Leading Travel Insurance Comparison Site launches Plans From Travel Insurance Services

"We are always striving to improve the number and quality of products we offer and Travel Insurance Services is an industry leader in travel insurance and international medical insurance" comments Squaremouth CEO Chris Harvey. "They have an excellent product portfolio that offers unique benefits to our customer base. Our primary concern is how well our clients are treated by the travel insurance companies before, during and after their vacations," Harvey stated. "We are confident that Travel Insurance Services products will be an excellent fit for Squaremouth's clients, who have come to expect the highest level of customer service."

Squaremouth's visitors can obtain and compare quotes from hundreds of travel insurance products by answering a few simple questions. The site only returns products that visitors are qualified to buy which greatly simplifies the selection process. Visitors can then compare plans side-by-side, show any individual coverage benefit for all plans, sort by price, benefit or carrier and purchase plans directly with instant PDF policy documentation.

Travel Insurance Select offers the popular Cancel for Any Reason option that allows travelers to recoup most of their prepaid travel costs, if they need to cancel for any reason, such as, a sudden business conflict, a child's unexpected state playoff game or a simple change of mind.

With Travel Insurance Select, all travelers have the option of traveling with a virtual personal assistant by adding Concierge services to help them with tasks like restaurant referrals and reservations, arranging tickets to theater, sporting events, concerts and golf course recommendations and tee times

Squaremouth has added the following Travel Insurance products from Travel Insurance Services to its comparison site:



Leading Travel Insurance Comparison Site launches Plans From Travel Insurance Services

Squaremouth, the industry leader in travel insurance comparison shopping today adds Travel Insurance Services products to its lineup.

St. Pete Beach, Fla. (PRWEB) December 18, 2007 -- Squaremouth, the industry leader in travel insurance comparison shopping today adds Travel Insurance Services products to its lineup.

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They have an excellent product portfolio that offers unique benefits to our customer base. Our primary concern is how well our clients are treated by the travel insurance companies before, during and after their vacations
"We are always striving to improve the number and quality of products we offer and Travel Insurance Services is an industry leader in travel insurance and international medical insurance" comments Squaremouth CEO Chris Harvey. "They have an excellent product portfolio that offers unique benefits to our customer base. Our primary concern is how well our clients are treated by the travel insurance companies before, during and after their vacations," Harvey stated. "We are confident that Travel Insurance Services products will be an excellent fit for Squaremouth's clients, who have come to expect the highest level of customer service."

Squaremouth's visitors can obtain and compare quotes from hundreds of travel insurance products by answering a few simple questions. The site only returns products that visitors are qualified to buy which greatly simplifies the selection process. Visitors can then compare plans side-by-side, show any individual coverage benefit for all plans, sort by price, benefit or carrier and purchase plans directly with instant PDF policy documentation.

Travel Insurance Select offers the popular Cancel for Any Reason option that allows travelers to recoup most of their prepaid travel costs, if they need to cancel for any reason, such as, a sudden business conflict, a child's unexpected state playoff game or a simple change of mind.

With Travel Insurance Select, all travelers have the option of traveling with a virtual personal assistant by adding Concierge services to help them with tasks like restaurant referrals and reservations, arranging tickets to theater, sporting events, concerts and golf course recommendations and tee times

Squaremouth has added the following Travel Insurance products from Travel Insurance Services to its comparison site:

Travel Insurance Select Basic
Travel Insurance Select Basic offers the minimum coverage against travel risks. With lower limits, Select Basic is a good choice for the budget-minded traveler.

Travel Insurance select Plus
Travel Insurance Select Plus provides you quality coverage against covered travel mishaps. Compared to Elite, Plus offers slightly fewer benefits and lower limits of coverage.

Travel Insurance Select Elite
Travel Insurance Select Elite is one of the most complete travel insurance programs available. Elite gives you high limit medical expense and medical evacuation coverage--especially valuable when traveling outside the U.S. or Canada.

About Squaremouth
Founded in 2001, Squaremouth helps travelers easily and instantly compare all the major travel insurance plans. To ensure customer satisfaction, all carriers are handpicked based on an internal rating system and also ratings from insurance industry watchdog AM Best. Only companies that meet Squaremouth's strict requirements make it into the system. Along with its unique research capabilities and zero complaint guarantee, the site provides instant quotes, immediate purchase and instant confirmation. Squaremouth is headquartered in St Pete Beach, FL and has offices in Fort Wayne, IN and Peachtree City, GA. Squaremouth has websites dedicated to both US travel insurance and UK travel insurance as well as international medical insurance for any nationality traveling outside their home country. Visit squaremouth.com for more information.

About Travel Insurance Services

Travel Insurance Services (TIS) is a nationwide insurance brokerage that has specialized in meeting the insurance needs of travelers for 34 years. It develops, markets and administers travel insurance and international medical insurance for individuals, families, groups and businesses. TIS is a USI Affinity Company, a division of USI Holdings Corporation (USI). USI is a leading distributor of insurance and financial products and services to businesses throughout the United States. USI is headquartered in Briarcliff Manor, NY, and operates out of 66 offices in 18 states.

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First Lady Of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary Recommends Controversial New Book On Homemaking,Titled "Passionate Housewives Desperate For Go

San Antonio, TX (PRWEB) December 18, 2007 -- An article in Family Circle magazine recently extolled the virtues of having a parent stay home. Benefits the article cited include a smoothly run household, home-cooked meals, washed and folded laundry, and children who are educated, read to and prepared for life. The article's punch line revealed a sign of the times or what some consider the new normal--the stay-at-home dad.

Author Jennie Chancey of Birmingham, AL shared the story during a national radio interview (Listen Here,http://www.visionforum.com/Press/PHW/) promoting her new book Passionate Housewives Desperate for God (Vision Forum, Oct. 30, 2007), which she co-authored with Stacy McDonald of Peoria, IL. "It s ironic today that our culture can praise a homemaker to the heavens as long as it's a dad," Chancey observed.

Today, couples with the wife bringing home most or all of the bacon have become increasingly more common, especially among the nation's twenty- and thirty-somethings. Among college-educated women with infant children in the U.S., 63 percent worked in the labor force in 2002 (U.S. Census Bureau, 2005). Three out of four households today have two working parents and most working adults find it challenging to take care of both their family and work obligations. Some 70 percent of married mothers work outside the home and are challenged to balance work and family early on in the parenting journey (Families and Work Institute). There were 5.3 million stay-at-home moms in 2003, while 39 percent of these mothers were under age 35 (U.S. Census Bureau, 2005).

Passionate Housewives Desperate for God was not written to condemn working women, Chancey and McDonald state. However, the book was written to dispel harmful myths about modern housewives. "They picture this new, awful stereotype that is being pushed in modern television programming. Women who are at home fulltime are secretly bored, angry and frustrated, and they take it out on their children in private, and they take it out on their husbands by being adulteresses. And, this is really supposed to be the secret life of the American housewife," Chancey continued.

The book advances the biblical model for womanhood as outlined in such passages as Titus 2 and Proverbs 31. The Proverbs 31 woman--one of the clearest descriptions of God's design for woman--is not a mindless drone, but an industrious steward who looks well to the ways of her family and helps her husband manage a thriving household economy.

McDonald spoke to the heart of the two-year collaboration which she and Chancey wrote from their homes while raising 18 children between them. "We wanted women to see that it's not some kind of female purgatory but a blessing to bring up our children. We are bringing up the next generation for the glory of God."

Most recently, Passionate Housewives has found an ally in Mrs. Paige Patterson, whose husband is well-known in Southern Baptist circles having twice served as president of the Southern Baptist Convention. Dr. Patterson is currently serving as president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. This fall, Dr. and Mrs. Patterson launched a new academic program at Southwestern to reinforce biblical gender roles, including a controversial course on homemaking available only to women.

Mrs. Patterson wrote in her endorsement: "The biblical paradigm for womanhood is marked by clear, though often hidden, distinctives. Especially are these noted in the Proverbs 31 description of the 'woman of strength.' PASSIONATE HOUSEWIVES DESPERATE FOR GOD provides the bookends for the life of this remarkable woman--on the one hand, she is passionate, enthusiastic about everything to which she puts her hand, even the most mundane tasks in her home; on the other hand, she is totally committed to what God wants her to be and to do without being swayed by culture or peers. She makes no apology about devoting her foremost energies and greatest creativity to her own family and household, and in so doing she is confident of offering her best and most precious gift to the Lord! Give us passionate women who are desperate for God, and we will change the world!"

In looking to the future, the Passionate Housewives authors also send a strong message to the next generation. "We really need to encourage young women. The ages 12 and 13 are a big time in a young girls life. This is a time like no other in your life. Look to godly women in your church, your mom and your grandmother, and ask questions. You need to cultivate those relationships because they are priceless. You can't function in the next phase of your life if you haven't trained properly and built the foundation right now."

McDonald is the author of Raising Maidens of Virtue: A Study of Feminine Loveliness for Mothers and Daughters. She and her husband, Pastor James McDonald operate Family Reformation Ministries (www.familyreformation.org).

Chancey is founder of Ladies Against Feminism (www.ladiesagainstfeminism.com). She and her husband Matthew parent and homeschool their brood of eight children.

For information about Passionate Housewives Desperate for God and its authors, visit www.passionatehousewives.blogspot and www.visionforum.com. Passionate Housewives Desperate for God is available for purchase in bookstores and online.

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"P.S. I Love You" - Turn the Movie's Message into Action Now

Melbourne, FL (PRWEB) December 18, 2007 -- Hilary Swank and Gerard Butler's new movie P.S. I Love You shows the enormous impact of simple words when a loved one is overpowered by loss.

Starting today, ItsMyLife.com is giving free access to its popular Private Letters service that makes it fast and easy to write, design and print personalized letters to be stored on a computer or kept in sealed envelopes in a safe place, to be opened only in case of death.

"Don't just watch the movie - write the messages, instructions, explanations of decisions and words of comfort that will make all the difference to loved ones left behind," says Liz Sayers, CEO of ItsMyLife.com

As Hilary Swank's character discovers, planning ahead for death can be a gift of astonishing kindness and value. The spoken word lasts only a moment, but the written word can last forever.

By writing a letter to be opened on an anniversary, graduation, wedding day or birthday, you change the future for someone you love, explains Sayers. "Private Letters can help family and friends through their loss. For those special days, you will be important in that person's life - even if you're not around," she said.

Anyone can go to http://www.ItsMyLife.com/ps.asp today, use free coupon code "PS" and start writing Private Letters now. Free access to Private Letters closes February 14, 2008.

About ItsMyLife.com
ItsMyLife.com enables anyone to create, view and print private and legal documents that are needed in case of death or serious illness.

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plasq Releases Comic Life 1.4 Update for Mac

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) December 18, 2007 -- plasq today released Comic Life 1.4 for Mac, their Apple Design award winning program. This update features oft-requested brightness and other image fine tuning, iPhoto '08 'Events' and 1:1 display of images. This free update for all users also includes custom page sizes, jagged balloon tails, and neater caption positioning.

"For the millions of Comic Life users around the world, this release will allow them to go deeper and further with their creations," said Cris Pearson, plasq CEO. "For education, these features combined with the recent release of Comic Life for Windows, which can share documents with the Mac version, enable Comic Life to fit into schools better than ever" he continued.

Using the 'actual size' function allows full quality use of screen-resolution images, such as screenshots. Also included is improved custom page-size handling, custom page creation, overall improved image export enhancements and bug fixes. Comic Life 1.4 for Windows is in development. Many more changes can be found in the online change history for Comic Life.

About Comic Life:
Comic Life lets you create astounding comics, beautiful picture albums, how-tos... and more. The easy-to-use interface integrates seamlessly with your photo collection. Drag in your pictures, captions, Lettering text ('ka-blam!') and speech balloons and your work is done.

Comic Life requires Mac OS 10.3.9 and above or Windows XP Service Pack 1 or above. Comic Life files are transferable across Mac or PC. Comic Life Standard costs $24.95 and $29.95 for Comic Life Deluxe. Volume Education Licensing options are available.

30-day unhindered demo and instant download purchase directly from plasq at http://plasq.com/comiclife

About plasq:
plasq's focus on creating intuitive, powerful and fun software is perfectly illustrated by their award-winning 'Comic Life' and much lauded 'Skitch'. This exciting think-tank of developers and user interface designers unites talent from The United States, Australia, Austria, France and Norway to make beautifully-designed and useful tools.

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Axis Merchant Group Launches First-in-Class Sales Tools, New Marketing Materials, and Expanded Training Course for New Sales Partners

Axis Merchant Group has developed a new marketing and advertising program that includes its new nationwide sales partner recruiting program enabling Axis to recruit, hire, train, and deploy the best quality sales partners within the payment processing industry. Axis has invested in the development of new sales and marketing websites, a complete boot camp training course for its newest sales partners with industry professionals, and first-in-class sales and marketing materials including a new training manual, sales presentation books, product sheets, sales flyers, brochures, postcards, and business cards.

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) December 18, 2007 -- Axis Merchant Group is please to announce its new sales and marketing program for existing and new employees and sales partners on a nationwide level.

Axis Merchant Group has developed a new marketing and advertising program that includes its new nationwide sales partner recruiting program enabling Axis to recruit, hire, train, and deploy the best quality sales partners within the electronic payment processing industry in key states such as California, Texas, Florida, and Arizona.

Axis Merchant Group has invested in the development of new sales and marketing websites, a complete boot camp training course for its newest sales partners with industry professionals, and first-in-class sales and marketing materials including a new training manual, sales presentation books, product sheets, sales flyers, brochures, postcards, and business cards.

"www.axis-invest.com [Axis Merchant Group provided its sales partners with first-class sales and marketing materials to present to prospective business prospects. Our efforts in our marketing department has really made a huge difference, gave us a competitive advantage, and helped improved the relationships between our sales partners and new customers," says Anthony Manzilla, CEO, Axis Merchant Group.

Axis Sales Portal helps manage all accounts and sales partners

The development of new sales and marketing materials has not been the only focus for Axis Merchant Group. Axis has recently developed and launched its new web-based software called Axis Sales Portal at www.axisportal.net

The Axis Sales Portal is a complete, first-in-class CRM software suite that provides Axis Merchant Group with sales, marketing, and customer support that has transformed its entire business operations.

The Axis Sales Portal empowers its employees and sales partners to sell, board, track, deploy merchant account services, and process and ship equipment without costly delays and helping reduce our overall costs. Our sales partners can instantly access key contact and merchant information, manage and prioritize activities, and track all merchant-related communications so you can grow more productive business relationships.

Axis Sales Portal plays an integral part in our overall marketing strategy by improving our ability to deliver information and services timely and effectively. With the Axis Sales Portal, our employees and sales partners have access to over 300 powerful sales tools that is easy to use, fast, and secure.

With the Axis Sales Portal, our sales partners and employees can:

* Call new leads and prepare new rate quotes
* Board new merchant applications and provide real-time status reports
* Access key contact and merchant information
* Manage and prioritize appointments, tasks, events
* View commission and residual reports online
* Enhance sales support, training, and service
* Grow more productive business relationships
* Customize and private-label the entire software for your business.


Axis Sales Portal enables our employees and sales partners to create trouble tickets, view knowledge-base articles, download documents and forms, read news alerts, and use other valuable tools such as the leads system, rate quote calculator, address book, recruiting form, merchant application, calendar and scheduling system, referral partner system, and more.

About Axis Merchant Group

Axis Merchant Group is a wholly owned subsidiary of Axis Invest, is a full-service credit card processing organization. With its headquarters located in the heart of the San Francisco Bay Area, Axis is rapidly expanding its operations with branch offices opening throughout the United States.

Axis Merchant Group provides payment processing services for Visa, MasterCard, Discover, American Express, Diners Club, JCB, ATM, debit cards, EBT state and government cards, electronic gift and loyalty cards, as well as a variety of private label and smart card technologies. Axis is proud of their experienced and well trained sales force on a nationwide level who all work with retail stores, restaurants, mail order & telephone order, e-commerce, internet, home-based, petroleum, supermarket, and lodging merchants. Axis' sales force caters to all avenues of commerce.

In addition to payment processing, Axis Merchant Group enables it's customers to earn additional monthly revenues with a suite of money making products and services that increase customer loyalty and foot traffic. This includes check guarantee services, electronic check conversion services, bill payment services, money transfer services, payroll guarantee, secondary ID card products, merchant working capital, loan services, pre-paid Visa and Mastercard cards, and pre-paid wireless cards and cellular phones. Axis is a reseller for over 70 wireless providers.

Axis Merchant Group provides it's customers with the best-in-class electronic payment processing and other money making services that facilitate growth opportunities for small to medium sized businesses nationwide. Axis management has a combined 35 years experience offering a wide range of innovative services and products. We strive to be a true partner in business by providing the tools needed for our customer's to succeed. As an innovator, Axis' goal is to always be on the cutting-edge and provide the information and tools so our customer's experience is as valuable and efficient as possible.

Axis Merchant Group was created by an impassioned group of industry veterans and leaders, who recognize the need of bringing together diverse advances in the field of electronic payment processing. Our service philosophy not only shapes our customer relationships, but it also guides our product and service development. Using our state-of-the-art technology, our electronic payment solutions can help your business grow. If one word could describe what makes Axis stand head and shoulders above the competition, it is the word "care". We care for our customers passionately, for we are forging the bonds of long and lasting relationships.

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