SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — aethereal FORGE announces that Ninja lovers around the world will be celebrating the fourth annual Day of the Ninja this December 5. On this day, individuals are encouraged to dress up like ninja, participate in ninja-related activities, and spread ninja propaganda via the Internet.

HOUSTON, Texas — This year’s holiday “Cyber-Monday” showed an unprecedented 26% increase over the same day last year as internet shoppers handed over $608 million to internet sellers. The modern shopping boom is accompanied by interest in modern products, at least in one area where a brand new diamond shape is receiving what we should call “X-plosive” attention over its traditional counterparts, say the folks at Whiteflash.com.

SUDBURY, Ontario — ConceptShare Inc., a new innovator in the design collaboration market, announced today that they are launching their new web application ConceptShare to the public. ConceptShare is a web-based tool that allows for the creation and management of interactive workspaces to present visual designs to others to communicate design intentions and capture visual feedback from team members, managers and customers.

PENSACOLA, Fla. — So, you want to be a P.I.? Florida Private Investigator, John Krause, has re-released “The Private Investigator’s Guide,” (ISBN: 0-615-13411-4, printed version; and ISBN: 0-615-12404-6; CD-ROM version) previously published in 1997. “The Private Investigator’s Guide” is the most comprehensive guide on the market; it teaches the novice P.I. the tricks of the trade and provides basic information for business start-up.

OTTAWA, Ontario — Atreus Systems, the leading supplier of provisioning software for VoIP, IMS and advanced IP service bundles, today announced that Cincinnati Bell (NYSE: CBB), one of the nation’s most respected and best performing local exchange and wireless providers, has successfully deployed Atreus’ IP Service Provisioning Solution to automate the provisioning and management of its business trunking service.

KANAGAWAKEN, Japan — KAYAC Co.Ltd. CEO Daisuke Yanagisawa announced that the company has launched a new blog widget “THANKS” from their blog widgets site “BlogDeco.” According to Yanagisawa: “This blog widget ‘THANKS,’ is our fist release targeted abroad, in both Japanese and English versions.”

CHICAGO, Ill. — The LJR Group today announced publication of a revised edition of the book “Our Uncle Sam: The Sam Cooke Story From His Family’s Perspective” (ISBN: 1-4120-6498-8, www.ourunclesam.com). Written by Cooke’s great-nephew Erik Greene, Our Uncle Sam not only emphasizes Cooke’s accomplishments in music history, but gives the reader an inside look on the childhood influences that drove him to excel.

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — Buying and servicing a boat has become a much easier task for consumers around the country, thanks to Boating Industry magazine’s second annual Top 100 Dealers, a ranking of an incredibly powerful group of marine dealers that generated more than $2.88 billion in retail sales, or nearly 8 percent of the entire $37 billion marine market.

HARTFORD, Conn. — The psychological thriller “TO THE BONE” (ISBN: 0-9769688-3-5) by Mark Vann is based on an astonishing medical case history and offers readers a villain like no other in the annals of crime fiction. The strands of the plot are darkly and deftly intertwined like the DNA helix of the killer. In addition, this groundbreaking novel brings to the forefront a subject that has always been considered taboo.

COLUMN: We spend our entire lives looking for ways to get what we want and to feel good. The fact of the matter is that it’s actually pretty simple. Here we have two choices in life: living a love-based life or living a fear-based life. Many feelings encompass these two areas. The first is anything that brings pleasure: peace, joy, acceptance, and those things that feel good.

AUSTIN, Texas — WidowPC, the industry’s leading gaming computer boutique, launched the world’s first gaming computer designed especially for World of Warcraft players. The PC hardware and software is optimized to play World of Warcraft at the best possible performance and detail. The new machine sports a new form of intelligent networking technology that greatly reduces that amount of lag experienced by the player in World of Warcraft and other massively multiplayer online (MMO) games.

DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. — Looking for the perfect wine for your holiday gifts or dinner parties? Then you shouldn’t miss the special episode of W the women’s show “Holiday Greetings.” Winemaker, Daniel Baron, of Silver Oak and Twomey Cellars will be taking viewers on a tour of the vineyards, tasting rooms, and cellars in both Napa and Sonoma counties that produce award-winning California wines.

KOH KTEAH, Cambodia — GoldenPalace.com, the Internet casino famous for their unusual and often outrageous advertising campaigns, has done it again by sponsoring Canadian director Matt Frame’s record-breaking feat for the world’s longest handcuffed swim. Matt made the brutal 5.8 kilometer (3.1 nautical miles) swim from Koh Kteah to Serendipity beach without the benefit of a wetsuit or any help. The Guinness people have officially confirmed this to be a record-breaking swim.

DENVER, Colo. — Denver-area public companies and their audit committee members are invited to participate in “Governance Update: SOX compliance…and what’s next with the SEC,” a free seminar offered by RSM McGladrey, one of the top accounting, tax and business consulting organizations in the country. The seminar will be held at the Wyndham Hotel Denver Tech Center on Dec. 6, 2006, from 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.

COLUMN: Thanksgiving Day in Plymouth, Massachusetts is a day when the hopes, dreams and troubles of our nation will find expression. Plymouth has become the symbol of our highest aspirations and our most grievous transgressions. Symbols are important to focus the mind and emotions. A symbol can uplift us, it can take us down; it can bring us together, and it can separate us.

AUSTIN, Texas — WidowPC, the industry’s leading gaming laptop boutique, announced today that they have photographic evidence of actual “Dell laptop customer-hostages” fleeing the Dell campus in Round Rock, Texas. The customer exodus stems from a combination of Dell’s exploding laptop fiasco, and WidowPC’s price point on their Sting 517D(tm) laptop.

DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. — This holiday season, W the women’s show will help women learn how to make the most of their printer purchases on its “Holiday Greetings” special. The hit Quorum Productions television program will feature an expert from Dell Computers who will explain how to make buying, owning, and operating a printer an easy task.

FORT COLLINS, Colo. — Scientific research, development, software, and consulting company, Numerica Corporation, has just announced the hiring of the following personnel: Randy Paffenroth, Ph.D. as Computational Scientist V, and Stephanie Chan as Research Scientist I.

DALLAS, Texas — The Texas Almanac has partnered with the William P. Clements School of Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University to reproduce their 1936 Centennial Edition.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — InflightPower.com announced today a new and improved product for those travelers interested in recharging a Cell phone, RIM Blackberry(R) or Apple iPod(R) while in-flight. The new InFlight Power(TM) recharging cable has just been released for market sales.

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — A specialty government and economic development consulting firm is extending its reach further into the Midwest as it announced today the opening of an office in Minneapolis. GSP Consulting, based in Pittsburgh, Pa., has announced it will establish its 10th office in Minneapolis. Led by former legislator and leading bioscience advocate Lynne Osterman, the firm will bring to the marketplace its unique brand of government and economic development consulting.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — In some homes, a kid’s sock is just that: a sock, say the folks at Diabetic Sock Store. But in Melissa Bruner’s home, socks are the inciter of one colossal tantrum. Daily, the crying and screaming commences when Melissa simply asks her 6-year-old son Conner to put on his socks. “Every morning I feel like I’m going into battle. All I have to do is ask him to put on his socks and shoes and he goes ballistic,” says Melissa.

TROY, Mich. — Invisible Hand Productions today began pre-production of the feature film “Guilty of Innocence: What’s Said Behind Your Back Can Kill You,” a documentary on the failings of the U.S. legal system. The independent film, to be completed in Q1 2008, will be shot on location in Michigan, Florida, Pennsylvania, and the District of Columbia, with a budget not to exceed $200k.

YUBA CITY, Calif. — Prime Companies, Inc. (OTC Pink Sheets: PRMC) announces that it has executed an agreement and has consummated the purchase of certain strategic assets from Mount Logic, LLC, including Mount Logic’s Manufacturing Patents of ergonomic arms and mounts.

ASHBURN, Va. — Core Concepts, LLC, a corporate development organization located in Northern Virginia and South West Florida since 2002, announced today the launch of Core Concepts Publishing in conjunction with their first book publication, 4 Circles of Good Business, written by Christopher Novak of Marcellus, New York (ISBN 0-9788668-0-0).

COLUMN: Ours is only a suggestive language attempting to grasp and describe concepts that are beyond words. Our ability to conceptualize is derived from the words we use and the construct we have created to analyze and categorize experiences. The concepts proposed here are outside of the commonly agreed upon construct and beyond any words we might have to describe them.

KIRKLAND, Wash. — As the end of the tax year approaches, millions of Americans may neglect a hefty deduction, the cost of long term care insurance, according to LTC Financial Partners LLC, the nation’s most experienced long term care insurance brokerage. For some people, especially business owners, the tax breaks can be quite substantial.

DENVER, Colo. — Fetter Logic, Inc., the premier full service provider of advanced data and information management solutions for the financial services industry, today announced the availability of Helio – a comprehensive data aggregation solution with unparalleled data quality. Helio is the first financial services solution that promptly and accurately integrates all forms of data including direct mutual funds, annuities, one or more clearing firms, proprietary firm assets and creates intelligent information for the user.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Many people will be on the road for the holidays during the upcoming weeks and they want to arrive at their loved ones happy, healthy and clean; Aero-San has a new product – the Premiere Travel Health Pack – that can help to make that happen.

COVINGTON, Ga. — Robert W. (“Bill”) Donohue, retired Senior Vice President – Electric Operations of Consolidated Edison, has been elected to the Board of Directors of Utility Associates, Inc. (www.utility.com). Utility Associates is a venture-funded mobile asset management hardware and software company serving the electric and gas utility, telecom, distribution, and government market segments.

YORK, Pa. — BidTurf.com, providers of one of the newest online trading opportunities, today unveiled its person-to-person, full featured auction service. The online auction will serve as a trading platform for users to easily browse, buy or sell virtually anything online with no listing or final sales fees.

SAN DIEGO, Calif. — Deborah J. Copeland announced today the release of her first Young Adult Novel, “The Kids at Latimar High” (ISBN: 0-595-40381-6), published by iUniverse. School reporter, Lauren O’Neil, a.k.a. “news girl” and her best friend, drop dead gorgeous cheerleader, Rosalyn Brown, are breaking all the rules when they discover they’re competing for the same guy at school – Kevin Johnson, Latimar High’s star quarterback.

CHICAGO, Ill. — In a city that still takes boastful pride in its beery connection to gangster Al Capone, author Bob Skilnik says Big Al’s brewing legacy is more baloney than brewing history. In his recently released book, BEER: A History of Brewing in Chicago ($24.95, Hardcover, 416 pages, Barricade Books, ISBN 1569803129), the beer historian argues that the real brains behind the beer that flowed through Chicago’s streets was Capone’s mentor, Johnny Torrio.

VILLANOVA, Pa. — What do you do if think you own a million dollar domain name and you want to sell it? The new service – DomainLiquidations.com – will promote and broker the sale of your premium domain name for you. Today’s advertisement on page A6 of the Wall Street Journal (think expensive) reflects a major shift in how premium domain names are bought and sold.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — The schedule was released today for HDFEST’s Los Angeles event which will be staged at Dolby Laboratories in Burbank. This December event is the final stop on the HDFEST 2006 World Tour, which also included HD Festival events this year in Seoul, New York, Finland, and London. HDFEST Los Angeles will include screenings of high-definition movies, panels on HD moviemaking and digital cinema, festival parties and the HDFEST 2006 Deffie Award Ceremony.

SUNRISE, Fla. — The holiday season is quickly approaching. For some, plans are in motion to visit elderly family members. But if it has been a while since you last visited, you might be shocked at how much they have aged, concerned about their continued safety and well-being and motivated to do something about it, say the folks at Interim HealthCare.

GLENDALE, Calif. — Intellikey Labs, the first and most established content and DVD testing lab, is on the forefront of DVD content copy protection testing. Utilizing its proprietary protocols developed specifically for copy protection testing, Intellikey performs definitive copy protection testing for optical media via its expansive domestic and international DVD player matrices.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Washington area writer, Diana Mayer, has accomplished what few authors would attempt – a sequel to “A Tale of Two Cities.” Inspired by that classic story, and the lack of works like it in today’s “easy read” market, Mayer set out to bring a little of Dickens’ literary style back to modern readers.

FLUSHING, N.Y. — Bruce L. Roistacher, a prominent Long Island attorney announced today that the founder and leader of the China Democracy Party and the Party for Freedom and Democracy in China has been acquitted of all criminal charges after a jury verdict in Suffolk County, New York.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — Internet Web surfers can now find exactly what they are searching for in an efficient and exciting social environment that is designed to be family-oriented and user friendly; the site, Sprinko.com(TM), launched by Lassitter Enterprises, Inc. in September 2006, has received almost 30,000 hits in less than three months.

NEW YORK, N.Y. — The co-author of the recently published “Get Fit In Bed” (ISBN: 1572244607), Dr. Genie Tartell, a nationally known Chiropractor who has appeared on ABC-TV, “The View,” and the Fox morning program, “Fox & Friends,” says you can get a better nights sleep by exercising in bed. Dr. Tartell wrote “Get Fit In Bed” with co-author Ted Kavanau, the founder of CNN Headline News.

AUSTIN, Texas — deverus today unveiled its new, one of a kind, service line, the Vero Hire. The Vero Hire is an on-demand, Web-based software application designed to help background check and employment screening companies deliver new and advanced services to help HR hire and retain productive employees.

NEW YORK, N.Y. — CheapoAir.com Cheap Airfare and Budget Travel Web Site announced today that it has signed a distribution agreement with TouricoHolidays.com, one of the largest hotel portals in the world. CheapoAir.com.com will utilize Tourico’s hotel properties to create hotel and air dynamic packages to sell to its more than 1 million online customer base. TouricoHolidays.com has one of the most diverse hotel-negotiated rate portfolios in the world.

TORONTO, Canada — Doctors, scientists and other professionals around the world have spoken and written about Narconon’s Drug Detoxification Program in ridding the body of harmful chemicals and other pollutants. And thousands of people worldwide have experienced the substantial benefits the program has to offer, says the team at Narcodex.

WAYNE, N.J. — The Ballantine Corporation, a family-owned direct mail marketing company, is proud to announce their 40th anniversary in the direct marketing industry. Ballantine, based in Wayne, N.J., is a full-service direct mail marketing company that provides creative copy and design, print production, mailing services and one-to-one data-driven solutions to their clients.

DALLAS, Texas — Finding that perfect holiday gift for a loved one can be a difficult and often time consuming process. Millions of shoppers this holiday season find themselves in search of a unique gift that has a personal touch. Dallas based FunnyBit Studios’ “FunnyBio” product allows you to upload pictures of your friends, family or other loved ones and have a personalized DVD made of them featuring them as a movie star, superhero, or even a pop star.

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah — Universal Accounting Center (UAC), the leader in small business tax training has been approved by the California Tax Education Council (CTEC) to offer the Professional Tax Preparer Program (PTP) as a distance learning course in the state of California. UAC’s recognition from CTEC authenticates the PTP course, showing it is within the “standards, guidelines and procedures” of instruction specific to California tax laws.

PLANO, Texas — Rockwell Automation (NYSE: ROK), whose PowerLean program combines the strategies of Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, Total Productive Maintenance and Energy Management, has selected SigmaFlow’s Best Practice Execution System for portfolio project management and implementation of PowerLean’s best practice templates.

COLUMN: From the standpoint of wishing well to others, we have come a long way baby. In the 80′s we were rather casual as we suggested that people have a “great” day, and in the 90′s we were admonishing them to have an “attitude of gratitude.” Today we say many things to promote peace and good will to each other in the course of our daily lives. Salutations, greetings and closings have taken on new meaning as we move from jet setting competition, to a spirit based collaboration that’s welcoming.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — CheapBooks.com(TM) is hosting an event at Aladdin’s Natural Eatery at 163 Marshall Street, November 15 at 10:30 a.m., near Syracuse University in Syracuse, N.Y.; the event will provide students, teachers and other interested people with the opportunity to mingle in an open forum with the popular reality TV castmate, Syrus Yarbrough, of MTV’s “Real World Boston.”

TRIPOLI, Libya — Phoenicia Group Libya LLC, the U.S.-Libyan risk management and business services firm, today announced a two year cooperation and partnership agreement with the Libya-based Environment Friend’s Association (EFA), a non governmental organization concerned with safeguarding and preserving Libya’s environment.

DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. — Looking for some terrific ways to make your holiday baking more tasty? Then tune into a special edition of W the women’s show, “Holiday Greetings.” The hit Quorum Productions television program will feature an array of delicious recipes including an appetizer, entree and dessert. During the cooking segment, the chef will reveal one of the secret ingredients used among top chefs and “foodies.”

KIRKLAND, Wash. — A new tool called the LTC Outreach and Education Program (LTCOEP) promises to help human resource managers change their departments from cost centers to profit centers. The program does its bottom-line magic by helping employees cope with the productivity-draining prospect of caring for family members, such as aging parents, who can no longer care for themselves.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Jean-Pierre Chevalier, a leading authority on genetic medicine, and iUniverse, Inc., a leading provider of publishing technology solutions announced today the long-awaited publication of “Sarcophagus,” the novel. In this stunning work of contemporary fiction, Chevalier has succeeded in illuminating one of the unspeakable tragedies of our age: the institutionalized exploitation of illness. Now available in stone-cold print, the appalling dilemma of the cancer patient is laid bare like never before.

SAN MARINO, Calif. and MANILA, Philippines — Epeius Biotechnologies today announced the publication of clinical data from studies conducted at the University of the Philippines, Asian Hospital and Medical Center, Makati Medical Center, Manila, Philippines and Lutheran Medical Center, New York, USA, revealing the safety and single agent efficacy of Rexin-G(TM) for the treatment of a broad spectrum of chemotherapy-resistant cancers.

MIAMI, Fla. — Plans for an unveiling in New York’s Central Park of Fidel Castro on his ‘deathbed’ have instead turned into plans for the deconstruction of his effigy in Miami, where he will be prematurely laid to rest. Capla Kesting Fine Arts announces the unveiling of “Fidel Castro’s Deathbed Portrait” has been reconsidered by the artist, courtesy of the Miami FM morning show El Traketeo.

OWENSBORO, Ky. — CarJockey.com, the Internet’s largest wholesale used vehicle network for franchised dealers, announced today they now have exceeded 3000 vehicles in the dealer network. The Network fees are completely success based; members pay no setup fees, no monthly fees, and no listing fees. Dealers eliminate excess inventory without additional maintenance and purchase retail ready vehicles with confidence from reputable franchised dealers.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Blacks for Economic Security Today (BEST) have released two television advertisements designed by black voters to reach black people. The two ads blast Maryland Senate Candidate Ben Cardin and Tennessee Senate Candidate Harold Ford as bad news for black voters. The ad calls out Cardin for his dismal voting record for blacks as well as his taking for granted the black vote in Maryland.

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — Marianne Richmond, president of Marianne Richmond Studios, Inc., is quietly solidifying her niche as a proven player in the sales-challenged book world, passing the sale of a remarkable one millionth book. Target Stores is scheduled to feature the author’s newest title, “Fish Kisses and Gorilla Hugs” (ISBN: 978-1-934082-03-4) on a 2007 Valentine’s Day endcap.

CLEARWATER, Fla. — Broadband Productions Inc. launches global promotion of science fiction thriller “The End of Time” (ISBN 1-4116-3846-8). The End of Time, by Randall Towe, is an apocalyptic science fiction thriller with an alien twist.

MIDLAND, Mich. — For Christmas ornament collectors who want to know the ornaments that will be among the most sought after this fall, the author of “The Experts Guide To Collecting Ornaments” has some advice. “The ornament collecting hobby has changed a good bit since the 1990′s,” said author Harold Nicoll. “The collectors’ age, interests and situation in life will have a lot more to do with the ornaments they want and will buy. Popular culture and even the price of fuel will also affect ornament trends this Fall.”

DANA POINT, Calif. — “Cat kidney disease and feline renal failure can be helped using holistic pet care,” says Susan B. Davis, veterinary nutritionist for Ask Ariel Your Pet Nutritionist. Diet, nutritional supplements and acupuncture can help increase longevity and overall quality of life. Kidney disease is very common in older cats. Owners need to be mindful not only of the kidney disease but of the other complications that can arise such as anemia, dehydration and potential hyperthyroidism, all of which can affect the cat’s diet.

BOSTON, Mass. — Arclinea Boston was a multiple award winner at the 2006 Qualified Remodeler Master Design awards held on Wednesday, October 18 at the Peninsula Hotel in Chicago. A kitchen in Weston, Massachusetts was named Silver Award winner in the Kitchens Over $100,000 category, while the model kitchen for the 360 Newbury condominium development, located in Boston’s Back Bay, won the Silver Award for Kitchens $50,000 to $100,000. The winning kitchens were both designed by Arclinea Boston Senior Project Manager Mercedes Farrando.

PITTSBURGH, Pa. — Few companies experience growth like GSP Consulting Corp. The leading government affairs and economic development consulting firm is once again creating buzz across the country as they add to their executive staff, launch strategic partnerships, and expand operations.