“Although Jason won’t be here in physical form to see and experience our miracle, I know he will always be here in spirit watching, protecting and loving us,” Dominique Rivera, wife of NYPD officer Jason Rivera, said at a memorial mass on Saturday at St. Patrick’s Cathedral.
“To my unborn child, my hope is that with time, guidance and love they too will get to know their father. And as a family, we will vow to never forget and honor Jason’s tremendous legacy of service and ultimate sacrifice.”
The baby is due in the Spring.
Thousands of NYPD officers attend the funeral of Officer Jason Rivera at St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Jan. 28, 2022 in New York.Tayfun Coskun / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images file
Jason Rivera, 22, and officer Wilbert Mora, 27, were gunned down Jan. 21, 2022, while responding to a 911 call about a woman having a dispute with her son in a Harlem apartment. The two officers were fired upon without warning when they went down a narrow hallway to a rear bedroom where the suspect was, police said.
The suspect, Lashawn Mcneil, 47, was shot by a third officer and died days later in the hospital.
Dominique Rivera said the past year has been “unbearable” and there were times when she felt like she had lost herself.
“Although I can understand that for most of you life went on, it feels like time has stopped for me. … I have thought about all of the plans we made, what our lives would be like now that we are married. Thinking about the day we’d be able to make dinner for each other or wait on each other to see who comes home first. Taking yearly vacations and soaking up all the love that newlyweds feel,” she said. “The pain became so unbearable that in order to cope I started to tell myself that we had separated. This was easier to accept than to acknowledge his death.”
Mora’s sister also spoke during the memorial, reading a message in Spanish. Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell called the officers “heroes.”
“We carry the legacies of Jason and Wilbert. We muscle forward with heavy hearts with invisible lockets holding their memories, a year’s worth of tears and an immersable amount of sorrow,” she said.
Disha Patani Maximises Hotness in Sexy See-Through Bodycon Rose Gold Dress, See Pics
Disha Patani looks stunning as she gets into the party mood in her stunning see-through bodycon rose gold dress. – See Viral Pics
Disha Patani Maximises Hotness in Sexy See-Through Bodycon Rose Gold Dress, See Pics
Disha Patani Sizzles in Hot See-Through Bodycon Dress: Disha Patani has once again set the internet ablaze with her sizzling avatar. The actor recently donned a hot see-through bodycon rose gold outfit. Disha flaunts her hourglass figure in a series of pictures shared on her Instagram handle. The Ek Villain Returns actor knows how to ace her social media game when it comes to dropping smoking hot photos in sexy attire. Disha, known to be a fitness enthusiast never skips her gym training even during film shoots. Her dedication towards a healthy lifestyle surely reflects in her jaw-dropping photoshoots and reels. The actor is also a water baby as she often shares her poolside or beach vacation pics in stunning bikinis and monokinis.
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DISHA PATANI OOZES OOMPH IN HOT SEE-THROUGH BODYCON DRESS
Disha captioned her post as, “.” The actor can be seen wearing a see-through bodycon rose golden gown with plunging neckline. The dress had a front-open thigh-high-slit adding up to the glam quotient and sex appeal. Disha shared four aesthetically shot candid pictures. The actor looks alluring as she brings the much-needed oomph factor and sensuality. Her rumoured beau Aleksander Alex commented, ” loveeeeeee it .” Fans posted heart, heart-shaped eye and fire emojis on her sizzling post.
Disha will next be seen in Dharma Productions’ Yodha starring Sidharth Malhotra and Rashi Khanna. She has also started shooting of her first Tamil debut Suriya 42 opposite Suriya. Disha is also a part of Project K, starring Prabhas, Deepika Padukone and Amitabh Bachchan.
For more updates Disha Patani, check out this space at India.com.
Google Removes its Smart Reply Feature from the Voice App | Deets Inside
According to 9to5Google, this simple feature examined the most recently received message and suggested up to three contextual replies.
New Delhi: American technology giant Google has removed Smart Reply suggestions that appeared at the bottom of messages from the Voice app on Android and iOS. The company introduced the feature last year in February.
According to 9to5Google, this simple feature examined the most recently received message and suggested up to three contextual replies.
These pills would appear above the “Type a message” field with the Smart Reply immediately sending on tap.
Google Voice’s release notes on the Play Store and App Store confirm the removal: “Smart responses are no longer supported”, said the report.
Meanwhile, Google released the standalone “Switch Access” app on the Play Store, which was originally part of the Android Accessibility Suite. The app allows users to interact with their Android device using one or more switches or a keyboard instead of the touchscreen.
“Control your phone or tablet using switches or the front camera. You can use switches to select items, scroll, enter text and more. Switch Access can be helpful if you can’t interact directly with your device,” according to the Switch Access about page.
The app scans the items on users’ screens and highlights each item until they make a selection.
Written by INX’s Leadership and Industry Experts, ‘The INX Way’ Details the Path to Building a Secure, Regulated and Prosperous Future With Digital Securities
NEW YORK, Jan. 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — The INX Digital Company, Inc. (NEO: INXD, INXATS: INX, OTCQB:INXDF) (“INX”), a broker-dealer and inter-dealer broker – offering the first-ever SEC-regulated digital asset trading platform for both cryptocurrencies and security tokens, announced today the launch of The INX Way. The book is a collaboration by INX’s leadership and top legal, financial and regulatory experts, outlining INX’s multi-year, multi-disciplinary effort to execute the first-ever initial public offering on the blockchain.
In addition to detailing INX’s journey, The INX Way is an informative guide to help educate market participants, legal professionals, issuers and investors exploring alternative investments on how to successfully participate in today’s digital economy by leveraging security tokens and blockchain technology. The book offers a variety of success stories and case studies, as well as the following key highlights:
The rise of the “Insumer” and how digital securities can enable companies to create deeper, more engaging relationships with them.
The use of the security token as a post-bankruptcy recovery mechanism.
The democratization and simplification of the capital raise process for startups and other high-growth companies.
“The global economy is in the midst of one of its most transformational periods in history. The digitization and tokenization of the world’s assets is both inevitable, with the blockchain and tokenization ecosystems continuing to impact industries from gaming and healthcare to finance to real estate,” said Shy Datika, founder & CEO of INX. “During this evolution, INX has been in the trenches, doing the work alongside U.S. regulators, to increase access and opportunities for investors to participate in, and benefit from, the digital economy. Because of our unique perspective we decided to put it in writing in The INX Way. We hope readers learn from our experiences and transform that knowledge into actionable insight.”
In 2021, INX becamethe first SEC-registered digital security IPO – closing with $84M gross proceeds from over 7,300 retail and institutional investors. 92.9M INX Tokens were sold in the IPO. INX continues to lead the industry in providing novel trading and capital-raising financial instruments to enterprises and companies worldwide.
For more information about INX and The INX Way, in a digital and hard-copy format, visit www.inx.co/.
About INX:
INX provides a regulated trading platform for digital securities and cryptocurrencies. With the combination of traditional markets expertise and a disruptive fintech approach, INX provides state-of-the-art solutions to modern financial problems. INX is led by an experienced and dedicated team of business, finance, and technology veterans with the shared vision of redefining the world of capital markets via blockchain technology and innovative regulatory approach.
About The INX Digital Company, Inc. INX is the holding company for the INX Group, which includes regulated trading platforms for digital securities and cryptocurrencies, combining traditional markets expertise and an innovative fintech approach. The INX Group’s vision is to be the preferred global regulated hub for digital assets on the blockchain. The INX Group’s overall mission is to bring communities together and empower them with financial innovation. Our journey started with our initial public token offering of the INX Token in which we raised US$83 million. The INX Group is shaping the blockchain asset industry through its willingness to work in a regulated environment with oversight from regulators like the SEC and FINRA.
In addition to operating two regulated trading platforms for blockchain assets, INX’s interdealer broker, I.L.S. Brokers, plans to offer non-deliverable cryptocurrency forwards to Tier-1 banks in the future. For more information, please visit the INX Group website here.
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When Kim Talbot first launched her milling shop in southern Maine, she hoped to win a coveted contract with the federal government to manufacture steel and aluminum machine parts. With no idea where to start, she did what any inexperienced small-business owner might do: She Googled.
The top search result was, in her eyes, an official-looking webpage. It prominently displayed a logo very similar to that of SAM.gov, the government website where businesses must register before pursuing such contracts or grants. The site charged $597 for registrations, no insignificant fee for Talbot and her husband. They had already plunked a good chunk of their savings, some $100,000, into their fledgling, family-run business Muddy River Machining. Still, she assumed it was necessary and paid the amount.
Only later did the Talbots realize that this site was in no way affiliated with the federal government, having missed the smaller print disclosing this fact beneath the “Register Online Now” button and the logos resembling that of SAM.gov.
Not only are the SAM.gov registrations and annual renewals free, but also one-on-one assistance with these processes is available at no cost through government-funded nonprofit groups across the country.
Even so, many companies with official-sounding names and websites that resemble SAM.gov, or sites that could suggest a government affiliation, charge hundreds of dollars or more. Several draw in unwitting customers like Talbot through Google ads that outrank the legitimate SAM.gov page, illustrating the ease of buying visibility on the world’s largest search engine.
Kim Talbot.Courtesy of Kim Talbot
“It’s definitely predatory,” Talbot said in a phone interview. “We could have used that money to help with payroll, taxes, insurance or even heating the building.”
The company that Talbot paid, Federal Contractor Registry, denies that its business practices are misleading or predatory, claiming that it “has always clearly identified itself as a ‘Third Party Service.’” On its website, after an NBC News inquiry, it replaced the logo closely resembling that of SAM.gov with its own.
While many websites that charge for assistance with SAM.gov registrations and renewals clearly state that they are not affiliated with the government and simply tout the ease of having a third party fill out the online forms, others are less transparent.
Google removed the ads for a number of these sites in response to an inquiry for this article but subsequently reversed its decision.
“We have strict ads policies that govern the types of ads and advertisers we allow on our platforms,” Google spokesperson Davis Thompson said in a statement. “If we identify an advertisement that violates our misrepresentation or government services policy, we immediately remove it.”
Like other online intermediaries, Google is likely shielded from liability for the third-party content it hosts, including ads, by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.
A “substantial cottage industry”
The Federal Trade Commission recently proposed a new rule to crack down on the broader issue of government “impersonation,” a phenomenon that has cost consumers billions of dollars, and is “highly prevalent and increasingly harmful, especially for small businesses,” said Christopher Brown, an attorney in its marketing practices division. The most commonly impersonated government entity is the Social Security Administration, followed by Medicare, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the FTC and then the IRS.
The FTC’s proposed rule would enable it to recover money from violators and pursue civil penalties against them, but it must still go through a public hearing period, more review and a final agency vote, which could take months or years.
After an NBC News inquiry, Federal Contractor Registry updated its website, replacing a logo highly similar to that of SAM.gov (left) with its own (right). The official SAM.gov logo for the government website where businesses must register before pursuing contracts or grants.SAM.gov
Even if the process drags out, the rule would “make a huge difference for consumers,” said Bonnie Patten, the executive director of the consumer advocacy nonprofit group Truth in Advertising.
As part of this process, Patten’s organization has filed comments with the FTC complaining about Federal Contractor Registry, as well as Federal Filing, Federal Award Management Registration and others, referring to them as “imposters” running “scams” to pose as the federal government while failing to adequately disclose that they are private companies.
Before Truth In Advertising filed its complaint last summer, Federal Filing displayed the official SAM.gov logo at the very top of its homepage, while disclosing near the bottom that it “is not a government agency,” as well as on a separate FAQ page. The logo has since been removed. Near the top of the site, the company now asks “Why Work With The Federal Government” and “Why SAM?”
Federal Filing said that Truth In Advertising was “unfairly targeting us due to presumably bad actors in our line of work.”
Like Federal Contractor Registry and Federal Filing, the company Federal Award Management Registration was using Google ads to attract customers. When reached for comment, it also updated its website, which had featured a backdrop of the U.S. Capitol and offered the opportunity to talk with a “federal contractor advisor.”
At the bottom of the homepage was its sole disclosure that it was an independent third party, with the accompanying line: “Often, the difference between landing and losing a contract is a small mistake that prevents proper filing. Trust the experts so you can be sure your company is properly registered and fully able to apply for and win federal contracts.”
Following an inquiry for this article, the site now provides an enlarged disclosure in bright blue font and no longer displays the Capitol.
This was due to “ongoing changes” to the site, company owner Brad Anderson said by phone. He added that “99.9%” of customers understand that his site is not affiliated with the government, and that it is the firm’s competitors who “grossly misrepresent themselves.”
In an email, Federal Award Management Registration added in part that its representatives inform potential customers over the phone that it is “an Independent Party and that they could do the SAM registration for free on their own.”
Even some sites that more clearly distinguish themselves from SAM.gov, but populated near or at the top of Google search results for queries, have received complaints from customers who confused them with the government. Among the many complaints filed against such sites with the nonprofit watchdog group Better Business Bureau, one person wrote of a website called US Federal Contractor Registration: “I assumed it was a government website but it was not.”
The individual said their charity paid $599 for a service they later learned could have been completed for free. In a public response, US Federal Contractor Registration — which states on its homepage that it is a “third-party” firm, and in small, gray-on-gray print at the bottom that it is “not a government agency” — said it discloses this information “clearly.”
The company’s president and CEO Eric Knellinger said in a lengthy email that “instead of pointing the finger at USFCR,” NBC News should “look at and report on the issues and problems with the System for Awards [sic] Management [SAM.gov] itself.”
As these companies continue to thrive without meaningful intervention, more and more are popping up.
“There’s a substantial cottage industry built around this,” said Ken Bloch, president of the Association of Procurement Technical Assistance Centers, which provides free help with registrations and annual SAM.gov renewals. “A lot of the businesses that fall prey to this are very small. They’re mom-and-pop businesses — maybe five or 10 people.”
Free, ‘superior’ alternatives
Federal Contractor Registry, Federal Filing and Federal Award Management Registration all said that they make clear to their customers that they are not connected to the government and that they have never misrepresented their businesses. Each likened their services to tax filings, a cumbersome and complex process which many people pay professionals to complete even though they can do it themselves at no cost.
But the Small Business Administration urges people not to spend their precious resources on these services when so many free alternatives exist. The SBA has scores of district offices nationwide, as well as business centers dedicated to helping women, veterans and other specific groups, offering no-cost assistance with SAM.gov registrations and renewals.
“Save those resources to do the other back-end work that can be overwhelming for small-business owners, like accounting and annual taxes,” said Bibi Hidalgo, SBA’s associate administrator for government contracting and business development. “There is no need to spend any of your hard-won contract awards on this.”
“There is no need to spend any of your hard-won contract awards on this.”
Bibi Hidalgo, Small Business Administration’s associate administrator for government contracting and business development.
The U.S. General Services Administration, which runs SAM.gov, said in an emailed statement that “no third party company should ever impersonate SAM.gov for any reason,” and noted that it “takes appropriate action when such impersonation is brought to our attention.” It did not respond to requests to clarify what such action entails.
Talbot has connected with her local Procurement Technical Assistance Center and plans to take advantage of its free support going forward. Already, she said, the help she has received at no charge has been “superior” to the services for which she paid hundreds of dollars.
Until the FTC’s proposed rule comes into effect, Patten from Truth in Advertising worries that more small-business owners like Talbot will unnecessarily spend their money on SAM.gov registrations and renewals. She expects new, prominently displayed Google ads to play a part in the problem.
“As much as we’d like to hope that Google wouldn’t take money from scammers,” she said, “we’ve seen time and time again that that’s not really how things seem to work out.”
Presentation on Thursday, January 26th, 2023 at 1:30 PM EST
TARRYTOWN, NY, Jan. 20, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — via NewMediaWire — PaxMedica, Inc. (Nasdaq: PXMD), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focusing on the development of novel anti-purinergic drug therapies (“APT”) for the treatment of disorders with intractable neurologic symptoms, today announced that it will be presenting virtually at the upcoming Virtual Investor Summit on January 26th.
PaxMedica is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focusing on the development of anti-purinergic drug therapies (“APT”) for the treatment of disorders with intractable neurologic symptoms, ranging from neurodevelopmental disorders, including Autism Spectrum Disorder (“ASD”), to Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (“ME/CFS”), a debilitating physical and cognitive disorder believed to be viral in origin and now with rising incidence globally due to the long term effects of SARS-CoV-2 (“COVID-19”). One of PaxMedica’s primary points of focus is the development and testing of its lead program, PAX-101, an intravenous formulation of suramin, in the treatment of ASD and the advancement of the clinical understanding of using that agent against other disorders such as ME/CFS and Long COVID-19 Syndrome, a clinical diagnosis in individuals who have been previously infected with COVID-19. For more information, please visit: www.paxmedica.com
About the Investor Summit
The Investor Summit is an exclusive, independent conference dedicated to connecting smallcap and microcap companies with qualified investors. The Q1 Investor Summit will take place virtually, featuring 30 companies and over 120 institutional, family office, and high net worth investors. Sectors Participating: Biotech, Communication Services, Consumer, Energy, Technology, Financial, Healthcare, Industrials, Materials, Real Estate. Contact: emily@investorsummitgroup.com
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NORWALK, Conn., Jan. 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — GameChange Solar today announced that the company has won a group of projects totaling 2.3 GW in the state of Florida in the USA. These systems include sites engineered for 150 mph wind gusts.
Derick Botha, Chief Commercial Officer at GameChange Solar, stated, “The ability of our rugged Genius Tracker system to survive windspeeds in excess of 150 mph was a critical part of our ability to win this large group of projects.”
Contact and media inquiries can be directed to Derick Botha +1 (302) 528-2125
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.” The actor can be seen wearing a see-through bodycon rose golden gown with plunging neckline. The dress had a front-open thigh-high-slit adding up to the glam quotient and sex appeal. Disha shared four aesthetically shot candid pictures. The actor looks alluring as she brings the much-needed oomph factor and sensuality. Her rumoured beau Aleksander Alex commented, ” loveeeeeee it 
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system to survive windspeeds in excess of 150 mph was a critical part of our ability to win this large group of projects.”
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