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☆ United Rentals to acquire Ahern Rentals for $2 billion
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-14 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Nov 14 (Reuters) - United Rentals Inc (URI.N) said on Monday it will acquire the assets of smaller rival Ahern Rentals Inc in an all-cash deal for about $2 billion, as the equipment rental firm looks to expand its U.S. presence. Ahern was founded in 1953 and is a family-owned equipment rental firm with about 2,100 employees. It operates across 106 locations in 30 U.S. states, with a rental fleet that consists of aerial lifts. Sullivan & Cromwell LLP acted as legal advisor to United. Reporting by Nathan Gomes and Priyamvada C in Bengaluru; Editing by Devika SyamnathOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Wanted: Paralegal. Starting Pay: Depends on Which New York Firm.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-13 | by ( Lauren Weber | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

New York City’s pay-transparency law, which took effect Nov. 1, was designed to help eliminate pay inequities, but it has many other effects, including this one: For the first time, New Yorkers can compare salaries for the same role at multiple companies. Now job seekers can discover that a New York-based litigation paralegal at white-shoe law firm Sullivan & Cromwell LLP will earn a base salary of $55,000. Someone hired for the same job title at smaller firms Kelley Drye & Warren LLP and Mintz can expect to earn at least $70,000 and $80,000, respectively. The smaller firms are seeking candidates with five or more years of experience, while Sullivan & Cromwell’s ad notes that legal experience is beneficial but not required.

☆ The future of FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried is now in the hands of these 3 lawyers who have worked for Enron, Michael Milken, and Elon Musk
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-11 | by ( Jack Newsham | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

A senior Paul Weiss lawyer has been hired to defend FTX founder and ex-CEO Sam Bankman-Fried. FTX said on Twitter that a sprawling group of companies founded by Bankman-Fried, known as SBF, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Delaware. The new CEO of FTX is John J. Ray III, a lawyer-turned-executive with a colorful past leading troubled companies, most notably Enron. The firm Paul Weiss and its lawyer Martin Flumenbaum, who represented the junk-bonds king Michael Milken, are representing Bankman-Fried personally. John J. Ray IIIRay joined FTX as CEO just in time to sign its bankruptcy filing.

☆ The Last Word: Angela Lansbury
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-11 | by ( Mervyn Rothstein | Kassie Bracken | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +11 min

In between, Angela Lansbury’s career spanned seven decades and countless transformations on stage, screen and television. It was missing the night of the fire.” “Jessica Fletcher was probably about as close not to me, but to the sort of woman that I might have been had I not been an actress.” Angela Brigid Lansbury was born in London in 1925. I didn’t know anything. ‘This could be it.’ And I had a special dress made and, oh, I don’t know, It’s just — I think soon after that, I came to New York.” In the mid-’60s, Angela Lansbury returned to the theater. In 2009, she won her fifth Tony Award for playing Madame Arcati in “Blithe Spirit.” Ms. Lansbury was 83 years old.

☆ Angela Lansbury, beloved star of ‘Murder, She Wrote,’ dead at 96
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-11 | by ( Brian Lowry | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Lansbury also amassed 11 Emmy nominations for her role as Jessica Fletcher in “Murder, She Wrote,” but never won. Mondadori Portfolio/Getty Images Lansbury, seen here in 1945, moved to United States from England in 1940. Ron Frehm/AP Lansbury celebrates the 100th episode of the TV series "Murder, She Wrote" in 1989. Mychal Watts/WireImage/Getty Images Lansbury, with various Broadway cast members, performs at the Light the Lights Broadway Is Back! Jonathan Brady/Getty Images Lansbury attends the 25th anniversary screening of "Beauty and the Beast" in 2016.

☆ 'Murder, She Wrote' actress Angela Lansbury dead at age 96
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-11 | by ( Will Dunham | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

Nearly seven decades after her first film, she was awarded an honorary Oscar for lifetime achievement at age 88 in November 2013. "I feel really undeserving of this gorgeous chap," Lansbury said, referring to the golden Oscar statuette she was given. "Not since the heyday of Bette Davis had there been an actress of this range and accomplishment," wrote critic David Shipman. Lansbury was born in London in 1925 and went to the United States in 1940 to avoid the war with her mother, actress Moyna McGill, who appeared in several Hollywood films. Lansbury, who lived in Los Angeles, married actor Richard Cromwell in 1945 but the union lasted less than a year.

☆ There's an ESG backlash inside the executive ranks at top corporations
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-29 | by ( Eric Rosenbaum | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +8 min

Only 25% of CFOs surveyed by CNBC support the SEC's climate disclosure proposal, according to the survey. More than half (55%) of CFOs are opposed to the SEC climate rule, and 35% say they "strongly oppose" it. Proving climate materialityA critical issue for CFOs with the new SEC climate disclosure is the lack of a clear correlation between the climate data and financial statements. The first task for CFOs on climate disclosure, Clayton says, is to be candid with investors and stakeholders about this disconnect. "We are not blanket defenders of ESG," said Martin Whittaker, founding CEO of ESG research nonprofit Just Capital, which releases an influential ranking of top companies on ESG annually.

☆ Hilary Mantel, Prizewinning ‘Wolf Hall’ Author, Dies at 70
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-23 | by ( Sarah Ball | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The success of Hilary Mantel’s ‘Wolf Hall’ trilogy is often credited with reinvigorating sales and publisher interest in the historical-fiction genre. Booker Prize-winning author Hilary Mantel, whose acclaimed reconsideration of Tudor politics in “Wolf Hall” received major Broadway and television adaptations, died Thursday, her publisher HarperCollins said. She was 70 years old. King Henry VIII’s chief minister Thomas Cromwell, historically portrayed as an artless bully in the centuries before Ms. Mantel’s books, was reimagined in the “Wolf Hall” trilogy as perhaps the first great political power broker.

☆ Hilary Mantel, British author of ‘Wolf Hall’ saga, dies at 70
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-23 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: 1 min

LONDON — Hilary Mantel, the Booker Prize-winning author of the acclaimed “Wolf Hall” saga, has died. Mantel died “suddenly yet peacefully” surrounded by close family and friends, publisher HarperCollins said Friday. Mantel is credited with reenergizing historical fiction with “Wolf Hall” and two sequels about the 16th-century English powerbroker Thomas Cromwell. The publisher said Mantel was “one of the greatest English novelists of this century.”“Her beloved works are considered modern classics. Mantel won the Booker Prize twice, for “Wolf Hall” in 2009 and its sequel “Bring Up the Bodies” in 2012.

☆ ‘My Aching Heart Is Shattered Into Little Pieces’
▼ + stars: | 2022-06-24 | by ( Patricia Mazzei | Rose Marie Cromwell | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

‘My Aching Heart Is Shattered Into Little Pieces’A year ago, Champlain Towers South collapsed in Surfside, Fla. The lives of those who lost loved ones and homes have never been the same. Leer en españolJune 24, 2022SURFSIDE, Fla. — A year later, the shock of the collapse of Champlain Towers South has not worn off. Not for the people whose loved ones died crushed in the rubble. “My aching heart is shattered into little pieces and beyond repair,” Eileen Rosenberg, whose daughter, Malky Weisz, was killed, said in court on Thursday.

Persons: Miamians, Heirlooms, ” Eileen Rosenberg, Malky Weisz Locations: Champlain Towers, Surfside, Fla, Leer, SURFSIDE, —, South Florida

☆ Naşterea Domnului, primul praznic împărătesc: Creștinii ortodocși sărbătoresc astăzi Crăciunul pe stil nou
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-25 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +13 min

Crăciun a aflat, s-a supărat și i-a tăiat bătrânei mâinile, apoi, de frică, a fugit de acasă. Motivând că este sărac, el a refuzat-o, dar i-a îndrumat paşii spre fratele lui mai mic şi mai bogat, Moş Crăciun. Abia pe la mijlocul secolului al XIX-lea spiriduşii au devenit prieteni ai lui Moş Crăciun. Într-o vreme se credea că Moş Crăciun şi spiriduşii săi se simt foarte bine în casa lor de la Polul Nord. Pepper Minstix, unul dintre spiriduşi, este paznicul credincios al satului lui Moş Crăciun.

Persons: Iisus, Aurelian, Soare, Iuliu I, Constantin cel Mare, creştinii, Crăciun, Petru cel Mare, Fecioara Maria, Dumnezeu, Iosif, Maria, Crăciunoaia, Hristos, Mesia, - lea, Daniel, Ignat, Moș Crăciun, Oliver Cromwell, St . Hilary, Poitiers, austriac Joseph Mohr, Treime, Moş, Ajun, El, Spiriduşii, Clement Clark, Nicholas, Thomas Nast, Markus Rautio, Rusia . Pepper, Rudolph Organizations: Crăciunului Locations: Franţa, Rusia, Statele Unite, Alabama, Oklahoma, american, oraşe, Babilon, sarmalele, austriac, Crăciun, Paradis, alţii, Nord, Finlanda, finlandez, Laponia, Korvatunturi, graniţa, Comet, Cupid, Dasher, Donder

☆ Fibra optica devine istorie. In...
▼ + stars: | 2020-11-04 | by ( ) www.realitatea.md time to read: +2 min

Compania de soluții electrice complete pentru tehnologii energetice și de automatizări, Chorus a lansat în Noua Zeelandă Hiperfibra, generația următoare în tehnologia telecomunicațiilor. Foto SimbolHiperfibra va fi disponibil pentru mai mult de trei milioane de oameni din Noua Zeelandă, schimbând fundamental posibilitățile pentru modul în care trăiesc, muncesc și se joacă, spune compania. „Hiperfibra dezlănțuie o nouă eră a hiperconectivității, permițând companiilor să inoveze și să-și supraîncarce operațiunile digitale. Hiperfibra este următoarea evoluție în ecosistemul digital și va oferi o platformă pentru multe generații pentru a inova, trăi și juca. Întărește cu adevărat valoarea fibrelor ca tip de conexiune în bandă largă și arată cât de aproape este rețeaua de a-și depăși limitele, scrie playtech.ro.

Persons: Cromwell, Chorus Organizations: Hiperfibra Locations: Chorus, Noua Zeelandă Hiperfibra, Noua Zeelandă, Wanaka, superfibră

☆ World’s most beautiful castles
▼ + stars: | 2019-08-07 | by ( Joe Yogerst | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +19 min

As the UK crowns a new monarch, we’re exploring all things royal, from castles to grand tours. “Castles are places were plots were hatched, marriages were consummated, murders carried out, royal babies born, and so on. With castles, you are never short of fascinating things to talk about.”Read on to find out more about 21 of the world’s most beautiful castles, fortified homes that are both a feast for the eyes and a time trip back to the bygone age during which they were created. Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket/LightRocket via Getty ImagesThis classic medieval castle towers above the island of Rhodes in the Aegean Sea. The castle’s vivid red-and-yellow color pattern – and its flashy clock tower – endow Pena with a much more playful air than the somber castles found elsewhere in Europe.

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