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California Businesses For Sale – 362 Total – Were Sold By California Business Brokers, Real Estate Agents, & Business Owners Of Small California Businesses Were Sold Between April 12, 2004 and April 18, 2004. Sales of California businesses during this time period by County include: Alameda County: 22, Contra Costa County: 16, Kern County: 7, Los Angeles County: 96, Marin County: 4, Merced County: 4, Monterey County: 11, Napa County: 3, Orange County: 56, Placer County: 7, Riverside County: 32, Sacramento County: 17, San Bernardino County: 16, San Diego County: 34, San Francisco County: 1, San Joaquin County: 3, San Luis Obispo County: 4, Santa Barbara County: 4, Santa Clara County: 14, Solano County: 2, Sonoma County: 6, Ventura County: 3. - 2004-04-22

Nashville Attractions and Hoteliers Some of Nicest in Nation Today’s busy consumers want the most for their vacation dollars. They expect excellent service, hospitable environments, and pleasant memories. That’s why steering tourists toward Nashville, Tennessee is a win-win situation. Businesses here are well known for their kind treatment of visitors, making each one feel at home while they’re visiting. - 2004-04-22

Bush Will be Re-Elected, According to College Students -- Survey from Hundreds of Students at Investment Symposium If college students from more than 100 schools across the nation are any predictor, President George W. Bush will have another four years in office. A survey of 403 finance students attending the RISE (Redefining Investment Strategy Education) symposium at the University of Dayton shows 61 percent believe President Bush will be re-elected this November, while 39 percent say he will not. - 2004-04-22

Sandra Bullock Movie Wardrobe to Be Sold at Online Auction Celebrity Autographs at Strickler's Sports will sell a wardrobe set worn by actress Sandra Bullock in the hit movie "Speed" in the upcoming BondedSale.com auction. - 2004-04-22

Reliable and Affordable Pay Per Click Advertising Finally a Reality Pay Per Click advertising as low as 1 cent per click with a reach of over 3.5 million viewers a day. Gethitsfrom.us offers the best price for pay for performance marketing & advertising available today. - 2004-04-22

eBay Auction Offers Your Own Uninhabited Island with White Sandy Beaches and Crystal Clear Water One mile of beachfront and a little more than 124 acres of woodland and shore, this land parcel encompasses the entire southeastern corner of Ile Parisienne (Parisian Island), in Whitefish Bay, Lake Superior and it is now for sale on eBay. - 2004-04-22

RICS to Present at London Web Analytics Summit Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) http://www.rics.org, are to present at this year’s Emetrics Summit in London. - 2004-04-22

Contract Staffing Launches Improved Website Professional Employer Organization (PEO) Contract Staffing Inc. introduces a newly designed website to improve customer service and facilitate new prospect development. - 2004-04-22

Interealty to Show Case Spanish Properties at Homes Overeas Property Show, in Brighton Interealty, www.interealty.es Spain's Premier estate agency will be exhibiting at the Homes Overseas Exhibition being held this weekend, the 24th and 25th of April 2004 at The Brighton Centre, Kings Road, Brighton East Sussex, England. Interealty will be on Stand No.14 in the Hewison Hall - 2004-04-22

Interealty Will be Attending the Oslo Homes Overseas Exhibition in Norway, Show Casing Properties for Sale in Spain Interealty, Spain's Premier estate agency will be exhibiting at the Oslo Homes Overseas Exhibition for the fourth time. - 2004-04-22

Are You Prepared? No Longer, Just a Do-It-Yourself Project An April 2004 report on California’s Fire Danger Outlook by USDA Forest Service indicates higher than normal fire danger again this year. Last year’s fire damage destroyed more than 3600 homes. Many homeowners were unprepared for the loss, lacking either a complete home inventory or adequate personal property insurance. - 2004-04-22

LinuxQuestions.org Adds an Enterprise Linux Forum LinuxQuestions.org is pleased to announce the addition of an Enterprise Linux Forum. - 2004-04-22

TMG Films to Begin Principal Photography on the Feature Film “King of Clubs”, a True Story of Chris Paciello. Mario Lopez to play Chris Paciello with Tom Sizemore. The long awaited film based on the story of Chris Paciello, has finally been announced and is slated for production in January 2005 in New York/ Miami Beach. - 2004-04-22

Optimised Networks Announces New Partner for its Network Monitoring Service Buckinghamshire based IT Solutions joins the Optimised Networks Partner Programme. IT Solutions will market the Optimised Networks Monitoring service to its small and medium business customers - 2004-04-22

Jpowered Releases Powerful New Java(TM) Graphing Component Jpowered.com, a leading provider of Java(TM) components, has today released version 4.6 of the Vertical Bar Graph Component. The 3D Vertical Bar Graph provides both a client and server side solution for the incorporation of bar charts into web pages. Versatile components enable web authors and Java developers to easily build and publish dynamic interactive graphs. 3D Vertical Bar Graph, v4.6 is now available for a Free trial download at http://www.jpowered.com/bar_graph/vbargraph/index.htm - 2004-04-22

Major Holiday Gift Club from Munchie Gifts Featured on National TV Talk Show "Living It UP With Ali and Jack" The national tv show Living It Up With Ali And Jack featured Munchie Gifts "Major Holiday Gift Club" on April 20th in their segment of "Unusual Gifts Of The Month". The unique club may begin at any time including Mother's Day or Father's Day. - 2004-04-22

Open Letter to the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States - Tall Towers Evacuation in Case of Extreme Emergency Subject: Sep.11, WTC's evacuation issues and alternative solutions to secure effective mass evacuation. Special interests have silenced for years, using intimidation, the diffusion in the USA of an unique evacuation technique, million times tested under the responsibility of a Major US Corporation overseas for 20 years. - 2004-04-22

She was Abducted by Mysterious People Whose Mission was to Change the World One Person at a Time - What They Had Not Anticipated Was her Vile Temper and the Fact That No One Wanted Her Back Autumn Rose Publishing LLC hits the presses again with another intriguing novel, Abductee, a story of a bizarre mission to change people. Once again sisters, Lorraine and Lynnita Mattock, join efforts to achieve their common goal: providing wholesome yet intriguing books for readers. - 2004-04-22

Infosite Technologies Launches New Dispatch - Mate Version 5 Their new “easy-dispatch” concept is user-friendly and saves time. - 2004-04-22

ERPWeb.NET, an 8(a) Systems Integration Technology Company, Offers LogicExpresso, a JAVA, C#, .NET Legacy Migration System LogicExpresso expedites legacy code migration to JAVA, C# and .NET - 2004-04-22

Webhosting Marketplace Announces Release of New Low-Cost Domain Registration, Website Hosting and Promotion Products Webhosting Marketplace, a premier domain registration, website hosting and promotion portal, announces new low-cost domain registration, web hosting and site promotion portal at http://www.webhostingmarketplace.com. - 2004-04-22

Auto-Whitelisting Delivers Legitimate Emails Through AntiSpam Filters ActivatorMail, a popular email service, has announced deployment of fully automatic whitelisting to guarantee rapid delivery of critical emails from clients, customers, and friends right through heavy antispam filtering. - 2004-04-22

New Chicago Corporate Usability Workshops New Cutting Edge Seminars Empower Application Teams to Deliver Highly Usable Software - 2004-04-22

Online Casinos Guide AskWinner.com Launched New Pay-Per-Visitor Solution for Online Casinos, Land Based Casinos and Sportbooks - Free Until June for Gambling Operators Online casinos have a new way to advertise on internet: a few weeks after big search engines and PPC companies dropped online casinos ads, http://www.askwinner.com launches its pay-per-visitor advertising solution. - 2004-04-22

New Free Guide from Intelligent Output Solutions Makes Migrating to BACSTEL-IP Easy Intelligent Output Solutions explain how to migrate to BACSTEL-IP, the new electronic funds transfer system from BACS, with an easy-to-digest and free 14-page guide. Existing BACS payments systems will be switched off in 2005 and replaced with BACSTEL-IP; Over 50,000 BACS users in the UK are directly affected. - 2004-04-22

‘Save The Earth’ Musical Planned By RyKy Records (TM) In recognition of Earth Day, on April 22, 2004, RyKy Records (tm) announced that the “Save The Earth Musical”, written and composed by Joseph F.M. Pokorny, will be released later this spring as the label’s sixth CD album and second musical. - 2004-04-22

ePersonals.com Launches PrivateCall™: Allowing its Members to Communicate with Anonymous Private Phone Calls. PrivateCall™ "breaks the sound barrier" for members of ePersonals.com. - 2004-04-22

May is Older Americans Month, a great time to plan for the future. May is a great time for people who are in their pre-retirement years to start planning for retirement issues like long-term care. - 2004-04-22

Art Gallery, Art Show, Art Tours in 2004: Internationally Renowned Artist, Painter Scott West Continues World Art Tours Scott West's "Island" Art Show continues in the U.S. as his 2004 "Shoes" Art Show & Tour gets underway in European Art Galleries this summer. Noteworthy California artist Scott West will be showing paintings from his 2003-2004 U. S. “Island Show” at WEAVE (Women Against Violent Environments) in Sacramento, California on May 8th, 2004. West is famous for his Californian seascapes, romantic renderings, captivating abstracts and poignant portraits. West first gained international notoriety with his well-known-romantic painting, “Flower In The Station,” in 1991, but has an oeuvré that successfully spans many different styles, mediums and decades. - 2004-04-22

Dow Corning presents “New Developments in Sulfidosilanes Used for Silica-Filled Compounds” at the China Rubber Tire Manufacturing Technology Conference At the China Rubber Tire Manufacturing Technology Conference, April 20-21, 2004, in Shanghai, Shawn Mealey, Application Engineering and Technical Service specialist for Dow Corning’s Materials Treatment Business, presented “New Developments in Sulfidosilanes Used for Silica-Filled Compounds.” - 2004-04-22

"Zone" With Adventure Girl®, Stefanie Michaels, As She Joins Zone GOURMET And Promotes Eating Healthy. Adventure Girl®, Stefanie Michaels joins Zone Gourmet, to promote eating healthy and living a healthy lifestyle. - 2004-04-22

Romantic Safety NET: How to Look for Love Online With 50 million singles in the US jumping online to find their soul mate, let Liz H. Kelly, Dating Coach and Author, share advice tips for how to create a Romantic Safety NET that leaves room for romance when looking for love online (as featured in USA TODAY cover story 4/20/04 and MSNBC.com on 7/15/04). - 2004-04-22

Mid-market Leading E-commerce Software Vendor Releases MerchantSpace Commerce 2.9 MerchantSpace Commerce, the leading mid-market e-commerce solution for the J2EE platform, is now shipping version 2.9. This release includes new features, optimized code, reduced complexity, and an enhanced concept store. - 2004-04-22

Upstage Magazine Seeks To Keep The Dream Alive On Saturday, May 1st, 2004, Upstage Magazine and AsburyMusic.com will be presenting a benefit concert at the Wonder Bar in Asbury Park. The club is located across from Convention Hall at the corner of 5th and Ocean Avenue. Over twenty artists from New Jersey will perform throughout the day. - 2004-04-22

Belcarra Technologies Announces USB Support for New Intel Processor PXA 27x FAMILY The Intel PXA 27x integrates a rich and powerful USB subsystem, which Belcarra’s Linux USB Framework allows an OEM to use to full advantage with minimum integration time. - 2004-04-22

Discount Shipping Insurance (DSI) Launches Parcel Insurance Program for Auction Trading Assistants and Drop-Off Stores New parcel insurance program allows eBay trading assistants and drop-off stores to save up to 80% on shipping insurance. - 2004-04-22

UK Technology Company Listed in This Year’s Queen’s Awards for Enterprise Buckinghamshire-based Traka Ltd – one of the world leaders in key management systems – has received the Queen’s Award for Innovation, crowning more than a decade of technical achievement and global marketing success. - 2004-04-22

National Hispanic Automotive Consumer Advocacy (NHACA) a non-profit organization revs up online exchange and a “Demographically Driven Business Development Center” for the Hispanic consumer with a legal 1-800 help line. A Houston-based non-profit organization is preparing to unveil an online community and dealer exchange in June that will target the automotive industry and help the Hispanic consumer. - 2004-04-22

Austin Marley Fest Helps Hundreds of Voters Rise Up, Sign Up VoterVirgin and Rock the Vote Austin team up with great success to register voters at the 11th Annual Marley Fest in Texas - 2004-04-22

LeadWorks Launches Strategic Lead Generation Workshop For the first time inside sales are taught proven call center methodologies for generating leads and closing appointments with executives. - 2004-04-22

On Agency™ Wins CAS-Claims Administrative Services, Inc. Advertising Account CAS-Claims Administrative Services, Inc. has awarded On Agency its advertising account. The Dallas–based agency beat out an undisclosed number of competitors in a formal agency review. - 2004-04-22

Cenero Helps Improve the Quality of Education at The Community Academy of Philadelphia Cenero, a leader in quality video conferencing and audiovisual solutions, has successfully completed the design and installation of a wide-ranging set of audio and video solutions for The Community Academy of Philadelphia. - 2004-04-22

Bennington BookFest Celebrates Town’s Literary Renaissance Bennington BookFest, slated for Saturday May 15, 2004, presents Pulitzer, Guggenheim and other award-winning writers as small Vermont town celebrates not only its famed literary heritage, but also its rebirth. - 2004-04-22

Orange County Business Leaders to Salute National Guard and Reservists at Angel Stadium Festivities Orange County Business and Community Leaders to honor local employers who go "Above and Beyond" in their support of their employees who serve in the California National Guard and Reserve. - 2004-04-22

WGI Announces Pay Per View Webcast Service Complete system includes user registration, credit card processing, secure streaming, usage tracking and continuing education testing. System enables content owners to make money from their courses and content 24 hours a day. - 2004-04-22

New Software Breaks Down Cultural Barriers for Business Travelers Executive Planet™ launches first international business etiquette guide for handhelds to help businesspeople navigate intercultural differences abroad and at home. - 2004-04-22

Dot-Com Opens Brick-and-Mortar Showroom No longer just an online store, LightingUniverse.com enters the brick-and-mortar scene with its flagship showroom opening in Kirkland, Washington, across the street from the Costco Home store. Showcasing hundreds of decorative light fixtures including chandeliers, wall sconces, pendants, and more, this high-end designer lighting showroom is a cut above your average showroom. - 2004-04-22

New Dot Com Aims to Bridge Gap Between Sales-Driven Businesses and Cost-Conscience Consumers A refreshingly unique new website, www.CouponMama.com, is set to level the playing field in online advertising for local businesses by giving both the merchants and consumers exactly what they want: something for nothing. This free website offers any business located in the United States the ability to create, manage and distribute coupons to local, regional or nationwide consumers. Consumers browse or search the website by city, state or zip code to find the coupons they want. - 2004-04-22

FireFly Farms Celebrates Maryland Cuisine with the IACP and the Culinary Profession's Finest FireFly Farms (www.fireflyfarms.com), award-winning producer of artisanal goat cheeses from Maryland’s Allegheny Plateau, is pleased to announce its support of the 26th Annual International Association of Culinary Professionals (www.iacp.com) Conference in Baltimore, Maryland. FireFly Farms joins the IACP – and its worldwide membership of nearly 4,000 members engaged in the areas of culinary education, communication, and preparation – in welcoming this year’s conference attendees and celebrating Maryland’s fine culinary tradition. - 2004-04-22

Rising Texas Country Artist Cory Morrow Gears Up For A Collaboration With Country Music Veteran Radney Foster A darling of the southwestern touring circuit, Texas music favorite Cory Morrow is currently gearing up for his next project: a collaboration with Texas music veteran Radney Foster. - 2004-04-22

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Former Acoustic Junction Frontman Reed Foehl Releases Debut Solo LP Spark (Never Foehl Records/Redeye- May 18, 2004) Releasing a Spark: Former Acoustic Junction frontman Reed Foehl gears up for the May 18th 2004 release of his debut solo LP 'Spark'. - 2004-04-22

Gwinnett Commission Candidate Proposes Stronger Tree Ordinance; Third District Candidate Mike Beaudreau Supports Additional Protection for Tree Canopy Gwinnett County Commission District 3 candidate Mike Beaudreau promised to introduce changes that would strengthen the county's tree ordinance. Proposed changes would encourage the preservation of existing trees, and require additional tree plantings. - 2004-04-22

Vesdia Corporation Acquires Stockback Client Base, Intellectual Property, and Key Retailer Relationships are Exchanged in An All-stock Deal - 2004-04-22

Pictometry Triples Its Sales Force In One Year Company Adds Additional Staff And Plans For Expansion To Canada And Europe - 2004-04-22

Bonne Amie Travel's Certified Cruise Counsellor Returns from Seminar at Sea on the Celebrity Infinity with Regis Philbin Aimee J. Ricca, CTA, ACC, DS embarked on the Celebrity Infinity on April 11 for a 7-night Seminar at Sea to the Eastern Caribbean. Ricca expected to spend the week learning about the ship and cruise line's newest enhancements from her Celebrity sales representative. However, there was also an added surprise: There was an actual celebrity aboard this Celebrity Cruise. Regis Philbin was onboard. - 2004-04-22