TALLAHASSEE, Fla. /Florida Newswire/ -– Governor Charlie Crist yesterday invited Florida students in kindergarten through 12th grades to participate in the eighth annual Florida Hispanic Heritage Month student contests. The Governor also encouraged students, parents, …

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Michael Ferguson, owner of World Food Association, and Henry Oliver Ford, president, along with 2 other managing partners just returned from a month-long outreach trip to Accra Ghana where they helped distribute food to 15 orphanages and schools. Ford, along with his team at WFAO, has been supporting the facilities for the last 3 years, providing over 4,000 orphans with 3 meals a day.

SEATTLE, Wash. — ‘The Artist’s Guide to Success in the Music Business’ (ISBN: 978-1-935359-33-3) is now available from author Loren Weisman. The book is a detailed analysis of the subjects that all musicians should understand and apply in order to pursue a successful and sustainable career in music. Full of ideas and practical advice, this book provides comprehensive details on how to optimize success and achieve sustainability and self-empowerment in today’s music business.

MIAMI, Fla. — Henry Oliver Ford, president of World Food Association Organization S.A. Inc., (WFAO), is teaming up with aid organizations in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and Santiago, Dominican Republic, to help with immediate assistance in Haiti. A 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit the island nation Tuesday, January 12, nearly destroying its capital Port-au-Prince and affecting a third of its entire population.

SAN MARCOS, Calif. — The MagniFund Group is pleased to announce the addition of Jay Lacny to its organization, as its Chief Strategy Officer. This is an important advancement in the company’s desire to aid customers and clients in meeting all of their financial needs and continuing our strategy of becoming one of the West Coast’s largest lenders.

NEW YORK CITY, N.Y. — If you have partitions on your computer’s hard drive, then it is not exactly the same but serves same purpose as having different hard drives. According to Aomei Technology, one of the primary objectives to have a partition in your hard drive is to distinguish an operating system from user work and data files.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Time and Gems, the #1 U.S. online Rolex dealer, has released the world’s first two two-tone Rolex watch coated using a process called Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD) that transforms their appearance while making them up to 20 times more scratch resistant.

NEW YORK, N.Y. — EASEUS Partition Recovery is newly released free partition recovery software for all users by EASEUS Software. It is available for free download now. EASEUS Partition Recovery helps completely recover deleted and lost FAT, NTFS, EXT2/EXT3 partitions with easy-to-use wizard guidance.

FAIRMONT, W.Va. — Backbone Security, the global leader in digital steganography detection tools, is pleased to announce availability of a Steganography Detection Policy (SDP) for enterprises protected by Fidelis Security Systems’ flagship session-level network security solution, Fidelis XPS.

BOCA RATON, Fla. — Ron Wilk, author of the thriller ‘Papal Rogues’ (ISBN: 978-1936183029), will be appearing on Lifetime Television’s, The Balancing Act, on Monday, August 30, 2010. The national morning show, which airs from 7-8 a.m., will feature Wilk’s inspiring transition from neurologist to novelist and offer his compelling tips on how to create a successful and fulfilling ‘second act’ of your life.

BLAINE, Wash. — What you throw away may come back to haunt you. Original bottles were discovered by workers while excavating in an old landfill site and artist Thoma Hall embraced the opportunity to incorporate them into ‘Journey of a Water Drop.’ A dozen original glass bottles are among the 325 bottles in the art installation and visitors are challenged to locate them.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Cognitive Behavior Associates, a group practice specializing in the delivery of Cognitive-Behavior Therapy, is pleased to announce a new treatment program for individuals suffering from Irritable Bowel Syndrome – Going Well(R).

DALLAS, Texas — Businesses that generate hazardous waste in Texas must assure their operations comply with both the Federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations and the additional mandates imposed by the Texas Commission of Environmental Quality (TCEQ). Annual training is required by law.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Author Konrad Ventana today announced, through his agent, the release of two new e-books now available through Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble. These new releases represent the first books of a series known to the literary cognoscenti as the Post-Lux Trilogy: ‘Book 1, A Desperado’s Daily Bread’ (ISBN: 9780595622177); ‘Book 2, The Unbearable Sadness of Zilch’ (ISBN: 9781440158254); ‘Book 3, Questing for Uberjoy’ (ETA: 2011).