An exciting new resource for modern entertaining and creative party planning has grabbed the attention of hip hostesses across the nation. Hostess with the Mostess(tm) is an interactive online community filled with unique party themes, helpful shopping and gift guides, and step-by-step instructions to plan fabulous events for every occasion. The HWTM website made its debut in early April, and with exciting new features scheduled to debut in upcoming months, the party is just getting started!

Jennifer Sbranti, HWTM's founder and editor-in-chief, got her start as a successful graphic designer and entrepreneur in San Diego, California. After planning countless baby showers, bachelorette parties, and holiday soirees for friends and family, Sbranti saw a need for a hip and contemporary entertaining resource. "Amidst all the fun I was having celebrating with everyone, I was often frustrated trying to find unique party ideas and modern decorations and supplies," says Sbranti. "I finally decided enough is enough--If I can't find what I'm looking for I'll just create it myself!"

Costa Mesa custom automobile seat cover manufacturer Wet Okole Hawaii has recently added Smart Car seat covers to their thirty-seven hundred seat cover pattern collection. Wet Okole's Smart Car seat covers are made up of 100% waterproof neoprene, laminated with nylon on both sides making it twice as strong, and includes ½'' foam on all seating surfaces for extra comfort and seat protection. The Smart Car seat covers from Wet Okole Hawaii are also side impact air bag compatible and tested at an industry certified lab for compliance. Additionally, each of Wet Okole's Smart Car seat covers are completely custom tailored with virtually limitless options, limitless colors and can be easily installed without removing your seats.

LendingGateway.com announced at a developer lunch yesterday the company's plans to spearhead development of resorts, condos, infrastructure, and community projects and housing in and around the beautiful San Felipe beach community. Earlier this month, several executives representing LendingGateway.com and investors visited the area to inspect some of the company's client properties and found the region untapped and miles of beachfront property in need of investment and development.

Alex Capio, CEO of Lending Gateway, and Ian Boshoff, CFO of Lending Gateway, attended meetings with local land owners, developers, and local and regional government officials of the San Felipe area. The general consensus of the meetings is the region needs more marketing to attract more North American retirees, more infrastructure, and more affordable housing for the growing local population.

Medical cost increases for employers throughout the world are expected to accelerate during the next five years, according to a survey conducted by Watson Wyatt, a global consulting firm.(1)

To contain these costs, multinational employers can use data collected with HealthFitness’ new INSIGHT® International Health Risk Assessment (HRA) to tailor benefits and health improvement programs to specific cultures, and create a clear doorway into comprehensive health and wellness programs for geographically diverse employee populations.

US Media Television, which produces Inside Business with Fred Thompson, is producing a feature on The Spy Place Franchising informing viewers about the distinctive nature of The Spy Place business and the diversity it offers to the security and surveillance provider, the requirements to become a Spy Place franchisee and discuss support systems that are in place to help franchisees to succeed.

"Arrangements have been made and production has already started," said Lorinda Church, The Spy Place President and General Counsel. "The show will air in May on CNBC as well as CNN Headline News and regional news networks."

Advance Parking has announced today that travellers flying from Gatwick can pre-book car parking spaces online via its website at http://www.cheap-parking.net.

The car parking pre-booking service aims to make life a little more convenient for some of the 30 million travellers passing through London's second largest airport every year.

With Gatwick Airport getting busier with both holiday makers and business travellers it became Advance Parking's priority to provide a suitable car parking service for their customers. Advance Parking, by partnering with APH, provides car parking at all major London airports. All APH operated car parks hold the Park Mark® Safer Parking award.

Millerbernd Laser has added a cutting-edge robotic technology system that will help meet their high production volumes by making them more efficient, reliable, streamlined, and cost effective. To accommodate the addition of the new robotics system, they announced the expansion of their 80,000 square foot manufacturing facility by adding a 14,000 square foot state-of-art welding center.

Upon analysis of the Lincoln Electric FANUC Robotics system, the Millerbernd engineering team determined that the robotic systems would offer greater weld consistency, higher production speeds and more flexibility than their traditional dedicated equipment. Farid Currimbhoy, senior vice president of Millerbernd Laser, stated, "We were very impressed with the increased quality, and throughput levels, and Lincoln Electric's ability to design a solution to fit our specific needs with the highest degree of efficiently and effectiveness."

After 10 years in San Jose and Palo Alto, the Best Buck in the Bay--San Francisco Bay Area's 14th Annual Gay Rodeo & Festival -- is pleased to announce that this year's host hotel will be in the heart of San Francisco. September 16-18, the Cathedral Hill Hotel at 1101 Van Ness Avenue will serve as home to the many visiting contestants and rodeo fans from throughout the United States and Canada. The hotel will also serve as the venue for the dances and parties that are a big part of "rodeo weekend."

Marry Me… 101 Reasons is more than a coffee table book, it is a romantic feast that is sure to please the palate. You will luxuriate in its humor and bask in the after glow of the post coital-like bliss. Okay, that might be overstating it a bit, but you will love it. The book has over 25 illustrations that help add to the reader’s enjoyment.

Eddie Renz wrote Marry Me… 101 Reasons to help men and women learn how to treat each other better. Eddie feels that women normally sacrifice the most in a relationship, but not anymore. With this book, men and women don’t have to sacrifice anymore, it’s not a sacrifice when you are enjoying it. Marry Me… 101 Reasons is available for purchase at www.lulu.com, some might say, “it is like chocolate in a room full of bran.”

This year only two-thirds of all babies born in the US are screened at birth for more than 20 life threatening disorders. What about the remaining one-third? Most mothers-to-be don’t realize the number of newborn screening tests done for their newborn depends entirely on the state in which their baby is born. How and when are these tests performed? What do these screenings, test for? How can testing prevent lifelong metabolic birth defects and physical problems? What states are and are not testing for the recommended 29 metabolic birth defects? And, what if a mother-to-be wants all 29 tests but the state does not offer them? PregTASTIC welcomes Dr. Howse, President of March of Dimes to help educate the estimated 6 million mothers-to-be of the importance of newborn screenings.

Cool graphics, easy and intuitively to handle – Roger Federer’s Tennis Open is a feast for novices and experts alike. But beware: While initial small rewards are attained rather quickly, the player soon discovers that only solid training will lead to the road to success.

The training mode lets the player familiarize with the many different courts, players and features of the game. In the tournament mode, the player will be able to play against top world-class players. Among them is, of course, Roger Federer. Each opponent has his strengths and weaknesses to which the player should carefully pay attention. Since opponents are also able to read movements of the player, it requires quite some skills to overcome their play. This keeps the game exiting and full of suspense. The more it is played, the more interesting it gets. Like in real life, each court has a different texture and thus the ball reacts differently, which increases the life-like game feeling.

Profit Confidential, a division of Lombardi Financial, one of the world's largest newsletter advisory companies today issued its 2008 forecast for the stock market.

Last year, Lombardi's Profit Confidential reported "The year 2007 won't be a big one for the stock market." It wasn't. The S&P 500 was up only 3.5% in 2007. If 2007 was extended by only a few days into 2008, the stock market was actually flat last year.

For 2008, the advisory predicts "Investors will Fair Better Being Invested in T-Bills As Opposed to the General Stock Market." The popular daily e-letter did qualify its prediction by saying small cap stocks, that are special situations, are not included in its forecast as new products, technologies and new management can always bring a small-cap stock to life.

Los Angeles, Calif (PRWEB) July 31, 2008 - Consumers searching online for real estate appear to like what they see and want more from Realtor.com, the #1 homes-for-sale Web site, and Move.com, according to June comScore data.(1) In fact, year over year page views for Realtor.com increased by 16 percent and they increased by four percent for the Move Network, which also captured 30 percent more traffic in June than any competitor in the real estate category.

The Move Network, including Realtor.com, remains the most trafficked network in real estate, a position the company has retained since inception in 1995, and visitor statistics remained strong in June. The Move Network captured between nine and ten percent of all Web site visits, page views and time-on-site in the real estate category in June(1). No other competitor came close to rivaling Realtor.com's lead in consumer engagement, as comScore reported that June visitors spent close to 3-times the amount of time-on-site versus the nearest competitor.(1)

Money. Few things cause more quarrels and tension. Luckily, developing a budget for a remodeling project does not need to be nerve-wracking or start a family war in the living room. Remember these simple tips from The National Association of the Remodeling Industry (NARI).

Determine What You Afford

This establishment alone can strike fear into a remodeling homeowner's heart. The truth is, not many homeowners enjoy establishing a remodeling budget - and many simply don't do it at all. "Some homeowners prefer to call in a remodeling contractor and expect him or her to create the budget for them, which is not the best way to begin," said Gregory Harth, President of Harth Builders. How does a homeowner start off on the right foot? One can begin by taking these three easy steps:

RockeTalk, Inc. (RockeTalk), a leading provider of easy to use social communication services for mobile phones, today announced its advanced platform and robust application allowing easy, unified messaging and multimedia chat developed for Qualcomm's BREW (R) solution.

RockeTalk's application empowers users to communicate, create and share content with unified, interactive messaging including voice, photos, video and text. Users have complete control to create their own viral mash-ups containing both user generated and featured content. Users can also join and interact with communities and create, discover and share media on a true peer-to-peer basis, without the need to access or manage content through a Web site. The RockeTalk application has an intuitive user interface making it easy to use, fast and convenient for on-the-go mobile phone users.

www.webaward.org - The Web Marketing Association is pleased to announce the Best Medical Web Site Winner as part of the 10th annual international WebAward Competition, the Internet's premier website award competition.

"Medical Web sites have been inconsistent in terms of Web development, under performing as compared to the overall WebAward standards in five of the eight years they have been included in the WebAwards," said William Rice, President of the Web Marketing Association. "Medical Web sites are strongest in copywriting, design, and content, but low on innovation."

Bird flu experts will focus on the business-related issues in pandemic prevention, preparedness, response and recovery at Washington, DC's first Bird Flu Summit to be held February 27-28, 2006 at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City near Reagan National Airport.

The 2-day event, featuring public sector and private sector leaders addressing the bird flu threat, will be co-chaired by international healthcare advisor Dr. Joseph Agris (www.flulab.com), and will present collective approaches to pandemic influenza preparedness and business continuity planning.

BigHand has today announced that Welsh Health Legal Services, the NHS body that acts for all the Trusts and Local Health Boards in Wales, has cut its annual secretarial cover costs by up to £16,000 per annum as a result of replacing tape equipment with BigHand digital dictation workflow technology.

Much of WHLS's correspondence is time sensitive, and therefore the continued use of tape dictation equipment meant that temporary secretarial staff had to be employed to cover holiday and sickness leave. The inability to share dictations recorded on to analogue tapes amongst existing secretarial resource ensured that annual temporary cover costs remained consistently high.

With the end of summer near, InsuranceQuotes.com is offering all auto insurance agents the best reason of all to test the internet lead generation waters: The ability to choose the price paid per lead.

InsuranceQuotes.com recently launched IQ Agent, their agent/agency lead generation division. "The best way to show agents that we deliver top notch quality leads is to put actions behind the words", said Adam Haber, CEO of InsuranceQuotes.com. "We allow agents to choose the price they want to pay per lead."

General David H. Petraeus has been named the 2008 recipient of the Great American Patriot Award presented by Armed Forces Insurance.

"Since 1974, General Petraeus has dedicated his life to the United States Army and he is currently serving our country by leading our forces in the War on Terror," says Jim Breen, the chairman of the Military Affairs Committee of the Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl. "This award recognizes him for his leadership and over 34 years of service to our country."

A Distinguished Graduate of the U. S. Military Academy in 1974, General Petraeus recently was selected to command the United States Central Command after serving as the Commanding General, Multi-National Force-Iraq from February 2007 to September 2008. In previous tours in Iraq, he commanded the Multi-National Security Transition Command-Iraq and the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault).