JCJ Architecture received the RED Award for Best Hospitality Project of 2009 for its design of The New Wild Horse Pass Hotel & Casino. The Real Estate and Development Awards (the “REDS”), hosted by AZRE Magazine and now in their fifth year, honors the biggest, best and most notable commercial real estate projects and transactions of the year.

Daniel Hilpert, Managing Director of Mortgage EquiCap LLC, a commercial mortgage broker and advisor that arranges debt and equity capital, and provides loan workout, sale and advisory services to institutions, real estate owners and developers, will participate at GoldenNetworking.com's Distressed Investing Leaders Forum 2010, March 9th, in New York City, joining an exceptional faculty of top business and investment minds, who will provide the most up to date review of the complexities that arise investing in Distressed Financial Assets, Debt and Commercial and Residential Real Estate.

Mark Goodenow, Director in the New York office of BDO Consulting, Certified Public Accountant and Certified Insolvency and Restructuring Advisor with more than thirteen years of experience in the operational and financial turnarounds of middle market and leading Fortune 500 companies, will participate at GoldenNetworking.com's Distressed Investing Leaders Forum 2010, March 9th, in New York City, joining an exceptional faculty of top business and investment minds, who will provide the most up to date review of the complexities that arise investing in Distressed Financial Assets, Debt and Comme

David Hartheimer, President of Clearbid Capital, will participate at GoldenNetworking.com's Distressed Investing Leaders Forum 2010, March 9th, in New York City, joining an exceptional faculty of top business and investment minds, who will provide the most up to date review of the complexities that arise investing in Distressed Financial Assets, Debt and Commercial and Residential Real Estate.

William Sherer, Director and senior member of the Financial Sponsors Coverage Group in Houlihan Lokey's New York office, will participate at GoldenNetworking.com's Distressed Investing Leaders Forum 2010, March 9th, in New York City, joining an exceptional faculty of top business and investment minds, who will provide the most up to date review of the complexities that arise investing in Distressed Financial Assets, Debt and Commercial and Residential Real Estate.

Restructuring and turnaround experts David Hartheimer, President of Clearbid Capital, and William Sherer, Director at Houlihan Lokey, are joining more than a hundred investors, bankers, private equity and hedge fund managers, real estate specialists, management consultants and legal and accounting advisors attending GoldenNetworking.com's Distressed Investing Leaders Forum 2010, Tuesday March 9th, at Kirkland & Ellis' New York headquarters.

The Distressed Investing landscape is in the midst of a radical metamorphosis being shaped by forces here and abroad. Indeed, after a couple of turbulent years in the financial markets, investors are getting ready for an onslaught of financial assets and real estate properties to come to the market. Investment groups and real estate investment trusts are raising capital to fund acquisitions of these distressed assets on the cheap.

Willifest Inc. today announced the launch of “WILLiFEST™,” a Brooklyn-based arts festival established to provide a creative platform for today’s emerging artists, and issued a Call For Entries to producers of films, screenplays and music. Submissions can now be made through the festival’s website, WILLiFEST.com, and through partner portals Withoutabox.com and Sonicbids.com.

Rentricity Inc., the hydrokinetic energy recovery company affiliated with the New York City Accelerator for a Clean & Renewable Economy (NYC ACRE) incubator at NYU-Poly, today announced that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the GoingGreen East Top 50 winners. Rentricity’s proprietary Flow-to-Wire(sm) system, consisting of a micro-turbine, generator, sensors, processors, electronic controls & communications equipment, allows drinking water and wastewater operators to generate between 30 and 300 kilowatts of clean electric power from in-pipe pressure and flow.

TigerTurf -- world leading synthetic turf manufacturer with customers and operations in five continents – proudly announces 360 Sports Systems, LLC, has joined its ranks as a TigerTurf Authorized Representative.

360 Sports Systems (www.360sportssystems.com), based in New England, designs, constructs, installs and maintains all levels of sport fields, from professional to municipal systems, as well as commercial and residential landscape and sport court products.

Perilune Pictures, a startup film company based in Savannah, Georgia, is scheduled to release the film "L.E.W." a documentary based on the life of America’s first corporate raider, Jacksonville, Florida native Louis Wolfson. Wolfson is credited with creating the leveraged buyout and creating a new era on Wall Street.

GoldenNetworking.com is again bringing together an exceptional faculty of top Real Estate Investing minds at Real Estate Leaders Forum 2010, "Successfully Investing in Distressed Real Estate Assets" (http://www.RealEstateLeadersForum.com), April 22nd, 2010, New York City. 20+ world-class speakers will provide their insights into what they are investing and, most importantly, what they will be investing in the next months. Real Estate Leaders Forum 2010 will cover the following topics:

· What is New in the Distressed Real Estate Landscape in 2010

Edgar Perez, founder of GoldenNetworking.com (http://www.goldennetworking.com), the premier networking community for business executives, entrepreneurs, professionals and diplomats, was recently featured at Columbia Business School's Hermes Alumni Magazine's '10 Under 10'; the article, which can be accessed through this link, http://www7.gsb.columbia.edu/alumni/news/ten-under-ten, profiles ten young alumni that "are adapting to the economic downturn — and thriving — less than 10 years after graduating from the School."

Edgar Perez, founder of GoldenNetworking.com (http://www.goldennetworking.com), the premier networking community for business executives, entrepreneurs, professionals and diplomats, will host Distressed Investing Leaders Forum 2010 on February 26th, the 2nd edition of what is becoming the must-attend conference for experts and professionals in Distressed Investing. Armed with a Columbia Business School MBA and after consulting stints at McKinsey and IBM, Mr.

Richard Zahm, Managing Director of EM Capital Global Advisors LLC, and involved in real estate investment and development since the late 1970’s, will participate at GoldenNetworking.com's Distressed Investing Leaders Forum 2010, in New York City, joining an exceptional faculty of top business and investment minds, who will provide the most up to date review of the complexities that arise investing in Distressed Financial Assets, Debt and Commercial and Residential Real Estate.

"2010 may also be a watershed year for the private equity industry as more and more key governmental and influential economic decision makers realize private equity's positive place in today's financial markets." That's how Kirk Radke, recognized internationally as one of today's top private equity and corporate attorneys, summarizes what private equity firms should expect for 2010, in his article "Top of the class" published in the latest edition of World Finance magazine; Mr.

John Stark, Managing Director in Oppenheimer & Co. Inc’s Restructuring and Special Situations Group in Los Angeles, CA, will participate at GoldenNetworking.com's Distressed Investing Leaders Forum 2010, February 26th, in New York City, joining an exceptional faculty of top business and investment minds, who will provide the most up to date review of the complexities that arise investing in Distressed Financial Assets, Debt and Commercial and Residential Real Estate.

After months of speculation, the Simon Property Group on Tuesday finally made an unsolicited $10 billion offer for General Growth Properties, its bankrupt rival. But General Growth quickly rebuffed the approach, calling the bid too low, reported The New York Times.

Distressed real estate presents major opportunities, but there are significant pitfalls and challenges to overcome. Experts will provide with techniques of law, finance and operations necessary in this recessionary economy. Which trends are perceived in the troubled real estate market? What are the most important real estate funds doing right now, in New York and London?

The most challenging economic environment since the Depression has provided distressed investing practitioners with an extraordinaire entry point; successful subject matter experts debated strategies to take advantage of these opportunities last year at Distressed Investing Leaders Forum 2009; many of them are returning to New York City to share their lessons learned and necessary adjustments to their successful strategies investing in financial assets, distressed debt and real estate.

The Congo is in civil war and Brazzaville is under siege. During a mission to evacuate French nationals, Lt. Vincent Chavanne is separated from his unit and left for dead. Soldier in the Grass records his journey with the woman who saves his life as they escape across the country to the safety of the ocean port, Pointe-Noire. Adversity strips them of their defenses. Cut off from the rest of the world, overwhelmed by violence and fear, they find something that transcends suffering, hatred and superstition—devotion to one another.

Tower 270, once formerly known as the Arthur Levitt State Office Building, is an unassuming rectangular box with many windows. Minimalist in idea it was put up in 1930 and provided as offices for various New York State departments. In its lack of esthetics, it makes up for it in its view of great ones. Its distinction comes from its location at the northwest corner of City Hall Park giving it the vantage point of the striking Tweed courthouse building, City Hall, the Brooklyn Bridge, and the great skylines of Park Row.

For public real-estate companies, spending money has turned out to be harder than raising it, even as some signs point to a pickup in big property deals, reports The Wall Street Journal.

Russian American Consulting Corp (RACC), www.russianconsulting.com and Intourist, www.intourist.com, the largest tourism holding companies to provide travel accommodations to Russia, will hold Discover Adventurous Russia Night February 25th at 6:30 PM at the Russian Samovar Restaurant, 256 West 52nd Street to inform guests about adventure travel packages and provide tips for the upcoming travel season.

A newly launched Website marking the 20th anniversary of The Adventures Of Ford Fairlane, the controversial 1990 motion picture released by 20th Century Fox, directed by Renny Harlin, and starring Andrew Dice Clay, is offering Ford Fairlane fans for the first time the original stories on which the movie was based. The website, www.fordfairlanethesequel.com, also promises a story sequel if 1001 emails are received by May 1, 2010.

Kesavah BellyDance is proud to be hosting a new and exciting Belly Dance weekend workshop and show featuring Jasmille on April 10th & 11th, 2010 in Prince George BC.

The Rev. Dr. Floyd H. Flake, Pastor, The Greater Allen A.M.E. Cathedral of New York and the church’s 23,000 member congregation contribute $60,000 towards Haiti Relief.

The Rev. Dr. Floyd H. Flake, Pastor, The Greater Allen A.M.E. Cathedral of New York and the church’s 23,000 member congregation contribute $60,000 towards Haiti Relief.

FBI agent hunts down murderous teen and battles sex trafficking in new thriller

In Fallen Lotus Petals by Jordon Papanier, an FBI agent tries to thwart a high-tech invention designed for massacre, a designer drug and sax slave trafficking.

Novel: “Fallen Lotus Petals” by Jordon Papanier is the story of FBI agent Tom Larson, who is trying to stop the exploitation of young Asian girls and save their lives while making peace with his own thorny past.

DealTattle.com a coupon code and discount site has launched. Based in New York City, DealTattle offers consumers the opportunity to find, add and share all money-saving offers.