PR Newswire Broadcast Minute and Podcast for Thursday July 13, 2006

PR Newswire Broadcast Minute and Podcast for Thursday July 13, 2006

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NHL-dot-com to Introduce Fan-Based Social Networking

The National Hockey League will introduce the first league-sponsored social networking environment on NHL-dot-com called NHL Connect, beginning with the upcoming 2006/2007 season. This new initiative will offer NHL fans the ability to easily create rich, multimedia personal profile pages and share interests and ideas with other users in the NHL community, displaying comments, photos, podcasts and video casts, links to new articles, content, friends, colleagues or RSS feeds.

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Sony on Top in Annual 'Best Brands' Harris Poll for Seventh Consecutive Year

Sony tops the list in the annual Harris Poll of "best brands" for an impressive seventh consecutive year. Dell retains its number two spot, while Coca-Cola, previously in the fourth position, moves up to number three. These are some of the results of a nationwide Harris Poll of more than two thousand U-S adults surveyed online by Harris Interactive in early June.

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Johnsonville Announces 2006 Brat-Eating Contest to Air on ESPN

The Sheboygan Jaycees and Johnsonville Sausage have announced that E-S-P- N, will air a sixty-minute special on Johnsonville Brat Days. The program will culminate with the broadcast of the 2006 Johnsonville Brat-Eating World Championship on August fifth, 2006, at three P-M Central Time. The Johnsonville Brat Eating World Championship, a sanctioned competition conducted by the International Federation of Competitive Eating, will feature top-ranked competitive eaters from around the world.

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Apartments-dot-com "Room to Move Contest" Winner Gets a New Lease on Life

Apartments-dot-com has announced that Vanessa Veltre (vel-TRAY) of White Oak, Pennsylvania is the winner of the third annual Apartments-dot-com "Room to Move Contest." The twenty-four year-old captivated thousands of online voters with her compelling and humorous tale of living with her parents and brother. One of the biggest challenges Vanessa experiences living at home is listening to Barbra Streisand every waking hour. The Streisand music helps manage her twenty-eight-year old brother who has a rare blend of autism and epilepsy that is shared by only six people in the world. Veltre captured more votes than a twenty-two year-old Boulder man who lives in the closet of his parents' basement and a twenty-four year-old Jacksonville woman who must share a room packed with comic books and action figures.

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PRNewswire -- July 13

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