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San Francisco, CA, July 8, 2008 – A San Francisco used Rolex watches expert says his work confirms what a new study says about habits of the very rich: even in a bad economy, high net worth individuals still lust for “passion investments”. 

Nearly 14 percent of high net worth individuals selected the collectible jewelry/watch/gem category as their “passion investment” of choice in 2007, according to Capgemini/Merrill Lynch’s 2008 World Wealth report released this week.

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LOS ANGELES, CA, June 24, 2008 – A Tin Cup pearl necklace inspired by the 1996 Kevin Costner film of the same name is trendier than ever thanks to the 2008 Presidential race and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s much-photographed string of pearls, says the gem expert who owns the world’s largest online pearl store.

Pelosi’s dazzling pearls inspired the Los Angeles pearl expert to custom-design a Tin Cup pearl necklace in the famous politician’s honor. “We simply call it the Pelosi-style Tin Cup pearl necklace,” says Jeremy Shepherd, founder and president of online jewelry store, www.pearlparadise.com.

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HOUSTON, TX, June 20, 2008 -- Wholesale food accounting software company Edible Software is expanding operations. The new Edible Software World Headquarters will open for business June 25, in the Westchase District, a west Houston commerce hub for technology and oil and gas companies.

“With the growing need for wholesale food distributors to more precisely track the origin and destination of food products, and to manage inventory more economically, our company has grown tremendously over the last five years,” said Henri Morris, president and CEO of Edible Software (www.ediblesoftware.com), a division of Solid Software Solutions, LLC. “Acquiring our own building, our own state-of-the-art corporate home, was the natural, next-step for us to take.”

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HOUSTON, TX – April 28, 2008 – Houston media expert Cynthia Gabriel will share lessons-learned as the director of communications for Mayor Bill White’s Hurricane Katrina relief program when she makes the keynote address at a meeting of the Public Relations Society of America May 7. 

“Failure was not an option,” recalls Gabriel, who as spokesperson for the Houston Katrina Task Force, helped facilitate one of the largest people migration movements in U.S. history. The catastrophic storm and the subsequent relocation to Houston of more than 100,000 displaced Louisiana residents attracted worldwide media coverage. “Our team worked MASH-style under the ‘24-hour rule,’” she says.

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HOUSTON - April 25, 2008 – A Houston PR firm has won the Bronze Quill Award of Excellence, the highest honor the Houston chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators bestows on members of the public relations profession.

Bayou City Public Relations, a seven-year-old Houston PR firm headed by Sharon Dotson, won the Bronze Quill Award of Excellence April 24, at a banquet at the Junior League of Houston. The award recognized the PR firm’s media relations campaign conducted to promote Massage for the Cure Day, a charitable event sponsored by 23 Massage Envy Houston clinics to benefit the Houston Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure.

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