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Ok, here is a winner that imo has the potential to go over $1 from its current price in the mid teens....STTK.
I don't know if any of you have noticed, but sadly, the bird flu is exploding. Just this last week 5 new countries had their first case of it, from Europe to Africa now. In fact the Europeon union just yesterday announced a large summit on what they will do to battle this horrible disease. It is only matter of time imo before this hits North America, and if you noticed today some of the bird plays are really starting to pick up like NVAX and GNBT. This is the first time that I have noticed bird flu plays starting to get some play.
Last fall STTK ran from .08 to over .80 on bird flu hype, and I have it direct that within a week or so STTK will be releasing news on their planned test trials of its RFID monitoring and tracking technologies at select poultry farms in China, against the possible spread of the H5N1 Avian Influenza. They are conducting these trials as I write this, and so far it is going great. With this p.r. release to go along with the coming bird flu pandemic and conncurrent massive hype in the stock market for bird flu plays, STTK is poised to be a HUGE play here. Just huge.
I think anything bought under .30, yes .30 is a GREAT buy here. The stock moves like a rocket, so be ready. The ask is very thin and it wont take much to move this.
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This will be an excellent runner for the next couple days imo if not into next week. Big hype about bird flu starting again as more and more cases are being found all across Europe. Notice how the stock ran to .8 with the bird flu hype last time.This along with expected news could send this past 1.00, imo.
Excellent chart forming with first day of increased volume and bullish candle indicating further volume and breakout. Loaded up today and will be looking to add big blocks to my position tommorow. GLTA
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By ALEXANDER G. HIGGINS, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 46 minutes ago
GENEVA - The unprecedented spread of bird flu to 14 more countries in the past three weeks brings the disease closer to millions of people, giving it many more chances to mutate into a global outbreak, international health experts said Tuesday. ADVERTISEMENT
Fourteen countries from India to Nigeria and Egypt to France have reported their first cases of birds infected with the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu since the beginning of February, the World Health Organization said.
"We've never seen so many outbreaks of the same virus in so many different regions," WHO spokeswoman Maria Cheng told The Associated Press. "Our concern obviously is that humans could potentially come into contact with birds infected with H5N1, which would mean populations worldwide are potentially at risk."
WHO says it remains difficult for humans to catch H5N1. The agency has confirmed 170 human cases, including 92 deaths, since 2003 mostly in east Asia. But WHO experts fear that the virus could mutate into a form that is easily transmitted from person to person and set off a flu pandemic.
Many of the recent outbreaks were in Europe, where wild birds have tested positive for the disease. Tests confirmed Tuesday that three dead swans found in Hungary were infected with the H5N1 strain, making it the seventh European Union nation to confirm the disease in birds.
The 1,000-year-old Tower of London moved its famous six ravens inside for protection. Britain so far has been spared, but wardens were taking no chances legend holds that the British monarchy will fall if the ravens ever leave the Tower.
"It's purely precautionary," Derrick Coyle, the tower's Yeoman Raven Master, said Tuesday.
The zoo at Paris' Jardin des Plantes also closed its aviary on Tuesday and another on the city's outskirts took measures to keep its flamingos from mixing with wild ducks.
But poultry cases in India, Egypt and Nigeria are causing international health authorities more concern because of the close contact chickens and other domestic fowl can have with people who keep them around their homes, increasing the chance of the disease jumping the species barrier.
"At the moment we don't have very good information about how extensive these outbreaks are," said Cheng.
So far, she noted, there have no human cases reported in those countries or Nigeria nor in Western Europe.
In western India's Navapur district, where nearly 800,000 birds are to be killed following an outbreak of H5N1 in poultry, farmers distraught over their losses asked how they would survive.
"It is a question of livelihood for 5,000 families," said Ghulam Vhora, a member of a Navapur poultry farmers association, after his 30,000 birds were killed. "We are all jobless."
WHO said the 14 countries that have had outbreaks since the beginning of February in order of reporting are Iraq, Nigeria, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Slovenia, Iran, Austria, Germany, Egypt, India, France, and Hungary.
Indonesia, which has had 26 human cases since July, including 19 deaths reported by WHO, is also a primary concern because of the high infection rates among birds and people. Indonesia's Health Ministry reported the death of a 27-year-old woman died on Wednesday, which if confirmed by WHO would bring the country's total to 20.
"The more chances H5N1 has to infect people, the more chances it has to evolve into a form that could spark a pandemic," Cheng said. "And the place we're seeing the most human infections right now is Indonesia."
Juan Lubroth, head of the infectious disease group at the U.N.'s Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organization, said he was concerned about outbreaks in Africa, but "I do not want to lose focus on the situation that we have in Indonesia. There is a national strategy in Indonesia. Now we just have to implement it."
Vietnam has the highest number of confirmed human cases of H5N1 since 2003, with 93 people infected and 42 deaths, but none of Vietnam's cases have been this year.
Even though Nigeria and Egypt the two most populous countries in Africa have reported no human cases, people might still be infected there, said Dick Thompson, another WHO spokesman. Sometimes initial tests come back negative for H5N1, and the tests have to be redone to make sure the disease is really absent.
"As long as the virus is circulating, it could jump into humans," he added.
Maria Zampaglione, spokeswoman for the Paris-based World Organization for Animal Health, said one reason that so many outbreaks were being reported is because of increased global awareness.
"It is certainly not the first time that these wild birds are crossing countries," she said. "Now it is so crucial and they are monitored so well that every single case is investigated."
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And on top of it all STTK issued a 10qsb last friday, canceleing 33 million shares. Which makes the float even lower and a much more explosive mover!
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I got in today at .3097 with 580 shares. Couldn't put much in this one, bummer. With news it should run. It did not reach 40 today but it held it's own. Most everyone who has been getting in and who has been in are not ready to bail.
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Smart-tek Communications Inc. Completes RFID Tracking Alert and Containment System -- System Readied to Begin Test Trials in Efforts to Contain Deadly Bird Flu
By PrimeZone Last Update: 2/24/2006 4:00:18 PM Data provided by
CORTE MADERA, Calif., Feb 24, 2006 (PRIMEZONE via COMTEX) -- Smart-tek Communications Inc. announced today the completion of its RFID tracking and containment system for its parent company, Smart-tek Solutions, Inc. (STTK).
The system, "RTAC-PM," short for "RFID Tracking Alert Containment and Poultry Monitoring," was designed for livestock monitoring and is targeted specifically for the poultry industry in conjunction with attempts to contain the possible spread of the H5N1 Avian Influenza. The RTAC-PM system incorporates leading edge technology and is customized around our customers' requirements with the flexibility to adapt to various types of OEM products.
"At its core, the RTAC-PM System utilizes the Internet to report detailed, real-time information about events in the poultry supply-chain to a central monitoring station," said Perry Law, President of Smart-tek Communications, Inc. "The system allows a central agency to monitor the flow of product over an arbitrary area, from a small town all the way up to an entire country. With built-in alert monitoring protocols, the RTAC-PM system provides instant alert notification of events that could indicate anomalies that, subject to investigation protocols, could indicate the onset of disease outbreak to the central agency."
Law said the RTAC-PM system will provide information that is vital to the central agency, allowing them to rapidly respond to threats of disease outbreak. Alert events include excessive mortality rates during growth, and unusual patterns of movement that could signify an attempt to cover-up disease outbreaks by poultry farmers. Alert events will allow the central agency to dispatch inspectors to investigate, thus focusing monitoring efforts on the areas most likely to be at risk.
"In the poultry industry, there are only a few stages of the production cycle," added Law. "With eggs from the egg supplier, chick producers produce the newborn chicks which are then sent to a farm where the birds are fed and grown. Once the chicken crop reaches maturity, they are processed. The entire life cycle from chick to maturity is only approximately eight weeks.
"Information about the production cycle of each specific flock is captured and recorded at the chick producer, growing farm and processing plant. Utilizing our customized tags and tagging equipment, the RFID bird tag is designed to allow for bird growth and durability. Our unique tag is re-useable for many crops. Information such as date of birth, birth location, breed, and farmer information can be collected by the central government agency, and available to authorized users via the Internet."
In addition to recording the movements of the birds themselves, the RTAC-PM system can also track the movements of containers, cages, and trucks used to transport poultry among the various facilities involved in the production process. Furthermore, the system will be capable of tracking the finished product (both for domestic and export consumption) all the way to the consumer, providing complete traceability from egg to supermarket, making this the most advanced tracking system in any food-related industry.
"Through superior application of world-class RFID and information technologies, the end result of our system will be to provide the central agency with the tools it needs to monitor poultry movement. With agency-designed alerts, the RTAC-PM system will allow the deployment of agency protocols to rapidly and effectively contain an outbreak of disease," Law said.
Working in cooperation with other industry best-practices for the prevention and containment of disease, the RTAC-PM System is expected to be an invaluable asset to any governmental agency responsible for the safety of the food supply and preventing the spread of Avian Flu.
The Company also announced that it is now ready to move forward with the test trials of the RTAC-PM system in China in March 2006 and not in February as previously anticipated.
"Everything is now in place to launch definitive testing in mid-March," said Law. "At that time we will be conducting two tests/demos with various government agencies and authorities. While we are disappointed in the scheduling delays, we are charting some new territory and we want to be assured that our system is operating to the exacting standards required to achieve desired results."
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MDP I believe this will creep up maybe to .35 in anticipation of the China test results, and then I believe it could go to $1.00-$1.50 if the tests look as expected.
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Smart-tek Solutions, Inc. Completes Successful Demonstration in China of Its Proprietary System to Monitor Poultry Flocks That May Be Subject to Avian Flu Government Officials Request Costs -- Indicate Commitment to Recommend Implementation of RFID Tracking and Containment System to Central Government Mar 21, 2006 10:05:00 AM 2006 PrimeZone Media Network CORTE MADERA, Calif., March 21, 2006 (PRIMEZONE) -- Smart-tek Communications, Inc. announced today the successful completion of a demonstration in the People's Republic of China of its RFID tracking and containment system for its parent company, Smart-tek Solutions, Inc (OTCBB:STTK).
"This is a huge step forward in the marketing of our proprietary technology solution to the world," said Perry Law, president of Smart-tek Communications, Inc. "The potential dollar value of this industry segment is in the hundreds of millions of dollars and, with a viable solution developed by our Company to penetrate this market, it may provide the Company and its shareholders with a tremendous opportunity for growth," said Law.
More than 50 government, academic and industry experts attended the demonstrations which were conducted in Beijing. Additionally, numerous media, including CCTV (China Central TV -- the largest state-owned television broadcaster) were on hand.
"With an estimated 13 billion chickens in China, this is such an extremely critical issue that there was a very high level of interest on the part of the governmental officials who attended," said Perry Law. "The general consensus was that they view the RTAC-PM (short for 'RFID Tracking Alert Containment and Poultry Monitoring) system as a viable method to monitor the threat of the deadly bird flu virus. The next step in the process is for Smart-tek to provide specific costing budgets required to implement the system according to client specifications. All indications are that the governmental officials in attendance would recommend the system to the central government."
The system, "RTAC-PM," was designed for the livestock industry and is targeted specifically for the poultry industry with user-defined alerts that may assist governmental agencies to monitor poultry movement. The RTAC-PM system incorporates leading edge technology and is customized around customers' requirements with the flexibility to adapt to various types of OEM products.
Smart-tek has an established relationship with its sole licensee, SES Investment (China) Limited, which will serve as the liaison with the central government and facilitate implementation of the system upon final approval by the appropriate authorities.
"The potential for application of the RTAC-PM system is tremendous in China," said Law. "We are now ready to customize our solution to clients' needs."
"Frankly, we were overwhelmed with the reception of the system," said Law. "We've always been confident we had a 'better mouse trap,' but the high praise we received in China was third party affirmation that the RFID is a vital tool in combating what may be one of the greatest threats currently facing mankind."
About Smart-tek Solutions Inc.
Smart-tek Solutions Inc. is a technology holding company in the security and surveillance sector providing turnkey state of the art systems design and installation through its wholly owned subsidiary, Smart-tek Communications, Inc. Smart-tek Communications, Inc. is the Company's initial acquisition in this sector and is appropriately positioned to pursue additional acquisitions in order to restore and enhance shareholder value.
Smart-tek Communications Inc. is a market leader in integrated security, voice and data communication systems. Located in Richmond, British Columbia, SCI specializes in the design, sale, installation and service of the latest in security technology with proven electronic hardware and software products. SCI has positioned itself as a security systems leader in the Greater Vancouver area, supplying over 45% of new downtown core construction projects. Valued customers include major developers, general and electrical contractors, hospitals, Crown Corporations, law enforcement agencies and retail facilities. Projects range from high-end residential and commercial developments to system upgrades and monitoring contracts. SCI's continued growth and success is a direct result of providing a consistently superior product at competitive pricing to both new and existing clients. SCI's stellar client retention is in itself a testimonial to the overall excellence of the product designed and installed.
Notice Regarding Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Statements regarding the Company's business which are not historical facts are forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from the potential results discussed in the forward-looking statements. Readers are directed to the Smart-tek Solutions reports as filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission from time to time, including but not limited to its most recent annual report on Form 10-KSB for the year ended June 30, 2005, and quarterly report on Form 10-QSB the quarter ended December 31, 2005, for further information and factors that may affect Smart-tek Solutions business and results of operations. Smart-tek Solutions Inc. undertakes no obligations to publicly update any forward-looking statements to reflect future events or circumstances.
CONTACT: Peter Nasca Associates, Inc. Peter Nasca 305-937-1711
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At this point it looks like it may stay in the .45-.46 range. I was hoping for.5 to double my investment and keep the free shares. I'm still new at this, so if anyone with more experience see it differently, please post your thoughts.
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I haven't sold yet. I've been watching the L2 and this is only going up. I've been itching to sell 1/2 but may just try and ride this today and into tomorrow.
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