Monday, July 13, 2009
Friday, July 10, 2009
Made To Stick Ideas - Read This
Here's An Idea That Sticks...
A friend of a friend of ours is a frequent business traveler. Let's call him Dave. Dave was recently in Atlantic City for an important meeting with clients. Afterward, he had some time to kill before his flight, so he went to a local bar for a drink. He'd just finished one drink when an attractive woman approached and asked if she could buy him another. He was surprised but flattered. Sure, he said. The woman walked to the bar and brought back two more drinks — one for her and one for him. He thanked her and took a sip.
And that was the last thing he remembered.
Rather, that was the last thing he remembered until he woke up, disoriented, lying in a hotel bathtub, his body submerged in ice. He looked around frantically, trying to figure out where he was and how he got there. Then he spotted the note: don't move. call 911.
A cell phone rested on a small table beside the bathtub. He picked it up and called 911, his fingers numb and clumsy from the ice. The operator seemed oddly familiar with his situation. She said, "Sir, I want you to reach behind you, slowly and carefully. Is there a tube protruding from your lower back?"
Anxious, he felt around behind him. Sure enough, there was a tube. The operator said, "Sir, don't panic, but one of your kidneys has been harvested. There's a ring of organ thieves operating in this city, and they got to you. Paramedics are on their way. Don't move until they arrive."
You've just read one of the most successful urban legends of the past fifteen years. The first clue is the classic urban-legend opening: "A friend of a friend . . ." Have you ever noticed that our friends' friends have much more interesting lives than our friends themselves?
You've probably heard the Kidney Heist tale before. There are hundreds of versions in circulation, and all of them share a core of three elements: (1) the drugged drink, (2) the ice-filled bathtub, and (3) the kidney-theft punch line. One version features a married man who receives the drugged drink from a prostitute he has invited to his room in Las Vegas. It's a morality play with kidneys.
Imagine that you closed the book right now, took an hourlong break, then called a friend and told the story, without rereading it. Chances are you could tell it almost perfectly. You might forget that the traveler was in Atlantic City for "an important meeting with clients" — who cares about that? But you'd remember all the important stuff.
The Kidney Heist is a story that sticks. We understand it, we remember it, and we can retell it later. And if we believe it's true, it might change our behavior permanently — at least in terms of accepting drinks from attractive strangers.
This is an amazing book of ideas that can help your business, investments, and life check it out!
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
PDP-T - Retail Fools Selling To Smart Money
The 4 Top Buying Houses Are Pro Traders
The Largest Sellers Are Retail Based Bank Trades
RBC,BMO,National Bank
Anonymouse is just dragging down the price so that Pro Traders Can Absorb Shares
Thomas Weisel Is A Net Buyer in the Last 30 Days Of 147,900 Shares or Net $444,855.00
Do you think they are buying because they have fear of a dry hole or a failed sale of Argentina Assetts.
Give your head a shake your eyes are stuck.
Anonymous is manipulating the stock down while Weisel absorbs shares at lower prices.
The game Weisel is playing is working perfectly.
They are causing sheeple to sell while absorbing shares cheap.
The great news is pending and the smart money is causing the stock to fall to allow them to swallow up cheap shares.
The sheeple are getting sheared ahead of the news, this is a suckers paradise.
Did you sell?
You should be buying every share you can get your hands on!
The sheeple are getting sheared ahead of the news, this is a suckers paradise.
Did you sell?
You should be buying every share you can get your hands on!
Buy Now And Thank Me Later
Use this weakness to accumulate more stock, retail sheep are being fleeced for their shares
They bought High and are now selling low, typical sheeple shearing, thats why retail small buyers never make any money, they sell when they should be buying!
As much as it has climbed in the last 2 months, there are 2 major catalysts that can double this stock in the next 2 mths.
#1 Testing Of Petrolifera's La Pinta Well In Colombia To Commence June 6, 2009;
#2 And the Buy Out Of Argentina's Assets : ProspectivePurchasersArgentina Bids Extended To July 10, 2009
Petrolifera(C$3.00,C$0.20,7.1%)has extended the deadline for submissionsof bidsrelatedto thepotentialpurchase of its Argentinean operations toJuly10 at therequestof anumber of interested parties. It also saidtesting of itsLaPintaNo. 1well on the Sierra Nevada License inColombia isexpectedtostartSaturday.
Solid cash flow, profitability and favorable commodity pricing realized in Argentina during Q1
2009
• Plan of Arrangement for asset backed commercial paper restructuring completed; related line of credit expanded to $28.2 million and borrowings reclassified as long term, which improved
working capital and enhanced liquidity
Daily sales volumes
Crude oil and natural gas liquids - bbl/d 5,245 6,726 (22)
Natural gas - mcf/d 6,500 7,044 (8)
Barrels of oil equivalent - boe/d (2) 6,328 7,900 (20)
Average selling prices
Crude oil and natural gas liquids - $/bbl $ 52.17 $ 41.99 24
Natural gas - $/mcf $ 2.98 $ 2.20 35
Barrels of oil equivalent - $/boe $ 46.30 $ 37.72 23
Common shares outstanding (000s)
Weighted average
Basic 54,948 50,212 9
Diluted 55,195 51,562 7
End of period 54,948 50,353 9
Petrolifera Petroleum LimitedisaCalgary-basedcrudeoil and natural gas exploration,developmentandproductioncompanyactive in South America. Petroliferaholdsinterestsinapproximatelyeight million acres of petroleum andnaturalgas rightsinten onshoreconcessions or licenses in Argentina
ConnacherOilandGasLimited of Calgary, Alberta was responsible forthecreationandfinancingof Petrolifera and owns 24 percentofPetrolifera'sshares.Connacher alsoprovides some managementservicesto Petrolifera.
Board of Directors
Richard A. Gusella
Executive Chairman
Gary D. Wine
President and Chief Operating Officer
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Interesting Stats
Petrolifera Petroleum Limited Oil & Gas Exploration and Production Operations and Cost Analysis – 2008 (Global Data)
* Market: Energy and Utilities
* Published Date: 19/06/2009
* Report Title: Petrolifera Petroleum Limited Oil & Gas Exploration and Production Operations and Cost Analysis – 2008
* View Report Summary: View Report Summary
* Report Type: Market Report
* Country: Global
* Number of Pages: 44
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