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it will have that they have the right to limit service considered to be beyond normal usage or some such bs
check the fine print "unlimited" does not mean unlimited
lol share some of them royalties with the farmers
be careful what your paying for bandwidth on the cell a guy here got dinged $5000 by Bell for doing that
nope
hotel
Would be interesting to see all your pics
very clean streets
lots of advertising
well fed :)
lol avalanche!
anyway i will have the laptop to check out the open
oh well just a couple days on da slopes
Windmill/Wind Turbine Explosion
as long as Marmot is getting it I am happy
and you thought the rocketred moniker was from trading stocks!
yup got a few inches today while i was on the dozer
not showing what they got today or will get tomorrow/monday
give the pass one more go
next year try some other hills
ya the point is to get the free stuff
Alberta's energy future
Anthony Kovats Thursday April 17, 2008
Who could have thought that a possible solution to our prolific carbon footprint could be tackled by something as small as, and as seemingly unexciting as, alga?
And yet, for Olds College director and scientific leader Dr. Abimbola Abiola, the tiny organism has the potential to capture carbon dioxide, literally feeding the gas to CO2 hungry alga and allowing the organism to create value-added byproducts.
Abiola, guest speaker at the Leduc Nisku EDA’s regular breakfast meeting in New Sarepta March 18, spoke to the growing urgency of dealing with a looming energy crisis, the need to enhance biodiesel applications and quality if only on a small scale, and to look at alternatives for reducing our growing carbon footprint including the feeding and cultivation of algae. The college’s advanced research team is even exploring the possibilities of biopesticides in its state-of-the-art 1,800-square-metre greenhouse that serves not only as a classroom, but also as a research centre.
Of course, the forever-interlinked issue of the environment and energy are foremost for the college as Abiola said it moves forward with innovative ways to make biodiesel products more effective, especially in cold climates, and to reduce its production dependency on food stuffs.
Abiola said the reality is we’re thirsty for fuel. Thirsty for an energy source that can drive our advancing infrastructure and as energy prices continue to skyrocket the need to improve alternative energy sources like biofuel has never been more pressing.
“We believe that, maybe sooner than we think, it is the way we are going. The purpose of biodiesel is to create a clean alternative fuel and we can use it for transportation, generating electricity and heating and little or no modifications are required,” Abiola said.
He said the college has been exploring integrated storage and blending and dispensing systems which are designed to address some of the cold-flow challenges associated with biodiesel. The system allows for the storage store and blending biodiesel with regular diesel year-round for use in fleet vehicles and school buses within the community of Olds.
As one of six schools in the Academic Division, the Olds College School of Innovation which Abiola heads, links faculty, students and research projects together. Biodiesel, which Abiola admitted has a limited application at this point, is just one of the exciting alternatives the school explores.
Another is algae.
Now, the concept isn’t new.
Several attempts have been tried over the years to develop algae bioreactor systems that can be attached to natural gas-fired or coal power plants with the idea being that CO2 emissions from these operations can be directed to an algae farms where the organisms gorge on the gas. They are then harvested and used to make alternative products like biodiesel, ethanol, some plastics and animal feed.
And intuitive leaps in this direction could greatly reduce the need for fossil fuels.
The problem is the process is expensive and if left unchecked in terms of harvesting, the fattened algae calf begins to die off. Another problem developing this technology suitable for this northern county is once again, our dropping temperatures.
However, in March the Tory minority government announced it would contribute $100,000 toward a project designing microalgae systems. Not a huge contribution, but at least it kick-starts some serious research. Members include the National Research Council, Abiola’s research centre at Olds College, and the University of Saskatchewan, just to name a few.
It's the first project under the newly created I-CAN Centre for the Conversion of Carbon Dioxide, and will be headed by government research groups from the three western provinces of Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan and Quebec.
Collectively, the group intends to build a commercial "photo bioreactor" within three years. If successful, an algae operation that absorbs CO2 and creates biodiesel as a byproduct, could have incredibly proactive benefits to an industry as complex as the Alberta tarsands.
“I believe we are going to the next generations of biodiesel technology and I also believe that in many of our projects we will be ahead.”
401 here you come!
I think I know where I will be Monday/Tuesday :)
Hey you guys I got a F350 and a JD450 to keep filling!
Twist of fate
Coverage reunites jailed woman, father
April 19, 2008 Joanna Smith Ottawa Bureau for The Toronto Star
OTTAWA – Late last month, Tom Martin was reading a story in his local newspaper about a Canadian woman who has languished in jail in Mexico when he had a shock of recognition.
"I picked up the paper and it said 'Brenda Martin, 51 years old.' I knew my daughter would be 51," Martin, 72, said from his home in Surrey, B.C., yesterday.
"I didn't recognize her, naturally. I hadn't seen her since she was a year and a half old."
His daughter Brenda Martin, whose jailing near Guadalajara has become a cause celebre, had believed for 30 years that her father was dead.
Tom Martin was just 21 years old when he married Brenda's mother, 18-year-old Marjorie Currie. He lived on the Air Force base in Comox, B.C., while his young bride and baby girl stayed with his parents 225 kilometres away on the outskirts of Vancouver.
"We had our differences and she (his wife) left with the little girl and went back east and remarried and I couldn't find her," said Martin, who went on to marry a total of three times and had three sons and two other daughters.
He worked at sea as a commercial fisherman and tour boat skipper and said he and his other daughters looked for Brenda for years.
As it turns out, Brenda had sought her father, too, going west as a young woman to look for him.
She travelled out to British Columbia in 1978 but gave up her search when she was told her father had been killed in an accident.
After reading the newspaper article three weeks ago, Tom Martin sat down at his computer to investigate his hunch. He sent an email to Deb Tieleman, the childhood friend who has been campaigning tirelessly to have Brenda Martin released from prison in Guadalajara where she has been held since 2006.
"I think she's my daughter," Tom Martin wrote after typing out detailed information about Brenda's middle names and date of birth.
Within hours he received a phone call from his flabbergasted first wife, now Marjorie Bletcher, and in the morning he got a call from the prison in Mexico.
"Are you really my father?" he recalls of the conversation he had with the daughter he has not seen in 49 years.
"Yes, honey, I am," he said.
"Daddy, get me out of here," she said, starting to cry.
"She spotted the irony of the whole thing," Martin says, recalling the phone call three weeks ago. "If she hadn't gone to prison down there, I wouldn't have found her."
His hope now is for the two to be reunited.
Mexican authorities arrested Brenda Martin in connection with an Internet fraud scheme run by her former boss. She has steadfastly maintained she knew nothing of the scam masterminded by Alyn Waage, for whom she worked as a cook, that bilked investors out of nearly $60 million.
Waage, who is serving a 10-year sentence in a U.S. prison, has also sworn she had no knowledge of his scheme. A Mexican judge is expected to rule on her case Tuesday.
Brenda's mother, Marjorie Bletcher, 69, who had told the Star her first husband was dead, said she is still shocked by the news but happy her daughter has widened her circle of support.
"He told me that he still had a picture of me and Brenda," Bletcher said from her home in Trenton, Ont. "He might have been afraid, but I'm not going to hold that against him. I think it's great that (Brenda's) going to be able to have somebody else that she can count on."
time yet?
Mountains tower endlessly in the distance. Tirelessly attempting to obstruct each new trespasser. Hiding their secrets, in cloud shrouded rain forests. It is an old place, a holy place. Lifted by the Earth’s outstretched arms. Through the Sun Gate, a collapsing path leads forward. Strange creatures walk here. Miniature giraffes, hair pigs, and colonies that chew solid rock. The city is on these mountain tops. What are first mistaken for giant stairways climbing mountain sides become terraced farms. This place is a memory, of bright woven clothes, of temples of stone, and timeless gods. It is the defiance of an ancient people to surrender their most sacred place, their paradise, their hope. It is Macchu Picchu.
by my son
bring it on!
LOL maybe our warrants will be worth something after all
lol not only are you left out in the cold by John's choice of board placement your left out in the snow!
Maybe not until another placement is done, could be an opportunity here for a bit.
Aurelian says mining "mandate" to go before Ecuador
2008-04-17 14:42 MT - News Release
Ms. Marla Gale reports
AURELIAN UPDATE RECENT MINING ANNOUNCEMENTS IN ECUADOR
Aurelian Resources Inc. understands that a mandate on mining in Ecuador will be presented to the constituent assembly in Ecuador tomorrow for debate and vote. Aurelian has not yet determined the impact of the mandate on the company. Aurelian does not know if the mandate will be approved.
Aurelian will provide further updates as developments progress.
Arcus options La Ventosa from Riverside Resources
2008-04-17 06:37 MT - News Release
Mr. Ian Talbot reports
ARCUS DEVELOPMENT GROUP ACQUIRES SECOND MEXICAN PROJECT FROM RIVERSIDE RESOURCES
Arcus Development Group Inc. has concluded an agreement with Riverside Resources Inc. under which Arcus has been granted an option to acquire a majority interest in La Ventosa property, located in Oaxaca, Mexico. La Ventosa property covers an area of 10,175 hectares and is 15 kilometres northeast from Juchitan city.
La Ventosa property is located in a relatively unexplored area of southeastern Oaxaca. Infrastructure in the area is very good, and unlike much of Oaxaca, which is mountainous and contains a large number of small villages, La Ventosa property is located on easily accessible, semi-arid flatlands near the Pacific coast. The property was acquired by Riverside through staking and is not subject to any underlying royalty or third party interests.
Subject to TSX Venture Exchange acceptance, Arcus can earn up to a 65-per-cent interest in the property under a staged option. To exercise an initial option and acquire a 51-per-cent interest in La Ventosa property, Arcus is required to pay Riverside $150,000 cash, issue 200,000 Arcus shares to Riverside and incur exploration expenditures of $2-million prior to the third anniversary of the option agreement. Exploration expenditures in year one of the initial option include a firm commitment of $250,000. After exercising the initial option, Arcus will have a second option to acquire an additional 14-per-cent interest in the property by incurring a further $2-million in exploration expenditures within a two-year period and by paying Riverside $300,000.
Ian Talbot, the president of Arcus, stated: "We are very pleased to have concluded a second Mexican project agreement with Riverside. La Ventosa property is an excellent early stage exploration target in an area that has not been exposed to extensive modern exploration. Work at La Ventosa should be very cost-effective and progress rapidly as the area is easily accessible and has excellent infrastructure. Our Mexican property portfolio, which now contains the Chapalota (April 14, 2008, new release), and La Ventosa properties, exposes Arcus to gold exploration projects in both Oaxaca and Sinaloa."
1-1 :(
bid ask is 2.61 2.69 now in Oz
sure or 5 - 10 cents (kidding lol)... seriously though the news is fantastic!
to be honest Arc I dont really have a feel for biotech. I got involved last year when I saw the insider ownership and the credentials of the people involved.
plus at least another 10 million by other insiders
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=19448169
so 50.5/78.5 = 64% insider ownership!
How can this keep going up?
51.4% of the company is controlled by the chairman Roderick M. Bryden.
Following conversion of all outstanding debentures held by Stormont (but excluding debentures held by arm's-length parties), including accrued interest to April 4, 2008, and exercise of all attached warrants, Stormont would hold 40,379,085 of 63,823,843 common shares outstanding, representing a 63.27-per-cent interest (51.4 per cent on a fully diluted basis). Stormont is controlled by Roderick M. Bryden, chairman of PharmaGap.
Everything is in the money now so completely and fully diluted: 40,379,085/.514 = 78,558,531 shares
but this is one stock i hope is a bulls eye not just for my benefit but also who hasnt lost someone to cancer?
PharmaGap Inc. is a biotechnology company with a core focus designing and developing novel
therapeutic drugs for the treatment of cancer and other human diseases associated with the human
Protein Kinase C enzyme (“PKC”). Founded in 1999, the Company is a spin-off from Canada’s preeminent
biological research organization, the National Research Council (NRC).
Using its proprietary drug development platform, the Company is developing a pipeline of novel
compounds targeting PKC. PKC is often expressed in abnormal levels in many types of cancer and other
diseases, such as diabetes.
PharmaGap’s lead drug compound, PhGα1, is currently in the pre-clinical testing stage and has shown in
vitro and in vivo efficacy in selected cancer types. The Company is actively seeking capital and seeking a
business collaboration with other companies in the business of pharmaceutical development, including
licensing arrangements and other business arrangements including but not limited to a sale of the
Company or its assets, merger, or joint ventures.
The Company’s business strategy is to license its drug compounds to third parties for completion of
human trials and subsequent commercialization in return for initial license payments, milestone payments
as the compounds progress through clinical trials, and, in the event the compound reaches the point of
clinical sales, royalties on sales of the compound. There is no assurance as to the realization, form or
size of any of these potential payments in the future.
Ahhh let me see, oh my, looks like my wife gets a new vehicle to go with this plate...
lol you mean a pink sheet pos with news like this would be sitting above a $15M market cap?
agree with the others, warrant overhead likely
would have rather seen some crosses into funds but like Ed said chew chew chew