VENICE, Calif. -- The Abbot Kinney District Association (AKDA) announces the 23rd Annual Abbot Kinney Street Festival will take place on Sept. 30. The family-friendly festival, held between Main Street and Venice Boulevard on Abbot Kinney Boulevard, will feature over 300 arts and crafts vendors, a Youth and Family Court, three musical stages, a "Green Living Tent," three food courts and a beer garden.

TORRANCE, Calif. -- Neotrope(R), a leading California-based advertising, public relations, and Internet Marketing firm established 1983, today announced that Puerto Rico-based international marketing firm I:Avalanche Corp. has selected Neotrope to provide promotion assistance for LetsGoToPonce.com, a portal for South Puerto Rico (Porta Caribe).

LOS ANGELES, Calif. and LONDON, England -- BETA Records, the online record company, officially launched BETA Records UK on September 1, opening a London office and a portal for music lovers and artists of every style. This follows the success of BETA Records in the USA, Germany and Mexico.

SOROTI, Uganda -- Three Loaves Fund announces a special appeal on behalf of our partner Pilgrim, a local Ugandan Christian relief organization. Unusually heavy rains in eight districts in Eastern Uganda have left over 50,000 homeless and in danger of starvation and disease, said the Ugandan Red Cross Society, as reported in The New Vision.

SYDNEY, Australia and DALLAS, Texas -- Farthing West will highlight its Business Management for Mining Managers program during AIMEX 2007 - Asia Pacific's International Mining Exhibition. This training program, utilizing SigmaFlow's Best Practice Execution System(TM) software, is designed specifically for mining.

LAS CRUCES, N.M. -- ROK Southwest, Inc. has recently launched two new web sites to provide free information and resources to business unit managers and business communicators. The first focuses on business unit management, project management, business unit IT issues, and the communication of business information.

NAPERVILLE, Ill. -- Solar Communications, a full-service print and production provider, has completed its capabilities expansion begun in 2006, with more than $10 million in capital investments over the past few months. These latest acquisitions further support the company's refined focus as a complete marketing services partner.

TORRANCE, Calif. -- Otane, Inc. has launched a new service for martial artists and MMA fans called BudoTV.com. The video sharing site allows users to upload their videos for free, participate in ongoing forums, receive up-to-date news via RSS, and allow groups and clubs to be formed within the site.

KIRKLAND, Wash. -- As longer-living Americans face escalating care expenses, "there's a lot of ignorance about how to pay for it," says Cameron Truesdell, CEO of LTC Financial Partners, the nation's most experienced long term care insurance brokerage. "So it's refreshing," he continues, "to see authoritative advice from Kiplinger's, perhaps the most respected financial publication in the nation."

SAN DIEGO, Calif. -- Benjamin Katz of CompleteCampaigns.com and Ravi Singh of ElectionMall.com announced today that they are forming a strategic partnership to offer campaigns a "one-stop-shop" online. "We saw that we could help campaigns get to the next level by combining what we each do best," said Ravi Singh, CEO of ElectionMall.