EmbroidMe, the world's largest embroidery franchise, announced today that Entrepreneur magazine has once again ranked the company as the top franchise in the Embroidery & Screen Printing category in the annual Franchise 500 list. Each year the magazine recognizes the top franchises and reveals the impact of the newest trends and industries poised for growth. For 2013, EmbroidMe received an overall ranking of #264, up from last year's rank of #336. "We are thrilled to be recognized for our brand's growth and unique position within the industry," said ...

TITUS, a leading provider of information security and data governance software, is pleased to be a Silver Sponsor at RSA Conference 2013, taking place from February 25 to March 1 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Be sure to stop by TITUS Booth # 1017. • Enter one of our Crazy Chaos Cubes to try to control the data chaos. TITUS will be giving away remote controlled helicopters during our presentations every half hour throughout the show. • Discover how to effectively identify your data with TITUS Classification. Involve your end users to raise security awareness ...

The Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO) has released its Global Entrepreneur Indicator, a semi-annual survey of the organization's 8,000 entrepreneurs across 40 countries. The survey is designed to predict economic trends in a number of areas, including job creation, profits, debt loads, economic forecasting, and the overall business environment. Results are broken down by region. Key results from EO's Raleigh-Durham chapter include: • 67 percent added full-time employees in the past six months; globally, this figure was 56 percent • 78 percent expect to increase total ...

MiProtesis.com, the Latin American prosthetic news and advice website, is now accepting guest bloggers to write articles and how-to's. All guest content must be submitted to frankucros@miprotesis.com. Since its launch two months ago, MiProtesis.com has been delievering important news and tips to Spanish speakers in the world. "The website is becoming popular."says website owner and certified prosthetist, Frank Ucros, "but we need more contributions from other sources than just Hi Tech Prosthetic Inc." What Ucros is referring to is his other company: ...

Since the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) implemented new safety goals, there have been new advances in Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) implementation in the Healthcare Industry. The healthcare system uses a wide variety of processes to track patient information, from different types of insurances requiring claims in specific formats to different details and transactions from healthcare providers and clearing houses. RFID has the potential to combine different processes and improve communication, productivity and accuracy of the ...

William "Bill" Geller, a Broker-Associate with RE/MAX Platinum Realty's Sarasota office, was recently named Realtor of the Year by the Sarasota Association of Realtors (SAR). He was nominated by his peers for his contribution to the association and the community. "No one is more deserving for this award," said Broker-Owner Bryan Guentner. "We are proud of his achievement and are honored that a person of his caliber chooses to be affiliated with RE/MAX Platinum Realty." A real estate professional for more than 20 years, Geller was 2009 ...

eNet Components, leading manufacturer and full-service provider of OEM compatible Transceivers, Memory and Cables, is announcing the release of their 40GB transceiver. The company's position, along with channel partners, is providing resellers the most recent high-demand transceivers while offering end-users the best value possible for Cisco, Juniper, HP, IBM, Brocade, Dell Force10 and many more networking manufacturers. "eNet provides resellers options to meet their end user's budgetary constraints with compatible peripherals that function identical to the OEM," ...

Boating writer Robin G. Coles will be signing copies of her book, Boating Secrets: 127 Top Tips to Help You Buy and/or Enjoy Your Boat at Strictly Sail Miami Boat Show in Miami, FL Feb. 14 - 18. The author will be available for book signings in the Author's Corner from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, Friday, and Sunday, from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, and from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon and 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. on Monday. At 4:45 p.m. on Saturday Coles can be found in Tent C presenting "Keeping it Fun". On Monday at 1:00 p.m. in Tent B Coles ...

Legal malpractice attorney Jefferey Katz of The Patterson Law Firm, LLC will be speaking at the American Association for Justice (AAJ) Winter Convention taking place February 9, 2013 at 12:00 p.m. at the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami, Florida. The seminar will coincide with a meeting for the Professional Liability Litigation Group, of which Katz is the founding member. This event will mark the first ever group meeting. The topic is risk management for the plaintiff' s attorney. "It is an honor to speak at the convention for the leading plaintiff's trial attorney ...

The Chef's Academy (http://www.thechefsacademy.com), the Culinary Division of Harrison College, a 110-year-old, nationally accredited institution that offers 40 degree programs in five schools of study, has announced that the school will host its inaugural Chili Cook-off on Friday, Feb. 8 from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Teams of three students each will engage in a heated competition for the title of The Chef's Academy Chili Champion. Students will begin preparing their chili at 8:30 a.m. and the dishes will be ready for judging and public tasting beginning at 11:30 a.m. ...

California-based Southwest Healthcare System recently selected Digisonics as the Cardiovascular Information System (CVIS) Solution for Inland Valley Medical Center in Wildomar, Calif. and Rancho Springs Medical Center in Murrieta, Calif. The Digisonics CVIS will enable clinicians at the facility to quickly create structured reports for their adult and pediatric echo studies. Users will also have fully functional remote reading capabilities through the secure web-based DigiNet Pro application for anywhere, anytime access to the complete CVIS. Southwest Healthcare will ...

Fort Worth Business Press with Mary Jo McCurley, his wife of 29 years and an accomplished Family Law attorney in her own right. The commentary offers tips from two seasoned divorce lawyers on how two-career couples can keep their marriages alive and thriving, despite the constant demands from work and children: "One might think that spending most of your time standing amid the rubble of other people's failed marriages would wreak havoc on our own. Ironically, the opposite has been true. Spending our married lives around divorce has given us perspective that few ...

The SRM-10.4 Sunlight Readable monitor from TRU-Vu Monitors was selected to play a key role in last week's Presidential Inauguration. The monitor was used on the lectern for Colonel Michael J. Colburn, Director of the U.S. Marine Corp Band. The monitor's 1,000 nits brightness ensured that the Colonel could clearly see every word and image, even with bright sunlight directly on the face of the screen. People stated they "were very pleased with the performance of the monitor during the Inauguration. The picture was bright and crisp, even in direct sunlight. The Conductor ...

It has been announced today that Merlin Software for Vacation Ownership is one of the first to leverage RCI's new interface for property management systems. RCI announced in December 2012 the launch of its Deposit Simplification Interface allowing links between its system and external property management systems. The aim of the interface is to integrate and automate operational processes for RCI affiliates. Merlin Software is one of the first to exploit this link. The recently completed interface between RCI and Merlin Software allows members' deposits to be automatically ...

Brooklyn Industries, a company founded by two artists, is no stranger to collaborating with creative minds from around the world. When they first heard of a young man from Australia traveling the globe by bartering photography services for food, board, and transportation, working together was a natural fit in keeping with the company's own motto, "Live, Work, Create." Shantanu Starick created The Pixel Trade project and started trading photography services for travel in 2011. Starick agrees to photograph any subject, and in return clients provide the necessities ...

Were you born between 1961 and 1981? Meet new friends at the Silicon Valley's first-ever Gen-X Singles Party! Dress to impress. Saturday, March 2, 2013, 9pm-1am. $20 at the door includes: •Dancing to your favorite hits •Karaoke mixed in, with prizes for groups/individuals getting loudest applause • Light appetizers, served at 9pm, as long as they last • Fun Casino Blackjack (no cash value). Famous Gen-Xers include Ashton Kutcher, Brad Pitt, Will Smith, Beyonce, Britney Spears, Barack & Michelle Obama, Paul Ryan, Julia Roberts, Robert Downey Jr, Sarah Jessica ...

The Greater Raleigh-Durham Chapter 105 of the Institute of Real Estate Management will be presenting "Investment Real Estate: Financial Tools" (FIN402) on February 18-19 at the Drucker and Falk Training Center located at 7200 Creedmoor Road, 3rd Floor in Raleigh. The highly-interactive, two-day course is designed to give financial professionals the ability to calculate important financial components and take control of their property's financial outlook by addressing the core issues that impact fiscal planning. Instructing the course will be Robert S. Griswold, ...

Panda Security, The Cloud Security Company, today announced the beta release of version 6.50 of Panda Cloud Office Protection Advanced, the first cloud-based endpoint security solution with protection for Exchange Server. An image of the product can be seen at: http://press.pandasecurity.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/url_en.bmp Main new features of Panda Cloud Office Protection Advanced 6.50 beta: * URL filtering: Improved proactive detection for even better protection. The solution's technology and reporting capabilities allow deeper visibility into end-user Internet ...

Talk Fusion, a rapidly growing global video communication solution company, today announced that it has launched Knowledge Base, a new resource found at talkfusion.com that is a library of white papers and other documents to educate and empower Talk Fusion Customers and Associates about important industry and video communication topics and trends. By reading and sharing these industry and product papers provided as PDFs in multiple languages, users are enabled to understand and master the advantages of leveraging Talk Fusion Video Communication Products for email marketing, ...

BKD Forensics & Valuation Services, a division of BKD, LLP, is pleased to announce that Shauna Woody-Coussens will be presenting for the Topeka Chapter of the Institute of Internal Auditors. Her presentation, "Forensic Data Mining " will take place on Tuesday, February 5, 2013, from 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. at Westar Energy Inc., Topeka, Kansas. Shauna's forensic investigative experience includes fraud investigations for internally identified company matters, in response to inquiries by third parties and regulatory bodies, and in litigation. She is a member ...

Ontario-based telemarketing firm TelStar Communications is pleased to announce the launch of the company's new website on January 22, 2013. The new site is part of the organization's ongoing efforts to showcase their newly expanded services, which feature a combination of marketing tools. "With the launch of our new website, TelStar can better communicate our company's offerings," said TelStar CEO Randy Crane. "Telemarketing has changed dramatically in recent years, and we have changed our business model as a result. Our new website explains exactly how ...

Critical Path Management LLC (CPM), provider of process consulting and construction management services for the ethanol and process industry, recently welcomed Peter Schrandt to the CPM team. Schrandt's responsibilities will be as project manager for the full range of CPM clients and services with his initial focus directed towards business development initiatives with Arisdyne Systems, Inc.'s controlled flow cavitation (CFCTM) technology. "We're pleased to have the talent of Pete Schrandt on our team," said Bob Shank, Vice President of CPM. "Pete's knowledge ...

When Laine Cunningham began writing her novel He Drinks Poison, she already knew a little about India's changing society. The seismic shifts in women's freedoms were raising wages and enhancing women's lives with increasing freedoms. It was also causing worry among those who held more traditional views about gender roles, just like those seen in America when women first began receiving rights. In the novel, an Indian-American woman lives with the knowledge that her mother likely became pregnant when she was gang-raped in India during her parents' second honeymoon. The ...

One Beat CPR has relocated their successful CPR training facility to a new 4,500 square foot space located at 4350 Oakes Road Suite 500-501 Fort Lauderdale, FL 33314. The new office is centrally located in the tri-county area, as their business coverage area spans from Palm Beach to the Florida Keys. One Beat's new facility includes a 25 person classroom to hold the various training courses offered each month including CPR/AED, First Aid, BLS, ACLS, PALS, and Emergency Oxygen. Additional features include executive suites for their full-time staff, and a shipping warehouse. ...

Citation Technologies, an industry leader in delivering Environmental, Health and Safety (EH&S) global compliance solutions, today announced the latest version of its Citation Compliance Suite cloud-based risk and compliance management solutions, Citation Build 3.2. The new software release adds ease-of-use enhancements that help to speed user review of content and streamline regulatory data for customized corporate and site-level compliance. Citation will be showcasing Citation Build 3.2 at the upcoming 2013 EHS and Sustainability Software Conference on February 26-27th ...