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Stoked: Big Air Edition Review
As close to backcountry snowboarding as most will ever get.
Bombing down the mountainsides conveyed a real sense of speed. The games innovative weather system provided an organic, big-mountain feel. But it lacked what makes a game fun to play: the Challenge variety was limited and the sense of progression jilted by the inability to access them in an approachable path. Not quite a sequel but with enough added content to warrant a retail release, Stoked: Big Air Edition revisits the original and covers the bases that Stoked missed to make it more of... well, a game.
The learning curve is steep; you'll spend the first couple hours constantly eating snow and restarting events as you learn the intricacies of the trick system. But the moment when everything clicks, when pulling a trigger while pushing the right analog stick at the correct moment becomes second nature, riding finally feels rewarding. The sense of accomplishment when stomping a trick -- thanks to the spot-on physics -- is as close to the feeling of doing so while actually strapped into a snowboard as any game has been able to get.
At each of the game's seven mountains (two of which are new), you're provided a set of Challenges ranging from races to the standard do-the-called-out-trick types. If you're not keen on taking in the freeriding experience while seeking out the game's Challenges (you're missing out), all of them are accessible through a menu; a blessing when all but one objective remains to be completed, tucked away unseen in some desolate corner of the mountain. Despite most of the challenge types being a variation of one another -- there's no inane coin collecting here -- the ways in which you must complete them keep them fresh. You can meet some requirements by simply riding up to a jump and spinning, others by hitting more than one object in a sequence. Later challenges, presented by the rider's potential sponsors and other pro snowboarders, require perfectly executed trick chains. The hook is in Big Air's ability to present challenges that are difficult but that rarely lead to frustration, as each repeated attempt lets you further refine your riding technique.
Challenges aside, carving a swathe down the mountain feels so natural and smooth that I found myself continuously wanting to ride without doing any challenges to find bigger jumps and cliffs to hit. Just to land a styled-out, backside, 720 method that would make Craig Kelly (respect) jealous. No points, no challenges... but just to land it. As videos are a part of snowboarding just as much as skateboarding, a video editor to record those bangers would have been a welcome addition, but as the title is a "budget" release I can understand the absence.
It's not only the gameplay that makes Big Air Edition feel true to snowboarding. From the in-game pro snowboarders and their updated sponsors (a number of them were recently dropped from their main sponsors and picked up by new ones) to the eclectic music selection (big-name acts are a rarity in snowboarding videos), I really appreciate the attention to minute details.
As much as the Big Air properly executes the feeling of snowboarding, the presentation still needs some work. As with most subcultures, snowboarding has an extremely obtuse trick naming convention. While a welcome diagram showing the proper controls for specific grabs appears during the Challenges that require them, those who aren't snowboarding-savvy will have to flail through the air and slide their boards across logs until they can discern the differences between front and backside or tail and noseslides.
Some of the features that Big Air added feel a little tack tacked on, namely marked runs and park objects. While the marked runs provide easily distinguishable paths, they serve no purpose other than to create racetracks that could have been woven into the existing mountains' terrain. And the park objects exist with no rhyme or reason to their placement; it would have been nicer if developer Bongfish had incorporated them into the game's Challenge progression.
Despite Big Air's minor shortcomings, it conveys the feel of snowboarding in a convincing manner by replacing the inane fetch quests and looping rails of the genres' forebears with pure snowboarding. For about half the cost of a lift ticket at a major ski resort, Stoked: Big Air Edition's mountains and riding are an authentic representation of what snowboarding is: a canvas for creativity, where finding a perfect line is its own reward.
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Although the pharmaceutical industry reported substantial increases in annual research and development costs, the number of NDAs submitted to, and approved by, FDA has not been commensurate with these investments. From 1993 through 2004, industry reported annual inflation-adjusted research and development expenses steadily increased from nearly $16 billion to nearly $40 billion--a 147 percent increase. In contrast, the number of NDAs submitted annually to FDA increased at a slower rate--38 percent over this period. Similarly, the number of NDAs submitted to FDA for NMEs increased by only 7 percent over this period. FDA approved most NDA applications--76 percent overall, but the numbers of NDAs and NDAs for NMEs it approved annually have generally been declining since 1996. According to experts, several factors have hampered drug development. These include limitations on the scientific understanding of how to translate research discoveries into safe and effective drugs, business decisions by the pharmaceutical industry, uncertainty regarding regulatory standards for determining whether a drug should be approved, and certain intellectual property protections. These factors have been cited as affecting the number of drugs developed, the cost and length of the drug development process, as well as the types of drugs being produced. To address these issues, experts offered suggestions including increasing the number of scientists who can translate drug discoveries into effective new medicines and allowing conditional approval of certain drugs based on shorter clinical trials using fewer numbers of patients. In its comments on a draft of this report, the Department of Health and Human Services provided clarifications, which GAO incorporated as appropriate.
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I've been crafty this week...look at what I made...
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- Colette said...
You've been crafty creating beautiful things!!! I love these, especially those greeting cards :-)
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- 2justByou said...
Burgundy is a beautiful color for that wooden cross. It's lovely! And the bracelet is full of great colors for spring/summer. Keep up the great work!
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- sarah said...
You have been crafty. I love that bracelet, perfect for Spring.
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- Pam Andrews said...
love the greeting cards. you have been busy that is a good sign. the Cross is awesome
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- Recovered Fundie said...
You are very talented, Debbi. These are beautiful creations!
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- Miss Val's Creations said...
Beautiful work on all of these Debbi! The bracelet is so fun for summer. I have done the same thing...when something does not sell after a while I may keep it for myself. :) Your mom's cartoons are so fun. What a great memory!
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thank you...those cards are my fav too. :0)
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thank you everyone....the best prescription for for the doldrums is time in the studio...
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You really have been busy haven't you. Gorgeous crafty items.
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The killer of the Bain family was a "family annihilator" – one of a chilling list of such murderers in New Zealand. In recent decades at least nine people in New Zealand have slaughtered or attempted to slaughter two or more of their family. The death toll from their familicide stands at 44.
The "family annihilator" term was coined by Professor Jack Levin, a darling of the US television circuit and head of sociology and criminology at Northeastern University in Boston. He teaches a course called "Sociology of Violence and Hate" and is the author of the recently released book Serial Killers and Sadistic Murderers.
Levin says family killers are usually men who have "a profound need for control that drives them to destroy their family when they can no longer provide for them financially or when the family has been divided by divorce".
Men who commit murder-suicides tend to be prompted by a financial or personal defeat that they view as major, Levin says, while women who kill are more likely to have a mental health issue, as did Andrea Yates, the Texas mother suffering from severe postpartum depression and psychosis who drowned her five young children in a bathtub in 2001.
Though uncommon, such terrible crimes are far from unheard of. In January this year, Ohio man Mark Meeks killed his wife, his two children and himself – just a few days after Ervin and Ana Elizabeth Lupoe of California killed their five children, all under age eight, and then themselves, leaving a harrowing suicide note that said they were jobless and had no place to go, "so here we are".
Though the Lupoes might have been destitute and desperate, Levin says annihilators come in two main types: those who act out of "altruism", apparently believing they are saving the family, and those seeking revenge.
Certain factors are found in almost all family annihilations – especially ones where the motive is revenge.
The catalyst for a "revenge" annihilator is usually a nasty divorce or child-custody battle. That was the case in another recent US familicide, when Bruce Pardo, dressed as Santa Claus, arrived at a Christmas Eve party hosted by his ex-wife's parents and shot them, his former spouse and six of her relatives before killing himself, apparently accidentally, while setting their house on fire.
Revenge killings are often precipitated by the loss of a relationship, says Levin. "[There is] an externalisation of blame. The killer believes the spouse is responsible for the destruction of the family unit.
"The children are killed because he blames her – so he kills everything she loves – not because he hates them but because he identifies them with his spouse. Everything associated with the person is considered evil.
"He sees himself as the victim – she is the villain and the annihilation is sweet revenge." Levin says the perpetrator kills the whole family unit, "not just his wife or one of his children, but every member of the family. The motive for the crime may be clear or not, but the annihilation indicates that the family is the victim."
When the motive is altruism, the catalyst is usually financial – "the killer is convinced that he no longer has the ability to take primary care of his wife and children … He has a feeling of being totally helpless and believes sincerely that there will be a better life for the family in the hereafter."
The very term family annihilator flies in the face of almost everything most of us understand is meant by the word "family". Levin says although people like to think they are safe with their loved ones, the largest number of mass killings in the US occurs within families. (The second most common location is workplaces, the third is schools.)
Levin reports that about 90% of annihilators are a father/husband, with about 10% being a son in his late teens or early 20s.
He says if Robin Bain was involved in an incestuous relationship with his daughter Laniet, then the case reflected America's worst family annihilator, Ronald Simmons, who killed 14 family members over the Christmas period in 1987. Simmons did so because his family was going to throw him out after an incestuous affair with a daughter that resulted in her bearing his son.
Levin says although annihilators usually killed all the members of the family they could, it was not unheard of for a mass killer to make exceptions, as in Robin Bain's alleged note saying David Bain was the only one who deserved to stay.
Disaffected postal worker Pat Sherrill deliberately didn't kill some people when he went on his shooting rampage in 1986, killing 14 people.
So, how common is it for annihilator killers to cover their tracks by wearing gloves? Levin says it is not the usual case for perpetrators in a murder/suicide case to try to cover their tracks. The mystery in the Bain case, where bloodied gloves were found under Stephen's bed, is why gloves were worn during the killings and why, if Robin was the killer, his fingerprints were not left on the gun.
Levin says people too often look for a reason for the murders in the period immediately before the killing. But many family annihilators had suffered a "long period of cumulative frustration".
"The main catalyst may be something which happened years before and they have spent years thinking about and planning the killing.
"The event which actually sparks the killing may not be obvious – it may be quite insignificant – but there is always some episode that is the final straw."
He says David Bain did not fit either of the two main categories of "son" family annihilators: those who heard voices telling them to kill, and those who had been "physically or verbally abused by parents and just can't take it anymore". However, David Bain may have felt his family's apparent dysfunctional behaviour left him socially isolated.
Levin says New Zealand is clearly not isolated from family annihilations. But he is surprised at the high number of "not guilty on the grounds of insanity" cases here. Three of the eight New Zealand killers profiled in this article were found to be insane, three committed suicide and two were convicted of murder.
"Americans just despise insanity as a defence," Levin says. In US murder cases, just 1% of cases use insanity as a defence – with just a third of those succeeding.
He says insanity simply does not fit because family annihilations are usually planned "over days, weeks, months … The more random the mass killing, the more likely the killer is insane. With family annihilators, the killer is seeking revenge – he is only after specific victims – he is methodical and selective."
Levin says family killers do not "talk to dogs and hallucinate" but concedes they are "clearly troubled but not at a level to be considered insane.
"That's the saddest thing of all – we're not talking about psychotics. They don't suffer from schizophrenia or a profound thinking disorder or mental illness. You can't say that they're psychopathic. They have a superego; they're resourceful, not manipulative or crafty. A person who plans methodically to kill his family is usually not insane – if he were, he'd be too confused [to do it]."
Instead, says Levin, the crime seems to come out of nowhere. "It's shocking and you can't predict it – there really aren't any red flags. They don't have a character or personality disorder, although almost all have suffered long and cumulative frustrations." The use of guns is inclined to make the body counts higher, he says. Female killers are more likely to use poison, fire or strangulation.
Levin says family annihilation is likely to become more common in tough economic times – "I don't think there's any question about it, assuming the economy doesn't brighten, we're going to see more mass killings in the family and in the workplace."


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Windfall Theatre still in tune with 'A Little Night Music'
Many Stephen Sondheim musicals benefit from being performed in a smaller space, where voices and emotions require no amplification to be heard and seen. That's perhaps most true of "A Little Night Music" - a delectable lemon meringue that combines the delicate, light farce of Hugh Wheeler's book with the tart filling provided by Sondheim's score.
It's therefore no accident that the nearby Writers' Theatre production of "Night Music" last summer - in a house that barely seats 100 - was better in every way than the 2009 Broadway revival featuring Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury. »Read Full Article(1)
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A great song, delivered well, is a powerful, powerful thing.
Stage veterans Kay Stiefel and Jack Forbes Wilson lit up the Broadway Theatre Center's Studio Theatre Friday evening, delivering a high-energy parade of musical gems and bringing those songs to life with the kind of theatrical polish that take years to learn/earn. »Read Full Article
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Happy Free Comic Book Day, the day that celebrates two of Milwaukee's favorite things: comic books and free stuff.
On the first Saturday of May, participating comic-book stores around the country give away specially created comic books - both kid- and geek-friendly - for free, and usually have a lot of great deals on other titles in their stores. »Read Full Blog Post
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The voice of Sara Bareilles could fill, and has filled, venues larger than the Humphrey Scottish Rite Masonic Center Auditorium, which sold out its 435-seat capacity when she stopped there Friday night.
Bareilles was in the midst of her first-ever solo tour and evidently wanted the intimacy of a smaller venue - combined, perhaps, with the assurance that if she failed, she would do so in front of a smaller crowd. »Read Full Article(2)
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Just heard on RHT's website its presentation live from the Lehman services conference. According to the press release from a few weeks ago, the audio and the slides will be placed back on the website in 24 hours and be available for 90 days. If you have an interest in RHT, it is definitely worth listening to.
There were no big surprises to me, but I was pleased with the company's emphasis on several points that I think have held back the stock. The discussion in connection with slide 10 went over all the incentives RHT's management and employees have to work for the shareholders' interests, including a discussion of the requirements for bonuses, and the mandatory stock purchase plan. Our obsessive compulsive CPA here might want to give that section a listen before foaming at the mouth again.
One aspect that has been treated as a negative by analysts, the sharp decline in US outplacement in the last two quarters compared to the post 9/11 environment the previous year, was converted quite nicely, IMO, into a positive. US ouplacement revenues dropped 19% in Q1 '03, yet operating profit margins in that business dropped only slightly, and the division was still quite profitable, although down from the previous year, of course. This shows that RHT's operating model allows good control of costs. Most businesses that had that kind of drop in sales would have gone way into the red.
Unfortunately, most of the audio dropped out during the Q&A period. I hope that section can be restored when it shows up on the website tomorrow. The whole thing from start to finish was about 45 minutes.
"No one suggested that he [Buffett] owes his success to a reasonable limit on options."
You did exactly that. Reread what you wrote earlier in the day.
"When employees exercise and sell, there isn't isn't enough activty in this stock to work the options in without taking the stock lower...No on has suggested either that exercising and selling is keeping the price low."
You do exactly that, and are doing it again just a few sentences prior to denying it. Please read what you write. In fact, total sales by insiders this year are trivial, easily absorbed in a few hours trading. Data easy to find.
"I know that there is 20% overhang waiting in the wings. That's enough to keep the interest in the stock low, keep buyers away..."
What is so special about options being a potential source of supply? For all stocks, 100% of all shares are always waiting in the wings, if those who own the shares want to sell them. In fact, most options stay as options for many years, and are less a threat to the stock price than the shares already in existence. One should spend time analyzing what might make anyone, insider or outsider, want to sell their shares, or buy more for that matter, as many insiders have done this year; that is called fundamental analysis.
"I think you showed your true colors with this comment "The fact that the option count so infuriates you only says something about your particular psychological issues". If you can't prevail in the discussion on factual grounds, then sling mud ? It does not "infuriate me". It amuses me. This board is entertainment during slow trading days."
Entertainment for me too. But your fetishizing one minor factor, out of all the things affecting RHT stock, and your frequent mindless "shoot this dog" type posts, suggest a lack of balance in your viewpoint on the matter.
I am confident that Buffett would get a bigger laugh of your arrogant defense of a company that issues options equivalent to 20% of the shares outstanding. No one suggested that he owes his success to a reasonable limit on options. Why do you have a desire to read that into his stance on options? It's crystal clear though that companies can have a 7% options cap and still provide superior returns to shareholders. Buffett has proven this. So, why do we have to blindly accept mgt's explanation that they have to issue ungodly numbers of options to attact good people in order to provide superior returns? We don't.
Your math no doubt provided you with some nice mental exercise this evening. But, it's worthless. The impact options have on share price is more a function of the average daily demand/supply of a stock to the number of options that will be hitting the market. Options dilution to a stock that trades hundreds of thousands of shares a day is tolerable. The stock can be worked into the market place with ease. Options dilution to a thinly traded issue acts as a huge anchor around the neck of the stock. RHT doesn't have a big following. The added shares weigh down the stock.
Do all the mental math you want. When employees exercise and sell, there isn't isn't enough activty in this stock to work the options in without taking the stock lower.
No on has suggested either that exercising and selling is keeping the price low. I have not done the research to see how much activity is out there with options each quarter. Have you? I don't need to. I know that there is 20% overhang waiting in the wings. That's enough to keep the interest in the stock low, keep buyers away, have those who do the homework question the credibility of the mgt team, enough to have analysts stay lukewarm on the company, enough to cast a questionable light on RHT.
I think you showed your true colors with this comment "The fact that the option count so infuriates you only says something about your particular psychological issues". If you can't prevail in the discussion on factual grounds, then sling mud ? It does not "infuriate me". It amuses me. This board is entertainment during slow trading days.
I don't care where you are going. I care even less about when you come back. I'll be here. And I'll be talking up the same issue ... the mgt team here are screwing the company shareholders by handing out options like they were candy.
This company needs to be taken private.
I've thought about selling just because of this issue. I've found the interaction between you and cpa very interesting & appreciate your spelling out your take on it. Thanx.
Buffett may well have a rule on how many options should be outstanding, but I think even he would laugh at the implication that he owes much, or even a little bit, of his wealth to that rule. It is just a good rule of thumb, not THE key to wealth. If it were that simple, we'd all be rich.
I am not arguing with you that it would be nicer if RHT had fewer options outstanding. But the number of options is already taken into account in calculating fully diluted EPS. The calculation is in every 10-K and 10-Q. Are there investors who are unaware of what is in public documents? Sure, but they aren't the big players. You seem to think that only you are aware of this deep dark secret, and it is your duty to spread the news. Well, all I can say to that, is.... yawn.
Had RHT stuck to the 7% rule, there would be 13% fewer shares outstanding, fully diluted. If dollar earnings were unchanged, EPS would be 13% higher. (Of course, if to retain good people you had to pay them more cash in lieu of options, then dollar earnings would be lower, and EPS less than 13% higher.)
The reason that RHT is selling for $12 rather than $22 is not that its EPS could have been $0.25 higher. That explains less than $2 of the price shortfall. The reason it is not still $22 is because no one wants to pay much of a multiple on RHT's fully diluted EPS, because they think that the earnings of the US outplacement operation will fall off a cliff as soon as the economy returns to what is perceived to be its natural state, a boom or bubble. If fully diluted EPS were a bit higher, the market, given that attitude, would not pay more than a low multiple of those earnings either.
Your assertion that RHT's stock is being battered down by employees constantly selling shares they get from options is proven wrong by the paucity of such transactions compared to the volume. Anyway, wouldn't that contradict your complaint? If employees exercised lots of options, then there wouldn't be too many outstanding anymore, would there?
I think you have the kernel of a legitimate argument. Yes, RHT would be selling for a point or two higher if it had issued fewer options. But that is trivial, compared to the $2 to $22 to $12 history the last three years. If it goes back up into the $20's, or heads back down into single digits, this will all happen because of the actual performance of the business and investors' expectations for the future, and not because of any aspect of the option count.
The fact that the option count so infuriates you only says something about your particular psychological issues, not about anything of great import for RHT stock. I'll be away from the computer for several days, so foam away at your leisure, and I'll respond, if need be, after the weekend.
It's a bonus plan. Period. Show me another company with a fat bonus plan, and a fat options plan. One or the other. Or good balance in both. No need to be gluttonous at the shareholder's expense.
I have to vehemently disagree with this statement "there is no logic to your assertion that employees don't have incentives that ultimately help the stock price."
So, it's OK to issue 100%, 200%, 300% options on shares outstanding? Why not, it provides more incentive ? Right ?
Following your logic, Warren Buffet should be on welfare. Warren Buffett's companies striclty adhere to the 5 to 7% rule when it comes to options. Are you suggesting that the employees of Buffett's organizations are that much LESS motiviated to produce superior returns? If so, how then is it possible that Warren Buffett has become one of the richest men in the world via his capital alloctaion skills? Could it be possible that the companies in which he invests have employees who are not as motivated ? No.
There is a point at which issuing more options does absolutely nothing in terms of overall employee motivation. Beyond that point, it just becomes a plain transfer of wealth from shareholder to employee. It takes returns that should be paid to the shareholder and puts it into the pockets of the employees, at no added benefit to the stock or the stockholders.
If Warren Buffett has become a Billionaire 30 times over through investments in companies with motivated employees having options of no more than 5 to 7% of the shares outstanding, well I'd say that's a good sign that 5 to 7% is the point beyond which options become gluttonous and just plain theft.
And 20% is 3x Buffett's going rate. That's why RHT will never produce superior returns over the long term. That's why this stock is stuck in the mud now. That's why this company needs to be a private company.
No it's not a trivial obsession. It's a major problem. Whenever the stock tries to muster any strength, employees will be there to exercise, sell, and beat it back down. It's a cap that will keep the stock down for a lengthy period of time. It will take a long, long time for another 20% of the float to be digested by the market.
No, the stock price does not reflect the existence of options. Contrary to popular belief, the market is not a perfect discount mechanism for all information. Especially information buried deep in the footnotes of the financials. How many investors reaserch the options issue prior to buying a stock ? 2%, 1%, probably less.
If I am correct, in prior posts you have accused the analysts of not understanding this company. Not giving it more credit. I strongly suspect if they were free to speak(without fear of their firms losing the potential to do business with RHT in the future), you would find out that the bloated options plan and Richard's inability to address this issue are some of the primary factors why they don't support the company.
It is not all that rare to find companies with 20% options outstanding? You are just plain wrong about that. I am very much in tune with the options issue. I frequently short stocks coming out of IPO lockups. It takes tons of culling through 424B filings and study of the details of employee options to be successful at these trades. It is very rare to find a company with options that approach 20% of shares outstanding. Very rare.
This mgt team is reckless. They want to give away the shop. Well fine. Let them do it. With their own money. Quit picking the pockets of RHT shareholders. Take the company private.
"Richard's respone - well then, I need to hold options constant and start paying big bonuses too !"
The bonuses only get paid if the company achieves its 15% fully diluted EPS growth target--that's 15% after bonuses are paid, not before. If options cause extra dilution, then dollar earnings have to be just that much higher for bonuses to be paid.
The large number of options that employees have, as well as the large number of shares that they are required to buy with their own money, and the fact that bonuses depend on the growth of after tax fully diluted EPS, all force the employees to be pro-shareholder. Sometimes conditions are such that that may not be good enough to make earnings go up as much as we would like, but there is no logic to your assertion that employees don't have incentives that ultimately help the stock price.
"Otherwise, the options overhang is just going to kill this POS."
How exactly?
The existence of options lowers fully diluted EPS. The $1.80 goal for this year is fully diluted. Once earnings have been fully diluted, they don't get diluted a second or third time. The $1.80 reflects all the options outstanding. If RHT earns less than that this year, it will be because of disappointing operating performance, not because of the options about which you are so obsessed.
To the extent that investors are bothered by the number of options outstanding (many of which have striking prices above market), they don't buy the stock, or they sell it at lower prices than they otherwise might. So the stock price already reflects the existence of the options. In other words, it has been discounted, is old news, ancient history, and has nothing to do with future stock action.
BTW, it is not all that rare to find companies, especially small cap stocks, with options outstanding well north of 20% of shares outstanding. Nevertheless, suppose RHT had only 7% that you consider the limit for "good companies". Therefore, to follow your thinking, by not "cheating" outside shareholders out of that extra 13% of the company, the stock, instead of closing today at $12.75, would presumably have closed instead at $14.41, which is 13% higher.
Do you see how trivial your obsession is? Less than three years ago RHT was $2.52, about a year ago it was $22.38, and you are whining that it is now $12.75 when it might have been $14.41.
I would suggest you lack a sense of proportion.
Not only that. It gets worse. The bonus plans at RHT didn't used to be so lucrative. The CEO indicated on the last conference call that he had received so many comments from analysts and institutional investors about their fat options plan, that he had to start paying nice bonuses in order to keep and attract people.
Can you believe that utter BS ?
Institutional investors communicate to Richard that he's issued 2x to 3x more options than normal to his employees. That has a dilutive effect on the shares. It supresses the stock price. He needs to address this.
Richard's respone - well then, I need to hold options constant and start paying big bonuses too !
When I heard Richard address this issue in the last conference call, my immediate thought was that man is clueless. He just stuck a stake through the heart of the stock price. He is just absolutely clueless.
A previous person who posted got it right. Forget owning the stock, find out how to become an executive at RHT. Big options. Big bonus. Screw the shareholders. I got mine. That's RHT. That's why this stock has no future.
If nice bonuses are going to be paid on profits, then the stock options need to be reduced to 5% of shares outstanding. Any action less than that is a slap in the face to the shareholders of RHT.
Wake up Richard. Quit screwing your shareholders. Take the company private, or sell it.
I'll give it a listen. Can not help but notice that you did not address my biggest beef - the sheer number of outstanding options there are for this stock. Did RHT mgt address this issue in the presentation? Like it or not, those options serve as a huge drag on the stock.
It's also going to be interesting to see if the presenters whined about the valuation of the stock. I am just so damn tired of listening to these people whine and moan about their stock price. If they don't like it, then they need to get off their butts and do something about it. Lever up and buy in stock. Or, better yet, just take the damn thing private.
This company has no business being a public company. They treat their shareholders like trash by issuing options like it was free candy. If they want to dilute the heck out of their owners interests, make it come from their own pockets. Take it private.
I am curious: are you arguing that the options outstanding are causing some specific dollar amount or percentage reduction in the value of RHT? Or are you saying it will cause a drop in the future, once enough investors agree with you how horrible it is?
What I am getting at is this: Everybody, including management itself (based on comments in the last conference call) agrees that the number of options outstanding is a negative. This is not a new, previously undisclosed problem. What isn't clear to me is that a) it is a big problem, since giving out no options is not a feasible alternative these days to recruiting and retaining good people, and b) that it hasn't already been discounted in the price of the stock.
Yes, it would be nice if RHT had fewer options. Yes, it would be nice if it had less debt. Yes, it would be nice if it the outplacement division were growing as fast as the consulting operation. But if it had fewer options, less debt, and faster growth, the stock might be $25 or $30. You seem to think that the mere existence of an above average number of options, despite the mandatory stock purchases required of all employees, makes management so immoral and anti-shareholder that no price of the stock is too low for it to be a good buy. Is this just purely a moral issue for you? Or, if you really are a CPA, perhaps you can quantify for us why a P/E of 7 and an enterprise value/EBITDA of 4 doesn't already more than discount any negatives. Thank you.
I did listen to the presentation. I guess overall it sounded good, but I decided to sell at a little profit this morning. Have changed my mind since my first post as a few things are now making me uncomfortable.
First Call is estimating decreasing revenue YOY and sequentially for the next 2 quarters although I believe RHT said revenue would be great this year. Nice that margins aren't decreasing as much as revenue in the US, but...
After looking more into options I think a few folks here have made a good point about 20% of the O/S for options is a bit high. They also said in the 10-Q or 10-K they had to borrow $28M to pay bonuses, and want to increase authorized shares from 45M to 100M for possible acquisitions and more stock options.
Based on EPS and LT growth the stock is undervalued, but think I'll put my money elsewhere. Think I'm starting to agree the company should go private, sounds like a great place to work.
Thanks for the input - good board discussion here from both sides.


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Most Cited The Journal of the American College of Clinical Wound Specialists Articles
The most cited articles published since 2011, extracted from Scopus.
Silver nanoparticles as real topical bullets for wound healingThirumurugan Gunasekaran | Tadele Nigusse | Magharla Dasaratha Dhanaraju
Volume 3, Issue 4, December 2011, Pages 82-96
Nanotechnology is on the threshold of providing a host of new materials and approaches, revolutionizing the medical and pharmaceutical fields. Several areas of medical care are already profiting from the advantage that nanotechnology offers. Recently, silver nanoparticles are attracting interest for a clinical application because of its potential biological properties such as antibacterial activity, anti-inflammatory effects, and wound healing efficacy, which could be exploited in developing better dressings for wounds and ulcers. This article reviews the role of silver nanoparticles in wound healing. © 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Drug-hypersensitivity syndrome: Diagnosis and treatmentRose L. Hamm
Volume 3, Issue 4, December 2011, Pages 77-81
Drug-induced hypersensitivity syndrome is a systemic autoimmune disorder that results in mucocutaneous symptoms ranging in severity from mild pruritus to life-threatening skin and mucosal loss, with different nomenclature depending on the severity of the symptoms. The purpose of this article is to review the recent advances in understanding the pathology of drug-induced hypersensitivity syndrome, as well as current recommendations for both medical and wound management. © 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Skin cell proliferation stimulated by microneedlesHorst Liebl | Luther C. Kloth
Volume 4, Issue 1, March 2012, Pages 2-6
A classical wound may be defined as a disruption of tissue integrity. Wounds, caused by trauma from accidents or surgery, that close via secondary intention rely on the biological phases of healing, i.e., hemostasis, inflammation, proliferation, and remodeling (HIPR). Depending on the wound type and severity, the inflammation phase begins immediately after injury and may last for an average of 7-14 days. Concurrent with the inflammation phase or slightly delayed, cell proliferation is stimulated followed by the activation of the remodeling (maturation) phase. The latter phase can last as long as 1 year or more, and the final healed state is represented by a scar tissue, a cross-linked collagen formation that usually aligns collagen fibers in a single direction. One may assume that skin microneedling that involves the use of dozens or as many as 200 needles that limit penetration to 1.5 mm over 1 cm 2 of skin would cause trauma and bleeding followed by the classical HIPR. However, this is not the case or at least the HIPR phases are significantly curtailed and healing never ends in a scar formation. Conversely dermabrasion used in aesthetic medicine for improving skin quality is based on "ablation" (destruction or wounding of superficial skin layers), which requires several weeks for healing that involves formation of new skin layers. Such procedures provoke an acute inflammatory response. We believe that a less intense inflammatory response occurs following microneedle perforation of the skin. However, the mechanism of action of microneedling appears to be different. Here we review the potential mechanisms by which microneedling of the skin facilitates skin repair without scarring after the treatment of superficial burns, acne, hyperpigmentation, and the non-advancing periwound skin surrounding the chronic ulcerations of the integument. © 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
The role of whirlpool in wound careHanz Tao | Jaime P. Butler | Tammy Luttrell
Volume 4, Issue 1, March 2012, Pages 7-12
Evidenced-based-wound management continues to be a cornerstone for advancing patient care. The purpose of this article is to review the use of whirlpool as a wound treatment in light of evidence, outcomes, and potential harm. Whirlpool was initially harnessed as a means to impart biophysical energy to a wound or burn to enhance mechanical debridement and cleansing. Other credible single-patient-use technologies which provide an alternative to whirlpool in wound care are presented. © 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Negative pressure wound therapy with instillation (NPWTi) better reduces post-debridement bioburden in chronically infected lower extremity wounds than NPWT aloneS. G. Goss | J. A. Schwartz | F. Facchin | E. Avdagic | C. Gendics | J. C. Lantis
Volume 4, Issue 4, January 2012, Pages 74-80
Objective An overabundance of bacteria in the chronic wound plays a significant role in the decreased ability for primary closure. One means of decreasing the bioburden in a wound is to operatively debride the wound for wound bed optimization prior to application of other therapy, such as Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT). We undertook a prospective pilot study to assess the efficacy of wound bed preparation for a standard algorithm (sharp surgical debridement followed by NPWT) versus one employing sharp surgical debridement followed by Negative Pressure Wound Therapy with Instillation (NPWTi). Methods Thirteen patients, corresponding to 16 chronic lower leg and foot wounds were taken to the operating room for debridement. The patients were sequentially enrolled in 2 treatment groups: the first receiving treatment with operative debridement followed by 1 week of NPWT with the instillation of quarter strength bleach solution; the other receiving a standard algorithm consisting of operative debridement and 1 week of NPWT. Quantitative cultures were taken pre-operatively after sterile preparation and draping of the wound site (POD # 0, pre-op), post-operatively once debridement was completed (POD # 0, post-op), and on post-operative day 7 after operative debridement (POD # 7, post-op). Results After operative debridement (post-operative day 0) there was a mean of 3 (±1) types of bacteria per wound. The mean CFU/gram tissue culture was statistically greater - 3.7 × 106 (±4 × 10 6) in the NPWTi group, while in the standard group (NPWT) the mean was 1.8 × 106 (±2.36 × 106) CFU/gram tissue culture (p = 0.016); at the end of therapy there was no statistical difference between the two groups (p = 0.44). Wounds treated with NPWTi had a mean of 2.6 × 105 (±3 × 105) CFU/gram of tissue culture while wounds treated with NPWT had a mean of 2.79 × 106 (±3.18 × 106) CFU/gram of tissue culture (p = 0.43). The mean absolute reduction in bacteria for the NPWTi group was 10.6 × 106 bacteria per gram of tissue while there was a mean absolute increase in bacteria for the NPWT group of 28.7 × 106 bacteria per gram of tissue, therefore there was a statistically significant reduction in the absolute bioburden in those wounds treated with NPWTi (p = 0.016). Conclusion It has long been realized that NPWT does not make its greatest impact by bioburden reduction. Other work has demonstrated that debridement alone does not reduce wound bioburden by more than 1 Log. Wounds treated with NPWTi (in this case with quarter strength bleach instillation solution) had a statistically significant reduction in bioburden, while wounds treated with NPWT had an increase in bioburden over the 7 days. © 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Factors that impair wound healingKristin Anderson | Rose L. Hamm
Volume 4, Issue 4, January 2012, Pages 84-91
The body's response to tissue injury in a healthy individual is an intricate, sequential physiologic process that results in timely healing with full re-epithelialization, resolution of drainage, and return of function to the affected tissue. Chronic wounds, however, do not follow this sequence of events and can challenge the most experienced clinician if the underlying factors that are impairing wound healing are not identified. The purpose of this article is to present recent information about factors that impair wound healing with the underlying pathophysiological mechanism that interferes with the response to tissue injury. These factors include co-morbidities (diabetes, obesity, protein energy malnutrition), medications (steroids, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs or NSAIDs, anti-rejection medications), oncology interventions (radiation, chemotherapy), and life style habits (smoking, alcohol abuse). Successful treatment of any chronic wound depends upon identification and management of the factors for each individual. © 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Pitfalls of intralesional ozone injection in diabetic foot ulcers: A case studyGünalp Uzun | Mesut Mutluoǧlu | Hüseyin Karagöz | Ali Memiş | Ercan Karabacak | Hakan Ay
Volume 4, Issue 4, January 2012, Pages 81-83
Although the history of ozone therapy dates back to the 19th century, its use has shown a rapid growth of interest in recent decades. Intralesional ozone injection is seldom performed and its safety has not yet been reliably assessed for the treatment of diabetic foot wounds. Herein, we describe a diabetic patient who developed severe foot necrosis and infection after receiving intralesional ozone injections for a non-healing wound. © 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Skin hypersensitivity to sun light due to doxycycline ingestion causing hand partial-thickness burnRichard Simman | David Raynolds
Volume 4, Issue 1, March 2012, Pages 16-17
Drugs hypersensitivity should be remembered when placing patients on any form of medications. In this case we present skin hypersensitivity to sun light due to doxycycline ingestion causing hand partial-thickness burn. © 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Optimizing wound bed preparation with collagenase enzymatic debridementStanley K. McCallon | Dorothy Weir | John C. Lantis
Volume 6, Issues 1-2, January 2014, Pages 14-23
© 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.Difficult-to-heal and chronic wounds affect tens of millions of people worldwide. In the U.S. alone, the direct cost for their treatment exceeds $25 billion. Yet despite advances in wound research and treatment that have markedly improved patient care, wound healing is often delayed for weeks or months. For venous and diabetic ulcers, complete wound closure is achieved in as few as 25%-50% of chronic or hard-to-heal wounds. Wound bed preparation and the consistent application of appropriate and effective debridement techniques are recommended for the optimized treatment of chronic wounds. The TIME paradigm (Tissue, Inflammation/infection, Moisture balance and Edge of wound) provides a model to remove barriers to healing and optimize the healing process. While we often think of debridement as an episodic event that occurs in specific care giver/patient interface. There is the possibility of a maintenance debridement in which the chronic application of a medication can assist in both the macroscopic and microscopic debridement of a wound. We review the various debridement therapies available to clinicians in the United States, and explore the characteristics and capabilities of clostridial collagenase ointment (CCO), a type of enzymatic debridement, that potentially allows for epithelialization while debriding. It appears that in the case of CCO it may exert this influences by removal of the necrotic plug while promoting granulation and sustaining epithelialization. It is also easily combined with other methods of debridement, is selective to necrotic tissue, and has been safely used in various populations. We review the body of evidence has indicated that this concept of maintenance debridement, especially when combined episodic debridement may add a cost an efficacious, safe and cost-effective choice for debridement of cutaneous ulcers and burn wounds and it will likely play an expanding role in all phases of wound bed preparation.
Wet-to-dry dressings do not provide moist wound healingAaron J. Wodash
Volume 4, Issue 3, September 2012, Pages 63-66
The purpose of this study was to determine if using advanced wound care dressings leads to improved outcomes as compared to wet-to-dry dressings. Based on a review of literature published in the last eight years, with the exception of one landmark article published in 2001, strong support was found that advanced wound care dressings improved outcomes when compared to wet-to-dry dressings. Some of the outcomes compared were healing time, pain, infection rates, and costs; several articles took it a step further stating that the use of wet-to-dry dressings is considered sub-standard practice. The articles provided evidence-based support for the use of moist wound healing. © 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Demonstration of a microcurrent-generating wound care device for wound healing within a rehabilitation center patient populationEmily Whitcomb | Nina Monroe | Jennifer Hope-Higman | Penny Campbell
Volume 4, Issue 2, June 2012, Pages 32-39
Purpose Wound care in a rehabilitation environment is a costly and difficult problem. The goal of this retrospective study is to evaluate differences in wound closure outcomes in acute and chronic wounds when treated with a microcurrent-generating wound care device as compared to standard wound care methods. Methods Data files of 38 patients who received either standard wound treatment (SOC; n = 20), or were treated with a microcurrent-generating wound device (MCD, n = 18), were retrospectively reviewed. Wounds were assessed until deemed clinically to have closed or healed with up to 100% epithelialization. All patients (18-99 years) with single wounds were included. The number of days to wound closure and the rate of wound volume reduction were compared across groups. Persistent reduction of wound size improvement was also examined. Results The wounds in the SOC group closed on average at 36.25 days (SD = 28.89), while the MCD group closed significantly faster in 19.78 days (SD = 14.45), p = 0.036. The rate of volume reduction per day was -3.83% for SOC vs. -9.82% volume reduction per day (p = 0.013) for the MCD group. The SOC group had 50% of its wounds close monotonically vs. 83.3% in the MCD group (p = 0.018). Conclusion This two-center retrospective study demonstrated a 45.4% faster, and more robust healing of wounds with the use of the MCD, when compared to SOC in a rehabilitation center environment. This translates into improved patient care, and potentially significant cost savings. Economic benefits for the use of MCD compared to other wound care methods are planned for future research. © 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Role of hyaluronic acid treatment in the prevention of keloid scarringAndrea Hoffmann | Jessica Lynn Hoing | Mackenzie Newman | Richard Simman
Volume 4, Issue 2, June 2012, Pages 23-31
Background Keloids are benign dermal scars characterized by enhanced growth factor signaling, hyperproliferation activity and reduced extracellular matrix (ECM) deposition of hyaluronic acid. Our hypothesis is that high molecular weight HA can be used to replenish HA deposition in keloids thereby normalizing the keloid fibroblast phenotype. Methods One normal (NF1) fibroblast culture and five keloid (KF1, KF2, KF3, KF4, KF5) fibroblast cultures were analyzed for changes in hyperproliferation, growth factor production and extracellular matrix deposition following 72 hour treatment with or without 10 μg/ml HA. Results Proliferation activity decreased significantly in KF3 following HA treatment. Pro-collagen I expression in KF2 was decreased following HA treatment in association with changes in fiber arrangement to more parallel collagen bundles. In addition, HA demonstrated a downregulation on TGF-b1 growth factor expression in KF3 and KF4 and a decrease in active TGF-b1 release in KF2 and KF5 using ELISA. Conclusion Our data demonstrates that HA has the potential to normalize keloid fibroblast characteristic features such as hyperproliferation, growth factor production and ECM deposition depending on the specific genotype of the keloid fibroblast cell line. This study suggests that high molecular weight HA can be used to replenish HA deposition in keloid fibroblasts thereby decreasing fibrosis and ultimately decreasing keloid manifestation. © 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.


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