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175,000 Added Prize Pool Rake Race and Promotion Give a Way – Simply Irresistible CelebPoker.com

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(PRWEB) July 23, 2008

Over the months of August and September, CelebPoker.com is offering a Simply Irresistible package of prizes for all types of player. Weekly Freeroll tournaments for new players, loyalty tournaments and Rake Races for existing players and the chance for all players to gain entry into some of the biggest upcoming Live Events this season… Summer may soon be coming to an end, but things are really heating up at CelebPoker.com!

Stop Press! RAKE RACE and RAKED HANDS RACE worth 100,000

September 2008 – CelebPoker’s 100,000 Cash Table Promotion Give Away:

75,000 Rake Race

25,000 Raked Hands Race

NEW From October 2008 – CelebPoker’s 250,000 Guaranteed Monthly Tournament

There has been no better time to play poker at CelebPoker!

August Promotions

1. NEW Addition – 25,000 Loyalty Tournament. Play your Way! To be played on Tuesday 26th August at 18.00 GMT. This is open to all players, both old and new, who get 1500 raked hands within the previous 30 days. Therefore all cash tables that you play from Monday 28th July will work towards qualification in this fantastic tournament. Furthermore, fear not if you miss it, this tournament will be a regular fixture on the last Tuesday of each month hereon!

2. NEW Weekly 1000 Freeroll for New Players. Register and Win! On every Saturday at 18.00 GMT will be a Freeroll open to all new players who have registered in the previous 7 days. Simple as that! Anybody who registers gets a free chance to win a part of this massive prize pool, even if they have not deposited!

3. NEW Addition -The Big Game. CelebPoker is the ONLY online poker room running the biggest online buy-in game on the net. Many people only dream about playing in a game like this but we made it a reality by setting up daily satellites from only 2! We also have Sit n Go’s for the Big Game so the choice is wide and varied for you. We have guaranteed seats make the opportunity to play the Big Game even more exciting! The total prize pool is estimated to reach over 1,000,000! Daily, weekly and monthly qualifying games from 2 through to 2,000. The Final takes place Feb 2009.

4. Master Classics of Poker. A 7,500 entry and travel / accommodation prize package awaits the best CelebPoker players who want a chance to win the estimated 500,000 1st prize at the prestigious main event of the Master Classics of Poker in Amsterdam, Holland, 11th to 14th November 2008. Satellites have already started, but it’s still not too late to win a place to the main event in November, so what are you waiting for?!

5. NEW Addition – Poker EM. Starting 25th August, enter the satellites starting at just 2.00+0.20 to win your way to a 5,500 entry + travel / accommodation package to the Poker EM No Limit Main Event at the Grand Casino Baden, Austria, from the 10th of October.

September Promotions

1. NEW Addition – 75,000 Rake Race. Rewarding your hard play! For 2 weeks only between the 1st and 14th of September, the top 100 rakers in the final leaderboard at CelebPoker will win a payout from the 75,000 prize pool with 25,000 to 1st place! Players will be given their position according to the rake generated at cash tables and players will be able to view their progress daily at CelebPoker.com…

2. NEW Addition – 25,000 Raked Hands Race. Luck doesn’t come into it! During the same 2 weeks as the Rake Race, we will be running a parallel race for players to win a share of a 25,000 prize pool with 10,000 to first place. The top 50 players with the most raked hands played in the final leaderboard at CelebPoker will win! Players will be given their position according to the number of raked hands played at cash tables and players will be able to see their progress daily at Celebpoker.com…

3. NEW Addition – 25,000 Sit&Go Race. Turbo Hold’em, Supercharged Prizes! Between 15th and 21st September, win a share in the 15,000 prize pool for the race’s 20+2 SNG tourneys or a share in the 10,000 prize pool for the race’s 5+0.50 SNG tourneys. Points are awarded to the top 3 finishing players in every race applicable 10 player SNG tourney. Prizes will be awarded to the top 50 players in each final leaderboard and at Celebpoker.com players will be able to track their progress daily…

4. NEW Addition – 25,000 Multi Tourney Leaderboard. 3 daily 10+1 MTTs between Monday 22nd and Sunday 28th September will give you the chance to win a share of the 25,000 prize pool with 10,000 for the first prize! Points will be awarded to the top 50 players in each MTT and the prizes will be awarded to the top 50 players in the final leaderboard. Players will be able to track their progress daily at Celebpoker.com…

5. NEW Addition – Irish Masters. There’s an estimated 1,000,000 to win between the 25th and 27th of October in Dublin, and CelebPoker’s giving you the chance to try and win some of it! A 3000 package to the Irish Winter Festival of Poker awaits lucky CelebPoker players who can win their way through the 5+0.50 and 20+2 satellites and then the 200+15 finals every other Sunday starting September 1st 2008.

6. NEW Addition – EPT Choice. Your choice of event! CelebPoker are giving winners a 9000 package to choose where and when they would like to play in the European Poker Tour. The 3.30 and 5.50 satellites will run every day from the 1st of September and winners will gain entry into the weekly Sunday 50 final to compete for a 475 seat in the online final, then destination unknown! (Well not to you!)

7. NEW Addition – GUKPT Final 2008. An estimated prize pool of over 1,000,000 awaits winners of CelebPoker’s 7,900 package to the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour Grand Final 2008 in London. Starting 15th September 2008, satellites of 2+0.20 and 3+0.30 will run all day, every day. Winners will gain entry into each Sunday’s 32+3 final to compete for a 300+20 seat in the online final from which you are London bound!

Play the Best Poker room Online CelebPoker.com and get you [rakeback Today!

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One Million Dollar Prize Awarded on “Survivor: One World”

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Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) May 16, 2012

Explore Talent, a premier online social-network for talented individuals in the entertainment industry, announced a new blog on their news site today, titled, “One Million Dollar Prize Awarded on ‘Survivor: One World’.” The blog (http://news.exploretalent.com/one-million-dollar-prize-awarded-on-survivor-one-world/) states that fans of CBS’s “Survivor” were glued to their seats on Sunday night, as the remaining contestants, all female, were battling it out for the grand prize, $ 1 million. The lucky winner, Kim Spradlin, 29, who owns a bridal shop in San Antonio ,Texas, beat out the other finalists, Chelsea Meissner, a medical salesperson, and Sabrina Thompson, a teacher.

Spradlin formed an alliance from the beginning with Thompson and Misnner, which helped all three stay in the game in Somoa. Then, on the finale, she won two immunity challenges, and was awarded $ 100,000 by Sprint for being Player of the Season, which ultimately helped her win the grand prize.

“We were a mess at the beginning, and then we just pulled it together,” Thompson said on the show.

“I strategized until I was blue in the face,” said Spradlin on the show.

Explore Talent is a professional site that connects actors, models, musicians and dancers in the United States. The company posts blogs on their site so that members can stay up to date on celebrity news. The online community has been responsible for new collaborations and business ventures in entertainment. Explore Talent is responsible for countless models and actors trying out for acting jobs and modeling jobs and finding out about various casting calls. Explore Talent also helps aspiring entertainment professionals further their careers with contests that showcase their profiles to members of the social media community. Furthermore, the Explore Talent site features celebrity videos, exclusive interviews with actors, actresses, and musicians, such as Joan Rivers, Usher, Akon and T-Pain.

Explore Talent’s proprietary software and vast infrastructure is the most advanced entertainment-based technology of its kind. The site’s popularity is based on the fact that there are many ways for talent to network, make friends and connect with other industry players, participate in wide variety of contests and earn prizes for being active on the site. The easy access to a pool of over six and a half million members attracts industry players who are posting every month about 50,000 new auditions and job openings which is 30 times more than any other site.

For more information, please visit http://www.exploretalent.com.







Kevin Clancy Receives Coveted Grand Prize at the ARFs Great Minds Awards

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Boston, MA (PRWEB) April 28, 2012

The Advertising Research Foundation (ARF) has selected Kevin J. Clancy, Ph. D., chairman of Copernicus Marketing Consulting and Research, as the grand prize winner of the 2012 Great Minds Awards in Innovation.

When I opened the door to Copernicus almost 20 years ago, I dedicated the firm to pushing the envelope of marketing and advertising research, Kevin explains. I feel tremendously honored to have the innovative work weve doneand continue to doreceive such high praise from an organization as prestigious as the ARF.

Founded in 1936 by the Association of National Advertisers and the American Association of Advertising Agencies, the ARF is widely considered the industry’s leading authoritative source of research-based advertising knowledge. The organization received more than 300 nominations for the 2012 Great Minds Awards, which recognizes the development of the most innovative research ideas and their contributions to the marketing and advertising industries.

We had an outpouring of submissions this year recognizing the great minds in advertising research. The ARF is so proud to recognize these accomplishments, and celebrate those who truly advance the art and science of our industry, said Bob Barocci, president and CEO, ARF.

The panel of judges, all members of the advertising and research communities, selected 50 finalists from among the nominations and chose Kevin as the grand prize winner in the innovation category.

In his 9 co-authored marketing and social science books and more than 400 published papers and presentations; in his teaching at the Wharton School and Boston University; and in the three companies which he founded, Kevin has long been a pioneer in innovative marketing consulting and research.

For over three decades, he has worked with some of the best known and most loved consumer and B2B brands around the world to launch transformational marketing strategies. The innovations he has introduced to the practice marketing also earned him a 2008 induction into the esteemed Marketing Research Hall of Fame.

Among notable innovations over the course of his career:


For the past 20+ years, Kevin has shaken the profession with his published work and speeches on the topic of marketing failures. He was the first practitioner or academic to report on the negative ROI of most marketing programs, including an article in The Harvard Business Review. Kevin and his co-author Randy Stone investigated more than 300 cases where econometric models had been used to evaluate marketing performance. They discovered that average ROI was negative and for packaged goods specifically, it was a paltry 45 cents on the dollar.

In recent years, he has demonstrated that conventional attitudinal, lifestyle, needs state, behavioral and demographic approaches to market segmentation are not only weak in terms of actionability, but also have little to do with the profitability of alternative targets. Today, his ideas, methodologies and models on the topic of segmentation are recognized as breaking news in market segmentation practice. His work culminated in the publication of a chapter on state-of-the-science market segmentation in the recently-published anthology, Leading Edge Marketing Research.

Kevin has developed unique tools for marketing best practices auditing, measuring buyer involvement, marketing IQ, brand equity and product trial given awareness and availability. He has created and published mathematical models for simulating new product performance, optimizing a media plan, forecasting new product and new campaign awareness and simulating the performance of alternative positioning strategies.

He has published R&D studies on the reliability of advertising testing, measuring dissimulation in survey studies, assessing problems with acquiescence and social desirability response set, measuring the relationship between opinion leadership and blogging across 24 different product categories and the positive relationship between television program involvement and advertising effectiveness.

Kevins latest innovation is a positioning simulation model which is not grounded in problematic derived importance analysis; it doesnt rely on statistical/correlation analysis at all. A key to the new model is a construct labeled “Behavioral Predisposition,” a measure which captures perceptions of each brand on every attribute and benefit, multiplied by the same attributes motivating power for a given respondent, and then summed over all attributes and benefits.

Lately Kevin has focused his energy writing and speaking about inspirational, aspirational, transformational marketing strategies. By transformational he literally means a strategy that is so strong, so powerful, that it changes brand trajectories, career paths, sometimes entire companies and even industries. His firm has developed a book of transformational case histories to demonstrate the power of such an approach. The key to such a strategy is finding the most profitable target group, developing a powerful preemptive positioning strategy based on genuine buyer needs and harnessing the best of contemporary digital technology.

To find out more about Kevin and his contributions to the field of marketing research, visit copernicusmarketing.com/greatminds.

University at Buffalo Law School Alumna Awards Promise Prize

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Buffalo, NY (Vocus) September 22, 2008 -

University at Buffalo Law School alumna, and Promise Prize creator, Vikki L. Pryor, presented the seventh annual Marie Nesbitt Promise Prize award to Siana McLean, a second-year law student at UB Law, at the Minority Bar Association of Western New York’s 26th Annual Awards and Scholarship Dinner.

The $ 5,000 Promise Prize is granted annually to a first-year UB Law student of African American descent who has demonstrated exceptional academic achievement and professional promise. Pryor created the award in 2002 in memory of her grandmother, Marie Nesbitt, a great-granddaughter of slaves whose formal education stopped at the third grade. Nesbitt was a woman of strong opinions and deeply held principles who inspired everyone with whom she came in contact. In keeping with Marie Nesbitt’s influence, the award is intended to foster a legacy of giving in support of young people working to achieve their dreams.

A native of Kingston, Jamaica, and a Canadian immigrant, McLean is no stranger to change, challenge, or to success. Before attending law school at the University at Buffalo, where she is now ranked in the top 25 percent of her class, McLean attended the University of Toronto and received her BA in Criminology and History. She then attended Seneca College’s one-year, accelerated paralegal program. McLean’s decision to attend law school was heavily influenced by an extended circle of family and friends whose lives, much like hers, had been affected by immigration. McLean said, “The realization that I could change lives forever through immigration law has solidified my determination and desire to succeed.”

McLean is Vice President of the Black Law Students Association, Editor of the Buffalo Human Rights Law Review, Northeast Regional Director of the Frederick Douglas Moot Court Competition, and youth counselor and worship leader in her church. McLean has also received the Phillips Lytle Diversity Scholarship, the Mastercard Affinity Scholarship, the John Brooks Entrance Scholarship, an Opportunity Entrance Scholarship, a National Book Award, North York Women’s Scholarship and a Students’ Activities Council Scholarship.

Like Pryor, McLean has always realized the value and power of those who have offered support throughout her journey. “I am grateful to the many who have encouraged me along the way, and thankful to God and to my family for the many blessings in my life,” said McLean.

Today, Pryor serves as the president and CEO of SBLI USA Mutual Life Insurance Company, Inc. She has led a diverse workforce of over 200 employees since 1999 in an effort to provide affordable and accessible life insurance to “the people who make America work.” SBLI USA is licensed in 49 states with offices in Buffalo, Chicago, Los Angeles, Newark, New York, and Puerto Rico.

More about SBLI USA/S.USA

SBLI USA (http://www.sbliusa.com) markets a wide range of life insurance products to value-conscious consumers and diverse markets. The Company is dedicated to building lifelong relationships with customers and empowering them with the education and tools they need to take control of their financial destinies.

SBLI USA and its subsidiaries are licensed in 49 states, the District of Columbia, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico. With more than $ 15.8 billion of insurance in force, $ 1.5 billion in assets, $ 127 million in surplus capital, 200 associates and nearly 300,000 policyholders, the company is committed to offering affordable, flexible and easy-to-access products through a variety of integrated channels, including direct mail, telemarketing, a bilingual Web site, licensed agents, and new Customer Centers, as it expands nationally.

SBLI USA Mutual Life Insurance Company, Inc. is the parent company to SBLI USA Holdings, Inc., which owns subsidiary companies S.USA Life Insurance Company, Inc., and SBLI USA Diversified Services Company, Inc. For more information go to http://www.sbliusa.com

More about the University at Buffalo Law School

Since its founding in 1887, UB Law School has established an excellent reputation and is widely regarded as a leader in legal education. Its curriculum provides both a strong theoretical foundation and the practical tools graduates need to succeed in a competitive marketplace, with a special emphasis on interdisciplinary studies, public service, and opportunities for hands-on clinical education. Each student has the opportunity to craft a custom-made curriculum, beyond the selected concentrations, drawing from numerous offerings to build a personalized sequence of courses and experiences. The school has a very low student-faculty ratio. Currently, more than 75 percent of its upper division courses are comprised of fewer than 40 students. Many of the 50 faculty members are nationally prominent and hold advanced degrees in the social sciences and other disciplines, in addition to their law degrees. Their scholarship is published widely, and they bring a wealth of practice and policy experience to UB Law.

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SchoolMessenger Awards Ocean Voices Classroom Contest Grand Prize to Angela Rizzo from Southwestern Elementary School

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Santa Cruz, CA (PRWEB) May 20, 2010

SchoolMessenger, a leading provider of parent notification services for schools and districts, today announced the Grand Prize winner of its Ocean Voices Classroom Contest. Teacher Angela Rizzo from Southwestern Elementary School in Hanover, Indiana, will receive an all-inclusive VIP trip for two to San Francisco to attend a special debut performance of the Ocean Voices project on June 3 at the San Francisco California Academy of Sciences. The event, which celebrates World Oceans Day and the 100th anniversary of Jacques Cousteau’s birthday and is sponsored by SchoolMessenger, will feature a global collection of voice recordings set to music in which participants share their thoughts, stories and experiences about the ocean.

In addition to her trip, Ms. Rizzo’s students who participated in the Ocean Voices project will receive free movie passes. SchoolMessenger will also donate a two-year subscription of Classroom Messaging to Southwestern Elementary School, which will allow teachers to communicate timely information directly to students and parents at home.

“We are very pleased to honor Ms. Rizzo with our Grand Prize, and applaud her for encouraging students to lend their individual voices to support ocean conservation,” said Kent Lowry, chief executive officer of SchoolMessenger. “As Ocean Voices strives to rally a global community around its cause, our contest was designed to inspire students in the classroom to do the same. We hope to demonstrate to students that expressing their personal message today can have a tremendous influence on our oceans tomorrow.”

SchoolMessenger’s Ocean Voices Classroom Contest was designed to honor educators who inspire exploration, study and protection of our natural world. To participate, each student created a short online audio recording to share their personal experience, thoughts or stories about the ocean. Some voice recordings will be consolidated into the musical composition that debuts in June, while others may be featured as an online audio collage or showcased in museums and education institutions worldwide to help spread the word in a unique and personal way.

Ocean Voices is a collaboration between marine biologist Dr. Wallace J. Nichols and sound artist Halsey Burgund. SchoolMessenger’s Ocean Voices sponsorship and Classroom Contest are designed to create awareness around a spoken word and musical project aimed at opening minds and expanding understanding about the world’s oceans.

About Ocean Voices

Ocean Voices links young people from all over the world and makes the resources of science and education available so that these emerging leaders can guide us through the next 50 years of our relationship with the planet’s oceans. Ocean Voices is a project of world-renowned marine biologist, Dr. Wallace J. Nichols. His Ocean Revolution program as well as work as research associate at California Academy of Sciences supplements classes, retreats, field trips, eco-tourism and ocean curriculum to provide the guidance, networking and mentoring for those who wish to delve deeper and change the course of our planet. For more information, visit http://www.oceanrevolution.org

About SchoolMessenger

SchoolMessenger is a leading provider of notification solutions for education. Thousands of school districts, public schools, colleges, universities, private schools and other educational facilities in all 50 states depend on the company’s innovative solutions to connect and effectively communicate with millions of parents, students and staff every day. Founded in 1999, the company is headquartered in Santa Cruz, California. For information, visit http://www.schoolmessenger.com or call 888.527.5225.

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SEIN Analytics & Asset Management Makes Post-Gigabit Challenge Plans with $100,000 Grand Prize

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Kansas City, MO (PRWEB) February 09, 2012

Since SEIN Analytics & Asset Management walked away with the $ 100,000 Grand Prize at The Gigabit Challenge Finale earlier this year, the Brooklyn-based startup has begun developing plans for 2012 that include hiring, creating deals, marketing and formulating new business structures.

Think Big Partners Gigabit Challenge was a global business plan competition looking for new applications to disrupt technology on the Google Fiber Network. Prizes at the awards ceremony on January 18, 2012 included the $ 100,000 Grand Prize, which was awarded to SEIN Analytics & Asset Management, the Peoples Choice Award, and a $ 250,000 Born Global Prize.

I launched our prototype and turned my attention to getting feedback from others, said Samuel Belu-John, CEO and founder of SEIN Analytics. I looked for places to present our idea to I signed up for iStart and saw The Gigabit Challenge. There was a natural fit to what Google Fiber could do and what we were doing.

SEIN Analytics & Asset Management is a new venture founded by a structured finance veteran and a team of dedicated designers, strategists and programmers. SEIN develops a data-centric cloud application for analyzing and managing asset-backed securities (ABS). The software standardizes loan level data and displays it in an easy-to-use form that financial institutions and investors can use to track and analyze ABS investments.

In a recent Silicon Prairie News article, Chris Bernard, startup specialist at Microsoft and Gigabit Challenge judge, commented that …no other company did as good a job of showing how the cloud and fiber could help businesses solve big data problems that were previously the providence of big data centers and deep pocketed customers.

When we were watching other presenters [during The Gigabit Challenge], we felt as if our numbers were too small, said Suk-Hyon Paek, COO of SEIN Analytics. But the truth of the matter is, our numbers were realistic. We were very down-to-earth about our idea. Everything we presented was based on reality.

With the $ 100,000 Grand Prize under their belts, the SEIN Analytics team plans on putting every penny from The Gigabit Challenge into launching their business. In 2012, Belu-John hopes to hire more developers to assist him in flushing out SEIN. The rest of the SEIN Analytics team plans to handle the future of the company by focusing on building strategic alliances with potential partners, increasing the deal database, refining the existing pricing models, developing a staffing plan, and creating marketing and sales initiatives.

About Sein Analytics & Asset Management:

SEIN Analytics & Asset Management is a new venture founded by a structured finance veteran and a team of dedicated designers, strategists and programmers. SEIN develops a data-centric cloud application for analyzing and managing asset-backed securities (ABS). The software standardizes loan level data and displays it in an easy-to-use form that financial institutions and investors can use to track and analyze ABS investments. To learn more about SEIN Analytics & Asset Management, please visit http://seinanalytics.com.

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Powerball Claims It Will Make More Millionaires With New Changes; This 7 Time Lottery Game Grand Prize Winner Says Maybe Not

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Orlando, FL (PRWEB) February 01, 2012

Richard Lustig, who has won millions as a lottery player says “Obviously, the lottery has been very good to me and my family. Along with my seven game grand prizes, I’ve won dozens and dozens of smaller prizes too. But there are some things that players need to be aware of in terms of these new Powerball changes that may not benefit them.”

Powerball, the most widely played lottery game in America, has undergone significant changes to the game structure and prizes given out. Those changes are now in effect, and include what officials say will create better odds, bigger starting jackpots, and more million dollar winners. The biggest change comes if you hit 5 white numbers without the Powerball. In the past, you would win $ 200,000. With the new changes in the game that prize has been increased to a cool one million dollars; if you hit the “Power Play” you would walk away with two million.

But, as Lustig notes, to go along with the larger winnings, a single Powerball ticket will now be $ 2 per play and $ 3 with the Power Play. “I’m not sure that some of the people who will risk spending a buck on the Powerball should be throwing down two or three dollars”, says the multiple lotto winner, who advocates always playing responsibly.

Richard Lustig has shared his strategies on how to increase your chance of winning the lottery on CNN, Fox News, The Today Show Australia, The Rachael Ray Show, NPR, Sirius/XM, Ripley’s Believe It Or Not, Headline News, Good Morning America, Women’s World, The Daily Buzz, Mancow and dozens of other leading media outlets.

To request an interview, contact Allen Media Strategies Rebecca Fuentes at rebecca(at)allenmediastrategies(dot)com or 703-589-8960.

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Today in America TV with Terry Bradshaw Launches Team Sports Makeover Contest With a $10,000 Prize

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Coral Springs, FL (PRWEB) January 31, 2012

Today in America TV is thrilled to announce the Touchdown with Terry online video contest for any sports team, in any city, any school district or any travel team. This contest is being held to boost teams who have persevered through these economically challenging days.

Athletic programs are often the first cut backs and it has a rippling effect from challenging the physical and mental well being of players to damaging the cornerstone of these local communities, says Today in America TVs CEO Paul Scott. More than a contest, Touchdown with Terry is about the spirit of rebuilding America with communities that are active and vibrant, a lifestyle Paul Scott has created in his hometown of Parkland, Florida. Pauls involvement with children has also earned him an appointment as a board member and volunteer for the Parkland branch of Little League of America.

Producers have selected their official Today in America TV Face Book Fan Page as the digital medium for all things Touchdown With Terry.

Here is how to enter the contest.

BCML Corp. Joins X PRIZE

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Cincinnati, Ohio (PRWEB) December 4, 2003

BCML Corp. (OTC: BCML) is pleased to announce that the company’s application for general membership in the X PRIZE renewable annually has been accepted by X PRIZE Foundation. The X PRIZE is a $ 10 million Prize to jumpstart the space tourism industry through competition between the most talented rocket experts in the world. Over 20 teams from 5 countries have entered.

The X PRIZE will be awarded to the first team that:

1. Privately builds and launches a spaceship able to carry 3 people to 100 kilometers (62.5 miles) altitude.

2. Returns safely to Earth and repeats the launch with the same ship within 2 weeks.

Benefits of membership includes:


An electronic certificate

Name on the X PRIZE website

Email updates on X PRIZE activities and upcoming events

Name flown aboard each X PRIZE contestant launch attempt

Invitations to exclusive X PRIZE Events

As soon as the X Prize website is updated showcasing our company’s name, we’ll post a press release linking readers to that area of their website.

Increasing our level of support for the X PRIZE will go a long way in proving our new marketing and promotion strategy to associate the company’s name with development of the commercial space industry.

About BCML Corp.

BCML Corp., headed by African American entrepreneur and investor Baruti M. Kamau, is a space exploration and new media holding company based in Cincinnati, Ohio. BCML Corp. owns a portfolio of more than 25 publicly traded and privately held companies pioneering futuristic industries such as space tourism, space burial, and space exploration. BCML Corp. owns the domain names DeepSpaceNews.com, AsteroidInvestor.com and FlyToMars.com. BCML is an abbreviation for Barutiwa Communication Media Link.

About Management

Baruti M. Kamau, president and chief executive of BCML Corp., is an American entrepreneur, publisher, writer and stock market speculator. From 1992 to 1999 he conceptualized, published and distributed Barutiwa Newspaper (ISSN 1080-997x). He is also a published writer and poet. His writings have appeared in the Miami Times (Miami, Florida), The Spotlight (Washington, D.C.), Zoser Magazine (Brooklyn, New York), The Cincinnati Herald (Cincinnati, Ohio) and The Cincinnati Enquirer. His poetry has been consistently published in several anthologies and newsletters produced by The Southern Poetry Association (Mississippi) since 1987. Clifton Magazine and the United Black Association published his writings respectively during the Fall of 1988. He has also received several awards for his poetry in 1988, 1989 and 1992. Kamau was educated at the University of Cincinnati (Cincinnati, Ohio), Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies (Kano, Nigeria), Suffolk Community College (Ipswich, England) and the American Institute of Banking (Cincinnati, Ohio).

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New African Writers to Compete for Caine Prize

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(PRWEB) January 23, 2005

On January 20 AuthorMe.com, the international website for writers, nominated 19 writers for the Caine Prize for African Writing. A startling variety of stories were submitted, recognizing writers from Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Sudan, Uganda, and Zimbabwe.

The Caine Prize for African Writing was established in 2000 at the Zimbabwe International Book Fair. Sir Michael Caine, former Chairman of Booker plc, was Chairman of Africa 95, and Chairman of the Booker Prize management committee for almost 25 years.

More than a typical writerÂ’s contest, the Caine Prize has become the worldÂ’s best venue for fiction stories by emerging African writers. They speak in a unique voice and represent experiences sure to arrest the worldÂ’s attention.

The submissions include excellent stories by Nmachi Nwokeabia (Nigeria), Oba Adebayo-Begun (Nigeria), Glaydah Namukasa (Uganda) , Blessing Musariri (Zimbabwe), Uchechukwu Agodom (Nigeria), John Oryem (Sudan), Chika Onuoha (Nigeria),

Valentine Ukachukwu Umelo (Nigeria), Steve Ogah (Nigeria), Anietie Isong (Nigeria), Gracious Changaya (Malawi), David L. Lukudu (Sudan),

Eyitemi Egwuenu (Nigeria), Mazi Guinness (Nigeria), Nyankami Miroro Atandi (Kenya), Valentine Ukachukwu Umelo (Nigeria), Stanley Onjezani Kenani (Malawi), Dennis Ezechukwu (Nigeria),and Fungai James Tichawangana (Zimbabwe).

Writers cannot submit stories directly to the prize committee. Instead, their works must have been published in the form of a book, magazine, or Internet magazine like AuthorMe.com.

AuthorMe’s Editorial Director, Kathy S. Hartwell, M.A., of Mountain State University, refers to the prize as “a light of hope in a continent darkened with wars and the rumors of wars.” According to Kathy, “This beam radiates from talented African writers to enlighten the world for a peaceful tomorrow. The African writers’ experiences accounted in these manuscripts exemplify the adage ‘the pen is mightier than the sword.’

“Therefore, it is with great pleasure that these manuscripts are displayed,” says Kathy. “They contain the essences human beings are to emulate–innocence, forgiveness, and love. Africa is in the process of becoming the cornerstone on which the entire world will learn to live in harmony. For that reason, these writings should be recognized, and preserved, for their inner perspectives for peace.”

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