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do you guys think jeeters and the rest of the yankees turned this game off already?
i cant imagine an umpire being displeased about an innovation that would lead to a more accurately called game.well now becket ought to be available for game four.
i would be very surprised to see these cleveland bats stay dormant for four straight...would be a nice dream for me though.
i cant wait for the day when they put a rfid in the ball and over home plate to ensure that the strike call is totally completely as perfect as possible...umps ought to be very happy to be able to be a part of a more perfectly called game, its not personal its in keeping with what their assignment is.
i am always glad to see the yankees win...as long as they arent beating the redsox. the yankees are ruth gherig dimagio and mantel....and thats not hard to like even if they wore yankee uniforms.
i think this series with cleveland could prove to be a tough one if cleveland pitching shows up strong, the one factor that may do them in is the young team choke factor which does not seem to be affecting the rockies in the least.
lets see...david ortiz manny ramirez jason varitek curt shilling, wakefield, youkilis,
right there you pretty much have the heart of the team and dont forget francona.
enjoy the playoffs.
what did you think i was referrring to? i think you must be seeing something else in a yankee fan that i hadnt noticed.
i have enjoyed redsox yankee games ever since i can remember. the redsox team that won the o4 pennant is pretty near the same as this years team, they ought to be able to remember that victory and relish in it since its practically the same team.
the redsox have had a great past as far as i can recall, always right there fighting it out.
besides look at what winning all of those pennants has done to yankee fans.
lol enjoy the playoffs.
yankee fans prefer to live in the past because the present and the future are too painful to contemplate, so they distract themselves by not facing the real world. because in the real world its all about the rockies and the dbacks and the RedSox and the injuns.
arizona fans ought to have screamed and booed if they didnt like the call just to put the umps on notice that they better watch more closely. umps need to be put on notice also from time to time.
throwing junk on the field ought to be reserved for when an entire game has been called terribly by an ump...baseball isnt cricket and we dont pretend to be anything but fair.
who is going to stop the rockies? they are a scrappy bunch of guys that just make contact with the ball and wash it down with beer instead of choke.
i think if you want to play at the same level as the rockie right now, a team is going to have to start to play some very aggressive baseball, they are going to need to bunt often and steal bases and try to throw the rockys pitchings timing off and send a message that were taking the gloves of and going mano a mano. any other kind of ball isnt going to intimidate these guys.
i imagine you all saw this but just in case. they are either ignorant or fearless, the dreaded they.
short interest aver daily days to cover
Sep. 28, 2007 2,816,917 274,630 10.26
Sep. 14, 2007 2,866,417 180,595 15.87
i appreciate your explanation dewophile.
if this regulatory body doesnt give jav a response today or tomorrow does that then mean that we have to wait until next month?
the oct meetings were the 11th and 12th only so today or tomorrow are the days of reckoning as far as this month goes.
i have a question, if we do not get the release today does this mean that we have to await the next meeting in early nov to hope to get the news?
if so then i ought to better prepare myself for the possible near term shakeout of weak holders as they like to say around the establishment.
like idix this stock has never acted in line with its story.
from the very beginning i noticed how whenere it was brought forth it would not follow through. i was lucky enough to have bought some at 4.10ish but im skeptical.
that jav chart ought to give us an idea of the approximating event, i expect it to at least be near 5.75 just prior to it and waiting for volume to help it leap accross that boundary. Ideally for us, itll be chomping at the bit to break out above the 7.20ish just prior to the release of news, but at the very least the mkt ought to be bringing it to that 5.75 boundary.
just hoping
well you do have a history of having called ir at cobalis on the 27th of april and when they told you that there was a pr upcoming on monday the 30th the pr did appear.
id say you called.
thanks for the update.
if jim cramer says he manipulated stock prices its good enough for me.
dont drink the coolaid.
Dew, are you still bullish on idenix? why havent you soured on them like you did with dndn? i really was surprised to see them on your long/watch list.
i remember in the past you believed that idix shares were worth 13ish sans hcv nm283, is that still your belief?
my mom is being invited to join an up and coming globeimmune trial, the prior one was a flop for her...her docs pretty much do not have anything else to offer her for hcv treatment.
ot..so as a redsox fan, who would you pick as the sox opponent if they were able to get the best record in the amer league?
what is worrying to me as a stockholder is that even though we ought to be on the verge of a news event there is no sign of a leak of info and if we could make the case for one it would be on the side that favors a negative outcome...
bought a little more this am on perceived weakness.
i'm out in holland pa........but lived down in naples fla prior..thats redsox country in the spring....
in all my years of living the life of a redsox fan ...this year just doesnt stand out over any other.
they have more ways to make the impossible possible than houdini.
ought to be a good matchup tonight....i would like to see the redsox end up with a hundred wins but that is probably hoping for a bit much. I'm liking the excitement these rookies are playing with.
on another note the only thing i can say about jd drew is that i hope his postseason play is not a reflection of this seasons performance, and even if he hit the winning homerun in the last game of the series id use the opportunity to sell his overpaid self as fast as an investors sells the shares of a biotech company that just reported a failed phase iii.
so do you mean that there are no stocks that are manipulated by a concerted affort?
jim cramer would beg to differ..there are a lot of they's out there, behind the curtain like the wizard of ozz according to him.
In about every presidential administration for the last three decades the vile underbelly of an Executive-Branch organization spills out into the open. Right now an implosion is in progress at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that could fully expose not only its phony pretense as a protector of the public's health but the agency as a dangerous and dictatorial handmaiden of a federally protected drug industry.
http://www.mises.org/story/1805
"beware intellectuals, not merely should they be kept well away from the levers of power, they should also be objects of particular suspicion when they seek to offer collective advise, beware committees conferences and leagues of intellectuals, distrust their public statements issued from their serried ranks, discount their verdicts on political leaders and important events. For intellectual far from being highly individualistic and non conformist people follow certain regular patterns of behavior, taken as a group they are often ultra conformist within the circles formed by those whose approval they seek and value, that is what makes them en masse so dangerous, for it enables them to create climates of opinion and prevailing orthodoxes which themselves often generate irrational and destructive causes of action"
Bureaucratic management, as distinguished from profit management, is the method applied in the conduct of administrative affairs the result of which has no cash value on the market.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/lora/m.lora38.html
~ Ludwig von Mises
When it comes to our health, one would assume that the government is there to protect us through reasonable and sensible regulations. This is, however, far from the truth. The FDA in particular has been the cause of misery for those who have been unable to legally seek cures and treatment, the result of which ranges anywhere from health complications to death.
Abigail Burroughs, seen here before cancer ravaged her body, died at age 21 after pleading unsuccessfully to use a promising drug called Erbitux, then in final clinical trials but not yet approved by the FDA. Months after Abigail's death, the FDA granted approval amid geysers of self-laudatory praise for making the "life-saving" drug available. Rather than tracking down and beating the tax-fattened bureaucrats who helped kill his daughter – as he was morally entitled to do – Abigail's father Frank created the Abigail Alliance for Better Access to Developmental Drugs.
It's not that often that we can say with perfect confidence that a judicial ruling will lead directly to the needless agonizing deaths of innocent people. The U.S. Court of Appeals for Washington, D.C. handed down just such a ruling (.pdf) in a case brought against the FDA by the Abigail Alliance for Better Access to Developmental Drugs.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/grigg/grigg-w29.html
noone seems to refute your statements...they prefer to bash you, than to take on the data being presented...even the guys who have followed these shares for a while arent able to present an argument against it...this companys share price hasnt plummeted to these levels because they can sell sensors.
look at that chart...yikes.
akam is the canary in the coal mine for this mkt runup......2007 r.i.p
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Before the U.S. House of Representatives on May 2, 2007
Madam Speaker, I rise to introduce the Health Freedom Protection Act. This bill restores the First Amendment rights of consumers to receive truthful information regarding the benefits of foods and dietary supplements by codifying the First Amendment standards used by federal courts to strike down the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) efforts to censor truthful health claims. The Health Freedom Protection Act also stops the Federal Trade Commissions (FTC) from censoring truthful health care claims.
The American people have made it clear they do not want the federal government to interfere with their access to dietary supplements, yet the FDA and the FTC continue to engage in heavy-handed attempts to restrict such access. The FDA continues to frustrate consumers' efforts to learn how they can improve their health even after Congress, responding to a record number of constituents' comments, passed the Dietary Supplement and Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA). FDA bureaucrats are so determined to frustrate consumers' access to truthful information that they are even evading their duty to comply with four federal court decisions vindicating consumers' First Amendment rights to discover the health benefits of foods and dietary supplements.
fda
how skewed is this view of the fda?
http://www.counterpunch.org/
When Regulators Become Enablers
Inside Bush's FDA
By EVELYN PRINGLE
Americans need to stop and consider how many consumers will be killed and injured by dangerous drugs by the time George Bush heads back to Texas at the end of his Presidency, as a direct result of his allowing the interests of the pharmaceutical industry to take control of the FDA.
Dew would you care to revist your bullish scenario for tyzeka in light of its perforfance thus far...i would be interested in seeing how you think your initial bullish scenario and expectations are playing out and maybe you can shed some light on how your bearish scenario might be playing a role.
below is your prior bullish expectation...
What about Tyzeka’s market share in the above countries in 2010? I see the market being split approximately 1/3 for BMY’s Baraclude, 1/3 for Tyzeka, and 1/3 for everything else. The latter group includes residual sales of such older drugs as Lamivudine and Hepsera, early ramps of such newer drugs as Viread and Clevudine, and a small share for Pegasys. (I am figuring no market share for Anadys’ ANA975 or ANA380.)
Appling the assumed 1/3 market share to the projected $1.5B HBV market in the specified countries gives $500M in projected annual sales for Tyzeka. IDIX’s share of the 50/50 JV with NVS would be half of this or $250M. At a typical pharmaceutical margin, IDIX can be expected to net about $75M pre-tax from these sales.
To the above, one must add the royalties IDIX stands to earn on Tyzeka sales by NVS in the rest of the world, most importantly Japan and China. If this adds $50M in 2010, it would bring IDIX’s annual pre-tax net income from the overall Tyzeka program to about $125M.
if nm never existed you would never have had the overenthusiasm (high stock price), and the overeaction (failed high expectations).
Then without the nm 283 catalyst acting on the stock price, the hbv drug would have gone through the same type of overexpectation mechanism, and underdelivery mechanism, of a market trying to settle on a fair value for a share of the underlying stock. thats my take on it, albeit at much lower mkt valuation than a company with two promising drug canditates ready to start procuding revenue.
nvs paying up for the license and jp somadosi buying a hundred grand worth of stock misled me into believing that the shorts were unaware of the seemingly evident.
live and learn...but i respect shorts way more.
my initial entry into this investment was due to my mothers hcv condition so i was easily impressed by the great arguments put forth here by the punditry.
the market is being pretty efficient on idenix today......i had bought into the nm283 solution and spent more than a year invested in this stock with little to show for the time invested, i heeded someones advise a few months back and was thus spared from the debacle....as i have said in the past, i have greater respects for shorts since the idenix experience.
as to my mothers hepatitis c......well the globeimmune study was as succesful as most biotech dreams.....not at all....i have submitted her name to several companies who run trials but have only received a response from vertex thus far.
beware of shorts ...caveat emptor
Dew taking up on your idea of credibility...i measure this credibility quotient instead of by exclamation marks, by the stocks they follow which have performed in a positive way, instead of by exclamation marks. One of my fav stocks i discovered on this webpage was camh...at first it was a twenty five cent stock....it looked like a pennystock scam at first, then i spoke with a cardiologist friend and he said the idea was credible so i nibbled.....what did i know...matter of fact what does anyone really know? who really know what lurks behind the mounds of shares and press releases issued by a company?
i assess the value of those whom i read here based on this metric, and find it more helpful than devaluing a comment because it looks like hyping or, because i count too many exclamation marks after a word or a stock symbol.
there are a lot of very educated medical minds here, i am not one of them, so i cant judge by brilliance of argument.
a great weekend to all.
just trying to do my part and point out the obvious....there are still some who might not be as aware as you...
idenix, led my mumblemouth jp comadossi are vulture food...they have not been forthright regarding 283 for a while now...a negative indicator of what was lying under the surface of their pr's was that ever present huge short position which spoke volume for the nm283 results...nvs will get to buy them out in 2008 for a pittance...
no position since feb 07
jd drew yastrzemski is hitting all of 244 with less than a handfull of homers....does he still remind anyone of carl 8 yaz?
big waste of money.....but its still early in the season.
"Israel's biotech industry is stuck at the preclinical stage"
A special report by senior life science industry chiefs and investment group Glenrock paints a gloomy picture of the Israel's life science industry.
Gali Weinreb 17 May 07 16:18
On the face of it, Israel's biotech industry has never looked better. It is difficult to argue with the success of companies such as Omrix Biopharmaceuticals Ltd. (Nasdaq:OMRI), Colbar Life Science Ltd., and Quark Biotech, as well as the variety of new companies that have been sprouting up like mushrooms after rain, in complete disproportion to the size of Israel's population.
http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000212982
call your credit card company and freeze them out.