One of the nation's fastest-growing financial services companies is off to a record start for 2011. Amid rising interest rates, Foundation Financial Group reports its February 2011 mortgage originations are up 14.5 percent above those of January 2011. February 2011's numbers are 11 percent higher than same period a year ago. "The fantastic part of this growth is not the growth itself but the fact that we accomplished this while unveiling additional financial services products," said CEO Mark W. Boyer. "Simultaneously, we've expanded to hire new employees at all of ...

Over the last year, Catalina Island has undergone what many are calling a "renaissance" and Kevin Strege, President and CEO of Catalina Island Vacation Rentals, Inc., (CIVR) and Catalina Island Real Estate, Inc., (CIRE) anticipates steady growth in tourism. With a highly optimistic outlook, Strege has recently announced the addition of Amy Tran as Director of Marketing. Tran will oversee marketing for both companies and develop long-term strategies for consistent growth. "Amy will provide our company with a unique perspective on the vacation rental business along with ...

Renaissance at Hillside (www.renaissanceathillside.com), announces today the company has recently "adopted" Sunnyside Elementary School. To support the school, Renaissance at Hillside will be collecting Box Tops for Education coupons as part of a campaign that Avery Dennison brought to Regency Office Products. Renaissance at Hillside has set a goal of clipping and collecting enough Box Tops for Education coupons to earn $5,000 for the school. "The staff of the Renaissance at Hillside is always looking for ways to help the community," says John Stare, executive director ...

James P. Krehbiel, is a licensed professional counselor and nationally certified cognitive-behavioral therapist who specializes in treating adults and children experiencing anxiety and depressive disorders. He is the author of TROUBLED CHILDHOOD, TRIUMPHANT LIFE: Healing from the Battle Scars of Youth. Open to Hope Radio broadcasts every Thursday. To listen to this show, go to http://opentohope.com. About Dr. Heidi Horsley Dr. Heidi Horsley, PsyD, LMSW, MS, is a bereaved sibling and a licensed psychologist and social worker. Dr. Heidi is the Co-Founder and Executive ...

Meliciously Yours, a unique clothing company with a line of designer tees that offer women and girls positive and empowering messages debuts its first toddler t-shirt option. The new toddler tee was inspired by its popular tween/teen/adult counterpart entitled "Beauty & Brains", which implores women and girls of all ages to embrace their looks and their intelligence. The tot shirt offers the same message as the adult version and will appeal to style-conscious parents seeking appropriate and expressive clothing for their little girls. The super soft designer tee is bright ...

Securenet Systems, Inc. a web hosting and streaming services provider located in Deerfield Beach, Florida, announced a new datacenter location in Freemont, California, which is in Silicon Valley near the lower end of the San Francisco Bay Area. The new datacenter is at 48233 Warm Springs Blvd, Fremont, CA 94539. The latest deployment is in response to demand from the tremendous growth of its online radio streaming services division. Securenet has more than doubled its present streaming capacity by establishing a major footprint in the brand new, state-of-the-art datacenter ...

London-based film and video production company Inspired Films - http://www.inspiredfilms.tv - today announced the launch of 'Friend for Life', an integrated social media campaign and dedicated microsite http://www.weneedfriends.org for International water-aid charity Just a Drop - ww.justadrop.org It is the charity's first ever consumer campaign, and calls for people all over the world to be the charity's 'friend' on World Water Day, with the website offering visitors the opportunity to sign up and to show their support for the charity. The ambition is for http://www.weneedfriends.org ...

Virginia real estate professionals in need of a solution to increase efficiency and security in their business need look no further. DotLoop, the independent collaborative workspace for real estate transactions and negotiations is being further adopted in "Old Dominion," simplifying the lives of agents and the clients they serve. DotLoop's collaborative workspace enables agents and clients to work together in real-time to adjust and electronically sign documents pertinent to a real estate transaction. Bypassing the redundancies of traditional real estate - printing, ...

"Ted L. Nancy's Afternoon Stories" (For those that enjoy a lunatic story in the afternoon) With an Introduction by Fred D. Nancy. In this book, Ted travels around our great nation telling his stories and bringing along acts to entertain the public. He goes to a gas station, thermos factory, mattress store & other places in the afternoon and tells employees his insane stories. (Many do not want to hear them; others do) Then Ted regales them with ridiculous acts he travels with. Like THE VENTRILOQUIST WITH THE PUPPET IN A COMA. The puppet just lays there hooked ...

Southwest Solutions Group announced today that it was awarded a contract by Polk County Detention Center to install a Spacesaver High Density Storage System in their new jail facility in Livingston, TX. Southwest Solutions Group is working with Johnson McKibben Architects to design the state-of-the-art storage system. Once completed, the High Density Storage System will minimize the space used for evidence and documentation storage, resulting in lower building construction and energy costs. About Polk County Detention Center The Polk County Detention Center is a new ...

Studiobanks, a digital agency specializing in online marketing and web development, recently launched a new digital brand platform for Charlotte-based Bojangles'. Designed to bring Bojangles' distinctive personality to life online, the platform includes a new consumer website (Bojangles.com), a microsite for Bojangles' news (Newsroom.bojangles.com), and a mobile site for smartphone and tablet users (M.bojangles.com). Studiobanks partnered with BooneOakley, Bojangles' advertising agency, to ensure a cohesive brand experience that matches its award-winning campaign, "It's ...

Industrial Vision Corporation, a safety glasses and prescription eyewear manufacturer, announces they have secured an agreement with St. John's Mercy Eye Care in Washington, MO to serve as a local service center for the eyewear needs of area businesses. The center is located at 851 East Fifth Street, Suite 112, in the ground floor of the Doctor's Building. St. John's Mercy Eye Care will be the exclusive provider of Industrial Vision products in the Washington area. The center will carry a full selection of IVC safety eyewear and will help with fitting and frame selection. Industrial ...

Health Market Science (HMS), a leading source for healthcare provider data and solutions, and Speed Script, a market leader in pharmacy automation and services, today announced a strategic partnership to provide pharmacies with a solution that mitigates the risk of submitting an erroneous claim by using an incorrect group practice address, an invalid prescriber identifier or submitting a prescription for a state or federally sanctioned prescriber. The HMS-Speed Script relationship brings the pharmacy industry the expertise of two market leaders in pharmacy management ...

As the growing appetite for smartphones and mobile healthcare increases from one business quarter to the next, the American Academy of Urgent Care Medicine (AAUCM) plans to capture this interest by partnering with the free mobile healthcare app iTriage . This strategic partnership will enable thousands of physicians that hold membership in AAUCM and practice Urgent Care Medicine to promote their services to smartphone-toting patients searching for Urgent Care Centers. With iTriage, consumers can locate vital medical information that leads them on to the closest Urgent ...

Michigan property management company, Mutual Property Management, has recently launched a new website. Their new site has been upgraded in effort to allow for easy updates of new rental homes on the market as well as more informative articles. Mutual's new site offers a regularly updated blog and social media options so customers can stay informed of changes in the real estate sales and rentals market. Founder, president, and nationally ranked mortgage originator, Mark Heppard, established Mutual Property Management in 2008 in order resist the effects of a chillier mortgage ...

The Promo Dr. unveiled a new line of dental promotional lip balms to help medical professionals get the word out to future patients. The company offers lip balms, hand sanitizers, pens, sunscreen and more. The products are designed for medical practices that are experiencing 'Acute Economic Stress'. To help medical professionals prevent the problem from becoming chronic, or terminal, The Promo Dr. offers products designed for preventative care for the medical practice's marketing plans. The company recently unveiled private label lip balm promotional products, such as: ...

For the past 53 years the AMA (Army Mountaineering Association) has been responsible for sending mountaineers all over the World, following a military mountaineering tradition that can be traced back to the 19th Century. Recently an 11 strong expedition called TIGER KARAKORAM continued this custom. The AMA expedition commenced in October 2010 when the team travelled to India - their aim was to conduct exploratory mountaineering in the Himachal Pradesh region and sumit several unexplored peaks. Major Matt Hing, the expedition leader stated 'The Himachal Pradesh area ...

While emerald fields bathe in sunlight and new arrivals endeavour to find their feet, paws or hooves, the Paw Prints' team have a spring in their step. T-shirt weather is upon us and they're in their element, celebrating the arrival of summer with an exclusive online offer. Readers can receive a whopping 20% off all Paw Prints products when shopping online at http://www.pawprintslondon.com. They simply enter the voucher code 'leapfrog' in the checkout page. What's more, they'll still qualify for free worldwide delivery on T-shirts, and free UK delivery on all other products, ...

ONELAN is pleased to announce that their reseller in Estonia, SiseTV, has won a bronze award at the DS Apex Awards for their digital signage installation with Tallink Silja Ferries. "We are delighted to be recognized for this award with our partners SiseTV; the content they have produced is a perfect example of how users' needs can be met by the ONELAN system that combines design flair and ease of use with sophisticated technical features" says Hugh Coghill-Smith, ONELAN's Sales and Marketing Director. ONELAN develops network appliances for standalone and end-to-end ...

Despite George Osborne's attempts, HM Treasury's inability to obtain and analyse all central government spending data has forced the Chancellor of the Exchequer to seek short-term savings such as cutting public sector employees at the expense of setting the foundation for long-term economic growth. To address once and for all HM Treasury's costly shortcomings in government data, Rosslyn Analytics, the world's leader in cloud-based spend data management solutions, in partnership with QlikTech, a leader in Business Discovery-- user-driven Business Intelligence, will aggregate ...

"If you are in business and you have a website you should be building relationships, getting clients & making money or your website is a total waste of time and money." Says Lisa Manyon, Content Strategist and Owner of http://www.writeoncreative.com based in Lewiston, Idaho. Together Lisa Manyon and millionaire entrepreneur Ali Brown (who is also slated to appear on ABC's Secret Millionaire program on April 10th, 2011) have created a free teleclass to help people understand the importance of websites that really work. Together the two entrepreneurs have 40 years of ...

Matrox Graphics Inc. today announced that Symbiotics has integrated Matrox TripleHead2Go Graphics eXpansion Modules (GXMs) as part of a unique pilot selection and assessment tool for the armed forces and civil aviation sector. The Matrox TripleHead2Go external multi-display solution allows Symbiotics to build a two-system platform that features a triple-monitor flight simulation test station for the prospective pilot, while a second triple-monitor workstation is reserved to evaluate the candidate across variety of performance criteria. In developing a new pilot selection ...

Sparians Bowling Boutique & Bistro, the Triangle's only bowling boutique, has implemented a new pricing structure to better serve its clients. Based on the feedback and comments from valued customers, Sparians has altered its structure to allow for more groups, and better accuracy on wait times and web-based reservations, specifically during busy weekends when bowling wait times are the highest. Sparians now offers hourly bowling on Friday evenings (5:00PM - Close) and all day on Saturday's for a price of $50 per hour, per lane, including the rental of shoes. Prior to ...

GLOBAL ArtXchanges is focused on: 'Art being an integral part of helping enrich the lives of youth, in any impoverished community, large or small". Recent News: "At this moment we are working with a needy youth art school in Kathmandu, who have no proper art supplies. We work to maintain and help the art groups to try to sustain themselves, motivating youth to freely express their visions through art. We seek to aid through 'artaid' into the poorer regions world-wide, to war torn places, to make a positive difference and create hope in the lives of youth". GLOBAL ArtXchanges ...

MDL Technology, LLC, a managed services company, announced today that it will host a cloud computing seminar on April 28, 2011 from 1-2 p.m. Pat Powell, president of Spectrum Sales, will be presenting a cloud computing case study along with T.J. Bloom, COO of MDL Technology, LLC at their 1102 GRAND office location in Kansas City (www.mdltechnology.com). To RSVP for the cloud computing seminar, email tjbloom@mdltechnology.com. Powell, president of Spectrum Sales, said that he is excited about the event and is thrilled to come speak about cloud technology. "To me, the ...