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HRNS patiently waiting for the day it awakens :)
HRNS getting a little action today...
will this sleeper EVER wake up?
Lazarus
became a member of the PPMD family today. Thanks for the tip Lazarus. Im not a fly by night type. I'll be here as long as it takes. I have no problem holding these types for years.
Held a good bit of PCLP for years and it paid off nicely. Put some of my PCLP profits here. Still holding some PCLP just in case the big spike comes. Also have a bunch of SYTE which is very undervalued imho but wont be by end of 2007 imho. Held SYTE since subpenny and its paid off nicely. ITS A well managed profitable little company growing smartly. This PPMD might be more explosive than any of them if things fall into place. The more i read the more i like. Thanks.
Hospitals' umbilical cord stem cell banks grow
February 8, 2007
BY PATRICIA ANSTETT
FREE PRESS MEDICAL WRITER
The collection of stem cells from newborns' umbilical cords is increasing in metro Detroit with the addition of two hospitals to the St. John Health system program.
St. John Detroit Riverview Hospital joined the program in December. St. John's Providence Hospital & Medical Center in Southfield will begin in the next two months. St. John Hospital & Medical Center of Detroit has been obtaining cord blood for public banking since June 2005, averaging 100 collections a month.
Public banks operate differently from private ones, which often charge $2,000, plus nominal annual storage fees, but reserve the cells for a family's possible later use.
The St. John network provides much-needed blood types from minority mothers to national donor registries that provide matches for patients with blood-related cancers and diseases, such as leukemia and lymphoma.
Many minority patients currently wait longer for transplants because national registries lack enough blood types more common in certain racial and ethnic populations.
"We already had a good collection program here, but this really helps us a lot with our minority collections, particularly in the African-American community," said Dr. Brian Mason, a St. John obstetrician instrumental in developing the health system's program.
Fetal stem cells are different from those obtained from early-stage embryos. They are incapable of being used to clone a human being, a misconception some parents have, Mason said. Once that issue is addressed, most are happy to donate, he added.
No other hospital systems in metro Detroit currently participate in the program. The Grand Rapids area, however, has a network of participating hospitals.
Stem cells aid siblings
At birth, umbilical cords, which typically are discarded as medical waste, are collected and the stem cells inside are extracted. They are tested for diseases, listed by blood subtypes and frozen, with blood type information sent to national registries.
If unclaimed, families with members who contract those diseases can obtain the cells. Allison Sisco, 13, of St. Clair Shores remains in remission from leukemia after getting stem cells from her younger brother Kevin's umbilical cord blood.
Cord blood collection costs about $1,000 and takes physicians up to 10 minutes to obtain. Nurses must approach families for consent. St John's collection costs are underwritten by local grants; those charges are a key obstacle in getting more hospitals involved.
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i think its pretty safe to say that as the storage of umbilical cord stem cells grow - that companies like BLFS and PPMD that provide the media solutions for that storage are growing as well. well its more than safe to say for BLFS because they recently made a press release saying that their sales were up 32%. hopefully PPMD will begin to use their new website to let folks know what is going on:
http://www.protidepharma.com
please be sure to read this post:
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=16464738
then the take a look at biolife solutions last Q
BIOLIFE LOST NEARLY 3 TIMES ITS TOTAL REVENUE WHEREAS PPMD ACTUALLY MADE A PROFIT ON IT LAST REPORTED Q AND I BELIEVE PPMD IS DOING BETTER NOW THAN IT WAS BACK IN 2004.
the last Q for PPMD was filed under Celox Labratories:
http://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?company=celox+la&CIK=&filenum=&State=&SIC=&a....
market cap of PPMD at 25 cents still only a million bucks.
Lazarus
wow - it was pretty obvious that there was a major buyer on SPND
now we know who it is:
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/867038/000127653707000004/spnd020207.txt
in this one from 18 cents
you gotta love the chart:
patience really paid off on that one. seemed like nobody else was buying this one back then.
what stock will be the next SPND?
hope to see a nice chart begin to form on PPMD in the future. if i'm right about the company - then i expect some big guns will take interest and pay up for my cheap shares.
the Professor
fwiw - i am still a shareholder of SPND but decided to let them take many of them at $6.00
pss...PPMD shares are still cheap!
I notice a few trades this morning on PSCO....
go protosource!
http://p2ionline.com/newp2i/
An Easy Cell
By Michael Fragoso
Monday, January 29, 2007
New and uncontroversial methods for gathering stem cells could jump-start a nascent industry.
On January 7th news broke of a study out of the Wake Forrest University School of Medicine demonstrating the potential therapeutic uses of amniotic fluid-derived stem cells (AFS cells). The author of the study, Dr. Anthony Atala, claims that AFS cells—derived from amniotic fluid or placenta—contain the best properties of embryonic stem cells (ESC) without their limitations. For example, AFS cells have much of the plasticity of ESC, but they lack the propensity of ESC to create tumors. Like ESC they are self-replicating, but they have proven relatively easier to manipulate in animal models. Importantly for many (myself included), AFS cells do not require the destruction of human embryos, as AFS cells are a byproduct of pregnancy and natural birth. Given the potential value of this discovery to regenerative therapy—and the manner in which these cells are obtained—an interesting side effect of Atala’s discovery will likely be to spur an industry of stem cell preservation.
To use these cells for therapies, they must be preserved for each patient from the moment of his or her birth. If a fifty-year-old man comes down with diabetes and needs to regenerate his pancreatic cells, an effective way for him to do so would be to use the AFS cells from his birth in the regenerative therapy. Assuming the cell differentiation were to work, his own AFS cells would not cause a hostile immune response. The trouble is: if he is fifty-years old, how is he going to get stem cells he generated in utero? The simplest answer is cryogenic freezing.
Since the 1988 discovery of stem cells in umbilical cord blood, many parents have been cryogenically freezing their newborns’ cord blood (and its stem cells) in private cord banks. This has proven quite effective in combating conditions such as leukemia and sickle-cell anemia. More recently, with the advent of further ASC therapies derived from umbilical cord blood, private sector cord-blood freezing has grown considerably. In the United States alone, companies like Cryo-Cell, Cord Blood Registry, Inc., and ViaCord will collect the cord blood, process it, and freeze it should it ever be needed. Competition in the field is growing, with the leading companies responding accordingly: Cryo-Cell will contribute 4% of storage fees to a personal college savings account for the donor; Cord Blood Registry has a free trial program; ViaCord offers competitive financing rates. The business model is an ingenious one. The only real costs are cryogenic freezing and advertising.
The low overhead and bustling competition is causing larger companies to enter the market. Sir Richard Branson is set to announce this week that he is starting a stem cell bank under the brand, not a little ironically, of his Virgin empire. According to the Times of London, the storage facility will focus on preserving umbilical cord stem cells, which are useful in combating blood disorders. In the current research environment, however, there is no reason for Branson to limit himself to that one kind of therapy, and it is unlikely that he will.
Given Dr. Atala’s claim that he has “shown the [AFS] cells can grow into nerve, blood vessels, liver cells, cartilage, bone and cardiac muscle” there is a diversity of ailments from which a person could suffer long after birth, whose effective treatment could be ensured by AFS cell storage. Should AFS cell therapy become a reality, it is only a matter of time before people begin freezing AFS cells in earnest, which would prove lucrative to the relatively young cord-blood storage industry, which is uniquely situated to provide the service given its existing cryogenic infrastructure. Cryo-Cell, for example, already offers placental ASC storage services. The news out of Wake Forest will make others take notice of the possibilities inherent in storing more than just cord blood stem cells.
Already, the industry tends toward vertical integration. Most existing cord blood banks are financially tied to larger biotechnology firms—ViaCord is a subsidiary of ViaCell; Cryo-Cell has a financial relationship with Saneron CCEL Therapeutics, Inc. In the future, look for the first biotech firm to derive an effective AFS cell therapy to enter into an exclusive relationship with a storage banking facility. Cryo-Cell already has one such arrangement with the Plureon Corporation in its storage of placental ASC.
Another possible challenge facing the private stem cell storage industry is the possible expansion of public stem cell banks. Already such banks exist—primarily for cord blood stem cells—and they are sure to grow in the future. For those parents unwilling to pay for private stem cell storage, it would not take much inducement to convince them to donate the AFS cells, from either amniocentesis or placenta, to a public storage bank. Whereas privately stored AFS cells would be a certain immunogenic match for a patient down the line, it has been suggested that a sufficiently large public bank of stem cells would have the genetic diversity to serve the vast majority of the public. Such a situation would render private stem cell storage superfluous and would likely stunt any growth in the industry. Nonetheless, in order to obtain the requisite genetic diversity for large-scale “matching,” the bank would need hundreds of thousands of donors. Until such an extensive public bank can be secured, there will continue to be a pressing need for growth in private stem cell storage, since most stem cell therapy would require either stem cells stored from one’s own birth, or someone else’s, acquired through financial transaction with a private storage facility, that are an immunogenic “match.”
While government wrangles interminably with expanding embryo-destructive research, amniotic fluid and adult stem cell research will move closer and closer to effective therapy. Parents will clamor for a way to store these cells, and with them the chance to preserve their children’s lives. You can take that to the (cell) bank.
Michael Fragoso is a research assistant at the Family Research Council.
Coin Shortage Means a Penny Could Be Worth 5 Cents Soon
Saturday, January 27, 2007
E-MAIL STORY PRINTER FRIENDLY VERSION
Talk about pennies from heaven.
A potential shortage of coins in the United States could mean all those pennies in your piggy bank could be worth five times their current value soon, says an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.
Sharply rising prices of metals such as copper and nickel have meant the face value of pennies and nickels are worth less than the material that they are made of, increasing the risk that speculators could melt the coins and sell them for a profit.
Such a risk spurred the U.S. Mint last month to issue regulations limiting melting and exporting of the coins.
But Francois Velde, senior economist at the Chicago Fed, argued in a recent research note that prohibitions by the Mint would unlikely deter serious speculators who already have piled up the coinage.
The best solution, Velde said, would be to "rebase" the penny by making it worth five cents rather than one cent. Doing so would increase the amount of five-cent coins in circulation and do away with the almost worthless one cent coin.
"History shows that when coins are worth melting, they disappear," Velde wrote.
"Rebasing the penny would ... debase the five-cent piece and put it safely away from its melting point," he added.
Raw material prices in general have skyrocketed in the last five years, sending copper prices to record highs of $4.16 a pound in May. Copper pennies number 154 to a pound. Prices have since come down from that peak but could still trek higher, Velde said.
Since 1982, the Mint began making copper-coated zinc pennies to prevent metals speculators from taking advantage of lofty base metal prices. Though the penny is losing its importance — it is worth only four seconds of the average American's work time, assuming a 40-hour workweek — the Mint is making more and more pennies.
Velde said that since 1982 the Mint has produced 910 pennies for every American. Last year there were 8.23 billion pennies in circulation, according to the Mint.
"These factors suggest that, sooner or later, the penny will join the farthing (one-quarter of a penny) and the hapenny (one-half of a penny) in coin museums," he said.
Defiant Princess Urges End To Saudi Driving Ban For Women
BY SALLY BUZBEE
January 27, 2007
SAUDI Arabia's most prominent princess said yesterday that if she could change one thing about her country, she would let women drive - a rare challenge against the driving ban imposed by the kingdom's ruling male elite.
The comment from Princess Lolwah al-Faisal, the daughter of a former Saudi king and sister of the country's foreign minister, came at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting.
She spoke at a public session on religious tolerance. The moderator asked panel members to say what they would change to promote interfaith understanding.
He said to the princess: "What would you do, princess, if you were 'queen' for a day?"
"First thing, I'd let women drive," she replied amid loud applause, "or else have a great transportation system, which we don't have."
Women in Saudi Arabia can now do many jobs that were off-limits. But critics say their inability to drive holds them back from much work by forcing them to rely on hired drivers, or on male family members, to get to work or even to school.
Some critics say the ban particularly hinders poorer families who cannot afford to hire drivers to take wives and daughters to jobs and school.
Because of that, some view the ban not just as a women's rights issue, but as a brake on economic development.
The 59-year-old princess is the most publicly visible female member of the royal family and one of the highest-profile Saudi women. She led a delegation of Saudi women business leaders to Hong Kong last year and has appeared at US forums on interfaith dialogue.
But she has never before publicly pushed for a lifting of the driving ban.
The women drivers issue has been dormant in recent years. It flared in 1991, when a group of prominent Saudi women staged a protest by driving through Riyadh. But the government cracked down, confiscating many of the women's passports.
PRISON vs WORK
@ PRISON
@ WORK
you spend the majority of your time in a 10X10 cell
you spend the majority of your time in an 8X8 cubicle
you get three meals a day fully paid for
you get a break for one meal and you have to pay for it
you get time off for good behavior
you get more work for good behavior
the guard locks and unlocks all the doors for you
you must often carry a security card and open all the doors for yourself
you can watch TV and play games
you could get fired for watching TV and playing games
you get your own toilet
you have to share the toilet with some people who pee on the seat
they allow your family and friends to visit
you aren't even supposed to speak to your family
all expenses are paid by the taxpayers with no work required
you get to pay all your expenses to go to work, and they deduct taxes from your salary to pay for prisoners
you spend most of your life inside bars wanting to get out
you spend most of your time wanting to get out and go inside bars
THERE IS SOMETHING SERIOUSLY WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE!!!!
The Scoop on Poop
How's your health? The answer could be right behind you
—By Martiga Lohn, Natural Health
July/August 1999 Issue
Let's face it: Digestion happens. Few of us, however, can talk about the end result without embarrassment. It's too bad; our stools, which yield clues about diet, gastrointestinal health, and stress, anger, and anxiety levels, may be as useful a diagnostic tool as our temperature or blood pressure. "People can tell a measure of their health by their bowel movements," says Dr. Ted Loftness, an internist in Litchfield, Minnesota. "Nothing is so overrated as sex and so underrated as a good bowel movement."
From the moment food enters your mouth, your body embarks on a campaign to turn it into a soupy mush called chyme. Chewing, saliva, peristalsis (involuntary contractions of gastrointestinal muscles), bacteria, hydrochloric acid, digestive enzymes, bile, and other secretions work to give each meal the consistency of split pea soup. While your digestive cells absorb sugars, starches, fats, vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients, waste products travel down the line. In the colon, the leftovers are combined, packed together, and partially dehydrated. What remainsññour fecesññconsists of water, indigestible fiber, undigested food (corn, small seeds), sloughed-off dead cells, living and dead bacteria, intestinal secretions, and bile. (Worn-out red blood cells in bile give excrement its distinctive color.)
If all goes well, you'll have a healthy bowel movement. Although digestive idiosyncrasies, variations in intestinal bacteria, and other variables can produce different standards for a healthy stool, it generally should be brown to light brown; formed but not hard; cylindrical, not flattened; fairly bulky and full-bodied, not compacted; somewhat textured but not too messy; and very easy to pass. And it shouldn't smellññmuch. "You're passing methane and bacterial, degraded foodstuffs, so there's always going to be an odor," says Patrick Donovan, a Seattle naturopath. "But it shouldn't be a strong, pungent odor."
Experts disagree on two other characteristics: number of pieces and buoyancy. Each bowel movement should be in one piece, about the shape and size of a banana and tapered at the end, according to Melanie Ferreira, a nutritionist and instructor at the Natural Gourmet Institute for Food and Health in New York City. Donovan disagrees: "Stools don't have to be well-formed logs. They can disperse in the toilet water; they can break down."
Some experts argue that stools should float; Ferreira says buoyancy is a sign that the body has absorbed the minerals in the food. Others believe healthy bowel movements should touch bottom because of their bulk and fiber content. "Most stools will sink," says Loftness, who doesn't buy either argument. "Whether it floats or sinks really doesn't seem to make any difference."
One of the most common gastrointestinal complaints is hard feces and infrequent, difficult eliminationññbetter known as constipation. Chronic constipation may contribute to autoimmune diseases and colon or breast cancer. "The longer stool stays in the colon, the more one reabsorbs the metabolic products [such as estrogen] that have been excreted in the bile," says Donovan, who treats people with cancer in his naturopathic clinic. "We can see increased risk of breast cancer in women with a history of constipation."
Experts agree that regularity is important but disagree sharply about frequency. The National Institute for Diabetes, Kidney, and Digestive Diseases says three times a week is normal and healthy for some people. According to Ayurveda, the Indian healing system, once a day provides an ideal, complete evacuation, says Virender Sodhi, M.D., an Ayurvedic doctor and naturopath in Bellevue, Washington. Donovan says a person should have a bowel movement within two to three hours of a major meal--or two to three times a day.
Ferreira thinks once or twice a day is best. She also looks beyond physical health: "The act of digestion and elimination can be seen as a metaphor for our ability to absorb what is useful from our experiences and eliminate what is unnecessary or harmful, or what holds us back. If you have a healthy bowel movement each day, you're letting go of the past and bringing in the new."
The three basics required for healthy bowel movements are fiber, fluids, and exercise. To improve your digestive system health, try these steps:
- Eat more dietary fiber, found in whole foods, especially grains, vegetables, and fruits. Fiber allows waste to pass through your digestive system smoothly and quickly.
- Drink plenty of fluids (water rather than sugary drinks) to prevent intestinal blockage from excess fiber.
- Exercise daily. Even a walking program, Loftness says, promotes bowel regularity.
- Regularly eat foods known to stimulate digestive enzymes, including brown rice; pungent foods such as garlic, ginger, and onions; and daikon radish.
- Eat fermented foods such as miso (soybean paste), tempeh (soybean cakes), high-quality yogurt, and pickles to replenish beneficial bacteria in your gut.
- Minimize or end your intake of coffee, laxatives, and refined foods, all of which interfere with regular elimination. Antibiotics, birth control pills, and other prescription drugs also can hamper bowel movements. If you're constipated, ask your doctor if you can change or reduce the medications you're taking.
- Pay attention to your food while you eat, says Sodhi. Sit down. Turn off the television. Don't read or listen to the radio. "Look at the food, the aroma, the color." The relationship this creates between you and the food will improve your digestion, he says.
- Heed the call of nature. Go to the bathroom when you feel the urge to eliminate, not just when it's convenient.
- Reduce stress--which can cause either constipation or diarrhea--through meditation or yoga.
- If you're daring, consider this: Squat on the rim of the toilet in your bare or stocking feet. "Squatting straightens the recto-anal angle and opens it more fully so elimination is much easier," says yoga practitioner Richard Ravizza, a psychology professor at Pennsylvania State University in Scranton. "You could think of it as straightening a partially kinked garden hose."
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one can learn a lot about penny stocks from studying poop... since the vast majority of pennystocks are nothing more than bloated turds circling the toilet bowl, destined to be flushed.
there is a lot of debate over this issue - but i want to make it very clear to everyone where i stand. I BELIEVE THAT IF YOU MUST PLAY THE PENNY STOCKS [ its a compulsion,addiction, or whatever you want to call it - but you find yourself irresistibly attracted to them like flies to feces ] IT IS ESSENTIAL THAT YOU SELECT TURDS THAT FLOAT!
i realize that this is a controversial stance and there's a lot of penny-poopers who play the submerged turds, some even believe that if they havent touched the bottom of the bowl they arent worth touching and of course there are those that believe it doesnt matter either way, but i am staunch believer in the buoyant turd that floats on top high above the others.
Professor Lazarus
won over $4,000 in dollars of funny money in about an hour of online poker this am...
now its off to the gym and maybe take a crack at some real work.
Lazarus
my priest's son is over visiting...
now i have 5 sons - 3 of which live at home - and we always have leftovers. my boys are light eaters,you know, the kind that order tea at starbucks. anyway this kid is 6'4" - 210 lbs - at 15 years old. we would never have leftovers with this kid around --- we might not even need a garbage disposal!
Lazarus - the ever-babbling
gosh, and there is someone (besides me) actually bidding for some stock.
hmmmmmmmmm?
Lazarus
i'll answer the questions which you probably dont know how to answer.
#1 answer: yesterday when i asked the question the 3rd most actively traded stock on the NAZ under $5.00 was STEM --- it was #2 for several days prior and today has fallen to #15 [as of this post] which means there is no lack of interest by investors in stocks in the stem cell related field.
#2 answer: if Protides were to sport a market cap like that of Medistem -MDSM- with its 130+ million shares OS [not counting the 52+ million they regestered after the last Q] its share price would be around $6.00
the Professor
well - let me ask you two questions:
#1 - what is the third most actively traded stock under $5.00 on the NAZ today... and what does that tell you????
#2 - if Protide had a market cap equivalent to Medistem what price would the stock be?
the Professor
Hey Laz how goes it.. Listen all I can find on PPMD, 10Q filed 4/13/2004(latest filing). What do you know that I don't??
update of PPMD....
nice new website: http://www.protidepharma.com
will sentiment towards investors change?
Lazarus wonders???
ELSF ----
from the 8k:
On October 24, 2006, we were notified by the Nasdaq Stock Market (the "Nasdaq") that the Nasdaq has now reversed the corporate actions that were incorrectly reported to Nasdaq and effected by Nasdaq on August 15, 2006. As previously reported in our Form 8-K on August 23, 2006, an unauthorized individual filed false documents with the Nevada Secretary of State purporting to change the name of the company, change the name and address of our officers and directors, increase the number of shares of authorized common stock, and effect a reverse stock split. This unknown and unauthorized person subsequently filed these documents with the Nasdaq Stock Market to accomplish an unauthorized change in our stock symbol. The Nasdaq has now posted a notice on its website to reverse the unauthorized corporate actions. Our stock symbol, "ELSF", and previous CUSIP number have been restored. The effects of the purported 1-for-1000 reverse stock split have been reversed and our name, Environmental Safeguards, Inc., has been fully restored on the Nasdaq Stock Market.
A copy of the press release related to this matter is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1.
lol ... but im in for some
Lazarus
update on PCSO...
well - they revamped their website:
http://p2ionline.com/newp2i/
portent of things to come?
Lazarus
update on EACI
ceo died in the summer. will his son make a difference in 2007 - or ever?
http://www.comptonline.com/
Lazarus
Consumer borrowing tumbles
September decline biggest in 14 years
From Tribune news services
Published November 8, 2006
WASHINGTON -- Consumer borrowing fell in September by the largest amount since the recession of the early 1990s, weakened by a huge drop in auto loans.
The Federal Reserve reported Tuesday that consumer borrowing declined at an annual rate of 0.6 percent, compared with a 4.6 percent increase in August. Borrowing fell by $1.2 billion in September, the biggest drop since April 1992. Economists had expected borrowing to rise by $6 billion in September.
The decline was the first since March, when borrowing marked a far milder decrease of 0.24 percent.
Non-revolving debt, such as loans to buy cars and mobile homes, slipped at an annual rate of 3.2 percent in September, after a 3.5 percent increase in August. September loans in that category fell by $4.05 billion, the first decline in 11 months and the largest drop since a $4.81 billion falloff in October 1991.
Consumer borrowing and spending might slow as declining home prices leave Americans feeling less wealthy. The housing slump pushed the pace of economic growth in the third quarter down to its lowest level in three years.
"We expect to see more moderate credit growth as consumer spending slows," said Elisabeth Denison, an economist at Dresdner Kleinwort in New York. "We expect demand for cars to moderate along with demand for everything else."
The overall economy has lost momentum because of the housing slump. The struggling auto industry slashed jobs last month, as did home builders, furniture-makers and real-estate firms, all casualties of the souring housing market.
The Fed report showed that revolving debt, which includes credit cards, rose 4 percent in September, or $2.85 billion, the smallest increase in six months. In August, such borrowing increased 6.7 percent, or $4.74 billion.
Both of those increases were below the double-digit gains in May and June, months in which economists believe consumers were using their credit cards as a way to cope with soaring energy prices.
The Fed is trying to slow inflation without damaging an economy that expanded at a 1.6 percent pace in the third quarter. Policymakers have kept their benchmark interest rate unchanged for three consecutive meetings after a two-year cycle of increases.
"This economy is in transition," said Mike Jackson, chief executive of AutoNation Inc., the country's biggest auto retailer. "The Federal Reserve has achieved its goal: It's knocked the consumer back down on their heels."
Economists have said they believe the recent declines in gasoline and other energy costs should help consumer spending in the months ahead and keep the country from falling into a full-blown recession.
"I do not expect conditions in the housing market to spill over into the broader economy in a meaningful way," Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank President Sandra Pianalto said this week. "Other sectors of the economy still look pretty good. For the most part, consumers are still buying things."
The Fed's consumer credit report does not cover mortgages or other loans that are secured by real estate.
check out these karate moves:
rotflmfao stay warm my older/old friend
i turned on the engine and the heater and put the defroster on full blast. its probably good to go now.
as for the manopause - i could tell you the stories... but they wont be that funny right now. give it another 3 years or so - testostrone levels will just about right for digestion... and your inner bohemian should be out in full force....lol
I always loved your sick sense of humor.Pour some cold h2o on the windshield.Thats what i used to do in NY lol
McDonald's forced to shut from lack of patronage in healthy town
McDonald's is closing its outlet in a town known for quality food and healthy, local produce.
The fast food chain in Tavistock, Devon, simply wasn't being used enough by locals.
So after seven years struggling to make ends meet in a town that has won many accolades for the quality of its food, McDonald's will finally shut up shop on Saturday.
John Taylor, chairman of Tavistock EatWise campaign, said: "Because of the quality of our local food McDonald's has not been able to compete."
Earlier this year Tavistock won the title of Best Food Town in the South West.
Mr Taylor said: "I think McDonald's really started to suffer about 18 months ago when healthy school meals were introduced.
"Children no longer needed to go there because they were being fed properly."
A McDonald's spokesman said: "As part of an ongoing review of our restaurant sites, it has become clear that the location of McDonald's in Tavistock is no longer suitable."
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thats a good start. now how about some Wal Marts closing their doors for similar reasons.
went to the truck to take off...
and the damn windshield is frozen...its nippy here.
you're right around that age where you just want to try and escape everything. i call it manopause. i think im still going through it ...lol
Buddy the weather is nice down here,but the floridiots that live down here are another story lol.Esp in the winter as the "snowbirds" flock down here for the weather.I love hawaii,i would move there in a heartbeat if the kids were grown :))
geesh i imagine that the weather in florida right now is probably as nice as it gets in the upper 48. last year my wife and i were in hawaii about this time and the whether was beautiful. i would love to be there again this year but with 3 of 6 children still at home no can do.
I'm always up early..Takin it slow the next cpl wks down here.But thats good @ times.
not bad - im up early and getting ready to go to the gym...
how about you?
How ya doing buddy?
My thoughts exactly! New 52-week high today.
yeah! me thinks we have a big winner here...
i bot my first shares in 2004 and have added... buying as recently as earlier this month. (i often avg up when i think a company is on the right track). im not your average penny flipper.... and OPCO isnt your avg pos turd of a penny stock either. its one of those rare ones that i believe has the potential to go from pennies to dollars on fundamentals.
Lazarus
Let's party Lazarus!
Looks like OPCO is poised to breakout to the upside...
Lazarus
OurPet's Company Reports Record Monthly Sales
Monday December 4, 12:33 pm ET
FAIRPORT HARBOR, OH--(MARKET WIRE)--Dec 4, 2006 -- OurPet's Company (OTC BB:OPCO.OB - News), a growing designer, developer, producer, and marketer of proprietary accessory and consumable pet products, today announced that sales for the month of November were the highest of any month in the Company's history.
Dr. Steve Tsengas, President and CEO of OurPet's, stated, "We are very excited with how 2006 is turning out. Over the past year, we have worked hard developing innovative products that fill a need for consumers and are delighted that our hard work is being well accepted. With one month remaining in 2006, we are confident that we will finish the year with record sales and earnings."
For investors who would like to be added to OurPet's investor distribution list, please contact andrew@smberger.com.
About OurPet's Company
OurPet's designs, produces and markets a broad line of innovative, high-quality accessory and consumable pet products in the US and overseas. Investors and customers may visit www.ourpets.com for more information about the Company and its products. The American Pet Products Manufacturers' Association APPMA(a) estimates that the pet industry will expand to $35.9 billion in 2005 versus $17.0 billion in 1994, making it the seventh largest industry in the US and 60 percent larger than the toy industry.
(a) APPMA, 2005/2006 National Pet Owners Survey
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makes ya wonder *&^$#@?
Lazarus
THE YEAR 1906
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The average life expectancy in the U.S. was 47 years.
Only 14 percent of the homes in the U.S. had a bathtub.
Only 8 percent of the homes had a telephone.
A three-minute call from Denver to New York City cost eleven dollars.
There were only 8,000 cars in the U.S., and only 144 miles of paved roads.
The maximum speed limit in most cities was 10 mph.
Alabama, Mississippi, Iowa, and Tennessee were each more heavily populated than California.
With a mere 1.4 million people, California was only the 21st most populous state in the Union.
The tallest structure in the world was the Eiffel Tower!
The average wage in the U.S. was 22 cents per hour.
The average U.S. worker made between $200 and $400 per year .
A competent accountant could expect to earn $2000 per year, a dentist $2,500 per year, a veterinarian between $1,500 and $4,000 per year, and a mechanical engineer about $5,000 per year.
More than 95 percent of all births in the U.S. took place at HOME .
Ninety percent of all U.S. doctors had NO COLLEGE EDUCATION!
Instead, they attended so-called medical schools, many of which were condemned in the press AND the government as "substandard."
Sugar cost four cents a pou< /B>nd.
Eggs were fourteen cents a dozen.
Coffee was fifteen cents a pound.
Most women only washed their hair once a month, and used borax or egg yolks for shampoo.
Canada passed a law that prohibited poor people from entering into their country for any reason.
Five leading causes of death in the U.S. were:
1. Pneumonia and influenza
2. Tuberculosis
3. Diarrhea
4. Heart disease
5. Stroke
The American flag had 45 stars.
Arizona, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Hawaii, and Alaska hadn't been admitted to the Union yet.
The population of Las Vegas, Nevada, was only 30!!!!
Crossword puzzles, canned beer, and ice tea hadn't been invented yet.
There was no Mother's Day or Father's Day.
Two out of every 10 U.S. adults couldn't read or write.
Only 6 percent of all Americans had graduated from high school.
Eighteen percent of households in the U.S. had at least one full-time servant or domestic help.
There were about 230 reported murders in the ENTIRE ! U.S.A. !
Now I forwarded this from someone else without typing it myself, and sent it to you and others all over the United States, possibly the world, in a matter of seconds!
Try to imagine what it may be like after another 100 years.
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Very good post, and so true!
As for my favorite oil play, I am now ready for them to take her back down again so I can reload. Under 2 again would be nice!
Hope all is well!
Mack
The Pope must die, says Muslim
A notorious Muslim extremist told a demonstration in London yesterday that the Pope should face execution.
Anjem Choudary said those who insulted Islam would be "subject to capital punishment".
Should the Pope have apologised for his remarks? Vote here
His remarks came during a protest outside Westminster Cathedral on a day that worldwide anger among Muslim hardliners towards Pope Benedict XVI appeared to deepen.
The pontiff yesterday apologised for causing offence during a lecture last week. Quoting a medieval emperor, his words were taken to mean that he called the prophet Mohammed "evil and inhuman".
He insisted he was "deeply sorry" but his humbling words did not go far enough to silence all his critics or quell the violence and anger he has triggered.
A nun was shot dead in Somalia by Islamic gunmen and churches came under attack in Palestine.
Choudary's appeal for the death of Pope Benedict was the second time he has been linked with apparent incitement to murder within a year.
The 39-year-old lawyer organised
demonstrations against the publication of cartoons of Mohammed in February in Denmark. Protesters carried placards declaring "Behead Those Who Insult Islam".
Yesterday he said: "The Muslims take their religion very seriously and non-Muslims must appreciate that and that must also understand that there may be serious consequences if you insult Islam and the prophet.
"Whoever insults the message of Mohammed is going to be subject to capital punishment."
He added: "I am here have a peaceful demonstration. But there may be people in Italy or other parts of the world who would carry that out.
"I think that warning needs to be understood by all people who want to insult Islam and want to insult the prophet of Islam."
As well as placards attacking the Pope such as "Pope go to Hell", his followers outside the country's principal Roman Catholic church also waved slogans aimed at offending the sentiments of Christians such as "Jesus is the slave of Allah".
A Scotland Yard spokesman said of his comments: "We have had no complaints about this. There were around 100 people at the demonstration. It passed off peacefully and there were no arrests."
Larger Islamic groups in Britain said they accepted the Pope's apology. Inayat Bunglawala of the Muslim Council of Britain said: "The Vatican has moved quickly to deal with the hurt and we accept that.
"It was something that should never have happened - words of that nature were always likely to cause dismay - and we believe some of the Pope's advisers may have been at fault over his speech."
Yesterday's sermon by the Pope was the first time a pontiff has publicly said sorry.
He said he regretted Muslim reaction to his speech and stressed that the quotation did not reflect his personal opinion. Anger and violence - including attacks on seven churches in the West Bank and Gaza - have characterised one of the biggest international crises involving the Vatican in decades.
The Pope appeared determined to move quickly to try to defuse the anger but the fury of many radicals was unabated last night and there were fears for his safety.
Iraqi jihadists issued a video of a scimitar slicing a cross in two, intercut with images of Benedict and the burning Twin Towers.
The website run in the name of the Mujahedeen Army, used by extremist groups who have claimed responsibility for attacks in Iraq, was addressed to "You dog of Rome" and threatened to "shake your thrones and break your crosses in your home".
In a reference to suicide bombing, it said: "We swear to God to send you people who adore death as much as you adore life."
The threat of violence against Catholics and Christians was emphasised by the murder of an Italian nun in Somalia. Sister Leonella, 66, was shot as she walked from the children's hospital where she worked to her house in Mogadishu, a city recently taken over by an Islamic government.
A Vatican spokesman said he feared her death was "the fruit of violence and irrationality arising from the current situation".
Father Frederico Lombardi said he hoped it was an isolated event. "We are worried about this wave of hatred and hope it doesn't have any grave consequences for the Church around the world," he said.
The murder suggested that extremists are determined to use the Pope's embarrassment as an excuse for violence.
In Turkey, state minister Mehmet Aydin said the Pope seemed to be saying he was sorry for the outrage but not necessarily for his remarks.
"You either have to say this, 'I'm sorry' in a proper way or not say it at all," he told reporters in Istanbul.
There were fierce denunciations of the pontiff from Iran. The English-language Tehran Times called his lecture in Bavaria last week "code words for a new crusade".
The powerful cleric Ahmad Khatami told theological students in the holy city of Qom: The "Pope should fall on his knees in front of a senior Muslim cleric and try to understand Islam."
But the Turkish government signalled it was content and that the Pope's visit to the country in November can go ahead.
In his sermon yesterday at the Papal summer residence of Castel Gandolfo outside Rome, Benedict spoke amid strengthened security.
He said: "I am deeply sorry for the reactions in some countries to a few passages of my address at the University of Regensburg, which were considered offensive to the sensibility of Muslims.
"These in fact were a quotation from a medieval text, which do not in any way express my personal thought. I hope this serves to appease hearts and to clarify the true meaning of my address."
No other Pope is thought to have made such an apology.
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A LOGICAL SOLUTION.
Now here is a problem that finally has a formula for getting to the bottom of an age old problem.
From a strictly mathematical viewpoint it goes like this:
What Makes 100%? What does it mean to give MORE than 100%? Ever wonder about those people who say they are giving more than 100%? We have all been to those meetings where someone wants you to give over 100%. How about achieving 103%? What makes up 100% in life?
Here's a little mathematical formula that might help you answer these questions:
If:
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z is represented as:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26.
Then:
H-A-R-D-W-O-R-K
8+1+18+4+23+15+18+11 = 98%
and
K-N-O-W-L-E-D-G-E
11+14+15+23+12+5+4+7+5 = 96%
But,
A-T-T-I-T-U-D-E
1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5 = 100%
And,
B-U-L-L-S-*-*-T
2+21+12+12+19+8+9+20 = 103%
AND, look how far a** kissing will take you.
A-*-*-K-I-S-S-I-N-G
1+19+19+11+9+19+19+9+14+7 = 118%
So, one can conclude with mathematical certainty that While Hard work and Knowledge will get you close, and Attitude will get you there, it's the Bulls**t and A** Kissing that will put you over the top.
Somali Cleric Calls For Pope's Death
September 17, 2006
A HARDLINE cleric linked to Somalia's powerful Islamist movement has called for Muslims to "hunt down" and kill Pope Benedict XVI for his controversial comments about Islam.
Sheikh Abubukar Hassan Malin urged Muslims to find the pontiff and punish him for insulting the Prophet Mohammed and Allah in a speech that he said was as offensive as author Salman Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses.
"We urge you Muslims wherever you are to hunt down the Pope for his barbaric statements as you have pursued Salman Rushdie, the enemy of Allah who offended our religion," he said in Friday evening prayers.
"Whoever offends our Prophet Mohammed should be killed on the spot by the nearest Muslim," Malin, a prominent cleric in the Somali capital, told worshippers at a mosque in southern Mogadishu.
"We call on all Islamic Communities across the world to take revenge on the baseless critic called the pope," he said.
Reached by telephone on Saturday, Malin confirmed making the remarks that were echoed in less strident form by other senior clerics in the Supreme Islamic Council of Somalia (SICS).
Another SICS executive member, Sheikh Ahmed Abdullahi, vented similar anger at the pope's "barbarous criticism" but stopped short of calling for his murder.
"He must apologise because he has offended the most honorable person who ever lived in the world," Abdullahi said.
The German-born leader of the Roman Catholic Church has been condemned in the Muslim world for comments he made at a Tuesday lecture, in which he implicitly denounced links between Islam and violence, particularly with reference to jihad, or "holy war."
The pope also quoted a 14th-century Byzantine emperor who said innovations introduced by the Prophet Mohammed were "evil and inhuman."
Somalia, a Horn of Africa nation of some 10 million mainly moderate Muslims, has been wracked by instability for the past 16 years but has recently seen the rise of fundamentalist Islamists who seized the capital in June.
38 SENATORS VOTED AGAINST MAKING ENGLISH THE OFFICIAL LANGUAGE OF AMERICA.
NOT ONE REPUBLICAN IN THIS GROUP
HERE THEY ARE.
Akaka (D-HI)
Bayh (D-IN)
Biden (D-DE)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Boxer (D-CA)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Clinton (D-NY)
Dayton (D-MN)
Dodd (D-CT)
Domenici (R-NM)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feingold (D-WI)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Harkin (D-IA)
Inouye (D-HI)
Jeffords (I-VT)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Kerry (D-MA)
Kohl (D-WI)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Lieberman (D-CT)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murray (D-WA)
Obama (D-IL)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Salazar (D-CO)
Sarbanes (D-MD)
Schumer (D-NY)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Wyden (D-OR)
REMEMBER THIS THE DAY YOU VOTE.
Teaching Math In 1950
A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is 4/5 of the price. What is his profit?
Teaching Math In 1960
A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is 4/5 of the price, or $80. What is his profit?
Teaching Math In 1970
A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is $80. Did he make a profit?
Teaching Math In 1980
A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is $80 and his profit is $20 Your assignment: Underline the number 20.
Teaching Math In 1990
A logger cuts down a beautiful forest because he is selfish and inconsiderate and cares nothing for the habitat of animals or the preservation of our woodlands. He does this so he can make a profit of $20. What do you think of this way of making a living? Topic for class participation after answering the question: How did the birds and squirrels feel as the logger cut down their homes? (There are no wrong answers.)
Teaching Math In 2006
Un ranchero vende una carretera de maderapara $100. El cuesto de la produccion era $80. Cuantos tortillas se puede comprar?
check this out - bow hunters nightmare!
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6020264244416084639&hl=en
Lazarus
here's what they're teaching them in the ARMY:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2617909448730878650&hl=en
Lazarus
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