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Otago Daily Times
18-07-2025
- Science
- Otago Daily Times
On thin ice: Science at the end of the world
A new documentary following climate scientists to Antarctica, explains the physics of our predicament, Tom McKinlay writes. It's cold in Middlemarch, Pat Langhorn reports when she picks up the phone. "There's still ice on the puddles." It's a commonplace enough observation from the Strath Taieri in winter, but the point the professor is making is that the ice has survived late into the day, despite all attentions from the season's admittedly weak sun. Too little energy in it, given the Earth's lean, for it to return the puddle water to liquid. Emeritus Prof Langhorn knows why. "We were walking today, as I said, and there was ice on the puddles, and people were poking it and saying, 'oh look, there's still ice'. And I said, 'well, you know, it takes an awful lot of energy to melt ice, and a lot of energy to freeze it as well'." Physics is the professor's area of expertise. Ice too. Melting a kilogram of ice takes as much energy as it would to raise that same volume of water to 80°C, she explains. A revealing little truth, neatly explaining Middlemarch's slippery winter reality. But in Prof Langhorn's world it also has other more existential implications. For decades now, Prof Langhorn has been studying sea ice. Initially her field work was in the Arctic but, by the second half of the the 1980s, the focus had switched to Antarctica - she's been based at the University of Otago since 1988. At both poles sea ice has been in decline, failing to form or melting more. That's a worry. Because the sun will continue to send its heat and light, that won't change. But if the sea ice isn't there to meet it, all that energy once consumed by the business of melting is going to do other work instead. "The thought that suddenly there isn't that ice there taking up all this energy and instead it goes into heating the ocean is a bit frightening, I think," Prof Langhorn says. The physics lesson about the kilogram of ice, delivered again by Prof Langhorn, appears in a new documentary, Mighty Indeed , which will screen at this year's Doc Edge documentary film festival. It follows a couple of scientists down to the Antarctic, oceanographer Dr Natalie Robinson and microbiology PhD candidate Jacqui Stewart, representatives of a new generation walking in Prof Langhorne's snowy footsteps. There's plenty of frightening in Mighty Indeed and frightened people - the scientists - but it also manages to celebrate both women in science and the extraordinary unimagined benefits of blue-skies research, the science for science's sake that ends up making an outsized contribution to the human project. Prof Langhorne has experienced the highs and lows of both the former and the latter at first hand. The Scotswoman trained in the UK - Aberdeen then Cambridge's Scott Polar Research Institute - and applied to join the British Antarctic Survey back in the '70s. She made it through the first round, but then the penny dropped that "Pat" was not "Patrick" and her application went no further. "I mean, things have changed quite dramatically in the area in which I've been involved, in which I've had my career, not just in terms of the science, and, of course, the sea ice has changed dramatically, and that's a very depressing story, but a more uplifting story is that it's now much easier for any gender to be involved in science. Gender is not the issue that it once was in that line of work," she says. "So now, you know, if you go to a sea ice conference, there will be at least as many women there as men, which is quite a change." Prof Langhorne is also an advocate for the latter - curiosity and blue-skies science. "Yes, definitely. And, I mean, again, from my own personal perspective, younger people, as I got towards the end of my career, thought that I had somehow magically seen there was going to be a problem and gone searching to understand this problem, which, of course, was not the truth at all. You know, I was interested in sea ice, and at the time that I started to look at sea ice, it was really considered very sort of flippant and why would you bother?" It's a demonstration, she says, of the importance of people deciding what they're interested in and doing their very best to follow that line of inquiry. However, it's no longer a very fashionable idea, she says with regret. That's an obstacle for her young colleagues. "Blue-skies research is really important, because often it's by exploring things that we don't know that we find out things that we didn't know we were going to find out. We didn't know we didn't know them." She has observed the building expectation that science should always be at the service of some calculable, bankable output - should be innovating towards a particular application. "That's just not going to get you the best science," she says. "You can't innovate by thinking, 'well, this morning I'm going to get up and be innovative'. It's not usually the way it goes. So, yeah, I think exploration is really important." Prof Langhorne can't remember the moment when her physicist's "flippant" interest in sea ice became climate science and vitally important to the future of civilisation as we know it. Indeed, back when she started, if anyone outside the academy was giving sea ice any thought at all, it was likely to be as an impediment to drilling for oil. Not that fossil fuel was ever part of her interest. And even Prof Langhorne's first trip to the southern continent had a focus on relatively quotidian matters - on ice as a platform for vehicles and for aircraft to land on. "So there was a fairly gradual transition, I would say, from thinking about it in terms of 'here is something that's an impediment that we need to move in order to get at the oil that's inconveniently underneath the sea ice', to, goodness me, 'this sea ice is really, really important to climate, and we need to understand why it's disappearing'." By the mid-1990s the interest was squarely on the interaction between ice and ocean and what a warming ocean would mean for the sea ice. There are lots of reasons to care about sea ice. It reflects sunlight back into space, preventing it heating the dark ocean below. It protects the Antarctic's ice sheets and shelves from the action of the ocean - holding back sea level rise - and it plays a vital role in overturning circulation, the ocean currents that have such an important role in regulating the planet's climate, distributing heat from the poles to the equator. In another enlightening lesson in physics, delivered again by Prof Langhorne in Mighty Indeed , we learn the freezing of the sea ice leaves the water below saltier, briny, that salty water sinks and helps drive those planet-spanning currents. "So there's a balancing on the Earth." In recent years, Prof Langhorne's interest has been at the interface between the ocean and the sea ice and the problem of measuring sea ice thickness remotely - as drilling holes through the ice in Antarctica's testing conditions is no easy task. "Without knowing how thick it is, you actually don't know how much you have, because, is it a thick slab of butter on your toast, or is it all spread out very thinly? And if you're only looking from above and seeing what the total area is, what the coverage is, then you're not including some of the energy that's tied up with the presence or absence of sea ice, and it's that energy that we really need to care about." It is the extra heat energy stored in the ocean as a result of greenhouse gas-driven planetary heating that is thought to be behind the decline in Antarctic sea ice - both in terms of the temperatures in the ocean and atmospheric influences. Concern has ramped up since 2016, when significant decreases began to be recorded. The consistent trend since has been for less sea ice. The five lowest extents recorded have all been since 2017 and 2025 is thought to be the second consecutive year with a sea ice minimum extent below 2 million km2. It's change on an epic scale: the sea ice ring around the frozen continent covers an area twice the size of Australia. So going back to Prof Langhorne's kilogram of ice example, it's possible - or possibly impossible - to understand just how much energy is bound up in these processes. Sobering, the professor says. As long as it's tied up in the sea ice, keeping the sea surface close to 0°C, it's not allowing our temperatures to go bananas, she says. We've already seen a little of what it could mean. "There are bigger storms than there used to be and that, unfortunately, that's going to be the main change for us, I think, apart from some sea level rise. The main change is just going to be storm events that get bigger and bigger and bigger and wilder and wilder because all that energy has been sucked out of the ocean and comes to us in storms and flooding events and droughts." The physicist strikes a note of optimism in the documentary, asserting that in her discipline problems are tractable. Solutions can be found. However, she concedes that to a very significant extent science has now done its work as far as climate change is concerned. The problem is now clear and we know what the solutions are. What's left is us. "I think if we're talking about the problem, in inverted commas, of climate change, and how to mitigate some of the less wanted effects of climate change, then I think the problem is that human beings are in the system too," she says. "The problem is that it's not a problem in physics; it's a problem in human behaviour, which is much more unpredictable, and much less satisfactory in my view." But she leans into the belief that human beings are wired for hope and optimism, equipped with an almost indefatigable ability to get up every morning confident that today can be better than yesterday. "I think that it takes quite a lot to completely dampen people's enthusiasm for life, actually." That's not to say Prof Langhorne hasn't had her moments. "When I retired, I thought about what I could do that would be best for the world and the conclusion I quickly came to was that the best thing I could do was die. It would be honestly the best thing I could do," she says. "But I just didn't really want to do that." Among the challenges we face, she says, is to identify the changes we regard as acceptable, that preserve the life we want to have, while at the same time making the planet a better place. "But, I mean, that's all sounding very highfalutin. I think that's what most people do, most days, is make judgements like that." Again, Prof Langhorne sees our present as a more difficult environment than she had to navigate. Young people have more decisions to make than she did, she says. A more difficult future to confront. "Climate change is physics. And if it is not going to be all right, it is not going to be all right." Dr Robinson, the oceanographer and next generation sea ice researcher, speaks to that in the documentary, saying she feels like she knows too much and shares her concern for how she talks about climate change around her young children. She is losing sleep over it. Her children will need different skills for the future they are inheriting, the climate legacy they will inherit, she says. Resilience and an ability to meet challenges among them. She tries not to think about it too much. PhD candidate Jacqui Stewart calls working in the field a mental health battle. "Because ... you know." Sometime it gets too much, she says. She has decided not to have children. For her the ice is already too thin. The film • Mighty Indeed screens as part of the Doc Edge film festival online from July 28 to August 24. •
Otago Daily Times
11-07-2025
- Science
- Otago Daily Times
Science at the end of the world
A new documentary following climate scientists to Antarctica, explains the physics of our predicament, Tom McKinlay writes. It's cold in Middlemarch, Pat Langhorn reports when she picks up the phone. "There's still ice on the puddles." It's a commonplace enough observation from the Strath Taieri in winter, but the point the professor is making is that the ice has survived late into the day, despite all attentions from the season's admittedly weak sun. Too little energy in it, given the Earth's lean, for it to return the puddle water to liquid. Emeritus Prof Langhorn knows why. "We were walking today, as I said, and there was ice on the puddles, and people were poking it and saying, 'oh look, there's still ice'. And I said, 'well, you know, it takes an awful lot of energy to melt ice, and a lot of energy to freeze it as well'." Physics is the professor's area of expertise. Ice too. Melting a kilogram of ice takes as much energy as it would to raise that same volume of water to 80°C, she explains. A revealing little truth, neatly explaining Middlemarch's slippery winter reality. But in Prof Langhorn's world it also has other more existential implications. For decades now, Prof Langhorn has been studying sea ice. Initially her field work was in the Arctic but, by the second half of the the 1980s, the focus had switched to Antarctica — she's been based at the University of Otago since 1988. At both poles sea ice has been in decline, failing to form or melting more. That's a worry. Because the sun will continue to send its heat and light, that won't change. But if the sea ice isn't there to meet it, all that energy once consumed by the business of melting is going to do other work instead. "The thought that suddenly there isn't that ice there taking up all this energy and instead it goes into heating the ocean is a bit frightening, I think," Prof Langhorn says. The physics lesson about the kilogram of ice, delivered again by Prof Langhorn, appears in a new documentary, Mighty Indeed , which will screen at this year's Doc Edge documentary film festival. It follows a couple of scientists down to the Antarctic, oceanographer Dr Natalie Robinson and microbiology PhD candidate Jacqui Stewart, representatives of a new generation walking in Prof Langhorne's snowy footsteps. There's plenty of frightening in Mighty Indeed and frightened people — the scientists — but it also manages to celebrate both women in science and the extraordinary unimagined benefits of blue-skies research, the science for science's sake that ends up making an outsized contribution to the human project. Prof Langhorne has experienced the highs and lows of both the former and the latter at first hand. The Scotswoman trained in the UK — Aberdeen then Cambridge's Scott Polar Research Institute — and applied to join the British Antarctic Survey back in the '70s. She made it through the first round, but then the penny dropped that "Pat" was not "Patrick" and her application went no further. "I mean, things have changed quite dramatically in the area in which I've been involved, in which I've had my career, not just in terms of the science, and, of course, the sea ice has changed dramatically, and that's a very depressing story, but a more uplifting story is that it's now much easier for any gender to be involved in science. Gender is not the issue that it once was in that line of work," she says. "So now, you know, if you go to a sea ice conference, there will be at least as many women there as men, which is quite a change." Prof Langhorne is also an advocate for the latter — curiosity and blue-skies science. "Yes, definitely. And, I mean, again, from my own personal perspective, younger people, as I got towards the end of my career, thought that I had somehow magically seen there was going to be a problem and gone searching to understand this problem, which, of course, was not the truth at all. You know, I was interested in sea ice, and at the time that I started to look at sea ice, it was really considered very sort of flippant and why would you bother?" It's a demonstration, she says, of the importance of people deciding what they're interested in and doing their very best to follow that line of inquiry. However, it's no longer a very fashionable idea, she says with regret. That's an obstacle for her young colleagues. "Blue-skies research is really important, because often it's by exploring things that we don't know that we find out things that we didn't know we were going to find out. We didn't know we didn't know them." She has observed the building expectation that science should always be at the service of some calculable, bankable output — should be innovating towards a particular application. "That's just not going to get you the best science," she says. "You can't innovate by thinking, 'well, this morning I'm going to get up and be innovative'. It's not usually the way it goes. So, yeah, I think exploration is really important." Prof Langhorne can't remember the moment when her physicist's "flippant" interest in sea ice became climate science and vitally important to the future of civilisation as we know it. Indeed, back when she started, if anyone outside the academy was giving sea ice any thought at all, it was likely to be as an impediment to drilling for oil. Not that fossil fuel was ever part of her interest. And even Prof Langhorne's first trip to the southern continent had a focus on relatively quotidian matters — on ice as a platform for vehicles and for aircraft to land on. "So there was a fairly gradual transition, I would say, from thinking about it in terms of 'here is something that's an impediment that we need to move in order to get at the oil that's inconveniently underneath the sea ice', to, goodness me, 'this sea ice is really, really important to climate, and we need to understand why it's disappearing'." By the mid-1990s the interest was squarely on the interaction between ice and ocean and what a warming ocean would mean for the sea ice. There are lots of reasons to care about sea ice. It reflects sunlight back into space, preventing it heating the dark ocean below. It protects the Antarctic's ice sheets and shelves from the action of the ocean — holding back sea level rise — and it plays a vital role in overturning circulation, the ocean currents that have such an important role in regulating the planet's climate, distributing heat from the poles to the equator. In another enlightening lesson in physics, delivered again by Prof Langhorne in Mighty Indeed , we learn the freezing of the sea ice leaves the water below saltier, briny, that salty water sinks and helps drive those planet-spanning currents. "So there's a balancing on the Earth." In recent years, Prof Langhorne's interest has been at the interface between the ocean and the sea ice and the problem of measuring sea ice thickness remotely — as drilling holes through the ice in Antarctica's testing conditions is no easy task. "Without knowing how thick it is, you actually don't know how much you have, because, is it a thick slab of butter on your toast, or is it all spread out very thinly? And if you're only looking from above and seeing what the total area is, what the coverage is, then you're not including some of the energy that's tied up with the presence or absence of sea ice, and it's that energy that we really need to care about." It is the extra heat energy stored in the ocean as a result of greenhouse gas-driven planetary heating that is thought to be behind the decline in Antarctic sea ice — both in terms of the temperatures in the ocean and atmospheric influences. Concern has ramped up since 2016, when significant decreases began to be recorded. The consistent trend since has been for less sea ice. The five lowest extents recorded have all been since 2017 and 2025 is thought to be the second consecutive year with a sea ice minimum extent below 2 million km2. It's change on an epic scale: the sea ice ring around the frozen continent covers an area twice the size of Australia. So going back to Prof Langhorne's kilogram of ice example, it's possible — or possibly impossible — to understand just how much energy is bound up in these processes. Sobering, the professor says. As long as it's tied up in the sea ice, keeping the sea surface close to 0°C, it's not allowing our temperatures to go bananas, she says. We've already seen a little of what it could mean. "There are bigger storms than there used to be and that, unfortunately, that's going to be the main change for us, I think, apart from some sea level rise. The main change is just going to be storm events that get bigger and bigger and bigger and wilder and wilder because all that energy has been sucked out of the ocean and comes to us in storms and flooding events and droughts." The physicist strikes a note of optimism in the documentary, asserting that in her discipline problems are tractable. Solutions can be found. However, she concedes that to a very significant extent science has now done its work as far as climate change is concerned. The problem is now clear and we know what the solutions are. What's left is us. "I think if we're talking about the problem, in inverted commas, of climate change, and how to mitigate some of the less wanted effects of climate change, then I think the problem is that human beings are in the system too," she says. "The problem is that it's not a problem in physics; it's a problem in human behaviour, which is much more unpredictable, and much less satisfactory in my view." But she leans into the belief that human beings are wired for hope and optimism, equipped with an almost indefatigable ability to get up every morning confident that today can be better than yesterday. "I think that it takes quite a lot to completely dampen people's enthusiasm for life, actually." That's not to say Prof Langhorne hasn't had her moments. "When I retired, I thought about what I could do that would be best for the world and the conclusion I quickly came to was that the best thing I could do was die. It would be honestly the best thing I could do," she says. "But I just didn't really want to do that." Among the challenges we face, she says, is to identify the changes we regard as acceptable, that preserve the life we want to have, while at the same time making the planet a better place. "But, I mean, that's all sounding very highfalutin. I think that's what most people do, most days, is make judgements like that." Again, Prof Langhorne sees our present as a more difficult environment than she had to navigate. Young people have more decisions to make than she did, she says. A more difficult future to confront. "Climate change is physics. And if it is not going to be all right, it is not going to be all right." Dr Robinson, the oceanographer and next generation sea ice researcher, speaks to that in the documentary, saying she feels like she knows too much and shares her concern for how she talks about climate change around her young children. She is losing sleep over it. Her children will need different skills for the future they are inheriting, the climate legacy they will inherit, she says. Resilience and an ability to meet challenges among them. She tries not to think about it too much. PhD candidate Jacqui Stewart calls working in the field a mental health battle. "Because ... you know." Sometime it gets too much, she says. She has decided not to have children. For her the ice is already too thin. The film • Mighty Indeed screens as part of the Doc Edge film festival online from July 28 to August 24. •
Yahoo
04-07-2025
- Yahoo
Wrongly convicted of murder, Baltimore man receives $2.85 million and an apology
BALTIMORE — A man who spent 27 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit has been awarded $2.85 million — and a heartfelt apology — by state officials. 'There are no words to express how deeply sorry we are for what was taken from you and for the failure of our justice system,' Lt. Gov. Aruna K. Miller said Wednesday while presiding over a Maryland Board of Public Works meeting. 'While no amount of money can erase the injustice you faced or the time that was stolen from you, I hope that this action by this board provides meaningful support, healing and comfort as you step into the next chapter of your life.' The board approved a payment of $2,748,795 to Langhorne for wrongful confinement under the Walter Lomax Act plus $4,692.50 in attorneys' fees, according to public records. In addition, he was awarded $99,720 in housing benefits. Langhorne was convicted in February, 1996 and sentenced to life in prison for the murder of 24-year-old Laurence A. Jones in the 1400 block of Bank Street. He was 23 when he was arrested and spent the next 9,870 days behind bars, Miller said. He steadfastly maintained his innocence and in 2019, asked the state to review his case. Five years later, Baltimore City State's Attorney Ivan Bates moved to vacate his conviction, citing conflicting witness testimonies, a trial witness who recanted, and the failure of former prosecutors to disclose information about other potential suspects. Miller said that during a meeting in her office, Langhorne told her that he had been 'traumatized' twice: first for being incarcerated for a crime he didn't commit, and then when he was abruptly released from prison and thrust into a new life for which he was wholly unprepared. 'I've been home for almost six months and in that time I've suffered greatly,' Langhorne told the board. 'There's not a lot of resources for people in our situation. We come home different from people who are generally released. We're just let out. They give you $22 a month. There's no savings. There's no credit. Of course, you want to go home. You don't want to stay in just because you have no resources. You decide you'll figure it out.' He succeeded, but it wasn't easy. For instance, he has diabetes and told the board he 'went through every resource I could think of just to get medical insurance. Had I not had a friend in that field, I probably still wouldn't have it.' But Langhorne said he is focusing his anger on the individuals who harmed him rather than against society at large. 'I am angry at those who violated their trust as public servants,' he said. 'They went above and beyond to ruin a man's life, a father's life, just to obtain a conviction. But to be angry overall serves no purpose. That's something you have to let go.' And for him, part of that process involves speaking out about the pressures exonerees are facing. 'I need the public to understand that it's not just about being released,' he said. 'I know of people who were exonerated for crimes they didn't commit who came home and found themselves in such a dire situation that now they're back in prison for crimes they actually did commit. 'That in itself is a travesty. It is a double loss.' --------------
Yahoo
04-07-2025
- Yahoo
Wrongly convicted of murder, Baltimore man receives $2.85M and an apology
A man who spent 27 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit has been awarded $2.85 million — and a heartfelt apology — by state officials. 'There are no words to express how deeply sorry we are for what was taken from you and for the failure of our justice system,' Lt. Gov. Aruna K. Miller said Wednesday while presiding over a Maryland Board of Public Works meeting. 'While no amount of money can erase the injustice you faced or the time that was stolen from you, I hope that this action by this board provides meaningful support, healing and comfort as you step into the next chapter of your life.' The board approved a payment of $2,748,795 to Langhorne for wrongful confinement under the Walter Lomax Act plus $4,692.50 in attorneys' fees, according to public records. In addition, he was awarded $99,720 in housing benefits. Langhorne was convicted in February, 1996 and sentenced to life in prison for the murder of 24-year-old Laurence A. Jones in the 1400 block of Bank Street. He was 23 when he was arrested and spent the next 9,870 days behind bars, Miller said. He steadfastly maintained his innocence and in 2019, asked the state to review his case. Five years later, Baltimore City State's Attorney Ivan Bates moved to vacate his conviction, citing conflicting witness testimonies, a trial witness who recanted, and the failure of former prosecutors to disclose information about other potential suspects. Miller said that during a meeting in her office, Langhorne told her that he had been 'traumatized' twice: first for being incarcerated for a crime he didn't commit, and then when he was abruptly released from prison and thrust into a new life for which he was wholly unprepared. 'I've been home for almost six months and in that time I've suffered greatly,' Langhorne told the board. 'There's not a lot of resources for people in our situation. We come home different from people who are generally released. We're just let out. They give you $22 a month. There's no savings. There's no credit. Of course, you want to go home. You don't want to stay in just because you have no resources. You decide you'll figure it out.' He succeeded, but it wasn't easy. For instance, he has diabetes and told the board he 'went through every resource I could think of just to get medical insurance. Had I not had a friend in that field, I probably still wouldn't have it.' But Langhorne said he is focusing his anger on the individuals who harmed him rather than against society at large. 'I am angry at those who violated their trust as public servants,' he said. 'They went above and beyond to ruin a man's life, a father's life, just to obtain a conviction. But to be angry overall serves no purpose. That's something you have to let go.' And for him, part of that process involves speaking out about the pressures exonerees are facing. 'I need the public to understand that it's not just about being released,' he said. 'I know of people who were exonerated for crimes they didn't commit who came home and found themselves in such a dire situation that now they're back in prison for crimes they actually did commit. 'That in itself is a travesty. It is a double loss.' Have a news tip? Contact Mary Carole McCauley at mmccauley@ 1410332-6704 and
Associated Press
30-06-2025
- Business
- Associated Press
TEN Holdings, Inc. Announces Appointment of New Chief Financial Officer
LANGHORNE, Pa., June 30, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- TEN Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: XHLD) ('TEN Holdings' or the 'Company'), a provider of event planning, production, and broadcasting services, today announced the appointment of Virgilio D. Torres as Chief Financial Officer, effective June 30, 2025. Mr. Torres is an accomplished corporate finance professional with experience leading organizations through mergers and acquisitions, capital raises, and the execution of complex financial strategies. He has managed financial operations across both public and private companies. Most recently, he served as Vice President of Finance at Obsess Inc., where he led the company's financial strategy and oversaw various transactions, including debt financing and a successful acquisition by a strategic buyer. Among other things, Mr. Torres, developed Obsess Inc.'s revenue recognition framework and financial models, launched an internal accounts payable system, and drafted the company's accounting memos. In addition, he oversaw all accounting functions to ensure compliance with GAAP and external audit standards, leading the organization through multiple independent audits. Before joining Obsess Inc., Mr. Torres served as Senior Manager of Corporate Finance and Strategy at Exactera LLC, where he was responsible for managing the merger and acquisition pipeline and capital raising efforts. He also developed and managed the organization's annual budget and quarterly forecasts. Prior to his work in corporate finance, Mr. Torres spent over 5 years in investment banking where he originated, structured and executed complex transactions, including high yield and investment grade bonds to facilitate M&A, corporate development, dividend recapitalization, and refinancings. 'We are pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Torres to Chief Financial Officer of our Company and I am confident that his background and experience in accounting operations, corporate finance, capital raising, and mergers and acquisitions will give us the knowledge and skillset that will assist our Company in building a solid relationship and reputation with banking institutions and the investment community,' commented Randy Jones, Chief Executive Officer of TEN Holdings, Inc. 'As we continue to execute on our company strategy, I am confident that we have found a qualified individual that can help us build a financial foundation and assist with our capital raising and future acquisition efforts to enhance our value and make well-informed financial and operations decisions to drive shareholder wealth.' 'I am very excited about the opportunity to join TEN Holdings, Inc. as the new Chief Financial Officer. I look forward to working with the rest of the management team to build upon the success of the Company and to utilize my skills and background in capital raising, financial operations, and mergers and acquisitions, to successfully execute on the business and financial strategy of the organization,' stated Virgilio D. Torres, Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Torres graduated from Pace University in New York City with a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance and a minor in Economics and Statistics. About TEN Holdings, Inc. The Company is a provider of event planning, production, and broadcasting services headquartered in Pennsylvania. The Company mainly produces virtual and hybrid events and physical events. Virtual and hybrid events involve virtual and hybrid event planning, production and broadcasting services, and continuing education services, all of which are supported by the Company's proprietary Xyvid Pro Platform. 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