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no idea what the detailed "reasons" supposedly were, only the gobble-dee-gook that has been in PRs.
and whether it was, as you sarcastically say, "Just a good friend & buddy he wanted to help out??" remains to be seen, but IMO it is more likely than not.
do you realize that right around the same time they threw money at what seems like florida swampland, they were quietly closing Coro Test Labs in Pittsburgh (located blocks from Carnegie Mellon) and cut "numerous" Coro staff (per the 10K) in Q4 2006?
"Numerous CoroWare employees were terminated in the fourth quarter"
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1156784/000114420407020095/v072155_10ksb.htm
please describe to me a legitimate business rationale for cutting resources to the subsidiary that has actually been gowing by leaps and bounds (and also represents 95% of all revs) and "investing" in an unproven, old-tech "retrofit" CNC garage that also just happens to be down the road from Ft Myers.
hmmmmmm, eliminate JAUS R&D in "Roboburgh," or "invest" in CNC "retrofits" in swampland? hey, let's do both!!
please convince me i'm wrong RobMon.
who got hosed?
Fleming got $150K up front in cash, gets another $100K, $50K of it in 2 months, and the remaining $50K next March (for a sub-total of a quarter million) in exchange for what?
IMO it's a glorified (rented) garage, with meager (if any) growth prospects and more shareholder money down the Ft. Myers "retrofit" sink hole.
plus he gets this (IMO) 3 year "sweetheart deal" for another $225K, and options and bonuses:
In addition, on March 16, 2007, Altronics entered into an Employment Agreement (the “Employment Agreement”) with Alfred Fleming under which the Company will employ Mr. Fleming as a Vice President for a period of 3 years commencing March 16, 2007 and ending on March 15, 2010 which will be automatically renewed for successive 1 year periods until 30 days prior written notice not to renew is delivered by either the Company or Mr. Fleming. Mr. Fleming will be paid a monthly salary of $6,250, or $75,000 per annum, and shall be issued stock options in accordance with Altronics’ executive level option schedule, which will vest over the 3 year term of the Employment Agreement. Further, Mr. Fleming may be eligible for Altronics’ employee bonus program, to be determined by the Board of Directors of Altronics based on meeting performance objectives and bonus criteria. During the term of his employment and for a period thereafter, Mr. Fleming will be subject to confidentiality and non-competition provisions, subject to standard exceptions.
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1156784/000114420407013790/v068956_8-k.htm
that garage generated a whopping $19,854 (2.96% of total revs) in the last Q. although it wasn't part of company for the full Q (actually only a couple weeks or so). but even so, let's extrapolate (or more like excrapolate) that to $40K monthly, and $120K quarterly in revs (and who knows if there will ever be any profit?). still totally unimpressive IMO.
and what exactly is the growth rate of this supposed wonder garage? oh right, the 1200 or so in supposed worldwide customer "accounts"?
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1156784/000114420407027737/v076125_10qsb.htm
http://www.marketwire.com/2.0/release.do?id=728168
http://www.marketwire.com/2.0/release.do?id=721540
http://www.marketwire.com/2.0/release.do?id=737543
http://www.marketwire.com/2.0/release.do?id=738039
what exactly do we own chunga?
who got hosed?
yeah, but already issued per 8K
"(250,000 shares), which was delivered to the Sellers on the Closing Date"
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1156784/000114420407013790/v068956_8-k.htm
check out the rwt.com meta tags
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http://whois.domaintools.com/rwt.com
not exactly - cash and restricted.
Under the terms of the Agreement, RWT purchased, and the Sellers sold, an aggregate of 280 shares of common stock of Altronics, representing all of the issued and outstanding shares of Altronics (the “Shares”) for an aggregate purchase price of $300,000 (the “Purchase Price”), paid or to be paid by the Company as follows: (i) $150,000 was paid on March 16, 2007 (the “Closing Date”); (ii) $100,000 shall be paid in two installments, the first installment of $50,000 within 180 days after the Closing Date, and the second installment within 1 year after the Closing Date, which was evidenced in the form of a $100,000 principal amount Promissory Note issued by the Company to the Sellers on the Closing Date; and (iii) $50,000 in restricted shares of common stock of the Company at a per share price equal to $0.20 (250,000 shares), which was delivered to the Sellers on the Closing Date and vest as follows, provided that Alfred Fleming is an employee of Altronics at each vesting date: (x) 100,000 shares on the first anniversary of the Closing Date; (y) 100,000 shares on the second anniversary of the Closing Date; and (z) 50,000 shares on the third anniversary of the Closing Date.
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1156784/000114420407013790/v068956_8-k.htm
the CNC co?
do you mean that steaming pile of cronyism cr@p called "AL"? puh-leeze. that gar{b}age will never result in anything net positive for shareholders IMO. it's just a big black hole where shareholder money goes IMO.
As for the 102M figure, seems about as reliable as the deception about the supposed $.40 financing. IMO.
Then again, that same guy was actually quoted saying this recently: "Microsoft has a huge desire to get to the factory floor," says Weisel, who is a friend of Bill Gates. "They’ve had huge intentions but never made it."
Would this guy lie to you?
one for 3K added to pre-market tape.
t 0.06 3000 OBB 09:26:27
"i wonder if we will stop at 102 with these low prices."
huh?
take a look back into weo's crystal ball...
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.asp?Message_id=19871069
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.asp?Message_id=19865081
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.asp?Message_id=19852712
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.asp?Message_id=19863770
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.asp?Message_id=19598108
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.asp?Message_id=19538818
here's what weisel claimed a year ago...
Innova Holdings, Inc.: Open Letter to Stockholders
FORT MYERS, FL, Jul 17, 2006 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) -- (OTCBB: IVHG) -- On July 13, 2006, we filed a preliminary proxy statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Schedule 14A with regard to our upcoming Special Meeting of Stockholders, which is tentatively scheduled to be held on Friday, September 15, 2006. One of the proposals to be put to a vote of our stockholders is a reverse stock split of the issued and outstanding shares of our common stock at a ratio of either one-for-eight or one-for-ten, as determined at the discretion of the board of directors to be in the best interests of the Company without further approval from our stockholders.
I would like to explain some reasons why a reverse split of the company's shares is important and beneficial to our stockholders and Innova Holdings, Inc. A reverse split of 1 for 10 means that for every 10 shares you own they will be combined into one share. In theory, the value of that one share should be worth 10 times what it was before the reverse split, although we can provide no assurance that this will occur. As an example, if you own 1,000,000 shares and they have a market value of $.025 per share before the reverse split, you will receive 100,000 shares after the reverse split and, in theory, the 100,000 shares you receive after the reverse split should have a value of $.25 per share. In both cases, before and after the reverse split, the shares in total should be worth $25,000.
Many of our stockholders have asked why we are doing this and others have been asking why we aren't doing it for the past several months. Let me address our strategy.
Our Board of Directors, financial advisors, and your management team believe a reverse split now will create a more stable capital structure enabling our company to achieve continued growth, by:
-- bringing the number of shares outstanding to a more realistic, manageable and attractive level, which may help generate investor interest in the Company and help the Company attract and retain employees and other service providers, and
-- using available shares sparingly to raise the growth capital necessary to fund future growth through acquisitions, product development, and to finance the sales and marketing activities necessary to achieve higher levels of sales and eventually profits.
Although we can provide no assurance that the reverse split will indeed lead directly to our goals, it's the opinion of our Board of Directors, financial advisors and management that it is a necessary step.
We believe we have been successful to date in achieving goals that are fundamental to our growth strategy:
-- We entered into an exclusive worldwide agreement with Mesa Robotics, Inc. to market and sell their industry and Military line of unmanned mobile robotic vehicles. We intend to concentrate on several key markets for these products -- the Military, Homeland Security and the First Responder markets including Fire, Police and Sheriffs' departments. We are moving on these fronts and investing cautiously in the resources that we believe will lead to success in this marketplace.
-- We acquired the business assets of CoroWare, a software system integrator with a focus on unmanned mobile robotics, web-based software services, and other system integration services. We believe that these are growth markets.
-- We developed and launched the third generation, open architecture PC industrial robot controller for RWT -- the URC3(TM) -- for which we have already received the first multi-unit order. Reaching the full sales potential of this product will require building broad awareness in the targeted industrial markets about the URC3's features and functions, and the cost benefits it provides by, we believe, extending the useful life of robots and other forms of capital equipment already installed, reducing the downtime of production systems, eliminating the need for large spare parts inventories, and simplifying training, programming, operations, and maintenance. To that end, we plan to launch aggressive advertising, public relations, and direct mail campaigns with industrial trade journals to communicate this message of the URC3's success stories by our existing customers.
-- We repaid well over one million dollars in old debt including debt that has burdened our balance sheet and our organization since the reverse merger in August 2004. We still have debt to pay down.
Going forward we believe there are more opportunities for growth through continued hard work, and improving our market position in the industrial and service sectors. We intend to use the new URC3 to offer retrofitting of existing industrial robots. We expect to target acquiring key companies that will compliment our technologies and possibly allow us to gain additional market share in the industrial and service robotics markets, the motion control market, and the software systems integration market. We also intend to aggressively launch a sales and marketing initiative of the Mesa Robotics line of unmanned robotic vehicles. All of these activities will require capital -- growth capital -- and we see the reverse split as a key step in realigning the shares outstanding to be at a more balanced and reasonable level which may attract more investors to appreciate the value proposition of our company as a long term investment. I personally have been presenting the merits and attributes of our company to investors around the country for some time now, and the one question that constantly comes up is, "Why aren't you going to do a reverse split to reduce the number of shares outstanding? Then we can seriously look at investing in your company." So, we have been effective in telling potential new investors about our company, but the number of shares outstanding often is the key obstacle to new investment.
In closing, I would like to point out that in the past year we have booked new orders, fulfilled a multiple unit order with our patented open PC Universal Robot Controller, received our third US Patent office pioneer patent, obtained a single source contract from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center for a Hubble Telescope project, reported revenue, acquired CoroWare, while still forming another subsidiary, Innova Robotics, to distribute the Mesa products into the Unmanned Robotic Vehicle markets... while retiring over one million dollars of corporate indebtedness.
I strongly believe we need to reduce the number of outstanding shares to continue our growth plan and increase our stockholders' value. I kindly ask for your support as we move towards continuation of our growth strategy. Thank you so much for your continued support.
Sincerely,
Walter K. Weisel
Chairman and CEO
www.innovaholdings.com
www.mesa-robotics.com
Sandra L. Brooks
INCOMM International Inc.
Tel: (904) 636-5085
SOURCE: Innova Holdings, Inc.
Copyright 2006 Market Wire, All rights reserved.
and see:
As of July 26, 2006, the closing price of our common stock as reported on the Over-The-Counter Bulletin Board was $0.014 per share. The Board of Directors believes that a higher stock price would help the Company attract and retain employees and other service providers. The Board of Directors believes that some potential employees and service providers are less likely to work for a company with a low stock price, regardless of the size of the company’s market capitalization. If the reverse stock split successfully increases the per share price of our common stock, the Board of Directors believes this increase will enhance our ability to attract and retain employees and service providers. Further, in deciding at what ratio to effectuate the reverse stock split, the Board of Directors will consider that our common stock may not appeal to brokerage firms that are reluctant to recommend lower priced securities to their clients. Investors may also be dissuaded from purchasing lower priced stocks because the brokerage commissions, as a percentage of the total transaction, tend to be higher for such stocks. Moreover, the analysts at many brokerage firms do not monitor the trading activity or otherwise provide coverage of lower priced stocks. Most investment funds are reluctant to invest in lower priced stocks.
The increase in the number of authorized but unissued shares of common stock would enable the Company, without further stockholder approval, to issue shares from time to time as may be required for proper business purposes, such as raising additional capital for ongoing operations, acquisitions of businesses and assets, stock splits and dividends, present and future employee benefit programs and other corporate purposes. In addition, the Board of Directors believes that having additional authorized but unissued shares of common stock through the effectuation of the reverse stock split could have a number of effects on the Company's stockholders depending upon the exact nature and circumstances of any actual issuances of authorized but unissued shares. The increase could have an anti-takeover effect, in that additional shares could be issued (within the limits imposed by applicable law) in one or more transactions that could make a change in control or takeover of the Company more difficult. For example, additional shares could be issued by the Company so as to dilute the stock ownership or voting rights of persons seeking to obtain control of the Company. Similarly, the issuance of additional shares to certain persons allied with the Company's management could have the effect of making it more difficult to remove the Company's current management by diluting the stock ownership or voting rights of persons seeking to cause such removal.
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1156784/000114420406030348/v048603_prer14a.htm
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=15983799
it's near a low...
trades made during a session but booked out of sequence, after the close, and designated on the tape as such by a "t."
RIA July 2007 newsletter
http://www.roboticsonline.com/public/articles/Jul07_early.htm
link back for June 2007 issue.
t trades are back...
t 0.06 95833 OBB 16:02:36
t 0.065 46666 OBB 07-11-07
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=20312780
25 Oct: RoboDevelopment Conference And Exposition '07
An international technical design and development event for mobile robotics and intelligent systems industry.
EFY News Network
Thursday, July 12, 2007: The RoboDevelopment Conference and Exposition is going to be held at the San Jose Convention Center in San Jose, California on 25 and 26 October 2007. The expo is a multifaceted educational forum and trade show, which addresses the technical issues involved with the design and development of commercial robotic products.
The RoboDevelopment keynotes and general sessions are designed to impart to technical professionals the information they need to develop the next generation of personal, service and mobile robots, while the RoboDevelopment exposition hall provides attendees with hands-on access to the latest design and development solutions for producing mobile robotics and intelligent systems technology. Tracks within the 2007 RoboDevelopment Conference and Exposition include: design, development and standards; tools and platforms; and enabling technology.
Keynote speakers for the expo will be Tandy Trower, programme manager, Microsoft Robotics Group; Paolo Pirjanian, president and CEO, Evolution Robotics; LLoyd Spencer, CEO, Coroware; and Dan Kara, president, Robotics Trends.
Evolution Robotics has joined the inaugural RoboDevelopment Conference and Exposition as a Gold Sponsor. The company will also host a 'robotics breakfast' on 25 October 2007.
http://www.efytimes.com/efytimes/fullnews.asp?edid=20266
link back for more info.
do you mean new product sales or allowing part of the company to be acquired?
either way, haven't done enough homework here to really even have an informed opinion.
Google Trends refresh...
interesting new results.
http://www.google.com/trends?q=%22microsoft+robotics+studio%22&ctab=0&hl=en&geo=all&...
hey folgers, what do you think about Rahodeb Mackey?
Whole Foods Is Hot,
Wild Oats a Dud --
So Said 'Rahodeb'
Then Again, Yahoo Poster
Was a Whole Foods Staffer,
The CEO to Be Precise
By DAVID KESMODEL and JOHN R. WILKE
July 12, 2007; Page A1
In January 2005, someone using the name "Rahodeb" went online to a Yahoo stock-market forum and posted this opinion: No company would want to buy Wild Oats Markets Inc., a natural-foods grocer, at its price then of about $8 a share.
"Would Whole Foods buy OATS?" Rahodeb asked, using Wild Oats' stock symbol. "Almost surely not at current prices. What would they gain? OATS locations are too small." Rahodeb speculated that Wild Oats eventually would be sold after sliding into bankruptcy or when its stock fell below $5. A month later, Rahodeb wrote that Wild Oats management "clearly doesn't know what it is doing .... OATS has no value and no future."
The comments were typical of banter on Internet message boards for stocks, but the writer's identity was anything but. Rahodeb was an online pseudonym of John Mackey, co-founder and chief executive of Whole Foods Market Inc.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118418782959963745.html
Whole Foods CEO John Mackey's wacky Web rants
OK, we've always considered Whole Foods CEO and co-founder John Mackey, a man who manages to be both an organic food-loving vegan and a hugely successful anti-union capitalist, to be something of a freak. But now we're wondering how the man ever finds time to sleep. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that for eight years, John Mackey, the CEO and founder of Whole Foods, posted "voluminously" in Yahoo stock market discussion forums under the pseudonym Rahodeb, an anagram of his wife's first name, Deborah.
The news came to light in a Federal Trade Commission filing made available online on Tuesday as part of the FTC's antitrust suit attempting to prevent Whole Foods' proposed purchase of competitor Wild Oats. But the filing only includes one of Mackey's many posts.
http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/07/11/whole_foods/index.html
http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/mackey-ftc-07112007.pdf
http://www.cnbc.com/id/19700361
ABB is perfect partner for DaimlerChrysler foundry (at least according to ABB)
2007-07-10 - ABB robots have brought precision casting and greater flexibility to a DaimlerChrysler foundry in Germany. “One of the key criteria was finding a supplier who could do everything on their own,” says the customer. “That’s where ABB trumped the others.”
By Editorial services
The DaimlerChrysler foundry at Mettingen in Germany is one of the largest light alloy foundries in Europe, producing a wide range of castings – including cylinder heads, cases, oil sumps, subframes and gearboxes – for Mercedes cars and light commercial vehicles.
When the foundry wanted to revamp two inflexible casting plants into units that could produce large quantities of several different types of cylinder at the same time, they approached ABB.
“We wanted a system supplier with know-how,” says Ralph Koppenhöfer, who is in charge of the light metal cylinder head No. 2 foundry. “One of the key criteria was finding a supplier who could do everything on their own. That’s where ABB trumped the others.”
Flexible production
The solution - four heavy-duty IRB 7600 robots, two at each casting plant, programmed by ABB robotics software - has enabled the foundry to switch successfully to highly flexible production.
The ABB robotics solution enabled the foundry to switch to highly flexible production.
Previously the plants could only produce one type of cylinder head at a time. Now they produce 17 different types, with four to six types usually in production at any one time.
Each type has a different casting weight of between 26 and 35 kilograms. Production capacity is about 2,000 cylinder heads a day.
Working side by side in a confined space, one robot scoops aluminum while the other pours it into a mold on a conveyor, then vice-versa in 30-second cycles. Each robot is given the parameters for the cylinder head next in line and it loads the relevant program for that particular type, thus ensuring flexibility without stoppages.
After the metal has been poured, it is allowed to cool for 220 seconds inside the closed mould. The casting is then taken out of the mould and allowed to cool further.
“The challenge was to keep the conveyor moving during the whole production process,” says Albrecht Gruner of the foundry’s planning department. “That’s unusual as most conveyors stop and start, and the robots have to imitate the movement of the conveyor.”
http://www.abb.com/cawp/seitp202/646be778e6a2facfc125727d003a74f1.aspx
In Latest Robotics, New Hope for Stroke Patients
By AMANDA SCHAFFER
Published: July 10, 2007
Mary O’Regan more or less ignored her left arm for 20 years.
As a sophomore in college, in 1986, she fell off the back of a friend’s dirt bike and hit her head on concrete, later suffering a stroke. After intensive medical and physical therapy, she learned to speak and walk again. She went back to school and then to work. (And, as it happened, two of her brothers ended up marrying two of the nurses who had taken care of her.) Still, much of her left side remained numb, and she did not regain use of her left arm.
Last year, however, Ms. O’Regan, now 40 and living in Westwood, Mass., enrolled in a clinical trial for a new robotic device called the Myomo e100, designed to help stroke patients regain motion in their arms. The device, worn as an arm brace, works by sensing weak electrical activity in patients’ arm muscles and providing just enough assistance that they can complete simple exercises, like lifting boxes or flipping on light switches. By practicing such tasks, patients may begin to relearn how to extend and flex the arm, rebuilding and strengthening neurological pathways in the process.
“The device is designed to help get patients over a functional hump” so they can start moving the weakened arm again, said John McBean, a mechanical engineer who developed the technology with Kailas Narendran, an electrical engineer and computer scientist. (The two began the project in 2002, in a graduate robotics class at M.I.T.)
“And the more they are able to use the arm, the more improvement they begin to see,” Mr. McBean continued. “So it’s a virtuous cycle.”
Growing evidence suggests that practicing daily tasks with an impaired limb can help stroke patients recover some function. And robotic devices to help patients with these tasks — whether strapped to the body or free-standing — are proliferating rapidly.
“This is an area that’s exploding,” said Hermano Igo Krebs, a principal research scientist at M.I.T. and one of the first scientists to envision robot-assisted therapy for stroke patients and others with brain injuries and neurological disorders. “There are now a hundred groups around the world working on this. In 5 to 10 years, I expect we’ll see these kinds of devices in all major clinics and rehab hospitals in the developed world, and even in patients’ homes.”
When Ms. O’Regan first tried the Myomo device, in October 2006, her arm was positioned in the metal and plastic brace and electrodes were placed on her biceps and triceps to sense electrical activity. Initially, her arm was locked at a 90-degree angle; when she tried to extend it, the brace stepped in and her arm stretched out in front of her.
“At first it felt weird and foreign,” she said. “You have all these little muscles that are suddenly awake for the first time in 20 years. But as I went back and practiced” — three times a week for about six weeks — “it felt like my arm was doing the straightening and bending itself, just with some assistance.”
“It was extremely encouraging,” she added, noting that with the brace on she was able to practice tasks like folding towels, opening drawers and lifting a yoga mat from a chair to a table. One time, she was delivering mail at work (she is an administrative assistant at a medical software company) and the envelopes started to slip. “And my left arm shot out to catch them,” she recalled. “That hadn’t happened in years.”
A small study of the Myomo device and associated treatment, conducted with Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Massachusetts and published in April in The American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, found that patients who exercised with the arm brace for 18 hours over about six weeks experienced a 23 percent improvement in upper extremity function. The device has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration and is expected to reach the market in the next few months.
Further clinical testing with stroke patients is under way at the Braintree Rehabilitation Hospital in Massachusetts. And a study involving patients with spinal cord injury and traumatic brain injury, including veterans of the Iraq war, is in the planning stages at the James A. Haley Veterans’ Hospital in Tampa, Fla.
It is not yet clear whether movement therapy using a surface-controlled device like the Myomo brace will benefit these patients, said Dr. Irene M. Estores, a specialist in spinal cord injury and in physical medicine and rehabilitation at that hospital. But in the long run, the device (and others like it) could also prove useful as a “power assist” that patients wear every day.
A renewed ability to flex and extend at the elbow would be especially important to patients who also cannot walk and who may otherwise have to rely on a mouth stick to move their wheelchairs, Dr. Estores added.
The first robotic device for stroke patients was probably the M.I.T.-Manus, developed in the 1990s by Dr. Krebs and Neville Hogan, a neuroscientist and mechanical engineer at M.I.T. This device is a stationary machine that prompts patients to slide a forearm across a tablelike surface. If patients cannot do it on their own, the machine prods them with gentle nudges.
Dr. Krebs and Dr. Hogan have also developed smaller devices that can be strapped onto a wrist, a hand or an ankle to assist motion. And they have built other stationary machines that help patients learn to lift an arm against gravity. The Veterans Administration is sponsoring a large multicenter trial of their devices for the shoulder, elbow, wrist and hand, which began last November.
These devices generally do not take cues from electrical muscle activity, as the Myomo brace does, but depend instead on the observed motion (or lack of motion) of patients’ limbs. This means they can be used by patients with no electrical activity in a paralyzed limb.
Dr. Krebs notes that for stroke patients, a large body of evidence now suggests that repeated practice with an impaired limb can foster plastic changes in the brain. In other words, it can help the brain forge new connections between neurons or strengthen existing ones. For patients whose strokes have damaged part of the motor cortex and subcortex, this means that movement therapy may help the brain to use other, nearby neurons — or even neurons in the opposite brain hemisphere — to complete a movement.
“The goal is to make neurons talk to each other again,” said Dr. Krebs, adding that even patients who cannot move initially may benefit from making an attempt, then seeing and feeling the intended movement carried through with the aid of the robot. This experience, it turns out, may be a crucial part of the relearning process.
Robotic devices are also well suited to repetitive movement therapy because “they can do the same thing two million times with perfect consistency,” said Dr. Steven C. Cramer, a neurologist at the University of California, Irvine.
Dr. Cramer’s team uses computer games to make the practice less tedious. In one application, as patients grasp and release their hands, an image shows a hand squeezing lemons or stealing jewels. The goal is to keep patients interested and to “make competitive people competitive,” he said.
Moving forward, Dr. Cramer said, researchers must keep an eye on safety to ensure vulnerable patients do not get hurt. He added that he did not expect robotic devices to completely replace human therapists.
Dr. Hogan, of M.I.T., said that looking at robotics for therapy today was “like looking at flight around 1915.”
“There’s so much more that can be done,” he said. “But we’ve got to get it right.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/10/health/10robo.html?ei=5087%0A&em=&en=7cc17c46e2fd8070&...
worth a radar mark imo.
up almost another 2M shares since June 20 when the O/S was 90,269,430.
based on chunga's last O/S report in this post.
it seems sorta hidden for some reason, and that could partially explain the market cap question.
and here's Rushing's bio from that site.
J.C. "Jim" Rushing was elected to Ecosphere Technologies, Inc. Board of Directors in September 2003 and served as Chairman from January 2004 until March of 2005, when he became Chief Financial Officer of the Company. Mr. Rushing founded Corporate Resources Consulting Group, Inc., a consultancy providing experienced financial and operational management leadership services. From 1998 to 2001, Mr. Rushing served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Isolyser Company, Inc. (Nasdaq: OREX), a materials technology company with emphasis in the medical, nuclear, and automotive industries, where he co-led a major financial turnaround. From 1997 to 1998, Mr. Rushing served as Chief Financial Officer and Director of New Life Corporation of America, a national non-profit public charity. From 1995 to 1997, Mr. Rushing was Vice President - Finance, BBA Nonwovens based in Nashville, Tennessee. As a $500 Million division of a British based company, this operation included 1,600 employees in seven operations in Europe, the United Kingdom and the United States. The financial integration of a major acquisition, doubling the size of global operations, was Mr. Rushing's major focus in 1996. The new operations were managed from an initial losing profile to a profitable double-digit return on sales by the second year of operations. Mr. Rushing received a bachelor’s degree in accounting and management from University of Southern Mississippi in 1965.
http://www.eyelightmedia.org/company.htm
ReGen Biologics To Exhibit at 2007 AOSSM Annual Meeting
Monday July 9, 4:05 pm ET
FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ReGen Biologics (OTCBB: RGBI - News) will attend the annual meeting of the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine (AOSSM), being held this week in Calgary, Canada. The company will exhibit the CMI(TM) collagen meniscus implant, which is CE marked and cleared for sale in Europe for both medial and lateral use.
"We look forward to meeting with sports medicine specialists from around the world at this meeting," commented Gerald E. Bisbee, Jr., Ph.D., Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of ReGen Biologics. "It provides an excellent opportunity for us to share data and information about our products, and demonstrate how we can work together with surgeons to improve patient outcomes."
The American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine (AOSSM) is a national organization of orthopaedic surgeons specializing in sports medicine, including national and international sports medicine leaders. The AOSSM works closely with many other sports medicine specialists and clinicians, including family physicians, emergency physicians, pediatricians, athletic trainers and physical therapists, to improve the identification, prevention, treatment and rehabilitation of sports injuries.
Formed in 1972 primarily as a forum for education and research, the AOSSM has increased from its modest initial membership of fewer than 100 to close to 2,000. For information on the society, the annual meeting, or scheduled presentations visit www.aossm.org.
About ReGen Biologics, Inc.:
ReGen Biologics is an orthopedic products company that develops, manufactures and markets innovative tissue growth and repair products for U.S. and global markets. ReGen's patented collagen scaffold technology includes applications in orthopedics, general surgery, spine, cardiovascular and drug delivery. ReGen's first approved product using its collagen scaffold technology is the CMI(TM), a meniscus application, which is cleared for sale in Europe and marketed through ReGen's European subsidiary, ReGen Biologics AG. ReGen has submitted a 510(k) to the FDA in the U.S. for clearance of the CMI.
ReGen has conducted the largest human clinical trial on an arthroscopic meniscus procedure. The resulting database has unique value in better understanding meniscus injuries. The company is headquartered in Franklin Lakes, NJ and manufactures its collagen scaffold products in its ISO Certified facility located in Redwood City, CA. For more information on ReGen, visit http://www.regenbio.com.
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Safe Harbor Provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements are based on the current expectations and beliefs of the management of ReGen and are subject to a number of factors and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements, including those discussed in the Risk Factors section of ReGen's 2006 annual report on Form 10-K and additional filings with the SEC. ReGen's filings with the SEC are available to the public at the Company's website at http://www.regenbio.com, from commercial document-retrieval services and at the Web site maintained by the SEC at http://www.sec.gov.
Contact:
ReGen Biologics, Inc.
Brion Umidi, 201-651-3515
Chief Financial Officer
bumidi@regenbio.com
or
Cameron Associates
Al Palombo, 212-245-8800 Ext. 209
Investor Relations
al@cameronassoc.com
Source: ReGen Biologics, Inc.
ABB's precision painting bot
from 2006 - Aron Govil Productions Heats Up New York With Akshay Kumar 25/04/2006
FARMINGDALE, N.Y., April 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Aron Govil Productions, a global, multifaceted, 360 degrees media company, announced today that its HEAT show on April 22 at the Nassau Coliseum in New York was a smash hit. The HEAT, starring Akshay Kumar, Preity Zinta, Saif Ali Khan, Sushmita Sen, and Celina Jaitley, brought a crowd of over 10,000 to a state of wild frenzy. The screaming audience gasped with every fireworks and pyro effects display. The singers from the hottest television show SAREGAMPA, Vineet and Himani, satiated the appetite of roaring fans by singing their favorite tunes from the latest Bollywood films. As the North American promoter of eight shows across the USA, Aron Govil Productions directly handled the April 15, 2006 show at Continental Airlines Arena in New Jersey and the April 22, 2006 show at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in New York. "The audience could not get enough of the stars and were continuously screaming for more," said Aron Govil, President of Aron Govil Productions, "and Akshay literally raised the decibel level inside the coliseum extremely high with his dances and acrobatic feats involving the audience." Sushmita Sen, Preity Zinta and Celina Jaitley increased the heat in the arena with their sensuous dances in colorful and provocative outfits. In several acts the audience participated with the stars including where Sushmita Sen invited approximately ten people from the audience to dance with her on the stage to a very popular song. This show was filled with non-stop high-energy dances with pyro effects that kept the audience on its feet. The show started on time and lasted more than 3-1/2 hours. Contact: Aron Govil Tel: 516.816.1400 URL: http://www.arongovil.com This release was issued through eReleases(TM). For more information, visit http://www.ereleases.com.
http://www.telecom-mobile-news.co.uk/telecoms_mobiles-article-42786.html
Miniature robots play nano-soccer
By GREG BLUESTEIN, Associated Press Writer Sat Jul 7, 5:02 PM ET
ATLANTA - Exploding from the other end of the field, a silver robot glinted under the light of the cameras and burst toward the lone defender standing between it and the goal.
That's when the "Whirling Dervish," as its creators call it, lived up to its name, spinning furiously in a show of razzle-dazzle. But suddenly, the robot stopped dead in its tracks, hopelessly mired as if it were stuck on superglue.
A metal arm appeared to rescue the wayward robot, but it was no crane — it was an acupuncture needle. And the field it plucked the robot from was hardly the size of a grain of rice.
What do you expect when the robot is six times smaller than an amoeba and weighs no more than a few hundred nanograms?
Robots of all sizes have descended on the campus of Georgia Tech for the RoboCup, an international contest that pits robotic creations against one another in a range of technical challenges.
But perhaps the most intriguing event was Saturday's Nano Cup, a competition hailed by organizers as the world's first nanoscale soccer game.
Held by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, its organizers hope to show the potential for building tiny devices that can be used in manufacturing, biotechnology and other industries. They also hope to develop manufacturing standards for the untapped field.
"If you take an ant and leave it on its own, it can't do much. But many ants can do incredible things," said Michael Gaitan, the leader of the agency's microrobots project. "We think the same way with microrobots. We'll have to see where it takes us. For now, it's soccer."
Five teams from the U.S., Canada and Switzerland answered the call, building microscopic robots that competed Saturday in two events: A two-millimeter dash and a challenging slalom, where the robot must reach a goal that is blocked by stationary defenders that look like running men but are about the diameter of two hairs.
The events take place in a glass-enclosed cube in the corner of a cramped classroom. Two high-powered microscopes project the action to the big screen, and scientists and students fall silent whenever a competition takes place.
The odds-on favorite for the day was ETH Zurich, an impressive Swiss team that developed a sophisticated propulsion system for the robot that's driven by small magnets.
The creation was completely automated, allowing the players to point and click a place on screen and then watch the device move accordingly.
The team has great hopes for the invention, which they developed over the past six months, and has already applied for patents. The team one day hopes to be able to send their robots into a human's bloodstream to treat cancer, cell defects or for other medical uses.
"You can leave the soccer field, build these robots and send them into the blood flow," said Dominic Frutiger, a Ph.D. student at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.
But scientific competitions are as much about failed experiments as they are about those that actually succeed.
The creators of the Whirling Dervish, a team of two from Canada's Simon Fraser University, took that lesson home. They took a gamble by building their device with a plastic base rather than a metal one, and the result made the two-millimeter dash look more like a chess match than a sprint.
With a video game controller in hand, team member Dan Sameoto desperately mashed buttons trying to find the right frequency combination to get his microscopic robot moving.
Each twitch on the big screen elicited a gasp from the crowd and encouragement from his teammate, See-Ho Tsang. "C'mon," Tsang cried to the robot. "You can't be tired now!"
Each trial, though, ended with the acupuncture needle floating on screen to rescue the wayward device.
After the event, the two partners huddled around the computer to discuss what went wrong. Next year, they decided, they're going with a heavier device they say won't get stuck as easily.
"The lesson was learned," Tsang said.
Sameoto shrugged as he put Whirling Dervish aside.
"We go through a lot of them," he said. "They're designed to be disposable so we don't get too attached."
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On the Net:
http://www.robocup.org/
Aron Govil interview (video)
http://www.videowalla.com/view_video.php?viewkey=1f8f9de3f924f0940515
ABB Robots handle ceramic tiles
June 29, 2007 - In the conservative ceramic mosaic tile industry, manufacturing innovation is often shunned. However, ABB Robotics in collaboration with the Italian Engineering consultancy EMC, has developed a robotic solution for the production of ceramics that is winning over previously reticent tile makers. Apart from providing necessary automation the system has also reduced costs by eliminating the need for paper and mesh backing as well as templates.
The project facing EMC and ABB Robotics was to help mosaic cutters, who produce the mosaics in squares or in strips held together by either expensive mesh or cheaper paper backing. EMC was asked if it could develop an alternative to this backing for mosaics.
The assembly of the small squares of tile had traditionally been done by hand. EMC’s brief was to remove this manual element while retaining both quality and accuracy. The company’s design team developed a robotic solution based on ABB’s IRB340 FlexPicker robot, known affectionately by EMC’s engineers as ‘Moses.’
ABB’s FlexPicker delta robot is the optimal, flexible robot solution for high-speed pick and place. It is the fastest robot in the world, with 150 picks per minute and a payload up to 2 kilograms, and being top mounted, the delta robots require minimal floor space.
The Flexpicker assembles and manipulates tiles and mosaics; prepares tiles for gluing and applies a new type of adhesive to hold the tiles during subsequent phases of transportation and application.
Background
The global ceramic-tile industry is worth around €20 billion and is expected to grow to about €35 billion in the next decade. EU countries, notably Italy and Spain, are responsible for more than half of world revenues today but are projected to lose more than 10 percent of that market share by 2015. The result is that European manufacturers cannot afford complacency and must compete more aggressively to retain share of the global growth. Hence, there is a far greater imperative to streamline and automate manufacturing, overcoming previous traditionalist views.
Two years ago ABB Robotics approached EMC with a request to develop robotics applications in the ceramic tiles industry. EMC’s name is an acronym for its focus: engineering, manufacturing and consulting for robotic applications. Marco Corti, who started the company in 2001 in Italy manages the technical aspects of the consultancy, while Paolo Durio heads up the commercial side. Ceramics was an industry unknown to Corti, who had to come to terms with the fact that innovation was viewed with scepticism and suspicion. Even though robotics provide performance, flexibility and simplicity in production - all of which are requisites for the competitive future of the ceramic tile industry – there was still the need to come up with a solution that was palatable to the market.
Both Corti and Durio have had about 20 years of business experience, with Corti’s devoted almost exclusively to robotics. “You could say that ABB Robotics was responsible for growing the robotics market in Italy,” states Corti, an engineer with a fascination for robotics.
Meanwhile in the process of developing Moses, EMC realised the need for a new gluing method to maximize the flexibility of robotic handling. “Working with partners, we devised a new system to glue the mosaic tiles together,” recalls Corti. “We had to develop a new adhesive and deploy a second robot to apply it, which we called the sticking machine. The FlexPicker places the tiles onto a sticky sheet of plastic, which holds them stable. Then they pass under the sticking machine, where special glue is applied that holds the tiles together. The outcome was so outstanding that we could eliminate the use of paper backing, mesh and templates altogether.”
So successful has the new system become in the Italian ceramics industry that the Moses has belied any concerns expressed about industry uptake. “This solution has become one of the most important parts of our business, and now represents one-third of our revenue,” said Durio.
ABB is a leader in power and automation technologies that enable utility and industry customers to improve their performance while lowering environmental impact. The ABB Group of companies operates in around 100 countries and employs about 108,000 people.
ABB ROBOTICS
ABB is a leading supplier of industrial robots - also providing robot software, peripheral equipment, modular manufacturing cells and service for tasks such as welding, handling, assembly, painting and finishing, picking, packing, palletizing and machine tending. Key markets include automotive, plastics, metal fabrication, foundry, electronics, pharmaceutical and food and beverage industries. A strong solutions focus helps manufacturers improve productivity, product quality and worker safety. ABB has installed more than 150,000 robots worldwide.
ABB robot boosts revenues for U.S. company
2007-06-15 - A single ABB robot reduced the manufacturing cycle of a mid-sized U.S. injection molding company by a massive 23 percent and helped boost revenues in 2006 by an estimated $2 million – all for a payback time of less than 8 months.
By Editorial services
Injection Technology Corporation (Itech) installed the six-axis IRB 4400 robot at its 30,000-square-foot plant in North Carolina in October 2004 and immediately began to reap the benefits.
Itech supplies custom-molded precision plastic parts like spools, electric meter covers and dental appliance covers. The company has 23 injection molding machines, 95 employees and annual revenues of about $10 million.
Fast, compact and versatile: The IRB 4400 is a compact robot that can handle loads of up to 60 kg in the shortest possible timeframe.
“Before the robot, it took two and a half days to fill a tractor trailer,” says Carl Morris, president of Itech, describing the manufacturing process for one of the company’s products, 15-inch plastic spools. “With the robot it takes 27 hours – a saving of 33 man-hours.”
The cycle time has been reduced by an impressive 23 percent which, along with the manufacturing consistency made possible by the robot, has brought about a dramatic increase in productivity.
“With the reduced molding time for spools,” says Morris, “we are able to mold additional products and use the robot for these too.”
Payback
Morris has calculated that the payback time for the robot is just 7.8 months, which contrasts markedly with the two years or more that in his experience it takes to recoup this type of investment.
In addition to these benefits the robot, which is housed in a protective cage, has reduced worker fatigue and helped Itech maintain its award-winning safety record, one that the company is very proud of.
“For me, the robot is very reliable and very consistent,” says operator Robert Hudson, who has been with the company for nine years. “It doesn’t complain, there are no missed welds, and it’s here every day.” Previously, welds were made by hand with glue.
Nicknamed “Abby” by the company’s employees, the ABB robot has helped Itech achieve growth rates of nine percent in 2004, 12 percent in 2005 and a phenomenal 25 percent (estimate) in 2006.
“We love it,” says Carl Morris, so much that he recently ordered a second ABB six-axis robot that will serve two injection molding machines at the same time.
http://www.abb.us/cawp/seitp202/fef239fc46708e96c125729e002d44a1.aspx
Robot bonanza
"Transformers" earns a gigantic haul in its opening day.
"Transformers" take over U.S. box offices
Wednesday July 4 3:22 PM ET
"Transformers," a special-effects movie extravaganza based on popular toys, earned $27.5 million during its first full day of release and appears on track to dominate the weekend box office, according to estimates on Wednesday by distributor Paramount Pictures.
After earning $8.8 million from Monday night screenings across the United States and Canada, the movie pulled in $27.5 million the next day -- a sum billed by Paramount as the biggest Tuesday haul for a movie.
Directed by Michael Bay, a filmmaker known for such spectacles such as "Armageddon" and "Pearl Harbor," "Transformers" is based on the Hasbro Inc. toys that turn into alien robots.
In the film, relative unknowns Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox star as youngsters befriended by Autobots, the good aliens who are being battled by the evil Decepticons.
Despite its success, "Transformers"' take falls considerably short of the one-day record of $59.8 million set by "Spider-Man 3" two months ago, on a Friday.
The previous record for a Tuesday was set last month, when "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" earned $15.7 million, according to Viacom Inc.-owned Paramount.
Last weekend's champion, Walt Disney Co.'s "Ratatouille," earned $7.9 million on Tuesday, according to data supplied by a rival studio. A Disney official was not immediately available for comment. Because of the July 4 holiday in the United States, most studios did not report midweek figures.
The only other new Tuesday release was "License To Wed." Data for the critically maligned Robin Williams comedy will be issued on Sunday, according to the film's distributor, Warner Bros. The studio is a unit of Time Warner Inc.
http://movies.yahoo.com/mv/news/va/20070704/118358775900.html
USPAACC Honors Ducon CEO Aron Govil, Yao Ming & Other Asian Americans.
Publication: Business Wire
Date: Monday, May 14 2007
NEW YORK -- The US Pan Asian American Chamber of Commerce (USPAACC) honored Aron Govil, Chairman & CEO of Ducon Technologies Inc. with the 2007 Excellence Award for his outstanding achievements in Business & Entrepreneurship, at a black-tie gala on May 11, during CelebrAsian '07 Business Opportunity Conference at The Westin St. Francis hotel in San Francisco, California. Aron Govil was joined with four other Asian American honorees who have also made significant achievements in their respective fields. Among them are: Rocky Aoki, Founder of the Benihana chain of "Japanese Steakhouse" restaurants; Yao Ming, the Chinese All-Star Pro-Basketball player currently with the Houston Rockets; Dr. Heng Wang, Medical Director of DDC Clinic for Special Needs Children; and Padmasree Warrior, Executive Vice President & Chief Technology Officer of Motorola. During the gala affair, Aron Govil and his fellow honorees shared their experiences on their journey to the top.
With this distinction from USPAACC, Aron Govil joins an elite roster of past Excellence Awardees--a veritable "who's who" in the Asian American community, including Nobel Laureate Subrahmanian Chandrasekhar, U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao, PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi, architecture icon I.M. Pei, Time Magazine Man of the Year Dr. David Ho, Linksys co-founders Janie and Victor Tsao, Hotmail.com founder Sabeer Bhatia, Cellist Yo-Yo Ma, Olympic Gold Medalist for Figure-Skating Kristi Yamaguchi, Senator Daniel Inouye, and many more outstanding Asian Americans.
The US Pan Asian American Chamber of Commerce (USPAACC) was formed in 1984 as a national non-profit organization representing Pan Asian Americans and related groups in business. It promotes nurtures and propels economic growth by opening doors to contract, educational and professional opportunities for Asian Pacific Americans and their business partners in corporate America, the federal government and the minority community. Headquartered in Washington, DC, USPAACC has a nationwide reach through its regional chapters in Northern and Southern California in the West Coast, Texas in the Southwest, Illinois in the Midwest, Georgia in the Southeast, New York in the Northeast, and Washington, DC-Maryland-Virginia in the National Capital Region.
http://www.allbusiness.com/services/business-services/4343385-1.html
RoboDevelopment site update
http://www.robodevelopment.com/sponsor/sponsors.html
older "deep links" no longer work
eyeopening FCS Video - featuring iRobot PackBot SUGV (pre-Taser)
04 July 2007 Mall's movie Shoot
EDITORIAL - whtimes@archant.co.uk
In a scene from the movie Sue is accosted by armed police – don’t worry, they’re actors too
SHOPPERS at the Galleria found themselves in the middle of a movie set.
A new feature film, based on the July 7 bombings in London, was being shot in the Hatfield mall.
The suspense drama, Shoot on Sight, stars Emmy-winning actress Greta Scacchi, who co-starred with Gwyneth Paltrow in Emma and John Malkovich, in Ladies Room.
Also in the movie are Brian Cox, Stephen Greif and Bollywood star, Naseeruddin Shah.
WGC actress and journalist Sue Shearing, pictured right, also has a part.
"If you blink you'll miss me," she said. "But the filming was fun."
Sue recently appeared in Bad Girls and Dream Team.
A spokesman for the Galleria said: "I can confirm that the Galleria was the venue for a multicultural film."
Shoot on Sight tells the story of a Metropolitan police officer of Muslim heritage who is asked to track down suspected suicide bombers. Matters soon become complicated when an innocent man is killed.
The film, made by Cine Boutique Entertainment, produced by Aron Govil and directed by Jag Mundhra, should be released by the end of the year.
Filming took place at the end of last month, some weeks before the recent incidents in London and Glasgow.
http://www.whtimes.co.uk/content/whtimes/news/story.aspx?brand=WHTOnline&category=News&tBran...
"Transformers" movie is all about the robots
By MAL VINCENT, The Virginian-Pilot July 3, 2007
IN THE BEGINNING, it was just a toy.
Now, with a budget of $145 million, "Transformers" is the most eagerly awaited action movie in a summer that is setting attendance records.
So far, audiences have been offered largely copycat franchises - the third "Pirates," "Shrek" and "Spider-Man," the fourth "Die Hard."
"Transformers," which opens today, is a new venture, with a fanatically loyal fan base as eager to lambaste it as to hail it for massive special effects, with mechanical objects turning into giant warring robots.
If it is aimed at kids, it is the kids of the 1980s.
The action figures came from Hasbro, the same company that created Monopoly, Mr. Potato Head and G.I. Joe. A series of 21 figures was launched in 1984 and became known as "Generation 1," including Optimus Prime (a "good" robot), Megatron (the ultimate "bad" robot), Bumblebee, Jazz and Starscream.
It was a dream jack-in-the-box, letting kids mix and match mechanical objects and transform them into powerful robots involved in a war with no less than the fate of Earth at stake. Children could imagine all their toys coming to life as they befriended the technology around them.
In 2007, it's still a cool concept.
Over the past 23 years, the toys have become legendary via lunch boxes, comic books, games, a TV cartoon series and an animated movie.
It has finally been made into a live-action film, produced by Steven Spielberg and directed by the controversial action-specialist Michael Bay. But will its fan base show up, and, if they do, will they accept the changes Bay has made to some of the robotic legends?
more >>> http://content.hamptonroads.com/story.cfm?story=127761&ran=143013
hey Chipsdown! really interested in robotic tech (which is also how joe and i "met") and stumbled on the ship repair stuff doing some general bot sector DD.
seems there is much more to EcoSphere than just that little earth-friendly paint scraper bot!
does that name sound familiar?
http://search.yahoo.com/search?n=100&ei=utf-8&va_vt=any&vo_vt=any&ve_vt=any&vp_v...
OTCBB Biggest % Losers
Otcbb/Otc/Daily/Report/Fri Jun 29 16:01:07 EDT 2007
http://66.201.236.134/export/n_letter/gen/Microcap_Recap_Report_29_Jun_2007.html
OTCBB Biggest % Losers
From $0.01 – 1.00 that have traded minimum 10,000 shares
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-0.1500
10,662 0.1000
ASWD ASWD -50.00
-0.0300
1,484,810 0.0300
LDTI LDTI -44.44
-0.0400
30,000 0.0500
ABKB ABKB -42.86
-0.0300
50,200 0.0400
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-0.0240
225,282 0.0360
OXMI OXMI -40.00
-0.0200
299,300 0.0300
PLYPF PLYPF -34.94
-0.1747
57,750 0.3253
TPDI TPDI -33.33
-0.0250
212,642 0.0500
PFNO PFNO -33.33
-0.0100
46,376 0.0200
VMHIF VMHIF -30.43
-0.0070
591,911 0.0160
INRA INRA -26.32
-0.0250
318,251 0.0700
FMVR FMVR -26.09
-0.3000
28,000 0.8500
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-0.0070
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-0.0399
487,680 0.1201
SPMI SPMI -22.95
-0.0700
29,800 0.2350
LNGMF LNGMF -22.73
-0.0375
50,000 0.1275
NEIK NEIK -22.22
-0.0200
22,999 0.0700
SREA SREA -21.95
-0.0900
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DRGP DRGP -21.87
-0.0700
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TTNUF TTNUF -21.74
-0.0500
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