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The face of greed, Martin Shkreli, Drug Price Gouger, Arrested on Securities Fraud Charges

Unfortunately is had nothing to do with his disgusting drug price greed but it’s still a pretty picture.

UPDATE:

The 32-year-old biotech CEO, who sparked outrage by jacking up the prices on life-saving drugs, was arrested Thursday on securities fraud charges. But the stock market is about to deliver the ultimate justice – a massive decline in the value of his stock to the tune of $27 million.

Shares of KaloBios, which trade on the Nasdaq by the symbol KBIO, lost half their value to $11.03 a share just before being halted, according to trading data from TD Ameritrade. That’s a massive blow to Shkreli, who owns more than 2 million shares, or about half of the company, says S&P Capital IQ. If shares reopen at the price they were trading prior to the halt, Shkreli is looking at a $26.1 million loss on just that investment. Shkreli actually was buying additional shares of the company in the weeks leading up to his arrest.

But that’s not all. Shkreli also owns 1.8 million shares of Retrophin (RTRX), the publicly traded biotech which is at the center of the allegations of fraud. Shares are down 2% – adding another $723,719 in losses. Shkreli had been CEO and president of Retrophin starting in 2012 through 2014.

Article here.

I complained that the popcorn was too Chewie.

In honor of the film I’m getting to go to the premiere of this evening at 7pm, some stuff from a galaxy far, far away…

More amusing signs and wordage:

This is very fun and I promise it has no spoilers:

I’m going to the premiere tonight at 7 pm.

Here’s some pretty macabre diagrams of 30 different ways to die by electrocution from the 1931 illustrated Austrian book Elektroschutz in 132 Bildern by Stefan Jellinek, an Austrian doctor (born in what today is the Czech Republic).

The world’s first electro-pathologist he wrote this book and was behind most of the treatments still used today after electric accidents.
As a Jew he was forced out after the Nazis took over Austria. He escaped to the UK where he became a professor at Oxford at Queen’s College where he continued lecture until his death in Edinburgh 1968.

A couple, the 5th and 4th from the end, of these seem to include a flux capacitor.

On this day in 1791 the states ratified the first ten amendments to the US Constitution, commonly known as the Bill of Rights. Unfortunately, these days it seems as if those who support the 2nd Amendment seem to be willing to throw the baby, i.e., the rest of them, out with the bath water.

This 6 ½ minute video by a 17 year old shows how his invention can change the world, protect us from pandemics spread by air passengers, and save billions of dollars.

Raymond Wang is only 17 years old, but he’s already helping to build a healthier future. Using fluid dynamics, he created computational simulations of how air moves on airplanes, and what he found is disturbing — when a person sneezes on a plane, the airflow actually helps to spread pathogens to other passengers. Wang shares an unforgettable animation of how a sneeze travels inside a plane cabin as well as his prize-winning solution: a small, fin-shaped device that increases fresh airflow in airplanes and redirects pathogen-laden air out of circulation.