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Jean-Marc Lacoste, President and Chief Executive Officer, Monarques Gold Corporation (MQR), joined Rob Peterman, Vice-President, Global Business Development, Toronto Stock Exchange & TSX Venture Exchange, to open the market
TORONTO, Dec. 21, 2018 – Jean-Marc Lacoste, President and Chief Executive Officer, Monarques Gold Corporation (MQR), joined Rob Peterman, Vice-President, Global Business Development, Toronto Stock Exchange & TSX Venture Exchange, to open the market. Monarques Gold is an emerging gold mining company focused on pursuing growth through its portfolio of projects in the Abitibi mining camp in Quebec, Canada. Monarques Gold Corporation graduated and commenced trading on Toronto Stock Exchange on November 15, 2018.
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I am sticking to my original prediction – Bitcoin will hit 250k by 2022.†– Tim Draper, American Venture Capitalist, Author, Founder of Draper Associates, DFJ and Draper University
Following the ICO boom in 2017, along with Bitcoin’s all time high of
nearly $20k last December, the cryptocurrency and blockchain industry
has gone down a rocky road. As the crypto world is full of surprises,
it’s difficult to predict what’s in store for the future. Yet it’s
interesting to hear what industry insiders and some of the biggest
influencers in the space have to say about their expectations for the
crypto and blockchain industry over the next 12 months and beyond.
Cryptocurrency:
I am sticking to my original prediction – Bitcoin will hit 250k by 2022.†– Tim Draper, American Venture Capitalist, Author, Founder of Draper Associates, DFJ and Draper University
As one of the leading cryptocurrencies, Ether will see its price
reach the $500 mark by mid 2019. The fact still remains that most
blockchain projects across the world are being done in Ethereum. As its
use cases increase and improve globally, we’ll see it continuing to gain
more solid ground as a smart contract protocol.” – David Drake, Founder and Chairman of LDJ Capital
2019 will be an exciting year. We will see several great products
shipped to market, especially from our Binance Labs incubation program,
now taking place on five continents. The projects and teams who are
focused on building and achieving product-market fit will bring more
real use cases to our lives. This will open the gateway to the mass
adoption of crypto.” – Ella Zhang, Head of Binance Labs
The first legitimate national cryptocurrency will be launched, linked
to a fiat currency from a G-20 nation. This digital asset will be in
high demand for combining the benefits of a digital asset with the
stability of a government-backed currency. Mark Zuckerberg’s 2018 New
Year’s resolution to “study cryptocurrencies” will result in one being
integrated into Facebook for payments. The only question is whether they
will use an existing cryptocurrency or a new one created by Facebook.†–
Mitch Liu, Theta Labs CEO
Blockchain:
2018 was a tough year, but we have a longer term outlook for our
industry. The builders have been building in 2018, so for 2019, I think
we will see a lot of real products and real applications coming into the
market.†– Changpeng Zhao (CZ), Binance CEO and Founder
I have been involved in the blockchain space since 2013, actively
developing with Ethereum since January 2015. During this time I have
experienced many ups and downs. Many times I heard how “Blockchain is
over.†However, the fact is that the underlying technological innovation
continues to evolve and to get better. We have more tools today,
documentation, tutorials, and users than ever before and this will
continue to grow as the user interfaces become better and more seamless.
In 2019 we will continue to live the aftermath of 2017. ICOs have been
in winter sleep for most of 2018, following the ICO madness we
experienced, which was initiated by my ERC-20 standard. Nevertheless,
this doesn’t change the fact that ICO’s are a great fundraising
mechanism, for those projects in which a coin offering makes sense.
However, many past token projects were only using ICOs as an opportunity
to collect money without a truly decentralized and functioning token
economy in the background. We need to regain the trust that was lost,
and proposals like my Reversible ICO shows how technology can be the
transaction mechanism and the regulator at the same time. – Fabian Vogelsteller, LUKSO CEO and Ethereum developer responsible for co-creating the ERC-20 Token Standard
You’ll see blockchain companies with differentiated business models
separating themselves from the pack. For the industry to mature and gain
legitimacy, the 2018 shakeout had to happen. As you’ve seen with the
rise of the internet, e-commerce and just about every other big-thought
thing that’s happened in the last 50 years, the gold rush days come to
an end, rules get created and people settle down to do real business.
That’s why we’ve kept our focus, powered forward and invested in
building our vision for the next iteration of the web. For TRON, 2019
will be a year of many innovations. We’re the largest decentralized
content ecosystem in the world, and 2019 will be about showing people
what that means. We’re beginning the year with our first summit, in San
Francisco, where we’ll reveal big details about how we plan to integrate
blockchain with BitTorrent’s peer-to-peer technology. And we’ll follow
that by offering our 100 million monthly BitTorrent users incentives to
create and share more freely and often, delivering an economy of goods
and services within the network.†– Justin Sun, TRON CEO and Founder
2019 will be a historic year for the Blockchain industry. Malta will
issue the first license for operators in this sphere to be able to
operate in a regulated environment. Thus, 2019 will see the
materialization of The Blockchain Island, firmly putting Malta at the
epicenter of this industry. We are aware where the compass is pointing,
which is why blockchain technology will be incorporated into our
ecosystem. In turn, we will soon start witnessing change in the
landscape of how sectors as we know today operate. In fact, as a
Government, we’re looking at using blockchain technology in the public
sector to better the experience of our citizens. 2019 will be an even
more exciting year for Malta. The smallest EU member state will be
amongst the top 10 nations with a National Strategy for Artificial
Intelligence. This will open doors for the exploration of new economic
niches such as esports, gaming and Fintech. Malta’s agility and flexible
approach will ensure that we will remain innovators in the digital
economy.†– The Honorable Silvio Schembri, Malta’s Junior Minister for Financial Services, Digital Economy & Innovation
We hope to see some more progress happening towards the setting up of
a true interoperability standard for optimal communication between
different types of blockchain networks. We believe that there will be
some more hybrid deployments involving the joint use of permissionless
and permissioned blockchain networks, with a focus on real world use
cases where the use of blockchain technology can truly move the needle
forward.†– Nimit Sawheny, Voatz CEO
Blockchain communities and open source communities will see their
lines blurred, as the two become synonymous with one another. Open
source has traditionally been on the cutting edge of innovation and has
garnered massive interest because of its ability to deliver security
through transparency. Decentralization is the latest cutting-edge
technology and it shares that same foundational principle of
transparency. A platform cannot be decentralized if it is proprietary,
as the organization that owns the software code ultimately becomes the
central point of failure.†– Ben Golub, Storj Interim CEO and Executive Chairman
Tokenization:
A quadrillion dollar market is unfolding, driven by the emergence of
security tokens. As currencies are tokenized, as bonds are tokenized, as
equities are tokenized, as currencies and real estate and energy are
tokenized — We are watching the birth of a quadrillion-dollar market.
Also, Qualified Opportunity Zones (QOZs) are going to deliver over $100B
of capital into places where economic stimulus is needed in the U.S. We
are also going to see the first Dapps (decentralized applications) that
hit a million users a day sometime next year. Because we’ve now had our
“Netscape†moment, we now have scalable blockchains that have no
friction (meaning anyone can access it without having tokens) low
latency (meaning it’s fast and scalable and can be by many people) with
EOS as the first general protocol with many to come. It’s the equivalent
of when the first IPhone launched in the App Store.†– Brock Pierce, American Entrepreneur, Venture Capitalist, Chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation and co-founder of EOS Alliance
I think that the main trend will be securities tokens. The
combination of the power of a distributed ledger with more standardized
securities will open lots of doors in capital creation. Privacy will
continue to be important. There will be an increasing gap between those
with solid technology and those with weak, captive networks.†– Bruce Fenton,
Founder and Managing Director of Atlantic Financial, Board member of
the Bitcoin Foundation and co-founder of the Bitcoin Association
The ability to fractionalize illiquid assets will allow institutions
to offer unique portfolio positioning that suit the preferences of the
investor. Given the transparency involved in a correctly-designed token,
there will be new ways to visualize risk and returns. This will unleash
a new wave of investing that has been bottled up because of asymmetry
of information. Ultimately, tokenization will greatly flatten that
asymmetry, which is what this is all about.” – Sam Tabar, Fluidity Co-Founder
Venture Capital:
2019 is going to be another year of building. We’re squarely in the
phase in which the crypto space is developing the companies, products,
and infrastructure to support the wild valuations we saw in 2017. I
expect we’ll see more consolidation, as both companies and funds
struggle to raise capital. While this might sound gloomy, I think it’s
actually quite healthy. As technology and valuations start to converge
at rational levels again, the stage will be set for the industry to
enter the next phase of maturity.†– Arianna Simpson, Venture Capitalist and Managing Director at Autonomous Partners
We should not forget that token issuers are startups and they have an
even higher burn rate than that of traditional startups. With over $10
billion raised by those crypto startups in 2017-2018, the conversion to
fiat currencies is inevitable. In addition, all the crypto services and
talent have been twice as expensive as for traditional startups. Once
billions of dollars are liquidated to pay bills, it is normal for the
prices of the major crypto currencies to drop. This of course had a
snowball effect: the panic starts and hundreds of entrepreneurs need to
sell crypto to secure capital for product development. Even cryptofunds
whose market capitalization is $10 billion tend to have focused on
equity deals recently. They’ve liquidated part of their crypto portfolio
and hold fiat. In addition, we shouldn’t forget that the main reason
the Bitcoin and Ethereum networks exists are because of the miners.
Miners had to sell as well to maintain their facilities. They’ve
overmined Bitcoin in 2017, assuming the price would keep going up.†– Natalia Karayaneva, Propy CEO and Founder
Naspers To Invest Almost $1bn In Indian Online Businesses
A day after it said it would lead a $540 million investment in education startup BYJU’S, Naspers announced it was making a $660 million investment in Swiggy, India’s largest food delivery platform
It is leading a nearly $1 billion Series H round in Swiggy, along with existing investors DST Global, Meituan Dianping and Coatue Management, and new investors Tencent, Hillhouse Capital and Wellington Management.
Naspers is the most valuable listed company in Africa.Naspers
It’s been a busy week for Naspers, the largest public company in
Africa, as it announced its listing on a secondary exchange in South
Africa and nearly $1 billion in two significant online investments in
India.
A day after it said it would lead a $540 million investment in
education startup BYJU’S, Naspers announced it was making a $660 million
investment in Swiggy, India’s largest food delivery platform. It is
leading a nearly $1 billion Series H round in Swiggy, along with
existing investors DST Global, Meituan Dianping and Coatue Management,
and new investors Tencent, Hillhouse Capital and Wellington Management.
The BYJU’S investment – which includes a “significant portion” by the
Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) – aims to grows the
learning app, which has seen over 30 million students use it. It has
over 2 million cumulative annual paid subscriptions, with an average
engagement of 64 minutes per student daily.
Although it began as a newspaper business over 100 years ago, Naspers
has diversified into pay television, ecommerce and owns a third of
Tencent, the Chinese messaging and gaming giant. It is the largest
emerging markets media and internet company in the world.
It has a large portfolio of investments in India, including online
classifieds business OLX, leading online travel company MakeMyTrip, and
payments company, PayU.
“Indian online consumers will be a significant driver of online
growth in the world, and in addition to food and education,” Naspers
said. “The quality of the best Indian entrepreneurs and their ability to
build innovative businesses that address the unique needs of the Indian
consumer offer unparalleled growth opportunities.”
Naspers is the largest listed company on the Johannesburg Stock
Exchange (JSE), and was the first company in Africa to reach the magical
R1 trillion figure. It is headquartered in Cape Town.
The secondary listing on 27 December on the A2X Markets exchange,
which does not carry additional costs for companies listed in South
Africa, is because A2X offers cheaper transaction fees and is more
tech-savvy.
“A2X is one of a growing number of new exchanges that are leveraging
technology in an effort to reduce trading costs and increase market
transparency,” said Naspers CEO Bob van Dijk. “As one of the world’s
leading technology investors we understand the value of technology and
are pleased to support these efforts by also listing on A2X. We believe
our shareholders will appreciate the added choice of trading venues.â€
Earlier this year Naspers sold a 2% stake in Tencent for nearly $10 billion – to invest in more ecommerce ventures it said at the time – and announced in September it would spin off its MultiChoice satellite television unit
into a separate company, to be called MultiChoice Africa. MultiChoice’s
DStv is the largest satellite pay-television operator in Africa, using a
network of satellites to deliver its signal across the continent.
I write about how innovation is better in Africa. I define innovation
as solving problems, like the real problems we have in Africa. And
solving those problems, solves them for the rest of the world. Africa
isn’t just mobile-first, it’s mobile-only. I spoke about this at TED…
Shapshak is editor-in-chief and publisher of Stuff magazine. Based in Johannesburg, his TED talk on innovation in Africa has had more than 1.4m views.
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Planning for Phase 2 Clinical Trial Underway
Announced that its Phase 1 clinical trial in healthy volunteers using vaporized PPP001 has been successfully concluded.
This trial was aimed at determining the pharmacokinetics (PK) and safety of a 4-day titration followed by a single dose of vaporized PPP001 in 12 healthy volunteers.
OTTAWA, Dec. 20, 2018 — Tetra Bio-PharmaInc.(“Tetra†or “TBPâ€) today announced that its Phase 1 clinical trial in healthy volunteers using vaporized PPP001 has been successfully concluded. This trial was aimed at determining the pharmacokinetics (PK) and safety of a 4-day titration followed by a single dose of vaporized PPP001 in 12 healthy volunteers.   Preliminary review of the human clinical data indicates that the treatment was well tolerated. Based on these positive results, Tetra Bio-Pharma expects to move into Phase 2 clinical trials in fibromyalgia patients.Â
Tetra Bio-Pharma also completed a first series of analyses of the
cannabis vapor generated by the Mighty Medic vaporizer manufactured by
Storz & Bickel, thus providing a deeper understanding of the process
of administering cannabinoids to patients. This gives health regulators
like Health Canada, a detailed view of the efficiency of the delivery
system.
“We are thrilled with the results of this trial which was completed
both on time and on budget,†stated Dr. Guy Chamberland, CEO and CSO of
Tetra Bio-Pharma. “We look forward to investigating this vaped version
of PPP001 in patients who suffer from the debilitating pain of
fibromyalgia. The Mighty Medic technology provides an alternative
delivery method for PPP001, along with a new therapeutic indication for
fibromyalgia which will give us access to a much larger patient
population. According to the National Fibromyalgia Association there are
more than 10 million people who suffer from this disease in the U.S.
alone.â€
About Tetra Bio-Pharma Tetra Bio-Pharma (TSX-V: TBP) (OTCQB: TBPMF) is a biopharmaceutical leader in cannabinoid-based drug discovery and development with a Health Canada approved, and FDA reviewed, clinical program aimed at bringing novel prescription drugs and treatments to patients and their healthcare providers. The Company has several subsidiaries engaged in the development of an advanced and growing pipeline of Bio Pharmaceuticals, Natural Health and Veterinary Products containing cannabis and other medicinal plant-based elements. With patients at the core of what we do, Tetra Bio-Pharma is focused on providing rigorous scientific validation and safety data required for inclusion into the existing bio pharma industry by regulators, physicians and insurance companies.
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider
(as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange)
accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
Forward-looking Statements Some statements in
this release may contain forward-looking information. All statements,
other than of historical fact, that address activities, events or
developments that the Company believes, expects or anticipates will or
may occur in the future (including, without limitation, statements
regarding potential acquisitions and financings) are forward-looking
statements. Forward-looking statements are generally identifiable by use
of the words “may”, “will”, “should”, “continue”, “expect”,
“anticipate”, “estimate”, “believe”, “intend”, “plan” or “project” or
the negative of these words or other variations on these words or
comparable terminology. Forward-looking statements are subject to a
number of risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond the
Company’s ability to control or predict, that may cause the actual
results of the Company to differ materially from those discussed in the
forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results or
events to differ materially from current expectations include, among
other things, without limitation, the inability of the Company to obtain
sufficient financing to execute the Company’s business plan;
competition; regulation and anticipated and unanticipated costs and
delays, the success of the Company’s research and development
strategies, including this trial, the ability to obtain orphan drug
status, the applicability of the discoveries made therein, the
successful and timely completion and uncertainties related to the
regulatory process, the timing of clinical trials, the timing and
outcomes of regulatory or intellectual property decisions and other
risks disclosed in the Company’s public disclosure record on file with
the relevant securities regulatory authorities. Although the Company has
attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results
or events to differ materially from those described in forward-looking
statements, there may be other factors that cause results or events not
to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. Readers should not place
undue reliance on forward-looking statements. While no definitive
documentation has yet been signed by the parties and there is no
certainty that such documentation will be signed. The forward-looking
statements included in this news release are made as of the date of this
news release and the Company does not undertake an obligation to
publicly update such forward-looking statements to reflect new
information, subsequent events or otherwise unless required by
applicable securities legislation.
For further information, please contact Tetra Bio-Pharma Inc.
Robert (Bob) Bechard
Executive Vice President, Corporate Development and Licensing
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Understanding the programmatic advertising ecosystem
In a generation digital marketing has evolved to become the primary way many brands run their campaigns all over the world.
But none of it would be possible without the underlying technology infrastructure that has subsequently developed around programmatic advertising.Â
To practitioners the language of programmatic may well be second
nature, but for many in the sector the programmatic landscape can seem
confusing hard to penetrate.
This is the case even for experienced traditional marketers, and even
digital marketers who may understand the technology beneath owned
media, but struggle with advertising technology which sustains paid
media.
To help marketers build their expertise Oracle recently hosted a
webinar which steps marketers wanting to understand more about the
programmatic advertising landscape through all the key elements of the
programmatic landscape.
In part one of this report we look at that landscape and in part two, we describe programmatic strategies available to markets.
But lets start with the basic question, what is programmatic advertising?
Programmatic 101
Put simply it is a marketing approach that delivers the most relevant
message to the right person on the right device at the right time to
achieve a desired action.
It is optimised in real time based on data that allows the marketer
to focus on individual impressions instead of block buying advertising
slots. This is what makes it very different to traditional advertising.
Instead of static inventory with analytics derived from surveys and
panels, the programmatic approach allows advertisers to serve impression
that are both dynamic and relevant – because they are based on who is
viewing the impressions.
Importantly, as this is based on the idea of one on one advertising it also allows markets to derive one on one user insights.
Underpinning the programmatic advertising landscape are digital
platforms and exchanges which enable the buying and selling of
advertising inventory across mobile, desktop, search, display and video
advertising.
Advertisers and publishers can transact in real time just like on the
stock exchange, although the amount of transaction the ad tech sector
supports each day dwarfs the volume on a financial exchange!
Advertisers interact through what is called a data management
platform via a supply side platform (SSP) while marketers interacting
with the DMP through demand side platforms (DSPs).
These interactions are facilitated by add exchanges the middle.
Like most other forms of digital marketing, the success of these
interactions and the effectiveness of programmatic campaigns is based
upon the quality of the data.
First, second and third party data
The most valuable information for any advertiser is the first party
data which is basically the data that is proprietary to them and found
in places like the advertiser’s web site, its customer relationship
management platform or even the email data to which it already has
access.
Various platforms like Eloqua, CXD and Blue Kai allow marketers to integrate this information into their programmatic activity.
Second party data on the other hand comes from when the advertiser
has a direct relationship with a publisher and is able to use their data
as and when required.
Sometimes, however, the reach provided by the first and second party
data simply isn’t enough. Then, marketers and their agencies use third
party data is important to expand the reach of a campaign.
Third party aggregators and publishers collate data they collect in
the form of cookies from their 100s of web sites and sell it to
advertisers.
Various vendors like Nielsen, Iota and Data Logic provide the
demographic, geographic and other types of data needed to supplement the
first and second party information.
The data sets can be huge and the sheer amount of data can be
overwhelming. It needs to be managed which is where a data management
platform comes into the conversation.
A DMP is the backbone of data driven marketing. It serves as a
unifying platform to collect, organise and activate first, second, and
third party audiences data from any source including online, offline,
mobile and beyond.
Once the demand side data is aligned we can then use various DSPs
like Dataxu, TradeDesk, or Rocketfuel to work with the various
advertising exchanges to purchase relevant inventory from the supply
side.
Here’s a simple example of how this all folds together.
Imagine a campaign where a brand uses its first party data but
determines that much more reach is required. The brand then purchases
third party data that matches its specific geographic and demographic
requirements.
These two pieces of data are then combined through a DMP. And all of this comes together in a matter of milliseconds.
Imagine next that a consumer goes to a publisher’s web site. The
publisher calls its web server likely before the consumer’s page has
fully loaded. The ad server checks its rules and determines what ad it
can serve and at what price. The ad sever then instructs the consumer’s
browser to call the advertiser’s ad server, and then the publisher’s ad
server counts an impression .
The advertiser’s ad server knows it can serve the specific creative
and an impression is counted to that site. Placement, combination and
the campaign spend is logged for that impression.
And the user sees the advertisement. This all happens in real time.
Of course, this being a programmatic campaign, another consumer
viewing the same page at the same time will potentially see a completely
different ad based on the persons characteristics.
Pixels and cookies
A tagging pixel is essentially a piece of code that is placed on a
web site by a marketer and it generates a notice of visits to the page
by a browser. Pixels often work in conjunction with cookies recording
when a particular computer visits a specific page and they can be played
across the site or on certain conversion pages only.
The placement is determined by what you want to measure.
It is important to understand that different types of pixels do different thing.
Conversion pixels for instance capture conversion events. This is the
only way markers can record view-through conversions and post click
conversions. The conversion pixels are installed on the page where the
marketing goal is achieved such as a form page or a landing page.
Optimisation pixels on the other hand are installed across an entire
site and used to better identify ideal targets in prospecting and site
retargeting campaigns.
Finally, data collection pixels allow data collection companies to
anonymously identify and classify web site visitors into various
categories.
All of these pixels help programmatic vendors track the success of a
campaign. And they are used to build look alike profiles so that a
brand’s programmatic vendor can find more of its ideal audience online.
Pixels also provide rich insights into your audience such as the type
of websites they list and their interesting certain categories
So what is a cookie? Put simply it is a mechanism specified by a http
protocol that is implemented by the browser for web sites to store data
locally.
For instance cookies are used to help a site remember that a visitors
logged in rather than making them login every time they come back.
They are also important for saving shopping cart information and for tracking other behaviour online.
From a security perspective cookies can only be sent to the domain
that originally sent them. For instance only oracle.com can set
oracle.com cookies.
In part two, we will look at different programmatic strategies brands can employ in their campaigns.
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Successful selective leaching to remove Magnesium Oxide (MgO) and Calcium Oxide (CaO) was achieved
This allows the potential recovery of High Purity MgO and eliminates the need for membranes and other purification steps required to make high purity lithium that can be used to make lithium carbonate, lithium hydroxide and/or lithium metal.
Montreal, QC / December 20, 2018 –St-Georges Eco-Mining Corp. (CSE: SX)(OTC: SXOOF) (FSE: 85G1) is pleased to provide an update on the development of its lithium-in-clay extraction technology.
Successful
selective leaching to remove Magnesium Oxide (MgO) and Calcium Oxide
(CaO) was achieved. This allows the potential recovery of High Purity
MgO and eliminates the need for membranes and other purification steps
required to make high purity lithium that can be used to make lithium
carbonate, lithium hydroxide and/or lithium metal.
“(…)
Selective leaching of Magnesium, Calcium and Sodium is an interesting
breakthrough that helps to make the down stream processing for lithium
purification simpler with fewer challenges on water/acid balances,
reduction in chemical usage and lower energy requirements. (…) We are
still investigating converting problem elements into valuable salable
by-products helping our cost structure and ecological focus (…)” said
Enrico Di Cesare, St-Georges’ Vice-President Research & Development.
St-Georges
tested its metallurgical process in a simulated industrial environment
using large quantity of material received in September from the Bonnie
Claire deposit owned 100% by its partner Iconic Minerals Ltd. (TSX-V:
ICM). Approximately 100kg of Bonnie Claire material was used in the
current test phase. 5 independent laboratories participated in the
effort. The initial mechanical separation step was tested with an
equipment vendor in Pennsylvania. The results show that 55% of the mass
can be removed while concentrating the lithium without the use of water
and chemicals.
St-Georges
is working on the filing of two provisional patents in relation to the
first phase of development of the process. Further testing is underway
to optimize and firm up the patent applications. The current
developments simplify and improve the process flow sheet. It eliminates
the need to use membranes and it is expected to decrease total chemicals
used.
In
mutual agreement with Iconic Minerals, St-Georges’ management is
revising the initial planning allowing to accelerate the development of
the technology and should deliver a report to Iconic in January that
will include elements that were initially expected in the second
development report. Additional testing is currently underway for that
purpose. St-Georges also expects to issue an additional press release in
early January after it receives the results to the verification tests
that it has just commissioned following this potential breakthrough.
Joel
Scodnick, P.Geo, and Herb Duerr, P.Geo both qualified persons under NI
43-101 have reviewed and approved the technical content of this release.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
“Frank Dumas”
FRANCOIS (FRANK) DUMAS, DIRECTOR & COO
About St-Georges
St-Georges is developing new technologies to solve the some of the most common environmental problems in the mining industry.
The
Company controls directly or indirectly, through rights of first
refusal, all of the active mineral tenures in Iceland. It also explores
for nickel on the Julie Nickel Project & for industrial minerals on
Quebec’s North Shore and for lithium and rare metals in Northern Quebec
and in the Abitibi region. Headquartered in Montreal, St-Georges’ stock
is listed on the CSE under the symbol SX, on the US OTC under the Symbol
SXOOF and on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange under the symbol 85G1.
The
Canadian Securities Exchange (CSE) has not reviewed and does not accept
responsibility for the adequacy or the accuracy of the contents of this
release.
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Esports Legends Launch Popdog With $9 Million Funding Round
The company is called Popdog, and will be starting things out with a $9 million Series A funding round led by Makers Fund and Korea Investment Partners.
“We’re building our company around the core belief that eSports and gaming video content, born more from technology than any other sports or entertainment verticals we’ve seen, need better technology in order to be properly understood, monetized, and optimized,†says company CEO
Evil Geniuses CEO Alexander Garfield is heading a new eSports
technology and services company which will develop products aimed at
optimizing live streaming for tournaments, talent, and publishers, it
was announced today.
The company is called Popdog, and will be starting things out with a
$9 million Series A funding round led by Makers Fund and Korea
Investment Partners.
“We’re building our company around the core belief that eSports
and gaming video content, born more from technology than any other
sports or entertainment verticals we’ve seen, need better technology in
order to be properly understood, monetized, and optimized,†says company
CEO Garland in a prepared statement.
“The industry needs a backend, and our mission is to be that backend
by supporting the ecosystem as a whole with a comprehensive offering of
technology and services. This funding brings us one step closer to
fulfilling that mission. We’ve already assembled an incredible team of
industry leaders, product experts, and eSports veterans, and we’re
excited to begin rolling out a suite of products that we think will make
operating in the space transparent and scalable, as opposed to opaque
and speculative.â€
Alexander Garfield, a two-time winner of The International
tournament, is perhaps best known for his role in helping to build
pro-gaming organizations Evil Geniuses and Alliance into eSports
heavyweights. Garfield later sold the teams’ parent company GoodGame to Twitch in 2014.
Alongside Garfield, Popdog’s co-founders include CTO and CPO Andreas
Thorstensson, a former Counter-Strike world champion who Co-Founded SK Gaming;
CSO Niles Heron, consultant who has taught and mentored at accelerators
such as TechStars, Gener8tor and Detroit’s TechTown; and CCO Colin
DeShong, the former COO of GoodGame, Evil Geniuses, and Alliance, where
he was Garfield’s long-time partner.
Ever since the 2012 report stated that India needed thousands of new colleges and universities, it has been evident that India should instead focus on building disruptive innovations to rethink education by offering a service that is far more affordable, accessible, and convenient than the existing options.
That meant using online learning to serve people who would otherwise have no access to higher education.
In 2012, the government of India stated
that it would need to build 1,000 new universities and an astounding
50,000 new colleges by 2020 to meet expected demand as its population
and workforce continued to grow.
With over 750 universities and more than 38,000 colleges today—compared to roughly 650 universities and 25,000 colleges in 2012—the country looks unsurprisingly unlikely to meet that objective.
And that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Surveys and sources suggest many college graduates are unprepared for the workforce. For example, according to the All India Council for Technical Education, a whopping 60 percent of engineering graduates from India’s technical colleges remain unemployed each year.
Instead of replicating systems of higher education found elsewhere,
India ought to be taking this opportunity to leapfrog the current state
of higher education.
Ever since the 2012 report stated that India needed thousands of new colleges and universities, it has been evident that India should instead focus on building disruptive innovations
to rethink education by offering a service that is far more affordable,
accessible, and convenient than the existing options. That meant using
online learning to serve people who would otherwise have no access to
higher education.
And India did initially leverage online learning by allowing its
universities and colleges to launch a wide range of online programs. But
there were two problems. First, because existing higher-ed institutions
drove the launch, their programs replicated aspects of Indian higher
education online, rather than invent new ways to serve students who had
no access previously—similar to what has happened in the United States
in many cases.
Second, the initial online programs were of widely varying quality. Some reports suggested students didn’t learn much of anything, and were certainly not prepared to tackle real-world problems.
As a result, India cracked down on all online learning, with a
moratorium on accredited universities offering online degrees in
December of 2016.
Although this halted universities from innovating, it didn’t stop
other Indian entities from innovating in online learning across the
education spectrum. Corporations continued to offer online certificates,
particularly in the coding and data analytics realms, and India’s
largest education company, Byju’s,
developed everything from next-generation interactive online simulations
to top-of-the-line animation online video lessons. India’s
higher-education system fell further behind when it came to leveraging
online learning innovations.
This past August, India dipped its toe back into the online learning regulatory waters. But just its little toe.
The University Grants Commission, the national regulatory body for
higher education that helps maintain standards and delegates funds to
recognized universities and colleges, announced
it will permit certain institutions to offer fully online certificate,
diploma and degree programs in the 2018–2019 academic year.
To be eligible, institutions must be at least five years old, awarded
a minimum score by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council,
and rank among the top 100 colleges and universities, based on a national evaluative framework,
for two of the past three years. The degree program must also mirror
pre-made, face-to-face courses that have already graduated a cohort of
students and have been previously approved by the statutory councils—in
other words, replicate the existing system.
These new rules sound like those of yesteryear’s—and that’s a problem.
By replicating a system that India’s citizens and employers already
say doesn’t produce workforce-ready graduates, it’s not clear why this
wave of online learning will work better than the last. Although the
Commission is allowing only the top 100 institutions in India in an
effort to control quality, it’s really just cementing in place the
current system of higher education.
That input-based approach to regulation,
in which the resources and processes of a class are controlled, will,
by definition, freeze innovation because it limits how programs may
deliver their services. It also ignores the question of student outcomes
at the program level, such that there will be little accountability.
There’s a better approach.
Lost amidst the changing rules and regulations is a focus on student
outcomes—and, in this case, critical measures that connect education to
the economy. (Some of these measures are outlined in a quality assurance framework
that we researched and developed.) The government of India ought to
incentivize institutions to compete on delivering what’s best for
students, while keeping costs down to increase value and promote access.
By maintaining a quality threshold, the Commission could invite many
players to enter the online higher education market and innovate around
quality and access, which could help India meet its demand to educate
more citizens for the workforce.
India could also be the first in the world to pioneer such a
progressive approach—and it could do so by first targeting the policy at
online universities, not the entire system, which would be far too
revolutionary at this stage.
The Commission ought to reconsider its choice. They can stay with the
status quo and implement piecemeal adjustments in the hope that the
outcomes match their intentions, or they can adopt a strategy of bold
innovation with robust student-outcome protocols that don’t leave
students’ success up to chance. From our standpoint, that shouldn’t be a
choice.
Michael Horn (@michaelbhorn) is an EdSurge columnist and Principal Consultant for Entangled Solutions. Brian Warren is a consultant at Entangled Solutions.
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