(SkyNewswire.com)---TORONTO, ONTARIO--Wajax Income Fund (TSX:WJX.UN)today announced that its Industrial Components business unit, Kinecor, has agreed to acquire the assets of Weir Process Equipment, a division of Weir Canada Inc. for $25.4 million, subject to post-closing adjustments. The transaction is conditional on approval by the federal Competition Bureau. Closing will occur following receipt of approval which is expected in September. Weir Process Equipment, which was previously known as Peacock Inc., is a leading distributor of pumps, process controls and instrumentation, filtration products and material handling equipment to the oil & gas, power generation, mining and infrastructure sectors across Canada. These products are complementary to Kinecor's current offering and the acquisition significantly enhances Kinecor's position in the Canadian process equipment market. The acquired business will be combined with Kinecor's process equipment operation under the Peacock name.

(SkyNewswire.com)---TOLEDO, OH--Xunlight Corporation, a leader in the development of low-cost and flexible thin-film silicon solar modules, today announced it has received $11 million of additional financing from institutional investors. The investment was led by Rabo Ventures, a division of Rabobank, a top 25 global financial institution based in the Netherlands. Existing investors Trident Capital and Emerald Technology Ventures also participated in the financing.

The proceeds of this investment will be used to fund expansion of manufacturing operations and for working capital requirements. The Company operates a 2 Megawatt roll-to-roll pilot production line and is building a 25 Megawatt roll-to-roll production line to manufacture flexible and lightweight photovoltaic products.

(SkyNewswire.com)---AUSTIN, TX-- Entrepreneur and Artist Paula Parker, owner of Paula Parker Designs, Austin, TX, donated an art piece to a Denver, Colorado charity today.

"The Little Gym of Fort Worth, Texas, a children's gymnastics gym, is a great nonprofit organization and I am delighted to donate my artwork as a token of my appreciation," explained Paula Parker, Owner, Paula Parker Designs, Austin, TX. "It is a worthy cause, and I love to see children get more interested in gymnastics, especially after watching the just-ended Summer Olympics in Beijing."

(SkyNewswire.com)---NEWMARKET, ONTARIO-- George Jupp, 40, of Markham, pleaded guilty in the Ontario Court of Justice in Newmarket on August 25, 2008, to three counts of income tax and GST evasion. He was fined $50,000. The fine is in addition to any taxes and interest owed, as well as any civil penalties that may be assessed by the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA).

A CRA investigation revealed that Mr. Jupp, owner/operator of The Blind Guys and Capital Property Management, and a self-employed real estate agent, under-reported his income by $260,486 in tax years 2000, 2001, and 2002. The investigation further determined that Mr. Jupp also under-reported taxable GST sales for his three businesses during the same years. As a result, during the tax years 2000, 2001, and 2002, he tried to evade paying $61,648 in federal income taxes, and did not remit $19,057 in GST.

(SkyNewswire.com)---LINDON, UT--Oceanic Research & Recovery, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: ORRV), a marine salvage and exploration company, today announced that it is extending its permit rights with the Kirby Group LLC, at the "Kirby" site near Key West Florida through the remainder of the 2008 season.

"We've been working all summer at Kirby and this week we again engaged the services of Sonographics Inc. to perform more Mag, Sub-Bottom, and Side-scan work within a square mile area of the site while the weather permits," said William Shupe, ORR's President. "The RV Deepscan, our main research vessel, has been in excellent operating condition since April and a major asset to our search efforts. We have also cut our operating costs by approximately 60% since taking over the Key West operations."

(SkyNewswire.com)---VANCOUVER, BC-- Utherverse, Inc., developer of virtual worlds RedLightCenter.com and Virtual-Vancouver.com, today announced it has developed a new beach-themed virtual world in conjunction with Rude.com, an adult entertainment web site. The team-up will allow Rude.com members to utilize the virtual world through their existing memberships and increase the affiliated virtual space offered by Utherverse.

RudeVirtual's beach world setting offers avatars the opportunity to explore a coastal city setting, including private yachts, nightclubs, the RudeStore (Rude merchandise), the RudeTV theater (streaming RudeTV.com content), a hotel with meeting rooms and a bar, and more social settings. Members can chat, dance and interact with other members through their avatars.

With a VIP membership, RudeVirtual users can take advantage of private messaging, advanced avatar customizations, and enhanced, intimate social experiences. The company is currently working to develop private apartments for VIP members.

(SkyNewswire.com)---DENVER, CO-- TrackVia, Inc. (www.trackvia.com), provider of a powerful online database application for small- to mid-sized businesses (SMBs) and enterprise project teams, today announced the company's new headquarters have been moved to the heart of downtown Denver, inside the well-known LoDo historic brick buildings, originally built in 1909. The company moved from its original location in Golden to support its continuous growth in terms of worldwide customer sign-ups and new TrackVia employees.

"We're going through a great time of growth as more and more businesses learn about the benefits of having an online database support their business," said Chris Basham, TrackVia's president. "Once business people see how much more they can do with TrackVia, than say a traditional spreadsheet program like Excel, they immediately sign up."

(SkyNewswire.com)---AGASSIZ, BRITISH COLUMBIA--The Honourable Stockwell Day, Minister of Public Safety, today announced a new anti-drug strategy and $120 million in funding over five years to help eliminate drugs in federal prisons.

"Our Government has a zero tolerance policy for drugs in our institutions. Illicit drugs in federal prisons compromise the safety and security of correctional staff as well as our communities," said Minister Day in a visit to Kent Institution. "Drugs undermine the success of our rehabilitation programs and increase offender recidivism rates. The policy announced today will help better detect and eliminate drugs in federal prisons."

This prison anti-drug policy will:

(SkyNewswire.com)---ALBUQUERQUE, NM-- Gas prices in New Mexico dropped slightly last week and the state's average price for a gallon of gasoline is now $3.74 a gallon. Gasoline in New Mexico is seven cents higher than the national average of $3.67. Nationally, prices fell another two cents last week. The cost of oil began its downward trend on July 17th and gasoline prices have dropped every day since then.

This week Albuquerque has the least expensive gas at $3.63, but the one week decrease was very small, less than a penny from last Friday. Gasoline also fell by some two-and-a-half cents in Santa Fe, however gasoline increased by more than a nickel in Las Cruces from a low of $3.59 up to nearly $3.65 today.

(SkyNewswire.com)---NEW YORK--ImClone Systems Incorporated (NASDAQ: IMCL) today announced overall survival results from BMS CA225-099 (BMS-099), an open-label Phase 3 study of ERBITUX® (cetuximab) in combination with a taxane and carboplatin in the first-line treatment of all histological subtypes of advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

These results pertaining to overall survival, a secondary endpoint, are an update to the previously reported results for progression-free survival (PFS), the study’s primary endpoint, which were announced in June 2007. The study did not meet its primary endpoint of PFS, as assessed by an independent radiology review committee (IRRC). Response rate, as assessed by the IRRC, and PFS, as assessed by clinical investigators, were statistically significant and favored the ERBITUX-containing arm.

(SkyNewswire.com)--- Los Angeles, CA -- American Elements announced today I-Mite™, a new nanoscale indium powder, which can be produced in commercial scale batches to meet the needs of many recently developed transparent anti-static coatings and surfaces.

I-Mite™ combines anti-static, transparency, and scratch resistant properties to create an ideal next generation material for electronic packaging, flat panel displays, clean room surfaces and many other applications. Additionally, I-Mite™ indium nanoparticles are electronically conductive. This property is currently being investigated for application in future photovoltaic (solar energy) cell designs and in medical and bioscience imaging technologies.

(SkyNewswire.com)---MUNICH, Germany & BARCELONA, Spain--Linde Nippon Sanso today announced that it has been awarded the exclusive contract to supply high purity gases to Spain’s first thin film solar cell manufacturing plant set up by T-Solar S.A. in Ourense, Galicia (Spain).

Under this agreement, Linde Nippon Sanso will provide T-Solar with turnkey installation of the plant’s bulk and special gases supply systems and ongoing delivery of the gases essential to making thin film solar cells. These gases include large volumes of silane and hydrogen gas, used to deposit silicon light absorber layers on large area sheets of glass used in solar panels.

“As the search for renewable energy sources gains momentum globally, Linde Nippon Sanso’s collaboration with T-Solar is in line with our mission to enable solar energy to achieve grid parity and become more affordable for mass consumption,” said Andreas Guenther, President, Linde Nippon Sanso. “T-Solar’s choice of Linde Nippon Sanso as the exclusive supplier reiterates our strengths in advanced gas technologies for thin film manufacturing.”

(SkyNewswire.com)---NEW YORK & STOCKHOLM, Sweden--Millicom International Cellular S.A. (NASDAQ:MICC) (STO:MIC), the global telecommunications company, today announces that it has launched 3G services in Guatemala, Honduras and Bolivia. The launches in Paraguay, El Salvador and Colombia will follow today, on 2nd September 2008 and before the end of this year respectively, completing the roll-out of 3G across all six of its markets in Latin America. Millicom is providing the full portfolio of 3G services including high speed mobile broadband, internet access for mobile customers via laptop, TV on mobile handsets, music and video downloads and video calling.

Marc Beuls, President and CEO of Millicom commented; "The launch of 3G services in Latin America is the first step in the process of meeting the needs of our higher ARPU customers for broadband services. Broadband is expected to be a significant growth segment in these markets and one which we expect will be an important driver to our businesses going forward.”

(SkyNewswire.com)---MUNICH, Germany--TomTec launches its 2D Cardiac Performance Analysis package as part of TomTec’s CardioArena™ multimodality imaging solution at the European Society of Cardiology congress 2008 in Munich.

2D Cardiac Performance Analysis© allows a cardiologist to study the behaviour of the heart muscle quickly and easily. Quantitative assessment of displacement, velocity and strain in individual muscle segments is available. This helps in diagnosing pathologies like hypertrophic cardiomyopathy or also dyssynchronous ventricles that might have to be treated by cardiac resynchronisation therapy.

2D Cardiac Performance Analysis© is a speckle tracking based analysis tool which can analyze 2D data from various ultrasound machines. The user can work with different ultrasound systems in his network and is not limited to specific vendors.

(SkyNewswire.com)---SAN JOSE, Calif.--Singularity Summit 2008: Opportunity, Risk, Leadership takes place October 25 at the intimate Montgomery Theater in San Jose, CA, the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence announced today. Now in its third year, the Singularity Summit gathers the smartest people around to explore the biggest idea of our time: the Singularity.

Keynotes will include Ray Kurzweil, updating his predictions in The Singularity is Near, and Intel CTO Justin Rattner, who will examine the Singularity's plausibility. At the Intel Developer Forum on August 21, 2008, he explained why he thinks the gap between humans and machines will close by 2050. "Rather than look back, we're going to look forward 40 years," said Rattner. "It's in that future where many people think that machine intelligence will surpass human intelligence."

(SkyNewswire.com)---ST. LOUIS--St. Louis-based Antennas Direct introduced the first CEA-909A Smart Antenna for digital television. Antennas Direct, in partnership with the National Association Broadcasters, believes the Smart Antenna will peak consumer interest in over-the-air antenna technology.

These CEA-909A-compliant Smart Antennas are electronically steerable and tunable antennas that automatically optimize the performance for each particular digital television broadcast.

The goal of the Smart Antenna is to offer the power and performance normally found in larger outdoor antennas in a compact and attractive indoor form. By making over-the-air reception as reliable and consistent as pay TV, it is the hope of Antennas Direct and the NAB to bring viewers back to terrestrial broadcast television.

(SkyNewswire.com)---BOSTON--Tropical Storm Gustav is expected to gain hurricane strength as it crosses the Gulf of Mexico and heads toward Louisiana and the Gulf shores, and Liberty Mutual Insurance Company is again prepared for a prompt response to customers’ potential property damage from the storm and the anticipated tornadoes it produces. Liberty Mutual catastrophe teams are deployed throughout the area, ready to assist communities hardest hit by the storm.

Liberty Mutual auto and homeowner customers can report their claims 24 hours a day by calling 1-800-2-CLAIMS (1-800-225-2467).

(SkyNewswire.com)---ORINDA, Calif.--Intraware, Inc. (NASDAQ:ITRA), a provider of digital delivery and management services, announced today that Mentor Graphics Corporation, a technology leader in electronic hardware and software design solutions, has renewed its contract for the Intraware SubscribeNet(R) electronic software delivery and management platform.

An Intraware customer since 2004, Mentor Graphics will continue to benefit from the SubscribeNet service that gives users access to flexible, real-time electronic software delivery, including granular entitlement management and extensive reporting capabilities. SubscribeNet is well-known for enabling technology companies to improve efficiencies and reduce the costs of software and license delivery across all sales channels.

(SkyNewswire.com)---BERLIN--The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)® announced today that the chief executives of Microsoft, Sony and Ford will deliver keynote addresses at the 2009 International CES®. Produced by CEA, the 2009 International CES, the world’s largest consumer technology tradeshow, is scheduled for January 8-11, 2009, in Las Vegas, Nevada.

“These exciting keynote speakers demonstrate that the 2009 International CES is the hub of activity in the consumer electronics, entertainment content, and automotive industries,” said CEA President and CEO Gary Shapiro. “Steve Ballmer and Sir Howard Stringer are driving forces behind the continued growth of the consumer technology industry. Alan Mulally is a true visionary spurring technology innovation in the automotive market. These leaders are changing the way technology is being incorporated into new markets, and CES attendees will all benefit from these keynotes unveiling the next generation of technology.”

(SkyNewswire.com)--- Somerset, KY -- Tranzon Asset Advisors, a national real estate auction firm, has been appointed by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court to sell at Absolute Auction the assets of PHS Group, Inc. and its subsidiaries including The Somerset Refinery, Inc., and Somerset Oil, Inc., located in Somerset, Kentucky, 80 miles south of Lexington, Kentucky. The refining operations and plant of Somerset Oil is one of the only two refineries in Kentucky and was operational in late 2007. The Chapter 11 Trustee, Mr. William D. Bishop, upon order of the Court has employed the expertise of Tranzon to market the assets to a world-wide audience and new buyers are being contacted daily through its advertising campaign.

This incredible opportunity to own and operate a refinery is not limited just to the refining plant. Rather the ''Right to Refine Crude Oil'' in the United States presents potential suitors with a chance to trade oil and petroleum products as well as contract for raw crude with regional and international impact. Somerset Oil is an attractive opportunity for Strategic, Portfolio, or Financial investment with growth potential and excellent returns, based on an over 50 year track record.

(SkyNewswire.com)--- UK -- Swinton, the UK's leading high street motor insurance retailer sees a spike in motoring claims at the start of the new school year during the first two weeks of September.

The school run accounts for 20% of the cars on the road at peak times* and Swinton believes that this increased volume of traffic after the quieter summer months is responsible for a 10% increase in the amount of car insurance claims.

A significant number of claims made are due to accidents occurring inside school zones. According to the Department of Transport 41% of children are driven to school by their parents** and this volume of traffic means that the roads surrounding schools are becoming increasingly busy. Invariably the risk of an accident increases where there is a condensed amount of traffic in one spot and Swinton is warning drivers to be extra vigilant.

(SkyNewswire.com)--- Houston, TX -- ConnectMyHighSpeed.com, a nationwide online marketplace that helps consumers connect their high-speed Internet, wants to let parents know that upgrading from dial-up can help their children finish their schoolwork faster.

Switching to a high-speed Internet connection can give students, and all consumers, download speeds up to 100 times faster than dial-up. To a student that means the difference between waiting a few seconds to download a PDF needed to write a research paper or waiting 30 minutes. Every moment saved in the hassle of gathering information, or just finding that extra tutorial that makes math make sense, helps students more effectively learn.

(SkyNewswire.com)--- London, England -- An inability to compliment and be complimented is damaging our emotional wellbeing, claims a new report by NIVEA body.

The report found almost three quarters (72%) of British people have admired somebody but held back from complimenting them. We also lack the social skills to accept compliments well: 57% of people say they feel uncomfortable when given a compliment, rising to 64% among self-conscious 18-24 year olds.

A three-month long social psychology experiment by NIVEA body into factors that could improve body confidence, attributed this 'compliment constipation' to a negative internal voice representing values acquired in childhood. A group of 29 women were trained to override this voice so they could trade compliments more freely and 59% had a significant improvement in their self-esteem as a result.

(SkyNewswire.com)---Santa Barbara, CA -- How does the Electoral College work? Does media bias influence what voters do at the polls? What influence have special-interest groups had on past presidential elections? With less than two months until the most historic presidential election in decades, school librarians and teachers can use the excitement of current events as a springboard to answer questions about campaigns and voters, and teach the history of our country's political process with an authoritative and intriguing collection of free resources from ABC-CLIO. Launching on September 5, 2008, "Presidential Elections: In History & Today" will feature historical background on elections paired with classroom activities and research project ideas that will help put Campaign 2008 into historical context for students.

(SkyNewswire.com)--- Tempe, Arizona -- Whether you are a Texas Longhorns fan or you root for the Penn State Nittany Lions, TicketFeeder has all of your college football ticket needs! Wish you had college football tickets to your alma mater's famous rivalry game? Go to TicketFeeder (www.ticketfeeder.com) or call 1-888-480-TIXX (8499), a new retail ticket outlet that provides premium seats to great shows, ball games and theater performances -- with outstanding customer service.

This fall, fans will watch the great American gridiron of college football and cheer their favorite team to victory! With the #1 ranked Georgia Bulldogs facing their first hurdle on the road to a possible national championship season, you can purchase your college football tickets college to see their September 20th game at Sun Devil Stadium against #15 ranked Arizona State which is expected to be a great test.