Timeshare By Owner Announces its Code of Conduct

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SteinbachNutcracker.com Announces Karolin Steinbach Signing Event at Southdale Mall in Minneapolis, MN

Edina, Minnesota (PRWEB) November 23, 2011

SteinbachNutcracker.com is excited to announce a world-class signing event by Karolin Steinbach, daughter of Karla Steinbach and granddaughter of the King of Nutcrackers, Herr Christian Steinbach.

The signing event will take place on December 7, 2011, at Southdale Mall in Minneapolis, MN. SteinbachNutcracker.com has hundreds of Steinbach nutcrackers available to choose from on their website. Many of these will be available for purchase and a personalized signature at the Southdale signing event. Customers nationwide are also able to purchase a nutcracker in advance, have it signed at the event, and shipped to their address in time for Christmas.

The Steinbach name has been in the nutcracker business for six generations, and Karolin Steinbach seems poised to carry the tradition on to a seventh generation. SteinbachNutcracker.com is excited to welcome her to Minnesota.

SteinbachNutcracker.com invites all Karolin's fans to come meet her and take home an exclusive signed Steinbach nutcracker. For more details visit the SteinbachNutcracker.com Facebook page.

About SteinbachNutcracker.com

SteinbachNutcracker.com is part of ClickToShopLLC, a collection of online specialty stores. ClickToShop offers products ranging from Oktoberfest party supplies, to stemless wine glass, to Christmas decorations. ClickToShop stores pride themselves on dedicated customer service and high quality merchandise.

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Common Ground Center Announces All-inclusive Family Camp: A New Generation of Family Vacations

Starksboro, Vermont (PRWEB) May 31, 2011

In a time where life seems to be moving in the fast lane, families across the country are in need of a true family vacation more than ever. Planning a vacation, deciding as a group where and what to do, and coming up with the funds, however, can be just as stressful as the hectic life families are trying to leave behind.

Thats why more and more families are turning to a good ol fashion style of American summer fun CAMP! Only now, summer camp is floating to the top of the list of ideal vacations with a twist: instead of leaving children to have fun with strangers while parents go back to the daily grind, the grownups get to join the kids at family camp. Thats right, dust off the hiking boots, tennis racquet, arts & crafts skills, and marshmallow roasting stick and get ready to unwind, relax, and laugh right along side the kids.

Besides reliving a little bit of childhood, there are lots of other reasons to choose family camp as a family vacation.

First of all, its affordable. At Camp Common Ground in Starksboro, VT, for example, an all-inclusive, weeklong stay for a family of four costs about $ 2,500 (depending on childrens ages and accommodation choices). This all-inclusive price includes three delicious, vegetarian meals a day, separate programs for adults and kids, multi-age activities including African dance and concerts that the whole family will enjoy, and accommodations in charming cabins or an Eco-Lodge (and for the more adventurous, tenting is free!).

The words all-inclusive might make the checkbook sigh with relief, but they will also help drop everyone's blood pressure to an all time low. Renting a house on Cape Cod may seem inexpensive compared to staying in a hotel for a week, but then parents spend several hours each day grocery shopping, preparing meals, cleaning, and organizing activities. At family camp, once the reservation is made, someone else takes care of the rest including cooking, cleaning, and organizing, eliminating stress so that everyone can actually enjoy the vacation.

And what to do all day at family camp? At Camp Common Ground kids to go to Kidville in the mornings for a dynamic childrens program and parents can participate in adult activities that range from traditional camp activities like hiking to non-violent communication to glass bead making to learning the violin to tennis and yoga. And if those options arent appealing, grab a book and relax in a hammock while kids have the time of their lives.

The afternoons are filled with multi-age activities like swimming, arts & crafts, and games. For Carole Blane, long time camper turned Camp Common Ground Camp Director, these multi-age activities are the best part of family camp, Instead of hearing about your childs summer camp experiences after the fact, as a parent you actually get to see the expression on your kids face when she makes a new friend or hits the bulls eye on an archery target. And this is priceless. Also, children get to see parents learning new things too like watercolors or dance moves which is a unique experience in todays world.

Another added bonus of family camp is that it doesnt have to be just a single family on vacation. Its simple to add a grandparent, a niece, family friends, or a whole extra family to the mix. There are activities for all ages to enjoy, other families to make friends with, and countless accommodation options. At Camp Common Ground, the nuclear family can stay in a cabin while a sister and her new baby or a grandparent can stay in the Eco-Lodge nearby. Everyone can be a happy camper at family camp!

Of course, vacations to exotic locales or national parks can also be fun and are worth the trip. But when looking for an affordable family vacation where everyone can truly unwind, consider family camp this summer; its quickly becoming a tradition for many American households that theyll cherish forever as a family.

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Punch! Software Announces the Release of Home and Landscape Design Studio for Mac at MacWorld '09

Kansas City, Mo (PRWEB) January 7, 2009

Punch! Software has released the next generation of home design software with the Punch! Home and Landscape Design Studio for Mac. The focus of this completely new package was to build the easiest product possible for an end user, while maintaining and expanding the rich feature set for which Punch! is known.

Home and Landscape Design Studio is a completely new product from Punch! Software sporting new features such as a QuickStart system to allow a user to build a home quickly, "Going Green" services which offer a wealth of information to help you build more energy efficient with just the click of a button, and a completely new and updated object library for more realistic 3D modeling. The software is built to help users save time and most importantly, money.

One of the best features of Punch! software has been the ability to build a 2D plan and review it in 3D instantly. Home and Landscape Design Studio takes this ability to the next level and makes it easier to use than ever before. Simply open the software and begin dragging whole rooms into place. Resize all rooms appropriately and complete the process. Users can instantly see their design in 3D and walk around or fly through their model. Check out the video on the Punch! Software website showing how to build a home in 59 seconds.

While QuickStart gets you designing and building a dream home in minimal time, the list of new features in this software will allow users to customize every detail:

DiabetesMine Announces Diabetes Design Contest to Foster Innovation for Life with Diabetes; Good Design can Transform Life for Diabetics

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) May 14, 2008

DiabetesMine, a leading informational and community web site for people with diabetes, announces the 2nd Annual DiabetesMine Design Challenge, a competition designed to foster innovation in diabetes design and encourage creative new tools that will improve life with diabetes.

This web-based competition is co-hosted at DiabetesMine.com and MedGadget.com, the Internet journal of emerging medical technologies, and supported by the world-renowned design and innovation firm IDEO, with headquarters in Palo Alto, CA. The campaign is generously sponsored by Cory and Justin Oringer, two young brothers (ages 14 and 11, respectively) who have both been living with Type 1 diabetes for more than 10 years each and have already seen and personally experienced many wonderful benefits of design innovation in diabetes technology.

Submissions are being accepted in two categories: under age 18, and over 18. The package of prizes offered to help further the winners' creative efforts includes $ 3,200 in cash, a two-hour workshop by IDEO design consultants specializing in health and wellness to help the winners refine their concepts, and free access to the next "innovation incubator" Health 2.0 Conference in San Francisco in October 21-23, 2008, for one adult winner.

"People with diabetes are so varied. There's the 8-year-old kid going to school every day, versus the older gentleman who may be retired and barely gets out of his house. Consumer design takes that variability into account, but traditionally medical design does not. What people with diabetes really need and want are choices," says Cynthia Rice, head of new technology at the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF). "We applaud what DiabetesMine is doing, because it sheds light on this need."

Last year, creator of DiabetesMine Amy Tenderich posted an Open Letter to Steve Jobs, calling for the gurus of consumer design to help revolutionize design of diabetes devices. In the weeks and months that followed, numerous individuals and organizations came forward with compelling new prototypes, designs, and ideas. These included new concepts for glucose meters, insulin pumps, lancing devices (for testing blood glucose), devices for transporting medical records or tracking glucose results, diabetes supply carry cases and more.

This year, the official competition is open to anyone passionate about diabetes and product design. "Whether you're a pharma R&D pro, an independent engineer, a design student or an enterprising patient, we want to hear from you," Tenderich says. "Remember, good design can be applied to anything, even something as 'low-tech' as a special container for disposing of used glucose test strips. Let the innovation begin!"

Submissions are accepted in the form of a 2-minute video to be uploaded to the DiabetesMine YouTube channel, or a 2-3 page written "elevator pitch" plus supporting graphics. The deadline for submissions has been extended to midnight PST on Monday, June 16, 2008. Winners will be announced on Friday, June 20, 2008.

The official contest announcement and rules can be found at http://www.diabetesmine.com/2008/04/2nd-annual-diab.html.

For more information, please contact:

B. Tenderich at DiabetesMine.com

650-652-9430

info @ diabetesmine.com

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Hackman Capital Announces the Sale of Florence Industrial Center

Florence, South Carolina (PRWEB) September 15, 2011

Hackman Capital, a private-held real estate investment firm located in Los Angeles, California, announced today that Otis Elevator of Farmington, Connecticut purchased the property owned by its affiliate at 1500 Range Way, in Florence, South Carolina. Florence Industrial Center, a 423,581 square-foot, class-A industrial facility, once occupied by Maytag, is situated on 49 acres and also includes 35 acres of vacant, interstate frontage land.

John Ticon and Edward Kercher of Cushman Wakefield in Charleston, South Carolina represented Otis Elevator in the recent transaction, while Randy Stump of The Stump Corporation, represented the Hackman affiliate.

"Adjacent to Interstate 95 and in close proximity to deep-water seaports, Florence Industrial Center offers Otis a prime Southeastern location and first-rate building amenities for manufacturing and distribution," said Michael Hackman, founder and CEO of Hackman Capital.

Hackman Capital renovated and completely rebranded the property in June of 2009, after selling and removing specialized Maytag equipmentapproximately 100 pieceswhich they acquired, along with the real estate, as part of the initial bundled transaction. "We then launched an aggressive marketing campaign designed to attract national companies to the area," said Hackman. The campaign not only touted key building features, Hackman explained, but also promoted Florence's incomparable accessibility and pro-business community.

Otis Elevator, the world's leading manufacturer of elevators, escalators and moving walkways, was the ideal candidate.

Otis completed a fee-in-lieu-of (FILO) payment agreement with Florence County, in an economic development project known as Project Rosebud, last month, in which the county agreed to dramatically reduce Otis' property taxes over the next 30 years.

For its part, the company is contracted to bring at least 360 jobs with an average wage of $ 25 per hour to the site and invest a minimum of $ 40 million in capital. If the company doesn't meet those benchmarks in the prescribed amount of time the local incentives agreement will be wholly or partially cancelled.

Beyond the tax rate reduction, an additional incentive offers Otis a $ 1,000 cash grant from the county for every Florence County resident who is employed at the site for at least three years up until December 31, 2016. That grant for up to 400 employees means a potential local grant of $ 400,000. The average salary of the employees counted must also be $ 25/hour, although that can include bonuses.

The 158-year-old company, which employs 61,000 people and has local roots in more than 200 countries and territories, has not yet shared specific details. However, Otis plans to use Florence Industrial Center as a manufacturing site and also expects to build a tall testing tower there. Jobs will come from Otis operations in other U.S. cities, and in Mexico, according to Florence County Economic Development Corporation officials, who anticipate a formal announcement from Otis later this month.

More about Hackman Capital

Hackman Capital is a privately held investment firm specializing in industrial and office real estate. The company is also one of the few in the country that purchases real estate along with capital equipment, whether acquired separately or combined. Since 1986, Hackman Capital has been a principal investor in more than $ 1 billion of real estate, and has conducted more than 150 equipment transactions across four continents, generating auction proceeds estimated at $ 200 million. The company is based in Los Angeles, California. Learn more at http://www.hackmancapital.com.

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Stoneleigh Companies Announces the Acquisition of Waterford Park Apartments Converse, Texas

Barrington, IL (PRWEB) November 13, 2011

Stoneleigh Companies, LLC announces the acquisition of the 224 unit Waterford Park Apartments in Converse, Texas, a San Antonio suburb. The purchase was financed through a loan issued by KeyCorp Real Estate Capital Markets, Inc. on behalf of Freddie Macs CME program. The property is the fourth multi-family acquisition by Stoneleigh in the past two years and adds a new market to its investment portfolio.

Rick Cavenaugh, President of Stoneleigh, states Our investment model is to buy existing apartment properties in great locations with internal equity while using advantageous debt structures. With debt rates at all-time lows and the strength of the San Antonio market firmly established, we are excited about adding Waterford Park to our portfolio.

The Waterford Park acquisition is part of a four property portfolio bought by Stoneleigh this week and follows the purchase of Boca Vista Apartments in Orlando in December 2009 and Waterford Hills in Charlotte in November 2010. James OKane, Senior Vice President Acquisitions/Capital Markets said Texas has always been a key focus as we are building our investment portfolio and we are excited about buying 1,040 units in Midland and San Antonio. These markets continue to outperform their peers and will be a key building block for Stoneleigh Companies.

Stoneleigh Companies is a private real estate investment and development company with an extensive track record in multi-family and development disciplines. Since 1984, the Stoneleigh team has been responsible for the acquisition and development of over 35,000 multi-family units in 37 cities and 19 states. Three new projects are slated in Texas and Colorado for 2012.

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ControlScan Announces Continued Growth, PCI Compliance Leadership in 2010

Atlanta, GA (Vocus/PRWEB) February 01, 2011

ControlScan, the leading provider of PCI compliance solutions specifically designed for small- to mid-sized merchants, announced a successful 2010 marked by substantial increases in acquirer partnerships and merchant users, product enhancements and the release of its merchant survey findings.

ControlScan saw a significant increase in Level 4 merchant engagement as a result of the companys partnerships with ISOs and acquirers, which in 2010 grew to include more than 85, including Hauppauge, N.Y.-based TransFirst; Austin, Texas-based AffiniPay and Pleasant Grove, Utah-based Accelerated Payment Technologies. As a result of these partnerships, ControlScan has grown its available merchant base to more than 650,000 over the past year.

Our success in 2010 was made possible by our partners who are committed to ensuring that their Level 4 merchants comply with PCI DSS to protect consumer credit card information, said Joan Herbig, CEO of ControlScan. Our partners value ControlScans ongoing commitment to developing new products and services and providing personalized support that enables them to educate merchants on PCI compliance best practices, restoring productivity to the compliance process. ControlScans unique merchant outreach program, SmartReach, underscores the importance of security, thereby compliance to merchants, while providing value as extensions of our partners operations.

Continuing its dedication to improving the merchant experience and simplifying compliance management for its partners, ControlScan released its Payment Application Data Security Standard (PA-DSS) compliance program in Q3 2010. PA-DSS is the latest enhancement to ControlScans PCI Dashboard management and reporting solution, which allows acquirers to view their merchant portfolios by payment application type and identify merchants that are using PA-DSS compliant applications.

The second half of 2010 marked significant changes to the PCI Approved Scanning Vendor (PCI-ASV) guidelines mandated by the PCI Security Standards Council. ControlScan met these changes by enhancing its scanning solution to both comply with the requirements and provide the best possible experience for the Level 4 merchant. Both solutions provide additional tools to make it easy for partners to manage the compliance of their merchant portfolios.

In response to increased industry demand for its compliance solutions, ControlScan nearly doubled its employee headcount, including the addition of 25-year payments industry veteran, John Fasano, as chief financial officer (CFO); and Chris Bucolo, as senior business development manager. To accommodate sustained growth among its merchant support contact center and technology team, the company nearly doubled its square footage.

In June, ControlScan closed a Series B round funding, led by Harbert Venture Partners and C&B Capital. As part of the investment, ControlScan added Tom Roberts, partner, Harbert Venture Partners; and John McDonnell, Chairman and CEO of Phoenix Managed Networks, to its Board of Directors.

In Q4 2010, ControlScan and its partner Merchant Warehouse

The Mac Observer Announces Editors Choice Award Winners for Macworld Expo 2009

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) January 9, 2009

The Mac Observer, the leading source of news and opinion for the Mac community, announced the winners of the Second Annual TMO Editors' Choice Awards. The awards were given out in conjunction with Macworld Conference and Expo 2009 in San Francisco.

The winners are:

DreamColor LP2480zx Display from Hewlett Packard -

FileMaker Pro 10 from FileMaker -

Freeway Pro 5 from Softpress Systems -

Google Mobile for iPhone from Google -

OmniFocus for iPhone from The Omni Group -

PDFPen v4 from SmileOnMyMac -

Roxio Toast 10 Titanium from Sonic Solutions -

Things for Mac and iPhone from Cultured Code -

WireTap Anywhere from Ambrosia Software

"The large number of great products introduced at this year's Macworld made it very difficult to choose the winners," said Jeff Gamet, Managing Editor of The Mac Observer. According to Gamet, "Although the decision was extremely difficult, we truly feel that these products represent the best of Macworld 2009. They are the products people will be talking about most in the weeks ahead."

The winners were selected from all new products showcased at Macworld Conference and Expo 2009. Products must have been introduced either since Macworld 2008 or at Macworld 2009. Criteria included innovation, creativity, wow-factor and overall interest to the Macintosh community.

About The Mac Observer: 
The Mac Observer http://www.macobserver.com/ features daily in-depth Macintosh industry and product news, columns, and reviews, with the goal of ensuring that its readership is as thoroughly informed as possible. TMO's experienced columnists cover news ranging from stock market updates and industry opinion to technology overviews and product reviews, making it a critical resource in understanding the currents of the Mac industry.

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Link Building Company Announces Increase in Search for Keyword, 'Link Building Packages'

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) November 19, 2011

Linkbuilding, an seo link building company that helps clients climb the search engine rankings using seo link building services, announced today an increase in the search for keyword, "link building packages." The internet marketing company keeps track of searchable keywords related to the site, and this term has had a 20% increase in searches on the Internet in the last quarter. This has, in turn, showed an increase in clients who are looking for link building packages. Utilizing successful SEO services, including article distribution, natural link building, directory submissions, contextual link building, article submission and syndication, RSS feeds syndication, press release distribution, social bookmarking, link baiting and many more, to ensure that clients achieve the search engine ranking position they deserve.

"Link building packages are a very affordable way to market a business online," said Russell Rabichev, Marketing Director for the Link Building Company.

Link Building Company is owned and operated by the Internet Marketing Company. The Internet has become an extremely competitive market these days, and search engines place a great deal of importance on the quantity and quality of links pointing to a website. As one might already know, inbound links are the most important factor as to how search engines determine where a website will rank in search results. Google and other engines rely heavily on inbound links to a website to determine authority, relevance and overall popularity of a website across the Web. In a nutshell, the more quality links there is, the higher a website will rank. At the end of the day, it is all about rankings!

For more information, please visit http://www.linkbuilding.org

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BookJingle.com Announces 10% Increase on Textbook Buyback Offers to Ease Financial Burden on College Students

Georgetown, KY (PRWEB) July 31, 2010

One of the biggest financial concerns of college students preparing for the Fall 2010 semester is paying for their course textbooks. Ron French of the Detroit News writes in his article, Beating high price of college textbooks, the average student now spends almost $ 1,000 a year on books required for courses, with some books retailing for more than $ 200 apiece. The result is some students going deeper in debt and others trying to survive classes without textbooks.

Many students have textbooks to sell from the Spring or Summer semester because the college bookstore was not buying them or they were only being offered pennies for books that had cost almost $ 100.

According to a Government Accounting Office report, faculty decisions largely determine how much student receives. If the bookstore has not received a faculty order for the book at the end of the term and the edition is still current, they may offer students the wholesale price of the book, which could range from 5 to 35 percent of the new retail price.

Book Jingle.com is an interactive book buyback website that pays cash for used books and textbooks. Students will no longer have to accept the low offers given by the campus bookstore. The days of hearing, We are not using that textbook next semester, and receiving only 5% of the purchase price are over. A level playing field has been created through the power of the internet and the ingenuity of BookJingle.

Beginning August 1st, BookJingle.com is going to add an additional 10% to the total amount for any student that places a textbook buyback order on the site. To qualify, an order must contain at least one textbook and be submitted on http://www.bookjingle.com between August 1st and October 1st, 2010. Students must enter the Code TB2010 in the Referral Code box at checkout. Unfortunately, this offer does not apply to Teachers Editions or International Editions as the site does not accept them.

Selling used textbooks on BookJingle is easy and convenient. Students type in the ISBN numbers of the textbooks they would like to sell. BookJingle will return an instant offer that reflects the value of each ISBN entered. After choosing which offers to accept, individuals can then complete the simple checkout process. Finally, attach the prepaid mailing label to the package and ship it. BookJingle pays quickly! Within 48 hours of receiving the books, payment will be on the way via check or PayPal.

BookJingle.com customer and current University of Louisville student, Andrea K. says, I was able to get three times as much for my textbooks than what I was being offered at the campus bookstore. I wish they had the extra 10% bonus when I sold my books what a deal!

For more information on textbook buyback, how to sell used books online through BookJingle or how to become a book scout visit http://www.bookjingle.com.

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