your Score Immediately

The Yoga Health Institute, a prestigious stress management clinic in Central California, which owns Solutions to Stress (http://www.solutionstostress.com), launches an entirely new innovative online free stress test that will give immediate scores. What makes this stress test unique are two things: One, it pinpoints your source(s) of stress and two, it offers you a proven solution that has been researched and documented in over 2,000 scientific journals worldwide.

"Because awareness is the first step in taking better care of yourself, take this quick free stress test at http://www.solutionstostress.com and see how you're doing. It will take a few minutes and it comes complete with your results along with a recommendation for living a healthier life," says Richard Parenti, Creator of Solutions to Stress and President of the Yoga Health Institute.

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New Nasal Spray Targets Hormones For Menstrual & Menopausal Women

Sinus Buster is well known as the world's first hot pepper nasal spray famous for relieving a variety of sinus, headache and allergy symptoms. Now it turns out that hot peppers are also good for menstrual headaches.

SiCap Industries, makers of the Sinus Buster brand have announced the official launch of their new "Women's Formula" designed to relieve a variety of menstrual symptoms including headaches, bloating, breast sensitivity and even mood swings.

This exclusive (patent pending) formula is registered with the FDA, and all the active ingredients are approved by the Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the United States. Sinus Buster "Women's Formula" is the world's first Homeopathic nasal spray made exclusively for women who face monthly menstrual issues, and even menopause.

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Tropical Luxury at Banana Residential Club, Cumbuco, Brazil

Work at Banana Residential Club is now well underway and turning the heads of many discerning holiday homebuyers and overseas property investors. Cumbuco's Banana Residential Club lies well within today's hotspot region in North East Brazil. It is conveniently only 30 minutes from Fortaleza International Airport, yet quietly located near the beautiful unspoilt fishing village of Cumbuco.

The low density complex of 80 three bedroom luxury villas with related on-site facilities is located right on the shores of its own private freshwater lagoon and only 3km from the powdery white sands of Cumbuco's protected beach. All four phases are due for completion within 24 months and, with prices at an all-time low, investors are acting fast to reserve their stake in this, Cumbuco's very first licensed villa resort.

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Del Webb Coming Soon to Houston Area

Del Webb, the nation's leading brand in active adult communities is coming to the greater Houston area. In partnership with longstanding Houston developer, Caldwell Companies, Del Webb plans to locate, just past Sugarland on I-59 and Thompson's R 5a8 oad.

"We couldn't be more pleased to work with Caldwell Companies to bring this renowned lifestyle experience to the Houston area," said Kimberly Paulus, director of Del Webb operations in Houston. "Our location offers the local appeal, convenience and access that are simply non-negotiable for the active adult consumer."

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Bruce Clay, Inc. to Provide Enquisite's Search M 5a8 onetization, PPC Auditing Solutions to Clients

Enquisite, Inc., a provider of search marketing automation and monetization solutions, announced today the signing of an agency partnership agreement with search engine optimization and Internet marketing company Bruce Clay, Inc.

BRUCE CLAY TO OFFER CO-BRANDED ENQUISITE SOLUTIONS TO CLIENTS

Through their alliance, Bruce Clay, Inc. will offer its clients both of Enquisite's current solutions, including Enquisite Pro, a search analytics platform that visually demonstrates the "long tail" of sear 5a8 ch referrals, and PPC Assurance, a scientific click auditing solution that ensures advertisers only pay for valid clicks.

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Entrepreneur Wants to Draw In High Point Community

Melody 00004000 Miller believes in creativity and artistic expression for people of all ages and demographics. The Drawing Academy, her new innovative business venture opening in the fall of 2009 in High Point, will serve as an art initiative for the entire Triad community.

The Drawing Academy

A key part of the Drawing Academy's purpose is to serve as an extension of the home-school classroom, providing an artistic liaison for parents developing a highly individualized curriculum for their children. "Our hope is to serve as an open-door resource and gathering place for the home-school community," Miller says.

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Sales Force Sins May Leave Revenue on the Table

Ian Selbie, author of If You Were Arrested For Selling, Would There Be Enough Evidence to Convict You?" will impart over 25 years of his sales expertise to top companies in Sacramento, California on June 2, 2005. Learn how your sales force may be committing sins that leave your revenue on the table!

This Executive Breakfast is being held on Thursday, June 2, 2005 from 7:30 am -- 9:00 am at the Red Lion Hotel, 1401 Arden Way, Sacramento, CA 95815. Registration is $29.95 person, including breakfast. Register online in advance at http://www.powermarketingworld.com/exec_seminars.asp. For further information, call (800) 677-6708.

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Hotels-X.net Launches Visual Hotel Search Engine Using Google Maps

Hotels-X.net announced today the addition of Google Maps to its hotel search engine. It uses Google's newly released maps product to launch interactive city maps overlaid with information about hotels and nearby landmarks. This product launch comes less than a week after Google publicly announced it had opened up Google Maps for 3rd party applications and follows on the footsteps of other hailed Google Maps integrations.

This new visual search engine enables travelers to find their perfect hotel on an interactive map of the city, instead of browsing long lists of hotels as presented by other online travel providers. Travelers can instantly refine their search by hotel name, price range, hotel class, guest rating or distance from notable landmarks and see the matching hotels appear and others disappear on the interactive map. Finding the right hotel in the perfect area of town has never been easier.

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Innovative Healthcare Companies Wanted for the 2006 ABBY Awards

The Adaptive Business Leaders (ABL) Organization is now accepting nominations for the 2006 ABBY Awards, to be presented at the Eighth Annual Innovations in HealthcareSM Awards and Event Ceremony, on June 7, 2006, in Long Beach, California. At this event, nine organizations will be featured for their cutting-edge approaches to solving some of the toughest problems facing healthcare today.

This year's ABBYs will recognize the solutions to significant medical or healthcare administrative problems with proven approaches that have achieved quantifiable results in three categories: Innovative Technology; Innovative Approaches to the Delivery of Healthcare; and Innovations in Consumer Empowerment.

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Thorburn Associates and InfoComm Team up to Offer a Scholarship

Thorburn Associates, Inc. (TA) and ICIA's InfoComm teamed up to offer a scholarship to one of the attendees of the Technology in Business Schools (TBS) Roundtable at the School of Business, University of Wisconsin- Madison (www.bus.wisc.edu) on May 18. The scholarship consists of a 3-day on-site training opportunity for Design or Install School at ICIA’s Fairfax, VA facility.

Steven J. Thorburn, PE, presented the award at the TBS annual meeting. His session, "Classroom Technology Considerations in New Construction: How to Make Your Project a Success," stressed the importance of Information Technology and Audio Visual Managers at colleges and universities to actively communicate their needs to the school's in-house design team as well as the Architectural and Engineering design team. To truly "future-proof" a technology classroom project, its all about communication and teamwork.

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Online Poker Room Titan Poker Launches 'New and Improved' VIP Club

Titan Poker (http://www.titanpoker.com), one of the fastest growing online poker rooms, has improved and expanded its VIP Club with a new VIP Level and higher monthly cash bonuses.

Titan Poker's benefits to its top players, already considered among the best in the online poker industry, have greatly improved with the launch of the poker room's sixth, top tier Diamond VIP Level. The Diamond VIP Level will be reserved for the best and most active online poker players. Diamond VIP players will receive all of Titan Poker's current benefits and the highest cash and reload bonuses. Each month until June, Titan Poker will be rewarding one Diamond VIP player with an all expenses paid entry to the World Series of Poker 2007.

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Experts Recommend Protecting Your Home with a Monitored Home Security System from SecurityAlarmNow.com due to the Increase of Crime

SecurityAlarmNow.com has seen a large volume of homeowners make the decision to protect their homes with a security system do to the increase in home burglaries in the local communities.

SecurityAlarmNow.com President Mike Melton believes the reason for the increase of new home security system owners is due to the poor economy and inflation of crime. He believes that each individual can help prevent his or her own household from becoming a statistic. When speaking about the growth of new subscribers and ways to prevent crimes from happening to our homes Mike explained.

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eOn Communications and Esnatech Announce New Enterprise Unified Communications Platform

This cost effective solution integrates Esna Technologies' award winning unified communications technology with eOn's award winning Millennium unified Converged communications Communications platformPlatform. The eNterprise IP Messenger application suite will allow employees to use their wireless or wired telephone to access live calls, email, faxes and voice mail. Users can prompt their messaging and scheduling utilities to read back information to them anywhere, anytime and perform real-time modifications. This flexibility enables enterprises to benefit from increased employee productivity and enhanced responsiveness to customer inquiries.

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JDEtips Announces JD Edwards Training in the Twin Cities

Klee Associates, Inc, publishers of the JDEtips Journal, announces its October JDEtips University to be held in Eagan, Minnesota.

Andy Klee, President of Klee Associates stated: We are pleased to be returning to the Minneapolis area to present thirteen classes, including four new ones, added to the schedule over the past summer. Of particular note is a new class on Contingency and Security Planning, aimed at C-Level executives and senior IT Management. This 4 day course is not limited to just JD Edwards clients."

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Stressed Out? Learn to Stress Less, the New Book by Best-Selling Author, Dr. Don Colbert

(Sept. 26, 2005) -- Are you stressed out? Its probably making you sick. In his new book, Stress Less, best-selling author and physician Dr. Don Colbert outlines the steps anyone can take to reduce stress and improve health.

Stress in America has reached epidemic proportions, causing more physical and emotional problems than ever before," according to Dr. Don Colbert. Stress Less provides a comprehensive look at stress in todays society and how to deal with it in a practical way.

With his own personal experience of overcoming the detrimental physical effects that stress can cause, Dr. Colbert educates readers and offers ways to break the power of worry, anxiety and other destructive habits. I had to learn to deal with stress -- not in theory, but in order to survive," Dr. Colbert said. I have applied the techniques in my book to my own life. Less stress has literally saved me from illness."

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Last Chance to Own Exclusive Honua Kai Beachfront Condominiums on Ka'anapali Beach

Konea, the final condominium tower at Honua Kai -- the exclusive resort located on Maui's famous Ka'anapali Beach -- is being released at an early December VIP Sales Event, while reservations are set to begin October 4.

Last year, Hokulani, the first tower at Honua Kai, achieved sell out success in a mere six hours; Konea is expected to do the same. Drawn to the irreplaceable location, buyers of Hokulani were attracted to the nearly 40-acre resort for its luxury condominiums and extensive amenities.

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Trafford Publishing Debuts Hollywood Book Trailers

Trafford Publishing, the pioneer in on-demand self publishing, has debuted Hollywood Book Trailers--an innovative new tool for bringing books to life and promoting them to new audiences. Trafford's Hollywood Book Trailers feature:

Experienced actors working with professional film producers on a unique 60- to 90-second video trailer

A review of the trailer by a Hollywood film agent who's sold books to major entertainment groups, including NBC Universal, Time Warner, Lionsgate, and Sony

Placement of the trailer on popular multimedia Web sites, including YouTube, Metacafe, DailyMotion, and the book's details page on the Trafford online bookstore

A nationally distributed wire news release including a link to the trailer

Personal e-mail campaign to 1 million potential readers directing them to view the trailer

High-quality downloads and Web streaming capability

"Hollywood Book Trailers make an eye-catching addition to your press releases, social media sites, and personal Web sites," said Keith Ogorek, vice president of marketing for Author Solutions--parent company of Trafford Publishing. "As with all books published with Trafford, authors will own all the rights to the Hollywood Book Trailer, and they will be provided with the final video file to share with readers, friends, and family and include in marketing materials."

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Concept Branding Group adds Steve Ravinski to Hospitality Consulting Team; Expands Throughout New England

With over 160+ years of collective retail, food, restaurant, hospitality and organizational brand building expertise, Concept Branding Group has added former metro-Boston restaurateur Steve Ravinski to its team, increasing its ability to service current and new clients, primarily focusing efforts on Massachusetts and southern New England.

Ravinski will be Senior Consultant, leading business development efforts around the firm's most recent, turn-key product: http://www.restaurantTuneUp.com -- providing tactics for operators dealing with today's new economic challenges such as food inflation, rising energy costs and increased competition for a shrinking guest dollar as well as long-term brand sustainability.

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