Newtek Business Services Corp ., (NEWT), an internally managed business development company ("BDC") announced that it has been included in the Wells Fargo Business Development Company Index (Symbol: WFBDC), which currently includes 44 business development companies and has a total market capitalization of $131.6⁽¹⁾ billion.

Propell Technologies (PROP) Novas Energy USA has a great new website…really explains the advantage of the their Plasma Pulse Technology (PPT) for substantially increasing oil production from existing oil wells without water or environmentally damaging acid washing or fracking.

With $50 oil, small producers need ALL the help they can get to keep their wells economic…Plasma Pulse from Novas Energy is an answer to their prayers

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SearchCore, Inc. (SRER) a manufactured housing retail center owner and operator that manages and operates its retail centers through its wholly owned subsidiary Wisdom Homes Of America, Inc. ("Wisdom Homes"), today announced that the Company has entered into an exclusive option to improve and sell 25 residential lots in Sherman, Texas. Wisdom Homes intends to improve and permanently affix manufactured homes onto the lots.

MCW's oil sands processing costs have now been projected downwards to $ 28.00 USD per barrel, mainly due to lower costs of the petroleum products being used in the extraction process, such as solvent blends, diesel fuel, liquefied propane, heating oil and natural gas condensates.

All of these energy/processing component prices have fallen in tandem with the current dramatic fall in world oil prices. Condensate prices are down 50%. Solvent blend, diesel fuel and propane prices are down an average of 40%.

Orgenesis (ORGS) is a $35 million market cap biotechnology company that is committed to curing Type 1 Diabetes with a novel technology that combines cellular therapy and regenerative medicine.

Pall Corporation (PLL) is a $10 billon market cap company with a focus on manufacturing of cell therapies.

Wisdom Homes reported sales of $725,000 for the fourth quarter of 2014, an increase of 106% as compared to $351,500 in sales of manufactured homes for the third quarter of 2014.

"We’ve seen no interruption in traffic at our retail stores as a result of the drop in oil prices," stated SearchCore’s CEO, Jim Pakulis. "In fact, less than 10% of our existing customers are in the petroleum industry.

Searchcore…via its Wisdom Home of America subsidiary…has a big audacious mission: to become the largest independent manufactured home retailer in the U.S. by opening 30 retail centers in Texas and surrounding states over the next 60 months.

The game plan is simple: meeting the significant growing demand for quality, affordable residential housing in their respective markets with unique home/lot packages affordable across the income and credit quality spectrum.

2014 updates include:

On Dec. 29, 2014, Newtek Business Services Corp (NEWT), a newly formed development company ("BDC"), announced that it currently expects to pay an annual cash dividend⁽¹⁾ of approximately $1.80 per share for 2015, payable quarterly from anticipated taxable earnings based on 10,206,323 shares of the Company's Common Stock outstanding as of December 22, 2014.

MCW Energy Group, Inc. (MCWEF) updated the market Monday Dec 26th on their new oil sands production plant in Vernal Utah and progress on major joint venture projects globally.

More importantly, some back-of-the-napkin math updating their of their oil production cost assumptions makes MCW Oil Sands Recovery by our calculations by far the lowest cost unconventional oil producer in North America…and quite possibly the world ex-Venezuela.

SearchCore, Inc. (SRER), the manufactured housing retail center owner and operator that operates its retail centers through its wholly owned subsidiary Wisdom Homes Of America, Inc., announces the opening of its fourth and largest retail center located in Mount Pleasant, Texas.

MCW Energy Group, Inc. (MCWEF) updated the market Monday on their new oil sands production plant in Vernal Utah and progress on major joint venture projects globally.

MCW Oil Sands Recovery LLC has begun the final phase of commercial production mode which will have an anticipated capacity of at least 250 bbl/day. Pursuant to this next step, an exemption for an Air Quality Permit has been filed. A Groundwater Permit Application has also been completed. These permits from Utah will authorize the plant's operation up to an anticipated production capacity of 250 bbl/day.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration said Wednesday it would prohibit hydraulic fracturing statewide, citing health concerns and calling the economic benefits to drilling there limited.

“I cannot support high-volume hydraulic fracturing in the great state of New York,” acting health commissioner Howard Zucker said, adding that he wouldn’t allow his own children to live near a fracking site. He said the “cumulative concerns” about fracking “give me reason to pause.”

According to Oilprice.com, “As fracking scrutiny snowballs with California's stringent new regulations set to take effect in July and a successful anti-fracking referendum earlier this month in Denton, Texas, the E&P industry is eyeing new technology that foregoes toxic chemicals and harnesses plasma pulses reminiscent of science fiction weaponry.

Orgenesis (ORGS) is a public company committed to curing type 1 diabetes with a breakthrough technology that combines cellular therapy and regenerative medicine – “Cellular Transdifferentiation.”

Professor Sarah Ferber and the research team at Orgenesis have successfully reprogrammed liver cells into fully functional Insulin Producing Cells (IPCs). They’ve had success curing diabetes in mice, and begin Phase 1 clinical trials in Type 1 diabetic patients in the next 12-15 months.

Initiating Coverage on Orgenesis, Inc. (ORGS) with $2.50 12-18 Month Target: Broad ORGS Patent for Turning Liver Cells into Insulin Producing Cells Creates a Potential Cure for Diabetes