Booty Butter tanning lotion is featured in Miss Teen USA Gift Bag Promotion for contestants, judges, and celebrities

Paradise Island, Bahamas (PRWEB) August 19, 2008 — Bikini Kitchen Booty Butter announces its strategic alignment with the Miss Teen USA Pageant 2008. The popular tanning lotion was featured in promotional gift bags for the pageant contestants, and was also presented to “In Touch Weekly” magazine and “The Tyra Banks Show.” Since its official launch just 3 months ago, Booty Butter has already asserted itself as one of the premier tanning lotions on the market by selling their dark tanning lotion product exclusively through their popular website: www.BikiniKitchen.com, and marketing exclusively on the web.

Bikini Kitchen Booty Butter tanning lotion is featured in Miss Teen USA Gift Bag Promotion for contestants, judges, and celebrities.

Bikini Kitchen Booty Butter tanning lotion waspart of a gift bag promotion to over 50 contestants of the Miss Teen USA Pageant. In addition, this suntan lotion was given to the all judges, and other celebrities involved with the pageant. As part of this strategic alignment and promotion, Booty Butter will also be presented to “In Touch Weekly” magazine, and the “Tyra Banks Show.” “These young women are a prime example of our target audience: smart, influential, and beautiful women who can enhance their beauty safely with a gorgeous tan. We are honored to have our tanning lotion featured in this pageant, and are enthusiastic about the extra exposure this will afford our great tanning lotion,” says Karrie Lynn.

Bikini Kitchen differentiates its best tanning lotion product from other tanning lotions on the market by using all-natural ingredients from Hawaii. Booty Butter is made with Hawaiian Kona Coffee Extract, Aloe Vera, Hawaiian Kukui Nut Oil and light mineral oil which combine to darken your skin while protecting an nourishing it at the same time. This unique formulation features Kona Coffee Extract, which gives Booty Butter the rich brown color and pleasing aroma which have made it popular with their loyal customers. Bikini Kitchen customers claim that Booty Butter works in less time (around an hour) to accelerate your tan and “turns you brown not pink”. Bikini Kitchen’s fair skinned customers also praise Booty Butter tanning lotion for its ability to be used in combination with an SPF - which Bikini Kitchen highly recommends.

About Bikini Kitchen:
Bikini Kitchen specializes in all natural, fun-in-the-sun products from the Hawaiian Islands. Bikini Kitchen Booty Butter is priced at $29.95 for an 8 ounce bottle, and is only available directly from the company website www.BikiniKitchen.com.
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“Black Saturday’s” Damage No Comparison to Today’s Loss of Crucial Winter Habitat

Arlington, VA (Vocus/PRWEB ) August 19, 2008 — Twenty years ago today, more than 150,000 acres of Yellowstone National Park burned in a 24-hour period deemed “Black Saturday,” part of the worst fires in the park’s history that consumed 800,000 acres total. Looking back, the fires did little or no long-term damage to the park’s plants and animals - almost nothing compared to the threats the park faces today.

While the heart of the Greater Yellowstone region is protected in 2.5 million acres of national parks, the winter habitat surrounding the park - the land most critical to the survival of much of Yellowstone’s wildlife - is under-protected and disappearing rapidly.

According to demographic and scientific trends, in the last two decades, the Greater Yellowstone region has experienced twice the nation’s population growth rate and six times the rate of land conversion and habitat loss. While only 27,000 houses were located within 50 miles of the park in 1940, today that number exceeds 88,000 and scientists predict we could reach 143,000 in the next two decades.

“This is the biggest crisis Yellowstone faces since it was created. At the current rate of permanent habitat loss, the extraordinary wildlife that characterizes the region will not be maintained for future generations,” said Paul Hansen, director of the Greater Yellowstone program at The Nature Conservancy. “Very few of the millions visiting have any sense of that.”

Winter range is found primarily in the lower elevation river valleys, places also popular with home owners and the increasing number of residents who move to the region for its natural beauty. When significant portions of the park are covered in 50 feet of snow, as can be typical in the winter months, animals need room to move to less harsh conditions. Their useable space is rapidly shrinking.

The Nature Conservancy and its partners have identified the 2.8 million acres that are the most important to the survival of the Greater Yellowstone’s wildlife. Working collaboratively with others, the Conservancy is working to protect 1 million acres, the most important 4 percent of the total Greater Yellowstone wildlife habitat, by 2015. This is an ambitious goal, but the Conservancy has protected more than 117 million acres of land and 5,000 miles of rivers around the world.

“Our generation faces a historic challenge and opportunity to secure Yellowstone’s wildlife heritage, for all time. If we fail, the park and iconic assemblage of wildlife species that give this landscape its life will be diminished forever,” Hansen said.

Identifying ways for man and nature to coexist is not a new problem. Earlier this summer the Conservancy and Harvard University released a new study examining the effect of staggering urban growth on nature and people that finds if we don’t improve urban planning now, we may lose some animals, plants and natural resources for good. Among the findings:

• By 2030, expanding urban areas will fill 350,000 square miles, an area the size of Texas.
• In 2007, the United Nations revealed that at least 50 percent of the world’s population is living in cities. By 2030, that number will jump to 60 percent, with nearly 2 billion new city residents, many migrating from rural areas.
• 8 percent of vertebrae species have been labeled as “endangered” due to the effects of rapid urban development.
• Economic concerns will also emerge with rapid urban growth. For example, accidental or intentionally started fires will increase, costing additional dollars and resources to suppress the flames that threaten homes, businesses and buildings. At Tijuca National Park near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, there are around 75 wildfires a year, almost all caused by humans and most started at the edge of the park by surrounding residents.

The headwaters of all three of the nation’s largest watersheds- the Columbia, the Colorado and the Mississippi- begin in Yellowstone. It is the world’s first park and the first international biosphere reserve. It is the location of the five longest remaining long-distance mammal migrations- one of the Earth’s most stunning and imperiled biological phenomena-in the lower 48 United States.

Wildlife habitat include large concentrations of elk, mule deer, bighorn mountain sheep, bison, and pronghorn, and the Greater Yellowstone serves as the southern anchor of a larger system -stretching through northern Idaho and Montana into Canada - for wide-ranging carnivores that are critical to the natural balance: wolves, grizzly bears, coyotes, mountain lions, wolverine, lynx, and fox.

The Nature Conservancy is a leading conservation organization working around the world to protect ecologically important lands and waters for nature and people. To date, the Conservancy and its more than one million members have been responsible for the protection of more than 18 million acres in the United States and have helped preserve more than 117 million acres in Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific. Visit The Nature Conservancy on the Web at www.nature.org.

Contact:
Nichole Matous
(307) 734-0440
nmatous@tnc.org

Paul Hansen
(307) 733-8890
phansen@tnc.org

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The premier pricing optimization event for the banking and finance market features presentations from Royal Bank of Canada, HBOS, Chrysler Financial and AmeriCredit.

San Bruno, CA (PRWEB) August 19, 2008 — Nomis Solutions, the leader in Profit-based Pricing for banking and finance, today announced its 2008 Global Pricing Optimization Forum, dedicated to helping banks and finance companies use pricing as a strategic lever to improve financial results and gain strategic and operational benefits such as implementing price changes more dynamically and with a higher level of accuracy. Hosted at the Muse Hotel in New York City, September 21-23, 2008, the forum will bring together retail banking and finance company executives, as well as industry experts from market-leading organizations in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and Europe. The purpose of the Forum is to share valuable insights about how to improve financial performance through the use of a more advanced approach to pricing and profitability management.

John William Snow, chairman of Cerberus Capital Management, L.P., will deliver the keynote presentation, “The Impact of Private Equity Investments on Banking & Finance.” Cerberus is one of the world’s leading private investment firms and acquired a majority interest in Chrysler Financial for $7.4 billion from DaimlerChrysler in May 2007. Cerberus also led a consortium to buy 51% of GMAC in April 2006. The Honorable John Snow has served on various corporate and non-profit boards including the American Enterprise Institute and John Hopkins University. He also served as the 73rd Secretary of the Treasury from 2003-2006. As Secretary of the Treasury, Snow worked closely with President Bush on a broad array of economy policy issues.

Featured presentations from banking and finance companies include:

“Implementing Pricing Optimization across Multiple Products,” Patricia Everingham, director, Personal Lending at Royal Bank of Canada and Zeenat Sidi, vice president, Personal Lending at Royal Bank of Canada.

“How HBOS Loans Uses Pricing Strategically to Improve Profitability,” Alex Park, pricing manager at HBOS.

“Strategically Pricing and Proactively Managing the Dynamic Market,” Preston Miller, co-COO of AmeriCredit and Tom Schwartz, vice president of operations analytics at AmeriCredit.

“Optimizing Profitability in a Challenging Environment,” Kelly Mankin, vice president of marketing at Chrysler Financial.   

Financial services industry expert, Bobbie Britting, research director of consumer lending at TowerGroup will reveal the results of her research, “Pricing Optimization Implementation Approaches in Banking and Finance,” and Rob Kugel, research director of financial performance at Ventana Research will present, “The Three Keys to Success for 2008 & Beyond: Profitability Management, Risk Management and Process Improvements.”

“Over the last 12 months, as banks and finance companies have battled an increasingly tough credit environment, we have seen the demand for pricing optimization solutions increase significantly. In today’s environment, executives are looking for ways to navigate changing consumer preferences and behavior, combined with a tough capital market and funding environment,” stated Nomis Solutions’ Chairman and CEO, Dennis Stradford, who will be the Forum’s Master of Ceremonies. “The Global Pricing Optimization Forum will allow a selected group of executives to share experiences and best practices in pricing optimization for a tough lending and finance environment. We look forward to some very insightful discussions.”

Showcased at the Global Pricing Optimization Forum will be the award-winning Nomis Price Optimizer™. The Nomis Price Optimizer is a business solution that combines pricing analytics, optimization, and execution into a comprehensive pricing strategy and process. It moves banks and finance companies beyond risk-based pricing practices to a more advanced approach that enables pricing managers to better tailor rates to various segments and markets, to quantify and gain valuable insights about customer preferences and to use a more consistent, repeatable and efficient pricing process. The Nomis Price Optimizer suite has been successfully implemented by leading banks and finance companies and is generating significant financial improvements across the auto finance, home equity lending, personal lending, mortgage, and deposits industries.

To find out more about the 2008 Global Optimization Forum and to inquire about receiving an invitation to this exclusive event, please visit http://www.nomissolutions.com.

About Nomis Solutions
Nomis Solutions is the recognized leader in Profit-based Pricing for banking and finance. Powered by pricing optimization, Profit-based Pricing is an advanced approach to pricing that provides the insights, automation and capabilities necessary to use pricing as a strategic lever to achieve performance objectives and implement price changes more dynamically and frequently. The award-winning Nomis Price OptimizerTM Suite including Nomis SmartRangesTM and the Nomis Offer OptimizerTM is a set of business solutions that combines pricing analytics, optimization, and execution into a comprehensive pricing strategy and process.

The suite includes specific solutions for auto finance, home equity lending, personal lending, mortgage, and deposits. Each solution delivers quick time-to-benefit, increases profits and market share by 10-20%, and provides valuable insights about how customer preferences impact product and portfolio performance through a consistent, repeatable and efficient pricing process that supports compliance. Select customers include Abbey, AmeriCredit, Chrysler Financial, GE Money, HBOS plc, Royal Bank of Canada, and Washington Mutual Bank. Headquartered in San Bruno, CA, Nomis Solutions also has offices in London, United Kingdom. Visit www.nomissolutions.com or contact us at info@nomissolutions.com or 650-588-9800.

Nomis Solutions and the Nomis Price Optimizer Suite are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nomis Solutions, in the United States and in other countries. Other product and company names herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

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Patented TrueBeam™ Technology Creates Brighter, Whiter Beam Than Any Flashlight On The Market

Bethel, CT (PRWEB) August 19, 2008 — In a professional setting or at home, trouble tends to hide in the dark corners. Today, Duracell is lighting the way with the introduction of the Duracell Daylite™, the first in a new line of flashlights that are durable enough to be used in the harshest of environments and compact enough to take into any space. Most important, the power and quality of the light beam is unsurpassed by any other device.

Duracell Daylite AAA Model

Developed to address the consumer demand for a better and brighter light, the heavy-duty Duracell Daylite™ was developed with patented TrueBeam™ technology which captures, focuses and projects more light than the typical LED and bulb technologies currently on the store shelves with settings from a focused spotlight to floodlight. The Daylite™ takes typical LED lighting technology to the next level. Even with a reflector or lens, a standard LED light source emits and captures light so inefficiently in a 180-degree pattern that it captures less than 70 percent of the total light produced. Duracell’s TrueBeam™ Technology uses both a lens and a reflector to capture and project up to 100 percent of the light, delivering a brighter, whiter beam that totally eliminates the dark spot that plagues the typical flashlight.

“We’ve re-engineered the common flashlight into a more powerful tool that will help give professionals and do-it-yourselfers the vision to do their jobs better,” said Rick June, Duracell Vice President and General Manager. “The difference isn’t subtle, and we named it Daylite for a reason. It’s like bringing a beam of daylight to the job. It’s powered by Duracell batteries, but it’s another example of how the company is bringing more than battery innovation to the market.”

Because of its industry leading performance and durability, the Duracell Daylite™ flashlight is expected to become a fast favorite for safety professionals across the country. The premium features and value pricing of the Daylite™ also make it the perfect choice for the millions of do-it-yourselfers who are looking for bright, even light that easily and efficiently translates from a tight beam to a wide flood without any fade or dark spots. These features will make household projects and DIY fixes requiring a dependable, bright light source simpler than ever before.

As a result of the successful acquisition of Garrity in 2006, Duracell’s technology partner, Illumination Management Solutions, helped bring the TrueBeam™ to the mass market.

The Duracell Daylite™ flashlight will be available beginning in August 2008 at mass, drug and hardware stores nationwide. The suggested retail price is $24.99 for AA and AAA. The CR123 will have a suggested retail of $34.99.

About Duracell
Part of the Procter & Gamble Company (NYSE:PG), Duracell has been powering people around the world for more than 40 years. Our products serve as the heart of devices that keep people connected, protect their families, entertain them and simplify their increasingly mobile lifestyles. As the world’s leading manufacturer of high-performance alkaline batteries, Duracell also innovates in disposable, renewable and peripheral technologies and markets general purpose flashlights along with the advanced Daylite® LED flashlights. Visit www.duracell.com for more information.

About Procter & Gamble (NYSE:PG)
Three billion times a day, P&G brands touch the lives of people around the world. The company has one of the strongest portfolios of trusted, quality, leadership brands, including Pampers®, Tide®, Ariel®, Always®, Whisper®, Pantene®, Mach3®, Bounty®, Dawn®, Gain®, Pringles®, Folgers®, Charmin®, Downy®, Lenor®, Iams®, Crest®, Oral-B®, Actonel®, Duracell®, Olay®, Head & Shoulders®, Wella®, Gillette®, and Braun®. The P&G community consists of 138,000 employees working in over 80 countries worldwide. Please visit www.pg.com for the latest news and in-depth information about P&G and its brands.

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Innovative new tool gives teachers a publishing platform for providing students with a highly-customized learning experience.

Cincinnati, OH and Washington, D.C. (PRWEB) August 19, 2008 — Curriki, an online community for creating and sharing open source K-12 curricula and Somatic Digital, a developer of innovative technology-based products for publishers, today announced a content distribution partnership.

Under the agreement, Curriki-hosted educational materials will now be available with Somatic Digital’s eTouchBook Suite™.

print-as-touchscreen

Curriki offers teachers, students and parents universal access to free, open source curricula and instructional materials for grades K-12. The site features more than 17,000 learning assets in its repository, and expects to grow that number to more than 28,000 by the end of 2008.

The eTouchBook Suite of hardware and software platform tools enable publishers, content owners, authors, and educators to manage and directly link their print and digital assets. The eTouchBook turns the regular or Braille printed page into a touch screen.

Educators now have the ability to create hybrid multi-modal interactive learning experiences for their students. By turning the regular printed page into a touch screen that the educator can control, the page becomes a filtered and customized portal to the digital world. For example, students with visual impairments can gain supplementary audio information by simply touching the tactile or Braille pages, while students needing visual supplementary information can read about the subject, touch a picture, and gain a video clip expressing more information about the subject.

“Educators can now customize the delivery of content from printed pages to their individual students,” said Jason E. Barkeloo, Founder & President of Somatic Digital. Barkeloo concludes that, “With content from Curriki added to the eTouchBook, forward-leaning schools and educators have an easy-to-implement system to deliver educational materials and tutoring services.”

“Curriki was founded on a belief that technology can play a crucial role in bridging the Education Divide - the gap between those who have access to high-quality education and those who do not”, said Dr. Barbara Kurshan, Curriki’s Executive Director. “We are excited to be working with Somatic Digital to further extend access to our high quality content to a wide range of specialized learners.”

About Curriki

Curriki is a social entrepreneurship organization that supports the development and free distribution of open source educational materials to improve education worldwide. The online community gives teachers, students and parents universal access to peer-reviewed K-12 curricula, and powerful online collaboration tools. Curriki is building the first and only Web site to offer a complete, open course of instruction and assessment. Founded by Sun Microsystems in 2004, the organization now operates as an independent nonprofit.

For more information, visit www.curriki.org or phone 202-898-0833.

About Somatic Digital

Somatic Digital, LLC is a developer of the Touch User Interface (TUI) technology. This technology creates a “touch screen” out of the printed page by connecting paper directly to digital content that can reside on optical media, the Internet, or hard-drives. It enables a bridge over the digital divide because it eliminates barriers that previously prevented people from connecting to digital content. With the press of a finger, stylus or pointer, a physically, visually, or hearing impaired student can gain access to digital content.

For more information, please visit the Somatic Digital’s web site at
http://SomaticDigital.com

Contact:

Laura Fairbanks
Operations Manager
513.322.5101
888.322.5121
http://SomaticDigital.com/about/contact

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ROUND ROCK, Texas (Business Wire EON/PRWEB ) August 19, 2008 — Enhancing personal expression and style, Dell today launches five bold and contemporary Special Art Edition designs for the Dell Studio 15 and 17 laptops, exclusively created by urban artist Mike Ming. Building off of the inaugural Ming art work for the Inspiron 1525 laptop, Dell extends its offering with new designs that showcase Ming’s fluid organic style.

New unique designs for the Dell Studio 15 and 17 laptops include “Red Swirl,” “Seaweed,” “Sunburst,” in addition to the previously released “Bunch O Surfers” and “Sea Sky.” Each piece of artwork is brought to life through Dell’s revolutionary manufacturing technique, enabling every vibrant color and individual brushstroke to be permanently “tattooed” on the laptop’s cover.

The Special Art Edition Dell Studio laptops are available for order today, starting at US$799, at www.dell.com/art.

Dell’s Studio 15 and 17 laptops are highly personalized products that combine aesthetics and technology into a fresh approach for hi-def mobile lifestyles. These laptops combine sleek designs, striking visual color elements and personalization options with features such as standard built-in webcam, capacitive touch media control buttons, slot load drives, and optional mercury-free LED displays, backlit keyboards and built-in mobile broadband.¹

Brooklyn-based artist Mike Ming (born Michael Miyahira) blends popular culture, motion and emotion to communicate his visual world. According to Ming, “The technology behind creating Dell’s Art House series of laptops allows me to share my visual creations with people who are inspired by art and who want to express their own individually unique sense of style.”

“It’s exciting and fun discovering new artists around the world who can create emotional ties, uniqueness and personalization with individuals’ personal technology,” said Michael Tatelman, vice president of global consumer sales and marketing at Dell. “The Special Art Edition designs reflect our customers’ desires to add another level of individuality to everyday life.”

Additional info, images

www.dell.com/art

www.mikeming.com

www.flickr.com/photos/dell_digital_media/

About Dell

Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) listens to customers and delivers innovative technology and services they trust and value. Uniquely enabled by its direct business model, Dell is a leading global systems and services company and No. 34 on the Fortune 500. For more information, visit www.dell.com, or to communicate directly with Dell via a variety of online channels, go to www.dell.com/conversations. To get Dell news direct, visit www.dell.com/RSS.

Dell Inspiron, and Dell Studio are trademarks of Dell Inc.

Dell disclaims any proprietary interest in the marks and names of others.

¹ Subject to wireless provider’s broadband subscription and coverage area; additional charges apply.

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AUGUSTA, Ga. (Business Wire EON/PRWEB ) August 19, 2008 — With food prices increasing at the fastest pace in 17 years, more American families are preparing meals at home, using up leftovers and stocking up on sale food items. In fact, greater than half of financially challenged adults say they are utilizing all three of these meal-planning strategies more than they were one year ago¹, which means, they’re probably relying on their freezers for food solutions.

Just as freezers are becoming more important to American families than ever before, Frigidaire is introducing a new line of upright freezers with organizational that answer the demand for convenient, yet stylish kitchen appliances – perfect for the on-the-go mom or home entertainer. Take, for instance, this mother of five who relies on her freezer to help stockpile sale items that satisfy her large brood.

“I watch the inserts in my newspaper’s weekly food section for the best deals. Sometimes I stock up on frozen pizzas, which slide nicely into the new Frigidaire Pizza Shelf where they can easily be accessed or surveyed for the next shopping trip,” said Laura Dellutri, also known as The Healthy Housekeeper^™. “Or, maybe lean ground beef catches my eye in the circular, and I spend the morning after my shopping trip seasoning, sautéing and storing enough for two month’s worth of taco nights – my kids’ favorite. After all, a properly organized freezer can save both money and time.” Dellutri also offers imperative ice box information, including tips and recipes on Frigidaire.com.

Dellutri isn’t the only mom looking to cut corners along with cost. Convenience is important as Americans are spending less time at home, leaving less time to plan dinner. In fact, according to an AC Nielsen survey, 60 percent of 18 to 44-year-olds say they are so busy during the day that making dinner needs to be easy – another way that the new Frigidaire upright freezer features can help.

FRIGIDAIRE FREEZER FEATURES

The days of opening the freezer door and wincing when meat falls on a toe, or having a bulky appliance that looks like it belongs in the basement are over. New Frigidaire upright freezers have been re-engineered from the inside out, with some of the most advanced features on the market that allow for organization and style:

• Precision Set Controls™ and Alarm: On the exterior of the front door, Precision-Set controls provide digital temperature readout as well as alarm settings for power loss and door ajar situations so food safety can be determined at a glance. Should a power loss occur, a high-temperature duration alarm informs how long (past one hour) the freezer has maintained a temperature in excess of 23 degrees Fahrenheit.
• Soft Freeze Zone: This bin remains warmer than the freezer interior for convenient storage of soft-freeze items, such as ice cream, and also helps guard against ice crystals. Say goodbye to bent spoons!
• Pizza Shelf: Store and access several pizzas easily, while leaving room for the storage shelf/area below.
• Adjustable Shelf Bookend Organizers: Snap-on adjustable shelf organizer keeps boxes of favorite frozen items upright and within reach. Book-end shelf organizers maximize storage area by stowing frozen, boxed foods upright.
• Fully Extendable Sliding Baskets: Convenient sliding baskets provide for quick and easy access. No more digging through bags of frozen vegetables to find the perfect side dish. Lower baskets can now be smoothly drawn out to show their contents while remaining firmly attached to the inner cabinet via secured guides.
• Store-More™ Tilt-Out Wire Door Bins: The tilt-out wire bin construction stores small packages and optimizes visibility while the tilt-out feature provides easy access.

THINK OUTSIDE OF THE ICE BOX

When it comes to kitchen appliances, style is just as important as convenience, as parties tend to end up in the kitchen. “The new Gallery Series uprights answer the consumer need for organization, while being the appliance that hosts will want to show off during a dinner party,” said Marty O’Gorman, Vice President and General Manager of Freezers for Frigidaire. “The new upright freezers feature Adjustable Shelf Bookend Organizers that maximize storage and make food easy to see at a glance, while also exhibiting elegance with the new curved door design.”

In addition to purchase price (the new freezers range in price from $399 to $799), O’Gorman recommends considering style, food safety, convenience and economy. A complete freezer buying guide can be found at Frigidaire.com.

About Frigidaire

Since 1918, families have made Frigidaire a trusted name in home appliances. The brand heritage is rich with quality products and lifestyle-improving innovations. Today, more than ever, Frigidaire provides the pioneering features of tomorrow with an emphasis on quality, trust and service. Visit www.frigidaire.com for more information on Frigidaire products or to download high-resolution product photos.

¹NPD Report “How Do Economically Challenging Times Affect In-Home Meal Strategies,” April 9, 2008

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Enquisite, Inc., a developer and provider of the next generation of search analytics solutions, today announced that the Enquisite Search Analytics Platform was named the ‘Technology Platform Search Marketers Can’t Live Without’ at the Search Engine Strategies conference in San Jose, California. The announcement was made during the 4:30PM keynote session on August 18.

San Jose, CA (PRWEB) August 19, 2008 — Enquisite, Inc., a developer and provider of the next generation of search analytics solutions, today announced that the Enquisite Search Analytics Platform was named the ‘Technology Platform Search Marketers Can’t Live Without’ at the Search Engine Strategies conference in San Jose, California. The announcement was made during the 4:30 p.m. keynote session on August 18, 2008.

“To be selected as the technology that search marketers ‘can’t live without’ is a huge compliment,” says Enquisite Founder, Richard Zwicky. “Search analytics is at the forefront of what marketers need today, which is a way to more scientifically approach getting a higher ranking in the search engine results pages or SERPs. We’ve focused our offerings in part on the longtail of search because it has the potential to help marketers maximize the opportunities inherent in this qualified traffic. By doing so, we’re giving marketers a big-picture view of how they can improve their search result rankings and run the most effective campaigns,” Zwicky concludes.

The SES Awards were developed by SES editorial staff to recognize exemplary work in the search engine marketing field. SES staff reviewed all awards applications and determined finalists; then, a panel of more than 30 industry experts and practitioners selected the winners. The judges scored applications based on four criteria: the company or product’s innovation in methodology and execution, its ability to achieve success goals, a sense of excellence in tactical execution and the company or product’s overall approach and category relevance.

The Enquisite Search Analytics Platform helps digital agencies and search marketers better understand how visitors search for and find their clients’ web sites and web pages, allowing them to visually determine areas for optimization. The platform provides marketers with superior geotargeting data, search engine results pages (SERPs) rankings for specific locales and seamless integration with current web analytics offerings.

Enquisite was also named a finalist in the ‘Best SEM Technology for SMBs’ award. The winner of that award will be announced on Tuesday, August 19, 2008 at 9 a.m.

About the SES Awards 2008:
Since 1999 Search Engine Strategies (SES) has been the leading international conference series for webmasters, digital agencies, online marketers and corporate decision makers. Over the years, SES has guided search marketers of all skill levels through the fast changing and complex world of search — the single fastest growing marketing sector. In celebration of the event’s 10-year anniversary, SES San Jose 2008 incorporated the first annual SES Awards.

The mission of the SES Awards is to inspire innovation and encourage new ideas. The SES Awards honored 15 outstanding search marketers and was judged by a panel of industry experts and the SES Awards editorial staff.

About Enquisite Inc.:
Enquisite, Inc. is a developer and provider of the next generation of search analytics solutions. Founded in 2006, Enquisite offers search marketers unparalleled insights into search page rankings and visitor behavior from both organic and pay-per-click (PPC) search listings.

Enquisite is a search engine referral analysis suite that provides in-depth information about web site visitors referred by search engines. Used by organic and paid search marketers, Enquisite delivers a wide array of search referral data with metrics ranging from a ‘big picture’ overview to extremely granular information about local search markets.

The company has offices in San Francisco, CA, Victoria, British Columbia and Seattle, WA.

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Daniel Macpeak, Lawn and Shrub Expert Offers Advice on How to Prepare your Lawn for the Harsh Winter Ahead.

Chevy Chase, MD (PRWEB) August 19, 2008 — Sixty-four percent of consumers think that their neighbor has the best lawn on the block, according to a May 2008 poll of homeowners conducted by the Consumer Reports National Research Center. If you’re ready to do something about that ‘lawn envy’ by next spring, the time to start planning is now.

A beautiful landscape in the spring and summer means a lot of work in the winter and especially fall

“Some people don’t realize that a beautiful landscape in the spring and summer means a lot of work in the winter and especially fall,” says Daniel Macpeak, lawn and shrubcare expert and owner of GoldLeaf Lawn and Shrub Care. “There are many simple and cost-effective things property owners can do to bump up their curb appeal, as long as they plan accordingly.”

Macpeak shares his tips on what you can do this fall to plan for a healthy landscape:

-Plant bulbs between September and mid October. If you want color around your lawn the moment winter snow melts away for good, you have to plan ahead. Plant bulbs for tulips, daffodils, hyacinths and crocuses between September and mid October so that they’ll be ready for spring.

-Aerate and seed your lawn in September or October. Aerating your lawn is a great way to loosen up compacted soils. Aeration also makes it easier for water and nutrients to reach the roots of your turf. Macpeak suggests an aeration and seeding treatment in early fall to help your lawn grow thicker and healthier - and with less weeds - in the spring.

-Don’t install shrubs blindly! This goes for every season. Soil has different nutrient levels in different places of your lawn or yard. There is no guarantee that because one shrub survived at the edge of your yard, the same shrub will survive in the middle of your yard. A simple $25 soil test - implemented by a lawn care specialist like Macpeak - is all you need, and it might just save you all that time and money otherwise spent on moving and reinstalling shrubs. The results of a strong soil test should show a pH level between 6 and 7.5. The test will also show you if nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium levels are low, medium or high, and then provide the correct amount to add (or not add) to correct the problem.

-Apply Lime to your lawn between September and mid October. If your soil test shows a poor pH level, Lime is one effective way to improve that reading. A proper pH level allows nutrients and water to move more freely through the root zone in your lawn, which will make fertilizer more effective, and the lawn healthier.

-Don’t plant any new shrubs after mid October. You want your plants well established and watered by winter time, or they might not make it to spring. And remember, annual flowers like mums and pansies must be planted in the fall in order to bloom in spring.

-Fertilize your trees and shrubs in October. Summer stress, followed a few months later by harsh winter conditions, requires you to refuel your trees and shrubs with as many nutrients as possible. When calling on a lawn, shrub and tree specialist, or of you’re planning to fertilize your own lawn, you want to look for fertilizers with specific nutrient combinations. Use fertilizers with nutrient levels 10-20-20 (these are the nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium levels) for your lawn, and fertilizers with levels 20-20-20 for trees and shrubs.

-Monitor insects and disease, and treat any problems in November. Trees and shrubs will be more vulnerable to damage from insects and disease after the excessive summer heat that D.C. is known for. Arm your greens with Transfilm, a product used to prevent winter damage by holding in moisture, for the harsher winter months. It’s ideal to treat your shrubs with Transfilm as close to winter as possible, during early to mid November.

-Don’t be afraid to ask for help. One visit with a lawn care expert like Macpeak can really add to a homeowner’s level of education about his or her lawn and shrubs, and it won’t break the bank. An initial visit with Goldleaf is free and treatments begin at $50 for lawns and $75 for shrubs.

Daniel Macpeak started Goldleaf Lawn and Shrub Care with a vision to procure the most knowledgeable staff, and provide them with the best equipment, materials and technology in the market. The result is a full service lawn, shrub and tree care company that is passionate about making its clients’ greenery thrive. Goldleaf specializes in aeration and seeding, nutrient management, insect and disease control and wellness programs for lawns, trees and shrubs. For more information, visit www.goldleaflawncare.com or call Goldleaf Lawn and Shrub Care at 301-718-1010.

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Section 508 Compliance Opens the Door for All Users

Las Vegas, NV (PRWEB) August 19, 2008 — FindAnyFloor.com, “The Web’s flooring authority,” has taken another big progressive step. By year’s end, FindAnyFloor.com and its partner sites - Pro.FindAnyFloor.com and Green.FindAnyFloor.com - will be Section 508 compliant.

508 compliance means these sites will be fully accessible by people with disabilities. While federal agencies are required to be 508 compliant by law, the private sector has not been quick to follow suit. FindAnyFloor.com founder and CEO Damien Patton recognized the real need for 508 compliance for his latest venture.

“As an organization we have chosen to embrace an environment of accessibility despite the additional time and expense involved,” said Patton. “Our goal is to make sure that our flooring information is available to everyone.”

Making the Internet Section 508 compliant will open up a wealth of information to the approximately 60 million people in the U.S. alone who have some form of disability. FindAnyFloor.com provides consumers with a one-stop reference resource on various flooring types, such as bamboo, carpet, cork, hardwood, stone, vinyl and more. In addition, site visitors will be able to access floor buying and installation guides, a glossary of flooring terms, an “Ask The Expert” function and an exhaustive “Find It Locally” tool. With the latter, users can find over 60,000 flooring retailers, installers and cleaners - all conveniently listed and flagged on a Google map - just by entering their zip code.

Some of the Section 508 features that the trio of sites will feature include coding for the use of assisted devices, no excessive use of Flash visuals, and closed captions on all videos with sound. For more information about the sites’ accessibility features visit www.FindAnyFloor.com/accessibility.

About FindAnyFloor.com: FindAnyFloor.com is striving to be the world’s largest floor covering information site and social community. The site is a free resource for consumers as well as flooring professionals on all subjects related to flooring. The site also provides interactive tools for the flooring do-it-yourselfer and professional alike. FindAnyFloor.com is proud to be working towards becoming Section 508 compliant and a fully accessible site for all visitors.

About Damien Patton: Damien successfully created Pacific Imports International, a large floor covering distributor that he sold in 2007. The company maintained offices in Asia and the United States and became a premier distributor and retailer of bamboo and hardwood flooring. Damien is the Founder and CEO of FindAnyFloor.com, the end result of his vision to have the largest and most accessible floor covering resource and social community on the Web.

Contact:
Shannon Lang   
FindAnyFloor.com Press Room
Ph: 702-242-9663
www.FindAnyFloor.com

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