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BURLINGTON, Vt., Dec. 14, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Seventh Generation, a leading household and personal care products company and pioneer in the environmentally conscious products space, today announced a five-year partnership with Alterra Mountain Company, a family of year-round mountain destinations. Under the agreement, SVG will provide a full range of Seventh Generation Professional cleaning and disinfectant products.

Starting this month, Seventh Generation will be the preferred front of house cleaning supplier for Alterra Mountain Company’s North American destinations, including Steamboat and Winter Park Resort in Colorado; Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows, Mammoth Mountain, June Mountain and Big Bear Mountain Resort in California; Stratton and Sugarbush Resort in Vermont; Snowshoe in West Virginia; Tremblant in Quebec; Blue Mountain in Ontario; Crystal Mountain in Washington; and Deer Valley Resort and Solitude Mountain Resort in Utah through October 31, 2025.

Considering the COVID-19 pandemic’s far-reaching impact, travelers today place a heightened importance on hygiene and are actively looking for transparency and trust in the standard of cleanliness in all aspects of their journey – from their hotel to the ski lodge to chairlifts. This feeling of trust will be integral to the continued success of major resorts and ski seasons to come.

“The mountains are a place where people travel to feel safe in the great outdoors. This season, Alterra Mountain Company is aptly placing an even larger emphasis on cleaning and disinfecting protocols at their ski resorts to offer the best guest experience and comfort level possible,” said Joe Giallanella, Marketing Lead for Vermont-based Seventh Generation Professional. “This aligns with the mission of Seventh Generation and we are excited to provide a level of increased security with our suite of effective, plant-based and botanical disinfectant products to those who work and visit these ski destinations at a time when thoughtful cleanliness is more important than ever before.”

Through this partnership, Alterra Mountain Company will procure cleaning supplies from Seventh Generation through each resort’s broadline distributor. Alterra Mountain Company’s resorts will feature Seventh Generation’s Professional line of bio-based cleaning and botanical disinfectant products, including:

Dishwasher Detergent Powder	Glass & Surface Cleaner
Disinfecting Bathroom Cleaner	Granite & Stone Cleaner
Disinfecting Kitchen Cleaner	Hand Wash
Disinfecting Wipes	Wood Cleaner
Floor Cleaner

Seventh Generation’s Disinfecting Cleaners, Wipes and Sprays with CleanWell® INSIDE kill 99.9% of household germs botanically, including cold and flu viruses (refer to product label for details) and are included on EPA’s List N of disinfectants for Coronavirus (COVID-19 virus). In addition, Seventh Generation’s Professional line of cleaning products holds commercial cleaning industry employees’ on-going health a priority, by providing authentic products and disclosing ingredients right on the product label.

“Alterra Mountain Company places the well-being of our employees, guests and communities as a top priority and in times of uncertainty, hope to create an environment that not only sparks joy, but security as well,” said Ryan Blanchard, Director of Brand Partnerships, Alterra Mountain Company. “Seventh Generation’s partnership not only means we can help ensure both for seasons to come, but that we can do so sustainably.”

Today, businesses share an integral responsibility to generate positive change through business decision-making. This partnership builds on that mission, demonstrating not only a positive impact on the health of Alterra Mountain Company employees and guests, but on the planet as well. Alterra Mountain Company’s commitment to green cleaning is a step in the right direction for sustainable hospitality.

About Seventh Generation

For more than 30 years, it’s been Seventh Generation’s mission to help you protect your world with our environmentally conscious and effective household products. Our products are solutions for the air, surfaces, fabrics, pets and people within your home — and for the community and environment outside of it. Seventh Generation offers a full line of laundry, dish and household cleaners, baby products including Free & Clear diapers, training pants and baby wipes, plus recycled paper products and recycled plastic trash bags, personal care products such as deodorant and body wash and period care products including Organic certified tampons. The company derives its name from the Great Law of the Iroquois Confederacy that states, “In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations.” For information on Seventh Generation cleaning, paper, baby and feminine personal care products, to find store locations, and explore the company’s website visit www.seventhgeneration.com.

About Alterra Mountain Company

Alterra Mountain Company is a family of 15 iconic year-round destinations, including the world’s largest heli-ski operation, offering the Ikon Pass, the new standard in season passes. The company owns and operates a range of recreation, hospitality, real estate development, food and beverage and retail businesses. Headquartered in Denver, Colorado, with destinations across the continent, Alterra Mountain Company is rooted in the spirit of the mountains and united by a passion for outdoor adventure. Alterra Mountain Company’s family of diverse playgrounds spans six U.S. states and three Canadian provinces: Steamboat and Winter Park Resort in Colorado; Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows, Mammoth Mountain, June Mountain and Big Bear Mountain Resort in California; Stratton and Sugarbush Resort in Vermont; Snowshoe in West Virginia; Tremblant in Quebec, Blue Mountain in Ontario; Crystal Mountain in Washington; Deer Valley Resort and Solitude Mountain Resort in Utah; and CMH Heli-Skiing & Summer Adventures in British Columbia.  Also included in the portfolio is Alpine Aerotech, a worldwide helicopter support and maintenance service center in British Columbia, Canada. Alterra Mountain Company honors each destination’s unique character and authenticity and celebrates the legendary adventures and enduring memories they bring to everyone. For more information, please visit www.alterramtnco.com.

Brandi Thomas
[email protected]

As new locations thrive in bordering markets such as Texas and Alaska, historic burger and wings brand moves into the heart of central Louisiana

LOUISIANA, Dec. 14, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — FAT (Fresh. Authentic. Tasty.) Brands Inc., parent company of Fatburger, Buffalo’s Express, and seven other restaurant concepts, announces the opening of a new co-branded Fatburger and Buffalo’s Express in Alexandria, LA.

“Louisianians know delicious food, and we expect to instantly become a local favorite as we open for the first time in the state,” said Andy Wiederhorn, CEO of FAT Brands. “We see enormous potential as we move into the up-and-coming city of Alexandria, especially after our great successes in outer markets.”

Ever since the first Fatburger opened in Los Angeles over 70 years ago, the chain has been known for its delicious, grilled-to-perfection and cooked to order burgers. Founder Lovie Yancey believed that a big burger with everything on it is a meal in itself. And at Fatburger “everything” is not just the usual lettuce, tomato, onion, mayo, mustard, pickles and relish. Burgers can be customized with everything from bacon and eggs to chili, jalapenos and onion rings. In addition to its famous burgers, the Fatburger menu also includes Fat and Skinny fries, sweet potato fries, scratch-made onion rings, IMPOSSIBLE^™ burgers, turkeyburgers, chicken sandwiches, and hand scooped milkshakes made from 100% real ice cream.

From the Buffalo’s Express menu, patrons can choose bone-in or boneless wings accompanied by a range of sauces including Scorchin’, Carolina Fire BBQ, Asian Sesame, Coconut Jerk, Honey Garlic, and Sweet Bourbon BBQ. All of Buffalo’s Express menu wings are accompanied by celery, carrots, and blue cheese, ranch or honey mustard dressing.

The Alexandria Fatburger and Buffalo’s Express is located at 114 Versailles Blvd., Alexandria, LA 71303 and will be open Sunday – Thursday from 10:30am – 10:00pm and Friday – Saturday from 10:30am – 11:00pm.

For more information or to find a Fatburger near you, please visit www.fatburger.com.

For more information or to find a Buffalo’s Express near you, please visit www.buffalos.com.

About FAT (Fresh. Authentic. Tasty.) Brands

FAT Brands (NASDAQ: FAT) is a leading global franchising company that strategically acquires, markets and develops fast casual and casual dining restaurant concepts around the world. The Company currently owns nine restaurant brands: Fatburger, Johnny Rockets, Buffalo’s Cafe, Buffalo’s Express, Hurricane Grill & Wings, Elevation Burger, Yalla Mediterranean and Ponderosa and Bonanza Steakhouses, and franchises over 675 units worldwide. For more information, please visit www.fatbrands.com.

About Fatburger

An all-American, Hollywood favorite, Fatburger is a fast-casual restaurant serving big, juicy, tasty burgers, crafted specifically to each customer’s liking. With a legacy spanning 70 years, Fatburger’s extraordinary quality and taste inspire fierce loyalty amongst its fan base, which includes a number of A-list celebrities and athletes. Featuring a contemporary design and ambience, Fatburger offers an unparalleled dining experience, demonstrating the same dedication to serving gourmet, homemade, custom-built burgers as it has since 1952 – The Last Great Hamburger Stand^™.

About Buffalo’s Express

Founded in 1985 in Roswell, Georgia, Buffalo’s Express is a fast-casual chain known for its world-famous chicken wings and proprietary wing sauces. Co-branded with over 100 Fatburger restaurants to date, Buffalo’s Express’ significant growth can be attributed to its high-quality menu offerings and unparalleled dining experience. Featuring a contemporary design and ambience, whether guests are dining-in or having take-out/delivery, Buffalo’s Express offers friends and families the flexibility to enjoy their world-famous chicken wings however they prefer. Buffalo’s Express – Where Everyone is Family^™.

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CONTACT:

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[email protected]
862-246-9911

San Diego, California, Dec. 14, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Tesoro Enterprises, Inc. (OTCMKT: TSNP) HUMBL announced today the launch of its HUMBL Holiday Deal Days merchant campaign. Upon signing up for a HUMBL^® Pay account, customers will be able to shop the HUMBL Marketplace for highly curated holiday deals, coupon codes and affiliate discount links in shopping verticals like electronics, health, beauty, home, fashion, fitness, and kids.

The HUMBL Deal Days campaign enables HUMBL^® Pay global customers to shop online hassle-free by locating the best deals on the internet while avoiding broken links, fake merchandise and expired coupon codes. Current deals include curated links to holiday discounts on trusted brands such as Apple^®, Microsoft^®, Samsung^®, Sony^®, Target^®, Best Buy^® and ULTA Beauty^®.

“What we learned from studying the AliPay^™ model is that seamless engagement across Alibaba^® Marketplace and AliPay^™ merchant channels, was critical to the user growth of their platforms in China,” said Jennifer Edgerton, VP, Omni-Channel Marketing of HUMBL.

“HUMBL^® Pay online customers have told us they want to find great prices and offers, conveniently, in one place, and HUMBL merchants need to make sales year-round; that is our goal with the HUMBL Marketplace and it will expand with us into the global markets.”

The HUMBL Marketplace will also be exploring HUMBL affiliate email programs, flash sales and the development of more seamless checkout technologies via a HUMBL^® Pay website module and potential one-touch checkout partners.

The HUMBL Holidays program will run through from December 14, 2020 through January 4, 2021 and will be followed by regularly scheduled merchant discounts and offers on www.HUMBLpay.com.

About HUMBL, Inc.

The mission of HUMBL, Inc. is to deliver more seamless digital pairing experiences for consumers and merchants in the global economy. The HUMBL platform includes the HUMBL^® Mobile App, HUMBL Hubs^™ Merchant Software and the HUMBL Marketplace.

The HUMBL^® Mobile App delivers more seamless global transactions, by integrating multiple currencies, payment methods and financial services into one-click for the customer, beyond primarily US only mobile wallet providers such as Zelle^® and Venmo^®.

The HUMBL Hubs^™ merchant software and point-of-sale (POS) pairs customers and merchants together to use contactless payment technologies, helping merchants in majority cash economies to do things like accept debit cards, credit cards and USD stablecoins from HUMBL^® mobile wallet users.

The HUMBL Marketplace will connect customers and merchants online, in improved global commerce, deal discovery and HUMBL Pay merchant checkout programs.

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This release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. You can identify these statements by the use of the words “may,” “will,” “should,” “plans,” “expects,” “anticipates,” “continue,” “estimates,” “projects,” “intends,” and similar expressions. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause results to differ materially from those projected or anticipated. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the Company’s ability to successfully execute its expanded business strategy, including by entering into definitive agreements with suppliers, commercial partners and customers; general economic and business conditions, effects of continued geopolitical unrest and regional conflicts, competition, changes in technology and methods of marketing, delays in completing various engineering and manufacturing programs, changes in customer order patterns, changes in product mix, continued success in technical advances and delivering technological innovations, shortages in components, production delays due to performance quality issues with outsourced components, regulatory requirements and the ability to meet them, government agency rules and changes, and various other factors beyond the Company’s control.

CONTACT:

HUMBL, LLC
[email protected]

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SASKATOON, Saskatchewan, Dec. 14, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Cameco (TSX: CCO; NYSE: CCJ) announced today that it will be temporarily suspending production at its Cigar Lake uranium mine in northern Saskatchewan over the coming weeks due to the increasing risks posed by the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

Saskatchewan is experiencing a significant negative trend in the pandemic, which is leading to increased uncertainty for the continuous operation of Cigar Lake, due in part to access to qualified operational personnel. We will continue to carefully monitor the provincial COVID-19 situation, especially in northern Saskatchewan, as well as the impacts on our communities and the availability of employees and contractors to travel to Cigar Lake.

“The safety of our workers, their families and communities is our top priority,” said Cameco President and CEO Tim Gitzel. “We have had six positive tests at our northern operations in recent weeks, including three at Cigar Lake. While the protocols we have put in place have to date allowed us to effectively manage these cases, there are broader risks we don’t control. Therefore, we believe it is prudent to do our part to continue to protect our people and our operations from the increasing threats that are outside our influence.

“One of the most challenging trends we’ve had to navigate is the shrinking availability of workers in critical roles at Cigar Lake due to self-isolations, absenteeism and communities being on temporary pause for transporting workers due to the pandemic.”

At the peak of production this fall, there were about 300 workers on-site at Cigar Lake. As a result of this decision, we will be placing the mine in a safe state of care and maintenance and there will be a significant reduction in personnel. We expect the enhanced health and safety protocols already in place and the decreased activities at site will ensure we can continue to work safely.

Cameco will continue to have regular dialogue with public health authorities and northern leaders in Saskatchewan.

“Having Cigar Lake operating was always part of our strategy,” Gitzel said. “The costs of care and maintenance are not insignificant, and you saw that impact in our third quarter results. Therefore, the restart conditions for Cigar Lake are not the same as we have laid out for McArthur River. The timing of the restart and the production rate will depend on how the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting the availability of the required workforce at Cigar Lake, how cases are trending in Saskatchewan, in particular in northern communities, and the views of public health authorities.

“Due to the suspension, we plan to increase our purchases in the market to secure uranium we need to meet our sales commitments,” Gitzel said. “COVID-19 has taught us many lessons, including that the pandemic is a greater risk to uranium supply than to uranium demand.”

We expect our business to be resilient. Our deliveries to date have not been materially impacted by COVID-19, nor do we expect there will be a material impact on our remaining 2020 deliveries. At September 30, 2020, Cigar Lake had produced 2.3 million pounds (Cameco’s share) of uranium concentrates. However, due to the temporary production suspension, we do not expect to achieve 5.3 million pounds (our share) of production for 2020.

There will be costs associated with this temporary production suspension. While Cigar Lake is on care and maintenance, we expect to incur costs of between $8 million and $10 million per month, which will be expensed directly to cost of sales. We may also incur additional costs related to the purchase of uranium, which comes at a higher cost than our production. Given the timing of the suspension, we do not expect these costs would begin to impact our results until the first quarter of 2021.

Our balance sheet remains strong and we expect to have the financial capacity to manage the disruptions to our operations caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. As of September 30, 2020, we had $793 million in cash and short-term investments and $1 billion in long-term debt. In addition, we have a $1 billion undrawn credit facility. We expect our cash balances and operating cash flows to meet our capital requirements for the remainder of 2020, and therefore do not anticipate drawing on our credit facility in 2020.

The Cigar Lake operation is owned by Cameco (50.025%), Orano Canada Inc. (37.1%), Idemitsu Canada Resources Ltd. (7.875%) and TEPCO Resources Inc. (5.0%) and is operated by Cameco.

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Cameco is one of the largest global providers of the uranium fuel needed to energize a clean-air world. Our competitive position is based on our controlling ownership of the world’s largest high-grade reserves and low-cost operations. Utilities around the world rely on our nuclear fuel products to generate power in safe, reliable, carbon-free nuclear reactors. Our shares trade on the Toronto and New York stock exchanges. Our head office is in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

Caution Regarding Forward-Looking Information and Statements

This news release includes statements and information about our expectations for the future, which we refer to as forward-looking information. Forward-looking information is based on our current views, which can change significantly, and actual results and events may be significantly different from what we currently expect.

Examples of forward-looking information in this news release include: the plan to suspend production at Cigar Lake temporarily; our intention to carefully monitor the COVID-19 situation and its impact; our expectations regarding placing the mine in a safe state of care and maintenance, the reduction in the number of workers required at the mine, and their ability to continue to work safely; our plan to continue a regular dialogue with public health authorities and northern leaders in Saskatchewan; the factors that will affect the timing of the restart and the production rate; our intention to increase our uranium purchases in the market due to the suspension to meet our sales commitments, the expected additional costs of such purchases, and our expectation that these costs would not impact our results until 2021; our expectation that our business will be resilient, and that there will not be a material impact on our remaining 2020 deliveries; the statement that we do not expect to achieve 5.3 million pounds (our share) of production for 2020; our expectation regarding the monthly costs that we will incur while Cigar Lake is on care and maintenance; and our expectations regarding our financial capacity to manage the disruptions to operations caused by COVID-19, the sufficiency of our cash balances and operating cash flows, and that we will not draw on our credit facility in 2020.

Material risks that could lead to different results include: implementation of the suspension at the Cigar Lake mine may be delayed, or we may not be able to implement the suspension as planned; once commenced, the suspension may continue for an extended period, due to the factors we have identified as relevant to the timing of the restart, or other factors; we may be unable to fully monitor the COVID-19 situation and its impact as it develops; the risk that more workers than expected may be required at the mine during the suspension, and that sufficient workers may not be available; risks of safety incidents and risks to the health of workers at our Saskatchewan operations; we may be unable to increase our uranium purchases in the market at the prices we expect, and the timing of the impact of the increased costs of these purchases on our results; the risk that our business may not be as resilient as we expect in managing or recovering from the disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic; the risk of a material impact on our remaining 2020 deliveries; the possibility that the monthly costs of keeping Cigar Lake in care and maintenance may be higher than we expect; and the risk that we may be required to draw on our credit facility to manage disruptions to our business caused by COVID-19.

In presenting this forward-looking information, we have made assumptions which may prove incorrect, including assumptions regarding the timing, number of workers and other requirements to implement and safely maintain the suspension at Cigar Lake; our ability to fully assess the COVID-19 situation and its impact as it develops and the factors that will affect the timing of the restart; our ability to purchase uranium in the market at the prices we expect, and the impact of the additional costs of such purchases; our ability to satisfy our remaining 2020 deliveries; and the resiliency of our business in managing and recovering from the disruptions caused by COVID-19 without drawing on our credit facility.

Forward-looking information is designed to help you understand management’s current views of our near-term and longer-term prospects, and it may not be appropriate for other purposes. We will not necessarily update this information unless we are required to by securities laws.

Qualified Person

The above scientific and technical information relating to the Cigar Lake uranium mining operation was approved by Lloyd Rowson, general manager, Cigar Lake, Cameco.

Investor inquiries:

Rachelle Girard
306-956-6403
[email protected]

Media inquiries:

Jeff Hryhoriw
306-385-5221
[email protected]

BURLINGTON, Mass., Dec. 14, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Sophos, a global leader in next-generation cybersecurity, today announced that Sophos Managed Threat Response (MTR) has been named Best Managed Security Services Offering by Channel Partner Insight. Sophos MTR is a winner in the Channel Innovation Awards, which honor organizations for innovative offerings that advance the managed services market into new opportunities and growth.

“Cybercriminals and other threat actors are unrelenting and unmerciful as they continue to target operations of all shapes and sizes, and as evidenced in the Sophos 2021 Threat Report, attackers will continue to get bolder and smarter in the year ahead. It’s critical that organizations – and the partners that they rely on – can not only detect increasingly evasive threats, but also respond to them quickly to minimize harm,” said Joe Levy, chief technology officer at Sophos. “Sophos has long led the industry, and is widely recognized for setting the standard for channel-optimized cybersecurity. Now, we’re tearing down barriers to proactive, human-led security operations, making managed detection and response (MDR) and incident response services available to businesses of all sizes. Sophos’ managed security services answer a growing market need for always-on security, and enable partners to easily start or expand their existing offerings.”

Sophos MTR is a fully-managed threat hunting, detection and response service that fuses machine learning with human analysis for an evolved approach to proactive security protection. It combines Sophos’ consistently top-rated endpoint protection and intelligent EDR with a world-class team of experts to neutralize the most sophisticated and complex threats that can go undetected. Launched in October 2019, Sophos MTR is now one of the industry’s most widely used managed detection and response (MDR) services with more than 1,600 customers, standing apart with its ability to proactively take action on an organization’s behalf to mitigate threats in real time.

Sophos Rapid Response, as part of Sophos MTR, launched in October 2020 as an industry-first, fixed-fee remote incident response service that identifies and neutralizes active cybersecurity attacks throughout its 45-day term of engagement. Sophos Rapid Response quickly stops security incidents – including ransomware, network breaches, hands-on keyboard adversaries, and more – to minimize damage and costs, and reduce recovery time.

“It has been an incredibly challenging year for the North American channel in 2020. Despite facing adversity, the winners at the Channel Innovation Awards are a testament to how MSPs and the vendors that support them can be a force for good for their customers and wider communities,” said Josh Budd, Channel Partner Insight editor. 

Additional Resources

• Learn how Sophos Managed Threat Response blocked a $15M ransomware attack
• See how Sophos Managed Threat Response dissected a new wave of Ryuk attacks
• To help stop ransomware attacks, read the five early indicators an attacker is present
• To learn more about cybersecurity trends, read Sophos’ 2021 Threat Report
• Read the latest security news and views on Sophos‘ award-winning news website Naked Security and on Sophos News
• Connect with Sophos on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Spiceworks, and YouTube

About Sophos

As a worldwide leader in next-generation cybersecurity, Sophos protects more than 400,000 organizations of all sizes in more than 150 countries from today’s most advanced cyber threats. Powered by SophosLabs and SophosAI – a global threat intelligence and data science team – Sophos’ cloud-native and AI-powered solutions secure endpoints (laptops, servers and mobile devices) and networks against evolving cyberattack techniques, including ransomware, malware, exploits, data exfiltration, active-adversary breaches, phishing, and more. Sophos Central, a cloud-native management platform, integrates Sophos’ entire portfolio of next-generation products, including the Intercept X endpoint solution and the XG next-generation firewall, into a single “synchronized security” system accessible through a set of APIs. Sophos has been driving a transition to next-generation cybersecurity, leveraging advanced capabilities in cloud, machine learning, APIs, automation, managed threat response, and more, to deliver enterprise-grade protection to any size organization. Sophos sells its products and services exclusively through a global channel of more than 53,000 partners and managed service providers (MSPs). Sophos also makes its innovative commercial technologies available to consumers via Sophos Home. The company is headquartered in Oxford, U.K. More information is available at www.sophos.com.

About
Channel Partner Insight

Channel Partner Insight provides leaders of resellers, distributors, MSPs and other specialist consultancies with exclusive analysis of the fast-changing channel sector in Europe and the US, helping them to make smarter business decisions. The transatlantic title, launched in 2019, is owned by London-based Incisive Media. With journalists based in the UK and the US, CPI provides high-quality journalism for channel business leaders, taking a uniquely transatlantic view on the market.

Hanah Johnson, [email protected]

NEW YORK, Dec. 14, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Jane and Daniel Och Family Foundation (JADOFF) is pleased to announce a new matching gift campaign in support of School in the Square, and its newly opened elementary school Dos Amigos and the community of students and families they serve.

Jane and Daniel Och have been long-time supporters of School in the Square and believe now, more than ever, resources are needed to create safe, stable and inclusive educational environments. For the next four years, JADOFF will match one dollar for every three dollars pledged to and received by the program, for a total grant of up to $1.6 million.

Evan Meyers, Executive Director of School in the Square, “These are unprecedented times and we are extremely grateful for the involvement of the Och family in our community and their partnership in supporting the school. We would not have been able to launch and thrive in the midst of this pandemic without them. Throughout our elementary school and our middle school we are seeing a desire and need for students to attend class in person, and for their families to access early drop off and after-school programs. The fact that a large number of our students stay for after-school is a testament to how much families depend on the school.”

Added Meyers, “With all we are doing we are becoming an anchor institution in Washington Heights and Inwood and we will continue giving our students the environment they need and the family support programs that positively impact the community at large. We thank all those that have the ability to donate to our program.”

Jane and Daniel Och said, “We are proud to have been founding donors to School in the Square and believe in their mission to empower and educate children and adolescents. Given all that has occurred in 2020 and the uncertainty in the path ahead, we are focused on ensuring that Evan and his exceptional team of staff have the resources needed to serve the students and ensure they can operate at the highest level for the long-term. We believe the matching grant program over the next four years will be extremely motivational for the school, its students and the community-based programs that have quickly established the school as a true community partner.”

For those interested in supporting School in the Square and participating in the JADOFF matching gift campaign, please go to:

https://schoolinthesquare.networkforgood.com/projects/112605-s2-giving-tuesday

For corporate partnerships or individuals wanting to learn more about supporting or direct involvement with School in the Square, please contact:

Mayela Calderon
Director of Development and Communications
[email protected]
214.228.7851

About School in the Square

S2 is a place where students, families, and educators are seen, heard, and inspired and where students build the academic foundations, emotional intelligence and leadership skills necessary to excel in their futures. S2 draws its name from the concept of the public square, where communities gather to solve problems and celebrate successes. For more information visit: www.schoolinthesquare.org

CASTLE ROCK, Colo., Dec. 14, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Where Food Comes From, Inc. (WFCF) (OTCQB: WFCFD), the most trusted resource for independent, third-party verification of food production practices in North America, today announced that CEO John Saunders will present to a live, virtual audience at the 13^th Annual LD Micro Main Event Conference on Tuesday, December 15, 2020, at 11:40 a.m. Eastern Time (9:40 a.m. Mountain Time).

WFCF stockholders and other investors can register online to view the presentation and Q&A session live at ve.mysequire.com/.

The Main Event will feature a new and unique format, with companies presenting for 10 minutes, followed by 10 minutes of Q&A by a panel of investors and analysts.

About Where Food Comes From, Inc.

Where Food Comes From, Inc. is America’s trusted resource for third party verification of food production practices.  Through proprietary technology and patented business processes, the Company supports more than 15,000 farmers, ranchers, vineyards, wineries, processors, retailers, distributors, trade associations, consumer brands and restaurants with a wide variety of value-added services. Through its IMI Global, International Certification Services, Validus Verification Services, SureHarvest, Postelsia, A Bee Organic and Sterling Solutions units, Where Food Comes From solutions are used to verify food claims, optimize production practices and enable food supply chains with analytics and data driven insights. In addition, the Company’s Where Food Comes From® retail and restaurant labeling program uses web-based customer education tools to connect consumers to the sources of the food they purchase, increasing meaningful consumer engagement for our clients. 

CAUTIONARY STATEMENT
This news release contains “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, based on current expectations, estimates and projections that are subject to risk. Forward-looking statements are inherently uncertain, and actual events could differ materially from the Company’s predictions. Important factors that could cause actual events to vary from predictions include those discussed in our SEC filings. Specifically, statements in this news release about industry leadership and plans for management to present at the LD Micro conference are forward-looking statements that are subject to a variety of factors, including availability of capital, personnel and other resources; competition; governmental regulation of the agricultural industry; the market for beef and other commodities; and other factors. Readers should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. The Company assumes no obligation to update its forward-looking statements to reflect new information or developments. For a more extensive discussion of the Company’s business, please refer to the Company’s SEC filings at www.sec.gov.

Company Contacts:

John Saunders
Chief Executive Officer
303-895-3002

Jay Pfeiffer
Pfeiffer High Investor Relations, Inc.
303-880-9000

OXFORD, United Kingdom, Dec. 14, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Sophos, a global leader in next-generation cybersecurity, today announced four new open Artificial Intelligence (AI) developments to help broaden and sharpen the industry’s defenses against cyberattacks, including datasets, tools and methodologies designed to advance industry collaboration and cumulative innovation. This move accelerates a key Sophos objective to open its data science breakthroughs and make the use of AI in cybersecurity more transparent, all with the aim of better protecting organizations against all forms of cybercrime.

While it is common practice to share AI methodologies and findings in other industries, cybersecurity has lagged in this effort, creating a noisy understanding of how AI truly provides protection against cyberthreats. Sophos and its team of SophosAI data scientists are catalyzing this change toward openness, so that IT managers, security analysts, CFOs, CEOs, and others making security buying or management decisions, can discuss and assess AI benefits from a level and well-informed playing field.

“With SophosAI’s new initiative to open its research, we can help influence how AI is positioned and discussed in cybersecurity moving forward. Today’s cacophony of opaque or guarded claims about the capabilities or efficacy of AI in solutions makes it difficult to impossible for buyers to understand or validate these claims. This leads to buyer skepticism, creating headwinds to future progress at the very moment we’re starting to see great breakthroughs,” said Joe Levy, chief technology officer, Sophos. “Correcting this through external mechanisms like standards or regulation won’t happen quickly enough. Instead, it requires a grassroots effort and self-policing within our community to produce a set of practices and language that will advance the industry in a disruptive, open and transparent manner.”

It is difficult to overstate the criticality of this shift given the immense potential of how AI can benefit cybersecurity. Sophos evidence shows that defenders are increasingly facing human adversaries who are constantly upping their game, launching highly contextualized Business Email Compromise (BEC) forgery campaigns or relentlessly developing new ransomware attacks. Scalable and effective defenses against these and most other types of cyberattacks require assistance from AI. Openness and peer review among those applying AI to address these security threats stimulate innovation and discoveries, driving the entire industry forward.

Sophos is providing datasets, tools and methodologies in four important areas:

SOREL-20M Dataset for Accelerating Malware Detection Research

SOREL-20M, a joint project between SophosAI and ReversingLabs, is a production-scale dataset containing metadata, labels and features for 20 million Windows Portable Executable files (PE). It includes 10 million disarmed malware samples available for download for the purpose of research on feature extraction to accelerate industry-wide improvements in security. This dataset is the first production scale malware research dataset available to the general public, with a curated and labelled set of samples and security-relevant metadata.

AI-powered Impersonation Protection Method

SophosAI’s Impersonation Protection is designed to protect against email spearphishingattacks, where influential people are impersonated to trick recipients into taking some harmful action for the benefit of the attacker. This new protection compares the display name of inbound emails against high level executive titles – those most likely to be spoofed in a spearphishing attack, such as a CEO, CFO or president – that are unique to specific organizations and flags these messages when they appear suspicious. Sophos has trained the AI working behind the scenes on a large sample set of millions of known attack emails. SophosAI has opened up this innovative new protection method, which it has also discussed publicly at Defcon 28 and in an Arxiv paper.

Digital Epidemiology to Determine Undetected Malware

SophosAI has also built a set of epidemiology-inspired statistical models for estimating the prevalence of malware infections in total, which enables Sophos to estimate – and in turn enabling a better chance to find – the needles in a PE file haystack. SophosAI has pioneered and made publicly available this method that helps to determine malicious “dark matter,” malware that might be missed or wrongly classified, and “future malware” that is in development by attackers. The model is designed to be extensible to other classes of files and information system artifacts and is also discussed in the Sophos 2021 Threat Report.

YaraML Automatic Signature Generation Tools

Signature generation for the detection of malware families is a laborious, manual process. Over the years, researchers have proposed a variety of automatic signature generation methods, most of which have not found adoption because they underperform manual methods. SophosAI has developed a new method for automatic signature generation, called YaraML, that’s significantly different from previous options by taking an AI based approach to the problem. SophosAI directly “compiles” full-fledged, industrial strength machine learning models, the kinds used in commercial security products, into signature languages, essentially allowing AI to “write” the signatures. This proves to be far more effective than previous approaches and represents a breakthrough for the security community. SophosAI has open-sourced YaraML.

These four advancements are the latest from SophosAI, which works creatively like a start-up incubator, but with the intellectual resources of a near billion-dollar global company, including SophosLabs, Sophos Managed Threat Response and hundreds of thousands of customers. Another advantage is that SophosAI can add new technology directly into shipping products. This model allows Sophos to react quickly to market needs, predict where the industry must head and advance openness for greater cybersecurity industry collaboration and innovation, all of which is essential when developing defenses against fast-moving adversaries.

Additional Resources

• To learn more about AI in cybersecurity, follow SophosAI’s blog and SophosAI on Twitter
• To learn more about SOREL 20M, read Sophos-ReversingLabs (SOREL) 20 Million Sample Malware Dataset
• To learn more about spearphishing, read Protecting Your Inbox from Phishing Impersonation
• To learn more about digital epidemiology, read How Much Malware is Out There Anyway
• To learn more about cybersecurity trends, read Sophos’ 2021 Threat Report
• To help stop ransomware attacks, read Five Early Indicators an Attacker is Present
• Read the latest security news and views on Sophos’ award-winning news website Naked Security and on Sophos News and SophosLabsUncut
• Connect with Sophos on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Spiceworks, and YouTube

About Sophos

As a worldwide leader in next-generation cybersecurity, Sophos protects more than 400,000 organizations of all sizes in more than 150 countries from today’s most advanced cyber threats. Powered by SophosLabs and SophosAI – a global threat intelligence and data science team – Sophos’ cloud-native and AI-powered solutions secure endpoints (laptops, servers and mobile devices) and networks against evolving cyberattack techniques, including ransomware, malware, exploits, data exfiltration, active-adversary breaches, phishing, and more. Sophos Central, a cloud-native management platform, integrates Sophos’ entire portfolio of next-generation products, including the Intercept X endpoint solution and the XG next-generation firewall, into a single “synchronized security” system accessible through a set of APIs. Sophos has been driving a transition to next-generation cybersecurity, leveraging advanced capabilities in cloud, machine learning, APIs, automation, managed threat response, and more, to deliver enterprise-grade protection to any size organization. Sophos sells its products and services exclusively through a global channel of more than 53,000 partners and managed service providers (MSPs). Sophos also makes its innovative commercial technologies available to consumers via Sophos Home. The company is headquartered in Oxford, U.K. More information is available at www.sophos.com. 

Hanah Johnson, [email protected]

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Dec. 14, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR), a leader in secure, AI-driven networks, today announced it will release preliminary financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year 2020 ended December 31, 2020 on Thursday, January 28, 2021 after the close of the market. The Company’s senior management will host a conference call that day at 2:00 pm PT.

Commentary by Ken Miller, chief financial officer, reviewing the Company’s fourth quarter and fiscal year 2020 financial results, as well as first quarter 2021 financial outlook, will be furnished to the SEC on Form 8-K and published on the Company’s website at http://investor.juniper.net. Analysts and investors are encouraged to review this commentary prior to participating in the conference call.

To listen to the conference call, the toll-free number is 877-407-8033, international callers dial +1-201-689-8033. Please dial in ten minutes prior to the scheduled conference call time

Virtual Investor Day

The Company will also host a Virtual Investor Day on Friday, February 12, 2021 via live webcast on the Juniper Networks’ website: http://investor.juniper.net/. Members of the executive team will present the Juniper Networks strategy, opportunity and financial outlook.

About Juniper Networks

Juniper Networks challenges the inherent complexity that comes with networking and security in the multicloud era. We do this with products, solutions and services that transform the way people connect, work and live. We simplify the process of transitioning to a secure and automated multicloud environment to enable secure, AI-driven networks that connect the world. Additional information can be found at Juniper Networks (www.juniper.net) or connect with Juniper on Twitter, LinkedIn or Facebook.

Juniper Networks, the Juniper Networks logo, Juniper, and Junos, and other trademarks listed here are registered trademarks of Juniper Networks, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the United States and other countries. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

Media Relations: Leslie Moore Juniper Networks (408) 936-5767 [email protected]		Investor Relations: Jess Lubert Juniper Networks (408) 936-3734 [email protected]

MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 14, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — KeyedIn announced the company will migrate the infrastructure that supports its cloud-based project portfolio management (PPM) solutions to Amazon Web Services (AWS), beginning in early 2021. KeyedIn is an industry leader in PPM solutions that support Agile Portfolio Management.

“We selected AWS as our hosting service because of its strong reputation for secure and stable services with high availability,” said Matt Muldoon, Chief Product Officer, KeyedIn. “In particular, AWS is a good fit for KeyedIn’s technology stack, giving our customers even more confidence around the stability and availability of an Agile Portfolio Management solution that enables them to place the right bets and turn quickly when opportunities or market threats arise.”

Importantly, the AWS data centers are available worldwide, allowing KeyedIn to continue to provide regional deployments, to accommodate customer requests to host their data within their country’s geographic borders. With the migration to AWS, KeyedIn can also introduce new deployment models, to further improve availability and performance.

The migration of KeyedIn Projects to AWS will be a phased in process, with UK data centers being transitioned starting January 2021. KeyedIn’s U.S. and Australian data centers will be migrated to AWS later in the year in 2021.

About KeyedIn


At KeyedIn, our mission is to make our customers more successful by empowering them to place the right bets, turn quickly and deliver faster. As a leader in Agile Portfolio Management, KeyedIn offers a suite of SaaS solutions that support business transformation, strategy realization and organizational change. The company’s award-winning products go beyond simple project management to encompass portfolio analysis, scenario modeling, capacity planning, product portfolio management, strategic resource management and more – supporting the evolving needs of PMOs, ePMOs and SROs. Join the hundreds of customers that have partnered with KeyedIn, including Walgreens Boots Alliance, Universal Electronics and Office Depot. For more information, visit www.keyedin.com, or contact 866-662-6820. 

For more media information, contact:
Lisa Hendrickson, LCH Communications for KeyedIn
[email protected]
516-767-8390