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MOENIA DESIGN DEBUTS SPA-THEMED HOME FURNISHINGS COLLECTION AT THE LAS VEGAS MARKET

Moenia Design (formerly Vintage Baskets), specializing in designing woven furnishings and decorative accessories for modern living, will introduce the “Spa Collection” at the Las Vegas Market on July 24^th, 2006. The collection features colorful furniture and decorative accessories based on organic forms. Targeted at spas, resorts, hotels, and high-end retailers, architectural and design firms, the Spa collection compliments Moenia’s Resort, Vineyard, and Home and Garden Collections. The collection provides a refreshing look and brings a sensory experience to modern living. This approach is symbolic in combining natural materials, organic form, and vibrant colors that enable designers to create a more sensory environment.

“We’ll use bolder applications of color, form, and materials to set the tone for our new product offerings in keeping with our mission of modernizing weave” explained Neil Gehani, CEO of Moenia Design.

“We wanted the collection to suggest the natural feeling of the spa environment but from a more vibrant perspective,” said Tonie Cox, Moenia’s Director of Product Design. “For example our Calla Chair, which mimics a blossoming Calla Lily, evokes that feeling of renewal that brings you to the spa.”

Materials and Craftsmanship

Moenia’s Spa collection comprises products made with a contribution not only from the designer, but from the artisans and the materials themselves. Using natural materials allows freedom to explore; the surface qualities of the material become part of the design. For example, when dying a natural material, like Lampakanay (a grass similar to Abaca), tonal variations come through and add character to the piece. Using woven materials on a metal framework creates endless opportunities for exploration that more rigid materials just don’t allow. Many of Moenia Design’s new products take advantage of this opportunity resulting in a fresh contemporary look seldom seen in woven furnishings. In addition to Lampakanay, Moenia uses a range of materials from Rattan to Nito, Bamboo, and varieties of Abaca combined with metal and wood to create products that range from traditional to modern styles. Customers will find something to suit any environment.

Availability: Moenia Design’s Spa collection and other product offerings will be available at the Las Vegas Market July 25^th-28^th, 2006, in the Las Vegas Convention Center Design Gallery, Booth #S60704, South Hall 1 (One), in the contemporary furniture section near the Design Gallery. You can also shop our web site: www.moeniadesign.com, catalog, and showrooms in San Francisco, Calif. and High Point, NC.

Contact information: For more information please email sales@moeniadesign.com. To place orders, email orders@moeniadesign.com or fax: (415) 520-4542.

For Contract and Hospitality sales: Please email sales@moeniadesign.com or call 415-240-4540.

Moenia Design – Modernizing Weave^TM
Moenia Design (Formerly Vintage Baskets) specializes in designing woven furnishings and decorative accessories for modern living. Moenia Design is a wholesale distributor of contemporary woven furniture and decorative accessories. We strive to be a socially responsible company and support sustainable development methods. We serve the Spa, Resort, and Hospitality industries, as well as designers and high-end retailers. Our mission is to create contemporary designs for modern living through innovative use of form, function, materials, and color. Moenia is pronounced mo-EN-ya, which means sanctuary.

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CECE WINANS IN THE STUDIO FOR BARBARA MANDRELL TRIBUTE ALBUM

She Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool: A Tribute To Barbara Mandrell to Release October 10 on BNA Records

CeCe Winans was in the studio to record "He Set My Life to Music," as part of a tribute album to Barbara Mandrell, due out October 10.

CeCe Winans and Barbara Mandrell
Photo by: Glen Rose

When Barbara Mandrell took the stage for her final musical performance on October 23, 1997, she probably didn't realize that less than a decade later, some of the artists she influenced would come together for a tribute in her honor. But that's exactly what is happening, and the result will be a collection of songs from one of the most significant performers of the 1970s, ‘80s and ‘90s. She Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool: A Tribute To Barbara Mandrell will be released October 10 on BNA Records.

CeCe Winans recording Barbara Mandrell's song "He Set My Life to Music."

Photo by: Glen Rose

Among her many accolades, Barbara was the first artist to win the CMA Entertainer Of The Year for two consecutive years and has won multiple awards from the CMA, ACM, American Music Awards, Grammys, People's Choice Awards and a Dove Award. Her variety show, Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters, on NBC drew millions of viewers weekly, and she has starred in numerous television shows, including her farewell performance at Nashville's Opry House, a sell-out concert titled "Barbara Mandrell and The Do-Rites: The Last Dance."

She Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool: A Tribute to Barbara Mandrell will be released October 10 on BNA Records. Other artists on the album include Reba McEntire, Kenny Chesney, Dierks Bentley, Brad Paisley, Sara Evans, LeAnn Rimes, Randy Owen, Lorrie Morgan, Willie Nelson and Shelby Lynne.

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Magic Johnson At A Midsummer Nights Dream Event By Bodog

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A Very Great Man doing things a Great Man does. This is a man that believes so much in what he doing for the comunity that if given the chance would not trade what he is doing for another MVP or championship title.

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When you look at Mr. Johnson you don't look at him as a large man of color but as a man that is larger then life with much to give and has much that can be learned from.

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When you meet him in person he is soft spoken like Gary Cooper and larger then life like John Wayne.

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Will have coverage of a Red Carpet later tonight

Hope to have many pictures for you.

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Grizzly Adams® Family Entertainment to Release 20 New Family Values Dramatic Films

Distribution to Begin in 2007 with the Release of
Four Highly Emotional “Capra-Esque” Type Feature Movies
            Las Vegas, Nev—Grizzly Adams® Productions announced at the VSDA Convention that Grizzly Adams is joining with Flynn-Daines Productions to produce a minimum of 20 highly emotional “Capra-esque” type dramatic films over the next five years with the first four films being released under the Grizzly Adams® Family Entertainment (GAFE) brand starting in 2007. “In 2006, GAFE released 41 documentaries into the family friendly DVD marketplace,” says Ray Pipella, President of GAFE. “With the addition of four dramatic films per year from Flynn-Daines/Grizzly Adams Productions, GAFE will be filling a vacuum in the DVD retail market for quality family friendly dramatic films.” With the addition of dramatic films to the GAFE line-up of family friendly and faith-based documentaries, GAFE has accomplished two of its three objectives to becoming a leader in the distribution of family friendly DVDs. GAFE’s third objective is to add a line of children’s films in 2007—targeted at 2 to 7 year-olds—which will be acquired from several existing children’s producers that will be under a production contract with Grizzly Adams. “There’s a yearning among the public for family values, feel good movies that used to be produced by Frank Capra 50 years ago,” says Charles E. Sellier, President of Grizzly Adams Productions. “In our partnering with Flynn-Daines, we’re going to bring back highly emotional Capra-esque’ themed movies in contemporary situations.” Sellier illustrated what he means by highly emotional films in citing former Capra movies such as It’s a Wonderful Life (1946), Arsenic and Old Lace (1948), Pocketful of Miracles (1961), and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939).

Flynn-Daines Productions, which will be producing and directing the movies under Grizzly Adams’ development and supervision, is a partnership formed by film and TV actor/producer Michael Flynn; and writer/producer/director McKay Daines who are currently finishing a new romantic comedy film entitled The Dance, based on the award winning play by Carol Lynn Pearson. Both Grizzly Adams and Flynn-Daines believe in making these films on modest budgets to insure a good revenue flow to investors, retailers, and the producers. “Our philosophy is one wherein you assess the potential of the film at the box office and in DVD sales and then adjust your budget accordingly,” says Michael Flynn, President of Flynn-Daines who goes on to say—“The formula works!” McKay Daines, Chairman and Co-Founder of Flynn-Daines says “family friendly film making is not all about big budgets—but rather all about emotionally powerful stories that move people’s minds and hearts.”

What will be the story content of these new “Capra-esque” movies? “That depends,” says Sellier, who over 30 years developed an audience proprietary polling system to determine what audiences want to consume in their entertainment and when it will be successful in the marketplace. “With our audience testing system, we’ll know what will be crowd pleasers and financially successful before we even write the screenplay,” says Sellier. Grizzly Adams will be in charge of program licensing and distribution, with DVD distribution going through Grizzly Adams Family Entertainment. “But, we are keeping our options open on a film by film basis as to whether it goes the theatrical or made-for-television route upon initial release,” says David W. Balsiger, Vice-President of Business Affairs for Grizzly Adams. “Both release methods do in fact drive DVD retail sales.”

Michael Flynn has appeared in over 70 films and television shows including Halloween Town High, The Last Sin Eater, The Dance, Edge of America, Everwood, Con Express, Touched by an Angel, Stranger Than Fiction, Partners in Crime, Stolen from the Heart, The Paper Brigade, Matlock, Perry Mason, Moonlighting, The President’s Child and The Promised Land. Before going into film and TV acting, he produced and directed theatre for several years including large musicals such as
A Chorus Line, The Music Man, 1776, The King and I, Camelot and many others. He
continues his acting career hosting Grizzly Adams’ most recent TV specials Apocalypse and the End Times, Miraculous Mission, and Portrait of Courage: The Untold Story of Flight 93.

McKay Daines is a producer, writer and director whose credits include a novel The Cats of Storm Mountain–an action adventure with the same appeal as The Lord of the Rings. He is partner with Ron Maxwell (Gettysburg and Gods and Generals) and producer of Maxwell’s Joan of Arc, a $90 million trilogy starring Albert Finney, Derek Jacobi and Cary Elwes. He was the research producer for In the Face of Evil, a documentary based on the acclaimed Pulitzer nominated Reagan War by Peter Schweizer. He’s the producer-director on the upcoming Dream Weaver film, a native American romantic comedy. He’ll also be producing and directing the upcoming LaKota Dawn film, based on the best-selling novel by Janelle Taylor.

Grizzly Adams Productions, named after its long-running NBC Network TV series The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams, produces network "Sweeps" TV Specials and series for the i Network (formerly the PAX-TV Network) and major cable channels. During the past 30 years, Grizzly Adams producers Charles E. Sellier and David W. Balsiger have produced more than 500 family friendly TV specials and series for NBC, CBS, PAX, Discovery, Sci-Fi, The Learning Channel and other networks. Eleven of their theatrical films are still among the top 100 all-time independent grossing films (non-studio), with six of those releases ranked in the top 25. One of the company’s most successful theatrical films and TV series, which ran for 10 seasons including reruns, was the Life and Times of Grizzly Adams. This remains one of the most successful family entertainment franchises next to Disney productions.
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Contacting Grizzly Adams® Family Entertainment / Grizzly Adams® Productions and Flynn-Daines Productions

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July 07, 2006

MOENIA DESIGN DEBUTS SPA-THEMED HOME FURNISHINGS COLLECTION AT THE LAS VEGAS MARKET

CECE WINANS IN THE STUDIO FOR BARBARA MANDRELL TRIBUTE ALBUM

Magic Johnson At A Midsummer Nights Dream Event By Bodog

Will have coverage of a Red Carpet later tonight

Grizzly Adams® Family Entertainment to Release 20 New Family Values Dramatic Films

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