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eric- that's exactly what is happenning here. Right or wrong it is definately a factor that the company has to face up to. Investor sentiment is a potent factor here in pinkie land.
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eric- I liked your analogy on the girlfriend. Something to think about- when the ex girlfriend does the same thing several times at different times to different guys, what kind of reputation does she get? Just something to ponder. GL2U
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Great article on Taiwan and China. With most of the mainstream focus on the middle east, it seems the far east gets little attention. One would think a 50 million+ standing army behind a growing economic powerhouse would attract more attention.
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cashflo- I'm always glad to have some of the former investors come by and give their insights and experiences. One of the best forms of DD for new potential investors is experiences of previous investors. Good experiences and bad ones are all welcomed. My goal is to make the most info possible available to anyone stopping by to use to help them make a decision on whether to invest in this company or not.
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updated OS share count in iBox. eom
Interesting web site:
http://www.eternalimagesignanddesign.com/index.html
Finally got it all straightened out. Calls gathering info from the attorney for BVYH, the TA and Ameritrade provided the info needed. I was getting a little upset with Ameritrade for their apparent lack of interest as this was in my small Roth account, but they must have checked my other accounts and figured they don't want me to leave. LOL. I'm glad to be on board here.
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cashflo- I'll be calling the TA probably Friday. I'll post it in the Ibox. It will probably explain a lot. Glad to see you come around once in a while.
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PITA- you may be right. Last I heard was 7% and it may have changed. Sometimes these things change weekly. I've seen margin requirements in precious metals change 2X in one week last winter.
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I think most people do realize that no stock will go up forever. There are always pullbacks and corrections. With the fairly accurate predictions you have been posting, I'd venture to say a lot of swing traders on board are paying a lot of attention to you. They can profit from the ups and the downs as well. It takes all kinds to make a market.
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Equity- any single person or entity that owns 7% or more of the outstanding shares of a company must register with the SEC as a beneficial owner. I'm sure there are sufficient reasons for it, but it is law.
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Evil- I think more posters are paying more attention to you now. Keep up the good work and thank you for your thoughts and projections.
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I have to watch myself here. I don't want to have to register with the SEC as a beneficial owner. . Just kidding, I'm not that close- yet.
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I just picked up 1 million at the ask of .0041. It took 3 minutes to fill, then the ask moved up to .0042. Just FYI
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Hello all, I am not new to this stock, but don't post here. I am long over 5m shares and expect great things in the long run. I have been trading penny stocks for many years(sometimes I think too many). I have been watching the pps head steadily south and in my years of experience watching these things happen there is really only one thing that causes it a very large majority of the time. Plain and simple dilution, either from the company treasury, insider selling , or from CD holders getting their investment back. If anyone is making calls to the TA getting updates regularly the issue could be solved quickly. Good luck to all here. I think we will have a winner eventually.
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And yes I am in favor of less buybacks and more production, but I seem to be in the small minority that thinks the company would be better off expanding than buying back shares. FWIW
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Keep in mind that all of these new ideas for products will require $$ for retooling and manufacturing= less $$ for buybacks. It is fun to dream but don't lose sight of reality.
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Letter from my daughter on Iraq. I didn't attach the one from her fiance. He's getting out rather than go for the third time. He is a totally dedicated professional soldier with 10 years in. Apparently it is becoming widespread.
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Hey there
So attached is a letter that Kenny wrote putting down some of his thoughts. I think he sugar coated some of it to be proper but you can tell by the tone of it he's not happy. He pretty much somes up my feelings as well but here are some dates for you to better understand.
November 2005 - deployed
November 2006 - returned
May/June 2007 - NTC
August 2007 - deploy
that is only 9 months to be "settled" before we're scheduled to redeploy. Granted you only need to be stabilized 6 months before they can send you out again but that (up until now) rarely happens. The most frustrating thing about it all is that a very large portion of the Army has never been deployed, they just keep recycling the same units. And since the deployments are coming quicker now they end up stop lossing the soldiers in that unit. That's why people like Kenny get stuck at 1 unit for 4 yrs and 3 deployments. With such a quick turn around you don't have time to mentally prepare yourself for the mission at hand. Plus throw in all the "training" we have to do to prepare and you have 6 months with your family.
Now the new plan of 15 month deployments for 12 months of stabilization. Everyone thinks this has solved the problem at hand but no one is really thinking about how it affects the individual soldier. 15 months is a very very long time in those conditions. Even if you happen to be in the best conditions, you're still in Iraq! Families and individuals are suffering. So many people are trying to jump ship and get out so they don't have to go. It may sound horrible like "you signed up for this" but no one ever expected it to get this far. I know of someone who got out at 17 yrs to avoid going over again. People who all of a sudden have injuries that make them non-deployable. Women are getting pregnant...just to get out! It's horrible.
I know it may not sound like a lot to you, being in Vietnam, but this war isn't like that. There are no more "battlefields." This is not a "war" it's a show of power and force without any reason, not anymore. I agreed when we first went in, but now it's done.
They're not afraid of us anymore and everyday they come up with more ways to kill us. These are not people we can change, they are their own culture whether or not we agree with what that is. People behind the desks in Washington DC and their counter parts in charge in Iraq aren't being realistic with the changes they want to make (enforce). Iraqis will always have corruption in their ranks, it's just their society. Everytime we clear a city they find somewhere else to hide until we leave that city and then they go back. The people fear the terrorist more than they trust us so they're no help. There is a minority that does want us to help and tries to help us but they're so few and few between that it doesn't help.
Well I think I covered just about all the subjects I can. To sum it all up it just sucks!!!! There's no good thing about it. I hope this helps you a bit. Let me know what you think.
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AMEN on the 9¢. eom
ditto on the politics, I was looking for opinions just like yours, that affect the people on the ground that have to endure it all. It's a big topic and I'm looking for opinions from real people, not what the editorialists are splashing in the papers. My daughter just returned last November and is already currently training for her next tour. As you may guess I have mixed emotions on it. I would love to see her not go back, but if she has to I want her to have the best available. I still haven't heard back from her on the poll of the enlisteds I asked her for(probably due to intense training going on right now). The outcome of her return email on the subject is the way I'll be badgering my representative and senators. I feel that their views are far more important than my own. I hope I didn't start something that gets out of control for you here.
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Anyone interested in a topic for discussion? Who's position in the current funding debate in Washington is most supportive of the troops? Bush wants to stay the course and the democrats want a timely withdrawal. Each side claims to be supportive of the troops and claims the other isn't. Any thoughts out there?
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Chunga- this is your board and if a discussion like this is not what you had in mind when creating the board, feel free to delete my post. No offense taken.
Any of the names mentioned in this link familiar?
http://www.swedishvegas.com/corporate.htm
It almost reads like a whos who of WTVI. Well maybe this type of business will be better for them than internet TV. I wonder how this one is being financed? Is it a subsidiary? Is it a part of WTVI? I think the escort service will bring in far more revenues than the sales of infomercial channels.
Any ladies interested in being a Swedishvegas girl? They are taking applications right over the internet:
http://www.swedishvegas.com/Girls.htm
I've got to hand it to these people. They keep trying.
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And for a bank to loan with shares as collateral, they must see the financials and approve them. It speaks volumes to me.
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I think it may be time to write this one off. The red flags went up when they changed to a gagged TA. I guess we were all hoping for the best, but it looks like the reverse split dilution machine was cranked up. Best of luck to all here.
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Been going back and forth with ameritrade over this issue of 100 share minimum, and getting no response from the company. Maybe it's time to call in the SEC and get it straightened out. It is getting really frustrating.
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fireman dave- hi, nice honest post. You true have found the diamond in the ruff as you said. You just want to be careful. You said you have only 2 months trading experience. You NEED to know that in the penny stock world not all companies are like ETIM. Especially in the pinks. In pinkie land a very large majority are either outright scams or for one reason or another never amount to anything. You have stumbled across that one in a decade that will eventually amount to something making your investment something to crow about. Just don't make the mistake of thinking you can find one like this several times a year and do as well. Like as not you'd lose all your gains from this stock. I've been playing penny stocks for over 10 years now. I would hope the fact that I'm still here speaks of at least a little credibility. Many try their hand but most move on after frequent losses vowing never to tread here again. FWIW and GL2U
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Hello all- question- I had 6000 shares of NPSC in my Roth and now it contains only 25 shares of BVYH. Wasn't I supposed to get the 100 minimun?
Thanks
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If the company plans to remain on the otcbb and trade there, then there is no need for a R/S.Many companies trade there with O/S in the billions. If the company ever wants to move to nasdaq or amex they will have to have one to get the share price up to the level necessary to obtain a listing. As much as I'd love to see them buy back enuff shares to raise the price to that area, reality tells me quite differently.
I have a prior committment today that is a postponement from Monday's snow day up here in the NE. Looking forward to returning home tonite and hearing all the good news posted here from the CC.
Thanks to all
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agreed the president has had the right to use the NG under circumstances provided by law. What was done last year was to expand those circumstances to include possible tasks normally done by civil police and NG under control of the governors to include use under those same conditions under federal control. It's kind of like an old states rights battle from 2 centuries ago. Right or wrong? I don't know. I'm sure credible arguements could be made for either side of the arguement. I guess time and the next natural disaster will tell the tale. In all actuality if I were ever in a situation needing to be plucked from a raging river, or rescued from a hostage situation, or pulled from a burning building, I wouldn't really care if the hand that saved me was a civilian, NG, or regular army.
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chunga- I think the key words you are trying to point out here is "the Congress". Our system was built on the checks and balances system. Over the years our congress seems to have abdicated many of their responsibilities to the office of the president. Now rightly or wrongly we have a congress trying to take it back. We also have the best form of government available right now in DC. It's called gridlock. When one party is in control they do things to reward their "friends", usually at the expense of us ordinary citizens. When we have gridlock, each party is too busy posturing, bickering, and stonewalling to really get much of anything done. Hence no one gets hurt too badly. It has been my experience that gridlock is the best thing that can happen for the average citizen. I worked hard to try and get democrats elected last November. I think they will control congress for quite a few years. I will work just as hard to try and keep a republican in the white house in 2008. It's a sad state of affairs when the best man for the job is no longer relevent. Thru simple economics the political parties themselves have taken control of all candidates for elected office. It's sadder yet that our sons and daughters in the military are kept dangling by this same corrupt system.
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military doing work of local police? good read
Expanding Executive Power
By Doug Hornig
Americans, or at least those Americans in love with liberty, have always been suspicious--rightfully so, we would say--of attempts by Washington to extend its police powers into the states or to turn over law enforcement tasks to the military.
With regard to the latter, Sam Adams gave us fair warning well over two hundred years ago when he said, "Where there is a necessity of the military power, a wise and prudent people will always have a watchful and a jealous eye over it; for the maxims and rules of the army are essentially different from the genius of free people, and the laws of a free government."
This sentiment was solidified in law with the Insurrection Act of 1807, which carefully circumscribed the president's ability to use the military to deal with civilian unrest; and with the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, which forbade the military to make arrests and do other routine police work.
The present administration has been chipping away at these principles since 9/11, often under the guise of prosecuting the so-called War on Terror (which Doug Casey more correctly terms the "Forever War").
Most insidious was a revision of the Insurrection Act that got attached as a rider to last year's Defense Appropriations Act. Apparently seeking to avoid the kind of confrontation that developed in the wake of Hurricane Katrina--when President Bush tried to federalize the Louisiana National Guard and Governor Blanco resisted him--the administration got Congress to pass an amendment to the Insurrection Act that permits the president to seize control of the National Guard during times of natural disaster, disease outbreak, terrorist attack or, ominously, "other conditions" where "authorities of the state or possession are incapable of maintaining public order."
Who gets to make that call? Well, the president.
These few phrases, in one brief stroke of the pen, override centuries of American history. That they were deeply buried in another bill makes them all the more suspect. Why not have separate legislation introduced, fully debated in Congress, and extensively covered by the media? There is only one answer: the administration didn't want that kind of exposure.
Our governors noticed, though. They objected, all 50 of them, Democrat and Republican alike. And they were successful in defeating an even broader proposal that would have allowed the president to federalize the Guard without even invoking the Insurrection Act. Nevertheless, they were deeply disappointed, writing a letter to Congress calling the surviving changes "a dramatic expansion of federal authority [...] that could cause confusion in the command-and-control of the National Guard and interfere with the states' ability to respond to natural disasters within their borders."
True enough. But confusion aside, the further implications are even more ominous, in our opinion. The whole reason we don't want the military doing law enforcement in the first place is that they are fundamentally different from the police. Cops are bound by the Constitution of the United States and the country's laws; soldiers aren't. Cops exist to protect civil, personal and property rights; soldiers are taught to ignore them.
Might this, or some future unpopular president decide to unleash the Guard on political demonstrators? American governors would be highly unlikely to do it; they learned a lesson from Kent State. But there will probably come a time when the president thinks he knows better how to handle a demonstration in San Francisco than the governor of California does. Even if there are no tragic consequences on the order of Kent State, the message will still have been clear: if you dissent, we'll send in the troops.
This federal power grab would be bad enough by itself, but it's been accompanied by another development that should be of equal concern: the increasing coordination of local and state police work under federal direction.
There have been other related signs, such as the push for a national ID card, encoding drivers' licenses with owners' personal information, the creation of massive databases to keep tabs on citizens.
But it doesn't get any more blatant than Operation Falcon.
Operation Falcon (early April 2005) and its successors, Falcon II (late April 2005) and Falcon III (October 2006), made no attempt to hide what they were, since "Falcon" itself is an acronym for "Federal and Local Cops Organized Nationally." That is to say, the Falcons employed a chain-of-command structure that originates in Washington and radiates outward until it reaches Your Town, USA.
This flies in the face of, again, over two centuries of tradition that held that law enforcement was best, most effectively, and most honestly done by those on the scene. Exceptions were made, such as the use of the FBI in cases reaching across state lines. For the most part, though, local law enforcement was, simply, local. Nobody, least of all city and state police, wanted the feds to arrive from a thousand miles away and start tromping around all over their turf.
Enter Falcon. Hatched by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales (he who believes that Americans have no basic "right" of habeas corpus) and U.S. Marshalls' Office Director Ben Reyna, the scheme involved a rounding up of known criminals in a series of three publicity-heavy, week-long sweeps, employing federal, state and local authorities, and directed out of D.C.
Each sweep netted about 10,000 arrests, and targeted were "gang-related crimes, homicides, crimes involving the use of weapons, crimes against children and the elderly, sexual assaults, organized crime and drug-related fugitives, and other crimes of violence."
Wow. 10K hoodlums off the street. What's not to like about that?
Well, a couple of things, actually. First, it sets a troubling precedent, as noted, with feds extending their reach to the local street level.
Next, we have to ask, why were these people so dangerous that they merited such an operation to nab them? Gonzales crowed that Falcon showed "President Bush's [...] and the Justice Department's dedication to deal both with the terrorist threat and traditional violent crime." Wrong on both counts, Al.
The ops swept up exactly zero terrorists. And violent criminals? Falcon I (nationwide, involving 3,100 officers from 659 agencies) got 162 murder suspects, 68 kidnapping suspects, 638 armed robbery suspects, 553 rape/sexual assault suspects, 1727 assault suspects, and 12 extortionists. Good. But that's only 3,160 out of 10,340 arrests (assuming no overlapping charges). The missing 7,000 include burglars, car thieves, and the big umbrella, "narcotics violation suspects." All of whom surely deserved the attention of such a huge, pricey task force.
Falcon II (western U.S., 2,100 officers, 793 agencies) fared even worse, nailing 860 murder suspects or sex offenders, leaving over 8,000 in the "other" category. And Falcon III (eastern U.S., 3,000 officers, 1,063 agencies) cleared 140 homicide warrants and nabbed 1,659 sex offenders. Out of 10,773 arrests.
Tellingly, although the official Falcon website prominently displays photos of automatic weapons confiscated from these ultra-violent felons, the 30,150 arrests yielded a grand total of 586 firearms (1.9%).
And consider this: Could it be that local authorities were persuaded to ignore essential public safety considerations and wait for the feds and the media cameras to arrive, before moving on the 400 murder suspects in their sights? A very disturbing thought.
So, what's really going on here?
Clearly, the three Falcons represent test runs for Washington-directed "law enforcement" operations that utilize a top-down command structure reaching to the local level, and that can roll up tens of thousands of Americans at a moment's notice.
Why they might want to do this is the stuff of conspiracy theories, and perhaps best left to individual conjecture. But it's wise to remember that local police autonomy, once ceded to a federal government, is not easily regained. Nor are recent historical examples of an all-powerful national police apparatus particularly confidence-inspiring: KGB and Stasi come to mind.
Incidentally, both of these are acronyms or contractions that roughly translate into English as "Department of Homeland Security"...
I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. -- James Madison (1788).
chunga- I would hope you read it all. I would hate to see an analysis on the dinner menu at Hooters end up here by mistake, or maybe not if with pics. LOL. No, keep up the good work here. I think you have more readers than you realize.
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OK- my question is- If evilwizard is correct who will have the most egg on their face tomorrow? Right or wrong he is entitled to his opinion. Personally I appreciate his efforts to come here with an opinion on his chart readings. It is information. It is neither good nor bad, it just is. Interpretation is up to the reader. A drop in a stock price is not always bad. Consolidation at a reasonable plateau is healthy for the most part. Parabolas on a chart are not healthy yet many in their excitement become screaming banshees on these boards when one happens. Think about the foundation of your home. Would you want the mason to take his time and do it right or slap it together quickly and move on? That is about where we are now with our ETIM. I like the way this foundation is building. It will eventually be able to hold quite a larger structure. So everyone should be entitled to their opinions. You or I or anyone else are entitled to disagree. Honest debate is healthy and can bring out new resources and information. Sometimes we have to just agree to disagree and move on from there. Either way, lambasting someone for offering their honest opinions is sometimes just plain mean and not necessary.
just my 2¢
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link for today's news from a strange source.
http://www.reliableplant.com/article.asp?pagetitle=Going,%20gone:%20Baseball%20fans,%20these%20caske...
word sure does get around.
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Hello overhead- your advice and opinions are always welcome here. Good to hear from you and all others that come with their opinions.
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ETIM- golden cross today. Company CC tomorrow EOM
once again, a close monitoring of the trades between 3:30 and 4 today should give a good indication how the CC will go tomorrow. Sometimes word does manage to leak out on these things.
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Max- I tend to agree. The company is at the point where the hype and future prospects driving the share price are almost finished. Investors are now looking beyond all that and are looking for numbers. They don't have to be spectacular, but increasing sales and earnings are always positive. It makes me feel good about my investment here because it's coming to that point where it is being looked at and treated like a mid to large cap stock
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Yesterday I wrote that the listing on the otcbb would probably increase possible investors by a factor of 20. It was a conservative estimate.
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No doubt in my mind, everyone holding for the CC. If we see high volume during the last half hour of trading at the ask, the anticipation would lean towards a very positive CC. JMHO
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