Crystal Suazo, partner at Vaco Raleigh, LLC (http://www.vaco.com/raleigh), an executive placement and consulting firm, has announced that Suzan Sprouse has joined the firm as a business development director in the operations and human resources division. With more than 10 years of business development and recruiting experience, Sprouse will assist with client/account management, new business development initiatives, and identifying and assessing qualified candidates for professional opportunities, with a particular focus on human resources, sales, administration and pharmaceutical ...

Adtraxion Systems, a recognized provider of comprehensive digital signage solutions, announced the broad compatibility between its digital signage player software and a wide range of AOpen Digital Engine media players. Adtraxion offers specially configured versions that work seamlessly with the AOpen platform. This combination of dedicated hardware and software allows both AV integrators and end-users to benefit from a solution that requires minimal support and configuration. The Adtraxion digital signage solution exists of digital signage content management software ...

MAPILab presents: New version of HarePoint Workflow Extensions for SharePoint 2010 MAPILab would like to announce a new version of HarePoint Workflow Extensions for SharePoint 2010. HarePoint Workflow Extensions considerably extends the capacity of Microsoft SharePoint workflow authoring and provides more 170 ready-to-use workflow activities in 15 different categories: SharePoint administration, Active Directory integration, documents management, image processing, networking and others. There are some sufficient improvements in the new version of the product. All ...

EMCO Software, a provider of software solutions for computer network management, announced today the availability of the brand-new EMCO WakeOnLan utility. This utility is based on the Wake-on-LAN (WOL) technology and allows network administrators to wake up network computers remotely. Although WakeOnLan was created for the Windows platform, it allows sending Wake-on-LAN packets to computers running Windows, Linux, MAC OS and other platforms so as to wake them up. The WakeOnLan utility provides network administrators with all features required to use the Wake-on-LAN technology ...

In response to increased demands for its services and products, Newport Business Solutions, the nation's fastest growing manufacturer of automobile parts, announced this week that they are expanding their 10,000 square foot headquarters. Newport Business Solutions was founded in 1998 by Frank Luntz. In 2008, Mr. Luntz's two sons, Robert Luntz and Tag Luntz became officers of the company. Frank Luntz still proudly remains CEO and in charge of day-to-day operations. "We are going to be doubling the size of our leading-edge manufacturing plant and its surrounding ...

East Imperial Soft announces a major update to Magic Photo Recovery, the company's solution for recovering deleted digital pictures, making it faster, safer, and easier to use. Version 3.0 includes a much improved recovery algorithm, significantly increasing the speed and quality of recovery. The newly added disk imaging feature makes the recovery safer by allowing working with a snapshot of the disk instead of the physical drive. In addition, Magic Photo Recovery can save recovered pictures onto a remote network location, burn them onto a CD/DVD, or create a burnable ...

Today, SWEET SOUL RECORDS, parent company lifesound, Inc., officially announced that an agreement has be reached with US/France-based neo-soul artist Song, for nationwide distribution of her newest project 'Let Love Shine,' including exclusive Japan bonus tracks. 'Let Love Shine' features tracks which include well-known artists Marcus Miller, Manu Katche, E-Z Trigga, Acquenin, DJ Cam, and the late Guru, the other half of the hip-hop duo Gang Starr. "'Let Love Shine' is 13 track album with a mixture of light jazz and neo soul. From the angst of love lost in 'I Loved ...

Crazy About Kenya is a grassroots project featuring 23 talented Kenyans. The group works in partnership with adventure specialist, Acacia Africa to generate a positive image of the country via music and art. Currently, the tour operator is working with artist, and Royal Over-Seas League Annual Scholarship winner, Shake Makelele, who will be exhibiting at gallery@oxo from 06-23 October, as part of the 2011 Royal Over-Seas League Annual Scholars Exhibition. Heath Ashcroft Marketing Director at Acacia Africa, comments "While we're continuing to support cultural events ...

VirtoSoftware - SharePoint Web Parts vendor _http://www.virtosoftware.com/_ - expands its SharePoint product line presenting Virto Resource Utilization Gantt - a new light-weight interactive Silverlight-based web part that provide SharePoint users with a variety of tools for resource management and online utilization tracking. With this new component you can easily check the workload of your employees and utilization of material resources and, if needed, immediately make the necessary changes. The web part is fully compatible with both SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010. Virto ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Researchers at Oregon State University have created a new, unifying method to describe a basic chemical concept called "electronegativity," first described almost 80 years ago by OSU alumnus Linus Pauling and part of the work that led to his receiving the Nobel Prize. The new system offers simplicity of understanding that should rewrite high school and college chemistry textbooks around the world, even as it opens important new avenues in materials and chemical research, with possible applications in everything from solar energy to solid state batteries. The ...

Singapore tourists will be able to learn more about one of history's most famous maritime disasters at Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition, which is coming soon to the local ArtScience Museum. The lavish exhibition, which has travelled the world and proven a huge success across various continents, will be coming to south-east Asia for the first time on October 29th 2011, running through until the 100th anniversary of the disaster in April 2012. For years, the public's imagination has been captured by the tragic sinking of the grand luxury liner RMS Titanic on its maiden ...

Researchers at the University of Gothenburg show that interactive technology generates new ways of seeing, showing and creating. The new technology boosts creativity. Jonas Ivarsson, Docent (Reader) at the Department of Education, Communication and Learning at the University of Gothenburg, has used students of architecture to study how new tools affect the specific abilities students develop in school. Within the research project Studying learning and representational technologies in design, supported by the Swedish Research Council, Ivarsson observed and video documented ...

Pattaya travellers can enjoy some high-quality performances by local guitarists at the Pattaya Classical Guitar Festival and Competition this October. Organised by the Thailand Guitar Society, in association with Pattaya People Media Group, the third annual event will be held on October 29th 2011 in the south of the city from 09:00 local time onwards. Performers from across Thailand will be joined by international musicians to take part in a packed schedule of concerts and competitions, commencing with classical guitar contests for adults and juniors at 09:30. ...

VIDEO: Toy dogs often suffer from tracheal collapse. A new procedure inserts a stent into the airway and allows the dogs to breathe easily. Click here for more information. Columbia, Mo. — Jack, a 12-year-old Yorkshire terrier, was lethargic and gasping for air when he arrived at the University of Missouri Veterinary Hospital. His tongue and gums were a bluish-purple. But, just one day following an innovative procedure, Jack bounced back to his former youthful exuberance. Jack ...

Phuket is to play host to an eagerly-contested fishing competition when the Phuket International Sportfishing Tournament kicks off in November. Beginning on November 24th 2011, the three-day competition will see various teams taking to the ocean in boats to try and catch as many fish as they can, with top honours going to the participants that snag the most in terms of overall weight. Boats will head out at 08:00 local time each day and return to shore at Chalong Bay by 19:00 (or 18:00 on November 26th, the final day), before weighing their haul at the Tamarind ...

Visitors to Malaysia can witness the spectacle of the 15th annual National Lion Dance Championship 2011, which will be held at Resorts World Genting this November. This showcase of the traditional Chinese dancing style - which sees teams of athletes performing amazing physical feats while dressed as an ornate lion - will be held at the Arena of Stars, with top-level performers from around the nation due to take part. Participants who have been training all year long will aim to demonstrate their skills and showmanship as they jump around on stilts and pull off dazzling ...

New Rochelle, October 4, 2011–The glassy, porous, and once gas-rich rock called pumice may have given rise to early life forms, according to a provocative new hypothesis on the origin of life published in Astrobiology, a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.. The article is available free online at www.liebertpub.com/ast for the next week. Martin Brasier, Richard Matthewman, and Sean McMahon, University of Oxford (U.K.), and David Wacey, University of Western Australia (Crawley), contend that pumice has "four remarkable properties" that would enable it to ...

The Middle East's largest motoring event returns to Dubai later this year, with more than 100,000 car enthusiasts and industry members expected to be in attendance. Running from Thursday November 10th to Monday November 14th, the Dubai International Motor Show will offer visitors the chance to see the freshest models and experience the latest technology. With dedicated zones for performance cars and tuning, as well as an extensive showcase of supercars and motorcycles, the biennial event has plenty to satisfy even the most demanding of petrolheads. Many of the ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich.---Growing up in a poor neighborhood significantly reduces the chances that a child will graduate from high school, according to a study published in the current (October) issue of the American Sociological Review. And the longer a child lives in that kind of neighborhood, the more harmful the impact. The study by sociologists Geoffrey Wodtke and David Harding of the University of Michigan and Felix Elwert of the University of Wisconsin is the first to capture the cumulative impact of growing up in America's most disadvantaged neighborhoods on a key educational ...

New York City is famous for its Halloween celebrations, which see costumed revellers taking to the streets of Manhattan in their thousands to mark the annual holiday. The Big Apple takes Halloween seriously, with preparations beginning in early September and gradually becoming more intense as the weekend closest to October 31st approaches. Countless parties and special events take place across New York in honour of Halloween, but arguably the most essential event for first-time visitors is the annual Village Halloween Parade. This colourful procession of costumed ...

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Boulder, CO, USA -- New research from three Geological Society of America journals is now online. Highlights for GSA BULLETIN (published online ahead of print on 19 Sept.), GEOSPHERE (with additions to two themed issues), and the October GSA TODAY science article are provided below. Representatives of the media may obtain complimentary copies of GSA BULLETIN and GEOSPHERE articles by contacting Christa Stratton at the address above. Please discuss articles of interest with the authors before publishing stories on their work, and please make reference to the appropriate ...

Avista Solutions, a leading provider of a web-based, end-to-end mortgage loan origination system, is pleased to announce its new partnership with Old Republic Credit Services (ORCS), a Chicago-based provider of customized credit products and services. At the request of its customers, Avista recently completed a seamless integration that allows users to order credit reports from ORCS without exiting their Avista Agile LOS. "With our new partnership with ORCS, Avista Solutions once again works to fulfill the needs of our current and future customers," Avista ...

The human body has a love-hate relationship with iron. Just the right amount is needed for proper cell function, yet too much is associated with brain diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. Science knows that men have more iron in their bodies and brains than women. These higher levels may be part of the explanation for why men develop these age-related neurodegenerative diseases at a younger age. But why do women have less iron in their systems than men? One possible explanation for the gender difference is that during menstruation, iron is eliminated through ...

It is not necessary for an effective anti-fouling coating to release toxins into the environment. Scientists at the University of Gothenburg have shown that it is instead possible to mix into the coating molecules on which the adult barnacles cannot grow. The result has been published in the scientific journal Biofouling. Fouling of hulls is a problem for all boat owners, and one of the most difficult organisms to deal with is barnacles. A research group at the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology has therefore studied the biology of barnacles in detail, and focussed ...