Iceland Reduces Corporate Tax Rate to 15%   The Icelandic government announced a reduction in the corporate tax rate to 15% last week -- a move welcomed by the Invest in Iceland Agency. 2008-02-24 (Friend of Issues Wire: 5)

Effectur Becomes National Customer Satisfaction Leader
Effectur, the nation's fastest growing tax resolution firm, announced today that it has reached a Net Promoter Score of 54%. This rating places Effectur as one of the top American companies in customer satisfaction according to this leading edge indicator. 2008-02-24

Heliproducts Industries Ltd. Exhibiting at the 60th Annual Heli-Expo Convention in Houston
Heliproducts Industries Ltd. will be exhibiting its lease and upgrade capabilities for the Eurocopter helicopter as well as their parts, sales and maintenance tooling product lines at this year's Heli-Expo Convention in Houston. 2008-02-24

Newly Invented Self Inflating Tire
SIT is an integral tire feature that uses atmospheric air to inflate the tire automatically when a vehicle is put in motion, compensating for natural loss of pressure and ensuring maintenance-free, constant tire pressure over the lifetime of the tire. 2008-02-24 (Friend of Issues Wire: 5)

Disappointed in Today's Government Leaders?
Use the 'Raise a Leader' Program to Raise Your Kind of Leader! 2008-02-24

General Discharge (Under Honorable Conditions) Upgraded to an Honorable Discharge
The Law Offices of Edmunds & Claery, LLP has received another favorable decision, this time from the Department of the Navy. On November 15, 2007 case number ND07-00466 was upgraded from a General Discharge (Under Honorable Conditions) to an Honorable Discharge. Attorney Alan Edmunds has shown, once again, that experience makes the difference. The Applicant was discharged from the Navy with a General (under honorable conditions) rating due to "personality disorder." Attorney Edmunds appeared in front of the Naval Discharge Review Board to present the Applicant's case and was able to prove that there was no evidence in the Applicant's service record of misconduct, and the Applicant's evaluation ratings did reflect an acceptable level of performance and conduct. The Law Offices of Edmunds & Claery, LLP represents individuals throughout the world with regard to Military matters. For more information please contact Alan V. Edmunds at www.alanedmunds.com or by phone at (800) 481-2526. 2008-02-24

The Faulk for Congress Election Committee Launches an Extensive New Website With 100 Pages of Valuable Voter Information   Faulk for Congress has just released a significant new website unlike any other Congressional Candidate's website that we have seen. The new website is well presented, easy to navigate and presents a wealth of continually updated information where all American voters can stay up to date with their preferred presidential candidates and the most important voter issues at hand. 2008-02-23 (Friend of Issues Wire: 27)

President Bush Recognizes Work of Mercy Ships in Africa as the Charity Begins 30th Year of Service with Field Service in Liberia   As American President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush wrapped up their six-day tour of Africa with a visit to Liberia today, Mercy Ships volunteer doctors from around the world began the first of several thousand surgeries onboard the Africa Mercy in the Port of Monrovia, just minutes away from the festivities. 2008-02-23

VetFriends.com Honors Veterans and Remembers Feb. 23, 1945 - The Raising of the Flag at Iwo Jima
VetFriends.com -- the largest Web site reuniting and supporting U.S. military veterans -- has created a World War II and Iwo Jima remembrance photo page at www.vetfriends.com/militarypics -- dedicated to all who served in the U.S. Armed Forces during World War II and moreover throughout history. 2008-02-23

Completion Rates of Healthcare Apprenticeships Triple in Last Two Years
The number of certificates issued for the successful completion of Apprenticeships in Health and Social Care has tripled in the last two years and increased six-fold since the start of the new millennium. 2008-02-23

Announcing the Launch of The Homeschool Lounge, a free online social network community for Homeschool Moms!
Thehomeschoollounge.com, a Social Networking Website Aimed at Helping Homeschool Moms Connect for Support and Encouragement. 2008-02-23

Artist Olan Montgomery's Eco-conscious Paintings to debut at Artexpo New York 2008   This year buyers at Artexpo New York 2008, one of the largest fine and popular art fairs in the world, will have even more to contemplate with pop artist Olan Montgomery's eco-conscious paintings depicting the individuals, children, insects and animals of our world covered in plastic. Yes, plastic, plastic vinyl to be exact. 2008-02-22 (Friend of Issues Wire: 10)

YES WE CAN: Real Brave Audio Song For Barack Obama On YouTube Receives Comments From "All Around The World"   Barack Obama's victory speech on Super Tuesday was the inspiration for the song Daniel Powers Jr wrote and arranged this past week . He used actual excerpts from Obama's speech in the beautiful, moving melody that is prominent in the song. The music and the video collage that support it are a tribute to his call for change and they are a fitting representation of the presidential candidate's words as it moves the spirit and inspires the listener. Real Brave Audio is promoting the song and is courting the campaign to use it after speeches, at the convention and on election night. 2008-02-22

Capella University's Latest 'Inside Online Education' Podcast Features Interview with New Dean of School of Undergraduate Studies
Online university's podcasts focus on experience of earning an online degree 2008-02-22

Henley-Putnam University Hosts Free Public Teleconference Briefing on Weapons of Mass Destruction Terrorism
Director of the Center for Terrorism and Intelligence Studies (CETIS), Gary Ackerman, Featured Guest Expert for public teleconference briefing on the subject of Weapons of Mass Destruction Terrorism. Scheduled for February 28 at 10:00 a.m. PST, reservations can be made by calling 408-453-9900 ext. 9949. 2008-02-22

Leading Affirmative Action Training Is Going Regional
Berkshire’s Fundamentals of Affirmative Action Planning Heads to CA and GA 2008-02-22

New Unanet Software Release for Government Contractors and Project Services Organizations   Unanet Technologies, a developer of services automation software that helps organizations manage people and projects for improved profitability, has released Version 9.0 of its market leading project tracking and portfolio management solution. The new release offers significant enhancements designed to help improve the performance of government contractors and other project-driven services organizations. New features include fully-burdened project costing, new resource and project portfolio management features, and Earned Value (EVMS) reporting. 2008-02-22

Recyc-Quebec Selects Fusepoint to Develop Web Portal to manage Residual Materials for Quebec Municipalities
Web Application Expected To Become a Key Element in the safe and secure Management of Residual Materials in Quebec 2008-02-22

ESS Unveils Next-Generation Enterprise Sustainability Software for Environmental, Health, Safety and Crisis Management
Essential Suite™ 7.1 utilizes cutting edge technologies to deliver powerful functionality to reduce risk, cost and complexity 2008-02-22

SurfRecon™ Exceeds 10 Million Safe and Pornography Image Hashes
SurfRecon's database of safe and pornography image hashes has exceeded 10 million hashes, making it the largest collection of image hashes available to law enforcement in the world; Furthermore, end-of-year estimates put the image-hash database at well over 300 million. 2008-02-22

Smarter Toddler Daycare Centers Chooses Flickr.com to Host Chinese New Year Celebration Pictures
Smarter Toddler Preschools in New York City Debuts Its Flickr.com Online Photo Gallery Featuring Pictures of Chinese New Year Celebration 2008-02-22

UCLA Selects AtHoc to Expand and Enhance its Campus Emergency Notification System
UCLA Deploys Network-based Emergency Alerting System to 45,000 Students, Faculty and Support Personnel 2008-02-22 (Friend of Issues Wire: 22)

The Call for Political Changes and the Global Years of Humanity
On a global scale the mood underlying humanity's motives and actions changes every year and follows a preset universal pattern that can be determined in advance ( http://www.certuspersonality.com/certus-Free-Numerology-Reading-services.php#Forecasting(orBackcasting)GlobalYears ). 2008-02-22

VISTA Introduces "Business Intelligence Visualization" Capabilities at Upcoming Federal Conferences
VISTA, the leader in federal real property decision support analytics, is pioneering "Business Intelligence Visualization" for improved asset management. "Business Intelligence Visualization" combines VISTA's experience both in asset management and in Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Combining real estate, facility and infrastructure data with geospatial information, VISTA and its industry-leading software partners ARCHIBUS and ESRI can present asset-related data that dramatically enhances key performance reporting for real property managing organizations. 2008-02-22