Newstream Digest: Jay Leno's 1000 Horsepower Toronado, Wheaties Honors the Boston Red Sox, Preventing Vehicle Theft & Other Free Multimedia Content For Journalists.NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- Newstream Digest Leno's 1000 Horsepower Toronado Restoring hot rods and restoring classic cars isn't just for extreme car nuts anymore. In fact, with resources they didn't have 30 years ago, more car owners are custom-building their own vehicles at a growing rate. Just ask late night talk show king Jay Leno Jay Leno (born April 28, 1950) is an Emmy-winning American comedian, writer who is best known as the current host of NBC television's long-running variety and talk program The Tonight Show. Biography Leno was born in New Rochelle, New York. . A report from General Motors (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :GM). You can reach the story directly by going to http://www.newstream.com/cgi-bin/display_story.cgi?16062 -------------------------------------------------- Wheaties Announces the Release of a Special Edition Package Honoring the Boston Red Sox The Boston Red Sox are a professional baseball team based in Boston, Massachusetts. The Red Sox are a member and currently champions of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball’s American League. From to the present, the Red Sox have played in Fenway Park. for Their World Series Victory Over the St. Louis Cardinals For the National Football League team that played in St. Louis from 1960 to 1987, see . The St. Louis Cardinals (also referred to as "the Cards" or "the Redbirds") are a professional baseball team based in St. Louis, Missouri. Boston slugger David Ortiz is prominently featured on the front panel along with his Red Sox teammates. The new package will be available nationally beginning in mid-November. Joe Torre and his 1999 World Champion New York Yankees  Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled due to vandalism. were the last baseball team to be featured on a Wheaties box. You can reach the story directly by going to http://www.newstream.com/cgi-bin/display_story.cgi?16070 -------------------------------------------------- Stolen Vehicle Report The FBI says that the number of vehicle thefts is rising in the U.S. -- with a total of nearly 1.3 million stolen vehicles last year, an increase over the previous year. And despite theft deterrents like steering wheel locks and ignition immobilizers, determined thieves are still getting what they want. So, police are now encouraging higher tech solutions. A report from General Motors (NYSE:GM). You can reach the story directly by going to http://www.newstream.com/cgi-bin/display_story.cgi?16065 -------------------------------------------------- Public Education Campaign Targets 50 Million Family Caregivers The National Family Caregivers Association (NFCA NFCA National Fastpitch Coaches Association NFCA National Family Caregivers Association NFCA National Foundation for Celiac Awareness NFCA National Fraternal Congress of America NFCA Nevada Fire Chiefs Association ) and the National Alliance for Caregiving (Alliance), two of the nation's pre-eminent organizations dedicated to the advocacy and issues of family caregivers, announce the launch of a public education campaign in partnership with Eisai Inc. to advise the escalating population of family caregivers of the critical need to acknowledge their caregiver role, its impact on their lives, and their need for help. You can reach the story directly by going to http://www.newstream.com/cgi-bin/display_story.cgi?16069 -------------------------------------------------- Best Buy Introduces Online Photo Processing Best Buy Co., Inc. October 28 announced the launch of its Best Buy imageLab(TM) website, an online photo processing center that makes it easy for people to get high-quality prints of their digital pictures. You can reach the story directly by going to http://www.newstream.com/cgi-bin/display_story.cgi?16081 -------------------------------------------------- Annual Gift Card Survey Reveals Anticipated Increase In Gift Card Spending Three quarters of U.S. consumers 15 years old and older have now either purchased or received a gift card according to a survey on gift card usage patterns commissioned by Stored Value Systems (SVS SVS - OS/VS2 ), one of the nation's leading suppliers of gift cards. You can reach the story directly by going to http://www.newstream.com/cgi-bin/display_story.cgi?16056 -------------------------------------------------- Designing Accessibility Diebold's Dave Barker knows October is World Blindness Awareness Month. But he doesn't need the global observance to appreciate the needs of people who are blind. That's because Barker has spent every day for the last 15 years working to make Diebold products more accessible for people with disabilities. You can reach the story directly by going to http://www.newstream.com/cgi-bin/display_story.cgi?16054 -------------------------------------------------- Fine Living Network Takes Care of all Your Holiday Needs With Fine Living's Ultimate Holiday Gift Guide FINE LIVING TV Network takes the guesswork (and the sweaters) out of holiday shopping with a special dedicated to finding the perfect gift, when the second annual FINE LIVING Ultimate Holiday Gift Guide premieres Sunday, Nov. 21 (10 p.m. - 11 p.m. ET/PT). You can reach the story directly by going to http://www.newstream.com/cgi-bin/display_story.cgi?16055 -------------------------------------------------- ESPN Deportes Launches Cronometro ESPN Deportes has launched Cronometro (Stopwatch), an innovative, sports news, information, and debate program devoted to the discussion of headline issues surrounding Latino sports stars. You can reach the story directly by going to http://www.newstream.com/cgi-bin/display_story.cgi?16057 -------------------------------------------------- Original Movie Poster Art of 'E.T' And 'Star Wars' to be Auctioned by Joseph Maddalena's Profiles in History Company Dec. 10, 2004 Original poster art of two of the most popular movies of all time -- "Star Wars" and "E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial," each expected to sell for between $100,000 and $250,000-have been added to the nearly 500 movie and TV memorabilia items to be auctioned Dec. 10 by Joseph Maddalena's Profiles In History, the number one company in the world for live and simultaneous Internet Hollywood memorabilia auctions. You can reach the story directly by going to http://www.newstream.com/cgi-bin/display_story.cgi?16059 -------------------------------------------------- Children Across America Hold National Vote and Elect the Military Grown-ups in America may be going to the polls in a few days to elect -- or re-elect re·e·lect also re-e·lect tr.v. re·e·lect·ed, re·e·lect·ing, re·e·lects To elect again. re -- a President, but this week thousands of children across the nation chose a winner of their own in "The Great Community Cookie Election," as part of the Doubletree Teaching Kids to CARE(R) program, a community-based outreach initiative that connects Doubletree hotels with local elementary schools and youth groups to educate children on the importance of caring for others. You can reach the story directly by going to http://www.newstream.com/cgi-bin/display_story.cgi?16074 -------------------------------------------------- SUSS suss tr.v. sussed, suss·ing, suss·es Slang 1. To infer or discover; figure out: "I think I'm good at sussing out what's going on" Ry Cooder. Photolithography Solution Selected for Expanding Volume Manufacturing of LEDs Osram Opto Semiconductors continues to rely on photolithography solutions from SUSS MicroTec AG (FWB (Fixed Wireless Broadband) See fixed wireless. : SMH SMH Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) SMH St Michael's Hospital SMH Shaking My Head SMH Strong Memorial Hospital SMH Sanders Morris Harris Inc. SMH Screening for Mental Health, Inc. ) for its high volume light emitting diode See LED. (LED) production. In 2004 Osram Opto Semiconductors has placed an additional follow-on order for SUSS LithoFab200 Production Lithography Cluster. The cluster is used for the manufacturing of nitride and arsenide/phosphide based LEDs. You can reach the story directly by going to http://www.newstream.com/cgi-bin/display_story.cgi?16080 -------------------------------------------------- Putting the Brakes on Car Thieves Protecting yourself and your vehicle from thieves is the subject of our next report. Radio News Feature. You can reach the story directly by going to http://www.newstream.com/cgi-bin/display_story.cgi?16079 -------------------------------------------------- Consumer Impact of Check 21 New legislation is going to change the way banks process your checks. Radio News Feature. You can reach the story directly by going to http://www.newstream.com/cgi-bin/display_story.cgi?16078 -------------------------------------------------- The American Leisure Boat Industry Feels the Pressure from International Niche Market Boat Builders at the 45th Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show This Week Vessels to the tune of 1.6 billion USD USD In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the U.S. Dollar. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. , covering 3 000 000 square feet on land and water, grace our coastline today: the world's largest gathering of luxury yachts. But Supremo su·pre·mo n. pl. su·pre·mos Chiefly British One who is highest in authority or command, as of an organization. [Spanish and Italian, supreme, supremo, from Latin Italian boating company, Cranchi (pronounced crankey) leads the world by presenting aircraft technology on pleasure boats. You can reach the story directly by going to http://www.newstream.com/cgi-bin/display_story.cgi?16077 -------------------------------------------------- J.D. Power and Associates Reports: Satisfaction with Wireless Mobile Phones Increases Significantly as Customer Ratings Improve in Features and Design Overall satisfaction among wireless mobile phone owners has increased 5 percent over 2003 -- the first time a significant increase has been achieved on a year-to-year basis since the report's inception three years ago -- according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2004 U.S. Wireless Mobile Phone Evaluation Study(SM) released October 28. You can reach the story directly by going to http://www.newstream.com/cgi-bin/display_story.cgi?16076 -------------------------------------------------- CenturyTel Reports Third Quarter Earnings CenturyTel, Inc. (NYSE Symbol: CTL See control key. 1. CTL - Checkout Test language. 2. CTL - Compiler Target Language. 3. CTL - Computational Tree Logic ) announces operating results for third quarter 2004 that met or exceeded First Call consensus estimates. You can reach the story directly by going to http://www.newstream.com/cgi-bin/display_story.cgi?16073 -------------------------------------------------- Covad Communications Hosts 35th Anniversary of the Origins of the Internet Event Covad Communications Group, Inc. (OTCBB OTCBB See OTC Bulletin Board (OTCBB). : COVD COVD College of Optometrists in Vision Development COVD Covad Communications Group (stock symbol) ), a leading nationwide provider of broadband voice and data communications, and the Commonwealth Club Silicon Valley, last night hosted an event noting the 35th Anniversary of the Origins of the Internet at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California For the census-designated place, see Mountain View, Contra Costa County, California. For other places called "Mountain View", see . Mountain View is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. The city gets its name from the views of the Santa Cruz Mountains. . You can reach the story directly by going to http://www.newstream.com/cgi-bin/display_story.cgi?16075 -------------------------------------------------- John Muir Medical Center's Emergency Department Receives Top Award From California Emergency Physicians Medical Group John Muir Medical Center's Emergency Department, Walnut Creek, Calif., has received the 2004 Emergency Department of the Year Award from California Emergency Physicians (CEP CEP congenital erythropoietic porphyria. CEP abbr. congenital erythropoietic porphyria ) Medical Group. As Contra Costa County's designated Level 2 Trauma Center trauma center n. A medical facility that is designated to treat severe physical trauma as a result of the specialized training of its staff and the availability of appropriate diagnostic and treatment tools. , John Muir's Emergency Department will provide emergency care to more than 45,000 patients this year, including 1,200 trauma victims from Contra Costa, Solano, and Marin Counties. You can reach the story directly by going to http://www.newstream.com/cgi-bin/display_story.cgi?16072 -------------------------------------------------- Spire Corporation Launches the ALTA LRTM LRTM Long Range Training Mission Fixed-tip Catheter at the American Society of Nephrology's Annual Meeting Spire Corporation (Nasdaq:SPIR SPIR Symmetric Private Information Retrieval SPIR Spectroscopie Dans le Proche Infrarouge (French: Near Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy) SPIR Spare Parts List and Interchangeability Record ) on October the 28th announced that Spire Biomedical bi·o·med·i·cal adj. 1. Of or relating to biomedicine. 2. Of, relating to, or involving biological, medical, and physical sciences. , its wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. , is formally introducing its new ALTA LRTM fixed-tip catheter and exhibiting its other catheter products at the American Society of Nephrology's ("ASN (1) (Autonomous System Number) A unique identifier of an autonomous system on the Internet. Of the 65 thousand ASNs available, more than 30 thousand have been assigned to ISPs and NSPs. ISPs usually have only one ASN, but NSPs may have more than one. ") Annual Meeting in St. Louis, Missouri, October 29 - November 1, 2004 (Booth No. 1112). You can reach the story directly by going to http://www.newstream.com/cgi-bin/display_story.cgi?16071 -------------------------------------------------- PlayStation 2 Slims Down in Advance of Christmas European computer gamers will be able to get their hands on the very latest PlayStation(R) 2 on November the 1st, following the console's recent launch at the Tokyo Game Show The Tokyo Game Show (東京ゲームショウ . You can reach the story directly by going to http://www.newstream.com/cgi-bin/display_story.cgi?16051 -------------------------------------------------- Artificial Intelligence Drives New Fitness Technology Yourself!Fitness, by Portland-based responDESIGN, is the first fitness game program for the Xbox(R) video game system from Microsoft, representing an innovative combination of existing technology and the current body of knowledge surrounding physical fitness creating a new game genre: Interactive Home Fitness with a Virtual Personal Trainer. You can reach the story directly by going to http://www.newstream.com/cgi-bin/display_story.cgi?16068 -------------------------------------------------- GM to Produce Hummer H3 at Shreveport Plant Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco today hailed General Motors' selection of Shreveport for its new HUMMER H3 product line, Louisiana's third major manufacturing announcement in the last three months. You can reach the story directly by going to http://www.newstream.com/cgi-bin/display_story.cgi?16066 -------------------------------------------------- Saving Lives With Supercomputers A new supercomputer is helping in weather prediction and homeland security. Radio News Feature. You can reach the story directly by going to http://www.newstream.com/cgi-bin/display_story.cgi?16064 -------------------------------------------------- Myron (Mike) Ullman Named Chairman And CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of JCpenney Myron E. Ullman III has been named to succeed Allen Questrom as chairman and chief executive officer of J. C. Penney This article is about the department store chain. For its founder, see James Cash Penney. For the Irish retail chain branded Penney's, see Primark. J. C. Penney Company, Inc [1](NYSE: JCP; most commonly known today by the name JCPenney or simply Company, Inc. (NYSE:JCP See Java Community Process. JCP - Java Community Process ). He will join the company on December 1, 2004. You can reach the story directly by going to http://www.newstream.com/cgi-bin/display_story.cgi?16061 -------------------------------------------------- Bits, Bytes and Your Car The new technologies being used in cars have made these vehicles smarter and safer. So, does this technical complexity effect how your vehicle is repaired? Radio News Feature. You can reach the story directly by going to http://www.newstream.com/cgi-bin/display_story.cgi?16060 -------------------------------------------------- Unilever Cosmetics International Announces New Head Of Global Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most Unilever Cosmetics International (UCI UCI University of California, Irvine UCI Union Cycliste Internationale (International Cycling Union) UCI Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos UCI United Cinemas International (UK) ) announced today that Daniele Cardelia has joined Unilever Cosmetics International as vice president, Global Public Relations reporting directly to Laura Klauberg, senior vice president of Global Marketing. 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