NW Natural Water Company, a subsidiary of Northwest Natural Holding has signed an agreement with Sunriver Resort LP to acquire Sunriver Water, LLC and Sunriver Environmental, LLC. Sunriver is located near Bend in Central Oregon and is one of the largest resort communities in the Pacific Northwest. The water and wastewater utilities serve a combined 9,400 connections and employ 21 people across both companies. The transaction is subject to certain conditions, including approval by the Oregon Public Utilities Commission for the water distribution acquisition, and is expected to close in the first half of 2019.

AVITA Medical announced that a medical education symposium on the use of the RECELL Autologous Cell Harvesting Device was held at the U.S. Midwest Region Burn Conference in Minneapolis. The symposium was led by Jeffrey Carter, MD, FACS, Medical Director of University Medical Center New Orleans Burn Center and Associate Professor of Surgery at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine. Dr. Carter also presented at the conference the results from two U.S. pivotal clinical trials demonstrating the effectiveness and clinical benefits of the RECELL System. The FDA recently approved the RECELL System to treat acute thermal burns in patients 18 years and older. The medical symposium was organized as the first step in training U.S. physicians who had not previously treated patients with the RECELL System in advance of FDA approval in clinical trials or in the Compassionate Use program. The Midwest Region Burn Conference is one of the series of conferences sponsored by the American Burn Association each year.

Jaunt, a top-funded VR content startup backed by Disney (DIS) and Google Ventures (GOOGL), said in a blog post that it will be focusing efforts on further developing technologies that allow for the scaled creation of AR content. This decision is driven by the exciting initial customer response to its recent advancements in volumetric XR technology and the experience and capabilities of its team. "This focus means though that we have had to make some tough decisions on our lines of business," the company said. "We will be winding down a number of VR products and content services in the coming weeks. We will work with our current clients to deliver our existing commitments and manage this transition smoothly and professionally. In addition, this unfortunately means that some of our valued and highly talented colleagues will be moving on." Reference Link

Vulcan Inc. released statements on behalf of the Allen Family, Vulcan Inc., and the Paul G. Allen network: "It is with deep sadness that we announce the death of our founder Paul G. Allen, co-founder of Microsoft and noted technologist, philanthropist, community builder, conservationist, musician and supporter of the arts. Mr. Allen died on Monday afternoon, October 15, 2018, from complications of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in Seattle. Mr. Allen was 65 years old."

The St. Joe Company releases additional information and begins to post images regarding the status of its Northwest Florida assets after Hurricane Michael. The majority of St. Joe's resorts and leisure, residential, and commercial properties located in Walton County and Bay Counties incurred minimal or no damage from Hurricane Michael. We are currently evaluating the damage to our timber assets. The Pearl Hotel in Rosemary Beach, WaterSound Inn, WaterColor Inn & Resort, WaterSound Beach Club, and Camp Creek golf course are fully open. Shark's Tooth Golf Course is expected to resume operations this week upon completion of tree clean-up. Only Bay Point Marina in Bay County and Port St. Joe Marina in Gulf County suffered significant loss and will require long-term restoration.

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