Expanding their Southern California hotel portfolio, San Diego-based Trigild and Santa Barbara-based Blu Hotel Investors have completed the $16.5 million acquisition of the three-story, 100-room Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites at 1410 Ocean Street in Santa Cruz. Trigild, a real estate services firm with decades of experience in the hospitality industry, immediately takes charge of day-to-day management. "We are thrilled to announce this latest acquisition, which meets our overall criteria of investing in high barrier to entry markets with premium brands," ...

Anaplan today announced the opening of its Eastern European office, based in Moscow, Russia delivering on the promise to provide deeper and more localized service to customers throughout the Russian and Eastern European markets. The company's expansion into Eastern Europe follows recent, dedicated moves into additional international markets including Malaysia, Australia, and New Zealand. Anaplan continues building a strong roster of international customers, including Aviva, Diageo, and HP, who are rapidly turning to Anaplan to replace their legacy business planning systems ...

Saelig Company Inc. (www.saelig.com) has introduced a high-performance RF signal source family, the DSG3000 3GHz/6GHz series, offering standard AM/FM/Phase modulation, as well as options for I/Q modulation and I/Q baseband output. The DSG3000 Series generates waveforms with high signal purity, typical phase noise of less than 110dBc/Hz@20kHz, and a wide output range of -130dBm to +13dBm. The DSG3000 RF signal generator has standard pulse modulation with an on/off ratio of up to 80dB, with an optional pulse train generator also available. The DSG3000 series has a typical ...

German tooling systems expert BENZ Inc. has announced that it will be introducing new aggregate heads including the BENZ HF103 Solidfix Spindle Motor at this year's International Woodworking Fair (IWF), which is being held August 20 -23, 2014, at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, GA. The new HF103 Solidfix Spindle Motor is sold exclusively by BENZ and enables users to change tools quickly using adapters that hold a variety of tools instead of requiring a labor-intensive manual tool change or adding an expensive automatic tool changer. BENZ will have the HF103 ...

Lady Lux Swimwear is a designer luxury swimwear line that was created with the intention of having every women look and feel great. The luxury brand was first started in 2007 and has grown to be one of the top selling luxury designer swimwear lines across the United States and internationally. With such great success over the years, Lady Lux is receiving remarkable media coverage by top fashion bloggers and major fashion editors and was recently featured on The Skinny Confidential Fashion Blog. Fashion guru and blogger Lauryn Evarts is the face behind famous The Skinny ...

Last Friday night two community oriented organizations, iLoveKickboxing-Sandy and Lole (Live Out Loud Everyday) in Salt Lake City, teamed up to provide a free community Women's Empowerment Night in Sandy Utah. The free event included a visit from 2010 US Olympian and Lole Ambassador Rebekah Bradford as well as a basic self defense workshop presented by "Utah's Leading Family Safety Expert" Brett Lechtenberg of iLoveKickboxing-Sandy and Personal Mastery Martial Arts. Rebekah Bradford is an Olympic speedskater who competed in the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver for the United ...

mTrip has announced the launch of a new mobile solution for tour operators. A leader in the travel industry for award winning white label solutions and consumer travel apps, mTrip's latest offering targets the modern day needs of tour operators by improving customer satisfaction, visibility and relationships with their customers. Replacing the traditional printout sent to a customer, tour operators can offer their customers a 100% offline, branded mobile application for iPhone or Android that includes all of their trip details, travel guides and advanced guidance features. Customers ...

Alzheimer's Association, Orange County (AAOC) will host the 8th Annual Visionary Women Luncheon, presented by the Argyros Family Foundation, on Friday, May 9, to honor and celebrate five extraordinary Orange County caregivers for their compassion, care and strength for those touched by Alzheimer's disease or related forms of dementia. With the luncheon coming just two days before Mother's Day, this year's celebrity guest speaker is actress Marion Ross, best known as the mother of Richie Cunningham on TV's "Happy Days". The signature event of AAOC's Visionary Women 1000 ...

Epic Flight Academy, a prestigious international flight school that has been successfully training brand new pilots through commercial airline pilots for over fifteen years, has recently announced a strategic pilot career partnership program with the prominent regional airline, ExpressJet. This new accelerated pilot career program allows newly licensed pilots that are eligible to work in the USA, the opportunity to immediately start working as a professional domestic airline pilot upon graduating from Epic Flight Academy's exclusive "Zero to Hero Flight School Program". ...

In a first for the company and the process chiller industry, leading chiller manufacturer Legacy Chiller Systems is launching its system upgrade effort for all customers who have previously purchased process chillers with the company. The factory replacement kit includes a PLC and a full color HMI touch screen. The ability to field upgrade a process chiller's complete control architecture is a first of a kind in the industry. The retrofit/upgrade is available on the following models: PAC, PACT, VPACT, PWC, and PWCT with existing PSG control boards that have been on ...

Announced today by VARTA Microbattery, a global leader in the design, manufacturing and marketing of an extensive variety of high-technology rechargeable and primary batteries for the industrial, medical and communications industries, is the CellPac BLOX system. The CellPac BLOX system is a design program implemented to offer OEMs a semi-custom power solution when off-the-shelf lithium ion (li-ion) or lithium polymer (LiPO) soft pack battery assemblies do not meet the design criteria. A dedicated CellPac BLOX engineering staff is specifically trained to help accelerate ...

Originally started by the Autism Society in the 1970s, the month of April continues to serve as National Autism Awareness Month with the intention to bring to light the growing need for concern and awareness surrounding autism spectrum disorder (ASD). This special month has afforded countless opportunities for nearly 40 years and counting. Sadly, though autism has become increasingly common (now affecting 1 in 68 U.S. children according the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in comparison to the 1 in 2,000 statistic of the 1970s) this increase may also be reflective ...

The reasons why they do it are as numerous and diverse as the thousands of runners who will line up at Monmouth Park on Sunday to compete in the Novo Nordisk New Jersey Marathon, produced by Life Time -The Healthy Way of Life Company. From personal stories of overcoming diseases, to selfless supporting of a cause close to their hearts, to fitness or just plain wanting to run, competitors in the Marathon, Long Branch Half Marathon, Half Marathon Relay and ShapingNJ 5K at Monmouth Park shared some of their motivations as they prepared to hit the pavement at the Jersey Shore ...

Hein & Associates, a leading accounting and advisory firm, has been named one of the 2015 Vault Accounting 50, a ranking of the 50 best accounting employers to work for in North America. Vault.com, a career intelligence website, provides in-depth intelligence on what it's really like to work in an industry, company or profession. For a complete list of the 2015 Best Places to Work for accounting professionals, view the entire Vault Accounting 50 Rankings list. Managing Partner, Brian Mandell-Rice, explains that Hein has created a culture that it's employees can be ...

Florida-based Liberty Building Forensics Group (Liberty), a leading building forensics firm that has solved some of the world's largest and most complex building moisture and mold problems, has recently completed an expert moisture-related consulting project for a building project called Pegasus Landings. An affiliated student-housing complex for the University of Central Florida, Pegasus Landings had undergone significant moisture-related damage in both the interior and exterior of 34 buildings, which resulted in more than $54 million in renovations and repairs. Liberty ...

Michelson Found Animals (www.FoundAnimals.org), an independently funded nonprofit working to find the big ideas that reduce euthanasia in shelters, is celebrating the 1-year anniversary of its Surrender Prevention Program, an innovative partnership managed by Downtown Dog Rescue, and funded primarily by Found Animals. The Surrender Prevention Program which launched on April 6, 2013, exceeded its original goal of preventing 400 animals from entering the Chesterfield Square Shelter (formerly South LA) by 655%. The program offers families the opportunity to speak with a counsellor ...

VingCard Elsafe, the global leader in hospitality security solutions and part of the ASSA ABLOY Group, has installed the world's most technologically versatile and design-centric door lock at the 100-guestroom Alion Beach Hotel in Cyprus. With more features than previously integrated into a single lock design, Allure by VingCard is the ideal solution to the hospitality industry's increasing demand for enhanced operational efficiency, guest convenience and customization. As the first of its kind, Allure completely eliminates the need for external door hardware, instead replacing ...

Achieving the highest possible customer satisfaction rating of 5 stars for four straight years has earned Richard F. Hall Custom Homes LLC the prestigious Talk of the Town Customer Satisfaction Award again in 2014 in the Home Builders & Developers category. The Talk of the Town Awards, presented by Talk of the Town News, honor companies and professionals that provide excellent customer service as reported by their customers through no-cost, user-review websites, blogs, social networks, business rating services, and other honors and accolades. This data is analyzed ...

Announced yesterday, Monday 21st April, the Queen's Award for Enterprise recognises and encourages commercial success resulting from outstanding innovative achievements by businesses in the UK. These are conferred by HM Queen Elizabeth II, on advice of the Prime Minister, and are the highest award a UK business can receive. Headquartered in Yateley, Hampshire, UK, with regional offices in Aberdeen, Brazil, Houston, Plymouth and Singapore, Sonardyne is recognized as a pioneer in the design and manufacture of underwater acoustic positioning, inertial navigation, wireless ...

Planet Earth needs to take action to delay and correct the path we are on. Scientists and a majority of Politicians all agree we need to be proactive. Why is little to nothing being done? Big Business and Oil Companies are making larger profits than ever in history. The public at large needs to make changes in their daily lives not just once a year on Earth Day. It is easy to make the changes to help extend our future and the future of our children and grandchildren. Be proactive, burn less fuel, incorporate pollution reduction methods into our daily lives and help ...

PBS, Wisconsin's premiere print, promo and marketing provider is pleased to announce the rebranding of their company. The rebranding follows a period of expansion for the business and will see the company expanding services. The rebranding will include a new website using the new visual identity. The rebranding reflects the many recent changes the company has undergone as well as its vision for the future. PBS continues to evolve including their most recent rebrand growing their services within; print, promotional products, mailing and fulfillment and office furnishings. ...

Canadian Indie author Rusty Blackwood has announced the release of Part Two of 'An Evening With Rusty Blackwood'. In the video interview she discusses her unique experiences in writing, producing and marketing 'Passions In Paris' and her experiences as an independent author. Both Parts 1 and 2 are available now. Part 3 of the interview will be released soon. Blackwood's romantic fiction novel is a sweeping saga written in the tradition of Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' and 'What Dreams May Come'. It has been compared to Erich Segal's 'Love Story' and Nicholas Sparks' 'The ...

The Winter Park History Museum is proud to unveil its latest exhibition, Whistle in the Distance, the Trains of Winter Park, and will be hosting a grand opening party on Thursday, May 8, 2014 from 5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. The event is open to the public and will take place at the Winter Park History Museum and Farmer's Market, located at 200 W. New England Avenue, Winter Park, FL 32789. "Whistle in the Distance, the Trains of Winter Park, celebrates the railroad's enormous significance to our town," says Susan Skolfield, Executive Director of the Winter Park History Museum. ...

On Friday, May 2, RallyPoint Sport Grill will be hosting the Rock Your World free benefit concert featuring live music, celebrity bartenders, a huge silent auction, prizes and more. One-hundred percent of donations will go to Hope for Haiti Foundation and Dew4Him Ministries. RallyPoint Sport Grill is located at 837 Bass Pro Lane in Cary, N.C., near the Bass Pro Shops. Live music will begin at 6 p.m. with acoustic sets, followed by Davis Messina Band at 6:45 p.m., Band of Brothers at 8 p.m., and East Coast premier rock powerhouse Sidewinder at 9:30 p.m. The event will ...

Available for Android, BlackBerry and iOS devices, the child cell phone monitoring software from TopSpy has gained respect and trust of over 100,000 customers from around the world. Given that 70% of the current app users are parents who seek to monitor their kids' smartphone activity, TopSpy has announced its intention to extend the app's functionality by introducing, in the nearest future, more options aimed at giving concerned parents easier and wider access to the most crucial and up-to-date information stored on a child's smartphone. Thus, starting October, the ...