Yacht delivery skipper, captain of a 135' Mississippi River sternwheel cruise ship, life-long cruiser along the coast of Maine, author and speaker - Dave Roper will share Two True Tales from his collection of stories in his upcoming new book: "Watching for Mermaids". -- A family heads to sea to celebrate their parents' 50th wedding anniversary and unknowingly sails into their past, encountering a most bizarre Twilight Zone experience fifteen miles off the coast of Maine. -- A couple chucks it all to 'live the dream', quitting their jobs, selling their ...

The Center for Autism and Related Disorders, Inc. (CARD), the world's largest autism organization providing state of the art therapy will host an Autism Treatment Insurance workshop for parents of children with autism. The free workshop will be held on Tuesday, June 14, 2011 from 6:30pm to 8:30pm at Best Western Hotel, located at 6721 Commerce Street in Springfield, Virginia. The workshop will provide information about the new Virginia mandate, what insurance companies will be required to cover as well as information on provider networks, preauthorizations and claim filing. ...

Elite Benefits of America is proud to announce the insurance agency will be speaking in front of business owners about ways to avoid medical bankruptcy: "Buying Health Insurance After Health care Reform - 8 Ways to Avoid Medical Bankruptcy". The event will focus on 8 principles the agency shares with their clients about avoiding medical bankruptcy. "With recent changes in our health care system in America, individuals and families are unsure about what's going to happen. With the ever increasing medical bankruptcies, what says you are not next?" ...

Nearly half of all data stored within company IT system backups cannot be reasonably justified, reports Symantec and Applied Research in their Information Management Health Check Survey, which sampled over 1,600 senior IT executives. "Many business owners and even IT managers have a poor understanding of the difference between IT system backups and archiving," David Papp states, author of "IT Survival Guide: Conquering Information Technology in Your Organization." "As a result, everything gets stored and IT systems reach capacity, causing poor ...

Industrial Vision Corporation, a leader in prescription safety eyewear, announces it is now offering Free-Form Technology lenses for industrial and occupational safety glasses. This new state-of-the-art technology uses advanced software and lens processing equipment to create lenses that are more precise than anything else on the market today, providing the closest match possible with the prescription needs of the patient. IVC is the first firm known nationally to offer this technology to the safety industry. Each Free-Form lens can eliminate distortion and create a ...

4DSP LLC announced the release of the VP680 and FC6301. These products, available in 3U VPX and CompactPCI form factors, offer an FPGA Mezzanine Card site that fully supports the 4DSP's FMC series of high speed digitizers and signal generators as well as third party products compliant to the VITA 57.1 FMC standard. This I/O flexibility is further enhanced by BLAST sites with advanced memory configurability. Because of their visibility the FC6301 and VP680 are ideal for applications where FPGA logic and DSP resources are required, such as for RADAR, SONAR and specialized ...

Available Concordia options for business professionals include: Master of Science in Organizational Leadership and Administration, and Master of Business Administration. Anyone interested in an advanced business degree is welcome to attend. Concordia University encourages participants to call with questions about the various programs or to visit the Concordia University web site, http://www.cuaa.edu. The session is free and without obligation. The event will be from 6:30pm to 7:30pm. Concordia University Ann Arbor offers accelerated graduate programs in both education ...

Dominic Cockram, MD of Steelhenge Consulting Ltd, a leading provider of business continuity and crisis management consulting, training and exercising, has confirmed he will speak at the one-day Business Continuity: Safeguarding Profitability & Economic Sustainability conference. The event, organised by the International Centre for Parliamentary Studies, will be held at the Silken Berlaymont Hotel, Brussels on 29th June 2011. For more information, visit http://www.steelhenge.co.uk or call 0845 094 2117. The International Centre for Parliamentary Studies works closely ...

evocos is proud to announce two new customer wins. Both a trade association for the UK retail industry and a leading international, pharmacy-led health and beauty group will be using the evocos solution to manage their employee career development schemes. The two organisations will be taking advantage of the integrated self service portal and event management aspects of the evocos solution. Using evocos, employees will be able to access their own personal employee training portal to manage all of their training requirements. Employees will log onto the secure portal ...

Yogurt is considered the healthy food par excellence. The consumption of this food has ancient origins: the Phoenicians, Egyptians, Greeks and Romans were used to eating it; it is mentioned in the "Arabian Nights" and the Russian microbiologist Metchnikoff believed that this special nourishment could even lengthen the life of human beings. Yogurt gelato is one of the leading products of PreGel, a renowned Italian company which produces high quality semi-finished products for ice cream and pastries. PreGel Yogurt recently celebrated 25 years since its launch: ...

Hangover Gone Deterrent and Detox Shot has been invited to be one of the select products included in the Official Gift Bags of the 38th Annual Daytime Entertainment Emmy Awards this year. Off the Wall Gifts, coordinator of this year's Daytime Emmy Gift Bag, hand selects innovative and emerging brands for the honor. 1400 attendees of the awards show will receive one of these exclusive gift bags. A two-pack of Hangover Gone will be inside. The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences recognizes excellence in daytime television with the coveted Daytime Entertainment ...

To produce an updated line of sound-equipped lecterns, Da-Lite Screen Company, Inc. turned to AmpliVox Sound Systems for its expertise in top quality sound amplification equipment. Da-Lite, a leading manufacturer of projection screens, a/v carts and other presentation tools, needed a customized solution to expand the utility of their lecterns. AmpliVox met the challenge with a 100-watt amplifier system that includes an array of plug-in options. AmpliVox's premium sound system can be added to all but one of the Da-Lite lectern lines. The system includes jacks for external ...

Pamela Anderson will host the 3rd Annual Silver Party this weekend, May 20th and 21st at the Living Room Nightclub in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Living Room Nightclub's Silver Party Weekend has something for everyone with Friday night catering to the gay community and Saturday night for mainstream party goers. Along with host Pamela Anderson, fashion designer Richie Rich will be at the club. Living Room Nightclub, which is known for it's multiple rooms, zen atmosphere and moodspace lighting is a downtown celebrity hotspot and widely known as the go-to party spot in South ...

Systech Illinois, a leading global provider of online, portable and laboratory gas analysis equipment, congratulates Gruter et Marchand for their 2000th gas measurement instrument order. Established in 1952, Gruter et Marchand have been representing Systech since the 1980's and sell the full range of Systech Illinois Process, Permeation and Headspace product ranges to the process industry (gas manufactures, oven and furnace manufacturers), food and pharmaceutical industry and the packaging industry. For more information call +44 (0) 1844 216838 or go to http://www.systechillinois.com. Gruter ...

Capital Gardens are a well respected garden retail company with garden centres in London and a long established website business. The website has extensive garden furniture stocks which are stored and distributed from a large warehouse in south London. Selected pieces from the Alexandra Rose Garden Furniture range are also being displayed at four of the garden centres being Alexandra Palace, Morden Hall , Neal's Nurseries and Woods of Berkhamsted. At Morden and Woods , Capital Gardens have established a garden furniture website station, where the customer can be assisted ...

Software developers of credit repair software for the professional credit repair industry are, like many other industries, moving their platforms online to the cloud claiming the benefits of cloud computing. These benefits include an open platform accessible from any computer and lower maintenance overhead costs. Unfortunately, what goes up - must come down as the biggest challenge facing credit repair companies that of efficiency, is actually made worse by migrating to the cloud. One of the major disadvantages of cloud computing is inherently slower interactive processing ...

Today CNP Integrations announced a new collaboration and partnership with the JoomlaLMS.com team, developers of the Joomla LMS E-learning and authoring software. This new partnership positions CNP integrations as a premier content development and support specialist for the robust Learning Management System software solutions that the JoomlaLMS team builds. JoomlaLMS according to Brandon Hall Research comparisons of 49 top Learning Management Systemscurrently is the Learning Management System that offers the most cost effective LMS solution in the marketplace. The closest ...

Celebrities are not the only ones turning to cosmetic dentistry to improve their smiles, there has been a dramatic increase in Lancaster PA cosmetic dental needs. The advances in cosmetic dentistry have shown the world that a perfect smile makes life better. The popularity of cosmetic dentistry continues to soar, as it is the only lasting solution for taking a smile from flawed to flawless. As Lancaster PA cosmetic dentists strive to meet their client needs as the popularity of these services rise, Smiles by Stevens continues to be the unparalleled provider for cosmetic ...

Poppy Sports ( http://www.poppysports.com ) is launching a triathlon coaching series in Boulder, Colorado aimed specifically at the female athlete. The dates for the six-day triathlon camps will be July 14th through 19th 2011. Join ironman and coach Teresa Rider to fine tune Olympic, half Ironman and Ironman training with the woman athlete in mind. Poppy Sports is an online retailer of high-end performance apparel for women triathletes, cyclists and runners. Based in Colorado they have partnered with Teresa Rider, age group World Champion Ironman winner, to launch Poppy ...

Pupils from a Harrogate school will be hoping to hear the ringing of tills this Saturday, (May 28) as they set up a shop to raise money for Malawi's Open Arms Charity. From 10.30am-4pm, Ashville College students and teachers will be occupying the Wesley Chapel's Lower Hall, where they will be selling CDs, clothes, books toys and bric-a-brac. The shop is the latest in a series of fund-raising initiatives being carried out in aid of the African-based charity. In July, a group of 19 students and three staff members from the independent school will be spending almost ...

Staffordshire-based PHD Mail has selected Pitney Bowes to provide engineering service support across all of its mailing technology platforms. Two Pitney Bowes engineers have been employed full-time to support PHD's mail production technology, including service support for inserting platforms from other manufacturers. Pitney Bowes' multi-vendor service offering is proving increasingly attractive to the market, providing businesses with the simplicity of just one point of contact for all service issues. Kevin Dunn, Business Development Director, PHD Mail, comments: ...

Anglian Home Improvements, the UK's leading home improvements company, has launched a revolutionary way to help consumers understand and choose the right energy efficient windows for their home. Anglian's 'EcoGain' windows are designed to specifically decrease energy usage, while the 'EcoRetain' windows keep heat loss to a minimum. The difference between the two lies in how 'EcoGain' lets in more sunlight which importantly acts as free heat. Both these products have been designed to demystify the complex established windows energy rating system that baffles consumers. Traditionally ...

MacPaw Inc. has successfully launched a new Windows version of its award winning cleaning and maintenance software for Mac OS - CleanMyMac. CleanMyPC ( http://macpaw.com/cleanmypc/?utm_campaign=everywhere&utm_source=site&campaign=everywhere ), the long-awaited "brother" of a well-known Mac utility went live at noon, May 12th, 2011. CleanMyPC is a new sophisticated software for Windows that is developed with the main objective of keeping a computer running right. It is designed in the most delicate way with an easy-to-use and user-friendly interface. ...

Jason Bridge, Online Marketing Manager at ValueSportsPicks.com, has announced the website's official relaunch. In celebration, the site is offering free NFL picks. "We are expanding our website at a fast pace to best serve our users and we are offering free sports picks selected by our team of experts which have a high 70 percent winning accuracy," said Jason Bridge. ValueSportsPicks.com recently launched the latest version of its updated website. The firm is offering visitors the opportunity to receive free NFL picks ( http://www.valuesportspicks.com ) ...

In this year's Clean trade fair (6th to 9th of June), to be held in Las Vegas, at Stand No. 2352, Girbau will demonstrate the latest advances introduced in their equipment, with special emphasis on the quest for savings and energy efficiency in the laundry. At a 1,700 square meter stand coordinated together with its subsidiary in the United States, Continental Girbau Inc., those attending the fair can learn about the latest developments in each of the group's divisions. The commercial division will present the PB band flatwork ironer, which incorporates the best of ...