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FTC bars former Pioneer CEO Scott Sheffield in Exxon Mobil deal

FTC bars former Pioneer CEO Scott Sheffield in Exxon Mobil deal

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Pioneer Natural Resources’ office is shown on Jan. 13, 2021, in Midland, Texas. Exxon Mobil’s $60 billion deal to buy Pioneer has received clearance from the Federal Trade Commission, but the former CEO of Pioneer was barred from joining the new company’s board of directors. Jacob Ford/AP hide caption toggle caption Jacob Ford/AP Pioneer Natural Resources’ office is shown on Jan. 13, 2021, in Midland, Texas. Exxon Mobil’s $60 billion deal to buy Pioneer has received clearance from the Federal Trade Commission, but the former CEO of Pioneer was barred from joining the new company’s board of directors. Jacob Ford/AP WASHINGTON — Exxon Mobil’s $60 billion deal to buy Pioneer Natural Resources on Thursday received clearance from the Federal Trade Commission, but the former CEO of Pioneer was barred from joining the new company’s board of directors. The FTC said Thursday that Scott Sheffield, who founded Pioneer in 1997, colluded with OPEC and OPEC+ to potentially raise crude oil prices. Sheffield retired from the company in 2016, but he returned as president and CEO in …

Gold bars and painting taken from ‘prolific money launderer’ will be sold | UK News

Gold bars and painting taken from ‘prolific money launderer’ will be sold | UK News

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A man who is being hunted for money laundering was found in possession of gold and art worth millions of pounds, the National Crime Agency (NCA) has said. Lenn Mayhew-Lewis, 69, who the NCA described as a “prolific money launderer”, was found with eight kilos of gold bars and shavings stashed in his Bentley when he was arrested in 2019. They are now thought to be worth more than £400,000, authorities said. Separately, a painting by artist Frank Auerbach was also found to have been purchased by Mayhew-Lewis – whose clientele included drugs traffickers – in 2017 for £1.6m. The artist’s works can, however, sell for up to £5.5m. It is believed the painting, named ‘Albert Street, 2009’, was subsequently used by another individual as collateral to secure a £5m loan from a UK auction house. Mayhew-Lewis, from Surrey, was convicted of money laundering in 2023 and is now being sought by the NCA as he absconded before sentencing. He was sentenced in his absence to five years in prison. Read more on Sky News:Schools …

Kiss Marry Kill review – a truth-is-stranger-than-fiction tale of love behind bars | Theatre

Kiss Marry Kill review – a truth-is-stranger-than-fiction tale of love behind bars | Theatre

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Basing a play on real events offers a safety blanket of authenticity, but the facts of a story being true is not always enough to make us believe in them. Dante or Die’s new production about a homophobic gay man in prison is packed with energy and built on significant research, but the storytelling skates over the surface of the knotty topics it tackles, and struggles to make its complex characters come alive. Kiss Marry Kill tells the story of Jay (Dauda Ladejobi), imprisoned for life for murdering a man he started hooking up with, out of fear his friends would find out. To the clang of prison beds being stacked together, and the rapping of Lady Lykez, Jay hastily forgets his pregnant finacee at home and embarks on a relationship with charming fellow murderer Paul (Graham Mackay-Bruce). Inspired by events that are stranger than fiction, the show draws on the story of Mikhail Gallatinov and Marc Goodwin, both convicted for murdering gay men, who became the first same-sex couple to marry in prison. The …

‘We’re trying to make it more inclusive’: the rise of Britain’s new wine bars | Food

‘We’re trying to make it more inclusive’: the rise of Britain’s new wine bars | Food

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Friday night and it’s crowded. A communal table runs through the room, a couple of seats face windows thick with condensation. Scribbled on a blackboard menu are a few wines, plus a selection of dishes a lone chef in a minuscule kitchen somehow whips up. There’s paté en croute on your plate and Afrobeats hums at just the right volume. A shelf displays bottles with takeaway prices written in white marker. You’re at … well, you could be in any one of the new generation of wine bars that have emerged all over the country in the past few years. Not just a bar but not quite a restaurant, natural wines and inventive small plates are their calling. Since 2020, London has seen a swathe of openings, from Cadet on Newington Green to Hector’s in De Beauvoir and Oranj in Shoreditch. Every neighbourhood in the capital, from Camberwell to Clerkenwell, now has one. Even Mayfair, where ArtFarm, owned by Hauser & Wirth gallery founders Iwan and Manuela Wirth, recently set up a wine bar below their Farm …

Best restaurants and bars near Dodgers games in Los Angeles

Best restaurants and bars near Dodgers games in Los Angeles

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There are a few telltale signs that summer is approaching in Los Angeles. The lavender treetops of blooming jacaranda trees. The crowded peaks at our local parks as Angelenos resume their late-evening hikes. The annual activity of getting friends and family together for at least one game at Dodger Stadium. Attending Dodgers games doesn’t require that you actually follow the team’s standings or even have an interest in Major League Baseball (though I’m told it helps). Our home team’s winning nature means you can show up in the second or third inning and most likely be met with a favorable score and happy fans, just in time to join the wave and cheer another hitter home. This is especially true since the Dodgers nabbed star Japanese player Shohei Ohtani from the Anaheim Angels at the end of the 2023 season. Nicknamed “Shotime” for his high pitching and batting averages, the designated hitter played for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters for four years and has been compared to an early-career Babe Ruth. L.A. Dodgers fans, including local …

‘Proud dad’, 35, who dealt huge amounts of Class A drugs dies behind bars

‘Proud dad’, 35, who dealt huge amounts of Class A drugs dies behind bars

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John Digweed was found dead in prison -Credit:Liverpool Echo A convicted drug dealer known by the Encrochat handle ‘Diorpaw’ has died behind bars. John Digweed died at HMP Garth in Lancashire today, the Prison Service confirmed. Digweed was serving a 25-year prison sentence for supplying vast amounts of cocaine and heroin. An investigation into the death has begun. The ‘proud dad’ was sentenced in 2022 after being unmasked as a drug dealer who shifted 40 kilos of class A drugs, using the name ‘Diorpaw’ on Encrochat, an encrypted communications network which operated as a ‘WhatsApp for criminals’. READ NEXT: Neighbours horrified as baby’s remains found at house Today a Prison Service spokesperson told the Manchester Evening News: “John Digweed died at HMP Garth on 13 April and our thoughts are his family and friends. As with all deaths in custody, the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman will investigate.” It is understood his next of kin have been informed. Digweed used Encrochat to organise the supply of cocaine and heroin during the spring of 2020, his sentencing …

How Was the Great Pyramid Built?; What Did the Ancient Egyptian Language Sound Like?; Were There Bars in Ancient Egypt?: An Egyptologist Answers These Questions & More from Internet Users

How Was the Great Pyramid Built?; What Did the Ancient Egyptian Language Sound Like?; Were There Bars in Ancient Egypt?: An Egyptologist Answers These Questions & More from Internet Users

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What did ancient Egyp­tians sound like? What did they eat and drink? What ancient Egypt­ian med­i­cine and tools do we still use in mod­ern times? Why did they prac­tice mum­mi­fi­ca­tion? Above, Lau­rel Bestock, a pro­fes­sor from Brown Uni­ver­si­ty, dis­cuss­es every­thing you ever want­ed to know about Ancient Egypt. Not a stranger to pop­u­lar media productions—Bestock appears in a recent Nation­al Geo­graph­ic pro­duc­tion, Egyp­t’s Lost Won­ders—the pro­fes­sor fields every ques­tion that comes her way, no mat­ter how big or small. All along, she gives “out­stand­ing and very down-to-earth expla­na­tions,” notes a fel­low pro­fes­sor in the YouTube com­ments. For my mon­ey, the best part comes at the 10:40 mark when she deci­phers and reads hiero­glyphs. Enjoy. If you would like to sign up for Open Culture’s free email newslet­ter, please find it here. Or fol­low our posts on Threads, Face­book, BlueSky or Mastodon. If you would like to sup­port the mis­sion of Open Cul­ture, con­sid­er mak­ing a dona­tion to our site. It’s hard to rely 100% on ads, and your con­tri­bu­tions will help us con­tin­ue pro­vid­ing the best free …

Best restaurants and bars in Palm Springs and Palm Desert

Best restaurants and bars in Palm Springs and Palm Desert

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The first thing to know about the most buzzed-over restaurant in Palm Springs is that reservations are nearly impossible to score. Bookings open a month out to the day; my travels to Palm Springs from Los Angeles are usually more spur-of-the-moment. I’ve made my peace with lining up before the restaurant opens at 5 p.m. and starting early at the bar. Lead bartender Avery Underhill also clued me in that the 6:30 p.m. to 7:15 p.m. window is often when the first wave of bar seating turns over, and I’ve had luck more than once slipping in then. Jeff Brock and Richard Crisman, the hoteliers and life partners whose local properties include the Sparrows Lodge and Holiday House, opened the restaurant in April 2021 as an homage to Sir Cecil Beaton, the famously flamboyant British photographer, designer, author and all-around Renaissance man who died in 1980 four days after his 76th birthday. A photo of Beaton, his wide-brimmed hat cocked at a rakish angle, hangs over the bar, its oak shelves lined with gin bottles, …

Cape Town, South Africa guide: the best luxury hotels, restaurants and bars

Cape Town, South Africa guide: the best luxury hotels, restaurants and bars

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Next on our tour of Cape Town hotels was The Silo (rooms from R24,000 or £1,000, theroyalportfolio.com), which I can only describe as being like a luxury hotel perched on top of the Tate Modern. The Zeitz Mocca (zeitzmocaa.museum) is a contemporary African art gallery, and its location and architecture are the draw. We went to visit its Gaudi-like interior, marvelling at brilliant installations and the building itself. The windows are vast convex diamonds that look out over the V&A Waterfront to one side, and out to Lion’s Head and Seapoint on the other. We were lucky enough to stay in an eighth-floor premium suite with a huge sitting room and bathroom. While Gran painted the view, I took a long bath looking out over the city as the sun went down. Source link

Best Koreatown restaurants, bars and clubs that stay open late

Best Koreatown restaurants, bars and clubs that stay open late

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As the sun sets and the curtain goes down on Los Angeles, Koreatown comes alive. Neon-lighted signs, a soundtrack of honking cars and the aromas of grilled meat and fried foods all vie for attention, an almost psychedelic assault on the senses. Once your eyes adjust, you’ll find a dense urban playground that invites you to choose your own adventure. Looking for late-night eats? Take your pick between Chicago-style deep dish, Thai noodles, Hawaiian-hued bar snacks or a World Series-worthy baseball steak. Tippling the night away? You can keep it classy at a velvet-walled haunt, pair natural wines with Cal-Korean cuisine or knock back beers at a treasured dive. Regardless of where you end up, there’s nearly always a stage with a microphone for crooning your heart out with karaoke. And you don’t have to limit yourself to just one of these experiences. The neighborhood is so glutted with options, you can easily crawl from one spot to the next, perhaps capping the night with a flaming plate of galbi jjim from 24-hour-restaurant Sun Nong …