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CDE top of channel now
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Headed to the header! Thanks originunknown!
David's CUX & NUC charts
Goodluck everyone in your holdings and trades today!
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Hey TA4U,
I'm just gonna post the charts you do TA on, cause I believe some of them could be great long term holds as well, and the charts will update themselves. I went browsing through your website the other day, glad to have you aboard. Nice!
http://www.chart-service.com/ - gonna head it into the header!
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CZN.TO chart
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NTC.V RTQ - 1.65
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Another nice day for the SLW.WT! Sweet pick Croesus!
Nice Ken! You've become an honorary Canadian stock picker!
Nice board originunknown! Thanks!
Thanks JP, , the credit goes to you as well, after a year of studying the charts you post! Like you say buy high and sell higher! Hopefully, lol!
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RIX.V sweet
Thanks tackler and johnlw for the updates!
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CDE - top of channel now RTQ 4.80
I wonder if it'll break the upper channel of not!?!
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URNZ - RTQ 2.45
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URNZ - 2.45 RTQ
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BRA.TO/BIOM - 2.10 CDN / 1.84 USD (News out today)
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Biomira Inc. announces amendment to licensing agreement for BLP25 Liposome Vaccine
Merck to Commence Phase 3 Clinical Trial of L-BLP25 in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer in Mid 2006
Merck to Assume Development Costs and Pay Royalties to Biomira
EDMONTON, Jan 26, 2006 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ --
Biomira Inc. (Nasdaq: BIOM) (TSX: BRA) today announced the signing of a letter of intent to amend the licensing agreement between Biomira B.V. and Merck KGaA of Darmstadt, Germany for BLP25 Liposome Vaccine (L-BLP25), currently in development for the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
Under the letter of intent, approved by the Boards of both Companies, Merck KGaA will take over administrative and financial responsibility for the development and commercialization of L-BLP25, including the planned phase 3 trial in NSCLC, which remains on schedule with the enrolment of the first patient expected in mid 2006. Merck also plans to investigate the use of L-BLP25 to treat other types of cancer. All future development, regulatory, commercialization and marketing costs for L-BLP25 (including the planned phase 3 trial, but excluding the Canadian territory) will be borne exclusively by Merck KGaA effective March 1, 2006.
In return, Biomira's co-promotion interest in U.S. sales will be converted to a specified royalty rate, which will be higher than what Merck has agreed to pay on its sales of L-BLP25 in all markets outside of North America or the Rest of World (ROW). The royalty and other arrangements with respect to the ROW will remain generally unchanged (Merck KGaA to assume a specified third party royalty obligation on behalf of Biomira). Similarly, the milestone payments to be made by Merck KGaA pursuant to the collaboration will remain essentially the same. The agreed upon royalty rate for the U.S. territory reflects the stage and promise of L-BLP25.
Biomira will retain responsibility for manufacturing L-BLP25, both for clinical trials and following any marketing approval. The existing arrangements for Canada remain in place with Biomira responsible for the Canadian territory.
Dr. Alex McPherson, President and CEO of Biomira Inc., commented, "This is an excellent agreement and will ensure the fastest possible initiation of the phase 3 program in NSCLC as well as the possibility of exploring L-BLP25's potential in other forms of cancer. We are delighted by the strong and continued commitment that Merck has shown to this innovative and promising product. Merck's decision to take over the full cost of the trials will enable Biomira to focus our efforts and resources on our follow-on cancer vaccine, BGLP40, and on building our pipeline by acquiring new products."
"Merck is pleased that it has the opportunity to develop what appears to be a very promising treatment for NSCLC, which is one of the most prevalent and deadly of all cancers," said Elmar Schnee, Merck Deputy Executive Board Member with responsibility for Pharmaceuticals. "We believe this new agreement is not only beneficial for both companies but also for patients."
About L-BLP25
L-BLP25 is a synthetic MUC1 peptide vaccine and is a biological response modifier with a chemically synthesized peptide of a cancer-associated protein antigen widely expressed on common cancers. It is designed to induce an immune response to both the synthetic antigen and the natural corresponding antigen as expressed on the cancer. In October 2005 Biomira announced that median survival for patients with Stage IIIB locoregional NSCLC who received L-BLP25 in a phase 2b study had been determined. These results demonstrated an average survival of 30.6 months in the vaccinated group compared with 13.3 months for the unvaccinated group. A more comprehensive analysis of these data is expected in the first quarter of this year. In November 2005 Biomira announced the interim results of a phase 2 NSCLC single-arm, multi-centre, open label study of L-BLP25. The results showed that the new formulation of the vaccine to be used in the phase 3 clinical trial program is not different from the previous formulation from a safety perspective.
The reformulated vaccine incorporated manufacturing changes intended to secure the future commercial supply of the vaccine. Thus far, ongoing testing has demonstrated that the steps taken to address the manufacturing issue discovered in late 2005 have been successful. Pending completion of this testing, it is expected that manufacturing for the phase 3 trial will resume in the first quarter of this year.
Analyst Conference Call Details:
Today at 10:00 a.m. EST, Biomira Inc. will Web cast an analyst conference call hosted by Alex McPherson, M.D., Ph.D., President and CEO of Biomira. Analysts may participate in the conference call by dialing 1-210-234-0075 (Pass code: BIOM) approximately 10 minutes before the start of the call.
Investors and the general public are invited to listen to the live conference call on the Web, by accessing the following site: https://e-meetings.mci.com and entering the conference number: PA1499468 and the participant pass code: BIOM. The archive of the analyst conference call will be available for approximately 30 days following the live call.
About Lung Cancer
In 2005, approximately 172,000 new cases of lung cancer were diagnosed in the U.S. Approximately 163,000 people are estimated to have died of this disease in the U.S. alone in 2005. NSCLC accounts for approximately 75 to 80 per cent of all primary lung cancers. At the time of diagnosis, only 25 per cent of patients are potentially curable by surgery.
About Biomira Inc.
Biomira is a biotechnology company specializing in the development of innovative therapeutic approaches to cancer management. Biomira's commitment to the treatment of cancer currently focuses on the development of synthetic vaccines and novel strategies for cancer immunotherapy.
This release may contain forward-looking statements. Various factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected in forward-looking statements, including those predicting the timing, duration and results of clinical trials, particularly the phase 3 clinical trial of L-BLP25 and the possible additional phase 2 trials for its use in other indications, trial reviews and analyses and regulatory reviews, the safety and efficacy of the product, the ability to secure and manufacture vaccine supplies and the resolution of a recent manufacturing problem by an outside vendor of the vaccine, and the ability of Biomira to acquire new pipeline product candidates. Although the Company believes that the forward-looking statements contained herein are reasonable, it can give no assurance that the Company's expectations are correct or that the Company will have sufficient resources to fund clinical trials and in-license new product candidates. All forward-looking statements are expressly qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement.
SOURCE Biomira Inc.
Biomira Company Contacts: Media Relations, Bill Wickson, Manager, Public Relations,
(780) 490-2818; Investor Relations, Jane Tulloch, Director, Investor Relations, (780)
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jbirt@fd-us.com; U.S. Investor Contact: John Capodanno, Financial Dynamics, (212)
850-5705, jcapodanno@fd-us.com; To request a free copy of this organization's
annual report, please go to http://www.newswire.ca and click on Tools for Investors.
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Teflon & the dangers off Non-stick
I've been following this story for quite sometime and I'm outraged at the lack of proper media attention. Please throw away your teflon or any other teflon related products! You will do your body and blood a huge favor. It was a massive cover-up by Dupont, when they knew the dangers pose to society for quite sometime now! They didn't even get a slap on the wrist!
EPA Program Could Eliminate Teflon Chemical
By Amanda Gardner
HealthDay Reporter
Wed Jan 25, 11:48 PM ET
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 25 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced on Wednesday a voluntary program whereby makers of Teflon and other non-stick, stain-resistant products would cut back emissions of a suspected carcinogen, a byproduct of the manufacturing process.
The companies would agree to reduce emissions of perfluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA, and slash its use in products by 95 percent by 2010, and then completely eliminate it by 2015.
The non-profit Environmental Working Group (EWG) said the move was significant, despite its voluntary nature and apparent lack of enforceability.
"We want to commend the EPA for their leadership on this and make it very clear that these chemicals pose numerous health risks," said EWG President Ken Cook at a news conference Wednesday. "They are extraordinarily persistent and virtually all Americans have them in their blood already."
EWG did not reserve its praise for the EPA only. Cook also singled out chemicals giant DuPont "as a company at its best."
Last month, DuPont agreed to pay record EPA fines for previous PFOA-related violations, including a $10.25 million penalty and another $6.25 million to support two EPA environmental projects. Those projects include a $5 million, three-year look at the "degradation potential" of nine of DuPont's fluorotelomer-based products to break down and form PFOA.
According to the Associated Press, Dupont has already signed onto the new, voluntary program.
PFOA is used in the manufacture of fluoropolymers and fluorotelomers which, in turn, are used to make a wide-range of non-stick and stain-resistant products, such as Teflon.
"These have been called wonder chemicals," said Jane Houlihan, EWG's vice president for research. "They have now evolved into staple stain and grease-proof coatings for a broad array of everyday consumer products, including microwave popcorn bags, carpets and blue jeans."
"With this announcement, these chemicals join a short list of chemicals that have been banned or are the subject of a public phase-out," Houlihan continued.
In animal studies, PFOA has caused malignant tumors and immune suppression, said EWG senior scientist Tim Kropp. Some 95 percent of Americans tested have shown evidence of the chemical in their blood, the watchdog group said.
Under the terms of the EPA's "global stewardship program," DuPont and six other major chemical companies will commit to reduce by 95 percent emissions and product content levels of PFOA and PFOA precursors no later than 2010. The companies will work toward eliminating these sources of PFOA exposure by 2015.
Companies are being asked to provide their commitment to the EPA no later than March 1, 2006.
Despite the program's voluntary status, EWG officials felt optimistic about its chances for success.
"It is unfortunate that stuff cannot be enforced and that the EPA does not have the tools to require this type of action, but with this specific action we have a confluence of factors that make us relatively confident that this will happen," Kropp said.
Primary among them is that consumers no longer want these chemicals in their products, which makes the secondary companies that put the chemicals in products reluctant to use them, he said.
"There are a lot of market forces driving these companies to come up with a better alternative and something that's greener and cleaner," Kropp said.
More information
For more on PFOAs, visit the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
TRE.TO - 5.72 (new 52 week high)
One of the ones I let go last month! Oh well URIX doing well for me so far, hopefully it can continue!
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Sweet play Handles buying at the low of the day (CAX.WT)! Wish you the best of luck!
Great call on CAX.TO David - wish I had some!
Thanks Makin Cash, I'm trying my best! I haven't been posting my own charts lately, cause I'm just sitting on my holdings. The ones I exited out last month ended up being decent winners this month! Trying to re-build my portfolio! Wish me luck!
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Finally broke
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TGB - RTQ 1.62 - another in common Gok
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Appreciate the heads up Croesus!
No problem JP,
Already started into my third week, I'm taking a couple of night courses which happen 1 once a week but are 3 hours each. Wish you the best of luck this semester!
EXNT RTQ - 1.39
Another we have in common doing well!
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Thanks for the info cats! All oil sands play on a tear!
Nice charts TA4U! Thanks for your efforts!
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Handles ticker symbol PBA doesn't come up.
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Why CWPC is heading higher?
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=9384098
60 minutes Link
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/01/20/60minutes/main1225184.shtml
The Oil Sands Of Alberta
(CBS) There’s an oil boom going on right now. Not in Saudi Arabia or Kuwait or any of those places, but 600 miles north of Montana.
In Alberta, Canada, in a town called Fort McMurray where, this time of year, the temperature sometimes zooms up to zero.
The oilmen up there aren’t digging holes in the sand and hoping for a spout. They’re digging up dirt — dirt that is saturated with oil. They’re called oil sands, and if you’ve never heard of them then you’re in for a big surprise because the reserves are so vast in the province of Alberta that they will help solve America’s energy needs for the next century.
Within a few years, the oil sands are likely to become more important to the United States than all the oil that comes to us from Saudi Arabia.
Correspondent Bob Simon reports.
Twenty-four hours a day, 365 days a year, vehicles that look like prehistoric beasts move across an arctic wasteland, extracting the oil sands. There is so much to scoop, so much money to be made.
There are 175 billion barrels of proven oil reserves here. That’s second to Saudi Arabia’s 260 billion but it’s only what companies can get with today’s technology. The estimate of how many more barrels of oil are buried deeper underground is staggering.
"We know there’s much, much more there. The total estimates could be two trillion or even higher," says Clive Mather, Shell's Canada chief. "This is a very, very big resource."
Very big? That’s eight times the amount of reserves in Saudi Arabia. The oil sands are buried under forests in Alberta that are the size of Florida. The oil here doesn’t come gushing out of the sand the way it does in the Middle East. The oil is in the sand. It has to be dug up and processed.
Rick George, the Colorado-born CEO of Suncor Energy, took 60 Minutes into his strip mine for a tour. He says the mine will be in operation for about 25 years.
The oil sands look like a very rich, pliable kind of topsoil. Why doesn’t oil come out when squeezed?
"Well, because it’s not warm enough. If you add this to hot water you’ll start the separation process and you’ll see the oil come to the top of the water and you’ll see sand drop to the bottom," George says.
It may look like topsoil but all it grows is money.
It didn’t always. The oil sands have been in the ground for millions of years, but for decades, prospectors lost millions of dollars trying to squeeze the oil out of the sand. It simply cost too much.
T. Boone Pickens, a legendary Texas oil tycoon, was working Alberta’s traditional oil rigs back in the '60s and remembers how he and his colleagues thought mining for oil sands was a joke.
"Here we are sitting there having a drink after work and somebody said this isn’t going to, it isn’t possible. It’ll all have to be subsidized to a level, said, before they’d make money you’d have to have $5 oil," Pickens says laughing. "We never thought it would happen."
But then $40 a barrel happened and the oil sands not only made sense, they made billions for the people digging them. But it wasn’t just the price of oil that changed the landscape, it was the toys. That’s what they call the giant trucks and shovels that roam the mines.
Everything about the oil industry has always been big. It’s characterized by bigness, from the pumps to the personalities. But up here in Alberta, it’s frankly ridiculous. The mine operates the world's biggest truck. It’s three stories high and costs $5 million. It carries a load of 400 tons of oil sands, which means, at today’s oil prices, each load is worth $10,000 dollars.
What it’s like to drive one of these monsters? At the foot of a tire, we asked the driver, Jim Locke.
"You have 14 steps going up, and at my house you have 14 steps to the bedroom. So it’s like going upstairs in my house, sitting on my bed and driving the house downtown," says Locke.
But getting downtown is just the beginning. The oil sands then go into a plant. They’re heated in a cell, which separates the oil from the sand. The result looks like something out of Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. This oil froth is then sent to an upgrader and eventually to a refinery.
Asked if the processed oil is as good as that pumped in Saudi Arabia, Mather says, "Absolutely as good as. In fact, it even trades as a, at a premium because it’s high quality crude oil."
The capital of the oil sands frenzy is a frontier town called Fort McMurray, which isn’t in the middle of nowhere. It’s north of nowhere and colder than the Klondike, but a boomtown just the same. The local hockey team is called the "Oil Barons." They’re on a winning streak.
Is this comparable to a gold rush?
"I think it’s bigger than a gold rush. We’re expecting $100 billion over the next 10 years to be invested in this area — $100 billion in a population that, currently, is 70,000 people," says Brian Jean, who represents the region in Canada’s parliament.
Pickens is one of those investors. He runs a hedge fund in Dallas and is now a true believer.
"We’re managing $5 billion here. And, about 10 percent of it is in the oil sands. So, it’s the largest single investment we have," Pickens says.
And if oil sands are the answer for investors, does Pickens think the oil sands are the answer for the United States?
"Oh, I think so," he says.
Most of those lumbering trucks are on their way to the gas tanks of America. A million barrels a day are now coming out of the oil sands and oil production is expected to triple within a decade. It won’t replace Middle Eastern oil but at that point it will be the single largest source of foreign oil for the United States, even bigger than Saudi Arabia, which sends a million and a half barrels a day to America.
Greg Stringham, who works for the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, says surprisingly, that Washington has only been paying attention for the "last couple of years."
Stringham often lobbies for the oil sands in Washington. He says that in Alberta you don’t have to look for the oil sands — the earth moves.
"When it comes to exploration in the oil sands, you can’t drill a dry hole. It’s there," he says. "We know where it is. They’ve outlined it. You don’t have any risk. But other conventional sectors around the world, there’s a huge exploration risk."
The exploration risks are the least of it. Much of the world’s crude is in the Middle East where the instability is deeper than the oil. When Alberta’s blue-eyed sheiks took to Wall Street last summer in their Stetsons to drum up support for the oil sands, their message seemed to be, "If you can’t trust Alberta, who can you trust?"
"Alberta is a very good place to do business. It’s a very stable environment," says Mather.
The bonus for Canadians, aside from the treasure, is the notion that Americans might have to start treating them with a little less condescension.
"With their oil, I think we’re going to need them a lot more than they need us," says Pickens.
"We may appear in Canada to be a mouse compared to the elephant down south in terms of diplomacy or politics. But in terms of resources, we are mighty equals," says Mather.
There have been grumblings out of Ottawa that Canada should consider using the oil sands as leverage in its serious trade disputes with the United States.
Does Brian Jean think America is taking Canada for granted on the oil sands?
"Absolutely. And I think most people, most Canadians believe that," he says.
And the Canadians have alternatives. The Chinese, for example, are just dying to get a piece of the sandbox.
"I’ve been contacted personally by Chinese delegates that want to get into the plant sites here and want to see and want to invest," says Jean.
Asked what he thinks about the Chinese interest in the oil sands up in Alberta, Pickens says, "At first I thought they were tire kickers. But I think they’re serious buyers."
And the millions of Chinese who have moved from their bicycles to traffic jams are driving up the demand for oil. It’s virtually insatiable and the Canadians want to step up production quickly. What’s holding them back is labor — the shortage of it.
Brian Jean says another 100,000 people are needed in Fort McMurray.
That’s why one oil company has built a runway to fly workers daily from civilization to Fort McMurray. But why would anyone want to come work in a place where temperatures plummet to 40 below and the sun sets shortly after it rises in the long winter? Well, perhaps because the oil companies pay some of the highest salaries in North America.
Take Josh Lichti, who says he could be making $120,000 by the time he is 22.
"It’s amazing," he says.
But even if workers come flocking, the oil companies still have other problems. Creating energy from oil sands requires so much energy that the oil companies wind up spiking greenhouse gas emissions.
"And they do it in volumes that exceed any other production of oil crude anywhere on the planet," says Elizabeth May, the director of the Sierra Club of Canada.
She takes issue not only with what the oil sands are doing to the atmosphere, but to the land. The oil companies, environmentalists say, are digging up an entire province. Take a helicopter ride over the mines and you’ll think you’re flying over the moon after a moonquake.
"One of the reasons they can be mined the way they’ve been mined is the out of sight, out of mind aspect of it. And your film crew is one of the few that’s gone in there to look at how devastating this is," May says.
Even money men like Pickens have noticed. "Can’t argue with it. I mean, there’s no question that, that they’ve got a mess up there. But I do think they’ll take care of it over time," he says.
The oil companies say they will reduce greenhouse gasses and they point out they are required by Canadian law to refill old mines and plant new trees, and that is happening — slowly. One company, Syncrude, has even introduced bison to land that once was a barren pit.
Rick George of Suncor Energy insists in the future people won’t recognize the mines. "So what you see today is a mine. What you’ll see 10 years from now is a replanted forest," he says.
"You’re telling me that if I come here, it’s gonna be pretty?" Simon asks.
"Absolutely," George says. "These sites will all be going back. Now we’ll be minin’ at a different location at that point.
"This will look forested when we get done with it in 20 years time."
But there is a larger question that not only environmentalists are asking: will the availability of an enormous supply of secure oil right next door mean America will have little incentive to reduce its dependence on oil?
"What Canada’s doing," says May, "is continuing to feed the U.S. addiction to fossil fuels, instead of being the kinda friend who says, 'Let’s make a helpful intervention here.' We're acting as the supplier of a drug fix to the U.S., while all the time saying, 'Just say no.' But we keep selling it."
But unless the Chinese go back to bicycles and Americans trash their SUVs, there will be buyers — for oil anywhere, no matter how it’s found or mined. Right now, Canada has become the land of opportunity for oilmen. They will tell you there is little else on the horizon.
"Bob, if you take a tablet and put on it where is supply gonna come from that we don’t know about today. And you put down all the optimistic points, that tablet will basically be blank," says Pickens.
As blank as the landscape around Fort McMurray, where the world of oil exploration ends.
Does Pickens think the days of cheap oil are gone?
"They’re gone," he says. "From what we knew as cheap oil, when I pumped gasoline in Ray Smith’s Sinclair station on Hinkley Street in Holdenvale, Oklahoma, 11 cents a gallon, that’s gone."
Will we ever again see $1.50 a gallon? "We won’t ever see $1.50 a gallon. No, that’s gone," says Pickens.
Right around the corner from Fort McMurray you can still see oil being produced the traditional way. It’s picturesque now. The wells are still pumping but they belong to the past, like the iron horse that once rode across these prairies.
The future? Up here in Alberta they’re convinced it’s in the dirt.
60 minutes Alberta Oil Sands - Link
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/01/20/60minutes/main1225184.shtml
Was told 60 minutes had a good show about the oil sands in Canada.
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