Nov. 13, 2009 (PR Newswire) — SEATTLE, Nov. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ – Mantra Venture Group Ltd. (’Mantra’, OTCBB: MVTG, FSE: 5MV), developer of the revolutionary carbon recycling ERC technology, was featured in the Fourth Quarter 2009 edition of District Energy Magazine (District Energy). The article, entitled “Carbon Recycling: An alternative to carbon capture and storage,” takes a closer look at the current economic, regulatory and legal challenges facing carbon capture and storage (CCS), and offers some insight as to the potential advantages of carbon recycling over CCS.

Rowan Oloman, author of the article and freelance writer of Vancouver, B.C., notes: “Several massive hurdles still stand in the way of full-scale CCS deployment. U.K. consulting firm McKinsey figures that adding CCS to the next generation of European power plants could lift their price by up to $1.3 billion each.” While this cost barrier is a significant deterrent to widespread adoption of

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Name Change to VitaminSpice Imminent

WAYNE, Pa., Nov. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Qualsec’s (OTC Bulletin Board: QLSZ) (German WKN: A0YCND) wholly-owned subsidiary, VitaminSpice, has recently entered into several distribution agreements expanding distribution into parts of the east and west coasts. The VitaminSpice product line will be sold over several internet portals as well as in store shelves.

The very high appeal for this product comes from several factors. Management has secured spice supply from the premier spice regions worldwide, leading to VitaminSpice winning the Masters of Taste award (see press release of October 20, 2009). Taking the product to a new level are vitamins which are infused into the product. But making this product even more special is the micro-encapsulation process that protects the vitamins and eliminates any taste interference with the high quality spices.

The corporation’s name has been changed effective November 2, 2009 from “Qualsec” to “VitaminSpice” in the state

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I am traveling in Europe - Switzerland and Slovenia - at the moment, exploring business opportunities and gathering a feel for the economic climate in Western and Central Europe. (I also have a more official relationship with Slovenia as I represent this picture-pretty country diplomatically in South Africa - as Honorary Consul. Click here for the Consulate website and some amazing photographs.)

The downside is that blog posting will be slow (and totally absent on some days) for most of the time while I am on the road. The normal blogging service will be resumed on my return to Cape Town on October 16.

However, I will be “tweeting” regularly throughout my trip, posting short comments (maximum 140 characters) on topical market issues, and also on my personal whereabouts. You can “follow me” on Twitter by clicking here. You may also consider joining me

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WAYNE, Pa., Nov. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Qualsec’s (OTC Bulletin Board: QLSZ)(German WKN: A0YCND) wholly-owned subsidiary, VitaminSpice, has received an order from DMC Athletics & Rehabilitation. This multi-facility physical therapy and personal training business will offer products of QLSZ’s wholly-owned subsidiary, VitaminSpice, on their website and at their centers providing dietary support to their various wellness programs. DMC and VitaminSpice have plans to co-develop e-commerce products in the nutraceutical, foodceutical, and vitamin-enhanced commodity-foods markets.

The number-one rated physical therapy and wellness centers as voted by the Readers Choice for the past 4 years, DMC Athletics and Rehabilitation is a private, outpatient orthopedic facility providing treatment of all orthopedic and sports injuries and everyday physical discomforts, as well as personal training and exercise regimens for preventive care. DMC plans to expand VitaminSpice distribution to and through its affiliated medical centers and bariatric, nutritionists, cardiac and other physician groups

DMC offers personal training

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WAYNE, Pa., Oct. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Qualsec (OTC Bulletin Board: QLSZ), which recently acquired Vitamin Spice (VitaminSpice.net) has signed an agreement with Seamless Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: SMWF) for the sale of their products. As part of the arrangement, VitaminSpice products will sell through the www.gadgetenterprises.com website. VitaminSpice retail offerings and other products will be co-marketed in this arrangement with Seamless Corporation.

Seamless’ relationship with Dr. Gadget and the recent acquisition of Gadget Enterprises www.gadgetenterprises.com website was a major decision for VitaminSpice to sell its products through Seamless. Seamless has been able to improve its ranking online of www.gadgetenterprises.com which has recently become ranked near the top 100,000 most popular websites in the United States.

Albert Reda President of Seamless Corp., stated that “Seamless is really excited about the VitaminSpice product line and expect to see a lot of VitaminSpice sales”

Suggested VitaminSpice links: Facebook, Twitter

About Dr.

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Oct. 29, 2009 (PR Newswire) — SEATTLE, Oct. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ – Mantra Venture Group Ltd. (’Mantra’, OTCBB: MVTG, FSE: 5MV) is pleased to announce that it has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM) based out of Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. Under the terms of the LOI, Mantra and KFUPM’s Center for Refining and Petrochemicals (CRP) have expressed a mutual interest to explore and research new processes that would use Mantra’s Electroreduction of Carbon Dioxide (ERC) reactor, a form of carbon recycling.

Current processes developed by Mantra have been demonstrated as effective in converting CO2 into a variety of valuable chemicals, including: formate salts, formic acid, oxalic acid and methanol. While each of these end-products has a significant market value, Mantra is now looking to create additional value in its ERC technology by expanding this list. The CRP Research Institute of KFUPM

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VANCOUVER, Oct. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ – Mantra is pleased to announce that it has achieved enhanced cathode stability through the use of a new proprietary technique. Management will review the patentability of this technical breakthrough in the weeks that follow.

John Russell, Vice President of Technology Evaluation at Mantra, explained: “We are happy with the latest advancements made on the ERC technology and Mantra will be looking at the patentability of this latest discovery to further secure its competitive advantage. Thanks to persistent research, ERC is moving steadily from concept to reality as a complete technology.” He then added: “This is the essential evolution of a commercial product; it is built on a series of small successes culminating in a practical, economic technology that is of interest to industry and government.”

Mr. Larry Kristof, Mantra’s President and Chief Executive Officer, had this to say: “ERC has an important contribution to make in

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QualityStocks, a free service that collects data from hundreds of Small-Cap and Micro-Cap online Investment Newsletters into one free Daily Newsletter Report, today announces the introduction of QualityStocksTwits (“QSTwits”). Available FREE at www.QualityStocksTwits.com, the Web 2.0 site collates Twitter’s investment discussions in real-time, enabling investors to track the web’s savviest investors as well as build their own following. Social media has changed the way we research companies and how information gets processed. QSTwits gathers data from Twitter on any company, big or small.

With QSTwits, users can eavesdrop on what traders are talking about right now or contribute to the conversation and build their own reputation. It also allows anyone to search the Twitter universe for tweets relating to a particular stock and use Twitter’s features directly within the application. Investors will also be able to quickly see which stocks are being discussed most. Investors are put on the pulse

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As many of you know, today is the sixth anniversary of the arrest of Mikhail Khodorkovsky.  On Oct. 25, 2003, a team of spetsnaz armed to the teeth raided an airplane on a snowy Novosibirsk runway, behaving as though they were taking down the world's most dangerous terrorist, instead of a mild-mannered business executive on his way to a speech at a University.  It was Act 1 of a long-running theatrical drama, screen written with the goal of creating a distraction from the openly political persecution of man who frightened an authoritarian state.  That ruthless script continues playing out today in a stuffy Moscow courtroom, awaiting its draconian conclusion.What can you do?  If you are on Twitter, you can follow a stream of updates both on the case and all news of related human rights and rule of law issues ...

Equifax Inc. (EFX) recently launched Equifax Social Influencer, a customer acquisition solution enhanced with the use of social media, in association with StrongMail Systems, Inc., a leading provider of online marketing solutions for email and social media.   This new solution introduced by Equifax presents a combination of StrongMail’s Influencer viral marketing solution and strategic services with Equifax's data services and analytics expertise, so that marketing through E-mail reaches a greater number of customers across different demographic profiles and socioeconomic status.   With Equifax Social Influencer, marketers can now use the contacts of their most influential and highly valued customers to increase the possibility of a favorable business outcome. This will enhance the network of direct customers and motivate existing customers to share their network through email, blogs and popular social networks like Twitter, Facebook and MySpace.   We believe that in this time of economic and financial ...