PR Newswire Broadcast Minute for Thursday January 19, 2006

PR Newswire Broadcast Minute for Thursday January 19, 2006

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William Shatner Passes Kidney Stone Off to GoldenPalace.com for Twenty- Five Thousand Dollars

Captain's log. Star date: 0-1-1-8-0-6. William Shatner. Has gone. Where no man has gone before. And sold a part of himself. To online casino. GoldenPalace.com. For twenty-five grand. To benefit. Habitat for Humanity.

The former Captain of the Enterprise passed a kidney stone at warp speed and beamed it into the waiting hands of GoldenPalace.com. The casino paid twenty-five grand for Shatner's specimen, the entirety of which will go to Habitat For Humanity to help provide housing for those in need. Although the kidney stone that broke down Shatner's shields caused him more discomfort than a Klingon pain stick, the sci-fi/pop-culture icon is more than happy that his calcium offspring fetched such a price.

Full story at: http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/main.jsp?resourceid=3122276

Pro Sports Wives Get Holiday

No longer ignored on sidelines or behind benches, wives of athletes will be recognized on the first annual Pro Sports Wives Day on February eleventh. The Professional Sports Wives Association and its founder, Gena James-Pitts, have had the day recognized by Chase's Calendar of Events. Married twenty-one years to former N-F-L defensive lineman Mike Pitts, she knows being married to a pro athlete has its challenges. Pitts notes that the demands of juggling a husband's hectic and short-term career, the public, female fans, in-laws, kids, homes, relocations, money, insecurity, unemployment, is very stressful. According to Pitts a staggering eighty percent of pro athletes are divorced and a quarter of a million dollars in debt after they retire.

Full story at: http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/main.jsp?resourceid=3119952

'WE NEVER TALK ANYMORE': Survey Reveals Few Executives Use Telephone or Meet in Person at Work

Executives today may be just as likely to make introductions as small talk around the office water cooler. That's because they are spending less and less time conversing with colleagues by phone and in person, a new survey shows. Only thirteen percent of managers polled use the telephone as their primary means of communication, down from forty-eight percent five years ago; just fourteen percent rely on face-to-face meetings, compared with twenty-four percent five years ago. Instead, e-mail has become the most common form of dialogue at work, according to seventy-one percent of respondents.

The survey was developed by OfficeTeam.

Full story at: http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/main.jsp?resourceid=3121864

USA Rock Paper Scissors League Launches With Bud Light and A&E

Bud Light has announced that it would host a nationwide tournament with the U-S-A-R-P-S League to find the best Rock Paper Scissors player in the country. Beginning this month in bars across the U.S., competitors twenty-one and older will have the opportunity to play the sport in a classic tournament ladder structure. In April, two hundred and fifty finalists and their guests will be flown to Las Vegas to compete for a grand prize of fifty-thousand dollars at The House of Blues in the Mandalay Bay Hotel.

Full story at: http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/main.jsp?resourceid=3117781

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PRNewswire -- Jan. 19

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