Black History Month Salute & Tributes to Kevin Byrd Longest Serving Prostate Cancer Awareness Advocate Worldwide. During the month of February 2022 as we take the time to pay tribute to African Americans who have impacted the globe in a special way, we take time to pause and honor the work of Kevin Byrd for his lengthy advocacy in the area of Prostate Cancer Awareness as an advocate, career, and track record of giving back to the global community in so many ways. Mr. Byrd is the Co-founder of the BrownByrd Foundation along with Blossom Brown.

This year marks the 10th consecutive year that the Niagara Falls has been lit blue in the honor of the BrownByrd Foundation’s work totaling a decade as of 2022. At 41 years of age Mr. Kevin Byrd work in the area Prostate Cancer Awareness Advocacy has set a precedent as he began his advocacy at the tender age of 20.

In total, he has been honored by over 100 Mayors and government officials across the country and has received over 100 proclamation awards. In his hometown of Utica, October 1, is designated as Kevin Byrd Day in honor of his tireless work.

Kevin Byrd is nationally known for his portrayal as Lt. John R. Fox in the 2006 History/HBO movie "Honor Deferred" produced by Al Roker; starring Samuel Jackson and Bernie Mac. Lt. John R. Fox a WWII hero who killed 100 German Soldiers in the War died in action, and was posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor five decades after his heroic acts by President Clinton. The documentary picked up an Emmy/NAMIC Vision Award Nomination and garnered great reviews. The likeness of Lt. John R. Fox was transformed into a G.I. Joe Action Figure by Hasbro the summer of 2008.

The Common Council in the City of Utica, New York designated an honorary street “Brown Byrd Lane” sign to be placed on both ends of the street below the Pond Lane Signs – Legislation sponsored by Councilmembers Meola, Giruzzi, Vescera, Testa, Marino, McKinsey, Colosimo -Testa and Zecca Bucciero, 2012 for Black History Month Kevin Byrd’s work entered into Congressional Record by Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke, Bklyn, N.Y., 2013 Long Island Business News Health Care Heroes Award for work at local chapter of 100 Black Men of America, Inc., 2013 Kevin Byrd Profiled on Verizon FiOS1 Show “Heroes on Long Island, 2016 Actor/Prostate Cancer Advocate/Founder BrownByrdfoundation was featured on WABC Here and Now in 2017 which aired on in tri-state New York.

He has served with distinction as the Chairman of Health for prominent organizations such as a local chapter of the 100 Black Men of America, Inc. and the Long Island African American Chamber of Commerce New York State’s largest African American Chamber.

Recently a special exhibit entitled History Maker: A salute to Contemporary African Americans was displayed at the Oneida County History Center, and soon thereafter his memorabilia was archived at the Oneida County History Center.

On February 2, 2022 of this year Niagara Falls was lit for the 10th consecutive in his honor.

Please join us for this special Black History Month Salute & Tributes by sharing and promoting the outstanding accomplishments of Mr. Kevin Byrd on your social media sites or emailing This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Feel free to email special congrats to Mr. Byrd at email above email! Donations may be made by logging on to www.brownbyrdfoundation.org.

Decentralized Education (DeEd) solution, Acadex Network, has successfully raised $1.35M in an oversubscribed round from leading investors ahead of its public sale in the coming months.

London, England, United Kingdom., February 15, 2022 - The Acadex Network is unarguably appraised the industry’s foremost decentralized education nexus, exploiting blockchain, metaverse, smart exchange, decentralized finance and NFT to revolutionize global learning and reward excellence. The network poses a decentralized servicing ecosystem, providing a sturdy and secure native chain structure for education and extra curricular learning.

This architecture also fulfills tutor-learner relationships, course fee payments, interns’ block development hub, student loans, NFT study certifications, NFT library and study rewards. And additionally, pioneering integration with the metaverse. Applicably introducing VR domain tutoring (VDT) and VR domain reading (VDR). Wherein users engage in live, recorded and custom tutorial pieces facilitated by augmented reality.

The Acadex Network Ecosystem in its prolific essence, slates to unveil Proof of Knowledge (PoK), initially utilized in a native decentralized study-media platform, Academa. This robust portal links professors, researchers, lecturers, scholars, extra curricular creatives and learners in a meta hub. The AcadFunjies, being the network’s multi-chain NFT creation environment, also introduces NFT freeze, swap, will, copywriting and authentication. Eminently, Acadex looks to foster an environment with on-chain privileges for prospective authors and creatives to rollout more effective educational blockchain technologies.

It’s a no-brainer that this Binance chain based network is a charmer to investors. This is why The Acadex Network is pleased to announce the conclusion of its Private Sale round with $1.35m raised. After an exhaustive roller coaster of bidding and lobbying. This buy-in came from a mixed candidacy of some of the network's esteemed partners, other relevant corporates and a selected pick of individual investors. With 90,000,000 ACDX tokens sold, each investor size allocation was so strategically allotted that worryingly influential holdings or centralized control of the supply per person or corporate is avoided. Therefore preventing any substantial or effective prospective dump. It is for this reason participatory limits were somewhat instituted during the sale, especially with the teeming interests. Nevertheless, all of Acadex Network's investors are highly appreciated and esteemed equal.

As seed rounds have formally concluded, the funds raised in this private sale will be injected to accessorize administrative and marketing campaigns leading to the IDO in late Q1 2022. And also mobilize affairs for smart contract audits.

The future is Decentralized Education (DeEd), and it is with excitement Acadex Network journeys to the phase.
 

About Acadex Network

Acadex Network is the World’s Pioneering Decentralized Education Network, introducing blockchain’s first Proof of Knowledge (PoK) consensus.

Bound to upscale the global education quality and learning systems, by instituting study inclusiveness, subsidized student loans, reward learners, authors, creatives and curb study certificate forgery, blockchain intellectual property copyrighting and authentication using NFT, AR & VR technology.
 

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Items from the estate of Robert W. Woodruff (1889-1985), the American businessman and philanthropist who served as president of The Coca-Cola Company from 1923 to 1955, will come up for bid on Saturday, February 26th, by Ahlers & Ogletree, starting at 10 am Eastern time. Items from Woodruff’s wife Nell, who was a Red Cross nurse, will also be sold.

The more than 400 lots will include portraits of Mr. Woodruff by Norman Rockwell and Thomas Stephens, a portrait of George Washington by former President Dwight Eisenhower (Woodruff’s longtime friend and golfing partner), a Thomas C. Molesworth “Jack Rabbit” stand, custom and Tiffany diamond jewelry worn by Nell, Coca-Cola items, furniture items and decorative objects.

Also featured will be items pertaining to Woodruff’s longtime friendship with legendary golfer Bobby Jones (including a birthday letter from Bobby Jones and Eisenhower to Woodruff, plus golfing books written by Jones and inscribed “to Bob”); items relating to cigars and pipes, two of Woodruff’s passions (including the custom cabinet made for Woodruff by Dunhill, housing his personal pipe collection); and various intriguing rarities, including a shoulder-mount elk shot and tagged in 1942; and the only known remaining Robert W. Woodruff monogrammed golf club.

There will be no in-person bidding for this auction due to Covid, but bidders can register and bid right now on LiveAuctioneers.com, Invaluable.com and Bidsquare.com. All registered bidders can also bid in real time as lots sell on auction day, starting at 10 am. Interested parties will be able to preview all lots in person in Ahlers & Ogletree’s Atlanta showroom at 700 Miami Circle.

The Woodruffs led a full and exciting life, and the items in the auction reflect that zest for living. They were pulled from the couple’s four homes: Windcrofte, their opulent primary residence on 16 acres of prime real estate in Atlanta; the TE Ranch in Wyoming, the 8,000-acre onetime home of the legendary Buffalo Bill Cody (1846-1917); a two-story River House complex on 52nd Street in Manhattan; and Ichauway, a vast, 29,000-acre working-hunting plantation in South Georgia.

The portrait of Mr. Woodruff by the American artist-illustrator Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) shows Woodruff as a young man. The charcoal on paper, in a 26 ½ inch by 21 ½ inch frame, is artist signed (estimate: $20,000-$40,000). The portrait by Thomas Stephens (British/N.Y., 1885-1966) depicts an older Woodruff in a waist-up rendering. He’s holding his trademark cigar. The signed 40 inch by 30-inch (sight, less frame) oil on canvas work should realize $10,000-$20,000.

Who knew Dwight Eisenhower was a painter? And not a bad one, as it turns out. His Portrait of George Washington, after Gilbert Stuart (Mass., 1755-1828) is signed lower left and comes with a plaque that reads, “To Nell and Bob from their friend Ike” (estimate: $10,000-$20,000). Also, a personal (or informal) 1958 Christmas card from the Eisenhowers to the Woodruffs, depicting Ike and Mamie in whimsical Santa suits, one of only 200 made, should finish at $500-$700.

Speaking of Christmas cards, up for bid is a complete set of 44 Christmas cards produced for the Woodruffs from 1941-1984 by Athos Menaboni (Italian/Ga., 1895-1990), depicting birds and flora from the TE Ranch and Ichauway (estimate: $3,000-$5,000). Also for sale is a red leather-bound birthday memorabilia book from Mr. Woodruff’s 70th birthday party in 1959 given at the Capital City Club in Atlanta, attended by many friends and luminaries (estimate: $200-$400).

One of the attendees was Bobby Jones, who, like Eisenhower, was a close friend and golfing buddy of Woodruff’s. Two sterling silver nut dishes, engraved with Jones’s name and that of sportswriter Grantland Rice, will be sold as one lot (estimate: $150-$300). The furniture category will be led by a large and beautiful British 19th century George III-style mahogany breakfront bookcase with glazed doors, 92 inches tall by 97 ½ inches wide (estimate: $4,000-$6,000).

Personal jewelry items from Nell Woodruff will include the stunning, vintage platinum and diamond engagement ring given to her by Robert, with a 4.61-carat marquise brilliant cut center diamond, F-color, SI1 clarity (estimate: $80,000-$120,000); and an early 20th century Black, Starr and Frost Art Deco vanity case (or compact), made from 14kt yellow and white gold, rose cut diamonds, jadeite jade, enamel and Bakelite, with a mirror (estimate: $4,000-$6,000).

The Thomas C. Molesworth (Wyo., 1890-1977) “Jack Rabbit” sculpture from 1938, unmarked, made from painted wrought iron, is 36 ½ inches tall and comes with a typed poem by Mrs. Molesworth (estimate: $10,000-$15,000). Also sold will be a patinated bronze sculpture by Franz Bergmann (Austrian, 1861-1936), aka Nam Greb, titled Mameluk Warrior, with a foundry mark and “Real Vienna Bronze,” on a marble base, 24 inches tall (estimate: $5,000-$10,000).

An 18th century seven-piece George III neoclassical Adams sterling silver oval epergne centerpiece, with the marks of William Pitts and Joseph Preedy (London, active 1791-1799), inscribed to Mr. Woodruff, has an estimate of $6,000-$9,000. Also, a five-piece sterling silver tea and coffee service in the “Duncan” pattern by Fisher Silversmiths (American, founded 1936), with Nell Woodruff’s monogram, weighing a total of 81.71 ozt., should sell for $3,500-$4,500.

There is some Coca-Cola memorabilia in the sale. This includes two of Mr. Woodruff’s personal advertising lighters, one a Hadson “Blue Bird” musical lighter with Woodruff’s initials and a Scripto Vu-Lighter with his name (estimate: $150-$300); and an early 20th century graduated drink glass and metal holder, both showing the Coca-Cola company logo, mentioned in Cecil Munsey’s book, The Illustrated Guide to Collectibles of Coca-Cola, 1972 (estimate: $50-$100).

To learn more about Ahlers & Ogletree and the sale of the estate of Robert and Nell Woodruff on Saturday, February 26th, at 10 am Eastern time, or to join their email list for information on upcoming sales, please visit www.aandoauctions.com. Updates are posted often.

Tuesday, February 15 2022: LKP Securities Ltd has entered into an arrangement with HDFC Bank Ltd to offer a special 3-in-1 online account. Under this facility, customers of LKP Securities Ltd can complete his bank account opening formalities and gain added benefits of broking and demat account.

The 3-in-1 account offers a host of benefits including no annual maintenance charges (AMC) for one year from the trading account opening date and waiver on brokerage charges of up to Rs 500 for one month from the date of demat account opening. The demat and trading accounts also provide the facility to trade in other segments like commodities and currency.

The 3-in1 account facilitates swift fund transfer between the bank account and trading account as clients no longer have to go through a lengthy authentication process. A secure online account opening process enables them to open the 3-in-1 online account. They can start trading in NSE, BSE and MCX shares using the mobile trading app GETSETGROW@LKP which can be downloaded from Google Play Store and Apple App Store.

The clients of LKP Securities Ltd an also monitor their trading portfolio, transact in mutual funds, apply for all IPOs using the app with E-IPO and trade in the futures and options market. The clients can access their account details on desktops and smartphones to track their investment portfolio as well.

“At LKP Securities Ltd, our endeavours have always been to make investing simpler, seamless and hassle-free for our clients. Our 3-1in-1 online account with multiple utility features and benefits brings in a superior investing experience. It presents an impeccable mix of banking and investing, enabling our clients to leverage all market opportunities. We would like to thank HDFC Bank Ltd for agreeing to be a part of the initiative, doubling the trust for us and the investors,” stated Pratik Doshi, Managing Director at LKP Securities

“This joint initiative with LKP Securities Ltd aims to deliver an enhanced customer experience by offering ease of opening trading, demat and bank account digitally with a single journey in a seamless manner. Customers will also benefit from HDFC Bank Ltd wide range of banking products. This kicks off an exciting journey which will allow LKP Securities Ltd and HDFC Bank Ltd to explore untapped opportunities in the broking-banking space”, said Mr. Anand Mankodi, Business Head – Capital Markets and Financial Institutions Group, HDFC Bank Ltd.