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"Dear Webmaster, Thank you for participating in the Maestro Awards of Excellence awards program and allowing us the opportunity to review your website. It gives me great pleasure to announce that your website successfully passed the evaluation criteria and was selected to receive the Maestro Award of Excellence! These awards are rated World's Top Award and rated 5.0 at Award Sites!, the premier website awards rating system on the Internet. We wish you continued success with your website endeavors. Kind regards," -- Richard A. Berends, president, Maestro Awards of Excellence, Hilversum, The Netherlands

"Dear Míc, We have reviewed your website and we are pleased to inform you that your site has achieved the WTA Premio Fiamma Argento (Silver). Your design is lovely and navigation is excellent. We enjoyed our visit to your site. Well done, Míc, and once again, congratulations! We will add your site to the winners' list today. Kindest regards," -- Andrea Brancaccio, webmaster, Premio Fiamma, Parma, Italy

"It is my great pleasure to award you with a Gold Lone Star Design Award." -- Helen Bruce, webmistress, Lone Star Site Design, Dallas, Texas, USA

"Congratulations! Your site, http://bton.com, was selected to receive the Top Excellence, one of the most important award of the world. Sincerely," -- T. Cassio, webmaster, Top Excellence, Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

"Greetings webmaster, The Arete Wave Awards were begun with the purpose of discovering Web sites that were both 'arete' in content presented (that is excellent) as well as possessing a design that made them worth surfing. As a content-oriented award program, we seek Web sites that exist to add to human knowledge on the Internet. We feel your site meets our criteria for an outstanding human knowledge-oriented Web site and are pleased to have the honor of presenting to your site the Arete Award for Excellence. The Arete Award is the program's top award and is rated 5.0 by Award Sites! and 10 by WebsAwards. The Arete Award (top award) is also considered to be a World's Top Award. On behalf of the Arete Wave Awards, allow me to extend my sincere congratulations on your outstanding Web site! Well done and have an awesome day! Surf's up!" -- Jenny Goellnitz, webmistress, Arete Wave Awards, Fairview Park, Ohio, USA [Award listing remarks: "A superb resource! Reference and resources serving South Central Indiana and beyond. Superb formatting, excellent design, TONS of content. An all-in-all great site!"]

"Dear Míc, Congratulations! Our evaluation panel has finished reviewing your site and we are honored to announce that you have won our Platinum Award. We would like to sincerely thank you very much for letting us have the opportunity to visit your excellent website. No need to comment on your website's features one by one because it is obvious that you have tried to build a complete, unique, perfect masterpiece. We are sure you are a true expert in this community and hope you keep up maintaining your projects. Best regards," -- Hayrettin Gürkok, Experts' Choice International Design Awards, Eskisehir, Turkey

"Dear Míc, Congraulations! Our evaluation panel has once again finished reviewing your site and we are happy to announce that your website, 'The Beeline,' is selected as 'Site of April.' This makes you a qualifier for the Site of the Year Award that will be chosen among the Site of the Month winners of the year. Congratulations again!" -- Hayrettin Gürkok, Experts' Choice International Design Awards, Eskisehir, Turkey [Award listing comments: "No need to comment (on) Míc Miller's website's features one by one because it is obvious that he has tried to build a complete, unique, perfect masterpiece. We (assure) you he is a true expert in this community."]

"Hello Míc, Please accept the SunsetSurfers Gold Medal of Excellence, now a World's Top Award, for your efforts at The Beeline. As one of my very first gold winners (back in February of 2000), it gives me great pride to now list your winning site as one of the best in the world. Constantly updated, exhaustive attention to detail and immaculate design make your site stand out from the rest as the Web Army Knife for the Information Age. Well done! Enjoy your award, you've earned it." -- Will Harbeson, webmaster, SunsetSurfers Web Portal, Marcos Island, Florida, USA

"Dear Michael Miller, Congratulations! Your site 'The Beeline' has been accepted as a winner of Korea Orchid Gold Award. We were impressed with your site as a great contribution to the Internet. Specially, your site has supplying much information for Internet development. Very good work! Congratulations again and have a nice day. Best regards," -- Jin-Seok, Kim, owner, Korea Orchid Award Program, CheonAn-City, South Korea

"Hello Míc, Your site 'The Beeline' has been reviewed and it gives me great pleasure in announcing your site as our lastest winner. We found your site offered an invaluable resource not only for the residents of Indiana, but for the rest of the world as well. This was the most comprehensive directory we have sighted online to date, and we applaud your obvious passion and community spirit. Navigation was quite unique and a little daunting but understandable due to the sheer complexity and size of the site. Site design and graphics embraced the true nature of the bee and was a joy to behold. Congratulations on a job well done. Regards," -- Jennie Mahon, webmistress, JeM of the Net Awards, PicsNTrics, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

"Congratulations! I am pleased to offer you the Superb! Website Diamond Award! To qualify for this prestigious award, a site must have already won at least 10 World's Top Awards from the current list of World's Top Award Programs, which is an amazing achievement. Your site meets this criteria, and you have earned the Superb! Website Diamond Award. Please wear it with pride for very few websites will qualify for this award! Again, congratulations on earning the Superb! Website Diamond Award. You have created an outstanding website, one that has been widely recognized for its excellence, and the Internet is a better place because of your talent and efforts!" -- Maggi Norris, webmistresses, Website Awards, Bloomington, Indiana, USA

"Congratulations! I am pleased to offer you the Superb! Website Double Diamond Award! To qualify for this prestigious award, a site must have already won at least 15 World's Top Awards from the current list of World's Top Award Programs, which is an incredible achievement. Your site meets this criteria, and you have earned the Superb! Website Double Diamond Award. Please wear it with pride for very few websites will qualify for this award! Again, congratulations on earning the Superb! Website Double Diamond Award. You have created an outstanding website, one that has been widely recognized for its excellence, and the Internet is a better place because of your talent and efforts!" -- Maggi Norris, webmistresses, Website Awards, Bloomington, Indiana, USA

"Congratulations! Your site 'The Beeline' has been reviewed by all our judges. We enjoyed our visit to your site and we are pleased to announce that your site has won our 'Gold Award.' You have obviously put a lot of thought and work into the design and in maintaining your pages. Our awards are not given out lightly. We hope that this encourages you to keep up the great work. We are proud to have you amongst our winners. Congratulations once again and keep up the great work. Sincerely," -- Ulla Ojanlatva, Ulla's Site Award Program, Oulu, Finland

Dear Míc, I love The Beeline especially because of its extremely intensive content, the clear and pleasant layout and the nice graphics. But the most interesting things are the Gold Bars to be found on some pages. :-) On the whole, it's a pleasure to award your website with the maxmw|webeye." -- Maximillian Speicher, webmaster, The Xam Project Award, Berlin, Germany

"This is to inform you that the website http://bton.com has been designated a Cool Site in the Netscape Open Directory. -- The Open Directory Project [ODP editor's notes: "Dear Míc: Please take a look at the Beeline's listing at ODP. As you know, it is listed in the following category: Computers: Internet: On the Web: Best_of the Web: Site_Awards: Rated_Awards. Your site was recently considered by the category editor, cpsimoes, as a 'Cool Site' and now that distinction is acknowledged at the listing referred above."]

"Dear Míc Miller, Congratulations! Your site, The Beeline, has been selected as the Second Place finisher in the First Quarter [2003] of the Chrysallis Awards Competition. Consider this an outstanding achievement for an outstanding site. Again, congratulations, and have a wonderful day." -- Nicole S. Porter, program creator & director, Chrysallis Awards, Redlands, California, USA [Reviewer's comments: "An accurately self-described 'Web Army Knife,' The Beeline is an invaluable resource not only for residents of Indiana, but for the rest of the world as well! As explained on-site, The Beeline is an 'area information retrieval (AIR) system that promotes local Web titles on hundreds of topics.' Those topics range from local weather to local school news; movie listings to information about holidays. Information is given on the local (South Central Indiana), state, and global levels. But it doesn't stop there! The Beeline is also jam-packed with information on Web design and winning Web site awards. The site is host to one of the World's Top Awards, and its owner, Mic Miller, is the author of 'The Webmaster's Guide to Glory!,' the first-ever book written about Web site awards (which one can order on-site)."]

"Hi Míc, We have completed our evaluation of your Beeline website and are pleased to present you with our Treasures Of The Web Silver Award which is attached. Your site exemplifies hard work and professionalism, and harbors a wealth of information. Each of our evaluators have bookmarked your site for a return visit to utilize the vast amount of knowledge and information you offer your visitors. We received 109 applications this month and only awarded eight sites. Congratulations on being one of the eight. Again, congratulations! The award was much deserved." -- Vicki Reece, founder, Treasures Of The Web, Trinity, North Carolina, USA

"Hello Míc Miller. We have now completed our review of your site submission. We are very pleased to present your site with the Casey's Celtic Charm Gold Award, which also qualifies as a World's Top Award at Website Awards. Thank you for giving us the opportunity to review your work. Your work and dedication shine throughout your pages. You are most deserving of many accolades, and for making the World Wide Web a much better and nicer place for us all. Warmest regards," -- Wendy and David Russell, Casey's Celtic Charm, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

"Congrats! We're pleased to present you with our Bronze Glass Flower Award. We enjoyed our time at your site and are excited to list you among our winners! Thank you for making the Web a nice place to play." -- Mary and Leo Schultz, owners and operators, Glass Flower Awards, Lynchburg, Virginia, USA

"Congratulations, Míc. We have reviewed your site and have awarded it the Assess Risk Silver Award. We find the contents as educative as they are indepth. The information you provide is clear and concise. Your site is visually appealing, well designed and provides an extremely comprehensive resource. Thank you for the opportunity to evaluate your site. Once again, well done and all the best." -- Wendy Sears, webmistress and award manager, Assess Risk, Stafford, Staffordshire, England

"Hello Míc, For the month of July there were 75 applications for Mesweet's Awards. Two wonderful sites have been chosen to receive Mesweet's Awards for July 2002. We would like to extend our congratulations to your site, The Beeline, as being one of the two sites chosen. Your site is a very resourceful and informative site. You never know what you might find next in the hives. The Beeline has won Mesweet;s Silver Award for July 2002. From your Helpful Tips to your Sands of Time, all of the Fainess and Integrity Site Evaluators feel your site is a very resourceful site and an asset to the Web. On a personal note I would like to say that I have always held the highest respect for the webmaster of The Beeline and that respect is now twofold. Congratulations and kindest regards," -- Debbie Sharp, webmistress, Mesweet.net, Monticello, Arkansas, USA

"Dear Míc, We are very pleased to announce that your website has been awarded The Aracnofilia Web Design Award, Gold Seal. We have found that your site complies with this award's opinion on what should be considered outstanding Web design by being simple, clear, consistent, appropriate, and visually appealing. Our best regards and, once again, congratulations on such an excellent site!" -- Carlos Paula Simoes, on bee-half of the CPSnet Web Awards Team, Azinhaga, Golego, Portugal [Beekeeper's note: "The Aracnofilia Web Design Award: This award program has the sole purpose of rewarding outstanding, flawless, and sound Web design. It will not reward only visually outstanding sites but also sites that are flawless in many other aspects. Always keeping in mind that a well-designed site should be simple, clear, consistent, appropriate, appealing, and last but not least, usable."]

"Dear Míc, We are very pleased to announce that The Beeline was awarded The High In The Sky Award. The Beeline, for the nature of its content and for the quality of the design and implementation, presents an undeniable excellence that puts it well above the remaining ones, making it worthy of being publicly designated as an example to be followed and as a true knowledge and information source. Our best regards and, once again, congratulations on such an excellent site!" -- Carlos Paula Simoes, on bee-half of the CPSnet Web Awards Evaluation Team, Azinhaga, Golego, Portugal

"Dear Michael Miller, Congratulations on winning our gold award. Your site, The Beeline, is really interesting and cognitive. We have listed your site on our Gold Winners' Page. Good luck!" -- Rodion von Wildonoff, webmaster, Heritage of Perm, Moscow, Russia

"Hello Míc, I'm happy to inform you that you have won the Jetzone 2 Star Silver Award for your famous Beeline website. I wish you all the best and hope you continue to share your work with the rest of the Internet community. Kind regards," -- Andries van Straten, webmaster, Jetzone 2000, Enschede, The Netherlands