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Grounded Lithium Executes Strategic Investment with Denison Mines

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Tuesday, January 16, 2024

"Grounded remains steadfast in our vision to economically produce battery grade lithium with a focus on low-cost operations and this strategic investment from Denison is a major step in that regard," stated Gregg Smith, President & CEO.

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  • "Grounded remains steadfast in our vision to economically produce battery grade lithium with a focus on low-cost operations and this strategic investment from Denison is a major step in that regard," stated Gregg Smith, President & CEO.
  • Further, the strategic investment from Denison in both GLC and the KLP eliminates many perceived or distinct risks in our anticipated path to commercial production."
  • "The transaction with Denison is a great outcome for both parties," commented Greg Phaneuf, Senior Vice President Corporate Development & CFO.
  • Those interested can listen to Company officials describe the transaction with Denison by participating in the following conference call details:

PharmaForce Announces Significant Investment from Aquiline Capital Partners

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Tuesday, January 16, 2024

NEW YORK, Jan. 16, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Pharma Force Group LLC ("PharmaForce" or "the company"), a pharmacy solutions provider to hospitals and health clinics, announces that Aquiline Capital Partners LP ("Aquiline") has made a majority investment.

Key Points: 
  • NEW YORK, Jan. 16, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Pharma Force Group LLC ("PharmaForce" or "the company"), a pharmacy solutions provider to hospitals and health clinics, announces that Aquiline Capital Partners LP ("Aquiline") has made a majority investment.
  • Aquiline is a private investment firm, investing in financial services and related technologies, with over $10 billion in assets under management as of September 30, 2023.
  • Since its inception in 2017, PharmaForce has delivered transparent and flexible 340B administration software to over 280 clients.
  • Daniel Dimitri, CEO and Co-Founder of PharmaForce, said: "The investment from Aquiline marks a significant milestone for us.

REPORT on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EU) 2017/852 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 May 2017 on mercury as regards dental amalgam and other mercury-added products[...]

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Sunday, January 14, 2024

REPORT on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EU) 2017/852 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 May 2017 on mercury as regards dental amalgam and other mercury-added products subject to manufacturing, import and export restrictionsCommittee on the Environment, Public Health and Food SafetyMarlene Mortler Source : © European Union, 2024 - EP

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REPORT on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EU) 2017/852 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 May 2017 on mercury as regards dental amalgam and other mercury-added products subject to manufacturing, import and export restrictionsCommittee on the Environment, Public Health and Food SafetyMarlene Mortler Source : © European Union, 2024 - EP

Former MA Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey Named Executive Chair of the Forward Party

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Thursday, January 11, 2024

WASHINGTON, Jan. 11, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Forward Party announces today that former Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts Kerry Murphy Healey has accepted a Co-Chairs seat on the Party's Board of Directors, joining founders Andrew Yang, Gov. Christine Todd Whitman, and Michael Willner. She will serve in the newly created post of Executive Chair of the Forward Party.

Key Points: 
  • She will serve in the newly created post of Executive Chair of the Forward Party.
  • Through fundraising, rebuilding grassroots participation, and a focus on candidate recruitment, Kerry Healey created the framework for electoral success.
  • Healey is adding to this leadership team her executive expertise in not only party building, but also public policy, fundraising, and non-profit management.
  • Healey about the Forward Party and her new role, please reach out to Matt Shinners at [email protected] .

Trump’s arguments for immunity not as hopeless as some claim

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Monday, January 8, 2024

Former President Donald Trump’s claims of immunity from criminal prosecution will be argued before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Jan. 9, 2024 – on an interlocutory appeal from his trial for election interference.

Key Points: 
  • Former President Donald Trump’s claims of immunity from criminal prosecution will be argued before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Jan. 9, 2024 – on an interlocutory appeal from his trial for election interference.
  • His arguments have been rejected by a district court judge, and the Supreme Court has declined to weigh in – for now.
  • Commentators have described his immunity arguments as “frivolous” and “absurd.” But such accounts underestimate the arguments’ weight and at times misconstrue them.

A related absolute immunity already exists

  • His first line of defense claims that his actions are covered by a constitutional immunity protecting presidents when they act in their official capacity.
  • They are saying he can’t be prosecuted for so-called “official acts.” A related immunity has been recognized in the past.
  • In 1982, the Supreme Court recognized that presidents have absolute immunity from civil lawsuits for their official actions.
  • Nevertheless, it is conceivable that courts would recognize presidential criminal immunity for official acts.

The complication from the impeachment clauses

  • But he went on to claim that since he was acquitted – only 57 senators voted to convict him, short of the 67 needed – he was not liable for criminal prosecution.
  • The New York Times called it an “even more audacious argument” than his claim of absolute immunity.
  • Indeed, impeachment proceedings are very rare, and most eligible offenders never face an impeachment.
  • Moreover, as the critics point out, criminal acts may be discovered after the person in question has already left office.

Does acquittal in an impeachment proceeding create or preserve criminal immunity?

  • That claim, if upheld, would provide Trump with criminal immunity whether presidents enjoy absolute immunity or not.
  • The claim would work only if Trump’s impeachment and his criminal prosecution were based on the same acts – an allegation that is disputed by the special counsel.
  • Here, Trump acknowledges that an impeachment conviction removes that protection – but insists that an acquittal does not.


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

Cannara Biotech Announces Engagement of Market Maker Services from Independent Trading Group ("ITG")

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Monday, January 8, 2024

ft., today announced it has retained Independent Trading Group ("ITG") to provide market making services in accordance with TSX Venture Exchange policies.

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  • ft., today announced it has retained Independent Trading Group ("ITG") to provide market making services in accordance with TSX Venture Exchange policies.
  • ITG will trade the securities of the Company on the TSXV for the purpose of maintaining an orderly market.
  • The Company and ITG are unrelated and unaffiliated entities and ITG has no interest, directly or indirectly in the Company or its securities.
  • The capital used for market making will be provided by ITG.

From Blue Pacific to Indo-Pacific: how politics and language define our ‘Indigenous ocean’

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Tuesday, January 2, 2024

They announced the way forward as the “Blue Pacific – Our Sea of Islands, Our Livelihoods, Our Oceania”.

Key Points: 
  • They announced the way forward as the “Blue Pacific – Our Sea of Islands, Our Livelihoods, Our Oceania”.
  • It’s a revealing example of how the study of the Pacific and the practice of Pacific politics often intersect.
  • Rapidly, the Blue Pacific – a story about a place – had become a new place.
  • Regional organisations connected through the Blue Pacific, and it became a cornerstone of diplomatic and national language.

New names, old stories

  • Holding together the new movement – which was launched at a moment of considerable difficulty for the region – was an old story.
  • The Forum leaders and others around it explicitly referred to the Blue Pacific as a narrative.
  • As the Samoan Prime Minister put it, “[t]he Blue Pacific provides a new narrative for Pacific Regionalism and how the Forum engages with the world”.

The Indo-Pacific as geopolitical construct

  • The Indo-Pacific is now a geopolitical construct said to encompass the Indian Ocean, the South China Sea, and shifting, unspecified parts of the Pacific Ocean.
  • In other words, it both marginalises and co-opts the Indigenous Pacific of which I write.
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    Australia has long viewed the Pacific as a place of threats that must be contained.
  • Such is the power of this particular narrative and construct that it is central to many of the most vital geopolitical discourses and activities globally.

An unequal ocean

  • Though there is a vibrancy to Indigenous traditions and narration, they do not have the same access and circulation; the Pacific remains an unequal ocean.
  • In very few areas is this not apparent, but I wish to draw attention to one specific way in which the colonial, and particularly the decolonising experience, shaped the unequal oceanscapes of the present: mobility.
  • The terms and conditions of formal decolonisation – what I think of as the decolonising bargain – was a bargain struck in profoundly unequal times and in unequal ways, where much of the power lay with former colonial rulers and international players.

‘New blackbirds’

  • The Pacific diaspora, so deeply conditioned by the decolonising bargain, has not mattered equally to Pacific nations recently.
  • In smaller islands and nations these opportunities have seen mobility on remarkable scales; Niue is perhaps the most striking.
  • Since the 1970s the number of Niueans in Niue has declined by around two-thirds, falling from over 5,000 to less than 2,000.
  • As elsewhere in the former (or, as some might contend, currently) colonised world, the visible benefits of colonialism are not readily evident.

Mobility and sovereignty

  • In each of these places, Indigenous Pacific migrants experience outcomes that more closely match their Indigenous neighbours than those of Pākehā/Papālagi/white populations.
  • There are also other costs that these Indigenous Pacific people confront — paid in language, culture, well-being, identity, independence and sovereignty.
  • The transnational dimensions wrought by those Indigenous folks afforded mobility are profound.
  • As Epeli Hau‘ofa so powerfully put it, these Pacific peoples can craft lives that resonate with the mobility of the ancestors.
  • But the majority of Pacific peoples do not have access to transnational mobility.


Damon Salesa 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.

Fujitsu optimizes installation of EV charging infrastructure in India with Fujitsu Fleet Optimization solution trial

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Wednesday, December 6, 2023

TOKYO, Dec 6, 2023 - (JCN Newswire) - Fujitsu today announced the launch of pilot modeling activities to optimize the installation of electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure in India.

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  • TOKYO, Dec 6, 2023 - (JCN Newswire) - Fujitsu today announced the launch of pilot modeling activities to optimize the installation of electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure in India.
  • The initiative leverages Fujitsu's Fleet Optimization solution, which uses digital twin simulation technology to streamline fleet deployment and operations.
  • Fujitsu and the consortium will utilize fleet data held by collaborating companies to verify and analyze the optimal number and locations for new charging infrastructure in New Delhi and Mumbai.
  • As part of this consortium, Fujitsu will lead a pilot simulation to optimize charging infrastructure installation to meet journey demand in collaboration with participating vendors.

Wang Haige, a man who dedicated himself to establishing prestigious international film awards, has resigned from his position as the chairman of Huading Awards

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Friday, December 29, 2023

This meant that the filmmaker, who was dubbed the "Huading Dream Builder," had to formally say goodbye to the Huading Awards.

Key Points: 
  • This meant that the filmmaker, who was dubbed the "Huading Dream Builder," had to formally say goodbye to the Huading Awards.
  • Wang Haige was chosen as the Huading Awards chairman in September 2017.
  • He advocated the creation of a top-tier film award and implemented a significant overhaul of the Huading Awards throughout that six-year period.
  • The Huading Awards have also gradually changed from the "People's Word of Mouth Awards" to the "Global Audience Word of Mouth Awards".

First Phosphate and Ultion Technologies Enter MOU for Purchase of LFP / LFMP Commercial Production Technology and Offtake of 6,000 annual Tonnes of LFP Cathode Active Material for Specialty Products

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Monday, December 11, 2023

The LFMP technology contemplated in this MOU is currently under development and being produced at a quantity of several tonnes per month.

Key Points: 
  • The LFMP technology contemplated in this MOU is currently under development and being produced at a quantity of several tonnes per month.
  • "The agreement is important to the Company because it provides proven, commercial-grade LFP production technology as well as offtake into the LFP CAM specialty products segment of the market," says CEO John Passalacqua.
  • Ultion shall transfer all documents necessary for First Phosphate to implement the purchased LFP CAM technology commercially, (The "Technology Document Package").
  • A similar LFMP Technology Document Package will include all documents, technology and information as the LFP Technology Document Package.