News Releases

Business Intelligence Network Launches Community Blog Site Free community blog site launched for business intelligence and data warehousing professionals. - 2005-11-21

NanoWorld AG Appoints NanoAndMore USA Corp. As Its Distributor For USA, Canada and Mexico NanoWorld AG has appointed NanoAndMore USA Corp. (NAM) as the official distributor of its NanoWorld™ and NANOSENSORS™ lines of probes for Atomic Force Microscopes (AFM) and Scanning Probe Microscopes (SPM) in the USA, Canada and Mexico (NAFTA). - 2005-11-21

TextMessages.com Users Receive Emails on their Cell Phones TextMessages.com, a new service, allows cell phones to act in a similar fashion to popular email mobile devices and pagers. - 2005-11-21

Semtek Joins Symbol Technologies’ New SymbolPLUS Partner Program to Accelerate Enterprise Mobility Solution Deployments Semtek Innovative Solutions Corporation today announces it is one of the first companies to join Symbol’s new SymbolPLUS Partner Program. - 2005-11-21

Supercharge Your New Year’s Eve Transition with Your Own 3rd Annual World Spirituality Day Event 3rd Annual World Spirituality Day helps supercharge the New Year’s transition, celebrations and resolutions with the deepest power of spirituality. - 2005-11-21

Autovan LLC Releases COTvan™ – First Dual ADA Wheelchair and Stretcher Compliant Minivan Autovan, LLC CEO, Jim Bishop, of Taylor, Michigan and Ferno Washington of Wilmington, Ohio have joined to offer the non-emergency transport industry an economical way to transfer patients who require cots. - 2005-11-21

Heavy Demand for Intelligent Design and Science Wars Articles Prompts SciPolicy Journal to Give Free and Open Access to Archives SciPolicy -- The Journal of Science and Health Policy -- announced today that, as a public service, all of its articles are now free and open access on-line. The move is prompted by a recent ten-fold increase in demands on its already busy website (http://scipolicy.net) for articles related to its Amicus Currie filing in Federal Court (Kitzmiller, et al v Dover Area School District and school Board) opposing government mandates to teach of intelligent design in public schools and the Science Wars controversies. - 2005-11-21

Study Shows Australians May Pay Too Much for Domain Names A new study reveals that some Australian registrars charge three times more than others for a single domain name registration. The study not only compares costs but also covers how people choose their registrars. - 2005-11-21

Online Jewelry Site Introduces Innovative Video Feature to Display Products The world-famous Direct Watch Company, based in Scotland, recently introduced slow-motion videos to its Web sites to provide its customers with detailed, close-up, 360-degree images of its products before they buy. Founded by Brian Alexander 13 years ago, its products include jewelry, watches and medical bracelets. - 2005-11-21

The Big Fall Auctions Are Almost Here Headline-making art sales are anticipated. - 2005-11-21

AFIT Accelerated Flight and Instrument Training... Our clients Increasingly Realize The Importance To Train With The Industries Finest Flight Instructors Inexperienced Accelerated Flight Training providers may offer useless or even damaging services to unsuspecting clients/pilots abound in the Accelerated Flight Training Industry. “There are so many myths, half-truths and potentially dangerous methods in circulation that Accelerated Training has become extremely confusing. We spell out and provide the reality of Accelerated Flight Training, drawing from years of extensive experience, Training, service and successful Business we have provided over the years. - 2005-11-21

BackCountry Navigator Software for Pocket PC Provides Mapping and GPS Navigation for Outdoor Recreation CritterMap Software has announced the immediate availability of BackCountry Navigator, geocaching and outdoor navigation software for Pocket PC. This software uses United States topographical maps and aerial photographs, and works with common Pocket PC GPS Receivers. - 2005-11-21

Sheeler Sets Sights on U.S. Senate Seat for 'Underrepresented' Rhode Islanders Carl Sheeler has set out to take back Lincoln Chaffee's (R) Senate seat. The “back-to-basics” Democrat is running a campaign fueled by grassroots ambitions, not big contributions. - 2005-11-21

"Flight Testing to Win" by Tony Blackman Is a Book About Test Flying, Flying with Howard Hughes and More The book is about flight testing, making aircraft safe enough and no more, stories about demonstrating on the worlds worst airfields in the third world, trying to sell the HS146 to Howard Hughes, selling electronics to Boeing and Airbus. Then becoming a regulator on the Board of the United Kingdoms Civil Aviation Authority and having to consider the impact of Europe on UK Flight Safety, the software problems of Swanwick Air Traffic Control Centra and the privatisation of the UK Air Traffic Service. Finally considering accidents, the new jumbos, mass air travel and the environment. - 2005-11-21

Care2Learn Makes Donation to the Foundation for the Advancement of Elder and Disabled Care to Launch Long-Term Care Study Care2Learn, a national provider of online training and continuing education for healthcare professionals, has made a donation to the Foundation for the Advancement of Elder and Disabled Care to help underwrite the costs of a Consumer Expectations Study, being conducted by the American Health Care Association and the National Center for Assisted Living. This is the first such study in long-term care, to determine consumer expectations of care and services in nursing facilities and assisted living care. - 2005-11-21

Priorities: Oil, Military, Economy or 38% Of U.S. States Now Ban Gay Marriage? Americans must decide whether social issues should outweigh the long-term impact of U.S. policies on citizens' lives. - 2005-11-21

Little Frog Finds Jesus by Author Shari Pigman Now Available; This Little Frog Wants to Come Home with You Little Frog Finds Jesus is for children of all ages. You will not want to put this little frog down. This Little Frog will steal your heart. He is the one that will take you to meet the best friend you will ever have in your life. - 2005-11-21

Getting Targeted Web Traffic the Easy Way The Newly launched and newbie friendly program at http://tinyurl.com/a6tk8 is helping webmasters and affiliates to get web traffic and be indexed in major search engines such as Google, MSN and Yahoo in as little as 72 hours or less and achieving instant page ranking of three or higher. - 2005-11-21

River Islands Plantation -- An Upscale Waterfront Golf Community Knoxville Tennessee's latest upscale golf community offers awesome amenities. - 2005-11-21

Consumer Demand for Natural Personal Care Products Continues to Grow C. J. Buck, CEO of Xenna Corporation, which distributes natural foot care products, says that in addition to department stores and supermarkets, both chain and independent pharmacies are continuing to expand their offerings of natural products. Buck says, "Consumers are looking for advice, recommendations, and natural choices." For those seeking natural foot care products, NonyX Nail Gel for yellow, discolored nails is a logical choice. It softens and exfoliates keratin debris - the discolored, yellow or thick granular buildup under nails which is the actual source of embarrassing toenail or fingernail discoloration, using natural ethanoic acid." - 2005-11-21

Writely Embraces the OpenDocument Movement "The Web Word Processor" now supports both Microsoft Word and OpenOffice.org document formats. - 2005-11-21

Should Oil Companies be Bbanned from Owning Ethanol Plants E85 Ethanol fuel is typically .25-.70 cents less per gallon than unleaded. E85 has become a viable less expensive alternative fuel for millions of consumers .Should Oil be banned from owning Ethanol plants ? - 2005-11-21

TableAndHome.com Offers APO and FPO Shipping Option APO/FPO/MPO shipping delivers packages to members of the Armed Forces. - 2005-11-21

New Pump Software Will Help Facilities Reduce Energy Costs Pump & Systems "Basic" and "Pro" software has recently been released by Process Energy Services to help facility managers and operators identify pump system energy savings. - 2005-11-21

South Beach Magazine Updates Its "Fab-Five" List of Top Boutique Hotels in Miami Beach South Beach Magazine has announced its updated "Fab-Five" list of Top Boutique Hotels in Miami Beach as rated by its readers and staff. - 2005-11-21

RateTheCourts.com launched by Government Forums, Inc. to Monitor and Evaluate the Nation's Judges New website gives attorneys, litigants, jurors and others the ability to anonymously complete online performance evaluation surveys for over 23,500 federal and state judges. Results are displayed instantly. - 2005-11-21

New Satellite Images of 76 Major United States Cities and Their Environments at Geology.com Satellite images showing the detail and environment of 76 major US Cities are available for viewing at Geology.com. These images provide a colorful view of city geography along with important vegetation, landscape, geological and land-use features of the surrounding environment. - 2005-11-21

The "Real" Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales Told at Storyteller.net Arizona-based national storyteller K. Sean Buvala takes on the Brothers Grimm with a brand new CD collection of unvarnished Grimm fairy tales. The CD, "Seven Ravens: Unvarnished Tales from the Brothers Grimm," tells the real story behind the modern interpretations of classic fairy tales like “Red Riding Hood” and “Briar Rose,” better known to American audiences as “Sleeping Beauty.” - 2005-11-21

Fat Marketing Budgets and Fancy Advertising Still Not as Powerful as Word of Mouth Marketing Tell-A-Pal launches free online referral service. Businesses and professionals that rely heavily on referrals now have an easy way to receive, manage, and reward referrals. - 2005-11-21

Freckles Crib Bedding is Introduced by Baby Supermall Baby Supermall, an internet retailer of baby products, announced the introduction of Freckles, an Australian line of crib bedding that will be available to U.S. consumers in December 2005. - 2005-11-21

Avoid the Crowds and Save Money This Holiday Season With MyBargainBuddy.com One-Of-A-Kind web site invites consumers to purchase holiday must-have gifts …without breaking the bank. Instead of “get, ready, get set go,” when those doors to famous toy stores open bright and early the morning after Thanksgiving, consumers can simply click and purchase that hot toy on every child’s wish list – for the lowest price possible! - 2005-11-21

Radical Author Issues Invitation to Religious Leaders Sankara Saranam, author of the award-winning book God Without Religion, uncovers the wishful thinking revealed in the Dalai Lama’s recent claim that compassion underlies all religions, saying that every centralized institution creates divisiveness. Saranam urges the Dalai Lama and other religious leaders to achieve peace by adopting a universal, inclusive spirituality based on an expanded ability to identify with all of humanity. - 2005-11-21

Web Performance, Inc. Releases New Application Designed To Cut Performance Testing By Weeks Modern web development frameworks like Struts and .NET can generate very complicated HTML pages with dynamic variables, multiple forwards, and complicated hidden variable schemes. While frameworks reduce development time, they make websites built upon them much more difficult to test. Application State Management automates the testing of framework-based web application testing, cutting the time required by weeks in many cases. - 2005-11-21

ESA Keeps Industrial Computers Alive Companies are eliminating or postponing millions of dollars in capital expenditures for upgrades in industrial computers by using the resources of Electronic Solutions Associates (ESA), which sells new motherboards that exactly match up with 15-year-old computers. ESA is the leading company that specializes in 486 industrial motherboards in the legacy Baby AT format. ESA's customers gain more control over product market entry and the timing of new capital equipment acquisition by postponing or eliminating industrial computer upgrade and development costs. - 2005-11-21

'The Night Before Christmas' Debuts on DVD in a Special 10 Year Anniversary Edition "The Night Before Christmas", producer / director Jerry Vasilatos's heartwarming holiday drama is now available on DVD through Amazon.com and through www.nightbeforechristmasmovie.com - 2005-11-21

Merchant Account Payment Gateway FastCharge.com Offers Telephone Credit Card Procesing via The Internet The Fast Charge Gateway Payment Gateway™ (www.fastcharge.com) a credit card processing gateway and merchant account e payment processor announces their Telephone Credit Card Payment Processing product. Fastcharge.com offers free recurring billing, free donation billing, free batch credit card processing and free credit card processing fraud protection. - 2005-11-21

Mini Dental Implants Offer Quick, Affordable Hope for Denture Wearers Mini Dental Implants allow denture wearers to have a better and more comfortable fit in just ninety minutes, painlessly, at only a fraction of the cost. Conventional implants require surgery, the healing process is too long, weeks, even months. They may not work for diabetics who are slow to heal, and they come with a very heavy price tag. - 2005-11-21

Dec. 1-4 at the Miami Beach Convention Center: Artist's Work Depicts Criticism of Televangelist Pat Robertson At Art Basel Miami Beach, New York Arts Magazine will project a video that includes an artist's photographs and text rejecting the Nov. 11, 2005 message of Conservative Christian televangelist Pat Robertson. - 2005-11-21

ilFLS.com, The Leader in Illinois Foreclosure Investing, Now Offers Downloads of the Upcoming Cook County Tax Sale ilFLS.com, Illinois' most comprehensive source for foreclosures, auctions, and REOs, is offering a download of the 22,000+ properties from the Cook County Scavenger Tax Sale. - 2005-11-21

PartyGaming, Sportingbet, BetonSports: Online Gaming Stocks Could Prove Good Bet A segment on 60 Minutes featuring Sportingbet and other online gambling companies could help to further boost billion dollar industry. - 2005-11-21

Underbid Offers New Marketing Channel for Y Store Tools' Merchants Underbid.com and Y Store Tools' team up to provide online merchants a free and easy way to gain exposure and traffic with no pay-per-click charges. - 2005-11-21

InsureMe Uses Internet Marketing to Propel Company Online referral service explains search engine technology. - 2005-11-21

Online Poker for Mac Users Finally Available; Play Mac Online Poker and Stop Missing Out on Online Poker With Mac Compatible Poker Online poker finally makes its way to the Mac/iMac platform. Now, Mac users can securely play online poker for fun or for cash. Playing online poker for Macs is now as easy as signing up and logging in. No download online poker for Macs is finally here. - 2005-11-21

Acoustical Solutions Introduces Sonex Classic Colortec Light Gray Acoustical Foam Acoustical Solutions introduces Sonex™ Classic Colortec, the only acoustical foam offered that is class 1 fire rated yet dyed charcoal or light gray color throughout. The deeper shade, charcoal gray, has been available for several years and has been commonly used for a variety of interior spaces that require quality sound control with an enhanced appearance including offices, restaurants, broadcast/audio studios and manufacturing facilities. - 2005-11-21

Free Children's e-Books: Student Authors Share Unique Gift With Head Start Students Fourteen seventh-grade students traveled to Denver last week to read and distribute their original stories published as ebooks to Head Start students. The project is a partnership between Conrad Ball Middle School, RealeBooks.com, and Denver’s Great Kids Head Start, a program of the Mayor’s Office for Education and Children. - 2005-11-21

Mac Poker Players Quit Cursing The Poker World Mac poker users were starting to get very upset and frustrated with online poker rooms not being Mac compatible but Pacific Poker's new software has lifted this anger with compatible software. - 2005-11-21

UK jobs for Nurses, Locum Doctors, Social Workers, Teachers, Lecturers and Home Carers at Ambition 24hours Ambition 24hours now offers web links to vacancies for UK jobs for nurses, locum doctors, social workers, teachers, lecturers, home carers and other positions at ambition24hoursgroup.co.uk. - 2005-11-21

Timeshares Over Coffee Timeshares are hitting the morning talk show circuit around the country. - 2005-11-21

Vancouver Entrepreneur Launches New Category Creator in Home Based Business Market Vancouver entrepreneur Darren Little, founder of Cupofmoney.com has discovered a new way to profit from the second largest commodity in the world. Cupofmoney.com now offers entrepreneurs across North America the opportunity to start their own home based healthy coffee franchises with start up costs as low as $1,000. The company has become a new category creator in both the home based business market and the coffee franchising industry and plans to market its products throughout 100 countries by 2010. - 2005-11-21

Network Access Management Provider -- Vernier Networks -- Secures $21 Million In Oversubscribed Round in a Bid to Lead Fast-Growing Secure Network Access Market Round led by top-tier venture capital firm Venrock Associates; network security technology industry veteran Ray Rothrock joins the board. - 2005-11-21

Oxy-Powder (Constipation Remedy) Tested Against Competition -- Comes Out #1 In Lab Tests “Dr. Otto Warburg, the only person to win the Nobel Prize twice in medicine, discovered that any cell deprived of 50% or more of its oxygen turns cancerous. Therefore, cellular oxygenation plays a tremendous role when it comes to good health for the body and mind. Many scientists now conclude that most disease and infection are caused by oxygen depravation at the cellular level, meaning oxygen is one of the world’s greatest healing agents. The future of conquering disease will be found in using oxygen therapies in all medical conditions,” says Dr. Edward F. Group III after announcing the results of new, independent lab studies on Oxy-Powder—Oxygen Colon Cleanser. - 2005-11-21

CosmiKids Featured in 'Indigo' Documentary Spotlighted on ABC’s 'Good Morning, America' Today Judy Julin, the founder and chief executive officer of CosmiKids LLC, the leader in child-enrichment programs, is featured in a soon-to-be-released documentary that is scheduled to be spotlighted on the ABC News program "Good Morning, America" today. - 2005-11-21

Presentation Training Skills Key to Gaining Sales Edge In today’s hyper-competitive markets, companies that provide exceptional presentation training to their sales teams have a decided advantage, according to James A. Baker, Founder and Chairman of Baker Communications. Because most companies in an industry provide products, services and technologies that are similar, if not identical, the sale usually goes to the account rep who can deliver the most effective and professional presentation. - 2005-11-21

GBN Launches Online Promotion, Contest for Rising Country Music Star Sonny Burgess Lucky fans enter to win airfare for two, two day’s hotel stay and two tickets to see Sonny Burgess perform songs from his new album "Stronger" in Historic Fort Worth, Texas. - 2005-11-21

GiveFun.com Gives Teens Exactly What They Want This Holiday – Freedom of Choice If the most difficult person to buy for on your holiday shopping list is a teenager or young adult, don’t panic. Give them exactly what they want – freedom of choice – with a gift certificate from GiveFun.com. It’s a gift giving revolution that teens love because they pick their own fun, thrilling and exciting adventure. GiveFun.com gift certificates can be redeemed for concerts, movies, restaurants, spas, sporting events, plus many more cool experiences. - 2005-11-21

New Anti-Cancer European Technology Now Available in the U.S. PREVENTA-105: “Deuterium Depleted Carbonated Drinking Water” - 2005-11-21

Web Hosting Company Host Color Says Support Tickets Are Very Effective HostColor.com, a US shared web hosting company has announced the results from a monitoring survey on company's customer support work. It shows that Host Color's support operators have achieved 12 minutes average response time on all support tickets submitted from customers in October 2005. Host Color says support tickets are the most effective method of providing customer support in the hosting industry. - 2005-11-21

iEmulator.com Releases iEmulator 1.7.8 for Mac OS X 10.3 and 10.4, Increasing Performance and Adding New Features iEmulator.com is pleased to announce the immediate availability of iEmulator 1.7.8 which adds audio support to the popular emulation solution, while enhancing existing features and improving emulated system performance. - 2005-11-21

Judy’s Book selects ZiffLeads to offer Pay-Per-Phone Call Advertising to Local Merchants Local Word of Mouth innovator teams up with Pay-Per-Phone Call leader to offer new advertising format. - 2005-11-21

10 Small Business Marketing Professionals Selected as Beta Licensees for Duct Tape Marketing Authorized Coach Training System Award-winning small business expert John Jantsch announces the selection of 10 businesspeople to participate in the beta launch of his Duct Tape Marketing licensing and certification program. - 2005-11-21

Hendrick Medical Center Selects USA’s Award Winning Solutions RMS for Enterprise Resource Management Unibased Systems Architecture, Inc. (USA), the leading provider of enterprise-wide resource management solutions to the healthcare industry, today announced that Hendrick Medical Center, located in Abilene, TX, has contracted for its award-winning totally integrated Resource Management System (RMS). This is the tenth hospital in Texas that has contracted with USA’s access management solutions over the last two years. - 2005-11-21

Ten Tips for Better Hot Tubbing The benefits of hot tubs and how to choose a hot tub from the many types available. Includes top 10 tips for hot tub ownership. - 2005-11-21

Single Mom Writes Broke Man's Survival Guide 50 clever strategies to use when you are unemployed, underpaid or just dead broke and can't pay your bills. - 2005-11-21

SnoreNoMore Therapeutic Ring Is Saving Marriages and Sleep Deprived Across the Country Eastern Medicine Technique Ends Snoring and Restores a Peaceful Night's Sleep. Utilizing the ancient healing art of accupressure the SnoreNoMore Therapeutic Ring is a MD recommended, painless, effective and economical way to stop snoring. - 2005-11-21

Visit Dubrovnik This Winter With Croatian Villas and Take Advantage of the Winter Discount Card This winter, the Croatian city of Dubrovnik is offering a special discount card to all holiday visitors who stay in the city for two nights between now and Feb. 28, 2006. The card offers visitors large discounts in restaurants, shops and museums. Croatian Villas offers the best choice of accommodation in the city. - 2005-11-21

Sandpiper Casino Re-launches With New Games, Speedier Play This November Sandpiper Casino re-launches this November with seven new games plus improved game design, options and speed. Affiliates in Sandpiper’s Income-Access managed affiliate program will enjoy promoting the casino’s improved gaming software plus deposit bonuses offering up to $490 free. - 2005-11-21

Valuing A New Gold Mine: Could Azco Mining - AZMN Be Next Gold Corp or Wheaton River? Azco's immense in-ground assets and new acquisitions are rapidly becoming more valuable -- approaching $1.5 billion. - 2005-11-21

Old Cell Phones Are Now Worth More at CellForCash.com People who have old cell phones they are not using can now sell them for more money; theCellForCash.com website has the details. - 2005-11-21

New Internet Technology Allows Schools, Small Businesses, Non-Profits To Share Documents and Collaborate Globally ShareTechnologies has developed a new Internet tool that allows organizations such as schools, non-profits and small businesses to safely and securely share documents and collaborate globally without the need for an expensive computer network, Intranet or VPN connections. - 2005-11-21

Interactive Edge Joins Microsoft Certified Partner Program Interactive Edge, a leader in data analysis and presentation software, announced today that it is a new member of the Microsoft Certified Partner Program. - 2005-11-21

Kids Get Mobile This Holiday Season with Strikingly Innovative Ride-On Toys Active toddlers can ride in style this holiday season thanks to the large collection of fun and entertaining ride-on toys now available in the market. From fancy tricycles on the cutting edge of modern design, to the traditional and trustworthy rocking horse, there’s a ride-on toy for every young and energetic personality out there. - 2005-11-21

Corporate Business Coach – Expert Reveals Abuses Behind One of America’s Fastest-Growing Professions A corporate business coach reveals the truth behind one of America’s hottest – and most abused – new professions. “The good news is: Exceptional business coaching helps turn dysfunctional companies around,” says John Wyche. “The bad news is: Poor coaching costs companies time and money – and problems just get worse.” - 2005-11-21

UMass Memorial and Brain Saving Technologies Bring Stroke Care to Local Hospitals -- Patients Now Able to Receive Care Close to Home A collaborative effort among UMass Memorial Medical Center, Brain Saving Technologies (BST) of Wellesley Hills and five community hospitals is bringing the highest level of stroke care to emergency room patients without them having to travel far from home. - 2005-11-21

Real Estate Classifieds Company Provides Services Similar to Google Base To enhance its ability to compete against Google, Just Real Estate Listings™ has launched a new self-service advertising module which offers free advertising to Realtors and local advertisers who offer products and services of interest to the new home buyer. - 2005-11-21

Study by Names @ Work Reveals Small European Trademark Holders could Pose Problem for Major U.S. Brands in .EU The Sunrise Period for .EU could leave U.S. brands disappointed. Excel.eu could go to a penile prosthesis manufacturer, Powerpoint.eu to a fishing hook manufacturer. Cybersquatters aren’t the problem for a change. - 2005-11-21

Dovarri Offers Tailored Versions of Its Hosted CRM/SFA Software Dovarri offers next-generation of Sales Force Automation tools. - 2005-11-21

Survey Reveals Workplace Profanity Is on the Rise WorldWIT polled its 40,000 professional women and concluded that stress is the key factor in the rise of profanity. While the holidays often promote a relaxed workplace, career expert Liz Ryan offers tips on how to adapt in a ‘vulgar’ enviornment. - 2005-11-21

Russell Research’s Omnibus Survey of American Consumers Marks Two-Year Anniversary with Continued Success The weekly online survey is regularly used by several Fortune 500 companies, advertising agencies and public relations firms with results frequently cited in the media. - 2005-11-21

PDFTextStream Upgraded, v1.4 Extracts PDF Form Content Snowtide Informatics Systems, Inc. today announced an upgrade to PDFTextStream, its high-performance PDF content extraction library for Java applications and web services. Version 1.4 expands PDFTextStream's Pure Java API to include support for extracting PDF form data, enhances performance, and introduces an expanded PDF document model. - 2005-11-21

Vicon Publishing to Offer Custom and Contract Publishing Services Business-to-business niche publisher to offer custom and contract publishing services to companies of all sizes. - 2005-11-21

World-renowned Record Producer David Kershenbaum Working with New Singer/Songwriter Melanie Dekker Grammy Award-winning David Kershenbaum is producing the premier studio album release for Canadian singer/songwriter Melanie Dekker, on SME Records, a division of Sonoma Mountain Entertainment (SME). Kershenbaum, who has produced such notable artists as Tracy Chapman, Joe Jackson, Duran Duran, The Jacksons, Tori Amos and New Order, is co-producing Ms. Dekker with engineer/producer Scott Church and Bill Zabit of SME. - 2005-11-21

Eight Simple Ways Christmas Shoppers Can Avoid eBay Scams To help eBay shoppers during the holiday buying season, eBay business expert Terry Gibbs has put together a free checklist to help people avoid eBay scams. - 2005-11-21

Famous Faces Behind Bars -- Now on Wall Calendars and in Cellphones ‘Celebrity Mugshot Calendars™’ Delivers a Lineup of the Rich, Famous and Under Arrest Celebrity mugshot calendars brings you exclusive celebrity mug shots -- cool, confidential, quirky -- that can't be found elsewhere. Using material obtained from law enforcement sources and court files nationwide, we have put together a wall calendar that caters to consumers’ fascination with the crimes and misdemeanors of the rich and famous with each calendar offering 12 actual celebrity mug shots along with brief descriptions of each VIP’s encounter with the law. - 2005-11-21

JobZen Announces Launch of New Staffing Model for Independent Recruiters JobZen offers senior Staffing Professionals the opportunity to be successful on their own and retain a dramatically larger percentage of their billings. JobZen provides the tools and support needed to extend market reach, leverage time, build brand value and remove the major administrative burdens associated with running a staffing enterprise. JobZen enables top performers to focus on what’s important -- growing their business and surpassing client expectations while working with a team that is dedicated to their success. - 2005-11-21

Packaging Software Improves Container Fill Features New version of Quick Pallet Maker packaging software that improves Container Fill and Multiple Box selection has been released by Koona, LLC. - 2005-11-21

The Controversy Over Low Thyroid Conditions -- Author Steven Hotze, M.D. Addresses The Ineffective Way Low Thyroid Is Being Treated in America Author of "Hormones, Health, and Happiness" responds to criticism from the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists. - 2005-11-21

london-eating.co.uk Takes a Bite Out of Amsterdam london-eating.co.uk, the UK’s leading online restaurant guide, launches its sister site amsterdam-eating.com. London-eating, which features honest reviews submitted by the everyday restaurant diner, offers a unique way for locals, visitors or newcomers, to find or choose a place to dine by reading other’s recommendations and opinions. - 2005-11-21

World of Outlaws Piece of History Up for Bid Authentic racing helmet autographed by more than 30 World of Outlaws sprint car racing stars including, Steve Kinser, Danny Lasoski, Tyler Walker, Jac Haudenschild, Blackjack Brian Brown, Jesse "The Rocket" Hockett, and Billy Alley - winner of back to back 360 Nationals at Knoxville, to name just a few, now up for bid. - 2005-11-21

Software Blocks Internet Predators from Children ChatGuard acts as a virtual neighborhood watch by blocking online sexual solicitation of children. - 2005-11-21

CloserLook Search Services Inc. and Chennai Interactive Business Services Announce Launch of Hippocrates Deep Web Medical Search Application on ChennaiOnline.com CloserLook Search Services Inc. www.closerlooksearch.com, a leader in Invisible Web search technology has entered into a licensing agreement with CIBS. Under this agreement, the powerful and innovative Internet search tool Hippocrates will be available to all of CIBS’ users on their popular city portal www.chennaionline.com. Hippocrates is a deep web search application that will help you find detailed information on health related topics. - 2005-11-21

Entertaining for the Holidays: Easy Tips to Refresh Your Décor Preparing a home for holiday entertaining needn’t require an entire season – or budget. You can easily put your house in order in just one weekend with the right approach, advises Davis Remignanti of Furniture.com (http://www.furniture.com). - 2005-11-21

Help Wanted: How Can Retailers Better Attract and Retain Employees? Maritz Poll® reveals what potential employees are looking for in a retail job and what retailers should do to improve employee retention. - 2005-11-21

Higher Cost of Travel This Year Won't Keep People 'Home for the Holidays' According to a recent Maritz Poll, rising costs won't deter holiday travelers. - 2005-11-21

World’s First Online Configurator for Custom Window Grilles Goes Live Big Blue Window offers customers the ability to create, save, edit and purchase custom grilles for their windows all online. - 2005-11-21

Your Friendly Neigborhood eBay Auctions on mapBid mapBid plots eBay auction locations on a graphical map. - 2005-11-21

C.A. Short 'Metallicizes' The Holiday Season C.A. Short has created a new all-inclusive gift giving program designed to recognize employees, associates, customers and clients this holiday season that is a complete contrast to the traditional frozen turkey. - 2005-11-21

Will Santa's Bag be a Little Lighter This Year? Maritz Poll® reveals what Americans plan to spend on gifts this holiday season. - 2005-11-21

Alternative Outlets Provide Boost For U.S. Advertising Spending Despite the continuing circulation slump experienced by top U.S. newspaper publishers, advertising spending for the medium has risen steadily throughout the last quarter according to global trade credit insurer Euler Hermes ACI. - 2005-11-21

Maritz Poll: Auto Consumers Prefer Low Everyday Prices Over Other Sales Incentives Low retail prices on vehicles overwhelmingly beat out auto incentive models in recent survey of vehicle owners. - 2005-11-21

CoVirt Announces 20 Equinox Marketing Centres Now in Production Seven of the new Equinox installations are in Quebec. - 2005-11-21

"Bookstore Tourism" Founder Launching Nonprofit Organization to Support National Grassroots Effort Larry Portzline, the founder of the grassroots "bookstore tourism" effort, announced today that he is creating a nonprofit organization to promote the concept: the National Council on Bookstore Tourism. - 2005-11-21

John R. Wood Joins Global Real Estate Community John R. Wood, Inc. Realtors is bringing the global real estate market to Naples door. The Wood firm has joined with the United Kingdom’s Mayfair International Realty to market properties to the European investor and now will have an office presence in London, England. - 2005-11-21

Michigan CAT Implements MaXaL Tool Company’s Automated Inventory Replenishment System Michigan CAT Implements MaXaL Tool Company’s Automated Inventory Replenishment System. Distributor of tooling components develops Tracktor™ solution for manufacturers. - 2005-11-21

IPA SBRB Study: American Small Business Now Passing on Increased Fuel Costs to Customers Although fuel costs have moderated in recent weeks, International Profit Associates Small Business Research Board (IPA SBRB) studies conducted from April through October show heightened concern about these costs and a majority of those impacted are now passing them on to customers. - 2005-11-21

Meineke Car Care Center Revs up Expansion Plans with geoVue’s Location Intelligence Software geoVue, a leading provider of site selection, market optimization and other enterprise location intelligence software solutions, has been selected by Meineke Car Care Center, one of the world’s largest automotive franchises, for a comprehensive package of site selection, market planning and consulting services. Meineke will use two of geoVue’s solutions, iSITE and the marketVue Portal, to carve out profitable trade areas and franchise territories, as well as map potential new sites according to specific demographic requirements. Additionally, the auto service leader will take advantage of geoVue’s professional services: geoVue will customize the marketVue Portal to incorporate Meineke’s in-house customer data, as well as implement a pilot model for sales forecasting. With the software accessible as both a desktop and web-based application, Meineke’s analysts will be able to publish territory optimization results and share information across franchise and corporate divisions, as well as access information on the road. - 2005-11-21

How to Stay Sane Through the Holidays (Even Around Your Family) Amusing tips on dealing with family and holiday stress, from an expert in conflict management. - 2005-11-21

Mega Best Selling Author Susan Jeffers Joins Authors Cynthia Brian and Larita Arnold on World Talk Radio 11/23/2005 Tune into the radio program, Starstyle®-Be the Star You Are! with host Cynthia Brian, Best Selling Author Susan Jeffers, and Larita Arnold, Author of a new historical novel, The Fastest Ship, on Wednesday, 11/23/2005, from 6-7 p.m. PST. - 2005-11-21

Lake Lanier Real Estate News and Information -- Local Real Estate Listings, Free MLS Access, Hundreds of Local Links Now Available at LauraAllenTeam.com The best source for Lake Lanier and Gainesville GA Real Estate Information including Real Estate Listings, MLS Access, and hundreds of Gainesville area links are now available at http://www.lauraallenteam.com - 2005-11-21

Bioterrorism Preparedness Choosing the right safety gear is the best proactive measure towards Bioterrorism preparedness. - 2005-11-21

ElementCXI Selects ASIC Architect for PCI Express and DDRII Controller Cores ASIC Architect demonstrates capability in PCI Express Solution Space. - 2005-11-21

New Book by Ontario, Canada Workplace Justice Activist Brings Hope to The Workplace A workplace justice activist has written a book that challenges workplace leaders to see the value in all employees, while offering hope to discouraged and frustrated employees. Dr. Lisa M.S. Barrow drew on personal experiences as well as her own doctoral research to write Hope For A Healthy Workplace: Introducing Philanthropian Leadership (ISBN:1598861107,Tate Publishing, 2005). - 2005-11-21

Holiday Healthcare Frustrates Families, Empty Nesters Alike Urgent, non-emergency healthcare on a holiday typically has been limited to the emergency department. AfterOurs Urgent Care Center in Thornton, Colorado, is open around the clock on holidays and weekends, and all night Monday through Friday. Average treatment time at AfterOurs is less than an hour, and treatment costs and co-pays average one-third to one-half comparable services at an emergency department. - 2005-11-21

Athletic Impetuosity, Billionaires' Bad Taste and Gubernatorial Physique at Play in 100th Anniversary Stock Show Campaign National Western Stock Show 100th anniversary ad campaign juxtaposes a century of tradition and comtemporary pop culture. The multi-level campaign compares the "stars" of the show -- in this case the featured animals -- to human celebrities. One billboard contrasts the Stock Show's broncos to their NFL counterparts, while another compares a certain "beef" to a well-known billionaire's bathroom with the headline "Marbled Like a Trump Bathroom." - 2005-11-21

ModernBill Extends Support For Ensim Pro for Windows Integration provides a comprehensive hosting solution. - 2005-11-21

Urbanworks Entertainment Announces The Release of Sheryl Underwood's Debut Comedy DVD, "Too Much Information" Sheryl Underwood's hilarious and controversial humor has made her one of the most sought after comedians in America. Urbanworks Entertainment announces the release of Sheryl Underwoods's debut comedy DVD, "Too Much Information" from the Prestigious Platinum Comedy Series Deluxe Edition. - 2005-11-21

New Tools for Writing, Mapping, Hunting, Fishing, Hiking and Gardening at Waterproof-Paper.com New tools are now available for those who must write under extreme conditions. Waterproof-paper.com has a new line of waterproof notebooks and waterproof pens to protect your important notes and documents. - 2005-11-21

Bush White House Props Up Unpopular Iraq War, Indie Protest Songs Set Internet Download Records As AP-Ipsos polling shows a majority of Americans thinking Bush is not honest, protest songwriters find a new cause and a new audience. - 2005-11-21

Got Photos? 2nd Annual Pet Photo Contest Got Photos? The Benicia Vallejo Humane Society announces 2nd Annual Pet Photo Contest. - 2005-11-21

New RSS and Blog Submission Software Submits to 58 Top Directories and Search Engine Submission Sites Automatically RSS Feeds Submit is a tool that automatically submits RSS feeds and Blogs to 58 of the most popular search engines and directories within minutes. - 2005-11-21

AbsolutVision Stock Photo Now Offers More Pictures for Less Money AbsolutVision (http://www.absolutvision.com), the Internet's first JPEG2000 stock photography service, is offering his annual subscription for just $79 (regularly $120 per year) during a limited period. - 2005-11-21

QuickSet International is Awarded Subassembly Contract by Recon Optical in Support of Their Stabilized Remotely Operated Weapon System that U.S. Soldiers in Iraq Use QuickSet International Inc. was awarded a contract for subassemblies by Recon Optical in support of their Common Remotely Operated Weapon Station (CROWS) that is part of their Stabilized Remotely Operated Weapon System (SRWS) program. - 2005-11-21

Mystery Artwork of Johnny Cash Created by Artist Randsom Keith Reveals Impersonator's (Dan Whyms) Name Across Cash's Chest Washington's own Johnny Cash impersonator Dan Whyms and Randsom Keith may have a spiritual connection to the late and great Johnny Cash. It appears that Whym's name appears hidden in an original etching created by Randsom Keith of Johnny Cash. - 2005-11-21

Entertainment Culture.com Releasing Hollywood News Daily Entertainment and Media professionals releasing insider news on music, movies, television and games -- "The Buzz in America." - 2005-11-21

Florida Soapmaker Cleans Up with New Novel; Babies, Books and Bubbles Spur Young Mom to Spin Entrepreneurial Tale Florida soapmaker makes a splash with novel about a ten-time bridesmaid who owns a bath and body business. Work-at-home mom turns novelist. - 2005-11-21

Doug Nyren Joins SpiderSplat as SEO Consultant and PRConsultant in the Boston Office SpiderSplat Consulting, Inc. announces the hiring of Doug Nyren as a full time SEO Consultant and head of the PRConsultant Division of SpiderSplat Consulting, Inc.By hiring Doug, SpiderSplat expands its Press Release Optimization Service entitled PRConsultant™. - 2005-11-21

Adelia’s Closet -- Chicago’s Full Service Bead Store -- Now Offers Free Jewelry Making Classes Adelia's Closet, a full service bead store located in Chicago, is offering all of their beginning beadings classes for free. We waive the usual $25 dollar instructor fee. Our way of saying thanks and happy holidays! - 2005-11-21

SEO on the Go “SEO on the Go” is a new Web-based arsenal of free SEO tools sponsored by and available at www.SEOpartner.com. Created for those who need access to professional strength SEO software from home, work or their neighborhood cyber café, SEO on the Go currently includes eight tools with plans to add one each week. - 2005-11-21

Agility Content Management System (CMS) Developers Tools Available for Free Download Edentity Web Systems announces the immediate availability of the Agility Content Management System (CMS) developer tools. - 2005-11-21

Why Stop at Minimising Pores? Shrink Them The Sloane Clinic offers revolutionary pore-shrinking technology to give your skin a complete make-over and restore its youthful appearance. - 2005-11-21

Kanantik Reef & Jungle Resort in Belize Announces Being Selected to the Exclusive T-Club, a Joint Travel Initiative Created by Hotelplan Italia/Turisanda Kanantik joins seven other top-rated resorts from around the world for inclusion in a new European travel initiative called the T-Club. - 2005-11-21

Uncle Scrooge Hires Zunch Communications, Inc. to Boost Holiday Sales: Gift Retailer Scrooge & Marley Selects Zunch for Seasonal Search Engine Marketing Campaign Zunch Communications, Inc. zunch.com announced today that they will be conducting a holiday search engine marketing campaign for the online specialty items retailer Scrooge & Marley scroogeandmarleygifts.com. - 2005-11-21

History of Thanksgiving and 1-800-I-LOVE-YOU Announces Holiday Bouquets George Washington proclaimed a National Day of Thanksgiving in 1789. President Lincoln proclaimed the last Thursday in November as a national day of Thanksgiving in 1863. - 2005-11-21

Hollis Thomas Presents $10,000 to Asthma & Allergy Foundation of America, Southeast Pennsylvania Chapter at Holiday Mixer & Charity Fundraiser Eagles' Hollis Thomas donates $10,000 to Asthma & Allergy Foundation of America, Southeast Pennsylvania Chapter and introduces the Hollis Thomas Foundation to the City of Philadelphia - 2005-11-21

Pima Medical Institute Hires Leadership Coach And Teambuilding Expert As Campus Director Don Esham’s expertise coaching business owners, professionals and managers in leadership skills training, teambuilding, as well as improving communication efforts proved to be successful in his own career direction as Pima Medical Institute, 3350 E. Grant Road, Suite 200 in Tucson recently named him as the new Campus Director for the Tucson medical career college. - 2005-11-21

eBaskets.com Expands Product Line Just In Time For The Holidays eBaskets.com announces the expansion of their product line, designed to provide world-class service to everyday gift givers and corporate gift givers for the holiday season. - 2005-11-21

Pave the Way Foundation of New York Co-Sponsors Successful Star-Studded Benefit Concert in Venice, Italy Pave the Way Foundation is pleased to announce the resounding success of the benefit historic concert presented on November 14, 2005 at the Palazzo del Cinema in Venice, Italy. The concert, a collaboration between Antonietta Torsello, Sig. Eugenio Masiero and Pave the Way Foundation - 2005-11-21

Merck & Co., Inc. Licenses Ariadne Genomics’ MedScan™ Text-to Knowledge Suite Ariadne Genomics, Inc. today announced that it has granted Merck & Co., Inc. of Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, a corporate-wide license for MedScan™ Text–to-Knowledge Suite software, Ariadne’s automated scientific text processing tool. MedScan extracts information from text using state-of-the-art natural language processing (NLP) technology and converts scientific text into a database of protein functional relationships. - 2005-11-21

Letters of Recommendation and Letters of Reference Resource Center Launched As One-Stop Solution For Writing All Types of Recommendation Letters and Reference Letters Well-known “writing help” Webmaster, Shaun Fawcett, has just launched a new Web site that focuses exclusively on the writing of letters of recommendation and letters of reference. He says that the purpose of the site is to demystify and fast-track the writing of these letters by providing a one-stop information source for anyone who has to write any type of recommendation letter or reference letter. - 2005-11-21

VistaPrint’s French, Spanish, Italian, German and UK Sites Nominated For Website Of The Year Vote now and help VistaPrint win Best Shopping Site. - 2005-11-21

Necton SA and Flor de Sal USA Announce Their Participation at the Winter Fancy Food Show in San Francisco Nectono SA, producer of hand-harvested sea salt products from the idyllic Ria Formosa Natural Park located in the Algarve region of Portugal, will be exhibiting at the Winter Fancy Food Show in San Francisco, this coming January. - 2005-11-21

Behlman’ New RR1350 Frequency Converters Deliver Ultra-Reliable Relay Testing Ruggedized railroad relay tester/signal source delivers 1350 VA of clean, regulated AC power in a bench-top chassis only 5.25 inches high. - 2005-11-21

Speedline Launches OmniFlex™ 10 Reflow, VectraElite™ Wave Soldering Systems, Demonstrates Continuing Leadership in Lead-Free Solutions The launch of Speedline Technologies’ new Electrovert OmniFlex 10 Reflow Oven and Electrovert VectraElite Wave Soldering System at Productronica 2005 demonstrates the firm’s continuing leadership in providing innovative lead-free ready solutions to the SMT manufacturing and PCB assembly industries. - 2005-11-21

Non-Proprietary Closed Captioning TV Fonts Announced by Ascender Corp The Ascender TV Font Collection includes highly legible TV closed captioning fonts in non-proprietary TrueType and OpenType formats that meet the EIA-708-B standard for Digital TV Closed Captioning (DTVCC) as mandated by the FCC. - 2005-11-21

Reader Exposes Mortgage Mischief “Guarding Your Wealth” is a nationally syndicated weekly personal finance column written by Jeffrey D. Voudrie, CFP. Mr. Voudrie is the President of Legacy Planning Group, a private wealth management firm that employs sophisticated proprietary strategies designed to protect and grow its clients' investments. Please visit our website, www.guardingyourwealth.com to read past articles in our archive. - 2005-11-21

Bird Flu Symptoms? What You Need to Know Before a Pandemic Hits The lack of a bird flu vaccine has forced many in the medical community to explore alternative medicines in preparation of a pandemic. The first definitive guide to alternative and practical treatments for the avian flu is now available. - 2005-11-21

Council Calls for Responsible Marketing of Poker Sets; Parents and Educators to get Involved as Holiday Shopping Season Begins The Florida Council on Compulsive Gambling (FCCG) is calling for responsible marketing of adult gambling games during the upcoming holiday shopping season. Retailers are once again expected to sell record numbers of poker sets and other gambling gift items this year, many of which will be purchased for children and adolescents. The FCCG wants all concerned adults to realize that it is not appropriate to market or sell these adult gambling items as toys. - 2005-11-21

The Bostwick-Braun Company Deploys Ennovative’s Drop-ship Commerce Software Solution Ennovative establishes leadership in solutions for real-time drop-ship commerce. - 2005-11-21

GETitSELLit.com Makes It Easy to Publish Classified Ads on Google Base GETitSELLit.com, a free classifieds website, has released functionality that makes it easy for people to transfer classified ads to Google Base, Google's new free classified ad system. - 2005-11-21

Validar Corporation Announces Release of Full Measure Pocket PC New product enables Value Added Resellers to deliver functionality of PC version of Full Measure on a mobile hand-held Pocket PC. - 2005-11-21

Work At Home Website Legitonlinejobs.com Offers Free Vacations to Customers Legitonlinejobs.com provides a listing of the most successful legitimate work from home business and job opportunities. Now, every person who orders a product through the website will receive a free vacation. - 2005-11-21

Bextra, Stevens - Johnson Syndrome, and Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis -- Is There A Connection? SJS and TEN are almost always caused by a drug reaction, and Bextra is known to be a risk factor. - 2005-11-21

GEOCOMtms Delivers Software as a Service GEOCOMtms, a global provider of Fleet Management solutions for local pickup and delivery, announced today the launch of A.MAZE Now, the first fully integrated fleet management solution to be delivered as a service. Designed for mid-sized organizations that operate a private or dedicated fleet, A.MAZE Now is an advanced route planning and scheduling solution that enables private fleet operators to significantly reduce fuel, maintenance, and personnel costs associated with local pickup and delivery operations. - 2005-11-21

SmartClixx Clears the Runway for the southwestgiftcard Southwest Airlines Co. announced on November 1st the launch of the southwestgiftcard at www.southwest.com. SmartClixx, the leading provider of in-house stored value card and gift card software, supplied the solution. - 2005-11-21

Denver Photographer Wins Prestigious Recognition while Nurturing Market for Latino Imagery When David Mejias launched his photography business a year ago, his modest goal was to photograph Latinos for advertising. The market in Colorado was smaller than he expected. But that didn't stop him from racking up prestigious awards. - 2005-11-21

This Week on HousingPanic.Blogspot.com: Housing Bubble Burst Becomes Obvious, San Diego Realtor Admits Housing Meltdown Coming, Home Prices Decline, Home Listings Explode, Homeowners Become Very Afraid While the meltdown in the US housing market continues, leading bubble blog HousingPanic.Blogspot.com recaps the news of the week, allowing its readers to understand and react - 2005-11-21

The Ultimate Walking Cane From MSGlobal -- Built-in Light, Alarm, Safety Flasher, and Even a Compass We all want those closest to us to be safe and secure. For users of canes or hiking sticks, Maurie Sandler has an ideal solution; a new medical product called the Multipurpose Spotlight Cane. - 2005-11-21

Digitech Introduces a 32-Channel Version of its Popular DigiView(tm) Digital Recording System Digitech International expands its lineup of digial video recorders with a new 32-Channel Digital Recording System. DigiView™, one of the world's best digital video recording systems, teamed with DigiView™ Plus cameras and bright colorful monitors will show your customers you are serious about security and customer service. - 2005-11-21

American Psychological Association Practice Organization's PracticeUpdate Email Newsletter Wins LISTSERV® Newsletter Award -- L-Soft's Award Program – the Only Global Recognition for Email List Excellence – Honors Newsletter for Practicing Psychologists The PracticeUpdate email newsletter -- designed to provide information and tools to help psychologists grow their practice, acquire new knowledge, reach out to their community, connect with colleagues and participate in meaningful advocacy activities on behalf of psychology -- has won L-Soft's LISTSERV Newsletter Award in this year's LISTSERV Choice Awards program. - 2005-11-21

Colorado Dentist, Roger Wright DDS, Endorses 1 800 BEST DDS Intense Whitening Toothpaste, Joins National Cosmetic Dentistry Referral Service 1 800 BEST DDS, a national network of dentists has launched 1 800 BEST DDS Whitening Toothpaste and Mouthwash and these products are now available at Duane Reade, Happy Harry’s and other fine drug stores. A unique benefit to consumers is that by calling 1 800 BEST DDS they will be routed directly to a participating dentist in their area. Consumers can also visit www.1800BestDDS.com to find a cosmetic dentist in their area and learn more about the complete line of products. - 2005-11-21

California Dentist, Steven Beal DDS, Endorses 1 800 BEST DDS Intense Whitening Toothpaste; Joins National Cosmetic Dentistry Referral Service 1 800 BEST DDS, a national network of dentists has launched 1 800 BEST DDS Whitening Toothpaste and Mouthwash and these products are now available at Duane Reade, Happy Harry’s and other fine drug stores. A unique benefit to consumers is that by calling 1 800 BEST DDS they will be routed directly to a participating dentist in their area. Consumers can also visit www.1800BestDDS.com to find a cosmetic dentist in their area and learn more about the complete line of products. - 2005-11-21

Uncovered… Discriminatory Practices at the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) An unfair chance at life for minority patients in need of a lifesaving stem cell transplant: Discriminatory practices revealed at the leadership level of National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) - 2005-11-21

Chicago.com, Inc. Announces Partnership With AutoMart.com AutoMart.com to power cars section of Chicago.com Web site. - 2005-11-21

Team Tamara Announces the Launch of Its Redesigned and Expanded Website, Team Tamara, a Chalfont-based nonprofit organization created to raise awareness of Tuberous Sclerosis Complex (TSC) and funds for research and treatment programs, announced the launch of their redesigned and expanded website, www.team-tamara.org. - 2005-11-21

LearnOutLoud.com Launches Comprehensive C. S. Lewis Audio and Video Resource Page LearnOutLoud.com, an online resource for audio and video educational products, presents the C. S. Lewis Audio and Video Resource Page (http://www.learnoutloud.com/cslewis). - 2005-11-21

Objectivity Offers Data Management Webinar Addressing Manufacturing and Process Control Objectivity, Inc. offers a free Webinar "Solving Complex Data Management Challenges of Next Generation Manufacturing and Process Control Applications." - 2005-11-21

"Early Bird" Raffle Deadline Nears in One Million Dollar Oak Park Home Raffle The public has until November 30 to purchase tickets for the "early bird" drawing in the $1 million Oak Park Dream Home raffle sponsored by the Conejo Jewish Day School. - 2005-11-21

SimpleFeed Brings Unprecedented Content Presentation and Measurement to Leading RSS Solution for Marketing Bertelsmann Makes Bookspan Content Available Via RSS SimpleFeed (www.simplefeed.com), the market leader in delivering RSS marketing services to corporations, today announced SimpleFeed 2.0, a new version of its popular service that gives marketing departments more options for personalized content, and more control over the management, measurement and branding of RSS feeds. - 2005-11-21

Low Cost/High Performance Open Source Gentoo Linux LAMP Server Now Available Sumo Computer President, Melody Bornheimer is announcing today that a new Sumo Computer configured Kuro Box/HG is now available with LAMP. LAMP is the acronym for Linux, Apache, MySQL and Perl/Python/PHP. - 2005-11-21

Borders to Feature 'Shoestrings -- No Time For Dinosaurs' an Extraordinary Dinosaur Adventure Novel for Middle School Age Children John Benjamin Sciarra will be reading and signing copies of his new children’s novel, “Shoestrings -- No Time For Dinosaurs” at several Borders stores in New York and Connecticut in December and January. - 2005-11-21

Gianna Furs Announces Its Grand Opening: Gianna Furs Publicly LauncheS Its New Website Worldwide Offering Fabulous Furs, Fur Coats and Faux Furs at Wholesale Prices Gianna Furs offers designer furs at wholesale prices worldwide. Its new website showcases a wide variety of furs from coats to jackets and hats to accessories for the whole family. - 2005-11-21

Making Its Mark as New York’s Hottest New Venue for Jazz Mike Longo Band at the John Birks Gillespie Auditorium in NYC Nov. 29. - 2005-11-21

Document Reveals that Blocking Sugar Uptake into Fat Cells but Not Muscle Substantially Increases Longevity A combination of specific amino acids plus certain anti-oxidants promotes muscle mass at the expense of fat cell development. This increases longevity. - 2005-11-21

India - Steps to Enlightenment Healing Retreat Paula Muran, a world-renowned Medical Intuitive and Channel, is leading a trip to India for spiritual expansion. - 2005-11-21

HandyAmerican: New, Efficient Tool for Contractors to Generate Valuable Project Leads from Homeowners, Business Owners, Real Estate Agents and Other Contractors Through HandyAmerican.com, consumers can post their project needs and receive bids from skilled contractors and service professionals in interior or exterior repair, remodeling, renovation and utility services. HandyAmerican provides consumers the convenience and confidence to select the right contractor to fit their needs and budget. - 2005-11-21

Groundnet Airport Shuttle and Ground Transportation offers Ride- Share service for Thanksgiving Holiday Travelers Record number of airport shuttle customers to use Groundnet service to get to and from the airport. - 2005-11-21

Popular African American Shopping Portal Adds Soul Food Recipes Page To Its Website Eric Brown the founder of the “African American Shopping Today” website located at, www.brownhorizonsshopping.com , which is widely considered one of the most popular African American shopping websites on the internet today, recently announced the addition of a Soul Food Recipes page to his website. - 2005-11-21

Sludgebusting: On-The-Fly Or Overnight Choices for Cleaning Hot-Oil Systems - 2005-11-21

Axel Merk to Speak at Gold and Precious Metals Investment Conference ’05 in San Francisco Merk Hard Currency Fund manager to moderate main conference session and be featured on Korelin Economics Report. - 2005-11-21

Clear Asset Management Named To “Top Gun List” of Best Investment Performers Clear Asset Management LLC (ClearAM), an asset management and equity research firm, was named a “Top Gun Investor” in the PSN Top Guns List released Friday by Informa Investments Solution. - 2005-11-21

KIDS FIRST! Announces Winners of Sixth Annual Best Awards; Presented At the Starz Denver International Film Festival November 19th Barbie and the Magic of Pegasus, Mad Hot Ballroom and Because of Winn Dixie are among the big winners of this year’s Annual KIDS FIRST! Best Awards, to be presented on Saturday, November 19th as part of the Starz Denver International Film Festival™ (SDIFF28). Awards in 15 categories—plus “Best of Fest” winners—will be presented throughout the morning screenings on Saturday, November 19th, and the five Best of the Fest Awards will be presented as part of the SDIFF Closing Awards Ceremony at the world-class Ellie Caulkins Opera House. - 2005-11-21

StorageQuest & DISC-GmbH Announce Blu-Ray Archival Solutions Ottawa, Canada – November 21, 2005 StorageQuest Inc. today announced its partnership with DISC-GmbH of Bingen, Germany to develop products which will provide users a seamless transition into Blu-ray optical storage technology from products currently being sold or which have already been installed. - 2005-11-21

Take Shape for Life, Inc. Engages Integrated Management Services to Improve Direct Sales Model and Implement Systems Solutions to Enable Future Growth WESTPORT, Conn. and OWINGS MILLS, Md., Nov. 14-- Integrated Management Services (IMS), a leading management and technology consulting firm, announces that Take Shape for Life, Inc., a national health network of Independent Health Advisors and Health Care Professionals, has engaged IMS to transform and empower Take Shape for Life's direct sales model by implementing the infrastructure, tools, and support critical to increasing competitive advantage, improving expansion and proliferation of the direct selling channel, facilitating support, success, and growth of the independent Health Advisor network, and meeting the evolving needs of Take Shape for Life's customers. - 2005-11-21

Medifast, Inc. Selects Integrated Management Services to Build and Improve Technology Infrastructure to Enable Competitive Advantage and Support Future Growth WESTPORT, Conn. and OWINGS MILLS, Md., Nov. 14 --Integrated Management Services (IMS), a leading management and technology consulting firm, announces that Medifast, Inc. a manufacturer and distributor of weight management and health management consumable products, has engaged IMS to select and implement an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution, upgrade the technology infrastructure, improve manufacturing and business processes, and manage the IT function. - 2005-11-21

Quickshift, Inc. Announces Support for MS SQL Server 2005 The technology behind Quickshift™ for MS SQL Server will prove a proactive solution to performance of Microsoft SQL Server 2005. - 2005-11-21

Qigong Master Donald Rubbo Will Share Secret, Rarely-Taught, Powerful, Effective Healing Techniques for Healing Yourself and Others Donald & Cheryl Lynne Rubbo, leaders in the field of transformative arts, will teach Internal Arts workshops and retreats in Europe in May 2006. Don’t miss this opportunity to increase your internal power and enhance your healing abilities with these innovative teachers. SGMA International reported that Tai Chi Chuan, the premier internal art, is one of five sports experiencing the highest growth in participation, up 117.5% in recent years. - 2005-11-21

Riding Holiday Directory is Yahoo's Favourite Riding holiday directory, http://www.findaridingholiday.com, celebrates its first anniversary online by scoring the top spot on Yahoo for the prime search phrase 'riding holiday.' - 2005-11-21

New Manufacturer Future Barriers, Ltd. Provides New Solutions to Defend Against Terrorism. Future Barriers, Ltd. a manufacturer of innovative perimeter security equipment, announced its entry into the vehicle barrier industry providing solutions to defend against terrorism. - 2005-11-21

Dead Sea Cosmetics -- Skin Care Products Made with Dead Sea Salt Combine Health and Beauty Enriched with over 26 minerals essential to healthy, younger looking skin, The Dead Sea is the source for natural skin care products that bring together beauty and health. The region has been a source of fascination throughout the millennia, dating back to the time of Cleopatra who made this captivating oasis her own personal health spa. - 2005-11-21

Oneupweb Launches Search Optimization & Marketing Blog, StraightUpSearch, Providing Straight Talk for Marketers Oneupweb, the trusted leader in search engine optimization (SEO) and marketing (SEM), today announced the launch of StraightUpSearch.com, the company’s blog. StraightUpSearch is a forum for Oneupweb’s SEO and SEM inside experts to provide industry insight and present a clear view of search engine optimization and marketing best practices. The blog is named for its behind-the-scenes, unvarnished perspective, free of puffery. The bright clean design supports the editorial tone. - 2005-11-21

Business.com Expands Management Team Industry Veterans Appointed New Chief Financial Officer, V.P. Product, V.P. Marketing of the leading search engine designed and organized for business. - 2005-11-21

LiveTime Software Launches Industry’s First Help Desk, Customer Service and Support Appliance Service management appliance now available with Sun Microsystems’ Solaris 10 OS pre-installed and open source infrastructure - 2005-11-21

AAFCS Experts Provide LifeSkills for the Holidays The American Association of Family & Consumer Sciences (AAFCS) presents consumers with holiday tips and advice to help them: safely prepare and store turkeys and holiday meals, organize a holiday treat exchange, fight holiday weight gain and obesity, shop safely online while saving time and money, and budget for holiday expenses. - 2005-11-21

Holiday Gift of Wildlife Adoption Helps Endangered Species and Wildlife Conservation Defenders of Wildlife (defenders.org) offers a special holiday gift opportunity to help endangered species and support wildlife conservation through wildlife adoption. - 2005-11-21

Software Tree Introduces NJDX, The KISS OR-Mapper™ for .NET NJDX Drives the complexity out of .NET/Database integration efforts. Free licenses are available for a limited time. - 2005-11-21

Poor Haitian Immigrant Turned CEO/Motivational Speaker Gives Thanks To America During This Thanksgiving Season Twenty three years ago, Rene Godefroy was a broke Haitian immigrant unable to speak English washing cars on the streets of Miami for meager pay. Now, he is an award-winning author and one of the most inspiring motivational speakers in America. Among his client list are: AT&T, Bell South, Coca Cola and the US Military. - 2005-11-21

Preclick Adds PhotoBack® to HP Photosmart Essential New plug-in series offered by HP photo software supplier. - 2005-11-21

BnBStar.com -- the Bed and Breakfast Inns Directory -- Now Presents Remarkable Selection of B&B Accommodations BnBStar.com, a comprehensive guide to the Bed and Breakfast industry, offers inn-goers a digest of featured B&B properties. This digest opens a series of periodic online publications aiming to promote Bed and Breakfast experience among travelers and help inn-goers to choose the best Inn for their next vacation. - 2005-11-21

HDFEST World's Only High-Definition Film Festival Presented by Intel The schedule for HDFEST, the world's only high-definition film festival, was released today. Staged at the ETC Digital Cinema Lab at the Hollywood Pacific Theatre and the Dolby Laboratories' Larry Umlang Presentation Theatre II in Burbank, the festival will include screenings of HD movies, panels on HD filmmaking, festival parties and the HDFEST 2005 Deffie Award Ceremony. - 2005-11-21