Scott R. Bamford, P.E. has joined Geocomp as Senior Project Manager. Mr. Bamford has 30 years experience as a consulting geotechnical engineer with national and worldwide professional engineering experience both onshore and offshore, serving real estate development, transportation, energy, utility, and oil and gas clients. His experience includes a variety of geotechnical investigation and foundation design projects including: low- to high-rise commercial, residential, and retail buildings; multilevel parking garages; universities, schools, and colleges; medical facilities; ...

On the heels of a highly successful sports program last year, Pacific Ridge School, a non-profit, independent middle and upper school in Carlsbad, California, continues to meet the rising demands of its growing student population. In addition to earning the Frontier Leaguefs number one ranking in girls cross country and launching the inaugural boys and girls varsity lacrosse programs, the school also dedicated its new synthetic turf athletic field at the start of 2010. As Pacific Ridge School moves forward with the opening of a new, energy-efficient high school building ...

Painted Axe will hold its first exhibit of custom painted guitars and gear at Chase Tower, November 1-30. The exhibit, which will be on the 2nd floor between the two Chase Towers, will feature custom-painted electric, acoustic guitars and even guitar video game controllers. Prices will range from less than $50 for the video game controllers to around $500 for a guitar. Painted Axe specializes in custom-painted guitars, creating highly unique, distinctive and personal instruments. Clients include John Lee Hooker Jr., Ronny North, Kerri Kelli, Jon Justice, Jay Goldberg ...

The Scoop Magazine announced today that Blogger Jazzy F. Baby will be going in with Illseed on AllHipHop.com rumors. Jazzy F. has been heating things up on allhiphop.com rumors section. In case you missed it, there was a frenzy started with his rumors or shall we say truth on the infamous Kat Stacks and her numerous antics. Jazzy F. checks in several times every week with his word on the streets in hip hop. "I am extremely pleased to be a part of the new face of Source" says Jazzy F. Jazzy F. is the newest member of Scoop Magazine writer's team and will be blogging on ...

Today, Sunset editors released the free Sunset Travel Guide, the Best of Santa Fe: Restaurants, Galleries, Hotels, and More 2011. In this resourceful new guide, Sunset gives the true local's take on "The City Different" with information on the best lodging, dining, attractions, and activities. Download the Sunset Travel Guide, the Best of Santa Fe: Restaurants, Galleries, Hotels, and More 2011, to get Sunset's travel tips, including: • Santa Fe restaurants: 26 delectable eateries where you can indulge in authentic enchiladas and more classic New Mexican dishes, inventive ...

ZippyCart.com, the Internet's leading e-commerce software review company, has begun its Q4 process of determining the best e-commerce software for 2011. Each year, ZippyCart releases a top 10 list of the best shopping cart software for the year. This list is just one of the many tools that ZippyCart provides for e-commerce merchants in search of the right software to power their online store. ZippyCart also includes a list of the Top 10 Hosted Shopping Carts of Today, the Best Licensed E-Commerce Software of Today, and the Top 10 Free Shopping Carts of All Time, as well ...

Drug testing lab Avee Laboratories, a leading national toxicology facility based in Clearwater, Florida, has established an information hotline (1-866-928-9877) for physicians practicing pain management, their patients, and members of the general public who have questions or would like to learn about the changes in Florida's pain clinic laws taking effect October 1st, 2010. Drug testing lab Avee's media liaison and co-owner Brian Slattery says: "the new laws will help bring an end to Florida's 'pill mills'-- clinics where unscrupulous doctors write out thousands of ...

Everybody knows that a secure and comfortable retirement requires smart investing. According to Gallup's annual Economy and Personal Finance poll, the majority of Americans still thinks real estate is one of the best long-term investments. "Homes have become much more than just places to live," says Steve Dexter, co-author of the new book "Buy & Hold Forever: How to Build Wealth for the 21st Century." "Real estate is, without question, the most valuable asset in millions of Americans' retirement portfolios." In the book, Mr. Dexter and co-author David Schumacher ...

Robb & Stucky Interiors will host the official launch of Florida Weekly newspaper in Palm Beach Gardens at a "sneak preview" wine and hors d'oeuvres reception on Wednesday, October 13 from 5:30-7 p.m. The event is open to the public and there will be a chance to win a $1,000 gift certificate from Robb & Stucky, as well as free advertising in Florida Weekly for one year. "As a way of continuing Robb & Stucky's longstanding strategic partnership with this Southwest Florida weekly, and now that this award-winning publication is being introduced in our area of the state, ...

A Tiffany Studios leaded glass bronze floor lamp lit up the room for $135,600 at a three-day multi-estate sale held Sept. 24-26 by Philip Weiss Auctions. It was the top item of the estimated 1,800 fresh-to-the-market lots offered from prominent local estates and collections. The sale was held in the Philip Weiss showroom, at #1 Neil Court in Oceanside. The Tiffany lamp came from the Jacqueline Lowe estate. Its provenance could be traced back to an appraisal the family had done in the early 1930s. It boasted a bamboo-style lamp base and a dragonfly type shade, but altered ...

The CTO Telecom Summit successfully kicked off yesterday in Scottsdale, Arizona with an afternoon golf tournament, evening gala dinner, and opening welcome address by the event's Master of Ceremonies Dick LeFave, Independent Telecommunications & IT Professional, D&L Partners, LLC & Former CIO, Sprint Nextel. Today, the first full day of the technology event, began with a networking breakfast and will continue with a full day of educational sessions, including keynote presentations, thought-leadership sessions, open forums, and executive vision panel discussions. ...

That relaxing pedicure can put you in danger of leaving the salon with more than pretty nails; you could take with you a bacteria or fungal infection. Like the attached article states piped pedicure units are almost impossible to clean. http://thegloss.com/beauty/pedicure-dangers/. The solution is the new pipe-less units that are now on the market using jets by Luraco Technologies of Arlington, Texas. With the Magna-Jet, the external or "wet parts" of the jet are easy to remove and can be simply placed in a sanitization cleaner after each use for a germ free environment. ...

Axonom, a leading provider of high tech industry-specific Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Partner Relationship Management (PRM) extensions for Microsoft Dynamics CRM, announces today that Powertrak v9.2 for Microsoft Dynamics CRM has been Knowledge-Centered Support (KCS) Verified v4 by the Consortium for Service Innovation. Knowledge-Centered Support is the leading best practice for creating and maintaining knowledge in a support environment. Organizations using KCS verified solutions will see improvements in incident resolution and training times, in customer ...

Anyone who owns a puppy or dog will eventually have to deal with and correct less than desirable behavior of their pets. There are a number of behaviors that should be in contention, including jumping on people, this is one behavior that many owners inadvertently encourage their animals, as it pops up, wagging his tail, and other can be a sweet young pup. When the puppy is older, taller and heavier, but the behavior of jumping stops being cute and starts to become annoying and even dangerous. A large dog jumping on people can be dangerous heavy for young children and ...

Sims Recycling Solutions, the world's largest electronics recycler has become a Premier Lead Sponsor for the CREW Network. Sims Recycling Solutions will partner with CREW Network to be a part of the "Leading to Change" 2010 CREW Network Convention & Marketplace held in San Francisco October 20-23, 2010. Sims Recycling Solutions hopes to help raise awareness for the Commercial real estate industry on solutions to the compliance and security issues that they face. CREW Network is an organization that is dedicated to influencing the success of the commercial real estate ...

Appealing to logic and emotion makes a real difference to your argument being accepted by adults. However, it is different when it comes to children. For children the use of logic is largely unsuccessful and children can end not being motivated to learn tables. If you want to convince your children to learn tables well, logic is not the thing to use. For children you must totally appeal to their emotions. The thing to do to get your children to learn times through having a fun experience and The Learning Well shows you how. Alan McMahon of The Learning Well says; "I ...

Matrox Graphics Inc., the leading manufacturer of specialized graphics solutions, is pleased to announce that Three Palm Software has developed support for Matrox Xenia Pro display controller boards for its WorkstationOne breast imaging workstation solution. This cooperation provides radiologists with an advanced triple-monitor platform to efficiently manage their digital mammography workflow, while simplifying installation and configuration. WorkstationOne is a full-featured breast imaging workstation, with an emphasis on efficient interpreting workflow and expert ...

Longwood Software, Inc., developers of the RevBase software-as-a-service marketing asset management system (www.revbase.com), announced today expanded multilingual support within RevBase to serve customers' global marketing and sales operations. RevBase customers now can localize their marketing asset management solution to reflect local languages and local market preferences for any country. The expanded multilingual capability includes support for non-Latin character sets such as Hebrew, Japanese, Chinese and more, and is available at no additional charge to customers. PALRAM ...

Internationally acclaimed decision guru, Michael E. McGrath, Executive Chairman and CEO of the Thomas Group and author of the Decide Better! book series, will be conducting "The Decisive Corporation! Seminar" presented by the Thomas Group twice in the Dallas area. McGrath, who has appeared as the leading authority in corporate decision making on CNBC, CNN, and FOX Business Network, will unveil the new and essential concepts of the Decisive Corporation he has developed through years of research. Michael, along with a panel of esteemed D/FW executives, will address such issues ...

A local divorce and family mediation firm today announced a new 8-week parenting class starting November 4th. Anne Browning, CEL and Associates, will be hosting the parenting class "7 Pitfalls of Single Parenting: what to avoid to help your children thrive after divorce." Divorce can be a challenging time for parents and kids adjusting to their new life. The class offers help for single parents who are worried their children have been hurt by divorce. This class helps divorced parents understand what to do, how to control anger with an ex-spouse, and tips for being ...

The New Jersey workers' compensation attorneys of Levinson Axelrod, P.A. are pleased to announce the addition of a new associate attorney to the firm, Robert Y. Cook, Esq. He will be joining the personal injury department of the firm and will work out of the Forked River location. Cook earned his B.A. in political science from Dickson College. After graduating, he was commissioned to join the U.S. Army Candidate School for a four-year term. After completing the program, Cook earned his J.D. From Widener University Law School and worked for the Honorable Charles Smith, ...

Trees are essential to life and yet, are often taken for granted. Up to one million acres of forest are lost to city growth in the United States each year. The Illinois Arborist Association (IAA) provides information to schools, municipalities, businesses and the general public detailing the value of trees to the community and the environment. The benefits offered by trees are varied and include: • Air Filtration - filters out particles and absorbs harmful gases • Cost Reduction - provides shade and shelter, reducing yearly heating and cooling costs by billions of ...

Since launching Cleveland's PuroClean Professional Services, part of the nation's fastest growing property emergency franchise, three years ago, co-owner George Cruz has seen business increase by more than 300 percent. Recognizing his impressive start, along with his dedication to the community, the Ohio Hispanic Chambers of Commerce honored Cruz as the 2010 Cleveland Hispanic Businessman of the Year. Each year, the Ohio Hispanic Chambers of Commerce (through the local chambers in Ohio) recognizes area professionals who exemplify leadership, dedication and commitment ...

Bell Nunnally & Martin LLP expanded its transactional practice group with the addition of partner Eddy Moore. "Eddy brings a wealth of experience to our corporate and transactional practices," said firm managing partner Jim Skochdopole. Eddy has over 20 years of experience representing clients in a wide variety of corporate and business transactions including financings, mergers and acquisitions, and private equity investing. In addition to his transactional practice, Eddy has a significant litigation background with courtroom experience in diverse areas of law. He ...

History Associates, a leading historical research firm, is creating a special panel exhibit for this year's Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) annual conference to be held in later in October. The exhibit will trace the evolution of public relations from colonial times to today. "This exciting exhibit is definitely not your typical tradeshow booth," said John D. Robinson, PRSA's vice president, Corporate Development & Industry Partnerships. "It's a compelling and holistic look at the history and evolution of our profession that nicely complements the many other ...