iTrip, a full-service international vacation management and rental company, announced it has signed a license development agreement with Carla Moore to open an office in Laguna Beach, Calif. With this signing, iTrip now manages vacation properties in more than 20 U.S. territories. "Laguna Beach has a premier collection of vacation properties. By bringing iTrip to the area, property owners and vacationers now have a company they can count on for both sides of the travel equation," said Moore. "Laguna Beach draws crowds year-round with great weather and world-class events. ...

The two awards were in the categories of B-to-B website, HTML and Consumer website, HTML. The BFTP/SEP website has now been forwarded to District-level ADDY competition. "These awards reflect the quality of work and standard of excellence in website design and development that we have cultivated at Altitude," said Andrew Stanten, president of Altitude Marketing. "We believe in producing hard-working, highly-functional websites that balance leading-edge technology, user-friendliness and pixel-polished design. It's a challenging balancing act and I'm very pleased this ...

Ukrainian hotel chain Reikartz Hotels & Resorts announces a new appointment - from 01st of March a new position of Chief Operating Officer was introduced and is now taken by Sebastian Kraemer. Mr. Kraemer graduated from Hotel & Tourism Management Academy in Germany with a degree of Hotel Marketing, F&B Management and since 1997 has held senior management positions in major European hotel chains: Dorint-Sofitel, Starwood Hotels, Kempinski Hotel Group. From 2005 to 2009 Sebastian Kraemer worked in St. Petersburg at the position of Resident Manager & Deputy General Director ...

Halo Monitoring's myHalo medical alarm system is a winner of the first annual 2011 Dorland Health Silver Crown Award in the Innovative Programs/Fall Prevention Program category. The award was presented as part of Dorland Health's Care Coordination Summit at The Venetian Resort Hotel in Las Vegas. The judging panel and editorial team at Dorland Health recognized myHalo for its technological innovation and the exceptional service the alarm system provides to the over-55 population. Halo Monitoring CEO Chris Otto accepted the crystal award. "Halo Monitoring is pleased ...

The Lady of the Lake, a horror novel with one of the most original ghost stories, has been released on Amazon Kindle. Book Description: Logan Bishop is your typical thirteen year old and has a few skills that set him apart from his peers. He is about to embark on a journey and uncover the mystery of the Lady of the Lake. Sent away to a summer camp by his single mother, Logan makes quick friends with Amber Swinson and Jesse Hamilton. The days of summer camp seem fun and stress free. That is, until one of the campers is found dead. His body decomposed beyond recognition ...

AuraPortal (www.auraportal.com), a global provider of Business Process Management (BPM) has announced that its Partner in Brazil Core Synesis has implemented the Suite BPM of AuraPortal in the Brazilian corporation Usiminas, which is one of the leading steel companies in the world. Core Synesis, a partner of AURA in Brazil, has developed a Social and Environmental Responsibility Management application using the AuraPortal Business Processes Platform, considered by the specialized consulting company Gartner Inc. as one of the best in the world and described as an 'Example ...

Nigel Hamilton-Smith, Geoff Rowley and Charles Turner, partners at FRP Advisory LLP, the specialist restructuring, recovery and insolvency firm, have been appointed Joint Administrators on 11 March 2011 to corporate furniture and storage supplier, The Triumph Furniture Company. Based in Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales, Triumph is a family-owned company with 296 full-time staff. Founded some 60 years ago, it operates from two factory sites in Merthyr Tydfil and Tredegar. The Joint Administrators will continue to trade the business as a going-concern, whilst seeking a buyer ...

MetraTech Corp (http://www.metratech.com/), the innovative telecom billing, SaaS billing and financial services billing solution provider, has announced its sponsorship of a newly published whitepaper. The paper, from leading independent UK-based analyst house, Innovation Observatory, addresses the increasingly pressing issue of how businesses today can respond effectively and efficiently to industry change. The report finds companies who succeed in fast-moving sectors do so partly by ensuring that, every time they need to change the way their business works, they aren't ...

Easter is an extremely important time immediately before students take their exams, Easter revision courses are running at Macclesfield Tutorial College at both GCSE and A Level. The college is located at 20 Cumberland Street, Macclesfield, Cheshire, SK10 1DD. The courses will provide students with encouragement, revision guidance and examination technique. The tutors at the college are experts in their field and will cater for the students' individual requirements. Each tutor has many years of teaching experience and will provide an intensive and beneficial revision ...

ASICS, the premium sports performance brand, has appointed global communications agency, Imagination, to help create a strong brand presence during the 2012 London Olympic Games. Imagination, whose track record with Olympic-related brand activation includes every summer and winter Olympics since 2002, will work closely with ASICS to develop an immersive and engaging experience that brings the brand's values to life. As part of the brief, Imagination will design and deliver an ASICS Olympic venue that will demonstrate the brand's passion for sports and inspire ASICS ...

It is well known that the best way to learn is by example. Training the trainers is no exception. Skills Converged is proud to announce the introduction of "Train the Trainer: The Art of Training Delivery" which is an eBook designed to help trainers deliver better courses. The book provides a series of scenarios and everyday situations that occur when you are delivering a course. Compiled based on years of experience in the training industry, it helps trainers to quickly maximise the skill transfer and avoid doing things that have been shown to be a show stopper. Whether ...

Sytel Limited announces that it has recently completed integration with IBM's SPSS Data Collection Phone Interviews. Leading a multi-national project team from their UK headquarters, Sytel worked with IBM software teams from New Zealand, Australia, China, and the United States. Sytel completed Certification Testing with the IBM SPSS Research and Development team, and actually worked collaboratively to help improve and strengthen IBM's SPSS software developer's kit. In October 2010, IBM ceased the sale of their legacy SPSS Predictive Dialer. At that time, the Data Collection ...

With the cancellation of the FiReControl Project, gazetteer specialists Aligned Assets are pleased to announce the release of the UK's first corporate gazetteer designed specifically for the Fire and Rescue Service. With over two years of research and development, the Symphony Bluelight Gazetteer can provide unmatched levels of functionality that enable the fire and rescue services to create and maintain gazetteer data to feed all frontline and back office systems. Currently fully compatible with the National Land and Property Gazetteer (NLPG), the Symphony Bluelight ...

Avoriaz's beach make-over will play host to a party crowd this Easter break for wakeboarding sessions and competitions, roof-top concerts, exotic sandy bars and terraces, shopping markets, snow and sand volleyball and of course great skiing and snowboarding! Pro wakeboarding competition qualifying rounds will kick off at 3pm on Saturday in the centre of Avoriaz, with the most skilled riders boarding-it-out for the championship crown on Sunday afternoon. Rookies will also have the chance to take part in free wakeboarding amateur sessions on Saturday and Sunday from ...

Entrada Group, a leading manufacturing shelter operator, has published a whitepaper that reveals why medical supplies and devices destined for North American markets should be sourced from Mexico versus other low-cost global regions. The whitepaper has been produced in collaboration with independent consultant John Cecilia, a former director of global manufacturing for Kimberly Clark Corporation, Healthcare Sector. Multiple factors have led medical device companies to conclude that they need to go to a low cost manufacturing environment. Healthcare costs are rising, ...

APlusA.org.uk's clientele comes from all over the world, including the countries currently experiencing upheaval and protest. One can name Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, Libya, and Oman, among others, as places where we have customers. Thus, the APlusA.org.uk staff watches events there with keen interest and concern, and expectation of future papers.. However, it is because we are certain that this region and these events will inspire a host of projects and assignments on this topic that we are documenting them. These are actions and reactions with far-reaching consequences, ...

Business-Essay.com staff pops popcorn and breaks out scorecards for the Academy Awards. Our writers will screen the nominated films and watch for industry trends. The results of all this watching and analysis will enrich all future cinema projects for our customers. We have experts in all sorts of subject areas here at Business-Essay.com. Our film specialists track the offerings at all major film festivals, and we occasionally even dispatch to attend one. Sitename_'s experts consider the Academy Awards a predictor of what will affect movies for the next year, or ...

Buissy.com, the Business Software Directory, has released version 0.6 of the website. Version 0.6 includes a total redesign of the website, with focus on a better user experience and easier navigation. To become the best Business Software Marketplace for purchasers and vendors around the world, Buissy.com is focusing on simplicity and user experience. This is vital for vendors to reach the market with their products and for purchasers to be able to evaluate their best option in one place, using any client, even iPad and other smaller computers. Every product at ...

"ITEP introduces students to different career pathways - starting in 10th grade and continuing through high school," explained CEO Amy Grat, ITEP, as the nonprofit organization that brings the trade, transportation, and logistics industries to high schools prepares to announce the ITEP winners of this year's 11th Annual ITEP Scholarship Dinner and fundraising event, Wednesday, March 23rd. (Cruise Center, Berth 93, Port of Los Angeles, San Pedro, CA on March 23rd. (5:30 p.m.- 8:30 p.m.). Scholarships are the main highlight of the evening. American President Lines (APL), ...

Casmiro, the #1 online video distribution platform for pay-to-access content, today announced they are now the #1 pay-to-access video distribution technology for Facebook. From Q4 2010 to Q1 2011, filmmakers using Casmiro.com to distribute and monetize their films online through their Facebook page increased over 86%, with an average month over month revenue increase of 36%. The Vice President of Development at Casmiro states, "Since our private Beta launch in July of 2010, we've seen a dramatic spike in video publishers. The numbers prove that the demand for video ...

Enolsoft Corporation, a professional developer of multimedia applications, today officially announces the release of two PDF tools for Mac users: PDF to Text for Mac and PDF to SWF for Mac, which gives an efficient solution for Mac users to reuse or edit PDF documents with no Adobe Acrobat and other Adobe applications needed. Enolsoft PDF to Text for Mac helps Mac users to extract Text from PDF files and retains layouts, fonts and formatting. With this Mac PDF to Text converter, users can now reuse or edit PDF files freely with no Adobe software required, which makes ...

Award-winning organic chemist Shane Ellison, M.S., who used to work for the pharmaceutical industry, reviews the AMA's 165-year-long opposition to natural healing and alternative medicine, which continues to this day. He cites court cases and writings in the AMA's own "Journal of the American Medical Association." He believes the AMA's medical monopoly has led to the current U.S. crisis in health, where: • The vast majority of Americans are dependent on pharmaceuticals • Direct-to-consumer (DTC) drug ads have made prescription drugs "more popular than McDonald's hamburgers" • ...

According to a 2010 Medical Insight survey of US Aesthetic Practices, most predict a 2011 rise in profits. This optimism comes in spite of a persistent recession and a reported 75% of patients becoming more sensitive to costs. What's more, the respondents observed over a third of their patients either infrequently schedule re-treatments or not at all. What accounts for this disconnect? How can aestheticians in a challenging economy reasonably expect to out-earn their prior years' numbers, much less the competitions, without shaking up their marketing strategies? When it ...

Next month, visitors to Berlin will have an opportunity to enjoy some of the city's finest opera and theatre performances deep into the small hours. The third Long Night of Opera and Theatre is due to take place on Saturday April 16th in the German capital, with many cultural venues preparing to stage some after-hours entertainment. Running from 19:00 to 01:00 local time, the event will feature both a selection of current repertoire and performances put together specially for the occasion. Each of the 60 participating venues will stage productions lasting for just ...

More than 25,000 antique items will be on display at the Almoneda festival in Madrid this year. The occasion runs from April 9th to 17th and will see objects from about 150 galleries across Spain and overseas presented for visitors to admire or purchase. According to the organisers, much of the collection on show is at least 50 years old and ranges from paintings and sculptures to dolls and clothes. They claim that Almoneda is not just designed for collectors of antiques but will be fascinating for anyone with an interest in history. About 24,000 people attended ...