Send2Press Newswire Daily News Desk - Page 441

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Nov. 28 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Altamont Homes, Inc., located in Martinez, Calif., is filling a void in the California construction market – custom modular homes – and is excited to announce that they will be teaming up with award-winning architect, Douglas Cutler, AIA.

AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 22 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — WidowPC, the industry’s leading gaming laptop boutique announced today that they have launched a new Core 2 Duo gaming laptop that gives those seeking an alternative to mass produced laptops like the Dell(R) XPS M1710(TM) a solution. This gaming laptop sports the industry’s fastest gaming video card, the fastest Core 2 Duo CPU and up to 4 GB of high performance DDR2 RAM at a record setting price of $2195 – more than $100 lower than Dell’s price.

AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 22 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — WidowPC, the industry’s leading gaming computer boutique, launched the world’s first gaming computer designed especially for World of Warcraft players. The PC hardware and software is optimized to play World of Warcraft at the best possible performance and detail. The new machine sports a new form of intelligent networking technology that greatly reduces that amount of lag experienced by the player in World of Warcraft and other massively multiplayer online (MMO) games.

KOH KTEAH, Cambodia – Nov. 21 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — GoldenPalace.com, the Internet casino famous for their unusual and often outrageous advertising campaigns, has done it again by sponsoring Canadian director Matt Frame’s record-breaking feat for the world’s longest handcuffed swim.

DENVER, Colo., Nov. 20 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Denver-area public companies and their audit committee members are invited to participate in ‘Governance Update: SOX compliance…and what’s next with the SEC,’ a free seminar offered by RSM McGladrey, one of the top accounting, tax and business consulting organizations in the country. The seminar will be held at the Wyndham Hotel Denver Tech Center on Dec. 6, 2006, from 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.

DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. – Nov. 20 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Do you find it hard to see when you’re trying to tweeze? Do you have cracked or dry feet, aging skin or tired muscles? Then you shouldn’t miss the special episode of W the women’s show ‘Holiday Greetings.’ The hit Quorum Productions television program will feature an expert from Idea Village to show women the best ways to beat these common grooming problems.

DALLAS, Texas – Nov. 20 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — The Texas Almanac has partnered with the William P. Clements School of Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University to reproduce their 1936 Centennial Edition. The exact facsimile reproduction of the 1936 almanac that celebrated the state’s 100th year of independence includes a new introduction, foreword and table of contents.

FORT COLLINS, Colo. – Nov. 17 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Scientific research, development, software, and consulting company, Numerica Corporation, has just announced the hiring of the following personnel: Randy Paffenroth, Ph.D. as Computational Scientist V, and Stephanie Chan as Research Scientist I.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Nov. 17 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Give the gift of foot comfort this holiday season from Diabeticsockstore.com, your source for the perfect holiday gift for foot problems, foot pain, neuropathy, and edema prevention and comfort. The Diabetic Sock Store offers the best diabetic socks on the market, at affordable prices, from brands like SmartKnit, Jobst, Therasock, and Silipos.

ASHBURN, Va. – Nov. 16 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Core Concepts, LLC, a corporate development organization located in Northern Virginia and South West Florida since 2002, announced today the launch of Core Concepts Publishing in conjunction with their first book publication, 4 Circles of Good Business, written by Christopher Novak of Marcellus, New York (ISBN 0-9788668-0-0).

KIRKLAND, Wash. – Nov. 16 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — As the end of the tax year approaches, millions of Americans may neglect a hefty deduction, the cost of long term care insurance, according to LTC Financial Partners LLC, the nation’s most experienced long term care insurance brokerage.

YUBA CITY, Calif. – Nov 16 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Prime Companies, Inc. (OTC: PRMC / PRMC.pk) announces that it has executed an agreement and has consummated the purchase of certain strategic assets from Mount Logic, LLC, including Mount Logic’s Manufacturing Patents of ergonomic arms and mounts.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Nov. 15 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — In some homes, a kid’s sock is just that: a sock, say the folks at Diabetic Sock Store. But in Melissa Bruner’s home, socks are the inciter of one colossal tantrum. Daily, the crying and screaming commences when Melissa simply asks her 6-year-old son Conner to put on his socks.

TROY, Mich. – Nov. 15 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Invisible Hand Productions today began pre-production of the feature film ‘Guilty of Innocence,’ a documentary on the failings of the U.S. legal system. The independent film, to be completed in 1Q 2008, will be shot on location in Michigan, Florida, Pennsylvania, and the District of Columbia, with a budget not to exceed $200k. Principal photography will commence in December of 2006.

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. – Nov. 15 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — A specialty government and economic development consulting firm is extending its reach further into the Midwest as it announced today the opening of an office in Minneapolis. GSP Consulting, based in Pittsburgh, Pa., has announced it will establish its 10th office in Minneapolis. Led by former legislator and leading bioscience advocate Lynne Osterman, the firm will bring to the marketplace its unique brand of government and economic development consulting.

COVINGTON, Ga. – Nov. 15 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Robert W. (‘Bill’) Donohue, retired Senior Vice President – Electric Operations of Consolidated Edison, has been elected to the Board of Directors of Utility Associates, Inc. Utility Associates is a venture-funded mobile asset management hardware and software company serving the electric and gas utility, telecom, distribution, and government market segments.

YORK, Pa. – Nov. 15 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — BidTurf.com, providers of one of the newest online trading opportunities, today unveiled its person-to-person, full featured auction service. The online auction will serve as a trading platform for users to easily browse, buy or sell virtually anything online with no listing or final sales fees.

ATLANTA, Ga. – Nov. 14 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Starring: Trent Roberts, Dave Hollister, Sean Levert, Christopher Williams, Monifa, and Terri Britton. Fabolus Fox and Charlotte, NC Ovens Auditorium is where this special limited engagements will take place on Wednesday November 22nd at 8:00pm and Sunday 26th, 2006 at 3:00pm and 7:00pm in Atlanta, and Friday November 24th at 8pm and Saturday 25th, 2006 at 3pm and 8pm in Charlotte.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. – Nov. 14 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — The schedule was released today for HDFEST’s Los Angeles event which will be staged at Dolby Laboratories in Burbank. This December event is the final stop on the HDFEST 2006 World Tour, which also included HD Festival events this year in Seoul, New York, Finland, and London. HDFEST Los Angeles will include screenings of high-definition movies, panels on HD moviemaking and digital cinema, festival parties and the HDFEST 2006 Deffie Award Ceremony.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. – Nov. 14 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Many people will be on the road for the holidays during the upcoming weeks and they want to arrive at their loved ones happy, healthy and clean; Aero-San has a new product – the Premiere Travel Health Pack – that can help to make that happen.

DENVER, Colo. – Nov. 14 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Fetter Logic, Inc., the premier full service provider of advanced data and information management solutions for the financial services industry, today announced the availability of Helio – a comprehensive data aggregation solution with unparalleled data quality. Helio is the first financial services solution that promptly and accurately integrates all forms of data including direct mutual funds, annuities, one or more clearing firms, proprietary firm assets and creates intelligent information for the user.

SAN DIEGO, Calif. – Nov. 14 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Deborah J. Copeland announced today the release of her first Young Adult Novel, ‘The Kids at Latimar High’ (ISBN: 0-595-40381-6), published by iUniverse. School reporter, Lauren O’Neil, a.k.a. ‘news girl’ and her best friend, drop dead gorgeous cheerleader, Rosalyn Brown, are breaking all the rules when they discover they’re competing for the same guy at school – Kevin Johnson, Latimar High’s star quarterback.

VILLANOVA, Pa. – Nov. 14 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — What do you do if think you own a million dollar domain name and you want to sell it? The new service – DomainLiquidations.com – will promote and broker the sale of your premium domain name for you. Today’s advertisement on page A6 of the Wall Street Journal (think expensive) reflects a major shift in how premium domain names are bought and sold.

CHICAGO, Ill. – Nov. 14 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — In a city that still takes boastful pride in its beery connection to gangster Al Capone, author Bob Skilnik says Big Al’s brewing legacy is more baloney than brewing history. In his recently released book, BEER: A History of Brewing in Chicago ($24.95, Hardcover, 416 pages, Barricade Books, ISBN 1569803129), the beer historian argues that the real brains behind the beer that flowed through Chicago’s streets was Capone’s mentor, Johnny Torrio.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. – Nov. 14 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Vandalism is a problem that is spreading everywhere, from large metropolitan cities to rural housing communities. The growing trend of vandalizing outdoor lighting fixtures has caused an alarming increase in safety issues, liability, and maintenance costs. Aero Thermic Shields has spent years partnering with city officials, housing authorities, park departments, and electric utilities to help prevent lighting vandalism and save money.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Nov. 13 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Washington area writer, Diana Mayer, has accomplished what few authors would attempt – a sequel to ‘A Tale of Two Cities.’ Inspired by that classic story, and the lack of works like it in today’s ‘easy read’ market, Mayer set out to bring a little of Dickens’ literary style back to modern readers. Her novel, ‘Evremonde’ (ISBN: 0-595-34620-0) does just that.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. – Nov. 13 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Internet Web surfers can now find exactly what they are searching for in an efficient and exciting social environment that is designed to be family-oriented and user friendly; the site, Sprinko.com(TM), launched by Lassitter Enterprises, Inc. in September 2006, has received almost 30,000 hits in less than three months.

NEW YORK, N.Y. – Nov. 10 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — The co-author of the recently published ‘Get Fit In Bed’ (ISBN: 1572244607), Dr. Genie Tartell, a nationally known Chiropractor who has appeared on ABC-TV, ‘The View,’ and the Fox morning program, ‘Fox & Friends,’ says you can get a better nights sleep by exercising in bed. Dr. Tartell wrote ‘Get Fit In Bed’ with co-author Ted Kavanau, the founder of CNN Headline News.

NEW YORK, N.Y. – Nov. 10 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Somewhere in Brooklyn lurks a cult that has been sadistically invading the home, mind and body of New York writer Ellis Beyda through harmful implants, into his eyes and other body parts, for the last 10 years. In the summer of 2007 he plans to release a book – ‘Evil Eyes Evil Minds’ – that will tell all.

AUSTIN, Texas – Nov. 10 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — deverus today unveiled its new, one of a kind service line, the Vero Hire. The Vero Hire is an on-demand, Web-based software application designed to help background check and employment screening companies deliver new and advanced services to help HR hire and retain productive employees.

SUNRISE, Fla. – Nov. 10 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — The holiday season is quickly approaching. For some, plans are in motion to visit elderly family members. But if it has been a while since you last visited, you might be shocked at how much they have aged, concerned about their continued safety and well-being and motivated to do something about it, say the folks at Interim HealthCare.

NEW YORK, N.Y. – Nov. 10 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — CheapoAir.com Cheap Airfare and Budget Travel Web Site announced today that it has signed a distribution agreement with TouricoHolidays.com, one of the largest hotel portals in the world. CheapoAir.com.com will utilize Tourico’s hotel properties to create hotel and air dynamic packages to sell to its more than 1 million online customer base. TouricoHolidays.com has one of the most diverse hotel-negotiated rate portfolios in the world.

GLENDALE, Calif. – Nov. 10 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Intellikey Labs, the first and most established content and DVD testing lab, is on the forefront of DVD content copy protection testing. Utilizing its proprietary protocols developed specifically for copy protection testing, Intellikey performs definitive copy protection testing for optical media via its expansive domestic and international DVD player matrices.

FLUSHING, N.Y. – Nov. 10 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Bruce L. Roistacher, a prominent Long Island attorney announced today that the founder and leader of the China Democracy Party and the Party for Freedom and Democracy in China has been acquitted of all criminal charges after a jury verdict in Suffolk County, N.Y.

AUSTIN, Texas – Nov. 10 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — deverus, Inc. today announced it has acquired the Clickable Software(TM) assets of 3Peaks Software Solutions. With its market leading suite of applicant tracking products focused on the food industry, Clickable Software(TM) delivers world class applicant tracking and management solutions to Fortune 1000 companies.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Nov. 9 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Free Indeed Ministries, Inc., a non-profit trauma organization specializing in adult victims of childhood trauma, is launching a national ‘Security Alert’ division to all state parenting agencies, churches, and concerned civic groups.

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – Nov. 8 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Universal Accounting Center (UAC), the leader in small business tax training has been approved by the California Tax Education Council (CTEC) to offer the Professional Tax Preparer Program (PTP) as a distance learning course in the state of California. UAC’s recognition from CTEC authenticates the PTP course, showing it is within the ‘standards, guidelines and procedures’ of instruction specific to California tax laws.

PLANO, Texas – Nov. 8 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Rockwell Automation (NYSE: ROK), whose PowerLean program combines the strategies of Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, Total Productive Maintenance and Energy Management, has selected SigmaFlow’s Best Practice Execution System for portfolio project management and implementation of PowerLean’s best practice templates.

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – Nov. 8 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — ComplianceEase(R), a leading provider of automated compliance and risk-management solutions, announced today that Jason Roth, one of its co-founders and senior vice president of product management, will speak at the November 16, 2006 session ‘Protecting Your Company: Rules-Based Systems and Fraud Detection.’ The session will take place during the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) 2006 Legal Issues in Mortgage Technology Conference.

SYRACUSE, N.Y., Nov. 7 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — CheapBooks.com(TM) is hosting an event at Aladdin’s Natural Eatery at 163 Marshall Street, November 15 at 10:30 a.m., near Syracuse University in Syracuse, N.Y.; the event will provide students, teachers and other interested people with the opportunity to mingle in an open forum with the popular reality TV castmate, Syrus Yarbrough, of MTV’s ‘Real World Boston.’