New York, NY, October 06, 2010 — Levi & Korsinsky is investigating the Board of Directors of Capital Gold Corporation (“Capital Gold” or the “Company”) (AMEX: CGC) for possible breaches of fiduciary duty and other violations of state law in connection with their attempt to sell the Company to Gammon Gold, Inc. (“Gammon Gold”) (NYSE: GRS). Under the terms of the transaction, each common share of Capital Gold will be exchanged for 0.5209 common shares of Gammon Gold and a cash payment in the amount of $0.79 per share. The total consideration for the purchase of 100% of the fully diluted in-the-money shares of Capital Gold is approximately $288 million or $4.57 per Capital Gold share based on Gammon Gold’s closing price on September 24, 2010. Click here to learn how to join the action: http://www.zlk.com/capitalgold-cgc.html, or call: 877-363-5972.

The investigation concerns whether the Capital Gold Board of Directors breached their fiduciary duties to Capital Gold stockholders by failing to adequately shop the Company before entering into this transaction and whether Gammon Gold is underpaying for Capital Gold shares, thus unlawfully harming Capital Gold stockholders. In particular, at least one analyst set a price target for Capital Gold stock at $8.74 per share.

If you own common stock in Capital Gold and wish to obtain additional information, please contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. either via email at jlevi@zlk.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500, toll-free: (877) 363-5972, or visit http://www.zlk.com/capitalgold-cgc.html.

Levi & Korsinsky has expertise in prosecuting investor securities litigation and extensive experience in actions involving financial fraud and represents investors throughout the nation, concentrating its practice in securities and shareholder litigation. The attorneys at Levi & Korsinsky have been appointed by numerous courts throughout the country to serve as lead counsel on behalf of shareholders in major litigations involving mergers and acquisitions. For more information, please feel free to contact any of the attorneys listed below.

Contact: Levi & Korsinsky, LLP, Joseph Levi, Esq. Eduard Korsinsky, Esq. 30 Broad Street – 15th Floor, New York, NY 10004, Tel: (212) 363-7500, Toll Free: (877) 363-5972, Fax: (212) 363-7171, www.zlk.com

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There is no frustrating learning curve, and checks can be printed as soon as a business owner installs the check printing application. One of the main goals of ezCheckPrinting software designers is to make sure that the product is easy to use – even for people who may not have much experience. The software can also serve as a check management system that ensures that check information is stored and organized in one secure place. Generate a printed report for the checks paid for a particular customer, or use the report export function to help prepare for tax season and itemize those valuable deductions and business expenses.

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New York, NY, October 09, 2010 — Tradeworx’s Manoj Narang, keynote speaker at High-Frequency Trading Leaders Forum 2010 DVD Video Package, “Innovating and Profiting from High-Frequency Trading in 2010 and Beyond” (http://www.HFTLeadersForum.com), along with SEC Chair Mary Schapiro, who has high frequency trading in her regulatory sights, will be featured on a “60 Minutes” report to be broadcast Sunday, Oct. 10, at 7 p.m. ET/PT. They are interviewed by CBS’s correspondent Steve Kroft.

Mr. Narang, Founder and CEO of Tradeworx, provides his version of what really happened the day of the “flash crash”, at GoldenNetworking.net’s High-Frequency Trading Leaders Forum 2010, “Innovating and Profiting from High-Frequency Trading in 2010 and Beyond”, 270 minutes with the most comprehensive review of High-Frequency Trading, now available on a 6-disc DVD Video Package, at HFTLeadersForum.com.

For Mr. Narang, NYSE’s decision to slow down trading, effectively going offline, would have been well-advised if there had been market-wide protocols in place to take a time out. “You can ask why high-frequency traders were not there providing liquidity, when that’s their stated mandate, you can ask why high-frequency trading traders turned off when volatility was sky-high, given the contention that volatility benefits them. These are all valid questions, but you have to understand that strategies are not monolithic. People run different sorts of strategies. A very common sort of strategy, Statistical Arbitrage, is a strategy that propagates price information from stocks that are moving to stocks that haven’t moved yet. It’s one of the primary mechanisms for liquidity transfer in the markets. However, what this involves is propagating price information. In an environment where the inputs are wrong, propagating this information is just going to exacerbate the problem.”

“What I am trying to say is, if P&G is down 40%, it is not appropriate to propagate these values to other stocks, even though they are correlated to P&G. For those types of systems, the only responsible thing to do is to turn off because, even though they serve a very valuable function in an ordinary market, which is to propagate price information, on a cross-sectional basis, they are actually counterproductive, when the prices they are trying to propagate are clearly erroneous. The final point I would make, and this is perhaps the most important point, is that liquidity really should be thought of as a commodity. It is a commodity, and in like any other market, it has supply and demand. Volatility is the symptom of the absence of liquidity. We saw that in May 6th, there was no liquidity, so markets were free to move in huge increments in short periods of time.”

High-Frequency Trading Leaders Forum 2010 DVD Video Package is produced by Golden Networking (goldennetworking.net), the premier networking community for business executives, entrepreneurs, investors and diplomats, founded by former McKinsey consultant and Columbia Business School MBA Edgar Perez. Upcoming Golden Networking’s Forums and Business Receptions include:

• High-Frequency Trading Happy Hour, (HFTHappyHour.com), October 12th, New York City

• Latin America Leaders Forum 2010, “Unlikely Oasis of Growth amid the Global Economic Crisis?” (LatinAmericaLeadersForum.com), October 21st, New York City

• High-Frequency Trading Experts Workshop 2010, “Practical Implementation of High-Frequency Trading Strategies” (HFTExpertsWorkshop.com), October 4 & 5, London, October 7 & 8, New York, October 25 & 26, Dubai, and October 28 & 29, Hong Kong

• 1st Finance Leaders Forum, “How the New Financial Legislation Will Impact You and Your Business” (FinanceLeadersForum.com), November 4th, New York City

• 2nd Banking Leaders Forum, “Private Banking on the Brink of Transformational Change” (BankingLeadersForum.com), November 18th, New York City

• Global Energy Leaders Forum 2010, “Proposals and Solutions for Today’s Global Energy Challenges” (GlobalEnergyLeadersForum.com), December 2nd, New York City

• 2nd Private Equity Leaders Forum, “Setting the Stage for Radical Transformation in 2011 and Beyond” (PrivateEquityLeadersForum.com), December 9th, New York City

Golden Networking has compiled the insights of top experts and industry practitioners and produced DVD Video Packages for its Leaders and Experts Forums, including:

• 2nd China Leaders Forum DVD Video Package, “Is the Chinese Dragon Poised for Global Dominance or Economic Implosion?”, ChinaLeadersForum.com

• Distressed Investing Experts Forum 2010 DVD Video Package, “Analyzing and Valuing Distressed Companies, Securities and Real Estate”, DistressedInvestingExpertsForum.com

• Derivatives Leaders Forum 2010 DVD Video Package, “Strategies for Increasing Profits under an Evolving Regulatory Framework”, DerivativesLeadersForum.com

• High-Frequency Trading Leaders Forum 2010 DVD Video Package, “Innovating and Profiting from High-Frequency Trading in 2010 and Beyond”, HFTLeadersForum.com

• Hedge Funds Leaders Forum 2010 DVD Video Package, “Generating Alpha in Challenging Times”, HedgeFundsLeadersForum.com

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• China Leaders Forum 2009 DVD Video Package, “Addressing the Challenges Posed by the Present Wave of Chinese Globalization”, ChinaLeadersForum.com

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Brentwood, NY, October 11, 2010–Just like many things these days, the smart buyer can go online and find great deals on anything from electronics to cheap car loans. Not only does the Internet make it easier to get the best car loan, the process also puts you in control of the car buying and financing process. Going online for your low interest car loans enables you to complete a simple secure application in just minutes anytime.

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In order to try to get the best auto loan rates, people who find that they are struggling with bad credit should first check out a copy of their credit report, no matter how scary it may seem to you. Credit reporting errors and inaccurate information can decrease credit scores and can sometimes happen more than you would think. Consumers are entitled to a free credit report every 12 months. Get yourself a copy. This information will be immensely helpful to you when speaking with financial lenders about bad credit auto financing.

Loans for people with bad credit typically offer higher interest rates. As a result of this, it’s important for you to do some research and to shop around. When financial lenders advertise their best auto loan rates, it’s usually going to be their best offer. Most financial institutions also offer risk based auto financing for people with bad credit. This means, that the lower the credit score actually is, the higher the interest rate is going to be.

Contact some online financial lenders in order to discuss bad credit auto loans. You should be willing to disclose your credit score, and should ask for the best auto loan rates possible for your unique financial situation. If you happen to already have an existing relationship with the financial lending institution already established, then you may also be able to ask for a discount to secure better rates on your bad credit auto financing.

Finding the right auto bad credit auto loan isn’t going to be an easy process. It takes a lot of dedication to research and hard work. However, it’s going to be worthwhile investment. After you have been making timely payments, after a bit of time you may even be able to refinance into the best auto loan rates, saving yourself additional money in the process.

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Iberia Securities – The yen extended its recent rally, marking a fresh seven-month high against the dollar and a one-week high on the euro.

Analysts at Iberia Securities said a break below 89.80 yen could send the dollar tumbling again. The U.S. currency fell to 90.65 yen late Friday in New York, from 91.70 yen Thursday, its fifth consecutive decline, while the euro weakened to 132.18 yen from 133.74 yen.

“We continue to view the yen as likely to surprise,” said analysts at Iberia Securities.

The dollar has been sold on falling long-term U.S. interest rates, which signal the market expects the Federal Reserve to keep the yield on the U.S. currency at very low levels well into next year.

The three-month dollar London interbank offered rate, an important gauge of the effectiveness of the Fed’s monetary policy, slipped to 0.299% from Thursday’s 0.29969%, albeit above the record low of 0.29869% on Wednesday.

“The move has been so rapid,” said Iberia Securities currency strategist in New York. “Rates are coming off much faster than the market thought,” he said, which is leading traders to sell the dollar.

A week ago, the dollar traded at 93.02 yen. It has posted five consecutive weekly declines.

UBS said the Bank of Japan may have to tackle the issue of a strong yen at its policy meeting next week.

Meanwhile, the Iberia Securities analysts forecast that a recovery in global production will support Japan’s exporter revenue and increase foreign demand for Japanese stocks. In addition, interest rates for major currency rivals are “too low” to attract local investors out of Japan.

While the euro did advance to a fresh nine-month high of $1.4636 during the day, intraday volatility in stocks and crude oil, as well as profit-taking and the expiration of options contracts, undercut those gains.

Positive U.S. data also provided some momentary support for the U.S. currency. The University of Michigan preliminary consumer sentiment index for September gained to 70.2 from 65.7 in August, compared with economist expectations for a reading of 67.5.

Barclays Capital and other institutions told Iberia Securities they believe the dollar has further to fall in the near term.

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Fans were able to watch the landmark match in Ukraine live online by registering at www.ukraineVengland.com..

PayPal handled payments made on the www.ukraineVengland.com website. Fans didn’t need a PayPal account to pay to watch the game: PayPal will also handled payments by credit and debit cards. (But PayPal’s 20 million customers in the UK will have the advantage of not having to type in their payment details.)

The international football agency Kentaro acquired the broadcast rights from the Ukrainian FA and had sold the game to Setanta in December 2007. However the pay-TV broadcaster went into administration over the summer leaving this key match without a UK broadcaster.

With no offers on the table from UK free to air or pay-TV broadcasters Kentaro decided to seek the widest possible online audience, appointing digital sport specialist Perform to market and stream the match online, on a pay-per-view basis.

Commenting, Cameron McLean, PayPal’s general manager for merchant services in the UK, said, “Just weeks after the UK online advertising overtook television advertising revenues for the first time, we’re about to see the first England international screened online but not on television. It’s a natural development, as we’re watching more and more traditional TV content on our home computers. PayPal will make payment a quick and easy option for fans who don’t want to miss the game.”

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Subscriptions are available at an early-bird price of £4.99 up until end of Thursday 8 October, increasing during the week to a maximum of £11.99 for purchases made on the match day. Pre-match coverage starts at 4.45pm on Saturday 10 October with a special programme charting the Three Lions’ impressive progress through the tournament to date, exclusive interviews with England players and analysis and insights from studio guests.

James Richardson will present the live coverage, alongside ex England manager and Notts County Director of Football Sven Goran Eriksson. Commentary will come from David Pleat and Tony Jones.

About PayPal

PayPal is the faster, safer and easier way to pay and get paid online. PayPal stores your card and bank details, enabling you to pay online without entering your sensitive financial information every time you shop, and you can be confident that it is never shared with the seller.

PayPal (Europe) S.àr.l. et Cie S.C.A. is a Luxembourg-based limited liability partnership, which is regulated by the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (‘CSSF’) in Luxembourg. PayPal Inc is the ultimate parent of PayPal (Europe) S.àr.l. et Cie S.C.A. and is 100% owned by eBay Inc. PayPal Inc was set up in the US in December 1998 and acquired by eBay Inc in 2002.

· PayPal is accepted on over 165,000 retailers’ websites across Europe

· PayPal’s 2008 full-year revenue was $2.38 billion, up 28 percent year over year

· PayPal’s net Total Payment Volume for 2008, the total value of transactions, was $60 billion, up 27 percent year over year

· PayPal’s Total Payment Volume in 2008 represented nearly 9 percent of global e-commerce and 15 percent of US e-commerce. (Based on Forrester estimates of US e-commerce with the addition of eBay Inc. internal metrics totaling $256B)

More information about the company can be found at http://www.paypal.co.uk or http://www.paypal.co.uk/press

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Local authorities are spending up to £1.3m each on private barristers’ and solicitors’ fees and up to £1.2m on their own staff’s time attempting to resist the fight for fair wages.

A survey of 50 authorities by public service union UNISON found that more than £11.5m has been spent to obstruct equal pay – a figure the union believes is “the tip of the iceberg”.

Using the Freedom of Information Act, the union discovered that among the most free-spending authorities is Sandwell Council which has paid out more than £1.3m to external solicitors and barristers after refusing to negotiate equal pay with UNISON. Coventry’s bill for external legal help was more than £1.2m.

Some local authorities have also spent hundreds of thousands on their in-house legal teams. Leeds, for instance has admitted incurring nearly £1.2m in internal costs and paying £300,000 to outside lawyers.

Sandwell council has spent £124 per female employee resisting equal pay, while the equivalent figure at Rotherham is £115 and in Coventry is £104.

The spending is in shocking contrast to the earnings of some of the low-paid members of UNISON. Some local government employees including cleaners, cooks, and care assistants earn as little £6.30 per hour, or £12,145 each year.

All this public money has been spent despite the introduction of the national “Single Status” agreement in 1997 which sought to end the gap between the pay of men and women in council jobs, which were either identical or required the same level of expertise or effort.

Ten years down the line, there are still far too many councils who are resisting equal pay through the courts.

Dave Prentis, UNISON’s General Secretary, said it was a “national disgrace” that local authorities were spending so much money on fighting to keep women’s wages down. Mr Prentis believes the figures that UNISON has unearthed under-estimate the total costs – because some councils “couldn’t or wouldn’t” reveal their expenditure.

He points out that others were only able or willing to provide information covering external spending over the last few years. He believes that a number of local authorities did their best to come up with the lowest possible figure when answering UNISON’s questions.

“What a waste of money. Councils are stuffing money into lawyers’ pockets to put off the inevitable. Expensive lawyers are raising tiny technical points and fighting issues the councils have already been advised they will lose. Cases drag on for years and women have died by the time legal arguments are resolved. Taxpayers’ money is being poured down the drain and low-paid women continue to be underpaid for jobs that society simply couldn’t function without.”

Brian Critchley, lecturer in employment relations at London Metropolitan University, said:

”One of the more shocking things to come out of this exercise is the total lack of coherence among councils on their policy towards equal pay.

“There appears to be no connection between allocation of resources and potential equal pay liabilities. It seems that some councils would rather defend the status quo than face the inevitable.”

COUNCILS SPENDING IN EXCESS OF £50,000 ON EXTERNAL LEGAL ADVICE/LITIGATION

Sandwell: £1,323,363.99 Coventry: £1,237,870 Cumbria: £869,448.03 (internal £421,300.42) Bury: £607,477.96 Rotherham: £473,689.96 Northumberland: £400,000 Leicester: £392,115.99 (internal £30,919.93) Leeds: £298,648.10 (internal £1,170,151.71) York: £279,802.27 Birmingham: £278,662.80 (internal £916,892)) Gateshead: £263,165.32 (since 2003 only) Cardiff: £216,332 Dudley: £167,142 Hartlepool: £165,788.75 (since 2003 only) Newport City: £138,926.47 Nottingham City Council: £131,653.60 Salford: £101,184.53 Liverpool: £90,478.89 Durham (Derwentside): £90,000

Merthyr Tydfil: £82,446.22 Brighton and Hove: £77,999.78 Flintshire: £76,695.72 Bridgend: £76,420.91 (internally 226.40 hours) Walsall: £72,975.16 (excl VAT) (since 2003) (in-house £81,762.50) Norfolk CC: £62,504.63 (internal £23,145.05) Pembrokeshire: £61,000 (internally estimated £5,250) Ceredigion: £55,184.45 Wolverhampton: £54,353.04 (internal £7,868.52) Southampton: £53,422.83 (plus VAT of £8,887.17) (internal £8,000)

COUNCILS WHO HAVE SPENT THE MOST ON INTERNAL LEGAL ADVICE – ONLY A SMALL MINORITY SUPPLIED AN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION)

Leeds: £1,170,151.71 (external £298,648.10) Birmingham City: £916,892 (external £278,662.80) Cumbria: £421,300.42 (external £869,448.03) Oldham: £164,682.30 (external £30,738) Lancashire: £157,320.90 (external £33,618.75) – figures from June 2004 only. Bolton: £100,467.98 (external £40,033.87) Walsall: £81,762.50 (external £72,975.16 (excl VAT)

COUNCILS WHO COULD NOT SUPPLY INFORMATION OR WANTED IN EXCESS OF £450 TO SUPPLY IT

Hackney, Central Bedfordshire, Waltham Forest, Trafford, Warrington, Lewisham, Blackpool, Staffordshire, Caerphilly, Stevenage NO EXTERNAL COSTS

Telford & Wrekin: £8,910.00 (internal) Haringey: £18,860.08 (internal)

NO COSTS AT ALL

East Lindsey District Council, Anglesey County Council, Isle of Wight, Wirral Council, Guildford, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, Lincolnshire and Herefordshire

Editor’s notes: In 1997 unions signed a national deal with local authority employers covering more than a million workers to even out disparities in pay and conditions between white collar and blue collar workers and between male and female council employees. Individual councils and unions then attempted to thrash out pay systems to suit their own local circumstances. No government money was made available to fund the new pay arrangements because the incoming Labour Government adopted budgets laid down by the previous Tory administration.

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Yorkshire,UK, September 17, 2009 — Middleton Dolls began as the seed of an idea 3 decades ago by talented artist Lee Middleton who had an innovative concept. It was to sculpt realistic dolls which looked like her own two children.With her first dolls, Lee’s talent somehow managed to capture the universal beauty and innocence of childhood. With their soft skin, real hair and realistic expressions, these dolls were so life-like they amazed people who saw them and word spread quickly. Relatives and friends asked her to sculpt dolls that looked like their children and Lee soon found herself in charge of an unexpected cottage industry. These amazingly lifelike dolls have since become known as “reborn dolls”.

The popularity of these reborn dolls grew and grew. In 1985 the doll community nominated Lee’s unique work for national awards. Doll Reader Magazine nominated Lee’s first vinyl baby doll, “First Moments,” for a Doll of the Year award. This honor helped establish vinyl as a collectible medium.
Soon, sales expanded to new venues and Middleton Doll released new “reborn dolls” that looked even more realistic, thus creating tales of mistaken identity. Concerned adults who saw “babies” trapped inside hot cars called rescue squads and shoppers would scold parents for leaving their “babies” on store counters.Supply and demand forced Lee to continuously find larger locations for production. In 1989, she opened a manufacturing facility in Belpre, Ohio. The facility produced more baby dolls a year than any other manufacturer in America, and the Mayor of Belpre declared the city to be “The Baby Doll Capital of the World.”

This was one of the factors leading to the “reborn dolls” phenomenon becoming a truly international industry.
Middleton Doll continued to lead the vinyl doll industry for more than a decade, but in 1997 tragedy struck. Lee died suddenly of a heart attack.
Employees were devastated by this unexpected turn of events. But they could not afford to sit back and take no action. To keep the Lee Middleton name alive and the company viable, they were forced to look to the future. They had to find another doll artist who could create the life-like faces that made Lee’s dolls the No.1 in the industry.

Be it divine intervention, or a just a stroke of good luck, a little known Canadian doll artist would soon take Middleton Doll in a whole new direction. In 1998, a death in the family almost kept Canadian doll artist Reva Schick from showing her dolls at the International Toy Fair in New York. Fortunately for Middleton Doll, Reva’s sisters-in-law recognized her talent and insisted that they show the dolls for her.
Middleton Doll was a perfect fit for Reva. Just like Lee, Reva has a strong religious background and credits her artistic talents to God. Lee always tucked a tiny Bible into each doll box, and Reva became the one to continue that tradition.

Every year Middleton Doll now introduces more than 100 new dolls in various skin tones, eye colors, hair colors, and sizes. Designed to look like real babies, each doll is sculpted by an award-winning doll artist who incorporates incredible detail into every crease, fold, and curve. The Middleton Doll Company is recognized by doll enthusiasts as the industry leader of vinyl collectible baby dolls.

Today Lee Middleton dolls are available from doll stores and toyshops throughout the world. A recent development is that they can now also be found on the internet on websites such as the leading online doll retailers www.CollectorReborn.com and www.CollectorReborn.co.uk . Reborn doll enthusiasts and collectors can now choose to buy from a collection of 100’s of dolls without ever leaving the comfort of their own home.
Lee Middleton dolls are now designed by gifted reborn doll artists such as Reva Schick, Eva Helland, Jane Pinkstaff, Michelle Fagan and Pat Moulton as well as several others. They are ensuring the continuing creation of incredibly life-like dolls.

Many of these dolls become far more than just a hobby and an intense emotional bond in created between the collector and the reborn doll. In fact, The Middleton collectible baby dolls are so life-like they are known as “The Babies That Love You Back.”

Lee Middleton’s beautiful Artist Studio Collection includes superb limited edition, hand numbered dolls. Each doll is sculpted by one of Middleton Doll’s award-winning artists and produced in vinyl. They are hand painted, lashed and produced with the same delicate care they were sculpted with. They are jointed and weighted in the appropriate place to make them feel like a real baby.

They are treasured collectibles that will become priceless heirlooms for many years to come.
Lee Middleton dolls are available from: http://collectorreborn.com/index.php?cPath=4 in the USA and from: http://collectorreborn.co.uk/index.php?cPath=4 in the UK and Europe.

Contact:
Linda Whitwam
CollectorReborn
Yorkshire, England
info@collectorreborn.com

http://www.CollectorReborn.com

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