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Great post live42daygirl.
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Fast comeback.
USOG Support & Resistance
2nd Resistance Point 0.0124
1st Resistance Point 0.0108
Last Price 0.0101
1st Support Level 0.0063
2nd Support Level 0.0034
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Please don't use all caps.
Management
Alex Tawse was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer in May 2007, and Chairman in March 2010. From January 2005 to February 2007, Mr. Tawse was Vice President of Operations for the Kaizen Institute, an international consulting company. From July 1997 to 2005, Mr. Tawse served as Chief Financial Officer for the Kaizen Institute. Mr. Tawse worked for Price Waterhouse from January 1991 to July 2004. Mr. Tawse holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and International Relations from Stanford University, an MBA degree from the University of Texas, and he is also a Certified Public Accountant (inactive).
Jeff Turnbull has thirty years of executive sales and managerial experience in the oil and gas industry. Before joining our company, Mr. Turnbull purchased Turnbull Oil in 1991, and has since successfully acquired three other Kansas-based oil and gas services businesses. Prior to Turnbull, Mr. Turnbull held management level roles for exploration and production service firms in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Houston, Texas, and Denver, Colorado. Mr. Turnbull is an active member in the Petroleum Marketers Association and National Propane Gas Association and also Board member of the Northwest Kansas Economic Development Group. Mr. Turnbull graduated with a B.S. in Business and Political Science from Fort Hays State University in Hays, Kansas.
Mike Werner has over 45 years of experience in the oil and gas services business. Prior to joining our company in January 2010, Mr. Werner founded Werner Oil in 1994. In 2003, Werner Oil became United Oil when Mr. Werner’s family began working in the business with him. From 1989 to 1994, Mr. Werner was a salesman for Pam Oil in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. In 1978, when he was just 19 years old, Mr. Werner assumed control of his father’s business, Werner Oil, in Minot, North Dakota. Mr. Werner grew the business and eventually sold it in 1987. In 1974, at age sixteen, Mr. Werner began working for his father as a full-time bulk fuels truck driver.
http://www.usaoilandgas.com/
http://www.usaoilandgas.com/management.html
Alex Tawse
Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer,
Alex Tawse has been President and Chief Executive Officer of United States Oil & Gas Corp. (formerly Sustainable Energy Development, Inc.) since February 14, 2008. Mr. Tawse serves as Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of United States Oil & Gas Corp. Mr. Tawse served as Vice President of Operations at Kaizen Institute from 2005 to February 2007 where he Managed its consulting and training operations for North American business unit, Managed budget, P&L, marketing ... strategy, and implementation of strategic plan, Hired and trained consulting, marketing, and office staff, Developed new business and managed customer relations, Restructured operations and internal management systems to improve revenue generation and customer retention, Generated over two million dollars of new contracts in 2006, doubled customer sales and drastically improved cash flow by reducing cash to cash cycle time by 270%, Acquired new clients which include Nike, Kraft, Stewart & Stevenson, Dannon Yogurt, Bacardi, Sypris Technologies, JB Poindexter, BioMerieux, and Hella Lighting, Established strategic partnership with lean software provider to co-market products and services, Established the Kaizen College and trained over 250 business executives to effectively implement a sustainable lean strategy of continuous improvement at Kaizen Institute. Mr. Tawse also served as Chief Financial Officer of Kaizen Institute from 1998 to 2005 where he Established global headquarters in Zug, Switzerland, managed its finances, G/L, cash flow, and reporting; hired and supervised accounting staff; secured access to capital; Realized annual labor cost savings of over $200k through lean accounting systems and policies; Reduced cash collection cycle from 120 days to 45 days; Established affiliate offices in Poland, Romania, Czech Republic, and New Zealand; Restructured U.S. business unit; obtained financing; secured investors; developed compensation structure for independent consultants and reduced its overhead costs by 50%. Mr. Tawse Lean was a Consultant & Trainer from 2002 to 2007. Mr. Tawse Achieved over $10 million in annual cost savings for customers such as Bacardi (U.S., Italy and U.K.), Nike (China), Aviacor (Russia), Kraft Foods, Dannon, and Stewart and Stevenson. He Guided top management and shop floor personnel to achieve competitive advantage through improved production systems, greater process flexibility, and increased throughput capacity; without investment in new equipment or additional labor, Provided pro-bono consulting to local community center to improve customer service, Developed, utilized and trained others in lean principles and tools such as: Total Quality Systems; Kaizen Office Systems; 5S; Process Standardization; JIT/Pull Systems (Kanban); Mistake Proofing; Value Stream Mapping; Total Change Management; Cell Design; Quick Changeover (SMED); Total Productive Maintenance and Lean Accounting. Mr. Tawse serviced high profile global customers in the U.S., China, Russia, Italy, and the U.K. that operate in a variety of industries including specialized oil drilling equipment, consumer goods, automotive, and pharmaceutical. He serves as Chairman of the Board of United States Oil & Gas Corp. Mr. Tawse studied at Oxford University, holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and International Relations from Stanford University, an MBA degree from the University of Texas, and is also a Certified Public Accountant.
http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=41363087&ticker=USOG:US
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Volune so far today is 10,114,911.
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Volume so far today is 3,145,050.
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My market value changed.
Scottrade also shows .025.
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Ping Averts Its Gaze: Apple’s New Social Network Doesn’t Really Want to Know Much About You
by Peter Kafka
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 10:26 AM PT
Steve Jobs says Ping is supposed to be a “social music discovery” service: You share your musical taste with friends and vice versa. But if you really want to share, you’re going to find it harder than you think.
This isn’t about Apple’s walled garden that keeps Ping walled off from Facebook and other services. It’s about Apple’s decision to wall off Ping from your own music collection.
Steve Jobs’s demo yesterday gave the impression that Ping would link up with users’ iTunes music player and library. But Ping only cares about what you do on the iTunes Store–it has no idea what you actually listen to and like.
If you buy something at iTunes, you can tell your pals. And if you want to recommend something, and you can find it in Apple’s store, you can click on the link there and talk it up.
But if it doesn’t happen in the store, it doesn’t happen at all.
You can see why Jobs, who has made a point of playing up Apple’s privacy bona fides in recent months, wouldn’t want to automatically peek into people’s iTunes collections. And Apple’s “Genius” feature, an opt-in service that does track what you play on iTunes, makes a point of not connecting that data to your name and account information. But it would make a lot of sense to let people choose to open up their library.
Because, as Apple knows very well, most people fill their iTunes collection with music they acquire from every source but the iTunes store.
“97% of the music on the average iPod was not purchased from the iTunes store,” Jobs wrote in 2007. Hard to imagine it’s changed much since then.
You could go out of your way to tell Ping about what you do with your iTunes collection. But, again, if you’re inclined to do that, you’re probably already doing that somewhere else. Like on Facebook. Or a Tumblr account.
And if you don’t make the effort, Ping will know next to nothing about you, because Apple has blindfolded the service. Another metaphor, via Debcha on Twitter: “Basing my musical tastes on my iTunes downloads is like judging my eating habits by what I buy at highway rest stops.”
Maybe Jobs thinks that Ping users will be happy with rest-stop recommendations. My hunch is that he plans on fleshing it out over time, trading privacy for utility. We’ll see….
[Image credit: Billy Rowlinson]
http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20100902/ping-dinged-apples-new-social-network-doesnt-really-want-to-know-much-about-you/
iTunes Ping Has No Zing
By Cynthia Boris on September 5, 2010
Apple says that more than one million users joined their new music-focused social network Ping in the 48 hours following its launch. I find that hard to believe. I do believe that people will flock like seagulls on a chip bag to a hot new social media site even though they can’t keep up with the ones they’re already on. I do believe that people will jump at the idea of a music-based network (take that Myspace!) especially one brought to you buy the maker of the iPod.
What I have trouble with is the fact that when I sign on to Ping, I can’t find more than twenty people using the site. Those that I did find were all in the music biz. What gives?
When you first log on, Ping has a Facebook appearance but once you start mucking around it’s not very user friendly. For the network to have any meaning, you have to have followers and followees but short of searching the name of everyone I know, there’s no way to find people you want to connect with. I understand that Ping was planning on having a Facebook connect option but Facebook did an about-face before launch.
On a purely visual level, the Ping window doesn’t fit on my screen, even after I resize the sidebar as far as it will go. The far right, which is where the tools are, is cut off unless I scroll over and that’s just not going to happen. I’m not missing anything important, but it’s annoying.
What’s even more annoying is the fact that Ping is part of iTunes, not the web. I don’t open iTunes every day, and I guess, that’s behavior Apple wants to change. Still, there’s no doubt that I would “Ping” more often if I could do it from the web.
The biggest problem is you can’t DO anything other than promote sales. Now, here’s where I tread lightly, because this is a blog for marketers. As I moved around the site, I found that all of the status updates were notations of cds bought or reviews, both of which came with a prominent buy this button next to the CD graphic. Most lines had little or no additional information so it was like looking at someone’s wish list or shopping cart.
I understand that artists can add other updates to their pages, but the average user can’t. Where’s the “social” in this social media site? I assumed I’d be able to leave comments about my favorite artists, click on a song to “like” it, and easily locate other fans of the same song so we can connect. If that functionality is there then it’s well hidden.
And who decided to call it Ping? That’s not a sound I associate with music. Why not Sing or Zing?
I wish I had come in here to say what a great new marketing space Ping is for anyone in the music industry but right now, not so much. Will that change in the near future? I think it will. Fortune has a great article with their thoughts on how Ping can be saved and it includes links to some of the best rants written so far. If Apple listens to what’s being said and makes some major changes in the next month, then marketers might hear ka-ching instead of feeling the sting when they join up with Ping.
http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2010/09/itunes-ping-has-no-zing.html