· New Firm backed with US$5.3 million in funding provides premium publishers and brand advertisers an effective alternative to ad networks.

· San Francisco-based company sets up global operations, including UK offices in London and Edinburgh.

· Chris Humphrey, former Head of pan-EU Sales at AOL appointed as General Manager, Europe.

· AdGent 007 will boost advertising revenue served to international readers of premium publisher websites via face-to-face selling to international clients and agencies.

· NewsCorp’s TimesOnline among the first clients to join AdGent 007’s stable.

London, 28 May 2008 – AdGent 007 Inc., an online advertising sales house that aims to transform revenue levels from international online advertising for premium publisher websites has launched it’s new global ad services model.

The San Francisco based company UK and European operations will be run from London and Edinburgh. The company is backed by an initial US$5.3 million investment from Australia-based CM Capital, One Ventures and private investors.

AdGent 007 has employed sales teams across key regions to directly match premium publishers with brands that wish to target their premium audiences.

For publishers, AdGent 007’s sales agents act as a multi-national global sales force that serve as a cost-effective extension of a publisher’s in-house team and work to sell inventory directly to premium local and international advertisers. This gives premium publishers direct control over their inventory and allows them to command higher CPMs.

For advertisers around the globe, AdGent 007 offers complete transparency and the ability to secure cost-effective placements exactly where and when they need to be to stay in front of high-quality traffic, regardless of the country where the site is located.

AdGent 007’s European operations will be managed from the UK where Chris Humphrey, former Head of pan-EU Sales at AOL Europe, has been appointed General Manager Europe. Based in London and Edinburgh, Humphrey’s role will be twofold: he will oversee the sales of online advertising for non-EU publishers to brands that want to target UK or EU audiences and secondly, to secure and manage relationships with UK and EU based premium publishers that wish to better monetise their international audiences.

Cameron Yuill, founder and CEO of AdGent 007, said, “Today many of the world’s premium publishers are seeing more international traffic than local traffic, yet they aren’t monetising the opportunity effectively. If someone based in San Francisco visits the Times online in London, they should see an ad relevant to them locally, not a world away. AdGent 007 is working to ensure premium publishers are operating in a global marketplace to better monetise their international traffic at premium CPMs. At the same time, we provide brand advertisers the ability to find the right publishers to make sure their ads are in front of the right premium audience at the right time. The Internet has eliminated borders and, at the end of the day, AdGent 007 is about eliminating inefficiencies and delivering more control, transparency and revenue for everyone involved.”

In addition to its global services and targeting, AdGent 007 offers publishers and advertisers an open and transparent online marketplace, currently in beta, that allows media buyers to plan and buy campaigns on premium sites around the globe at any time. The AdGent 007 Marketplace is an alternative to bid-based and blind advertising exchanges that allows publishers to set and display prices for their branded space so that advertisers and media buyers may browse and purchase with the security of knowing when and where their messages will be placed.

Chris Humphrey said, “AdGent 007 is a unique company that can deliver higher revenues for premium online publishers and better targeted campaigns for online advertisers. I had no reservations when offered the role as AdGent 007 is the right idea, at the right time, with the right people, providing an invaluable service to fulfil a significant Publishing sector need. Our ambitions are global and we are already well down the road to securing first mover advantage.”

To find out more about AdGent 007, please visit www.adgent007.com.

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About AdGent 007

AdGent 007 Inc. is a global advertising services company focused on monetizing the international traffic on premium publisher websites at premium CPMs and helping match brand advertisers with these premium publishers. Founded in 2007, the company has offices in San Francisco, New York, Denver, London, Edinburgh and Sydney. AdGent 007 has raised $5.3 million in Series A funding led through Australia-based CM Capital with participation by One Ventures and other private investors

About Cameron Yuill

Cameron is Founder and CEO of AdGent 007 Inc. He has been involved in numerous venture backed start-ups in his career and worked with leading Silicon Valley venture investors, providing strategic advice. He was founding Vice President of Partner Marketing at Cendant Corporation, a premium online advertising network.

He started his career in the US when he established Viator Inc. Viator is an online travel pioneer providing the industry wide platform for delivery of ‘the things you do when you get there’.

In his native Australia, among other things, Cameron spent five years working as an attorney.

About Chris Humphrey

Chris Humphrey is General Manager Europe at AdGent 007. Having started his career at JWT, Chris quickly developed an interest in media planning and buying and assumed a digital role within MindShare following the merger of JWT and Ogilvy&Mather media divisions.

In the digital space, Chris’ career then took in spell at BMP interAction, which subsequently rebranded as Tribal DDB, and then three years at OMD International, where he headed their digital eforts. Prior to joining AdGent 007, Chris gained commercial experience as Head of EU Sales at AOL Europe, a position he left in October 2007.

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Panther Platform Rentals, one of the fastest growing companies in the powered access industry, has achieved full SAFE contractor accreditation, a scheme that assesses the Health & Safety competency of contractors and service providers, and one used by many large organisations.

Panther is now listed on the SAFE website as an approved contractor; this website is used by various companies to search for proven and trusted accredited contractors. As a result of this accreditation Panther is able to use the SAFE logo on its powered access equipment, vehicles, and any relevant company material and media alongside their own company logo and other accreditations such as the IPAF Rental + logo.

Simon Osborne, Panther’s Quality, Health & Safety & Environmental Manager commented: “Working towards Panther achieving the important SAFE contractor accreditation has been an ongoing process since the beginning of the year. This new accreditation is highly thought of in the industry and is viewed positively by both staff and customers; it clearly demonstrates Panther’s commitment to Health and Safety practices seen throughout their national network of 7 depots.’

The SAFE contractor accreditation came about as a response to some of Panther’s customers’ Health and Safety guidelines stating that their powered access providers attained this new accreditation scheme, which was then achieved following a successful audit of all Panther’s Health and Safety records, operator reports and log books.

For further information about Panther or to make an enquiry for any powered access requirements, please telephone 0844 856 0000 or visit http://www.platform-rentals.co.uk

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Los Angeles, Calif., May 13, 2008 – Growing Generations, the nation’s largest surrogacy agency, has launched a new program that provides surrogacy and egg donation services to men with HIV and allows them to use their own sperm to create biological families.

The new program is made possible due to advances in technology that can test semen for the virus as well as the implementation of recent California legislation enacted in January that provides the opportunity to use semen from someone with HIV for assisted reproduction. The company already has five cases of men with HIV working with egg donors and surrogates, and expects the number to grow as more people become aware of the availability of the service.

“We are pleased that science and legislation have come together to provide a safe and reasonable approach on this issue,” Growing Generations President Gail Taylor said. “As we have been since our founding in 1996, we are committed to assisting individuals who have not always been embraced by the mainstream in creating loving homes for very wanted children. This includes gay men, single parents and now people with HIV.”

Participants in Growing Generations’ new program go through the same process as other clients with the addition of an extensive screening and preparation process for the sperm. Many men with HIV show no material trace of the virus in their semen.

“We have known for many years that with proper medication and care, people with HIV can live long and healthy lives,” Taylor added. “Now, they can also make what is the ultimate life choice for many people and create their own biologically connected family.”

To learn more about Growing Generations, please visit www.growinggenerations.com.

About Growing Generations, LLC
Since 1996, Growing Generations has been a company passionately dedicated to the vision of creating life and, in the process, changing the world. Founded by gay and lesbian parents, our mission is simple — to build families of choice for our community through surrogacy, egg donation, and sperm donation.

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BPO in general Business Process Outsourcing is a delegation of work. Delegation of work! Is it a new term? Yes, in fact no one must have thought of this term for BPO ever before. When plenty of works pile up and you run short of manpower and infrastructure try to find a good solution to the problem. What can you do? You can just distribute the work to different sources.

To whom can you delegate the works?

IT/BPO market leaders are the ones you have to find out. Yes, of course they can handle delegated works with good quality, high speed and accuracy. But how can they, you may wonder? BPO Company is highly equipped with well trained professional human resources as well as good infrastructure. They accept all types of distributed BPO works and provide accurate and quality BPO services within a short period of time. Some of the BPO service centers provide onshore as well as offshore services and more under a single roof.

BPO Companies in UK

BPO companies in UK can have local contact points to delegate works. The advantage of distributing their works to BPO service providers like SBL can give a good turn over within a short period of time. In turn they can get superb quality work done quickly. Their greatest advantage is that they have no headaches in managing huge number of professional staff and modern equipments. If UK companies delegates their work they can spend the saved time, finance and energy for the expansion of their core business.

Can banks delegate their works?

Yes, banks also can distribute their work to various sources, on shore or offshore. This will give banks the advantage of getting more work done with less in-house staff. File management, book keeping, accounting and auditing can be outsourced to to get good response and excellent execution.

Are there any job opportunities in BPO companies?

Yes, there are many opportunities for well trained, English speaking candidates in BPO companies. The main advantage of BPO job is all round personal growth of each one and opportunities to choose the project according to each ones ability, qualification and skill.

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Knowledge of ArcGIS Server (or equivalent)

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MapInfo etc.

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JAG Communications’ Branch in Par is supplying local shop owners with 30 Orange Just Talk (Nokia 1200, Pay As You Go) Phones to use in the new Fowey Shop Watch scheme. Three of the Nokia 1200’s have been given to the scheme for free; in order to support the local authority’s efforts to tackle crime and antisocial behaviour in the area.

The scheme will act like a neighbourhood/community watch programme; designed to alert business owners of shoplifting and other antisocial issues occurring in the area.

The JAG Branch in Par is managed by Simon Austin-Rattenbury (32) and Sales Executive Chris Plowman (21). They learned about the Shop Watch scheme when Police Community Support Officer Linda Thomas visited the branch looking for mobile telephones with which to instigate the project. She had investigated various different options for how the scheme could operate, deciding finally upon a pre-installed text message system, allowing shop workers to quickly circulate important information to one another in a very short space of time.

Linda Thomas said: “I looked into using a standard ‘phone around’ system, but since a lot of the shop workers in the area work on their own, this would have been too time consuming. I also investigated the use of radios, but these would have been a bit expensive, so I’ve settled on the text message idea; and it seems to work.”

Linda will pre-programme a series of text templates into each handset, each containing short information alerts about various other acts of antisocial behaviour or criminal activity. But it doesn’t just stop at crime, Linda Thomas explained: “I can also use the shop-watch system to inform every store about descriptions of missing people and other community-related alerts.”

Simon Austin-Rattenbury said: “I think it’s a great idea -there is too much anti-social behaviour going on. When people do steal things they don’t realise the impact it can have on small businesses trying to make a living.”

There are 25 participating retail outlets in the village of Fowey, each with their own Shop Watch mobile telephone. Since some of the shops are also members of Pub Watch (those which sell alcohol) it is likely that Shop Watch and Pub Watch will combine to create a larger, even more secure network.

Linda added: “The system is helping to make all of the shop workers feel safe.”

The phones JAG have donated will be distributed to key members in the community, one will be given to the small town bus, which drives around Fowey all day and sees many visitors and locals, not only those on the bus, but also people on the streets.

One will be given to the small boat kiosk situated on the town quay by the river, the person in the kiosk can see everyone entering Fowey via the river, water taxis, ferry boats and anyone who moors up at the quay to come ashore.

The other phone will be the main Shopwatch phone, which will be used by Linda when she is working.

JAG’s MD, John George said: “I’m very happy to be helping out with the security of businesses in Fowey. It’s increasingly important for business operators to cooperate with one another to reduce antisocial behaviour and where possible, to maintain the safety; and security, of each others’ livelihoods and shop staff. Mobile phones and text messages are very effective means of circulating important information quickly and easily.”

Simon added: “From personal experience of working in a store on my own and being threatened with physical violence; I hope that this scheme will help the local shop owners feel less intimidated to call for help. I think that knowing someone will be with them very quickly if the need arises will make a significant difference.”

Background:

JAG Communications is the third-largest mobile phone retailer in the UK, with over 145 branches across England, Wales and Northern Ireland. We supply the latest handsets and accessories; as well as good-value contracts on all five major networks. The company’s MD, John George, is also a pilot, airfield owner and HiQ MSA British Touring Car Championship driver.

Simon Austin-Rattenbury has been working for JAG for just over four years. Before that he worked briefly for Europcar at Newquay airport, he is married and has a six-year-old son. He is interested in sport and has played cricket for both St Austell and Fowey. Chris Plowman (21) also works in the branch as a Sales Executive.

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WHO: GEORGE COSTACOS

WHAT: “Once Upon A Time – Story Songs” hosted by STEVE ROSS

WHERE: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium (Fifth Ave and 81st Str)

WHEN: Friday, May 23 at 7pm

GEORGE COSTACOS will perform as a special guest in “Once Upon A Time – Story Songs” hosted by STEVE ROSS.

The concert takes place at 7pm on May 23 in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, located on Fifth Avenue and 81st Street in Manhattan.

The evening features work songs, patter songs and sentimental ballads, including songs of Harry Chapin, Johnny Cash, Kander & Ebb, Cole Porter and Noel Coward among other great songwriters. Also appearing are Carol McCann, Wayne Hosford, Gay Marshall and Jay Leonhart.

Tickets are $40.

For reservations and general information please call the box office at 212-570-3949 or click below:

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GEORGE COSTACOS has appeared in The National Arts Club, City Center, Sardi’s, Bruno Walter Auditorium in Lincoln Center’s New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Merkin Concert Hall, The 45th Street Theater, Dicapo Theatre, Don’t Tell Mama, Barnes & Noble and landmark theaters all along the east coast. George made worldwide front-page news as the only Actors’ Equity member invited from the USA to perform in the Athens 2004 Olympics Opening Ceremony. Seen by 4 billion viewers globally, George’s image was issued on the official commemorative materials and he was commended on the Congressional Statement in Washington DC. George was invited twice on PBS for The Greek Americans, and he is the International Patron of the George Best Foundation in the UK. Official site: GeorgeCostacos.com

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The US subprime turmoil had serious consequences on the European banking sector but the crisis did not have any negative impact on the Paris real estate market until the end of 2007.

The Paris Notary Chamber published its market report for 2007 and confirmed solid market figures.

The official average price for unoccupied old apartments in Paris rose by 2.7% between the 3^rd and 4^th quarter 2007 and by an impressing 10.5% in comparison with the 4^th quarter 2006. The average price per square meter in “Paris Intramuros” reached 6,360 €/ US$ 10,145.3 during the 4th quarter 2007. In total 36,807 properties were sold in 2007.

In 2007, the most expensive arrondissement once again was the 6^th around “Saint Germain- des- Prés” and the “Luxembourg Garden”, where an average square meter cost €9.790/ US$ 15,616.70.

Despite the current ‘chill’ in the marketplace, industry experts are urging hospitality bosses not to cut down on staff investment.

‘I believe the next two or three years will be a lot harder,’ said one at the recent Face to Face event at the Dorchester on Park Lane, ‘There’s always a temptation to make cuts and trim training. Ultimately training your staff is what improves your profitability and drives volumes in your business, and given the difficult economic times, good service is always desirable.’

One particular area of training that cannot be overlooked is that of I.T. – quite often one of the most demanding and potentially rewarding areas of any hotel’s operation.

With PMS and EPoS systems acting as tools for an industry with a reputation for high staff turnover, it is essential that employers are kept abreast of the features at their disposal.

Here at Welcome, we strive to develop software solutions which lend themselves to an industry with ever changing needs and personnel.

Our Welcome 21st PMS is regarded as one of the easiest to use in the industry, offering the unique ability for senior staff at hotels to pass training on internally.

However, refresher training courses can still be hugely beneficial, and for that reason, we are happy to offer training both on site and at our offices in Northampton, for any of our products.

Should you wish to make more use of your stock control system, improve your customer relations with marketing campaigns or simply receive a further insight into the many benefits our solutions can bring your business, why not give us a call today on 0845 4582121 to discuss the options, or visit our website at http://www.welcome-computers.co.uk to see our range of hotel booking software.

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