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I assume you're joking, but you sound serious. Sure, you can get on a direct-to-consumer/company email list but if you're a serious company and want to be seen immediately by the widest possible target audience, ask yourself a simple question: What are my choices?
BusinessWire
Market Wire
PR Newswire
PrimeZone
Other smaller players
PRs do NOT cost money? Taking notes ... tell us how that works. You could save a lot of companies a lot of money.
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Gooooo Sandra. Theater Review: Sandra Bernhard
"It's invigorating just to be in the presence, once again, of a true original," says Charles Isherwood.
http://theater.nytimes.com/pages/theater/index.html?8dpc
What would a good investment banking firm advise?
Sure, a Merv Griffin/Chinese investors/Santa Claus would help in the short term for sheer survival and debt obligations, but the question is how do you clean up the corporate structure?
Dissolve/sell/write-off any dirty, unaccounted-for assets?
Spin-off all clean, provable assets into a new entity WITHOUT going BK?
IF Fan & friends have been buying shares, they're in the same boat as us.
How do you say, "Ohhhhhhhh, s h i t" in Chinese?
Just wondering.
QBID, the George Mason of network television?
George Mason opened March Madness with 500 to 1 odds of winning a title championship. Now they are only two games away.
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2006 Final Four Betting Odds
Sports911.com Endorsed Online Sportsbooks List George Mason at 6 to 1 Odds of Winning the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship
MIAMI BEACH, FL, Mar 28, 2006 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) -- Sports911.com endorsed online sportsbooks have begun to post 2006 Final Four betting odds, which include first half lines and futures. The majority of online sportsbooks, including Canbet.com, have George Mason listed with 6 to 1 odds of winning a championship title.
Perhaps no other team in the Final Four is more high on themselves these days than George Mason, which opened March Madness with 500 to 1 odds of winning a title championship. Now they are only two games away.
After answering one last question inside the Verizon Center's media room on Sunday afternoon, George Mason guard Lamar Butler swiped a card bearing his name on it that had been resting on a table in front of him.
He dumped the card into a gym bag that was already carrying a game program and a couple twines from a basketball net.
"I'm picking up every memento I can find in this building," Butler said. "I'm taking everything back home."
He wasn't going to leave behind a single scrap of George Mason's history-making performance.
Behind a tenacious defense and Butler's clutch 3-pointer shooting, George Mason made history with a shocking 86-84 overtime victory over NCAA Tournament favorite Connecticut that has sent the once-unknown Patriots to the Final Four.
Additional 2006 Final Four betting odds include:
Florida +160 LSU +250 UCLA +300 George Mason +600
60 Minutes tonight: BETTING ON A FALL
Investment pools for the very rich are known as hedge funds. One of the major ones is being accused in a lawsuit of spreading negative information about a major company and then betting on its falling stock price.
Lesley Stahl reports. Janet Klein is the producer.
toradoshi, you sound as if you're close to the tea leaves.
Read 'em for us?
"new start ...within two weeks.. something more poitive for Q...hang on till then....."
More questions than answers.
Studio: 818-848-5800
Welcome msg: "Thank you for calling QTelevision Media City Studios."
This is a heckuvan asset.
Who owns it? TMM or QTN or previous owner pending final payment?
Info via broker at time of sale:
Asking Price $2,100,000
Revenue $1,900,000
Cash Flow $350,000
Value of Equipment: $2,000,000 (Included in Asking Price)
How is it accounted for? Can any accountant guru explain/guess how the Goodwill figure was estimated? Is there more to the story than these two lines?
Leasehold improvements (Burbank Studio) 350,000
Goodwill (Burbank Studio) 1,295,000
It takes gov systems awhile, but it would be good to see the final sale figure in the following. If anybody sees it, yell.
http://assessormap.co.la.ca.us/mapping/viewer.asp
Assessor's Id. Number 2466-013-019
Site Address 2525 N NAOMI ST
Latest Sale Date
Indicated Sale Price
What else. Shortbus. Q supposedly funded the film initially with $2M. Who owns the right?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367027/
Status: Completed
Thoughts, opinions, guesses, thnx.
Ok, Hansen, let's review.
You're saying that Lloyd Fan borrowed $400,000 from the BROTHER of a FRIEND of FRANK's. The bro's bro runs a tchotchke company (tradeshow giveaways). And so with a mere $400K (forget assumption of debt), Fan pulls an Olsen (dealmaker extraordinaire) and takes over a network supposedly worth (fill in the blank) millions.
Now that's plausible.
HansenC, who is Chris David?
4. Mr. Fan has put in a lot of money and is personally committed to make QTN work.
<em>He borrowed about $400,000 from Chris David to keep things running.</em>
HansenC, opinions?
Jennifercd10
Member
posted March 22, 2006
My brother went to the studios today and got lucky with his timing and managed to snag Carol Hinnant for a few minutes between her appointments. Here are some of the points, not the exact verbiage:
1. Transparency is very important to Lloyd and Carol. It will happen.
2. Absolutely will do the Gay Games.
3. Lloyd Fan is a tall, quiet and easygoing man who is a pleasure to work for.
4. Mr. Fan has put in a lot of money and is personally committed to make QTN work.
5. Verizon is a fabulous deal and is definitely going forward.
6. This new “team” was left with a real mess, but they are working extremely hard to get beyond it.
7. Frank and crew are out!
8. Keep watching for announcements. A lot should be out shortly.
9. The staff is fielding a lot of phone calls from irate investors who are angry with Frank. All they want to do is #####, threaten and whine. This takes away from what they need to do to turn the pps upward. (IMO, we should give them the time and space they need to do it right)
10. Lloyd, Carol and the staff loved my cheesecakes!
HansenC writes like WillyWizard. Hmmmm? e/m
Good goin', burp ... creating the board. Heard you on air. Q: You also created a second board, Sub Penny radio? Kinda confusing?
MH2
There's equity in cult content. Quick overview:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Hartman,_Mary_Hartman
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (sometimes abbreviated as MH2) was a syndicated prime-time soap opera parody produced by Norman Lear ... conceived as satire, but it was viewed as so controversial that many stations aired it well after their 11 P.M. newscasts. The irony was that while MH2 dealt with many of the same topics found in episodes of daytime soap operas, the topics were called by their names (impotence, sexual perversion) instead of being referred to in hushed tones and euphemisms; all the while the cast had their tongues firmly planted in their cheeks.
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0074021/plotsummary
Mary suffered the travails of mass murder, adultery, venereal disease, homosexuality, religious cults, and UFO sightings, before she finally succumbed to a nervous breakdown on a syndicated talk show.
1976 - 1978: 325 Episodes
Emmy awards: 2
Emmy nominations: 2
Distributor: Sony Pictures Television (2002-)
download theme song
http://www.timstvshowcase.com/mhmh.html
Comment:
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0074021/
Wow, what a bizarre show
This was one of those seminal moments in television history, because the 70s seemed to be more open to experimentation and strangeness than certainly the 80s and definitely the 90s.
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman was a show that was unclassifiable by any standard of TV today. Now, I haven't seen the show in about 15 years (I watched the whole series on tape at a friend of mine's back in the mid or late 80s), but I am sure that it would be just as bizarre and wonderful today as ever.
Martin Mull was brilliant as the psychopathic wife beater, Barth Gimble. I hope that TV Land or some other such channel will pick this show up, because I would really love to see it again.
AvantBrowser.com better than FireFox or IE, IMO. e/m
'One of the cleverest short-squeeze traps on record.'
http://www.rgm.com/articles/nypost10.html
Excerpt:
Travelzoo's somewhat dweebish-looking founder, chairman and CEO, one Ralph Bartel, who owns 87% of the company's stock and effectively suckered short-sellers attacking his company into one of the cleverest short-squeeze traps on record.
In the process, Travelzoo's stock took off for the moon, enabling Bartel to raise $30 million in cash through a deeply-discounted private placement of its shares last month with a group of hedge funds, while Bartel himself emerged as New York's newest stock market billionaire.
the patsies in this case have turned out to be one of the savviest groups on Wall Street: the market's so-called short-sellers.
Travelzoo was created in the spring of 1998 by a young fellow named Ralph Bartel, who had earned a doctorate in journalism and the media from a university in Germany and had been working as a management assistant at the Grunner und Jahr publishing house.
Classic short squeeze, and it is only now beginning to unwind as one short-seller after the next gets carried out, feet-first, reducing demand for the shares accordingly.
the stock began to move from less than $5 per share at the start of the year to $10 by the start of spring.
Thinking perhaps that it was rising too fast, short-sellers began to circle. And when they did Bartel sprang his trap, announcing that of the roughly 19 million shares outstanding, more than four million were being cancelled because the recipients had never bothered to certify their ages and countries of residence.
This automatically reduced the public float by 80%, lifting Bartel's control back to more than 87%, while causing suddenly anxious short-sellers to begin chasing the stock that still remained public in order to close out their positions, which of course simply caused the stock's rise to accelerate.
Reg D in English.
starthewoundedpup, dilution? Lie? Um, I think you're looking at it the wrong way. Reg D is a vehicle for Mellon Research to HELP its clients obtain financing by providing "boutique micro-cap venture capital services to private mid cap companies." The idea seems to be to provide financing to a LOT of small and mid-cap companies while simultaneously taking equity positions and sharing the divs with the shareholders of Mellon Research.
http://www.venturea.com/pvt.htm
For some entrepreneurs, the best vehicle to accomplish initial equity financing under an exemption is through the use of Regulation D, which is a limited offer and sale of their company's stock, or securities, without registration under the Federal Securities Act of 1933.
Brief chat with Mario this afternoon on AIM. Still shaking his head at all the negativity. FYI: He'll be in the office tomorrow. Why don't you bashers get all your freaky questions together and call him?
Man, that's some bashing. How would YOU do it? What more do you need when starting out? BTW, didn't MOBL have a virtual office?
small PRIME OFFICE SPACE FOR THE 1 TO 10 MAN BUSINESS
* A fully trained multi-lingual support team
* Boardrooms and meeting rooms
* Private offices
Mellon Research: '... vehicle for emerging companies in China to have a public presence in the United States.'
http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid={C4D6DB33-3FBC-4BB0-BFCD-129CFA1D05D9}&siteid=mkt...
Chinese IPOs hustle into Hong Kong, $40 billion more seen in 2005
Total funds raised this year are expected to exceed HK$280 billion, which would make Hong Kong the world second largest fund-raising market after New York.
Go Mellon! China -> HK IPO's -> Mellon Research -> U.S. listings?
Mellon Research Inc.
HSBC Tower Level 21
101 Yin Cheng East Road
Pudong, Shanghai
NYC too ... BRAVO.
28 minutes.
goingup11, insiders own as of 5/26/04:
5,278,345,006
5,278,341,672 +
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10,556,686,678 = Total shares common stock.
Restricted? No, but the officers must file with the SEC to sell.
Remember the other good news: Registration Withdrawal Request on filing date 5/12/04; Company "elected to postpone the increase in the Company's authorized shares of preferred stock due to a determination that it would not be in the Company's
best interest to proceed at this time."
New SEC Filings: Form 4's ... Insiders acquired 4,000,000,000 shares / Date of filings: 5/26/04
BAILEY RICHARD A
5/11/04 1,000,000,000 @ .0007
5/24/04 1,000,000,000 @ .0007
Total Owned 5,278,345,006
TERNES FLORIAN R
5/11/04 1,000,000,000 @ .0007
5/24/04 1,000,000,000 @ .0007
Total Owned 5,278,341,672
USCI history?
Digging like everyone else trying to figure out if USCI's prospects are for real.
Surprising to not hear comments from any previous shareholders, disgruntled or otherwise.
The sole exception (so far):
halifaxlady's post on RB's IBZT board
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=IBZT&read=142291
"This is not a share certificate printing mill like US Crude, where the principals of USCI hold preferred shares and a pittance of common shares. At USCI, the principals care nothing about common stock dilution or common shareholders and their sorry history proves it."
I invited her over here to post whatever she thinks, but she didn't reply. Who knows.