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Businessnewsnow.us: Morning Stock News For December 21, 2007
Friday, December 21, 2007; Posted: 09:32 AM
New York, NY, Dec 21, 2007 (M2 PRESSWIRE via COMTEX) — VBDG | charts | news | PowerRating — BusinessNewsNow’s Stock News Highlights: Novelos Therapeutics, Inc. (OTCBB: NVLT); Odyne Corporation (OTCBB: ODYC); Ceragenix Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (OTCBB: CGXP); Vertical Branding, Inc. (OTCBB: VBDG); Pediatric Prosthetics Inc. (OTCBB: PDPR); Redpoint Bio Corporation (OTCBB: RPBC) BusinessNewsNow.US is an affiliate of Stock Profiler.US, LLC. To receive your FREE subscription to our newsletter, please visit http://www.stockprofiler.us. StockProfiler.US, LLC - StockProfiler announces the Launching of its new website (http://www.stockprofiler.us), which offers investors tools and information useful in due diligence for investment decisions. StockProfiler’s goal for the new website format is to provide investors and stockbrokers with timely financial news, data and links to valuable investment tools (i.e., stock quotes, stock charts, stock research, stock message boards, etc.) that will enable them to make more informed investment decisions. Sign up Today for Your Free Stock and Updated News Subscription at http://www.stockprofiler.us Companies who want to broadcast their progress are welcome to contact Stockprofiler.US, LLC at 603-621-9420. ——————————————- Novelos Therapeutics, Inc. (OTCBB: NVLT) Novelos Therapeutics, Inc. closed at $0.60 Thursday, trading 196,679 shares. Company News- December 20, 2007: Novelos Therapeutics CEO Buys 150,000 Shares of NVLT Novelos Therapeutics, Inc. (OTCBB: NVLT), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of therapeutics to treat cancer and hepatitis, announced yesterday that Harry Palmin, President and CEO of Novelos, purchased 150,000 shares of the Company’s common stock on 19, 2007, in open market transactions. In total, Mr. Palmin purchased 300,000 shares of common stock …
Source: Toronto Star ()
Mention the Christmas story and most people think immediately of Bethlehem, the stable, the shepherds and the Three Wise Men …
The second story that pops into their heads, says Richard Fiennes-Clinton, is Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. "Without question," says Fiennes-Clinton, whose company, Muddy York Walking Tours, organizes walks through historic Toronto.
Dickens’ visit to the city, shortly before he wrote the story of Ebenezer Scrooge and his redemption, plays a big part in some of them.
"Scrooge and Tiny Tim and the three Christmas ghosts are imprinted on people’s minds."
Dickens was only 30 but already the Victorian equivalent of a star, with the bestselling Pickwick Papers, Nicholas Nickleby and Oliver Twist under his belt. He was a big enough name that during his couple of days here – May 4-6, 1842 – he kept his itinerary quiet and made no public appearances, though his readings were guaranteed crowd-pullers.
He did, says Fiennes-Clinton, accept at least one dinner invitation "to the home of the chief justice, John Beverley Robinson, whose mansion would have stood more or less where the CHUM/City building at Queen and John Sts. is today.
"Robinson had very unwavering conservative political views. … During the course of dinner, he and his friends apparently went on at great lengths about the advantages of autocracy and the pitfalls of the Reform movement. After all, this was taking place less than five years after William Lyon Mackenzie’s Rebellion of 1837.
"It was presumably this dinner that inspired Dickens to write to a friend back in England that `the wild and rabid Toryism of Toronto is, I speak seriously, appalling.’"
He wasn’t entirely down on the city, commenting that "the town itself is full of life and motion, bustle, business improvement. The streets are well-paved and lighted with gas; the houses are large and good; the …
Source: Express TravelWorld ()
In a bid to promote other regions of the UK, VisitBritain
is looking at attracting traffic to Manchester. Paul Simpson, deputy CEO and
finance director for Marketing Manchester, the tourist board for Greater Manchester,
says, "The board is looking at raising awareness in India about Manchester
and is working closely with VisitBritain, the Manchester Airport, Northwest
Development Agency and England’s North Country. The agenda is to position the
region as a gateway to north England. "We are centrally located with London
and Scotland being just two hours away, Northern Wales about 40 minutes."
He adds, "Over the next 18 months we will engage with the travel trade
and host FAM trips. Ours is a medium-long term programme and we hope to see
the shift in the visit pattern to the region in the next five years or so."
The board intends to focus on heritage tourism because of
the history in the region. Sporting tourism too is one of the biggest traffic
pullers for region because of football and cricket. Simpson also pointed
that they are interested in MICE and shopping as well.
Source: Modesto Bee ()
By ERIC ADLER
KANSAS CITY STAR
last updated: December 18, 2007 03:21:45 AM
“Come on, you cows, let’s hit the next roof!”
OK, so this isn’t close to what Santa Claus really shouted to his eight tiny reindeer. But, putting all the magic and mystery of Christmas aside, he certainly could have.
As anyone who knows anything about reindeer will tell you — and that someone would be Donna Naughton, a researcher at the Canadian Museum of Nature who is writing a book on all animals Canadian …
“Santa’s sleigh was pulled by cows,” she said, “meaning female reindeer or caribous.”
And if Dasher, Dancer, Vixen and all the rest had been real reindeer — rather than the magical Christmas reindeer — they probably would have been pregnant.
Naughton knows this because:
All male caribou and reindeer (for the record, reindeer are domesticated caribou) drop their antlers by early to mid-November. So Santa’s antlered sleigh-pullers couldn’t be boys.
Female caribou and reindeer — the only female deer that possess antlers — typically are pregnant by mid-November. They give birth to a single calf in late May or June.
So odds are that Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donder and Blitzen were carrying little Christmas packages of their own.
Eight tiny reindeer? Similarly, if Clement C. Moore’s 1822 poem, “A Visit From St. Nicholas” — you know, “The Night Before Christmas” — is correct and Santa’s reindeer are “tiny,” they probably wouldn’t have been brown, as in most illustrations. They would have been white.
That’s because, in general, the most well-known species of caribou and reindeer — such as Canada’s woodland caribou and barren-ground caribou or the mountain reindeer of Northern Europe — are large and brownish.
But the tiniest reindeer on Earth are the short, stubby-legged reindeer of Norway and the graceful Peary caribou of the Canadian arctic. Both have white coats …
Source: AllAfrica.com ()
In a matter of weeks, residents of Lagos will no longer be able to sleep at night. That's because right now, some of the world's biggest entertainers are packing their luggage, getting ready to come to Lagos , a city fast becoming the headquarters of entertainment in Africa .
And it all gets wilder as the Starville concert; initially billed to feature the Ying Yang Twins has now taken a bigger dimension. Glitterati Beats can now reveal that the concert, billed to hold at the ThisDay Centre for Arts and education will now feature best-seller Lil' Wayne, daring and sexy crowd puller Amerie and Jamaican 'sisters Brick&Lace.
All four international stars are to join debuting Nigerian cat Shank in the Lagos concert scheduled for December 15.
According to the CEO of Starville, Iloya Oyarekua, the idea behind the show is to introduce Starville Entertainment to the Nigerian audience as well as provide a befitting platform for its first major signee Shank to enter the scene.
Shank was discovered by Starville in London . The 23 year-old had relocated to the UK after studying Creative arts at the University of Lagos. Now 24, Shank is expected to immediately join the league of Nigerian hit-makers, and establish a solid music career for himself. And he has all it takes to do so. With tutoring from the late Fela Kuti, and his own father (who used to tour with Fela), Shank's music background is authentic. And, luckily, he has the machinery of Starville to harness his talents. His full debut album 'the birth' is scheduled for release in the first quarter of next year. The album will feature appearances by Senegalese superstar Akon , Nigeria 's pop icon D'banj and the Ying Yang twins.
The concert, already nicknamed 5-stars concert, is being managed by KISS events. The company run by Howie T and Abdul, in a statement released last week, assured that 'we've done everything possible to guarantee guests' …
Source: The Southland Times ()
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Christmas parties got off to a racing start at Ascot Park at the weekend.
A record crowd of about 6000, most of them attending silly-season work functions, spent Saturday trackside at the Christmas at the Races event.
It was a chance to dress to the nines or dress in costume, bet on the horses and enjoy the sun.
Even for those who don't like horses there was plenty to do, with a band, dance performances and children's entertainment.
Experienced punters Sophie Symons, 8, and Ainsley Laurie, 10, were watching the races with interest.
"We came to the races to watch the horses and try and win some money," Ainsley said.
Both won a little money backing horses and said it would go into their savings.
Bill Witham was a little more dressed up than most _ he attended race day in a Spongebob Squarepants costume.
The outfit won him the title of best dressed at the Southland District Council's social club party, an honour he shared with his wife Karen. Mr Witham said it had been an excellent day. The social club had formed a syndicate to bet on the races. If they won big, the money would probably go towards another Christmas party, his wife said.
Lou Horo turned a few heads in her nun's habit. The owner of JazzTime was performing at the races with some of her dance students.
A group of about 15 adult students performed a dance based on the movie Sister Act, while her younger students performed a hip-hop dance.
The crowd seemed to enjoy the dancing and she hoped to return next year.
Gallop South Southland manager Doug Stuart said the crowd exceeded last year's number, as well as expectations.
Southland Racing Club president Barry Gray said he believed 6000 people had been on
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Source: Mirror.co.uk ()
Viewers who’ve asked themselves: “What is BBC4 for exactly?” got their answer in October when Fanny Hill was first screened.
Around 1.1 million people tuned in to see theMemoirs Of A Woman Of Pleasure, making it the channel’s biggest ratings-puller ever.
(Although a shade less than Billie Piper’sSecret Diary Of A Call Girl on ITV2).
Now the 18th century prostitute is getting another turn around the block on BBC2 in the Friday night period-bonking slot just vacated by The Tudors, who are taking a much-needed breather to adjust their clothing.
Andrew Davies’ rose-tinted two-part adaptation of John Cleland’s erotic novel lays on the charm with the help of a frisky cast that includes Alison Steadman and Hugo Speer.
But all eyes are on fresh-faced newcomer Rebecca Night whose scrubbed innocence defies you to find anything obscene or offensive in her bawdy adventures.
Orphaned in Lancashire, she arrives in London with the scent of country hedgerows still clinging to her and is swiftly put on the books by an enterprising madam.
After her initial horror, there’s no turning back. We also see the older, more worldly Fanny, penning her memoirs with a saucy glint in her eye and challenging the viewer with her disarmingly direct questions: “So what do you think of that?” “Well, what was your first time like?”
Her prettiness acts a shield, protecting Fanny – and the viewer – from any hint of what must have been a squalid reality.
Source: AllAfrica.com ()
In a matter of weeks, residents of Lagos will no longer be able to sleep at night. That's because right now, some of the world's biggest entertainers are packing their luggage, getting ready to come to Lagos , a city fast becoming the headquarters of entertainment in Africa .
And it all gets wilder as the Starville concert; initially billed to feature the Ying Yang Twins has now taken a bigger dimension. Glitterati Beats can now reveal that the concert, billed to hold at the ThisDay Centre for Arts and education will now feature best-seller Lil' Wayne, daring and sexy crowd puller Amerie and Jamaican 'sisters Brick&Lace.
All four international stars are to join debuting Nigerian cat Shank in the Lagos concert scheduled for December 15.
According to the CEO of Starville, Iloya Oyarekua, the idea behind the show is to introduce Starville Entertainment to the Nigerian audience as well as provide a befitting platform for its first major signee Shank to enter the scene.
Shank was discovered by Starville in London . The 23 year-old had relocated to the UK after studying Creative arts at the University of Lagos. Now 24, Shank is expected to immediately join the league of Nigerian hit-makers, and establish a solid music career for himself. And he has all it takes to do so. With tutoring from the late Fela Kuti, and his own father (who used to tour with Fela), Shank's music background is authentic. And, luckily, he has the machinery of Starville to harness his talents. His full debut album 'the birth' is scheduled for release in the first quarter of next year. The album will feature appearances by Senegalese superstar Akon , Nigeria 's pop icon D'banj and the Ying Yang twins.
The concert, already nicknamed 5-stars concert, is being managed by KISS events. The company run by Howie T and Abdul, in a statement released last week, assured that 'we've done everything possible to guarantee guests' …
Source: CNN-IBN ()
Mumbai: December is that time of the year when college festivals are the flavour of the season. But it’s not just about competition, culture and razzmatazz, for now, towering budgets also factor in the size of the events planned.
And given that premise, IIT Bombay’s annual inter-college fest Mood Indigo, that will run from December 26 to 29, could very well beat the rest.
Says Apeksha Khandelwal, who has been helping organise Mood Indigo, “There are lot’s of fresh activities that we have planned this year, including a hot-air balloon that students can take a free ride on.
With only the cash sponsorships touching a whopping one crore rupees this year, the festival promises to be hugely different. In addition to that, there will also be sponsorships in kind, which will includie laptops, bikes and gift vouchers, that will collectively come to the tune of another half crore.
Mood Indigo’s Student Marketing In-charge, Abhishek Mittal says, “The sponsorships this year have touched 1 crore rupees. Besides, we are the only college fest that pays almost 12.5 per cent of our earnings as tax.â€
Another organizer, Nipun Katiyal adds, “Our cash prizes are also big. Besides, there is also the pro-nites performance,†referring to the crowd-puller which will feature a performance by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy.
Probably the one big reason why this festival draws everyone from telecom and media companies to software to computer hardware companies, and for the first time, even a Venture Capitalist.
Mood Indigo’s Media Marketing Co-ordinator, Varun Jhawar says, “See, it makes sense for companies, too. Look at the quality of people we draw.”
Mood Indigo is already sending excitement levels sky-rocket. Some of the things the students are looking forward are the food, the fun and excitement, the American parliamentary style debate and, of course, the pro-nites.
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