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Sadly, but anything to help bring the share price up
CORRECTED - CORRECTED-EPIX Pharmaceuticals gives update on NASDAQ listing st
Wed Feb 11, 2009 2:51pm EST (Corrects to say that the company is required to file a current report on 8-k)
Feb 9 (Reuters) - EPIX Pharmaceuticals Inc (EPIX.O): * Provides update on NASDAQ listing status * Says received notice from the NASDAQ listing qualifications panel * Says panel requires co to file a current report on 8-k on or before May 11
Two National Merchants Choose Fifth Third Processing Solutions
O'Charley's Inc. and Old Time Pottery Sign for Card Processing Services
Wednesday February 11, 2009, 11:03 am EST
Fifth Third Bancorp
CINCINNATI, Feb. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Fifth Third Processing Solutions is pleased to announce that O'Charley's Inc. and Old Time Pottery have signed contracts for merchant processing services:
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O'Charley's Inc., headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, is a multi-concept restaurant company that operates or franchises a total of 371 restaurants in 28 states under three brands: O'Charley's, Ninety Nine Restaurant, and Stoney River Legendary Steaks. The Organization has signed with Fifth Third for credit card processing.
-- Old Time Pottery opened its first low-cost warehouse style home decor store in 1986 in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. The Company now has 38 stores throughout the Southeast and Midwest and has signed with Fifth Third for debit, credit and gift card processing.
"We are pleased to welcome these two new national clients," said Donald Boeding, president of Merchant Services for Fifth Third Processing Solutions. "These new partnerships underline Fifth Third's commitment to investing in the people, technology and systems necessary to effectively support the payment processing needs for a wide variety of businesses including traditional retailers and restaurants such as these."
Fifth Third Processing Solutions processes over 28.4 billion ATM and POS transactions per year for more than 2,900 financial institutions and over 169,000 retail locations worldwide, including the Armed Forces Financial Network (AFFN), First Niagara Financial Group, Sovereign Bank, The Kroger Co., AutoZone, Abercrombie & Fitch and The Finish Line. Through its wholly owned subsidiary, CMC, (www.cmcOne.com) Fifth Third also provides servicing solutions and product engineering for financial institutions and retailers for credit card, debit card, merchant and private label programs. Annually, Fifth Third processes $191.6 billion in credit card sales. According to The Nilson Report (March 2008), Fifth Third Bank is the fourth largest bankcard acquirer.
Fifth Third Bancorp (Nasdaq: FITB - News) is a diversified financial services company headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. The Company has $120 billion in assets, operates 16 affiliates with 1,307 full-service Banking Centers, including 93 Bank Mart® locations open seven days a week inside select grocery stores and 2,351 ATMs in Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Florida, Tennessee, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Georgia and North Carolina. Fifth Third operates five main businesses: Commercial Banking, Branch Banking, Consumer Lending, Investment Advisors and Fifth Third Processing Solutions. Fifth Third is among the largest money managers in the Midwest and, as of December 31, 2008, has $179 billion in assets under care, of which it managed $25 billion for individuals, corporations and not-for- profit organizations. Investor information and press releases can be viewed at www.53.com. Fifth Third's common stock is traded on the NASDAQ® National Global Select Market under the symbol "FITB."
Smurfit-Stone to close Missouri plant The Business Journal of Milwaukee
Smurfit-Stone delisted from Nasdaq
Smurfit-Stone to close plant
Bankruptcy court OKs Smurfit-Stone's $550M DIP credit
Smurfit-Stone Container Corp., a packaging products manufacturer with several Milwaukee-area operations, plans to close a plant in St. Joseph, Mo., leaving 100 workers without jobs.
The company plans to shutter the operation April 7, according to Mike Mullin, a Smufit-Stone spokesman.
The affected workers include 86 hourly employees and 15 salaried workers, he said.
The plant closure is not related to the company's recent bankruptcy filing, Mullin said. "This was a separate issue," he said. "The employees had gone on strike, no business activity had gone on there in recent weeks and other facilities were able to absorb the activity."
Last month, Smurfit-Stone filed to reorganize under Chapter 11 in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Wilmington, Del.
Dually headquartered in Creve Coeur, Mo., and Chicago, Smurfit-Stone Container Corp. (Nasdaq: SSCC) manufactures corrugated container and containerboard. Nearly all of the firm’s executives are based in St. Louis. Smurfit-Stone generated revenue of $7.4 billion in 2007.
by May this stock will be over 3.00 pps IMHO
DAMN missed the bottom
sorry about the caps
SAD THING IS I CAN'T EVEN SELL IT FOR A LOSE
EPIX Pharmaceuticals Provides Update on NASDAQ Listing Status
Monday February 9, 2009, 6:30 am EST
EPIX Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
LEXINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--EPIX Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: EPIX - News) a biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering and developing novel therapeutics through the use of its proprietary and highly efficient in silico drug discovery platform today announced that it has received notice from the NASDAQ Listing Qualifications Panel (the "Panel") indicating that the Panel has determined to grant the Company’s request for continued listing on The NASDAQ Global Market, subject to the condition that on or before May 11, 2009, the company files a Current Report on Form 8-K with the Securities and Exchange Commission, evidencing its compliance with NASDAQ Marketplace Rule 4450(b)(1)(A). NASDAQ Marketplace Rule 4450(b)(1)(A) requires the company to maintain a shareholders' equity of at least $10 million or a minimum market value of listed securities of $50 million. EPIX is taking steps to comply with the terms of the Panel decision; however, there can be no assurance that the company will be able to do so.
EPIX Pharmaceuticals is a biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering and developing novel therapeutics through the use of its proprietary and highly efficient in silico drug discovery platform. The company has a pipeline of internally-discovered drug candidates currently in clinical development to treat diseases of the central nervous system and lung conditions. EPIX also has collaborations with leading organizations, including GlaxoSmithKline, Amgen and Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Therapeutics.
Families want answers from man who says he dissolved 300 people
Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times
Seen from inside a Baja State government office, Fernando Ocegueda presses his hands on an enlarged photograph of his 23-year-old son. Ocegueda investigated his son's kidnapping on his own.
Santiago Meza Lopez, known as El Pozolero (the Stew Maker), says he stuffed bodies into barrels of lye for drug cartels. He may be a good source of information about missing loved ones.
By Richard Marosi
February 9, 2009
Reporting from Tijuana -- Fernando Ocegueda hasn't seen his son since gunmen dragged the college student from the family's house three years ago. Alma Diaz wonders what happened to her son, Eric, a Mexicali police officer who left a party in 1995 and never returned.
Arturo Davila still pounds on police doors looking for answers 11 years after his daughter and a girlfriend were kidnapped in downtown Ensenada.
Full coverage of Mexico's drug warIn a Mexico state, openness is the new order in the courts
For the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of families of people who have vanished amid Baja California's drug wars, the search for justice has been lonely and fruitless. But their hopes have been buoyed recently by the Jan. 22 arrest of a man Mexican authorities believe is behind the gruesome disposal of bodies in vats of industrial chemicals.
Santiago Meza Lopez, a stocky 45-year-old taken into custody after a raid near Ensenada, was identified as the pozolero who liquefied the bodies of victims for lieutenants of the Arellano Felix drug cartel. Authorities say he laid claim to stuffing 300 bodies into barrels of lye, then dumping some of the liquefied remains in a pit in a hillside compound in eastern Tijuana.
His capture riveted Mexico with sickening details behind drug violence that has left more than 8,000 dead in two years. For the families of the disappeared, however, it was a chance to revive cases that seemed long forgotten.
day after Meza's arrest, Ocegueda and 40 other people showed up at the federal attorney general's office in Tijuana, with family snapshots in hand, demanding that authorities query Meza about whether he recalled dissolving their missing loved ones.
In the following days, dozens more people came forward with tales of disappearances. "Please help me find out what happened to him," wrote one woman on a photograph of a young man smiling in a car. "He was my husband."
Victim rights groups estimate that there are more than 1,000 people missing in Baja California, including students, businessmen, merchants and cops. Their cases have been ignored, bungled or blocked by law enforcement officials, activists say.
As a potential cartel insider, Meza could peel back the mysteries surrounding the disappearances, they say. Ocegueda, president of the Citizens United Against Impunity, plans to visit Mexico City this week, where he will request a personal audience with Meza.
Authorities are unlikely to grant access to the suspect, but families hope they'll follow through on their promise to confront him with the photos. His capture has provided their greatest leverage against a government that for years has paid little attention to their concerns, said Ocegueda and other group leaders.
"The government wants to silence what cannot be silenced . . . but they didn't count on someone saying that he personally disintegrated 300 bodies," said Cristina Palacios Hodoyan, whose son, Alejandro, disappeared in 1997. "They're going to have to pay attention to us now."
Federal authorities have told the local media that they are cooperating with the families, having met with them and taken more than 100 photos.
The hillside compound where Meza told authorities he labored lies in an area acquainted with death. There are two cemeteries tucked in the surrounding hills, and funeral processions pass by daily on potholed Ojo de Agua road.
Behind the white gate, Meza said, he would fill a barrel with water and two large bags of lye. Wearing gloves and protective goggles, he'd light a fire underneath, and bring the liquid to a boil before depositing a body. After 24 hours, he would dump the disintegrated remains in a pit and set them aflame.
In Tijuana, the process is known as making pozole. That's because the pink liquid in the barrel resembles the popular Mexican stew. When a Mexican official asked Meza what he did for a living, he replied, "Me llaman el Pozolero": They call me the Pozole Maker.
He earned $600 weekly and said he learned how to disintegrate bodies by first experimenting with pig legs, according to the Mexican federal attorney general's office. Meza allegedly told authorities he worked for several top cartel lieutenants over a 10-year period, most recently for Teodoro Garcia Simental, whom authorities believe is behind the kidnappings of hundreds of people in recent years.
Meza's alleged deeds apparently went unnoticed in the shabby area of ranches and pig and chicken farms. Several neighbors said they had never seen him, and weren't curious. "It's best to be ignorant of such diabolical things," said a local pig farmer, who did not want to be identified because he feared for his safety.
Ocegueda, a slender, intense man with a chain-smoking habit, vows to shatter that ignorance. After his 23-year-old son, Fernando, was kidnapped, authorities did little, so Ocegueda investigated on his own. He donned dirty clothes and a hooded shirt and rode a wobbly bike in tough neighborhoods, chatting up drug dealers and other criminals.
These days he leads demonstrations, camps out at City Hall, and corners military and government officials any chance he gets. After Meza's arrest he went to the San Diego area to meet with 20 families who gave him photographs of loved ones, some of them U.S. citizens, who vanished while going to work or visiting relatives in Mexico.
Ocegueda believes he knows the identities of his son's kidnappers. But his probe, like others, hit a dead end. He believes police protect organized crime members, fear investigations will reveal their own complicity, or are incompetent. Some families have been threatened by police after reporting the crimes. In one case, a man who reported the abduction of his family was kidnapped himself the next day, said Ocegueda, whose claims are supported by many families and a Mexicali-based group, the Hope Assn. Against Kidnapping and Impunity.
"Authorities have told people not to report anything, saying their loved ones were criminals. . . . Instead of helping resolve their cases, they threaten them," said Miguel Garcia, a Mexicali-based attorney who provides legal advice to the Hope Assn.
Last year, the groups gained a key ally when the then-top military commander in the region, Gen. Sergio Aponte Polito, accused several state law enforcement officials of links to organized crime. Among them, he said, was the head of the state anti-kidnapping squad in Tijuana.
Aponte was removed from his post in August, and most of the state officials he accused have not been prosecuted.
Last week at Meza's compound, federal agents continued digging up soil samples looking for human remains. Experts and law enforcement say chances are slim they will be able to identify any of them.
Salvador Ortiz Morales, the state deputy attorney general in Tijuana, said forensic teams have never been able to identify victims dissolved in barrels because so little remains.
The site may not yield answers for another reason.
Meza admitted disintegrating bodies over a 10-year period, but neighbors said the compound was constructed only six months ago. All the more reason, the families say, to pressure Meza to disclose other grave sites, and demand other details on the fate of the missing.
"There are many other families suffering like me," Ocegueda said. "We need to find out what he knows."
I take that back, I now own .0049 shares of this great Co, thats what Scottrade shows.
This is why I never play pinks or OTC stocks again
I had 50 shares from the last RS now Scottrade trade shows that I have NONE their symbol is not even in my account anymore so is that a tax right off?
from what I hear comcast is going to offer each customer $10.00
I am planning on sinking another 3000 into it as soon as my cash frees up this will make me some cash down the road
I agree, though I had to learn the hard way, and lose a bunch of cash just because I was stupid enough to believe people were honest, I wonder if Matt original plan for IHUB was for it to turn out this way
I believe IRP should be in their signatures, not only their profiles, so that when they post you know exactly who your dealing with
Ya so did I, and stock-analyzer was mentioned, another paid promotion
I agree freeing up funds now
Bid is now @ US $434,544.44
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Tucson, Arizona, viewers see 10 seconds of porn during Super Bowl
(CNN) -- Super Bowl fans in Tucson, Arizona, caught a different kind of show during Sunday's big game.
Just as Cardinals' superstar Larry Fitzgerald watched himself sprint into the end zone on the stadium's Jumbotron during Sunday's Super Bowl, 10 seconds of eye-popping pornographic imagery "flashed" across the screens of those watching at home.
"We are mortified by last evening's Super Bowl interruption, and deeply apologize to our customers for the inappropriate programming," Comcast Cable said in a written statement.
"Our initial investigation suggests this was an isolated malicious act," the statement added.
Comcast, and several local television stations that carried the signal, say they are currently investigating what caused the interruption.
"It appears this material was only viewed by some Comcast customers," local Tucson television station KVOA-TV said in a written statement.
Television station KVOA added "when the NBC feed of the Super Bowl was transmitted from KVOA to local cable providers and through over-the-air antennas, there was no pornographic material," KVOA President and General Manager Gary Nielsen said in a separate statement
Porn airs during Super BowlStory Highlights
Tucson, Arizona, viewers see 10 seconds of porn during Super Bowl
(CNN) -- Super Bowl fans in Tucson, Arizona, caught a different kind of show during Sunday's big game.
Just as Cardinals' superstar Larry Fitzgerald watched himself sprint into the end zone on the stadium's Jumbotron during Sunday's Super Bowl, 10 seconds of eye-popping pornographic imagery "flashed" across the screens of those watching at home.
"We are mortified by last evening's Super Bowl interruption, and deeply apologize to our customers for the inappropriate programming," Comcast Cable said in a written statement.
"Our initial investigation suggests this was an isolated malicious act," the statement added.
Comcast, and several local television stations that carried the signal, say they are currently investigating what caused the interruption.
"It appears this material was only viewed by some Comcast customers," local Tucson television station KVOA-TV said in a written statement.
Television station KVOA added "when the NBC feed of the Super Bowl was transmitted from KVOA to local cable providers and through over-the-air antennas, there was no pornographic material," KVOA President and General Manager Gary Nielsen said in a separate statement
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I am looking for my old unit pin, is their a place to get them, it has DUTY NOT REWARD on it. I have looked here but can't find it
http://www.usmedals.com/
Skydiver lands with dying instructor at his backStory
Pharr credits Army training with helping him calmly assess situation
By Robyn Sidersky
CNN
(CNN) -- Daniel Pharr says he was in the middle of his first-ever skydive, thousands of feet over South Carolina, when the instructor strapped to his back stopped talking to him Saturday.
Army Pvt. Daniel Pharr says he "went into survival mode" when his instructor stopped talking during their skydive.
The instructor, George "Chip" Steele of Skydive Carolina, was later pronounced dead. But as they were falling, Pharr -- an Army soldier taking a private skydiving lesson -- knew only that Steele wasn't responding.
Pharr said he "went into survival mode," using his military training to calm himself as he tried to get to ground safely.
"We're just taught to deal with adversity, whether it be on the battlefront or at home or ... up in the air, and you just do what you have to do -- assess the situation and keep a calm head about you because it doesn't do anybody any good to panic," said Pharr, a private in the Army.
Pharr, able to steer himself only in right circles because he could use only the parachute's right steering mechanism, managed to maneuver away from some obstructions and landed safely in Chester, South Carolina.
When they landed, Pharr attempted CPR, but it was too late.
Steele, 49, appeared to have died of a heart attack, Chester County Coroner Terry Tinker told the Rock Hill (South Carolina) Herald. An autopsy was being conducted Monday.
Everything seemed to be normal at the beginning of the jump, Pharr said. He asked a question and Steele responded. They chatted for a moment in the air, but when Pharr asked another question about 5,500 feet above ground, Steele did not respond.
Pharr asked the question again. When he still got no response, he didn't panic -- he realized to get down safely he had to remain calm, he said.
"The likelihood of you surviving, you know, decreases absolutely amazingly by factors exponentially if you panic," he said.
The skydive was a Christmas gift from Pharr's girlfriend, who he said is now having regrets about it. But Pharr assured her there was no reason for regret.
"It's a lifelong experience now, not to be turned around into a bad thing," he said. "I just hate it for the family."
Pharr -- based at Georgia's Fort Gordon, according to CNN affiliate WJBF -- said his focus was just to get down to the ground and help Steele.
Pharr said his family won't let him go near skydiving again, and he isn't arguing with them.
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Bill to curb speculation could kill CDS: analyst
By Laura Mandaro & Ronald D. Orol, MarketWatch
Last update: 8:17 p.m. EST Feb. 2, 2009Comments: 155SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Ahead of a two-day hearing on derivatives, a bond analyst is warning that a proposed House bill to ban speculation in the once-obscure securities would annihilate the $31 trillion credit-default swaps market.
"Proposed legislation to regulate credit default swaps to limit purchases of protection only to those with exposure to economic loss in the instrument being insured could have the unintended (or intended) consequence of collapsing this market," Banc of America Securities credit strategist Jeffrey Rosenberg wrote in a report.
Starting Tuesday afternoon, the House Committee on Agriculture, led by Chairman Collin Peterson, D-Minn., plans two days of hearings in Washington, D.C. to discuss legislation that would impose severe curbs on credit derivatives. Representatives of trade groups representing farmers and gasoline-station operators and the major futures exchanges are scheduled to testify.
Peterson's bill would make it a violation of the Commodity Exchange Act to enter into a type of credit derivative known as a "naked" credit default swap. In other words, the only buyers of those securities, which act as protection against the risk that an underlying corporate or sovereign borrower will default on its debt, would be those investors who must have "direct exposure to financial loss" on the underlying entity.
Derivatives are often used to hedge against unwanted price movement in commodities like oil or assets like corporate debt. Airlines such as Southwest Airlines Co. (LUV:Southwest Airlines Co.
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LUV 6.75, -0.28, -4.0%) buy heating-oil futures, a commodities derivative, to hedge against higher jet-fuel prices. Commercial banks can buy credit default swaps to hedge against a borrower -- like now-bankrupt Smurfit Stone Container Corp. (SSCC:smurfit-stone container corp com
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SSCC 0.03, 0.00, -6.3%) -- defaulting.
But investors, from pension funds to investment banks, have also used commodities and credit derivatives for trading profits.
The rapid growth of credit default swaps volumes been blamed for magnifying losses in the subprime mortgage market, ultimately prompting a government bailout of CDS-seller American International Group (AIG:American International Group Inc
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AIG 1.23, -0.05, -3.9%) and pushing the U.S. financial system to the brink of collapse after Lehman Bros. (LEHMQ:Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc
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Peterson's new bill also would impose limits on the speculative positions traders in commodities can enter into, taking up some of the same curbs proposed by Washington last year when oil and grains prices hit record highs. Legislation aimed at financial trades of derivatives died after commodities prices nosedived in the second half of the year.
Even if final legislation avoids killing the credit-default swaps market, Rosenberg said, the market's still due for a stronger regulatory regime.
Analysts are anticipating regulators will institute a central clearing house for credit default swaps, similar to the clearing organizations in place for commodities futures.
Senate securities subcommittee chairman Jack Reed, D-R.I. said in an interview that the clearing house would require equity investments from participants, though policymakers were still working out details on how much support such a clearinghouse would demand.
Unlike the ban on naked CDS, a clearinghouse isn't raising the same hackles among industry participants.
"The sooner a central clearing counterparty can emerge, the sooner CDS can reform its image," Brian Yelvington, senior macro strategist at CreditSights, wrote in a report Monday.
Laura Mandaro is a reporter for MarketWatch in San Francisco.
Ronald D. Orol is a MarketWatch reporter, based in Washington.
'867-5309' number for sale on eBayStory Highlights
BID @ $150,000
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Man selling his "867-5309" phone number on eBay
Digits made famous by 1982 Tommy Tutone hit song
Along with phone number, auction winner will get DJ business
By Alan Duke
CNN
(CNN) -- Jenny's phone number is for sale, but not for a song.
"867-5309/Jenny" originally appeared on Tommy Tutone's "Tommy Tutone 2" album.
Bids for a New Jersey version of the number, stuck in the minds of millions since Tommy Tutone's "867-5309/Jenny" hit the Top 10 in 1982, had reached $5,100 on eBay as of Monday morning.
The song is about a guy who finds Jenny's name and number scribbled on a bathroom wall.
"This is really, in my opinion, one of the last cultural remnants of the '80s pop culture era ... other than the mullet," said Spencer Potter, a 28-year-old DJ who is selling the number he got for free five years ago.
While Potter is overlooking the fact that "867-5309" is an active phone number in dozens of other area codes, it does get called a lot by curious people.
Potter said he has gotten about 40 calls a day since he got the area code 201 version for his Weehawken, New Jersey, DJ business.
"The minute we plugged the phone jack into the wall, it began ringing," Potter said.
Mostly, Potter said, the callers are "a lot of '80s fanatics" and he lets the calls ring through to his voice mail.
When he did answer a call three years ago, Potter found his own Jenny on the line.
"She had been using my number to give out to guys that she didn't like at bars," he said. "It was a bum phone number."
The young lady from Hoboken, New Jersey, told Potter she was just curious about who might be getting the calls. Potter ended up asking her out.
"I figured if she was having to give out a bum number that often then she was probably pretty cute," he said. "We ended up meeting for drinks. We dated for awhile and it was actually a great friendship."
Potter recently moved from Weehawken and decided to try to make money off the infamous digits with an eBay auction.
Potter's DJ business goes with the number, a necessary provision to get around phone company rules against selling telephone numbers, he said.
Phone companies technically own the numbers, not the customers. Potter said Vonage, the company that assigned the number, gave him permission to transfer it as part of the sale of his business.
EBay halted a 2004 auction by the purported holder of the 212 area code version of the number, The New York Times reported.
A Philadelphia-area resident who holds the toll-free versions -- both 800 and 888 -- said he values his numbers in the millions.
Jeffrey Steinberg said his best offer so far, rejected several years ago, was for $1 million from a national weight-loss company.
He acquired the numbers in the early 1990s for a pizza delivery campaign and has licensed them for other advertisers in the years since.
Potter said when his auction ends next Monday, February 9, he hopes to make at least $40,000.
He said he would use the money to take a Caribbean vacation -- away from his ringing phone.
'867-5309' number for sale on eBayStory Highlights
BID @ 150000
http://cgi.ebay.com/867-5309-phone-number-in-NYC-area-DJ-company-8675309_W0QQitemZ260354849950QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item260354849950&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A570%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318%7C301%3A1%7C293%3A1%7C294%3A50
Man selling his "867-5309" phone number on eBay
Digits made famous by 1982 Tommy Tutone hit song
Along with phone number, auction winner will get DJ business
By Alan Duke
CNN
(CNN) -- Jenny's phone number is for sale, but not for a song.
"867-5309/Jenny" originally appeared on Tommy Tutone's "Tommy Tutone 2" album.
Bids for a New Jersey version of the number, stuck in the minds of millions since Tommy Tutone's "867-5309/Jenny" hit the Top 10 in 1982, had reached $5,100 on eBay as of Monday morning.
The song is about a guy who finds Jenny's name and number scribbled on a bathroom wall.
"This is really, in my opinion, one of the last cultural remnants of the '80s pop culture era ... other than the mullet," said Spencer Potter, a 28-year-old DJ who is selling the number he got for free five years ago.
While Potter is overlooking the fact that "867-5309" is an active phone number in dozens of other area codes, it does get called a lot by curious people.
Potter said he has gotten about 40 calls a day since he got the area code 201 version for his Weehawken, New Jersey, DJ business.
"The minute we plugged the phone jack into the wall, it began ringing," Potter said.
Mostly, Potter said, the callers are "a lot of '80s fanatics" and he lets the calls ring through to his voice mail.
When he did answer a call three years ago, Potter found his own Jenny on the line.
"She had been using my number to give out to guys that she didn't like at bars," he said. "It was a bum phone number."
The young lady from Hoboken, New Jersey, told Potter she was just curious about who might be getting the calls. Potter ended up asking her out.
"I figured if she was having to give out a bum number that often then she was probably pretty cute," he said. "We ended up meeting for drinks. We dated for awhile and it was actually a great friendship."
Potter recently moved from Weehawken and decided to try to make money off the infamous digits with an eBay auction.
Potter's DJ business goes with the number, a necessary provision to get around phone company rules against selling telephone numbers, he said.
Phone companies technically own the numbers, not the customers. Potter said Vonage, the company that assigned the number, gave him permission to transfer it as part of the sale of his business.
EBay halted a 2004 auction by the purported holder of the 212 area code version of the number, The New York Times reported.
A Philadelphia-area resident who holds the toll-free versions -- both 800 and 888 -- said he values his numbers in the millions.
Jeffrey Steinberg said his best offer so far, rejected several years ago, was for $1 million from a national weight-loss company.
He acquired the numbers in the early 1990s for a pizza delivery campaign and has licensed them for other advertisers in the years since.
Potter said when his auction ends next Monday, February 9, he hopes to make at least $40,000.
He said he would use the money to take a Caribbean vacation -- away from his ringing phone.
My 50 shares should be about 1
Feb 2,2008 and I know 5/3 divided is 1 cent so it must be the other Co
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Cincinnati Financial sells entire Fifth Third stake
Cincinnati Financial Corp (CINF.O), a U.S. Midwestern property and casualty insurer, said it sold its entire holding in Fifth Third Bancorp (FITB.O) in January for a capital gain.
The company was offloading its holding in Fifth Third throughout 2008. In July, the company sold more than half of its Fifth Third holding for a gain of $225 million.
By year-end 2008, the company had reduced its Fifth Third holding to about 12 million shares.
The company said as of Jan. 31, it had slightly more than $1 billion in cash and cash equivalents and a short-term debt of $49 million.
The company also set a quarterly cash dividend of 39 cents a share, payable on April 15, to shareholders of record on March 20.
"In view of current economic and market conditions, the board chose to continue for later discussion the potential for an increase in the 2009 dividend payout level," the company said.
Fifth Third shares were down 6 percent at $2.25, and Cincinnati shares were down 2 percent at $21.50 in morning trade on Nasdaq. (Reporting by Supantha Mukherjee in Bangalore; Editing by Jarshad Kakkrakandy)
Congrats Art, being a die hard Browns Fan and always hating the Steelers, their football program is one that I hope the Browns follow under our new coach, and that one day our rivalry will be what it used to be instead of being one sided
( Steelers side )
GO STEELERS
Whalers launch attack in Antarctic
SYDNEY – Japanese whalers blasted conservationists with a water cannon and hurled hunks of metal and golf balls at them in a clash Monday in icy Antarctic waters, an anti-whaling group said.
Two members of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society were lightly injured in the early morning fracas in heavy seas about 2,000 miles (3,200 kilometers) southeast of the Australian state of Tasmania, said Paul Watson, the group's leader.
A spokesman for the whalers said he had no information on the claims.
The group — which routinely harasses the Japanese whaling fleet during its annual hunt in the Antarctic Ocean — sent a helicopter and two inflatable boats toward one of the ships in the Japanese fleet.
The whalers began blasting conservationists on one raft with a water cannon, knocking one man off his feet and leaving him with cuts and bruises, Watson told The Associated Press by satellite phone.
Another protester was hit in the face with a large chunk of metal lobbed from a harpoon boat. He was wearing a shield on his helmet, but still suffered bruises, Watson said.
The Japanese also aimed a "military grade" noise weapon that can cause deafness and vomiting at the Sea Shepherd crew, Watson said. Some felt its vibrations but were too far away to be otherwise affected, he said.
Glenn Inwood, the New Zealand-based spokesman for Japan's Institute of Cetacean Research — a Japanese government-affiliated organization that oversees the hunt — said he could not immediately confirm or deny the Sea Shepherd's claims.
"All legal means available will be used to protect the Japanese crew and the scientists," he said.
Japan, which has described the Sea Shepherd protesters as terrorists, plans to harvest up to 935 minke whales and 50 fin whales this season. Under International Whaling Commission rules, the mammals may be killed for research but not for commercial purposes. Opponents say the Japanese research expeditions are simply a cover for commercial whaling, which was banned in 1986.
Protesters aboard the ship, named after the late Australian conservationist and TV personality Steve Irwin, set off from Australia in early December for the remote and icy Antarctic Ocean, chasing the whaling fleet for about 2,000 miles (3,200 kilometers) before stopping two weeks ago in Tasmania to refuel. The group found the whalers again on Sunday and resumed their pursuit.
In December, the protesters lobbed bottles of rancid butter at the Japanese.
"I will not allow them to kill a whale while we're here, and they know that," Watson said. "I'll literally rip their harpoon off their deck if I have to."
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