NEW YORK, NY and PALO ALTO, CA--(Marketwire - Sep 25, 2012) - 10gen (the MongoDB company) today announced that it will offer free online MongoDB training courses starting in October. Under the new 10gen Education program, 10gen's instructors will teach a series of courses designed to reach hundreds of thousands of software developers interested in learning how to use the agile, scalable MongoDB platform as the foundation for building new applications. This program will help advance the skills of developers and administrators working with MongoDB, the world's most popular NoSQL database.

Richard Kreuter, lead consulting engineer, and Andrew Erlichson, vice president of education, will teach M101, MongoDB for Developers. 10gen CEO, Co-Founder and lead MongoDB developer Dwight Merriman will teach M102, MongoDB for DBAs. Students may now register at education.10gen.com, with classes to begin in October.

10gen has entered into a technology collaboration with edX, the not-for-profit online learning collaborative founded by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Under the collaboration, 10gen and edX will collaborate on software and technology for online learning.

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Massive open online courses are a new breed of online learning that has emerged over the past year and feature highly interactive pedagogical techniques that have transformed the experience of traditional web-based training. A select group of the nation's top universities are pioneering MOOCs, with early courses on technical topics drawing mass participants worldwide that could never be reached through a physical classroom.

"Teaching MongoDB online through the innovative MOOC format allows us to make our best instructors available to users worldwide," said Andrew Erlichson, vice president, education at 10gen. "Offering online classes is a natural fit with our open source approach and a logical extension to the dozens of MongoDB events we hold around the world each year."

10gen Education will provide in-demand technical training to a global audience at no cost -- at a time when unemployment rates are high in many parts of the world while demand for skilled MongoDB developers continues to accelerate. The new program democratizes MongoDB training by making it possible to teach hundreds of thousands of people online successfully.

The 10gen MOOCs will be grounded in highly interactive content combined with hands-on practical assignments to provide a positive and rich learning experience. Each course will be delivered in consumable video chunks with interactive quizzes and other built-in activities to ensure the participant remains engaged and on track with his or her progress.

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"Education at our universities and in the workplace is undergoing an exciting transformation as instructors are tapping into the power of the internet and new collaborative techniques that revolutionize distance learning," said Anant Agarwal, president and first professor at edX. "We are pleased to team with MongoDB on its new 10gen Education program worldwide. edX utilizes MongoDB and our new collaboration is the natural evolution of our relationship with 10gen."

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According to CBS News, the surviving members of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) reunited this past weekend in New York. As professional athletes enlisted in the armed forces during World War II, chewing gum magnate Philip K. Wrigley formed the AAGPBL to keep baseball alive in America.

Inspired by a documentary produced by Kelly Candaele and Kim Wilson, Penny Marshall directed "A League of Their Own," a bittersweet 1992 sports comedy featuring a strong female cast.

In honor of the film's 20th anniversary, here are 10 lines/quotations that made the story such a major league hit:

Ernie Capadino: "Ever hear of Walter Harvey? Makes Harvey bars, you know the candy?"

Dottie Hinson: "Yeah, we feed them to the cows when they are constipated."

This exchange marked the first meeting between baseball scout Ernie Capadino (Jon Lovitz), Dottie Hinson (Geena Davis), and her kid sister Kit (Lori Petty). Dottie and Kit were milking cows in the barn, which made the sarcastic scout extremely agitated.

Walter Harvey and his candy bars are a tip of the baseball cap to Philip Wrigley and his chewing gum.

Capadino: "You know, if I had your job, I'd kill myself. Sit here and I'll see if I can dig up a pistol."

While waiting for Dottie and Kit on the train, Ernie endures a bragging salesman. Not one to tolerate a fool for long, the scout tosses a high, fast barb and makes a quick exit.

Mae Mordabito: "Boy, that was some good peeing!"

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Tuesday, Sep. 25, 2012

Finding the solution to a difficult problem lies in asking the right questions. On the afternoon of Sept. 1, in a stylish office building in Aoyama, a gathering of Japanese life coaches practiced this Socratic skill in groups of four. It was a role-playing exercise, in which one person played the role of a client with a problem, and the other three took turns asking questions.

As I walked around the room, I caught snippets of the kind of questions that you often hear in job interviews.

"What do you want to do in four year's time?" one man asked. The "mentee" of the group, a bearded man in his late 40s, silently considered the question.

The activity was part of a conference on the future of the coaching industry, held at the Japan Chapter of the International Coach Federation, one of the largest global accreditation bodies for professional life coaches. It was also an excuse to the celebrate the fifth anniversary of the ICF Japan Chapter, led by Susumu Shinbori, an executive coach with more than 25 years' experience.

Interest in life coaching, which is often described as a training program to help individuals or corporations achieve specific goals, has risen sharply around the world in the last five years. According to figures released by the ICF, there are 47,500 practitioners worldwide with 3,300 based in Asia and the industry has generated $2 billion in total revenue.

In Japan, growth has been more modest than in Western countries, such as the United States, but Janet Harvey, the current president of the International Coach Federation, says that although the numbers are smaller, the rate at which ICF credential holders are increasing here is similar to that of other countries. There are now 120 practitioners with certifications from the ICF in Japan, up from three in 2002.

"Applications for credentials have been doubling every year," added International Coach Federation CEO Magdalena Mook.

While personal coaching has yet to take off in Japan in the same way that it has in the U.S. or Europe, the practice of executive, or business, coaching is fairly well established. More than half of the coaches in attendance at the ICF seminar were business coaches, and most of them have been practicing for nearly a decade.

Katsuhiro Suzuki, a senior manager in the airport quality-control division at ANA, has been an internal coach for more than seven years. He got into coaching about 10 years ago, after undergoing management training in the human resources department.

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Long time coach Don Rodrigue has taken on new challenges at Thibodaux Regional Medical Center.

Chackbay native Don Rodrigue dedicated 39 years of his life to coaching local football players.

Although he recently retired as a coach, Rodrigue is still giving back to local high schools but in a different capacity.

Rodrigue was hired as a marketing coordinator for the Sports Medicine Center at Thibodaux Regional Medical Center in July.

Rodrigue, who is simply known as Coach Rod in the local football community, helps coordinate fundraising events and community projects for the hospitals sports medicine department, which provides free athletic training care services at local high school sporting events.

Rodrigue said his job is to improve the hospitals relationship with area schools.

I dont do training work, Rodrigue said. The trainers take care of the injuries. My job is to go out and make sure things are smooth. I coordinate with the head coaches and booster clubs and make sure they have everything they need.

Rodrigue spent 39 years as an assistant football coach on both the high school and collegiate levels, serving at local schools such as Nicholls State, St. James, H.L. Bourgeois and Vandebilt Catholic. He retired from coaching at the end of the 2011-12 school year.

The 64-year-old Rodrigue said he had opportunities to continue his coaching career, but when Thibodaux Regional CEO Greg Stock asked him to join the hospital, it was something he couldnt refuse.

So far, its been good, Rodrigue said. Im still involved with high school coaches and school kids. Im just not in a daily coaching job. I want to thank Mr. Stock for giving me the opportunity to do something new and enjoy a new role in my life.

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Former All Black captain and hard man Wayne Buck Shelford is urging men to front up over their health.

Shelford is the face of a national awareness campaign to encourage men to visit their family doctor or nurse to get a heart health check. He will be at VTNZs depot in Parnell (65-71 the Strand) at lunchtime today asking customers getting a warrant of fitness for their car Hows Your engine - get your heart checked.VTNZ and Shelford are lending their support to the campaign developed by the Health Promotion Agency (HPA) in association with the Heart Foundation and Pharmac.

"Its a simple message; you regularly check your car; its also essential to get your heart checked," says Wayne.

Wayne says he has been on a health journey himself with a well publicised battle with cancer and weight issues. Having beaten both, he now wants to encourage other men to look after themselves.

"The problem is we kiwi men are too staunch to go to the doctor for a general check up. Men generally, and Maori and Pacific men in particular, dont look after themselves as well as women. "We've got all the excuses. I dont have time; Im not sick. Many men might not have a check-up for years, if ever. We need to get rid of that attitude."

Wayne says Maori and Pacific men are at high risk. For example, for Maori the statistics show that heart disease mortality is about two times higher for Maori than non-Maori. Of Maori who die from heart disease, nearly 50% are aged 45-65, compared to 18% in non-Maori.

"So more of us are dying and we are dying younger."

"We need to make the time to look after ourselves because at the end of the day, its not just about us. Its being there for our families. Were the senior warrior in our families and they need us to be around."

Todays launch is ahead of World Heart day on Saturday September 29 when radio advertisements encouraging listeners to get a heart health check will begin. The radio spots utilise Wayne in a clever play on the famous line of Bring back Buck.

"After the launch the campaign emphasis will move to regional initiatives drawing on existing local champions as spokespeople and regional and community events," said HPA General Manager Stakeholder Relations Tane Cassidy.

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LONDON -- The last five years have been tough for those in retirement. Portfolio valuations have been hammered and annuity rates have plunged. There's no sign of things improving anytime soon, either, as the eurozone and the U.K. economy look set to muddle through at best for some years to come.

A great way of protecting yourself from the downturn, however, is by building your retirement fund with shares of large, well-run companies that should grow their earnings steadily over the coming decades. Over time, such investments ought to result in rising dividends and inflation-beating capital growth.

In this series, I'm tracking down the U.K. large caps that have the potential to beat the FTSE 100 over the long term and support a lower-risk income-generating retirement fund (you can see the companies I've covered so far on this page).

Today, I'm going to take a look at British Sky Broadcasting Group (LSE: BSY.L) , the satellite broadcaster with more than 10 million subscribers in the U.K.

Getting the picture

To start with, let's take a look at how BSkyB has performed against the FTSE 100 over the last 10 years:

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LONDON, Sept 24 (Reuters) - England manager Roy Hodgson has reluctantly accepted John Terry's retirement from internationals but said he was disappointed in the defender's decision.

Terry, who is due before a Football Association tribunal on Monday facing a charge of racially abusing Queens Park Rangers defender Anton Ferdinand, announced on Sunday he was quitting international soccer.

The former England captain, capped 78 times in an international career stretching back to 2003, said the impending case against him had made his position in the national team untenable as he was cleared in the criminal trial over the affair.

"I'd like to thank John Terry for his commitment to the England team since I became manager," Hodgson said in an FA statement.

"I am of course disappointed to lose a player of John's international experience and exceptional ability.

"I have enjoyed a good relationship with John during my time as England manager and I reluctantly accept his decision.

"I can also confirm that he had the courtesy to call me prior to announcing his retirement from the England team. I'd like to wish John well for the future with Chelsea."

If found guilty by the FA of abusing Ferdinand, Terry could face a lengthy ban similar to the eight-game suspension served by Liverpool's Luis Suarez last season for racially abusing Manchester United's Patrice Evra. (Writing by Toby Davis; editing by Mark Meadows)

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MONTREAL, QUEBEC--(Marketwire - Sept. 24, 2012) - Richmont Mines Inc. (RIC.TO)(NYSE Amex:RIC)(NYSE MKT:RIC), ("Richmont" or the "Corporation") is pleased to announce the early retirement, without penalty, of the CAN$10 million debenture held by Mr. Bob Buchan and two members of his immediate family.The retirement is effective immediately.

Mr. Paul Carmel, President and CEO of Richmont Mines commented: "I am very pleased to say that with the immediate retirement of this debenture, Richmont will have practically no long-term debt. This fact, along with the Corporation's CAN$36 million of cash and tight capital structure of only 33.6 million shares outstanding, provide Richmont with a very solid foundation upon which to grow to its targeted goal of becoming an intermediate gold producer."

As a result of the retirement of the debenture, Mr. Buchan will be leaving Richmont's Board of Directors, effective immediately. In addition, Mr. Sidney Horn will be stepping down as a member of the Corporation's Board, but will remain in his role as Corporate Secretary. These changes reflect Richmont's planto streamline and reduce the size of its Board of Directors.

Mr. Carmel continued: "I would like to thank Mr. Buchan and Mr. Horn for their contributions to Richmont. The Corporation's management team is focused on delivering on our growth strategy and continuing to lay the foundation for increased shareholder value in the future while maintaining our strong financial position and conservative share count."

About Richmont Mines Inc.

Richmont Mines has produced over 1,200,000ounces of gold from its operations in Quebec, Ontario and Newfoundland since beginning production in1991. The Corporation currently produces gold from its Island Gold and Beaufor mines, and has recently brought the Francoeur Mine into commercial production. With extensive experience in gold exploration, development and mining, the Corporation is well positioned to cost-effectively build its Canadian reserve base through a combination of organic growth, strategic acquisitions and partnerships. Richmont routinely posts news and other important information on its website (www.richmont-mines.com).

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The factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated in such forward-looking statements include changes in the prevailing price of gold, the Canadian-United States exchange rate, grade of ore mined and unforeseen difficulties in mining operations that could affect revenue and production costs. Other factors such as uncertainties regarding government regulations could also affect the results. Other risks may be set out in Richmont Mines' Annual Information Form, Annual Reports and periodic reports.

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HOUSTON, Sept. 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Kraton Performance Polymers, Inc. (NYSE: "KRA"), a leading global producer of styrenic block copolymers or "SBCs," announces plans to present the results of its medical stopper study at the 2012 International Rubber Expo, 182nd Technical Meeting & Educational Symposium in Cincinnati, Ohio.

The paper, "Improved Medical Stopper Solutions with High Performance, Anionic Isoprene Rubber," compares the chemistry and performance of four rubber families that are currently used in medical stoppers: anionic polyisoprene (IR); Ziegler-Natta IR; chlorobutyl rubber; and bromobutyl rubber. The study was performed by a third party using regular medical stopper test protocols. It showed that medical stoppers made with Cariflex polyisoprene products, an anionic IR made by Kraton Performance Polymers, could easily pass the extraction test under Japanese Pharmacopeia (JP) 7-03 (XV revision 2006), which is the most stringent protocol, while Ziegler-Natta IR failed or only marginally passed.

"The results of the study will demonstrate that anionic isoprene rubber delivers a unique combination of advantages including the absence of natural rubber proteins present in NR, an odor-free formulation with very low residual metals and no residual catalysts, low needle insertion force, and minimal risk of rubber fragmentation (coring) and medication contamination due to needle insertion," said Dr. Philippe Henderson of Kraton Polymers. The anionic polymerization process is unique to Kraton Polymers for the manufacture of high molecular weight polyisoprene.

Dr. Henderson's presentation is scheduled at 4:15 p.m., on Tuesday, October 9, 2012 at the International Rubber Expo, 182nd Technical Meeting & Educational Symposium, Cincinnati, OH, in room 203-204 at the Duke Energy Center. To register for the event, please visit the Expo website. Personal interviews to discuss the study or Cariflex polyisoprene products may be scheduled by contacting Marcie Coronado at 281-504-4975, or Marcie.coronado@kraton.com.

Cariflex polyisoprene products are the ideal alternative to natural rubber for applications that demand extreme purity, exceptional protection and consistently high quality. Cariflex products offer a pure and versatile option for manufacturing applications that require the high tensile strength and tear resistance of natural rubber without the impurities that cause discoloration, odor and allergic reactions. For additional information about Cariflex products, please visit the Kraton website.

About Kraton Polymers

Kraton Performance Polymers, Inc., through its operating subsidiary Kraton Polymers LLC and its subsidiaries, is a leading global producer of engineered polymers and styrenic block copolymers ("SBCs"), a family of products whose chemistry was pioneered by us almost fifty years ago. SBCs are highly-engineered thermoplastic elastomers, which enhance the performance of numerous products by delivering a variety of attributes, including greater flexibility, resilience, strength, durability and processability. Our polymers are used in a wide range of applications, including adhesives, coatings, consumer and personal care products, sealants and lubricants, and medical, packaging, automotive, paving, roofing and footwear products. We currently offer approximately 800 products to more than 700 customers in over 60 countries worldwide, and are the only SBC producer with manufacturing and service capabilities on four continents. We manufacture products at five plants globally, including our flagship plant in Belpre, Ohio, as well as plants in Germany, France and Brazil, and a joint venture plant operated in Japan.

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LOS ANGELES, CA--(Marketwire - Sep 24, 2012) - MMRGlobal, Inc. ( OTCBB : MMRF ) ("MMR") today announced that the Company received another Notice of Allowance, or NOA. The patent will grant protection to the Company by allowing it to assert legal claims that any Web-based portal used for consumer access to personal health information covered by the patent constitutes an infringement of the Company's intellectual property, unless it is provided or licensed by the Company. The NOA, U.S. Serial No. 13/041,809 from the United States Patent and Trademark Office for its "Method and System for Providing Online Records," significantly expands the scope of the Company's existing health IT intellectual property for provisioning of Personal Health Records (PHRs) regardless of the healthcare professional providing the information.The patents come in advance of the Meaningful Use requirement that patients have online access to their protected health information through a Personal Health Record or other form of patient portal by 2014. The Company believes that this NOA makes it difficult for eligible healthcare professionals to fully qualify for incentives under the HITECH Act because one of the core requirements is to provide patients access to their personal health information through a Web-based portal.Accordingly, this patent could prevent EMR and PHR vendors from allowing patients access to personal health information without a license from MMR.

Robert H. Lorsch, MMRGlobal Chairman and CEO, said, "Since 2005, MMR has been building a Personal Health Record that seamlessly connects to any doctor or hospital regardless of the systems in the office, be it plain paper or the most advanced electronic medical records systems.This overriding patent will help protect the integrity of our products and raise the bar for PHRs while also making it extremely difficult to comply with certain Meaningful Use requirements under the HITECH Act without a license from MMR for the Company's IP.The NOA comes after nearly six years of effort and the expenditure of millions of dollars in technology on behalf of the Company's shareholders. The licensing of our health IT patent portfolio could mean a substantial ongoing revenue stream to the Company."

This patent will join the Company's patent numbers 8,117, 646; 8,117,045; and 8,121,855, and are directed toward the transmission of Personal Health Records and other protected health information to a PHR by fax or voice.MMRGlobal is a leading provider of Personal Health Records through its MyMedicalRecords PHR suite of products and services (www.mmrvideos.com) and also offers its MMRPro electronic document management and imaging systems for healthcare professionals (www.mmrprovideos.com).The Company also provides MyEsafeDepositBox storage solutions for consumers.The Company has more than 180 additional claims pending and applied for and is continuing to file additional claims under its global portfolio of Personal Health Record and document management and imaging patents.

According to Ted Ward of the law firm Liner Grode Stein Yankelevitz Sunshine Regenstreif & Taylor LLP (www.LinerLaw.com), which represents the Company as patent litigation counsel, "The MMR health IT Patent Portfolio means that anyone who provides a consumer with a Web-based portal, including hospitals, physicians and pharmacies, where the consumer can access personal health information may be infringing on MMR's IP."Ward added that Liner is in the process of contacting hundreds of hospitals and physician group practices to discuss opportunities to license the Company's IP in advance of 2014 Meaningful Use requirements to provide patients online access to their health information within four days of the information being available to the doctor and within 36 hours of being discharged from the hospital.

According to John Goodhue from McKee, Voorhees & Sease (www.ipmvs.com), patent counsel to the Company since filing of its first patents in 2005, "This is a highly significant addition to MMRGlobal's health IT patent portfolio, especially as it pertains to Personal Health Records, by helping the Company benefit from its early innovations in the industry."

Goodhue added, "The latest patent application is of potential relevance to numerous types of Personal Health Record portal offerings that allow users to privately manage and maintain their health records. This is further directed toward providing a Personal Health Record portal that can receive records from any healthcare provider and that allows a user to store and manage his or her records independently from their healthcare provider(s), such as by organizing the files into separate file folders."

The resulting patent will be a significant addition to the Company's Health IT patent portfolio which also includes previously issued patents and claims in the U.S. and patents issued, pending and applied for in countries of commercial interest including Australia, Singapore, New Zealand, and Mexico.

About MMRGlobal, Inc. MMRGlobal, Inc., through its wholly-owned operating subsidiary, MyMedicalRecords, Inc., provides secure and easy-to-use online Personal Health Records ("PHRs") and electronic safe deposit box storage solutions, serving consumers, healthcare professionals, employers, insurance companies, financial institutions, and professional organizations and affinity groups. The MyMedicalRecords PHR enables individuals and families to access their medical records and other important documents, such as birth certificates, passports, insurance policies and wills, anytime from anywhere using the Internet. MyMedicalRecords is built on proprietary, patented technologies to allow documents, images and voicemail messages to be transmitted and stored in the system using a variety of methods, including fax, phone, or file upload without relying on any specific electronic medical record platform to populate a user's account. The Company's professional offering, MMRPro, is designed to give physicians' offices an easy and cost-effective solution to digitizing paper-based medical records and sharing them with patients in real time through an integrated patient portal.MMR is an Independent Software Vendor Partner with Kodak to deliver an integrated turnkey EMR solution for healthcare professionals. Through its merger with Favrille, Inc. in January 2009, the Company acquired intellectual property biotech assets that include anti-CD20 antibodies and data and samples from its FavId/Specifid vaccine clinical trials for the treatment of B-Cell Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. To learn more about MMRGlobal, Inc. visit http://www.mmrglobal.com. View demos and video tutorials of the Company's products and services at http://www.mmrtheater.com.

Forward-Looking Statements All statements in this press release that are not strictly historical in nature, including potential intellectual property infringement claims, litigation or licenses, future performance, management's expectations, beliefs, intentions, estimates or projections, constitute "forward-looking statements." Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the Company's actual results to be materially different from historical results or from any results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Some can be identified by the use of words (and their derivations) such as "need," "possibility," "intend," "offer," "development," "if," "negotiate," "when," "begun," "believe," "achieve," "will," "estimate," "expect," "maintain," "plan," and "continue," or the negative of these words. Actual outcomes of intellectual property infringement claims, litigation or licensing transactions, results of operations and the timing of selected events may differ materially from the results predicted, and any reported results should not be considered as an indication of future performance. Such statements are necessarily based on assumptions and estimates and are subject to various risks and uncertainties, including those relating to the possible invalidity of the underlying assumptions and estimates and possible changes or developments in economic, business, industry, market, legal and regulatory circumstances and conditions and actions taken or omitted to be taken by third parties, including customers, suppliers, business partners, potential licensors, competitors and legislative, judicial and other governmental authorities and officials. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to: unexpected outcomes with respect to claims of intellectual property infringement and litigation; maintaining, developing, monetizing and protecting our patent portfolio for both the Company's health IT and biotechnology intellectual property assets in the U.S. and internationally; timing of milestone payments in connection with licensing our IP; ability to establish and maintain strategic relationships; relationships with licensees; the risk the Company's products are not adopted or viewed favorably by the healthcare community and consumer retail market; business prospects, results of operations or financial condition, including variations in our quarterly operating results; risks related to the current uncertainty and instability in financial and lending markets, including global economic uncertainties; timing and volume of sales and installations; length of sales cycles and the installation process; market acceptance of new product and service introductions; competitive product offerings and promotions; changes in government laws and regulations including the 2009 HITECH Act and changes in Meaningful Use and the 2010 Affordable Care Act; future changes in tax legislation and initiatives in the healthcare industry; undetected errors in our products; possibility of interruption at our data centers; risks related to third party vendors; risks related to obtaining and integrating third-party licensed technology; risks related to a security breach by third parties; risks associated with recruitment and retention of key personnel; other litigation matters; uncertainties associated with doing business internationally across borders and territories; and additional risks discussed in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Company is providing this information as of the date of this release and, except as required by applicable law, does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statements contained in this release as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

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