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TEAL73 USAF WC-130J Hercules Hurrican Hunter across Sally-out of Ellington Airport Houston
The 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, a component of the 403rd Wing located at Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi, Miss., is a one-of-a-kind organization. It is the only operational unit in the world flying weather reconnaissance on a routine basis. The mission of the Hurricane Hunters is to recruit, organize and train assigned personnel to perform aerial weather reconnaissance. They provide surveillance of tropical storms and hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico and the central Pacific Ocean for the National Hurricane Center in Miami. The unit also flies winter storm missions off both coasts of the United States. The 53rd WRS is authorized 20 aircrews. Fifty-nine unit members hold air reserve technician positions. The rest of the squadron is made up of Air Force Reservists. WC-130Js carry a basic crew of five: pilot, co-pilot, navigator, flight meteorologist and weather reconnaissance loadmaster. The pilot, who serves as the aircraft commander, and the co-pilot man the flight controls. The navigator keeps track of the aircraft's position and movement and monitors radar to avoid tornadic activity. The flight meteorologist acts as flight director and observes and records meteorological data at flight level using a computer that encodes weather data every 30 seconds. The weather reconnaissance loadmaster collects and records vertical meteorological data using a parachute-borne sensor known as a dropsonde. It measures and encodes weather data down to the ocean surface.
https://www.403wg.afrc.af.mil/About/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/192529/53rd-weather-reconnaissance-squadron-hurricane-hunters/
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Azek Company Inc. sold by Ontario Teachers Pension Plan: $454.49m-Sept 15
AZEK Company Inc., formerly CPG Newco LLC., is a designer and manufacturer outdoor living products. The Company's outdoor living products include deck, rail, trim and accessories. Its segments include Residential and Commercial. In its Residential segment, it designs, and manufacture engineered Outdoor Living products that includes deck, rail, trim and moulding and accessories. Decking manufacturers to offer both capped wood composite and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) decking products, and manufacturer to offer narrow and wide-width PVC deck boards. Commercial segment, it manufactures engineered sheet products and bathroom partitions and lockers. Commercial segment includes its Vycom and Scranton products product lines. Number of employees : 1 429 people.
https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/THE-AZEK-COMPANY-INC-108052091/company/
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AZEK : reg; Company Announces Closing of Public Offering and Full Exercise of Underwriters' Option to Purchase Additional Shares
The AZEK Company Inc. (NYSE: AZEK) ("AZEK") announced today the closing of an underwritten public offering of 28,750,000 shares of its Class A common stock, including the exercise in full by the underwriters of their option to purchase up to 3,750,000 additional shares of Class A common stock, in each case sold by certain of its selling stockholders, at a price to the public of $33.25 per share. AZEK did not receive any proceeds from the sale of the shares of Class A common stock. Barclays, BofA Securities, Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC and Jefferies acted as joint lead book-running managers for the offering. Citigroup, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank Securities and RBC Capital Markets acted as joint book-running managers, and B. Riley FBR, Baird, Stephens Inc., Stifel, Truist Securities and William Blair acted as co-managers for the offering.
https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/THE-AZEK-COMPANY-INC-108052091/news/AZEK-reg-Company-Announces-Closing-of-Public-Offering-and-Full-Exercise-of-Underwriters-Option-t-31300038/
Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan
The Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board (Ontario Teachers'; French: Régime de retraite des enseignantes et des enseignants de l'Ontario or RREO) is an independent organization responsible for administering defined-benefit pensions for school teachers of the Canadian province of Ontario. Ontario Teachers' also invests the plan's pension fund, and is one of the world’s largest institutional investors. The plan is a multi-employer pension plan, jointly sponsored by the Government of Ontario and the Ontario Teachers' Federation. The plan administers the pensions for some 184,000 teachers, principals, and school administrators, and pays pensions to some 145,000 retirees. In 2019, $6.4 billion in benefits was paid to members. Ontario Teachers' is headquartered in Toronto, with operations in London, Hong Kong and an office in New York. Effective January 1, 2020, Jo Taylor succeeded Ron Mock as President and Chief Executive Officer. The Chair of the Board is Steve McGirr. Ontario Teachers' owns and manages a diversified portfolio of Canadian and international assets. Through its fully owned real estate subsidiary Cadillac Fairview, Ontario Teachers' owns properties that include the Toronto-Dominion Centre, Toronto Eaton Centre, and the Rideau Centre in Ottawa. Through its private equity investment arm Private Capital, Ontario Teachers' owns or has had interests in companies such as Munchkin, Plano and Shearer's Foods. Ontario Teachers' owns a substantial portfolio of infrastructure assets including: 100% of Bristol Airport and minority stakes in Birmingham Airport, Copenhagen Airport, Brussels Airport and London City Airport; the High Speed 1 rail line linking London with the Channel Tunnel; and international water and power utilities. Ontario Teachers' also owns Camelot Group PLC, which holds an exclusive licence to operate the U.K. National Lottery. It has acquired a share of the Irish National Lottery in 2014.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario_Teachers'_Pension_Plan
https://www.otpp.com/
https://www.finviz.com/insidertrading.ashx?oc=937567&tc=7&b=2
FTC Prepares Possible Antitrust Lawsuit Against Facebook, Source Says
U.S. antitrust enforcers are preparing a possible antitrust lawsuit against Facebook Inc., according to a person familiar with the matter. The Federal Trade Commission has been investigating Facebook for more than a year over whether the social media giant has harmed competition and could file a case by the end of the year, said the person, who declined to be named because the probe is confidential. No final decision on the probe has been made, the person said.
A lawsuit by the FTC, which would require a vote by the majority of the agency’s five commissioners, would mark another major escalation by U.S. officials against America’s technology giants, which have come under intense scrutiny in Washington over their dominant market positions. The Justice Department is preparing to sue Alphabet Inc.’s Google in a matter of weeks. Facebook didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. The FTC declined to comment. The Wall Street Journal reported earlier on the agency’s lawsuit preparation.
Facebook Chief Executive Office Mark Zuckerberg was questioned last month by FTC officials as part of the investigation. The agency’s probe is focused on whether Facebook’s past acquisitions, like the deals for Instagram and WhatsApp, violated antitrust laws.
At a congressional hearing in July, alongside the CEOs of three other technology giants, Zuckerberg defended those deals and argued that Facebook faces a lot of competition.
Earlier: U.S. Faces Bumpy Antitrust Road Despite Big Tech’s Emails, Memos
Technology giants are coming under increasing scrutiny by federal agencies, Congress and state attorneys general. A Senate Judiciary panel Tuesday laid out a case for why Google is abusing the size of its online empire to harm competition and amass even more power, articulating arguments that could be central to the government’s upcoming antitrust case against the tech giant.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-15/ftc-said-to-prepare-possible-antitrust-lawsuit-against-facebook
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