AMD FirePro Professional Graphics Offers Exceptional Performance on Next Generation HP ZBook Mobile Workstations

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We are so thrilled when we heard that the AMD FirePro M4150 and M4170 mobile professional graphics are now available on the new HP ZBook Mobile Workstations delivering outstanding quality, performance and innovation for professional users.

AMD recently announced that second-generation HP ZBook 14 G2 and 15u G2 Mobile Workstations feature AMD FirePro M4150 and AMD FirePro M4170 mobile professional graphics models, providing users with speed, quality and creativity on the go. AMD FirePro professional graphics are compliant with the latest industry standards enabling users to take full advantage of applications from companies including Adobe, Autodesk, Avid, Dassault Systèmes, ESRI, Siemens, and many others.

AMD FirePro mobile professional graphics are powered by the award-winning AMD Graphics Core Next (GCN) Architecture1 and are especially designed to enable outstanding performance for professional applications in a wide variety of work environments for many computer-aided design (CAD) and digital media applications.

“AMD and HP have combined efforts to enable mobile workstation users with leading-edge technologies with results that matter for designing, engineering, and creating,” said David Cummings, senior director and general manager, Professional Graphics at AMD. “HP mobile workstation users can benefit from quality driver support and certified ISV applications for a stable and reliable platform that redefine mobile workstation performance while enabling users to do more.”

JCFAP Presents the National Finance Summit 2015

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The Junior Confederation of Finance Associations - Philippines (JCFAP) is the umbrella organization of over 90 college-based finance organizations in the country and is currently compose of more than 7,000 members.

It envisions itself as a foremost association for student involvement and education by giving Financial Management students the necessary exposure and instruction to help them become competent and responsible professionals of the future. They do this by conducting membership assemblies, seminars, competitions, workshops, and educational tours year-round.

As part of their mission to foster educational advancement among its members, they will be having the National Finance Summit 2015 on January 24, 2015 at the SMX Convention Center in Pasay. This annual event, which was started in 2008, is intended to promote student awareness to market issues and to strengthen their financial foundation. Last year, the organization was able to gather around 3,000 participants coming from Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao.

Invited speakers at the event are Felipe Medalla, Monetary Board Member of Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas; Michaelangelo Oyson, CEO and Managing Director of BPI Securities Corporation and BPITrade.com; Mark Frederick So, Founder of Forex Club Asia; and Hans Sicat,  President and CEO of Philippine Stock Exchange, Inc.

City Planning Tilt Invites Students To Register

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Here is a news release about an international city planning competition for high school and college students.We're sending it as a last call for student representatives to register before the end January 2015. The organizers, led by Mrs. Sylvia Tay-Van Remoortele, are open for interviews and can be contacted through e-mail.

The “4th Planning a Clean and Green Township Competition” has a theme of “City Beautiful Manila” for this year. You have to beat the deadline for registration up to the end of January to qualify.

Organized by the Singapore-based Activistar Advocacy (AA) and spearheaded by AA’s co-chair Mrs. Sylvia Tay-Van Remoortele, Manila was chosen for this year's “Planning Clean & Green Townships: The Young Mayor Leader Competition.” Tay-Van Remoortele is an environmental engineer and wife of the Belgian Ambassador to the Philippines.

During the competition launch, Tay-Van Remoortele extended this invitation to the other regions and encouraged not only the youth of Manila, but also the youth from the other 16 regions of the country as they might have fresh bright ideas to share."

As a pioneer in advocating environmental awareness and sustainable development education in Southeast Asia (SEA), Tay-Van Remoortele explained that the competition aims to nurture youth leaders for a sustainable future as the student-participants are tasked to “recreate Manila” when they come up with a master plan suggesting solutions for a township that is sustainable and environmental friendly.