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SAM430 USAF G5 east from San Diego Int'l Airport overnight-inbound from Great Falls, MT yesterday
SAM426 USAF G5 heading to Holloman AFB from JBA depart
Afghan evacuees depart Task Force-Holloman for resettlement
Afghan families, currently at Task Force-Holloman's Aman Omid Village, start the resettlement process to find a new home in the U.S. on Holloman Air Force Base, Sept. 28, 2021. The Department of Defense, through U.S. Northern Command, and in support of the Department of State and Department of Homeland Security, is providing transportation, temporary housing, medical screening, and general support for at least 50,000 Afghan evacuees at suitable facilities, in permanent or temporary structures, as quickly as possible. This initiative provides Afghan evacuees essential support at secure locations outside Afghanistan.
https://www.holloman.af.mil/News/Display/Article/2794849/afghan-evacuees-depart-task-force-holloman-for-resettlement/
Retail Value Inc. sold by 10% owner Alexander Otto: $98.27m-Sept 28
Dis is a REIT
Retail Value Inc. owns and operates a portfolio of retail real estate assets located in the continental United States. The Company owns and operates retail shopping centers. It intends to realize value for shareholders through the operations and sales of the Company's assets. The Company owns interests in properties located in the continental United States. The Company's subsidiary includes SITE Centers Corp., which is a self-managed real estate investment trust (REIT) in the business of acquiring, owning, developing, redeveloping, leasing, and managing shopping centers.
https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/RETAIL-VALUE-INC-44388516/company/
Alexander Otto owns a stake in Otto Group and is majority shareholder and CEO of ECE Group, a commercial real estate firm focused on shopping centers. His late father, Werner Otto, started the empire by founding a mail-order business in Hamburg in 1949. With revenues exceeding $15 billion, Otto Group has more than 40 companies in retail (including Crate and Barrel), real estate and financial services. His stepmother Maren and her daughter Katharina share a 14% stake with him in Paramount Group, which owns and manages office properties in the U.S. Investing heavily in shopping centers, he became a shareholder of publicly-traded Deutsche EuroShop in 2001.
https://www.forbes.com/profile/alexander-otto/?sh=53d0437412d3
Otto Group
Werner Otto began his mail-order company in 1949 with just 28 pairs of shoes sold out of hand-bound catalogues. He named his three-employee business "Werner Otto Versandhandel," also known as Otto Versand. The Werner Otto Mail-Order Company was first set up in two buildings in the Schnelsen district of Hamburg, Germany, where Werner pasted photographs of his products into mail-order catalogues. Within 10 years, the company that would become the Otto Group was contributing capital and employment to post-war Germany. The nature of the business and of mail-order sales changed when Otto Versand introduced the concept of payment by invoice with the motto “Trust for Trust.” With the innovation of the invoice and collective ordering, the catalogue expanded from simple shoes to include briefcases, raincoats and clothing as well as bicycles and appliances. Ever at the cusp of industry, Otto Versand began to take orders by telephone. Werner Otto was viewed as a pioneer of post-war trade who held influence over both German and international commerce, and Otto Versand expanded to employ thousands of people by 1961.
With success came change; the days when Werner had hand-stitched his own mail-order catalogues were long past. Werner Otto handed the reins to new CEO Günter Nawrath as the company opened its first purchasing office in Hong Kong and began to carry designs by celebrity fashion designers. Newly-printed catalogues were hundreds of pages long, and millions of copies circulated internationally. Not to be reliant on the German Postal service, Otto Versand founded its own delivery service, Hermes, to guarantee speedy delivery of placed orders whether they came by mail or telephone. In 1974, Otto began to look outward, acquiring stakes in German and international companies. Werner Otto’s oldest son, Michael, became the company’s new CEO and chairman in 1981, offering new leadership and a focus on environmental outreach. Michael made it clear that environmental protection was a corporate objective of the company, and he would eventually go on to establish his own Foundation for Environmental Protection to protect and preserve wetland habitats and water. The same period saw the birth of the Otto slogan “Otto...find’ ich gut,” meaning “Otto...I like it!”, as well as expansion from Great Britain to Japan and beyond. Otto officially became the largest mail order company in the world in 1987. New and expanding technology led to the availability of 24-hour delivery as well as interactive catalogues customers could access on CD-ROMs. In 1998, the same year that Otto acquired a stake in Crate and Barrel, Otto Versand’s mail- and phone- ordered products took to the internet at Otto.de, launching Otto into modern eCommerce with catalogues published online. Today, e-Commerce is Otto’s most important sales segment.
https://www.crateandbarrel.com/about-otto-group
https://finviz.com/insidertrading.ashx?oc=1462468&tc=7&b=2
Sterling Check Corp sold by Goldman Sachs: $207.04m-Sept 27
Sterling Check Corp. is a provider of technology-enabled background and identity verification services. The Company offers a comprehensive hiring and risk management solution that begins with identity verification, followed by criminal background screening, credential verification, drug and health screening, processing of employee documentation required for onboarding and ongoing risk monitoring. The Company's services are delivered through its purpose-built, cloud-based technology platform that enables organizations with real-time and data-driven insights to conduct and manage employment screening programs. The Company serves a range of industries, such as healthcare, gig economy, financial and business services, industrials, retail, contingent, technology, media and entertainment, transportation and logistics, hospitality, education and government.
https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/STERLING-CHECK-CORP-127280616/company/
Sterling Announces Closing of Initial Public Offering and Full Exercise of Underwriters' Option to Purchase Additional Shares
https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/STERLING-CHECK-CORP-127280616/news/Sterling-Announces-Closing-of-Initial-Public-Offering-and-Full-Exercise-of-Underwriters-Option-to-P-36530042/
https://finviz.com/insidertrading.ashx?oc=886982&tc=7
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'Top Bank Regulator'
they don't do shit either way so nominate whoever you like or leave it empty.
Makes ZERO difference
SAM430 USAF G5 on ground at Austin Int'l Airport from San Diego Int'l overnight
JPMorgan Says Texas Gun Law Blocks Bank From Muni-Bond Deals
JPMorgan Chase & Co. says it’s being shut out of underwriting municipal-bond deals in Texas after the state enacted a law banning government work with banks that limit business with the firearms industry.
The law, which went into effect in September, prohibits governmental entities from working with a business that “discriminates” against firearm and ammunition businesses or organizations, according to Republican Governor Greg Abbott, who has touted the legislation. Texas’s fast-growing population has made it one of the biggest markets for the muni-bond business. This week, JPMorgan was replaced by UBS AG as the underwriter of a bond issue for Texas’s Decatur Hospital Authority, a local agency, according to a bond filing Thursday. “While our business practices should permit us to certify, the legal risk associated with this ambiguous law prevents us from bidding on most business right now with Texas public entities,” Patricia Wexler, a spokesperson for the bank, said in an emailed statement.
The law sought to target financial institutions for policies they’ve taken on in the wake of mass shootings in the U.S., with politicians in the gun-friendly state seeing it as a way of retaliating against them for weighing in on America’s freighted culture wars. Earlier this year, JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon told a Congressional committee that his bank won’t finance gun companies that make military-style weapons for consumers. Still, the effect of the law is not entirely clear in Texas. Another bank that was targeted by the legislation, Citigroup Inc., said in June that it didn’t think it was affected by the law. The law applies to a contract that has a value of at least $100,000. JPMorgan was credited with working on $3.6 billion of long-term municipal-bond deals in Texas in 2020, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. It was ranked as the seventh-biggest underwriter of deals out of the state.
This week, JPMorgan was replaced by UBS as the underwriter of a bond issue for the Decatur authority, an arm of a 7,000-person Texas city that operates Wise Health System. In July, the agency had disclosed that it was planning to have JPMorgan serve as senior managing underwriter on a financing that could include the sale of up to $150 million of bonds. The authority cited “uncertainty related to the implementation of new legislation passed by the State of Texas,” though it didn’t specify which law. Todd Scroggins, chief financial officer for Wise Health, didn’t respond to a request for comment, nor did a hospital spokesperson.
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/jpmorgan-says-texas-gun-law-blocks-bank-from-muni-bond-deals-1.1660040
C202 US Coast Guard G5 departed Reagan National Airport en and on final at Cape Cod Coast Guard AS
SATAN91 USAF KC-46A Pegasus tanker on ground at Portsmouth Int'l from Phoenix Mesa Gateway Airport overnight
NORMA38 USAF RC-135 Rivet Joint returning to Lincoln Muni Airport after trackin' along the Columbian/Venezuela border
The Rivet Joint's modifications are primarily related to its on-board sensor suite, which allows the mission crew to detect, identify and geolocate signals throughout the electromagnetic spectrum. The mission crew can then forward gathered information in a variety of formats to a wide range of consumers via Rivet Joint's extensive communications suite. The interior seats more than 30 people, including the cockpit crew, electronic warfare officers, intelligence operators and in-flight maintenance technicians. The Rivet Joint fleet was re-engined with CFM-56 engines with an upgraded flight deck instrumentation and navigational systems to FAA/ICAO standards. These standards include conversion from analog readouts to a digital "glass cockpit" configuration. All Rivet Joint airframe and mission systems modifications are overseen by L-3 Communications (previously Raytheon), under the oversight of Air Force Materiel Command.
https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/104608/rc-135vw-rivet-joint/
SAM426 USAF G5 on final for San Antonio Int'l and around some central Texas weather-from Holloman AFB, NM ground stop
MEZZO79 USAFSOC C-32B on descent for McGuire AFB, NJ from RAF Mildenhall ground stop/refuel
This AC departed Eglin AFB on 0926 and arrived at Helsinki Int'l after a ground stop/refuel at RAF Mildenhall
Departed Helsinki on 0928 south and not seen again until today heading nw along Croatian Coast to it's ground stop at RAF Mildenhall where it departed from earlier today
Imma thinkin it came from Split as it was still climbing at 31k when it appeared earlier today
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