National News Desk

LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Time and Gems, an independent Rolex(R) retailer offering premium Rolex customizations, today announced a diamond Rolex watch giveaway valued at $7,000 as a thank-you to all new visitors of their Web site that sign up for their bi-weekly newsletter.

SAN DIEGO, Calif. -- Del Mar DataTrac, Inc. (DMD), the leading provider of affordable end-to-end mortgage lending automation solutions and an industry pioneer in business intelligence, document imaging and management, and loan process workflow tools, is among the 2010 Top 50 Service Providers listed by Source Media's Mortgage Technology magazine.

OCEANSIDE, Calif. -- Event Media, Inc., producer of Bike the Coast - Taste the Coast, a new event scheduled for November 6, 2010, announces partnerships with the City of Oceanside Bicycle Committee, Main Street Oceanside and the Oceanside Chamber of Commerce. These groups, along with the Oceanside Visitors Bureau, are bringing together the cycling and business communities in Oceanside to promote bicycling and offer a festival at the Oceanside Pier with food, drink, music and fun.

IRVINE, Calif. -- Loan-Score Decisioning Systems, an enterprise-class pricing and automated underwriting provider, announced that Stearns Lending, Inc., a national wholesale and retail mortgage banker, has grown its business by more than 65 percent since going live with its solution in early 2009. Stearns utilizes Loan-Score's platform to automate pricing and underwriting for each of its 18 wholesale branches as well as its new affiliate branches.

CHICAGO, Ill. (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- KnowledgeAdvisors, the largest provider of talent measurement solutions, is pleased to announce the dates and locations for its annual 2010 Regional User Groups where Metrics that Matter users are enabled to take their measurement practices one bold step further.

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- SecuGen, the world's leading optical fingerprint device vendor, is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the SecuGen iD-USB SC/PIV, a combined fingerprint and smart card reader that is fully FIPS 201/PIV compliant. The iD-USB SC/PIV is a ready-to-use USB device that facilitates dual-factor authentication right out of the box.

CHICAGO, Ill. -- KnowledgeAdvisors, the world's largest provider of learning and talent measurement solutions, celebrated ten years of world-class performance this July. In 2000, Kent Barnett founded KnowledgeAdvisors. The inspiration behind KnowledgeAdvisors arose from his dissatisfaction by the lack of measurement solutions available to express the relationship between the real impact of training and organizational performance.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- With the addition of Dr. Wade Cook, ASE Optics significantly expands its capabilities in holography, remote sensing, LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) and laser vibrometry. ASE Optics provides contract optical engineering and custom lens assembly manufacturing for companies worldwide.

NEW YORK, N.Y. -- EASEUS Software can help anyone to recover partitions with the latest version of their EASEUS Partition Master 6.1.1 which now includes the Recover Partition function to ensure data security.

BOCA RATON, Fla. -- The Neighborhood Sports Bar and Grill in Boca Raton is celebrating their Grand Opening week, beginning Wednesday, August 4th. The impressive location offers an expansive space that will treat sports fans to an unprecedented viewing experience featuring the largest projection TV in South Florida and personal flat screen TVs at every table.

FAIRMONT, W.Va. -- Backbone Security is pleased to announce the release of Version 3.6 of their Steganography Application Fingerprint Database (SAFDB) which now contains more than 850 steganography applications.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- To coincide with its twentieth anniversary, LMR International this week announced the launch of its comprehensive, all-inclusive contact management software - CRM Sales Machine. The software has an array of practical features that include: contact management, lead generation, financial, marketing, and e-commerce capabilities.

ATLANTA, Ga. -- Integrative Logic, a leading full-service, integrated database marketing provider, announces the addition of Lane Andrews as Creative Director. 'We are excited to have Lane join the Integrative Logic family. He brings a range of agency and client-side experience in design, video, interactive and print to our company,' said John Gardner, president and CEO.

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. -- PETAP LLC offers certificate and degree training information for a variety of career fields, through the online schools and colleges directory. The online directory provides information regarding distance learning options, degrees, certificates, and other educational resources.

NEW WINDSOR, N.Y. -- In recognition of Cataract Awareness Month, Highland Ophthalmology Associates, in New Windsor, NY, will be offering free Cataract Screenings during the month of August, 2010. Highland Ophthalmology Associates highly encourages anyone at risk to participate in their Cataract Awareness Program.

SANTA MONICA, Calif. -- COIN-OP TV celebrates six years of independent Internet TV on the video game industry. An early adopter of the online video format, COIN-OP TV launched a year before YouTube and many other popular video content Web sites.

ROCKLEDGE, Fla. -- LRM Industries International, Inc. headquartered in Rockledge, Florida, announces the introduction of the HydroDome(TM) 610 composite stormwater chamber. The HydroDome design concept, introduced in 2009, comes from both the efficiency of nature and the ageless understanding by architectural engineers, that the dome is stronger than an arch or vaulted tunnel.

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah -- International Document Services, Inc. (IDS), a mortgage document preparation vendor, reached a corporate milestone in June - an all-time record volume of document packages processed in a single month.

PALM HARBOR, Fla. -- Palm Harbor-based internet marketing consultant Len Dozois will launch Your Internet Marketing Show on Saturday, August 7, 11 a.m. to noon on WTAN-AM 1340, Clearwater, Florida, and WDCF-AM 1350 Dade City. Live show audio and video will be streamed at YourInternetMarketingShow.com.

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Lion Technology Inc., a nationally recognized regulatory compliance training firm, will present its two-day Hazardous/Toxic Waste Management workshop series during the month of September. The course is designed for compliance professionals who must be trained annually under the RCRA hazardous waste regulations. Workshops will be held in Seattle on Sept. 13-14; Las Vegas on Sept. 16-17; and Phoenix on Sept. 20-21, 2010.

ATLANTA, Ga. -- Pathbuilders, Inc. has expanded its leadership team with the addition of Pam Tipton, who will serve as executive director of consulting. Tipton joins the team with more than 22 years of diverse career experience in Fortune 100 corporations and non-profits. She will be responsible for strategic direction and execution of program expansion for customized client engagements.

ATLANTA, Ga. -- Integrative Logic, a leading full-service, integrated database marketing provider, announced the addition of Delia Cyra as the company's Director of Media Strategy. 'I am extremely pleased to announce that Delia Cyra joined the Integrative Logic team on July 15 as Director of Media Strategy,' said John Gardner, president and CEO.

ORANGE, Calif. -- Comergence Compliance Monitoring (CCM), a leading provider of third-party originator (TPO) risk management solutions and SaaS, announces the release of Realm Professional Edition 2.2 Product Suite. Realm 2.2 creates a more holistic TPO management system that enables wholesale, correspondent and reverse mortgage lenders to oversee and execute all TPO communication and administrative activities through a single electronic portal.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Lion Technology Inc., a nationally renowned regulatory compliance training firm, will present its two-day Hazardous Waste in California workshop series during the month of September. These courses are designed for industry professionals who must assure compliance with California's hazardous waste regulations. Workshops will be held in San Diego on Sept. 13-14; Los Angeles on Sept. 16-17; Bakersfield on Sept. 20-21; and Oakland on Sept. 23-24, 2010.

ATLANTA, Ga. -- White Horse Advisors, LLC, an independently-owned provider of financial advisory services to owners of closely-held businesses and retirement plan sponsors, announces the launch of Navix, a 14-step process for business value creation and exit planning.

ATLANTA, Ga. -- CDSoundMaster, an accomplished developer of custom mixing and mastering software, as well as custom recording hardware, announces the release of the NICE EQ VST Plug-In. This ground-breaking software equalizer package includes two plug-ins: the NICE EQ Solid State EQ and the NICE EQ Vacuum Tube EQ.

NORFOLK, Va. -- The research article 'Privatizing Enlightenment in the Re-Emergence of Religion' and studies exploring similarities between writings of Eckhart Tolle (2005) and Belzebuub (2001, 2002) reveal new insights about contemporary spirituality. Author, Dr. Gabrielle Wood will release the research online starting today July 30.

NEW YORK, N.Y. -- Partition Recovery for Windows-based PCs, an easy-to-use function to undelete partitions and recover a partition which is lost by accident, is now integrated into the latest version of the leading partition manager software - EASEUS Partition Master 6.1.1, which has just been launched today.

SAN DIEGO, Calif. -- HELM Analytics, a business intelligence and analytics company, announced that it has earned a spot on Mortgage Technology magazine's 2010 Top 50 Mortgage Technology Service Providers. The company has gained rapid momentum since launching operations in early 2009.

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Today Leader Technologies Incorporated announced the results of the Leader v. Facebook patent infringement trial, in which an eight-member jury in Wilmington, Delaware, returned a split verdict on Wednesday, July 28th.

NEW YORK, N.Y. -- U.S. Senate Candidate Gail Goode (D-NY) today challenged her primary opponent, Kirsten Gillibrand, to a series of debates around New York State prior to the Democratic primary on September 14. Goode will appear on the Democratic primary ballot.

HOUSTON, Texas -- Brian Gavin, fifth generation diamond cutter and creator of his internationally renowned Signature Hearts and Arrows 'super ideal' diamond brand, was a featured speaker at the ASA International Conference Gems and Jewelry Program in Las Vegas, Nevada, July 26 to 28, at the J.W. Marriott Resort and Spa. Gavin detailed the development of his Hearts and Arrows Grading System and the strict parameters he enforces to ensure true, symmetrical hearts and arrows patterning.

WAYNE, Pa. -- Business and Decision, a leading international Consulting and Systems Integration company, today announced the expansion of its relationship with QlikTech, as part of an ongoing focus to provide high value Business Intelligence solutions to their respective customers.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Personal Business Advisors, LLC, an organization dedicated to moving the underutilized talents of highly skilled senior corporate executives to small business, has opened a Master Office in Hoover. The company helps senior executives who have become underemployed or unemployed in the recession to find six figure income opportunities in six types of entrepreneurial businesses. And PBA does so at NO CHARGE to the executive.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- Children Awaiting Parents, a nonprofit organization dedicated to finding adoptive families for children in foster care, is hosting its annual Family Walk on Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010. Supporters from across the United States are invited to register today for the 2.5 mile Family Walk event.

DALLAS, Texas -- Signs of a recovering market are becoming more evident. The number of homes and developed lots continues to decrease steadily. One of Dallas-Fort Worth's major homebuilders is doing what seemed impossible 18 month ago - rolling out an entire new phase in one of their most popular north Texas communities.

KIRKLAND, Wash. -- If you're in the market for long term care insurance but hate to fill out applications and wait, wait, wait, a leading agency has an alternative for you. Dispense with the paper and the delay; complete an electronic application, with live hand-holding, and get an answer pronto. The agency is LTC Financial Partners LLC (LTCFP), one of the nation's most experienced long term care insurance agencies.

LA MESA, Calif. -- According to Ferrets Anonymous, legalizing pet ferrets affects hundreds of thousands of Californians, even though many citizens may be unfamiliar with the State's 77-year-old ferret ban. The California Veterinary Medical Association has long agreed that pet ferrets should be legal.

LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- The Open Information Security Foundation (OISF) today announced that nPulse Technologies, LLC has joined the consortium as its first Gold Level member. nPulse will maintain a QA Test lab for Suricata developers at its Charlottesville, VA, facility. Developers will be able to access the nPulse systems remotely.

CHICAGO, Ill. -- KnowledgeAdvisors, Inc. announced today that David Vance and Frank Anderson will be joining their renowned Advisory Board. Vance and Anderson will ensure KnowledgeAdvisors remains focused on executive level talent development reporting and analytics in the public and private sector.

SAN DIEGO, Calif. -- Del Mar DataTrac, Inc. (DMD), the leading provider of affordable end-to-end mortgage lending automation solutions, and CCMC, Inc., the financial industry's premier technology interface provider, have released the DMDBridge, a connectivity tool that automatically moves loan data from a lender's third-party origination system to the DataTrac mortgage banking system of record.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Real country by real musicians is the way to describe the new album by Scott Joss and Doug Colosio, 'A Couple of Strangers,' released by Golosio Publishing. The 13-track recording showcases many of the duo's favorite types of music, including Texas Swing, roadhouse roots, and 'good ole' cryin' in yer beer country tunes,' states John Scott G, managing partner of Golosio.

ATLANTA, Ga. -- ContinuLink, a leader in Web-based home care software understands the needs of their users. Within four days of a new CMS Regulation regarding PECOS, ContinuLink users were automatically having their physicians PECOS eligibility checked though our system. ContinuLink believes they were the first system in the country to have integrated real-time PECOS support.

TAMPA, Fla. -- Telovations, a leader in delivering hosted business voice services, was named the 10th fastest growing company in Tampa Bay by the Tampa Bay Business Journal at its annual Fast 50 awards luncheon. Telovations increased revenues 265 percent over the past two years, earning it the No. 10 ranking on the business publication's Fast 50 List.

NEW YORK, N.Y. -- Innovation Framework Technologies, the premier supplier of innovation management solutions, announces a new joint customer with its partner, Planisware, the leading provider of world-class project and portfolio management solutions for companies across myriad industries - including pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, energy, aerospace and defense and automotive.

MANCHESTER, Vt. -- Franks Stokes, president of technology for CONIX Systems, Inc., a leading international provider of payment processing solutions to the financial services industry and pioneer in the acceleration of exception processing, agrees with the Obama Administration that reducing systemic drains on the Federal budget by better policing benefits and other types of payments to eliminate 'improper payments' will be a productive government debt reduction strategy.

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. -- Ascoli Publishing LLC announces the release of 'Go and See: A Journey About Getting To Lean' (ISBN: 978-1-6109500-8-4) by Robert B. Camp, BSE, MBA. Go and See makes a strong case that once a company goes 'Lean,' it fireproofs itself from most of the chaos in today's market - including competitors from countries with cheap labor. And the first step is to 'Go and See.'

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -- Thirty years ago, Thienna Ho and her family were Vietnamese boat people who survived a brutal attack by Thai pirates during a treacherous voyage on their way to their new home in San Francisco. Now Thienna is a super-athlete who has broken Guinness World Records (GWR) for feats of strength and endurance. On August 14 she plans to take the men's Guinness World Record for the most weight dead lifted in one hour.

TORRANCE, Calif. -- Neotrope, a California based marketing firm, recently 'adopted' Children Awaiting Parents and the Starlight Children's Foundation. To celebrate, throughout July 2010 as part of the adoption program, when a donor gives $50 or more to either charity they will have the opportunity to issue a free national online press release through Neotrope's Send2Press(R) Newswire service, which is syndicated worldwide.

CHICAGO, Ill. -- KnowledgeAdvisors, the world's largest provider of learning and talent measurement solutions, has announced it has released a brand new whitepaper focusing on informal learning measurement. The research conducted by KnowledgeAdvisors was based upon substantial data collected across diverse industries in an effort to gain a comprehensive representation of the present condition of informal learning.

CLAREMONT, Calif. -- Life-Changing Coaching announces that Coach Paul has been selected to participate as one of the speakers at this year's Magic Johnson Foundation - Life Skills Leadership Conference, which is being held from Thursday, July 22, 2010, to Tuesday, July 27, 2010 at UCLA.

COVINGTON, La. -- ShipCom, a provider of High Frequency (HF) maritime single sideband voice and electronic mail services has appointed Tusa Consulting Services (TCS) as its authorized radio consultant supportive of emergency operations throughout the states of Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and coastal Texas.

BETHESDA, Md. -- ADF Solutions Inc., the leading provider of forensic triage tools for computers and peripherals, announced today that the company has been selected by the Department of Homeland Security to develop a universal triage field kit that will aid law enforcement officers in the immediate extraction of information and evidence from computers and other devices involved in active criminal or terrorist investigations.

ROCKLEDGE, Fla. -- LRM Industries International, Inc. headquartered in Rockledge, Florida, has re-branded and launched a new Web site showcasing a range of developing new thermoplastic/composite products for the environmental engineering and green building markets. The designs of these innovative products were enabled by the unique size and structural features capabilities of LRM's unique patented STF Sheetless ThermoForming and TPF ThermoPlastic Flowforming technologies.

KIRKLAND, Wash. -- A suit against LTC Financial Partners LLC (LTCFP), the nation's largest producer-owned long term care insurance agency, has been dropped, the company reports today. The suit, for more than a million dollars, was by a former agent, Linda Caruthers of Richmond, Virginia, who was seeking compensation for providing an introduction that helped land a large account.

CHICAGO, Ill. -- KnowledgeAdvisors, the largest provider of talent measurement solutions, and Bersin and Associates, the only research and advisory firm focusing on enterprise learning and talent management, will host a complimentary breakfast briefing, Innovation in Learning Measurement: High-Impact Measurement Framework, on Thursday, August 10, from 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., at the Hamilton Crowne Plaza Hotel in Washington, D.C.

NEW YORK, N.Y. -- EASEUS software, the provider of innovative and professional data recovery and disaster recovery utilities, also provides a powerful free data recovery software - EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition - to help recover lost photos, pictures, images, music, movies, and multimedia files from almost all digital media types after accidents like deletion, formatting, and corruption.

DENVER, Colo. -- Mortgage fulfillment outsource services expert Titan Lenders Corp (TLC) signed nine mortgage banker clients in the second quarter of 2010. TLC, a U.S.-based domestic mortgage fulfillment outsource operation, offers a parallel and variable cost alternative solution to lenders that maintain back office and warehouse line management operations.

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. -- The Economic Development Generating Excellence Policy Board announced that 12 pre-proposal applications from an initial field of 62 have been approved to advance to the next step in the 2010 funding evaluation process. This year represents the third round of funding disbursement from the EDGE fund; in 2009, five awards were granted totaling $7.5 million.

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. -- 4 Styles Enter-Active Systems, a division of JAF Industries, recently released an interactive tool that allows potential consumers to preview books and other products in a manner that appeals to all four learning styles: auditory; kinesthetic; visual and reading/writing.

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah -- Shopping Nanny provides a personalized online service for grocery shoppers to get store specials and coupons combined to maximize their savings. This newly available solution is well received by customers, press and bloggers, but the exciting additional news is that the company is providing financial support to Starlight with a portion of every subscription fee - equaling a minimum unrestricted $50,000 donation each year for two years.

CONCORD, Mass. -- 'Just as our counterparts in the computer and cell phone industries continue to take advantage of the latest technologically superior components, and very often less costly, to enhance and improve the performance of their products, so do we at AAI,' said Matt Froncillo, of AAI.

AUBURN, Maine -- A U.S. patent has been filed by Enefco USA for a new process of applying Vitamin E as a surface coating on non-latex hydrophilic polyurethane cosmetic foam. The patent pending process adds Vitamin E to the foam after the foam is manufactured and impregnates the foam in a range from surface coating to complete saturation.

DALLAS, Texas -- The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Transportation (DOT) have stepped up enforcement to reduce undeclared and illegal hazmat shipments via airline, truck, rail, and ship. Undeclared shipments of hazardous materials are predominately aerosols and flammable liquids (e.g., paint and paint-related materials), as well as batteries, fireworks, dry ice, perfume products, and cigarette lighters.

KIRKLAND, Wash. (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Companies tend to do well when they hire good people, but even the best people can do better when given good training. That's the philosophy of LTC Financial Partners LLC, one of the nation's most experienced long term care insurance agencies. It must work, judging from the company's rapid expansion in a down economy. For three years in a row LTCFP has been named one of America's 5,000 fastest-growing companies by Inc. Magazine.