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MESA, AZ (MARKET WIRE) Premier Media Services, Inc. (PMSI) today announced that Jordan Kimmel will be making the keynote address at the Second Annual Premier Media Investment Conference being held September 17-19, 2008 at the Radisson Fort McDowell Resort and Casino in Scottsdale/Fountain Hill, Arizona.

RIVERWOODS, Ill.----Discover Financial Services plans to report its third quarter 2008 results before the market opens on Thursday, Sept. 25, 2008. The earnings release will be available on Discover's corporate Web site at www.discoverfinancial.com.

PALO ALTO, CA (MARKET WIRE) Essex Property Trust, Inc. (NYSE: ESS), a real estate investment trust (REIT) that invests in apartment communities located in highly desirable, supply-constrained markets, announced today that Keith R. Guericke, President and CEO, and Michael T. Dance, Executive Vice President and CFO, will be presenting at the Bank of America 38th Annual Investment Conference on Monday, September 15, 2008. The presentation is scheduled for 10:00 a.m. Pacific Daylight time with the breakout session immediately following.

TORONTO, ONTARIO (MARKET WIRE) Financial 15 Split Corp. ('Financial 15') announces a Class A share consolidation for all Class A shareholders of record on September 12, 2008. The purpose of the share consolidation is to maintain an equal number of Class A shares and Preferred shares outstanding.

NEW YORK----MetLife, Inc. announced today the final exchange ratio in connection with its previously announced offer to its stockholders to exchange all or some of their shares of MetLife common stock for 29,243,539 shares of class B common stock of Reinsurance Group of America, Incorporated .

The Dayton Dragons established a franchise record for average single game attendance in 2008, besting all 130 teams below Triple-A baseball, the team announced Thursday.

OceanPoint Insurance Agency, Inc. President and Chief Executive Officer, Peter J. Colella recently announced the appointment of Sam S. Sylvester to the position of vice president of financial services.

Canada's prime minister suspended a top ruling party official Thursday for suggesting a father who lost his soldier son in Afghanistan had political motives when criticizing the newly announced plan for withdrawing Canadian troops in 2011. Prime Minister...

When NBC announced in May that it was going to set a record-high rate card of $3M for a 30-second spot for its broadcast of Super Bowl XLIII, many veteran ad buyers reacted with a mix of skepticism and anger. But that skepticism and anger has been replaced by a flurry of signed contracts, putting the network on pace to sell out the game by the end of the year.

BOSTON, MA (MARKET WIRE) ProMutual Group, a leading provider of medical liability insurance in the Northeast, is pleased to announce that Anne Huben-Kearney, RN, CPHRM, CPHQ, will assume the position of vice president of risk management. Ms. Huben-Kearney has been with the company for six years in the role of manager in the risk management department. She will start in her new position on September 15, 2008.