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02/14/08 9:41 PM

#18982 RE: powderless #18979

Yep, hence the MM games. They are paying fines now and until they cover....

BUYINS.NET: TONE, IVIT, WNBD Have Been On BUYINS.NET Naked Short List For 13 Consecutive Trading Days
Feb 08, 2008 (M2 PRESSWIRE via COMTEX) --

BUYINS.NET, www.buyins.net, announced today that these select companies have been on the NASDAQ, AMEX and NYSE naked short threshold list for 13 consecutive trading days: TierOne Corp. (NASDAQ: TONE), Invicta Group Inc. (OTCBB: IVIT), Winning Brands Corp. (OTC: WNBD). For a complete list of companies on the naked short list please visit our web site. To find the SqueezeTrigger Price before a short squeeze starts in any stock, go to www.buyins.net.

Regulation SHO took effect January 3, 2005, and provides a new regulatory framework governing short selling of securities. It was designed with the objective of simplifying and modernizing short sale regulation and providing controls where they are most needed. At the conclusion of each settlement day, data is provided on securities in which: 1) there are at least 10,000 shares in aggregate failed deliveries for the security for five consecutive settlement days, and 2) these failures constitute at least 0.5% of the issuer's total shares outstanding. Regulation SHO mandates that, if a clearing agent has had a fail-to-deliver position for 13 consecutive settlement days, that clearing agent, and the broker/dealer it clears for, must purchase securities to close out its fail to deliver position.

TierOne Corp. (NASDAQ: TONE) operates as the holding company for TierOne Bank that provides consumer, commercial, and agricultural banking products and services in the United States. It offers various deposit products interest and noninterest-bearing checking, money market, savings, time deposits, and individual retirement accounts. The company's lending activities comprise multi-family residential, commercial real estate, land and land development, construction, agricultural, business, warehouse mortgage lines of credit, and consumer loans. It also sells securities and insurance products, such as investment and insurance products, equity securities, mutual funds, and annuities, as well as reinsures credit life and disability insurance policies. The company also provides agricultural customers with professional farm and ranch management, and real estate brokerage services. As of March 31, 2007, TierOne operated through a network of 69 banking offices located in Nebraska, Iowa, and Kansas, as well as 9 loan production offices located in Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Minnesota, Nevada, and North Carolina. The company was founded in 1907 and is headquartered in Lincoln, Nebraska. With 18.06 million shares outstanding and 1.43 million shares declared short as of January 2008, the failure to deliver in shares of TONE has not been resolved and a buy-in is imminent. According to quarterly data provided by the SEC, there were still 59,497 shares of TONE that were failing-to-deliver as of August 21, 2007.

Invicta Group Inc. (OTCBB: IVIT) operates as an Internet media company. It provides email broadcasting to travel enthusiasts seeking discounted travel products. The company offers perishable travel products, including car rentals, airline seats, hotels rooms, cruise cabins, and packaged tours through its Web site, travelhotlink.com. Invicta Group was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. With 1.98 million shares outstanding and 200 shares declared short as of January 2008, the failure to deliver in shares of IVIT has not been resolved and a buy-in is imminent.

Winning Brands Corp. (OTC: WNBD) is an environmental company whose mission is to replace hazardous chemicals in widespread use with safer alternatives, with initial focus on cleaning products. The company manufactures a variety of environmentally responsible alternative cleaning solutions, including its non-toxic SMART(TM) Wet Cleaning Solutions alternative to Perchlorethylene used in Dry Cleaning; Winning Colours Multi-Cleaner to replace solvents in the Paint sector; KIND(TM) Laundry Products for household laundry and more. The firm's production is in North America and exported to initial markets in Europe and Asia. With 187.50 million shares outstanding and 13.67 million shares declared short as of January 2008, the failure to deliver in shares of WNBD has not been resolved and a buy-in is imminent. According to quarterly data provided by the SEC, there were still 825,000 shares of WNBD that were failing-to-deliver as of September 28, 2007.

About BUYINS.NET

WWW.BUYINS.NET is a service designed to help bonafide shareholders of publicly traded US companies fight naked short selling. Naked short selling is the illegal act of short selling a stock when no affirmative determination has been made to locate shares of the stock to hypothecate in connection with the short sale. Buyins.net has built a proprietary database that uses Threshold list feeds from NASDAQ, AMEX and NYSE to generate detailed and useful information to combat the naked short selling problem. For the first time, actual trade by trade data is available to the public that shows the attempted size, actual size, price and average value of short sales in stocks that have been shorted and naked shorted. This information is valuable in determining the precise point at which short sellers go out-of-the-money and start losing on their short and naked short trades.

BUYINS.NET has built a massive database that collects, analyzes and publishes a proprietary SqueezeTrigger for each stock that has been shorted, www.buyins.net/squeezetrigger.pdf. The SqueezeTrigger database of nearly 1,800,000,000 short sale transactions goes back to January 1, 2005, and calculates the exact price at which the Total Short Interest is short in each stock. This data was never before available prior to January 1, 2005, because the Self Regulatory Organizations (primary exchanges) guarded it aggressively. After the SEC passed Regulation SHO, exchanges were forced to allow data processors like Buyins.net to access the data.

The SqueezeTrigger database collects individual short trade data on over 7,000 NYSE, AMEX and NASDAQ stocks and general short trade data on nearly 8,000 OTCBB and PINKSHEET stocks. Each month the database grows by approximately 50,000,000 short sale transactions and provides investors with the knowledge necessary to time when to buy and sell stocks with outstanding short positions. By tracking the size and price of each month's short transactions, BUYINS.NET provides institutions, traders, analysts, journalists and individual investors the exact price point where short sellers start losing money.

All material herein was prepared by BUYINS.NET, based upon information believed to be reliable. The information contained herein is not guaranteed by BUYINS.NET to be accurate, and should not be considered to be all-inclusive. The companies that are discussed in this opinion have not approved the statements made in this opinion. This opinion contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. This material is for informational purposes only and should not be construed as an offer or solicitation of an offer to buy or sell securities. BUYINS.NET is not a licensed broker, broker dealer, market maker, investment banker, investment advisor, analyst or underwriter. Please consult a broker before purchasing or selling any securities viewed on or mentioned herein. BUYINS.NET may receive compensation in cash or shares from independent third parties or from the companies mentioned.

BUYINS.NET affiliates, officers, directors and employees may also have bought or may buy the shares discussed in this opinion and may profit in the event those shares rise in value. Market commentary provided by Thomas Ronk.

BUYINS.NET will not advise as to when it decides to sell and does not and will not offer any opinion as to when others should sell; each investor must make that decision based on his or her judgment of the market.

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You should consider these factors in evaluating the forward-looking statements included herein, and not place undue reliance on such statements. The forward-looking statements in this release are made as of the date hereof and BUYINS.NET undertakes no obligation to update such statements.

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crudeoil24

02/14/08 10:17 PM

#18995 RE: powderless #18979

Nice picture of your neighbors garbage totes...LOL.