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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec 13, 2024-- On December 10, 2024, Athena Technology Acquisition Corp. II (the “Company”) received a letter from the NYSE American LLC (“NYSE American” or the “Exchange”) stating that the staff of NYSE Regulation has determined to commence proceedings to delist the Company’s class A common stock, units, and redeemable warrants (collectively, the “Company Securities”), pursuant to Sections 119(b) and 119(f) of the NYSE American Company Guide because the Company failed to consummate a business combination within 36 months of the effectiveness of its initial public offering registration statement, or such shorter period that the Company specified in its registration statement. As a result of the determination, trading of the Company Securities on NYSE American has been suspended. As indicated in the letter from NYSE American, the Company has a right to a review of the delisting determination by the Listings Qualifications Panel of the Committee for Review of the Board of Directors of the Exchange, provided that the Company submits a written request for such review no later than December 17, 2024. The Company is working towards consummating its previously announced business combination with Ace Green Recycling, Inc. If the Company Securities are delisted from NYSE American, the Company intends to seek a listing of the Company Securities on The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC in connection with the consummation of the Company’s proposed initial business combination. About Athena Technology Acquisition Corp. II Athena Technology Acquisition Corp. II (NYSE American: ATEK.U, ATEK, ATEK WS), incorporated in Delaware, is a special purpose acquisition company incorporated for the purpose of effecting a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses or entities. ATEK is the third SPAC founded by Isabelle Freidheim, who also serves as its Chief Executive Officer, with Kirthiga Reddy as President and Jennifer Calabrese as Chief Financial Officer. Forward-Looking Statements Certain statements made in this press release are not historical facts but may be considered “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the “safe harbor” provisions under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements generally are accompanied by words such as “believe,” “may,” “will,” “estimate,” “continue,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “expect,” “should,” “would,” “plan,” “predict,” “potential,” “seem,” “seek,” “future,” “outlook,” “intend,” or continue or the negatives of these terms or variations of them or similar terminology or expressions that predict or indicate future events or trends or that are not statements of historical matters. These statements are based on the current expectations of the Company’s management and are not predictions of actual performance. Such statements may include, but are not limited to, statements regarding the Company’s ability to consummate its previously announced business combination and to list the Company Securities on Nasdaq in connection with the consummation of the proposed business combination. These forward-looking statements are provided for illustrative purposes only and are not intended to serve as, and must not be relied on, by any investor as a guarantee, an assurance, a prediction or a definitive statement of fact or probability. Actual events and circumstances are difficult or impossible to predict and will differ from assumptions. Many actual events and circumstances are beyond the control of the Company. These statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, and actual results may differ materially. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: general economic, political and business conditions; the number of redemption requests made by the Company’s stockholders in connection with a potential business combination; the outcome of any legal proceedings that may be instituted against the Company; the risk that the approval of the Company’s stockholders for a potential transaction is not obtained; expectations related to the timing of a potential business combination; failure to realize the anticipated benefits of a business combination; the risk that a business combination may not be completed by the Company’s business combination deadline; costs related to a business combination; and other risks that will be detailed from time to time in filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including those risks discussed under the heading “Risk Factors” in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023 filed with the SEC on September 27, 2024 and in subsequently filed Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. The foregoing list of risk factors is not exhaustive. There may be additional risks that could also cause actual results to differ from those contained in these forward-looking statements. In addition, forward-looking statements provide the Company’s expectations, plans or forecasts of future events and views as of the date of this press release. And while the Company may elect to update these forward-looking statements in the future, the Company specifically disclaims any obligation to do so, except as required by law. These forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing the Company’s assessments as of any date subsequent to the date of this press release. Accordingly, undue reliance should not be placed upon the forward-looking statements. Nothing herein should be regarded as a representation by any person that the forward-looking statements set forth herein will be achieved or that the results of such forward-looking statements will be achieved. 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The undefeated Vernon Panthers will look to ground some northern birds in the semifinals at the 2024 Tsumura Basketball Invitational Girls High School Basketball tournament in the Fraser Valley. The Panthers will face the Duchess Park Condors of Prince George at 4:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 13. Dave Tetreault's crew advanced to the Select 16 semifinals by freezing the South Delta Sun Devils 63-54 in a Thursday quarterfinal. The Sun Devils led 14-1 before the Panthers got going, tying the game at the half, then taking their own 13-point lead late in the third quarter. But South Delta clawed back to pull ahead 54-52, only to see the Panthers end the game on an 11-0 run. Paige Leahy led VSS with 19 points, Chloe Collins added 15, and Adie Janke had 14. Collins and Janke nailed key three-point shots in the final quarter for the Cats. The Panthers will next face the smothering defence of the Condors, who defeated Langley's Walnut Grove Gators 88-27 in their quarterfinal. Duchess Park held the Gators to just 11 first-half points. In the Super 16 bracket, the Kelowna Owls were bounced from the championship side, falling 62-56 to Langley's Brookswood Bobcats. The Owls held Grade 10 phee-nom Jordyn Nohn to just 17 points. Nohr erupted for 52 points in the Bobcats' opening round game. Mavleen Chahal led the Owls with 25 points while Ava Thiessen scored all 12 of her points from the three-point line. On the consolation side, the Okanagan Mission Huskies of Kelowna evened their tournament record at 1-1 with a 56-50 win over the Sa-Hali Sabres of Kamloops. The Huskies face the Semiahmoo Thunderbirds of Surrey at 11:45 a.m. The Owls will take on the Lord Tweedsmuir Panthers of Surrey at 4:30 p.m. For schedule and scores, visit www.langleyeventscentre.com/tbi .
Srinagar, Dec 25, 2024- J&K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Wednesday carried out a surprise visit to Kashmir’s premier healthcare institutions and gave orders on the spot for upgradation & improvement. Conducting surprise inspections of premier health Institutions in Srinagar to gain firsthand knowledge of the facilities and services being provided to patients and their attendants, the Chief Minister visited the Bone & Joint Hospital, Barzulla, one of the region’s top orthopaedic healthcare facilities. During his inspection, he toured various sections and wards, interacting with patients and attendants to understand their concerns. Accompanied by Minister of Health, Sakeena Itoo, senior faculty members and Doctors, he engaged with hospital staff to assess the winter arrangements, treatment facilities and the availability of medical professionals and paramedics. CM Abdullah also inspected the state-of-the-art additional block of the hospital, constructed under the Jhelum Tawi Flood Recovery Project (JTFRP) with funding from the World Bank. Designed with earthquake-resilient technology, the block will add 160 beds, doubling the hospital’s total capacity from 150 to 310 beds. During his visit, the Chief Minister emphasised the need to expedite the completion of the new block, which is critical for addressing the space crunch caused by a fire incident in 2022 that reduced the hospital’s original capacity of 200 beds. He directed the executing agencies to ensure its swift operationalisation by January 2025 to enhance patient care and to dedicate the facility to public service. The Chief Minister also inspected the 500-bed Children’s Hospital in Bemina, where he interacted with patients, attendants, and hospital staff. During his visit, attendants from far-flung areas raised concerns about the lack of a Sarai (inn) for their stay. The Chief Minister immediately directed the authorities concerned to construct a ‘Sarai’ to accommodate attendants and alleviate their difficulties. As hospital staff highlighted the challenges of expanding super-speciality facilities due to express space constraints, he assured them that their issue would be addressed on priority. He also promised to resolve the shortage of medical staff, including doctors and paramedics, not only at this hospital but across healthcare facilities in Jammu and Kashmir. Furthermore, the Chief Minister instructed hospital authorities to ensure the timely availability of medicines and other essential facilities for patients. During the inspections, Omar Abdullah reiterated his government’s commitment to improving healthcare infrastructure ensuring better facilities for the public and addressing manpower shortages in health institutions across Jammu and Kashmir. The Chief Minister was accompanied during his visits by Health Minister Itoo, the Medical Superintendent of the Children’s Hospital, senior faculty members and other officials.(Agency)
Sight Sciences Announces the Results of a Budget Impact Analysis for its TearCare® System for the Treatment of Meibomian Gland Disease ("MGD") Showing Cost Savings Over Existing Reimbursed Treatment OptionsPhoto: The Canadian Press This photo provided by Trisha Bushey shows the evening sky and points of light near in Lebanon Township, N.J., on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024. That buzzing coming out of New Jersey? It's unclear if it's drones or something else, but for sure the nighttime sightings are producing tons of talk, a raft of conspiracy theories and craned necks looking skyward. Cropping up on local news and social media sites around Thanksgiving, the saga of the drones reported over New Jersey has reached incredible heights. This week seems to have begun a new, higher-profile chapter: Lawmakers are demanding (but so far not getting) explanations from federal and state authorities about what's behind them. Gov. Phil Murphy wrote to President Joe Biden asking for answers. New Jersey's new senator, Andy Kim, spent Thursday night on a drone hunt in rural northern New Jersey, and posted about it on X. But perhaps the most fantastic development is the dizzying proliferation of conspiracies — none of which has been confirmed or suggested by federal and state officials who say they're looking into what's happening. It has become shorthand to refer to the flying machines as drones, but there are questions about whether what people are seeing are unmanned aircraft or something else. Some theorize the drones came from an Iranian mothership. Others think they are the Secret Service making sure President-elect Donald Trump’s Bedminster property is secure. Others worry about China. The deep state. And on. In the face of uncertainty, people have done what they do in 2024: Create a social media group. The Facebook page, New Jersey Mystery Drones — let’s solve it , has nearly 44,000 members, up from 39,000 late Thursday. People are posting their photo and video sightings, and the online commenters take it from there. One video shows a whitish light flying in a darkened sky, and one commenter concludes it’s otherworldly. “Straight up orbs,” the person says. Others weigh in to say it’s a plane or maybe a satellite. Another group called for hunting the drones literally, shooting them down like turkeys. (Do not shoot at anything in the sky, experts warn.) Trisha Bushey, 48, of Lebanon Township, New Jersey, lives near Round Valley Reservoir where there have been numerous sightings. She said she first posted photos online last month wondering what the objects were and became convinced they were drones when she saw how they moved and when her son showed her on a flight tracking site that no planes were around. Now she's glued to the Mystery Drones page, she said. “I find myself — instead of Christmas shopping or cleaning my house — checking it,” she said. She doesn't buy what the governor said, that the drones aren't a risk to public safety. Murphy told Biden on Friday that residents need answers. The federal Homeland Security Department and FBI also said in a joint statement they have no evidence that the sightings pose “a national security?or public safety?threat or have a foreign nexus.” “How can you say it’s not posing a threat if you don’t know what it is?” she said. “I think that’s why so many people are uneasy.” Then there's the notion that people could misunderstand what they're seeing. William Austin is the president of Warren County Community College, which has a drone technology degree program, and is coincidentally located in one of the sighting hotspots. Austin says he has looked at videos of purported drones and that airplanes are being misidentified as drones. He cited an optical effect called parallax, which is the apparent shift of an object when viewed from different perspectives. Austin encouraged people to download flight and drone tracker apps so they can better understand what they're looking at. Nonetheless, people continue to come up with their own theories. “It represents the United States of America in 2024,” Austin said. “We’ve lost trust in our institutions, and we need it.” Federal officials echo Austin's view that many of the sightings are piloted aircraft such as planes and helicopters being mistaken for drones, according to lawmakers and Murphy. That's not really convincing for many, though, who are homing in on the sightings beyond just New Jersey and the East Coast, where others have reported seeing the objects. For Seph Divine, 34, another member of the drone hunting group who lives in Eugene, Oregon, it feels as if it’s up to citizen sleuths to solve the mystery. He said he tries to be a voice of reason, encouraging people to fact check their information, while also asking probing questions. “My main goal is I don’t want people to be caught up in the hysteria and I also want people to not just ignore it at the same time,” he said. “Whether or not it’s foreign military or some secret access program or something otherworldly, whatever it is, all I’m saying is it’s alarming that this is happening so suddenly and so consistently for hours at a time,” he added.Shouldn’t the BBC Women’s Footballer of the Year be...a woman?
NoneAadi Bioscience Transforms with In-Licensing of Novel ADC Portfolio, $100 Million Sale of FYARRO® and $100 Million PIPE FinancingA new report, identifying the security features that can help consumers to recognise five of the most counterfeited banknotes in the world , has been issued. Despite the rise in cyber-fraud, mirroring the world’s slow but steady move to digital payments, banknote counterfeiting is prevalent. Millions of bills across various currencies continue to be intercepted by authorities around the world every year, with the U.S. dollar still holding the top position as the most counterfeited currency. Analysts at BestBrokers analysed the security features of the 39 most commonly used and traded currencies globally and identified those that are vulnerable to counterfeiting and those that are best protected against replication. This identified the five most counterfeited banknotes in the world. 1. US$100 Believed to be the most counterfeited bill in the world, the 100-denominated U.S. dollar is not easy to forge. Yet, thousands of fake $100 bills were seized in 2023, with the total face value of all counterfeits intercepted by the Secret Service last year amounting to more than $21.8 million. Despite the lack of official statistics, multiple news reports have described large fake bill operations caught by authorities this year. Among those, is a case where Santa Paula, CA, police seized more than $10,000 in fake $100 bills in June. In another case, two men were arrested in Michigan for creating and passing thousands of counterfeit $100. In April, German police said it had seized a massive amount of fake U.S. dollar bills. A total of 75 boxes filled with counterfeit $100 notes were discovered, with their total face value exceeding $103 million. These bills were not very convincing copies, though since they were the so-called “movie props”. The genuine $100 bills can be identified by several key safety features, one of which is the colour-shifting Bell in the Inkwell image on the front of the banknote. When the bill is tilted, a bell seems to appear and disappear in the copper inkwell. Another element to check is the blue 3-D security ribbon; when the note is tilted back and forth, the bells within the ribbon change into “100”s. The bells and “100”s also move up and down, and side to side. Also, the numeral “100” in the lower right corner of the front of the banknote shifts from copper to green when the note is tilted. 2. €50 The 50-denominated Euro is among the most commonly used and counterfeited Euro banknotes. Last year, the number of fake €50 notes seized across Europe was 179,328, more than a third of all counterfeit Euro currency. There has been an increase in the counterfeits detected this year, however. During the first half of the year alone, the German Bundesbank removed 38,600 counterfeit euro banknotes from circulation (nominal value of €2.4 million). This is up nearly 30% from the previous period. And 14,269 of these were €50 bills. Several large counterfeiting criminal operations have also been stopped by authorities across Europe this year. Earlier this year, a joint police investigation in several European countries seized more than €14 million in counterfeit currency. In October, Bulgarian authorities dismantled a massive currency-counterfeiting operation, seizing 37.5 Bulgarian leva, along with half a million euros in fake €500 bills. According to the Bulgarian police, these €500 counterfeits were of extremely high quality, also known as “superbills”. These fake notes are impossible to detect with the naked eye; typically, only trained professionals using specialised equipment such as UV lamps can spot the fake. When held against the light, a dark line can be seen running through it. On this security thread in the middle of the note, the writing “50 Euro” appears. There is a hologram near the bottom right corner of the front of the note, which shows the value and the Euro symbol. When tilted, the hologram shows the value and an image of a window. There is also a colour-changing numeral (50) in the bottom right corner of the bank of the note, which changes from purple to olive green. 3. MX$500 The Mexican peso has long been among the most counterfeit currencies around the world. In 2023, more than half of all 284,614 counterfeit Mexican pesos found across the country were fake 500-denominated peso bills. In 2024, authorities across Mexico have detected more counterfeits, with some of the latest cases being from Baja California. In November, police arrested two individuals in the city of Mexicali and seized counterfeit 885,000 pesos, along with US$286,000 worth of fake dollars. In October, another criminal network dealing with the printing and distribution of counterfeit currency was caught in Mexico City. Thousands of fake peso bills were produced as part of the criminal organization in Guanajuato, Veracruz and Hidalgo. Several security features can help spot a counterfeit peso bill. The MX$500 note is printed on cotton paper and has a colour-changing numeral on the front of the note. The denomination (500) changes from green to blue when the bill is tilted. There are also two watermarks; one corresponding to the portrait and another showing the denomination of the banknote. Also, there are multiple images on both sides of the note that are formed by very small lines that can be observed with a magnifying glass. These tiny shapes of several different colours form the larger objects on the note; they cannot be copied using a regular copier machine. 4. ₹500 The Indian rupee is among the most counterfeited currencies in the world, with more than 79.8 million rupees worth of fakes detected between April 2023 and March 2024. In total, 225,769 counterfeit rupee banknotes were seized. The authentication of these notes is not always straightforward; the 500-denominated bill is printed on cotton paper and the latest designs, in circulation since 2016, feature a portrait of Mahatma Gandhi on the obverse and the Red Fort monument on the reverse. It features a see-through register with the numeral “500” in the bottom left corner; the “500” is formed only when the note is held up against the light and the two pieces of the puzzle come together. Next to it, there is a hidden numeral that appears when the note is tilted. The green numeral in the bottom right corner of the bill also changes to blue when the note is tilted. 5. £20 The 20-denominated British pound sterling is the most common pound note in circulation and last year, over 106,000 of all 116,000 counterfeit notes destroyed by the Bank of England were 20s. In 2024, there might be a rise in counterfeit banknotes seized by the police since criminals tend to take advantage of the fact that many people might not be familiar with recently introduced designs. The release of the King Charles III banknotes this summer has led to an increase in attempts to forge the new notes. In a single operation, a Europol-coordinated effort seized 9,186 British pounds, along with fake Euro and U.S. dollar bills this October. Thousands of counterfeit notes have also been intercepted within the UK; fake £20 have been seen in Cheltenham and Gloucester; there have also been reports of counterfeits in Bangor, Cowbridge and across Wales. Several key security features can be used to authenticate a £20 note, one of which is the see-through window, where the portrait of either King Charles III or the late Her Majesty can be seen. Along with the portrait, there is also the denomination (“£20”) and “Bank of England”, printed twice around the edge. There is an image of a tower or lighthouse in the window that should be in gold foil and have “radiating rings” appear when the note is tilted. The building behind it is in blue foil and is made of rows of £20s. On the back of the note, a purple foil patch with the letter “T” is visible, while on the front, a silver foil patch shows a 3D image of the coronation crown. Another important element is the hologram image in the lower silver patch section of the note where the word “Twenty” changes to “Pounds” when the note is tilted from side to side. There are several security elements on banknotes that can help consumers spot a counterfeit bill: The survey’s full report provides detailed calculations, sources, and the complete methodology behind these findings. Detailed data can additionally be accessed from Google Docs via this link . Dr. Tim Sandle is Digital Journal's Editor-at-Large for science news.Tim specializes in science, technology, environmental, business, and health journalism. He is additionally a practising microbiologist; and an author. He is also interested in history, politics and current affairs.
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