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"There is plenty of potential, though. If the Mayo study and Geron's internal study show positive results, expect even higher market interest than we've seen this year. While the three things listed above are important for investors to watch, I'd throw in one more thing to watch: Geron's stock."
Perhaps the better question to ask is if that upgrade was because of some news they caught wind of..?
No actually, I bought my fill when it had bottomed to the lower prices...
I'm so full up on Geron right now, and do not plan to sell one share for many years...
Think Geron will be one of those stocks that people will be talking about for many years.
I had an old boss that was a portfolio manager at the royal bank for a retirement fund that held 300M in assets.
He had bought into microsoft early on. In those days he was allowed to have the same investments as the fund held as long as the purchases and sells did not conflict.
There was not a week that went by where I did not hear him reference how sorry he was that he sold microsoft after it doubled for him and he made a great profit.
He used to say, "even if I only kept 5 or 10% of my original holdings, I would be so wealthy today I could retire"
Not a week went by that he did not say this.
If I am right, Geron will be today's stock that will have that same effect on people's lives.
If I'm wrong, okay, I may not make as much as I could of, no biggie, and it wont change my life.
But if I sell, and I am right. I would never forgive myself or forget about it my whole life...and it will be a life changer
I'm here to take that risk and hold on for the very long haul...
Seems telomers are making their way into our mainstream news. In my opinion, an early sign of things to come.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/michael-bolen/immortality-google-death-inevitable_b_4059837.html
Immortality Is as Inevitable as Death
Michael Bolen
HuffPost Canada News Editor
As a young child I had a recurring dream of darkness.
Chased by robbers, I would run to the roof of my home and be forced to jump, only to fall through endless black and awake in panic.
Even then, I saw the dream as a metaphor for death. Buried beneath the covers I imagined some darker species of black and felt the searing pain of knowing I would one day vanish.
As a balm, I would imagine that I would be the first to cheat the reaper.
Those who cling to a similar hope got some good news recently. Google announced the launch of Calico, a company devoted to life extension.
But not everyone thinks radically longer lives are a good idea. Many feel the endeavour is grossly unnatural and will somehow upset the very meaning of what it is to be human.
How will we appreciate any one moment if the supply is inexhaustible? Will we become like the Olympian gods: Bored, vindictive, incapable of real love and always jealous of the mortals for whom life is so sweet?
Rid your mind of those worries. Immortality is coming, but it won't be a physical life courtesy of Google's new company. It will be in the form of a robotic afterlife, something that scares me just as much as dying.
The last 100 years already saw a radical jump forward in life expectancy without a radical reshaping of the human condition. We still love. We still fear death.
Throughout almost all of human history, average life expectancy was usually less than 30 years and never more than 40. Today, it's nearly 90 years in Monaco and 81 in Canada. For all of humanity it's 68 years.
Put quite simply, we're already living unnaturally long lives. Antibiotics aren't natural. Chemotherapy isn't natural.
From an evolutionary perspective, why we age at all continues to baffle scientists and many species live much longer than we do.
From 250-year-old tortoises, to 80,000-year-old aspen colonies, to actinobacteria that were around before homo sapiens evolved, the natural world is filled with examples that illustrate the potential for very long lives.
Perhaps most amazing are the immortal creatures already among us. The turritopsis nutricula jellyfish is capable of cycling back and forth between its adult and immature polyp state, a gelatinous 'Benjamin Button' on repeat.
But while scientists believe the Benjamin Button jellyfish has the potential to live forever, in nature it simply never would. It readily succumbs to disease, accident and the appetites of other animals.
And that's why we shouldn't worry too much about Google's quest for eternal life. No matter how much we learn about telomeres and transdifferentiation, nanobots and neurons, there will always be a virus, mishap or enemy to end our existence.
The essential shape of life, no matter how long, will remain the same -- birth, life, death -- and this should assuage our fears about life extension.
But there is the potential for another kind of immorality, one which will ironically resemble the myth of everlasting life in the Judeo-Christian religions. And that's what I'm really afraid of.
First, we will live a human life, with the sweetness and sorrow that comes from impermanence. Then will come second life -- cerebral, painless and without end.
Except, instead of passing through the Pearly Gates, we'll pass through a processor.
The strongest hope for giving a human intelligence eternal life comes from the promise of mapping the human brain and downloading it into a computer model.
Legendary physicist Stephen Hawking recently suggested this may soon be possible.,
"I think the brain is like a program in the mind, which is like a computer," Hawking said. "So it's theoretically possible to copy the brain on to a computer and so provide a form of life after death."
Russian media mogul Dmitry Itskov is already at work on a project to do just that by 2045. Last year, he baited the world's billionaires to get involved with promises of immortality.
And that's where things get more than a little problematic.
Beyond removing the knowledge of impermanence that forces us to value life, the enterprise of eternal life seems destined to be dominated by the super-rich.
Justin Timberlake flops aside, machine immortality presents the very real possibility of giving the ultra-wealthy yet another leg-up on everyone else. And it doesn't get much more dystopian than a world ruled by a wealthy-elite whose brains have been uploaded to super-powerful robots.
But as with most moral quandaries presented by technological advancement, I doubt there is much we can do about it.
Plenty of people foresaw the danger of nuclear and chemical weapons, but those fears did not prevent their development. Tellingly, Google's head of so-called X projects, Astro Teller, is actually the son of the man who invented the hydrogen bomb.
When governments ban work on new technologies, work simply shifts to other countries. Strict limits on stem cell research in the U.S. have just pushed other nations to take the lead.
In short, the advance of technology has thus far been impervious to our moral misgivings.
People like Ray Kurzweil just can't be stopped. The pill-popping prophet, futurist and Google director of engineering believes the exponential growth in the power of computer processing foretold in Moore's Law will soon lead to breakthrough advancements in the sophistication of artificial intelligence. At a crucial point, machines will become so intelligent that they will begin to improve upon themselves. At that moment, technological innovation will radically accelerate and human beings and computers will begin to merge. Kurzweil refers to this juncture as the "singularity."
But Kurzweil and the world's billionaires may find that becoming a robot isn't as much fun as it seems. Imagine the inauthenticity of the Matrix, coupled with the boredom of eternity. Oh, and no sex.
Like the near-immortal Sibyl of Cumae of Greco-Roman myth, the gilded gods of the future could end up begging for death.
But the rest of us will still scrimp, save and scramble to buy our way to the afterlife. No matter how lifeless, many will prefer the machine to the mystery of mortality.
Family members will cling to their dying loved ones with hitherto impossible fervour. Instead of DNRs, people will need "do not deify" orders.
And there's nothing we can do to stop it. Blind to good and evil, reckless of destruction, technology rolls on its relentless way.
So that's what I have nightmares about now. It's the things we can't change that scare us most -- and immortality is just as inevitable as death
Jerry, the technology has already won a Nobel prize
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2009/blackburn-lecture.html
This is some heavy sheet.
Always has been, just can't understand that the market has not recognized Geron, or given it the respect it deserves.
Absolutely Sub, for sure...
But my confidence is founded on the company, patents and management. Not to forget that we have the largest population cohort ever, about to become old and experience the effects of aging...
...a Geron has Nobel Peace Prize technology, years, decades ahead of anyone else.
One fact that impressed me when I bought in, was (at the time) Geron held the forth most patents of any American company...
...now that is unimaginable value in the context of healthcare booming,
in my opinion.
Here for the long haul and confident in my investment.
It has closed above it's 200-day moving average, which I am taking as a very good sign after this run-up.
Long term holder since 2009, intend to hold very long.
I have heard that before, a couple of times, with this stock...
"why is the night different from all other nights, father"
Happy talk, keep talkin' happy talk,
Talk about things you'd like to do.
You got to have a dream,
If you don't have a dream,
How you gonna have a dream come true?
BCIT will win, the sooner those opposed realize that, the cheaper it will be for them to fix their problem
a man who is innocent is not always concerned about proving he is innocent.
No matter, BCIT will have its day and those who are smart will do better than those who sell cheaply.
Sorry dough, I was banned on the Cat House board...lol, too funny...
Okay, I get your post about Fox better now, lol
Cheers
I'm sorry dough, I respect you but I can not even entertain any discussion where the words fair and balanced are used in the same sentence as fox.
But hey, they need to make their Billion dollars off of someone, so have at it man...
The rest of the country and world, however, may not share such an opinion of faux news as you do...
Rightfully so,
Cool.
Wow, unreal.
You have to go over the cliff as Republicans have still not accepted the results of the last election or will of the people.
Republicans are looking not very well now, and as they continue their spoiled old-man games, they will look even worse.
No one, no one is backing down to republicans any more.
They do no longer carry any respect after that joke of an election and their delusions...
...not to mention FOX has been totally trashed by most intelligent people, as being a joke.
So carry on, no more fear from the Left.
Let the chips fall where they will.
"Fiscal cliff: The ball is in the Senate's court this weekend. I'm thinking that sniveling Harry Reid would just as soon see us go over the cliff to show the nation the evil of it's capitalistic ways and hasten the arrival of a socialist utopia."
Still suffering from delusion eh..?
Yeah, nice win, or sorry Landslide for Romney in the election, huh..?
The Fox Bubble should not be taken for reality..!
Fox made over 1 billion dollars last year on selling you an old white-man's fantasy.
Wow, truly amazing.
Until you respect the will of the people, The GOP will continually be getting spanked in public.
But carry on. No one has any delusions that the GOP cronies learn fast at their age, so this will be taking a while and GOP seats will be further cut down as time goes...
I guess the GOP are not the sharpest tools in the shed eh,
C'est la vie..!
Doesn't hurt me.
There never was the money for the recent wars.
Particularly for a tax cut and the wars.
The USA is on the road to repair finally. It always had what it needed to repair any damage, but unfortunately the damage was sitting in the House, and that has been the problem.
Wars do not happen by themselves, they come from men who want them or believe in them.
Favouring the rich does not happen by itself, it involves pathological selfishness and the people who will fight for it.
Remove those men, remove the constant fight and war-footing, remove the hate, remove the favouring of the wealthy, and you remove most of the obstacles.
A house divided against itself cannot stand. Including the USA.
Depends on viewpoint.
The road has finally opened up for more rational thinking people to be able to affect the solutions, as opposed to being stuck on a permanent Fox war-footing.
There is no way for anyone to convince anyone else in this toxic environment, but it is my contention that the extremists have been the damaging elements, and now, hopefully, the Senate, Congress and Presidency can now function without the internal terrorism of the extremists trying to destroy whatever does not prescribe to their narrow sense of right.
IMO, elements like Fox, Norquist and Koch are the problem.
Hopefully they have been effectively neutered for most of the intelligent/educated population.
LOL, where's Bruce, Fox called, they want him back, LOL
I guess you must be feeling the heat, good, good sign for the USA IMO.
"A house divided against itself cannot stand."
Abraham Lincoln
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%27s_House_Divided_Speech
Good to hear Stock...
GodSpeed to his full recovery man,
God Bless,
I rock out to Aqua Lung all the time, not in a sequined unitard though, LMAO...
It was the freestyle dance that nixed him, they wanted him to dance a rehearsed jig, LOL
Cheers,
He did it intentionally. He is a true Republican, not what is being paraded today in the GOP.
He did it on purpose, it was all an act..! In my opinion...
He is one of the best actor of all time, he fooled many.
He is an old school Republican, he believes in a balanced budget, paying every cent of his taxes. Mitt's father, George was Clint's kind of republican, submitted 12 years of taxes.
No Clint has a movie coming out. It is my hypothesis that Clint planned this. Even his hair was messed up - what the make up people couldn't fix his hair for RNC..? I think he wanted to look like that.
Clint mentioned those things blaming BO, but he knew it was George Bush that had done them, and wanted to point at them. Clint in my opinion, is like true Republicans, they hate what is going on with the GOP, but they do not want to speak against them in public.
So how do you spank some bad boys, focus people's attention on some subjects you want them to look at, and do it in a way that every one will be wanting to see the "crazy old man's" movie now, when it comes out.
What Clint did was one of the most brilliant strokes of genius performed on rotted men.
And not to mention one of the best acting jobs I have ever witnessed.
Nope he is not stupid or losing it in my opinion. More like brilliant, moral, a good man and a great actor.
Bet Clint's next movie will be all over the news now.
Clint's episode was removed from the official RNC video of the convention. However just the Clint part has gone viral on youtube, so this is what will stick.
Clint stole the GOP's convention thunder right out from underneath their feet. All people will remember from their Big Splash, is Clint's fun.
People commonly mistake older people for being off or slow, and sometimes they are after all they are older.
But many times they are wise old foxes that have learned so much through living long lives...
Sorry to hear that dude...
Hoping and Praying for his speedy and FULL recovery.
Hopefully those that did this will get the same in jail, for many years...
I thought it was so cool cat. The cop still check out everything. Asked where this guy or that guy was, and from the casualness, the cop could better determine if all was cool.
The RCMP have been having some challenges of late with their public relations.
This Vid went viral, and with a little bit of humanness this cop helped advance those relations more than any commercials could have...
Cheers everyone, thankfully Big Texas ain't as hot this year, thank goodness eh...
Hey Cat, Greetings to everyone...
Thought you old rockers may find this cool...
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/07/05/cop-playing-drums-in-woods_n_1652617.html
Hopefully the war between the two divides will one day become less,
Regards,
Hey OhBull, is it true that all this BCIT "glitches" are because the brokers made a $1.00 bet with the NSSers, that illegally NSSing BCIT couldn't be done..?
I have heard a BCIT rumor that all this was a mix up, but do you think it could have been because of a wager..?
Louis: My God! The Dukes are going to corner the entire frozen orange juice market!
Ophelia: Unless somebody stops them...
Coleman: ...or *beats* them to it.
[all turn and look at him]
Coleman: Egg-nog?
BCIT, printing dollars on the tape...
Things are definitely starting to feel great about BCIT.
The sweet justice to holding BCIT is we will be enriched by those same people who impoverished many with illegal trading practices.
So the BCIT shareholders not only have a lottery ticket, they also have a sword.
The many years of BCIT abuse was the motivation here, thanks guys/girls
Louis: Looking good, Billy Ray!
Billy Ray: Feeling good, Louis!
Does anyone know if we have a shareholder named Louis or Billy Ray..?
Looking forward to BCIT dollars...many,
So by that rational, if it ever becomes proven that some have been hired to do just that to BCIT Investors, then they too should be open for prosecution..?
Oh I hope so. These people should be in prison imo.
Sorry mikey I keep most of the BS on ignore...
I think the really big freak outs will be witnessed here when they try and buy back the shares they shorted illegally and find out that many of the real investors will not want to sell...lol
This is turning out to be very enjoyable.
So glad I am a BCIT long, and not a hunted illegal market-criminal who made the big mistake of illegally naked shorting bcit. If they are not nervous yet, they will be.
Longs on the other hand, can enjoy and look forward to this being resolved...and profiting handsomely...all the while enjoying the entertainment of watching this unfold.
Wishing everyone the best of a glorious day.
It seems many things with BCIT are becoming very predictable...
Good.
Well if there is no impact one way, than there is no impact the other way...
So when BCIT corrects these illegalities with a forced buy-in, you won't care...
because a mandatory buy-in does not effect any of the float, excellent...
GoooooooooooooDDDDDDDDDDD, so we are all good then
BCIT, forced buy-in to eliminate the fraudulent criminals from BCIT stock manipulation.
Oh, well now imagine that...
Wow, who knew..?
So interesting what you post...
Oh well thanks for all the advice and concern about our shares, thanks but no thanks
I love my shares in BCIT and am keeping them
Naked shorters can't have them thanks,
Happy and proud to be a BCIT Long.
Looking forward to the future.
Go BCIT, Megas, CH, Fellow Longs
yup, no worries for the bcit longs, guess that is why we are not trying as hard as the short side...
but hey, bcit longs have nothing to hide or worry about...
i am certainly glad i am not short, particularly naked, or one who has tried to defend any illegalities here...
glad to be a bcit long thank you...
BCIT will be happening sooner than most can see...
Do you think this is something that will help the efforts of BCIT longs..?
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/05/16/1092074/-Taibbi-Goldman-BofA-Lawyers-Accidentally-Confirm-Naked-Shorting-Disregard-For-Compliance
So hard to say with all that is going on...
I guess we will see if BCIT has had things happen to it as well..?
Tic Tok, tic tok
We need to start handing our some real sentences to people. Take the guilty and their accomplices of our BCIT, and make examples of them for others to learn from..
We need perp walks, jail time, real time not country-club time for those who have assaulted BCIT and all those who aided and abetted them, IMO
Huh, so clerical errors are not illegal..?
I guess..?
But I have a feeling that there are many illegalities that have gone on with BCIT and that the Department of Justice will be more involved as we go...
in my opinion