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Neptune Wellness Solutions Inc.
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Neptune Reports Fiscal 2020 First Quarter Results
LAVAL, QC, Aug. 14, 2019
Poised for significant growth with extraction operations ramping up
Phase II equipment to be commissioned in coming weeks alleviating capacity constraints in Canada
LAVAL, QC, Aug. 14, 2019 /CNW Telbec/ - Neptune Wellness Solutions Inc. ("Neptune" or the "Corporation") (NASDAQ: NEPT) (TSX: NEPT), today announced its financial and operating results for the three-month period ended June 30, 2019. All amounts are in Canadian dollars except specified otherwise.
Corporate Highlights:
On June 7, 2019, Neptune announced a three-year contract with Tilray Inc. for the extraction of cannabinoids from cannabis and hemp biomass. Tilray has committed to provide minimum biomass volumes of 125,000 kg over a three-year period.
On June 12, 2019, Neptune announced a three-year contract with The Green Organic Dutchman (TGOD) for a minimum of 230,000 kg of cannabis and hemp biomass. Neptune will provide extraction services as well as turnkey formulation, manufacturing and packaging solutions to TGOD covering a range of finished products.
On June 17, 2019, Neptune's wholly owned subsidiary, 9354-7537 Québec Inc., received license amendments covering additional rooms where Neptune will perform encapsulation and cold ethanol extraction which will increase Neptune's extraction capacity from 30,000 kg to 200,000 kg of biomass annually.
On July 8, 2019, Michael Cammarata, a successful entrepreneur and innovator in the wellness industry, was appointed as Chief Executive Officer and Member of the Board of Directors of Neptune. Jim Hamilton stepped down from his role as CEO and Director but remains an advisor to the Board.
On July 18, 2019, Neptune announced a successful private placement of US$41 million of which US$12 million has been used to fund the initial cash consideration for the acquisition of the assets of SugarLeaf Labs.
Michael Cammarata, CEO of Neptune stated, "Since joining Neptune, I have been listening to key stakeholders and evaluating the company its strategy and vision. I have been impressed by our significant IP that can applied to the fast-paced cannabis industry. Our extraction expertise can set us apart as we ramp up production of both raw material and finished products. I have recently implemented initiatives to address the near-term operational and capacity constraints that have impacted the growth of our cannabis extraction services, as well as put several building blocks in place to support that growth, including private placement funding and boosting production at the Sherbrooke facility. We expect to see positive impacts from these actions beginning in the second quarter."
"We expect that our new contracts with Tilray and TGOD will offer strong and consistent revenue over the next three years. The health and wellness market provides a significant opportunity in which cannabis and hemp extracts will play an important role in fulfilling customers' needs for improved quality of life. Neptune Wellness is well positioned to benefit from this large global market opportunity, and we will continue to raise the bar when it comes to transparency, quality and industry standards," continued Mr. Cammarata.
"Mario Paradis, VP & CFO, has decided to leave Neptune. We are very grateful for all of Mario's hard work during his time at the company. We have begun a search for a new CFO and Mario will remain CFO of Neptune to help with the transition. We are poised for strong growth and I have no doubt we'll find the right talent to help us achieve that growth."
Total revenues reached $4.4 million for the three-month ended June 30, 2019, down versus last year's revenues of $5.2 million. The majority of the revenues during the quarter were generated in the Nutraceutical segment. The decline in total revenues is explained by the timing of contracts in the Nutraceutical segment. Commercial production of cannabis extracts during the quarter was impacted by constrained operations and extraction capacity.
Neptune reported a net loss of $6.5 million for the three-month ended June 30, 2019, an increase compared to a net loss of $4.1 million last year.
For the three-month ended June 30, 2019, Adjusted EBITDA1 was a loss of $3.6 million compared with a loss of $2.3 million last year. The increased Adjusted EBITDA1 loss is due to investments made to support the growing cannabis operations.
Cash and cash equivalents were $5.4 million as of June 30, 2019. On a pro-forma basis, including the net proceeds from the private placement completed on July 18, and the initial cash consideration paid to acquire SugarLeaf, Neptune's cash and cash equivalent would have been $39 million as at June 30, 2019.
Completion of the SugarLeaf acquisition
On July 24, 2019, Neptune announced the closing of the acquisition of the assets of U.S.-based hemp processor SugarLeaf Labs and Forest Remedies LLC (collectively, "SugarLeaf"). The initial consideration paid at closing consisted of US$18 million or US$12 million in cash and US$6 million in common shares. By achieving certain annual adjusted EBITDA and other performance targets, an additional consideration of up to US$132 million would be paid over each of the next three years as a combination of cash and shares for a maximum aggregate purchase price of up to US$150 million, reflecting a valuation multiple below 5x EBITDA.
The extraction capacity of SugarLeaf is expected to reach an annual run rate of 1,500,000 kg of biomass by the end of 2019 with opportunities to further expand capacity. The company is using a cutting-edge cold ethanol processing technology producing high-quality broad-spectrum extracts and refined full spectrum extracts. SugarLeaf has established strategic and well diversified sourcing, with multiple local and large regional hemp farmer partners, ensuring traceability of finished product directly back to the farms. The acquisition of SugarLeaf, combined with Neptune creates a leading North American extraction platform with significant capacity available to serve customers in both Canada and the United States. The acquisition also offers an opportunity to participate in both B2B and B2C hemp-derived CBD markets in the United States.
Launch of Neptune Ventures
Today, Neptune Wellness also announces the creation of Neptune Ventures, a strategic investment arm and technology incubator which is expected to stimulate innovation and partnerships in the cannabis and wellness industry. Neptune Ventures will support Neptune's growth into the consumer market with investments in Forest Remedies, SugarLeaf's consumer brand which includes hemp-derived CBD balms and oils.
"We are excited to launch Neptune Ventures, which will allow us to invest alongside our customers in innovative new products and technology to offer additional value to our customers and shareholders," said Mr. Cammarata. "Our venture arm will be an opportunity to get us closer to our customers by developing new intellectual property, innovations and creative solutions."
In Canada, near-term capacity constraints are expected to be resolved in September with the commissioning of ethanol extraction equipment, which should increase Neptune's capacity from current levels of 30,000 kg of biomass to 200,000 kg of biomass processed annually. Furthermore, Phase IIIA expansion is progressing as planned with completion expected before the end of calendar 2019 with Health Canada licensing expected thereafter. With the Phase IIIA expansion, Neptune expects to have the industry's lowest extraction costs, translating into potentially healthy margin.
In the United States, the capacity of our SugarLeaf plant is expected to reach 1,500,000 kg by the end of December, providing Neptune with substantial capacity to supply our B2B customers with hemp extracts ingredients and finished products. SugarLeaf is expected to contribute to Neptune's revenue growth starting in the second quarter of fiscal 2020.
Our Nutraceutical division has recently seen an increase in demand for hemp-derived CBD sourcing and formulations which could stimulate sales in the second half of fiscal 2020.
"Once the expansion phases are complete, we expect Neptune's two extraction facilities to have impressive earnings potential. Given that we only recently acquired SugarLeaf and are still in the process of integrating those operations, we estimate that, based on a conservative capacity utilization scenario of 50%, our two facilities could support in excess of $450 million in annual revenues. In addition, our highly automated operations are expected to translate into low production costs benefiting margins, which have the potential to exceed 40% at the EBITDA level. With a focus on bringing the highest quality products to market sustainably, we believe these developments can help us achieve and surpass these scenarios. There can, of course, be no assurance that the integration of SugarLeaf will be successfully implemented, that our utilization capacity will achieve anticipated levels, or that operational costs and margins will benefit from these developments to the extent anticipated at this time." concluded Mr. Cammarata.
1 See "Caution Regarding Non-IFRS Financial Measures" and "Reconciliation of Segment income (loss) from operating activities before corporate expenses to Adjusted Segment EBITDA and net loss to Adjusted EBITDA" which follow.
About Neptune Wellness Solutions Inc.
Neptune Wellness Solutions specializes in the extraction, purification and formulation of health and wellness products. Neptune's wholly owned subsidiary, 9354-7537 Québec Inc., is licensed by Health Canada to process cannabis at its 50,000-square-foot facility located in Sherbrooke, Quebec. With the recent acquisition of U.S.-based SugarLeaf Labs, the Company can now source U.S. grown hemp to be extracted, purified and transformed into finished products at its 24,000 square-foot facility located in North Carolina. Neptune and SugarLeaf combined bring decades of experience in the natural products sector to the legal cannabis and hemp industry. Leveraging its scientific and technological expertise, the Company as a whole focuses on the development of value-added and differentiated products for the Canadian, U.S. and global cannabis and hemp markets. Neptune's activities also include the development and commercialization of turnkey nutrition solutions and patented ingredients such as MaxSimil®, and of a variety of marine and seed oils. Its head office is located in Laval, Quebec.
Caution Regarding Non-IFRS Financial Measures
The Corporation uses two adjusted financial measures, Adjusted Segment Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization (Adjusted Segment EBITDA) and Adjusted Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization (Adjusted EBITDA) to assess its operating performance. These non-IFRS financial measures are directly derived from the Corporation's financial statements and are presented in a consistent manner. The Corporation uses these measures for the purposes of evaluating its historical and prospective financial performance, as well as its performance relative to competitors. These measures also help the Corporation to plan and forecast for future periods as well as to make operational and strategic decisions. The Corporation believes that providing this information to investors, in addition to IFRS measures, allows them to see the Corporation's results through the eyes of management, and to better understand its historical and future financial performance.
Securities regulations require that companies caution readers that earnings and other measures adjusted to a basis other than IFRS do not have standardized meanings and are unlikely to be comparable to similar measures used by other companies. Accordingly, they should not be considered in isolation. The Corporation uses Adjusted Segment EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA to measure its performance from one period to the next without the variation caused by certain adjustments that could potentially distort the analysis of trends in our operating performance, and because the Corporation believes it provides meaningful information on the Corporation's financial condition and operating results. Neptune's method for calculating Adjusted Segment EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA may differ from that used by other corporations.
Neptune obtains its Adjusted Segment EBITDA measurement by adding depreciation and amortization and stock-based compensation to segment income (loss) from operating activities before corporate expenses. Neptune obtains its Adjusted EBITDA measurement by adding to net income (loss), net finance costs and depreciation and amortization and by subtracting income tax recovery. Other items such as stock-based compensation, litigation provisions, acquisition costs and severance and related costs that do not impact core operating performance of the Corporation are also added back as they may vary significantly from one period to another. Adjusting for these items does not imply they are non-recurring.
Statements in this press release that are not statements of historical or current fact constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the U.S. securities laws and Canadian securities laws. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other unknown factors that could cause the actual results of Neptune to be materially different from historical results or from any future results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. In addition to statements which explicitly describe such risks and uncertainties, readers are urged to consider statements labeled with the terms "believes," "belief," "expects," "intends," "projects," "anticipates," "will," "should," or "plans" to be uncertain and forward-looking. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this press release. Forward-looking information in this press release includes, but is not limited to, information or statements about our ability to successfully develop, produce, supply, promote or generate any revenue from the sale of any cannabis-based and hemp-based products in the legal market.
The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are expressly qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement and the "Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Information" section contained in Neptune's latest Annual Information Form (the "AIF"), which also forms part of Neptune's latest annual report on Form 40-F, and which is available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com, on EDGAR at www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml and on the Investor section of Neptune's website at www.neptunecorp.com. All forward-looking statements in this press release are made as of the date of this press release. Neptune does not undertake to update any such forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law. The forward-looking statements contained herein are also subject generally to other risks and uncertainties that are described from time to time in Neptune public securities filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Canadian securities commissions. Additional information about these assumptions and risks and uncertainties is contained in the AIF under "Risk Factors".
Neither NASDAQ nor the Toronto Stock Exchange accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
Neptune will be holding a conference call on August 14, 2019, at 8:30 AM (EST) to discuss its first quarter results ended June 30, 2019.
8:30 AM Eastern Standard Time
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1-647-427-7450 (International)
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A live webcast and presentation of the results can be accessed at:
https://neptunecorp.com/en/investors/events-and-presentations/
A replay of the call will be available for replay shortly after the call's completion, until September 14, 2019. The replay can be accessed online in the Investors section of Neptune's website under Investor Events and Presentations. It is also under this section that you will find the archive of the webcast, along with its accompanying presentation.
Reconciliation of Segment income (loss) from operating activities before corporate expenses to Adjusted
Segment EBITDA1 and net loss to Adjusted EBITDA1
(Expressed in thousands of dollars)
Three-month period ended June 30, 2019
R&D expenses, net of tax credits and grants
SG&A expenses
Segment income (loss) from operating activities before corporate expenses
Unallocated costs:
Corporate general and administrative expenses
Net finance costs
Income tax recovery
Adjusted Segment EBITDA1 reconciliation
Stock-based compensation
Adjusted Segment EBITDA1
Adjusted EBITDA1 reconciliation
Add (deduct):
Litigation provisions
Severance and related costs3
Adjusted EBITDA1
Cash, cash equivalents and short-term investment
Working capital2
1 See "Caution Regarding Non-IFRS Financial Measures".
2 The working capital is presented for information purposes only and represents a measurement of the Corporation's short-term financial health mostly used in financial circles. The working capital is calculated by subtracting current liabilities from current assets. Because there is no standard method endorsed by IFRS, the results may not be comparable to similar measurements presented by other public companies.
3 Costs related to new appointment of Chief Executive Officer
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Neptune Wellness Solutions, Mario Paradis, VP & CFO, 1.450.687.2262 x236, m.paradis@neptunecorp.com; Investor Relations Contact (Canada), Pierre Boucher, MaisonBrison, 1.514.731.0000, pierre@maisonbrison.com; Investor Relations Contact (U.S.), Carolyn Capaccio / Jody Burfening, LHA, 1.212.838.3777, capaccio@lhai.com/ burfening@lhai.comCopyright CNW Group 2019


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Home>Guides / FAQ>What are the functions of the Ministry of Manpower's statutory boards?
The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) is best known for Employment Pass (EP), Entrepreneur Pass (EntrePass) and other work visa applications. Other than this, MOM deals with all issues related to labour and workforce in Singapore.
The three statutory boards overseen by MOM are the Central Provident Fund, Singapore Labour Foundation and Workforce Singapore.
The history of MOM
The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) is one of the Singaporean government's 16 ministries. MOM is among the most important ministries in the country. It oversees all matters related to labor and the workforce which exist in Singapore. Its primary task is to create and follow through with the implementation of policies related to labor in Singapore. For this reason, MOM had previously been known as the Ministry of Labor; it went by this name from 1963 to 1998.
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the Occupational Safety and Health Division, and
the Work Pass Division.
There are also three child agencies which are all among MOM's statutory boards. Each of these agencies performs important functions for everyone who works in Singapore. The three child agencies are:
The Central Provident Fund Board
The Singapore Labor Foundation (SLF)
The Singapore Labour Foundation (SLF)
Central Provident Fund Board
The first of these three statutory boards is the Central Provident Fund Board. This board is tasked with administering the Central Provident Fund (CPF). CPF is a social security savings plan which the Singaporean government has put in place for the well-being of Singapore's workers. CPF is intended to ensure that Singapore's workers remain financially secure after they have retired. The Central Provident Fund Board is also in charge of other schemes which are related to CPF. Some of the most important of these schemes include the Skills Development Levy, MediSave, and Workfare.
Employees and employers both contribute to CPF accounts. These accounts include the Ordinary Account which deals with housing, education, investment, and CPF insurance; the Special Account which deals with investments in financial products connected to one's retirement; and the MediSave account which is related to hospitalization as well as any approved forms of medical insurance. All these matters are overseen by the Central Provident Fund Board.
The current chairman of the Central Provident Fund Board is Ms Yong Ying-I.
Singapore Labor Foundation
The Singapore Labor Foundation (SLF), established in 1977, oversees all of Singapore's many trade unions. It ensures that these trade unions are operating in a proper manner and attempts to increase the general well-being of trade union members. SLF is closely linked to the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC). NTUC often organizes events and activities which may be social, cultural, educational, or recreational in nature. These events are usually funded by SLF. SLF also provides various welfare schemes to serve its lower-income members. SLF's primary sources of funding are returns from investments, co-operatives, and contributions from unions.
The chairman of SLF is currently Lawrence Wong, who replaced Gan Kim Yong in June 2018.
Workforce Singapore
Workforce Singapore (WSG) is the third of MOM's statutory boards. It is closely linked to SkillsFuture Singapore (SSG), which is another statutory board. However, unlike WSG, SSG does not operate under MOM, but under the Ministry of Education. WSG was known as the Singapore Workforce Development Agency between 2003, when it was formed, and 2016. Its primary objectives are to help people all over Singapore achieve their career goals, enable them to be suitably employed, and increase the competitiveness and efficiency of the country's enterprises. By doing so, WSG helps Singaporeans improve the status of their jobs and careers. It also works with stakeholders to support companies and their owners to promote their adaptation and growth. This also helps improve the quality of the country's workforce.
On its website, WSG also mentions that it provides certain grants, assistance, funding, programs, and initiatives. Depending on the criteria involved, these may be used by ordinary individuals, employers, or training providers. Regardless of who is to use them, they all serve as major boons to those who may benefit from them, thus leading to the general improvement of Singapore's workforce.
The chairman of WSG is Lim Ming Yan.
MOM eServices
To facilitate their functions, there are several online services, or eServices, which MOM offers on its website. These include applications for an Employment Pass, the Self-Assessment Tool which helps one check for eligibility for an Employment Pass or S Pass, the option to check and pay the levy for foreign workers, a tool to check records for worker training, and several others. There is also an option to register for a CorpPass on MOM's website. This is important because ever since September 1, 2018, MOM's website only accepts CorpPass as a method by which users may log into the website.
These eServices have done much good for the workforce of Singapore. The eServices are just some of the many ways by which MOM has made attempts to make Singapore's labor force the best that it could possibly be.
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Stories from Saturday, April 8, 2017
SD ROUNDUP: Campbell throws CG for NMCC baseball in win over Senath (High School Sports ~ 04/08/17)
SENATH, Mo. -- Palmer Campbell allowed one run and three hits during his complete game effort Friday during New Madrid County Central's 4-1 win over Senath-Hornersville. Campbell threw seven innings giving up one unearned run while walking five and striking out six on 102 pitches...
Hometown Heroes: Several honored for helping save life of basketball official (Local News ~ 04/08/17)
RISCO, Mo. -- Donnie Jenkins found himself back at the Risco High School gym Friday afternoon, but this time under very different circumstances. Friday was an opportunity to honor some hometown heroes, a group of men, women and one boy who helped save his life...
Bike ride, 5k/10k walk-runs are planned in Sikeston (Local News ~ 04/08/17)
SIKESTON -- For those looking to better their personal times or wanting to enjoy outdoor activity for the first time this spring, the upcoming "Sprockets in Spring" bike ride and "Crawfish Crawl" 5K & 10K in Sikeston may be just the answer. Set to begin at 8 a.m. April 29 at the Clinton Building at the Sports Complex in Sikeston, the second annual "Sprockets" bike ride offers routes of 15, 30, 62 and 100 miles...
Goal met; coach slimed (Local News ~ 04/08/17)
Richland R-1 School basketball coach Dom Johnson gets slimed as students and staff look on during school Friday morning at Richland Elementary School. The sliming occurred in association with the Jump Rope for Heart program through the American Heart Association. Richland Elementary students had a goal of $1,500 to slime their basketball coach; the students combined raised $4,100. By hitting their goal, the students also will receive free PE equipment for their school...
Harry Lee Starr (Obituary ~ 04/08/17)
NEW MADRID, Mo. -- Harry Lee Starr, 93, died April 6, 2017, at his home in New Madrid. Born Jan. 21,1924, in Bragg City, he was the son of the late Samuel H. and Mamie Marie Hopkins Starr. His wife, Edna McMakin Starr, preceded him in death on March 4, 2015...
Ruth Ann Helmes (Obituary ~ 04/08/17)
NEW MADRID, Mo. -- Ruth Ann Helmes, 65, died April 6, 2017, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Born June 6, 1957, in East Prairie, she was the daughter of the late Russell "Pop" and Naomi Casey Parr. On Feb. 26, 1972, in East Prairie, she married Glen Allen Helmes, who survives of the home...
Dorothy Morris (Obituary ~ 04/08/17)
SIKESTON -- Dorothy Morris, 82, died April 7, 2017, at Clearview Nursing in Sikeston. Arrangements are incomplete at Nunnelee Funeral Chapel.
Sixth Grade good characters (04/08/17)
The sixth grade students of the month for February have been named by the Sikeston Fifth and Sixth Grade Center. The word of the month was patience. Pictured are front row, from left: Lane Clark, Lailah Darden and Jasmine Witherspoon; second row: Ethan Pope, Victoria Head, Evan Palmer and Kaylee Williams; and back row: Martashia Johnson, Brice Gordon, Jerrell Roberts and Alijah Moore...
Charleston High School JROTC Awards Ceremony (04/08/17)
On March 30, Charleston High School's JROTC conducted its annual awards banquet. Cadets were presented JROTC awards they earned this school year. Army JROTC awards cover several different areas including academics, attendance, behavior, sports (JROTC and school), physical fitness, community service, service learning and JROTC Teams. ...
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Miniature village being built in Co. Galway garden.
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A CONNEMNARA NATIVE has began to build a miniature village in his garden.
Tom Wallace from An Cheathrú Rua in County Galway first built a small thatched cottage before beginning work on his own castle in 2012.
Wallace told RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta that he had no design for the castle, "just a picture in my head as to how it would look".
That looks brill. We go to Carraroe on holidays regularly. Will make a point of finding this place the next time we are there.


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Bradley Barth
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The malware that has disrupted foreign exchange finance company Travelex's ability to conduct digital transactions since New Year's Eve has been identified as Sodinokibi ransomware. The malicious encryption software, which operates on a Ransomware-as-a-Service model, may have been delivered via unpatched, vulnerable Pulse Secure VPN servers and it is believed that the attackers are now…
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Travelex sidelines online financial services following malware discovery
Foreign exchange financials company Travelex has suspended its UK-based digital services offline since New Year's Eve, following the discovery of an undisclosed malware program. As of Jan. 3 at 11:30 a.m. ET, the London-based company remains unable to conduct monetary transactions via its website or app. Services are still being conducted manually, however. "We have…
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Travelex recovering from ransomware, but more firms at risk of VPN exploit
Beleaguered foreign currency exchange company Travelex confirmed on Friday that the first of its U.K.-based customer-facing systems were back up and running after the New Year's Eve discovery of Sodinokibi ransomware on its network prompted a shutdown of key systems. Meanwhile, a worrisome report revealed that dozens of major U.S. organizations and businesses have also failed…
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Nemty ransomware makers may be latest to adopt data leak strategy
Following in the footsteps of Maze and Sodinokibi, it appears the makers another malicious encryption program plans to adopt the tactic of publishing data that's been exfiltrated from targets. According to a BleepingComputer report, Nemty ransomware developers posted on a news feed in its affiliate panel that it intends to create a website where they…
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Net@50: The Roots and Future of the Internet
DNAnexus, With Google Ventures and TPG's Cash, Seeks Edge in $100B Genome Computing Market
Luke Timmerman
If there's anybody in the world of genomic computing with dreams of world domination, like a Bill Gates or a Mark Zuckerberg, it might be Andreas Sundquist. Others may have similar ambitions, but the co-founder of Mountain View, CA-based DNAnexus is one of the few with the chutzpah to say that he thinks a cottage industry of today, which measures its revenue in tens of millions, will soon count its money in the tens of billions.
"When you look at DNA sequencing and what's happening, the sequencing itself is commoditizing. What's not commoditizing is what you do with the data downstream," Sundquist says. "We are building a new industry here. Within the next three years, I think we'll see upwards of 1 million sequenced genomes. I really think that's going to happen."
And the long-term market opportunity for computing systems that analyze/visualize/interpret all that data, as full genome prices plummet from $4,000 to $1,000 and below? "It's easily a $100 billion market." And yes, I did ask him to clarify over the phone that he meant billion, with a "b."
Sundquist, one of the speakers at Xconomy's "$1,000 Genome" event next Monday at UCSF Mission Bay, has reason to be bold these days. He raised $15 million last week in a second-round financing led by Google Ventures and TPG Biotech, with classic tech investors like First Round Capital, SoftTech VC, K9 Ventures, and Felicis Ventures also on board. The company, which Sundquist co-founded with colleagues from Stanford University in 2009, isn't saying yet how much revenue it generates, how many customers it has, or who they all are. But as part of the financing, DNAnexus and Google said they have agreed to collaborate on a free public site that will be a mirror image of one of the deepest and most valuable datasets in genomics today—which the National Center for Biotechnology Information is phasing out because of federal budget cuts.
Andreas Sundquist
Providing that valuable resource to customers is just one step in the process, Sundquist says. The bigger vision is for DNAnexus to prove, through its relatively low-cost, easy-to-use, Web-based interface, that it can serve as a default plug-and-play genomic analysis system for biologists. These are people who don't typically have much math training, and often have limited access to the bioinformatics experts who have traditionally helped them play around with the data.
It's not uncommon today for researchers to run a sequencing instrument to get the data, and then spend months "playing around with the data," as Sundquist said in an Xconomy feature in July 2010. The goal is to minimize the amount of time a scientist has to spend fiddling around to find out what tools are available, downloading them, and figuring out how to make formats compatible with their instrument,
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In his anthology The Unattended Moment, Michael Paffard speaks of 'ransacking' the shelves of autobiography and memoir – from de Quincey and Wordsworth to Koestler and Nabokov – for the epiphanies, visions, revelations, illuminations, fits and trances that make up his mystical and quasi-mystical collection.
As Paffard points out, what connects many of these sudden, unlooked-for, transcendental experiences is that, however 'worked over' they might have been in the imagination, the memory and the process of writing, they are very often pivotal in an autobiographer's life. They are moments of conversion: one of the things that makes the unattended moment important and a subject of our special wonder, is that it does often seem to the people who have it that it transforms them. A. 0. J. Cockshut, reversing Paffard's procedure and coming to conversion from the starting point of an analysis of autobiography, has elaborated the unattended moment thus: But when [conversion] does come it appears as the practical enactment of something settled long before. It encapsulates a long process of thought, of weighing arguments, of rejecting old ideas and adopting new ones, or of developing old ideas in a new direction. Its momentary quality does not make it sudden.
The thoughts that existed on the other side of the gulf of oblivion return, now vivid and opertive, speculative no longer. A new life is waiting to be lived.' It is the possibility of a relationship between Victorian autobiography and conversion – the moment which is momentous but not momentary – which is the starting point of this thesis. I shall examine the case in favour of the conventional reading of English autobiography as conversion narrative, before moving on, in the main body of the thesis, to suggest ways in which this reading might fail to take account of the complexity and variety of nineteenth-century experiments in the genre. Literary historians have made many connections between the development of autobiography and the evolution of the spiritual 'conversion' narrative. The problems inherent in the construction of such a history I shall discuss in Section Two, but for the moment I shall simply sketch its outline. Conveniently, Augustine provides, in his Confessions, (c. 400,) the first recognized example of both genres, and a gesture is often made to this work as representing the beginning of autobiographical history. But the real 'seed-time' of both genres is deferred in most accounts another twelve hundred years, to the Puritan revolution of the seventeenth century. The conglomeration of factors involved in the generation of an 'autobiographical consciousness' – from the development of a concept of individuality and the Puritan horror of wasted time, to the technological advances in mirror-making and printing—has been discussed elsewhere,
but most historians agree in seeing the particular character of Protestant theology as crucial. I follow George Landow in citing Karl Mannheim's view that the Protestant movement set up in place of revealed salvation, guaranteed by the objective institution of the Church, the notion of the subjective certainty of salvation … It was not a long step from the doctrine of the subjective certainty to a psychological standpoint in which gradually the observation of the psychic process, which developed into a veritable curiosity, became more important than the harkening to the criteria of salvatlon which men had formerly tried to detect in their own souls. Roger Sharrock likewise regards autobiography as receiving a special impetus from the Calvinist emphasis on election. From informal diaries and confessions, in which the writer, by enumerating doubts, sins and blessings, would gauge the state of his or her soul, there evolved a recognized literary form 'cultivated especially by the Puritans, and developed on more specialized lines after 1640 by the leaders of the radical sects.'
Sharrock suggests a link, as early as the mid- seventeenth century, between this nascent genre and the idea of social and moral authority: There was a new development in spiritual autobiography in the period of religious ferment between 1640 and 1660. Baptists, Quakers, and Seekers injected fresh vitality into the form and applied it to new purposes. Bunyan and his like, socially inferior to the Presbyterian and Independent clergy and without formal education for the ministry, attempted to justify themselves and to establish their special galling by detailed accounts of the work of grace upon their souls./ Such documents gradually became more detailed and more public, feeding off, and contributing to the 'psychological' novel and the 'method' of Methodism in the eighteenth century, and emerging, in about 1800, as an identifiable (that is to say, named) genre distinguishable from biography on the one hand, and fiction on the other. The proliferation of autobiographical writing from this point onwards was such that by 1826 J. G. Lockhart could complain that 'England expects every driveller to do his Memorabilia'.
It has been remarked many times that the 'classic' autobiographers of the Victorian period tend to describe the major event or events in their Lives in terms of conversion. It has also been observed that virtually none of these celebrated conversions represents a simple Pauline acceptance of Christianity. (In his extensive survey of English autobiography, Wayne Shumaker played down the importance of religious confession altogether because, as he saw it, 'of the "great" English autobiographies of the nineteenth century and later, only one, Newman's focuses on religion
Most of them, indeed, involve reactions against some aspect of Victorian Protestantism: its defunct theology, its sectarianism, its sabbatarianism, its threadbare rituals, Its perpetuation of intricate class distinctions, its repressiveness or its double standards in the areas of sexual behaviour or commerce. But to say that the great Victorian autobiographers rejected some aspect of Victorian Protestantism is to say little more than that they objected to some aspect of Victorian society. It does not explain why even progressive unbelief resorted to the paradigms of Christian faith in order to explain itself, or why these paradigms were somehow seen to constitute the raison d'Ztre of autobiography. It has become, of course, a clich6 to point out that the more orthodox theology came under fire, the more tenaciously the 'freethinking' intellectuals of the nineteenth century adhered to the very concepts of duty, morality, and zeal which we associate with Victorian Evangelicism. William Burrell Mallock remarked upon the persistence of moral earnestness among even the militant unbelievers of his time: With an astonishing vigour the moral impetus still survives the cessation of the forces that originated and sustained it; and in many cases there is no diminution of it traceable, so far as action goes. This, however, is only true, for the most part, of men advaued in years, in whom habits of virtue have grown strong…
The number and ingenuity of the attempts during the period to justify a qualified acceptance of the ethical or aesthetic side of Christianity – to retain a belief in the 'real meaning of the life of Christ' – without recourse to notions of immortality, and perhaps even without God – are well known. Volumes of tortuous theological debate often represented a deep-seated need, not to abandon, but to reclaim the values and assurances of the New Testament. Even Charles Darwin, who effected the most profound undermining of Christian orthodoxy, was compelled to acknowledge, in retrospect, his attraction to unquestioning, preferably unquestionable, faith: Beautiful as is the morality of the New Testament, it can hardly be denied that its perfection depends in part on the Interpretation which we now put on metaphors and allegories. But I was very unwilling to give up my belief. – I feel sure of this for I can well remember often and often inventing day-dreams of old letters between distinguished Romans and manuscripts being discovered at Pompeii or elsewhere which confirmed in the most striking manner all that was written in the Gospels.


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Every American Should Be Guaranteed a Job. The Green New Deal Could Make That Happen.
A jobs guarantee isn't a new concept—52% of Americans already support it.
In These Times Editors August 12, 2019
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1. A government policy to provide a job for anyone who wants one
We've been talking about this for a while, right?
Yes! President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed a "second Bill of Rights" in his 1944 State of the Union, a list of economic and social rights including "the right to a useful and remunerative job."
"Full employment" has been the official goal of the U.S. government since 1978, with the Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment Act following advocacy from labor groups as well as Coretta Scott King. Early versions of the bill included an actual jobs guarantee, which was cut out of the final legislation. A jobs guarantee was also part of Jesse Jackson's 1988 presidential platform.
Are any of this year's presidential candidates supporting a jobs guarantee?
Several! Cory Booker (N.J.) introduced a Senate bill—co-sponsored by Elizabeth Warren (Mass.), Kamala Harris (Calif.) and Kirsten Gillibrand (N.Y.) — to create a three-year pilot program in up to 15 "high-unemployment communities" to provide jobs with at least a $15 wage.
Bernie Sanders (Vt.) arguably goes further, invoking FDR's call for a second Bill of Rights and a full jobs guarantee.
If the point is to keep people out of poverty, why not just give people money or provide better social services?
Why not all of the above? A universal basic income is preferred by some, but there's no need to choose just one policy to answer economic inequality. Jobs advocates argue there is plenty of fulfilling work to be done and that a jobs guarantee would strengthen the bargaining position of workers in the private sector. The Sanders campaign website, for example, suggests childcare, elder care and green infrastructure as areas to emphasize.
Speaking of which, isn't a jobs guarantee part of the Green New Deal?
That's right — a Green New Deal could fund millions of jobs to dramatically scale up clean energy production, build and run public transportation, and prepare communities to adapt to the realities of a warming planet. While a jobs guarantee is already popular—52% of Americans support it, according to a poll by Civis Analytics — polling commissioned by the Sunrise Movement indicates that a jobs guarantee focused on green jobs and climate protection is even more popular.
Saving the planet and ending poverty at the same time? Certainly sounds worth a try!
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Большой (вывернутый) обратноплосконосый икосододекаэдр — это невыпуклый однородный многогранник, имеющий индекс U74. Его символ Шлефли — s{3/2,5/3}.

Декартовы координаты
Декартовы координаты вершин большого обратноплосконосого икосододекаэдра все являются чётными перестановками
 (±2α, ±2, ±2β),
 (±(α−βτ−1/τ), ±(α/τ+β−τ), ±(−ατ−β/τ−1)),
 (±(ατ−β/τ+1), ±(−α−βτ+1/τ), ±(−α/τ+β+τ)),
 (±(ατ−β/τ−1), ±(α+βτ+1/τ), ±(−α/τ+β−τ)) and
 (±(α−βτ+1/τ), ±(−α/τ−β−τ), ±(−ατ−β/τ+1)),
с чётным числом знаков плюс, где
 α = ξ−1/ξ
и
 β = −ξ/τ+1/τ2−1/(ξτ),
где τ = (1+)/2 — золотое сечение, а
ξ — наименьший положительный вещественный нуль функции  ξ3−2ξ=−1/τ, а именно

что примерно равно 0,3264046.
Если взять нечётные перестановки координат выше с нечётным числом знаков плюс, получим другую, энантиоморфную, форму. Если взять нечётные перестановки с чётным числом знаков плюс или наоборот, получим те же тела, повёрнутые на 90 градусов.

Радиус описанной сферы для тела с единичным ребром равен
,
где  — подходящий нуль функции . Четыре положительных вещественных корня уравнения шестой степени в

являются радиусами описанных сфер плосконосого додекаэдра (U29),  (U57),  (U69) и большого обратноплосконосого икосододекаэдра (U74).

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