Baltimore (TFN): I cannot say with total certainty that duct tape has ever saved my life. But I can say it has saved the day on more than one occasion, like the time I fell feet first into a frigid river, roaring with the power of Alaska’s springtime snowmelt.

In the woods, you have to dry off fast or risk any number of calamities. Living in temperate rainforest, an emergency fire was a challenge. But thanks to duct tape’s inherent desire to burn, I was re-warmed in no time.

But my mundane story has got nothing on the bush pilot that returned to his Piper Cub (the plane, not one of Palin’s kids) to find a pissed off grizzly had utterly destroyed the craft’s ability to fly as the hungry beast searched for the scraps of meat hidden inside.

Just like any savvy outdoorsmen, the pilot’s first thought after seeing

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I’d like to bring your attention to a company that has a remarkable success story and I think this is only the beginning of their outstanding growth and should definitely be on your watch list. TaxMasters, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: TAXS) was founded by Patrick Cox in Texas in 2001 and since then has grown to over 250 employees, has served tens of thousands of clients saving them millions of dollars.

You’ve probably seen one of their many tv commercials they broadcast nationally.

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Tuesday November 10, 2009

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I’d like to bring your attention to a company that has a remarkable success story and I think this is only the beginning of their outstanding growth and should definitely be on your watch list. TaxMasters, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: TAXS) was founded by Patrick Cox in Texas in 2001 and since then has grown to over 250 employees, has served tens of thousands of clients saving them millions of dollars.

You’ve probably seen one of their many tv commercials they broadcast nationally.

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Tesoro Corporation’s (TSO) third-quarter 2009 results came in significantly better than expected, helped by better demand balance in the company’s key West Coast region. Earnings per share came in at 24 cents, against Zacks Consensus Estimate of a penny loss. Tesoro’s outperformance is in contrast to the steep losses posted by the other major refiners that have already reported -- Valero Energy Corp. (VLO) and Sunoco Inc. (SUN). However, compared to the year-ago period, Tesoro’s earnings per share plunged 87.1%, while sales declined 45.4% to $4.7 billion -- severely hampered by depressed refining margins and lower throughput on the back of weak fuel demand and high inventories. Refining Segment Results Tesoro’s refining segment experienced a significant decline in operating income (operating income of $84 million vs. $476 million in the year-earlier quarter) due to struggling profit margins for the production of distillate ...

Pioneer Natural Resources Company (PXD) reported its third quarter results of 2 cents per share, well below than the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 6 cents and year-earlier quarter earnings of 91 cents. Before adjusting one-time items, loss per share was 6 cents.  Despite the increased production volumes and lower production expenses, earnings were down due primarily to weak realized prices. Revenue for the quarter was $410.1 million, down nearly 32% from the year-earlier level.  Total production for the quarter averaged approximately 113 thousand barrels oil equivalent per day (MBOE/d), up 2% year over year, reflecting the strong performance of Pioneer’s low-decline assets. Oil production averaged at 31.7 thousand barrels per day (MBbl/d), up approximately 7% year over year. Natural gas liquids production slightly decreased to 18.6 MBbl/d. Natural gas production also modestly increased to 374.2 MMcf/d.  On an oil equivalent basis, average realized price was ...

Nabors Industries Ltd. (NBR) – North America’s largest onshore oil and natural gas driller – yesterday reported marginally weaker-than-expected third quarter results on the back of lower rig demand, as producers continued to scale back operations in the midst of falling commodity prices. Earnings per share, excluding non-cash items, came in at 15 cents, missing the Zacks Consensus Estimate by a penny.   Revenue & Profitability   Compared to the third quarter of 2008, Nabors’ adjusted earnings per share declined 77.6% (from 67 cents to 15 cents) due to persistent weakness in its North American gas-centric businesses combined with less robust international results. Revenues were down 44.2% to $804 million as sales declined in all of the company’s segments.   Nabors’ main operating segment is ‘Contract Drilling’, which accounts for bulk of the company’s revenues and operating earnings. Its operations are spread across 6 sub-segments: U.S. Lower 48 ...

Constellation Brands Inc. (STZ), the world’s leading wine company, has signed a multiyear distribution agreement with Young’s Market Co. and its affiliates (Young’s) as the company’s exclusive distributor in Alaska, Washington and Oregon. Young’s, a recognized market leader in the Pacific Northwest, already has a longstanding business relationship with Constellation. With more than 1 million cases sold annually, Constellation is currently Young’s largest supplier in volume in the Pacific Northwest.

The company has recently signed a multi-year agreement with distributors to consolidate its network in the U.S. for better sales efforts. The main objectives of this realignment are improving organic growth, creating distributor teams focused exclusively on Constellation’s portfolio, and improving the coordination of marketing and promotional programs to support the brands.  Constellation is also in the process of rolling out an enhanced incentive structure for the distributors to drive organic growth.

This agreement is therefore, a part of the

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SIRIUS XM Radio (Nasdaq: SIRI) today announced that OutQ, the nation’s first and only 24/7 radio channel dedicated to the LGBT community, will broadcast extensive coverage of the National Equality March in Washington, DC this weekend including live coverage of President Obama’s keynote address at the Human Rights Campaign National Dinner on October 10. The Equality March is an event organized to fight for equal protection for LGBT people in all matters governed by civil law in all 50 states.

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In our history, the American nation committed obvious sins against select groups of people, and we’ve paid bitterly for some of that. But now it’s our sins against the land itself that threaten to sink the USA as a viable enterprise.

It’s odd, that in his otherwise excellent blow-by-blow account (”Eight Days,” in the Sept 21 New Yorker Magazine) of the September 2008 Wall Street meltdown that left Lehman dead, and AIG croaking in a ditch, and the banking system in general functionally crippled, reporter James B. Stewart never got around to really describing the cause of it all — namely, the on-the-ground material catastrophe of American suburbia.

It was the worthlessness of the tradable securitized debt associated with all those overpriced (and overvalued) chipboard and vinyl houses, smeared recklessly over the American landscape, that started all the trouble in the first place. And it is our inability to come to

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General Environmental Management Inc. is an integrated environmental services company which offers clients a variety of environmental and waste-related services. Among the services offered by the company are enviroconstruction and brownfield reclamation services.

The company has had great success in “recycling” brownfield sites and turning them back into useful real estate. General Environmental’s expertise is exemplified by the successful demolition of a Southern California locomotive chrome plating facility which was located near an elementary school and the large-scale contaminated soil removal and barge transport projects in the Aleutian Islands off Alaska.

The company’s experience in the enviroconstruction area is pertinent because undertaking any construction activities associated with contaminated soils, or industrial sites where hazardous materials were used, is very difficult from both a technical and regulatory standpoint. Any company doing such work must plan and monitor the work so

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