Well, it is because these people got these properties illegally, like the Detroit Land Bank Authority, through fake ass quiet titles, through fake ass LLCs, mostly in TARP regions with land banks, because they cannot make their multiple mortgage payments, because the banking system is falling internationally like dominoes.
Check out how many are christian businesses shuttering.
They all run those tiny humans trust fund schemes through lots of christian trafficking tiny humans trust funds like Catholic Charities through the Archdiocese of Detroit.
Stealin' The Children, Land & Votes - The Michigan Health Endowment Fund, Detroit Land Bank Authority & Detroit Economic Club
Michigan Medicaid Fraud To Be Discussed In Appropriations
I wonder what Gretchen Whitmer has to say about this, considering the fact that Blue Cross Blue Shield has the best financial interests in the children.Barfly Ventures helping feed the hungry
The Will Play For Food Foundation was created specifically to assist and enable communities to End Childhood Hunger, by creating Awareness of hunger issues, help to create and share Solutions to hunger, and to connect recipients, donors, orgs, and businesses to achieve measurable results.
They are associated with St. Jude's Children's Hospital through the
Children's Hospital Miracle Network
&
Feeding America
Summary for: WILL PLAY FOR FOOD FOUNDATION
The name of the DOMESTIC NONPROFIT CORPORATION: WILL PLAY FOR FOOD FOUNDATION
Entity type: DOMESTIC NONPROFIT CORPORATION
Identification Number: 800941599 Old ID Number: 71382X
Date of Incorporation in Michigan: 07/10/2013
Purpose:
Term: Perpetual
Most Recent Annual Report: 2018 Most Recent Annual Report with Officers & Directors: 2018
The name and address of the Resident Agent:
Resident Agent Name: DALE RIETBERG
Street Address: 333 BRIDGE ST NW
Apt/Suite/Other:
City: GRAND RAPIDS State: MI Zip Code: 49504
Registered Office Mailing address:
P.O. Box or Street Address: PO BOX 352
Apt/Suite/Other:
City: GRAND RAPIDS State: MI Zip Code: 49501
The Officers and Directors of the Corporation:
Title Name Address
PRESIDENT JASON J. RIGGS 211 W. EXCHANGE ST. #34 SPRING LAKE, MI 49456 USA
TREASURER JASON J. RIGGS 211 W. EXCHANGE ST. #34 SPRING LAKE, MI 49456 USA
SECRETARY JASON J. RIGGS 211 W. EXCHANGE ST. #34 SPRING LAKE, MI 49456 USA
DIRECTOR JASON J. RIGGS 211 W. EXCHANGE ST. #34 SPRING LAKE, MI 49456 USA
DIRECTOR AYDEN RIGGS 211 W. EXCHANGE ST. #34 SPRING LAKE, MI 49456 USA
DIRECTOR ALEC RIGGS 211 W. EXCHANGE ST. #34 SPRING LAKE, MI 49456 USA
Act Formed Under: 162-1982 Nonprofit Corporation Act
The corporation is formed on a Membership basis.
Written Consent
Jay Riggs, the CEO for Will Play For Food, the tiny humans trust fund for Barfly Ventures, is partnered with JRG Partners, but it is inactive.
ID Number: 801537162
Summary for: BARFLY VENTURES, LLC
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Entity type: DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY
Identification Number: 801537162 Old ID Number: D3898Q
Date of Organization in Michigan: 02/01/2010
Purpose: All Purpose Clause
Term: Perpetual
The name and address of the Resident Agent:
Resident Agent Name: MARK A SELLERS III
Street Address: 35 OAKES ST SW STE 400
Apt/Suite/Other:
City: GRAND RAPIDS State: MI Zip Code: 49503
Registered Office Mailing address:
P.O. Box or Street Address:
Apt/Suite/Other:
City: State: Zip Code:
Act Formed Under: 023-1993 Michigan Limited Liability Company Act
He has UCC liens.
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It seems his liens lapsed due to the fact that he was probably busted doing that Corporate Shape Shifter thing, they like to do, all the time, or rather, stealin' the children, land & vote, more intuitively recognized in the legal parlay as gerrymandering.
His credit shot and he got busted, that is why he is filing for bankruptcy.
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HopCat, BarFly Ventures file for bankruptcy
GRAND RAPIDS, MI — Barfly Ventures, the parent company of HopCat, Stella’s Lounge and Grand Rapids Brewing Co., has filed for bankruptcy to restructure its debt and better position the company for long-term growth.Mark Sellers, the company’s founder and chairmen of its board, said the company’s debt, which totals more than $30 million, has become untenable because of the coronavirus pandemic, which has shuttered dine-in service for bars and restaurants across the state.
“We were doing okay. We were paying our bills,” Sellers said. “And then COVID hit, and it just sent us over a cliff.”
Despite the filing, a press release issued by the company says it plans to reopen its Michigan restaurants on June 13, and that HopCat locations in Lincoln, Nebraska, and Indianapolis, Indiana, are expected to reopen on June 22. BarFly’s other out-of-state HopCat locations will be opening in phases with dates to be announced soon,” the company said.
“It’s been a rough few months, but we’re excited to welcome our team and local community members back into our restaurants,” Sellers said. “We’re following all CDC guidelines and taking extra precautions to ensure the health and safety of our staff and guests.”
Sellers said the bankruptcy won’t affect day-to-day operations at BarFly’s restaurants.
“From a customer standpoint, it will be no different,” he said. “From a company standpoint, we’ll have more flexibility to grow again in a smart way.”
BarFly is best known for HopCat, the popular restaurant and craft beer bar that started in Grand Rapids in 2008 and expanded rapidly over the past six years.
The first HopCat restaurant outside of Grand Rapids opened in East Lansing in August 2013. The following year, another location opened in Indianapolis, Indiana. Sellers said 14 additional HopCats, including a location in Port St. Lucie, Florida, were opened from August 2014 and 2019.
At its peak, there were 17 HopCats, Sellers said. Today, there are 14, half of which are in Michigan.
Sellers said his company financed the expansion through debt, so it could grow more quickly, rather than relying on “cash flow.” He said the strategy was working fine until some HopCat locations, primarily Chicago, Port St. Lucie and Chicago, started losing money. Those locations have since closed.
“Then when COVID hit, that just put it over the edge,” he said. “We were servicing the debt up until COVID.”
HopCat briefly attempted to offer takeout service after Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on March 16 temporarily suspended dine-in service at Michigan bars and restaurants to reduce spread of the coronavirus. However, the company was losing money in the process, and Sellers decided to close his restaurants to conserve cash and wait-out the pandemic.
He said there was a time in March when he wasn’t sure he was ever going to be able to reopen HopCat. He said he’s hopeful that Hopcat can recover from this, but that the coronavirus has presented a very challenging situation for bars and restaurants.
“My personal net worth is completely decimated by this,” he said. “My stock in BarFly is going to be worthless.”
He added, “This is personally just a very bad situation for me. I just want to see the company that I started survive. That’s really all I care about right now.”
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Grand Rapids bar owner Mark Sellers is man behind 'Bodies Revealed' and Titanic remains
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GRAND RAPIDS — A Chicago hedge fund, a nasty proxy battle, a string of downtown pubs, human remains, the future of the Titanic — mix them together and it’s a recipe for a pulp novel.
As it turns out, they're components of a nonfiction corporate epic whose latest chapter is being written as the Bodies Revealed exhibit opens at the Public Museum of Grand Rapids.
Once upon a time Mark Sellers — who with his wife co-owns the downtown Grand Rapids bars Hopcat, Stella's Lounge and Viceroy — made a risky investment in Premier Exhibitions Inc., which owns the Bodies exhibit that features plasticized human remains.
Today the 42-year-old West Michigan native is chairman of the board of the publicly held company, a title he never wanted.
Three years ago, Atlanta-based Premier was riding high on the success of the sometimes controversial Bodies Revealed exhibit of preserved human bodies and body parts.
The company also had a valuable collection of items from the Titanic shipwreck, along with what it said were exclusive salvage rights to the famed ocean liner.
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| Grand Rapids Public Museum - Bodies "It takes a village, then pillages its most precious treasures." Teach them young to carry on the christian traditions in the residuals of the peculiar institution in modern day human trafficking, for that is the body of a youth, one of those R&D "whoops" tiny humans lab rats. |
After nearly a decade, Bodies Revealed has returned to the GRPM. This exhibition features real, whole and partial body specimens that have been preserved through an innovative process, giving visitors the opportunity to view the complexity of their own organs and systems like never before.
Sponsored By:
Ambassador
Patron
Sustainer
- BDO
- Chris & Kim Branoff
- David & Amy Leonard
- Media Place Partners
- Williams Kitchen & Bath
At the time, Sellers also was riding high, managing more than $300 million in assets for clients nationwide via his Chicago-based Sellers Capital Management Inc.
Sellers’ strategy for his hedge fund was simple: Bet big on carefully researched, undervalued companies and reap big profits for himself and his investors.
Sellers attended an investment conference and heard an analyst characterize Premier as a favorite stock in 2007.
“At that time the stock was about $11 a share,” he said. “I did my own research, thought it seemed like a good deal and started to take a position in my fund, buying at $10 or $11.”
It was around that time that Sellers, a 1986 East Kentwood High School graduate, and his wife, Michele, had moved back to Grand Rapids — the hometown his younger self had sworn off.
“I never wanted to come back here,” he said. “In fact, I told myself I never would come back here. But then my wife and I looked at houses and real estate prices and the quality of life here, and it’s just a really nice, nice place.”
Trouble revealed
Premier’s stock did well at first, trading above $17 in July 2007.
Then a series of poor quarterly earnings reports started a precipitous decline. Sellers continued buying all the way down — $8 a share, $5 a share, then $2.
“At $1.98 we bought a ton,” he said. “We owned about 16 percent of the company by the end of 2008.”
That's when he decided to take action. Sellers had accumulated enough stock to launch an effort to oust management, whom he said took a promising company to the brink of bankruptcy.
On Nov. 6, 2008, Sellers issued a press release demanding the resignation of Premier’s CEO Arnie Geller, lambasting him for taking $1.2 million in compensation even as the shareholders saw their investment values plunge.
When Geller refused, a proxy battle erupted with Sellers’ firm nominating its own slate of directors in what amounted to a hostile takeover.
By January 2009, Sellers decisively won the battle, was appointed as unpaid, non-executive chairman and fired Geller.
“The company would have almost certainly had to file bankruptcy back in January or February of 2009 if we hadn’t taken control,” said Chris Davino, the CEO and turnaround specialist who took the helm of the company after the proxy fight.
Not long after the takeover, Sellers Capital helped pump another $12 million into the company while working with the new management team to restructure. Among the first things to go: an ill-conceived $20 million deal for Premier to invest in a permanent Times Square exhibition space in New York City.
“In retrospect, I wish I hadn’t ever gotten involved in the company,” Sellers said. “If I can get out of it and break even or better, I’d have to say that’s a big victory.”
But it’s not that simple. At Friday’s closing price, $1.92, Premier’s market capitalization was about $89 million — far less than the appraised value of its Titanic holdings, which Sellers said is more than $145 million. Sellers said his fund’s investment in Premier is almost at break even.
But liquidating all that stock — the rough equivalent of about a year’s worth of trading volume — isn’t an option, since it would drive the price lower.
Key to Premier’s future and Sellers’ eventual exit from the company: monetize the Titanic.
With the 100th anniversary of the storied liner’s 1912 sinking coming up, timing is key. A well-publicized expedition to the wreck site in August helped stoke interest. A federal court ruling in August also provided some assurance that Premier couldn’t simply be stripped of its salvage rights to Titanic without a payment of about $110 million from the U.S. government.
“My plan is to make sure that the Titanic assets are well taken care of,” he said. “Whether they are held by Premier or held by someone else, I feel as though it’s almost a larger duty that I have. It’s an international treasure. I don’t want someone to piece them out and sell them on eBay or put them in a private collection never to be seen again by the general public.
“So I’m going to stay involved until there is some certainty about what is going to happen with those Titanic assets.”
Today, Sellers Capital controls 46 percent of Premier shares, representing the hedge fund’s only current investments. Once the Premier investment is sold off — Sellers makes no bones that selling the stock at a profit is his end game — Sellers Capital will cease to exist.
Mark and Michele Sellers have moved on to making bets of a different kind.
Shortly after moving back to Grand Rapids, he read a story in The Press about the Sierra Room closing in downtown Grand Rapids. Within a week, he slapped down a non-refundable $10,000 deposit on the space.
His wife, a self-described lover of bar culture, was opposed at first.
“She was against it, but I didn’t want to be one of those people who, 10 years later, regretted not trying,” he said.
They opened Hopcat, a craft-beer lover’s mecca with its 48 taps and in-house brewery, at 25 Ionia Ave. SW in early 2008.
“The day we opened, we had a line down the street, and it’s been awesome,” he said. “We never slowed down.”
Since then, Hopcat has been voted one of the world’s best beer bars. The couple also were the lead investors in Old Town Social, a popular Chicago pub opened in 2009.
Earlier this year, the Sellerses opened Stella's Lounge and The Viceroy at 53 Commerce Ave. SW. In October, they also took over management of McFadden's Restaurant and Pub, 58 Ionia Ave. SW. Early next year, they will open Pyramid Scheme, a music venue and bar, in partnership with fellow bar owners Jeff and Tami VandenBerg at 68 Commerce Ave. SW.
Mark Sellers said he looks forward to the day when the bars are the only businesses he needs to manage.
“The restaurant-bar business is a lot more fun,” he said, sitting down for lunch last week at Hopcat. “It’s not the day-to-day volatility and stress of managing other peoples’ money. This seems like a walk in the park to me after doing that.”
Despite what one might think, Sellers said his position as chairman had nothing to do with Premier’s Bodies Revealed exhibition now under way in Grand Rapids.
“Just a weird coincidence,” he said. “I knew before they booked it that they were talking to the Grand Rapids museum; but I don’t really get involved in the day-to-day stuff like that.”
Still, he’s happy to see a piece of a company he essentially controls exhibit in his hometown.
“It’s an excellent exhibit, and I’m happy to be associated with it,” he said. “I’m proud it’s here. It’s pretty neat.”
As for whether Premier’s Titanic exhibit will ever surface in Grand Rapids, Sellers said he put in a good word, but that’s not his decision to make.
“I know the museum is trying to bring Titanic to Grand Rapids in 2012, but I’m not sure if they’ve been able to strike a deal on that or not,” he said.
Then, this happened....
Bodies dipped in plastic, hundreds of human organs coming to Grand Rapids
A man taking look at a piece that's a part of the "Bodies Revealed" exhibition toured by Premier Exhibitions, Inc. The exhibition will open at the Grand Rapids Public Museum on November 16, 2019.A popular traveling exhibit that uses real human bodies dipped in plastic to teach anatomy and life science is returning to Michigan this fall.
The "Bodies Revealed" exhibit, which opens at the Grand Rapids Public Museum on Nov. 16, features preserved "real, whole and partial body specimens." Tickets are expected to go on sale in the fall.
It will be the first time the exhibit has returned to Grand Rapids in nearly a decade.
Kate Kocienski, the vice president of marketing and public relations at the museum, told the Free Press that "Bodies Revealed" is on tour by a company called Premier Exhibitions, Inc and the bodies have been maintained via a "polymer preservation process."
The museum's page for the exhibit said that more than a dozen full human bodies and hundreds of organs will be "respectfully displayed to tell the story of the miraculous systems at work within each of us."
"Bodies Revealed allows people to learn about their own bodies and, ultimately, teach how to take better care of one’s own health and make positive lifestyle choices," the site said.The "Bodies Revealed" exhibition will open at the Grand Rapids Public Museum on November 16, 2019.
The museum said people of all ages are welcome to observe the skeletal, muscular, nervous, digestive, respiratory, reproductive and circulatory systems, and added that many of the specimens will be in "vivid athletic poses" that offer an understanding of "everyday motions and activities."
Other body specimens on-site will illustrate that damage that can be caused by habits, like overeating, smoking and lacking exercise, the site said.
In the past, similar displays have generated controversy, as reported by news outlets from around the world — including, the Irish Times, BBC, The New York Times, NPR and more — largely because of questions about how these individuals died and whether or not the bodies were used with consent.
The bodies that will be on display at the Grand Rapids Public Museum in the fall were donated with consent for the remains to be used for medical research, including public education, Kocienski said. She added that the bodies have come from universities in China, primarily from Nanjing Medical University.
This is also not the first time exhibitions like this have come to Michigan museums to drum up interest in science, anatomy and health.
According to the Huffington Post, a traveling exhibit that also featured preserved human bodies, called "Bodies Human," came to the Michigan Science Center in 2012. It was one of the special exhibits promoted as marking the re-opening of the science center, which the Huffington Post reported, was formerly known as the Detroit Science Center and closed in 2011 because of financial issues.
For more information about "Bodies Revealed," coming to Grand Rapids, go to: https://www.grpm.org/bodies/
Welcome to the world of Pro Life Propaganda
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Gunther von Hagens' Plastination Technique
Russians charged over body parts
Body Worlds exhibitionThe exhibition has receive mixed reviews
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| Gunther von Hagens |
The two men are accused of violating a law governing the treatment of corpses, by taking the bodies without the permission of relatives, the Russian daily Nezavisimaya Gazeta reports.
I did the most I could do to ensure those specimens were received in good order according to the laws of the Russian republic
Professor Gunther von Hagens
Mr von Hagens - whose exhibition Body Worlds is currently showing in London - says he has not used any body parts from Russia illegally.
Professor von Hagens said he had agreed with the University of Novosibirsk to treat the bodies in his institute in the German city of Heidelberg using a special technique for preservation, and to return them to Siberia so that they could be used for medical research.
'Nothing wrong'
The paper said the two Russian doctors were charged after an investigation that began last year when customs officials stopped the shipment heading to Mr von Hagens' Institute for Plastination.
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Prof von Hagens says his work is art
The consignment allegedly included the remains of convicts and homeless and mentally ill Russians.
Fourteen medical officials were reportedly put under investigation over the shipment sent by the Novosibirsk State Medical Academy, but only two were charged.
Investigators suspected that some of the bodies were taken without the permission of relatives, the paper quoted Natalya Markasova, senior aide to the chief regional prosecutor, as saying.
Mr von Hagens denies using any body parts from Russia illegally. None of the Russian specimens - said to include 56 corpses and more than 400 brain parts - was included in his London exhibition, he said.
"I did the most I could do to ensure those specimens were received in good order according to the laws of the Russian republic," he said. "Those people on display gave their agreement."
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Professor von Hagens uses a special technique called plastination to preserve bodies in a lifelike way.
He then places them in poses, which graphically show internal body parts and organs.
The Body Worlds exhibition has provoked criticism as sensational and voyeuristic. Soon after opening in March, one of the displays was attacked.
But its creator says his work is educational and artistic because "when you can see beneath your skin you can see how fragile you are.
"You can see healthy organs compared to diseased organs like smokers' lungs," he says.
I know what these people do to the children in the Child Welfare System.
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