Christmas Thoughts, reflections, ideas, various opinions and some quotes on Christmas by the World of English and good will English-culture blog

I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. 
Charles Dickens

As our dear old friend Mark Twain used to say, mankind has only one truly effective weapon: laughter. So, in this Christmas season why not read some very good amusing quotes and humorous aphorisms. While I’m fully aware that laughing during this time can be a challenging thing, I still want to have faith and be optimistic. After all, the three things that help us endure adversity, as old Kant reminds us, are precisely: hope, sleep, and laughter. And that’s precisely why I want to bring a breath of joy and lightheartedness to all who will read these funny Christmas quotes that are surely going to bring good tidings to you and your kin and help you get into the holiday spirit.
Carl William Brown

Instead of being a time of unusual behavior, Christmas is perhaps the only time in the year when people can obey their natural impulses and express their true sentiments without feeling self-conscious and, perhaps, foolish.  Christmas, in short, is about the only chance a man has to be himself. 
Francis C. Farley

A man is at his finest towards the finish of the year; He is almost what he should be when the Christmas season’s here; Then he’s thinking more of others than he’s thought the months before, And the laughter of his children is a joy worth toiling for. He is less a selfish creature than at any other time; When the Christmas spirit rules him he comes close to the sublime…
Edgar Guest

Let Christmas not become a thing Merely of merchant’s trafficking, Of tinsel, bell and holly wreath And surface pleasure, but beneath The childish glamour, let us find Nourishment for soul and mind. Let us follow kinder ways Through our teeming human maze, And help the age of peace to come From a Dreamer’s martyrdom.
Madeline Morse

Christmas tries to renew our hope, reminding us of what is dearest to our hearts, but the season also awakens our childhood memories and therefore Christmas has the poetic power of enphasizing in our mind the spiritual memories of what is drammaticaly already passed away, of what is tragigally lost for ever and will never come back again. That’s why its atmosphere is a mixture of joy and sadness, and that’s why is very useful to remember this Latin quote, in tristitia hilaris, in hilaritate tristis.
Carl William Brown

I hear that in many places something has happened to Christmas; that it is changing from a time of merriment and carefree gaiety to a holiday which is filled with tedium; that many people dread the day and the obligation to give Christmas presents is a nightmare to weary, bored souls; that the children of enlightened parents no longer believe in Santa Claus; that all in all, the effort to be happy and have pleasure makes many honest hearts grow dark with despair instead of beaming with good will and cheerfulness. 
Julia Peterkin

If a man called Christmas Day a mere hypocritical excuse for drunkeness and gluttony, that would be false, but it would have a fact hidden in it somewhere. But when Bernard Shaw says that Christmas Day is only a conspiracy kept up by Poulterers and wine merchants from strictly business motives, then he says something which is not so much false as startling and arrestingly foolish. He might as well say that the two sexes were invented by jewellers who wanted to sell wedding rings.
G.K. Chesterton

The great majority of people will go on observing forms that cannot be explained; they will keep Christmas Day with Christmas gifts and Christmas benedictions; they will continue to do it; and some day suddenly wake up and discover why.
G.K. Chesterton

We hear the beating of wings over Bethlehem and a light that is not of the sun or of the stars shines in the midnight sky.  Let the beauty of the story take away all narrowness, all thought of formal creeds.  Let it be remembered as a story that has happened again and again, to men of many different races, that has been expressed through many religions, that has been called by many different names.  Time and space and language lay no limitations upon human brotherhood.
New York Times, 25 December 1937

Scrooge went to the church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and for, and patted the children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of homes, and up to the windows, and found that everything could yield him pleasure.
Charles Dickens

I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year. And thus I drift along into the holidays – let them overtake me unexpectedly – waking up some fine morning and suddenly saying to myself: “Why, this is Christmas Day!”
David Grayson

The universal joy of Christmas is certainly wonderful. We ring the bells when princes are born, or toll a mournful dirge when great men pass away. Nations have their red-letter days, their carnivals and festivals, but once in the year and only once, the whole world stands still to celebrate the advent of a life. Only Jesus of Nazareth claims this world-wide, undying remembrance. You cannot cut Christmas out of the Calendar, nor out of the heart of the world.
Anonymous

We see Jesus in the manger. We adore Him; we worship Him; we glorify Him. We stand oppressed before such love – a love stronger than death – a love so strong that it did die that we might live. We thank Thee for the sweetness of human love, but how could we ever have dared to think that such love was in the heart of God for us! We look on nature and see Thy beauty and Thy majesty, but we are afraid, for we have sinned. And then we learn that Thou has sent Thy Son, to be bone of our bone, flesh of our flesh; and before such inconceivable love we can only worship and adore. We are so weary of our failures and our slow growth toward Thee. Cleanse us deeply from sin, strengthen our moral purposes.
Maltbie Davenport Babcock

We therefore welcome our Christmas in December. The “worship of Christ” could not have a better setting than amid the domestic festivities, social forces, and generous and man helping deeds of our merry Christmas-tide. In no more fitting way can we say farewell to the closing year, and All hail! to the new. “Christ is born.” We therefore must put off the old man – his moroseness and selfishness, his sadness and despair, his peevishness and fretfulness, his feebleness and decay – and put on the new man, which, after Christ, is created in true joy, large faith, energetic service, lowly duty, devout obedience, and death-daring self-sacrifice.
John Clifford

If we were to fancy a wholly Christianized world, it would be a world inspired by the spirit of Christmas – a bright, friendly, beneficent, generous, sympathetic, mutually helpful world. A man who is habitually mean, selfish, narrow, is a man without Christmas in his soul. Let us cling to Christmas all the more as a day of the spirit which in every age some souls have believed to be the possible spirit of human society. The earnest faith and untiring endeavor which see in Christmas a forecast are more truly Christian, surely, than the pleasant cynicism of Atheists, etc., which smiles upon it as the festival of a futile hope. Meanwhile we may reflect that from good natured hopelessness to a Christmas world may not be farther than from star dust to a solar system.
George William Curtis

Christmas has been a season of mixed interests and meanings, but the very foundation, of course, is its religious significance. No matter what other personal desires or crises we have faced, I’ve never forgotten that this is the time to celebrate the birth of the Baby Jesus, and the impact of this event on the history of the world.
Jimmy Carter

The lovely legends of the day; the stories and the songs and the half-fairy lore that gather around it; the ancient traditions of dusky woods and mystic rites; the magnificence or simplicity of Christian observance, from the pope in his triple tiara, borne upon his portative throne in gorgeous state to celebrate pontifical high mass at the great altar of St. Peter’s, to George Herbert humbly kneeling in his rustic church at Bemerton, or to the bare service in some missionary chapel upon the American frontier; the lighting of Christmas trees and hanging up of Christmas stockings, the profuse giving, the happy family meetings, the dinner, the game, the dance they are all the natural signs and symbols, the flower and fruit, of Christmas. For Christmas is the day of days which declares the universal human consciousness that peace on earth comes only from good will to men.
George William Curtis

The “first Christmas” was a simple time of beauty and wonder. The birth of Christ was less about celebration than it was about family. Though many today may grow tired of the commercialization of Christmas, in reality it has opened the door for Christ to once again become the focal point of the season, and for family, especially children, to be at the heart of the celebration.
Ace Collins

Christmas is … a time to mark our progress through this earthly journey. Every December we can look back and marvel at the designs of God and realize how very little we are in control of the events that shaped the past year. Then, with hearts full, look to the celebration of that silent, holy night, and all its certainty. Because of Christmas, this we know: Christ was born for us. He is love, and the plans he has for us always surpass those of our own.
Karen Kingsbury

I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round – apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that – as a good time: a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on their journeys.
Charles Dickens

More and more people each year are going abroad for Christmas… Fed up with the fact that commercial Christmas starts in October. Fed up with carols. Dreading the arrival of Christmas cards from people they have forgotten to send a card to. Unable to bear yet another family get-together with Auntie Mary puking up in the corner after sampling too much of the punch. You see in the airports the triumphant glitter in the eyes of people who are leaving it all behind, including the hundredth rerun of Miracle on 34th Street.
M.C. Beaton

On Christmas Eve, down there in Texas, we always went to the church first for the lovely service, and then to the town square with its breath-taking, brilliantly lighted Christmas tree, where there were little gifts for the children. And when we woke up in the morning, there was another Christmas tree which had appeared “miraculously” as we slept; the whole family gathered around it, and again we sensed the spirit of love running through the circle. There were gifts for everyone – but not too much! How grateful I am for that now! The real gift was the love we had for one another and the sheer joy of just being together.
Dale Evans

The herald angels are singing still, and we hear their “Peace on earth, good will to men,” once more, as we have often done. What can we do but answer back in glad strains: “Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder; and His name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace”? It is His presence that fills our homes with mirth and song. If he will come again, turning life’s water into wine, touching our sick that they may be healed, cleansing, pardoning, blessing us all- as He will if we make room for Him – then, indeed, we must be glad.
Christian at Work

Shorn, however, as it is, of its ancient and festive honours, Christmas is still a period of delightful excitement in England. It is gratifying to see that home-feeling completely aroused which seems to hold so powerful a place in every English bosom. The preparations making on every side for the social board that is again to unite friends and kindred; the presents of good cheer passing and repassing, those tokens of regard, and quickeners of kind feelings; the evergreens distributed about houses and churches, emblems of peace and gladness; all these have the most pleasing effect in producing fond associations, and kindling benevolent sympathies.
Washington Irving

And when we give each other Christmas gifts in His name, let us remember that He has given us the sun and the moon and the stars, and the earth with its forests and mountains and oceans – and all that lives and move upon them. He has given us all green things and everything that blossoms and bears fruit and all that we quarrel about and all that we have misused – and to save us from our foolishness, from all our sins, He came down to earth and gave us Himself.
Sigrid Undset

I am sorry to have to introduce the subject of Christmas into these articles. It is an indecent subject; a cruel, gluttonous subject; a drunken, disorderly subject; a wasteful, disastrous, subject; a wicked, cadging, lying, filthy, blashphemous, and demoralizing subject. Christmas is forced on a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press: on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred; and any one who looked back to it would be turned into a pillar of greasy sausages.
George Bernard Shaw

After dinner, eaten, let it be confessed, with more haste and less accompaniment of talk than usual, the parlour doors were opened, and there stood the Christmas tree in a glow of light, its wonderful branches laden with all manner of strange fruits not to be found in the botanies. The wild shouts, the merry laughter, the cries of delight as one coveted fruit after another dropped into long-expectant arms still linger in my ears now that the little tapers are burnt out, the boughs left bare, and the actors in the perennial drama are fast asleep, with new and strange bedfellows selected from the spoils of the night. Cradled between a delightful memory and a blissful anticipation, who does not envy them?
Hamilton Wright Mabie

There is something about Christmas that requires a rug rat. Little kids make Christmas fun. I wonder if could rent one for the holidays. When I was tiny we would buy a real tree and stay up late drinking hot chocolate and finding just the right place for the special decorations. It seems like my parents gave up the magic when I figured out the Santa lie. Maybe I shouldn’t have told them I knew where the presents really came from. It broke their hearts.
Laurie Halse Anderson

There is a time and a season for all things, as we are told, and the time and the season to decorate our firesides and homes is at Yuletide, when with holly branch and mistletoe we make our Christmas green; with flowers we make it bright and fragrant; with presents we make it bountiful, and with the spirit of peace on earth, goodwill toward men, we make life worth living.
Lee James

Christmas Gift Suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity.
To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect.
Oren Arnold

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Thanksgiving’s Weirdest Secrets: a lighthearted short tour article through the holiday’s odd past and curiosities with some very humorous and brilliant quotes.

Thanksgiving … that is all about overeating. One of the main dishes is actually called ‘stuffing.’ Stuffing? What names did they turn down? ‘Cram-it-in?’ ‘Eat-till-you-can’t-breathe?
Jim Gaffigan

You know that just before that first Thanksgiving dinner there was one wise, old Native American woman saying, “Don’t feed them. If you feed them, they’ll never leave.”
Dylan Brody

Thanksgiving is an emotional holiday. People travel thousands of miles to be with people they only see once a year. And then discover once a year is way too much.
Johnny Carson

After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.
Kenneth Grahame

Thanksgiving: when the people who are the most thankful are the ones who didn’t have to cook.
Melanie White

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving! It’s the day you forget about all the fighting and division in the world and just focus on all the fighting and division in your family.
Jimmy Fallon

I love Thanksgiving traditions: watching football, making pumpkin pie and saying the magic phrase that sends your aunt storming out of the dining room to sit in her car.
Stephen Colbert

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
George Burns

Every November, Americans gather around the table to eat too much, argue too loudly, and pretend that the gravy wasn’t a last-minute miracle. But behind the mashed potatoes and polite small talk lies a treasure chest of wonderfully strange Thanksgiving facts – the kind you can pull out at the dinner table to avoid political debates and impress that cousin who thinks he knows everything.

So grab a leftover sandwich (you know it’s better than the original meal) and take a stroll through the quirky side of Thanksgiving.

The First Thanksgiving: A Feast With Lobster? Seal? Swan?

Let’s start with the moment that inspired it all. The famous 1621 feast lasted three whole days, but the menu would shock any modern American. While today’s celebration revolves around turkey, stuffing, and regrettable food-related decisions, the Pilgrims and Wampanoag feasted on lobster, venison, and possibly swan.

One thing they definitely didn’t have? Forks. Those came later – so imagine cutting into a swan with a knife and spoon while maintaining dignity.

Turkeys: Loud, Proud, and Not Always Eaten

Speaking of turkey, it turns out our iconic bird has some quirks of its own. For instance, only the males “gobble.” Female turkeys prefer to “cackle,” perhaps because they’re too refined for such undignified vocalizations.

And yet despite their fame, many Americans don’t even eat turkey anymore. Whether due to taste, health choices, or vegan activism, more and more people are quietly replacing the bird with plant-based alternatives. But don’t worry – enough turkey is still consumed to total 704 million pounds every Thanksgiving.

If you ever feel sorry for the birds, remember at least one lucky turkey gets a presidential pardon. The tradition officially began in 1989, giving one turkey a VIP ticket to a long and peaceful retirement on a farm. Not a bad deal.

Thanksgiving’s Accidental Inventions and Chaotic Aftermaths

Some of the weirdest Thanksgiving stories didn’t happen at the feast – they happened afterwards.

• TV Dinners were invented because someone ordered too much turkey

A food company once massively overestimated demand and was left with thousands of pounds of frozen turkey. What did they do? Invented the TV dinner. American innovation at its finest.

• Plumbers consider Thanksgiving their Super Bowl

Clogged sinks. Blocked disposals. Toilets that surrender to the laws of physics.
The day after Thanksgiving is the busiest day of the year for plumbers. Enough said.

• Butterball runs a turkey hotline

Cooking a turkey shouldn’t require emergency intervention, yet Butterball receives over 100,000 calls every season from panicked cooks begging for rescue. Dry? Undercooked? Still frozen at noon? They’ve heard it all.

The Macy’s Parade Used to Include Tigers?

Today’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade floats are all giant cartoon balloons drifting cheerfully over Manhattan. But the first parade in 1924 was a little more
intense. Instead of balloons, Macy’s showcased live animals from the Central Park Zoo, including elephants, camels, and tigers.

Imagine taking your kids to see what you think will be a festive parade and suddenly meeting a tiger on 34th Street. A very different holiday vibe.

Holiday Geography, Astronauts, and Other Oddities

Four U.S. towns are named “Turkey.” Yes, really. Some diehard fans even travel to Turkey, Texas just to eat turkey in Turkey on Thanksgiving.

There was a Thanksgiving celebrated in space. Astronauts aboard the ISS enjoy turkey, cranberry sauce, and zero-gravity leftovers. They do skip the parade.

The Dallas Turkey Trot once set a world record for the largest gathering of people dressed as turkeys — nearly 600 runners wobbling through the streets in full feathered glory.

Thanksgiving Songs, Football, and Strange Traditions

• “Jingle Bells” was originally a Thanksgiving song

Written in 1857 as One Horse Open Sleigh, it was meant for Thanksgiving merriment. America liked it so much, we stole it for Christmas.

• Football has been part of Thanksgiving longer than the NFL

Yale and Princeton were already battling it out on Thanksgiving in the 1870s. Detroit has played a Thanksgiving game every year since 1934 – except during WWII, when even football had to take a break.

• On the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, Americans drink
a lot

“Drinksgiving,” as it has become known, is one of the busiest nights for bars. Maybe people need courage before reuniting with extended family.

A Final Thanksgiving Thought

Thanksgiving is a warm, cozy, slightly chaotic celebration with a long history of strange traditions: from lobster feasts to turkey pardons, from tiger parades to marathon plumbing emergencies. And that’s exactly what makes it charming.

So this year, when the conversation drifts toward politics, taxes, or your life choices, throw in one of these bizarre tidbits. Trust me – talking about gobbling turkeys and malfunctioning garbage disposals is much safer territory.

Happy Thanksgiving – and may your leftovers be glorious!

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Prospect Capital Corporation Upsizes Preferred Stock Offering to $2.25 Billion
10/21/2024

NEW YORK, Oct. 21, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Prospect Capital Corporation (NASDAQ: PSEC) (“Prospect”, “our”, or “we”) announced today an upsize to Prospect’s preferred stock offering (the “Preferred Stock” or the “Offering”) with Preferred Capital Securities (”PCS”). The Offering has seen strong demand from the private wealth, institutional, and Registered Investment Advisor channels, with $1.8 billion in aggregate liquidation preference issuances since the initial closing in the quarter ending December 31, 2020.

“Prospect’s non-traded preferred stock offers investors recurring cash income with a stable stated value, ongoing liquidity, management alignment, leverage caps, and over $3.7 billion of junior common equity credit support,” said Grier Eliasek, President of Prospect. “Prospect is the number one market share issuer of non-traded preferred stock in 2023 and 2024 year-to-date, with each of institutional, registered investment advisor, wirehouse, independent private wealth, and international investor channels having invested in Prospect’s preferred stock. With interest rates declining, we believe our A4/M4 preferred stock series, with a current 7.28% annualized floating rate dividend structure and 6.50% dividend rate floor, offers an attractive option for income-oriented investors.”

PCS is a securities broker dealer and the dealer manager for the ongoing offering of the Series A4 and M4 Preferred Stock. PCS has raised $5.0 billion of capital since its formation in 2011.

This press release is for informational purposes and is not an offer to purchase or sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy these securities, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of such state or jurisdiction. The ongoing offering of the Series A4 and M4 Preferred Stock is being made only by means of the prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus, copies of which may be obtained by writing to PCS at 3290 Northside Parkway NW, Suite 800, Atlanta, GA 30327. Investors are advised to carefully consider the investment objective, risks, charges and expenses of Prospect and the Preferred Stock before investment. The prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus contain this and other important information about Prospect and the Preferred Stock and should be read carefully before investing.

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Nvax (Nasdaq). «Creating tomorrow’s vaccines today». Novavax Inc (Yahoo finance) is a clinical-stage vaccine company engaged in the discovery, development and commercialization of recombinant nanoparticle vaccines and adjuvants.

In April 2017 I published an article about Novavax, from that date I bought and sold the stocks of the company several times, but without success. Then in 2020 at the start of the Covid pandemic it raised from 5$ to 290$ at the beginning of 2021, but unfortunately since I had others problems I didn’t buy it.

In the meantime the company has changed a lot, and on May 10, 2024 Sanofi and Novavax announce co-exclusive licensing agreement to co-commercialize COVID-19 vaccine and develop novel flu-COVID-19 combination vaccines.

This is the new profile of the company.

We are a biotechnology company, with more than 1,545 employees, committed to helping to address serious infectious diseases globally through the discovery, development and delivery of innovative vaccines to patients around the world. We never rest in our quest to protect the health of people everywhere.

Novavax is here to make a difference. We’re a biotech company focused on developing life-saving vaccines to fight infectious diseases. We use solid science tested by decades of research to develop vaccines. We seek and encourage meaningful partnerships and collaborations with leading biopharma organizations, research institutions, government agencies and foundations.

The power & speed of nanoparticle technology

Our vaccine technology combines power and speed with the immunogenicity-enhancing properties of our Matrix-M adjuvant to efficiently produce highly immunogenic particles targeting some of the most pressing viral infectious diseases.

Our people & culture

Our team is experienced, compassionate, and focused on the future of vaccine development. While growing rapidly, we maintain that small company culture.

Our Partners

We seek and encourage meaningful partnerships and collaborations with leading biopharma organizations, research institutions, government agencies and foundations.

Novavax in Europe

Novavax AB
Novavax AB is headquartered in Uppsala, Sweden. This site is responsible for the research, development and manufacturing of our saponin adjuvants. Our Matrix-MTM is used in several vaccine candidates to enhance the immune response and stimulate high levels of neutralizing antibodies.

Novavax CZ
In 2020, Novavax CZ was established, located in Bohumil, Czech Republic. This facility is an advanced biologics and vaccine manufacturing campus dedicated to the production of vaccines to protect global health.

Novavax EU
Since 2022, Novavax has started to develop its commercial hubs across Europe with its main regional headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland. Additional locations have been established in Brussels, Belgium and Barcelona, Spain.

Our Headquarters:
Novavax CH GmbH
Fraumünsterstrasse 16
8001 Zürich
Switzerland

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Novavax (NVAX) Website: https://www.novavax.com  is one of the stocks most watched by Zacks.com visitors lately. So, it might be a good idea to review some of the factors that might affect the near-term performance of the stock.

Shares of this vaccine maker have returned -21.2% over the past month versus the Zacks S&P 500 composite’s +4.5% change. The Zacks Medical – Biomedical and Genetics industry, to which Novavax belongs, has lost 1.5% over this period. Now the key question is: Where could the stock be headed in the near term?

While media releases or rumors about a substantial change in a company’s business prospects usually make its stock ‘trending’ and lead to an immediate price change, there are always some fundamental facts that eventually dominate the buy-and-hold decision-making.

Revenue Growth Forecast

While earnings growth is arguably the most superior indicator of a company’s financial health, nothing happens as such if a business isn’t able to grow its revenues. After all, it’s nearly impossible for a company to increase its earnings for an extended period without increasing its revenues. So, it’s important to know a company’s potential revenue growth.

In the case of Novavax, the consensus sales estimate of $57.32 million for the current quarter points to a year-over-year change of -69.3%. The $773 million and $475.5 million estimates for the current and next fiscal years indicate changes of -21.4% and -38.5%, respectively.

 

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Novavax Inc. is based out of Garthersburg, MD and has some 355 employees. Its CEO is Stanley Charles Erck. Novavax Inc. is a component of the Russell 2000. The Russell 2000 is one of the leading indices tracking small-cap companies in the United States. It’s maintained by Russell Investments, an industry leader in creating and maintaining indices, and consists of the smallest 2000 stocks from the broader Russell 3000 index.

Russell’s indices differ from traditional indices like the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) or S&P 500, whose members are selected by committee, because they base membership entirely on an objective, rules based methodology. The 3,000 largest companies by market cap make up the Russell 3000, with the 2,000 smaller companies making up the Russell 2000. It’s a simple approach that gives a broad, unbiased look at the small-cap market as a whole.

We are also developing proprietary technology for the production of immune stimulating saponin-based adjuvants through our wholly owned Swedish subsidiary, Novavax AB. Our lead adjuvant, Matrix-MTM, has been successfully tested in a Phase 1/2 clinical trial for our pandemic H7N9 influenza virus-like particle (VLP) vaccine candidate, and in a Phase 1 clinical trial for our EBOV vaccine candidate. Genocea Biosciences, Inc. (Genocea) has licensed rights to our Matrix technology and has conducted Phase 2 clinical trials with its herpes simplex 2 vaccine candidate using Matrix-M.

Novavax was incorporated in 1987 under the laws of the State of Delaware. Our principal executive offices are located at 20 Firstfield Road, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20878. Our telephone number is (240) 268-2000 and our website address is www.novavax.com.

In 2015, Novavax received a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop its vaccine in certain low and middle income countries as part of the development of its RSV F Vaccine for maternal immunization. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded Novavax up to $89 million to support development of the RSV F Vaccine Phase 3 clinical trial in pregnant women, planned to initiate during the first quarter of 2016. This grant will also support regulatory licensing efforts, providing a path to World Health Organization (WHO) prequalification. Upon licensure, Novavax has agreed to make the RSV F vaccine affordable and accessible to people in the developing world.  

In March 2015 the company completed a Phase I trial for its Ebola vaccine candidate.

In September 2016 the company announced that a Phase III trial of its RSV vaccine had failed to meet its endpoints, which caused its share price to fall from $8.34 to $1.40 and led the company to lay off 30% of its employees.

As of November 2016 its RSV F vaccine candidate was in three clinical trials.

Financial Summary

BRIEF: For the fiscal year ended 31 December 2016, Novavax, Inc. revenues decreased 58% to $15.4M. Net loss increased 78% to $280M. Revenues reflect Government contracts decrease of 93% to $2.2M. Higher net loss reflects General and administrative – Balancing increase of 59% to $38.5M (expense), Interest Expense increase from $241K to $13M (expense), Labor & Related Expenses in R&D increase of 65% to $11.2M (expense).

Novavax, Inc. (NASDAQ:NVAX)’s performance this year to date is -34.13%. The stock has performed -7.78% over the last seven days, -38.06% over the last thirty, and -39.42% over the last three months. Over the last six months, Novavax, Inc.’s stock has been -46.79% and -84.88% for the year.

Gaithersburg vaccine company Novavax Inc. saw its share price jump at least 26 percent Tuesday – coming within a penny of the $1 threshold for the first time in a month – following its report of narrowed first-quarter losses.

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Questions test about London and multiple choice exercise by English Culture and Carl William Brown, with some useful links and videos about London metropolis.

1) When and why did the Romans found London?

London was founded as a communication center by the Romans shortly after they invaded Britain in 43 AD. The name of London probably come from the Celtic “Llyn Din” that means “Hill by the pool”, which the Romans turned into Londinium, as it was called then, was a little village on the Thames, on the route to the provincial capital in eastern England.

2) When do you think of London what are the main places or things that come to your mind?

I think of the Big Ben, the Houses of parliament, Boadicea and Her Daughters facing Big Ben and the Palace of Westminster across the road, 10 Downing Street, the Tower Bridge, the Great Fire, Barbican Arts Center, parks, Nelson’s statue in Trafalgar square, the wax museum, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, Buckingham palace, the double deckers, the black cabs, the London eye or the big wheel, and last but not the least, rain.

3) Have you got an idea about the population of London, its foreign visitors per year and the number of shops, restaurants, museums, theatres and football teams?

14,753,000 visitors per year in 981,000 Italians (Data 2008). Population: 7,465,100 (11,229,200 in the metropolitan area). 12 metro lines with 275 stations of which 63 in the center. 300 prestigious museums and art galleries. 83 markets. Over 6,000 restaurants. Over 40,000 shops. Hundreds of theatres (more than 160), clubs (60), pubs and cinemas. 13 professional football teams, more than any other city in the world.

4) What are the most important and interesting museums that you can visit in London?

Natural History Museum. The handsome Alfred Waterhouse building houses a collection that contains some 70 million plant, animal, fossil, rock and mineral specimens.
Science Museum. The Science Museum features seven floors of educational and entertaining exhibits, including the Apollo 10 command module and a flight simulator.
National Gallery. Founded in 1824 to display a collection of just 36 paintings, today the National Gallery is home to more than 2,000 works. There are masterpieces from virtually every European school of art.
National Maritime Museum. On this Greenwich Park site you’ll find the National Maritime Museum, the Queen’s House and the Royal Observatory, founded in 1675 by Charles II. The museum’s Maritime London gallery is a permanent exhibition exploring the importance of London’s maritime heritage and its impact on world trade. Exhibits include wreckage from a Zeppelin shot down over the Thames estuary in 1916 and the original model for Nelson’s Column.
Design Museum. Opened in 1989 (following its original incarnation as the Boilerhouse established in the V&A by Terence Conran), the Design Museum by Tower Bridge encompasses modern and contemporary industrial and fashion design, graphics, architecture and multimedia.
See the Crown Jewels in the 900-year-old Tower of London and the famous Beefeaters, too. Buckingham Palace is the official residence of the Queen. You can’t visit the 600 rooms, but you can see the Changing of the Guard. The Houses of Parliament opposite Parliament Square are the home of the British Government.
Madame Tussaud’s exhibits wax models instead, models of famous historical characters, film and sports starts, Royalty statesmen. A more conventional museum is the British Museum, which shows the works of man from prehistoric times to the present day. There are permanent displays of antiquities from Egypt, Western Asia, Greece and Rome. It also includes one of the most famous libraries in the world.
Tate Modem, opened in May 2000, is Britain’s new National museum of modern art. It is located on the south bank of the River Thames at Bankside, near Blackfriars Bridge, opposite St Paul’s Cathedral and next to the Globe Theatre. Housed in the former Bankside Power Station. Tate Modern displays a collection of international modern art from 1900 to the present day, including major works by Bacon, Dalì, Picasso, Matisse, Rothko and Warhol as well as recent works by artists such as Steve McQueen, Rebecca Horn and Gillian Wearing. It holds special exhibitions and events throughout the year.
London Transport Museum
Imperial War Museum

5) What are the most famous shopping centers in London?

London is the capital of shopping! Harrods is a world famous department store with 330 different departments. Don’t forget Oxford Street for shopping. It’s over two kilometres long and has 300 shops. Or visit Camden Market for its cool fashion and second-hand clothes. Portobello is a large building in Shaftesbury Avenue (Piccadilly Circus) for entertainment, leisure and shopping. Built on the site of the original Trocadero restaurant (1896), it was open throughout World War II, it closed in 1965 and was redeveloped the 1980s. Since 2005 it is under new ownership and is expected to undergo a comprehensive regeneration.
Hamleys is one of the world’s largest toy shops. Its flagship store is in Regent Street, London. Hamleys is one of London’s more popular destinations with a reported 5 to 6 million visitors per year, so you’ll have a lot of company on any visit to the store.

6) What do you know about the London Eye?

The London Eye is 135 meters high, it is the world’s largest ferris wheel. From the London Eye, in the heart of London, you can see a lot and have a terrific view! A trip on the wheel takes thirty minutes. On a clear day, you can see up to 40 kilometres. The ticket for adults costs from £20.

7) Do you know what are the main parks in London?

London has 9 Royal Parks (ancient hunting), they are: Green Park, St James’s Park, Hyde Park, Kensington Gardens, Regent’s Park, Greenwich Park, Bushy Park, Richmond Park and Brompton Cemetery.

8) Who built the London Bridge?

The first ‘London Bridge’ was built by the Romans, and probably built of timber.

9) How much does it costs to ride a double decker bus?

It depends on how far you want to travel. An average journey costs about £2 (one pound). Children travel free on London buses.

10) Have you got an idea of what is called the “Square Mile”?

The City of London, know simply as ‘the City’ which is the business and financial heart of the United Kingdom. It is also known as the Square Mile (2.59 sq km/1 sq mi). It was the original Roman settlement (ancient Londinium), making it the oldest part of London and already 1,000 years old when the Tower of London was built.

MULTIPLE CHOICES ABOUT LONDON

1) What is London most famous department store?
Picadilly    Harrods (x)    The Barbican Centre

2) What street has a long tradition as the home of printing?
Sloane Street    Oxford Street    Fleet Street (x)

3) What are the famous guards of The Tower of London called?
Beefeaters (x)    The Guards    Knights

4) What commemorates Napoleon’s defeat at sea in 1805?
Oliver’s Column    Duke of York’s    Column Nelson’s Column (x)

5) What line runs through Greenwich?
Nine Elms Lane    The Prime Meridian (x)    Long Lane

6) Where’s the home of the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer?
Downing Street 10 and 11 (x)     Regent Street 10 and 11     Browning Street 10 and 11

7) What made Carnaby Street famous?
food     flowers     fashion (x)

8) What did Madame Tussaud start in 1835?
a famous bakery     famous waxworks (x)     a famous needle-point

9) Who wrote famous books in 48 Doughty Street?
R. L. Stine     Charles Dickens (x)     Agatha Christie

10) St. Paul’s Cathedral is the …
biggest    second biggest (x)     third biggest (dome in the world.)

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