Image Line Software, the developers of FL Studio, is dedicating the release of Deckadance 1.13 to its creator, Juan Antonio Arguelles, known to the music community as 'Argu', who passed away in a car accident in early June.

"Argu is deeply missed by all of the team here at Image-Line, he was one of the friendliest and most talented developers we ever worked with," said Jean-Marie Cannie, Managing Director of Image Line Software. "He was dedicated to his work, created genius applications and we would like to assure the Deckadance community that we must and will continue Argu's work."

Global audiences are now able to view the award winning film “First Date” online at http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2681964 or on the home page of D.I.B Pictures Entertainment, http://www.dibpictures.com

“First Date” gives the audience a glimpse into the world of a man that tries to come to terms with a new twist in his life. Award winning filmmaker Bivas Biswas along with notable actors Tom Blackwood and Dona Wood, guide you into a tragicomic tale about a man with obsessive compulsive disorder about to miss the opportunity he has waited for all his life.

Every two minutes in the United States, a woman dies of breast cancer according to breastcancer.org. The nonprofit also reports that today, one in every seven women is likely to get breast cancer. Doing its part to combat these frightening breast cancer statistics, online jewelry business bead ‘n babe will take it to the streets in Philadelphia starting on October 6, 2006 leading a team of women committed to raising money and awareness of the devastating effects of breast cancer by walking sixty miles over a three-day period. Information on the event can be found at http://www.the3day.org. Eileen Jessup, owner of bead ‘n babe and Hudson Valley area bead artist, will offer 15% of proceeds of sales of her three Breast Cancer Awareness Bracelets to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation during October, Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

- According to the US Census bureau there are more than 14.4 million men aged 65+ in the U.S., many of whom are parents. Finding a Father's Day gift that they will appreciate can be challenging. Wellhaven Gifts for Seniors (www.wellhaven.com) provides some tips on selecting useful and unique Father's Day gifts.

For active seniors, choose a gift related to their hobby or interest.

* Choose clothing and accessories for use in their favorite activity. Dad may appreciate practical items such as a new sportsmans vest or a golf wind shirt. For accessories, give Dad a gold-plated money clip and key ring with golfer, hunter and fisherman designs.

* Gadgets make good gifts. Dads like anything that makes life easier. Choose items such as cell phone amplifiers or even a stylish walking stick with a casino pattern on the shaft.

* Give the gift of entertainment. Select a gift certificate to local restaurant or movie theatre. Or, choose a collection of musical memories from a bygone era that Dad can enjoy while in the car or at home.

Acorn Rack (http://www.acornrack.com), a provider of on-demand automatic web site creation solutions, announced today that in anticipation of reaching its 10,000 user milestone, it has launched a contest with prizes totaling in value over $10,000.

Contestants are asked to select a date that they believe Acorn Rack will reach the mark. If they select the correct date, they will win the grand prize, or split it with others who selected same date. Runners up will also be chosen who selected dates preceding or following the actual.

GTP Financial Services announced today the official launch of their AcmeCard.com service. AcmeCard.com is designed to provide all the design, development and tracking services to web merchants for them to run their own plastic gift card service. Unlike “real world” solutions, requiring special hardware to activate and accept, only AcmeCard offers web merchants the ability to order, manage and sell gift cards created for their website all via the internet.

In recent surveys, over 60% of adult Americans reported purchasing gift cards and this trend only seems to increase each year. Between 2003 and 2004 the purchase of gift cards doubled nation-wide. Web merchants have a unique opportunity to provide their unique and highly sought digital and physical goods to consumers via gift card. The total value of the gift card market in the USA during 2004 was $17B. With a predicted 50% of consumers shopping online in 2007/2008 this means that online gift cards are the future.

Runaway Brandit, Inc. welcomes Jake Wallgren and Kristina Velarde to the RB team. Both individuals will be great additions and come to the firm with a great deal of knowledge, enthusiasm and eagerness to assist current and future clients with growing their businesses.

Jake Wallgren is a recent graduate from San Diego State University, he holds a bachelors degree in marketing with a specialization in integrated marketing communications. Jake will be responsible for account sales in the south county area of San Diego.

Nicholas Goh, Executive Director of Verztec Consulting Pte Ltd, a leading provider of Translation and Localization services, is pleased to provide the following tips, which help businesses better manage multicultural teams.

The modern workplace is a borderless one. Globalisation has opened up vistas of potential partnerships and collaborations around the world. Supply chains span entire continents and project management teams comprise members of diverse nationalities and backgrounds. Managers then find themselves with a tough mandate as they are plunged into a merry cacophony of culturally-informed behavioural patterns, ranging from communication styles to decision-making processes.

Experts in food texture, Food Technology Corporation (FTC), has launched a new website dedicated to food texture measurement (www.foodtechcorp.com). With a unique 40 year heritage solely within food texture testing, FTC's website offers a specialist approach, serving both those familiar with the FTC brand and texture measurement, as well as complete novices to the subject.

Food Technology Corporation home page

This website provides visitors with an easy-to-navigate, simple structure in order to quickly locate points of interest. A fundamental element of the website's new design is the separation of information into industry sectors such as, bakery, confectionery, d 5a8 airy, fruits & vegetables, gelatine and meats. Visitors to the site can now locate information relevant to their industry, including types of test, case studies and downloadable sector-specific brochures. This focus means food technologists and quality control personnel can easily assess how best to test their particular food products and ingredients.

Omega Performance, leaders in management consulting for financial services, announced today the opening of a new office in Johannesburg, South Africa, further expanding its worldwide network. The company has eight offices with more than 200 remote locations in North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, the Middle East, and Africa providing corporations with performance improvement solutions to increase their business results.

“We see tremendous opportunity to leverage our acclaimed management consulting, training, and coaching solutions in serving South African financial institutions,” said Mario Berard, president and chief executive officer of Omega Performance. “Competition in this industry is on a global scale and our entry into this market reinforces our commitment to the international financial services community.”

- Komunik, a leading Canadian provider of multi-channel relational marketing solutions, announced today the launch of Maestro Version 4.6.8, the latest version if its flagship email and web marketing platform. As the platform of choice for many leading corporate marketers, Maestro houses all the features and functions for list management, campaign planning, deployment, and post-campaign reporting.

The new features added in this version of Maestro enhance our clients ability to drill-down into client profiles and segment data for more precise targeting," said Alain Paquin, president of Komunik. Weve also added more enhanced controls to limit user access. This provides an additional level of security, as users can be granted access for campaign management, reports, or contact lists."

WSKG Public Broadcasting recently announced that their AFTER Auction AUCTION live in person event – not on TV, will take place Thursday, May 25th at WSKG Studios, 601 Gates Road, Vestal, NY. The sale scheduled at 6:30pm is preceded by a preview at 5:30pm. Auctioneers Colonel Al Benjamin & Chip Hunt of Midtown Antiques will manage this event.

WSKG Public TV (Ch. 46 - traditional analog TV)

The Spring Auctions May Be Gone, But Our Mission Goes On!

Even though our spring auctions have ended, our organization and our mission have not. Our thanks to NBT Bank for sponsoring the WSKG Art Auction

Dick Schiferli of Pamela Systems offers his flagship software for Skype, "Pamela Pro", to every seminar attendee during the International Podcasting Expo, October 20-22, 2006. The Podcasting Expo will present 40+ online seminars, workshops and networking events, as well as give away free podcast production tools to all seminar attendees. Paige Eissinger of 2 Smart Chix will offer training on the Pamela Pro software.

The Pro version offers Skype Answering Machine, Auto Skype Chat Reply, Change Skype status when on a call, Skype Contact Personalisation, Separate Voicemail Greeting for your SkypeIn number, Time Scheduling, Email Forwarding, Call, Video and Chat Recording, Skype Podcasting and Blogging, Notes taking during call, Start other apps when you receive a Skype call and more.

Cambridgeshire-based online marketing specialist Get On Fast (www.getonfast.com) have released a four point check list for companies wishing to develop quality inbound links in order to improve a web site's link popularity.

"Link building is a major part of any web site development campaign, but web site owners need to ensure that they are building quality over quantity when it comes to developing a sites link popularity," explains Get On Fast (www.getonfast.com/linkpopularityservices.html) creative director, Robert Smith.

XyEnterprise, a leading developer of award-winning XML content management and multi-channel delivery solutions, today announced the release of ContentaView 3.6, an update to their software solution suite for the intelligent delivery of interactive, textual and multimedia content via CD-ROM or the Web. This new version now features a powerful web-based update server, providing a universal means for updating all digital publications with a simple internet connection.

The update server in ContentaView 3.6 makes it fast and easy to push content updates from the server to the desktop and ensures that users are working with the correct version of their publication. It also allows for unattended updates to be performed at pre-determined intervals. Because these new features in ContentaView 3.6 are web-based, they do not require any additional hardware or software.

This spring, Caring.com and the Alzheimer's Association teamed up in the fight against Alzheimer's, by harnessing the power of the Internet to create an innovative social media campaign to spread awareness of this growing epidemic. The Purple Ribbon campaign was a great success, with families, caregivers and friends of loved ones afflicted with Alzheimer's displaying the free Purple Ribbon on more than 1,000 blogs and websites in less than seven weeks.

The Internet has changed how we get information, even for important topics like caregiving and eldercare. Blogs have replaced weekly email updates, online communities have replaced park bench conversations, and widgets have replaced bumper stickers as a way to show support for an issue or cause.

Luxury Boutique Condo Hotel Princess Heights has released its special rates for those visitors to the friendly island of St. Maarten who wish to stay longer than the average tourist.

Princess Heights swimming pool with a gorgeous view to Dawn Beach

Valid from May 18, 2009 through and including December 21, 2009 the special rates starting from US $2,300.00 per month includes ocean view accommodations, housekeeping once a week, welcome amenities and utilities (electra, water and internet).

Search Engine Strategies (SES) Toronto 2009 today announced the addition of copywriting, landing page and Twitter sessions to the already packed conference agenda. The largest search engine marketing conference in Canada will be held at the Sheraton Centre Toronto June 8-10, 2009.

Search Engine Strategies (SES) Toronto

According to Hitwise, Google received 80.2 percent of all Canadian searches conducted in the 12 weeks ending April 25, 2009. MSN search properties, Yahoo! search properties and Ask search properties received 8.8 percent, 7.3 percent and 2.8 percent, respectively. By comparison, Google accounted for 72.7 percent of all U.S. searches conducted during that period, according to Hitwise. Yahoo! Search, MSN Search and Ask.com received 16.3 percent, 5.7 percent and 4.0 percent, respectively.

B.A.Maze, Inc. has been helping boomers and seniors open their medicine with the patented PurrFect Opener® for years, but this innovative company is now launching a patent-pending PurrFect Gripper™ to help people get a grip on their bottles and jars. Due to the Tylenol scare twenty-seven years ago, a new bottle of aspirin has four forms of packaging to keep it tamperproof: an external box, an external plastic seal, a childproof lid, and an internal foil seal. Similarly, jars and bottles use plastic or paper covers on the lid to keep the products safe, tamperproof, and fresh. Combined with the strong vacuum seal, people of all ages have complained about opening jars and bottles. Additionally, soda and water bottles now have a 28% smaller cap size, thus reducing the gripping surface for opening refreshments. The PurrFect Gripper™ offers flexibility to open small Tabasco-sized bottles to large pickle jars, has a cutter for those pesky seals on salad-dressing bottles, and provides a large gripping cone to open mini-sized soda caps. If the cap gets stuck on the Gripper, "X" marks the spot for pushing it out. For those with arthritis or reduced hand strength, the PurrFect Gripper™ makes opening jars and bottles a snap!

Dansk Supermarked Gruppen (DSG) is Denmark's largest retail group, owning four general merchandise brands, comprising the hypermarkets Bilka and A-Z, føtex supermarkets, the Tøj & Sko clothing and shoe stores, and the grocery chain Netto.

DSG - Dematic Order Assembly System

To consolidate the operations of its expanding general merchandise brands and significantly reduce logistics costs, DSG has placed an order with leading logistics systems supplier Dematic for a highly flexible, high productivity Order Assembly system.