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Having The Right Batteries To Power Up Your Holidays

Guest: Energizer Battery, Inc.

Learn what batteries are best for what devices as we head into the Holidays as Sara Miller from Energizer stops by to offer her expertise.



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Making your Thanksgiving table more festive for Fall

Guest: Hancock Fabrics

Making your home beautiful for the Thanksgiving holiday doesn’t have to cost you a lot of time and money. This segment highlights how Hancock Fabrics can provide busy women with the perfect material to cover your table and get you compliments from your guests.

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Lofthouse Ultimate Holiday Cookie Decorating Contest

Guest: Ralcorp Frozen Bakery Products

This segment highlights Lofthouse Cookies, which were originally made from an old family recipe, passed down from generation to generation. The original recipe paired a moist and delicious sugar cookie with a sweet, fluffy colorful frosting. And, to this day, Lofthouse still bakes a great tasting cookie. Colleen Burns, mother of 5 and former national television journalist shows us some creative cookie decorating ideas for the holidays.

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Create a Home Office and Craft Room All in One

Guest: Irwin Industrial Tool Company dba SHUR-LINE

This segment targets the craft/scrapbook segment of our audience and the office touch will allow us to maintain interest from our female professionals. This segment highlights more of the decorative aspect of painting, demonstrating that you can do complex design elements easily like stripes with bold contrasting colors and even repainting the furniture. Bulldog hardware will be used to hang the shelving; the peg board will be used in the craft corner and Rubbermaid storage throughout.



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Games That Inspire Generations of Women

Guest: Her Interactive, Inc.

Nancy Drew games bring together generations of fans year after year. Grandmothers, college students, moms, career women & girls can all relate to one another through their shared passion of Nancy Drew games. This segment, as part of the Back To School Survival Guide, features the President & CEO of Her Interactive. She discusses the core philosophy of developing quality mystery games that inspire girls of all ages, enabling them to become Nancy Drew and use their deductive skills & critical thinking to solve the case. Also, a mother & daughter discuss how they play the games together and how the experience strengthens their bond.

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Make your own jewelry

Guest: Beadalon

This segment highlights jewelry-making as a fun way to cultivate and show off your individual style and as a family hobby to spend more time with your teenager.

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All natural and authentic New York style snacks

Guest: New York Style

This segment highlights New York Style Brands - the only manufacturer to offer a full line of premium, all natural snacks from neighborhood bakeries in NYC baked from real bagels, pita bread, foccacia bread and more.

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Women & Finance

Guest: New York Life Insurance Company

This segments highlights that women have a longer life expectancy than men, by some estimates at least six years, so women will need more money saved for retirement. New York Life Insurance explains why traditional investment advice for women is flawed, and offers advice on which investments can guarantee a paycheck for life. He also explains Guaranteed Lifetime Income Annuities, and how they are considered one of the industry’s “best kept secrets.”



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The Truth About Sweeteners

Guest: www.SweetSurprise.com

As we try to eat healthier, we often start by reading the nutrition label to check the fat grams, calories, what sweetener is used and more. Chances are we compare what we find on the label with what we think we know about healthy eating. But many people make decisions based on misperceptions. This segment highlights the similarities between commonly used sweeteners: high fructose corn syrup, sugar, and honey. High Fructose Corn Syrup has had its name dragged through the media. But the FDA says it is nutritionally the same as sugar, with the same number of calories and it is metabolized the same way.



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The Family Dinner Solution For More Than 60 Years

Guest: On-Cor Frozen Foods

This segment highlights On-Cor Frozen Foods, which have a homemade taste, meeting your desire for flavor & quality, with homemade ingredients, no preservatives, and convenient preparation for busy lifestyles. A busy mom tells how On-Cor satisfies her family every day of the week with traditional, classic comfort foods.


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Family Entertainment

Guest: Memorex Products Inc.

This segment highlights a cool new way for families and/or kids to enjoy karaoke while using an mp3 player and The Memorex Sing Stand.

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Advancing Your Career Through Online Education

Guest: Strayer University

This segment highlights why Strayer University is the best fit for working adults who need a degree to advance their careers, including employer reimbursement options, flexibility in class times, accredited degrees, teaching staff with real-world experience, and campuses near your home or office.


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What We Whine About, Why We Do It, And How To Stop

Guest: Thou Shalt Not Whine: The 11th Commandment

Author of “Thou Shalt Not Whine – The 11th Commandment” and radio talk show host January Jones highlights what people whine about, and how to be a winner instead of a whiner.


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Save Big And Shop More With Coupon Cabin.com

Guest: Coupon Cabin, Inc.

This segment highlights the benefits of a unique on-line resource: couponcabin.com; a website where consumers can find a variety of on-line promo-codes, printable coupons, and money saving links for major retailers, products, and on-line shopping sites. Not only does the site serve as a one stop shop for locating all kinds of money saving links, coupons, and deals, the site also routinely tests the offers it finds to ensure they are accurate and up to date. Best of all the site is free to use.

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Harlan's Trim-it-quick Makes The Season Sparkle

Guest: Wellspring Innovations LLC

This time-saving invention lets you trim the tree or your bushes outside with lights that won’t tangle, and that are evenly distributed on each branch, and takes the hassle, frustration, and time out of untangling and distributing the lights.

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Find The Perfect Scent For The Holidays

Guest: Perfumania

This segment highlights products available for holiday gifts at the 310 Perfumania retail stores and on their website, emphasizing that Perfumania is the busy woman’s place to go for one-stop shopping for men and women.


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Come To St. Maarten & Bring Your Appetite For Life

Guest: RFC&P-St. Maarten Tourism Board

This segment highlights how the Caribbean island of St. Maarten has changed for the better in the past 5 years with a brand new airport designed for travelers, cultural diversity, over 400 restaurants, 14 casinos, major hotel chains, duty-free shopping and 37 beautiful white-sand beaches.


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Nighthawk - Drive With Confidence

Guest: General Electric

In this segment, Dave Persing from General Electric talks about the latest in car lighting technology & the importance of lighting safety.

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Save The Date For The 23rd Annual Buoniconti Fund Great Sports Legends Dinner In Nyc On Sept. 22, 2008

Guest: The Miami Project

This segment highlights The Miami Project to cure paralysis and upcoming fundraiser, The Great Sports Legends Dinner in NYC on Sept. 22, 2008.


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An all-natural solution to your dog's health

Guest: Wapiti Labs, Inc.

This segment highlights Wapiti Labs and explains how their supplements derived from elk velvet antler and Chinese herbs provide an all-natural solution to your dog's health.


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