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was that bs?
have they got the sleeves rolled up again?! all about.LOL
added at .o62
12 day is .06
glassy called it again! hit 11 day at .066 and promptly turned around- wish i had had funds for more.
maybe he got bumped!
XKEM-i think sell on news over today and still lots to grow here-
(i'm in all but my initial invstmt)
http://www.businessdayonline.com/?c=44&a=7409
Obasanjo to commission sickle cell drug factory today
A local factory that would immediately commence the production of NICOSAN- an anti-sickling drug, will be commissioned today by President Olusegun Obsanjo.
Ayodele Coker, Director General of SHESTCO who disclosed this in Abuja yesterday explained that NICONSAN is a drug first developed by the National Institute for Pharmaceutical Research and Development (NIPRD) for the management of sickle cell disease.
He said that NICOSAN consists of a mixture of extracts from four tropical plants, some of which are cultivated and found in the wild both within and outside Nigeria Coker stressed that all necessary precautions had been taken to ensure safety of the products as well as continuity in the production.
According to him, the Gamma irradiation facility is to be used for food preservation, sterilisation of pharmaceutical and medical devices, as well as polymerisation and other industrial applications.
Cker said that "the drug, to be used in the treatment of sickle cell diseases, is being produced by a pharmaceutical company-Xechem-Nigeria and has been tested locally and international at Philadelphia Children’s Hospital in the United States."
The drug which Coker said has been approved by the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) is also been recognised by the World Health Organisation (WHO) for the treatment of sickle cell diseases .
Coker explained that the Gamma Irradation facility is for food security and preservation of agricultural products which will cut down the loss from waste of harvested crops experienced annually stressing "more than 55% of our harvested crops are wasted thus the need for the facility and we want to cut down on this loss".
"WE are confident this will help in the reduction of prices of foodstuffs all year round. With the Gamma Irradiation Facility, you can delay the ripening period period, retain freshness and admittance of exported agriculture products in the markets. Products that go through the facility will be 100% safe for human consumption as there is no room for error.
what will it take for this to move??!!
Ken Lay dead !!??!!
XKEM .09! drug launch/approval imminent
Resurgent Russia prepares for convertible rouble
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/97c20938-07d5-11db-9067-0000779e2340.html
By Neil Buckley in Moscow
Published: June 30 2006 03:00 | Last updated: June 30 2006 03:00
Memories of Russia's default on $40bn of domestic debt eight years ago, when people queued outside banks to withdraw roubles that were plummeting in value, have barely faded from the national psyche.
Yet, remarkably, with coffers swollen by oil selling at $70 a barrel, Russia will tomorrow lift all currency controls on the rouble and make it fully convertible. Everyone will be able to move roubles freely out of and into the country, foreign and offshore investors will be able to open rouble bank accounts, and restrictions on rouble fixed-income investments will disappear.
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It is a highly political and symbolic step. Brought forward by six months from the original deadline, it comes two weeks before Russia hosts the Group of Eight summit in St Petersburg, and days after the country reached agreement to pay off, ahead of time, its remaining $22bn (€17.5bn, £12.2bn) debt to the Paris Club of creditor nations.
The move will announce "that Russia is a serious global player," says Al Breach, research director at UBS in Moscow. "It has now graduated to being a normal, if not developed, at least upwardly developing, country."
Russia is saying "it is stable, it is open, and ready for money coming in".
The lifting of currency controls is also part of a campaign to burnish the rouble's once shattered image and challenge the dollar's supremacy - an economic parallel to Moscow's efforts to counterbalanceUS dominance in foreign policy.
Senior officials including President Vladimir Putin have even called for the rouble to become a reserve currency, to the surprise of international investors.
Russia's lower house of parliament has given preliminary approval to a bill slapping instant fines - their size not yet determined - on ministers and senior officials who quote figures in dollars that could be quoted in roubles. It would also stiffen fines on businesses displaying prices in foreign currencies, as many started to do during the hyperinflation in the 1990s that followed Russia's initial liberal reforms.
"The rouble is on the move," quipped Vladimir Zhirinovsky, veteran ultra-nationalist leader in the Russian parliament. "Next stop, Berlin."
But rouble convertibility has strong fiscal underpinnings and big economic consequences. It is backed by $250bn in foreign exchange reserves and $70bn in a stabilisation fund stuffed with windfall oil tax revenues.
While the Putin administration's political record is under scrutiny ahead of the G8 summit - and rising oil and gas prices have been a massive stroke of luck - economists say its fiscal management has been exemplary.
The expected mushrooming of rouble bond, credit and debt markets should in turn help Russia move to the next stage of economic regeneration. It is shifting from recovery - improving productivity of existing industrial capacity - to investment-led growth through developing new capacity.
By enabling companies, and state and quasi-state entities, to fund investment in roubles, development of the domestic capital market could help Russia start renewing its decrepit infrastructure.
Convertibility should also enable Moscow to shift in two or three years from a monetary policy based on exchange rate management to an interest-rate managed policy, in line with most developed countries. That was previously impossible since lack of confidence in the rouble made the dollar the main instrument of Russia's capital markets.
As always there are significant risks. Big inflows of funds could lead to an overheating economy or stoke inflation that, at close to double figures, Russia is still struggling to contain.
Analysts, however, note that the Russian authorities have scope to let the rouble, already up 4 per cent year-on-year against a basket of international currencies, appreciate further to offset the inflationary pressure. But a stronger rouble will make exports more expensive, increasing the pressure on Russian manufacturers already struggling to maintain competitiveness, even if their borrowing costs should be cut by convertibility.
As Deutsche UFG, another Moscow investment bank, points out, the reform also ups the stakes for Russia's economic policy makers: if they make a mess of things, mobile capital could desert the country en masse.
And yet, with the rouble rising and the ability before long to take roubles abroad and change them therefor local currency, convertibility could lead to afinal important switch. Russians, many of whom have long favoured salaries in dollars, may start demanding that their employers once again pay them in humble roubles.
Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2006
alright already! LOL- got in at .046
80 stingray, thanks for posting those links!
picked up some at 0088 !!
xlpi chart
KC left
cool magic box ;) thx serf.
great pr today.
BLYM .0004 shareholder letter
Billy Martin's USA, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: BLYM) today released a letter to the shareholders from Mr. Doug Newton, CEO of the Company:
To the Shareholders of BLYM We want to give our shareholders an update regarding the status of six (6)initiatives we have been working on during the first half of 2006. During this period, management has pressed forward with its business strategy to identify new revenue sources for our brand within the "western lifestyle" market niche where we have operated for nearly 28 years.
Here are the initiatives we have on the table, in the hopper, and/or on deck for your Company at this time:
1. HBO Deadwood: In June, we have finally brought to fruition a major agreement to bring to market a collection of apparel, fragrance and accessory products carrying the co-branded names of Billy Martin's and HBO's critically acclaimed western TV series, Deadwood, as announced last week in the Hollywood Reporter and other media. ®HBO and DEADWOOD are registered service marks of Home Box Office, Inc.
2. Fragrance Products: Now that Deadwood is a done-deal, we plan to announce an agreement with a national fragrance company to market a woman's perfume and man's fragrance product which may carry the names "Trixie" and "Bullock", respectively -- two of the principal characters from the Deadwood TV series. We previously filed a US trademark registration for "Trixie" in early February, after HBO first approached us in Jan. 2006.
3. "Riata" Fragrance: By the end of 2006, we plan to launch our own branded fragrance product named "Riata" by Billy Martin's. This line will not be part of our Deadwood Collection, but will carry the name of one of the country's better known female celebrities, whose fit with the Billy Martin's name and our western lifestyle positioning will be a perfect match, we hope. Our goal is for Billy Martin's "Riata" to compete aggressively with the western-oriented Stetson and Shania Twain brands owned by Coty.
4. Billy Martin's Denim Line: In early July, management will be meeting with the CEO and design personnel at the headquarters of a well-known denim manufacturer whose denim brands are household words in America. Following our initial meetings with this company -- and after their own research with their existing and new retail clients -- they and we have concluded that Billy Martin's branded denim line is now ready to be developed and introduced to the wider wholesale market. Depending on our negotiations, this new line could be announced soon.
5.. On Line E-Commerce Website: With FSBO Media Holdings, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: FSMH), we are excited to have a joint marketing partner and agreement in place under which they are now constructing for the Company a highly interactive website to market not only goods from the "HBO Deadwood Collection by Billy Martin's" but also "western-lifestyle" products from the finest designers and artisans in America today.
6. Dead-Aim Target Marketing: Working with FSBO Media Holdings, Inc. and the on-line marketing department of Centale Inc., we are gearing up to market our portfolio of branded, other-branded, and co-branded western lifestyle products via the utilization of up to 100 million deliverable email records matched with corresponding postal codes and further segregated via demographic selects.
Centale has already identified 3.3 million records of poker-affinity recipients to whom we will be targeting our HBO Deadwood Collection of poker vests, shirts and jewelry for both men and women.
Preliminary "redemption" projections for our "Wild Bill Hickock" poker vest, retailing at $99 -- virtually the same vest worn by Keith Carradine in his portrayal of Hickock in the initial season of Deadwood -- are 2%, or 66,000 possible buyers, translating to $6.6 million for this one item.
In coming weeks, revenue estimates will be produced for other items in the Deadwood Collection, as well as for the Billy Martin's "western lifestyle" artisan-designer series E-commerce site now in development via FSBO Media Holdings, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: FSMH).
PS: Wish us luck in our meetings next week with the denim company. Sincerely, Doug Newton, CEO
Forward-Looking Statements
N. B. Statements about BLYM's future expectations, including future revenues and earnings, and all other statements in this news release other than historical facts are "forward-looking statements." Since these statements involve risks and uncertainties and are subject to change at any time, the company's actual results may differ materially from the company's plans if its assumptions prove to be incorrect or for a variety of other reasons.
Source: Market Wire (June 29, 2006 - 9:49 AM EDT)
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NDOL news
Nord Oil International/North-West Oil Group Targets Oil Producer in the Saratov Region
Nord Oil International/North-West Oil Group (PINKSHEETS: NDOL) is completing negotiations for the acquisition of NK SaratovNefteGeofizika in an all cash deal. This acquisition shall be made in parallel with the Magma deal which was announced last week. There is a definite interest by a number of European funds to provide the necessary funding for these acquisitions.
The President, Mr. Ernest Malyshev, states, "Russia is a key supplier of petroleum products to Europe, and the European banking and commercial institutions are eager to participate in all oil/gas ventures involving oilfields in Russia."
NK SaratovNefteGeofizika is an oil, gas and condensate producing company located in the lower Volga basin within the Saratov area, which is a mature petroleum region of Russia.
The purchase shall be for 100% of both the Company and its subsidiary, ZAO Itilneft.
The Company, which was formed 7 years ago, provides an excellent opportunity to acquire low priced assets in the very prolific Lower Volga Basin; its licenses have significant further upside potential with a large surface to explore within well-defined prospects. The Company has all the necessary services and facilities for growth. It presently has 142 employees and 3 certified chemical laboratories.
The assets of the target Company include among other advantages the following three areas of production.
The Ternovskoye Oil and Gas Field has 6 wells with a 7th well being set up, and it consists of the four reserves.
Its Klinsovskii Oil Reserve has 12,446,000 barrels of proven reserves and 17,994,000 barrels of probable reserves. In 2005, annual production was 584,000 barrels of oil..
The Vorobievskii Gas Reserve has 3 wells and the probable reserves are 505 MM cubic meters of gas with 83,000 tons of condensate. The gas reserves are to be in production in 2008.
The Vorobievskii Oil Reserve has 3 wells with 5,548,000 barrels of reserves of oil.
The Bobrikovskii Gas Condensate Reservoir has 4 wells with estimated gas reserves in the amount of 556,000,000 cubic meters.
The East-Ternovskoye Gas Condensate Field has gas reserves of 107MM cubic meters and 129,210 barrels of condensate. The probable gas reserves are 207MM cubic meters and 250,390 barrels of condensate.
The Ostrolukskoye Oil Field has 2 wells with a yearly production of 85,417 barrels with proven and probable reserves of 85,417,000 barrels of oil. There is also a direct pipeline to the Engels oil and gas base which belongs to the company.
The quality of the produced oil from these deposits shall obtain a premium price per barrel and this will economically provide a most efficient return.
The acquisition should be completed within 2-3 months and shall provide Nord Oil International/North-West Oil Group with another step towards its quest to greatly increase its presence in the European oil marketplace.
The President, Mr. Malyshev, assures the shareholders that this step as well as that of acquiring the Magma operations shall dramatically increase value for the shareholders and market presence, value and strength for the Company.
About Nord Oil International Inc.
Nord Oil International Inc. is a reporting, publicly traded Oil & Gas company trading under the ticker symbol NDOL on the US Pinksheets market as well as on the Frankfurt Exchange under symbol CXIA. Nord Oil International and the North-West Oil Group merged on May 11, 2006. The company is in the process of filing all regulatory statements and will change its name to the North-West Oil Group and will be issued a new ticker symbol. The company presently produces over 120,000 Metric Tons of crude oil yearly.
Important Information About Forward-Looking Statements
All statements in this news release that are other than statements of historical facts are forward-looking statements, which contain our current expectations about our future results. Forward-looking statements involve numerous risks and uncertainties. We have attempted to identify any forward-looking statements by using words such as "anticipates," "believes," "could," "expects," "intends," "may," "should" and other similar expressions. Although we believe that the expectations reflected in all of our forward-looking statements are reasonable, we can give no assurance that such expectations will prove to be correct.
A number of factors may affect our future results and may cause those results to differ materially from those indicated in any forward-looking statements made by us or on our behalf. Such factors include our limited operating history; our need for significant capital to finance internal growth as well as strategic acquisitions; our ability to attract and retain key employees and strategic partners; our ability to achieve and maintain profitability; fluctuations in the trading price and volume of our stock; competition from other providers of similar products and services; and other unanticipated future events and conditions.
Source: Market Wire (June 29, 2006 - 9:49 AM EDT)
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xlpi news .016-.019 Hyundai Tests FlexTek for Factory Installation on New Cars
XcelPlus International Inc. (PINKSHEETS: XLPI) is pleased to announce that the Hyundai Motor Car Company is testing XcelPlus FlexTek technology for use as their factory flex-fuel technology.
Sydney Mills, a consultant for the ethanol industry who worked for General Motors for 20 years, is supervising the tests on vehicles supplied by Hyundai state fleet manager Gary Jones. According to Mr. Jones: "Our cars are compatible with E10, but we're being open minded about what is going to happen in the future." The tests include the installation of the FlexTek bi-fuel conversion system, and treatment with XcelPlus Lubrilon engine protection to protect internal engine parts.
Carsguide.com.au recently published an article detailing the project. The article can be viewed at: http://carsguide.news.com.au/story/0,20384,19540982-21822,00.html
"We are very excited at the prospect of our technology being applied to the new car market," said Bill R. Smith, President of XcelPlus International Inc. "Use on new vehicles will allow FlexTek technology to continue long after the conversion market becomes saturated. More importantly, we are confident that once new car manufacturers become aware of the benefits of our engine protection chemicals they will be used on virtually all new cars."
"Lubrilon is the only engine protection formula that literally plates internal engine parts, preventing wear and improving mileage. Use on new vehicles would drastically reduce manufacturer warranty costs."
In addition to the U.S. Government tested and proven Engine Protection formulation, XcelPlus' Lubrilon line of products includes the only E85 motor oil blended specifically for use in vehicles running on ethanol fuel blends, and chemicals to clean internal engine components and fuel systems.
About XcelPlus International:
XcelPlus International Inc. manufactures and markets E85 Conversion Systems, Ethanol Fuel Products, and Specialty Chemicals which enable the growth of the ethanol market, while providing consumers with a viable means of using newly developed clean energy technologies.
Safe Harbor Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: Except for historical information, the forward-looking matters discussed in this news release are subject to certain risks and uncertainties which could cause the Company's actual results and financial condition to differ materially from those anticipated by the forward-looking statements including, but not limited to, the Company's liquidity and the ability to obtain financing, the timing of regulatory approvals, uncertainties related to corporate partners or third-parties, product liability, the dependence on third parties for manufacturing and marketing, patent risk, copyright risk, competition, and the early stage of products being marketed or under development, as well as other risks indicated from time to time in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Company assumes no obligation to update or supplement forward-looking statements that become untrue because of subsequent events.
Source: Market Wire (June 29, 2006 - 6:00 AM EDT)
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newfy- think it was an old postof yours that drew my attention to xkem at .012. Thanks Newfy! this is just the prelaunch jitters here. can't wait.
this is the fax # from their website on reverse phone #
http://www.whitepages.com/10583/search/ReversePhone?phone=718-906-4439&localtime=survey
Results:
1 listing matching "(718) 906-4439"
Cash For Cars
488 Leonard St
Brooklyn, NY 11222-3911
(718) 906-4439
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this is around the corner from me and i have never witnessed any activity at the building- have stood outside and called the number and could not hear anything either. on a block with autorepair shops and new luxury condos under construction- (if they own the building it woulde be a great asset!2-4 million. lol)
nice- they should land another contract soon i would think ;)
Mr G. where do you think the bottom is on INTK? slow fall from 1.50 to .10 today. i guess until a major contract comes through it won't change course, but i actually used that insulation paint and it does totally work!
ACMG news
Alcar Chemicals Group Selects Genivar
Alcar Chemicals Group Inc. (PINKSHEETS: ACMG) announces that it has selected the engineering firm Genivar as general contractor for its first biomass conversion facility.
Following careful examination of several options ACMG has selected the Canadian engineering firm Genivar to complete engineering and construction of its first biomass conversion facility. "After six months of preliminary engineering work with the consulting firm and in light of the expertise demonstrated, contracting the full project to Genivar for a turn key delivery was the logical and most sensed choice" -- said Alexander Cavasin, CEO of Alcar Chemicals Group -- "I am confident that the team from Three-Rivers we are working with will deliver the expected results on schedule," further added Alexander Cavasin.
When asked about a more detailed update, Alexander Cavasin had the following to say: "The project is progressing on schedule with a closing for the building expected in August. Reactor construction and installation will commence in September and is expected to be completed by the end of spring 2007 with a quick ramp-up of polyol production to fill our orders on hand. Our planned ethanol reactor is now expected to come online by summer 2007, a full six months ahead of schedule. Furthermore, the required funding to cover additional administration fees for auditing and reporting is now budgeted and is expected to become available by early August, which would allow us to become fully reporting by spring 2007, three months ahead of the original schedule. Additional developments on our organizational structure include a planned reactor manufacturing facility within the US and a related franchising plan for the technology to crop producers, allowing them to valorize the waste by converting it into ethanol."
About Alcar Chemicals Group
The Alcar Chemicals Group (PINKSHEETS: ACMG) represents a significant market opportunity due to a serious worldwide supply shortage of raw materials for polymers as well as an increased requirement for ethanol and biodiesel. ACMG has been concentrating on innovative methods for biomass valorisation for the past decade, specifically petroleum-independent fuel and plastics resin production. Its proprietary technology represents today's most economical and advanced manufacturing process for plastic raw materials, ethanol and bio-diesel, allowing production at cost savings of up to 40% when compared to current production methods.
To hear more about ACMG from Alexander P. Cavasin go to: http://www.publiccoreport.net/featured/ACMG/company.asp
something is up for sure! let's hope news follows
i'm finally back to even here.
svmi .018 +chart
looking forward to alaska update
imo=in my opinion (imho, imvho- in my [very] humble opinion)
wow! you're spidey senses are on this mornin
party's got a pretty good history of dd. worth paying attention to imho.
clyp is the mm most suspect the company of selling through
SVMI +39% .016 no news (yet)
the technology looks great but what about content? their library looked kinda slim.
did he also say 60 to 1 reverse? do you own shares efwd already (can one even buy- there's seems no volume for awhile) thanks puppman!
anyone also own EFWD? in process of rs and global holdings merging into it i think he said? anyone know more? thanks
no. CLME.pk
has this been posted yet (+front page pic.!)
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/22/sports/othersports/22fight.html?_r=1&oref=slogin