National News Desk

LOS ANGELES, Calif. (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Starlight Children's Foundation is currently auctioning off a VIP package for two lucky individuals to walk the red carpet and see popular television celebrities up close at this year's All-Star Emmy® Award Show. Anyone can bid on two tickets to the Emmy Award Show on Sunday, Sept. 20 at the Nokia Theater in the heart of the exciting downtown complex LA Live and know that all of the proceeds will benefit Starlight's seriously ill children and their family members.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Children Awaiting Parents, a nonprofit organization dedicated to finding adoptive families for children in foster care, is hosting its annual Family Walk on Saturday, September 26, 2009. The Walk is held at Ontario Beach Park in Rochester and is handicap accessible. Individual walkers in both youth and adult categories are eligible to win great prizes, including iPods.

LAFAYETTE, N.J. (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Lion Technology, the nation's leader in regulatory compliance training, is presenting a unique two-hour training session to address the new domestic and international shipping regulations for lithium batteries. A live Web seminar hosted through www.lion.com will be held monthly, with the first seminar on September 15th, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m EST/EDT.

NEW YORK, N.Y. (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Partitioning a hard drive enables computer users to manage their files more effectively. For instance, the C drive is usually used for hosting Windows and system files, while another partition is for your important personal files. The partitions on the hard drive has always been pre-configured while installing the Windows operating system and it is not an easy task for users to resize and move existing partitions. EASEUS Partition Master is the ideal partition tool.

EL DORADO HILLS, Calif. (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- PigskinKids.com is an online meeting place for youth football fans, coaches and players. This new Web site sets a new standard for instructional youth football and raises the bar for quality online video content through its free, shared youth football highlight feature.

WAYNE, N.J. (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- The Ballantine Corporation, a family-owned direct mail company, announces the release of a free direct marketing tip sheet, also known as a white paper, that provides clear and insightful direct marketing how-to information that will positively influence any business's bottom line. The 50 tips offered in this direct marketing white paper are the result of interviewing a trusted network of 20 vendors.

BONITA, Calif. (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- What is the next thing for Social Networking? Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and their competitors let you find friends, build brands, and form groups. But a newer site lets you do those things, plus monopolize a chunk of the Internet around a social issue, philosophical question, research problem, niche art form, or environmental challenge. The rationale for the World Mind Network (WMN) stems from events over the last five years or so - the advent of new Web 2.0 tools which have hit society like waves.

AVENTURA, Fla. (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- mXpo.net 2009 Virtual Mortgage Trade Show, the mortgage industry-sponsored virtual trade show, conference, job fair and educational content platform flagship event on October 7 - 8 is honored that Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) Vice President Of Single Family Research And Policy Development Mike Fratantoni will deliver the keynote presentation at 1:00 ET on Wednesday, October 7.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Author Raul Ramos y Sanchez is touring Southern California, the setting of his controversial debut novel AMERICA LIBRE following its July 29th release by Grand Central Publishing (formerly Warner Books). The apocalyptic story, which envisions an armed Latino insurrection in the U.S. Southwest sparked by a violent anti-immigration backlash, has already gained considerable media attention from print and broadcast sources including USA Today.

ATLANTA, Ga. (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- The Kaduna State Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board will now be able to enroll more than 8,000 potential pilgrims for Hajj, and eliminate the hassle of multiple registrations from a single person. Kaduna State can also accurately verify each of the pilgrims in attendance at Hajj in Mecca (KSA), the Holy Pilgrimage City of Saudi Arabia. This breakthrough in precise and efficient authentication is a result of using biometric technology from M2SYS, an award-winning biometric technology research and development firm.

ORLANDO, Fla. (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- SEBA® Solutions Inc. announces that 'The Handbook of Program Management' (ISBN-13: 978-0071494724) has been added to the United States government Federal Acquisition Institute's (FAI) recommended reading list for all capstone courses in program and project management. The FAI establishes the necessary competencies, training, and experience requirements for program and project managers in civilian agencies to become certified to manage the acquisition-related aspects of projects.

PALO ALTO, Calif. (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Virtual Law Partners LLP (VLP) has announced that Charulata Pagar, Adam Lin, Eda Tan, and Byron Rodriguez have joined the firm. 'VLP is continuing to expand with top quality attorneys. Our newest lawyers further expand the firm's practice areas and also strengthen our Asia practice,' said RoseAnn Rotandaro, VLP's President and Co-Founder.

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- GoldenCare USA and American Independent Marketing explain their new portfolio of long-term care products from United of Omaha Life Insurance Company, a Mutual of Omaha company, as providing benefits that coincide with the progression of care and costs normally occurring in a long term care scenario.

NEW YORK, N.Y. (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Selecting a firm to help your job search is an important decision, say the experts at ITS. The field includes career counselors, outplacement firms, career management firms, resume writers, and career coaches. Most are just advisory services. A new type of service has emerged where the emphasis is on using technology to enable people to get all the job market information they need online - in one place.

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- On Thursday, September 24, 2009 the 7th Annual World Savvy Gala will be held at the Hotel Kabuki. The Gala is World Savvy's premier event, raising funds and awareness to support the mission of the organization to educate and engage youth in community and world affairs, so that they are prepared to learn, work, and live as responsible citizens in the global community.

STRONGSVILLE, Ohio (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Nelson Tree Service, Inc., Dayton, Ohio announces the appointment of Donald L. Cox to Vice President. Cox has over 27 years experience in the line clearance industry and began working for Nelson in 1991. Cox advanced to the position of General Foreman and in 2002 was promoted to Regional Manager in the Midwest, which includes operations on the properties of Ameren UE, CIPS, CILCO, IP as well as Duke Indiana and several other utilities and co-ops.

STRONGSVILLE, Ohio (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Nelson Tree Service, Inc., Dayton, Ohio announces the appointment of Robert 'Bob' Turner, Jr. to Vice President. Turner has over 32 years experience in the line clearance industry and began working for Nelson in 1998 as Supervisor in New Jersey.

NEW YORK, N.Y. (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- The high foreclosure rate across the United States during the last two years caused an abundance of properties to flood the market. Prices on real estate dropped as the number of available homes kept growing. An analysis conducted by Foreclosure Data Online using their large database of foreclosure information has found that situation is changing. Prices are rising and homes are being purchased more quickly than in recent months.

TORONTO, Ontario (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- North Plains Systems Inc., the world's leading provider of digital asset management (DAM) and rich media asset management (MAM) software solutions, today announced that KMWorld has named North Plains' TeleScope™ as one of the magazine's 'Trend-Setting Products' of 2009. TeleScope was selected for its unique ability to help organizations create, manage, distribute, repurpose and monetize their digital assets.

WINTER PARK, Fla. (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Neal Renuart, CPA has joined BKHM, PA, as a Senior Audit Manager in the assurance services group. Prior to joining BKHM, Neal was the Corporate Controller of LGL Group, Inc. along with many years of 'Big 4' firm experience with a national accounting firm. He has worked with clients ranging from billion dollar companies to small, family owned businesses.