The Grand Prize: A $1000 US cash award to the entrant with the most votes
based on the public online voting poll at KaysBargains.L.

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The Award encourages readership to each entrant's Web
site , promotes female-oriented online communities and generates substantial
media coverage for all entrants .S.

ANSI is a private non-profit organization whose mission is to enhance U.

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global competitiveness and the American quality of life by promoting,
facilitating, and safeguarding the integrity of the voluntary
standardization and conformity assessment system.

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National Standard. "We look
forward to working with the certification agencies and companies in
bringing value to their customers with the assurance that an independently
evaluated certification credential has meaning.

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Kay's Bargains Hosts 2005 Blogette Award + $1000 Grand Prize

SAN DIEGO, For those searching for ways to promote
and market a female-oriented Web site, Kay's Bargains announced today that it
is now accepting entries for the first annual Blogette Award competition, at
http://www. member of the ISO and, via the U.

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The DoD-referenced standard was first approved in 2003 when it received the
endorsement of more than eighty nations who hold membership on the
International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International
Electrotechnical Commission (IEC).

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kaysbargains . This is the federal
government's first venture into mandating increased accountability from
personnel certification bodies.5 million professionals worldwide.

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California, is a leading provider of deals and bargains targeted towards
female consumers online.com is a guide that identifies bargain
prices, freebies and current coupon codes and rebates for the expanding
population of female shoppers online.

In addition to ISO and IEC, the Institute is also a member of the
International Accreditation Forum (IAF), the Pacific Area Standards
Congress (PASC) and the Pan American Standards Commission (COPANT).

This category contains sites for groups that facilitate the growth and development of Computer Science.

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To get a site in the running for the Blogette Award, entrants should visit
the Blogette Award Web site at http://www.com/Contest.

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PRESS RELEASE U.S. Department of Defense Becomes First Federal Agency to Mandate Compliance With Global Criteria for Personnel Credentialing

Department of Defense (DoD) is now
requiring its agency personnel and contractors who perform certain
Information Assurance functions to be certified by credentialing bodies
that have been independently accredited by a third party.

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Deadline for entries is June 25, 2005 .

About The Blogette Award
The Blogette Award competition helps increase recognition for female-
oriented Web sites.S.

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"This is definitely an exciting time for women online, and we here at
Kay's share in the excitement and encourage the use of the Web as an avenue
for women to express themselves," remarked Cindy Tsai, a team member at Kay's
Bargains.
More information: http://www.

The Directive highlights the growing importance the DoD places on the
capabilities and professionalism of those working in the mission-critical
areas of information technology and information assurance. personnel certification agencies have never been
independently evaluated by a third party.

The United States, via ANSI, was also the first nation to launch an
accreditation program for personnel certification bodies based upon ISO/IEC
17024.

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kaysbargains. The report also states, "Females have rapidly grown
comfortable with technology and the Internet. Two of the nine personnel certification organizations currently
accredited by the Institute provide information assurance certifications
that would qualify under the DoD Directive. Comprised of
businesses, professional societies and trade associations, standards
developers, government agencies, and consumer and labor organizations, the
ANSI Federation represents the diverse interests of more than 125,000
entities and 3.

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Responding to the explosive increase of personal Web sites, joined with
rising figures in the presence and influence of females on the Internet, Kay's
Bargains is pleased to give authors of female-oriented Web sites a chance to
get their work noticed and distinguished.
The Blogette Award is a Web site competition dedicated entirely to
recognizing the best female-oriented Web site . Any Web site written, run,
created by or geared towards females can enter. By combing reputable retail stores on
the Web for current promotions on a daily basis, the site features daily news
that is continuously updated with information on the latest deals online.kaysbargains.
Another indication of DoD's dedication to the issue is the recent change to
Title 10 of the U.

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About KaysBargains . The new
requirement became effective on December 19, 2005, with the signing of DoD
Directive 8570.1 and its implementing manual 8570.

"We are proud to have this high level recognition from the federal
government of the importance of accredited personnel certification," said
Lane Hallenbeck , ANSI vice president of accreditation services.

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"As of 2004, they [women] comprised 51.php, where
they will find submission guidelines and the official online entry form. KaysBargains. http://www . Both ISO and IEC are membership
organizations comprised of the official national standards coordinators in
countries around the globe.S. ANSI
has offices in New York City and Washington, DC.

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php.6% of US Internet users, and that
figure is expected to rise," according to eMarketer's report Women Online in
the US, May 2005.php

This release was issued on behalf of the above organization by
Send2Press(TM), a unit of Neotrope(R).S.S.

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com. The requirement
is based upon international standard ISO/IEC 17024 , Conformity assessment
-- General requirements for bodies operating certification of persons,
which stipulates the guidelines for assessing independent personnel
certification programs.

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The DoD requirement is in line with the federal government's reliance upon
voluntary consensus standards and conformity assessment programs, as called
for in the National Technology Transfer and Advancement Act (P.

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