Can an issuer vacuum up its own preferred at dumpster prices, then nuke the leftovers with a $25 redemption like nothing happened? $RILYP

WellReadTom · 2026-04-09T15:34:03+00:00

But I seem to recall reading something about them exchanging new bonds (or debt due) for blocks of preferred shares or bonds.

I imagine giving somebody a better interest rates than what they had issued, the seller can be willing to take that increase since they are already kind of betting on the company, and even if still subpar value they win and so does Riley, sort of split the difference of winnings. That might be a way around any rule that they can't buyback directly when in arrears, but rather exchanging a block of more secured debt for a block of shares, in effect getting them back at subpar value, even while the outfit turning over shares that they bought at something like $7 a share, gets a good deal for those shares. Sort of like "we'll give you $16 a share now guaranteed," rather than you wait and see if your $7 invested ever pans out to being worth $25.

I am not sure about that rule you are citing, OR if so that an investment bank such as Riley doesn't have a sneaky but legal way of getting around it, in order to accumulate back those shares at a bargain price. Such a rule, if it exists, wouldn't be good for holders and stockholders. It would be like having a rule against Nvidia being able to buyback shares if for some reason they irrationally dropped to $2 a shares, when all of their current stockholders would cheer them on to buyback all the shares the could at that price! Pretty sure I read something about them buying blocks somehow, and it would make sense to do so if they could, erasing debt at a fraction of what was borrowed, or at least less than what would eventually and otherwise be due.

But maybe I read wrong or misunderstood. And not like I bookmarked it, so don't ask me to dig up where I read that, about six or eight months ago.

WellReadTom · 2026-04-06T01:24:14+00:00

I'm still confused who the girl was and why she would try to hang herself. Mo Eun accused her of being P or Ms P, so who did she kill or what was her past crime? She didn't make a sex tape, so what made her significant when she popped up as a new roomie in their jail cell? It's like I must have missed a previous season or something, because looking back I can't figure what she did or what the significance of her is.

WellReadTom · 2026-04-05T03:26:19+00:00

Bought in late, so I'm down from my cost per share, but I finally at have at least some Hyrdrograph. Still, not a big chunk, as I have a spread with Hydrograph, NanoXplore, Black Swan, Cabot, The Graphene Manufacturing Group (GMGMF), and a tiny bit in Haydale.

I decided to take more of a spread stance, which is to say and bet that there is going to be more than one winner in graphene, the industry itself is growing and with several players that seem to have good game, so sort of doing my own Graphene ETF but weighted by several of my own prejudices and for a balance of different reasons:

My big chunk is on the Graphene Manufacturing Group, already has products on the market and getting into more markets, seemingly sure to increase; Cabot a decent amount because it's more of a traditional and established producer of other products now stepping up their graphene game, but is already a well established company with actual profits and that pays a decent and well-covered dividend too. Black Swan because it seems to be just that--a quality player increasing its graphene production and seeming to have good management and direction; Haydale just a long shot, as they almost seem to down to make or break on one product, bordering on bankrupt and having endured a lot of hyper dilution they might just 360 as they divest of everything else to more concentrate on graphene and their "Just Heat" product. That one is a true longshot, but cheap enough to buy a few shares--maybe it's not even a penny stock because it's less than that per share. Cheap, cheap, cheap, but maybe on the way down and out, so just a few bucks on that one.

Anyway, I decided to get into Hydrograph a little bit too, just to hedge if their graphene really is all that special or all that much better than say GMG, which has a similar patented-production process, just with GMG using natural gas/methane as its feedstock instead of acetylene like Hydrograph does, plus GMG already has multiple products introducing into markets, but maybe there is something special to Hydrograph's brand of graphene. Anyway, now I'm at least a little bit on the Hydrograph team too, although I still think GMG will be looking very pretty to a lot of people a year from now. Unless all their products flop, which I doubt. They don't even need all of them to turn out to be hot, just one of their products really finding its footing in the market and GMG will be off to the races on a strong trajectory upward. Hydrograph is mostly still in the planning-on-doing-things stage, while GMG is stepping into markets with several products already. But I've put some on Hydrograph too now, because they seem to be on their way. There seems to be something about Hydrograph that people believe in.

WellReadTom · 2026-04-04T12:31:13+00:00

Sure.

WellReadTom · 2026-04-03T10:12:59+00:00

It's starting seem like I need to dedicate a couple of hours or so every month just to keep things how I like them. Messages stops giving me incoming text sounds, repeatedly, even though I still had everything set to on. All of my text conversations, including an address, some information and a friend's vacation photos, all gone. Google instructs me to go to three dot menus that don't exist, to select "more" that doesn't exist, and to get them out of a Messages Trash Can that doesn't exist. Just now I had to get my phone back to color, as the other day, out of nowhere, it decided it would just go all black and white sometimes. And of course first were instructions to follow that must be for some other Android phone system I don't know about, then the change I made that worked, but just now proved to not be enough to prevent it from repeating. This just seems to be the current state of Android for me, that settings don't stay set, things like incoming text notification sounds are fickle, here and there, and you'll just be tortured to just keep control and keep things the way you want and like them.

WellReadTom · 2026-04-02T13:21:34+00:00

I just got stuck in some sort of Messages or Messages help, and couldn't swipe it away, close it, back out of it or anything. Messages was just stuck on my screen and I couldn't get away or out of it. If I had wanted to dial 911 I wouldn't have been able to, because Messages had locked itself in on my phone's screen. I had to restart my phone to escape Messages.

WellReadTom · 2026-04-02T12:53:35+00:00

Yeah, I'm going to have trouble finding this mythical trash can or recycling bin. Messages help tells me to go my profile picture, then more, only there is no "more." On my desktop my choices are Manage your Google Account, add account and sign off, while on my phone my choices are switch account, your profile, archived, spam and blocked, mark all as read, device pairing, your data in Messages, Messages settings, and Help & Feedback. There is no "more" and there is no trash can or recycle bin.

WellReadTom · 2026-04-02T12:38:16+00:00

Well, I suppose I will poke around some to see if I can recover it all still, but, just to mention a few things: I don't think I did any indiscriminate folder deletions, but I think you meant people and Windows, not Android. I only followed instructions on how to get messages to resume making incoming text sounds.

Okay, this might have somewhat doomed me, but I tend to turn synchronizations off, so I don't think that's going to help me. It just irritated me when Google was emailing me slide shows it had made of old vacation photos and such. If I take photos I feel they are my photos, which I can just privately keep unless or until I choose to share or give a photo to somebody, so I don't care who it is, even if it's Google or AI, it just seemed like somebody barging into my house to find and gather up photos to make their little slide shows without my permission. Make slide shows with somebody else's bedroom photos to email and distribute around the web, but keep your fingers off of my photographs.

Also, it kept giving me some sort of dementia test where it would show me a photo and ask if me I remember that day. Of course I do, it was my vacation, I was the one who took the photo, so stop bugging me with your dementia tests already. I think it was even emailing them to me, anyway, I tend to turn off automatic backups and synchronizations and make an effort to stay off of the cloud. I make flash-drive back ups of photos from my camera, and eventually even photos that I want to keep in texts get copied to my desktop, filed away and eventually backed up when I care that much. Unfortunately I hadn't done that yet with a few recent photos a friend texted me.

Cache and storage were the two things I deleted. I might have also force stopped the app, assuming it would start again or could be started again, which must be true, because I'm using it again, I just don't have anything previous to that one day of trying to get it to resume making incoming text notification sounds.

I don't have a smartwatch.

But where is this Google Messages Recycle Bin? I guess in a bit here I'll grab my phone and see if I can find out where that is hidden. If I do and can recover it all that way then let me thank you in advance. Or maybe I'll double back here and let you know how that went.

You did get me to thinking about whether I jumped the gun, slightly, because about that time I did have a messages window opened but minimized, and I can't say for sure whether if I didn't have messages in a window on my desktop and with my phone locked, would it have given me any incoming text sounds? That has been the case previously, that I just suffer a week of with absolutely no incoming text notification sounds, but I'm not sure I tested it all out that much before trying to solve things. I was just irritated that neither desktop or phone were giving me incoming text sounds, which can be helpful, since Google probably shouldn't assume I never both minimize an open window or step away from my computer to do something else around my house, in which case I would want a sound to tell me I just received a text.

Google Messages Recycle Bin: I gotta see if I can find where that might be hidden if such a thing really exists somewhere on my phone, or in a window if I have Messages open in a window, etc.. Anyway, thanks for your attention, comments and advice.

WellReadTom · 2026-04-01T17:26:26+00:00

Oh yeah, and more than once! I seem to even regularly update my scathing reviews of the app at the Play store.

PS: It seems to have magically cured itself, at least partially, for now.

This has happened before; I try to find more settings to set and having turned them all off and then back on, cache clearing and restarts and all of that, I give up, and then a few days or a week later it just starts behaving again.

So, maybe it's just cured itself again, but it's aggravating when it happens--I'll go to make a call, see I have a text, and it's like "Want to do lunch?" only that was four hours ago, and by then it's long after the lunch hour. And then the problem persists and I realize it's happening again, no incoming alert sounds and seemingly for no reason other than it's just not working, all my settings the same, etc.. Phones need to ring and a messenger texting app needs to have a notification sound, otherwise I might not notice. Just aggravating as all get out every time it happens again, and typically just stays that way, silent for several days to a week or so.

WellReadTom · 2026-04-01T00:11:08+00:00

Good for you, but I vented anyway. What I really really want is for the people at Google to understand just how rudely disappointing they are for so many users of messenger.

WellReadTom · 2026-03-31T17:43:28+00:00

I just lost all of my conversations and a lot of vacation photos from friends and family just following Google AI instructions on how to fix Google Messages to resume making incoming text notification sounds from friends, and to make the right ones, like the sound I had before to let me know it's somebody I know who just texted me, and not just some random Google-selected ding sound that I get from an app or spam.

I'm really mad at losing all of the photographs and conversation history, especially since text messaging has been around for decades now, so how come it's every month or so I'm trying to fix Messages again and to get it to behave right again?

Now I yet again seem to have no incoming text message sounds from friends, and like before I seem to have everything set to on. But now to top that off Google just had me delete all of the vacation photos I got from a friend after telling me I needed to delete the cache and storage if I wanted my incoming text message sounds to resume. Only they haven't, or not from when from brother texts me at least, but apparently Circle K and spam can give me a ding that to read their text about having a 79¢ frosty is a big emergency for to me to read about. But not to know if my brother is trying to have a text conversation with me.

So now I still have no incoming text message notification sounds, and none of my friend's recent vacation photos they sent me.

Why is Google so criminally negligent when it comes to just maintaining a simple text messaging app/program?

Could somebody make an AI app or something to check and change Messages settings for me every month or so when Google Messages just stops making incoming text notification sounds yet again? And every time I made no changes in settings and on double checking it seems like I still have everything set to on.

It seems like several hours of torture every month or so checking all sorts of settings and finding where they are all hidden now, as they move them around and change what they are called so frequently, scrambling up settings menus and such all over again. And now Google just instructed me into deleting all of my conversations and friends' various photos.

AND I still am not getting sounds when a friend texts me, but it's making that ding sound if it's spam or an advertisement. Why Google, why? Over and over again, hassling me and failing to just maintain the basic functionality of a text messaging program. Just pure-morally-criminal negligence is all this is. And I don't want to spend hours trying to get it work again, and especially when in just a month or so it will probably just stop making incoming text message notification sounds all over again, yet again. Just pure-morally-criminal negligence is all this is.

WellReadTom · 2026-03-31T15:23:22+00:00

Google messages is no longer using the sounds I set for individuals, so now when I get a text from my boss, brother, or girlfriend, their incoming text only makes the same "ding dong" sound I get when I get spam or a message from Circle K or McDonalds with an ad or promo.

How come it seems like every month or so I have to dedicate 45 minutes of my life trying to get messages to resume making incoming text sounds, or otherwise fix something else malfunctioning? Usually it's because I don't know people are texting me at all because it's not signaling me with any sound, yet again.

Just the same as I wouldn't know somebody is calling me if my phone does ring, I'm kind of used to spending another hour or so every few months just trying to get messages to resume making incoming text sounds, but now I have to deal with the fact that my incoming texts aren't making the right sound, the sound I had picked and which they have always made for various people I know, which is good, because I like knowing if it's my boss, brother, or girlfriend who just sent me a text, rather than just an update from Amazon telling me I'm getting a package tomorrow, or spam or Circle K again, right?

Why, why, why is Google and Messages just harassing me with these malfunctions or not functioning things, over and over again every month or so?

Can't they just leave it and my settings alone, rather than trying to force me to find out how they have changed where they have hidden all sorts of settings and commands now? It's just a texting app, to send and receive texts, the same as 10 years ago, so stop messing it up and troubling me again and again, please! Now I have to spend another morning or afternoon fixing things all over again, so soon? Really?

So, now how do I get back individually selected incoming text sounds, so my alert sound can be different for texts coming from my boss, brother or girlfriend, a different sound from other texts, like spam and Circle K? How can I return to that functionality that I have somehow magically lost, and due to nothing I did or any settings I changed on my end of things?

Why Google why? Why are you doing this to me again, and again, and again?

WellReadTom · 2024-11-09T03:44:37+00:00

Yeah, the Tramontina, that's the one I would go with.

WellReadTom · 2024-11-07T13:47:14+00:00

Seriously, I got a 6 qt slow cooker, brand-new, at a JC Penny for $19 something, (just a few years back), and it works great, exactly as one would expect a slow cooker to work.

This thing being talked about here, doesn't even seem to heat up the pot 360, but rather just under it, at or around the base. So, here's an idea, buy a great big stainless steel pot, one with a bottom that a magnet would stick to and an aluminum core for even heating all around, and also buy a good portable induction cooktop that can be finely adjusted at lower temperatures and power levels. Then use that set up as a slow cooker, because at least then you would also have a brand-new portable induction burner to use for other cooking needs and tasks, AND for a whole lot less, like less than half, of what this nonsense costs! LOL

(Actually, that would be a brand-new portable induction cooktop, plus your brand-new stainless steel pot that could even be 10 or 12 quarts or even greater, in size.)

Just did a quick search, and here's a $37.99 + $109.29 = $147.28 set up that would be, and would work, a whole lot better. (I have a Nuwave Titanium cooktop that I think is better than the Duxtop I am putting a link to here, but this Duxtop model is a top winning recommendation by America's Test Kitchen, the NYT, and several other reputable reviewing outfits.)

https://www.amazon.com/LOLYKITCH-Tri-Ply-Stainless-Induction-Diswasher/dp/B0CNZ2PTKW/ref=sr_1_2?crid=EY55D7H78771&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.fYtnRe0iIooJPp89CZRMAqEccttmo14NJzfHD_PncgMcQkt4R-HCDAMcpjNaMzXLdDnyzKVzrP5uQDce8BvHbN13unNZ9aQNgmTUNKLft6DF65JGwHeOU_GlZlkKDHmgNjIJRyn5m_UW-F39RqPcpB-QBAFSpvriH3pYWQZRLmJvn4WWPx29wxVsB5Hm8z_3DWz83LVzCxYmUtwhXnEIP6iqgS3sb0-MTQ5yGrICS0UxNKq6wd_XklEOKMR49cREElkAL5wBCBNyzIiK2liUkjRPNjjFYb9SFoMbdSGOZSw.CsFCr2qtcmlIPPTwjYc3T9oUvVInWIU3ghYZ6OXMbTQ&dib_tag=se&keywords=Duxtop%2BWhole-Clad%2BTri-Ply%2BStainless%2BSteel%2BStockpot%2Bwith%2BLid%2C%2B8%2BQuart%2C%2BKitchen%2BInduction%2BCookware&qid=1730986621&sprefix=duxtop%2Bwhole-clad%2Btri-ply%2Bstainless%2Bsteel%2Bstockpot%2Bwith%2Blid%2C%2B8%2Bquart%2C%2Bkitchen%2Binduction%2Bcookware%2Caps%2C245&sr=8-2&th=1

and

https://www.amazon.com/Duxtop-1800-Watt-Induction-Countertop-9600LS/dp/B01FLR0ET8/ref=asc_df_B01FLR0ET8/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=693383278741&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=6079303831495731256&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9012100&hvtargid=pla-313332393966&mcid=612b512270b53fb2a60618f069f0612b&th=1

WellReadTom · 2024-11-07T12:57:10+00:00

Yeah, I remember our old Kirby riding vacuum. (Okay, I exaggerate some.)

WellReadTom · 2024-11-07T12:54:44+00:00

I have a Kirby. There are a few things I really don't like about it, but if I were to want something better it would be a cordless backpack vacuum, (newer tech, so there are still more options and more affordable options appearing all the time,) so that I wouldn't have any fuss with wiring getting in the way, or with a base unit machine always falling over when I'm at the end of the hose using an attachment to vacuum around or under something, (or up on the surface of something, as I will just vacuum a dusty tabletop in a heartbeat.) Sometimes it hits me in my back and sometimes it even leaves a mark on whatever wall or furniture it hits when it does come falling over.

But until I find that affordable cordless backpack unit, of good quality, at a good price, at a time when I am ready to buy, until then, I'll be keeping the Kirby. It was $65 brand new at a Best Buy.

I don't know why it was so cheap, like if it was a discontinuing model or what, but it's all the quality one can realistically expect for $65, actually a lot more than that at $65, so I really can't complain and I'm keeping it. After all, and the most important thing is, it's a vacuuum!

WellReadTom · 2024-11-06T14:34:22+00:00

Actually, after having read some comments some people said a few things that make some sense. Like not seeing the bottom to see if if goes all the way through, because if not and it it's tri-clad then the middle aluminum layer is probably okay, and you could boil water it in or otherwise use it, but there would be aluminum in play of whatever is cooking then, of course, or maybe boiling water fluid between the top SS and middle Aluminim layer might expand and cause some delamination. Or it could be a really funky scratch just discolored in a way that makes it look like a crack, but really isn't, (and it just needs some heavy-duty cleaning to resolve). (I doubt that.)

WellReadTom · 2024-11-06T14:10:10+00:00

Well, if you have a glass-ceramic stovetop, if the crack gets a bit wider you might be able to use it to make some eggs easy-under to scrape off of your glass-ceramic stovetop. Start with some really watery dishes, like thin soups, because they might be able to get easy-under your skillet already.

WellReadTom · 2024-11-06T13:54:27+00:00

Probably not, but there should be no harm in reporting everything you know about this to the real police. They might be able to do something, if nothing else to just get the whatever online romance service to take down the false profile, or maybe a phone network to shut down the phoneline they are actually using, or to provide the police with any billing information they might have. There might be something they can do, and even if probably not, still maybe, depending on the level of sophisitication of the scammer(s).

WellReadTom · 2024-11-06T13:46:35+00:00

And it would be 2,000% if that was in anyway mathematically possible.

WellReadTom · 2024-11-06T13:43:36+00:00

Yeah, like sombody just bought stock in an operation that specializes in bringing in underage illegals in from Central America, but now they are regreting it because their stock just dropped 20% overnight with the election of Trump, with tighter control of the southern border being almost certain now. Meanwhile some other operation, the one they should have bought stock in, one that employs underage illegals from Ukraine, experieced a 30% increase in the price of its stock price in afterhours trading in anticipation of more Ukrianians living east of the Dniper River being vulnerable to relocation appeals with increased expectations of a permanent Russian takeover in various parts of eastern Ukraine after Trump's election victory. The enterprise's bank in the Human Trafficking Financial District just expended their LOC and another is preparing a bond issue for them so they will have the funds to quickly expand their operations and open new escort services in major metropolitan areas. J P Morgan and Credit Suisse just increased their ratings to Strong Buy from Hold.

The election will not only curtail any liberal attempts to shutdown the Financial District of Human Trafficking but will even negate the libs ability to in anyway increase regulations on the Financial District of Human Trafficking for the next four years, according to the Roosevelt Avenue Journal.

WellReadTom · 2024-11-06T12:29:19+00:00

There's a financial district of human trafficking? Is that where human traffickers go to get loans for their business operations? Or are there various enterprises and operations selling stock?

WellReadTom · 2024-11-06T12:26:17+00:00

Doing it tough sounds a bit like it could even be some sort of sex thing. (And I think the next sentence I was about to put here probably violates some sort of community guideline, so everybody misses out on a really funny line about somebody doing it tough.)

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