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.