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There was a poster on another board-No Brainers- that is documented as picking CCTC on Monday when it was at $0.04 for their Stock Pick contest. But that was another board. We cannnot be everywhere-
KNDI news likely next week on their sales. I understand they are better than the market expects and KNDI will not wait until the end of the quarter to inform the market.
Chart looks to be in a consolidation mode--which is healthy. You have to build a higher base to maintain higher prices . Sometimes, I would just wish for a quick move up, but for a long term sustainable move, the stutter step on the upside is good for all.
XNPT looks interesting down here
Breakout Alert
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I thought SHIP was starting to look like a submarine
Tuna! How have you been?
Check KNDI--a Chinese green technology car company
Hope your SHIP does not go to the bottom, bum!
Sorry--I could not resist
KNDI is setting up very nicely. I got in at the right time
China's motivation to clean up its water lakes and rivers is clear.
This is from the TIME Asia Magazine:
Some 320 million Chinese lack adequate access to clean drinking water. Deserts cover 27% of the country's landmass. Most of China's surface water is unfit for human consumption, and some of that not even clean enough for industrial use. Grain production is sliding. And the Yellow River runs dry so often and so long that some scientists have argued that it ought to be considered a seasonal phenomenon
China a tough hand: just 8% of the world's water, but 22% of its people. Added to that is a profound lopsidedness in distribution: 81% of China's water is in the southern part of the country, which has 57% of its population. This means the North has only 990 cu m of water per person—or 12% of the world's average.
China's water pollution problem is getting even more serious. NY Times article today further underscores the HUGE opportunity and HUGE project budgets that will be necessary to just begin to solve their problems.
JLWT really could really win some big contracts after their initial Lake Tai project this Spring.
NY TIMES ARTICLE
China Report Shows More Pollution in Waterways
A heavily polluted river in the town of Zhugao in China’s southwest Sichuan province earlier this month.
By JONATHAN ANSFIELD and KEITH BRADSHER
Published: February 9, 2010
BEIJING — China’s government on Tuesday unveiled its most detailed survey ever of the pollution plaguing the country, revealing that water pollution in 2007 was more than twice as severe as official figures that had long omitted agricultural waste.
The first-ever national pollution census, environmentalists said, represented a small step forward for China in terms of transparency. But the results also raised serious questions about the shortcomings of China’s previous pollution data and suggested that even with limited progress in some areas, the country still had a long way to go to clean its waterways and air.
The pollution census, scheduled to be repeated in 2020, took more than two years to complete. It involved 570,000 people, and included 1.1 billion pieces of data from nearly 6 million sources of pollution, including factories, farms, homes and pollution-treatment facilities, the government announced at a news conference.
But the comprehensiveness of the survey also resulted in stark discrepancies between some of the calculations and annual figures that the government has published in the past.
By far the biggest of these involved China’s total discharge of chemical oxygen demand — the main gauge of water pollution. These discharges totaled 30.3 million tons in 2007, the census showed.
In recent years the Ministry of Environmental Protection has done a much narrower calculation of these discharges, excluding agricultural effluents like fertilizers and pesticides as well as fluids leaking from landfills. By that narrower measure, discharges came to only 13.8 million tons in 2007, which officials described at the time as a decline of more than 3 percent from 2006 and a “turning point.”
Zhang Lijun, the vice minister of environmental protection, sought to play down the differences with previous data. He noted that the census counted 13.2 million tons of agricultural effluents for the first time, and another 324,600 tons of discharges from landfills.
The census keepers had also employed updated methodologies and reached many more parts of the countryside and industrial sites than had official statistics, which helped account for the much larger figure in the census, Mr. Zhang said. Were it not for the vastly expanded scope of the survey, the chemical oxygen demand level in 2007 would stand at only 5.3 percent higher than previously calculated, he said.
Ma Jun, director of the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs, a nonprofit research group in Beijing, said that government planners estimated that the country’s rivers and lakes could handle only 7.4 million tons a year of chemical oxygen demand. The scale and significance of agricultural effluent was seldom recognized in previous government planning, which focused on bringing down mainly industrial emissions to around 7 million tons a year from 13.8 million tons, said Mr. Ma, a leading expert on water pollution in China.
The new total of more than 30 million tons suggests a much bigger problem. “We believed we needed to cut our emissions in half, but today’s data means a lot more work needs to be done,” Mr. Ma said.
The extent of agricultural waste could prove a more intractable problem than the many factories dumping effluent into China’s rivers and lakes.
“When it’s millions of farmers, it’s more difficult to bring it under control,” Mr. Ma said.
Steven Ma, of the Beijing office of Greenpeace, said that the government’s decision to calculate and release figures for agriculture would start to have an effect on the policy debate over water pollution in China. “Everybody knew there was a problem with agricultural pollution in China, but now there are numbers,” he said.
Mr. Zhang said that the findings of the census were roughly in line with official expectations. “There were no major surprises,” he said.
Based on the narrower approach, officials say China is on track to meet or exceed the nation’s pollution goals: to trim levels of chemical oxygen demand as well as sulfur dioxide, a major air pollutant, by 10 percent between 2005 and 2010. For now, the census would not change how those targets are evaluated, Mr. Zhang said.
“Current results of the census will not be linked to environmental performance,” he added.
In terms of sulfur dioxide emissions in 2007, in fact, the census totaled only 23.2 million tons, compared with 24.7 million tons in the official data released in 2008. But census figures for other important metrics, such as soot and ammonia nitrogen, another indicator of water quality, were higher than the previous data by double-digit percentages.
The census also broke down China’s pollution toll into a considerably greater number of categories and sectors than the government does regularly. Some Chinese environmentalists and media outlets took particular note of the amount of poisonous discharge of heavy metals like arsenic, mercury and lead, a frequent source of protests in towns and villages over mass contamination from nearby factories.
The census would help the government take a more “targeted and focused” approach to combating pollution in coming years, Mr. Zhang said. The government has indicated it will add emissions of ammonia nitrogen and nitrogen oxides, which are discharged from vehicles and power plants, to a list of reduction targets from 2011 to 2015.
Jonathan Ansfield reported from Beijing, and Keith Bradsher from Hong Kong. Zhang Jing contributed research.
vlft--have you checked with the transfer agent on the number of shares outstanding?
Closing at the HOD is always good for the next morning's open. EXTO
If UTRM can close over the 10DMA with more than, say, 1 million shares for two days straight, I think we can have a real runner here. News out of the company would help.
Channel 7--Hemopurifier to Rid Blood of Deadly Viruses
ABC 7 News - Hemopurifier to Rid Blood of Deadly Viruses
There could soon be a new treatment option for a million people world-wide who suffer from incurable diseases.
Scientists are working on a cartridge called the "hemopurifier" that can clean the blood by ridding it of deadly viruses and toxins.
Jeannie Gibbs has suffered from HIV for 11 years.
"It's difficult. I'm on oxygen and it takes a lot out of me. It's hard to live a normal life," Gibbs said.
The hemopurifier is not a cure for any disease, but could fill a treatment void for viruses that are drug and vaccine-resistant.
HIV patients have a limited number of drug regimens to manage their conditions and eventually they become resistant to all the drugs, and are left without options.
The hemopurifier could change that by removing the virus from the blood.
"This is a methodology to remove those mutant strains so they can stay on their drugs for extended periods of time," says Jim Joyce, of Aethlon Medical, developer of the hemopurifier.
The hemopurifier is a single-use disposable cartridge that hooks up to existing dialysis machines.
Blood enters the cartridge, travels through hollow spaghetti-looking fibers where viruses and toxins are selectively captured by small pores on the fibers' walls.
Blood circulates through the cartridge every eight minutes for about four hours.
According to Joyce, "The goal of treatment is to bridge the natural immune response to give your own response additional time to mount its own abilities to recover from infection."
Researchers believe it could benefit millions of patients with HIV, Hepatitis C and potentially cancer.
The device could also be used with a portable pump to survive bio-weapons like Ebola and smallpox or viruses like the bird flu.
"Something that would be effective against more than a single agent is logically the thing to focus our efforts on," says Dr. Charles Bailey, who is the Director of George Mason's Center of Bio defense and Infectious Diseases.
The hemopurifier is not a cure for any disease, but could fill a treatment void for viruses that are drug and vaccine resistant.
Most patients, like dialysis patients, would use the hemopurifier repeatedly.
The device is still being tested, but could be in hospitals in the next two years.
Nice segment on TV
Something is up with UTRM
Just got this from IR. I was on their list. Almost says "Stay tuned--you will get your news". Almost is a pre-announcement on the Vet thing.
To UTRM shareholders:
UTRM management is aware that it has been some time since the company has issued a press release on corporate developments. The company would like to give a quick update to its shareholders and potential investors that have opted in to the UTRM e-mail list.
Go Green Expo and Distributor Meetings
We have received phone calls and e-mails with questions on what transpired at the Go Green Expo in Los Angeles. At the Expo, the company obtained additional local press coverage and were approached by a number of retail store buyers interested in adding the Aquafree (TM) toothbrush to their retail mix in the U.S. These qualified leads are being pursued with the goal to obtain orders in the near future. In addition, the company has met again with three distributors with proven distribution networks which have a focus on dental supplies.
Potential with the Convention and Casino/Hotel Industry in Las Vegas
UTRM management met with a number of hotels and casinos in Las Vegas a few days after the Expo. There is a very significant opportunity in Las Vegas, where scarce water resources has provided UTRM with a very promising market with the potential of frequent reorders for the Aquafree toothbrush as a promotional item from the hospitality and convention industry. With the number of visitors coming into Las Vegas daily, the Aquafree toothbrush can have a major impact on water usage in the Las Vegas area. The company has already met with the Water Authority of Las Vegas for assistance in penetrating this market.
As a reminder, when contracts are signed, both purchasing contracts and distributor agreements, they will be announced through press releases. The company will not announce signed Letter of Intents (LOI's)--only definitive contracts. When the company obtains a signed contract, a press release will be issued. When approved by the other party, the company will include projected revenues or unit totals for each contract in the press releases.
Veterinary Application--Aquafree Toothbrush Brand Extension
UTRM management would like to thank those shareholders and interested investors who have called and e-mailed the company regarding the possibility of extending the Aquafree brand to a veterinary application. UTRM has plans to introduce a Aquafree toothbrush for dogs and cats once the company's main distribution of the Aquafree toothbrush has been established.
The veterinary application has the potential to be a lucrative ancillary market. One of the reasons pet owners do not try to brush their pet's teeth periodically is because of the "juggling" required between putting toothbrush on the brush, prying the pet's mouth open without losing the toothpaste and finally brushing. The Aquafree toothbrush would simplify this procedure. The easier the procedure, the more pet owners brushing their pet's teeth.
As noted in a recent article: "Periodontal disease, an infection of the gums, is incredibly common in pets, and it can be quite serious," explains Dr. Niemiec, a board certified veterinary dental specialist. "It's estimated that by the age of two, 80 percent of dogs and 70 percent of cats have some form of periodontal disease. Periodontal infections have been linked to diabetes, heart attacks, strokes, kidney disease and other life threatening disorders. The best way to prevent periodontal disease is by regularly brushing your pet's teeth and by regularly visiting your veterinarian."
Link: http://www.prweb.com/releases/pet_oral_health/dental_care/prweb2187014.htm