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Luxury Italian fashion brand holds seasonal launch in Clearwater

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Sept. 10, 2015 – A fashion model walks the runway at Gioffre’s seasonal fashion launch. Photo by Thanos Genos.

CLEARWATER, Fla. – The luxury Italian fashion brand, GIOFFRÈ, and Villa Bellini restaurant in Clearwater kicked off Gioffre’s seasonal fashion launch with spectacular style Thursday evening. The event was filled with fashion, fine Italian food, wine, cocktails, deserts and live music.

New rifle designed to never be used by Muslim terrorists

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APOPKA, Fla. – A new assault rifle manufactured by Spike’s Tactical in Apopka, Florida is scheduled to become available for public purchase Wednesday morning.

Tampa Bay tortoise on the run since June, still missing

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SAN ANTONIO, Fla. – A tortoise named Dash from the Tampa Bay area has been on the run since the middle of June and his family is looking for the community to help with finding him.

Italian fashion brand schedules seasonal launch, food, wine event in Clearwater

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CLEARWATER, Fla. – The luxury Italian fashion brand, GIOFFRÈ, and Villa Bellini restaurant in Clearwater are scheduled to host a fashion, food and wine event this September.

Inaugural Tennis Tournament Being Held to Assist FoHCAS, A Non-Profit Animal Welfare Organization

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TAMPA, Fla. – A local animal non-profit is taking the love pets have for tennis balls and putting a new spin on it by taking to the tennis court to raise money to help shelter animals at the Hillsborough County Pet Resource Center.

Judge PR client featured in Science Insider

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How a scientist lost $3 million on TV’s Shark Tank—and still came out ahead

This story is a bonus online element for the package on science entrepreneurship that appears in the 12 June issue of Science.

Last month, millions of people watching ABC’s prime-time television show Shark Tank learned what Christopher Sakezles says his wife already knew—that he can sweat a lot when nervous. Despite a perspiration-drenched presentation on 8 May in front of the show’s five celebrity investors—he ignored his wife’s suggestion to spray his face with antiperspirant—the polymer scientist landed the biggest deal in Shark Tank’s history.

With a life-size synthetic cadaver as a prop, Sakezles persuaded technology entrepreneur Robert Herjavec to pay $3 million for a 25% stake in SynDaver Labs, a firm that Sakezles founded a decade ago to create realistic artificial tissues, organs, and whole bodies for surgical training and other purposes.

But as fans of Shark Tank know well, not every deal struck on the show lasts once the cameras turn off. After Sakezles and Herjavec traded further information and initial terms, the partnership fell apart.

One sticking point was obvious on the show, as the investors challenged Sakezles’s plan to invest SynDaver’s immediate profits back into the company for further product development. “They wanted to replace me as CEO and this is not something I will allow at this point,” Sakezles says. (Herjavec doesn’t comment on deals that aren’t completed, one of his publicists says.)

Tampa website hacked by cyber-jihadists

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Tampa website hacked by cyber-jihadists

TREASURE ISLAND, Fla., – A Tampa Bay area drug and alcohol treatment center’s website is back up and running after being hacked by Islamic extremist supporters this weekend.

Tampa company offers solution to non-Florida resident ticket ban for Stanley Cup Finals

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TAMPA, Fla. – Hockey fans attempting to catch a game at Amalie Arena in Tampa may have trouble ordering tickets due to a policy on Ticketmaster’s website that only allows purchases from credit card holders who reside in the state of Florida. But a national ticket sales company headquartered in Tampa has plenty of tickets for sale on their website, MySeatRocks.com.

WARNING/ GRAPHIC: Synthetic human to be featured on ABC’s Shark Tank

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TAMPA, Fla. – The scientist who started SynDaver Labs, a Tampa-based company specializing in the production of synthetic cadavers for medical research, is scheduled to be on ABC’s Shark Tank May 8.