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In Orange County in litigation - Hopefully
that is actually happening - would mean at least Sam's lawyers or Sam is talking with us - hopefully he wants more and will work with us - at least a chance I think.
I did call on Tuesday and she said Paul was not available as he was in a board meeting of sorts - sounded important - only hoping I guess cause right now I am worth 3k - put 40k into it - sucks
Hard to invest in a company that does not even have a working phone system - what a joke
Does anyone know why they are not working in the Phillipines to convert the 2 and 3 wheel to natural gas - they have been approved for over a year.
TIA
pmunch - thks - also thks for the other
number I had a great talk with a guy who was very intelligent and gave me some good insight
HST Global, Inc. (OTCBB: HSTC) today announced a Partnership with Dr. James W. Forsythe to facilitate the development of a curriculum for the licensing and/or certification to administer Dr. Forsythe’s immune therapy in clinics to be built or acquired by HST Global, Inc
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This says to be in their own facilities
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According to the agreement, Dr. Forsythe and HST Global will be working together to manufacture, market and sell Dr. Forsythe’s Technologies under the trademark “FIT”. HST Global will be allowed to employ Dr. Forsythe’s image, expertise and related intellectual property. HST Global has acquired an exclusive license to manufacture, market and sell these products throughout the world and has obtained the exclusive right to use Dr. Forsythe’s identification and endorsement in connection with the marketing, sale and distribution of the FIT Technology Products.
Mr. Ron Howell, CEO and President of HST Global, Inc., stated, “This agreement significantly expands the relationship developed with Dr. Forsythe over the past two years. The company is poised to experience growth in 2010 through our current Wellness Clinic development strategies in Ecuador and Panama coupled with the marketing and sales of our line of nutraceutical products
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It appears now they feel that they will market nationwide - if I am reading this correctly - this stock has unlimited growth potential based on the success rate of Dr Forsythe's FIT regimen.
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Dr. Forsythe’s existing study is meeting with 70-80% efficacy in clinical treatment of Stage IV cancers in a test of 450 patients. The highlight of the study is in stage IV prostate cancer where they have met with 86% efficacy with prostate cancer patients over 55 months through the application of his “FIT” Protocol.
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Also I read somewhere that just normal chemo has a success rate of only around 2%
Does HSTC have IR Dept IF so # please
looking for an answer to if Dr. Forsyth FIT regimen will be only for their own wellness clinics or if they are trying to make this the standard for all physicians to use - complicated - I would assume for ALL.
TIA
Deal signed with Carpenter in Sept 2009
I wonder when will royalties come in and what is the projection from MHTX - it appears long term Carpenter would use MHTX product in almost everything = could be huge.
Would like to hear more on the dental side as well
Share structure not to bad - appears most of the float is in tight hands - should not need to make it any larger unless they buy another company.
I like what I see - just need to start digging for more info
Rain - with MHTX you posted
1) In December 2008, the FDA approved the use of MHTX’s nano-titanium alloy with dental implants. These implants are manufactured in the Company’s affiliated factory in Albuquerque, NM....U.S. Food and Drug Administration 510(k) clearance
2) We are in talks with many of the key manufacturers of dental implants and have signed material testing agreements with several manufacturers.
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Do you know is this something that is going through Carpenter or are we doing this on our own?
It seems this was a long time ago and we have not heard anything further about this - it would be huge if MHTX alloy became the standard.
TIA
That is the only thing that hurts the stock is the share structure - it was necessary but at the same time it hurts its ability to have a price of say .10-.20 too many shares out there for that. It would be very hard to justify a market cap of 100 million now or in the future.
Can anyone tell me why they think dollars+ here
Based on research I love the tight share structure with basically no float - I do see the wellness centers wil happen soon - maybe end of summer another one open - with 8-10 million gross revenue projected per unit...
I guess the biggest factor would be that if every physician would implement Dr. Forsyth FIT protocol even with chemo - as this will prolong life and be basically the holy grail of cancer survival - that would be the BIG payoff - as the stock would earn all of the monies since they own the rights.
Anything else
TIA
She just said that Paul has asked the attorneys to allow him to post the purchase agreement on the website - he is waiting for an answer - I am assuming he wants to show us it was done by a well qualified attorney and it was not just a handshake - basically would give him more credibility if he posted - I assume
Mangan _ do not think so - if Sam does not reply it will be very simple - if he does reply it still may be very simple - to at least give him the same PAIN we all have experienced.
My thoughts on this whole crazy situation - I call the office everyday and bother them as I am still in shock and frankly pissed - but I came to the realization today after to talking with the girl that answers the phone is this...
The agreement that Dr. Lee signed is as good as it gets and it was created by our attorney - attorneys know how to create documents and most of the time there is so much BS in them but in the end it will really protect you(Xtend)in situations like this - the hint I get from our office is that it was very detailed and specific and they are trying to clear with our attorneys so they can post it on the web site.
The other information I gathered from my conversations was that Dr. Lee has alot to lose - he is a dual citizen - he has property in Cali - he has a company in Korea - he is worth some very good sized CASH - that being said you have to think OK well what can happen to this guy -
He could have his assets frozen - he could never get the Bio-Harp to market. I said well what if a BIG Pharma is trying to get him to play ball with them - again she said that the AGREEMENT was very detailed and we are protected.
So my conclusion is that Dr. Lee will play ball and if he wants more we will probally come to the table and basically do whatever as long as it is somewhat reasonable - he has to much to lose
Anyone know when the FIT products will be available and if they announced a price point?
TIA
A bad review of TWELVE
experimenting with new superdrugs. Now it's a Sundance movie, by Joel Schumacher, starring Chace Crawford, Emma Roberts, Keifer Sutherland, and 50 Cent. And it sucks. Terribly.
Via Page Six this morning:
Post critic Kyle Smith reports from Sundance that audiences were giggling at the film's woefully earnest depiction of rich-kid depravity.
Now, "sucks," is, of course, a subjective assessment, and also, this is Kyle Smith we're talking about, so it's an especially subjective assessment, because as far as critics go, Kyle Smith isn't exactly Manohla Dargis. That said, a few reports from Sundance on this begin to form a small consensus. From a tracking board I'm on, where assistants share industry tips, someone put out a call for Sundance screeners. One response:
TWELVE is not worth chasing down, take it from someone who has seen it...
Another one:
I wish I had it to share so you could experience the suffering as well. I saw it in a small screening and I had to resist laughing/walking out it was so bad.
Of course, these are just industry assistants, but it's worth remembering that nobody in the industry wants to badmouth a big movie with important talent and major attachments, because they might need those things in a date to come. Reminder: this is why nobody who works in the film industry really "hates" anything openly.
Really though, these are just three voices, and they're by no means an indication of a shitty movie. That said, there's almost no way this movie can't be bad. How can it not?
When Twelve hit shelves in 2002, McDonnell's book was a publicist's dream:
There was Nick McDonell, the handsome young wunderkind.
There was Nick McDonell, the handsome young wunderkind, who knew what the fucked up kids were like.
There was Nick McDonell, the young author who—when he wasn't being compared to Bret Easton Ellis and Jay McInerney—was being interestingly blurbed by everyone from Hunter S. Thompson to Richard Price and Joan Didion.
There was Nick McDonell, who's Jennifer Egan-penned New York Times book review of his coming-of-age story about Upper East Side kids getting fucked up on a mysterious new superdrug called "Twelve" that's a cross between MDMA, heroin, and speed called McDonnell's writing an "authentic voice."
This was a few years after Cruel Intentions,
right around the time the adaptation of The Rules of Attraction came out,
when The OC was gearing up to make a bi-curious teenage lesbian out of Mischa Barton, though long after Kids showed Manhattan's unsupervised huffing balloons and getting AIDS.
And then there's Less Than Zero, which is almost the exact same book, but in LA, which Bret Easton Ellis wrote when he was in college.
See, teenagers being rebellious and fucked up is a universal theme that continues to do well! Especially when you're talking about specific subsets of teens en masse, and especially when you're talking about the children of the rich and privileged, to see how "the other half" gets fucked up.
But the sub-genre of really rich kids getting fucked up among some of the stuffiest people alive—Upper East Side royalty—hadn't been thoroughly shaken up in a while in 2003, certainly not by one of them, in a book that won the praises of New York's literary elite.
I read Twelve when I was 18. And of course, like every other 18 year-old aspiring writer, I wanted to punch McDonnell in the face. Mostly because he got the chance to write the book, but mostly because it's a pretty decent story, and holds up as an okay modern literature book, but at the very least, an excellent YA novel.
Seven years later, the adaptation is released. And reports come out that it sucks. Possible reasons:
1. Because this is after Gossip Girl, NYC Prep, The City, and of course The Hills and Laguna Beach were released. McDonnell's book was interesting five years ago, but to say we've overdosed on this thing over the last few years would be a bad play on words and an even worse understatement. Especially when Bret Easton Ellis has already given The Hills his endorsement.
2. Because Chace Crawford's on Gossip Girl, and comparisons are inevitable.
3. And comparisons to Gossip Girl will kill it, because Gossip Girl is a self-aware, meta show that constantly makes fun of its own melodrama (a Josh Schwartz trademark he started with The O.C.). There's no hint of irony in Twelve, the book, so can you really expect the movie not to follow suit?
4. No. Also, book adaptations almost always suck.
5. Finally: Joel Schumacher. What's the guy who directed Batman & Robin, Phone Booth, and other campy aughts' action "classics" doing at Sundance?
Apparently, trying to secure distribution for what was his indie labor of love. Which he did:
The film and video division of independent book publisher Hannover House ponied up about $2 million for "Twelve," director Joel Schumacher's look at drug-dealing among privileged Manhattan teens that will play Friday as the fest's closing feature. Roeg Sutherland, who co-heads CAA's film finance group with Micah Green, shepherded the deal.
That's right: CAA—that CAA, the one-stop shop Death Star of Talent Agencies—packaged this deal with their talent, and sold it, the same way one would sell a really shiny, pretty, custom car. Film packaging is nothing new and packages are basically how agencies are making the big bucks these days, but film packaging for such a low price, with such name talent, and selling their movie at Sundance, a place where independent cinema once thrived, is pretty fucking craven. Even worse is that it's entirely unsurprising.
Way worse movies have premiered at Sundance, surely. And Twelve isn't the worst movie at Sundance because people say it's bad—which they do—or because it might actually be bad, which it probably is. No.
Twelve is the worst movie at Sundance because it represents in every way possible the consistent squandering of opportunities for up-and-coming authors, actors, screenwriters, and directors who aren't already established. Emma Roberts, Julia Roberts' niece. Keifer Sutherland, son of Donald, who (as a commenter pointed out) has another son, Keifer's half-brother Roeg, who worked the deal from CAA's end. Even the book was born out of well-documented nepotism as Nick McDonell's parents were writers and editors and friends with Important Manhattan Writing People, which explains the aforementioned blurbs his book got seven years ago from Joan Didion, Hunter S. Thompson, and Richard Price when it first arrived. Gross.
Sundance is by few if any means an independent film festival any more, but this? The problem with Twelve is that you don't even have to see it to know that it makes a boldfaced joke not just out of Sundance's former reputation as a place where independent art once thrived, but of the word "independent," as well, because Twelve is a total fucking reach-around vanity project that represents nepotism and interests who are, as always, trying to capitalize on overwrought subject material and reinforce the status quo. Besides which, it apparently sucks.
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Maybe I'm in the minority, but thank fuck Kyle Smith isn't Manohla Dargis. The world needs at most one of her.
And Foster, for Jesus' sake. "Book adaptations almost always suck?" You've just shit on Stanley Kubrick's entire body of work, half a dozen Alfred Hitchcock films, Jaws and the Godfather. Proofread.
But I'm sure the movie is awful and look forward to not seeing it. Reply
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Bradley Jones 01/31/10
Fuckin' Hell!!! That's one of the better pieces I've read on here in sometime, actually cross that, this is one of the better pieces I've read on the movie industry in the last 8 years. Reply
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raincoaster 01/31/10
I wish there were a book I cared that much about. Nope, not even AHWOSG or The Secret History. As long as the authors got rich and famous, I'm good with the movie turning out shitty; after all, if movies were generally superior to books, who'd ever become an author? We'd all be screenwriters. Reply
PaisleyPajamas 01/31/10
@raincoaster: Comparing the relatively minuscule number of produced screenplays in a given year against the number of published books (new writers or not for both) this will forever act as a built-in corrective for writers everywhere. Thank goddess for that. Reply
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Lazy Susan 01/30/10
I share your rage. Reply
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Rooo sez BISH PLZ 01/30/10
"by Joel Schumacher"
It seems to me like it would make the most sense to just stop one's march to the theatre right there. Reply
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Balsa Wood 01/30/10
Also, "book adaptations almost always suck"?
I'm trying to think of what my least favorite book adaption is...either THE GODFATHER or THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS or BARRY LYNDON or THE AGE OF INNOCENCE or JULES AND JIM or...
Other than that, this post is right-on. The queasy, labyrinthine nepotism at play here is uber-nauseating. Sundance should be ashamed that they took this in what was, by many accounts, a very well programmed year. Reply
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inshallah123 01/30/10
@Balsa Wood: JAWS, APOCALYPSE NOW, A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, 2001, and THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD all come to mind also. Trash. Reply
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Griff 01/31/10
@inshallah123: Don't forget that godawful LORD OF THE RINGS. Reply
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captainchrunk 01/31/10
@Griff: Lord of the Rings- they made a book out of that? Reply
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Matt Cherette 01/30/10
There really is nothing better than KAMER RAGE. Reply
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secretagentman 01/30/10
Also, and I apologize if someone pointed it out already but I missed it, the guy at CAA who made the deal, Roeg Sutherland, is another son of Donald. Reply
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unclevanya 01/30/10
Joel Schumacher is a studio pimp who makes movies as a way to meet hot guys he sees on TV and in magazines, hoping that they will be secretly gay once he gets to know them. What the hell is anything with his name on it doing at Sundance?
(Granted, Gregg Araki has the same motivations, but at least he's decidedly an indie pimp) Reply
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fatmonalisa 01/30/10
Twelve sucks because Chace Crawford is in it. He can't act. At all. Reply
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RollsRoyceRevenge 01/30/10
I admit I am a huge Bret Easton Ellis fan and that the film version of "Rules of Attraction" is one of my favorite movies. I also like Whit Stilman's "Metropolitan" and thought "Cruel Intentions" was a fine summer-movie-style black comedy. And of course "Heathers" is perhaps the ultimate meta-parody of the genre, played out in Sherwood, Ohio, rather than Beverly Hills and Sag Harbor.
That said, this film sounds pretty dire. Reply
pmoss 01/30/10
@RollsRoyceRevenge: The first birthday party I can ever remember attending as a tot was Whit Stillman's, and our paths have crossed a good many times since then. "Metropolitan" is about as close to the truth as you can get w/o making a documentary, and as one of those kids (albeit one who, like the "Whit" character in the film, was raised in a style about two tax brackets ahead of the truth) I found it a sometimes winsome, sometimes wince-provoking portrait of the world he and I grew up in. But despite the obvious absurdities and overprivilege of that niche of Manhattan, I thought the movie was rather sweet and the characters more obliviously earnest than affectless and cynical.
I was out of school and into big-house publishing by the time the Brat-Pack novelists appeared, and was peripherally involved in the launch of "Less Than Zero," and I found it utterly distasteful; when I finished reading it, I felt both dirty and dismayed; it was a bell I really really wished I could unring. I liked "Bright Lights, Big City" a bit more because I knew that world so well, and I have to acknowledge that both writers are technically accomplished, but I find their attitudes and characters unsympathetic at best and utterly vile at worst.
Maybe I blame them unfairly for holding up a faithful mirror to their era as it evolved, and no doubt there's also an element of mourning my own lost youth, but I can't say I think either of them has ever really "grown up." I find their work either insubstantial or outright toxic -- "Kids" for Park Avenue arrivistes, if you will -- whereas I think "Metropolitan" has much more in common with "Clueless" than with the celebrity culture in which today's young people are being raised, which amazes and disconcerts me more every day, as well as making me very thankful that I don't have any children of my own and that I had the good fortune to grow up when I did. Reply
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RollsRoyceRevenge 01/30/10
@pmoss: I prefer "American Psycho," "The Rules of Attraction" and "Glamorama" to "Less Than Zero," but think Ellis is underrated as a stylist. I absolutely hated "Less Than Zero" when I first read it, but have come to see it as a surprisingly complex piece of work, although closer to a fugue than a novel. For me, Ellis gains from being read aloud. Reply
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coldmiser 01/30/10
Let's call this an off the wall, conspiracy theory thought:
At the studio level, you intentionally create a low cost piece if garbage with big names attached guaranteed to flop and bring down the per picture prices of said actors. If that same studio had intentions with those certain actors for future deals (and possibly even handshake deals with content providers to purchase and produce these future deals based upon actor selection), would the few million spent not be returned sevenfold or better? Everyone knows that certain films (hurts me to write films) are unprofitable studio filler so why not take advantage of the downside of a flop to better leverage yourself against the talent for future pocket deals? Especially if you are the insider creating this opportunity.
I know, just a conspiracy theory... Reply
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Foster Kamer 01/30/10
@coldmiser: Not a conspiracy theory. More like "concrete logic." Reply
coldmiser 01/30/10
@Foster Kamer: Sorry if I'm regurgitating common knowledge or concrete knowledge. This is one of my first posts and I'm not an insider. Reply
Chris Braak 01/31/10
@coldmiser: That's...a pretty interesting idea, actually.
It seems likely that you could bait actors like Crawford into something like that, too, luring them with the promise of indie credibility that a small sundance pic might provide. Reply
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figchance 01/30/10
One score and five years later, it appears "Twelve" is even "Less Than Zero". Reply
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Mean_Ol_Liberal 01/30/10
Thanks for the warning, Foster, but yarns about damaged rich kids don't attract me even they're said to be good work.
Can someone please explain to me what the hell is so horrible in their lives that this sort of self-destruction is so common? Or is it just not that common at all and that's why the books sell? Reply
fatmonalisa 01/30/10
@Mean_Ol_Liberal: I've seen a lot of people flame out from drug addiction, bad financial deals, and unwanted pregnancies. These are people that are Rockefeller level wealth and influence. Kids fuck up but rich kids seem to fuck up with style.
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Mean_Ol_Liberal 01/30/10
@fatmonalisa: That seems like just typical stress that has no socio-economic barrier. It just seems like these stories are peddled like so much bad diner coffee, as if this was typical fare in people who grow up on trust funds.
In other words, you're saying that it's not really common. It's just sensational. Reply
fatmonalisa 01/30/10
@Mean_Ol_Liberal: Oh it's not really uncommon. To be honest the portrayal of a drug dealer that is "in" with the people he sells to is quite common. WASPs don't get their drugs from some dude in East New York they get it from their friend's townhouse basement on E 71st. Most of them iron out their kinks by about 25. Others don't but they'll just be the family fuck up until they are put into rehab.
It's kind of fascinating to see someone who's family has created so much wealth and influence in society be a total degenerate but living in a 2.5 million dollar loft with designer furnishings yet it's essentially a coke den and there's little baggies all over the floor. Until the maid comes and it's all hidden away. Reply
pseudophilia001 01/30/10
@Mean_Ol_Liberal: Is it really that hard to understand? (Not saying that in a snarky way, just a blandly kind one.) Take your everyday, normal, run-of-the-mill teenager. Add unavailable parents and a disgusting amount of cash (or parents trying to assuage their guilt around being poor parents by flooding the child with money). Seems like a recipe for self-destruction to me. Reply
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IamnotStarJones 01/31/10
@Mean_Ol_Liberal: when Cameron Douglas gets out of jail make sure you ask him this question. Reply
Mean_Ol_Liberal 01/31/10
@pseudophilia001: Well, that's a good question, because in many ways it is that difficult for me to grok. I'm from a place where the kids of cops and firemen drown their sorrows in booze and bigotry. Drugs are largely avoided solely because total poverty is so feared. (Yet alcohol is never placed under the same economic scrutiny. Go figure.)
But a large part of that despair is borne of a sense of having no real freedom to realize one's dreams. The biggest barrier to attempting that freedom is a sheer terror of sliding down even further than they are on the socio-economic scale. With civil service, they have a "safe" route to job security, health insurance and the uber directive: owning a home.
There's no attending college in their lives, because they're regarded as lazy, selfish bastards for living at home while not earning money. There's no such thing as even one internship, never mind several, because they're cursed as family bloodsuckers if they work for free. There is only the demand that they immediately leave home at age 18 and/or start contributing to parental income ASAP. So they surrender their dreams for immediate safety and it never brings a good and happy outcome when undertaken for that reason.
With that background, it is hard for me to understand the nature of despair in a group who can study whatever and wherever they please and work for peanuts until they're 30 if they have to. The money they were born to buys so much freedom, yet they're angry and self-destructive anyway. Reply
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Erda 01/30/10
Part of the reason could also be the acting. I remember seeing Emma Roberts a few years ago in that Nickelodeon show she used to do, Unfabulous. The girl can't act to save her life. Reply
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Lysergic Asset 01/30/10
@Erda: Neither can her aunt. Reply
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aupalaras 01/30/10
The last sewious-rich-kid-depravity movie I saw was "Rules of Attraction" and it was fucking goddawful. Don't think I would be seeing this one even if critics were going ape shit over it. That genre's ship has sailed.
Your post is spot on, Foster. The pronounced mission drift of Sundance has made it more of a scene to be seen and a packaging label for studio films than a venue independant artists to get their work seen. Real artists should try their luck elsewhere. Reply
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PaisleyPajamas 01/30/10
@saralapua: I can't help but wonder if the recession isn't partially to blame for the lack of true independent fare. I mean, sure, there are people who can make good even great films for thousands rather than millions, but with everyone unemployed, who has even that to work with? Not to mention a network of support in your crew who all aren't worried about how they're going to make rent or feed themselves. Reply
aupalaras 01/31/10
@PaisleyPajamas: Yeah, I totally agree that passion projects have gone by the way side in lieu of more marketable stuff and Sundance is probably a casualty of that. But that strikes me as even more of reason for Sundance to hold onto being a true venue for independent artists who don't have CAA connections or something akin to that. A CAA packaged project has the connections to scout out funding for distribution among their vast network and someone not so well connected doesn't have a CAA network to draw from. I feel like the big studios and powerful Hollywood players are dipping into the Sundance pool for money and street cred when it wasn't meant from them in the first place. Mission drift indeed. Reply
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PaisleyPajamas 01/31/10
@saralapua: The cool factor is definitely gone, and having the word "Sundance" with a laurel leaf embrace is a good marketing ploy for the unsubscribed. It's a shame, and again, can't help but wonder if these screening time slots at the festival for obvious cheaped-up studio fare aren't being bought and sold like the awards season is these days. The films seem to reflect future plans/projects rather than what is cutting edge right.effing.now in cinema. Reply
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mladen 01/30/10
What sticks in my mind about Twelve the book is that when it first came out Grove/Atlantic did a rather small first printing - maybe as low as 10,000, certainly not more than 20,000. That printing sold out at once, because kids, or someone, were crazy about the book despite the somewhat indifferent reviews.
Had Grove/Atlantic lined up a big second printing quick enough the book would have taken off like Less Than Zero and spent three months in the bestseller lists. (Though Less Than Zero's case is a bit different; it started slowly in sales, then gradually picked up thru word-of-mouth; this was the Eighties. Twelve would have made its way through word-of-IM'ing, so that was why things happened quicker with it.)
But G/A didn't have a printing lined up so they missed out on a big seller that they sure could have used.
That said, Morgan Entrekin's still the last real bookman. If Matt Salinger wants to make sure Seymour's further life and times are not turned into a video game with Franny and Zooey taking turns turning into zombies, then he should go with G/A. Money isn't a problem. One or two Salinger blockbusters and G/A could offer big-boy advances for the rest of what's in the safe. Reply
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TheSometimesWhy 01/30/10
Apropos of nothing and everything, in a recent interview Joel Schumacher was asked what he would really like to do. His response?
"Direct."
We support Mr. Schumacher in pursuit of his elusive dreams... Reply
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oneninesevenfour 01/30/10
I'm offended by this premise that "a cross between MDMA, heroin, and speed" would be a super drug. Especially a drug that rich kids would want.
That sounds just like the shitty overly-cut MDMA that any 1990s raver or club kid bought. (And I may or may not have not bought some.)
It wasn't super. It was bad and designed to stretch the trace amounts of MDMA a little further. Bret Easton Ellis's characters would never have done anything so low-quality. How the mighty have fallen. Reply
Solomon Grundy 01/30/10
@oneninesevenfour: Lol I'm embarrassed to say that my honest first reaction to that description was a Whitneyesque "ew, that sounds cheap." Reply
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Jamie Heck 01/30/10
What's Nate Archibald doing with a big pile of drugs? I think maybe he's confused. Come home and I'll make you some hot cocoa, honey. Reply
Solomon Grundy 01/30/10
@Jamie Peck: In the books he's a huge druggie, which is much more realistic for his NYC prep school type. Reply
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ladyofargonne 01/30/10
The critics hate this movie so bad it makes me want to see it. Reply
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flossy 01/30/10
I'm sorry, but Twelve the novel was just atrocious, a derivative piece of faux-edgy fluff meant to gratify the kind of people the book was written about (because omg we'd all totally met the real White Mike at some party or another) and titillate everyone else with decadent fantasies peddled by some rich 17 year-old about his own exclusive milieu. It doesn't surprise me in the least that the movie version is garbage--how could it be otherwise?
My friends and I somehow ended up at a New Year's Eve party at McDonnell's apartment not long after Twelve became a required reading among the Upper East Side diaspora. Among our shitfaced exploits, which included screwing in his guest bedroom and inventing new, foreign personalities to present the ambiguously European so-called film director who wandered around interviewing people for an upcoming film adaptation (not Joel Schumacher), we stole many, many copies of the newly-released paperback Spanish translation of Twelve, purely out of spite. They make terrific doorstops, coasters and wobbly-table-levelers, if anyone out there would like one. Reply
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Lysergic Asset 01/30/10
@flossy: Me gustaria un libro, porque a veces no tenemos papel de sanitario. Reply
Rooo sez BISH PLZ 01/30/10
@Lysergic Asset: Qué vergüenza.
¿Qué usar en su lugar? Reply
Lysergic Asset 01/30/10
@Rooo sez BISH PLZ: Tu tienes acentos; estoy celosa. Usamos el aire o las manos! Reply
Rooo sez BISH PLZ 01/30/10
@Lysergic Asset: Es posible que deseas utilizar su "función de búsqueda", tipes "mapa de caracteres", y adjuntarlo a tu "menú de inicio", para los acentos.
"Usamos el aire o las manos!"
No tengo ningún comentario. Reply
Lysergic Asset 01/30/10
@Rooo sez BISH PLZ: Gracias, pero usualmente estoy tan floja. Reply
Solomon Grundy 01/30/10
@Lysergic Asset: jajaja Reply
Lysergic Asset 01/30/10
@Solomon Grundy: Reply
miss_msry 01/31/10
@Lysergic Asset:
Grosso. Reply
Lysergic Asset 01/31/10
@miss_msry: Don't worry; it's only in my imagination. Reply
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Juancho 01/30/10
Unfortunately, the rise of Miramax meant Sundance became way more about commerce than art- it's a marketplace and roving swag party rather than a film competition/festival anymore.
There's still talented voices developing great work in the labs, but that hardly matters next to the almighty dollar. Reply
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DennyCrane 01/30/10
Joel Schumacher? Why is he still doing movies? Shouldn't he be directing episodes of NCIS or something? Reply
Rooo sez BISH PLZ 01/30/10
@DennyCrane: No. He really shouldn't.
Then the people that watch it instead of bugging me will return to bugging me. Reply
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Love Machine 01/30/10
One of the most thought provoking and startling movies I've ever seen is "Kids" (with Chloe Sevigny as a girl infected with HIV the first time she had sex). "Kids" was very over the top in some respects but really captured the mindset of an out of control teen.
The other one of course is "Thirteen".
Watch those and skip this. Reply
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cmd 01/30/10
@Love Machine: "Thirteen" is an aggressively terrible movie. Reply
triplethreat 01/30/10
@Love Machine: Wow I thought "Thirteen" was simplistic and really parental in its POV. I'll take "Ordinary People or "Menace II Society" any day for emotional truth about teen anger and hopelessness. Reply
fatmonalisa 01/30/10
@cmd: Agreed. Thirteen is one of the only movies I've walked out of. Twice. Reply
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labyrinthine IS DOING THIS 01/30/10
jesus christ, I LOVE the weekends around here. Foster <3 Reply
Lysergic Asset 01/30/10
@labyrinthine IS DOING THIS: It's Gawker's best-kept secret. Foster is a great master of ceremonies. Reply
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Jacques-SweatyTechnique-Paysan 01/30/10
I had to look Emma Roberts up on Wikipedia, and I still don't know who she is. Reply
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NigelAstydameia 01/30/10
Hollywood insists that we love Emma Roberts. Reply
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richardmarxhatesmyha... 01/30/10
@NigelAstydameia: Well, she is, in fact, America's (former) Sweetheart's Niece. Reply
Juancho 01/30/10
@NigelAstydameia: and yet it hasn't happened... Reply
NigelAstydameia 01/30/10
@richardmarxhatesmyhair: That's the point. On paper, she has to fill seats. Because of that name, studios think America is obligated to love her. Plus, she's safe--nobody will ever get in trouble for deciding to cast her (whereas pushing an unknown is considered too risky). No matter how well her movies do, they'll force her down our throats for years to come. Reply
richardmarxhatesmyha... 01/30/10
@NigelAstydameia: i was being sardonic. but if we were talking about Eva Amurri, I would have been Saradonic. Reply
Solomon Grundy 01/30/10
@NigelAstydameia: Know who would have been a million times better in Nancy Drew, imbuing that role with just the right combination of wall-eyed perkiness, neurosis, and latent lesbian desperation? Camille from NYC Prep. Reply
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IamnotStarJones 01/30/10
why you have to go ruin people's dreams of triumphing at Sundance like that? Reply
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Kid Apollo 01/30/10
Armond White has already placed this film on the shortlist of Best Picture hopefuls for next year's Oscars. Reply
Foster Kamer 01/30/10
@Kid Apollo: HA. "It's a trenchant indictment of the inverted caste system that is Upper East Side drug usage amongst the young, where the most economically hindered get away with far too much with far too little consequence, like real life! Poor people are awful. Like Up." Reply
Kid Apollo 01/30/10
@Foster Kamer: You just captured the voice of possibly the worst film critic in all of American media. I don't know if I should be impressed or deeply troubled. Reply
Jacques-SweatyTechnique-Paysan 01/30/10
@Kid Apollo: Sorry, but I think David Denby is still the worst film critic in America. Reply
Kid Apollo 01/30/10
@Jacques-SweatyTechnique-Paysan: Denby is a freaky guy. I heard he once called Deep Throat the greatest film ever made. Reply
IamnotStarJones 01/30/10
@Kid Apollo: I find Armond's reviews fun! Reply
RollsRoyceRevenge 01/30/10
@Foster Kamer: "And yet we see the luminous warmth of Spielberg, auteur genius, by imaging how he would imagine the images of isolated and self-isolating idiocy as luciously limned by Twelve's Lacanian and lapidary dread diagnosis of drugs as being bad, m'kay." Reply
Solomon Grundy 01/30/10
@IamnotStarJones: Me too. You read him for his prose, not for help deciding what movie to go to. Reply
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Flashman 01/30/10
Yeah that's exactly how I felt when I read this book (picked it up at a charity shop in London for 20p).
There are surely far worse CITR-derived YA novels out there, but none that have received such ill-deserved praise. Reply
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Lysergic Asset 01/30/10
Foster, I know this is way before your time, but for comparison, you might want to check out 1979's most excellent Rich Kids. [www.imdb.com]
When I was a kid, I wanted more than anything to be like Trini Alvarado. Reply
south2nd 01/30/10
@Lysergic Asset: Me too, except I wanted to be a teenage punk rocker like her in "Times Square." Reply
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Lysergic Asset 01/30/10
@Jugs for Jesus: I never saw that movie, but I just read the IMDB description: I never knew that they put 12-13 year-olds in mental institutions. Seems harsh.
Looks like Trini is still acting, but never really had a breakout success. Too bad. Reply
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Lysergic Asset 01/30/10
I want to self-flagellate for knowing that his name is spelled Chace Crawford. Reply
Foster Kamer 01/30/10
@Lysergic Asset: Nice. I owe you one. Reply
skahammer 01/30/10
@Lysergic Asset: Self-flagellate away. No one here's going to stop you. Reply
phlox? 01/30/10
* Makes popcorn * Reply
Lysergic Asset 01/30/10
@phlox?: Ha! How have I missed hearting you before this?! Reply
triplethreat 01/30/10
@Lysergic Asset: I bet he gets a lot of that. Reply
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LeeroySpitzer 01/30/10
Yeah, I'd do it. Reply
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Mike Jahn 01/30/10
In what way does Joel Schumacher equal independent art? Reply
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Does anyone know authorized shares and O/S TIA
I wonder if Mr. Lee has KFDA approval?
luvthis - you hit the nail on the head
This man has a reputation and after all he is Korean - if I was another company I would be leary of dealing with this guy if he is trying to walk out on a signed agreement and will not just state his intentions - it does appear though we have a chance after all he sent us some junk which tells me he does feel some committment to us or the agreement - just makes no sense - hopefully this idiot comes to his senses and realizes if he wants this to come to market and make millions he will play ball.
This sucks
If BIG PHARMA wants the Bio-Harp and they are talking with MR. Lee the best way to get it is to buy XMDC - not to hard at these prices even with a premium - it could be what Mr. Lee is up to - destroy it short term and let a big buyer in - volume will be interesting today and the rest of the week
If you combine Mr. Lee's shares to another 200 million of lets say Medtronics - that is 75% of company.
Alot of great questions that I have no answers to - I just sent a general message to hear a response about if they knew the Bio-Harp worked - and why do they think Mr. Lee is not honoring the purchase agreement.
You can always email(paul@bioharpunius.com) him and ask - he responded to me today and it was about 3 days since I sent the email.
But alot of great questions I would love to know the answers too.
Good Luck
Email from Paul
Lets hope for the best
Yes, Ben and I have witnessed countless testes with the BioHarp and it works the way it is supposed to: detect cellular inflammation. XTend would never had proceeded in this asset purchase without the verification of the device. As for Mr. Lee’s actions, I simply can’t give you a logical reason as to his lack of delivery up to this point. The Asset Purchase Agreement called for the items to be delivered to us and continued promises he made to us over the past 90 days to deliver have somehow been flatly ignored by him. Hence the reason we felt it necessary to file a complaint to secure what we paid for.
The law firm we hired expertise is in the intellectual property arena so Ben and I feel we did what was necessary to protect the shareholders, the company, and him and I personally. Never in a million years did we think Mr. Lee would do something like this. We’re still scratching our heads as to his non-compliance to this date. The terms were clearly spelled out in the contract.
Ben and I feel confident XTend will gain the assets we purchased and the company will move forward. We’ve already begun our alternative plan if Mr. Lee tries to drag this out any further. Our resolve is strong to make XTend a powerful company.
Hang in there and all the best,
Paul D. Lisenby
CEO – XTend Medical
Have we heard from company about profit per bottle?
Rain - since the Bioharp detects the cancer
then isn't the MRI needed to look deeper into what the Bioharp detected or is it just blood work.
TIA
I think once we see human testing data
we will see the PPS move into the teens - KFDA even better - solid manufacturer comes on board - maybe into mid .25 - everyone here is saying sales is the only thing to move PPS - I say no frickin way - nobody here is a novice - look at other stocks out there - they move on anticipation of things to come -
Heck if they only sell a 1000 units(30k each) that is 30 million in revenue probally with a gross profit of 75%.
Now tell me any other stocks out there that have 30 million in revenue and trade at .03
This year will be interesting to say the least
Paul has never lied to US
If he says 20k - 30k units a month he must know something we do not - Yes it seems like a whole BUNCH - I mean ALOT - but we have to remember Paul has been working with Mr. Lee for 2 years and I guarantee he was doing more on a day to day basis than most people think. How do they get contacted by several health agencies before the BIOHARP is in production if they were not getting the product information out there or possibly some actual BIOHARPS - Paul has connections you can guarantee that.
I think we all forget that this is a device that will change the world as we know it as far as scanning the body for early cancer detection - one of a kind you might say - this device is also affordable and is needed by every doctor out there all over the world - heck the average life span would change drastically longer.
There is even a poster on here who said his Father is an surgeon and he told him this device will be HUGE and to invest in XMDC.
IMO
Anyone know the Korean dollar compared to the USA dollar
Smart Longs are looking for 52 week gain tax - I believe 15% - I am not personally going to take a short term tax on this one - no way.
Not sure how I missed it - this is BIG for me EOM
A great post on Yahoo I never saw on IHUB
From: Paul [mailto:bigpaul@charter.net]
Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 10:40 AM
To: XXXXXXXX
Subject:
XXXXX:
You have to understand that there is a certain order we must follow to make sure we gain KFDA approval or for that fact , any approval from any governing body wherein we will do business. The process is fairly clear in how you submit the product, however, if you make any minor changes then you have to resubmit the product and fill out the information all over again. Then, if the processor gets upset in any way, they will bury you with more and more info and delay the process even further.
I have to insure that we, as a company and for the benefit of the shareholders, submit the amended application so we (1) gain approval as quickly as possible, (2) don’t upset the processor, and (3) don’t make any more changes at all once we’ve amended the original. The original application had some minor issues with the software’s business and reporting functionality. I worked with Sam for over 3 months from June until September, making the necessary alterations to the software so we can insure we have total control over insuring we collect our proposed $19.99 monthly software fee as well as complying with all applicable laws of patient privacy both here in the U.S. and in other countries that are adopting our HIPPA regulations. This was very important because if we had submitted the final device without these, we would have had to go back and resubmit them which would have caused a serious delay.
I think I’ve covered what we have to insure we go through the process with as little feedback necessary once the amendment is filed. We’re working diligently to get this in as quick as we can, but don’t want to end up having to answer questions from the processor on minor things we may have missed. I’ve done this before with other medical devices submitted to the FDA and I feel my knowledge will assist XTend in getting this done quickly so we can move on.
Remember, KFDA is only one part of this whole picture. We’re moving forward in the equine and veterinary sectors but being the holidays and all, it won’t begin to happen until 2010. As for the other countries we’re working with right now, we already have the applications ready to go and merely need to replicate what we’re doing with the KFDA. So it is imperative to make sure we don’t stub our toe on the KFDA, which is why I’m making sure we do this the right way.
As for the human test data, as soon as we’ve finalized the amendment, my plan is to place this information up on the new and improved website as soon as I can, if it passes through our legal without any problem. I just ask that you and the other shareholders be a little patient with me right now and enjoy the holidays. I’m working as hard as I can to insure we set the table for a great run in 2010.
All the best and Happy Holidays,
Paul D. Lisenby
CEO – XTend Medical
Interesting - Posted on Yahoo
What classification is Bio Harp ? Any of you longs know?
http://www.pacificbridgemedical.com/publ...
Registration Structure
There are three processes required to get a device registered in Korea: a product license; Korean Good Manufacturing Practice (KGMP) certification; and a Device Business License. Of these, the KGMP certification must be renewed every three years. The other two are valid permanently, although changes may require re-registration.
Devices are divided into four classes, Class I being lowest risk and Class IV being highest risk. There is a strict system of over 1,000 classifications dividing devices up into those four classes, although there are plans to expand the number of classifications in the near future.
Product License: Class I
The procedure for Class I devices is relatively simple: only notification is required, not approval. The applicant simply submits a standard notification to a KFDA District Office. This notification includes information on the product, its manufacturer or importer, its classification, purpose of use, instructions for use, raw materials and specifications, dimensional drawings, precautions, and the labeling to be used. Once it is submitted, the District Office will issue an acceptance letter, which is equivalent to a product license in this case.
Product License: Classes II-IV
Classes II, III and IV devices need to go through a full review and approval process. Approval in the country of origin can speed up the process somewhat, but is not sufficient in itself for product registration in Korea. On the other hand, some progress in efficiency has been made by the admission of third-party review organizations into the process. The two main requirements for a product license are a technical file and type testing.
Wicks - Thanks EOM
Thoughts on KFDA
I am guessing it has been submitted sometime in JULY - I would like to hear from company the human testing data(why a secret) - there had to be health centers in Korea testing the unit(not just mice) - then this information should have been used to submit to KFDA - this would be a huge boost to PPS if we were informed.
We do know that they had to re-submit for the altering of the sensor and I believe the software changes - should not slow us up to much...
Any thoughts
teema - agreed - we just hope they come
My thoughts on financials
I personally believe financials could be done in 2 weeks easily for any company - because throughout the quarter involved you get paid - you keep the invoice - you keep a record...you deposit it in the bank...now that being said lets think about EVRM/STS - I personally think that that they had at leat 4 clients that paid them and that is it -- OK so our CEO should just take the 4 customer receipts to the PROFESSIONAL ACCOUNTANT that we had to acquire and say this is our revenue - can you do this within 2 hours..
Ok - I know alot more involved - not really though - Ok expenses - well most businesses have payroll that goes through a payroll company like ADP - so you get a master report - RENT - ELECTRIC - GAS - COMPANY CREDIT CARDS - well all of this should be logged weekly through maybe a software program like - let me think - OK QUICKBOOKS..
OK - so now we are getting somewhere - our PROFESSIONAL ACCOUNTANT now has to do the hard part - and now I am serious - this could just take maybe 3 more hours - he has to figure out stock options given and the stock outstanding - maybe we had diluted the company some to pay the RENT - not sure but again we should have some simple records of what the HELL we have done.
RUN THE REPORT - WE ARE DONE
If we were Intel or Microsoft I could understand a wait or understand that they have to take a couple weeks to prepare - BUT EVRM - very strange - almost frigtening - hence why we have a declining stock price - something does not smell right here - I am long but this to me says our mangement could and maybe is incompetent - maybe a stretch but...
Talked with Robert Granett - Nothing new to share other than he did say financials should not be more than 2 weeks(his words) - he did confirm they are doing audited financials and that takes alot more time and effort - he did confirm that doing audited financials will allow them to uplist in the future.
He did say that the company is aware of the silence and alot of good things are happening but he would not elaborate(just said they are extremely busy) - he said information would come out through PR's but no time frame on that.
He did take my name and phone number - probally so he can tell me to never call again.
Any one have company # - Just want to ask one question
about when financials will be out.
TIA
lakeshore - I agree with what you said - the only thing different IMO is that PDMI was once a big stock and basically fell too .002 because of previous management - I do believe Steve Davis came into a mess - with that being said he has tremendous credentials and for the most part I trust that he is doing what is best for the company - I believe no fluff is on his agenda - he knows what they have and when he starts releasing PR's he wants a PPS change to be here to stay.
ParaMax - not sure what the heck it is but he states in will change the glaucoma world as we know it - I have to believe - Why was it no on the 10k - not sure other than maybe it was in the works and he did not have to report on it - maybe he was shooting for it to be a surprise to re-introduce PDMI to the world.
ParaVue - we have read stuff on this - it seems awesome and better than other products out there - even the Rothchild eye institute used in for teaching purposes -
I am willing to take the gamble that we have some blockbuster PR's coming that will move this into .05 and up - I for some strange reason believe that Steve Davis has a plan - with his credentials I see no reason to think otherwise - heck the stock is only at .0026 - the gamble is worth the risk.
GL
lakeshore - read Sterv post in the Ibox
He is a very reputable poster that does outstanding research and does talk to CEO's all the time
lakeshore
The Paramax device came from Sterling - which he got when he talked to our CEO Steve Davis in a phone conversation - no one is for sure what the heck the device is but according to our CEO is will change the glaucoma world and he says we will capture well over 75% of that market.
As far as why it is not in the financials that ended in March and they did not report til June - my guess is that they decided to keep top secret(no fluff BS) - just because they reported in June does not mean he has to dislose any info from April 1st on..
My take on the increase in Authorized to 20 bil(OUCH) - is they probally have a multi billion dollar device - we know from conversations from some of the posters that we are in talks with a few MAJOR companies that we want to partner with - this could be to prevent a BUYOUT - I am sure after the Dec 18th time of the shareholder meeting we will understand WHY
Until then expect silence from the company and expect no one to answer the phones..