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Thanks, but shouldn't there be something on the SEC site,
I've put in the symbol and company name and get nothing
thanks
I am trying to find out info on Interage, Ltd. (ITRJ) I know the trading was halted but I can't find out why, went to the SEC site
but could not find out anything, can someone point me in the right direction I would greatly appreciate it.
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great call, the xkem board is going nuts, got my in @ .045 going to play this like a pancake
Press Release Source: Commonwealth American Financial Group
James Monroe Capital Resort Inspection: 'Go'
Wednesday June 28, 8:30 am ET
CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 28, 2006--James Monroe Capital Corporation (Pink Sheets:JMCP - News) has completed due diligence on a property in Guanacosta, Costa Rica, for a timeshare resort.
The effort in Guanacosta was subject to a property inspection, and after having inspected the property, JMCP execs say the project is a go. The company reports that some other oceanfront timeshare resorts in Guanacosta were sold out. One exec said, "We couldn't get a tour while we were there. This is good news for a company considering building a timeshare resort in the area. We also found that the frenzy of development on the West coast of Costa Rica is largely American, and the new international airport (LIR) already has more and more flights per day coming in to the growing area." The property is in an undisclosed location on the Pacific coastline.
JMCP also brought in independent timeshare experts from the Cayman Islands for an opinion. They said, "It is secluded and breathtaking, with hills, trees, sand, and big ocean views everywhere. This is the type of development that ought to have a helicopter to go with its elegant front gates and its high-end clientele. The fact that other timeshare resorts were sold out really impressed us."
Total costs for the project have not been finalized, but the attorney for the project commented that total costs to build may be in the neighborhood of $40,000,000, plus land. JMCP is presently slated to own 9% of the project, which it has conservatively projected to net the company $5,000,000 over a two year period. Low cost local labor help keep the costs down, and the deal is to be aggressively leveraged. According to collected data about comparable sales of condos in the area, the entire completed development would be worth around $90,000,000 if sold as condos--however, timeshare is preferred, which is more profitable and provides residual income from maintenance fees.
Negotiations have stepped up to the next level, and a final word on the project is expected within the next 30 days.
This press release does not constitute an offer of any securities for sale. This press release contains certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These forward-looking statements involve certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ, including, without limitation, the company's limited operating history and history of losses, the inability to successfully obtain further funding, the inability to raise capital on terms acceptable to the company, the inability to compete effectively in the marketplace, the inability to complete the proposed acquisition and such other risks that could cause the actual results to differ materially from those contained in the company's projections or forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements in this press release are based on information available to the company as of the date hereof, and the company undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances occurring after the date of this press release.
Contact:
James Monroe Capital
Chris McGovern, 847-418-3848
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Source: Commonwealth American Financial Group
I agree they are going to have to do a buy back at sometime, otherwise we will stay at these low levels. I am also waiting for a answer to my email, I will try again tomorrow to get something from Chris McGovern. We need to know were those shares went to
This is interesting
Crew removes caver's remains after 41 years
Sunday, June 25, 2006; Posted: 9:30 a.m. EDT (13:30 GMT)
DOLGEVILLE, New York (AP) -- Spelunkers on Saturday recovered the remains of an amateur explorer who died 41 years ago in a treacherous New York cavern, closing a memorable chapter in American caving history.
The body of James Mitchell had been locked inside Schroeder's Pants Cave in Dolgeville, New York, since Feb. 13, 1965, when the 23-year-old Massachusetts chemist died of exposure while hanging from a harness above a cavern inside the cave.
Mitchell's story made national headlines and prompted spelunkers to become more serious about safety. Rescue teams were formed around the world.
Christian Lyon, 36, a Dolgeville, New York, native whose grandfather discovered the cave in 1947, had the blessing of Mitchell's family and local officials to recover the body, and he filmed the event for a documentary.
It took six workers about four hours to finish the recovery of Mitchell's bones, which were scattered at the bottom of a 60-foot dropoff, with more remains found 30 feet below the dropoff.
Mitchell's brother, Bill, and the recovery crew emerged from the cave with a small black pouch of remains.
"After I got out, I started to stumble, and a wave of emotion just engulfed me," Lyon said. "My grandfather found that cave, everyone in my family explored the cave, and the last three years of my life I've devoted to getting Jim out. Finally getting him home was overwhelming."
The crew also discovered Mitchell's helmet, which bore 18 markings representing the number of caves he'd explored.
"We didn't know what we were going to find, if everything had been washed away. We were glad to find the helmet," Lyon said.
James Mitchell had come to Dolgeville, about 200 miles northwest of New York City, to explore the cave with two friends-- Hedy Miller, a nurse, and Charles Bennett, a graduate student at Harvard University.
No one warned them that temperatures that week had hovered around freezing, creating more runoff than usual. Ice-cold water poured through the cave's passageways.
Mitchell, then Miller and Bennett, inched through sections named by previous cavers -- Lemon Squeeze, Z-bend, Gunbarrel -- until they reached an open area. There, they stared down a vertical shaft that extended to a cavern about 80 feet below.
Despite the cascade around them, Mitchell hooked his safety lines and started down before getting stuck with gallons of the frigid water pouring over his head every minute.
After 45 frantic minutes trying to lift Mitchell to safety, Bennett left the cave to find help. By the time a rescue team reached Mitchell, he was dead.
Attempts to recover Mitchell's 185-pound body failed when part of the cave collapsed after some heavy drilling. Workers then lowered the body, dynamited the cave, and placed a memorial headstone above it. A different opening to the cave was discovered two years later, but only about 20 people were thought to have made their way to Mitchell's remains before Saturday.
Mitchell's remains were not recovered sooner because the cave was seen by many as his grave site, Lyon said.
On Monday, some of Mitchell's ashes will be given to the family and some to Lyons, who said he plans to scatter them near the cave.
this a link to the PR, the link to the interview is middle page
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/060614/20060614005078.html?.v=1
Patsy Ramsey, JonBenet's mother, dies
Saturday, June 24, 2006; Posted: 12:25 p.m. EDT (16:25 GMT)
ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Patsy Ramsey, mother of slain 6-year-old JonBenet, died Saturday of ovarian cancer, her lawyer told CNN. She was 49.
She died about 3:30 a.m. at her father's house with her husband by her side, lawyer Lin Wood said. She was diagnosed with cancer in 1993 but was cancer-free for nine years until a relapse three years ago.
The unsolved killing of JonBenet in December 1996 put Patsy and John Ramsey, the girl's parents, in the spotlight. (Watch as lawyer describes how suspicions affected the Ramseys -- 5:41)
A grand jury investigation into the death of the child beauty pageant winner ended without charges in 1999.
JonBenet's beaten and strangled body was found in the basement of the family home in Boulder, Colorado, the day after Christmas.
The Ramseys said an intruder committed the crime, but they remained the subject of suspicion and speculation.
"I think people realize now that this family was very much victims of that murder and have suffered greatly because of it in terms of the false accusations made against them," Wood said.
"But again, they have shown great dignity and courage to deal with the situation, a very difficult situation," he added.
"I think people will remember Patsy as being someone who was falsely accused in connection with the death of her daughter, when she should be remembered for being an incredibly loving mother, a wonderful wife, and a person who showed great courage in fighting a vicious disease over the last many years," Wood told CNN.
"She should be an example to others who face cancer, that there can be a win, a victory, because she lived for over 10 years with the disease, and, I think, was able to accomplish a lot in her life and spend valuable time with her family and friends."
The Ramseys left Colorado and had a house in Charlevoix, Michigan, where John Ramsey unsuccessfully ran for office in 2004, and in Atlanta, Georgia.
'Darwin's tortoise' dies, age 176
Saturday, June 24, 2006; Posted: 1:42 a.m. EDT (05:42 GMT)
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- A 176-year-old tortoise, believed by some to have been owned by Charles Darwin, has died in an Australian zoo.
The giant tortoise, known as Harriet, was long reputed to have been one of three tortoises taken from the Galapagos Islands by Darwin on his historic 1835 voyage aboard the HMS Beagle.
However, historical records, while suggestive, don't prove the claim, and some scientists have cast doubt on the story, with DNA tests confirming Harriet's age but showing she came from an island that Darwin never visited.
According to local legend, Harriet was just five years old and probably no bigger than a dinner plate when she was taken from the Galapagos to Britain.
She spent a few years in Britain before being moved to the Brisbane Botanic Gardens in Australia's tropical Queensland state in the mid-1800s, where she was mistaken for a male and nicknamed Harry, according to Australia Zoo, which later bought the 150-kilogram (330-pound) tortoise.
The Queensland-based zoo is owned by "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin and his wife Terri.
"Harriet sadly died last night after, thankfully, a very short illness," senior veterinarian Jon Hanger told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on Friday.
"She'd been sick yesterday with, in effect, heart failure. She had a very fairly acute heart attack and thankfully passed away quietly overnight," Hangar said.
Irwin said he considered Harriet a member of the family.
"Harriet has been a huge chunk of the Irwin family's life," Irwin said Saturday.
"She is possibly one of the oldest living creatures on the planet and her passing today is not only a great loss for the world but a very sad day for my family. She was a grand old lady."
Harriet was believed to be the world's oldest living tortoise, and one of its oldest living creatures. Despite her longevity, however, Harriet is not the world's oldest known tortoise.
That title was awarded by the Guinness Book of World Records to Tui Malila, a Madagascar radiated tortoise that was presented to the royal family of Tonga by British explorer Captain James Cook in the 1770s. It died in 1965 at the ripe age of 188.
Scientist Paul Chambers cast doubt on Harriet's Darwin connection in an article in the New Scientist magazine and a book, "The Unexpected History of the Giant Tortoise."
check the IBOX
here'd comes the .04's
day traders getting out for the weekend
looking for .062
looking for the bottom to re-enter
what horrible deaths they must have suffered
Families get word of soldiers' brutal deaths
Friday, June 23, 2006; Posted: 6:39 a.m. EDT (10:39 GMT)
Pfc. Kristian Menchaca's family described the 23-year-old as a sweet, quiet young man.
BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) -- Relatives of two soldiers who disappeared in Iraq during an insurgent attack comforted each other Thursday after the military confirmed two brutalized bodies found this week were the missing men.
The bodies of Army Pfc. Kristian Menchaca of Houston and Pfc. Thomas Tucker of Madras, Oregon, were sent to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware for DNA testing.
"They have confirmed that it is Kristian," his aunt, Hermelinda Gomez, said before returning inside the house where relatives gathered to comfort the soldier's mother, Maria Vasquez.
In Oregon, the phone rang with the news at 1:30 a.m., Oregon National Guard spokeswoman Kay Fristad said.
"It's been extremely difficult throughout," Fristad said. "There was always a shred of hope there."
One and possibly both young men were tortured and beheaded, a U.S. military official said. The military did not confirm whether the soldiers died from wounds suffered in the attack Friday or were kidnapped and later killed.
The Army said that Menchaca, Tucker and Spc. David J. Babineau, 25, of Springfield, Massachusetts, were left alone while other vehicles in their patrol inspected traffic, contradicting earlier reports that the three Humvees became separated under fire. Babineau was killed in the initial attack.
Julieta Vasquez, Menchaca's aunt, said the family was angry that the men had been left alone by their better-trained colleagues.
"We're mad at the Army," she said. "My nephew and the other soldier, they were alone."
Felipa Gomez, Menchaca's 16-year-old cousin, said the body was expected home within a few days, and that Menchaca's wife, 18-year-old Christina Menchaca, of Big Spring, would attend the funeral planned in Brownsville.
Menchaca's close-knit Mexican-American family described him as a sweet, quiet young man who joined the military last year and deployed to Iraq within months.
Tucker had graduated from high school in 1999 and worked a variety of construction jobs before he decided to join the Army last summer. His friends said he liked to angle for catfish in the Prineville Reservoir and hunt deer in the Ochoco Mountains.
The three men were assigned to the 1st Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 101st Airborne Division from Fort Campbell, Kentucky.
Seven held over 'Sears Tower plot'
Informant infiltrated terror group; Al Qaeda link probed
Friday, June 23, 2006; Posted: 5:06 a.m. EDT (09:06 GMT)
FBI agents and police conduct operations in the Liberty City area of Miami, Florida.
MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- Seven people were in custody Friday after FBI agents and police carried out raids against an alleged terrorist plot that may have included the Sears Tower in Chicago and Miami's FBI offices as possible targets, law enforcement sources said.
Sources also told CNN that the suspects believed they were dealing with an al Qaeda operative who was actually a government informant. Other law enforcement sources said the seven suspects were radical Muslims, and at least one of them had taken an oath to serve al Qaeda.
However, senior federal sources told CNN, "These people were not related to al Qaeda." When asked whether they were al Qaeda wannabes, he replied, "possibly."
Some sources also reported that some of the men had surveyed the buildings they allegedly were targeting and taken photos.
"We'll have more about that when the operation is completed, probably tomorrow morning," FBI Director Robert Mueller said in a taped statement for CNN's "Larry King Live."
One suspect was arrested before Thursday, officials said, and one of Thursday's arrests took place in Atlanta. (Watch details of the raids -- 2:53)
Federal sources said five of the seven men were Americans, one was an illegal alien from Haiti whose visa had expired and the last was a resident alien.
The 110-story Sears Tower in Chicago is the world's third-tallest building and the tallest in the United States. Investigators said other structures also may have been targets.
No weapons or bomb-making materials had been found so far in the raids, conducted in the Miami area, including a warehouse in a Liberty City housing project, law enforcement officials said.
No one was inside the warehouse, and it wasn't known exactly where police took the suspects into custody.
The neighborhood was cordoned off around the windowless warehouse about 2 p.m., and neighbors were told to stay inside. Police then showed neighbors photos of the suspects, who had been living in the building since March.
Neighbors said the men, who wore turbans, caused no problems but seemed odd.
"All you could do was just see their eyes. They had their whole head wrapped up. Just the eyes showing. And they were standing guard -- one here, one there -- like soldiers. Very quiet," one woman said.
A man said the men never spoke to neighbors and would just nod their heads if spoken to.
"They was acting like they was in military training," he said.
A spokeswoman for Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez said the mayor was notified of the raid earlier in the day, and a spokesman for Gov. Jeb Bush said the governor had been notified Thursday morning. Both Alvarez and Bush said they had no plans to tighten security.
"If anything, this is a plot foiled," said Alvarez spokeswoman Vicki Mallette. Plans for a massive rally Friday for NBA champions the Miami Heat are unchanged, she said, adding that 200,000 people were expected to attend.
FBI spokesman Rich Kolko said there was at least one search warrant executed in the investigation.
"There have been several arrests. The documents in this case are currently sealed. There is no threat to Miami or any other area at this time. There will be more information tomorrow," Kolko said.
A law enforcement official told CNN the probe had been ongoing for at least four months.
Another statement was issued by the U.S. Attorney for Miami, Alex Acosta.
"Earlier today, the FBI, in conjunction with federal, state and local authorities, executed arrests as part of an ongoing investigation into a terrorist-related matter.
"The individuals arrested posed no immediate threat to our community. A press conference will be held in Washington, D.C., and in Miami on Friday to provide additional details," Acosta said.
A man who identified himself as "Brother Corey" said five of the men arrested in Miami were his "brothers," members of the group he identified as "Seas of David."
Brother Corey said the group has "soldiers in Chicago," but was peaceful and not associated with any terrorist organizations.
"This is a place where we worship and also have businesses, as a work site as a construction company we are trying to build up," he said, referring to the Liberty City warehouse where the raids took place.
He said the Seas of David is a religious group that blends the teachings of Christianity and Islam.
CNN's Susan Candiotti, John Zarrella, Jeanne Meserve, Mike Brooks and Kevin Bohn contributed to this report.
Mobile phone users warned of lightning strike risk Thu Jun 22,
LONDON (Reuters) - People should not use mobile phones outdoors during thunderstorms because of the risk of being struck by lightning, doctors said on Friday.
They reported the case of a 15-year-old girl who was using her phone in a park when she was hit during a storm. Although she was revived, she suffered persistent health problems and was using a wheelchair a year after the accident.
"This rare phenomenon is a public health issue, and education is necessary to highlight the risk of using mobile phones outdoors during stormy weather to prevent future fatal consequences from lighting strike injuries," said Swinda Esprit, a doctor at Northwick Park Hospital in England.
Esprit and other doctors at the hospital added in a letter to the British Medical Journal that usually when someone is struck by lightning, the high resistance of the skin conducts the flash over the body in what is known as a flashover.
But if a metal object, such as a phone, is in contact with the skin it disrupts the flashover and increases the odds of internal injuries and death.
The doctors added that three fatal cases of lightning striking people while using mobile phones have been reported in newspapers in China, South Korea and Malaysia.
"The Australian Lightning Protection Standard recommends that metallic objects, including cordless or mobile phones, should not be used ( OR CARRIED ) outdoors during a thunderstorm," Esprit added.
your right openness in pinkyland is hard to find, I take that as a good sign also............
No they did not I was told one week and that was yesterday, maybe something today will keep you posted if I hear something. Anyone else get a reply from JMCP
FCC raises service fees on wireless, Internet-based phone calls
Updated 6/22/2006 1:42 AM ET
By Paul Davidson, USA TODAY
Bills for many wireless and Internet-based phone subscribers may rise slightly after federal regulators Wednesday agreed to impose or increase universal service fees on the services.
Separately, the Federal Communications Commission launched a review of media ownership rules that could lead to more consolidation among broadcast and newspaper giants. The agency's two Democrats criticized the Republican majority for failing to allow for adequate public input.
On the universal service fees, a 10.9% charge on landline and wireless long-distance phone calls now subsidizes phone service in rural areas, among other things.
But the $7 billion fund faces a $350 million shortfall because DSL broadband services will stop paying into it this summer. The FCC deregulated DSL last year, and DSL bills could drop if phone companies pass the savings to customers.
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and wireless services must now make up the difference. Subscribers of VoIP services such as Vonage, which pay no universal service fees, will be hit with a 7% fee because the FCC assumes most of their calls are long-distance.
Vonage's Chris Murray says consumer impact will likely be minimal because of the government's recent decision to scrap the 3% excise tax on long-distance calls.
Most cable VoIP subscribers pay a 3.1% universal service fee, but that would jump to 7%. The standard charge for cellphone subscribers would rise to 4% from 3.1%.
The steps are temporary. A broad reform of the fee system is planned.
The FCC also opened a review of media-ownership limits, after a 2004 appellate court ruling that it must modify or better justify its relaxation of the rules the year before. FCC Chairman Kevin Martin, a Republican, has said his priority is letting a company own a newspaper and TV or radio station in many markets. He says the current ban is outmoded in an age of 200-channel cable TV and the Web. The agency will also study whether to permit ownership of two TV stations in small to midsize cities.
FCC Democrats Michael Copps and Jonathan Adelstein ripped the agency for failing to guarantee that the public will be able to review proposed changes before they're adopted. They also said the FCC should first complete its inquiry into whether broadcasters must air more local public affairs programs.
They also criticized Martin for not promising to review all media rules together. The FCC could ease just the newspaper-broadcast ban to head off the public opposition that helped derail the last effort.
Martin said the FCC should consider "the competitive realities of the media marketplace" while ensuring "localism and diversity."
I like your positive thinking
go JMCP
Press Release Source: Energy Vision International
Energy Vision International Chairman, Anthony Welch, Addresses Investment Community in Exclusive Wall Street Network Interview
Wednesday June 21, 8:28 am ET
OXFORD, Miss., June 21, 2006 (PRIMEZONE) -- Energy Vision International (Other OTC:EGVI.PK - News), a rapidly growing diversified energy company, announced today its Chairman and CEO was interviewed by Wall Street Network.
In the interview, Mr. Welch addresses some of the recent accomplishments and goals for EGVI.
To hear the entire interview, visit http://www.wallst.net and click on ``Interviews.''
http://www.wallst.net/audio/audio.asp?symbol=EGVI&id=2206
About the Company
Energy Vision International grows through energy-related acquisitions, marketing its patented geothermal water-air heating/cooling systems, and sales of energy conservation solutions. The company has two subsidiaries at present with plans for more.
The company's subsidiary, DeMarco Energy Systems of America, Inc. (http://www.demarcoenergy.com), has geothermal installations in Oregon, Pennsylvania, Washington, Montana, South Dakota, Mississippi, California and Texas. EVI's primary focus is to provide energy efficient technologies to commercial and institutional markets through the application of the DeMarco 'Systems' patents and other acquired technologies. For more information, visit http://www.energyvisionintl.com
Safe-Harbor Statement
This press release contains statements (such as projections regarding future performance) that are forward-looking statements as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results may differ materially from those projected as a result of certain risks and uncertainties, including but not limited to those detailed from time to time in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Contact:
Energy Vision International
Investor Relations
(662) 236-5928
ir@energyvisionintl.com
some people just can't be civil, I notified the administrator of this site (IHUB) and will take it up with him now....
nice name change from Whiter shade of pale to Married with children to this, what could be next................
Third Microsoft Excel Attack Posted Robert McMillan, IDG News Service
Wed Jun 21, 7:00 PM ET
Excel users have one more reason to worry. A hacker on Tuesday published code that takes advantage of an unpatched flaw in the Microsoft spreadsheet software, the third such exploit to be disclosed in the past week.
This attack could be used to run unauthorized software on a PC, but it requires that the victim first be tricked into opening an Excel document, according to an alert published on the Securitytracker.com Web site.
The attack takes advantage of Adobe System's Flash technology, which can be used to provide graphics and animation to Excel documents. "When the target user opens the Excel file, the [malicious] Flash code will execute automatically without user interaction," the alert states.
Why Worry?
This latest attack is worrisome because the code can be executed with little user interaction, said Juha-Matti Laurio, an independent security researcher based in Helsinki. "Embedding this type of objects to spreadsheets is not common, but it doesn't matter, because the infection is caused just by opening the file," he said.
Microsoft's security team had a busy couple of weeks. Last Tuesday, the company patched a critical flaw in its Word software that had been exploited by attackers, and Microsoft is also contending with attack code that exploits two other Excel flaws. All three Excel flaws have cropped up over the past week.
This latest attack was published late Tuesday on the Full Disclosure security discussion list. It was tested on Office 2003 running on Windows XP Professional Edition and Windows 2000, according to the Full Disclosure posting.
Microsoft was notified of the flaw in May 2005 and has come up with a temporary workaround to the flaw, the posting states.
Microsoft did not immediately respond to requests to comment for this story
Third Microsoft Excel Attack Posted Robert McMillan, IDG News Service
Wed Jun 21, 7:00 PM ET
Excel users have one more reason to worry. A hacker on Tuesday published code that takes advantage of an unpatched flaw in the Microsoft spreadsheet software, the third such exploit to be disclosed in the past week.
This attack could be used to run unauthorized software on a PC, but it requires that the victim first be tricked into opening an Excel document, according to an alert published on the Securitytracker.com Web site.
The attack takes advantage of Adobe System's Flash technology, which can be used to provide graphics and animation to Excel documents. "When the target user opens the Excel file, the [malicious] Flash code will execute automatically without user interaction," the alert states.
Why Worry?
This latest attack is worrisome because the code can be executed with little user interaction, said Juha-Matti Laurio, an independent security researcher based in Helsinki. "Embedding this type of objects to spreadsheets is not common, but it doesn't matter, because the infection is caused just by opening the file," he said.
Microsoft's security team had a busy couple of weeks. Last Tuesday, the company patched a critical flaw in its Word software that had been exploited by attackers, and Microsoft is also contending with attack code that exploits two other Excel flaws. All three Excel flaws have cropped up over the past week.
This latest attack was published late Tuesday on the Full Disclosure security discussion list. It was tested on Office 2003 running on Windows XP Professional Edition and Windows 2000, according to the Full Disclosure posting.
Microsoft was notified of the flaw in May 2005 and has come up with a temporary workaround to the flaw, the posting states.
Microsoft did not immediately respond to requests to comment for this story
Oh yea love the mornings, it quite, kids and puppy are still sleeping and I can enjoy my coffee!
Workers' positive drug tests decrease
Posted 6/20/2006 1:16 AM
By Stephanie Armour and Del Jones, USA TODAY
Illegal drug use among workers in the USA fell to its lowest level in nearly two decades in a trend driven in part by tougher drug-testing practices, putting cold medicines behind the counter and closing down methamphetamine labs in America.
Overall, workers testing positive for drugs fell to 4.1% in 2005, Quest Diagnostics said Monday, the lowest percentage in the 17 years that the giant workplace drug-testing company has been releasing data. It started at 13.6% in 1988 and had fallen to 4.5% in 2003 and 2004.
The percentage of employees testing positive for methamphetamine also tumbled, indicating a reversal of a trend that had become a concern of employers in 2001 and 2002. Positive tests for amphetamines declined 8% in 2005 and is down 45% since 2004.
Data for the first five months of the year also show amphetamine use continuing to decline. Employees testing positive for amphetamine use fell by 10% from January through May.
Quest performs 7.3 million drug tests a year. Marijuana continues to be by far the drug that appears most often in workplace drug tests, although marijuana positives are down 20% since 2001.
"We were pleasantly surprised," says Barry Sample, director of science and technology for Quest's employer solutions division. "Methamphetamine is at the lowest (level) since 2002. Simply having a drug-testing program is an effective deterrent. Testing works and is effective."
It's an issue of importance to employers: More than 70% of substance abusers hold jobs, according to the American Council for Drug Education. Drug use on the job leads to increased accident risks, lower productivity, higher insurance costs and reduced profits.
"Employers have the single-most-effective weapon in the war on drugs: a paycheck," says Mark de Bernardo, executive director of the Institute for a Drug-Free Workplace.
The White House said on Monday that seizures of meth labs dropped more than 30% last year. It said the reason was that more states and retail drugstores limited access to cold medications that are used to make meth. "The workplace data has been very powerful in that it's based on many, many tests," says John Walters, director of National Drug Control Policy.
Drug testing often occurs during the pre-employment process, and employers may test hair, urine and saliva. The worrisome trend now, de Bernardo says, is abused prescription drugs including Percocet and Oxycontin.
"There are more employers (testing). It's great that the positive results are down, but it's a little preliminary," says Nancy Delogu, a Washington, D.C., employment lawyer. "The drugs-in-the-workplace problem has not gone away."
Jenny Craig picked up by Nestle for $600M
Nestle expands its high-margin nutrition business by adding weight-loss company to stable.
June 19, 2006: 7:46 AM EDT
ZURICH (Reuters) - Switzerland's Nestle bought weight-loss company Jenny Craig for around $600 million, it said on Monday, expanding its high-margin nutrition and health business.
Jenny Craig, which according to Nestle had sales of over $400 million in the last 12 months, was founded in 1983 by weight-loss guru Jenny Craig, offering dieters prepared meals and exercise programs.
Nestle, the world's largest food company, bought the California-based company from a private equity group including ACI Capital and MidOcean Partners, it said, adding that the deal would not dilute group earnings.
"This acquisition will ... reinforce Nestle Nutrition's presence in the USA, the world's largest nutrition and weight management market," Nestle said in a statement.
Jenny Craig offers its products in the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
The acquisition follows on the heels of Nestle's purchase of Australia's Uncle Tobys snacks, breakfast and soups business, making Nestle the number one in Australia's nutritious snacks market and the number two in instant soups.
Nestle is increasingly focusing on higher-margin products such as those with nutritional and health benefits. It is expanding in markets, such as the U.S., where consumers are willing to buy premium products.
"The price is appropriate," said Vontobel analyst Claudia Lenz, who has an "outperform" rating on Nestle stock.
"Nestle's nutrition division has very high growth and a good margin, so ... the acquisition is a very good step. The U.S. is a very big market for nutrition and wellness, and so it makes sense to strengthen their position there," she said.
Nestle shares were up 0.5 percent at 370.50 Swiss francs each, underperforming the Swiss blue-chip index, which had risen 0.9 percent.
Al Qaeda says has abducted two US soldiers By Michael Georgy and Ibon Villelabeitia
1 hour, 9 minutes ago
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A group linked to Iraq's al Qaeda said on Monday it had abducted two American soldiers south of Baghdad, according to a statement posted on the Internet.
"Your brothers in the military wing of the Mujahideen Shura Council kidnapped two American soldiers near Yusufiya," the Sunni Arab group said. "We will provide you with more details about the incident in the next coming days."
In Baghdad's fortified Green Zone, Saddam Hussein, whose loyalists make up much of the Sunni insurgency, listened to the chief prosecutor in his trial demand that he be sentenced to death for the killing of 148 Shi'ites in the 1980s.
The al Qaeda statement came as 8,000 U.S. and Iraqi forces searched for the two U.S. soldiers, who went missing on Friday after an attack on a checkpoint that killed another soldier.
The missing soldiers have been identified as Private Thomas Lowell Tucker, 25, from Madras, Oregon and Private Kristian Menchaca, 23, from Houston, Texas.
Al Qaeda vowed to hit back after its leader in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, was killed in a U.S. air strike on June 7.
Divers have been searching the Euphrates River and U.S. aircraft combing the surrounding area near Yusufiya, an al Qaeda stronghold south of Baghdad, for the two soldiers, said U.S. Major General William Caldwell, senior military spokesman.
He said seven U.S. soldiers were wounded in the search and three Iraqi insurgents killed. Thirty-four Iraqis were detained in what he described as intense operations.
SOUTHERN HANDOVER
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, seeking to show Iraqis that his new government is taking charge, said Iraqi forces would take control of the country's southernmost province from a British-led multinational force in July.
Maliki hailed it as a first step toward Iraqi forces taking responsibility for their own security.
But Muthanna is relatively quiet and is much easier to hand over than the violence-wracked oil port city of Basra to the east or Sunni Arab insurgent strongholds further north such as Yusufiya, where the two U.S. troops went missing on Friday.
U.S. troops backed by tanks were seen moving through the southern parts of nearby Ramadi, a Sunni Arab insurgent stronghold that U.S forces have always struggled to control. Seven tanks rumbled along Masarif Street and July 17 Street a Reuters witness said.
Shops were shuttered and most residents stayed home, fearing a U.S. offensive on the scale of the one that inflicted heavy destruction and loss of life in nearby Falluja in 2004.
Transferring security to Iraq's fledgling security forces is a key part of London's and Washington's plans to withdraw their 137,000 troops, but the insurgency remains strong.
Muthanna would be the first of Iraq's 15 provinces outside of the relatively peaceful Kurdish north to come under full Iraqi control.
A spokesman for British Prime Minister Tony Blair cautioned that the handover of control in Muthanna did not mean British, Australian and Japanese troops were pulling out immediately.
"It does mean there will be a gradual transition to the Iraqis taking control ... This is a significant step toward Iraq controlling its own destiny," he told reporters in London.
Japan's Kyodo news agency said Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi would announce a plan on Tuesday to pull Japan's troops out of southern Iraq.
In Baghdad, prosecutors in Saddam's trial also asked for the death penalty to be imposed on the former president's half brother, Barzan al-Tikriti, his former vice president, Taha Yassin Ramadan, and former Revolutionary Court judge Awad Hamed al-Bander for crimes against humanity.
Saddam and seven co-accused are on trial for their alleged roles in the killing of 148 Shi'ites after an assassination attempt against Saddam in the village of Dujail in 1982.
Al Qaeda says has abducted two US soldiers By Michael Georgy and Ibon Villelabeitia
1 hour, 9 minutes ago
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A group linked to Iraq's al Qaeda said on Monday it had abducted two American soldiers south of Baghdad, according to a statement posted on the Internet.
"Your brothers in the military wing of the Mujahideen Shura Council kidnapped two American soldiers near Yusufiya," the Sunni Arab group said. "We will provide you with more details about the incident in the next coming days."
In Baghdad's fortified Green Zone, Saddam Hussein, whose loyalists make up much of the Sunni insurgency, listened to the chief prosecutor in his trial demand that he be sentenced to death for the killing of 148 Shi'ites in the 1980s.
The al Qaeda statement came as 8,000 U.S. and Iraqi forces searched for the two U.S. soldiers, who went missing on Friday after an attack on a checkpoint that killed another soldier.
The missing soldiers have been identified as Private Thomas Lowell Tucker, 25, from Madras, Oregon and Private Kristian Menchaca, 23, from Houston, Texas.
Al Qaeda vowed to hit back after its leader in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, was killed in a U.S. air strike on June 7.
Divers have been searching the Euphrates River and U.S. aircraft combing the surrounding area near Yusufiya, an al Qaeda stronghold south of Baghdad, for the two soldiers, said U.S. Major General William Caldwell, senior military spokesman.
He said seven U.S. soldiers were wounded in the search and three Iraqi insurgents killed. Thirty-four Iraqis were detained in what he described as intense operations.
SOUTHERN HANDOVER
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, seeking to show Iraqis that his new government is taking charge, said Iraqi forces would take control of the country's southernmost province from a British-led multinational force in July.
Maliki hailed it as a first step toward Iraqi forces taking responsibility for their own security.
But Muthanna is relatively quiet and is much easier to hand over than the violence-wracked oil port city of Basra to the east or Sunni Arab insurgent strongholds further north such as Yusufiya, where the two U.S. troops went missing on Friday.
U.S. troops backed by tanks were seen moving through the southern parts of nearby Ramadi, a Sunni Arab insurgent stronghold that U.S forces have always struggled to control. Seven tanks rumbled along Masarif Street and July 17 Street a Reuters witness said.
Shops were shuttered and most residents stayed home, fearing a U.S. offensive on the scale of the one that inflicted heavy destruction and loss of life in nearby Falluja in 2004.
Transferring security to Iraq's fledgling security forces is a key part of London's and Washington's plans to withdraw their 137,000 troops, but the insurgency remains strong.
Muthanna would be the first of Iraq's 15 provinces outside of the relatively peaceful Kurdish north to come under full Iraqi control.
A spokesman for British Prime Minister Tony Blair cautioned that the handover of control in Muthanna did not mean British, Australian and Japanese troops were pulling out immediately.
"It does mean there will be a gradual transition to the Iraqis taking control ... This is a significant step toward Iraq controlling its own destiny," he told reporters in London.
Japan's Kyodo news agency said Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi would announce a plan on Tuesday to pull Japan's troops out of southern Iraq.
In Baghdad, prosecutors in Saddam's trial also asked for the death penalty to be imposed on the former president's half brother, Barzan al-Tikriti, his former vice president, Taha Yassin Ramadan, and former Revolutionary Court judge Awad Hamed al-Bander for crimes against humanity.
Saddam and seven co-accused are on trial for their alleged roles in the killing of 148 Shi'ites after an assassination attempt against Saddam in the village of Dujail in 1982.
I am done responding to him, he's here just to get under our skin, he adds nothing to this board, and he uses his son as an excuse to post which to me is very sad, but now I am done
I hope we have a better week
GO JMCP
Phishing Scam Uses PayPal Secure Servers Peter Sayer, IDG News Service
Fri Jun 16, 6:00 PM ET
A cross-site scripting flaw in the PayPal Web site allows a new phishing attack to masquerade as a genuine PayPal log-in page with a valid security certificate, according to security researchers.
Fraudsters are exploiting the flaw to harvest personal details, including PayPal log-ins, Social Security numbers, and credit card details, according to staff at Netcraft, an Internet services company in Bath, England. The PayPal site, owned by eBay, allows users to make online payments to one another, charged to their credit cards, and log-in credentials for the service are a prized target of fraudsters.
What Happens
The attack works by tricking PayPal members into following a maliciously crafted link to a secure page on PayPal's site. Anyone thinking to check the site's security certificate at this point will see that it is a valid 256-bit certificate belonging to the site, Netcraft employee Paul Mutton wrote in the company's blog today.
However, the URL (uniform resource locator) Internet address exploits a flaw in PayPal's site that allows the fraudsters to inject some of their own code into the page that is returned, he wrote. In this case, the result is a warning that the user's account may have been compromised, and that they "will now be redirected to Resolution Center." The page to which they are redirected asks for their PayPal account details--but thanks to the cross-site scripting flaw in the PayPal site, and the data injected into the URL by the fraudsters, the page is no longer on the PayPal site. Instead, the page steals the log-in details and sends them to the fraudsters' server, then prompts the user for other personal information, Mutton said.
The Web server harvesting the personal details is hosted in Korea, Mutton said.
Difficult to Detect
The cross-site scripting technique makes the phishing attempt difficult to detect, said Mike Prettejohn, also of Netcraft.
If the malicious link arrived by e-mail, then "there would be clues in the mail that it's not genuine," he said. "It's a technique chosen by fraudsters because it is hard to spot."
Although there could be benign uses of cross-site scripting to transfer data between sites, the technique has an inherent security risk, Prettejohn said. "I don't think people would intentionally use it," he said.
"If somebody knows there's a cross-site scripting opportunity on their site, the right thing to do would be to fix it," he said.
Staff at PayPal could not immediately be reached for comment.
Its not over the postage stamp its your sutle bashing of this stock, and as I have read your other post, which you do the same thing on ever board you post on. Its a shame that you use you sons name to bash a stock, an thats what you are doing. SAD
since I believe in democracy I created a survey, should the postage stamp post been deleted, a yes vote restores them and a no vote doesn't. by tuesday at 9am to vote .........