Newstream Digest: Preparing Your Vehicle for Cold Weather, 2005 Online Shopping Directory 'For Dummies,' New Study in Diabetes Care & 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 Preparing Your Vehicle for Cold Weather During the fall, many auto dealers will offer free, multipoint inspections for your car, truck or SUV. And while that may sound like a marketing gimmick just to lure you in, it serves as a good reminder that with cold weather coming, you should have your vehicle in its best condition. 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?15643 -------------------------------------------------- New Study in Diabetes Care: Toenails Tell Tale of Chromium, Diabetes & Heart Disease Over 18 million Americans have type 2 diabetes type 2 diabetes n. See diabetes mellitus. , substantially increasing their risk of heart disease. Findings from a new study by the Harvard School of Public Health The Harvard School of Public Health is (colloquially, HSPH) is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. Located in Longwood Area of the Boston, Massachusetts neighborhood of Mission Hill, next to Harvard Medical School and Cambridge, Massachusetts, indicate that a key to prevention may lie in toenails -- where essential trace minerals, such as chromium, are stored. Video Available. You can reach the story directly by going to http://www.newstream.com/cgi-bin/display_story.cgi?15628 -------------------------------------------------- Find Savings.com and For Dummies(R) Help Consumers Shop and Save Online With billions of sites listed throughout the Internet, how do consumers know where to shop, who is reputable and where to get the best savings? FindSavings.com has partnered with Wiley, publisher of the 2005 Online Shopping Directory A shopping directory is a web directory style website similar to the Open Directory Project or the Yahoo! Directory with focus on sites that sell products or services, usually referred to as ecommerce websites. For Dummies due out October 2004 to answer all those questions and more. You can reach the story directly by going to http://www.newstream.com/cgi-bin/display_story.cgi?15621 -------------------------------------------------- Lady Death Is Haunting Homes Everywhere This Halloween Move over all you Freddys and Jasons, Halloween has a new character invading the minds of America's youth and she's a lady! Lady Death(R), the enormously popular comic character, debuted in her first animated film, Lady Death(R): The Motion Picture, on October 5 at video stores nationwide. You can reach the story directly by going to http://www.newstream.com/cgi-bin/display_story.cgi?15190 -------------------------------------------------- Brush up on Fire Safety Basics In recognition of National Fire Prevention week, MetLife Auto & Home is offering free fire safety materials, including a coloring and activity book entitled "Learn About Fire Safety with the PEANUTS(TM) Gang," a colorful "Fires and Wildfires" poster, and a fire safety brochure entitled "About...Fire Safety." They are available by calling 1-800-638-5433 (MET-LIFE). You can reach the story directly by going to http://www.newstream.com/cgi-bin/display_story.cgi?15650 -------------------------------------------------- J.D. Power and Associates Reports: T-Mobile Ranks Highest in Wireless Retail Sales Satisfaction Performance T-Mobile ranks highest in overall retail sales customer satisfaction among the top seven largest wireless providers, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the J.D. Power and Associates 2004 Wireless Retail Sales Satisfaction Study(SM) released on October the 6th. You can reach the story directly by going to http://www.newstream.com/cgi-bin/display_story.cgi?15653 -------------------------------------------------- World's First Fitness Game for Xbox(R) - Yourself!Fitness(TM) - Set to Ship to Retailers on October 4 In October, everyone in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. will have access to what Rosemary Ellis, Editorial Director, Prevention Magazine has called "An innovative, customizable fitness program that keeps pace with you like a personal trainer personal trainer person n → (persönlicher) Fitnesstrainer m, (persönliche) Fitnesstrainerin f would." You can reach the story directly by going to http://www.newstream.com/cgi-bin/display_story.cgi?15634 -------------------------------------------------- Towers Perrin Towers Perrin is a global professional services firm. It was established 1 March 1934 as Towers, Perrin, Forster & Crosby. The umbrella name of Towers Perrin was adopted in 1987. Projects an 8% Increase in Employer-Sponsored Health Care Costs for 2005 According to the 2005 Towers Perrin Health Care Cost Survey, employers can expect an 8% increase in 2005 health care costs and, thus, the first significant break in the double-digit cost spiral in over half a decade. But before employers and employees rejoice, closer analysis reveals that, dollar for dollar, next year's cost increase, at an average of $582 per employee, is still unsustainable for most employers. You can reach the story directly by going to http://www.newstream.com/cgi-bin/display_story.cgi?15652 -------------------------------------------------- 61-Year-Old Oxygen-Dependent Cyclist Completes 3,400-Mile Cross-Country Trek Tuesday, October 5th, sixty-one-year-old Mark Junge capped off a 3,400-mile bicycle journey from San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden to New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. with a victory celebration in Times Square. Video available. You can reach the story directly by going to http://www.newstream.com/cgi-bin/display_story.cgi?15639 -------------------------------------------------- Ekips Technologies, Inc. Receives NIH "Not invented here." See digispeak. NIH - The United States National Institutes of Health. Phase II Grant to Fund Human Asthma Testing With Breathmeter(TM) in Partnership with American Lung Association The American Lung Association (ALA) is a non-profit organization that "fights lung disease in all its forms, with special emphasis on asthma, tobacco control and environmental health". of Oklahoma Ekips Technologies, Inc., announced the company has received a $750,000 Phase II National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant from the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI NHLBI, n.pr See National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. ) to support clinical studies for obtaining FDA FDA abbr. Food and Drug Administration FDA, n.pr See Food and Drug Administration. FDA, n.pr the abbreviation for the Food and Drug Administration. approval of the company's initial product -- The Breathmeter(TM). You can reach the story directly by going to http://www.newstream.com/cgi-bin/display_story.cgi?15631 -------------------------------------------------- Build-A-Bear Workshop Build-A-Bear Workshop (NYSE: BBW) is an American retailer that sells customizable teddy bears and other stuffed animals. Build-A-Bear is the largest of the create-your-own animal chains with the other companies in the business consisting of regional and/or locally-owned (R) and Sesame Workshop Sesame Workshop: see Cooney, Joan Ganz. to Launch Make-Your-Own Elmo Build-A-Bear Workshop, Where Best Friends Are Made(R), is teaming up with Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit educational organization behind Sesame Street(R), to offer their Guests an opportunity to create their first ever, very own plush Elmo. You can reach the story directly by going to http://www.newstream.com/cgi-bin/display_story.cgi?15647 -------------------------------------------------- Samsung Heralds the Video Communication Age In the surroundings of the world famous British Museum, 'creating the future together' was the clear message as Samsung Electronics showcased a range of new products that will lead the 'Video Communication Age.' You can reach the story directly by going to http://www.newstream.com/cgi-bin/display_story.cgi?15654 -------------------------------------------------- MGA Entertainment Powers Up with 4Kids Entertainment to Bring ALIEN RACERS to Fox Television in 2005 MGA Entertainment, a consumer entertainment products company most noted for the worldwide doll sensation BRATZ(R), has joined forces with leading youth-oriented entertainment company 4Kids Entertainment to bring its new boys' action property ALIEN RACERS(TM) to Saturday morning television starting in spring of 2005 during the FOX BOX(TM) lineup on the Fox television network. You can reach the story directly by going to http://www.newstream.com/cgi-bin/display_story.cgi?15651 -------------------------------------------------- Over $30,000 Raised for the Citizens for the Maricopa County Colleges Bond Campaign at an Event Sponsored By CORE Construction and ADM See add/drop multiplexer. (language) ADM - A picture query language, extension of Sequel2. ["An Image-Oriented Database System", Y. Takao et al, in Database Techniques for Pictorial Applications, A. Blaser ed, pp. 527-538]. CORE Construction Services of Arizona and ADM Group raised over $30,000 for the Citizens for the Maricopa County Community Colleges Bond Campaign at a fundraiser event last week. Special guests included Luis "Gonzo" Gonzalez of the Arizona Diamondbacks, Mary Rose Wilcox, Maricopa County Board of Supervisors The examples and perspective in this article or section may represent an unduly geographically limited view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. The Board of Supervisors is the body governing counties in the U.S. ; Steve Chanen, Chairman of the Citizens for Maricopa Community Colleges Committee; Dr. Rufus Glasper, Chancellor of Maricopa Community Colleges; Lionel Diaz, Director of Capital Planning for Maricopa Community Colleges; and Steven Helgot, Vice Chancellor of Maricopa Community Colleges. Dennis Montague, Vice President of Construction Services for CORE Construction and Ben Barcon, Principal of ADM Group, were the Masters of Ceremonies for the evening. You can reach the story directly by going to http://www.newstream.com/cgi-bin/display_story.cgi?15633 -------------------------------------------------- Muvico Theaters Premier Movie-Going Experience to Be Big 'Entertainment' Player at Meadowlands Xanadu Muvico Theaters, Inc. and The Mills Corporation jointly announced that industry leader Muvico Theaters will build a 26-screen, 6,500-seat 160,000-square-foot megaplex movie theater at Meadowlands Xanadu, the 4.8 million-square-foot family entertainment, shopping and office complex in Northern New Jersey. Megaplex plans include a Premier Level with nine balcony auditoriums and a full-service restaurant and bar plus a 15,000 square foot rooftop terrace featuring a 60-foot outdoor screen for outdoor movie viewing with a helipad hel·i·pad n. See heliport. A prepared area designated and used for takeoff and landing of helicopters. (Includes touchdown or hover point.) and private access for VIPs to the Premier Level. You can reach the story directly by going to http://www.newstream.com/cgi-bin/display_story.cgi?15636 -------------------------------------------------- Canon's First Super High-Resolution Projector With Imaging So Real, It's Called Realis After years of research and development, Canon introduced a product intended not only to impact the presentation and multimedia industry but also to add new light to advances in projection technology. A product of superior Canon optical engineering, Realis SX50 is a revolutionary new multimedia projector with super-high (SXGA (Super XGA) A screen resolution of 1280x1024 pixels. SXGA is commonly used on standard monitors, but provides a 1.25:1 aspect ratio, compared to the more common 1.33:1 (4:3) ratio. SXGA+ has a 1400x1050 resolution, which is an exact 1.33:1 ratio. See PC display modes. +) resolution utilizing Canon's patented proprietary AISYS AISYS Aspectual Illumination System (Aspectual Illumination System) technology, which delivers high brightness and high contrast with outstanding image quality in a compact size. You can reach the story directly by going to http://www.newstream.com/cgi-bin/display_story.cgi?15640 -------------------------------------------------- Microsun(R) Combines Beauty and Technology to Create the Best Reading Lamp Microsun(R) combines metal halide halide: see halogen. technology with beautiful and unique table and floor lamp designs to create the best reading lamps available. The unique technology of Microsun lamps helps users to see better, while providing energy savings and longer product life. You can reach the story directly by going to http://www.newstream.com/cgi-bin/display_story.cgi?15641 -------------------------------------------------- Introducing the Next Generation of Lighting - Breakthrough Digital Light Bulbs Make Super-Efficient Lighting Truly Affordable for the Mass Market At a time of sharply rising energy costs, super-efficient, cost-effective lighting for commercial, industrial, and residential applications takes a long-awaited, major step forward with the introduction of Optimized Digital Lighting (ODL ODL Open & Distance Learning ODL Oklahoma Department of Libraries ODL Object Description Language ODL Object Definition Language ODL Oxford Digital Library (service of Oxford University Libraries Service) ) - a revolutionary LED (light emitting diode See LED. ) light bulb, representing the first 100% digital and 100% solid state, high performance, low cost LED floodlight from Lighting Science, Inc., a subsidiary of The Phoenix Group Corporation (PXGC) of Dallas, Texas. You can reach the story directly by going to http://www.newstream.com/cgi-bin/display_story.cgi?15646 -------------------------------------------------- Are Rodents Putting You at Risk? Did you know that rats and mice are carriers of serious diseases such as salmonella, trichinosis trichinosis (trĭk'ĭnō`sĭs) or trichiniasis (trĭk'ĭnī`əsĭs), parasitic disease caused by the roundworm Trichinella spiralis. , even plague? Fall is the time when rats and mice begin moving into unsuspecting homes looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. food and shelter. Radio News Feature. You can reach the story directly by going to http://www.newstream.com/cgi-bin/display_story.cgi?15648 -------------------------------------------------- 2 Is Twice as Nice Where would we be without duos? Imagine Will without Grace, Hall without Oates or Mickey without Minnie. A new survey by Mr. Clean Magic Eraser DUO found that America loves its pairs, from favorite Hollywood power couple Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt, to favorite food Spaghetti and Meatballs Noun 1. spaghetti and meatballs - spaghetti with meatballs in a tomato sauce dish - a particular item of prepared food; "she prepared a special dish for dinner" . Radio News Feature. You can reach the story directly by going to http://www.newstream.com/cgi-bin/display_story.cgi?15649 -------------------------------------------------- Luminous Networks Extends the Breadth of Its RPR (Resilient Packet Ring) A packet-based protocol that provides fault tolerance and statistical multiplexing for the metropolitan and national SONET and Ethernet networks of the carriers. Solutions with the E100 Packet Ring Access Platforms Luminous Networks(TM) unveiled the PacketWave(TM) E100 Family of Packet Ring Access Platforms which enables service providers to offer true multi-service applications over Ethernet-based Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs) while setting a new industry benchmark for price and performance. You can reach the story directly by going to http://www.newstream.com/cgi-bin/display_story.cgi?15645 -------------------------------------------------- ExxonMobil Chemical Announces Charismatic Interiors for Citroen C4 and Peugeot 1007 PSA (Professional Services Automation) An information system designed to organize, track and manage all opportunities, work, resources, costs, revenues and invoices to improve the productivity and efficiency of the workforce. Peugeot Citroen (PSA) has selected several Exxtral(TM) compounded polypropylene (PP) grades for the interior of its new Citroen C4 and Peugeot 1007 models, both unveiled at the Paris Motor Show. This selection reinforces ExxonMobil Chemical's position as a key supplier of thermoplastics to the automotive industry. You can reach the story directly by going to http://www.newstream.com/cgi-bin/display_story.cgi?15644 -------------------------------------------------- Yum! Brands Inc. Reports Third-Quarter Earnings Per Share, EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) A PostScript file format used to transfer a graphic image between applications and platforms. EPS files contain PostScript code as well as an optional preview image in TIFF, WMF, PICT or EPSI, the latter being an ASCII-only format. , of $0.61, an Increase of 12% Prior to Special Items Yum! Brands Inc. on October 5 reported results for the third quarter ended September 4, 2004. Download financial tables here. You can reach the story directly by going to http://www.newstream.com/cgi-bin/display_story.cgi?15638 -------------------------------------------------- Protecting Your Sight Cataracts and glaucoma glaucoma (glôkō`mə), ocular disorder characterized by pressure within the eyeball caused by an excessive amount of aqueous humor (the fluid substance filling the eyeball). aren't the only conditions you need to know about when it comes to protecting your eyesight. Radio News Feature. You can reach the story directly by going to http://www.newstream.com/cgi-bin/display_story.cgi?15635 -------------------------------------------------- About Newstream.com: Newstream.com is a joint venture of Business Wire (www.businesswire.com) and Medialink (www.medialink.com). 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