AUSTIN, Texas — deverus, today announced it has acquired the Clickable Software assets of 3Peaks Software Solutions. With its market leading suite of applicant tracking products focused on the food industry, Clickable Software delivers world class applicant tracking and management solutions to Fortune 1000 companies.

SAN DIEGO, Calif. — YMCA Canada East, representing 14 YMCAs throughout eastern Canada and serving more than 120,000 members, has selected The Active Network, Inc., a company that delivers software technology and marketing solutions to community service organizations, as its operations management software provider.

ATLANTA, Ga. — M2SYS Technology, a biometric technology research and development company, announced today it has formed a partnership with PCS Revenue Control Systems, a leading provider of foodservice management technology. This partnership will benefit school districts by enabling PCS to integrate and distribute M2SYS’ cutting edge fingerprint software technology, Bio-Plugin(TM), within their FASTRAK(TM) school meal software.

COLUMN: In all the heated and at times violent confrontations that have taken place over the issue of a seemingly out-of-control illegal immigration from Mexico into the United States, charges of racism have been raised against those who voice strong opposition toward this socially devastating invasion.

STOWE, Vt. — A blanket of snow turned Vermont’s Green Mountains white as Billy Kidd, the first American male to win an Olympic (silver) Medal in Alpine Ski Racing, was inducted into the Vermont Ski Hall of Fame at the Snowflake Lodge in his hometown of Stowe on Sunday. “Though not fully proven, it took the fearlessness of his Abenaki Indian and Pirate (Captain William Kidd) blood to break the glass ceiling,” said fellow Olympian Suzy Chaffee, co-chair of Native Voices Foundation (NVF).

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — The District of Columbia Government awarded U.S. Facilities, Inc. (USF) a five-year contract to manage the Unified Communications Center. The UCC is one of the nation’s premier large, integrated call centers and public safety/emergency response facilities.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — MediQuin Credentialing Services, Inc. currently serves the medical community by providing credentialing and automated-application processing. By outsourcing, the company allows their clients to focus on successfully growing their practices.

DALLAS, Texas - Contingent Workforce Strategies Summit — HotGigs Inc., an innovator in web-based staffing solutions, today announced ContractCentral(TM), a service that helps companies strategically manage their contingent workforce, reduce staffing costs and increase time-to-fill efficiency. ContractCentral automates the sourcing process and streamlines contract management and time invoicing across a company’s preferred staffing vendor network.

NEW YORK, N.Y. — CorrectNet, Inc., the leader in customized reporting solutions for the asset management industry, today announced the release of ASPire(TM) (ASP-Investor Reporting Extranet), a new product targeted specifically at solving the reporting challenges faced by the Hedge Fund and Investment Manager community.

LAWRENCE, N.Y. — SIDS ALERT Infant Position Monitor, a breakthrough method of detecting if an infant has maneuvered itself into a SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) prone position, is now available to the public. The unique, patented technology eliminates the concern of new and prospective parents concerning the possibility of SIDS and the terrible aftermath of this horrifying malady.

TRIPOLI, Libya — Phoenicia Group Libya LLC, the U.S.-Libyan diversified business and consultancy firm, today announced its partnership with the Beyster Institute at the Rady School of Management, University of California, San Diego, in organizing and implementing the MEET U.S. Program 2007 in Libya.

DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. — Incredible Discoveries today announced, they have secured overseas television distribution for one of their newest product discoveries, The Didi Car. Incredible Discoveries is a leading DRTV company with multi-channel distribution services, who partners with all types of manufacturers to bring products to market. The Didi Car, an award-winning kid powered riding car, will have its infomercial featured internationally thanks to Incredible Discoveries’ strategic alliance.

NEW YORK, N.Y. — Capla Kesting Fine Art announced that an unveiling in Central Park of Fidel Castro on his “deathbed” may be the last opportunity to say “farewell” to the man some revere as a champion of civil rights. “Fidel Castro’s Deathbed Portrait,” described as a colossal portrait of a solemn Castro at rest, will be unveiled at 10:00 am November 8th, just north of the monument for Cuban poet, Jose Marti.

KIRKLAND, Wash. — Long term care is starting to rival childcare as a problem affecting the business focus of American employees, according to LTC Financial Partners LLC, the nation’s most experienced long term care insurance brokerage. As the American workforce ages, more employees may be called away to tend to an incapacitated adult than a needy child.

OTTAWA, ON, Canada — Atreus Systems(TM), the leading supplier of provisioning software for VoIP, IMS and advanced IP service bundles, today announced that Bitflow VoIP Inc., has selected Atreus’ IP Service Provisioning Software to speed the deployment of its wireless and residential VoIP service offering. Atreus’ provisioning software automates BroadSoft BroadWorks(R) to speed VoIP service delivery.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — HALLOWEEN ADVENTURE Costume Superstores has expanded its fundraising efforts for 2006 in support of Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) with a chain-wide rollout of JDRF Sneaker Sales in 100 costume stores, and the launch of online fundraising efforts via the company’s 2 e-commerce websites.

ROANOKE, Va. — The illness is real. The story is personal. The strategies work. There is life after receiving a diagnosis of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). That’s the message of “Check Your Pride at the Door” (ISBN 0-7414-3503-9), a newly published book by Virginia psychologist, Dr. Darryl D. Helems, who has lived with IBD for more than twenty years since his diagnosis at age 17.

JESSUP, Md. — ACell, Inc., the owner of highly valued extracellular matrix (ECM) patents, along with co-defendants Dr. Stephen Badylak and Dr. Alan Spievack, today won another legal victory against Cook Biotech, Inc. (Cook) and Purdue Research Foundation (Purdue) when the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit denied Cook’s and Purdue’s Petition for Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc. In the Petition Cook and Purdue had requested both the original Federal Circuit three judge panel and the entire Federal Circuit Court to reconsider a detailed 29 page written opinion issued on August 18, 2006.

DAYTON, Ohio — A website launched by Cuban-born author and marketing executive, Raul Ramos y Sanchez, www.MyImmigrationStory.com, enables U.S. immigrants from all nations to share their immigration stories in their own words. “The site’s goal is to show the human side of immigration. I think the time is ripe,” says Ramos.

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — ComplianceEase(R), the mortgage industry’s standard for automated compliance, has announced the upcoming release of TPO Manager, an innovative and cost-saving third-party originator (TPO) management solution that enables more efficient broker and correspondent lender relationships. TPO Manager automates the approval, licensing verification and relationship management of third party originators, making the previously cumbersome manual process of broker and correspondent lender approval and management faster, more accurate and highly cost-effective.

SAN DIEGO, Calif. — The Active Network, Inc., a leading provider of application services technology and marketing services to community service organizations, was named one of North America’s fastest growing technology companies on Deloitte’s 2006 Technology Fast 500. Ranked by percentage revenue growth over five years, The Active Network grew 940% from 2001 to 2005 and ranked 180th overall.

QUEBEC, Canada — A Naturopath has recently gone through the Narconon Sauna Detoxification treatment in Quebec, as reported by Sylvain Fournier, C.C.D.C. (Certified Chemical Dependency Counselor) of Narconon Trois-Rivieres.

SAN MATEO, Calif. — Can’t remember your password? Juggling more passwords than you can count on two hands? Password Magic, a newly-launched software designed by SDI USA, Inc., can help. Password Magic is a password manager that securely stores its users’ passwords and other confidential information in an encrypted database. It retrieves information needed to fill out Web order forms and completes Web logins automatically.

BRIDGEPORT, N.J. — Value Recovery Inc., an environmental technology company, announced the results of its most recent emissions control demonstration for instantaneously destroying Methyl Bromide. Value Recovery proved the destruction of 91% of methyl bromide emissions from fumigation operations using its new breakthrough technology that employs a non-hazardous, water-based scrubbing system.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — When Jacksonville, Florida, poet Kay B. Day read at the South Carolina Book Festival in February, she struck up a conversation with poet Patricia Gray. Ms. Gray is coordinator of Poetry at Noon, a regular reading series at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. “We were just talking about poetry,” Day says. “The idea of a Florida poetry reading came up.”

NEW YORK, N.Y. — It’s Halloween time again! And whether you have kids, or are planning a festive Halloween Celebration of your own, you’re probably considering endless Halloween costume ideas ranging from “cheap tricks” to monstrously expensive treats. Of course, you can trek to your local Mall, fight the crowds for the hottest costumes and pay full price, or as many savvy shoppers have discovered, there is a more aff