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Hi Cosmo & Excel ... I am an observer like the rest of you.
What are their chances of commercial success?? ... If the company really has what they suggest they have .... and if they can get their new technology incorporated into internationally accepted standards ... and if they can get the major corporations to buy into this ... then there's a chance.
If I were the company, I would keep my technology absolutely secret ...(years ago I've had my ideas and technology stolen by other companies because I was too open with potential customers)... sharing it only with people who are with firms who can buy my product, only after putting in place a Non-Disclosure Agreement ... and then sharing only a limited amount of information (because I don't even trust the NDA process).
Also, I would have filed for patent protection .... writing it as broadly as possible to avoid infringement later .... and also do the word-Smithing on the application to try to keep the exact "recipe" of how to do it hidden from the person reading the patent after it is issued (because people out there will still try to get past the patent).
I've actually held one of my prototype test articles (for which a patent was later issued) which was shipped to a potential customer ... and that customer (a major defense electronics firm) had cut one side of it apart (see'ing how it was made ... hired a couple of Ph.D's to reverse engineer it .... I saw my test article later at a NASA site where that firm had sent it to to be tested.......and the appropriate paperwork had been put in place between our firms.
So, that is my humble opinion on why I would have Brad and his team be really careful as to protecting the technology they may have. Like the rest of you, I hope they have it.
One of my patents was for a millimeter wave radome wall ... and it was written in a way that totally encompasses its new design approach.... yet not revealing attributes necessary for someone else to be able to duplicate it and have it work .... clever way to go for a patent ?? ... I really like paradigm shift, out of the box thinking..... to do things that have not been done before by others.....
Just imagine showing a plot of the performance of an idea to one of the top Ph.D's in my field in the country (without revealing how it is done) ... and have him say that he's never seen anything like it before....... and have this concept test flown on two different test bed aircraft ... and have the performance match my computer modeling (yes, oomputer modeling can be very accurate in the design process ... before the actual prototype is made) ... and to get a major "attaboy" compliment at a meeting near a major U.S. Air Force base.
And to be approached by a radar manufacturer to design a radome for a frequency ... that when they went to a very major U.S. aircraft company.... they were told that a radome for that frequency could not be done ... not possible .... Well .. I did it.... a patent was issued ... it flew quite successfully on the prototype aircraft at Edwards AFB ... and on a NASA 757.
Doing all this took time.... costs $$$$ .... and lots of time. My component was only one component of a system.... remember that the entire system needs to be developed and sold.... where is this system at in development ... hmmm... can't talk about it.... remember NDA's....
Like with RIM .. their's is only one component ... and a lot of other things need to fall into place for the chip to be sold in any quantities.
Thanks for listening .... By the way ... I had a sign on my office wall ... which stated "One Test is Worth a Thousand Expert Opinions" .... I passed it on to my successor when I retired.....
re: All three companies have asked Rim Semi to not identify them publicly
The above statement makes sense. Those companies likely have competitors...... and they don't want their competition to know what they are working on. At the company I retired from, we normally had a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) in place with our customers ............... and we could not say anything about winning a program with our customer, until such time that they were willing to talk about it publically.
There's a really big program being worked on back at the place I worked at .... and I'm busting at the seams wanting to mention it.... but I can not ...because of an NDA in place. This is a win that I worked for 15 years laying a foundation to get this win.... I just need patience.
Check the one year chart .... FYI .... Note the MACD (Moving Average Convergence Divergence ).... for those of you who are into charting.
http://finance.yahoo.com/charts#chart2:symbol=rsmi.ob;range=1y;indicator=volume+macd;charttype=line;....
Check my post #52014 done on Nov. 8 .... predicting that the chart suggested we're at bottom... and staring up. Now a couple of months later that prediction was correct.
Ben
Thanks for all the kind words ....
I don't post very often. Those of you who know me, know the field I was in ... it was a real rewarding career .. a lot of fun.... and it was fun to do things which were not as successfully done by others .... and in some cases the things done were thought to not be possible ... and surprised various people .. including in some very major companies.
I used to say "Doing the impossible takes a bit longer" ... and give them a grin. These things done were possible, but required "paradigm shift" and "out of the box" thinking. I was really good at getting a great overview of the problem, an developing an innovative solution to it .... and using the laws of physics, etc.... This ranged from subsonic aerodynamics, composites, to lightning protection of aircraft composite structures ... and radio wave propagation through composite structures. My last patent (issued last December)was for a jet engine fan blade containment shroud, made with composite materials, which has the same stopping power as the toughest super alloy known to NASA for the same light weight ... and confirmed to that fact by NASA testing.
By the way.... I had a sign in my office which stated "One Test is Worth a Thousand Expert Opinions" .... I had to have a prove it, show me attitude, backed up by testing to industry standards.
I am absolutely not knowledgeable about semiconductors, but I have been around electronics (I've had a ham license for nearly 50 years... In 1960-61 I built a 10 GHz microwave transceiver using a surplus klystron as a starting point). I decided to major in aeronautical engineering so I could keep electronics as a hobby. However it is sort of significant to be presented with the Pioneer Award at the Airline Electronics Engineers Committee's General Session 3 years ago ... only the 8th time it had been presented in their history out of a field of over 5,000 scientists and engineers working in this field worldwide.... so there's sort of a bit of peripheral knowledge about electronics.
What I do have experience in is completing new designs and products .. solving problems in my field .. meeting objectives ... pushing against industry thinking .. and delivering.
I have been an investor in this firm for a bit over 8 years now, not as long as Bill and Ernie. I still have all my shares, and never traded this stock.
It was risk dollars I put into this. I've not sold because I thought that just maybe the company could achieve their objectives.... objectives thought not possible by their industry. I've done it ... so why couldn't they over time.
I've also had my ideas stolen by others a few times, when I was open with the customer during the quotation stage.... and they shared my design approach with a competitor who does not have a clue as to how to solve the particular design goals needed. After that, I would not describe how I would solve their problem, unless they were a very established customer ... and a Non-Disclosure Document was in place. Even after that, and an NDA, one of our customers cut apart one of my test articles, and hired a couple of Ph.D's to reverse engineer it ... and when their prototype item was delivered to the USAF, the USAF shipped it to our place to fix the shortfalls. Especially with foriegn companies. I can think of three right now who's product's performance were not performing per my demonstrated standards, and their customers complained. All three acted like they were coorporating with us, had us to their sites .. explained what they wanted ... and I came up with design appreoaches which achieved what they could not achieve... and backed up with extensive testing ... taking 1 to 2 years to accomplish ... meeting all reaquirements .. only to find that they were working to develop their own designs to be built in their shops and copying my fundamental design approaches. And we got zero business from them.... and there was nothing we could do... nothing. One company had asked for a lightning test so severe that even Boeing does not ask for it.... Well My design was tested, meeting all the new, severe requrements. My comments to Brad and the team, is to be extrmemely cautious with the customers you share data with.... they may try to duplicate it with another firm or in house.
Thus, I can understand why the company management is stone silent about the details of what they have.... and likely will only share with potential customers information after the appropriate NDA's are in place .. and even then be very limited as to what was shared.
On another topic. Some of you have been critical of some statements regarding Telcodia's use of modeling for an aspect of the testing. Again, digital communications is not my field... I know nothing about this field. But in my field, I utilized a very accurate modeling program in electromagnetics. Rather than cut and try a lot of times to get a prototype working (i.e. Thomas Edison and the light bulb) ... I could use my program ... design it there... have the prototype built per my design approach optimized with the modeling program .... Then test the prototype using Hewlett Packard equipment ... all of which is calibrated and traceable to the Nat'l Bureau of Standards.... and have the prototype be right on .. matching the model..... first pass.
In this high speed telecom industry, I'm "assuming" that the designers and test labs have all the modeling software needed to simulate whatever they want to. Look at Computational Fluid Dynamics programs for modeling airflow around airplanes, etc.... and Finite Element Structural Analysis programs to determine the structure needed in buildings, airplanes, etc. Have any of you seen the video clip of the Boeing 777 wings being loaded to failure? They needed to be loaded to 1.5 times limit load ... this is called ultimate load, and hold for XX seconds..... They did it ... and then took it to failure. If I recall correctly it failed at about 1.54 or 1.56 times limit load ... exceeding the requirements... and the point of structural failure was at the location that was predicted by their modeling. Can computer modeling be accurate??? You be the judge. The various areas of industry have been using computer modeling successfully. What does the telecommunications/Telcordia area have?? .. I don't know.
One of my designs was in an electromagnetic area of what I called "Never - Never Land" ... The management was wanting to build and ship the part ... to be put on a NASA testbed airplane.... and this was a key component of a flight test project.... They wanted to do this based on my track record. But, I pointed to my sign on the wall "One Test is Worth a Thousand Expert Opinions" ... a pre-production article was made ... .and tested at Wright Patterson Air Force Base... with the results matching my computer model. The production article was then built ... and flown successfully on NASA's airplane.
One last item ... In Brad's president's letter of Nov. 20, he stated: "But our first customer is a small one. We have chosen a small manufacturer on purpose because their needs are focused, and we can listen to them very closely at all levels of their organization. Their decision making cycle is short and their bureaucracy is clean. ... "
Notice his last few words. Some of you have worked with or sold to really large companies .... and if you're the new, small guy on the block ... good luck getting past the inertia of the system of the big, established corporation, if they are already established. Have you ever seen this before??? If really have the best, next generation way to achieve the goal .... and have tenacity .. get the product tested, proven ... out in the field working ..... and it would be good if the company could also get involved with setting the next standards ( I don't know if they plan to do this or not).... and have the standards written around the new, achieved performance objectives ... and if no one else can match those standards ... there might be a chance of getting to the goal.
The Rim chip has to go into a bigger assembly, and that assembly has to go into a system or network ... for all this to play out ... all the pieces need to come together and be sold successfully (after being proven to work on a cost effective basis) .. and have the intellectual property be properly protected. Remember the early video tape formats?? Sony Beta Max versus VHS ... the beta was said to be superior, but VHS won the battle. There are a lot of things which need to come together.
This has been an interesting journey, and I've made a lot of friends here. Thanks for letting me share these thoughts.
Ben
For those that like to look at charts .. check the MACD portion of the 1 year chart (Moving Average Convergence Divergence):
http://finance.yahoo.com/charts#chart1:symbol=rsmi.ob;range=1y;indicator=volume+macd;charttype=line;....
I've followed MACD charts for several years .....and it seems to be good for trend changes.... especially for long term trend changes. There are lots of other chart types as well, but for trend changes, I really like the MACD chart.
For those of you who have not been into charting ... get the book "Trading for a Living" by Dr. Alexander Elder ..... you should be able to find it at an on line book seller.
Ben
I've spoken with both Ray and Brad over the years... but they've shared nothing with me outside of what they shared publicly. I've mentioned to Ray some other applications where I think this technology can be used .... but they don't want to devote any resources to those directions until they get their primary direction well on the way.
From my standpoint, the PR sounds exciting... but it is missing details which would be of interest...... is their statement based on computer modeling (which, in my field is right on, and exactly matches real world impressivley well) .. or based on real world tests of an RSMI chip in harware.
I used to have a sign in my office which read "One Test is Worth a Thousand Expert Opinions" ..... when I retired, I passed it on to my sucessor for his office.
My old work site has been notified that they've won a big program that can't be talked about yet ... perhaps for a couple of months ..... but I was laying a foundation to take the industry to a new way of thinking ....and it took 15 years to do it ..... and it appears that I was successful. It can take a long time folks ..... but there's one word that can describe my efforts "TENACITY" .........and putting myself and our company into worldwide visability as the leading company in the world in the type of products we made.
I hope, that in a couple of months I can share this win with you'all.... its a biggie......
Now back on the RSMI topic..... I'm waiting like the rest of the folks out there ....still have all my original shares from a really long time ago ....and my wife would not let me buy more when I wanted to when it was down in the 0.02-0.03 range ....so we wait.
Ben
I just did a Google search looking for a Embarq trademark dispute between Sprint and Rim Semiconductor, and found nothing.......so far this may suggest there is no dispute .... hence, does an absence of a dispute suggest a possible alliance??? ... just my question???
I've been wondering for several weeks now why Sprint would change its landline company's name away from a well recognized name to an unknown "Embarq" name .... with a non-typical spelling .... and coincidentally take on the same name as the new chip meant to provide a significant change to their industry??? ..... I drove over to my hometown area with my wife and her sister about a month ago... and saw two phone company trucks ... both with the Embarq logo and paint job on them.
If there is some type of deal going on with a major customer of RSMI, it would be my guess that the first PR would come from the customer on their timetable rather than RSMI's timetable. That's the way it works in the industry I worked in.
IEEE Fellow Requirements are really impressive.
Check the IEEE site ... 2nd and 3rd paragraphs:
http://www.comsoc.org/socsTR/org/operation/fellows/fellow.html
Check out their site which explains what they do, especially the 5th paragraph:
http://www.telcordia.com/aboutus/index.html
Telcordia's Client Listing is Impressive
Check their web site ... go down to North America:
http://www.telcordia.com/aboutus/customers.html
"Dr. Kenneth J. Kerpez, senior scientist, Telcordia Technologies, named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE). As a leading scientist for Telcordia's Broadband Access and Premises Internetworking Division, Dr. Kerpez was recognized as an IEEE Fellow for his significant contributions to digital subscriber line (DSL) technology and standards."
Chcek the link below..... this is a significant event for this person.... to be selected as a "Fellow" in the IEEE .... Also note the other awards the employees of or the company Telcordia ....
Ben
http://www.telcordia.com/innovation/recognition.html
I did a Google search on him ... see the search below:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=Kenneth+Kerpez%2C+Telcordia
Also, for my two cents worth.... the quotation of him in the RSMI press release a few days ago normally would suggest that RSMI passed the PR in front of the Director of Public Relations of Telcordia and Dr. Kenneth Kerpez for their concurrance in writing before any press release...... hmmmm.......
When I shared the info on my NASA award a few weeks ago, since other places than where I worked were being quoted, their key offices had reviewed and approved the item ... soooo..... that's the basis for my comments above.
Any thoughts out there??
Ben
Thanks for the comments friends ! ! !
The event was the highlight of my career. My wife and daughter were with me at the event. Also, my successor who I hired 20 years ago was there, and a senior NASA engineer .... and even an engineer who retired a few years ago from MIT Lincoln Labs who we did some special work for several years ago wanted to be there for the event.
A radome is the nose of the aircraft which is made of composite materials, and has to be "tuned" to the radar's frequency or wavelength to be transparent to the radar beam. If the radome is poorly designed and put in front of a good radar antenna, it is sort of like giving Michael Jorden pop bottle bottoms for glasses and telling him to go play basketball. My radomes were the best in the world for the civil and special mission applications.
Thus one needs an understanding of radio wave propagation (electromagnetics), plus aerodynamics and airloads, plus aircraft structures (stress and strain), plus lightning protection of composite structures, etc.
Some of the things I worked on had objectives that were thought to be not possible to be done by some very major companies out there.
I really liked one of Abe's quotations a while back by Walt Disney: "It's kind of fun to do the impossible." I printed it out and posted it in my home..... Thanks again Abe. I really appreciate your posts.
One of the projects I supported, which was supposed to be impossible, successfully flew 10 years ago at Edwards Air Force Base, and on a couple of testbed aircraft since then (successfully)..... this is for a millimeter wave radar system which can look through fog and snow and present a t.v. type image on a heads up display in the cockpit..... better than foward looking infra red. However, this system still is not in production yet. Bringing new technologies forward can take serious time. There was an article on this sytem in a recent Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine.
Photo of the event
I would like to share some exciting news with my friends:
BenMack receives NASA Medal:
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/langley/news/researchernews/rn_EPSM_06.26.06.html
Mackenzie Awarded NASA Exceptional Public Service Medal
Retired Director from Saint-Gobain Flight Structures receives one of NASA’s highest honors.
NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va. – S. Ben Mackenzie, retired Director, Technology & Engineering, Saint-Gobain Flight Structures, was recently awarded an Exceptional Public Service Medal from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The medal was presented by NASA Langley Research Center Director Lesa B. Roe.
The NASA Exceptional Public Service Medal is one of the highest-level awards available to non-NASA employees, and is granted for exceptional contributions to NASA’s mission. This award honors Ben Mackenzie “For significant contributions and dedicated lifetime service to the avionics industry, military, and NASA aviation safety research.”
Dr. Charles E. Harris, Director of NASA’s Research & Technology Directorate, presented Mackenzie with a congratulatory letter from Rockwell Collins, Chairman, President and CEO Clay Jones. “The prestigious NASA Exceptional Public Service Medal you received today is a well deserved testament to your many achievements which encompass all segments of civil aviation and our national security as well,” said Jones in his letter. “Through your diligent work toward the highest quality standards and radome products, you have made a substantial contribution to the safety of our aviation industry, our nation, and the traveling public.” Rockwell Collins is recognized as a leader in the design, production, and support of communication and aviation electronics worldwide.
Mackenzie joined Saint-Gobain Flight Structures formerly Norton Company’s Composites Operations, in 1973 as chief engineer. Saint-Gobain is well known for the industry leading radome technology, from VLF to well into the mm wave region. It designs, manufactures and repairs aircraft radomes for aircraft manufacturers, airlines, systems companies and governmental agencies throughout the world. He also served as an FAA Designated Engineering Representative in the area of radomes and composite structures, and lightning protection of those structures.
”The radome facility’s success is due to the work of a great team of people,” said Mackenzie. “I am especially appreciative of my mentors, most notably my high school physics teacher, Howard Lorson, who had a ham radio club at the school and encouraged my experimentation.”
Mackenzie’s high school term paper was “Radio Wave Propagation,” as he had experimented with most of the methods then known. He also built a working 10 GHz microwave transceiver. Amateur radio continued to be a lifelong hobby and provided a solid foundation for his career in radome design.
In 2003 Mackenzie was selected from a field of over 5000 scientists and engineers worldwide to receive the AAI Pioneer Award at the Airlines Electronic Engineers Committee’s General Session, only the eighth time this award was presented. In 1993 RTCA (formerly Radio Technical Commission for Aeronautics) presented Mackenzie with a Citation for chairing the subcommittee that set the first internationally accepted standards for radomes for civil aircraft.
He also served on the RTCA and ARINC committees, which set the standards for Predictive Windshear Detection Radar now being used by all the major airlines in the U.S. Mackenzie was issued 5 patents, the most recent for a composite fan blade containment shroud for jet engines.
Mackenzie worked as an aerodynamicist and flight test engineer at Cessna Aircraft Co, from 1966 to 1973 on aircraft ranging from the Cessna 150 to the A-37 jet fighter. He holds an instrument rated commercial pilot’s license, was a flight instructor, and also served as president of the Cessna Employees Flying Club.
NASA Langley Research Center performs innovative aerospace research relevant to national needs. The Center manages for NASA high-payoff programs in atmospheric sciences, airframe systems, high-speed research and advanced subsonics. NASA Langley is the Agency's Center of Excellence for structures and materials research and is the focal point for wind tunnels as well as aerothermodynamic and structural test facilities. NASA Langley is recognized as the Agency expert for airborne systems, aerodynamics, mission and systems analysis, and hypersonic technologies.
Seventy percent of NASA Langley's effort is in aeronautics research, working to improve today's aircraft and to develop concepts for future aircraft. NASA Langley is developing technologies to enable aircraft to fly faster, farther, safer and to be more maneuverable, quieter, less expensive to manufacture, and more energy efficient. Langley has transferred to industry what it has learned about wind shear, a factor in over 50 percent of U.S. airline fatalities in recent years. Langley is the lead center for managing the agency's technology development programs for a future High-Speed Civil Transport that will reduce travel time for many over-water flight routes, for hypersonic vehicles, and for general aviation. (Ref: http://oea.larc.nasa.gov/org/impact96/Unique_Resource.htm )
For more information, visit www.radome.com.
Interesting find:
Both RIM Semiconductor and Embarq .. and lots of other companies are members of this ... Note what the goals of this organization are ... and then look at the member listing:
http://www.atis.org/about.shtml
http://www.atis.org/atismembers.shtml
FYI - Holographic Memory
Some of you were talking about Blu-Ray technology for the next DVD ..... well.... let's look beyond that... check out the article in MIT Technology Review a few months ago:
http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=14742&ch=infotech
Excerpt from the above article:
"The disc has more than 60 times the storage capacity of a standard DVD, while the drive writes about 10 times faster than a conventional DVD burner. That means the disc can store up to 128 hours of video content -- almost twice enough for the full nine seasons of Seinfeld -- and records it all in less than three hours."
If you want to dig a little deeper, try the following search:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=Holographic+Memory%2C+Sandia
House passes telecommunications bill
Check out the following link to the CNN item today ...
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/internet/06/09/cable.phone.tv.ap/index.html
For those who do charting ... look at the 3 month chart .... and run a line along all the minimum prices for the day through today (Thurs) ... ignore the 2 excursions below the line you are drawing, and ignore the price jump up and fall back exursion .... and you see an up trend through today. Go to the following charting site, then select the 3 month chart after the chart comes up:
http://bigcharts.marketwatch.com/javachart/javachart.asp?symb=RSMI+&time=&freq=
Also, there's a charting term called a "pennant" (shaped like the college football flag students would hang on their wall) ... then look at the last few days ... put a straight line across the max prices of the day, and another line across the minimum prices of the day..... these two lines are converging.
Looking at the overall trend of the minimums... does this suggest a breakout upwards??? hmmmm.....
Or, on the other hand looking at the MACD chart, this may suggest that RSMI may be approaching a peaked out point??
Let's see what happens over the next few days.
Ben
I agree with you. I rarely post anymore. A few days ago, the chart trend was starting up the price chart.... something's going on. With the volume of shares that has been purchased over the last large amount of time .... and it is now starting to move .... ????
About 8 years ago 2 different people who had done very well in the market .... and who generally were pretty good on the message boards as to calling out what was about to happen ... and were generally right ..... told me to buy and read "Trading for a Living" by Dr. Alexander Elder.... about a $50 book from barnesandnoble.com ..... great book. Unfortunately I never applied what I learned to this stock which I've had for lots of years now.... but I've watched its principles with other firms and funds. I'm not a day trader or even a swing trader, but an aeronautical engineer ... and was intrigued by the books contents.
Reading the company's web site .... with the evaluation that is said to be going on now...... and the price of the stock starting to move...... it seems that there's something positive going on.
Ben
Question???
Can anyone out there share a link to a free charting service. I used to use silicon investor's charts ... they had not only price and volume versus time, but also MACD and Stochastics. I've been using a fee based service for the last couple of years. When I checked with silicon investor, their charting is gone .... when I e-mailed them about it, they indicated they dropped that portion of their service.
E-mail me at benmackzie@aol.com
Ben
The peak price that day was $7.75 for about 15 minutes as I recall..... when the reverse split happened... the split adjusted price was $31.00.... It dropped off from that peak .. but still the price fall off was relatively slow .. based on the price about 2 years earlier.
Wheels ... Thanks for your post.
Ben
Do a Google Search on "Vinod Dham", Pentium .. is he real?? ... look for yourself.... great accomplishments:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=%22Vinod+Dham%22%2C+Pentium
There's an investor on chat who's asked me to pass on his request to post what's happening at the meeting .. over in the chat room.
From a Google Search an event 4.5 years ago:
http://www.dslprime.com/n/2000_October.html
David Wojcik played a key role for Alcatel on the SBC/Ameritech account, and apparently sensed a gap in their coverage in the midwest. He's now CTO of Ron Gavillet's Vertex Broadband, a new data/voice service growing from Illinois.
Step Into Liquid is in the March 2005 issue of Popular Science, page 63 ... the article is on the camera stabilization system used to make the movie ... but the movie is featured big time. The main photo on the page (full page width) is a frame from the movie... and the title of the movie shown in the lower right side of the frame .... plus mentioned 2 other places.
Jim - That link was really good...Thanks for posting it.
Patents comment
In the company's questions and answers regarding "Are Patents Our Only Line of Defense" ... and the repsonse is trade secret, etc. I agree. I have 4 patents in my field. Getting a patent is a thorough, not fast process.
On two of my patents, we produced product which went onto testbed aircraft, and we still did not disclose the key components of the design outside of a non-disclosure agreement.
One of those two patents was written sufficiently broad descibing the overall design, but the wording in my filing intentionally excluded key attributes making it very unlikely that anyone else would be able to duplicate my design.
I'm also glad to see the expenditure for patent filing activity shown. To me, this shows serious activity.
From Elaine's e-mail:
If I have not spoken with you earlier, I am sorry that I have to tell you that Mike's battles are over and he passed away on Wednesday, January 26. This is a list of the services being held and the dates and time. Please add Jeffrey and I to your prayers. Thank you.
Wednesday, February 2, 2005 at 7:30 PM First Lutheran Church 142 North Date in Mesa, Arizona.
Thursday, February 17, 2005 at 6:30 PM Emerson Elementary School 415 N. Westwood in Mesa, Arizona.
Dear Friends and Family,
We want to let you know that the church service will be Wednesday, February 2, 2005.
The address is 142 North Date at First Lutheran Church. Service will begin at 7:30 with limited parking and seating. Everyone is welcome to attend! Thank you for your support and concerns.
Elaine and Jeffrey
Thanks for you recollection of Mike at that gathering. I remember. He was very intelligent, with a good sense of humor, and had compassion for others.
I met him at the first mossback gathering held at his cabin in Prescott, AZ in the fall of 1999 I believe. There were 8 of us early NVEI investors there.
Mike had bypass surgery a few years ago, and had mentioned to me recently that he felt his cardio health was headed the wrong way.... then a few days ago he indicate he had an upper respiratory infection with fever ... then a day or two ago, he indicated it had moved to pneumonia, and the doctor put him on a strong antibiotic.
Ben
Pandaman's passing away - Part 2
Below is an e-mail from Zab, Mike and Elaine's neighbor. When Mike was not doing well last night, Jeff ran to Zab's home to get help. By the time Zab got there, Mike was comatose per Zab. The rescue squad had been called right away also:
Hi Ben:
With Elaine's consent, we request that in lieu of flowers or other memorials, contribution be made to the Pandaman (Mike Johnson) Memorial Education Fund.
The contributions can be sent to that Fund at 632 West Contessa Circle; Mesa, Arizona; 85201.
Thanks for your kindnesses to Elaine and Jeff and your genuine concern.
ZAB
Pandaman - Mike Johnson passed away last night about 11 pm MT.
His wife Elaine saw me on line this morning, and instant messaged me and asked me to phone her, and she told me what happened. I asked if she wanted me to post what happened on the NVEI board, and she said yes.
Immediately after talking with her, I just got an e-mail from one of his friends:
Ben:
It is with deep sadness that I inform you that our good friend Mike Johnson passed away last night at his computer in Mesa from a massive coronary. Elaine and Jeff and my wife Ferne were at his side as the paramedics could not revive him.
Would you be so kind as to post on the various NVEI message boards to memorialize him?
Thanks.
ZAB
An old mossback
Abe .... Thanks again for your Quote of the Day. I really enjoy them..... and frequently pass them on to others.
Ben
436,848 shares traded as of 3:56 today....
hmmmm........
Bill .... Thanks for finding the EETimes article...
EETimes = Electronic Engineering Times
That is a weekly publication.... newspaper format .... mailed throughout the EE industry. I used to get it before I retired..... great publication..... sent free to those with the right job title.
From that public article ... could one raise the question... does the content of the direction of that article match products or content of several of the names shown in the customer listing of HelloSoft on their web site ???? ..... hmmmmmm....... potential speculation here..... possible fit???
Abe...
Thank you for your "Quote of the Day" posts. I've really enjoyed them.
Ben