One lucky player at the online Casino Tropez scooped €32,000 on one spin of the reels playing the newly launched 5-reel 20-line video slot, Wild Spirit.

Andre G. from the Netherlands won this grand prize just four days after the game was launched at the online casino. Wild Spirit, along with Silent Samurai, a 5-reel 9-line video slot are two exclusive games which were introduced to the online casino last week.

"We are delighted for Andre's big win" stated Renee Pascale, Casino Tropez's manager. "Our new online slot machines have already proved to be very popular with our players. We feel this popularity is due to the fact that these two games are exclusive to our casino. They have amazing graphics and offer a special 'Gamble' option which our players also find very appealing". This 'Gamble' option gives players the opportunity to double half or all of their line winnings.

Tier 1 Partners, a leading software provider of Finance Integration Solutions, announced today the addition of Robert W. Adams and Kevin L. Spence to serve on its Board of Directors.

I am very pleased to have Mr. Adams and Mr. Spence join our Board," said Arshak Navruzyan, President and Chief Executive Officer. We believe with Tier 1s growth and new prospects the addition of these two experienced executives will provide the added leadership and guidance to prepare us for our future."

Mr. Adams has over 40 years experience in marketing and management. Beginning with 20 years with IBM in a broad range of positions including branch management and staff positions in Paris, France and Toronto, Canada, Mr. Adams has worked in various areas of data processing. After leaving IBM, he became Vice President and part owner of a software company in educational administration which went public and was later acquired by a major publishing house.

Not enough time. Not enough energy. Too little support. The list of excuses cited by business leaders for leaving items untouched on their to-do lists goes on.

In the Dare to Engage Infusion Program, Anese Cavanaugh challenges busy business leaders to ditch limiting excuses and fully engage in reaching their goals - even those that have been stalled for years.

"Part of the success of this program is getting people out of their regular pattern of reacting to what happens to them instead of actively choosing what to spend their time on. Often just one day out of their routine helps them create major life and business changing shifts in their mindset, planning, and perspective," says Cavanaugh.

www.toolkit.com - It takes a lifetime for many individuals to learn the secrets to starting a business and of being a successful entrepreneur. For others, it might take as little as five minutes, with some help from the host of the Business Owner's Toolkit radio show.

Troy Janisch, host of the nationally-syndicated Business Owner's Toolkit radio show, recently gathered advice from business owners and business experts to share a free, five-minute audio track offering business advice to entrepreneurs. The track, entitled 'Incorporate Your Dream,' gathers some of the best advice shared on the radio show during 2008, and challenges would-be entrepreneurs to overcome hesitations to pursue their dream of owning a business, and incorporate their dream. Listen to the audio track online by visiting http://www.toolkit.com/radioshow.aspx and click on "Listen Online Now" and "(Everybody's Free to) Incorporate Your Dream".

Exceptional Products, Inc. ("EPI") launches its $25,000 new product search. EPI, a certified woman-owned enterprise, specializes in launching new products via direct response television and thereafter into retailers worldwide.

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"Inventors and corporations alike are eligible," outlines Stephanie Stewart, President of EPI, "we are looking for unique patented consumer products to create TV campaigns around."

Inventors or product owners should visit Exceptional Products, Inc. and submit their product ideas. EPI does not charge for product reviews, nor does it charge for the television commercial production. "EPI risks its own money, all the product owner/inventor has to risk is time," observed Stephanie.

A new virtual campus designed to empower seniors by providing encouragement, learning opportunities and new worlds to explore with a computer via the Internet is now open for students to tour.

Computer School for Seniors received rave reviews its opening weekend from the media including The Dallas Morning News and Second50years.com. But its most meaningful endorsement came from its new students.

Paul Yowell of Longview, TX was proud of the fact that over coffee one Sunday morning he read about Computer School for Seniors opening its Internet campus, and by 8:30 AM he had enrolled online and was already studying a Beginners Lesson. He said, "At 82, I have become 15% computer geek!"

Business leaders understand that engagement reduces turnover, increases productivity and contributes to corporate goals. But what are the essential factors that create employee engagement? The new podcast from management consulting firm Juice Inc. provides answers.

In The Five Drivers of Employee Engagement, one of Juice’s customers interviews Brady Wilson, a founding partner of Juice Inc. Michael Ebaugh, the Corporate Director of Learning and Development at Botsford Hospital in Farmington Hills, Michigan, asks Wilson what the five drivers of engagement are, how Juice discovered them, and what managers can do to create engagement in their employees.

Juice spent several years looking at research from The Gallup Organization, Towers Perrin and other leading organizations and discovered that what matters most to employees is that their core emotional needs are being met. Juice also found that paired with each driver is a state of being that, when met, engages and energiz 5a8 es employees and leads to increased productivity and retention.

Small businesses can now enjoy the same type of instant, paperless check processing as major banks through technology distributed by On-Line Credit Card Services, an electronic payments services company.

On-Line Credit Card has teamed with RDM Corp. of Waterloo, Ontario offer Simply Depositâ„¢, RDM's image and transaction management system for electronic check conversion.

"The system helps clear checks quickly and improves cash flow," said Michael W. Young, president of On-Line Credit Card Services (www.onlinecreditcard.com). "A check reader transmits automatically to your checking account, eliminating trips to the bank with paper checks and making funds immediately available."

"This is the same electronic processing as banks themselves have, remote processing on your work site," Young said. "A few banks offer something similar to customers, but the great thing about Simply Depositâ„¢ you are not restricted - you can use it at any bank."

On-Line Credit Card Services will be kicking off the introductions of the RDM products and services by offering a 90-day free trial of the Simply Deposit â„¢ product. Simply Deposit was developed specifically for small business. Shortly after the initial kickoff, On-Line will expand the offering of the Image and Transaction Management System (ITMS) suite to businesses that need to clear very high volumes of checks.

One of Massachusetts most innovative real estate firms, Brick House Realty, officially launched Who Wants To Be A Homeowner"® to help educate consumers about the real estate process. Who Wants To Be A Homeowner" has illustrated characters that share real estate tips, trivia, and facts to ease consumers through the 19 steps it takes to find and ultimately purchase their next home. It is completely free to use and can be easily accessed by going to the top of Brick House Realtys home page, www.BrickHouseRealty.com

- Why cant I get pregnant?"

While nearly 4 million women each year celebrate their pregnancies, others fight the frustration of being unable to conceive. Medical advances have made strides in boosting fertility, but the greatest developments may lie in the minds and spirits of those who hope to become parents.

Two frustrating issues for prospective parents are problems with conception and miscarriage," says Walter Makichen, author of Spirit Babies: How to Communicate with the Child Youre Meant to Have (Bantam Dell, www.SpiritBabies.com). Most couples only consider two-thirds of the conception equation - their physical and mental health."

This week Maryland based HBS Financial Group, Ltd., a major player in online income tax filing, announced a unique partnership with Complete Tax.

Complete Tax possesses one of the USA's top online tax filing technologies offering a full menu of cutting-edge interfaces for taxpayers.

"Filing your taxes online is quite inexpensive versus the high fees people commonly pay to a CPA to prepare their taxes," says Gust Lenglet of HBS Financial Group, Ltd. The company is an IRS authorized e-file provider.

Fluid Innovation, the leading provider of software commercialization services, today announced the launch of its Buyer Program, designed to reach next-generation independent software vendor (ISV) buyers to increase awareness and provide industry education for more informed decision making.

Increasingly, buyers in the Fluid ecosystem are finding software commercialization a rational option for revenue growth, and an alternative to lengthy internal development and expensive and risky mergers and acquisitions. By registering with Fluid's Buyer Program, they can leverage Fluid's online marketplace and engage with Fluid to share their product gaps, new market opportunities, and general technology interests. At this point the "matchmaking process" between buyers and sellers begins. Fluid's patent-pending LicenseMatch technology quickly matches buyer needs with its existing software innovation inventory. This reduces search costs and ensures relevant matching.

Like many new homebuyers, San Jose resident Vikki R. found that her exciting new purchase nevertheless needed some renovations and repairs. In turning her house into a home, Vikki was determined to do the renovations herself. She jumped in with a will, working systematically and researching the techniques and approaches she needed from the Internet, and downloading the technical instructions she needed on each job as she went along. However, she quickly found that working on the house while reading written instructions was difficult and cumbersome. She soon found an easy solution with Text to Speech, however, turning to TextAloud software from NextUp.com (http://www.NextUp.com) to enable her to listen to each task's instructions while she worked.

The Nursing Home Complaint Center has been created to be the premier advocacy group in the nation, for senior citizens suffering wrongful death, abuse and neglect. At the same time the Nursing Home Complaint Center will focus on Medicare-Medicaid fraud, class actions, and wage and hour investigations in most major US cities. The Nursing Home Complaint Center wants to team up with law firms in each US state, that have a personal injury practice, with a focus on elder abuse, class actions, and/or employee wage and hour issues. This is a year-long project, and there will be a modest fee involved, for listing the participating law firms on the site. For more information, interested law firms can call Americas Watchdog's Nursing Home Complaint Center anytime at 866-714-6466, or contact the group via its web site at Http://NursingHomeComplaintCenter.com.

So what types of issues is the group looking for? Americas Watchdog says, "once our legal team is in place, the Nursing Home Complaint Center will focus weekly press releases on elder abuse, Medicare or Medicaid fraud, Class Actions, or Wage and Hour investigations." As follows:

Nursing home neglect that involves wrongful death

Nursing homes not providing patients with minimum time per day.

Nursing homes over billing Medicare for testing that was never done.

Nursing homes not changing patients. (the patient then gets septic infections and then they often die)

Nursing-homes, or elder care firms that, instead of sending an actual nurse, or LPN, send a undocumented worker to spend the day with the patient.

Nursing homes not paying overtime to their employees, or abiding by FLSA.

Possible class issues related to standard of care, drug costs, testing schemes, etc.

The group says, "This is all about protecting our elderly, the taxpayer, and the employee, all at the same time."

At its Board meeting on Tuesday 3 June, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) decided to keep the cash rate at 7.25 per cent due to tighter financial conditions and a slowdown in demand. Despite concerns about inflationary effects on wages and price setting, the current outlook of the RBA suggest that there is a good possibility that rates could remain at current levels for some time to come. This is good news for those considering refinancing their personal loans, as while lenders will need to maintain a tough fiscal policy in order to keep rates rising, they will also need to offer better terms in order to remain competitive.

Street Attack, http://www.streetattack.com, a full-service marketing agency specializing in alternative and digital strategy, tactics and creative, today announced an increased involvement among clients that are looking to bridge the Japanese/American culture gap. With more than a decade of business experience with Japanese culture and progressive marketing know-how, Street Attack is a key resource for U.S. brands and businesses that want to reach desired audiences in Japanese markets, as well as for Japanese companies that wish to extend their brands to U.S. markets.

FurnaceCompare.com, an independent consumer web site for heating and cooling information, is now inviting heating contractors to display their company's services and contact information - for free - on more than 3,500 city-specific pages. FurnaceCompare.com is a top result in Google and other search engines when homeowners search for home repair information.

While homeowners increasingly turn to the internet before contracting for a home repair, promoting an HVAC company online is a challenging (and expensive) proposition. Many online advertising solutions simply don't work well for heating contractors. Some require that contractors own and operate a website. Other solutions require that contractors pay for every click that sends a user to their site -- whether or not those clicks ever turn into a phone call. Still others require that contractors pay $30 or more to buy a lead that will be resold to 3 other contractors. This forces contractors to compete on price with other bidders that just bought the same lead. The ideal solution for contractors is that when someone searches in Google for a local heating contractor, the contractor's company shows up -- along with a description of services and a phone number. FurnaceCompare.com is now offering this service -- for free.

MISCO introduces a new line of handheld digital refractometers designed specifically for state and federal inspectors responsible for the measurement and grading of honey. Although designed for government inspectors, the MISCO Digital Honey Refractometer is equally beneficial to professional beekeepers, honey producers, honey mixers, honey brokers, or anyone requiring the absolute most accurate, repeatable readings of moisture content and percent solids in honey.

The moisture content of honey is critical to its grade and overall quality. If the moisture content is too high, there is a risk of fermentation; too low and it may crystallize or granulize. The battle between fermentation and crystallization in honey production is a delicate balancing act that can hinge on just a couple percent. An accurate measurement of moisture content, using a refractometer, represents the best weapon in this battle.

Leading Residential and Commercial Drapery Manufacturer and Retailer DrapeStyle www.drapestyle.com recently completed the Custom Drapery for The ASID Design House "Astoria" in the Central Park West Community of Irvine.

Astoria was selected as this years ASID Design House to showcase Orange County's top Design Talent in a "Urban Chic" residential tower. DrapeStyle contributed with it's contemporary custom drapes which were designed in conjunction with Newport Beach Interior Designer and Interior Design Institute Professor, Richard Thompson.

DVEO, the broadcast division of CMI, will demonstrate their professional DVB-T to IP gateway for IPTV at the International Broadcasting Convention (IBC) in Amsterdam, September 11-15, at Stand 2.C33.

Designed for European broadcasting, IPTV, and "telco TV", the OnRamp DVB-T/IPâ„¢ simultaneously receives transport streams from one to four DVB-T transmitters and outputs them to a dedicated IP network. The video streams generated by the OnRamp DVB-T/IP can be viewed on television sets with standard IP capable set-top boxes, or on computers using streaming video software clients such as VLC or MPlayer. The system can also be ordered with the option to transcode MPEG-2 streams into H.264/MPEG-4, up to a maximum combined bitrate of 6 Mbps.