Millions of Anthony Weiners


San Rafael, CA - June 17, 2011 -- Contact: Tom Andrews, 415/479-3800

"America has become a nation of Anthony Weiners," says Rich Gosse, the world’s foremost authority on dating. “Tens of millions of Americans are having virtual sex on the internet. Anthony Weiner has exposed America’s greatest secret-the decline of real relationships with real people. A major percentage of Americans are settling for a cheap imitation of loving relationships.

"While the world rejoices at the collapse of dictatorships in the Arab world, in large part due to Facebook and Twitter," says Mr. Gosse, "little is written about the price that we pay in our own country the decline and fall of face-to-face intimacy."

"As the only person who has produced thousands of singles events worldwide, on six continents," says Mr. Gosse, "I have a unique perspective. I have observed that fewer people are attending singles parties over recent years, while not coincidentally Facebook has expanded to 600 million members. If the current trend continues, some day there may be more virtual sexual relationships than real relationships in America.

"For 33 years, I have fought an uphill battle against SHYNESS, the enemy of intimate relationships," says Mr. Gosse, "through my classes at 61 colleges and my books on dating. That battle is now almost unwinnable, due to the wild popularity of social networking. Past generations of shy Americans were FORCED to leave the safety and comfort of their homes and relate to people face-to-face, in order to earn a living, pay their bills, do their banking, or find a romantic partner. Today all can be done online.

"The greatest tragedy," says Mr. Gosse, "is that Anthony Weiner, the poster boy of sick sexual relationships, actually has a wife who loves him and is about to have a child. He has many personal friends. Millions of Americans are far worse off than Representative Weiner. They have almost no personal contact with other human beings. They have hundreds of “friends” on Facebook, but zero intimate relationships."

Rich Gosse is the Chairman of The Society of Single Professionals, the world’s largest non-profit singles organization. He is the author of eight books on dating, including Singles Guide to America, The Cougar Imperative: Why MidLife Women MUST Date Younger Men, and A Good Man is EASY to Find. ("This is a great book!" Oprah Winfrey). His expert advice has been featured by ABC, BBC, CBS, CNN, CNBC, Fox, MSNBC, Oprah, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Cosmopolitan, Business Week, Entrepreneur, The Atlantic, Playboy, Playgirl, The Australian, The New Zealand Herald, The London Sunday Times, etc. His websites include www.richgosse.com, www.ThePartyHotline.com, www.SinglesTravelCompany.com, www.CougarEvents.com, and www.SinglesPodcastingNetwork.com. Mr. Gosse is available to the news media for interviews by calling 415/479-3800 or emailing rich@richgosse.com.

Contact:
Rich Gosse
Society of Single Professionals
205 Mark Twain Avenue, San Rafael CA 94903
Tel: 415-507-9962
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Mike Bell Featured in the Light Space & Time Artist Showcase


Jupiter, Florida, June 17, 2011 -- Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery is very pleased to have Mike Bell from the UK featured in this month’s artist showcase. After a 30 year career teaching and lecturing about Art and Design, Mike took an early retirement in order to concentrate on his painting. Mike’s art is inspired by 30 years of living and working on the Northumberland coast of England and now, most recently in the Wilds of Redesdale near the border of Scotland. Mike has always been fascinated by the patterns of sand on the beach. Random piles of seaweed or driftwood, in Mike’s mind, is order and chaos together and soon becomes an inspiration for his next landscape painting.

“The images that he creates uses a wide variety of materials such as sand, soil, coal dust, and driftwood are often embedded in his paint surfaces.” Mike goes on further and states “I want my paintings to be as natural as possible and rarely do I use a brush but I will use a finger, a knife, a trowel, sand ,plaster, spray paints and lots of builders materials to create impasto paint surfaces.”

Mike has experimented with Holographic Foils in his paintings in order to simulate the wonderful lighting of Northumberland area. Since moving to Redesdale he has been inspired and has become aware of the interaction of man and nature, especially in the area’s wild crags, quarries, moorland and forest to create a wonderful tapestry at different times of year.

Mike states that “rock strata, strange cloud formations, moody sunsets, reflections in rivers and lakes all have me rushing for camera or sketchbook.” The “Land of Far Horizons”, Northumberland has light which enhances the tactile quality of the Landscape no matter what the season. His hope is that his work stimulates a wide range of perception and feelings for this "Land of Far Horizons".

Mike Bell’s website with his wonderful nature inspired art can be seen here http://mike--bell.artistwebsites.com/


About Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery

Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery offers monthly art competitions and monthly art exhibitions for new and emerging artists. Light Space & Time’s intention is to showcase this incredible talent in a series of monthly themed art competitions and art exhibitions by marketing and displaying the exceptional abilities of these artists. http://www.lightspacetime.com

Contact:
John R. Math
Light Space & Time Online Gallery
118 Poinciana Drive
Jupiter, FL 33458
Tel: 888-490-3530
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AAA endorses rise of impact investment education


Impact investment advocacy organization, Alternative Asset Analysis (AAA), has said that the increasing number of business degree and Masters courses that are focusing on impact investing is a welcome sign of the growing importance and unquestionable credibility of the sector.

Boston, Massachusetts, UNITED STATES, June 17, 2011 -- Impact investment advocacy organization, Alternative Asset Analysis (AAA), has said that the increasing number of business degree and Masters courses that are focusing on impact investing is a welcome sign of the growing importance and unquestionable credibility of the sector.

AAA analyst, Anthony Johnson, said that prestigious, internationally renowned business schools – including Wharton and Stanford – are now running MBA programs that allow their students to focus on socially responsible forms of investment, such as sustainable timber projects. These courses, he said, will create an ever-improving field of expertise in the sector.

His words echoed those of the chief executive of the San Francisco-based impact investment group, Investors' Circle, Suzanne Biegel, who said that the programs were gaining importance across the globe. "Social entrepreneurship programs have exploded in business schools across the US and Europe," she said.

Cornell University's Graduate School of Management and the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University also host specific programs, with the latter going one step further this year, hosting the first International Impact Investing Challenge.

The challenge put forward more than $40,000 in prizes for students who could produce innovative impact investment vehicles, which were then pitched to institutional investors, including endowments, pension funds, and family foundations.

Johnson said that the rise of these courses in the business schools of the world was an important foreshadowing of the types of investments that are set to drive the global financial industry in the future.

"Impact investment assets are currently estimated to be valued at $50 billion, with industry studies predicting them to explode to $500 billion by the year 2025, suggesting that the students currently focusing their MBAs on them are doing so with highly justifiable reason," said Johnson.

"Impact and alternative investments open up a whole new social perspective on learning about finance, based around the fact that where there is human need there is opportunity. The changes that this has on supply and demand throughout supply chain are numerous an they also add a social benefit layer that did not previously exist in the financial markets."

Many of the programs are focusing on the modes of business and the basic needs of the countries where many impact investments occur – practices and needs that most investors will be unfamiliar with. Impact investment is predicted to show its strongest growth in China, India, and in African nations, where the markets are dealing with population migration, resource scarcity and growth demands, as well as infrastructure-related issues. All of these problems present ample opportunity for investment projects, so it is only appropriate that the students of today spend their education learning about them.

Contact:
Anthony Johnson
Alternative Asset Analysis
71 Commercial St
Boston, MA 02109-1320
Tel: 617-898-6317
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RF Engines Releases ChannelCore FlexTM, the World's Most Flexible Ultra-Wideband Channelizer Solution


High-performance, feature rich Channelizer addresses demands of next generation Electronic Surveillance, Satcoms and Wireless Base Station applications.

Newport, Isle of Wight, UK - 17th June 2011 -- The ultimate radio receiver is capable of detecting and processing signals across all of the radio spectrum, all of the time. RF Engines Limited (RFEL) has taken a large step towards this goal with the introduction of an innovative and highly flexible, ultra-wideband, Channelizer IP core – the ChannelCore Flex™.

ChannelCore Flex is a major breakthrough as it provides the customer with the ability to extract from a very wide input signal any number of channels simultaneously in real time. These can be any combination of different bandwidths and sampling rates with any overlap and centre frequencies. Furthermore, each channel can be individually defined and changed as required so that the system designer can tailor a solution that precisely meets the needs of the application on a single FPGA.

RFEL anticipates that the ChannelCore Flex will find widespread application in areas including Electronic Surveillance, satellite communications and future Base Station architectures, where simultaneous monitoring, detection and demodulation of a mixture of disparate communication channels, such as WiMax and GSM, using a single architecture are a definitive requirement.

“ChannelCore Flex delivers advanced features that are the culmination of over ten years of design and implementation experience and delivers the ability to do things that previously could not be done or required huge resources,” explained John Summers, RFEL’s CEO. “The pedigree of RFEL in the area of channelization means that there is a very low technical risk when embarking on a new design, so customers can be confident of being ‘up and running’ very quickly.”

Channelization is a relatively straight forward signal-processing task. For example, a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) can efficiently process a wideband signal into over 1000 channels. However, this can only be done with limitations:

- The channels all have equal bandwidths, which is inflexible and problematic when processing different types of transmissions concurrently.
- The bandwidth of individual channels is inversely proportional to the number of channels supported.
- The centre frequencies of the channels are uniformly spaced and are not independently controllable.
- There is limited control of the frequency response of the individual channels, leading to compromised stop-band and pass-band performance.
- It cannot be readily interfaced to existing hardware due to differing sampling rates and data formats.

More advanced signal processing techniques, such as Weighted Over-Lap and Add (WOLA) pre-processing and hierarchical channelization using a Pipelined Frequency Transform (PFT), can overcome many of these limitations. RFEL has adopted these highly significant enhancements, along with other proprietary techniques, to create an ultra-wideband Channelizer that offers unrivalled performance and flexibility, enabling it to be tailored to bespoke applications while remaining very hardware efficient.

ChannelCore Flex is capable of being configured to support many thousands of channels, spanning an input bandwidth exceeding 1 GHz. Importantly, these channels can have individual bandwidths that can vary by several orders of magnitude, be overlapped to accommodate broadband transmissions, and have centre frequencies and sample rates that can be independently tuneable to sub-Hertz resolution (=1Hz). The end result is a Channelizer architecture that can be configured to support concurrent monitoring of multiple channels, with bandwidths ranging from as large as hundreds of Megahertz, to as narrow as a few Hertz, delivering an overall aggregate channelized sample rate that can exceed 1Gs/s.

Implementation
Unfortunately, there is no optimal, ‘one size fits all,’ Channelizer architecture, as each application places very different demands on the implementation. RFEL has resolved this problem by producing an IP core that is compile and run-time programmable from a simple set of parameters derived from the user’s technical specification. The end result is a high-performance and optimized IP core that has precisely the required level of flexibility demanded by the application, while minimising hardware cost and delivering a fast time-to-market.

Price & Availability
ChannelCore Flex is available for licensing now for implementation in a wide range of Xilinx or Altera FPGA devices. Supplied as a netlist, the IP is very compact so that low cost, medium sized FPGAs could be used. For example, a solution for a 200MHz input with 500 channels ranging from 5kHz to 5MHz would fit on a $100 device. Prices are dependent on each implementation’s specific set of requirements, but typically fall in the range of $10K - $40K.

RF Engines Ltd
RF Engines Limited (RFEL) is a leading UK-based electronic systems design company, providing high specification signal processing solutions for FPGAs, as well as supplying digital receiver and complete product solutions for the homeland security, defence, communications and instrumentation markets. Applications include communications base stations, satellite communications systems, test and measurement instrumentation, and bespoke wideband receivers/transceivers.

Further Information and illustrations, RF Engines Limited, E-Mail: info@rfel.com, Tel: +44 (0) 1983 550330, Web: http://www.rfel.com

Press Information, Nigel Robson - Vortex PR, Email: nigel@vortexpr.com, Tel: +44 (0) 1481 233080, Web: http://www.vortexpr.com

ChannelCore Flex is a trademark of RF Engines Ltd. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners
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New Turtle Conservation Tours hatched by SEEtheWILD

SEEtheWILD announces two new destinations for sea turtle conservation tours: El Salvador and Nicaragua. To celebrate, SEEtheWILD is offering a Nicaragua turtle sweepstakes and a tour guided by famed explorer Fabien Cousteau.

BEAVERTON, USA – (Ecotourism-Newswire.com – June 16, 2011) -- After a successful first three years, SEEtheWILD is expanding its wildlife conservation travel offerings to include important new sea turtle conservation sites in Nicaragua and El Salvador. To celebrate this expansion, the non-profit conservation trip planning organization is offering travelers a chance to win a free sea turtle tour to Nicaragua.

Nicaragua is home to major nesting beaches for three species of turtles, including the La Flor Wildlife Refuge, one of the few beaches in the world where thousands of olive ridley turtles nest at one time. SEEtheWILD is working with leading ecotourism operators Wildland Adventures, Reefs to Rockies, and the Mesoamerican Ecotourism Alliance to offer wildlife adventures to this Central American paradise that benefit the turtle conservation efforts of Paso Pacifico. New subscribers to SEEtheWILD’s monthly e-newsletter will be entered to win our Nicaragua Wildlife Sweepstakes in 2012.

El Salvador has made great strides over the past two years in protecting its sea turtles. Turtle researchers recently discovered that Jiquilisco Bay is one of the most important nesting areas for the world’s most endangered turtle population, the Eastern Pacific Hawksbill. SEE Turtles and the Mesoamerican Ecotourism Alliance are offering an El Salvador Sea Turtle Adventure led by ocean explorer Fabien Cousteau. This tour will raise money for Cousteau's new organization, Plant A Fish, to support local hawksbill conservation efforts.

About SEEtheWILD
SEEtheWILD is a non-profit conservation tourism project that connects people with community-based wildlife conservation projects. Going beyond the ecotourism mantra of "leave only footprints," SEEtheWILD helps tourists make a positive impact by engaging in conservation tourism initiatives. To date, the project has generated $250,000 for conservation and local communities and covered more than 1,000 volunteer shifts. SEEtheWILD is a project of the Ocean Foundation.

Contact:
Brad Nahill
Co-Founder & Director
SEEtheWILD
7227 SW Linette Way
Beaverton OR 97007
Tel: (503) 395-7360
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The World of Business and Finance at your Feet with Golden Networking


Virtually no individual or company in any industry or country in the world that can't be reached through the extensive Rolodex of Golden Networking's founder, Mr. Edgar Perez, aptly referred as America's Ultimate Networker.

(June 15, 2011, New York) -- Golden Networking (http://www.goldennetworking.net) has quickly become the premier networking community for business executives, entrepreneurs and professionals, to experience what is new and next. They have been treated to exclusive industry-wide Leaders and Experts Forums, Experts Workshops, Business Receptions and Professional Nights, which have been featured in the business and financial press.

Golden Networking provides company owners and business executives a platform to expand their firms' revenues through global networking, introduction to key players and sponsorship of executive functions. There is virtually no individual or company in any industry or country in the world that can't be reached through the extensive Rolodex of Golden Networking's founder, Mr. Edgar Perez, aptly referred as America's Ultimate Networker (http://www.americasultimatenetworker.com).

Mr. Perez was a vice president at Citigroup, a senior consultant at IBM, and a consultant at McKinsey & Co. in New York City. Mr. Perez has an undergraduate degree from Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería, Lima, Peru (1994), a Master of Administration from Universidad ESAN, Lima, Peru (1997) and a Master of Business Administration from Columbia Business School, with a dual major in Finance and Management (2002). He is a member of the Beta Gamma Sigma international honor society. He resides in the New York City area and is an accomplished salsa. Mr. Perez has presented at Harvard Business School's 17th Annual Venture Capital & Private Equity Conference and at forums organized by Columbia Business School's Career Management Center and Alumni Club of New York. He is the author of The Speed Traders: An Insider’s Look at the New High-Frequency Trading Phenomenon That is Transforming the Investing World, (http://www.thespeedtraders.com), recently published by McGraw-Hill Inc.

Golden Networking's functions draw hundreds of high-level attendees who cannot afford to miss these very selective learning and networking opportunities. Some of companies that have been represented in the past include ACTIV Financial, Advanced Wealth Solutions Group, LLC, AIG , AXA Equitable, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Bank of NY Mellon, Barclays Capital, Bloomberg, L.P., Business Monitor International, Capital IQ, Citi, Credit Suisse, Dixie Asset Management, Equiventure Capital, LLC, Excalibur Holdings, Federal Reserve Bank of NY, GETCO, Goldman Sachs, Guggenheim Partners, Guggenheim Securities, HSBC, IBM, Infinity Capital, Investcorp, IO-Works, JPMorgan Chase, LEK Securities Corp., Lexden Capital, Liquidnet, Maquarie Capital, Mizuho Corp. Bank, Mohican Financial Management, LLC., Monolith Capital Partners, Moon Capital, Morgan Stanley, MPS Global Secutities, New York Life Insurance Co., Nobilis Capital , Oberon Securities, Oppenheimer & Co. Inc., Pavenham Capital, Renaissance Capital Partners, Rosenblatt Securities, Safra National Bank, Scarsdale Equities, LLC, Scythe Capital, Standard & Poor’s , State Street, SunGate Partners, Inc., Sunrise Securities Corp., Systematic Alpha, TD Bank, Thomson Reuters, Twin Capital Management LLC, and Westbrook Capital, LLC, among others.

Company executives, investment bankers, private equity and hedge fund managers, individual and institutional investors, and world experts are invited to contact Golden Networking by sending an email to info@goldennetworking.net. Golden Networking has been frequently featured in the press, including recent articles in The Wall Street Journal, "Happy Hour for High-Frequency Trading", The New York Times, "Golden Networking Helps Job Seekers Make Overseas Connections", Los Angeles Times, "Speed-addicted traders dominate today's stock market", Reuters, "Revamp looms as trading experts huddle at SEC" and Columbia Business School's Hermes Alumni Magazine, "10 Under 10".

Contact:
Natalia Nuzhnova
Media Relations Manager
Golden Networking
516-761-4712
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Maximize Your Impact and Profits with High-Frequency Trading Happy Hour


High-Frequency Trading Happy Hour (www.HFTHappyHour.com), June 14th, will Bring Together the most Influential High-Frequency and Quantitative Trading Audience for an Evening of Networking and Cocktails at Manhattan’s The Living Room, W Hotel in Times Square.

(June 15, 2011, New York) -- Golden Networking’s High-Frequency Trading Happy Hour, http://www.HFTHappyHour.com, June Tuesday June 14, will bring together the most influential audience of high-frequency and quantitative trading professionals. High-Frequency Trading Happy Hour, featured in The Wall Street Journal, has congregated high-frequency (and some low-frequency too) traders, quants, managers, investors and key decision makers for evenings of networking and cocktail every 2nd Tuesday for the last 15 months.

Participating as a sponsor of High-Frequency Trading Happy Hour, New York City, is an excellent opportunity for firms to receive maximum exposure to an emerging industry in the intersection of finance and technology. Key sponsorship benefits include unequaled opportunities to reach key decision makers in the high-frequency trading community, direct exposure to 150-200 attendees, enhanced credibility and business opportunity with managers, head traders, advisors, consultants and individual and institutional investors, expanded marketing reach by tapping into Golden Networking’s database of over 10,000 alternative investment and 25,000 finance professionals in the New York Metro area, and direct exposure on Golden Networking’s website and the driving of additional, qualified traffic to sponsor’ site.

Companies represented at High-Frequency Trading Happy Hour in the past included ACTIV Financial, Advanced Wealth Solutions Group, LLC, AIG , AXA Equitable, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Bank of NY Mellon, Barclays Capital, Bloomberg, L.P., Business Monitor International, Capital IQ, Credit Suisse, Dixie Asset Management, Equiventure Capital, LLC, Excalibur Holdings, Federal Reserve Bank of NY, GETCO, Goldman Sachs, Guggenheim Partners, Guggenheim Securities, Infinity Capital, Investcorp, IO-Works, JPMorgan Chase, LEK Securities Corp., Lexden Capital, Liquidnet, Maquarie Capital, Mizuho Corp. Bank, Mohican Financial Management, LLC., Monolith Capital Partners, Moon Capital, Morgan Stanley, MPS Global Secutities, New York Life Insurance Co., Nobilis Capital , Oberon Securities, Oppenheimer & Co. Inc., Pavenham Capital, Renaissance Capital Partners, Rosenblatt Securities, Safra National Bank, Scarsdale Equities, LLC, Scythe Capital, Standard & Poor’s , State Street, SunGate Partners, Inc., Sunrise Securities Corp., Systematic Alpha, TD Bank, Thomson Reuters, Twin Capital Management LLC, and Westbrook Capital, LLC, among others.

For more details about the benefits provided to sponsors, firms are welcome to download the Sponsorship Package, from http://goldennetworking.net/upload/archivos/High-Frequency%20Trading%20Happy%20Hour%20-%20Sponsorship%20Package.pdf. High-Frequency Trading Happy Hour is produced by Golden Networking (http://www.goldennetworking.net), the premier networking community for business executives, entrepreneurs and investors. Golden Networking has compiled the insights of top experts and industry practitioners and produced DVD Video Packages for its Leaders and Experts Forums, including:

- High-Frequency Trading Leaders Forum 2011 DVD Video Package, "How Speed Traders Leverage Cutting-Edge Strategies in the Post-Flash Crash World", http://www.HFTLeadersForum.com
- High-Frequency Trading Experts Workshop DVD Video Package, "Practical Implementation of High-Frequency Trading Strategies", http://www.HFTExpertsWorkshop.com
- 2nd China Leaders Forum DVD Video Package, "Is the Chinese Dragon Poised for Global Dominance or Economic Implosion?", http://www.ChinaLeadersForum.com
- Distressed Investing Experts Forum 2010 DVD Video Package, "Analyzing and Valuing Distressed Companies, Securities and Real Estate", http://www.DistressedInvestingExpertsForum.com
- Derivatives Leaders Forum 2010 DVD Video Package, "Strategies for Increasing Profits under an Evolving Regulatory Framework", http://www.DerivativesLeadersForum.com
- High-Frequency Trading Leaders Forum 2010 DVD Video Package, "Innovating and Profiting from High-Frequency Trading in 2010 and Beyond", http://www.HFTLeadersForum.com
- Hedge Funds Leaders Forum 2010 DVD Video Package, "Generating Alpha in Challenging Times", http://www.HedgeFundsLeadersForum.com
- High-Frequency Trading Experts Forum 2010 DVD Video Package, "Starting and Running a High-Frequency Trading Operation", http://www.HFTExpertsForum.com
- Distressed Investing Leaders Forum 2010 DVD Video Package, "Extraordinary Opportunities Investors Cannot Afford to Pass", http://www.DistressedInvestingLeadersForum.com
- China Leaders Forum 2009 DVD Video Package, "Addressing the Challenges Posed by the Present Wave of Chinese Globalization", http://www.ChinaLeadersForum.com
- Distressed Investing Leaders Forum 2009 DVD Video Package, "The Most Comprehensive Guide for Any Investor in Distressed Assets", http://www.DistressedInvestingLeadersForum.com

Panelists, speakers and sponsors are invited to contact Golden Networking by sending an email to info@goldennetworking.net. Golden Networking has been frequently featured in the press, including recent articles in The Wall Street Journal, "Happy Hour for High-Frequency Trading", The New York Times, "Golden Networking Helps Job Seekers Make Overseas Connections", Los Angeles Times, "Speed-addicted traders dominate today's stock market", Reuters, "Revamp looms as trading experts huddle at SEC" and Columbia Business School's Hermes Alumni Magazine, "10 Under 10".

Contact:
Natalia Nuzhnova
Media Relations Manager
Golden Networking
516-761-4712
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Last-Minute High-Frequency Addition to J.P. Morgan 2011 Summer Reading List for Billionaires


Recently Released J.P. Morgan 2011 Summer Reading List Drastically Improved with The Speed Traders: An Insider's Look at the New High-Frequency Trading Phenomenon That is Transforming the Investing World, Published by McGraw-Hill Inc.

(June 15, 2011, New York) -- Entering its second decade, the J.P. Morgan Summer Reading List had become a highly anticipated resource for billionaire clients. Attempting to indeed reflect the diverse enthusiasms of their global clients and provide recommendations to captivate the attention of the most discerning reader, this year’ list has been improved with the addition of the most inspiring insights on the new high-frequency trading phenomenon that is transforming the investing world provided by The Speed Traders, from author Edgar Perez.

This collection of books, specifically chosen to appeal to the tastes and preoccupations of the wealthy, was like a virtual book club for billionaires or, as described by The Wall Street Journal, a plutocrats’ box-set designed to be read on the sun deck of their Feadship off the Amalfi coast, or in the quiet shade of their Hamptons hammock. By including The Speed Traders (http://www.TheSpeedTraders.com), J.P. Morgan Summer Reading List fulfills its promise to take readers near and far and, ultimately, expand the senses and the mind.

The Speed Traders, http://www.TheSpeedTraders.com, written by Edgar Perez and published by McGraw-Hill Inc., is the most comprehensive, revealing work available on the most important development in trading in generations. High-frequency trading will no doubt play an ever larger role as computer technology advances and the global exchanges embrace fast electronic access. The Speed Traders explains everything there is to know about how today's high-frequency traders make millions-one cent at a time.

Mr. Perez is widely regarded as the pre-eminent networker in the specialized area of high-frequency trading. He is the founder of Golden Networking and host of High-Frequency Trading Happy Hour business receptions in New York City, which have drawn the world's top industry practitioners. He has organized high-frequency trading forums (http://www.hftleadersforum.com) and workshops (http://www.hftexpertsworkshop.com), as well as conferences on subjects as diverse as hedge funds, derivatives, private equity, distressed investing, and China, attracting thousands of executives and professionals in the world's major business centers. Mr. Perez has presented at Harvard Business School's 17th Annual Venture Capital & Private Equity Conference and at forums organized by Columbia Business School's Career Management Center and Alumni Club of New York.

Mr. Perez was a vice president at Citi, a senior consultant at IBM, and a consultant at McKinsey & Co. in New York City. Mr. Perez has an undergraduate degree from Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería, Lima, Peru (1994), a Master of Administration from Universidad ESAN, Lima, Peru (1997) and a Master of Business Administration from Columbia Business School, with a dual major in Finance and Management (2002). He is a member of the Beta Gamma Sigma international honor society. Mr. Perez resides in the New York City area and is an accomplished salsa and hustle dancer.

Mr. Perez is one of the great business networkers and motivators on the lecture circuit; he is available worldwide for the following speaking engagements: Present and Future of High-Frequency Trading, The Real Story behind the "Flash Crash", Hedge Funds Issues and Challenges, Networking for Financial Executives, and Business Networking for Success.

Contact:
Natalia Nuzhnova
Media Relations Coordinator
The Speed Traders
516-761-4712
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Vietnamese forestry investment incentives lauded by AAA


The Vietnamese government has been lauded by Alternative Asset Analysis (AAA) for the steps they have taken to encourage foreign private investment in the nation's forestry sector.

Boston, MA, United States - June 15, 2011 -- The Vietnamese government has been lauded by Alternative Asset Analysis (AAA) for the steps they have taken to encourage foreign private investment in the nation's forestry sector.

The forestry department in the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has implemented a number of measures in recent years to encourage investors to trust their money to the sustainable and environmentally sound private investment that is developing in the nation's abundant and lucrative forests.

The head of planning for the forestry department, Nguyen Nghia Bien, said that they have undertaken a number of initiatives to draw attention to forestry investment, including offering tax exemptions to businesses that invest in reforestation and wood processing projects in targeted areas.

"In addition, investors have received low-interest loans, support for transportation and personal income tax exemptions," he explained.

Despite their efforts, however, the country is still struggling to gain ground in the forestry investment industry from foreign parties. Recent figures pointed out that crucial foreign investors only accounted for 1.2 per cent of the total forestry industry.

Duong Van Coi, from the Forest Research and Planning Institute, said that while there had been investment in certain areas concerning the forestry industry – chiefly in wood processing – little international attention had been paid to sustainable forestry and afforestation.

"The investment trend could result in unsustainable development as most of the wood processed in the country is imported or illegally exploited from prohibited forests," Mr Coi. "Policies encouraging private sector to invest in forestry would create materials for wood processing and more stable development."

Private and foreign investment in the forestry sector has increased, with the former recently surpassing State investment, he noted. Last year, total investment in the sector reached VND704 trillion (US$33.5 billion), with VND278 trillion ($13.2 billion) coming from the domestic private sector, VND245 trillion ($11.6 billion) from State sources, and VND181 trillion ($8.6 billion) from foreign investment.

AAA analysis partner, Anthony Johnson, said that foreign investors were missing a trick by not putting their money into alternative assets such as sustainable forestry. Mr Johnson suggested that fund managers consider recommending impact investing as a great option for those interested in something different. Impact investing involves making investments in projects based in emerging markets and developing countries. This investment helps to provide much needed funding to local businesses, who can then use this cash injection to expand and grow – generating returns for the investors.

“The beauty of alternatives,” added Mr Johnson, “is that they do not follow the same trends and patterns as traditional investments – so are less affected by the same economic factors as equities, for example."

Contact:
Anthony Johnson
Alternative Asset Analysis
71 Commercial St
Boston, MA 02109-1320
Tel: 617-898-6317
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Zevrix Updates ArtOptimizer - Adds Adobe Illustrator CS5.1 Support


Zevrix Solutions announces ArtOptimizer 2.5.1, a compatibility update to its workflow automation solution for Adobe Illustrator. ArtOptimizer allows to reduce Illustrator job size and speed up processing by automatically eliminating excess image data and performing essential image adjustments. The software lets users save gigabytes of disk space, accelerate file output and cut costs through faster processing. The new version makes ArtOptimizer compatible with Illustrator CS5.1.

Toronto (ON), Canada - June 14, 2011 -- Zevrix Solutions announces the release of ArtOptimizer 2.5.1, a compatibility update to its workflow automation solution for Adobe Illustrator. ArtOptimizer lets users reduce Illustrator job size, accelerate output and reduce production costs by automatically eliminating excess image data and performing essential image adjustments. For example, with just a click of a button users can:

-scale and crop images to match their dimensions in Illustrator,
-change their resolution to 300 ppi,
-convert all RGB images to CMYK,
-merge layers or delete hidden ones,
-run a Photoshop Action on each image.

In order to eliminate excess image data, ArtOptimizer automatically scales the images in Photoshop to match their dimensions in Illustrator, changes resolution according to the target resolution specified, and reimports images to Illustrator at 100%. As a result, the size of Illustrator job can be reduced dramatically - some jobs can shrink in size by half and more.

ArtOptimizer provides substantial benefits to the workflows of service providers, printers, ad agencies and publishing houses:

-Accelerate document output to printer and PDF.
-Save endless hours - and even days - of manually optimizing image size, resolution and formats.
-Save valuable time transferring jobs to outside sources.
-Cut costs through faster processing.

The new version makes ArtOptimizer compatible with recently released Illustrator and Photoshop CS5.1. Zevrix also makes LinkOptimizer, a similar tool to automate image link optimization for Adobe InDesign.

Pricing and Availability:
ArtOptimizer can be purchased from the Zevrix Solutions web site for US$119.95, as well as from authorized resellers. Trial is also available for download. ArtOptimizer is available for Mac OS X 10.4.2-10.6, a Universal Binary, and works with Adobe Illustrator CS2-CS5.1.

About Zevrix Solutions

Located in Toronto, Canada, Zevrix Solutions provides productivity solutions for Adobe Creative Suite software, PDF and graphic file diagnostics, as well as Microsoft Office on Mac OS. Zevrix Solutions is dedicated to helping professionals achieve more while doing less through automating their everyday tasks, producing error-free documents, saving disk space and cutting production costs. For more information, visit http://www.zevrix.com.

Contact:
Leo Revzin
Owner
Zevrix Solutions
105 McCAUL St, Suite 301
Toronto Ontario M5T 2X4 Canada
Tel: 858-206-0607
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Independence Day match your Key Singles Dance

San Rafael, CA - June 13, 2011 -- Contact: Tom Andrews, 415/479-3800

Single professionals of all ages are invited to celebrate America’s birthday on Saturday, July 2, 2011, 8pm-Midnight, at the W Hotel, 8200 Gateway Blvd, Newark CA 94560.

“It’s tough to meet people at a large party,” says Rich Gosse, Chairman of The Society of Single Professionals. “After 33 years of producing over 2,000 singles parties worldwide, I have discovered that Match Your Key events are the EASIEST way for romantic eligibles to connect with new friends. Singles are too shy,” says Mr. Gosse. “That’s why they're still single. They walk into a full of strangers and they panic. The beauty of Match Your Key parties is that even the shyest person in the room gets to meet everybody.”

Mr. Gosse is America’s foremost authority on meeting a romantic partner. He is the author of eight books on the subject, including You CAN Hurry Love, Singles Guide to the Bay Area, and A Good Man Is EASY to Find (“This is a great book!” Oprah Winfrey). His expert advice has been featured by ABC, BBC, CBS, CNBC, CNN, Fox News Live, MSNBC, Oprah, Donahue, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Cosmopolitan, Business Week, Playboy, Playgirl, The London Times, The Australian, The New Zealand Herald, etc. Mr. Gosse is available to the news media for interviews by calling 415/479-3800.

The cost of the party is $20 at the door, which includes the Match Your Key Mixer, plus dancing to your favorite hits. This event is co-sponsored by The Society of Single Professionals, the world’s largest non-profit singles organization; and by MatchYourKey.com. Anyone wishing more information about this and other singles parties may call 415/507-9962 or visit http://www.ThePartyHotline.com.

Contact:
Rich Gosse
Society of Single Professionals
205 Mark Twain Avenue, San Rafael CA 94903
Tel: 415-507-9962
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ESCATEC appointed as Design Partner for Atmel touch sensing technology


Heerbrugg, Switzerland, June 11, 2011 -- ESCATEC, the EMS innovator, has been appointed as one of the two Atmel Design Partners for touch sensing technology in Europe.

“Designing touch screens and the control electronics is a complex task and is challenging to companies unless they do it regularly,” explained Daniel Pfeifer, Research and Development Manager, at ESCATEC’s facility in Switzerland. “Atmel recognised our skills at doing this for customers and has appointed us as one of only four design partners in the world to help its customers. Atmel supply chips for touch screens and other companies each supply individual components, such as microprocessors and software, leaving manufacturers with the challenge of having to bring everything together to form a complete solution for their specific application. Rather than having customers re-invent the wheel every time, Atmel has appointed a small number of design partners who are highly experienced at integrating all the elements together to create complete touch screen solutions for customers.”

ESCATEC offers customers a comprehensive manufacturing service that starts with assisting with the design of the product, through low volume production at its state of the art facilities in Switzerland, to high volume manufacture in Asia. “We form a close working partnership with customers at all stages to ensure that every phase runs smoothly with the precision and quality that the Swiss are renowned for,” added Martin Kingdon, ESCATEC’s Business Development Director. “This Design Partnership with Atmel is just one of the many services that we offer customers that set us apart from EMS companies that compete solely on price. We offer true expertise to ensure products are high quality as well as being competitively priced.”

Further information on ESCATEC, one of Europe’s leading provider of design and manufacturing services: http://www.escatec.com / enquiries@escatec.com

For press information, contact: Nigel Robson, Vortex PR, Tel: +44 (0) 1481 233080, nigel@vortexpr.com

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Experts Connection Presents Tactics to Promote Your Company Using LinkedIn and Other Social Media


Social Media Expert Glenn Raines Explains How to Promote your Company through LinkedIn and Other Social Media Channels.

NOVATO, Calif. (June 11, 2011) -- Social media has become an incredibly powerful and cost-effecting marketing tool. To help professionals understand how to get the most from social media, June’s Experts Connection (http://www.experts-connection.com) webinar, ”LinkedIn and Social Media: Make it Work to Promote Your Company,” will feature social media expert Glenn Raines, Founder of Social Media Moves, who will explain how to align your company’s business objectives and brand messaging with social media channels such as LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook. The presentation is scheduled for Wednesday, June 22, from 4:00 - 5:30 p.m. ET, (1:00 - 2:30 p.m. PT), and is sponsored by NETSHARE® (http://www.netshare.com).

The explosion of social media offers a host of new ways to connect with consumers and prospects, and changes the way companies go to market. This Experts Connection webinar will cover the latest social media marketing tactics, including repurposing your branded content so it works within different social media, as well as how to leverage the advanced functionalities of both the LinkedIn Profile and LinkedIn Company Page. In addition, we will explore how to use social media platforms such as Google, Flickr, and YouTube to boost your company’s search results, increase visibility to new prospects, and drive traffic back to your website.

This webinar will offer invaluable tips for companies looking to build their brand through social media. This practical presentation will include:

- Aligning your business/brand messaging with key social media channels to attract and engage customers.
- Leveraging both LinkedIn Profiles and Enhanced LinkedIn Company Page to promote your company.
- Turning your subject matter experts into effective “brand ambassadors” in social media networking.
- Leveraging your existing investments in branded content using social media repurposing strategies.
- Enabling others to share your brand content and their social networks for exponential exposure.
- Engaging on other social media platforms (beyond LinkedIn) to boost your results and drive traffic.
- Managing your time and resources to sustain your social media efforts.

“Social media has created a new marketing channel that can be adapted to promote your company brand,” said Katherine Simmons, CEO of NETSHARE and host of the Experts Connection teleseminars. “As Glenn explains, a solid social media strategy requires you to attract positive market attention rather than push your message to your target market. LinkedIn has become the ‘go to’ network for professional connections, and Glenn’s tips and techniques can be readily adapted to other social media channels as well. This is a great teleseminar for anyone interested in making the most of their online footprint to attract new customers.”

The Experts Connection teleseminar series gives executives access to leading career experts. The cost of the seminar is $60, $50 for NETSHARE members, and access is provided via web and telephone. For more information, visit the Experts Connection online at http://www.experts-connection.com.

About Glenn Raines
Glenn Raines is the “Revealer of Value” at Social Media Moves (http://www.socialmediamoves.com) where he helps companies align their business objectives and brand strategies with social media channels for customer engagement. He authored the ebook, Your Google Profile: Elevate Your Brand and Findability on the Web, and leads workshops on social content marketing and personal branding. Glenn is a former agency brand copywriter and creative director; and Vice President, Internet Business Strategy, at Citigroup. His current clients include The Royal Bank of Scotland, where he is leveraging the bank’s subject matter experts and branded content in social media for new client acquisition.

About NETSHARE
NETSHARE (http://www.netshare.com) is a confidential, membership based organization dedicated to providing executives across all disciplines and industries with quality $100K plus job lists. NETSHARE also offers networking opportunities and a community of peers for the exchange of strategic information related to job search, professional development and best practices. NETSHARE has been recognized by Fortune and Forbes magazines as the best online destination for executive positions.

Contact:
Annette DiSano
NETSHARE, Inc.
(415) 883-1700

Tom Woolf
Woolf Media & Marketing
(415) 259-5638
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Opera tickets top and tail the chart of UK ticket prices


SeatChoice.com finds that there are Opera tickets to suit all budgets.

London, UK, June 10, 2011 -- Opera has long held a reputation of being entertainment for the privileged few. However, research by leading theatre tickets comparison website SeatChoice.com has found that whilst Tickets for ‘Tosca’, at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, top their ticket price league table with a maximum face value of £219.50, standing tickets for ‘Don Giovanni’ at the Soho Theatre are available for just £10.00 for under 26’s.

Tosca, at the Royal Opera House from the 7th of June to the 17th of July, has tickets available through agents priced from £41.90 in the amphitheatre rising to £219.50 in the stalls. On the Royal Opera House web site there are also tickets up to £918 in the Grand Tier but day tickets and standby tickets can be much cheaper if you're lucky enough to find them.

‘Don Giovanni’ at the Soho Theatre from the 11th of August to the 17th of September, has tickets priced from £10.00 for under 26’s willing to stand rising to a maximum of £29.50 for a Friday or Saturday evening performance. The Soho Theatre is a small and intimate venue seating a maximum of 160 people on cushioned high rake benches and all seating is unreserved. Performances at The King’s Head, ‘London’s Little Opera House’, are £17.50.

SeatChoice.com founder Robert Iles said: “Opera does have a reputation for being expensive and with some tickets at Covent Garden costing over £900 each it’s easy to see why. However, new opera companies such as OperaUpClose are putting on productions in smaller, more intimate venues and hoping to attract more diverse audiences with very affordable ticket prices. Opera North and the Welsh National Opera also bring high quality productions to the regions at a very reasonable prices. With tickets to productions like Don Giovanni in London now being some of the cheapest available, opera may soon be able to shake off its elitist image.”

SeatChoice.com has recently launched a new and improved website making it easier than ever for customers to find, compare and buy theatre, gig and event tickets across the UK.

Visitors to the site can search for specific productions and gigs if they know exactly what tickets they want or browse types of shows and events before checking ticket availability and pricing. Useful charts showing hot tickets, new tickets, show openings and closings and a minimum/maximum price table all help theatre and gig goers to get tickets for the show they want to see at the very best deal. Using SeatChoice.com to buy theatre, concert and event tickets will save you time and money.

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For further information please contact:

Jason at 42 PR on 07824 818242

If you would like to link to our website please use http://www.seatchoice.com

Notes to editors:

Research carried out on the 20th May 2011 by SeatChoice.com

Covering all genres and the whole of the UK, SeatChoice.com provides links to tickets, meal deals and theatre breaks from a wide range of reputable suppliers. In addition to providing links, SeatChoice.com conducts real-time searches of price and availability for many shows.

Over thirteen million theatre tickets are sold each year in London alone with increasing numbers of people choosing to buy online. However, using search engines often returns overwhelming and confusing results.

SeatChoice.com conducts real-time searches of theatre box offices and over 20 ticket outlets including leading ticket agents such as Encore, Ticketmaster and Keith Prowse as well as specialist theatre break agents and secondary ticket suppliers such as Seatwave, Getmein and Viagogo.

SeatChoice.com displays the ticket face value, the available discount, any applicable booking fees and the total cost of the tickets for each ticket supplier as well as displaying which suppliers don't have tickets for that performance.
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