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NORFOLK, VA – August 31 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Martha J. Ross Rodgers, an author for Jireh Publishers, is an African-American woman that writes motivational books on diversity and moving beyond racial, economic, and cultural stereotypes. Imagine her surprise when some members of the 2005 North Carolina Textbook Committee stated that her book ‘Awakenings’ was ‘religiously insulting” and “insulting to African-Americans.’

ROCHESTER, NY – August 31 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — InSciTek Microsystems, Inc. has received a $4 Million investment led by High Peaks Venture Partners, with participation from Advantage Capital. InScitek will leverage this investment by adding new products to their proven Allworx product line (www.allworx.com) and expanding their sales & marketing reach.

HOUSTON, TX – August 30 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — The newly-released book from iUniverse Publishers, ‘Paradox, The Rejected Cornerstone,’ by Jane Weir embarks on an eye-opening journey into the obscure realm of paradoxes and proves that instead of mysticism and contradiction these ubiquitous equations, ironically, reveal a secret inner and higher form of order-specifically, the long sought after and ever-elusive universal blueprint.

NEW YORK, NY – August 30 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Beverly West (co-author of the best selling ‘Cinematherapy’ series) and Jason Bergund, authors of ‘TVtherapy, The Television Guide to Life’ (Delta, August 30, 2005, $14.00) today announced the winners of the Primetime TVtherapy Awards for the Best TV medicine of 2005.

PUYALLUP, Wash. – August 30 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Pacific eMarketing, a provider of high quality streaming Internet commercials, is pleased to announce they are commencing operations throughout the Northwest. Based in the city of Puyallup, near Tacoma, WA. Pacific eMarketing specializes in filming, editing, hosting, and streaming high quality commercials that are used by businesses and organizations to maximize their internet marketing results.

MANCHESTER, NH – August 30 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Bliss Media today announced the publication of ‘Connecting with the Bliss of Life, Powerful Lessons for Living a Peaceful and Happy Life’ (ISBN: 0976742497) by former Navy SEAL David Michael Ferruolo.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – August 29 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — 9021GROW (ISBN-0-9747110-0-4) by CraigX is an autobiography that is quickly becoming a classic. Released last week, this book is part history and part celebrity gossip column. Jill Ishkanian, West Coast Editor of US MAGAZINE, wrote to the television producer of CNBC’s ‘The Big Idea’ saying: ‘It’s very controversial, just came out, everyone will be talking about it, I’m in the book as having found this pot dealer, my chapter is after Brad Pitt’s name, world fascinated with celebrities as you know, can get you a book to look at. I’d go on the show with CraigX….Be the first before it gets picked up elsewhere.’

SAN DIEGO, Calif. – August 29 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Joseph SB Morse announces release of ‘The Evolution Diet’ (ISBN 1-4116-3503-5) published by CoDe Publishing. Author promotes eating ‘what and how we were designed to eat.’

PHOENIX, Ariz. – August 29 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — JK Venture Partners announced today that it has acquired the rights to sell on eBay some of the first IO2 Heliodisplays available on the market. The IO2 Heliodisplay is the patented display that projects a full-color image onto thin air. Individuals and businesses alike may bid to buy a Limited First Edition Heliodisplay M1, through eBay Auction number 5235836491.

NORFOLK, VA – August 29 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Dr. Archie W. Earl, Sr., a former United States Pentagon research fellow, spent part of his summer (2005) at the University of Alabama (UAT), in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA, studying the atomic, ionic, and crystallic structure of materials. The program was an intense three-week program designed to give HBCU mathematics, biology, chemistry, physics, and engineering faculty a close-up, and hands-on, look at metallurgical and materials engineering research.

MALVERN, PA and CORNWALL, UK – August 29 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Reaction Biology Corporation (‘RBC’) and Key Organics Ltd (‘Key’) today announced that they have created a Joint Venture (‘JV’) to engage in high throughput drug discovery. The purpose of the JV is to identify a series of compounds with the potential of becoming new drugs with further research.

HOUSTON, TX – August 29 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — HubCityJazz.com today announced the launch of JustforHouston.com, a virtual local marketplace, where residents in Houston and the surrounding area can buy and sell furniture, electronics, services, automobiles, property, and other items that can’t be shipped with ease, efficiency, and convenience. And because every buyer and seller is a neighbor, both parties can exchange goods and services with greater peace of mind.

NEW YORK, NY – August 26 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — New York’s First Street Gallery defends its decision to exhibit Ted Williams’ ‘death mask,’ amid recent controversy surrounding its origin. When Daniel Edwards presented the ‘death mask’ as an object to display with other Ted Williams items, it was known there would be the potential for controversy, a spokesperson for the gallery said. The decision to exhibit the ‘death mask’ was carefully made with the intent that the ‘death mask’ should be presented as a part of a display to memorialize Ted Williams. We are all fans of Ted Williams, and we miss him.

NEW YORK, NY – August 26 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Marjan Diamonds NV, an Antwerp based diamond manufacturer, today announced that they will launch their new NENOIR Emotionally Yours signature diamond at the International Jewelry Show in London, England, September 4th-September 7th.

SAN LUIS OBSIPO, Calif. – August 25 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — MyHalfHouse.com today announced the launch of their premier real estate investor destination – www.MyHalfHouse.com – a web-based business designed to connect individual investors from around the world for the purpose of forming successful real estate investment partnerships.

NEW YORK, NY – August 25 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — What would be the ultimate prize for a big-game collector of memorabilia from a larger-than-life sports legend? Curious gallery goers may find an answer in the new exhibit titled The Ted Williams Memorial Display with Death Mask from The Ben Affleck 2004 World Series Collection, hosted by the Chelsea district’s First Street Gallery. The gallery kicks off its season with the world premier unveiling of the ‘death mask’ of baseball great Ted Williams’ clinically decapitated frozen head.

SEATTLE, Wash. – August 24 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Filmmaker, director, and fundraising extraordinaire Uwe Boll is Hollywood’s best kept secret. While major directors like Mel Gibson and Steven Spielberg get the glory Boll is quietly making profitable movies has raised over $200 million dollars.

NEW YORK CITY, NY – August 24 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Publishing Basics Radio released this week a series of interviews with the nation’s top Print on Demand (POD) book publishers. The seven part series includes interviews with the CEOs of iUniverse(TM) and AuthorHouse(TM), as well as the former finance VP of Xlibris(TM). The podcast series is hosted by Ron Pramschufer, a 30-year veteran of the printing and publishing industries. His straight talking, no nonsense interviewing style falls somewhere between Colombo and Bill O’Reilly.

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. – August 24 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Birchwood Laboratories announces introduction of its new ARD(R) tapeless, soft and absorbent pads providing a discrete, simple and sanitary solution for managing mild anal incontinence.

BOSTON, Mass. – August 24 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — According to the U.S. Department of Education, if children begin kindergarten already knowing the names of many letters, they will master reading more easily. The recognition of letters, knowing their names, and associating letter combinations with the sounds of spoken words are precursors to the development of reading skills.

TORRANCE, Calif. – August 24 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — The first episode in a new entertainment talk show podcast was released this week by Send2Press Newswire (www.Send2Press.com) and hosted by PRSA and ASCAP member Christopher Simmons. The first show features interviews with Scott G ‘The G-Man’ who is a professional voiceover talent heard on dozens of top-brand radio commercials and a popular music recording artist, as well as a chat with the folks at GoldenPalace.com who recently painted 100 cows in Florida with the blessing of PETA.

SPARKS, NV – August 24 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — GoldenPalace.com, the online casino famous for turning eBay into the ultimate advertising vehicle by acquiring several outrageous items is at it again. They have paid $18,000 to shave a woman’s head and permanently tattoo GoldenPalacePoker.com,’ the website of the popular online poker room, on her bare cranium.

NEW YORK, NY – August 24 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Today Publishing Basics Radio released a series of interviews with the nation’s top Print on Demand (POD) publishers. The seven part series includes interviews with the CEOs of iUniverse and Author House, the top two POD publishers in the country, as well as the former finance VP of XLibris, the third largest. When combined, the interviews paint a revealing picture of an industry slanted more toward selling books and services to authors versus selling books to the public.

SAINT-PETERSBURG, Russia (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Duality Software announces the release of Calendarscope 2.5, popular calendar software designed for Microsoft Windows. Calendarscope allows people to schedule appointments and plan out their work days, weeks and months ahead. Over four years of its existence, the program has evolved and now includes a variety of helpful features, such as schedule synchronization with Pocket PCs and Palms, web-enabled calendars, iCalendar support, task filtering, backup, printing options and more.

THORNWOOD, NY – August 23 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Founded in 1999, LiveRepair.com today is one of the leading PC support solutions provider for home and business PC users alike. Building on its success in the support industry, LiveRepair.com decided to expand business and increase its presence in the home PC users segment.

PENTICTON, B.C., Canada – August 23 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Author Gordon Baker, announced today the release of his book, Desperate To Survive (ISBN: 1-59526-011-0). Based on a true story, this book gives a dramatic account of the terrible pain and suffering the author’s sister inflicted on him, in her attempt to become the sole heir to the family’s $300,000 estate.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. – August 23 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Neotrope(R) announced today an enhanced version of its ContextXpert(TM) solution for optimization and placement of press release content into search engines and databases, which will power the relaunch of Send2Press Newswire (www.Send2Press.com) in September. This technology is based on Neotrope’s ContextEngine(R) system, developed and launched by marketing technologist Christopher Simmons in January of 1996 when AltaVista was the ‘big dog’ in the indexing of online news content. Over the past decade the system has matured along with search portals and other news indexes.

ATLANTA, GA – August 23 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — M2SYS Technology, an innovator in biometric technology research and development, today announced that total workforce management solution company iEmployee has integrated M2SYS’ Bio-Plugin(TM) biometric fingerprint identification system into their web-based PC time clock solution. The strategic partnership signals the expanding acceptance and recognizable value of using a reliable method to capture employee time and attendance data that is more convenient and affordable than a wall mounted time clock or manual time sheet. The addition of iEmployee to M2SYS’ rapidly growing list of software integrator partners also secures M2SYS’ position as an industry leader in providing robust and rapid biometric system integration into enterprise-level ASP software.

ATLANTA, GA – August 22 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — The GEM Group, Ltd., offering workshops and seminars on travel and tourism careers and opportunities, today announced the publication of ‘Tour Guiding: How to Start a Tour Guiding Business,’ by Gerry Mitchell, an all-inclusive manual for tourism professionals and anyone who aspires to joint the wonderful world of travel tourism. The book will also be used as a companion volume in Mr. Mitchell’s acclaimed workshop to be held November 6th – November 12th in Charleston, South Carolina.

ROCHESTER, Mich. – August 22 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Multiject LLC has signed an agreement to represent Plasdan Group, an international supplier of machinery and tooling for the plastic injection molding industry. This relationship is effective immediately, and affects all of Plasdan’s injection molding machinery business in North America.

NORFOLK, VA – August 22 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — On Thursday, August 4, 2005, Dr. Archie W. Earl, Sr., nominated to the International Biographical Centre of Cambridge, England, for recognition as an ‘Outstanding Intellectual of the Twentieth Century,’ presented a paper at the MathFest 2005 Conference, of the Mathematical Association of America, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. The paper Dr. Earl presented was entitled ‘A High-Tech In-Service Graduate Math Course.’ In the presentation, Dr. Earl discussed some of the technologies that were used in a mathematics course that Dr. Eurice Dawley, Mrs. Mary Copeland, and he team-taught, to in-service mathematics teachers, during the fall semester of 2004.

FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. – August 22 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Author and Gospel singer Bob Miller, a registered Republican who has been attacked several times and even suffered a superficial knife wound after making an anti-Bush speech in 2004 that became widely known and published as ‘Democracy Took the Day Off’ said today.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. – August 19 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Author Anatole Andro spent two-and-a-half years evaluating Chinese and European historical documents pertaining to the alleged Ming Chinese circumnavigation of the world one hundred years before the great European explorations. The author found that not only did such evidence exist, historians and investigators had knowledge of it. Many even commented on some of the evidence, then provided tenuous explanations for it, ignored it, or supplanted it.

TAIPEI, Taiwan – August 19 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — City Network, Inc. (Amex: CSN), a company that designs, manufactures, and markets a comprehensive line of broadband and wireless Internet access solutions and consumer electronic products, announced today that it has entered a securities purchase agreement to sell to a United States accredited investor two secured convertible notes, each in $125,000 principal amount, maturing six months from their respective dates of issuance.

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – August 18, 2005 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — First American Nationwide Documents, NYSE: FAF, a member of The First American Corporation family of companies; and ComplianceEase(R), a division of LogicEase Solutions Inc., announced today a strategic alliance to integrate ComplianceEase’s ComplianceAnalyzer(TM) with First American’s Document Management System, FAF, First American

LOS ANGELES, Calif. – August 18 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Promotional Telephone Numbers, in association with its sister website Vanitytel.com, today announced the launch of their new online service designed to make it easier for business and professionals to find and obtain desirable and memorable telephone numbers which are compatible with their business.

TORONTO, Ontario – August 17 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Ginseng Press announces the release of ‘The Chinese Almanac 2006.’ The almanac predicts, among other things, that this coming winter will be mild and spring will arrive early, but spring and summer will be abnormally cool. Beans and corn will grow well but wheat will not. Insomnia and heart problems will be common health concerns.

AUSTIN, TX and SEATTLE, Wash. – August 17 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Senator Leticia Van de Putte (D-San Antonio) is being named President-Elect of the prestigious National Conference of State Legislators (NCSL) Friday at their annual conference in Seattle, Washington. Van de Putte, the first Hispanic and the first Texan ever named President-Elect of the organization, will assume the Presidency of the organization next year.

PORTLAND, Ore. – August 17 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Shakespeare scholars attending a week-long Concordia University seminar concluded that the great poet-dramatist revealed the most significant chapter of his life in the Sonnets of 1609, as explained in the new 918-page edition by Hank Whittemore entitled The Monument: ‘Shake-Speares Sonnets’ by Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (Meadow Geese Press, ISBN: 0966556453), published this year.

SAN RAMON, Calif. – August 17 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — CorEdge Networks, Inc., a leader and innovator in ATCA (Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture) and MicroTCA switching equipment, will showcase two low-latency non-blocking Ethernet switches with demonstrated performance of under 3.5 microsecond delay at the 13th annual IEEE Symposium on high performance interconnects. The Hot Interconnects show will take place on August 17~19, 2005 at the William R. Hewlett Teaching Center at Stanford University in California.