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BIPOC Pop 2024 Convenes Nation’s Premier Expo & Symposium Dedicated to Comics, Gaming, Animation, and Multimedia Arts, March 7-9

University of Texas Austin College Liberal Arts

The University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts will host BIPOC Pop 2024, a three-day event, March 7-9, that will create an extraordinary space for BIPOC creators, scholars, students, teachers, librarians, and industry innovators to explore and share as well as to build and solidify BIPOC alliances and strengthen community through the sharing of cutting-edge, creative, critical knowledge-making practices in the graphic storytelling arts. Awards will be given for Best Student Essay, Best Emerging Creator, Best Animated Short, Best Animated Doc., and Best Student Animated Short. Workshops and panels will focus on topics such as Chicanofuturism, stories for youth empowerment, performing pop culture, history telling through zines, life tales, shaping new K–12 learning spaces, and more. Esteemed presenters, workshop leaders, expo guests, and facilitators include high-profile players in the industry such as Chispa/Scout Comics publisher, Veronique Medrano, publisher; White House consultant and CEO of Ad Astra Media, José Morey, M.D.; award winning filmmaker and CEO of L21 Consulting, Ben Lopez; Marvel creator Kevin Garcia; award winning author, Harvard professor, and member of the Cherokee Nation, Daniel Justice; and, Angélique Roché, producer of Marvel’s Voices; among many others. The event is the brainchild of Professor Frederick Luis Aldama, the Jacob & Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at UT Austin, who is also widely known as Professor Latinx. Aldama is a prolific writer, documentary filmmaker, and founder and director of UT Austin’s Latinx Pop Lab as well as the Latinx Pop Magazine. BIPOC Pop came as a natural strategic move to put UT Austin on the map for the creating, teaching, and studying of Latinx/BIPOC comics, gaming, animation, and multimedia storytelling arts. Dr. Aldama describes the impact of this trailblazing event: “We have lots of big cons across the country, but nothing that brings creatives, scholars, teachers, librarians, and industry leaders under one roof—and certainly nothing that puts BIPOC pop culture front and center. BIPOC POP shouts from rooftops that our stories matter. That we are vital shapers of culture at large!” The symposium will take place March 7-9 from 9am–5pm in the Patton Hall Glickman Conference Center on the UT Austin Campus at 305 E. 23rd St. Partners include Ad Astra Media, UT’s Latino Studies, Project Males, University of North Texas, Texas Orange Jackets. For more information on the event schedule and how to attend, visit the event website at www.bipocpop.com. About the University of Texas Austin College Liberal Arts The University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts is dedicated to promoting cutting-edge research that helps people better understand human history, society, and culture. With over forty majors, it is committed to creating and maintaining a diverse and inclusive academic community in which all members are equally respected and valued. Contact Details Frederick Luis Aldama +1 510-367-9112 aldama@utexas.edu Company Website https://www.bipocpop.org/

February 26, 2024 01:56 PM Eastern Standard Time

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Sarytogan Graphite reports high-grade assays to feed into upcoming PFS

Sarytogan Graphite Ltd

Sarytogan Graphite Ltd (ASX:SGA) managing director Sean Gregory sits down with Jonathan Jackson in the Proactive studio to discuss recent results from geotechnical drilling at the Sarytogan graphite deposit in central Kazakhstan. The company reported several significant intercepts of greater than 40% total graphitic carbon (TGC) and two individual assays higher than an “extraordinary” 50% TGC. The eight holes drilled last year, totalled 471.3 metres, with high-grade graphite mineralisation reported in 92% of all metres drilled. Gregory also discusses how these results will contribute to the upcoming pre-feasibility study and provides an update on ongoing battery testing, following successful maiden battery results on Sarytogan uncoated spherical purified graphite (USPG) that delivered superior performance to many Chinese synthetic graphites used in lithium-ion batteries. With the PFS and ongoing drilling to come, there should be no shortage of news flow for the company. Gregory said: “These thick high-grade results, in many cases over the entire length of 60-metre drill holes drilled into the proposed initial pit walls, highlight the low strip-ratio and exceptionally high-grade mineralisation available at Sarytogan. This is another important input to the pre-feasibility study on track for completion no later than Q3 2024.” Contact Details Proactive Investors Jonathan Jackson +61 413 713 744

February 26, 2024 12:30 PM Eastern Standard Time

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Vaping: Know the Truth: Youth Vaping Prevention & Resources to Quit

YourUpdateTV

A video accompanying this announcement is available at: https://youtu.be/LXqBkJ5imDA E-cigarette use remains a public health threat among youth and young adults with more than 2.1 million middle and high schoolers currently using e-cigarettes, according to the 2023 National Youth Tobacco Survey. Nearly one in four students surveyed use e-cigarettes vape every day or nearly daily, underscoring the highly addictive nature of nicotine, which is harmful to developing brains. It doesn’t stop there. A recent study revealed that teen cannabis use has increased by 245% over the past two decades and approximately 15% of high school seniors who have ever used cannabis become daily or near daily users. On February 5th, a media tour was conducted featuring Amy Taylor, Chief of Community Engagement for Truth Initiative and teachers who use the Vaping: Know the truth curriculum. Vaping: Know the truth is a free, comprehensive digital curriculum designed to empower students by giving them the facts about the health dangers of e-cigarettes and providing resources for youth who vape to quit and made available to schools by leading social impact education innovator, EVERFI. Truth Initiative also recently added two new lessons to the Vaping: Know the truth curriculum to equip students with knowledge about the health effects of vaping cannabis. The new cannabis-focused lessons equip students with knowledge regarding cannabis in vaping products, including short- and long-term health effects, consequences, and risks. Since its launch, more than one million students across the country have actively engaged with the curriculum. It is a self-led interactive online course with peer-to-peer instruction. It was developed as part of Truth Initiative’s proven-effective and nationally recognized truth youth public education campaign. In addition to encouraging students to live vape-free lives, Vaping: Know the truth offers resources to help young people who are currently using e-cigarettes to quit through truth’s first-of-its-kind text message youth quit vaping program This is Quitting, which is already helping more than 700,000 youth and young adults on their journeys to quit. The curriculum also has suggested resources available for young people looking to quit cannabis. For more information, visit TRUTHINITIATIVE.ORG/VAPING-CURRICULUM Contact Details YourUpdateTV +1 212-736-2727 yourupdatetv@gmail.com

February 26, 2024 12:25 PM Eastern Standard Time

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ACD/Labs Launches a New Era of Analytical Knowledge Management in Support of Digital Transformation at Pittcon 2024

ACD/Labs

Cloud-enabled Spectrus Manager JS—the next application in the Spectrus JS family—will help R&D organizations enable analytical data access to all scientists. Multi-technique, vendor agnostic data, uniformly assembled with chemical context, is now broadly accessible to scientists for decision-support and suitable for machine access (AI/ML applications). ACD/Labs, an informatics company that develops and commercializes software in support of digitalized R&D, today announced the continuing evolution of their software to browser-based applications with the release of Spectrus Manager JS. The software will help unlock the value of instrument data for lab and data scientists, and help organizations meet digital transformation goals. Spectrus Manager JS provides scientifically intuitive querying of assembled, contextualized experimental results; and interactive access to LC/UV/MS, GC/MS, NMR, Optical, and other analytical data from all major instrument vendor formats. The capability to store interpreted spectral and chromatographic data with metadata creates a centralized database of knowledge; and data can be reprocessed and re-interrogated in the same browser-based application. Heterogenous analytical data is standardized to be machine accessible for data science applications, and available beyond ACD/Labs’ ecosystem. On premises or hybrid cloud deployment ensures the security of data and intellectual property. “We have been supporting R&D labs with tools to digitalize chemical and analytical data-centric workflows for 30 years,” says Richard Lee, Director of Core Technologies at ACD/Labs. “We continue to migrate and enhance our tools that have been central to scientists’ decision-making for decades to improve accessibility, ease IT overhead, and meet the needs of the lab of the future with an API-forward tech stack. Browser-based, searchable access to digital twins will empower scientists with on-demand access to the data they need to make decisions, eliminate barriers to collaboration, improve productivity, and ultimately accelerate innovation.” Digitalization projects often reduce analytical data to abstracted text and images due to its heterogeneity, limiting usability. Re-use is also difficult due to the number of software interfaces necessary to interact with the different types of raw data. While ACD/Labs’ applications on the Spectrus Platform already addressed these challenges, Spectrus Manager JS further eases data access, software deployment, and maintenance. Deployed in conjunction with Spectrus Conduit, ACD/Labs’ recently introduced low-code/no-code application for workflow automation, Spectrus Manager JS helps organizations achieve FAIR-compliance in analytical data digitalization while meeting their productivity goals. For more information about Spectrus Manager JS, visit ACD/Labs at Booth 2042 in the Pittcon exhibition or visit www.acdlabs.com/SpectrusJS. About ACD/Labs ACD/Labs is a leading provider of scientific software, aiding decision-making and digital transformation in chemical and pharmaceutical R&D. Our science-centric solutions offer harmonized, AI-ready analytical, structural, and molecular information, with FAIR-compliance. Our cloud-enabled technologies enable proliferation of chemically intelligent knowledge and workflow automation. For 30 years, we have partnered with global organizations to enhance productivity and accelerate scientific innovation. For more information, please visit www.acdlabs.com. Follow us on X and LinkedIn. Contact Details Sanji Bhal +1 416-368-3435 media@acdlabs.com Company Website https://www.acdlabs.com/

February 26, 2024 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time

Benchmark International Successfully Facilitated The Transaction Between Robertson Lowstuter And The Center For Sales Strategy

Benchmark International

The seller, Robertson Lowstuter (R|L), is an industry-leading executive coaching firm renowned for its success in guiding executives to achieve peak performance by increasing their productivity, profitability, and effectiveness. “We could not think of a better firm than The Center for Sales Strategy with its sales consultancy, along with LeadG2 and Up Your Culture, to bolster and broaden Robertson Lowstuter’s capabilities of guiding clients on their transformative journeys of engagement, culture, and connection to purpose. As long-standing trusted partners to the C-Suite, CSS and R|L have both had a solutions-oriented bent, anchoring and accelerating clients in their drive toward revenue performance.”- Former President and CEO Carolyn Lowstuter, R|L The buyer, The Center for Sales Strategy (CSS), is a total revenue performance company with over 40 years of expertise in facilitating business growth. “This represents a historic milestone for our companies as we unite to forge a powerful synergy of talent, expertise, and innovation. As a firm dedicated to helping organizations improve revenue performance, I’m excited to incorporate Robertson Lowstuter and its remarkable history of achievements into our portfolio of brands, thereby expanding the avenues through which we can serve our valued clients.”- CEO Matt Sunshine, CSS With the end goal of keeping the R|L legacy alive, Carolyn Lowstuter (former President and CEO) and her husband, Clyde (Founder and Chairman), were thrilled to find another company with 40+ years of successfully serving clients and a long-term growth plan in place. They recognized the synergies in the services offered by both companies and expressed confidence that the acquisition would strategically position these pioneering firms, leveraging their combined resources and capabilities to “Create Uncommon Results!” ® “Getting deals across the finish line is not easy. There are many moving parts; it takes perseverance to achieve the desired result. All parties in this transaction worked tirelessly and maintained focus. Congratulations to all involved,” said Senior Transaction Director Matthew Kekelis, Benchmark International. Americas: Sam Smoot at +1 (813) 898 2350 / Smoot@BenchmarkIntl.com Europe: Michael Lawrie at +44 (0) 161 359 4400 / Lawrie@BenchmarkIntl.com Africa: Anthony McCardle at +27 21 300 2055 / McCardle@BenchmarkIntl.com ABOUT BENCHMARK INTERNATIONAL: Benchmark International is a global M&A firm that provides business owners with creative, value-maximizing solutions for growing and exiting their businesses. Benchmark International has handled over $11 billion in transaction value across various industries from offices across the world. With decades of M&A experience, Benchmark International’s transaction teams have assisted business owners with achieving their objectives and ensuring the continued growth of their businesses. The firm has also been named the Investment Banking Firm of the Year by The M&A Advisor and the Global M&A Network as well as the #1 Sell-side Exclusive Privately-held M&A Advisor in the World by Pitchbook and Refinitiv's Global League Tables. Contact Details Brittney Zoeller +1 813-898-2350 zoeller@benchmarkintl.com Company Website https://www.benchmarkintl.com/

February 26, 2024 11:12 AM Eastern Standard Time

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archTIS achieves record revenue growth

archTIS Ltd

archTIS Ltd (ASX:AR9) CEO Daniel Lai joins Jonathan Jackson in the Proactive studio to discuss the company's impressive half-year performance. Lai shares insights into the factors driving revenue growth and the key contributors to these record results. He also sheds light on the company's approach to enhancing cost efficiency and reducing expenses. With a strong focus on new client acquisition, Lai explains what makes archTIS an attractive choice for clients and delves into recent advancements in their products, Kojensi and NC Protect. Finally, Lai talks about archTIS being honoured as Cyber Business of the Year for the second year in a row and provides a glimpse into what investors can look forward to in the next financial half of the year. The financial results for the half year ended December 31, 2023, show record-breaking revenue growth across both licensing and services revenue, continued annual recurring revenue traction, increased customer receipts and a reduction in operating expenses. During the first half of FY24, archTIS alsi continued to achieve strong customer adoption across key vertical markets and geographies. Contact Details Proactive Investors Jonathan Jackson +61 413 713 744 jonathan@proactiveinvestors.com

February 26, 2024 11:10 AM Eastern Standard Time

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Great Republic Mining finishes geophysics program at Porcher Island Property

Great Republic Mining

Great Republic Mining Corporation CEO Fred Davidson joined Steve Darling from Proactive to share the results of the company's 2023 prospecting, sampling, and ground geophysics program on the Porcher Island Vanadium-Titanium-Iron Property in British Columbia. Davidson highlighted that the field program successfully expanded the discoveries of Vanadium mineralization on the Porcher Island Property, which is strategically located on tidewater, just 40 kilometers from the deepwater, all-season port of Prince Rupert. During the program, 30 rock samples were taken, with values ranging up to 0.17% V, equivalent to 0.303% V205. Additionally, the company utilized 2019 airborne magnetic geophysics data, confirming several distinct high magnetic anomalies. Ground magnetics were also conducted, covering 5 line-km in a core area, revealing numerous localized magnetic highs for future exploration. The results from the 2023 field program confirmed the potential for mineralization of a large-scale stratified Vanadium-Iron-Titanium system on the Porcher Island Property. Historic airborne magnetics surveys also highlighted two other areas, measuring 2.5 by 4.5km and 2 by 3km respectively, which were sampled and returned anomalous vanadium values, warranting further follow-up exploration efforts. Contact Details Proactive North America Proactive North America +1 604-688-8158 NA-editorial@proactiveinvestors.com

February 26, 2024 10:44 AM Eastern Standard Time

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Clearmind Medicine receives Patent Approval in China for treatment of binge behaviours

Clearmind Medicine Inc

Clearmind Medicine Inc CEO Dr. Adi Zuloff-Shani joined Steve Darling from Proactive to announce a significant milestone for the company: the granting of divisional patent approval by the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA). This latest patent approval solidifies Clearmind's patent protection for its flagship molecule and further establishes its extensive intellectual property (IP) protection in the psychedelic space. Clearmind's IP portfolio now encompasses fifteen utility patent families, including patents and applications with method of use and composition of matter claims. This includes 24 pending patent applications and 27 granted patents in key jurisdictions such as the US, Europe, China, and India. The company's robust IP portfolio positions it as a leader in the development of innovative treatments in the psychedelic field. Dr. Zuloff-Shani provided insights into Clearmind's flagship molecule, MEAI, which has shown promise in reducing the desire to consume alcoholic beverages while inducing a slight euphoric, alcohol-like experience. This treatment targets Alcohol Use Disorder, a prevalent condition characterized by an individual's inability to control their alcohol consumption despite negative consequences. MEAI also holds potential in addressing binge drinking, offering hope for individuals struggling with this harmful addiction. Clearmind plans to commence clinical trials for alcohol use disorder, expand their IP portfolio, and explore M E's potential in treating obesity. With collaborations with esteemed institutions like Johns Hopkins and Yale, Clearmind aims to revolutionize addiction treatment and offer innovative solutions to societal challenges. Stay tuned for their exciting developments in 2024. Contact Details Proactive North America Proactive North America +1 604-688-8158 NA-editorial@proactiveinvestors.com

February 26, 2024 10:37 AM Eastern Standard Time

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Cardiff Lexington CEO Alex Cunningham Discusses Healthcare Growth Strategy

Cardiff Lexington Corporation

Cardiff Lexington CEO Alex Cunningham joined Steve Darling from Proactive to discuss the company's transformation into an acquisition-oriented healthcare firm with a focus on orthopedic surgery centers. Cardiff Lexington's revenue primarily stems from bodily injury and general liability insurance coverages, providing insulation from pricing downsides associated with Medicare and Medicaid. Cunningham emphasized the unique accounts receivable structure of the company, along with its focus on uninsured coverages, which contribute to maintaining high collectability rates. He also highlighted the increasing demand for orthopedic services driven by an aging population, positioning Cardiff Lexington for growth in this market. The company's recent financial performance showed significant increases in revenue, net earnings, and assets, reflecting its strategic focus and operational efficiency. Looking ahead to 2024, Cardiff Lexington plans to continue its expansion through acquisitions, market expansion initiatives, and strategic partnerships. Furthermore, Cunningham mentioned the company's plans to release its 10k in early March and pursue an uplift to a major exchange in 2024, with a clear focus on enhancing shareholder value and achieving strategic growth objectives. Contact Details Proactive North America Proactive North America +1 604-688-8158 NA-editorial@proactiveinvestors.com

February 26, 2024 10:32 AM Eastern Standard Time

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