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Industry-Leading System Enables Lenders to Increase Efficiency and Lower Operating Costs VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / December 3, 2024 / Inovatec Systems , a leading provider of cloud-based software solutions for lenders, announced that Northwest Bank has deployed Inovatec's Loan Origination System (LOS) to manage the bank's loan origination processes and workflows. Northwest Bank will leverage the Inovatec system to handle application processing, decisioning, reporting, and compliance needs for its automotive and power sports lending activities. Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, Northwest Bank serves consumers and businesses throughout Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, and Indiana. "The Inovatec LOS gives us a number of competitive advantages, including faster decisioning and fulfillment, greater accuracy, and lower operating costs," said John Guidone, Senior Vice President - Head of Consumer Lendingat Northwest Bank. "This system also allows us to deepen our relationships with both dealers and consumers by offering a fast, easy-to-use method to book loans. These attributes are extremely important in today's competitive environment, where there are a plethora of financing providers to choose from." Inovatec's LOS is designed to automate and streamline every aspect of the loan origination process, including application scoring, decisioning, and reporting. Its cloud-based architecture optimizes scalability and configurability, enabling lenders to adjust lending programs to meet evolving business opportunities. The system offers a comprehensive document management capability, and integrates with leading third-party services, such as income verification, fraud detection, and payment acceptance capabilities, adding increased value to lenders. "We are very pleased that Northwest Bank, which has an outstanding presence and reputation in the Eastern United States, has adopted the Inovatec LOS system to handle its loan origination needs," said Vlad Kovacevic, Chief Executive Officer of Inovatec. "This implementation reinforces the fact that a cloud-based LOS gives lenders the flexibility, simplicity, and cost benefits they need to meet evolving customer needs and industry demands." About Inovatec Systems Inovatec Systems Corp. is a leading provider of cloud-based loan origination and loan management solutions, serving lenders across North America. The company's innovative technologies enhance business outcomes by improving efficiency, accuracy, and customer satisfaction. For more information, visit www.inovatec.com . About Northwest Bank Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, Northwest Bancshares, Inc. is the bank holding company of Northwest Bank. Founded in 1896 Northwest Bank is a full-service financial institution offering a complete line of business and personal banking products, as well as employee benefits and wealth management services. As of September 30, 2024, Northwest operated 130 full-service financial centers and eleven free standing drive-up facilities in Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio and Indiana. Northwest Bancshares, Inc.'s common stock is listed on The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC ("NWBI"). Additional information regarding Northwest Bancshares, Inc. and Northwest Bank can be accessed online at www.northwest.com . Media Contact: Glenn Goldberg Parallel Communications Group, Inc. 516-776-3282 X: @Parallel_PR LinkedIn ggoldberg@parallelpr.com SOURCE: Inovatec Systems View the original on accesswire.comThe Philadelphia Eagles ruled wide receiver DeVonta Smith out for Sunday night's game at the Los Angeles Rams due to a hamstring injury. Smith did not practice all week and will miss his second game of the season and just the third of his four-year NFL career. He was inactive in a Week 4 loss at Tampa Bay due to a concussion. Smith, 26, leads the Eagles with 41 receptions and four touchdown catches ands ranks second with 516 receiving yards in nine starts this season. The former Heisman Trophy winner has 281 catches for 3,694 yards and 23 scores in 59 games (58 starts) since the Eagles drafted him with the 10th overall pick in 2021. NFC East-leading Philadelphia (8-2) takes a six-game winning streak to Los Angeles (5-5), which has won four of its last five games. --Field Level Media

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Ruben Amorim urges Man Utd to ‘run like mad dogs’ in bid to turn season round[Warning: The following contains MAJOR spoilers for Yellowstone Season 5 Part 2.] Yellowstone has almost killed off one character per episode in what’s presumed to be its final season. Out of four episodes released so far (and just two more to go), three have featured a major character death. The first was John Dutton’s, brought about by Kevin Costner’s shocking exit from the series. Viewers assumed the Dutton patriarch would be killed off to explain Costner’s absence from Season 5 Part 2. But the subsequent deaths have been more shocking. Sarah Atwood’s (Dawn Olivieri) murder made sense for the story, given the hit she ordered on John didn’t go as planned in the aftermath. But the death of Denim Richards ‘ Colby in Episode 12 was entirely unnecessary, if you ask us. Not only because the story didn’t need it, but also because it took time away from addressing the burning questions we still need answered before the show closes up shop ( if Season 5 really is the end — the show is certainly keeping viewers on their toes ). Here, we lay out the remaining burning questions we need answered before Yellowstone Season 5 Part 2 comes to a close, in no particular order. The biggest one is the one we’ve already addressed: When will Rip ( Cole Hauser ) find out what Jamie ( Wes Bentley ) did to Beth ( Kelly Reilly ), and will Kayce ( Luke Grimes ) find out? We lay out those possibilities here , but below, find our other lingering questions. Wes Bentley as Jamie and Katherine Cunningham as Christine in Yellowstone (Paramount Network) The last viewers heard about Jamie’s son was in Season 5 Part 1, when Jamie was driving Beth home from her overnight prison stint. Beth lashed out in rage at the sight of the car seat in the backseat, which revealed that Jamie was a parent. Learning that the child is a boy named after him made Beth even more angry. She threatened to take Jamie’s son from him like he took her ability to have children. The threat didn’t seem to be against the baby’s life, but rather that she would take his son and kill Jamie. The attorney has had bigger issues to tackle this season thus far, like trying to renew the airport lease his father canceled, launch a campaign to be elected governor in the special election prompted by John’s death, and of course deal with the fallout of Sarah being killed by the hitmen agency she hired to take out John (an investigation in which he’s now a primary suspect). But still, where is his son? Viewers have heard nary a peep about the kid in Part 2. Will Episode 13 bring him back into the plot, along with his mother, Christine ( Katherine Cunningham )? Perhaps part of Beth’s revenge on Jamie over his involvement in John’s death will entail finding the boy. That would be one way to get Jamie back under her thumb. Beth has long threatened that Rip would kill Jamie once he finds out that he had Beth forcibly sterilized as a teen. As much as Rip coming in to kill an enemy has made for some of the show’s more memorable moments (like the snake in the cooler), it does feel a little too obvious at this point to just have Rip involved in Jamie’s potential demise. It would be more intriguing and cathartic to see Beth do it herself or with Rip’s help — she’s certainly more emboldened to take the reins since she’s been convinced that Jamie planned their father’s murder (he didn’t, but it was his idea and she’ll never believe he isn’t responsible). Beth is one of the few members of her family who hasn’t committed murder on Yellowstone . And in fact, she’s one of the only ones who is appalled by the tradition of taking enemies “to the train station” (she was kept in the dark about this until the Season 5 Part 1 finale). Beth would save her first kill for Jamie. But at this point, given the excessive deaths we’ve seen this season, we could also see the series going for the tragic shock value of flipping the switch on Beth and having her killed by Jamie in the end. That does seem less likely, as Yellowstone almost always only kills its villains. And Jamie has long been painted as a villain, but one with the potential to be redeemed. There’s hardly any time left for a redemption arc, though. Paramount Network We’d be OK with Jamie and Beth both ending the series alive, but only if Jamie is in prison. He’s been on such a downward spiral and rejecting every opportunity to do the right thing for so long, becoming the fall guy for his dad’s homicide would be a twisted poetic justice. With Sarah dead too, he and the hitmen are the only people who could be held legally accountable for the murder. While Kayce has physically threatened Jamie in recent episodes, he’s clearly struggling with conflicting feelings of love for his big brother. What if the season ends with Kayce stopping Beth from killing Jamie, but helping her put him in prison for life to avenge John? Paramount Network In this context, that wouldn’t be a good thing. We’ve seen Kayce slowly descend into a darker mental state in the episodes since John’s murder. Every revelation about the death makes Kayce more and more lethal. In Episode 12, he held a child at gunpoint to threaten Grant Horton ( Matt Gerald ), the man who runs the agency that carried out the hit on John. Costner’s character could justify just about anything to defend his family’s legacy and ownership of the ranch; he spent decades killing foes in secret to help on this front. The lengths to which John would go to protect the ranch used to make Kayce and Monica ( Kelsey Asbille ) rebel against the family; it was only in recent years that this relationship was mended and Kayce and Monica felt comfortable associating themselves with them again. That comfort has transformed into full-blown support, and Kayce’s in a dark mindset as he attempts to avenge his father. How does the veteran come back from holding a child at gunpoint? Is he becoming the violent man who can defend any detestable action that he once feared? And moreover, how will Monica react if/when she finds out that Kayce threatened to kill a kid? We can’t imagine that she would be OK with that, but she’s also shown great concern for Kayce’s mental well-being in Season 5 Part 2. She may take the threat against that child and her father as a sign for her to step in and bring Kayce back from the edge. Beth and Rip were selling off the horses and cattle in Episode 12 in an attempt to raise the money needed to keep the ranch’s land instead of selling off a piece of it. Beth revealed in talks with Thomas Rainwater ( Gil Birmingham ) that she has resigned herself to losing at least some of the family’s acreage that they’ve owned for a century. While the plan to undo John’s actions as governor that protected the land and canceled Market Equities’ airport lease doesn’t seem likely to succeed — especially not with Senator Lynelle Perry ( Wendy Moniz ) and Clara ( Lilli Kay ) determined to thwart Jamie’s efforts — the walls still are closing in on the Duttons. The show has said that selling some of the land is inevitable, but hopefully whatever they end up selling (if they sell) is given to Rainwater and the reservation or perhaps made into a national park. Speaking of Rainwater, why does he have so little to do this season? He seems primed to compromise with the Duttons after an entire series of fighting to get the land that once belonged to his people back. That leads us to our next and final question... In 1883 , Spotted Eagle ( Graham Greene ) told James Dutton ( Tim McGraw ) that his people would rise up and regain control of the Yellowstone ranch’s land in seven generations. Earlier on Yellowstone , Kayce said he saw “the end of us” in a vision and, in Season 5 Part 2, added that that “end” will be a choice. Kayce told Tate ( Brecken Merrill ) that if it’s his dream to run the ranch one day, he would make the ranch his life to preserve it for his son. But Tate more so envisions living a simpler life on the family’s land while someone else runs it, although he still wants to keep the land in the family. Every Yellowstone spinoff has questioned if the Duttons can maintain control of the ranch’s land. If Spotted Eagle’s prophecy wasn’t meant to be a true foreshadowing for the Dutton’s fate and Yellowstone ‘s ending, then it would just be a pointless throwaway line. The 1883 prophecy and Kayce’s vision would easily combine by having Tate inherit the ranch. Kayce knows that his son doesn’t fully desire running the family business himself, and perhaps knowing that but having him inherit the ranch anyway is the choice the vision foresaw. Our ideal Yellowstone ending is the indigenous people getting their land back. Perhaps Tate will inherit it and then give it to his community on the reservation while still living on the grounds, bringing everything full circle. This would open things up to keep the current ranchers employed for a while longer as well (their fates are also still up in the air as control of the ranch hangs in the balance). Do you have other burning questions? Let us know in the comments, below. 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By JUAN A. LOZANO, Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — An elaborate parody appears to be behind an effort to resurrect Enron, the Houston-based energy company that exemplified the worst in American corporate fraud and greed after it went bankrupt in 2001. If its return is comedic, some former employees who lost everything in Enron’s collapse aren’t laughing. “It’s a pretty sick joke and it disparages the people that did work there. And why would you want to even bring it back up again?” said former Enron employee Diana Peters, who represented workers in the company’s bankruptcy proceedings. Here’s what to know about the history of Enron and the purported effort to bring it back. Once the nation’s seventh-largest company, Enron filed for bankruptcy protection on Dec. 2, 2001, after years of accounting tricks could no longer hide billions of dollars in debt or make failing ventures appear profitable. The energy company’s collapse put more than 5,000 people out of work, wiped out more than $2 billion in employee pensions and rendered $60 billion in Enron stock worthless. Its aftershocks were felt throughout the energy sector. Twenty-four Enron executives , including former CEO Jeffrey Skilling , were eventually convicted for their roles in the fraud. Enron founder Ken Lay’s convictions were vacated after he died of heart disease following his 2006 trial. On Monday — the 23rd anniversary of the bankruptcy filing — a company representing itself as Enron announced in a news release that it was relaunching as a “company dedicated to solving the global energy crisis.” It also posted a video on social media, advertised on at least one Houston billboard and a took out a full-page ad in the Houston Chronicle In the minute-long video that was full of generic corporate jargon, the company talks about “growth” and “rebirth.” It ends with the words, “We’re back. Can we talk?” Enron’s new website features a company store, where various items featuring the brand’s tilted “E” logo are for sale, including a $118 hoodie. In an email, company spokesperson Will Chabot said the new Enron was not doing any interviews yet, but that “We’ll have more to share soon.” Signs point to the comeback being a joke. In the “terms of use and conditions of sale” on the company’s website, it says “the information on the website about Enron is First Amendment protected parody, represents performance art, and is for entertainment purposes only.” Documents filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office show that College Company, an Arkansas-based LLC, owns the Enron trademark. The co-founder of College Company is Connor Gaydos, who helped create a joke conspiracy theory that claims all birds are actually surveillance drones for the government. Peters said that since learning about the “relaunch” of Enron, she has spoken with several other former employees and they are also upset by it. She said the apparent stunt was “in poor taste.” “If it’s a joke, it’s rude, extremely rude. And I hope that they realize it and apologize to all of the Enron employees,” Peters said. Peters, who is 74 years old, said she is still working in information technology because “I lost everything in Enron, and so my Social Security doesn’t always take care of things I need done.” “Enron’s downfall taught us critical lessons about corporate ethics, accountability, and the consequences of unchecked ambition. Enron’s legacy was the employees in the trenches. Leave Enron buried,” she said. Follow Juan A. Lozano on X at https://x.com/juanlozano70

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The Latest: Former President Jimmy Carter is dead at age 100Twelve people were injured when a California cop lost control of his motorcycle and crashed into spectators at the annual Palm Springs Festival of Lights Parade on Saturday. Those hurt included a child and and older couple, and witnesses described the grisly scene that unfolded after the officer revved his engine and zoomed along downtown North Palm Canyon Drive around 6 p.m., according to the local Desert Sun newspaper. "We did see him pop a wheelie and all of a sudden he went sideways and skid all the way over there," Veronica Ortiz of Pittsburg, California, said. After losing control, the cop "let go of the bike and it went straight into the crowd," Ortiz said. Viewer video shows the moment a Palm Springs police officer crashes into the crowd at the Festival of Lights Parade. 10 people were injured including the officer. We'll have the latest updates tonight at 10 and 11 pm Details: https://t.co/3vx2ZZTmmI pic.twitter.com/M6y9VMuSFH Byron Ruvalcaba of Riverside, California, said that he raced to the accident scene and that one of the cop's hands appeared to have been severed. Ruvalcaba also said outraged paradegoers were yelling at the officer, who was recorded on cellphone video. He was seen zipping past another motorcycle cop who was riding in a circle in the street. "I was telling my partner here that they were going dumbly fast," Ruvalcaba said. "To my eyes, they were going recklessly. My guess is 25 to 35 miles per hour." Palm Springs Public Information Officer Kitty Alvarado dismissed as "rumor" the allegation that the cop intentionally tried to balance his moving motorcycle on its rear wheel and said the crash would be investigated by the California Highway Patrol , the Desert Sun said. On Sunday afternoon, Palm Springs Police Chief Andy Mills identified the injured officer as Kenneth Merenda and said he was "alert and conversant" when Mills and others visited him in the hospital earlier in the day. "I am happy to report he will likely recover mobility in his hand," Mills wrote on his personal Facebook page. "Kenny expressed deep concern for all of those injured and wishes them a full and speedy recovery." Merenda was hired in March 2018, the Palm Springs Police Department said on Facebook at the time. In addition to Merenda, 11 other people were taken to the hospital and two were still receiving treatment, Mills said. Mills, who earlier said he was "truly sorry" for the crash, said he was "aware of social media accounts containing video of the accident." "There is also video of officers demonstrating traffic control maneuvers," Mills wrote. "All of the video available to us will be analyzed and included in the investigation conducted by the California Highway Patrol. Once I have a full understanding of what took place, what caused the accident, and what we could have done differently, I will report back to the community our findings."Church of Scientology Food Drive Makes Thanksgiving Special for 300 Local Families

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