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Agilent PR from 27Oct2005:
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Agilent Technologies Launches Next-Generation DNA Microarray Manufacturing Process to Drive Emerging Applications
10/27/2005 4:00:00 PM EST
Higher Feature Density, Combined with Sensitivity and Flexibility, Are Key to Delivering New Microarray Assays, Lowering Costs
Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) today announced a next-generation DNA microarray manufacturing process that increases feature density more than fourfold in 2006 and potentially greater than tenfold in 2007. This move is part of Agilent's growing push to develop microarray applications that augment traditional gene expression analysis and enable researchers to answer previously intractable biological questions.
The new microarray printing technology, a higher-performance version of Agilent's proprietary ink-jet-based in situ fabrication method, is currently producing single-array microarrays with 95,000 and 185,000 features on standard 1" x 3" glass slides. Agilent is also using the new manufacturing process to print microarrays containing eight arrays per slide. Multiple-array slides containing user-defined content enable scientists to analyze focused gene sets, biological pathways or chromosomal regions at significantly lower cost per array, using a more automated workflow. Agilent's current single-array microarrays have 44,000 features. The company's next-generation microarrays, in single- as well as multiple-array slide formats, will be available in the second quarter of 2006.
"Density is important to the ChIP-on-chip work we do," said Richard Young, Ph.D., of the Whitehead Institute. "In our laboratory the new Agilent microarrays are boosting productivity by letting us cover the same genomic regions faster and with less expense compared with the previous generation. The higher feature density complements the Agilent platform's very high sensitivity and signal-to-noise ratio as well as its well-known flexibility of content. All of this makes this platform particularly well suited to emerging applications."
"Agilent's ink-jet manufacturing process produces the highest sensitivity microarrays in the industry and offers unparalleled content flexibility," said Mike Booth, general manager, Genomics business, Agilent Integrated Biology Solutions. "These two advantages, combined with higher feature densities, will place us in a unique position to deliver both a broad range of new applications as well as lower microarray costs to life science researchers."
Agilent's higher-density microarrays will be available as standard catalog products as well as user-designed custom microarrays for a range of genomic applications including gene expression studies, comparative genomic hybridization (CGH), ChIP-on-chip and splice variant analysis. The high-density capability will benefit these as well as future applications by providing a more practical path to whole genome experiments.
In addition, by pairing higher density with Agilent's unique ability to ink-jet-print custom microarray content in multiple-array slide formats, the company will enable more automated workflows and significantly reduce the cost of microarray experiments. This will make high-quality commercial microarrays accessible to customers who previously could not afford them. The flexibility of Agilent's microarray printing technology is delivered to customers through the company's eArray Web site, earray.chem.agilent.com/earray.
"Scientists are increasingly exploring multiple applications and want to validate gene expression data with other types of data," continued Booth. "Agilent has aggressively augmented our informatics portfolio in recent months to facilitate this multi-application trend, and our new, higher-density microarray capability further supports this approach."
In addition to increased feature density, the enhanced ink-jet printing provides improved spot placement accuracy and further optimized synthesis uniformity. This enables features to be synthesized closer together than on the previous generations of microarrays with minimal impact on feature size. The 95,000 and 185,000 feature microarrays are therefore compatible with existing experimental protocols without the need for Agilent customers to make further capital investment in a new scanner.
More information about microarrays is available at www.agilent.com/chem.
About Agilent in Genomics
Agilent is a leading worldwide provider of microarray-based, genomics research solutions. Agilent's end-to-end solution includes reagents for sample preparation and microarray processing; hardware for sample QC and high-throughput microarray scanning; 60-mer oligo microarrays on industry-standard 1" x 3" glass slides for gene expression; comparative genomic hybridization and chromatin immunoprecipitation applications; custom microarray design services; and industry-leading GeneSpring and Rosetta software products for data analysis.
About Agilent Technologies
Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) is the world's premier measurement company and a technology leader in communications, electronics, life sciences and chemical analysis. The company's 28,000 employees serve customers in more than 110 countries. Agilent had net revenue of $7.2 billion in fiscal year 2004. Information about Agilent is available on the Web at www.agilent.com.
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Stakddek
Congratulations to Doctor Frudakis. Hoping the granting of this Patent is the first of many for him and collaborators at DNAG.
Perhaps with this approval the remaining patents' approvals will be sped up, not being such untred ground.
(Worth checking AGILENT web site for current PR.)
Stakddek
Tide: I know of no way the company can return the dollar value to the early investors. When I think back to just one example, some of us bought when the ABC story ran. If it was purchased around then for .10 cents a share, well a quick multiplication by 20 leads to a breakeven of $2.00 a share.
Can that be given back to any investor? I don't know. There are an awful lot of cheaper shares, and many more of them out there.
Are we going to be rewarded for steadfastness with Doctor Frudakis? Not in my estimation.
In a few years may we get out whole? I sure hope so but for me I am now as deep in Jeever do-do as one can be.
I did my part in the DNAG dream but as an early investor and current holder of some very expensive shares, I am left holding D-BAG. I still feel the idea is good, and wish all here the best of luck.
DNAG has acquired more of my money than I should have let it. I posted a few months ago that I was done averaging down. Time for DNAG to prove itself. With my breakeven point so far over the current share price, I have plenty of time to average up, but when burned as badly as DNAG has hurt me, I'll be looking very hard at the promises made.
Meanwhile, every DNAP/DNAG share I ever bought sits in the account, weighing much more heavily on my heart than it apparently ever will on DNAG management.
That said let's continue to hope for the companies success, not only for a break even or a cash reward but for the good it can do for all us prospective users of the technology.
Stakddek
Tide:? DNAG keeps showing up with reinforcements for us casualties. What great 'cause or reward is offered to those just joining the "baffle"? This question was raised when Trace came on board. These new folks raise this question again. What do they see that we investors are not privy to? There has to be something in the pot at the end of the Rainbow, just hope Jever hasn't soiled it!
Stakddek
Hi Frogdreaming:
You said:
"No one knows the names of the victims ahead of time, they just know the odds or the risks. And they know the potential benefits."
I decry the amount of money pharma spends on building patient interest in drugs, making them the demand source to the doctors. Doctors have to prescribe to many patients what Pharma advertised to the patient, or the patient is going to another source.
Wasn't DNAP/DNAG working on a way to better the odds?
Maybe some of the pharmas will be willing to obey the the lights and stop signs if they start getting tickets for not giving a whit about testing. Whoops, I forgot. They know the police chief and the mayor.
OT:
I wonder if the pharma reports to the FDA include language like "After the first three months we experienced no new deaths in the test group." -- Yeah weed out all those with the bad reactions real quick. -- "Withdrew from test group discontinued medication."
Can anyone comment on this "allowance Mailed"? Is it do we believe as pertaining to DNAG's work only, or is it going to cross over and effect some other companies later filings for a patent on similar processes? In other worde, if the patent is on a methodology, would a use by a non licensee be an infringement. Is there a slight possibility that the patent is broad in scope and goes beyond just the use DNAG proposed in the application as an example? (Please note 2nd link at bottom to application. Last two paragraphs!)
Stakddek
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09/964,059 EFFICIENT METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR HIGH-THROUGHPUT PROCESSING OF GENE
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Application Number: 09/964,059 Customer Number: -
Filing or 371 (c) Date: 09-26-2001
Status: Notice of Allowance Mailed -- Application Received in Office of Publications
Application Type: Utility Status Date: 10-21-2005
Examiner Name: LIN, JERRY Location: ELECTRONIC
Group Art Unit: 1631 Location Date: -
Confirmation Number: 1445 Earliest Publication No: US 2003-0171875 A1
Attorney Docket Number: 0201-0001 Earliest Publication Date: 09-11-2003
Class / Subclass: 702/020 Patent Number: -
First Named Inventor: Tony Frudakis , Bradenton, FL (US) Issue Date of Patent: -
Title of Invention: EFFICIENT METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR HIGH-THROUGHPUT PROCESSING OF GENE
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[0175] In an alternate embodiment, the software does not use actual DNA sequence data files or chromatograms but rather accepts and utilizes sequence information in text format which is freely available and downloadable from publicly available databases. For quality control, an indirect measure of quality is used. For example, any discrepancy that occurs within a bleedthrough region, or within the neighborhood of discrepancy clusters is ignored.
[0176] It should be readily apparent and understood that the foregoing description is only illustrative of the invention and in particular provides preferred embodiments thereof. Various alternatives and modifications can be devised by those skilled in the art without departing from the true spirit and scope of the invention. For example, gene data from human, animal, plant, or other may be utilized in connection with the methods. Accordingly, the present invention is intended to embrace all such alternatives, modifications, and variations which fall within the scope of the appended claims.
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Agree JCRyan:
But did you note any posters trying to foment rancor amongst the investors? Not about DNAG but anything in general. Perhaps misguided attacks on credibility of some posters? Perhaps just adding fuel to the fire as the embers are dying. Would I hazard a guess for any such action? I'm open to opinions.
Stakddek
Link to Nassau NY West Nile website:
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You are here >Home/Communicable Disease Control
Mosquito Control
West Nile Virus Update for October 11, 2005
The New York State Department of Health has diagnosed two additional Nassau County residents with West Nile virus. The first is a 47 year old man from Franklin Square. His symptoms included fever, headache and stiff neck. He became ill on August 23 rd, was hospitalized on September 4 th and is recovering at home. The second individual is a 40 year old female from Seaford. She became ill on September 15 th with flu-like illness. She was never hospitalized.
In addition, a 69 year old county resident became ill after receiving a transplant outside Nassau County.
The New York State Department of Health reported on October 6th that three (3) additional mosquito pools have tested positive for West Nile virus (WNV) in Nassau County. The samples were collected on September 20 th in Merrick, on September 22 nd in Sands Point and on September 23 rd in West Hempstead
To date, there have been nine (9) reported human cases of WNV. Sixty-six (66) mosquito pools and eleven (11) birds have tested positive for WNV. One horse has tested positive for Eastern Equine Encephalitis.
The Nassau County Departments of Health and Public Works are conducting mosquito control efforts by inspecting breeding sites and when necessary, applying larvicide. Mosquito surveillance will continue at 42 trap sites located throughout the county and will be increased in those areas where virus activity has been reported.
Nassau County will not be applying adulticide for mosquito control for West Nile Virus but will be routinely larviciding by helicopter in the south shore marshes for the control of mosquito larvae.
To report a dead bird, please phone either the toll-free state hot line at 1-866-537-2473, Monday to Friday from 8:00 AM until 4:30 PM or the Nassau County Health Department at 572-1166, Monday through Friday from 7:45AM to 3:30PM. Be advised that most of the reported birds will not be collected.
This web site will be updated as needed.
Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) Update
After consultation with the New York State Departments of Health and Environmental Conservation, the Nassau County Departments of Health and Public Works will begin aerial spraying on August 3rd and 4th in parts of Nassau County to eliminate mosquitoes which may be carrying the Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) virus.
Facts About EEE
Facts About Scourge
For information on location and times of aerial spraying follow the link listed below.
Aerial Spraying To Begin In Nassau For EEE Control (Includes Map)
This website will be updated as needed.
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Stakddek
Efficay of GMED treatment protocol has been effective against West Nile Virus, but the "Bird Flu" may be a different case. Until an actual case study can be made, GMED has a tentative protocol against the bird flu but we don't have a human to human bird flu yet, and despite owning this stock, I hope we never do.
I believe Nassau County New York has 3 West Nle cases active this week.
Stakddek
Just when you are ready to give up because you have been bombarded with negativity and seen so many negative days, you find that part of the DNAG Frudakis plan has been implemented.
Perhaps more than just dark clouds on the horizon? Will Biofrontera need a pharma to sell product????
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"Slings And Arrows"
Slings and arrows, slings and arrows
Slings and arrows, slings and arrows
No chance for a second chance
When the arrows start to fly
No way is an easy way
To say goodbye
No dream is ever lost
If you never cease to try
Never thought you would walk away
From my side
I just can't hide from
Slings and arrows, slings and arrows
Slings and arrows, slings and arrows
Life is ever changing
Nothing stays the same
Nothing in this whole wide world
Can turn us back again
Cos where we're standing now
Is the point of no return
Looking back on a world
that's got to learn
You just can't hide from
Slings and arrows, slings and arrows
Slings and arrows, slings and arrows
Love is the shield
When you're standing
With your back to the wall
And if you turn around
And walk away
You're never gonna lose
Cos love conquers all
No chance for a second chance
When the arrows start to fly
No way is an easy way
To say goodbye
No dream is ever lost
If you never cease to try
Never thought you would walk away
From my side
I just can't hide from
Slings and arrows, slings and arrows
Slings and arrows, slings and arrows
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OT: Miss Scarlet, As always thank you for the "class" you exhude. Your presence improves this board. We are going through a period in the life of this stock that has all of us on edge. Tempers are short and words are spewed that splatter many. Those of us who have persevered appreciate your positions, be they DNAG; BAMBI; or Religion. Some points are agreed with, some are reflected on, and some would benefit many if only considered by them. I always appreciate your civil discourse. Rhank You for being a part of the DNAG world.
Stakddek
Hey Ann:
Thanks for posting. Have you run across any 3D info recentley? Thanks again for your continuing efforts.
Stakddek
GEOB: Some of us have paid dearley for first class seats. Now we are in the bleachers and sitting behind columns. The faith we have had is being sorely tested. It doesn't make it easier with Jever and Illwill popping in near the end of the month promising big news and buy more. We did that on our own years ago and are down big. If Hopeful has lost faith and wishes to chide management and the penguins, he's paid for the ticket. A lack of faith in DNAG is not something Hopeful has promoted or created. DNAG is where it is because of how DNAG has played the game.
Hopeful has pointed out his dissatisfaction with our management. He is not the only one who feels the current managers have mishandled, or worse, betrayed the trust of long term investors. A long time ago we expressed concern with a listing on the foreign exchanges. When mentioned at a stockholder meeting we in effect were told don't worry. When the possibility of naked shorting was raised, well the company has gone from Tampa Bay Financial to La Jolla Cove to Dutchess. Every transaction has cut our slice of the pie to crumbs.
It's easy to say to us old holders that we should bite the bullet and keep quiet about the substantial financial losses our faith in DNAG has cost us, but to all of us who held through the financial storm, we see our losses raising an unassailable wall that we may never breech. We know outside forces have manipulated the company, but we are upset with the company for not taking steps to minimize those efects.
So anyway Geob, good luck to us all. Hopeful is very bitter over his loss of capital, as am I over mine. It's just that perhaps the betrayal of the faith we had in Dr. Frudakis hurts a great deal more.
Stakddek
Stefan: THANK YOU! (big thank you). Your questions and Mister Gabriels answers have done more to reassure me about DNAG than anything else that's happened this year.
Aloha to all friends from Stakddek on vacation in Hawaii. I'm working on drinking a Mai Tai in tribute to each of you! (If you don't like the hard stuff I'm drinking coffee in the mornings.)
Radio advertising is not new ploy by DNAG (Howard Stern) but even if not one single "kit" is sold via the campaign on 1010 WINS NY, remember that the name is being exposed to the audience that works on Wall Street. It is also conceivable that the "melting pot" that NYC is, will be fertile ground for kit sales. Maybe someone can get an "aircheck" of the "spot" and post a link? Wouldn't be bad to have it available from DNAG website.
I'm running 24000 baud right now so websurfing is limited. (Special thanks to ARCH who has often contributed so much with this kind of low grade connection.)
With this radio sales effort, DNAG needs a consumer oriented web site to direct the potential "customers" to. The "corporate-investor website" has a great deal of info, but perhaps to much for someone looking to buy. Having a separate "consumer website" also makes it easier to determine the effectiveness of the advertising campaign, and garner other responses direct from potential customers. You can even pick up e-mails from interested parties and respond directly to them. There may be a great need for "hand holding" and customer support with the responders to a radio advertisement.
Best luck to us all.
ALOHA, Stakddek
Obsessive Compulsive Behavior, Break the Chain.
After maybe 600 + posts on I-HUB devoted exclusively to DNAP have you rethought your initial investment strategy? Has your fling at this shot in the dark that didn't produce a good 10K so intrigued you that you just have to devote a goodly portion of your time and other resources to convince everyone that this is a losing investment? Why bother? Is your thought to convince everyone that they should sell? Why don't you? Had Jever00 enthralled you with his chilly siren song?
Do you value the comraderie of the board? Your one note samba is stale stale stale. You contribute nothing to the discussion here, but but are most prolific when it comes to disparaging the stock that some good people believe in. In disparaging the stock, you manage to disparage those people as well.
If you have reached the conclusion after your many posts that your 01% chance has been furher reduced by the reverse split, to what, .005% then maybe it's time for you to give it a rest. You might feel better if you stopped obsessing over this minor error in judgement you've made, just assume it is Kaput and move on with your life. Perhaps clean your window that has that lakeview. Focusing so much attention on this one stock, this one board is well, unhealthy. Take the writeoff and if it bothers you so much to be away, buy back in after thirty days. You need a vacation.
Stakddek
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Posted by: dr frudaky
In reply to: DorseyE who wrote msg# 23290 Date: 4/2/2005 8:36:23 AM
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dorsey
who?
I bought 500,000 shares at .008 I know this probably not much compared to you and others here but I expected it to jump after good news supposed to be in the 10K but that didnt happen. I wont be losing much either if the whole show goes kaput as it looks like it just might be doing now. how many shares of this do you have and are you going to hold on to the very bitter end? I only see this as a carnival penny shot in the dark with maybe less than 1% chance of making back my investment.
dr f
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It's a long haul on this one.
I think that the money making will be when Dr. Moskowitz gets his "preventative health care" accepted as a wothwhile adjunct to existing health plans.
He has to convince a health insurance provider that his methods can save them money. When they see a cost saving, then they will accept the plan and revenues will be developed. These health care insurers are hard people to convince that laying out bucks now for prevention will save them bucks later on in expensive treatments that have been avoided.
Figure the savings on dialysis that could be avoided --
It will be interesting to see results for the small union health organizations- other limited groups, that have tried GMED. Renewal by the people in these small cost concious groups will reflect on GMED. The people in these groups are likely to be more health proactive than the subscribers to large national insurers.
Stakddek
ABC specials on Thursday Night--
Saw a promo this morning about shows tonight on ABC stations re: Avian Flu and a possible pandemic hitting US. Are we ready?
Of course there is another show tonight trying to explain New Orleans - What went wrong. I think the network sees a potential connection. I think these shows will air to bookcase Pres. Bush's explanation of the New Orleans FEMA fiasco.
Stakddek
I am not impressed Mister Gabriel. Why do we choose to present to the security analysts? Are we selling more smaller pieces of the DNAG pie? Will one of these investment analysts be so impressed with DNAG that he will offer to pay a premium over our current street price? Will an analyst run to a medical company and tell them how DNAG is valuable and might just pull that suspect new drug through a conditional FDA approval if it's tied to a DNAG prescreen fpor patients?
I am really confused Mister Gabriel why DNAG is presenting at this analysts convention. It just seems to me that any marketing done there will be for stock and not for the goods the company has. Perhaps I misconstrue your motives and this is necessary for the good of a Biofrontera IPO. But if that is so then why doesn't the press release come from Biofrontera? You could be there under that cloak, no one would mind.
Do you have some announcement of a wonderful product DNAG is ready to unveil? Is this analysts conference the place to announce it? Are you going to announce a product or just repeat the possibilities we have all relied on for the last few years. Unless you have some wondrous news you may find the well is dry. These are after all professional analysts. They may look at the DNAG track record, and DNAG financial obligations and decide this investment is too risky for any of the clients they have. La Jolla and Duchess may not be too happy about your straying to new turf. My Gosh, further dilutive financing will hurt them as well. Better they would put up the funds! Can you offer a better deal to a new financier? What will you announce that will sweeten the pot? More of what was announced at the stock split? Maybe it's time to consider another reverse split, just to give DNAG the credibility of a "reasonable " price point. Given the current price per share and the number of shares that will have to be distributed to continue our current financing needs, perhaps we should just reverse split the outstanding shares and forward split the officers shares and the treasury shares. It's always a good idea to keep things in balance.
So the best to us all as you approach the podium. That's the sad thing about chumming for sharks. You usually find them. Especially when you cast your shareholders upon the waters.
Stakddek
PS: I'm so pleased that the Board of Directors felt that this was worth a press release. Now please make me regret my words. Please?
DVSR:
Thanks for favor of a reply. I guess only Lemont Cranston knows, and he's not telling! Good Luck to you on this and all your other investments.
Stakddek
Welcome DSVR:
Understand you've been watching, but are you in with an investment currently? Or waiting for a firm bottom? Or waiting for an ascending trend? Or have you developed an alternate strategy? Many of us here predate your years review. I for one would appreciate fresh input here. Welcome to the I-Hub DNAP board.
As an aside, what caused you to decide to join and post? Being nosey, and will understand if you care not to state the impetus or your position.
Stakddek
Fox TV has a new show this season called "BONES". It premiers next week, 14th I believe, and here is the link:
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Flashy intro, but lets hope this show adds to the "CSI" shows in exposing the public to the wonders of science. (DARE I hope DNAG?) At least "Bones" might bring some attention to TRACE.
Poke through the website, it seems to tie into a certain well known author that has a few best sellers to her credit.
Stakddek
PS: All this Jever jive is leaving me cold. The lad is doing his best to combat global warming, but my heart is sore and his newsboy routine is threading on thin ice. I've accepted that what will be will be and just can't imagine I'll be investing anymore dough in DNAG. I've reached beyond my comfort level and really have too much on the table. Too much riding on one horse. It's not a one trick pony anymore, but I don't have the faith I once had that allowed me to dig deeper at every buying opportunity. It's time for DNAG to come from behind. I'll be rooting, but I wont be crowding the betting window on this race. I think the handful of tickets I hold is quite enough. I'm dissapointed in myself for being to quick to invest in something that was and is good, but is beyond the perception of the masses. Maybe personalized medicine will come (and it should) but the status quo is holding strong.
Political Rant: Would the government response have been as poorly executed,if New Orleans had been a terrorist incident instead of a hurricane? That our elected officials (ALL OF THEM) continue to place flunkies in jobs of import to our health and well being is beyond me.
After the cleanup of New Orleans is over, perhaps we can all do something about insuring that our political leaders are aware that filling critical positions with people who are not grounded in that discipline is very very foolhardy.
Stakddek
3D -- Money that would be well spent by DNAG??? >If you find the press release interesting, try the web site for what these machines can do!< Just thought it would be interesting to make that fuzzy photo into a bust!
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3D Systems Introduces New Durable VisiJet® Plastic For Use in Its InVision™ SR 3-D Printer
Contact:
Elizabeth Goode, Director, Corporate Development
(661) 295-5600, ext. 2632
goodee@3dsystems.com
VALENCIA, Calif., May. 11, 2005 - 3D Systems Corporation (Nasdaq: TDSC), a leading provider of rapid 3-D printing, prototyping and manufacturing solutions, announced today at the RP&M show in Dearborn, Michigan, its plan to introduce a new engineered-plastic for its InVision™ SR 3-D printer, VisiJet® SR 200 Plastic. The company expects to begin shipment of the new material to all InVision SR printer customers in the third quarter of 2005.
Parts built from VisiJet SR 200 Plastic offer the same outstanding feature detail and surface finish as parts built with the existing VisiJet M100 material, but are about 2-3 times stiffer and stronger, mimicking the general performance characteristics of high volume thermoplastics such as polypropylene and ABS. While the new material is primarily intended for design communication and concept modeling applications, it is also suitable for pattern making and is even durable enough for some functional testing.
“Using our new VisiJet SR 200 Plastic, the InVision SR 3-D Printer can rapidly produce multiple high-quality models that have the look, feel and performance of end-use parts,” said Abe Reichental, 3D Systems’ president and chief executive officer.
“Our rapidly expanding portfolio of 3-D Printers, which includes the InVision SR Printer, the InVision HR Printer, and our recently introduced InVision LD Printer, addresses the needs of marketers, designers, and engineers in many industries with prices starting at $22,900,” continued Reichental. “3D Systems family of printers provides complementary solutions for a growing number of 3-D CAD users who want the ability to create multiple design iterations cost effectively within the convenience of their offices.
“We believe that our broader 3-D printing solutions, positions us well to address the more then 500,000 potential 3-D printing prospects with the right value proposition at the right price.”
About 3D Systems
3D Systems is a leading provider of rapid 3-D printing, prototyping and manufacturing solutions. Its systems and materials reduce the time and cost of designing products and facilitate direct and indirect manufacturing by creating actual parts directly from digital input. These solutions are used for design communication and prototyping as well as for production of functional end-use parts: Transform your products.
More information on the company is available at www.3dsystems.com, or by phoning 888-337-9786, ext. 2882 (or 661-295-5600, ext. 2882 from outside the United States), or via email at moreinfo@3dsystems.com.
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Eye to Eye with the Mummy
The last journey of the Soter family was carefully planned – like everything else in ancient Egypt. But instead of ending up in Osiris´ realm of the dead, the mummies of the family found themselves 2000 years later in Europe’s museums: father and mother in the British Museum in London, two daughters in the Egyptian Museum of Berlin, and another daughter, Sensaos, in the National Antiquities Museum in Leiden/Netherlands. We know who they were – the family of the governor of Thebes at the times of Emperor Trajan.
But what they looked like – that has been a puzzle for the last 1,900 years. It was the Dutch member of the family who first got her features back. Using solid imaging technology developed by 3D Systems, the head of the girl who died at the age of sixteen was reconstructed, and Sensaos became the undisputed star of the "Sensaos" exhibition in the Leiden National Museum. More than 48,000 visitors took the opportunity of coming face to face with the mummy.
Solid Imaging Unravels the Mystery
Most people can attest to a fascination with mummies. As a result, many museums began to open mummies in the attempt to unravel their secret. The Leiden National Museum, whose Egyptian collection is among the world’s ten most significant, decided early to take a different approach, and kept many mummies in their original state. This approach now pays dividends: advanced technologies allow the bandaged bodies to be investigated without destroying them.
Taeke Kuipers of the Leiden National Museum was in charge of the exhibition concept. His
reasons for the unusual reconstruction: "We wanted to give Sensaos a face and show that it is a real human being that is lying in front of us." Also, the museum people had a lot of
questions to ask: Why was Sensaos' mummy so heavy? Was she intact? Under all the linen bandages, was there yet another mummy, which would explain the disproportionately large head? "We’ve been looking for the story behind the history," said Taeke Kuipers.
X-rays taken in earlier days failed to give satisfactory answers to these questions. But then the people in Leiden decided to investigate the mummy with the help of computer tomography and to look inside layer by layer. And they were lucky: the linen bandages concealed amulets, meant to protect Sensaos on her way to the netherworld, and her eyes were covered with artificial eyes made of glass or ceramic.
"We wanted to give Sensaos a face and show that it is a real human being that is lying in front of us."
Taeke Kuipers, Leiden National Museum
The secret of her great weight and her misshapen appearance also found an explanation: the ancient Egyptians waited some time before they allowed their bodies to be embalmed. To compensate for decomposition, large quantities of resin were used to get the bodies "back into shape" for the journey into the other world.
But one question remained unanswered: what did Sensaos look like when she was alive? The first step involved making a three-dimensional model of the head with the help of CT data. The National Museum approached the Institute for Industrial Technology (TNO) in Delft/Holland, a research institute that normally deals with product development for industry.
Sensaos’ head was the largest object that TNO had made so far with their solid object printer from 3D Systems. "In contrast to other projects, it was incredibly exciting to work on something ‘live’," adds TNO´s Edith Groenewolt, who was in charge of the project. The CT data was converted to an STL file format and then sent to the 3-D printer to output. The printer created a plastic-like model, layer by layer, using a technology similar to ink jet printing. Several hours later, "Operation Sensaos" was completed: a perfect three-dimensional model of the skull.
Finishing Touches
At the last stage, the museum contacted Richard Neave, a specialist for facial reconstruction working at the University of Manchester, England. Neave had the necessary experience because he had already remodelled mummies’ faces in the Manchester Museum.
Neave then created a clay model of Sensaos’ head, followed by a wax copy. This copy was then painted by Tracy O‘Brien, a specialist for historical make-up. Sensaos’ hairstyle was fashioned after antique models and made from human hair.
The close collaboration of everyone involved in the project, combined with the use of the most advanced technology, allowed the Leiden researchers to come face-to-face with the mummy. Maybe the travels of the 2000 year old girl are not over yet. The National Museum continues contact with other museums wishing to display this unique exhibit. Perhaps after so many years, Sensaos will someday be reunited with her family members who are spread all over Europe.
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A Recent Post on Ihub posted the news for all of us that Mingwan0 had , well, here is the body of that post:
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Posted by: dr frudaky
In reply to: Straw5 who wrote msg# 31997 Date:8/25/2005 9:52:43 PM
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Straw It looks like he has dumped his millions of shares purchased under that special discount private deal with Frudakis. He just posted on the Nappy board that he was unable to make it the the DNAG Hong Kong meeting in his home city. That speaks vloumes. Looks like one of the longest diehard pumpers and supporters of this stock has finally thrown in the towel. Really cannot blame him. When will bag8ger and Gcbr follow his lead?
JMHO
dr f
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Mingwan has posted this however,
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By: mingwan0
25 Aug 2005, 11:20 PM EDT
Msg. 342461 of 342528
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For the avoidance of doubt:
I have not sold out.
I have not reduced my exposure.
I have not thrown in the towel.
I was unable to attend the presentation yesterday because (unlike some peeople) I have a professional and personal life away from these boards.
I am not an "insider".
The private placement was available to all qualified investors (like myself) who chose to take it up.
I look forward to this company not only surviving but fulfilling the vision of those of us who have faith in the management team.
I do not usually bother responding to the innuendo posted here, but I just wanted to clarify a few matters for you.
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I do not see where the original post by Mingwan0 could lead to the conclusion reached, or why the necessity to "shout it from the rooftops". I can only conclude that it is a continuation of slanted and misleading opinion generated by a party or parties with an agenda to demoralize the current and future shareholders.
Stakddek
PS This Srarted This????
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By: mingwan0
25 Aug 2005, 06:27 AM EDT
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Couldn't make it to the DNAG presentation in Hong Kong today. Sorry.
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"$260 ancestrybydna test ordered by Maudie Fricker"
Beautiful Downtown Burbank was a buzz today with word of mouth about recent swabbings in the neighborhood. It has been reported that Maudie Fricker (neigh Frickert) has followed the lead of her neighbors and to to insure the maternity of her son Jonathan she has opted to use DNA Maternity testing.
Maudie heard about the test through a recent FFOF Award given to the Farkle Family. Fanny Farkle her neighbor had recieved the award last week after her husband of many years Frank and many other male neighbors had been swept up in a police DNA dragnet. The recent spate of malicious defecations upon the green lawns of Beautiful Downtown Burbank spurred the investigation.
An obvious error in the collection process led to the results creating some acrimony amongst the neighbors until the misadressed results were provided to the correct recepients. Only a stable family like that of Fanny and Fred could be counted on to see the plain as the nose on your face error in the mismarking of the results for delivery. Franks had been inadvertently delivered to his neighbor, our local milkman.
Recent scoopings from lawns about beautiful downtown Burbank would seem to indicate that all the hubbub was the result of the misidentification of deer droppings. This is a further indictment of our municipal fathers and the slovenlieness of our neighborhoods as they continue to ignore the blight of walnetto shells strewn about our lawns and parks. Someone should smack them with a purse.
Stakddek
Miss Scarlet:
The velvet glove contains an iron fist. Keep on Keepin' on!
Stakddek
Hi Frog. I thought -- ahh never mind. I'm better off asleep. I replied concerning a point you made that you consider factual, (as you had stated in the post I replied to,) that you based your belief that Doctor Frudakis was SPD because K has stated that. Did I misstate that belief of yours, or do you believe that it was a DNAP vice president. That would make it a limited number of other choices. But who would it be then? Fortunately Tdiamonds, your friend and not one I choose to consider as a friend, made it a point to report on the court record. Again, I would prefer to view the actual record myself, but I am not so close as to accomplish that. Meanwhile, you had made a case based on purported facts, but the purported facts are reports of "facts" by third parties. Apparentley we need an eyewitness.
Stakddek
Frogdreaming: Kind of busy for me these days but on your three facts, the middle one is as stated:
"Eyecolor0 said StockpimpDaddy is Tony Frudakis. Fact"
I take it then that you have reached your conclusion about the identity of SPD based on the accusation of Eyecolor0? We believe this is Kon------- because his posts under that name were used in the court record. The court record that argues that this unimpeachable source you value so highly was going about in a manner to harm DNAP? This person of such high moral character that he made an issue of going on RB and lambasting the company and the personel? This person of such high moral character and respectability that he had punitive actions taken against him? (his computer and other materials taken and held by the court). Not having accessed the court record, I do not know if further punitive action occurred, or a gentlamanly agreement was reached.
I find though that you have based your thought process on incomplete information and the crux of your assumption is propped up only with the word of a person who made a definite effort to destroy DNAP as a company, and went as far as to belittle Doctor Frudakis's contributions.
We haven't heard from eyecolor lately, are you so sure of accusations from such a source that you are willing to parade his placard here-a-bouts?
When dealing with people who are so involved in an attempt to destroy DNAP, it might be worthwhile to take those statements made by K as being his interpretation colored by his bitterness. Until a factual record can be presented, (as in a reading of the court record) I think it is a very weak foundation that you have based your assertations on. K was brought to the bar by DNAP. Not the other way around.
Stakddek
I ran across this dictionary of medical terms. I had so many misconceptions about what we spoke of here. After reading this some of our predictors make more sense!
THE REDNECK DICTIONARY OF MEDICAL TERMS!
http://www.katscratch.com/aMEWsments/mews43.html
Benign..........................What you be after you be eight.
Artery..........................The study of paintings.
Bacteria........................Back door to cafeteria.
Barium..........................What doctors do when patients die.
Cesarean Section................A neighborhood in Rome.
CTscan..........................Searching for kitty.
Cauterize.......................Made eye contact with her.
Colic...........................A sheep dog.
Coma............................A punctuation mark.
D & C...........................Where Washington is.
Dilate..........................To live long.
Enema...........................Not a friend.
Fester..........................Quicker than someone else.
Fibula..........................A small lie.
Genital.........................Non-Jewish person.
G.I. Series.....................World Series of military baseball.
Hangnail........................What you hang your coat on.
Impotent........................Distinguished, well known.
Labor Pain......................Getting hurt at work.
Medical Staff...................A Doctor's cane.
Morbid..........................A higher offer than I bid.
Nitrates........................Cheaper than day rates.
Node............................I knew it.
Outpatient......................A person who has fainted.
Pap Smear.......................A fatherhood test.
Pelvis..........................Second cousin to Elvis.
Post Operative..................A letter carrier.
Recovery Room...................Place to do upholstery.
Rectum..........................Damn near killed him.
Secretion.......................Hiding something.
Seizure.........................Roman emperor.
Tablet..........................A small table.
Terminal Illness................Getting sick at the airport.
Tumor...........................More than one.
Urine...........................Opposite of you're out.
Varicose........................Near by/close by.
This should allow us all to communicate on the same level. I just wonder how it will translate for our German shareholders????
Stakddek
MT filing:
Does it indicate she and spouse sold, or is it registering shares in stock option plan? That are granted under employment aggreement. It does note that the split has been taken into consideration, so on the whole, it appears that MT has many more shares than I do, pre or post split. Now since I bought some at .10 or a split adjusted $2.00, I hope she is earning those shares.
Errr.... Money -- Pink Floyld
Stakddek
Okay: Noise-innees for DNAG intro page!
01) Jean -- Oliver
02) Also Sprach Zarathusta -- 2001 A Space Odyssey
03) Camptown Races - Burl Ives
04) Stewball - PP&M or "Stewball & Griselda" Chad Mitchell Trio
05) You Can't Always Get What You Want -- Rolling Stones
06) Fly Me To the Moon -- Tony Bennet
07) Heart of Gold -- Neil Young
08) Who's Got the Last Laugh Now -- Fred Astaire
09) High Hopes -- Frank Sinatra
10) A midi player "programmed with the "Gene of The Day" from the DNA sequence coding providing the chords and notes. Pick a sequence and listen to the "music".
Personally. I prefer silent web pages, and find many of the efforts to "be media concious" pathetic. (And I usually have the volume up to high and shock myself).
This post is for entertainment purposes only. Something to do while DNAG does the Limbo. (ouch!)
Stakddek
Hi Holter: Just thought that maybe the security aspect is that we provide security for our armed forces by implementation of stratelite, not that the military is taking exceptional measures to protect the stratelite.
-- Of course any kind of military payload will be given due consideration by our armed forces.
I just don't read the blurb the way you do. Not to say that base doesn't have some kind of security. Jst that other bases are much more secure, and future cargo on the strat may require a more secure location.
Stakddek
Nice find Infida! Now if they just use DNAG to know what should be loaded in a particular patients "bomb"....
Stakddek
Hey Cosmic-- yeah I like the simple straightforward look. I agree the content should be more encompassing, but we have to remember that we don't own even 1/5 of Biofrontera. So what they have in the pipeline isn't really "all" ours. Of course a simple inclusion on the pipeline page, and link to a Biofrontera page would remedy any confusion. A link to Trace, would be nice too. Of course it takes a while to set up all this info and some consideration must be given to have a "unified look" for DNAG and Trace.
I would like to see a "curriculum vittae" page for Trace. When you have done things and have capabilities others do not, you have to express these capabilities and accomplishments in simple terms, so new customers can see that you will benefit them. It's marketing, but with style. DNAG has highlighted the LA Lee but that is one of many. Even if the personal (people details) involved cannot be mentioned, the science, the methodology probably can. And with time, I have no doubt that public records will become available detailing not only DNAG having involvement, but that DNAG was the turning point in some investigations. We have seen the case numbers grow. Maybe not all can be as sucessful as the LA case. There are other people in the loop.
Here's hoping the new website is functioning properley soon.
It's DNAG's face to the world and in this case we don't need a "fuzzy foto"!
Stakddek
Couldn't get past the graphics opening, but a quick mouse click before the crash on a retry brought me here.
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http://www.dnaprint.com/welcome/pipeline/
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Thanks Blue:
I am holding the opinion that the vine that is DNAG is not withering. We have spread ourselves very thin, but we are rooted in fertile soil. We opted for the big trellis and not the little climbing post. We'll just have to see how sweet the wine is when the harvest is complete and the fermentation runs it's course.
I guess it applies to both. No company before it's time as well as no wine before it's time. Remember too, we don't know what affiliations and "silent aggreements" have been made. Nor should we. If we knew all that is in the offing, we might find our "targetted acquisitions" being priced beyond our piggy bank. Better the management is wheeling and dealing behind closed doors FOR ALL OF US, than letting the few who would monkey wrench DNAG and it's shareholders be aware of any direction the company is looking.
Trace is an expenditure that brought an acredited lab into the DNAG stable. Data that was once proprietary to Trace is now DNAG's. Trace gives DNAG a presence in California near many potential customers for pharmogenic research. Trace and our new employees are world reknown for past works. These minds will be applied to some of the same problems Doctor Frudakis is working on. Maybe even have stumped him. Just a fresh view with a different perspective could break a bottleneck. And vice versa. Trace now has the Troika pulling for Trace.
We know eye color "retinome" required resampling to achieve a useable database. We now also have a 3d facial recognition capability, but integral with that is the skill and knowhow to provide consistent samples for Retinome to be proofed against. Combine the Trace ability to work from miniscule DNA samples. Working with DNAG, much more detail will be available to those programs that highlight forensic work, archeological or otherwise. Now throw in the 3D people and you can start determining chin, nose, eye distance, things that make a face unique and recognizable. Fuzzy gets less fuzzy. Graphic mediums require- well graphical content. We've seen facial reconstructions on those ancient skulls, but let's see DNAG in the mix. Probable skin tone, other attributes, a comingling of disciplines that creates a greater whole. Yes the future can be bright for DNAG, but time is the major enemy. "Death of a Thousand Cuts" or what have you. I guess like some others here I'll just have to keep giving at the blood bank. I don't think DNAG is a vampire. There is just to much in the sun. The part that is hidden, the hole card, is anticipated by many, doubted by many, and prayed for by all. The time may even come again that the bid is passed about the table. I don't know what I'll do then, it depends. But under current circumstances, I've got to hold my cards and hope my "partners in DNAG" draw a much needed ace.
Stakddek
Re: Trace Visit and Beckman device at DNAP:
"Busting at the seams" would seem to indicate either/or:
1. More work than can be handled.
2. Individual projects requiring "space".
3. Staff has put on weight.
In the light of DNAG quadrupling device thru-put, and recent decisions and actions to acquire Trace and portion of Biofrontera, it sounds like "0ption 3 Staff has put on weight" is not viable with all the additional work the other options would seem to indicate is anticipated.
The recent complaints about management doing nothing to bolster the share price are hot air. As shareholders, and hence owning any portion of DNAG, the management sees thier portionate share of DNAG decrease each time a share is converted to operating capital. I think they are as aware as we investors are, that a simple increase in the share price reduces the necessary dillution, preserving the value of our percentage ownership. To argue otherwise is to say management favors giving up any reward for thier efforts. That doesn't make any sense to me. Even if they issue more shares in lieu of salary or as bonuses those shares represent a diminishing return and would do more to reduce the pps on the market, requiring more dillution and lessening the value of the company as a whole.
Easy had commented on management and was leaning toward a "them bums" label. I think we all can see that the prospects and opportunities for DNAG have expanded exponentially for us all since the troika arrived. Yes the share price has gone down. You now own less of a greater whole. That is evident from all the filings. Shares are being sold to acomplish this expansion and further development. If the share price was highter, less "division" of the company would occur. Remember back to DNAP under Doctor Frudakis as CEO. How did the doors stay open. A trail of form 4 filings tell the story. If we didn't have the management team we have now, where would we be instead?
Would Doctor Frudakis have found the financing? La Jolla Cove would put up money? A private placement, but just to keep the doors open status quo? I don't think we could have survived to this point under Doctor Frudakis's management. I truly believe he is better toiling in the lab 100% than in the boardroom 100%.
What does keep Doctor Frudakis in the lab and working on what makes DNAP unique. The management team that is guiding DNAG. Guiding DNAG, and Trace and having a strong voice in Biofrontera's activities. Putting together addittional academic support besides that of Dr. Shreiver and Mckeigue. There is so much happening that we can't all keep track of the sum total. DNAG is growing, and each day we keep the doors open, we become a greater and stronger whole. We trade a percentage of ownership for that priveledge. Can we survive to bring one of the projects to fruition? Beth Israel was willing to allow DNAP / DNAG an opportunity. The folks at Trace allowed thier company to be bought out by DNAG. Affimetrix is depending on DNAG for some work. Maybe I have 3D glasses on but there is a synergy developing that may be beyond my wildest dreams.
Meanwhile, the price per share decreases and each sale of shares at this low pps causes more proportionate dillution. Time is the enemy and each day without significant revenue, or firm contract promising the same is hurtful for us all, investors and management alike. To propose that management is unaware or uncaring of this situation is simply a false statement by some, or a misinterpretation of the business "facts of life" by others. Given posting histories available here, you can apply the appropriate labels, and determine for yourselves the weight to give to the opinions expressed, by me, or any others.
I'm long. I'm still here. I will be here. I can't bear to think of missing a single chapter.
Stakddek
Ice great detective work! What gave them away? The forms from the biofrontera acquisition attempt naming the intrest of DNAP BOD or the letter of agreement filed about Doctor Frudakis loan to Biofrontera? Well lets not rock the boat and we'll just keep this a secret between you and me. Those others don't have to know.
So if they got money into biofrontera, and DNAP now owns 19% of Biofrontera, then you and I have an interest in Biofrontera suceeding so "wink wink nudge nudge" let's not have a Spanish Inquizition about this!
Stakddek
OT: There is a story about icebergs...
During the continued fighting in Ireland there was much consternation amongst the good folks of Belfast. They despised the English who had occupied the land and brought so much suffering to the Irish people.
Now an uneasy truce of sorts existed, as all men must feed the family. One of the largest employers was the shipyard where the Whire Star Liners were created. The Irish craftsmen toiled in the ways, assembling all from the massive steel plates to the fine wood work decorating the grand stair. As Titanic sailed away from Belfast for the maiden voyage and it's last ever cruise, the Irish workers cheered, not for the hated english owners or the passengers of wealth enough to parade the promenade. No, they cheered with the love and respect of the true crafstman for the materials they had wrought into so great a triumph.
A few days later news reached Belfast that the Titanic had struck a flo and then sunk with the loss of many lives. The White Star Line was confident though and required the construction of a replacement. Work was to be undertaken as soon as the construction crews could be assembled.
And so a cry was raised in every pub in Ireland, "Paddy -- We're gonna' need more ice!"
stakddek
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The Wearin’ o’ the Green
By Anonymous
OH, Paddy dear! and did ye hear the news that’s goin’ round?
The shamrock is forbid by law to grow on Irish ground!
No more St. Patrick’s day we’ll keep; his colour can’t be seen,
For there’s a cruel law ag’in’ the Wearin’ o’ the Green!
I met with Napper Tandy, and he took me by the hand, 5
And he said, “How’s poor ould Ireland, and how does she stand?”
“She’s the most distressful country that ever yet was seen,
For they’re hanging men and women there for the Wearin’ o’ the Green.
An’ if the colour we must wear is England’s cruel red,
Let it remind us of the blood that Ireland has shed; 10
Then pull the shamrock from your hat, and throw it on the sod,
An’ never fear, ’twill take root there, though under foot ’tis trod.
When law can stop the blades of grass from growin’ as they grow,
An’ when the leaves in summer time their colour dare not show,
Then I will change the colour, too, I wear in my caubeen; 15
But till that day, plaise God, I’ll stick to the Wearin’ o’ the Green.
Easyman51:
It's very hard to see the faith you've placed in an investment unrewarded.
There is a level of frustration that rises in your gourge as the world at large, for some mysterious reason, fails to see the value you have percieved and advocated with your hard earned dollars. Time goes by and the situation just get worse. Each press release and drib of information bears so much promise, but the price per share erodes away, steadily, steadily, and then you are told you have to make some drastic change.
You in this case isn't you. It's Doctor Frudakis.
If we look back at DNAP history we see a financing with Tampa Bay. Not the smoothest move for a businessman. Yeah some interesting alliances with other folks, but what result?
We languished for a few years, with the price per share dropping. Then the Lousiana News spike. DNAP jumped by at least a dime. We all hoped for a continued soaring with such national prominence. Hey! This is DNAP-- We're the real thing! Well we soared for a day or two and then continued to glide in fits and starts to lower and lower share prices. All the thunder and all the spotlights couldn't boost DNAP over the hump. We stalled. Disappointed Investors? Yeah. Dejected Doctor Frudakis? You bet. Prospects for the future? well if the doors can be kept open long enough, maybe a big pharma will buy us out and it won't be a total loss and maybe the work can go on, under the directed research for one of those pharma stables.
Obviously an unappetizing course to follow. Doctor Frudakis knows he's got the goods. We know he's got the goods. What's wrong with everyone else?
How or why it came about, who approached who, we don't really know. Lopez, Gabriel and Tambourini arrive at DNAP as a package. Doctor Frudakis relenquishes his post and becomes Chief Scientific Officer. Zack Gaskin's name is heard. The original scientific team is out and gone. Who's running the show? Well obviously the new management team.
Now we have a new management and they are heavily invested in DNAP. Not bucks put up that we can see, but time and effort and maybe just maybe a lot of blood sweat and tears. Maybe just maybe calling on a lot of people and convincing them that Doctor Frudakis was the real deal and wasn't being recognized for what he had and was continuing to develop. "You know me and you know etc." "We can deliver on what we promise".
Our management troika has been busy. I won't enumerate the accomplished achievments, or the irons in the fire. The results being turned out are coming fast and furious. We all shuddered at the original Biofrontera Deal, and I even felt at one point that the deal was flavored to benefit some of our management, to the detriment of the DNAP shareholders especially when the deal was renounced. I posted that I thought it looked as if we had been betrayed. It took a few months but we are now entrenched with Biofrontera on what for us, appear to be very favorable terms. I do not believe Doctor Frudakis could have put this deal together.
Trace Genetics -- I don't understand what could compel the management of Trace Genetics to be absorbed by DNAP. It must've been one hell of a poker game, (and at least we now know our management team can hold thier booze!)
Beth Israel. -- Yeah these other people are slow so we'll let you guys work on this 1 billion dollar drug out of 900 Coconut cause we like you. Oh pay us? Well wait till you get it in a market before you pay us any real bucks on it, and just give us a token up front so it looks good on paper.
Easy, Doctor Frudakis is competent in his area of expertise. The Troika is competent in their area of expertise.
Something of substance is hidden in DNAP / DNAG. It's an iceberg, and it's not being talked about, We don't know what it is and it's got to be one helluva kicker that has all these scientific types willing to join us out on our DNAG limb.
Easy if you can honestly say DNAG would be a better company, have more prospects, be more financially set than today without Gomez Gabriel and Tambourini, well I'd say you were making the same misteak Doctor Frudakis did when he tried to go it alone. Yeah I know dilution stinks, and out piece of the pie is smaller, but I think that the crumbs from the feast will be worth waiting for.
Could Doctor Frudakis have kept DNAP together to become DNAG? Would the interim financing been accomplished? Would the opportunities at our door be knocking as loudly as they are? Or would it be the Marshall to conduct the auction?
So when you vent your frustration about diminished value and "growing time", remember it's based on lack of knowledge about all thats going on in the soil. We can't see the seeds pop, and we can't see all the plants breaking through the soil all at once. One of them is going to pop up first, followed by more and more. One thing is certain. With all the fertilizer being thrown in abundance here, it will be a verdant crop.
WE are all on occassion wont to strike out in anger and frustration at those we consider responsible for our current situation. However, maybe just maybe, the current situation is the best that could be achieved with fickle faith and human frailty.
So anyway, before you perhaps insert hoof in mouth, allow a little more time to pass and see if the perfume of the coming blossoms can allow us to forget the stench of the manure that offends us in this heat of summer.
Stakddek
Rob Novak to Pay Cornell? -- Well not rob, Money to pay debt came from somewhere. (unless Cornell forgave it!) Posters here said Novak contributed own money. Wonder what Novak got for security? Perhaps wheels?
Are these wheels approved for use on Fed highways - roads? Or off-road use only?
Stakddek
About: - Reordered cut and paste, excerpted.
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Kunhardt Productions: An Overview
Kunhardt Productions: An Overview
Since its founding in 1987, Kunhardt Productions has been responsible for critically acclaimed historical programming with a reputation for high editorial standards. The American President, a ten-hour PBS series profiling all forty-one Presidents of the United States, premiered April 9-13, 2000. It was accompanied by a companion volume, which was published by Riverhead Books in October 1999.
Peter Kunhardt, the founder of Kunhardt Productions, served as Producer and Director of a four-hour documentary mini-series Lincoln, which aired on ABC in 1992, and which was written and produced by Philip B. Kunhardt III and Philip B. Kunhardt, Jr. A companion book, published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. was written by all three Kunhardts and appeared on the best seller list in the fall of 1992. Another Knopf book, P.T. Barnum: America's Greatest Showman, was published in 1995 and accompanied a three-hour television special for the Discovery Channel.
Another documentary, Echoes from the White House, celebrated the 200th anniversary of the Executive Mansion. It was broadcast in the spring of 2001. Also in production for PBS is Freedom: A History of US, a history of freedom in the United States based upon Joy Hakim's award-winning book series, published by Oxford University Press. Radio City Music Hall: The Story Behind the Showplace aired on AMC in December 1999. Mary Lincoln's Insanity File aired on Discovery in 1996. It followed Violence: An American Tradition which aired on HBO in November 1995 and was nominated for two national Emmy awards and an Ace Award. A 90-minute special with the Museum of Television & Radio entitled One on One: Classic Television Interviews aired on CBS in November 1993. Marilyn: The Last Interview, premiered on HBO during the summer of 1992. Bobby Kennedy: In His Own Words aired on HBO in November 1990 and received an Ace Award nomination. It is a sequel to JFK: In His Own Words, an hour-long remembrance of the president for HBO, which won a national Emmy award for outstanding programming. The Perfect Baby, an ABC News/Barbara Walters Special on genetic engineering, aired on the network in July, 1990 and was awarded the National Association of Science Writers Award. A PBS special, The People's Palace, a documentary about the New York Public Library, aired nationally on PBS in early 1992.
Kunhardt Productions, through a joint production agreement with ABC News, has produced more than 100 hours of programming for various cable channels. Moments of Courage, a 13-part series for The Discovery Channel ran in prime time during the spring of 1992. Another series, Justice Files, originated in 1992, also for Discovery. Now in its eleventh season, Justice Files has been the highest rated regular series on Discovery since its premiere. A 13-hour series for The Learning Channel entitled Only Human premiered in 1993. Another series entitled The Human Experience premiered on the Learning Channel in 1996 and in 1997. True Heroes, a five hour series, aired on The Learning Channel in 1998.
In addition to producing shows and series, Kunhardt Productions has produced segments for ABC's 20/20, ABC News Specials, Turner Broadcasting and Disney. The company also produces programs for the videocassette market. An expanded version of Lincoln was produced for Time-Life Video and PBS Video. Life In Camelot was produced as a Time-Life premium. Life Looks Back chronicles memorable events of the past quarter of a century through LIFE photographs. Eldercare, hosted by Hugh Downs, is an hour-long home video that serves as a resource for families and the elderly facing the difficulties of growing old. It was awarded first place in the National Media Awards and a companion book was published by Thomas Nelson Publishers.
Peter Kunhardt is a ten-year veteran of ABC News. He served as Executive Producer of Our World, the critically-acclaimed historical program hosted by Linda Ellerbee and Ray Gandolf. He developed and produced a two-hour ABC special celebrating the anniversary of Life Magazine, 50 Years of Life. Hosted by Barbara Walters with a galaxy of stars, the show was taped before a capacity crowd at Radio City Music Hall. As a producer for the ABC News magazine 20/20, Kunhardt received two national Emmy awards.
Of additional interest
Old photographs hold a special mystery. Being able to study scenes and faces from the past and to know how something or somebody looked so long ago makes you feel almost as if you had been there yourself or known that person in some fleeting way, as if you could smell the air or hear the voices, feel the wind, the press of a hand.
Picture History is an on-line archive of images and film footage illuminating more than 200 years of American history. Included in its holdings is the acclaimed Meserve-Kunhardt Collection of 19th century photography as well as thousands of images that have been researched and acquired by Kunhardt Productions for use in historical documentaries over the past fifteen years. Picture History is intended for the personal use of students, educators, scholars, and the general public curious about the past. High resolution images and film footage are available for professional and personal licensing. Original photographs, limited editions, and unlimited editions of historical images, some signed by the photographer, are available for sale at the Picture History Store.
Education
A History of US, Joy Hakim's award winning history series for young people, has been produced as an educational website (www.ahistoryofus.com) in conjunction with Picture History in order to allow students and teachers access to numerous images illustrating the story of American freedom. Students and teachers using the A History of US website can search the entire Picture History archive, locating additional images that illustrate just about any aspect of American history.
Picture History also provides images that illustrate The American President website (www.americanpresident.org), based on the popular PBS series and book by the Kunhardts. Owned and operated by the Miller Center for Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, The American President website highlights national and international policymaking of the United States, past, present and future, with a special emphasis on the White House. The Miller Center is the leading institution for basic research on the American presidency and contemporary American political history. It is dedicated to sharing this knowledge directly with the public in a way that brings people closer to their government.
With the production of each new documentary series, Picture History's holdings will continue to grow, making the archive increasingly useful for public use.
Picture History Magazine
Picture History Magazine is an online magazine chronicling stories behind the pictures. Early American photography serves, in effect, as the eyes of the nation, an unexplored and unique window into something that might be called our hidden history.
This hidden history is unlike that which makes up this nation's official narrative—the great events and personalities and social forces which together propel forward our national story. It consists of little-known events and human profiles which when looked at with a regional perspective will shed a fresh, new light on the American spirit.
In additional to preserving stories before they are erased by time, Picture History Magazine is committed to the digital preservation of original images in local historical societies across the country. In this way, Picture History intends to make an important contribution to the preservation of our national heritage at a grass roots level and make additional rare and unique images available to the public for the first time online.
** The Story Behind the Meserve-Kunhardt Collection
Frederick Hill Meserve was the country's first great collector of photography. At the age of thirty-two, in his spare time, the former cowboy, engineer, surveyor, and mountaineer who was now plying a business career in New York City began searching for pictures to illustrate his father's Civil War reminiscences. One day, Meserve walked into a lower Fifth Avenue auction gallery and watched as a package of one hundred or so photographs wrapped in brown paper was placed on the block. The bidding opened at one dollar, at which point Meserve screwed up his courage and raised the ante to a dollar and ten cents. Not a hand stirred, not a mouth opened. Suddenly the gavel sounded and, sight unseen, the lot was his.
"That night," he later recalled, "I had my first experience of the sensation of intoxication—that intoxication, the only kind I have ever experienced, that comes from the possession of a rare find. I had not the knowledge necessary for full appreciation of the one hundred or more exquisite salt prints that I unwrapped, soft brown in color and unglazed, but their clarity and beauty were so evident that I was stirred. After that I attended auction after auction. My appetite had been whetted. I spent much time in old book stores and print shops, where in those days there were still floating about gems, which are now under lock and key in institutions. Then, in 1902, came the day whose events enriched the entire rest of my life."
Let Meserve's friend Carl Sandburg pick up the tale. "Meserve had talked about buying a collection of glass negatives the day before. And he went to Hoboken [New Jersey] to see what he had and how to pack and haul it home if he bought it. On the warehouse floor lay scores of glass negatives—broken. They had sort of spilled over. There were thousands more—who cared? Meserve saw on the floor one negative not broken. He picked it up and held it to the light. His eyes ranged over it. And he could hardly believe his eyes. What he saw was the camera record, an extraordinary photographic negative, a profile of the face and right shoulder of Abraham Lincoln, a composed majestic Abraham Lincoln. What he saw was the camera record of the granitic Lincoln in February 1864, facing the awful issues of that year of smoke, agony, and ballots. Up to this time Meserve had been a patient and devoted collector of the known Lincoln photographs. Now he became a tireless zealot. There are collectors who are hobbyists, fans, faddist, enthusiasts, eccentrics, cranks, bugs. Meserve is the Zealot."
Of the thousands of Mathew Brady glass negatives Meserve unearthed that day and acquired, seven were of Lincoln. "After a year or two I had fifty Lincoln photographs. I was six or seven years getting one hundred put together. The next eight photographs of Lincoln took me seven years to gather. And the next eight twenty-one years."
In 1911 Meserve published a book of 100 Lincoln photographs, which, he believed at the time, comprised all the known poses. It was the first serious attempt to put together a complete look at the photographs of the prairie president. This effort was followed by the creation of the first of nine twenty-eight-volume, handmade sets of nineteenth-century photographs showing not only Lincoln and the people around him, but more than 10,000 prominent individuals from the century. All the time, Meserve was adding to his collection. In one year alone he acquired thousands of theatrical photographs; in another, 10,000 cartes de visite, those extraordinarily beautiful little photographic calling cards so popular around the time of the Civil War. The collection spread to cover more and more subjects—P.T. Barnum and his extraordinary world of performers and oddities; scenes of old New York City; original Civil War battle scenes by Alexander Gardner and others. There were pictures of fascinating women, Europeans, native Americans, artists, clergy, and scientists. There were scenes of old Washington D.C., of rural America, of nautical gatherings, and of a hundred other different subject areas. And Meserve collected every type of format—daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, and albumen prints, as well as glass negatives, stereoviews, and Mathew Brady Imperial prints, to name just some. Only his death at age 97 prevented our gentle forebearer from expanding his collection even further.
Fortunately, when Meserve died in 1962, his collection passed into the hands of his daughter, who was even more of an avid historian and sleuth than her father. Dorothy Kunhardt expanded the collection in new ways, adding all the original records and maps of the Civil War; official publications of the Patent Office, Congress, and every state in the Union; pamphlets and images focusing on Indians, slavery, western expeditions, education, spiritualism, prisons, and a hundred other subjects; bound volumes of nineteenth-century magazines and newspapers, piles of Harper's Weekly, stacks of Leslie's. And her acquisitions did not stop with books and pictures. She collected locks of Lincoln's hair, wallpaper from the rooms in which he lived, and clippings of material from the clothes of people close to him. She owned the horsehair material that covered the couch upon which Lincoln courted Mary Todd and the sperm oil lamps that lighted the room where they were wed; she even had Mary Lincoln's traveling commode and proudly sat on it for guests. She also acquired the Lincoln scrapbooks that the keepers of the Lincoln home in Springfield had kept for generations.
When Dorothy Kunhardt died in 1979, the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D. C., acquired from her estate the 5,420 Mathew Brady life negatives as well as the faded, one-and-only original print of Alexander Gardner's haunting "cracked negative" photograph of Lincoln, long believed to be the very last picture of Lincoln ever to be taken. (Today it is known that at least one photograph was taken later.) While collectors and institutions acquired additional Meserve materials and memorabilia, the majority of the original prints, the daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, a vast collection of cartes de visite, as well as thousands of rare originals and early twentieth- century prints and copies were passed along from generation to generation. Today, along with hundreds of more recently acquired nineteenth century photographs, they comprise the Meserve-Kunhardt Collection, owned by two of Meserve's great grandsons.
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