Online dating innovator Anastasia International ( http://www.anastasiadate.com/about-anastasia.html) today announced what is believed to be the first truly international virtual beauty pageant involving participants representing four continents. Contestants from all four Anastasia dating sites... AnastasiaDate.com ( http://www.anastasiadate.com/about-anastasia.html) representing Russia and CIS, AmoLatina.com (http://www.amolatina.com/latin-romance-tours.html) in Latin America, AsianBeauties.com (http://www.asianbeauties.com/) from the Far East and AfricaBeauties.com (http://www.africabeauties.com/) from Africa, will compete for the title Miss Anastasia's Adventures.

Anastasia International, long considered the leader in the Russian and CIS internet dating and Romance Tour sphere, has in the past few years expanded her highly successful online model in Latin America, Asia and Africa where there exists significant need to connect women from these regions with men from the West. The inaugural online beauty contest was conceived to help broaden the appeal of Anastasia's variety of ladies from each country, to attract more men to find love and romance online, and to increase Anastasia's brand awareness as a premier worldwide dating portal.

So beginning August 27, 20 talented and beautiful ladies, 5 from each of Anastasia's 4 sites, gleaned from hundreds of regional entrants, will compete for the favor of men worldwide in a virtual beauty competition to end all. The winner and runners-up will be chosen by popular on-site voting. The voting site, AnastasiasAdventures.com (http://www.anastasiasadventures.com/) is dynamically creative and easy to navigate for browsing the 20 fabulous competitors. Big plus for voters is the ability to Live Chat ( http://www.anastasiadate.com/livechatdescription.html) and actually set up live dates (http://www.anastasiadate.com/datemedescription.html) with the lovely and talented contestants in their own home towns.

Winner receives spa certificates, bouquets of flowers and a worldwide publicity package worth thousands.

ABOUT ANASTASIA

Founded in 1993, Anastasia is the industry's leading International Introduction and Romance Tour Company bringing Western men together with women from Russia & CIS for friendship and marriage. Anastasia sites count over 100 million online visitors yearly and over 1 million letters exchanged onsite daily. Anastasia has been featured on numerous media outlets including: 48 Hours, The Daily Show, The Howard Stern Show, and Jennie Jones, and has been the subject of news features on ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, CNN, the BBC and publications such as Forbes, Market Watch, Reuters and The Los Angeles Times. News and features about Anastasia have been broadcast in many countries including the U.S., Japan, Germany, The Netherlands, France, Italy, Switzerland, Brazil, Turkey and Australia.

    To learn more about Anastasia please visit http://www.anastasiadate.com

    Media contact: Larry Cervantes
    Phone: +1-(207)-262-9595
    E-mail: pr@anastasiadate.com
    Website: http://www.anastasiadate.com

SOURCE Anastasia International

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All college football roads lead to the season's final bowl games, and this season Cooper Tire & Rubber Company (NYSE: CTB) is awarding the most driven fan with a once-in-a-lifetime trip to attend five of the biggest bowl games including the Rose Bowl, Orange Bowl, Sugar Bowl, Cotton Bowl and the National Championship Game. The winner of the Cooper Tires Ultimate Bowl Tour (http://www.ultimatebowltour.com) and three very lucky friends will be whisked away on a private jet, their own "team plane," making stops in Pasadena, Miami, New Orleans, Dallas and Glendale over nine intense, college football-filled days.  

College football loyalists will recognize a familiar face coaching fans to enter the Cooper Tires Ultimate Bowl Tour, ESPN analyst Kirk Herbstreit of College Gameday fame, who is accustomed to watching some of the sport's greatest match-ups.

"There is something special about college football – the intensity of the game, the commitment of the players and the sheer passion of the fans," Herbstreit said. "I can't think of a better way than the Cooper Tires Ultimate Bowl Tour to experience the game in all its glory. Five bowl games in just over a week, that's an unbelievable prize that any football fan would want to win!"

Football fanatics and consumers everywhere can huddle up and enter the Cooper Tires Ultimate Bowl Tour once a day between Sept. 1 and Nov. 15, 2010, with entries submitted at Cooper Tire dealer locations nationwide or at www.UltimateBowlTour.com.

"The more you enter the Ultimate Bowl Tour, the better your chances of winning," Herbstreit said. "Spending less than one minute a day entering online could score you irreplaceable memories and make you the envy of all your friends, not to mention every other college football fan in the country."

The Grand Prize winner will be selected and notified in early December and receive tickets to the five bowl games, private jet transportation to each game, hotel accommodations and round trip airport and game transfers. Twenty-five first-prize winners will receive a new set of four Cooper tires (valued up to $500) and 50 second-prize winners will receive a Cooper Tire Duffel Bag, complete with all the apparel needed for their own friendly game of backyard football.

To locate the nearest Cooper Tire dealer visit www.coopertire.com. To enter Cooper Tires Ultimate Bowl Tour online visit UltimateBowlTour.com.

About Cooper Tire & Rubber Company

Cooper Tire & Rubber Company is a global company that specializes in the design, manufacture, marketing and sales of passenger car and light truck tires and has subsidiaries that specialize in medium truck, motorcycle and racing tires. With headquarters in Findlay, Ohio, Cooper Tire has manufacturing, sales, distribution, technical and design facilities within its family of companies located in 10 countries around the world. For more information on Cooper Tire, visit www.coopertire.com, www.facebook.com/coopertire, or www.twitter.com/coopertire.

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Today, at New York City's Arthur Ashe Stadium where the U.S. Open is being broadcast in 3D TV for the first time, Panasonic announced it will establish a new 3D Innovation Center in the U.S. this fall. The Panasonic 3D Innovation Center will focus on engaging with the entertainment and broadcast communities to enhance 3D production technologies and work flow and foster collaboration with industry partners to develop new applications for 3D technologies.

The new Panasonic 3D Innovation Center will be based on the campus of Panasonic Corporation of North America in Secaucus, NJ.  The Center also plans to create a branch in the Los Angeles area to facilitate collaboration with the entertainment industry.  For more than 15 years, Panasonic has maintained an R&D facility, Panasonic Hollywood Laboratory, in the Greater Los Angeles area for the development of entertainment-related technologies and ongoing liaison with major studios for the development of the 3D Blu-ray Disc format.

"Panasonic foresees the expansion of 3D technology into nearly all aspects of the entertainment electronics industry, but we also see it being applied in a diverse range of other industries including healthcare, education, and beyond," said Joseph M. Taylor, Chairman and CEO of Panasonic Corporation of North America.   "It is only a matter of time before 3D becomes an essential element in the operations of many major enterprises and the new Panasonic 3D Innovation Center will work to support that process." Like the 3D Innovation Center that is already operational in Japan, and the Panasonic European 3D Innovation Center that was announced this morning in Berlin, the mission of the Panasonic U.S. 3D Innovation Center will be to serve as a platform for developing alliances and partnerships with companies that are exploring how to apply 3D technologies in their own operations.  With the aim of promoting innovation, the Center will also serve as a forum for ongoing communication with local 3D stakeholders in all industries to share 3D content, exchange ideas and establish best practices for creating and delivering 3D services.

About Panasonic

Based in Secaucus, NJ, Panasonic Corporation of North America is the principal North American subsidiary of Panasonic Corporation (NYSE: PC), which has been a leader in the creation of end-to-end standards and technologies to enable consumers to experience immersive Full HD 3D TV. Last year, Panasonic established its Advanced Authoring Center in Panasonic Hollywood Laboratory to work with Hollywood studios to develop the 3D Blu-ray Disc format.   In March, the company delivered its first Full HD 3D Home Entertainment System for sale at selected Best Buy Magnolia Home Theater stores.   Taking business to the next dimension, Panasonic has debuted a range of 3D video production products including the world's first professional quality, fully-integrated Full HD 3D camcorder offering SD Memory Card recording.  It also has introduced large screen 3D Plasma displays for digital signage and other applications.  In July Panasonic introduced the world's first consumer 3D camcorder which includes a 3D conversion lens.

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If you can measure how good a Bingo site is by the number of visits it gets, then Jackpotjoy.com is officially the UK's best Bingo site over the past 6 months, according to Experian Hitwise who measure the market share of visits to all the country's top Bingo sites.

Back in March Jackpotjoy.com completely re-launched their Bingo site, not an easy thing to do in a competitive market like online Bingo. If the public didn't like what they saw, Jackpotjoy could see even their most loyal members disappear. For more on Jackpotjoy.com's Bingo please see http://www.jackpotjoy.com/bingo/games/bingo-games/bingo-sites.html.

But Jackpotjoy.com's seven years of experience haven't gone to waste and from January to June 2010 they ranked number 1 against all Bingo sites in the UK, beating the likes of Foxy, Gala and Tombola, according to leading global online competitive intelligence service Experian Hitwise.*

To play Jackpotjoy please visit http://www.jackpotjoy.com

"It's been a real team effort," explains head of Jackpotjoy, Adele Lawton. "We're all delighted with the achievement."

The re-launch saw a new look site, as well as a brand new Bingo product. For more on what's new at Jackpotjoy, please see http://www.jackpotjoy.com/whatsnew

"Change is always very challenging," Adele told us, "both for the consumers and for the business itself. Our success here reflects the ability we nurture around the office as well as the strength of the Jackpotjoy brand in the market place."

The Bingo site was re-launched at the end of March 2010, and it was quickly followed by a Hitwise Number 1 Ranking for April.

"It was interesting to get the first award almost at the same time as launching the site. It meant that we'd gone into the launch with a market leading position which we then had to keep hold of with a completely new product.

"The fact that we've maintained our position for the next three months as well - between April and June - is firm proof that the re-launch worked."

This latest news precedes a major push at Jackpotjoy.com that's been planned for some time.

"Yes, it's true," Adele confirms, "we do have a big push coming this autumn. I'm not going to reveal too much but, as we've said before, we'll be going into homes across the country, turning Jackpotjoy.com into a household name. It's very exciting..."

* Experian Hitwise, based on UK market share of visits to Gambling - Bingo websites, Top 10 Awards January - June 2010

For more details on the story, please see Jackpotjoy's blog at http://blog.jackpotjoy.com/2010/08/29/best-bingo-site-jan-jun-2010/

GAMESYS

The Gamesys Group was founded by Noel Hayden in April 2001 with a small team of developers. The aim was to build a profitable online entertainment business providing Instant Win, Bingo and Casino games to a worldwide audience using proprietary gaming software.

After eight years, the Group's leading brand, Jackpotjoy.com, has built an audience of over 3,000,000 members and pays out in excess of GBP 90 million every month. The success of Jackpotjoy.com has established the Gamesys Group as one of the UK's leading online gaming businesses. In 2006 they were named No. 1 in the Microsoft/Sunday Times Tech Track 100 League Table, and they're now one of only four companies to have appeared on the list four years in a row. This feat reflects both the company's capacity for sustained growth and its remarkable resilience resilience during periods of financial instability.

For more information on Gamesys, please visit: http://www.gamesyscorporate.com/press_releases.php

    CONTACT:

    Aga Reszka
    Gamesys
    +44(0)20-7478-8100
    press@gamesys.co.uk

SOURCE Gamesys

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