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Green Thumb Industries Reports First Quarter 2024 Results

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Mercoledì, Maggio 8, 2024

CHICAGO and VANCOUVER, British Columbia, May 08, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Green Thumb Industries Inc. (“Green Thumb” or the “Company”) (CSE: GTII) (OTCQX: GTBIF), a leading national cannabis consumer packaged goods company and owner of RISE Dispensaries , today reported its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2024.

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  • CHICAGO and VANCOUVER, British Columbia, May 08, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Green Thumb Industries Inc. (“Green Thumb” or the “Company”) (CSE: GTII) (OTCQX: GTBIF), a leading national cannabis consumer packaged goods company and owner of RISE Dispensaries , today reported its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2024.
  • Highlights for the first quarter ended March 31, 2024:
    First quarter revenue of $276 million increased 11% over the prior year period.
  • Gross profit for the first quarter 2024 was $144.9 million or 52.5% of revenue compared to $124.7 million or 50.2% of revenue for the first quarter 2023.
  • Green Thumb will host a conference call on Wednesday, May 8, 2024, at 5:00 pm ET to discuss its first quarter 2024 financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2024.

EG America Raises $657,000 for the American Red Cross

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Martedì, Aprile 30, 2024

WESTBOROUGH, Mass., April 30, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- EG America raised $657,000 for the American Red Cross during its nationwide in-store fundraiser in March, in recognition of Red Cross Month.

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  • WESTBOROUGH, Mass., April 30, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- EG America raised $657,000 for the American Red Cross during its nationwide in-store fundraiser in March, in recognition of Red Cross Month.
  • "We are proud to champion the American Red Cross' mission of helping those in need," said John Carey, President and CEO of EG America.
  • The American Red Cross assists individuals and communities in crisis.
  • "The American Red Cross is grateful to be among the causes that EG America and its customers support," said Bill Andrews, Division Fundraising Vice President.

Green Thumb Continues its Florida Retail Expansion with Opening of RISE Dispensary Wesley Chapel, its 16th Florida Location, on April 26

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Mercoledì, Aprile 24, 2024

“We couldn’t be more excited to open our first RISE Dispensary in Pasco County, representing our 16th store in the state,” said Green Thumb President Anthony Georgiadis.

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  • “We couldn’t be more excited to open our first RISE Dispensary in Pasco County, representing our 16th store in the state,” said Green Thumb President Anthony Georgiadis.
  • RISE Dispensary Wesley Chapel, conveniently located just off I-75, is the second RISE Dispensary to open in Florida this year, following the opening of RISE Dispensary Dunnellon in March.
  • Green Thumb joined the Florida community in 2018 and operates two production facilities in Ocala and Homestead where the Company cultivates and produces its branded products.
  • The Company’s retail brand, RISE Dispensaries, is committed to expanding access to well-being through cannabis and making a positive impact on the communities it serves.

Chain.io Announces Appointment of John Urban to Board of Directors

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Martedì, Aprile 30, 2024

PHILADELPHIA, April 30, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Chain.io, a cloud-based integration platform that connects systems for better control of supply chain data, today announced the appointment of John Urban to their Board of Directors. With a career focused on building and growing logistics and supply chain businesses, Mr. Urban's expertise will further contribute to Chain.io's mission to make systems work together so supply chain professionals can do their jobs.

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  • John Urban is a seasoned executive with decades of experience across the logistics and supply chain technology sectors.
  • PHILADELPHIA, April 30, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Chain.io , a cloud-based integration platform that connects systems for better control of supply chain data, today announced the appointment of John Urban to their Board of Directors.
  • "John brings extensive experience in the logistics and supply chain space, and a proven track record of guiding companies through significant growth.
  • With the appointment of Mr. Urban, the Chain.io Board of Directors is now composed of five directors dedicated to supporting Chain.io's growth and a larger digital transformation across the supply chain industry.

4 Tips for Flawless Summer-Ready Skin

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Mercoledì, Aprile 24, 2024

A strong and healthy skin barrier helps retain moisture to keep your skin hydrated and repels harmful environmental pollutants.

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  • A strong and healthy skin barrier helps retain moisture to keep your skin hydrated and repels harmful environmental pollutants.
  • These products and protocols are specially designed to strengthen, restore, and protect the skin barrier, resulting in healthier and more resilient skin.
  • ZO® Exfoliating Polish sloughs off the dead skin cells and promotes new youthful skin.
  • These Med spa treatments help revive your complexion by shedding dead skin cells and unveiling fresher, brighter, and smoother skin underneath.

Bring Joy Back to Family Meals

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Lunedì, Aprile 15, 2024

MISSION, Kan., April 15, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- (Family Features) While meals savored with loved ones are intended to produce smiles and shared moments, the process of grocery shopping, planning and cooking has become a chore for many families. Take the first step toward bringing back the joy and magic of making your favorite foods with tools that do the work for you.

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  • MISSION, Kan., April 15, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- (Family Features) While meals savored with loved ones are intended to produce smiles and shared moments, the process of grocery shopping, planning and cooking has become a chore for many families.
  • Take the first step toward bringing back the joy and magic of making your favorite foods with tools that do the work for you.
  • Recipes are instantly turned into shoppable ingredients and added to your cart for quick, convenient checkout.
  • Now, you can turn all of your recipes into a digital library for quick and easy access in one place.

Dungeons and Dragons at 50: how the role-playing game may soon be used as a form of therapy

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Martedì, Aprile 23, 2024

Dungeons and Dragons (D&D) is crossing a new frontier, as the game may soon be used as a form of psychological therapy.

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  • Dungeons and Dragons (D&D) is crossing a new frontier, as the game may soon be used as a form of psychological therapy.
  • Over the last five years, I have researched possibilities for the game’s clinical implementation, as well as potential hurdles.
  • The therapeutic interest in the game only arose in the last five years, when D&D experienced a renaissance.

Playing safely

  • Released in 1974, there was something of a “Satanic panic” around the game, which was seen by some as a cradle of Satanic occultism.
  • Despite this, some clinicians still view playing D&D as cause of mental health issues.
  • Another reason for the hesitancy is that there can be a real risk involved in using D&D in therapy with no proper plan in place.
  • Since our research in 2023, at least 16 theoretical guidelines have been published, drafting ideas or sharing anecdotes of good practice.
  • And more importantly, more research is being released showing successful implementation in the community and even in forensic services.


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Sören Henrich does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

To understand the risks posed by AI, follow the money

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Mercoledì, Aprile 10, 2024

Shortly thereafter, the consensus switched to fears of an imminent nuclear holocaust.

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  • Shortly thereafter, the consensus switched to fears of an imminent nuclear holocaust.
  • Similarly, today’s experts warn that an artificial general intelligence (AGI) doomsday is imminent.
  • It’s difficult to argue with David Collingridge’s influential thesis that attempting to predict the risks posed by new technologies is a fool’s errand.
  • Focusing on the economic risks from AI is not simply about preventing “monopoly,” “self-preferencing,” or “Big Tech dominance”.
  • It’s about ensuring that the economic environment facilitating innovation is not incentivising hard-to-predict technological risks as companies “move fast and break things” in a race for profit or market dominance.
  • OpenAI is already becoming a dominant player with US$2 billion (£1.6 billion) in annual sales and millions of users.

Degrading quality for higher profit

  • The problems fostered by social media, search, and recommendation algorithms was never an engineering issue, but one of financial incentives (of profit growth) not aligning with algorithms’ safe, effective, and equitable deployment.
  • For digital platforms, extracting digital rents usually entails degrading the quality of information shown to the user, on the basis of them “owning” access to a mass of customers.
  • But over time, a misalignment between the initial promise of them providing user value and the need to expand profit margins as growth slows has driven bad platform behaviour.

Amazon’s advertising

  • In our research on Amazon, we found that users still tend to click on the product results at the top of the page, even when they are no longer the best results but instead paid advertising placements.
  • For social media platforms, this was addictive content to increase time spent on platform at any cost to user health.
  • In the process, profits and profit margins have become concentrated in a few platforms’ hands, making innovation by outside companies harder.
  • Amazon’s most recent quarterly disclosures (Q4, 2023), shows year-on-year growth in online sales of 9%, but growth in fees of 20% (third-party seller services) and 27% (advertising sales).
  • Algorithms have become market gatekeepers and value allocators, and are now becoming producers and arbiters of knowledge.

Risks posed by the next generation of AI

  • But how much greater are the risks for the next generation of AI systems?
  • Thankfully, society is not helpless in shaping the economic risks that invariably arise after each new innovation.
  • Risks brought about from the economic environment in which innovation occurs are not immutable.
  • Market structure is shaped by regulators and a platform’s algorithmic institutions (especially its algorithms which make market-like allocations).
  • What role might interoperability and open source play in keeping the AI industry a more competitive and inclusive market?
  • Instead, we should try to recalibrate the economic incentives underpinning today’s innovations, away from risky uses of AI technology and towards open, accountable, AI algorithms that support and disperse value equitably.
  • Ilan Strauss receives funding from The Omidyar Network through the UCL IIPP research project on algorithmic rents Mariana Mazzucato received funding for this project from the Omidyar Foundation.
  • Rufus Rock received funding from the Omidyar Network whilst pursuing the research referenced in this piece.

Don’t Drop the Ball! The Urology Care Foundation Urges Men to Check Themselves for Testicular Cancer Awareness Month

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Lunedì, Aprile 1, 2024

BALTIMORE, April 01, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- April is Testicular Cancer Awareness Month, and the Urology Care Foundation, the official foundation of the American Urological Association (AUA), is urging men not to drop the ball when it comes to their testicular health.

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  • BALTIMORE, April 01, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- April is Testicular Cancer Awareness Month, and the Urology Care Foundation, the official foundation of the American Urological Association (AUA), is urging men not to drop the ball when it comes to their testicular health.
  • Testicular cancer is one of the less common cancers in men, with only 1 out of every 250 men getting diagnosed during their lifetime.
  • The best way to increase the chances we can cure someone of testicular cancer is to catch it early.
  • Prostate exams, scrotal exams, penis stuff, all of it,” said C. Freeman McCluskey, MD, testicular cancer survivor and urology resident at the Medical College of Georgia.

DoorDash Expands Food Access for SNAP Customers With New Grocery Partners

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Mercoledì, Marzo 13, 2024

Since launching support for SNAP/EBT payments in 2023, over 1.1 million consumers have added their SNAP/EBT cards to DoorDash.

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  • Since launching support for SNAP/EBT payments in 2023, over 1.1 million consumers have added their SNAP/EBT cards to DoorDash.
  • With the addition of these new partners, over 6,000 locations nationwide will support SNAP/EBT payment capabilities on DoorDash for on-demand delivery of eligible grocery items.
  • DoorDash is one of the largest online marketplaces to offer SNAP/EBT recipients access to grocery delivery across the country.
  • Whether it's delivering SNAP-eligible groceries or charitable food to people experiencing food insecurity, we’re excited to continue to provide new ways for everyone to access food through DoorDash.