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Trophy Wines at the 2021 Royal Sydney Wine Show It was announced that Sandra Przybilla will be honoured at the 2021 Royal Sydney Wine Show Lunch, held on 16 December, in recognition of her many years of contribution to the Australian wine industry. Sandra has helped build the industry as a retailer, wholesaler, industry leader and a pioneer of diversity and inclusion in the beverage industry. Sandra said she was “honored and humbled” by the recognition. “We are thrilled to present this honour to Sandra,” Wine Communicators Australia (WCA) Executive Officer Andrew Stark said. “Her long career as an industry…
A weekly audio magazine exploring culture, style, sex, politics, and more. Photo-Illustration: by The Cut; Photo: Getty Images On this week’s episode of The Cut, co-host Jazmín Aguilera tries to find a solution for how you can broach the often-uncomfortable subject of money in your different friendships, especially when you don’t make the same amount as a friend. Talking to TikToker Tom Cruz, who went viral for showing the world a spreadsheet of his friends’ incomes, she learns about radical transparency when it comes to managing friends and money. Then, Otegha Uwagba, the author of We Need To Talk About Money,…
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. The Secret IRS Files is an ongoing reporting project. Sign up to be notified when the next story publishes. Or text “IRS” to 917-746-1447 to get the next story texted to you (standard messaging rates apply). Also: Do you have expertise in tax law, accounting or wealth management? We’d love to hear from you. Here’s a tale of two Stephen Rosses. Real life Stephen Ross, who founded Related Companies, a global firm best known for developing the Time Warner Center and Hudson Yards in Manhattan, was a massive winner between…
International relations, especially for Western countries, are based on interests rather than religious or national reasons. Therefore, when looking at history, it is necessary to put aside religious and national sentiments, so as not to lose sight of the real causes of events. It is instructive to look at the fall of the Ottoman Empire in the following way. In the 19th century, the Ottoman Empire had access to a great resource: oil. Competition between colonial states, industrial development, and the discovery of the automobile engine made this resource even more attractive. Standard Oil refinery in Richmond, California, USA (Getty…
Spirit AeroSystems has been awarded the 2021 Small Business Composite Manufacturing Excellence Award (Large Company) for its advanced composite wing spoiler program for the Airbus A320 family of aircraft. The spoilers are manufactured at Spirit's Prestwick facility using Spirit's pioneering Resin Transfer Molding (RTM) technology. Leveraging its unmatched manufacturing design expertise, Spirit re-engineered the A320 spoilers into a fully integrated, out-of-autoclave, single-shot RTM solution. The new spoiler manufacturing system offers significant manufacturing and cost efficiencies, including reduced energy consumption and material waste, compared to the traditional hand layup, honeycomb core reinforcement, and autoclave cure process. The elimination of multiple autoclave…
This Cherry Creek home was custom built in 2009 for a local oil tycoon. A local oil magnate is selling his custom-built home in Cherry Creek for $4.3 million. The 5,980-square-foot home at 428 St. Paul Street was listed on Oct. 25. Bill Barrett, founder of the energy company Bill Barrett Corporation (rebranded after the merger), bought the property with his late wife Louise in 2007 for $1.2 million and later transferred it to a trust, according to property records. . Compass listing agent Jeff Hendry said Barrett has not lived in the home in years, although it is occupied.…
Sergei Bogdanchikov, who rose from humble beginnings to lead energy giant Rosneft, filed a lawsuit in New York last year. The judge ruled that the United States was the wrong venue for the case because most of the evidence, defendants, and transactions took place overseas.by Christian Bertelsen and Hugo MillerbloombergPublished on November 12, 2021November 12, 2021Link copied!Copy URLhttps://aje.io/uu68puA lawsuit by a former Russian oil tycoon seeking to recover half of the $150 million fortune he lost from Edmond de Rothschild Bank has been dismissed by a New York judge. State Supreme Court Justice Joel Cohen ruled Thursday that it was…
Four CEOs rejected accusations of past or present wrongdoing in landmark Congressional hearings while funding past and present climate change denial campaignsThe CEOs of ExxonMobil, BP America, Chevron, and Shell Oil told the U.S. House Oversight Committee on October 28 how these companies have lied about the climate crisis for decades. He testified in a landmark hearing about how he continued to follow him.Days before the United Nations' COP26 climate summit, hopes for more ambitious commitments to stem the climate emergency waned as CEOs reiterated industry talking points on green energy but avoided specific commitments or endorsements. I was frustrated.…
28 October 2021By Laura Paddison, Features correspondentGetty ImagesIn many developed nations, there is an aspiration to high-carbon lifestyle choices, such as eating meat (Credit: Getty Images)The world’s wealthiest people make a huge contribution to climate change through carbon-hungry activities. How can we reduce emissions from the rich?In 2018, Stefan Gössling and his team spent months scouring the social media profiles of some of the richest celebrities, from Paris Hilton to Oprah Winfrey. The tourism professor from Linnaeus University in Sweden was looking for evidence of how much they were flying. The answer was a lot. Bill Gates, one of the world’s most high-profile…
Unlock Editor's Digest for freeFT editor Roula Khalaf has chosen her favorite stories in this weekly newsletter.in white lotusThe HBO series “The Aspinals'' exposes the selfishness of the rich. There's also a lot about the intersections of race, class, and wealth. But the overarching theme is that rich people carelessly ignore the impact they have on those around them, which leads to a kind of callous cruelty even when they're trying to be decent people. By contrast, in July there was a true story about London's Aspinalls casino. There, the misdeeds on the part of some of the rich customers…