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Perdue Foundation's $20,000 grant to help fund La Plaza Delaware's new leadership development program

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Thursday, November 3, 2022

La Plaza's leadership program will aim to transform high-potential Latinos into high-performing leaders, focusing on GenZ and Millennials.

Key Points: 
  • La Plaza's leadership program will aim to transform high-potential Latinos into high-performing leaders, focusing on GenZ and Millennials.
  • Additional funders include the Arsht Cannon Fund and the Delaware Hispanic Commission, which is also a program partner.
  • La Plaza Delaware is a nonprofit partnership created to increase opportunities, business savvy, and prosperity for Latino and minority-owned businesses.
  • Bethany Hall-Long, said the First State should be proud of the organizations that are supporting La Plaza's leadership program.

Strategen Hires Former Hawaii Regulator Jennifer Potter as Director, Regulatory Innovation

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Thursday, November 3, 2022

SACRAMENTO, Calif., Nov. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Strategen Consulting, Inc. is pleased to announce the hire of former Hawaii Public Utilities Commission Commissioner Jennifer Potter as a Director.

Key Points: 
  • Potter specializes in energy policy and regulation, demand response, emerging technologies, advanced rate design, and utility innovation.
  • "I am thrilled to be joining Strategen to support the advancement and acceleration of the clean energy revolution," Potter said.
  • "The firm has a truly compelling record of accomplishment of thought leadership and developingwinning strategies to transform the future with clean energy.
  • Potter will bring her experience in advanced performance-based regulation, demand-side flexibility, DER integration, and power system transformation to states across the country.

Vail Resorts Announces Kenny Thompson, Jr. as Company's First Chief Public Affairs Officer

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Thursday, November 3, 2022

BROOMFIELD, Colo., Nov. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --Vail Resorts, Inc. (NYSE: MTN) today announced Kenny Thompson, Jr. would join as the company's first Chief Public Affairs Officer.

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  • BROOMFIELD, Colo., Nov. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --Vail Resorts, Inc. (NYSE: MTN) today announced Kenny Thompson, Jr. would join as the company's first Chief Public Affairs Officer.
  • "Kenny shares our company's values, including Do Good, Do Right and Be Inclusive, and has a proven track record of fostering strong public-private partnerships to advance important work," said Kirsten Lynch, CEO of Vail Resorts.
  • "I am thrilled to be joining Vail Resorts during such an important moment in the company's history," said Thompson.
  • Thompson will join Vail Resorts on Dec. 5, 2022, and serve on the company's executive team reporting to CEO Kirsten Lynch.

New Product Safety Recalls

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Thursday, November 3, 2022

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is charged with protecting the public from unreasonable risk of injury or death associated with the use of thousands of types of consumer products.

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  • The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is charged with protecting the public from unreasonable risk of injury or death associated with the use of thousands of types of consumer products.
  • Deaths, injuries, and property damage from consumer product-related incidents cost the nation more than $1 trillion annually.
  • CPSC's work to ensure the safety of consumer products has contributed to a decline in the rate of injuries associated with consumer products over the past 50 years.
  • Federal law prohibits any person from selling products subject to a Commission ordered recall or a voluntary recall undertaken in consultation with the CPSC.

XSOLIS Brings Together Brightest Minds in Healthcare Innovation for XCHANGE 2022

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Thursday, November 3, 2022

NASHVILLE, Tenn., Nov. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- XSOLIS, the artificial intelligence (AI) technology company creating a more efficient healthcare system, hosted its annual XCHANGE 2022 user conference on October 26-28 in Nashville, Tennessee. The three-day event marked the first in-person event since 2019 and convened the best minds in case management and utilization review (UR) to inspire, educate and collaborate.

Key Points: 
  • I'm proud to say we are well on our way to creating a more frictionless healthcare industry.
  • The time for using better, AI-driven technologies to increase efficiencies throughout the industry is now and more necessary than ever before."
  • Two keynote speakers further enhanced the themes of how to become arbiters of change and inspire more collaboration within the healthcare industry.
  • XSOLIS is a platform, data science and solutions innovator serving health plans, hospitals and payer organizations nationwide to create a more efficient healthcare system.

CPSC Invites Importers to Participate in Beta Pilot Test of eFiling Initiative to Increase Safety of Consumer Products

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Thursday, November 3, 2022

WASHINGTON, Nov. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is seeking importers to participate in a six-month Beta Pilot stage of an eFiling initiative that will speed detection of violative consumer products while facilitating the importation of compliant trade.

Key Points: 
  • WASHINGTON, Nov. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is seeking importers to participate in a six-month Beta Pilot stage of an eFiling initiative that will speed detection of violative consumer products while facilitating the importation of compliant trade.
  • The Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 (CPSIA) requires importers of regulated consumer products to issue certificates of compliance with their product shipments.
  • On June 10, 2022, CPSC published a federal register notice announcing the Beta Pilot stage of the eFiling initiative and seeking volunteer importers.
  • CPSC encourages any importers interested in helping support the next phase of this initiative to volunteer for the Beta Pilot by emailing [email protected] .

Creative Medical Technology Holdings Announces FDA Clearance of Investigational New Drug (IND) Application for AlloStem™, a Novel Cell Therapy for the Treatment of Type 1 Diabetes

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Thursday, November 3, 2022

PHOENIX, Nov. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Creative Medical Technology Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: CELZ), an immuno-endocrine company working to revolutionize care through the development of potentially best-in-class regenerative therapeutics, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has cleared the Company's Investigational New Drug (IND) application, enabling the Company to proceed with initiating a clinical trial for Type 1 Diabetes using AlloStem™.

Key Points: 
  • The primary objective of the study (CELZ-201) is to evaluate AlloStemin patients with newly diagnosed Type 1 Diabetes.
  • "This is a milestone event for Creative Medical Technology Holdings as it marks the Company's first IND clearance from the FDA," said Timothy Warbington, CEO.
  • See the periodic and other reports filed by Creative Medical Technology Holdings, Inc. with the Securities and Exchange Commission and available on the Commission's website at www.sec.gov .
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CGI Federal to continue strengthening cybersecurity at Nuclear Regulatory Commission with new award

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Thursday, November 3, 2022

This new agreement enables CGI Federal to implement new processes and technologies to help the NRC evolve their security posture, protecting the Commission from current and future threats.

Key Points: 
  • This new agreement enables CGI Federal to implement new processes and technologies to help the NRC evolve their security posture, protecting the Commission from current and future threats.
  • "The NRC has made significant investments to evolve its cybersecurity processes and tools," stated Stefan Becker, Senior Vice-President and Regulatory AgenciesPrograms Business Unit lead at CGI Federal.
  • Further, CGI also will support NRC's continued adoption of Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA), in compliance with federal mandates.
  • CGI Federal Inc ., a wholly-owned U.S. operating subsidiary of CGI Inc., is dedicated to partnering with federal agencies to provide solutions fordefense, civilian, healthcareand intelligence missions.

SEC Proposes Enhancements to Open-End Fund Liquidity Framework

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Wednesday, November 2, 2022

The rule and form amendments would enhance how funds manage their liquidity risks, require mutual funds to implement liquidity management tools, and provide for more timely and detailed reporting of fund information.

Key Points: 
  • The rule and form amendments would enhance how funds manage their liquidity risks, require mutual funds to implement liquidity management tools, and provide for more timely and detailed reporting of fund information.
  • These changes are designed to help better prepare funds for stressed conditions and prevent funds from over-estimating the liquidity of their investments.
  • These funds would publicly report certain information about their liquidity profiles to improve the availability of information about liquidity risk for investors as well as information about use of liquidity classification service providers.
  • The release also includes questions about alternative liquidity management tools, such as the use of liquidity fees.

EQS-News: E.I. Sturdza Strategic Management Limited: Eric Sturdza Investments aims to create profit-making opportunities for investors in a difficult market environment with a new fund

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Thursday, November 3, 2022

Frankfurt, 01 November 2022 The fund company Eric Sturdza Investments has launched a new equity fund the Strategic Long Short Fund which can enter into long and short positions.

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  • Frankfurt, 01 November 2022 The fund company Eric Sturdza Investments has launched a new equity fund the Strategic Long Short Fund which can enter into long and short positions.
  • The fund is managed by the investment advisor Crawford Fund Management (Crawford) under the management of the experts Christopher L. Crawford, Scott L. Utzinger and Jonathan R. Saunders.
  • Sturdza Strategic Management Limited (Eric Sturdza Investments) was founded in November 1999 and is part of the Geneva-based Eric Sturdza Group, which incorporates private bank, family office, wealth manager and management company.
  • Eric Sturdza Investments provides its portfolio managers with a comprehensive infrastructure that allows them to focus on pure portfolio management.