National News Desk

DALLAS, Texas -- What started out as therapy, ended up as a compilation of motivational writings in 'One Black Woman's Opinion' (ISBN: 978-0578-0412-09), by Valerie Stallworth Stephens. Written for all age groups, as well as men and women, the new book is designed to promote the power of positive thinking. Its mission is to motivate and to nurture the spirit.

LAFAYETTE, N.J. -- Lion Technology, the nation's leader in regulatory compliance training, is presenting a unique two-hour training program to address the latest domestic and international rules for shipping lithium batteries. A live Web seminar hosted through www.Lion.com will be held on June 8th, 2010 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. EST/EDT.

LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif. -- Village 1 Hour Cleaners has earned the prestigious Award of Excellence for Quality and Customer Service. This prestigious international award program is administered by the Clothing Care Council, a Washington D.C. based group. Dry cleaners must pass rigorous tests not only in the area of advanced dry cleaning but also in customer service. To date, approximately 140 companies around the world have attained the Award of Excellence.

MIAMI, Fla. -- Foreclosure Deals, a leader in providing listings of foreclosed homes for sale nationwide, reported today that foreclosure filings in April fell 9 percent from the previous month, and over 2 percent from April of 2009. The company also revealed that default notices, which mark the beginning of a new foreclosure, were down 12 percent from March and over 27 percent from the previous year, while bank repossessions of existing foreclosures hit a record high.

MANCHESTER, Vt. -- CONIX Systems, Inc., a leading international provider of payment processing solutions to the financial services industry and a pioneer in the creation of post-Check 21 exception management tools, will host the BAI webinar entitled, 'Acceleration of Exception Payment Processing: 'The Next Big Thing,'' on June 8 at 1:00 p.m. CST/CDT.

NEW YORK, N.Y. -- CheapOair has been serving the student travel market for years, making it easy for student travelers to search and book low airfares online for domestic and international destinations. Graduating students eager to travel to Asia and explore this alluring and exotic destination can book cheap flights to Beijing through CheapOair.

NEW YORK, N.Y. -- EASEUS Software, a provider of innovative and professional data recovery software, provides users one comprehensive data recovery freeware: EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition. Boasting all features of the licensed data recovery wizard, this free edition now allows users to recover 1GB of data for free; it is the first freeware data recovery application worldwide which provides more powerful data recovery solutions than any other free data recovery software.

BOGOTA, Colombia -- In only two weeks, the Santos Presidential campaign has managed to slingshot the candidate across social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, hi5, Delicious and WordPress. Santos' Facebook fans were at 70,409 before the Web 2.0 campaign began, and now number 148,750 within 15 days.

SAINT-PETERSBURG, Russia -- Duality Software has released Calendarscope 5.0, a powerful Windows calendar application for business and home users. Calendarscope makes it simple to plan, schedule, and manage appointments, meetings, birthdays, anniversaries, and special events. Unlike other calendar programs that provide only token support for recurring events, Calendarscope lets you create single or recurring tasks and events, and manage them with ease.

CHICAGO, Ill. -- KnowledgeAdvisors, the world's largest provider of learning and talent measurement solutions, today announced it has released V12.0 of its proprietary analytics software, Metrics that Matter(R) Metrics that Matter(R) is an on-demand, SaaS (Software as a Service) Human Capital Analytics system that allows you to cost-effectively measure and increase the impact of your human capital processes from recruiting to leadership development.

ATLANTA, Ga. -- The recent U.S. economy rebound is expected to continue and housing looks to be bottoming out, Federal Reserve Bank official Michael Chriszt will tell the Georgia Association of Business Brokers at a meeting Tuesday, May 25. Michael Chriszt, an assistant vice president with the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta's research department, thinks the current economic rebound is sustainable because most sectors are up.

CABO SAN LUCAS, Mexico -- Picante Sportfishing, a proud Corporate Sponsor of the International Game Fish Association, would like to announce that the 2010 IGFA Offshore World Championship, often considered the 'Olympics' of big-game fishing, is taking place this week in Cabo San Lucas Mexico. The international teams have qualified by winning one of the over 110 IGFA sponsored events and were then invited to participate in this prestigious blue-water sport-fishing event.

DAYTON, N.J. -- GlassesUSA.com is setting a new standard in the e-commerce industry. The New Jersey-based online store continues to make headlines by partnering with the Better Business Bureau of New Jersey to ensure that their customers have peace of mind when purchasing their glasses. The online retailer that sells prescription glasses all over the world understands the importance of great customer service.

ATLANTA, Ga. -- ContinuLink, a leader in Web-based home care software has announced that it has entered into a business development relationship with Cardiocom to provide a two way interface between Cardiocom's Omnivisor Pro software application and the Web-based ContinuLink application. Cardiocom is a developer, manufacturer and clinical service provider of award-winning telehealth solutions.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- California-based World Women Trade Fair, today announced the launch of Women of Africa Marketplace, a touring exhibition and marketplace, that allows African women in the creative and cultural business to promote and sell their products and services directly to the public and retail buyers in North America and Europe.

ATLANTA, Ga. -- CONIX Systems, Inc., a leading international provider of payment processing solutions to the financial services industry and a pioneer in the creation of post-Check 21 exception management tools, has retained Depth Public Relations, an Atlanta, Georgia, provider of public relations, internet search visibility, and marketing strategies for the mortgage lending and financial services industry.

NEW YORK, N.Y. and CAMBRIDGE, UK -- Innovation Framework Technologies, the premier supplier of software solutions dedicated to the innovation and new product development value chains, today announced its partnership with Cambridge based nu Angle, the leading technology strategy and roadmapping advisor and implementer. The partnership is focused on delivering a flexible solution to help organizations of all sizes and industries to take advantage of strategic and technology roadmapping best practices.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- As the Gulf oil spill inched closer to land last week, hundreds of fishermen, tourists, and local officials sent text messages, tweets, and cell phone videos to share their experience with the world. Many of these were monitored by tracking sites, which in turn were watched by high school students on their home computers and smart phones; many of whom were part of the World Mind Network.

ATLANTA, Ga. -- John Gardner, president and CEO of Integrative Logic, a leading full-service, integrated database marketing provider, will moderate a session at the Eye for Travel Marketing Strategies Conference in Miami on June 2-3, 2010. Gardner will lead a discussion on how to use intelligent, triggered communications approaches to engage, motivate and sustain relevant guest interest, and in turn boost conversions and customer loyalty.

PORT ORCHARD, Wash. -- Women live longer than men and are America's primary caregivers. Yet too often they sacrifice their time, jobs, savings and serenity looking after a debilitated spouse or parent. Furthermore, while attending to those significant others, they often neglect planning for their own care. 'This is a huge national problem,' says Jenny Fassett, President of newly-formed LTC4women, a limited liability company based in Port Orchard, Washington.