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Verso to Report First Quarter Results and Host Conference Call on May 9

April 11, 2013 Bartle Doo Leave a comment

Verso to Report First Quarter Results and Host Conference Call on May 9

MEMPHIS, Tenn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Verso Paper Corp. (NYSE: VRS) today announced that it will report its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2013, in a news release before the market opens on Thursday, May 9, 2013. Also on May 9, management will host a conference call at 9 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time to discuss the first quarter results.

The news release and first quarter results will be available on Verso’s website at www.versopaper.com/investorrelations by navigating to the Financial Information page.

Analysts and investors may participate in the live conference call by dialing 719-457-2506 or, within the United States and Canada only, 800-499-7921, access code 4229673. To register, please dial in 10 minutes before the conference call begins. The conference call and presentation materials can be accessed on Verso’s website at www.versopaper.com/investorrelations by navigating to the Events page, or at http://investor.versopaper.com/eventdetail.cfm?eventid=127788.

A telephonic replay of the call can be accessed at 719-457-0820 or, within the United States and Canada only, 888-203-1112, access code 4229673. This replay will be available starting at 12 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on Thursday, May 9, 2013, and will remain available for 14 days.

Forward-Looking Statements

In this press release, all statements that are not purely historical facts are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Forward-looking statements may be identified by the words “believe,” “expect,” “anticipate,” “project,” “plan,” “estimate,” “intend,” and other similar expressions. Forward-looking statements are based on currently available business, economic, financial, and other information and reflect management’s current beliefs, expectations, and views with respect to future developments and their potential effects on Verso. Actual results could vary materially depending on risks and uncertainties that may affect Verso and its business. For a discussion of such risks and uncertainties, please refer to Verso’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Verso assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement made in this press release to reflect subsequent events or circumstances or actual outcomes.

About Verso

Based in Memphis, Tennessee, Verso Paper Corp. is a leading North American producer of coated papers, including coated groundwood and coated freesheet, and specialty products. Verso’s paper

From: http://www.dailyfinance.com/2013/04/11/verso-to-report-first-quarter-results-and-host-con/

History

45 years after King was killed supporting them, Memphis sanitation workers fighting for jobs

April 3, 2013 Bartle Doo Leave a comment

By hnn

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — They rode the streets of Memphis in creaky, dangerous garbage trucks, picking up trash from home after home, toiling for a sanitation department that treated them with indifference bordering on disdain. In 1968 those workers took to the streets, marching with civil rights leader the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to demand better working conditions, higher pay and union protection.

Forty-five years after King was killed supporting their historic strike, some of the same men who marched with him still pick up Memphis’ garbage — and now they are fighting to hold on to jobs that some city leaders want to hand over to a private company….

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Date:

4-3-13

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Enobosarm Phase 2 Trial for Muscle Wasting and Physical Function in Patients with Cancer Published i

March 14, 2013 Bartle Doo Leave a comment

By Business Wirevia The Motley Fool

Filed under: Investing

Enobosarm Phase 2 Trial for Muscle Wasting and Physical Function in Patients with Cancer Published in The Lancet Oncology

Trial demonstrated significant increases in lean body mass (muscle) and physical function in cancer patients treated with enobosarm

MEMPHIS, Tenn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– GTx, Inc. (NAS: GTXI) today announced that the journal, The Lancet Oncology, has published online ahead of its April print edition (www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc/onlinefirst) the results from GTx’s randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase 2 clinical trial of enobosarm to assess its effects on muscle wasting and physical function in patients with cancer. Enobosarm (GTx-024) is a selective androgen receptor modulator (SARM), a new class of non-steroidal, tissue-specific anabolic agents that has the potential to increase muscle mass and improve physical function without the unwanted side effects on the prostate, skin or hair that are commonly associated with testosterone or non-selective, synthetic anabolic steroids. The lead author was Dr. Adrian S. Dobs, Professor of Medicine at the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland.

Cancer-induced muscle wasting begins early in the disease process, resulting in decreased physical function and other detrimental consequences, such as fatigue and weight loss, which can contribute to disability, reduced quality of life and shorter overall survival, compared with patients without muscle loss. There are no drugs approved for the prevention and treatment of muscle wasting in patients with cancer. The Phase 2 trial, which enrolled patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), colorectal cancer (CRC), non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) or breast cancer, demonstrated significant increases in lean body mass (primary endpoint) and physical function (one of the secondary endpoints) in patients treated with enobosarm 1 mg or 3 mg oral daily doses. Patients receiving placebo during the same period did not show significant increases in total lean body mass or in physical function.

The lead author, Dr. Adrian Dobs, an investigator in the Phase 2 trial, stated, “Muscle wasting is a common and devastating cancer-related symptom for which there are no effective therapies today. This is the first well controlled clinical trial to show that a selective anabolic agent, enobosarm, has the ability to not only increase muscle mass, but also improve physical function in a clinically relevant stair climb activity across a broad number of cancer types. After seeing the results of this Phase 2 clinical trial, I am looking forward to the results from the two Phase 3 clinical studies, POWER 1 and POWER 2, to confirm enobosarm’s ability to prevent and treat muscle wasting in patients with advanced non-small cell …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at DailyFinance

History

In Memphis, discord over renaming parks and dropping their associations to past Confederacy

February 7, 2013 Bartle Doo Leave a comment

By hnn

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The legacy of onetime Confederate fighter and slave trader Nathan Bedford Forrest has sparked new discord in Memphis amid moves to rename parks whose very names recall the Old South.

Fresh division arose before the Memphis City Council voted recently to rename Nathan Bedford Forrest Park in Memphis, where a statue of Forrest stands and the general is buried. The council also voted to rename two other parks whose names evoke the Confederate Civil War heritage.

The fight over Forrest highlights a broader debate over what Confederate figures should represent in the 21st century. Other U.S. cities also have wrestled with the issue of naming parks and buildings after Confederate figures….

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/in-memphis-discord-over-renaming-parks-and-dropping-their-associations-to-past-confederacy/2013/02/07/c4a25fa0-712f-11e2-b3f3-b263d708ca37_story.html

Date:

2-7-13

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Medical Company Blames ‘Obamacare’ For Massive Layoffs

February 2, 2013 Bartle Doo Leave a comment

By Breaking News

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (CBSDC) — A medical company is blaming President Obama’s health care law for the layoffs of nearly 100 people.

Smith & Nephew says a 2.3 percent excise tax on medical devices in the “Obamacare” law caused the layoffs in the Memphis and Andover, Mass., offices.

“The nearly $30 billion tax on medical devices that took effect Jan. 1, 2013, has impacted a number of companies across the U.S.,” the company said in a statement to WHBQ-TV.

Elvis Presley’s birthday remembered in Memphis with ceremony

January 8, 2013 Bartle Doo Leave a comment

By hnn

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Elvis Presley fans from as far as Japan and Brazil gathered Tuesday in Memphis to sing “Happy Birthday” to the late rock ‘n’ roll icon on the day he would have turned 78.

Hundreds of Elvis devotees watched as 13-year-old Isabella Scott cut a birthday cake on the lawn at Graceland, the singer’s longtime Memphis home. Scott, of Bonifay, Fla., heads an Internet-based Elvis fan club with more than 2,000 members….

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/tv/elvis-presleys-birthday-remembered-in-memphis-with-ceremony-cake-cutting-exhibit-opening/2013/01/08/b75c299e-59be-11e2-b8b2-0d18a64c8dfa_story.html?tid=pm_entertainment_pop

Date:

1-8-13

Source: FULL ARTICLE at History News Network – George Mason University

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Verso to Report First Quarter Results and Host Conference Call on May 9

45 years after King was killed supporting them, Memphis sanitation workers fighting for jobs

Enobosarm Phase 2 Trial for Muscle Wasting and Physical Function in Patients with Cancer Published i

In Memphis, discord over renaming parks and dropping their associations to past Confederacy

Medical Company Blames ‘Obamacare’ For Massive Layoffs

Elvis Presley’s birthday remembered in Memphis with ceremony

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