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Very negative lead for "scanners" but, then, there is the rest of the story.
the rest of the story tells about investors that are initiating or increasing their holdings.
New Director, continuing the BAT influence:
https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-wire-news-releases-pmn/organigram-announces-appointment-of-karina-gehring-to-board-of-directors
Who said there was no life left in OGI?
Roller coaster. Shake and bake. How many euphemisms can be used?
Great sig, basserdan.
When did this board go Premium? Why?
There was a time, not long ago, when I could post here freely (within my daily limit), but not any longer.
Not a big loss to me or the board but I did enjoy making my occasional reply or contribution.
Real easy to buy a victory round, eh?
Jack and ginger, please.
Hate to tell you, this ship is sunk.
Glad you are still around, too.
yepper, that it was.
SMH
With Halloween fast approaching, I was wishing I had taken actual paper certificates from NVMG, er, NAEG or is it NAGP. Whatever.
If I had the paper certificates, they would make great tricks to hand out instead of candy treats.
Basserdan, no, I don't care if it is fake.
Since this is entertainment, the picture is not from the fake ad
Ad for used Aston Martins -> FAKE!
February 24, 2013
This picture is currently going around on Twitter and Facebook as being Aston Martin’s new ad for pre-owned cars. The message: “You know you’re not the first, but do you really care?”. Of course, this is not real Aston Martin ad, it is a FAKE ad. Here’s the story:
aston martin ad - pre-owned - you know you're not the first, but do you really care
Of course, if you look closely, you will see it is highly unlikely that this is a real Aston Martin ad. Someone has just doctored this up in Photoshop and posted it online. After which it went viral.
The most important hint that this is fake is the typo in the ad: it says “PRE OWED” instead of “PRE OWNED”.
A quick search on Google Images shows that the photo was taken from the January 2012 issue of Playboy Germany, showing dutch Playmate Rosanne Jongenelen.
(UPDATE: I had the original image of the ad here, but have been forced to remove it after I received this nice email from Aston Martin’s lawyers.
UPDATE 2: Another email, this time from Playboy Netherlands, forcing me to also remove the small (300px high) thumbnail of the original Playboy photo.
So we’ll have to make do with the black and white outline image above. Hopefully that is okay with the lawyers of this world.)
Anyway, back to the fake ad…:
The message “You know you’re not the first, but do you really care?” is not original either. The same tagline was used in 2008 by BMW to advertise their Premium Selection.
Yes, that ad was real.
http://www.aston-martin.com/2013/02/24/ad-for-used-aston-martins-fake-or-real/
same girl, different pose
ah, to be young again
BlackBerry and Facebook Settle Patent Lawsuit
JAN 15, 2021 11:25 AM EST
BlackBerry (BB) - Get BlackBerry Limited Report said Friday that it had settled its longstanding patent dispute with Facebook (FB) - Get Facebook, Inc. Class A Report.
Shares of Ontario-based BlackBerry at last check jumped 16% to $10.61. The Menlo Park, Calif., social network was up 2.2% to $250.98.
"We have resolved our disputes pursuant to a confidential agreement and have no further comment," a BlackBerry spokesperson said in an email.
BlackBerry sued Facebook in 2018 in California, charging that the social network and its WhatsApp and Instagram subsidiaries infringed on BlackBerry messaging app patents.
BlackBerry and its BBM system rose to popularity in the mid- to late-2000s.
Yes, the Justice Department does have serious grounds and serious charges to bring against Robert Kaplan. Will they?
SMH
Yeah, Dick Tracy had that about 60 years ago.
SMH
Maybe these guys really ????
Now I understand Newsom staff level of confidence about recall vote.
Newsom team: No scenario where we lose recall election
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/newsom-team-no-scenario-where-we-lose
CA Recall Voter Says She and Other Republicans Showed Up at Polling Place, Were Told They Already Voted
https://www.westernjournal.com/ca-recall-voter-says-republicans-showed-polling-place-told-already-voted/
Is the "fix" in?
The following struck me as too good to not pass around.
Excel on Excel's Coffee Shop posted the following:
Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the much older lady that she should bring her own grocery bags, because plastic bags are not good for the environment,.
The woman apologized to the young girl and explained, "We didn't have this 'green thing' back in my earlier days."
The young clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations."
The older lady said that she was right our generation didn't have the "green thing" in its day. The older lady went on to explain: Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled.
But we didn't have the "green thing" back in our day. Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags that we reused for numerous things. Most memorable besides household garbage bags was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our school books. This was to ensure that public property (the books provided for our use by the school) was not defaced by our scriblings. Then we were able to personalize our books on the brown paper bags.
But, too bad we didn't do the "green thing" back then. We walked up stairs because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks. But she was right. We didn't have the "green thing" in our day.
Back then we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the throw away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling machine burning up 220 volts. Wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days.
Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that young lady is right; we didn't have the "green thing" back in our day.
Back then we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana.
In the kitchen we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us.
When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap.
Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power.
We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity. But she's right; we didn't have the "green thing" back then.
We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blade in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull. But we didn't have the "green thing" back then.
Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service in the family's $45,000 SUV or van, which cost what a whole house did before the "green thing."
We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 23,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest burger joint.
But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the "green thing" back then?
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the next excuse to keep troops in Afghanistan?
U.S. military officials said the United States "will continue to coordinate" with the Taliban in providing safe passage to the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, where suicide bombers carried out an attack that killed 12 U.S. service members and injured 15 others.
Marine Corps Gen. Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr., commander of U.S. Central Command, said during a press briefing Thursday that the evacuation effort out of the Harmid Karzai International Airport will continue, and that the U.S. military had been sharing "information with the Taliban" to help prevent such attacks.
Sarcasm from Babylon Bee:
"Listen—my job isn't to have compassion and heal everyone who gets wheeled in here," said local surgeon Dr. Kilem. "My job is to make sure these people are living the way I want them to, and then decide who lives or dies based on that. This world has too many people in it anyway. Come to think about it, why did I become a doctor? Oh yeah—money."
Doctors around the country are protesting people who are being brought to them for care, most of whom made questionable life decisions that led to their injury.
"Sex workers? Drug addicts? Bungee-jumpers? Who says they even deserve to live anyway?" said Dr. Kilem. "I'm only a doctor for goodness sake." He then got in his new BMW, put three masks on, and drove off.
Thanks, basserdan, your work is appreciated.
DuckDuckGo gave me multiple links, also. I was just too lazy to follow them all
Seems the gist of these articles is maybe some low level members of the groups involved might be brought up on charges.
It does not have a texture of satisfaction, at all.
SMH
Special Counsel John Durham, appointed during the Trump administration to examine the origins of the FBI’s 2016 Russia probe, is presenting evidence to a grand jury and preparing a lengthy report expected to be completed in the coming months, according to people familiar with the matter.
BasserDan, from the Kunstler post:
Unsettling discoveries are in the offing going forward. The Wall Street Journal lately detected signs of life in the John Durham investigation, reporting that matters have gone to a grand jury. That means crimes are being prosecuted. We may soon become reacquainted with names that almost slipped down the memory-hole — the likes of Bruce Ohr, Glenn Simpson, Andrew McCabe, Rod Rosenstein, Pete Strzok… who else…? This may also lead to a catastrophic discrediting of the mainstream news media — who were fully in on the RussiaGate con — to the degree that some companies end up utterly wrecked and with many careers washed up
SOT, if replying to my post, please, stay on topic.
If you want to pump a stock, you can post without replying.
And here's a message from BasserDan:
Kindly do me a favor, VH Gambler, and send a post to SpotOnTrade telling him (or her) that if he doesn't take me off ignore, his other posts will be removed as well.
I wonder if they are separate but equal?
Georgia school creates mask-optional campus for students who won’t follow mandate
Updated 1:47 PM; Today 1:47 PM
By The Associated Press
Fights over masks in schools continued to tear at Georgia communities on Thursday even as hospital leaders renewed warnings of shrinking capacity to handle a surge of COVID-19 cases.
Parents in Gwinnett County who oppose that district’s mandate are threatening to sue, and The Savannah Morning News reported that U.S. Rep Buddy Carter sent out a fundraising email saying masks in schools are “a Big Government power grab” that are “suffocating our children.”
Meanwhile, the Fulton County district, which currently mandates masks for all its students, announced it would open a school for up to 500 students who wouldn’t have to wear masks.
That’s a concession to parents and students angered over the masking order. The district also said it would open remote learning program for up to 300 students in grades K-2.
Statewide, mask mandates continue to grow in schools. At least 40 districts covering 770,000 students are requiring face coverings. That’s almost 45% of Georgia’s 1.7 million students. At least five districts have sent all students home, including Ben Hill County, which starts virtual instruction Friday. Others have stopped in-person teaching at individual schools. Crisp County High School in Cordele shifted to virtual instruction Thursday, while Clayton County sent students home from a second elementary school.
Georgia’s case count continues to rise, with the seven-day rolling average climbing above 5,800 on Thursday, the worst since Feb. 1. The number of COVID-19 patients in hospitals is also rising rapidly, exceeding 3,900 on Thursday even as many hospital executives warn they don’t have enough beds and staff. At least 30 hospitals statewide reported that they were turning patients away from emergency rooms and intensive care units on Thursday.
Leaders of Macon and Warner Robins hospitals held a joint news conference Thursday to implore people to change their behavior, one of a series statewide.
“We are not here today to debate the pros and cons and all the rhetoric that is out there,” The Telegraph of Macon reported that Houston Healthcare President Charles Briscoe said. “Today is about what we see in our local community. And what we see consistently is those individuals that are unvaccinated are at great risk of severe hospitalization and at great risk of death.”
The seven-day average for the share of positive molecular tests kept climbing to 16.4% on Wednesday, far above the 5% average that experts say means there is enough testing to detect most virus cases. The pace of deaths is also rising, getting close to 22,000 statewide since the pandemic began.
The state has recorded almost 1.25 million infections.
https://www.al.com/education/2021/08/georgia-school-creates-mask-optional-campus-for-students-who-wont-follow-mandate.html
Too bad, SOT, those "rap" videos are wasted on me. I'm old and my hearing is shot.
I can't understand the words he is saying and I doubt I would understand what he said if I did.
I could probably say the same for him.
SMH
Thank you, all, for your Gold/Silver price action responses
I always appreciate an opportunity to learn something new.
Your responses provided several very good opportunities.
Basserdan, in all your perusals, have you found an explanation of gold and silver prices dropping in the face of record setting spending, budget deficits and inflation?
Opportunity there, but, the problem is, I prefer to grab the knife after it stops rather than as it falls.
Thank you for all your gathering and sharing.
I don't buy that the CDC can't extend the eviction moratorium – something it has already done in the past! Who is going to stop them? Who is going to penalize them? There is no official ruling saying that they cannot extend this moratorium. C'mon CDC – have a heart! Just do it!
— Maxine Waters (@RepMaxineWaters) August 2, 2021
Can't have everyone dying all at once, can we?
It would be springtime in Paris (1832) all over again.
(tic)
It's called "wealth redistribution" (TIC)
Sorry, plugger. Doc tells me that's tinnitus.
If you have/create enough leverage, you can cause stock price to go down.
Especially if you want to get back shares you sold on the spike at the original or lower cost basis. Profit is profit.
JMHO, for what it is worth.
I just spewed coffee! Had to change shirt!
Thanks, wh28
I would like to see a debate between Anthony Fauci in February 2020 and Anthony Fauci today.
Eight days into an upward trend?
Thank you, PappaJohn
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=162857594
Bravo, Claire Washington.
You and I have the same "failing".
We tend to believe what people tell us, expecting their motives to be as altruistic as they seem.
Live and learn, although a hard lesson.
You are probably right.
We do live in a Bizarro World (apologies to DC Comics).
Plugger, hope your surgery was 110% successful.
Does all that "finding" in that ruling mean those three go to jail if found in Connecticut or was that a federal law (or two) they broke?
After a year plus, perhaps, a warrant is out and they are "on the lamb". One can only hope, I guess.
The old saying "Money talks and bullshit walks" has more than one meaning.
SMH
NO inflation "to speak of" in the economy.
Your sig is an excellent example that no Fed person speaks of.
SMH
Some people invest while others gamble.
I, also, like to keep the two separate.