NAPMA joins in the applause and adulation for Lee Milteer, NAPMA Inner Circle and Peak Performers Success Coach, who has been recently honored as the recipient of two business awards.

First, she received the Hampton Roads Inside Business and Regent University Prestigious Entrepreneurial Excellence Award. This award recognizes entrepreneurs who have made significant accomplishments in the Hampton Roads, Virginia area. Business owners and entrepreneurs from throughout the area were nominated for this award.

Lee also won the USLBA’s Best of Virginia Beach in Training Programs Services. The Best of Local Business Award Program is given to outstanding local businesses throughout the country for exceptional marketing success in the local community and business category.

Lee Milteer is an internationally recognized performance coach, author and professional speaker. She is the founder of the Millionaire Mindset coaching program for professionals, business owners and entrepreneurs. Lee has authored several books, including Spiritual Powers for Successful Selling, Success is an Inside Job and Feel and Grow Rich, and is the co-author of Walking with the Wise for Entrepreneurs and Reach Your Career Dreams.

Lee is also a recognized best-selling audio and DVD author whose products have been endorsed by Nightingale Conant, Cybervision and CareerTrack. Lee’s presentations are so effective that such organizations as Walt Disney, AT&T, Xerox, IBM, Ford Motor Company, NASA, Federal Express, 3M, Sales and Marketing Executive International, plus hundreds of government agencies, scores of conventions, associations meetings and niche market events repeatedly retain her. Lee is a regular guest on TV and radio shows throughout the US and Canada.

You can view photos of the luncheon for the Entrepreneurial Excellence Award at milteer.com/gallery.htm and read her profile in a special issue of Inside Business Journal at milteer.com/docs/pdfs/InsideBusinessEntExcellence.pdf.

NAPMA’s new Online Print Marketing Store is another new, exclusive member benefit and another reason why you should join NAPMA today at NAPMAFreeOffer.com. As a member, you’ll have three exclusive sources of marketing/advertising materials, dramatically expanding your opportunities to target your specific markets, more effectively and accurately.

The monthly Media Master CD-ROM continues to include an outstanding selection of ads, flyers, postcards, guest passes, posters and other marketing materials in three different formats. More recently, NAPMA has added to the member Web site all of the current month’s marketing materials as well as the next month’s campaigns and a number of “evergreen” campaigns that can be used throughout the year.

Now, it’s time to visit the new Online Print Marketing Store to choose from an ever-growing catalog of marketing pieces that will help you grow your school. To do so, however, you must be a NAPMA member and you can do that quickly and easily at NAPMAFreeOffer.com. You will not only have access to NAPMA’s new Online Print Marketing Store, but also a growing list of NAPMA benefits and discounted services, such as 24/7 telephone answering and appointment-setting and merchant services, with lower credit card processing rates, excellent customer service and a free Prescription Discount Card for NAPMA-member employees and families.

All of these many NAPMA benefits will help you grow your school and save money; and you can start today when you visit NAPMAFreeOffer.com.

If you’re not yet a NAPMA member and missed the 2008 Extreme Success Academy, then now is the time to join at NAPMAFreeOffer.com. You can also register for NAPMA’s Quantum Leap event, March 20 - 22, 2009, in beautiful Denver, Colorado, and receive Stephen Oliver’s infamous Martial Arts Marketing Bootcamp (previously $2,750) absolutely free of charge. Visit MartialArtsBootcamp.com for all the details!

For one time only, the top experts in our industry will throw open the curtains, revealing their insider secrets that will help you thrive in the martial arts business. They’ll show you the path from mediocre business performance to a new level of success you may never have thought possible.

Whether or not you attended the Extreme Success Academy, you must take the Quantum Leap with other smart-thinking NAPMA members in March 2009 in Denver, Colorado; but you must be a NAPMA member to attend, so join today at NAPMAFreeOffer.com. You’ll receive a free school-growth package worth $2,312.10 and, when you register for NAPMA’s Quantum Leap, you’ll be guaranteed a free seat at Stephen Oliver’s Martial Arts Marketing Bootcamp, a $2,750 value!

Highland Ranch, Colorado…After displaying his martial arts skills on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Tyler Weaver, Jr., a 12-year-old Black Belt, is reportedly being considered for a part in Avatar, a James Cameron film, scheduled for a Christmas 2009 release.

That wasn’t the end of the excitement in the young Weaver’s life. In the same week, his father’s partner, Kevin Kowalczik, in the Pro Rank Karate school in Littleton, Colorado, chased and tackled a man who has been charged with burglarizing a nearby elementary school. The man is also allegedly responsible for numerous other burglaries in the area.

All this attention as also attracted Jay Leno who would like Weaver and Kowalczik to appear on The Tonight Show.

Melbourne, Australia…People are just as crazy in Australia as anywhere, since ambulance staff now find it necessary to learn martial arts to protect themselves from those very same people that are trying to help.

According to an ambulance union official, there are plenty of reported incidents of drunk, drug-affected or mentally disturbed patients confronting and/or assaulting ambulance personnel. Recently, a paramedic was allegedly punched and gripped around the throat by a drunken patient on a call to a home.

Hong, Kong, China…According to press reports, Steven Chow, creator of recent crossover Chinese kung fu film hits, including Shaolin Soccer and Kung Fu Hustle, will direct and star in a remake of The Green Hornet. It will be his first directorial assignment of an American film.

Bruce Lee added to his popularity when he portrayed the manservant Kato in the 1966 U.S. TV series, which is the role Chow will play in the film that is projected to be release by Columbia Pictures on June 25, 2010. Lee was so popular in Hong Kong that, when The Green Hornet TV shows were shown there, the title was changed to The Kato Show.

In a recent interview, John Fusco, who wrote the screenplay for The Forbidden Kingdom, revealed that a sequel to the film, featuring both Jackie Chan and Jet Li, is being discussed.

Fusco also talked about how differently Chan and Li approached the movie and his experience working with the two legendary martial arts film stars. According to Fusco, Li wanted to be in the film because he had always wanted to portray the Monkey King, while Chan saw an opportunity finally to work with Li.

He said that Li was a great resource and guide to help emphasize his insights of Buddhist principles, which Fusco had always wanted in the movie, long before Li agreed to appear in the film.

Fusco said that Chan had an entirely different approach to his portion of the script, Yin to Li’s Yang. Fusco claimed that Chan gave him a bottle of Jackie Chan Shiraz for every line of dialogue that Fusco cut. Chan helped Fusco, rewrite the lines, so they were punchier.

Fusco also commented on his “re-imaging” of the classic Akira Kurosawa film, The Seven Samurai. Titled Mag 7, Fusco’s film does not take place in feudal Japan and there are no swords; instead, the story is set in the contemporary world of security contractors.

Los Angeles, California…According to Associated Press reports, Jeffrey Katzenberg, the chief executive of Dreamworks Animation, which produced the summer blockbuster, Kung Fu Panda, is optimistic about a sequel and suggested that the studio would make a formal announcement soon. The film has generated more than $600 million worldwide since its June 2008 release.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania…The documentary film, Renzo Gracie: Legacy, the life story of the Brazilian jiu-jitsu master and American patriarch of MMA, will premier at the U.S. Sports Film Festival, the most comprehensive sports film festival in United States history, October 23-26, 2008. The festival will also feature movies from baseball, basketball and other sports.

A few months ago, Industry Insider reported that a car had crashed into one of Stephen Oliver’s Mile High Karate schools in the Denver, Colorado area. Now, in what can only be described as eerie circumstances, automobiles have been involved in three additional incidents that have damaged martial arts schools and caused bodily injuries.

Recently, in Zionsville, Indiana, a motorist crashed into Adamson’s Karate Studio, where emergency crews found the car completely inside the building. The crash occurred after-hours, so no one was inside the school and the driver wasn’t injured. He reported that he stepped on the gas, when he meant to brake.

In Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, a man crashed into Dubb’s Karate, causing his passenger to sustain two broken vertebrae and cuts and bruises on her hands and head. The driver admitted to having blacked out; and, although he denied he was drinking or using drugs, his passenger had stated and then recanted a statement, indicating that they had been “huffing” on an air canister just prior to the crash. That potential evidence was not admissible because the local hospital had not conducted the appropriate blood tests on the driver.

After pleading guilty to one count of recklessly endangering another person, the driver was sentenced to two years probation and the judge ordered him to complete three times as much community service than standard, earn his high school diploma and pay his passenger $108 in restitution.

Around the world, in Queensland, Australia, a Supreme Court Justice has ruled that the driver of a car that hit a Taekwondo student in a 1989 incident and the owner of the martial arts school that the student attended should pay $730,850 (Australian) in damages. The judge also found the now-deceased Taekwondo instructor and the student that was hit also responsible, reducing the damages by 20%.

According to court records, the student, who was a juvenile at the time, was part of a class jogging near a busy roadway. He suddenly moved onto the road and was hit. Although the driver was not cited for breaking any traffic laws, the judge ruled he should have been more cautious. The student sustained head and neck injuries that have left him unable to work.

Las Vegas, Nevada…Donald Trump is obviously a savvy investor and negotiator, but he may have met his match in UFC President Dana White who seems to believe that Trump’s investment in Affliction Entertainment will go south because it isn’t able to deliver on its promise of a Randy Couture/Fedor Emelianenko showdown.

During an earlier 2008 press conference, Trump boasted that by joining with Affliction, it would be able to challenge the dominance of the UFC, especially once it put Couture and Emelianenko in the same ring. Emelianenko is currently under contract with Affliction.

Not so fast, says White. Following the settlement of the lawsuits and countersuits between Couture and UFC, he will reportedly fight WWE Champion Brock Lesnar on November 15^th, under a UFC contract. Some MMA commentators think this is a move to eliminate Affliction as a UFC competitor because The Donald and his partner won’t be able to stage the much-heralded Couture/Emelianenko fight.

It appears White’s strategy is not to interfere with the Affliction/Emelianenko relationship because he expects Affliction to go the way of so many UFC competitors, leaving Emelianenko to sign with UFC in the near future; and then UFC can promote the fight everyone wants to see. Your move, Donnie!

Palo Verde, California…According to the Imperial County Sheriff’s Department, the body of Evan Tanner, former UFC Middleweight Champion, was recently found in the Palo Verde mountain area.

Friends had left Tanner, 37, numerous phone calls and text messages, since the weekend before his remains were discovered. Evidence from his blog suggested that he considered his trek into the California desert to be an “adventure,” and that “any failure of my equipment could cost me my life.”

Tanner had returned to UFC competition during 2007, following therapy for alcohol addiction.

Seoul, South Korea…A Korean newspaper recently reported that the International Taekwondo Federation became a front for the North Korean government more than 20 years ago, training and disguising spies as TKD masters, in an attempt to assassinate the South Korean president of the 1980s.

According to the story, Choi Jung-hwa, son of the late Choi Hong-hi who founded the International Taekwondo Federation (ITF) in 1966, claims that he was recruited and was part of a plot to kill the South Korean president, during a visit to Canada in 1982. Canadian police intervened to stop the assassination attempt.

Choi made these statements to another newspaper, after returning from living overseas for 34 years, including North Korea, where he fled after the debacle in Canada.

Choi’s father, who died in 2002, left South Korea to live in Canada, during the 1970s, taking the ITF with him. Since 1973, when the World Taekwondo Federation was founded in South Korea, it has surpassed the ITF in memberships, although ITF-style taekwondo enjoys greater popularity abroad. WTF Taekwondo became an Olympic competition at the Sydney Games in 2000.