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The Direct Marketing Association, seeking to avoid a conflict with the American Catalog Conference, has scheduled its 2004 Direct Marketing Days New York Conference & Expo for May 25-27 at the Jacob K. Javits Center in New York. The catalog conference, which is co-sponsored by Catalog Age magazine, will be held May 3-5 in Chicago. In addition, the trade group’s 2004 net.marketing conference will be held in New York in February.

Dean Barile has joined ClientLogic Specialists Marketing Services as the head of the Weehawken, NJ firm’s alternative media division. He had worked at Mokrynski & Associates Inc. as vice president of the alternative media management division.