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Makes 2 of us Jawmoke. You did date yourself
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WWTR volume alert. Water transfer company. eom
Nice choce of music as always jawmoke.
Thanks for the update.
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VRMD. Pinkweeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.
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drought creates a river of doubt
By Michael Gardner
COPLEY NEWS SERVICE
April 25, 2004
Staring at a persistent drought that imperils supplies from Denver to San Diego, some of the West's most powerful water leaders have just returned from an unusual journey down the Colorado River – through Grand Canyon National Park – staged to nurture novel defenses against the prospect of painful rationing.
A week of casual talks held between running rapids and camping under the stars touched on ideas long stifled by legal, environmental and political constraints.
The pressure to cut deals has intensified with each passing winter. An eight-year dry spell, interrupted by just one wet winter, has drained lakes Mead and Powell to historically low levels. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation has warned that it may be forced to curtail deliveries out of the once-brimming Colorado River basin as early as 2007.
If the Bureau reaches that point, it will be the first time that states do not receive their full entitlement.
Aiming to prevent forced cuts, officials have started to explore previously off-limits territory: allowing Nevada to pay for desalination plants along the California coast in exchange for more river water, building small reservoirs along a key canal in Imperial County to capture water in wet years, and storing water in cooler states to minimize evaporation losses.
"There's no cookbook that says, d'Do this,' " said Bennett Raley, the Bush administration's lead negotiator on water issues nationwide.
A rainy 2004-5 would not wash away the looming threat of shortages. Experts predict it will take at least 16 years of normal snow and rain to refill Lake Mead, a major water source for 18 million Southern Californians.
Lake Mead is slightly more than half full. Upstream, the outlook is even bleaker for Lake Powell, which is at 42 percent of capacity. A welcome spring storm did dump a foot of snow in Colorado on Friday.
The Colorado River and its two primary reservoirs serve 25 million residents and irrigate 3 million acres of farm land across the West and Mexico. California, although routinely taking more, has a right to draw 4.4 million acre feet, of which about two-thirds goes to Imperial Valley farmers.
The possibility of shortages across the West is so imminent that the Metropolitan Water District, the giant Los Angeles-based wholesaler, this year gave up some surplus supplies to reduce the draw from Lake Mead.
"We can either wait for a crisis to happen or manage it now," explained Dennis Underwood, who tracks Colorado River issues for Metropolitan.
Even though they recognized the imminent danger to farms, business and the environment, the West's water leaders did not start serious work on a coordinated response to the nagging drought until recently. They were too consumed by divisive negotiations on a new multistate agreement to share the Colorado.
"It was too big of a bite," said Pat Mulroy, general manager of the Southern Nevada Water Authority serving Las Vegas.
Historically, planners have been reluctant to risk public backlash until water supplies are truly squeezed.
"We don't worry about drought until it's dry. We don't worry about floods until it rains," observed Sid Wilson, general manager of the vast Central Arizona Project.
At the same time, "everyone put too much faith" in the federal Bureau of Reclamation's projections that the dry spell would be short-lived, Wilson said.
The Interior Department also has been handcuffed by court decisions and state pacts that require full deliveries until the reservoirs dip below certain levels at a specific time of the year, even though curbing use now could prevent more painful cuts later.
The Colorado carves through the Grand Canyon, one of America's most treasured parks. Changes in how and when water is spilled from the mighty dams could transform the landscape a mile below the rim in some places, angering rafting enthusiasts and anglers – both influential economic and political forces in the region.
"Do we want a Disneyland with plastic fish?" asked preservation-minded Robert Webb, a federal hydrologist and expert on the rapids and geology of the canyon.
And where there are dams there is power production. With California's summer electricity supplies already tenuous, water purveyors will have to closely coordinate with energy interests.
The environmental implications of changing water operations are broad, particularly here – home of bighorn sheep, condors, the Yuma clapper rail and a fish known as the humpback chubb.
Environmental groups are pushing to secure a steady stream of water for fish and wildlife.
"Conserved water seems inevitably bound for another consumptive use" in cities or on farms, said Jennifer Pitt, a resource analyst for Environmental Defense.
There are even cross-border ramifications that have involved the U.S. State Department. Mexico draws from the Colorado and has a running feud with the U.S. over conservation, such as canal lining, that would limit seepage many Mexican farmers rely on.
"There are no pretty, easy paths out," warned Raley of the Interior Department.
Determined to meet the challenges head on, Raley earlier this month orchestrated an extraordinary opportunity to take leaders of lower basin states most at risk – California, Arizona and Nevada – out of the board rooms and court rooms, unencumbered by ties and clocks.
"It's real here," Raley explained as he floated on a raft below a palette of canyon colors that rivals New England's famed changing of the leaves.
Raley said he hopes new ideas take root. If not, however, he sounded a warning to those on board: "If they leave a vacuum and can't get their act together, we will act."
By all rights a moment Rig. I would not clasify it as glamorous...but it is a form of bonding.
You know who your friends are.
Their the ones that remind you of it the rest of your life!
Dicks.
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Rig, Dream. Friends travel many ways were as we just kinda go from six pack to six pack along the journey. LOL
Almost beer thirty here on the left coast.
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FYI GBLL. anyone still following here is site that will be updated
not updated yet.
http://www.globallinkscorp.com/
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FYI GBLL. anyone still following here is site that will be updated
not updated yet.
http://www.globallinkscorp.com/
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FYI GBLL. anyone still following here is site that will be updated
not updated yet.
http://www.globallinkscorp.com/
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FYI GBLL. anyone still following here is site that will be updated
not updated yet.
http://www.globallinkscorp.com/
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EZ. GBLL news on monday. Of course you know what that means.
Since I own it I'm hoping for the best but know the routine.
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EZ. Already own it .04 but Thanks. I listen to your JMHO and your perspective.
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VRMD news (pink)
Vision Real Estate Management and Development to Buy Back 50 Million Shares
ALBANY, N.Y., Apr 23, 2004 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Vision Real Estate Management and
Development, Inc. (Pink Sheets: VRMD), today announced, Vision Real Estate
Management and Development will buy in the open market up to 50 million shares
of its publicly traded common stock.
"Based on the revenue and earnings that the real estate, trucking and mortgage
divisions are currently bringing into our company, we believe that our stock
price is severely undervalued," stated Daniel J. Duffy, Vice President of VRMD.
"Therefore, in order to enhance shareholder value, the smartest place to put the
company's money is in its own stock."
The stock buy back program will commence immediately. The stock that is
purchased in the open market will be cancelled and returned to treasury.
Therefore every share purchased by the Company will result in a reduction in the
number of outstanding shares.
"A large percentage of the profit from each real estate transaction, as well as
the earnings from the Mortgage and Trucking divisions will go towards the
buyback of the Company stock," stated Donovan Rhoden, President of Vision Real
Estate Management and Development. "The stock buyback program will benefit all
shareholders by decreasing the number of outstanding shares and increasing each
shareholders percentage of ownership in the Company."
Forward-Looking Statements the private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995
provides a safe harbor for forward-looking information made on the company's
behalf. All statements, other than statements of historical facts which address
the company's expectations of sources of capital or which express the company's
expectation for the future with respect to financial performance or operating
strategies, can be identified as forward-looking statements. Such statements
made by the company are based on knowledge of the environment in which it
operates, but because of the factors previously listed, as well as other factors
beyond control of the company, actual results may differ materially from the
expectations expressed in the forward-looking statements.
SOURCE: Vision Real Estate Management and Development, Inc.
CONTACT: Vision Real Estate Management and Development
Daniel J. Duffy, 518-862-1676
Fax: 518-862-9247
WWW.VRMDCORP.COM
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VRMD news (pink)
Vision Real Estate Management and Development to Buy Back 50 Million Shares
ALBANY, N.Y., Apr 23, 2004 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Vision Real Estate Management and
Development, Inc. (Pink Sheets: VRMD), today announced, Vision Real Estate
Management and Development will buy in the open market up to 50 million shares
of its publicly traded common stock.
"Based on the revenue and earnings that the real estate, trucking and mortgage
divisions are currently bringing into our company, we believe that our stock
price is severely undervalued," stated Daniel J. Duffy, Vice President of VRMD.
"Therefore, in order to enhance shareholder value, the smartest place to put the
company's money is in its own stock."
The stock buy back program will commence immediately. The stock that is
purchased in the open market will be cancelled and returned to treasury.
Therefore every share purchased by the Company will result in a reduction in the
number of outstanding shares.
"A large percentage of the profit from each real estate transaction, as well as
the earnings from the Mortgage and Trucking divisions will go towards the
buyback of the Company stock," stated Donovan Rhoden, President of Vision Real
Estate Management and Development. "The stock buyback program will benefit all
shareholders by decreasing the number of outstanding shares and increasing each
shareholders percentage of ownership in the Company."
Forward-Looking Statements the private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995
provides a safe harbor for forward-looking information made on the company's
behalf. All statements, other than statements of historical facts which address
the company's expectations of sources of capital or which express the company's
expectation for the future with respect to financial performance or operating
strategies, can be identified as forward-looking statements. Such statements
made by the company are based on knowledge of the environment in which it
operates, but because of the factors previously listed, as well as other factors
beyond control of the company, actual results may differ materially from the
expectations expressed in the forward-looking statements.
SOURCE: Vision Real Estate Management and Development, Inc.
CONTACT: Vision Real Estate Management and Development
Daniel J. Duffy, 518-862-1676
Fax: 518-862-9247
WWW.VRMDCORP.COM
OT; For anyone bored here is a joke.
A city boy, named Kenny, moved to the country and bought a donkey from an old farmer for $100.00. The farmer agreed to deliver the donkey the next day.
>
> The next day the farmer drove up and said, "Sorry son, but I have some bad news, the donkey died." Kenny replied, "Well, then, just give me my money back" The farmer said, "Can't do that. I went and spent it already." Kenny said, "Ok, then, just unload the donkey." The farmer asked, "What ya gonna do with him?" Kenny, "I'm going to raffle him
> off." Farmer, "You can't raffle off a dead donkey!" Kenny, "Sure I can. Watch me. I just won't tell anybody he is dead."
>
> A month later the farmer met up with Kenny and asked, "What happened with that dead
> donkey?" Kenny, "I raffled him off. I sold 500 tickets at two dollars a piece and made a profit 898.00." Farmer, "Didn't anyone complain?" Kenny, "Just the guy who won. So I gave him his two dollars back." Kenny grew up and eventually became the chairman of Enron.
>
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Happy Birthday Brig. 29? you act like...
like you act. LOL
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They probably thought you were a MM making a coded trade!
ROFL.
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Pink sheets shows SENS bid .04/ ask .06. eom
Skeena. Maybe this but I think this one is dead
http://www.glcpaycard.com/
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Thanks Skeena. eom
Get Brig to buy it. eom
SENS. Actually I added a few. eom
Bought WNMI on pictures of models. eom
tech_vstr. Careful. Buzz is a slave to fashion.
LOL
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RUBM.."e". eom
My bad. thought I saw you post you were waiting for .06 and were not in when we took an immediate southern turn.
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Who knows. I think your the only one playing this one correctly. I added yesterday. uhg.
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False read babycakes. Have been unable to get an accurate quote except on pinksheets.
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GBLL new S8 for 99 million. 90 million appear to be restricted if I'm reading the stock incentive plan correctly.
3.1 Grant of Awards. Subject to the provisions of this Plan, the
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Committee shall have full and complete authority, in its discretion, but subject
to the express provisions of this Plan, to (1) grant Awards pursuant to this
Plan, (2) determine the number of shares of the Common Stock subject to each
Award (the "Award Shares"), (3) determine the terms and conditions (which need
not be identical) of each Award, including the consideration (if
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any) to be paid by the Employee for such Common Stock, which may, in the
Committee's discretion, consist of the delivery of the Employee's promissory
note meeting the requirements of Paragraph 2.4.1, (4) establish and modify
performance criteria for Awards, and (5) make all of the determinations
necessary or advisable with respect to Awards under this Plan. Each Award under
this Plan shall consist of a grant of shares of the Common Stock subject to a
restriction period (after which the restrictions shall lapse), which shall be a
period commencing on the date the Award is granted and ending on such date as
the Committee shall determine (the "Restriction Period"). The Committee may
provide for the lapse of restrictions in installments, for acceleration of the
lapse of restrictions upon the satisfaction of such performance or other
criteria or upon the occurrence of such events as the Committee shall determine,
and for the early expiration of the Restriction Period upon an Employee's death,
Disability or Retirement as defined in Paragraph 2.7.3, or, following a Change
of Control, upon termination of an Employee's employment by the Company without
"Cause" or by the Employee for "Good Reason," as those terms are defined herein.
For purposes of this Plan:
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GBLL. oh poop. eom
FWIW GBLL. Gave me a partial fill @ .013 then ask back to .017.
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patdonahoo@cox.net. He has been very good at responding.
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K. Frank has a problem with the truth. Has been very consistant in this regard. careful.
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APOA rumor
H-Quotient Takes Stake in Medical Supply Company and Negotiating Full Acquisition
VIENNA, Va., Apr 21, 2004 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- H-Quotient, Inc., (OTC Bulletin
Board:HQNT, temporarily HQNTE) announced today a significant investment in a
medical supply manufacturing company with current annualized sales that will
substantially add to H-Quotient's 2004 revenue. Negotiations are ongoing to
increase the Company's holdings to complete the acquisition.
CEO and President Douglas A. Cohn said, "The medical products field is
compatible with our medical software business in both sales and administrative
activities and broadens the horizon for the Company's future."
This announcement may contain, in addition to historical information, certain
forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Such statements
reflect management's current views and are based on certain assumptions. Actual
results could differ materially from the assumptions currently anticipated.
For more information visit the H-Quotient web site at www.hquotient.com.
SOURCE: H-Quotient, Inc.
CONTACT: H-Quotient, Inc.
Ashley Bell, 703-752-0690
abell@hquotient.com
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Thanks for clearing that up Brig
LOL
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Getting off pinks requires a MM to file the forms. Can't remember the name of it but my understanding it is a procedural pain. It is not automatic.
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Buzz. you still holding GV? eom
jawmoke. SENS. holding also. nice choice of tune on this one.
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