FORT LAUDERDALE /Florida Newswire/ — Governor Charlie Crist today hailed the courage and sacrifice of the Florida National Guard’s 53rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team during a deployment ceremony in Fort Lauderdale. The ceremony, honoring the …

LYNN, Mass. (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Trusty-Step International, a trusted and established anti-slip floor treatment manufacturer, recently introduced its clear non-slip acrylic coating with crystal clear polycarbonate aggregate to its floor treatment line. The company’s new acrylic anti-slip floor treatment is virtually undetectable, with surfaces retaining an exceptionally durable, reflective, fade-resistant and non-yellowing high-gloss finish for up to three years.

NEW YORK, N.Y. (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — The Pit Stop Players, a ten-member instrumental ensemble, will play its inaugural concert on Monday, February 1, 2010 at 7 p.m., at the Leonard Nimoy Thalia at Peter Norton Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway at 95th Street. The eclectic, genre-defying group will perform works by William Bolcom, Olivier Messiaen, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Danny Elfman, as well as a piece by Joshua Rosenblum, the group’s conductor and founder.

SANTA CLARA, Calif. (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — SecuGen, the world’s leading optical fingerprint device vendor, is pleased to announce that its Hamster Plus USB Fingerprint Reader has been selected by Schleuniger Automation for use with its CrimpCenter product line. A leading manufacturer of machines for wire processing, Schleuniger’s CrimpCenter products are fully automatic crimp machines that combine high processing speed, precision and user friendliness.

ORLANDO, Fla. (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — State Representative Kurt Kelly, whose district covers part of Florida’s Eighth Congressional district, today filed paperwork to run for Congress against controversial first-term Democrat Rep. Alan Grayson. ‘The people of Central Florida deserve a Congressman with a business background who knows that money spent by the federal government in Washington isn’t play money, but rather hard-earned money taken out of each of our paychecks,’ said Rep. Kelly.

PAVILION, N.Y. (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Syntec Optics, the largest independent manufacturer of custom polymer optics in North America, has unveiled a new clean room at its Pavilion, NY location. This Class 10,000 clean room will be used for assembly and testing of precision polymer and glass optical systems that are highly sensitive to environmental particulate. The construction and operation of a clean room represents Syntec’s endless commitment to offering customers a broad range of technological solutions and innovations.

TALLAHASSEE /Florida Newswire/ — Governor Charlie Crist today announced the following appointment: MEDICAID PHARMACEUTICAL AND THERAPEUTICS COMMITTEE. Francis Schwerin, 53, of Naples, self-employed physician, succeeding Elias Sarkis, appointed for a term beginning January 4, 2010, …

TALLAHASSEE /Florida Newswire/ — “The safety and security of the people of Florida is of the utmost importance. Accordingly, effective immediately, I am appointing David Halstead to serve as the Interim Director of the Division …

LAGUNA BEACH, Calif. (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Hardly a week goes by without some sort of unethical behavior making national headlines. Whether it is a media hoax about a boy in a balloon or a Ponzi scheme of the highest caliber, unethical behavior has – sadly – become expected?? Dr. Robert Hoyk, is a Clinical Psychologist and primary author of ‘THE ETHICAL EXECUTIVE: Becoming Aware of the Root Causes of Unethical Behavior: 45 Psychological Traps that Every One of Us Falls Prey To’ (Stanford University Press; ISBN: 978-0804759656).