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Syngenta and FMC to Commercialize Breakthrough Technology That Transforms Grass Weed Control in Rice in Asia

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Tuesday, May 16, 2023

Syngenta Crop Protection and FMC Corporation announced today an agreement to bring to market a breakthrough technology to control grass weeds in rice in Asia.

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  • Syngenta Crop Protection and FMC Corporation announced today an agreement to bring to market a breakthrough technology to control grass weeds in rice in Asia.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230516005103/en/
    Syngenta and FMC to bring to market breakthrough technology to control rice weeds in Asia.
  • Under the agreement, Syngenta and FMC will both bring Tetflupyrolimet based products to key rice markets in Asia.
  • In addition, Syngenta will commercialize products containing mixtures of Tetflupyrolimet for rice in India, Vietnam, Indonesia, as well as in Japan and South Korea.

STRATA Skin Sciences Reports First Quarter 2023 Revenue

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Monday, May 15, 2023

HORSHAM, Pa., May 15, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- STRATA Skin Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: SSKN), a medical technology company dedicated to developing, commercializing, and marketing innovative products for the treatment of dermatologic conditions, today announced financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2023.

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  • First Quarter 2023 and Recent Business Highlights:
    Revenue in the first quarter of 2023 was $7.6, compared to $7.0 million for the first quarter of 2022
    58 TheraClearX devices in the U.S. as of March 31, 2023
    Signed exclusive distribution agreement with Spectra Medical Pvt Ltd. for India
    “The first quarter of 2023 has been filled with commercial successes for STRATA, especially with the ramp-up of TheraClearX,” stated Bob Moccia, Chief Executive Officer of STRATA Skin Sciences.
  • Equipment revenues were $2.4 million for the first quarter of 2023, as compared to $2.0 million for the first quarter of 2022.
  • Other expense for the first quarter of 2023 was $0.3 million, as compared to $0.2 million for the first quarter of 2022.
  • The link to the webcast is available here: STRATA Skin Sciences Earnings Webcast and will be archived for future reference.

Theory of everything: how progress in physics depends on asking the right questions

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Monday, May 15, 2023

Is it helpful in guiding scientists towards the discoveries that will advance our understanding to the next level?

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  • Is it helpful in guiding scientists towards the discoveries that will advance our understanding to the next level?
  • After all, good science relies on asking good questions.
  • Arguably, the question “What is the theory of everything?” reminds us that good science doesn’t have to start with the best questions.
  • We take turns, and the more we play, the quicker we seem to figure out which card has been chosen.
  • The same is true of asking “What is the theory of everything?”: the goodness of a scientific question is not immutable.

Why a ‘theory of everything’?

    • The model, which is written in a mathematical language called quantum field theory, describes how elementary particles move around and interact with one another.
    • It explains why fundamental particles known as the W and Z bosons, which transmit the weak force, acquire a mass.
    • The Higgs mechanism also explains why, at higher energies, these two forces start to behave as a single “electroweak” force.
    • Now, if electromagnetism and the weak force combine in this way, why not all the forces in the Standard Model?
    • The “theory” refers to the existence of some common mathematical framework that describes all of the “everything”.

Better questions

    • They were motivated by better questions about what a theory of all the fundamental forces needs to explain and what it might look like, questions like: Why is there a huge discrepancy between the energy scales of the Standard Model and quantum gravity?
    • Instead, these new questions have been reached by building on what has been learnt from developing and studying possible “Theories of Everything”, like string theory.
    • And these new questions are good questions.
    • The exciting thing is that they still may not be the best questions, and having them to guide us doesn’t necessarily mean that we know where we will end up.

New Star Princess and Sun Princess Headline 2025 Europe Cruises & Cruisetours Season as Princess Cruises Celebrates 40th Anniversary Sailing in the Mediterranean

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Monday, May 15, 2023

Sun Princess, plus Majestic Princess, Sky Princess, Regal Princess and Emerald Princess.

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  • Sun Princess, plus Majestic Princess, Sky Princess, Regal Princess and Emerald Princess.
  • Voyages aboard ships sailing out of Southampton UK (London) in 2025 - Sky Princess, Regal Princess and Emerald Princess - go on sale May 25, while sailings on Mediterranean-based ships - Star Princess (NEW), Sun Princess (NEW) and Majestic Princess go on sale June 1.
  • Princess first set sail in the Mediterranean in 1985, and to celebrate the 40th anniversary the new Star Princess joins sister-ship Sun Princess in the Mediterranean for her debut season of cruising.
  • British Isles: Emerald Princess and Regal Princess offer heritage and hillside castles on 10- to 14-day cruises from London (Southampton).

ZKW and REHAU Automotive enter into cooperation to develop intelligent vehicle fronts

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Monday, May 15, 2023

WIESELBURG, Austria, May 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Automotive lighting system specialist ZKW and REHAU Automotive, plastics specialist and automotive supplier, have decided to jointly drive forward the integration of modern lighting systems in vehicle fronts. In the future, "intelligent vehicle fronts" and possible series products are to be developed. Therefore, REHAU Automotive and ZKW will work together on concepts and pre-development projects in order to be able to offer customers future-oriented solutions for the connection of light, sensor technology and electronics in the vehicle front in the sense of a "seamless intelligent vehicle front".

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  • WIESELBURG, Austria, May 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Automotive lighting system specialist ZKW and REHAU Automotive, plastics specialist and automotive supplier, have decided to jointly drive forward the integration of modern lighting systems in vehicle fronts.
  • The goal of the cooperation is clear: REHAU Automotive and ZKW want to offer significant added value for customers from the automotive industry through bundled competences.
  • Both partners are working on a "seamless intelligent vehicle front" concept that can be integrated into the vehicle as a complete system.
  • Together with our strong partner ZKW, we develop exterior components that give vehicles a new face in combination with light," emphasises Dr Markus Distelhoff, CEO REHAU Automotive.

 InnoPhase IoT Enables End-to-end Sensor to Cloud IoT Solutions with Multi-Year Battery Life

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Monday, May 15, 2023

InnoPhase IoT, Inc., a fabless semiconductor company specializing in ultra-low power Wi-Fi IoT solutions, announced multiple end-to-end (E2E) sensor to cloud customer solutions based on its Talaria TWO Wi-Fi/BLE SoC and modules .

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  • InnoPhase IoT, Inc., a fabless semiconductor company specializing in ultra-low power Wi-Fi IoT solutions, announced multiple end-to-end (E2E) sensor to cloud customer solutions based on its Talaria TWO Wi-Fi/BLE SoC and modules .
  • The solutions accelerate the transition to battery powered cloud connected IoT market applications.
  • By delivering an approximately 10+ year battery-operated sensor solution featuring a lower power consumption Wi-Fi module and optimized cloud connectivity reference software, InnoPhase IoT is fueling rapid growth of IoT designs.
  • InnoPhase IoT’s Talaria TWO Wi-Fi module helps us meet the needs for long battery life, cloud connected sensors working in conjunction with our industrial access points and gateways.”
    The InnoPhase IoT sensor-to-cloud solution is currently available.

Express Employment Professionals Marks 40 Years of Superior Staffing Service

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Monday, May 15, 2023

OKLAHOMA CITY, May 15, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Boasting more than 860 locations internationally and record recent sales of $4.46 billion, Express Employment Professionals is proud to celebrate its 40th anniversary as the premier staffing agency of choice for businesses, job seekers and entrepreneurs.

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  • Forged from humble beginnings, Express Employment Professionals is proud to celebrate four decades of staffing success in five countries across the globe.
  • A chance employment opportunity at the now-defunct Acme Personnel Services connected future Express founders Bill Stoller and Bob Funk who served as district manager and vice president, respectively.
  • In 2008, the staffing company changed its name to Express Employment Professionals to better reflect its wide array of employment opportunities.
  • Today, Express' network offers Light Industrial, Skilled Trades, Office Services and Professional staffing solutions, as well as franchise ownership opportunities.

Firm Partner Jamie L. Ford, Esq. Wins Appeal in Whistleblower Case Against William Penn School District

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Monday, May 15, 2023

PHILADELPHIA, May 15, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- As an emotional support supervisor, Mr. Carpenter developed and oversaw emotional support programs for special education students within the School District and served as a liaison with Child Guidance Resource Center. He reported multiple wrongdoings by the School District, including failure to maintain a safe "time out" de-escalation room for students, failure to properly implement Individualized Education Plans (IEPs), mental health care staffing failures, submission of fraudulent IEPs to the State, and submission of fraudulent billing to Medicaid.

Key Points: 
  • On May 4, 2023, the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court reversed the lower court's order dismissing Randolph Carpenter's claims of whistleblower retaliation against William Penn School District.
  • Jamie L. Ford, a Partner at Sidney L. Gold & Associates P.C., represents Mr. Carpenter, a School District employee, in what could be a landmark employment retaliation case.
  • The School District then declined to promote Mr. Carpenter to fourteen separate positions for which he was qualified.
  • The lower court dismissed Mr. Carpenter's complaint after improperly viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the School District.

Why don't rocks burn?

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Monday, May 15, 2023

It depends on what the rocks are made of – and that’s related to how they were formed.

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  • It depends on what the rocks are made of – and that’s related to how they were formed.
  • How rocks form
    Igneous rocks are formed when magma underground or lava from a volcano cools and crystallizes into solid material.
  • The last group of rocks is called metamorphic, because these rocks form when a lot of heat and pressure change existing rocks into new types without melting or burning them.
  • The rock that humans burn: Coal
    Metamorphic rocks that are formed from igneous rocks won’t contain the combustible elements – the ones that burn – but metamorphic rocks made from sedimentary rocks might.

STRATA Skin Sciences Enters India Market with Exclusive Distribution Agreement with Spectra Medical

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Monday, May 15, 2023

HORSHAM, Pa., May 15, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- STRATA Skin Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: SSKN), a medical technology company dedicated to developing, commercializing and marketing innovative products for the treatment of dermatologic conditions, today announced it has entered into an exclusive, three-year agreement with Spectra Medical India Pvt Ltd., a distribution company representing medical laser and aesthetic equipment manufacturers, for the distribution of TheraClear®X, VTRAC®, and XTRAC® in India.

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  • India has the highest prevalence of vitiligo in the world, at about 8.8%1
    HORSHAM, Pa., May 15, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- STRATA Skin Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: SSKN), a medical technology company dedicated to developing, commercializing and marketing innovative products for the treatment of dermatologic conditions, today announced it has entered into an exclusive, three-year agreement with Spectra Medical India Pvt Ltd., a distribution company representing medical laser and aesthetic equipment manufacturers, for the distribution of TheraClear®X, VTRAC®, and XTRAC® in India.
  • “We are excited to expand into the acne, psoriasis, and vitiligo market in India with Spectra Medical,” stated Bob Moccia, Chief Executive Officer of STRATA Skin Sciences.
  • “Led by Ramamoorthy Sundaram, Spectra Medical has over 20 years of experience in the medical distribution industry, and is India’s leading distributor of dermatology medical devices.
  • India presents STRATA with a unique opportunity as there are no excimer laser solutions for phototherapy treatments currently available today.