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i didnt get to see the fight but had a huge write up about the fight,,,at least in the ohio paper,,,the ufc had a write up so small you could miss it,,,,also it talked about their next fight in november,,,,they said they were very happy how everything went,,,im sure somewhere it states how many veiwers their were,,,,god luck to all and good luck to tfn and bkmp
Today's the DAY
just wanted to say good luck to all and to the fight network tonight,,,,,may we be the number one event of the night,,,wyatt and all im surprised at the small amount of pr for the fight tonight but i dont know how much they have pr;d the fight in other countries,, i hope the best fr TFN and us so that people can at least make ther money back,
eb with the fight coming in 1 week and we will be in the states im betting it has to be on our heels,,,hell what else can i do sell...Note#### Today i opened my account and their is money in my bkmp account which it hasnt been their in two weeks,,,nothing else to do,,,i will take some out at .000001 LOL seriously i will sell 10 million at 001,,,best of luck,,,,LET'S ROCK AND ROLL....
has anyone seen any advertizing on tv concerning the fight and what channel its on, im in california
semi, i think it should be before that wish i knew for sure im thinking cant be much longer past july 19 , i dont know though,,,will be nice though if in next 6 weeks i will take that and anything over oo1 i hope we fly through hopefully i will pull some off the table rather quickly
webby , still long with aqui, updv, htog n bkmp , need to learn when you say shakin the tree,
got them all stated out with increments of 1oooo, ok doubled my position time to rock n roll
placed a bid in for2ooooo shares at ask they gave me 10000 n moved the ask up,,,,sucks
Tuesday, Jul 1, 2008 12:15 pm EDT
Affliction pulls out all the stops to tweak UFC
By Steve Cofield
Fightlinker did a nice job of spotting the Affliction banner (above) quoting UFC president Dana White on Affliction 'Banned' headliner Fedor Emelianenko.
Clearly the gloves are off now that UFC has decided to program head-to-head against Affliction's July 19th pay-per-view in Anaheim.
UFC announced last week that its top fighter Anderson Silva will headline a card on Spike TV live from the Pearl at the Palms Casino Resort the same night. The Spike fight card costs $0 while Affliction's show is $39.95.
Now word comes that Affliction will engage in a battle of the billboards in UFC's backyard.
The apparel maker was looking around Las Vegas for closed
http://sports.yahoo.com/mma/blog/mma_experts;_ylt=AlEN.X6wzDwNEuB7NGLTjtU9Eo14
Wednesday, Jul 2, 2008 10:01 am EDT
Dana White talks Trump, deaf-mutes and international expansion
By Steve Cofield
We stumbled upon the oddest interview with a multi-millionaire we've ever seen. You may not like UFC president Dana White but the guy has a lot of patience. He's willing to sell his sport even in the most strange settings.
Now you have to be willing to deal with the weird video quality. White morphs into a robotic, alien character a few times. Think Alien Nation. And there are plenty of fine shots of the walls, the floor and UFC's public relations escorts, Jen and Loren.
The video is watermarked courtesy of Fox9 in Minneapolis. I can't imagine this guy is an on-air personality. All mocking aside, the guy does get some interesting quotes from White and seems to know his stuff.
On Donald Trump entering the MMA fray with Affliction:
"Donald Trump, I have a lot of respect for. Back in the day when we couldn't get venues, the first two fights we did with a casino, we did fights with Trump Taj Mahal. But at the end of the day, I'm not going to go into the real estate business to compete with Donald Trump."
http://sports.yahoo.com/mma/blog/mma_experts;_ylt=AlEN.X6wzDwNEuB7NGLTjtU9Eo14
Thursday, Jul 3, 2008 11:35 am EDT
Is Affliction one-upping UFC in Times Square?
By Steve Cofield
This battle between big boy UFC and upstart Affliction gets funnier each day. The apparel maker, Affliction, is being counter-programmed on it's big pay-per-view debut, July 19th. UFC is putting a free MMA card on SpikeTV the same night at the Palms Casino in Las Vegas.
As Yahoo! Sports first reported earlier this week, Affliction then decided to hold it's closed circuit viewing party at the Gold Coast Casino which is directly across from the Palms on Flamingo Road. Affliction seems to get a real kick out of having it's event on the big sign in front of the Gold Coast.
As you can see, Affliction is pulling out the huge bucks to trump (no pun intended) UFC in Times Square.
Thanks to TriStateFighter.com and MMAMania.com for the photos.
also see "CHUCK NORRIS" world combat league,,,ONLY ON THE FIGHT CHANNEL,,,We have got to do somethingbefore the end of the month of july,,,we are tooo hot and ready to be hotter,,or someone will jump into this market and crank it up,,,we have no choice,,,we have no choice,,,We will bein USA before lickety split,,,Koolaid,,waiting for your reply
ON TFN BOARD,,,,FAIRTEX-----COMING IN AUGUST,,IT'S THE NEW FAIRTEX, CA----CALIFORNIA BOUND BABY
stormy i know this might be a sore subject, and my friend go-gold has played tag with you ,,thinking double down today hoping for news this weekend ,,,only 1500, your thoughts? aqui,,is the play
Today's the DAY
You know i thought that they might of wanted it down so that their people could get in,,but ever since i have been in this stock I havent seen any awesome volume,,,That is what makes me nervous,,,i have been here in the 7,4, and now this measley price,,,which i will double down most likely before close but this doesnt look good but i hope this weekend something changes,,,everyone seemed to take a walk on the wild side and leave,,,hope they will be back
put that money in here about time,,,smart of you on the dip,,
l2, have they stopped the bleeding
well people could of sold all day yesterday,,,someone big jump on board
My cousin has a Tae qwon Dow school in columbus Ohio and she was sent A ton of Postcards and stand ups, for the affliction fight on the 19th,,,
WEBBY. welcome aboad this stock,,,been in awhile,,,hope by month end we see bk-- make a move,,,with all the pr,,,should happen,,,htog let's rock
koolaid I knew you wouldn't let me down,,,I personally believe that this month we should see movement,,,and remember i said i would put 10k that was in the month of july not june,,because i believe something has to happen,,,its like a zit ready to pop,,,If we dont pop tfn included then I feel we missed the boat,,,,But i am giving it an extra 2 months for general purpose and because we have a crook as a CEO and figure he would need 2 months to figure out how to write an honest contract. There you go koolaid you like this message better,,,to the point,,,If someone were to buy TFN then bkmp would have to be notified and dealt with ,,,PERIOD<<<nobody is going to buy this without turning over every rock,,,,
My question is virg, is if someone buys us out how does that work,,,if not i dont think we would do a r/s until after the run but the pr must be soo good that it takes us up to something,,,if something doesnt happen in next three months i would be surprised,,,to much in the mma world is happening,,,
1 million from 006,,,today we could of sold on the high and doubled at end of day but nervous,,,need to do something,,,the people are really good on this board i feel like a cherry on this board,,,but besides that i love the run,,,
i always get alittle nervous about flipping,,i will learn next week,,,im sure nobody held onto their entire stock like i did,,,could of almost of doubled,,,will learn from all of you,,hope this keeps the run alive next week,,,hope to see at least 2 positive prs next week
Thanks web,,,up over 25 on htog, love it,,,will hold and try for others,,,whats your thoughts still on b--p,,,any life,,,i still believe by end of month,,,whats your take about trump and cuban
mary i contacted scottrade just now and they said as long as it is trading at something they wouldnt do anything,,,im sorry,,,sue the pri--s and make your own company,,,sue them for everything,,,
nice to see you here web, still in b--p hope for the run this month but this will make me alot of money
question is dont know where to play and alittle nervous i might get left in the dark,,,i
clay. thank you for the videos i watched from you on charting,,,a great lesson,,,thanks
I have no ideal about bkmp address i have tried but if your buying a company dont you think that all of that will be present ,,,duh,,,dont you think trump has a good lawyer,,,think man,,,i understand about this address i have tried to figure it out putting my own money to find out,,,but nomatter who buys all that crap will come out,,,and that crap they will know if its worth buying,
virginian,,,your awesome finding that post,,,You the man
i talked to scottrade they said me being a margin trader i can flip or daytrade 3 times in a week but if i was a daydrader he didnt tell me aBOUT,,I havent taken any off the taBLE YET, thinking i should of today,,Hope we dont go done tomorrow would like even to see a small rise, balance out until the news but cant be sure,nervous this will be another qmnm,,,hope not,,
To all,,,this is Cuban If he has his hands into randy why wouldn't this be the man to go to,,,we can look at this two ways,
Why didnt Randy go to cuban? Is he so in love with tfn
If randy and cuban were in bed together why wouldnt cuban come to the plate with tfn,,
Now that Trump is in bed with randy where are we really,,,thias could get really interesting,,,could it be a bidding war to partner with TFN,,,
HDNet Fights has no imminent plans for event
Steve Sievert, MMAjunkie.com
Jun 30, 5:17 pm EDT
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With billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban writing the checks, HDNet Fights has the financial wherewithal to be a formidable challenger to the UFC’s mixed-martial-arts supremacy. However, nine months after its launch, HDNet Fights has chosen to be more of a programming brand than a fight promotion.
The high-definition HDNet channel created by Cuban in September 2001 has become an MMA programming juggernaut, carrying promotions ranging from Strikeforce to DREAM, along with several regional shows.
“HDNet is the home of MMA, with more live events than any other network in the world,” HDNet Fights CEO Andrew Simon tells MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com). “In the month of June alone, we had four live events and four new episodes of ‘Inside MMA.’ We are bringing the best MMA organizations together from around the globe on HDNet. We are branding under the HDNet Fights banner and continue to make HDNet a must-have channel for MMA fans.”
With recent agreements to carry live events for both Strikeforce and Adrenaline MMA, HDNet is making significant investments in the sport as a means of growing its audience. While Simon declined to say how much revenue is generated by these deals, they are part of a broader strategy to build the HDNet Fights brand.
“HDNet Fights is not a ‘loss leader,’” said Simon. “I am a financially oriented guy and everything we do is to grow the sport (and our) partners, bring well-deserved respect to the athletes and cement HDNet Fights as a long-term financially strong player in the MMA business.”
HDNet currently has limited reach, available in approximately six million homes, but MMA fans are being enlisted in the channel’s efforts to expand its footprint.
“We have seen substantial growth on the network since October 2007,” Simon said. “Every time MMA fans call their cable operator requesting HDNet, it truly makes a difference. I previously worked in the cable world and nothing puts pressure on cable executives more than customers calling or e-mailing their local cable operator requesting TV channels they demand to see. In addition, MMA fans recently voted us the No. 1 show in HD on tvpredictions.com.”
While HDNet Fights the brand has scored with fans, HDNet Fights the promotion seems to be stuck between rounds. Cuban and Simon tested the concept of fighting under the HDNet Fights banner with two shows in Dallas in October and December of last year. Cuban described the first event as a “beta test,” and upped the ante with bigger names, including Frank Trigg and Jason Miller, in December.
The promotion originally targeted February for its third show but subsequently felt that was too ambitious of a timeline. A March date was later scrapped due to competition with the NCAA basketball tournament. So, nearly seven months removed from its most recent event, HDNet Fights has yet to swing again.
Is that acknowledgment that the first two shows were not successful?
“No, pretty much the opposite,” said Simon. “It proved to us that there was demand for great MMA content on HDNet and that we could grow the industry and get more great content through partnerships. I thought ‘Mayhem’ versus (Tim) Kennedy was a fight of the year candidate in 2007. It put us on the map, and in less than a year, we are one of the top players in the business, and we will be here for years to come.”
HDNet Fights still has no immediate plans for its third show, with Simon saying that it will happen “when the timing is right.”
That timing is undoubtedly tied to Randy Couture. Producing another show similar to its first two would simply be another step in the evolution of HDNet Fights. Staging a show with Couture as the headliner â against Fedor Emelianenko, which is the objective â would amount to a quantum leap forward.
HDNet Fights reportedly has Couture under a four-fight contract, with the pact effective once Couture’s non-compete employment contract with Zuffa expires Oct. 11. In May, the District Court of Dallas County in Texas denied a Zuffa motion to stay, dismiss, or delay HDNet’s motion for summary judgment to clarify Couture’s contractual status with Zuffa. That ruling should lead to a decision from the court this summer on Couture’s legal obligations to Zuffa, which could allow Couture to cut all Zuffa ties before Oct. 11.
In February, HDNet filed a lawsuit against Zuffa in Texas seeking a ruling on Couture’s contractual status since HDNet entered into a “business agreement” with the fighter.
(Pictured: Andrew Simon)
Steve Sievert is the Lead Staff Writer and business columnist for MMAjunkie.com. He is also the former MMA beat writer and blogger for the Houston Chronicle.
Check out more UFC News at MMAjunkie.com. This story originally appeared on MMAjunkie.com and is syndicated on Yahoo! Sports as part of a content-partnership deal between the two sites.
million im following on your coattails hope i read all your posts,,,dont feel losing a 5 bagger like i did with qmnm
goldbrick other day a flipper said he flipped over 100 times in a day,,,that would accout for alot of shares going in and out,,,
im long in this stock with 200,000 and was thinking about buying more but did anyone see this,,,,i believe in aqui and i think we might of bottomed ,,,i hope,,,Bottled water debate hits a boiling point
by Rob Lever
Sun Jun 29, 1:02 PM ET
WASHINGTON (AFP) - A debate over water is boiling over in the United States and elsewhere amid growing environmental concerns about bottled water and questions about safety of tap water.
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The US Conference of Mayors in June passed a resolution calling for a phasing out of bottled water by municipalities and promotion of the importance of public water supplies.
While largely symbolic, the vote highlighted a growing movement opposing regular use of bottled water because of its plastic waste and energy costs to transport drinking supplies.
Janet Larsen, director of research at the Earth Policy Institute, cites a "backlash against bottled water as more people are realizing what they get out of the bottles is not any better than what they get out of the faucet."
The Pacific Institute, a California think thank on sustainability issues, contends that producing bottles for US water consumption required the equivalent of more than 17 million barrels of oil in 2006, not including the energy for transportation.
The group says bottling water for Americans produces more than 2.5 million tons of carbon dioxide and consumes three liters of water for each liter of bottled water produced.
The debate in the US mirrors that taking place worldwide in places such as Paris; Liverpool, England; Florence, Italy; Vancouver, Canada. According to the EPI, the issue making waves among policymakers in locations including Denmark and New South Wales, Australia, among others.
The backlash comes even amid surging sales of bottled water in the United States. Some of this is linked to concerns about contamination of public water supplies, although critics of the industry say marketing hype is a greater factor.
Aficionados of Evian from France or Fiji from the South Pacific swear by the taste and health benefits of those waters, but others decry the high cost of energy for a product that may not be any better than local water.
A Natural Resources Defense Council concluded that "most of the tested waters were found to be of high quality (but) some brands were contaminated."
The group said bottled waters "are subject to less rigorous testing and purity standards than those which apply to city tap water."
In fact, says the group "about one-fourth of bottled water is actually bottled tap water" while government rules "allow bottlers to call their product 'spring water' even though it may be brought to the surface using a pumped well, and it may be treated with chemicals."
Americans drank about 8.8 billion gallons (33 billion liters) of packaged water in 2007, or 15 percent of their total liquid intake, according to the Beverage Marketing Corp. Per capita bottled US water consumption is up to 29 gallons (109 liters) per year, from 20 gallons in 2002.
The US is the largest consumer of bottled water, but on a per capita basis it ranks far behind Italy, the leader which consumes nearly twice as much, and others such as the United Arab Emirates, Mexico and France.
Advocates of bottled water they the industry is being used as a scapegoat.
Kevin Keane of the American Beverage Association said the mayors' resolution was "just cynical politics. It's like being against rope until you need a lifeline."
Keane says the bottled water industry is needed for communities hit by floods or other natural disasters and compromised municipal water systems.
Bottled water "is convenient and a good tasting beverage, especially in this day when you have fewer water fountains and even when you have them, people are skeptical about using them."
Beyond questions of safety and environment, some activists say the bottled water industry is seizing a public resource.
In the northeast state of Maine, a battle is brewing over access to a large aquifer by Poland Spring, a large US bottler owned by Swiss-based Nestle.
"Nestle's water grab is ruining streams, ponds, wells and aquifers," said Judy Grant of the activist group Corporate Accountability.
"Nestle's practices are raising serious questions about who should be allowed to control water, our most essential resource, and to what end."
The mayors, meeting in Miami, approved a resolution proposed by San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom along with 17 other large-city mayors to redirect taxpayer dollars from bottled water to other city services.
Joe Doss, president and chief executive of the International Bottled Water Association, an industry group based near Washington, said it was "unfortunate this is turning into a tap water versus bottled water debate."
Doss said most people drink both and that in many cases bottled water is a healthy replacement for sweetened or carbonated drinks.
The IBWA says the industry uses less than one percent of groundwater supplies and produces only a tiny fraction of greenhouse gases.
According to Doss, water bottles represent a tiny fraction of plastic waste that even if not recycled, and that any effort to improve recycling should cover all industries, not just bottled wate
doog we have talked prior in aqui,,,thinking buying more this week,,might wait for a run,,,your thoughts,,,
stockpimptress and all,,,thank you for all the words of advice,,,,hope my decision tomorrow works out right,,,im thinking we gap up and then hopefully a PR that takes us over a dollar,,,people should start seeing what we have here and seeing the highs along with buzz cloud along with huge volume,,,,everything is on our side now it's up to the company to not let this fall,,,show us what we are waiting for,,,let us know the pipe in finished,,,2 weeks come out with another PR stating that we are _ % over monthly earnings from last month,,,I feel along with adding more revs, we will fly.
This is were I always go wrong,,,was in qmnm,,didnt sell after the run,,,only had a 2 bagger compared to a 5 bagger ,,,should of put a stop lose,,,people talk so much about it and sell within first 45 minutes,,,always not making the right choice,,,ANY HELPFUL HINTS TO ME
Yes i agree, but we are dealing with a company going big,,,,LOOK GUYS I UNDERSTAND YOUR DISLIKE FOR SANDY,,,THIS IS THE LAST TIME IM SAYING THIS,,,YOUR SOOO ADAMANT ABOUT THIS BEING A DEAD STOCK BUT IF IT RUNS THEN WHAT IS IT,,,ALL THE PEOPLE YOU HAVE SO ADAMANTLY KNOCKED AND KEPT OUT ,,WHAT IS YOUR REWARD,,,ALL IM SAYING IS SHOW THEM THE DD AND THATS IT,,,BUT YOU NAG AND TELL TIME AND TIME AGAIN HOW SANDY IS A CROOK THIS STOCK WILL NEVER GET ANYWHERE,,,BUT I SEE YOU WONT APOLOGIZE OR LOSE SLEEP IF THIS GOES TO A PENNY AND WHAT ABOUT THE PEOPLE YOU KEPT OUT,,YOU WILL TAKE YOUR PROFIT AND MOVE ON,,,YOU WONT SAY CRAP,,,DUDE YOU HAVE NO,,,NO CLUE WHAT SANDY IS DOING IN HIS OFFICE,,WHO HE IS TALKING TO,,YOU DONT YOU LET THE PAST KEEP YOU BUTTCHEECKS CLENCHED,,,,IM DONE TALKING I WILL THROW ANOTHER 10 THOUSAND INTO THIS STOCK BY THE MONTHS END AND IF I LOSE ITS ME,,,MY DD,,MY OPINION,,BECAUSE I SEE A BIGGER PICTURE,,,AND IF I GET BURNED BY SANDY,,,SO BE IT,,,,