SAN RAMON, Calif. — Streams of Life International (SOLI), founded by Ashley Noah, a 23-year old recent UCLA graduate, led a team of volunteers to Ethiopia to provide medical care, donate $30,000 USD in medical supplies, and refurbish a pediatrics room. Their efforts were concentrated at the Assosa Hospital, located in the Benishangul-Gumuz Region of Ethiopia. This gift generated excitement in the community and received Ethiopian television and newspaper coverage.

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Sinclair Johnson announced today that he has been chosen as a 2006 Virginia Businessman of the Year by NRCC Chairman Tom Reynolds and the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC).

FLINT, Mich. — FlintTalk.com, Flint, Michigan’s growing public discussion forum, announces the 2006 “Laundry Room Year-End Special” hosted by “Larry & John.” The show will be directed by Shawn Chittle of New York-based production company Roscoe Van Zandt Films, and will be assisted by Steve Myers, a producer at The Laundry Room and founder of Flinttalk.

CAZENOVIA, N.Y. — Alan Rothschild is passionate about patent models, the miniature scale pieces that were once a requirement for any inventor seeking a patent. His love for these historically significant relics is so strong that he transformed the lakefront home that he shares with his wife, Ann, and their dog, Moxie, in this upstate New York village into a museum.

NEW YORK, N.Y. — On Wall Street, some of the world’s most-respected business people can throw their car keys over their shoulder when it comes to getting to their holiday party safely and in style; The Platinum Car Corporation, the luxury division of the Corporate Transportation Group, Ltd. (CTG) has been hired to make sure it happens.

REDONDO BEACH, Calif. — DermHair Clinic, a division of FineTouch Dermatology, Inc., located in Redondo Beach, Calif., offers a unique hair-restoration procedure called “Body Hair Transplantation” (BHT) where body hair is transplanted to balding areas on the head.

PORTLAND, Ore. — Ray Bates Mysteries is home to the 43-year old Bureau veteran, Detective Sgt. John Quincy Bowers, who works the Portland homicide scene and is considered a new-age misfit by his peers; “Blue Butterfly” (ISBN: 1425941362) is the first in a series featuring Bowers.

BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Want to chat with a live person, but want the convenience of an on-line service as well? The Corporate Transportation Group, Ltd. has launched a new service – WorldLimo.com – that seeks to satisfy on-line users and solve their travel woes while still providing personalized service.

BOONTON, N.J. — The US public Ethernet services market is expected to grow from $940 million in 2006 to over $5 billion in 2012, according to a new market research study from The Insight Research Corporation. With metro-area Ethernet services now available from virtually all major data service providers and wide-area Ethernet about to get a shot in the arm from the dominant carriers, the market is poised to take off.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Taylor Hicks, American Idol winner who was commended for being a role model to young people, heads the list of the “Ten Best-Mannered People of 2006,” as named by the National League of Junior Cotillions, an etiquette and social training program that involves thousands of young people in the United States.

FREMONT, Calif. — TeamF1, Inc., the leader in embedded networking and security software solutions for wired and wireless applications, expanded its sales presence in Korea, Taiwan and India by signing agreements with leading resellers in these markets.

PORTLAND, Ore. — Gehla Knight, author of the newly-released “Buzzard Love” (ISBN: 0-595-67761-4), entices readers with quirky characters and mysterious story lines. Knight captures the readers’ attention from the start. Josie Wallgood, the main character in “Buzzard Love,” is marooned in an Oregon trailer park – stuck in a seemingly dead-end life. She has dubbed herself “Madame Josephina,” a fortuneteller spinning tales for the gullible.

BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Just in time for the holiday season, The Corporate Transportation Group, Ltd., (CTG), is excited to announce a bigger than ever fleet and expanded service to offer relief to busy shoppers and executives. New and improved booking and management services, GPS tools and a 20 percent increase in skilled, call-center reservationists, helps individuals and groups find the best value, while making holiday ground transportation easier than ever.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Prostate Cradle External Massager, developed by Enviromax, based in Eagle River, Alaska, has been selling on the Internet since last March and the company is struggling to keep up with orders. “I developed the Prostate Cradle out of necessity to help successfully deal with my enlarged prostate,” Adam McVay, said. “The response has been overwhelmingly positive.”

POWAY, Calif. — Intelligent Automation Corporation (IAC), a global leader in aviation diagnostic and water security systems, announced today that it has been named to the prestigious 2007 M2M Magazine’s M2M 100 list of the most important and influential companies offering machine-to-machine (M2M) technology solutions. The M2M 100 list provides a snapshot of the market as it exists today and the companies with the greatest impact on its direction.

PORT HURON, Mich. — With the world reeling toward the apocalypse and the advent of the Antichrist man, a 6,000 year old code has been broken by Dr. Eric vonAnderseck, of Second 8th Week Ministries, Inc., giving humanity an unprecedented inside view of how the Antichrist’s rule will be tied to the Antichrist spirit and Antichrist system, now at work in every level of mankind’s existence, even inside the church.

BOTHELL, Wash. — Victor Cox, CEO of Never Check It (www.nevercheckit.com), has formed a strategic partnership with Barclay Crocker Inc, a leading specialty formulated skin care Products Company to offer Easy Travel Kits.

NEW YORK, N.Y. — According to Water Fuel LLC, the concept of fuel enhancement is a topic of great interest to the general public, small business, and large corporate entities. Its popularity is growing quickly and clear, accurate information is a requirement for factual information to begin dissemination. The Water/Fuel Converters Project is leading the way in presenting the simple facts of a technology that desperately need clarification.

KIEL, Germany — LaserSoft Imaging’s SilverFast, the world standard in scanning software, has now taken a quantum leap in the evolution of genuine High Dynamic Range Imaging. This new function in SilverFast version 6.5 utilizes varying exposures of each scan. This dramatically increases dynamic range, allowing even the most subtle nuances in both shadow and highlight areas to be recognized and enhanced.

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — In an effort to ease the stress of long airport security lines, Stuff and Go(TM), a Palm Beach Gardens based company, has announced the availability of Stuff and Go Packs which contain pre-packaged, hard to find travel amenities. Stuff and Go President Leslie Evans, a seasoned traveler, says that finding a variety of travel size products is not only difficult, but also expensive.

KIRKLAND, Wash. — As 77 million soon-to-retire baby boomers promise to explode the long term care industry, one company is exploding already: LTC Financial Partners LLC, the nation’s most experienced long term care insurance brokerage. The firm has grown from 85 agents two years ago to 239 today, an impressive 281% increase.

OTTAWA, Canada — Atreus Systems(TM), the leading supplier of provisioning software for VoIP, IP service bundles, and IMS offerings, today announced that Shift Networks (TSX VENTURE:SHF), the leading provider of Voice over IP (VoIP) services to the Canadian small and medium business market, has successfully deployed Atreus’ solution in twelve days to automate the provisioning and management of its business VoIP service.

BOSTON, Mass. — Touting this week as “The Week of the Independent Mac Developer,” MacHeist began selling a software bundle of some of the hottest apps for OS X on Monday in the hopes of increasing the profile of the Mac shareware development community as well as raising $100,000 for charity before the holiday season. Now, only halfway through the week, MacHeist is on pace to meet its fundraising goal.

COLUMN: I would like to share my journey with indigenous elders and cultures throughout the United States, Mexico and Africa that led to the development of a worldview I have been implementing in my life for 25 years. I believe indigenous cosmology is important and relevant in the world today and would like to share these ideas with you. The field of quantum physics now “proves” what indigenous peoples have known for millennia.

MILWAUKEE, Wis. — Invented in Berkeley, California by Dale Klahn and Gary Upham, both of whom hold advanced degrees in aeronautical and nuclear engineering, the Toobee(R), from Toobee International Inc., appears to be nothing more than the top third of a beer or soda can.

TORONTO, Canada — According to the audio experts at Voices.com, the voice marketplace, Americans new to advertising on the radio are buying broadcast radio commercial slots for the first time via Google’s Audio Ads beta testing program. Agencies who used to go through talent agents are already making the transition to finding talent at online marketplaces due greatly in part because of an enormous push and subsequent validation of the market by Google.

AUBURN, Maine — KIC Products Waffletechnology engineers in cooperation with NCR have created a product to protect Magnetic stripe readers from Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) that can cause MSR failures and system lockups. ESD issues are more common in low humidity environments when customers use the new Debit/Credit cards with holographic images.

MIDDLETOWN, Ohio — Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy (PPMD), the largest grassroots organization in the U.S. that is entirely focused on Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), announced today the hiring of Dr. Giovanna M. Spinella as its medical director and its plans to create a systematic approach to the clinical management of boys with DMD.

SANDPOINT, Idaho — A new book from Logical Expressions, Inc. aims to help new, adoptive-dog owners get off on the right “paw.” “Happy Hound: Develop a Great Relationship with Your Adopted Dog or Puppy” (ISBN: 978-0-9749245-2-6; LCCN-2006909898) tells new owners what they need to know to raise a wonderful family pet.

SAN DIEGO, Calif. — Athletic-Minded Traveler LLC, a Southern California-based active lifestyle media company that operates the largest healthy travel site on the web, www.athleticmindedtraveler.com, released today its 2006 ranking of “The Best Hotel Gyms in the U.S.” The Top 11 hotel gyms received the company’s recommendation after in-depth research on over 3,000 hotels and anonymous personal tours by the editorial staff.

TRIPOLI, Libya — According to Phoenicia Group, a decision last month by the General People’s Committee, the Libyan equivalent of Parliament, mandating foreign companies in Libya active in the oil services, construction, industry, electricity, communications, transportation, and agribusiness and marine and animal resources sectors, to form Joint Ventures through Joint-Stock companies with Libyan partners.

AUSTIN, Texas — SaberData, Ltd., an emerging provider of PC migration solutions, announced PC Personality Clone, a new product designed to allow consumers and small business owners to easily migrate application data, settings, and more from one PC to another. Consumers face the hassle of transferring data from an old computer when a new one is purchased. The process of securely and efficiently transferring information can be problematic and the procedures complex.

HOUSTON, Texas — The movie “Blood Diamond” opened last week, shocking holiday shoppers with explicit violence. Set amidst chaos and civil war in 1990s Africa, it will raise questions about diamonds being purchased this holiday season. One Texas company has answers. Whiteflash.com, an Internet boutique specializing in top quality diamonds, has established a program called Dreams of Africa, where 100 percent of the profit from sales of a conflict-free line of jewelry is going to help victims of conflict diamonds.

NEW YORK, N.Y. — JamesAllen, one of the leading online jewelry companies has just announced the release of their Signature Ideal Cut “Hearts & Arrows” Collection. This exclusive inventory of perfectly symmetrical diamonds represents the “creme de la creme” of diamond cutting and is available only through the JamesAllen.com website.

CHICAGO, Ill. — It’s December and this time of year prognosticators appear everywhere feasting on the public’s fascination about the future. However, “psychic” and corporate mind power speaker SIDNEY FRIEDMAN has established his credibility with a publicly accountable track record of 71% accuracy over the last nine years. Friedman’s prediction success has been documented on a number of TV and radio shows.

DENVER, Colo. — InnocentEnglish.com, a humor website which collects funny English mistakes from around the world, announces the release of “The Top Ten Bushisms of 2006″ as well as the release of a new seamless compilation of Bush misstatements, “Where Wings Take Dream: An Inspirational Speech to the Nation.”

ST. LOUIS, Mo. — Stainless steel roses? How about leather or wood? Roses are the ultimate symbol for love and affection and a new Web site, The Anniversary Rose, offers an array of flowers handmade from materials that follow the traditional anniversary gift list. TheAnniversaryRose.com company has finely-crafted roses in materials that follow the anniversary gift list.

COLUMN: Everyone from beauty queens to politicians wants World Peace. What most don’t know is that peace begins with us! Peace isn’t about what is going on in the Middle East, peace is how we relate to every individual we meet on a daily basis.

WESTBOROUGH, Mass. — Tibersoft, the leading provider of trading partner intelligence solutions for the foodservice industry, announced that Perkins Restaurants will rollout the Tibersoft IQ solution across all their 480 locations. The Restaurant Company, Operator and Franchisor of Perkins Restaurants, recently acquired Marie Callender’s Pie Shops, Inc. and will expand that already successful Tibersoft rollout thus creating one enterprise view into the total company’s spending and supplier contracts. In August the Restaurant company changed its name to Perkins and Marie Callender’s Inc.(“PMCI”).

NEWBURY PARK, Calif. — CyberTouch is pleased to announce the introduction of FlexTouch, an unbreakable and flexible line of new touch screens designed for flat-panel or rear-projection displays. Utilizing polymer-on-polymer construction, FlexTouch incorporates four-wire resistive analog technology offering up to 86% transparency.

MIAMI, Fla. — The “deathbed” portrait of Fidel Castro that outraged Cuban exiles everywhere in part for a scheduled display in Miami this weekend has been replaced with “Monument to Pro-Life: The Birth of Sean Preston.” The renowned nude of Britney Spears giving birth atop a bearskin rug appears at Fountain Miami, courtesy of Capla Kesting Fine Art, from December 7th to 11th in Wynwood Gallery district during Art Basel Miami.

NEW YORK, N.Y. — Ascentia Biomedical Corporation (“Ascentia”) (OTC Pink Sheets: ASCE) today announced that, effective November 28, 2006, it has completed the acquisition of all the outstanding common stock of Fortress Technology Systems, Inc. (“Fortress”), pursuant to a share exchange agreement. Ascentia acquired all of the outstanding shares of Fortress common and preferred stock in exchange for 254,531,004 shares of Ascentia common stock and 8,000,000 shares of Ascentia Series A Preferred Stock.

NEWTON, Mass. — GoldenPalace.com, the internet casino famous for their unusual and often outrageous advertising campaigns, has done it again by trading a set of 500 unique poker chips for a 60 cent check. Reporter Aaron Todd won the money in a free tournament on a new Internet poker site while doing research to write about it.

CORNELIUS, N.C. — HearPod Hearing Aids president Randy Wohlers, BC-HIS, today announced the introduction of HearPod Directional Mic Open Fitting hearing aid. This behind the ear aid is designed to cater to the hearing industry’s hottest trends-directional microphones, open fitting and cosmetically discrete design. Directional microphones improve the wearer’s ability to understand speech by focusing correction on voices in front of the wearer while reducing noises from behind.

RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif. — With endless growth as the vision, The Megatrux Companies now occupy a 170,000 square foot facility built to exacting specification to serve as the world headquarters for an end-to-end global logistics operation. This state-of-the-art distribution center in Rancho Cucamonga, CA stores 15,000 racked pallet positions, has 36 dock doors, is RFID equipped and houses the companies’ management and global logistics team.

READING, Pa. — Millions of Americans report feeling stress and depression during the Holidays. Greg Schweitzer, founder of Stress Reduction Resources, says the biggest sources of stress over the holidays revolve around the “Big Five:” Finances, health, family, time, and gift-giving. Many people let unrealistic expectations rob them of a joyous Christmas.

SANDPOINT, Idaho — A new book from Logical Expressions, Inc. aims to demystify the often-confusing world of ecommerce. In “Web Business Success: The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Web Sites That Work” (ISBN: 978-0-9749245-0-2; LCCN-2006909228) authors James Byrd and Susan Daffron share practical tips and strategies to help business owners make good choices when they put a Web site online.

BOSTON, Mass. — Foodler.com, a leading online service for ordering restaurant take out and delivery meals, today announced the addition of its 130th partner restaurant in the Boston region. A wide selection of cuisines from some of the Hub’s most popular restaurants, combined with interactive menus and accurate online ordering, have all contributed to Foodler’s 220% growth rate over the past 6 months.

SEDONA, Ariz. — On the 10th Anniversary of Native Voices Foundation, the board held an election and celebrated some “phenomenal” progress for Indian youth. As newly elected Co-Chairman, Gary Lake (Shasta Vice Chair) said, “A single tribe cannot get their youth to the Olympics, but together we can.” “Thanks to key leaders of Indian Country uniting behind the Indian Olympic Bid, these dreams for their youth are within their grasp,” according to re-elected Co-Chair, Suzy Chaffee, an Olympic skier.

DENVER, Colo. — Denver-based IDEAVIZ, a subsidiary of Artist Rendering, Inc., is making an impact for a diverse range of businesses by using innovative 3D visualization and animation technology to bring new ideas to fruition. Since 2002, Artist Rendering, Inc. has worked with real-estate developers and architects in visualizing their future projects through high-impact 3D renderings and animations.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Gen-9, Inc. announced today that, as a result of a recent Microsoft announcement restricting the use of the 2007 Microsoft Office User Interface to non-competing products, Gen-9 will be no longer be implementing the 2007 Microsoft Office User Interface in NOAH. Gen-9 was one of the first companies to implement the new interface in one of its products. The 2007 Microsoft Office compliant components utilized in NOAH were supplied by one of Gen-9′s licensed component vendors.

DALLAS, Texas — The Southern Bleacher Company, based in Graham, Texas, is excited to announce that they recently won the Request for Proposals from Heery International, Inc. to be a subcontractor in the undertaking of the renovation of the historic 75-year old Cotton Bowl Stadium at Fair Park in Dallas.

RESTON, Va. — nPulse Networks LLC, a leading integrator of hardware acceleration tools for open-source network monitoring and security applications, and Napatech Inc, the world’s leading vendor of high-performance, programmable Ethernet network adapters, today announced they are entering into an OEM agreement enabling nPulse Networks to use Napatech adapters in delivering their advanced network appliances to the market.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — In an effort to stay on the cutting edge of the ATM industry, Brown Investments Inc., Automated Teller Machine division is proud to announce the Pinnacle Multi-Functional 10-in-1 kiosk. This kiosk retails for $25,995 and is one of the only kiosks of its type on the market today.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — The world of Hollywood Television can be the meeting place of some very different people, on the surface that is. Take the case of Craig X Rubin and rap star Snoop Dogg. The latter has a worldwide “raputation” while the former is the Reverend and founder of Temple 420, a Bible-based, Judeo-Christian sect, which believes that pot is a religious herb, as discussed in Revelation 22. How are they similar? They are both stars on Showtime’s hit cable series “Weeds” and the only two characters to play themselves. Something else in common: trouble with the law.

ATLANTA, Ga. — M2SYS Technology announced today it has formed a relationship with Kodak’s Dental Systems Group to integrate M2SYS’ patent-pending fingerprint software into the KODAK ORTHOTRAC Practice Management Software. As a result, Kodak’s customers will be able to secure sensitive patient information and comply with HIPAA requirements, while improving productivity and user experience by eliminating the time, hassle, and headache associated with password management.

WHIPPANY, N.J. — For the first time, health care professionals and consumers can benefit from the comfort and convenience of silicone heel cups and wedges, as well as a complete selection of insoles, constructed with anti-microbial top covers. Together with its newest line of silicone foot orthotics, foot care innovator GEL SMART is introducing Fabric Smart(TM) anti-microbial top covers, which eliminate the odor problems of conventional textiles used in foot inserts.

KIRKLAND, Wash. — Starting this year, long term care insurance, which enhances the security of longer-living Americans, will indirectly improve lives in AIDS-plagued Africa also. Today LTC Financial Partners LLC, the nation’s most experienced long term care insurance brokerage, announced that it would contribute 2% of its profits each year to the Rabuor Village Project, a comeback model for villages throughout Africa.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — GeckoSystems, Inc. (OTC: GKSY) is pleased to announce that the Board of Directors has appointed Mr. Neil T. Wallace to the position of Vice President, Legal and Public Affairs. Mr. Wallace holds a J.D. and an economics degree and has held several senior management positions domestically.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Recognizing the need for another effective medium, H. Lewis Smith, author of “Bury that Sucka” (ISBN: 1413792693), is the founder of a new non-profit organization, United Voices for a Common Cause, Inc. The organization pledges and holds true “to not use the n-word as they strive toward cultural integrity and mutual respect for all Americans.”

KALAMAZOO, Mich. — AZO Technologies, Inc., today announced the release of VisiWave(TM) Site Survey 1.6, the latest version of its very successful wireless site survey product. With this release, GPS is now supported as a new method for keeping track of the surveyor’s location while conducting a site survey. Using a Global Positioning System (GPS) device, the surveyor can track his or her movements while outdoors to automatically create maps of the area’s 802.11a/b/g wireless coverage.

FREMONT, Calif. — TeamF1, Inc., the leader in embedded security, today announced that V-IPSecure – its high-performance implementation of IPsec and IKE protocols for IPv4 and IPv6 – successfully passed all the Virtual Private Network Consortium’s (VPNC) interoperability tests for IPsec VPN systems. This certification continues the company’s long-standing commitment to provide the embedded market with lean and robust security software complying with stringent industry standards.