Hampton by Hilton Debuts New Hotel in San Antonio, Texas

December 7, 2017, 11:05 am

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Hotels guests will be near Lackland AFB and SeaWorld San Antonio

SAN ANTONIO (PRWEB) December 07, 2017

Baywood Hotels announced the opening of its newest property, in San Antonio. Each Hampton by Hilton offers warm surroundings, a friendly service culture and a staff that makes sure guests are 100 percent happy. Guaranteed ™.

Hampton Inn & Suites by Hilton San Antonio Lackland AFB SeaWorld has a total of 105 guest rooms (24 King Suites). Our hotel is located five miles from SeaWorld San Antonio and nine miles from Lackland AFB.

“Being nearly in the center between SeaWorld® of Texas and Lackland AFB, travelers will have easy access these locations and much, much more,” said April Galvan, general manager. “Additionally, our guests are surrounded by numerous restaurants and several shopping outlets giving them opportunities to enjoy the best San Antonio has to offer.”

Owned and developed by Baywood Hotels, Hampton Inn & Suites by Hilton San Antonio Lackland AFB SeaWorld offers guests value-added amenities such as free hot breakfast featuring delicious waffles and seasonal offerings and On the Run™ Breakfast Bags for the busy traveler. Additionally, its complimentary Wi-Fi, 24-hour business center and JumpStart Fitness Center are sure to set any guest on the right track. Each guestroom includes a microwave, mini-refrigerator, free cable channels and a coffeemaker. King Suites feature a sofa bed and a wet bar in addition to other standard amenities. The hotel also offers a 700 square foot meeting room that can accommodate up to 40 people and is equipped with an LCD projector, screen, sound and Wi-Fi.

Hampton Inn & Suites by Hilton San Antonio Lackland AFB near SeaWorld is part of Hilton Honors, the award-winning guest-loyalty program for Hilton’s fourteen distinct hotel brands. Hilton Honors members that book directly through preferred Hilton channels save time and money and gain instant access to the benefits they care about most, such as an exclusive member discount, free Wi-Fi and a flexible payment slider that allows members to choose nearly any combination of Points and money to book a stay. Members can also redeem their Points for free nights or to gain access to unique events through the Hilton Honors auction platform or to make purchases with at Amazon.com with Amazon Shop with Points.

For more information or to make reservations, please visit Hampton Inn & Suites by Hilton San Antonio Lackland AFB SeaWorld or call +1 210 674 0700.

Read more about Hampton by Hilton at http://www.hampton.com and http://www.news.hampton.com.

About Baywood Hotels
Established in 1975, Baywood Hotels, Inc. is a fast-growing and privately-owned hospitality management company, operating $1 billion in assets and employing over 2,500 associates nationwide. The company is headquartered in Greenbelt, MD, and has regional offices in Aurora, CO; Herndon, VA; Miami, FL; Pittsford, NY and San Antonio, TX. In each of its regions, the private hotel ownership company is consistently recognized as an innovative leader in the hotel industry, focusing on product concept and development and the outstanding management of its assets. The focused vision, strong values and aggressive long-range strategy of Baywood Hotels has helped the company develop reputable and well-branded hotels in areas where Baywood has competitive expertise and partnerships. Baywood Hotels’ portfolio includes well-known brands, such as Marriott, Hilton and InterContinental Hotels Group, as well as several independent brands. Contact us through Facebook or our website or connect with us on LinkedIn. Reported by PRWeb 1 day ago.

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Ziegler Hires Healthcare Investment Banker - Brian McGough Joins Firm in Chicago, IL Office

December 7, 2017, 2:30 pm

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Ziegler, an investment bank and full service brokerage firm, announced today the addition of Brian McGough as managing director to its healthcare investment banking team. Mr. McGough will reside in the Chicago corporate headquarters, focusing on structuring and delivery of investment banking products and services to not-for-profit healthcare clients.

CHICAGO (PRWEB) December 07, 2017

Ziegler, an investment bank and full service brokerage firm, announced today the addition of Brian McGough as managing director to its healthcare investment banking team. Mr. McGough will reside in the Chicago corporate headquarters, focusing on structuring and delivery of investment banking products and services to not-for-profit healthcare clients.

Mr. McGough stated, “I’m very excited to join the Ziegler team. The breadth of Ziegler’s healthcare franchise and the long-term, client-relationship driven culture ideally aligns with my historic investment banking practice as well as my future growth objectives.”

Over the course of his career, Mr. McGough has been responsible for a variety of financings and advisory transactions in excess of $30 billion including virtually every type of cash market and derivative structure. He has also provided advisory services ranging from long-term capital markets planning and debt capacity, to mergers and acquisitions, and asset-liability management strategies.

Prior to joining Ziegler, Mr. McGough has been involved with transactions for Aurora Health System, Fairbanks Memorial Hospital, Intermountain Health, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, All Children’s Medical Center, Sarasota Memorial Hospital, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Scripps Health and The University of Maryland Medical System, among others.

In addition, Mr. McGough led the healthcare investment banking practice at US Bank and BMO Capital Markets and was previously a senior banker at JP Morgan. He also practiced law with a national law firm in the areas of healthcare financing and mergers and acquisitions.

Dan Hermann, Senior Managing Director and Head of Investment Banking at Ziegler, stated, “Bringing Mr. McGough to Ziegler is a significant leap forward – not only for our Midwest presence, but also for our national healthcare investment banking practice. He has a long track record of successfully capturing, structuring and executing complex transactions while establishing himself as a deeply trusted advisor among clients.”

John Hanley, Managing Director and Head of Healthcare Investment Banking, stated, “I am thrilled to have Brian join our healthcare team. His addition reinforces our ongoing commitment to be one of the leading investment banks to the healthcare community. Brain has provided insightful advice to his clients through capital planning and strategic advice. He will now be able to include strategic investment opportunities through our private equity funds and relationships within our corporate finance practice.”

Ziegler is a premier investment bank to community and regional healthcare providers. For over 80 years, we have been assisting these organizations with creative, tailored financial solutions for their capital needs. Specializing in healthcare, Ziegler offers an array of services including investment banking, financial risk management, merger and acquisition services, as well as capital and strategic planning.

For more information about Ziegler, please visit us at http://www.ziegler.com.

About Ziegler:
Ziegler is a privately held investment bank, capital markets, wealth management and proprietary investments firm, celebrating its 115th anniversary this year. Ziegler is ranked No. 1 in the country in healthcare/senior living underwriters by issuance and No. 4 by par amount (Thomson Reuters, 2016), and is ranked in the top 20 municipal underwriters in the country by volume (Bloomberg, 2016). Specializing in the healthcare, senior living, education and religion sectors, as well as general municipal and structured finance enables Ziegler to generate a positive impact on the communities it serves. Headquartered in Chicago with regional and branch offices throughout the United States, Ziegler provides its clients with capital raising, strategic advisory services, equity and fixed income sales & trading, wealth management and research. To learn more, visit http://www.ziegler.com.

Certain comments in this news release represent forward-looking statements made pursuant to the provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. This client’s experience may not be representative of the experience of other clients, nor is it indicative of future performance or success. The forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, in particular, the overall financial health of the securities industry, the strength of the healthcare sector of the U.S. economy and the municipal securities marketplace, the ability of the Company to underwrite and distribute securities, the market value of mutual fund portfolios and separate account portfolios advised by the Company, the volume of sales by its retail brokers, the outcome of pending litigation, and the ability to attract and retain qualified employees. Reported by PRWeb 1 day ago.

Kaiser Permanente purchase gives it full ownership of Waterpark Campus

December 7, 2017, 4:26 pm

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California-based healthcare provider Kaiser Permanente has purchased two office properties for an undisclosed amount in Aurora. The two buildings, Waterpark II and III, were purchased by Matrix Group Inc. for $14 million in 2010. The sale of these two properties gives Kaiser Permanente full ownership of Waterpark Campus, as it already owned Waterpark I. The buildings are located at 2350 and 2550 S. Parker Road and total 210,8484 square feet. Waterpark II and III were built in 1982 and 1984,… Reported by bizjournals 1 day ago.

Gaylord Rockies hotel construction is 70% complete; here's a look (Photos)

December 7, 2017, 5:54 pm

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After an aggressive construction schedule involving some 1,300 temporary construction workers, builders of the Gaylord Rockies Resort & Convention Center in Aurora say they are 70 percent complete and should have no problem opening by late November 2018, as has been their plan. That fact is surprising largely because the 1,501-room hotel near Denver International Airport and its more than 2 million square feet is the largest lodging facility currently being constructed in the United States. The… Reported by bizjournals 1 day ago.

Chicago-area woman charged in financial exploitation case

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AURORA, Ill. (AP) — A 41-year-old suburban Chicago woman has been charged with stealing money from a resident of a long-term care facility while working for a state contractor. A Thursday statement from the Kane County state’s attorney’s office says Mary E. Pfingston, of Joliet, faces a multi-count indictment that includes charges of financial exploitation […] Reported by Seattle Times 23 hours ago.

Greffex, Inc. Elects Two New Board Members

December 8, 2017, 3:11 am

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Greffex, Inc., a company leading a paradigm shift in the design, development and production of vaccines, elected two new members to its board of directors.

AURORA, Colo. (PRWEB) December 08, 2017

Greffex, Inc., a company leading a paradigm shift in the design, development and production of vaccines, elected two new members to its board of directors on Monday. They are John D. White, founder and chairman of PSP Capital and former U.S. Ambassador to Qatar, Chase Untermeyer. Both are accomplished leaders and will bring significant global and national experience to Greffex, Inc.

“John and Chase are both strong leaders with impressive accomplishments and contributions that span across business and public service,” said John R. Price, Co-Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive of Greffex, Inc. “They will serve as valuable additions to the board.”

White is a fifth generation Texas rancher. After 25 years in the private practice of law, in Houston, he became involved in the formation and growth of start-up and early stage companies, primarily in the Energy sector. John currently serves on the Boards of four privately held companies and one publicly traded company. He serves as Chairman of three of the private company Boards. John was appointed by Former Texas Governor Rick Perry to serve on the Board of Regents of the Texas A&M University System. He was elected Chairman of the Board of Regents from 2005-2007 and Vice Chairman from 2007-2009. John is a Trustee of the George H. W. Bush Presidential Library Foundation.

White is also a Board member of the Houston Technology Center, The Greater Houston Partnership and Former Chairman of the Board of the Ed Rachal Foundation. In addition, he has
been involved in a number of civic and Texas A&M related organizations. He received a degree in Political Science from Texas A&M University and his law degree from the University of
Texas School of Law.

Ambassador Untermeyer, served as US ambassador to Qatar from 2004 to 2007. He is the founding chairman of the Qatar-America Institute, which aims to increase friendship between the two nations and strengthen the important Qatar-American relationship in energy, education, and security. QAI does this through symposiums, studies, trips to Qatar, exhibitions and other cultural events.

Ambassador Untermeyer is a l968 graduate of Harvard College with honors in government. He was a political reporter for the Houston Chronicle and executive assistant to the county judge (chief executive) of Harris County, Texas. In l976, he was elected to the first of two terms as a member of the Texas House of Representatives.

He resigned his seat to go to Washington in 1981 as executive assistant to then-Vice President Bush. In 1984, President Ronald Reagan appointed him Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Manpower and Reserve Affairs. During the first Bush Administration, he was assistant to the President for presidential personnel and director of the Voice of America.

He is currently an international business consultant, chairman of the Houston Committee on Foreign Relations, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Ambassador Untermeyer is the author of three volumes of diary-based memoirs of the Reagan-Bush era, “When Things Went Right”, “Inside Reagan’s Navy”, and “Zenith: In the White House with George HW Bush.” He has also published “How Important People Act: Behaving Yourself in Public.”

He is married to the former Diana Cumming Kendrick of Sheridan, Wyoming, whom he met in the White House. Their daughter Ellyson, a 2016 graduate of Stanford University, is affiliated with Thiel Capital in San Francisco.

Greffex is continuing to invent the future of vaccines and genetic medicine. Through innovative and proven technologies like the state-of-the-art, GREVAX™ Universal Platform, Greffex delivers vaccines in a fast, efficient and affordable manner, including new vaccine development within weeks. Greffex is an acknowledged leader in developing immediate response vaccines to pandemic threats.

Note to editors: For more information, news and perspectives from Greffex, Inc., please visit the Greffex, Inc. News Center at http://www.greffex.com/news. Web links, telephone numbers and titles were correct at time of publication, but may have changed. For additional assistance, journalists and analysts may contact Richard Slemaker, Greffex Inc. VP and General Manager of Marketing and Public Relations. Phone +1 713-545-8002 Email rwsiii(at)worldmediaplace(dot)com. Reported by PRWeb 16 hours ago.

Aurora’s Gaylord Rockies hotel, 70 percent complete, won’t disappoint on size and scope

December 8, 2017, 4:22 am

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It seems only fitting a project the size and scope of the Gaylord Rockies Resort and Convention Center should be home to a really big TV. Reported by Denver Post 14 hours ago.

Man found shot to death in Aurora parking lot

December 8, 2017, 8:03 am

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Aurora police are investing the homicide of a man discovered early Friday morning in the parking lot of the Cambrian Apartments Reported by Denver Post 11 hours ago.

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'Girls' writer at center of Lena Dunham backlash changes story about sexual assault accuser

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The "Girls" writer who was accused of sexual assault by actress Aurora Perrineau is retracting his claim which alleged Perrineau demanded money from him. Reported by FOXNews.com 9 hours ago.

The Aurora Australis, Or Southern Lights, Over South Pole Telescope

December 9, 2017, 7:59 pm

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Observations of two galaxies made with the National Science Foundation-funded Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) radio telescope suggest that large galaxies formed faster than scientists had previously thought.

The two galaxies, first discovered by the South Pole Telescope at NSF’s Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica, were massive and star-filled at a time when the cosmos was less than a billion years old.

The observation came as a surprise, considering astronomers had thought that the first galaxies, which formed just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang, were similar to today’s dwarf galaxies — collections of stars much smaller than the Milky Way. After a few billion years, these early, smaller galaxies became the building blocks of the larger galaxies that came to dominate the universe, scientists believed.

But the latest ALMA observations push this epoch of massive-galaxy formation back further into the past, as the two galaxies were giants when the universe was only 780 million years old. ALMA also revealed that these large galaxies were nestled inside an even-more-massive cosmic structure, a halo of dark matter several trillion times more massive than the sun. The discovery provides new details about the emergence of large galaxies and the role that dark matter plays in assembling the most massive structures in the universe.

The researchers report their findings in the journal Nature.

“With these exquisite ALMA observations, astronomers are seeing the most massive galaxy known in the first billion years of the Universe in the process of assembling itself,” said Dan Marrone, an associate professor of astronomy at the University of Arizona in Tucson and lead author on the paper, whose research received NSF support, including an NSF CAREER grant.

Viewing distant galaxies means looking back through time, in a sense. The energy from those objects takes so long to reach Earth that researchers today view events that occurred billions of years ago. The astronomy team captured data from these two galaxies as they were during a period of cosmic history known as the Epoch of Reionization, when most of intergalactic space was suffused with an obscuring fog of cold hydrogen gas. As more stars and galaxies formed, their energy eventually ionized the hydrogen between the galaxies, revealing the universe as we see it today.

The observations showed the two galaxies in such close proximity — less than the distance from the Earth to the center of our galaxy — that they were certainly on course to merge and form the largest galaxy ever observed in the Epoch of Reionization.

“We usually view that as the time of little galaxies working hard to chew away at the neutral intergalactic medium,” said Marrone. “Mounting observational evidence with ALMA, however, has helped to reshape that story and continues to push back the time at which truly massive galaxies first emerged in the universe.”

The galaxies that Marrone and his team studied, collectively known as SPT0311-58, were originally identified as a single luminous source by the 10-meter South Pole Telescope (SPT) survey. SPT is supported by NSF’s Office of Polar Programs, which manages the U.S. Antarctic Program.

“These discoveries are made possible by close cooperation between NSF’s Division of Astronomical Sciences and Office of Polar Programs, both supporting the ALMA and SPT facilities; such cooperation will be essential to achieving the goals of Windows on the Universe: The Era of Multi-messenger Astrophysics, one of the “10 Big Ideas for Future NSF Investments,” said Vladimir Papitashvili, NSF program director for Antarctic Astrophysics and Geospace Sciences.

These first observations indicated an object was very distant and glowing brightly in infrared light, meaning that it was extremely dusty and likely going through a burst of star formation. Subsequent observations with ALMA revealed the distance and dual nature of the object, clearly resolving the pair of interacting galaxies.

To make this observation, ALMA had some help from a gravitational lens, which provided an observing boost to the telescope. Gravitational lenses form when an intervening massive object, like a galaxy or galaxy cluster, bends the light from more distant galaxies. They do, however, distort the appearance of the object being studied, requiring sophisticated computer models to reconstruct the image as it would appear in its unaltered state.

This “de-lensing” process provided intriguing details about the galaxies, showing that the larger of the two is forming stars at a rate of 2,900 solar masses per year. It also contains about 270 billion times the mass of our sun in gas and nearly 3 billion times the mass of our sun in dust.

“That’s a whopping large quantity of dust, considering the young age of the system,” noted ALMA team member Justin Spilker, a recent graduate of the University of Arizona and now a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Texas at Austin.

The astronomers determined that this galaxy’s rapid star formation was likely triggered by a close encounter with its slightly smaller companion, which already hosts about 35 billion solar masses of stars and is increasing its rate of starburst at the breakneck pace of 540 solar masses per year.

The researchers note that galaxies of this earlier era are messier than the ones we see in the nearby universe. Their more jumbled shapes would be due to the vast stores of gas raining down on them and their ongoing interactions and mergers with their neighbors.

The new observations also allowed the researchers to infer the presence of a truly massive dark matter halo surrounding both galaxies. Dark matter provides the pull of gravity that causes the universe to collapse into structures (galaxies, groups and clusters of galaxies, etc.).

“If you want to see if a galaxy makes sense in our current understanding of cosmology, you want to look at the dark matter halo — the collapsed dark matter structure — in which it resides,” said Chris Hayward, an associate research scientist at the Center for Computational Astrophysics at the Flatiron Institute in New York City who provides theoretical support for the ALMA follow-up of SPT-discovered galaxies. “Fortunately, we know very well the ratio between dark matter and normal matter in the universe, so we can estimate what the dark matter halo mass must be.”

By comparing their calculations with current cosmological predictions, the researchers found that this halo is one of the most massive that should exist at that time.

“There are more galaxies discovered with the South Pole Telescope that we’re following up, and there is a lot more survey data that we are just starting to analyze. Our hope is to find more objects like this, possibly even more distant ones, to better understand this population of extreme dusty galaxies and especially their relation to the bulk population of galaxies at this epoch,” said Joaquin Vieira, an assistant professor of astronomy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Campaign and member of the SPT team whose study of SPT-discovered galaxies is funded through NSF’s Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Grants program.

“In any case, our next round of ALMA observations should help us understand how quickly these galaxies came together and improve our understanding of massive galaxy formation during reionization,” Marrone said. Reported by Eurasia Review 22 hours ago.

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Earth will see fewer auroras for years — but scientists are predicting a big comeback

December 10, 2017, 8:34 am

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First, the bad news for stargazers: Auroras are going dark in many parts of the world.

The number of these atmospheric light shows won't bottom out for several years, which means locations far from Earth's poles — such as the UK and northern continental US — may rarely if ever see the Northern Lights during that time. A study published earlier this year hints this dearth of auroras may last for decades.

But there's plenty of good news.

This coming dip in auroras is normal and expected, due to what scientists know about a repeating 11-year cycle of solar activity. The sun just finished its last peak, called a solar maximum, in 2014, during which time researchers saw more sunspots, outbursts of solar particles, and auroras on Earth. Around solar minimum — in 2020 or 2021 — the reverse is expected to happen.

"My personal prediction is that, over the next couple of years, we'll see a deep dive of solar activity into solar minimum, and fewer and fewer auroras will be seen," Doug Biesecker, a physicist at NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center, told Business Insider.

This doesn't mean Earth will be devoid of auroras; anyone can make the trip to Arctic or Antarctic regions where auroras are persistent at night.

What's more, Business Insider has learned that the next solar maximum, set to occur around 2025, should be as strong or stronger than the one we just saw, bringing an eventual boost in the number of at lower-latitude auroras.

"There will be a ramp-up in solar activity a couple of years after solar minimum, and auroras should increase in frequency," Dean Pesnell, a solar physicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, told Business Insider. Pesnell and his colleagues just submitted an as-yet unpublished study about this prediction, which is based on magnetic activity at the sun's poles.

The other good news? That decades-long void of auroras may never pan out.

*The problem with predicting auroras*

The sun constantly spews protons and other particles into space, and when they reach Earth, the planet's magnetic field grabs them and accelerates them toward the poles. As those particles slam into the atmosphere, they light up its gases like a neon light.

This happens every night close to Earth's poles, but strong outbursts of solar particles, like coronal mass ejections, can sometimes expand auroras down to states like Maine, North Dakota, New York, and even Colorado. And during solar maximum, such particle outbursts are more frequent.

"The places where the aurora is common, it's always going to be common. It's more a case of, 'is Colorado or North Dakota going to see it?'" Biesecker said, adding that an aurora's intensity isn't tied to the solar cycle. "Unfortunately, not as much during the solar minimum."

Earlier this year, a January study in Nature Scientific Reports hinted that the next dip in solar activity might last for decades. The researchers examined the past 400 years of records of solar activity, and their computer model indicated we're in store for a few extra-boring 11-year solar cycles — and a related famine of auroras.

Yet both Biesecker and Pesnell said that long-term predictions are devilishly hard to trust.

Records older than 250 years aren't very reliable, Biesecker said. Even the past 250 years of observations of sunspots — the hallmarks of solar activity — are hard to trust in part because it's subjective; where one astronomer saw one solar blemish, another may have seen two. But solar physicists can always talk to whomever recorded previous observations.

"A new data point basically shows up once every 11 years. So very few people make it through two or three solar cycles in their research," Pesnell said. "They either go do something else or they die."

Then there's the mystery and chaos of the sun itself.

A roughly 25-day-long rotation or "day" to the sun is what drives its activity. This gradually twists up the star's magnetic field lines like a rubber band, forming kinks that can lead to sunspots and solar outbursts. But these surface contortions don't appear to affect anything deep inside the sun — which means the star doesn't have any kind of long-term "memory" scientists can exploit to predict its behavior more than a few years out.

"There's no compelling evidence that the sun 'knows' it's supposed to get weaker or return to normal at some future 11-year cycle," Biesecker said.

For now, the researchers said, all we can do is wait to see if there are as many or more auroras as the sun winds up toward its next maximum in 2025.

"Eight years from now," Pesnell said, "we'll know if our prediction was right."

*SEE ALSO: Astronauts in space have recorded a breathtaking new video of Earth's aurora*

*DON'T MISS: A NASA rocket blasted colorful clouds into space — here's what they looked like*

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Less than one week after Wisconsin's largest health care system Aurora Health Care announced a merger, the state's second largest system -- Ascension Wisconsin -- reportedly is in talks for an even-larger transaction. St. Louis-based Ascension is in talks with Providence St. Joseph Health about a possible merger that would create the largest owner of U.S. hospitals, the Wall Street Journal reports.. In Wisconsin, Ascension owns Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare, Columbia St. Mary's and Ministry Health… Reported by bizjournals 7 hours ago.

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Avidian Gold Becomes a Public Reporting Issuer:

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TORONTO, Dec. 11, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- *Avidian Gold Corp. *(TSXV:AVG) (the “Corporation” or “Avidian”) is pleased to report that it became a public reporting issuer on December 4, 2017.  Avidian was founded in 2011 as a private company with the strategic goal of acquiring gold properties that had the potential for significant advancement and discovery success within well endowed, mine friendly jurisdictions in North America.  Presently the Corporation holds a 100% interest in a portfolio comprised of four advanced gold properties in the USA: the Golden Zone and Amanita properties in south–central Alaska, and the Jungo and Dome Hill properties in Nevada.A photo accompanying this release is available at http://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/4be3977d-df44-40f7-bba2-2165d860f301

Avidian started the year with a two-fold objective of 1): becoming a public reporting issuer; and 2) commencing its first season of exploration work on its flagship Golden Zone gold project.

In order to achieve our first objective, Avidian:

1. entered into an amalgamation agreement in late 2016 with a capital pool company called Marching Moose Capital Corp (“MMCC”); and
 
2. privately raised just over $3.5 million Canadian to be used as part of the requirement to go public and advance our 2017 exploration work while the amalgamation was completed. 

On December 1, 2017, the amalgamation was completed and approved by the TSX Venture Exchange.  As a result of the Amalgamation Avidian shareholders received one MMCC common share for every 2.17 Avidian Shares previously held. MMCC then changed its name to Avidian Gold Corp.  Avidian now has a total of 49,358,058 common shares outstanding.  Avidian commenced trading on the TSX Venture Exchange on December 4, 2017 as a Tier 2 mining issuer under the symbol AVG.

*The Properties*Avidian holds properties in Nevada and Alaska, two major gold producing areas. To date the exploration focus has been primarily on the more advanced Golden Zone property in Alaska at the expense of properties held in Nevada.  Recognizing that the valuation assigned to Avidian is predominantly based on the Golden Zone property, the Corporation plans to conduct a strategic review on how best to maximize value from the Nevada properties.

*Alaska Properties*The Golden Zone and Amanita properties lie within the prolific Tintina Gold Belt that hosts multi-million ounce gold deposits such as Donlin Creek (+39 Moz measured plus indicated gold resource), the producing Fort Knox Gold Mine (+7 Moz produced and contains 1.5 Moz proven plus probable reserves) and Dublin Gulch (4.8 Moz indicated gold resource and 1.5 Moz inferred gold resource).  Both properties have well documented gold showings that trend over several kilometers in length, are easily accessible all year round by road and are close to major infrastructure. The Golden Zone property is located 320 km north of Anchorage, Alaska, and approximately 16 km west of the main transportation route between Anchorage and Fairbanks.  This 5,892 hectare (58.92 sq km) property is comprised of a 1,198 hectare (11.98 sq km) Uplands Mining Lease (with 32 years remaining on the lease) surrounded by 4,694 hectares (46.94 sq km) of State of Alaska claims and a non-contiguous 16.2 hectare Mill Site Lease.  The property hosts a number of high grade gold surface showings and intersections (*4 g/t Au to > 25 g/t Au *plus Ag ± base metals) situated within a mineralized trend of +6 km, such as:

*67 m at 4.93 g/t Au, 15.3 g/t Ag* (Avidian drill intersection);

*7.6 m at 4.94 g/t Au, 76.7 g/t Ag and 3.52% Cu* (historical drill hole); and

*13.7 m at 7.0 g/t Au, 94 g/t Ag and 4.0% Cu *(historical trench). 

The property also hosts the Breccia Pipe Deposit, which contains a NI 43-101 Indicated gold resource of 267,400 ounces (4,187,000 tonnes at 1.99 g/t Au) plus an Inferred gold resource of 35,900 ounces (1,353,000 tonnes at 0.83 g/t Au). The deposit is exposed on surface and remains open at depth and along strike. 

The Amanita property is comprised of State of Alaska claims totaling 1,460 hectares (14.6 sq km) and is located 15 km northeast of Fairbanks, Alaska, and approximately 5 km southwest and contiguous to the Fort Knox open-pit gold mine.  Fort Knox is currently producing approximately 380,000 oz of gold per annum at a grade of less than 0.5 g/t Au.  The Fairbanks mining district has historically produced in excess of 20 Moz of gold.  Mineralization at Fort Knox is contained within a northeast structural corridor that trends directly onto the Amanita property.  This corridor at Amanita is approximately 1.6 km long and hosts multiple historical drill intersections >1.5 g/t Au, such as *13.7 m at 3.0 g/t Au* and *4.5 m at 11.4 g/t Au*, with visible gold noted in some of the drill holes as well as in selected float samples.  This corridor has been sparsely drill tested, with the drill intersections all occurring at a depth of less than 100 m.  

*Nevada Properties*

The 2,000 hectare (20 sq km) Jungo Property is situated within the Humboldt mineral trend, Nevada, that hosts the multi-million ounce Hycroft and Sleeper gold deposits.  Hycroft hosts +11 Moz of measured plus indicated resource along with 10.5 Moz proven plus probable reserves.  Sleeper has produced +1.6 Moz and contains a resource of 3.1 Moz of measured plus indicated and 1.5 Moz inferred.  The Jungo property lies between these two deposits.

Historical work on the property has outlined a 5 km long gold-copper system that has been sparsely tested by geophysics, trenching and drilling.  Historical drilling along the 5 km strike length includes:

*1.52 m at 2.5 g/t Au, 71.6 g/t Ag and 0.67 % Cu,*

*7.62 m at 0.90 g/t Au, 28.9 g/t Ag and 1.73% Cu, *and

*12.19 m at 1.29 g/t Au, 28.6 g/t Ag and 0.72% Cu.  *

Historical trenching along the 5 km strike length includes: *6.10 m at 2.12 g/t Au, 6.10 m at 1.21 g/t Au,* and* 3.05 m at 2.36 g/t Au.*

Also in Nevada, within the Walker Lane Trend, is the Dome Hill property which covers an area of 600 hectares (6 sq km). More than 5.8 km of high-sulphidation, quartz-alunite veins containing gold values up to 32 g/t Au have been mapped on the property and host most of the old workings.  Mineralization is hosted in Tertiary volcanic rocks and is thought to be related to a deeper, sub-volcanic pluton that could generate a large, porphyry-style gold-copper deposit.  Limited historical drilling intersected *4.6 m at 4.7 g/t Au* and *1.5 m at 9.7 g/t Au*. The bottom of the holes also contained up to 0.4% copper which supports the theory of a deeper porphyry system.  Dome Hill is in the same geological district as the Bodie (1.5 Moz historical production) and Aurora (1.9 Moz historical production) gold deposits.

*2017 Work Program*

During the summer season the Corporation commenced work on its Golden Zone Property.  This was comprised of the following activities:

1. Detailed compilation of historical data into a digital database, including a review of selected historical core holes within the Breccia Pipe Deposit.
 
2. 43 line km of IP surveying focused on three primary locations: the Riverside prospect, the Breccia Pipe Deposit area and the Copper King to South Long Creek area.
 
3. Mapping, reconnaissance prospecting, rock sampling and soil sampling with over 3,000 samples collected.
 
4. 2,578 m of core drilling in two primary locations: the Breccia Pipe Deposit area and at the Riverside prospect.
 
5. Winterizing the permanent 25-man camp in preparation for any future winter drill program.

The location of the above-mentioned prospects is shown on a map at the end of this release. The results of the 2017 work program are in the final stages of being processed and compiled and will be provided in a separate press release.

The Corporation's priority will be to follow up on the positive results from the 2017 Golden Zone work program, particularly on new discoveries that were made.  The Corporation will also conduct a strategic review process of its Nevada properties and consider how best to maximize value on those properties.

The technical information contained in this news release has been approved by Dr. Tom Setterfield, P.Geo., Vice President Exploration of Avidian, who is a Qualified Person as defined in "National Instrument 43-101, Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects."

Reference to other deposit/mine resource and reserve gold ounces or production profile mentioned in this press release has been obtained from the public domain and/or the respective company disclosure documents.  Historical assays mentioned herein have been verified through a review of assay certificates and field data, but have not necessarily been resampled by the Corporation. Further detailed information on the Golden Zone property can be found in the Technical report dated August 17, 2017 that has been posted on SEDAR.

*About Avidian Gold*

The Corporation is an exploration and development company whose primary business interest is in four advanced gold properties located in the USA: the Golden Zone and Amanita properties, situated in south–central Alaska, and the Jungo and Dome Hill properties located in Nevada, each held 100% by the Corporation.  The Golden Zone property hosts a NI 43-101 (2017) Indicated gold resource of 267,400 ounces (4,187,000 tonnes at 1.99 g/t Au) plus an Inferred gold resource of 35,900 ounces (1,353,000 tonnes at 0.83 g/t Au).  The deposit is exposed on surface and is open at depth and along strike.  Avidian also holds a 100% interest in the Strickland massive sulphide property located in Newfoundland, Canada.

Further details on the Corporation and the individual projects can be found on the Corporation’s website at www.avidiangold.com.

*ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD*

Dino Titaro, President & CEO
Tel. +1 (647) 283 7600

The TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulations Service Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) does not accept responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this news release.

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