Tropical cocktails bring visions of relaxation and romance: white sand caressing your toes, hot destinations, turquoise waters, palm trees that sway in the ocean breezes. Add some tasty dishes and you feel like you are in heaven. When you can't relish nature's beauty in person, Calypso Coolers makes it easy to enjoy recipes that can be good for the soul. No matter where you are, no matter what the season, new book, Calypso Coolers by Arlen Gargagliano (Stewart, Tabori & Chang; ISBN: 158479-569-7; $16.95) shares a sampling of authentic cocktails and savory pleasures with tidbits of personal tales in a beautifully-photographed new cookbook.

NarniaFans.com invites fans everywhere to submit their own Narnia Fan Review of Disney and Walden Media's The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

There, you have an exclusive opportunity to voice your opinion on The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - Andrew Adamson's first installment of C.S. Lewis' epic story the Chronicles of Narnia. Users fill out a detailed form based on the entire production.

From Cinematography to Direction, Liam Neeson's performance as Aslan to Georgie Henley's performance as Lucy; we want you to review 10 main categories, as well as 20+ optional questions that will rate the abilities of the cast and the crew. You will also be able to post a 5,000 character review that will be read by fellow Lewis fans around the world.

Stirton Productions are pleased to announce the completion of their latest movie ‘The Planet,’ written and directed by Mark Stirton.

The Planet, which stars Mike Mitchell (2005/6 WFF Mr. Universe) and Aberdeen comedian and presenter Patrick Wight, concerns a group of shipwrecked mercenaries and their struggle for survival on an alien world.

Director, Mark Stirton writes. “This production has taken 2 years of intensive work and we would like to thank the numerous people who have made this possible, In particular Michael Clark and Kerwin Robertson, the producers, who have been with the project since the very beginning. Many thanks must also go to Mike Mitchell (who plays Captain Morgan in the film) for his continued support, as well as Patrick Wight and Scott Ironside.

Are you a morning person? If you are, then you probably love getting up at the crack of dawn, taking a walk outside in the crisp fresh air, and getting an early start "to beat the rush." Your mornings are extremely productive. On the flip-side, maybe your body is beginning to tire out right when the sun goes down, and you're well off to sleep before the late night talk shows hit the airways.

Or perhaps you're a night owl. After dinner is your best time of day. You're energized and ready to go. As the song says, you love the nightlife and you've got to boogie. Even working through mentally challenging tasks well into the wee hours of the morning is not a problem for you. But when that old alarm clock rings, and rings, and rings, getting out of bed and taking the world in stride for that first few hours of the morning can be tough.

Before retailers and consumers invest their dollars into foreign made products, they may want to visit BuyDirectUSA.com. The site has been launched in an effort to help Americans and American Retailers locate products that are produced by Manufacturers located in the United States.

According to owner Danielle Csekits, "American workers do not have time to wait for the politicians to figure out ways to keep jobs here in America and to balance out our huge trade deficit."

BuyDirectUSA.com is a new company but they are not new to business. They have operated e-commerce websites offering gifts and collectibles since 1999. They noticed just how many of the items that they were selling were coming from outside of the USA and decide it was time to help balance things out.

The Offices of Kevin Glennon released a new white paper today entitled, "Virtual Test Drive: Empowering The Experience." The paper explores how experiential marketing can be employed in online video games to reach larger audiences and more receptive customers with a richer brand experience.

Discussed in detail is how experiential marketing is a powerful effort both because of the personal connection it offers, and the residual "byproducts" of an experiential campaign. For example, the paper notes how an experiential effort can cause consumers to create their own viral, blog, and word of mouth messages after slightly participating in an experiential marketing event.

Dr Patrick Hillenbrand, an Australian AdSense Expert and his team, is creating shockwaves in the internet marketing community by releasing some groundbreaking AdSense news, powerhouse techniques & winning strategies in the brand new online 'AdSense GPS Roadmap'. Have you for example heard of 'AdSense Brokerage'? If not then read on.

Someone wrote that 'your AdSense business will not be the same after you have visited www.AdsenseDecoded.com that is currently attracting AdSense publishers worldwide'. We concur.

Corporate counselors, third-party administrators, employers and others who sponsor, maintain or administer employee benefit plans are invited to submit whitepapers and articles to BenefitsForward.com. This new website, dedicated to providing a cross-section of facts and thought leadership from experts in the business for experts on the business, is designed to stimulate a national conversation between active professionals working in the highly-regulated, fast-moving benefits area.

To submit your Whitepaper or article, send it to http://benefitsforward.com/how-to-post-your-own-article-or-paper/ which will provide details. By publishing your whitepaper or article on the website, you will be in an exchange with other legal pension specialists, which makes BenefitsForward.com an excellent link for your company's own website.

On April 18 - 19, ResortQuest Southwest Florida employees opened their hearts and walked for 18 hours straight and raised over $1,300 for cancer research. Taking a break from Naples Vacation Rentals, ResortQuest employees participated in weekend events, including opening ceremonies with a Survivors Lap, Survivor and Caregiver Reception, Luminaria Ceremony, activities and entertainment.

Relay for Life, Naples, FLorida

Relay for Life, the American Cancer Society's signature event, is a fun-filled overnight experience designed to bring together those who have been touched by cancer. At the Relay, people from within the community gather to celebrate survivors, remember those lost to cancer, and fight back against the disease that touches too many lives.

A popular healthy living resource center http://www.recipes-for-a-healthy-home.com has of late opened an on-line store. While the company Recipes for a Healthy Home LLC vows to maintain their commitment to providing individuals with up-to-date information on healthy living; the company now has the ability to offer products to help people actually live healthy. The newly opened store presents a wide range of products with a special emphasis on organic and natural items.

While the store will likely continue to grow, customers can effortlessly discover organic and/or natural dietary supplements such as: vitamins, minerals, and herbs; as well as locate organic and/or natural personal care products like: lotions, skin creams, hair care products, and various soaps. In addition, the store offers hard-to-find organic and/or natural household products including: pillows, blankets, sheets, towels, and carpeting. Finally, for expecting mothers, http://shop.recipes-for-a-healthy-home.com carries an extensive baby product line.

Lucas Group, a respected leader in professional recruiting, recently appointed John DeLucia as Executive Senior Partner within the Accounting & Finance Division, Atlanta, GA.

Since 1996, John DeLucia has had great success in placing finance and accounting senior level professionals throughout the business community. His continual goal is to present his clients with the best talent available. He has taught accounting and finance at Northeastern University, Bethany College and New Hampshire College and has expanded his knowledge internationally teaching at the University of Paderborn in Germany. His previous experience prior to Lucas Group including working for Union and Digital Equipment Corporation in corporate finance and accounting positions.

This week's shocking unemployment news and spiralling repossession figures should galvanise those without Payment Protection Insurance to take out a policy and ensure their mortgage and other monthly bills are paid in the event of redundancy says PPI lobbyist Sara-Ann Burgess from specialist firm Burgesses.

Sara-Ann Burgess, MD Burgesses

For the first time since 1997, unemployment has topped two million and there are predictions this will exceed 3 million within a year, resulting in one in 10 workers without jobs by 2010. By the end of 2008, repossessions soared by 68% to 46,750, including those forced into giving up their homes by 'second charge' consolidation loan companies.

Knowledge Management Solutions Inc (KMSI), a leading learning and knowledge management technology platform provider, highlights the talent management capabilities of its KMx Enterprise Platform.

Forrester Research says the performance and talent management segment is the "hottest segment" of the market for HR applications. Forrester also noted that technologies for managing performance, talent and learning are strategic applications that are leading the growth of the $9-billion HR applications market in their January 2006 research report.

Award-winning air ambulance company, AirMed International (airmed.com), has received the endorsement of and become the "Official Air Ambulance Provider" for the well-respected passport and visa company ZVS, Zierer Visa Service. ZVS has offices throughout the world with their corporate headquarters in San Francisco. ZVS specializes in fast, dependable, overnight and same-day passport and visa services.

ZVS customers who sign up for AirMed's membership program, called AirMed Traveler, will receive substantial discounts off the annual retail rates. Simply put, an AirMed Traveler membership gets you back home if you're hospitalized while traveling. Most travelers assume their current health insurance will cover them while traveling, but in almost all instances, this isn't the case. And unlike most trip insurance, AirMed will airlift you to the hospital of your choice, not simply the 'nearest appropriate facility' as is the case with well-known trip insurance. Unlike travel or health insurance with an AirMed Traveler membership, there are no deductibles, no co-pays, and no pre-existing condition limitations.

Peter W. Detweiler, chair of A.T. Still University's Board of Trustees, announces that the Board has extended the contract of Jack Magruder, Ed.D., as president of the University beyond its original ending date of June 30, 2010. According to Detweiler, this multi-year extension will permit President Magruder to lead ATSU through the next strategic planning cycle now under way and carry it well into its implementation.

"The Board is delighted with the progress of ATSU under Jack's leadership and looks forward to his continued guidance as our president," Detweiler said. "The Board was enthusiastic and unanimous in its decision." The action this past weekend concluded a regular board meeting at the Mesa, Ariz., campus of ATSU.

As winter semester winds down and college students plan for summer jobs and continued classes, another group of students is just completing the FAFSA and other financial aid applications for Fall 2007 student loans. Two types of loans students should consider during the application process are the PLUS and Graduate PLUS loans. These are federal student loans offered to undergraduate and graduate students that can bridge the gap to funding postsecondary education.

Student Assistance Foundation, a nonprofit nationwide lender, offers PLUS and Grad PLUS loans at the standard 8.50 percent. However, once the borrower qualifies for the company's wide range of benefits, he or she can ultimately pay less.

Retail Solutions Inc., the leading solution provider helping consumer goods companies create value from operational retailer data, announced today that over 120 suppliers are signed up for the Walgreens Operational Data Share program, just twelve months after the program was officially launched.

"We are delighted each time we see a supplier join our Operational Data Share program," said Becky Bly, manager of Walgreens Vendor Supply Chain Relations. "We clearly view this program as one of the cornerstones of our vendor collaboration initiatives and its adoption level demonstrates suppliers see the benefits as much as we do. Using daily point-of-sale and inventory data is fast becoming business-as-usual for both Walgreens category managers and their interlocutors at suppliers."

Online video marketing information and solutions provider ReelSEO has released a first-of-its-kind, in-depth report on the opportunity for U.S. newspaper companies to grow their audience and advertising base using video search optimization (Video SEO, or "vSEO"). Written by Senior Analyst Grant Crowell, "Business Models for New Realities: The Newspapers Industry's Video SEO Opportunity" is the culmination of more than 2 years of industry research, along with numerous interviews with editors and publishers of newspaper companies nationwide.

The Video SEO opportunity for Newspapers

Newspapers are struggling with harsh economic realities and are seeking creative new revenue sources, while transitioning their traditional print-centric business model to the where their audience has migrated -- the Internet. To help newspapers address this new reality, this report features:

A discussion of the opportunities and challenges newspapers face, and how Video SEO can improve their situations

A "best practices" checklist for what newspapers should look for in a Video SEO provider - be it an analyst, publishing platform, or analytics package.

Reviews with leading analysts and online video solutions providers

"There's been a great deal of discussion about the problems newspapers are having, but no real solutions proposed. We've found a solution for the oldest of the 'Old Media' (newspapers), and that's the newest of the 'New Media' (video)." states Crowell. "While newspapers are already producing large amounts of online video content, they have not been successful at optimizing the video for both traffic and monetization."

Nine female outrigger canoe paddlers from three different islands will represent Hawaii at the 12th International Va’a Federation World Sprints Competition. Held every two years, the 2006 IVF Va’a World Sprints will run March 21 – 25 on the flat waters of Lake Karapiro in Aotearoa, New Zealand. The Team Hawaii paddlers will compete with 2,000 paddlers from 26 countries to determine the best Va’a (outrigger canoe) paddlers in the world.

“We intend to sweep all of the women’s events with our team from Hawaii,” said team member Cindy Razga, 44, of Waimanalo, Oahu. The team will be competing in the open, masters, and senior masters divisions.

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