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PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 26, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Nationally recognized law firm Berger Montague PC informs investors that a lawsuit was filed against Evolv Technologies Holdings, Inc. (“Evolv” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: EVLV) on behalf of purchasers of EVOLV securities between August 19, 2022 and October 30, 2024, inclusive (the “Class Period”) . Investors that suffered losses from EVOLV (NASDAQ: EVLV) investments can follow the link below for more information regarding the lawsuit: CLICK HERE to learn more about the lawsuit. Investors who purchased or acquired EVOLV securities during the Class Period may, no later than DECEMBER 31, 2024 , seek to be appointed as a lead plaintiff representative of the class. Headquartered in Waltham, MA, Evolv is a security technology company that utilizes AI-based screening designed to help create safer experiences. On October 25, 2024, Evolv announced that the Company's financial statements issued between the second quarter of 2022 and the second quarter of 2024 should not be relied upon due to material misstatements impacting revenue recognition. The Company revealed that certain sales, including sales to one of its largest channel partners, were subject to extra-contractual terms not shared with the Company's accounting personnel and that certain Evolv personnel had engaged in misconduct. The Company further announced that it had self-reported these issues to the Securities and Exchange Commission. On this news, the price of Evolv stock declined approximately 40%, from a close of $4.10 per share on October 24, 2024, to a close of $2.47 per share on October 25, 2024. On October 31, 2024, Evolv announced the termination of its CEO, Peter George, effective immediately. On this news, the price of Evolv stock declined approximately 8%, from a close of $2.34 per share on October 30, 2024, to a close of $2.15 per share on October 31, 2024. For additional information or to learn how to participate in this litigation, please contact Berger Montague: Andrew Abramowitz at aabramowitz@bm.net or (215) 875-3015, or Peter Hamner at phamner@bm.net or (215) 875-3048, or CLICK HERE . A lead plaintiff is a representative party who acts on behalf of all class members in directing the litigation. The lead plaintiff is usually the investor or small group of investors who have the largest financial interest and who are also adequate and typical of the proposed class of investors. The lead plaintiff selects counsel to represent the lead plaintiff and the class and these attorneys, if approved by the court, are lead or class counsel. Your ability to share in any recovery is not, however, affected by the decision whether or not to serve as a lead plaintiff. Communicating with any counsel is not necessary to participate or share in any recovery achieved in this case. Any member of the purported class may move the Court to serve as a lead plaintiff through counsel of his/her choice, or may choose to do nothing and remain an inactive class member. Berger Montague , with offices in Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Delaware, Washington, D.C., San Diego, San Francisco and Chicago, has been a pioneer in securities class action litigation since its founding in 1970. Berger Montague has represented individual and institutional investors for over five decades and serves as lead counsel in courts throughout the United States. Contacts: Andrew Abramowitz, Senior Counsel Berger Montague (215) 875-3015 aabramowitz@bm.net Peter Hamner Berger Montague PC (215) 875-3048 phamner@bm.netNEW YORK — The future remains up in the air for Aaron Rodgers. The Jets quarterback acknowledged as much Monday when he expressed a willingness to take a pay cut and to mentor a young quarterback next season but stressed there are still decisions to be made before then. “I haven’t decided whether or not I want to play moving forward,” Rodgers said on ESPN’s “The Pat McAfee Show.” “They haven’t decided — or maybe they have, but haven’t told me — what their plans are moving forward. I’m guessing they’re gonna want to get a GM in here in the next few weeks and then obviously let the GM be a part of making the coaching selection.” The Jets are interviewing candidates to replace general manager Joe Douglas, whom they fired after Week 11. They also need to replace head coach Robert Saleh, whom they fired six weeks before Douglas. Those casualties came amid a disappointing season for the once-Super-Bowl-hopeful Jets, who fell to 4-11 with Sunday’s 19-9 loss to the Los Angeles Rams at MetLife Stadium. “I think there’s a world where they just say, ‘Hey, thank you. We’re gonna go in an opposite direction on Jan. 6,’” Rodgers said. “I think there’s also a possibility we’re gonna wait and see who the new staff is.” The Jets acquired Rodgers in April 2023, hoping the four-time NFL MVP would elevate a roster with offensive playmakers and a stout defense to Super Bowl contention. Shortly after the trade, Rodgers agreed to take a $33.7 million pay cut over two seasons, allowing the Jets to further subsidize the roster. Rodgers carries a $23.5 million cap hit for 2025, but the Jets would be on the hook for a $49 million dead cap hit should the quarterback be released or retire. “I think I’ve already proven I’m willing to take a pay cut,” Rodgers said Monday. “I’ve made a ton of money, and I think if you look at both [wide receiver] Davante [Adams] and I’s contracts moving forward for next year, there’s cap numbers that would need to be worked around if they wanted to bring us both back.” Rodgers, 41, has thrown for 3,511 yards, 24 touchdowns and eight interceptions this season, his first since suffering an Achilles tear four snaps into 2023. But the Jets entered Monday ranked in the bottom third among NFL teams in points (19.5) and yards (307.9) per game. The Jets are projected to have the No. 8 pick in the NFL Draft, according to Tankathon, and could consider taking their next franchise quarterback. Rodgers spent his first three NFL seasons behind quarterback Brett Favre with the Green Bay Packers, while Jordan Love spent his first three seasons backing up Rodgers in Green Bay. “I know what it was like to be a first-round pick and to be in a room with a Hall of Famer,” Rodgers said of his willingness to mentor a young QB. “I tried to help Jordan as much as possible. If there were a situation where the new staff came in and wanted me to be there, [and] also wanted to make a pick for the future ... then yeah, of course.” Last week, The Athletic reported that Jets owner Woody Johnson’s teenage sons, Brick and Jack, have influence within the organization. McAfee joked about that report Monday, asking if Brick would be the one to inform Rodgers of his release. “I’ve never been released before, so being released would be a first,” Rodgers replied with a smile. “Being released by a teenager, that would also be a first. I’m open to everything, and I find the comedy in all of it. If that happens, hey, it’s a great story.” ©2024 New York Daily News. Visit nydailynews.com . Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.
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Lisa Simpson once said during an episode of “The Simpsons:” What could be more exciting than the savage ballet that is pro football? On Monday night, the entire Simpsons universe gets to experience it in a way not many could have imagined. The prime-time matchup between the Cincinnati Bengals and Dallas Cowboys will also take place at Springfield’s Atoms Stadium as part of “The Simpsons Funday Football” alternate broadcast. The altcast will be streamed on ESPN+, Disney+, and NFL+ (on mobile devices). ESPN and ABC have the main broadcast, while ESPN2 will carry the final “ManningCast” of the regular season. The replay will be available on Disney+ for 30 days. Globally, more than 145 countries will have access to either live or on replay. “We’re such huge football fans, and the Simpsons audience and the football audience, I feel, are like the same audience of just American families and football. And the Simpsons are so much a part of the DNA of the American family and culture that for us to, like, mush them together in this crazy video game, it’s so fun,” said Matt Selman, executive producer of “The Simpsons.” While the game is the focal point, the alternate broadcast, in some ways, will resemble a three-hour episode of “The Simpsons.” It starts with Homer eating too many hot dogs and having a dream while watching football. Homer joins the Cowboys in the dream while Bart teams up with the Bengals. Lisa and Marge will be sideline reporters. “That’s the beginning of the story, and the story continues through the entire game until Homer wakes up from his dream at the end of the game. It is like a complete story, and the NFL game will happen in between. It’s just going to be an amazing presentation with tons of surprises,” said Michael “Spike” Szykowny, ESPN’s VP of edit and animation. This is the second year ESPN has done an alternate broadcast for an NFL game. It used the characters from “Toy Story” for last year’s Sunday morning game from London between the Atlanta Falcons and Jacksonville Jaguars. “The Simpsons” has featured many sports-themed episodes during its 35 seasons. Even though “Homer at the Bat” remains the consensus favorite sports episode for many Simpsons fans, there have been football ones such as “Bart Star” and “Lisa The Greek.” There also was a Super Bowl-themed one after Fox’s broadcast of Super Bowl 33 between Denver and Atlanta in 1999. Even though “The Simpsons” remains a staple on Fox’s prime-time schedule, it is part of the Disney family after their acquisition of 20th Century Fox in 2019. All 35 seasons are on Disney+. The show’s creators have worked with ESPN and the NFL to make sure the look and sound is definitely Simpsonsesque. The theme song is a mash-up of “The Simpsons” opening and “Monday Night Football’s” iconic “Heavy Action.” There have also been pre-recorded skits and bits to use during the broadcast featuring Simpson’s legendary voices Hank Azaria, Nancy Cartwright, Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, and Yeardley Smith. The telecast will be entirely animated, with the players’ movements in sync with what is happening in real-time on the field. That is done through player-tracking data enabled by the NFL’s Next Gen Stats system and Sony’s Beyond Sports Technology. While Next Gen Stats tracks where players are on the field with a tracking chip in the shoulder pads, there is skeletal data tracking and limb tracking data — which uses 29 points per player — to get closer to the player’s movements. The other data tracking will allow Beyond Sports and Disney to add special characters to the game. For example, there might be a play where Lisa catches the ball and goes 30 yards instead of Cincinnati’s Tee Higgins. “Lisa is much smaller than the rest of the players. So, in real life, the ball would go over her head, but now, with data processing, we can take the ball and make it go exactly into her hands. So for the viewer, it still looks believable, and it all makes sense,” said Beyond Sports co-founder Nicolaas Westerhof. The other major challenge is making “The Simpsons” two-dimensional cartoon characters into 3-D simulations. Szykowny and his team worked to make that a reality over the past couple of months. “That’s a big leap of faith for them to say, hey, we trust you to make our characters 3-D and work with it. Our ESPN creative studio team has done a wonderful job,” Szykowny said. Lisa, Krusty, Nelson, Milhouse and Ralph will be with Bart and the Bengals; while Carl, Barney, Lenny and Moe join up with with Homer and the Cowboys. The broadcast will also feature ESPN personalities Stephen A. Smith, Peyton Manning and Eli Manning. ESPN’s Drew Carter, Mina Kimes and Dan Orlovsky will call the game from Bristol, Connecticut, and also be animated. They will wear Meta Quest Pro headsets to experience the game from Springfield using VR technology. For Kimes, being part of the broadcast and being an animated Simpsons character is a dream come true. She is a massive fan of the show and has a framed photo of Lisa Simpson — who she said is a personal hero and icon — as part of her backdrop when she makes appearances on ESPN NFL shows from her home in Los Angeles. “I didn’t have any input, and I didn’t see anything beforehand, so I wasn’t sure if it would look like me, but it kind of does, which is very funny,” said Kimes, who drew Simpsons characters when she was a kid. “To see the actual staff turn me into one was a dream.” Even though the Bengals (4-8) and Cowboys (5-7) have struggled this season, Selman thinks both teams have personalities that appeal to “The Simpsons” universe. “We were just so lucky also that the Cowboys are sort of like a Homer Simpson-type team, American team, and Mike McCarthy might be a Homer-type guy, one might imagine,” he said. ”And then you have Joe Burrow on the other side who is a cool young, spiky-haired, blonde bad boy -- he’s like Bart. And that fits our character archetypes so perfectly. “If Homer is mad at Bart and has a hot dog dream while watching ’Monday Night Football’, and then it’s basically McCarthy versus Burrow, Homer versus Bart, and that’s the simple father versus son strangling — Homer strangling Bart dynamic that has been part of the show for 35 years. I don’t know if that would have worked as well if it was like Titans versus Jacksonville. We would have found something. We would have made it work.” ___ AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/nfl
BLOUNTVILLE— During last week’s voting meeting, the Sullivan County Commission passed a resolution allowing early retirement for police officers and correctional officers through a bridge program. The commission also passed a resolution that opposes the establishment of an overlay district on the South Fork of the Holston River. Bridge program Police officers, firefighters and correctional officers that are between ages 55 and 62 can retire early under the bridge program if they have put in at least 25 years of service. “The bridge program is something that all the federal programs have in law enforcement and traffic,” said Mark Ireson, commissioner and sponsor of the resolution.“I’m actually retired on the Bridge program. It’s a program that helps to cover living expenses and allows you to use your retirement funding the day you retire at age 55 and it goes to 62 until you’re eligible for Social Security.” Mark Ireson Ireson said EMS and EMA officials are currently not eligible for the program. He said he consulted with Sullivan County Sheriff Jeff Cassidy and county financial staff before pursuing the resolution. “I asked the sheriff, ‘Is this something you guys are interested in?’ And he said, ‘Yes, absolutely,’” Ireson said. The program is expected to benefit 35 employees, with 29 of them retiring within six years. There are six people in the county who will not hit the 25 years of service mark and won’t be able to retire. “Of the six people, four of those were retirees from other departments or other jobs who came in to do extra work here at the sheriff’s office,” Ireson said. “There are two that will not be able to retire by age 60, and that’s gonna be an issue, but the sheriff said he he will work with them to figure something out.” Ireson said meetings are to be held with county employees and representatives from the program, so they are informed on how they may be affected. Sheriff Cassidy who spoke during the meeting, said the program will benefit a lot of his employees who are getting close to the age of retirement. “My heart is for these employees,” Cassidy said. “This job is very demanding, very stressful, away from your family a whole lot more than you need to be. This program is a life changer for those who are eligible.” Sergeant Phil White, one of the officers set to retire soon also spoke. “This program will be a big boost to me. I’ve been here for almost 29 years,” White said. “It’s a young man’s game. It’s not for me anymore, but I still do my job on a daily basis as best I can.” Ireson noted that reaction times decline around age 56, which is another reason the bridge program can make operations safer, especially in police departments. Opposition to river overlay district In another resolution, the commission expressed complete opposition to a proposed overlay district on the South Fork of the Holston River. Sponsored by Commissioner Joe Carr, the resolution voiced concerns about the potential impact on property rights, farming and the possibility of eminent domain use for zoning projects. “Many residents are deeply concerned about the prospect of a river overlay district being imposed on them, which would be a detriment to both landowners and our farmers,” the resolution stated. During public comment, multiple residents urged the commission to approve the resolution, citing flaws in a recent recreational study that could be used to justify an overlay district in the future. Melinda Morell pointed out discrepancies in survey data. “This study explains that the survey data was a critical component, yet the survey results in previous versions were wrong and only corrected after documented evidence was provided,” Morell said. Morell said the survey only had about 0.2% of Sullivan County represented and of those respondents, 9% did not live in the county. “The second survey that was provided, 55 pieces of information were sent out, but yet there’s 8,004 parcels. That’s less than 0.7% of impacted individuals,” Morell said. Morell said she and others asked the zoning and planning commission to include those statistics and numbers from the surveys in their reports to give context for future commissions. Jaquita Hickman asked the commission to consider how an overlay district could impact the property taxes of the land. “Most people on that river have private property farms,” Hickman said. “We have large farms, and what I am concerned about is the restrictions that will be given to our ancestors because I want my children and my grandchildren to be able to have our legacy so that they can have a future in Sullivan County as well.”
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