SARASOTA, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–
Wrench Group, a national leader in home services, has expanded into Oklahoma City, Okla., as it continues its successful “greenfield” growth strategy of launching new businesses from the ground up in top markets across the country.

The company added its 27th market nationwide as Comfort Wave Home Services, an HVAC, plumbing and electrical service provider, announced it had opened its first location in Oklahoma City this month. Although the company is a new name on the local scene, its team has more than 125 years of combined experience serving homeowners in the Oklahoma City region and the company already has established roots with area community events and organizations.

“Oklahoma City is known for its friendly people and close-knit community and that is exactly why we are launching a new company built by experienced area technicians and home services professionals,” said Ken Haines, CEO of Wrench Group. “Comfort Wave will make use of the most technologically advanced operations systems and solutions to help our team grow the business and provide an excellent customer service experience.”

Comfort Wave plans to bring 100 new jobs to Oklahoma City in the first 15 months of operations in the area with a service area that encompasses all of central Oklahoma.

“Oklahoma City quickly stood out as a place full of talented people looking for the right opportunity to be in a thriving, dynamic, and growing work environment. With Oklahoma City’s friendly business climate and rapid growth, it seemed like the perfect fit in our greenfield initiative,” said Andy Piercefield, Vice President of Business Development and Retail Operations at Wrench Group.

This is the seventh market where Wrench has employed a “greenfield” strategy. The company previously opened greenfield locations in Austin, Texas; Orlando, Fla.; Tucson, Ariz.; Birmingham, Ala; Nashville, Tenn.; and Memphis, Tenn. over the past three years. All six locations have quickly built a strong and loyal customer base and developed numerous community connections and partnerships.

About Wrench Group

Wrench Group, LLC is a national leader operating in 27 markets across 15 states. The locations provide home repair, replacement and maintenance services specializing in heating, ventilation and air conditioning, plumbing, water, electrical and related services. The company collectively serves more than 2 million customers annually with more than 7,100 team members in the Atlanta, Austin, Birmingham, Charlotte, Cincinnati, Columbus, Dallas, Denver, Fort Myers-Naples, Houston, Indianapolis, Jacksonville-St. Augustine, Los Angeles, Louisville, Memphis, Nashville, Oklahoma City, Orlando, Palm Springs, Phoenix, Sacramento, Salt Lake City, San Francisco Bay Area, Sarasota, southern Maryland, Tampa Bay, and Tucson metropolitan areas.

The locations have developed strong reputations with brands that date back to the 1940s. For more information, please visit us at www.wrenchgroup.com.

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Jenkins thinks voters should back her because she has the most experience as a prosecutor, and is “the one person who is committed to balancing the interests of the need to reform and (the need to) improve inequities within the system,” vowing to be a champion for victims of crime. “I think the majority of the city has reached a point of feeling fed up with the state of things, and the status quo is not working anymore,” she says. In her first seven weeks in office she says she’s made “significant strides in helping to restore things.”

Alioto Veronese says his 22 years as a civil rights attorney, time on the police commission, three-year stint as a San Francisco police officer, and career as an investigator in former San Francisco District Attorney Terrance Hallinan’s office, all prepared him to serve as district attorney . “At the time, I wasn’t as progressive as Hallinan, when, if you remember, he was the ultimate progressive DA,” Alioto Veronese says. Hallinan started some of the first diversion programs for offenders. Alioto Veronese initially opposed the diversion programs but now believes in that work, saying “I’ve come such a long way.”

Hamasaki Believes his 14 years as an attorney and “broad experience within the law” gives him a strong foundation to be the next district attorney. He also touted his time on the San Francisco Police Commission as valuable experience in terms of interacting with San Francisco’s criminal justice system. Responding to Jenkins’ critique that he lacks prosecutorial experience, he says that would be important “if they were hiring a line prosecutor ,” but that the district attorney’s office is “a job opening for a leader.” Hamasaki says he has that experience from the American Bar Association and experience in criminal litigation.

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SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 16, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco today announced the results of its 2022 director elections.

FHLBank San Francisco’s members elected Gary L. Trujillo to a nonmember independent director position. Mr. Trujillo is the founder and serves as president and CEO of Southwest Harvard Group, LLC, at an investment firm and family office in Phoenix, Arizona. He is also executive chairman of the Standard Printing Company, Inc.

Mr. Trujillo has been a serial entrepreneur for over 30 years with significant experience as a CEO, financier, founder, operator, and independent corporate board member, including serving on three publicly traded company boards and multiple privately owned company boards in the technology, healthcare , auto, real estate, and financial services industries. Mr. Trujillo is also recognized nationally as a dedicated community leader, having co-founded the Be A Leader Foundation in 2002, an education-focused nonprofit serving more than 14,000 students per year.

The Bank’s California members elected Chang M. Liu as a California member director. Mr. Liu is president and CEO of Cathay Bank and its holding company Cathay General Bancorp, where he serves on both entities’ board of directors. Mr. Liu has over 31 years of experience in the financial services industry. Mr. Liu joined Cathay Bank in 2014 as senior vice president and assistant chief lending officer. He has held various leadership positions of increasing responsibilities, including executive vice president and chief lending officer in 2016 and chief operating officer in 2018.

Before being named president, Mr. Liu was responsible for managing and overseeing all commercial and real estate lending, business development, and various operations. Mr. Liu also serves as a member of the Western Bankers Association board of directors and the American Cancer Society’s CEOs Against Cancer group, on the board of advisors for the UCLA Anderson Forecast, and serves on the board of directors of Foothill Family Service.

The Bank’s Arizona members re-elected Brian M. Riley as an Arizona member director. Mr. Riley is a director for the Oxford Life Insurance Company in Phoenix, Arizona.

Each of these three positions has a four-year term beginning January 1, 2023, and ending December 31, 2026.

Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco

The Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco is a member-driven cooperative helping local lenders in Arizona, California, and Nevada build strong communities, create opportunity, and change lives for the better. The tools and resources we provide to our member financial institutions-commercial banks, credit unions, industrial loan companies, savings institutions, insurance companies, and community development financial institutions-foster homeownership, expand access to quality housing, seed or sustain small businesses, and revitalize whole neighborhoods. Together with our members and other partners, we are making the communities we serve more vibrant, equitable, and resilient.

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SAN FRANCISCO, CA / ACCESSWIRE / June 8, 2022 / Oncology Pharma Inc. (OTC PINK:ONPH) – Oncology Pharma, Inc. (“The Company”) is pleased that the initial feasibility stage is complete and results have met the threshold to move forward.

The formulation under development consisted of the active pharmaceutical ingredient (dactinomycin) encapsulated in a saturated lipid and combined with various emulsifiers, surfactants, and stabilizers. The specific identity and ratios of these ingredients, along with the processing methods and processing parameters utilized, lead to formulations with very different characteristics. Various qualitative assessments (described in the previous section) were performed on the various iterations of the formulations and included:

• Test for drug incorporation
• Test for release over time

The most promising formulation candidates (ie, those which demonstrated acceptable feasibility using qualitative assessments) were forwarded to an analytical laboratory for initial characterization, which included:

• Test for physical properties
• Tests for formulation drug concentration

During the feasibility stage of this project, the company sought to acquire research and development equipment, establish an early-phase formulation laboratory, verify the capability of developing lipid nanoemulsions, and identify some promising formulations for further development. All goals were successfully accomplished. The data provided a high-level overview of the various formulations that were created and evaluated during this feasibility stage.

Essentially, all of the specific aims under the scope of this project were met. The capability to formulate nanoemulsions that incorporate the active pharmaceutical ingredient, dactinomycin, was demonstrated. Specifically, the Company identified two formulations feasible for further development based on the following:

• The nanoparticle size was approximately 200 nm, which would improve drug delivery at the tumor site.
• The nanoparticles did not aggregate during storage at 40 C, which enables commercial viability.
• Dactinomycin incorporation in the nanoparticles was approximately 100%
• Drug release-over-time study showed about 50% of the drug is retained at 3 hrs.
• There is 1 mg dactinomycin in 4 ml of nanoemulsion, which is within the range of standard dose administration.

The capability to be able to innovate and make progress in this early stage demonstrates the company’s ability to identify developmental goals and overcome formulation challenges to produce a drug formulation with suitable characteristics for further, formal nonclinical development. These characteristics include the ability for the nanoemulsion to incorporate the majority of available drug into the lipid nanoparticles, a demonstrated release-over-time profile, and stability during storage. Additionally, test methods were established at independent contract laboratories to support basic formulation characterization and accurately detecting the drug concentration in control and test formulations in support of future nonclinical studies.

Oncology Pharma is committed to finding the path to further development of our licensed technologies and developing the financial model to see this through to the next phases. The Company is reviewing feasibility of some initial applications to the FDA that could enhance the development process.

ABOUT ONCOLOGY PHARMA, INC.

ONCOLOGY PHARMA, INC. (OTCPK:ONPH) (the “Company”) is currently engaging in research and development of therapeutics for oncology and prides itself for having a world-class Advisory Board that keeps the Company in the forefront of developing technologies in cancer research, biotechnology, and healthcare.

FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS

Certain of the matters discussed in this announcement contain forward-looking statements that involve material risks to and uncertainties in the Company’s business that may cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated by the statements made in. Such risks and uncertainties include risks related to licensing arrangements and joint ventures, including the need to negotiate the definitive agreements for the relationships; possible failure to realize anticipated benefits of business relationships; and, costs of providing funding to these business relationships. Other risks and uncertainties relating to the Company include, among other things, current negative operating cash flows and a need for additional funding to finance our operating plan; the terms of any further financing, which may be highly dilutive and may include onerous terms; unexpected costs and operating deficits, and lower than expected sales and revenues; uncertain willingness and ability of customers to adopt new technologies and other factors that may affect further market acceptance; adverse economic conditions; adverse results of any legal proceedings; the volatility of our operating results and financial condition; inability to attract or retain qualified senior management personnel, including sales and marketing personnel; our ability to establish and maintain the proprietary nature of our technology through the patent process, as well as our ability to possibly license from others patents and patent applications necessary to develop products; the Company’s ability to implement its long range business plan for various applications of its technology; the Company’s ability to enter into agreements with any necessary marketing and/or distribution partners and with any strategic or joint venture partners; the impact of competition; the obtaining and maintenance of any necessary regulatory clearances applicable to applications of the company’s technology; management of growth; and, other risks and uncertainties. This is not a solicitation to buy or sell securities and does not purport to be an analysis of the company’s financial position.

CONTACTS:

For additional information, please contact the Oncology Pharma at:

One Sansome Street, Suite 3500
San Francisco, CA 94104
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Leonard Bustos today announced Moving Results Realty and its partnership with Side, the only real estate technology company that exclusively partners with high-performing agents, teams, and independent brokerages to transform them into market-leading boutique brands and businesses.

MOUNTAIN CENTER, Calif., April 4, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Leonard Bustos & Associates Real Estate today announced Moving Results Realty and its partnership with Side, the only real estate technology company that exclusively partners with high-performing agents, teams, and independent brokerages to transform them into market-leading boutique brands and businesses. The collaboration will ensure that Moving Results Realty’s client-centric, integrity-driven service is powered by the industry’s most advanced platform.

Moving Results Realty was founded by Leonard Bustos, a long-time top producer. With over $750 million in career transactions since 1981, Bustos has extensive knowledge of the Palm Desert, Mountain center, Rancho Mirageand PalmSprings markets and a track record of producing winning results. In 2021, Bustos and his team were among the top sellers of apartments in Coachella Valley and closed over $13 million in sales with only two agents, a property manager, and a transaction coordinator. The group’s notable commercial sales include The Ranch Market Shopping Center in Orange, which sold for $8 millionand Smoketree Apartments in PalmSprings. Moving Results Realty will specialize in residential homes, land, apartments, commercial and industrial sales, and leasing throughout the region.

“The lifelong learners at Moving Results Realty share an unequaled passion for real estate and producing optimal outcomes,” said Bustos. “We understand the gravity of buying or selling a home and take the responsibility of being our clients’ trusted advisors seriously.”

Partnering with Side will ensure Moving Results Realty remains on the cutting edge of the evolving real estate market while continuing to deliver premium services to its clients. Side works behind the scenes, supporting Moving Results Realty with a one-of-a-kind brokerage platform that includes proprietary technology, transaction management, branding and marketing services, public relations, legal support, lead generation, vendor management, infrastructure solutions, and more. Additionally, Moving Results Realty will join an exclusive group of Side partners, tapping into an expansive network from coast to coast.

“Side supports our efforts by supplying top tech and handling back-office tasks like marketing, data retention, and admin,” continued Bustos. “Freeing up this time allows our team to focus on developing first-rate listing presentations and closing deals.”

About Moving Results Realty

Moving Results Realty is a client-centric real estate company powered by integrity, attention to detail, and an unceasing desire to work in the best interest of its clients. They pull from a decades-long track record of success, extensive knowledge of Riverside County markets, and an unmatched standard of service to produce first-class results. For more information, visit http://www.movingresultsrealty.com.

About Side

Side transforms high-performing agents, teams, and independent brokerages into successful businesses and boutique brands that are 100% agent-owned. Side exclusively partners with the best agents, empowering them with proprietary technology and a premier support team so they can be more productive, grow their business, and focus on serving their clients. Side is headquartered in san francisco. For more information, visit http://www.sideinc.com.

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415.525.4913, Side, 415.525.4913, side.marketing@sideinc.com

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The Chicago Fall Event – Potter & Potter Auctions was a best seller in every way. The last time the hammer fell, 98 lots fetched $ 750 to $ 2,499. 23 lots fetched $ 2,500 to $ 9,999; and four lots broke the five-digit mark. The prices shown include the buyer’s commission of 20% of the company.

Museum quality art, paintings and prints participated in this exciting sale.
• Lot # 630, Le Pigeonneau by Pablo Picasso, was valued at $ 10,000-15,000 and traded for a staggering $ 37,500. This hand-colored and signed artist’s proof from 1939 was printed by Robert Blanchet in Paris and accompanied by two certificates of authenticity.
• Lot # 605, David Hockey’s framed Ossie and Mo, was valued at $ 1,000-2,000 and made $ 4,800 – nearly five times its low estimate! This signed work was numbered 4/75, printed on Chisbrook handmade paper by Maurice Payne, and published in 1968 by Petersburg Press.
• Lot # 581, William Adolphe Bouguereau’s beautifully rendered study of a brunette woman’s head, returned $ 14,400. These signed pastel works on board included the original gallery tags Galerie Drouant-David and Galerie Percier Paris

Important books from the century and millennium also made for heated commandments and impressive results.
• Lot No. 6, a second edition of Charles Darwin’s On Creation of Species Through Natural Selection or Conservation of Preferred Races in the Fight for Life, was valued at $ 8,000-10,000 and sold for $ 11,400. It was published in London in 1860 by John Murray. This example had 1860 printed on it and “five thousand” on the front page; There are around two copies of the first edition with an overprint from 1859.
• Lot # 231, a copy of Gaius Julius Caesar’s The Commentaries printed by Jacob Tonson in London in 1712, fetched $ 14,400 – more than double its low estimate. This 560-page folio was edited by Samuel Clarke and contained the bison double-sided plate, which is usually missing.
• Lot # 13, Thomas Hawkins’ The Book of Great Sea Dragons, Ichthyosauri, and Plesiosauri … Extinct Monsters of Ancient Earth dating from 1840. Estimated at $ 3,000 to $ 4,000, making $ 7,200. This first edition was published in London by W. Pickering and contained 30 plates copied from skeletons in the author’s collection of fossil organic remains.
• Lot # 83, an 18-volume set of The Works of Jonathan Swift from the Robert R. Livingston library, rose to $ 5,520 on a pre-sale estimate of $ 1.00 to $ 2,000. These books were published in 1778 by Ms. Mundell et al. Printed in Edinburgh. Each volume contained Mr. Livingston’s personal bookplates. One of the founding fathers of the United States, Livingston was a member of the Committee of Five that drafted the Declaration of Independence, administrator of George Washington’s oath of office when he assumed the presidency in 1789, and chief negotiator of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803.
• Lot No. 584, a boldly inscribed presentation of Alma Mahler’s Gustav Mahler: Memoirs and Letters from 1946, fetched $ 3,600 at its estimate of $ 400 to $ 600. Alma Mahler was a composer, author and wife of Gustav Mahler. This book contained six paper items, including an autographed letter, Western Union telegram, photo postcards, snapshots, and other ephemera.
• Lot No. 67, William Cullen Bryant’s two-volume Picturesque America; Or the land we live in: A delineation of mountains and mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, waterfalls, banks, canyons, valleys, cities, and other scenic features of our land that sold for a staggering $ 3,360 estimate of 250-350 USD. This first edition, the first printing set, was published in New York by D. Appleton & Company and richly illustrated with 49 full-page steel plates, including additional title pages and frontispiece engravings, as well as numerous intertextual wood engravings.

Another focus of this exciting auction were photographs, pictures and cabinet cards from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
• Lot # 710, a collection of early photographs of men and women in hats, was valued at $ 100 to $ 200 and restocked at $ 2,280. These included daguerreotypes of a rich man with a stick and top hat; an ambrotype of a young man smoking a cigar; and a partially real photo postcard with a seated man wearing a hat and bow tie.
• Lot # 751, a group of 13 professional cabinet cards dating from the 1880s, was valued at $ 200 to $ 300 and worked its way up to $ 2,040. The professions represented included tailors, organ builders, blacksmiths, chimney sweeps, picture framers, glass blowers, saddlers, actors and others.
• Lot No. 779, a collection of more than 30 cabinet cards and CDVs by French stage performers, writers, and other personalities, was valued at $ 100 to $ 200 and sold for $ 1,440. Most of them were recorded by the Nadar studio; People pictured include Dumas, Daudet, Bernhardt, Gustav Doré, Victor Hugo, and others.

Ephemera of all kinds, magazines, modern editions, and other manuscripts closed the circle.
• Lot # 632, a group of 35 Playboy magazines from 1954 to 1958, returned $ 3,600 – twelve times its low estimate.
• Lot No. 644, a four-volume limited folio on abstract expressionism produced by the Tiber Press in 1960, raised $ 6,000. This important post-war American artist book contained collaborations between four of the most influential American poets of the second half of the 20th century and four important second-generation New York School artists. Each publication has been signed by the author and artist.
Lot No. 222, a typed French-language manuscript travelogue describing a trip to China on the Trans-Siberian Railway from 1913 to 1924, was valued at $ 400 to $ 600 and sold for $ 3,120. The volume was lavishly illustrated with postcards, snapshots, cards and real photos, which were provided with photo corners and numerous annotations or captions.

According to Gabe Fajuri, President of Potter & Potter Auctions, “Strong results across the board and a 93% sales rate shows that the demand for quality is high – but more importantly, it shows that Potter & Potter continues to deliver exceptional results . ” the book and manuscript market, not to mention the fine arts. We are thrilled with the sales results and have already planned our next auction in this category for mid-March 2021. “

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SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 12, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) – The San Francisco Federal Home Loan Bank today announced the results of its 2020 director election.

The members of the bank elected Lori R. Gay to a position of Independent Director of Public Interest who was not a member and elected F. Daniel Siciliano to a position of Independent Director who was not a member. Ms. Gay served for 30 years as the president and chief executive officer of Neighborhood Housing Services (NHS) in Los Angeles County, a not-for-profit lender, developer, and neighborhood revitalization company. Under Lori’s leadership, the NHS has grown to become the largest affordable home owner in Southern California, reaching more than 4.7 million families with financial advice, affordable credit, and home remediation services. Mr. Siciliano is a Stanford Law School (CodeX) Fellow and co-founder of the Stanford Rock Center for Corporate Governance in Stanford, California.

The Bank’s California members also re-elected Jeffrey K. Ball and Simone Lagomarsino as California member directors. Mr. Ball is the President, Chief Executive Officer, and Director of Friendly Hills Bank in Whittier, California. Ms. Lagomarsino is the President and Executive Director of Luther Burbank Savings, Gardena, California.

Each of these four positions has a term of four years, beginning on January 1, 2021 and ending on December 31, 2024.

Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco

The San Francisco Federal Home Loan Bank is a member-operated cooperative that helps local lenders in Arizona, California, and Nevada build strong communities, create opportunities, and change lives for the better. The tools and resources we make available to our member financial institutions – commercial banks, credit unions, industrial credit companies, savings banks, insurance companies and financial institutions for community development – promote home ownership, expand access to high-quality housing, promote or support small businesses and revitalize entire neighborhoods. Together with our members and other partners, we make the communities we serve more vibrant and resilient.

Contact:
Mary Long, (415) 616-2556
longm@fhlbsf.com

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