By Anza
Mid East correspondent for crwenewswire.com

Seven men died in a helicopter crash on Monday in Romania. The dead include six IAF service men and one Romanian soldier.

Romanian officers found the wreck of the helicopter and began investigating the cause of the crash. According to the chief officer, the helicopter crashed into the mountains in Central Romania.

It is reported that human remains and parts of the helicopter were scattered over the area. Because of the rocky terrain, proper equipment is needed to carry out the investigation.

The President of Romania, Traian Basescu, has expressed grief over the tragedy. He sent his condolences to Shimon Peres, the president of Israel, in a letter.

The reason for the crash is still not known. IAF Brig.-Gen Nimrod Shefer reported that radio communications between the helicopter that crashed and another helicopter participating in the training exercise were reviewed by the IAF. There were no indications that the aircraft experienced technical difficulties or adverse weather conditions.

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By Soha, Mid East correspondent for crwenewswire.com

A boat named “Plastiki,” denoting that was built from recycled plastic, successfully docked in Sydney on July 26, having set sail from San Francisco on March 20.

The mission of the 60-foot vessel was to create awareness of the fact that recycling turns “trash” into useful material. “Plastiki” was formed by 12,500 recycled plastic bottles that were glued together with sugar cane and powered by solar panels and windmills.

The skipper of the boat, David de Rothschild, 31, said that he was motivated to build the boat after reading the 2006 United Nations report, in which it was mentioned that pollution, in particular plastic waste, threatened the world’s oceans.

De Rothschild and the other crew members received a warm welcome from U.S. Ambassador Jeffrey Bleich and hundreds of well-wishers upon reaching Sydney. Bleich proclaimed in excitement, “A journey from trash to triumph.”

According to de Rothschild, the boat encountered fierce storms during the 8,000-mile trip. “Plastiki” emerged unscathed, proving that plastic is strong enough to withstand storms.

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By Mike Zaman

While America is still reeling from the negligence of BP in the Gulf of Mexico, new revelations have surfaced that shows oil companies are not taking proper care of either their rigs or pipelines.

BP for example recently had a problem with its Alaska pipeline; they failed to add lubricants to the oil to insure that the pipes won’t corrode and rupture. Now another company Calgary, Alberta-based Enbridge, Inc. is accused of failing to properly monitor the corrosion of its pipe line which ruptured and has spilled more than 1 million gallons of oil on Monday into Talmadge Creek, in Michigan.

In less than 48 hours the oil had travelled more than 35 miles downstream passing through Battle Creek and entered Calhoun County’s Marshall Township, killing fish and other wildlife in its path.

The slick is currently heading toward Morrow Lake and is about 7 miles away, and on course to enter Lake Michigan. If it is not contained before it enters the primary lake, it will be another ecological disaster of a major proportion.

The rivers ecology, Snails, frogs, muskrats and even birds eat, live and nest on or near the riverbank, the loss of wildlife has not yet been measured but is still growing. Oil contamination inhibits the natural cycle of species life patterns.

The Michigan leak came from a 30-inch pipeline, which was built in 1969 and carries about 8 million gallons of oil daily from Griffith, Ind., to Sarnia, Ontario.

With all the oil in Canada, why are we exporting oil to Canada?
But aside from the obvious, we are witnessing oil spills in our lakes and oceans at an unprecedented level, as we pollute our natural resources, we are diminishing our own ability to survive.

But equally as important, where are the government watchdogs that are to oversee these companies and assure that they are properly monitoring their oil lines as well as the rigs.

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View Systems, Inc. (OTCBB:VSYM), a security and tele-data solutions provider, reported recently that a military facility has placed an order for an MMV: Multi-Mission Video Recorder.

The MMV was designed with input from hundreds of first response professionals and emergency teams. It is a multi-mission video system that is meant to be worn by forward operators. This rugged and compact system is easy to deploy and use. The body-worn camera and transmitter set send clear and steady video back to scene commanders in real time. The system signal can also be encrypted so that the video can only be seen at the specific viewing console. The unit can also be placed on K-9 units during law enforcement search and rescue operations.

Gunther Than, CEO of View Systems, states, “This government order is a testament to the performance and reliability of the MMV system.

View Systems, Inc. manufactures and installs weapons detection identification systems, video management platforms and tele-data communication networks targeted towards correctional facilities, schools, courthouses, government agencies, event and sports venues, and commercial businesses.

View Systems International is a branch of View Systems Inc. geared towards servicing the security requirements of nations abroad. View Systems International provides the same products internationally that View Systems provides within the U.S. View Systems International is quickly expanding worldwide, proving that the company provides “Global Security You Can Trust.”

GSE Systems, Inc. (NYSE Amex:GVP), a leading global provider of real-time simulation and training solutions to the power, process, manufacturing and Government sectors, was awarded approximately $7 million of new work in its nuclear simulation sector. Included in the awards is a contract to construct a Westinghouse AP1000TM plant simulator for Southern Nuclear’s Vogtle site located in Georgia and a contract for the remaining value of the Haiyang AP1000 TM simulator in China. In addition, the Company received awards for upgrade services from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

John V. Moran, GSE’s Chief Executive Officer stated, “For GSE, the contract for the first domestic AP1000 TM plant simulator marks the true start of the nuclear renaissance in America. Of the 25 applications formally filed with the NRC to build new reactor plants in the United States,13 have selected the AP1000 TM design. In addition, the selection of our RELAP5-HD TM code by the NRC adds significant credibility to our product and bodes well for overall industry acceptance of this solution.”

GSE Systems, Inc. provides training simulators and educational solutions. The Company has over three decades of experience, over 362 installations, and 100 customers in more than 40 countries. GSE Systems’ software, hardware and integrated training solutions leverage proven technologies to deliver real-world business advantages to the energy, process, manufacturing and government sectors worldwide. GSE Systems is headquartered in Sykesville, Maryland located in the western suburbs of Baltimore, Maryland. The Company’s global locations include offices in St. Marys and Augusta, Georgia; Tarrytown, New York; Nyköping, Sweden; Stockton-on-Tees, UK; and Beijing, China.

Notify Technology Corporation, (OTC BB: NTFY) is an independent software vendor (ISV) specializing in wireless solutions and services that provide secure synchronized email and PIM access and management to any size organization or business on a variety of wireless 2-way devices and networks. Notify sells its wireless products directly and through authorized resellers internationally. Notify is an official Apple iPhone Development Partner, BlackBerry ISV Alliance Member, Symbian Alliance Member, and Palm Select Partner. The Company is headquartered in San Jose, California.

In late 2000 Notify entered the wireless market by supporting a variety of Motorola paging devices with wireless email and PIM functionality. Notify evolved its wireless product strategy to encompass the availability of next generation converged PDA’s with cellular telephone capability based on Palm, Apple iPhone, Windows Mobile, Blackberry and Symbian (For Symbian, check supported devices) operating environments. Notify launched its first version of its NotifyLink Enterprise Edition in early 2001.

Today the NotifyLink and NotifySync solutions provide a single solution for Novell GroupWise, Microsoft Exchange, and a variety of Other Collaboration Suites including; Mirapoint, CommuniGate Pro, Scalix, Oracle OCS, Oracle Beehive, Google, Kerio, MDaemon, Zimbra, FirstClass, Sun and Meeting Maker. In addition, the NotifyLink solution provides support for a variety of networks including GSM/GPRS/EDGE/3G-HSDPA , CDMA/1XRTT/EVDO, 802.11x, and Bluetooth.

Notify Technology’s corporate headquarters is located in San Jose, California where all sales, marketing, and finance are located. Notify has a second location in Canfield, Ohio where all product development and technical support is located.

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Crown Equity Holdings Inc. (OTCBB:CRWE) has added a company known as PenStox.com, a German Small Cap Service Provider led by Lars Schmidt, to its CRWENewswire.com team. PenStox.com will moderate the German CRWEnewswire websites in Germany.

Crown Equity Holdings plans to add more European companies to its CRWEnewswire network.

“We are pleased to welcome PenStox.com and Lars Schmidt to our team,” said Kenneth Bosket, President of Crown Equity Holdings Inc.

PenStox.com, which just relaunched its small cap investor community website, is a German-based media source for publicly traded small cap companies and investors to come together and discover market opportunities.

Foreign public companies can effectively broadcast their message to a German and international audience who come to PenStox.com seeking an advantage by discovering companies in the start-up phase or ones who have yet to be discovered by the investment community.

PenStox.com offers its users message boards to discuss investment opportunities and a lot of free tools like: quotes, charts, profiles, overviews, news.

Crown Equity Holdings, Inc. is a company utilizing today’s technology to advertise, promote and market public companies globally. CRWE’s proprietary network technology allows their publishing department to get their content to millions of readers daily across the world. CRWE publishes financial content to all the major countries and covers all accredited stock exchanges.

Crown Equity Holdings is currently in the process of expanding its in-house IT infrastructure. Although their current web page load time is better than 75% of other internet websites, when completed, the modifications will raise this load time to better then 90% of other internet websites while increasing website visitor capacity by 400%.

Crown Equity Holdings has also moved to a dedicated in-house advertising server, allowing for faster response and a wider variety of ad space offerings to those interested in advertising on their numerous internet and affiliate internet properties.

ICG Commerce (NASDAQ:ICGE) reported that it has formed a partnership with Habitat for Humanity of Montgomery County, PA, to provide funding and volunteers for the restoration of a local home that is currently lacking adequate plumbing, and has structural, electrical and other deficiencies. As the procurement outsourcing specialist, ICG Commerce will also leverage its market intelligence and category expertise to provide procurement support for the five regional Habitat for Humanity County Affiliates, increasing their ability to invest in the local community.

“Our employees are excited to partner with Habitat to strengthen the communities in which we live and work,” said Carl Guarino, CEO of ICG Commerce. “We are delighted to not only donate time and money to help a local family but also to apply our expertise to help Habitat expand its impact in the Philadelphia area and our local community. We look forward to continuing this new relationship with Habitat and working together in the future.”

This opportunity will allow ICG Commerce to apply its experience helping companies reduce the costs of purchased good and services to help Habitat maximize the funds it has available to help the community improve and grow. ICG Commerce provides a comprehensive approach to managing and controlling a company’s non-core spend in areas such as logistics, marketing, IT, HR, MRO and travel. By bringing deep expertise and market intelligence, combined with an integrated approach to realize savings, ICG Commerce is driving a fundamental change in the way today’s businesses achieve financial agility and fund growth.

“Neighborhood revitalization relies on partnerships with other organizations to solve a variety of problems associated with foreclosed and abandoned properties throughout the country,” said Brenda Egolf-Fox, executive director of Habitat for Humanity of Montgomery County, PA. “Working with ICG Commerce, Habitat affiliates and partner families, we can help entire neighborhoods once again become healthy and thriving communities.”

Rackspace Hosting (NYSE:RAX) recently reported the launch of OpenStack™, an open-source cloud platform designed to foster the emergence of technology standards and cloud interoperability. Rackspace, the leading specialist in the hosting and cloud computing industry, is donating the code that powers its Cloud Files and Cloud Servers public-cloud offerings to the OpenStack project. The project will also incorporate technology that powers the NASA Nebula Cloud Platform. Rackspace and NASA plan to actively collaborate on joint technology development and leverage the efforts of open-source software developers worldwide.

“Modern scientific computation requires ever increasing storage and processing power delivered on-demand,” said Chris C. Kemp, NASA’s Chief Technology Officer for IT. “To serve this demand, we built Nebula, an infrastructure cloud platform designed to meet the needs of our scientific and engineering community. NASA and Rackspace are uniquely positioned to drive this initiative based on our experience in building large scale cloud platforms and our desire to embrace open source.”

OpenStack will feature several cloud infrastructure components including a fully distributed object store based on Rackspace Cloud Files, available now at OpenStack.org. The next component planned for release is a scalable compute-provisioning engine based on the NASA Nebula cloud technology and Rackspace Cloud Servers technology. It is expected to be available later this year. Using these components, organizations would be able to turn physical hardware into scalable and extensible cloud environments using the same code currently in production serving tens of thousands of customers and large government projects.

Rackspace Hosting is the world’s leading specialist in the hosting and cloud computing industry. The San Antonio-based company provides Fanatical Support to its customers, across a portfolio of IT services, including Managed Hosting and Cloud Computing.

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