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whats with SSPE
i just bought it lol
i bought this stock today
yessssss
omg
what happened to PMCL today
i sold PMCL for MHII
good luck to all
Can someone contact the HRH to buy all the auction items
Michael Jackson To Earn Couple Of Million For Birthday Appearance
By Staff
May 24, 2007
Michael Jackson will be paid a staggering £5 million for attending a prince's birthday party. The 'Thriller' singer has been promised the mega-bucks deal just to turn up at Brunei's Prince Azim's 25th birthday bash - and does not even have to sing.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18700377/
'Abusive overcharging' in Europe
TODAY Travel Editor Peter Greenberg warns of excessive baggage fees
By Peter Greenberg
TODAYShow.com contributor
Updated: 1:11 p.m. ET May 16, 2007
In the United States, most airlines enforce a policy of two checked bags per passenger, each not to exceed 50 pounds. And at some airlines, a bag weighing more than 50 but under 70 pounds will cost you an additional $25. It's annoying, and for many passengers, it's an inconvenience, but consider this: At least you're not flying an airline called easyJet.
A few weeks ago, I decided to check out European low cost carrier easyJet, and made a booking with one of my staffers to fly from Luton airport outside of London to Paris. The fares were certainly cheap enough — about $50 each way. And there was an additional optional box to check on the internet booking form: The airline said I was allowed only one check-in bag with a 20kg (44-pound) limit, but if I checked the box and paid an additional fee — five British pounds per passenger (or about $20 for two people) I'd be allowed to check two bags. I checked the box. It seemed fair enough.
I arrived two hours ahead of time for my flight to Paris, and that's when the airline hit me with a whammy, and a big one.
The counter agent at easyJet claimed I was 40 kilograms (88 pounds) over. How could that be? I had checked the box. I had spent the extra money for the second bag for two people —thus we were checking in two bags each — and each was 20 kilos or less in weight. I had been careful not to overpack.
But the airline still claimed I was 40 kilos over, and they were going to charge me. I wasn’t happy, but there was nothing I could do. Was the charge $25? $50? Hardly. The excess bag charges for one 48 minute flight from the U.K. to Paris: a whopping $514.69! I was trapped. Had no choice but to pay. And two days later, on another easyJet flight, they charged me $585.62.
How did this happen? Turns out it’s all in the fine print. Yes, for an additional charge I am allowed to check in a second bag on easyJet, but the airline does not increase the weight allowance no matter how many additional bags you check!
As a result, I had paid less than $200 for two people to fly on two separate easyJet flights with baggage that was well within the size and weight limits of any U.S. domestic or international carrier. And the bag charges? $1,100.31!
Now comes the absurd part: I went back and checked the advertised fares for the flights I was on. I could have easily stopped a total of 20 strangers at the airport and offered them a free trip to Paris or London — round trip — for what it cost two people to check in an additional one bag each!
In my entire flying and journalism experience of reporting airline ripoffs and draconian charges, easyJet is easy all right — it easily wins the most abusive overcharging award.
I did some checking to see what it would have cost me to courier 44 kilos to Paris, not from London, but from Los Angeles: $200.75 on DHL, and delivered to my hotel in Paris.
I also checked on how much my round trip fare (plus my companion's) would have been on Air France flying from Heathrow to Charles de Gaulle: $283 each, with two checked bags each allowed, or $566, substantially less than the $1,100 bag charges plus the easyJet airfare.
EasyJet is by no means the only carrier attempting to get away with skyway robbery. British Airways has recently instituted the one bag rule (plus excessive excess bag charges on the second bag) on their flights from Heathrow just about everywhere except the United State.
And low cost carrier Ryanair is even worse. Their weight limit per passenger for checked bags isn't 20 kilos, It's just 15! But as in my case with easyJet, most people won't discover this until they're already at the airport, and it’s too late to do anything except pay.
On the Ryanair Web site (www.ryanair.com), much like easyJet, you can quickly book inexpensive flights. For example, with only two days notice, I was able to find a flight from London to Venice for only 29 pounds (58 dollars) one way and 19.99 pounds (about $40) on the return. But nowhere on the site's main page, or even on the booking page where I had to give my credit card to confirm the reservation and buy the tickets, was there a disclosure about the airline's equally outrageous baggage policies. But after searching, I found it on another "terms and conditions" link, and you've got to see it to believe it. And I quote:
"A Baggage Fee is charged for the carriage of each item of Checked Baggage. The Baggage Fee may be prepaid at the current discounted rate of €6.00/£5.00 per item of baggage/per one way flight when making your reservation. If the Baggage Fee is paid after you have made your booking either at the airport, or through a Ryanair call centre, at the full rate per item of baggage/per one way flight is charged.
Passenger may purchase up to 5 items of baggage per person. Please Note: That the total Checked Baggage Allowance per person is 15kg irrespective of the number of items of baggage purchased per person. There is no baggage allowance for infants.
Any passenger checking in baggage exceeding the 15kg checked baggage allowance per person will be charged an excess baggage fee currently at a rate of £5.50/€8 per kilo (or local currency equivalent).
Passengers may not use the unused checked baggage allowance of other passengers. No pooling/sharing of the checked baggage allowance is permitted, even within a party travelling on the same Confirmation Number.
One item of hand baggage per person, weighing no more than 10kg and with dimensions of less than 55cm x 40cm x 20cm, may be carried into the aircraft cabin (restrictions apply from certain countries) "
Ouch! The fine print says it all. Check anything more than 15 kilograms (a little over 33 pounds) and mortgage your house. I suspect that pretty soon they'll start weighing, YOU.
I emailed Sir Stelios Haji-Ioanou, the Greek-Cypriot born British entrepeneur who founded easyJet, and a man who I’ve met on numerous occasions at various travel industry conferences (where we’ve both been speakers) and asked him to explain these stratospheric charges.
His response, in an email back to me:
“Are you saying you believe our people got the weights wrong, or you are surprised at the per kilo rate of easyJet and the dollar sterling exchange rate?
I believe our rates are competitive for European economy short haul..."
Competitive? If this is being competitive, OK, I give up. EasyJet might win the short haul air fare race in Europe, but based on these charges, if we are responsible (and hopefully fiscally sane) travelers, they deserve to lose the marathon.
The moral to this story is simple: If you're a backpacker owning nothing more than T-shirts and flip flops — and they’d better not be heavy flip flops — or you're a drifter with no bags, then easyJet, Ryanair and on some flights, British Air are the airlines for you. But if you're a real traveler, even with modest check-in bags, be prepared for serious, and in my experience heart attack-inducing sticker shock.
Bottom line: I am now no longer flying easyJet, or Ryanair. easyJet got away with gouging me – that’s the only way I can put it — for more than $1,100. But now, I am warning everyone else. This isn't just bad passenger service. This is intentional, greedy and mean spirited. And in my book, this constitutes nothing less than a declaration of war against all of us. It's time to fight back. I would suggest you avoid these airlines until they change these policies, but if you choose to fly them, remember, you've been warned.
Peter Greenberg is TODAY's travel editor. His column appears weekly on TODAYshow.com. Visit his Web site at PeterGreenberg.com.
© 2007 MSNBC Interactive
URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18700377/
will Entertainment Tonite, Extra cover the MJ auction
does USXP own Universal Jet
http://www.ujet.com/fra-main.html
what really happened yesterday
gee i miss that drop to 11 cents
Last year, Richard Altomare, chairman of Florida-based Universal Express, bought more than 20,000 Jackson family artifacts from Henry Vacaro, a former business partner of Wacko Jacko who won the collection as part of a New Jersey bankruptcy case. They include all of Michael and his siblings' costumes from their Jackson 5 days through the '90s. Among the most coveted prizes are Jacko's trademark sunglasses and black fedora, a jacket with gold-sequined epaulets he wore in his "Moonwalking" days, Janet Jackson's ballet shoes and a Mae West costume she donned onstage, and handwritten Jackson 5 lyrics and never-before-released recordings.
But Jacko has gotten a temporary restraining order against the sale, claiming he's the rightful owner of all the items, and he's set to argue his case at a closed-door hearing in Las Vegas tomorrow.
That has Altomare fuming, particularly since he's withheld numerous items from the auction, slated for May 30-31 at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Vegas, because of their "salacious" nature. "There are a couple of paintings Jackson made of children, of boys - naked," Altomare told Page Six. "And there are some of his whitening creams, some sex aids . . . some of the old records in his sealed [sexual molestation] court case.
"This is stuff we have kept from the auction out of respect to Mr. Jackson. The guy has troubles. We all have skeletons in the closet and, if Michael hadn't put up a fuss, I might have quietly, discreetly, just given it to him. I'm a Brooklyn kid and a gentleman . . . But if he p - - - - s me off, I may end up auctioning them."
Altomare expects the haul to fetch more than $100 million. "I've already been offered $50 million for it privately," he said, adding he's been in talks with Sony about putting out the unreleased songs.
what pink sheet stock was that that skyrocketed when it merged/acquires Elvis estate
USXP
we want michaal
we want michael
we want michael
all together now
we want michael
USXP
we want michaal
we want michael
we want michael
all together now
we want michael
we want michaal
we want michael
we want michael
all together now
we want michael
dont underestimate the power and popularity of the king of pop
i sold half of my shares at 40 cents the other day..
and the rest is now free money shares
but still the drop from near 50 yesterday to 11 cents... is outrageous
still i want my free shares to make more money
any comments
what caused the drop to 11 cents
Article today on Luggage Express
Travelers see benefits to shipping their luggage
By Jane L. Levere
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
NEW YORK: The luggage shipping business has found a convert in Murray Grenville, who runs an investment valuation company in New York and has not flown with bags on any of her business trips in almost a year.
Grenville, the chief executive of Sterling Valuation Group, estimates that shipping his bags beforehand saves him 60 to 90 minutes on each flight. Not only that, he said, there's little risk of lost or misdirected luggage.
"I get off the plane and right into a car," Grenville said. "I can go straight to a meeting without my bags; I don't have to go to my hotel first. And it's an easier travel experience because I don't have 60 pounds of baggage to pull along."
A small but growing number of executives are using such services to ship their bags ahead when they travel on business. The services - some were originally created to ship sports equipment like skis or golf clubs - are proliferating.
Variations are also springing up, like companies that operate "virtual closets" for travelers. These companies store, maintain and ship customers' clothing and other possessions to their destinations, then return it all to storage once the trip is over.
The concept of luggage forwarding is at least 10 years old - one of the first companies, Luggage Express, started operations in 1996 - but its popularity is gaining momentum.
With the adoption last summer of new restrictions on liquids that can be carried onto flights, some travelers who did not check bags are now doing so.
Since then, mishandled luggage incidents have increased. According to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, U.S. airlines reported 8.02 incidents of mishandled luggage per 1,000 passengers in the first quarter of 2007, up from 6.24 incidents in the same period last year. For all of 2006, the airlines reported 6.73 incidents, up from 6.64 reports in 2005.
The bureau defines a mishandled bag as one that has been lost, broken into, damaged or delayed.
The baggage shipping companies generally operate the same way: Customers book their services either by phone or online; the companies then ship the bags via Federal Express, United Parcel Service or other freight forwarders, then track them and confirm their arrival at the traveler's destination. Rates depend on the time required for delivery and the destination.
Luggage Express of Boca Raton, Florida, said it would cost $305 round-trip for the delivery of a 50-pound, or 23-kilogram, suitcase to Los Angeles from New York. Luggage Forward, based in Boston, quoted a price of $622 for the same trip.
First Luggage of London said it would cost $258.65 one way, or $517.30 round trip, to send a 50-pound bag between New York and London. It said the trip would take 48 hours each way.
Luggage Forward said its quickest service to London from New York would take two to four business days, while service in the other direction would take three to five business days, with a round-trip fee of $738.
The companies say that demand for their services, including from business travelers, has grown significantly, particularly since the U.S. Transportation Security Administration imposed new restrictions on liquids in carry-on luggage, which have since been adopted in many other countries.
Richard Altomare of Universal Express said business at its subsidiary, Luggage Express, had grown about 20 percent a month since August. Gideon Kasfiner, chief executive of First Luggage, said the number of pieces shipped by American customers had tripled in the last year.
CEO will be in World Business Review
http://www.hop-on.com/
good news for Control24
Diabetes drug tied to heart risks By MARILYNN MARCHIONE, AP Medical Writer
11 minutes ago
A new analysis links the widely prescribed diabetes drug Avandia to greater risk of heart attack and possibly death.
More than 6 million people worldwide have taken the GlaxoSmithKline drug since it came on the market eight years ago. Pooled results of dozens of studies revealed a 45 percent greater risk of heart attack, according to the analysis, published online Monday by the New England Journal of Medicine.
The drug is used to treat Type 2 diabetes, the most common form of the disease, which is linked to obesity. It occurs when the body does not make enough insulin or cannot effectively use what it manages to produce.
Avandia helps sensitize the body to insulin and was considered a breakthrough medication for blood-sugar control. Its maker, British-based GlaxoSmithKline PLC, scheduled an afternoon news conference to discuss the report.
The company's stock was down 7 percent in morning trading after the medical journal's report appeared.
Several experts said it was another Vioxx-like example of the government failing to detect a safety problem until millions had taken a drug. Vioxx was a blockbuster arthritis medicine until it was withdrawn in 2004 when heart problems came to light.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration had no immediate comment on the report.
$100M
wow
where are all MJ fans
camera phone article and patent
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/sns-ap-candid-camera,1,2681400.story?coll=chi-bizfront-hed
Camera Phone Maker Mulls Gadget's Impact
By MAY WONG
AP Technology Writer
Published May 20, 2007, 12:47 AM CDT
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. -- The chilling sounds of gunfire on the Virginia Tech campus; the hateful taunts from Saddam Hussein's execution; the racist tirade of comedian Michael Richards.
Those videos, all shot with cell phone cameras and seen by millions, are just a few recent examples of the power now at the fingertips of the masses. Even the man widely credited with inventing the camera phone in 1997 is awed by the cultural revolution he helped launch.
"It's had a massive impact because it's just so convenient," said Philippe Kahn, a tech industry maverick whose other pioneering efforts include the founding of software maker Borland, an early Microsoft Corp. antagonist.
"There's always a way to capture memories and share it," he said. "You go to a restaurant, and there's a birthday and suddenly everyone is getting their camera phones out. It's amazing."
If Kahn feels a bit like a proud father when he sees people holding up their cell phones to snap pictures, there's good reason: He jury-rigged the first camera phone while his wife was in labor with their daughter.
"We were going to have a baby and I wanted to share the pictures with family and friends," Kahn said, "and there was no easy way to do it."
So as he sat in a maternity ward, he wrote a crude program on his laptop and sent an assistant to a RadioShack store to get a soldering iron, capacitors and other supplies to wire his digital camera to his cell phone. When Sophie was born, he sent her photo over a cellular connection to acquaintances around the globe.
A decade later, 41 percent of American households own a camera phone "and you can hardly find a phone without a camera anymore," said Michael Cai, an industry analyst at Parks Associates.
Market researcher Gartner Inc. predicts that about 589 million cell phones will be sold with cameras in 2007, increasing to more than 1 billion worldwide by 2010.
Mix in the Internet's vast reach and the growth of the YouTube generation, and the ubiquitous gadget's influence only deepens and gets more complicated. So much so that the watchful eyes on all of us may no longer just be those of Big Brother.
"For the past decade, we've been under surveillance under these big black and white cameras on buildings and at 7-Eleven stores. But the candid camera is wielded by individuals now," said Fred Turner, an assistant professor of communications at Stanford University who specializes in digital media and culture.
The contraption Kahn assembled in a Santa Cruz labor-and-delivery room in 1997 has evolved into a pocket-friendly phenomenon that has empowered both citizen journalists and personal paparazzi.
It has prompted lawsuits -- a student sued campus police at UCLA for alleged excessive force after officers were caught on cell-phone video using a stun gun during his arrest; and been a catalyst for change -- a government inquiry into police practices ensued in Malaysia after a cell-phone video revealed a woman detainee being forced to do squats while naked.
On another scale, parents use cell-phone slideshows -- not wallet photos -- to show off pictures of their children, while adolescents document their rites of passage with cell phone cameras and instantly share the images.
One of the recipients of Kahn's seminal photo e-mail was veteran technology consultant Andy Seybold, who recalled being "blown away" by the picture.
"The fact that it got sent wirelessly on the networks those days -- that was an amazing feat," Seybold said.
Kahn's makeshift photo-communications system formed the basis for a new company, LightSurf Technologies, which he later sold to VeriSign Inc. LightSurf built "PictureMail" software and worked with cell phone makers to integrate the wireless photo technology.
Sharp Corp. was the first to sell a commercial cell phone with a camera in Japan in 2000. Camera phones didn't debut in the U.S. until 2002, Kahn said.
Though Kahn's work revolved around transmitting only digital still photographs -- video-related developments were created by others in the imaging and chip industries -- his groundbreaking implementation of the instant-sharing via a cell phone planted a seed.
"He facilitated people putting cameras in a phone, and he proved that you can take a photo and send it to someone with a cell phone," Seybold said.
Kahn, 55, is well aware of how the camera phone has since been put to negative uses: sneaky shots up women's skirts, or the violent trend of "happy slapping" in Europe where youths provoke a fight or assault, capture the incident on camera and then spread the images on the Web or between mobile phones.
But he likes to focus on the technology's benefits. It's been a handy tool that has led to vindication for victims or validation for vigilantes.
As Kahn heard the smattering of stories in recent years about assailants scared off by a camera phone or criminals who were nabbed later because their faces or their license plates were captured on the gadget, he said, "I started feeling it was better than carrying a gun."
And though he found the camera-phone video of the former Iraqi dictator's execution disturbing, Kahn said the gadget helped "get the truth out." The unofficial footage surreptitiously taken by a guard was vastly different from the government-issued version and revealed a chaotic scene with angry exchanges depicting the ongoing problems between the nation's factions.
Kahn also thinks the evolution of the camera phone has only just begun.
He wouldn't discuss details of his newest startup, Fullpower Technologies Inc., which is in stealth mode working on the "convergence of life sciences and wireless," according to its Web site.
But, Kahn said, it will, among other things, "help make camera phones better."
wow...
and to think.. I almost gave up on this stock
I WANT MY 0.25 Euro
0.25 Euro is still 1000 percent away...
go PMCL
i want my .25 euro
Unlike PLA, NOOF and RICK, PTEL is a UK-based company...
I think at this time, SexQube is only available in the UK or maybe Europe... but not in the US... is this correct...
with its merger with Medify, maybe a US entry
i think WTVI should go back to adult programming or at least include it in its channels..
WTVI had that subsidiary,,,,
but i like this old news the BEST
Bitch Productions Chose Petel
Monday, 15 May 2006
Leading independent production company Bitch Productions have today engaged Petel Limited to create an all new, Flash driven, web site to promote their video and marketing services.
The cutting edge company, responsible for ads for Disney, VTech, Ravensburger and Mizuno recognised Petel’s ability to develop a fully interactive environment to showcase their talents.
and this old news too
Petel Kick Off Sky TV Campaigns
Monday, 09 May 2005
This month sees the launch of an on-going satellite TV promotional and advertising campaign on Sky TV in the UK and Europe.
Parent company Petel, have today announced the start of an ongoing promotional and marketing campaign across 13 of the Sky TV adult entertainment channels.
The campaign is designed to increase traffic and revenues to both Brit Porn Productions movies, mobile and premium rate servcies and TottyMob.com's mobile entertainment content.
i like this old news
Petel Limited is delighted to announce the launch of TottyMob.com, the place to get gorgeous girls on your mobile.
TottyMob.com is an exciting new concept, harnessing the latest advances in mobile video delivery.
Aimed at the FHM generation, TottyMob.com will supply video download and subscription services to mobile handsets, PDAs and iPODs.
In addition, TottyMob.com will aslo be e-tailing mobile games, one of the fastest growing markets in the UK and Europe.
TottyMob.com create all adult content in-house, meaning regular updates and fantastic new content regularly available for subscribers.
this is what i think...
PTEL merged/acquired/ with Medify
PTEL... broadband porn videos
Medify had agreement with Vodafone UK
PTEL based in the UK
maybe... SexQube plus Vodafone
AGGRESIVE CAMPAIGN...
I am particularly pleased as we are due to begin an aggressive consumer marketing campaign in June which can only further boost the profile of SexQube.TV"
This is in addition to revenue streams from a "couples friendly" online adult store, premium rate telephony, dating and chat services, advertising and third party sales.
MORE PARTNERS SOON
We hope to announce more partners in the very near future, putting us well on our way to delivering the world's largest VOD library for SexQube.TV viewers."
online porn + broadband = PTEL
we gonna be hugeeee
are online porn videos downloable to IPOD...
what Sexqube.tv needs is a partnership with a broadband company like VODAFONE
but Vodafone has already partnered with Medify....
hmmmm
is this the new JSDHerbs.com website
http://www.leejaseng.com/
QUERIES...
what acquired what
did Petel get acquire, or did Peter acquire Medify..
when I checked Petel website, the business is more than just sexqube.tv.... and it does other businesses...
Does PTEL also own those other businesses...
Who will be the other partners???
20's soon...
NEW PARTNERS SOON
We have recently announced high profile partnerships with Scala and Combat Zone, who will be supplying content, along with our own division Brit P(x)rn Productions. We hope to announce more partners in the very near future, putting us well on our way to delivering the world's largest VOD library for SexQube.TV viewers."