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PROFNET WIRE: BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY: High Price of Gasoline

  ROUND-UP

  High Price of Gasoline (continued, 1 expert)
  Housing Market (continued, 2 experts)

  LEADS

  1.  Business: Rapid Increase Anticipated in Document Management Services
  2.  Business: Putting Customers at the Center of Your Business
  3.  Business: H-1b Cap Reached -- Expect Hardships
  4.  Finance: The Death Tax Never Dies
  5.  Finance: Market Focusing Attention on Leveraged Index Funds
  6.  Management: Environment Matters in Change
  7.  Nonprofits: How Nonprofits Can Measure -- and Save -- Time
  8.  Technology: Consumers Face Ongoing Threats to Identity When Online

  ROUND-UP: HIGH PRICE OF GASOLINE (continued)

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1. DR. LOU CENTOFANTI, CEO of PERMA-FIX ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES: "With the price of oil soaring, and America continuing to depend on Arab nations to power our economy, nuclear power is now getting another look as a U.S. energy source. Technological advances have made nuclear a much safer alternative and another Three Mile Island or Chernobyl highly unlikely. The time is now to become less dependent on Arab oil and create jobs in this country instead of feeding the money pipeline to Middle East nations, some hostile to the United States. Producing nuclear power and treating the resulting waste is far safer today than in the past. The time is right to reconsider nuclear power to solve our energy challenges." News Contact: John Goodman, johnlgood@aol.com Phone: +1-212-888-0044 (6/5/06)

ROUND-UP: HOUSING MARKET (continued)

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1. ED ROSS, founder of MONARCH GROUP LLC, serves on five real estate boards and is the author of "The Spill Zone," a three-year forecasting guide on 60 million properties. Ross, a former international director of the Mapics Corporation (formerly a division of IBM) and a California-based broker, can provide a three-year forecast prediction for any U.S. city and commentary for real estate investing, rent vs. buy decisions, forecasting, selling a home faster, the seven-year real estate cycle, landlord legal exposure and today's market issues: "Challenges face seller/buyers over the next year. Price erosion, increased inventories and seller competition are all directly attributed to a change in the real estate cycle." Ross: edross@cox.net Phone: +1-727-741-7848 (6/5/06)

2. HILDA ERFE, author of "Real Estate 101," can provide a fresh perspective to real estate as an immigrant who built a multi-million dollar real estate portfolio. News Contact: Robert Smith, 3pr@ureach.com Phone: +1- 815-633-3375 (6/5/06)

LEADS

1. BUSINESS: RAPID INCREASE ANTICIPATED IN DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT SERVICES. JOHN WILLMOTT, CEO of the global BPO industry analyst firm NELSONHALL: "Document management services are becoming increasingly important within wider BPO services with document capture, validation and electronic distribution with a key component of processes such as accounts payable and claims processing. This need is shifting the emphasis to a content-centric model, versus a media-centric model, creating complexities in the entire document management value chain." News Contact: Jeanne Achille, jeanne@devonpr.com Phone: +1-732-224-1000, ext. 11 (6/5/06)

2. BUSINESS: PUTTING CUSTOMERS AT THE CENTER OF YOUR BUSINESS. MARTHA ROGERS, Ph.D., founding partner of the Peppers & Rogers Group at CARLSON MARKETING, is an expert on customer-based business strategies, and is the co- author of "Return on Customer" with Don Peppers: "Without customers, you don't have a business, you have a hobby. And for today's businesses, customers are the scarce resource, scarcer even than capital. But companies rarely measure their return on this scarce resource. What they should be calculating is a metric that we call Return on Customer." Rogers says that this new metric will revolutionize the business practice. News Contact: Steve Solmonson, ssolmonson@carlson.com Phone: +1-763-212-3215 (6/5/06)

3. BUSINESS: H-1B CAP REACHED -- EXPECT HARDSHIPS. DAVID C. WHITLOCK, partner at FISHER & PHILLIPS, is an immigration attorney: "The Citizenship and Immigration Services announced June 1 that the H-1b cap was reached on May 26. This is a complete surprise as the CIS 'Cap Count' on May 25 indicated 12,000 remained available. The shortage of H-1b visas will create severe problems for employers trying to recruit professionals and foreign talent. The failure of CIS to manage the cap-count process has only increased the uncertainty and perception of unfairness that employers harbor towards our immigration system." News Contact: Kevin Sullivan, ksullivan@laborlawyers.com Phone: +1-404-240-4248 (6/5/06)

4. FINANCE: THE DEATH TAX NEVER DIES. ROBERT J. TRAVERS, estate planning attorney: "The U.S. Senate is scheduled to consider repeal of the estate tax on June 5. The estate tax is unfair and, in many cases, it forces heirs to sell their family's business or other assets. Regardless, Congress will never get rid of it because it produces too much revenue. As such, anyone with any degree of wealth needs to plan as if the estate tax is here to stay. It may go down, it may go up, but it's not going away." News Contact: David P. Kowal, dkowal@earthlink.net Phone: +1-508-393-7023 (6/5/06)

5. FINANCE: MARKET DECLINES FOCUSING ATTENTION ON LEVERAGED INDEX FUNDS. DANIEL O'NEILL, president and chief investment officer of DIREXION FUNDS: "Recent declines in major indexes are focusing new attention on leveraged index funds, which help sophisticated investors to make money in both bull and bear markets. Leveraged index funds enable these investors to approach the market from both a long or short investment perspective. Built on sophisticated models, they are designed to outperform the returns of an index like the Nasdaq-100 or S&P 500 when it goes up in value. Their inverse leveraged index funds also deliver gains when the markets decline." News Contact: Dawn Ringel, dawn@warnerpr.com Phone: +1-781-449-8456 (6/5/06)

6. MANAGEMENT: ENVIRONMENT MATTERS IN CHANGE. WENDY BROWN HELMKAMP, partner at THE CLARION GROUP: "Many change efforts fall short or lose their direction, not because the dimensions weren't thought through, but rather, those leading the change effort failed to take full stock of the environment or context they were stepping into. While the 'map' takes into account 70 percent of what you can expect, the remaining 30 percent feels like uncharted territories. This is where true change navigation comes into play -- handling the unexpected like shifting (political) winds or the tigers (unexpected budget cuts) that wander out into the road." News Contact: Kim Camire, camire@theclariongroup.com Phone: +1-860-232-3667, ext. 10 (6/5/06)

7. NONPROFITS: HOW NONPROFITS CAN MEASURE -- AND SAVE -- TIME. CURT FINCH, CEO of JOURNYX, a provider of Web-based time and expense tracking solutions, says nonprofits have a critical need to track volunteer time in a simple and efficient way: "A time-tracking system should track volunteer and employee time, which enables automation of payroll and can send the data to companies like ADP or Paychex. For groups that bill a funding source or clients hourly, the system should enable automated billing. For example, some child- protective organizations must account for time spent with each child to receive funding. For groups that are funded by grants, the system should provide auditing capabilities to show the grant source how you spent the money in time, mileage and expenses." News Contact: Whitney Otstott, wotstott@pr-ink.com Phone: +1-512-699-7730 (6/5/06)

8. TECHNOLOGY: CONSUMERS FACE ONGOING THREATS TO THEIR OWN IDENTITY WHEN ONLINE. JIM PATERSON, vice president of product development at USI: "Innovative technologies now exist to create an identity managed framework that allows an enterprise to uniquely differentiate between an employee and a consumer. Through flexible forms of architecture, outsource providers are able to completely manage the end-user experience, not just hosting, but all of the front-end systems the customer interfaces with, how those systems integrate into the back end, and strategizing their clients' business offering. Examples include affinity card marketing and single sign-on." News Contact: Byron Gordon, byron.gordon@corsi.com Phone: +1-415-352-1111, ext. 110 (6/5/06)

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NOTE TO EDITORS: The following experts have provided direct contact information: Hilda Erfe, 3pr@ureach.com Phone: +1-401-729-8777 Robert J. Travers: rtravers@charter.net Phone: +1-508-561-2252 Wendy Brown Helmkamp, The Clarion Group, helmkamp@theclariongroup.com Phone: +1-860-232-3667, ext. 15