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nice close today
easy on the rum gramps!
Remember why we are here; CARPE AURUM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
those are a few reasons in my global forecast....
all we need is some LITHIUM...
I'm just a parrot now, trying to make pirate... increments...
so the Ztem findings last summer triggered the pop to .19?
Arthur, are you in the VOIP industry?
Go PVSP!
Last chance for 4's today.
hey when is their financial year end?
Is the new web site up? looks a little different?
Hulu, it seems, is up for sale after all. Yahoo recently approached Hulu about the prospect of a purchase deal, but as Times reporters Dawn C. Chmielewski and Ben Fritz noted earlier, there was some question as to whether or not the Internet TV and movie streaming service even wanted to be bought. Now there's an answer, as Chmielewski and Fritz, and their colleague Meg James reported on our ...
Los Angeles Times - 2 hours, 39 minutes ago
Video... Video... Videooo-yeah
what's this? A self-portrait?
Ten Brands That Will Disappear in 2012
by Douglas A. McIntyre
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
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24/7 Wall St. has created a new list of brands that will disappear, which includes Sears (NASDAQ: SHLD - News), Sony Pictures (NYSE: SNE - News), American Apparel (NYSE: APP - News), Nokia (NYSE: NOK - News), Saab, A&W All-American Foods Restaurants, Soap Opera Digest, Sony Ericsson, MySpace (NYSE: NWS.A - News), and Kellogg's Corn Pops. (NYSE: K - News).
Each year, 24/7 Wall St. regularly compiles a list of brands that are going to disappear in the near-term. Last year's list proved to be prescient in many instances, predicting the demise of T-Mobile among others. In late May, AT&T (NYSE: T - News) and Deutche Telekom announced that AT&T would buy T-Mobile USA for $39 billion. The deal would add 34 million customers to the company and create the country's largest wireless operator.
8. MySpace
MySpace, once the world's largest social network, died a long time ago. It will get buried soon. News Corp (NYSE: NWS - News) bought MySpace and its parent in 2005 for $580 million, which was considered inexpensive at the time based on the web property's size. MySpace held the top spot among social networks based on visitors from mid-2006 until mid-2008, according to several online research services. It was overtaken by Facebook at that point. Facebook has 700 million members worldwide now and recently passed Yahoo! (NYSE: YHOO - News) as the largest website for display advertising based on revenue. News Corp was able to get an exclusive advertising deal worth $900 million shortly after it bought the property, but that was its sales high-water mark. Its audience is currently estimated to be less that 20 million visitors in the US. Why did MySpace fall so far behind Facebook? No one knows for certain. It may be that Facebook had more attractive features for people who wanted to share their identities online. It may have been that it appealed to a younger audience which tends to spend more time online. News Corp announced in February that it would sell MySpace. There were no serious bids. Rumors surfaced recently that a buyer may take the website for $100 million. The brand is worth little if anything. A buyer is likely to kill the name and fold the subscriber base into another brand. News Corp has hinted it will close MySpace if it does not find a buyer.
slap it!!!!
slap it!!!
slap da aska...
or Imagonna attackya...
That would be sweet... Cheers!
nice close... gogogogo...
Nuclear Power in the USA
(Updated June 2011)
Related pages: US Nuclear Power Policy
US Nuclear Fuel Cycle
The USA is the world's largest producer of nuclear power, accounting for more than 30% of worldwide nuclear generation of electricity.
The country's 104 nuclear reactors produced 799 billion kWh in 2009, over 20% of total electrical output.
Following a 30-year period in which few new reactors were built, it is expected that 4-6 new units may come on line by 2020, the first of those resulting from 16 licence applications to build 24 new nuclear reactors made since mid-2007.
However, lower gas prices since 2009 have put the economic viability of some of these projects in doubt.
Government policy changes since the late 1990s have helped pave the way for significant growth in nuclear capacity. Government and industry are working closely on expedited approval for construction and new plant designs.
The USA has 104 nuclear power reactors in 31 states, operated by 30 different power companies. In 2008, the country generated 4,119 billion kWh net of electricity, 49% of it from coal-fired plant, 22% from gas and 6% from hydro. Nuclear achieved a capacity factor of 91.1%, generating 805 billion kWh and accounting for almost 20% of total electricity generated in 2008. Total capacity is 1088 GWe, less than one-tenth of which is nuclear.
Annual electricity demand is projected to increase to 5000 billion kWh in 2030. Annual per capita electricity consumption is currently around 12,400 kWh.
There are 69 pressurized water reactors (PWRs) with combined capacity of about 67 GWe and 35 boiling water reactors (BWRs) with combined capacity of about 34 GWe – for a total capacity of 101,263 MWe (see Nuclear Power in the USA Appendix 1: US Operating Nuclear Reactors). Almost all the US nuclear generating capacity comes from reactors built between 1967 and 1990. There have been no new construction starts since 1977, largely because for a number of years gas generation was considered more economically attractive and because construction schedules were frequently extended by opposition, compounded by heightened safety fears following the Three Mile Island accident in 1979. A further PWR – Watts Bar 2 – is expected to start up by 2012 following Tennessee Valley Authority's (TVA's) decision in 2007 to complete the construction of the unit.
Despite a near halt in new construction of more than 30 years, US reliance on nuclear power has continued to grow. In 1980, nuclear plants produced 251 billion kWh, accounting for 11% of the country's electricity generation. In 2008, that output had risen to 809 billion kWh and nearly 20% of electricity, providing more than 30% of the electricity generated from nuclear power worldwide. Much of the increase came from the 47 reactors, all approved for construction before 1977, that came on line in the late 1970s and 1980s, more than doubling US nuclear generation capacity. The US nuclear industry has also achieved remarkable gains in power plant utilisation through improved refuelling, maintenance and safety systems at existing plants.
While there are plans for a number of new reactors (see section on Preparing for new build below), the prospect of low natural gas prices continuing for several years has dampened these plans and probably no more than four new units will come on line by 2020.
Historical high, $73.75 I think...
Garboil: noun. state of confusion.
buy, flip, wash, and again... there are so many shares it's perfect. I am waiting to do it again. I don't think about this LONG... It flies on news, and that's about it.
it was an equity line of credit... what was the equity? intellectual property? equipment? ask john rossi..
It'd be nice if LBSR were in these headlines...
McNicoll Lewis & Vlak Updates its Valuation on NovaGold Resources (NG), Raises Price Target to $19
May 25, 2011 10:55 AM EDT
McNicoll Lewis & Vlak is maintaining its Buy rating on shares of NovaGold Resources (NYSE: NG), but is updating its valuation on the company to incorporate the results of the preliminary economic assessment for the Ambler exploration project that was filed on May 10.
The firm estimates that an after-tax net asset value for the Ambler project is roughly $765 million. It see the project starting production in 2017 and previously valued the project at a nominal $45 per ounce of gold equivalent resource, or about $550 million.
The 40% increase in its net asset value estimate for Ambler increases the firms total net asset value estimate for the company by about 3%. As a result McNicoll Lewis & Vlak raised its price target slightly to $19.
For more ratings news on NovaGold Resources click here and for the rating history of NovaGold Resources click here.
Shares of NovaGold Resources closed at $11.21 yesterday, with a 52 week range of $5.81-$16.90.
Resources Inc. (NG) RTx 8.80
Shares 233,894,674
touche'...
Golden DREAMS....
ewww... almost choked. Thought the close said .52!!!!
apocalyptic scenarios aside, 2012 approaching mind you, the longs here could be sitting on a GOLD-MINE; PUN intended... Okay, better put down my bottle of rum before I fall.... Looking forward to meeting all of you at the LBSR party in Vegas...
in 2010 GARB had 5X's that with multiple partners, they formed E-WASTE supposedly built 10 plants, and couldn't make a penny off of 100 million...
This thing is the ultimate flipping machine....
d'you read the standard chartered article? 2 years? Possibility....?
It's rum time now for the pirates...
Imagine GOLD at $5000/oz...
agreed. fanning and piilani would not have converted debt for .25 if this wasn't going beyond that. NO WAY!!!! I bought more today. Hopefully I can buy more next week...
most entertaining board today! .05... higher baby...go...
thanks. I am in denver. I may just have to go by their office tomorrow.
anyone know the current number of shareholders?