Newstream.com Digest: Baby Boomers and Retirement, Luxury Gifts for Hollywood VIPs, Auto Trends and Other Free Multimedia Content for Journalists
NEW YORK--Sept. 6, 2001--Thinking about the family car? Time for a new one? Or just a tuneup? Whatever your users have in mind, we have some great feature stories for your fall auto package. Check out "Motor Trends: Auto Focus, available by clicking the button on any Newstream channel page.
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Aging Baby Boomers Unprepared for Long Term Care Needs
Seventy-seven million baby boomers are facing retirement but most are woefully unprepared and in denial of their long term care needs. Experts fear this lack of planning will produce a serious quality of life and financial crisis from which they and their families may not recover. Get video here.
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Being 'Gifted' Rates High at This Year's Emmys -- Presenters' Gift
Baskets Filled to the Rim With Luxury
Imagine receiving a gift basket filled with some of the most luxurious items you can think of. Maybe a never-before-seen 1911 Ebel luxury timepiece? Or how about an invitation to a private consultation in Paris at Jean Patou to create a one of a kind custom fragrance? A sterling silver privilege card to Bergdorf Goodman, perhaps? Some lucky folks can stop imagining, because they'll soon be receiving these gifts and more. Get video here.
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SanDisk and Sony Agree To Cooperate On Memory Stick
SanDisk Corporation and Sony Corporation announced they have signed a cooperation agreement involving the Memory Stick. Under the agreement, Sony will supply SanDisk with Memory Stick media that SanDisk will resell under its own brand through its retail channel. SanDisk will also supply under market-competitive terms a portion of Sony's NAND flash memory requirements.
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Canon Launches DR-5060F, The Scanner With A Photographic Memory
Canon U.S.A. Inc., the leader in digital imaging solutions, today begins shipping the Canon DR-5060F, its newest digital scanner with a built-in microfilm back-up system. The scanner with a photographic memory, the Canon DR-5060F can simultaneously record images to a PC and to obsolescence-proof microfilm, offering state-of-the-art document management and a back-up system in one compact unit.
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J.D. Power and Associates Reports: Ameritech's americast(tm) Service
Ranks Highest in Overall Customer Satisfaction Among Residential
Cable/Satellite TV Subscribers
In its first year surveyed, Ameritech New Media's americast(tm) cable service ranks highest in customer satisfaction among cable/satellite TV subscribers, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2001 Residential Cable/Satellite TV Customer Satisfaction Study(sm). This marks the first time a cable provider has outranked a satellite company in customer satisfaction in the study, which has been conducted annually since 1996.
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Pep Boys Looks to Next 80 Years as 'Do-It-For-Me' Decades
Pep Boys , which this year celebrates 80 years as the nation's leading full service automotive aftermarket retail and service chain, sees the future as the "do-if-for-me decades." As the only company in the industry capable of servicing all four segments of the automotive aftermarket - do-it-yourself (DIY), do-it-for-me (DIFM), buy-for-resale and replacement tires -- Pep Boys expects the recent growth in the repair and maintenance service labor category (nearly $112 billion annually) to continue to outpace the growth in DIY (which amounted to $36 billion last year) as vehicles continue to increase in complexity and consumers' "time" continues to grow in importance.
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Disney Auctions Kicks Off Fall by Offering One-of-a-Kind Items
Throughout September
Starting what promises to be an amazing Fall filled with one-of-a-kind Disney collector's items, Disney Auctions (www.disneyauctions.com) presented by eBay, is bringing fans and memorabilia collectors alike, a month of extraordinary items. During September, premiere items on Disney Auctions include Celebration Mickey, a $1 million 24-karat solid gold sculpture of Mickey Mouse, a once-in-lifetime opportunity to have lunch with Roy Disney and tour Disney Feature Animation, the Disney-themed Chicago Cow, and the actual letter "D" from the Disneyland Hotel.
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Stay Tooned to www.looneytunes.com to Find Out Who Will Be the Last
'Toon to Win Immunity and "Survive" Toon Marooned!
Scheming, skullduggery and shameless manipulation aren't only found on primetime reality series-this summer the classic Looney Tunes characters have been duking it out on a jungle peninsula for a $100 prize at www.looneytunes.com. On September 6, Warner Bros. Online debuts the final installment of "Toon Marooned," its original animated serial, featuring the face-off between the two 'toons who have survived everything from falling pianos, exploding coconuts and the double-dealing and devious Daffy Duck.
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The Primetime Series Debut of 'FREERIDE With Greta Gaines' Features
Ethan Hawke Fly-Fishing and an Exhibition with Miss Rodeo Montana
The debut of "FREERIDE With Greta Gaines," Oxygen's new part sports show, part travel journey, features Greta traveling down the Madison River in Montana for some fly-fishing instruction with actor, friend Ethan Hawke and horseback riding with Miss Rodeo Montana 2001, Kristy Mensik. The series premieres on Sept. 11 at 10 p.m.
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Backstreet Boy Howie D. Allies with Veritas Medicine to Speak Out on
Lupus and Raise Awareness of Clinical Research -- New Video In
Veritas Medicine, a comprehensive and confidential online clinical trials and treatment resource for more than 50 chronic medical conditions, announced a partnership with Howie D. of the Backstreet Boys that will broaden access to cutting-edge research on investigational treatments for lupus at www.veritasmedicine.com. Get video clips now -- including additional comments from Howie D.
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AIB and QAI Form Strategic Alliance To Help Food System Worldwide
The American Institute of Baking (AIB) and Quality Assurance International (QAI) announced an agreement to promote one another's educational and certification services and to offer comprehensive seminars on organic compliance, audit trails, food safety and sanitation issues. AIB and QAI are launching their strategic alliance this week at the International Baking Industry Exposition in Las Vegas, Nev.
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PPG Synthetic Sheet Introduced For Waterproof Inkjet Printing
PPG Industries is introducing a silica-based synthetic printing sheet that provides water resistance with standard dye-based inkjet technology.
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PPG Sheet Selected By National Geographic Maps For Waterproof Inkjet
Maps
A new synthetic printing sheet from PPG Industries for waterproof inkjet printing has been selected by National Geographic Maps for use with its TOPO! Digital mapping software.
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Diageo Announces Preliminary Annual Results
Diageo Reports Operating Profit of 2,127 Million pounds, PBET of 1,980 Million pounds and EPS Up 15% to 42.8 Pence, Driven by 14% Organic Growth in Operating Profit from Premium Drinks Video clips now available
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Introducing Philip Morris' Latest Cost-Saving Device
The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids today released a short, animated "e-movie" spoofing the recent report by tobacco giant Philip Morris in the Czech Republic touting the "positive effects" of early smoking deaths for government finances. The e-movie is a mock commercial for a new product that uses Philip Morris' uniquely twisted logic to "save" a typical American family lots of cash. The movie can be viewed at http://tobaccofreekids.org/philmo/
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Carl Kooyoomjian, Former Coca-Cola Executive, Named Chairman of Pacer
Global Logistics
Pacer International, a non-asset based international third-party logistics provider, named Carl K. Kooyoomjian, most recently corporate vice president of the Coca-Cola Company, as chairman of its retail logistics unit, Pacer Global Logistics.
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Cubic Names New VP of Advanced Programs and Engineering
Cubic Defense Systems, a subsidiary of San Diego-based Cubic Corporation (AMEX:CUB), has named Max Farrow -- an executive with more than 38 years of experience in the defense industry -- vice president of Advanced Programs and Engineering.
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ERC P&C Re Americas Names Chief Underwriting Officer
Employers Reinsurance Corporation (ERC), a GE company , today named Mike Moncada to the role of chief underwriting officer for its P&C Re Americas business unit. Moncada joins ERC from American Re-Insurance Company where he was Senior Vice President and General Manager for American Re's Broker Group.
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