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A LETTER FROM GRANDMA
She writes...
The other day I went to a local Christian bookstore and saw a "honk if you love Jesus" bumper sticker. I was feeling particularly sassy that day because I had just come from a thrilling choir performance, followed by a thunderous prayer meeting, so I bought the sticker and put it on my bumper. Boy, I'm glad I did! What an uplifting experience that followed!
I was stopped at a red light at a busy intersection just lost in thought about the Lord and how good He is... and I didn't notice that the light had changed. It is a good thing someone elseloved Jesus because if he hadn't honked, I'd never have noticed! I found that LOTS of people love Jesus! Why, while I was sitting there, the guy behind started honking like crazy, and then he leaned out of his window and screamed, "For the love of GOD! GO! GOD Jesus Christ, GO!" What an exuberant cheerleader he was for Jesus! Everyone started honking!
I just leaned out of my window and started waving and smiling at all these loving people. I even honked my horn a few times to share in the celebration. There must have been a man from Florida back there because I heard him yelling something about a "sunny beach"... I saw another guy waving a funny way with only his middle finger stuck up in the air.
Then I asked my teenage grandson in the back seat what that meant, he said it was probably a Hawaiian good luck sign or something.
Well, I've never met anyone from Hawaii, so I leaned out the window and gave him the good luck sign back. My grandson burst out laughing...why, even he was enjoying this religious experience! A couple of people were so caught up in the joy of the moment that they got out of their cars and started walking towards me. I bet they wanted to pray or ask what church I attended, but this is when I noticed the light hand changed. So, I waved to all my sisters and brothers <grinning> and drove on through the intersection.
I noticed I was the only car that got through the intersection before the light changed to red. I felt kind of sad that I had to leave them after all the love we had shared, so I slowed the car down, leaned out the window and gave them all the Hawaiian good luck sign one last time as I drove away!!
Praise the Lord for such wonderful folks!!
Love,
Grandma
NTCS write-up in Individual Investor
NetCurrents on page 2 of article.
http://www.individualinvestor.com/tbd/article.asp?ID=23393
Conversation with Victor Holtorf, NetCurrents Services' CEO
http://www.emergit.com/html/content_cur/profiles/210800_netcurrents.html
http://www.emergit.com/html/content_cur/profiles/290800_oxymoron.html
NetCurrents and Datalink.net to Create Wireless Solution for Internet Monitoring
BURLINGAME & SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 28, 2000-- NetCurrents Inc. (Nasdaq:NTCS - news), The Premier Internet Intelligence Agency, and Datalink.net (Nasdaq:XLNK - news), a leading wireless application service provider, today announced an agreement to jointly develop a wireless solution enabling users of NetCurrents' premium real-time Internet monitoring and analysis services to remotely receive real-time ``alert'' messages and updates to AgencyFacts graphic Internet sentiment displays 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
The service is expected to be operational within the next 30 days and will be included in NetCurrents' premium services at no additional charge to its clients. NetCurrents will be providing at no charge Palm VIIs to all of its current and future premium clients so they can access the information being provided by this new service.
By implementing Datalink.net's Wireless Gateway technology, NetCurrents will provide its premium clients with remote access to their secured portals allowing for the immediate delivery of critical information through a number of hand-held wireless devices such as pagers, cell phones and PDAs, beginning with the Palm VII. The new service will allow NetCurrents' clients to receive in real-time urgent ``alert'' messages that may require immediate action, as well as up-to-the-minute AgencyFacts graphs providing them with overall online message board sentiment.
``Our Web to wireless initiative represents a significant step forward in the evolution of NetCurrents' services,'' said Irwin Meyer, Company Chairman and CEO. ``We have always emphasized our ability to access information from the Internet in real-time and to provide our clients with immediate notification of critical, fast breaking and/or potentially damaging information found on the Internet. This new service will further enhance our capabilities to deliver critical Internet generated information to our clients, wherever they are, through their handheld devices.''
Datalink.net Vice President Strategic Sales, Eric Fernwood commented, ``NetCurrents is a leader in the delivery of real-time Internet monitoring services and we are pleased that it chose Datalink.net to aid in the development of this sophisticated wireless solution and to transmit the data, which is often vital to those using their service.''
Rebecca Callahan, NetCurrents Vice President of Sales, said, ``By joining forces with Datalink.net, we are taking a giant step forward and placing ourselves ahead of our competition by allowing our clients to access critical information without having to be in front of their computers. In addition to being the only company to offer real-time Internet monitoring and analysis, we now will be able to deliver time sensitive Internet communications via wireless devices.''
About NetCurrents Inc.
NetCurrents, The Premier Internet Intelligence Agency, analyzes communications from a universe of targeted Internet locations in real-time. The Company provides clients with critical information and counsel to protect their corporate image, measure consumers' perceptions, and counter misinformation on the Internet. For more information visit the Web site at www.netcurrents.com.
About Datalink.net -- Where the Web Meets Wireless
Datalink.net is a leading wireless application service provider (w-ASP) that delivers end-to-end wireless data solutions to enterprises and custom data applications to consumers. As today's premier provider of consumer wireless data, and the first to deliver real-time wireless financial information, Datalink.net pioneered the development of wireless information technology. Today, Datalink.net enables a new generation of wireless devices that allow enterprises and consumers to customize, respond, and interact with critical data. Its XpressLink technology processes high-speed data content feeds or corporate databases for wireless applications that are compatible with the entire range of wireless devices, networks and protocols.
Founded in 1993, Datalink.net is based in San Jose, Calif. with research facilities in Vancouver, British Columbia. For more information: http//www.datalink.net.
This news release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 37A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties. A number of factors could cause actual results to differ from those indicated in the forward-looking statements, including general economic conditions, the Company's ability to complete the development of the Web to wireless service and the continuing relationship with Datalink.net. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise the forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
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Contact:
Allen & Caron Inc. (for NetCurrents Inc.)
949/474-4300
Matt Clawson, matt@allencaron.com (investors)
Seth Feller, seth@allencaron.com (media)
or
DataLink.net
Jesmine Pierce, 408/367-1724
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000828/ca_netcurr.html
Institutional holdings of NTCS increase
MSN had alert on 22Aug00
http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/invsub/advisor/advisor.asp?Symbol=NTCS
http://www.insidertrader.com/freestuff/ticker_summary.asp?search=1&criteria=ntcs&Submit1=GO
LGOV INFORMATION LINKS
Taken from RB posting by "jonjan"
http://www.ragingbull.altavista.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=LGOV&read=34030 (contains minor edits)
LGOV IS RE-LISTED, as of august 18th.
MMs on OTCBB are FLSC, HILL, MASH, FRAN, WIEN
From the company: O/S=about 210m; float=50-60m.
"Our growth in China is real, and our future is truly unlimited." Daniel Mendez, President & CEO [from President's Message, 1999]
For recent SEC filings, freeEDGAR:
http://www.freeedgar.com/Search/FilingsResults.asp?SourcePage=CompanyList&CIK=915471&UseFrame=1&FormType=&DateFiled=&CompanyName=LARGO+VISTA+GROUP+LTD
For Largo Vista WEBSITE:
http://www.largovista.com
For Largo Vista NEWS/PRs/ANNOUNCEMENTS:
http://www.largovista.com/news.html
For Largo Vista PHONE # & ADDRESS:
http://www.largovista.com/contact.html
For last 10 TRADES:
http://host.cnbc.com/jetson/Last_n_Trades.html?Symbol=LGOV
For INSTITUTIONAL HOLDINGS:
http://www.insidertrader.com/freestuff/ticker_summary.asp?criteria=LGOV
Microcap Stock...A GUIDE FOR INVESTORS:
http://www.sec.gov/consumer/microbro.htm
For LGOV QUOTE & Candlestick charts [type in LGOV & hit enter]:
http://www.litwick.com/cgi/chart.cgi
For really great CHARTS:
http://www.prophetfinance.com/charts/pc.asp?symbol=LGOV
For the "Virtual China 50" (China finance & resources, LGOV included):
http://www.virtualchina.com/finance/resources/VC50.html
China's population is 1.246 billion souls, and due to toxins from various sources they are becoming increasingly unable to feed and/or sustain themselves. Largo Vista's presence in China will help eliminate pollution as well as provide an elevated quality of living for many. For online magazine (PACE) on China ENVIRONMENTAL issues (click on "On-Line Magazine on toolbar at left, then click on "SINOSPHERE"):
http://www.chinaenvironment.net
For some articles re ENERGY & AIR POLLUTION problems in CHINA:
http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/china.html
http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/chinaenv.html#AIRPOLL
For FACTBOOK about China:
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/ch.html
For Complete REFERENCE to China:
http://www.chinasite.com/
http://www.china.com
For China NEWS:
http://www.chinaweb.com/english/index.html
http://centurychina.com/
http://www.chinainformed.com/current.html
http://www.china-window.com/
Burrelles has demo link to NTCS
http://www.burrelles.com/ncdemo.html
Also, and upbeat read of "Top Reasons to Own NetCurrents" is available at http://www.kinetictrader.com/long/ntcs.html
(found it through the Burrelles' demo link)
NetCurrents Inc. Reports Second Quarter, Six-Month Results
Second Quarter Revenues Up 29% Over This Year's First Quarter
BURLINGAME, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 11, 2000--NetCurrents, Inc. (Nasdaq:NTCS - news), The Premier Internet Intelligence Agency, today announced operating results for its second quarter and first six months ended June 30, 2000. The signing of significant strategic alliances and the continued use of NetCurrents' flagship products by an increasing number of major corporate clients highlighted a quarter in which the Company also expanded its sales force and introduced its new, leveraged channel distribution strategy.
Revenues for this year's first six months were derived principally from the sale of the Company's Internet intelligence products and services, while revenues in all prior periods were derived primarily from entertainment production activities, a business which the Company no longer actively pursues.
For the second quarter ended June 30, 2000, revenues were $345,363 with a net loss of $1.9 million, or a loss per share of $0.06 including a non-cash charge of $106,250 for quarterly dividends payable in Common Stock to holders of the Company's Series A Preferred Stock. This compares to revenues of $2.5 million and a net loss of $944,035 or $0.10 loss per share for the second quarter of last year. In last year's second quarter, the Company recorded total charges of $172,500 for cash and stock dividends paid to holders of all classes of its Preferred Stock.
``Second quarter revenues reflected a 29 percent increase from revenues of $267,417 in the first quarter of this year,'' Meyer said, ``and, with July and August continuing to show sales increases over previous months, we are seeing a steady increase in monthly sales. This is occurring even though our strategic alliance partners will not start to launch our services for several weeks and the revenue impact of those launches will not be reflected until the latter part of this year.''
Revenues for the first six months of this year were $612,780 with a net loss of $4.1 million, or a loss per share of $0.13 compared to revenues of $2.5 million and a net loss per share of $0.05 for the same period last year. This year's first six-month results included non-cash charges of $212,500 for quarterly dividends payable in Common Stock to holders of the Company's Series A Preferred Stock and $22,500 in cash dividends payable to holders of the Company's Series G Preferred Stock. During the first six months of last year, the Company recorded total charges of $278,750 for cash and non-cash dividends paid to holders of all classes of its Preferred Stock.
``I am very encouraged by the progress we are making this year in expanding our technology, introducing new products and services and building our national sales force,'' Meyer continued. ``The exclusive strategic alliances we have entered into this year with Thomson Investor Relations and Burrelle's Information Services, and the Letter of Intent we have executed with Kroll Risk Consulting Services, has potentially placed our products and services in the hands of more than 300 sales professionals, serving more than 30,000 companies worldwide in three new and important markets. Each of these companies is a leader in its respective field, and our alliances with them have resulted in the development of new market-specific service offerings and have established NetCurrents as a leader in the real-time Internet monitoring and intelligence sector.
``These alliances,'' Meyer added, ``will leverage our direct sales efforts and will target specific vertical industry sectors with products and services developed and priced to meet the specific needs of each. While these new products and services will include a basic service offering to these markets, we feel confident that once the importance of the information gathered by our technology is recognized by the end user in developing multiple corporate strategies, an increased demand for our higher end products and services will result.''
Meyer continued, ``The introduction this past week of our AgencyFacts product, designed to service our alliance partners' clients, is the first fully automated, real-time Internet monitoring and analysis tool available that will meet the needs of corporations as well as the brokerage community. AgencyFacts users will have the ability to instantaneously determine what the online community is saying about their company, while simultaneously evaluating online sentiment. There is no other product available that can provide this information as quickly and cost effectively.''
According to NetCurrents Chief Financial Officer Michael Iscove, the Company's balance sheet as of June 30, 2000 remained strong with cash and cash equivalents of $7 million, a current ratio of 7:1 and total shareholders' equity of $8.4 million.
About NetCurrents, Inc.
NetCurrents, The Premier Internet Intelligence Agency, analyzes communications from more than 50,000 targeted Internet locations in real-time. The Company provides clients with critical information and counsel to protect their corporate image, measure consumers' perceptions, and counter misinformation on the Internet. Due to the sensitivity of businesses that require this type of technology and analysis, the confidentiality of NetCurrents' clients is assured. For more information, visit its website at www.netcurrents.com.
This news release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 37A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties. A number of factors could cause actual results to differ from those indicated in the forward-looking statements, including the Company's ability to continue to successfully market and provide services and maintain its effectiveness, the continuation and success of its strategic alliances, general economic conditions and other risks that are discussed in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (including the Company's Annual Report on Form 10K-SB). The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
NetCurrents, Inc.
Summary Consolidated Statements of Operations
(Unaudited)
Three Months Ended Six Months Ended
June 30, June 30,
2000 1999 2000 1999
Revenues: $ 345,363 $2,523,653 $ 612,780 $2,535,653
Cost of sales -- 1,137,161 -- 1,137,161
Selling, general
and
administrative 2,205,966 949,447 4,680,828 1,360,426
Other income
(expense) 40,192 (1,208,580) 129,253 (213,039)
Net income
(loss) ($1,929,066) ($ 944,035) ($4,185,700) ($ 436,885)
Net Income (loss)
per common share:
Basic and
diluted ($ 0.06) ($ 0.10) ($ 0.13) ($ 0.05)
Weighted average
number of
common shares
outstanding 32,059,653 9,085,053 32,059,653 9,085,053
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Contact:
Allen & Caron Inc., 949/474-4300
Matt Clawson (investors)
matt@allencaron.com
Seth Feller (media)
seth@allencaron.com
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000811/ca_netcurr.html
NetCurrents Announces Launch of Next Generation of AgencyFacts Real Time Internet Intelligence System
Customized Solution for Public and Investor Relations Industries
BURLINGAME, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 7, 2000--NetCurrents, Inc. (Nasdaq:NTCS - news), The Premier Internet Intelligence Agency, announced today the launch of AgencyFacts(TM) v1.5, the next generation of the Company's Internet Intelligence service for use by public and investor relations agencies worldwide. AgencyFacts makes it possible for agencies to easily and comprehensively monitor and analyze in real time information on the Internet related to their clients and to readily report consumer/investor attitudes and perceptions. AgencyFacts v1.5 is immediately available to public and investor relations agencies for resale to their clients, and has a suggested retail price of $575.00 per user. For an online demonstration of AgencyFacts, visit www.netcurrents.com.
According to NetCurrents Chief Operating Officer Victor Holtorf, ``AgencyFacts gives public and investor relations agencies a powerful tool to significantly enhance the breadth and value of the services they provide their clients. In addition to monitoring corporate and product sentiment, AgencyFacts can be used to help agencies and their clients evaluate corporate and competitive intelligence, effectively manage the impact of the Internet on their companies and aid in identifying and appropriately responding to misinformation.''
AgencyFacts uses NetCurrents proprietary, real-time Internet search technology, F.I.R.S.T (Fast Internet Real-Time Search Technology) and an Artificial Intelligence engine to dynamically monitor and analyze a targeted Internet universe specified by the user. It gathers and analyzes the information in real time based on user-defined parameters, displaying graphically on the user's desktop an analysis of attitudes and perceptions presented in six continuously updated bar charts. AgencyFacts' features also include real-time e-mail alerts based on client-specified alert criteria and the ability to ``drill down'' through its Online Topics of Discussion chart for a list of the last ten messages retrieved, sorted by online sentiment.
``We worked with a number of public relations and investor relations agencies in developing AgencyFacts and we, along with those who worked with us, are convinced that it is the right product for the right market at the right time,'' commented NetCurrents Vice President of Sales Rebecca Callahan. ``It is the only solution available that monitors and analyzes Internet sentiment in real time with dynamic reporting of results in an effective, easy to use format.
``We have seen a great deal of interest in AgencyFacts from a large number of public and investor relations agencies throughout the country and the list is growing,'' Callahan added. ``In addition to positioning us in the agency market, AgencyFacts and the co-branded products derived from it are also the cornerstones of our expanded channel sales strategy. By establishing alliances with market leaders we are able to leverage the marketing and sales resources of our distribution partners and extend our reach into a broad range of growing markets.''
A recent survey conducted by the National Association of Investors Corporation, showed that 95% of individual investors polled rated the Internet as their most important source of information. In addition, with more than 3,800 new web sites added to the Internet each day and more than 250,000 new messages posted to message boards daily, finding the information necessary to evaluate the Internet's impact on a company is an overwhelming task. To be done effectively, it is a task that must be done by a powerful and sophisticated, real-time tool such as AgencyFacts.
About NetCurrents, Inc.
NetCurrents, The Premier Internet Intelligence Agency, monitors and analyzes communications from the Internet in real-time. The Company provides clients with critical information and counsel to protect their corporate image, measure consumers' perceptions, and counter misinformation on the Internet. Due to the sensitivity of businesses that require this type of technology and analysis, the confidentiality of NetCurrents' clients is assured.
For more information on AgencyFacts services and pricing, contact NetCurrents at 650-401-3200 and for more information about the Company and its other products and services, visit its website at www.netcurrents.com.
This news release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 37A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties. A number of factors could cause actual results to differ from those indicated in the forward-looking statements, including the Company's ability to continue to successfully market and provide its Agency Facts service and maintain its effectiveness and general economic conditions. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
Editors Note: Detailed AgencyFacts product specifications including full color screen displays are available electronically.
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Contact:
Allen & Caron Inc. for NetCurrents, Inc.
Matt Clawson (investors)
matt@allencaron.com
Seth Feller (media)
seth@allencaron.com
949/474-4300
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000807/ca_netcurr.html
jorjenzak, RF shields are available
Maybe a person should invest in the companies that make and/or sell cellphone RF shields http://www.lessemf.com/235.html has some info and items for sale, if anyone is really worried about it.
FM, Got chairmailed, prompt confirmation
Impressive what a little volume can do.
Nasdaq down 121 and NTCS up over 28%. Any ideas why the sudden interest. Volume 3 1/2 times average.
"LongIsland" on the "Bull" had an eloquent observation about NetCurrents......"Show me your friends and I'll tell you about you." Sheer profundity. Further, "NetCurrents new buddies Computer Associates, Oracle, Burrells and Thomson Financial tell me it's just a matter of time before we see the results of these new alliances show up in the revenues."
Whatever caused the spike up, I like it.
The Internet's Top Buzz Cops
full article at: http://www.ecompany.com/articles/mag/print/1,1643,6760,00.html
Bad press, scurrilous rumors, and outright lies have always been a fact of life for corporate-image watchers, but the Internet makes it possible to distribute that grief more quickly and widely than ever before. From the standpoint of any company concerned about its online reputation, the Web is a monitoring nightmare.
"If someone is writing about your company online, you need to know right away," says Larry L. Smith, president of the Institute for Crisis Management, a firm based in Louisville, Ky. "It's extremely important because the Internet is so fast and reaches so many people. The quicker you find out, the quicker you can fix it."
With more than 800 clients, eWatch, the St. Paul, Minn., division of press-release service PR Newswire, is the largest provider of basic monitoring services. Much like a news-clipping service, eWatch searches more than 2,500 Internet publications for a client's name and then e-mails the findings to the company. (Clients can also access these reports on the Web.) In addition, eWatch offers monitoring services that scour mailing lists, message boards, chat rooms, competitors' sites, and "hate" sites (as in www.yourcompanysucks.com).
For companies that want even more dirt--along with advice on what to do about it--NetCurrents, in Burlingame, Calif., offers up-to-the-minute reporting and strategic help. Its basic product, called InvestorFacts, allows each client to access a secure site that, in real time, culls message-board postings, articles, and newsgroup commentary relevant to the company. NetCurrents's custom services include providing analysts to hand-check the relevance of mentions, alert clients to important ones, and help them decide whether and how to respond.
But all of this monitoring doesn't come cheap. NetCurrents's InvestorFacts service sells for $3,000 per month, and specialized services can cost as much as $15,000 a month. eWatch charges from $3,600 annually (for basic service and 10 or fewer users) to $137,700 (for all services and up to 100 users). That may seem pricey, but it can be a bargain compared with the perils of finding out too late that a toxic story -- true or otherwise -- has poisoned your company.
Matt, we need reported net income
I think NTCS may not be showing up yet on some radar screens due to negative P/E and negative EPS. Screening software doesn't do real well on future earnings expectations. With the recent market correction and the associated plethora of margin calls, IMHO, investors are apt to be a bit skeptical of a new company with new technology in an unproven market niche. Perhaps a little leftover depression from the recent general market downturn. As soon as some great revenue growth numbers are released, we should see some renewed demand and volume. As Jerry McGuire said, "show me the money!"
Too, judging by some "other boards" postings, the bashers and shorters are quite numerous...almost numbering as many as the astute investors Potential investors reading the diatribe could be scared off.
I'm figuring that patience will be rewarded. Got the service, got the alliances, growing the sales force, getting the clients, growing the revenue; how can NTCS miss?
All conjecture, IMHO, of course.
NetCurrents Opens Three Regional Sales Offices in U.S. and Canada
Appoints Regional Directors
Field Sales Force Increased To Twelve Located In Chicago, Los Angeles, Seattle, San Francisco, Boston, New York, Toronto
BURLINGAME, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 11, 2000-- NetCurrents Inc. (Nasdaq:NTCS - news), ``The Premier Internet Intelligence Agency,'' today announced it has established regional sales offices in San Francisco, Cincinnati and Toronto to oversee all sales activities throughout the United States and Canada.
According to the announcement by NetCurrents Inc. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Irwin Meyer, the company has appointed an experienced sales executive to fill the position of regional sales director in each of the three regional offices who will oversee all sales personnel in their respective geographic territories.
Each of the regional sales directors will report to NetCurrents Vice President of Sales Rebecca Callahan. NetCurrents has expanded its field sales force to 12 sales personnel reporting to their respective regional sales directors and operating out of Chicago, Los Angeles, Seattle, San Francisco, Boston, New York and Toronto.
``The creation of a regional sales organization is an important step in the expansion of our sales coverage in the U.S. and Canada,'' Meyer said. ``The addition of these three experienced sales executives with proven track records to fill the vital roles of Regional Sales Directors positions us to further expand and manage our sales team to take maximum advantage of the increasing interest and demand for our services.''
Western Region
Filling the post of Western Regional Sales Director is Susan J. Johnson who is located in San Francisco and responsible for the 11 western states and western Canada. Johnson brings to NetCurrents more than 9 years of sales and sales management accomplishment with her most recent position being regional sales manager for the Advanced Wireless Integration Group of Paging Networks Inc. (PageNet) of San Francisco. As regional sales manager, her responsibilities included consulting with Fortune 1000 companies to create customized software applications for wireless communications. Prior to being promoted to that position, she was general sales manager for PageNet where her major accounts were SONY, Wells Fargo, Robert Half International and Excite, the largest sale in the history of PageNet of San Francisco.
Johnson was also national accounts manager in the National Accounts Division of PageNet, where she managed the national coordination of Fortune 500 companies in the western region of the United States.
Central Region
Harry W. Rolfes joins NetCurrents as Central Regional Sales Director located in Cincinnati where he will be responsible for managing the sales organization that covers the 20 states of the central region.
Rolfes joins NetCurrents having more than 23 years of successful sales and sales management experience with companies ranging from Xerox Corporation to Sungard Recovery Services, a leading provider of comprehensive computer disaster recovery systems. At Xerox Rolfes served as a marketing executive and at Sunguard he spent 11 years as director of sales responsible for managing a multi-state territory. He qualified for the company's quota club eight out of nine years and he was the number one sales representative in the company for two consecutive years. While at Sunguard, Rolfes was responsible for bringing in such accounts as the State of Ohio, Banc One, Western-Southern Life, Nationwide Insurance and Key Bank.
Eastern Region
Ken Mair has been hired by NetCurrents to fill the position of Eastern Regional Sales Director in Toronto where he is responsible for managing the sales organization that covers 17 eastern states in the U.S. and the eastern provinces of Canada.
Mair joins NetCurrents having spent the last 12 years in various sales and marketing positions with Data General Corporation in Canada. His experience at Data General included managing the National Channel, serving as District Sales Manager-Eastern Commercial Sales and director of marketing. He has extensive experience in direct sales, channel sales management, and managing engineering and marketing personnel. At Data General he was responsible for winning such major clients as Harvard University, University of North Carolina, Montreal Trust, Ministry of Health, IKON Office Products, JD Edwards and Deloitte and Touche.
About NetCurrents Inc.
NetCurrents, ``The Premier Internet Intelligence Agency,'' analyzes communications from more than 50,000 targeted Internet locations in real-time. The company provides clients with critical information and counsel to protect their corporate image, measure consumers' perceptions, and counter misinformation on the Internet. Due to the sensitivity of businesses that require this type of technology and analysis, the confidentiality of NetCurrents' clients is assured. For more information visit the company's Web site at www.netcurrents.com.
This news release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 37A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties. A number of factors could cause actual results to differ from those indicated in the forward-looking statements, including the company's ability to continue to successfully market and provide services and maintain its effectiveness, general economic conditions and other risks that are discussed in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commissions (including the company's Annual Report on Form 10K-SB. The company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.)
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Contact:
Allen & Caron Inc.
949/474-4300
Matt Clawson (investors)
matt@allencaron.com
Seth Feller (media)
seth@allencaron.com
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000711/ca_netcurr.html
NETCURRENTS INC. SELECTS ALLEN & CARON FOR
INVESTOR RELATIONS, CORPORATE COMMUNICATIONS
IRVINE, CA (July 6, 2000) . . . NetCurrents Inc. (Nasdaq: NTCS), the premier Internet Intelligence Agency, today announced the appointment of Allen & Caron Inc as its corporate, investor, and financial relations firm.
NetCurrents monitors and analyzes communications from a universe of targeted Internet locations using its patent-pending, real-time technology and recently announced strategic alliances with Thomson Financial Investor
Relations and Burrelle's Information Services, Inc. The Company provides clients critical information and counsel to protect their corporate image, measure consumers' perceptions and counter fraud and misinformation on the
Internet.
NetCurrents Chairman and CEO Irwin Meyer commented, "As NetCurrents continues to grow, we will call on Allen & Caron's professional expertise and particular experience in the technology field to assist us in positioning the Company in the investment community, as well as to expand
our visibility in both the investment community and the media. Allen & Caron will help ensure full, timely and broad dissemination of corporate information to the professional investment community, as well as industry
and financial media."
Allen & Caron Chairman and CEO Joseph Allen said, "NetCurrents has done an excellent job of integrating its technology to capitalize on the explosive
growth in demand for real-time Internet monitoring services and information management. We believe NetCurrents, as an emerging, unique growth company,
has been overlooked and we look forward to reintroducing the Company to the financial community."
Allen & Caron Inc is a full-service corporate, investor and marketing communications agency serving the needs of public companies. Allen & Caron's national client base includes emerging-growth companies in a range of
industry segments. It maintains offices in Irvine, CA and New York City
http://allencaron.com/clients/netcurrents/releases/
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NYSE Taps Thomson Financial Investor Relations to Provide Financial Information to Listed Companies
PR Newswire
NEW YORK, Jul 6, 2000 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The New York Stock Exchange
(NYSE) has chosen Thomson Financial Investor Relations (TFIR) to provide share
ownership and institutional information to its listed companies through a new,
web-based service, NYSE Institutional Insight(SM), it was announced today.
Through NYSE Institutional Insight(SM), listed companies can access global
shareholding data and institutional profiles, enabling them to better manage the
expectations of the global financial community.
"Our goal at the New York Stock Exchange is to develop and provide value-added
services for our listed companies. NYSE Institutional Insight(SM) represents a
significant addition to our growing portfolio of Internet services," said
Catherine R. Kinney, NYSE group executive vice president.
"The NYSE recognizes investor relations officers need the most up-to-date
shareholder data and targeting tools if they are to be effective in today's
changing and challenging market environment," said TFIR President Howard D.
Sherman. "We're honored the NYSE would choose TFIR as its partner in this
investor relations endeavor."
NYSE Institutional Insight(SM) will enable NYSE-listed companies to:
-- Learn which institutions own a company's stock and, where applicable,
the portfolio manager's name, telephone, fax number and e-mail address
-- Access shareholder information for up to 30 peer companies, the
foundation for any successful peer-targeting program
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targeting, strategic consulting, cross-border communication, market surveillance
and market intelligence services, to companies in all industries. IR Universe, a
powerful web-based application, combines the functionality of Anamate, TFIR's
proprietary database and contact management system, with First Call, the
industry's gold standard for broker research, notes and earnings estimates. In
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Francisco, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore,
Sydney, Mexico City, Buenos Aires and Sao Paolo. TFIR's strategic partners
include The Barnes Organization (Toronto), NetCurrents Inc. (California), Nikko
IR (Tokyo) and Technicom (Brazil), operating as Thomson Financial Investor
Relations Brazil. For more information on TFIR, visit http://www.thomsonir.com.
Thomson Financial is a US$1.44 billion provider of e-information services and
integrated work solutions to the worldwide financial community. Through the
widest range of products and services in the industry, Thomson Financial helps
clients in more than 70 countries make better decisions, be more productive and
achieve superior results. Thomson Financial is part of The Thomson Corporation,
a leading e-information and solutions business with annual revenues of more than
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OT but good read for the 4th of July
Subject: WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM?
Author: STEVE FELDMAN
Date: 6/27/00 10:10 AM
Have you ever wondered what happened to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence?
Five signers were captured by the British as traitors and tortured before they died.
Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned.
Two lost their sons serving in the Revolutionary Army, another had two sons captured.
Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or hardships of the Revolutionary War.
They signed and they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.
What kind of men were they?
Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists. Eleven were merchants, nine were farmers and large plantation owners; men of means, well educated. But they signed the Declaration of Independence knowing full well that the penalty would be death if they were captured. Carter Braxton of Virginia, a wealthy planter and trader, saw his ships swept from the seas by the British Navy. He sold his home and properties to pay his debts, and died in rags. Thomas McKeam was so hounded by the British that he was forced to move his family almost constantly. He served in the Congress without pay, and his family was kept in hiding. His possessions were taken from him, and poverty was his reward. Vandals or soldiers looted the properties of Dillery, Hall, Clymer, Walton, Gwinnett, Heyward, Ruttledge, and Middleton. At the battle of Yorktown, Thomas Nelson, Jr., noted that the British General Cornwallis had taken over the Nelson home for his headquarters. He quietly urged General George Washington to open fire. The home was destroyed, and Nelson died bankrupt. Francis Lewis had his home and properties destroyed. The enemy jailed his wife, and she died within a few months. John Hart was driven from his wife's bedside as she was dying. Their 13 children fled for their lives. His fields and his gristmill were laid to waste. For more than a year, he lived in forests and caves, returning home to find his wife dead and his children vanished. A few weeks later, he died from exhaustion and a broken heart. Norris and Livingston suffered similar fates. Such were the stories and sacrifices of the American Revolution.
These were not wild-eyed, rabble-rousing ruffians. They were soft-spoken men of means and education. They had security, but they valued liberty more. Standing talk straight, and unwavering, they pledged: "For the support of this declaration, with firm reliance on the protection of the divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other, our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor." They gave you and me a free and independent America. The history books never told you a lot about what happened in the Revolutionary War. We didn't fight just the British. We were British subjects at that time and we fought our own government!
Some of us take these liberties so much for granted, but we shouldn't. So, take a few minutes while enjoying your 4th of July Holiday and silently thank these patriots. It's not much to ask for the price they paid. Remember: Freedom is never free! I hope you will show your support by please sending this to as many people as you can. It's time we get the word out that patriotism is NOT a sin, and the Fourth of July has more to it than beer, picnics, and baseball games.
Highlights of Vcall CC:
summary from "bigdaddyodin" on RB: http://www.ragingbull.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=NTCS&read=2036
1. Company has tripled employee size in 6 months;
2. August 1 is the official start date for its high end products although orders are being taken now; August 1 is also the official start of cross-training of the Burell's and Thomson's sales force;
3. In August, parts of Sales force will begin sharing office spaces at Thomson locations;
4. Company projects sales of 1600 of its baseline product by end of year, which sells for a few hundred dollars; goal is to upgrade baseline users to higher end products at a rate of 3%/month; company has a number of products geared for more than use by IR departments;
5. Company has $9 million currently on-hand/no debt/no immediate need for additional funding;
6. If company meets end-of-year sales goals at projected sales prices, company would expect to be profitable by the beginning of 2001;
7. For the first 6 months of this year, company has spent only $1 million on sales and marketing; has determined that sales force generates more customers than ads;
8. Relationship with Thomson probably will bear fruit quickest/relationship with CA is solid, but due to their corporate culture, things tend to move a little slower;
9. Mr. Meyer took a stab at guessing why stock price tanked: People took profits as the NASDAQ tanked due poissibly to margin calls, plus some buyers bought on margin and had to sell to cover (duh!);
10. beginning in August, expect to see more news releases and more activity that should spark investor interest; a road show is being developed for institutional investors at this moment;
11. Potential market is huge, and NTCS only needs a fraction of the market to generate big revenues and earnings; markets exist beyond the original product goals -specialized products are being developed for insurance industry fraud, law firms/class action suits, government uses - possibly in conjunction with Computer Associates.
Previous header should read customer, not alliance.
Always had trouble with English.
Yet another alliance, ZiaSun
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000615/ca_ziasun_.html
Thursday June 15, 6:03 am Eastern Time
Company Press Release
ZiaSun Selects NetCurrents' CyberFacts Service
SOLANA BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 15, 2000--ZiaSun Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB:ZSUN - news), an emerging Internet technology holding company, today announced it has selected NetCurrents, the Premier Internet Intelligence Agency's (Nasdaq: NTCS - news) CyberFacts real-time Internet monitoring and analysis service to monitor Internet information regarding the Company.
Using proprietary, real-time technology, CyberFacts tracks and monitors an extensive universe of targeted Internet locations, message boards, e-publications, newsgroups and other sources for posted information on public companies. The resulting data is analyzed by NetCurrents' team of Internet strategists, who categorize the information, identify and assess perception sentiment, provide real-time notification of potential critical information, provide daily online graphical reports on a secured client portal and develop strategies to counter misinformation or fraudulent postings.
Using CyberFacts, ZiaSun monitors market perceptions about itself while tracking information associated with ZiaSun stock trading activity, corporate news, products and services.
Al Hardman, ZiaSun's President and Chief Executive Officer stated, ``As an emerging Internet-technology holding company, we recognize the value of monitoring the Internet content regarding our business. We are also well aware of the voluminous false or misleading information being disseminated through various chat rooms daily. We believe CyberFacts will provide the necessary research and intelligence that will allow us to maintain accurate information regarding our company across the World Wide Web. The Company will use the information provided by CyberFacts to help protect our reputation and preserve shareholder value.''
About ZiaSun Technologies, Inc.
ZiaSun Technologies, Inc. is a leading Internet technology holding company focused on international investor education and e-commerce and specialized online support services within North America, Asia and other international markets. The Company's portfolio includes: Online Investors Advantage (www.i-advantage.com), Momentum Asia, Inc. (www.momentumasia.com), ServiceLive (www.servicelive.com), Momentum Internet, Inc. (www.momentumplus.com), PINmail (www.pinmail.com), MEDIAhits (www.mediahits.com), Swiftrade (www.swiftrade.com), AsiaEnet Ltd. (www.asiaenet.com), Tigertooth (www.tigertooth.com), Search Dragon (www.searchdragon.com), M Finance (www.mfinance.com - a top-100 financial Web site), and a 19% equity position in Asia4Sale (www.asia4sale.com).
About NetCurrents, Inc.
NetCurrents, The Premier Internet Intelligence Agency, analyzes communications from an extensive universe of targeted Internet locations in real-time. The Company provides clients with critical information and counsel to protect their corporate image, measure consumers' perceptions and counter misinformation on the Internet. For more information, visit www.netcurrents.com.
Safe Harbor statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: Except for historical information, the matters discussed in this news release that my be considered forward-looking statements could be subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause the actual results to differ materially from those projected. These include uncertainties in the market, competition, legal, success of marketing efforts and other risks detailed from time to time in the company's SEC reports. The company assumes no obligation to update the information in this release.
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Contact:
ZiaSun Technologies, Inc., Solana Beach
Shareholder Services
Michelle Cutting, 858/350-4060
mcutting@pinmail.com
or
Continental Capital & Equity Corporation
Broker/Investor Relations
Bruce Elliott, 407/682-2001
bruce@insidewallstreet.com
Matt should remember ZSUN and FG.
NetCurrents Partners with Intelligenesis
Wednesday June 7, 9:31 am Eastern Time
Company Press Release
NetCurrents Partners with Intelligenesis to add Artificial Intelligence Functionality
Artificial Intelligence Technology Extends AgencyFacts Functionality, Positions Company for Continued Rapid AgencyFacts Growth
BURLINGAME, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 7, 2000-- NetCurrents Service Corp., a subsidiary of NetCurrents, Inc. (Nasdaq:NTCS - news), The Premier Internet Intelligence Agency, today announced they have partnered with Intelligenesis Corporation to add sophisticated artificial intelligence technology to their AgencyFacts Internet monitoring and analysis service.
With the addition of Intelligenesis' Webmind(TM) artificial intelligence system, NetCurrents can provide automated Internet intelligence services to public and investor relations agencies.
``The addition of Webmind artificial intelligence allows us to automate much of the routine Internet analysis for our AgencyFacts customers,'' said Carlos Gonzalez, Chief Technology Officer for NetCurrents. ``Intelligenesis' Webmind technology has the ability to understand the meaning of concepts expressed in text and numerical data. As more and more agencies embrace the benefits of our AgencyFacts services, Webmind allows us to significantly expand monitoring and analysis capacity without substantially increasing Internet strategist staffing. This removes any staffing pressures associated with wide-scale adoption of our AgencyFacts product, and allows us to enjoy improved revenue margins as we continue to deliver this product.''
NetCurrents decided to approach Intelligenesis after evaluating a wide variety of competing artificial intelligence technologies. Carlos Gonzalez added, ``Our evaluation convinced us that Intelligenesis represents the leading edge in artificial intelligence technology. The Webmind system met all of our needs in terms of accuracy, robustness, and flexibility. In addition, we are excited to be working with them on additions and enhancements to their expandable technology.''
NetCurrents' AgencyFacts, developed specifically for the needs of public relations and investor relations agency customers, is a fully integrated Internet monitoring and analysis solution allowing real-time comprehensive monitoring of Internet-based information in a unique graphic format. The service is delivered on customized, secured client web portals, allowing subscribers to monitor specific real-time rating and categorization information about their corporation. Information includes: most talked about topics, online sentiment, most active posters, real-time percentage breakdown of volume on the most active message boards and the 10 most recent messages within minutes of posting.
``NetCurrents impressed us with both its early recognition of how information on the Internet can affect a company's image and its proactive approach to managing these perceptions for clients,'' said Andy Siciliano, Chief Executive Officer of Intelligenesis Corp. ``Cutting-edge firms like NetCurrents are ideal partners for our Webmind technology.''
About NetCurrents Service Corp.
NetCurrents Service Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of NetCurrents Inc., The Premier Internet Intelligence Agency, analyzes communications from a universe of targeted Internet locations in real-time. The Company provides clients critical information and counsel to protect their corporate image, measure consumers' perceptions, and counter misinformation on the Internet. For more information on NetCurrents services visit www.netcurrents.com.
About Intelligenesis Corporation
Intelligenesis Corporation is pioneering a new breed of digital intelligence for the Internet information economy. Webmind, its groundbreaking artificial intelligence software architecture, transforms documents and databases into a dynamic mind-like network of associations that enable it to understand the meaning of information. Webmind technology is currently being implemented in a portfolio of advanced text categorization, e-business search and navigation, and financial prediction tools for New Media, E-Commerce, Customer Relationship Management and Financial Services markets. Intelligenesis has approximately 105 employees located primarily in New York City, Silicon Valley, and Brazil. For more information on Intelligenesis, visit www.intelligenesis.net.
This news release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 37A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties. A number of factors could cause actual results to differ from those indicated in the forward-looking statements, including the both Company's ability to continue to successfully market AgencyFacts, continuation of the strategic alliance with Intelligenesis, general economic conditions and other risks that are discussed in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (including the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-KSB). The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise the forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
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Contact:
Strategic/Ampersand
Media Relations
Karin Scott, 416/961-5595 ext 408
karin@stratamp.com
or
Continental Capital & Equity Corporation
Investor/Broker Relations
Dodi B. Handy, 407/682-2001
dodi@insidewallstreet.com
or
Intelligenesis Corporation
Lisa S. Pazer, 212/324-2001
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000607/ca_netcurr.html
From Yahoo by: stocknic
http://messages.yahoo.com/bbs?.mm=FN&board=7083624&tid=tpeg&sid=7083624&action=m&mid=42423
NEWS TO COME:
1-Details concerning the CA agreement: anytime
2-Conference with investors: June 12-14
3-Conference on internet intelligence: June 21-23
4-The company opens 5 US sales office: in the next few weeks
5-Conference in Canada on internet sabotage: July 18-16
6-another conference: September 26
7-coverage by an analyst: in the next few months.
POSSIBLE NEWS:
1-Rumor about NTCS being featured in Fortune in June
2-New clients
3-New services available
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Copied off Yahoo message board:
Man, what a week ... This is only Wednesday? Let's catch our breath, and review:
Netcurrents is written up in Fortune magazine:
http://www.fortune.com/fortune/cool/index.html
Netcurrents will present in NY at the Wainwright conference (today? ;o) ):
http://www.netcurrents.com/news/releases/release051600.html
Netcurrents releases the 10Q report (anyone seen that 10K?):
http://realtimefilings.nasdaq.com/ShowFilingDoAction.asp?Fil... 0%2D000390%2Etxt&FilePath=%5C2000%5C05%5C17%5C12%5C&CoName=NETCURRENTS+INC%2F&Fo rmType=10QSB&RcvdDate=5%2F17%2F2000&pdf=False&site=NASDAQ&sitesubtype=
Netcurrents now has a subsidiary? Netcurrents Services Corp.; and Victor Holtorf (two MBA's from MIT) is the CEO ...
http://www.netcurrents.com/corp/index.html
New York and Chicago sales offices are now open, according to Netcurrents new FAQ page:
http://www.netcurrents.com/corp/investor/invest_FAQs.html
Netcurrents announced a strategic alliance with Burrelle's Information Services, which has been in business over 100 years:
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000517/ca_netcurr.html
"The new service will be available from Burrelle's starting in August, 2000. "
Who said they wanted news ;o) ??
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Website has been updated.
New site includes sample analysis.
http://www.netcurrents.com/
Alliance with Burrelle, an old established company, bodes well for the young, upstart NetCurrents.
Fortune magazine article on NetCurrents.
Article is from 29 May 2000 issue
Monitoring Your Online Reputation
Look Who's Talking--About You
Dimitry Elias Leger
In early March a posting popped up on Silicon Investor, one of the Web's most influential stock-message boards: Gadzoox was releasing its earnings in a few days and investors should be ready. If Gadzoox, a data-storage company in San Jose, missed the date, day traders were sure to pounce. The problem: The dates in the post were wrong. Within minutes Chris Munson, Gadzoox's CFO, received an e-mail in her box from a company called NetCurrents alerting her to the post and announcing that it had already posted a correction. "They are my eyes and ears where I can't be," gushes Munson.
Monitoring your company's reputation used to be easy: Hire a PR firm to talk to the world; hire a clipping service to find out what the world's saying. But in the Internet era, the game has changed. Suddenly disseminating information is simple, and corralling it, almost impossible.
That is where NetCurrents comes in. For between $2,900 and $15,000 a month, NetCurrents acts as an electronic monitor. Its search engine continuously checks thousands of Websites and message boards for any mention of a company or any requested phrase. When the search engine spots a new posting, it spits out the site to a NetCurrents employee, who vets the facts. If she finds something false, she posts a correction.
The company, located in Beverly Hills, is tiny. It earned just $500,000 last year. And at a recent stock price of $4.50, NetCurrents' market cap is a measly $130 million. But NetCurrents is gaining a following not only among wary businesses but also among law firms that use the service to track down potential plaintiffs for class-action suits and investment banks that use it for research. In the first quarter, NetCurrents' client base increased 63%, to 40. And big names like Oracle and EMC are trying the service.
NetCurrents itself is an odd mix of nerd know-how and Hollywood glitz. In 1998, Victor Holtorf, formerly a vice president in Oracle's real estate division, founded the company with two friends and called it Infolocity. The only real velocity the startup had was in the way it burned through its startup cash. But early last year the trio caught the eye of Irwin Meyer, a 64-year-old Hollywood producer of made-for-TV movies. Meyer liked Infolocity's technology and proposed merging the company with his publicly traded production house, IAT Resources.
Now the newly named NetCurrents has a new mission, a bigger sales staff and hopes for an actual profit later this year. To Meyer, that would be as sweet as scoring a hit movie.
Vol. 141, No. 11
May 29, 2000
http://www.fortune.com/fortune/cool/index.html
Looks like Bush wants investors' vote.
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush (news - web sites) will light the fuse on a political time-bomb on Monday by proposing to partially privatize Social Security to save the U.S. retirement system from collapse.
Under the Texas governor's plan, individual workers would be allowed to divert part of the 12.4 percent payroll tax paid by employees and employers into privately controlled investment accounts, according to a text of his speech to be delivered in Rancho Cucamonga, California.
Bush pointed out that Social Security, invested in Treasury bonds, currently earned a ``dismal'' annual rate of return of about two percent, while over the long-term, sound stock market investments yielded about six percent.
``Through the Great Depression, a World War, and 11 recessions, the overall stock market has never lost money over any 20-year period. It is the best, safest way to build personal wealth,'' he said.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000515/ts/campaign_bush_8.html
OT: quickie on current administration:
20 years ago, who would have thought that someday the occupants of the White House would be named Hill and Billy from Arkansas?
Consider motivation for public advice.
From Saturday New York Daily News
From: News and Views / BizNews /
Saturday, May 13, 2000
Using Biz TV to Dump the Dogs
I was riding up the elevator the other day with a hedge fund manager, who had just appeared on CNBC. He was not a happy camper.
"Can you believe," he groused, "they spent so much time discussing the market, I didn't have time to push my stocks? I only go on TV to flag a few of my dogs."
This money manager was not kidding, nor was he alone. Some mutual fund managers go on TV to generate publicity for their funds. Others go on for ego reasons, but many do so to push stocks.
Before you follow their advice, think about what stocks they are actually going to push. Most managers do not push the stocks they are currently buying — they usually push stocks they like, but are stuck with.
If a money manager was trying to buy a stock, the last thing he'd want to do is to create more buying interest by talking about it on TV. That would only raise the price the manager would have to pay. Managers are notoriously tight lipped when buying stocks. Even my closest friends will not tell me about a stock when they are buying it. They'll wait until they have a full position before urging me to buy it. (That's what friends are for.)
Every manager has a few big positions that haven't performed well. He may like the stocks, but he does not want to buy more. Instead, he wants them to go up so he can sell or at least improve his fund's performance. These are the perfect candidates for recommending on TV.
A few weeks ago, when Microsoft plunged, a number of managers went on television to support it. "This is still a great company," one said, "We would be buyers at this price. ..."
While this may sound like a pretty clear statement of support, it is anything but. The portfolio manager is not saying he is buying. He is saying, he would be buying. What he probably should have added is "... if I had not bought 5 million shares at $100 and now own all I can afford to."
The same thing happened with Cisco Systems. After the company was trashed in an article in Barron's a week ago, money managers rushed to its defense. I watched a prominent manager extol Cisco's virtues. When the TV interviewer asked if he was buying the stock, the manager said, "We had orders on the desk today."
Give me a break! What kind of an answer is "We had orders on the desk today"? Were they orders to buy or sell? Were they at the market, or limit orders $5 below the market?
"We had order on the desk" is not an answer to "Are you buying the stock?" The question is a simple one — every manager knows whether he bought or sold a stock. The answer is "Yes, we bought 500,000 shares," or "While we still like the stock, we have not bought more," but "We have orders on the desk" is not an answer.
The reality is that the person who is actually trying to buy 2 million shares is not going to go on CNNfn or CNBC and tell you his intentions. The person who is going to go on is the one who is stuck with a big position and is trying to convince others to help him out.
Money managers should not be expected to tip their hands. They have the right to buy and sell stock without generating a lot of additional interest. But people watching them on television should understand their game.
Peter Siris is a New York hedge fund manager and author of "Guerrilla Investing".
http://www.nydailynews.com/2000-05-13/News_and_Views/Media_and_Business/a-66461.asp
Interesting read on "manipulation".
Message Board Blatantly Urges
Investors to Manipulate a Stock
from: http://www.siliconinvestor.com/stocktalk/msg.gsp?msgid=13689722
To: Souze who wrote (60)
From: Maurice Winn Thursday, May 11, 2000 3:58 PM ET
Reply #62 of 197
Souze, I hoped it would be educational - I'd never heard of hypothecate for a start, and here's what the Wall Street Journal says. They seem to think [and so do some other people by the look of it] that we are not allowed to move our stock to cash accounts to raise the price of our stock or tell lots of people that we are doing so. Which means not tell anyone on a 'message board'. That's very interesting!!
What a lot of rot.
They seem to think any legal action which affects the price is illegal. So a company should not split stock? Which they do to increase liquidity and help their market capitalisation?
The Wall Street Journal itself has become part of the allegedly illegal conspiracy by promoting this GGMDM [albeit they do it under cover of reporting the idea]. They are the main instigators of the idea of moving stock to a cash account in that case. I merely picked the idea up and repeated it. Ideas come and go, ebb and flow and that's the nature of the Web.
The heading should read "Message Board Publicly Urges Shareholders to move their shares to cash accounts to raise their share price and keep it there". I guess that would be boring! Oh well, it's over to markets to decide whether to ignore or whatever. Meanwhile, I'm sick of seeing my shares at a low price and will withdraw my stock from my margin account. Check out "Jacobs Patter" by Wall Street Journal for the quality of their material.
The intention is NOT to punish short sellers. Some of my best friends are short sellers!
Message Board Blatantly Urges
Investors to Manipulate a Stock
By CARRIE LEE
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL INTERACTIVE EDITION
A new message board on Silicon Investor is raising eyebrows by openly urging investors to join forces and drive up the price of Globalstar Telecommunications stock to punish short-sellers.
Short-sellers are investors who hope to profit by betting that the price of a stock will decline. They do so by selling shares borrowed from their broker, expecting to replace them for less when the price falls.
But in allegedly trying to throw cold water on short-sellers, the creator of the Silicon Investor board, "Globalstar Memorial Day Massacre," may be promoting a plan that violates securities laws against stock manipulation.
What makes it more interesting is that the organizer is very blatant about the intentions to influence Globalstar stock and hurt investors. Usually, people who set out to manipulate a stock try to do so very discreetly to avoid tipping off investors who could be harmed and securities regulators.
A Silicon Investor member who uses the screen name Maurice Winn (which he says is his real name) set up the board on May 8. The goal is to cause a spike in Globalstar stock around Memorial Day, May 29, which Mr. Winn calls D-Day.
Globalstar stock has languished amid delays and questions about the viability of the San Jose, Calif., company's satellite-telephone service. Short-sellers have sold about 25 million Globalstar shares -- expecting them to decline further and provide profitable opportunities.
"It would be a nice time, just before the summer holidays, to have some fun, get stock prices going up, having a battle with shorts. Silicon Investor Short Squeeze Day!" wrote Mr. Winn, whose Silicon Investor member profile says he lives in New Zealand.
Mr. Winn is urging investors to pull their Globalstar shares from margin accounts where their brokers could loan them to short-sellers. He hopes that would force the brokers to recall shares already on loan, driving up prices as short-sellers rush to buy the stock on the open market to repay their brokers.
"In fact, just the fear of it happening can make short-sellers cover to avoid being caught in a rapidly rising market," Mr. Winn wrote. He says his plan also is to test the "synergistic" power of the Internet to rally investors to move a stock.
But the plan may face a different test from securities regulators, who have been cracking down on stock manipulation and securities fraud on the Internet. John Reed Stark, chief of Internet enforcement at the Securities and Exchange Commission, says a unified effort to influence a stock may be illegal. He declines to comment specifically on the Globalstar board.
"If you're trying to artificially inflate or deflate the price of a stock, whether by false information or otherwise, it can be a manipulation and a potential securities violation," Mr. Stark says.
Any increase in the price of the flagging stock also could benefit current shareholders, who could then profit on their sales. Mr. Winn admits that he, his family and friends do own Globalstar shares. "To ensure I stay well inside the law, if it exists on this, I don't plan on buying or selling over the next month anyway," he responds by e-mail to a reporter's questions.
Nevertheless, Mr. Winn says he doesn't think his overt plan to have investors move stocks from margin accounts is "manipulative in any illegal sense." He adds: "I think what is illegal, is conspiring to move a price secretly to personal gain by trading on those secretive and manipulative price moves."
Officials at Globalstar declined to comment.
Any coordinated campaign to raise the price of Globalstar's stock would be difficult. The company has 96.9 million shares outstanding, and institutional investors own more than 38%, according to the Carson Group, a New York financial information services firm.
But the potential legal issues are unchanged, whether a plan such as the Globalstar board succeeds in moving a stock or not, says Bill McDonald, enforcement director for the California Department of Corporations, which is the state securities regulator in California.
"It is clearly market manipulation, it is clearly illegal," he says. "These people are clearly trying to manipulate the market and say so blatantly, other people are led to try to get a piece of the action."
Investors have long used Internet message boards to discuss stocks -- some with malicious intent. For example, posters may try to encourage other investors to dump shares so that they can buy them at a cheaper price, or pump up a stock's price so that they can sell at a profit.
Silicon Investor prohibits members from using its boards to engage in illegal activity. "We do respond to regulatory agencies that inform us of illegal practices, but that area is not our expertise," says Byran Burdick, a spokesman. "As an investor I would be suspect of what this guy is doing."
The Globalstar Massacre Board was at one point the top "hot subject" on Silicon Investor on Wednesday. Through Wednesday afternoon, the board had received 38 posts, but 21 were written by Mr. Winn. Nevertheless, some posters say they support the effort.
"My G* shares are sitting quite happily in my retirement account where they are (so far) sinking like a stone, tax deferred, and unmarginable. A short squeeze would be just the right picker-upper to celebrate my birthday," posted one board participant.
Globalstar shares have had a trying year. After soaring to an all time high of 53 3/4 on January 3, the first trading day of 2000, the stock has fallen to below 10 in recent days. On Wednesday, Globalstar shares closed down 17/32, to 8 7/16 on the Nasdaq Stock Market.
The stock has come under pressure amid the failure of other satellite-telephone companies and questions about the long-term viability of its own project. With its service marred by delays and other snags, the company posted a loss of $208 million for the first quarter amid weak revenue.
Mr. Winn is hoping that any spike in the stock that results from his campaign would coincide with announcements or fundamental improvements in the company that would keep the shares from falling back and allowing short sellers to gloat.
In any event, his posting urges supporters: "Just hang onto stocks and don't sell on the spike. The worst that could happen is that the share price would go back to where it was! It would be like going for a roller coaster ride. Fun but not really useful or dangerous."
As is said at the opening of "Hill Street Blues", "Hey, let's be careful out there."
Sheriff dude, I assume preview pane is coming.
I am guessing that would be part of the spell-checker. An aid to posting tables would be to have composition pane, preview pane, and the posted pane all the same width so you can accurately see how it will come out. RB can turn tables into a minor disaster with their composition and preview panes being different widths than the final post pane. If it looks hunky-dory in composition, it should look the same in preview and/or post.
'tis interesting to follow the build progress of this site. Looks like it will be "slicker than teddy bear poop".
Ups and downs of investing
http://www.intelligentspeculator.com/charts/20000502/1300/trading.gif
NTCS and Oracle
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Thursday May 4, 10:45 am Eastern Time
Company Press Release
Oracle Selects NetCurrents' CyberFacts Service
Real-Time Monitoring of Internet-Based Information Tracks Online Corporate Perception
BURLINGAME, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 4, 2000--NetCurrents, Inc. (Nasdaq:NTCS - news), The Premier Internet Intelligence Agency, today announced that Oracle Corporation (Nasdaq:ORCL - news) has selected the Company's CyberFacts real-time Internet monitoring and analysis service.
Using CyberFacts, Oracle monitors market perceptions about itself while tracking information associated with Oracle stock trading activity, corporate news, products and services.
Jennifer Glass, Vice President of Corporate Public Relations for Oracle Corporation said, ``As the largest provider of software for e-business, Oracle understands the value of monitoring the Internet for information on our company. The Internet is fundamentally changing the way we reach the various Oracle communities, and we recognize the value of CyberFacts not only as a research and intelligence tool, but also as an important information management tool. Across our organization, we anticipate that various key groups from our executive committee, to investor relations and public relations rely on the information provided by CyberFacts to help us protect the integrity of our organization and preserve shareholder value.''
``As one of the world's largest corporations and an Internet leader, Oracle is keenly aware of the urgency and necessity of real-time Internet monitoring and analysis,'' stated Victor Holtorf, Chief Operating Officer of NetCurrents. ``Oracle is a strategic account for us and is representative of the size and scope of new and potential customers we are attracting.''
Using proprietary, real-time technology, CyberFacts tracks and monitors an extensive universe of targeted Internet locations, message boards, e-publications, newsgroups and other sources for posted information on public companies. The resulting data is analyzed by NetCurrents team of Internet Strategists who categorize the information, identify and assess perception sentiment, provide real-time notification of potential critical information, provide daily online graphical reports on a secured client portal, and develop strategies to counter misinformation or fraudulent postings.
About Oracle Corp.
Oracle Corporation provides software that powers the Internet.
About NetCurrents, Inc.
NetCurrents, The Premier Internet Intelligence Agency, analyzes communications from an extensive universe of targeted Internet locations in real-time. The Company provides clients with critical information and counsel to protect their corporate image, measure consumers' perceptions, and counter misinformation on the Internet. For more visit www.netcurrents.com .
This news release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 37A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties. A number of factors could cause actual results to differ from those indicated in the forward-looking statements, including the Company's ability to continue to successfully market and provide services, the Company's continued relationship with Oracle Corporation, general economic conditions and other risks that are discussed in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (including the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-KSB). The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise the forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corp.
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Dodi B. Handy, 407/682-2001 (Investor/Broker Relations)
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000504/ca_netcurr_1.html
London MI5 to monitor the internet.
Somebody send them a NetCurrents sales brochure.
http://www.mmedium.com/cgi-bin/nouvelles.cgi?Id=3576
Translation to English (http://babelfish.altavista.com/) alters a couple words, but you get the drift.
[em]"Great Britain: the MI5 sets up a station control room of the Internet
London (May 1 2000) - (AFP) the service of against espionage of the MI5 prepares the installation of a station control room of all the traffic of electronic mail received and sent in Great Britain, said yesterday Sunday Times.
The center, which will represent a cost of 25 million books (57 millionß CA), will be ready to function within one year with the headquarters of the MI5 in London, according to the newspaper which specifies that the service against espionage will need an agreement with the ministry for the Interior to launch the operation.
According to Sunday Times, the British government will require providers of access such as America Online to install physical links with the computers of the MI5 to allow a follow-up of the traffic.
Sources of the ministry for the Interior quoted by the newspaper stress that this project is necessary to face the growing use of the Internet by the networks of terrorists and international criminals.
The British government already has a right of listening on the lines connecting the computers between them, and this project of the MI5 would provide to against espionage the theoretical technical possiblity to supervise the whole of the communications, although the fulgurating growth of the Internet makes virtually impossible a complete monitoring.
Sunday Times gives a report on the foreseeable reactions of the organizations of defense of civil freedoms in front of this project. " This center will give to the government the possibility of following each site of the fabric visited by somebody, without mandate, thus giving rise to a culture of suspicion by association ", comments Caspar Bowden, director of the Foundation for the Search of the policy of information, quoted by the newspaper."[/em]
Market attitude.
A copy of a copy of a copy.
Posts from the Yahoo WGAT message board by a poster that
calls himself “dinner and a fine whine”
WGAT down again. It is just so unfair!
by: dinner_and_a_fine_whine 2/9/00 7:46 pm
Msg: 13456 of 22370 The market goes up and WGAT goes down. The
market goes down and WGAT goes down. Why does this always happen
to me? Why doesn't this go straight up? It is not fair.Why all the buy
ratings but no buying? Why no news? Wink has news. Liberate has news.
Why don't we ever get any news? Somebody bought 25000 shares at 40
and change after the bell? what do they know that i I don't know? Why
don't I know anything? What about all these shorts. What do they know
that I don't know? Why do there have to be so many shorts anyway?
When will this MM manipulating stop anyway? Why doesn't my research
pay off. It is so unfair. WGAT shareholders having a party but I haven't
been invited. Nobody invites me anywhere. Why didn't I listen to uncle
Joe and buy more Cisco? Why did I buy so much WGAT anyway? My
wife is going to kill me. She hates me anyway. Says I complain too much.
Good product but why can't we get PR ? Nobody ever promotes my
stocks! Why did I have to pick a day when longs are so hostile to post my
first informative post on this board?. The market is just so unfair. WGAT
and my life bite.
Oh man! My wife is going to kill me!
by: dinner_and_a_fine_whine 2/9/00 10:22 pm
Msg: 13477 of 22370 First I buy 4000 shares of WGAT based on
information provided by a poster who turns out to be a short. Then I buy a
computer for $1800 and now hypemaster tells us they are practically
giving them away. The people in Peru won't use WGAT because they got
free computers. They can all afford Liberate's high cost because they
have free computers. I can't afford squat because I own WGAT and
bought my computer. Why does this always happen to me?
I sold! I Shorted! I Covered! Oh God!
by: dinner_and_a_fine_whine 2/10/00 8:45 pm
Msg: 13607 of 22370 Oh GEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEZ! Why did I watch
that ticker anyway.? It went below 37 and I couldn't take it anymore. I sold
and shorted to recoup my losses. Then I had to cover and rebuy my
shares at 41. Now its at 40!Why did my trades have to go through
anyways? Where were the hackers when I needed them? Why don't the
hackers ever visit my on line broker? My broker sucks! What is going on
here? Why can't people make up there mind on this stock? Doesn't
anyone stick to their convictions anymore? Why do we have to have
uncertainty anyway?WGAT is up 1 and 13/16 and I am down another
$16000. This stock sucks!And whats with these MM's shaking people
out? Oh Man !I am going to get shook out when I get home! Man I have to
hit $51 to break even.Now slow_blood says the stock will only hit 50.
God! why did I ever buy this stock back? There will be more than slow
bleeding when my wife catches up with me. Come Midnight Tel will be
talking about Candles Cups and handles. Man the only cups handles and
candles I will see will be coming at my head. Why did I have to marry that
tempermental woman anyway? I'm tired of being the emotional rock in my
family! I better promise her a blockbuster tommorrow or I'm dead! Hal are
you listening? Oh he's not listening!Nobody ever listens to me!My life
bites. This millenium sucks!Maybe I should move to Peru where they
have all those free computers. Oh no! I can't go there thats where my
wife is from. Why does this always happen to me?
Oh NO! 8:20 and still no news!
by: dinner_and_a_fine_whine 2/11/00 8:23 am
Msg: 13633 of 22370 Oh man why did I promise my wife blockbuster
news today? This is going to hurt . We are going into the toilet. I'm going
to get a margin call. I came here looking for a blockbuster.Instead all I
ever get is my wife the ballbuster. Why does this always happen to me?
Oh my God! My wife just called!
by: dinner_and_a_fine_whine 2/11/00 7:27 pm
Msg: 13714 of 22370 Someone tipped her that Hal is selling 6 million
shares and she is coming straight home I tried to tell her that it was a
false alarm but she hung up. Oh god I know I should run but I can hardly
move! Why did I have to take all that valium after reading the
hypemaster's post? Man why do people keep posting this stuff? Why
don't people just post informative and helpful facts like mine? I wanted to
comment on today's action but I will have to try later if I still can. She's
coming down the hall now and she's carrying that black candlestick. Oh
man this is going to hurt! Man this board bites! My life sucks! Oh God why
does this always happen to
meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeereeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Oh my god! I'm $12 from a margin call!
by: dinner_and_a_fine_whine 2/12/00 10:31 am
Msg: 13761 of 22371 Why oh why doesn't this stock go up? STRM was
up,OPTV was way up.Wink was up.Even Lbrt squeezed out a gain. But
we just went down. We always go down. This is just so unfair. My broker
says don't worry this is just profit taking.I didn't take any profits. Did you
take profits? I never get profits. All I ever get is screwed. What a bunch
of crap!This stock sucks!Conner 75 says its a dog.Partga made
reference to "this puppy". Oh great I own another dog!Dogs suck! My
wife had a dog. He hated me . We had to take him to a vet to have him
put out of his suffering.The vet offered my wife a 2 for 1 deal on me and
the dog. What was that all about? Damn dog died of natural causes by
the time I talked my wife out of it.I hate dogs. Vets suck! My broker says
don't worry this stock is not a dog. Just shorts and MM's screwing with the
stock.This stock has leading technology he says. Nothing can go wrong.
It's smooth sailing from here. Oh man isn't that what they said about the
Titanic? Oh my God I'm on a fricken dogship to ####!My broker says
don't worry short squeeze coming. Too many shorts. Oh man why does
there have to be so many shorts? Why do they all have to be so mean?
Why do they always drive my stocks down? What did I ever do to
them?My broker says they will get theirs. They got theirs alright. They got
their profits. Short squeeze coming! What a bunch of crap! The only
shorts squeeze I ever get is when my wife makes me wear those darn
bikkini briefs.Bikkini briefs suck. I hate shorts! I bet my wife is a short.I
think my wife shorts this stock everyday just so she can whoop my ass
when I get home. ! And who are these MM's people screwing with my
stock? Who do these people think they are? What are they? Has anyone
ever seen them? What does M&M stand for?I close my eyes at night and
all I can see are these these people dressed in colorful candy coated
outfits chuckling while they are screwing with my money and my mind. I
hate M and M'S. Melts in your mouth not in your hand! What kind of scam
was that? MM's, shorts, my broker and this stock suck. I'm $12 dollars
from a margin call and Monday is comming. Margin sucks. Why did I ever
buy on margin anyways? Margin what a scam! Where are we going from
here? I'll tell you where we are going. Straight down! My stocks always go
down. I hate investing! Investing Sucks! Why does this always happen to
me?
What kind of scam is this?
by: dinner_and_a_fine_whine 2/13/00 9:13 pm
Msg: 13826 of 22371 Oh this is just great!They just posted interest in my
margin account and triggered a margin call. Margin interest what is that all
about? I don't remember my broker mentioning margin interest. Margin
interest? Oh that is so unfair! "Buy more WGAT" my broker says. "I ain't
got no money" I tell him. He says what about margin? I say "I hear its
risky." "Only for losers" he tells me,"not for astute positive thinkers like
yourself. Remember" he says "I'm your friend I only have your best
interests at heart.If you do well I do well. Easy money he says." I ask
"shouldn't I diversify?" He says he'll let me in on a little secret." S G
Cowan is about to initiate coverage on WGAT with a strong buy. After that
nothing but splits coming." Oh wasn't that just a peachy keen tip now. S G
Cowan upgrades Wgat and it drops $5 dollars a share. S G Cowan
upgrades WGAT and downgrades my financial condition to life support
with one swoop! S G Cowans sucks!Well I tracked my broker down by
phone yesterday. He's down in the Caribbean . I guess he's down there
with my easy money looking out for my best interests. Full service
brokers what are they all about? Weren't there enough used car lots to go
around? My broker sucks ! He costs me money twice once when he
gives me advice and once when I take it. Oh yeah. I almost forgot he is
my friend.I asked him once "If you are my friend why don't you give me
some free advice?". So he did! He told me to marry the woman who is
now my wife. What a #######! I hate my broker! Margin interest,SG
Cowans,WGAT,free money and my broker suck! Well my broker says I'm
overeacting "Splits are coming!" Splits what a scam! "Here I"ll take your
10 and give you two fives. Keep the change!" What the #### is that all
about? This is going to make me rich? No matter! WGAT will never split
as long as I own it. My stocks never split. Splits comming? What a bunch
of crap!I have news for my broker. The splits are here. WGAT and my
broker have split the value of my account in half and my wife is going to
split my lip when she gets wind of this margin call. I hate splits! Splits
suck! Well I have three days to cover my margin call. I hope my stocks
go up tommorow. Oh they won't go up.My stocks never go up. That is not
until the day after I sell them. I wish I had cash. I never have cash. Why
did I put all my cash into my Y2K generator bussiness? Y2K what a scam
that was!Y2k,margin calls and my life suck! Why does this always happen
to me?