Turkey at the 52nd International Art Exhibition at La Biennale di Venezia

13/05/2007

Turkish Pavilion






Don't Complain
Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin

Turkey at the 52nd International Art Exhibition at La Biennale di Venezia


Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin represents Turkey at the 52nd International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia with an installation titled Don't Complain.

Turkey's participation will take place in the Artiglierie section of the Arsenale. Sponsored by Garanti Bank, under the auspices of Republic of Turkey, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with the contribution of Promotion Fund of the Turkish Prime Ministry, and supported by the Venice Biennial/Friends of the Turkish Pavilion, the exhibition is curated by Vasif Kortun and organised by Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (IKSV), the organising body of the Istanbul Biennial.


Exhibition:
10 June–21 November 2007

Press Preview:
7-9 June 2007

Press Conference:
8 June, 16.00, Teatro Piccolo - Arsenale

Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin
Alptekin's installation for Turkey's participation in the Venice Biennial is named "Don't Complain." This tautological title underscores an objection, and sets off suspicions about the probable meanings of such a grievance. Who is complaining when saying "don't complain?" Is it about the artist, the country, or the viewer?

The installation consists of a series of specific single-cell spaces in a semi-arched form. The inspiration for these comes out of a particular type of public dining in West Asia where restaurants may be tightly divided into separate cabins assembled around an open courtyard. Hence, each group of guests keeps to their privacy, and their unique mental setting.

In each cabin of the installation there will be a series image sequences on LCD screens. These are made of a layering of hundreds of single images, recordings of random and nonessential moments, anonymous myths that do not make it to history, and of fleeting acts that normally elude our attention. Alptekin calls them the "Incidents." In the "The Bombay Incident" on Juhu Tara Beach and The "Rio de Janeiro Incident" on Ipanema Beach differences are folded in to silhouettes of commonalty. In another incident, Alptekin traces a mute, black man over four seasons from the same vantage point; it is a register of the man's place on the corner of a street around a rubbish bin next to an abandoned car. He organizes the garbage in liaison with the street cleaners and inhabitants of the districts within the context of an informal economy, tolerated illegality, and auto-ecology. The deeply empathic assignation to the invisible under-belly of globalization, the cosmos of authorless, displa
ced presences, has as well to do with Alptekin's peripatetic livelihood, the "escape" from home and local context. His unabated rummaging around of other mental places provides him a specific knowledge and a working model.

The installation was prepared in Vaasa, Finland as part of the artist's Platform Vaasa residency with support from "Cheap Finnish Labour" project and BRG: Barn Research Group [Johan Ångerman, Peter Båsk, Camila Rocha, Cemali Marino, Hüseyin Alptekin].

Hüseyin Alptekin has participated in numerous exhibitions including the 4th (1995) and 9th (2005) International Istanbul Biennials; 24th São Paulo Biennial (1998); 4th Cetinje Biennial, Montenegro, (2004); Manifesta V; 47th October Salon: Art, Life and Confusion, Belgrade, 2006; and How Latitudes Become Forms, Walker Art Center (2003). Vasif Kortun is the director of Platform Garanti Art Center in Istanbul.

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Best Art Practices - International award for young curators

12/05/2007

Best Art Practices

Best Art Practices
International award for young curators

First edition theme
projects in non-conventional spaces

Announced by
Italian Cultural Office of the Autonomous Province of Bolzano – South Tyrol

Curated by
Denis Isaia

http://www.bestartpractices.it/


The Award

The Italian Cultural Office of the Autonomous Province of Bolzano – South Tyrol, next host of the European Biennal Manifesta, is announcing the first edition of the international competition Best Art Practices – International award for young curators.

Best Art Practices will assign prizes to the best curator practices of contemporary art of the last five years. The theme of the first edition will focus on projects in non-conventional spaces.

The Award accepts only projects that have been completed in the last five years and therefore inaugurated after 1 March 2002. Itinerant events or events taking place over a period of time will be accepted as long as all the phases are concluded by 1 March 2007. The Award is open to all curators of all nationalities born on or after 2 March 1967.

Entries must arrive by 12 midday of Monday 3rd September 2007 by post, courier or hand delivery at the Award secretary's office. The postmark will not be considered as proof for the date of arrival of the entry and data sent by email or other means of transmission different from those indicated above will not be accepted.

Prizes
First prize € 10,000
Second prize € 3,000
Third prize € 2,000

Official languages
English, Italiano, Deutsch, Español,

Composition of the Jury
The international Jury is composed of a Jury President and five commissioners.

President: Carlos Basualdo, curator - Philadelphia Museum of Art
Commissioner: Marion Piffer Damiani, independent curator; Bolzano
Commissioner: Letizia Ragaglia curator – Museion; Bolzano
Commissioner: Montse Romaní, independent curator; Barcelona
Commissioner: Anton Vidokle, artist; New York and Berlin
Commissioner: Andrea Viliani, curator – Mambo; Bologna

Enrolment forms, prizes-giving criteria and more information are available at http://www.bestartpractices.it .




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WIELS : OPENING AND INAUGURAL EXHIBITION

12/05/2007

WIELS




WIELS : Opening
First stage on the 26th – 28th of May

Inaugural exhibition: "Expats/Clandestines"
26th of May – 5th of August 2007

Wiels Contemporary Arts Centre
Avenue Van Volxemlaan 354 – B-1190 Brussels
t/f (32)(0)2 347 30 33
http://www.wiels.org
wiels@wiels.org


WIELS : Opening
First stage on the 26th – 28th of May

Wiels, the new Contemporary Arts Centre of Brussels, opens its doors on the weekend of the 26th–28th of May, 2007. Following its restoration, the remarkable corner building of the former Wielemans-Ceuppens breweries built by the modernist architect Adrien Blomme, now houses Wiels Contemporary Arts Centre. The first stage of this renovation concerns one exhibition floor and the brew hall.

The creation of Wiels meets an old need: a center with an international vocation specializing in contemporary art finally opens in Brussels!

Thanks to a broad range of activities and services, Wiels will create an open and dynamic context, ideal for the discovery and understanding of contemporary art. The three exhibition floors of a total surface of 1.800 m2 will accommodate six annual large scale exhibitions. The back wing will house nine artists in residence as well as education, training and community-based programs. Social commitment, essential to share the stakes of contemporary art with every public, will be carried through an innovative program of mediation, training and professional development.

A large program of complementary activities will complete the activities of Wiels: a cinema, conferences, festivals and concerts. The brewery hall, will serve as a convivial lobby, which will host a café-restaurant and a bookshop. Finally, the panoramic rooftop terrace will offer a unique viewpoint over Brussels.

The renovation was financed by the Brussels-Capital Region ("Monuments and Sites" and special investment credits), the European structural funds Urban II and the District of Forest/Vorst, along with private sponsors and donors. For its operations, Wiels is supported by the Flemish Community structural subsidies and the French Community punctual subsidies, the VGC and the COCOF, as well as the Bernheim Foundation, the Evens Foundation, Puilaetco Private Bankers, Leon Eeckman SA and Duvel Moortgat.


Inaugural exhibition: Expats/Clandestines
26th of May – 5th of August 2007

This exhibition, scheduled for the opening of Wiels, will explore the question of plural identities, which are formed beyond national borders and lines of demarcation, whether they are real or imaginary. Addressing the obvious duality between expats and clandestines as a starting point, this exhibition will focus on the phenomena of complex biographies and on the tremendous cultural mix, visibility and anonymity, presence and absence, and on the work of contemporary artists in the swirl of migration.
With Francis Alÿs, Saâdane Afif, André Cadere, Nairy Baghramian, Gabriel Kuri, Moshekwa Langa, Chen Zhen

Marcel Berlanger, Tore

On the second floor of Wiels, Marcel Berlanger presents a "theatrical" installation of 7 large paintings modulated by a light show designed by Julie Petit-Etienne. A unique visual and fascinating experience.

Short films commissioned for the opening of Wiels

Ann Veronica Janssens, Eclipse

Hiraki Sawa, Hako

Paulina Olowska/Bonnie Camplin, A like Akarova

Opening hours

Saturday – Sunday: 12 – 24:00
Monday: 12 – 20:00

Avenue Van Volxem 354 – B-1190 Brussels – t/f (32)(0)2 347 30 33 – http://www.wiels.org





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RORY STEWART - IRAQ EXPERT AVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEW

04/05/2007


LONDON, May 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Rory Stewart, award-winning author of Occupational Hazards: My Time
Governing in Iraq will be available for interview Monday 7th- Friday 11th
May.


Rory was posted to Iraq in 2003 at the age of 30 having previously worked
in Indonesia and Montenegro. He was Coalition Provisional Authority Deputy
Governate Coordinator of key provinces of Maysan and later Dhi Qar. He
instigated an employment scheme for thousands, had a budget of US$10m / month
(delivered in cash), negotiated the release of hostage Gary Michael Teeley
and was the last man standing in the CPA compound as it was mortar bombed by
insurgents and the Italian army withdrew across the bridge.


Rory now lives in Kabul.


"A book that goes further than anything else I've seen to explain the
roots of the disaster and the black-comic incoherence of British and American
strategy."


Francis Spufford



Picador

COMSCORE: Germans Represent a Substantial Proportion of Second Life Residents

LONDON, May 4 /PRNewswire/ --

- Germans Represent a Substantial Proportion of Second Life Residents


comScore, a leader in measuring the digital world, today released a
comprehensive worldwide analysis of the active users of Second Life, the 3-D
virtual world that is entirely built and owned by its "residents." The study
revealed that approximately 1.3 million people ran the official software and
logged-in to Second Life in March 2007. This represents an increase of 46
percent in the number of active residents from January 2007.


In March, 61 percent of active Second Life residents were from Europe,
compared to 19 percent from North America, and 13 percent from Asia Pacific.
In addition, 61 percent of residents were male while 39 percent were female.


Geographical Location of Second Life Residents Who Logged-in During
January and March 2007
Unique People, Age 15+

Total Worldwide Audience - Home and Work Locations(i)
Source: comScore World Metrix

Percent of Increase In
Mar-07 Total Active
(000) Active Residents
Residents Mar-07 vs. Jan-07

Worldwide 1,283(ii) 100%(ii) 46 %
Europe 777 61 % 32 %
German 209 16 % 70 %
France 104 8 % 53 %
UK 72 6 % 24 %
North America 243 19 % 103 %
USA 207 16 % 92 %
Asia Pacific 167 13 % N/A(iii)
Latin America 77 6 % 26 %
Middle East & Africa 20 2 % N/A(iii)


(i) Excludes traffic from public computers such as Internet cafes or
access from mobile phones or PDAs.
(ii) Sum of components may equal more than total due to rounding
(iii) N/A - Residents in January below minimum reporting standard

"The phenomenal growth of Second Life continues, and its presence is
being felt around the world," said Bob Ivins, Managing Director of comScore
Europe. "With nearly 800,000 active residents in Europe, Second Life is
proving to be popular on an international scale. It's especially fascinating
to note that the number of active German residents exceeds the number of
active residents in the entire U.S. It is little wonder that bricks and
mortar businesses are seeing Second Life as a virtual-world way of accessing
a global, real-world customer base."


In addition to the resident activity cited above, comScore found that the
Secondlife.com website was visited by 3.6 million worldwide visitors aged 15
and older during March, up 17 percent from February and an increase of 46
percent over January. The strong visitor growth to Secondlife.com indicates
continuing and potential future growth in Second Life residents, since the
software application used to access the Second Life world is only available
from this site.


About comScore


comScore, Inc. is a global leader in measuring the digital world. This
capability is based on a massive, global cross-section of more than 2 million
consumers who have given comScore permission to confidentially capture their
browsing and transaction behavior, including online and offline purchasing.
comScore panelists also participate in survey research that captures and
integrates their attitudes and intentions. Through its proprietary
technology, comScore measures what matters across a broad spectrum of
behavior and attitudes. comScore consultants apply this deep knowledge of
customers and competitors to help clients design powerful marketing
strategies and tactics that deliver superior ROI. comScore services are used
by more than 700 clients, including global leaders such as AOL, Microsoft,
Yahoo!, Verizon, Best Buy, The Newspaper Association of America, Tribune
Interactive, ESPN, Fox Sports, Nestle, MBNA, Starcom USA, Universal McCann,
the United States Postal Service, Merck and Expedia. For more information,
please visit http://www.comscore.com.


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SUCCESSFUL HUMAN CLINICAL TRIAL OF CHRONO THERAPEUTICS

04/05/2007


BASEL, Switzerland and TRENTON, New Jersey, May 4 /PRNewswire/ --

- Trial Convincingly Proves Functionality in Humans of CTI's
Programmable, Pulsatile, Passive Transdermal Drug Delivery Device -
ChronoDose(TM)


Chrono Therapeutics Inc. (CTI) announced today the successful completion
of its first phase human clinical trial of its programmable, pulsatile,
passive transdermal drug/device combination product: ChronoDose(TM). CTI
intends to publish this clinical data in leading scientific and medical
journals by year end.


CLINICAL STUDY DESIGN


The trial was conducted between February and April 2007 at the University
Hospital Basel, Switzerland, Division of Clinical Pharmacology and
Toxicology. Georgios Imanidis, PhD, of the University of Basel was the
Principal Investigator on behalf of CTI.


This study was an open, randomized, three period, single-center,
dose-escalation study. Thirty-six independent human transdermal tests were
conducted on male volunteers using wristwatch-like ChronoDose(TM) devices.
The trial successfully proved the efficacy of the device on human subjects
using its model drug compound. The dose escalation trial showed statistically
significant modulation and control of the dosing profiles. Using low, medium
and high concentrations, for 16 hours, the model drug permeated each
subject's skin on multiple occasions, resulting in clear and distinct peaks
and troughs of therapeutically effective and well-targeted blood plasma
concentration levels. A non-compartmental and compartmental model based
analysis of pharmacokinetics will be utilized. Local and systemic
tolerability of the model drug after its transdermal administration was
better than planned.


Dr. Georgios Imanidis commented, "CTI has for the first time in
transdermal drug delivery history successfully completed a significant human
trial with a passive, automated and programmable multiple dosing transdermal
device system. We are extremely pleased with the excellent results".


Guy DiPierro, CEO and President of CTI noted, "This solid and convincing
clinical data along with initial human data generated last summer will help
us to rapidly commercialize our initial drug product. We are particularly
pleased that ChronoDose(TM) produced targeted blood plasma concentrations as
accurately as it did and at the intended time periods."


ABOUT CHRONO THERAPEUTICS INC.
-- Chrono Therapeutics Inc. (CTI) was founded in late 2003 to become the
global leader in Chrono-Pharmacologically based prescription and OTC
drug delivery.
-- Today CTI is a specialty pharmaceutical company that developing,
manufacturing and commercializing Chrono-Pharmacologically based drug
products.
-- CTI has created and patented the world's first automated and
programmable, passive transdermal drug delivery device-ChronoDose(TM)
-- ChronoDose
-- Dramatically improves therapies
-- Significantly decreases symptoms and side effects
-- Ensures less built-up tolerance to the drug

PATIENT NON-COMPLIANCE


Annually, over 20% of hospital admissions result from patient
non-compliance, costing the healthcare industry over US$100 billion/year.
ChronoDose(TM) offers a revolutionary step forward in guaranteed patient
compliance, especially for the elderly, hospitalized, or the mentally ill.


Contact:
Chrono Therapeutics Inc.
Guy DiPierro, President and Chief Executive Officer
Phone: +1-609-838-2572
Email: Info@ChronoDose.com
Website: ChronoDose.com

Web site: http://www.chronodose.com


Chrono Therapeutics Inc.

ANASTASIA KHOROSHILOVA, ISLANDERS 2003-2006

22/04/2007

Centro per l'arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci




ANASTASIA KHOROSHILOVA,
ISLANDERS 2003-2006

Prato, 24 March – 20 May 2007
Opening 24 March, 5 pm

Exhibition curated by Stefano Pezzato

Centro per l'arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci
Viale della Repubblica 277 – Prato Italy
Open daily 10am-7pm, closed Tuesday
Entrance: free
For information: tel. +39 0574 5317
http://www.centropecci.it


The Centro per l'arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci is pleased to present Islanders 2003-2006, the first solo show in Italy of the Russian photographer Anastasia Khoroshilova.

A selection of 27 works, from four different series, will be displayed as a special project in the Theatre Room.

The young Russians photographed by Khoroshilova in their surroundings (rooms, corridors, gyms) or against neutral backgrounds (anonymous interiors, gardens) are automatically transposed to a general level of abstraction. The 'meetings' Khoroshilova set up, on her trips to Russia during and after her years studying at Duisburg/Essen University, have a documentary objectivity: the essential characteristics of samples of subjects in spontaneous poses that are never pre-established, facing the camera.

Khoroshilova's portraits are immediately recognisable on account of the uniform: trainee dancers at the State Academy of Choreography (2003), young fighters at the gym Sambo 70 (2005) or young women in military uniform of 9.5% Plus (2005). They are members of institutions/symbols that echo a recent past of glorious achievement, success and power, now reduced to the role of Islanders, whose individual life begins where their collective identity ends; their identity is inexhorably fixed, as in photography, in the present. Not knowing anything about their personal lives, nor what their future holds, they appear to us to be clinging to the certainty of belonging, to the protection of the group and of history.

In the portraits of the last series Toys (2006) uniform is flanked by the presence of toys or games which reveal the simple child-like side of the subjects. The playful dimension on which the portraits draw, without the photographer suggesting as much, is the only possibility that the subjects possess to construct an identity, to be themselves.

In the private relationship with her subject, Khoroshilova records the person in front of her lens without passing judgment of any kind or resorting to lyricism or sentimentality. It is rather that her photographs tend to reveal the paradox that the subject of her portraits coincides with the 'function' or the place in which they are set, but behind this lies hidden great humanity suffused with emotions, needs, desires, fears, suffering and hope. There is no evidence of all this in the photography, only a latent evocation.

The exhibition is accompanied by a bilingual catalogue (Italian/English) with essay by the curator, Stefano Pezzato. Published by Centro per l'arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci.

Anastasia Khoroshilova, born in 1978 in Moscow, actually lives in Cologne.
Member in "The Russian Union of Art Photographers" since 1997, she graduated at the Photographic Department - University Duisburg/Essen.
She had solo shows at Ernst Hilger Gallery, Vienna; Fucares Gallery, Madrid; Museum Sacharov-Center, Moscow; Bumpodo Gallery, Tokyo; Klementinum, Prague; Corkin Shopland Gallery, Toronto; The State Russian Museum (Marble Palace), St. Petersburg.


Exhibition tour
Kunsthalle Lingen, 22 July – 23 September 2007




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SUNRISE IN FRANKFURT (ODER)

13/04/2007


FRANKFURT, Germany, April 13 /PRNewswire/ --

- Frankfurt's First Solar-Cell Plant due to Start Production on 19
April


On 19 April 2007, Odersun AG will be opening "Sun One", its
first solar-cell plant in Frankfurt (Oder). Wolfgang Tiefensee, Federal
Minister for Transport, Building and Urban Affairs and Government
Commissioner for the New Federal States, will be opening the "Sun One" plant
at Im Technologiepark 7 together with Brandenburg's Minister President,
Matthias Platzeck, at 3.30 pm in the presence of invited guests, before
taking a tour of the plant and learning about the production of thin film
solar modules.


Up to 60 employees will soon be working in four shifts to
produce around 6,000 kilometres of solar tapes annually at the "Sun One"
plant. This corresponds to the distance Brandenburg - New York. The thin film
solar modules on copper tape can be produced for use in cells of all sizes
and quality for façades and roofs, solar power stations and designer bags
with an integrated "power socket" without requiring special complicated and
expensive silicon technology.


Odersun AG's thin film solar technology has been developed
entirely in Frankfurt (Oder) over the past 14 years. "We are a real
Brandenburg success story", Ramin Lavae Mokhtari, CCE of Odersun AG boasts.
"With our patented, globally innovative technology and our flexible
production process we offer tailor-made, economic solutions."


Up to now, Odersun AG has invested 8.5 million euros in the
project. The main equity providers are Doughty Hanson Technology Ventures
from London and AT&M - Advanced Technology and Materials from Peking. The
state of Brandenburg is assisting Odersun AG with 3.5 million euros financial
aid.


For Further information:


Odersun AG

Steffen Schwarzer

Project manager

Im Technologiepark 7

D-15236 Frankfurt (Oder)

Tel.: +49-335/56-33-120

Mobile: +49-172/23-80-104

Steffen.schwarzer@odersun.de


www.odersun.de

Odersun AG

VISTEON'S 2007 SAE PAPERS OFFER GLOBAL INSIGHT INT

VAN BUREN TOWNSHIP, Michigan, April 12 /PRNewswire/ --

Visteon Corporation (NYSE: VC) product experts from Europe, Asia and
North America have collaborated to deliver global perspectives on automotive
trends and advancements at the 2007 SAE World Congress, April 16-19 at
Detroit's Cobo Center. These engineers have co-authored technical papers
related to automotive climate control, lighting and electronics technologies
that will be presented during the Congress.

(Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20001201/DEF008LOGO )

Interest in touch screen vehicle controls featuring haptic feedback is
the topic of a paper contributed by Colleen Serafin -- a Visteon engineer --
and her colleagues in North America and Germany, Michael Tschirhart, Ph.D.,
and Rainer Heers, Ph.D. Serafin and Tschirhart will present the paper at the
Congress.

"The increasing content and functionality that drivers bring into the
vehicle cockpit, initially through consumer electronic devices in many cases,
may also bring added complexity to the driver experience," explains
Tschirhart. "A fundamental challenge is how to design products that integrate
important new features in a way that is consistent with the driver's limited
information processing capability."

Managing this proliferation through touch screens with haptic feedback --
feeling a click or pop underneath your finger -- is the focus of this paper,
for which consumer research studies were conducted in both Germany and the
United States.

Another Visteon paper focuses on emission devices in the North American
and Asian markets. The paper proposes a new evaporative emissions device that
can be permanently installed in the vehicles' air cleaner cover without
requiring service for 150,000 miles (the expected life of the vehicle). This
Visteon-invented device is designed to reduce the level of harmful emissions
from the vehicle. The paper documents some of the considerations of
programming an absorbent evaporative emissions device in a 2007 production
passenger car for the North American and Asian markets.

The Visteon technical papers will be available Monday, April 16, on
http://www.sae.org, Here is a complete list of the papers, by presentation
date and time (EDT):


Monday, April 16
- User Experience in the U.S. and Germany of In-Vehicle Touch Screens
with Integrated Haptic and Auditory Feedback (to be presented at 10:30
a.m. in room W2-68)

Tuesday, April 17
- Radiated Noise Prediction of Air Induction Systems Using Filter Seal
Modeling and Coupled Acoustic-Structural Simulation Techniques
(written only, no oral presentation)
- Towards Development of Thermal Standards for the Design of LED Lamps
(1:30 p.m. in room W2-66)
- Construction and Application of New Field Lenses (TIR Type) for
Automotive Lighting Functions (3 p.m. in room W2-66)

Wednesday, April 18
- Control Method of Dual Motor-Based Steer-by-Wire System (9 a.m. in
room W1-51)

Thursday, April 19
- A Real Time Statistical Method for Engine Knock Detection (9 a.m. in
room W2-69)
- Subjective Odor Evaluation in Automotive Industry (2:30 p.m. in room
D2-08)
- Investigating Cleaning Procedures for OEM Engine Air Intake Filters (3
p.m. in room D2-08)
- Design Considerations and Characterization Test Methods for Activated
Carbon Foam Hydrocarbon Traps in Automotive Air Induction Systems
(3:45 p.m. in room D2-08)
- A High Speed Flow Visualization Study of Fuel Spray Pattern Effect on
Mixture Formation in a Low Pressure Direct Injection Gasoline Engine
(10:30 a.m. in room M2-29)

The SAE World Congress is a forum that brings together representatives of
vehicle manufacturers, suppliers, government and academia from around the
world for the exchange of ideas on the state of advanced automotive
technology and business.

Visteon Corporation is a leading global automotive supplier that designs,
engineers and manufactures innovative climate, interior, electronic and
lighting products for vehicle manufacturers, and also provides a range of
products and services to aftermarket customers. With corporate offices in Van
Buren Township, Mich. (U.S.); Shanghai, China; and Kerpen, Germany; the
company has facilities in 26 countries and employs approximately 45,000
people.


Web site: http://www.visteon.com


Visteon Corporation

DOYLE'S ROOM SWITCHES TO MICROGAMING POKER NETWORK

LONDON, April 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Microgaming, the world's largest provider of online casino and poker
software, announces that the world renowned online poker site, Doyle's Room
(www.doylesroom.com) has officially joined its rapidly expanding poker
network. The move will allow Doyle's Room to expand into European markets and
is seen as yet more evidence of the continued success of the rapidly growing
Microgaming Poker Network.


Doyle's Room launched in 2004 and since that time has cemented itself as
one of the world's most popular online gaming sites. As well as offering one
of the largest tournament selections in the industry, it also draws players
to its extremely popular Bounty tournaments, a series of weekly tournaments
in which players vie to win prizes by knocking out the bounty players.
Players looking to sign up can expect to meet and play the likes of Mike
Caro, Todd Brunson and the great man himself, as well as a host of other
professional and celebrity faces.


Doyle Brunson or "Texas Dolly" as he is affectionately known is one of
the world's most celebrated poker players, accumulating a record ten World
Series of Poker bracelets and winning back to back world championships during
his career. He is widely acknowledged to be the Godfather of poker, the
game's most recognizable face and he still plays at the highest limits in the
biggest games in the world.


The move to the Microgaming Poker Network will provide Doyle's Room with
even greater liquidity and access to one of the most aggressive tournament
schedules on the web, offering players the chance to enter a wealth of
satellites to some of the world's biggest offline tournaments. In the last
week of February alone $400k worth of buy-ins were won on the network.


Roger Raatgever, CEO Microgaming says, "It doesn't get much bigger than
this - signing up the 'king' of poker to the Microgaming Poker Network, so as
you can imagine we view this as a real coup."


A spokesperson for Doyle's Room said, "We are delighted to be joining the
Microgaming network. We reviewed many software providers in our search for a
better gaming experience for our players and Microgaming met all of our
requirements in terms of liquidity, tournaments and player features. We look
forward to a long and successful partnership with them"


URL: www.microgaming.com



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GOOD NEWS, BAD NEWS, GOOD NEWS

09/04/2007


HATBORO, Pennsylvania, April 9 /PRNewswire/ --

- IGCE Responds to Conference Logjam


It was announced this past week that the IGCE Conference, scheduled for
May 6-8 in Dublin, Ireland, had been postponed. Despite heralded successes in
2006, in Costa Rica and Ireland, Federico Schiavio, Director of Conferences
for The Sports Network, indicated that the decision was a response to
speakers, sponsors, attendees and exhibitors.


"There is an obvious logjam when it comes to conferences these days,
particularly in the area of gaming, due to heightened involvement of
governments from the U.S. to China, and the direction of the industry,"
stated Mr. Schiavio when interviewed. "The bandwagon is starting to list
perceptively. Consequently, while we enjoyed rewarding responsiveness to our
own entries into this arena last year, it was incumbent upon us to recognize
the situation and realistically react to our core audience. That meant
addressing the bottleneck in a manner that would allow everyone who wanted to
come to our conference to do so by rescheduling and determining a venue that
was acceptable and accessible to them in light of traffic difficulties that
many were facing.


"Since the IGCE, while an integral part of our corporate development," he
continued, "is not our core business, as it is with others, we can be much
more elastic and adaptable. It then allows our speakers to go elsewhere for
the exposure that many conferences afford them and does the same for the
sponsors, exhibitors and attendees who would have to spread their staff
efforts to a greater degree than they wished to do."


While reacting to the conference congestion noted by Mr. Schiavio, IGCE
also pointed out that they will be making an announcement shortly concerning
new dates for a conference in the September/October time period, together
with a venue destination.


"We are going to take conference scheduling one step further," added Mr.
Schiavio, "by surveying the very people that asked for the postponement to
help them adjust and modify their own plans regarding where they would like
to have us the hold the conference and where. The basic timeframe is set but
destinations are still open and will be selected from such locales as Macau,
Singapore, Bangkok, Milan, Madrid, Dublin, London, Budapest, Hong Kong,
Stockholm, Brussels, Lisbon and Cape Town. Candidly, all who asked ... and
the numbers dictated our decision ... made reference to the glut of
gatherings. It was apparent," he concluded, "they all want to follow us but
are prevailing upon us in fashion they would not do with others since they
know we will try to accommodate them and we have taken the first step(s) in
doing so.


"The good news is our response, bad is the postponement and good, again,
is our rescheduling."


IGCE has indicated that all inquiries regarding speaking at the
conference, attendance, exhibiting and sponsorship must be made between now
and July 30th following the forthcoming release of specific dates and
destination.


Additional information on the conference is available by emailing
info@igconference.com, contacting Federico Schiavio at
fschiavio@igconference.com or by calling +1-215-441-5887.


About The International Gaming Conference & Expo


The IGCE was created to address issues within the gaming industry and to
cover land-based ventures and online Internet efforts. Its founders are
experts within the industry and each conference is focused upon coverage of
every topic of interest and importance to its attendees with a reach and
reputation that is able to gather together the most important voices within
the industry on an international level.


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