Voting for the 2011 JDR Industry Blogger Awards is now open. There are 28 nominees this year in five categories: Interior Design, Construction Business, Remodeling, Architecture and Green. Winners will be determined by the number of votes received and announced on April 20, 2011. Each winning blog will receive a $500 cash prize and a 2011 Blogger Awards Winner badge to display. Sponsored by Jackson Design and Remodeling (JDR), the goal of the JDR Blogger Awards is to bring additional recognition to the work of the best blogs in the business, while promoting the professionalism ...

Mark C. Fleming, PhD, Director of Behavioral Health Services - Correctional Medical Services, Inc. (CMS), will present at both the Mental Health in Corrections Conference (MHCC) in Chicago and the National Commission on Correctional Health Care (NCCHC) Updates in Correctional Health Care conference in Phoenix. CMS is the nation's leading provider of correctional healthcare services. At the MHCC 2011 Conference, Fleming will conduct a workshop entitled "Behavioral Health Challenges and Solutions for Prisoner Reentry." The presentation will increase participants' abilities ...

Michael Kay, CFP, a long-time financial professional and president of Financial Focus, LLC, has been named to the 2011 FIVE STAR: Best in Client Satisfaction Wealth Managers (SM) list for the state of New Jersey. New Jersey Monthly formed a partnership with Crescendo Business Services, an independent research firm, to identify the "best in client satisfaction" wealth managers serving the New Jersey area. Crescendo surveyed, by mail and phone 235,000 high-net-worth residents in the New Jersey area and an additional 34,000 surveys were sent to leaders of financial service ...

Safe Passage Marine was formed by Brian Cromer to serve the Greater Seattle and Puget Sound boating community. Brian is a former mega yacht captain and holds a current USCG 3000 Ton Master Oceans license. We offer three core services: Private instruction, vessel management, and vessel relocation. Private instruction takes place on your boat in a hands-on environment. We design an education program based on an interview with you to determine the subject areas to focus on. There are many boater education courses available but none take you on the water, in your boat, ...

Before Christmas 2010, in order to help out customers trying to pick Christmas presents, Extreme Element put together a helpful list of their top rated experiences (as voted for by their customers). Although Christmas has long gone, that list is still just as relevant and useful to anyone looking to buy an experienced based gift in 2011, especially as several of them are currently being offered at discounted prices. Some of the experiences on the list that come particularly highly recommended are: -Bungee jumping. This is one of the most popular extreme sports out ...

Reed Learning, one of the UK's largest providers of corporate training & personal development, has been chosen by the American Society for Training & Development (ASTD) as the international partner to manage their membership and qualifications in the UK and help promote their mission to empower professionals to develop knowledge and skills successfully. The ASTD Certification Institute's Certified Professional in Learning and Performance (CPLP) certification is a qualification that offers L&D professionals an internationally-recognised benchmark of competence in 9 areas ...

People looking for a new mobile phone could use their quick cash loans or faxing payday loans to get a top-of-the-range handset that will last them for years. Joining the Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc, the handset will have a similar form factor to the Vivaz model along with an 8.1MP camera. It will run Android 2.3 and the same Bravia engine as the Arc, meaning videos will look "pretty darn good" on the device's 854x480 resolution screen, according to the website - something that could tempt users of cash loans or faxing payday loans. Meanwhile, it has been widely reported ...

The iPad 2 is due to be released next month and gadget-lovers will no doubt be looking for no checks payday loans, or better still unsecured loans, to stay up to date with the latest technology. According to the latest worldwide media tablet and e-reader tracker from IDC, handheld devices such as these have seen unprecedented growth over the last few months. The e-reader market grew by 40 per cent in the third quarter of 2010, with IDC predicting that 10.8 million units would be shipped worldwide during the year. Meanwhile, media reader shipments grew by 45.1 per ...

The successor to Sony's PSP handheld console is on its way, and gamers across the country are bound to be looking for no check payday loans or cash loans to be able to afford the new system. Codenamed the NGP, for next-generation portable entertainment system, the new console is expected to hit shops around the end of 2011, although no details of its price have been revealed yet. Featuring a five-inch organic light-emitting display and a high-performance CPU, the device is likely to be among the most advanced portable gaming systems ever made. Additionally, every ...

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Swingers Zone has now added new features that review swingers clubs and bars around the UK & Europe. Looking to find a good swingers club? Not sure which one to try or even where to find a decent swingers club? In that case there's only one group of people you need to be talking to and that's the swinging couples that use these clubs and offer reviews for other couples and singles to read. The scene within both UK & Europe has grown at a massive rate over the last few years with venues popping up in most towns but finding a good club can be hard work unless you know ...

A recent informal poll of Enrolled Agents (Federally-Licensed Tax Practitioners) revealed many common misconceptions among taxpayers. At the top of the list were: "I had a really big loss in the stock market this year, so I won't owe any income taxes." Deduction of capital losses against ordinary income is limited to $3,000. Also incorrect: "I traded some stocks and have a loss/didn't make any money, so there's no need to report those sales." "They paid me in cash and I don't have to report that, right?" If it's income, you must report it. "I'm too young/too old ...

Dr. Renee Lewis, President and founder of Dr. Renee Lewis Communications, an online multimedia publishing company that promotes healthy communication, today announced the launch of ClaimTheImpossible.com--a weekly online videocast that shows you how to respond to everyday drama and daily conflict created by toxic talk, and promote healthy communication. Dr. Lewis is launching ClaimTheImpossible.com as a companion website to her new book, Dr. Renee Lewis's Claim the Impossible Survival Guide: What to Say & What to Do When Toxic Talk Makes Your Life Absolutely Impossible. ...

Designer Fitness, owned by Darla O'Brien, recently completed an extensive rebranding project. The outcomes include an updated website (www.designerfitness.com), new graphic images, the "Darla says..." blog, and an e-newsletter. The rebranding project introduces the launch of the ME System, a unique approach to engaging mind and body to achieve extraordinary balance and fitness that was created by O'Brien based on over 25 years' experience in personal fitness training. It provides an individual and dynamic plan for each client, based on his or her unique physical condition ...

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Bruegger's Enterprises, Inc. (BEI) announced today continued sales growth during the fourth quarter ending December 28, 2010. The 437-unit restaurant operator recognized sales of $63.2 million, a 3.6 percent increase over the fourth quarter of 2009. Total system sales for the year were $254.5 million, a 2.8% increase over 2009. Bruegger's namesake brand added 16 franchise, corporate and co-branded bakeries during the past year. Same store sales were up by 4.3 percent on company units and 3.1 percent system-wide for the 4th quarter. Bruegger's expects continued growth ...

The EZ-Wall System, created by the thin brick installation experts from American Brick Company (Ambrico) has become even easier to master, thanks to the company's recently developed training materials created exclusively for its customers. Outlining the specific steps and materials required for installation, the E-Z Wall System installation manual makes it easy to complete a thin brick installation on time and within budget. Headquartered in Warren,MI the Ambrico showroom and manufacturing plant has been a popular favorite for contractors and builders throughout the ...

It took years for the market to recover but recover it did. Scarred but intact the banking community tightened its internal regulations and the French Government established legislation to protect the purchaser from over indebtedness holding the banks responsible. The result is that while the rest of the world chose the easy money route into sub prime lending, the French banks maintained their control over the French lending market. The result is a relatively stable property based economy, with little devaluation at the lower and middle market price levels for properties ...

PHILADELPHIA — An interdisciplinary group of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania has, for the first time, identified the neurological and cellular signaling mechanisms that contribute to satiety — the sensation of feeling full — and the subsequent body-weight loss produced by drugs used to treat type 2 diabetes. More comprehensive knowledge of these mechanisms could form the basis for anti-obesity medications. The group was led by Matthew Hayes of the School of Medicine's Psychiatry Department, Harvey Grill of the Psychology Department in the School of Arts ...

With the steep decline in populations of many animal species, scientists have warned that Earth is on the brink of a mass extinction like those that have occurred just five times during the past 540 million years. Each of these "Big Five" saw three-quarters or more of all animal species go extinct. In results of a study published in this week's issue of journal Nature, researchers report on an assessment of where mammals and other species stand today in terms of possible extinction compared with the past 540 million years. They find cause for hope--and alarm. "If ...