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The Great Pumpkin,
The world is awash with cash.
Depends mostly on where you live. Flash floods in a desert are terrifying and very destructive though water in such a location can be more valuable than gold.
A reporter was surprised by an encampment of SUV's in an unlikely location. He discovered it was middle-aged remainders from the Great Recession who had lost nearly everything but their SUV's that were now their homes parked near a Wal-Mart offering temporary subsistence wages to even some former CEO's of formerly prosperous companies but obviously not major banks.
If this company has what it says it has, then why hasn’t there ever been any real money behind them.
When was there ever a flood of money supporting truly disruptive [in today's idiom] technology? I have told too often about a man making himself an early billionaire buying penny optical cable stocks when lasers were so new that people in our lab most directly occupied with the lasers had mandatory weekly eye examinations. All the stocks were unprofitable. The fellow simply bought shares in all of them, including those in bankruptcy, since he had no technical expertise nor advisors he trusted to differentiate.
I think LWLG will finally fulfill long ago dreams from that period but it is not a given. The cutting edge mostly cuts.
JMO.
Best, Terry
Inversor, Pumpkin:
Gophers and babysitters are not vultures though they get little praise. You might even remember the notorious case of one babysitter charged with - and even convicted of - negligent homicide because the parents were doctors and couldn't be guilty. The plain fact that probably no one was guilty was beside the point. Truly remarkable judge in the end who largely ameliorated a terrible injustice.
I may be alone in respecting Marcelli but so be it. Does it really matter what he says to anyone about the company? Maybe but it doesn't to me unless he is reporting on corruption. Did he have a hand in the first use and continuation of bleeding funds to LPC. I suppose it is likely but responsibility for that goes right to the top.
Few survive the juice racketeers be they Mafia gangsters or less notorious and venomous practitioners like LPC. Any of them can provide a life-saving service but it comes at a high cost.
I don't know why Lebby doesn't recognize the harm but not many scientists are financial wizards.
JMO.
Best, Terry
You don’t hire s “VP of marketing” unless you have something to sell.
Then why the heck doesn't she start selling all that stuff we have to sell?
Dr. Liu is obviously much more than a tout selling some hokey fad. She was obviously hired for her deep knowledge and connections in the industry. It's not implausible to think she might even be responsible for a delay in sales in order to optimize products for sale.
Whatever the case, buyers should rejoice at the low prices while traders and other sellers mourn - except for that dang vulture feeding at the trough.
JMO.
Best, Terry
Is there anything in life today accepted as fact without the typical debate no matter how ridiculous.
Statistics, the biggest liars of all.
"Lies, damn lies and statistics" - Mark Twain
The internet has magnified the voices of many who had no voices of note previously for good and ill.
But immortal truths accepted by nearly all still need a generation or two to lose their hold.
For one such absolute truth that is little more than mythology is that a giant space rock collided with earth and wiped out the dinosaurs and most everything else overnight.
A Nobel prize was awarded for that imaginary fact. The collision was real. The last great extinction was the result of volcanic activity you can see memorialized in Craters of the Moon national park near Yellowstone's super volcano that will be a bad un' when it blows but not going to cause worldwide extinction like the giant space rock didn't.
It will take a generation or two or three for newscasters and pop scientists and teachers and mommies and daddies to stop telling lies to the kiddies about a space invader - and by then there may be a new debunking.
So it goes to quote famed biologist Kurt Vonnegut.
Best, Terry
Connyank,Game:
Dietitian Advice:
Never eat a polar bears liver!
Cute they maybe, but deadly to eat! Last night, The Polar Bear Family & Me was on BBC Two and since it also happens to be Liver Awareness month I thought I would share this top tip with you: Never Eat a Polar Bears Liver. Now okay, not likely to happen down the high street, but should you find yourself in this unusual circumstance be warned!
So why is it so lethal? Arctic predators such as polar bears have a greater capacity to store vitamin A in their liver than most other animals.
http://www.121dietitian.com/never-eat-a-polar-bears-liver/
Funny thing about that.
Back when mothers and fathers and teachers and even dietitians - if there were any - knew everything, polar bear livers were also full of Vitamin D because polar bears lived where there was little sunshine and even idjits knew sun caused sunburn that could kill even before little boys and girls developed melanoma.
Suddenly dietitians, who still know more than scientists and doctors and real people, find that the pseudo-race of people blessed with a healthy pallor who should stay out of the deathly sun rays or wear heavy woolen clothing for protection while choking down Vitamin D pills but getting Vitamin A by way of beta carotene pro-vitamin from deadly non-organic fruits and vegetables should be avoided totally no matter the cost.
Science marches on.
Best, Terry
"Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you."
http://www.satchelpaige.com/quote2.html
Best, Terry
Anybody here old enough to remember the One-Decision stocks, the Nifty Fifty, the most vaunted of all foolish flights to safety that ended the way all crazes end?
Maybe there is a weird crazed epidemic of Alzheimer's here or something or maybe my memory is too long but a clue we are here again perhaps is signaled by Buffett buying Apple while dogs are beginning to bark?
So why is LWLG one of the sad sacks with the diminishing food chain line pining for a PR?
My money would be on the vulture eating LWLG's liver were I a betting man?
I'm not one because I don't have faith in fortune tellers.
Just speculating on the cuff.
Best, Terry
Proto,
yup, Nature is so prolific they even featured Lumera's Proteomic Processor technology
Scientific truth is ephemeral as opposed to religious truth which is eternal but always wrong.
Those on the frontiers of science are forever making new discoveries that may destroy older theory - including honored law.
Sometimes mythology prevails over science for a lengthy period but there is no reason to believe false doctrine.
Newton was reportedly much prouder of being a leading alchemist than a physicist and his religious theories could have lost him his head. And then even Newton's most profound laws were corrected by Einstein.
https://blog.oup.com/2014/07/ten-myths-about-isaac-newton/
Such is the lot of humans in an imperfect world.
Has no one informed you before?
Nature science journal.
Nature is a British multidisciplinary scientific journal, first published on 4 November 1869. It was ranked the world's most cited scientific journal by the Science Edition of the 2010 Journal Citation...
https://tinyurl.com/yaxz5hcd
You are free to believe in comic books, message boards, fortune cookies or whatever grabs you and hopefully will not have to fear of having your head chopped off as Newton did and some in even today's world do.
Enjoy.
Best, Terry
Proto,
Plastic has been around longer than the manmade crystals and is found even in nature.
Some is most assuredly on the cutting edge.
Nature is not some outhouse wipe from a newstand filled with girlie magazines but a genuine science journal.
It might pay to broaden your horizons and lose the sneer but that is up to you.
Best, Terry
Not of much value and sorry if already posted.
Sure of that are you, Wise?
Looks to me like the cutting edge that some of our highly praised competition are aiming for.
Photonic crystals
Photonic crystals are periodic optical structures that can control the flow of light. Multiple reflections from surfaces separated by a distance similar to the wavelength prevent an optical beam from propagating through the crystal. Photonic crystal devices can therefore force light around sharp bands or even trap it entirely.
https://www.nature.com/subjects/photonic-crystals
What am I missing?
Best, Terry
Inversor,
If Buffett followed his modern day advice as a young man like myself, his net worth would be probably 1/4 of what it is now. Maybe less. His mantra is directed at the masses; "do as I say, not as I did."
I don't want to argue with you because I am not remotely a disciple of Buffett's seemingly unique ability to feed on tired old cash cows
but I can point out his romantic yearning to be facing the future again with limited resources but shorn of spies and inability to operate freely.
Leopards don't so easily lose their spots.
An unlikely pairing with the "Warren Buffett of Biotech," Phillip Frost, reveals another billionaire investor but one at the far end of the spectrum from his friend building his fortune largely on wildly speculative penny biotechs.
I wish you all the luck in the world and know of no reason to doubt you will be as successful as celebrated old men well past their prime.
None may have been more successful than the Witch of Wall Street, but Hetty Green deserved and got all the pain she delivered and more.
Best, Terry
I looked into whether the military might be subject to less stringent FDA guidelines
Surely you jest.
Maybe you remember when military were being court-martialed for refusing untested vaccines in Iraq. There were - casualties. No word on benefits as far as I know.
Osteoarthritis seems odd as one for military testing. Unlike rheumatoid arthritis which is a true disease with the immune system attacking the body it is supposed to protect, osteo- is the result of the body wearing out. Cartilage connections in the joints loses its elasticity. Cartilage capping increasingly brittle bone ends develops holes.
Surely a job for AgeX one would think but we have seen "miracle" results in our dog from a pill that simply increases the flow of lubricants to the joints that NSAIDS and steroids tend to dry up. Bizarrely it is obvious to us she still has the arthritis but she has regained much of the vigor she had as an indoor whirlwind Border Collie pup pain-free.
Maybe the Hindus are right about many paths to salvation.
Best, Terry
Sure glad investors are so bored here
No investor should be.
Are you talking about gamblers waiting for another number to come up as opposed to investors seeing this long ago dream finally showing signs of life again.
Rode to Reno [Reno was still a big gambling center then as well as a place for divorces in more puritanical times] with Big Foot Thompson, an old buckaroo who spent a couple years wages waiting for the right number to come up on whatever boring game he was playing. I never knew and don't care to know what the game was. What a bore. There wasn't even a lever to pull.
Big Foot blew his brains out in his trailer a couple years later. Boredom was too much, I guess, after all. I bet the cleaning lady would have loved to finish him off if there were anything to finish off.
Science still draws big crowds with or without the lure of money. You might try it sometime. It isn't boring at all. And then you will know what the photon in photonics is as opposed to the light wave that Lightwave isn't about.
Dr. Lebby could help you out if you let him.
Apologies in advance if you understand what a photon is. Many of your friends here don't know and get mad about anyone trying to tell them.
Best, Terry
TZ lied about having then couldn’t get a security clearance when they used to hand them out like candy.
If you had ever had a security clearance, you would know that clearances are not handed out like candy.
Secret clearances are only records checks with whatever followup might be done for black marks but I expect the paper work is still a gawdawful pain.
Used to see one poor fellow with an interim Top Secret clearance in our office regularly in Vietnam with more questions sent to him to be answered. His parents had died early and of a brood of 7 children, 5 belonged to what way back then were know as Communist front organizations; e.g., the Abraham Lincoln League, the Wobblies, etc.
Bob [just a handle] and a younger sister moved out from the other 5, as children yet, and had no more contact with them. It seemed to me proof Bob was no Commie but fussbudgets that run security from D.C. have the usual onerous requirements and one of those was that at least one personal acquaintance be found that didn't like the subject of investigation. If that acquaintance couldn't say or show anything too bad, the clearance was granted.
There was a problem. The FBI could find nobody anywhere that didn't love Bob except the Commies and the FBI wasn't going to take their word. The soap opera continued on and on until I left.
The Admiral should have been notified and given an exit interview before his clearance lapsed. Mine was by a secretary who said she was just told to do whatever she was supposed to do but had no idea what that was and that was it.
I can see where even the most fastidious might forget such an exit interview.
Hey, Pumpkin, I am so glad you gave me the chance to defend The Admiral to prove my sterling character to all.
Thank you.
Best, Terry
Proto,
Wow Terry, your comprehension of my post seems about at a first grade level or less
Read both posts again.
You are an intelligent and decent fellow.
I am sure you will want to apologize but it is not necessary.
Best, Terry
IDCCfan,
we will concurrently explore the benefits of bringing compound semiconductor technologies such as GaAs, GaN, lithium niobate, and silicon carbide into PIC development programs
Respectfully, that looks bassakwards to me.
Adapting the polymers to other materials and technologies is obviously quite rational but whether it is the best path is a very different question.
An American energy pioneer developed the most potent, greenest, cheapest energy source on earth - far greater than all others combined. Mother Earth her own self radiates far more energy out into space every hour of every day than all the other energy utilized on earth. It all originates from Mother's own internal sun, so to speak. Radioactive decay occurs throughout the mantle and crust as well as the molten core.
Developed, not invented. The conversion to electricity was invented in Italy and then left as a small novelty. Iceland converted itself from "the Poor Man of Europe" to an enormously rich country by utilizing the American development. Other poor countries are attempting the same but that's too expensive for America, which prefers the high cost dilletantes, wind and solar, offering sometime energy.
One hilarious solution to the sometime energy problem adopted in The Philippines, in one instance, was to use geothermal's always on [baseload] energy generation to fill in the blanks.
And Mother's unused energy when the sun is shining and the wind not blowing? Funny you should ask.
Best, Terry
So, Proto, your judgment that $3billion plus for a dud fad and a tiny fraction of that for a coming revolution in computing is about right and anybody that doubts you is nuts?
Interesting.
Best, Terry
Rkf302,
Critic is a quite useful and honorable profession but I am sure you meant cynic which is generally held in low repute but what is one to make of your mangled syntax?
From the foremost lexicographer:
CYNIC, n.
A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. Hence the custom among the Scythians of plucking out a cynic's eyes to improve his vision. - The Devil's Dictionary
How I wish I were yet a septuagenerian. I guess your kindergarten math teachers weren't too swift either even at a much younger age.
I am, sir, an enthusiastic supporter of LWLG and its splendid CEO and supporting cast.
I shudder to think what you might be. Have you read up yet on what a photon is?
Best, Terry
PepsiCo to buy SodaStream for $3.2 billion
https://tinyurl.com/y7m4jryr
Consumer review of new "bottle-your own soda pop" fad machine:
Placing the bottle up into the fitting at the top of the machine and holding it there doesn't seal it good enough.No matter how firmly I try to hold the bottle against the machine it leaks water all over the place before reaching the third lights...
https://tinyurl.com/y7x2emhd
Sounds like the soda pop bottler might be better used for watering the lawn which is more than you can say for a tiny superfast, cool photonic computer whenever LWLG gets around to building one.
Theoretically Pepsi could have bought LWLG at its current market cap of ~$85M but it would probably be really lousy for watering the lawn or trying to compete with lemonade stands which could account for the difference in market value.
Best, Terry
Inversor has outperformed Buffett on lightwave Logic on a realized basis and an unrealized basis. With his own money...
Willie Sutton outperformed both with just a gun.
Bernie Madoff topped all three without ever buying a share of stock and our great leader made billions by going bankrupt.
Maybe there are private records showing Inversor has more money than the reported richest man in the world with mostly selected killings - Vladimir Putin - but even there the records are also secret.
My brother lives in a town once famous for returning billions on a $40K investment. Ken Olsen took down the Armonk Monster with that start before he had anything more than an idea and later was bought out before he went bankrupt.
We sure would love to hear more about this great feat but I fear Inversor is too modest to provide records of his enormous accomplishment. I am surprised myself X made a ton of money as LWLG declined $8 to pennies without a single sale but we know no one here is a fibber except me and fake news.
Best, Terry
Phillip Frost, from the 2ndQ teleconference:
[Remember when everybody but Frost knew he needed to dump that dang fool BRL acquisition? For the record, I will agree Frost may have been laggardly in firing the head honcho but that is hardly a given.]
Let’s start with our clinical diagnostic business, BioReference Laboratories, or BRL, which is the country’s third largest reference lab. We are pleased to report sequential quarter gains in revenues. As Phil noted, we are very pleased to see good early momentum for BRL under the leadership of Geoff Monk.
From an operations perspective, we remain particularly excited about the potential for BRL GeneDx subsidiary, which continues to demonstrate growth and innovation in this high complexity exome and related tests.
For the second quarter, GeneDx achieved a 38% year-over-year increase in exome-based testing volumes. As an impressive milestone in June, GeneDx announced that they had performed clinical exome sequencing on more than 100,000 individuals, representing one of the largest cohort sequence exomes by an independent clinical laboratory in the world.
The achievement also greatly expands the database of known clinically relevant genetic variants used as tools to help diagnose rare diseases. GeneDx continues to be a BRL standout as we have helped discover and contribute to phenotypic understanding of more than 62 novel disease genes in the last three years alone. In addition to its exome and genome test, GeneDx continues to post growth in its overall product portfolio with year-over-year volume growth of more than 13%.
During Q2, GeneDx finalized a major overhaul of its clinically-driven testing menu and launched 20 new tests and also revised an updated 51 tests. During the remainder of this year, GeneDx plans to launch an additional 36 tests and we’ll revise and update 57 more tests. These tests were selected based on specific clinical needs and reimbursement potential.
For anybody struggling with the technical wording (like myself), I emphasized a sentence that crosses over into the ELOX moonshot that I stumbled over badly.
Phenotypic understanding????
I think most here have at least a reasonable understanding of the difference between phenotypes [appearance] and genomic classificaton [that is forgotten altogether when discussing spurious races such as black and white] but phenotypic understanding of genes?
I think - think, mind you - Frost is alluding to only a surface knowledge of particular genes that will always need more study.
It's a bed of thorns scientists dwell in but where is the satisfaction in success greater than in medicine?
The money isn't bad either.
Best, Terry
Animal,
I expect you are right on most or all counts - except the reverse split.
A reverse split is a matter of survival - for continuation of a con game or a struggle of honest management. No one earns a reverse split. I have seen companies with valuable assets destroyed by vultures inveighing against a reverse split.
I do not intend to attack you personally in any way and am surprised even by lawyers[?] requesting donations for a fight against purported crooks.
It is news to me - and I expect most stockholders - that a reverse split has been proposed as I long ago gave this mess up for likely dead.
Best, Terry
Hard to argue with your successful use of your own capital
Only to true believers who are beyond rational argument.
Two words are a powerful argument against the traders; not conclusive, mind you, but quite rational:
Warren Buffett.
Best, Terry
Electric car manufacturers get government subsidies, because they are not otherwise marketable.
Sure, Pochemunyet, but they are hardly alone.
LWLG not only has to fight inertia but monopolization. And then when it gets to be a giant itself, it can be a monopolist of the worst kind too like the overnight sensation Google.
This is not meant as some kind of anti-capitalist jeremiad but only a fact of life.
Actual socialism is far worse. In Vietnam during my time there, Ho Chi Minh decided to organize the peasantry into collective farms like the real commie countries were doing but the bloodshed in the very beginning in the midst of real war frightened even him. The peasants won.
I think LWLG's current state of technology is clearly superior to competition like many forms of internal combustion engines to electric cars but it needs good management and patient investors to prove its worth.
JMO.
Best, Terry
Don't the revered ladies and gentlemen of the FDA care about the ghastly rise in illicit drug overdose deaths?
There are real solutions to the opioid crisis
Public health and drug policy experts say there are solutions to the crisis. First, America could dramatically expand access to addiction treatment — which, based on a 2016 surgeon general report, remains inaccessible to the bulk of people who need it. That would in part entail dramatically boosting access to medications like methadone, buprenorphine, and naltrexone, which are considered the gold standard of treatment for opioid addiction and reduce the mortality rate among opioid addiction patients by half or more.
When France relaxed restrictions on doctors prescribing buprenorphine in response to its own opioid crisis in 1995, the number of people in treatment rose and overdose deaths fell by 79 percent over the following four years.
Beyond treatment, prescribers could also cut back on opioid painkiller prescriptions — to ensure fewer people who misuse the drugs can get them, while still ensuring patients who truly need them get access.....
https://tinyurl.com/ybb3bj7d
The FDA rejected INSY's NDA [new drug application] for a more salubrious form of buprenorphine for saving the lives of overdose victims because it is too dangerous.
Dangerous to who?
The funeral parlors, mortuaries, flower vendors, private prisons and chapels of America should be donating to the esteemed ladies and gentlemen of the FDA.
JMO.
Best, Terry
ahab333,
Very interesting. This is something I found that again suggests differences in individuals:
Kefir for IBS. Recent research at Monash University has found kefir to be high in FODMAPs, which may result in triggering IBS symptoms in some individuals. However, if you can tolerate kefir, it is likely that you will be enhancing both your digestive and overall health.Oct 11, 2017
https://tinyurl.com/ycdfxfg4
Thank you for your kind thoughts and have a great weekend.
Best, Terry
Ahab,
It was just particularly personal for me.
Consider this that just happened:
My wife just got a prescription from a rheumatologist for pain and the druggist absolutely refused to fill the prescription. Both the pharmacist and rheumatologist saw the notation of allergy to aspirin.
The rheumatologist is dead against ibuprofen - which Europeans refuse to approve. I think that much is admirable but my wife doesn't just get a rash or something. Normal use of aspirin once caused internal bleeding that was scary to doctors and nurses at a hospital.
Conceivably the aspirin hidden in the lingo could have been fatal.
The more you learn, particularly in biology, the less you know.
Way of things.
Best, Terry
Wow. You buy AND sell shares?
Almost in a class with
"The only people who buy at the bottom and sell at the top are liars" - Bernard Baruch
That dreadful Baruch, accused by many of calling the Great Depression besides calling hordes of traders prevaricators used to sit on a bench outside the White House where the most hated man in America, Harry Truman, liked to come and chat with him.
Different times for sure but even Baruch sweated blood over advising the most beloved man in America, Will Rogers, to sell all his stocks, pay all his bills and raise as much cash as possible in the summer of 1929.
The dang fool, Will Rogers, did just as he was told. The market soared like never before or after for months and even Baruch was buying before a certain day in October.
Thanks, Rkf.
Best, Terry
My oh my, how the mighty fall down:
Tesla’s Elon Musk describes ‘excruciating’ year, says ‘worst is yet to come’
Please understand - try anyway - I have nothing against Elon Musk, doubt he is crooked though even your revered government will probably try to put him in the hoosegow.
I think the whole move to electric cars is an atrocious blunder. For a small hint of my thinking, a car was driven coast to coast on cow manure and returned - when else did BS clean up the environment while powering a vehicle?
Short term LWLG and its CEO and his compadre Leonberger remain largely invisible and will not have a huge impact even in the unlikely event they shoot the moon with patched up spare tires IMO. They will make a huge contribution if they make electronic computers obsolete with light.
For completeness only this a link to the Elon Musk blurb:
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/teslas-elon-musk-describes-excruciating-year-says-worst-is-yet-to-come-2018-08-17
All JMO.
Would love to discuss reasoned objections to my flawed vision but my age and personal failings are of no great interest.
Best, Terry
Oh, and I've been here over 12 years, hardly a "quick sale"
It makes no difference if you have held a stock for 5 minutes or a hundred years, a seller is a seller and not a cellar that holds stuff in storage.
I know people take pride in high value holdings even when it only means they get to pay higher taxes. People are more illogical than logical but a seller is always a seller and a buyer is always a buyer even if they can reverse course in a microsecond.
Best, Terry
So when will updates on all of the significant progress be shared with investors? I would venture to say soon, but at latest by ECOC in September
Looking for a quick sale?
I forget [please forgive aging memory ) who posted they loved the vulture funding because it kept the price and allowed cheap buying.
Gotta admit to appreciation of strategy but not admirable for long term investing.
Worse - however understandable - is the constant pleading for lighting the rocket with minimal understanding.
JMO.
Best, Terry
Ahab,
This is a separate release picked up by my broker:
BioTime to Present Data at the Military Health System Research Symposium
BioTime, Inc. (NYSE American: BTX), a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on degenerative diseases, today announced that it will be presenting a poster at the Military Health System Research Symposium (MHSRS) from August 20-23, 2018 in Kissimmee, Florida.
The poster presentation is titled, "Next generation disease modifying viscosupplementation to delay or prevent invasive surgery in combat-related Post Traumatic Osteoarthritis (PTOA)." Dr. Thomas Zarembinski, PhD, MBA and Head of External R&D for BioTime will present the data on Tuesday, August 21(st) during the Extremity and Craniomaxillofacial Regeneration session.
The poster describes the ability of a novel DNA-based small molecule to decrease cartilage degradation and turnover normally associated with osteoarthritis as well as the ability of BioTime's proprietary HyStem(R) drug delivery platform to modulate its release over an extended period.
Hystem(R) is BioTime's proprietary hydrogel platform that is designed to facilitate the delivery of cells and molecules. When delivering molecules, it can slowly release the compound in the target area over an extended period of time potentially providing several advantages such as longer term therapeutic benefit. The delivery of cells and molecules is a core area of focus for BioTime. "The data being presented is encouraging and allows BioTime to further explore potential disease modifying therapies for the treatment of osteoarthritis," said Dr. Zarembinski, Head of External R&D for BioTime.
It's getting harder and harder for me to tell much of the technology from the two companies apart. The particular description of treatment for osteoarthritis presents another elusive dream for my wife's particularly nightmarish fast degeneration with osteoarthritis that is s'posed to be slow:
From the intern?,helper?,nurse practitioner? rheumatologist:
"You certainly don't need a knee replacement, maybe you have an allergy to the hyaluronic acid or the other steroid, I have a new one..."
Obviously not a real quote but most tantalizing of all is that all pain and other debilitating effects of osteoarthritis was removed from our Border Collie who was on her deathbed by a daily veterinary prescribed pill that warns it is not for humans. It is a vastly different technology from a complex drug known about for over a decade.
And on and on the merry-go-round circles around.
Best, Terry
License deals is the way to go
Everybody knows that but what everybody knows is often wrong.
The first trillion dollar company broke all the rules. Apple isn't real hot on bending to any rules and when it did with the hugely applauded MBA it nearly went bust.
I have noticed the smartest managers hire good people and let them do their job.
The ultimate proof of that is in a book by a man who rescued Avis from destruction by most unusual means.
Some of those things were firing whole departments and initiating a rule that any employee thinking a new form was needed had only to bring it to his office for him to fill out. No new form was ever needed.
The ultimate was when he contacted the CEO of Avis' hired ad agency to ask if that second best thingy was a real spiffy idea. That boss said it sure sounded hokey to him but his professionals thought it was a real winner.
So the two head honchos let the professionals do their job and history was made for those that care about such things.
Best, Terry
wickerman,
XSPA another stock that should be on the pinks.
I believe it soon will be. I don't think even a large reverse split can save it without a huge gain somehow.
Is there any prospect for very large gains?
- I think some but very slim.
JMO.
Best, Terry
Another supporting hilarity:
Dow tumbles nearly 300 points amid reignited Turkish-lira worries
https://tinyurl.com/ya9yj7fe
Kurds could be dancing in the streets.
Best, Terry
Yeehaw, more doom and gloom from the peanut techie gallery:
https://www.barchart.com/stocks/quotes/LWLG/opinion
Hey, I didn't say this was the best [or worst] of the fortune tellers. I never bothered much with fortune tellers except the one in Vietnam that told a newly arrived G.I. he would be sent back home in a week. He struck the mother lode that time when the fellow got sent home with a compassionate discharge ordered by an ultra-rare, maybe unique, spontaneous act of decency by Gen. Hanging Sam.
Can't rely on such rarities for anything but a great stock with a scientific tiger by the tail with superb management falling out of bed with catcalls from the bleachers, limp prices, discouraged shareholders, low volume is a dream come true for us non-believers.
Wish I had some change to buy.
Best, Terry
Invasion of the body snatchers.
Another "activist" fund that took a hefty [~40%] position in a wild biotech spinoff that is fixing to cure aging headed by the scientist that discovered telomeres responsible for aging. This is before all the paperwork is done, details negotiated, etc.
Scared me but a close look at the fund shows they are quite deeply involved already with greatly accomplished scientists rather than junior MBA's.
Maybe PETX's "partnership" will be very good or even neutral but I consider the MBA's more likely overhead burden than fuel.
We will see.
Best, Terry
Invasion of the body snatchers.
Another "activist" fund that took a hefty [~40%] position in a wild biotech spinoff that is fixing to cure aging headed by the scientist that discovered telomeres responsible for aging. This is before all the paperwork is done, details negotiated, etc.
Scared me but a close look at the fund shows they are quite deeply involved already with greatly accomplished scientists rather than junior MBA's.
Maybe PETX's "partnership" will be very good or even neutral but I consider the MBA's more likely overhead burden than fuel.
We will see.
Best, Terry
18 years experience in the industry, 2 months logger, where do you put your focus?
Logger.
Have you ever seen loggers in a roller skating rink?
- Frightening. The whole place shuddered when one of those monsters hit the floor trying to do a pirouette.
You don't get that kind of action in a lab unless a damn fool chemist blows the place up or an organic chemist causes a stampede with their stinky-pew.
I really am curious about what he does as a "Timberline Forestry Specialist," not that it has anything in particular to do with his work for Lightwave. Knew a watchmaker who didn't do so swell at his job when he was also digging post holes and clearing land. Probably should have stuck with his still.
Best, Terry
Logger!?!
Man of many parts.
Best, Terry