Jour : 27 janvier 2025

January 27, 2025 18:24 ET  | Source: US Capital Global US Capital Global
San Francisco, California, USA, Jan. 27, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — US Capital Global is pleased to announce the appointment of Ara Kachadourian as Senior Vice President at its new Los Angeles office. In his role, Mr. Kachadourian will lead strategic initiatives to deliver customized financial solutions, including equity investments, credit facilities, and wealth and asset management services, to clients both in the US and internationally.
With headquarters in San Francisco and a global presence extending to key locations such as Las Vegas, Philadelphia, Miami, New York, London, and Dubai, US Capital Global stands as a premier full-service global private financial group specializing in corporate finance, asset management, and capital formation services for the middle market.
Mr. Kachadourian is a financial expert with nearly 25 years of experience in wealth management, deal origination, and entrepreneurial ventures. He has led real estate syndications, advised high-net-worth clients, and co-founded firms focused on scaling businesses and aligning organizational goals with investor interests. His distinguished career includes roles with industry leaders such as Comerica Bank, Wells Fargo Advisors, and Mass Mutual.
Stepping into his new role, Mr. Kachadourian expressed his enthusiasm: “US Capital Global is experiencing remarkable growth both across the United States and internationally, while expanding into new sectors. I’m delighted to support the group’s new Los Angeles office, overseeing debt and equity financing for clients in the US and internationally. I look forward to driving the group’s continued success in the region and delivering innovative, customized financial solutions to our clients.”
“We are delighted to welcome Ara Kachadourian as Senior Vice President at our new Los Angeles office, furthering our expansion across the United States and globally,” said Jeffrey Sweeney, Chairman and CEO of US Capital Global. “With his extensive expertise in debt and equity finance and bespoke advisory services, Ara is uniquely positioned to accelerate our growth in these critical markets. We are excited to have him on board and look forward to his valuable contributions to US Capital Global.”
About US Capital Global
Founded in 1998, US Capital Global offers a range of advanced financial solutions, including debt, equity, and investment products customized for middle-market enterprises and investors. The firm oversees direct investment funds while delivering comprehensive wealth management and investment banking services, encompassing M&A strategies and capital raising expertise. Among the notable entities within the consortium are US Capital Global Investment Management LLC, US Capital Global Wealth Management LLC, and US Capital Global Securities LLC, an SEC-registered broker-dealer and member of FINRA. To learn more, visit www.uscapital.com.
To learn more about US Capital Global, email Jeffrey Sweeney, Chairman and CEO, at jsweeney@uscapglobal.com.
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Herbal Medicine Market Is Expected To Reach $547.68 Billion By 2034, Growing At A CAGR Of 20.4%  WhaTech
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It’s the dead of winter, but auto racing never seems to stop for local fans. This weekend will be a busy one for racers and fans alike, with big events dotting the calendar.
For those wishing to check out what’s in store for the new racing season, the Racing Xtravaganza takes place at the York Expo Center on Friday and Saturday. For those wishing to catch some live racing action, those same two days include the Gambler’s Classic indoor races in Atlantic City, New Jersey. If you race a late model and want to catch up on all the newest crazes, Jim Bernheisel offers his annual open house on Saturday.
The Racing Xtravaganza will fill the Hall at the Fairgrounds with race cars, seminars, racing products, racing memorabilia and, of course, race tracks promoting their new seasons. This show usually attracts more than 100 race cars, all ready for the new season.
The tracks set up booths to release their season schedules and let fans know what to expect at each track for the new season. Drivers are on hand over the weekend with many participating in meet and greets on the main stage. The stage is also reserved at times for special roundtable sessions. A special seminar room is set up for racing related seminars during the weekend. Local racing clubs always attend, and the York County Racing Club has become renowned for the bake sale it has during this weekend.
All told, it’s a great way to liven up the winter months with a racing fix. Thus the Xtravaganza name.
On the track: The Gambler’s Classic weekend inside Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City has also become a mainstay winter attraction. Racing has been taking place inside what was once known as Boardwalk Hall for many years. A series of races were held there from the mid-1960s through the early 1980s, but a renovation of the building, along with the aging of the race promoter, saw racing come to a halt inside the venerable hall.
In 2003, Lenny Sammons, whose family publishes Area Auto Racing News, revived the indoor series and added other venues as well. The newly named Gambler’s Classic was born. Over the years, Sammons and his family have become known for producing a very well-run show of indoor auto racing with the Three Quarter Midgets as the headline attraction.
The TQs are about the size of a micro sprint with 750cc engines. They are built for racing on pavement, and the track is set up on the concrete floor of the hall. It is basically built around the outside edge of the indoor hockey rink in the building.
Over the years, several other types of racing have been tried as support divisions. The Sammons family have settled on the champ karts and the modified lookalike slingshots as the regular second classes. In recent years, a race has also been added for the 600cc micro sprints, which later in February will race on a dirt track constructed inside Trenton’s Cure Arena.
The TQ portion of the program has become a winter highlight, and this year there is some big money on the line for several participants. Ryan Fores and Andy Jankowiack each won features inside Allentown’s PPL Center in early January. If either driver is able to also win the Gambler’s Classic on Saturday, they are shooting for bonus money that will bring their winning total to $10,000.
Friday’s portion of the Gambler’s Classic weekend is known as the BlackJack 21, and the winner of this race is also in line for the bonus money in Saturday’s Gambler’s Classic. Of course, to win Friday, a driver would have to best both Flores and Jankowiack.
Flores is a New Jersey native who now lives in North Carolina. He works as a tire changer for the Roger Penske-owned NASCAR team car driven by 2023 Cup Series champion Ryan Blaney. Flores owns one Gambler’s Classic win.
Jankowiack is a native of New York state and has been a big winner in the Gambler’s Classic. Jankowiack is tied with Anthony Sesely for the most career wins in the event. Each driver has four Classic wins.
Jankowiack races regularly with the asphalt modifieds, but in recent years has also become a super speedway competitor with the ARCA series stock cars.
Family business: Bernheisel will host an open house at his Bernheisel Race Components complex in Lebanon on Saturday. The Bernheisel family builds Lazer chassis late models.
Bernheisel and his son Bryan race late models, while another son, Brandon, is the mechanic on those rides.
Jim Bernheisel was recently inducted into the York County Racing Club Hall of Fame.

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The team of the anti-detect browser AdsPower reported a massive cyber attack. On January 24, during a security system check, it was discovered that hackers had altered some extensions (for example, MetaMask) into phishing versions. The developers immediately took measures and started an investigation, which is still ongoing.
“We have reported this incident to the Singapore authorities and received confirmation of the receipt of our report. We maintain communication with the Singapore Police Force and are assisting in their investigation. The AdsPower team has engaged external experts to support the investigation efforts, including SlowMist and CertiK, as well as leading technical consultants from Singapore. We have also contacted several projects and major trading platforms to inform them of this incident, and have submitted a risk report to the domain name administrator and cloud service provider for domains previously used for collecting malicious information,” — the message states.
According to estimates, hackers managed to steal over $3 million, mostly in Ethereum. This occurred through the theft of seed phrases. The phishing version of the MetaMask extension asked users to re-enter their mnemonic passphrase, after which the funds were stolen.
On the wallets of the criminals, there remains $396.6 thousand, $1 thousand, $116 and $685.
If you installed or updated the MetaMask extension from January 21 to January 24, immediately:
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ECB board member Cipollone warned that dollar-backed stablecoins could disintermediate banks, underscoring the urgency for Europe to launch its own digital currency.
Eurozone banks should embrace a digital euro to counter United States President Donald Trump’s new push to promote dollar-backed stablecoins globally, European Central Bank (ECB) board member Piero Cipollone stated on Friday. Cipollone warned that stablecoins, which function similarly to money market funds, could further erode banks’ revenues and customer base, strengthening the need for an ECB-backed digital currency.
A digital euro would provide a secure, centralised online wallet guaranteed by the ECB but managed by private banks, allowing even unbanked individuals to make payments. However, eurozone banks have raised concerns about losing deposits to this digital alternative. Cipollone emphasised that such a move would safeguard Europe’s financial system from potential disruptions caused by stablecoins gaining global traction.
While the ECB continues to experiment with a digital euro, a final decision depends on European lawmakers approving the necessary legislation. Meanwhile, Trump’s executive order on Thursday prohibited the Federal Reserve from issuing its own digital currency. Over 40 countries, including China and Russia, are already piloting central bank digital currencies, putting pressure on the eurozone to accelerate its digital efforts.
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A new bill making its way through the Washington Legislature could tweak a law that outlines harsh punishments for assaults on health care workers, creating a specific carve-out for mental health patients.
For nearly 30 years, Washington has allowed prosecutors to charge people with felonies for offenses like spitting if the victim is a health care worker. The law aims to protect health care workers who face rising violence on the job with increased penalties.
But there is little evidence to support the idea that felonizing low-level assaults prevents violence against health care workers when most of the people charged with these crimes are seriously mentally ill, an investigation this summer by The Seattle Times and the Marshall Project showed. In addition, removing these people from treatment and sending them into the criminal justice system can have the effect of making them sicker.
Between 2018 through 2022, the news organizations reported that 76% of the people who were charged with felonies for assaulting health care workers in King County showed signs of serious mental illness, and many of them were considered too sick to assist in their own defense.
Several of these cases involved patients in involuntary detention, where by definition they were already considered a risk to themselves or others because of their mental illness.
House Bill 1220 would still allow anyone who assaults a health care worker to be charged with a misdemeanor or a felony depending on the level of violence but would exempt people in mental health treatment or seeking it from the special category of charge that automatically felonizes minor offenses against health care workers.
HB 1220 sponsor Rep. Darya Farivar, D-Seattle, worked on issues affecting people with serious mental illnesses at Disability Rights Washington before she came to the Legislature. In 2020, Disability Rights Washington published a report looking at how patients in behavioral health crises are arrested out of hospitals for offenses like throwing juice.
“When we’re looking at the population of folks that have serious mental illness who are moving through our systems, this isn’t really preventing them from perpetrating assaults,” Farivar said. “The goal is to make sure that everyone is ending up in a better situation.”
States like Virginia and Missouri already exempt people from being criminally charged under laws against threatening health care workers if they are receiving psychiatric care or are civilly committed.
The Washington State Hospital Association hasn’t taken a position on the bill, but the Washington State Medical Association, which represents nearly 13,000 physicians across the state, has concerns about it.
Emergency physician Dr. Ryan Keay said she appreciated the spirit of the bill but said it missed the mark.
“We oppose this bill as written because a sort of across-the-board carve-out for all mental health patients doesn’t take into account that there are patients who know what they’re doing when they assault health care workers,” Keay said.
Health care workers have reported increasing violence on the job in recent years. A 2024 survey by nurses union National Nurses United found that nearly half of all respondents reported more violence in their workplaces over the previous year.
“We love our work,” Keay said. “We love the acute, unscheduled care and taking care of everyone who walks in our front doors, and we need to feel supported in the work we do every day. And that is not currently the case.”
Keay compared Washington’s existing health care worker assault law to metal detectors, in the sense that having metal detectors may not necessarily reduce violence in an emergency department but having them makes staff feel safer. The health care worker assault law can help make staff feel more supported in an environment of extreme stress.
“Violence in the health care setting is a problem,” said Kim Mosolf, disability rights attorney and author of the 2020 Disability Rights Washington report.
“What has been shown to address that is increased staffing, safety planning, all of the kinds of things that you do to plan for a safe workplace,” Mosolf said. “This solution of arrest and prosecution essentially perpetuates the problem, and that person is much more likely to then be back in your ER or in your treatment facility, potentially worse off.”
King County Prosecutor Leesa Manion, whose office’s filing guidelines say prosecutors should consider whether diversion or declining charges would be appropriate for some people experiencing mental health crises, said “these types of felony assault cases, where medical professionals are being harmed, require careful analysis and difficult decision-making.”
“It is important to consider the impact to victims, many of whom are people of color, who are sometimes disproportionately harmed in these types of cases,” Manion said in an emailed statement. “Physical assaults against nurses, doctors and hospital staff are underreported crimes.”
The people charged in these crimes are also disproportionately people of color, The Seattle Times/Marshall Project analysis found. Forty percent were described by police as Black in a county with a 7% Black population.
Lawmakers have referred the bill to the House Community Safety Committee for a hearing.
The opinions expressed in reader comments are those of the author only and do not reflect the opinions of The Seattle Times.

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Already Autism Health has acquired Commonwealth ABA and secured the backing of three investment firms.
The Charlotte, North Carolina-based autism therapy company is primed for and has already executed a growth strategy that includes M&A. The news comes amid a flurry of dealmaking activity in behavioral health, especially autism therapy, in early 2025.
Already Autism Health announced Jan. 23 that it has received investment from the private equity firms Triton Pacific Healthcare Partners, Star Mountain Capital and Ace & Company. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The next day, Commonwealth ABA announced the merger deal.
“Our mission is to nurture the ‘already’ remarkable abilities of children with autism,” Derek Bullard, CEO and co-founder of Already Autism Health, said in a news release. “Partnering with Triton Pacific allows us to amplify our mission while expanding our footprint. Their expertise and strategic vision align perfectly with our goal of providing high-quality, evidence-based autism services.”
Brett Blevins, the CEO and founder of Commonwealth ABA, announced that Already Autism Health “partnered to form a best-in-class autism care company” the day after Already announced its investment. Bullard is CEO and Blevins is chief development officer of the combined organization.
Bullard founded Already Autism Health in 2019. Blevins founded Commonwealth ABA in 2023. Both come from backgrounds that include behavioral health. Bullard previously founded and exited Access Family Services. In 2019, Blevins sold his majority stake in Bluegrass Behavioral Health Group.
“By joining forces with Already Autism Health, we deepen our expertise and expand our reach while maintaining our mission of delivering exceptional autism care,” Blevins said.
The companies have some overlap in terms of service markets; both mostly operate in the Southern U.S.
Already Autism Health offers in-home and clinic-based applied behavior analysis (ABA), diagnostics and family support services. It operates nine clinics in Georgia and North Carolina. It also offers in-home care in those states, and in South Carolina and Virginia. It offers in-home services in 18 cities, according to its website.
Commonwealth ABA offers center-based, in-home and in-school ABA services. It also offers diagnostics, telehealth and support services. Some in-home services include “waiver program” support for patients with disabilities. The company operates 15 clinics in Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky and Virginia, according to its website.
“]The dea] is going to take our access-to-care mission, long-term sustainability, and continued opportunities and growth for staff to greater heights,” Blevins said.
Welham Advisory advised Already Autism Health while Agenda Health advised Commonwealth ABA.
Triton Pacific Healthcare Partners led the round. The firm is the majority shareholder in the company. Ace and Company and Star Mountain invested via debt and equity. Bullard remains a significant stakeholder in Already Autism Health as well.
Neither Blevins’ nor Bullard’s companies had been backed by investors before these respective deals.
“The autism services space is undergoing a rapid evolution but remains one of the most underserved sectors in all of healthcare,” Joe Davis, managing partner at Triton Pacific Healthcare Partners, said in the release. “A leading platform like Already Autism Health stands to not only benefit from sector tailwinds but also play a key role in propelling the sector forward.”
The investment will go to expanding Already Autism Health’s footprint. It plans to add new centers in new regions and add testing and diagnostics in existing markets where they are not presently offered, Bullard told ABN.
Welham Advisory also advised Already Autism Health on the investment. The law firm Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel represented Already. The law firm DLA Piper represented Triton Pacific Healthcare Partners.
Already Autism Health isn’t alone in getting investment deals done in 2025.
New York City-based health care private equity firm Ascend Capital Partners acquired Unison Therapy Services, a Walnut Creek, California-based multi-specialty youth and family behavioral health provider. Conway, Arkansas-based Pediatrics Plus secured funding from the firms Leavitt Equity Partners and Fulcrum Equity Partners and the private, nonprofit online college Western Governors University.
In the venture capital world, Prosper Health, a virtual mental health platform focused on caring for neurodivergent populations, landed a $16.2 million funding round.
Chris Larson is a reporter for Behavioral Health Business. He holds a bachelor’s degree in communications from Brigham Young University and has been covering the health care sector since December 2016. He is based in the Louisville metro area. When not at work, he enjoys spending time with his wife and two kids, cooking/baking and reading sci-fi and fantasy novels.
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Donate your tree trimmings to feed Dallas Zoo animals  Oak Cliff Advocate
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