Quincy, MA, Nov. 22, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Stran & Company, Inc. ("Stran" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: SWAG) (NASDAQ: SWAGW), a leading outsourced marketing solutions provider that leverages its promotional products and loyalty incentive expertise, today announced that it has received a written notification (the “Notification Letter”) from the Listing Qualifications staff of The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (“Nasdaq”) as a result of its failure to file its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2024 (the "Form 10-Q") in a timely fashion. The Notification Letter advised the Company that it was not in compliance with Nasdaq’s continued listing requirements under the timely filing criteria established in Nasdaq Listing Rule 5250(c)(1). Previously, Nasdaq granted the Company an exception until December 16, 2024 to file its delinquent Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2024 (the "Initial Delinquent Filing") and Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2024. As a result, any additional Nasdaq exception will be limited to a maximum of 180 calendar days from the due date of the Initial Delinquent Filing, or until December 16, 2024. In accordance with the Nasdaq Listing Rules, the Company has until December 6, 2024 to submit to Nasdaq an update to its original plan to regain compliance with Nasdaq Listing Rules. The Company intends to submit the required update to its plan and take the necessary steps to regain compliance with Nasdaq Listing Rules as soon as practicable. No assurance can be given that the Company will be able to regain compliance with the aforementioned listing requirement or maintain compliance with the other continued listing requirements set forth in the Nasdaq Listing Rules. The Notification Letter has no immediate effect on the listing of the Company’s common stock or warrants on The Nasdaq Capital Market. About Stran For over 29 years, Stran has grown to become a leader in the promotional products industry, specializing in complex marketing programs to help recognize the value of promotional products, branded merchandise, and loyalty incentive programs as a tool to drive awareness, build brands and impact sales. Stran is the chosen promotional programs manager of many Fortune 500 companies, across a variety of industries, to execute their promotional marketing, loyalty and incentive, sponsorship activation, recruitment, retention, and wellness campaigns. Stran provides world-class customer service and utilizes cutting-edge technology, including efficient ordering and logistics technology to provide order processing, warehousing, and fulfillment functions. The Company’s mission is to develop long-term relationships with its clients, enabling them to connect with both their customers and employees in order to build lasting brand loyalty. Additional information about the Company is available at: www.stran.com . Forward Looking Statements This press release contains “forward-looking statements” that are subject to substantial risks and uncertainties. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, contained in this press release are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements contained in this press release may be identified by the use of words such as “anticipate,” “believe,” “contemplate,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “intend,” “seek,” “may,” “might,” “plan,” “potential,” “predict,” “project,” “target,” “aim,” “should,” "will,” “would,” or the negative of these words or other similar expressions, although not all forward-looking statements contain these words. Forward-looking statements are based on the Company’s current expectations and are subject to inherent uncertainties, risks and assumptions that are difficult to predict. Further, certain forward-looking statements are based on assumptions as to future events that may not prove to be accurate. These and other risks and uncertainties are described more fully in the section titled “Risk Factors” in the Company’s periodic reports which are filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Forward-looking statements contained in this announcement are made as of this date, and the Company undertakes no duty to update such information except as required under applicable law. Contacts: Investor Relations Contact: Crescendo Communications, LLC Tel: (212) 671-1021 SWAG@crescendo-ir.com Press Contact: Howie Turkenkopf press@stran.com
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At the invitation of JD Vance, Daniel Penny will join the vice president-elect and Donald Trump at Saturday’s Army-Navy football game in Maryland. Penny, the 24-year-old Marine veteran who was found not guilty this week in the choking death of Jordan Neely, is seen by many as a hero for the courage he showed to protect a subway full of civilians from Neely, who apparently had serious mental problems and was threatening to kill someone. Vance said of Penny via Xwitter Friday: “Daniel’s a good guy, and New York’s mob district attorney tried to ruin his life for having a backbone.” Vance is referring to District Attorney Alvin Bragg whose abuse of office is like nothing we’ve seen since the Democrat party instituted Jim Crow in the South. Vance added, “I’m grateful he accepted my invitation and hope he’s able to have fun and appreciate how much his fellow citizens admire his courage.” In addition to Trump and Vance, according to various news reports, Penny will join Elon Musk, Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), and U.S. Senator-elect David McCormick (R-PA) in Trump’s suite at the stadium. What Trump and Vance are doing here is not only an act of decency towards a man abused and persecuted by his own government, but as we have seen Trump do for over a decade now, he is once again showing a canny instinct for where the culture is and then leading the way. Trump did this with the border. He did this with law and order. He did this with the NFL kneeling nonsense. He did this with the trans nonsense. He did this by not hiding his wealth (the way Mitt Romney did). The corporate media always try to make common sense into a third-rail issue. Don’t embrace this, they say . Don’t criticize that. And Trump not only embraces this third rail, but he reverses the polarity and burns the media and Democrats because he understands the culture better and cannot be emotionally blackmailed or bullied into backing off. Pre-Trump, Daniel Penny, even after his acquittal, would still be made radioactive by the media smearing him as a racist. Trump and Vance simply refuse to go along with this nonsense. They see Penny as a selfless hero who risked his own safety for others. His payback? A villain named Alvin Bragg turned a hero into a political piñata. Few people understand what that’s like more than Trump, and with the corporate media influence dying and Trump now the biggest cultural influencer on the planet, he’s sticking his finger in the media’s eye, in Bragg’s eye, and the left’s eye with this righteous gesture. This is one more sign that the regime media’s ability to influence, bully, and intimidate the behavior of our politicians is over. Trump is showing the way and it is truly liberating. FREE-FREE-FREE for the holidays: an autographed bookplate if you purchase John Nolte’s first and last novel, BORROWED TIME, between now and December 20. After you’ve made the purchase, email your request to JJMNOLTE at HOTMAIL dot COM with an address and any personalization requests. For example, something like; “To Rachel Levine: The sexiest man alive.” Borrowed Time , is winning five-star raves from everyday readers. You can read an excerpt here and an in-depth review here . Also available in hardcover and on Kindle and Audiobook .
Australian researchers have created building blocks out of DNA to construct a series of nano-scale objects and shapes, from a rod and a square to an infinitesimally small dinosaur. The approach turns DNA into a modular material for building nanostructures – thousands of times narrower than a human hair. Developed by researchers from the University of Sydney Nano Institute and published in the journal Science Robotics , it suggests exciting possibilities for future use of nanobot technology. As a proof-of-concept, the authors made more than 50 tiny shapes to test their precision and express their creativity. These included a dragon, a dinosaur, and a tiny map of Australia measuring only 150 nanometres wide. (A nanometre is one millionth of a millimetre.) University of Sydney scientist Dr Shelley Wickham, co-author of the paper and research team leader, said the dinosaur was her favourite because it had both compact and flexible parts and was “not something that could assemble by accident”. The director of RMIT’s micro nano research facility, Prof Arnan Mitchell, who was not involved with the paper, noted that the approach relied on using DNA as a mechanical object rather than as a chemical. This was interesting, he said, because structures made from DNA were potentially small enough to be used in drug delivery. DNA could be wrapped around a drug to protect it for delivery to a particular part of the body, he said. “Deliver it to where it needs to go, and then use light or heat or something else to make it unfurl and release the drug.” With increased complexity and greater control, Wickham said the researchers’ approach could be used to make components for robotic boxes capable of delivering targeted drugs, or in the development of smart materials that could respond to the environment. “This work enables us to imagine a world where nanobots can get to work on a huge range of tasks, from treating the human body to building futuristic electronic devices.” Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Wickham outlined the process. The first step involved making the 3D building blocks, called “voxels”, she said. DNA, extracted from a type of virus called a bacteriophage, was “folded” into a cylindrical shape using an approach called DNA origami and held together with synthetic DNA (made by chemists). Voxels were formed by self-assembly, Wickham explained, relying on carefully sequenced DNA binding together at pre-determined locations, a bit like velcro or specialised glue. “We throw in 300 of these staples that all have a unique DNA sequence – like a unique glue – and they find different parts of the scaffold and stitch it together,” she said. Additional DNA strands incorporated on to the exterior of the voxels, acted as programmable binding sites. These could be used to join voxels together to construct more complex shapes and modular objects, which could be viewed under an electron microscope. “The results are a bit like using Meccano, the children’s engineering toy,” Wickham said. “As experimentalists, we spent a lot of time designing these on computers. And then we take the DNA and mix it together and it assembles itself.”Bob Dylan speaks on Timothée Chalamet playing him in ‘A Complete Unknown’ (‘what a title!’)NoneINEC chairman reacts to Ghana presidential election results
Liverpool boss Arne Slot hailed “special” Mohamed Salah after seeing him fire the Premier League leaders to the brink of victory at Newcastle. The Reds ultimately left St James’ Park with only a point after Fabian Schar snatched a 3-3 draw at the end of a pulsating encounter, but Salah’s double – his 14th and 15th goals of the season – transformed a 2-1 deficit into a 3-2 lead before the Switzerland defender’s late intervention. The 32-year-old Egypt international’s future at Anfield remains a topic of debate with his current contract running down. Asked about Salah’s future, Slot said: “It’s difficult for me to predict the long-term future, but the only thing I can expect or predict is that he is in a very good place at the moment. Two goals and an assist for Mo tonight 👏 pic.twitter.com/tMXidgeA0P — Liverpool FC (@LFC) December 4, 2024 “He plays in a very good team that provides him with good opportunities and then he is able to do special things. “And what makes him for me even more special is that in the first hour or before we scored to make it 1-1, you thought, ‘He’s not playing his best game today’, and to then come up with a half-hour or 45 minutes – I don’t know how long it was – afterwards with an assist, two goals, having a shot on the bar, being a constant threat, that is something not many players can do if they’ve played the first hour like he did. “That is also what makes him special. If you just look at the goals, his finish is so clinical. He’s a special player, but that’s what we all know.” Salah did indeed endure a quiet opening 45 minutes by his standards and it was the Magpies who went in at the break a goal to the good after Alexander Isak’s stunning 35th-minute finish. Slot said: “The shot from Isak, I don’t even know if Caoimh (keeper Caoimhin Kelleher) saw that ball, as hard as it was.” Salah set up Curtis Jones to level five minutes into the second half and after Anthony Gordon has restored the hosts’ lead, levelled himself from substitute Trent Alexander-Arnold’s 68th-minute cross. He looked to have won it with a fine turn and finish – his ninth goal in seven league games – seven minutes from time, only for Schar to pounce from a tight angle in the 90th minute. Newcastle head coach Eddie Howe was delighted with the way his team took the game to the Reds four days after their disappointing 1-1 draw at Crystal Palace. Howe, who admitted his surprise that VAR official Stuart Attwell had not taken a dimmer view of a Virgil van Dijk shoulder barge on Gordon, said: “It’s mixed emotions. “Part of me feels we should have won it – a big part of me – but part of me is pleased we didn’t lose either because it was such a late goal for us. “Generally, I’m just pleased with the performance. There was much more attacking output, a much better feel about the team. “There was much better energy, and it was a really good performance against, for me, the best team we’ve played so far this season in the Premier League, so it was a big jump forward for us.”WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump offered a public show of support Friday for Pete Hegseth, his embattled choice to lead the Defense Department, whose confirmation by the Senate is in doubt as he faces questions over allegations of excessive drinking, sexual assault and his views on women in combat roles. Hegseth, a former Fox News Host, Army National Guard major and combat veteran, spent much of the week on Capitol Hill trying to salvage his Cabinet nomination and privately reassure Republican senators that he is fit to lead Trump’s Pentagon. “Pete Hegseth is doing very well,” Trump posted on his social media site. “He will be a fantastic, high energy, Secretary of Defense.” The president added that “Pete is a WINNER, and there is nothing that can be done to change that!!!” The nomination battle over Hegseth is emerging not only as a debate about the best person to lead the Pentagon, but an inflection point for a MAGA movement that appears to relish a public fight over its hard-line push for a more masculine military and an end to the “woke-ism” of diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. Get local news delivered to your inbox!