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Coates International, Ltd. Announces General Stockholders' Update

noreply@blogspirit.com (lele) — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:37:35 +0200

industrial products co Coates International, Ltd. (the "Company" or "Coates") (OTCBB:COTE) is pleased to announce that according to our Escrow LicenseAgreement with Well to Wire Energy, Inc. of Canada, the balance ofthe Canadian exclusive license and development costs must be paidon or before the 30th of June 2008. The total amount due includingthe deposit on the USA exclusive license was $11,000,000 USD. Wellto Wire has paid our company non-refundable payments to date,totaling $2,200,000 USD, leaving a balance of $8,800,000 to be paidto Coates. Well to Wire Energy has secured a $1.1 billion USDequipment lease finance commitment from Canada West CorporateFinance, Inc., which is to be utilized only for the purchase of theCoates Industrial CSRV Electric Power Generators over the next fiveyears, pursuant to its License Agreement with Coates. The five yearWell to Wire Business Plan, on which this commitment was based,provides for the purchase of approximately 7,400 Coates CSRVElectric Power Industrial Generators at a price per unit of$150,000. This project of designing and building the Coates CSRV IndustrialGenerators for Well to Wire Energy, Inc. is completed, and as soonas our company receives the outstanding balance in full, productionof this product will start. Coates utilizes approximately 40outside companies for manufacturing its components to produce itsproducts, assembly of the CSRV Engine Systems is relatively easy;production should go smoothly. (UPDATE ON HOME GENERATOR PROJECT) Coates International, Ltd. has completed the design and developmentof its stand-alone CSRV Electric Power Generator for residentialuse. This (CSRV) Home Generator is configured to run on Propane andcan also be powered by any combustible fuel including Hydrogen.This CSRV Generator is a synchronous system that only produces theamount of electric power that is being used or required at anygiven time from 1 KW up to 35 KWs. It incorporates a CSRV in line 4cylinder power unit. (This Project is complete.) Marketing hasstarted. (UPDATE ON LAND SPEED PROJECT) The initial design of the land speed racing car is complete. Thewind tunnel is ready for airflow tests. Company officials aretalking and negotiating with potential sponsor for this project andas soon as the car and engine are complete, the land speed racetrials will start. (UPDATE ON RETROFITTING OF HEAVY TRUCK PROJECT) The CSRV Retrofit System and Heads are complete and now beingfitted to the heavy truck engine. Management and staff are excitedabout this project and believe that it will be one of the mostlucrative for Coates International, Ltd. (UPDATE ON COATES CSRV V TWIN 1600 cc AIR COOLED ENGINE PROJECT) A number of these engines were built and were tested in a Coates'Motorcycle by an independent EPA approved testing laboratory. Testresults showed 47 miles to the gallon, tested over a 2,000 mile runand achieved less than 50% of the EPA's Emission Standards. It was later tested by Coates for speed achieved 137 MPH withplenty of throttle left for higher speeds. This project is completeand is now under review by management. There are a number of other projects underway at Coates and we willbe announcing them in the near future. Coates International, Ltd. tries its best to keep its stockholdersfully informed of what's happening in the company. Many of ourthousands of stockholders are contacting the company for moreinformation and most of these questions cannot be answered becauseof the SEC Rules and Regulations regarding insider information. It must be understood that Coates is a fully reporting publiccompany trading on the NASDAQ OTCBB - COTE and must abide by theSEC Rules and Regulations. When our company divulges information regarding the names of otherentities that we are talking to or negotiating with, some of ourunsophisticated stockholders are contacting these potentialcustomers and Licensees and interfering with our company's businessand procedures. (This we cannot tolerate), so in the futuremanagement has decided not to divulge the names of the entities andcompanies it is in negotiations with until deals are signed,sealed, and delivered. However, the company is in negotiationscontinuously with numerous companies and entities at this time, andwill release information, as it deems appropriate. About Coates International, Ltd.: Coates has recently completedfinal refinements to a patented spherical rotary valve CSRVIndustrial Internal Combustion Engine developed over a period ofmore than 6 years and other CSRV applications over 10 years. Theunderlying CSRV technology was invented by George J. Coates and hisson Gregory. The CSRV system is adaptable to combustion engines ofmany types. This technology is currently adapted to a number ofpractical applications including industrial generators powered byengines incorporating the CSRV technology and designed to run onflare-off gas from oil wells, landfill gas and raw natural gas. Thecompany is actively engaged in planning for production and rolloutof these engines. This press release contains forward-looking statements that aremade pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the PrivateSecurities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. By their nature,forward-looking statements and forecasts involve risks anduncertainties because they relate to events and depend oncircumstances that will occur in the near future. There are anumber of factors that could cause actual results and developmentsto differ materially from forecasted results. These risks anduncertainties include market conditions, regulatory approvals, andother risks inherent in our operations. For a discussion of theserisks and uncertainties, please see our filings with the Securitiesand Exchange Commission. Our public filings with the SEC may beviewed and printed on the website maintained by the SEC at http://www.sec.gov .

Ozone Technology: a Solution to Prevent Salmonella Outbreaks

noreply@blogspirit.com (lele) — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:36:15 +0200

Chemical Processing Equipment Aquentium, Inc. (OTCBB: AQNM) announced today that the company’s ozone technology is designed as a solution to prevent salmonella outbreaks. The Aquentium line of ozone equipment provides a natural, non-chemical process for food processing.Over the weekend, the Food and Drug Administration advised retailers, restaurants, and food-service operators to halt sales of raw red Roma, raw red plum, and raw red round tomatoes grown in certain U.S. states and in other nations. The FDA issued a broad warning, telling consumers not to eat raw Roma, red plum or red round tomatoes, or products that contain these types of raw red tomatoes unless the tomatoes are from the following places: California, Georgia, Hawaii, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Belgium, Canada, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Israel, Netherlands, and Puerto Rico.Fast-food restaurants McDonald’s Corp. (NYSE: MCD) , Burger King (NYSE: BKC) and Subway and grocery stores Safeway (NYSE: SWY) and Kroger (NYSE: KR) are withholding certain tomatoes from the menu or removing them from shelves after the Food and Drug Administration warned of a widening outbreak of salmonella, a food-borne illness.Since mid-April, there have been 145 reported cases of salmonellosis, including at least 23 hospitalizations, the FDA said. Illnesses were reported in Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin.According the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 40,000 people are sickened by salmonella each year in the U.S. The CDC estimates that about 400 people die each year with acute salmonellosis, the infection caused by the salmonella bacteria.“One of the latest big salmonella outbreaks was in late summer 2006, when E. coli from fresh spinach renewed fears about the safety of leafy greens in particular, which had been implicated in 19 prior outbreaks since 1995,” stated Aquentium President Mark Taggatz.One of the nation's largest restaurant operators, Darden Restaurants (NYSE:DRI), with brands including LongHorn Steakhouse, Olive Garden, Red Lobster, Seasons 52, Capital Grille and Bahama Breeze has dropped all types of raw tomatoes from its menu.“Our ozone equipment installed at any restaurant or grocery store would allow for all raw tomatoes to be washed thoroughly with ozonated water and thus help eliminate the need of replacing any raw tomatoes,” stated Taggatz.Traditionally, restaurants, grocery stores, and food processing plants have used chemicals to sanitize their operations or they use chemicals on food in hopes of removing bacteria and viruses. Compared to chlorine, ozone offers several advantages for food and beverage processors or anyone who wants to sanitize materials or surfaces. Chlorine has traditionally been the sanitizer of choice in the food processing industry, but experts share a growing concern about the dangerous byproducts such as trihalomethanes or dioxins produced when chlorine reacts with organic matter in the water. These substances are known carcinogens and are regulated in drinking water by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.When most people think of ozone, they picture the layer high in the earth's outer atmosphere that protects us from the sun's ultraviolet rays, but this bluish gas, which sometimes can be detected as a fresh smell after a thunderstorm, is actually a valuable tool with a variety of down-to-earth uses.Ozone gas (O3) is a naturally occurring tri-atomic form of oxygen (O2) that is formed as sunlight passes through the atmosphere or when streaks through the air. It can be generated artificially by passing high voltage electricity through oxygenated air, causing oxygen to break apart and recombine in the tri-atomic form.As an oxidizer, it is 51 times as powerful than chlorine, the oxidizer most commonly used by most food processors, and 3,000 times faster at killing bacteria and other microbes. Ozone is effective as a disinfectant at relatively low concentrations and does not leave toxic by-products similar to those related to chlorination."People should not have to live without tomatoes or any other fresh fruits or vegetables," commented Taggatz.For more than a century, ozone has been used in Europe for purifying drinking water and is currently used in the United States for purifying bottled water and decontaminating cooling towers. The cities of Los Angeles, Dallas, and Las Vegas all currently use ozone to purify their water supply.While chlorinated wash systems require transport and storage of potentially hazardous toxic chemicals, ozone is unique in that it is generated onsite from oxygen and can be produced on demand with no storage required. When the ozone generator is turned off, there are no dangerous substances on the premises. Ozone can be injected or dissolved in water to provide rinsing or washing of food products such as meat, poultry, seafood, fruits or vegetables.“In light of continued outbreaks of food-borne illness and more recent food security concerns in the United States and internationally, as well as questions about the relative safety of chlorine, ozone is certainly a desirable solution for enhancing not only the safety but also the quality of the world food supply,” stated Taggatz.About AquentiumAquentium, Inc. is a diversified company with interests in food safety, affordable and emergency housing, mining, building materials, recycling, sanitation and water treatment equipment.URL: www.aquentium.comNote: Certain statements in this news release may contain "forward-looking" information within the meaning of rule 175 under the Securities Act of 1933 and Rule 3b-6 under the Securities Act of 1934 and are subject to the safe harbor created by those rules. There can be no assurance that such forward-looking statements will be accurate and actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements.

Gao Xingjian: Composing a narrative in ink paint

noreply@blogspirit.com (lele) — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:35:07 +0200

paints and inks It is Alisan's fifth Gao show, and the opening brought the artist,who lives in Paris, to Hong Kong for the first time since hishealth problems in 2003. Gao created most of the 25 new paintingsthis year and last year specifically for this show. "Gao said that he is continuing to explore the path he has taken,"said Alice King, the director of Alisan and one of the world'sleading promoters of contemporary Chinese ink painting, "that is,to produce works that are neither figurative nor abstract,paintings that are about emerging shadows from his deepest self andcould not be rendered in anything else but in ink. "He puts the emphasis on the subtle play of light and shadow, flatsurfaces exuding a three-dimensional depth," she added. "Hissurviving his illness has no doubt nourished a deeper sense ofself, inspirational to his painting." The works at Alisan continue in the unique style for which Gao hasbecome known: dramatic pieces, rendered primarily in black Chineseink, his chosen medium since the early 1980s. Gao had an intensechildhood art education in mainland China focused on European-styledrawing and oil painting. And now he has become a high priest ofink painting using a Western format. His pictures occupy nearly thefull frame of the paper, and, echoing his life as a teller oftales, each painting is a story. One piece in the show, "Guerre" (War) stands out as a sublime andthrilling testament to Gao's genius as a painter. The bottom thirdof the painting depicts a slightly rolling, dark landscape with analmost glaring horizon dotted with small, sharp brushstrokes thatmay be interpreted as either trees or battalions of warriors.Overhead, the sky is gray with a swirl like a cluster of dangerous,brooding storm clouds. The painting, which is 82 centimeters by 93centimeters, or 32 inches by 36 inches, was executed with thedifficult combination of pouring ink wash on the paper and applyingmore ink with a dry brush. Another large image, "Monts et cours d'eau" (Mountains andStreams), which measures 104 centimeters by 88 centimeters,portrays mountain ranges in the distance. It is a fine example ofGao's control of ink wash: With only black ink at his disposal, heelicits varying shades and textures that suggest a range of terrainand hues found in nature. "Le Routard" (Backpacker) features one ofhis signature mysterious silhouette figures traveling into anunspecified distance. Photographs of Gao's paintings often do not come close to capturingthe sophistication and emotion of the originals. Gao has describedhis ink works as "more than self-expression, self-purification." His paintings are an integral part of his life as an artist andhave always coexisted alongside his writing. By the time he was 10years old, Gao had published his first novel and completed twoyears of formal painting lessons. Although he later consideredattending art school, he opted instead to study French and starteda career as a translator. When his writing began to be published, his paintings appeared ascovers for the original Chinese editions of his books. Later, afterfleeing China and beginning a life of exile in Europe in 1987, Gaosupported himself by selling his paintings.